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Muslims and Christians unite to rebuild Mosul monastery
In a May 27 Facebook post, 'This is Christian Iraq' documented Muslims and Christians working together to rebuild Mar Georges Monastery in Mosul, Iraq. Photo courtesy of 'This is Christian Iraq' via Facebook
By CNA/EWTN News
MOSUL, Iraq – As government forces pry apart the Islamic State's three yearlong grip on Mosul, Muslims and Christians have united to rebuild a damaged monastery.
A Facebook page called "This is Christian Iraq" – dedicated to connecting Iraqi Christians and maintaining the faith amid ISIS threat – recently posted a series of photos showing the joint effort.
The May 27 post said that young Muslims from the northern neighbourhood joined Christians at the Monastery of Saint George, participating in cleaning and repairs.
The monastery belongs to the Chaldean Catholic tradition, an Eastern Catholic rite in full communion with the Vatican. ISIS militants vandalized the monastery – smashing windows, damaging the church's dome, and discarding its cross.
Although still in need of repairs, the17th century monastery gathered Chaldeans for Easter celebration this year, according to the Irish Times.
"God willing, the celebration of the resurrection of Christ will also mark the return and rising-up of the Christians in Iraq," Kyriacos Isho, an attendee of the service, told the newspaper.
A new cross has now replaced the old one, and the coming together of Christians and Muslims marks a promising time for both religions as reports announce a final push against the Islamic terrorists.
Residents have seen U.S.-backed Iraqi forces gathering around the local Grand al-Nuri Mosque in the 48 hours leading up to May 31, in what Reuters reports to be a "final showdown."
The nearly 1000 year old mosque has flown the terrorist's black flag since the group captured the capital city in 2014. The site is where Islamist caliphate was declared by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, announcing the reign of a new Muslim leader.
Three years ago the Islamic State made roads into the Iraqi's Nineveh Plain, and since then over 3.3 million Iraqis have been displaced internally. Christians and moderate Muslims were also subject to persecution. They were often forced to pay heavy taxes or even offered a choice of conversion or death.
Over 2016, internal and international forces reclaimed parts of the city, and Eastern Mosul had been retaken in early January of this year.
The government forces are now focusing on Western Mosul, where the mosque is located at the Old City center, and the three districts near the Western side of the Tigris River.
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Record number of U.S. coal-fired power plants shut down in 2019
By Karen Graham Jan 13, 2020 in Environment
U.S. coal-fired power plants shut down at the second-fastest pace on record in 2019, lowering carbon dioxide emissions, air pollution, and ozone levels.
Power companies retired or converted roughly 15,100 megawatts (MW) of coal-fired electricity generation, enough to power about 15 million homes, according to data provided by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) and Reuters reporting.
This was second only to the record 19,300 MW shut in 2015 during President Barack Obama's administration. Coal production in the U.S. has been in steep decline for the past 10 years - due primarily to competition from natural gas which is cheap and abundant.
President Donald Trump has downplayed the impacts of climate change since taking office in 2017, yet an estimated 39,000 MW of coal-fired power plant capacity has shut during his tenure to date. Should this trend continue, more coal-fired power plants will have shut during Trump's first four years (46,600 MW) than were closed during Obama's second term in office (43,100 MW).
This is good news for our health
The closure of hundreds of coal-fired power plants in the past decade has saved over 26,610 lives, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Sustainability.
Besides reducing carbon dioxide emissions, the closures have also lowered air pollution and ozone levels and has even increased nearby crop yields, according to the study led by environmental scientist Jennifer Burney at the University of California, San Diego.
"When you turn coal units off you see deaths go down. It's something we can see in a tangible way," Burney told The Guardian. "There is a cost to coal beyond the economics. We have to think carefully about where plants are sited, as well as how to reduce their pollutants."
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Cirrhochrista cyclophora is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Oswald Bertram Lower in 1903 and it is found in Australia.

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From huge all-inclusive resorts offering hotels, restaurants, transportation and entertainment to small, specialized venues, Orlando attractions offer a choice of diverse activities. Choose from animal encounters, history, the downright strange, eco-adventures and interactive museums all within Orlando. Visit Disney World, Universal Studios, Sea World or one of the less well-known Orlando attractions.
Disney's Animal Kingdom Park features animal encounters in seven themed areas. Rides include a river ride, a dinosaur thrill ride and Expedition Everest. Visit the petting zoo, the Conservation Station and any of the six Kids Discovery Clubs. Take one of the Kilimanjaro Safaris or explore the Maharajah Jungle Trek among many others.
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Discovery Cove offers a unique day trip of interacting with sea life, swimming with rays and dolphins, adventure or just kicking back and enjoying the tropical setting. Admission includes snorkeling gear, towels, parking and food.
If you love to play in the water, Aquatica offers a unique SeaWorld style water-park featuring a clear tube style slide through a dolphin tank, beaches for sunbathing and other water rides.
Opened in 1949, Gatorland, a family-owned, eco-friendly attraction, provides an unusual family-friendly-park and wildlife preserve combination. Known as the "Alligator Capital of the World," there are wildlife shows, animal interaction and educational opportunities.
For a truly odd experience, visit Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Orlando Odditorium. Filled with unusual artifacts and oddities, the Orlando Odditorium welcomes visitors every day of the year.
Step back in time while experiencing the Titanic with full and partial scale recreations, actual artifacts, movie artifacts and actors in full period costume providing guided tours.
Wonder works is an interactive museum experience filled with exhibits including a space shuttle simulator, fighter jet simulator, virtual sports, a bubble lab and an earthquake simulator.
Visit Harry P. Leu Gardens for a view of the plants that grow best in USDA Zone 9b. This botanical garden offers many specialty areas, including butterfly gardens, camellia gardens, rose gardens, bird gardens, fragrance gardens and herb and vegetable gardens.
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Volkswagen Says This I.D. Roomzz Electric SUV Concept Will Be Out in 2021
The mid-size SUV is the sixth all-electric concept from the German automaker and will be part of a rollout of VW EVs that starts next year.
By Drew Dorian
A mid-size SUV concept from Volkswagen, the I.D. Roomzz, has made its world debut at the Shanghai auto show.
The I.D. Roomzz is the sixth vehicle in Volkswagen's I.D. all-electric lineup of concept vehicles.
Volkswagen claims to be working on a production version of this and other I.D.-branded electric vehicles with plans to start launching them as early as 2020.
Volkswagen is expanding its range of all-electric concept vehicles with the debut of the mid-size I.D. Roomzz SUV at the Shanghai auto show. The I.D. Roomzz's odd name is in character with those of the other I.D. vehicles VW has shown already; it joins the I.D. Crozz, the I.D. Buzz, and three other I.D.-branded concepts, many of which Volkswagen claims to be ushering toward production with assembly starting in 2020.
The Roomzz concept boasts an 82.0-kWh battery pack which should provide a driving range of nearly 280 miles and dual electric motors that provide all-wheel-drive traction. Volkswagen claims a top speed of 112 mph and says the Roomzz can go from zero to 62 mph in 6.6 seconds. The concept is capable of both inductive charging and traditional plug charging.
Four large sliding side doors provide easy ingress and egress to the Roomzz concept, although we doubt the production model will retain the dramatic apertures—a wise move considering the trouble rival Tesla has had with the Model X's fancy falcon-wing rear doors.
The I.D. Roomzz concept is shown with two rows of individual bucket seats that offer space for four, but Volkswagen says the production model will have three rows of seats and could sit up to eight if bench seats are selected for the second and third rows. The seats themselves are wrapped in a new material Volkswagen is calling AppleSkin that it describes as "artificial leather that contains 20 percent vegetable matter."
Full autonomous driving is part of the vision here, and the concept's interior is reconfigurable when the vehicle is driving itself; the seats can be rotated inward by 25 degrees to "enable a more communicative lounge-like atmosphere" while the Roomzz pilots itself to the set destination.
With a dashboard and a center instrument panel that appears completely devoid of buttons, the I.D. Roomzz concept borrows heavily from the design shown in the I.D. Crozz concept and follows a trend toward minimalism elsewhere in the automotive industry. The steering wheel, however, is unique and incorporates a 5.8-inch digital display screen and forgoes the traditional steering wheel rim for a solid, squared-off control that's gripped from the sides.
Navigation instructions are provided via an augmented reality head-up display that projects turn-by-turn directions for the driver in the virtual space ahead of the vehicle. We'll have to wait to see how much of the Roomzz's technology turns up in the production vehicle, but we won't have to wait long. The three-row SUV is said to be among the first vehicles leading the charge in Volkswagen's electrification efforts and perhaps will be built alongside the upcoming I.D. Crozz and the current three-row Atlas SUV in Tennessee. According to VW, this SUV concept is going to be released worldwide in 2021.


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Beth Chapman, co-star of bounty hunter reality TV, dies
By Terell BaileyJun 26, 2019, 15:01 pm
HONOLULU (AP) — Beth Chapman, who co-starred with her husband on the "Dog the Bounty Hunter" reality TV show and later spoke out against some bail reform measures as leader of a national bail agents' organization, has died.
A family spokeswoman, Mona Wood-Sword, said in a statement that Chapman died early Wednesday at Queen's Medical Center after an almost 2-year battle with cancer. She was 51.
Chapman was diagnosed with throat cancer in September 2017 after getting a nagging cough checked out. A tumor was removed and she was declared cancer-free. But in November 2018, she was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer.
"This is the time she would wake up to go hike Koko Head mountain," her husband, Duane "Dog" Chapman, posted on Twitter early Wednesday. "Only today, she hiked the stairway to heaven. We all love you, Beth. See you on the other side."
On Friday, Chapman had difficulty breathing and passed out momentarily, Wood-Sword said. She was taken to a hospital and doctors put her in a medically induced coma in a Honolulu hospital to spare her pain while treating her, Wood-Sword said.
Born Alice Elizabeth Smith in Denver, Chapman had lived in Honolulu since 1989. In 2006, she and Duane Chapman, the self-proclaimed world's best bounty hunter, married during a sunset ceremony at a Big Island resort after being together for 16 years.
"I've already been cuffed and shackled by Beth anyway," he told The Associated Press at the time.
The wedding took place two days after the death of Duane Chapman's 23-year-old daughter, Barbara Katy Chapman, who died in a car accident near her home in Fairbanks, Alaska. The couple decided to go forward with the wedding to celebrate her life. The wedding was featured in an episode of the A&E series "Dog the Bounty Hunter," which followed the duo's exploits in apprehending people who have avoided arrest warrants.
In 2007, Hawaii lawmakers honored the couple for their work capturing criminals.
"It's kind of extraordinary to be called a crime fighter," she said at the time. "I'll have to go home and get my Wonder Woman outfit."
Duane Chapman gained fame after he nabbed serial rapist and Max Factor heir Andrew Luster in Mexico in 2003.
"Dog the Bounty Hunter" was canceled in 2012. They later starred in Country Music Television's "Dog & Beth: On the Hunt."
She was later elected president of the Professional Bail Agents of the United States and opposed some bail reform measures nationwide. She boasted of being the youngest ever to receive a bail license in Colorado at 29. That record was beat by her step-daughter Lyssa Chapman daughter who became licensed at age 19, she said.
Funeral services are expected to be held in Honolulu and Colorado, Wood-Sword said.
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Asphalt 8 Airborne v2.6.1 is officially out for you to download. Also Asphalt 8 Airborne Mod is out too. Today, i will provide you the direct links to download the APK game and the data (.OBB file). I will also guide you on how to install this game.
Asphalt game is an arcade auto racing video game. If we could recall back then when we use to play this game on Nokia Java and Symbian. I'm sure majority of us played this game which am not excluded.
Asphalt 8 Airborne is here with latest features added to its new version v2.6.1. This latest version packs so many interesting features and improved graphics and more other which i will list below.
GameLoft has added more beautiful 47 licensed cars from popular car manufacturers worldwide. You will realize incredible jumps on them, as well as maneuvering in the air and flipping 360 degrees. Trails in the game takes place in the nine most beautiful corners of our planet.
Some amazing cars in this game includes but not limited to Bugatti Veyron, Pagani ZondaR, Ferrari FXX, Lamborghini Veneno to mention but a few. Players can now perform dynamic, high-speed airborne stunts in an intense driving experience courtesy of the new physics engine. thanks to Roushik, Stewe & acer-a500.
Share your auto racing achievements and also prove that you're the best speed equipment.
There are more added new locations for best racing experience. Some of which include Venice, Iceland, French Guiana, and the Nevada desert among several others, with this updated mod version, you get about 47 high-performance automobiles (80 % of them NEW!).
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New Events: More Enduro Double Down and R&D events are here!
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3. Your phone RAM should be at least 1GB to enjoy the game without laging.
If the requirements above is met by your android smartphone, then you are good to go but before that, you need to download the game and follow the instructions on how to install it on your device.
Extract the downloaded file to any location in your SD.
Copy com.gameloft.android.ANMP.GloftA8HM to Storage => Android => OBB.
That's all buddy! Launch the Apk game and start playing the game.
I'm sure your ears are up, huh? Interesting though.
But note that you might need internet connection to run the game for the first time but after that, it is completely an offline game.
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Windermere is a former census-designated place (CDP) in Travis County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,037 at the 2010 census. It has since largely been annexed by the city of Pflugerville.

Geography
Windermere is located at  (30.458700, -97.662500), 14 miles (23 km) northeast of downtown Austin.

According to the United States Census Bureau in 2000, the CDP had a total area of 2.1 square miles (5.5 km), all of it land. Prior to the 2010 census, parts of the CDP were annexed to Pflugerville and Round Rock cities and additional area was lost, reducing the total area to , all land. Following further annexations by Pflugerville, the area was no longer recorded as a CDP at the time of the 2020 census.

Demographics
At the 2000 census there were 6,868 people, 2,232 households, and 1,805 families living in the CDP. The population density was 3,216.8 people per square mile (1,239.1/km). There were 2,263 housing units at an average density of 1,059.9/sq mi (408.3/km).  The racial makeup of the CDP was 63.66% White, 16.82% African American, 0.32% Native American, 5.98% Asian, 0.12% Pacific Islander, 9.93% from other races, and 3.17% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 23.08%.

Of the 2,232 households 53.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.4% were married couples living together, 13.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 19.1% were non-families. 12.3% of households were one person and 1.0% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 3.04 and the average family size was 3.34.

The age distribution was 33.1% under the age of 18, 6.8% from 18 to 24, 44.2% from 25 to 44, 13.9% from 45 to 64, and 2.0% 65 or older. The median age was 30 years. For every 100 females, there were 98.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.7 males.

The median household income was $64,438 and the median family income  was $66,941. Males had a median income of $39,977 versus $31,649 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $22,784. About 2.9% of families and 4.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.6% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over.

Education
Public education in the community of Windermere is provided by the Pflugerville Independent School District.

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Census-designated places in Texas
Census-designated places in Travis County, Texas
Census-designated places in Greater Austin


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Q: R dplyr, problem renaming values based on a value in another column I'm not sure what is wrong with this mutate function. When using this line of code, it doesn't change the values to the wanted values.
dataADstudies_1639_5cols <- dataADstudies_1639_5cols_2D %>%
  mutate(Activity = if_else(Parameter == grepl('ANT_L', Parameter), "Phot_Ant_TL", Activity))

My df looks like this:
    Nr      Section Activity    Parameter       Value
44  1639_1  Day 0   Photo_2D    ANT_L_Ery       18.932
45  1639_1  Day 0   Photo_2D    ANT_L_EryRat    1.189
46  1639_1  Day 0   Photo_2D    ANT_L_Rough     9.552
47  1639_1  Day 0   Photo_2D    ANT_NL_Ery      0.583
48  1639_1  Day 0   Photo_2D    ANT_NL_EryRa    0.886
49  1639_1  Day 0   Photo_2D    ANT_NL_Rough    3.958

I want to recode values in the activity column to Phot_Ant_TL when the parameter value contains ANT_L and subsequently change values in the activity column to Phot_Ant_NL when the parameter value contains ANT_NL but I think I need a separate line of code for that
Desired result:
    Nr      Section Activity    Parameter       Value
44  1639_1  Day 0   Phot_Ant_TL ANT_L_Ery       18.932
45  1639_1  Day 0   Phot_Ant_TL ANT_L_EryRat    1.189
46  1639_1  Day 0   Phot_Ant_TL ANT_L_Rough     9.552
47  1639_1  Day 0   Phot_Ant_NL ANT_NL_Ery      0.583
48  1639_1  Day 0   Phot_Ant_NL ANT_NL_EryRa    0.886
49  1639_1  Day 0   Phot_Ant_NL ANT_NL_Rough    3.958

A: Try using grepl like this -
library(dplyr)

dataADstudies_1639_5cols <- dataADstudies_1639_5cols_2D %>%
  mutate(Activity = case_when(grepl('ANT_L', Parameter) ~ "Phot_Ant_TL",
                              grepl('ANT_NL', Parameter) ~ "Phot_Ant_NL",
                              TRUE ~ Activity))

dataADstudies_1639_5cols
#      Nr Section    Activity    Parameter  Value
#1 1639_1    Day0 Phot_Ant_TL    ANT_L_Ery 18.932
#2 1639_1    Day0 Phot_Ant_TL ANT_L_EryRat  1.189
#3 1639_1    Day0 Phot_Ant_TL  ANT_L_Rough  9.552
#4 1639_1    Day0 Phot_Ant_NL   ANT_NL_Ery  0.583
#5 1639_1    Day0 Phot_Ant_NL ANT_NL_EryRa  0.886
#6 1639_1    Day0 Phot_Ant_NL ANT_NL_Rough  3.958

data
It is easier to help if you provide data in a reproducible format
dataADstudies_1639_5cols_2D <- structure(list(Nr =
c("1639_1", "1639_1", "1639_1", "1639_1",
"1639_1", "1639_1"), Section = c("Day0", "Day0", "Day0", "Day0",
"Day0", "Day0"), Activity = c("Photo_2D", "Photo_2D", "Photo_2D",
"Photo_2D", "Photo_2D", "Photo_2D"), Parameter = c("ANT_L_Ery",
"ANT_L_EryRat", "ANT_L_Rough", "ANT_NL_Ery", "ANT_NL_EryRa",
"ANT_NL_Rough"), Value = c(18.932, 1.189, 9.552, 0.583, 0.886,
3.958)), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -6L))

A: with case_when instead of if_else and substr instead of grepl it works:
dataADstudies_1639_5cols <- dataADstudies_1639_5cols_2D %>%
  mutate(Activity = case_when(substr(Parameter, 1 , 6) == "ANT_NL" ~ "Phot_Ant_NL",
  T ~ "Phot_Ant_TL"))`

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By Randi Nord @randinord
PARIS — After three weeks of protests in France, a Twitter account sprang up that seemed eerily familiar: Benoite Abedoux of Paris was asking for airstrikes against her own country to save her life from the "brutal French regime."
Protesters calling themselves Yellow Vests, or Gilets Jaunes in French, flooded the streets of Paris on November 17 in response to an increase on fuel taxes. The protests quickly morphed into a broad mass movement against the general neoliberal policies of French President Emmanuel Macron.
Three weeks later, a little girl named Benoite Abedoux took to Twitter to express her frustrations with the "brutal French regime," as she called it. The Twitter account was a direct jab at the Twitter account of Bana al-Abed, a seven-year-old Syrian girl who took to Twitter in 2016 asking for U.S. military action against her own country.
In one Tweet, Bana stated, "Dear world, it's better to start third world war instead of letting Russia & Assad commit #HolocaustAleppo." In another Tweet, she said that she would "welcome Donald Trump action against the killers of my people."
The person running Bana's Twitter account later scrubbed it of all Tweets calling for war.
Tweets from the French Benoite account mimicked that of Bana — calling for a no-fly zone over Paris, WWIII, and airstrikes on France to save "her people" from the "brutal French regime."
What goes around . . .
The French parody account, Benoite, quickly picked up steam, gaining several thousand followers over the course of just a few days. Indeed, people noticed the irony that President Macron, who supported the so-called revolution in Syria, now faced a genuine revolution at his own doorstep.
Predictable Twitter shutdown
However, Benoite's account was effectively suspended by Twitter on December 10, just days after its launch. While Twitter initially stated the account was suspended for exhibiting "automated behavior," attempts to recover the account fell short. After an attempt was made to reopen the account, Twitter followed up with a message claiming that since backup or "serial" accounts were made, the suspension would remain.
Speaking to MintPress News, one of the creators of the account, James Carey, expressed his frustrations with the suspension:
I just want people to know it's bullshit we can be reported by people with al-Qaeda Twitter avatars. It shows how ridiculous the anti-Syria crowd is that those people will team up with YPG supporters to ban anything pro-Syria. Twitter will actually reward Free Syrian Army (FSA) supporters for reporting Syria supporters and there isn't even an FSA anymore.
Also speaking to MintPress News, Grace Lee, another creator, highlighted the hypocrisy behind accusations of Russian meddling in regards to the Benoite account:
The insane part is that 'large' newspapers accused us of being Russian bots or trolls. This highlights how the rest of 'conspiracies' in the news about Russia being behind might actually be just as dumb. Most of the news actually claimed we are Russian with confidence. Like they had evidence to back the claim up."
The French government has used tear gas and water cannons in attempts to disperse protestors.
Despite the French media downplaying the protesters' grievances, the Yellow Vest movement has only gained more traction and followers since its inception. In addition to demanding Macron's resignation, protestors want an increased minimum wage, a stronger response to climate change, an end to austerity measures, increased taxes on the wealthy, and stronger government accountability.
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Randi Nord is a MintPress News staff writer. She is also co-founder of Geopolitics Alert where she covers U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East with a special focus on Yemen.
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Friday Night Preview: Bag Raiders at The Observatory North Park 2.19.2016
I like to think that I pay attention to music trends, but as each year passes and bands come through the Observatory, I realize I'm just not in the loop with genres out of my wheelhouse. Bag Raiders is one of those bands that completely escaped my radar until they were booked and look, you're not getting a suddenly new me, but the jams are positive, and kinda remind me of old 70s and 80s dance grooves I'd hear my parents listen to as a very, very young child. Think a modern spin that harkens back to Earth Wind and Fire, Nile Rodgers, but with a modern spin that will get a dancefloor moving. And I'm certainly all for bands that create electronic music with live instruments. Some listening links are below, but if you just want to buy tickets, grab them here.
Bag Raiders perform on Friday, February 19 at the Observatory North Park.
This is an all ages show with doors at 7pm. (All ages shows have an 11pm curfew)
Check out Bag Raiders here:
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(From Bag Raiders Press Release)
It's been a minute since their last transmission, but the chakras are finally aligned for the return of Bag Raiders. Amassing a stack of music since we last heard from them in 2010, the LA transplants (via Australia) christen their comeback with the release of a second EP of premium cuts, Friend Inside, released worldwide December 11.
Friend Inside features a triple dose of infectious and radiant electronic pop that dances across the spectrum, from positive to chilling to downright ecstatic. Friend Inside follows on from the Waterfalls EP that was released earlier
in 2015 to great acclaim with all three of the tracks (Waterfalls, Vapour Trails, and Wonderland) landing in the TOP 10 on Hype Machine's Popular Chart and marked the comeback of Bag Raiders, who originally broke in 2010 with their certified GOLD self-titled debut album, an ARIA-nominated affair that included mega-hit "Shooting Stars", "Way Back Home" and "Sunlight".
Bag Raiders also broke ground last summer selling out their live show debut in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York. The live show eschews the tides of current trends and exists in a world firmly of its own making. Having always opted for instruments over computers, the show doesn't abandon the dancefloor, but rather applies the Bag Raiders' production nous and musical chops to a much broader sound palette featuring live guitar, bass, keys, drums, and vocals.
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At 60, with numerous accolades, including a National book award (for The Echo Maker), Powers has long earned the right to tackle any subject he pleases. Over a 30-year career his invigorating intellect has scoured artificial intelligence and virtual reality (Galatea 2.2, Plowing the Dark), music and genetics (Orfeo, The Goldbug Variations). Whether neuroscience or nuclear warfare, the result is usually a profound new take on what it means to be alive. He has been described as "the best novelist you've never heard of" for so many years that ignorance is no longer much of an excuse.
With scientific precision, Powers's new novel portrays the interconnected lives trees lead. Their behaviour – the ways they help and provide for each other, and other living things too numerous to count – is a direct rebuke to the way we live today. It would be easy, watching him identify the plants, fungi and mosses around him, to think he had been a botanist all his life, as opposed to a man who spent a frustrating 12 months learning to tell oak from ash.
His use of personal occupation as a form of characterisation is one of the aspects of his writing he is most proud of. "It's not hot-blooded like jealousy, rage, envy, love, but for me it's a more genuine, robust picture of who we are because for most of us our vocations shape us deeply." He explains that he has "tried to do this slightly different thing of dramatising philosophical issues knowing that the novel of ideas [has] had its day, and that day is not now. So there's always this compromise: how do you tell a story of intellectual passion while making it warm enough to be accessible?" In the case of The Overstory, a documentary about environmental activists from the Redwood Summer of 1990 – when guerrilla groups mobilised against the logging of California's giant sequoias – inspired its core drama.
You get the sense that this book changed him. For a start, it brought him to the Smokies. On a research trip three and half years ago, he realised he felt "better than I had ever felt before" and within six months, he had left Palo Alto and his well-paid teaching post at Stanford for a secluded house deep in the mountains.
But the biodiversity to be found in these all-but-eradicated spaces is the secret at the heart of his novel. "No human being has ever seen an old-growth forest that's been clear-cut come back to the richness and vitality of what it was. Ever." It's one of the reasons why President Trump's move to open up national monuments such as Bears Ears in Utah to extraction and felling is so catastrophic.
The modern human assumption that trees, plants and all other wildlife are "just property" is, to Powers, the root of our much greater species problem. "Every form of mental despair and terror and incapacity in modern life seems to be related in some way to this complete alienation from everything else alive. We're deeply, existentially lonely.
"Until it's exciting and fun and ecstatic to think that everything else has agency and is reciprocally connected we're going to be terrified and afraid of death, and it's mastery or nothing." To that end, Powers hopes his book will be part of the restoration of a tradition that has all but ceased to exist in modern literature. "We are incredibly good at psychological and political dramas, but there's another kind of drama – between the humans and the non-humans – that disappeared in the late 19th century, once we thought we had dominion over the Earth. Because we won that battle.
• Richard Powers will be at the Edinburgh international book festival on 21 August. He will be at the London Review Bookshop, London WC1A, on 27 September. The Overstory is published by William Heinemann. To order a copy for £15.99 (RRP £18.99) go to guardianbookshop.com or call 0330 333 6846. Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only. Phone orders min p&p of £1.99.


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For over 20 years, people have been participating in "Citizen Science", engaging in data collections, entry and analysis, partnering with scientists and Earth observing satellites, and participating in scientific measurement campaigns. If you have an interest in making environmental observations that complement NASA's satellite observations, then the GLOBE Observer App is for you! You will be helping scientists study the earth and our global environment. Anyone in 120+ countries can download this app.
By using this application, you will be joining a global community and contributing important scientific data to NASA and GLOBE, sharing content from your local community with students and scientists worldwide.
To participate, download the app via iOS or android platforms. Register with an email address and then go outside and follow the prompts in the app to be an official observer of your environment.
To learn more about the program, visit the one-page summary. Within the GLOBE Observer app there are four main tools: Clouds, Mosquito Habitat, Land Cover and Trees. You can help monitor various conditions and see their changes over time. Some of the information can be used to interpret NASA and other satellite data. This app is available for anyone to view and explore, including fellow citizen scientists, professionals and student scientists. You can even form a virtual GLOBE team to combine your observations. Children under the age of 13 should be supervised by an adult.
By participating, you will transform the way we think about living in this world.
Credit: Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program, August 2022, globe.gov.


It's not too late to head to the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books!
Don't miss the Smokin' Hot Indie Lit Lounge, where Santa Barbara poet Michelle Detorie performed a version of The Poetry Booth on Saturday, and where SB poet and novelist Melinda Palacio can be found on Sunday from 11:45am to 1:30pm (Booth #391).
Speaking of Santa Barbara writers, novelist Ramona Ausubel, author of No One Is Here Except All of Us, will be on a panel at 3pm on Sunday. The panel is on "Writing Across the Globe."
The most difficult part of the festival--aside from finding parking, or remembering where you parked your car--is deciding between all the fantastic-sounding panels taking place at the same time.


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EPL Matchweek 1 betting tips – Liverpool vs Norwich City
Betting Planet > Sports Betting Tips > EPL Matchweek 1 betting tips – Liverpool vs Norwich City
Liverpool -714.29 at William Hill Place Bet
Draw +900 at William Hill Place Bet
Norwich City +1800 at William Hill Place Bet
The long-awaited 2019/20 English Premier League season kicks off with Liverpool welcoming newly promoted Norwich City to Anfield on Friday night.
The Reds, who conceded the title to Manchester City on the final day of last season, know they can ill-afford a slow start in their quest for their first-ever Premier League crown.
The 2019/20 EPL campaign will in many ways mirror last season, with Man City and Liverpool the clear frontrunners in the race for the title. It seems appropriate that the two sides opened the season last weekend in the FA Community Shield, where Jurgen Klopp's charges lost 5-4 on post-match penalties after drawing 1-1 with City in regular time.
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Without taking anything away from Pep Guardiola's side, the Reds were still in holiday day mode and lacked that crucial clinical edge. Nonetheless, there is just something about this Liverpool outfit that invokes a keen sense of fear in the rest of the competition – something that could help them upstage the Citizens at the end of the season.
Norwich City are back in the Premier League after spending three successive seasons in the second tier. The Canaries earned automatic promotion to the English top flight after an impressive season where they finished five points clear atop the Championship table.
Still recuperating from what manager Daniel Farke termed as "sins from the past", the club hasn't been able to spend as much as it would wish in the current transfer window despite attracting over £150 million in funding after their triumph last season.
Maintaining Premier League status usually figures as the primary objective for any newly promoted club, but for Norwich City it's not necessarily a do-or-die matter given how their financial health is their utmost priority at the moment.
Below we provide all the betting details for the first match of the season, or you can read our comprehensive guide to betting on the English Premier League.
Sadio Mane spent much of the English summer with Senegal in the Africa Cup of Nations and could begin the match on the bench, while James Milner may have to pass a late fitness test due to a muscle complaint. Nathaniel Clyne is ruled out of the encounter with an ACL injury.
Norwich City team news
Centre-back Christoph Zimmerman has been ruled out of action with a knee injury, as have midfielders Louis Thompson and Alexander Tettey with thigh and calf injuries respectively. Swiss defender Timm Klose could, however, be closing in on a return from a hip problem.
Mohamed Salah goalscorer odds
Mo Salah to score at anytime – -153.85 at Bovada
Mo Salah to score/Liverpool win – +300
While Liverpool boast one of the best attacks in Europe, the biggest threat of all is Mohamed Salah.
The 27-year-old bagged his second successive EPL Golden Boot award last season with 22 goals, sharing the coveted prize with teammate Sadio Mane and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of Arsenal.
Despite Egypt's shock exit at the round of 16 at AFCON 2019, Salah still managed to score two goals for his national team in the continental competition.
He may be a bit rusty, judging by his failure to convert two promising chances against Manchester City, but the like of Norwich will have a hard time stopping the former Chelsea and Roma man.
Liverpool vs Norwich EPL betting predictions
With only one defeat sustained last season, Liverpool did just about everything they could to win the league. The Reds will have to up the ante this campaign, not least because of their mid-season participation in the 2019 FIFA Club World Cup, or else risk losing ground in the title race.
Norwich may have scored for fun in the Championship last season, but the difference in quality between the two sides is like day and night.
Prediction: Liverpool to win first half/Liverpool to win second half – +100 at Bovada
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Darren Aronofsky's Robocop
Posted on Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 by Peter Sciretta
When MGM first announced they were developing a Robocop remake, I was one of the few who thought it had potential. But when I heard they were thinking of making the project in 3D, I lost all hope. This would have probably result in a PG-13 theme park ride on the big screen. I mean, that's like making a PG-rated Beverly Hills Cop movie.
What some might not remember, RoboCop was originally given an X rating by the MPAA for scenes of "excessive violence." Paul Verhoeven trimmed blood and gore from the most violent scenes for an R rating, but the X-rated director's cut was later released by Criterion. I mention this because I want to establish that Robocop was not a kids movie, and was certainly not PG-13. My hopes for the remake have remained dead, until tonight.
The Hollywood Reporter claims that "director Darren Aronofsky among others has recently been in to discuss" the project. For those who don't know, Aronofsky broke onto the scene with the math thriller Pi, and made a name for himself with the adaptation of Requiem for a Dream. His films impressed top Hollywood brass, and at one point he was hired to develop a reboot of Batman, before Christopher Nolan took over the franchise. His take on Batman was said to be too Dark for Warner Bros' tastes. His 2006 film The Fountain was one of the best of that year, hailed by critics, but was horribly marketed and made little at the box office (it's worth noting that it wasn't an easy sell). He's currently in post production on The Wrestler which will attempt to do for Pro Wrestling what Rocky did for Boxing (you can read our script review here).
If there is anyone I trust with a reboot of Robocop, it would be Aronofsky. But the news is rather odd considering he's scheduled to direct Brad Pitt and Mark Wahlberg in The Fighter, based on the real life story of boxer "Irish" Micky Ward. Last I heard the film was scheduled to begin production in September 2008, which might not align with MGM's hope to have Robocop in theaters by 2010. But can you even imagine what Clint Mansell's kick ass score action might sound like? Also, Aronofsky has expressed his disdain for CG, which might mean more practical effects and model work.
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Uttar Pradesh Labour Reforms: Time apt for UP to utilize large manpower to boost economy
With huge land bank, rich water resources and adequate power, this is the time for Uttar Pradesh to utilize its large manpower to boost up its economy, writes economic advisor to UP CM KV Raju
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By KV Raju
For a while, think as an industrial owner. He/she will move, wherever the comparative advantage is in terms of land, labour, materials and funds. It also determines product pricing. Just look at Vietnam and Bangladesh; they have cornered the textiles and apparels sector at the global level, largely owing to its supportive labour laws. In spite of several Indian states having huge demographic dividend, it could not cash on it. One of the constraints was labour laws, as several industries complained over the years.
The country has 37 central laws and six amendments and there exist various state government laws to regulate labour. The debate was more focused on labour over capital. The successive governments brought different labour laws for different sectors (separate regulatory laws for newspaper employees, journalists, cinema workers) to give a sense of entitlement to certain sectors. According to some estimates, there are 1,200 minimum wages related to 429 types of scheduled employments. Industrial analysts were saying for long time that India's labour laws were a big hurdle to the economic development of the country as the companies feared to be entangled in the complex web of trade unionism and labour laws.
Global Competitiveness Index 2019 - Labour market (Rank out of 141 countries)
Redundancy costs (weeks of salary)
Hiring and firing practices
Cooperation in labour-employer relations
Flexibility of wage determination
Active labour market policies
Ease of hiring foreign labour
Internal labour mobility
Meritocracy and incentivization
Reliance on professional management
Pay and productivity
Ratio of wage and salaried female to male workers
Labour tax rate
The Economic Survey published last year ahead of the Union Budget (2020) makes a strong case of labour reforms.
Uttar Pradesh took this bold step to move ahead to resolve the problem. On 8th May, 2020, issued a new order, "The Uttar Pradesh temporary exemption from certain labour laws ordinance, 2020". Earlier governments only debated it. But the current government under the dynamic leadership of Yogi Adityanath discussed it and decided to move ahead. For the same reason, all trade associations and groups are appreciating this much awaited positive step. Now several states are following it up.
Now on wards, in Uttar Pradesh state, all factories and establishment engaged in manufacturing process will be exempted from the operation of all labour laws for a period of one thousand days. The key features of the new order are:
All details of employed workers will be maintained electronically.
The worker will be paid above minimum wages of the state government and within the time limit as per the Act.
The worker wages will be credited to their bank account.
All rules and regulations related to safety and security of the workers are applicable.
Duration of work per day will not exceed 11 hours.
For any death or disability due to work, compensation will be paid as per the Act.
All provisions in the Act are applicable for women, children and bonded labour.
These changes enable industries with more flexibility in hiring and firing non-performing employees, determining wages, and reduce their liabilities. Some economists welcomed the move for clearing structural bottlenecks, possibly leading to greater investment, create employment opportunities for migrant workers returning home, and positioning India to be able to take advantage of disruptions in global supply chains resulting from Covid19 in recent months.
According to the World Bank, with less restrictive laws, India could approximately add on an annual basis "2.8 million more good quality formal sector jobs". According to a State Bank of India Research report, the country's labour productivity was also significantly lower than its global peers. "Even in the next decade, i.e., by 2021 it is estimated that India's output per worker will rise to just $6,414 compared to China's $16,698," it said.
In recent weeks, the Uttar Pradesh government has been proactively pursuing investments from Japan, South Korea and America. The state has already set up separate desks for this purpose. Additionally, its senior ministers for industries, MSME and external investment, Satish Mahana and Siddrathnath Singh and their senior officers respectively are having a series of dialogues with these countries to facilitate establishment of industries in various sectors, including, Pharmaceuticals, MSME, textiles and apparels, agri-processing and agri logistics, electrical and electronics. With huge land bank, rich water resources and adequate power, this is the time for Uttar Pradesh to utilize its large manpower to boost up its economy.
The writer is economic adviser to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister. Views are personal. He can be reached at kvraju2008@gmail.com.
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Briar's world was a colony world of Thorn's people, abandoned thousands of years in the past when the three home worlds were divided by civil war. Now that the war is resolved, the home worlds want to reclaim the Fourth World, and the people who live upon it. But is it a reclaiming, or an invasion? Reunited after Nexus' manipulations separated them for so long, the reasons for home worlds' return creates division between Briar and Thorn, and the home worlds' varying methods of obtaining children with the powers they have lost in their own population highlights the inequality in how Briar's people are viewed by them. Divided by their cultures and expectations, can Thorn and Briar build a life together? Fresh from the trauma of her encounter with the Council, and with Briar still struggling with the dark side of her new abilities, they are caught in a rebellion that overthrows one of Nexus' outposts. When Thorn is injured, Briar must use her powers to save them, but will doing so place them in further peril?
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I did not have long. Ash would have notified Thorn by now. They would be tracking me. Whatever Thorn had been doing, he would set aside, and he would come.
I had to get off the road, it would be too easy to find me there. I ran between two buildings, and straight into a man.
"Well, hello," he held me by the shoulders, and grinned when I cried out in pain. There were other men, four others – a fifth was held between them, beaten and bloody.
I saw a flash of that red room, and with it the dust that had drifted...
I pulled back, but he held me fast, and my still tender joints protested. "You're hurting me. Let me go," I pleaded with him. "You have to let me go."
"Darling, I don't have to do anything."
"I don't have time for this," I tugged against him futilely.
"Why in such a hurry?" he pulled me a little closer. "We could spend some time together, you and I… and my friends over there."
"Let go of me, or I will kill you," the words were out of my mouth before I realised what I had said, and I stared at him in horror. I could kill him. I could kill them all, I thought. It was... terrifying... partially because in that moment, I wanted to. My heart raced, and I could remember the taste of my blood in my mouth...
His brown eyes widened in surprise, and for a moment there was belief, before he laughed, dismissing it. "Do you hear that, my friends?" he said over his shoulder, incredulous. "If I don't let her go, she will kill me!"
I whimpered, surrendering, and pulled the life from the five of them but... I did not break the silken silver threads. They turned ashen, and fell, gasping and flopping on the floor like fish out of water. The man they had been beating looked at me, his eyes wild.
"Run," I told him, aghast at what I had done. He did not hesitate.
I released the life, let it flow back into them. Bile rose, and I leaned against the wall, dizzy. But then that sense of Thorn heightened. He was coming. My heart kicked up a beat in tempo with his. Panic overwhelmed me, and I turned and ran.
I was still healing, still sore and weak. My energy flagged quickly, and running was painful. There was a place… a place ahead. It was almost lost in weed, but I knew the moment I saw it. It was not dissimilar to how we interred our dead at my village. This was a cemetery. There were buildings here, made of stone, which went down into the earth. I ran down one, and grew the weeds up to cover it, to block it, and hide the entrance.
I did not know how precise the tracking was, but I was sure the effort to reach me would be considerable.
The little room was dark. In the centre, a stone coffin, like the one in my mind. I sat my back against it, panting, sore and weary. I had no water, no food, and nothing to fend off the cold. The heat generated by my run leeched off into the stone all around me.
I buried my face into my knees and wept until I slept.
It was night when I woke, and I was freezing. My breath hung on the air around me. I was still in my hidden space. He had not succeeded in finding me. I needed water, food, and warmer clothing. My fingers were normal colour, but the cold had made them numb again.
I turned the weeds guarding me to ash and crept out into the night. I found water dripping from a tap against one of the buildings. It was bitingly cold against my hands, against the inside of my mouth, but I needed it. I splashed my face, trying to shake myself free of sleep.
My head ached and there was a fist around my heart. "Skies," I tried to breathe, my lungs did not want to help me. I was dizzy again, dots passing before my eyes. I wondered if I would faint here, and if I would be mistaken as a corpse by those who lived around this weed strewn garden...
The power was astounding, however, a layering of old and new… vintages of death. It pulled at and called to me, and I caught it up, spun it like a web between my fingers, drank it in like water… Ghosts and ghouls, shades and shadows… I wrapped it around me, seeking comfort in it, let it seep in and soothe the fear within me... It was wine, a drug, an addiction. It helped to steady my breathing, and the dizziness passed.
As the panic subsided, a new fear arose. He was there. Many of them were, the camouflage fading across their shoulders, the black of their dragon-scale armour sinking into the night. They stood between the gravestones, in the thigh high weeds. I froze, and on instinct, sent the raw energy into the plants, so that they burst forth, growing around their legs, entangling them, bone bare branches reaching out to hold them.
He lowered his helmet and stood, silver hair catching the moonlight. I felt that tug, and I pulled back against it although it cut, deep and hard. We stood across from each other, the distance that of a house, a lifetime, and an untold truth between us… and I met his gaze, his eyes so pale a blue as to be colourless catching the moonlight.
"Briar," he said, and my breath caught, my heart tumbled. "Briar, stop this."
I turned and ran.
He pursued, tearing at the weeds that bound him. I ran between the buildings, felt something grip my sleeve, and recognising the thorny plant, paused and waited just beyond it. He thought he had me, as his outline fell, black shadow, across the other end of the passage. I let him draw close enough our eyes met, and then I drove the life sharply down, growth up, threading weed across the walkway between us. Briar-rose, thorns sharply pointed his way.
I heard him yell his frustration into the night.
It should have felt better, it should have felt good, to win. But all I felt was an ache of regret, anger, grief... and fear.
I ran, across the road and into an empty building. I could tell it was empty, there was no life there. That sense of him retreated. He was leaving, retreating. And I was alone again, in the cold. What should have been a celebrated win, wasn't. It was hollow, grief-like in my chest.
I went up, into the building, and opened a random door. It was not warmer here, but I could go no further this night. I curled back into the cold… and wept for him. I pictured my stone box, and shoved the fear, the panic in there. I slammed the stone lid closed.
I woke with dawn and contemplated what to do. With the distance of night, the panic had eased somewhat.
"Fine," I whispered. "It's fine, Briar. Are you so hurt and angry that you never wanted to see Thorn again? No." Being apart from him was an ache, it was as if I had left part of me with him. "No. But nor can you just accept that you are a possession, an acquisition... property… no." It made me ill to think it.
My head ached. I rested it against my knees.
There was an element of me that was simply frightened. What if my ability to have children was what bound Thorn, above all else? They were here for children, and they had made clear to me that I was there for the purpose of having them. What if what I felt for Thorn, was one sided? What if his investment in me, was because of my power?
I could not hide from him forever and did not want to, but I was afraid... Had I been mistaken in my trust of Thorn? If I stopped running... would there be an explanation for what Ash had said... or... I groaned, burying my face in my hands. There had to be an explanation, I told myself. I had to trust in Thorn again...The alternative was just too horrible to contemplate.
I had to be brave, I decided, and stood, dusting myself down. I was filthy, hungry, and exhausted. I took a blue pill from my pocket and was grateful for that much. I hesitated at the door, leaning my head against the frame and shed some final tears before willing myself down and out onto the street.
He was there, again, across the road from my building. The anonymous face-shield turned my way, knowing where I was. He took a step, and paused, as if unsure.
I spread the weeds his way, made them curl up the building behind him, and bloom there, startling him with the white, fragrant flowers. He plucked one, and walked forward, turning it between his fingers. He dropped his helmet, so I could see his face. His eyes were shadowed, sleepless.
"Briar," he crossed the road.
I did not run.
He stopped, as far from me as he was tall. Being careful, I thought, not to startle me into flight, as if we were back in the bush around my farm, at the beginning of our relationship. "Briar, let me talk." There was a bruise on his cheek and his lip had been split, both healing, but fresh. I wondered how that had come to be. He wore his helmet on his missions. His knuckles also showed split skin and bruising.
"Well," I said. "Talk."
He sighed out a breath. "If, back at the other outpost, I had been free to ask you, what would you prefer - to be able to leave with me when I returned for you, but to have to sacrifice some eggs, or to never be free to leave with me, what would you have chosen? I made the choice for you, but I made the choice I was confident you would make yourself."
Damn it, I thought. I knew what he said was true. If I had been asked, if I was asked now, to make the choice, I would make it. "And the waiting list? Waiting to purchase my eggs?"
"It is not a transaction, as such," he said, frowning with a glint of anger that was not directed at me. "It is a service. It has always been around since the technology was first invented. They did it here, on your planet too, we have found the facilities where it was done. There are always those who willingly donate their eggs, their semen, to those who need them."
"Donate," I spat at him. "Willingly. I don't remember being asked."
"It's that, more than anything, isn't it? That I haven't asked?" he scrutinized me with his colourless eyes. "When were we to have this discussion, Briar? When has there been time? We have been together so briefly. We cannot have covered all the subjects there are to cover between us. My brother should not have spoken, he should not have used you in the petty argument between us."
"This is a somewhat important topic of conversation that you should have made a priority to have with me," I growled at him.
"You are right," he nodded, shrugged. "I knew there would be… upset. I did not want that for our first day together, so I waited. And then, you were injured, and I did not want to distress you more. The timing wasn't right."
"Ash found the time."
"My brother is a - " he swore in his own language. "We are siblings, brothers, we argue, have always argued. Stupid things. He went too far this time and created an embarrassing situation for us both. But, in his defence, I believe him that he did not anticipate you wanting to leave the compound. I think he imagined we'd yell at each other, and my life would be difficult for a few days. He let me know, immediately, and we came to retrieve you, but," he smiled, amused, "you are not so easily retrieved, are you?"
"Not out here," I agreed. "Not now." Not after... what had happened, I thought. I was now a killer, a murderer... a monster...
"Briar," he pleaded, holding the flower out. "Come back to the compound with me. It's not safe out here and you are still recovering."
"You're afraid," he closed his eyes, a frown creasing between his brows. "Of course, she is," he reasoned with himself. "After everything..."
"It's not… fear," I felt shame for his discomfort, as if I had betrayed him somehow. "I just… have so little control over anything. To think that pieces of me were being… traded by you," I swallowed back the bile, "by you, of all people… and not having control over that as well..."
He nodded, shadows in his eyes. "And now? You still hesitate."
I sighed and made the mental leap of faith. "I belong with you," I stepped forward, and took the flower from his fingertips. "I don't belong to you."
"Noted," he stroked his fingers through my hair, tucking it behind my ear. When I did not pull away, he lowered his forehead down to mine, his special caress. "I am sorry, Briar. My brother was wrong in what he did, but I was at fault for not having made the time to discuss it with you."
"What happened to your face?" I asked him.
He sighed with a small smile and rubbed his cheek. "My brother and I had a discussion about his part in your upset."
"I hope he looks worse than you."
"I broke his nose."
"Good. Thorn," I sighed. "This is not over. I am not a commodity, a possession… I don't like thinking there is a waiting list of people, negotiating with you for my eggs. I don't like the idea that Nexus has an… entitlement to them."
"Briar," he put his arms around me and drew me against him, lowered his head so he spoke into my hair. "It's a complicated situation. We are here, for people like you, to have children with people like you. This… mission has cost our worlds more resources than you can imagine, hundreds of thousands of our people are waiting for their chance to come here, giving up everything that our home worlds have to offer, giving up our families, for that chance.
"Our laws are still catching up to the situation. At the moment, you don't have a legal identity. But, more than that, there is no enforcement out here. There is no legal system, no penal system, no enforcement agency. This is the first time ever that the government systems of all three home worlds have co-existed on the same planet. That in itself creates legal entanglements that currently have the priority of our home worlds' legal systems.
"Our worlds are invested in co-operation. No one is willing to take up arms against the denizens of another home world. Everyone wants to claim a part of this world – the two positions sometimes create situations, such as what occurred at the other outpost, with you. I had primary claim – I found you, and you had performed a binding on me. I had records to prove it. But you were on his territory and from an area he had claimed. Once he realised what he had, he wasn't going to let you go easily. We both knew, I would not have the reinforcement and support of my home world to take you by force. But he wanted something from me, so was open to negotiation.
"Preserving eggs and semen is a relatively non-invasive process and is common amongst my people. It offers guarantees to the family in the event of death or misadventure. But it is not something you have to think of, for a considerable length of time. He cannot collect if you are with child, or if you are nursing.
"By the time the opportunity arises, I hope that the laws will have caught up to the situation, and then perhaps, he will not be able to claim, at all."
"So, your solution is to get me pregnant and delay and hope?" I pulled back to look at him.
"Pretty much," his lips quirked with amusement. "I am working very hard on the pregnancy part, as you may have noticed."
I huffed out a breath. "Well, no one can accuse you of not putting the effort in," I agreed. "But what if I don't want to get pregnant?"
"Don't you?" he replied, raising his eyebrows.
"I don't know," I was confused. "I haven't really given it much thought. It's not something I thought… life would hold for me. A husband and children."
"Perhaps you should think on it." He gave a signal, and someone shimmered into visibility across the road. I started and his grip on me tightened. "I know you can tell where I am," he said to me soothingly, "and would keep running if I stayed, but I could not leave you injured and unguarded. I had hoped that without me, you would not be able to tell one of us from the people who live in these buildings."
"It worked," I grumbled.
"I did not sleep, at all, last night, however," he offered, with a smile, "if that makes you feel better."
"It should, but it doesn't." I let him thread his fingers through mine and lead me across the road. There was a vehicle there too, I realised, as the door opened. I accepted Thorn's help up and sat meekly on the bench seat. He sat, and put an arm around me, as if worried I would change my mind and bolt.
The other silver one joined us, releasing her helmet. It was not someone I knew, though I recognized her from the team that Thorn went out with on his manoeuvre warfare trips. "Thank you," Thorn said to her, in their language, as she sat next to him.
"It's fine," she smiled cheerfully. "She didn't do much after. Found a hole to hide in and cried herself to sleep. Pretty boring night, all up." I kept my eyes on my shoes, although I felt my cheeks heat. How close had she been? In the same room? I had not sensed her, but I had been so weary and upset, once he was gone, I hadn't looked.
"My brother could have picked his time better," he sighed. "I suspect, if she wasn't already traumatised, she would have stopped to think... She was already so fragile however, and there is only so much a person can take before they break. I could hate him for adding to her trauma, but... it's abnormal behaviour for him."
"Jealousy," she supplied.
"I don't know what to do about that," he admitted wearily. "I can barely understand it."
"It's his problem, not yours. The leader will reprimand him, he'll sulk for a few days, and then pull his head in. We're all in a high-pressured environment, under a lot of tension. Behaviours escalate as a result. Here we are. Try to get some sleep. I'll see you tomorrow," she opened the door, and stepped out into the compound.
He nodded. "Come," he said to me in my language. "You can shower, whilst I get us food."
"I can understand you," I said, reaching a decision. "When Nexus tagged me, he added a translator."
He stared at me for a long moment, surprised, and then laughed. "Of course, he did, and told you to keep it secret, no doubt," he shook his head wryly. "Have you been enjoying yourself, eavesdropping?"
"It has been insightful," I shot him a look. "You're going to be wondering, now, thinking back over everything you may or may not have said in my presence when you thought I could not understand you. Enjoy that. I'll see you back in the room," I turned on my heel towards the accommodation.
"Briar," he caught my arm, pulled me back towards him and kissed me, hard and with thoroughness. "I love you," he said and then strode away, leaving me breathless and flustered behind.
Of course, he had to have the last word, I thought, snidely, but I could not help but smile. I kept my head down as I stalked towards the room. I didn't want to meet the gazes of those I passed. I did not know what I would see in them: sympathy or amusement.
Our room was untouched. The bed had not been slept in - it was as I had made it. There was a comfort to that. He had not slept, worried for me. I wondered how he had spent his night. Besides breaking Ash's nose…
My fingers were much better, I thought as I undressed. The bruises on my jaw were yellow shadows, almost gone. The ache in my shoulders and arms persisted, but it was much less. I could turn my head now and see the cuts on my back. The rectangle was smaller than it had felt to be and had healed into raised red scarring. I pulled a face.
I used the waste disposal whilst the shower water warmed and used one of the blue pills to clean my mouth. I was becoming spoiled, I thought, by these niceties. I stepped into the water, and stood, eyes closed as it beat down upon me, trying to calm and repress the darkness that tried to edge its way out of that stone box... I used the soap to wash my hair and body, scrubbing until my scalp tingled and my skin was red with it. I was not sure what I sought to wash away, or whether it was possible to do so, but I felt... unclean.
"Much longer, and you'll turn into a fish," he entered the room, swiftly peeling his clothing off.
"Well, then maybe you shouldn't join me," I retorted. I felt guilty, as if he had caught me doing something I shouldn't. "I'm not sure there's even room in here."
"There's room," he slid under the water, his skin gliding against mine. I shivered, need spearing quickly. Water darkened the silver of his hair. I pushed it off his face. "Your wounds are much improved," he commented, inspecting me.
"Yours aren't," I touched his split lip.
He tested it with his tongue. "It's sealed," he shrugged, carelessly, smiled. "My brother's nose will take longer."
"You must take me to see, tomorrow. I feel that I have earnt some enjoyment in his suffering."
"If you like," he turned the water off and wrapped me in a drying cloth, his eyes intense and a wicked smile twisting his lips. My pulse stuttered. "We should have a sleep," he said, drying himself swiftly.
"We could eat first…" I backed out of the bathroom whilst he stalked me. He caught my drying cloth and stole it away. I shrieked as he tackled me to the bed, his mouth finding mine even as I felt the mattress cushion my fall. This wasn't the tender gentle meeting we had last shared, it challenged, took, with the edge of the tension of the night, the shadow of anger, hurt and frustration. It was the raw edge of passion, a claiming, and a binding.
I was still glutted with power from the death outside the walls. I saw the shock on his face as I fed it into him, a different charge to the golden glow we had previously shared, sharper, colder, and felt him recoil.
"Enough, Briar," he gasped, and I let it slip away.
He pressed his lips to my cheek, working his way to my mouth and held my gaze with his, threaded my fingers with his and drew them up to either side of my head, and kissed me until I felt the power take it's familiar golden form, and this time when I sent it to him, he moaned, and I felt the glow returned as he took the raw power and returned it to me, binding me. I felt the shock of it pass through me, as a sharper edge of pleasure, and felt the binding settle in me, the final link between us.
We were both silent for a time after, absorbing, thinking. He shifted and tucked me close to him. I thought he slept until he sighed. "That was not something I expected to ever be able to do. Bind you in return. The receiving of the power is not a pleasant experience, but the using of it makes up for it."
"It calls me like velvet," I confessed, "it makes me think it warm, but when I take it, it is - "
"Cold," he finished for me.
"Yes, and hard… but also, not, somehow. It's hard to describe."
"Hard but malleable, perhaps," he was pensive.
"Perhaps. It changes, too, depending on the death… Fiery death burns. This power… it is layered, many deaths, old and new, different ways… It has a richness and depth to it that…" I shivered, remembering. "I will not give it to you again, if you do not wish it."
He stroked a hand down my arm. "I want to bind you back and that is the only way it is possible," he said quietly. "And I want to… understand."
"Me too," I sighed. "I want to understand." Everything, I thought. I want to understand everything - my power, this complex and confusing man, and his people… "What is your birth name, Thorn?" I asked him.
"My birth name?" he repeated.
Something in his tone piqued my curiosity. I rolled to face him. "You're blushing," I said, delighted.
"I am not," he denied it, but the corners of his lips curled. "Oh, fine," he sighed it out, "I hate my birth name."
"You hate your birth name," I was enthralled. "And here I thought you hadn't given it me because…"
"No," he met my gaze, suddenly sombre. "I hadn't avoided giving you my name because of any lack of commitment, Briar," he said. "Names have power. They gain it because of those who use it. Thorn is my name, because it is the name you use, and holds power because you use it."
I touched his cheek. "I understand," I told him, "but I still want to know your birth name. It's important to your people. I feel like I should know it."
He sighed. "My parents had a theme," he confessed, "they had three children, and named us according to that theme. I think I bore the brunt of it, being first, but my siblings would disagree… My birth name is Valiant."
"Valiant," I tried to resist, but couldn't. "Valiant," I grinned.
"Stop it, Briar," he tried to repress his own laughter.
"Val," I squinted at him. "I guess I could see that."
"Briar," he complained around his laughter.
"Well, it's not worse than mine," I told him. "Briar. Not the flower, but the thorns. At least your parents had something kind to say about you," I began to giggle.
"Maybe your parents are Seers," he replied, "and named you as a warning to me. This beauty doesn't come without pain."
"And now you have nothing kind to say, either," I laughed at him. "At least you're valiant enough to brave my thorns."
"Briar," he groaned, burying his face into my hair.
"Oh, no, you don't get to complain," I nudged him with my shoulder. "This is fuel for decades."
"I regret very much giving you my birth name, right now."
"Seems to be a common trend with your family: regret," I realised what I said, as I said it, but it couldn't be taken back.
His eyes sharpened. "What do you mean by that, Briar?"
"Oh, nothing," I tried to shrug it away.
"What did my brother say?" He was not going to let it go.
I sighed. "He said he regretted that you found me first."
He frowned slightly. "Hmm."
"I am sure it was just because he was provoking our fight…"
He settled me back against him, using his arm to pin me in place. "It doesn't matter, Briar," he buried his face against my shoulder and breathed me in. "He can regret all he likes. I found you first."
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Q: driver is not loading in wince 6.0 issue I added my driver in wince 6.0 platform builder. It compiles sucessfully and added in nk.bin(i checked manully by open nk.bin in vs2005) also reg file contaning that driver enrty. I did below processure to add my driver.

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*Copy  driver code into  "$(_TARGETPLATROOT)\Files\MyDriver"

*Add below line at  "platform.bib"
MyDriver.dll      $(_TARGETPLATROOT)\Files\MyDriver\MyDriver.dll        NK SHK

*Add below line at  "platform.reg"
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But when I flash that, nk.bin. driver is not loaded on board. I checked with tool which help to check which driver loaded on board.
Does anyone have idea about that?

A: We have no idea what is in mydriver.reg, so if there's a problem there, or the resulting platform.reg, then that could be an issue.
There are a few ways to diagnose this problem.  The first step would be to check ce.bib and platform.reg and make sure the expected entries are there.  If the driver or it's registry entries are not ending up in the OS, that would cause a problem.
If that looks good, then there are two steps you can take.

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*Build a Debug version of the OS, copy the debug version of device.exe into the FLATRELEASEDIR of a Release build and call makeimg.  This will give you a release build with a debug version of device.exe.  Boot up and look at the debug messages for when it attempts to load the driver and look at the report of the failure.

*Create a simple application that calls ActivateDevice and look at the return value from it.  Outputting debug messages from the driver in DllMain and XXX_Init is usually helpful as well.


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> Museums > Esperanto Museum
Divided by type of document, the library has over 35,000 library volumes, 2,500 magazine titles, 3,000 museum items, 5,000 hand-written and printed manuscripts, 22,000 photographs, 1,200 placards, and 40,000 flyers.
The Esperanto Museum was founded in 1927 by Hugo Steiner, and solemnly opened in 1929 in an official government ceremony in the Hofburg.
Since its founding in 1927 the Esperanto Museum has had a comprehensive library, which in 1990 received the title of Department of Planned Languages.
The Esperanto Museum of the Austrian National Library conveys, on its 80 square metres of museum arranged in a modern style, the vicissitudes of the history of Esperanto, and as well presents in a general way the topic of the relationship of man to language.
With interactive media stations visitors can, though acoustic aids get to know not only Esperanto, but also other planned languages, such as the mystical Lingua Ignota of Hildegard of Bingen or Klingon from the television series Star Trek. One of the media stations draws attention to the little known fact that so-called natural languages also have portions of artificially created vocabulary.
That rules of grammar can be easily learned and can be acquired without intense swotting is proved by an automat through which you can get a grasp of the grammar of Esperanto using the now legendary Pacman game. A video course of the BBC gives an impression of how spoken Esperanto sounds.
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Pillai alleged in the petition that the case against him will not exist as he has not done anything to be booked for.
The Police on Thursday had registered a case under non-bailable charges against Pillai who claimed that the Sabarimala issue provided a "golden opportunity" for the BJP to grow in Kerala.
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