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Don't worry Thailand, your unlimited salad, soup and pasta bar isn't going away after the Sizzler steakhouses in the United States filed for bankruptcy Tuesday.
Minor International Plc., operator of 66 Sizzlers in Thailand, said the filing by Sizzler USA has no impact on its operations as steakhouses are licensed from the company's Australia-based subsidiary.
Sizzler USA, founded in southern California in 1958 with the idea "everyone can enjoy a great steak dinner at an affordable price", filed for protection and reorganization under U.S. bankruptcy laws saying its inability to open its wholly-owned restaurants' dining rooms for most of 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic has left it unable to even pay rent, let alone employees.
The filing affects only 14 company-owned restaurants, not its 90 American franchises or its international operations.
In a filing with the Stock Exchange of Thailand, Minor – which holds the franchise for a number of big-name U.S. fast-food chains including Burger King, KFC and Dairy Queen – said Sizzler's Australian operation manages all restaurants in the Asia-Pacific region independently of the U.S.
Sizzler has been in Thailand since 1992 and has nearly as many outlets here as in all of the U.S. Minor said it also has plans for a joint venture to bring Sizzler to China.
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Battlefield 1 Players Want "The Battle Of The Somme" In The Game
written by GlyphMasterson 2017-02-26
When Battlefield 1 was announced, it shocked everyone by not going forward in time, but backward. Not even the backward that people predicted by going back to the classic WWII setting that it filled so well. No, Battlefield 1 went to World War I, a war that was mostly untouched by the industry and not often explored by AAA companies.
Yet, some gamers have noted that while Battlefield 1 did a very wide scope on WWI (which in and of itself comprised 4 years filled with intense battles), one battle, in particular, was left out. A battle that was one of the biggest, longest, and bloodiest battles of the war, The Battle of the Somme.
This battle lasted for 5 months, and by the time everything was said and done, the casualty toll was of 1.5 million soldiers. Just on the first day of the battle, the British forces had over 50,000 casualties, and nearly 20,000 of them died. That was just day one. Days, weeks, and months of this continued until finally, it ended.
This was one of the battles that proved that while technology had advanced in the world, war tactics hadn't. Infamous, the commanders of the British and French forces in the Somme couldn't decide how long they should continue bombardment before they sent the soldiers in. This was part of the reason why so many died.
Many Battlefield 1 players on Reddit are all out for this and would be very surprised if this grand scale battle didn't make it into the game as a DLC. DICE has already developed DLC for the game and promised more could be on the way, so maybe this legendary battle will make it after all.
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Lectins in uncooked or under-cooked dried beans and grains can bind to the lining of your intestines to cause vomiting, cramping and diarrhea. However, proper cooking destroys or reduces the amount of lectins to prevent this harm. Lectins are absorbed very poorly, but they can enter your bloodstream to turn on your immunity to cause inflammation (Biochem Soc Trans, 1989;17:481–482; Lancet, 1998;352:1831–1832), an overactive immunity that can attack and destroy your own cells, but many other studies show that fruits and vegetables help to decrease inflammation (J Am Diet Assoc, Mar 2009;109(3):414–421). The rest of the many claims that lectins cause cancer, auto-immune diseases and other ailments are at this time unproven and unsubstantiated by adequate research.
The same cooking process that reduces the gas-causing tendencies of beans also reduces their lectin content to a safe level. Soak the beans overnight, discard the soaking water and cover the beans with fresh water. Bring to a boil and then cook with the heat kept just under boiling until the beans are soft. Canned beans have been prepared using this process, so they are not high in lectins. Dry heat does not usually destroy lectins. Sprouted beans, grains and other seeds have low lectin counts. Green (immature) beans and peas have low levels of lectins. Standard methods of cooking whole grains in water destroy or reduce the lectins; if they are soft enough to eat, they are usually safe. Fermenting markedly reduces lectins.


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Q: Or condition not working in regex python I have to  write a regex condition in which A token only contains letters (i.e. a-z or A-Z), "-" (hyphen), or "(underscore) " . Moreover, a token cannot starts or ends with "-" or "_" .
I tried but i am not able to get that
text = "this is a breath-taking ambitious movie; test text: abc_dcd abc_ dvr89w, abc-dcd -abc"

tokens=re.findall(r'[\-\_][a-zA-Z]+|[a-zA-Z]+-+_[a-zA-Z]', text)

A: I assumed in your newtext it was literally just a string of space separated tokens, so here's a bunch of negative lookbehind/ahead assertions:
import re
s = 'foo _foo_ _foo foo_ 123 _123 _123_ 123_ -foo- -foo foo- 5fOo-bAr3 12-3'
tokens = re.findall(r'\b(?![-_])(?<![-_])[\w\-]+?(?![-_])(?<![-_])\b', s)
print(tokens)
# ouptut
# ['foo', '123', '5fOo-bAr3', '12-3']

To explain what's going on, there's basically 4 parts:

*

*\b(?![-_]) means don't match if after a word boundary character i.e. \bthere is a dash or underscore. In this case, think of a word boundary as the edge of a contiguous block of word characters; word character being a-z, A-Z, or underscore (_). Which in this case could be a space or even a dash.

*(?<![-_])[\w\-]+? means don't match if to the right of a contiguous block of word characters and dashes (in other words, our definition of a token) is a dash or underscore. Yeah you need both the lookahead assertion and lookbehind assertion next to each other otherwise the [\w\-]+? will consume a leading dash.

*[\w\-]+?(?![-_]) means don't match if after our definition of a token is a dash or underscore

*(?<![-_])\b means don't match if to the left of the left edge of the token is a dash or underscore

A: It might be helpful if you give a starting example and desired output.
From what I understand this might be something that can get you started:
import re
example = ['[Beta-blockers-]', 'Magic!', '19_80', 'Presse medicale']
output = [''.join(re.findall(r'[^\]\[.!][A-z0-9]+[^\]\[.!-]', i)) for i in example]

Output:
['Beta-blockers', 'Magic', '19_80', 'Presse medicale']

A: Your regex should look like this instead:
[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z\-\_]*[a-zA-Z]|[a-zA-Z]

This uses the | (or) operator to make sure it matches one of two things. The first is [a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z\-\_]*[a-zA-Z]. This makes sure it starts with an allowed starting character ([a-zA-Z]). Then it allows any number of allowed characters ([a-zA-Z\-\_]*) and then makes sure it ends with an allowed ending character ([a-zA-Z]).
The part after the | is to make sure it matches single-character tokens.

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'We will hunt you down and make you pay': Is violent revenge against terrorists moral? Just war theory says no.
Christian BraunSeptember 01, 2021
A destroyed vehicle is seen inside a house after a U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Khwaja Tawfiq Sediqi)
Mourning the death of 13 U.S. service members and nearly 200 other people in the terrorist attack on the Kabul airport on Aug. 26, President Biden made a speech in which he sent a direct message to the perpetrators: "To those who carried out this attack, as well as anyone who wishes America harm, know this: We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay. I will defend our interests and our people with every measure at my command."
With these powerful words, Mr. Biden voiced his intention to punish those responsible. And punish he did. The U.S. military disclosed that it launched a drone strike on Aug. 27 and killed two members of ISIS-K, the group that has claimed responsibility for the airport attack, in Nangarhar Province. Another U.S. drone strike, on Aug. 29, targeted a vehicle containing explosives and an undetermined number of occupants.
While the desire to respond to the terrorist attack is understandable, the way Mr. Biden framed his thinking raises profound moral questions. It gives renewed attention to the practice of targeted killing, about which much ink was spilled during the presidencies of Donald J. Trump and Barack Obama.
Mr. Biden has prompted renewed attention to the practice of targeted killing, about which much ink was spilled during the presidencies of Donald J. Trump and Barack Obama.
Mr. Biden, the second Catholic U.S. president, takes pride in his faith. He quoted St. Augustine in his inaugural address and has placed a photo of Pope Francis in the Oval Office. Clearly, religious arguments matter to him, as further demonstrated by the biblical citation he made in last week's speech: "Those who have served through the ages have drawn inspiration from the Book of Isaiah, when the Lord says: 'Whom shall I send? Who shall go for us?' And the American military has been answering for a long time. 'Here I am, Lord. Send me.' 'Here I am, send me.'"
So it is appropriate to ask: Is there a moral basis for punitive targeted killings? Just war theory can help answer this question. Most contemporary just war thinkers say it is difficult to distinguish between retribution (which is morally justifiable) and vengeance (which is morally indefensible). The former seeks to inflict a fair punishment for an act of violence by re-establishing the equilibrium of justice the act of wrongdoing has disrupted; the latter, in the words of the legal philosopher David Luban, amounts to "an open invitation to self-serving, unfair, overly harsh, and excessive punishment."
If we accept that the retributive punishment of those who masterminded the Kabul airport attack is a just cause, what would a fair punishment look like? If we consider the use of lethal force, which Mr. Biden implicitly suggested in his remarks and on which he followed through by authorizing the drone strike, the death penalty comes to mind as a parallel from the domestic criminal justice system. A major difference, of course, is that in targeted military strikes the terrorists are executed without having had a chance to stand trial.
In the context of armed drones, often the weapon of choice for targeted killings, the U.S. bishops have explicitly limited the morality of their use to the just cause of self-defense.
Is there a moral basis in contemporary church teaching for the retributive targeted killing of alleged terrorists? The answer is no. In contrast to classical just war thinking, as succinctly summarized by St. Thomas Aquinas, retribution is no longer considered to be a just cause for war. Today's Catholic teaching on war and peace starts from a "presumption against war," as the U.S. bishops wrote in their pastoral letter "The Challenge of Peace" in 1983. Only if a number of restrictive just war criteria have been met can the use of armed force be morally justifiable. While the church continues to accept the just cause of self-defense and has been open to the "responsibility to protect" framework, contemporary teaching does not sanction the use of armed force to re-establish the equilibrium of justice following acts of wrongdoing. In the context of armed drones, often the weapon of choice for targeted killings, the U.S. bishops have explicitly limited the morality of their use to the just cause of self-defense.
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Furthermore, and most interestingly vis-à-vis the practice of targeted killing, Pope Francis recently declared that the death penalty is no longer morally justifiable. Modern popes up until Francis, often publicly perceived as opposed to the death penalty, did not rule out the death penalty in principle. Francis, in contrast, has firmly stated that there is no moral basis for the death penalty; thus, the above argument of considering the targeted killing of terrorists as a parallel to domestic capital punishment is irreconcilable with Francis' teaching. In the Holy Father's own words: "It is necessary, therefore, to reaffirm that no matter how serious the crime that has been committed, the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and the dignity of the person."
If "we will hunt you down and make you pay" means that Mr. Biden has in mind the targeted killing of alleged terrorists, as the most recent drone strike suggests, there is no moral basis for such action in contemporary Catholic thinking. If the president wants to re-establish an equilibrium of justice that the terrorists have disrupted by the airport attack, the terrorists should be captured and taken to court. Otherwise, the praiseworthy desire for justice risks degenerating into acts of vengeance. That is why St. Augustine, the saint Mr. Biden holds in high regard, warned against giving in to "the cruel thirst for vengeance" as one of the motivations for war.
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Have you ever wondered why everyone is getting obsessed with GTA 5? It is a video game full of adventures and action. GTA game has become popular in a short period. It is one of the most selling video games so far. There's a lot of hidden mysteries in the Grand Theft Auto V.
From a gamer's point of view, we can't praise this game enough in words. But we can give some common reasons for being so lovable by many people. So without any further due, let's discuss why people love this game.
8 Reasons Why People Love GTA 5 Game:
1. Open-World Game
It's an open-world game where you can do whatever you want. You can streal cars, earn money, buy guns, do craps that you can't do in real life. You can buy cars and customize them according to your choice, isn't it fun? Of course, it is. Many other incredible facts make this game addicted to youth.
2. Incredible Storyline
GTA V offers the biggest storyline and map in the history of the GTA series. Also, the visual representation of the game is beyond words. The realism of the game bound people to love this game. There are many other aspects of the game that people love about GTA V. Such as street racing, switching between characters, hunting with Trevor, and many more.
3. The World Within the Game
As we discussed above, playing GTA V is like you're in your world. It has massive maps. The new version of the game has combined the GTA IV and redemption maps to make the area huge. All the beautiful sceneries in the game make it like the real world.
There's a realism in every mission. You can experience a real-life in this game. You can play golf, drive a car, earn money, perform yoga stretches, etc.
4. The Cool Radio Stations
The fun of driving in a stolen car gets doubled when you turn on the radio station. Another incredible feature of this game, which makes it loving, is the cool radio stations. GTA V includes over 240 licensed tracks in the game. These radio stations feel like the real world. You can hear some popular celebrities such as Kenny Loggins, Pam Grier, etc., as a host in these radio stations.
5. Customize Cars and Clothes
This feature has grab player's attention. GTA V offers you a variety of customization options. It seems like the developer wants you to spend your cash on cars and outfits. You can look at your choice of car. Whether you have stolen the car or you bought it, you have the right to customize it. You can paint your car, change the wheels or even get yourself a new outfit. So you will look like a new person driving an astonishing car.
6. Games Within the Game
If you get fed up and need a break from violence, you can play some games. Yes, the GTA V offers you games within the game. You can explore the GTA V non-violent side, which is no doubt peaceful. You can play golf, take a trip to a tennis court, and relax. Also, you don't need to leave the game or your identity. Continue playing games while being a criminal. It is the most popular reason why people love this game.
7. Explore Scuba Diving with GTA V
If you're tired of everything, i.e., violence, driving, gaming, etc., don't be stressed, GTA V has a solution for this as well. Simply get into your diving suits and explore Los Santos. It will offer you some missions. We bet you won't regret completing those missions. These missions will boost up your tired mood. So no matter if you are tired of your real-life or GTA V life, try scuba diving and make your life exciting.
8. Invest and Gamble with your Cash
You can now spend your cash on your favorite things. GTA V allows you to either invest your money or waste it in gambling. Buy a weed for you, or have a tattoo. Just like in the real world, you can also buy real estate and stocks. Or make your cash double by investing it in gambling or some adequate means of business. It up to you how you spend your money. All these features make this game more addicted, and people love it more.
These are the reasons people love GTA 5 game. Is there something else that makes you addicted to Grand Theft Auto 5? Share your recommendations by leaving a comment down below.
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ICE MC (справжнє ім'я Ян Кемпбелл; нар. 22 березня 1965 р., Ноттінгем, Англія) — репер, музикант і художник.

Біографія
Ян народився і виріс у районі Хайсон Грін у Ноттінгемі в сім'ї вихідців з Ямайки. У школі завдяки ініціалам IC він дістав прізвисько ICE (пізніше інтерпретоване ним як Ian Campbell Esquire — Ян Кемпбелл Есквайр).

У 1983 році приєднався до групи брейкдансерів, що подорожували по Європі. У 1989 році в Італії він познайомився з Роберто Занетті — композитором і співаком, відомішим під сценічним ім'ям Savage. Занетті в той час займався продюсерською діяльністю під псевдонімом Robyx та шукав підхожого репера для нового проекту.

Їхній перший спільний сингл «Easy», виконаний у стилі хіп-хаус, вийшов 1989 року та відразу потрапив у чарти всіх європейських хіт-парадів, посівши в Італії п'яте, а в Німеччині — третє місце. Два наступні сингли «Cinema» і «Scream», а також альбом «Cinema», выпущений у 1990 році, теж стали популярними в Європі і Японії.

Ян багато гастролював, однак мода на хіп-хаус швидко минала, на сцену вийшли нові стилі — техно і єврохаус, у результаті чого альбом «My World», що побачив світ 1992 року, виявився далеко менш успішним.

Для запису третього альбому Занетті запросив як вокалістку італійську співачку на ймення Alexia, а ICE MC повністю змінив свій зовнішній вигляд та стиль: тепер це був ragga-рэп або raggamuffin. Альбом було витримано в класичному євроденс-стилі і він швидко потрапив на верхні місця в хітпарадах по всьому світові. Найвідоміші хіти, що ввійшли в альбом, це It's A Rainy Day, Take Away The Colour, Russian Roulette і Think About The Way; останній ще й послужив одним із саундтреків до фільму 1996 р. "На голці".

У 1995 році з'явився на світ альбом реміксів «Ice'n'Green — The Remix Album», головним синглом з якого була нова версія «Take Away The Colour '95 Reconstruction».

У 1996 році розбіжності між ICE MC і Занетті призводять до розриву. Ян поїхав у Німеччину, де в 1996 році випустив альбом «Dreadatour», що не став популярним. Продюсером альбому виступила група Masterboy. 1998 року чиниться ще одна спроба підкорити чарти: виходять промо-сингли «Busy Body» та «Energy», але з огляду на відхід ери євроденсу гучні лейбли інтересу до них не проявили.

Наприкінці 2002 року Ян вирішив повернутися в Італію і зв'язатися з Занетті. В результаті в 2004 році з'явились два нові сингли — «It's a Miracle» та «My World», відтак 19 квітня на «Time Records» вийшов «Cold Skool». Ні сингли, ні альбом зацікавлення у слухачів не викликали, і Ян знову розстався з Занетті.

Згодом Ян повернувся в Англію, де розпочав роботу над новим альбомом, який мав з'явитися наприкінці 2008 року, одначе так і не вийшов.

Дискографія

Сингли
 1989 — «Easy»
 1989 — «Easy (Attack Remix)»
 1990 — «Scream»
 1990 — «Scream (The U.S. Remix)»
 1990 — «Cinema»
 1990 — «OK Corral!»
 1990 — «OK Corral! (The Cotton Remixes)»
 1990 — «The Megamix»
 1991 — «People»
 1991 — «People (Remix)»
 1991 — «Happy Weekend»
 1991 — «Happy Weekend (Remix)»
 1992 — «Rainy Days»
 1993 — «Take Away the Colour»
 1993 — «Take Away the Colour (Remixes)»
 1994 — «Think About the Way» (в UK вийшов під назвою «Bom Digi Bom»)
 1994 — «Think About the Way (Boom Di Di Boom Remixes)»
 1994 — «It's a Rainy Day»
 1994 — «It's a Rainy Day (Remixes)»
 1994 — «It's A Rainy Day (The Christmas Remix)»
 1995 — «Take Away the Colour ('95 Reconstruction)»
 1995 — «Ice'n' Mix» (Triple set remixes) (тільки в Італії)
 1995 — «Megamix» (тільки у Франції)
 1995 — «Run Fa Cover» (тільки в США)
 1996 — «Russian Roulette» (тільки в Швеції)
 1996 — «Funkin' With You» (тільки у Франції)
 1996 — «Give Me the Light»
 1996 — «Give Me the Light (Remixes)»
 1996 — «Music for Money»
 1997 — «Let's Take It Easy»
 2004 — «It's a Miracle»
 2004 — «My World»

Альбоми
 1990 — Cinema
 1991 — My World — The Early Songs
 1994 — Ice'n'Green
 1995 — Ice'n'Green — The Remix Album
 1996 — Greatest Hits and Remixes
 1996 — Dreadatour
 2004 — Cold Skool (тільки в Італії)

Посилання
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Pitched to me as a new YA novel for fans of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and George Orwell's 1984, you can pet that The Seclusion by Jacqui Castle peeked my interest when I first heard about it. While I've never read 1984, I've been a huge fan of Atwood's writing ever since reading The Handmaid's Tale in university, and recently, I've become an equal fan of the TV show based on the book, so you can bet that I paid attention. When I learned that the book was inspired by current events in the US, but set in the year 2090 after the United States has become completely closed off to other countries, I knew that I had to take a look, and I'm honestly glad that I did.
The Seclusion was an intense book. From the first few pages, I was hooked on the story, and the clearly delineated dystopian world that Patricia 'Patch' and her co-worker Rexx finds themselves in once the blinders about what actually is happening in their country and around the world come off. You see Patch has always believed everything that her government tells her: other countries around the world are killing their citizens, North Korea bombed the United States, and the only thing keeping them safe are the four feet deep, ten feet tall, and thousands of feet long border walls to the north and south of the country and various surveillance methods are the only things keeping the US citizens safe. But one day while one duty, her and Rexx come upon a jeep that was hidden just outside of the city complete with contraband items, like a box of books that are banned because they were written before the seclusion of the United States happened, and other materials that she's never seen before. And with the opening sentences of A Tale of Two Cities and a few other titles in her mind, she's compelled to steal a copy of Les Misérables, Patch and Rexx set out on a high stakes journey to find the truth at any cost.
Beyond the set up of the novel and the world itself, which were both super compelling, I couldn't help but find the board members who have taken over control of the country to be completely creepy the further along Patch and Rexx get on their journey. Seriously, this can't be emphasized enough. Throughout the story, Jacqui Castle demonstrates again and again that she knows how to offer tension exactly when the story needs it in a way that is truly masterful. Of course, the tension isn't only of the dangerous kind because along the way, Patch and Rexx become closer in ways that will appeal to those who like a little romance with their dystopian YA novels. Clearly there is a lot to love about The Seclusion.
While I was reading the ARC of the book, there were a few things that took me out of the story occasionally. First and foremost, I thought it was unbelievable that even though Patch has never seen anyone around the age of 80 or more, she refers to a few people she meets as being in their 80s before speaking to them and learning their actual ages, which frankly, makes no sense. She would have no way to guess their ages based on what she had experienced of the world thus far. In addition, there were occasional errors that I assume would be corrected in the final version of the novel. I also found it odd that even in the finished copy of the book that the publisher didn't include copyright information for quotations from books such as Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities and Victor Hugo's Les Misérables. That said, these issues did take me out of the story.
Despite these issues, I did really enjoy The Seclusion and I'm glad that I took a chance on an indie publisher and author, and I really hope that other readers do, too. While this novel can certainly be read as a standalone since Patch's main journey has come to a close, I wonder if there will be a sequel or at least a novella, which gives a little more context about what happens after Patch settles into her destination for herself and the rest of the American people. Why? Well, simply because I would, selfishly perhaps, love to read more from this author and in this world.
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