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← In which Sir Gawaine wanders off
In which Launcelot has a gay panic moment →
In which Sir Launcelot takes the first of many naps
The Tale of Sir Launcelot and Sir Turquine is the first of many stories focusing on the more-or-less hero of Le Morte D'Arthur, Sir Launcelot du Lake. As I mentioned back in Book IV, Malory loves him some Launcelot. Book VI begins with his description of how, in the indeterminate period following the end of Book V, the Knights of the Round Table fought at tournaments like crazy tournament fighters. They jousted, they contested, they contended. They tossed cabers, they arm-wrestled, they played 5v5 Team Fortress 2 LAN matches and sealed-deck Magic: the Gathering tournaments. Some of Arthur's knights won a lot (Sir Pellas the Good, Sir Kay), some knights won a little (Sir Gawaine, Sir Lucan). Some earls and dukes won less than some lower-class knights; nobility of birth is no predictor for skill at arms. And the greatest of the knights was, of course, Sir Launcelot du Lake.
Launcelot never lost, ever. Sometimes it seemed like he was going to lose, but then it turned out he really won, by some secret method where it only looked like a loss. Sometimes he seemed to lose, but it turned out the other side had been cheating or using magic. Launcelot was just the greatest, okay? He's the best, says Malory. At this stage of Le Morte D'Arthur we've already met a bunch of badass knights. You remember them: Mister 100 with his One Hundred Knights, One Hundred Blows secret technique, Balin with his Lady-Slaying Stab, Gawaine with his Petulant Crybaby Sneak Attack Massive Skull-Crushing Smash, Pellas with his Married to Nimue Fatality Move, Pellinore with his King of the Assholes Style and Arthur with his Rightful Ruler of England Prana. Plus there was that time Sir Kay just totes killed two knights, and so on. Malory admits that those were all very skilled knights, even Sir Gawaine. But Launcelot was better than any of them, you guys. He always won. Launcelot was the best. He's so dreamy!
Guenever certainly thought so! As you probably already know if you grew up anywhere in Western civilization, Launcelot was Queen Guenever's favorite, out of all the knights in Arthur's court. She sent him kerchiefs and mittens. She bought him socks, which everyone knows was a clear sign of interest. True story: once a woman I knew, a platonic friend, bought me socks, and another friend observed that the only women who buy you socks were your mother or your wife; that woman is now my wife. Sir Launcelot reciprocated with poetry, and dedications of his victories to her. He killed giants in her name, and (spoiler alert) he rescued her from fires. And this was the status quo for a fair chunk of time, until the eldest of Launcelot's brothers and cousins, Lionel, came to Arthur's court to become a knight. This is another continuity error, since Sir Lionel participated in the fighting in France in Book V.
"Brother!" cried Sir Launcelot. "Make ready, for we two will seek strange adventures!"
Malory doesn't explain Launcelot's motivation for making this offer. Launcelot would spend the bulk of Book VI riding around alone, actively avoiding any team-ups with other knights; why he invited Lionel along in the first place was thus unclear. Malory also fails to record Lionel's response, but I imagine it was enthusiastic.
Launcelot and Lionel stayed up all night praying, making plans, and loading up their horses. Bright and early they set out from Camelot, riding across some stock footage of a forest and a castle and so on. Roundabout noon they reached terrain that resembles Nebraska: empty fields and wheat.
"Man, I'm tired for some reason," said Launcelot. "Wouldn't mind taking a break and getting some napping in."
"I'm young and eager," asserted Lionel. "But look, there's an apple tree over there. It's shady; you and the horses can rest while I keep watch."
"Great," said Launcelot. "I'm as tired as I've been any time in the last eight years." So perhaps it's been eight years since Launcelot's first arrival to Camelot? This is my speculation based on the dialogue.
Regardless, Launcelot and Lionel ride over to the apple tree, and they dismount. While Lionel keeps watch, Launcelot takes his helmet off to use it as a pillow and lies down and falls asleep, in his armor, pretty much instantly. (LAUNCELOT NAP 1!)
Just then, three knights approached at speed. Lionel could see a fourth knight chasing them. This fourth knight, Sir Turquine, looked like some kind of circus strongman; if he hadn't been decked out in armor and riding a (large) horse, he might have been mistaken for a giant.
Lionel watched impassively as Turquine ran down the three fleeing knights. He got them one after the other, whop whop whop, unhorsing them with his long spear. Once they were on the ground, the giant knight circled back, dismounted, and tied the incapacitated knights up.
This prompted Sir Lionel to intervene. "Seeing as how this seven foot tall, three hundred pound giant of a knight rode down and easily defeated three men, I'm sure I, as a freshly-minted brand-new knight with essentially no real-world experience, can take him! After all, I'm from Benwick! I'll just have to be quiet when I do it, so I don't wake up Launcelot! Roll for initiative, strange knight!"
Most of one combat round later, Lionel and the other three knights were bound hand and foot, thrown over Turquine's horse. Turquine bore them back to his home, the eponymous Castle Turquine. There he stripped them, beat them, and threw them into a oubliette. There were a bunch of other knights down there, that Sir Turquine had already captured.
Launcelot sleeps through the whole thing.
Back at Camelot Malory introduces us to a new knight! Sir Ector, but not the Sir Ector who raised Arthur. No, this was Ector the Lesser, Sir Ector de Maris, Launcelot's other brother unless he was a cousin. Like Lionel, Ector the Lesser was younger than Launcelot. Ector had overslept, and in the morning he was pissed because he had wanted to go off on the strange adventure with Launcelot and Lionel and either there was miscommunication or they outright ditched him, Malory is vague. Either way, Ector loaded up and rode off in the same general direction as Launcelot and Lionel, across the woods and the stock footage and so on. He didn't find Launcelot immediately, but he did find a man who might have been a forester.
Maybe he was just dressed like a forester. Malory's vague about that, too.
"Sirrah!" Ector said to the probable forester. "Have you seen my brother-cousin Sir Launcelot?"
"No? How about my other brother-cousin Sir Lionel, you seen him?"
"Listen, old man, I'm looking for a strange adventure, already in progress. Can you point me in the right direction?"
"Hmm. A strange adventure, you say?"
"Only strange adventure in these parts would be over at Castle Turquine. They've got a tree over there where they hang the shields of knights who lose to Turquine in battle, plus an old copper wash-tub that's been converted into a gong."
"Great, thanks." Ector turned to go.
But the forester had one more thing to say! "Also thou hast the fairest grace that many a year had ever knight that passed through this forest."
"…are you hitting on me?"
"I'm not not hitting on you…"
"Gramercy!" exclaimed Ector, and departed. He went in the direction the forester had indicated, and sure enough arrived outside Castle Turquine. There he saw a tree where, sure enough, hung a great many shields, including Sir Lionel's shield.
"Lionel!" cried Ector. He assumed that Turquine or someone had slain Lionel, and sobbed and shouted at the heavens for his poor dead brother. He pounded on the gong, demanding retribution, and then he watered his horse while he waited for someone to show up.
Someone did show up! Turquine! He was just as large meeting Ector as he had been capturing Lionel! Ector had expected a much smaller knight.
Still, to Ector's credit I guess, he went through with the joust. Ector and Turquine rode at one another, and Ector managed to catch Turquine under one arm, and unhorsed him! "Well, good for you, tiny man," boomed Turquine. "No one's unhorsed me in twelve years! I like you, you've got moxie! If you surrender now, I'll keep you alive as my prisoner!"
"What? No!"
"Have it your way then, I'll take you prisoner anyway," said Turquine, and beat Ector within an inch of his life and threw him into the oubliette alongside Lionel and the various other knights Turquine's taken prisoner.
"Lionel! You're alive!"
"Ector? What are you doing here?"
"Where's Sir Launcelot?"
"Last I saw him, he was sleeping under an apple tree."
"Quiet, both of you," said the knights who had been in the oubliette for a while already. "Quit with your talk of Launcelot and apple trees and rescue. No one can rescue us! Surely no knight exists who can defeat our captor Turquine!"
You're probably expecting Launcelot to wake up, discover Lionel is missing, track him down, slay Turquine, and free everybody, right? I know I would be expecting that. This story takes a weird turn, though. Let's turn our attention back to Launcelot, last seen taking a nap. More or less simultaneous with Ector's misadventure last chapter, Launcelot slept under an apple tree while a foursome of ladies traveled up the road.
This was a classy, high-end foursome; they didn't go riding out at midday without some protection. Spread out around them they had a group of knights with lances, and a big green silk sheet was tied to the end of each lance. The knights held the lances up, which made a portable sunshade for the ladies.
And furthermore this was not just any foursome of classy ladies, this was, in actuality, Queen Morgan le Fay and her golf buddies. We join their conversation, already in progress.
"…and you're expected to just take it. Reason number three hundred and six that it's terrible to be a woman in Arthurian England, odds are super high you won't even rate a name. Reason number three hundred and seven that it's terrible to be a woman in Arthurian England, embroidery is stupid and boring."
"Hey now, Morgan, I like embroidery."
"Because you're stupid and boring. Reason number three hundred and eight that it's terrible to be a woman in Arthurian England, you aren't allowed to carry a sword. Reason number three hundred and nine…"
"Morgan, hold on, who is that?" One of Morgan's friends pointed at the prone snoring figure under the apple tree.
Morgan squinted and pointed. "Holy… that's Sir Launcelot!"
"Is it? It is!"
"What's he doing out here?"
"Who cares? I'm going to seduce him!"
"Hey, yeah! God only knows my life is crazy-bigtime unstimulating, seducing Launcelot sounds great!"
"Well, we can't all seduce him at once –"
"Let's mud-wrestle for him! Or we could lingerie-fight?"
"What? No," said Morgan le Fay. "We're not doing that. First things first." Morgan waved her hands and did a little magic, casting deeper slumber on Launcelot. "Okay, he'll be out for a good six hours. Men, carry him back to my castle! We'll figure out who sleeps with him once we get there."
Back at Morgan's castle (she had several, but this particular one was Castle Chariot), Morgan and her friends the Queen of Northgalis, the Queen of Eastland, and the Queen of the Out Islands all talked it over. They eventually agreed that it should be Launcelot's choice which of them got to take him on as a lover; otherwise his heart might not have been in it and that wouldn't have been as much fun.
In the morning, Launcelot woke up (finally!). He startled, because he went to sleep under an apple tree and then he was in a bed in a castle somewhere. "What? What happened? Where am I?"
"Silly Launcelot," said Morgan, who sat with her friends in one corner of the bedroom. "Is this your first strange adventure? This is how they always go. You're all the time falling asleep in once place and waking up in another."
"How do you know my name?"
"Oh, I know more than your name. I know you're King Ban's son, a prince of Benwick, Knight of the Round Table, and longtime secret lover of Guenever –"
Launcelot objected. "Not her secret lover! We're completely chaste! Emotional intimacy only, no physical intimacy!"
"Mmm-hmm. Anyway, that's all over now. I'm Morgan le Fay, Queen of Gore, you may have heard of me? And these are my three friends, who are also queens. We've decided you can be the lover of one of us. We want physical intimacy."
"Emotional intimacy!" interjected the Queen of Northgalis.
"Physical and emotional intimacy both," clarified the Queen of Eastland.
"Yeah, that's why we're letting you pick," said the Queen of the Out Islands, because she wanted a line of her own, too, if the other queens were getting one.
Launcelot would have none of it, though. "And if I refuse?"
"Aw, come on, be a sport!" Morgan and her friends really wanted Launcelot to go along with this more-or-less of his own will. "I suppose we'd keep you prisoner until you died of grief or something. But Launcelot, I don't want to do that, I just want you to do for me what you've been doing for Guenever."
"Whoa! Okay, first off, you're a bunch of witches and I choose none of you, I'll just be a prisoner until I die. Secondly, and this is the big one, I've got to insist you quit slandering Dame Guenever like that! She's good and pure and chaste and perfect and sweet and wonderful!"
"Whatever. I didn't come here to badmouth Guenever. I like Guenever. But just to be clear, you're choosing isolation and eventual death over sex?"
"Well, we'll see how you feel in a week or two," snapped Morgan. She and her lady-friends stomped out. Morgan le Fay did not like not getting her way.
Hours later a maiden, Becca, entered in with Launcelot's dinner: a plate of cold stew for Launcelot, and a pitcher of ale. She asked him how he was holding up.
"Not great. I'm a prisoner of Morgan le Fay and her sorceress-queen bridge club."
"Golf buddies."
"Whatever. My point is, it sucks."
"I can see why you'd think that," said Becca. "I'd love to help you out. But you need to help me out, you know? I need you to do something, and it's not an evil thing or anything, but you need to promise."
"If it'll get me away from Morgan le Fay, sure," said Launcelot. "She's scary."
"I know you're Sir Launcelot du Lake, most flowery blossom of the flower of chivalry, who never loses at tournaments. My father's going to be in a tournament next Tuesday, and he's lost the last three bouts, because the other side has been bringing in ringers from King Arthur's court."
"Wait, who's your father?"
"He used to be at Camelot — Sir Bagdemagus?"
"Bagdemagus!" cried Launcelot. "I know him. He was up for Round Table membership early in Book IV. I'll absolutely help him out, fight on his side in this tourney."
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This describes my family's ethnic origins and the struggles they faced that define my american creed. This uses evidence from interviews to illustrate how our American creed is formed from our family's struggles and hardships in life in America.
By Nick W. from Royal Oak High School in Michigan
My family's identity in America has been shaped by my family's ethnic origins and hardships in their communities. This has been formed from experiences that have happened before and after arriving in America.
In an interview with my grandma, she discussed the hardships that her family faced when moving to America following a war. She described this when "After my great grandfather fought in the First World War for Germany he came back to a ruined economy and was now out of work. Having little choice, he was forced to move his family to America to look for new economic opportunities." This illustrates that hardships form our identity because they are often the reason, we come here in the first place. Struggles in our community also impact our as highlighted by my grandma when she state's "in the Detroit Area my family had to change their name and every night would spend an hour or so according to my grandmother practicing English without a German accent in order to better fit in and avoid any scorn. This did eventually erase any and all memory of the German language from my family". This exemplifies how communities are often what form our American creed by creating struggles that directly impact our American creed by replacing our origin culture.
In another interview I conducted with my aunt I found that another branch of my is descended from the Mayflower. According to my aunt "Assuming our family tree is correct we are descended from Degory priest and possibly other Mayflower passengers. The rest they came was to escape religious persecution and to seek a better life". This differs largely from my previous interview in both time period and exact reasoning for coming to America, although they both highlight how struggles from our ancestors have come to shape our identity in America. This led me to understand how a common basis for forming our identity can be similarly formed through hardships and struggles that we have faced. Most people know others from different cultural backgrounds that have faced hardships in America that form their identity in this country.
In an interview with my great aunt, she discussed how my great grandmother came from Italy a family that had many problems with life after her immigration to the US. According to my aunt finding a job was very difficult for her father. She told me that this led to her older brother working in a factory that eventually led to a decline in his health due to a respiratory illness from a harsh work environment. This caused their family to move to the Detroit area and her other brother and father went into the auto industry at Ford. These economic struggles that her family faced have formed my family's identify. This interview also highlights how struggles such as health can impact our identity by forcing their family to move across the country.
In conclusion, I believe that our identity in America is fundamentally compromised by our greatest hardships that we and our ancestors have faced. This makes everyone's identity in this country unique to them.
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(NC)—Making these creepy critters together is a great family activity – and they're sure to scare off all the ghosts and goblins on Halloween.
1. Carefully open peanut, ensuring each half shell is intact.
2. With black marker, colour the outer surface of each half shell. Let dry.
3. Fold one pipe cleaner in half. Using sharp scissors, cut pipe cleaner into two equal pieces at fold. Repeat step with second pipe cleaner to make a total of four pieces, each approximately 6″ (15 cm) in length.
4. Colour each piece of pipe cleaner with black stripes using marker. Let dry.
5. Generously apply glue along edge and inside of one half shell. Place each piece of pipe cleaner side by side, centred and perpendicular to the shell. Generously apply glue along the edge of the second half shell and affix on top of the pipe cleaners, ensuring both half shells are aligned and edges match. Use two pieces of clear tape to secure the front and back of the peanut shell. Remove tape when glue dries.
6. Separate each pipe cleaner piece and carefully bend at angles to make joints.
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Patellar tendinitis is a painful injury that makes it difficult to extend the knee during activities such as running, jumping, and kicking. The condition is often referred to as "jumper's knee" since it tends to occur in athletes that participate in sports that require a lot of jumping such as basketball and volleyball, though non-athletes can get it as well. Traditional treatment for patellar tendonitis often begins with anti-inflammatory drugs and physical therapy to stretch and strengthen the muscles around the knee.
In some cases, the knee pain from patellar tendinitis can become chronic, and a patient's response to traditional treatments diminishes over time. While surgery could be used to repair the patellar tendon manually, the procedure itself is painful and can cause complications that may need further treatment.
At the Institute of Regenerative Medicine, we take a unique approach to patellar tendonitis treatment by combining traditional orthopedics with cutting-edge techniques in stem cell medicine to repair the damaged tissue around the tendon naturally.
Stem cells are the body's natural healers. Unlike other cells, they have the unique ability to transform into the cells that are needed to repair the tissue around the damaged tendon of the knee such as cartilage or muscle cells. As we age, the number of stem cells and their potency decline, causing use to take longer to recover from injuries or not at all in some cases. At the Institute of Regenerative Medicine, we use a unique process to supercharge your stem cells and direct them to naturally heal the patellar tendinitis by creating new tissue in the knee.
We begin by harvesting the stem cells and a biological substance called platelet-rich plasma (PRP ) which will act as a stimulant for the stem cell from the patient's blood and bone marrow. Then we process the stem cells and PRP to create a highly potent concentration of stem cells which we inject into the damaged area of the patient's knee using ultrasound to guide the injection. After injection, the stem cells will begin the process of restoring the tissues in the knee.
Stem cell therapy for Patellar Tendonitis only takes a few hours to complete, and patients will be able to go home almost immediately after the injection is done. Since stem cell therapy is a biological treatment that requires time for the stem cells to restore the damage tissues in the knee, patients will not feel the effect of the injection immediately. On average, most patients start to see signs of improvement in the form of reduced pain or increased function within 4 to 6 weeks.
Stem cell therapy for patellar tendonitis is a safe alternative to surgery. Since stem cells are naturally found in the body, we are not injecting any foreign substances into the patient. Additionally, since we only use stem cells and PRP that was harvested from the patient's blood and bone marrow, the risk of infections or rejection is virtually nonexistent.
In general, stem cell therapy can be utilized by anyone. However, to determine if it will be effective in healing the damage in your tendon, our board certified orthopedic surgeon would have to examine your medical file to make that determination.


It's not often when you hear engineers talk about the games they've been working on. It's like a peek inside the machine, or under the hood. So it's no surprise that I was pretty geeked out when I heard that two CodeCraft panels would be running at this year's Blizzcon. As it turns out, the sessions were a trove of information on how Blizzard develops and operates its games.
I was surprised by just how much Overwatch has led the way in new techniques for the studio, being a testing ground for everything from having no downtime on patch days, to using a hybrid cloud infrastructure. Then there's World of Warcraft, and what it's like to manage a 10+ year-old codebase on a living game. Under that, it was surprising to discover just how much falls into Battle.net, and that's without considering the areas covered by Service Support or Web & Mobile teams.
If I was going to ask for more from the presentations, it'd mainly be about the architecture. As a former software engineer turned enterprise architect, I'd love to discover if they have an enterprise domain model in place, or if Blizzard uses a methodology like TOGAF. Putting my personal asks aside, here's some of the juicy nuggets from the two Q&A sessions held at Blizzcon 2017.
The more I heard about lead software engineer Bill Warnecke talk about Overwatch, the more I discovered just how much it challenged Blizzard. A key example was getting patches out with zero downtime, yet having a high degree of confidence that they'd be deployed without a hitch. The solution was blue-green deployment, which basically means having two production-ready platforms named 'blue' and 'green'. While blue is supporting the live game, green is updated, tested and readied. When the patch is deployed, blue and green are swapped over, resulting in zero downtime. It means that patches can be tested on production systems with full integration, and the platforms can be swapped back quickly if any last-minute issues arise.
Blizzard's commitment to providing a solid gaming experience was also surprising, especially considering how sensitive shooters like Overwatch can be. The studio's solution in this case was to use a hybrid cloud setup in order to get servers as close to gamers globally as possible. Where it makes sense, Blizzard would use its own cloud infrastructure. But, where they needed extra reach, it would lean on Amazon Web Services and similar to provide that sweet low ping. And, to ensure that game servers are all updated correctly, patches are MD5 hashed to detect corrupt file transfer.
Overwatch has also been leading the way internally when it comes to AI. Instead of using a scripted state machine in the way that World of Warcraft and Heroes of the Storm controlled their NPCs, Overwatch used a goal-driven AI that could build goals dynamically. That learning was then applied to HotS, collapsing down 200 or so states into a series of goals. It's even being added to the new Island Expeditions feature in WoW's upcoming expansion Battle For Azeroth. NPCs there will react to the party of players, changing tactics as players move towards the various objectives and reacting in a more believable manner.
Taking a cue from Overwatch, WoW has also managed to compress patch windows down from almost half a day to a single hour. Senior software engineer Omar Gonzalez explained that the team moved over to 'semi red/blue' where they have two production environments. Services are switched off, platforms are switched, final tests are run, then realms are reopened.
Sometimes, though, updating a game as old as World of Warcraft with new features just isn't simple. With a living codebase that's older than a decade in places, it becomes an engineering skill to know when to extend or 'build a scaffold' on an existing system, or when it needs to be pulled out and rebuilt, particularly when new features push those systems in ways they weren't intended to go. As a result, the team has a mantra: 'WoW has to keep running', which is used to weigh up adding new features versus improving the underlying services and APIs.
Even so, much of the engineering team's work is placing hooks in the various game systems so that content creators and game designers can hook into them. An example was the Mythic+ keystone system, where affixes could be generated and stored. When the keystone is read, the dungeon is created with that affix, and then each entity inside may have additional behaviour or attributes depending on that affix. Engineering simply set up the hooks so that designers could provide meaning to the values presented. It's a similar story with UI development, as hooks are built for the base UI team to develop onto.
Keeping all that growing code in shape is a significant tasks, which is why the team has also started using automated tools. All code commits go through static analysis before they get merged into any codebase, and are tested by a 'phenomenal functional QA team'. The WoW engineering team is also ramping up the use of clang-tidy after running a pass over the entire codebase and finding many patterns that need to be pulled or repaired. Code Collab is also used in order to streamline the code review process.
I was always vaguely aware that battle.net was a large feat, but I didn't appreciate just how big until until technical lead Brenna Moore started listing everything it covers. There's the client team, account management and purchasing, distribution, and game services. Then there's all the build systems, core technology and core systems group, the data platforms and data team, and automated testing. Almost everything from develop through to build and deploy seems to be managed or touched by it.
The team also manages Blizzard's vast infrastructure, which needed to change from a single data centre with a single internet connection, to a distributed backbone connected to multiple datacentres worldwide. It also manages that hybrid cloud infrastructure, both internally and with partnered providers, alongside peering arrangements with ISPs. Strong partner relationships have proven to be crucial, in both ensuring that players get a solid experience when playing online, and fending off those DDoS attacks that the studio is a ripe target for.
It was also interesting to hear how the Battle.net team act as enablers for the games, rather than pushing back. Lead engineer Andrew Murphy described a scenario where the HotS team wanted new players to get a heap of rewards the first time they logged in, which could stress the account and purchasing systems beyond their original limits, and so redesigned and removed bottlenecks to cope with the increase in demand.
Likewise, the data science teams came in for particular praise. Whether it's pulling out data from the Battle.net client to detect network or system issues as they happen and respond to them, or to blend it with business intelligence to deliver more enjoyable gaming. Hearthstone engineering manager Derek Dupras described it as 'where the rubber meets the road', in using the vast amount of player data to deliver a smooth curve of matchmaking that evolves to the ever-changing meta.
These days, game experiences are about more than just playing the game. We carry games with us, whether it's the WoW Armory or Legion app, the Battle.net app, and so on. Mobile software engineer Ryan Newsome explained that this gets a little tricky when developing for both iOS and Android, as the team has to make each user interface feel like it respects the smartphone platform, while still being consistently Blizzard. In this context, engineers and designers analyse every single component to make sure it's suitable, and occasionally scrapping ideas that don't work out.
On the web side, the team is also responsible for the WoW Armory, forums, and so on. It also built capabilities like the new eSports framework, as senior software engineer Andy Tran described. A shared platform was needed for bracketing, team management, and more, for events including the Overwatch World Cup and Hearthstone World Championship. To ensure that the new capability could be widely reused, automated testing was updated to auto-generate code samples and fail if the documentation wasn't updated, ensuring a high level of final coverage.
Service Support, meanwhile, covers the whole customer support experience, from handling tickets to managing complaints and penalties that drive player behaviour. Group technical architect Ryan Karg described how the department has grown, from simply supporting Battle.net purchases to several live games across multiple platforms. It's a change that created growing pains, which were initially tackled through business process alignment. Eventually, though, the only real solution was to perform less work, which is why the team needed a single common support platform with which all games could integrate the features they need.
Even so, some of the Service Support challenges sounded eerily familiar to me, coming from a background with mobile network operators. The solutions are also similar, with Blizzard using AI to route tickets more effectively, and now looking at sharing internal support articles publicly where a player can possibly help themselves quickly. Personally, I'm curious if the studio is looking at more advanced AI chatbots that can learn how agents handle tickets to follow similar steps through machine learning, or other advanced techniques to scale support.
Aside from the tech talk, both Q&A sessions also gave an insight into Blizzard's unique culture. Most striking was that each game team has operational responsibility for keeping it running, and will double down on crushing bugs and minimising downtime. Blame is avoided, with an importance placed on learning from mistakes and improving processes and techniques wherever possible.
Pushing it further, many of the Battle.net teams have embedded DevOps and embedded QA in order to shorten development cycles while still deploying in a stable manner – vital when it's the platform that underpins some of the most popular games played.
Teams work closely together, sharing knowledge and experience as much as code and features. Beyond the AI techniques mentioned earlier, HotS developed pathing and behaviour tree code that could be decoupled from core systems and reused elsewhere. While the game teams might use individual version control, those departments responsible for core systems are centralising their code repositories to share it studio-wide.
There's also a constant desire to provide more information back to the community so that they can build their own apps and websites from it. The Game Data initiative at dev.battle.net is intended to support 3rd party developers, and the team behind it is constantly striving to put out more. This way, fans can contribute back to the playerbase with our own creative ingenuity.More formally, Blizzard also makes contributions to standards and open-source software, with premake, Spring and RabbitMQ getting mentions.
As for recruitment, all the engineers had clear advice: completed projects count much more than just starting them. Learn one programming language well rather than lots of languages poorly. Consider how you'd architect the software to make it scale horizontally, segregate data, tolerate faults and degrade gracefully. Alongside being able to demonstrate a cultural fit, having a portfolio on github goes a long way to demonstrating abilities.
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Security Cabinet Statement on Iran
Governments » Israel » Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Weapon Program:
Today, another round of negotiations between the P5+1 and Iran will begin in Geneva. Sanctions must not be eased when they are so close to achieving their intended purpose. (Communicated by the Cabinet Secretariat)
Adopted unanimously
Iran has been working for over 20 years to obtain nuclear weapons capabilities despite its declared commitment to pursue only civilian nuclear energy.
During this time, Iran has repeatedly deceived the international community about its nuclear program, including its efforts to conceal enrichment facilities at Natanz and Qom. Iran has also systematically defied United Nations Security Council resolutions which call upon it to end its enrichment.
Brazenly violating these resolutions, Iran has increased the number of centrifuges from 164 in 2006 to over 18,000 today, and it has amassed during negotiations with the international community several tons of enriched uranium.
An Iran with military nuclear capabilities would threaten world peace and stability as well as the security of countries across the Middle East, including Israel, which it threatens to annihilate.
Iran continues to develop missiles of various ranges, including intercontinental ballistic missiles designed to carry nuclear warheads. These missiles pose a threat to the Middle East, Europe, the United States and other countries.
As a result of Iran's actions, the UN Security Council has adopted a series of resolutions. The most recent one, UNSC Resolution 1929 from June 2010, determined that Iran must:
1. Fully and sustainably suspend all enrichment, reprocessing and heavy water-related activity.
2. Refrain from any activity related to developing ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons.
In the resolution, the Security Council determined that Iran had breached previous UNSC resolutions.
Over the years, the international community has imposed on Iran sanctions to compel it to end its military nuclear program. However, Iran continues to blatantly violate Security Council resolutions and to advance its military nuclear program, even as it negotiates with the P5+1.
Today, another round of negotiations between the P5+1 and Iran will begin in Geneva. These negotiations begin at a time when the Iranian regime is under great pressure because of the sanctions and is desperately trying to have them removed. Sanctions must not be eased when they are so close to achieving their intended purpose.
Now is an opportune moment to reach a genuine diplomatic solution that peacefully ends Iran's nuclear weapons program. However, this opportunity can be realized only if the international community continues to put pressure on Iran and does not ease the sanctions prematurely. It would be an historic mistake not to take full advantage of the sanctions, by making concessions before ensuring the dismantling of Iran's nuclear weapons program.
Israel will embrace a genuine diplomatic solution which would bring about the dismantling of Iran's nuclear weapons program. Such a solution would require Iran to comply with Security Council resolutions and other steps which call upon it to:
Cease all nuclear enrichment.
Remove from its territory all the stockpiles of enriched uranium.
Dismantle the underground facilities near Qom and Natanz, including the centrifuges inside them.
Stop all work on the plutonium-producing heavy water reactor in Arak.
Unfortunately, we have seen no evidence that Iran is willing to accept such a solution. On the contrary, Iran continues to enrich uranium without letting up. It insists that it has the "right to enrich." But as President Rouhani revealed in his 2011 book:
"A country that can enrich uranium to about 3.5% will also have the capability to enrich to 90%... Having fuel cycle capability virtually means that a country that possesses this capability is able to produce nuclear weapons.
Rouhani's goal is clear. Furthermore, the "Supreme Leader" Khamenei is the true decision maker regarding Iran's nuclear program. Khamenei has not given any indication whatsoever that he has changed his objective of attaining nuclear weapons.
Iran claims that it supposedly has the "right to enrich." But a country that regularly deceives the international community, that violates UN Security Council resolutions, that participates in the slaughter of civilians in Syria and that promotes terror worldwide, has no such right.
Israel does not oppose Iran having a peaceful nuclear energy program. But as has been demonstrated in many countries, from Canada to Indonesia, peaceful programs do not require uranium enrichment or plutonium production. Iran's nuclear weapons program does.
Israel calls upon the international community not to reach a partial agreement that would fail to bring about the full dismantling of the Iranian military nuclear program, and at the same time, could lead to the collapse of the sanctions regime.
Iran believes it can get by with cosmetic concessions that would not significantly impede its path to developing nuclear weapons, concessions that could be reversed in weeks. In exchange, Iran demands an easing of the sanctions, which have taken years to put in place.
The international community must reject Iran's attempts to reach a deal that leaves it with the capability to develop nuclear weapons and must insist upon a genuine and sustainable agreement.


Kiosk's Data Analytics team continues to keep a close eye on client data, with the addition of Matthew Sindayen. Matthew's a Sonoma State economics graduate, who served as a research assistant to an environmental economist, and lead studies for the SSU Economics Association. As a candidate, Matt's proactive attitude really stood out, and his work with CalServes/Americorps mentoring low-income elementary students shows the kind of community spirit that we respect at Kiosk. We're excited to have him join the team.


To help our readers get a better sense of this, we've put together a list of the top reasons why business presentations fail.
HubSpot's newly published 7th State of Inbound 2015 survey brought to light some of the major inbound marketing challenges facing companies around the world. From a global perspective, there's plenty to think about with regard to the differences between perceived challenges in different regions.
You may be wondering what it takes to create a killer website. What do you need to turn your online storefront into a marketing machine that gets results? How do you get people to visit your website where they can discover your offerings and start doing business with you?
Landing pages exist to convert website visitors into leads. They're one of the most vital elements of inbound marketing, and without them you simply cannot have an effective inbound strategy.
To turn visitors into leads, you must obtain their contact information, and a landing page is where you "offer" something in exchange for this. Whether it's a white paper, an eBook, or some other type of free content, the offer is what drives the transaction and turns strangers into contacts.
This week I was in Boston for Hubspot's annual Inbound convention.
The conference had over 10,000 attendees and tons of groundbreaking speakers, including Guy Kawasaki who spoke about his time with Apple – and how to create companies that not only work, but win. I was overwhelmed, wowed, motivated and more. I've been to plenty of conventions in my life and this was the most organized, inspiring event yet.
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Everyone knows, "the buying cycle has changed." Of course it has, because, The Internet. Marketers are smarter, but buyers are even smarter, and far savvier than they ever were. So how do you connect?
First – know your customer, where are they, what do they like to do, how they spend their money, etc. Create "Buyer Personas" for each segment of your target audience, then target that persona. There are plenty of articles and tools out there to help you create personas, but one tool that's readlily available (and free) is LinkedIn – check out this article to get insights on how to use LinkedIn to create personas.


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Bruins' new approach to penalty-killing is paying off
Mike Loftus The Patriot Ledger
The Bruins' penalty-killing units, which had struggled under the weight of injuries and personnel changes, has risen up the NHL rankings since adopting a more aggressive strategy.
BOSTON - Truth to tell, they didn't change to keep up with the times. The Bruins were more or less forced to alter their method of killing penalties because so many players who have always been so good at it were hurt, or gone.
The new approach has worked so well, however, that the B's are sticking with it - and the old guard has no problem with that.
"I really do like the adjustment," said center Patrice Bergeron, whose superior penalty-killing skills have helped him win a record-tying four Selke Trophies as the NHL's best defensive forward. "I think it's been good."
The B's, already trying to replace penalty-killing forwards Tim Schaller and Riley Nash (both lost to free agency) and defenseman Adam McQuaid (traded), sank to 24th in the NHL (76.6 percent) as shorthanded standouts like Bergeron (16 games) and defensemen Zdeno Chara (19), Kevan Miller (26) and Brandon Carlo (nine) all missed extended periods with injuries.
"There's been a certain structure in place here for years -- a very good structure," said head coach Bruce Cassidy, whose penalty-killers ranked third in the NHL last season (83.7 percent) and led the league in 2016-17 (85.7), when he replaced Claude Julien for the final two months of the season. "But we looked at the personnel we were losing … and we had different forwards (free agent acquisitions Joakim Nordstrom and Chris Wagner), so we decided to be a little more pressure-oriented, to see if it would work out for us."
It has. In the 10 games before Saturday night's visit from the Sabres, the Bruins killed 27 of their past 29 shorthanded situations (93.1 percent) and had nine perfect games to jump to 12th in the league at 80.5 percent.
"We're still structured," said Sean Kuraly, who frequently partnered with Nash last season, "but if you see a chance where you can pressure -- maybe not stay within the structure perfectly -- you've been given the green light to go.
"Personally, I feel like it's freed me up. There's a little less thinking."
There also aren't as many defined forward pairs as in the past. Bergeron and Brad Marchand have reunited since the former returned to the lineup seven games ago, but newcomers Wagner and Nordstrom (now sidelined by a fractured fibula) and holdovers Schaller and Noel Acciari have been mixed and matched.
"It doesn't really matter who you're on the ice with for kills, though," Wagner said. "Everyone's doing the same job, and it's still pretty detailed about what you're going to do in each situation."
Said Acciari: "You just read off the guy next to you. If he's going to (pressure the puck), you've got to make sure you get to the right spot. Right now it's clicking -- everyone's on the same page."
Hey, kids: Cassidy's decision to scratch center Colby Cave and give David Backes a shot as second-line right wing with center David Krejci and left wing Jake DeBrusk meant a reunion for the Bruins' youngest trio - rookies Ryan Donato (left wing) and Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson with second-year right wing Danton Heinen. They played four games together from Dec. 14-20.
"I didn't mind that line" when it was together, Cassidy said, "and at home we can control a little bit of that match-up. That's part of the reasoning."
Another factor: Heinen, Donato, Anders Bjork (now at AHL Providence) and even DeBrusk -- whom Cassidy prefers on Krejci's left -- were previously given chances to claim the right wing position, but didn't.
"(Backes) is fresh, coming back (from a three-game NHL suspension for a check to the head of Devils forward Blake Coleman on Dec. 27), and excited to play up the lineup a little bit," Cassidy said. "We are trying to pin down a little bit more consistent lines, but I think (Krejci's line), it's fair to say, is still a work in progress."
Around the boards: Cassidy said he expects defenseman Charlie McAvoy, who missed his fifth game with a lower body injury, to begin skating early next week. … Cave, recalled from AHL Providence in late November, had played 20 conecutive games before sitting out on Saturday. … Defenseman Steven Kampfer was a healthy scratch for the fifth consecutive game.


When it comes to what's for dinner - or breakfast and lunch for that matter-- many people suffer from chemophobia, an irrational fear of natural and synthetic chemicals that pose no risk to our health, a Dartmouth study finds.
Chemistry Professor Gordon Gribble, whose paper appears in the journal Food Security, argues that low doses of chemicals in modern food are inherent, typically harmless and often highly beneficial. He says most people don't know they are routinely exposed to a host of compounds in non-toxic concentrations in what they eat and drink each day. Even the air they breathe - whether in big cities or the countryside -- is full of naturally occurring and synthetic chemicals, including wine "aroma," flower "bouquet," perfume "fragrance," bakery "smell" and "garbage "stench."
Gribble cites the example of halogen compounds, which many people -- even many scientists -- assume are all uniquely man-made poisons found in dioxins, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and the pesticide DDT. But he says thousands of halogen compounds are, in fact, part of our natural environment made by protists, plants, animals and even humans for their own defensive purposes. Some species even use organohalogens, which contain carbon along with chlorine, bromine, iodine or fluorine, to mount chemical offensives against encroaching competitors.
Gribble says food regulators should focus not on pesticides, antibiotics and dioxins but on pathogens, bacteria and fungi, which each year cause millions of cases of food-borne infections in the United States that result in hospitalization or death. He recommends people eat a diverse diet to minimize their exposure to harmful concentrations of chemicals.
"Our food is peppered with natural compounds such as organohalogens, dioxins, aflatoxins and many others," he says. "Food is chemistry beyond our immediate control, including those synthetic chemicals that are deemed to be artificial and should not be found in 'safe' food."
Gribble says chemophobia started in 1962 with publication of Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" and was reinforced by major chemical accidents, such as those in Times Beach, Missouri; Love Canal, New York; and Bhopal, India. "The word 'chemical' became a dirty word despite the fact that everything we see, smell and touch is chemical," he says. "While chemical scares invariably appear on the front page, the follow-up stories that often refute the initial scares never do."


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A new controller? A new SKU? Something else entirely?
It's Gamescom week, everybody! Exciting times- certainly not E3 exciting, but exciting nonetheless. We've been treated to plenty of great new announcements already, from Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice's release date confirmation, to a release date announcement for Devil May Cry 5, to a new IP by Supermassive Games and Bandai Namco, and so much more.
And now it looks like even Microsoft might have something in the pipeline. We've know for some time now that they would have a major presence at Gamescom, but now, Microsoft's Larry Hryb, also known as "Major Nelson", has put up an image on his Twitter account of… something under the wraps, with a small board bearing the words "New Reveal Coming Tomorrow" standing next to it.
Could be anything, as far as I'm concerned. It could be a new game, or maybe a new SKU for the Xbox One (though that seems a little unlikely). The likeliest option is, of course, the Xbox Elite Wireless Controller v2, which has been leaked multiple times now, and is supposedly primed for a Gamescom announcement.
Either way, stick with GamingBolt, and we'll let you know what it is as soon as we find out.


O'Brien pencils in Bar One Racing Lacken Stakes at Naas for Royal Ascot winners Waterloo Bridge and Washington DC Aidan O'Brien has a strong hand in the featured Group 3 Bar One Racing Lacken Stakes on Royal Ascot Trials Day at Naas this Sunday. The Champion trainer last won the Group 3 Lacken Stakes in 2014 with Due Diligence, who then went on to finish second in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at the Royal Meeting. Royal Ascot Trials Day at Naas has proved itself as a vital stepping stone to Ascot for 12 subsequent Royal winners since 2010. O'Brien could be plotting a similar path to Due Diligence with both Washington DC and Waterloo Bridge, both of whom won juvenile races at Royal Ascot last season and hold entries in Sunday's Bar One Racing Lacken Stakes. Smash Williams, another entry in the feature event, created a big impression last year when winning his first two starts as a two-year-old and the Jim Bolger-trained son of Fracas is another intriguing entry in the race. Ger Lyons has entered Blood Moon, David Wachman has entered both Most Beautiful and Independence Day and Tommy Stack relies on the exciting Diamond Fields, who was unable to take up her engagement in the Irish 1,000 Guineas last Sunday due to the unfavourably soft terrain. The Michael Halford-trained Anamba was also withdrawn from the Irish 1,000 Guineas last weekend and she could make her seasonal reappearance in the Owenstown Stud Stakes (Listed) over seven furlongs. Ger Lyons looks set to let the hugely exciting Psychedelic Funk bid for a hat-trick of Naas wins in the Coolmore War Command Rochestown Stakes (Listed). Lyons will be hoping for back-to-back wins in the race following Argentero's success 12 months ago. Psychedelic Funk is already as short as 6-1 for the Coventry Stakes on the opening day of Royal Ascot and has looked really smart on his two wins to date. The Aidan O'Brien-trained Cuff, another recent Naas winner, would have fine claims if lining out in the Coolmore Stud EBF Fillies' Sprint Stakes (Listed). O'Brien has also entered Navan maiden winner Hyzenthlay and the unraced Elizabeth Browning. Spy Ring created a nice impression when winning a competitive fillies' maiden at Cork last week and the Michael O'Callaghan-trained inmate is just one of a number of other nice fillies that also catch the eye including Yulong Baobei, a six length winner in her only start at Dundalk recently for trainer Michael Halford. This meeting has always attracted a strong team of English juveniles and this Sunday's card sees entries from the powerful teams at Richard Hannon, Richard Fahey, Ralph Beckett, Martyn Meade and James Tate. Tom Ryan, Manager said; "We are delighted with the standard of the entries for our 2016 Royal Ascot Trials meeting. We expect a number of UK runners again this year and the preparations for the meeting as a whole have gone really well so far. We look forward to welcoming a large crowd. As we are very close to starting our major redevelopment any last minute suggestions from race goers would be most welcome". The Royal Ascot Trials Day gets underway with the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies' Maiden, scheduled to go to post at 2.05pm. There will be nobody nipping out to the car park early at Naas on Sunday as the Corinthian Challenge Charity race brings Royal Ascot Trials Day to a close. The Corinthian Challenge is designed to raise much needed funds for the Injured Jockeys Fund and trainers such as Gordon Elliott, Johnny Murtagh, John 'Shark' Hanlon and James Fanshawe (GB) could have runners in the race. For further information, contact Catherine Murray Sales & Marketing Manager, Naas Racecourse on 087 465 0761 or email [email protected].


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Chris Brown explains the cause behind his blowout with Rihanna before beating incident
Brezzy said that he was planning to propose to RiRi.
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Chris Brown has opened up about his relationship with his former girlfriend Rihanna almost eight years after the infamous beating incident that rocked the music scene. Breezy has now revealed what he was planning next in his relationship before destroying it by physically abusing RiRi in 2009.
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According to HollywoodLife, Brown, in a new documentary titled Welcome To My Life, said that he was head over heels in love with the Barbadian singer that he was planning to propose to her. Also he was the first one to say "I love you."
Although, he was looking to walk down the aisle with the Diamonds singer, he had a big secret that he had hid from her. Initially, Brown had lied about not hooking up with a woman he had worked with, saying it was strictly professional. As their relationship became serious, Brown told the Umbrella hitmaker that he had indeed hooked up with the woman while they were dating.
The revelation Brown sparked jealousy and fights between them that eventually caused their relationship to blowout at Clive Davis' 2009 Grammys pre-party after his former hook-up showed up at the table where he and Rihanna were seated. Rihanna completely lost it and broke down in tears before the couple left in a car together. A few days after the incident at the party, Brown turned himself in to the LAPD for questioning regarding charges of a felony.
It has been reported that Rihanna still has strong feelings for Brown despite sharing a not-so-pleasant history with the With You hitmaker.
"Now that probably shocks a ton of people, but they don't know Chris or Ri," a source previously told HollywoodLife. "She understands him and he's opened up to her about everything he's been through."
"It breaks her heart when she thinks of Chris, and she doesn't view him as some kind of 'monster' like other people do. You gotta walk a mile in another person's shoes before you can pass judgement on them."
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Pay the what? Yes, pay the clock. Oscars cafe bar in Christchurch are running a promotion on pizza that means the earlier you come in to have it, the cheaper it'll be for you.
It's an interesting way of luring customers just a little bit earlier, especially in January when the pubs do less business after the mayhem of December.
Here's how their 'Pay the time' promotion works. You order a pizza between 6 and 9.30pm, you pay whatever the time on the clock says. If you order your pizza at 6.00pm, then it's €6.00. You order at 8.44pm, then it's €8.44. It's very handy if you want to eat after work.
The bar also has a number of always running specials on G and T for €5, bottles of selected beers for €4, and more.
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Voltron Legendary Defender Comic Con Panel Reveals Major Character Shiro is Gay
Raymond Flotat July 21st, 2018 - 2:07 AM
At a packed panel at Comic Con this morning the Netflix cartoon reboot of Voltron (called Voltron: Legendary Defender) a massive crowd of fans were delighted with several pieces of news. Chief among them, one of the show's lead characters Shiro is gay. Without going into too many specifics, the creators and cast on hand premiered the first episode of season seven at the panel. In it, a plot line is revealed to show Shiro's one-time boyfriend far back when he first met character Keith. The crowd shrieked with joy when they realized that the relationship the show was showing was in fact an actual relationship. The creators didn't expand too much on the reasoning, but the crowd seemed thrilled at the move for inclusion. While not the very first LGBT character in children's cartoons, it's a super rare occurrence. If love and relationships are at all depicted in kid's cartoons, it's typically only straight relationships depicted.
Cast member Rhys Darby was a laugh-a-minute bubbling pot of hilarity. Nearly every time he opened his mouth the whole crowd roared with laughter. He quipped at the beginning of the panel looking at the video walls flanking the stage, "We don't have screens like that in New Zealand." He also spent a great deal of time taking live videos from the panel of himself, his fellow cast members and the crowd (presumably for Instagram), mugging with a giant smile all the while. Executive Producer Joaquim Dos Santos stated happily that if there ever was a live-action Voltron movie made, Darby would have to be in it.
In other news, the show will be returning to 13 episode seasons. The bad news is though, that Executive Producer Lauren Montgomery explained that the following season, season seven, would be the finale of the series. That means just 26 episodes remain before no more Voltron, again. Season seven of Voltron Legendary Defender premieres on Netflix August 10th.
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Simone Biles to star in Facebook docuseries ahead of Olympics
After covering Tom Brady and Steph Curry, the "Religion of Sports" series will follow the star gymnast who grew up in Spring.
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Simone Biles, at an event last January before the pandemic, is hopeful the delayed Tokyo Olympics will go on, even if they are competed in a bubble like the NBA playoffs.
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The Religion of Sports docuseries on Facebook Watch has covered Super Bowl fixture Tom Brady and NBA star Steph Curry. The third edition of the series will focus Simone Biles, the history-making gymnast who grew up in Spring.
"Simone vs. Herself" will air this summer on Facebook Watch, according to USA Today.
Biles described her work process to USA Today, suggesting the short routines viewed during the Olympic games are the end result of brutally long training sessions.
"I don't think people get the intensity of how I train and what my life looks like," Biles told USA Today. "I think there is a sense of normalcy they'll get to see. But they'll also see the rigorous training. We're training 34, 35 hours a week to compete for 3½ to five minutes."
At 23, Biles is a five-time World All-Around champion. Between World Championships and the Olympics, she has earned 30 medals, the most of any American gymnast. She worked to add to her credits with the 2020 Olympic games in Tokyo. The film will cover Biles' disappointment as the games were postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Games of the XXXII Olympiad are now scheduled to begin July 23 in Tokyo.
Religion of Sports began filming Biles in late 2019.
"As a filmmaker and storyteller, you need a compelling character," "Religion of Sports" co-founder Chopra told USA Today. "The sports of it all is cinematic and amazing and beautiful and fun. But the complexity comes in who is this person, and she's got an endless amount of that."
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Andrew Dansby covers culture and entertainment, both local and national, for the Houston Chronicle. He came to the Chronicle in 2004 from Rolling Stone, where he spent five years writing about music. He'd previously spent five years in book publishing, working with George R.R. Martin's editor on the first two books in the series that would become TV's "Game of Thrones. He misspent a year in the film industry, involved in three "major" motion pictures you've never seen. He's written for Rolling Stone, American Songwriter, Texas Music, Playboy and other publications.
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NNPC assures fuel queues will vanish in few days
..We'll handle erring PMS suppliers, House C'ttee tells Nigerians
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The Chief Executive Officer/ Group Managing Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mallam Mele Kyari has assured Nigerians that the current fuel queue will vanish in few days.
Kyari said NNPC has placed order for 2.1 billion litres of petrol to address the shortage occassioned by the importation of adultrated petrol.
NNPC chief, according to a statement signed by the Corporation's Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Mr. Garba Deen Muhammad made the disclosures when he met with the House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum (Downstream).
The statement reads in part, "While assuring the Committee and Nigerians that measures have been put in place to accelerate fuel supply and distribution in the country, the NNPC CEO said the company had placed significant orders of over 2.1billion liters of methanol-free PMS to ensure the queues vanish in few days.
"The NNPC CEO also expressed deep empathy with Nigerians on the current situation and assured that adequate measures have been put in place to maintain supply sufficiency and prevent future occurrence."
Briefing the Committee on the reason behind the return of queues at petrol stations, Kyari explained that the situation came about as a result of the discovery of methanol in the PMS cargoes shipped to Nigeria under the subsisting commercial contract operated by NNPC and its partners.
According to the CEO, the reason why tests did not reveal methanol presence was because Nigeria's specifications do not include methanol.
"We are a law-abiding company. There is no way we could have known about the methanol presence. The only way we could have known about it is if our suppliers, in good faith, made the disclosure to us. In this particular instance, the discovery was made by our inspection agents who noticed the emulsification at the filling stations and brought it to our attention. Subsequent investigation revealed that the four cargoes which are all from the same source also contained methanol-blended PMS," the CEO added.
He said NNPC then moved swiftly to trace all the affected products and quarantine same.
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RAKOVSKI, Bulgaria (CNS) — In the Catholic heart of Bulgaria, Pope Francis celebrated a special Mass for 245 children receiving their first Communion and thanked them for helping him, their parents and grandparents remember their own first Communion.
"Today you have made it possible for us to relive that joy and to celebrate Jesus, present in the bread of life," the pope told the children May 6 in Rakovski's Church of the Sacred Heart.
While only about 1 percent of Bulgaria's population is Catholic, in Rakovski the vast majority of the city's 27,000 people are Catholic.
"Jesus is alive and here with us; that is why we can encounter him today in the Eucharist," the pope said. "We do not see him with our physical eyes, but we do see him with the eyes of faith."
After he read his prepared homily, Pope Francis focused on the first communicants, dressed in white robes and seated in the front rows.
"Are you happy to receive your first Communion?" he asked them. "Yes," the braver ones said out loud. "Are you sure?" the pope asked. "Yes!" they all shouted.
"In the homily I said something I want you to remember forever," the pope told the children. "I spoke of the ID card of a Christian. I said our ID card is this: God is our father. Jesus is our brother. The church is our family, and we are brothers and sisters. Our law is love."
To drive the points home, Pope Francis had the children repeat each line after him — or rather, after the translator who was telling the children in Bulgarian what the pope had said in Italian.
At one point, either to test the translator or the children, the pope said, "We are enemies." When it was about to be repeated, he said, "Are we enemies?" Of course, they shouted, "No."
After the recitation of the Lord's Prayer, the pope had more words for the children. "Now you will receive Jesus," he told them. "Do not let yourselves be distracted; think only of Jesus. Come to the altar to receive Jesus in silence; silence your hearts."
The pope, dipping the consecrated host in the consecrated wine, personally gave Communion to each of the children, while other priests brought the Eucharist to another 500 people inside the church and an estimated 10,000 people gathered on the church grounds for the Mass.
The Vatican press office said it was the first time on a papal trip that Pope Francis had administered first Communion.
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Salaam Bombay! (Hindi: सलाम बॉम्बे!) is a 1988 Hindi film directed by Mira Nair, and screenwritten by her longtime creative collaborator, Sooni Taraporevala.
The film chronicles the day-to-day life of children living on the streets of Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay). It won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi, the National Board of Review Award for Top Foreign Film, the Golden Camera and Audience Awards at the Cannes Film Festival, and three awards at the Montréal World Film Festival. The film was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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