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Disco Elysium: The Final Cut Is Coming To Console
Critically-acclaimed Disco Elysium is getting a fresh coat of paint and coming to just about everything. Disco Elysium: The Final Cut is coming to PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PC (Free upgrade for existing owners) in March 2021. It's then headed to Xbox Series X/S and Switch in Summer 2021. There's even a big collector's edition set for the superfans that comes with a vinyl sculpture, art book, map, physical edition of the game, and more. You know, all that cool collector's edition stuff.
However, that's not all. The upgrade adds some new content to the game. New political vision quests allow you to go down roads that didn't exist before. A whole new area is available, more to discover, and more characters to meet. Controller support lets you play without a mouse and keyboard. And, Disco Elysium: The Final Cut will run in 4k and 60 FPS on PlayStation 5. You can find out more details at the official website.
"As the hours unfolded, this investigative RPG surprised and delighted me at almost every turn with its complex world, fantastic dialogue, and ability to convey a constant struggle with the warring facets of one's own mind," said Game Informer's Joe Juba in our official review of Disco Elysium
. "Maybe you elect to refer to yourself as a "superstar cop" while sporting a pained grimace you cannot suppress. Maybe you break down crying while telling a young woman to wear a hat. Maybe you botch a sad karaoke song despite your best efforts. The sharp writing in exchanges like these made me laugh out loud, and the game does an amazing job remembering and referencing your previous deeds – even things that seem unimportant – which creates a sense of reactivity and consistency that few games can match."
We scored the game a big nine out of ten.
Check out the announcement trailer for Disco Elysium: The Final Cut here.
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Problematic monuments in Edmonton force us to question our community's core values
Educate, don't celebrate
Bust of Roman Shukhevych at the Ukrainian Youth Unity Complex in Edmonton. Photo by Paula E. Kirman.
By Paula E. Kirman
Over the past few weeks, activists around the world have dismembered, smeared, and toppled monuments to figures with morally and ideologically checkered pasts, renewing heated conversations about the historical implications of excising statues and place names honouring people once celebrated, but now viewed as problematic.
Edmonton is also reckoning with its past. In recent weeks, a neighbourhood association in the city's west end initiated a campaign calling upon the city to initiate an inclusive community process to rename their district, which is named after Frank Oliver, an early twentieth-century federal cabinet minister known for anti-Indigenous, anti-Black, and anti-immigrant policies.
But there are other problematic place names and monuments in Edmonton. One of them is a bust of Roman Shukhevych, located at the entrance of the Ukrainian Youth Unity Complex in the city's north end. Shukhevych was supreme commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) during World War II and held leadership positions in the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. While viewed as a hero by Ukrainian nationalists for his anti-Soviet posture, Shukhevych shared the Nazi ideology and was responsible for commanding troops that committed massacres with the goal of creating an ethnically "pure" Ukraine free of Poles, Jews, and many others during the Holocaust.
I first heard of Shukhevych in 2017, when I was approached by Adam Bentley, an Edmonton-based filmmaker, to collaborate on a documentary about yet another monument to Ukrainian nationalists in the city. A major connection to my spiritual heritage as a Jewish person is tikkun olam (healing/repairing the world). I am also a working artist always seeking opportunities to incorporate my activism with my practice - both faith and artistic - so I was intrigued by the opportunity.
Bentley, a fellow Jewish filmmaker, had discovered a monument in St. Michael's Cemetery in north Edmonton. The English and Ukrainian plaques on the monument pay tribute to seven battalions who fought in World War II, including the UPA, Ukrainian National Army (UNA), and 14th Waffen SS Galicia Division, which was renamed the 1st Ukrainian Division shortly before the end of WWII. The latter division collaborated with the Nazis in their failed pursuit of Ukrainian independence against the Soviet Union, participating in massacres of Jews, Poles, Russians, and Ukrainians with communist sympathies. Our 2019 short film, A Monumental Secret, delved into the contentious nature of this monument through the narrative of two friends grappling with their knowledge of the monument's history. During my work on the film, which features interviews with Drs. Per Anders Rudling and John-Paul Himka, two prominent academics who have studied the Ukrainian far right, Shukhevych's name came up more than a few times.
The film and my activism around the Shukhevych bust has generated its share of controversy in Edmonton. While the film has been officially selected for three Ukrainian film festivals, in Lviv, Bobritsa, and Kyiv, it has been rejected from a number of local Edmonton film festivals, despite funding from the Edmonton Arts Council.
Following an episode about the monument on a local progressive politics podcast in October 2019, then a subsequent article in the Alberta Jewish News, a local Ukrainian journalist lashed out with angry emails and phone calls. More recent media responses from representatives of the Youth Unity Complex emphasize that Shukhevych represents freedom to the Ukrainian community, and anything else is just Russian propaganda intended to divide ethnic communities. Indeed, in 2017 Russia's embassy to Canada had been tweeting about the Shukhevych monument, as well as the one in St. Michael's Cemetery.
But attacking the source does not make the message untrue.
There seems to be an ever-growing crescendo of awareness about controversial Edmonton monuments that have sat hidden in plain sight for decades. However, no one in Edmonton should feel comfortable with a monument to a Nazi collaborator in their city. Surprisingly, the Jewish Federation of Edmonton did not issue a statement on the status when I contacted the organization for comment in late 2019.
The statue may be on private property, giving the impression it is for private recognition, but that argument is not valid for two reasons. One, we all live on stolen Indigenous land. Moreover, the bust (along with the St. Michael's Cemetery monument) was erected with the help of public funds in the mid-1970s, from programs designed to promote multiculturalism in Canada. Second, a statue of a Nazi collaborator responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths to achieve "ethnic purity" is not appropriate anywhere. I am a Jewish person with ancestors from Ukraine; a statue to someone involved in the genocide of my people is deeply hurtful and unacceptable.
It is difficult when someone viewed by a community as a hero turns out to be flawed. The truth can hurt, but it should not be ignored. Denying the truth in this instance is a form of Holocaust denial. A statue is an image that may be silent, but the message that it—and the views of the people who blindly support it—can communicate, speaks volumes about the values that the community espouses.
At the same time, removing a statue does not erase a person from history. Not telling the whole truth about a historical figure is what erases history—and what dooms us to risk repeating its mistakes. The accomplishments and achievements of someone can still be taught without putting someone up on a pedestal. The future of these problematic monuments is up to the communities in which they sit. These communities must search their souls to realize what these statues, having sat untouched for so long, say about their core values, and on what side of history they want to sit.
Paula E. Kirman lives in Edmonton, Alberta. She is a writer, editor, filmmaker, photographer, musician, and community organizer. Her website is WordsPicturesMusic.com. You can also follow her on social media: @apaulagetics.
This article was originally published by the Canadian Jewish Record in July of 2020.

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Stocks Stumble In January, The Picture Turns Cloudy
The S&P 500 gained 1.55% this week with Friday's close at 4,500.53. The index has now increased two weeks in a row after falling each of the prior three weeks to start 2022.
The S&P 500 came out of the gates strong this week for a change, rising by 1.88% on Monday alone. This week's upside reversal was pretty textbook in our opinion, and we don't get to type this all that often. In last week's Update we wrote:
"Given the steepness of this selloff, combined with extremely negative sentiment (click here) and rather drastic "oversold" conditions, we do believe there should be a material retracement higher in the deck of cards over the short term, ideally over the week ahead. Fibonacci retracement analysis would suggest the S&P 500 extends into the ~4,520-4,590 region, which would bring about a retest of our 50- and 100-day simple moving averages (50MA, 100MA), which presently sit at 4,635.78 and 4,567.36 and are descending."
This is exactly what we saw this week with the S&P 500 trading up to 4,595.31 on Wednesday. However, that's where we ultimately failed our retest!
Given Facebook/Meta's earnings catastrophe after the bell on Wednesday (click here), the S&P 500 declined -2.44% on Thursday, trading all the way back down to 4,470.39. Friday then saw the index trade down to 4,451.50 and it appeared the S&P 500 was going to give back all of its weekly gains, but we saw a decent rally over most of Friday's session to leave the week finishing in positive territory.
The big economic news on Friday was the massive beat in the jobs report (click here), but it's difficult to know just how participants, collectively, will discount better than expected economic data. A bevy of better than expected economic data could embolden the Federal Reserve to strongly consider raising interest rates by 0.50% in March, something that the federal funds futures market currently prices with just a ~15% probability.
Alternatively, economic data that's coming in equal to or worse than consensus expectations will undoubtedly keep March's federal funds rate hike at 0.25%. With the markets currently expecting a 0.25% rate hike, continued better than expected economic data is a case of "be careful what you wish for".
In terms of price action, there is still an overwhelming element of fragility and uncertainty. Taking Friday as an example, the S&P 500 went from ~4,525 to ~4,500 in the final 15 minutes of trading. Taking this week as an example, at the high of the week the S&P 500 was higher by 3.69%, but by the close of the week the index was higher by a mere 1.55%. Naturally, it's a case of the glass being both half full and half empty.
On the hall full side, the index rose for the second consecutive week, gained more than 1% on the week, and remains comfortably above both January's intraday low (4,222.62) and closing low (4,326.51). On the half empty side, the index closed this week -2.06% below its weekly high, so higher prices did bring an element of selling pressure into the marketplace. The retest failed.
Importantly, whether the glass is truly half full or half empty will probably depend on next week's price action.
There's another retest on deck, just don't ask us whether we're retesting this week's high in the ~4,590s, or retesting January's low in the 4,200-4,300 range.
This week's downside reversal marked "resistance" at and around the 50-day simple moving average (50MA, solid red line). This is also a textbook case of old support, once broken, becoming new resistance. This is somewhat of an ominous sign, and us bulls would like to see the S&P 500 reclaim its 50MA and quickly.
In terms of sectors, it was the energy show once again this week with the sector gaining another 4.98%. The S&P 500 energy sector is now higher by an astounding 24.30% thus far in 2022. The financial sector outperformed again this week too, rising by 3.56%. Consumer discretionary finally got a lift too this week, rising by 3.54%, undoubtedly fueled by Amazon's gigantic move higher following earnings on Friday (click here).
Outside of these three sectors, every other sector underperformed the S&P 500 as a whole this week. The rally wasn't overly broad, so a true price thrust higher remains elusive.
For the week ahead, this week's high was 4,595.31 and the low was 4,414.02, so we'll be watching to see if the S&P 500 trades "outside" of these levels.
Fundamentally, all eyes will be glued to Thursday's inflation data. It's clear inflation is the 800-pound gorilla in the room, and there's virtually no visibility into how the inflationary conundrum will unfold here in 2022. Furthermore, there's even no visibility into whether or not increases to the Federal Reserve funds rate will even have an affect on inflation!
Macroeconomically speaking, there is an incredibly wide range of future outcomes, from inflation to stagflation to disinflation, and about the only thing certain as of today is that the Federal Reserve is going to tighten monetary policy via interest rate hikes, the end of quantitative easing, and some form of balance sheet reduction. Only a short six months ago the consensus expectation was that inflation will prove transitory and the Fed will remain accommodative for the foreseeable future. Things have clearly changed, and that uncertainty is why the price of the S&P 500 has stagnated and why we believe the climate will remain volatile moving forward.
S&P 500 Primary Trend - Neutral
The S&P 500 finished the month of January on Monday at 4,515.55, recording a monthly decline of -5.26%. Based on our work, January's decline was enough to change the primary trend from up, or "bullish", to neutral.
Long-term investors remain best served with an equity overweight across their asset allocation and relying mostly on passive investing methodologies. However, they also remain best served stepping on the brakes just a little bit, i.e., the degree of equity overweight they carried into February should be lower than what they carried into January, at least in our opinion. The primary trend shifting from up to neutral is analogous to having some traffic on the road...you've got to step on the brakes, slow down, and turn the autopilot (cruise control) off.
The S&P 500's trailing 3- and 6-month returns are now both negative. The index is clearly "stuck" in some sort of traffic jam. The severity of the jam is what's in question.
The price action in the month of January was totally wild. January became just the second calendar month in the history of the S&P 500 to record both a new all-time high and a -10% drawdown from the prior month's close (the other is February of 2020).
Another way to quantify what we saw in January is to identify all calendar months that have both a new all-time high and then finish with a monthly decline of -4% or more. This will pluck all calendar months that saw a degree of eager selling pressure into new all-time high prices for the S&P 500, a narrative that reads like distribution.
Since 1950, there are 13 calendar months that match this criteria, with January being number 13. In the prior 12 instances, material selloffs from all-time highs tend to be mostly just a shakeout of weak hands. In other words, the S&P 500 was mostly onward and upward from there. Following calendar months that have both a new all-time high and a monthly decline of -4% or more, the S&P 500's forward 3- and 6- month returns have closed higher ~90% of the time for average returns of ~5.44% and 9.83% respectively.
We'd be remiss in not pointing out that the only other Januarys on the table above are from the years 2000 and 1990.
In terms of price action, there are many similarities back to the year 2000, such as tech underperformance and energy outperformance, and our base case for 2022's price action is for a volatile year that ultimately is range- bound, similar to that of 2000 and 1990. The "easy" money has been made, unfortunately.
If 2022 does echo the years 2000 and 1990, we should have mostly smooth sailing in front of us the coming six months and then a challenging end to the year. Given federal funds futures probabilities, that would invoke the old phrase "3 steps and a stumble" (click here).
Interest Rates Break Out, Huge Implications
Perhaps the most influential move this week came in the yield curve. The yield on a 10-year United States Treasury bond (UST10y) surged 15 basis points, or 8.43%, with Friday's close at 1.93%.
UST10y has now hurdled "resistance" via its 200-week simple moving average and 2021's closing weekly high. There's nothing but air left on the charts into the ~2.4% level. All things considered, economically speaking, it's totally egregious that UST10y is still only 1.93%, so it would not be surprising to see UST10y start to step on it to the upside.
Crestmont Research has a piece titled the 6/50 rule (click here) where they effectively show that it's all but guaranteed that interest rates will change by 50 basis points, or 0.50%, each and every rolling six-month period.
While the 6/50 rule doesn't have any directional bias (it simply implies interest rates will move up or down by 50 basis points every six months), applying the rule to the breakout we're witnessing across UST10y paints a fairly scary picture. One has to question whether UST10y will be trading at 2.43% on or before August of 2022...and then one has to wonder if UST10y is trading at 2.93% on or before the end of 2022!
Given recent correlations, we're not exactly going out on a limb by believing that if UST10y zooms to 2.43% level the technology sector is going to struggle. With technology accounting for nearly 30% of the S&P 500, this will create a headwind for the S&P 500 and its ability to trend higher. The old phrase "it's a stock picker's market" has perhaps never been more applicable, especially when considering sector dispersion.
Higher interest rates also serve to inch us closer to the end of "TINA" (an acronym for "there is no alternative") and serve as a brake on economic activity, and thus negatively affect corporate profitability.
We've always been of the opinion that the Fed would not lose control of the curve, implying that any financial market instability caused in part by higher interest rates would lead the Fed toward yield curve control (click here). However, given the Fed's hard-line policy stance toward inflation, which has seen them throw away such words as "transitory" and turn incredibly hawkish in tone, yield curve control would seem to be virtually impossible for them to implement here in 2022.
We're in a tightening cycle where the Fed is ending quantitative easing and exploring ways to reduce their balance sheet, and that's exact opposite of a cycle where they're effectively using their balance sheet to control the curve. Fed jawboning could, in theory, help them control the curve as even the mention of yield curve control could be enough to stem the bond vigilantes, but we can't help but wonder if the bond market would call the Fed's bluff.
If inflation is the 800-pound gorilla in the room, then it's inflation's impact on the yield curve that forces the gorilla to start to smash like King Kong.
Part of the reason the gorilla hasn't started to smash is that UST10y is still only 1.93%, in spite of inflation annualizing at more than 7% year-over-year. Should that change, should UST10y play catch-up and the bond vigilantes actually make an appearance, the gorilla will probably let its presence be known.
Bond investors have had it easy for a long, long time. Those days are over, we think.


For those of you who do not Nouriel, you must, I am sorry to say.. have your head in the sand. Nouriel, or "Dr. Doom" as the press has chosen to call him, is an NYU economist and head of RGE Monitor, that has become famous for having been right on for years about what is going on in our economy. I had the pleasure last fall of attending a small group dinner with Nouriel following a discussion with him, George Soros and Jeff Sachs at Columbia University and let me tell you this is one smart and practical dude. I have since become a paid subscriber to his economic information and it is exceptional. I just finished reading an interview with him in this weekends journal and it is a must read. He calls to "'Nationalize'" the Banks" and though I personally am not sure that is the right thing to do, I trust this guy has done his homework and sees it as the only solution. In the interiew he says this – "Between guarantees, liquidity support, and capitalization, the governement has provided between $7 trillion to $9 trillion of help to the financial system." Though that is mind-blowing, the sad reality is that we are no where close to done. No where close. The government must take some action that gives the world some sense that they know what the heck they are doing. So far, in my opinion, the new administration has failed to deliver.
If you want an idea of what a healthy banking system looks like just look north of the border to Canada. Take a look at this FT piece "Canada Banks prove envy of the world" for the right long term model.


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Seelos Therapeutics to Participate in the Cantor Virtual Global Healthcare Conference
NEW YORK, Aug. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Seelos Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: SEEL), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of…
NEW YORK, Aug. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Seelos Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: SEEL), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of therapies for central nervous system disorders and rare diseases, today announced that it will participate in the Cantor Virtual Global Healthcare Conference, September 15-17, 2020.
Raj Mehra, Ph.D., Chairman and CEO, will host 1×1 meetings via conference calls.
For additional information about the Cantor Virtual Global Healthcare Conference: https://www.cantor.com/global-healthcare-2020/
About Seelos Therapeutics:
Seelos Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and advancement of novel therapeutics to address unmet medical needs for the benefit of patients with central nervous system (CNS) disorders and other rare diseases. The Company's robust portfolio includes several late-stage clinical assets targeting indications including Acute Suicidal Ideation and Behavior (ASIB) in Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Sanfilippo syndrome, Parkinson's Disease, other psychiatric and movement disorders plus orphan diseases.
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This week, I reached out for a Whopper Milkshake at the home of the "World's Greatest Hamburgers," Fuddruckers, with 223 restaurants scattered coast-to-coast and spreading overseas. I'm going to be honest, when I heard that Fuddruckers was introducing a Whopper Milkshake, I thought they had lost their Fuddrucking minds.
In drive-thru land, a Whopper is a big ol' burger, and are they serious ... a burger-flavored milkshake?
Fear not: The Whopper in Fuddruckers' Whopper Milkshake is a Whopper malted candy ball. You know, Whoppers — the movie theater favorite. They've got a crunchy malt inside and a dark chocolate outside. They're loud and delicious and fun to throw in the air and catch in your mouth. I'm good for eight out of 10.
Here's the Whopper Milkshake breakdown: thick, hand-spun shakes spiked with crushed Whopper balls, topped with whipped cream, more crushed Whoppers, and a cherry on top. Available in chocolate or vanilla.
Because Whopper Milkshakes are a limited-time-only deal, going bye-bye at the end of the month, Fuddruckers isn't required to list the nutritional numbers. It's the LTO loophole. But a regular chocolate shake at Fudds has 850 calories and 18 fat grams, while a vanilla shake has 650 calories and 19 fat grams.
Manufacturer's suggested retail price: $4.99 for a large. There's also a small for $3.79, but this is not time to shrink from the task at hand. How often do you find a chocolate shake laced with Whopper malted milk balls?. Whoppers are made by the Hershey company, and Hershey knows chocolate. So the choice here is easy: a chocolate Whopper Milkshake.
Fuddruckers shakes are the real deal, hand-spun with real ice cream, not some pre-packaged, gloppy mix coming out of a shake machine spigot. The Whopper Milkshake is creamy, with gritty crushed Whoppers to give you something to chew on. It's more of a meal than a drink. The chocolate shake packs more of a caloric wallop, but it's worth the indulgence.
Fuddruckers also has a new Nacho Crunch Burger with Dorito chips and pickled jalapeños, American cheese, and more jalapeno cheese sauce.
What I like most about Fuddruckers ... those fresh-baked buns. One whiff and this can only be Fuddruckers.
A little local history lesson: Fuddruckers started with one burger stand called Freddie Fuddruckers in San Antonio in 1979. Now there are Fuddruckers around with the world, with headquarters here in Houston.


Feels like no time at all since I last wrote that I was off on holiday just before Christmas, but apparently it was almost 6 months, so I think I can have another one.
Tomorrow I am heading off for 10 days of rest, relaxation, reading, sunshine and hopefully good food to Paphos in Cyprus. I am praying the long ranger forecasts are wrong with their little pics of rain clouds for the next week out there, as I really don't want two holidays in a row blighted by poor weather, after all its almost June, and its the Med, it should be sunny!
As always check out my social media I will try to put pics up from my phone, in addition to taking some with the real camera!
Given my bluetooth keyboard worked so well last time for review writing my intention is to do the same again and read some of my review stack while I'm away - as it is jam packed with auto read / auto buy authors for me, so the books should be great. Will show you the list in a bit!
What's coming up after I'm back?
Well I'm glad someone asked that!
From June 14th until July 15th is my massive Bookish World Cup feature, coinciding with the football world cup. Delighted to say that as of late last night it is all prepped in advance for the month - and it features each day guest posts from authors talking about some aspect of a qualified country, and/or a review about a book with a link to a country.
Each day a different one of the 32 nations will be featured, and I hope it will be interesting for you all.
In fact I have reviewed books for just over half the countries, in addition to all the guest posts, so hopefully you will all enjoy it.
And then after that I already have some reviews scheduled and I predict my holiday reviews will appear in August, but will decide that when I'm back.
For those of you wondering about my Rachel Reads Randomly feature - I'm hopeful for its return in middle July but it depends how busy my blog tour organising work is...amazed it has taken me this far into the post to plug Rachel's Random Resources!
I am happy to take suggestions on books to read while I'm away - there are far too many great looking books to pick from, and I desperately want to read them all!
In fact the other day I had so little idea what to read next, I shut my eyes, scrolled back and forth through my Netgalley collection on my kindle, and then randomly pressed the screen and started reading whatever it is that popped up - if I get stuck I may be doing that more often!!
Anyways I will stop rambling now and see you all in mid June, hopefully very relaxed, with a tan and a large number of reviews to copy onto the blog!
And since it is a summer holiday and about to be summer reading season based on that list above, have a summery book giveaway!
*Terms and Conditions –European entries welcome. Please enter using the Gleam box below. The winner will be selected at random via Gleam from all valid entries and will be notified by Twitter and/or email. If no response is received within 7 days then I reserve the right to select an alternative winner. Open to all entrants aged 18 or over. Any personal data given as part of the competition entry is used for this purpose only and will not be shared with third parties, with the exception of the winners' information. This will passed to the giveaway organiser and used only for fulfilment of the prize, after which time I will delete the data. I am not responsible for despatch or delivery of the prize.
Peg Savage has contractually agreed to move to Key West, Florida. The smudged signatures on the damp cocktail napkin are irrefutable proof. "An adventure..." her husband Clark says. Peg can't swim; she's afraid of bridges (there are 42 of them); and she doesn't want to leave her friends. However, after a bottle of Cabernet, a move from Chicago to the southernmost city in the United States seems like the best decision ever. But now Clark has taken a long term job in Cuba and she's on her own. Neither her dog Nipper, nor the ghosts in the attic, offer up any good advice. But how hard can it be living in paradise? Peg dives into island life but the more effort she makes, the wider her wake of catastrophes.
This was a reasonable easy book to read once I got into the swing of it, and thankfully it wasn't too long. For although I did sort of enjoy reading it, I also found myself rolling my eyes more and more at the book.
I really wasn't keen on Peg the main character, she was whiny, spineless, seemed scared of everything and despite moving across country on her husbands wishes, she just had no real oomph about her for most of the book. That being said she was responsible for all the funny moments in the book while she tries to break out of her comfort zone and tries to make friends.
There are some fabulous descriptions of Key West, and I did believe Peg was genuinely frightened at various points, especially of storms and hurricanes and water, and the scenes that involved her seeing possible ghosts were a bit freaky.
However for anyone that knows me, I do love animals in books, and Nipper and his new friend Lulu are fabulous dogs, and I loved the interactions between their owners too.
Island Life Sentence is a pleasant way to spend a few hours reading a book, and if you know nothing about life in Key West, or what Cuba is like then you will most probably love this book. Had I felt more empathy with Peg I may have enjoyed it a lot more.
Thank you to the author for supplying a copy of this book which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.
Today I am delighted to welcome Catherine Isaac to Rachel's Random Reads, and she has agreed to answer my new fun interview questions entitled - Would You Rather?
Space. Ideally in a Princess Leia costume and with a young Han Solo by my side.
2) Would you rather go skiing or sit by a beach on holiday?
Ski-ing. I'd take an action-packed holiday over a beach any day. I'm quite an energetic person, so writing and reading books are literally the only times when you'll see me sitting still for an extended period of time.
3) Would you rather read ebooks, audiobooks or physical books?
Definitely physical books, preferably hardback. But I'm a recent convert to Audible, which I listen to if I'm doing chores around the house or garden. I've just listened to The Essex Serpent and loved it so much I ended up buying a physical copy too.
4) Would you rather play or watch sports?
Play. See above about not being able to sit still. I can't claim to have many brushes with sporting glory since I played netball at school, but I'm always the first to jump up for a game of rounders on a sunny day.
5) Would you rather only be able to whisper the whole time, or shout the whole time?
Whisper. I live in a house with three very boisterous boys and it is LOUD. So I'd welcome the opportunity of communicating in a more civilised manner.
6) Would you rather always be late or always be unprepared?
Unprepared. I think any working mother is used to winging it.
7) Would you rather have your own luxury car, or private plane?
Private plane, because you can be in the most luxurious car in the world but if you're stuck in traffic it's still a miserable experience.
8) Would you rather look like a fish or smell like a fish?
This one made me laugh out loud! Neither sounds very appealing but I'll say smell; I'd simply douse myself in Sure for Women and hope for the best.
9) Would you rather have free books for life or free food for life?
I'll recklessly say books although I dread to think what that would do to my already bulging bookshelves.
10) Would you rather give up social media or alcohol?
I haven't had a drink since 2017 and haven't found it too difficult – so, alcohol!
Thank you so much Catherine for answering me questions, I really hope you enjoyed them and let me just say how much I enjoyed You Me Everything when I read it last week, and for those who missed it my review can be found here.
Catherine Isaac was born in 1974 in Liverpool, England. She studied History at the University of Liverpool, before completing a postgraduate diploma in Journalism at Glasgow Caledonian University. She began her career as a graduate trainee at the Liverpool Echo. At 27, she was appointed Editor of the Liverpool Daily Post and held the position for five years. For a decade she has written under the pseudonym Jane Costello. She wrote her first book, Bridesmaids, while on maternity leave. She has since written nine books, all Sunday Times bestsellers in the UK.
You Me Everything is her first novel writing as Catherine Isaac. Since writing the novel, Catherine has achieved a large following ahead of its publication. Alongside her decade long relationship with Simon and Schuster, You, Me, Everything has been her first opportunity to write for a US audience, and film rights for the novel have been optioned by Lionsgate.
Catherine now lives in Liverpool with her husband Mark and three sons. In her spare time she likes to run, walk up mountains in the Lake District and win at pub quizzes, though the latter rarely happens.
How on earth am I meant to review this? I mean lets make this quick, if you are a fan of thrillers, heart stopping action, Angela Marsons, Kim Stone, Bookouture books, and want to be as opened mouthed as I am at the end of the book - then just make it a priority to read this one.
Easily the best book in the series, some of it may work better if you have read the previous books in the series but at the heart of it is a fascinating set of circumstances leading to multiple deaths.
I didn't have a clue who had done it,well I had one but I was so wrong, thankfully, and just wow. This is police procedural at its best.
Most of the book is focused on solving what is going on a a prestigious boarding school, after the first girl that dies is made to look like a suicide. But if I say anything else about the plot I will spoil things completely, just trust me its a cracker.
The writing is definitely the best yet, and the storyline well you can tell from this that I'm very impressed. It is complex, intriguing, and the writing hooked me in completely. I read the majority of this book in a few short hours not pausing for breathe.
What I am though is very curious as to what the next book in the series will bring and I know I will be first in line to read it when its available.
And if you didn't get the message at the top of this review, here is is put simply - Amazing book, best in the series and just wow!
As a writer you're often asked about where the inspiration for your books comes from. My answer is generally very simple – from driving! I live in Gloucestershire and work in London, which is a four- to five-hour round trip, and I do that four times a week. That's a lot of driving, and a lot of thinking time. I love listening to true crime podcasts as I drive, and the inspiration for my last book, The Deadline, came from listening to a podcast about an alleged miscarriage of justice – a man locked up for a crime he always maintained he didn't commit. It got me thinking – what if that happened to somebody I know? What if a close friend of mine was charged with murder, and she said she was innocent? Would I believe her, if all the evidence was against her? How far would I go to help her clear her name? That became the plot for a book, when TV reporter Cora Baxter has to try to prove that one of her best friends is innocent of murder.
And then, I pushed the idea a little further. What if the death turned out to be suspicious? What if somebody else was up there on the bridge too? What if there were odd circumstances leading up to all this? What if it wasn't actually suicide at all, but murder, made to look like suicide? Those musings became the beginnings of The Development, which starts with Cora Baxter driving home from work and witnessing the horrible death of a young woman. I suppose a lot of writers work like this, irrespective of genre – what if this happened? What if that happened? What if somebody did this? What would the outcome be? "What ifs" definitely help pass the time on a long, tedious drive!
After three Cora Baxter books, I've now started work on something a little different, more of a psychological suspense novel, and that too was inspired by something I was listening to as I was driving to work. A two-hundred-and-twenty-mile commute may not be for everyone but for me it provides plot lines for my books, so long may it last!
Thank you Jackie for this great post. I can't wait to read The Development and see what happens next with Cora Baxter.
Author bio: Jackie Kabler is a journalist, TV presenter and author. She spent twenty years as a TV news reporter for GMTV, ITV and BBC news, and now works as a presenter for shopping channel QVC and is author of the Cora Baxter Mysteries, a series of murder mysteries set in a television newsroom. The Development is her third novel. Jackie lives in Gloucestershire with her husband, who is a GP.


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Praia de Mira é uma vila portuguesa sede da freguesia homónima do município de Mira, freguesia que tem 39,82km² de área e 3 147 habitantes (2011). A sua densidade populacional é de 79 hab/ km².

Todos os anos é celebrado o dia de Nossa Senhora da Conceição com a participação de alguns artistas conhecidos.

História
Uma das referências mais conhecidas de palheiros de Mira, data de 1821 que ao referir-se à Vila de Mira, diz que "está distante 6 km do oceano e tem estrada para «palheiros de Mira, na praia do Mar», lugar cujos habitantes são «quase todos pescadores».

Há no entanto outras referências mais obscuras e mais antigas, no Jornal de Coimbra de 1812 num artigo consagrado à Barra Velha de Aveiro informa que «A Barra velha de Aveiro tinha de profundidade sobre o banco, ou na menor altura, no ano 1777-8 palmos: em 1778-6 palmos: em 1802-5 palmos. Era ela perto da costa e palheiros de Mira».

No mesmo ano de 1812, nas Memórias económicas da Academia real das Ciências de Lisboa, encontra-se uma das mais antigas referências à pesca artesanal que se pratica até aos dias de hoje (ainda que bastante modificada): «Na Costa de Mira, onde não se observa outra pescaria, senão aquela que se faz com o aparelho chamado Artes, fui informado que este com o barco faz de despesa 600000.»

Em 1815, novamente no Jornal de Coimbra, encontra-se uma nota referente ao abate de pinheiros na Praia de Mira, sendo esta uma das primeiras referências à localidade pela nome que o tempo fixou: «Em Outubro de 1815, estando eu na Praia de Mira, ouvi a muitos dos habitantes daquela Vila chorar a futura perdição dos seus prédios pelo sucessivo corte dos pinheiros que os abrigavam das areias.»

Em 31 de dezembro de 1984, é criada a freguesia pela Lei nº 66/84 de 31/12/1984, desanexada da freguesia de Mira.

A Praia de Mira, em 2021, é a única praia do Mundo totalista da Bandeira azul.

Os Palheiros
Em meados dos anos 50 existiam mais de 600 construções em madeira.
A maior originalidade deste aglomerado de pescadores/agricultores era exactamente a sua arquitectura de madeira que, sem ser exclusiva nesta região completamente desprovida de pedra e com abundância de pinhais, adquiriu aqui a sua expressão mais pura, as casas chegavam a atingir dois e mesmo três andares, possuindo dimensões não encontradas noutras praias e formavam a quase totalidade da povoação até ao final dos anos 60, a própria capela, junto da praia e ainda existente, é de madeira, pintada de azul e branco e é um dos principais símbolos desta povoação.

Pesca artesanal
Cada barco era lançado à água e retirado de lá por duas juntas que puxavam cabos presos às argolas da proa ou da ré do barco, este deslizava sobre rolos de pinho colocados no sentido da largura que por sua vez, rolavam sobre uma dezena de vigas compridas e flexíveis, de eucalipto, dispostas longitudinalmente.
A rede era puxada por dez juntas de bois. Quando o barco saía, ficava logo um cabo preso na praia, o outro era trazido pelo barco, no regresso.

No momento trabalham apenas 5 embarcações intituladas de: Sr. dos Aflitos, S. José, Alexandre Vieira, Lago do Mar e Estrela do Mar.

Capela
A intenção de construir uma capela na então designada Costa do Mar, surge pela primeira vez no último quartel do Séc. XVIII. Já no início do segundo quartel do Séc. XIX, em 1829, surge por parte de um morador do lugar de Moinhos da Areia, Manuel da Costa da Luísa, a intenção de construir uma capela em honra a Nossa Senhora da Graça. Devido às exigências da autoridades eclesiásticas a obra não avançou. Por fim em setembro de 1843 procedeu-se à revista e bênção da capela, mandada edificar por José Maria Pimentel, dedicada a Nossa Senhora da Conceição.

Brasão de Armas
Escudo de azul, crescente e duas gaivotas voantes, bicadas e armadas de ouro, a da dextra volvida, tudo de prata e dispostas em roquete; campanha diminuta ondada de prata e azul de três tiras, navegando nela um barco de ouro. Coroa mural de prata de quatro torres. Listel branco, com a legenda a negro, " PRAIA DE MIRA ".

Segundo o parecer da Comissão de Heráldica da Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses de 27/02/2002

Estabelecida em reunião de Assembleia de Freguesia, em 20/04/2002

Publicada no Diário da República, III Série de 13/05/2002

Registado na Direcção Geral de Autarquias Locais, com o Nº 117/2002, em 20/05/2002

População
Fonte: INE

Política

Fonte: SGMAI

Orago
O orago da freguesia é a Nossa Senhora da Conceição, sendo realizada anualmente no dia 8 de dezembro a festa em sua honra. Imaculada Conceição

Património edificado
 Capela da Praia de Mira
 Estátua em Homenagem ao Povo da Praia de Mira - Escultura em Bronze de André Alves
 Igreja Nova da Praia de Mira
 Museu Etnográfico
Viveiros piscícolas

Turismo
Praia de Mira
Asfixiada pela construção envolvente, tem lotação esgotada durante o Verão. O areal é extenso e ocupado por famílias da região centro. Está bem servido de bares e cafés, sempre importantes nesta zona ventosa.
 Lagoa da barrinha
 Mata de Mira
 Parque de Campismo Mira Lodge Park
 Parque de Campismo Municipal
 Parque de Campismo da Orbitur
 Clube Náutico
 Mira Villas

Ligações externas

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Red Velvet tops Billboard's World Albums chart again
By Hong Dam-young
Red Velvet has topped Billboard's World Albums chart again with its second album "Perfect Velvet."
The album debuted at No. 1 on the chart, which sold 2,000 copies in the week that ended Nov. 23, according to Nielsen Music.
The figure marks Red Velvet's best weekly sales in the US after "Red Summer" in July, Billboard said, adding that the group's success shows strong interest in K-pop girl groups in the US.
A poster for Red Velvet's "Perfect Velvet" album (S.M. Entertainment)
"Perfect Velvet" marks Red Velvet's fourth time reaching No. 1 on the chart, following its album "The Red" in 2015, its EP "Rookie" in February this year and its EP "Red Summer" in July.
The nine-track album is fronted by the lead track "Peek-A-Boo," which ranked No. 2 on Billboard's World Digital Song Sales chart in the same week.
Red Velvet is set to perform at this year's Mnet Asian Music Awards in Hong Kong on Friday.
(lotus@heraldcorp.com)


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function hText = xticklabel_rotate(XTick,rot,varargin)
%hText = xticklabel_rotate(XTick,rot,XTickLabel,varargin)     Rotate XTickLabel
%
% Syntax: xticklabel_rotate
%
% Input:
% {opt}     XTick       - vector array of XTick positions & values (numeric)
%                           uses current XTick values or XTickLabel cell array by
%                           default (if empty)
% {opt}     rot         - angle of rotation in degrees, 90° by default
% {opt}     XTickLabel  - cell array of label strings
% {opt}     [var]       - "Property-value" pairs passed to text generator
%                           ex: 'interpreter','none'
%                               'Color','m','Fontweight','bold'
%
% Output:   hText       - handle vector to text labels
%
% Example 1:  Rotate existing XTickLabels at their current position by 90°
%    xticklabel_rotate
%
% Example 2:  Rotate existing XTickLabels at their current position by 45° and change
% font size
%    xticklabel_rotate([],45,[],'Fontsize',14)
%
% Example 3:  Set the positions of the XTicks and rotate them 90°
%    figure;  plot([1960:2004],randn(45,1)); xlim([1960 2004]);
%    xticklabel_rotate([1960:2:2004]);
%
% Example 4:  Use text labels at XTick positions rotated 45° without tex interpreter
%    xticklabel_rotate(XTick,45,NameFields,'interpreter','none');
%
% Example 5:  Use text labels rotated 90° at current positions
%    xticklabel_rotate([],90,NameFields);
%
% Note : you can not re-run xticklabel_rotate on the same graph.
%

% This is a modified version of xticklabel_rotate90 by Denis Gilbert
% Modifications include Text labels (in the form of cell array)
%                       Arbitrary angle rotation
%                       Output of text handles
%                       Resizing of axes and title/xlabel/ylabel positions to maintain same overall size
%                           and keep text on plot
%                           (handles small window resizing after, but not well due to proportional placement with
%                           fixed font size. To fix this would require a serious resize function)
%                       Uses current XTick by default
%                       Uses current XTickLabel is different from XTick values (meaning has been already defined)

% Brian FG Katz
% bfgkatz@hotmail.com
% 23-05-03
% Modified 03-11-06 after user comment
%	Allow for exisiting XTickLabel cell array
% Modified 03-03-2006
%   Allow for labels top located (after user comment)
%   Allow case for single XTickLabelName (after user comment)
%   Reduced the degree of resizing

% Other m-files required: cell2mat
% Subfunctions: none
% MAT-files required: none
%
% See also: xticklabel_rotate90, TEXT,  SET

% Based on xticklabel_rotate90
%   Author: Denis Gilbert, Ph.D., physical oceanography
%   Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
%   email: gilbertd@dfo-mpo.gc.ca  Web: http://www.qc.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/iml/
%   February 1998; Last revision: 24-Mar-2003

% check to see if xticklabel_rotate has already been here (no other reason for this to happen)
if isempty(get(gca,'XTickLabel')),
    error('xticklabel_rotate : can not process, either xticklabel_rotate has already been run or XTickLabel field has been erased')  ;
end

% if no XTickLabel AND no XTick are defined use the current XTickLabel
%if nargin < 3 & (~exist('XTick') | isempty(XTick)),
% Modified with forum comment by "Nathan Pust" allow the current text labels to be used and property value pairs to be changed for those labels
if (nargin < 3 || isempty(varargin{1})) & (~exist('XTick') | isempty(XTick)),
	xTickLabels = get(gca,'XTickLabel')  ; % use current XTickLabel
	if ~iscell(xTickLabels)
		% remove trailing spaces if exist (typical with auto generated XTickLabel)
		temp1 = num2cell(xTickLabels,2)         ;
		for loop = 1:length(temp1),
			temp1{loop} = deblank(temp1{loop})  ;
		end
		xTickLabels = temp1                     ;
	end
varargin = varargin(2:length(varargin));
end

% if no XTick is defined use the current XTick
if (~exist('XTick') | isempty(XTick)),
    XTick = get(gca,'XTick')        ; % use current XTick
end

%Make XTick a column vector
XTick = XTick(:);

if ~exist('xTickLabels'),
	% Define the xtickLabels
	% If XtickLabel is passed as a cell array then use the text
	if (length(varargin)>0) & (iscell(varargin{1})),
        xTickLabels = varargin{1};
        varargin = varargin(2:length(varargin));
	else
        xTickLabels = num2str(XTick);
	end
end

if length(XTick) ~= length(xTickLabels),
    error('xticklabel_rotate : must have same number of elements in "XTick" and "XTickLabel"')  ;
end

%Set the Xtick locations and set XTicklabel to an empty string
set(gca,'XTick',XTick,'XTickLabel','')

if nargin < 2,
    rot = 90 ;
end

% Determine the location of the labels based on the position
% of the xlabel
hxLabel = get(gca,'XLabel');  % Handle to xlabel
xLabelString = get(hxLabel,'String');

% if ~isempty(xLabelString)
%    warning('You may need to manually reset the XLABEL vertical position')
% end

set(hxLabel,'Units','data');
xLabelPosition = get(hxLabel,'Position');
y = xLabelPosition(2);

%CODE below was modified following suggestions from Urs Schwarz
y=repmat(y,size(XTick,1),1);
% retrieve current axis' fontsize
fs = get(gca,'fontsize');

% Place the new xTickLabels by creating TEXT objects
hText = text(XTick, y, xTickLabels,'fontsize',fs);

% Rotate the text objects by ROT degrees
%set(hText,'Rotation',rot,'HorizontalAlignment','right',varargin{:})
% Modified with modified forum comment by "Korey Y" to deal with labels at top
% Further edits added for axis position
xAxisLocation = get(gca, 'XAxisLocation');
if strcmp(xAxisLocation,'bottom')
    set(hText,'Rotation',rot,'HorizontalAlignment','right',varargin{:})
else
    set(hText,'Rotation',rot,'HorizontalAlignment','left',varargin{:})
end

% Adjust the size of the axis to accomodate for longest label (like if they are text ones)
% This approach keeps the top of the graph at the same place and tries to keep xlabel at the same place
% This approach keeps the right side of the graph at the same place

set(get(gca,'xlabel'),'units','data')           ;
    labxorigpos_data = get(get(gca,'xlabel'),'position')  ;
set(get(gca,'ylabel'),'units','data')           ;
    labyorigpos_data = get(get(gca,'ylabel'),'position')  ;
set(get(gca,'title'),'units','data')           ;
    labtorigpos_data = get(get(gca,'title'),'position')  ;

set(gca,'units','pixel')                        ;
set(hText,'units','pixel')                      ;
set(get(gca,'xlabel'),'units','pixel')          ;
set(get(gca,'ylabel'),'units','pixel')          ;

origpos = get(gca,'position')                   ;

% textsizes = cell2mat(get(hText,'extent'))       ;
% Modified with forum comment from "Peter Pan" to deal with case when only one XTickLabelName is given.
x = get( hText, 'extent' );
if iscell( x ) == true
    textsizes = cell2mat( x ) ;
else
    textsizes = x;
end

largest =  max(textsizes(:,3))                  ;
longest =  max(textsizes(:,4))                  ;

laborigext = get(get(gca,'xlabel'),'extent')    ;
laborigpos = get(get(gca,'xlabel'),'position')  ;

labyorigext = get(get(gca,'ylabel'),'extent')   ;
labyorigpos = get(get(gca,'ylabel'),'position') ;
leftlabdist = labyorigpos(1) + labyorigext(1)   ;

% assume first entry is the farthest left
leftpos = get(hText(1),'position')              ;
leftext = get(hText(1),'extent')                ;
leftdist = leftpos(1) + leftext(1)              ;
if leftdist > 0,    leftdist = 0 ; end          % only correct for off screen problems

% botdist = origpos(2) + laborigpos(2)            ;
% newpos = [origpos(1)-leftdist longest+botdist origpos(3)+leftdist origpos(4)-longest+origpos(2)-botdist]
%
% Modified to allow for top axis labels and to minimize axis resizing
if strcmp(xAxisLocation,'bottom')
    newpos = [origpos(1)-(min(leftdist,labyorigpos(1)))+labyorigpos(1) ...
            origpos(2)+((longest+laborigpos(2))-get(gca,'FontSize')) ...
            origpos(3)-(min(leftdist,labyorigpos(1)))+labyorigpos(1)-largest ...
            origpos(4)-((longest+laborigpos(2))-get(gca,'FontSize'))]
else
    newpos = [origpos(1)-(min(leftdist,labyorigpos(1)))+labyorigpos(1) ...
            origpos(2) ...
            origpos(3)-(min(leftdist,labyorigpos(1)))+labyorigpos(1)-largest ...
            origpos(4)-(longest)+get(gca,'FontSize')]
end
set(gca,'position',newpos)                      ;

% readjust position of text labels after resize of plot
set(hText,'units','data')                       ;
for loop= 1:length(hText),
    set(hText(loop),'position',[XTick(loop), y(loop)])  ;
end

% adjust position of xlabel and ylabel
laborigpos = get(get(gca,'xlabel'),'position')  ;
set(get(gca,'xlabel'),'position',[laborigpos(1) laborigpos(2)-longest 0])   ;

% switch to data coord and fix it all
set(get(gca,'ylabel'),'units','data')                   ;
set(get(gca,'ylabel'),'position',labyorigpos_data)      ;
set(get(gca,'title'),'position',labtorigpos_data)       ;

set(get(gca,'xlabel'),'units','data')                   ;
    labxorigpos_data_new = get(get(gca,'xlabel'),'position')  ;
set(get(gca,'xlabel'),'position',[labxorigpos_data(1) labxorigpos_data_new(2)])   ;

% Reset all units to normalized to allow future resizing
set(get(gca,'xlabel'),'units','normalized')          ;
set(get(gca,'ylabel'),'units','normalized')          ;
set(get(gca,'title'),'units','normalized')          ;
set(hText,'units','normalized')                      ;
set(gca,'units','normalized')                        ;

if nargout < 1,
    clear hText
end

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Home/Housing/Lifestyle/Cement companies to witness lowest operating margins, growth in cement volumes in FY 2023: ICRA report
Cement companies to witness lowest operating margins, growth in cement volumes in FY 2023: ICRA report
[ecis2016.org] As per a report by ICRA, cement volumes are expected to grow by 7-8% in FY 2023 to around 388 million MT. The higher input costs may cause a decline in operating profit margins by 440-490 bps in FY2023.
According to a report by credit rating agency ICRA, cement volumes are likely to grow by 7-8% in FY 2023 to around 388 million MT, supported by demand from housing, both rural and urban, and infrastructure sectors.
The report analyses the demand-supply scenario and input costs pressure on operating margins in FY 2023 for cement companies. Based on the report, the demand for rural housing was aided by a robust rabi harvest and better crop realisation. The progress of Kharif sowing amidst a moderate hike in MSPs of such crops for the upcoming marketing season would determine farm sentiments in the coming days.
In the infrastructure segment, an increase by 24% in capital expenditure to Rs. 7.5 trillion in FY 2023 budget estimates over FY 2022 revised estimates, led by Rs. 1.8 trillion for roads and Rs. 1.4 trillion for railways is expected to be favourable for cement demand. In the urban housing segment, despite the increasing interest rates, the growth in employee headcounts and salaries for several IT/ITES companies, and demand for better and spacious homes due to the hybrid working model in customer segments working in IT/ITES, BFSI and related sectors are likely to support demand.
Anupama Reddy, vice president, Corporate Ratings, ICRA, said, "In FY2023, operating income is expected to increase by around 11-13%, majorly supported by volumetric growth as well as an expected increase in net sales realisation. However, the elevated input costs are likely to adversely impact the operating margins and decline by 440-490 bps to ~15.9%-16.4%, which are expected to be the lowest over the last seven years."
According to ICRA, the cement capacity additions are likely to increase to around 29-32 MTPA in FY 2023 from about 25 MTPA in FY 2022, driven by strong demand prospects. The eastern region may lead the expansion and add around 16-17 MTPA, followed by the central region at about 6-7 MTPA in FY 2023. The capacity additions in the east are likely to result in some pricing pressures in the region. Moreover, despite an expected increase in volumes by 7-8%, the cement industry's capacity utilisation is likely to remain moderate at around 68% on an expanded base.
"While the capacity addition is likely to increase in FY 2023, the debt reliance is likely to be rangebound owing to the healthy liquidity of the cement companies. Hence, the leverage (TD/OPBIDTA) at 1.3x and coverage, DSCR at 3.3x in FY2023 are expected to remain healthy." Reddy added.
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It looks like you all had so much fun!
What a lovely get-together. Love those dainty tea cups - definitely appeal to the Brit in me! Great photo of Alrik on Sam's shoulders - all wonderful photos!
How very lovely! And I agree with Terri about those cups.
It looks like you all had a lovely time! :-) Great photos!
@Amy @ Anktangle: Silly! :) I was going to list everyone we missed but was terrified I'd forget someone. Besides, I wish everybody from NPN could have come!! Definitely will see you next time!
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ὁ κλέπτων μηκέτι κλεπτέτω, μᾶλλον δὲ κοπιάτω ἐργαζόμενος ταῖς ἰδίαις χερσὶν τὸ ἀγαθόν, ἵνα ἔχῃ μεταδιδόναι τῷ χρείαν ἔχοντι. The one who steals must no longer steal, but rather, he must grow weary while working the good with his own hands, in order that he might have to share with the one having need.
Paul continues his section of exhortations here. Prior to this verse, Paul addressed anger among Christians. Now he is addressing stealing. Paul exhorts the Christian who steals to cease stealing. The alternative is to work. Paul commands the Christian thief to put away the thief lifestyle, and to put on a new lifestyle of honest labor. The whole purpose of this labor, toiling and growing weary by working with one's own hands for the good, is for the Christian to have something available for the one who has need for it. If a Christian is a thief, then he (or she) is not able to provide for others in the community; instead, they take away from others and complicate things. If a Christian labors, then he (or she) is able to provide for the individual, but also for others in the community as necessary.
But Paul is not saying, "You might have to share" (i.e., "there is a possibility that you might need to share"). Instead, he is saying, "Work so that you can share." For Paul, Christians work so that they can have opportunities to share. If one does not work, then he or she will not have the necessary things for sharing. However, he expects that Christians are going to share with those in need. For this reason, they must work with their own hands.
Note the textual variant here. "One's own," ἰδίαις, may not be original. Papyrus 46 (apparently 49 as well) does not have ἰδίαις. The second corrector of Sinaiticus (א) does not have it, and neither does Vaticanus (B). Although they read with a substantially shorter variant, several late witnesses do not have it either (among the list are P, 33, and 1731). Several witnesses have a different order and do not have ἰδίαις (L, Ψ, al). A few witnesses include the dative preposition ἐν but still exclude ἰδίαις while adding in αὐτοῦ (629, pc). A few witnesses have a different order but include ἰδίαις (K, 1505, pc). Finally, several sources have the text as provided, such as Alexandrinus (A), Codex Claromontanus (D; not to be confused with Codex Bezae Cantebrigiensis, which is also D, but it only contains the Gospels, Acts, and 3 John), Augustine, and the original hand of Sinaiticus (א). The decision to be made here is very difficult. Earliest support does not have it. Additionally, there are numerous readings, but the majority of the kinds of readings do not contain it. Nonetheless, the inclusion of ἰδίαις does have early support. Additionally, it has wide attestation, with witnesses coming from the Western (א, for example), Alexandrian (A, for example), and Byzantine (F, G, and K, for example) traditions. Although it does not have the earliest support, nor is it the shorter reading, it does have early support and the widest attestation. Therefore, we should include ἰδίαις as part of the original reading.
The one who steals must steal no longer, but rather, he must grow weary while working the good with his own hands, for the purpose that he might have for sharing with the one having need.
As Christians, we should demonstrate that God has been working in our lives and we are changed beings. Additionally, we are set apart from the world as God's chosen ones, as members of his household, and therefore, we must live in a different way. Stealing is not characteristic of one of God's children. We must not steal. Instead, we must work. God has given us the ability to work, and so we must, but the fruit of our labors is not meant only for ourselves. It is meant to be shared with those who have need. Some people are less fortunate than others when it comes to work. Others are far more blessed. Christians who have the ability are called to share. The next time you walk by a homeless man who is asking for food, go buy a burger and take it to him. He has a need. If you have the ability, share with him. The next time you see a woman at the gas station who is running on empty and is asking you for some money to get some gas, do not hesitate, if you can, give her $5 or whatever you can afford to share. It is easy not to steal for most of us. Don't shoplift gum or magazines. Don't pirate movies or music off the Internet. Don't plagiarize. But it is much harder for us to give away what we have earned with our own hands. We are called to share, which is a difficult task, but it is a godly task. God freely gave to us. We can freely give to others, so far as we are able. And if not to strangers, we are especially called to share with each other, for we are all members of the body of Christ. We belong to each other and therefore we should be looking out for each other. Let us work, but let us also share, and thus imitate God.
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here's P49:ο κλεπτων μηκετεικλεπτετ]ω: μαλλον δ̣ε̣ [κ]ο̣πιατω εργ̣[α]ζ̣ομενοςταις χερσι]ν̣ το αγαθον: ϊνα εχη με̣τ̣[αδ]ιδο̣ν̣α̣ιτω χρεια]ν εχοντιIn a technical sense, P49 doesn't have ἰδίαις, but that right bracket notes that part of the manuscript is lost or unreadable – though it doesn't look like p49 would have space for the word anyway.
Interesting observation, Mike. I think that is why the NA 27 textual apparatus reads <>vid.<>49.I can't read some of what you posted. Is it in unicode? I should be able to read unicode.
When I view the comments in my Mail program, I read δε with dots underneath. When I read them in my browser through Blogger, it has squares following each letter.


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Patti Smith: 'As a writer, you can be a pacifist or a murderer'
The Guardian –Fiona Sturges
'I feel like I'm part-wolf' … Patti Smith. Photograph: Circa, Courtesy of the Artist
As she prepares to ring in 2021 with a performance on screens at Piccadilly Circus, the punk poet explains why she's optimistic amid the 'debris' of Trump's years in office
Patti Smith talks about her first poetry performance – in 1971 at St Mark's Church in New York's Bowery – as if it were yesterday. "I remember everything," she says over the phone from her home in New York. Smith was in her early 20s, working at a bookshop and living in the Chelsea Hotel with her then lover, the playwright Sam Shepard. She had attended poetry readings before, most of which put her into a deep sleep. "I wanted to do something that wasn't boring," she recalls. "Sam said that since I sang to myself all the time, I should try singing a song, or maybe do something with a guitar." And so she called on the musician Lenny Kaye to provide "interpretative" noises on guitar while she half-read, half-sang her poems.
The show was an instant hit. "It seemed to make a big impression on people – which I really didn't understand," she says. The producer Sandy Pearlman approached her afterwards and suggested she front a rock band. She eventually took his advice, making the landmark album Horses in 1975, and an icon of American punk was born.
Trump's damage is not going to be easily healed. He has empowered people of a like mind
To celebrate 50 years since the St Mark's show, next month Smith will be taking over the light screens at London's Piccadilly Circus. Curated by the digital artist Josef O'Connor and designed for our socially distanced reality, the installation will combine art, music, poetry and prose, and include two recorded performances – one scheduled for midnight on New Year's Eve and another on the day of the US presidential inauguration on 20 January. "Some of the work I did in my bedroom, some in a recording studio and some at my desk," says Smith, 74 this week. "I had to teach myself how to use Photo Booth on my computer and film myself reading a poem. I'm sure there are 14-year-olds who can do this in five minutes but it took me quite a while. But I got there and I'm so proud of myself."
Her favourite piece is a reworked version of Peaceable Kingdom. Written in the aftermath of 9/11, it is a song of solace and hope in the face of catastrophe and, in performing it, Smith will be commemorating 100 NHS workers who have died from Covid. "It's just so sad when we lose people who work so hard to rebuild our world," she reflects. She will also read a new poem dedicated to the environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg, who will be 18 in January and who, Smith says, "pretty much sacrificed her childhood for all of us".
Smith is a great talker: generous, self-deprecating, yet deeply serious about her work. She apologises for not using Zoom but, she explains, "I can feel a person's presence, talking to them on the phone. You and I could be sitting in the cafe across the street."
She says the past 10 months have been tough. Smith has a lifelong bronchial condition – "I was a sickly kid, sometimes they were worried that I wouldn't pull through" – and so has stayed home throughout the pandemic. Accustomed to travelling, with her band or on book tours, she can scarcely remember spending longer than two weeks at home before now. There was the time, in 1979, that Smith put her career on hold for a decade to raise her two children with her late husband, the MC5 guitarist Fred "Sonic" Smith. But then, she says: "I had so much responsibility and a true purpose. To be in limbo almost 10 months, for a person like me who doesn't like sitting in the same place, it's been very challenging. I feel like I'm part-wolf, roaming from room to room."
Four years under Trump has also taken its toll. "It's been a terrible atmosphere to live in," she says. "You try to do your work and not let [politics] permeate your consciousness daily but it does. It's very insidious." She notes that she and the outgoing president are about the same age. "I have encountered him in New York through the years and found him a horrible, narcissistic person and just a bad businessman. I've seen the debris of his deals. I think the damage he has done is going to be felt for a long time. It's not going to be so easily healed because globally he has empowered people of a like mind."
Nonetheless she will take "huge psychological relief in the new administration. I'm a natural optimist so I'm not without hope or inspiration. What matters is trying to clean up some of his mess and get some order. I'm doing that in my house. I'm a messy person, and I know that before I can do something creative or exciting I've first got to clear everything away."
Although Smith is celebrated for her music – Rolling Stone ranked Horses as the 26th greatest album of all time and in 2007 she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – she sees herself a writer rather than a musician.
"My daily practice since I was young has always been writing," she says. "I was married to a musician and my children are musicians, so I know how a musician thinks. It's out of respect to [them] that I don't like being called one."
Over the past 20 years she has largely swapped poetry for memoir, initially with her award-winning book Just Kids, about her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe. Her two subsequent books, M Train and Year of the Monkey, focused on her recent life, revealing her as a solitary soul dedicated to creativity and for whom the ghosts of those she has lost – her parents, her brother, her husband – remain close.
"The funny thing is, I never wanted to write non-fiction," she says. "For years I wrote fiction, all of it unpublished. Then Robert asked me the day he died to write our story and I, of course, promised him that I would."
Mapplethorpe died due to complications from HIV in 1989, though it took Smith 10 years to start writing Just Kids and another 10 to complete it. When she first arrived in New York, her plan wasn't simply to make a lot of money. "I had more hubris than that," she explains. "I wanted to do something great. I wanted to write a classic. My dreams were much loftier than fame and fortune. But Robert really wanted me to have success … And in my whole life, including any record, [Just Kids] has been my most successful undertaking. So Robert got his wish."
Now Smith is working on a new book that she calls "auto-fiction", which will be full of dreams and imagination, and a further reflection on where her life is now. Smith keenly "feels the urgency of our global problems". But, she adds: "I still love life. I'm so grateful to be able to write – my notebook has been my companion through the most difficult times. As a writer, I'll get as dark as I have to be – you can be a pacifist or a murderer in your work. But as a mother, a grandmother, an aunt, I try to stay upbeat and practical and responsible. I try to live by my parents' work ethic and I plug away, and do what I have to do to make things as good as they can be."
She still loves performing – "My goal is to stay in contact with people, and when I go on stage it's all for them" – but it has not always been smooth sailing. Smith mentions her performance of Bob Dylan's A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall at the 2016 Nobel prize ceremony in Sweden, when she forgot the lyrics and had to stop and start again. "I blanked, I just froze," she says. "I felt like a child. I just wanted to run away and hide under the bed. But I had to forge on because I had a responsibility. If that performance did nothing else, I hope it gave an example to not give up in the face of humiliation, and just to take a breath and keep going."
Taking a breath and keeping going is what Smith is doing now under lockdown, working on her book and counting the days until she can hit the road once more. Lately she has been dreaming of revisiting Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper in Milan, and Rubens' Adoration of the Magi in Cambridge. "But art endures, and these works aren't going anywhere," she says. "When the time is right, I will be back."
Circa presents Patti Smith throughout January at 20:21 GMT at Piccadilly Lights, London. A limited-edition print by Smith will be available to buy for £100 from 1 January. Viewers can watch the installation on YouTube from 23:45 GMT on 31 December.
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The Anger
That eye looks sore, Steven…
It's strange. After the game on Sunday I was adamant that words could not make me feel better. I was ashamed, embarrassed and above all angry at the way we'd allowed a non-league side to control us.
The information we've obtained over the last 24 hours would suggest that we weren't the only ones.
Let's be clear. Pressley's press conference yesterday doesn't immediately fix anything or atone for the defeat. It doesn't quell the frustrations of Sunday, restore the squad's confidence or our confidence in the squad. It doesn't rebuild a defence that has conceded 2 goals a game for the best part of a month.
All those things remain brittle and ultimately, whether you place the blame at his door or not, Steven Pressley will be held responsible if those elements continue to fail. We know that. Football-wise, we need to see results immediately because he will be the one who cops it otherwise.
What this video does show however is that we have a manager who is living and breathing this football club. Of course, this could all be a very strategic play by a clever man who knows that he needs to bring some fans back onside. I know there are people thinking that.
Not me though. Watch it, absorb it, listen to it. For once this feels so much more than just lip service. This isn't just pantomime anger. This is a bloke who is seething about something. Something has gone on in that dressing room that has knocked him into a rage and the after-effects are going to be identifiable over the next weeks or months, whether we find out the specifics behind it or not. The defeat was a shocker, but there's clearly something else.
The uncertainty about what could have caused this tirade makes assessing its value difficult, but when I think of what sort of manager I want for Coventry City, Steven Pressley epitomises the values and approach that I look for. In a game as arbitrary as football, a good manager has to be about so much more than someone who can get lucky with a team selection. Especially for a club like Coventry City with such fundamental cultural constraints coursing throughout its core.
He is the dominant figurehead we've needed for years, with the apparent strength of character to drag this club kicking and scream out of the doldums. Over time – I have no doubt that he would prove that.
However there's one problem which even his biggest fans will have to acknowledge. If things carry on as they are on the pitch he will be in trouble. Because that's the world we live in. There's no getting away from the fact that continued poor standards and below par performances, especially for a football club like Coventry City which is already at its lowest ebb, will mean someone being held accountable. The only option for us at this point is forwards. Anything else is failure.
The head and heart debate about Pressley will rage on amongst fans. Losing Pressley would be a long-term travesty for this club in terms of everything he is able to offer from a leadership and planning perspective. But in the meantime there are fundamentals that need to get sorted in order to keep him in the job; a job that he deserves a fair crack at, away from drastic financial constraints and wholescale relocation. I hope to Christ our players are ready for the fight that's needed to achieve that, because the next few weeks are going to be as much about them as it is about him.
There can be no more second-best. No more acceptance of mediocrity. No more downright appalling defending and dips in concentration. Because much more of the same means losing a man who is imparting a hell of a lot of thought and sense into how our club is being run, laying the foundations for a prosperous future.
It's time to step up and get this sorted. There's a very clear job to do, much of which relies on self discipline and determination before anything else. You'll excuse the embarrassingly simple message, but let's stop all the nonsense and just do it. We have more than enough capable players. It doesn't always have to be this hard.
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barnetchris1963 says:
Wow! I think you've been inside my mind.
Very succinctly & eloquently.
Despite my anger at individual results I agree with the long term view you describe here.
andy d says:
TIME WILL TELL.
About time a Sky Blues manager stopped defending his players, Coleman, Dowie, Thorne amongst others would go on about the effort and dissapointed they were with the display but not once blame players attitude or application or indeed lack of the will or ability to carry out a simple game plan.
I applaude Pressley long may this honesty continue, we have hidden behind rose tinted glasses for the last fourteen years.
We as a group must now fight for everything, throw abuse at refs hackle linesmen from the stands, players must con officials by diving at every opportunity, hastle every decision, torment other players ala Mr Wise and Doyle.
Why should we do this? Because every other club in the football league does apart from us, toughen up or ship out Pressley will save this club we must start believing.
PUSB