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Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon - Review
If you've come to The Horns of Nimon looking for an all-time classic for Doctor Who, then unfortunately, you've come to the wrong place. Instead, this story is a perfect example of a bad Doctor Who story but most incredibly, as this story demonstrates, that isn't necessarily a bad thing!
With the famous cancellation of Shada, this was the story to close the 1970s run of Doctor Who and the final story to be produced by Graham Williams and Douglas Adams as script editor. Thus The Horns of Nimon brings their time on the show to something of a bad end.
From the reviews that surround this story, this is one that divides fans. You either like it or hate it. Personally, it is a bit of guilty pleasure for me, bordering on me loving it! It is a story that is so astonishingly bad that it ends up as a load of fun. It is Doctor Who if it were a drunken pantomime. From the moment the Doctor gives K9 mouth-to-mouth, you know not to take it seriously.
In the same vein as Underworld, this story takes elements of classical mythology - in this case, Theseus and the Minotaur - but manages to do it in a far more entertaining way. Substituting for the Minotaur is the Nimon, one of Doctor Who's most lovably laughable monsters. The paper Mache heads are bad enough but the platform boots, boost them to a whole other level of naff.
But no matter how funny this story is, nothing can take away from the fact this is a shoddy production. The memorable sets and costumes look like they have escaped from a bargain basements and there is nothing remotely special about the effects.
And then there is the acting. Ooh...the acting. Normally, I defend some of the performances that border on the bad side for my favourite show but even I just can't do that here. Graham Crowden's performance is outrageously over-the-top as Soleed, in fact it has gone down in history! Through his shocking performance he dominates the proceedings, even taking focus from the mighty Tom Baker and Lalla Ward. But everyone else apart from Baker and Ward aren't really giving performances that are memorable...
Doctor Who: Battlefield - Review
Battlefield sees Doctor Who take on the whole mythology surrounding Merlin and it should have been epic but instead, they managed to make a right dogs-dinner of it! Now I'm pretty certain that back in the day, this was one of the first Doctor Who adventures I ever owned on video and I remember loving every second of it! I remember loving all the talk about Merlin and Excalibur mixed with crashed spaceships, alien knights and also being confused as to why everyone was referring to the Doctor as Merlin, wondering if a chalk circle would really protect you from an all powerful sorceress and cheering as the Brigadier shot the Destroyer, despite having absolutely no idea who this bloke was! However, watching it back recently for the first time in yonks, it is clear that no matter what my younger mind thought, Battlefield just amasses to a load of tosh. It is pretty clear the series' budget went into producing the epic, Curse of Fenric and Ghost Light , leaving Battl
Legends of Tomorrow: Season 3 Episode 2: Freakshow - Review
I've said it a lot before but I really love how Legends of Tomorrow is happy to embrace its own silliness. On paper, the idea of the Legends meeting P.T. Barnum, played by Billy Zane seems pretty pedestrian but in practice, this episode really leans into what makes the Legends dysfunctional as a team and you can't help but be entertained by the results. The whole point of this episode is to prove that the Legends simply can't just do a little job without making much, much, worse before it gets better. As much as I found Rip Hunters treatment of the Legends weird in the premier, you can't help but sympathise with characters viewpoints like Agent Sharpe's. Why is Rip putting so much faith in a team who muck things up badly? Sharpe is quickly developing into a fun antagonist for the Legends and Sara in particular. She is a jerk but you really can't blame her for wanting more accountability for the Legends' actions. The brawl between Sharpe and Sara prove
Star Trek Picard: Season 1 Episode 8: Broken Pieces - Review
In my review for the previous episode Nepenthe , I said that I don't like shows to take breathers when they are reaching their conclusions and the pace is really picking up. However, Nepenthe had a lot going for it, including the return of Will Riker and Deanna Troi. Broken Pieces , which is another breather-episode despite being only two episodes from the end, doesn't have much going for it and while it should have been picking up the pace, it seemed much happier keeping things confined to a few sets and not really advancing the plot. It was a bottle episode, but it didn't try to hide it. What Broken Pieces did do though was show us the new status quo for Picard. All the characters are finally where they are meant to be with Soji finally aboard La Sirena, alongside most of the main cast and its the first time she's joined them for any reasonable length of time, though she hasn't met Elnor in any meaningful way, despite a scene a few episodes ago where he re


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Studies: Master degree "Accademia di Belle Arti" in Florence.
In the eighties he lived and worked in New York, it's represented by the Gallery Henoch.
"Objects Observed: Contemporary Still Life"
-The urban landscape and American scenes: the street represented from angles like those used by Hopper, bright colors, orderly squalor.
-Interiors and a few figures: Billy Wilder buys two pictures for his collection and encouraged him to get a brilliant career.
In nineties he returned to Milan, Galleria Appiani Arte where he exhibited several figure paintings: Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco wrote "more attentive to the mental operation and the quality of the painting, a discovery of Europe".
2011- "L'Arte non è cosa nostra" 54 International Exhibition - Biennale of Venice"


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The Rise of Ancient Aliens: From Lovecraft to Von Däniken
In the early 1970s, Kenneth Grant, personal secretary to Aleister Crowley twenty-five years earlier, broke with the American branch of Crowley's Ordo Templi Orientis and formed his own Thelemic organization, the Typhonian O.T.O. The "Sirius/Set current" that Grant identified in the '50s referred to the Egyptian deity Set, god of the desert, storms, foreigners, violence, and chaos.
To grasp the significance of Grant's innovation to Crowley's religion, a brief history of Set is in order.
Set—sometimes called Seth, Sheth, or Sutekh—is one of the oldest gods in the Egyptian pantheon. There is evidence he was worshiped long before the pharaohs, in the pre-dynastic era called Naqada I, which may date as far back as 3750 BC. To put that into context, the Tower of Babel incident probably occurred toward the end of the Uruk period around 3100 BC. Writing wasn't invented in Sumer until about 3000 BC, around the time of the first pharaoh, Narmer.
Set was originally one of the good gods. He protected Ra's solar boat, defending it from the evil chaos serpent Apep (or Apophis), who tried to eat the sun every night as it dropped below the horizon. During the Second Intermediate Period, roughly 1750 BC to 1550 BC, Semitic people called the Hyksos, who were probably Amorites, equated Set with Baʿal, the Canaanite storm-god, and Baʿal-Set was the patron deity of Avaris, the Hyksos capital.
The worship of Baʿal-Set continued even after the Hyksos were driven out of Egypt. Two centuries after Moses led the Israelites to Canaan, three hundred years after the Hyksos expulsion, Ramesses the Great erected a memorial called the Year 400 Stela to honor the 400th year of Set's arrival in Egypt. In fact, Ramesses' father was named Seti, which literally means "man of Set."
Set didn't acquire his evil reputation until the Third Intermediate Period, during which Egypt was overrun by successive waves of foreign invaders. After being conquered by Nubia, Assyria, and Persia, one after another between 728 BC and 525 BC, the god of foreigners wasn't welcome around the pyramids anymore. No longer was Set the mighty god who kept Apophis from eating the sun; now, Set was the evil god who murdered his brother, Osiris, and the sworn enemy of Osiris' son, Horus.
By the time of Persia's rise, Greek civilization was beginning to flower, and the Greeks identified Set with Typhon, the terrifying, powerful serpentine god of chaos. That's the link between Set and Typhon. And this is the entity Kenneth Grant believed was the true source of power in Thelemic magick.
That's why the "Sirius/Set current" led to the Typhonian O.T.O, and that's the destructive, chaos-monster aspect of Set-Typhon we need to keep in view when analyzing the magickal system Grant created by filtering Crowley through the horror fiction of H. P. Lovecraft.
Grant's anxiety, as expressed in Nightside of Eden and in his other works, is that the Earth is being infiltrated by a race of extraterrestrial beings who will cause tremendous changes to take place in our world. This statement is not to be taken quite as literally as it appears, for the "Earth" can be taken to mean our current level of conscious awareness, and extraterrestrial would mean simply "not of this current level of conscious awareness." But the potential for danger is there, and Grant's work— like Lovecraft's—is an attempt to warn us of the impending (potentially dramatic) alterations in our physical, mental and emotional states due to powerful influences from "outside."
Lovecraft died in 1937, but his work found a new audience in the 1970s. His stories were mined as source material by Hollywood. Then in 1977, a hardback edition of the Necronomicon, which Lovecraft invented as a plot device for his horror fiction, suddenly appeared (published in a limited run of 666 copies!), edited by a mysterious figure known only as "Simon," purportedly a bishop in the Eastern Orthodox Church. According to Simon, two monks from his denomination had stolen a copy of the actual Necronomicon in one of the most daring and dangerous book thefts in history.
A mass market paperback edition followed a few years later. That version has reportedly sold more than a million copies over the last four decades. Kenneth Grant, who believed that Crowley and Lovecraft had been inspired or guided by the same supernatural source, validated the text, going so far as to offer explanations for apparent discrepancies between Crowley and the Necronomicon.
Crowley admitted to not having heard correctly certain words during the transmission of Liber L, and it is probable that he misheard the word Tutulu. It may have been Kutulu, in which case it would be identical phonetically, but not qabalistically, with Cthulhu. The [Simon] Necronomicon (Introduction, p. xix) suggests a relationship between Kutulu and Cutha…
Simon's Necronomicon was just one of several grimoires (books of magic spells) published in the 1970s that claimed to be the nefarious book. The others were either obvious fakes published for entertainment purposes, or hoaxes that their authors admitted to soon after publication. Simon, on the other hand, appeared to be serious. But people involved with producing the "Simonomicon" have since admitted to making it up, and the central figure behind the book's publication was Peter Levenda—author of The Dark Lord, the book documenting the highly improbable "coincidences" connecting Aleister Crowley and H. P. Lovecraft.
The text itself was Levenda's creation, a synthesis of Sumerian and later Babylonian myths and texts peppered with names of entities from H. P. Lovecraft's notorious and enormously popular Cthulhu stories. Levenda seems to have drawn heavily on the works of Samuel Noah Kramer for the Sumerian, and almost certainly spent a great deal of time at the University of Pennsylvania library researching the thing. Structurally, the text was modeled on the wiccan Book of Shadows and the Goetia, a grimoire of doubtful authenticity itself dating from the late Middle Ages.
"Simon" was also Levenda's creation. He cultivated an elusive, secretive persona, giving him a fantastic and blatantly implausible line of [BS] to cover the book's origins. He had no telephone. He always wore business suits, in stark contrast to the flamboyant Renaissance fair, proto-goth costuming that dominated the scene.
In The Dark Lord, Levenda not only analyzed Kenneth Grant's magickal system and documented synchronicities between Crowley and Lovecraft, he validated the supernatural authenticity of the fake Necronomicon that he created!
But make no mistake—this doesn't mean the Necronomicon is fake in the supernatural sense.
[W]e can conclude that the hoax Necronomicons—at least the Hay-Wilson-Langford-Turner and Simon versions—falsely claim to be the work of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred; but in so falsely attributing themselves, they signal their genuine inclusion in the grimoire genre. The misattribution is the mark of their genre, and their very falsity is the condition of their genuineness. The hoax Necronomicons are every bit as "authentic" as the Lesser Key of Solomon or the Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses.
In other words, while the published editions of the Necronomicon were obviously invented long after the deaths of H. P. Lovecraft and Aleister Crowley, they are still genuine tools for practicing sorcery. And, as Grant and Levenda suggest, they share a common origin in the spirit realm.
Simon's Necronomicon arrived on the wave of a renewed interest in the occult that washed over the Western world in the 1960s and '70s. Interestingly, it was a French journal of science fiction that helped spark the revival, and it did so by publishing the works of H. P. Lovecraft for a new audience.
Planète was launched in the early '60s by Louis Pauwles and Jacques Bergier, and their magazine brought a new legion of admirers to the "bent genius." More significantly for our study here, however, was the book Pauwles and Bergier co-authored in 1960, Les matins des magiciens (Morning of the Magicians), which was translated into English in 1963 as Dawn of Magic.
From Lovecraft, Bergier and Pauwles borrowed the one thought that would be of more importance than any other in their book. As we have seen, Morning of the Magicians speculates that extraterrestrial beings may be responsible for the rise of the human race and the development of its culture, a theme Lovecraft invented (emphasis mine).
The success of Pauwles and Bergier inspired others to run with the concepts they'd developed from the writings of Lovecraft. The most successful of these, without question, is Erich von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods?
You can say one thing at least for von Däniken: He wasn't shy about challenging accepted history.
I claim that our forefathers received visits from the universe in the remote past, even though I do not yet know who these extraterrestrial intelligences were or from which planet they came. I nevertheless proclaim that these "strangers" annihilated part of mankind existing at the time and produced a new, perhaps the first, homo sapiens.
The book had the good fortune of being published in 1968, the same year Stanley Kubrick's epic adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey hit theaters. The film, based on the idea that advanced alien technology had guided human evolution, was the top-grossing film of the year, and was named the "greatest sci-fi film of all time" in 2002 by the Online Film Critics Society. By 1971, when Chariots of the Gods? finally appeared in American bookstores, NASA had put men on the moon three times and the public was fully primed for what von Däniken was selling.
It's hard to overstate the impact Chariots of the Gods has had on the UFO research community and the worldviews of millions of people around the world over the last half century. In 1973, Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling built a documentary around Chariots titled In Search of Ancient Astronauts, which featured astronomer Carl Sagan and Wernher von Braun, architect of the Saturn V rocket. The following year, a feature film with the same title as the book was released to theaters. By the turn of the 21st century, von Däniken had sold more than 60 million copies of his twenty-six books, all promoting the idea that our creators came from the stars.
To this day, von Däniken's book is the best-selling English language archaeology book of all time. Is it any wonder that more Americans believe that we've been visited by ET than in God as He's revealed Himself in the Bible?
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Before joining SkyWatchTV in 2015, his secular broadcasting career spanned more than 25 years with stops at radio stations in Philadelphia, Saint Louis, Little Rock, and suburban Chicago.
Derek is a Christian, a husband and a father. He's been a regular speaker at Bible prophecy conferences in recent years. Derek's most recent book is The Great Inception: Satan's PSYOPs from Eden to Armageddon. He has also published the novels The God Conspiracy and Iron Dragons, and he's a contributing author to the nonfiction anthologies God's Ghostbusters, Blood on the Altar, I Predict: What 12 Global Experts Believe You Will See by 2025, and When Once We Were a Nation.
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Renegades retain the KPW Tag Team Championship).
Ms Bell attempted to interview Queen Hollie of Team Pretty, but the Queen ripped the poor interviewer to shreds and proceed to inform all the viewers that "off The Ropes" was all about her!
Queen Hollie finally meets her Mystery Opponent in the ring!


The objective is not that sin but does catharsis in the end win?
Change- just escape and endure it.
eing her soul. The book starts with Amrita's background birth and family history. It shows the underlying currents of a loving close knit family and how the family splits apart due to a ghastly divorce which affects Amrita mentally.
Thereon Amrita is completely dependant on her father and she worships him. Upon moving to America for further studies Amrita falls in love, due to her dependence and growing insecurities, the relationship does not work. Amrita comes to India on a vacation only to find her father dead the next morning. This event in her life shatters her forever. She cannot move past her father's death, although her mother remarries, Amrita is hellbent on finding love which in turn makes her obsessed with the men that come in her life leading upto a mental breakdown.
Borderline is the story of Amrita Singh who suffers from Borderline Personality Disorder. It's her journey from school days where she has to move to different places because of her father's transfer. every time she learns to adopt change. It is tightly said, Situations that happens in childhood stays in our mind forever. Watching her parents getting Divorced, her mother's affair, Fathers friends misusing his position and His Death. Many such events make Amrita's condition worst.Will she accept every change that life shows? will all past scars heal?
Borderline is a beautiful story, well expressed by the author. The command that the author had in language is amazing. Not too simple, not too fancy just connecting with the audience. The start of the story is too good. Loved how there were short poems and lines at the start of every chapter. Every new chapter had a new story, a new puzzle to solve. I loved Rose and Thorns chapter. This book has various themes like struggle, emotions, emptiness, love, relationships. It's a Journey from Amrita's School life to Graduation to healing. The author also created very strong Personalities. The characters were too strong and each one had their own importance. They added much more to the story. I loved the Father-Daughter relationship expressed by the author. It's Wonderful. It has many points that we face in our daily lives. Fear of rejection, Fear of getting attached emotionally, fear of losing someone, Fear of failure, fear of getting Ignored. The Pace of the story is too good, though lil heavy. The tempo is full of mystery and surprises. Every chapter had its own importance, it's own mystery, a story to be told.
There's a lot to learn from this book.
It's a lil heavy read and one should read it with lil concentration to understand each and every aspect.
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Kumar congratulated SP leader Akhilesh Yadav on being elected as the chief minister of UP.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday asked BJP and Congress to respect the regional parties because of their dominance in states.
Kumar said the coalition era will continue and big parties like Congress and BJP should respect the regional parties for their dominance in the states.
Kumar,JD(U) leader,is heading a coalition government in the state with BJP as its junior partner.
"Congress should respect the federal structure of the country and also respect regional parties," he said.
Kumar congratulated Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav on being elected as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.
Wishing him success,Kumar told reporters he has full blessing for the Samajwadi Party leader,who will be able to stabilise the law and order situation in the state.
"I wish he lives upto expectations of the people," he said and also congratulated Akali Dal leader Prakash Singh Badal for his victory in Punjab.
Citing the budget session of Bihar assembly,he said he was unable to attend the swearing-in function of Badal in Chandigarh.
The chief minister also condemned the killing of IPS officer Narendra Kumar Singh in Madhya Pradesh.


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Conservatives may not be winning the culture war, but you wouldn't know it from the recent spate of bloodless, PG-13 horror films. The tame Darkness, part of the genre's current haunted-house trend—see also: The Glass House, The Grudge, and this week's White Noise—is no exception. (Exceptions, it seems, are granted only to horror films about the Christ.) When an American nuclear family moves into an isolated abode outside a rainy Spanish city—surprise!—strange events begin to occur: Lights flicker. Shadows creep. A broken toy starts working again. The father, Mark (Iain Glen), has "an attack" in traffic. The daughter, Regina (Anna Paquin), notices that her brother, Paul (Stephan Enquist)—the film's obligatory spooky kid—has been drawing pictures of other spooky kids. "These things happen," clueless mother Maria (Lena Olin) posits. Yes, these things do indeed happen—and have been happening since at least, say, Robert Wise's 1963 ghost flick, The Haunting. Spanish director Jaume Balagueró, who co-wrote Darkness' screenplay with newcomer Fernando de Felipe and Revenge of the Nerds (!) vet Miguel Tejada-Flores, lends the proceedings a pronounced mid-'80s-MTV aesthetic: He overloads his set pieces with housewide happenings, all linked via quick-fadeout edits. The cumulative effect is stylish, though not particularly suspenseful. The script is no help, either, leaving the capable cast with very little to work to with. Glen, for example, is tasked with a sanity meltdown à la Jack Nicholson in The Shining, yet his character is never convincingly off-the-hook: "Open the freakin' door!" he screams at one point. And the frequently wet Paquin—who, you might remember, won an Oscar for her performance in 1993's The Piano—is provided with nothing more to do than wander lost-looking and strappy-shirted from one dimly lit scene to another. On the not-so-tame side, the film takes a dim view of the traditional family unit in general and patriarchy in particular. And its abrupt and slightly disorienting ending requires a little heavy lifting from the audience—a welcome rarity these days. Even so, this is not a modern horror movie in spirit: The décor may be up-to-date, but it's just cloaking the same old dark house. —Brent Burton


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THUSO MOSABALA
Finance Minister Dr Moeketsi Majoro has once again delivered a set of desired policy actions in the form of austerity measures that will never see the light of day without political will to ensure enforcement.
This proposal to return to basics and gulp the medicine of austerity measures remains a mere rhetoric if demonstrable attempts to ensure their enforcement is not well taken care of.
Enforcement of proposed austerity measures can largely be achieved if enacted into law to make it binding for ministers and chief accounting officers to adhere to these. Also, having a legal recourse taken against anyone breaching such legal instrument shall go a long way to enforce compliance.
In a speech to a joint sitting of the Senators and members of the National Assembly on budget day, Minister Majoro proposed to this sitting of parliament a set of relatively good austerity measures, but one cannot help notice he is singing the same tune since his appointment as Finance Minister.
Yes, I must admit there are relatively a few changes in the lyrics, especially regarding international travel.
Peradventure it is important to note that "austerity measure" is a phrase referring to policies aimed at reducing government budgetary deficits through spending cuts, tax increases, or even a combination of both.
These policies are usually employed by governments to lower budget deficits and avoid a debt crisis. As a result, they turn to reduce unnecessary, luxurious spending, wages bill and officials' benefits.
When working with parliament to have the 2018/2019 budgetary estimates approved, Majoro presented to the Parliamentary Committee of Supply on 21 March, 2018, that principal repayments budgeted for in that year amounted to M748, 528, 548.00 for servicing loans and other borrowings while the country's debt amounted to M12.5 billion.
The huge debt burden, according to Majoro's Economics or better put Majoronomics was incurred by the country as a result of borrowing from multinational organisations such as the IMF, World Bank, African Development Bank, European investment bank.
Loans acquired from countries with whom the country enjoys bilateral relations with, and a small fraction from borrowing from domestic sources such as issuance of Central Bank of Lesotho Bonds and Treasury Bills.
Meanwhile, it is Finance Minister's submissions in this year's financial policy that he plans to have ministerial international travel reduced by undertaking that, "the Prime Minister sets up a special committee to authorise all ministerial international travel with the purpose to reduce such travel.
"Government to use its foreign representatives to attend most meetings, ministers to attend only representational meetings and to avoid conferences, workshops and consultative meetings".
Majoro adds another means of containing travel expenditure; ministers will be expected to "cut their delegations to the bone and limiting the number of nights any minister can spend in outside meetings to 5 only".
The Minister further provided in his address to Parliament that with the exception of His Majesty, Members of Parliament and Statutory Officers, all public servants will "travel economy class".
This exception, although hard hitting on a larger population of the public service comes as an afterthought on austerity measures after failing to convince his peers in Cabinet curb their luxurious travel spending in the past financial year.
In fact, Majoro seemed to be walking the talk sometime when a horde of government envoy accompanying the Prime Minister to the United States flew first class immediately after spending cuts announcement was made.
He expressed also that there is a pressing need to "reduce the incentive to travel by adopting the lower UN rates and amend the Annex B of the Ministry of Public Service Circular Notice Number 8 of 2009 to reduce Per Diem rates".
This is a development that shall await the publication of a new circular notice amending the 2009 notice accordingly as suggested by Majoro.
But this is all not news considering the past two government financial policies still raised the same issues as points of concern.
The IMF has also registered similar concerns to the ones shared by Majoro when presenting the budget during their recent visit.
In a press release dated 5 September, 2018, IMF Joseph Thornton notes "Lesotho has been experiencing an economic shock resulting from a decline in revenues from the Southern African Customs Union (SACU).
"Public expenditure increased rapidly while SACU revenues were buoyant but has not been reined in as SACU revenues fell after 2015 despite the lack of growth in other revenues sources."
But it is the recommendations of the same mission led by Thornton that urged Prime Minister Thomas Thabane administration to ponder a number of options for containing the deficit to a level that can be fully financed.
Thornton said the IMF sees other possible areas of savings that could be considered to be including "expenditure on government travel, foreign embassies, and procurement".
Meanwhile, Majoro's rhetoric can be traced back to country past budget speeches, which is including his past two delivered on behalf of the Thabane led administration.
It was his submission in the last financial year policy that reduced government spending on "class of airline travel" which he said "has been lowered from first to business class".
In financial policy of 2017/2018 he provided as part of reducing expenditure that government has taken a decision to device that "ministers and equivalent ranks will no longer fly first class".
That this salient issues are now on 'repetitious mode' is as exactly as that monotonous sound of a broken record.
The fact that Majoro raises this issue of international travel and its benefits again means not enough is being done to ensure enforcement. It remains just well-intentioned rhetoric.
Unlike his fellow colleagues in His Majesty's government, he is said to be the only one still adhering to his proposals of not travelling in first class.
But without political will to ensure the enactment of a law that promotes these initiatives, government of Lesotho's austerity measures remain a useless initiative meant to deceive the masses into thinking the big-wigs are walking the talk when in actual fact they continue to milk government dry.
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Q: How can I use the Yosemite UI version of Helvetica Neue Yosemite switched the UI font to Helvetica Neue, but it's not quite the same font that you get when you select Helvetica Neue from FontBook or in any text field. There's a bit more space between characters in the UI font.

FontBook Helvetica Neue Light sample above a window title bar with the same content at the same size
I've looked around enough to find /System/Library/Fonts/HelveticaNeueDeskInterface.ttc, which is distinct from /System/Library/Fonts/HelveticaNeue.dfont, the actual HelveticaNeue that I can use. However, the DeskInterface incarnation doesn't appear to be usable by any means I can find.
I ask because there's been a growing number of applications built with web UIs (e.g. Atom, Visual Studio Code), and some (VS Code) try to match the OS by using "HelveticaNeue" as the UI font. Unfortunately, the HelveticaNeue text font is exceptionally poor on low DPI screens without the extra spacing Apple added for the UI font, which I presume is part of the reason for the custom spacing.
Is there a way to say "Not that Helvetica Neue, the other one," ideally via something like CSS?
A related question that would solve the same problem: Is there a way to specify "System UI Font" in CSS, that would match the system (HN++ on Yosemite, Lucida Grande on earlier systems)?

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Cardiovascular events prior to or early after diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus in the systemic lupus international collaborating clinics cohort
Murray B. Urowitz, D. Gladman, N M Anderson, J Su, Juanita Romero-Diaz, Sang-Cheol Bae, P R Fortin, Jorge Sanchez-Guerrero, A. Clarke, Sasha Bernatsky, C. Gordon, John G. Hanly, Daniel J. Wallace, D. Isenberg, A. Rahman, Joan T. Merrill, Ellen M. Ginzler, G S Alarcón, B F Fessler, Michelle PetriIan N. Bruce, Munther A. Khamashta, C. Aranow, M. A. Dooley, Susan Manzi, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman, Gunnar K. Sturfelt, Ola Nived, Kristjan Steinsson, A. Zoma, Guillermo Ruiz-Irastorza, S. Sam Lim, Kenneth C. Kalunian, M Ỉnanç, R van Vollenhoven, Manuel Ramos-Casals, Diane L. Kamen, S. Jacobsen, Christine A. Peschken, Anca Askanase, Thomas Stoll
AII - Inflammatory diseases
OBJECTIVE: To describe the frequency of myocardial infarction (MI) prior to the diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and within the first 2 years of follow-up.
METHODS: The systemic lupus international collaborating clinics (SLICC) atherosclerosis inception cohort enters patients within 15 months of SLE diagnosis. MIs were reported and attributed on a specialised vascular event form. MIs were confirmed by one or more of the following: abnormal ECG, typical or atypical symptoms with ECG abnormalities and elevated enzymes (≥2 times upper limit of normal), or abnormal stress test, echocardiogram, nuclear scan or angiogram. Descriptive statistics were used.
RESULTS: 31 of 1848 patients who entered the cohort had an MI. Of those, 23 patients had an MI prior to SLE diagnosis or within the first 2 years of disease. Of the 23 patients studied, 60.9% were female, 78.3% were Caucasian, 8.7% black, 8.7% Hispanic and 4.3% other. The mean age at SLE diagnosis was 52.5±15.0 years. Of the 23 MIs that occurred, 16 MIs occurred at a mean of 6.1±7.0 years prior to diagnosis and 7 occurred within the first 2 years of follow-up. Risk factors associated with early MI in univariate analysis are male sex, Caucasian, older age at diagnosis, hypertension, hypercholesterolaemia, family history of MI and smoking. In multivariate analysis only age (OR=1.06 95% CI 1.03 to 1.09), hypertension (OR=5.01, 95% CI 1.38 to 18.23), hypercholesterolaemia (OR=4.43, 95% CI 1.51 to 12.99) and smoking (OR=7.50, 95% CI 2.38 to 23.57) remained significant risk factors.
CONCLUSIONS: In some patients with lupus, MI may develop even before the diagnosis of SLE or shortly thereafter, suggesting that there may be a link between autoimmune inflammation and atherosclerosis.
Lupus Science and Medicine
https://doi.org/10.1136/lupus-2015-000143
10.1136/lupus-2015-000143
Urowitz, M. B., Gladman, D., Anderson, N. M., Su, J., Romero-Diaz, J., Bae, S-C., Fortin, P. R., Sanchez-Guerrero, J., Clarke, A., Bernatsky, S., Gordon, C., Hanly, J. G., Wallace, D. J., Isenberg, D., Rahman, A., Merrill, J. T., Ginzler, E. M., Alarcón, G. S., Fessler, B. F., ... Stoll, T. (2016). Cardiovascular events prior to or early after diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus in the systemic lupus international collaborating clinics cohort. Lupus Science and Medicine, 3(1), e000143. https://doi.org/10.1136/lupus-2015-000143
Urowitz, Murray B. ; Gladman, D. ; Anderson, N M et al. / Cardiovascular events prior to or early after diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus in the systemic lupus international collaborating clinics cohort. In: Lupus Science and Medicine. 2016 ; Vol. 3, No. 1. pp. e000143.
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This paper examines the literary representations of gambling in three short stories written by Ling Mengchu 凌濛初 (1580-1644), Li Yu 李漁 (1611-1680), and Pu Songling 蒲松齡 (1640-1715). Rather than novels, it is short stories, both "classical tales" and "vernacular stories," that offer these authors a possible site to well explore the topic of gambling during a time of anxiety when state laws tried to prohibit the activity in vain. This paper showcases that gambling is frequently figured as a deception in the late imperial literary imagination that is far more complicated than a narrative of mere moral didacticism. Supernatural creatures, be it ghosts or fox spirits, are introduced into the narrative to reverse the gambling's outcomes or processes. A game largely relying on chance notwithstanding, under these authors' literary "manipulation," winning is equal to losing, and gambling is "degambled." The aim of this paper is two-fold. On the one hand, by tracing the ways in which gambling is intertwined with assorted deceptions, this paper attempts to enrich our understanding of how the late Ming and early Qing short story authors perceive and manifest the complex interrelationship between human agency and forces beyond human control. On the other hand, by breaking the long-established dichotomy between "classical tales" and "vernacular stories" in the history of Chinese literature, it intends to investigate the shared narrative techniques which these authors use to invite readers to experience a gambling game of reading that is simultaneously predestined and unpredictable, ordinary and extraordinary, real and illusory.


Restoration Hardware is one of my all-time favorite stores, mostly due to their undying dedication to timeless elegant style. Their textiles are consistently beautiful and I particularly love their selection for outdoor textiles. The outdoor pillows shown above come in five colors with coordinating beach towels. The towels at Resto are the softest things I've ever used. Lovely stuff all around.
Terrace Tile and Harbor Stripe Outdoor Pillows, $39. Beach Towels, $39. Both come in Cornflower, Grass, Sage, Topaz and Persimmon (shown).
I adore that print; it has an updated moroccan tile look to it. the colors are also wonderfully warm, I don't often see this kind of color in summer accessories.


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Coyote Springs is defined by a continuous valley of green. It is anticipated to be home to recreation and a threshold to the great outdoors. Parks, play areas, trails and bicycle paths, as well as sports fields and village greens for special events and community gatherings are anticipated to be a part of the community. With potential room for an equestrian center and horse park, Coyote Springs could develop into a haven for outdoor recreation.
Perhaps the most important aspect of any community is not where it stands, but where it is headed. Each Coyote Springs home will include fiber-optic technology enabling high-speed data paving the way for broadband-based entertainment, learning and business. This infrastructure will access the world at large from the Coyote Springs community. We have more than any golf course St. George, Henderson, or Mesquite NV has to offer.
In the town of Coyote Springs, schools will grow with the community. Knowing the importance of a child's education, learning opportunities will be a reason people choose to live at Coyote Springs. In addition as the community grows, so will other community services such as emergency services, health care and employment opportunities, all of which will be key factors in master-planning for Coyote Springs.
Coyote Springs will be a community where life is in full motion, with a character of soul-stirring beauty, pioneering independence, interaction with the outdoors and of sharing the rhythms and richness of nature.
Nestled among regal mountain ranges, the Coyote Springs valley features dramatic views of jagged peaks and open sky. This setting creates a sense of insulation from the city's daily grind. Although within easy driving distance to Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix and Salt Lake City, Coyote Springs is intended to be self-contained. Planned to have its own business centers, town centers, parks, and entertainment, the world of Coyote Springs will turn in circles all its own.
Coyote Springs Land Company is an affiliate of the Wingfield Nevada Group, a real estate development and operating company. Renowned for its environmental sensitivity, architectural excellence and construction quality, Wingfield Nevada Group has fashioned successful projects throughout Nevada including, Wingfield Springs, the Resort at Red Hawk, and the Foothills at Wingfield Springs, in addition to Coyote Springs.
Coyote Springs is so much more than a signature Las Vegas golf course. Coyote Springs is a growing community offering amenities and features that compliment our amazing Las Vegas golf specials and gorgeous vistas. Coyote Springs is one of the best blossoming communities in the area. If you are visiting us from a neighboring St. George golf course, the Henderson or Mesquite, NV areas then Coyote Springs is the ideal place to experience great golf packages and golf Las Vegas.


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Pont-Chevron is in perfect harmony with its formal gardens: it's a fine instance of classical, 18th century style! Yes, I said 18th century, why? Aaaah, sorry... I made a mistake... because Pont-Chevron dates back to the beginning... of the 20th century! Sure, it's a true tribute to the bygone days!
Since 1234, it exists here a fortress, the castle belonging to Pont-Chevron lords. In the 19th century, count Louis d'Harcourt owned the estate: he wanted to demolish the old castle and build instead a big house where he could have a few friends, near Paris. In 1870, the old stronghold was demolished and between 1896 and 1900, the architect Coulomb raised the current castle.
At that time, people liked the 18th century style: the Louis XVI's style used to represent the archetypal French good taste. Pont-Chevron is a fine example of that fashion!
Now I'm going to the landscape garden, behind the castle: amazing! The viewpoint seems boundless: the huge lake (26 hectares) and the forest stretching up endlessly. Oh, don't forget to visit mosaics (3th century), in the outhouses. They were discovered in Gallo-roman thermae when the castle was raised in 1896.


The military emergency response brigade was deployed to help clean up and repair the flood zone.
The Balearic government yesterday presented a white paper for its plan to create a new special emergency response centre in the wake of the floods which hit Llevant on 9 October last year, claiming the lives of 13 people and causing hundreds of millions of euros worth of damage to the surrounding area.
The draft report concludes that, over all, the emergency services responded correctly and followed all the correct protocol, however, improvements can be made to the emergency coordination system and certain new items of equipment could be added, such as a rescue helicopter which is able to operate at night.
This, states the report, would have significantly helped the emergency response units on the night the floods first struck the area.
The new public emergency centre would be responsible for the prevision, prevention, planning, organisation and eventual repairs during and after a major incident on the scale of the Llevant floods or bigger.
One of the faults was the lack of advanced warning of the heavy storm and that "some public service bodies" were not fed sufficient information about what had happened and the extent of the natural disaster.
That said, the emergency services, which were eventually provided military support, responded "above and beyond" the call of duty, according to the report. The 112 emergency control centre is also going to employ more staff who will be on call in the event of extra human resources being required. And the report concludes that much clearer and direct channels of information need to be established.


These new "carnival colored" PSPs from Sony should come in a selection box – they look good enough to eat. The rainbow-hued consoles will go on sale in Japan on March 19th for ¥19,800 ($223). Also available will be a kit, featuring a 4GB MemoryStick, a "private porch" (pouch) and a handosutorappu, which we believe to be a hand strap. The kit will go for ¥24,800 ($279).
To celebrate this Japan-only release, let's have some further fun with Google Translate. The PSP-3000 is, apparently, designed "To further reduce image quality". Other essentials include " the guns and diamonds (tentative)" and "the distance investigation - to the truth 23 days". We know that that laughing at machine translations is a low form of humor, but these are great. In fact, we're happy to help "spread more and more the world of entertainment".


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Report: Former Red Sox Shortstop Julio Lugo Dies At Age 45
BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — Former Red Sox Shortstop Julio Lugo is dead at the age of 45, according to ESPN. The Major League journeyman was just a few days short of his 46th birthday: he would have turned 46 on Tuesday. Lugo's sister told ESPN's Enrique Rojas that he died suddenly on Thursday when leaving a gym. Lugo is best known in Boston for playing on the Red Sox's 2007 World Series Championship team.
Other sources said the cause of death was a presumed heart attack.
Lugo started his career with the Astros after being drafted by Houston in 1994. He began his major league career in 2000, playing on seven teams in his 12 year career.