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It wasn't easy to bypass the hundred or so poison traps to capture the poison beast. The last trap was the most dangerous one of all, so he hadn't taken Han Yunxi with him. This lass didn't even know martial arts, so who did she come with? Thinking up to here, Gu Qishao couldn't help but glance below his feet. Long Feiye and Tang Li were still trapped below, so how could the friendless and family-less Han Yunxi find anyone else to help her in Medical City?
As soon as she heard 'Poison lass,' Mu Linger's cherry lips pursed in unhappiness. Unfortunately, nobody paid attention to it. Soon enough, Han Yunxi emerged from the darkness, followed by a white-robed man wearing a face veil. Han Yunxi's steps were calm and steady, while the white-robed man's steps were light and unhurried. He emanated the air of an April breeze, gentle and warm. Nobody would ever think that he had kidnapped Han Yunxi, but that he was acting as her bodyguard instead. Actually, though Han Yunxi had been following the white-robed man the entire way, she hadn't suffered any difficulties at all. Their entire journey had been extremely smooth. The white-robed gentleman was going to take them on another path when her detox system had sensed the multiple sources of poison here. A lot of them were ancient poisons that the detox system only had records of, but no samples. She said she wanted to take a look. When the white-robed man actually agreed, she gave up all pretense of politeness and went right on. Who knew that the first thing she'd find was Gu Qishao being threatened by those other two?
Duanmu Yao had kept tabs on how Han Yunxi had played her at Pill Fiend Valley and humiliated her in Tianning's capital city. She was a closed door disciple of the Celestial Mountain Sword Sect and Western Zhou's princess born from the first wife. But this woman of humble birth had belittled her every single time, even ruining her marriage alliance. Now that they were here with no Long Feiye in sight, how could she simply let the matter go?
"Since when has Western Zhou's princess started carrying on with Northern Li's Duke of Kang? Does Western Zhou's emperor know?" Han Yunxi really was surprised.
When she recalled Tang Li saying how a white-robed woman with formidable sword skills had rescued Jun Yixie, she figured that he meant this woman right here. Western Zhou and Tianning were allied countries through their relations by marriage! Both of them had always been on the same side against their common enemy, Northern Li! Even if Duanmu Yao couldn't marry Long Feiye, Western Zhou and Tianning still managed to sign an agreement to guard their borders together. Were Duanmu Yao's actions now just a personal choice, or an indication of some secret agreement between Western Zhou and Northern Li?
"Once I silence you, he'll never know!" Duanmu Yao said fiercely, her attitude all aggression. Judging by this, she'd probably decimate Han Yunxi if Long Feiye didn't exist.
"Try me!" Duanmu Yao raged as she raised her sword. But Jun Yixie actually strode forward and blocked her behind him with a warning glance. Duanmu Yao might have been cooperating with Jun Yixie, but she still dreaded his existence. With a light sniff, she stopped speaking.
"Han Yunxi, just what kind of poison did you use on your lordship?" Jun Yixie asked coldly.
"It's the same as Bone Poison, a type without an antidote." Han Yunxi's serious expression made Jun Yixie's entire person unwell. His original motive for coming to Medical City was also for the poison beast. This time he'd come early because there was no way to cure the poison in his arm, much less convince Han Yunxi to treat it. Risking his life to find the poison beast's blood was his only choice.
"Since that's the case, then there's no need for your lordship to spare your life," Jun Yixie had truly turned ruthless this time. He'd been like this since childhood, choosing to destroy the things he couldn't get his hands on! The Frost Moon blade was raised in the air again, its edges glinting with a cold, shocking light. Seeing this, Duanmu Yao made to take out her sword as well.
"Duke of Kang, leave this woman to me." Although she'd been away from Tianning's capital city these few months, she'd been keeping tabs on Long Feiye and Han Yunxi. She knew all about Han Yunxi's poison skills and assassination weapons, but she'd never taken either seriously. She was certain that as long as she didn't give Han Yunxi a chance to sneak attack, the woman wouldn't be her match!
"No! Your lordship wants to kill her personally." Jun Yixie's eyes reflected Han Yunxi's image as if he could swallow her whole. Such a gaze made Han Yunxi realize that his killing intentions were real. Her poisons couldn't threaten either of them.
"If you can't get the poison beast's blood, then no one else besides myself can save that hand of yours!" she warned coldly.
"Your lordship is determined to win the poison beast's blood!" Jun Yixie was very self-confident. As soon as he was conscious of Han Yunxi's caution, he took steps to walk towards her. At the same time, Gu Qishao prepared to pull Han Yunxi aside. He was just about to grab her hand when she disappeared from his eyes.
Gu Qishao unconsciously turned around, only to see that the white-robed man had already pulled Han Yunxi behind his back to shield her.
Only the Shadow Clan's shadow arts could develop one's lightness techniques to the acme of perfection! Such skills were never taught to outsiders. Once upon a time, Cloud Realm Continent had a Great Qin Empire that was divided between the two imperial clans of East Qin and West Qin as well as the Seven Noble Families. The Shadow Clan was one of those aristocratic families, charged with the sole protection of West Qin royalty. Rumors had it that the Shadow Clan protected their charges with their lives. None of them had ever abandoned their duties, much less betray their charges. After the Great Qin Empire was destroyed along with its imperial clans, the Seven Noble Families gradually laid low and disappeared. Unbelievably, he'd witnessed the shadow arts first hand again today!
"So she's the orphan of West Qin?" Duanmu Yao suddenly cried out in alarm. She couldn't accept such a reality! After all, the Great Qin Empire was a legend of Cloud Realm Continent. The talented men and women of West and East Qin were the real imperial clans in the people's hearts and the true sovereigns that they worshipped! The current three imperial kingdoms were nothing compared to the Great Qin Empire. If Han Yunxi really was one of them, then her last source of pride would be trampled beneath her feet, too!
Everyone released a breath at these words. It looked like Han Yunxi wasn't the West Qin's orphan after all. Otherwise, it'd be hard to touch her with the Shadow Clan as her guard. Han Yunxi had never heard of such a clan, much less East Qin or West Qin. She only knew that she couldn't let Jun Yixie and Duanmu Yao get their hands on the poison beast.
"Help me kill them, or else I won't go with you," Han Yunxi said before she nimbly slipped to Gu Qishao's side. Delighted, he quickly grabbed Han Yunxi's hand and pulled her behind him before grinning at the white-robed man.
Could this man be any more shameless? Han Yunxi even felt ashamed for his sake.
Why did such a gentle voice and modest answer sound so aggressive when spoken out loud?
The masked man turned to glance at Jun Yixie and Duanmu Yao. Duanmu Yao instantly backed away. Though she was confident in her sword skills, she wasn't in her speed! Only speed was unsurmountable amongst the world's martial arts, while the Shadow Clan's sole speciality laid a single word called 'quick.' The shadow arts were but a foundation for further martial arts. Anything they'd learn from that would be equally fast, whether it was attacking or dodging. To put it another way, no matter how tough one's martial arts were, or how deep one's inner energy lay, it'd be impossible to beat an opponent if they were faster than you. Right now, it was still advantageous to use the terrain to escape. Duanmu Yao backed up a few more steps before turning to flee. She didn't care a bit about Jun Yixie!
"Duanmu Yao, I'll definitely tell Long Feiye!" Han Yunxi shouted. She admitted that she was being awful, because one sentence from her was enough to hit Duanmu Yao's sore spot. Of course, if Long Feiye was present, she'd never dare to shout like that. Instead, she'd only silently...keep quiet. Jun Yixie was impatient and unwilling, but he slowly started to back away as well. Since Duanmu Yao had fled, he had no choice but to retreat. His arm was heavily injured, which meant he had no certainty facing off against this mysterious, white-robed man without her help.
"Don't let him run away!" Han Yunxi exclaimed. Duanmu Yao didn't count for anything, but the Jun Yixie who'd threatened her life had to die.
Jun Yixie was still retreating, but he'd yet to run away! There was no need to humiliate him this way. This gentle man, are you sure you're not doing it on purpose?
Even Han Yunxi didn't expect him to say such words, and so seriously as well. Jun Yixie simply couldn't accept the situation. He was so angry that his nostrils seemed about to breathe fire. Raising his sword, he hacked towards the crowd, the blade glinting brightly before it send a reverberation through the entire limestone cave. Half of the area came crashing down as he took advantage of the chaos to escape.
The white-robed man's first reaction was to shield Han Yunxi. Gu Qishao wasn't as fast as him and could only watch from the side. Still, he hadn't noticed that Mu Linger had been staring at him the entire time. Fortunately, there was enough support in this cave to keep it from collapsing entirely and burying them all alive.
"Why did you let him escape?!" Han Yunxi asked. Didn't this fellow say he was going to try? Was it just a joke?
Han Yunxi nearly choked on her saliva at these words. The reply was too good and left her with no retort.
"May we go now?" the white-robed man was quick to withdraw his other views. He only had one motive for coming to this place. Han Yunxi stole a glance at Gu Qishao, who returned it with a grin.
Duanmu Yao: Stop spewing baseless rumors!
Duanmu Yao: As expected, only an uncultured bimbo like yourself jumps to the worse conclusions!
Han Yunxi: *raises eyebrows* I haven't jumped to any yet.You made those assumptions yourself.
Han Yunxi: If they work on you, I'm willing to use them 100 times!
Duanmu Yao: Hmph! You're not even as cute as the girl in that GIF!
Han Yunxi: That's right, because I'm actually drop dead gorgeous.
Han Yunxi: Careful, if you scowl too much, your face will get stuck like that.
Today's GIF features Zanilia Zhao Liying and Li Chun in The Journey of Flower (花千骨).


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Posted in interview, rawk, soul By Bill Kopp On June 12, 2018
Graham Parker: Sticking to It (Part 2)
Continued from Part One…
Parker was a mere 25 years old when Howlin' Wind was released. Today he's 67. Because of the straightforward, heart-on-the-sleeve quality of his lyrics, it's fair to wonder if those early songs resonate with him. Or, when he sings "Soul Shoes," does he feel that he's a man in his sixties covering the songs of a twenty-something artist?
"That's an interesting point," Parker acknowledges. "But you know what? It's all seamless to me when I play these things live. Obviously, there are a few lyrical things that I might think, 'That's a bit embarrassing,' or 'That's odd.' Especially when it comes to topical references, [those] kind of make you feel weird sometimes, but most of the songs don't do that in any literal sense."
Parker finds that the practice of playing a song in a different format – solo when the original was a full-band arrangement, for example – breathes new life into the music. "It just feels like reinventing," he says. "And so none of them are dated to me, apart from those that just seem to be stranded in a certain time. Most of them fit seamlessly with new things."
And as is always the case with the prolific Parker, there are indeed new things on the way. "I've got a new album in the bag now," he says. "Some of the songs could have been on Howlin' Wind, apart from that they're obviously sung by a 67 year old and not a 25 year old," he says. "That obviously makes a difference; you can't help that. That's the way it goes: do not try to be a young man any more."
Parker feels there's a continuity in his work. "This is not where you stopped. This is not where you ended up," he says. "People tend to think, 'Oh, you've gone like that.' Well, I haven't gone like anything, really. I'm just writing songs, and some albums have the onus more on the rock style, some more swing. But it was all there from Howlin' Wind. The whole blueprint, really."
Despite consistently positive critical response to his albums, Parker hasn't ever broken through as a major headlining act. With that in mind – coupled with the economic realities of the music business today – it's something of a gift that fans across the U.S. still have the opportunity to see and hear him in concert. He acknowledges that his audiences are often made up primarily of people who have been following his career for a long time. But occasionally he meets fans who haven't bought one of his albums since, say 1982's Another Grey Area, the superb album that included his minor MTV hit, "Temporary Beauty."
"It's surprising," he says, "when I meet someone and they say, 'I haven't seen you since 1980.' And I think, 'Well, I've been making records all along.'" He laughs inwardly when he recalls being asked, "Where have you been?"
He had a ready answer for that fan. "Well, I've been working, pal. That's what I've been doing. It's just that what you did was what a lot of us did. You fell in love, got married, had kids." He acknowledges that that's just what happens. "I did the same kinds of things," he says. "I lost touch with all kinds of music. I don't know who's doing what out there, because I don't follow it. All I know is what Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift are doing, because you can't get away from it. When one of them's acting out, it's like, 'Oh, that's what they're doing now.'"
Parker admits that keeping up with artists requires some effort. "I don't know what Bruce Springsteen's doing," he says. "And he's a superstar. I'd have to punch into the internet 'Bruce Springsteen' plus the letter T, and then it comes up 'tour.' 'Oh, my goodness! Look, he's touring all over.'" He's appreciative that his fans today make that effort. "They follow what I'm doing. They know I've got a Twitter account. They know I've got a website. They know they're not going to see me in the local paper that often, or on CNN. That's what following an artist is like now," he says. "If you don't follow their social media, you've got nothing."
Still, he can be surprised – pleasantly so – when his audience includes younger people. "I think, 'How on earth … why are you here? It must be embarrassing for you to like me!' And some of them are just over the top about how much they like me." Some younger fans show up with their parents. "That's always good," Parker says. "I often ask them, 'Do you really like this? Do you really like me?' And they're like, 'Yeah, yeah. Love it. It's great.' Okay. Far be it from me to complain. 'Thank you. That's weird.'"
And for his fans who still buy albums, Parker is readying a new album for release later this year. He says that while making records is "an addictive thing," he might not keep doing it much longer. "I think it's got to stop for me soon" he says. "I've got to rethink this, because it costs money." His method of working involves recording without a record deal. He finishes an album, only then shopping it to labels. "I go to them afterwards and say, 'Here's what it cost me. Can you pay me that?' And of course, as time goes on, they do not want to pay you anything. They just don't have advances." Parker believes he has been fortunate up to this point. "I've been very lucky," he says, "but I can tell it's wearing off."
Graham Parker's current solo tour brings him to several City Winery venues, and he's not ashamed to admit that he enjoys the slightly upscale setting of those rooms. "It's not a sticky beer floor," he says. "There's wine, there's food, and it's sort of like an adult kind of situation." He laughs as he recalls the words of and old friend and associate who caught one of his recent City Winery shows. "He said, 'It's kind of a bigged-up Bottom Line, really, isn't it?'" Parker was one of countless performers who performed at that famed New York City club in the 1970s and '80s, one of the nicer venues in the city.
And if City Winery evokes memories of that room for Parker, that's a good thing. "Yeah, it's like a classy, Bottom Line-type place, without the pillars in the way." After pausing a beat, he laughs and adds, "Although, there's always something in the way."
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A day of gratitude or mourning?
Father Roger J. Landry
Last December 16, we marked the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims' disembarking in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and this year we celebrate the quatercentenary of the first Thanksgiving feast.
It was a brutal first year. Of the 103 pilgrims who had arrived, 52 would die before the long winter was over. Governor John Carver, their leader, succumbed to fever. Ten of the 17 husbands and fathers, and 14 of their 17 wives, perished.
The threat of famine was a constant menace until the March arrival of the English-speaking Squanto, who taught the emaciated pioneers how to distinguish between poisonous and good plants, to tap maple trees for sap, to fertilize soil with dead fish and to plant corn and beans. When that soil produced a humble harvest a few months later, they organized a feast to thank God Who had helped them not just with the food they were blessing, but with survival.
Every year the remembrance of that first Thanksgiving is an occasion for families, friends, and indeed our whole country to get together to express gratitude — for believers, to God; for non-believers, to whoever is listening; for everyone, to each other for much appreciated kindness, love, and solidarity.
In a consumerist age in which we're coaxed to focus more on what we don't have than what we do, when our polarized political and social culture tempts us to criticize far more than compliment, the fourth Thursday of November is an increasingly important opportunity to reset and detoxify.
I become more grateful every November not just for the generosity of God and others, but also for the feast of Thanksgiving itself and the manifold good it occasions.
Catholics pray to God in the heart of every Mass, "It is right and just, our duty and our Salvation, always and everywhere to give You thanks." The feast of Thanksgiving allows us to fulfill that sweet and fitting obligation for the gift of life and so much besides. It also opens us up to the various planes of human redemption that can only be received by grateful hearts.
A spirit of gratitude is essential not just to personal flourishing and happiness but to social growth and harmony. Even and especially for those who have experienced suffering and setbacks, who objectively would have plenty of reasons to bemoan or complain, Thanksgiving is a lifeline cast into the pit of self-pity, offering a path of escape as well as the permission and motivation to take it.
But we cannot take this gift of Thanksgiving for granted, as if it will somehow always be with us, passed down from generation to generation, with no effort needed on our part to protect and promote it.
Thanksgiving regularly faces the annual challenges of those who are prevented from coming or choose to absent themselves, from family members who prefer to make it a midweek pseudo-Sabbath of NFL binge-watching, or others who regard it as a prelude to Black Friday binge-spending.
But now, in an era of cancel culture and its push for the historical, cultural and religious parricide of western civilization, Thanksgiving is facing a conceptual attack that shouldn't be underestimated or ignored.
Similar forces to those that have been yanking down statues of Christopher Columbus and changing the second Monday of October to "Indigenous Peoples Day"; who have been besmirching U.S. history as an evil chronicle through the 1619 Project and critical race theory; who are pretending that the great Franciscan missionary Junipero Serra was a sadist rather than a saint; and who have gone after the memories and monuments of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Francis Scott Key, Theodore Roosevelt, Frederick Douglass, Lewis and Clark, Mahatma Gandhi, Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary; such fevered mobs are now aiming their iconoclastic and deconstructive crosshairs on Thanksgiving.
In a November 4 feature in the Washington Post entitled, "This tribe helped the Pilgrims survive for their first Thanksgiving. They still regret it 400 years later," author Dana Hedgpeth interviews members of the Wampanoag Tribe on Cape Cod, whose members, she described, are "bracing for the 400th anniversary of the first Pilgrim Thanksgiving in 1621."
For the "Wampanoags and many other American Indians, the fourth Thursday in November is considered a day of mourning, not a day of celebration," she wrote, since all the Wampanoags got from helping the Pilgrims survive was a "slow, unfolding genocide of their people and the taking of their land."
The hyperbolic use of the word "genocide" is not unique to this particular reporter. It is used regularly in interviews of the Wampanoags and other indigenous communities to refer to the arrival of the pilgrims.
Genocide, by definition, involves intent. It is the deliberate killing or harming of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group in order to bring about its physical destruction in whole or part. Rather than those who sought freedom from religious persecution in England who devoutly got together after a brutal year to give thanks to God, the pilgrims are being accused of slow-motion ethnic cleansing. The names of Bradford, Standish, Gardiner, and Carver should be numbered, in other words, alongside Ataturk, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Pol Pot.
There are, of course, some who believe this calumny about the pilgrims, like they do about almost any westerner who landed on the shores of the new world. But their outlandish accusations are generally not given credence by reputable outlets like the Washington Post in lengthy features with no quotations from scholarly or contradictory voices.
The first Thanksgiving, Hedgpeth recounts, "turned into a centuries-long disaster for the Mashpee [Wampanoags]." She links the arrival of the pilgrims to the "Great Dying" pandemic that preceded their arrival thanks because of the germs of fisherman from England along the Massachusetts coast, as if they were engaged in biological warfare rather than trying to catch cod.
Hedgpeth derisively makes the point that the Wampanoags weren't even originally invited to the prayerful celebration of the first Thanksgiving but only came after they heard some festive gunshots, misinterpreting them as harbingers of trouble. Having arrived, however, they were invited to stay and share in the feast, which they did, something ultimately complimentary to pilgrims and the Wampanoags both.
But not to Darius Coombs, a Mashpee Wampanoag cultural outreach coordinator, who told Hedgpeth, "For us, Thanksgiving kicked off colonization. Our lives changed dramatically. It brought disease, servitude and so many things that weren't good for Wampanoags and other Indigenous cultures."
In exchange for introducing the "Boat People" to native foodstuffs like turkey, corn, cranberries, pumpkins, raspberries and blueberries, the Wampanoags, it is implied, received smallpox, cholera, scarlet fever, whooping cough and the common cold. And later dirty water and dirty air. And nothing whatsoever good or even neutral.
Hedgpeth quotes Frank James, "a well-known Aquinnah Wampanoag activist," who called welcoming and befriending the pilgrims as "perhaps our biggest mistake." In 1970, he created a "National Day of Mourning" to replace Thanksgiving and, as Hedgpeth details, "debunk the myths of the holiday." Hedgpeth mentions that this year some Wampanoags will go to Plymouth on November 25 to mark this National Day of Mourning.
Other recent articles have documented efforts to "cancel" Thanksgiving from school curricula or at least to supplant it from a "heart-warming multicultural celebration" to a "cruel reminder of European colonialism," as one 2018 Washington Post article described.
There's no question that indigenous peoples have suffered enormously from illnesses, xenophobia, war (among themselves and with settlers), unjust laws and immoral actions against their persons, dignity, traditions, and lands. Those need to be acknowledged, apologized for, repented for and, to the extent possible, justly remedied.
At the same time, such historic sufferings don't provide carte blanche for accusing the pilgrims themselves of atrocity crimes, for trying to eliminate the memory of that first thanksgiving harvest feast 400 years ago, or for seeking to transform a much-needed day of national gratefulness and celebration into a day of shame, lament and national self-loathing.
The best remedy for a culture of grievance is one of gratitude. Even if, like that first Thanksgiving, the Wampanoags were late to the feast, let's never stop inviting them, and others like Dana Hedgpeth, in the hope that they will realize what the rest of us already know: that there is indeed something to celebrate and that it is right and just, our duty and our Salvation, always and everywhere to give thanks.
Anchor columnist Father Roger Landry can be contacted at fatherlandry@catholicpreaching.com.
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Netball Program, to assist in the development of netballers across the Goulburn Murray Region.
In 2019 AFL Goulburn Murray will commence a development program for young netballers from across the region.
The Junior Netball Academy is an elite netball development program, an initiative from AFL Goulburn Murray to assist in the development of players from across the region.
In 2019 a netball program will be ran for 12 and 13 year old players who will receive a specialist 12 week program.
The Academy Program consists of training sessions that aim to incorporate training, skill development, game sense, recovery, strength and conditioning, as well as educational sessions to develop these young players to achieve and be prepared for a higher level of Netball.
The Goulburn Murray is striving to achieve a strong history in nurturing talented netball players.
AFL Goulburn Murray Commission is establishing a Junior Development Academy for the benefit of individuals, clubs, associations and junior coaches.
Provide quality based player development to support and complement Club, League and Netball Associations.
Increase the depth of talent within the region through exposing more players to a higher level of training, participation and coaching.
Influence the behaviour and values of young players by providing a high quality training and playing environment.
To involve and support the personal development of regionally based netball coaches in the program for the betterment of future netball athletes.
Nominations are now being sought for the AFL Goulburn Murray Netball Academy.
In 2019, AFL Goulburn Murray will commence a Netball Academy for up to 40 young netballers in the 13 and Under age groups. Approximately 20 netballers will be selected in each program.


The SpotLit LED Carabiner Light is the perfect mini-beacon whenever you need a little help in the dark. Set in a lightweight stainless steel carabiner, it attaches quickly and securely to pet collars, key rings, jackets, backpacks - just about anything with a hook or zipper. Its long-lasting LED provides an ambient glow bright enough for everything from reading fine print, illuminating keyholes, marking hazards, or staying visible at night. With Disc-O Select technology, you can select from six different colors for easy identification or you can go buck and leave it cycling through all the colors in Disc-O Mode. Powered by two replaceable (included) 2016 batteries, this little light will keep going for over 20 hours.


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Mapping Israel's strikes on Gaza
An interactive map details the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip during the 50-day assault during July and August 2014.
08 Jul 2015 08:35 GMT | Interactive, War & Conflict, Gaza: After the war, Palestine, Israel
Plotted pixel by pixel, a new interactive map presents viewers with the most comprehensive record of the 2014 Israeli war on Gaza to date.
The Gaza Platform, released by Amnesty International and the University of London-based research project Forensic Architecture, unfurls into a spread of data, photos, testimonies and video that work to map out the Israeli military's strikes on the Palestinian territory during the conflict.
The goal is to thread together individual attacks into visible patterns that can better illustrate the destruction caused by Israel's assault on the territory and potentially reveal the "systematic nature of Israeli violations committed during the conflict", according to Philip Luther, director of Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa Programme.
The map will be updated as the project progresses, but so far it "clearly illustrates an overwhelming pattern" of Israeli attacks on residential homes, which caused at least 1,100 civilian deaths, as well as Israel's repeated use of highly explosive artillery in areas with dense civilian populations, according to the report.
The map also tells of the prevalence of a "knock on the roof" strategy, in which the Israeli military fires a missile and then follows this so-called warning with a larger bomb. Amnesty International emphasised that such strikes do not "absolve Israel from the clear obligation not to direct attacks at civilians or civilian property".
The Platform is the result of several months of work by researchers in both London and Gaza, who inputted on-the-ground evidence collected by Gaza-based human rights organisations, and matched the information with multimedia, imagery beamed from satellite technology and additional data from Amnesty International.
The platform gives a comprehensive, zoomed-out view of the conflict, and according to Eyal Weizman, director of Forensic Architecture, represents a "significant step in the process of documenting the full scale of violations that took place". Individuals and other organisations are called on to send in their own evidence of attacks or violations that they have witnessed.
Approximately 2,200 Palestinians in total were killed by Israel's assault last summer, the majority of whom were civilians and nearly a quarter of whom were children, according to the United Nations. Seventy-two Israelis, of which 66 were soldiers, and one Thai national were also killed.
In this interactive, you can explore and analyse over 2,500 individual attacks by Israel during the 2014 assault.
Source: Amnesty International
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Paleo Food List > Are Scallops Paleo?
Part of living a Paleo lifestyle involves, not just eating animals, but eating animals whole, guts and all.
Despite the Standard American Diet's current focus on muscle meat, the organs and bones of the animals are actually the most nutritious part. This means that any time you get an opportunity to eat an animal whole, you're doing your body a great service by providing it with an excellent fatty profile and extra nutrients that just aren't found in muscle meat. OK, so most of us don't eat the scallop shells, but the part we do eat packs quite the nutritional punch.
Generally speaking, the best way to get your selenium and your vitamin B12 is from seafood, and scallops are no exception. They are a great source of numerous B vitamins, especially B12. Scallops are also rich in magnesium, zinc, and they're not too shabby on the protein front either, providing 20 grams of protein in just six ounces of scallops (source).


This elegant ballerina style dress is sure to be a closet staple this season. The dress features a beautiful lace bodice and 3/4 lace sleeves with tulle skirt on big girl sizes and short cap sleeves on the baby sizes. The waist is accented with a matching belt and bow that is attached at the seams. This feminine style is one that your little one can wear to so many events. You can dress up or down to your liking. This dress is made from a designer label that upholds to the highest in quality and super cute style and value. This dress is fully lined and has a zipper closure. Proudly made in the USA. So incredibly fun and festive-do not miss out on this dress! Note- Infant sizes come with short sleeves. Sizes 2-12 come with 3/4 lace sleeves.


For the past few years I've been aiming to enter my coconut cake in the county fair. I kept missing the registration deadline because, well, I didn't know when it was.
sift dry ingredients together. stir in wet ingredients. pour into two oiled and floured non-stick 8 or 9 inch round pans.
bake at 350 degrees for 28-35 minutes (my oven seems to run hot so it takes the lesser amount of time). test for doneness with a toothpick.
after about 10 minutes you should be able to easily turn the cakes out of the pans.
For my fair entry I baked the cakes the day before and chilled them overnight so the frosting would stay nice and fluffy and firm. Normally I make a buttercream frosting using organic Earth Balance buttery spread, but since EB gets super soft super quick when outside of the fridge I decided to make a fluffy white frosting with shortening for the entry. I wasn't sure how long the cake would be sitting out of the fridge.
Beat the shortening till fluffy. add the extracts and beat. add the sugar a little at a time. add the milk as needed till it reaches the right consistency.
Now I frost the layers and then add a generous amount of sweetened, flaked coconut all over the top and sides. It is best to chill the cake again for at least an hour before slicing.
For the fair entry I only had to take half of the cake plus one slice for display. That meant I had almost a half of a cake to enjoy over the weekend! Yay!
Hello friends!I've had a few blogs in the past- one about vegan food (when I first became vegan), one about beauty products and such, and one that was going to be about yoga but I only wrote, like, one post. I lost interest in them partly because I'm what you might call a dilettante. I dabble. I jump from interest to interest. So I decided I needed a blog to: a) Keep my projects organized and in the front of my mind, and b) Write about whatever the heck I want without feeling confined to a specific topic.
So this is the first post on 'jenonoon, the art of fun'. Please click on the 'about' page to read a little more about me.
My quest to become a Certified Group Exercise Instructor. My exam is Sept. 11, 2011. I've been studying for a few months now. I'm excited and nervous. I don't look like a typical 'aerobics teacher' so I'm wondering what the other people taking the exam with me will be like. The certification process consists of a full day workshop, written exam and then a practical exam in front of everyone! I eventually hope to teach crazy, sweaty, fun, NON-intimidating cardio classes to people of all shapes, sizes, and levels of coordination.
I'm setting up a sewing/crafting studio in my home office/hobby room. I'm going to take a sewing e-course and teach myself. My mom is going to help me (she's really good at sewing).
David and I are planning to learn to speak Danish via Rosetta Stone. David's family is from Denmark and he knows just a little bit. We think it would be really fun to be able to speak in a sort of 'code' to each other.
So those are some of the things I'm going to talk about in the future. I hope that if those things seem interesting to you that you'll follow along and maybe leave a comment or two!Thank you for reading!


The 'Word of the Week' for the week commencing 9th May is: Perspective.
1. A point of view; a way of thinking about something.
What is your perspective on the EU referendum?
From my perspective, I would give myself an 'A' for my attitude to learning today.
2. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer.
The architect's perspective of the house was clearer than mine.


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Pushkin, Bilibin, and Rimsky-Korsakov
Posted by michelinewalker in Russian Art, Russian Literature, Russian Music
Alexander Pushkin, Ivan Bilibin, Mir iskusstva, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Operas, Programmatic Music, Sergei Diaghilev, The Five, The Tale of the Golden Cockerel, The Tale of Tsar Saltan
Tsar Dadon meets the Shemakha Queen by Ivan Bilibin (WikiArt.org)
The 19th century was the century of nationalism. The Brothers Grimm went from German-language land to German-language land to collect folklore, which they believe would help reveal distinct German roots. Germany had yet to unify and become the German Empire.
As for The Five, our Slavic composers, they attempted to express Eastern Russia. Music in Russia had been westernized since Peter the Great. The Five did not turn their back fully on classical harmony and counterpoint, but they started using whole-tone scales leading Western composers to create new scales.
However, the "programme" remained to be established. In the 19th century, several composers favoured "programmatic" music. Music had to tell a story. Despite his early death, in a duel, poet Alexandre Pushkin (1799-1837), wrote poems that were Russian fairy tales, whatever their origin. A nation acculturates folktales.
Our examples are Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's operas entitled The Tale of the Tsar Saltan, which premiered in 1900, and The Tale of the Golden Cockerel first completed in 1907 and premiere in 1909, with a set designed by Ivan Bilibin. Ivan Bilibin who had gained notoriety in 1899, when he published illustrations of Russian fairy tales, including The Tale of the Tsar Saltan and The Tale of the Golden Cockerel (Le Coq d'or). The Tale of the Golden Cockerel had Arabic roots, the Legend of the Arabian Astrologer. It had been retold by Washington Irving (The Tales of Alhambra), Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (Der goldene Hahn [1785]) and Russian fabulist Ivan Krylov (Kaib [1792]). Yet, it was Russian folklore. It had been acculturated.
"In turn, all of them borrowed from the ancient Copts legend first translated by the French Arabist Pierre Vattier in 1666 using the 1584 manuscript from the collection of Cardinal Mazarin."
(See The Tale of the Golden Cockerel, Wiki2.org)
Ivan Bilibin had studied at the Anton Abže Art School in Munich and had been influenced by Art Nouveau and Japanese prints. But he also studied under Ilya Repin. However, he became interested in folklore. It was a magnet. He graduated from the Anton Abže Art School after publication of his illustrations of Russian fairy tales. He was associated with Mir iskusstva, an association and a magazine. Bilibin fled Russia, during the October Revolution in 1917. In 1925, he settled in Paris where he worked for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and decorated private mansions and Orthodox churches. But he was homesick. After decorating the Soviet Embassy, in 1936, he returned to Soviet Russia. He died of starvation during the Siege of Leningrad, in the land whose fairy tales he had illustrated.
Ivan Bilibin's 1909 stage set design for Act 2: The Tsardom of Tsar Dadon, Town Square (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
At first, we associate The Tale of the Tsar Saltan and The Tale of the Golden Cockerel with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's operas. But operas are programmatic music or program music. So, the full dimension of the above-mentioned operas is not revealed until we know that their programmes were fairy tales written by legendary poet Alexander Pushkin. The libretto, in Russian and French, of The Tale of the Golden Cockerel, is by Vladimir Belsky.
As for Ivan Bilibin's delightful illustrations of Pushkin's fairly, they are yet another lovely and universally enjoyable expression of a 'distinct' Russia.
Sources and Resoources
The Tale of the Tsar Saltan (text)
The Tale of the Golden Cockerel (text)
Alexander Pushkin (information) 💛
https://rvb.ru/pushkin/ 💛
The Tale of the Golden Cockerel (external links)
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-Tsar Dadon meets the Shemakha Queen
The Tale of the Golden Cockerel, 1906
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–The Merchants visit Tsar Saltan (WikiArt.org.)
–Princess in the prison tower 'The White Duck' (WikiArt.org.)
–From the Tale of the Tsar Saltan (The Isle of Buyan; WikiArt.org.)
–The Tsaritsa and Her Son Afloat in the Barrel (WikiArt.org.)
–From the Tale of the Tsar Saltan (WikiArt.org.)
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Calif. Sen. Harris Warns Sessions: "We Don't Need Help Going After Grandma's MMJ"
Gage Peake
In this file photo, Sen. Kamala Harris D-Calif. speaks at the 2017 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference, Tuesday, March 28, 2017, at the Washington Convention Center in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
California Sen. Kamala Harris spoke out against the Trump administration's drug policies yesterday, advising Attorney General Jeff Sessions that her state needed no help "in going after grandma's medicinal marijuana."
Harris, the state's former attorney general and a rising star in national Democratic circles, made her remarks at the Ideas Conference in Washington, DC, on Tuesday.
"Let me tell you what California needs, Jeff Sessions," Harris said during a conference keynote. "We need support in dealing with transnational criminal organizations and dealing with human trafficking – not in going after grandma's medicinal marijuana."
The Ideas Conference, put on by the Center for American Progress, is widely viewed as a testing ground in the Democratic Party's search for their new standard bearer.
Congress Pushes Back Against Jeff Sessions' Drug War 2.0
Harris wasn't done after making the "grandma's medicinal marijuana" comment.
'We need to do the smart thing, the right thing, and finally decriminalize marijuana.'
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA)
The freshman senator took aim at Sessions' recent sentencing memo, which directs federal prosecutors to pursue the toughest criminal penalties possible in all cases.
"While I don't believe in legalizing all drugs – as a career prosecutor I just don't – we need to do the smart thing, the right thing, and finally decriminalize marijuana," Harris said.
Sessions' push for maximum sentences, she said, is a revival of the failed war on drugs, in which minorities were disproportionately incarcerated while the nation's drug issues only grew worse over time.
"Instead of going after violent crime, drug cartels, and major traffickers, we're worried about the neighborhood street-level dealer," she said. "Instead of addressing the core issue of addiction and getting folks into treatment, we're going to overcrowd and build more prisons."
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As the Sacramento Bee reported, Harris' address comes as the freshman senator broadens her profile on a national media tour. She recently enjoyed an extended appearance on CNN's "The Lead," and gave the commencement address at Howard University, her alma mater.
Harris also called for cooperation between Democrats and Republicans, and singled out the drug policy issue as one that offers an opening for liberals and conservatives to work together. Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, and other conservatives, has also spoken out against Sessions' harsh sentencing memo.
Many powerful members of the Democratic Party were present Tuesday. California Reps. Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, and Maxine Waters were featured, while billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer made an appearance.
Harris said she isn't thinking about a run for president in 2020, but news reports from the conference indicated that progressive leaders were closely watching her with 2020 in mind.
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Thank you Senator Harris!!!
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I wish more senators would say this to him!!
lovingc
Jeff Sessionss is in need of a harsher sentence to be imposed on him for his crimes committed while in office. He is subject to impeachment.
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I'm just not like Jeff Sessions. There are many different types of people, and difficult to explain why they are different, they just are. I enjoy an alcoholic beverage on occasion, I also enjoy a bowl of marijuana on occasion. I don't appreciate a representative of America stating that I am "not good people" because I smoke a bowl now and then, and without consideration for any other characteristics of my being. I get tired of hiding the fact that I am who I am, and not a second class citizen as Sessions suggests. I don't like being being hunted by agents of our government, by enforcers of our governments will. In America today, "land of the free" means that citizens are free to do what the government allows, free to do as the government directs. or suffer severe penalty. I resent and oppose drug tests of my person, suggesting that there are in fact a search for criminal activity without probable cause. When I go to work my performance is what should be rated and not whether I have allowed my employer to access my private life. I really can't be patriotic towards my country when I get the impression it hates me. I hate having to join one goofball political party or the other inn order to obtain employment, which I will not explain here.
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I will vote for Kamala Harris if she runs in 2020. Sessions day's are numbered.


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Q: Command line script to delete Oracle records based on a column value I am completely new to scripting techniques.
My requirement is

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*To connect oracle through DOS script

*Based on a column value need to delete the particular record

eg:
emp   sal    pt_dt
a     23     22-02-11
b     34     20-01-10
c     45     23-09-85
d     56     30-3-11

Based on the 30-3-11(pt_dt column), I need to delete the record d.
OS - Windows XP
DB - Oracle 10g

A: Simplest method is to first write your sql (e.g. deleterec.sql) script, then call it from a batch (e.g. deleterec.bat) script.
Example contents of deleterec.sql:
DELETE emp WHERE pt_dt = TO_DATE('30-03-2011','DD-MM-RRRR');

Example contents of deleterec.bat:
sqlplus.exe scott/tiger@orcl @deleterec.sql

(replace scott/tiger@orcl with your user name, password and database instance)

A: You can write a .bat like this:
@echo off
if %%1X==X goto noparam
echo DELETE FROM emp e WHERE e.emp = '%%1' > deleterec.sql
sqlplus.exe scott/tiger@orcl @deleterec.sql
delete deleterec.sql
goto end
:noparam
echo Usage: %%0 {employee id}
goto end
:end
echo Bye!

I admit I stole the sqlplus call from Jeffrey's answer. :-o

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San Giovanni la Punta est une commune italienne de la province de Catane dans la région Sicile en Italie.

Toponymie

San Giuvanni la Punta en sicilien.

Administration

Hameaux
Trappeto

Communes limitrophes
Aci Bonaccorsi, Pedara, San Gregorio di Catania, Sant'Agata li Battiati, Trecastagni, Tremestieri Etneo, Valverde (Catane), Viagrande

Notes et références

Commune dans la province de Catane

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OB/Gyn > Pregnancy
CDC: 2020 Maternal Deaths Surged Among Black Women
— Pregnancy-related death rates continued to trend upward overall
by Amanda D'Ambrosio, Enterprise & Investigative Writer, MedPage Today February 23, 2022
The maternal mortality rate increased again in 2020, especially among Black and Hispanic women, according to a CDC report.
From 2019 to 2020, the maternal death rate in the U.S. increased from 20.1 to 23.8 per 100,000 live births, reported Donna Hoyert, PhD, of the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), in NCHS Health E-Stats.
Racial disparities widened further in 2020, with the maternal death rate for non-Hispanic Black women now roughly three times that of both non-Hispanic white women and Hispanic women.
Among Black women, the mortality rate from 2019 to 2020 increased from 44.0 to 55.3 per 100,000 live births. Among Hispanic women, the rate increased from 12.6 to 18.2 per 100,000. No significant increase in maternal deaths was seen among non-Hispanic white women (17.9 to 19.1 per 100,000).
"This is heartbreaking, and demonstrates the need for further renewed efforts to understand these disproportionate increases in maternal mortality experienced by non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic pregnant persons," said Kjersti Aagaard, MD, PhD, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist at the Baylor School of Medicine in Houston, who was not involved in this research.
"Key will be understanding the relative contributions of not only COVID-19 disease, but underlying comorbidities and acute events that lend to these inequalities and injustices of maternal disease and death," Aagaard told MedPage Today.
Maternal mortality has continued to trend upward in recent years, although the CDC has stated that nearly two-thirds of these deaths are preventable. Many have called attention to glaring racial disparities in severe pregnancy outcomes, as American Indian, Alaskan Native, and Black women remain at a twofold to threefold risk of maternal death compared to white women.
The latest NCHS report analyzed data from the National Vital Statistics System mortality file. In 2020, there were 861 maternal deaths in the U.S., compared to 754 in 2019.
Maternal mortality rates in 2020 increased with age. Women who were age 40 and up were nearly eight times more likely to experience maternal death than those age 25 and under.
≥40 years: 107.9 per 100,000 live births
25-29 years: 22.8 per 100,000
<25 years: 13.8 per 100,000
Hoyert noted that maternal mortality rates fluctuate from year to year because of the relatively small number of these events, as well as issues associated with the reporting of maternal mortality on death certificates.
Amanda D'Ambrosio is a reporter on MedPage Today's enterprise & investigative team. She covers obstetrics-gynecology and other clinical news, and writes features about the U.S. healthcare system. Follow
Hoyert disclosed no conflicts of interest.
NCHS Health E-Stats
Source Reference: Hoyert DL "Maternal mortality rates in the United States, 2020" NCHS Health E-Stats 2022; Published on February 23, 2022.


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| Elicker-led committee passes environmental measures
Tasnim Elboute
Elicker-led committee passes environmental measures
Tasnim Elboute 3:20 am, Sep 20, 2013
Mayoral hopeful and Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES '10 SOM '10 led a committee meeting of the Board of Aldermen to approve new measures to improve the city's environmental practices.
The Board of Aldermen's City Services and Environmental Policy Committee, which Elicker chairs, met Thursday night to discuss environmental policy affecting the Elm City. The committee moved forward with two environmentally friendly items while voting to table a measure regarding a cell tower constructed in a city park.
On its agenda was an agreement with the Connecticut Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority to participate in The Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy program — which would encourage local businesses to implement clean energy policies — as well as an amendment to the lease agreement between the city and The New Haven Ecology Project to extend the lease term by 10 years, both of which the committee approved.
"Both are positive improvements for the city on an environmental front," Elicker said. "It was a good night for the environment."
CEFIA representatives spoke with the committee Thursday night, answering questions from a previous meeting. Among these representatives was Ben Healey '04, the current senior manager of Clean Energy Finance and former Ward 1 alderman, who said he was looking forward to working with the city to implement the program.
"It's a great opportunity to collaborate with New Haven by bringing a clean energy project to the city and hopefully working to help building owners improve their property and work with locally sourced labor," Healey said.
Most of the committee's concerns focused on possible foreclosures on the properties where CEFIA would like to work. The aldermen were assured by CEFIA representatives during the meeting that if the city takes control of any property through foreclosure, past debts would be wiped away.
Next, the committee considered extending a lease term with The New Haven Ecology Project, the nonprofit organization that manages Common Ground, an environmentally themed public charter school, where a storm water diversion project is almost ready for construction work. Common Ground was able to receive state funding due to its educational status, but its lease term needs to be extended to 20 years in order to continue accessing state funding.
Ward 25 Alderman Adam Marchand, who sits on the City Plan Commission, said "good care" went into the storm water diversion project's site plan. As a parent who sent his kids to programs at Common Grounds, Marchand said that the project would not only increase access during storms but also make Common Ground safer. All committee members were in favor of the lease extension.
The third and final item on the committee's agenda — a lease agreement with T-Mobile for a plot of land in Fairmont Park where the company would like to construct a cell tower — did not receive approval Thursday night. The board heard from three residents of Ward 13, where the park is located, who raised questions about the effect the proposed cell phone tower could have on property values and the character of the park, as well as the lack of community involvement in the process.
The issue most emphasized in the residents' testimonies was what would become of T-Mobile's profit. The current plan dictates a $2,000 monthly contribution from the phone corporation to the city, an amount residents said seemed low. Following the testimony, the committee voted to hold more discussion on the matter at a later meeting.
Elicker will face State Sen. Toni Harp ARC '78 in November's election.


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Q: Python quiz program. Could you help me identify where I've gone wrong? Thanks This is a small quiz program that loops 5 times, every time it loops a different totally random question is asked. I keep getting an error that says (rand_quiz() ) function not defined, although I have defined it. I think I've done it wrongly. Could you help me correct it. Code is below.
import random
import operator

operators = {
            "+":operator.add,
            "-":operator.sub,
            "*":operator.mul,
            "/":operator.truediv,
            }

questions = 0
star = 0

def star_score():

    while questions <= 4:
        star = star + 1
        return star

    def check_ans():

        if que_ans == que:
            print("Correct! You earned yourself a star.")
            star_score()

        elif que_ans != que:
            print("Wrong! Better luck next time.")

        def rand_quiz():
            rand_num1 = random.randint(9, 999)
            rand_num2 = random.randint(9, 999)

            ops = random.choice(list(operators.keys()))

            que = int(operators[ops](rand_num1, rand_num2))

            print("What is",rand_num1, ops, rand_num2)
            que_ans = input(">>>")

            if que_ans.isdigit():
                check_ans()

            else:
                return("Error! Invalid input.")

def quiz_loop():

    while questions <= 4:
        rand_quiz()

quiz_loop()

A: In python, indentation is very important. You have defined some functions at an indented level. You must define your functions at the base level.


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How many weekends are in a week? (2023)
1. How many weekends are there in a week?
2. How many days are there in a week give me answer?
3. How many weekends are in a life?
4. How many days do we in a week?
5. What are the weekends of the week?
6. Why do we have 2 weekends?
7. How do you ask how many days a week?
8. How many these are there in a week?
9. Why should we have 3 weekends?
10. Who made weekends 2 days?
11. Are two-day weekends enough?
12. What is 5 days a week?
13. Why is a week 8 days?
14. Why is a week 7 days long?
15. What is a 3 day weekend called?
16. Are weekends part of a week?
17. Why is it called a weekend?
18. Who made school?
19. Who created 5 day week?
20. Which country has 3days weekend?
21. How was your weekend best answer?
22. What's up best reply?
23. How do you answer hours in a week?
24. How many hours are in a week answer?
25. How do you ask someone about their days?
26. Does weekly mean every 7 days?
27. What is day 3 in a week?
28. Should students get 3 day weekends?
29. Are weekends important for people?
30. Who invented the 3 day weekend?
31. Why do weekends go so fast?
32. Who Invented Saturday?
33. Why do we work 40 hours a week?
34. Why are weekends too short?
35. Is it OK to be lazy all weekend?
36. Why should weekends be longer?
37. What is the name of 7 days?
38. Is a week 7 days or 8?
39. Is Friday a weekday or a weekend?
40. Does China have a 7 day week?
41. Do the Chinese have a 7 day week?
42. Who named weekdays?
43. Why is a year 365 days?
44. Who invented months?
45. How many days are in a week and weekend?
46. What country has an 8 day week?
47. What days are 3 times a week?
48. What country has 30 days of day?
49. Does China have a weekend?
50. Who invented weekends?
51. Does 1 week include weekends?
52. How many weekends are in a month?
53. What country only works 4 days?
54. Which country has 4 hour week?
55. Is there a 13th month?
56. Is 3x a week enough?
57. How often is 3x a day?
58. What are twice a week?
How many weekends are there in a week?
So there are 52 weekends in a year. In normal we have 104 Weekend Days. We know that a Each normal year has 365 days or 52 weeks plus one day, and each week has two weekend days, which means there are approximately 104 weekend days each year.
How many weekends in a year?
A) Monday
B) Tuesday
C) Thursday D) Wednesday
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How many days are there in a week give me answer?
1 week = 7 days = 168 hours = 10,080 minutes = 604,800 seconds.
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How many weekends are in a life?
We have an average of 52 weekends per year. So multiplying 45 X 52 = 2340 weekends I would have till I die. Does it sound like too many weekends?
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How many days do we in a week?
week, period of seven days, a unit of time artificially devised with no astronomical basis.
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What are the weekends of the week?
The weekend is most commonly considered the period between Friday evening and the end of Sunday. More strictly speaking, the weekend is thought to consist of Saturday and Sunday (often regardless of whether the calendar week is considered to begin on Sunday or Monday).
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Why do we have 2 weekends?
Due to a large number of Jewish immigrants in the late 1800s, factory owners also had many workers who wanted Saturday — the traditional Jewish day of rest — off instead. Over time, factory owners realized that it would be most efficient to let workers off on both Saturday and Sunday.
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How do you ask how many days a week?
How many days are there in a week?
We know that the days of the week are: Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday. Friday. Saturday. Sunday.
So, there are 7 days in a week.
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(The Singing Walrus - English Songs For Kids)
How many these are there in a week?
(i) There are seven days in a week. (ii) The order of days in a week is Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
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Why should we have 3 weekends?
They found that 87% of workers believe that three-day weekends are actually better for stress relief than longer vacations. It is believed that with a three-day weekend, workers find they can relax more without worrying as much about what is awaiting them back at the office.
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Who made weekends 2 days?
A prominent factory owner — Henry Ford — also played a big role. Even though the federal government didn't begin to limit companies to a 40-hour workweek until 1938, Ford began to give his factory workers a two-day weekend in the early 1900s. Why did he do this? He wanted to sell the cars his workers were making.
(Video) how fast days of the week go by
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Are two-day weekends enough?
Studies suggest that two-day weekends disrupt the circadian rhythm, the body's internal clock that directs sleep cycles. When we catch up on missed sleep at the weekend, one study of adolescents found, just two days of lie-ins is enough to impact our circadian rhythm.
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What is 5 days a week?
There are 5 weekdays: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday; while Saturday and Sunday are part of the weekend.
Why is a week 8 days?
The ancient Etruscans developed an eight-day market week known as the nundinum around the 8th or 7th century BC. This was passed on to the Romans no later than the 6th century BC. As Rome expanded, it encountered the seven-day week and for a time attempted to include both.
Why is a week 7 days long?
The Babylonians, who lived in modern-day Iraq, were astute observers and interpreters of the heavens, and it is largely thanks to them that our weeks are seven days long. The reason they adopted the number seven was that they observed seven celestial bodies — the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
What is a 3 day weekend called?
A long weekend is a weekend that is at least three days long (i.e. a three-day weekend), due to a public or unofficial holiday occurring on either the following Monday or preceding Friday. Many countries also have four-day weekends, in which two days adjoining the weekend are holidays.
Are weekends part of a week?
The last part of the week, typically from Friday evening through Sunday evening, but sometimes including other adjacent days, especially when seen as a time of leisure or recreation: spent the long weekend fishing. To spend weekends or a weekend. week′ends′ adv.
Why is it called a weekend?
So what is the origin of the weekend? The weekend evolved from the religious concept of the sabbath. The weekend evolved from the religious concept of the sabbath, a day devoted to God and not work. In Jewish tradition, the sabbath is from sunset on Friday to sunset on Saturday.
Who made school?
Credit for our modern version of the school system usually goes to Horace Mann. When he became Secretary of Education in Massachusetts in 1837, he set forth his vision for a system of professional teachers who would teach students an organized curriculum of basic content.
Who created 5 day week?
The five-day, 40-hour workweek became part of American labor law partly due to Henry Ford. In 1926, the founder of the Ford Motor Company took his six-day-a-week operation down to five days per week, with no changes in employee compensation.
Which country has 3days weekend?
United Arab Emirates. The UAE slashed its official working week to four-and-a-half days in early December 2021, and transitioned from the five-day work week. As per the reports, the new change came into effect from January 1, 2022.
How was your weekend best answer?
People often say "Thanks" or "Thank you" when they respond to the question "How was your weekend?" For example, they might say, "It was great; thank you!" or "It was fantastic; thanks!" Feel free to incorporate "Thanks" or "Thank you" into the chart and your model conversation if you want.
What's up best reply?
So, how do you respond to the question "What's up?" The most common easiest answer, the one that's most expected is "Nothing" or "Not much". What's up with you? So say nothing or not much and then return the question, that is generally how we respond to this greeting.
How do you answer hours in a week?
Unless you're absolutely sure about the company culture and expectations, the safest answer is to state that you work as much as necessary to get the job done. Your response will demonstrate that you're willing to work hard without committing to an exact number of hours per week.
How many hours are in a week answer?
there are 24 hours in a day. there are seven days in a week.so 24x7=168 hours in a week.
How do you ask someone about their days?
Phrases for asking about someone's day
· How was your day? How has your day been? Did you have a good day?
· How was …? How did … go?
· How did you get on…?
· I was thinking about you this afternoon. I thought about you at midday today.
· Did you manage to…? Did you get a chance to…?
· Did you see someone today?
Does weekly mean every 7 days?
What does weekly mean? Weekly most commonly means once a week or every week. It can be used this way as an adjective, as in a weekly meeting, or an adverb, as in We plan to meet weekly. Something described as weekly may happen on the same day every week or simply once a week at any time.
What is day 3 in a week?
Wednesday is the day third of the week according to the international standard ISO 8601, but some countries count it as the fourth day of the week.
Should students get 3 day weekends?
In summary, three-day weekends could help mental health and after-school activities, as well as just giving more opportunities for other things such as appointments. This could majorly benefit the student body and perhaps even the teachers as well.
Are weekends important for people?
It helps you work smart during the week. In short, relaxing well on the weekend helps you reclaim your life. Here are five tips on how you can make the most of your weekends, and, well-being. Invest in your social health: Use the weekend to strengthen your connections with your family and friends.
Who invented the 3 day weekend?
Henry Ford, the legendary car maker, made Saturday and Sunday days off for his staff as early as 1926 and he was also keen to set down a 40-hour working week.
Why do weekends go so fast?
"Weekends feel short because we don't think about how we're spending our time. We're so busy during the week [that] we get to the weekend and think we want to do 'nothing,'" Vanderkam says. "But doing nothing is a recipe for a completely forgettable weekend.
Who Invented Saturday?
To get to the origin of the name for Saturday (or any day of the week, for that matter), you have to start with the Babylonians. They were the ones who created the seven-day week that people still use today.
Why do we work 40 hours a week?
And when the Great Depression hit in the 1930s, the U.S. Gov't saw Ford's shorter workweek as a way to fight the massive unemployment crisis – companies would need to hire more workers to get the job done. By 1940, a series of laws made the 40-hour workweek the norm in the U.S. It has been that way ever since.
Why are weekends too short?
With factory hands sometimes reluctant to work hard on all other days, 19th-century bosses started granting a half-day holiday on Saturdays to encourage workers to apply themselves during the week. The widespread adoption of the five-day, 40-hour working week took several more decades though.
Is it OK to be lazy all weekend?
Is it okay to be lazy sometimes? Sometimes we think constant busyness or working very hard is something to be proud of and an ideal. But actually, we need time to unwind and have a break. It's healthy to relax and let yourself recharge.
Why should weekends be longer?
Having a long weekend for many can give people time to temporarily escape the stress of education and work. Individuals will come back from the break more focused and motivated to continue where they left off. Five-day workweeks seem like an eternity for many working individuals.
What is the name of 7 days?
According to international standard ISO 8601, Monday is the first day of the week. It is followed by Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Sunday is the 7th and last day of the week.
Is a week 7 days or 8?
The week as we know it—a repeating cycle that has seven distinct days and divides work from rest—has been around for about 2,000 years, since ancient Roman times.
Is Friday a weekday or a weekend?
Since the weekend is considered to consist of Saturday and Sunday, the weekdays are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. (Even though Friday evening is sometimes considered the start of the weekend, Friday is still considered a weekday.)
Does China have a 7 day week?
The seven-day week appears not to have overcome cultural inertia in China until very much later, when days of the seven-day week were given out anew, being simply "Heaven day" (or "Sun day"), weekday 1, weekday 2, ... weekday 6." So there is no simple correspondence between the two systems.
Do the Chinese have a 7 day week?
The Golden Week (simplified Chinese: 黄金周; traditional Chinese: 黃金週), in the People's Republic of China, is the name given to three separate 7-day or 8-day national holidays which were implemented in 2000: Chunyun, the Golden Week around the Chinese New Year, begins in January or February.
Who named weekdays?
The Romans named the days of the week after the Sun and the Moon and five planets, which were also the names of their gods. The gods and planets were Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn.
Why is a year 365 days?
It takes approximately 365.25 days for Earth to orbit the Sun — a solar year. We usually round the days in a calendar year to 365. To make up for the missing partial day, we add one day to our calendar approximately every four years.
Who invented months?
Today, we follow the Gregorian calendar, but it's based on the ancient Roman calendar, believed to be invented by Romulus, who served as the first king of Rome around 753 BC. The Roman calendar, a complicated lunar calendar, had 12 months like our current calendar, but only 10 of the months had formal names.
How many days are in a week and weekend?
The days of the week are all 7 days from Monday to Sunday. But weekdays are only the 5 days from Monday to Friday. And the weekend is Saturday and Sunday.
What country has an 8 day week?
Burma. In the Burmese version of Theravada Buddhism, the week has eight days. Wednesday is divided into Wednesday proper (midnight to noon) and Rahu (noon to midnight). Each day is associated with a compass direction, a planet, and a totem animal.
What days are 3 times a week?
When triweekly does describe something that happens three times a week, chances are that it happens on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (but you should probably still double—or triple—check).
What country has 30 days of day?
Nunavut - Canada
Nunavut is a city located two degrees above the Arctic Circle, in the Northwest Territories of Canada. This place sees about two months of sunshine 24/7, while during the winter the place experiences about 30 consecutive days of complete darkness.
Does China have a weekend?
Just like much of the Western world, China uses a five-day workweek that spans from Monday to Friday, with Saturday and Sunday off.
Who invented weekends?
Does 1 week include weekends?
The week is the part of the week that does not include Saturday and Sunday. ...
How many weekends are in a month?
For any given month, MOVES assumes that 5 out of every 7 days in the month are 'weekdays' and 2 out of every 7 of days in the month are 'weekend days.
What country only works 4 days?
Iceland: One of the leaders in the four-day working week
Between 2015 to 2019, Iceland conducted the world's largest pilot of a 35 to 36-hour workweek (cut down from the traditional 40 hours) without any calls for a commensurate cut in pay. Some 2,500 people took part in the test phase.
Which country has 4 hour week?
Iceland. Iceland tested four-day, 35-36-hour weeks from 2015-2019 with more than 2,500 employees, or roughly 1% of the country's total workforce. Participating employers included police departments, schools, and the Reykjavik mayor's office, and employees kept their same salary. The test was considered a huge success.
Is there a 13th month?
The thirteenth month, placed between February and March, would be called Vern, due to its proximity to the vernal equinox and the beginning of spring. (Later versions of the bill dropped the name Vern and replaced it with the month of "Liberty.")
Is 3x a week enough?
Experts recommend exercising at least three times a week to maintain good health. Many people choose to workout more than the minimum recommended number of days, but busy people should not feel guilty for exercising only three days a week.
How often is 3x a day?
When the medicine label on the medicine says to take three times day it generally means 'take every 8 hours'. For example we divide 8 hours into 24 hours which gives us 3.
What are twice a week?
Biweekly is commonly used to mean one of two things: once every two weeks or twice per week. It can be used this way as an adjective, as in a biweekly meeting, or an adverb, as in We plan to meet biweekly. Yes, you can sometimes figure out what biweekly means from the context of the sentence.
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Juvenile Justice Database – Sole Source Award
The Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice, in partnership with the Vera Institute of Justice, has developed and has been maintaining a comprehensive database that integrates data from multiple juvenile justice sources and generates case files that track the movement of juvenile delinquency cases through the juvenile justice system, which previously had been supported under federal grant award program that has been discontinued. The Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice will enter into a Sole Source agreement with the Vera Institute of Justice to support the continued operations of the juvenile justice system database.


Set up in 2007 in an exquisite Georgian building a few blocks away the bustling streets of Mayfair lay texture. One that offers European food with Scandinavian and Nordic influences, it's fair to say that it's a cuisine rarely seen in London. Simplicity does the trick for its interior décor, neutral and pastel colours that flourish the walls, accompanied by eye-catching modern art. The dining room brims with elegance. Not the biggest of restaurants, but size doesn't mean everything; this place was proved popular by the abundant amount of corporate professionals with large disposable incomes.
The regular tasting menu is a perfect platform to expose Sverrrison's creativity. £79 for 6 courses. More like 8 though.
This dish really took me by surprise. It's such a curious looking dish and a very clever way to capture the diner's attention. Served with two dips, the flaky cod skins were flavourful and crispy. Very poppadom like. Or similar to crispy seaweed. Or to a more British comparison, potato chips.
Iron bark pumpkin, soup, hazelnuts. It was lukewarm, but was a great starter to the meal, cleverly warming up our taste buds before the next course. There was a hint of sweetness yet a subtle mild taste of hazelnuts that were infused into the soup.
A fitting theme given the weather right now, winter vegetables! Consisted of chervil root, celeriac, pickled trompette, vegetable nage. You can taste so many different things here. Soupy – given the complementing sauce that emanated from the root vegetables, sweet but also savoury, I devoured it.
Chargrilled Anjou quail with shallot, sweetcorn puree, red wine essence and bacon popcorn. Yes, bacon popcorn!!! Tender, succulent, but the size of the portion leaves you wanting more.
Another rather soupy dish, but cleverly fitted in between two meat dishes. Consisted of shellfish, fregola, pickled vegetables and herbs. The flavours are very clean-cut, lots of different aftertastes and essences, many of which I just couldn't figure out.
This is what I call precision cooking. Consists of red cabbage, brussel sprouts, bacon, chocolate sauce. Yeah, you heard right, it was exactly that combination. Venison loin, soft juicy and tender. Red cabbage and brussel sprouts made it bitter and sour. Bacon, slightly salty but subtle. Chocolate sauce, a sweet tangy flavour. There were parts that I liked and parts I didn't. I credit the originality so far in this tasting menu, being able to cover a breadth of flavours, but at times, too many constituents, too many flavours!
Sometimes simplicity is key, all you need here after 5 courses is something refreshing. Flavoured, sugary ice with Icelandic skyr (type of soft cheese that tastes like yoghurt). This cleverly refreshes your taste buds and rinses out all that you've eaten before. Getting you prepped and ready for the finale.
I liked it so much I've included three photos of it. Hehe.
Grace, Cheukie and I collectively adored this dish. The champion of all courses tonight. Nutty, warm sponge cake with a crispy clean topping. Rich, melty-ish chocolate stabbed with a cute breaded flake and coconut bits sprinkled all over… heaven. Different textures, different flavours, it was warm, it was cold, it was everything.
A picture from every angle… my friends have such patience.
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Arizona Names Charita Stubbs Next Head Volleyball Coach
TUCSON, Ariz. – University of Arizona Vice President and Director of Athletics Dave Heeke has announced the promotion of Charita Stubbs as the next head coach of Arizona Volleyball, following the retirement of Arizona's long-time head coach Dave Rubio. A former Arizona Wildcat herself, Stubbs becomes the fourth head coach and first African-American head coach in program history. Stubbs played at Arizona for Rubio from 1992 to 1994 and has spent 19 total years (1997 to 2005, 2013 to 2022) on Rubio's coaching staff at Arizona.
"I am incredibly excited to name Charita Stubbs as our next head volleyball coach," Heeke said. "As a former Wildcat student-athlete and longtime member of Dave Rubio's staff, Rita has a great appreciation and understanding of what it means to compete for the University of Arizona. She is a nationally respected figure in college volleyball who is outstanding at developing elite volleyball athletes with a passion for recruiting and guiding these student-athletes into academic, athletic and life champions that align with our mission and values. Rita has a tremendous vision and outstanding skillset that will set the course for future success for Arizona Volleyball, and I look forward to watching her add more chapters to the storied legacy of the program."
Stubbs has helped guide Arizona to NCAA Tournament appearances in 14 of her 19 seasons on staff. She has helped coach nine Wildcats to All-American status, including Arizona's first middle blocker to earn honorable mention All-America honors since 1985.
"I want to thank Dave Heeke for believing in me and naming me the new head coach of Arizona Volleyball," Stubbs said. "I am excited to lead my alma mater as I bleed Red and Blue. I cannot thank Dave Rubio enough for believing in this girl from Cleveland, Ohio as a player and as a coach. I stand for truth, hard work and discipline in this game, and I will continue Arizona Volleyball's culture where our student-athletes enjoy the process."
Since her return to Arizona, Stubbs has helped lead the Wildcats to five of the last ten NCAA Tournaments. During her most recent ten years on staff, Arizona has won 175 games, one of the most successful ten-year runs in school history.
Prior to landing her first collegiate head coaching position in February 2006, Stubbs was a member of Rubio's…
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