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Hall of Fame 15: Renzo Bariviera
Renzo Bariviera is a Veneto's native, but basketball-wise he's an original Olimpia Milano's product. He came to Milano very young from Padova, he contributed to a lot of great stories, then he moved on to play for other teams and came back late in his career, called by coach Dan Peterson, in order to win again. Like he always did. Bariviera has won 14 trophies in his career, and they should have been more. When he became the starting small forward for Olimpia – a great defensive stopper, an extraordinary athlete, sound passer and capable scorer – he played three tie-breaking games against Varesewinning just one of them. During those years he won twice the Cup of Cups, then he was traded and played for Bologna and Forlì, before returning at the top with Cantù. With the Cantù team, Barviera won again. A lot. Including the Champions Cup of the 1982 and 1983, to go along two more Cup of Cups. When he was 34, Dan Peterson called him in Milano per a second stint. It looked like a senseless move, for an old player. Nothing like that. With Bariviera, Olimpia won again, the Italian league in 1985 after two finals lost to Roma and Bologna (the latter particularly painful since he missed a couple of crucial free throws in the decisive game 3) and the Korac Cup in 1985.
With the National team, Bariviera had an historical role, not just because he played in two Olympics, 1972 (he scored 16 points in the bronze medal game, but Italy lost by one to Cuba) and 1976, but mostley because his hook shot at the World Championship in 1970 (Ljubljana) allowed Italy to beat the USA for the first time in a official competition.
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A Ventura County judge sentenced a Port Hueneme man to life in prison for a 1997 murder. The man will not be eligible for parole. The victim, a 16-year-old-boy, died of stab wounds he received in his home. The victim and his mother surprised a burglar upon returning to their Ventura home.
The case went unsolved for more than 17 years, but advances in DNA testing finally produced a usable DNA profile. The teen confronted the burglar, and was stabbed three times. He died at the hospital.
Based on physical evidence at the scene, the defendant admitted to being in the home, but denied stabbing the boy. Controversy surrounded the case because the defendant's DNA was not on the knife, which was found near the crime scene.
Computer analysis matched the defendant's DNA profile to the crime scene evidence in 2014. He is now a married father of four. The defendant plans to appeal his conviction.
Because California is a death penalty state, a murder charge literally puts your life on the line. You need experienced aggressive representation by an experienced murder attorney. Robert Helfend has nearly 35 years of experience exclusively in criminal defense. He has represented thousands of Californians in that time, and provides effective, aggressive criminal defense.
While DNA analysis is the "go-to" tool for criminal investigators, DNA evidence doesn't mean the jury gets an "open-and-shut" case. A competent defense attorney knows how to challenge the evidence against his clients, regardless of what it is.
Don't rely on an inexperienced or ineffective attorney when your life is at risk. Contact Robert Helfend or call toll-free at (800) 834-6434, (805) 273-5611, (310) 456-3317 or (818) 591-2809 for an immediate consultation on your Ventura County murder case.
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KiO (Keep it Organized) is a revolutionary shelving and storage system. KiO Storage LLC offers closet organizer kits that are incredibly lightweight, durable, and strong, and best of all, are easy to install. Manufactured in the US, you can use KiO's DIY closet organizer kits as a baby closet organizer, DIY garage shelves, linen closet organization, and much more.
KiO's closet organizer system is the cure for clutter. Its design hits a home run on so many fronts… sustainability, durability, simplicity, and domestically manufactured. LINK took an initial design from KiO and applied DFM knowledge and engineering analysis to make a product that was optimized for injection molding and incredibly strong. Optimization puts the plastic where it needs to be for strength, but keeps it lean in other places to minimize the part weight and keep costs down. Our extensive background in FEA and design following the KISS rule is prominent throughout the system. We also worked closely with the tool maker to create one of the largest injection molds we've seen.


Doors | A Wayne Dalton Model 9100 garage door offers safety, beauty and durability at most affordable prices.
Series 9000 doors have a deeply embossed panel design that adds an architectural dimension to your home. A choice of insulation levels. And innovative safety features. Chosen by homeowners and builders for their strength, durability and gracious design, Series 9000 doors are backed by aLife of Home warranty –so you'll enjoy years of dependable, low-maintenance service.
The Model 9600 comes with a Lifetime Limited Warranty.
Wayne-Dalton warrants the 9600 insulated garage door for as long as you own the door from the time of installation against structural failure (rendering the door inoperable) of the door sections due to separation/ degradation of foam insulation. Wayne-Dalton warrants the steel skin of the 9600 insulated garage door for as long as you own the door against deterioration such as cracking or splitting due to rust-through. Wayne-Dalton warrants the garage door hardware and track, excluding springs, for as long as you own the door against defects in workmanship or material from time of installation.


Ever since I started wearing dresses, I was told I should be dead.
When I was about 13, I decided to live in an an abandoned house. Some guys came in and raped me. I was hospitalized, and then I was back on the street. Because of how I present myself, I couldn't get a job.
I've been injured so many times, people spit on me, break bottles on me, cut me.
I want my story to be out there, because if people have been through trauma, maybe it can help make them strong.


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Q: ALT-Codes in Java Im making a small game which uses the print function for the GUI,With an ascii-like style.
The problem is that some of the ALT-Codes such as ▲ come up in the program as a ? or as something else,
Is there a possible fix to this? or which alt-codes can be used?
Im using JCreator

A: The glyphs (graphical representations) for non-printing ASCII bytes were never standardized.  Character 30 has no standard glyph.  Bytes 128-255 also have no standard glyphs.  If you want to reliably display the glyphs from a particular pre-Unicode glyph set, you need to identify Unicode characters with glyphs that look like the old glyphs, and convert your byte values to those Unicode characters.  For example, here's a table of Unicode characters that look similar to IBM codepage 437:
char[] decoded = new char[] {
    0x0000, 0x0001, 0x0002, 0x0003, 0x0004, 0x0005, 0x0006, 0x0007,
    0x0008, 0x0009, 0x000A, 0x000B, 0x000C, 0x000D, 0x000E, 0x000F,
    0x0010, 0x0011, 0x0012, 0x0013, 0x0014, 0x0015, 0x0016, 0x0017,
    0x0018, 0x0019, 0x001A, 0x001B, 0x001C, 0x001D, 0x001E, 0x001F,
    0x0020, 0x0021, 0x0022, 0x0023, 0x0024, 0x0025, 0x0026, 0x0027,
    0x0028, 0x0029, 0x002A, 0x002B, 0x002C, 0x002D, 0x002E, 0x002F,
    0x0030, 0x0031, 0x0032, 0x0033, 0x0034, 0x0035, 0x0036, 0x0037,
    0x0038, 0x0039, 0x003A, 0x003B, 0x003C, 0x003D, 0x003E, 0x003F,
    0x0040, 0x0041, 0x0042, 0x0043, 0x0044, 0x0045, 0x0046, 0x0047,
    0x0048, 0x0049, 0x004A, 0x004B, 0x004C, 0x004D, 0x004E, 0x004F,
    0x0050, 0x0051, 0x0052, 0x0053, 0x0054, 0x0055, 0x0056, 0x0057,
    0x0058, 0x0059, 0x005A, 0x005B, 0x005C, 0x005D, 0x005E, 0x005F,
    0x0060, 0x0061, 0x0062, 0x0063, 0x0064, 0x0065, 0x0066, 0x0067,
    0x0068, 0x0069, 0x006A, 0x006B, 0x006C, 0x006D, 0x006E, 0x006F,
    0x0070, 0x0071, 0x0072, 0x0073, 0x0074, 0x0075, 0x0076, 0x0077,
    0x0078, 0x0079, 0x007A, 0x007B, 0x007C, 0x007D, 0x007E, 0x007F,
    0x00C7, 0x00FC, 0x00E9, 0x00E2, 0x00E4, 0x00E0, 0x00E5, 0x00E7,
    0x00EA, 0x00EB, 0x00E8, 0x00EF, 0x00EE, 0x00EC, 0x00C4, 0x00C5,
    0x00C9, 0x00E6, 0x00C6, 0x00F4, 0x00F6, 0x00F2, 0x00FB, 0x00F9,
    0x00FF, 0x00D6, 0x00DC, 0x00A2, 0x00A3, 0x00A5, 0x20A7, 0x0192,
    0x00E1, 0x00ED, 0x00F3, 0x00FA, 0x00F1, 0x00D1, 0x00AA, 0x00BA,
    0x00BF, 0x2310, 0x00AC, 0x00BD, 0x00BC, 0x00A1, 0x00AB, 0x00BB,
    0x2591, 0x2592, 0x2593, 0x2502, 0x2524, 0x2561, 0x2562, 0x2556,
    0x2555, 0x2563, 0x2551, 0x2557, 0x255D, 0x255C, 0x255B, 0x2510,
    0x2514, 0x2534, 0x252C, 0x251C, 0x2500, 0x253C, 0x255E, 0x255F,
    0x255A, 0x2554, 0x2569, 0x2566, 0x2560, 0x2550, 0x256C, 0x2567,
    0x2568, 0x2564, 0x2565, 0x2559, 0x2558, 0x2552, 0x2553, 0x256B,
    0x256A, 0x2518, 0x250C, 0x2588, 0x2584, 0x258C, 0x2590, 0x2580,
    0x03B1, 0x00DF, 0x0393, 0x03C0, 0x03A3, 0x03C3, 0x00B5, 0x03C4,
    0x03A6, 0x0398, 0x03A9, 0x03B4, 0x221E, 0x03C6, 0x03B5, 0x2229,
    0x2261, 0x00B1, 0x2265, 0x2264, 0x2320, 0x2321, 0x00F7, 0x2248,
    0x00B0, 0x2219, 0x00B7, 0x221A, 0x207F, 0x00B2, 0x25A0, 0x00A0
};

And actually, some of the values in this table are wrong.  You'll need to fill in the correct values from a source like this.  Note that there is more than one correct Unicode character for some bytes, depending on which old glyph set you're trying to imitate.
Then convert your byte values to an ints in the range 0-255, and use the character at that index in the conversion table:
// bytes is a byte[] containing ASCII
char[] chars = new char[bytes.length];
for(int i = 0; i < bytes.length; ++i) {
   chars[i] = decoded[bytes[i] & 0xFF];
}
String s = new String(chars);
System.out.println(s);

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Back in the early summer, Neil Wakeman wrote to me about needing to remove his oil pump. After discussing how this could be done, he found a comment in the workshop manual, so this has been added into the Hints and Tips page for anyone else needing to do this.
Roy Clapham has sent in some great photographs of his daughter's wedding featuring, of course, his MG Y!
And still the gallery grows! Today, please welcome Harry Henderson with Y 6847 to Ys on Parade!
Today, please welcome Richard King with Y 5183 to Ys on Parade. Y 5183 is the 300th MG Y and the 570th car on Ys on Parade!
The mid-month Reprinted Article is now available and is from Enjoying MG, September 1987 and is titled "Y Type Competition Uses & Successes".
Paul Thompson sent in two photographs of YB 1230 at a recent wedding today.
A new Collectible card has been added to the Collectibles page.
Today, please welcome Mark O'Day and Y 1392 to Ys on Parade!
We are also pleased to announce that we have partnered with Hagerty UK Insurance to bring you additional Member benefits! Currently this is only available to UK Resident owners, but we are also working with them to design a European Owner package and we are also working with Hagerty USA and Canada to widen this to North America too.
Today, please welcome ChweeTin Khoo with Y 4754 to Ys on Parade!
For those who would like to add a Satellite Navigation system, or other modern electronic devices to their Y Types, Mick Bath has sent in a suggestion for how to wire up a pig-tail wire to enable normally negative grounded wired equipment to positive ground vehicles. The tip has been added to Hints and Tips.
Willem van der Veer has sent in a photograph of an oil painting of his Y 5888.
Frank Vautier, former owner of Y 7171 has sent in a great write up for Interesting Ys.
Today, please welcome David Holmes with YT 3217 (another previously unknown survivor) to Ys on Parade!
Steve James has also recently completely overhauled the eBay Auction Search engine for MG Y related items. Steve says "While there may be some items that are not caught, we hope to have made the searches more inclusive for you." Thank you Steve for your hard work on this very useful part of our site. The page can always be accessed from the link on the Classified Advertisements page too.
The Picture of the Month is by Phil Stafford with Y 4608 Special.


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<?php defined('BX_DOL') or die('hack attempt');

class BxDevFormsPreLists extends BxTemplStudioFormsPreLists
{
    protected $oModule;

    function __construct($aOptions, $oTemplate = false)
    {
        parent::__construct($aOptions, $oTemplate);

        $this->oModule = BxDolModule::getInstance('bx_developer');
        $this->sUrlViewValues = BX_DOL_URL_STUDIO . 'module.php?name=' . $this->oModule->_oConfig->getName() . '&page=forms&form_page=pre_values&form_module=%s&form_list=%s';
    }

    public function performActionAdd()
    {
        $sAction = 'add';
        $sFormObject = $this->oModule->_oConfig->getObject('form_forms_prelist');
        $sFormDisplay = $this->oModule->_oConfig->getObject('form_display_forms_prelist_add');

        $oForm = BxDolForm::getObjectInstance($sFormObject, $sFormDisplay, $this->oModule->_oTemplate);
        $oForm->aFormAttrs['action'] = BX_DOL_URL_ROOT . 'grid.php?o=' . $this->_sObject . '&a=' . $sAction;
        $oForm->aInputs['module']['values'] = array_merge(array('' => _t('_bx_dev_frm_txt_select_module')), BxDolStudioUtils::getModules());

        $oForm->initChecker();
        if($oForm->isSubmittedAndValid()) {
            $sObject = uriGenerate($oForm->getCleanValue('key'), 'sys_form_pre_lists', 'key', 'key');
            BxDolForm::setSubmittedValue('key', $sObject, $oForm->aFormAttrs['method']);

            if(($iId = (int)$oForm->insert()) != 0)
                $aRes = array('grid' => $this->getCode(false), 'blink' => $iId);
            else
                $aRes = array('msg' => _t('_bx_dev_frm_err_prelists_create'));

            echoJson($aRes);
        } else {
            $sContent = BxTemplStudioFunctions::getInstance()->popupBox('bx-dev-frm-prelist-create-popup', _t('_bx_dev_frm_txt_prelists_create_popup'), $this->oModule->_oTemplate->parseHtmlByName('form_add_list.html', array(
                'form_id' => $oForm->aFormAttrs['id'],
                'form' => $oForm->getCode(true),
                'object' => $this->_sObject,
                'action' => $sAction
            )));

            echoJson(array('popup' => array('html' => $sContent, 'options' => array('closeOnOuterClick' => false))));
        }
    }

    public function performActionEdit()
    {
        $sAction = 'edit';
        $sFormObject = $this->oModule->_oConfig->getObject('form_forms_prelist');
        $sFormDisplay = $this->oModule->_oConfig->getObject('form_display_forms_prelist_edit');

        $aList = $this->_getItem('getLists');
        if($aList === false) {
            echoJson(array());
            exit;
        }

        $oForm = BxDolForm::getObjectInstance($sFormObject, $sFormDisplay, $this->oModule->_oTemplate);
        $oForm->aFormAttrs['action'] = BX_DOL_URL_ROOT . 'grid.php?o=' . $this->_sObject . '&a=' . $sAction;
        $oForm->aInputs['module']['values'] = array_merge(array('' => _t('_bx_dev_frm_txt_select_module')), BxDolStudioUtils::getModules());
        $oForm->aInputs['controls'][0]['value'] = _t('_bx_dev_frm_btn_prelists_save');

        $oForm->initChecker($aList);
        if($oForm->isSubmittedAndValid()) {
            if($oForm->update($aList['id']) !== false)
                $aRes = array('grid' => $this->getCode(false), 'blink' => $aList['id']);
            else
                $aRes = array('msg' => _t('_bx_dev_frm_err_prelists_edit'));

            echoJson($aRes);
        } else {
            $sContent = BxTemplStudioFunctions::getInstance()->popupBox('bx-dev-frm-prelist-edit-popup', _t('_bx_dev_frm_txt_prelists_edit_popup', _t($aList['title'])), $this->oModule->_oTemplate->parseHtmlByName('form_add_list.html', array(
                'form_id' => $oForm->aFormAttrs['id'],
                'form' => $oForm->getCode(true),
                'object' => $this->_sObject,
                'action' => $sAction
            )));

            echoJson(array('popup' => array('html' => $sContent, 'options' => array('closeOnOuterClick' => false))));
        }
    }

    public function performActionExport()
    {
        $sContentInsert = $sContentDelete = "";

        $aIds = bx_get('ids');
        if(!$aIds || !is_array($aIds)) {
            $iId = (int)bx_get('id');
            if(!$iId) {
                echoJson(array());
                exit;
            }

            $aIds = array($iId);
        }

        $iId = $aIds[0];

        $aList = array();
        $this->oDb->getLists(array('type' => 'by_id', 'value' => $iId), $aList, false);
        if(!is_array($aList) || empty($aList)){
            echoJson(array());
            exit;
        }

        $sContentInsert .= ($this->oModule->_oDb->getQueryInsert('sys_form_pre_lists', array($aList), "Dumping data for '" . $aList['key'] . "' data list"));
        $sContentDelete .= ($this->oModule->_oDb->getQueryDelete('sys_form_pre_lists', 'key', array($aList), "Deleting data for '" . $aList['key'] . "' data list"));

        $aValues = array();
        $this->oDb->getValues(array('type' => 'by_key', 'value' => $aList['key']), $aValues, false);
        $sContentInsert .= $this->oModule->_oDb->getQueryInsert('sys_form_pre_values', $aValues, false, array('id', 'key', 'value', 'lkey', 'lkey2', 'order'));
        $sContentDelete .= $this->oModule->_oDb->getQueryDelete('sys_form_pre_values', 'Key', array(array('Key' => $aList['key'])), false);

        $aFormStructure = array(
            'form_attrs' => array(),
            'inputs' => array (
                'insert' => array(
                    'type' => 'textarea',
                    'name' => 'insert',
                    'caption' => _t('_bx_dev_frm_txt_prelists_export_insert'),
                    'value' => $sContentInsert,
                ),
                'delete' => array(
                    'type' => 'textarea',
                    'name' => 'delete',
                    'caption' => _t('_bx_dev_frm_txt_prelists_export_delete'),
                    'value' => $sContentDelete,
                ),
                'done' => array (
                    'type' => 'button',
                    'name' => 'done',
                    'value' => _t('_bx_dev_frm_btn_prelists_done'),
                    'attrs' => array(
                        'onclick' => "$('.bx-popup-applied:visible').dolPopupHide()",
                    ),
                )
            )
        );
        $oForm = new BxTemplStudioFormView($aFormStructure);

        $sContent = BxTemplStudioFunctions::getInstance()->popupBox('bx-dev-frm-prelist-export-popup', _t('_bx_dev_frm_txt_prelists_export_popup', _t($aList['title'])), $this->oModule->_oTemplate->parseHtmlByName('form_export.html', array(
            'content' => $oForm->getCode()
        )));

        echoJson(array('popup' => $sContent));
    }

    protected function _canDelete($aList)
    {
        return true;
    }
}

/** @} */

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Defining Love: Understanding the Difference Between Infatuation and Love
by Marc Shulman | Nov 12, 2022 | Relationship
Hollywood movies paint a picture of love as a consuming, passionate feeling that causes a person to feel butterflies in their stomach and an intense longing to be with the other person. But like...
Unconditional Love and Romantic Relationships
by Marc Shulman | Oct 11, 2022 | Relationship
Love is such a strong emotion. When we experience a deep, fulfilling love, we often feel as though it is a destiny – something that will withstand the tests of time. We even say that in our vows:...
Your Child is Special to You – But Everyone Else?
by Marc Shulman | Oct 6, 2022 | Child Psychology
Your child truly is special. They have experiences that no one else has had. They do things that no one else has done. Your child is a unique individual unlike anyone that has come before them, and...
What Satisfies Your Ego vs. What Makes You Truly Fulfilled?
by Marc Shulman | Oct 3, 2022 | Resilience
Every day, we're tasked with making decisions that we think will bring us some form of happiness and fulfillment. From the small (do we eat this last piece of cake?) to the large (should I choose...
Why Do We Fear Change?
by Marc Shulman | Sep 29, 2022 | Anxiety
There is comfort in the familiar. Even though there is so much in this world to do and explore, we are often at our most relaxed and most comfortable when we are in places or doing activities that...
Death is Inevitable: Learning How Not to Fear It
by Atara Wertentheil | Jul 30, 2022 | Resilience
Death is one of the only things in life we can depend on. Nevertheless, the thought of death can be a frightening one. Thinking about it causes many people to experience anxiety and depression,...
Your Breakup is Not the End
by Marc Shulman | Jul 23, 2022 | Relationship
Ending a relationship with a breakup - regardless of how long or serious the relationship was or who did the breaking up - can be an emotional challenge. It doesn't matter how amicably it ended, who...
Letting Go of Anger for a Happier Mentality
Anger is a draining emotion. When you experience anger, and do not have a way to make an immediate change to fix the thing that is making you angry, the anger serves little point. Yet it requires...
You Can't Have It All: Accepting the Trade Offs in Life
by Marc Shulman | Jul 9, 2022 | Anxiety
Life is filled with choices. From the smaller daily choices we make, such as what to order at our favorite restaurant, to bigger decisions, such as choosing between two job opportunities or weighing...

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Шарль Андре Реми Арну (11 августа 1754, Без (Бургундия) — 30 июля 1796, там же) — французский политик времён Великой Французской революции, юрист, историограф.

Биография

Получил юридическое образование и до начала революции работал адвокатом при городском парламенте Дижона и советником при бургундских генеральных штатах. 7 апреля 1789 года был избран депутатом учредительного собрания от Бургундии и голосовал в поддержку революции. Поддерживал отмену десятины и недопустимость поддержки притязаний испанских Бурбонов на французский престол. Вместе с тем выступал против экспорта зерновых и роспуска комиссии по раздаче продовольствия нуждающимся.

На совещании 21 июня 1790 года выступил с предложением создать в Дижоне вместо тамошнего городского парламента трибунал, поскольку, по его оценке, все члены парламента были больны либо эмигрировали. Вскоре после этого заседания, 30 сентября 1791 года, вышел в отставку и вернулся к своим историографическим исследованиям. Точная дата смерти неизвестна; в частности, согласно «La grande encyclopédie», он умер в 1793 году.

Ему принадлежит идея современного названия департамента Кот д'Ор. Кроме того, он является автором двух крупных историографических сборников: «Collection des décrets des Assemblées Nationale, Constituante et Legislative» (1792, 7 томов) и «Collection des décrets de l'Assemblée Constituante» (Дижон, 1792, формат in-8).

Примечания

Ссылки

 Арну, Шарль // La grande encyclopédie

Политики Франции
Люди Великой французской революции по алфавиту

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Theme: Content and Distribution
How Jane Austen Conquered Social Storytelling
Kids today don't care about old, moldy literature. Girls don't watch web video. Social media is only good for brands who want to engage their customers. ALL LIES! The Lizzie Bennet Diaries compiled over 40 million YouTube views, hundreds of thousands of followers over dozens of different social sites, and a record-breaking Kickstarter campaign that were all part of the story in a year-long modern adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. All with a marketing budget of zero. In the process, the fictional in-story corporation Pemberley Digital has become a real-world company producing more immersive social story experiences. Come hear from the team behind one of the most popular independent social story franchises of all-time, about how they pulled it off and what they have planned next.
How did the Lizzie Bennet Diaries reach such a large audience with no marketing budget?
How do you manage dozens of fictional social media presences that have to respond to fans in the moment, without having an infrastructure for approvals?
How do you mix pre-scripted content with real-time storytelling?
Can you tell completely original stories this way without adapting from source material?
How do you make money doing this?
Bernie Su , Co-creator and head writer, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries
Jay Bushman , Transmedia Producer and writer, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries
Christina Cooper, Social Media Manager and Administrator, Pemberley Digital
Track: Content and Distribution


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Nick Shaw: How to Pursue Peak Fitness without Losing Your Sanity
How is your routine looking lately? Getting a bit stale?
It happens to all of us, but in challenging times, it's more important than ever to identify the things that are no longer working and then let them go.
Nothing wrong with shaking things up on purpose. Sometimes the only way to beat a rigged game is to rig it harder, find that bug.
And remember as well, that this game wouldn't be nearly as fun if it were easy.
Now, today we're here with a perfect person to talk to you about shaking things up. His name is Nick Shaw, and he is a former competitive powerlifter and bodybuilder, author, as well as the founder and CEO of Renaissance Periodization.
Nick has coached world-class athletes, including CrossFit Games Champions, international medalists, Olympians, UFC fighters, professional athletes, and even Navy SEALs.
Today we're talking about…
Bodybuilding and training for peak performance sports
Getting creative with fitness at home
The importance of delayed gratification and long-term planning
How to balance health and fitness while keeping your sanity
Recharging and why you should consider scheduling a deload
Let's go hang out with Nick.
We have a tendency, myself included, of sticking with a routine for way too long, which leads to wear and tear, or even worse, serious injury.
So it's important to shake things up every once in a while, and sometimes life forces you into these shake-ups.
In situations like these, sometimes we need to use our weaknesses as an advantage.
Where To Find Nick Shaw
Be sure to follow Renaissance Periodization @rpstrength on Instagram, as well as Nick Shaw, he's @nick.shaw.rp on Instagram.
You can pick up a copy of Nick's book Fit For Success: Lessons on Achievement And Leading Your Best Life on Amazon.
Nick Shaw: "You know, here's the cool thing about it, here's why it was written. Everyone is struggling after getting through 2020. It's been a crazy year. 2020 sort of impacted every single person out there."
"And if you read the book, you're going to get something good from it. You're just going to kind of learn how to overcome any adversity. You're going to be better off."
"You could probably read it in an afternoon. If you have a flight coming up, grab yourself a copy, read that on your next flight. You're on the right track."
Be sure to check out the website RenaissancePeriodization.com for coaching, articles, gear, and to listen to episodes of the RP Strength Podcast.
And you can like, follow and be friends with Nick Shaw on the socials, @RPstrength on Twitter, @RenaissancePeriodization on Facebook, @RenaissancePeriodization on YouTube, and of course, @nick.shaw.rp and @rpstrength on Instagram.
Here's a note that came in from Paul. He says,
Greetings, I am a San Francisco Bay Area native and have been under lockdown since March. It's been a real bummer.
One good thing happened thanks to you. As a charter listener to the show, I recalled the Chi Running show and barefootIng and earthing kind of stuff.
My vanity and cheapness keep me in uncomfortable shoes. I went lockdown barefoot and it has been GREAT. My whole body has improved. My gate, posture, and energy. Small price to suffer for loafers once in a while.
I hope this finds you well. Happy New Year to you and yours.
Paul in Palo Alto
P.S. – The Chi running book had a huge positive impact on my kids cross country joy!
Hey, Paul, I love this note. It brings me so much joy to see that not only you, but the kids are also benefiting from Danny's work and ChiRunning in particular.
Just quick aside, the most starstruck I've ever been on this podcast or even in general, was when I first was introduced to Danny Dreyer, who wrote ChiRunning.
If you aren't familiar with Danny's work, just look up ChiRunning or Danny Dreyer in the search bar here on fatburningman.com.
It should come right up for you, but also check out his book ChiRunning. It was one book that really changed the way that I thought about running and movement in particular.
It kinda took me from this "no pain, no gain" way of thinking, and took away a lot of that conditioning and replaced it with more body sensing and being barefoot is a big part of that.
A lot of you may not know that I'm barefoot almost all of the time.
I include the time that I'm sometimes wearing socks or light slippers. But I can feel the ground, and that's the most important part.
You want your foot to have some sort of intelligence with what it's attached to, or with what it's inside of, or what is moving over.
And we lose that ability, we lose a whole bunch of different built-in skills that we have that help us navigate the wild natural world when we're trapped inside, and when we're trapped in shoes.
Especially when we're wearing shoes that are unnatural for our form.
So even if you do wear shoes, which of course I do sometimes too, it's really important to get in touch with your natural posture and make sure that you're engaging the right muscles.
When I switched from using running shoes to barefoot style running in minimalist shoes while running in a barefoot style, I went from running 7, 8 miles at a time to less than a mile because as I recall my calves and kind of like this whole line of muscles up my legs and my back felt like it had never been used before. Even though I was running almost every day at the time.
So as you do transition into a new way of walking, barefoot running especially, be sure to take it easy on yourself.
Barefoot running on cement or concrete is not something that's really going to serve anyone.
I know some people who have gotten away with it. It's not something that I do.
Keep in mind that it's something where you want your foot to be in the natural position and moving in the natural way on natural surfaces.
So when the surface is too hard, that can lead to injury. Make sure you're not doing any of that.
Anyway, go check out Danny Dreyer's work, one of my personal favorites.
And Paul, thank you so much for writing in.
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So be sure to share fatburningman.com with anyone you think would appreciate it.
And then finally, if you're in the United States, another way that you can support the show is through Wild Superfoods.
If you look at the numbers, a lot of us are frighteningly deficient in many different nutrients across the board. So we started up Wild Superfoods to help literally feed people.
And these are the nutrients that my wife, my family, that we all take ourselves and have been taking for years now. We're really proud of what we offer.
One thing that you might want to check out is called Future Greens. It's kind of like a whole food multivitamin.
It's a combination of powerhouse plants, like beets, broccoli sprouts, blueberry, raspberry, cranberry, kale, nettle leaves, spirulina, and much, much more, all combined and shelf-stable so that you can have this on the road.
If you're trapped inside under lockdown, you can't get fresh veg. For us up in the mountains, sometimes it's hard to get fresh, certainly fruit and veg as well. So Future Greens is a great thing to have around.
You can just put a little Future Greens in your water or your smoothie. Some people put it in yogurt, but I like it just in water. I usually have it in the afternoon as a way to break my fast.
And then another powder that we're extremely proud of, that offers a lot of high quality protein and what we believe is one of the best tasting powders out there. It's called Collagen Cocoa.
We're offering a lot of different recipes that are coming out soon as a part of our challenges.
And Collagen Cocoa is one of those protein powders that you can actually use as an ingredient.
You can combine it with water, have it as hot cocoa. You can drink it cold, put it in smoothies, but also brownies, puddings, custards, pies and all sorts of fun things like that.
It's really a versatile mix, something great to have around.
So check out Collagen Cocoa. Now you can get Collagen Cocoa 3-packs and Collagen Cocoa 6-packs for an even bigger discount.
You can also Subscribe and Save which gets you a really good deal.
And then finally, if you want to join us in our next challenge, whether you're international or in the U.S., we have a 14-Day Low Sugar Challenge that's getting started right now.
You can join our latest challenge by going to fatburningman.com/app.
And when you sign up and you get one of the Subscribe and Save packages from Wild Superfoods, then you get entered into the challenge in our community for free.
So we're doing a lot of fun things to gamify health this year. It's going to be a really, really solid year. I think a lot of improvements, a lot of things to look forward to.
Getting out of the doldrums of the past is an important part of moving forward, and that's what we intend to do.
So come join us for a fun challenge by going to FatBurningMan.com/App, and wherever else you might find us out there.
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GENESIS: Black Friday is lunacy—a stressful start to a stressful season. Advertisers pretend otherwise, wrapping holiday-sale messaging in anodyne platitudes about joy, love, and savings. Shoppers know better, and Target saw a chance to be honest with them. So, in 2009, the retailer and Wieden + Kennedy introduced one of the most hilariously odd advertising characters of all time: the Christmas Champ. Portrayed with frighteningly manic intensity by Maria Bamford, she's the world's biggest superfan of Christmas—and of Target, whose 2-Day Sale (Black Friday and the day after) represents her retail Super Bowl. Determined to "win" Christmas, the Champ returns this month for a third holiday season with 12 kooky new spots. "She represents the whole notion of Black Friday being a contact sport," says Dustee Jenkins, vp of communications at Target. "Love her or hate her, she resonates with our guests."
COPYWRITING: The new spots go deeper into the Christmas Champ's mad world. She makes her own glitter, quotes from The Art of War, flirts with an electric Santa, and bakes gingerbread men—one of whom, in a spasm of lust, she bites into, then spits out in horror. The agency wrote scripts but gave Bamford room to improvise. "We've stumbled into a lot of great stuff by letting her play around," says creative director Rob Thompson. The humor is sophisticated—the campaign comes close to ridiculing the very shoppers it's targeting, and at times feels like a wry critique of holiday consumerism gone berserk. Thompson says Black Friday shoppers can laugh at themselves, and relate to the character on some level, while also seeing her as a caricature. "In a weird way, I think she makes people feel a little less nuts, to see someone who carries it that far," he says. Those who don't get her, he adds, probably aren't the ones who are crazy enough themselves to wait in the cold at 4 a.m. for a store to open.
ART DIRECTION: The agency shot the new spots over two days in Portland, Ore. The production design is elaborately absurd, with the house wonderfully overdecorated to match the character's personality. Presents, ribbons, bows, and Christmas trees are everywhere. "She probably has 50 stockings hanging, even though she might not even have 50 friends," says creative director Don Shelford.
TALENT: W+K wrote the character without anyone in mind, but wanted a comedian who could improvise. Eric Erickson, the former creative director at Target, suggested Bamford, who grew up in Minnesota (where Target is based) and had done a skit in which she visits Target with her mother. "She has a pretty intense style of comedy, and that lent itself to the manic nature of people obsessed with Black Friday," says Thompson.
SOUND: Cheery holiday music plays in most of the spots—a counterpoint to the character's mania. "It's the music she probably listens to at the gym," says Shelford.
MEDIA: The new spots are running online. For TV, Target is using five spots from last year (directed by Wayne McClammy of Hungry Man), hoping to get more mileage out of them. The character is on Twitter at @ChristmasChamp, engaging with fans more than ever—even sending them props from the ads as gifts (one got her red tracksuit). She also claims to have built goofy single-serving holiday websites, including howlonguntilthetarget2daysale.com, howmanypeoplehavebeentothissite.com, isittooearlytohangchristmaslights.com and whatdoesapanflutemadeoutofcandycanessoundlike.com. "We were amused by the thought that she might want to bring more Christmas to the Internet," says Thompson. "These are her little gift cards to the Web."


The Scottish Government is seeking further clarification to speed up the pace of welfare devolution to Scotland, it has been announced today.
Social Justice Secretary Alex Neil is calling for further progress reports on scrapping the hated 'bedroom tax', the introduction of Personal Independence Payments (PIP) for disabled Scots and the highly controversial Work Programme, which forces unemployed people to work unpaid in exchange for benefit payments.
The Joint Ministerial Working Group on Welfare will be meeting to discuss the implementation of welfare aspects related to the Smith Commission, following the Scottish independence referendum.
Deputy First Minister John Swinney and Mr Neil will meet with UK Government Ministers on Wednesday.
"This forum has been agreed to get the transfer of welfare powers right and ensure UK legislation is clear, fit for purpose and reflects the spirit and intention of the Smith Agreement. Above all, it must give us the tools to help people on benefits.
"I want to abolish the 'bedroom tax' as soon as possible. Reflecting significant concerns across Scotland, I also believe that the roll out of new Personal Independence Payments should be stopped and we should consider options for the future of disability benefits in Scotland, as they will be devolved in the near future.
"More generally, the UK Government should not take decisions on areas identified for further devolution without the Scottish Government's agreement.
"I want to use the administrative flexibilities offered around Universal Credit to do things differently, more quickly and on Scotland's own terms.
"In consultation with our partners, I want to consider paying housing costs direct to landlords and changing how frequently benefits are paid.
"I also expect to receive further clarity on the timescales for devolution of employment services, in particular the Work Programme.
"Through the Ministerial Group, we will work constructively with the UK Government to transfer these powers to Scotland smoothly.


Great seeing you the other night Sonny! You and the boys put on a fabulous show at the Bat Bar.
Yeah man...catch you next time!!
Nice setup. Simple, clean and ya gotta have a wah!
That Jensen is really honkin in those vids. Great stuff.
Hey Sonny, I tried looking at your myspace and facebook sites (I don't have an account) and TDPRI, before I bothered you with a question you probably get asked alot but I failed.
Just wanted to know what kinda rig you're playing thru.
Gotta great Texas sound no doubt.
I use a tweed Fender Blues Deluxe with a Jensen alnico P12N upgrade in the clean channel.Basic settings are volume 2-3,treble 5,mid 8,bass 2,presence 6.Reverb and bright switch off.Ibanez 808 TS reissue pedal for overdrive always turned on...volume set even with amp,EQ at 2 o'clock,drive on full.Vox wah and Boss tuner.
Sonny - I read your post on the new American Vintage Reissue '59 Strat. I have a tough time setting these up where the G and D don't buzz - open or fretted. What is the best way to set up? How much neck relief do you need? Then, ever measured your action or just by feel. I have had the same difficulty with older '62 reissues. '59 - String w 10s. It came with a flat (no relief) neck adjustment. Have it set at 0.010 so far but still some buzz. Also, this model (mine) is not as jangly/is duller (as the earlier versions) in the 2 and 4 toggle positions - that normal? Thanks.
Nice....I really like the color.It is not same 59 reissue like mine though.Yours is a modernised version.Cool guitar!
Hey man, have a look at my NNGD in main forum. Its a 59.
Yes,I'll be playing there...it's a fun place.Come by and say hello!
Hey, I went by Hardtails here in Georgetown (a friend of mine plays bass with a band there sometimes and I was seeing if he was on the schedule). I saw a Sonny Wolf on the schedule in a couple weeks. Is that you?
I see you have more than a few Road Worns. I'm tweaking my 50's RW Strat and trying to determine the best Trem unit for this guitar. I'm thinking Callaham. Do you know what size/description tremolo that would fit the RW Strat?


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In what was perhaps an inevitable conclusion to the saga of Curt Schilling's 38 Studios, its big-budget MMO project and a $75 million USD loan from the state of Rhode Island, multiple sources are reporting that the studio has today laid off every single employee.
"The Company is experiencing an economic downturn. To avoid further losses and possibility of retrenchment, the Company has decided that a companywide lay off is absolutely necessary.
These layoffs are non-voluntary and non-disciplinary.
Troubles began to emerge last week, when it was revealed that 38 was unable to pay its workforce and seemingly unable to find the funds to make a $1.125 million USD loan repayment to Rhode Island.
That payment was eventually made, but yesterday rumours began to circulate that the employees had not been paid since 1 May and that health insurance benefits were due to run out later this week (a fact not communicated to the staff by management). It was also reported yesterday that CEO Jan MacLean and senior vice president of product development John Blakely had bailed out of the sinking company.
Big Huge Games, the Maryland-based developer owned by 38 Studios (whose RPG Ascendant was re-configured to become Kingdoms of Amular: Reckoning), is also reported to have laid off its entire staff.
38's financial woes are the result of an expensive MMO project (dubbed 'Project Copernicus') which has been in development since 2008 and has so far drained $49 million of the $75 million Rhode Island loan. In terms of details about the game, all we really knew was that it was scheduled for June 2013 (inadvertantly revealed by Lincoln Chafee, the governor of Rhode Island) and based in the Amalur universe.
Last week the studio released a 'fly-by' video showing some locations in the game, and today (somewhat ironically) saw the release of a few screenshots which can be seen around this article. Now, the MMO is almost certain to be canned.
The failure of 38 Studios leaves Rhode Island holding a rather expensive taxpayer bill, but may also lead to the state gaining control of the developer's intellectual property, put up as collateral in the loan deal. That raises the mouthwatering prospect of an MMO set in Rhode Island.
Not everybody suffered in this deal, of course. Curt Schilling reportedly used the taxpayer money to repay himself $4 million USD that he'd invested in the company, and Kingdoms of Amalur contributory writer R.A. Salvatore apparently trousered $5 million in royalties.
In a somewhat heartwarming show of solidarity, other game development companies appear to be doing what they can to accomodate the 38 Studios staff who've been laid off.


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Do you have a friend with memory issues, Alzheimer's, or dementia? If so, it can be a struggle continuing a friendship and ensuring your loved one stays safe. Senior housing, such as memory care, could be the best place for your loved one. If it is, it can be hard to stay strong for your friend with memory impairments. Our memory care communities at HarborChase have had so many of our residents experience this transition and have had friends and family who have dealt with it on their terms. One of our primary goals is to enlighten friends and close relatives on how to deal with loved ones in memory care.
With the percentage of older adults diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease on the rise, it is more important than ever to educate yourself on prevention techniques. If your loved ones are showing warning signs of a memory-impairing disease, it is important to be prepared. There are a variety of prevention techniques to help in slowing the progression of this disease; including memory care services to assist your loved ones and relieve your stress.
Here at HarborChase, we know that it can be difficult to keep a parent or loved engaged even when they face cognitive challenges. That is why we have specialized activity plans and HarborChase Memory Care communities that are entirely dedicated to residents with memory impairments. According to the National Institute of Health, keeping your loved one mentally and socially stimulated can help in the decline of cognitive function and, in some cases, delay the onset of dementia.


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Erich Hampe (17 December 1889 – 28 June 1978) was a German Army officer with the rank of generalmajor, who served as Chief of the Department for Technical Troops in OKH during World War II. Previously he was Vice Chief of the Technische Nothilfe as well as an editor and the author of the official history of German civil defense during the Second World War. During the postwar years, he served as the first president of the Federal Agency for Civil Defense (Bundesanstalt für zivilen Luftschutz).

Born in 1889, Hampe entered army service within the German Army on in 1908 as an officer candidate. In 1912, when he was discharged to the Army Reserve. Hampe began subsequently work as Chief Editor of the "Die Post" newspaper, which closely cooperated with Free Conservative Party.

With the outbreak of the World War I, Hampe was called up in August 1914 and assigned to a machine gun-detachment; he was posted to the Guard Corps and ordered to the Western front. He participated in the First Battle of Ypres, the First Battle of Champagne, the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive, and the Battle of Verdun. His military service ended on November 30, 1919, when he retired from the Army. During his service in the Army, Hampe was awarded with both classes of Iron Cross and Hesse Medal for Bravery.

In the beginning of 1920 in the Weimar Republic, he worked as Vice Chief of the Technische Nothilfe (TN). In 1941 he was transferred the Wehrmacht and served as inspector general of the Technical Troops (that originated in TN units transferred to the army). In the public service of West Germany in 1950, he started with the reconstruction of the Technisches Hilfswerk, continued as head of division in the German Federal Ministry of the Interior and finally as first President of the Federal Agency for Civil Defense (Bundesanstalt für zivilen Luftschutz). Hampe died in 1978 in Hangelar near Bonn.

References and bibliography
 Bundesarchiv Koblenz Pers 101/60606-60608
 Gasschutz und Luftschutz . – Berlin : Ebeling. - 1 (1931) - 15 (1945)
 Die Räder : Zeitschrift der Technischen Nothilfe. - Berlin : Räder-Verl. - 	1 (1920) - 26 (1945)
 [Autobiography] ... als alles in Scherben fiel : Erinnerungen des Generalmajors a.D., ehemaligen Generals der Technischen Truppen und Präsident der Bundesanstalt für zivilen Luftschutz / Erich Hampe. - Osnabrück : Biblio-Verl., 1979. - 185 S. - (Soldatenschicksale des 20. Jahrhunderts als Geschichtsquellen ; 1)
 Der zivile Luftschutz im Zweiten Weltkrieg: Dokumentation und Erfahrungsberichte über Aufbau und Einsatz. Bernard und Graefe 1963. Download here (www.bbk.bund.de)

1889 births
1978 deaths
People from Gera
People from the Principality of Reuss-Gera
Major generals of the German Army (Wehrmacht)
Prussian Army personnel
Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Recipients of the Iron Cross (1914), 1st class
20th-century Freikorps personnel


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17 Remove exg from metadata.xml due to retirement.
21 as reported by phreak.
26 Version bump; switch to emake in src_install.
29 Remove virtual/x11 from deps for bug 166361.
58 Stable for HPPA (bug #156741).
80 Stable on IA64; bug #151762.
89 Stable for HPPA (bug #151762).
109 Stable for HPPA (bug #149835).
124 Stable on sparc --- Bug #149835.
136 remove crufty ebuild. Filter the -Os gcc flag in favour of -O2, for now.
175 Add optional support for bracketed paste mode, bug #93051.
178 Marked stable on mips.
181 Stable on alpha wrt security Bug #135974.
187 Stable on alpha wrt Bug #136546.
214 Stable for hppa (bug #136546).
217 Stable on amd64, #136546.
220 Stable on x86 wrt bug #136546.
254 resources files on modular to the one used in the 7.0 release.
261 installation of xorg-x11-7 exists.
274 it was tested and just got missed.
277 Use narrow prototypes on monolithic X; fix scrollbar breakage, bug #115037.
280 Fixed sed for modular X, bug #126110.
310 Stable on x86, bug #119108.
313 Stable on SPARC wrt bug 119108.
330 Fixed my typo in modular X depends.
342 remove postinst message about security, since that issue is old and dead.
352 bug #109101 for notifying me of the new release.
358 Stable on mips, bug #101333.
376 Marked ppc stable for bug #101333.
388 Added modular X depends as per discussion with seemant.
389 These work for me, but please CC me on any bug if there needs to be tweaks.
400 few people test. Version bump notification by Donnie Berkholz.
423 Marked ppc stable for bug #91453.
426 Stable for sparc; security Bug 91453.
446 Stick Seemant in as primary maintainer.
473 default -- not USE based anymore. run xterm -tb to enable them if you want.
478 Stable on alpha + ia64, requested by seemant.
548 this and sending it to me.
551 Unleash upon the x86 masses.
579 unix98 pty) or sgid (for without utempter) (#69510).
664 Change virtual/x11 dep because of #8810.
686 Mark stable on sparc.
693 Change xfree dep to >=x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r6.
701 Modify dependency to include possible x11-base/xfree.
711 Revert Xaw3d change after further investigation.
721 Add Xaw3d option, thanks to Ronald Hummelink <ronald@hummelink.xs4all.nl>.
730 ~amd64 only to be consistent with xorg-x11.
733 Fix incorrect sparc keyword to ~sparc.
738 and stop resultant breakage with a one-line patch.
768 the goal of removing xterm's compilation within the xfree ebuild.
769 Ideally, this should work with utempter library in the near future.


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Where there's a Weewoo, there's a way Circulation: 120,559,293 Issue: 234 | 7th day of Eating, Y8
Meeting Her Maker
by tinybaby_orange1
A shadowed figure stood in a cold, dark room. The creature's face was not visible, but its hands were moving quickly in the light of the full moon that streamed in through a small window. Outside the window were tall, leafless trees. In front of the creature was a long table. On the table lay another, smaller being. The shadowed figure was flipping pages of an enormous book, stopping every now and then to read something. Incantations floated from her mouth to the ears of the being on the table. The small thing moved as moonlight suddenly streamed over its face. It was a small Kacheek. It moved again, and the creature in the shadows laughed, a high, cackling laugh that chilled the Kacheek to the bone. It was an evil laugh.
Kace sat up in bed, breathing heavily. It was just another nightmare. She turned to look out her bedroom window. In the night, a Whoot called out. Kace shivered. The night was the only time she didn't feel safe. During the day, when the sun shone and she was surrounded by friends, Kace could almost forget her terrifying nightmares and mixed up memories. At night, however, those memories were never too far away.
Kace let herself fall back into bed, and rubbed one of the many scars on her neck. Being a Halloween Kacheek, Kace had quite a few scars and more than a few stitches, but she didn't mind. Looking the way she did didn't bother Kace; it was not knowing how she ended up that way. One of her only good memories from before she had been adopted was playing in a garden, a happy blue Kacheek. She didn't know where the garden was, or who she had been living with then. That memory ate away at her almost constantly. Kace wanted more than anything to know where she came from, and she would do anything to find out.
The next morning, Kace awoke happily. She hadn't had any more nightmares that night, and she had finally come to a decision she had been thinking about for a very long time. She got out of bed and walked over to the crib on the other side of the room. Her baby brother, Swinger, was sitting contently in his crib.
"Hey there, Swingy. How did you sleep, little guy?" Kace lifted the little Mynci into her arms and carried him into the kitchen. Her other siblings, Yoko and Santie, were already at the kitchen table.
Yoko, the oldest and a Korbat, looked up as she walked in. "Hey guys, how'd you both sleep?" He gave Kace a questioning look; he was the only one who knew about her nightmares.
"I slept alright. And this little guy was quiet all night!" She put Swinger in his high chair and said to Yoko, "Can I talk to you for a second? In my room?" Yoko nodded, and they left the kitchen.
When they got into Kace's room, Yoko asked, "Are you OK? I heard you talking in your sleep again."
"I'm alright. I just had a nightmare." She paused, and looked down at the floor, "Uh, Yoko? I need to talk to you about something."
"Of course, shoot," Yoko said with a smile.
"Well, uh, you know about my nightmares, and how I've always wanted to find out where I'm from." She paused again, and Yoko motioned for her to keep going. "Well, I think… I think I'm going to go look for my home… my first home. This is my home now, and always will be, but I need to know where I came from. Please don't be angry."
There was a long silence, and Yoko just looked at Kace. After a while he said, "Go for it, kiddo. You need this. If finding your origins is that important to you, I'll support you all the way! But, how will you know where to begin?"
"I'll know," said Kace. Yoko nodded, and hugged his sister for a very long time. When he let go, he turned to leave the room, but Kace stopped him. "Thank you, Yoko," was all she said. Yoko smiled, and left her alone. Kace sat on her bed. That had gone better than expected. Now, before she could leave, she had to pack. She grabbed a blanket, some food, and an old potion that her owner had given her. She wasn't sure what it did, but she thought it might come in handy. Now to find a map…
An hour later, Kace was standing in the middle of Neopia Central holding a map. She was trying to plan out where to start her journey, but had no idea where to go. She sighed and put the map in her pocket. All around her was the bustle of the city. Unis rode by with their owners, shop owners haggled with customers, Pteris filled the skies. Kace needed some kind of sign, some sort of clue, but nothing was coming to her. She rested her head in her paws, and looked up as she heard someone yell, "LOOK OUT!"
Just as she looked up, something hit her hard, and she fell onto the street. Groaning, Kace stood back up to see who had run into her. Lying on the street close by was a dazed Cybunny wearing large glasses and a bow tie. The Cybunny was rubbing it head, and when it saw Kace, it stood up quickly, "Oh my, oh my, I'm so very sorry! So very, very sorry! Oh my, look at this mess, oh my stars, oh my stars!" The Cybunny was running in circles, picking up things that had spilled from Kace's sack and hastily trying to get them all back into the bag. Kace reached out and grabbed the Cybunny's shoulder, which stopped it suddenly.
"I'm alright! Really! Just calm down!" Kace said, smiling. The Cybunny rubbed its head, "Ah, yes, I suppose everything is alright. I just feel so foolish, running right into you like that." He paused. "But we haven't even introduced ourselves! My stars, I am forgetting my manners. I am Pensworth Kibblebunny the Third, but you may call me Pensworth. And you are?"
"Er, I'm Kace," Kace answered, feeling rather intimidated by his long, impressive name, "and I was wondering, uh, where were you going in such a hurry?"
"Ah yes," said Pensworth, adjusting his glasses. "Of course, of course, I was off to catch my carriage. You see, I am a scientist, and I am off to the Haunted Wood to continue my research. Where are you headed?"
'The Haunted Woods?' thought Kace. Images from her nightmare flashed before Kace's eyes. A tall, dead tree. The full moon in the foggy night. The Haunted Woods seemed the perfect place to start her search.
"Er, do you think I could come along with you? To the Haunted Woods, that is. I wouldn't know how to get there on my own," said Kace.
Pensworth smiled. "Why, of course! That would be lovely! It's always good to have company in the Haunted Woods, if you know what I mean." He chuckled quietly and turned. "This way now, we mustn't miss the carriage!" They ran through the streets, all the way to the edge of Neopia Central. By the time they reached it, Kace was out of breath and tired. All around were Unis and carriages. Pensworth approached a brown Uni and asked, "Are you headed to the Haunted Woods?"
"For a few neopoints I am." The Uni smiled and Pensworth paid him before hopping onto the carriage. Kace was excited; she had never been on a Uni-drawn carriage before.
They climbed into the small carriage and sat down. It was a closed carriage, and Kace felt like she was in a tiny moving room. Kace gazed out the window at the passing scenery. At first they passed houses and buildings, but after a while they were in the heart of the country, with nothing but land and trees. Beside her, Pensworth was busily writing in a journal, stopping every so often to stare into space and mumble to himself. Kace smiled and turned away. The passing trees were making her dizzy, so Kace closed her eyes. She slept, but this time no nightmares haunted her, at least for the time being.
When she opened them again, the Uni was moving fast, and they were no longer speeding through beautiful countryside.
"Where are we?" Kace asked. Out her window was a wasteland. The ground was grey and dead, and leafless trees (like the one in her dream) were scattered across the land. The sky was dark, and Kace could see the full moon hiding behind a few black clouds.
"We are almost there! Almost there indeed. See those trees? And the grass? All these dead things can only mean we are nearing the Haunted Woods!" said Pensworth excitedly. He was retying his bow tie over and over again, "Do you have all your things? We should be stopping soon."
Kace gathered up her things into her bag and made sure it was closed tight. She was excited to be almost at the Haunted Woods, but she was nervous too. She had no idea where she would go from here, or what she should do to find what she was looking for. She would just have to see what happened as she went along.
Sure enough, the Uni slowed their carriage to a stop and said, "Everybody out, and hurry. This place gives me the creeps." Kace and Pensworth hoped off the carriage and thanked the Uni. As soon as Kace was out she noticed the cold. The air was cooler here, and it was damp. She shivered, wishing she had brought a sweater. Beside her, Pensworth was wrapping a long scarf around his neck.
"My stars, it is chilly here, isn't it? Good thing I brought my scarf!" he was saying. Under his arm was a pile of scrolls and papers.
"Er, what do we do now?" Kace asked. "I mean, I guess you're pretty busy, so…I'll see you…"
Pensworth laughed, "Oh my, you silly girl! I was under the impression that you were looking for a travel partner. If you don't mind, I'd like to stick together. That is, if we're heading in the same direction. Where are you headed? You never did tell me."
Kace laughed nervously. Her journey sounded silly compared to important scientific research. "Well, that's because I don't exactly know where I'm going… it's… it's a long story. Maybe I could just tag along with you, help you out. Would that be alright?"
"Oh my! Of course you can 'tag along'! I would love a helping hand. Now, that is, if you are brave enough. I'm going deep into the wood, and my mission is on the dangerous side. Are you still willing to come?"
Kace shrugged. "I guess so. Where are you going?"
Pensworth moved in closer and whispered so Kace could barely hear him, but what she heard made her jaw drop open, "Edna's Tower."
Edna's Tower was strictly off-limits to all outsiders. The rumours were that Edna herself had surrounded the tower with hexes and curses to keep away intruders. If you did manage to get close to the tower, bad things happened if you didn't do things for Edna. Many travellers who stumbled across Edna's Tower were never seen again. However, Kace had also heard a rumour that Edna was very wise and powerful. Perhaps this witch could help Kace on her journey to find her past.
"I'm brave enough," Kace said. "Let's go!"
"We've been walking for hours! Can't we take a break?" Kace asked, exhausted. Kace and Pensworth had in fact been walking for hours, and Kace's feet were killing her.
Pensworth stopped and put down his things. "I suppose you're right. It has been a long day." They sat down on the cold ground. All around them were grey, dead trees, and a fog had started to creep across the land. As they had been finding out, the Haunted Woods only got spookier as you went deeper into it. By now, both Kace and Pensworth were cold, tired, and hungry and more than a little freaked out, and the approached fog wasn't helping.
"According to my map," Pensworth said, "we are only about half an hour away from Edna's Tower; however, we'll have to pass through the Game Graveyard to reach it. That will be the hardest part of our journey."
"The Game Graveyard?" Kace asked, "What's that?"
"The Game Graveyard is where dead games are sent. It is filled with ghostly neopets and the spirits of the games. All of them want revenge because they were shut down, so they can be very dangerous. We will have to be very careful."
They unpacked some sandwiches and ate, and then Pensworth said, "Perhaps we should get some rest; I'm just worried about sleeping out in the open."
Kace nodded. "I know. I'm really tired, but it might not be safe to sleep here." They both looked around, as far as they could see in any direction was just trees.
"I believe we'll have to risk it," stammered Pensworth. He pulled a blanket from his small bag and huddled under it, "Good night then."
"Good night," said Kace. She too pulled a blanket from her bag and covered herself. Soon she was sleeping, and dreaming.
A dark tower loomed high in the pouring rain. Lightening flashed and thunder boomed, and Kace stepped into the towers entrance hall. It was quiet, except for the pounding of the rain. The dark figure entered the room. "Hello, Kace, I have been waiting for you," said the figure. It was hidden in the shadows.
"Who are you?" Kace yelled. "Show yourself!" The figure reached out and touched Kace's arm.
Kace awoke suddenly. She had been having a nightmare again. She was breathing heavily, and wished she could just go home. Then she saw Pensworth snoring nearby and saw the dead leaf that had blown up against her arm. She couldn't leave Pensworth. Kace threw off her blanket and put it back in her bag; she needed to take a walk. She paced around for a while, and then set off through the trees. After a few minutes of walking, Kace reached a tall stone wall. She followed it until she found an old iron gate. Hanging beside the gate was a small sign that read, "Game Graveyard. Beware." She shivered, and looked through the gate into the graveyard. It was still and silent.
'Hm,' Kace thought, 'All the ghosts must be sleeping.' Then an idea popped into her head. If all the ghosts were sleeping, she and Pensworth would be able to sneak through the graveyard! She rushed back to Pensworth and shook him awake, "Pensworth! Pensworth! Wake up!" Kace whispered.
Pensworth groaned but opened his eyes, "Yes, I'm awake, what seems to be the problem?" Kace told him her plan, and Pensworth was wide awake. "A brilliant idea, my girl! Why didn't I think of that? Alright, let's get moving!"
When they reached the graveyard, Pensworth slowly opened the gate. It creaked slightly, and they both waited to see if anyone had heard the gate. Nothing moved. Slowly, cautiously, they walked into the deserted graveyard. The walked as quietly as they could, avoiding twigs and leaves, and not touching any gravestones. As they passed each stone, Kace read the inscription to herself. After a while she whispered, 'Techo Says, Meerca Chase, I wonder why all these games were sent to the graveyard?" There was a noise then, like the earth splitting, but only for a few seconds. Pensworth and Kace froze. They glanced around nervously, looking for what could have made the sound.
"What was that?" Kace whispered, a little louder.
"Shush," said Pensworth, "Just wait." They waited, afraid to move. A few minutes later Pensworth said, "Alright, let's go. And hurry!" They started moving through the graveyard again, faster this time. Then, out of nowhere, the noise came again, and Kace screamed. Up from the ground something was coming. There was groaning and a paw pushed through the dirt. It was grey, and almost glowing. Kace and Pensworth huddled together; they were terrified. Then, with a final rumble, dirt flew into the air, and out from the cold ground emerged a neopet unlike anything they had ever seen. It was grey, and glowing, and it had a vacant look in its eyes. It was a ghost neopet and it didn't look happy to see them.
For a minute, no one moved, and then Pensworth yelled, "RUN!" Kace and Pensworth but took off as fast as they could towards the graveyard's exit. Behind them, the ghost neopet let out a loud shriek and began chasing after them. Other ghost neopets were appearing now too and soon there were hundreds of them, all chasing the frightened Pensworth and Kace. Kace ran like she had never run before, tripping over tree roots and dodging tombstones. After a few minutes, she saw the exit gates. She pushed herself to go faster and said, "Hurry, Pensworth, we're almost there!" But the reply she got was, "HELP!" She stopped short, almost tripping, and turned to look for Pensworth. Kace gasped. Pensworth was lying on the ground, frantically tugging at his leg, which was stuck under a large tree root. His bag had spilled all over the ground. Not far behind him was the swarm of ghosts, getting closer by the second. Kace didn't know what to do. The gate was steps away, but she couldn't just abandon Pensworth. She took a deep breath and ran back to her friend.
"Come on!" she yelled. "PULL!" Together, Kace and Pensworth tugged on Pensworth's leg. Kace dug the earth out from under it and Pensworth broke up the root as best he could. Finally, with moments to spare before the ghosts were upon them, Pensworth's leg came free, and the two friends ran for the gates, not stopping to grab Pensworth's bag. Kace yanked them open and with a satisfying 'BANG!' the gates shut tight behind them. Gasping for breath, Kace and Pensworth didn't wait around to see if the ghosts could follow them out of the graveyard. They looked ahead, and not far in the distance was the black silhouette of a tower.
Just under an hour later, the dark tower that had been so far in the distance was only minutes away. Kace and Pensworth stopped to rest near a large tree. They were tired, hungry, and more than a little frightened.
"Now, this is the difficult part," Pensworth began.
"The difficult part? THIS is the difficult part? All we have to do is knock on the door!" Kace said.
"No, no, my girl! There are spells surrounding this house! We can't just walk up to the door. We'll need my…" He reached towards his bag, before realizing they had left it in the graveyard. "Oh no! Without my scrolls and potions, we have no hope of getting past these curses!" Feeling defeated, Pensworth sat down heavily on the ground, his head in his paws.
Anxiously, Kace said, "There has to be some other way."
"No, there's not," moaned Pensworth, "Without my Starlight Potion, there is absolutely no way past these barrier spells on the tower."
The image of her potion gift from Yoko flashed into Kace's mind. She opened her bag and dug through it hastily. Finally, she pulled out the old potion. "Did your Starlight Potion look anything like this?" Pensworth looked up miserably, but his expression changed to pure joy when he saw what Kace was holding. He lunged towards her and grabbed the potion. "Yes! Yes! This is it! The Starlight Potion! This is amazing! Where did you get it?"
"Er, my older brother gave it to me years ago. I never knew what it was for, so I just kept it. When I left on my trip, I thought it might come in handy." She smiled. "I guess I was right."
"Yes! Right indeed! My girl, we will get to that tower yet!" Pensworth, still smiling, uncorked the potion bottle, and said, "Now, if we're in luck, I'll remember the incantation. A little space, if you don't mind." Kace stepped back and watched as Pensworth closed his eyes. He held up the potion and said loudly, "Strength of Grarrl and Uni's horn, with this light the dark barrier shall be torn. Tricky Mynci, Growling Lupe, in this wall find travellers a loop." When he finished, he threw the potion into the air, towards the tower. It spun through the air, some of the potion spilling as it went. When it hit the ground, the glass bottle shattered, and suddenly a light so blinding filled the air that Kace had to avert her eyes. When she looked back, she gasped. Floating just in front of Edna's Tower was a white shape. It looked like a Yurble, no- an Elephante, no- a Draik. Kace didn't know exactly what it was, but it was beautiful. Suddenly, the light disappeared, and Kace was left blinking in the sudden dark gloom of the forest. The air around the tower seemed unchanged, and then Pensworth said, "Alright, now it is safe! Shall we proceed?" Kace smiled nervously, and the two of them stepped forward into the space where the light had been. Nothing bad happened.
"I told you it would work! That was all I need for my scientific paper. The reaction of the barrier to the Starlight Potion was different from anything I've ever seen before! So now that my work is finished, let's find your home!" Kace smiled, and Pensworth smiled, and together the two friends knocked on the large wooden door, the entrance to the dreaded Edna's tower. When they knocked, the door swung open. As they entered the dark tower, it began to rain outside. Lightning flashed and thunder boomed, and Kace and Pensworth stepped into the tower's entrance hall. It was quiet except for the pounding of the rain. The dark figure entered the room. "Hello, Kace, I have been waiting for you," said the figure. It was hidden in the shadows. Just like in her nightmares, Kace was afraid, but this time she had a friend to help her along the way.
"I know you have," said Kace, "and I've been looking for you. I want to know- I need to know, who are you? Are you my, err… creator?" Kace couldn't bring herself to call Edna her mother.
Edna stepped into the moonlight that shone into the hall through a tiny window. "Yes, I suppose you could call me that. I have created many pets, although you are the first to come and find me."
Kace stepped closer. "That means this is my home! You are my family! I found my home!"
Edna smiled. "No, you haven't. You have always had a home, back with your brothers and real owner. I am not your family just because I 'created' you; they are your family because they have cared for you and loved you. You never lost your home; it was always right in front of you."
A dark cloud moved across the moon, and in the darkness Kace couldn't see a thing. When the cloud finally moved away, the moonlight revealed that Kace and Pensworth were the only ones left in the hall. Kace turned to face Pensworth, who said, "Oh dear, I suppose this means I'll be travelling back alone, if you plan to stay here with your real family." He turned to leave, but Kace grabbed his arm.
"No, Pensworth, this isn't my family. My family is back in Neopia Central." She walked out the door, not caring about the rain. Pensworth followed, and in the rain Kace held his hand. "Come on," she said. "Let's go home."
All the pets in this story (except Pensworth, who I made up) are mine. :D Come visit us sometime. :D
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La commanderie de la Chaux est une commanderie templière puis hospitalière située sur le territoire de la commune vaudoise de La Chaux, en Suisse.

Historique
La Chaux fut donnée par les seigneurs de Cossonay aux templiers avant 1223. La commanderie qui y fut établie ne semble pas avoir été particulièrement profitable, car en 1277 une partie des possessions fut vendue à l'ordre franciscain pour payer des dettes. Après la dissolution de l'Ordre, elle passa en 1315 aux chevaliers de l'ordre de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem. De la commanderie dépendaient les hospices d'Orbe, de Villars-Sainte-Croix et de Montbrelloz.

Après la Réforme protestante, la commanderie fut sécularisée, inféodée au dernier commandeur, puis en 1539 aux frères du réformateur Guillaume Farel, enfin vendue en 1540 à un gentilhomme picard, Robert du Gard.

De nos jours, la commanderie est inscrite comme bien culturel d'importance régionale.

Commandeurs Templiers

Commandeurs Hospitaliers
On trouve le commandeur de Vaud, de La Chaux, de la Chaux en Vaud.

Possessions
Les Maisons du Temple connues sont  :
 Sainte-Marie-Madeleine de Maconnex (cf. la Liste des commanderies templières en Rhône-Alpes)
 Saint-Denis d'Entremont
 Les hospices d'Orbe
 Les hospices de Villars-Sainte-Croix
 Les Hospices de Montbrelloz
 Un hôpital mentionné en 1228 a également été associé au titre de Saint-Thibaud, près de Chavornay.

Articles connexes

 Liste des commanderies templières en Suisse
 Liste des commanderies templières

Bibliographie

Notes

Références

La Chaux
Bâtiment dans le canton de Vaud
Bien culturel d'importance régionale dans le canton de Vaud
Commanderie de l'ordre de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem


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2022 Massachusetts Air Traffic Controllers Salary Guide
Massachusetts Air Traffic Controllers Salary 2022
How Much Do Air Traffic Controllers Make in Massachusetts 2022?
Annual Wage $69,940 $77,410 $96,530 $148,210 $178,000
What Is The Projected Outlook For Air Traffic Controllers in Massachusetts?
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by Rutgers-Eagleton Poll Blog | November 30, 2015 · 9:19 am
Polling in Iowa; Does it Mean Much Yet?
For the last few months, Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling Director David Redlawsk has been in Iowa, studying the first in the nation Iowa Caucuses, following up on work he and colleagues did in 2007-08 for the book Why Iowa?.
What follows is another in our occasional series of blog posts from him about his experiences and about the campaigns for president. These posts were originally published on the Drake University Caucus Blog; Dave is in residence as a Fellow at the Harkin Institute for Public Policy & Citizen Engagement. In addition to these posts, he is tweeting @DavidRedlawsk as he attends events and watches the process unfold.
Read below for Dave's take on how Iowans tend to make up their minds late.
Iowa Caucus Goers are late deciders: Still Plenty of Room for Change
It's just over 60 days to the Iowa Caucuses. Polling continues to show Donald Trump on top of the GOP pack here in the Hawkeye State. But, as I write this two recent polls show something changing under the Trump umbrella. Ben Carson, who had been running a close second to Trump appears to be falling; perhaps his time is over. Taking his place is Ted Cruz, who has doubled his support to just over 20%, while Carson has fallen below that mark. Trump himself remains in the 25%-30% range, where he has been stuck for months. Nothing seems to change for Trump in Iowa; all the action is in second and third.
Meanwhile the media remains obsessed about whether Trump's support is real, or whether it will fade as voters get "serious". Nate Silver just suggested the media needs to "stop freaking out" over Trump. He argues, as I have since at least August in Twitter comments and on the news app Sidewire, that Trump's numbers remain stagnant at about a quarter of GOP voters. We're seeing this in Iowa as well as nationally. In fact, a poll in August had Trump at 23% in Iowa; today he is around 25%.
The basis of Silvers sanguine attitude toward a Trump nomination is the claim that voters in places like Iowa do not make up their minds until quite late. Silver uses public exit polls from the 2008 and 2012 caucuses to show this.
Here I want to reinforce that point, using a completely different dataset. In 2008, Caroline Tolbert, Todd Donovan (my co-authors on Why Iowa?) and I administered an in-caucus survey of both parties. This is NOT an exit poll. Instead, with the cooperation of both parties, we placed a single survey instrument in EVERY Iowa precinct with instructions to the Caucus Chair to give it to the person whose birthday was closest to a random date on the packet. This allowed us to randomize the survey and also to potentially cover every precinct in Iowa. While we didn't get them all back, our return rate was over 60% for the GOP and over 70% for the Democrats.
So what can we learn from the GOP and Democratic caucus goers of 2008, the last time both parties had wide open nominations?
First, YES, Iowans do not rush to make Caucus decisions. Across both parties in 2008, 54% of those filling out the survey told us they had made their candidate choice only in the final month, and 5% came in the door that night undecided. Just a quarter had decided at least three months before the caucuses.
And first time attendees were not any faster or slower making up their minds: 56% had done so in the final month, compared to 52% of repeat attendees, an insignificant difference. Not surprisingly though, those who had caucused before were a little more likely to be early deciders: 27% decided before October 2007, compared to 22% of first timers.
We also see no differences in gender – men and women were equally likely in 2008 to make late decisions.
Of course, some Iowa Caucus goers are party activists, but in 2008 a surprising number (nearly 60% in our survey) were not, something I would expect will be the case again this year. No one should be surprised that activists make up their minds earlier: across both parties nearly 60% of the most active has made a decision more than a month before, as had over half of those who called themselves "somewhat active" in their party. In contrast only slightly more than one-third of less active voters made an early decision.
While the above combines both parties, we can dig further into our data and look for differences between Republicans and Democrats. What we find is that in 2007-08, GOP voters were slower to decide. While 47% of Democrats with a preference entering the caucuses, waited until the last month to decide this rises to 62% of GOP voters that year. Nearly 30% of Democrats had decided before October, but only 19% of Republicans had settled on a choice that early.
A group of particular importance to GOP candidates is Evangelical Christians. But guess what? Once again we see no real differences in decision time. Evangelicals were just as likely to make a late decision as any other Iowa Caucus goer in 2008.
What's the takeaway from this deeper dive into Iowa Caucus goers' decision timing? Simply, there is a lot of room for candidates to play in the final weeks before Iowans cast their First in the Nation votes. The lesson for 2016 may be exactly what Silver and others are saying. There remains fluidity, and the inevitability of Donald Trump in Iowa (or anywhere else) is not at all certain. If the past holds any indicators for today, at two months ahead of the caucuses a very large share of the vote is still in play, no matter what people tell pollsters today. And in particular, given that GOP voters appear to make later decisions even in 2008 when both parties had large fields, there is every reason to think we have a lot more ups and downs to watch before this whole thing is over. Some people are committed, but most are still shopping, even as their choice set gets smaller and the shopping days fly by.
Final note: The data we collected with our 2008 in-caucus, along with the survey instruments, are available for anyone to examine at www.whyiowa.org.
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The PUBG Global Invitational 2018 will see 20 teams do battle for $2 million in prizes
By Andy Chalk published 23 April 18
It will be the first major tournament to be 'officially hosted by PUBG Corp.'
The PUBG Global Invitational 2018 will bring the world's top 20 pro PUBG teams together in Berlin to do battle in "the first major PUBG esports tournament officially hosted by PUBG Corp," with a total prize pool of $2 million up for grabs.
Teams taking part will be selected through a process of regional qualifiers to be held in July in North America, Europe, and Asia. The finals, which will take place in July, will feature four-player squad battles, with separate winners declared for third-person and first-person gameplay.
"The PUBG Global Invitational 2018 is a landmark moment for PUBG Corp. as a showcase of the potential of PUBG esports," PUBG Corp CEO Changhan Kim said. "The team at PUBG Corp. is working tirelessly to ensure that the PGI 2018 exemplifies the pinnacle of PUBG competition and brings to life all of the excitement, tension and exhilaration of the highest level of PUBG play, not only to the fans attending the PGI 2018, but also those watching at home."
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XXY est le titre d'un film argentin produit avec la contribution économique de la France et l'Espagne, réalisé par Lucía Puenzo en 2007.

Synopsis

Alex a 15 ans et porte un lourd secret qui a poussé ses parents à quitter Buenos-Aires pour s'installer sur la côte uruguayenne, dans une maison isolée dans les dunes. Un couple d'amis leur rend un jour visite, accompagné de leur fils de 16 ans, Alvaro.

Fiche technique

 Titre : XXY
 Titre original : XXY
 Réalisation : Lucía Puenzo
 Scénario : Lucía Puenzo, adapté d'un conte de Sergio Bizzio
 Production : Luis Puenzo pour Historias Cinematograficas (Argentine)
 Coproduction : José Marias Morales pour Wanda Vision (Espagne)
 Musique originale : André Goldstein et Daniel Tarrab
 Photographie : Natasha Braier
 Montage : Alex Zito, Hugo Primero
 Son : Fernando Soldevila
 Décors : Roberto Samuelle
 Pays d'origine :

 Coproduction :

 Langue originale : espagnol
 Durée : 90 minutes
 Format : Couleurs - 1,85:1 - Dolby Digital - 35 mm
 Dates de sortie :
 Sortie en DVD ()

Distribution
 Alex (VF : Kelly Marot) : Inés Efron
 Alvaro (VF : Sébastien Desjours) : Martín Piroyansky
 Kraken (VF : Paul Borne) : Ricardo Darín
 Suli (VF : Gaëlle Savary) : Valeria Bertuccelli
 Ramiro (VF : Serge Faliu) : Germán Palacios
 Erika (VF : Laurence Dourlens) : Carolina Peleritti
 Juan : Guillermo Angelelli
 Washington (VF : Patrick Béthune) : Cesar Troncoso
 Esteban (VF : Éric Etcheverry) : Jean Pierre Reguerraz
 Roberta (VF : Cécile Marmotat) : Ailín Salas
 Vando : Luciano Nobile
 Saul : Lucas Escariz
 Sources et légende : Version française selon le carton de doublage français.

Distinctions

 Grand Prix de la Semaine Internationale de la Critique (Cannes, 2007) et prix du Grand Rail d'or
 Prix de la (Toute) Jeune Critique (Cannes, 2007)
 Soutien ACID/CCAS (Cannes, 2007)
 Prix Goya du meilleur film étranger en langue espagnole en 2007
 Prix Sud 2007 : meilleurs film et réalisateur argentins de l'année
 Louve d'Or au Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal, 2007
 Prix de la mise en scène au festival international du film d'Édimbourg, 2007
 Prix du meilleur film au festival international du film d'Athènes, 2007
 Prix du meilleur film au festival international du film de Bangkok, 2007

Analyse

Pour son premier long métrage, la réalisatrice Lucía Puenzo choisit le thème de l'intersexuation, la recherche de l'identité de genre, mais aussi et surtout de soi-même. Se présentant comme une réflexion sur la différence et le regard des autres, XXY ne cesse de jouer sur les parallèles et les oppositions qui existent entre le devenir de ces deux familles. Elle, Alex, jeune intersexe et lui, Alvaro qui doute en raison de son homosexualité. Chacun d'eux cherche à couper les ponts avec l'enfance et à choisir ce qu'il doit devenir. Cette quête, ils l'effectuent ensemble, se complétant dans leurs différences et cherchant l'un dans l'autre à repousser ce choix inéluctable.

Les couleurs froides omniprésentes accentuant ce contraste entre amour et oppression du milieu, ces adultes qui semblent étrangers au ressentiment de leurs enfants... tout tend à rendre le sujet intemporel voire universel. En effet, au-delà de l'intersexuation, XXY est le film de la recherche de ses sentiments et de son identité au moment de l'adolescence.

Titre
XXY est à la fois un nom de code et un code génétique. Un titre à la fois énigmatique donc, et parfaitement parlant puisque paradoxalement le sujet qui sera abordé ici nous apparaît tout de suite comme évident. Jouant donc sur les chromosomes sexuels, ces trois lettres symbolisent clairement l'anomalie et la différence, le fait d'avoir quelque chose en trop ou en moins. On remarquera également sur l'affiche la manière dont une branche du X a été arrachée pour former un Y, tout comme la société voudrait enlever une partie d'Alex.

L'utilisation comme titre de film du code XXY, caractéristique du syndrome de Klinefelter, pour un sujet sur l'intersexuation est tout à fait erronée, voire malveillante pour les porteurs du syndrome : en effet, ce sont sans aucune contestation possible des sujets de sexe mâle (atteints de stérilité quasi totale). Les personnes atteintes du syndrome de Klinefelter peuvent connaître des stades d'intersexuations de divers degrés, avec parfois une féminisation importante comme absence de pilosité, micro pénis, génycomastie (seins développés), hypogonadisme voire testicules féminisants parfois en position ovarienne.

Autour du film

XXY a été présenté en avant-première mondiale lors du premier jour de la Semaine de la critique à Cannes en 2007, où il a obtenu le Grand Prix.

Notes et références

Liens externes

Film argentin sorti en 2007
Film dramatique argentin
LGBT au cinéma en Argentine
Intersexuation au cinéma
Film se déroulant en Uruguay
Film tourné en Uruguay


The ongoing drought remains serious in 13 counties, with 1.1 million people in need of food aid, the government has said.
The affected counties are Turkana, Mandera, Marsabit, Garissa, Baringo, Kilifi, Tana River, West Pokot, Isiolo, Wajir, Samburu, Kwale and Makueni.
Devolution CS Eugene Wamalwa said the situation may not improve even with the expected long rains as the weatherman has predicted.
Wamalwa said this position has been confirmed by IGAD Food Security and Nutrition Working Group which estimates that about 10 million people in the Horn of Africa face famine.
"There will be widespread crop failure and an increase in water scarcity, malnutrition cases, disease outbreaks as well as inadequate pasture. There will also be loss of livestock and livelihoods and people needing relief will rise," he said.
He said the drought is not expected to be worse than that of 2017 when 15 million people in the Horn of Africa and 3.6 in Kenya million were affected.
The government has so far provided Sh1.85 billion for drought mitigation. Sh602 million has been released to the Ministry of Devolution for relief food. Some 26, 200 bags of maize have been distributed so far, 15, 420 bags of rice and 17, 060 bags of beans.
The Ministry of Agriculture has received Sh600 million for water pans and household water storage, while the Water ministry has received Sh680 million for water trucking and rehabilitation of boreholes.
The CS said Sh1.07 billion has been paid out to 96, 689 households in Wajir, Turkana, Mandera and Marsabit counties.
Agriculture CS Mwangi Kiunjuri said the country has enough maize to last until July.
But millers have expressed concern that there is not enough maize.
Peter Kuguru, chairman of the United Grain Millers Association, said there is a looming shortage of maize in the market.
He said this has led to a price increase to Sh3, 000 per 90kg bag in Nairobi and between Sh2, 800 to Sh2, 700 in Kitale up from Sh2, 500 which the government was buying at in February.
"Largescale farmers are hoarding about two million bags of maize. The situation of maize supply to the consumer market from Kenyan farmers is now heading to a crisis. Unless the ministry intervenes immediately, there is likelihood of a serious maize and consumer food crisis," said Kuguru.
The chairman said if he situation continues in the coming two to three weeks, the price of maize may increase to Sh3, 600 and a 2kg packet of unga will rise to more than Sh120.
Maize flour is currently selling between Sh90 to Sh100.
Timothy Njagi from Tegemeo Institute said the current maize stocks will last the country up to mid-June.
"The current weather situation doesn't look good in terms of maize production in the country which may be low next year," Njagi said.


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