Zach Weinersmith and Sean Carroll recently blogged about subjective and objective morality (see Pankration Ethics and Morality and Basketball). Their ideas are interesting but I found their comparison of physical laws and moral laws with the rules of basketball and pankration confusing – both games are rather foreign to me. So I am taking the opportunity to clarify my own ideas about physical laws and moral laws. And whether such laws are objective or subjective.
Today I'll just present my understanding of laws of nature, and whether they need a "divine lawmaker" or arise automatically from reality itself. I'll get on to "moral laws" later in the week.
On the other hand, most religious apologists argue that the "laws of physics," etc., need a lawmaker, their god, just as much as moral laws. After all, they argue, the fact that nature behaves in a rational, logical way is evidence of a god who has somehow injected that order into the natural world.
I think there is a conceptual problem arising from at least partly confusing a completely human-made law – a rule which society decides and enforces, with a physical law or law of nature – some relationship of matter and energy which humanity has recognised through observation. Sure, the "laws of nature" are also human constructs but they do describe observations. They attempt to describe objective reality. In no way do humans instruct nature how to behave. Nor does any other being have to lay down such instruction to natural bodies and phenomena – they arise from the very nature of those bodies and phenomena.
The laws of nature are descriptive – not prescriptive. They arise autonomously out of the way nature is, not the way we, or a divine "lawmaker" want it to be. We call them "laws" or "theories" because we have enough confidence of their general applicability that we can use them – even in new situations and places. Sometimes during their use we find they are faulty or incomplete. They might not describe reality properly or completely in new situations. Then we change the law or theory – usually by amendment or improvement. Sometimes, but rarely, by abandonment and formulation of a new theory.
In contrast, philosophers of religion see their god as a lawgiver who prescribes physical laws. But modern science has made a lot of progress since abandoning that medieval idea. In fact, the scientific revolution and subsequent progress required ignoring such constraints which had no evidential support. Today we make no such assumption. Effectively we see the rational nature of reality arising simply from the objective existence of matter and it's ability to interact. (Here I am using the word "matter" in its most abstract philosophical sense – not in a naive mechanical sense of substance). The interactions of matter/energy inevitably produces order of some sort or another. When we recognise elements of that order we often describe them in a scientific theory or physical "law." These are human constructs reflecting the current level of knowledge, which is inevitably provisional. Open to improvement and refinement as we learn more.
Most working scientist are probably philosophical realists. They imagine or assume that there is an objective reality that we can comprehend imperfectly. So they see the theories and laws they formulate as imperfect reflections of that reality. All theories and laws are inevitably incomplete – although over time we can improve them.
But we don't have to rely on a realist world-view. We can simply adopt and use theories and laws because they work. In effect we can be philosophical instrumentalists. While some philosophers seem to automatically classify instrumentalism as a form of non-realism I think this is too restrictive. Realists or not we all use the laws, theories and formulae because they work. Sometimes we have no picture of the underlying reality, or conflicting pictures (think quantum mechanics and its interpretations).
Talk of objective laws or objective truths relating to our scientific or moral knowledge can be very confusing. After all, can we describe our physical laws of nature as objective when they have actually been formulated by humans. Granted, they reflect objectively existing reality. But only imperfectly. That reality has been filtered through our perceptual and mental (and possibly social) mechanics to produce the law or theory.
Perhaps it might be more exact to describe our scientific laws of nature as "objectively based" (in recognition of their incompleteness, imperfection and provisional nature). The laws and theories don't exist independently of our consciousness (and culture). It is the matter/energy and their interconnections which have objective existence. Of course the objective laws and theories we have formulated are based on, derived from, objective reality but do contain elements of subjectivity (influences of our culture, etc). Science works hard to reduce such elements of subjectivity from its theories and laws.
I think we need to understand what we really mean when we describe the scientific laws and theories of nature as objective.
On the other had – what about the situation favoured by philosophers of religion who insist on a "divine lawmaker" which imposes its (his, her) laws on nature. Laws which are prescriptive and not descriptive, as they are meant to be a dictation to inert matter and energy on how they should behave. Surely description of such prescriptive laws as objective is completely wrong. Rather than arising out of objective reality they are imposed on reality by some sort of intelligence. From the perspective of that intelligence these laws must be subjective – derived from its own whims and fancies. From our perspective they should also be seen as subjective, although we have played no role in those whims and fancies.
The "scientific laws" of the philosopher of relgion, who see them as products of a divine lawmaker, must be completely subjective. In fact, even though we are talking of scientific physical laws and not moral laws, let's bring in the bogey man of relativism. Given that in their scenario the physical laws can be at the mercy, the whims and fancies, of their divine lawmaker they must see these scientific laws a relative as well as subjective. Aren't they actually being relativist when they claim that their "miracles" are real? That they are caused by something "supernatural" – suspension of the laws of nature. Their god, in her wisdom, has demanded that these laws of nature are suspended or changed for a time. Isn't that relativism?
While the subjective understanding of laws of nature enable such "miracles," scientific understanding of laws of nature having an objective basis enables a non-relativist understanding. "Miracles" and "supernatural" phenomena which seem to defy the laws of nature simply show our imperfect understanding of reality. If the observations are valid they give an opportunity to improve our theories, to develop a better understanding of reality.
Mind you, these days most claims of "miracles" and "supernatural" phenomena seem to derive more from credibility, falsehoods and poor observation than from any problems with the laws of nature.
In my next post I will discuss the nature of moral laws – see Subjective morality – not what it seems?


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Dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin20 июня 2012 года
Dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin
The participants of the feast dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin received commemorative jubilee medals and lapel badges.
The craftsmen of the Moscow Mint of Goznak had worked upon them with a special attitude. The order was especially honorable.
It is not the first time that the Moscow Mint works upon products dedicated to the most famous museum of Moscow. Coins and medals minted in its workshops are stored in the museum funds. The Director of the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin I.A. Antonova reminded of the fact in the letter of thanks to the Moscow Mint. Irina Alexandrovna appreciated the quality of the jubilee lapel badges and medals highly.
The "100th Anniversary of the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin" jubilee medals are made of brass with patina-forming treatment with the diameter of 75 mm in the number of 2000 pieces. The façade of the main building of the museum and the portrait of its founder and first director Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetaev are depicted on the obverse side of the medal. On the reverse there is a view of the Italian garden and "2012" inscription. The lapel badge is decorated with the image of the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin enframed with a laurel wreath.
50 lapel badges are made of silver with coloured enamels, 250 badges – of nickel-silver with silvering. The author of the design of the commemorative coin and the lapel badge is an honoured artist of Russia V.M. Erokhin. Field engineers of cold stamping equipment Ivan Sopot and Sergey Vaskin produced the medals.

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Seven days in medicine...
Seven days in medicine: 17-23 January 2018
BMJ 2018; 360 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k323 (Published 25 January 2018) Cite this as: BMJ 2018;360:k323
Assisted dying
Man wins right to take case to Court of Appeal
A retired lecturer with advanced motor neurone disease has been granted permission to appeal a decision rejecting his challenge to the current ban on assisted dying. Noel Conway, from Shropshire, UK, argues that the current law is incompatible with his human rights. The judgment at a hearing on 18 January confirmed that the courts have the authority to make a declaration of incompatibility between the 1961 Suicide Act, which criminalised helping someone to die, and human rights legislation. (Full story doi:10.1136/bmj.k268)
Johnson is rebuked for repeating "discredited" NHS claim
A leading public health expert, Michael Marmot, censured the UK foreign secretary and Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson for repeating a claim that the NHS would benefit from £350m (€401m; $495m) extra income a week once it leaves the EU. Johnson had told the Guardian newspaper that the Leave campaign could have used a much higher figure, as the UK's weekly gross contribution to the EU would rise to £438m by 2020-21. But Marmot rebuked Johnson, saying that this figure had been discredited by the UK Statistics Authority. (Full story doi:10.1136/bmj.k240)
Staff shortages force mental health trusts to cut services
Problems with staffing have forced mental health providers around England …
Seven days in medicine: 17-23 January 2018 BMJ 2018; 360 :k323
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"Mom, I saw Clementine in her underpants once."
"We were changing clothes for swimming."
"Yeah but I changed in the bathroom so that no one would spy on my underwear parts."
A logical conclusion if ever I heard one.


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import cv2
import subprocess
import os

from utils import classifier as cs

class TesseractNoTrainingSlow(cs.GenericClassifier):
    """ This is WAY too slow to be useful - approx 10 digits/sec.
        Just here as an example.
    """
    def train(self, images, labels):
        pass

    def classify(self, image):
        return classify_digit(image)

def classify_digit(img):
    """ Classify the digit in an image containing a single digit.
        Image requirements (I think):
            - binary, white on black
            - upright, no skew etc
        Returns:
            1-9 (int), or None
    """
    img_path = 'tesseract_digit_img.tmp.jpg'
    txt_path = 'tesseract_classification.tmp.txt'
    cv2.imwrite(img_path, img)
    # tesseract options:
    #   -psm 10:    image contains a single character
    #   digits1-9:  'whitelist' config file that I created under
    #               /usr/share/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/configs
    #               Contents of file:
    #               tessedit_char_whitelist 123456789
    subprocess.check_output(
        "tesseract "+img_path+" "+txt_path[:-4]+" -psm 10 digits1-9", shell=True)
    digit_str = open(txt_path, "r").read()
    digit_int = None
    try:
        digit_int = int(digit_str)
    except:
        pass
    os.remove(img_path)
    os.remove(txt_path)
    return digit_int

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Leveraging Fulbrighters' Insights for American Classrooms: The Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Program and Reach the World
Katherine Long, 2016-2017, Tajikistan (right), playing a game with two young Tajik girls.
For nearly ten years, Fulbright English Teaching Assistants (ETAs) have had the opportunity to volunteer with Reach the World (RTW) to share their experiences abroad with pre-kindergarten through 12th grade classrooms back home in the United States.
RTW utilizes the power of virtual exchange to enable Fulbright ETAs, who apply to volunteer with RTW, to bring their host country into an engaged classroom of American students. Fulbright ETAs share many aspects of life in another country with their student audiences in the United States, from grilled meats in Argentina to the unique plant life in the Maltese archipelago. These talented, passionate recent college graduates and early career professionals also capture rare, extraordinary experiences, like visiting the remote Caño Cristales river in Colombia. As young learners from throughout the United States interact with Fulbright ETAs, they are building vital global competencies that will serve them for years to come while challenging their perspectives about the world and their role as citizens. These global competencies include such things as increased geographic literacy and a greater desire to travel, changes in empathetic thinking when encountering difference, and pursuing higher education opportunities.
Chisama-Ku Penn, 2016-2017, Fulbright English Teaching Assistant to Argentina (center), posing with friends at Pehuen-Có Beach.
Since 2009, nearly 200 Fulbright ETAs, (16% of all RTW volunteer travelers) have completed online journeys with RTW classrooms all over the United States. These grantees truly lived the Fulbright Program's mission of increasing mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. To date, they have shared more than 3,000 stories from their time abroad for more than 3,400 students. One RTW teacher in Kentucky said, "Students couldn't believe that there were programs in place that would allow them to travel the world during college and afterwards. Taking a job overseas has never entered some of their minds." In embarking on a Reach the World journey with a Fulbright ETA, American students can explore a new part of the world in partnership with an inspiring role model to show that they too can study and travel abroad, just like their volunteer traveler.
Kara Witherill, 2015-2016, Fulbright English Teaching Assistant to Germany (center), in Hassfurt with friends at a nearby lake.
Through virtual exchange, Fulbright ETAs volunteering with Reach the World create the next generation of curious, confident global citizens. Luke, a Fulbright ETA in Argentina, wrote, "Personally, RTW has helped me to reflect on my experience in a way I wouldn't have been able to do otherwise…This process of writing and reflecting has actually been a sort of aid in the process of adjusting to life abroad, and has simultaneously allowed me to feel like I'm contributing to something beyond myself as it becomes a way of teaching students in the United States."
Reach the World is able to harness original, first-hand stories of exceptional, passionate Fulbrighters in real time and transform them into a dynamic, immersive teaching resource for American educators. Global competence will be essential for the American workforce to face the challenges of the 21st century, and it is partnerships like the one between Reach the World and the Fulbright Program that will ensure America's youth of today become that global workforce of tomorrow.
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Falling in Love with the Inferno: Adjusting to Life in Piauí


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Gamblesby is een gehucht in het Engelse graafschap Cumbria.
De plaats wordt al in 1177 genoemd als  Gamelesbi, en in 1212 als Gamelesby.

Het is gelegen tussen de grotere plaatsen Penrith en Alston, ten westen van het Penninisch Gebergte en ten oosten van het Lake District.

Geschiedenis
In 1772 vertrok de grondlegger van het methodisme John Wesley vanuit Newcastle naar Gamblesby, waar hij in 1784 een kapel liet bouwen. Deze kapel werd in 1864 vervangen door een andere. In 1868 werd de kerk van St. John gebouwd in laat-dertiende-eeuwse stijl. De kerk is niet meer in gebruik en wordt verbouwd tot woonhuis.

Externe link
Gamblesby

Plaats in Cumbria

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Salthill Knocknacarra junior camogie team defeated Liam Mellows in the Junior B County Final on Sunday by 3-08 to 0-07.
Back row: Kevin Lynch (selector ), Willie Madden (manager ), Shannon Keady, Hannah Hernon, Doireann Ní Mhuirí, Meadhbh O'Hara, Fiona Kelly, Jessica Patten, Aoibhe McGinley, Ciara Burke, Megan Keane, Sarah Keane, Emma Clancy, Ailbhe Farrell, Sorcha Marnell, Fr Terry O'Brien (selector ), Richie Marnell (selector ).
Front row: Vicky Flanagan, Rian Spillane, Siobhan Divilly, Eimear Kelly, Mary Murray, Juliette Cantillon, Evie Hayes Captain ), Ailbhe O'Grady Corcoran, Sarah Madden, Ava Conlon, Saoirse fFrench, Lavina Byrnes, Zoe May, Aine Griffin, Orla Callanan, Louise Cannon, Megan Harty.


convenient means of interconnecting IXP participants with each other.
term "Route" described in [RFC4271].
liaise with each of their intended interconnection partners.
that also connect to the route server.
route server than where a single Loc-RIB is deployed for all clients.
is the number of route server clients that require a unique Loc-RIB.
may not scale well for larger numbers of clients.
server deployments are manageable even on larger IXPs.
from the route server to each route server client.
Loc-RIBs only for route server clients with unique routing policies.
data store such as an Internet Routing Registry Database.
will scale no better than fully non-optimized per-client Loc-RIBs.
and to send non-overlapping sets of prefixes to each route server.
prefix announcements or else limit the scale of any such leak.
requires more administrative resources to maintain properly.
client with the inbound prefix lists configured for those clients.
provide significant advantages to both operator and client.
reachability information from each system is identical.
speaker that sent the BGP route.
consistency check towards the route server.
be propagated to all other clients, a subset of clients, or none.
server to implement per-client export routing policies.
with 4-octet AS numbers [RFC6793].
description into route server configurations.
they have routing policy control.
algorithms) the same as the data path between them.
if there were no alternative paths learned from other BGP sessions.
allows route servers to operate on a shared Layer 2 IXP network.
redirect traffic for their prefixes to other IXP participant routers.
network with traffic that would not normally be sent there.
be used to affect many networks simultaneously.
connections for traffic engineering or other purposes.
depending on the route server operator policy.
destination via another route server client.
arbitrary Internet networks by leaking BGP routes to a route server.
hijacking, as described in Section 4.8.
[RS-ARCH]  Govindan, R., Alaettinoglu, C., Varadhan, K., and D.
Bakker, and Eduardo Ascenco Reis for their valuable input.


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High Saturation Induction for Bi-Substituted Yttrium Iron Garnet Prepared Via Sol Gel Technique
Noorhana Yahya and Goh Kah Hean
Y3.0-xBixFe5O12 samples (x = 0.2 and 0.4) were prepared via novel sol-gel and conventional solid-state techniques. The effect of bismuth in both techniques was investigated in terms of shrinkage, density, hysteresis and initial permeability. Sharp and clear diffraction XRD lines with highest peak appear at about 32° of the 2θ¸, for all the powders sintered at 900°C and 1250°C for both techniques. In evaluating the magnetic properties, it was observed that the saturation induction (1.1902kG) of sample prepared via sol-gel technique (Y2.8Bi0.2Fe5O12) is more than 200% higher than sample with the same formula prepared via conventional technique. Fine grained microstructure with average grain size of about 5μ m and higher shrinkage, about 11% were observed from the samples prepared via sol gel technique. It is concluded that samples prepared via sol gel technique appear to be an attractive route due to the possible reduction of cost of production and the enhanced magnetic and structural properties of the sample.
Submitted On: 3 November 2006 Published On: 28 February 2007
How to Cite: Yahya, N. & Hean, G. K. (2007). High Saturation Induction for Bi-Substituted Yttrium Iron Garnet Prepared Via Sol Gel Technique. American Journal of Applied Sciences, 4(2), 80-84. https://doi.org/10.3844/ajassp.2007.80.84
Copyright: © 2007 Noorhana Yahya and Goh Kah Hean. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Conventional solid state
hysteresis
initial permeability
sol gel technique
C (conventional) S (sol-gel)


I've been going through cash flow planning with sole traders now for nearly 15 years, and it's a great way to plan how to not run out of the money.
A cash flow sheet for small businesses is one of the templates that trainees can download after our finance workshops. It's still there, and it's still the best sheet to use if you're a sole trader or running a limited company or partnership.
At long last *BIG FANFARE* I've devised a simplified cash flow planner which works for freelancers being paid as employees. This should be particularly useful for people starting out on their freelance career.
Many freelancers now have a mixture of taxed or untaxed PAYE-type income. And some might also have a sole trader business for other types of work. Traditional cash flow sheets can't get easily their heads around this.
Most people will probably only use one of these lines, or possibly two. However I regularly meet people who have all three types of income across a tax year.
The outgoings section is split into two.
Spending in your personal life will be relevant to everyone.
Spending on business-related bits and piece will probably only be useful to people who have some self-employed income and limited business expenses. But it can also be used by PAYE freelancers to plan spending on travel or equipment, even when not tax deductible.
There's also a line in case you need to remind yourself that you owe some tax later in the year.
And the lines at the bottom? Well, that's the bottom line. Will you run out of cash or will you have anything in the kitty?
It's a new sheet, so if you find any errors, do let me know.
This spreadsheet is in Excel format. An Apple Numbers version is on its way shortly!
Have been freelance for about a year now, it's been a slow start but much more fun than commuting to an office every day. I think we covered the cashflow spreadsheet at the end of the day on the course and by that time my brain was full. I still haven't got my head around it so am looking forward to having a go at the simplified version. Many thanks!
Thanks Kate! I'm hoping this simplified sheet might be easier to cope with when the brain is full. I tried it out last week and people loved it. Good luck.


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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.Cci;

namespace VBSourceEmitter {
  public partial class SourceEmitter : CodeTraverser, IVBSourceEmitter {
    public override void TraverseChildren(INestedUnitNamespace nestedUnitNamespace) {
      PrintNamespaceDefinition((INamespaceDefinition)nestedUnitNamespace);
    }

    public virtual void PrintNamespaceDefinition(INamespaceDefinition namespaceDefinition) {
      PrintNamespaceDefinitionAttributes(namespaceDefinition);
      PrintToken(VBToken.Indent);
      PrintKeywordNamespace();
      PrintNamespaceDefinitionName(namespaceDefinition);
      //PrintNamespaceDefinitionLeftCurly(namespaceDefinition);
      this.Traverse(namespaceDefinition.Members);
      //PrintNamespaceDefinitionRightCurly(namespaceDefinition);
    }

    public virtual void PrintNamespaceDefinitionAttributes(INamespaceDefinition namespaceDefinition) {
      foreach (var attribute in namespaceDefinition.Attributes) {
        PrintAttribute(namespaceDefinition, attribute, true, "assembly");
      }
    }

    public virtual void PrintNamespaceDefinitionName(INamespaceDefinition namespaceDefinition) {
      PrintIdentifier(namespaceDefinition.Name);
    }

    //public virtual void PrintNamespaceDefinitionLeftCurly(INamespaceDefinition namespaceDefinition) {
    //  PrintToken(CSharpToken.LeftCurly);
    //}

    //public virtual void PrintNamespaceDefinitionRightCurly(INamespaceDefinition namespaceDefinition) {
    //  PrintToken(CSharpToken.RightCurly);
    //}

    public new void Traverse(IEnumerable<INamespaceMember> namespaceMembers) {
      // Try to sort in a way that preserves the original compiler order (captured in token value).
      // Put things with no tokens (eg. nested namespaces) after those with tokens, sorted by name
      var members = new List<INamespaceMember>(namespaceMembers);
      members.Sort(new Comparison<INamespaceMember>((m1, m2) =>
        {
          var t1 = m1 as IMetadataObjectWithToken;
          var t2 = m2 as IMetadataObjectWithToken;

          var tc = (t1 == null).CompareTo(t2 == null);
          if (tc != 0)
            return tc;

          if (t1 != null)
            return t1.TokenValue.CompareTo(t2.TokenValue);

          return m1.Name.Value.CompareTo(m2.Name.Value);
        }));

      // Print the members with a blank line between them
      VisitWithInterveningBlankLines(members, m => Traverse(m));
    }

    public virtual void VisitWithInterveningBlankLines<T>(IEnumerable<T> members, Action<T> onVisit) {
      // Print the members with a blank line between any non-empty ones
      // We go to some effort here to avoid blank lines at the start or end of a block,
      // and double blank lines.
      bool blankLinePending = false;
      bool wroteSomething = false;
      var onLineStart = new Action<ISourceEmitterOutput>((o) => {
        wroteSomething = true;
        if (blankLinePending) {
          this.sourceEmitterOutput.WriteLine("");
          blankLinePending = false;
        }
      });
      this.sourceEmitterOutput.LineStart += onLineStart;
      foreach (var member in members) {
        wroteSomething = false;
        onVisit(member);
        // Only output a blank line when we've previously written something, and we're
        // about to start writing a new line
        if (wroteSomething)
          blankLinePending = true;
      }
      this.sourceEmitterOutput.LineStart -= onLineStart;
    }
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}


Find 3 quality items in your home, shop or office that someone would enjoy as a gift... fun, useful, interesting or beautiful items in really good shape that you feelyou can spare .
("Quality" doesn't mean "expensive". It means well-made, worthwhile, likely to be valued. The original price doesn't matter).
Bring them to the Historic Ashland Armory. Don't just drop your stuff off. We're doing more than that. Bring the present of your presence. Stick around to visit, tell a story or two about what you brought to the person who wants it, and find some things that you'd like to take away to give as gifts to others (a gift to yourself is ok, too). There won't be any bargaining; you just bring what you're ready to give away and take away whatever you'd like.
Then use the gifts you take home to reduce your new gift purchases.
Three simple steps, that's it. This will be our own Holiday shopping event, a round of giving and receiving that includes no money and no new demands on resources. For some of us it may also be a stretching exercise - a chance to let go of stuff, or let go of worries that we might not get back "our fair share", or more fully let go of commercially-planted ideas that it's not a real gift if it's not shiny & new from the store.
We'll have tea and simple treats to eat; bring a tasty sweet finger food to share if you'd like.


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Seychelles goes 4G
Airtel has launched Africa's a 4G FD-LTE service in the Seychelles, making it amongst the first countries in sub Saharan Africa to commercially deploy this technology.
The infrastructure is a new, nationwide LTE (Long Term Evolution) 800 MHz network, which will more than meet the growing customer demand for mobile broadband services, whilst delivering superior network performance. The network is expected to cover 10,000 LTE subscribers in the first phase and will greatly enhance connectivity giving Airtel's customers an improved smartphone experience, with faster web browsing, downloads and improved quality of service.
Airtel's 4G (FD-LTE) network was launched by His Excellency Mr. Danny Fure, Vice President, Government of Seychelles. The Vice President stated, "The deployment of the next generation mobile network across the Seychelles will enable an enhanced mobile experience and reliable services: and will facilitate new and exciting opportunities for businesses, the society and the people in the country.
Commenting on the launch, Mr. Christian de Faria, Airtel Africa's CEO said, "Today's launch is a major milestone for Seychelles and Airtel in Africa. We already have Africa's widest 3G footprint, being present in 17 countries. We are delighted to now provide leadership in setting the technology standard for 4G services in Africa by rolling out this cutting edge LTE network. I would like to thank the team involved in helping fulfill this achievement.
Airtel Seychelles Managing Director, Amadou Mahamat Dina, said" Besides offering rich content, Airtel's 4G will allow superfast access to High Definition (HD) video streaming, multiple chatting, instant uploading of photos and much more.
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Probably the most well known name of palettes out there.
I am under no illusion that there are probably hundreds of cheaper dupes for these palettes, but can you really beat the originals? Personally, I think not.
If you're new to Urban Decay or you just don't know which Naked is for you (all of them…. *cough*) then read on and I'll show you and tell you all about my favourite three.
This is the very first Naked palette that I owned… and as you can see by the photos, it is well loved. I started wearing eyeshadow for the first time a couple of years ago and I was hellbent on only using Youtube tutorials to complete my looks. Hence why there are a few colours in this palette that have been used to death.
This is my least favourite packaging out of the three. I just really don't like the feel of the material (is this velvet???) and I think that it gets dirty SO QUICK!! Please don't look at all of the horrible finger marks on the packaging! I try to keep it clean, I promise!
As I just mentioned, this palette has been loved to death and that's because of the colours. There are so many beautiful combinations that can be made with these colours, from neutral to night time to smoky looks!
My favourite colours in this palette are Sin and Toasted.
I would definitely recommend this palette for somebody who is starting out with make up and wants to try some different colours without being limited to just one look! They key to this palette is BLEND BLEND BLEND!
It is absolutely beautiful, the colour is just so girly and I love how clean and sleek it looks. It is so much harder to get dirty than the first palette and if you do mess it up, it's easy to wipe clean as it is a hard tin palette.
This is 100% my favourite in terms of the packaging.
SO MUCH PINK!!! The colours in this palette are quite limited to pretty in pink looks, but i'm definitely not complaining!
I have yet to do much experimenting with these colours but I think they would make an amazing daytime look. I can imagine that a rose gold/copper eye would be easy to create with this!
I just love how girly this palette is which is kind of why I'm scared to delve right into it! I don't want to spoil how pretty and pristine it is!
If you're in to the more softer eye make up then I would recommend the Naked 3 :) Plus, it looks pretty in your bedroom so show it off as much as you can!
I got this palette from my boyfriend for my 21st birthday. It was on my list as it had only just been released at the time and it was SO hard to get hold of. I was a very happy girly when I opened this.
This one is completely different to the rest of the collection, in a hard plastic casing with a lovely smoky effect on the background. If the word 'Smoky' was not enough for you to realise what type of palette this is, the packaging is a huge hint!
This is the only Naked palette that doesn't go in colour order! With a mix up of colours, there are so many different looks you can create. I am a bit scared to use the darker colours (although I know I wanted this for it's smoky-ness) as I'm not a master of blending at the minute and I do tend to look like a panda at the end of my experimenting.
If you are a master of eye make up - a lover of all things dark and smoky, I would HIGHLY recommend this palette for you. Go crazy with your blending and it's easy to create a smooth day time look and a bold night time eye!
I love all three of my palettes, I just can't wait to get Naked 2 and complete my collection! My aim for Summer is to use more of my Naked 3 as the colours will just look beautiful when the weather is warmer and the clothes get PINKER!
Which Naked palettes do you own? Which one is you favourite? Do you have any other brands that you recommend?
So it it worth me buying the Naked 2?! I feel like I need to complete my collection!
I know right, so pretty!
I do not own any of these 3 palettes ( I must be the only.girl in this world that doesn't own one haha) and I know I would love them but they are too expensive for my taste. Great review!!
If you ever feel like saving up and splurging on an expensive palette I think you should definitely go for one of these three!
I'm so embarrassed to say this but... I don't own any Urban Decay palettes! I know, I fail! lol. Its not that i'm not tempted I just have no where near me that stocks them and I really wanna play with them before I buy them. I love the look of palette three, those pinks just look like they belong on my face!


WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday blasted pharmaceutical companies for having "rigged the system" against American consumers by charging higher prices in the U.S. than they do abroad, announcing a new proposal he says will help even out those differences.
His idea, articulated in some detail in an HHS proposal posted as he spoke, would tie the amount of money that the government pays for certain drugs to their cost in other countries. The proposal is essentially a pilot program within the Medicare Part B program, which covers drugs administered by doctors. It's unclear exactly how this target reimbursement amount would be determined. The proposal lays out "potential calculation steps" and asks for feedback.
Trump's speech came as his administration has made its work on drug pricing a priority — and as that work, too, has increasingly taken direct aim at pharmaceutical companies. Last week, top officials unveiled a new proposal that would require drug makers to include the prices of their products in TV commercials.
The timing, just two weeks before the midterm elections, also bolsters the administration's argument that it is acting aggressively to curb soaring drug prices, even as Democrats around the country have made health care costs and perceived greed within the pharmaceutical industry central to their campaigns.
Right now, the government pays for drugs in Part B according to a formula based on each drug's average sales price, plus a 6 percent markup for the provider. And the government is required to cover every FDA-approved drug.
Trump also described a proposal to nix the 6 percent markup in favor of a flat fee. The details aren't clear, but health policy experts have widely promoted a similar idea as a way to encourage doctors to prescribe the treatment that is most medically appropriate as opposed to the treatment that will bring in the most cash. The HHS proposal lays out a framework that could increase the markup for some drugs and decrease it for others.
The ideas — which weren't even officially proposed as rules at this time — faces an uphill battle in Washington. Spurred by widespread criticism from drug makers, hospitals, and doctors, Republicans and even some Democrats excoriated the Obama administration when it tried to reduce how much the government paid for these drugs in 2016. It's unclear what will be different this time around.
Trump has previously pledged to make other countries pay more for drugs, saying in May that it was "unfair" and "ridiculous" that "their medicine is a tiny fraction of what the medicine costs in the USA," implying that people in other countries should be paying more.
Trump reiterated this point in his speech Thursday, saying that Americans are paying for much of the world's medical innovation.
Today's proposal would not directly force anyone else to pay more for research and development, or increase prices in other countries.
In fact, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar himself warned at a Senate hearing in June that tying the U.S. price of a drug to the price overseas might actually cause companies not to sell a drug in other countries.
Azar said that he looked at the idea of giving the U.S. "favored nation" status, which Trump in his speech suggested would be a good idea. But, Azar, said, "I don't think it would be effective" because it might cause drug companies to stop selling drugs in other countries for low prices so that they can keep selling them in the U.S. for high prices.
In a question-and-answer session with reporters later on Thursday, Azar acknowledged that he was initially concerned about the idea, but that he eventually changed his mind.
I am not sure where you are going with you comments and at time getting close to personal attacks.
Your suggestion that there is not enough regulations, I wonder where and how especially in pharma. When drug safety regulators tell you how to eat i.e. how hold knife and fork or when to go to the bathroom, I wonder how you would react.
It is highly unlikely any drug safety regulator has told anyone how to eat or defecate. A lot of dangerous drugs have been approved. In fact many of the deaths attributed to opiates are actually Polypharmacy. The Pharma Industry manages to keep the facts out of the newspapers, by misreporting the Facts. On the topic of opiates, the pharma industry paid off regulators, lied to physicians and is still misrepresenting their profiteering from the deaths of people, who have been lied to and misinformed.
There are plenty of resources, books and experts out there, perhaps you should pick on one of them. Perhaps if Pharma was seriously concerned about legitimate problems, instead of lying to regulators, gaming the system, and misleading the public, there could be an intelligent discussion on improving the system. They are much more concerned with profits, that creating necessary drugs for humanity. We can see how the Industry responded when they got control with this in their pocket, motivated by greed administration. Now they don't even need facts or science, and they can repackage old drugs while jacking the price up. They have a lot of help from media too, the Fact that the American public paid for a lot of their research, is censored!
People in this country are dying or being ripped off, because there are not enough regulations!
The drug regulations passed in 1962 increased the time it takes to get a drug to market from about 4 years to about 14 years by the turn of the century. People die waiting as a result and either turn to the black market or try to make the drugs in the pipeline in their kitchen. As the cost of development soars, innovation is lost. No matter how wealthy a person is, s/he cannot buy drugs that have not yet been discovered. Excess regulations, which provide no safety or effectiveness benefits (e.g., the 1962 Amendments to the Food & Drug Act), can be just deadly as bad drugs.
The documentation for this statement is in my book, "Death by Regulation" and in my STAT article (https://www.statnews.com/2018/10/01/changing-1962-law-slash-drug-prices/). Please share the documentation for your statements as they relate to the pharmaceutical industry. Thanks!


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Humans see lightening and attributed it to Thor, due to their lack of understanding.
Jerry sees existence and attributes it to a Creator, due to his lack of understanding.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
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Just to demonstrate she retains a sense of humour, our resident cud chomper wrote
Even when corrected, he prefers to hold on to his myth rather than confront the truth.
Oh the ironing!
Lily wrote
You are incredibly ignorant and hell-bent on remaining so. Name-calling, particularly in your obvious complete absence of knowledge, does not make you look any smarter.
No comment necessary.
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You dont want to reason- you just want yak ,yak,yak
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Although it is true that jobby is comically lacking in self-awareness, he's not a theist, as far as I can tell (just a bit of a dense atheist).
And it's 2010 but we're still posting in Merkin's 2009. It's the gestalt of the topic. Though I see it's your thread... so I'll let your ruling stand.
Or maybe Jobby could convert to Catholicism as a personal favor to me.
That's true. When I posted in Merkins 2009, I was thinking that we need to start a new one.
What a pathetic enabler of lunacy you are... In the real world, defending lunacy, lies, gossip and evasions doesn't fly.
Apparently it does, when it concerns the Catholic Church and the biggest enabler of child abuse and rape, Pope Ratzy.
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When even Lutherans (liberal branch ) vigorously defend the Pope, you have a credibility problem on your hands.
The secular press has had it in for Joseph Ratzinger for going on three decades. Before his election as Pope in the spring of 2005, he was routinely derided in his homeland as the Panzerkardinal ("tank cardinal") and caricatured in North America as the "Enforcer" or even the "Rottweiler." The roots of this negative reputation stretch back at least as far as the book-length interview he granted to the Italian journalist Vittorio Messori that catapulted him to global fame when published as The Ratzinger Report in 1985. …
In addition to the unremitting hostility directed at him from the Modernist wing of his own Communion, even prior to his election as Pope, Ratzinger was a favourite target of the unbelieving world's impassioned hatred for Christ Jesus our Lord and the members of His mystical body. Some years ago, the British Daily Telegraph (which at one time had the reputation of being a "quality" newspaper) reported that the then cardinal had committed a terrible "gaffe" by publicly expressing hope for the conversion of the Jews. Fancy that, a Christian wishing salvation for a sizeable group of his neighbours, a faux pas indeed! ...
The Canadian mainstream media were frenziedly sharpening their knives against Joseph Ratzinger in the weeks when he was a strong candidate to succeed John Paul II. His papacy was barely a few hours old when the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) evening news ran a segment on an aged Italian woman (a "good Catholic", of course) who stood crestfallen amid a jubilant crowd as Benedict XVI appeared on the balcony of St. Peter's, walking dejectedly away as she realized that women's ordination, contraception, sexual licence, abortion on demand, and all that good stuff would still be denied the papal seal of approval.
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Big surprise, a self-styled Christian group comes out in support of another self-styled Christian group which yet other self-styled Christian groups claim is not really a Christian group at all.
We are supposed to give credence to some Lutherans when Evangelicals denounce the RCC as non-Christian. Good luck with that.
We are not responsible for such an internal mish-mash so we need not give any of the warring religious factions any credence.
The cow has my permission to leave now.
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Some "Good Catholic" had better not let her leaders (by the nose) know that she is reading material from actively heretical (Lutheran) sources.
Awww, that's so cute, Lily. Christians are being treated unfairly, and the rest of the world is out to get them. That makes me soooo sad.
Meanwhile, Ratzy is still covering for child rapists, and their enablers, while trying to save his own skin. Poor victim!
In response to the Big Bang theory, and the most current understanding of the origins of the universe...
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Your scenario is fantastic and incredible.
Less than 30 minutes later...
As an unembodied mind, God is a remarkably simple entity. As a non-physical entity, a mind is not composed of parts, and its salient properties, like self-consciousness, rationality, and volition, are essential to it. In contrast to the contingent and variegated universe with all its inexplicable quantities and constants, a divine mind is startlingly simple. Certainly such a mind may have complex ideas—it may be thinking, for example, of the infinitesimal calculus—, but the mind itself is a remarkably simple entity. Dawkins has evidently confused a mind's ideas, which may, indeed, be complex, with a mind itself, which is an incredibly simple entity. Therefore, postulating a divine mind behind the universe most definitely does represent an advance in simplicity, for whatever that is worth.
Ahhhh, self-awareness! If only you could buy some.


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Spawell Road, Wexford
Spawell Road runs across the bottom of Hill Street in Wexford Town. It is roughly 1KM in length and it stretches from Carcur on the north side of the town to Westgate and Slaney Street. Spawell Road is best known for being home to the redbrick houses of Glena Terrace, Redmond Park and the Loreto Secondary School, which is a single-sex Catholic school for girls.
The name of the street originates from an old spa well, which used to be situated close to Westgate, underneath the building that currently houses the Indian Tandoori restaurant. Locally, this spa well was referred to as "the Spa".
Pictured above: Glena Terrace.
The most striking part of Spawell Road is Glena Terrace, which is a row of eight redbrick three-storey houses. These were built by a woman called Mary O'Connor back in 1892. After her husband had died an early death, O'Connor took over his building practice. Over the years, she went on to make several significant contributions to the architecture of Wexford Town. It is worth noting that at the time, O'Connor was the only female architect in both Ireland and Great Britain!
Pictured above: Spawell Road at night, just after a thunderstorm had passed by.
An Ordnance Survey map from the 1800s names a number of different buildings and houses that were located in the area. These were:
Strandfield House. Located where the Strandfield Manor estate is today.
Riverside House.
Spawell Mill (also known as Howard Rowe's Flour Mill). Previously, it was Scallan's Brewery. Judging from the OSI map, the grounds of the mill would have covered the front half of Redmond Park.
Riverview Terrace: Still in existence.
Carcur House: Still in existence.
A rectory, which was a clergy house.
Lorne Villa.
St. Joseph's Chapel & Convent.
Tivoli Terrace: Still in existence.
The Loretto Convent: Now a secondary school for girls.
Nowadays, the road is home to several housing estates, such as Priory Court, Richmond Terrace, Spawell Crescent and Spawell Lane.
The picture above was taken outside of the gates of Redmond Park. The entrance is just up ahead. The Loreto Secondary School is situated further up ahead on the right.
This is the roundabout at the end of Hill Street, which meets with Spawell Road. To the right, you can see the front gates of Wexford's old gaol.
Wexford Gaol was used as a prison up until the early 1900s. The women's prison and the front gates of the surrounding grounds are still intact. Later, it was turned into a home for inebriates (drunkards), which was called St. Brigid's Centre. This might explain why the area was called St. Brigid's Road during the 1910s.
I've also been informed that the road was sometimes referred to as The Jail Road by locals (for obvious reasons).
Pictured above: Looking in the direction of Glena Terrace and the roundabout at the end of Hill Street.
According to Philip Herbert Hore in his book History of Town and County of Wexford (1906), the area was first referred to as Whitewell back in 1650. One can only presume that this name also came from the popular well that was located in the area.
On the 2nd of October, 1649, Oliver Cromwell and his New Model Army arrived at the outskirts of Wexford Town. During the first day of the siege, Cromwell's army set up camp in this area of the town; before eventually circling around the outskirts and relocating to Trespan Rock on the south of the wall.
Above: The main entrance to Redmond Park, which was opened in the 1930s. In the past, this was the location of Howard Rowe's corn mill.
Pictured above: Strandfield House, which is located inside the Strandfield Manor housing estate. The house was constructed in the mid-1700s. Since then, the building has been damaged because of fire and because of lengthy periods of being unoccupied. Recently, the house was repaired.
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Huh, seems Loki might have a bigger reason then just 'grabbing power' or the like.
Hmm. I need to do some re-reading. How much time has passed in-universe since the girls all woke up 8-9 months pregnant?
It basically started at the beginning of the school year. It's Mid/late January at the moment.
So, roughly 5 to 5 1/2 months then?
Ah-ha! Thanks for replying and love the comic, btw. So the question Dani should be asking herself, and us Readers will have to wait for the big reveal, is just how long they're going to be pregnant with the demigods/God Of Lies.


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19 Incredibly Haunted Hotels Around the World
Some hotels have rich histories — from illustrious past guests to previous lives as castles and ocean liners — that can add charm and even a bit of education to your next vacation. But others come with intrigue of the paranormal variety. Each of these 19 hotels has a haunted history that makes them unlike any other accommodations on Earth, from ghosts that wake up guests just for fun to former hotel owners that still roam the halls at night. Are you brave enough to check in?
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Crescent Hotel (Eureka Springs, Arkansas)
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It doesn't get much spookier than a hotel with an old morgue in the basement (now conveniently located right next to the spa). The Crescent Hotel, often deemed the most haunted hotel in America, originally opened in 1886 as a luxurious resort for wealthy train travelers making their way through Eureka Springs. It didn't stay that way for long, though.
Within just a few years, the hotel fell into disrepair. It reopened as the Crescent College and Conservatory for Young Women in 1908 and operated as a college of some form until 1934. Then, in 1937, the dark history of the place began to take shape. A crooked "doctor," Norman Baker, bought the property and turned it into a cancer hospital (hence the morgue). The problem was, he wasn't offering actual treatment — instead, he was hawking natural spring water with flavoring as a bogus cure. After countless deaths, the hospital was shut down in 1940, and Baker was sent to prison. The hotel's current iteration opened in the early 2000s, but ghosts of the past remain. Guests and paranormal investigators have reported seeing full-body apparitions of adults and children, and the hotel even offers ghost tours of the property.
Dragsholm Slot (Zealand, Denmark)
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Dragsholm Slot was originally built in 1215 as a palace. From there, it transformed into a castle, a prison, back to a castle, and now a hotel. It's often considered to be one of the most haunted buildings in Denmark — legend says it's home to more than 100 ghosts.
Three of them are more famous than the others. The White Lady was the daughter of one of the noblemen who lived in the building. She fell in love with a commoner — something her father viciously disapproved of — and as punishment, she was imprisoned and bricked into the castle walls. She's reportedly seen wandering the halls wearing a white dress. The second famous ghost, James Hepburn, died in the dungeon in 1578 — now, his ghost tears into the courtyard on horse and carriage every night. The third ghost, the Grey Lady, is much happier than the others. She had a terrible toothache in life that was healed by someone at the castle. In death, she is said to traverse the halls looking for good deeds to do as repayment.
The Langham Hotel (London, England)
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One of Europe's first grand hotels, the Langham debuted in London in 1865 to much fanfare — even the Prince of Wales came to the opening. It has remained a posh place ever since, hosting illustrious guests such as Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Princess Diana. But among those famous visitors, you can also find occupants of the ghostly kind — particularly in Room 333, considered to be the most haunted hotel room in London. It's said to be home for more than a few ghosts, including one who likes to shake the bed just for fun, a Victorian doctor who stares into the distance, and a German prince in military dress. Throughout the hotel, you may also be greeted by a man with a wounded face, a footman in a powdered wig, a lost butler, or Emperor Napoleon III himself.
Hotel Monte Vista (Flagstaff, Arizona)
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According to the Hotel Monte Vista, more than seven ghosts haunt the halls of the property — and guests are encouraged to try to communicate with them. The hotel opened on January 1, 1927, just off Route 66 in Flagstaff. It's connected to other downtown buildings through secret underground tunnels, and it was used as a speakeasy during Prohibition. Famous visitors have included Mary Costigan (who broadcast her radio show from there), Michael J. Fox, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Siouxsie Sioux. But as far as ghostly guests, you can expect to meet a man who messes up the bed and turns on the TV at full volume, a rocking chair that moves on its own, a bellboy, a crying baby, a dancing couple, and a bank robber who rearranges the bar and wishes people a good morning.
The Shelbourne (Dublin, Ireland)
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In the heart of Dublin, historic luxury hotel The Shelbourne is reportedly haunted by a ghost named Mary Masters, who loves to mess with water fixtures in one of the rooms. She died of cholera in the hotel, which opened in 1824, when she was just seven years old. Mary enjoys startling guests by opening and closing wardrobe doors, but her favorite thing to do is turn on the water. Guests regularly report the taps, shower, and tub being turned on unexpectedly. In fact, so many guests have recounted the same unexplained activities that the hotel had a staff member sleep in the room to see if the claims were true — it turns out, the staff member had the same experience.
Stanley Hotel (Estes Park, Colorado)
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Most people know the Stanley Hotel as the inspiration for Stephen King's The Shining, which he wrote after just one night at the property. The hotel opened in 1909 as an oasis in the Colorado mountain wilderness, complete with electric lights, en-suite bathrooms, and telephones. But even before Stephen King arrived in the 1970s, the hotel had a reputation for paranormal activity. Hotel owner F.O. Stanley, who died in 1940, has been a common sighting at the check-in desk since his death. There have also been reports of mysterious piano playing, laughter, shadowy figures, items moving on their own, and lights turning on and off. Guests at the hotel can book a special package guaranteeing them a stay on the most haunted floor, plus a ticket to the evening ghost tour.
First World Hotel (Pahang, Malaysia)
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The popular First World Hotel in Malaysia isn't just a colorful favorite — it's also the world's largest hotel, with more than 7,300 rooms. Guests with rooms on the 21st floor may find it a bit difficult to get to bed at night, however, as it's rumored to be a cursed floor that the elevator skips. In other rooms at the hotel, visitors report seeing vanishing figures and being pushed while sleeping. The hotel has a built-in casino, which many say is the reason for the ghosts; supposedly people who have lost their fortune there decided never to leave.
Lord Milner Hotel (Matjiesfontein, South Africa)
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The Lord Milner Hotel opened in 1899 just as the South African War was beginning. During the war, it was a military hospital with a lookout tower. It reopened in 1970 after renovations, with 15 rooms decorated in old-world splendor. But it's the hotel's history as a military space that gave way to the ghosts reported to live there today. One is Kate, a young nurse who used to play cards with soldiers as they recovered; she tends to walk up and down the staircase. Mary-Anne likes to jiggle the doorknob on Room 26. Lucy walks around in her nightgown. Olive hangs out in the gardens. British officers and soldiers congregate on the hotel balcony and spend time in the library. And with even more ghosts beyond that, the hotel certainly lives up to its legend as the most haunted hotel in South Africa.
The Queen Mary (Long Beach, California)
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In 1972, the first hotel rooms opened in the permanently docked Queen Mary, a former luxury ocean liner that also served as a troop ship for World War II. It now serves as a kind of floating museum in Long Beach, California, but even before the ship was permanently docked, people reported hearing knocking on doors and seeing full-body apparitions, flickering lights, mysteriously running water, a woman in a wedding gown, disappearing children, and ghostly crewmembers. Today, the hotel might just be one of the most haunted in America — curious visitors can take ghost tours to judge for themselves.
Le Château de Marçay (Marçay, France)
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Le Château de Marçay is a 15th-century castle that was converted into a 22-room hotel in 1973. A mysterious legend lies at the heart of the property's rumored ghost encounters. It's said that a former female resident of the castle turned into a werewolf every night, until she was shot by a terrified farmer. When the sun rose, the farmer realized he hadn't shot a wolf at all, but instead a woman. He secretly buried her, in her white shroud, on the property. Now she's seen every night, wandering the courtyard and the castle halls in her white dress.
Congress Plaza Hotel (Chicago, Illinois)
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The Congress Plaza Hotel opened in 1893 to house visitors to the World's Columbian Exposition that same year. In the years since, president after president has stayed at the ornate hotel, including William Taft, Calvin Coolidge, and Franklin Roosevelt — a distinction that earned it the nickname "The Home of Presidents." It's also known, however, as the most haunted hotel in Chicago. Dozens of ghosts are said to walk the halls, from businessmen who perished in nearby Lake Michigan to roller skaters who played in the roller rink before it became a ballroom.
Dalhousie Castle Hotel (Edinburgh, Scotland)
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For more than 800 years, Dalhousie Castle has stood guard over the Scottish countryside. In the beginning, the fortress and castle welcomed knights suited up in armor, who crossed a moat to get into the building. The moat is still there, along with remnants of the original drawbridge, but its function has changed. The castle has been used as a fortress, a home, a boarding school — and, since 1972, a hotel. Dalhousie runs ghost tours for curious guests to see some of the famous specters — like the Grey Lady, a mistress of one of the former lairds who was locked in a turret by his wife around 1500, and Sir Alexander Ramsay, a former resident who died there in 1342.
The Pfister (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
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The most well-known ghost stories at the Pfister Hotel come from professional sports teams — some players have been so scared that they refuse to stay there again. Charles Pfister built the hotel in 1893, and since he passed away, there have been reports of his ghost wandering the hotel to make sure things are running properly. But when Major League Baseball players started staying there regularly, more stories began to surface. Colby Lewis said he saw a skeleton in his room. Matt Treanor heard tapping and a child shouting. Brandon Phillips had a radio in his room that turned on and off by itself. Carlos Gomez saw his iPod move across the bedside table on its own. The stories go on.
Taj Mahal Palace (Mumbai, India)
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The 1903 Taj Mahal Palace hotel has seen a lot of history. It has served as a military hospital, been the site of terrorist attacks, and welcomed illustrious guests including royalty and even Alfred Hitchcock — which is rather apt for how haunted the hotel is said to be. One main ghost haunts the property: its architect, W.A. Chambers. He designed the hotel, approved the plans, and then went on a short trip out of the country. When he returned, he discovered — to his horror — that the hotel had been built backwards. It was too far along in construction to start over, and Chambers stewed in the misery of it until he couldn't take it anymore. Now his ghost looks after the hotel and fights off people trying to steal or damage the property.
Fairmont Le Château Frontenac (Quebec City, Canada)
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The Fairmont Le Château Frontenac towers over Quebec City, high up on a hill overlooking the old town and its European-style streets. It replaced a previous castle used as wartime headquarters, and though it's styled to look much older, it has only been there since 1893 and has been a hotel the entire time. But even still, the hotel reportedly has ghosts roaming the halls. One is Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac, who mourns his lost love, and the other is a woman dressed in a nightgown who enjoys waking people up at night.
Mermaid Inn (Rye, England)
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Though the original building from the spot is gone, the cellars at the Mermaid Inn date back to 1156. It was a hotel from the 12th century until 1770, welcoming sailors during the Middle Ages and smugglers in the early 1700s, the latter of whom built tunnels and secret cellars. When it finally reopened as a hotel in 1993, it welcomed famous guests including Charlie Chaplin. Ghosts from the building's past might visit as well. There's a lady in white sitting by a fireplace, a rocking chair that moves on its own, and smugglers who still roam the halls.
Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel (Banff, Canada)
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The Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel was built in 1888 to be a luxurious hotel for those passing through the Canadian Rockies on the Canadian Pacific Railway. It has continued to grow and expand ever since, except for a brief three-year shutdown during World War II. Ghost stories have grown with the hotel as well. Some specific rooms are considered haunted — though staff won't reveal the exact room numbers — by ghosts that either push guests out of bed at night or wake them up with screaming. Elsewhere in the hotel, a ghost of a bride haunts the staircase where she fell and the ballroom where she never got to dance. And a bellman from the 1960s and 1970s named Sam roams the hotel looking for guests to help.
The Russell Hotel (Sydney, Australia)
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Carrying the designation of Sydney's most haunted hotel, The Russell Hotel was built in 1887 on the site of Australia's first general hospital in The Rocks, the city's oldest neighborhood. Bubonic plague sufferers were treated there, and once the hotel was built, it was used as a sailors' hostel and allegedly a brothel for a period of time. Its long rocky past has given way to the ghosts of today. Room 8 is supposed to be the scariest, with a sailor appearing only to women at the foot of the bed and waking them up. A woman in white appears in the downstairs part of the hotel, footsteps with no person attached walk around the floors and up the stairs, and other paranormal activity happens regularly — like temperature changes and electronics losing power.
Chillingham Castle (Northumberland, England)
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Built in the 12th century with full battlements added in 1344, Chillingham Castle looks the same as it did when it struggled through battles, hosted royalty, and handled treason cases. Members of the current royal family still visit, continuing a long tradition of royals staying in private rooms at the castle. The hotel challenges guests, asking if they're "brave enough" to stay the night at one of England's most paranormal spots. At least four spirits are said to reside there: a frail woman in white in a pantry area, a ghostly sensation in one of the rooms, two men having a conversation in the chapel, and shadows in the courtyard.
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Alumni Spotlight: Danny Hutchins
Danny Hutchins
Class of 2016 B.F.A., Musical Theater
It's no stretch to say that Daniel (Danny) Hutchins is a fan of Disney. When he saw the tour of Disney's On the Record at the age of 10, he knew that theater was going to be part of his future.
As a junior at the Conseravtory, he had the unique opportunity to bring his childhood inspiration to life through the Conservatory's Entrepreneurial Grant Program. "I felt this show had an important story to tell—a story not only about believing in yourself, but also about what you can achieve when you set your mind to it," explained Hutchins.
Because Hutchins wanted his production of On the Record to have a lasting impact on the community, he presented the project in honor of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, for which he raised over $800. In addition to the main performance, Hutchins also modified the production for performances in the community, including with the YMCA After-School Program, YMCA Family Program, and the Hurley School After School Program.
The project was underwritten by the Conservatory's Entrepreneurial Grant Program. Hutchins said, "It was a valuable experience . . . to be in charge and heavily involved in all the things that go on behind the scenes. . . . It was a huge learning experience for me, and it was wonderful to be able to do it in the Conservatory's safe and supportive environment."
Disney's On the Record was produced through a special arrangement with Disney Theatrical Productions.


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The Exeter Revue: Sketchy At Best @ Edinburgh Fringe 2014
A project by: The Exeter Revue
University of Exeter
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This project received pledges on Tue 24 Jun 2014
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"The UK's finest student sketch troupe" (Darren's mum) take their debut show to The Edinburgh Fringe
Who are you? No, not you, us!
We are The Exeter Revue, the brand new comedy society at the University of Exeter. We perform live shows consisting of sketches, songs and stand up comedy, and despite being new this year we have produced a number of sell-out shows and quite simply want to achieve our ultimate goal this summer.
What are you doing? No, not you, us again!
From the 2nd to the 23rd August, we will be taking our first ever show to The Edinburgh Fringe festival so that we can put student comedy at Exeter on the map and perform alongside some of the best acts around. All of the big names in comedy started at the fringe, so you could be helping the next big thing to break through the industry's hypothetical wall by giving them a hypothetical hammer of experience made of money. Before heading up there, we'll also be performing a preview show at The Balham Fringe on the 21st June.
Why do you need my money? No, not ours...you get the idea.
We can't make this dream a reality without your help. We have a great show and a very talented group of people behind it, but because of how expensive it is to take a show to Edinburgh we won't be able to make it without your support (and other such charity clichés).
As we are a new society, we lack the savings the older ones already have, and although we have raised as much as we can, we still need your help to raise the money we need for Fringe regisration, accomodation (including the accomodation deposit), and production values such as costumes, props etc.
As you'll appreciate, many students can't afford to pay their own way for a project like this, so if we don't reach our goal, these people will lose out and we won't be able to perform at all.
This isn't just about money. It's about doing what we love.
Writing and performing comedy is our passion. For us, making people laugh is what makes us tick.That is why this means so much to us. It's not just about writing jokes. It's about creating an experience for our audience and growing as a cast over the three week stint. We should probably write some jokes too though.
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Thanks for reading and for your support. We hope to see you in Edinburgh!
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Zuckerberg: Kids under 13 should be able to use Facebook
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Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said at a summit that social networking sites can be a tool for education and that Facebook should be able to open its site to users under 13, Fortune first reported. The Washington Post reports that right now, Facebook does not allow users under 13 to register for its site. The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act prohibits companies from collecting information from young children without permission from parents. Facebook set 13 as its minimum age but a recent report, however, found that many users ignore those rules. The company believes it should focus on educating
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