Janiqueel finds out what HKTDC is all about and what it offers through its trade fairs and online platform.
The HKTDC's mission is to create opportunities for Hong Kong companies. They focus on delivering value by promoting trade in goods and services while connecting the world's small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through Hong Kong's business platform. In striving to be the best trade promotion organisation in the world, the HKTDC is committed to developing and expanding new frontiers by exploring, learning, and innovating; Building on Hong Kong's economic success through global business; Creating and delivering value to their customers; Maintaining trust, respect and openness in all the relationships.
For starters, I found that HKTDC is the Hong Kong Trade Development Council. "Merchant Court" was an apt phrase for the luncheon as connecting merchants and clients is the raison d'etre of HKTDC. So, as an influencer of note, janiqueel fit right in. Not a merchant; not a client but rather a conduit between the two, janiqueel is a bit like HKTDC in that this blog seeks to highlight products and services aimed at the business partners. That's basically what HKTDC does on a large scale complete with events, conferences, and online platforms. For janiqueel, the luncheon provided networking opportunities to the max and a glimpse into the world of HKTDC.
In all, there will be twenty events between the start of 2019 and May with more to follow. Having hosted 4,360 exhibitors in 2018, the Gifts and Premium Fair is once again expected to be the largest event in the world. Books, sports and leisure, printing and packaging, diamonds and pearls, electronics, and film and TV to name just some. These are major events and HKTDC stages and manages them all.
Check out their website for fair information. There is a scheme whereby one can join become a member, earn points and find rewards and benefits for various levels of membership. Membership also scores extras at the trade fairs. It's well set up and an interesting take on online shopping and a springboard to the many fairs and expos that HKTDC builds and maintains.
Here in Singapore, the HKTDC office is run by Vivienne Chee who gave a clear, concise explanation of her company's mission and strategies. Assistant Marketing Manager, Chelsea Tang communicated with luncheon-goers and participants. Both gave the impression of efficiency and knowledge. HKTDC, it seems, is in good hands and is a force to be considered when one such as I think about a presence in Hong Kong at one or more of the many trade events under HKTDC's umbrella.
Written with the help of JKJ.


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Home » News » Commentaries » MVIS OneHundred » The U.S. Food and Drugs Administration: Speeding Up the Approval of Drugs
The U.S. Food and Drugs Administration: Speeding Up the Approval of Drugs
By Thomas Butcher, Researcher and Consultant
Everybody seems to want to climb on the bandwagon requiring the U.S. Food and Drugs Administration's (FDA) to speed up its reviews, especially of drugs. Indeed, late last year, Republican presidential hopeful Senator Ted Cruz helped introduce the Reciprocity Ensures Streamlined Use of Lifesaving Treatments (RESULT) Act to do just this.
In early-July 2015, the House had overwhelmingly passed the 21st Century Cures Act which, amongst many other things, tried to do exactly the same. The proposed legislation was knocked on the head by Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, when it said that, rather than take the act up, it would vote on a number of other bipartisan bills instead.
While there has been some evidence of some improvement within the FDA, delays can still lead both to lives lost and, for drug companies, because of the limits on patent times, revenues foregone. Actually speeding up reviews further, though, remains a knotty problem.
CDER New Molecular Entity (NME) and New Biologic License Application (BLA) Filings and Approvals
Source: FDA
CDER = FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
Thomas Butcher is an independent writer, researcher and consultant focusing, amongst other things, on strategic materials, in particular metals. With 35 years of experience in the financial world, he has lectured and spoken at conferences around the world. Amongst other things, he writes the «Letter from North America» in the Minor Metals Trade Association's bi-monthly publication The Crucible, and was lead author of the chapter on gallium (used in semiconductors) in the British Geological Survey's Critical Metals Handbook.

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According to our database1, Shane Legg authored at least 20 papers between 2004 and 2018.
Reward learning from human preferences and demonstrations in Atari.
IMPALA: Scalable Distributed Deep-RL with Importance Weighted Actor-Learner Architectures.
Deep Reinforcement Learning from Human Preferences.
Reinforcement Learning with a Corrupted Reward Channel.
Soft-Bayes: Prod for Mixtures of Experts with Log-Loss.
Letter to the Editor: Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial Artificial Intelligence: An Open Letter.
From academia to industry: The story of Google DeepMind.
Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence.
Temporal Difference Updating without a Learning Rate.
A Universal Measure of Intelligence for Artificial Agents.
Fitness uniform deletion: a simple way to preserve diversity.
Tournament versus fitness uniform selection.


Every business needs website, even those that deal with health and fitness issues. There is no business in this present time that can survive without an internet presence. It reaches a bigger audience, unlike the traditional forms of advertising, such as print media. This wide reach gives you both plenty and diverse forms of clients to reach out to. This thus gives you more opportunity to make money form such a venture.
You can only entrust the design to professionals, if you expect a great job to be done. You need someone with a keen understanding of different programming languages, and design strategies. There also needs to be a graphic designers, to take care of how the site shall look. You need a site that is functional as expected, but pleasing to behold. You should have your ideas on what you wish to see on the site as well.
You need to do some research on the kind of website you want. You need the design process to be as fast as possible. It is important that your website is up and running as soon as possible. This is how it shall start making you the money you need to expand your business. If you settle on certain things, it becomes easier for you. These ideas will make the work of the designer simpler.
The kind of layout for such a website matters. You need all the items on the website positioned to offer the most intuitive browsing experience. It should be easy for your clients to spot the information they need. The site should also not take too long to load. People do not have the patience to wait for such inconveniences.
SEO is an integral part of any successful website. You may have the best fitness website, but if people cannot see it, it will be useless. An internet search shall reveal a lot of results on the same topic. It is usual for people to only consider the first few results they see from the search, to take care of what it is they were in need of. Your website should have the SEO that gives it a top ranking in such a list. That is what SEO affords you.
You cannot forget about the words used in your website. Images can only go so far in communication. There are things only words can. There should be a way your message is conveyed in the most interesting way. There are content management systems you need put in place.
The worth of an effective website cannot be dismissed. The design should be great, as is its functioning. Great content and amazing images will also make a huge difference.


As part of HIP Housing's effort to provide affordable housing solutions in San Mateo County, we are seeking a passionate, self-motivated, experienced and credentialed professional property manager to join our team and manage our 92-units senior housing community in San Mateo.
HIP Housing is nonprofit agency specializing in creative affordable housing solutions throughout San Mateo County. Founded in 1972, HIP Housing benefits from an exceptional staff, well-established programs and financial stability. HIP Housing's programs are nationally recognized and have been highlighted in Newsweek, USA Today, Metropolitan Home and on the Oprah Winfrey Show.
In July 2016 we launched HIP Housing Affordable Ventures, Inc., a new company affiliate of HIP Housing to manage both the apartment properties owned by HIP Housing and those contracted to manage by 3rd party ownerships.
Our team includes a staff of 40 with an average tenure of 10 years and a governing board of 18 - 20 Directors recruited with an emphasis on diversity of skills and interests to assist in advancing the HIP Housing mission.
Location: Edgewater Isle Senior Apartments, 1510 Marina Vista, San Mateo, CA 94404.
Please send cover letter and resume to recruiting@hiphousing.org. Application deadline: December 10, 2018. Open until filled. The subject line should indicate: Property Manager – Edgewater Isle.


41 Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) were elected across England and Wales on the 15th November 2012. When PCCs took office on the 22nd November 2012 they became responsible for a combined police force area budget of £8 billion.
Information provided by the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners.


Church by the Sea is the closest church to SunHost Resorts and is non-denominational. Members and visitors come from diverse backgrounds, from all around the world. Together we share the common belief and desire to have Jesus as the Lord of our lives.
Slyce is a great place to go and watch a game, while dining on gourmet pizza (or an Italian meal). Come and sit in the bar, at a booth, and even outside on the patio with live entertainment. There are also two full bars stocked with fine wine and top-shelf cocktails.


We are looking forward to seeing you at our booth from 5 - 7 February 2019!
Storengy Germany is one of the largest natural gas storage operators in Germany. We provide our customers with 1.7 billion m³ of working gas volume in 6 underground storage facilities in northern and southern Germany.
We are looking forward to talk to you at E-world 2019 and to present our entire product and service portfolio.


Welcome to the Prout Financial Design learning library. Education is our number one priority. We believe that the more we learn and grow intellectually, the more we'll have to offer our clients. Not only do we seek to help you manage your finances more successfully, we also seek to be the most relevant source of information available to you regarding the entire retirement planning spectrum.
It's here that you'll have access to our favorite resources. Please, take your time by taking a tour. Each tab to your right offers a wealth of information about finances, investments and retirement planning. Admittedly, this is our favorite page.


If you missed they live stream of Steve's Keynote address yesterday (September 1st) you can still catch it on Apple's site today. However, we have highlights from the address.
Yes, you can read comics on your iPhone or iPad, but can you ENJOY them? After discussing the possible Apple TV replacement and $0.99 TV episode rentals, we provide a thorough guide to the comic book apps in the App Store.
Flipboard! Star Wars: Hoth! 1Password! Yes, we've been away for a couple of weeks, but we've got a lot of reviews in this double-length episode! Don't miss it!


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The Strand Magazine byl ilustrovaný měsíčník, který vycházel ve Velké Británii v letech 1891–1950. Otiskoval články, povídky a romány na pokračování. V časopise publikovali také světoznámí autoři, např. Arthur Conan Doyle, Graham Greene, G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Rudyard Kipling, Dorothy L. Sayersová, Georges Simenon, Lev Nikolajevič Tolstoj, H. G. Wells.

Časopis byl obnoven v roce 1998.

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By 97.1FM The Drive | February 25, 2021
Beatles-themed master's degree being offered by University of Liverpool
The Beatles were masters at creating memorable pop and rock songs, and now college students in the band's hometown of Liverpool, U.K., will have the opportunity to earn a master's degree focusing on the group.
This September, the University of Liverpool is launching an MA course called "The Beatles: Music Industry and Heritage," which according to a description on the school's website "will explore how [the band], their music and their story are inextricably bound up within an increasing number of creative and cultural industries including…music, media and social media, tourism and heritage."
Students enrolled in the course will have the chance to interact with Liverpool's tourism sector focused on the Fab Four, and will examine how the band and its legacy contribute to the local and national economy and creative and cultural communities.
Guest lecturers will participate in the course, and students also will be able to visit sites throughout the area important to the history of The Beatles.
The course synopsis maintains that the degree can be valuable for those aspiring to careers in the music, creative, arts and tourism industries and sectors.
The launch of the Beatles-themed degree will coincide with the opening of the Yoko Ono Lennon Centre, a new teaching and performance facility at the University of Liverpool.
Dr. Holly Tessler, who is the director of the program, tells the BBC, "What makes this MA unique is its focus on The Beatles in a future-facing way, considering the legacy's influence on the music and creative industries, in popular culture, and within heritage, culture and tourism in the 21st Century."
For more details about the course, visit Liverpool.ac.uk.
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Major George Lawrence Lloyd  (1 October 1892 – 15 July 1955) was a  Rhodesian-born flying ace of the First World War, credited with eight aerial victories.

Early life and background
Lloyd was born in Rhodesia in 1892, which at that time a chartered territory of the British South Africa Company.

World War I
On 19 November 1915 Lloyd was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Staffordshire Yeomanry (Queen's Own Royal Regiment), Territorial Force. He was later seconded to the Royal Flying Corps, in which he was appointed a flying officer on 28 February 1917. Lloyd was posted to No. 60 Squadron RFC in April 1917, to fly the Nieuport 17 single seat fighter in operations supporting the Battle of Arras. Inferiority of tactics, technology and training meant that RFC suffered heavy casualties, and the period was subsequently known as "Bloody April". On 22 April Lloyd gained his first aerial victory, destroying an observation balloon north-east of Boiry-Notre-Dame. On 29 June, between Douai and Estrées, he accounted for two Albatros D.III fighters, one destroyed and the other driven down out of control, and drove down another D.III over Wancourt on 7 July.

Lloyd was promoted to lieutenant in his regiment on 1 July 1917, while remaining seconded to the RFC as a second lieutenant, but was appointed a flight commander with the temporary rank of captain on 6 July, and transferred to No. 40 Squadron RFC, where on 14 July he drove down another D.III east of Douai, for his fifth victory, making him an 'ace'. Further victories followed; he drove down an Albatros D.V three miles east of Lens on 12 August, destroyed an Albatros reconnaissance aircraft over Fromelles on 18 August, and destroyed another D.V at La Bassée on 7 October. His overall tally was a balloon, two Albatros fighters and a two-seater reconnaissance aircraft destroyed, and four Albatros fighters driven down out of control, making him the 12th highest-scoring South African ace of the War.

On 19 November Lloyd was awarded the Military Cross, which was gazetted on 19 March 1918. His citation read:
Second Lieutenant (Temporary Captain) George Lawrence Lloyd, Yeomanry and Royal Flying Corps.
"For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. Single-handed, he attacked three enemy machines, one of which he brought down out of control. On another occasion he attacked four enemy machines, one of which he brought down in a steep dive. He has brought down many other enemy machines and taken part in numerous combats, displaying magnificent gallantry and skill on all occasions."

On 1 October 1918, only weeks prior to the armistice, he was promoted to the acting rank of major (a squadron commander's rank). On 2 May 1919 Lloyd relinquished his RAF commission on ceasing to be employed. On 3 June 1919 he was awarded the Air Force Cross in recognition of "distinguished services rendered during the war".

Post-war life
After the war, Lloyd emigrated to the United States, where in 1935 he married Martha Boswell (1905–1958), one of The Boswell Sisters, a popular singing trio. Lloyd died in Peekskill, New York, on 15 July 1955.

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Der Michelbühel ist ein  hoher Pass im südlichen Mostviertel in Niederösterreich, in der Nähe des steirischen Mariazell.

Der Pass liegt zwischen den St. Aegyder Ortschaften Gscheid südlich und Ulreichsberg westlich und bindet damit diesen abgelegeneren Ort an das Gemeindegebiet an (über das Kernhofer Gscheid). Michelbühl heißt auch ein Haus oberhalb des Passes, die Häuser auf der Gscheider Seite heißen Tobiasl.

Südlich kommt der Quelllauf der Salza in die Talung, westlich rinnt der Karnerbach nach Ulreichsberg, und geht dann über die Walster der Salza im Halltal zu.

Der Michelbühel verbindet den Ulreichsberg (Hoher, ) mit dem Traisenberg (Enzian ), zwei voralpine Bergzüge der Türnitzer Alpen (Gruppe Traisenberg–Sulzberg). Der Gipfel direkt westlich ist ein  hoher Ausläufer des Ulreichsberg-Kamms, westlich der etwa  hohe Trariegel.
Nördlich erheben sich die Felskämme Burgmauer () und Karnermauer ().

Über den Michelbühel führt die 13,7 km lange Landesstraße L101 von der Mariazeller Straße (B 20) nächst Annaberg über Pfarralm und Ulreichsberg zur Gutensteiner Straße (B 21) in Gscheid. Über den Pass verläuft auch der Traisental-Radweg.

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Alpenpass
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Geographie (St. Aegyd am Neuwalde)
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Whitehall on top of the cloud
Cloud computing:
"you're relinquishing a lot of control to this system"
Mike Neil, Windows Azure general manager
Anyone read The Fear Index by Robert Harris? DMossEsq has, and it's jolly exciting – "nothing spreads like fear".
It's all about an algorithm called VIXAL-4 that "learns" how to exploit its environment and ensures its survival by disarming its competitors.
VIXAL-4 was written by a physicist at CERN. He gets thrown out of CERN because his work is too dangerous so he sets up a hedge fund. Armed with huge amounts of historical price data and a real-time web-based surveillance system, VIXAL-4 cleans up in the global securities markets.
The hedge fund's compliance officer is a bit of a threat, so VIXAL-4 gets rid of him. The major threat is VIXAL-4's own author, the ex-CERN physicist. He powers down two gigantic data centres to try to stop VIXAL-4 but, would you believe it, there's obviously another data centre somewhere because the physicist ends up looking like nothing more than a psychopathic pyromaniac, while VIXAL-4 sails on unopposed.
Great fun, but quite unrealistic, of course.
Anyone read Inside Microsoft's Autopilot: Nadella's secret cloud weapon by Jack Clark? DMossEsq has, and it's jolly exciting – "Redmond man spills the beans on Microsoft's top-secret software".
You should know that Satya Nadella is the newish CEO of Microsoft ...
Most recently, Nadella was executive vice president of Microsoft's Cloud and Enterprise group. In this role he led the transformation to the cloud infrastructure and services business, which outperformed the market and took share from competition.
... and that he sees Microsoft's future in the cloud, Satya Nadella: Mobile First, Cloud First Press Briefing, that's the strategy. Microsoft's cloud offering is Windows Azure. Microsoft aren't the biggest cloud operators. That distinction goes to Amazon Web Services. Then there's Google. And some others.
While he was executive vice president of Microsoft's Cloud and Enterprise group, Nadella oversaw the development of VIXAL-4 Autopilot.
Now, back to Jack Clark's article: "Autopilot is the system that lets Microsoft knit together millions of servers and hundreds and hundreds of petabytes of data into a great, humming lake of compute and storage capacity".
Autopilot: the first software the servers in this ITPAC
will meet when they arrive at a Microsoft data center
Not sure about humming lakes, but you need to understand the sheer scale of Microsoft's cloud operation. The unit they work in is the ITPAC. An ITPAC is 10,000 servers. The picture alongside shows an ITPAC being delivered to a data centre – another 10,000 servers to knit into the humming lake. That's what the cloud is all about.
"Microsoft rarely talks publicly about Autopilot", but Mike Neil, Windows Azure general manager, did talk to Jack Clark:
"Autopilot software now completely automates the entire server operational lifecycle, from power on and OS installation, to fault detection and repair, to power cycling and vendor RMA," explains Microsoft. "The [Autopilot] team can take a bow for a quietly effective operation that has profoundly transformed Internet-scale services at Microsoft."
It also helps assign resources to applications, schedule when jobs should run, gathers information from millions of computers to give up-to-the-minute capacity utilization information, and forms the underlay of other even more-secret technologies, such as the exabyte-scale COSMOS data analysis engine that sits beneath services such as Bing, Xbox Live, and Windows Azure ...
If a server fails, then Autopilot has a "self-healing" capability that can prevent a cluster-scale brownout, he said. "Things are going to fail all the time – Autopilot can take remediation actions for you to address failures. There's a bunch of auto-healing autonomic behavior in the system ...
And then there's the bit Robert Harris would like:
And just like systems in use at Google (Borg and its successor Omega), and Twitter (Mesos), Autopilot's complexity makes it behave more like a skilled yet uncommunicative colleague than a [subservient] system.
"The thing you have to get comfortable with is you're relinquishing a lot of control to this system and allowing it to do the right thing for you, and trusting it – it may take steps you don't know about," Neil says. "These systems are so large that no one person is keeping track. That's what the system is designed to do – take care of the details."
It's big. It's complex. No-one knows how it works. The algorithms do – Autopilot and COSMOS – but not the humans, "it may take steps you don't know about ... no one person is keeping track". Stick your data and your applications in the cloud and you lose control of them, "you're relinquishing a lot of control to this system".
That's how Microsoft see it. And no doubt Amazon and Google. Meanwhile, back at CERN the Cabinet Office, we have the delightful G-Cloud team, welcoming central and local government punters into this new world of the cloud. Nothing to be afraid of, not even a "cluster-scale brownout", what could possibly go wrong? With "auto-healing autonomic behavior in the system", nothing. You think you're still in control? In the cloud? Of course you are.
Jack Clark has kindly contacted the DMossEsq news desk to confirm that, for the avoidance of doubt, Microsoft are not alone. Google also has an inscrutable algorithm managing its worldwide estate of servers. They used to use one called Borg. Now it looks as though they're using Omega. And Omega is showing signs of life – "Omega tech just like LIVING thing".
Microsoft, Google and others all confirm that, at the kind of scale they're operating, chaos can emerge from orderly, deterministic processes. They know that. The UK's G-Cloud team should also know that. But somehow their invitation to central and local government departments to ascend into the cloud omits any mention of the resulting loss of control.
There's a lot of marketing going on for the cloud, luring people and organisations into dependence. Here's a Microsoft example, culled from the Spectator – the cloud + big data will cure cancer. Just remember David Spiegelhalter's opinion on the matter: "complete bollocks ... absolute nonsense". Still, what does he know about it? Believe the marketing if you will. He's only the Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at Cambridge university:
Can you face another one?
Another professor, that is.
John Naughton is professor of the public understanding of technology at the Open University. Writing in the Observer today, We're all being mined for data – but who are the real winners?, he says:
Another disturbing thing about the big data bandwagon is its implicit epistemology, which could be crudely summarised by modifying the old Klondike slogan: "There's truth in them thar data". What it boils down to is a naive conviction that the more data you have, the closer you will get to the truth. No more relying on small, potentially unrepresentative samples and misleading averages. Instead the plain, unvarnished truth. This "truth" however, comes in the form of correlations: the discovery, for example, that influenza outbreaks go hand in hand with certain kinds of Google searches. Never mind that Google doesn't know anything about what causes flu. So the knowledge that comes from big data is generally an inference that two things are related, not knowledge of why they might be related. (Or not, as the case may be: it turns out that Google's brief foray into epidemiology came unstuck. A new outbreak of the disease had the search engine completely foxed.)
... In the end, the crippled epistemology of the big data movement may prove to be our biggest problem ...
"Naïve conviction" and "crippled epistemology" are not votes of confidence.
You remember, please see above, how Azure, Microsoft's cloud service, is controlled by the Autopilot and COSMOS algorithms but not by humans, it may take steps you don't know about, no one person is keeping track, stick your data and your applications in the cloud and you lose control of them, you're relinquishing a lot of control to this system, at the kind of scale they're operating chaos can emerge from orderly, deterministic processes ...?
Well good news. MoD gets top billing as Microsoft Cloud makes UK debut:
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has become one of Microsoft's standout public sector reference sites for its Office 365 and Azure services as the Microsoft Cloud opens today ...
Microsoft's secure and transparent cloud service in the UK fits perfectly with the MOD's digital transformation agenda ...
... the MoD has been able to push Microsoft at the highest levels to deliver. For example, providing asynchronous cloud for service delivery on submarines ...
Microsoft is also targeting other parts of the public sector for Office 365 and Azure, notably the NHS and local authorities, for digital transformation ...
World-famous in their own world
UK local government – dating websites for no-brain...
Whitehall savings – too modest by half
Individual Electoral Registration = national ident...


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Janet cooks your breakfast to order, using produce from local butchers and stores. The wide range of options means you'll be spoilt for choice.
Full English cooked breakfast, with your choice of bacon, smoked salmon, sausage, tomatoes, baked beans, mushrooms, and free-range eggs.
Fruit juices, tea and coffee.
Cereals and fruit, including just-picked fruits from the orchard when available.
Warm croissants, bread and toast with homemade or local preserves.
We can usually offer you an evening meal from Monday to Thursday and salad or sandwiches at weekends. Do please contact us for a menu (and give us 48 hours' notice). All your meals are home-cooked by Janet or Simon and locally-sourced as far as possible.
Typical dishes include Cod with Puy Lentils, Chorizo & Persillade, Chicken & Mushroom Pie, Beetroot Tarte Tatin with Herby Creme Fraiche and Beef Rendang with Fresh Mango Chutney. Orchard Pond is unlicensed, but you're very welcome to bring your own drinks.
If you have a special request, please ask before you arrive and we'll be happy to prepare it if possible. We can also recommend some excellent pubs and restaurants nearby.
When you arrive, you'll be greeted with a delicious batch of Janet's home-made cakes or biscuits. Served with freshly-brewed tea or coffee or a refreshing cold drink, they really hit the spot.


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Mother/Daughter Duo Launches First Magazine in the UK for Black Girls To Inspire Them
This is true hustle and purpose right here! A mom and daughter in the UK have created their own magazines, the firsts to celebrate black girls and boys in the region.
Serlina Boyd and her six-year-old daughter Faith noticed that publications that they picked up regularly lacked diversity. Faith wanted to read magazines as a part of her homeschooling lessons during the quarantine. However, she didn't see people who looked like her.
Serlina made it her mission to create a magazine with her daughter that would be an inspiration for Faith and other black girls. Along with Faith as editor, Serlina created Cocoa Girl, the first magazine in the UK for black girls aged seven to 14.
The magazine features inspirational and empowering content for these girls. Topics include everything from affirmations and taking care of natural hair to facts and lessons about black culture.
Since its launch in June, Cocoa Girl has sold over 11,000 copies, which is a marvel for an independent magazine in a time where magazine sales across the world are in decline. For Serlina, though, what matters most is that other black girls are seeing themselves reflected in this magazine. "There [are] a few mothers that have bought this magazine as a surprise for their daughter," Serlina shared in an interview with BBC. "Some of them have never seen a black girl on the cover of a magazine before."
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It meant the world to this mom that her daughter would be able to see herself on the cover and throughout this magazine. "I knew that she was struggling with what she looked like," Serlina said of Faith. "This journey that she's gone on to love her hair, to love her skin tone, to love everything about herself is the most amazing thing that's happened. I'm just hoping other little girls can go on that journey too."
Serlina and Faith will also launch a magazine for boys, appropriately titled Cocoa Boy, which is set to come out this September. Though both Cocoa Girl and Cocoa Boy feature black children, Serlina hopes that children from all races will pick up a copy. "These magazines aren't just for black children," she stated. "They are for children from all races as it teaches them about the black culture and black history."
In a world where black people are not celebrated as much as their white counterparts, it's important to have that representation. It's important to see others that look like you doing what you want to do because it makes you feel like you can do it too!
Even these two just starting their own magazine is motivation for me! It goes to show that, with determination and passion, you can accomplish pretty much anything.
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Der verkaufte Traum ("Beyond the Horizon") ist ein 1991 erschienener Roman von Amma Darko. Der Roman ist in Deutschland in englischer Sprache verfasst worden und zuerst in der deutschen Übersetzung publiziert worden.
Er handelt von einer Ghanaerin, die von ihrem ghanaischen Ehemann nach Deutschland geschleust und dort von ihm in die Prostitution gezwungen wird, weil er Geld für seine ebenfalls nach Deutschland geholte Geliebte braucht.

Inhalt
Mara wächst in einem ghanaischen Dorf auf und träumt vom Leben in der Hauptstadt Accra. Sie heiratet Akobi, der sie dorthin bringt. Mara erfährt, dass Akobi nicht der Mann von Welt ist, der er vorgibt zu sein. Sie hat es sehr schwer in Accra.
Akobi plant eine Reise nach Deutschland und Mara unterstützt ihn, weil sie hofft, dass er sie nachholen werde. Erst lange Zeit später erhält sie wirklich eine Einladung nach Deutschland. Nach und nach begreift sie, dass Akobi mit der Deutschen Gitte liiert ist, der Mara als Akobis Schwester vorgestellt wird. Nach anfänglichem Widerstand spielt Mara das Spiel mit.
Schließlich zwingt Akobi seine Frau zur Prostitution, denn er braucht Geld für seine anspruchsvolle Geliebte Comfort.

Hauptfiguren
 Mara: Eine Frau, die in dem ghanaischen Dorf Naka geboren wurde, nach ihrer Hochzeit dem Ehemann in die Hauptstadt Accra folgt und schließlich von ihm nach Deutschland eingeschleust wird.
 Akobi: Maras Ehemann, der es nach langen Bemühungen und mithilfe des Geldes seiner Frau schafft nach Deutschland einzureisen
 Kofo: Sohn von Mara und Akobi, den die beiden in Ghana zurücklassen
 Comfort: Heimliche Geliebte Akobis in Accra, die später seiner Einladung nach Deutschland folgt
 Gitte: Akobis naive Lebensgefährtin in Deutschland, der Mara als Akobis Schwester vorgestellt wird
 Pompey: Zuhälter Maras

Ausgaben
 Deutsche Erstausgabe (Übersetzung: Carmen Baerens): Schmetterling Verlag, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-89657-140-0
 Taschenbuch-Ausgabe: dtv, München 1994, ISBN 9783423118576
 Englische Erstausgabe: Heinemann African Writers Series, 1995, ISBN 9780435909901
 Französische Erstausgabe: Par-delà l'horizon, Actes Sud, 1999, ISBN 9782742712724
 Spanische Erstausgabe: Más allá del Horizonte, Schmetterling Verlag, Stuttgart, 2003, ISBN 9788496095168

Literatur
 Abeka, Philomena; Marfo, Charles; Bonku, Lucy: An Angle of Seeing: Pornography and Profanity as Pharmakon in Darko's Beyond the Horizon and The Housemaid, in: Advances in Language and Literary Studies, Vol. 5 No. 2; April 2014. "An Angle of seeing Pornography and Profanity as Pharmakon…" auf academia.eu; Volltext
 Adjei, Mawuli, Male-bashing and narrative subjectivity in Amma Darko's first three novels In SKASE Journal of Literary Studies [online]. 2009, vol. 1, no. 1 [cit. 2009-06-23]. "Male-bashing and narrative subjectivity…" auf skase.sk; Volltext
 Afful, B.A., Thematic analysis of gender stratification in Amma Darko's 'Beyond the Horizon', Paper, University of Cape Coast.
 Agbajoh-Laoye, G.: Beyond the Horizon: African Immigration, Trans-Cultural Patterns and Conflicting Liberation in Emecheta's 'Second-Class Citizen' and Amma Darko's 'Beyond the Horizon'. Paper Presented at the Annual Conference of the African Studies Association, November 11–14, 2004, New Orleans, Louisiana. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University, African Studies Association (ASA). 2004.
 Barberan Reinares, M. Laura: Sex Trafficking and the Legal System in Destination Countries in Amma Darko's Beyond the Horizon and Chris Abani's Becoming Abigail, in: Barberan Reinares, M. Laura: Commodified Anatomies: Disposable Women in Postcolonial Narratives of Sexual Trafficking/ Abduction, Georgia 2012 (Dissertation), pp. 109–150. "Sex Trafficking and the Legal System in the Destination Countries…" auf scholarworks.gsu.edu; Volltext
 Chasen, Laura E., The Geography of Form – Bodies, Space and Capitalist Desire in Amma Darko's Beyond the Horizon, in: Laura E. Chasen, Dislocated Subjects: Transnational Forced Prostitution, African Female Bodies and Corporeal Resistance, Washington 2010 (Master Thesis), pp. 9–25. "The Geography of Form…" auf repository.library.georgetown.edu; Volltext
 Gbaguidi, Célestin : African Illegal Immigrants' Disillusionment in Europe: a Study of Amma Darko's Beyond the Horizon, in: Revue du CAMES / Lettres, Langues et linguistique, No. 2, Nov. 2014, pp. 36–48. "African Illegal Immigrants' Disillusionment in Europe…" auf: publication.lecames.org; Volltext
 Gbanou, Sélom Komlan: Un rêve (f)utile de l'Europe : le cercle des utopies dans Der verkaufte Traum de Amma Darko, in: Papa Samba Diop & Florence Paravy (Hrg.), Littératures africaines littératures francophones et utopies, Paris, Action – Université Paris XII Val de Marnes, 2006, S. 235–255.
 Higgins, MaryEllen (Ellie): Transnational, Transcultural Feminisms? Amma Darko's Response in "Beyond the Horizon", in: Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Fall, 2006), pp. 307–322. "Transnational, Transcultural Feminisms?..." auf jstor.org
 Jonet, M. Catherine: She doesn't know the truth about me: (T)he shaping presence of the closet in Amma Darko's Beyond the Horizon". Gender and Sexuality in African Literature and Film. Eds. Ada Azodo and Maureen Eke. Trenton: Africa World Press, 2007, pp. 199–211.
 Leitmeir, Petra,  "Amma Darko – Interkulturelle Literatur in Deutschland ?", 2007
 Marfo, Charles; Abeka Yeboah, Philomena; Bonku, Lucy: Exploiting the Exploiter: Some Violations of Society's Expectations in Beyond the Horizon and The Housemaid, in: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies – Vol 21(1), pp. 35–46. "Exploiting the Exploiter…" auf ejournals.ukm.my; Volltext
 Streete, Shanique, African Studies, UCLA, Learning How to Pray: Images of Violence Against Women in the Novels of Amma Darko
 Umezurike, Uchechukwu Peter : Objectification in Amma Darko's Beyond The Horizon, in: The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol.8, no.2, July 2015, p. 290–301. "Objectification in Amma Darko's Beyond The Horizon" auf ajol.info; Volltext
 Umezurike, Uchechukwu Peter : Resistance in Amma Darko's Beyond The Horizon and Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street, in: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies (LALIGENS), Ethiopia, Vol. 4 (2), Serial No 10, May, 2015, pp. 152–163

Weblinks
 "Resistance in Amma Darko's Beyond The Horizon…" auf ajol.info; Volltext
 "Literafricas, Más allá del horizonte-Amma Darko"
 "Kinna Reads, Beyond the Horizon – Amma Darko"

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The articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump have officially been announced today. Following the inquiry that featured multiple interviews from a variety of key players, Democratic lawmakers are bringing two articles against the POTUS.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler announced the two articles this morning– abuse of power and obstruction of Congress– two of the possible charges that we mentioned yesterday.
"Today, in service to our duty to the Constitution and to our country, the House Committee on the Judiciary is introducing two articles of impeachment, charging the President of the United States Donald J. Trump with committing high crimes and misdemeanors," Nadler said at the announcement this morning.
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Getting to that point could prove difficult. Despite two previous Presidents getting impeached, Bill Clinton in 1998 and Andrew Johnson in 1868, neither was removed by Congress.
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To Impeach a President who has proven through results, including producing perhaps the strongest economy in our country's history, to have one of the most successful presidencies ever, and most importantly, who has done NOTHING wrong, is sheer Political Madness! #2020Election
Nadler just said that I "pressured Ukraine to interfere in our 2020 Election." Ridiculous, and he knows that is not true. Both the President & Foreign Minister of Ukraine said, many times, that there "WAS NO PRESSURE." Nadler and the Dems know this, but refuse to acknowledge!
Shifty Schiff, a totally corrupt politician, made up a horrible and fraudulent statement, read it to Congress, and said those words came from me. He got caught, was very embarrassed, yet nothing happened to him for committing this fraud. He'll eventually have to answer for this!
The charges against Trump stem from a whistleblower's report surrounding a July phone call the POTUS had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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Team Sports for People Who Don't Play Sports
My music background is diverse. I started in musical theatre at 10, after I was unable to shake a nasty speech impediment (I couldn't say the letter "r", truly quite traumatic when you're parents name you VictoRia). I loved singing, but unfortunately I had two left feet and musical theatre had a lot of "off seasons". My older sister suggested a private sector choir that her high school teacher conducted, one which she was constantly recruiting for. I was hesitant, choir seemed nerdy and it wasn't really my cup of tea. But I joined because I wanted to sing and my parents were starting to give up on my dreams of ever winning a Tony - seriously, I can't dance.
If I'm being honest, I didn't like choir at first. It had a level of discipline that musical theatre didn't have. I felt uncomfortable and out of place. I was a terrible sight reader (for people who don't sing, sight reading is exactly what you think it is, being given music and a starting note and just singing along) and struggled through what my peers found simple. But I dragged my feet through a full season.
That fall I started in high school, and my choir conductor became my vocal teacher. To stay in the vocal program at my high school I had to join another choir. Despite my hesitation, my older sister swore by this program. There were a lot of the faces I knew; friends of my sister's, friends from choir, and peers in my own grade.
Throughout this time, I stuck with the private sector choir I had replaced my musical theatre with. I stuck with it because I made friends, I found a group of girls who I identified with. A little bit quirky, a little bit loud, and I loved them for it, and they loved me. I found solace sitting in a church room every Monday night for hours, passing notes we wrote on our music, labouring as a group over intervals or vowels until our diaphragms were sore.
And my school choir. These people became my family. I spent an inordinate amount of time in choir at school. In the vocal room, practice rooms, and auditorium (singing in stairwells during exam season when the strings and bands students took all the practice rooms). I owe so much to the people in that choir for getting me through some incredibly hard times. They bore the brunt of my worst days and I am so grateful for them.
I joined choir to find an outlet and stayed because I fell in love with the people the music. Choir is the "team sport" of singing. You have your coach - your conductor, your captain - your section leader, and your teammates. Throughout my high school career I traveled to two different countries in choirs, sang in six different choirs, became a teaching assistant, a section leader, but most importantly, I made friends that I still tell everything to, because things aren't important if you're not with people you love. Granted, I still sight sing like a tone deaf cat, I got so much out of my choir experience that I could not have found anywhere else.
So go out their friends and find your team, because I found mine and it was fucking awesome.
From me, with love, to you,
-Victoria
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Pätow-Steegen ist eine Gemeinde im Landkreis Ludwigslust-Parchim in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Deutschland). Sie wird vom Amt Hagenow-Land mit Sitz in der Stadt Hagenow verwaltet.

Die Gemeinde besteht aus den Teilorten Pätow, Steegen und Blumenberg.

Geografie
Pätow-Steegen schließt sich direkt südwestlich an das Stadtgebiet von Hagenow an. Durch das Gemeindegebiet bzw. an dessen Grenzen fließen die Kleine Sude sowie weitere kleine Fließgewässer. Die Bundesstraße 321 verläuft etwa 1,5 Kilometer nordwestlich von Pätow.

Umgeben wird Pätow-Steegen von den Nachbargemeinden Hagenow im Norden und Osten, Warlitz im Süden sowie Toddin im Nordwesten.

Geschichte
Die erste urkundliche Erwähnung von Pätow erfolgte 1194 im Isfriedschen Teilungsvertrag als Putechowe. Das Dorf ist auch im Ratzeburger Zehntregister von 1230 aufgeführt, einem nach Kirchspielen geordneten Verzeichnis der vom Bischof des Bistums Ratzeburg in den dazugehörigen Dörfern verlehnten Zehnten und seiner Lehnsmänner. Danach bestand das Dorf aus 24 Hufen. Die verstärkte landwirtschaftliche Nutzung des Gebietes führte 1764 zu ersten Ansiedlungen in Steegen, wohin bis 1867 drei Bauern von Pätow umsiedeln. Die Gemeinde war von je her landwirtschaftlich geprägt.

Am 13. Mai 1993 wurde der Gemeindename geändert: aus Pätow wurde Pätow-Steegen.

Politik

Gemeindevertretung und Bürgermeister
Der Gemeinderat besteht (inkl. Bürgermeister) aus 5 Mitgliedern. Die Wahl zum Gemeinderat am 26. Mai 2019 hatte folgende Ergebnisse:

Bürgermeister der Gemeinde ist Holger Maty, er wurde mit 84,65 % der Stimmen gewählt.

Wappen

Flagge
Die Flagge wurde am 13. Januar 2005 durch das Ministerium des Innern genehmigt.

Die Flagge ist gleichmäßig längs gestreift von Grün und Gelb. In der Mitte des Flaggentuchs liegt, auf jeweils zwei Drittel der Höhe des grünen und des gelben Streifens übergreifend, das Gemeindewappen. Die Länge des Flaggentuchs verhält sich zur Höhe wie 5:3.

Dienstsiegel
Das Dienstsiegel zeigt das Gemeindewappen mit der Umschrift "GEMEINDE PÄTOW-STEEGEN • LANDKREIS LUDWIGSLUST-PARCHIM".

Sehenswürdigkeiten
Die Baudenkmale der Gemeinde sind in der Liste der Baudenkmale in Pätow-Steegen aufgeführt.

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Behind Enemy Lines: Spurs (H)
Garrett Post
Everton NewsEverton Opinion
Just 4 days after scraping out a point at the Amex in their first 0-0 draw of the season, Carlo Ancelotti's Everton are faced with what is likely the most important Premier League match of the season against fellow European hopefuls Tottenham Hotspur.
The prospect of Champions League football seems all but lost for both sides, and even Europa League qualification now hangs in the balance. It's safe to say that this is a season-defining game for both Everton and Spurs, which should hopefully lead to a fantastic and entertaining game of football similar to the FA Cup Tie in which the teams traded blows in a high-scoring thriller.
Neither team enters in good form, as Everton are winless in four and Spurs are coming off a crushing loss at home to Manchester United, which was preceded by the throwing away of two points at St. James' Park thanks to a Joe Willock last-minute equaliser.
Everton are all too familiar with throwing away points, however, especially at home, as their narrow 1-0 victory over Southampton is their only league triumph at Goodison Park since the turn of the new year despite hosting Newcastle, Fulham, Burnley, and Crystal Palace during that time. In reality, neither of these teams really deserve European football, but should one side emerge on Friday night with all 3 points, their hopes to do just that will be massively boosted going into the home stretch of the season.
This week on Behind Enemy Lines, I spoke to Mitch Fretton of SpursWeb to gauge how their supporters are feeling before this pivotal match. Here is how our conversation went:
Q: Tottenham currently sit in 7th on 49 points, 6 points behind 4th place West Ham. How would you evaluate Spurs' season so far?
A: The general consensus among Spurs fans is that the season has been rather disappointing. Daniel Levy seemed to back Jose Mourinho on a much larger scale than what he did with Pochettino, which I think led to fans having high expectations for the season. Securing Champions League football is the main priority for the club every season, and it is what every fan expects. The position we are in now makes it very difficult to put much praise on the current campaign. The form of the teams around us mixed in with a massive drop in our own form recently is actually quite worrying. Yes, we do have the Carabao Cup final coming up, but we face one of the best teams in Europe. If we were to go on and lose that, the situation for us would be quite bleak. Every game has become a must-win for us, and the thought of missing out on the top four for two seasons in a row would prompt me to argue that overall, the season has been another poor one. It certainly has not met fan expectations and has caused quite a rift within the changing room itself. Europa League is a minimum, but Chelsea, Liverpool, and Everton are all in a better position than us, therefore I would have to sum it up as poor, or mediocre at best.
Q: I'll be honest, I'm not the biggest fan of Jose Mourinho. How do you feel about his tenure as Spurs' manager and what do you think the future holds in his time at the club?
A: I think the prospect of Mourinho has outweighed the reality of the situation. We sacked one of the best managers we have ever had for someone whose accolades are always going to appeal to a club like Spurs. It has reached the point where we are desperate for some silverware, and Levy clearly has the mindset of achieving that no matter the cost. Mourinho's best period for us came through defensive football, something that we are not accustomed to as fans. If he does come through and win us the Carabao Cup, then perhaps that warrants another season, as technically that is why he was drafted in. His ideas have never really changed from when he managed Chelsea and United, but he's been exposed for it this season. It is clear that he needs world-class players, and in particular defenders, in his squad for him to be able to play the style of football he is after. I think he is likely to be sacked at the end of the season if we finish empty-handed. I for one wouldn't complain, but I also struggle to think of replacements for him. There is such a negative feeling around the club currently that echoes his tenure in Manchester; you really do wonder what it is about him that creates this bad blood between him and fans.
Q: Everton managed to snatch a 1-0 win at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium back on Matchday 1 and outlasted Spurs 5-4 in a thrilling FA Cup Tie. What must Mourinho's side do differently to avoid the same result on the third go-round?
A: The first game of the season is always so unpredictable. Nobody knows what to expect and the flow of the game is always tentative as nobody really wants to lose the first one. I think it was a case of whoever took their chance would win it, and you did. You overran our midfield and put pressure on our defence which is the way we crumble most weeks. The FA Cup game was a fantastic watch, you really couldn't take your eyes off the screen. Again, I think it comes down to our defence as whenever we scored we switched off and let you come onto us, which is always asking for trouble with players like Richarlison and Calvert-Lewin around. Tom Davies had a great game that night in my opinion. He dictated the play and won the midfield battle. I think in order to avoid a repeat, we need to be aggressive. Most teams don't like being pressed, and our best form of defence is attack. It is key that we dictate the tempo and play forwards, rather than sideways, otherwise it opens the door for individual mistakes, and we all know how many of those there have been in the Spurs squad this season.
Q: What are your thoughts on Everton's season thus far and Carlo Ancelotti's time at the club as a whole?
A: I have been really impressed with Everton for parts of this season. I do think that as we are getting to the business end, you are dropping off slightly, but every team is scrapping for each individual point so all games are difficult. I love Ancelotti as a manager, I think he's given the fans something to be excited about, and the project that is happening at Goodison Park is certainly one I will be keeping an eye on. Some of your performances this season have been very entertaining. The comeback against Manchester United and of course that FA Cup tie against us stand out to me. Calvert-Lewin and Allan have both been excellent in my opinion. I was actually hoping Spurs would try and snatch Allan from under your noses, but it wasn't to be. I do think you will miss out on Champions League football, but Europa League is still very much up for grabs. It goes to show that when you trust a manager and invest in what they believe in, they can have a huge impact on the development of a club. He has clearly signed well-suited players that fit his style of play, and he has that winning mentality. I honestly couldn't think of someone better to manage Everton.
Q: Who will win the match at Goodison Park on Friday and why?
A: I do think that you will complete the treble over us on Friday. I know you played on Monday night and fielded a weak team, but as a Spurs fan, there is such a flat vibe to the club when it comes to matchdays at the moment. It never looks like the players are bothered, and there are only ever a select few who leave it all on the pitch. Ancelotti will undoubtedly hype your players up for this one as it could determine whether you finish above us and get that step closer to European football. Mourinho's eggs are all in one basket, and that is the Carabao Cup. With it only being just over a week away, he will already be focusing on that. Everton on their day are a top-class team and can beat anyone in the league, and I just cannot see anything other than another loss for us. I expect a high press and tight midfield battle again. Your fullbacks always give us problems and with Sergio Reguilon and Serge Aurier advancing so high up, it could cause huge issues on the counter-attack. It may well be the case of whoever scores first wins in a cagey game with a lot on the line.
So there we have it! I'm hoping that with the return of DCL, Allan, and more to the line-up, the Toffees will be able to secure an absolutely massive victory on Friday, but who knows when it comes to Everton this season. I'll go for a nervy 2-1 victory for the Blues. My thanks to Mitch for taking the time to talk to me! You can find SpursWeb on Twitter @TheSpursWeb or on their website spurs-web.com. You can find me on Twitter @ParrettGost where I'm more than happy to discuss anything Everton or beyond! Stay tuned for my player ratings article directly following FT, where hopefully we'll be recapping a massive win! Thanks for reading, and as always, Up the Toffees!
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degsy Apr 15, 2021 #1
Furst; now to read it
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ForeverEverton Apr 15, 2021 #2
Interesting to see that their fans think they will lose... After our performances recently Im not confident, have to wait and see I guess.
Blues Harp Apr 15, 2021 #3
Can't find the spurs match thread..who is the op?
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Brett Angell Delight Apr 15, 2021 #4
I don't think we're bothering this week, mate.
Best if we all just act like nothing's going on and then if we check Ceefax on Saturday morning and we've won, happy days.
The spurs guy seems more fed up than we are for the same reasons mostly
Yid4life Apr 15, 2021 #6
100% nailed on win for Everton.
It's not even a debate.
If you want some free money back Spurs HT and Everton FT.
GrandOldTeam Apr 15, 2021 #7
@Death has just created one;
Match Thread - Everton v Tottenham Hotspur - Preview, Match Report and MotM Poll
Make it 3 in 3 Carlo. Work your magic. Destroy the subhuman plotters. Carlo out? Scumbags.
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The binman chronicles Apr 15, 2021 #8
Was the fan HH?
You're doing what I do, tempt fate so you win. Well I'm a super level fate player and I can tell you put ALL your money on a spurs win. ;)
Ring master Apr 15, 2021 #10
Think whoever wants euro the least loses lol, your expecting Everton to be behind and score 2 the 2nd half after we only just finally scored a 2nd half goal in 6 months at home just a few weeks ago-Things must be bad lol
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From the outside, the building looks like a round giant alien spaceship that just landed on earth, with a blue roof topped by a white cross. The inside combines the best of both traditional and contemporary church design. There, one finds a chancel surrounded by pews on a semi-sloped floor. The chancel area seemed a bit crowded, though, with an altar, a huge wooden pulpit, a baptismal font, and a communion table with bread and cup on display. But the most prominent feature is the ceiling, where there is a giant cross made of two huge beams that support the circular structure.
The Union Church of Manila was founded in 1914 by a group of Presbyterian, Methodist and Disciples of Christ missionaries who agreed that a united ministry to the American population in the country transcended denominational concerns (the Philippines was a still a commonwealth of the United States at the time). The church struggled to survive during World War I, the Great Depression, World War II and the war for the liberation of Manila. After the United States recognized Filipino independence in 1946, membership grew quickly and the church became a major presence in the religious fabric of the Philippines, carrying on dozens of ministries and outreaches. It still advertises itself as an "international evangelical, English-speaking church," and at the service I attended the congregation were certainly not your everyday folks – they were diplomats, educators, executives, and other such high profile people.
The church is actually not in Manila! Its present building is in Makati, a suburb that became an independent city in 1995. Dismissed as "worthless swamp land" by the island's Spanish explorers in 1571, Makati today is the financial and commercial center of the Philippines. A highly cosmopolitan city, Makati features many cultural attractions and entertainment venues as well as upscale shopping malls.
The Revd Steve Ruetschle, senior pastor (a Presbyterian from Washington State, USA); Pastor Marvin Layug, praise and worship director; and others.
Contemporary Service (8.45am) and Traditional Service (10.30am) – I attended both!
When I arrived for the early service, there were about 100 people present, but by the time of the sermon, there were perhaps 500! The later service was bulging at the seams – perhaps 1000, including those in the overflow rooms.
A gentleman shook my hand and said, "Kindly turn off your cell phone, sir. Thank you!" After that, a lady handed me a bulletin and another lady directed me to the fourth row of the center section, saying, "It's the best section in the sanctuary."
The pews were nice! No pads, no kneelers. Just plain wood. Quite comfortable.
At the contemporary service, the worship team were rehearsing a bit while people huddled into small chat groups. Then, about 10 minutes before the start of the service, someone began to play the mighty pipe organ and it didn't seem like a contemporary service anymore! At the traditional service, the chancel choir did a sound check while people entered quickly. The sanctuary was almost full by the time the organ prelude began.
(8.30) "Good Morning! Let us stand and worship God together." (10.30) Nothing was spoken; we began with the opening hymn.
The Holy Bible, New International Version and The Hymnal of the Presbyterian Church were in the pews, but we used neither. All we needed to sing, read and see were flashed onto two screens at either side of the chancel.
At the contemporary service: Piano, synthesizer, electric guitar, bass, violins, drums and percussion. Oh yes, the organ too for a brief moment. At the traditional service: Pipe organ and piano.
Several things distracted me at both services. The projectors were too low-powered for such a big church with huge untinted windows! I had trouble reading the words. And there are just too many beautiful women my age in that church! Both a distraction and a blessing! I couldn't keep my eyes off a particularly attractive woman who sat across the aisle from me. At the later service, a gentleman sitting next to me fell asleep and began to snore.
The contemporary service was replete with lots of happy clappy singing, but it was all quite dignified. And the selections were "older contemporary" – I'd even call them retro. The style was evangelical, and yet included more traditional elements as well. It was the only contemporary service I have ever been to where the Gloria, Apostles' Creed and Lord's Prayer were recited. By contrast, the traditional service was stiffly liturgical, with choir and organ.
30 minutes. The pastor delivered the same sermon at each service.
7 – The pastor is a young man – probably in his mid 30s – but is a gifted preacher. His style was highly evangelical, but I could wish that it were not quite so conversational.
He took as his text John 14:4-14. Jesus is the only way, the only truth, the only life. Starbucks owes its success to the fact that it sells more than just coffee – it sells company. People are very lonely and hungry for companionship! People are desperate to be known and needed. Christianity is about knowing a person and joining a family! Christianity is about connecting!
At 8.30: The "retro" worship music! At 10.30: The choir singing and the organ playing! And in both: People from every tongue, tribe and nation! That's like a taste of heaven on earth, really.
The pastor asked the first time guests to stand. An usher then approached with a microphone and we were made to tell everybody our name and where we were from. Many would regard this as hellish – actually, I thought it was fun and not at all embarrassing!
I went down to the fellowship hall in the first basement (there are five basements!) and took some coffee and a cookie. I finished both without anyone coming up to talk to me! I left the building having met and known no one. And I thought Christianity was about knowing a person, joining a family, and connecting.
Coffee was hot but bland! Cookie looked cheap. Tea and juice were also available, but I didn't sample them.
5 – It seemed a nice enough church in which to belong, but people could make use of a little more friendliness.
Yes. I'll always be glad to be a Christian regardless of how a worship service goes!
Flashback of the face of the beautiful young lady seated across the aisle from me.


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Q: In SAS, how to do frequency tables for only certain values of the 'by' variable? I have a set of values in a by variable; but I only need to do frequencies by certain of those values, not all.
My code is:
proc freq data=cath.characterlabels (where=(location in ("City of ABC", "City of
ABD", "City of ABY", "City of example", "City of example2", "City of
example3")));
by location;
run;

But I get an error:
NOTE: BY line has been truncated at least once.
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   y=City of
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   WHERE location in ("City of ABC", "City of
ABD", "City of ABY", "City of example", "City of example2", "City of
example3");

And it doesn't give me the correct frequency tables by the locations I want. It just runs each variable's frequency table as though I hadn't included a by statement.
Any help would be appreciated!

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Nanjing has suspended its sister-city relationship with Nagoya in response to the denial of the Nanjing Massacre by its mayor.
Receiving Liu for a visit to Nagoya on February 20, Takashi Kawamura had claimed that the wartime atrocities of Japanese troops against Nanjing civilians did not occur, with only a battle between Chinese Nationalist and Japanese forces before the city was taken.
Japanese records of the meeting confirm that Liu said nothing to refute Kawamura's claims during a ceremony in which they exchanged gifts and shook hands.
The Foreign Ministry has backed Nanjing's decision to suspend all official relationship with Nagoya. In a regular press briefing on February 22, Hong Lei, foreign ministry spokesperson, said "we express understanding and support for this [decision] and are keeping a close watch over the issue". The ministry has also lodged an official complaint to the Japanese government.
Yet despite a tsunami of objections and complaints from both the Chinese government and its people, Takashi Kawamura still refuses to apologize.
He added, however, that he hoped the friendship between the two cities would not change and that their relations, which have lasted 34 years, would continue.
Nanjing and Nagoya have been sister-cities in 1978.
A spokesperson with Nagoya's City Hall has since said that Kawamura's words "represent just his own opinions".
Analysts fear that Kawamura's words will cast a shadow on the 40th anniversary of the relationship normalization between China and Japan.
In Nagoya, Kawamura's office has claimed that 42 of the 66 letters and telephone calls to the city government expressed their support for his views.
The tardy response of both the Nanjing government and the Foreign Ministry have been roundly criticised by many.


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X-Men Origins: Wolverine - Snikt!
*** Contains Spoilers ***
I hate reviewing films like this, where there's so much good in it and in an equal measure on the flip-side there's so much wrong with the bloody thing that they cancel each other out. I hate to use the Iron Man benchmark here because this movie would never be anywhere in Shellhead's league, but the movies are similar in which they draw upon source material from Marvel Comics to create original origins for movie characters. In the case of Iron Man, this was done properly, it was unique to the movie, but faithful to the characters and original plot elements from 40 years of history. In the case of Wolverine it was in some part accurate but a butchered mess in equal measure.
This is a character driven movie as opposed to the borderline sci-fi FX-heavy X-Men trilogy so it's more important to have the characters believable [as much a mutant immortal can be] and somewhat faithful to the way they've already been presented - this is not an alternate reality - this should be the origin of characters we've seen already, but some 17? years earlier than the X-Men trilogy.
On the plus side we have Hugh Jackman, beefed up, all feral and already established as the Wolverine / James / Logan character from the X-Men movies to the effect that we can't imagine anyone else in the role, he really is great to watch and his star-power is obvious. The problems I have with the movie all stem from the rest of the cast.
Yeah I can be a fan-boy, but I'm prepared to ignore differences between the movie and the comic book, like Logan being a half-brother of Victor, Logan being old enough to have fought in the American Civil War, Agent Zero being Korean and not German etc., hell the comic book's own histories and origins vary so wildly out of control I can't blame them for tweaking it but you can't make such radical character changes between here and the three films of it's own main franchise...
- We have Liev Schreiber, who always impresses me and I think it's a shame that he's not given great roles [this year's Defiance, being an exception] but despite putting in some awesome gym-time for the part; this attempt at Victor / Sabretooth, Wolverine's arch-nemesis is not it. Why give Victor any such meat to his role when he had already been established by pro-wrestler Tyler Mane as a barbarian vegetable. Sure, have them trading machismo quips but Sabretooth should dwarf Wolverine period. Were there no wrestler-wannabe-actors available? Schreiber would have served better as Col. Stryker, a role which he originally negotiated for.
- Danny Huston, again an excellent actor with good roles recently in How To Loose Friends and Alienate People and 30 Days Of Night. Unfortunately he delivers nowhere near the performance of Brian Cox as Colonel Stryker, I know they couldn't de-ageify Cox because if they couldn't do it properly for 10 seconds with Paddy Stewart as Prof. X at the end of this movie, what hope could they have with Cox? But there was just too much lacking in Huston's somewhat controlled and subdued performance. The sad thing is Cox wanted to do it! Who says no to Brian Cox?
-It was chronologically essential that they cast a much younger actor for Scott / Cyclops, but there was no reason for inexplicably changing his power from his trademark concussive blast to heat vision like fuckin' Superman!
-Another plus to this movie was having Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool, the wisecracking "Merc with a mouth," - until they take his mouth away! [this travesty automatically took one star from the movie because it was so fuckin' dumb-ass]. It's been confirmed Reynolds will have his own Deadpool movie in the future and hopefully they'll ignore most of this shit origin for him - oh he's alive because a "stinger" scene after the credits shows him putting his head back on... WTF???!!!
-At least Taylor Kitsch's Gambit was pretty good, although I never really followed/liked the character but maybe he'll get his own movie too?
There are some good aspects to the movie; the fight scenes and the action were well done and I can't fault them for being as good as any other example of the best movies of this genre. The Weapon X [I'll have to get used to saying "Weapon Ten" now in speech] sequences were not as "bloody" as Wolverine's flashbacks in the X-Men movies, but were done adequately [this is objected to by Vaughan who ranted for 10 minutes about why Logan should have been naked in the tank and have tubes attached to his orifices and one of the scientists screaming something about there being semen in the tube - I honestly don't know what the fuck type of movie he was expecting]. Harry Gregson-Williams produced a quality musical score in a style with which he usually scores his action movies and is therefore going on my iPod.
There is just one ultimate question I have about this movie, no it's not where did Scott Sommers get those glasses for his sight before he met Prof. X? How did the "endgame" Deadpool bend his arms if he was concealing two full length katana blades in them? Where did a Humvee and all those LCD & Plasma screens come from if the movie is set at most in the early 1980's? INo none of those, my real question is: What is the point of this movie? The Wolverine / Sabretooth relationship was never carried over into the trilogy other than some grunted animosity when they met but there was no recognition from either of them - was Sabretooth's memory wiped too? How? When? We know from X2 that Stryker had a hand in what was done to Wolverine but we didn't know what exactly or why. In the end it just wasn't that important to the audience with many I'm sure preferring the mystery of Wolverine's origin to this somewhat bland rendition and even causes the effect of making the character less interesting.
Final Verdict: Great action, excellent performance from Jackman, but Schreiber and Huston were miscast. Ultimately unnecessary tale which could easily have been shoehorned into the first 30 minutes or so of a better story with half the amount of characters. Stay home from the cinema but see it on DVD if you must.
Colonel Creedon Rating: **1/2
Official Site / IMDB / Wilkipedia
A sequel to Wolverine has been confirmed and according to early speculation it will focus on Chris Claremont and Frank Miller's account of Wolverine's time in Japan with The Silver Samurai and Lady Deathstrike which sounds far more exciting than this.
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Bruce Russell said...
I saw it this afternoon, and I totally agree.
Saturday, 16 May 2009 at 02:10:00 GMT+1
I was expecting....a good movie..Colonel you know full well I was giving out about the actual fact Wolverine had boxer shorts on during a hazardous medical procedure...and the original Weapon X story managed through dialog show painful the transfusion of Admantium is...but then again this is a film that has a magical admantium bullet that can erase memories ..bt not kill and of course the plot line of the villian making the Hero Indestructible than trying to kill him?!?!???!
Lets hope they're not sorry...
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The Onion on Star Trek
Trailer CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2
STAR TREK is resurrected!
Happy 65th Lucas Day
Another missed opportunity...
Apologies for the delay...
Iron Man 2 - The Hype Begins


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Heading north on I-26 on a Friday evening, I was looking for a barbecue dinner to start the weekend with. Everything I saw seemed run of the mill, until I saw the good reviews for Smok'y Blues (Why the apostrophe? I don't know, but I'll oblige them...). One blurb I read said they only cook with wood, so I bee-lined it in their direction, arriving barely 30 minutes before their 7:00 closing time.
The restaurant is in a small shopping strip kind of off the main road, but it wasn't hard to find. As I pulled up, the staff were relaxing outside chatting with a customer. Inside, the restaurant was empty except for one table. A gentleman came inside and cheerfully explained the menu to me and took my order. He was pleasant through the whole meal despite me being the last customer of the day, but I did make a point to be on my way by their closing time.
Not having had a real meal since breakfast, I opted for a two-meat combo of pulled pork- the staple of barbecue, and hash- an item I had never actually ordered before, but fairly common in South Carolina barbecue although the hash here is actually beef instead of pork. Within minutes, a heavy plate with a mountain of meat accompanied by a dinner roll and my side choices of their bourbon beans and potato salad was placed in front of me. I filled my cup from the tea dispenser and dug in- after a few photos.
I found the pulled pork to be quite good. It did indeed seem to be cooked over wood, although the smoke flavor was just hinted at rather than made obvious. It was moist and flavorful, with the meat, the smoke and the seasoning combining equally rather than any one overpowering the other.
The beef hash, which is more of a stew and served over rice, was good and filling. It's not technically barbecue as I view it, but it's been traditional in the area for a long time and I can see why. Like the pulled pork, it was seasoned simply which let the flavors of the meat come through.
I was impressed by the sides. They seemed to be home made. The beans were better than most, kind of sweet but balanced out well. The potato salad was made with unpeeled white potatoes, which is a little different, but the heavy dressing made it work really well for me.
They offered the typical mild, hot and mustard sauces. I rate them as average, giving the mustard a slight edge as the best for the pork, but then I usually lean towards mustard sauce anyway. In addition, they had two specialty sauces; blackberry and moonshine. I've honestly never seen either of these before, but I was curious to try them.
I thought the blackberry would be overly sweet like syrup, but it was actually quite good. It had just a hint of berry taste and wasn't any sweeter than a normal sweet sauce. I was not a fan of the moonshine sauce. It was sweeter than I expected and just didn't seem to add anything to the meat.
Friendly service and a giant plate of good food made this a memorable stop for me, one I would come back to again if the opportunity arises. It's worth the short detour off the interstate.
There are several other barbecue places in town, and I had my sights set on visiting one of them during our Christmas vacation in the area. It ended up that we came to Blue Smoke instead when it was recommended by the hostess at another restaurant as a good option without having to wait over an hour in line. So we made our way up the hill to check it out.
The cabin-like interior was too packed to accommodate our large group, but they did offer us the screened in back porch with picnic tables. It was a little too cold to enjoy, but would have been nice on a warmer day. Fortunately, by the time we placed our orders at the counter, several small tables in the sun in front of the restaurant had opened up and we moved there.
One advantage of eating with a big group is that it's easier to try more items. I shared a pulled pork and ribs plate with my wife, and also sampled some of my son's brisket. The cashier informed us that it was a Christmas miracle, as he got the last order of brisket before they ran out. I wish I could agree, but it was more like they pulled out the last scraps they could find which had dried out long ago. The brisket was a fail and my least favorite meat.
The pulled pork was slightly better, though it was actually chopped and a little dry as well. It had some flavorful bits, and a little sauce brought it back to life enough to make a decent sandwich.
By far the best part of my meal was the ribs. We got a good sized slab with meaty bones, just tender enough to pull easily from the bone and well seasoned. A little bit of actual wood smoke could have improved them, but they weren't bad at all for a tourist joint.
The fries, both regular and sweet potato were good, and they give you plenty to fill up on if the meat doesn't do it for you. I also enjoyed the creamy potato salad.
I will try one of the places a bit further off the tourist track next time before returning here. It is a good place to enjoy a decent meal, but not where I would recommend for the best real barbecue experience.
After a couple more visits, I'm glad to be able to update and upgrade my review. I still haven't tried everything on the extensive menu, but the pork, brisket and ribs have all made a good impression on me. I wouldn't say any of them are exceptional, and on the last visit the flavor of the pork was down slightly, but I would rate all three above any average chain restaurant. Sides are more than just an afterthought. We enjoyed delicious collard greens, hot fries and more of their creamy style potato salad. I'm not the biggest fan of their sauces but that might just be me.
Service has improved greatly. My latest meal was with a group of eight for Father's Day lunch. We arrived a bit after the lunch rush, but the restaurant was still over half full. All of our food arrived within five minutes of ordering and taking our seats. They were fully staffed with friendly, efficient employees who made our meal a pleasant experience.
I usually like to give new places at least a few weeks to get up and running before I visit, but since this one is 5 minutes from the house, I figured I would brave the crowds and the opening weekend excitement. This is sort of a preliminary review- I'm sure I will update it as I make future visits and try more of the menu.
Orders are placed at the counter, where if you are dining in they give you a number to place on your table. As all the tables were full, I took a seat at the small bar where I got a good view of the bustling serving line. They were slammed for the second day in a row, and close to running out of meat again as they did the day before.
For this visit I stuck with my basic bbq lunch- pulled pork, baked beans and potato salad. Their platters come with either a dinner roll or jalapeño cornbread, (I chose cornbread, because jalapeño) and topped it off with a sweet tea.
The pork was right on- hot, smoky and barky. Although it was a decent sized portion, it looked small on the metal tray they serve their food on and almost made you wonder if it was actually a $15 lunch, which is what it came to with a drink. The pork redeemed itself though, and I especially liked their full-flavored original sauce with it. The hot sauce was pretty good too, but I felt like the mustard sauce, which is usually my favorite with pork, was an afterthought that needed more flavor than just mustard.
My sides were just average. No complaints on the potato salad, but it didn't stand out either. The beans seemed straight out of a can with maybe a couple specks of meat sprinkled in. The tea was average as well.
Service was friendly, if slow, which is understandable with how busy they were. I waited over 30 minutes for my food, but it was fine on a Saturday afternoon and didn't bother me. To be constructively critical, my opinion is they are trying to offer too many choices. Besides all the typical meats and more, they also offer pizza, catfish and other non-barbecue items, as well as a long list of sides. This leads to extended prep time in getting food out. It might have been better to start with a smaller menu and add items as they have the chance. I would hate to see their good barbecue get lost in the clutter of everything else, which happens a lot.
Time will tell- I can only hope a barbecue joint this close to home will stay in business and stay consistent. I will be back to try more items and update my review- hopefully upward.


U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts says the first hearing on the 2018 farm bill will be held in Manhattan in February.
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In December, Roberts said believes the current farm bill is too complex but he was hesitant about changing the bill too much.


I am not expecting to go beyond 100 sites in the network but 3 of these sites currently runs on multiple servers (on WISA stack) with following configurations physical loadbalancer -> 2 Application Servers -> database server.
We are transitioning every site over wordpress to consolidate everything and have a common user-base.
In the documentation it is listed multiple times that multi-db woudl not help much for less than 5k blogs/sites but does not say a word about the situations where you would be running multiple huge traffic sites from it assuming to be able to put every high traffic site on a separate physical database server using multiDB plugin would help.
Please let me know if I should be using this plugin or start looking for some alternative like hyperDB.
The goal of Multi-DB is to avoid needing to query multiple blogs at the exact same time. This doesn't become a performance issue until you get into the thousands of blogs - you will eventually run into the issue that the databases server slows down because WordPress requests need to take turns working with the same database.
When talking about high traffic on a smaller amount of sites, I'd recommend looking into a caching system first. This way you could eliminate the database being called on each page request. The database cold just be called when the cacheing expires or content is updated.
W3TC for example can do in memory cacheing - so a copy of the most highly requested data would simply be stored in RAM so the database doesn't need to be called every page request.
Honestly I wouldn't jump at using multiple databases just yet. It's possible (and simpler) to manage a few high traffic sites from a single db.
Just wanted to clarify that by high traffic I mean 30+ Million UVs for over 100 Million PVs on monthly basis. Currently there are over 1000 content items being added every day with 15K approximate visitors at any given time. By Dec 2014 we are expecting to have grown to 50+ Million UVs for over 300 Million page views with 2000+ daily post submissions and over 5000 comments and 25K+ concurrent visitors (excluding bots).
Data posted from google analytics/chartbeat.
At the moment 3 of these sites despite having strong caching system runs on a cluster of 3 servers each. So there are 9 high end servers for just 3 sites and some times when there is a breaking news we end up having errors due to servers getting choked.
Apart from that, the data in all three sites could be kept separate which seems more secure.
So do you still think that a single database will be able to handle it all?
Would love to get any update.
You would certainly get some performance increase out of Multi-DB, but I'm still not sure it's the right tool for the job.
Multi-DB is meant for the automatic dispersal of multiple sites across multiple databases. However by using the VIP databases, you could simply have it move each site to it's own database.
This would introduce a performance increase - but if you're just creating a new database for each site it wouldn't be noticeable.
You'd really need to setup an entirely new database server (more VPS instances) to host each of the VIP databases. Otherwise you'd still have the same bottleneck as it would be one server handling everything.
Now, I'm not a system administrator, and I know very little about Windows based deployments. If you're working with those kinds of numbers, you might want to consider some consulting for your architecture.
Well I think I already have stated of moving the vip databases to a different physical server. That is what I want to find out if will have any performance gain.
If you're positive that the current bottleneck is database access, yes this will result in greater performance.
You might want 4 database servers. 1 for each of the main sites, and 1 for the rest of the network.
Multi-DB will need to create at least 16 DBs to work with, so on the fourth server, you can create the rest of those. Then the other 3 can be VIP databases.