Zimbabwe's embattled leader Robert Mugabe has vowed to stay in power for several weeks, despite intense pressure on him to stand down now.
The Zanu-PF earlier sacked him as party leader, and gave him less than 24 hours to resign as president or be impeached.
At the same party meeting, Mr Mugabe's 52-year-old wife, Grace, was expelled from the party, alongside a number of other senior officials.
But in his speech later in the day, Mr Mugabe made no direct mention of those developments.
"The (ruling Zanu-PF) party congress is due in a few weeks and I will preside over its processes," he told the nation, flanked by senior military generals at his official residence in Harare.
He acknowledged criticism against him from Zanu-PF, the military and public, and stressed the need to return Zimbabwe to normalcy.
"Whatever the pros and cons of how they (the army) went about their operation, I, as commander-in-chief, do acknowledge their concerns," he said, in reference to the army's move last week to take over the state broadcaster.
Neither did he mention any possibility of resigning. Tens of thousands had joined huge demonstrations on Saturday, with many believing he was about to step down.
Zanu-PF has given Mr Mugabe until midday local time (10:00 GMT) on Monday to resign or else face impeachment proceedings.


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Four injured as two cars collide head-on in the caldera near the Parador hotel
by Janet Anscombe | Dec 11, 2018 | Traffic News | 0 comments
Photo: Guardas Rurales, Parque Nacional.
A major incident closed the TF21 in the caldera this lunchtime when two cars collided head-on near the Parador and burst into flames. Emergency services and the Cabildo's roads department say that they were called out around 1.30pm with reports of the accident, and that all the emergency resources of the National Park were involved along with bomberos, police and ambulances. The blaze also set fire to some nearby vegetation and caused major tailbacks, as might be imagined, but mercifully no-one was seriously injured. Four people were transferred to hospital for medical attention: a 68-year-old man with minor injuries, a woman with moderate head injuries, and a 62-year-old woman suffering from a blood pressure crisis were all taken to the Costa Adeje's Quirón Hospital while a 51-year-old woman was taken to Hospiten Sur with moderate neck injuries.
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// News // 10th Jan 2022 — 10 days ago // By Carl Mcfadyen
Dead Cells: The Queen and The Sea Trailer
The third paid DLC for the 2018 GOTY Dead Cells offers up the most complete version of the game to date, with a new trailer and big discounts to pull people into the Dead Cells universe.
Those discounts include a great deal for newcomers to the game, setting the price for the base game plus all three DLCs priced at only $21.49 (roughly £16) for two weeks from launch. If you just want to try out the base game for now that has been slashed by 50% down to half price, with a DLC bundle that includes all three being priced at $9.99 for two weeks from launch.
On the 6th of January Motion Twin and Evil Empire announced that the latest DLC, titled "The Queen and The Sea" was now live and deadly across any platform you wanted to play on. The spectacularly animated trailer builds the excitement for not only the biggest DLC brought to Dead Cells but sets the stage for The Queen and The Sea to wrap up the journey that has been ongoing since the first paid DLC. Along with the climax of the DLC story, the players are introduced to two new Biomes: The Infested Shipwreck and The Lighthouse that will offer new challenges and formidable foes.
The first of these Biomes, The Infested Shipwreck has you traversing through a rotten shipwreck that is filled to the brim with haunting horrors around every corner in the old vessel. The second Biome, The Lighthouse gives the player a level of verticality not before seen in Dead Cells. Players will find themselves in a soaring tower that players must clamber up as fast as possible in an attempt to not get burned to a crisp by the ever rising flames coming from below (needless to mention the countless deadly warriors eager to end your run as you go).
Don't worry though, you won't have to suffer through these new Biomes on your own. The Dead Cells overlords have seen fit to lighten your burden with the introduction of a brand new pet. This evolving companion called the Leghugger can be summoned at will who feeds on your enemies, making it grow bigger and stronger until it transforms into its adult form, which to be honest is pretty cool! Terrifying for your enemies, but cool for us. Of course there are other new weapons at your arsenal in The Queen and The Sea, weapons life a new Hand Hook that can launch enemies into walls. The Abyssal Trident, which is a secret weapon hidden down in the depths of the shipwrecks and can be obtained through a secret side quest. Lastly we have The Queen's Rapier: a powerful sword that slices through the fabric of reality, plus you'll get tons of new outfits and secrets to uncover, and before you ask, yes, you can now throw a living shark at enemies in Dead Cells.
Now you know where you'll go, and the weapons that you'll have at your disposal, it's time to hear about who you'll be facing. Introducing the powerful boss of this DLC, without further ado, please meet The Queen. An all-new and surprisingly elegant character, she is unlike anything else seen previously in Dead Cells. The Queen is smart, she changes her tactics and reacts to your individual combat strategy, slicing projectiles you throw at her in two, she even commits the atrocity of cutting down your beloved pets, these are just a couple of the challenges that she'll throw at you. We won't even go into detail about how she slices the entire screen to bits, or the totally new ending.
Dead Cells is a critically-acclaimed roguelike metrovania action platformer set within an ever changing castle fully loaded with game changing items and hordes of deadly beasts. It is the winner and nominee for dozens of GOTY 2018 awards and has sold six million units. A steady flow of post-launch updates have responded to fan feedback which has continued to evolve Dead Cells, keeping it an action-centric adventure as challenging as it is satisfying.
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Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse - Review
Tuesday, December 18, 2018 By Matt Vernier
Every now and then comes a film so spectacular that you can't stop thinking about it. Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse is that movie. It is a visually stunning film, with a great soundtrack, strong story and some of the best character development ever seen in an animated film. You remember when you see a movie this good.
Spider-Man is by far Marvel's most popular character. It is nice that he is home in the MCU. When this was announced, I wasn't sure about it. Then I saw it was to focus on Miles Morales. That was good. Then the trailer dropped, and I needed this movie in my eyeballs right now.
The animation is unlike anything I have ever seen. I felt immersed - in a standard 2D screening - and I didn't want it to end. I didn't want to leave. If this exact same script was filmed live action, with not one single thing having changed, it would still be a great movie. But something would be lost. When cartoons were broadcast in color, the medium changed. When Toy Story used all CGI imagery, the medium changed again. Spider-Verse takes the animation medium to heights previously thought unreachable.
There is traditional animation, mixed with anime, mixed with CGI, all blended together to perfection. On the surface, Into The Spider-Verse is a love note to the history of Spider-Man. But it is also a love note to the history of animation. Nearly every kind of animation is in this movie. It is truly a spectacle to behold.
On top of all of that, the story is stellar. They know that you know Spider-Man's story. They put that on front street. They introduce new versions of Spider-Man you might not be familiar with. They make things like alternate universes easy to understand without insulting the intelligence of their audiences.
The movie is perfectly paced. You get enough action, character moments, and plot information that fill out the story. They all build on each other, so at the end of it, it feels like you've been in this universe for 10 years, like you have with the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Movies make the mistake by trying to be franchises first, and movies second. The number one thing needed for a franchise is a strong, solid base on which to build it. Into The Spider-Verse is that movie. Not only could we get countless sequels with Miles Morales, but we could also get countless spinoffs with all of the other Spider-Verse characters introduced in the film!
If this all wasn't enough, the voice cast is pitch perfect. Shameik Moore is instantly endearing as Miles Morales. Mahershala Ali and Brian Tyree Henry really sell their roles too. The movie even casts two different Peter Parker's - Chris Pine and Jake Johnson -both of which do exactly what they are supposed to. People like Hailee Steinfeld, Nicolas Cage and John Freakin' Mulaney all add their own flavor to the supporting characters. Each one is ripe for their own franchise. Each one would bring their own unique tone, vision, and feel to a solo movie.
Into The Spider-Verse gives you everything you love about Spider-Man. From the very first frame when the comics seal shows up to the very last frame after the credits, the whole thing just screams "I LOVE YOU SPIDER-MAN".
The reason this hero resonates with everyone - is because it can be anyone. You don't have to be a billionaire, an alien, or a God. You can be a normal, ordinary person, and be Spider-Man. That is the greatest legacy of any superhero. If you walk away with one thing from this movie it should be that. Spider-Man could be you!
Do yourself a favor, and splurge a little to go see this. If a theater isn't an option, block out plans for a movie night later on, and experience this on your TV. Into The Spider-Verse is not only the best animated feature of the year, or the best Spider-Man adventure ever put on the big screen, it is one of the best movies of the year. Period.
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The Vancouver and Vienna based artists, Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber, present "We Declare": Spaces of Housing, a project with and through Gallery Gachet that addresses the sites and institutions where decisions and declarations regarding housing are made (ranging from local communities, to the provincial capital, and up to the United Nations).
The situation-specific project brings these spaces of symbolic and real power into the gallery through large-scale photo-based images mounted on the walls.
By collapsing the scale of these spaces and bringing them into a new relation, "We Declare" points to the difference between what Henri Lefebvre called the representation of space and the spaces of representation.
If space is produced by social interactions, the installation "We Declare" creates visible alliances between the collectively organized community space at the Gallery Gachet, the context of the neigbourhood, and the desire to push the coherencies of artistic and political practices.
potentials by understanding that the situation of Vancouver is specific in the way that this crisis has developed and grown —— as well as part of a global urban tendency that continually pushes property rights over the right to stable housing.
Since the Olympics were awarded to Vancouver, the already overheated real-estate market and gentrification of the inner city has resulted in the conversion of 1,300 SRO rooms to other uses. With more than 10,000 British Columbians homeless, and 56 homeless deaths in the province in the past two years, the exhibition and programming intends to interject in the debate as a cultural project.
The particular impact of another hallmark event on the inner-city after the example of Expo 86, where over 1,000 low-income residents were displaced, is reflective of a particular civic amnesia endemic to the social psyche of Vancouver's political orientation, but also in line with urban revitalization projects in urban centers globally.
The talks and discussions that are part of the exhibition try to bring local actors and differential knowledges in dialogue with people who work against gentrification and the breaking of the right to housing —— and the right to the city —— in other places and other spheres. The exhibition is a platform, a mixing machine, and a declaration that begins with the notion of art practices as an imperfect yet necessary form of public research in a time when the spaces and ideas of what and where the public might be are under pressure.
As part of this trajectory of art as an activity with a social sensibility and use, "We Declare" therefore launches the platform Vancouver Flying University initiated by independent journalist Am Johal in collaboration with writer Jeff Derksen and Urban Subjects (US).


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Pristurus mazbah est une espèce de geckos de la famille des Sphaerodactylidae.

Répartition
Cette espèce est endémique du Yémen.

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 Al-Safadi, 1989 : A new species of semaphore gecko (Pristurus: Gekkonidae) from Yemen Arab Republic. Proceedings of the Egyptian Academy of Sciences, , .

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Global Covid-19 Caseload Nudges 133 million
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The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 132.9 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.88 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
In its latest update today morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 132,944,526 and 2,886,103, respectively.
The US is the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 30,920,837 and 559,086, respectively, according to the CSSE.
Brazil follows in the second place with 13,193,205 cases and 340,776 fatalities.
The other countries with more than two million confirmed coronavirus cases are India (12,801,785), France (4,902,951), Russia (4,381,823), the UK (3,700,393), Italy (3,700,393), Turkey (3,633,925), Spain (3,326,736), Germany (2,927,572), Colombia (2,479,617), Poland (2,471,617), Argentina (2,450,068) and Mexico (2,261,879), the CSSE figures showed.
In terms of deaths, Mexico comes in the third place with 205,598 fatalities.
Nations with a death toll of over 50,000 are India (166,177), the UK (127,171), Italy (112,374), Russia (99,800), France (97,444), Germany (77,566), Spain (76,037), Colombia (64,767), Iran (63,699), Argentina (56,832), Poland (55,703), Peru (53,411) and South Africa (53,111).
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After 2nd Covid Jab, PM Modi Urges All Eligible Indians To 'Get Your Shot Soon'


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Basketball broadcasts at Temple have an international flavor
KATHY MATHESON, Associated Press
Amid the raucous cheering for Temple University's basketball team, two new voices have joined the crowd — and they're speaking Mandarin.
Chinese students James Yuan and Javi Yuan are broadcasting home games in their native language. The live audio stream can be heard on Temple's sports website.
The students, who are not related, beat out 18 other hopefuls in a campus contest. They say basketball is one way to bridge the cultural gap with their American peers.
Temple is one of many U.S. colleges that has seen major growth in enrollment by Chinese students. The Philadelphia university also has partnerships with several Chinese schools.
Chinese students at the University of Illinois and University of Dayton have also been broadcasting sports in Mandarin.


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Data reveals 32,800 new voters in West Yorkshire since Brexit vote
Gemma Jimmison
Published: 15:07 Monday 08 April 2019
By the end of the year, around 32,800 teenagers will have become eligible to vote in West Yorkshire since the Brexit vote, data reveals.
Despite three quarters of youngsters casting ballots in favour of remain in 2016, this would be unlikely to swing the area's vote in a second referendum.
The People's Vote campaign says there should be a fresh poll on EU membership so these youngsters' futures are not decided for them.
New Office for National Statistics data shows the number of attainers (people who turn 18 and become eligible to vote) by December 1 this year.
In West Yorkshire, by the end of the year, there will be 32,848 new voters since the EU referendum in June 2016.
This estimate is calculated by combining the attainers for the last three years, and half of those who came of age in 2016.
New voters are seen as likely to vote remain. Nationwide polls suggest almost three quarters of 18 to 24 year olds would vote to stay in the EU in a second referendum.
In 2016, West Yorkshire voted in favour of leave, by 54.8 per cent to 45.2 per cent, with a margin of 106,500 votes.
Across the country, more than 1 million teenagers will have become eligible by December. In 2016, 1.26 million votes decided the referendum.
For our Future's Sake, a youth movement in the People's Vote campaign, believes there should be a second referendum to allow new voters to have their say.
Kira Lewis, from FFS, said: "Like hundreds of thousands of other young people, I watched helplessly as my future was decided for me.
"A whole generation were deemed old enough to drive, serve in the armed forces and get married, but not trusted to make a decision on our futures.
"We now know the costs to our economy and our sovereignty - whatever deal Parliament decides.
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"It is right and fair that young people - and the rest of the country - get an opportunity to have their say in a people's vote."
In the most recent round of indicative votes, held on April 1 in the House of Commons, 280 MPs voted for a confirmatory second referendum and 292 voted against it. A further 66 abstained.
The Prime Minister, Theresa May, has said she opposes a second referendum, as the public has made their decision.
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It's always a huge honor when another photographer asks me to photograph their wedding.
Angie & Kyle, you guys are fantastic and I am so honored and happy to have been the one to capture your wedding day for you. Keep on being awesome. Enjoy the sneak peek!
Wonderful pictues. We missed a great event! Thanks for sharing!
Angela and Kyle, your photos from the wedding are gorgeous! We had a wonderful time at the wedding.


What happened to the big thicket team in Texas? Why is Sasquatch being covered up?
Bob Garrett and Tim Sermons will be my guests for an up coming show. Remember they had their Sasquatch expedition shut down by several law enforcement officials, now you get to hear it first hand from the guys, what really happened?
You heard Steven from Texas give his first hand account of the law enforcement raid that took place now you get to hear what led up to that situation and the aftermath.
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So, what area of the government is blocking this? It isn't as though they are for the conservation of Bigfoot.


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Acrylic, ink and pencil original on plywood by Marcus Aitken
Size: 120cm (h) x 90cm (w)
* This piece has been framed by the artist and is inclusive of the price
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Marcus Aitken is a contemporary artist and painter, living and working in South London. He has a First Class Honours degree in Illustration and film studies from University of Arts London What inspires your work as an artist? For me, it's all about the physicality of painting and connecting with my materials, tools, and surfaces. It's very much a performance, it's raw, it's primal and gives me an enormous sense of freedom when I paint. Who are your biggest influences? It's hard not to be influenced by EVERYTHING around you. As generic an answer as it sounds, I still love going to a gallery and just being inspired by art in all its forms. Cy Twombly and Pollock are the big name influences on my work I'd say. What does your work mean to you? Everything - I couldn't stop being an artist, it's the 'creative curse' – I have to do it. What techniques do you use? I really like to explore the tools I use to carve into the paint marks I make, this can be anything from my hands, blocks of wood, pencils, rubbers, the list goes on...
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Lip Licker
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Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
Celebrate Your Mother
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At last! the perfect gluten free cupcake. You really will not be able to taste the difference. Kara's Cupcakes to San Francisco is like Sprinkles to Los Angeles or Magnolia to Manhattan- this is why the concept of the trendiest cupcake spot in SF offering a gluten free option initially seemed out of the question. The first few times I was dragged into Kara's, a GF option did not exist. Somehow they finally got the hint and and boy did they get it right!
Kara's Cupcakes currently offers two classic flavors of gluten free cupcakes: vanilla and chocolate. Both versions have a wonderfully light, fluffy texture- a welcome departure from your average dense and crumbly gluten free baked good. The vanilla cupcake is topped with a very sweet, buttery swirl of frosting while the chocolate is smothered with a mousse-like one. If you are ever craving sweets while strolling through the Marina or need to pick up a dozen cupcakes for a party, Kara's is a great go-to. A nice bonus is that they use locally sourced ingredients whenever possible- I was also assured that they use dedicated GF baking tools/kitchen space, however there is a risk of cross contamination as they do not claim to be a certified GF bakery.
When I went into Kara's they explained to me that the cupcakes are made in a shared kitchen with the regular products and they don't recommend that people with serious allergies or celiac disease consume their products.
Looks like we were told two different things by their staff…While I knew they couldn't guarantee their products as 100% gluten free due to shared kitchen use, I was told that they have separate areas where the gf cupcakes are prepared to avoid cross contamination. It sounds like they need to work much harder to prevent cross contamination entirely- otherwise, why bother doing gf at all? This is really disappointing.
I went in to try their GF cupcakes and they told me that I shouldn't purchase them if I have celiac disease. The woman behind the counter said that her grandmas has celiac disease and she cannot eat the GF cupcakes form Kara's. Very disappointing.


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Оспедалетти () — коммуна в Италии, располагается в регионе Лигурия, в провинции Империя.

Население составляет 3670 человек (2008 г.), плотность населения составляет 713 чел./км². Занимает площадь 5 км². Почтовый индекс — 18014. Телефонный код — 0184.

Покровителем коммуны почитается святой Иоанн Креститель, празднование 24 июня.

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How do you do it? They ask. And then say "I wouldn't be able to handle all that pain every day. A migraine every day?" Not counting the FM which they often do not mention because they don't know what they would feel like. But worst headache ever captures their attention.
But the real answer is WE MUST. We were never given a choice in the matter. It was put upon us and we had to learn the hard way how to cope with the chronic pain as best we could.
WE MUST because in order to live, move or do anything we have to do it with the pain. So we learn what to do with the pain. We make room for it.
When the pain gets to us and depression set in our brain changes to WE MUST NOT… endure this suffering.
That is is why we are always fighting for the surface because if we stop for a moment, we will begin to drown. Chronic pain is heavy and it drags you down and we will sink.
It seems to me after you 'must not' you don't fight for the surface as hard anymore. You know the allure of not fighting anymore. A part of you doesn't strive as hard because the pain always wins. Or has less survival instincts left after sinking for a while. It is like your brain, instead of WE MUST is WE MIGHT… because it crossed a line into not wanting to exist and once it did, it is a possibility that is always there in theory. You must live with the pain and cope, or you might, you might not.
We want to survive, so we must. We want to live, so we must. We must cope with the pain the best we can. Or we push through the pain. We exceed our limits and make it worse. Because we feel we have to work as hard as everyone, do as much as everyone…. with the pain of course. Our job though isn't to push through the pain or increase the pain. It is knowing we have pain that isn't going anywhere we Must deal with it, cope with it, pace ourselves and stay within limitations.
Chronic pain is that sort of survival battle sometimes. We have to deal with it because there simply is no other option. But… it then occurs to us sometimes there is an option… to just not exist and have pain at all. Then we have to battle those thoughts as well as the pain. Sink or swim. Sink or swim. We are always battling for the surface and never making it. Always close to sinking, but never drowning… hopefully.


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169 Brimree Grove
 The party of four walked through the hilly terrain passing by all sorts of interesting items, like the gigantic purplish rocks near them that glowed. Sadly, with how much of a hurry they were in, they had no time to take in their surroundings, if they did they would have seen all of the wondrous sights around them.
Such as the forest that was a couple of feet away from where they were walking. If they were looking they would have seen that underneath the sun, the forest looked tremendous, light, and thriving.
Its canopy being eclipsed by the lovely periwinkle leaves of the Wisteria tree. However, plenty of light still passed through their crowns for all sorts of shrubs to make use of and grow on the ground below.
Bundled branches grasped most of the trees, and the apricot flower, which was common to this area only, stuck out against the otherwise dark forest grounds. There were also a hodgepodge of monster and animal sounds, most of which were fleeing animals, resonated through the air, and overpowered the rustling of the leaves and branches of the treetops in the wind.
However all of this went over the head of the group, in their rush, they were only focused on going forward. Not to say that their journey was a solemn one, that would be far from the truth.
The truth was even though Xinya and his party were hastily trying to get to their destination, the trip there was a harmonious one. If someone were listening to them they would hear a lively and light-hearted conversation between close friends.
Cheerful laughter could be heard all throughout their expedition, making the long trip feel shorter than it actually was. As time flew by, and the group came closer and closer to their desired destination until Brimree Grove was right in front of them.
"We finally made it!" Melting Snow exclaimed. Looking at the magical looking grove in wonder.
Xinya couldn't believe how quickly they made it here, checking the time he saw that it was only 3 pm. Not only did they make it to Brimree Grove, but they also arrived in less time than what he had calculated.
"We did," Xinya said happily while looking around the area. "With 3 hours to spare until nightfall comes."
Looking thoughtful, Wandering Sound asks, "Do you think we should look around for a bit before setting up camp for the night?"
"I think we should since we don't know how long it will take us to find the fairy ring," Xinya replied.
"Should we split up?" Wei asked. "We would be able to cover more ground that way."
Xinya knew that Wei was right, if they split up they would be able to find the fairy ring quicker, but seeing how the grove has level 26-35 monsters inside of it, he doesn't think that would be a good idea. Who knows what would happen if they met one of those high-level monsters on their own.
Shaking his head, Xinya said, "I don't think that's a good idea. We should stay together, or we might die if we come across one of the monsters in there."
"Drifting Cloud is right," Melting Snow said in agreement. "If one of us dies, then none of us would be able to go to the fairy store."
After listening to Xinya and Melting Snow, Wei realized that they made sense. Sticking together as they looked would be the best way to go about it. "You're right, let's start looking then."
"Hold up!" exclaimed Wandering Sound, stopping the others when they began to make their way into the Grove. "Do anyone of you even know what the fairy ring looks like?"
Rubbing the back of his head sheepishly, Xinya realized that he indeed did not know how a fairy ring looked. Feeling a little stupid for not asking earlier turned a to Wandering Sound with a questioning gaze.
Looking at the bewildered eyes of his party, Wandering Sound let out a sigh, before starting to explain, "A fairy ring, also known as fair' ie rin', is a naturally occurring ring or arc of mushrooms. Not any type of mushrooms, but Amanita muscaria. They are medium-size red mushrooms with white spots. They basically look like it was plucked straight from an Alice in Wonderland book."
"I never read that book," Melting Snow told him with a grin. "But I get it, I just need to look for some weird looking red and white mushrooms."
"Well if you must simplify what I said,'' huffed Wandering Sound, watching as Drifting Cloud and Melting Snow headed into the grove.
Laughing at the pouting man, Wei grabbed his hand pulling him along into the grove after the others.
As the group disappeared into Brimree Grove, Blooming Flower who was about ten feet from where Xinya's party was standing, crept out from behind a tree. Reapplying her camouflage she headed in after them.
Once the group was back in her sight, she continued to follow them from a distance. She wanted to get closer so she could hear what they were talking about, but since her camouflage skill only lasts for 30 minutes, she couldn't risk it.
Blooming Flower really wanted to though, she wanted to know why her idol came to this place. However, after seeing the monster level in this grove, she just assumed that they came here to gain experience.
She had already guessed from the video's that Melting Snow was a newish player, and this would be a great place for him to gain some experience. Thinking that she might have a chance to see her idol fight in real-time, made her smile widely.
Suddenly she had a thought, she could revise her plan so that they could meet sooner. She thought that she could go with the old gimmick of aggroing a monster and pretend to need saving. However, she axed that idea after realizing how ridiculous it was.
No one would believe that a level 55 spiritualist, who was number 60 on the worldwide rankings like herself would need someone to save her. She decided to just stick with her first plan.
After following the group for another half an hour or so, Blooming Flower came to the realization that they weren't in this grove to level themselves up. To her, it seemed as if they were looking for something.
She was really curious as to what they were looking for, because as far as she knew there weren't any rare items in this place. Thinking about it for a while, Blooming Flower looked at the dryad that 'her' Melting snow was always with and remembered something.
When she was following the two of them in Mirstone Village, she overheard them talking about food, and Melting Snow was asking the man to make him something. That must mean that he has the cooking skill. Knowing that, Blooming Flower came to the conclusion that they were looking for some kind of edible item.
After coming to that conclusion, she smiled to herself while thinking about getting the cooking skill. It seems that her idol was a foodie, and everyone knows that the best way to a man's heart was through his stomach.
Blushing at the thought of Melting Snow eating her food, she started making plans as she continued to follow them through the grove.
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>> Hello there, today I wanted to go through a quick tutorial on how to navigate Hulu+.
I wanted to do this for my mom, because she likes
watching all the TV shows on things like Netflix and Hulu,
and she can do so through her TV with an HDMI cable,
which she doesn't have a problem with, but she doesn't really know how
to navigate the websites too well yet, so I wanted to give her a quick tutorial on how
to do that.
So, the first thing we're going to do is go into the address bar here, type in www.hulu.com.
[pause] This takes us to the homepage for the website.
The first thing I need to do is log into our account
that we have with hulu+. Our account is through Facebook,
so I click "Log-in with Facebook", type in our information, which, Mom, I'll
be sure to give all this information to you so you have it, and then I "Log In".
Now it takes me to my personal homepage. You can tell that I've actually logged on
because in the top right-hand corner it says "Welcome Marguerite" and has my queue,
which it didn't before. That's how you know you successfully logged
The first thing I want to show you is where my queue is.
It's right up here next to where it says "Welcome Maruerite,"
and this it where all your content is going to be,
all the different shows and movies that I've said I want to watch.
These are all the things I've meant to watch and haven't gotten around to yet. So I've
got some Tosh.O, Modern Family, Saturday Night Live stuff, etc.
Now, my mom's favorite show is Downton Abbey, and I don't have that on here right now
because I've already finished watching it,
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So I click on the search bar and I start typing in
the name of the show that I want to find, and it comes up here in the drop box.
We see here it says "Masterpiece: Downton Abbey," that's what we want.
Now the next thing we're going to do is go to the show's homepage, and you do that
by, see it recognizes the show up here, and we
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It has everything you ever wanted to know about the show,
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recommendations based on our interest in this, reviews, discussions, etc.
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Median pay among Minnesota's top executives increased 50% last year
Median pay is rising among Minnesota's public company chief executives.
— erhui1979, Getty Images
MEDIAN PAY rises FOR CEOS
The median compensation of the 50 highest-paid CEOs of Minnesota public companies was $4.3 million, a 50.5% increase over last year — better than what national pay surveys have found.
Most surveys use slightly different methodologies from the Star Tribune, which counts stock options when they are vested or exercised instead of granted. Still, Minnesota's results stood out.
Equilar, a provider of board intelligence solutions, annually looks at pay packages at the 500 largest public companies in the United States. The firm's survey found that median CEO compensation among the companies was $12.1 million, an 8% increase over the previous year and a 25% increase over the past five years.
COLLECTIVE COMPENSATION DOWN
Minnesota's 50 highest-paid CEOs – with No. 1 at $34.9M
While the median compensation rose, the collective compensation for all 50 CEOs was $380.4 million, down 12.3% from the total from the Star Tribune's list last year.
The dip, which amounted to $53 million, was mainly due to a handful of CEOs who did not exercise as many of their previously issued stock options in 2018 as the year before. The group includes Ameriprise's James Cracchiolo, who did not exercise any options in 2018 but exercised $40 million worth in 2017, when he was the highest-compensated CEO.
The second-highest-compensated CEO last year, Patrick McHale of Graco, moved to the top spot this year, even though he realized 26% less in total compensation than the prior year. McHale's salary and bonus increased, but his option gains were $12.3 million less than the prior year.
All but three CEOs on this year's list earned a cash bonus for meeting or exceeding a variety of corporate performance goals, mostly financial goals. While 38 saw some gains from restricted stock, only 17 of the 50 exercised options. The value of those long-term equity awards were affected by the fourth-quarter downturn in the stock market.
PAY FOR PERFORMANCE FORMULAS SEEN
"The one thing that I would highlight as it relates to the most recent year pay, trendwise, is that in 2018 what we saw was a nice relationship between pay and performance," said Brian Blackwood, a managing director at consulting firm Willis Towers Watson.
Blackwood noted the solid operating results of companies in 2018 and said that strength translated into increasing bonuses and other pay categories.
From that point of view and from a shareholder lens, we are seeing directionally the kind of pay for performance orientation that is desired out of the market," Blackwood said.
Equilar noted in its annual report that while the connection between pay and performance has gotten stronger since broad use of the nonbinding advisory Say-on-Pay vote — a shareholder advisory vote on executive compensation — was implemented in 2011, the trend has still been toward increasing executive pay levels.
That increasing pay rate has outstripped the 3% gains that nonexempt hourly nonunion workers and nonexempt salaried workers have averaged each of the past three years, according to WorldatWork, a nonprofit association that studies compensation and total rewards.
TURNOVER AT THE TOP
A lot can change in a company's history over 10 years, including leadership at the top.
Looking at the Star Tribune executive compensation rankings from 2009 and this year, only five CEOs are still there: Cracchiolo of Ameriprise Financial Inc.; Douglas Baker Jr., Ecolab Inc.; H. Chris Killingstad, Tennant Co.; McHale of Graco Inc.; and Cheryl Beranek, Clearfield Inc.
Those companies have mostly thrived, and the executives have ridden rising market valuations to large long-term equity gains.
All but Beranek are in the top 15 on the list. Beranek leads the smallest of the five companies, and her compensation of $335,454 last year put her at 63rd on the list this year. She was ranked 96th on the 2009 list.
In 2009, the list included the CEOs at 100 Minnesota-based public companies; 52 of those are no longer around as independent Minnesota public companies — whether they have been acquired, moved, gone private, delisted or gone out of business.
Some of those names from the past include St. Jude Medical, Travelers Cos. Inc., Supervalu, Alliant Techsystems, Buffalo Wild Wings Inc. and Caribou Coffee Co. Inc. They also include lesser-known names such as American Medical Systems Holdings, Navarre Corp. and Zareba Systems Inc.
Information on the largest CEO pay packages comes from the company's annual proxy or other corporate filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Star Tribune counts total compensation as the sum of salary, bonus, cash-based incentive plan compensation, miscellaneous compensation, and the value of exercised stock options and restricted stock that has vested during the year. The bonus category includes annual nonequity incentive plan compensation and any discretionary bonuses.
The CEO pay ratio is based on the CEO's total compensation from the summary compensation table as prescribed by the SEC, which is salary, bonus, cash-based incentive plan compensation, miscellaneous compensation, pension value changes, and the grant date value of new stock options and restricted stock awards. Smaller reporting companies are not required to disclose the pay ratio.
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Доктрина Герасимова — зовнішньополітична доктрина, розроблена начальником Генерального штабу Збройних сил Російської Федерації Валерієм Герасимовим. Доктрина переосмислює сучасне поняття міждержавного конфлікту і ставить військові дії в один ряд з політичними, економічними, інформаційними, гуманітарними та іншими невійськовими заходами. Доктрина стала відомою після її публікації в лютому 2013 року та наступних дій Росії щодо України, які повністю збігаються з тезами цієї доктрини.

На думку ряду дослідників ключові елементи доктрини Герасимова лежать в основі концепції «війни нового покоління».

Історія

Появі терміну «доктрина Герасимова» передували виступ начальника Генштабу ВС Росії Валерія Герасимова перед Академією військових наук з доповіддю про гібридну війну в лютому 2013 року та публікація основних тез цієї доповіді в статті Герасимова «Цінність науки в передбаченні» в газеті «Військово-промисловий кур'єр». Дана стаття була передрукована в англомовному журналі Military Review і, в подальшому, багаторазово цитувалася пресою.

Доктрина

На думку деяких експертів, ключові елементи доктрини Герасимова засновані на історичних коренях попередньої російської військової доктрини, а також є дуже подібними до положень китайської доктрини «необмеженої війни», опублікованої в 1999 році. Доктрина Герасимова може розглядатися як переосмислення в реаліях XXI століття добре відомої концепції нетрадиційних бойових дій, які в сучасній російській військовій термінології отримали назву «нелінійних». У рамках цих уявлень основною метою «нелінійних бойових дій» є досягнення потрібних стратегічних і геополітичних результатів за допомогою широкого інструментарію невійськових методів і засобів: явної та таємної дипломатії, економічного тиску, завойовування симпатій місцевого населення тощо.

Особливе занепокоєння у західних фахівців викликає націленість російської «доктрини Герасимова» на експлуатацію слабких ланок західного принципу прийняття управлінських рішень, який заснований на системі стримувань і противаг, що передбачає вичерпний аналіз ситуації, довгу суспільну дискусію і ґрунтовну координацію зусиль різноманітних відомств. На противагу цьому, російська модель управління, відповідно до ідей Герасимова, органічно поєднує в єдине ціле всі владні інститути, роблячи координацію між ними абсолютно не обтяжливою. До того ж, їх функціонування приховано від зовнішнього спостерігача непроникною завісою секретності, а доступний інструментарій задіює прикладні досягнення теорії рефлексивного управління, що дозволяє російській владі діяти жорстко, гнучко та швидко, не особливо відволікаючись на такі принципи, як законність, легітимність тощо.

Доктрина передбачає співвідношення невійськових і військових дій як 4:1.

Військові дії

 Військові заходи стратегічного стримування
 Стратегічне розгортання
 Ведення бойових дій
 Миротворчі операції

Невійськові дії

 Формування коаліцій та союзів
 Політичний та дипломатичний тиск
 Економічні санкції
 Економічна блокада
 Розрив дипломатичних відносин
 Формування політичної опозиції
 Дії опозиційних сил
 Переведення економіки країни, що протистоїть Росії, на військові рейки
 Пошук способів врегулювання конфлікту
 Зміна політичного керівництва країни, яка протистоїть Росії
 Проведення комплексу заходів щодо зниження напруженості у відносинах після зміни політичного керівництва

Крім цього, доктрина передбачає «ведення інформаційного протиборства», не уточнюючи, чи є ці заходи військовими або невійськовими.

Застосування доктрини

З огляду на дату оприлюднення доповіді Герасимова та подальші дії Росії, багато експертів схильні пов'язувати ці події і прямо вказують на застосування доктрини Росією щодо України та США.

Див. також
 Гібридна війна
 Анексія Криму (2014)
 Війна на сході України
 Методи ведення війни проти України в російсько-українській війні
 Доктрина Брежнєва
 Доктрина Лук'янова

Примітки

Гібридна війна
Російський імперіалізм
Російсько-українська війна (з 2014)
Зовнішньополітичні доктрини


In the final days before the midterm elections, President Trump has turned his focus to the topic with which he has closed out all the campaigns he's engaged in since his presidential effort began in 2015: an angry, nativist appeal to his core supporters on immigration.
The caravan of refugees walking north from Central America toward the U.S.-Mexico border has given him an evocative image, one that has looped across cable news networks for days and suggests an immediate threat, although the caravan is still about 1,000 miles from the U.S. He has cast the crowd as containing Middle Easterners who are potential terrorists — later admitting there was "no proof" of that.
Not even the attempted pipe bomb attacks on his critics have diverted the president's attention. On Thursday, his administration announced it was sending 800 troops to the border. On Friday, hours after the arrest of a Florida man who allegedly crafted the bombs, administration officials said Trump next week would announce plans to invoke emergency powers to stop migrants from entering the United States, casting them as a grave national security threat. The move extends Trump's long-expressed desire to curb both illegal and legal immigration.
Recently, the White House began a daily call about the caravan, according to people familiar with it, featuring officials from both the administration and Congress. White House and Republican Party officials also are urging surrogates to go on TV and talk about the caravan.
Trump has made the migrant movements a standard part of his rally speeches. In a Friday night event in Charlotte, the president, as he typically does, cast migrants as threats to the nation and Democrats as their allies who favored "caravan after caravan" crossing the border.
"As we speak, the Democrat Party is openly encouraging caravan after caravan of illegal aliens to violate our laws and break into our country," Trump said Wednesday night during a rally in Wisconsin.
He also claimed that unnamed American towns are being liberated from violent immigrants, and residents in those unnamed towns are gathering at their windows to applaud American immigration agents.
He turned to immigration again in August in Ohio, when he campaigned for a Republican running in a special House election. "A vote for . . . the Democrats is a vote to let criminals and drugs pour into our country," he said.
So far the president is fighting a one-sided battle. Most Democrats are choosing not to engage, keeping their focus instead on health care, an issue they believe is more important to voters.
The Democratic group American Bridge sent an attention-seeking email Thursday with the subject line "Kanye Traveling to the Caravan." But the body of the email was about Republicans and preexisting health conditions.
Democrats and immigration advocates point to evidence of the limitations of Trump's base appeal. Many of the candidates he campaigned for during previous elections lost. During the 2017 gubernatorial race in Virginia, Republican nominee Ed Gillespie also turned toward immigration in the final weeks of the campaign, attempting to tie MS-13 gang violence to Democratic nominee Ralph Northam's vote against banning sanctuary cities.
He won by 9 points.
Trump has told White House advisers that immigration is an issue on which Democrats have "no message on whatsoever," in the words of one senior White House official.
"It's a good message in there is a simple contrast," said the senior official.
Republicans view the general immigration issue as one with potency across the country, which can motivate Trump supporters, particularly white men, and put fear into the minds of independents. They have run ads on sanctuary cities in Minnesota, Pennsylvania and California. In North Dakota, almost as far from the Mexican border as any other state, many of the Republican ads have been about sanctuary cities.
In a national Washington Post-ABC News survey earlier this month, 16 percent of registered voters viewed immigration as one of the single most important issues in their vote; it trailed other issues such as the economy, health care and equal treatment of men and women.
Those surveyed gave Democrats in Congress an 11-point advantage over Trump on who they trust more to handle immigration. But Trump does better when it comes to border security. A Washington Post-Schar School poll in July found that Americans trusted Trump over Democrats in Congress by an 8-point margin when asked which was better at border security. His advantage grew to 17 points in congressional battleground districts, which lean more Republican.
Republicans believe the argument resonates most in border states, including competitive contests in Texas and Arizona.
In Indiana, Republican Mike Braun's campaign repeatedly refers to Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) as "Mexico Joe" — a reference to a family business that relies on Mexican labor — even when talking about health care, the economy or the Iran nuclear deal.
In Missouri, Republican candidate Josh Hawley has invoked the caravan as a way to paint Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill as unwilling to enforce border controls.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) has gone a step further, joking that his Democratic opponent wants to be in charge of the caravan.
"Do you want to be motivated by fear, paranoia — or are we the big, bold, confident country that I know us to be?" he said.
In some blue and purple states, Democrats have used the president's focus on the caravan to go on offense. On Tuesday night, at the final debate in Colorado's race for governor, Democratic nominee Jared Polis took a question about the caravan as a chance to pivot to the Trump administration's unpopular policy of separating immigrant families at the border.
Republican nominee Walker Stapleton, asked if caravan members would be "welcome" in Colorado, said they wouldn't. But he said that he would not send the National Guard to the border if it meant separating families, and he signaled that he backed legal status for young immigrants brought to the United States by their parents.
Frank Luntz, a veteran Republican pollster who has run numerous focus groups with voters, said both parties misunderstand the nation's sentiments: Democrats underestimate the public's desire for enhanced border security, while Republicans underestimate its empathy for immigrants and their plight.
David Weigel and Scott Clement contributed to this report.


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Facebook v. Teachbook Round II (this time in Illinois)
Back in August 2010, Facebook sued a company named Teachbook.com for trademark infringement and dilution based on the use of the TEACHBOOK mark for a social networking site for teachers. Facebook is located in Palo Alto, and it initially filed suit against Teachbook in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, claiming that Facebook experienced injuries there and thus should be permitted to sue in that venue. Teachbook filed a Motion to Dismiss based on lack of personal jurisdiction and improper venue, or in the alternative, to transfer venue to the Northern District of Illinois, where it is a resident.
The California District Court dismissed Facebook's case against Teachbook, ruling that Teachbook did not "expressly aim" its infringing conduct at the [northern California] forum. Unfortunately for Teachbook, the dismissal Order also states that Teachbook "committed an intentional act by selecting a confusingly similar trademark to FACEBOOK," nonetheless, this act was not enough to keep the lawsuit in the State of California. Because Teachbook had no registered users in California, the court found that it had insufficient "personal contacts" to support the continuance of the litigation in the State.
In its defense of the California suit (according to the Order dismissing the case), Teachbook claimed that it chose its name because of the connection of teachers and books. It also claims to have conducted a trademark search prior to adopting its mark, which search revealed 31 "–BOOK" marks for interactive computer services, including 10 "–BOOK" marks that were in use in commerce prior to the FACEBOOK mark. Apparently, the trademark search also indicated that Facebook filed several Extensions of Time to Oppose "–BOOK" mark applications, but had not actually filed any Oppositions (though it had filed one against DATEBOOK in 2007, which Teachbook's search apparently overlooked).
The fact that other "–BOOK" marks preceded FACEBOOK would seem to favor Teachbook. That said, trademarks aren't born famous, they must acquire fame. Hence, it is possible that the "–BOOK" suffix has acquired fame since (due to) its adoption by FACEBOOK. Since dilution only applies to marks that were adopted after the prior mark acquired fame, TEACHBOOK could be dilutive of FACEBOOK even while those predecessor "–BOOK" marks are not.
So, off to Illinois the case goes . . . Facebook filed a new case there last Friday (May 6, 2011).
Facebook clearly considers the "–BOOK" suffix to be part of its IP portfolio. It will continue to pursue others using "–BOOK" marks, presumably until a court rules that it has no rights to do so (and that might not even stop it). Whether or not you agree, you are forewarned.
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Grace Verbeek (born 10 August 1958) is a Canadian middle-distance runner. She competed in the women's 800 metres at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

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Living people
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Why do people go to extremes to mythologize historical figures, and especially our Founding Fathers, making them out to be so super-human as to be without anything like a human flaw?
We tend to think of the Washingtons and Jeffersons and Franklins as being so pure and free of sin that we can't forgive Presidents and wannabe presidents or candidates today for being just as flawed as, say, George Washington.
That greatest of American heroes on today's dollar bill was not without sin: he spent the public dollars indulging his taste for food and drink like there was no tomorrow.
No American historical hero has been more mythologized than George ("I cannot tell a lie") Washington.
In addition to learning the myths about him and the cherry tree and his throwing a dollar across a river as a child, we learned in elementary school that Washington was so humble a man as to reject a salary in his role as our first and greatest military leader.
What they didn't tell us is that he took an expense account and spent government money like a drunken sailor who just robbed Fort Knox.
According to the terrific history book George Washington's Expense Account by Marvin Kitman,* Washington pigged out on mutton and fowl and hired a band to play at his birthday party in spite of his men dying from starvation at Valley Forge.
He really ripped his pants with the Continental Congress when he used the expense account for his starving, freezing soldiers to put on a play, of all things.
In all, his expense tab ran up to almost a half-million dollars, in 1780 dollars.
Talk about a sense of entitlement. The General felt he deserved the best and never mind that his men were starving and dying in the wintry elements with rags on their backs.
When he asked for an expense account in lieu of a salary when he became President, his friends–they who were our other Founding Fathers–balked.
They gave him a salary of $25,000 (not too shabby for a salary in those days, but nothing like the amount Washington would have burned with a blank check).
Of course, Thomas Jefferson was no great shakes of a money manager himself.
The man could never buy enough books for his library, enough seeds, supplies and equipment for his plantation and his endless agricultural experiments and enthusiasms, and his palate for fine food and drink.
Jefferson was famously in debt up to his ears his entire, very long, very public life.
He who ever said history is boring is the same guy who never read credible, factual history about historical figures and their fascinating warts and all.
"In George Washington's Expense Account — the best-selling expense account in history — Kitman shows how Washington brilliantly turned his noble gesture of refusing payment for his services as commander in chief of the Continental Army into an opportunity to indulge his insatiable lust for fine food and drink, extravagant clothing, and lavish accommodations. In a close analysis of the document that financed our Revolution, Kitman uncovers more scandals than you can shake a Nixon Cabinet member at — and serves each up with verve and wit." — From Barnes & Nobles: Click here to order the book.


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Colleges that don't require SAT or ACT: New survey
November 28, 2012 at 11:08 PM EST
A new survey of accredited colleges and students shows that more than 800 admit all or many students without requiring SAT or ACT scores.
The survey was done by the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, known as FairTest, which has kept tabs on the number of test-optional schools for years. FairTest Public Education Director Bob Schaeffer said that in the past few years 80 schools have joined the list, which includes schools that rank high on the U.S. News & World Report rankings.
Schools that have dropped SAT/ACT requirements say they do it because they don't think a high-stakes test score is very revealing about a student's abilities and find that high school grades are a more accurate reflection.
This year these schools have joined the list: Ithaca College, College of Saint Rose, University of Rochester ("Test Flexible" policy), Lees-McRae College and William Jewell College. You can see the entire list of test-optional schools here.
Incidentally, the next administration of the SAT is on Dec. 1; the ACT, Dec. 8.
Here are the national universities on the test-optional list, with their U.S. News ranking.
27. Wake Forest University (NC)
32. New York University (NY) "Test Flexible"
33. University of Rochester (NY) "Test Flexible"
46. Univ. of Texas – Austin (TX) "Top 10%"
65. Worcester Polytechnic Institute (MA)
77. American University (DC)
83. Clark University (MA)
97. Univ. of Colorado – Boulder (CO) "Top 10"
120. University of Arizona (AZ)
125. New School (NY)
134. DePaul University (IL)
139. Arizona State University (AZ)
139. George Mason University (VA)
139. Kansas State University (KS)
151. University of Mississippi (MS)
189. University of Nevada – Reno (NV)
Here are some of the National Liberal Arts Colleges on the list, with their U.S. News ranking, through No. 70.
4. Middlebury College (VT) "Test Flexible"
6. Bowdoin College (ME)
16. Hamilton College (NY) "Test Flexible"
18. Colby College (ME) "Test Flexible"
18. Smith College (MA)
22. Bates College (ME)
26. Bryn Mawr (PA) "Test Flexible"
28. Colorado College (CO) "Test Flexible"
32. College of the Holy Cross (MA)
32. Mount Holyoke College (MA)
36. Bard College (NY)
36. Sewanee — The University of the South (TN)
38. Trinity College (CT) "Test Flexible"
41. Connecticut College (CT)
41. Union College (NY)
43. Pitzer College (CA)
46. Dickinson College (PA)
46. Franklin and Marshall College (PA)
46. Gettysburg College (PA)
49. Denison University (OH)
49. Furman University (SC)
56. Lawrence University (WI)
56. St. Lawrence University (NY)
60. Hobart and William Smith Colleges (NY)
60. Wheaton College (MA)
70. Lewis and Clark (OR)
70. Muhlenberg College (PA)
75. Agnes Scott College (GA)


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I am getting ready to pull the trigger on one or the other of these new Mastercraft tires. They are a one off Cooper product. A buddy of mine is firing up a tire shop and these are his main brand of light truck tire. I thought I would give them a chance since they are USA made and locally sold.
He is pitching the Courser MXT (true mud terrain) pretty hard but I am strongly considering the Courser CXT (hybrid). I was almost happy with my KO2s, they just needed to be more round, last longer and fling mud a little better. I think the CXT would be a better balance of what I am looking for, but the MXT would be more funner-er.
Of the two what do you guys think?
Between the two, the CXT's would have my vote. MXT's if the truck would only be on the HWY occasionally.
It's tough. The CXTs aren't exactly sissy and I can't find a bad review on the MXTs and everyone says they are quiet too. I guess I'm thinking the CXT is going to be superior in snow, which is kind of my thing. I do daily drive the thing which is also a factor. Aaarg.
The CXT does cost a good bit more ($60 per tire more), so you would pay for any additional tread life. The MXT is on the cheap end as far as mud tire pricing.
OK I went ahead and got the Courser MXT coming in 35x12.50 15. I'm not going to lie, price was the determining factor in the end. So I guess this will become another review thread next week .
Don't know if you guys are old enough to remember these AR-39 wheels from high-school? I guess I'm going to have to get "Ice Ice Baby" on my MP3 Player and wear my hat backwards.
Consequently, if anyone has like 1 of these laying around I would love to get one for a matching spare in the near future.
Save the tread by gettin hooked up with an e locker from bestgen when he gets one.
Courser MXTs were mounted up today. All I've done so far is drive them across town from the tire shop to work. Initial impressions are they are kind of fat. I will measure one off the truck soon.
Mileage on my ODO today is 222,419 with about 0 miles on these tires. It should be disclosed for the sake of the review that I am running a spool in the rear and I probably eat tires 20%-25% faster than usual.
I had these mounted on some 15x10 old school AR-39s for that late 80s/early 90s cool kid look . I picked them up cheap last summer. I wasn't sure about the wheels but I think they go good with the body style. I'm used to 8" rims so I am curious to see if these will hold a bead at low psi.
I have been crying the last few years about the loss of the basic mud terrain tread style with lateral centers and normal good alternating side lugs. Don't get me wrong we have some great tires now, with more siping, sidewall treatments ect, but I have missed the old traditional no gimmick mud terrains we had back in the day.
These seem to blend the traditional old MT tread design I have been pining for with some of the benefits of the current era like full depth sipes, little risers between the lugs and a more modern sidewall design.
Old enough to remember their predecessor saw blades. Ran a set chrome ones w/the center painted blue for a "blue chrome" color on my lowered '82 Toyota mini-truck, and yes it had the solid shell and went "boom".
Is till get excited when I see a set of AR 26's. The aluminum sawblades! I had a set on my El Camino, but that was short lived.
I have a set of those in 15x8" but they are pretty crusty and greyed out.
I was loaded with the trailer with wheels, tires and a big round bale of hay last night. It was nice backing through the mud hole with the trailer with mud terrains. The all terrains left a little bit to be desired in that spot. After dabbling in all terrains for a while and going back I think the light mud terrain is my weapon of choice for the day to day at our place.
Drove to work in the hammer down spring rain today. Wet traction is better than I expected, the sipes must work. They cut right through flooded pavement ruts and puddles, well, like a mud tire . These are very quiet for how aggressive they are. Same amount of noise as my all terrains just a lower pitch.
My buddy did a powder balance and I noticed a little hop t 35-40 mph for about the first 3 miles then the bags must have broke open like he said and it went away. These feel really round and true. It is so nice not to have egg shaped tires! I dare say these ride smoother than my last set of tires too. Probably the 2 ply sidewalls.
I am pleased that they don't pitch out on corners, handling is on par with my KO2s.
Anyway I'll let the new tire buzz wear off over the weekend and post up again .
I did my dumb mud tire test on Friday evening. For those of you who don't know it consists of a no finesse, street pressure run up "Dunbar Hill", an unmaintained gumbo base county road. The hill is attacked in 2WD, second gear high range on a goopy day after it's been raining, considerable wheel speed is applied, then you see how far you can make it up the hill before you stop moving and go sideways.
These made almost a 3/4 pull before momentum became really slow. They never really stopped moving forward though. As a basis of comparison the BFG KO2s made it about 1/2 way, 34x9.50 Super Swamper TSLs made a full pull, the Goodyear MTR w/Kevlar made it 3/4.
I would put these equal to the MTR in mud performance. The MTRs actually made it a few feet further, but stopped completely, these Mastercraft Courser MXTs lost momentum a few feet sooner, like 10 feet, but were still making slow, churning, sideways progress. I could have made the rest of the hill in 2WD but it would have taken like 10 minutes and left 12" ruts so I locked the hubs and drove out easy .
I give these a 4 out of 5 in the mud. These are a mud guys mud tire for sure, not a swamper, but just as good as you would expect any light mud terrain.
TWEAKER.... l L-O-V-E your reviews!!
........ I could have made the rest of the hill in 2WD but it would have taken like 10 minutes and left 12" ruts so I locked the hubs and drove out easy .
I wondered the same thing while I was trying to fling the 23 pounds of gumbo off my boots so I could work the pedals .
Did some measuring before I got too many miles on these. These are fat little suckers on a 10" wheel. Section width is just shy of 13" with an 11" tread face. They run a little short, like their Cooper cousins tend to, at 34 3/8".
These things are wearing better than I expected. I will revisit tread depth and mileage soon in case we need to call BS on that statement. Really wearing nice and flat on the 10" rims though.
We had 7"of snow and then it melted into a muddy mess. I had to get to a cabin site down on the river which amounted to about a 20 mile run of mixed jeep trail and farm road consisting of mostly gumbo, up and down bluffs on "impassable when wet" stuff.
These were the very best off-road tire I have tried. I ran these in mud, snow, ice, rocks, sand, and highway. They were fat, very soft sidewall, very smooth. Soft compound, so wear was not good, but traction was superior to anything I've tried.
The best mud tire I've ever run was the Ground Hawg 36 incher, it was unstoppable in mud, rocks or snow, sucked on ice, roared like a lion on the road and wore out quickly on the street with a detroit locker in a 14-bolt. I like these, they're nice and floaty on those 10 inchers, look forward to see the wear review.
I was in the low 20s, which I consider expedition pressure .
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Got mine. Will take her for a ride tonight.
We are the forgotten ones!!!
Still waiting on mine as well. A small part of me is thinking it would have been better to email the update to existing customers prior to putting it out on general sale as that has no doubt contributed to the backlog. Looking forward to giving it a spin when it finally arrives.
Quinto probably knows that we are the worthless musicians In the universe, we don't need it.
Anyone got the mac version yet? The wait is killing me!
anybody try the new ver. yet? I'm waiting for WIN7 64 vst, but I'm curious what the guys that tried it think about it.
it's great, haven't given all the new features a full play yet, looking forward to hearing what the "bright" mode sounds like on a master compared to the regular modes. the new tape delay/flange/noise/dolby modes all work great and enhance an already great plugin.
it's basically gone from a high quality bus effect to an outright "effect", and has just knocked kjaerhus audio's freeware "classic delay" off of the top of the pile after ten years of use, as my go to tape delay emulation.
cool, i was hoping that this would be good as a tape delay. I have been looking for a good tape delay plug.
Just got my Mac version. This was an excellent update and makes this a very versatile tool. Nice work, Quinto!
edit: would love to see a force-mono option like on GTS-39!
Finally got mine, twice thanks Quinto!
You just upgraded a good tool to a Great one. Thank you, Quinto!
Did I type that out loud...?
Finally got it! Great update. The new features are brill.
Although I'm slightly confused by wow and flange having a menu for only one mode.
Has anyone else noticed that the delay sync seems to be missing a "1/2" option? Mine skips from 1/3 to 1/1.
Couple of weird things going on with me here, It would be interesting to see if anyone else is experiencing these issues?
* When I load up existing projects that already contain instances of roundtone the delay is active on all of them. In my attempt to load the interfaces to turn the delay off it crashes my system. I'm on logic.
* I loaded up instances of roundtone on all my drum tracks, on my kick channel I selected 'tape machine A' and on all the other tracks I selected 'Linked to tape machine A'. However nothing seems to be linked. I'm assuming that the kick drum should be the master instance and changing any parameters within it should be globally changing in the others that are linked to that machine? This isn't happening for me.
* Two separate times when I loaded the instance onto the kick channel the delay continued to sound even though it wasn't turned on. I had to reload the plugin twice to get rid of it.
Probably a better naming is needed.
About synchd delay 1/2: ooops!
i think it's fair to assume that an upgrade from a v2 to a v3 will be pretty much incompatible with the previous version, right quint?
Quinto--any guess as to when the distribution will be complete? Have you done pc VST x64 yet?
PC is a single distribution (32 + 64).
The distribution is automated, but the data (coming from Roundtone v.1!) needed organisation. We'll get it done soon.


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Define peace as doing nice things for yourself, others, and the world.
Identify ways they can act peacefully at school and at home.
Brainstorm with students what they think the word "peace" means. What do they think it means to be peaceful?
Every few pages, ask students how many of them like doing the action on that page.
When possible, ask students to practice the action described on the page (e.g. read "Peace is saying you're sorry when you hurt someone" then ask students to turn to a partner and say "I'm sorry;" or read "Peace is thinking about someone you love," then ask students to close their eyes for 10 seconds and think about someone special in their lives).
After reading that "Peace is learning another language," ask if any students know someone who speaks a language other than English. Have students repeat the words for hello listed on the page, and any others that students may know.
Point out the humor in some of the illustrations (e.g. the caterpillar who needs shoes, the goldfish saying "gurgle," etc.). Remind students that being peaceful can be fun!
Peace is a feeling of calm and safety. Peace is being kind and helpful to yourself, others, and your community.
What are some other things you can do to be peaceful?
What can you do to be peaceful at school? At home? With your friends? With your family?
Tell students they are going to create a new page for the book. Have them draw a picture of themselves doing something peaceful. Then ask them to describe their picture by completing and writing the sentence: "Peace is…" Completed pages can be assembled into a class book or displayed in the room.
Ask students to think about one of their favorite peaceful things to do. Have students turn to a partner and talk for one minute about their peaceful thing to do. Allow both partners time to share. Ask students what it feels like to share their peaceful thoughts with a classmate.


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Joseph Oluwaseyi Temitope Ayodele-Aribo  (Camberwell, 21 juli 1996) is een Nigeriaans-Engels profvoetballer die doorgaans als middenvelder speelt. Hij verruilde Rangers FC in juli 2022 voor Southampton. Aribo debuteerde in 2019 in het Nigeriaans voetbalelftal.

Clubcarrière
Aribo maakte in 2014 zijn debuut voor Staines Town in de Isthmian Football League, een Engelse semiprofessionele regionale voetbalcompetitie in Londen. Hij kwam in totaal tot 22 competitiewedstrijden en scoorde daarin geen doelpunten.

In september 2015 vertrok hij naar Charlton Athletic, waar hij zich in eerste instantie aansloot bij de beloften na een geslaagde proefperiode. In mei 2016 tekende de middenvelder zijn eerste profcontract voor één seizoen. Op 16 oktober 2016 maakte hij zijn profdebuut, hij mocht invallen in een EFL Trophy groepsfase duel tegen Crawley Town. De wedstrijd werd met 0-2 verloren. Op 1 november 2017 maakte Aribo zijn eerste doelpunt voor Charlton Athletic in een 3-2 overwinning op Fulham onder 23 in de EFL Trophy. Zijn eerste competitiedoelpunt volgde op 23 december 2017 tegen Blackpool, een 1-1 gelijkspel. Aan het eind van het seizoen 2018/19 promoveerde Aribo met Charlton Athletic via de play-offs naar de Championship. De middenvelder, uitgegroeid tot een vaste waarde, kreeg op dat moment ook contractverlenging aangeboden maar sloeg dit af.

In juni 2019 tekende Aribo een vierjarig contract bij Rangers FC. Hij maakte op 9 juli 2019 zijn debuut voor de Schotten in een 0-4 overwinning in de Europa League, tegen St Joseph's uit Gibraltar. Zijn eerste doelpunt voor Rangers volgde op 18 juli 2019 in de return tegen St Joseph's, waar met 6-0 werd gewonnen. Zijn eerste competitiedoelpunt scoorde de middenvelder op 10 november 2019 tegen Livingston, een 0-2 overwinning.

Op 9 juli 2022 tekende Aribo een contract voor 4 seizoenen bij Southampton. Zijn oude club ontving zeven miljoen euro voor de transfer, een bedrag dat door diverse bonussen kan oplopen tot een totaalbedrag van twaalf miljoen euro.

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Bijgewerkt tot en met 13 maart 2020.

Interlandcarrière
Aribo kwam op basis van zijn Nigeriaanse afkomst in aanmerking om uit te komen voor de The Super Eagles. In augustus 2019 ontving hij zijn eerste uitnodiging voor de Nigeriaanse nationale ploeg. Op 10 september 2019 maakte hij onder bondscoach Gernot Rohr zijn debuut voor Nigeria in een vriendschappelijke uitwedstrijd tegen Oekraïne. De wedstrijd eindigde in een 2-2 gelijkspel en Aribo was verantwoordelijk voor de 0-1.

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You guys…I am seriously a MONTH behind in my schedule! I keep remembering when I was little girl and hearing adults talk about how time just seems to speed up. It's true. I thought they were just making it up. I think I've made it to a week equaling what used to be a day. Why does time do that? So like 6ish weeks ago (or 6 days if you're counting in my time), I told you about a new series that I wanted to start on this here blog called Creating Happy Kids.
And I was going to use The 7 Habits of Happy Kids book as the platform to build from.
Ummm. Yea. I wasn't a very good blogger. I told you all that I would post about our first habit on September 7th. What day is today? September 28? 3 weeks late (or really only 3 days in my time, right? That helps me feel a little less guilty). Well, if it is in any way redeeming to me, my 6-year-old son broke his arm completely in half and had to have emergency surgery on September 2nd. My plan was originally to introduce MY kids to the series on September 2nd and share it with you all on the Friday after. Then, the whole broken arm thing happened, and it more or less threw my whole plan out the window. Really, a lot of my plans for that first 2 weeks. It's hard on a 6-year-old to have surgery!
Well, I'm jumping back into it now! It's imperfect this month, but such is life. So, my new plan is to introduce YOU to the next month's habit sometime during the last week of the previous month. So, for October, we'll work on the first habit. Then, right before November, I'll introduce habit 2. Does that work for everyone? There are only 7 habits, so we should be done sometime around the end of the school year.
In the book, Sammy the Squirrel is bored and looks to other characters to fix the problem for him. Obviously, that doesn't work because Sammy needs to learn that he is in charge.
In real life, I was a little worried about telling my kids that they are in charge. My daughter especially. She is a natural leader and tends to try to lead (and correct) mommy all the time. I was actually leaning toward telling them that they get to decide rather than they're in charge. But, after a lot of thinking and considering, I went with the You're in Charge motto for this habit. But, with the stipulation that it meant that they are in charge of their own ACTIONS and FEELINGS. The first real life example that we were able to apply it to was one day after the older kids got home from playing with neighbor kids after school. We told them they could play but only until 5:30. Well, 5:45 rolled around and they still weren't home. So, I had to call. They came home full of excuses as to why it wasn't their fault that they were late. We explained that they are in charge of their own actions, so they couldn't blame someone else. We talked about things they could do to prevent that from happening again – like asking the other mom to help them watch the clock or call home to ask permission to be late, etc. I loved having something to fall back on instead of just grounding them and not talking it through. It turned something that could have resulted in crying, angry kids into a teaching moment.
In the meantime, I've been (slowly) re-reading The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People . I only want to read each habit as quickly as I'm going through with my kids. Well, it turns out, I have some Proactivity to work on myself. I've read the book before, but it's been quite a few years. In my foggy memory, I thought being Proactive was more about being productive and getting things done. You know, taking charge of your life. That is part of it. But, it's so much more than that. It's also about being in charge of your feelings and reactions to situations beyond your control. I can't tell you how many times I've blamed my bad mood on the weather. Or, decided that it was someone else's fault that I felt offended. Not my finest behavior for sure. And I think some of my behavior has rubbed off on my kids when they blame ME for making them mad (sorry, kids – you do have to do your homework!). Or blame their teacher for a boring day at school (since when did they decide it was teacher's job to be as entertaining as playing a Wii game?). I want my kids to take responsibility for their own actions, feelings and behaviors. If school seems boring, what can you do to fix that? You're not in charge of the curriculum or the teacher, but you are in charge of your attitude, or how engaged you are, etc. You're in charge of yourself.
At the back of the book, there is a picture of a 7 Habits Tree. I love the use of a tree. The first three habits are about establishing our roots so we can grow. We showed our kids what all of the roots are, but explained that we're mainly working on establishing the habit of Being Proactive right now. Once you master the first habits, you can work on growing and branching out.
So, are you playing along with us? Have you talked to your kids about being proactive?
This is a good post. For my older kids, I've really impressed on them, that they have to own their actions and own who they are. I think as parents we need to let them be in charge of who they are but also let them know that for every action they make there will be a reaction. Honestly, sometimes it works well and other times they have to learn from their mistakes. However they also know the rules and should they choose to disobey, they will receive a fair punishment.
Read the book and love it. Looking forward to the rest of this series as I've decided to incorporate this into my family as well. I also read "The Leader In Me" that you previously blogged about. It is very good too. Makes me want to find one of those leadership schools and move there to send my kids to that kind of school.


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This Week In Pregnancy: Week 19!
WOAHHHH WE'RE HALF WAY THERE!
20 weeks. 15 and a half weeks ago, I found out I was having a baby. 12 and a half weeks of horrendous morning sickness. 7 weeks of painful hips and back. 3 weeks of sleepless nights. 1 week of crippling anxiety.
But it's not all been bad! The last 15 and a half weeks have absolutely flown by, and I'm totally fine with that. Most women I know say to enjoy being pregnant while you can because you're only pregnant for 9 months. While that may be true, the next 20 weeks can not come quick enough. I am beyond happy that I am now able to count the weeks down until we meet our little princess.
The past week of pregnancy has to have been the least fun for me. I have my energy back, and I started to feel less tired at the weekend. However, that did not last long! My anxiety has caught up with me big time and has now left me emotional as f**k, not being able to get to sleep resulting in extremely tired and anxiety ridden mornings. I have not wanted to go to work, I have not wanted to text people, I don't even want to talk most of the time.
On the plus side, as I mentioned I am getting my energy back despite all the anxiety. I want to do more with my days and keep busy. This may be partially to take my mind off of things, but I am feeling a lot more human instead of robot at the moment.
We had the midwife appointment on Thursday. We heard her heartbeat for the first time, and as it turns out we have a gymnast baby. She's either a cheeky sod, or she's camera/doctor shy. She loves to fidget around whenever we're trying to see or hear her! She was the same at the sexing scan, wriggled into every position other than the one we needed to see properly (finally after an hour we got there!). She has a very strong heartbeat, and sounds extremely healthy which made all my worries and anxiety fuelled thoughts disappear.
I also feel like a whale, but that's a bit obvious right?