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In the study, judges rated couples who started dating soon after they met as pretty comparable in attractiveness. But pairs who were friends before they became lovers received more dissimilar scores in the looks department.
In other words, a couple of average-looking people might start dating right away after meeting at a party. A regular Joe and a total bombshell may need a few months of friendship before they decide to give romance a shot.


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Hall Of Fame Accepting 2020 Nominations
Published: December 6, 2019 1:13 pm ET
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The Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame invites the public to participate in the nomination of people and horses who have made a significant contribution to Canadian horse racing, for induction to the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 2020.
Nominations are requested in the following categories:
PERSON: Trainers, drivers and jockeys
BUILDERS: Includes, but not limited to, breeders, owners, officials and others
COMMUNICATORS: Includes, but not limited to, writers, broadcasters, photographers, announcers and bloggers
VETERAN PERSON: Trainers, drivers and jockeys whose careers have been concluded for 20 years but less than 50 years
MALE HORSE: Stallions or geldings whose contribution to Canadian racing occurred in the past 20 years
FEMALE HORSE: Mares whose contribution to Canadian racing occurred in the past 20 years
VETERAN HORSE: Horses whose careers have been concluded for 20 years but less than 50 years
All nomination submissions to be made using the form available on the CHRHF website. A copy of the form may also be obtained by contacting [email protected]. Complete eligibility criteria may be found here.
For further information, or to submit a completed nomination form, contact:
Standardbred Nominations
Kathy Wade Vlaar, Standardbred Nomination Chair,
Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame
1-2150 Meadowvale Blvd.,
Mississauga, ON L5N 6R6
P: (905) 858-3060 ext. 207
Thoroughbred Nominations
Tom Cosgrove, Thoroughbred Nomination Chair,
555 Rexdale Blvd., P.O. Box 156
Toronto, ON M9W 5L2
Nomination forms may also be submitted to:
Linda Rainey, Managing Director
All eligible submissions will be carefully considered by the Nominating Committee of the appropriate breed and if approved, presented to the Election Committee for voting by secret ballot.
Nominations are due no later than 5 p.m. EST on March 4, 2020. The list of nominees selected for consideration by the Election Committee for each breed will be announced March 23, 2020. The Inductees for the 2020 class of the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame will be announced on April 7, 2020.
The Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame is located at the West Entrance of Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ont. Additional information about the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame is available at www.canadianhorseracinghalloffame.com or by contacting [email protected] or (416) 417-9404.
(Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame)

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It can be easy, with our busy lives, to forget just how much we owe our mums – that's why we have Mother's Day. From ferrying us around to attending every school event, we have plenty to be thankful for.
But what exactly do we owe them for most? Do we owe mums more for their time, or invaluable advice, or for countless items "borrowed" over the years – secretly snaffled lipstick and squirts of perfume?
To celebrate mums up and down the country, Next has sought out the answers: what we owe our mums, and how much mums give to us – even after their kids leave home. Scroll to see what we discovered, and how we would thank mums in a different, unique way each time.
What do you owe your mum for ?
Your mum is there for you in a thousand countless ways, and each one demands a little bit (sometimes a lot!) of her time – which adds up to days and weeks of dedication. We've counted some of the big things but we all know that a mum's work is never really done mums know that they give much more time.
From time spent watching over us and being there for important moments to the time required to remember all the little details on our behalf, a mum is a mum 24/7.
P.E. kits, permission slips, play dates and after-school appointments…on average each mum remembers 10 different things a day just in relation to her kids - never mind work, home, and the rest.
It's a habit some never really get out of, even when their "kids" have flown the nest – though hopefully this lets Mum have a little more headspace for herself. Our survey found that older mums felt they had more "me" time.
Most of us take this for granted when we're younger – until we find ourselves doing the very same for our own brood!
We all appreciate the importance of a little "me" time, but few mums feel like they actually get much. It's easy to let self-care take the backseat (if there's any room there) – but as a mum, you just accept it.
If an hour a day is all a mum can get, we can at least try to make it as relaxing and therapeutic as possible (whether we're treating ourselves or our own mum). We love a soothing hot bath with aromatic candles.
Hands up if you've ever borrowed (temporarily or otherwise) something from your mum?
These might not be as important as the love and time that mums give their kids, but material "stuff" is something else that they're always providing – whether they know it or not!
We're a nation of gift-giving; each of us enjoys giving and receiving gifts with people we love.
Gifts are a privilege, no matter how many. But when you stop and think about it, you might realise that kids often give their mums (and dads!) one or two gifts – the traffic is usually heavier in the other direction!
Even the youngest among us can understand why we give mum a box of chocolates – confectionary is almost always a treat.
We can't blame mums for wanting to keep some special luxury chocolates to themselves…though there's always the hope that the box will be opened and shared (straight away?).
And this is just the stuff that mums know about!
It's normal for kids to explore, and our mums often encourage this, but we don't always leave things as we find them. Some things you can't return – like learning that a foundation isn't exactly your shade, or a dab of expensive perfume.
Each experiment helps us to define our own style, whether it's like our mum's or not.
Ultimately, Mother's Day is about showing our appreciation for everything that our mums do – in all the little ways they support us. For helping us learn about ourselves, for comforting us when we're sad and showing us how to laugh again, and for remembering all the details.
For many of us it's not until we have families of our own that we truly understand how much our mums did – and some of us then see even more of our mothers in ourselves. Just as we recognise the little things from them, every mum loves the little gestures from their kids that show love and appreciation.
Forget any stiff upper lips – our kids are getting pretty good at telling their mums how they feel!
Some mums hear it every day, while other kids might not say it quite as often. But one thing is for sure; hearing this from your kids never gets old.
Mums could fill entire newspapers (including the weekend magazines) with how proud they are of their kids.
It's natural to share this – even if it can produce the occasional blush from the kids. We might not like it at the time, but such pride shows us that we can be proud of ourselves too.
Some things simply can't be told – they have to be experienced.
It's natural to do so much for your kids that you don't even realise it, and so neither do they…until they have their own, and discover just how much love, care and attention is given.
Each mother-child relationship is unique, but what is constant is that we all owe our mums – in all sorts of ways .
Whatever you feel that you owe your mum most for – whether it's a great sense of style, humour, or sense of fun – say "thank you mum" in the most fitting way this Mother's Day .


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The 'Uncle Napoleon' of Persian fiction has just passed away
Iraj Pezeshkzad, who passed away in Los Angeles at the happy and fulfilling age of 94, was an Iranian institution.
Hamid Dabashi
Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
Published On 10 Feb 202210 Feb 2022
An entire generation of Iranians grew up on Pezeshkzad's spectacularly popular satirical novel My Uncle Napoleon, writes Dabashi. [Wikimedia commons]
In the early 1970s, I was a green undergraduate student in the cosmopolitan capital of pre-revolution Iran. I would divide my time between working at odd jobs to keep a roof over my head and attending to my studies. I was more of a migrant labourer than a free-spirited student. My education was from the ground up – tied more to the street than the classroom, dependent mostly on cheap magazines and banned books found in second-hand booksellers.
Every morning, I would rush to the station at the intersection of what were then Pahlavi Avenue and Shah Reza Street to catch a bus to my campus on the northern side of the city. But once a week I would make sure to first stop at a nearby newsstand to buy the latest issue of Ferdowsi – the leading literary magazine of the time (something between the Times Literary Supplement in the UK and Harper's Magazine in the US).
On those days, I would joyfully hop on the bus, walk to the last row of seats, sit down by the window and thumb through the pages of the crisp magazine to find the latest instalment of Iraj Pezeshkzad's Da'i Jaan Napoleon (Beloved Uncle Napoleon). I would then giggle to myself as I read until I reached my destination.
The day that I got to read a new instalment of Pezeshkzad's masterpiece was always the highlight of my week. Those excerpts briefly made my self-conscious, hardworking, lonesome, and anxiety-ridden life in Tehran happy, memorable, homely.
That book, which was later translated into English by Dick Davis as "My Uncle Napoleon", was the literary space where we provincial boys and girls laughed our hesitant being-in-the-world into the bosom of the cosmopolitan worldliness of our capital that had embraced us beyond our reach.
A crucial role of national literature is to help lonesome souls from towns and villages across vast homelands to feel part of a national consciousness. In that sense, I became an "Iranian" only when I sat at the back of that bus, read an instalment from that book, and thought myself happily welcomed into the literary history of my homeland.
Satire and the politics of indirection
Iraj Pezeshkzad (1928-2022), who recently passed away in Los Angeles at the happy and fulfilling age of 94, was an Iranian institution. An entire generation of Iranians grew up on his spectacularly popular satirical novel My Uncle Napoleon. More recently, another book by Pezeshkzad, Hafez in Love, was also translated into English by Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi and Patricia J Higgins. But still, quite a serious number of his books remain delightfully tucked away in their original Persian and the world at large is blissfully unaware of their existence.
Iraj Pezeshkzad was born to a middle-class family in Tehran in the 1920s. He completed his early education in Iran and went to France to study law. He eventually returned to his homeland and found himself working in the foreign ministry. Like most other members of the Iranian literati, he had to earn a living doing something other than what he lived to do. But writing satire was thus his avocation – and he soon emerged as one of the finest satirists of his homeland.
Rising to the very top of the literary institution of Persian satire and staying there comfortably for decades is no mean feat. Indeed, among iconic figures from the distant past, like Saadi and Obeyd Zakani, and more recent heavyweights like Ali Akbar Denkhoda and Iraj Mirza, Pezeshkzad is in mighty company.
The art of laughing at conspiracy theories
My Uncle Napoleon, which is Pezeshkzad's most famous book, is set in Tehran in the early 1940s, during the Allied occupation of Iran. The story mostly takes place in the nameless narrator's home – a huge compound where three families live under the tyranny of a colourful, paranoid patriarch. The patriarch's visceral suspicion and hostility towards the British have made him sympathetic to the French conqueror Napoleon and thus he is nicknamed "Uncle Napoleon". From the geopolitics of the region to European politics and British colonialism, all come to this extended family's home to play in the pages of Pezeshkzad's novel.
Soon after I left Iran for the US in 1976, the eminent filmmaker Nasser Taghvai turned My Uncle Napoleon into an exceptionally successful television series. The TV adaptation was so successful that it generated a whole new generation of enthusiastic fans for the story and its rich and complex characters – especially the titular protagonist Uncle Napoleon, his sycophant personal butler Mash Qasim, and the narrator, a high school student who is in love with his cousin, Uncle Napoleon's daughter.
Since then, fans of this story have been divided into two – those who had read the book and those who had watched the series. I never saw the series in its entirety, except for a few scenes here and there from bootlegged copies in the US. Despite my deep admiration for Taghvai and his cast, I could never identify the characters they depicted as the ones I came to love in Pezeshkzad's novel, for by the time I first saw the series, I had already created a clear mental picture of everyone in that story.
Years after the series aired, in 1996, Iraj Pezeshkzad's masterpiece found a new life and audience when Dick Davis expertly translated it into English. Other translations soon followed and gradually created a new readership community for the novel – consisting mostly of second-generation Iranian immigrants in the US, Europe and beyond.
The novel thus had phases of popularity in vastly different eras from the early 1970s to this day. There is an emotive distance separating these phases, for when we were reading the novel in instalments in the early 1970s we had no clue a revolution would soon turn the whole country upside down. But by the time it was published in book form, its subsequent television adaptation appeared, and the story became iconic to a new audience, the first cries of revolution were loudly heard across Iran. And finally, when the novel's English translation came out in 1996, the revolution was not even a distant memory but just a historical fact for most of its new readers. There is therefore a whole archaeology of social knowledge in and around this iconic novel that would be entirely lost to the serene disposition of its repeated edition of the Persian original or English translation.
What holds that social knowledge around the novel together in its varied gestations is the satirical casting of the Iranian obsession with conspiracy theories – especially the trauma-born compulsion shared by many Iranians to believe the British are behind everything and anything that goes wrong in their country. Well, the British were indeed behind a lot of things – including the coming to power of Reza Shah and the CIA coup of 1953 – so the Iranians can perhaps be excused for some conspiratorial thinking.
But Pezeshkzad's novel neither denies the colonial conspiracies of the British against Iran and its region nor allows the Iranian obsession with conspiracy theories to run wild without balancing it with a larger narrative plot and a cast of characters that cuts it to realistic size. Such preoccupation with conspiracy theories is of course exclusive neither to the Iranians nor any other nation. From the ones about the assassination of JFK to those about 9/11 and the presidential election that dethroned Donald Trump, Americans have more than their share of conspiracy theories. And the fact that this beloved Iranian novel satirises the national obsession with the British, does not mean the British were not a chief cause of calamity in modern Iranian history. It just paints a comical but also honest picture of one aspect of Iranian history and identity.
From when I first started reading it in instalments as a young university student in the early 1970s, to the emergence of its TV adaptation and English translation, My Uncle Napoleon had a long journey. In this eventful half-century, it became canonised in the pantheon of modern Persian film and fiction and helped immortalise its author as one of the finest literary masters of Persian literature.
That Pezeshkzad died in "Los Angeles" and not in "San Francesco" is a precious little bittersweet joke only those who have read the novel or seen the series would understand. But the rest should just count their blessings – for there is a whole new world of joy and excitement waiting for them under the cover of My Uncle Napoleon.
The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial stance.


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Valve wants Team Fortress 2 movie
Written by Joe Martin
Tags: #film #movie #team-fortress-2 #tf2
Companies: #valve
The folks at Valve may be looking to make a Team Fortress 2 movie in the future if some of the writers and animators get their way, with Valve's Robin Walker saying that they'd love to work on the project if possible.
The idea has unsurprisingly come about after the 'Meet The...' videos that Valve has released to publicise the character updates for the game, but which were originally developed to help the artists and writers get a stronger idea of the characters.
"The number of people at this point who want us going off and making full length movies and that sort of stuff has got to a point where it's hard to ignore," Robin Walker told Kotaku recently.
"We're not ready to announce anything along those lines, but I don't think there's a person in this company that wouldn't love to see a full-length TF movie or even a 10-minute movie," added Valve's Erik Wolpaw, writer for Portal.
"I'm not just being cagey. I'm a little bit removed from these kinds of things. But they keep giving us a little bit more rope with which to hang ourselves, so who knows."
Valve makes it clear that it isn't yet sure what shape a Team Fortress 2 movie might take - it could be a feature length affair, or it could be a 10 minute long mini-epic, but the drive is there to make something.
Valve has released a total of seven 'Meet The..' character videos, with a few still to go. So far we've met the Sniper, Demoman, Heavy, Soldier, Engineer, Scout, Spy and, um...the Sandvich.
Would you like to see a Team Fortress 2 film? Let us know your thoughts in the forums.
Valve unveils bots for Team Fortress 2
Valve has unveiled bots for Team Fortress 2, though it's only in beta at the moment.
Next TF2 update involves class war
Valve has teased the next update for Team Fortress 2, revealing that the first unlocks will be decided by a week-long class war.
Valve to punish TF2 cheaters, reward others
Valve has announced a plan to punish cheaters in Team Fortress 2 - and reward honest players.


NEVER TALK POLITICS WITH FAMILY MEMBERS, YOU MIGHT END UP GETTING HIT OVER THE HEAD OR WORSE!
Is this what happens when families don't agree with each other on political issues, geez somebody is gonna die.
Which one was the liberal?


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Clipper Race confirms London finale
Royal Albert Dock in London's Royal Docks is confirmed as Race Finish Partner to the 40,000 nautical mile long Clipper Round the World Yacht Race in August 2020.
The waterfront location, situated between three DLR stations, London City Airport and the new Crossrail station at Custom House in the heart of the capital's Royal Docks, will host the finish.
Once London's gateway to the world, today Royal Docks is London's only Enterprise Zone and is enjoying regeneration. Residential and commercial developments are emerging alongside the vast expanse of 250 acres of water and helping to establish the area as a growing home for business, culture and leisure.
"The Royal Docks' use of its waterways to engage people with watersports at grassroots levels is synonymous with the way the Clipper Race provides the opportunity for people from every walk of life, and regardless of sailing experience, to take part in ocean racing," says Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, Clipper Race founder.
The Royal Albert Dock development is set to create over 30,000 jobs and generate £6 billion to the London economy, and is benefiting from £1.7 billion investment from developers ABP (Advanced Business Park). This is the first project to be undertaken outside of China for ABP, which specialises in revitalising sites into thriving business districts.
The Clipper 2019-20 Race started from St Katharine Docks, London, on Sunday 1 September 2019. From London, the fleet raced to Portimão, Portugal; Punta del Este, Uruguay; Cape Town, South Africa; and are currently racing to Fremantle, Australia. From there, the Australian leg will finish in the Whitsundays, Australia; going on to Sanya, China; Subic Bay, Philippines; Zhuhai and Qingdao, China; Seattle and New York, USA, via the Panama Canal; Hamilton, Bermuda; Derry, Londonderry, Northern Ireland; before finishing at Royal Albert Dock in London, UK, in August 2020.


Smoking tobacco is the single most preventable cause of death for public health as 7 million people worldwide die every year from tobacco smoke, 6 million+ from 1st hand smoking and 890,000 from 2nd hand smoke.80% of the 1.1 billion smokers in the world are from middle- & low-income countries. Half of the smokers will suffer premature death from smoking. Every cigarette shortens life by 5 min.Smokers need help to quit. The Five-day Plan (FDP) to stop smoking has been conducted worldwide for over 50 years.
Smokers can stop smoking by preparing to quit smoking, learn the 6 ways to cope with cravings and the group support of an FDP will help double the chance of success.
Written for Asian Society of Lifestyle Medicine (ASLM).
Studies show that few people understand the specific health risks of tobacco use. For example, a 2009 survey in China revealed that only 38% of smokers knew that smoking causes coronary heart disease and only 27% knew that it causes sa troke.
Among smokers who are aware of the dangers of tobacco, most want to quit. CCounselingand medication can more than double the chance that a smoker who tries to quit will succeed.
National comprehensive cessation services with full or partial cost-coverage are available to assist tobacco users to quit in only 26 countries, representing 33% of the world's population.


IVolunteer International Inc., a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded by three Georgia Southern University students in 2017, is working to launch a geo-connecting mobile application that will connect individuals to volunteer projects in their local communities, around the world. IVolunteer International was selected as the local winner for the Peace Through Trade Competition, a global student contest hosted by the World Trade Centers Association.
The team representing IVolunteer International will move to the next round which includes an interview with the international board of directors alongside projects submitted from all over the world. The global winner will receive an all-expenses paid trip to the upcoming World Trade Center's Association General Assembly in Querétaro, Mexico in April 2019 to present their project and receive their award on the global stage.


This tiny string of 2 inch Windhorse flags travels with me everywhere.
Made in Kathmandu, Nepal. 100% cotton on a polyester cord. Traditional flags with central image of a Windhorse and mantra.
These flags measure approximately 2 x 2 inches and include a set of 15. Set measures about 48 inches in total length.
I strung them on a post in my yard, When they got wet, they curled up. Not objectionable but I liked them flat and waving in the winds.
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The full size flags would have been great, but given my space restrictions these small flags were fantastic!


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Company history from 1880 up to the present
Disclosure of individual participation in meetings
Our Understanding: Corporate governance report
Statement on Corporate Governance
Combined non-financial statement
Declarations of conformity with GCGC (DCGK)
Current Declaration of Conformity
Declaration of Conformity 2017
Auditors Report
Co Determination Agreement
Financial Crime Management
Code of Conduct – Munich Re (Group)
Data protection and information security
Target figures for the statutory gender mix
Procurement at Munich Re – Reinsurance
Archive Conditions of Purchase
The early years – On the way to the top of the world (1880–1914)
A seismic shift: The First World War and the Great Depression (1914–1933)
A second seismic shift: Munich Re under National Socialism (1933–1945)
On the way back to the top (1946–1969)
Start of a new era of research into risk (1970–1995)
Realignment of the Group structure (1996–2008)
From think factory to solution provider (2009 to present)
Munich Re – Company history from 1880 up to the present
The foundation of Munich Reinsurance Company in 1880 is largely due to the efforts of Carl Thieme. It is also Thieme who stated that: "By its nature, reinsurance needs to be international". He consistently follows his conviction by putting the company on an international footing from the very start. He establishes a business model whose essential features remain valid up to the present day: independence from primary insurers, a broad spread of risks, an efficient system of treaty management, working in partnership with clients and innovative insurance concepts.
Munich Re quickly develops into one of the leading risk carriers worldwide, and has been helping shape the insurance industry ever since. In 2010, with the aim of reviewing the historical role and development of the company, Munich Re commissions business historians Johannes Bähr and Christopher Kopper with the task of producing an independent study on the company's history. It was published by Verlag C.H. Beck in 2015 and covers the period from 1880 to 1980. The English version followed in 2016 with the title "Munich Re – The Company History". The stages of the company's history detailed below have been based on the findings of the study and reflect research covering the years up to 1980. This applies in particular to the entirely new chapter on the role of Munich Re during the Nazi period.
When Munich Re is established in 1880 as Münchener Rück, there is already intense competition in the market.
The outbreak of WWI ends a period of almost entirely unbroken growth for Munich Re.
Initially, the National Socialists' assumption of power brings about no fundamental changes for business operations.
At the end of the Second World War, Munich Re faces the most difficult economic period in the Company's history to date.
Until well into the 1960s, risks in the insurance industry are quantified using comparatively simple statistical methods.
The second half of the 1990s is characterised by far-reaching entrepreneurial decisions.
Munich Re sharpens up its brand profile and, since 2009, has a uniform global identity in the reinsurance business fields.


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The Gold Rush of 2019
Newmont Mining will acquire Goldcorp in a $10 billion deal, and here's how I'd trade Newmont.
Stephen Guilfoyle
Jan 14, 2019 11:57 AM EST
The urge to merge is spreading. Two weeks ago, news broke that Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY) - Get Report would spend $74 billion for Celgene (CELG) - Get Report . Then we heard that Eli Lilly (LLY) - Get Report would acquire Loxo Oncology (LOXO) - Get Report for cash. Almost immediately, the talk swirled around BMY as a potential takeover target itself. It's not just the pharmaceutical space, friends. The break of dawn brought to our midst another "Merger Monday." First, I saw that First Digital Media would push Gannet (GCI) - Get Report to consider possibly making a sale at or close to the $12 level. Then, I saw hard news. More consolidation among the gold miners.
Three months back, Barrick Gold agreed to buy Randgold Resources for $5.4 billion. That deal was not finally approved until mid-December under the Barrick name, using the Randgold symbol (GOLD) - Get Report . That put pressure on the industry. You see what is happening across these industries. Either firms are feeling compelled to buy growth when organic growth becomes difficult, or when that growth just becomes far cheaper to attain in this way. Newmont Mining (NEM) - Get Report will acquire Goldcorp (GG) in a $10 billion deal. This deal, which is a little wonky, creates the world's largest gold miner. What do I mean by wonky? Well, if you happen to already be in either of these names, NEM will pay 0.328 of it's own shares for each GG share, plus two cents.
Once The Gold Dust Settles
The thought behind putting thee two industry leaders together is size and scale. The combined firm should produce roughly 7.9 million ounces of gold per year. The plan also calls for the combined firm to sell assets worth up to $1.5 billion over the next two years, focusing only on more productive mines. Apparent synergies should deliver up front savings of up to $100 million.
I like gold, physical gold. I believe in the yellow metal as a vehicle for delivering a well-rounded, diversified portfolio, not to mention as a safe haven on that day that we hope never comes. I like the SPDR Gold Shares ETF (GLD) - Get Report as a way to trade gold, or round out portfolio exposure. I don't generally like the miners, and have never made a habit in investing in this space.
Gold has had a nice run as equity markets reacted to the various issues around global growth, international trade, and policy error. Yes, there still is safe haven value there. Perhaps that is one reason why there is now a rush to consolidate, ahead of any potential run. Don't forget clean water and canned food. You'll need those also. The industry has a history of under-performance even at times where the precious metal has done well versus the U.S. dollar.
Should you feel compelled to invest here, these are quality names, and the intention of this combined entity is to pay out "the highest annual dividend among senior gold producers." Just beware. The future of the space likely involves more consolidation, as well as less quality at the low end in the way of spin-offs of lesser mines. Buy the business of gold? Or maybe just buy some gold. My opinion is to go for the metal. However, for those less enamored, there are ways to trade this news.
Should One Feel Compelled to Go There?
Try this risk reducing way to get involved.
One quickly sees that the uptrend that starts with the September lows, came to a screeching halt at a 50% retracement of the move lower from the April highs. Not only that, but that this level had been tested from below multiple times over a couple of weeks. This morning's merger inspired selloff has found support at the $32 level, which worked for traders in December as well. Here is one way to go about this. The firm will report late next week. In order to capture some premium, we'll have to push options portions of this trade out a couple of months.
Ides Of March Trade Idea (minimal lots)
-Purchase 100 shares of NEM at or close to the last sale of $32.02.
-Sale of one March 15th NEM $29 put (implied value: $0.54)
-Sale of one March 15th NEM $35 call (Implied value: $0.68)
Note: The aggregate credit from the options sales will reduce net basis to 30.08. Max profit on the initial position is limit to being called away at $35 by the Ides of March. That's a profit of 16.4%. Worst case here is being forced to eat a second lot of 100 shares at $29 at that time. Should this occur, the investor would end up long 200 shares at a net basis of $29.90. A cautious investor might not sell the put option as that does add risk to the scenario.
At the time of publication, Stephen Guilfoyle was Long GLD.
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Molly's game review: A movie about poker that's not really about poker
BY Lee Davy ON January 19, 2018
TAGs: Jessica Chastain, Molly's Game, poker movie
Lee Davy spends a lazy Thursday afternoon in the cinema watching Aaron Sorkin's Molly's Game and explains why he believes it's the greatest movie about poker that's not really about poker.
I had a statement prepared.
It wasn't verbal. The weapons inside my mouth crushed between hard to reach molars. Crisps. It seems the crunch is too much for the woman sitting in front of me.
A couple shuffles in front of her.
"Don't sit there!"
One half of the couple turns around and glares at her.
"I wasn't going to!"
"Crunch."
Another passive-aggressive sideways glance designed to tell me to stop. One more and I swear I'm going to crunch an inch from the ladies face.
I look around the cinema and it's full of old people. So, this is what old people do at 2 pm on a Thursday afternoon. They huddle together to watch Molly's Game. Or have the men dragged them along for the ride so they can watch a film about poker and stare at Jessica Chastain's ample cleavage.
I think it's the latter, but then again, I am a man.
I never read the book. The title. The face. The gloss. It all seemed a tad trashy to me. I've read plenty of books and then watched the movie. I've never watched a movie and then read the book. I am about to break that habit.
Jessica Chastain did to Molly Bloom what Gal Gadot did for Wonder Woman. The #MeToo campaign poster girl. Matriarchy v Patriarchy. At times, Chastain's portrayal of Bloom was as white as the snow she crashed and burned on, a slight irritant, but not enough for me to drop a star.
When Bloom refused to spill her guts in the book she gave Aaron Sorkin a headache. How could he make a film about a poker game? He didn't. In making the movie about Bloom, he was able to steer the ship into the choppy waters of misogyny, and there are a lot of people still flapping around waiting for that particular tide to go out.
From her Dad (Larry Bloom, played brilliantly by Kevin Costner) to every player who took a seat in her game, Sorkin used poker as a way of demonstrating the divide between men and women, and the struggle that women face in this daily grind, we call life. And in doing so, he created hope.
The scenes between Idris Elba (Bloom's lawyer, Charlie Jaffey) and Chastain were brilliant. The dialogue was as swift and ruthless as a blade carrying out a circumcision. Elba's speech and Chastain's look (at last, a man who sees me) during the scene with the opposition, was enough to bring a tear to my eye.
There was more to come.
As Larry Bloom, Costner didn't have much to do, but he did it brilliantly. The back and fore sarcastic wit between the pair was fabulous. The way Chastain stood her ground in a family heavily doused with testosterone was inspiring.
As a misunderstood father myself, I found the park bench scene heart-wrenching stuff. I'm not sure if there is a full moon tonight, but the tear that was in my eye turned into a full-on gush. Any pent up anger you may have felt for Costner disappeared at that moment.
"Trying to comprehend how much I love you would be like trying to visualise the size of the universe." – Kevin Costner.
I thought the poker terminology and the description of hands were spot on. Basic research has always been lacking when someone introduces a poker scene in Hollywood, but these were bang on.
The only part of the movie I didn't like was the pace of the switch into the storyline about Bloom's drug use. It was too abrupt, unnecessary, and another loose end that Sorkin seemed to tie up into a bow that looked a little too neat and tidy to my liking.
Then again, as Elba said so beautifully, "all she is guilty of is running a poker game."
A poker game.
There is only one movie about poker that is worth watching. I won't insult your intelligence by naming it. Many people have tried to emulate its success. They have all failed.
Sorkin succeeds, but then again, it's hard to call this a movie about poker. In the beginning, there was smugness in my crunching. I was the only person in the theatre who has interviewed the types of people who likely took a seat in one of Bloom's games. I certainly wasn't the only man in the theatre who at one point in his life thought he was superior to women.
When the lights came up, I crumpled my empty crisp bags and put them in my rucksack. The woman in front of me turned, looked and…smiled. I returned the favour. There are 24 women in Starbucks as I write this. I wonder how many of them stick rigidly to the cum shot style societal conditioning of the world? Most of them, I imagine. It makes me sad.
The world needs more female role models, and Molly's Game shows they don't need to come armed with a magic rope that makes men tell the truth. All you need is a story, and the right person to tell it.
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Polarity: What It Is & Why It's Important For Chakra Balancing
Founder of Culinary Alchemy® By Serena Poon CN, CHC, CHN
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There are seven major energy centers, or chakras, located throughout the body from the base of the spine to the crown of the head. You can think of chakras (Sanskrit for "wheels") as the links between our energetic and physical bodies. They also speak to the universal life force energy that connects all of us to one another and our environment.
Each chakra vibrates or spins at a particular frequency that is thought to affect specific biological processes in the body. Each of the chakras is associated with a different color of the rainbow, and the circulation of energy in each of our chakras influences our physical as well as our mental well-being by way of stimulation or inhibition. Open, balanced chakras align with corresponding healthy organ systems and a well-functioning physiological body, as well as stability and health within the emotional and energetic body.
What does it mean to have balanced "polarity" between the chakras?
Polarity is another term you'll sometimes hear to describe the chakras. But what does it mean? I like to think of polarity as it relates to the popular phrase "as above, so below." This is a reference to the Universal balance that exists at all times. It means that we are all made up of energy and connected, that our Universe is made up of physical and spiritual dimensions and that anything that happens in one dimension reflects upon the other.
Likewise, as much as it is important for each individual chakra to be in balance, it's also important for the upper chakras to be in balance with the lower chakras. This polarity between the seemingly opposite ends of our chakra system allows for true alignment between our physical, emotional, and energetic bodies. True healing comes when we can unblock each individual chakra as well as find balance between our first and seventh; our second and sixth; and our third and fifth chakras.
What chakra polarity looks like in practice.
Let's break down how this theory plays out in real life, using the second and sixth chakras as an example. The second chakra, or sacral chakra, represents our emotions, creativity, and flow. It also governs our relationships, partnerships, and sexuality. In our physical body, the sacral aligns with our reproductive system and sexual organs, kidneys, intestines, bladder, and hips.
Chakra polarity tells us that even when someone's sacral is balanced, their ability to create, as well as their desire for intimacy, may be affected if their sixth chakra, the third-eye chakra, is imbalanced. The third eye is the chakra that governs our mood, intuition, and connection to the divine. Because this sixth chakra aligns with our pituitary glands, our neurons and neurotransmitters, it affects our thoughts, sleep, and ability to visualize, as well as our mood.
Even though it may seem unlikely at first, it makes sense that an imbalanced third eye may be affecting your ability to have sexual intimacy. Especially if all of your chakras seem to be relatively open and balanced and you're feeding yourself sacral-supportive foods like nuts, seeds, dietary fats, orange-colored foods, and plenty of water, it would be best to double-check your sixth chakra. Are you nourishing your third eye enough? Have you gotten enough sleep? How has your thought-processing and intuition felt? It might be time to try a few practices to clear the third-eye chakra and see if that helps.
The bottom line.
Once you have an understanding of the importance of the polarity between the chakras, it becomes easier to pinpoint a solution to a problem. First, check your physical symptoms, then check your energetic and emotional symptoms. You can support your body accordingly with the foods and activities that correspond with the symptoms of that chakra. If you're still experiencing a block, check the polar opposite chakra and see if you're fully nourishing the energy center and physiological activities there.
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StarDate 11/26/2014: Galaxy Mergers
by Damond Benningfield November 26, 2014 at 10:08 am
Filed Under:Collisions, Galaxies, Milky Way, stardate, Stars
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STARDATE 11/26/2014: Galaxies could use a set of traffic cops — they're always running into each other. These galactic wrecks can produce some of the most beautiful objects in the universe. Mainly, though, they just make bigger galaxies.
The collisions are the work of gravity. Galaxies contain anywhere from a few million stars to a trillion or more. Their combined gravity exerts a strong pull on the other galaxies around them, drawing the galaxies together.
Most galaxy collisions involve a big galaxy gobbling up a smaller one. In fact, our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is swallowing several small galaxies right now.
But some collisions involve two or more big galaxies. Such encounters often begin with the galaxies brushing past each other. That pulls out great streamers of stars. It also causes clouds of gas in the galaxies to collapse, triggering the birth of millions of new stars.
This phase can produce some beautiful sights. One pair of interacting galaxies, for example, looks like the antennae of a giant insect, while another looks like the eyes of an owl. And yet another encounter has produced an object that looks like a tadpole; more about that tomorrow.
After this phase, the two galaxies then loop around each other before they eventually merge to form a single bigger galaxy. If the merging galaxies are big enough, they most likely make an elliptical galaxy — a featureless blob of stars that looks like a fat rugby ball: a bland end to a beautiful cosmic encounter.


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The Palisade will be the biggest SUV in Hyundai's growing arsenal of cars, one that'll most certainly make a splash in select left-hook markets like the US, the Emirates, and Russia. Sitting above the Sorento, the 3-row Palisade features new & exaggerated interpretations of Hyundai's new design language, incorporating a unique Cascading Grille design, and very stylish main-beam/positioning light arrangement.
*Hyundai Grandmaster concept at the Busan Motor Show.
The profile of the Palisade appears to have stayed true to the Grandmaster concept, though the fascia has undergone the usual 'watering down' that happens between concept & production. It's still a stylish machine though, and while we can't see its rump, it appears to stay true to Grandmaster form from what we can make of it.
The Palisade is expected to make use of Sorento powerplants at launch, specifically the large petrol V6 engine that is offered in North America. It won't be the only big Korean in the large-SUV space for long though, as its sister-car the Kia Telluride (which we've already sort-of seen), and it'll be interesting to see the newcomers duke it out with segment stalwarts from the States.


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Economisch gezien werd het concept van Snowflake als een aparte maatschappij met zijn eigen kleine vloot geen groot succes en de nieuwe luchtvaartmaatschappij werd weer opgeheven op 31 oktober 2004.

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April 22, 2019by Jessica WilkinsNo CommentsFashion Storyteller, Social Enthusiast
WTF is the Met Gala?
Okay friends, it's almost that time. Time for us to judge A-list celebrities for their wardrobe choices at an event most of us will never attend. That's right, it's almost time for the Met Gala, which takes place May 6, 2019. Every year on the first Monday in May, this grand event takes place in New York City and most of the people judging from their couches and cubicles have zero idea what the Met Gala even is. So, here's your crash course from a girl who hopes to one day be invited to cover the red carpet and then be seated next to Michael B. Jordan at a black designer's table.
The Met Gala AKA "Fashion's Biggest Night Out" AKA "The Oscars of the East Coast," is basically an annual fundraiser/couture costume party that generates funding for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute (the fashion section of the museum). "Why tf do they need money?" you ask? Because fashion wasn't considered "real art" when the Costume Institute was established so they have to pay for their own exhibits. Hence, the evening also includes the unveiling of the Costume Institute's newest exhibit for the year. The theme of the gala (how everyone is supposed to dress) coincides with the new exhibit's subject. This year's theme/exhibit is: "Camp: Notes on Fashion." We'll get into wtf that means next. The Met Gala has been hosted by Anna Wintour since 1995, along with a revolving group of co-hosts each year. This year's co-hosts are Lady Gaga, Harry Styles, Serena Williams, and Gucci's Creative Director Alessandro Michele since Gucci is sponsoring this year's gala. In summation, the Met Gala is rich people supporting rich people shit and while it seems new to us regular people thanks to social media, the Met Gala has been taking place since 1948.
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This year's theme and the exhibit is Camp, based on Susan Sontag's 1964 essay "Notes on Camp." In fashion terms, Camp is an aesthetic represented by exaggerated, kitsch, theatrical, ironic and/or humorous style. So the new exhibit will feature designers and artists whose work falls under those descriptions (think Comme des Garçons, Alexander McQueen, Mugler, Jeremy Scott, and John Galliano to name a few). My biggest gripe as I judge the red carpet (wearing a threadbare graphic t-shirt and sweatpants) is people who don't dress according to the theme. You have 364 other days of the year and all of the money to show us that you're pretty. We get it. The Met Gala is the time to have fun with fashion and be costumey af. The best red carpet moments of the night feature the people who take fashion seriously but don't take themselves too seriously. Hence, Rihanna remains the reigning queen of the Met Gala. Since this year's theme is kind of the definition of extra ass fashion and what the red carpet should be anyway, there's no reason why we should see any Plain Jane's on the red carpet. But we all know someone is gonna show up being super boring and get all philosophical about how all fashion can be considered camp blah blah blah. Save it.
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Who Gets to Go
The Met Gala is insanely exclusive. Tickets are around $30,000 per person and tables are about $275,000 apiece. The party and exhibit are sponsored so the ticket sales go directly to funding the Costume Institute, so not every guest has to pay. However, even the wealthiest of people can't just buy their way in, because each guest is hand selected by host and Vogue Editor In Chief Anna Wintour, for whom the Costume Institute is also named. Guests include A-list actors, musicians, fashion designers, models, and high society socialites. Brands often purchase tables and invite celebrities and/or models to sit at them increasing their brand's notoriety. That's why you'll see designers hit the red carpet with a certain muse as their date. Example, last year Cardi B. came as Jeremy Scott's guest. Anna Wintour also invites up and coming designers who can't afford a ticket. You can be very wealthy but not influential enough to attend, or you can be broke but very influential and get an invite, or somewhere in between. The thing is if Anna says no, you can't go.
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Sarah Harmer Shares Icy Video for "St. Peter's Bay"
The song appears on her latest album 'Are You Gone'
By Allie Gregory
Published Mar 18, 2020
As Sarah Harmer hunkers down before the week that would have commenced her recently postponed North American tour, the Canadian songwriter has lifted the veil on a wintry new music video from her latest record, Are You Gone.
Today, the artist has shared a Josh Lyon-directed clip for the album's latest single "St. Peter's Bay." It's a perfect ode to lonesome Canadian winters, featuring Harmer walking at dusk beside a snowed-out plain, ice skating and lighting a cozy riverside fire.
Read her statement about the moody new video below.
I made this with filmmaker Josh Lyon. We hopped a late afternoon ferry to an island in the St Lawrence River and caught a brief window of mild weather and a bit of sun. For me this story takes place in a simpler time, when word was sent "on the wires of woodsmoke" and ice was sure to freeze from one shore to another. The pain of ending a relationship is familiar in any era, and the vastness of the landscape in the middle of the river speaks to that timelessness.
Harmer had previously shared the track back in January, ahead of the release of Are You Gone, which officially arrived February 21 via Arts & Crafts. Before its release, Exclaim! named it one of the Most Anticipated Albums of 2020.
Read our recent interview with Harmer about the record.
Watch her new video for "St. Peter's Bay" below.
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Knightfall Season 3: Release Date, Cast, Storyline & Eveyrhing!
Knightfall Season 3: Knightfall is a real dream performance TV plan that appeared on December 6, 2017, on the History Channel. Wear Handfield, and Richard Rainer made the show. There is no insistence for the second season here.
In any case, it is presumably going to be energized. The plan runs for two productive seasons, with the ensuing season encompassing May 2019. Fans are starting at now holding on for the third season.
In case we foreseen the show's release date, it would dispatch in mid-2020. However, due to the Covid scourge, the release date is presumably going to be deferred until mid-2021.
The first and second seasons didn't have a comparable group that the show's creators foreseen. Nevertheless, there is so far an open door that it will be energized for another season.
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There is no information or openings about the plot of the third season. The third season will undoubtedly carry Pope Clement and the Templar to the point of convergence of the story, a similar number of things have changed between them.
In a perfect world, the Templars can get their retaliation in season 3. Knightfall relates the story of the Knights Templar. Consequently, the novel discusses the fall of the Knights Templar, the most influential relationship in Christendom.
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Preemptive War
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Iraq was the first preemptive war except for all the others. All wars start with a series of escalations on both sides. All offer multiple opportunities to escalate or deescalate (back down). A fight doesn't happen because one guy throws the first punch, but because both sides chose to not walk away until eventually a fight is the only natural outcome -- who threw the first punch at that point, is almost irrelevant. Both sides will have plenty of vindication to claim, "he started it". So those arguing that we were wrong because we responded to dozens of illegal provocations, are missing the point and trying to find excuses for why America was wrong, by ignoring all the ways that Saddam and Iraq was first.
Iraq was the first preemptive war, other than:
the Revolutionary war - no one knows who exactly fired the first shot in the Revolutionary war (both sides claim the other side shot first), but there's no doubt the Americans (Rebels) were doing things that were illegal acts of war first (like the Tea Party). Of course both sides see their actions as justified by the others actions first.
Shay's rebellion - a rebellion is by nature preemptory or retaliatory depending on whose side you're on.
War of 1812 - for using the quasi-legal concept of Shanghaiing (impressing Americans into Her Royal Navy's service), and trade duties we didn't like, so the Americans declared war on the British (again).
Barbary Wars - When the Danish King Eric charged everyone "Sound Dues" for shipping near his coastline, the world accepted that. When Tripoli demanded their tithe, we started wars over it. Explain the difference.
Civil War - since both sides were Americans, Americans must have been preemptive.
Spanish-American - was started over a mistake: Americans fired first because they thought the Spanish had sabotaged a ship (the sinking of the USS Maine).
Mexican-American - in the Thorton affair the Mexicans attacked and killed 12 Americans over disputed territory, did that justify everything the Americans did or not?
WWI - territorial disputes in Europe had nothing to do with us or our defense
WWII - Japan attacked Pearl Harbor... because we committed acts of War against them first: in China we supplied weapons and airplanes and men to fly them (the AVG and Flying Tigers), we cut off the Japanese oil supply, we supplied weapons/training to Japan's enemies, and a dozen other acts of war before the Japanese attacked is back/first. Does that make us more wrong or more right than the Japanese?
Korea - the U.S. took over parts of Korea controlled by Japan before that, and then got involved in the civil war to take their country back. We defended the South and democracy against an aggressor, but it still wasn't our fight to begin with.
Vietnam - we had the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which is disputed whose waters our patrol boats were in (thus justifying whether they fired first), or we were in the wrong place thus our retaliation was the first illegitimate attack
Panama and a few others in Latin American wars... we needled. Someone got shot. That's preemptive.
Bosnia/Kosovo - the civil war had nothing to do with us or our defense
The first gulf war - territorial disputes in the Middle East had nothing to do with us or our defense
Libya - territorial disputes in the Middle East had nothing to do with us or our defense
Wars can not start if neither side attacks the other. Thus all wars are preemptive, and both sides rationalize their attacks as counter attacks, attacks for past transgressions, or necessary for defensive action. This war was no different from all the rest. But it doesn't matter. The issue of whether a War was preemptive or not, is moot. The real question is whether there was enough justification, or whether this war was "illegal" or immoral. So it is not an absolute wrong to start a war, because a war (like a fight) is a series of escalation's by both sides. At any time, either side can stop and walk away, but the war (fight) happens because neither will back down.
Those that say Iraq was the first preemptive war, or that preemption makes a War morally wrong, are both clueless of history and ethics.
Like it or not, the whole world would be a far worse place if the U.S. had not been preemptive in the past (like WWII or Korea), there are plenty of cases where we weren't preemptive and still wrong (we should have backed down and never gotten into the fight in the first place), and there are plenty of cases where the biggest failings as a world were when weren't preemptive when we should have been. Think of Cambodia, Rwanda, Germany, Russia, China, Albania, and so on, where a lack of action by the world, led to thousands or millions of people massacred. I'm not a fan of world cop, but I'm not a fan of selling popcorn to watch a gang rape either. You make your choices, do the best you can, and live with the consequences. I'm fine with people choosing to do nothing, as long as they accept the tradeoffs and consequences. But I have a problem with folks that claim the other side is wrong for trying to do something, when the alternative was so gruesome. Written: 2005.08.04
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The Sterling Partners Investment Thesis Challenge (SPITC) launched in 2011 with the generous support of Sterling Partners. SPITC enables Chicago Booth student teams to work with mentors at private equity firms over several months to develop original investment theses and recommend execution strategies.
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When I was growing up, swapping was a term of art that the big kids used when they cheated the little kids out of their stuff. I remember going to birthday parties where we swapped pieces of cake. Somehow, my big brother always ended up with the biggest slice.
In banking, swaps are a way for the big broker-dealer banks to "help" smaller institutions manage their interest rate risk, currency risk, credit risk, and almost everything else. If you can measure it, you can swap it. The bigger the market, the better for the market-makers. They charge a spread between the bid and the offer, and make money on the deal-flow, just like a casino.
Swaps create financial interconnections and facilitate trade, making almost everyone better off. But because they're complicated contractual agreements that remain off the balance sheet, they can be abused fairly easily. That's why there are rules about fair dealing and fraud that have to be followed.
Otherwise, they just give bigger pieces of cake to the big kids.


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The shoes on your feet are also a good indicator of if you need your shoes rotated or an alignment.
The wear patterns on your shoes can indicate wether you may be a supinator or a pronator. Pronation refers to the inward roll of the foot. A moderate amount of pronation is required for the foot to function properly. However potential damage and and an increased risk of injury can occur with excessive pronation.
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Kingkiller Chronicle
By (author) Patrick Rothfuss
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'I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. My name is Kvothe.You may have heard of me'So begins the tale of Kvothe - currently known as Kote, the unassuming innkeepter - from his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, through his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-riddled city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a difficult and dangerous school of magic. In these pages you will come to know Kvothe the notorious magician, the accomplished thief, the masterful musician, the dragon-slayer, the legend-hunter, the lover, the thief and the infamous assassin.The Name of the Wind is fantasy at its very best, and an astounding must-read title.
Publication date 30 Jun 2008
Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Imprint Gollancz
Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
Edition Statement Revised ed.
Bestsellers rank 667
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About Patrick Rothfuss
Patrick Rothfuss had the good fortune to be born in Wisconsin in 1973, where the long winters and lack of cable television encouraged a love of reading and writing. After abandoning his chosen field of chemical engineering, Pat became an itinerant student, wandering through clinical psychology, philosophy, medieval history, theater, and sociology. Nine years later, Pat was forced by university policy to finally complete his undergraduate degree in English. When not reading and writing, he teaches fencing and dabbles with alchemy in his basement. Patrick Rothfuss is an award-winning as well as Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author. You can learn more about him and his work at www.patrickrothfuss.com, or by following @PatrickRothfuss on twitter.
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It was one of the best books I have ever read. Captivating and absolutely mind-blowing. The characters are very real, especially that of the protagonist. His development through his character as a person from when he was part of the Edema Ruh to his life on the streets of Tarbean to his life at the University makes his character very authentic. It is as if you were plunged straight into this mysterious and fantasy world with him and were on a journey together. That is what it feels like.show more
A great book with a great story. From the characters to the environments everything is connected in a way that makes perfect sense. The social satire, the exposition of society's flaws and the way the author explains this universe's "magic" as if it were science help create a truly immersive world full of misteries but where everything can be explained and comprehended in detail. A fan of fantasy tales will laugh with this story's jokes and cry in the moments of sadness but will never feel bored. I loved it and recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good story.show more
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The significance of small differences: Cultural diversity and broadcasting in Ireland
This article is concerned with a comparative assessment of public service and commercial broadcast media in Ireland, specifically in relation to their respective capacities to reflect and promote migration-related diversity and migrant integration. The core material drawn upon in the article derives from the findings of a recent exploratory, pilot-level European research project ('Media for Diversity and Migrant Integration', MEDIVA) involving Ireland and five other partner-European Union member states which sought to identify and assess the form and extent of diversity management practices in the media at the different levels of journalistic production with special reference to Third Country Nationals or persons without European Union citizenship. In this article, we first consider how processes of cultural diversification in European countries are reflected in broadcasting policies, before fixing our focus on public service broadcasting in the 'local' context and the changing broadcasting landscape in Ireland. We then move to our empirical-level study which examines the MEDIVA findings regarding the roles and representations of Third Country Nationals in the context of RTE and TV3, comparatively. The performance of these broadcasters in this respect is assessed and examined in terms of programme production processes, recruitment practices, media training and content output. The transformations that Irish society have experienced in terms of the demographics of its population over the past two decades make Ireland a very interesting if not unique case study here. We then consider the extent to which the Irish setting resonates with the broader European context, and seek to identify specific points of correspondence and difference between the Irish broadcasting experience and that of the other countries participating in the MEDIVA project. While the nature of the differences in the approach of public service and commercial broadcasters to migrant diversity may prove to be relatively minor, they nevertheless demonstrate an interesting and significant divergence when considered from a range of perspectives.
Source: European Journal of Communication, Vol. 29, Issue 4, August 2014. Published online before print May 2, 2014
Author(s): Jim Rogers, Neil O'Boyle, Paschal Preston and Franziska Fehr
Publisher: SAGE Publications
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URL: http://ejc.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/05/01/0267323114530367.abstract
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Russian oligarchs who helped finance the most expensive Olympics in history are shedding their shares of the line, leaving it barely running.
Finding rock bottom after the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics hasn't been easy. The cost overruns alone would seem to spell disaster in no uncertain terms, but not everyone agrees. The International Olympic Committee refuses to think of the Sochi games as a failure at all. Just last week, one year after the launch of the games, the IOC released a fact sheet praising the event as an unmitigated success, even in terms of its legacy for Sochi and the surrounding region.
Just one year after the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, and a little more than a year into the railway's life span, the trains are barely running.
Meanwhile, facing an economic downturn framed by falling gas prices and crushing international sanctions, Russian oligarchs are running from their assets in Sochi. The Associated Press reports that two of the oligarch investors who paid in part for the most expensive Olympics in history have already shed $3 billion in Sochi properties, leaving it to Russian taxpayers to pick up the tab.
The most prominent of Sochi's infrastructure works deserves special attention. The combined highway-and-high-speed-rail project connecting the coast to the mountains was the most expensive part of the Sochi Winter Olympics. At $8.7 billion, and its useful life almost over, the Adler–Krasnaya Polyana high-speed railway might just be the most expensive rail project in history.
The 31-mile line connects Adler, a city on the coast of the Black Sea along the border of the breakaway Georgian republic of Abkhazia, with Krasnaya Polyana, a ski-resort town in the Caucasus Mountains. Its construction exceeded projected costs by at least 90 percent, according to the Anti-Corruption Foundation, which has compiled a map detailing the excesses of the Sochi Winter Olympics. The map is the work of Russian activist Alexei Navalny, a fierce political opponent of Vladimir Putin who has been targeted by Russian prosecutors in what may be an effort to silence him.
The map's conclusion on the Sochi rail-and-road project? For the cost, planners might've bought each of the 5.2 million residents of the Krasnodar region a new refrigerator. The Adler–Krasnaya Polyana line alone cost nearly as much as the entire Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.
Along with the Adler–Krasnaya Polyana line, Russian authorities built a perpendicular spur between Sochi and Adler, connecting the city with the airport by rail. While the alpine line and highway accounted for some $8 billion of the overall project costs, the Sochi–Adler line was greeted by many as the infrastructure investment that would serve Sochi best after the games.
Now, just one year after the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics—and a little more than a year into the railway's life span—the trains are barely running. "Tourists who came to Sochi this winter to ski found only six trains a day running between the coast and the mountains, and no trains running between the airport and central Sochi," the AP reports. "During the Olympics, there were trains rolling along the picturesque ravines of the mountain resorts every 15 minutes."
Russian Railways still lists "Lastochka" trains leaving every hour from Olympic Park to Krasnaya Polyana. But The Wall Street Journal confirms that rail service has been suspended to the airport, and sharply curtailed everywhere else, as of this year.
As for the new motorway running from the coast to the mountains, it was hardly necessary in the first place, according to Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation. The site says that the road was designed to move 20,000 people per hour, but the maximum capacity of all the resorts that it reaches is a little more than 30,000 people—who were already served by another highway anyway.
Russia can build a single, useless rail-and-road to nowhere for the same costs as putting on a whole Olympic Games in a major Western city—and the International Olympic Committee will call it a success.
Between the collapse of the ruble and deteriorating relations with Europe, doubts are mounting about Russia's viability as the host for the World Cup in 2018. In The Daily Telegraph, Paul Hayward warns that "2018 could yet end up as the ultimate political football." Three years may be too far off to predict boycotts like the world saw in the Moscow 1980 Summer Olympics and the Los Angeles 1984 Summer Olympics, but national protests are certainly possible.
What looks clear even this far out is that Russia's high-flying infrastructure plans won't come together by 2018. Putin's vision for the World Cup is enough to make the biggest Sochi booster blush. Just a year and a half ago, Russian Railways announced plans to build more than $157 billion in high-speed rail projects linking World Cup host cities across western Russia.
FIFA is sure to howl if Russia fails to deliver on its contractual obligations to provide free ground travel and control hotel costs throughout the World Cup (absurd though those obligations are). That may for the best. It's the eager acquiescence of host cities in authoritarian countries that sends expectations and costs soaring for hosting worldwide sporting events. And that's what's turning democracies off hosting mega-events altogether. Some Western cities could host events like the Olympics with existing facilities and smart infrastructure upgrades, but those bids will never beat a promise from Putin for free high-speed rail running everywhere.
That's how Russia can build a single, useless rail-and-road to nowhere for the same costs as putting on a whole Olympic Games in a major Western city—and the International Olympic Committee will call it a success. Some 4,000 workers could die building facilities for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar—and FIFA doesn't call this a crisis. String together enough of these so-called successes, and a record of failure will be plain. It may be already. If the committees responsible for the Olympic Games and World Cup come to rely on ever-more outlandish bids from Moscow, Beijing, Almaty, and Qatar, then cities in democracies will stop bidding altogether, and the prestige of these events will be tied to the pitiless whims of totalitarian planners.
It would be wishful thinking to hope that Russia or FIFA will have learned the right lessons from Sochi. But between its economic setbacks and international conflicts, Russia may not be in a position to pull off a World Cup on the same scale by 2018. The country simply might not be able to build to Sochi levels of extravagance under the circumstances. Again, that's for the best. Frankly, it would be hard for planners to top Sochi for a rail system used by fewer people over a shorter time span for higher costs.


Eglin Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located approximately 3 miles southwest of Valparaiso, Florida in Okaloosa County.
Eglin AFB is located in Okaloosa County, in northwest Florida, comprising over 640 square miles. Eglin is located 8 miles northwest of Fort Walton Beach, FL; 60 miles east of Pensacola, FL and 65 miles west of Panama City, FL.
Modern-day Eglin evolved from an honorable past. Eglin began as the Valparaiso Bombing and Gunnery Base, established in 1935. On August 4, 1937, the base was redesignated Eglin Field in honor of Lt. Col. Frederick I. Eglin, who died in an aircraft crash. Today, Eglin hosts some 50 associate units representing virtually every major command including our sister services, the U.S. Army Ranger Camp, and the U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal School. Visit the Eglin homepage for more information.
The major command at Eglin is the Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC). The Air Armament Center (AAC) is the host unit at Eglin. AAC pulls every phase in the life cycle of air delivered weapons from development through sustainment. The AAC is responsible for conventional and unconventional weapons systems. The major commands on Eglin include AFMC, ACC and the Special Operations Command.
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Bailey to get Lancs chance
Young seamer Tom Bailey is set to get a run in the Lancashire team to show what he can do.
Graham Hardcastle
FINE: Lancashire assistant coach Gary Yates did OK on debut
Gary Yates believes now is the ideal time for scholarship fast bowler Tom Bailey to get a taste of first-team cricket with Lancashire.
The tall seamer, 23, from Preston made an encouraging start to his one-day career with a wicket after just six balls in Tuesday's Royal London one-day Cup clash with Essex, but he could not prevent a six-wicket loss.
After an impressive first spell, he struggled on his return to the attack and finished with 1-65 from 10 overs.
He should get another chance in today's clash with Derbyshire at the County Ground.
"Tom did OK, and hopefully he will have learned a lot from the experience," said assistant coach Yates of the player who played one Championship match at the end of 2012.
"I'm sure when he reflects, there will be things in his game that he would like to have done better, but overall he did OK.
"He swings it away from the right-hander, he can also move it back in. He possesses a good slower ball for one-day cricket as well.
"There are times when we have to see if we can develop these players and progress their games. Tom's one who we're going to look to try and progress where we can because you can learn so much in this part of your career.
"At this stage we would like to think Tom's going to get a bit of a run. He'll have to perform, though."


After we returned from Bentonville and our time at Crystal Bridges, we had to bring the trailer in to the shop for work on the brakes and to repair the faulty slide. In the meantime, we focused on some projects we could finish without having the trailer on hand. We had picked up a lovely coffee table at one of the antique shops we visited, which doubles as a bench for extra seating if we want to entertain guests at our dinner table. It's also got a lid built into the top surface for storage. Daisy stained the lid and painted the body of the coffee table white and blue to match the walls and wainscoting nearby. Jared started installing edge molding on the levels in the bedroom floor. He cut and dry fit the pieces, which Daisy stained before he put them in place. He also added transition floor molding between the the penny tile on the bathroom floor and the vinyl plank pieces on the other side of the door. Together, we applied some floral tattoo design wallpaper (spoonflower.com) to a couple of accent areas in the bedroom. Next, Jared got to work rebuilding the bed frame so that it would lift from the long side for storage underneath, rather than lifting from the foot of the bed. He strengthened the frame support with 2×8 lumber, cut new decking out of three-quarter-inch plywood and added piano hinges to the far side, closest to the front of the trailer. He added a rail above the hinge to keep the mattress from sliding off when we lift the decking to access the storage. We purchased a marked down mattress from Mattress Firm and layered it with a foam topper and mattress protector. Daisy made the bed with our new linen sheets and feather duvet.
Another piece of furniture that we picked up from the antique shops was a beautiful round table made from dark wood. The large round tabletop sits on a square base, which Jared added a bottom to for more hidden storage beneath the table. He also built a cradle out of scrap wood and heavy duty packing foam, so we can lay the table on its side when the trailer is in transit and it won't roll or move about.
Work began on reconstructing the window valance pieces, which will house the curtain rods. Jared's Mom, Moe had stripped all of the upholstery from these, using pliers to remove staples and freeing the fabric carefully so as not to damage the thin wooden panels underneath. We kept these panels in tact. Jared finished cleaning them of staples, reattached each layer of wood using clamps and nails, then applied wood filler to the staple holes to give the wood a smooth finish. After he sanded them down, Daisy painted each valance in blue, yellow and copper rose gold. The valances for the bedroom were a bit of a different shape, with a less complicated structure. These were painted dark purple. We began hanging the curtains as soon as the valances were ready to go up. Daisy hadn't finished all of the curtain panels yet, but we installed what we had available. The curtains are constructed with a pocket at the top edge to run the curtain rods through. These are very thin, flat pine molding pieces, which we attached to the walls inside the valances with velcro, stuck to the wall and stapled to the rods.
Jared made a jewelry organizer from a frame that Daisy chose and painted champagne gold to go in the bedroom. He attached decorative aluminum sheeting to the back of this to hold earrings, as well as some hooks on the bottom edge to hang necklaces. We had seen similar creations on Etsy, but building it from scratch was inexpensive and turned out beautifully. It has a magnet on the stop side to keep it fixed to the wall and hinges at the bottom to swing the whole thing down and access the back of the earring display. Meanwhile, Daisy began the work of making curtain panels for the bedroom and W.C.
We purchased horse stall matting and Jared cut them into 10-inch by 10-inch squares to create cost effective, durable pads for the landing gear and stabilizers to rest on when we level the trailer. After we had the trailer back at home, Jared installed a rear-view camera and video monitor, as well as the tire pressure monitoring system display.
We made ready to head to Lexington for a stay with Daisy's brother, Archie and his partner, Summer. Since this would be a trip to test out living aboard Skyclad, Daisy packed everything we will be bringing with us when we hit the road for good. This way, we'll be able to get situated and organized over this first, shorter journey.