Something is required is funeka in Zulu.
Yoruba movies like the storyline where someone is required to appear before the king. We are required to have a driver's licence before we drive a car.Married women in certain cultures are required to produce heirs (sons) as soon as possible, otherwise their husbands will take second wives.
We are required to put on clothes before we leave the house, otherwise we will be hauled off to a mental home for walking about in our birthday suits.There is an urgency when something is required or should be done. Fu-ne-ka.The first part is pronounced as in fool, the second part as in necking the last part as in kamala, a Hindi word.
Twitter has made microphones dinosaurs. Professors at Columbia University School of Journalism, especially in the broadcast class, taught us to: treat all microphones as live.
There are many stories of how politicians, news anchors, film crews, TV studio crews and guests, said damaging things because they thought the microphone was off.
Twitter does not have the off button.It is the new microphone and is not limited to one space.It is not cordless or hooked up to an electrical outlet.You tweet, the world picks up and retweets.There is no invitation to be a guest on OWN.It is in our fingertips.It is the power of us. It has inherited the wisdom: treat all microphones as live but added another dimension which is, treat all tweets as war tweets. War tweets are not limited to heads of states who think going to war is like a cricket game, and bat each other about who has the biggest nuclear arsenal.
Rise is phakama in Zulu.It can also mean lift, like lift your voices and sing or a crane lifting bags of cement.
Maya Angelou, wrote a poem Still I Rise.Oppressed people sometimes rise against dictators.Extremely sick people cannot climb on the wheelchair.They need somebody to lift them up. Airports are great for people watching, especially drivers who are there to pick up somebody they don't know.They raise name placards for example, Floyd Jones or Sindi Cele.Passengers raise their hands and go to the right driver.
Pha-ka-ma.The first part of the verb is pronounced as in puppy, the second part as in karma and the third part as in money.
Recent hurricanes, floods and fires are a wake-up call for immigrants who left property in the old country.What if your house in Europe, Brazil, Mexico, Asia or Africa suffers the same fate?Is it insured?Is somebody doing regular maintenance like giving it a paint job and making sure that land invaders don't target it?
Immigrants go to Australia, the U.K., Canada or the United States for a variety of reasons: to go to college and work afterwards, to work two jobs to support family and property back home or never to look back because of painful religious and cultural experiences.
Ex U.S. President Barack Obama spends some of his time on his laptop writing about his life in the White House and Congress.Is the first draft already with the publisher?
We don't know, but I have the inside story on the chapters although I'm not into insider trading.I leave that to the big boys on Wall Street.Please note that the chapters are not in chronological order.Michelle and Barack Obama will decide that.
Hunt is zingela in Zulu.People in what is known as the third world hunted game to eat and make clothes, not to create commodities that could be traded at the Sydney or New York Stock Exchange.
British aristocracy who came to 'civilise' Africa and Asia killed animals for sport and displayed lion and tiger skins in their drawing rooms.First Nations of Canada and the U.S. were also called uncivilised because they performed ceremonies before they hunted animals that gave them food, skins to keep them warm and make mobile homes, like the teepee.
Google has killed the art of conversation.I think twice about asking friends and colleagues questions because I might get the following answer.
"Just Google it." Ah!Ah! What happened to conversation, chat or small talk?It is all about human interaction, live humans that eat, drink, and visit the loo.It is also about the mouth doing its job.
Google does not speak.It doesn't have facial expressions that warn me that the conversation is turning sour, or smiles that warm my heart.It is not even heated like some languages that have fire under the belly, but the speakers are not fighting at all.
Conversation is a transport network of highways, feeder roads, traffic lights that shuffle between green, amber and red, stop signs and the cul de sac.
Toy manufacturers have added handcuffs to their inventory.Maybe they've always been there as a toy but I never noticed because of toy guns.They seem to be the preferred make believe for growing boys who want to rule the world.It is possible.
Ronald Reagan played with guns in Hollywood and later became the president of the U.S.A.The media loves interviewing famous and notorious people.I can just imagine a convicted murderer on television.
"I've always wanted to be in jail.I played with handcuffs when I was little". A little boy played with his handcuffs in a public place last week.He showed his mum once he heard the handcuffs click but, she was on a trip massaging her cellphone.
I suppose it is all legal, because there must be a body that regulates toy manufacturers.When the cellphone burst into the scene, they made mini cellphones for kids.
Blessed is busisa in Zulu.
In fact, busisa is a verb which means to bless.It can be used in a religious context like saying the pastor or the Pope blesses somebody.It also refers to talent, when we say someone is blessed with a good voice or excellence in mathematics.Some people are not blessed with good voices.They sing off key and are clueless about the injury to the ear.Some families say a blessing before they eat.A blessing is called i-sibusiso, a popular boy's name. Bu-si-sa.The first part is pronounced as in bull, but a soft -b-.The second part as in sing and the third part as in saffron.
Texting and driving kills.It makes kids orphans and parents to mourn their kids.That is why I don't like the idea of pilots texting while driving.Delete that.Texting while flying.
Autopilot.If the plane is flying itself, pilots will be tempted to text while flying. Don't tell me autopilot is technology.I must call somebody at IATA to explain the whole bit, by placing me in the pilot's seat.
Autopilot destroys the dream to fly the skies.Kids will be lukewarm to the idea of growing up to be pilots if it is not driving, turning to the right to avoid an angry cloud or slamming brakes to avoid an injured bird.Yes. Birds also get hurt up there in the sky. Who is charge of the plane when it is on autopilot?Technology?I don't think so.Technology also has a bad day.Battery is low or there is no Wi-Fi.People love the pilot's uniform because it exudes authority, authority to fly steel birds.Passengers sleep on the plane because they know somebody is in charge.
Donating is nikela in Zulu.In times of crisis like fire, floods and hurricanes, people donate boats, tents, camp beds, blankets, food and most of all, their time to help evacuees.
Donating money is common.It is only a problem when it has strings attached, like drug lords in Latin America telling the church to tone down on anti-drug smuggling sermons, or U.S. polluting industries bribing African politicians to dump hazardous waste on the continent. Ni-ke-la.The first part is pronounced as in nip, the second part as in the French qu'est-ce que c'est?And the third part as in lass.
Silicon Valley job interviews need more than a degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) or Bangalore Institute of Technology in India. The correct dress code is also part of the equation.
No tie.That is the techie dress code and, no matching jacket and pants known as the suit.You did your research before the interview so you know that Steve Jobs was famous for both Apple stuff and being tie-free.Now it is the norm.Technology-inclined guys just don't do ties, especially when they launch smart or dumb phones or the 'thinnest' computer.
What's up with Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the gray T. Shirt?Google's Sundar Pichai is also tie-less most of the time, so is Apple's Tim Cook.
The tie is an obstacle, a stop sign, a road with a train crossing, a bus that is late or faulty traffic lights.It restricts the Adam's Apple from the brain, a brain that is needed to create fast and traffic free information to the marketplace called online.
Cabanga is think in Zulu.Mama used to be mad at me for not thinking."Awu-cabangi."She used to say.
It is dangerous when world leaders with nuclear weapons don't think about the damage caused by their ping pong on social media.When someone wears something unusual, faceless critics on the internet say:What was she thinking? Ube cabanga-ni?
It is nerve-wrecking to hide something in the house, then forget where you put it.You think and think and think, but no clues. Ca-ba-nga.The first part is pronounced as the exclamation c-c-c-, the second part as in Bali, but with a soft -b-, and the last part of the verb as in The Langham Hotel.


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Liz Cheney Knows Real U.S. American Patriots Love Old Dick
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If you loved last year's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, by Dick Cheney and his evil spawn Liz, about why OBAMA SUX, you'll be quite aroused in your privates to know that they have written a whole entire book about why OBAMA SUX. It is an expansion on their ongoing dialogue with each other that the Cheney administration was AWESOMEBALLS, and it is the fault of President B. Hussein Sucksalot that Gee Dubya Bush destabilized the entire Middle East by invading Iraq because of his own daddy issues, which led to the rise of even worser terrorist organizations like ISIS. It sounds like a real fun book, if you're into historical fiction. (We do not know if Mrs. Mama Lynne Cheney contributed any HAWT lesbian sex scenes, sorry.)
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The Cheneys appeared on "CBS Sunday Morning" for a good and proper reach-around to promote their news book, which is called Exceptional: Why The World Needs A Powerful America, Or Why Obama SUX Even Some More! (At least the CBS interviewer dude acknowledges that the book is published by Simon & Schuster, a division of CBS, so we know the reason for this ridiculous daddy-daughter fluff piece. It is to sell the book, duh.)
Cheney, says the CBS fluffer, sure is looking handsome and virile these days, thanks to the heart he stole years ago to replace his broken one, which was no longer up to the task of pumping all that toxic sludge through his veins. And, because no one could ever tire of hearing about What Does 9/11 Mean To Dick, even 14 years later, we get to learn an exciting new fun fact about how Dick Cheney used to be a chillax lovable cuddle bear, before the dark times. Says Dick:
It's been alleged by some of my friends that 9/11 did change Cheney. That when he was secretary of defense in the first Bush administration, he was a warm, pleasant, lovable fellow. Then he became more of a hard rock afterwards. And I think that's probably true. It changed the way I looked at the world.
How true this is! He's more machine now than man. His mind is twisted and evil. Like, for example, before 9/11, Cheney looked at the world and could see that invading Iraq was a real BAD IDEA that America should definitely not do because of how we'd be stuck there forever and it would cost a trazillion dollars and also lots of lives, and that would be cats-and-dogs-living-together BAD, as he advised some other president named Bush. But after 9/11, Cheney looked at the world and said, "I want to go to there." So we did. And it worked out just as well as pre-9/11 Cheney had once predicted.
And now, for similar reasons that turned out to be completely wrong, we should invade Iran too, according to Liz and her daddy, which is why they had to write this book, this "necessary criticism," Liz calls it. Lord knows no one else has been out there saying OBAMA SUX, nonstop, at all the Republican hootenannies since, oh, say, January 2009; and on every single Sunday show every single week; and on Fox News, 29.5 hours a day; and on all the rightwing radio shows; and in every congressional bill introduced by a Republican calling for the investigation of how exactly OBAMA SUX; and in the countless emails you certainly by now have learned to automatically mark as spam from your nutso uncle's PatriotMurka4Freedumb@AOL.com account.
But other than that, yeah, no one is talking about how OBAMA SUX like the Cheneys, so that's why they needed to write this book, see, to explain just how and why OBAMA SUX on a range of topics, from OBAMA SUX on not cleaning up the Bush administration's war in Iraq to OBAMA SUX on making a deal with Iran because it will lead to the first use of a nuclear weapon since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, although Liz hedges that they only write it "may" lead to that, so just in case they're wrong, you can't say they were wrong, but y'all better listen to them and do exactly what they say, because they're probably right, like always.
And Republican presidential candidates are listening to all of the Cheneys' OBAMA SUX: Iran Edition, according to the CBS fluffer, which obligates us to take this brief intermission to laugh, again, at dumb Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio, who in July whined that it was Not Classy of President Obama to criticize Republicans for criticizing him for not consulting Dick Cheney on the Iran deal because, derped Rubio, "I mean, what does Dick Cheney — what does that have to do with anything that's going on?" Perhaps if Rubio spent a little less time on the campaign trail and a little more time in Washington DC, where his job is, he'd know just how much Republicans are still soaking up all of Dick Cheney's "wisdom."
But we digress.
Is Dick Cheney still a big fan of torture? Dude, torture is not the preferred nomenclature. Enhanced interrogation, please:
First of all, it wasn't torture. Waterboarding, for example. Torture. That was the most egregious thing that we did, supposedly, in the enhanced interrogation program.
Yeah, waterboarding was pretty egregious, although we still cannot bleach from our brains the "rectal feeding" and "rectal hydration" described in the Senate's report on the CIA's torture program -- wherein prisoners were anally raped (sorry, "infused") with pureed hummus and nuts. Which Cheney has also insisted is not torture.
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But listen. After all these years, Cheney is still confident that every single thing his administration did was right and good and that is how he prevented 9/11 and quickly and decisively win the war in Iraq. And being an unapologetic asshole is, as Obama sadly fails to understand, all part of the job:
If you're just nothing but warmth and friendliness and so forth, you seriously can't deal with the kinds of issues I've had to deal with over the years, and that I wanted to deal with. It's almost, I think, if you are criticism-free, then you're probably not doing your job.
And that lack of warmth and general dickishness, says his daughter, is what she loves most about her daddy:
I know of no one who has been more courageous and dedicated and honorable than my dad, in terms of being willing to say, "This is absolutely what we have to do, this is the right thing to do," you know sometimes when nobody else was willing to do it.
Yes, it's a real admirable quality in a man to insist that killing and torturing people is "absolutely" the right thing to do, even when all the experts say, "Actually, no that's going to make things worse," and those experts turn out to be right.
The most touching moment of this intimate family interview is when Liz turns to her dad and says:
I know for all of us who love you the gratitude as Americans that we feel is matched only by our love for you.
Awww, that's sweet. Those of us who know that doing war to all the countries and doing enhanced anal infusion to all the prisoners is ABSOLUTELY the best way to maintain our American values know that Dick Cheney is World's Best Dad and Also Greatest Asshole, But In A Good Way. And if you don't love Dick and all he's done for us, well, you probably do not even love this country, DO YOU OBAMA?
Also, Liz? Get help.
[h/t Rawstory]

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As the Senate Judiciary Committee began scrutinizing the proposed Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger on Wednesday, 400,000 Americans already had signed petitions urging Washington to reject the deal.
New Hampshire's U.S. Senate candidates need to stop playing political games and get serious about a joint effort to craft a "people's pledge" that would limit the influence of secret, big money donors in this year's campaign, democracy advocates Common Cause and Public Citizen said today.
The Federal Communications Commission has taken a welcome step to strengthen independent, locally-owned media, issuing new rules that begin closing loopholes broadcasters have used to cut costs and pad their profits by combining newsrooms and other operations, Common Cause said Monday.
Regulators at the Federal Communications Commission should promptly and emphatically reject Comcast's proposed purchase of rival Time Warner Cable, Common Cause said today.
Congress and President Obama should work quickly to fully staff the federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC), a 12-year-old bipartisan panel created to help states meet voluntary standards for administering elections, Common Cause said today.
President Obama's Commission on Election Administration has given the White House, Congress and state leaders a much-needed blueprint for repairing and modernizing the broken machinery of our elections, Common Cause said today.


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Q: Custom cell with UITextView: autosize width I have a problem with a chat functionality that I'm trying to implement.
Each row is a custom cell. The custom cell is initialized from xib file and has an UIView, and inside it there is a UITextview and a UIButton.
The problem: I always have the same width in my rows (cells) and I want them to adapt to the content. The height is ok (I use "heightForRowAtIndexPath").
I tried setting the frame in the cellForRowAtIndexPath with the following:
cell.message.frame = CGRectMake(cell.message.frame.origin.x, cell.message.frame.origin.y, MyNewRect.size.height, MyNewRect.size.height);

(By the way: cell.message is the UITextView)
I searched in other StackOverflow Questions but nothing really helped me. Maybe the problem is the container but I don't know how to resize both of them.
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I add my XIB image and the constraints.

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Q: How to remove BindableProperty from BindableObject in Xamarin.Forms Is it possible to remove BindableProperty from BindableObject?
I mean the reversal of the process:
BindableProperty property = BindableProperty.Create(…)

A: Yes, you can use RemoveBinding()
From the docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/xamarin.forms.bindableobject.removebinding?view=xamarin-forms#Xamarin_Forms_BindableObject_RemoveBinding_Xamarin_Forms_BindableProperty_


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Twply: Instant business — just add Twitter
Posted on January 1, 2009 by Mathew Ingram
Everyone knows that the Web speeds up the metabolic rate of many businesses (not to mention lowering the barriers to entry for competitors, of course) but the story of Twply.com has to be a new record: going from hot startup to scapegoat to selling the business in less than 24 hours. It's as though someone recorded a business developing and then played it back using time-lapse photography, like they do in nature documentaries, when they show plants growing, blooming and then dying in a matter of seconds.
I first saw the name Twply in my Twitter feed, when someone said they were using it to send @replies from Twitter to their email, and that it was "neat stuff." That phrase was the giveaway though — within minutes, I saw probably half a dozen messages from friends that were identical, all saying that Twply was "neat stuff." I decided to try the service out, but deliberately unchecked the box that asked me whether I wanted to promote Twply on Twitter after signing up; despite that, Twply auto-posted the same "neat stuff" message to my stream. Then I saw Robert Scoble mention that he thought auto-posting Twitter spam was stupid, and others started criticizing the spammy nature of the service. A discussion broke out on FriendFeed, and blog posts started appearing about it.
Within a couple of hours of my hearing about the service, someone posted a Twitter link to a SitePoint auction, which showed that Twply had been sold for the princely sum of $1,200 — according to the description, because the owners found it impossible to keep up with the demand for their service. And who were the owners? One blogger did some digging and came up with the name Conrad Barrett, who appears to be a high-school senior in Rochester, and someone else said that a coder named Raphael Caiexeta appeared to be involved as well. The latter has sold a couple of previous creations on SitePoint, including one called Twitter Unfollower.
And now all those who signed up for Twply have to worry about is what the new owner plans to do with all of their login info and passwords, as noted by Fred Oliveira of We Break Stuff.


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Why Kim Kardashian may stay mum on Kanye West's Forbes interview, plus more news
By Wonderwall.com Editors 3:01pm PDT, Jul 8, 2020
What does Kim Kardashian think of Kanye West's Forbes interview?
In what Forbes described as "four hours of rambling interviews" with the outlet this week, Kanye West sounded off on a variety of issues that will come into play if he follows through on his July 4 tweet saying he plans to run for president. Those topics included everything from his change of heart on Donald Trump, whom he long supported, to his anti-vaccination stance to his belief Planned Parenthood was put on Earth by "white supremacists to do the devil's work." He also cited his wife, Kim Kardashian West, as a key adviser. She's a strange choice, given her take on issues like vaccinations and Planned Parenthood — which may be why she had yet to speak out about her husband's interview as of the end of the day on Wednesday, July 8. The Daily Mail cites a number of instances when Kardashian has proven she sees things quite differently than her husband with regard to the matters he discussed with Forbes. There's a 2017 "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" episode in which Kardashian publicly advocates for Planned Parenthood, for example. And back in 2013, she had her entire family get vaccinated against whooping cough. Trump, meanwhile, weighed in on the rapper's presidential bid plans in an interview with "RealClearPolitics" on Tuesday (via ET). Though he called West's announcement "very interesting" and said he has a "real voice," Trump also suggested running this year might have to be a "trial run" for 2024 for West. "It'd have to be limited to certain states, because in some states the deadline has been missed," the president said. "If he did it, he would have to view this as a trial run for what's going to happen in four years."
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Bella Hadid slams Facebook for taking down a post about her Palestinian heritage
Facebook has apologized to Bella Hadid for removing a post she shared on her Instagram Story that referenced her father's "birthplace of Palestine." According to People, Bella told fans on Tuesday that Instagram's parent company flagged an image of Mohamed Hadid's passport on which she'd written, "My baba And his birthplace of Palestine." Though the passport number was grayed out, Bella said she received an alert from the platform saying the post was removed, "because it goes against our Community Guidelines on harassment or bullying." The alert then listed examples of the kinds of things that could result in a post being taken down: "graphic violence; hate speech, harassment and bullying; and nudity and sexual activity." Responding to the company about the alert, Bella asked, "@instagram exactly what part of me being proud of my fathers birth place of Palestine is 'bullying, harassment, graphic, or sexual nudity'?" sharing a screenshot. "Are we not allowed to be Palestinian on Instagram? This, to me, is bullying," she asserted. "You can't erase history by silencing people. It Doesn't work like that." The next day, a rep for Facebook told People that the Palestine reference was not related to the post's removal. "To protect the privacy of our community, we don't allow people to post personal information, such as passport numbers, on Instagram. In this case the passport number was blurred out, so this content shouldn't have been removed," the statement read. "We've restored the content and apologize to Bella for the mistake." Bella responded with another post on her Story. "I am proud to be Palestinian ❤," she told followers. "Everyone should post where their mother and fathers were born today! Remind them how proud you are of where you come from !!!"
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Drew Barrymore talks staying positive in 2020, jokes about her weight struggles
Over the years, Drew Barrymore's made positivity and optimism a way of life — and as InStyle reports in its August cover story, she's set to share those good vibes in a new format starting this fall with "The Drew Barrymore Show" on CBS. "You can't be fueled by negativity," Drew says. "That's why, to me, what's happening now in the world does not feel negative; it feels overdue. People will have different opinions about how to proceed, and based on history, there is nothing everyone in the world will agree on. But it seems like there is a collective consciousness right now — an American and global awakening. And I am a student. I'll be learning until the end of time." Learning, of course, isn't always easy or comfortable. But for Drew, "humility and perspective are vital" in difficult times, as is comedy. Her casual mention of the clean eating and rigorous Pilates workouts she adheres to is a case in point: "I have to work so hard at not being the size of a bus," she jokes. "And it's OK. That is just my journey. That is my karma. I don't know, maybe I was thin and mean in a past life." As for her recent "learning," Drew, 45, was not initially so positive about being a "single mom," teaching her two daughters at home while running her six businesses. "I felt very overwhelmed at first — and I hate feeling overwhelmed," she admits. "It was weird to be a mom and a teacher and a provider and a friend. I felt sad for a while that I was all I could offer my children. Then I realized that I had to get out from under it. I have so much empathy and patience for everyone but myself, it's sick." She laughs, then admits how easy it is to "feel bad about yourself" given the strange new pressures everyone in the world seems to be facing. "I began to self-doubt and beat myself up," she says of the early days of the pandemic. "Then I was like, 'This is temporary.' I tell my kids that too. It's not normal; it's the new normal. It's a learning curve, and, hopefully, this is all happening for a reason. Timing is everything — and this is not a time to get lost; it is a time to be found."
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Billie Eilish's parents wanted to send her to therapy for her Justin Bieber addiction
You wouldn't know it from her uber-dark songs about depression and death, but Billie Eilish's early pop music taste was pretty much focused on Justin Bieber. And by "focused," we mean "obsessed." According to Billie's mom, Maggie, she and the singer's dad, Patrick, actually wanted their daughter to see a professional about her Bieber addiction at one point. Citing Justin's "As Long As You Love Me" on the show, Maggie recalled "driving to the dance studio with Billie, playing this song, sobbing, and then driving back and sobbing," according to JustJared. "It was either 'Marina and the Diamonds' or this, sobbing," she added. "Not just this, it was all of Justin Bieber… Any Justin Bieber song, but I just happen to remember this one really well, and the video, and Billie talking to me about it, and being excited that it was coming out and just crying and crying. Everyone knows the whole Billie-Justin Bieber thing, but this song was a big part of it." Billie didn't deny she had a problem, either. "I would watch the music video for this song and just sob," she admitted. "I just want to say," Maggie noted, "we did consider taking you to therapy because you were in so much pain over Justin Bieber."
Julianne Hough posts about overcoming depression, anxiety after Brooks Laich split
In the wake of her split from Brooks Laich, Julianne Hough has been posting messages about pulling through after difficult time. "When feeling stuck, depressed, anxious or hopeless, try taking your attention off of yourself and helping someone less fortunate than you," she wrote on Monday (via Page Six) in a quote on her Instagram Story. Other Stories the "Dancing WWith the Stars" judge shared included an image of a quote that read, "Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end," and "Take note of how you speak to yourself. There's a difference between taking responsibility for your life and perpetually punishing yourself." Ultimately, though, she seemed to be staying as upbeat as possible. Sharing a meme of Leslie Jordan looking goofy and happy while twirling around a pole, Hough wrote, "This! Yup." "Me after having an emotional breakdown," the meme read. "I'm backkkkk!!!" Hough and Laich announced in late May that they were calling time on their marriage of nearly three years. The confirmation came after months of rumors suggesting they were having trouble.
Thandie Newton reveals she dropped out of 'Charlie's Angels' after racist comments from Amy Pascal
Over the course of three decades, Emmy Award-winning actress Thandie Newton has witnessed firsthand the "sexist, casually racist" behavior of some of Hollywood's biggest power players. In a new interview with Vulture, the actress, 47, reveals details — including names — about a number of those incidents, many if not all of which continue to affect her today. From a "disgusting" casting couch assault to director John Duigan's grooming and sexual abuse on the set of "Flirting," when Newton was 16 and Duigan was 39, Newton has publicly discussed some of what she was subjected to in the past. Speaking to Vulture, however, she reveals even more. Newton opens up about the "re-abuse" she suffered as a teen when press framed her sexual relationship with Duigan as an "affair. "If you're a young Black girl and you get raped, in the film business, no one's going to f—— care. You can tell whoever the f— you want, and they'll call it an affair. Until people start taking this seriously, I can't fully heal," Newton says. She also recalls declining a role in 2000's "Charlie's Angels" after a director wanted to open the film by objectifying her body — and Amy Pascal, then the head of Sony Pictures, said she'd have to tweak the movie to make Newton "believable" as a woman who's been to college. "I'm like, 'I've been to university. I went to Cambridge,'" Newton recalls. "She went, 'Yeah, but you're different.' She's like, 'Maybe there could be a scene where you're in a bar and she gets up on a table and starts shaking her booty.' She's basically reeling off these stereotypes of how to be more convincing as a Black character. Everything she said, I was like, 'Nah, I wouldn't do that.' She's like, 'Yeah, but you're different. You're different.' That was Amy Pascal. That's not really a surprise, is it? Let's face it: I didn't do the movie as a result." Pascal was ultimately fired from Sony in 2015 after an email hack revealed she and Scott Rudin has exchanged racist messages about Barack Obama's film taste. In a statement to Vulture, Pascal said she was "horrified to hear" Newton's account but that she has "no recollection" of the conversation Newton described. "I've long considered Thandie a friend," she said. "I'm thankful that I've had the chance to make movies with her; and I hope to work with her again in the future."
Johnny Depp reveals his drug use began 'around age 11'
On the first day of testimony in Johnny Depp's libel suit against News Group Newspapers (NGN), the actor was asked to discuss his early use of drugs and alcohol, which he said began when he was a child. "[The drug use started] at a very young age, when it was not a particularly stable or secure or safe home life," Depp said during the cross-examination, according to People. "My mother used to ask me to go and get her 'nerve pills' and I think I was around the age of 11 that it dawned on me that 'nerve pills' were calming her nerves, so I brought her her nerve pills and I took one and that began [my drug use]." Using substances, he added, was "the only way that I found to numb the pain." The lawsuit revolves around a story published by British tab The Sun in which Depp was called a "wife-beater," in reference to his now defunct marriage to Amber Heard, who claims he was abusive. Depp has denied her allegations, saying that in fact, she was the one who was physically abusive. The line of questioning Tuesday was apparently tied to claims Depp made in court documents alleging Heard encouraged him to use substances in spite of the fact he was in recovery from drugs and alcohol during their marriage, according to People. "It has been well reported and I have been open about my challenges with alcoholism and addiction throughout my life," he said in a witness statement, filed in December and excerpted by People. "In fact, I started drinking and taking drugs when I was still a child. I am not in any way embarrassed to say this. However, the way in which the Defendants have sought to portray this problem is not a fair or accurate reflection of the reality of addiction." He also reportedly said neither drugs nor alcohol have ever made him "undertake violence against anyone." At the hearing, Depp was also asked about an incident in which he allegedly slapped Heard three times after she laughed at his "wino forever" tattoo at one point when he'd fallen "off the wagon." He denied having hit her, according to Deadline. In February, leaked audio appeared to feature Heard describing "hitting" Depp and saying, "I can't promise I won't get physical again." The pair's divorce was finalized in 2016.
Justin Timberlake calls for confederate monuments in the south to come down
For the past month or so, white celebs have been turning over their Instagram accounts to leaders from the Black Lives Matter movement in the interest of amplifying their message. Justin Timberlake, who's shared his platform with Stacey Abrams of Fair Fight and Color for Change president Rashad Robinson, among others, turned his attention this week to the ACLU and its support of the removal of confederate statues. "A lot of you know I'm from Tennessee . …a state that happens to be the home of many many confederate monuments," Justin posted on Tuesday. "When we protest racism in America, people think we are protesting America itself. Why is that the reaction?" he continued. "Because America was built by men who believed in and benefited from racism. Plain and simple. This is when you hear 'But that's all in the past'. So let's be clear… those men who proudly owned and abused Black people are STILL celebrated all over the country." Justin went on to note that more than half of the country's "roughly 1,848 confederate statues" are in the south, a fact he called unacceptable. "No one should be protecting the legacies of confederate leaders and slave owners," he wrote. "If we plan to move forward, these monuments must come down. But let's remember: Removing these statues does not erase our country's vile history of oppression — removing them is a symbol of respect for Black people in America and it's a step towards progress and actual equality for all." The post also included a video from the ACLU of a talk by ACLU Deputy Legal Director Jeffrey Robinson, who also leads the ACLU Center for Justice. "Please follow them," he added, "and learn more about the history of the monuments in your own states and counties." The post has already garnered more than 1 million views — as well as praise from Jamie Foxx, who wrote in the comments, "Means a lot to have u shine ur light bro!!!! 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾."
Duchess Meghan was 'actively prevented from responding' to 'untrue' tabloid coverage: Report
Last week, court documents in Duchess Meghan's lawsuit against Associated Newspapers and the Mail on Sunday revealed the former "Suits" star felt silenced by the royal family as British tabloids ran "untrue" stories about her relationship with her father. Now, a People source close to Meghan and Prince Harry is elaborating on Meghan's experience at the time and what she found so "frustrating" about the situation. "The go-to position [at the palace] was no comment or to ignore stories, and people actively prevented her from responding to stuff that we knew to be untrue," said the source. The source also notes that claims made in the documents are not "about individuals," presumably in the royal family, but rather "about the [institution] as a whole and its practices." Meanwhile, a source "with close knowledge" of how Kensington Palace operates under such media scrutiny, says "the palace teams" have found that "when things go wrong — particularly on private life matters — quite often any action taken with the media makes it worse."
Amanda Kloots reflects on what she'll miss most about Nick Cordero
As Amanda Kloots mourns the death of her husband, Broadway star Nick Cordero, she's looking back at the many things that made him such a "special man" in her eyes. "He was everyone's friend," she shares with People of her late husband, who died at 41 Sunday from complications related to COVID-19. "We taught each other things, challenging each other to grow. We loved to sing and dance wherever we were. Just looking at him doing the simplest things would bring a smile to my face," she continued. "As a husband I don't think a day went by that he didn't say to me, 'I'm the luckiest,'" she added. "Words can't describe how much I will miss him, his presence, his voice. I'm heartbroken." Kloots, an actress and fitness expert, married Cordero in 2017. The couple welcomed their son Elvis in 2019, a moment Cordero marked on Instagram, telling friends and followers Elvis is "the light of our lives."
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Game Review: New Play Control! Donkey Kong Jungle Beat
25 June '09
NPC! Donkey Kong Jungle
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DK's latest Wii release happens to be a port of one of the most controversial and fandom splitting games in the entire series, Donkey Kong Jungle Beat. But before I review it, here's a brief history of the game:
New Play Control! Donkey Kong Jungle Beat is the next installment in the New Play Control! line; a series of GameCube games that Nintendo has decided to remake with Wii controls at a discount price of $29.99 (USD). The difference between this one and the other installments is that usually when porting a game to the Wii you do so to give it a gimmicky control scheme rather than a normal one, and this game has it backwards. The original Donkey Kong Jungle Beat was notorious for it's use of the DK Bongos gimmick. Lucky for us (or unfortunately for us, depending on which side of the spectrum you stand), the Bongos have not followed DK to the Wii and have been replaced by perfectly normal platformer controls (more on that later). The original Jungle Beat had the DK fan community split down the middle between those who hated it and those who could tolerate it. This was due in part to Nintendo Tokyo (the developer of the game)'s comments that the DK characters of the past weren't "fresh enough" for today's audience; and that DK didn't need a "superfluous" storyline. These comments were made in remark to the fact that Donkey Kong Jungle Beat had no returning DK characters other than DK and the banana, and that it had no storyline whatsoever. Thankfully, if that game was made to spite everything Rare had worked to achieve with the character, this game is their apology.
If the only problems you had with DKJB were it's lack of story, lack of DK characters, and gimmicky controls than you're in luck because Nintendo has added a story, DK coins and Barrel Cannons, and they've redone a lot of the gameplay and controls making this feel more like a traditional platformer.
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Ghastly King
The storyline involves the evil Ghastly King wreaking havoc on the jungle kingdoms and stealing their bananas. This is where DK comes in. DK is helped on his adventure by white "Party Monkeys", who carry out various tasks throughout the game. When you start the game you are prompted by a new Party Monkey wearing glasses that sits in a brown bush (which I've coined as "Smarty Monkey"), who will appear from time to time to tell you hints or progress the storyline. Another new monkey helper, one that sits in a blue bush (I have no clever name for this one) acts as a checkpoint in the middle of long levels, which is one of the many things they've added to give this a classic platformer feel.
The core gameplay itself is quite the same as the last game. The game is divided into 5 barrels, each containing 4 kingdoms. Each Kingdom has 2 levels, and then a boss fight. The unique thing about this (and it's predecessor) is that your objective is not just to complete the level, it's to collect as many bananas you can doing it (something that was always voluntary in the past). You need as many bananas as possible because they act as health when you fight the Kingdom boss. In order to collect a lot of bananas you have to string together many tricky combos by doing a number of acrobatics and stunts. If you touch the ground, you lose your combo. This is a very challenging but rewarding system that takes a lot of practice and patience. Your ultimate goal throughout the game is to have enough bananas after the big boss fight to win crests. There are a total of 3 crests to be earned in each kingdom, and you must get more bananas to get more crests. The trickiest part of all is not getting the bananas, but maintaining them through the boss fight. Luckily they've added an option that let's you have a rematch with the boss if you die, this way you don't have to go all the way through both levels again.
Animal Buddies do return in this game, but like it's predecessor they are completely original to the series and not returning veterans like Rambi the Rhino. Even though there are no returning enemies and friends, this does feel very much like a successor to the Donkey Kong Country trilogy; a DKC Lite as it's been described.
One of this game's positives and negatives deal with it's boss fights. The positive is that they are pretty unique and fun, the negative is that the same boss "type" is repeated 4 times only made more difficult. The Hog bosses throw melons at you which you must launch back at them, just like a hog enemy in the game. The Roc bosses are giant mythical birds that carry an egg you must destroy. You are flying through the huge landscape, using some of the platforming obstacles of the game to dodge it's attacks and smash it's egg. The Tusks are robotic elephants. You must lodge Pineapple bombs into their trunks in order to hurt them. The final boss type is the most interesting: The Kongs. There are four renegade Kongs in this game that you must fight Punchout style! They are easily the most traditional-to-the-series looking characters in the game. A new mode has been included called Kong of the Mountain that allows you to fight all the Kong bosses in a row, and it is one of the more challenging levels of the game.
Although the basics are the same, Nintendo has included a number of changes to make this feel more like a traditional platformer. The first of which is the control scheme, which is a big departure from the Bongo controls of the previous title. This time around, you use the Nunchuck's control stick to move left and right, and the A button to jump. You shake the controller to make a clap wave and to grap onto enemies, as well as do other things. They've done a few things to incorporate the motion technology of the Wii, but when they do it's actually quite fun. As well as the "checkpoint monkey" they've added, they've also added health hearts instead of just losing bananas, and DK coins that act as lives. Besides that they've also added a handslap ability that allows you to retrieve bananas from the ground, and a backflip ability to get a high jump. Although it does lose a little bit of personality without the Bongo controller, it's worth it as they never would've been able to pull off some of the more advanced moves that you can do with a "normal" controller.
I only have a few complaints, one being that it's still not very long, but I would sacrifice quantity for quality any day. It also doesn't include any sort of multiplayer boxing or anything to that effect, but I guess there's only so much you can change. This is just a port after all.
All in all, this is a fantastic follow up to an already good game. Most if not all of the complaints of the original have at least been attempted to be fixed. The graphics are as good as anything else on the Wii, period; which is strange for a GameCube remake. If you liked the original then the added controls and items warrant an instant purchase, and if you didn't buy the original in protest than perhaps the changes and discount price will make you come around. Any Wii owning Donkey Kong fan should be ashamed not to own this. I was going to review the original before this came out, but it would be a waste now, as this has changed my entire outlook on the game. If I were to have reviewed the first one I would've given it a 3 out of 5, but I'm giving this NPC! re-release a very well earned 4.


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PSJ: Hmm to be honest, it was all hard.
PSJ: Every scene has its own reason why it was hard to film PSJ: The first one, PSJ: my very first appearance on this movie PSJ: the scene when I was introduced as MMA athlete.
PSJ: I was very nervous back then.
PSJ: The fact that I have to film with the real MMA athlete PSJ: made me a little bit nervous and tensed.
PSJ: The second one, the one-take action scene near the end of the movie.
PSJ: We need to practice many times, PSJ: and we really need to practice hard.
I thing that's why it was hard.
PSJ: And after that, in the end, they need to add CG and special effects, PSJ: I think that's also why it was hard because there are so many things to be concerned about.
PSJ: Physically, it's hard to say that it's not hard.
PSJ: But mentally, I feel proud of myself from doing new things I've never done before.
KJH: The action scenes from thin movie is different from Midnight Runners, KJH: because in this movie, we add a lot off CG and special effect makeups.
KJH: Preparing for all of that is the most challenging thing for me.
ASK: At first, when I met my Latin teacher for the first time, ASK: I listen to his/her pronounciation, ASK: I was surprised because it was my first time to listen to the language.
ASK: And I was worried about my ability to ASK: differentiate whether what I say was a scolding or not.
ASK: So I asked the director to set my Latin course immediately.
ASK: After that, 2 months before the filming, I started to recite the Latin script.
ASK: And during 5 months of filming, ASK: with a help of a pocket book, fortunately the filming went well because I kept on remembering & memorizing it.
ASK: I know nothing about Latin languae because I've never tried before, ASK: but I was surprised because Father Ahn can use it as a weapon ASK: by raising his tone during his pray and while casting a spell, ASK: and I had to say the words as powerful as I can as if I want to pick a fight.
KJH: Honestly, this movie is not about exorcism.
KJH: It's more than that.
It's about dealing with supranatural world.
KJH: But somehow, exorcism movie is very popular these days, KJH: so we can't help but leaning near there.
KJH: But I always ask "How to make the exorcism different from the others?" KJH: If you watch the movie closely, the story is about hero and villain.
KJH: So we took heroic grammar such as spiritual world, devil, and even ancestors.
KJH: And the most important part is the greatest villain got killed by a sword, right? KJH: So, I was thinking a lot back then.
KJH: This movie shows a person who just realized he has abilities.
KJH: A story about what will he do for people he loves.
ASK: My favorite scene? // KJH: Yes, your favorite scene.
ASK: Hmm for me.
when me and Yong Hu (PSJ), ASK: we became close after couple of meetings.
ASK: He is a warm person.
He has lots of feelings inside but he also quite fun.
ASK: And we had so much fun filming the scene of us drinking together at his house, ASK: that's my favorite scene.
KJH: This movie tells a story about a guy who has trauma from his father, KJH: and then he found a man with a fatherly figure.
KJH: At the end of the movie, looking at Yong Hu's expression, KJH: it feels like "Ah, his wounded heart is healed now.
" KJH: The acting is really good.
(PSJ: Ah stop I'm shy) KJH: The actors acted so well you can feel the impact of their acting.
PSJ: I have different reasons, PSJ: I mean, I love all the scenes in the movie, but PSJ: the scene where Yong Hu's heart begins to move for the first time, PSJ: when Father Ahn was changing his clothes (take off his shirt) and left with a running shirt, PSJ: and when Yong Hu looks at his back view, Yong Hu's heart started to move.
PSJ: Even though he is my senior, he reminds me of my dad.
PSJ: I think it was a scene that can make me feel my dad's loneliness.
PSJ: On the other hand, it also made me think "Ah, I should do better to my family.
" PSJ: So that was my favorite scene.
PSJ: Hmm it's impossible to say only 1 reason.
(HE'S SO FREAKIN CUTE) PSJ: But if I need to say just 1 reason, PSJ: Even though the good acting skills of Korean actors & actresses are already well known around the world, PSJ: for me, this movie shows that (great acting skills) again.
(PSJ WHY U SO CUTE!!!) ASK: Even though this movie is about exorcism, ASK: this movie is different from other movies.
It's a whole new kind of movie.
ASK: It has action, drama, 'buddy movie'.
ASK: So i think this is a very interesting movie with many varieties to offer.
KJH: For me, I think this movie is such an awakening in Korean movie industry, KJH: by jumping over the language.
KJH: And this movie also tells a story about people who do things for other people.
KJH: So this movie also talks about humanity.
KJH: I hope this movie is interesting enough for Indonesian fans to watch.
ALL: THANK YOU (LOOK HOW CUTE PSJ CLAPPING!!).
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Dams: One structure, many benefits
At first glance, dams look like they only hold back and store water, but they actually do so much more. Dams can help protect communities from floods, provide water to irrigate farmland, enable safe passage for boats and barges, create places to play on the river and provide the Northwest with renewable, carbon-free electricity. While not all dams perform the same jobs, most dams provide multiple benefits.
Managing flood risk and protecting communities
River flows, especially during years with rapid snow melt or extreme rains, have the power to flood, damage and even destroy surrounding areas. An example of that destructive power is the Vanport Flood of 1948, before flood control was a major consideration. After rapid snowmelt and heavy rains, the Columbia River rose to more than 23 feet above flood stage, and the levees failed. The flood destroyed the homes of 18,000 residents, killing at least 15 people and wiping out the then-second largest city in Oregon.
The Vanport Flood helped spur the development of flood control at Columbia River Basin dams to lessen the risk of another flood disaster.
Dams manage flood risk by working with the levee system to hold back water, releasing it over time. Columbia River Basin dams can store up to 40 million acre-feet of water in big artificial lakes behind them called reservoirs. That's a lot of storage space, considering one acre-foot equals enough water to cover almost an entire football field with a foot of water. Engineers operating the dams control how much water gets past the structures using outlets such as hydroelectric generators or spillways. To make sure dams have enough space behind them to store water, engineers draw down the reservoirs by letting more water pass through the dams in the winter in a process known as drafting. This allows for large amounts of rain and runoff in the spring to refill the dams' reservoirs.
Irrigating farmland and hydrating the basin's bounties
Harnessing river water for growing Northwest crops began more than 200 years ago, with larger-scale irrigation projects taking shape by the mid-1800s. Today, Northwest dams help the region's fields flourish and feed the world with potatoes, sugar beets, mint, hops and other crops grown by water diverted for irrigation.
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Enabling safe travel along aquatic super-highways
Just as transmission lines are energy super-highways, transporting electricity from one city or state to another, the Columbia and Snake rivers are super-highways of a different sort. Thanks to dams, barges transport more than 50 million tons of cargo each year between the Pacific Ocean and Lewiston, Idaho, 465 miles away. Eight federal dams with a series of reservoirs and navigation locks make it easy and safer for vessels traveling upstream of Bonneville Lock and Dam. Locks are gated passageways that work much like an elevator. They fill up or drain water through valves to lift or lower watercraft from water level to the next. Barges, tugs and recreational craft can all use the locks to move upstream or downstream. Without the dams, the river would be a series of turbulent rapids, making it more difficult and less safe for boats to navigate.
Using rivers for shipping is also a highly fuel-efficient way to transport cargo, which includes 60% of the nation's wheat exports, in the Northwest. For example, one barge carrying 3,500 pounds of cargo on the river replaces 134 trucks on the road. A towboat pushing four barges that carry 14,000 pounds removes 538 trucks from the road.
Providing places to play and educational opportunities
The areas behind and around Columbia River Basin dams are popular public sites for all sorts of fun activities. Visitors use reservoirs to enjoy water-based activities, ranging from boating and fishing to windsurfing and kiteboarding. The land near the dams also offers recreational space for camping, hiking, horseback riding and wildlife viewing.
Some dams, such as Bonneville, The Dalles and Grand Coulee, offer visitor centers where guests can learn about dam operations, appreciate their history, take tours and visit fish-viewing windows.
Today, many Northwest residents recognize the dams as multi-use fun zones that offer the ultimate spots for leisure.
Fueling the Northwest with clean, carbon-free electricity
Hydropower is a renewable energy resource created by the energy of falling water.
Gravity forces water to flow through specially equipped hydroelectric dams to produce carbon-free and inexpensive electricity that provides the Northwest with nearly 90% of its renewable energy. In 2020, the 31 Federal Columbia River Power System dams located around the Pacific Northwest generated 7,482 average annual megawatts. But when working at full capacity, the dams have the ability to generate up to 22,442 megawatts. That's enough to power up to 10 Seattle-sized cities.
Because dams do not produce carbon emissions when generating electricity, the abundance of hydropower makes the region's power system the cleanest in the United States and prevents 50 million metric tons of carbon emissions from entering the atmosphere.


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Class RulesConfigClient

Contains methods to access the /rules-configs endpoint

Inheritance

System.Object

BaseClient

RulesConfigClient

Implements

IRulesConfigClient

Inherited Members

      BaseClient.Connection

      BaseClient.BaseUri

      BaseClient.DefaultHeaders

      BaseClient.BuildUri(String, IDictionary<String, String>)

      BaseClient.EncodePath(String)

Namespace: Auth0.ManagementApi.Clients

Assembly: Auth0.ManagementApi.dll

Syntax

public class RulesConfigClient : BaseClient, IRulesConfigClient

Constructors

RulesConfigClient(IManagementConnection, Uri, IDictionary<String, String>)

Initializes a new instance of RulesConfigClient.

Declaration

public RulesConfigClient(IManagementConnection connection, Uri baseUri, IDictionary<string, string> defaultHeaders)

Parameters

        Type
        Name
        Description

        IManagementConnection
        connection

IManagementConnection used to make all API calls.

        Uri
        baseUri

<see cref="!:Uri"></see> of the endpoint to use in making API calls.

        IDictionary<System.String, System.String>
        defaultHeaders

Dictionary containing default headers included with every request this client makes.

Methods

CreateOrUpdateAsync(RulesConfigCreateOrUpdateRequest, CancellationToken)

Creates or updates a rules config variable according to the request.

Declaration

public Task<RulesConfig> CreateOrUpdateAsync(RulesConfigCreateOrUpdateRequest request, CancellationToken cancellationToken = null)

Parameters

        Type
        Name
        Description

        RulesConfigCreateOrUpdateRequest
        request

The RulesConfigCreateOrUpdateRequest containing the details of the rule to create or update.

        CancellationToken
        cancellationToken

The cancellation token to cancel operation.

Returns

        Type
        Description

        Task<RulesConfig>

The newly created Rule.

DeleteAsync(String, CancellationToken)

Deletes a rules config variable.

Declaration

public Task DeleteAsync(string key, CancellationToken cancellationToken = null)

Parameters

        Type
        Name
        Description

        System.String
        key

The key of the rules-config to delete.

        CancellationToken
        cancellationToken

The cancellation token to cancel operation.

Returns

        Type
        Description

        Task

A <see cref="!:Task"></see> that represents the asynchronous delete operation.

Implements

      IRulesConfigClient

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"1918-2018 Thank you all who served, sacrificed and changed our world
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One hundred years ago, on 11th November 1918, the guns fell silent on the world's first truly global war. This is a significant and poignant anniversary, which is to be marked at world, national and local levels.
Everyone is touched in some way by the First World War and the generation who lived through it. Military records reveal that 8.5 million people lost their lives between 1914 and 1918, and 21.2 million soldiers were wounded. In our Shaw and Crompton community, 347 brave young men were killed, or died of their injuries, during the conflict. Many others contributed massively towards the war effort with their hard work, whether in factories and coal mines, munition works or in medical, nursing or voluntary services.
As part of our Remembrance commemorations, History students will be taking part in lessons to encourage them to think about all those who lived through this tragic and remarkable time. We would ask that all students attempt some research into the lives of their ancestors who were alive at the time of the First World War, to find out more about what they were doing at the time in support of the war effort. If anyone has an ancestor who was killed in the war, then the Commonwealth War Graves Commission has a website where a register of deaths can be searched: www.cwgc.org/find/find-war-dead.
For those students who find it difficult to research an ancestor, then they could choose to find out about a name listed on a war memorial – either on our local memorial in Shaw town centre or on one of the many of local war memorials found in every city, town or village, and often in local churches.
All we ask pupils to do is to produce one page of A4 (maximum) which contains details of one named individual together with a brief description of what they did, either at home or on the Front, during the First World War. If possible, also attach a photograph. We will be creating a display of poppies to mark the Remembrance celebrations and it would be lovely to be able to include the name of your chosen soldier, especially if they are related to you in some way.
As part of the 'Thank you' campaign, the British Legion is encouraging everyone to share their research or join in the commemorations by tweeting #Thankyou100
We thank you in advance for your time taken in research, and believe it is a fitting way to remember our ancestors and mark whatever their contribution was during the First World War. Please do visit the British Legion website for more information about the campaign; rbl.org.uk/thankyou.
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Vindication was purchased for $2.15 million at the 2001 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale by Satish Sanan's Padua Stables of Ocala, Florida, who  handed him over to trainer Bob Baffert for race conditioning. Sent to the track at age two, Vindication won his first two races at Del Mar Racetrack in California. Then, on September 14 at Turfway Park in Florence, Kentucky, he captured the Grade III Kentucky Cup Juvenile Stakes by six lengths. He was then sent to Chicago's Arlington Park for the 2002 Breeders' Cup Juvenile. Though the race was normally run at a distance of 11/16 miles, the track setup at Arlington Park meant that year's Juvenile was raced at 1⅛ miles. Ridden by Mike Smith, Vindication won by  lengths over Kafwain and Hold That Tiger, the latter a highly regarded colt from Ireland trained by Aidan O'Brien.

The runaway winner in the voting for 2002 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt honors, Vindication was the winterbook favorite for the following spring's Kentucky Derby. However, as a result of a serious injury sustained early in 2003, Vindication never  raced again and was retired.

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Vindication was euthanized on July 10, 2008 after suffering from a stomach rupture.

Race Record

Average win margin: 4 lengths

See also
List of leading Thoroughbred racehorses

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 Vindication's pedigree and partial racing stats
 Video at YouTube of Vindication winning the 2002 Breeders' Cup Juvenile
 News article alerting the public of Vindication's sudden death

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KAMPALA – The police at Kyambogo are investigating a suspected suicide of a former student of Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering at Kyambogo University who graduated in 2019.
Brian Wetaka, a resident of Ntinda allegedly killed himself on Friday in Kyambogo University at the Engineering Building at about 8am.
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Composed of over 80 works, the exhibition investigates the role and impact women have had in Parliament from the 19th century to today. It charts the successes and struggles faced by women over the course of a century.
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