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"Wish" is the fifteenth single of the Japanese boy band Arashi. The single was released in two editions: a regular edition containing karaoke versions of the songs released in the single, and a limited edition containing a bonus track. The regular edition also contains a hidden track of the group's Secret Talk, in which the members' conversation lasted about forty-two minutes in total before the track was edited down to about thirty-eight minutes.
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"Wish" was used as the theme song and at the same time opening song for the drama Hana Yori Dango starring Mao Inoue, Arashi member Jun Matsumoto, Shun Oguri, Shota Matsuda and Tsuyoshi Abe. Matsumoto accepted his role of Tsukasa Dōmyōji in Hana Yori Dango so that the group would be able release "Wish" as their next single.
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1 2 Love So Sweet (Secret Talk) (in Japanese). J Storm. November 16, 2005. Retrieved October 20, 2009.
1 2 2005年11月第4週の邦楽シングルランキング情報 (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved 2009-10-23.
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Wish is a 1993 album by jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman.
Joshua Redman said that "one of the reasons I wanted to work with these guys — aside from the obvious fact that they're masters — is because they're master storytellers." He said he was pleased with it because "it has a definite collective identity, a real organic unity."
The AllMusic review by Alex Henderson notes that although the album could have easily been avant-garde (due to Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins having been part of Ornette Coleman's quartet), it is actually a "mostly inside post-bop date". He also praises Redman's "ability to provide jazz interpretations of rock and R&B songs", saying that "in Redman's hands, Stevie Wonder's "Make Sure You're Sure" becomes a haunting jazz-noir statement, while Eric Clapton's ballad "Tears in Heaven" is changed from moving pop/rock to moving pop-jazz", noting that the latter could be called "smooth jazz with substance."
It peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart.
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"Wish" is a song from industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails' Broken EP. The track features a drumming work performed by Martin Atkins.
"Wish" was remixed twice for the companion disc to the EP, Fixed, as "Wish (Remix)" and "Fist Fuck". Both remixes were performed by J. G. Thirlwell.
"Wish" won the Best Metal Performance in the 1993 Grammy Awards. Referencing a lyric from the song, Reznor later joked that his epitaph should read: "REZNOR: Died. Said 'fist fuck' and won a Grammy."
The music video for "Wish" was directed by Peter Christopherson, who also directed the music video for "March of the Pigs" and Broken's eponymous film. The video shows Nine Inch Nails (Trent Reznor on vocals, Chris Vrenna on drums, Richard Patrick on guitar and James Woolley on keyboards) playing inside high, caged walls while hordes of angry men assault the exterior of the cage. The band is eventually accosted: Woolley is lifted off his feet by a suspended man, Vrenna is lifted off by a crane hook and Patrick is grabbed through the sides of the cage. The video ends with a brief scene of men breaking open the gate of the cage and storming into the cage with bats and clubs. MTV felt that the ending scene was too violent and alternate footage was used for network airplay.
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The Germanic first or given name Richard derives from German, French, and English "ric" (ruler, leader, king) and "hard" (strong, brave), and it therefore means "powerful leader". Nicknames include "Dick", "Dickie", "Rich", "Richie", "Rick", "Ricky", "Rickey", and others.
"Richard" is a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch. It can also be used as a French, Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian name.
People named Richard
Rulers and aristocrats
Richard, Duke of Burgundy (died 921)
Richard I, Duke of Normandy (933-996)
Richard II, Duke of Normandy (died 1026), son of Richard I of Normandy
Richard I of Capua (died 1078), King of Capua and Count of Aversa
Richard fitz Gilbert (before 1035 – c. 1090), Norman lord involved in the conquest of England
Richard I of England or Richard the Lionheart (1157–1199)
Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall (1209–1272), elected King of Germany
Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester (1222–1262)
Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster (1259–1326)
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Richard († 1178) was a 12th-century bishop of Dunkeld. He got the bishopric of Dunkeld, the second most prestigious bishopric in Scotland-north-of-the-Forth, after serving the King of Scots. He was capellanus Regis Willelmi, that is, chaplain of King William of Scotland, and had probably been the chaplain to William during the reign of King Máel Coluim IV. He was consecrated at St Andrews on 10 August 1170, by Richard, former chaplain of King Máel Coluim IV but now the bishop of St Andrews. Richard continued to have a close relationship with King William, and was in Normandy with the king in December 1174 when the Treaty of Falaise was signed.
He died in 1178. He allegedly died at Cramond in Midlothian and was buried on Inchcolm. Both details may be the result of confusion with Richard de Prebenda, but buriel on Inchcolm was common for the bishops of Dunkeld.
Dauvit Broun's list of 12th century Scottish Bishops
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The term street football and street soccer (in North America) encompass a number of informal varieties of association football. These informal games do not necessarily follow the requirements of a formal game of football, such as a large field, field markings, goal apparatus and corner flags, eleven players per team, or match officials (referee and assistant referees).
Often the most basic of set-ups will involve just a ball with a wall or fence used as a goal, or items such as clothing being used for goalposts (hence the phrase "jumpers for goalposts"). The ease of playing these informal games explains why they are popular all over the world.
Street football can be divided into three varieties: minor adaptations of the association football rules, games based on scoring goals and games which are not.
Street football World Championship
The first Street football World Championship took place in Mariannenplatz, Berlin.
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Katie (formerly known as What Katie Did Next) is a fly-on-the-wall reality TV show that documents the life of model and television personality Katie Price. It is the first show to be produced by Price's own production company Pricey Media.
Tabloid protagonist Katie Price is the subject of this reality series that chronicles her often chaotic domestic life.
The show hit it off with high ratings - pulling in almost 5.5 million viewers across all platforms - original broadcasts, YouTube, TV repeats and online - the highest Sky Living has ever reached.
The first three seasons of the show were broadcast on British television channel ITV2. Its first season, consisting of 6 episodes, aired from 27 August to 1 October 2009. Its first episode garnered 1.8 million viewers. The show's second season consisted of 8 episodes airing from 11 February to 1 April achieving an average of 2.3 million viewers; the 3-part wedding special Katie and Alex: For Better for Worse eventually followed on 14 July until 28 July 2010. The third season, the last with ITV2, was broadcast from 23 September until 11 November 2010.
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Le classement ATP a été mis à jour ce lundi avec les résultats des tournois de Delray Beach et Antalya. Novak Djokovic est bien sûr toujours leader, mais Rafael Nadal entame sa 800eme semaine d'affilée dans le Top 10 !. La saison 2021 du circuit ATP a été lancée du côté de Delray Beach en Floride et d'Antalya en Turquie, et cela a eu quelques conséquences au classement ... TENNIS / CLASSEMENT ATP ... ... 48-Richard Gasquet (FRA) 1 155 (-1) ... ....
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L'investiture du président élu Joe Biden aura lieu le 20 janvier. Le démocrate, qui fait partie de la vie politique américaine depuis près de 50 ans, veut conserver son image d'homme simple, après une campagne tournée vers l'empathie. Pour ces proches, il est l'homme de la situation après le mandat de Donald Trump ... Ses proches le racontent avec affection, à l'instar de Richard Smith, l'un de ses plus anciens amis ... il est normal"....
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Arion et l'Orchestre Métropolitain ont mis en ligne en fin de semaine de nouvelles vidéos de concerts qui offrent un fort contraste de répertoire. Le programme « Musique pour les soupers du Roy » d'Arion Orchestre baroque, dirigé par Mathieu Lussier, en ligne depuis vendredi et pour trois semaines, a été tourné au Gesù le 8 janvier ... Relaxer la musique ... Le soliste en sera Charles Richard-Hamelin dans le 24e Concerto de Mozart ... ....
Kate Winslet malmenée et insultée après "Titanic", elle raconte son cauchemar
Kate Winslet malmenée et insultée après "Titanic", elle raconte son cauchemar....
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Trônant sur la Côte-de-Beaupré depuis 1907, le Château Richard a perdu ses lettres de noblesse ... Immanquable lorsqu'on circule sur l'avenue Royale, le Château Richard détonne parmi les maisons du régime seigneurial parsemant le paysage de la Côte-de-Beaupré, près de Québec ... Les boiseries et l'extérieur du Château Richard se détériorent à vue d'œil ... Le Château Richard a ainsi connu un certain âge d'or de 1930 à 1960....
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Une fusée Virgin Orbit de Branson atteint l'espace pour la première fois
La société Virgin Orbit de Richard Branson a envoyé avec succès pour la première fois dimanche 17 janvier une fusée dans l'espace à partir de l'aile d'un Boeing 747, ouvrant la voie à un nouveau moyen de placer en orbite des petites satellites ... À lire aussi .Richard Branson, Elon Musk, Paul Allen... Richard Branson a créé une autre ......
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La société Virgin Orbit de Richard Branson a envoyé avec succès pour la première fois dimanche une fusée dans l'espace à partir de l'aile d'un Boeing 747, ouvrant la voie à un nouveau moyen de placer en orbite des petites satellites ... Fondée par le milliardaire britannique Richard Branson en 2012, Virgin Orbit veut ......
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La société Virgin Orbit de Richard Branson a envoyé avec succès pour la première fois dimanche une fusée dans l'espace à partir de l'aile d'un Boeing 747, ouvrant la voie à un nouveau moyen de placer en orbite des petites satellites ... Richard Branson a créé une autre société spatiale, Virgin Galactic, qui ambitionne d'envoyer des touristes dans l'espace pour expérimenter l'apesanteur à quelque 80 km de la surface de la Terre....
Retour de la gavroche : comment bien la porter ?
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C'est à elle que la France doit la fermeture de ses maisons closes. Marthe Richard était une femme politique mais aussi la première aviatrice française. Retour sur son histoire ... ....
Mila, la vie clandestine d'une adolescente victime de la haine islamiste
Un an que sa vie a basculé ... «À 17 ans, elle vit comme les gens de Charlie Hebdo. bunkérisée, dans la clandestinité!, s'exclame son avocat, Me Richard Malka ... Depuis, le bûcher virtuel des réseaux sociaux a fait bien d'autres victimes ... Abonnez-vous ... ....


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Jasmine Demers works on LPM's Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting team covering youth and social services. She is a corps member with Report For America, a national service program that places journalists into local newsrooms.
Jasmine worked previously for the Arizona Daily Star. She holds a master's degree from the University of Arizona School of Journalism, where she was editor-in-chief of the student-run Daily Wildcat.
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More Ky. youth are struggling with mental health. Are state lawmakers doing enough?
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Shawnee Park police shooting highlights arrest warrant policy gaps
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Tax filing and payment deferrals: Are they enough?
Tanva Mahitivanichcha 29 Apr 2020
In response to the Covid-19 economic crisis, Thailand is joining other countries in rolling out new measures to relieve cash-strapped households and businesses. To date, the Thai government's support has come in the form of a deferred income tax payment deadline for businesses and individuals, deferred VAT, special business tax, and stamp duty payments for businesses, in addition to reducing the standard withholding tax rate from 3% to 1.5%. The government has also pledged to accelerate the VAT refund process for qualified businesses.
While any tax relief is welcome at this time, tax deferrals and qualified income tax reductions are insufficient. With massive unemployment, loss of occupation, and businesses shuttered, taxpayers are unlikely to have funds to pay income tax once the deferral period expires in August.
It is only fair to acknowledge that the income tax is due on income earned in 2019, and is thus rightfully owed to the government. Yet many taxpayers have probably consumed the bulk of their savings or retained earnings in an effort to stay afloat over the past two months.
Furthermore, a reduction in the withholding tax rate is an illusion of tax relief. Withholding tax is essentially an income tax imposed at source. Given that most businesses will be in the red this year, they are unlikely to be paying any income tax for 2020. Still, few businesses would want to brave a potential tax audit during this period in an effort to seek a withholding tax refund.
The government has to be bold. Taxpayers must be allowed to reduce the cost of living in this time of crisis. Once some level of normalcy returns to the economy, efforts must be made to "reboot" the economy by enhancing spending. Every baht earned or spent must be made to generate maximal multiplier effects on the economy.
A reduction to the VAT rate will be instrumental in achieving this effect. As a form of consumption tax, every baht saved on VAT implies an additional baht that consumers could save or spend on their daily expenses. Prices for goods and services will effectively fall, thus encouraging additional consumption which will in turn stimulate the economy.
VAT is a significant source of government revenue, and slashing it would be a difficult decision for Thailand to make. With massive amounts of fiscal stimulus being pumped into the economy and an anticipated decline in income tax revenue, the government will be hard pressed to balance its own budget. But with the survival of the economy at stake, such difficult decisions must be placed on the table and given close consideration.
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The project's luxury residential units are gracefully distributed over two slender towers spaced a street width apart and nestled into an integrated parking façade with a green wall system that luminously activates the garage year round. The two contemporary forms emerge fenestrated in ribbons of glass amid a delicate concrete frame, accentuating the panoramic Lake Michigan, Navy Pier and City views. Stacked inset balconies provide added detail to the structures' rhythmic exterior expression. On the interior, smaller floor plates, and corridor systems provide intimacy and increased opportunity for corner units that take advantage of multiple exposures. An inviting Lobby Entry and landscaped first floor plaza along Lake Shore Drive provide generous open space and make the development both pedestrian-friendly and attractive on the city's skyline.


A key ingredient to cooking success is knowing a little something about the ingredients themselves. Here is some useful information on what to look for, how to buy, where to store, and how to prepare meals with them.
All-purpose flour is milled from the inner part of the wheat kernel. It's a combination of hard (high-protein, like bread) and soft (low-protein, like cake and pastry) flours, and is suitable for most uses. For best results, avoid bleached flour.
Almond extract is made from bitter-almond oil and is usually combined with ethyl alcohol. If stored in a cool, dark place, it will keep indefinitely.
Also called Green Chiles. Mildly hot.
Spaghetti made in very fine strands.
Artichokes can be purchased fresh or canned. Use a scissors to trim the top fourth of the outer leaves and the stem. Soak to clean thoroughly. With a stainless steel knife, slice off the top quarter of the pale green cone. Rub all cut surfaces with lemon to maintain color. Cook by steaming, or simmer in boiling water with additional lemon juice, covered, for 40 minutes, or until tender. Scoop out the fuzzy choke with a spoon and discard. The artichoke heart is below the choke.
An Italian cheese with a rich nutty flavor.
A derivative of baking soda. Baking powder is a double action leavener that is activated when mixed with a liquid.
Use this leavener with pastries that contain acid to make them rise. Instead of baking soda, use baking powder with recipes that contain little to no acid (baking powder already contains acid).
This leaf comes from the evergreen bay laurel tree in the Mediterranean. If used whole, remove bay leaves from a dish before serving.
Small, tight leaves that have a crunchy sweetness.
Black peppercorns are the strongest of all peppercorns. You can buy black pepper as cracked or finely ground, but freshly ground pepper is always the best.
Brown sugar is white sugar mixed with molasses. To create, add two tablespoons molasses to one cup white sugar.
Butter can be purchased salted or sweet. For cooking purposes, sweet butter can be purchased, since salt can be added as needed to any recipe. For great results, replace butter with Crisco butter flavored shortening sticks.
Buttermilk is made by adding a culture to whole or skim milk, giving it a thicker texture and a slightly tangy flavor.


The 2017 Mazda Miata RF, with 155 horsepower and the same fuel economy as the new car.
The 2019 Mazda Miata is Mazda's answer to the prayers of the people—the prayers that start with "more power" and end with "amen, also please don't forget the power." The best part is, new fuel-economy ratings say the bump from 155 to 181 horsepower won't cost more at the pump.
The pump costs enough right now anyway, so that's a really good thing.
Torque News had the idea to find the hard numbers on the U.S. Department of Energy's fuel-economy website, though. Ratings for the new Miata are out months ahead of it going on sale this fall, and the automatic 2019 Miata actually got better ratings than the 2018 model year did.
No matter what conclusions the fuel-economy numbers and two-digit figure may lead to, a 26-HP bump on a car like the Miata is huge. It's all about power-to-weight ratios, and the Miata's meager curb weight in the 2,300- to 2,400-pound range means a little bump has a big effect on how powerful the car is. In addition to the 181 HP and 151 lb-ft of torque, Mazda said the new Miata got a redline bump from 6,800 rpm to 7,500 rpm and a telescoping steering wheel to let drivers move the wheel closer to and further from the dashboard.
All of that for the same price at the pump, although probably not the same price at the lot. Sounds like a good deal—but maybe not a better deal than all of the price cuts dealers will put on the 155-HP versions to try to get rid of them.


Bryan interviews Andy & Amii Kauth about Setting deadlines, business mode vs. family mode, planning for balance, and designing your business.
Episode 290 of the Business of Photography Podcast, powered by Sprout Studio. Helping you build a thriving business doing what you love.
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Discussion with Andy & Amii Kauth about Setting deadlines, business mode vs. family mode, planning for balance, and designing your business.
Andy & Amii are rad wedding photographers (Sunshine & Reign Photography), based out of Arizona, USA. They're authors and educators for SLR Lounge, married with cinco niños, and love the heck outta each other. And they absolutely love being wedding photographers. Absolutely love it!
They work their asses off to tell couples' love stories in the most epic and creative ways and are known for shooting upwards of 15-7 hours on a wedding day. When they aren't photographing weddings or writing about photographing weddings (SLR Lounge, Arizona Weddings Magazine, and a number of other websites and blogs like Design Aglow and Resource Weddings), you'll find them off on a seriously legit adventure with their little ones, lifting weights in their garage, refining their archery skills, or surfing every chance they get. And on the rare chance they escape off on a "date night"? They'll find a wedding to crash (true fact).


Lessons in loving strangers, learned from the refugees in Calais.
Mostafa looked no older than 18. From Iran, he had traversed 10 countries to reach the refugee camp that has emerged close to the port in Calais, and which was home to 6,000 people when I visited, all desperate for lives better than those that they have left behind.
He told me of his journey, which included the perilous trip across the Aegean Sea, as we washed and dried the dishes in the Ashram Kitchen – a sanctuary of sorts to hundreds of refugees who turn up every day for hot food, as well as for a sense of belonging and acceptance. "I'm like Marco Polo," Mostafa told me and when doing so, a huge smile emerged and I felt warmly welcomed.
Mostafa's warmth and positivity is not uncommon among refugees in the camp. During the several days I spent volunteering in the Ashram Kitchen, I felt compelled by the hospitality, kindness and grace that abounded among those I met.
I went to Calais because I, like so many others, felt deeply moved by the images I saw on TV and online of people driven to the edge by conflict, or because of an impending sense of hopelessness for their futures in their homelands. I went because I wanted to somehow help, and because I wanted to show solidarity to people whose pains I could not comprehend. I went, too, because we are instructed in Deuteronomy to "love the stranger".
Each day that I was there, Mohammed, an elderly refugee from Northern Iraq, would bring his enamel teapot into the Ashram Kitchen and serve the most delicious sugared tea to the volunteers as we washed the dishes, and chopped vegetables in preparation for the early evening meal. This generous act was one of many that I experienced in Calais. Each one reminded me of past encounters that I have had in the homes of people I've had the privilege to meet in my work with Christian Aid. Even in the poorest of homes, and in the poorest of places, I have always been warmly welcomed with tea, and an invitation to share in the lives and the stories of the people I meet.
Save for a brief moment in time last summer when the usually hostile rhetoric around refugees shifted following the tragic death of three-year-old Alan Kurdi, and members of his family, we have all too often failed to see, let alone love, the stranger.
In doing so, we are the ones who as societies are all together poorer, because as my few days in Calais confirmed for me, there are no strangers – there are only our neighbours.
God commands us to "love the stranger", but in the refugee camp in Calais, unsurprisingly I found myself among hospitable friends, rather than strangers. Now my question is, how can we as a society show the same spirit of hospitality to the very few refugees who are finally making it across the UK border?
Amy works in communications for an international NGO. She has a particular interest in the Middle East, and a penchant for travel. An aspiring journalist, she likes nothing more than sitting down with people and listening to their stories. Northern at heart, but making her way in London.


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Thirteen days? Could that be? I've never been so unready for the holidays. I haven't made a single damn list! I'm hosed, my friends.
My kids are all so excited, you'd think it would rub off on me. Unfortunately for them, I'm immune to such. Maybe what I need is a good, old-fashioned visit to Santa. If Santa's a Chippendale Dancer, that is. That could spike the old punch, if you know what I mean. It could put the Yule in my log. The Dasher in my Dancer. The Dancer in my Vixen. This started out funny. Now I can't stop! Save me.
(PS I'd send you a Chippendale but the nearest I could get was an old chair – there's a joke in there somewhere).
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With the holidays coming up how much do you know about your tongue? Well, get on board by learning more about the tongue and sense of taste. Salty, sweet, sour - you couldn't taste any of that without a tongue. Check out the entertaining video, read more and do taste-y activities to explore these sweetest and sourest ideas.


Captains Courageous, by Rudyard Kipling, was referred to as a children's nautical adventure story, but it has entertained audiences for generations. The main character in the story was Harvey Cheyne. Harvey is the son of a millionaire and a snobbish little brat. He acts pretty big around the crew of the ship he was aboard. The next important character is Manuel. Manuel is a Portuguese boy about Harvey's age, which by the way is in his pre to mid teens. Manuel's dialogue helps add to a bit of comic relief. The next character is Dan. Dan is around Harvey's age as well. Dan is the son of Disko Troop, the Captain of the We're Here. Speaking of Disko Troop, he is an honorable man who runs his ship well. He is very set in his ways. Throughout the story there were other characters that are referred to such as the cook, and some others.At one time, I felt that Harvey would try to abandon ship, but instead he did not, and did something almost completely opposite.


Straight Talk about Autism features interviews with kids with autism and their parents. They examine the key difficulties that they have encountered and worked through during childhood and adolescence. The key childhood difficulties includes getting an accurate diagnosis, parental acceptance of the disability, coping with communication deficits, and beginning school. The key adolescence difficulties features hypersensitivities, splinter skills, teasing, Circle of Friends programs, social skills, school-to-work transition, and independent living.


After a 24 hour sail we arrived in the port of Piraeus in the late afternoon of April 17 for another 24 hour stay. We had made ambitious plans for this port, intending to take the subway to the New Acropolis Museum that evening & see some things near there, then take the subway to the Acropolis early in the morning to beat the crowds & visit the other ruins in the neighborhood before returning for a 3:30 all-aboard deadline. But Mary had gotten a nasty cold so we decided to spend the evening in Piraeus & signed on for a Holland America Acropolis tour for April 18 (which has the benefit that the ship won't leave before you return, thus reducing the anxiety level when there is an early departure & you are not going to be near the port). This all turned out OK, since we got to see what we most wanted & didn't miss the ship. In 1867 Mark Twain's plans for Athens were thwarted as well when the ship was quarantined by Greek officials (this seemed to happen to them a lot). Twain & some friends sneaked ashore at night, however, & walked to the Acropolis & back before sunrise, raiding vineyards on the way (Athens was only a small town then, however, so the police presence wasn't as threatening as it would be today).
The weather, which had been so nasty in Istanbul, was beautiful as we sailed into Piraeus. Piraeus is a city itself, but it is only about four miles from the Acropolis & has been the port for the city of Athens since ancient times (although the modern cruise port, one of the busiest in Europe, is much bigger than the ancient port and in a different location). When they were about to start the Peloponnesian war with Sparta, Athens built walls around the entire route from Athens to Piraeus to ensure access to their navy, which was their main source of military power (it didn't work; the Spartans won the war & Athens was never the same again).
So in the few hours we had on the 17th we decided to walk around Piraeus. It has a very good antiquities museum, so we headed for that. It turned out to be difficult to find, partly because the Greeks street signs were difficult to decipher & partly because the map given us by Holland America wasn't accurate. But finally, after walking through several local neighborhoods, we came to the museum of antiquities. And the sign on the door said it had closed an hour before we docked! This was news to our travel guide, who told us she thought it would be open until about 8. Anyway, we snapped a few pictures through the fence & headed back. At the port we saw a very attractive Greek Orthodox church but not much else (we never did find the shopping district we had been told was there) so we headed back to the ship.
On the ship that night was a show by a Greek folk dancing group. They were pretty good & it was enjoyable.
The next morning we got up early to board the tour bus. After a (too) leisurely drive through Piraeus we went to the Acropolis, where we stood at the bottom of the hill, watching other groups go by, while our guide talked about olive trees and other interesting things that had nothing to do with the Acropolis, which is what we were anxiously waiting to see. She talked very slowly & repeated everything several times, repeatedly asking for more questions, as time passed and other groups went ahead of us. As you can tell by now, I found this very irritating, particularly since we were there at a time (10:00) when I had read that the crowds would start growing. I am as interested as the next person in the history of olive trees, but why couldn't she give us that exposition while we were on the bus instead of at the foot of the Acropolis?
Finally we climbed up to the Acropolis (its quite a climb from the ground, by the way). The Greek word acropolis means "high city," and many ancient Greek cities have a citadel in the center with this name. The early Athenians built temples & the king's palace on this high hill, where you could see an approaching army from a long way off. But the Persians sacked Athens in 480 BC & burned the Acropolis. Yet the Greeks won the war with the Persians thanks to the victory of the Athenian navy in the battle of Salamis & by mid-century Athens was the dominant power in the region, with great wealth from yearly tribute (oops, I mean dues) paid by its subject states (I mean, of course, its "allies" in the Athenian League). So the Athenian leader Pericles began a huge public building project to turn the still empty Acropolis into the most glorious citadel in Greece. As a result, the Acropolis we know today was entirely built within about 40 years as a coherent project, rather than an accumulation of separate buildings over time as you find in most ancient sites. Interestingly, the first stage of this project was to clear all the rubble on the Acropolis from the earlier destroyed buildings, which they buried in a big pit, which protected it (including statuary) from the ravages of the environment over the centuries until it was rediscovered and placed in the New Acropolis Museum, where we observed this early statuary later in the day.
The entrance to the Acropolis is a grand building called the Propylaea. There was a grand marble staircase leading up the last part of the hill to an impressive building at the top, all marble & columns. The ruins of this building are still there today, and they are still impressive above as you walk up (although the grand staircase is gone and you now walk up a winding path).
On the right as you walk up is the Temple of Athena Nike. Nike means victory (which is why the sports shoes have this name) & this temple contained a statue of Athena handing victory to the Athenians in the Persian war. The statue originally had wings (a winged victory), but the Athenians broke off the wings during the Peloponnesian War to ensure that Athena would stay and protect their city (as already noted, she didn't . . . would you protect people who broke off your wings? go figure). This building was recently rebuilt after having been dismantled for cleaning and restoration of all its parts. Notice the parts that are a bright white, contrasting with the beige tint of the remainder of the building. The Greeks are restoring the buildings on the Acropolis to something like their original appearance using marble from the same quarry that the ancient Athenians used to fill in the gaps where the original stones are gone. This is very useful for the visitor since, as at Masada, it enables you to see clearly what is new and what is original. Unfortunately, we were told that it will not take very many years before the new marble develops the same beige sheen as the original marble, and then it will take a diagram to tell the new from the old.
On the left as you walk up are the Pinacoteca ("painting gallery"), which contained art works and the Monument of Agrippa. Today the monument is just an empty 25 foot high pedestal but it has held several bronze statues over the centuries: originally of a 4 horse chariot of the Olympic winner in 178 BC, then later one of Marc Antony & Cleopatra, then of Augustus Caesar's son-in-law the Roman General Agrippa. Imagine what all this must have looked like to an ancient visitor to Athens walking up this steep stairway to this monumental edifice.
But it was very different from what you see today, even apart from the fact that the buildings are now ruins. We are used to seeing Greek temples as gleaming white marble edifices, a look we think of as "classical." But the ancient Greeks weren't interested in that, and they painted their beautiful buildings, friezes and statues in bright . . . one might say lurid . . . colors. The Acropolis was painted mostly in bright blue & red. Later in the day in the New Acropolis Museum we saw some of the ancient statues that still had some of their paint, along with replicas showing how the painted statue would have looked when new. And believe me, if you saw something like that in someone's house today you would think it was in exceedingly poor taste. Yet, with the paint gone it looks like a beautifully sculpted marble classic. Anyway, I still need to show you the buildings to the left of the Propylaea.
Having reached the top we walked through the Propylaea and on toward the Parthenon. On our left was the Erechtheion and in front of it the three carved flat stones that mark the spot where a 30 foot tall bronze statue of Athena, dressed in military garb, once stood. It is said that the tip of Athena's spear could be seen 30 miles away.
The Parthenon is huge & of course it is the #1 attraction of all ancient Greek ruins. It is 228 feet long and 101 feet wide, with 8 gigantic columns (34 feet tall and 6 feet in diameter) on each end, 17 on each side and 19 smaller ones on the inside. And it contains virtually no straight lines or right angles: the floor bulges slightly in the center, the pillars bulge and lean slightly toward the center. All of this was to make it look perfectly straight and square, because the Greeks knew that an optical illusion makes straight lines in buildings appear to sag and straight pillars appear concave. It is a pretty amazing piece of engineering and the optical illusion certainly works. The stones in the Parthenon are precisely cut and fit together to a tolerance of only 1/1,000 of an inch. Inside was a 40 foot statue of Athena covered in ivory and a ton of pure gold half an inch thick; it was carried off to Constantinople in the 5th Century and then vanished. In addition to its religious significance, the Parthenon contained the treasury of the Athenian League. In the 5th Century the Parthenon was converted into a Christian church (pagan images were removed or renamed, Christian frescoes added and an apse built on one end). About 1000 years later the Turks converted it into a mosque (a minaret was added). The Turks also used it to store explosives & during a war with Venice in 1687 the Venetians got lucky & hit it with a mortar shell, exploding the center of the building.. In the 19th Century the Greeks, after securing their independence, removed the minaret & converted the Acropolis into the archeological zone it is today.
Across from the Parthenon is the Erechthion (or Erechtheum). It had two interior spaces, one devoted to Athena & one to Poseidon, who supposedly had competed on that spot for naming rights to the city (Athena won by giving Athens the olive tree, still a mainstay of the Greek economy with more than 100 million of them in the country). The porch of the Caryatids, with its columns sculpted into women, is the most famous part of this building. The Caryatids on this porch today are replicas (really good ones); we saw 4 of the originals in the Acropolis Museum later in the day, one was sold to the British Museum by the infamous Lord Elgin & one is in France. It is smaller than the Parthenon but is quite beautiful & was at least as prestigious in its day.
The view from the Acropolis is spectacular, to say the least, & there are a lot of well known landmarks you can easily pick out. Here are Lykavittos Hill, the tallest spot in Athens, with the Chapel of St. George at the top. The marble quarries used by both ancient and modern Greeks are in the mountains behind it. Here also is Mars Hill ("Areopagus" or hill of Ares, the Greek name for the god the Romans called Mars), where Paul preached to the Athenians (with little success). Paul really got around.
Here is the Pnyx, a hill not far from the Acropolis that was the site where the citizens of Athens gathered to debate and vote in the first democracy. And the well preserved Temple of Hephaistos that sits next to the Agora, the primary marketplace of ancient Athens.
Here is the remarkably well preserved 1st Century BC Tower of the Winds, on the edge of the Roman Forum, an octagonal marble tower with reliefs on each side of what are believed to be the Greek symbols for the winds. It served as a weather vane, sundial and water clock, all in one. And on the right are four pillars, which may be what is left of the 2d Century AD Library of Hadrian, really a cultural center that included a library. I'm pretty sure the roof air conditioner in front of the pillars is of more recent vintage.
On the other side of the Acropolis one can see Hadrian's Arch & the Temple of Olympian Zeus. Hadrian's Arch was built as the dividing line between old Athens & a new housing project sponsored by the Emperor called Hadrianopolis. On the side of the arch facing the Acropolis is inscribed "This is Athens, ancient city of Theseus." On the other side is inscribed "This is the city of Hadrian, and not of Theseus." The Temple of Olympian Zeus beyond the arch was the largest temple in Ancient Greece, 360 feet by 145 feet with 104 columns 56 feet tall (15 are still standing). It was begun in the 6th Century BC, but lay uncompleted until Hadrian had it completed in 132 AD. It had a colossal statue of Zeus inside . . . and an equally large one of Hadrian. That Hadrian really got around (he's also the guy who built Hadrian's Wall between England & Scotland). We got a somewhat closer look at these from street level after lunch, so I will include those views here.
Before we leave the Acropolis, here are a few random pictures. There is a large & storied Greek flag at the end opposite the Propylaea on a platform; the day we were there it was extremely windy in that area, to the extent that I had to take off my hat to avoid having it blown away. And there is a remarkable amount of rubble (ie. apparently unidentified pieces of marble and of old columns) all over the place; many of these have been cleaned & identified and are waiting to be used in the renovation of the Acropolis.
So then we left the Acropolis, after much too short a stay, descending through the Propylaea and down the steep stairway. Mary was a little irritated because we were just about the last ones at the meeting place & I wouldn't stop taking pictures.
Next we went to the New Acropolis Museum at the foot of the Acropolis. It is a marvelous glass dominated three level structure which houses most of the artifacts that have been removed from the Acropolis for protection from the elements. The Acropolis has often been looted for marble to use in other buildings (the Beule gate in front of the Propylaea, for example, was built with marble scavanged from the top of the hill), but the most famous looting was by the English Lord Elgin, who took most of the marble friezes from the Parthenon & one of the Caryatids from the Erechtheum, among other things, and sold them to the British Museum where they reside today, known as the Elgin Marbles. The British had long justified refusing to return this stuff on the grounds that they were better preserved in Britain because the pollution in Athens was deteriorating everything on the Acropolis. This justification was, in fact, true enough; we were told that most of the deterioration of the artifacts on the Acropolis has occurred over the last 50 years from pollution, and that before that it had looked well preserved. The Greeks hoped that the new museum, with its state-of-the-art environmental protections would convince the British Museum to return these artifacts, but now the English say that returning these artifacts would set a precedent that would empty all the museums in Europe (even if true, the response ought to be: so what, other things that have been stolen should be returned too).
When digging the foundation for the Museum they came across the remains of an Athenian neighborhood occupied from about 200 BC to 600 AD. That is now an active archeological site which can be viewed through the glass sidewalk over which visitors enter the building. Actually, most of the interior of the museum has glass floors as well.
Unfortunately, photography is not permitted on the first two floors of the museum, so I can't show you all the ancient statues and other artifacts we saw from before the Parthenon period right through to Hellenic & Roman times. It is a fascinating journey through time, including history and the development of art. Even the four original Caryatids in the museum cannot be photographed. However, one of the people in our group noticed that you could see some of the Caryatids through the glass floor of the top floor, where photography is allowed. Best of all, several of the Caryatids are temporarily cut off from view while they are being cleaned using lasers, and the cleaning process could also be seen through the glass floor. So Mary stood over this spot in the floor to cast a shadow which enabled me to take some surprisingly good pictures. Since the museum closed all this off from public view, I am not sure they are aware it can be seen (& photographed) through the floor from above; it was certainly a surprise to our guide.
The top floor is devoted to the Parthenon. On one side is a massive window with a great panoramic view of the Parthenon and the Acropolis.
Inside the third floor, which is precisely aligned with the layout of the Parthenon, is a lifesize mockup with the entire frieze from the Parthenon mounted on it. The frieze was 525 feet long, went all the way around the wall inside the columns & depicted the annual Panathainic procession up to the Acropolis to pay homage to Athena for the birth of the city. Actually, its not the entire frieze, since Lord Elgin took all the best parts to England & there are a few items in other parts of Europe, but it contains all the original stones available from the Parthenon along with plaster casts of the parts in the British Museum & others. There is blank plaster where parts have completely disappeared. You can clearly distinguish the casts, which are pure white, with the original stones, which have a tan cast to them. It is hoped that one day the original stones will be obtained to replace the casts and the frieze will be completed as much as possible. Here are some photos, mostly of original pieces. As you look, remember that these were all painted in vivid. more than life-like colors.
The Parthenon also had rather famous deep reliefs in the triangular pediments on each of the shorter sides of the building. The museum has a plaster model of the original appearance of these pediments. It also has the remaining original pieces of them (not in very good condition) integrated with casts of the parts carried away by Lord Elgin (which are in much better condition). Then one last look at the Parthenon before leaving the museum.
After leaving the museum we walked to a restaurant near the Acropolis for lunch. It was a nice walk on a pretty day & the restaurant was quite colorful, full of murals, and served delicious Greeks food (the Greek yoghurt for dessert in particular). Then we walked down the hill & through a neighborhood to meet the bus. Near the meeting place, at the foot of the Acropolis & near Hadrian's Arch is a marble bust of Melina Mercouri. You might wonder why a marble bust to a film actress known for playing racy women (Topkapi, Never On Sunday), but after her film career Melina Mercouri was a leader in the movement to oust the military dictatorship & she served for many years as Minister of Culture in the resulting democratic Greek government, so she is something of a political hero in Greece.
The bus took us to the Olympic Stadium, the only all marble stadium in the world (we were told), originally built by the ancient Athenians for their games and renovated in 1896 for the first modern Olympics.
Back in the bus, we drove past an archeological site dug from a public street (I think this might be the one where a new subway stop disclosed some ancient ruins), then we drove to the Parliament building, where we got out of the bus to see the changing of the guards in front of the tomb of the unknown soldier. There was already a crowd there & we weren't given much time (I think the bus was parked illegally), but here are a few pictures. I have read that those pom-poms on their shoes date back to the ancient Athenians, & their skirts have 400 pleats, one for every year of Ottoman rule (these uniforms originated in the Greek war for Independence in the 1820's).
Back in the bus we drove past, among other things, the house of Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered Troy & lived here afterward with a Greek wife he met through a contest to find a woman as interested in archeology as he was. We also saw the National Library (yay!) & Athens University, which our guide said is the best example of neoclassical architecture in Athens.
Finally, after a very full partial day indeed, we headed back to the ship for a 3:30 All Aboard deadline, and at 4:00 we sailed away under sunny skies in a deep blue sea, toward Dubrovnik.


Activision Blizzard (ATVI) reported third quarter adjusted EPS of $0.42 after the bell Thursday. The company's revenue for the quarter fell 6.8% to $1.51 billion from $1.62 billion last year. The consensus estimates had been for EPS of $0.50 and revenues of $1.66 billion.
Fourth quarter EPS is expected to come in at $0.64. Street expectations are for EPS of $1.34.
Activision Blizzard dropped in earl trade Thursday, but settled into a range for the majority of the session. Shares finished down by 2.30 at $62.79. The stock is now down 4.34 on 277K shares after the bell.


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Asia hedge funds bought shares of sanctioned China mobile firms
Tuesday, January 12th, 2021 at Markets | Technology
Asia hedge funds including Long Corridor Asset Management Ltd. bought shares of sanctioned Chinese telecommunications operators, trading against a market sell-off.
Long Corridor acquired a small amount of shares, Hong Kong-based Chief Investment Officer James Tu said. At least three other Asia-based managers also purchased shares, lured by handsome dividend yields offered by the already undervalued stocks, said people with knowledge of the matter, who requested not to be named because the matter is private. The four hedge funds manage about $8 billion collectively.
The dumping frenzy created a buying opportunity for hedge funds seeking to profit from volatile markets in the twilight days of Donald Trump's presidency. U.S. investors are barred from backing companies deemed to be controlled by China's military, part of Trump's wider effort to clamp down on the world's second-largest economy.
MSCI Inc. and S&P Dow Jones announced last week they would drop Hong Kong-traded shares of China Mobile Ltd., China Telecom Corp. and China Unicom Hong Kong Ltd. from benchmarks. That prompted index-tracking funds to unwind positions at short notice, pushing the shares' trading volume to 18 times the daily average of the previous three months. The world's largest money manager BlackRock Inc. also reduced its holdings and plans to keep selling, a person familiar said.
"The technical selling that culminated on Jan. 8 provided an entry opportunity on these telecommunications names which are already beaten down," said Tu, whose $220 million hedge fund returned 46% last year.
Shares of China Unicom sank as much as 11% in Hong Kong on Friday, while China Mobile and China Telecom dropped around 10% during trading hours. The companies have since recovered, partly helped by mainland investors.
The "impact of U.S. investment ban could be largely done," Jefferies analysts led by Hong Kong-based Edison Lee wrote in a Jan 10. report, adding that mainland buying accounted for about 28.5% of trading volume on Friday.
China Mobile offered a 7% dividend yield and China Telecom 6%, greater than the MSCI World Index yield of about 2%. China Mobile may boost shareholder returns via raising dividend payouts or share buybacks, according to Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Anthea Lai.
"We don't mind holding this for a longer time, but short-term, we also think there is a chance that U.S.-China relations would improve and many damaging tactics would be reversed, although we are not relying on that to happen," Tu said.
Even if the policies are not reversed, U.S. investors who owned shares before the sanctions took effect have until November to sell their positions. Non-U.S. investors can continue to trade those stocks. One of the hedge funds put the holdings in a special purpose vehicle open only to non-U.S. investors to comply with rules, said a person.
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Indian Foreign Minister Swaraj is the first Indian Foreign Minister to visit Mongolia in the last 42 years. After the bilateral talks with the Mongolian Foreign Minister D. Tsogtbaatar, Foreign Minister Swaraj met the Mongolian Prime Minister 'U.Khurelsukh'. The India-Mongolia cooperation dates back to more than six decades. The cooperation has only strengthened with time, said Foreign Minister Swaraj.
Over and above the cooperation against terrorism, an announcement was made that decision to increase cooperation in the Infrastructure, Energy, and Information technology sectors has also been taken. There was also a decision to start direct flights between New Delhi and Mongolia. It has been decided to have a regular dialogue at the foreign ministerial level to strengthen the cooperation, informed Foreign Minister Swaraj.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had visited Mongolia in 2015. This was the first visit of an Indian Prime Minister to Mongolia. Prime Minister Modi had announced loan assistance of $1 billion to Mongolia during his visit. This visit by Indian Foreign Minister Swaraj is considered important for further strengthening the cooperation initiated by Prime Minister Modi's visit.
China has many a times cornered this country situated to its north. Upset with the Tibetan priest Dalai Lama's Mongolia visit two year ago, China had created an economic blockade for Mongolia by preventing the passage of trucks to Mongolia. India had extended a helping hand towards Mongolia at that time by providing timely financial assistance. The Khaltmaagiin Battulga government, who opposes the Chinese policies is currently in power in Mongolia. Foreign Minister Swaraj's visit is considered significant on this background.


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KANATA, Ontario — The Bruins continue to make it hard on themselves, and opposing teams remain all too happy to take advantage.
Even rebuilding clubs like the Senators.
Despite having the gifts of Patrice Bergeron for the first time in seven games, the Bruins couldn't establish a consistent attack against the scrappy Sens. A 5-2 loss Monday at Canadian Tire Center extended Boston's winless streak to three games (0-2-1).
They pushed in the latter two periods, rather than the final frame only, but Senators goalie Anders Nilsson stopped 38 of 40 shots. The high-volume Bruins put 32 pucks on net in the final two periods, outshooting the Sens, 16-5, in the third.
It added up to Boston's first regular season loss to Ottawa since April 6, 2017, ending a 10-game run over their division rival. They have now lost five games in regulation (20-5-6).
The Bruins went down, 3-1, after two, but couldn't cut the edge closer than two.
With Tuukka Rask off on a 6-on-4 power play, Jean-Gabriel Pageau scored a shorthanded empty-netter with 2:58 to go. TSN's cameras showed Bergeron and Brad Marchand shaking their heads after Pageau's breakaway strike, their broadcast team of Gord Miller and Mike Johnson believing both players were upset about the goalie pull.
But Torey Krug faulted himself for making a poor decision to shoot. His floater was blocked, and rushed the other way.
Moments before after a penalty expired, Jake DeBrusk jammed home a loose puck to make it a two-goal game.
With one second left, Anthony Duclair scored his second of the game into an empty net.
Rask made 23 saves on 26 shots.
Here are observations from the game:
■ The Bruins went 1 for 5 on the power play, the latter two of those being mini-man-ups of 23 seconds and 1 minute in the third.
■ The Senators blocked 28 shots in total.
■ A bad change, a bad bounce and a bad idea had the Bruins down, 3-1, after two periods. They failed to score the first goal yet again, playing what Brad Marchand referred to last week as "a loser's game." Starting strong was a focus.
■ The Bruins were caught in a bad change when Artem Anisimov made it 1-0 on a backhand breakaway 1:35 into the game. Defenseman John Moore was too far up the ice, and Matt Grzelcyk (playing his off side) couldn't get on in time. Charlie Coyle, backchecking desperately, couldn't stop him. Rask didn't look like he read the roof job, which sailed over his glove.
■ Anthony Duclair made it 2-0 off a bad bounce. Bothered by Vlad Namestnikov's check along the half-wall, Chris Wagner floated a high rim behind the net. It clanked sharply off the glass, rather than safely toward the corner, and Moore had a front-row seat to watch Chris Tierney feed Duclair in the slot at 15:44. Rask had trouble with that one, too.
■ The Bruins got one back some two minutes later. A quick 2-on-1 saw Pastrnak go cross-ice to Bergeron, who slammed it into an open half of the net. Old school. It was Bergeron's first goal since Nov. 8 at Detroit.
■ Through 40 minutes, Bergeron won 11 of 16 faceoffs. The rest of the Bruins centermen lost 16 of 19.
■ Marchand made the play happen with good puck protection in the neutral zone, and a slick, short dish to Pastrnak as he entered the zone. Pastrnak, as usual, was selling shot the whole way before zipping a no-look feed to his pal. Defenseman Nikita Zaitsev, the ex-Leaf defending the play, was completely fooled.
■ The Bruins had momentum at that point, but Rask gave the Sens an early Christmas present. Just 1:21 into the second, a simple dump-in by Duclair turned into an empty-netter. Rask stopped the puck behind the net, but slipped a backhand to the corner, expecting a teammate to be there. Instead, Namestnikov was. He found Tierney, who slung it upstairs.
■ Boston's slumping power play had three chances in the second period after that, going 0 for 3 and landing eight shots. The B's finished 1 for 5 on the PP, breaking an 0-for-16 skid.
■ They had plenty of opportunities and zone time, their skates and sticks looking magnetic as they kept pucks in the zone. But they were offline. One of their best chances came from Pastrnak, who hissed a slapper from the high slot wide after a loose puck bounced to him. Anders Nilsson got his paddle on a Heinen follow-up.
■ Tough game for Heinen. With 5:35 left in the first, he hit Nilsson's right pad with a stuff-in attempt from DeBrusk, who fed him from behind the net. He couldn't elevate the puck. He also lost his net-front spot on the top power play unit.
■ Nilsson was strong, making 23 saves through two periods. The big Swede (6 foot 6) stopped several hard redirects, including one off the stick of teammate Mark "BoroCop" Borowiecki. His mates blocked 16 shots in front of him through 40 minutes. Nilsson lost four starts in a row coming in, allowing 13 goals in his previous 65 shots.
■ Brady Tkachuk might switch to wood sticks, or at least think about it. He had a chance to make it 2-0 early in the first period, when Zdeno Chara lost a loose puck to Connor Brown at the red line. Brown scooted down the wing, shot for a rebound, low to Rask's right pad, and a crashing Tkachuk had an open side of the net. But Tkachuk's Bauer busted in two, and the puck dribbled wide of the post. He shook his head all the way to the bench.
■ The Bruins came in having led for all of 7:54 in their previous three games (Colorado, Chicago, Carolina). That's 4.3 percent of the time. That rate dropped to 3.6 percent after two periods Monday . . . and that was by rounding up.
■ The Bruins entered with the NHL's best record when trailing first (7-1-3). The Senators had the second-worst mark when scoring first (6-6-0).
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FFRF's July 4 ad counters Hobby Lobby disinformation
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is running a full-page ad celebrating "our GODLESS Constitution" in a number of U.S. dailies on July 4. FFRF, a state/church watchdog based in Madison, Wis., serves as the nation's largest association of freethinkers (atheists and agnostics).
The ad is a direct response to a series of July 4 ads sponsored annually by Hobby Lobby since 2008, which shamelessly promote the myth that the United States was founded on God and Christianity. The large craft store chain's ads of disinformation appear ti run in hundreds of dailies. Although FFRF can't compete with Hobby Lobby by running ads in virtually every daily, it is undertaking the single most expensive ad campaign in its history to counter the Religious Right message.
The ads quote U.S. Founders and Framers on their strong views against religion in government, and often critical views on religion in general. The ad features two revolutionaries and Deists, Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin, and the first four presidents: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
The ad documents that not only is the U.S. Constitution godless, but that there was no prayer during the Constitutional Convention, and that the Constitution's primary architect, Madison, came to oppose government days of prayer, congressional chaplaincies and even "three pence" of tax dollars used in support of religion. The ad includes a website link that not only documents the quotations, but takes the reader to the original script in most cases!
FFRF's ad will run in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Arizona Republic, Seattle Times, Albuquerque Journal, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post and Columbus Dispatch. Most of the ads are in black and white, but a color version will run in The New York Times and a few other dailies.
The ad is also scheduled to "play in Peoria." Taking its message of "In Reason We Trust" to parts of the bible belt, FFRF has also contracted to run the ad in the Huntsville Times, Ala.; Orange County Register, San Diego Tribune, Colorado Springs Gazette, Orlando Sentinel, Louisville Courier Journal, Jackson Clarion Ledger, Miss., Charlotte Observer, Tennessean (Nashville), and Oklahoma City's Daily Oklahoman. (Hobby Lobby is based in Oklahoma City.)
Hobby Lobby is also involved in litigation challenging Obamacare's contraceptive mandate — seeking to permit religious employers to deny women employees contraceptive health care.
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Anyone who wants to buy a ticket for the area designated for wheelchairs can do so via the form that can be found here.
Access for wheelchairs is unavailable in any other area of the stadium, not even with a valid ticket.
The form can be filled in up until 48 hours before kick off. Any remaining tickets will be put on sale on match day at the Club ticket offices.


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About Pastor Rick Warren
God Is Aware of You and Your Needs - Daily Hope with Rick Warren - March 25, 2018
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God Is Aware of You and Your Needs
By Rick Warren
"So we must not get tired of doing good, for we will reap at the proper time if we don't give up" (Galatians 6:9 HCSB).
God is omniscient. That means he knows everything, including everything about you and your life. God knows about your faults and failures, your feelings and frustrations — and your future.
God also knows your fears. He knows everything that gets you stressed out. For instance, many of us today are concerned about the economy, and so we have financial fears.
And then we act as if God is unaware of our bills. "Don't you see, God? I'm going under! I'm not going to make it!" We're trying to stretch and make ends meet. We get uptight and upset, and we worry. But worry is the result of not understanding the omniscience of God.
The truth is, God is aware of all your needs. Prayer is never giving information to God. He already knows what is going on; he already knows all about you. The Bible says, "Your Father knows what you need before you ask him" (Matthew 6:8 NIV). He's aware of every single need you have: financial, spiritual, physical, social, and emotional.
Finally, God knows your faithfulness. He sees everything you do that is good and right. Every time you choose not to sin, every time you resist temptation, every time you take a stand because of God's truth, he sees your faithfulness to him.
The Bible says every good deed will be rewarded, no matter how insignificant it is and regardless of whether anybody else on Earth sees it. Every encouragement you give to other people, every time you pick up around the office when it's not your job, every time you set up chairs in church, every time you refuse to gossip — God sees it all, no matter how small, according to Matthew 10:40-42.
You may be saying, "I've been trying to do the right thing in my marriage. I don't see any results." "I've been trying to be the right kind of person and respond correctly with my kids (or to my parents)." "I've been trying to do the right thing at work (or at school). And I don't know if it's paying off. I don't see it making any difference in anybody's life."
God says, "I see it, and it doesn't matter who else sees it." Nothing good you do is ever done in vain: "So we must not get tired of doing good, for we will reap at the proper time if we don't give up" (Galatians 6:9 HCSB).
Don't be discouraged! Keep on doing good and trusting God to provide for you.
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God calls us to love real people who don't always act ideal. But it's not easy.
That's why Pastor Rick Warren's complete audio series titled, You Make Me Crazy, is so powerful. It's a series worth sharing with others. And it's a series you'll want to hear yourself again and again.
The eight messages are available as a CD boxed set or downloadable MP3s. They include:
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VIDEO: Groundskeepers move tree to south campus
The planned upcoming renovation of the Carver Academic Facility is displacing more than just people. The landscaping around the building will be impacted by the construction, too.
In recognition of that, groundskeepers at Western are moving what they can, including this variegated tulip…
Preparation for Carver renovation begins
In anticipation of a July 1 construction start date for the Carver Academic Renovation Project, the arduous and complex task of relocating offices and functions out of Carver begins this week. Some moves require remodeling or conversions and create a "domino" effect; others only…
Report: Bellingham seen as a construction "hot spot"
With a number of new building projects in the pipeline, Bellingham was recently placed on a list of U.S. cities where construction activity is expected to grow rapidly over the next 12 to 18 months.
Bellingham is among 20 cities nationwide designated as "hot spots" of future building…
Whatcom County legislators can claim few victories in short session
In a year when state legislators suggested they were more interested in adjourning on time than anything else, it's no surprise the three Democrats and three Republicans representing Whatcom County got little done.
If state leaders are to improve the safety of trains transporting oil…
Viking Lobby: students tackle top three issues
Western Washington University students wrapped up their second and final day in Olympia Monday, Jan. 20, by lobbying state lawmakers on a variety of topics.
Students lobbied first for renovations to Sam Carver Gymnasium.
Alysa Kipersztok, a junior political science student, was…
Western students travel to Olympia for Viking Lobby Day
Seventy-five student representatives from Western Washington University traveled to Olympia, Wash., on Sunday, Jan. 19, to lobby state legislatures on behalf of student affairs for two days.
The students will focus on three main issues when speaking with representatives, said Kaylee…
Legislative Update: Start of 2014 session
The 2014 Legislative Supplemental Session started Monday, Jan. 13, in Olympia. As a part of the state budget process that begins in advance of the session, Western submitted both a supplemental operating budget and a supplemental capital project. The Western requests and Gov. Jay Inslee…
Major WWU remodel of Carver not funded in state budget
A large remodeling project at Western Washington University did not receive funding in this year's state budget.
Western Washington University proposed a major remodel of Carver Gymnasium. Totaling $69.3 million, the proposed renovation would have added more classrooms and lab spaces…
SuperSonics fans rally at Carver Gym, hope for a return to the Pacific Northwest
Western Washington University's Carver Gym turned into a Seattle SuperSonics love fest any Pacific Northwest basketball fan of Seattle's 41-year-old NBA franchise would enjoy.
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Architect Jim Zervas quietly transformed Bellingham, Whatcom County
A Midwest native, Zervas studied under famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright in the mid-'50s before joining a firm in Seattle. At one point, he was the on-site architect for Haggard Hall, a science building at Western Washington University that opened in 1960. A year later, he opened his own…
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NEW YORK - Chinese gaming company Beijing Kunlun Tech Co Ltd is seeking to sell Grindr LLC, the popular gay dating app it has owned since 2016, after a US government national security panel raised concerns about its ownership, according to people familiar with the matter.
CFIUS' specific concerns and whether any attempt was made to mitigate them could not be learned.
The United States has been increasingly scrutinising app developers over the safety of personal data they handle, especially if some of it involves US military or intelligence personnel.
Kunlun had said last August it was preparing for an initial public offering (IPO) of Grindr.
As a result of CFIUS' intervention, Kunlun has now shifted its focus to an auction process to sell Grindr outright, given that the IPO would have kept Grindr under Kunlun's control for a longer period of time, the sources said.
Grindr has hired investment bank Cowen Inc to handle the sale process, and is soliciting acquisition interest from US investment firms, as well as Grindr's competitors, according to the sources.
Grindr, which describes itself as the world's largest social networking app for gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people, had 27 million users as of 2017.
CFIUS' intervention in the Grindr deal underscores its focus on the safety of personal data, after it blocked the acquisitions of US money transfer company MoneyGram International Inc and mobile marketing firm AppLovin by Chinese bidders in the last two years.
CFIUS does not always reveal the reasons it chooses to block a deal to the companies involved, as doing so could potentially reveal classified conclusions by US agencies, said Mr Jason Waite, a partner at law firm Alston & Bird LLP focusing on the regulatory aspects of international trade and investment.
"Personal data has emerged as a mainstream concern of CFIUS," Mr Waite said.
The unravelling of the Grindr deal also highlights the pitfalls facing Chinese acquirers of US companies seeking to bypass the CFIUS review system, which is based mostly on voluntary deal submissions.
Previous examples of the US ordering the divestment of a company after the acquirer did not file for CFIUS review include China National Aero-Technology Import and Export Corporation's acquisition of Seattle-based aircraft component maker Mamco in 1990, Ralls Corporation's divestment of four wind farms in Oregon in 2012, and Ironshore Inc's sale of Wright & Co, a provider of professional liability coverage to US government employees such as law enforcement personnel and national security officials, to Starr Companies in 2016.
Kunlun acquired a majority stake in Grindr in 2016 for US$93 million (S$126 million). It bought out the remainder of the company in 2018.
Grindr's founder and chief executive officer, Mr Joel Simkhai, stepped down in 2018 after Kunlun bought the remaining stake in the company.
Kunlun's control of Grindr has fuelled concerns among privacy advocates in the United States. US senators Edward Markey and Mr Richard Blumenthal sent a letter to Grindr last year demanding answers with regards to how the app would protect users' privacy under its Chinese owner.
Kunlun is one of China's largest mobile gaming companies. It was part of a buyout consortium that acquired Norwegian Internet browser business Opera Ltd for US$600 million in 2016.


The South London neo-soul songstress tackles the desire of wanting to be loved in her new track.
There's not many people that can convey the truckload of attitude Sasha Keable manages with the micro-flex of her neck or the subtle flick of a wrist, but the BRIT school alumnus is all about making a slow, simmering impact that you're not likely to forget any time soon.
Raised on Donny Hathaway, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye and Lauryn Hill, the result is a hypnotic neo-soul sound, packed with jazz inflections and Keable's powerful, gritty vocals. And now, the singer has dropped the minimal visuals for "Treat Me Like I'm Yours," the raw latest drop from her forthcoming new EP, "Man" (out 26 April).


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