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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (February 28, 2022) for CSS, PMS
February 28, 2022: National / International Current Affairs
1. Pak-Afghan trade activities resume as Chaman border reopens
2. 200 nations okay major UN report on climate impact
3. War leaves Pakistan with fewer LNG import options
4. Smartphones outnumber 2G sets in Pakistan
5. Putin puts nuclear forces on alert
6. Ukraine`s actor-president grows in stature as war-time leader
7. Russian official `apologises` for invasion
8. Taliban ban evacuations, for now
9. Pakistan Super League: Lahore Qalandars outclass Multan Sultans to lift maiden title
10. `Incredibly safe`, says Cummins as Australian team arrives
• The Chaman-Spin Buldak border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, which was closed after clashes between the two countries` forces began last week, was reopened on February 27, 2022 morning.
• All hurdles have been removed from both sides of the Friendship Gate on the border.
• The border was reopened after a delegation of ulema from Chaman headed by tribal elder Molvi Haji Faizullah Nourzai held negotiations with Kandahar Governor Yousef Wafa and other Taliban leaders
• Nearly 200 nations approved a major UN climate change report detailing the accelerating impacts of global warming on February 27, 2022, at the end of a sometimes fraught two-week meeting overshadowed by Russia`s invasion of Ukraine.
• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirmed that debates had concluded over the report`s crucial `Summary for Policymakers`, a 40-page overview distilling the thousands of pages of scientific research, which has been reviewed line-by-line and will be made public on Monday (today).
• Species extinction, ecosystem collapse, mosquito-borne disease, deadly heat, water shortages, and reduced crop yields are already measurably worse due to global heating.
• Just in the last year, the world has seen a cascade of unprecedented floods, heatwaves and wildfires across four continents.
• With the escalating Russia-Ukraine war, Pakistan is left with fewer import options for liquefied natural gas (LNG) while struggling to maintain 8-10 cargoes a month instead of 14 required for electricity and industrial needs.
• Pakistan currently imports from Qatar 7-8 cargoes per month of about 100 million cubic feet per day (MMCFD) each and two from traders who have become habitual defaulters. It is, therefore, prudent to consider that traders may continue with their defaults given the tight market conditions, thus leaving Islamabad at the mercy of Qatar.
• Under the two long-term contracts with Qatar, state-run entities in Pakistan are importing on a monthly basis six cargoes at 13.37pc of Brent and one to two cargoes at 10.2pc of Brent. These translate into $10.6-11 per million British Thermal Unit (MMBTU) and about $8.2 per MMBTU, respectively
• The number of smartphone users has surpassed those using old school 2G sets for the first time in the country, the telecom regulator said in its latest annual report.
• The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) in its annual report 2021 also highlighted several other achievements, including the broadband subscribers crossing the 100 million mark during the year, which played a key role in boosting telecom industry`s revenue.
• The industry paid Rs179 billion in terms of general sales tax, withholding tax, customs duty and other taxes in the fiscal year 2020-21 compared to Rs148.9bn a year ago, the report said.
• The PTA report shows that the country`s success in fight against the Covid-19 pandemic and strategic manoeuvres towards industry facilitation and consumer protection paved the way for all-inclusive connectivity and overall growth of the sector.
• President Vladimir Putin ordered his military command to put Russia`s nuclear deterrent on high alert on February 27, 2022 in the face of a huge Western response to his war on Ukraine, which said it had repelled Russian ground forces nearing its biggest cities.
• The United States responded by saying Putin was escalating the war in a `totally unacceptable` way, amid signs that the a Ukrainian Territorial Defence fighter takes the automatic grenade launcher from a destroyed Russian infantry mobility vehicle after the fight in Kharkiv on Sunday. AFP biggest assault on a European state since World War II was not producing rapid battlefield victories for Russia.
• The Ukrainian president`s office said negotiations with Moscow without preconditions would be held at the Belarusian Ukrainian border. The Kremlin said talks had started
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Australia's new dawn?
By Rodney E. Lever | 24 March 2013, 1:49am | comments |
This week's events, messy as they were, have opened the door for Julia Gillard to convert the ALP into a new and modernised political party, says Rodney E. Lever.
WHATEVER HAPPENED in the halls of Canberra last week, whether by chance or by careful planning, it opened the door for Julia Gillard to convert the Australia Labor Party into a new and modernised political party of her own creation.
Last week, she either fell into a trap set by others and crushed them ‒ not exactly brutally but not sweetly either ‒ or it was a composite chain of events that gave her an opportunity rarely offered to a political leader. Either way, she has demonstrated her strength as a woman and a leader.
Those events have set both the Labor Party and the Australian nation onto a new path. Like New Labor, that gave Britain's Tony Blair the opportunity to wash his country clean of the stifling High Tory Thatcher regime, Prime Minister Gillard now has her own opportunity to sweep nasty Small Tory Howardism into the dustpan of our history.
Behind this not so distant past always lurks the grubby shadow of Keith Rupert Murdoch, the newspaper magnate whose unfettered super ego placed his shadowy figure in a scenario that corrupted both nations.
His United States invasion, dominating everything else in his dark mind, became a significant force in the Reagan-Bush years. He was able to use his influence in Britain and Australia to drag the country of his birth into unwinnable, wasteful, senseless, homicidal wars that brought worldwide economic and political disaster in the last months of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st.
Blair, Howard and Bush all fell from power and now Murdoch is trying again — a last fling in the evening of his life. He had Kevin Rudd in his clutch — and when Rudd lost power, he appropriated the insipid, obsequious Tony Abbott on the other side of politics instead.
There is not the slightest chance that he will ever gain any influence at all over Julia Gillard. Australia has an intellectually sharp and agile leader now who will remain untainted by the Murdoch influence. She is a woman who knows her own mind. She has the opportunity to build the Party into a new force, with new blood in its veins and new talent in its ministerial front bench.
Soon, the country must shed its last remaining faith in the fraudulent behaviour of the old media ‒ that once dominated our lives ‒ and, from the new media, become fully aware of her abilities
If we do, 14 September 2013, will herald a new beginning in the history of Australia.
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An examination of The Lost Chord and the other songs by the same poet, Adelaide A. Procter.
My second segment concerns itself mainly with the songs of Adelaide Anne Procter, who died at the age of 36, in 1864, after a life of good works. She was the most purchased poet in the country after Tennyson, so she was extremely famous. She was a contributor to Dickens' magazine Household Words. Dickens wrote a very admiring obituary of her, in which he, nonetheless, notes that her poetry is the opposite of humorous. He says, "Those who know her only from her poetry will perhaps be surprised to learn that she was actually delightful and humorous". He goes on to outline her jolly qualities, but it must be said that her poetry is very serious. She regarded herself as a writer of verses, and thought that it was her father, Benjamin, who was the poet. She became very abashed by her bestselling status, partly because she was embarrassed for her father's sake.
We generally tend to laugh at Victorian poetry, perhaps because the Victorians had no great sense of irony. Our current culture is so saturated with irony that we are at the opposite pole. If somebody sings, for example, that they were seated one day at the organ, we tend to laugh, but this was a commonplace setting for the Victorians.
I shall first look at "Will he come?" This poem is about a woman dying of tuberculosis. We know this because she has got a flushed face and she is sinking fast and so on. It reminds me that many commentaries on Verdi's La traviata find it funny that the the 'fallen woman' is suffering from tuberculosis. It is a little bit incongruous, I suppose, for an opera singer to be impersonating somebody with terminal tuberculosis, but that apart, it is not actually very funny.
The other thing that we ought to bear in mind, of course, is that I am about to look at a song about a child starving to death. We should not necessarily think of this as a subject far removed from us, if we consider the terrible things going on in Somalia and Ethiopia. I hope that we have all got to a position where we have outgrown our attitude to silly songs about women wishing that their children were dying. It is to be hoped that we might have grown up a bit in our appreciation of these Victorian sentiments, realising that these sentiments are sincerely felt and rather well-expressed.
Adelaide Procter died in 1864, and Sullivan wrote his first Procter song in 1865. I think it not unlikely, therefore, that this is something of a tribute to the poem. "Will he come?" is about a woman dying of tuberculosis, which is what Procter died of. This is not just an invented scenario, conjured up just to wring the heart; this is the poet looking ahead and seeing her own death, as it were.
There is a hairpin in that bar.
There is the word "crescendo" in that bar.
Sullivan has done what he very frequently does at this point: he has given us something of a recitative at the beginning, and now gets into a beautiful tune.
Notice that bass interruption that I drew your attention to in "The Sailor's Grave".
And then there is a marvellous surprise!
"Wake me early in the morning, wake me early, mother dear". This is just one of many poems about dying girls, but I feel it has a certain poignancy in the hands of Procter.
Those notes with accents at the end are surely intended to be a passing bell. You hear a lot of bells in Sullivan's music. The passing bell was such a familiar part of 19th Century life that Schubert wrote a whole song called "The Passing Bell", which has a bell ringing away in it - so, not a comical moment at all.
That change of chord pushes us through the phrase in a different way.
I am now going to skip to "The Lost Chord", and it is only right that I here say something about Thomas Helmore. Helmore was the Master of the Choristers at the Chapel Royal and, as Sherlock Holmes points out, he was the only man who knew everything about medieval music in the time that Sullivan was a choirboy. In fact, it was in a volume published by Helmore, with the Reverend J. M. Neale in the late-1850s, that "Good King Wenceslas" made its first appearance.
It is said of Reverend Thomas Helmore: "His beautiful voice was brought to perfection by systematic practice... In intoning the service, his now highly cultivated voice soon placed the Reverend Thomas Helmore at the head of the list of cathedral vicars or minor canons in England." Sir George Elvey, attending on a day when there was no singing except the monotone service, said: "I never in my life heard anything to approach the grandeur and solemnity of that monotone service." By simply chanting on a single note, Thomas Helmore showed a genius that could impress one of the great church musicians of the day.
The opening of "The Lost Chord" is simply versicles and responses. As a result, it needs to be sung in the way we might imagine that Helmore would have sung his versicles and responses. I tend to think that this would probably not have been strictly rhythmic because Thomas Helmore was one of the founders of the Plainsong Society.
I think that this is why Sullivan's work is so full of repeated notes, because he spent his formative years listening to a master of the monotone.
What we have in "The Lost Chord" is a combination of Sullivan's childhood experience of a great master of chanting with an otherworldly "Amen", which is in a different tonal space altogether. This reminds us that "The Lost Chord" is actually "A Lost Progression". It is not the one chord; it is the two chords that he has lost. This may explain why he changed the title. Procter's title for it is "A Lost Chord", whereas Sullivan calls it "The Lost Chord". The obituary writers of Procter called it the "Lost Chord", without the "The". So, we would be quite right in saying "Sullivan's Lost Chord", not "Sullivan's The Lost Chord". But he did change the title, and I wonder if he did so partly because he knew that it was a progression, not a single chord.
About ten years ago, I was once approached by a Swedish composer, who said that he had found the most wonderful lyric to set to music. He said, "It's an English lyric, I think it's absolutely wonderful, it's just crying out for music - I'm going to set it for organ and trumpet... It's called "The Lost Chord"." I said, "Well, you do know that it has actually been set…" He said, "I don't care! I don't care! I think it's a wonderful poem".


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Preview: Unreal Tournament III: Titan Pack
2009-02-20 14:00:00by Dale North
As we told you yesterday, Epic Games has a massive expansion for Unreal Tournament III set to drop on March 5th for the PS3 and PC, called the Titan Pack. With lots of new maps, new game modes, new weapons and deployables, tons of technical upgrades, and the screen-filling beasts themselves, you'd expect to pay at least something for all of this. But Epic is giving it away for free. And anything free these days is greatly appreciated.
To detail absolutely all you'll be getting in this free download would take forever, seeing as how the download will weigh in at over 800mb. We'll let you do the exploring on your own time next month. But for now, Epic Games had us out to give the upcoming Titan pack a spin, and we have the highlights for you here.
What's new to game play in the Titan pack? There's two new game modes, and then the actual Titan mechanic, which we'll get into in a bit.
The new Greed mode is kind of like capture the flag, except that you're picking up the skulls of your kills. The goal is to kill and not be killed, taking your haul of skulls to the enemy base to cash them in to amass the most points before time runs down. Should you be hit, your skull collection will fly everywhere, much like Sonic's rings when he's hit. It's a fast-paced and fun twist with lot of interesting new strategy possibilities. I found myself creeping behind a reasonably talented enemy, watching him pick off the weak and build a big skull collection. And then I'd knock him off, take his skulls, and laugh all the way to the enemy base to cash them in. Good fun.
Betrayal is my favorite new mode in the Titan pack. In what usually becomes a crazy free-for-all, you and some other random player will be temporarily teamed up. Every kill you or your teammate makes is added to a pot. But know this: betrayal is essentially a death match where you're expected to betray your teammate. When that amassed pot is large, you can actually kill your teammate with alternate fire and take the pot for yourself, increasing your kill count. There's a lot of ways to strategize toward a win, but I found that waiting and then taking is best. Essentially, this is a game for assholes. Naturally, I won the first game we played.
Nanoblack - great new map
Of course, these and all other game modes are made much sweeter with the new Titan mechanic. And I'm telling you now: if you did nothing else but play as Titans (or Behemoths), you'd be pleased as punch. As I said before, they're a blast.
In the corner of the screen there's a new meter which you'll fill by killing. Once full, you can trigger the transformation into a Titan, a 15-foot tall badass that can launch super-powerful rockets and also bash the ground to knock everyone down. Of course, being this strong, you'll become a target. But, if you should survive long enough to fill that meter once again, you'll become a Behemoth. Now you're 30-feet tall, insanely powerful, and can do anything. Everyone will hate you when you're a Behemoth, but you will not care.
There's a catch, though. Aside from becoming a primary target for the enemy, you can't do anything but kill. There's no carrying of flags, orbs, or anything. No vehicles, either. No weapons or power-ups, too. And when you become a Behemoth, you'll self-destruct eventually, but that's a good thing. The explosion is so destructive that you'll be glad you exploded!
Maps: all of this madness goes down on 16 new maps. Well, it's actually 11 new maps, as 5 of them come from the Xbox 360 versions that no one else got. There's 6 deathmatch maps, 3 capture the flag ones, 3 more CTF in vehicle ones, and 4 warfare maps. I actually did manage to play them all. Going through them would be a lengthy exercise, so I picked out some highlights:
Eden, Inc - kind of a nod to BioShock, and the new X-ray field deployable is available here.
Koos Barge - from the Xbox 360. Now a kickass place to throw down in Betrayal mode with its tight quarters and corridors
Nanoblack - big bases, nice sniper areas, and huge open areas in between. We played Greed here, and it worked well.
More goodies. Again, there's a lot here, but here are my favorites:
X-ray Field - go through this field, and you're see-through. Oh, and you're also an easy target. Hint: it's a trap!
Slow Field power up - makes you hard to hit as it actually slows bullets
Eradicator Cannon - a new weapon that goes BOOM
Kana - the new girl
Summary: I'll say again that the new Titan mechanic makes everything new again. It totally changes the strategy of the game, and how you'd play the maps. There's also plenty of new small tweaks, affecting everything from weapons to the game's UI. Add on Steam and PS3 trophies (57 in all), new characters, a new vehicle (didn't get to try that out), mod browsing and split screen on the PS3, and a ton more, and you have an add-on that makes that $20 PS3 or PC game like new again.
Oh, and did we mention that it's free?
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In part 4 of our special series with Amy Gleason, RN, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of CareSync, we focus on CareSync's clinical services and the value they bring to members nationwide.
You've made the decision. You're ready to take the plunge. Now what? Today, we're outlining the steps to get started with your Chronic Care Management Program.
We spend a lot of time working with medical organizations throughout the US who are excited at the potential outcomes of implementing a Chronic Care Management (CCM) program for their organization, but overwhelmed by the requirements put forth by CMS.
Today, we've pulled together the specific requirements that you'll need to accomplish to properly bill CPT 99490.
Chronic Care Management is all about putting the patient at the center of their care. In order to accomplish this (and get reimbursed), providers are required to build a comprehensive, patient-centered health summary and Care Plan for each eligible patient.
This care plan needs to include all of the current medical records from all of the patient's providers.


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Aubrey Park, Redbourn in Hertfordshire is a building of historical significance and is listed on the English Heritage Register. Parts of the building date back to the 16th and 17th Centuries and the site on which it is located may have its origins in the 13th Century. Today it is a hotel which provides accommodation, restaurant facilities and caters for special events including weddings.

Owners of Aubrey Park

Aubrey Park was previously called Foster's Farm and it seems that during the 17th Century it was owned by the Carpenter family who were wealthy Redbourn residents possessing large areas of land. Until 1640 they lived at Revel End which is adjacent to Foster's farm. They then built Redbourn House in the early 18th Century. The Carpenter family named the eldest son George for five generations and all lived in or around the village.

George Carpenter (1713-1782) who was the last of the line had an only child named Mary Elizabeth Carpenter (1783-1811). She was his sole heir. In 1800 she married the 11th Earl of Strathmore (1743-1846) and her marriage settlement mentioned the Carpenters Redbourn Estate which included properties such as Redbourn House and Foster's Farm. The couple had one child Thomas George Bowes-Lyon (1801-1834) called Lord Glamis. In 1820 he married Charlotte Grimstead (1797-1881) who became Lady Glamis. Thomas who was the great-grandfather of the Queen Mother was the eldest son and intended heir of the 11th Earl of Strathmore died in 1834 before his father's death of 1846. Before he died his father gave him the Redbourne Estate which had been part of his mother's marriage settlement.

In his Will of 1835 Thomas left this property to his wife Charlotte, Lady Glamis. The 1843 Tithe map shows that she is the owner of Foster's Farm. After her husband's death Charlotte lived for much of her life at Redbourn House. The 1841 Census records her as living at the house with her mother Charlotte Grimstead. In 1865 she moved to "the Red House" in High Street.

Lady Glamis retained ownership of Foster's Farm until her death in 1881. The whole of her Redbourn Estate was inherited by her son the 13th Earl of Strathmore. In 1893 the Earl sold the Estate and the sale notice for Foster's Farm is shown.

Some of the Estate which included Foster's Farm was bought by Sir John Blundell Maple who was a business magnate who owned the furniture manufacturing company Maple and Co. He was the proprietor of Foster's Farm for about twelve years and in about 1905 it was sold to the Dunn family who were residents for over 35 years.

George Arthur Dunn (1865-1939) was an extremely wealthy businessman. He was the owner of the famous menswear company Dunn and Co which specialised in men's hats. In 1884 he married Lucy Day (1863-1939) and the couple had nine children who can be seen in the photo taken at "The Aubreys" in 1918.

After he bought Foster's Farm he made substantial additions to it and renamed it "the Aubreys". He was an advocate of the "back to the land" movement and "kitchen farming" which was very popular in England at the turn of the century and he bought over 1000 acres of land surrounding "the Aubreys". He introduced some advanced farming methods into the area and was said to have one of the first combine harvesters in England. He bought the Branksome Dean Hotel in Bournemouth and developed it as a vegetarian establishment.

He died in 1939 at "the Aubreys" and in 1946 the Dunn family sold the property. The sale notice was in The Times. In the 1960s the house became the Aubrey Park Hotel.

The Tenants of Aubrey Park

During the 19th Century when it was still called Foster's Farm there were several notable people who were tenants. The 1843 Tithe Map shows that John Beaumont was the resident at this time. He was the son of John Beaumont (1745-1815) and his wife Ann who had been tenant farmers at Flowers Farm which is nearby. After he died in 1851 Frederic Faircloth (18051880) became the resident farmer. In the 1861 Census shows that James Draper and his wife Sarah followed in the 1871 by George Saunders (1821-1907) and his wife Faith. The 1881 Census records George Farr (1845-1915) and his wife Jessie as the residents. The Farr family remained there as tenants until about 1905 when it was bought by the Dunn family.

References

External links
 Aubrey Park Hotel website

Hotels in Hertfordshire
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New York City is known for museums, nightlife, shopping, historic sites, and parks. Your plan includes some of its best attractions: explore and take pictures at Central Park, explore the world behind art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, admire the striking features of Empire State Building, and don't miss a visit to Grand Central Terminal.
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You can drive from Gettysburg to Washington DC in 2 hours. Alternatively, you can do a combination of taxi and train; or do a combination of taxi, flight, and train. When traveling from Gettysburg in January, plan for a bit warmer days in Washington DC, with highs around 7°C, while nights are about the same with lows around -1°C. Finish your sightseeing early on the 3rd (Fri) so you can travel to Miami.
Get out of town with these interesting Miami side-trips: Gumbo Limbo Trail (in Everglades National Park) and Thalatta Estate Park (in Palmetto Bay). Next up on the itinerary: admire the natural beauty at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, browse the different shops at Bayside Marketplace, see the interesting displays at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, and have fun at Lock & Load Miami.
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Traveling by flight from Washington DC to Miami takes 4.5 hours. Alternatively, you can do a combination of train and flight; or drive. Traveling from Washington DC in January, things will get much warmer in Miami: highs are around 29°C and lows about 20°C. Wrap up your sightseeing on the 6th (Mon) early enough to travel to San Francisco.
On the 7th (Tue), head off the coast to Alcatraz Island, then go for a walk through Fisherman's Wharf, then steep yourself in history at SS Jeremiah O'Brien, and finally snap pictures at Golden Gate Bridge. Get ready for a full day of sightseeing on the next day: buy something for everyone on your list at Ferry Building Marketplace, make a trip to Book Passage, then don't miss a visit to Golden Gate Park, and finally admire the natural beauty at Japanese Tea Garden.
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You can fly from Miami to San Francisco in 7.5 hours. Alternatively, you can do a combination of bus and flight; or drive. The time zone difference when traveling from Miami to San Francisco is minus 3 hours. Plan for a bit cooler temperatures traveling from Miami in January, with highs in San Francisco at 17°C and lows at 9°C. Cap off your sightseeing on the 9th (Thu) early enough to travel to Los Angeles.
Explore the numerous day-trip ideas around Los Angeles: Anaheim (Disneyland Park & Disney California Adventure Park). Pack the 10th (Fri) with family-friendly diversions at Universal Studios Hollywood. Next up on the itinerary: examine the collection at The Getty Center, partake in some friendly competition at Fantastic Race, appreciate the extensive heritage of Hollywood Walk of Fame, and admire the masterpieces at Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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Traveling by flight from San Francisco to Los Angeles takes 4 hours. Alternatively, you can do a combination of train and flight; or drive. While traveling from San Francisco, expect somewhat warmer days and about the same nights in Los Angeles, ranging from highs of 24°C to lows of 11°C. Finish up your sightseeing early on the 13th (Mon) so you can travel back home.


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Every TownFolk Table begins with produce pick up at Whole Foods Market using our trusty trailer funded by our grant from Whole Cities Foundation. Volunteers then meet at Victory Garden to begin separating produce evenly and preparing for distribution.
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Charles Robel was the latest receiver of the "Outstanding Student" award. He's from Waukesha County Technical College. He is currently employed at Integrity Wire EDM in Sussex, WI and is an Iraq war veteran who served three tours. He has been a very positive role model to other students and takes pride in his work. Charles was very humble when asked how he felt about winning.


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Just look at that texture! I want a bite..
In a mixing bowl, add the peanut butter, vanilla and maple syrup – whisk together until smooth.
Mix in the oat flour until a thick consistency forms. Scoop out tablespoons of the mixture and roll into balls with your hands (the balls will be soft so they won't hold their shape too well) and place onto a tray lined with baking paper and place in the freezer for 30 minutes.
When you remove from the freezer, the dough will be easier to shape – shape into balls again. Store in the fridge or freezer and enjoy!
If you look at the ingredients I have written to use gluten free oats if needed.
These look delicious! Do they keep long?
Yum! I can't wait to try this. Such a quick and simple fix!
Would the recipe work with almond flour?
Do you know how many calories each ball have?
No sorry, I prefer not to promote focusing on calories!


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I welcome the formation of Lateral Economics. Nicholas Gruen – who advised me on economic policy and wrote speeches for me during my terms as Minister for Employment, Education and Training and as Treasurer – is one of the most capable, innovative and rigorous policy thinkers I know. As his work on the car industry and fiscal policy illustrates, he knows how to 'work' Canberra to represent positions with interest groups, officials, and politicians of all political persuasions.
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Facebook's Meta logo sign is seen at the company headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. on Oct. 28, 2021. According to a report released Thursday, June 9, 2022, Facebook and parent company Meta once again failed to detect blatant, violent hate speech in advertisements submitted to the platform by the nonprofit groups Global Witness and Foxglove. Credit: AP Photo/Tony Avelar, File
The test couldn't have been much easier—and Facebook still failed.
Facebook and its parent company Meta flopped once again in a test of how well they could detect obviously violent hate speech in advertisements submitted to the platform by the nonprofit groups Global Witness and Foxglove.
The hateful messages focused on Ethiopia, where internal documents obtained by whistleblower Frances Haugen showed that Facebook's ineffective moderation is "literally fanning ethnic violence," as she said in her 2021 congressional testimony. In March, Global Witness ran a similar test with hate speech in Myanmar, which Facebook also failed to detect.
The group created 12 text-based ads that used dehumanizing hate speech to call for the murder of people belonging to each of Ethiopia's three main ethnic groups—the Amhara, the Oromo and the Tigrayans. Facebook's systems approved the ads for publication, just as they did with the Myanmar ads. The ads were not actually published on Facebook.
This time around, though, the group informed Meta about the undetected violations. The company said the ads shouldn't have been approved and pointed to the work it has done to catch hateful content on its platforms.
A week after hearing from Meta, Global Witness submitted two more ads for approval, again with blatant hate speech. The two ads, written in Amharic, the most widely used language in Ethiopia, were approved.
Meta said the ads shouldn't have been approved.
"We've invested heavily in safety measures in Ethiopia, adding more staff with local expertise and building our capacity to catch hateful and inflammatory content in the most widely spoken languages, including Amharic," the company said in an emailed statement, adding that machines and people can still make mistakes. The statement was identical to the one Global Witness received.
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"We picked out the worst cases we could think of," said Rosie Sharpe, a campaigner at Global Witness. "The ones that ought to be the easiest for Facebook to detect. They weren't coded language. They weren't dog whistles. They were explicit statements saying that this type of person is not a human or these type of people should be starved to death."
Meta has consistently refused to say how many content moderators it has in countries where English is not the primary language. This includes moderators in Ethiopia, Myanmar and other regions where material posted on the company's platforms has been linked to real-world violence.
In November, Meta said it removed a post by Ethiopia's prime minister that urged citizens to rise up and "bury" rival Tigray forces who threatened the country's capital.
In the since-deleted post, Abiy said the "obligation to die for Ethiopia belongs to all of us." He called on citizens to mobilize "by holding any weapon or capacity."
Abiy has continued to post on the platform, though, where he has 4.1 million followers. The U.S. and others have warned Ethiopia about "dehumanizing rhetoric" after the prime minister described the Tigray forces as "cancer" and "weeds" in comments made in July 2021.
"When ads calling for genocide in Ethiopia repeatedly get through Facebook's net—even after the issue is flagged with Facebook—there's only one possible conclusion: there's nobody home," said Rosa Curling, director of Foxglove, a London-based legal nonprofit that partnered with Global Witness in its investigation. "Years after the Myanmar genocide, it is clear Facebook hasn't learned its lesson."
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Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo es un municipio del estado de São Paulo.

Historia
Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo comenzó su historia cuando un grupo de portugueses que pasaban por la región y para espantar los animales salvages e indios que aquí vivían, colocaron una cruz cerca del río es la incendiaron. Los animales y los indios dejaron la región, y así comenzó el proceso de colonización del municipio que recibió ese nombre en razón de la cruz y del río Pardo.

Geografía
Su población se estima en 42.259 habitantes, según el IBGE. Su extensión territorial es de 1.116,377 km², el que le confiere una densidad demográfica de aproximadamente 37,9 hab/km².

Demografía

Datos del Censo - 2000

Población total: 40.919
 Urbana: 35.120
 Rural: 5.799
 Hombres: 20.275
 Mujeres: 20.644
Densidad demográfica (hab./km²): 36,65

Mortalidad infantil hasta 1 año (por mil): 11,89

Expectativa de vida (años): 73,50

Taza de fecundidad (hijos por mujer): 1,97

Taza de alfabetización: 91,59%

Índice de Desarrollo Humano (IDH-M): 0,811
 IDH-M Salario: 0,749
 IDH-M Longevidad: 0,808
 IDH-M Educación: 0,876
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Hidrografía
 Río Pardo
 Arroyo Mandassaia
 Arroyo da Onça
 Arroyo São domingos
 Arroyo Alambari

Carreteras
 SP-327

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Página de la prefectura
 Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo en el WikiMapia

Localidades de São Paulo


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Alpha One: The Jump Pilot: Jake is a trainee Jump Pilot and war is rife in the galaxy…The Sentinels are very sensitive about a region of space, light years from their territorial boundaries. They are guided by the Betanica Sect, who seek to protect the galaxy and in particular the Tri Star Region from invasion by the Kryl. The Kryl are the devil incarnate. Jake is a final year Alpha Academy student and he has chosen Jump Ship Command to launch his career. He and Steve are two of the brightest academy pilots. They are also vying for the affection of the same girl. . . To learn more about this action packed space opera CLICK HERE.
Frank Herbert: The Works is a comprehensive critical biography documenting the literary achievements – and sometimes stupendous disappointments – which comprise the legacy of this colossal figure who has for so long dominated the science fiction stage. Herbert's most famous and compelling works, including Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Whipping Star, Destination: Void and The Santaroga Barrier, are recast in an original compositional and intellectual perspective that establishes the hidden interrelationships and ideological connectivity woven throughout his entire oeuvre. A new understanding of the deeper significance which riddles his most well-known works emerges from the context of his less renowned fiction and non-fiction alike, as well as from consideration of the times and places in which he worked. CLICK HERE to learn more.
Before we replay a classic interview, Sean Williams joins us to discuss his latest projects, experimental sleep deprivation, and Writers of the Future, among other topics.
To listen to the original episode with Sean in its entirety, download Episode 62 HERE.
Looking forward to listening to this one again. It would be easier to share these posts if you linked the guest's website and/or twitter handle. I like the idea of replaying classics and getting updated info at the beginning. Very cool.
Thanks, buddy. Author website is a must that I overlooked. Will rectify now!
Terrific advice from Sean. I would love to hear an interview with him on his meta-transmitter/warp device thesis. Glad you resurrected this one, Shaun!
A bit late to the party on this one but I listened to this over the weekend – great stuff, very inspiring.


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Q: value of $g(2019)$ in functional Inequality
Suppose the function $g:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ satisfies the inequality
$\displaystyle \bigg|\sum^{n}_{r=1}3^{r}\bigg(g(x+ry)-g(x-ry)\bigg)\bigg|\leq 1$ for all positive integer $n$ amd all real values of $x,y$
If value of $g(13)=17.$ Then  value of $g(2019)$ is

what i try
$$\bigg|\sum^{n}_{r=1}3^{r}\bigg(g(x+ry)-g(x-ry)\bigg)\bigg|\leq 1$$
replace $n\rightarrow (n-1)$
$$\bigg|\sum^{n-1}_{r=1}3^{r}\bigg(g(x+ry)-g(x-ry)\bigg)\bigg|\leq 1$$
Subtracting theses two equation
$$\bigg|3^{n}\bigg(g(x+ny)-g(x-ny)\bigg)\bigg|\leq 1$$
$$\bigg|\bigg(g(x+ky)-g(x-ky)\bigg)\bigg|\leq \frac{1}{3^{n}}$$
How do i solve it , Help me please

A: $|g(x+t)-g(x-t)| \leq \frac 2 {3^{t/y}}$ for all $t >0$ and for all real $y$ such that $\frac t y$ is a positive integer.  Let $y \to 0$ through the sequence $(\frac t 1, \frac t 2,\frac t 3...)$ to conclude that $g(x+t)=g(x-t)$ for all real $x$ and all $t>0$. Can you deduce from this that $g$ is a constant?

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Launched in 2009, Altra rose fast as a cult brand for trail runners. This week, it was announced the company will join VF Corpoaration's portfolio alongside The North Face, Eagle Creek, SmartWool, Vans, and other active brands.
Greensboro, North Carolina-based VF Corp. boosted its clout inside the running world today with the announcement that it will acquire Utah's Altra Footwear.
According to a press release, VF expects to complete the acquisition of Altra from parent ICON Health & Fitness by the end of April.
The brands announced "definitive purchase agreements," but the details of the deal were not immediately made public. Altra founders could not comment at this stage.
Since its initial founding in 2009 and subsequent purchase by ICON Health & Fitness in 2011, Altra has become increasingly popular among road- and trail-running enthusiasts.
Its trademark wider, foot-shaped toe box and zero-drop design have won acclaim among runners – including GearJunkie editors – as much-needed design innovations.
Meanwhile, VF adds to its already large cache of 23 outdoor and lifestyle brands. In addition to those mentioned above, VF also owns Lee and Wrangler jeans, Timberland, Dickies, Eastpak, JanSport, and others.
While VF did not disclose financial details of the agreement, it did report that over the last 12 months Altra generated approximately $50 million in revenue.
And because the deal is not finalized, Altra founders Golden Harper, Brian Beckstead, and Jeremy Howlett cannot comment on the move. We will follow up with Altra and VF about the future of the footwear brand once the acquisition is complete.


A BEAUTIFUL thatched cottage in Plumley has been severely damaged in a fire.
Dozens of firefighters from across Cheshire were called in to help fight the blaze at Brookside Cottage on Trout Hall Lane.
Steve Burrage, watch manager at Northwich, said crews arrived at the home on Wednesday evening to find the roof and first floor well alight.
'Fortunately the occupants managed to get out of the house and they were waiting for us outside when we got there,' he said.
The operation started with four fire appliances, including two from Northwich, and the damage control unit from Crewe.
Volunteers from the Victim Support Unit were also mobilised to help provide care and essentials for the occupants who were made temporarily homeless.
The fire fighting operation went on through the night and well into the next day with relief crews coming from across Cheshire including Crewe, Warrington, Runcorn, Chester and Macclesfield.
Their combined efforts managed to save a garage and office area at the side of the house, but the rest of the property has been extensively damaged.
The fire may have been triggered by an electrical fault in a shower, but the cause is still under investigation.
Brookside Cottage was built in the late 19th Century and used to be a market garden selling pansies and daffodils in the early 1920s.


Hot off yesterday's 10/3 winning tip, Tony R is ready to deliver again.
Today the selection goes on the all-weather at Wolverhampton. With enhanced place terms to 4 places and at 14/1, this warrants an appealing value bet.
What race, horse, odds, bookie and stake?
Tipped at 14/1 and went off at 12s. Unfortunately, the price differential doesn't really matter when the horse is unplaced.
After being taken to post early, David Loughnane's handicapper broke poorly and was always up against it from that point. There was little impression when trying to make up ground once round the final bend. His recent performances at the track have been much better than this and maybe we can forgive on a day where the jockey reported the gelding ran too freely and hung left badly.


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Blueborne discovered to affect Amazon Echo and Google Home
Intelligent speaker vendors forced to patch up AI-enabled voice assistants after devices shown to be vulnerable to Blueborne virus.
Back in September, we reported how researchers at IT security company Armis had revealed the existence of an 'airborne' IoT malware called Blueborne.
The flaw was shown to be affect many devices using Bluetooth connectivity – from smartphones to medical devices – potentially enabling hackers to take control of them and spread the malware 'over the air' to other vulnerable systems.
Now, in an update, researchers at Armis have issued an update revealing that the flaw also affects Amazon Echo and Google Home voice assistants.
"Since these devices are unmanaged and closed source, users are unaware of the fact their Bluetooth implementation is based on potentially vulnerable code borrowed from Linux and Android," they write.
Read more: Security researchers warn of 'airborne' IoT malware, Blueborne
Amazon Echo and Google Home
According to the update, the Amazon Echo devices are affected by two vulnerabilities: first, a remote code execution vulnerability in the Linux Kernel (CVE-2017-1000251), and an information leak vulnerability in the SDP Server (CVE-2017-1000250).
Google Home devices, meanwhile, are affected by one such vulnerability: an information leak vulnerability in Android's Bluetooth stack (CVE-2017-0785).
"These vulnerabilities can lead to a complete takeover of the device in the case of the Amazon Echo, or lead to DoS of the Home's Bluetooth communications," said Armis.
The researchers note that this is the first severe remote vulnerability found to affect the Amazon Echo, "which was an impregnable wall up until now, with the only known vulnerability requiring an extensive physical attack."
Researchers said the company alerted both Amazon and Google to the findings, and they have issued automatic updates for the Amazon Echo and Google Home.
"Customer trust is important to us and we take security seriously. Customers do not need to take any action as their devices will be automatically updated with the security fixes," said Amazon in a statement.
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Armis CTO speaks out
In an interview with US IT publication e-Week, Nadir Izrael, co-founder and CTO of Armis Security said that organisations can find themselves full of devices that basically have open microphones that can "listen to everything and the organisation has no idea they are even there".
That's a problem, he explained, because these devices are constantly listening to Bluetooth communications. There's no way to put an agent or antivirus software on them and, given their limited user interface, there is no way to turn their Bluetooth off, as can be done with many other IoT devices in the home, such as smart TVs.
"With BlueBorne, hackers can take complete control over a vulnerable device, and use it for a wide range of malicious purposes; including spreading malware, stealing sensitive information and more," said Izrael.
And the problems aren't confined to homes. A recent survey by Armis of its clients showed that over four-fifths (82 percent) have at least one Amazon Echo in their corporate environment, "sometimes in very sensitive environments." In many cases, corporate IT may not even be aware that these devices are attached to the network.
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Hockey Canada, TSN and RDS announced Tuesday a long-term media rights agreement which extends through the 2033-34 season.
The announcement comes following coverage of the 2020 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship in Ostrava, Czech Republic.
The extension ensures TSN and RDS will continue to hold the exclusive, multi-platform media rights to Hockey Canada events, including the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship.
Other events including the IIHF Women's World Championship, IIHF World Under-18 Championship along with various national tournaments including the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge, Telus Cup, Esso Cup and Allan Cup.
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Priority is given to play Hapco rules, which requires 3 women vs. 3 women. It can be played 2 women vs. 2 women at the discretion of the captains. It also can be played with up to 4 women vs. 4 women. If one team has more women than the other, the team with the fewer women is not obligated to displace one of their men by taking the extra women from the other team UNLESS it allows for Hapco rules. Instead the extra woman can play as a man and sub accordingly. However, under no circumstances will a woman who is not on either team ever be given priority over a man who is on one of the teams scheduled to play.
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Prince Harry has betrayed Kate. What is the foreign press reporting?
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Prince Harry feels like a traitor. It is mainly about his sister-in-law, Princess Kate. What is the foreign press reporting?
After weeks of sometimes conflicting headlines about the upcoming Netflix documentary by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, one thing is clear: none of the royal family he is not safe – least of all alone Prince Harry. Together with Meghan, they had no qualms about the attacks on King Charles, Queen consort Camilla, Prince Williamand even Harry's once-beloved sister-in-law, Kate, but now there were doubts. What is the press reporting?
Prince Harry has betrayed Kate. What does he want to withdraw from?
The Sussexs knew they could cause chaos, but now, after watching some of the footage and after Queen Elizabeth II's death, Harry has doubts.
In the US, where they were encouraged by the producers to tell the world exactly what they thought about the royal family – it will sell in the end, no one doubts that the film will be allowed as it was made – says the source of Woman's Day.
He adds, however, that when the Queen died, Harry was reproached.
He immediately began to worry – reveals an informant who suggests that Harry was somewhat deceived by how popular his family was, and what came to him after the funeral.
Sources say the prince has spent the last few weeks begging for some scenes to be re-filmed – especially those with the less reserved comments he and Meghan made about Kate.
He has taken a bit of clarity after his grandmother's funeral, he feels bad that Kate is being pulled into it again, the source says.He must also realize that it would be in his best interest to back off what he said about his father and brother, especially considering note rumors that Harry would like to try to mend his relationship with them next year.
Unfortunately, but it won't do any good. Page Six announces that, despite his pleas to re-shoot the series – led by eminent director Liz Garbus – Netfliks continues to work. Two years ago they invested $ 150 million in the Sussex and it's time to show something.
If they let them undo any of the comments, they might as well not use them at all and not show the video. They were always after money – says the informant.
Royal biographer Tom Bower has bluntly defined what is happening now, when Harry would like to undo certain things, but he is no longer able to.
They're stuck with the devil, he said.
Harry fully realized that he was starting to look hypocritical as she struggled to change something he was so sure about.
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Q: How to pass deployment properties while scheduling a task through CLI is there an example of how to pass deployment properties to a task schedule? I see an example of how to create a schedule through CLI:
dataflow:>task schedule create --definitionName mytask --name mytaskschedule --expression '/1 *'
I need to pass deployment properties to this. When I schedule through UI, I can give all properties in the text box, but unable to figure out how to pass the same through CLI. I tried --properties=<> but that didn't work.

A: You should be able to use --properties '<props-string>' where <props-string> is a comma-separated string of k=v pairs such as:
dataflow:>task schedule create ... --properties 'app.prop1=foo,app.prop2=bar'

There is also the --propertiesFile option if you want to put your properties into a file instead.


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Where Your Private Story Could Have a Public Purpose: A Conversation with Meghan O'Gieblyn
by Min Li Chan
I first encountered Meghan O'Gieblyn through her 2014 essay Hell, in which she juxtaposes the evolution of hell, as conceived in popular culture and theological doctrine, with her own loss of faith in an evangelical Protestant tradition rooted in the physical and psychic landscape of the Midwest. Hell is as riveting as it is rigorous, drawing from O'Gieblyn's lived experience and deep engagement with research and critical reflection. Her discerning prose is graced by the provocation, capaciousness of thought, and the intellectual and emotional questing that makes the finest essays so compelling.
This early encounter with Hell was a formative experience for me as an essayist; at the time, I was working in the tech industry in Silicon Valley and writing in my second shift, having moved from Kuala Lumpur to the San Francisco Bay Area several years prior to study electrical engineering in college. Hell and O'Gieblyn's subsequent work demonstrated how the modes of writing and thinking that I wanted to pursue could exist in the world.
I had the pleasure of meeting O'Gieblyn in person recently in Chicago. We conducted this interview via email from our respective desks in the Midwest, following the release of her debut collection Interior States.
Min Li Chan: The preface to your collection reads like a meta-essay on essays, in that generative tradition of complicating accepted notions about the form and re-energizing our sense for its possibilities. Where the essay's lineage is often traced to Montaigne, you have connected your practice to the Augustinian tradition of "personal writing" and the communal ritual of giving testimony. How did this understanding of the essay develop for you? And how does it inform what you think is an essayist's potential roles — or responsibilities, if you will — when thinking on the page and in the public?
Meghan O'Gieblyn: Around the time I was putting these essays together in manuscript form, I was thinking about "confessional writing," which is a term that's often used to dismiss personal essays or memoir that are perceived to be self-indulgent or navel-gazing. It's funny that people rarely talk about the term's religious connotations, but the idea is that the writer is essentially unburdening herself the way she would to a priest, in order to receive absolution. The term also seems allusive of Augustine's the Confessions, which is the first instance of introspective autobiography in western literature. But what's interesting is that the Confessions is actually not formally or tonally similar to the type of writing that today is criticized as "confessional." Augustine was writing an argument. He was using his life in a very deliberate way to respond to ongoing theological debates, and his story was meant, in part, to refute the charge that he was still a Manichean.
This narrative form is similar to what we would today call conversion narrative—or what we called, when I was growing up in the evangelical church, "giving testimony." The idea was that your private story could have a public purpose, that your experience could serve as a form of evidence in service of an argument. I wasn't thinking about testimony on a conscious level when I was writing these essays, but I heard so many stories like these when I was a child, I imagine the form was deep in my DNA, so to speak. I've always been interested in making arguments as a writer, and when I began writing essays I suspected that my life could lend authority to the point I was making or might help the reader understand why it was important to me. But it wasn't until I was putting the collection together that I realized that testimony might be a useful way to think about the kind of writing I do—and the kind of essays I most enjoy reading.
MLC: A thematic unity undergirds your collection, of interrogating the loss of telos when you left the evangelical Protestant faith tradition, and a parallel loss of telos that has beset the industrial towns of the Midwest. You begin with Dispatch from Flyover Country — was there a particular context, chronology, or feeling that you hoped to establish, and what guided your process of building an overall arc in this collection?
MOG: I do feel that that essay introduces a lot of the themes of the collection, which is part of the reason why I wanted it to lead the book. I wrote it during a time when I'd moved back to the small Michigan town where I'd grown up. My husband and I were broke and in debt (we're both writers) and we had the opportunity to live rent-free in a trailer on the grounds of the Bible Camp I'd grown up attending. I had recently turned thirty, and being back in the place where I'd started forced me to think about the larger trajectory of my life and my loss of faith years earlier. I had grown up with this clear vision of the future (the Christian redemption narrative) and my purpose in that story. But after I left the church, my life felt derailed, or stalled. I noticed a similar loss of direction in my hometown, which had once been known as "The Lumber Queen of the World" and had, like so many Midwestern small towns, fallen into economic decline. The town was trying to revamp itself as a tourist destination and had conjured up a new ad campaign—"We're just getting started"—which was so sad to me, since their best days were probably behind them. You see this loss of telos all over the Midwest: industrial cities like Detroit were once symbols of progress and innovation, but now that narratives about the future have shifted to globalization and technological disruption—changes that have affected many of these communities for the worse—there's a wariness, in many of these places, toward the very notion of progress.
That essay is one of the most personal pieces in the collection, and I think writing it helped me uncover what was at stake for me in the other subjects I've been drawn to as a writer. All the essays in the collection ultimately return to questions about time, history, and progress. I'm interested in those ideas because my understanding of the future was disrupted in a very dramatic way when I lost my faith.
MLC: In returning to these questions about time, history, and progress in order to understand the future, you are also a keen observer of our relationship with technology. There is a moment in Contemporaries, towards the end of a dinner conversation that you describe, in which you capture with wry acuity that reflexive, yet truly remarkable, ritual that we've begun to accept as quotidian: "One man lays down a credit card, and the rest of us send him money invisibly, through our phones." And in your thrilling essay, Ghost in the Cloud, you explore the parallels between Christian eschatology and transhumanism, as championed by some Silicon Valley technoutopian figures. In what ways is the brisk, dopamine-firing world of tech important for you and the slow work of thinking and writing?
MOG: When I was putting the collection together, I was surprised by how many of my essays return to questions about science and technology, which was not something I consciously set out to write about. I suppose I'm interested in how our relationships with new technologies often feels like a spiritual experience. Digital technologies have made our experience of the world increasingly intangible and abstract, for example, since many transactions now take place in an invisible realm—the ether, the cloud. As a former Christian, I'm particularly interested in the way in which narratives about technology have their own eschatology. The most extreme examples are the technoutopian narratives that argue that technology will one day allow us to alleviate illnesses and death, perfect the physical world, and merge human consciousness, which strike me as very similar to the biblical redemption narrative. Religious myths are some of the oldest and most familiar stories in our collective memory, so it's not surprising that we find ourselves reviving them when faced with the new and unfamiliar. I often think of Ernst Haeckel's phrase "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" and his theory that each new human embryo passes through, in compressed form, all the evolutionary stages of our species. The theory is false, but it's a useful metaphor for how new technologies often spur us to revisit our earliest myths.
Of course, as someone who left religion behind, I'm naturally skeptical of these narratives—at least in their most insistent forms. And I'm also acutely aware of the way in which digital technologies create rote, addictive brain patterns that are at odds with the headspace required for thinking and writing. I find writing very rewarding, but its rewards are slow and difficult to achieve, whereas the experience of the internet is so much more immediate and constant in its doling out of rewards—likes, updates, etc. I know a lot of writers find a way to toggle between those two pursuits, but I haven't been able to do so. I have to nearly disconnect during the weeks when I'm working on a project. Then, when I'm not writing, I immerse myself more fully in the internet.
MLC: I'm curious about the scope of your writing practice, and particularly admire the range in which you operate; from deep, research-driven investments across numerous historical and contemporary concerns, to the ways in which you weave the understated material of your own life—the textures, subtleties, and seeming non-events—into your essays. (In one instance of the latter, you write about lying in the tunnel of the MRI machine and reverting to a childhood game in your head. I remember feeling an immediate sense of recognition and kinship upon reading that anecdote; an imaginative act under similar circumstances had also incidentally found its way into my work!) How would you describe your writing process?
MOG: Yes, that's a good way to describe the two different modes of writing in the collection. Each kind of piece requires its own process. I actually prefer writing small, quiet, personal essays. I love writers like Natalia Ginzburg or Mary Ruefle who draw observations about life from ordinary, seemingly mundane, moments. The writing process for those pieces feels more akin to fiction in that all you need to get started is a situation, a scene, or an observation. The scene you mention about the MRI, in my essay "Contemporaries," was the starting point for that piece. I didn't know what the essay was going to be about until I started writing, and all the themes and ideas emerged through the drafting process in a way that felt very intuitive. You just let your subconscious take over. The wonderful thing about small, intimate essays is that they have the capacity to be perfect—even if they never are—because everything is within your control as a writer. They aren't contingent on research or other sources.
About once or twice a year, I vow that I'm only going to write these kinds of pieces going forward. But then I somehow get the idea for something more ambitious that involves lots of research. I just finished an essay of this sort, about homeschooling, where I consider my experience being educated at home, as a child, in light of the history of the modern homeschooling movement. My strategy with these sorts of essays is to do a lot of research at the outset, before I begin the writing process. But inevitably the really important questions in an essay arise during the writing process, usually as the result of writing about my personal experience. And then I have to go back to researching some other topic and end up revising or cutting a lot of what I've already written. It's a very inefficient process, and these pieces are very exhausting to write. But it is satisfying to learn about a topic in more depth. I think one of the reasons I'm drawn to researched essays is because I'm curious about a certain aspect of my life and want to learn more about the systems and ideologies that informed it.
MLC: You mentioned earlier that testimony might be a useful way to think about the kind of writing you enjoy. Can you talk a little bit about who or what is in the constellation of influences that have fed your work as a thinker and an essayist?
MOG: I read a lot of Russian novels when I was at Bible school, particularly Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. I don't think their influence is legible in my essays, but reading these 19th century novels convinced me that ideas and arguments could be dramatized through situations, through characters. I never figured out how to do that in fiction—I was writing short stories for many years before I converted to nonfiction—but I think that's essentially why I was drawn to personal essays: it's a form that explores larger social and cultural debates through the lens of character—though in this case, the character is you, the writer. A lot of my preoccupations as a writer can probably be traced back to Dostoevsky as well, particularly his belief that humans are fundamentally irrational and cannot be improved through utopian scientific projects.
When I started writing essays, I read a lot of Meghan Daum and Zadie Smith, each of whom influenced me in their own way, particularly in terms of developing a voice and a presence on the page. And Joan Didion, of course. I came to her fairly late—I didn't read her until my late-twenties—but I'm sure her writing about the West inflected my thinking about the Midwest, even if I wasn't conscious of it at the time. She had such a monomaniacal preoccupation with California, such that it became a metaphor for everything that was happening in the country during those decades: it was the end point of American progress, a place where the myth of the frontier broke down and devolved into chaos. For most of my life, I'd taken very little interest in my surroundings (we Midwesterners are direly lacking in regional consciousness). Reading her caused me to realize that places were essentially ideas, and it was possible to use landscape—particularly the landscape you know best, as a writer—as a lens, or a metaphor, to talk about larger things.
MLC: It seems to me that many of us who strive to make things — writers, artists, performers, filmmakers, scientists, engineers — have a set of obsessions and enthusiasms that we keep returning to, that anchors our work. These obsessions and enthusiasms seem to be, more often than not, formed quite early on in life, when we are more likely to have a heightened porousness to the world, or a heightened awareness of the ruptures that render discontinuities in our lives. Does this observation ring true to you, and did anything change for you over the course of writing this collection? What do you think is a sustainable way for approaching the continual excavation and anthropology that we perform on ourselves and our subjects of interest?
MOG: I love how you put it: "the continual excavation and anthropology we perform on ourselves." That really captures how it feels when writing personal essays: that the self is a raw material that is always in danger of exhaustion. The question of sustainability is one I'm constantly thinking about. My obsessions as a writer were definitely formed in my twenties, and most of this collection grew out of writing about those experiences—being at Bible school, losing my faith, discovering writing, etc. I'm sure that those obsessions will stay with me, but I also feel spurred to move on and write about other things. It's difficult because as a writer—i.e., someone who spends most of my day in front of a computer—it's easy to feel as though I've stopped accumulating new experiences. My life today is very stable and healthy and therefore boring, and personal essays feed on tension. Maybe this is why I find myself increasingly drawn to criticism and reporting. I imagine that I'll continue to explore these interests in ways that diverge from my own life, rather than continually revisit it. Or—who knows?—maybe something fantastic and unexpected will happen to me and I'll get to write about that.
Meghan O'Gieblyn is the author of Interior States, which is now available from Anchor Books. Her essays have received two Pushcart Prizes and have appeared in Harper's Magazine, The Guardian, n+1, The Point, Tin House, Ploughshares, and The Best American Essays 2017.
Min Li Chan is a writer and technologist whose essays have appeared in Buzzfeed Reader and The Point Magazine. She was a 2018 BuzzFeed Emerging Writers Fellow, and is currently a University Fellow at Northwestern University's Litowitz Creative Writing Graduate Program. She can be found at www.minlichan.com.
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'The Gladiators': The Story Behind Rugby League's Most Famous Photo
Will Evans, 4 Oct 2019
It's rugby league's most famous photograph and one of the most iconic images in Australian sport. Snapped by John O'Gready after the 1963 NSWRL grand final at the SCG, 'The Gladiators' depicts St George captain Norm Provan and Western Suburbs counterpart Arthur Summons' mud-caked embrace.
Opposing team captains Norm Provan and Arthur Summons embrace after the 1963 Australian rugby league final pic.twitter.com/7ISpJbDCBB
— History Lovers Club (@historylvrsclub) August 23, 2019
'The Gladiators' has been the basis for every premiership trophy since 1982 – a timeless moment immortalised in bronze – and remains a symbol of rugby league camaraderie and sportsmanship.
But how much do you know about the figures and the circumstances behind the photo?
Norm Provan – the King of St. George's legendary run #NRL #Immortals pic.twitter.com/8RtMjVQBM5
— 81M (@The81stMinute) August 1, 2018
Norm Provan had already achieved all-time great status by the time the 1963 grand final rolled around. The towering second-rower debuted for St George as an 18-year-old in 1951, made the first of 18 Test appearances for Australia three years later, and featured prominently in the first 10 of the Dragons' incomprehensible streak of 11 straight premierships from 1956-66.
'Sticks' was retrospectively awarded the Clive Churchill Medal for his performances in the 1957-58 and '63 grand finals, while he succeeded legendary Saints captain-coach Ken 'Killer' Kearney in 1962, eventually retiring in 1965 after a then-record 256 first-grade appearances. In 2008, Provan was named in the Australian Rugby League's Team of the Century, while 10 years later he was (many say belatedly) inducted as an Immortal.
Arthur Summons' tenure in rugby league was relatively brief, but he made a monumental impact. A flyhalf in 10 Tests for the Wallabies in 1958-59, Summons was lured to rugby league by Wests in 1960 and became a dual international the following season. The halfback/five-eighth played in the first of three straight grand final losses to the Dragons in 1961 – captaining the Magpies in the latter two – and skippered Australia for the first time in a famous third-Test win over Great Britain in 1962. Immediately after the epic '63 grand final, Summons captain-coached the Kangaroos to their first Ashes success in England for more than half a century.
The wily playmaker, lauded as one of the game's great leaders, departed Sydney at the end of 1964 to take up a captain-coach position in the bush. Summons' high-achieving five-season stint in big-time rugby league was enough to earn him a place in the NRL Hall of Fame.
#OnThisDay Souths captain John Sattler chaired off by team-mates after playing out the game after having his jaw broken and teeth smashed during altercation early in the Grand Final with Manly at the SCG on 19 September 1970. Souths won 23-12. Photo by John O'Gready @SMHsport pic.twitter.com/TxMjSehPYA
— From The Archives (@AgeSMH_Archives) September 19, 2018
John O'Gready is synonymous with 'The Gladiators' shot – which was awarded Sports Picture of the Year for 1963 – but he is revered in his field as one of the great sports photographers, and among the finest snappers generally. 'Happy' O'Gready joined The Sun-Herald team in 1957 and was 27 at the time of the 1963 grand final, working with Fairfax until the late-1980s. He passed away in 1999.
The 1963 grand final has gone down as one of the most dramatic and controversial matches in the code's history.
Despite losing the 1961-62 deciders, Western Suburbs was well-placed to release seven-time defending champ St George's iron grip on the premiership, twice getting the better of the Dragons during the home-and-away rounds and winning the major semi-final 10-8. With internationals Noel Kelly, Kel O'Shea, Peter Dimond and Don Parish – along with future coaching Svengali Jack Gibson – supporting mastermind Summons, the Magpies appeared to have found the key to upsetting the star-studded Saints juggernaut.
Heavy rain in the lead-up to the grand final reduced the Sydney Cricket Ground to a quagmire (though it did not stop a then-record crowd of almost 70,000 from packing out the venue). Players on opposing teams were virtually indistinguishable from one another within minutes.
St George emerged from the muddy slugfest 8-3 victors, with the match hinging on a wildly contentious try to champion winger Johnny King 15 minutes from fulltime.
Magpies players were adamant they heard referee Darcy Lawler call 'held' when King was brought down near the touchline, but the whistle-blower remained silent when King got up and darted 30 yards to the corner for the match-sealing try. Lawler also disallowed a seemingly fair Wests try during the first half.
Gibson later claimed that Lawler placed a wager on the grand final and stood to win £600 if St George won. The veteran ref's retirement announcement immediately afterwards did little to dispel speculation and innuendo around his role in the result. Lawler – and the '63 grand final – has been shrouded in infamy ever since.
Ironically, Provan and Summons barely knew each before the match. But the mutual respect and mateship emanating from the pair's cheerful post-match embrace is what makes O'Gready's photo so enduring.
The contrast of the tall, statuesque Provan and the diminutive Summons – opposing skippers with barely a struck match between their respective displays – illustrated rugby league's inclusiveness of all shapes and sizes.
Somewhat in contradiction of everything 'The Gladiators' image has come to stand for, a chastened Summons was purportedly telling Provan through gritted teeth that St George had been 'lucky to win' the match.
Incredibly, the photo did not even make it onto The Sun-Herald's front page. It ran on page three, under the incongruous heading of 'Who's That?' Few rugby league fans would fail to name the sodden warriors 56 years on.
'The Gladiators' truly took on mythical prestige when the inaugural Winfield Cup trophy was modelled on the photo in 1982 – the first year of the cigarette company's 14-season reign as the premiership's chief sponsor. The trophy was modified for the 1996-97 Optus Cup and again for the NRL's foundation season in 1998, but the cast of Provan and Summons has remained the central feature.
Norm Provan and Arthur Summons with 2016 #NRL Provan Summons Medallist @Jarrodcroker.
As voted by you the fans!#DallyM pic.twitter.com/VAukF8G7d3
— NRL (@NRL) September 28, 2016
"It's surreal, what happened from that photo being taken," Summons said at the release of Norman Tasker's 2013 book The Gladiators. "Our images being used for the premiership trophy … it's beyond my ability to explain it. The mud helped make it, we look like statues and a statue they made from it. We're epitomised for as long as they play for that trophy. We'll be long gone and they'll still be playing for it because it is rugby league."
Perhaps the most heart-warming hangover from the photo is the close friendship Provan and Summons developed, which now spans more than half a century. The beloved duo have made appearances together at the Dally M awards, ensuring plenty of laughs – most courtesy of Summons' sardonic wit – and a few poignant moments.
The people's choice award at the Dally Ms was renamed the Provan-Summons Medal in 1998, while they were thrust into the spotlight again in 2013 when the NRL trophy was officially renamed the Provan-Summons Trophy to mark 50 years since that fateful grand final.
There can be an argument made that the photo, and their resultant intrinsic association with rugby league excellence, has exaggerated Provan's and Summons' actual greatness as players. Though an absolute colossus of the code, Provan was listed 26th in an expert-voted list of the top 100 players of all time by Rugby League Week in 1992, and 32nd when The Daily Telegraph produced a similar countdown in 2000. Yet he became the 12th Immortal in 2018 after years of fervent lobbying from fans and pundits. Summons was left off both aforementioned lists, yet was named one of Australian Rugby League's 100 greatest players during the 2008 Centenary celebrations.
Rugby League's 12th Immortal – Norm Provan!#NRL pic.twitter.com/oaxrvM9n7f
— NRL (@NRL) August 1, 2018
But there can be no debate about their rank as rugby league heroes and the embodiment of much of what the game should be about.
Meanwhile, the contribution of the comparatively anonymous third party that made 'The Gladiators'' legacy possible has never been forgotten. ''I think we should really be toasting the photographer John O'Gready … he got it through all the mud and rain that day,'' Summons said at Cronulla's 2016 grand final lunch.
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