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THE 2000 CAMPAIGN: THE REPUBLICAN INSURGENT; McCain and Bush Revving Up Their Campaigns
By ALISON MITCHELL WITH FRANK BRUNI FEB. 3, 2000
Riding the wave of his decisive victory in New Hampshire, Senator John McCain tore across South Carolina today arguing that he is the candidate who can ''attract people to our party who have been alienated and disenchanted'' and carry Republicans to victory in November.
Only hours after Mr. McCain's double-digit victory in the New Hampshire primary dramatically altered the Republican race, Mr. McCain and a humbled Gov. George W. Bush shifted their battle for the nomination to this conservative state.
And both wasted little time positioning themselves. While Mr. McCain presented himself as a centrist Republican who could attract new converts to the party, Mr. Bush planted himself firmly on the right.
This morning Mr. Bush spoke in front of more than 5,000 students at Bob Jones University, a bastion of Christian conservatism, where he promised to keep ''our ideas, Republican ideas, conservative ideas, at the top of the national agenda.''
But the day clearly belonged to Mr. McCain, who emerged from New Hampshire with not only an 18-percentage-point margin over Mr. Bush but also a surge of much needed campaign contributions. Every few hours, Mr. McCain's aides ticked off new fund-raising totals from his campaign Web site. By late in the day, they said, Mr. McCain had taken in $500,000 over the Internet since the primary ended. [Page A23.]
Although Mr. Bush has been leading opinion polls in South Carolina by as many 20 percentage points, Mr. McCain said today that the record voter turnout in New Hampshire and the breadth of his support there showed that he was the ''electable'' Republican whose campaign against big moneyed special interests could broaden the party base.
''Thousands of people went down and registered as Republicans so they could vote for me,'' he said at a news conference this morning in Greenville, with his wife, Cindy. ''Electability is all about getting the support of the center, the political center. I'm a proud Republican conservative and maintain my base. But through this message of reform we will attract to our banner people all over the political spectrum.''
Mr. McCain pointed to how Ronald Reagan attracted cross-over Democrats two decades ago to expand the ranks of the party. And he said that while he opposes abortion, he thought the Republican Party should be ''an inclusionary party.''
''I think it's very clear that Ronald Reagan was able to expand the base of the party and continue to espouse the conservative philosophy,'' he said. ''I have to do that as well.''
The Bush campaign sought to diminish Mr. McCain's victory by insisting that its superior organization and campaign war chest would allow the Texas governor to last past the opening laps of the Republican race and run a 50-state campaign.
''He just has the luxury of picking and choosing, and I'm a national candidate,'' Mr. Bush said today on his campaign plane. ''I'm going to run in every primary.''
Asked about Mr. Bush's portrayal of himself as a 50-state candidate, Mr. McCain said: ''My response is, now he's running in 49 states. And after South Carolina it's going to be one less state.''
Long hoping that Mr. McCain's insurgency would be ignited by victory in New Hampshire, his aides scrambled to take advantage of the win, beginning a frenzy of fund-raising and hastily shifting campaign workers from New Hampshire and Washington to South Carolina for the push toward the Feb. 19 primary.
The senator's campaign also took on a new, more hip tone as the candidate was welcomed with blaring disco and funk music at rallies across the state. As Mr. McCain's plane touched down from New Hampshire just before 3 a.m., hundreds of enthusiastic college students awaited him in a hangar at the airport serving Spartanburg and Greenville.
Purple and green strobe lights flashed, and an announcer screamed: ''It's show time, baby. It's awesome.'' Then Mr. McCain's ''Straight Talk Express'' bus -- now a campaign icon -- rolled into the hangar and the candidate and his supporters popped out.
''You're crazy,'' Representative Mark Sanford, Republican of South Carolina, told the screaming, dancing, pompom-waving crowd. ''I used to think the people in New Hampshire were kind of crazy,'' he said, laughing. ''That's until I met you.''
An ebullient Mr. McCain continued his fight against special interests, saying, ''We're going to kick those big-money folks out of Washington.''
Mr. Bush's campaign also adopted a new tone as the governor shifted emphasis from some of the issues he concentrated on in New Hampshire, like tax cuts and military spending, toward what he called conservative values. And the shift suggested that, for all of Mr. Bush's assertions on Tuesday night and again this morning that the results in New Hampshire had not rattled him, he and his advisers were indeed a bit spooked.
At the very least, the Bush camp was playing it safe in South Carolina by sending signals to religious conservatives, who enjoy a leading role in the state's Republican politics, that the governor was a man with values just like theirs.
Mr. Bush also rolled out his latest prominent endorsement: that of former Vice President Dan Quayle, who had courted the votes of social conservatives before ending his own presidential bid in September.
Mr. Quayle, onetime critic of Murphy Brown's choosing to be a single mother, repeatedly used the word ''values'' in explaining his support for the governor. And Mr. Bush chimed in, ''I'm going to campaign on conservative values in this state.'' But if Mr. Bush cuddles too closely with social and religious conservatives, he could wind up with ideological associations that will hurt him among independents and Democrats, who can also vote in the primary and, more important, in a general election, which, as Mr. McCain noted today, is usually won in the political center.
Mr. Bush did not stake out any new positions today. Nor did he utter buzz words like abortion or homosexuality, two divisive issues he has labored to avoid.
But he, his allies and his supporters leaned more heavily on morality than they had over the last few weeks, and Mr. Bush's usually unchanging stump speech suddenly included new and unfamiliar lines.
Several of these focused on the moral failings of the Clinton administration more directly than Mr. Bush usually does.
''I will return honor and dignity to the White House,'' Mr. Bush told the students at Bob Jones University, to a round of robust applause that lasted nearly half a minute. ''The current president pledged the most ethical administration in American history. As it turned out, he fell 41 presidents short.''
Mr. Bush poked fun at the testimony Mr. Clinton gave to the grand jury investigating his affair with Monica S. Lewinsky.
''I will return the highest standards of honor to the highest office in the land,'' Mr. Bush said. ''This is my pledge. This is my pledge. And it does not depend on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.''
Mr. McCain also offered fierce criticism of both Mr. Clinton and Vice President Al Gore today, but focused instead on the campaign finance abuses of 1996, particularly Mr. Gore's participation in a fund-raiser at a Buddhist temple in California.
Mr. McCain had Representative Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, one of the managers of Mr. Clinton's impeachment, enthusiastically campaigning for him.
Mr. Bush's call for tax cuts, which was the centerpiece of his New Hampshire campaign, did not come until near the end of his speech, and it was not mentioned at all by former Gov. David Beasley of South Carolina, who introduced Mr. Bush.
Instead, Mr. Beasley vouched that Mr. Bush ''deeply loves the Lord'' and recited a litany of legislation in Texas that proved Mr. Bush's anti-abortion mettle.
Despite the size of his loss, Mr. Bush presented a happy, unworried face to reporters on the plane. And he predicted that in South Carolina, he would be rewarded for his efforts to ''solidify the base,'' a phrase that he used again in his news conference here late this afternoon.
''It's a different world down here,'' Mr. Bush said as he put his arm around his wife, Laura. ''It's a state that embraces conservative values.''
Mr. McCain, at his own rally here late this afternoon, portrayed his positions on tax cuts and Social Security as the truly conservative ones. ''It's conservative and family oriented to take care of our obligations in good times,'' he said, emphasizing paying down the debt.
Mr. McCain planned to spend 14 of the next 18 days in the battle for South Carolina. But his campaign was also ramping up to contest Arizona and Michigan on Feb. 22 and then to compete in the coast-to-coast primaries on March 7.
John Weaver, Mr. McCain's political director, said the campaign, which has been run on a comparative shoestring, planned to hire additional staff quickly for Washington, Virginia, California and New York and grow to about 90 employees from 65 in the next few weeks. Rick Davis, the campaign manager, said the drive was on to bring in enough money to end the primary season with $31 million raised or matched. Mr. Bush by contrast had raised $67 million by the end of last year, more than twice the total budget of the McCain campign.
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The Darkside Detective Is Full of Wit and Humor, but Not Much Else
March 6, 2018 Brandon
From developer Spooky Doorway and publisher Isometric Dreams comes The Darkside Detective, the point-and-click adventure puzzle game that sees you become the titular detective, Francis McQueen, as he attempts to solve the cases behind the newly awakened evil in Twin Lakes City.
Control Detective Francis McQueen on your journey to solve the case!
Mysterious portals are appearing in Twin Lakes, teleporting townspeople to a different world called the Darkside. As Detective Francis McQueen, and along with your trusty partner Officer Dooley, you must solve six unique cases to try and put an end to this strange evil taking over your city!
With your sidekick Dooley, you can tackle any mystery!
The story, while unique, is riddled with references and jokes that are designed to take players back to an earlier time in their lives. However, when looking past this façade of nostalgia, the story itself is seriously lacking in depth and development. This is most notable when considering the depth to which you ever explore the world and character you're controlling. Each level feels very small, which is good for puzzle solving, but bad in the depth and development categories. You never exist in any one environment long enough to feel connected to it (at least unless you get the dated jokes used to push forward an overly comedic narrative). It was incredibly difficult for me to 'get' the humor present in this story, which left me quite unsatisfied.
The Darkside Detective uses a classic point-and-click style gameplay mechanic to cover most of your detective duties. If you need to move to a different room, click the door, if you need to check out an object in a room, you click on it to examine. This style of gameplay is something I have trouble enjoying on console, because it feels like you have to drag your cursor over the entirety of the screen in order to get it anywhere, making it feel like it's taking forever to highlight something. There is also something less precise about an analog stick compared to a mouse when maneuvering this game. I would miss objects by a tiny fraction and then have to move the cursor completely out of the way in order to try again. It wasn't a common occurrence, but was something that I found frustrating when playing.
Interact with everything around you to help you solve the mystery of the Darkside!
Additionally, the game makes good use of the inventory stash. You're able to easily access items from within it, combine them together to create new objects, and ultimately use them in your environments very quickly. Since no stage or case contains too many locations, there aren't an overwhelming amount of items and things to collect, which makes each level very accessible. Ultimately I was underwhelmed with the gameplay experience, even though there were some things I liked. The incredibly short run time of only six cases offers no reason to replay the game, and the coupe of elements that I found frustrating really took away from my overall experience.
The Darkside Detective boasts some really cool visuals, and audio straight out of the 80s!
In a gaming world continually striving for realistic graphics, the colorful and pixelated approach continues to look spectacular, especially on a system with the flexibility of play style like the Nintendo Switch. What is even better about The Darkside Detective is the sound design, which is a more relatable homage to 80's synthesizers and electronic music. These two elements are things you can tell the development team took great care in designing and it shows with the end product being what it is.
With a unique premise, simple and accessible gameplay, and great sound and visual design, The Darkside Detective had a lot of promise when I first booted it up. Upon playing the game, however, I found that some of the gameplay mechanic frustrations, the incredibly short run time, and the depthless story ultimately make this game one I wouldn't recommend. If you're someone who's a little older than I am you might enjoy and better understand the references enough to want to buy this, but for me there were just too many things that I didn't enjoy, making this game a Nintendon't.
Publisher – Isometric Dreams
Developer – Spooky Doorway
Genre – Adventure, Puzzle, Other
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A native of Minnesota, Brandon has been an avid Nintendo fan for as long as he can remember and enjoys being able to escape into the vast worlds offered in their games. Some of his favorite games include: Pokemon Blue & Silver, Earthbound, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Risk of Rain 2, and of course LoZ: Breath of the Wild.
Outside of gaming Brandon enjoys riding motorcycle, listening to music or podcasts, cooking, watching movies, and is a big sports fan. He is always carrying his Switch with him wherever he goes, so feel free to add him if you'd like to lose at MK8D.
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Charlotte Hemmings plays the title role in "My Name Is Rachel Corrie." (Photo/Kirsten Shultz)
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By Johanna Meckel | April 28, 2017
My name is Marla Bennett. I was an exchange student from UC Berkeley studying at Hebrew University and the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies when a bomb went off in the university cafeteria and I was murdered along with nine others, four of whom were also Americans.
Their names were Benjamin Blutstein, 25 years old, from Pennsylvania; Dina Carter, 37 years old, from North Carolina; Janis Ruth Coulter, 36 years old, from Massachusetts; and David Gritz, 24 years old, also from Massachusetts.
In July of 2002 we were all having lunch in the Frank Sinatra Cafeteria at Hebrew University when a bomb full of shrapnel left by a Hamas bomber was detonated by a cell phone signal. In addition to the nine people he murdered, 85 others were injured.
The play "My Name Is Rachel Corrie," currently running in San Francisco, omits all context, portraying that period of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict only through Corrie's eyes.
Rachel Corrie's death was accidental and deeply tragic. A 23-year-old American student decided to come to Gaza, a war zone in 2003, to stand in solidarity — but in solidarity with whom? From 2001-2005, hundreds of rockets a year were being launched from Gaza at the Israeli community of Sderot, using materials brought in through tunnels just like the ones Corrie was trying to protect by serving as a human shield. The bulldozer that tragically ended her life was there to uncover one of 90 tunnels that terrorists were using to smuggle weapons into Gaza.
She was deliberately placed in a war zone as part of a strategy by the International Solidarity Movement, whose founder George Rishmawi boasted "…if some of these foreign volunteers get shot or even killed, then the international media will sit up and take notice." As detailed by the Israeli watchdog group NGO Monitor, the ISM has a lengthy history of working with Hamas and knowingly placing foreign volunteers in situations where ISM leadership knew that they could be injured or killed.
Elsewhere in Israel, hundreds of civilians like me were being killed and maimed in suicide bombings. The terror that Israelis were dealing with while walking home, studying at school, on buses, at cafes, in malls, in their everyday life, had reached an all-time high.
These attacks were not done in the name of ending "occupation" and creating a Palestinian state that would live in peace with Israel, but rather in the cause of eliminating the Jewish state entirely. They also echoed the deeper hatred that was manifested in Arab attacks on Jews since the 1920s, in the cry "Itbach el Yahud" (kill the Jew) screamed out in riots organized by Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.
My death was deliberate and no less tragic than Rachel's. I was killed because I was living in the Jewish state, close enough for Hamas to reach with one of its bombs.
My name is Marla Bennett. My name is Benjamin Blutstein. My name is Dina Carter. My name is Janis Ruth Coulter. My name is David Gritz. We all died at the hands of the same people the ISM leaders who recruited Rachel Corrie were trying to protect. Maybe somebody should write a play about us.
Johanna Meckel
Johanna Meckel is director of StandWithUs Northern California, an international Israel education organization.
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This year Silx were amongst 127 organisations from all over the UK who were shortlisted as finalists in the Children and Young People Now Awards 2018, we were nominated in not one but two categories and we were thrilled to be shortlisted after over 600 applications were received.
Our Senior Youth Worker Jackie and Progression Worker Sarah traveled down to London on Wednesday 21st November to see the winners be unveiled in a very prestigious ceremony at The Hurlingham Club, they were in the company of some fantastic and inspiring projects from up and down the country so just to be there was a great honour.
The evening began with a sparkling drinks reception and the opportunity to chat to other organisations and have photos taken, this was followed by a delicious three course meal and entertainment from the very talented London Free School. The voice of 'Strictly Come Dancing' Alan Dedicoat and TV Presenter Zoe Salmon revealed the 23 winners and the 10 Highly Commended entries and to our delight Silx were given the High Commendation in the Youth Work Category that was presented by CEO of the National Youth Agency, Leigh Middleton.
This award is a phenomenal achievement as we were up against some very large national organisations, we are thrilled that our tireless hard work and dedication to youth work and the young people of Blyth has been recognized nationally, and to be one of only two organisations in the North East Shortlisted makes this even better and really puts Silx and Blyth on the map!
After all of the awards were given out, there was an after party and another opportunity to network, Jackie and Sarah met some great projects from Liverpool and West Sussex and made plans to keep in touch and follow each others progress. Overall, the evening was great and we felt very privileged to be part of such a wonderful celebration.


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Blessed Bartolo Longo, the ex-Satanist Who Was Freed Through the Rosary
The stories about Bl. Bartolo Longo, who was beatified in 1980 by Pope St. John Paul II, are truly legendary.
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Angelo Stagnaro Blogs December 12, 2016
St. Francis of Assisi often reminded his friars that if God could work through me, He could work through anyone.
This is a bit unfair. Francis is, after all, Francis. They called him, the Alter Christus or the "Other Christ." God wouldn't have to work too hard to work through Francis.
However, Bartolo Longo was a true challenge.
He certainly didn't make it easy for the Holy Spirit.
After all, Bartolo Longo was a satanic priest.
It's the same old story: Catholic kid grows up in religious family, goes away to university, falls in with a bunch of drug-fueled Satanic pagans, becomes a Satanic high priest, comes to his senses and realizes he's made the stupidest mistake world history and ultimately reverts back to the Church.
It's the basic Satanic-rags-to-saintly-riches story.
The stories about Bl. Bartolo Longo are truly legendary. Some of the details aren't acceptable for mixed company and even some of the battle-hardened Marines I know have blanched in horror at the tales.
But, just in case curiosity has grabbed a hold of you…
Bartolo Longo was born in the small town of Latiano, near Brindisi, in southern Italy on February 10, 1841. His parents, Dr. Bartolomeo Longo and Antonina Luparelli, were wealthy and exceptionally devout Catholics who prayed the Rosary together daily.
Longo became alienated from the Church when his mother died in 1851. Being far from his family when he left to study law at the University of Naples, he drifted further away. The final coup de grâce occurred when he fell in with a paganic group which "ordained" him as a Satanist priest.
He participated in séances, fortunetelling and orgies. He fooled himself into thinking he could do "real" magic and that just set him up for a greater fall than the First One. He felt motivated to publicly ridicule Christianity at every turn and did everything within his power to subvert Catholic influence in society and culture. He even convinced many other Catholics to leave the Church and participate in occult rites.
But the more he experimented with dark forces, the deeper he sank into depression and demonic obsession. Joy, like God, were far from him. In their stead, his life was marked with extreme depression, paranoia, hatred, confusion and nervousness. He was horribly afflicted by dark diabolical visions which frightened him and threw him into a cycle of ever declining health. He ultimately experienced a mental breakdown.
In his darkest moments, he heard his deceased father begging him to: "Return to God! Return to God!" greatly moved by this vision, Longo turned to his old friend Professor Vincenzo Pepe. Vincenzo convinced Longo to abandon Satan and introduced him to Fr. Alberto Radente, a Dominican priest. He heard Longo's confession and brought him back to God and His Church.
One evening, as he walked near chapel at Pompeii, Longo had a profound mystical experience about which he wrote later:
As I pondered over my condition, I experienced a deep sense of despair and almost committed suicide. Then I heard an echo in my ear of the voice of Friar Alberto repeating the words of the Blessed Virgin Mary: 'If you seek salvation, promulgate the Rosary. This is Mary's own promise.' These words illumined my soul. I went on my knees. 'If it is true ... I will not leave this valley until I have propagated your Rosary.'
Longo was so moved, he attended a séance and in the middle of it, stood up raising a medal of the Blessed Virgin Mother and yelled, "I renounce spiritism because it is nothing but a maze of error and falsehood."
On March 25, 1871, Longo became a Third Order Dominican and took the name Br. Rosario in honor of the Rosary. He joined a charitable group in Pompeii and worked with Countess Mariana di Fusco, a wealthy local widow who he married a year later at Pope Leo XIII's recommendation.
The devout couple started a confraternity of the Rosary and searched for a painting of the Blessed Virgin to serve as a spiritual focus for the group. Sister Maria Concetta de Litala of the Monastery of the Rosary at Porta Medina gave one which she found at a Neapolitan junk shop. And, as they say, good things don't come cheap and cheap things don't come good.
The painting portrayed Our Lady of the Rosary with Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine of Siena, but only barely. It was poorly executed and in miserable condition but he viewed it as a divine gift. He later described it in his journal:
Not only was it worm-eaten, but the face of the Madonna was that of a coarse, rough country-woman ... a piece of canvas was missing just above her head ... her mantle was cracked. Nothing need be said of the hideousness of the other figures. St. Dominic looked like a street idiot. To Our Lady's left was a St. Rose. This I had changed later into a St. Catherine of Siena ... I hesitated whether to refuse the gift or to accept ... I took it.
He repaired it and had a more competent artist touch it up and had it installed at a ramshackle church which he also repaired in October, 1873. Miracles were reported within hours of its installation. Seeing the devotion of the pilgrims, the bishop of Nola encouraged Bartolo to construct a larger church. The born-again Catholic approached architect Giovanni Rispoli to build saying:
In this place selected for its prodigies, we wish to leave to present and future generations a monument to the Queen of Victories that will be less unworthy of her greatness but more worthy of our faith and love.
Construction began on May 8, 1876. Cardinal La Valetta consecrated the church in May, 1891. In 1906, Bartolo and his wife donated the Pompeii shrine to the Holy See. Bartolo continued to promote the Rosary until his death on October 5, 1926, at the age of 75. He tirelessly evangelized young people at parties and in local cafes, explaining the dangers of occultism to them.
In 1939, the church Bartolo and his wife built was enlarged and reconsecrated as a basilica. It was officially renamed the Basilica of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary of Pompeii. It soon became a focus of pilgrimages for more than a century.
Apparently, most Catholics and non-Catholics found the church built by an ex-Satanist to be devilishly irresistible.
When Bartolo died, the call for his canonization was immediate. Pope St. John Paul II beatified him on October 26, 1980 calling him the "Apostle of the Rosary." More than 30,000 people attended the ceremony.
Every school student in Christendom knows what happened to the city of Pompeii on August 24, AD 79 — most people don't realize that the "new" Pompeii rose from the destroyed city's ashes 1,796 years later because of Our Lady of the Rosary and her devotee. In his "The History of the Shrine of Pompeii," Bartolo wrote:
Next to a land of dead appeared, quite suddenly, a land of resurrection and life: next to a shattered amphitheater soiled with blood, there is a living Temple of faith and love, a sacred Temple to the Virgin Mary; from a town buried in the filth of gentilism, arises a town full of life, drawing its origins from a new civilization brought by Christianity: The New Pompeii!... It is the new civilization that openly appears beside the old; the new art next to the old; Christianity full of life in juxtaposition to long surpassed paganism.
The newly constructed Basilica attracted new families, a railway station, postal and telegraph services, the police, roads, water, electricity, hotels, restaurants and shops. About three million pilgrims come to the Basilica every year thus bringing new life the long-dead city of Pompeii.
Thus, the resurrection and salvation of Pompeii is now eternally linked with the resurrection and salvation of Blessed Bartolo Longo―the once demonic prodigal son returned home to the embrace of Holy Mother Church.
The truly wonderful thing about Bartolo Longo becoming a saint in the very Church he had worked so hard to destroy is that if God could work through him, there's still hope for the rest of us … including myself. (It's really such devilish irony.)
In God, all things are possible.
Angelo Stagnaro Angelo Stagnaro ("Erasmus") performs as a stage magician and mentalist and divides his time between Europe and North America. He is the editor of "Smoke & Mirrors," the Net's largest e-zine for professional magicians. He's also the Guildmaster of the Catholic Magicians' Guild and a professed member of the Secular Franciscans (Third Order Franciscans). Angelo has published articles in most of the major Catholic journals in the United States and Great Britain and had worked as a correspondent for the Catholic News Service having served as principle liaison for the wire service to the United Nations and to the Holy See's Office to the United Nations. Angelo has written six books on mentalism/cold reading including Conspiracy, Something from Nothing, The Other Side, Shibboleth and his upcoming Spur of the Moment. In addition, he's written an instructional book for catechists which uses stage magic as a teaching tool for children and young adults entitled The Catechist's Magic Kit (Crossroad). His other books include How to Pray the Dominican Way (Paraclete) and The Christian Book of the Dead (Crossroad). His most recent book was released through Tau Publishing and is entitled A Lenten Cookbook for Catholics.


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It's revealed in The Fourth cabinet, that Charlie is really an enhanced AI that is capable of growing and adjusting. It's also claimed that she's got fake bl d. She is the alternative continuity version of Henry's child, who possesses the Puppet, and s n after, Lefty.
Charlotte is really a teenage girl having a round face and rosy cheeks, with brown wide eyes that "glisten", and shoulder-length hair that is brown. She wears a white T-shirt, blue jeans, combat shoes, and an olive jacket that is green. She's a mouth that is thin constantly l ks as though she had been going to smile.
Despite her sweetness and sort character, Charlie is independent/self-sufficient, she can fight for herself as she doesn't get captured by William; that may tell the reader. As noticed in the written b k, this woman is the one who killed William in the Spring Bonnie Suit. She additionally finds it difficult to trust people.
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The Silver Eyes
In line with the novel, Charlie could be the daughter of Henry and an unnamed woman, plus the double sibling of Sammy. On November 1st, 1982, Afton donned the Spring Bonnie suit and he kidnapped Sammy, Charlie's twin bro, when they had been both young children. While William Afton was suspected of committing this murder, he wasn't charged; because of this, the diner ends up shutting down. In 1995, Charlie, now 17 years old returns to her childh d home of Hurricane, Utah to attend the launch of the scholarship specialized in her sch l buddy Michael Br ks whom went lacking a decade early in the day.
She reunites with her youth friends Jessica, John, Carlton, Marla, and Lamar, plus they opt to revisit the accepted place where Michael died Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, a family group restaurant Charlie's father once owned. Now a shopping that is incomplete is built in the restaurant's destination, but upon further investigation, the buddies uncover the restaurant is still standing and that the mall have been built around it.
Breaking in, they explore the abandoned restaurant and find that the animatronic characters that are mascot Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie, and Chica, that have been built by Charlie's father - have now been left out.
The day that is next Charlie and her friends attend the scholarship's launch ceremony at their old college, where Michael's parents provide a speech about him. Afterwards, John confesses to Charlie he now suspects this person was Michael's killer that he remembers seeing a strange person in a yellow Freddy costume at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza on the day of Michael's death, and.
That evening, Charlie, Jessica, John, and Carlton go back to the restaurant, accompanied by their friends Lamar, Marla, and her 11-year-old bro Jason.
They discover the still-functioning control panel which makes the robots move, and Charlie discovers a 4th robot - Foxy the Pirate Fox - which cuts his h k to her arm. The next morning, haunted by present events, Charlie informs John that before escort girl Ontario moving to Hurricane her father owned another restaurant called Fredbear's Family Diner, which featured two doing robots, yellow versions of Freddy Fazbear (Fredbear) and Bonnie the Bunny (springtime Bonnie).
John drives Charlie towards the abandoned diner in brand New Harmony, and she recalls the day her cousin Sammy ended up being abducted by someone in a Bonnie costume, which resulted in the diner losing sight of company and Charlie's moms and dads divorcing. She suspects that Sammy's abduction and Michael's murder are linked.
That the friends go to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza again, but are caught by the mall's security guard Dave, who threatens to call the police evening. Charlie offers to allow Dave explore the restaurant he accepts with them, and. Inside, the friends perform with all the control panel, and while they have been distracted Dave retrieves a yellowish bonnie costume from a closet and abducts Carlton, which Jason witnesses.
The friends flee the restaurant and fetch officer Dunn, and then discover that the restaurant's d r has been chained up while they were gone. Police Chief Clay Burke - Carlton's dad - will not believe their story, and assumes Carlton is playing a prank. Charlie later talks with John about her father; he closed the restaurant and committed suicide after Michael ended up being murdered, leading people that are many town to suspect he had been the killer.
Charlie and John visit a library to analyze the history of Fredbear's Family Diner, and discover an old newspaper article about Sammy's kidnapping by having a picture of Dave, who the newsprint identifies since the diner's co-owner. Jason runs down, intending to rescue Carlton, and Charlie, John, Lamar, Jessica, and Marla break right into the restaurant to get him. Finding Carlton, Charlie undoes the spring locks and frees him from the costume.
As they search for a way out, the four robots turn on and pursue them through the restaurant. William reveals that the robots are possessed by the vengeful ghosts of his victims, and boasts that they shall search for and kill any intruders. The group attempts to hide in celebration r m, but all four robots part them.
Nevertheless, they are halted by the arrival of the 5th robot, the yellow Freddy (Fredbear) from Fredbear's Family Diner, which Charlie understands is possessed by Michael's ghost. The yellow Freddy allows them to go out of, and Chief Burke arrives to search for the Officer that is missing Dunn. William attacks into the Bonnie that is yellow costume but Charlie activates its spring locks, killing him.
Because the robots drag William's corpse away, Chief Burke escorts everyone else out of the shopping mall. The buddies go their separate methods, and before making Hurricane, Charlie visits her father's grave, remembering a pleased day she had with him when she was a child.
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General Terms and Conditions | Temac, a.s.
1.1. The Seller, TEMAC, a.s., ID No.: 000 12 092, VAT No.: CZ 000 12 092, a joint-stock company with its registered office at Nymburská 53, Zvěřínek, Postcode 289 13 (hereinafter referred to as the "Seller"), and the Buyer given in the Purchase Order (hereinafter referred to as the "Buyer", the Buyer and Seller jointly also as the "Parties" and each individually as the "Party") have agreed to these General Terms and Conditions for the Sale of Goods (hereinafter referred to as the "GTC"). The subject of these GTC is primarily setting the basic regulations and conditions under which the Seller undertakes to sign a Purchase Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the "Agreement") with the Buyer, regarding the purchase of goods from the Seller's offer.
1.2. The Buyer is obliged to notify the Seller, without undue delay, of any change in identification data such as the company name, registered office, statutory body, bank details, ID No., VAT No., correspondence address, etc.
1.3. The Seller declares that all personal data is true, will be used only for fulfilling the Agreement with the Buyer and will not be published, shared with a third party, etc. in any way, with the exception of a situation related to the distribution or payments concerning the goods ordered (e.g. informing them of the name and delivery address).
1.4. The Seller undertakes to supply the Buyer with goods and transfer the ownership rights for the goods to them, in accordance with these GTC. The Buyer is obliged, pursuant to these GTC, to properly receive the goods and especially to pay the agreed price for the goods within the set time.
2.1. These GTC are governed by Act No. 513/1991 Coll., the Commercial Code (hereinafter referred to as the "Commercial Code"), primarily the provisions of the Commercial Code governing the Purchase Agreement, unless it arises from the text of the GTC that the Parties have regulated the legal relations between themselves differently.
2.2. These GTC are applicable to all legal relations established between the Seller and the Buyer based on the Purchase Order, the Agreement on Price and Goods Delivery Deadline and these GTC. Other conditions, contrary to the Purchase Order, the Agreement on Price and Delivery Deadline, the Purchase Agreement or these GTC, primarily the conditions included in the business terms and conditions or in the Buyer's forms, are invalid. Should any agreements or arrangements between the Seller and the Buyer be in conflict with these GTC, the provisions of the GTC shall prevail. These GTC are fully compliant with the provisions of Section 273 (1) of the Commercial Code.
3.1. "Purchase Order" means the purchase order placed (even verbally) by the Buyer to the Seller, specifying the type of goods, volumes and the required delivery deadline requested by the Buyer, regarding the goods inquired of by the Seller from the Buyer, or other facts the Buyer considers necessary or suitable to specify in more detail to the Seller.
3.2. "Agreement on Price and Delivery Deadline" is understood to be the confirmation (even verbally) from the Seller to the Buyer about the Seller accepting the Order, for the price of goods given in the Seller's current pricelist or the Order, and with the goods delivery time given in the Price and Goods Delivery Time Agreement. These GTC are part of the concluded Agreement on Price and Delivery Deadline.
3.3. "Concluded Agreement" is understood primarily to be the Seller's confirmation of a Purchase Order placed by the Buyer. The Agreement between the Seller and the Buyer is also concluded upon the Buyer's confirmation of the receipt of the goods delivered by the Seller to meet the Purchase Order, by signing the consignment receipt document, signing the delivery note or invoice, or upon confirming the acceptance of the goods in another way, even verbally. It is assumed that the Buyer is familiar with the GTC and these apply as adopted at the latest when the goods are received by the Buyer.
3.4. No changes or amendments to this Agreement shall take effect unless produced in writing, otherwise the Seller is not bound by them.
3.5. All the Seller's offers are essentially non-binding, unless the Seller expressly declares them binding.
3.6. Verbal or written arrangements effected prior to the signing of the Agreement by both Parties and relating to a trading transaction according to the Agreement signed later, become invalid if not included in the Agreement or if not in accordance with these GTC.
3.7. Should the Buyer fail to meet any of their contractual or legal obligations, the Seller may insist on their fulfilment, or withdraw from the Agreement and sell the goods to a third party. In both cases, this shall be without prejudice to the Seller's right to claim compensation for damage incurred in connection with the Buyer's default.
4.1. The Goods required by the Buyer are specified in the Purchase Order.
4.2. The Buyer shall not acquire the ownership right to the goods earlier than on the day of the full payment of the price for the goods (retention of title) unless otherwise agreed by the Parties in the Agreement.
4.3. Partial fulfilment is acceptable and the Buyer is not authorized to refuse it.
5.1. The price of the goods is always determined according to the Seller's current pricelist of the goods or based on the rate agreed by the Buyer and the Seller in the Purchase Order and the Agreement on Price and Delivery Deadline.
5.2. All the prices of the goods apply as ex Seller's warehouse ("Ab Werk", "Ex Works"), and unless otherwise expressly agreed, the prices do not include packaging, loading on a truck, transportation costs and insurance. Value added tax shall be charged in addition to the prices of the goods, according to the current statutory rate.
6.1. The Buyer undertakes to pay the Seller the price of the goods in cash or by bank transfer to the Seller's bank account.
6.2. The Seller is authorized to request that the Buyer pays a deposit for the price of the goods ordered, up to 100% of the price of the goods. To this end, the Seller shall issue the Buyer with an advance invoice.
6.3. If it later becomes clear that the Buyer will not meet the obligations due to a lack of competence or due to their behaviour in preparing the fulfilment, the Seller may request the payment of a further deposit, if the previous one was not sufficient. To this end, the Seller shall issue the Buyer with an advance invoice. Upon the expiry of the deadline for the fulfilment (pursuant to Article 6.5), the Seller has the right to withdraw from the Agreement.
6.4. The invoice is a payment and tax document, which contains, primarily, the date of issue and the date of the taxable supply; the due date; the goods description, their volumes, unit prices; the overall price excluding VAT; VAT; the overall price payable; numbers of the delivery notes, if issued separately; Purchase Order number and the identification of the Seller and the Buyer.
6.5. The price of the goods (deposit for the price of the goods / remainder of the price of the goods) is payable on the day indicated in the invoice (advance invoice / final invoice). If the invoice does not stipulate such a day, the due date is 14 days from the day of issue by the Seller.
6.6. In the event of bank transfers, payments shall be deemed effected on the day on which the amount concerned is credited to the Seller's bank account.
6.7. Should the Buyer default on the payment of a deposit for the price of the goods or the remainder of the price of the goods based on the advance and final invoices, the Buyer undertakes to pay the Seller a penalty accruing at a rate of 0.05% of the price of the goods for each day it is delayed.
6.8. The penalty according to Article 6.7 is payable within 2 days following the delivery of the Seller's written request, to the bank account specified in the request. The right to the payment of the penalty shall be without prejudice to the Seller's right to claim the fulfilment of the obligation concerned, the right for the compensation of the damage in full or the respective claim for interest on late payments. The Parties' obligation to pay a penalty shall not be affected by any circumstances excluding liability.
6.9. If several obligations exist between the Buyer and Seller, the amounts paid shall be used for the settlement of the amount due at the earliest date, and at first for the settlement of appurtenances thereof.
7.1. The Seller's obligation to deliver the goods is deemed fulfilled upon the handover of the goods to the first carrier for transportation (including a licensed mail carrier), or to the Buyer where the delivery of the goods for transportation to the first carrier is not agreed. As regards the handover of the goods to the first carrier for the delivery thereof to the Buyer, the risk of damage to the goods passes to the Buyer upon such a handover; the Buyer is also authorized to apply the rights from the Transportation Agreement against the Carrier.
7.2. The goods are handed over to the Buyer upon the delivery thereof to the Buyer at the agreed location, or if no agreement is made regarding such a location, at the moment of transferring the goods to the first carrier (or licensed mail carrier) for the transportation of the goods (delivery) to the place of destination. Unless the Seller and the Buyer agree otherwise, it is assumed that the agreed place of destination is the Buyer's registered office, place of business or establishment.
7.3. If the Buyer refuses to receive the goods, the Seller shall be entitled to claim a penalty at the rate of 25% of the price of the goods, unless agreed otherwise.
7.4. The penalty according to Article 7.4 is payable within 14 days following the delivery of the Seller's written request, to the bank account specified in the request. The right to the payment of the penalty shall be without prejudice to the Seller's right to claim the fulfilment of the obligation concerned, the right for the compensation of the damage in full or the respective claim for interest on late payments. The Parties' obligation to pay a penalty shall not be affected by any circumstances excluding liability.
8.1. Goods shall be deemed defective if a deviation is identified in the quality, range and implementation of the goods stipulated in the Purchase Order, generally binding technical standards and regulations.
8.2. The warranty period is 12 months, unless otherwise agreed by the Parties, commencing on the day of the fulfilment of the Seller's obligations to supply the goods. The warranty pursuant to these provisions does not apply to the obvious defects of the goods that the Buyer could detect on the basis of an inspection of the goods immediately on acceptance, defects which originate in the wear and tear of the goods caused by their proper, regular usage, and to defects caused by the unauthorized use of the goods in conflict with the proper method of use.
8.3. If defects covered by the Provider's warranty occur with the goods in the warranty period, the Buyer shall claim such defects with the Seller, without undue delay, upon their discovery, no later than by the end of the warranty period. The Buyer shall claim obvious defects to the goods with the Seller within 10 days of the acceptance of such goods. The Buyer is obliged to claim the defective goods with the Seller in writing; a description must be given about how the symptoms of the defects concerned. Until a complaint regarding the defective goods is settled, the Buyer cannot handle the goods in such a way that may affect or prevent the verification of the claimed defects or that would deteriorate the condition of the defective goods.
8.4. If a complaint regarding the defective goods is accepted as justified, the Seller may either rectify the defect within the respective deadline or deliver new goods under the same conditions as the original goods, at the Seller's discretion. Upon agreement with the Buyer, complaints may also be resolved by providing a fair discount off the price of the goods.
8.5. The settlement of a complaint pursuant to Article 8.4 shall also constitute the settlement of the Buyer's right to claim damages, if any; the Buyer is subsequently not authorized to claim such damages against the Seller.
9.1. The Seller shall exclusively indemnify the Buyer for the damage caused to the Buyer through a breach of obligations arising from contractual relations based on the Agreement and these GTC.
9.2. The Seller shall not indemnify the Buyer for any direct or indirect damage or lost profits resulting from the improper use of the goods or the use of defective goods.
9.3. The Seller shall not indemnify the Buyer for damage incurred from the purchase agreements signed by the Buyer with third parties, primarily for subsequent or indirect damage.
9.4. The Parties agree that if the Seller is found obliged to indemnify the Buyer for the incurred damage, the compensation for the entire damage is limited to the price of the goods.
9.5. The Seller shall not be liable for damage resulting from force majeure. Force majeure is understood to mean an unforeseeable event occurring after the receipt of the Purchase Order without fault of the Seller.
10.1. The Buyer is not authorized to withdraw from the Agreement established by the Purchase Order, Purchase Order Confirmation and these GTC.
10.2. The Seller is authorized to withdraw from the Agreement based on the Purchase Order, Agreement on Price and Delivery Deadline and these GTC in the event of the Buyer's delay in the settlement of the deposit or remainder of the price of the goods by more than 4 days, if the Buyer fails to submit the agreed documents necessary for the implementation of the job or in the event of a gross breach of the Agreement, or otherwise as stipulated in the Commercial Code. The Seller's withdrawal from the Agreement shall be without prejudice to the Seller's right to claim the payment of a penalty and compensation for damage pursuant to the valid legal regulations and these GTC.
10.3. The withdrawal is effective as of the delivery of the withdrawal notification to the other Party.
10.4. Upon their withdrawal from the present Agreement, the Parties shall immediately return their mutual fulfilments to one another, together with the settlement according to the principles of the surrender of any unjustified enrichment.
11.1. All disputes between the Seller and the Buyer arising from or related to the legal relations established by the Agreement, Purchase Order, Agreement on Price and Delivery Deadline and these GTC shall be resolved amicably in the first place.
11.2. All disputes arising from this Agreement or in connection hereof shall be resolved with a final validity by a single arbitrator appointed by the party initiating such proceedings from the list of members maintained by Asociace arbitrů (Association of Arbitrators), ID No. 269 93 34, with their registered office in Thunovská 12, Prague 1 – Malá Strana, Postcode 118 00, registered by the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic, or appointed by the president of Asociace arbitrů, if the party initiating such proceedings does not use its right, through arbitration proceedings conducted according to the arbitration Rules of Asociace arbitrů, with which the Parties have familiarized themselves. The Parties agree that the arbitration proceedings shall be conducted solely on the basis of written motions, without verbal proceedings, and that disputes shall be resolved in accordance with the equity principles, and that the arbitration award need not be justified. The venue of arbitration shall be the offices of Asociace arbitrů.
12.1. The Buyer is aware that in buying the goods from the Seller's offer, the Buyer does not enjoy any rights to the use of registered trademarks, trade names, company logos or patents of the Seller or third parties, unless otherwise agreed in the form of a separate agreement.
12.3. The Seller and the Buyer are obliged to act honourably and in good faith in relation to the other Party. The Buyer undertakes to support the good name of the Seller and the Seller's goods.
12.4. The Buyer is not entitled to assign their rights or obligations from the Agreement to a third party without the prior written consent of the Seller.
12.5. Should any provisions of the Agreement or these GTC be or become ineffective, this shall be without prejudice to the effectiveness of the remaining provisions. In such cases, the Parties shall agree upon the arrangements that best correspond to the meaning and purpose of the Agreement and which will best correspond to the ineffective provisions.
12.6. These GTC come into effect on 1 May 2010 and repeal all previous provisions and practices. The Seller reserves the right to amend these GTC without prior notification.


I've been thinking about the science of tagging. I believe that to tag one's posts well is to full utilize the power of the semantic web. But how to do it well?
Research shows that even if people do not think in the exact same patterns, a collective agreement on common categories can emerge. The problem for the "custodian of order" (don't you just love this term and, more importantly, want to think of yourself as one in all parts of your life?) is being privy to groupthink. Which I am not. Heck, I search in a different manner every time I go to the same website. WordPress suggests one use no more than 5-10 categories or tags. I could never limit myself that much.What's the point in grouping hundreds of content entries into just a few chapters?
Since I never know what kind of search mood I might be in at any given time, I'd prefer to tag in both general and specific categorical actions (ie. both social media as a broad term and Twitter as a singular one). That way I'm covered.


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A lifestyle tracking app for carbon emissions that tracks all aspects of your day - enables individuals to manage their impact on the environment in a fun, intuitive, and impactful way.
EcoVillage is a lifestyle tracking app for carbon emissions that tracks all aspects of your day. EcoVillages enables individuals to manage their impact on the environment in a fun, intuitive, and impactful way.
We used the name Ecovillage, a model of living that looks at sustainability in four dimensions: social, economic, environmental and cultural.
Our app applies these principles to life in urban communities using gamification to incentivize positive change and environmental education. We want to make offsetting your carbon footprint seamless and unobstructive, while giving you a visual representation of your ecological impact. Too often people are bombarded with environmental facts and figures that simply cannot be processed by the human brain. EcoVillage turns that strategy on its head by showing you a virtual village, and the impact your carbon emissions have on it.
Not only does our application create awareness, but it makes offsetting carbon emissions, through different channels (like donating resources to plant trees, etc. - Payments supported securely using Square), seamless. It also encourages a positive community by competing with your friends to see who has the lowest carbon footprint.
How we built it
We built a two-part product that is composed of an application built on Flutter (a cross-platform framework to create mobile, web, and desktop applications with a single source code) to track an individual's carbon emission created by our daily commute and travels. We use the Google Maps API along with a Flutter GeoLocation library to track coordinate displacement and calculate the distance in meters, which is then mapped to an estimate of carbon emission produced per kilometer, on average, by vehicles per year. The second component is a chrome extension that scrapes your online cart while shopping online to estimate a carbon emission based on how the products in your cart are produced and the packaging they come in. This chrome extension is interactive and clear to see and it integrates with our application to make an aggregated carbon emission count.
Challenges we ran into
Building the application in a language we had never used before (Dart) proved to have its own challenges. From object reference to promise handling, we ran into a lot of programmatic issues while also facing the challenge of understanding a new language. In addition, for our Chrome Extension, having a dynamic DOM from websites proved that the web-scraping had to be robust enough to handle these dynamic changes.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We all programmed and worked with technologies that we had never been exposed to before: Flutter/Dart (referencing objects and promise handling), Chrome Extensions, GCP, and even our own designer created wireframes for an application for the first time! Having this whole UI/UX translation process into code was a challenge in itself, so beyond the technical skills, our collaboration and teamwork was something we are extremely proud of.
We learned how having a clear long term goal is good, but unattainable without clear, measurable, and independently do-able tasks. We also learned how important and valuable it is as a team-player to be flexible in the tasks that you have to work in, and having that ability to adapt and jump from task to task, across different technologies, based on the team needs, is essential.
What's next for EcoVillage
What's next for us? A greener world! We want to encourage people to be aware of their carbon footprint, but awareness, today, is not enough. We allow people to take action, and having this product in the market will help people do that, without getting out of their way or in an inconvenient way. We allow them to make a difference in a seamless, simple, and interactive way.
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Arctic researcher warns the 'the ice is dying' after landmark expedition
The icy landscape of the Arctic as we imagine it will no longer exist in just a few decades, researchers returning from a major expedition to the frozen north have warned.
"This world is threatened. We really saw how the ice is disappearing," said Markus Rex, leader of the largest-ever Arctic expedition, at a press conference Monday.
Researchers involved in the expedition called MOSAiC — Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate — returned on the German vessel, the Polarstern, which spent more than a year at sea.
For much of the mission, the Polarstern was carried by the natural ice drift, pushed on by the wind, while researchers from 20 countries collected data about the environment and climate change. No other expedition to date has been able to collect similar evidence from the center of the Arctic, with the vessel spending weeks within 125 miles of the North Pole.
Rex, an atmospheric scientist with the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany, said researchers pushed boundaries and battled the extreme landscape to gather data that "will change climate research forever."
German icebreaker and research vessel Polarstern arrives in Bremerhaven, Germany, on Monday after a year-long mission, the biggest Arctic expedition in history.PATRIK STOLLARZ / AFP – Getty Images
There were many safety precautions taken as researchers set up their instruments in the ever-changing landscape, which saw the ice form mountain, flatten out again and even form deep cracks, Rex said.
"We constantly have to relocate things so that we don't lose anything," he said.
Preparing to go out to take measurements was a lengthy process on its own, Ola Persson, an atmospheric scientist with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told NBC News while aboard the Polarstern last week.
Researchers had to put on layers of warm clothes to survive the frigid temperatures, he said. The other concern was their furry neighbors: polar bears.
At least six people were on polar bear watch every day as researchers set out to measure atmospheric, ocean and other climate data on the moving sea ice.
"The bears did have a few encounters with our instruments. They're primarily very curious animals," Persson said, adding that there were luckily no direct encounters with the researchers.
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While years of analysis of the data lay ahead, Rex said researchers are already alarmed by the evidence they've gathered.
"The ice is dying," Rex said. "If we keep going as we are then the Arctic will be ice-free in summer within a few decades and the world I just described will no longer exist."
Temperatures measured by the researchers through the winter were consistently 18 degrees higher than those recorded by the Arctic explorer Fridtjof Nansen 125 years ago, he said.
Earlier this year, the World Meteorological Organization reported the highest ever temperatures recorded north of the Arctic Circle with the Russian town of Verkhoyansk reaching 100.4 degrees.
North of Greenland, Rex said researchers witnessed wide areas of open water that should have been covered in thick ice. Even at the North Pole, the ice was melting and had holes, sending a clear message of the consequences of climate change.
"It was very evident, you could see it all around," he said.
Linda Givetash
Linda Givetash is a London-based producer for NBC News.
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El premi David di Donatello al millor curtmetratge (en italià: David di Donatello per il miglior cortometraggio) és un premi de cinema que anualment atorga l'Acadèmia del Cinema Italià (ACI, Accademia del Cinema Italiano) per reconèixer al millor curtmetratge italià estrenat l'any anterior a la cerimònia.S'atorga anualment en el context del David di Donatello, a partir de l'edició del 1997.

Guanyadors
Els guanyadors del premi han estat:

Anys 1997-1999
 1997: Senza parole, dirigit per Antonello De Leo
 1998
La matta dei fiori, dirigit per Rolando Stefanelli
Asino chi legge, dirigit per Pietro Reggiani
Spalle al muro, dirigit per Nina Di Maio
 1999
Quasi fratelli, dirigit per Francesco Falaschi
Fuochino, dirigit per Carlotta Cerquetti
Incantesimo napoletano, dirigit per Paolo Genovese i Luca Miniero
Tanti auguri, dirigit per Giulio Manfredonia

Anys 2000
 2000:
Monna Lisa, dirigit per Matteo Delbò
Tipota, dirigit per Fabrizio Bentivoglio
Per sempre, dirigit per Chiara Caselli
 2001
Gavetta, dirigit per Craig Bell
Cecchi Gori Cecchi Gori?, dirigit per Rocco Papaleo
 2002
Non dire gatto, dirigit per Giorgio Tirabassi
La storia chiusa, dirigit per Emiliano Corapi
Un paio di occhiali, dirigit per Carlo Damasco
 2003
Racconto di guerra, dirigit per Mario Amura (ex aequo)
Rosso fango, dirigit per Paolo Ameli (ex aequo)
Radioportogutenberg, dirigit per Alessandro Vannucci
Regalo di Natale, dirigit per Daniele De Plano
Space off, dirigit per Tino Franco
 2004
Sole, dirigit per Michele Carrillo (ex aequo)
Zinanà, dirigit per Pippo Mezzapesa (ex aequo)
Aspettando il treno, dirigit per Catherine Mc Gilvray
Interno 9, dirigit per Davide Del Degan
Un amore possibile, dirigit per Amanda Sandrelli
 2005
Aria, dirigit per Claudio Noce (ex aequo)
Lotta libera, dirigit per Stefano Viali (ex aequo)
Mio fratello Yang, dirigit per Gianluca e Massimiliano De Serio
O' guarracino, dirigit per Michelangelo Fornaro
Un refolo, dirigit per Giovanni Arcangeli
 2006
Un inguaribile amore, dirigit per Giovanni Covini
Codice a sbarre, dirigit per Ivano De Matteo
Dentro Roma, dirigit per Francesco Costabile
Tanalibera tutti, dirigit per Vito Palmieri
Zakaria, dirigit per Gianluca i Massimiliano De Serio
 2007
Meridionali senza filtro, dirigit per Michele Bia
Armando, dirigit per Massimiliano Camaiti
La cena di Emmaus, dirigit per Josè Corvaglia
Solo cinque minuti, dirigit per Filippo Soldi
Travaglio, dirigit per Lele Biscussi
 2008
Uova, dirigit per Alessandro Celli
Adil & Yusuf, dirigit per Claudio Noce
Il bambino di Carla, dirigit per Emanuela Rossi
Ora che Marlene, dirigit per Giovanna Nazarena Silvestri
Tramondo, dirigit per Giacomo Agnetti, Davide Bazzali
 2009
L'arbitro, dirigit per Paolo Zucca
L'amore è un gioco, dirigit per Andrea Rovetta
Bisesto, dirigit per Giovanni Esposito e Francesco Prisco
Cicatrici, dirigit per Eros Achiardi
La Madonna della frutta, dirigit per Paolo Randi

Anys 2010
 2010
Passing Time, dirigit per Laura Bispuri
L'altra metà, dirigit per Pippo Mezzapesa
Buonanotte, dirigit per Riccardo Banfi
Nuvole, mani, dirigit per Simone Massi
Uerra, dirigit per Paolo Sassanelli
 2011
Jody delle giostre, dirigit per Adriano Sforzi
Io sono qui, dirigit per Mario Piredda
Caffè Capo, dirigit per Andrea Zaccariello
Salvatore, dirigit per Bruno Urso e Fabrizio Urso
Stand By Me, dirigit per Giuseppe Marco Albano
 2012
Dell'ammazzare il maiale, dirigit per Simone Massi
Ce l'hai un minuto?, dirigit per Alessandro Bardani i Luca Di Prospero
Cusutu n' coddu - Cucito addosso, dirigit per Giovanni La Pàrola
L'estate che non viene, dirigit per Pasquale Marino
Tiger Boy, dirigit per Gabriele Mainetti
 2013
L'esecuzione, dirigit per Enrico Iannaccone
Ammore, dirigit per Paolo Sassanelli
Cargo, dirigit per Carlo Sironi
Preti, dirigit per Astutillo Smeriglia
Settanta, dirigit per Pippo Mezzapesa
 2014
37°4 S, dirigit per Adriano Valerio
A passo d'uomo, dirigit per Giovanni Aloi
Bella di notte, dirigit per Paolo Zucca
Lao, dirigit per Gabriele Sabatino Nardis
Non sono nessuno, dirigit per Francesco Segrè
 2015
Thriller, dirigit per Giuseppe Marco Albano
Due piedi sinistri, dirigit per Isabella Salvetti
L'errore, dirigit per Brando De Sica
Sinuaria, dirigit per Roberto Carta
 2016
Bellissima, dirigit per Alessandro Capitani
A metà luce, dirigit per Anna Gigante
Dove l'acqua con altra acqua si confonde, dirigit per Gianluca Mangiasciutti i Massimo Loi
La ballata dei senzatetto, dirigit per Monica Manganelli
Per Anna, dirigit per Andrea Zuliani
 2017
A casa mia, dirigit per Mario Piredda
Ego, dirigit per Lorenza Indovina
Mostri, dirigit per Adriano Giotti
Simposio suino in re minore, dirigit per Francesco Filippini
Viola, Franca, dirigit per Marta Savina
 2018Bismillah, dirigit per Alessandro Grande
Confino, dirigit per Nico Bonomolo
La Giornata, dirigit per Pippo Mezzapesa
Mezzanotte Zero Zero, dirigit per Nicola Conversa
Pazzo & Bella, dirigit per Marcello Di Noto
 2019
 Frontiera, dirigit per Alessandro Di Gregorio
 Il nostro concerto, dirigit per Francesco Piras
 Im Bären, dirigit per Lilian Sassanelli
 Magic Alps, dirigit per Andrea Brusa i Marco Scotuzzi
 Yousef, dirigit per Mohamed Hossameldin

Anys 2020
 2020
 Inverno, dirigit per Giulio Mastromauro
 Baradar, dirigit per Beppe Tufarulo
 Il nostro tempo, dirigit per Veronica Spedicati
 Mia sorella, dirigit per Saverio Cappiello
 Unfolded, dirigit per Cristina Picchi

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Deep Silver has confirmed the month-long delay of promising RPG Risen 2 on PS3 and Xbox 360.
But on PC, Risen 2 will still be released on 27th April. You'll be able to get the game digitally and, in some territories, in shops.
On PS3 and Xbox 360, Risen 2 will be released on 25th May. That's the European date. The US date is 22nd May.
Risen 2 is a swashbuckling fantasy RPG made by the creators of Gothic, Piranha Bytes. One to keep an unpatched eye on.


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Inside the White House during the Colleyville standoff
Podcast Playback
In the aftermath of Colleyville attack, Imam Abdullah Antepli has a message for fellow Muslims
Paul Packer calls early dismissal from U.S. commission 'shocking'
motown Showdown
Jewish voters in Detroit gear up for Stevens vs. Levin
Now is the time to fix Israel, Diaspora ties, says JFNA's Fingerhut
race to watch
Former Michigan state legislator mounts challenge to Rashida Tlaib
paging interpol
Nicaragua slammed for hosting Iranian official wanted in Argentina Jewish center bombing
debate night
CBS struggles, Sanders takes heat and Bloomberg whiffs on Israel
(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Democratic presidential candidates participate in a presidential primary debate, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, in Charleston, South Carolina.
Jacob Kornbluh
Melissa Weiss
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) came under fire from all of his rivals seeking to slow the frontrunner's momentum, while Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) directed most of her barbs at former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at the debate in South Carolina last night. Having adjusted expectations following an underwhelming first debate performance, Bloomberg struggled to convey some of his messages last night, stumbling at times, including on a question about Israel.
Missed opportunity: Bloomberg kicked off the debate with an attempt to define Sanders as a Kremlin favorite and unelectable. He also made a more effective case defending his record as mayor and pushed back against many of the attacks against him. But Bloomberg, seeking a boost heading into Super Tuesday, missed a unique opportunity to draw a stark contrast with Sanders on his approach towards Israel.
Embassy debate: Asked if he would move the U.S. embassy back to Tel Aviv from Jerusalem, Sanders said that it "would be under consideration." Dodging a question on his recent comments about AIPAC, Sanders escalated his attacks against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling the Israeli leader a "reactionary racist."
History lesson: Asked to weigh in on the issue, Bloomberg gave a reply that was met with criticism. "Well, the battle has been going on for a long time in the Middle East, whether it's the Arabs versus the Persians, the Shias versus the Sunnis, the Jews in Israel and the Palestinians, it's only gone on for 40 or 50 years… The real problem here is you have two groups of people, both who think God gave them the same piece of land," Bloomberg said. "And the answer is to obviously split it up, leave the Israeli borders where they are, try to push them to pull back some of those extra on the other side of the wall, where they've built these new communities, which they should not have done."
When asked about the embassy location, Bloomberg said, "You can't move the embassy back." But he suggested that moving the embassy from Tel Aviv, without getting something in return from the Israeli government, was a mistake.
Lost debate prep memo: Bloomberg's Twitter account, however, issued a more direct response to the AIPAC question while the candidate was still on stage. "To characterize AIPAC as a racist platform is offensive, divisive, and dangerous to Israel — America's most important ally in the Middle East — and to Jews," @MikeBloomberg tweeted. "How can Bernie profess he's the path to unity when he's already managed to polarize a people and a party?"
Feisty night: After a lackluster showing last week, former Vice President Joe Biden delivered a stronger performance last night, going on the attack against Sanders over his past gun votes and his support for Fidel Castro. Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg also landed a series of jabs against Sanders, warning that — if he is the nominee — Democrats risk losing their majority in the House and their chance of taking the Senate.
While it's unclear who won last night's debate, it is quite clear that CBS and its debate moderation lost.
Campaign strategists and political observers weighed in on the combative debate, and the testy exchange over Israel policy.
Bernie camp spin: Joel Rubin, Sanders's director of Jewish outreach, told JI's Melissa Weiss that the senator's composure while weathering attacks from the other candidates demonstrated he would be a formidable opponent in the general election. "He stuck to his message, he communicated what he's all about. He maintained a strong backbone under assault [and] demonstrated what it will take in a prime-time general election debate fight with Donald Trump, with a guy who can really sling from any different angle," Rubin said. "Bernie, he demonstrated that he could take the heat. He knew it was coming and it came from all directions." Rubin also weighed in on Bloomberg's Middle East policy: "His answers made it clear why he endorsed George W. Bush in 2004 and supported the war in Iraq."
Democratic campaign strategist Hank Sheinkopf maintained that Bloomberg "was very clear about where the embassy should stay," and has already drawn a stark contrast with Sanders "by showing up at AIPAC — and the Sanders-Sarsour gang don't show up there." Sheinkopf explained that both candidates did what they needed to do on the stage. Bloomberg "spoke the truth about Israel," while Sanders lied about the Gaza war but nonetheless appealed to his base with his "pretty consistent message of punishing Israel."
View from Jerusalem: Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said Sanders's response on Israel was a "horrifying comment." Katz told Army Radio that: "We don't intervene in the internal American electoral process, which is splendid," but that "people who support Israel will not support someone who goes against these things."
Not impressed: Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, tells JI that the exchange was the "worst five-minute exchange and discussion of the Israeli/Palestinian issue in [the] history of presidential campaign debates." Miller stressed that Sanders's stance on the embassy "won't move the needle," since most American Jews will vote against Trump no matter who Democrats put up. "But I can see some Jewish voters not voting if Bernie is nominee because of the perception he's too pro-Palestinian." Bloomberg's viability as the nominee, he said, "won't turn on the Israeli-Palestinian issues. If this was a campaign for mayor of NYC it would be a different story."
Biden camp spin: Andrew Weinstein, a member of Joe Biden's national finance committee, tells JI, "In arguably the most important debate of the primary so far, Joe Biden had his best night. He was authoritative, compelling, and undeniably presidential. He also made it clear that he was the only person on the debate stage who can beat Donald Trump, keep the House under Democratic control, and help to take back the Senate. I expect him to win South Carolina and carry that momentum through Super Tuesday."
Aaron Keyak, former National Jewish Democratic Council head, emails JI: "What you saw [last night] is exactly the type of conversation that you could see at any Shabbat table in America. These are difficult issues, but Jewish Americans have fundamentally progressive values domestically and internationally — including, particularly, when it comes to the Israelis and Palestinians."


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Q: Can't read 'id' when Uppy component is rendered I created this component :
// Data is an `useRef`
const SelectImage = ({ data }) => {
    const uppy = new Uppy({
        id: 'uppy',
        autoProceed: true,
        restrictions: {
            maxFileSize: 10485760,
            maxTotalFileSize: 104857600,
            maxNumberOfFiles: 1000,
            allowedFileTypes: ['.jpg', '.jpeg', '.png']
        }
    })
        .use(DropTarget, { id: 'DropTarget', target: document.body })
        .use(Compressor, { id: 'Compressor' })

    uppy.on('complete', files => {
        data.current = { files }
    })

    return (
        <Dashboard
            uppy={uppy}
            disableStatusBar={true}
            proudlyDisplayPoweredByUppy={false}
            theme='light'
        />
    )
}

With React Scripts 5.0.1, React 18.2.0 and Uppy Core 2.3.1, Uppy React 2.2.2, Uppy Compressor 0.3.0 and Uppy Drop Target 1.1.3.
When the component above is rendered, the following error is thrown:
Dashboard.js:1121 Uncaught TypeError: (0 , _nonSecure.nanoid) is not a function
    at new Dashboard (Dashboard.js:1121:1)
    at Uppy.use (Uppy.js:1012:1)
    at Dashboard.installPlugin (Dashboard.js:49:1)
    at Dashboard.componentDidMount (Dashboard.js:19:1)
    at commitLayoutEffectOnFiber (react-dom.development.js:23305:1)
    at commitLayoutMountEffects_complete (react-dom.development.js:24688:1)
    at commitLayoutEffects_begin (react-dom.development.js:24674:1)
    at commitLayoutEffects_begin (react-dom.development.js:24656:1)
    at commitLayoutEffects (react-dom.development.js:24612:1)
    at commitRootImpl (react-dom.development.js:26823:1)

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'id')
    at Uppy.removePlugin (Uppy.js:1081:1)
    at Dashboard.uninstallPlugin (Dashboard.js:61:1)
    at Dashboard.componentWillUnmount (Dashboard.js:36:1)
    at callComponentWillUnmountWithTimer (react-dom.development.js:22852:1)
    at safelyCallComponentWillUnmount (react-dom.development.js:22873:1)
    at invokeLayoutEffectUnmountInDEV (react-dom.development.js:25188:1)
    at invokeEffectsInDev (react-dom.development.js:27351:1)
    at commitDoubleInvokeEffectsInDEV (react-dom.development.js:27321:1)
    at flushPassiveEffectsImpl (react-dom.development.js:27056:1)
    at flushPassiveEffects (react-dom.development.js:26984:1)

I tried to rollback Uppy, uninstall all the plugins, change the ids values and encapsulate the Uppy instance as it is shown in the documentation example, but nothing worked. Any tips?

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Hindman Family
Source: HISTORY OF THE PAN-HANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA 1879
HINDMAN FAMILY: James was a native of Ireland, and at what time he settled in Brooke county we cannot learn, but it was at a very early date in the settlement of this portion of west Virginia. He was married in Lancaster county, PA. to Miss Mary McCully and reared a family of five sons.
FRANCIS HINDMAN: the fourth son of James Hindman, was born in 1793, in Brooke county, West Virginia, where he resided all his life, was a farmer by occupation; married in about 1816 to Miss Mary Litton. He served all through the war of 1812 under Gen. Harrison, reared a family of nine children, of whom six are still living. He died in 1856.
JAMES HINDMAN: son of Francis Hindman, was born in 1819, in Brooke county, where most of his life has been spent, is a carpenter by trade; was married March 4, 1841, to Hester Wallace and reared a family of five children, three sons and two daughters, all of whom are living.


I'm not a big fan of posting live videos, for the simple reason that there's a big chance people who don't know the artist(s) will hate it, because of it's poor quality and distortion noises. But quasi-live performances that are not performed before a crowd, but mostly in an isolated place with good sound qualities (think From the Basement or Live on KEXP) are a totally different story. The same goes for Yours Truly.
Here they invited the serious but likeable Jessy Lanza, from Hamilton, Ontario in Canada who surprises with great insights (it's good to live in an isolated place, if you want to write a song about living in an isolated place…) but does an amazing job at keyboard and mic. Jessy mixes synth-pop and contemporary R&B really well and her first solo album 'Pull My Hair Back' was received to critical acclaim.
Although R'n'B is usually found on the bottom of my genre top-lists, Jessy's synth-infused version of it, resonated with me pretty well.
CocoRosie evade most stereotypical characterizations, which. What the us-american sisters Sierra and Bianca Cassidy do musically has been, among others, described as 'New Weird America' or 'Freak Folk'. But into which exact category they fall is not really important. What matters is that they are women, have electronic elements in their music, and sound awesome.
This particular song is a first-person description by a 5-year-old bride in child wedding. The video is shot by director Emma Freeman and depicts the literal story of the young girl getting married and imagining her life in it. It is a personal and touching story CocoRosie tell with the help of the video and it is put into music without much turmoil, being accompanied by harmonic percussions, synth and keyboard sounds. This story definitely has the potential to be narrated more dark and grim, but maybe the fact that there seems to be a melancholic beauty to the song, leaves one even more disturbed at second glance.