Machine wash cold like colors. Non-chlorine bleach. Tumble dry low. Do n ot use fabric softeners. Do not iron ornamentation.
I love these shirts for work and play.
This shirt is awesome. Not only for carrying sheet rock but also wearing to the bar. Love the shirt no complaints.
Looks great, bought for a birthday gift! Hope he like them!
I love this shirt. Best purchase I've made on any piece of apparel. Looking forward to buying more colors. It's great to work or lay around the house. Always looks good.
The shirt feels substantial for the jobsite while being breathable. Comfortable shirt with options for Tall that make tucking and working possible.
I'm 6'1 190 lbs, I wear a medium in this shirt. I'd say if you are any taller or more than 10-15 lbs heavier you would need to go up in size.
I love these shirts. They fit well and last a long time.
From the material to the style, this shirt is great! I think I have 8 or 9 of them now. I'm hard on shirts and these wear very well.
My husband loves to wear these shirts around the yard working, or while traveling. He only likes shirts with a pocket (to carry glasses) and this is the only t-shirt he wears.
Great fit. I use it as an every day shirt.
As a guy with a slimmer athletic build the Original fit was always to bulky, but with the Relaxed fit force series is a perfect fit. I own multiple of almost every color. I wear these shirts daily as a tradesman. Couldn't be happier with these shirts.
I love these shirts they have a "tighter" more flexible fit than the normal cotton shorts they aren't as baggy in a way By far my Favorite !
So far this shirt is living up to the Carhartt brand.
Great fit and comfortable! Not too thin and not to heavy, just right!
I am 6'1", 255 lbs.. Regular 2X fits perfect! Been wearing these since they became available. Love the pocket for my reading glasses and insulin pen! As you sweat, these shirts dry so fast compared to regular cotton shirt. I own probably more than a dozen or so and plan to buy more as I need them!
Love these shirts. Material is perfect and keeps me cool in the summer. I work outside all year. But also comfortable as an undershirt in the winter. I'm 6' 220 lbs. But of a "dad bod" going on. The XL is comfy for work. The L Tall is nice to wear casually.
Always love Carhartt shirts... but, this style runs SHORT!!! Definitely will check the length of the shirt measurement on the next order!!!
T-shirt that won't let you down!
Great T-shirt that fits a 6'4" 230lb man. Light weight for summer. Wish they would add some graphics to this shirt platform.
I have about a dozen of these and wear them every day. To me, the cut is perfect in terms of shoulders, sleeve, and overall length. They are flexible and durable for work, exercise, or everyday use. Definitely err on the side of ordering smaller as carhartt runs bigger, although the force line is slightly trimmer than the normal line. They shrink just a little after the first wash, but not much. I'm 5'10", muscular, and order size medium for an athletic but not excessively tight fit.
It came in just how I hoped!
Great way to shop! The shirts are comfortable and wear perfect.
I love the shirts. But the tall sizes are longer than other Carhart force shirts I have. I wish they were just a little bit shorter than they are.
These are my go to work shirts. Very comfortable and do not change shape after many washes.
I really like the fit. Bought the "tall" size. It could be about an inch or two shorter though, it's pretty long.
I was familiar with the heavy weight Workwear shirts and wear them often. I was looking for a lighter weight and ordered one Maddock and one Force. The Maddock is fine but I found the Force to be smaller then other 2xlt Carhartts plus the fabric did not feel as rugged as the others.
Amazing fit and feeling. Light and breathable. Fits a little smaller than the work shirts.
Great shirt .Exactly as shown and true to size. Nice color selection too. Highly recommended.
How long is the 3x compared to the 3xl tall? I have the K8 in 3xl tall and find them to be slightly long. I was thinking that 3xl tall might work better in these due to the increased snugness.
BEST ANSWER: Our tall sizes will add 2 inches to the sleeve and body length.
Does this shirt come without a pocket?
BEST ANSWER: We apologize, but this style does not come without a pocket.
Will this be available in a lime green or high vis yellow?
I hate thin shirts is this a thicker shirt ?
BEST ANSWER: This shirt is considered light weight. If you are looking for a heavier shirt we would suggest the Workwear Pocket T-Shirt, style K87.
Which colors have the 60 POLY TO 40 COTTON BLEND? And why are they different?
BEST ANSWER: Different colored dyes may perform differently from one another. The fiber content may vary slightly so that the product is consistent in durability, longevity, and feel from one color to another. This is subject to change, but as of this moment, the Spring 18 catalog lineup that is 60/40 would be Carbon Heather, Granite Heather, Light Huron Heather, and Red Brown Heather. The majority of others are 65/35, and a few are 59/41. Please contact us directly at 1 800 833 3118 if you need more specifics.
Does this shirt have a front pocket?
BEST ANSWER: Yes, this style features a left chest pocket.
Is the 4x shirt longer than a 3x tall?
BEST ANSWER: 4XL Regular is 33 1/4 inches and 3XL Tall is 34 1/4 inches.
Does this shirt have a UPF rating for sun?
BEST ANSWER: No; we have not tested this product for UPF rating.
Can I still buy this shirt with the 60 poly to 40 cotton blend?
BEST ANSWER: The Carbon Heather fiber content is 60% cotton/40% polyester.
How much do the stain resistant t-shirts shrink?
BEST ANSWER: All of our garments have a 2-4% shrink ratio as long as it is laundered according to the care instructions. So you should not notice any shrinkage.
I just received my delmonts and they are stiffer then I thought they would be. Will they get softer after washing them?
BEST ANSWER: Yes, they definitely get softer after the first couple of washes.
They definitely vet softer over time. After the first couple of washes it should be that nice soft cotton you're looking for.
In normal shirts I wear a medium but in the carhartts k87 and maddock shirts I wear a small. Is the delmont sized similarly or does the relaxed fit mean i should go for medium?
BEST ANSWER: Our Delmont and Maddock tees are Relaxed fit, we would recommend a medium if you do not like shirts that fit too close to the body.
when will the Delmont sable heather t-shirt be in stock??????
BEST ANSWER: We apologize, we do not plan to restock Sable Heather, it has been discontinued.
What is the cotton percentage in this cotton/poly shirt? Is this the new TransDry cotton?
Cannot review, very frustrating! The shirt fabric was changed from last year and now it's not good, too stiff and harsh compared to the previous meterials?
BEST ANSWER: We are sorry to hear of the issue you are experiencing with your shirt. We are known for the durability of our apparel and stand behind all of our products. Please contact us at 800-833-3118 for assistance with this matter. We look forward to hearing from you.
Does this product come in navy blue?
BEST ANSWER: Yes, this style is offered in Navy.
It shows Navy as being one of the colors it comes in.
If you purchase at least 12 t-shirts do you get a better price ?
BEST ANSWER: Unfortunately, we do not offer bulk discounts. However, please call Customer Service; we will see if we can make any suggestions for you. We can be reached at 1 800 833 3118.
Does this shirt shrink like a normal cotton shirt after washing?
BEST ANSWER: This shirt should not shrink more than 2-4% over the life of the garment as long as you follow the care instructions.
Is this shirt made in America?
BEST ANSWER: This style is made in Guatemala, Cambodia and Jordan. We stand behind all of our products, every Carhartt garment has to meet the same quality standards, regardless of where it is made.
Is the sizing different from relaxed fit Force t-shirts as opposed to the Big and Tall?
BEST ANSWER: Big and Tall simply refers to whether an item is a "tall" or above a 2XL. Relaxed fit shirts are cut a bit closer to the body than original fit shirts, but that doesn't preclude them from being offered in tall sizes or 3x, 4x, etc. Please call Customer Service if you need further assistance.
BEST ANSWER: I don't shop at Walmart, so I can't speak to what they sell. The shirt is 60% polyester, 40% cotton. The inside of the shirt looks different from the outside, almost like a lining which provides the wicking of perspiration I suppose. That is probably why they feel more lush than a cheap 100% cotton shirt. I never thought of the shirt as "stretchy", but I guess it is a little. I also have the long sleeve version and have been wearing those since the weather turned cool under my flannels. I guess the price is a little higher than regular t-shirts, but I do enjoy wearing them, so it's worth it to me.
These shirts aren't "stretchy" but they are made with a moisture wicking fabric. Not like Walmart tshirts, very good quality, stand up well.
It is stretchy type material.
Is there a long sleeve version of this exact shirt?
Yes!! I had to get one size bigger in the long sleeve than I did in the short sleeve.
what conditions can this shirt be worn in? can it with stand sparks from a grinder?
BEST ANSWER: We do not recommend exposing this shirt to an environment where there will be sparks. However, it is great for warmer climates or conditions where you will be perspiring.
The K87 is what my husband and I wear. Yes it is heavier but we grind, cut and weld in them and they are great. We bought a bunch and put our logo on them and use it as our uniform. We have never been burned in the past .. I want to say 5 years that we have been buying them. He wears the B324 pants and loves them. He can move in them but he doesn't get burned while welding and grinding. Hope this helps.
I've worn these shirts on the TexMex border in 105 degree weather tossing bails of hay into the beds of trucks. They don't stain, the fabric doesn't tear & it looks great after a wash to wear on a night out.
I wouldn't grind in it. It really isn't designed for that. It is great in the south bama heat, though. I love em in hot weather.
I work on the farm and have exposed this shirt to lots of grinder sparks and it holds up great. by far my favourite work shirt.
I would not suggest direct contact with grinder sparks. This is not FR but it is a great everyday shirt.
The heavyweight shirt could probably withstand reentry into the atmosphere from space.
I would not where this shirt around spatks or any other fire hazards.
In Texas. It is hot in Texas. The Force shirt is great.
Grinder sparks will burn through.
Can I just spend the $20 coupon?
BEST ANSWER: We apologize you are not able to use the $20 e-Gift Card at this time. The e-Gift card would be sent within 7 days of the promotion end date (September 25, 2016) to the email address associated with the qualifying order. Your e-gift card must be used by 10/16/2016, 11:59 PM EST.
are the relaxed fit shirts more snug in size then the original?
BEST ANSWER: Yes, our relaxed fit is slimmer than our original fit. They are designed to fit closer to the body.
Do you have a size 3xl tall in your Cotten t shirts?
BEST ANSWER: Style K87, our heavier workwear pocket tee, is made in a 3xl tall. Our Maddock pocket short sleeve tee (101125) also comes in a 3xl tall, though we may have limited stock at this time. Please note that the style 100410 you mentioned is actually a cotton/poly blend shirt.
BEST ANSWER: 65% Polyester, 35% Polyester plaited jersey knit.
Cotton polyester blend, with more of a cotton feel.The t-shirt is cool and light. I have bought five different colors.
Can I get these with a pen holder pocket?
BEST ANSWER: This tee shirt does have a chest pocket. We don't have any variations/special options within the types of pockets this shirt has, however.


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Free Community College Cut From Biden's Economic Plan
Matthew Arrojas
Matthew Arrojas is a news reporter at BestColleges covering higher education issues and policy. He previously worked as the hospitality and tourism news reporter at the South Florida Business Journal. He also covered higher education policy issues as...
Free community college has been cut from Biden's spending bill to win support from moderates.
Rep. Ro Khanna said leadership was instead working to create community college scholarships.
Democrats may continue to press for free community college through the America's College Promise Act, reintroduced in April.
Democrats' plan to provide free community college nationwide is off the table, at least for now.
Most of President Joe Biden's domestic legislative agenda, including free community college, is wrapped up in an immense spending package currently being negotiated by Democrats in the U.S. Senate. In a bid to get the buy-in of moderate senators, Biden is reportedly scrapping the provision, which was budgeted to cost more than $45 billion.
Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., confirmed to CNN's Jake Tapper that the free tuition proposal was being removed from the spending bill and has morphed instead into a plan to provide community college scholarships. He did not, however, disclose any specifics of said scholarships, noting that the deal is still being finalized.
This news comes after months of negotiations over the spending package, dubbed the Build Back Better Act, which passed the U.S. House last August but has struggled to gain the necessary support in the Senate. Democrats control 50 seats in the chamber and hope to pass the bill through reconciliation.
However, moderate Democratic senators Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia have voiced opposition to significant portions of the sweeping economic plan.
Manchin, specifically, has expressed concerns over the free community college proposal. He previously told Education Secretary Miguel Cardona that he would instead prefer making student loans used for community college forgivable, which he suggested would motivate students to complete the program.
"Don't give it on the front end. Let them earn it on the back end."
— Joe Manchin, Democratic Senator of West Virginia
"Don't give it on the front end. Let them earn it on the back end," Manchin said to Cardona at a June Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing.
Community college scholarships may be a compromise between progressive and moderate Democrats. However, details about how much funds will be allocated for these scholarships have yet to be released. Khanna told CNN only that there will be "some funding" for these scholarships.
Overall, Democrats are slashing more than $1.5 trillion in spending from the economic plan, which was initially tagged to cost $3.5 trillion, CNBC reported. Biden told progressive Democrats this week that the bill could now cost between $1.75 trillion and $1.9 trillion.
Free community college was the only higher education issue addressed in the Build Back Better Act.
Free community college is a popular policy, with a June BestColleges survey finding 69% of respondents in favor of free community college for either all or most first-time college students.
There are other avenues to make community college free for all Americans, such as former President Barack Obama's America's College Promise Act, first introduced in 2015. Democrats reintroduced the legislative proposal in April.
Through this proposal, states would have to eliminate community college tuition in order to receive funding from the federal government, which would cover states' costs for community college tuition during the first year of the plan. The federal government's investment would reduce 5% each year over the next four years. Then the state would be left to cover 20% of the costs for free community college.
Feature Image: Kent Nishimura / Contributor / Los Angeles Times / Getty Images
Will Free Community College Be Cut From $3.5 Trillion Spending Bill?
Community College Transfers Thrive at Elite Universities
by Mark J. Drozdowski, Ed.D.
What Is a Community College?
by Genevieve Carlton, Ph.D.

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We support people to be involved in recruiting staff and shaping support to fit their lives. We believe that everyone has a voice and we are committed to providing opportunities for people we support to have their say on issues that affect their lives on a local and national level.
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When will more Nigerians start paying attention to the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), the institution that regulates auditors, accountants and sets Nigeria's Corporate Governance and Stewardship Codes? At the moment, only a few people bother with FRC's guidelines: practicing accountants, auditors, and a handful of management and board members of formal and properly-structured businesses. Yet more people should show interest, especially for a country in dire need of foreign investments. No investor takes a dime to a jurisdiction where utmost transparency and integrity in business is not promoted, where they are not sure that institutional regulations will guarantee safety to their dollars and returns on their investments.
Now, 96% of all businesses in Nigeria are Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), compared to 53% in the United States and 65% in Europe. Still, this huge number contributes only 1% to Nigeria's GDP while the smaller numbers in United States contribute a staggering 50% to that country's GDP. We can argue that the United States is not at the same level of development with Nigeria, hence the huge gap in contribution of SMEs to GDP, yet when weighed against countries on the same level of development, Nigeria is still light years behind with respect to tapping into the huge benefits of SMEs.
A key challenge facing small businesses in Nigeria is poor credit environment; the inability to access funding. Yet one known aid to funding of small businesses is a country's sound Corporate Governance Code. Investors consider matters of transparent reporting seriously when allocating investment funds, and Nigerian SMEs can attract these funds by first appreciating, and then applying the principles set out in the FRC's Code.
Consider this as Nigeria being in competition with other countries of the world for investment capital. And investors look carefully at laws and regulations that guarantee safety of investments before moving in their money. Even donors (for non-profit organisations) also want to be sure that there are institutional regulations that ensure transparency in the use of funds they give to non-profit organisations within a country. This means that with sound Corporate Governance Code, and all other factors being equal, there's a chance we will attract huge investment capital into our economy.
It is this understanding that the FRC assumes as it invites members of the public to take a look at its draft of the Nigerian Code of Corporate Governance 2018. The Code is the product of a 15-member committee set up in January to review an initial one issued in October 2016, but which was suspended by the Federal Government just eleven days after. The plan now is to replace it with a new one.
Code of Corporate Governance is a set of rules that set standards of good practice in issues like composition of boards of organisations – both private and public, their remuneration, accountability, relationship with external and internal stakeholders, as well as overall governance of the firm. The FRC is responsible for setting and promoting compliance with these standards for accounting, financial reporting and auditing in Nigeria. It has the powers to ensure good corporate governance practices in organisations.
This proposed new Code of Corporate Governance is resting on 28 principles and 230 practices. The principles are the ideals which corporate organisations should strive for in their governance journey. These principles are like the objectives to which organisations should aspire.
The practices are the 'hows' of implementing the principles. During implementation, the new code is designed to allow organisations focus more on its 'spirit', rather than its 'letters'. The spirit is the intent – what FRC had in mind while a particular principle was being crafted.
This focus on intent, rather than the letters, is captured in the philosophy of this new code which the regulatory body described as 'APPLY and EXPLAIN'. This philosophy was favoured because it is believed to be scalable. It assumes application and simply requires entities to explain how the principles were applied with regards to the business and the nature of its operations.
Scalability suggests that the 'APPLY and EXPLAIN' philosophy can be applied to meet the individual needs of the organisations while, at the core, the spirit behind the principles is borne in mind.
It stands in contrast to the former one whose philosophy was 'COMPLY or ELSE'. Seen by many experts as rigid, the 'COMPLY or ELSE' philosophy is one-size-fits-all, and does not recognize the differences in business types and their operations. It gives no room for flexibility. It has also been jettisoned in other jurisdictions and replaced with the 'Apply and Explain' philosophy.
One fear comes to mind at this point: with this seemingly lax philosophy, will there ever be penalties for any breach? Of course, there will. FRC, through the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), will monitor the adoption of this code and impose appropriate sanctions to entities that deviate.
It's important to note that there are also sectoral regulators whose own governance codes are already in place and have been running for years in their sectors. For instance, the Central Bank of Nigeria has its code for banks and discount houses; the Nigerian Communications Commission has one for the country's Telecommunications sector while the Securities and Exchange Commission has its for publicly quoted companies. These sectoral regulators are also empowered to impose appropriate sanctions on companies that deviate from the code. For instance, if a bank deviates, the Central Bank will impose appropriate sanction on it based on the specific deviation.
FRC thinks it has done a good job with the new Corporate Governance Code, but still expects inputs from members of the public before releasing the final version. But the only members of the public who can make inputs are those who have shown interest in the draft copy currently in the public domain. This is why more Nigerians need to follow the activities of the Financial Reporting Council.
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Should that happen, then it should be the record period for Reliance from the refining business as far as the profit performance is concerned, says Choksey.
In a chat with ET Now, Deven Choksey, MD, KR Choksey Investment Managers, shares his expectations from Reliance Industries results scheduled later for the day.
ET Now: What is your own expectation of what Reliance may report on Tuesday?
Deven Choksey: The performance would come largely from the gross refining margin (GRM) side. Given the kind of Asian cracks and prices that Reliance Industries has enjoyed in the last quarter, except the gasoline, realisation on all other areas such as naphtha, fuel oil and jet fuel diesel was quite significant. That leads me to believe that GRMs could be well in excess of $11 per barrel. We basically expect GRMs somewhere in $11.30-$11.50 range. Should that happen, then it should be the record period for Reliance from the refining business as far as the profit performance is concerned. Along with that what we are also likely to see is about 18 per cent volume growth on a year-on-year basis in the petrochemical segment. In that segment, the higher amount of capacities would probably start giving better volume contribution into the business of the company.
Couple with lower feedstock price, the company is likely to record better profit margins in this particular quarter in petrochemical and polymer segments. So this is one area which is likely to give good amount of performance. Reliance Jio commentary would make more sense because if one has to believe that in next two years'time Reliance Jio could produce the profit equal to what the Reliance industry is producing today, then probably the kind of a rerating has to happen in this particular stock . Eyes are going to be more on to the completion of the projects and contribution coming there.


17.) Carmen: something tells me the autopsy's going to reveal she was preggers.
Jus as I predicted, Jerome & Glen going to be together.
Time for Cardo to MOVE ON!
Now that Jerome & Glen are dating, I see that Cardo's getting jealous LOL!
Meanwhile, Mama Tuazon & Rachel are going to the United States as Daddy Tuazon, Joaquin & Don Emilio are involved in the Drug Trade with COCAINE!
kasi honestly, kinikilig ako sa JerGlen!
Cardo didn't get jealous, Onyok does.
It is likely that Agot and Belle will not appear for now.
Kung hindi lang sana pinatay ng maaga si Carmen.
Minsan ang galing talaga ng ABS pagdating sa Casting, ensemble kung ensemble parang sa mga sikat na Anime series.
That's what I'm talking about: JERGLEN FOREVER!
There's nothing Cardo can do about it LOL!
Now we have another key player involved with the Tuazon family's international criminal empire!
Glen's boss is involved as well.
Looking like the Tuazon's will frame Cardo & make him the fall guy!
^ kasi nga napansin ni Cardo na maganda ang pakikitungo ni Lola Kap kay Don Emilio.
Getting some vibes that Don Emilio or Joaquin will kill Lola Flora, which will drive Cardo completely psycho.
It looks like the corrupted mayor (Victor Neri), who is one of the protectors of pasugalan, wants to target Lola Kap.


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Archives reveal 1960s ban on ethnic minorities working at Buckingham Palace
Royal aides negotiated to have queen exempted from anti-racism legislation
Buckingham Palace banned foreigners from working in certain jobs in the 1960s, according to historical documents. Reuters
Brodie Owen
Buckingham Palace banned "coloured immigrants or foreigners" from serving in office jobs in the 1960s, historical documents show.
Lord Tryon, Keeper of the Privy Purse at the time, made the revelation in papers unearthed from the National Archives.
The documents were discovered by the Guardian newspaper, which was investigating how civil servants negotiated with royal aides for an exemption for Queen Elizabeth II and the royal household from proposed race discrimination legislation.
US President Joe Biden to meet Queen Elizabeth II on UK visit
T G Weiler, a Home Office civil servant, in February 1968 wrote a summary of a meeting with Lord Tryon.
He reported that employees at the royal household fell "into three categories (a) senior posts, which were not filled by advertising or by any overt system of appointment and which would presumably be accepted as outside the scope of the bill; (b) clerical and other office posts, to which it was not, in fact, the practice to appoint coloured immigrants or foreigners; and (c) ordinary domestic posts for which coloured applicants were freely considered, but which would in any event be covered by the proposed general exemption for domestic employment".
Mr Weiler went on to say that royal aides were concerned that the proposed legislation "would for the first time make it legally possible to criticise the [royal] household".
"Many people do so already, but this has to be accepted and is on a different footing from a statutory provision," he wrote.
The legislation was eventually passed with an exemption that meant a tribunal dealt with allegations of racism in the royal household rather than the courts.
The exemption reportedly remains in place in the 2010 Equality Act.
A Buckingham Palace spokesman said the queen complied with anti-discrimination legislation "in principle and in practice".
"Claims based on a second-hand account of conversations from over 50 years ago should not be used to draw or infer conclusions about modern-day events or operations," he said.
Race became a major issue for the monarchy this year after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex accused an unnamed member of the royal family of asking, before their son was born, how dark Archie's skin would be.
Buckingham Palace said recollections of what transpired may vary, but that Harry and Meghan's claims were taken "very seriously".
Prince William defended the monarchy, saying "we're very much not a racist family".


It would be extremely useful to create a shipping option which is not combinable.
When buyers complete their order, the system (as it should) automatically calculates the total shipping amount ASSUMING everything is going to be combined into one parcel.
Even though it is written in BIG and BOLD that this item is not combinable, the buyer does not consider this in the completion of his order and just pays what the system has calculated for him.
This has caused so many problems for us. (You dont understand).
Perhaps a "tick box" on shipping options that does not allow combining if ticked? Then the system can combine the order as usual, but calculates the shipping correctly.


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Top players to watch in women's NCAA Tournament
NEW YORK (AP) — The women's basketball NCAA Tournament is set to tip Friday and here are a few players that may be the difference between a top team making a deep run in the tournament and not making it out of the first weekend. All the players come from the major conferences.
GUARDS:
Lexie Brown, Duke: A lot was made of Brown's decision to leave Maryland after her sophomore year. She had led the Terrapins to consecutive Final Four appearances. Brown's done great things at Duke the past two seasons and hopes to get the Blue Devils out of the first weekend for the first time since 2015.
Jordin Canada, UCLA: One of the quickest players on the court with and without the basketball. The Bruins' senior point guard set the Pac-12 record for assists and became the first player in conference history to have over 1,800 points and 700 assists. UCLA has made it to the regional semifinals in consecutive seaons and Canada will be the key for the Bruins to make it further.
Asia Durr, Louisville: The ACC player of the year was a big reason the Cardinals earned their first No. 1 seed in school history. She's had some huge games this season, including a 47-point effort against Ohio State and 36 against Notre Dame. Durr shoots 41 percent from behind the 3-point arc. The junior will be key for Louisville to make it to the Final Four for the first time since 2013.
Sabrina Ionescu, Oregon: Ionescu could also be known as Ms. Triple-Double as the sophomore has already broken the NCAA mark with nine in her young career. She is one of the best point guards in the country and proved that she can also score when needed, putting in a career-high 36 points in the Pac-12 title game. The Ducks will go as far as Ionescu can take them.
Kelsey Mitchell, Ohio State: Is only 30 points away from moving into second on the NCAA all-time scoring list. Mitchell would gladly trade that for getting the Buckeyes back to Columbus, Ohio, for the Final Four. The senior guard averaged 24.5 points this season and if Ohio State can make it to the national semifinals, she has a chance to break Kelsey Plum's all-time scoring mark. Mitchell is 164 points behind the record.
Kia Nurse, UConn: The Huskies' senior leader not only can score, but she is the team's best defender. Nurse constantly draws the assignment of the other team's top guard. Even when she's not putting points up, she's making her mark on the court. Nurse hit 13 consecutive 3-pointers during the season over a three-game stretch.
Kalani Brown, Baylor: One of the top post players in the country, she had a tremendous season with 20.2 points and 10.1 rebounds a game for the Lady Bears. The Big 12 player of the year spent the offseason improving her fitness and was able to stay on the court for longer periods of time this year. With starting point guard Kristy Wallace lost for the season with an ACL injury, Brown will have to be even more dominant inside.
Megan Gustafson, Iowa: Gustafson led the country in scoring and was top five in rebounding for the Hawkeyes. She had 48 points in a Big Ten Tournament loss to Minnesota and is going to be a handful for opponents to stop. Iowa will go as far as their junior center can take them.
Marie Gulich, Oregon State: The 6-foot-5 German really improved her play this season averaging 17.1 points, 8.9 rebounds and nearly three blocks a game. She shot 66 percent from the field and helped the Beavers to a solid season.
Katie Lou Samuelson, UConn: A candidate for nearly every major award this year, the junior forward really improved her game this season. She's deadly from 3-point range and has shown a great touch passing the ball as well. UConn has clearly lots of options on offense, but Samuelson is the most important one.
Teaira McCowan, Mississippi State: Had a stellar season for the Bulldogs, averaging 17.7 points, 13.2 rebounds and shot 60 percent from the field. The only issue is that she can get into foul trouble, but if she can stay on the court, she's a difference-maker on both ends. The 6-foot-7 junior center's best game came against Oregon early in the season when she had 35 points, 19 rebounds and blocked five shots.
Jessica Shepard, Notre Dame: One of the biggest moves of the season in college basketball was the NCAA granting Shepard immediate eligiblity to play for the Irish. With all the injuries the Irish suffered this year — four ACLs — she gave Notre Dame a solid front court player. Sure the Irish's backcourt of Arike Ogunbowale and Marina Mabrey is huge, but Shepard may be the key to another deep run by the No. 1 team in Spokane.
A'ja Wilson, South Carolina: Wilson carried the defending champion Gamecocks on her shoulders this season. She won the SEC player of the year for the third time and didn't let vertigo stop her from being the conference tournament MVP leading South Carolina to a fourth straight crown. She's the consenus No. 1 pick in next month's WNBA draft, but before that she's hoping to lead the Gamecocks back to the Final Four and defend their crown.
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With all the Craziness Surrounding Her Family – Kylie Jenner Wants More!
There has been much hype over the past few weeks with regards to the coming out of Caitlyn (previously Bruce) Jenner. Although there has been much media attention focused on her and her family at the moment, daughter Kylie has decided that she is going to continue on her quest to have further plastic surgery performed herself – in the form of a nose job or rhinoplasty as it is also known as.
Although Kylie Jenner may only be 17 years old, the teen has already confessed that she has had quite a few cosmetic procedures performed over the years. These have included a range of temporary lip filler treatments and even a set of breast implants. However, according to information obtained from an insider who is quite close to the Keeping Up with the Kardashians TV star, it has been suggested that the bubbly teen is now considering having further cosmetic surgery in the form of a nose job performed as well.
The insider went on to mention to Radar Online that Kylie Jenner wants to have the bridge of her nose made smaller. "She's completely paranoid about having the same nose as her mom, which in her mind is the worst nose in the family," the insider was quoted as saying. Although some people may think that it is excessive or even over the top for a 17 year old to be thinking about plastic surgery procedures such as breast implants and nose reconstruction procedures, it has been noted that the teen has received the approval of her mom to enhance various aspects of her appearance.
Although teens like Kylie Jenner may be having numerous forms of cosmetic surgery performed, this doesn't mean that it is the right choice for everyone else as well. However, teens who are genuinely embarrassed about certain aspects of their appearances could benefit greatly by having them surgically altered – with parental blessings, of course. In fact, many teens who have done this have reported that their new looks have given them a level of confidence that they would otherwise not have been able to enjoy if they were feeling embarrassed about the way they look.
Teens who wish to have cosmetic surgery performed should ensure that they not only have the approval of their parents or guardians; they should also ensure that they are having it done because they truly want to have it done and not because their favorite star is going under the knife.
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Matt Lauer Is Reportedly Trying To Buy Annette Roque's Silence As They Finalize Divorce
Suzy Kerr Jul 5, 2019 8:49 AM PDT
A year-and-a-half after NBC fired Matt Lauer from The Today Show for sexual misconduct in the workplace, he and his wife Annette Roque have finally reached a divorce settlement. Now, the couple is reportedly waiting for a judge to finalize it in either Suffolk County or Manhattan, and a new report claims that Lauer is buying Roque's silence by giving her their $44 million Hamptons estate.
An insider claims that Roque has Lauer "up against a wall," and he has told his legal team to give her whatever she wants. But, the 61-year-old isn't doing this to be generous or out of guilt or remorse, he's doing this because he is afraid that Roque will speak publicly about their troubled marriage.
$25M a year, sexual misconduct, distracting his family and living high, and we should feel bad for the fraud??? Disgraced Former 'Today' Show Host Matt Lauer 'Devastated' After Selling $44 Million Mansion https://t.co/A2n6o1byLR
— Squatter911 (@Squatter9112) July 4, 2019
"Matt wants her to sign a nondisclosure so tight she won't even be able to speak his name publicly," a source told Radar Online. "Her silence is worth more to him than any houses or money. Matt wants absolute secrecy."
When Today Show fans woke up on November 29, 2017, they watched as Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb announced the shocking news that NBC had fired Lauer after an employee made a sexual assault complaint against him regarding an incident at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. The network terminated Lauer's $25 million a year contract, and soon after Roque filed for divorce after nearly 20 years of marriage.
It didn't take long for other women to come forward and accuse Lauer of sexual assault – with some alleged incidents dating as far back as 2001.
A judge has not yet been assigned to Lauer and Roque's divorce case, but insiders say that in addition to the Hamptons estate, Roque will also receive $20 million in assets. It isn't clear if Lauer will keep Strongheart Manor, the home that Lauer purchased from actor Richard Gere in 2016 for $36.5 million.
The estranged couple will reportedly share custody of their three children.
The Hamptons just can't quit Matt Lauer https://t.co/XHyICTGt5n
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) July 1, 2019
Lauer has laid low since losing his job, which has been a huge change for the man who charmed Today Show viewers every morning for more than two decades. Rumors swirled that he would be returning to television after landing a gig at CNN, which his former NBC boss Jeff Zucker now runs. But, Zucker shot down those rumors, telling staff, "There is absolutely no truth at all in the reports that Matt is coming to CNN."
An insider says that Matt Lauer believes he was the reason the Today Show was number one for so long, and he "feels the way he's being treated is disgusting."
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I still want to hear from Matt Lauer.
He did wrong. He has paid for his mistakes, greatly. Left behind, he was a very good anchorman & I
enjoyed his interviews.
I do not like two female anchors
sitting together; one always gone!
Hoda has to go.
Bring Matt back.
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4craft is a Minecraft server ran by a bunch of anons from the internet. It traditionally has ran for 2 weeks at a time, each iteration being a few months after the last. I am about to launch the 9th iteration.
I've decided to setup a Patreon in order to fund the server to last longer than 2 weeks. If we're funded, I'll continue to develop plugins for the server to keep things fresh, rather than having endless war with nothing new brought to the formula. The first month of the server will be funded by me personally, even if this Patreon fails. This page is for continued development and a simple thank you for work done so far.
A modded Spigot server that could fit 150 people and maintain a constant tickrate of 20 tps can run up to $120 a month. If you want to squeeze in 300 people into the server it can cost up to even $250 a month. The cost of developing a quality plugin from an experienced programmer can cost well over $50 to even $100 an hour, if not more. Maintaining the server once its operational can become a full time job by itself, to be properly managed.
For the first month, I will cover the costs of 4craft v9. If this Patreon is successful, I will continue to develop new and interesting plugins for the server and keep the server running. The server will only continue if this Patreon makes enough per month to cover just server costs. If we make more than expected and are full - I will increase the slot count on the server by paying for more server resources. If we make more beyond that, I will take a cut to cover dev costs, since I am technically doing it for free until then. I'm not really concerned about making money on this project - but if I do it's a plus. It's for funsies, but running a server is expensive.
You can add a Message Of The Day (MOTD) of your own to the server. This is the message that appears below the server name in the server list on everyone's Minecraft client.
Almost anything goes. If it's not illegal and/or infringing on some copyright I will allow it - no questions asked.
..would appear as red and blue messages in the game. If you want, you can also set a MOTD as described in the previous tier reward.
Along with the previous tiers of rewards, you will spawn a player's head when you kill them. Imagine killing an /a/ player and getting their head to put on a stake. Pretty satisfying stuff.
Along with previous tier rewards, any time you use /b bed, /b home, or teleport using an enderpearl you will spawn a lightning bolt that strikes the earth where you stand. This lightning bolt won't hurt anyone, but it looks pretty cool.
Monthly server cost. This is how much, roughly, it will cost to run a server that will comfortably hold 150 slots open at a stable 20 ticks per second (tps).


#WakeUpNigeria is known for its all in one package where we walk you through healthy lifestyle, entertainment, news updates and many more.
Cooking is all about creativity and trying out news things. #WakeUpNigeria's Chef Miyonse Amosu and Tolu Samiya proved this with a wide range of kitchen adventure this week.
Here's a quick recap of all that went down for breakfast this week on #WakeUpNigeria.
Tolu food and lifestyle in the company of Emem on Tuesday, prepared the delicious 'Banana Bread and Crème a la pap' using Banana, lemon juice, flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, white sugar, butter, vanilla extract & milk.
Tolu food and lifestyle who was in the company of Mike mesikenor had something different cooking for breakfast on friday. Tolu walked us through the process of making the yummy 'Apple pie'.
She noted that when it comes to baking or cooking, you are the master of your recipe. The following ingredients where used; Flour Cinnamon, Brown sugar, Flour for dusting, Some table spoon of water, nut meg, egg and diced apple.


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Johann Nikolussi, auch Johannes Nikolussi, (* 1956 in Dornbirn, Vorarlberg) ist ein österreichischer Schauspieler.

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Johann Nikolussi wirkte als Theaterschauspieler an diversen Off-Theater-Produktionen in Österreich mit. Er war Mit-Gründer des Innsbrucker Kellertheaters, wo er mehr als 10 Jahre als Mit-Leiter und Schauspieler wirkte. Von 1986 bis 1996 war er anschließend festes Ensemblemitglied am Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck. Seit 1996 arbeitet er als freier Schauspieler in Österreich und Deutschland.

Er wirkte bei mehreren Ur- und Erstaufführungen mit, u. a. 1998 im Innsbrucker Bierstindl in der Bühnenfassung des Romans Froschnacht von Markus Werner. 2004 spielte er am Tiroler Landestheater in der Uraufführung des Stücks Pissoir von Bernhard Aichner.

Am Innsbrucker Kellertheater spielte er als Gast u. a. ER in Offene Zweierbeziehung von Dario Fo (2012), den Müller Gilbert Horn in Messer in Hennen von David Harrower (2014) und den Serge in Kunst von Yasmina Reza (2016).

Mehrfach trat er als Gast auch an den Vereinigten Bühnen Bozen auf, u. a. in Viel Lärm um nichts (Spielzeit 2012/13), Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald (Spielzeit 2013/14; als Zauberkönig) und 2015–2016 als Richter Fjodor Fjodorowitsch Ljapkin-Tjapkin in Der Revisor.

Er gastierte weiters bei verschiedenen Sommerspielen in Deutschland und Österreich mit, u. a. bei den Tiroler Volksschauspielen in Telfs, beim Sommertheater Hall (2011), bei den Frankenfestspielen Röttingen und bei den Schlossspielen Kobersdorf. 2014 trat er bei den Tiroler Volksschauspielen, an der Seite von Markus Völlenklee als Zaza, als Georges in dem Musical Ein Käfig von Narren auf.

Seit Anfang der 1980er Jahre war er auch für das Fernsehen und das Kino als Schauspieler aktiv. Erste Filmrollen spielte er unter der Regie von Gernot Friedl und Karin Brandauer.

In den beiden Wiener Tatort-Filmen Tatort: Hahnenkampf (Erstausstrahlung: April 1997) und Tatort: Morde ohne Leichen (Erstausstrahlung: Mai 1997) spielte er den Inspektor Jakob Varanasi.

In dem deutsch-österreichischen Fernsehfilm Detektiv wider Willen (Erstausstrahlung: April 2009) spielte er den Bauern Franz Wedernjak. In dem Fernsehfilm Stille (Erstausstrahlung: Februar 2013) verkörperte er den Tiroler Bergbauern Hermann Stolberg, der dem Berliner Journalisten Harry Cliewer (Jan Fedder) eine einsam gelegene Berghütte als Unterschlupf vermietet. In dem deutsch-österreichischen Spielfilm Das finstere Tal (2014) spielte er Rudolf Brenner, einen der sechs Söhne des verbrecherischen Brenner-Clans, der ein abgelegenes Bergdorf in den Alpen beherrscht. In dem 1944/45 in Nordtirol spielenden Kinodrama Vals (2014) spielte Nikolussi den Bauern Franz, an der Seite von Gerti Drassl und Carmen Gratl. In dem ZDF-Fernsehkrimi Die Toten vom Bodensee – Die Braut (Erstausstrahlung: Mai 2017) spielte er den älteren Fischer Anton Meinert, den ein düsteres Geheimnis aus seiner Vergangenheit umgibt. Im achten Film der TV-Reihe München Mord mit dem Titel München Mord: Leben und Sterben in Schwabing (Mai 2019) hatte Nikolussi eine Nebenrolle als Schwabinger Musiker-Original Heinzi Murnauer.

Weiters hatte er Episodenrollen in den deutschen bzw. österreichischen Fernsehserien Kommissar Rex (1995; als Entführer Fritz Morak), Die Knickerbocker-Bande (1997; als Sepp), HeliCops – Einsatz über Berlin (2000; als Bandenchef Santos), Julia – Eine ungewöhnliche Frau (2000; als Drogenermittler), Medicopter 117 – Jedes Leben zählt (2002), SOKO Kitzbühel (2009; als Bio-Bäcker Jürgen Krauss) und Der Bergdoktor (2016).

In der 14. Staffel der österreichischen TV-Serie SOKO Donau (2018) übernahm Nikolussi, an der Seite von Dietrich Siegl in seinem letzten Auftritt als Oberst Dirnberger, eine der Episodenhauptrollen als obdachloser, in den Wäldern lebender Einsiedler Gerald Manz, der vor über 20 Jahren seine Ehefrau, eine Kollegin Dirnbergers, während eines Urlaubs in Kroatien getötet hat.

Nikolussi arbeitete weiters als Rundfunksprecher für Radio Österreich 1 (Ö1) und nahm zahlreiche Features und Hörspiele auf, u. a. für den WDR, den NDR und den Bayerischen Rundfunk.

Nikolussi ist Mitglied im Verband der Österreichischen FilmschauspielerInnen (VÖFS). Er lebt in Innsbruck und in Wien.

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 Johann Nikolussi – Internetpräsenz

 Johann Nikolussi – Vita; Agentur

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Theaterschauspieler
Filmschauspieler
Darstellender Künstler (Innsbruck)
Österreicher
Geboren 1956
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I really enjoyed this puzzle. While it may have seemed more enjoyable because the Tuesday puzzle was so bad, I think it would stand on its own. It's a nice midweek puzzle with some zippy fill and a wordplay theme that made me smile. Each theme answer is a common word or phrase with AT appended at the end. Wackiness results.
20a [Big "but"?] is MAMMOTH CAVEAT (Mammoth Cave). I like big caveats and I cannot lie…. if you haven't been to Mammoth Cave National Park, it's worth the trip. It's even more fun if you bring along your own geologist.
27a [Small diamond handed down to an heir?] is an ESTATE CARAT (estate car). "Estate car" is another term for "station wagon." I think of "estate car" as a Britishism. Wikipedia confirms. Apparently "station wagon" is used in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and African English. Gareth?
44a [Fight between two lovers?] is HONEY COMBAT (honeycomb). Now I have this song in my head.
55a [Futuristic Volkswagen?] is a FORWARD PASSAT (forward pass). This may be my favorite.
Consistent, amusing, solvable. A solid Wednesday theme.
1a [Menaces that name other menaces if you put a "w" at the start] is ASPS, which transforms into WASPS. I wonder if that's Kathy's clue or Will's. It reminds me of the Sunday puzzles he presents on NPR.
2d [It comes a quarter of the way into the day] is SIX AM. I beg to differ. That is the beginning of the day. Prior to SIX AM, it is night, not day.
6d [What an oatmeal bath alleviates] is ITCH. This time they got the medical clue right. Oatmeal baths with tepid water are a wonderful itch remedy. There are commercial products, or you can do what my mother did: put oatmeal in an old sock and run the bath water over it, leaving the sock in the tub. It works like a tea bag and you don't have to clean oatmeal out of the tub. Cornstarch will also work but you need to use a whole box for each bath.
18a [Subject of a parent's restriction for a child] is SCREEN TIME. This is a hot topic among my parent friends. True confessions: Emma is currently in her room using a desktop computer as a TV while she does homework on her laptop and Snapchats on her phone.
45d [Bullies] is COWS. I stared at that for a minute wondering how bovines could be bullies. Then the light dawned.
What I didn't know before I did this puzzle: that most elements ending in -ium are METALS. I suppose I would have realized it if I'd ever thought about it, and David (who memorized the periodic table in high school because he's just that kind of nerd) was surprised that I didn't know.
Theme: Two-word phrases in which the first word can be a slangy synonym for "epic!" The second word does not appear to change meaning.
17a [Amazing mammoth?] KILLER WHALE. This one confuses me. How is a mammoth a whale? If both words are metaphoric, then this is inconsistent with the rest of the entries.
24a [Great enthusiast?] DOPE FIEND. Each of us here, e.g.
36a [Excellent wages?] SICK PAY. Nice. I like this one.
49a [Well-done finales?] TIGHT ENDS. Do people still say "tight"? I feel like we said that in the early '80s but I haven't heard it recently.
57a [Awesome speller?] WICKED WITCH. I love this use of the word "wicked." I feel like it's a Britishism we adopted. Ah, I think I was right, according to this site. However, the use of "wicked" as an adverb, as in "wicked awesome," comes from New England, and Boston, specifically.
Fairly standard but fun theme set nonetheless.
Also good: The stacked-eights in the NE and SW corners, especially O SOLE MIO, MADE NICE, GOOD DEED, CLUTCHES, and HOT IRONS. More good stuff: PULL TAB, CRAYOLA, and YAPPING. I wasn't sure about OF A KIND at first, but it's growing on me. Favorite clue: [Sugar substitute?] for HON.
There's kind of a lot of DRECK, though: SAO, ODO, ENC, SSE, ETH, ARI, AMIE, KAN, ERG, ATRA, ELS, etc., but nothing we've never seen before.
You may say that MANTERRUPTION isn't a word, and I'ma let you finish, but it dates back to at least 2015, when multiple news articles talked about the trend. I'll give you that it's a terrible portmanteau, though.
Going to use 40A's "Upstate New York engineering sch." clue for RPI to make another pitch to crossword constructors: RHIT is an engineering school in Terre Haute, IN, on the WABASH river. It's a very good engineering school. It has crossword potential. Thank you for your consideration.
ATLANTA is back in March! I am very excited because season 1 was very good.
Going to take a quick moment to note that 79D's Pizza RAT video might have been faked.
Just three theme answers today. They are each an ADJECTIVE+NOUN that means very fast: BREAKNECKSPEED and BLISTERINGPACE go together idiomatically. DIZZYINGVELOCITY… doesn't. It's completely arbitrary green paint.
ONELOT and ECAR seem similarly contrived.
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Next month is the 75th anniversary of the arrest, "trial" and execution of the members of the WHITE ROSE. It would have been nice if the clue had paid tribute instead of the generic clue we got.
But I liked the puzzle. It feels like a throwback, in a good way, to when themes could just be fun and not overcomplicated.
LOVED the AVCX. Great puzzle!
I liked that Li'l ABNER was right above DAISY but they were clued differently (and I learned another actress).
Liked the AVCX, but someone should tell the young constructors that "presently" means "soon," not ATM (at the moment).
Honestly, I did not get the connection between "Bullies" and COWS until I read this post. Got the entry from the crosses but was scratching my head about the clue until now. Nice wordplay there. And even though I'm a chemical engineer, it hadn't before dawned on me about the connection between -ium and METALS.
But seriously, Jenni, on the SIX AM? It makes perfect sense in terms of a 24-hour day. I got that one right away. Still, nice commentary overall.
I'm fairly certain Jenni was referring to "day" as in the portion of the 24 hour period in which a person is awake. Sometimes people make humorous comments about certain times they find it too early or too late to be awake and alert. I got her joke right away.
If I wake up at 4am tomorrow worrying about stuff (as I did today), the first thing I'm going to think about now is what percentage of the day it is. Thanks for adding to my reasons for insomnia.
Hey, Mike, I love the way you condescend after you've missed my joke. That's a good look for a guy.
I'm not sure I catch what's beyond the pale about the clue.
Charles MANSON is a serial killer of note.
Were the clue to go into explicit detail of Manson's murder of Sharon Tate and the four other people in the home at the time, I'd agree the clue went beyond the pale (and wasted valuable page space for just one clue!). As it is, the clue notes that Charles Manson was a serial killer whose name can be inserted into PRODIGAL SON by adding MAN.
Didn't bother me one bit. We have Idi Amin in puzzles all the time.
Station wagon is what we use here too. Our main outlier in car terminology is bakkie for what Americans call a pick-up and Australians a ute (rooting in the ute).
Astronomical "Day" ~23:56:4.1 – 'tis why we need Leap Year and the occasional Leap "Day".
I apologise just this once for being a total M&S Nerd.


As of 1 April 2014, the Department of Arts and Culture no longer exists. According to the Public Relations Officer (PRO) in the Ministry of Youth, Sport and Culture, Mr Kristian Mmusi, the Ministry has been re-organised to improve efficiency and "to improve delivery of services, particularly to the outlying areas of the country".
But have no fear, according to the PRO, "The Ministry will continue to run programmes such as the President's Day Competitions, Constituency Art Competitions, Exhibitions and the Arts and Culture Grant". The only one on that list that makes any difference to writers is the arts and culture grant. And how will these proposals be dealt with now?
I'm an artist, a professional writer, but I'm 50, so how do I fit in? In their world there is nothing like an artist over 30, right? We're invisible, not important.
Right there, actually, is where the government's approach to the arts goes wrong.
The fact that the arts are thrown in with the youth and sports shows that the government believes arts to be a hobby, something to keep the youth busy until they move on to more serious things.
They give lip service to the fact that the arts can diversify the economy, but they don't mean it.
They have no policy to implement that. They pour money into the President's Day Competitions -but are they making any real impact? Do the winners move forward? Do they develop and become sustainable? Are they professionalising? What actually is the point of the Competitions except to throw a bit of money around? You see the groups on President's Day, they compete, they win, they get their money, and go back home until the next year.
. If the government believes the arts are meant to be a hobby, as their recent actions suggest, then be honest about that. Say it.
Don't talk about the arts diversifying the economy when everyone can see that it is only lip service and that their actions say something else.
The Department of Arts and Culture was not perfect, but at least it was a step in the correct direction. The PRO says that the former structure in the Ministry was hierarchal and top heavy, he says there was duplication of efforts. I can't comment on that. I'll accept that was true, but couldn't that problem have been addressed without scrapping the Department of Arts and Culture completely?
And though he says that the new Programme Officers will have enough knowledge to cover the issues that will arrive from sports, the youth, and the arts sector, I find that hard to accept.
Even when the officers were only responsible for the arts, the field was just too wide.
They needed to know the intricacies of the publishing industry, the writing world, the music industry, the world of dance and painting and sculpture and acting… only to mention a few. That was more than enough, and as I've said in the past in this column, I had hoped that the move would be toward having more specialised arts officers: experts in each of the disciplines. People who knew what was happening with writers in Botswana, in Southern Africa, and the world, so as to help our writers find their way to professionalism and actually earning a living through their art.
Now, as far as I'm concerned, that hope is gone, never to be seen again. We have taken a huge step backwards in my opinion.
In my perfect world, Arts and Culture would have its own ministry headed by a person who truly cared and understood the arts and knew that the arts are the practical expression of culture, the place where culture is stored.
They would understand that artists need training, and schools, and programmes need to be set up in our institutions.
They need professional advice. They need to get grants to travel to residencies and festivals to see how others do things.
If our arts were truly supported and developed, it would bring people to our country, it would sell our country outside its border.
It would feed our souls and our economy at the same time.
But it's not supported. It's all just a Wizard of Oz type scenario, pull back the curtain, and despite our wishes, there's nothing there.


The Galaxy training community has discussed what we would like to see in GOBLET in the coming year. I initially floated several ideas on the galaxy-training mailing list, and these were then modified and extended by the community.
This email lists those items and includes some suggestions for implementing them.
Fourie, we're handing these to you for presenting to the larger group. Peter van Heusden of SANBI will also be in attendance and can also speak from his experience within the Galaxy community.
Many thanks for Hans-Rudolf Hotz and Björn Grüning for starting this conversation and contributing to it, and to Fourie for agreeing to represent GTN.
If anyone has anything to add to the items below, please do so in the next day.
1. Enable/Host online discussion about bioinformatics training.
We'd like GOBLET to host a mailing list or online forum for discussion of bioinformatics training issues. GOBLET has an announcements mailing list, but it would be a huge win if GOBLET hosted the place to discuss bioinformatics training issues. We argue this place list/forum be open to anyone, not just GOBLET members.
2. Either start sending a regular newsletter, or stop saying we have one.
3. Should GOBLET offer a bioinformatics trainer certification?
GTN is in favor of a GOBLET Trainer badge as a way of both promoting GOBLET and as a way of saying "I've participated in GOBLET training" or "I'm GOBLET certified."
Perhaps attendees at the just finished best practices workshop would be the first recipients?
4. Make it easier to publish, share, and refine training material.
Software and Data Carpentry's model for training material is to use GitHub for version control, and to use Github's branching and merging capabilities to enable community editing of that training material.
The danger here is that the upload/download model is simple to use and easy to implement, and a Github based system would be a lot of work up front, and might not ever catch on.
5. Shared Training Datasets are Precious!
Given the difficulty and time required to create good datasets for training, it might be worthwhile for GOBLET to create a central repository for training datasets. This increases their visibility and usefulness, and also increases the visibility of the training dataset creators.
Right now people can upload datasets of up to 50MB, which is good, but it would be great if there were some way to identify just training datasets, or training resources that include datasets.
to www.it.up.ac.za/documentation/governance/disclaimer/ for full details.
>> extended by the community.
>> also speak from his experience within the Galaxy community.
>> list/forum be open to anyone, not just GOBLET members.
>> GOBLET and as a way of saying "I've participated in GOBLET training"
>> or "I'm GOBLET certified."
>> be the first recipients?
>> *4. Make it easier to publish, share, and refine training material.
>> capabilities to enable community editing of that training material.
>> front, and might not ever catch on.
>> *5. Shared Training Datasets are Precious!
>> datasets, or training resources that include datasets.
The question of training datasets (5) already came up in yesterday's discussion, as did the badges item (3).
Point (4) is going to provoke some discussion, but I don't think its a 'solved problem' for anyone, so there is openness to new approaches.
Thanks for the list and for your comments.
So please get involved - we need your help!


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and Esrange SSC members, aspiring to be selected for the next stage of the REXUS 23/24 – program.
Arriving at Bonn – Oberkassel at 09:30 p.m., we headed towards the guest house, where we rehearsed the crucial parts of our presentation.
In the early Monday morning (28.11.2016), we went to the DLR Space Administration Centre, not knowing, whether or not our presentation is on the same day, but well prepared and highly motivated.
speak in front of the committee on that same day!
They were followed by us, the first REXUS – presentation of the Selection Workshop.
in which we clarified the critical parameters and problems and debated our ideas for keeping these under control.
Being in high spirits, we listened to another very interesting proposal and a lecture about Project and Risk Management. During the coffee breaks we had a few informative discussions.
At the end of a very productive day, we headed back to our guest house.
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New Podcast! Standard Orbit #196 – "Star Trek Origins: Season 3"
I was thrilled to be invited to join the great Zach Moore on Standard Orbit, a Star Trek: The Original Series podcast hosted over at Trek FM.
Zach very kindly asked me on to talk about an aspect of the original Star Trek that I thought was overlooked, so I suggested the rather unlikely shadow that the third season of Star Trek casts over the rest of the Star Trek franchise. These episodes have developed a reputation as the worst episodes of the original run, coming at a point when the production team was exhausted, the budget had been cut, and the series was in its death throes. With all of that in mind, it is interesting how many core attributes of the Star Trek franchise can be traced back to these twenty-four (relatively) unloved episodes.
Kirk as a lothario, Klingons as honourable, the Federation as a utopia, the Romulans and the Klingons as entities that have lives outside of the Federation.
Zach was, as ever, a very gracious host. You can hear the full discussion below or visit the episode page here.
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Star Trek – Whom Gods Destroy (Review)
Posted on August 22, 2016 by Darren
This July and August, we're celebrating the release of Star Trek Beyond by taking a look back at the third season of the original Star Trek. Check back every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for the latest update.
Whom Gods Destroy is a mess.
In a lot of ways, Whom Gods Destroy is shoddy and lazy. In many ways, the episode plays like a collection of familiar Star Trek elements blended together to pad out forty-odd minutes of television with no regard for internal logic or plotting and with minimal regard for the characters caught in the middle of it all. There are very few ideas in Whom Gods Destroy that have not been done before, and done better. The episode is not only a rehash of familiar concepts, but it is an exercise in diminishing returns.
Dance with destiny.
This is to say nothing of the chaos unfolding behind the scenes during the production of the episode. It seemed only appropriate that Kirk's latest mission would take him to what is effectively a gothic asylum in outer space, because it seemed more and more that Star Trek was turning into a madhouse. Veteran staffers were leaving the show in droves, while tensions were mounting on the set, and Fred Freiberger was struggling to keep the budget under control. More than that, there was a clear sense that the series was over, and this was the end of the line.
Whom Gods Destroy really sounds like a disaster. It is certainly not a good episode of television. However, this is the third season. Whom Gods Destroy is interesting enough that it works much better than the season's weaker episodes. It is elevated by a manic energy that goes some way towards covering for the more illogical elements of the plot, and three central performances that play into the high camp of the premise. Whom Gods Destroy is far from classic Star Trek, but it is much better than it has any right to be.
Absolute madness.
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Star Trek – Season 2 (Review)
The first Star Trek pilot, The Cage, was produced in 1964. To celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, this December we are reviewing the second season of the original Star Trek show. You can check out our first season reviews here. Check back daily for the latest review.
The first season of Star Trek was quite remarkable. The cult television show opened with a reasonably solid run of episodes that gradually built momentum over the course of the season. The first season seemed to build towards a crescendo, climaxing with a run of episodes including all-time classics like A Taste of Armageddon, Space Seed, The Devil in the Dark, Errand of Mercy and The City on the Edge of Forever. Sure, Operation — Annihilate! ended the first season on a whimper rather than a bang, but the quality of the show only seemed to improve as the season went along.
In contrast, the second season was a bit more uneven. It probably contains as many truly classic hours of television, but the quality is a lot more variable on an episode-to-episode basis. The Apple leads in to Mirror, Mirror, which leads into The Deadly Years. Metamorphosis leads into Friday's Child. The Immunity Syndrome and A Piece of the Action follow The Gamesters of Triskelion and Obsession. Watching the season blind is a roller-coaster, with episodes varying radically in quality from one week to the next. Some of the franchise's best and worst episodes sit back-to-back here.
The second season of Star Trek can be incredibly hard to get a handle on. It is, in many respects, the season that defined a lot of what the franchise could and would become. Episodes like Amok Time and Journey to Babel really built up a universe around the Enterprise and her crew, expanding on late first season episodes like Arena or Errand of Mercy. The show also demonstrated incredible range, with the occult sensibilities of Catspaw and Wolf in the Fold existing alongside the broad comedy of I, Mudd and The Trouble With Tribbles.
However, the season also demonstrated some of the worst tendencies of sixties Star Trek. Episodes like Friday's Child, A Private Little War and The Omega Glory engaged in precisely the sort of sabre-rattling jingoism against which Balance of Terror and Errand of Mercy had cautioned. The Changeling, By Any Other Name and Return to Tomorrow felt like generic science-fiction retreads. The show brutally (and casually) massacred red shirts in episodes like The Changeling, The Apple and Obsession.
This variable quality is a feature of episodic television. After all, different writers working on different stories featuring the same characters will inevitably produce a wide variety of results. Some writers "get" the show more than others, and some scripts are subject to more work and attention than others. Such is the nature of the industry, particularly when the production team is cranking out more two dozen hours of television in a year – under intense pressure, both in terms of time and money.
Nevertheless, it is quite difficult to distill the second season of Star Trek into a cohesive or singular whole. It is diverse and multifaceted, capable of being almost anything from one episode (or, perhaps, one moment) to the next. Perhaps that is the greatest legacy of this second season; demonstrating that there is very little Star Trek cannot be.
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Star Trek – Assignment: Earth (Review)
Assignment: Earth was almost the last episode of Star Trek ever produced.
It was also possibly (although nowhere near "almost") the pilot for a spin-off television show.
Seventh heaven?
At the last minute, following a very high-profile fan campaign, Star Trek was renewed for a third season.
Fans would have to wait decades to see an actual Star Trek finalé that reduced the main cast to guest stars.
"Wait, who just hijacked my show?"
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Star Trek – Return to Tomorrow (Review)
Return to Tomorrow is similar to By Any Other Name in a number of ways.
Most superficially, it's an episode about aliens in human bodies, who find themselves learning (or, in this case, remembering) how to appreciate all that mankind has to offer. The plot similarity is rather broad, but it seems strange that By Any Other Name and Return to Tomorrow would be produced right after one another, and that no significant effort would be made to space them apart on initial broadcast. (Both aired in February of 1968.)
Leonard Nimoy only gets to smile once a year, so the show makes the most of it…
However, there are more fundamental and underlying similarities between Return to Tomorrow and By Any Other Name. Both are episodes that are very much engaged with the underlying philosophy of the franchise, particularly concerning humanity's place in the universe. Indeed, there's an argument to be made that Return to Tomorrow and By Any Other Name both work much better as statements of philosophical intent than they do as stories in their own right.
Co-written by Gene Roddenberry, Return to Tomorrow is a rather generic piece of television, but one that feels like a considered statement of the franchise's central themes.
"Things are going to be a little different around here…"
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Star Trek – By Any Other Name (Review)
By Any Other Name is very much a stock episode of Star Trek. It hits on all manner of familiar themes and ideas. It's a story about powerful aliens who seem to overpower the crew, only to be outmanoeuvred themselves. It is about the Enterprise literally going where no human has gone before. It is about how humans are undeniably and incomparably special – about how becoming human opens up the aliens to a world of sense and experience.
However, By Any Other Name never really has anything particularly insightful to say about any of this stuff. The script to the episode is a mess, despite the best efforts of D.C. Fontana to develop the character beats. For a show based around such core Star Trek concepts and storytelling devices, By Any Other Name is surprisingly all over the place, with a wildly dissonant tone and a sense that the script was desperately padded in order to extend it out to the requisite fifty minutes.
"No dice, Captain…"
By Any Other Name is not a terrible episode of Star Trek, but it's not a particularly good one either. It is just "there." In many ways, it feels like an example of an episode designed to fill a gap in twenty-odd-episodes-a-year schedule. After all, the last eight episodes of the season were pushed into production at short notice when NBC opted to pick up the show for the rest of the season during the production of The Gamesters of Triskelion. It makes sense that the episodes in this final stretch of the third season are somewhat rough.
By Any Other Name is a familiar Star Trek plot with a somewhat bloated script and a sense that the show is just trying to eat up minutes between here and the end of the season.
"It appears the rock knows as little as we do, sir…"
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Star Trek – A Piece of the Action (Review)
A Piece of the Action is the last script credited to Gene L. Coon.
Of course, Coon would write two episodes for (and contributed two more stories to) the show's troubled final season under the alias Lee Cronin. However, A Piece of the Action could be seen as the last hurrah for Gene L. Coon's vision of Star Trek. The writer and producer had helped to shape and define many of the ideas that Star Trek fans take for granted. A lot of the core Star Trek ideas that have permeated into popular culture – the Federation, the Klingons – originated with Coon.
Dey call him Boss Koik…
While Coon is often overlooked when it comes to crediting those responsible for creating Star Trek as fans have come to know it, history has tended to gloss over his wry subversive streak. In many ways, Coon could be said to be the godfather of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Had he not passed away at the tragically young age of forty-nine, Coon might have been coaxed back to write a first season episode of Deep Space Nine alongside Dorothy Fontana. Coon was, after all, the first Star Trek writer to shrewdly and knowingly problematicise the Federation.
So it feels appropriate that the last Star Trek script credited to Coon should have Kirk proposes the Federation as an intergalactic racket.
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Star Trek – Obsession (Review)
The Star Trek franchise really does like Moby Dick, doesn't it?
The show had done its first appropriation of Herman Melville's iconic story of obsession and revenge earlier in the second season with The Doomsday Machine. In that episode, Commodore Decker sought to avenge the loss of his crew upon an unstoppable planet-killing machine. However, the basic formula quickly worked its way into the franchise's blood. Obsession casts Kirk in the role of Ahab, albeit with a radically different ending and tone. After all, it is very cast Ahab as the heroic lead of a weekly television show.
"It's behind you!"
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan would return to Moby Dick for inspiration. Khan would even paraphrase from the book, without a hint of self-awareness or irony. After that point, it seemed like the franchise was more interested in mimicking the themes of The Wrath of Khan , which inevitably meant carrying over the themes of Moby Dick as well. Nevertheless, Star Trek: Voyager did its own variant of Moby Dick in Bliss and Star Trek: First Contact would reference the book directly.
Obsession is a competent if unspectacular episode, one that suffers from the fact that it has been done better and more compellingly in recent memory. However, given all the changes taking place behind the scenes, Obsession flows surprisingly well.
It really sucks to be a red shirt, eh?
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Star Trek – The Gamesters of Triskelion (Review)
The Gamesters of Triskelion is not a great episode of Star Trek. Although filmed after Obsession, even if the production order lists it before that episode, The Gamesters of Triskelion feels like we're watching producer John Meredyth Lucas finding his feet. It's an episode that feels light and looks relatively cheap, formed from a collection of clichés that would already be familiar to Star Trek fans or fans of pulp science-fiction.
Perhaps the best thing that can be said about The Gamesters of Triskelion is that it has a decidedly pulpy charm to it. The entire episode looks like it was lifted from the cover to some trashy paperback, and the plot is recycled from stock science-fiction concepts and themes. While this isn't enough to sustain an entire fifty minutes of television, it does allow the episode to feel a little distinctive and memorable… if not necessarily in a good way.
Shat happens…
It is amazing how much of the franchise's memorable iconography and imagery comes from weaker episodes of the classic Star Trek. It's a testament to the show's production design team, that could always find a way to make Star Trek look impressive, even on a tight budget and a short schedule. There's also something enduring about the bizarre images that Star Trek could throw up on screen, even when the scripts were lacking; from space!Lincoln in The Savage Curtain to half-black/half-white racism in Let That Be Your Last Battlefield.
Of course, there are episodes that are both great and iconic at at the same time, like Mirror, Mirror. Still, rewatching the show, it is hard to believe just how much of the popular perception of Star Trek comes from episodes that are of… questionable quality. After all, The Gamesters of Triskelion seems to have made an impression. It seems to be a go-to reference for Matt Groening's television shows.
Throwing a bit of stick about…
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Star Trek – Journey to Babel (Review)
Journey to Babel is pretty influential, as episodes of Star Trek go. It is an episode that really cements idea of the Federation that came to be at the heart of the franchise, suggesting that the organisation really is a diverse intergalactic alliance of diverse alien species, rather than a union between Earth and Vulcan. More than that, the episode suggests that the individual members of the Federation might not exist in perfect harmony with one another, but may each operate with their own agenda and motivations.
However, what is really remarkable about Journey to Babel is how much of this unfolds in the background. All this world-building and -embellishing is very much a secondary concern for writer D.C. Fontana. Despite its scale and its scope, Journey to Babel is a decidedly personal story about a family in crisis. It works remarkably well, offering viewers a bit more insight into Spock as a character and where he came from.
Party on, Gav…
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Mister Miracle #8 Review – A Continuation Of The Already Impressive Run
Home > Books > Comic Books > Mister Miracle #8 Review – A Continuation Of The Already Impressive Run
byGeorge Chrysostomou
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Mister Miracle #8 continues to impress and stand alone amongst the already incredible competition. Whilst over books of its nature continue to tow the line between real life problems and out of this world comic book action and science fiction narratives, Mister Miracle still finds its strengths in its real-life grounding.
Focusing upon Scott's relationship with his child and struggle to balance this life with his everlasting war with Darkseid, Tom King's unique sense of humour, touching voice and penchant for impressive battle sequences continue to impress. Grounding this issue in something very relatable allows Mister Miracle to hold the heart of its other issues. Promising his child the world, through the continued motif of "Daddy's going to buy you a diamond ring," King explores the deep connection this new father has with his child as he struggles with the everyday challenges of parenting.
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An immortal man needs something to live for…
Whilst his immortal battles go through all the hells of only a war can create, his life at home is in no way abnormal. The battlefield has become a place where Mister Miracle must negotiate peace with alien warriors, whilst also negotiating the doctor's appointment for his infant. Whilst in other stories, a loss to a great warrior that could have ended the war, might seem like a heavy defeat and one that would shake our heroes, Scott takes it in his stride, recalculating for the future of the war. His primary focus appears to be raising his child. Perhaps there can be some peace found in the middle of war. An immortal man needs something to live for, that isn't a never-ending contest of military tactical manoeuvres, but is instead something much more personal.
His relationship with Barda isn't explored anymore, her attention divided elsewhere at home. However, his friendship with Funky, as he adapts to the newfound situation of Scott's parenthood, is explored further, allowing us a different look at his domestic life. Scott's personal relationships are very much at the heart of this narrative. Whilst the switches to Apokolips are a welcome change of pace now and then, they never feel too detached from the larger story. This is a well-paced piece of storytelling that certainly deserves the accolades it will continue to acclaim.
This is a well-paced piece of storytelling…
Overall, Mister Miracle #8 is a wonderful read and something really different in the industry. Whilst not necessarily for fans of smash mouth superhero brawls, this offers a great change of pace that is sure to delight readers of all generations. Continuing to feel like it belongs in the '80s, with clear references to Jack Kirby, the books are beautiful as always, with Mitch Gerads providing some on-point art.
The book may best be placed with older fans that not only have ties back to '80s comics but are now finding parenthood in their own lives and are experiencing the struggles of balancing a professional life, a love life and friendships whilst still maintaining the health and well being of a tiny human. Where Mister Miracle will go next is intriguing as always and the stakes of the phenomenal series continue to be raised.
If you are looking for a title that looks to switch up the genre and really focus on elements other comics only touch upon, then Mister Miracle #8 is the read for you.
Jose Villalobos says:
I came here to post one of the pages with the exact same drawing copied-and-pasted 9 times in a row, to show how lazy & low-effort this comic book is. But you actually showed one of those pages, and you pretended it was "on-point art". The only point it's on is showing a lack of respect for the readers, the characters, Jack Kirby, & comic books in general.
Scroll up and look at the first page shown in this article. Imagine you're making a cheap indie comic book that you don't even care about, so you go to Fiverr & pay a graphic artist $5 per panel for a page of sequential art. Is it sequential when it's the same thing 9 times? Would you feel happy paying the extra $40 for someone to hit Ctrl+V 8 times, even for a bad comic that no one would read? I made a poll about this on Twitter, & 75% of the people who voted said they'd feel ripped off paying an artist $5 for that work – work that's sold to us as professional quality art.
Maybe they copy-and-paste so much because they're rushed to make the deadline? No, they have no problem delaying the book for a month. And the 1st issue, presumably the least rushed, uses the same solid-black panel 23 different times in only 22 pages. And 1 of the pages is just solid black.
And what about the writing? If you hired someone for 9 panels of dialogue, & they just copied a lullabye, or stole some text from a Jack Kirby book & pasted it over unrelated images where it made no sense, would you pay for that?
The previous issue takes place entirely in a hospital, and nothing happens during the entire issue except that a baby is born. This issue shows everyone constantly discussing babysitting during battle, to let us know that the battle isn't serious or any real danger.
Mister Miracle watches & does nothing while Lightray murders a slave in his living room, & then our hero makes a joke about it & goes back to sleep. "Lol that's so random!"
This Mister Miracle series is a boring waste of time & money. The entire concept of the book is to use computers to make it as quickly and cheaply as possible, with as little effort and creativity as possible, and it shows.
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How to get a swiss army tank without a military rank
By Steve HargisSource TechCrunchThe Swiss army has a new toy in the army backpack: the army enlisted ranks.
Soldiers from the Swiss Army, the Swiss army's infantry division, wear the ranks on their uniforms to signify their rank in the military.
The ranks come with an insignia badge and a metal ring to keep the insignia on.
This new accessory comes in two sizes: a small version and a large version.
The smaller one costs about $20 and comes with the insignias of the Swiss infantry.
The large size of the swiss ranks has a silver ring and comes in three colors: gold, silver, and black.
The black version costs about the same as the small version.
It comes with an iron ring that's designed to protect it from fingerprints and to prevent corrosion.
This is the swischian army ranks in the switzerland army.
They come with a silver, black, and gold ring, and a gold and silver one for the black and silver colors.
This swiss military ranks is a large size and is designed to be worn with black.
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Japanese Women Too Busy To Fall In Love, Survey Says
By Dorcas Cobbinah	 On Dec 5, 2017
Some 60 percent of eligible women in Japan are reluctant to start a love relationship due to the growing burden at work, The Japan Times reported Saturday citing a survey at cocoloni.jp, an online dating advice service.
As women today are facing the same workload as men in Japan, the ensuing fatigue has made women more willing to lounge on a sofa and watch soap operas after work instead of going to dates, said the report.
Office love is no longer alluring and blind dates are even regarded as stressful and tedious which seldom bring satisfying results. One in four women admit having fallen asleep on a date due to tiredness caused by work, according to the survey.
Another online dating site Lovely Media says a growing number of women are quitting random dates because they think it's a "waste of time." Instead, they make pregnancy their ultimate goal, thus turning to matchmaking routes for seeking an ideal husband.
Back in the 1980s, over 60 percent of young people in their 20s in Japan were in a relationship, while today this group is in the minority, The Japan Times said.
"Shorter working hours, guaranteed maternity and paternity leaves, and a less forbidding atmosphere will go a long way in getting women to think about love," it concluded.
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WASHINGTON D.C., United States of America, January 23, 2018/ -- Mercury Asset Partners, a multinational financing and logistics company says it has mobilized US$ 600 million for the implementation of various infrastructure and investment projects in Zambia. These include, among others setting up of a solar geyser manufacturing plant, upgrading of slums (urban renewal), establishing an Investment bank focused on providing Construction Finance.
In August 2017, the Government of the Republic of Zambia signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mercury Asset Partners to construct 5000 houses in various locations in the country. The construction of the houses will come with provision of associated services and auxiliary infrastructure such as paved roads, sewer reticulation, water reticulation, electricity supply, schools, clinics, shopping malls, among others.
This came to light during a meeting between delegation from the Ministry of Housing and Infrastructure Development led by the Minister, Mr. Ronald Chitotela and Mercury Asset Partners group in Washington D.C.
At the same meeting former U.S. Republican Senator Norm Coleman pledged to help the Zambian Government to build strong geopolitical and economic ties with the United States Government. Senator Coleman says the U.S.A and Zambia have a common ground of infrastructure development that the two countries have embarked on. Senator Coleman during his six years in the U.S. Senate served on the Foreign Relations Committee and was Chair of the Western Hemisphere among other portfolios.
Mr. Chitotela says Zambia is on an infrastructure development agenda in order to grow the economy of the country. The Minister said Government wants to grow economic activities by opening Zambia to more foreign direct investment through infrastructure development.
And speaking before departure at Dulles International Airport on Friday, Mr Chitotela described the meetings in Washington as successful. He said Government looks forward to the successful implementation of the projects and urged the National Housing Authority to speed up the process of concluding negotiations so that a contract from MoU with Mercury Asset and Partners is signed.
Meanwhile, Mercury Asset Partners Co-Director and founder Julie Bwalya says they are determined to see the implementation of the projects in Zambia and that further meetings with the National Housing Authority would held in Lusaka to conclude negotiations.


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