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Phillip Dutton rides in a past $50,000 Grand-Prix Eventing competition at the Aiken Horse Park's Bruce's Field.
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Phillip Dutton, riding Z, competes during the cross-country phase of eventing at the Summer Olympics last year in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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Phillip Dutton, riding Z, competes during the dressage phase of eventing at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Boyd Martin his mount clear a jump in a past $50,000 Grand-Prix Eventing competition at the Aiken Horse Park Foundation's Bruce's Field.
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Doug Payne participates in a past $50,000 Grand-Prix Eventing competition at the Aiken Horse Park Foundation's Bruce's Field.
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Dutton and other Olympians to compete in $50,000 Grand-Prix Eventing Festival at Bruce's Field
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Even though he's 58 years old, Phillip Dutton isn't ready to stop pursuing his sport's top prizes while being challenged by younger rivals.
He'll be among the riders competing Friday and Saturday in the $50,000 Grand-Prix Eventing Festival at the Aiken Horse Park Foundation's Bruce's Field.
And Dutton isn't ruling out the possibility of yet another appearance in the Summer Olympics, which is scheduled to take place next in Paris in 2024.
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"It's a bit too far away … but that's not to say I'm bowing out," said Dutton during a telephone interview Monday when asked if a return to the Olympics is one of his goals. "I'll take it year to year and see what the horses are doing and how I'm doing.
"I'm far from retiring," he continued. "While I'm doing it well and still have the horses (capable of high-level performances) I think I'll keep going. I'm still enjoying it and still trying to improve."
Dutton was a member of the U.S. eventing team that finished sixth in the Tokyo Olympics last year. It was the best Olympic performance by an eventing squad from this country since the 2004 Summer Games in Athens, where the U.S. earned a bronze medal.
"I've had a great run in the Olympics," Dutton said.
Riding Mighty Nice, Dutton earned an individual bronze medal during the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.
While representing Australia, where he was born, Dutton won team gold medals in the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
Dutton is the chairman of the Organizing Committee for the Grand-Prix Eventing Festival.
According to the Eventing Festival entry list as of Tuesday afternoon, Dutton is planning to ride two horses: Z and Sea of Clouds.
Z, a 14-year-old Zangersheide gelding, was Dutton's mount in last year's Tokyo Olympics.
"He's doing great," Dutton said. "It will be his first run of the year. It will be good to get him out and get him back into the swing of things."
Sea of Clouds is an 11-year-old thoroughbred gelding.
Dutton and his wife, Evie, used to own Red Oak Farm in Aiken, where he formerly trained during the winter.
Richard Duchossois, major supporter of Bruce's Field, dies in Illinois
Boyd Martin and Doug Payne, who were Dutton's fellow U.S. team members at the Tokyo Olympics, also have horses entered in the Grand-Prix Eventing Festival.
Martin, who trains at Stable View near Aiken during the winter, is scheduled to ride Fedarman B, On Cue and Tsetserleg. The last-named was Martin's Tokyo Olympics mount.
Payne entered a trio of horses: Quantum Leap, Starr Witness and Vandiver.
A former Aiken resident, Payne rode Vandiver in the Tokyo Olympics.
Both Martin and Payne are on the Grand-Prix Eventing Festival's organizing committee.
Among the other riders in the Eventing Festival's field is William Fox-Pitt, who has three Olympic team medals – two silvers and a bronze.
While representing Great Britain, Fox-Pitt earned silver medals in 2004 in Athens and 2012 in London.
Fox-Pitt's bronze medal is from the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing.
In the Grand-Prix Eventing Festival, Fox-Pitt will ride Rock Phantom.
"We have a star-studded cast," said Horse Park Foundation Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Tara Bostwick.
Eventing, which has been described as an equestrian triathlon, has three phases: dressage, show jumping and cross-country.
During the Grand-Prix Eventing Festival, the dressage test ride is scheduled for 7:30 a.m. Friday, and the dressage competition will begin at 8 a.m.
Show jumping will start at 3 p.m.
On Saturday, the cross-country phase will begin at 12:30 p.m.
General admission tickets, if purchased online, are $25 each for a two-day pass or $20 apiece for a single day.
They will be available through Thursday at aikenhorsepark.org.
At the gate, no two-day passes will be sold. Single-day tickets will cost $25 each.
Horse events at Bruce's Field pump millions of dollars into the local economy
"We're really excited because we are able to have spectators again (after restrictions in 2021 because of COVID-19)," Bostwick said. "We've expanded the event and have festival in the name because we have a number of different activities throughout the two days."
They include a Retired Racehorse Project Master Class during the lunch break on Friday between the first group of dressage competitors and the second.
Set for Saturday are a course walk with Martin at 10 a.m., a Double Dan Horsemanship demonstration at 11 a.m., a Remembering Annie Goodwin ceremony at 11:55 a.m., and an Aiken Hounds Parade at 12:05 p.m.
Goodwin, an eventing rider and horse trainer, died last year.
There also will be an Aiken Polo Demonstration later in the day during a cross-country competition break.
The Ride for Charity fundraiser also will be held.
"We hope everybody will come out and enjoy the Grand-Prix Eventing Festival," Bostwick said. "The weather forecast looks amazing."
The high temperature is expected to be in the 70s Friday and near 80 degrees Saturday, according to the National Weather Service in Columbia.
The chance of precipitation is low both days.
Taylor, Harris Insurance Services is the Grand-Prix Eventing Festival's title sponsor.
When the competition began in 2019, it was known as the LiftMaster Grand-Prix Eventing showcase.
Bruce's Field is at the corner of Audubon Drive and Powderhouse Road.
Three-time Olympian Martin leads the way on Grand-Prix Eventing Festival's opening day
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On 17 June 2016, UNU Rector David M. Malone and UNU Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR) Director Sebastian von Einsiedel received the "2016 Book Award for Best New Book on the United Nations and UN System" for their co-edited volume (with Bruno Stagno Ugarte) The UN Security Council in the 21st Century. The annual book award is presented by the Academic Council on the United Nations System — a global professional association of educational and research institutions, individual scholars, and practitioners active in the work and study of the United Nations, multilateral relations, global governance, and international cooperation.
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"In Flanders Fields the Poppies Grow…"
A decorative map of France and Belgium, showing American involvement and Allied operations in the Hundred Days Offensive of 1918, during World War I. The map depicts positions and troop movements throughout the Western Front. The areas covered are France, Belgium, Luxemburg, parts of Switzerland, Germany and Holland (the Netherlands), the English Channel and the North Sea. This beautiful pictorial map features insets with illustrations, divisions insignia and explanatory notes. It was designed and illustrated by Ernest Clegg in 1926. Clegg was himself a veteran of the First World War, as a Major in the Bedfordshire Regiment of the British Army. In 1921 he was asked to illustrate a book of poetry by a fellow soldier and a member of the Expeditionary Force — Canadian Lt. Col. John McCrae. McCrae, who just like Clegg had fought in the Second Boer War for the British Empire, had answered again the call of duty at the beginning of the Great War. In 1915, during the Second Battle of Ypres, McCrae had written what was to become one of the most memorable wartime poems of all time — "In Flanders Fields":
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
Lieutenant Colonel McCrae would die in 1918, during the war, while the poppy would eventually become a symbol of the fallen, and the official emblem of Remembrance Day.
Map title: The Great War Map of Battle Line in France and Belgium on the 25th of September 1918. The exact position of the Divisions of the Allies and the Central Powers are taken from a plan compiled for the British War Records under the supervision of Field-Marshall Lord Haig.
• WWI map of France and Belgium with troop positions and movements, 1926, Ernest Clegg
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A group of medical experts in London have developed pain-free filling. This filling will allow teeth to repair themselves without drilling or injections. This is absolutely amazing. The scientists have developed a new pain-free filling that allows cavities to be repaired without drilling or injections.
This, teeth-repairing method is developed by group of scientists at King's College – London. This technique will "encourage" teeth to repair themselves. Well, we all know that the tooth decay is normally removed by drilling, and the cavity is filled with a material – amalgam or composite resin. This tooth-rebuilding technique is called Electrically Accelerated and Enhanced Remineralization– EAER. This treatment accelerates the natural movement of calcium and phosphate minerals into the damage tooth.
This is a two-step process. First, this process prepares the damaged area of enamel, and then it uses a tiny electric current to push minerals into the repair site. The medical experts say that this treatment could be available in just 3 years. One of the scientists at the King's College London's Dental Institute – KCLDI, Professor Nigel Pitts, claims that the way we treat teeth today is not the best way. He is trying to say that when we repair a tooth by putting a filling, the tooth will enter a cycle of drilling and refilling. And the bad thing about this cycle is that it always fails.
Professor Nigel Pitts says that their device is good for the patient and much better for their teeth health, and it's expected to be at least as cost-effective as current dental treatments. Professor Nigel also says that this treatment can also be used to whiten teeth as well. The famous spinout company – Reminova, has been set up to commercialize the research. This company is based in Perth, Scotland and it's in the process of seeking private investment to develop EAER. Well, this company is the first to emerge from the King's College London Dental Innovation and Translation Centre, which was set up in January to take novel technologies and turn them into new products and practices.
You should also know that King's College is a participant in Med City. Med City is a project launched by the London mayor, Boris Johnson, to promote entrepreneurship in the London-Oxford-Cambridge life sciences golden triangle. Kit Malthouse is the chairman of Med City. He says that it's brilliant to see the really creative research taking place at King's. He also said that he hopes that this project will be turned into a new device very soon, because it has the potential to make a real difference to the dental health and patient experience of people with tooth decay.


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Posted on 1st December 2017 30th November 2017
Hunger Makes the Wolf (Hob #1) by Alex Wells
The strange planet known as Tanegawa's World is owned by TransRifts Inc, the company with the absolute monopoly on interstellar travel. Hob landed there ten years ago, a penniless orphan left behind by a rift ship. She was taken in by Nick Ravani and quickly became a member of his mercenary biker troop, the Ghost Wolves.
Ten years later, she discovers the body of Nick's brother out in the dunes. Worse, his daughter is missing, taken by shady beings called the Weathermen. But there are greater mysteries to be discovered – both about Hob and the strange planet she calls home.
Hunger Makes the Wolf by Alex Wells
Hunger Makes the Wolf surprised me with how good it was. I think I was expecting a fun, quick space adventure read, but this story is so much more than that.
There is magic (space witches!), a rebellion of mistreated workers against the company that controls the planet, a woman learning to be a leader, and I think there are hints of a possible romance?
The main character, Hob Ravani, is a member of a gang of mercenaries who roam around their desert planet on motorcycles. They do odd jobs for money while trying to stay clear of TransRift, the company that controls the planet and the lives of the miners and the farmers. Hob has magic, a "witchyness" that means she can create fire, but she hasn't learnt much about it beyond basic tricks like lighting cigarettes. Witchyness is feared on Tanegawa's World so she has to keep it hidden.
There's a lot going on, but it's managed well. It starts out fast-paced, we're dropped into the middle of the action at the start and things are slowly revealed as the story progresses. Around the middle, the pacing slows down where the rebellion is growing and Hob is learning how to be a leader, but it picks up again as it moves towards the action-packed ending.
There's plenty of character development, especially for Hob and her foster sister Mags. Hob isn't perfect, she makes mistakes and gets things wrong but still keeps trying to do the right thing and protect her family at the same time.
I loved the witchy elements, the Bone Collector, a sort of wise and mysterious mage, was one of my favourite characters in it.
The main story thread does have a conclusion, but there are things left open and it reads like there's going to be a sequel. I'm certainly hoping there will be, there's a lot more to learn about this world!
Title: Hunger Makes the Wolf
Series: Hob
Author: Alex Wells
Release Date: March 7th 2017
Octavia Butler tackles the creation of a new religion, the making of a god, and the ultimate fate of humanity in her Earthseed series, which began with Parable of the Sower, and now continues with Parable of the Talents.
The saga began with the near-future dystopian tale of Sower, in which young Lauren Olamina began to realize her destiny as a leader of people dispossessed and destroyed by the crumbling of society. The basic principles of Lauren's faith, Earthseed, were contained in a collection of deceptively simple proverbs that Lauren used to recruit followers. She teaches that "God is change" and that humanity's ultimate destiny is among the stars.
In Parable of the Talents, the seeds of change that Lauren planted begin to bear fruit, but in unpredictable and brutal ways. Her small community is destroyed, her child is kidnapped, and she is imprisoned by sadistic zealots. She must find a way to escape and begin again, without family or friends. Her single-mindedness in teaching Earthseed may be her only chance to survive, but paradoxically, may cause the ultimate estrangement of her beloved daughter.
My Review of Parable of the Talents
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
Brilliant and disturbing, this is a far too realistic look at what the future could be.
In the first book, Parable of the Sower, the American economy had broken down, the climate was heating up and oil was running out. People were competing for the basic necessaties of survival and the police were corrupt and unreliable. Anarchy ruled and everyone lived in danger of gangs taking everything they have.
Despite all this chaos Lauren Olamina managed to create a community, a band of people working together to protect themselves and build a safe and suistanable life.
Parable of the Talents with things getting better. Lauren's community, Acorn, is starting to grow and expand. But Andrew Jarret, a fundamental Christian, is running for president. He blames the countries problems on the lack of true Christian religion and encourages his followers to persecute and murder those of other faiths.
Lauren's community is built around a religion she has started called Earthseed and it soon comes under attack from Jarret's followers.
I didn't like the strong religious tone running through the book. Lauren is trying to start up a new religion to stop people fighting and tearing each other down and to convince them to start up communities and work together to create a world where everyone supports each other. The way she starts out trying to create communities does seem sensible, but she seems to become more and more of just a preacher throughout the book and by the end it starts to feel like she is setting up a cult.
To be fair the book does a good job of not presenting Lauren as perfect, it shows her faults as much as it shows the good things she is doing. She manipulates people, and is well aware of doing it. Nothing is more improtant to her than spreading the word of Earthseed.
What I did like is the way it shows that when people treat each other as equals, work together and educate each other then they can not only survive but they can build something better.
A lot of it was very hard to read, I had to keep putting it down and switch to a different book for a while. The men that attack Lauren's community belive that women should be silent and don't allow them to speak. They treat the women like they are worthless, work them to the bone and sexually assault them at night. They are hypocrites that think they need to reeducate anyone that is not a "good christian".
In the context of the current climate it is even more scary. Jarrett is very similar to Trump, with his habit of blaming all the countries complex problems on anyone that doesn't meet the mould of white christian male. Jarrett's slogan is "make America great again". Women are treated as chattels and expected to be pure and not tempt the men.
Parable of the Talents is a frightening look at what the future could be. It does not make for pleasant reading but it is compelling and I wish that more people would read it. It's a warning but hopefully not a prediction.
Title: Parable of the Talents
Series: Earthseed
Author: Octavia E. Butler
Binti (Binti #1) by Nnedi Okorafor
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs.
Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter has long warred with the Meduse, an alien race that has become the stuff of nightmares. Oomza University has wronged the Meduse, and Binti's stellar travel will bring her within their deadly reach.
If Binti hopes to survive the legacy of a war not of her making, she will need both the gifts of her people and the wisdom enshrined within the University, itself – but first she has to make it there, alive.
My Review of Binti
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Wonderful world building, beautiful writing and a well developed main character.
The story surprised me (in a good way), it wasn't at all what I was expecting. I'm not going to talk about it though because I don't want to ruin the surprise for anyone else. There are so many wonderful ideas in here and they all work well but I felt that the ending was a bit rushed and all the problems solved a bit too easily.
Binti is a brilliant character, intelligent and very brave, defying her family and travelling out into the universe alone so that she can attend university. She is viewed as 'tribal' and looked down on by most of the people that she meets, but she deals with it with grace and kindness.
The world around Binti is created with such details I can almost smell and taste it. A remarkable achievement for such a short story. The writing is beautifully done.
Thoughtful and intelligent, it could have done with more space for the ending but this is still a must read for any sci-fi fan.
Title: Binti
Series: Binti
Author: Nnedi Okorafor
Release Date: September 22nd 2015
Posted on 17th October 2017 18th October 2017
Queen of the Flowers by Kerry Greenwood
With more than a dash of glamour and serious helpings of style, the witty and courageous Miss Fisher returns.
In 1928 St Kilda's streets hang with fairy lights. Magic shows, marionettes, tea dances, tango competitions, lifesaving demonstrations, lantern shows, and picnics on the beach are all part of the Flower Parade.
And who else should be chosen to be Queen of the Flowers but the gorgeous, charming and terribly fashionable Hon Phryne Fisher? Phryne needs a new dress and a swimming costume but she also needs a lot of courage to confront her problems: a missing daughter, the return of an old lover, and a young woman found drowned at the beach at Elwood.
'Kerry Greenwood is one of Australia's leading writers of mystery fiction . . . Miss Fisher is a remarkable and engaging creature who can solve whodunnits as easily as if she were the naughty niece of Miss Marple' – Sydney Morning Herald
'Greenwood's prose has a dagger in its garter; her hero is raunchy and promiscuous in the best sense' – Weekend Australian
'Fisher, a feisty sophisticate of the 1920s whose honour lies with the greater good. She's all class and intelligence: a seductive creature with a great wardrobe.' Australian Style
My review of Queen of the Flowers
I requested this through Netgalley as soon as I saw it because I am a big fan of the TV series!
I was a bit worried before I started reading that it wouldn't live up to the TV version and would just end up ruining it for me. As soon as I started reading I realised my fears were groundless. The book version of Phryne Fisher is smarter, bubblier, sharper, just more than the TV version.
The characters are very likeable and I just love the descriptions of them. Phryne is an absolute delight to read. I love her independence and her outlook on life.
One of my favourite things about the TV series is the banter between Phryne and Inspector Jack Robinson. I thought I would miss it in the book but I actually like that's it not there because it seemed to give the character of Phryne more room to breathe.
The tone stays light but the mystery ended up going in a quite dark direction, and Phryne does some decent investigating. I feel it does get a bit convoluted with two different stories going on and a few dips into the past thrown in. There were a few too many coincidences in Ruth's story and it didn't make sense why some of the people did the things they did.
I liked the main mystery though, and I found that once I read the first chapter I couldn't put it down.
This is just like a glass of wine in book format. It's all bubbles and lightness and the story fizzes along. I love the world the author has created and I will definitely be reading more of the series!
Title: Queen of the Flowers
Series: Phryne Fisher
Author: Kerry Greenwood
Posted on 26th September 2017 18th October 2017
Slam! Vol. 1 by Pamela Ribon, Veronica Fish (Illustrations)
In the fast-paced, hard-hitting, super cheeky, all-female world of banked track roller derby, two young women will have to decide if their budding friendship is stronger than the pull of a team when a win is on the line.
When life starts coming at you like a freight train, you have two options: run away screaming or lean into the hit.
From the first day of Fresh Meat Orientation for the Eastside Roller Girls, Jennifer and Maisie knew they'd be fast friends. But when they're drafted by different teams, the pull of competition — and their increasingly messy personal lives — threaten to drive them apart. In roller derby, you take your hits, get back up, and learn how to be a better jammer, a better blocker, a better lover, and a better friend. Derby can heal your heart . . . but it might break a bone or two in the process.
Bestselling novelist, screenwriter, and retired Los Angeles Derby Doll Pamela Ribon (Going In Circles, Why Girls Are Weird) joins artist Veronica Fish (Archie, Silk) for a tale of friendship, heartbreak, and truly epic jams.
My Review of Slam!
Slam! Vol. 1 by Pamela Ribon
Slam is a bright and fun graphic novel about two young women who join a banked track roller derby team.
The artwork is wonderful! Bright and bold, and it really captures the different characters personalities.
The story is strong and interesting, with good dialogue. The characters feel realistic, they are well fleshed out with distinct personalities that show through in the way they speak and act. But for me, the story just moved a little bit too fast. A lot of things were skipped over that would have made me feel more involved. I wanted to see more of the training, and things like one of the characters first date with a new man – he just appears once and then suddenly she really likes him. I wanted to understand why!
So really my complaint is that I want more!
I recommend to anyone that likes roller derby, stories about women in sport, or stories about friendships between women.
Title: Slam! Vol. 1
Series: Slam!
Author: Pamela Ribon, Veronica Fish (Illustrations)
Genre: Graphic Novel
Format: Graphic Novel
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name.
Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, the story focuses on the life of women of colour in the southern United States in the 1930s, addressing numerous issues including their exceedingly low position in American social culture. The novel has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000-2009 at number seventeen because of the sometimes explicit content, particularly in terms of violence.
I don't even know how to start reviewing this, but I will say that it's heartbreaking, eye opening, harrowing and uplifting. I've never actually cried reading a book before, but I came closer at the end of this than I ever have before.
Books on lists of classics, or those lists of 100 books you must read, are books that I normally stay away from. I expect them to be dry, preachy, pretentious, or all three and generally just dull. But this, this book deserves its place on all of those lists.
Alice Walker is a skilled story teller, and The Colour Purple is accessible and interesting. It works first and foremost as a story about a poor black woman living in deep south America in the 1930's. Celie narrates her life through journal entries and letters, a literary device that I've rarely seen done well but here it works brilliantly to bring her world to life for us.
In this world, the book uncovers issues of race, misogyny, religion and feminism. It manages not to beat us over the head, or preach to us, but just shows us that they are there and how they affect people's lives. In this subtle way, we can't ignore them because they are a vital part of Celie's story.
It's sad to think that these issues are just as relevant today as they were in the 30's. These prejudices haven't gone away, not even here in the UK where we like to think we're more tolerant than the Americans. They are just as internalised as they ever were, but, until recently anyway, better hidden.
My favourite thing about this book is the women working together to support and help each other.
I recommend this to everyone. It's an interesting story, and while it's hard to read at first it has an uplifting ending.
Title: The Color Purple
Author: Alice Walker
Posted on 5th September 2017 18th October 2017
The Growing Season by Helen Sedgwick
Now anyone can have a baby. With FullLife's safe and affordable healthcare plan, why risk a natural birth?
Without the pouch, Eva might not have been born. And yet she has sacrificed her career, and maybe even her relationship, campaigning against FullLife's biotech baby pouches. Despite her efforts, everyone prefers a world where women are liberated from danger and constraint and all can share the joy of childbearing. Perhaps FullLife has helped transform society for the better? But just as Eva decides to accept this, she discovers that something strange is happening at FullLife.
Piotr hasn't seen Eva in years. Not since their life together dissolved in tragedy. But Piotr's a journalist who has also uncovered something sinister about FullLife. What drove him and Eva apart may just bring them back together, as they search for the truth behind FullLife's closed doors, and face a truth of their own.
A beautiful story about family, loss and what our future might hold, The Growing Season is an original and powerful novel by a rising talent.
Warm, thoughtful and kind. It presents some big issues but brings a human side to give them meaning.
The Growing Season is set in an alternate version of our world, differing from ours only in the invention of the biotech baby pouch two generations ago. The pouch is an artificial womb that allows babies to be incubated outside of the human body. FullLife own the patent for the pouch and have marketed it so successfully as an end to inequality and the dangers of childbirth that natural births are rare.
Eva is carrying on her mother's work of campaigning against the pouch. She believes that the technology has moved too fast, that as a society we did not stop to think about the issues, and now we are blind to any problems that the pouch brings along with it.
Holly had the very first pouch baby and is now a poster girl for FullLife. She is about to have her first grandchild, and she loves the pouch and the freedom and choices it brings for parents.
The book takes a very balanced view of the issues and presents both sides of the argument. It looks at the benefits of allowing both men and women to be involved in carrying the unborn child, how it allows people to be parents that otherwise wouldn't be able to, and how it protects women from the dangers of childbirth.
We are also shown the other side – how it could enable domestic abuse, how it affects society in negative ways, how we adopt technology so quickly that we don't think about the side effects, or what happens when it goes wrong. It also touches on the dangers of allowing one big company to have such a monopoly on our lives, and how it excludes those who live in poverty even further.
So it's tackling big issues and could very easily have been dry and preachy. But Sedgwick makes them accessible by giving them a human face and showing how they affect people personally. Through Eva and Holly, she tells a warm and moving story about people. Their lives and families take up a big part of the book. I never felt like she was pushing the discussion about the issues or forcing an opinion on me, the story always comes first.
I thought it would be hard to read, so much so that I almost picked up something else when I was too tired to concentrate, but I gave this a go and got drawn in straight away. The writing is beautiful, almost lyrical at times and I flew through it because I cared so much about the characters.
Highly recommend this one if you like sci-fi, women's issues, ethics in technology, or if you just like stories about people.
Title: The Growing Season
Author: Helen Sedgwick
Posted on 15th August 2017 18th October 2017
Zodiac Starforce: By the Power of Astra (Zodiac Starforce #1-4) by Kevin Panetta, Paulina Ganucheau (Illustrator)
They're an elite group of teenage girls with magical powers who have sworn to protect our planet against dark creatures… as long as they can get out of class! Known as the Zodiac Starforce, these high-school girls aren't just combating math tests. They're also battling monsters – not your typical after school activity! But when an evil force from another dimension infects team leader Emma, she must work with her team of magically powered friends to save herself, and the world, from the evil Diana and her mean-girl minions!
From Kevin Panetta (Bravest Warriors) and Paulina Ganucheau (TMNT: New Animated Adventures, Bravest Warriors), this super-fun and heartfelt story of growing up and friendship, with plenty of magical-girl fighting action, delivers the most exciting new ensemble cast in comics.
Collects Zodiac Starforce #1-#4
My review of Zodiac Staforce: Power of Astra
Zodiac Starforce: By the Power of Astra by Kevin Panetta
The artwork in this is absolutely stunning. The drawings, the characters, the outfits – everything is perfect! And the colours! Bright and bold and an almost dreamy mix of pinks and purples, yet it's still vibrant.
This would probably be a four-star rating just because it's so lovely to look at! Luckily the story and the dialogue lives up to the artwork. It seems very influenced by Sailor Moon. There are extras in the back and one of them is a one-page story with the characters in uniforms that look very much like the Sailor Soldiers. But it's much more modern, and a lot louder and faster paced than Sailor Moon.
I started reading thinking that this was the first volume, but there must have been one before this that explained the characters and where they got their powers. It keeps referring events that happened two years ago, where they fought a big bad and I think one of the characters lost her mother? So I did kinda feel like I was missing something, but it didn't impact on understanding the story in this volume.
The characters are well developed and easy to tell apart. They all have their own personality and their own style. My favourite is Kim! I'm also really liking Lily.
My only complaint is that I wish it were longer. I hope there's more coming soon.
Title: Zodiac Starforce: By the Power of Astra
Series: Zodiac Starforce
Author: Kevin Panetta, Paulina Ganucheau (Illustrator)
Publisher: Dark Horse Books
Posted on 19th July 2017 18th October 2017
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past #1) by Liu Cixin
The Three-Body Problem Blurb
1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind.
Four decades later, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists after a spate of inexplicable suicides. Wang's investigation will lead him to a mysterious online game and immerse him in a virtual world ruled by the intractable and unpredictable interaction of its three suns.
This is the Three-Body Problem and it is the key to everything: the key to the scientists' deaths, the key to a conspiracy that spans light-years and the key to the extinction-level threat humanity now faces.
My Review of The Three-Body Problem
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
Absolutely loved everything about this, but I don't want to give too much away about the story. It's unusual and half the fun of the book for me was watching the events unfold and start to make sense as Wang Miao investigates the mystery of why the scientists are committing suicide.
I loved that it's a proper hard sci-fi book, very science heavy. A lot of it I could follow, some of it I couldn't but I just enjoyed going along for the ride. There are some very interesting, original ideas with a massive scope and although I was a bit lost at first it all come together into a very entertaining story.
One of my favourite things about the book is how there are female scientists, even back in the 70s, and it's not an issue, it's just normal. I don't know if that's how things are in China, or if it's down to how the author wrote it, but it was lovely to read women being able to get on with the science without having to explain it.
The translator has done a brilliant job. There are a few footnotes, especially in the chapters set in the past during the Cultural Revolution. They were helpful and not excessive, and there weren't as many of them once the story got going.
I'm giving it five stars simply because I enjoyed it so much. It has everything I like in a sci-fi book, and I recommend to anyone who likes writers like Isaac Asimov, who enjoyed The Martian, or who likes thought-provoking sci-fi with massive ideas.
Title: The Three-Body Problem
Series: Remembrance of Earth's Past
Author: Liu Cixin
Release Date: December 3rd 2015
Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor
Lagoon Blurb
When a massive object crashes into the ocean off the coast of Lagos, Nigeria's most populous and legendary city, three people wandering along Bar Beach (Adaora, the marine biologist- Anthony, the rapper famous throughout Africa- Agu, the troubled soldier) find themselves running a race against time to save the country they love and the world itself… from itself.
Told from multiple points of view and crisscrossing narratives, combining everything from superhero comics to Nigerian mythology to tie together a story about a city consuming itself.
'There was no time to flee. No time to turn. No time to shriek. And there was no pain. It was like being thrown into the stars.'
My Review of Lagoon
Aliens land in the water off the coast of Nigeria in this sci-fi first contact novel. What follows is chaos as the city starts to destroy itself through fear.
There are a lot of different voices in Lagoon, some only for one or two chapters. Normally I would find that confusing but here it worked well as it dropped into different people around Lagos to show events rather than having the main characters be everywhere and see everything. It did make it a bit hard to really connect with or care about any of the characters though as it's a short book anyway and meant that even less time was spent on telling the main characters stories.
I loved the sci-fi side, there were a lot of fresh ideas that made this really interesting. There are African mythology and magic elements mixed in too, but I don't know anything about African myths and these weren't explained enough for them to make sense for me. They seemed to be added at random and not add anything to the main story. I'm also not sure why the main characters had powers, or why they were chosen by the aliens.
It's very original and ambitious, and overall I enjoyed it. I liked the environmental / feminist / religious themes, but I think maybe there was just a bit too much in one book and I found it hard going at times to keep track of the main story. It's difficult to get into, but I think it's worth the effort for the fresh and modern perspective on sci-fi.
Title: Lagoon


The Olympics are right around the corner and magazines are jumping on the bandwagon. Open up nearly any magazine this month and you'll see a special on the London Olympics and/or a fashion special themed around all things sporty. Which story do you think captures the theme of athleticism, health and fitness best – we're partial to the editorials that pair models with athletes for the perfect mix of glamour and fitness. Who can resist the sight of Joan Smalls taking of in a sprint while wearing shimmering Ralph Lauren? Or Karlie Kloss balancing on beams alongside gymnast Jonathan Horton! Take a look at the month's best sporty stories and tell us which one strikes your fancy.
Olympics influencing fashion, love it. I have to say my favorite is Britt Maren.
My favorite is American Vogue.
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Q: TypeScript: Use a type parameter on data-types and functions to configure mutability? Intention
I'm trying to add immutability-by-default everywhere I can in my code.
I use generics because I don't want to:

*

*write twice every getters (that's the critical reason, otherwise a DeepWritable type would do)

*write twice every data-types

*write more stuff to declare an immutable parameter than a mutable one,
that's what I mean by immutable-by-default.

Current situation
I've got a deep-readonly type:
// Simplified: Only handle types used in this example
type DeepReadonly<T> = T extends number
  ? T
  : T extends ReadonlyArray<infer V>
  ? ReadonlyArray<DeepReadonly<V>>
  : { readonly [K in keyof T]: DeepReadonly<T[K]> };

And my data types can be mutable or immutable with a type parameter:
type Mutability = 'const' | 'mut';

interface PlayerMut {
  life: number;
}

type Player<M extends Mutability = 'const'> = M extends 'const' ? DeepReadonly<PlayerMut> : PlayerMut;

interface GameStateMut {
  players: Player[];
}

type GameState<M extends Mutability = 'const'> = M extends 'const' ? DeepReadonly<GameStateMut> : GameStateMut;

I can use GameState as immutable (thus, by default) and GameState<'mut'> as mutable.
Also, GameState<'mut'> extends GameState is valid. So I can pass mutable states to a function expecting an immutable one (.i.e it won't modify it), but not the contrary (.i.e it would try to modify it).
So far so good...
Problem
Then, I am trying to write a getter function which would return an immutable part of the state by default, but could return a mutable one if we wish (and providing a mutable GameState).
This fails:
function getFirstPlayer<M extends Mutability = 'const'>(gameState: GameState<M>): Player<M> {
  // error: Type 'Readonly<PlayerMut>' is not assignable to type 'Player<M>'
  return gameState.players[0]; // dirty workaround: ...as Player<M>
}

In my head, this should work. But TypeScript doesn't understand it (gameState type in the function is equivalent to GameState<'mut'> | GameState<'const'>, always).
Question
Is there a way to make the above work without resorting to as?
as works but feels like cheating. It is putting a hole in the type checking,
which is making the whole program less future-proof.
Typescript playground

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I'm going to try something new here at GeekRex. Each month, as the information becomes available, I will be taking a look at the 10 best selling comics from the previous month as well as the 10 best selling graphic novels. These articles will serve for more informative purposes, though speculation as to why each title ended up on the list is certainly likely.
You can check out more detailed lists such as the market share for each company, best selling toys, etc. by clicking here.
DC's resurgence in the best sellers of the month should not surprise anyone. When you've got an event book going on, no matter what the reviews, the sales are going to be huge.
A bit of a surprise, but I suppose this shows the power of Star Wars, Star Wars Rebels, and a #1 issue to draw in a ton of readers. I have my doubts we see it on following best seller lists as we will with Marvel's other Star Wars titles.
This event is mainly just filler while DC moves its headquarters from NYC to Burbank, but, as mentioned, its numerous places on this list should not come as a surprise.
Again, it's an event book. It was always going to be a big seller. DC having each issue come out every week only guaranteed their taking up the majority of this list.
Arguably Marvel's best title of its Star Wars line of comics. A low number, tons of new readers, and a resurgent interest in everything Star Wars are probably all factors in the high sales.
This one actually says a lot. The only title on this month's list that is not new or tied to an event. Batman always sells, but this book ending up so high on the best-sellers 40 issues in says a lot about the quality of the comic itself. Although the death of certain characters may also have contributed.
Again...this shouldn't be a surprise.
You know the routine by now. The only thing surprising about this one is that it was not #1. Perhaps the $5 price tag kept it from getting that spot, despite the draw of a new event book.
Our best seller of April. A bit surprising, but the aforementioned factors affecting the other Star Wars titles also affect this one. With #1 having that historic 1 million copy printing, its presence should not be a surprise on this list, but ending up at the top spot is a bit of a shock.
There you have it. The Top 10 Best Selling Comics of April 2015. Just as many surprises as there are non-surprises, frankly. DC's resurgence onto the list after having only one title present in March should be no surprise as April saw Convergence go into full swing. What is perhaps most surprising is that not only did all 4 of Marvel's Star Wars books end up on the Top 10, but Marvel had NO superhero comics on the 10 best-sellers. Surely a first in a very, very long time. Will that trend continue? Probably not. Expect to see the first two issues of Secret Wars as well as A-Force duke it out with Convergence for those top 10 spots for May.
Did you buy any (or all) of the best sellers from April? What do you think of these results? Let use know in the comments below!


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Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods Extended Edition trailer released
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Travis Bruno September 12, 2014 No Comments
FUNimation announced last month that they are planning on releasing an "Extended Edition" of Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods on October 7th and today the company released an English trailer for the movie that not only shows the premise of the movie but also touts the fact that this home video release features twenty minutes of never before seen footage as well as over a half hour of bonus features on top of the original theatrical release.
The trailer can be found below and while Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods Extended Edition will be available in a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack a basic DVD only release will also be available, though the DVD version will only include the basic uncut version of the film.
Brand New Dragon Ball Series in Production
Dragon Ball Fusions Officially Confirmed for an International Release


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BENUE KILLINGS: ANTI-OPEN GRAZING LAW, AS VALUABLE AND UNTOUCHABLE AS SHARIA LAW, A TIV CHIEFTAIN BARES HIS MIND IN AN INTERVIEW WITH FAMILY WRITERS PRESS CHIEF MEDIA ANALYST - MAZI ONYEBUCHI EZE ON VERY TOPICAL ISSUES
BENUE KILLINGS: ANTI-OPEN GRAZING LAW, AS VALUABLE AND UNTOUCHABLE AS SHARIA LAW A TIV CHIEFTAIN BARES HIS MIND IN AN INTERVIEW WITH FAMILY WRITERS PRESS CHIEF MEDIA ANALYST - MAZI ONYEBUCHI EZE ON VERY TOPICAL ISSUES
As the Family Writers Press Correspondent in the Middle Belt region of Nigeria, I have unrelentlessly been conducting series of interviews with a couple of political, traditional and religious leaders amongst others from the Tiv ethnic nationality in Benue state. This followed their declaration that the territory of Middle Belt should be carved out of the defunct Nigerian federation and be called TAKURUKU REPUBLIC, a fall out of the menace being visited consistently on the people by the Fulani herdsmen (terrorists). A crack team of our journalists was dispatched to Gboko, the Headquarters of Tivland to ascertain the true position of things. In our interview with a high profile traditional ruler in the land who pleaded anonymity, was revealing as touched on very sensitive issues. The high Chief in his interview with the Family Writers Press crew led by Mazi Onyebuchi Eze, maintained that no amount of pressure by the agents of the Central government on Benue State government will make her drop the already enacted and promulgated anti-open grazing law in the state as very shamelessly suggested by the Inspector General of the Nigerian Police - Ibrahim Idris Abubakar in Kpotun. The traditional ruler stated that when States in Northern Nigeria such as Zamfara, Kano, Jigawa, Kebbi, Katsina and others introduced Sharia law respectively, nobody including the then Inspector-General of Police, ever demanded the scrapping of the obnoxious law in their domain for the interest of the overall peace of the people. According to him, as powerful and untouchable as Sharia law in Kano and Zamfara States is, so also is the promulgated anti-open grazing law in Benue State and anyone found contravening it, will be dealt with in accordingly.
Family Writers Press: Your Highness, what is your take on the general composition of Nigeria as it is today?
High Chief: Honestly, Nigeria of today has gravely become a source of regret to me personally and the entire Tiv people. This is because our plights today Nigeria is not what our fathers fought to preserve and bequeath to us in the 1960s. Various governments of Nigeria have failed my people in virtually all shades of life, namely: infrastructural development, security and even employment. Our fathers fought to keep Nigeria one between 1967 to 1970 with the hope that Nigeria would be the pride of the African continent. But there is absolutely nothing now to show for it. No body is happy any more with Nigeria considering the enormous evil our people are being visited with, through the culpability and complicity of the Nigerian government for years now.
Family Writers Press: Can you please point out few outstanding differences between the Nigeria of old and that of today?
High Chief: In the 60s for instance, there existed no ethno-religious crises as we presently have it today. There was commensurate peace, love, unity and harmony amongst the people within the Nigerian state. There was this singular preoccupation of how best to make the country great and that was before the military struck in 1966. That regrettably led to a bloody coup d'etat which metamorphosed into Nigeria/Biafra civil war. Nobody ostensibly treasured killing and victimizing one another, in different parts of the country the way it is now. The Fulani herdsmen are brazenly and authoritatively killing the Tivs today. This was the reason why our fathers gallantly fought the way they did to keep Nigeria together. But since the end of Nigeria/Biafra war over forty years back, there is absolutely nothing the Tiv people can show as benefits for their sacrifices for the unity of Nigeria except bloodshed and destruction of their properties perpetrated by the Fulani herdsmen (terrorists) and the military at one time or the other.
Family Writers Press: Your Highness, how can you describe the recent gruesome killings of unarmed civilian farmers in your State by the marauding Fulani herders?
High Chief: The issue of Fulani herdsmen (terrorists) attacks on my people are well beyond description. It's quite indescribable, gentlemen! As I am here with you having this interview, the Fulani herdsmen terrorists are presently occupying many communities in Logo and Guma Local Government Areas of Benue State with the Nigerian security operatives looking helpless in quelling their menace. Many residents of those communities have been killed while multitudes were displaced with no definite time known to any of when they will return back to their homes, presently being occupied by the rampaging Fulani terrorists. It will surprise you to know that a man who fled one of the communities in Logo Local Government Area and took refuge in Makurdi, hired the services of ten (10) armed soldiers from 73 battalion of the Nigerian Army, just to escort him to his village to go and collect some foodstuff for the upkeep of his family who have been made refugees in the State capital. On getting to his community, the heavily armed Fulani herdsmen invaded him and his hired heavily armed soldiers with the request that he be handed over to them to be killed for allegedly supporting the anti-open grazing law in his community. It took the armed soldiers time to plead their way through to avert the Fulani attack on the man. This, the soldiers reasoned, should any misfortune befall the man, it would be far better for them to have committed suicide as none of them would be spared when they get back to barrack. The terrorists not wanting the man to go back without fulfilling their condition, ordered that the honorable gentleman on army escort, would not be allowed to go back from his compound with anything. There is virtually no type of atrocity these Islamic invaders have not committed in Tivland.
Family Writers Press: What do you have to say about the call of the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris Abubakar in Kpotun, who suggested that the dropping of the anti-open grazing law in Benue State, will be the only panacea that would stem the spate of killings by these Fulani herdsmen?
High Chief: The Inspector-General of Police should be ashamed of himself for failing woefully to protect the citizens and the law of the land. He should be ashamed of himself for calling on Benue people to shelve legitimate law that will help curb the vampiric activities of these lawless people who are bent on carrying on with their impunity unchecked. Why doesn't the Inspector-General of Police drop other criminal laws in the society so that armed robbers and other criminally minded persons will allow the so-called peace to reign in Nigeria? Why doesn't he call on the governments within Northern Nigeria to drop Sharia laws in the interest of peace since everyone in those States are not Muslims? Why is Sharia law being enforced in those concerned Northern States with nobody calling for its abrogation? Let the Inspector-General of Police know that the anti-open grazing law in Benue state is as potent as the Sharia law in the Northern States. No amount of threat, pressure, blackmail or arm twisting will make the government of the people of Benue State to jettison this law so as to satisfy the interests of these lawless hoodlums called Fulani herdsmen and their sponsors, who are daily prowling all over the places to commit mayhem. Let them carry on with their lawlessness, very soon they won't have any place any more known as Nigeria to perpetrate their wickedness.
Family Writers Press: We were shocked recently by the news trickling out of about the call by Tiv people for secession from Nigeria, which will be known as Takuruku Republic. What do you make of this?
High Chief: In as much as I do not know much about the said news publication, I think such news could actually be real judging by the fury of Tiv people in Nigeria presently. My people are bitterly complaining about various degrees of injustices being meted out against them within the Nigerian state on successive basis. Amongst the people, are several demands to join Southern Nigeria in any coalition regarding secession. But we are threading cautiously on that for now until such a given time. But I fear such a time when we, the elders may not be able to hold back our young ones.
Family Writers Press: Your Highness, what really is the position of other states within the Middle Belt region as touching the contemplated move for secession by the Tivs?
High Chief: Although the menace of the Fulani herdsmen terrorists are affecting virtually every state in the region but the Tiv tribe is not in a position to speak for others. Most of them are calling for self-defense while others are calling for State Police but the Tiv nation has discovered that self-defense mechanism will not work if the government of the federation is complicit in our security ordeal. That was why some selected intellectuals wrote the letter to the United Nations calling for outright secession of the Middle Belt region out of Nigeria. But my concern on this is the willingness and determination of other tribes within the region to join the secessionist campaign. Most tribes of the Middle Belt are not happy any more in the Nigerian experiment but lack the wisdom on how to go about it as any fruitless secession movement could have dire consequences if improperly handled.
Family Writers Press: Your Highness, could you give us your final words Sir?
High Chief: You mentioned that you are from Family Writers Press International Media Organization, right?
Family Writers Press: Yes Sir!
High Chief: Which country are you people from?
Family Writers Press: Your Highness, our media organisation known as Family Writers Press International, is operating in virtually every country of the world including United Kingdom, United States of America, Cote D'Ivoire, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, Nigeria and many others. Our fundamental goal is to give voice to the voiceless through our various electronic media platforms, et cetera.
High Chief: My final words are that if the Nigerian government fails to adequately and promptly address our concerns, sooner than later, there will very definitely seize to exist a country called Nigeria. Many Indigenous ethnic nationalities including Biafrans are embittered by the way Nigeria is being run. They are presently and very seriously too agitating for an Independent nation of theirs and no one can blame them for desiring to break away. If it were now that the last war broke out, the Tivs would not have any other option than to team up with the Biafrans against the Nigerian government.


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Lentz, Hackett Unopposed In Primary
By Leslie Krowchenko |
PUBLISHED: April 8, 2008 at 10:00 p.m. | UPDATED: August 20, 2021 at 5:12 a.m.
The April 22 primary will set the stage for the Nov. 4 election, as candidates on both tickets for the 161st District in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives are running unopposed.Incumbent Bryan Lentz (D-161) and Republican challenger Joseph Hackett will be testing the waters for the seat. The district includes four municipalities and portions of seven others, including Press circulation areas Aston (Ward 6), Brook-haven, Marple (5-2), Nether Providence (Wards 1-5), Newtown (Precincts 2 and 7), Radnor (3-1, 4-1, 6-1 and 6-2), Springfield (3-2), Swarthmore and Upper Providence (Precincts 2 and 3).
Lentz, 43, a graduate of Georgetown University and Temple University Law School, is an attorney in private practice. He and his wife, Jennifer, are residents of Swarthmore.
Seeking his second term in office, Lentz is the secretary of the local Government Committee and a member of the Appropriations, Judiciary, Urban Affairs and Veterans Affairs and Emergency Preparedness committees.
Hackett, 48, a Ridley Township native and 24-year police veteran, is a former township police corporal. He is the co-founder and president of the Delaware County Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Foundation, supervising 25 directors.
A football coach since age 18, Hackett volunteers as vice president and director of a youth football program for the Swarthmorewood Athletic Association.
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Nel 1992 si disputò il 59º Campionato di calcio del Suriname.

Hoofdklasse
La Hoofdklasse conta 10 squadre, che si affrontano in un girone di andata e ritorno per un totale di 18 partite.

Classifica finale

Spareggio retrocessione
 Corona Boys - Tuna 2-1

Verdetti
  Campione del Suriname 1992.
 Tuna e Santos retrocesse in Eersteklasse.
 PVV e Remo Nickerie promosse in Hoofdklasse.

Calcio nel 1992
Campionato surinamese di calcio


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Mike please what about the android and sprint setups that came along with the telephone,which one of them is going to be removed. So I decided to switch to their principal competitor so I could get free calls and texts to my buddies. You know the positive aspects of possessing an unlocked phone, and know how to get your telephone unlocked if you want to. Share this with the folks you know who need to know it, and quit letting the folks who put their name on the back of your new phone inform you exactly where you can use it. If you have reached our site you are probably searching for approaches unlock an android device. In the past, the iPhone was treated differently than other devices when it came to lock codes. Sadly, even if you had been capable to get your hands on a Sprint Samsung GS4, it nevertheless would not function on Virgin's network. Meanwhile, a lot of of the smartphones being constructed these days for Verizon and Sprint also include GSM capability on leading of CDMA and LTE.
As I explained above, Verizon has a slightly various unlock policy for its newer 4G LTE phones, which was born out of an FCC requirement. If you are with Verizon your SPC is six zeros other networks are six zeros, six ones or six threes. That is how you tell a CDMA network phone, one that can flashed, from a GSM network telephone which can not be flashed. We offer you, at this point almost certainly the only absolutely Free of charge network unlocking service for Android devices. Mike, I am not sure what country you are in, but in the USA, Virgin Mobile is only a pre-paid provider on the Sprint network. In fact to flash a phone you will need to unlock it. Search the net for a spc reader. I have a boost account set up but cannot stand the old phone would like to use my photon in spot of it. Thanks. Carrier locks come with just about any cell telephone you buy from a wireless operator.


The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées is a theatre at 15 avenue Montaigne in Paris. It's where they threw rotten tomatoes at the first performance of the Rite Of Spring by Stravinsky.
My story is about a concert that happened shortly after I joined the orchestra in 1979.
The first half of the concert had passed quietly enough. But when we were leaving the stage for the interval someone called out "Mahler". And then someone else, then another. By the time we had returned to the stage after the interval the Parisien audience had turned into a mob. They were chanting like a football crowd. Mahler! Mahler! Mahler! There was no stopping them.
Claudio Abbado came on stage and defiantly, we started to play. The mob still shouting.
Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony has a fanfare opening. Our trumpets raised their bells and didn't hold back. The mob still wanted Mahler! Mahler!.
For the first 20 bars or so, it was no competition. Heckles raised, I've never heard our brass play louder. The audience didn't stand a chance. We drowned them out.
... but then there's a diminuendo ... and the mob took over.
Eventually Claudio Abbado gave up, put his baton down, left the stage and beckoned us follow.
The mob were in full flood now. They had won ... Mahler! Mahler! Mahler! Mahler!
Years later I became friends with the composer Bechara El Khoury. He was in the audience that night and continues the story from his seat in the stalls. Apparently the impresario came onto the empty stage to plead with the crowd. Claudio also came on and sat with his legs dangling over the edge.
Six weeks prior to the concert the programme had been changed from the advertised Mahler 5 to Tchaikovsky 4. He said he quite understood if people were upset. He was prepared to give them a full refund but only if they left the auditorium. Six people left.
It was an emotionally charged performance. Energies were high and we got through it without further interruption.
The audience went mad and were all on their feet for the applause.
After the concert Claudio took the entire orchestra out to dinner. Unfortunately I missed it as John Lawley and I took a sleeper down to the south west of France to call in on my wife's grandparents near Bordeaux.
They get Le Canard enchainé a french satirical newspaper. The review of the previous night's concert ... "Sometimes one goes to the theatre and hears music. Last night I went to a concert and saw theatre!". It continued " ... they obviously knew they were going to play Mahler because the harp was already on stage."
Wrong. There's a harp in our other encore Stravinsky's Firebird too.


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JERUSALEM (JTA) – The Israel Security Agency (ISA) said it uncovered attempts by the heads of Hamas in Gaza to establish a terror cell in the West Bank that would carry out "severe terrorist attacks" in Israel.
Hamas in Gaza recruited Hamas members in the West Bank, trained them in how to prepare explosives and ordered them to select crowded sites in Israel for the attacks, the ISA, also known as the Shin Bet, said in a statement on Thursday.
The terrorists planned to exploit the entry of sick residents of Gaza who received permits to go to hospitals in Israel for life-saving medical treatment to pass messages in order to carry out the attacks inside of Israel, the ISA said.
"This is not the first time that Hamas has exploited the humanitarian axis in order to carry out military operations in Judea and Samaria," according to the statement, which uses the biblical terms for the area of the West Bank.
The ISA said its investigation revealed that the leaders of the terror infrastructure pressured the West Bank operatives to carry out the attacks as soon as possible in order to bring about a security escalation in both the Gaza Strip and West Bank.


Although she's made just two feature films, director Miwa Nishikawa has proved a singular voice in contemporary Japanese cinema. Nishikawa broke into film as an assistant director under the tutelage of acclaimed auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda (Afterlife, Nobody Knows). Kore-eda served as producer for Nishikawa's first film, Wild Berries, using a script Nishikawa wrote about a family falling apart. Nishikawa's second feature, Sway, is a stunning, modern meditation on repressed emotions, also examined through a story of a troubled family. Between film projects Nishikawa also managed to turn Sway into a successful novel.
Sway made its way to Cannes in 2006 and was one of the featured films at Japan Society's Japan Cuts film festival this summer. Nishikawa attended the festival and spoke about the state of the Japanese film industry as well as the travails of independent filmmaking.
Wilentz (Rail): I understand that both of your features came from nightmares. Could you please elaborate the process of how each film developed from nightmare to screenplay?
Nishikawa: In both cases, the moment I awakened from the nightmare I knew that it would become a film. I was certain of that. I became aware of ugly sides to myself, of ugly emotions that I have inside myself. Upon awakening I was able to immediately, objectively see kind of a darker self. Then I thought, well, maybe these darker selves aren't just about me but have a kind of universality, and other people also have these darker emotions. So that's something that both the films and nightmares shared. I think that the process takes time, but dreams are really like a collection of metaphors, and with film the question becomes how to turn that [collection of metaphors] into a story. It's a question that arose, for instance, in the dream that led to Sway. It was me and a male friend, but I thought it would be more compelling if the two characters had a deeper bond, so I turned them into brothers. But the process of turning a metaphor into any satisfying entertainment—the screenplay writing—takes a year or two.
Rail: What was the dream?
Nishikawa: It was me and my close male friend, whom I witnessed from a secret position, pushing a woman into a waterfall. Whether it was a murder or an accident was extremely ambiguous.
Rail: The ideas for your films come from nightmares, yet they are rendered in a naturalistic style. You mentioned metaphors. In Sway, one of the most powerful metaphors is the rope bridge over the gorge. It's dreamlike without being surreal.
Nishikawa: In the dream it had actually been a waterfall, but by transforming it into a bridge, and a swaying bridge at that, I wanted to represent the uncertainty and fluidity of human emotions, and also the connections and the ambiguities in human connections. Even though it's based on my dream, I tried to transform it into something with its own specific metaphoric weight.
Rail: Could you talk more about how you perceive the relationship between dream and film?
Nishikawa: Certainly not all films come from dreams, but the thing about dreams is that after you wake up from one, you can see yourself in the dream objectively, and I think that actually you can also accomplish this in waking life. You can look back a year after you've been in a particular situation and be objective about what your emotions were like then. So even though it's based on a dream, the details come from my own life and personal experiences. Of course, with film you can manipulate time and space, which you can't do in reality.
Rail: You studied photography while you were a literature major at college. What brought you to that?
Nishikawa: As a student I didn't have anything to do with filmmaking. Part of it was that the kinds of funds you can gather as a student are so limited, and also you have to work in a team. I was actually interested in the visual world and I wanted to try making high-quality work on my own. But what I learned making photographs is that you don't rely at all on words and that it's its own unique visual expression. But because I was also influenced by literature, I wanted to incorporate words as well, for a total artistic vision.
Rail: You have been compared to Ozu, an easy point of reference for American audiences of Japanese films. There is a similarity in how the structures of your scenarios are interchangeable, allowing emotion to take precedence over plot. Ozu's films were all about the dissolution of the family. Both your films focus on the family through the lens of sibling relationships. Yet instead of the dissolution of the family you expose the dysfunction of the family. Could you talk about the comparison and your own themes?
Nishikawa: I'm not particularly conscious of Ozu as I make my films, but apparently the Japanese family that's visible in his films looks similar to mine to Westerners. Although there are vestiges of the family structure and the style of houses that remain, society has changed so rapidly since the days of Ozu that the family itself has had to transform. I think since the days of Ozu the family and the society in general have gotten much more twisted and bent out of shape, and families themselves have become much more complicated. I certainly like Ozu's films but there's a central warmth and harmony in the Ozu families that I think is gone from Japanese families now. I think the beauty that Ozu created is long past us.
Rail: Your films are obviously very personal, but to a certain extent they are acute social commentaries. You're talking about the sacred family unit as being dysfunctional, not working anymore, about all these ideas being falsitudes.
Nishikawa: My goal is not just to decry the difficult reality, but to try to give the audience an opportunity to experience and look back and reflect on that transforming family and what's happening to their own lives.
Rail: In Sway there's a kind of quiet catharsis. It seems like that's what you're trying to achieve.
Nishikawa: Although the theme is two siblings, it doesn't just pertain to brothers or even to a family but to fundamental human relations. I mean, it was based on a dream about my friend and me. So if two people become close, inevitably there's jealousy and love and hate, and that's what I'm kind of getting at.
Rail: An interesting structural aspect of both the films is the pivotal role of death. In Wild Berries it's a funeral where the father's lies are exposed, and the funeral is also the very thing the outcast brother exploits to survive. In Sway the mother's memorial reunites the dysfunctional family, which incites the major drama of the film. Death represents the ultimate failure of the family.
Nishikawa: I think that many people have things but they don't realize how important they are or what they mean until after they're lost. They just don't know until they're gone. And so the funeral is critical to both films. I think death provides rituals where people can be reunited, whether through funerals or memorial services, and in my own house—I come from a very old family—I've seen the kind of drama that reunions can provoke. You get to see aspects of your family that you never saw before. I've certainly incorporated many of my own experiences into my films.
Rail: What was the dream that inspired Wild Berries?
Nishikawa: My parents actually began to keep a very cute dog that brought them back together again, but in the dream I saw on the TV news that this dog was killing people everywhere, so despite the fact that it had brought my family back together I felt I should surrender the dog to the pound because it was a killer.
Rail: It's interesting, because Wild Berries has been described as a black comedy and while the subject matter is very serious, in a certain sense it is a comedy of errors. There is more absurdity there compared to Sway, which is a little more austere.
Nishikawa: I think the more serious the theme, the more important laughter is. I wanted to try to incorporate more comedic elements into Sway but the moment I settled on the death of a childhood friend I realized there wasn't much room for comedy. So instead I used the element of mystery to sustain the audience's interest. I am looking forward to going back to some more comedic elements in the next film.
Rail: Speaking of, what is your next project?
Nishikawa: It's a story about a man who is fake. He has a fake identity.
Rail: Jo Odagiri (the star of Sway) and others have made telling comments indicating that your attractive and demure appearance belies the darker aspects of your screenplays, and also your ability to deftly illuminate the deep emotions of two male siblings in Sway.
Nishikawa: I didn't particularly feel like I was making a story about men. I think all of us have masculine and feminine elements within us. I live my life as a woman but it was like I was exploding those aspects of me that are male onto the screen. It's been many years since the collapse of the Japanese studio system and the industry is gradually upgrading itself, but it remains very much an undeveloped business. Talking to Western filmmakers and producers, I would think there are many more ways to have a more mature industry. I myself make low-budget films out of necessity, but I and my crew tend to sacrifice our lives for our filmmaking, so I think there needs to be systematic changes in the industry in order to inspire more young people to want to make movies.


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Lori Loughlin Has Finally Filmed An Olivia Jade Video For The First Time Since She Went To Prison For Getting Her Daughter Into USC
Reintroducing Lori Loughlin!
by Paige Skinner
After weeks of teasing, Lori Loughlin finally made an appearance in her daughter's vlog.
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Olivia Jade, the YouTuber known for her luxury hauls and her parents going to prison for scamming her a spot into the University of Southern California, has slowly been reintroducing her mother, Full House actor Lori Loughlin, to her videos.
The progression has been slow but rewarding for viewers. In a July vlog, Olivia Jade teased a Loughlin appearance by showing herself FaceTiming with her mother. The cameo was short, only lasting about 10 seconds, with Olivia Jade calling her mother a "cutie pie" and saying that she wants to "eat her because she's so cute." None of the vlog's comments really touched on her mother's appearance, besides one that reads, "why'd she wanna eat her mom.. is that not disturbing?"
Then, in another vlog at the end of August, Olivia Jade gave us just a little bit more when she put her mother's picture in the vlog's thumbnail titled, "Olivia Jade's Guide to '90s Sitcom Star Glam," an ode to Loughlin's famous role in Full House. In the vlog, Olivia Jade uses a $600 Dyson Airwrap to transform herself into a look-alike of her mother. The top comment is positive: "you always look like your mom but you look SO much like her with this look. i love it!!!"
But enough with the teasing. We want the real goddamn thing. And Olivia Jade gave us that when she finally included the real, walking and talking and scamming Loughlin in her vlog from this week.
This was the first time she'd appeared in one of Olivia Jade's videos, and revealed herself to her daughter's 1.8 million subscribers, since prison. The two shopped for Christmas wrapping paper together, and at one point, while Loughlin is holding all the wrapping paper and Olivia Jade is filming her, Loughin deadpans, "I'm Olivia's assistant." Ha, good one! No, you're not! You're a TV star!
YouTube / Via youtube.com
Yes, it's true. After spending two months in prison for illegally bribing someone to let her daughters into USC, Loughlin is still very much a working actress. According to IMDb, she's shooting a TV show right now called Fall Into Winter, where she will play Kelly, who has to work next to her nemesis at the family-owned candy shop.
Considering the cameos were a slow progression, the YouTube appearance feels like a calculated move to test how people are feeling about Loughlin. Not only that, but during the height of the scandal, tabloids were reporting that Loughlin and Olivia Jade were fighting, so it feels like a nice way of Olivia Jade telling her fans that everything is all right within the family. The vlog shows that, really, they're just two normal gals who shop for wrapping paper at Rite Aid, the time Loughlin paid $500,000 to get Olivia Jade into USC is long in the past, and really, they are soooo normal.
Maybe in a few years, Olivia Jade can vlog with some of the finance influencers who were charged with fraud for allegedly encouraging their followers to buy stocks that they planned on dumping. A GRWM for jail, perhaps? We'll see!
Olivia Jade's "Red Table Talk" Is A Good Blueprint For Her Peers Scaachi Koul · Dec. 8, 2020
Personal Finance Influencers Were Charged With Fraud In An Alleged Scheme Encouraging Their Followers To Buy Stocks They Planned On Dumping Steffi Cao · Dec. 14, 2022
Paige Skinner
Paige Skinner is a breaking news reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in Los Angeles
Contact Paige Skinner at paige.skinner@buzzfeed.com.


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This article is outdated since it's an early alpha build The Reactor nerf and Concussive Shells requiring a research hurts the timing of this build, but the idea of the build can still be applied to more modern TvP builds.
The "Zatic Build" was one of the first, maybe the first build to be coined in SC II. It can roughly be compared to the FD in BW. The main goal of this build is to get an expansion up by pushing the Protoss back, not to kill the opponent. The build is still strong enough to punish greedy Protoss and can cause damage and set the Protoss back if they are caught off guard.
Build constant Marauders from the first Barracks, constant Marines from the second. With 3 Marauders, 5-7 Marines and 2 SCV, launch your first attack. You will have 400 minerals about half way into the map, so build a CC instantly.
Take care of your SCVs! Unlike in BW, SCVs in front will get auto-targeted by the AI very quickly and they will in fact die first. You want to keep them though to make a Bunker if the opportunity is there.
Beware of probes! Your ranged units, especially the Marauders, get murdered surprisingly easily by pulled Probes. Do not get yourself trapped in a corner in the opponents base, the worker auto surround AI is very good and you will not be able to move in seconds when surrounded by Probes.
Targeting: If you face Zealots / Stalker, dodge the Zealots and target the Stalkers. There is a lot you can do additionally with your Marauders, like individually target Zealots to slow them down, then resume fire on Stalkers. This just needs practice.
This build is supposed to get your expansion up. Do not over commit!
If you see a 2 or even 3 Gate opening, pull back once you reached the P base. Against 3 Gate, get a Bunker at your natural as well. You only have to survive and you will have the game.
Against a quick-teching Protoss, this opening is the most effective. You should be able to break the ramp easily against 1 gate openings and the attack will hit before any of the tech of Protoss is available. Try to do as much damage as possible, but pull back again once they pull Probes.
Use an SCV to build a Bunker at their natural and put your remaining units in there.
Against a fast Nexus, try to get that Bunker up! Again, priority number 1 is not to lose your SCV, so keep them in the back when engaging.
The main goal of this build is to get your expansion up and to get ahead in economy. Once you have your expansion, the build can transition into almost any tech path you want to choose. Just make sure you get your detection up quickly after you expansion against a teching Protoss and get the Orbital Command as soon as possible after.
A viable option is the mass Marauder with Ghost and EMP followup, since you have the 2 Barracks already. Obviously this depends on the opponent's choice, but against a pure ground army in the early midgame this is a deadly combination. This is a very common transition as Protoss often respond with an Immortal Rush. Due to the cost of Ghosts, if you are considering this transition, it is suggested that you do not take the SCVs off gas.


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I play a tune to attract phoenixes.
You fail, not gonna happen.
you don't know the phoenix tune.
I try run around until I see a phoenix, and then I steal a feather from it.
there are no phoenii on Arctopolis... yet.
There is none of that, either.
You get attacked by a noob.
I murder him with my sword and steal a bone of him.
I take the wood and create a hollow long stick. Then I put part of the bone inside the stick and seal the stick. I have created a wand!
No, I created a wand.
You fail, you need to find a wizard.
I look for a wizard.
you search far and wide... but all you find is a frog that can double-jump. fun!
there seems to be no wizards in the area.
I search far and wide.
I leave the area, then.
You can not leave the island.
I make another wand with the adventurers bones.
You make another bone stick!


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Is drug pricing of new innovative cancer drugs based on what the market can bear? Do drug manufacturers continue to challenge the market with high prices? How are patients going to pay for them? These are some of the questions that were explored in a commentary of over 100 oncologists in a recent issue of the Mayo Clinic Proceedings, at the 2015 ASCO Plenary Session, and in a critical analysis published in Blood.
The oncologists also urged a cancer patient-based grassroots movement advocating against the high prices of cancer drugs, and they suggested that this movement take a page from the history of AIDS advocacy strategies.