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Posted on August 2, 2022 by Keith Langston Comments0
The typical rom-com formula will get turned upside down on September 30th when the new movie Bros hits theaters. The movie stars (and was written by) gay comedian Billy Eichner, who many will already know from his hit reality series Billy on the Street. He teamed up with comedic powerhouses Judd Apatow (The 40-Year-Old Virgin) and Nicholas Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) to serve as producer and director.
In the film, Billy plays Bobby Lieber, a "typical" gay New Yorker who finds himself falling in love with a masculine, "straight-acting" guy named Aaron. The two initially judge each other based on their perceived roles and lifestyles, but come to find that deep down, most people are the same and can find common ground, common interests, and even enjoy each other's company. The two even start falling for each other…
On top of the hilarious trailer, which has already amassed 5.8 million views in just six days on YouTube, the movie is also loaded with a talented LGBTQ cast. Trans actress and activist, Ts Madison; Drag Race winner, Symone; and acting legend Harvey Fierstein all serve in supporting roles for the film, which is sure to make even the smaller characters tons of fun to watch.
Bros is also releasing in a record year for LGBTQ inclusion in cinema, with other high-profile 2022 releases including the Hellraiser reboot, starring trans actress Jamie Clayton; Billy Porter's Amazon Prime film, Anything's Possible; and Peacock's upcoming horror film, They/Them; along with other movies that have already premiered, such as Disney's new Lightyear movie witch features Pixar's first gay kiss.
To learn more, visit the movie's official website.
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Adtalem's financial services portfolio currently consists of several organizations with a range of professional education products and services, including: the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), its CAMS certification is one of the most widely recognized anti-money laundering certifications among compliance professionals worldwide; Becker Professional Education, which offers programs in CPA Exam Review and continuing professional education courses; and EduPristine, one of India's leading training providers in accounting, finance and digital marketing.
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Office for Civil Rights investigates UW for handling of sexual assault cases
Ellen Taylor is the Assistant Vice President for Student Life and Director of the Counseling Center as well as Chair of the UW President's Task Force on Sexual Assault Prevention and Response. The Task Force was appointed by former UW President Young and was directed to "review our current policies and practices, explore best practices from other institutions, develop new practices to fill any gaps, and propose a plan for their implementation." Photo by Kaia D'Albora
The UW is one of over 100 colleges currently under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) for the handling of sexual assault cases.
A press release distributed by the UW on June 15 said the university "fail[ed] to provide the student with a prompt and equitable grievance process after the student reported an incident of sexual violence," in a particular case, breaking the rules set by Title IX of 1972.
Title IX primarily prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded program or activity. The principal objective of Title IX is to avoid the use of federal funds "to support sex discrimination in education programs and to provide individual citizens effective protection against those practices," according to the Department of Justice.
In the OCR's 53-page document, "Questions and Answers for Title IX and Sexual Violence," sexual violence is defined as "physical sexual acts perpetrated against a person's will or where a person is incapable of giving consent."
A complaint to the OCR must be made within 180 days of the alleged assault, unless the OCR finds good reason for it to have taken longer. If the complainant uses an institutional grievance process, or chooses to file a report through their university, and then additionally files a complaint with the OCR, the latter must be filed within 60 days after the institutional grievance process is finished.
Via The Daily
The UW's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Task Force, implemented by former President Michael Young in 2013, is working to create a sexual assault reporting and support website and to provide additional prevention, response, and bystander intervention training.
Amanda Paye is the UW's Title IX coordinator, a position created three years ago due to the task force's recommendation.
"This is honestly very new for us, so we're still learning what we need to do," Paye said. "What we really encourage is that anyone who has concerns about themselves or another person to come forward and get help. So if that's us or another agency, it's all good."
However, some aren't satisfied by the way the UW has historically handled sexual assault cases.
Mitchel Aman, the incoming director of Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence Activists, said they weren't surprised by the investigation.
"I've heard a lot about UW sweeping people under the rug and just not addressing their cases as well as people would like," Aman said. "I'm actually really glad that someone filed it because I think UW needs to update its policies and update its student policies."
One of the problems Aman mentioned was the fact that the UW doesn't have long-term counseling.
According to the UW Counseling Center website, longer-term counseling happens through an outside provider. Should the "intake counselor," who can take one to two weeks to make an appointment, agree to short-term counseling services, it may take an additional one to two weeks to meet with that assigned counselor. The average length of short-term counseling is four to six sessions.
Ellen Taylor, chair of the task force, is working with the OCR and providing them the information requested, but said it is a long process.
"Many people think of Title IX as being athletics, for women to participate as student athletes and have access to scholarships and stuff, so Title IX is extremely broad," Taylor said. "It's so case-by-case specific."
Ultimately, she explained, students have two processes they can choose from for pursuing a sexual assault case: the legal process or the administrative process.
The legal process goes from the police to the prosecutor and possibly to trial. In those cases, the prosecution needs to prove the defendant's guilt beyond reasonable doubt.
The administrative process involves filing a report with UW entity Community Standards and Student Conduct and conducting an investigation involving all witnesses, but there's a different standard of evidence: preponderance of evidence. This means the investigation's outcome depends on whichever side's evidence is more convincing, or whether the person filing the report can prove there is a greater than 50 percent chance the accused did the wrong.
The sanctions for both are entirely different. The legal process can result in fines or jail time, while the administrative process can result in community service, probation, suspension, or expulsion.
Statistics compiled and published by The Huffington Post last September show less than one-third of students found responsible for sexual assault are expelled.
"Our goal is that we would treat every student exactly the same," Taylor said. "What we know is that sexual assault happens in all permutations of gender identity and gender expression and we would treat it equally regardless."
While investigating sexual assault cases, the UW works with and agrees to terms set forth by the Association for Student Conduct Administration (ASCA).
The ASCA released a Gold Standard Report in 2014, advising schools on how to handle such cases. The report frequently refers to sexual harassment as "sexual misconduct," using the term "rape" only when discussing the legal process that universities don't use.
In the report, ASCA specifies that campuses are not court rooms.
"We do not find students 'guilty' of crimes such as rape or murder, but we have an obligation to determine whether they are responsible for conduct that threatens the health or safety of another person, including sexual misconduct," the report stated.
It also states colleges would not call killing someone an act of "murder," but a part of physical abuse or physical harm, stating their "response to sexual assault is similar."
Responses to such cases are listed as educational and preventative. Although it doesn't mention the types of sanctions, the ASCA suggests colleges to "think beyond sanctions."
The UW has attempted to implement that through programs like Green Dot and the aforementioned sexual assault reporting and support website.
"It's not so much about creating new programs as it is about expanding and enhancing the scope of the programs we've already had in place," Taylor said.
Although there are new services the task force is making available, the UW still doesn't have rape kits. Instead, the university sends students to Harborview Medical Center.
According to Aman, the process for a student to file for sexual assault requires a 30-day investigation. Then, the faculty appeal board has 30 days to give a hearing date if the student decides to appeal. After the hearing date, the board has 90 days to decide.
During the entire adjudicative process, the accused is permitted to stay on campus.
"Now that we're being investigated, I think that a lot of things need to change and a lot of attitudes need to change too," Aman said. "The UW needs to stop relying on activists to make change and do that within the university."
In an email to UW students and faculty, Interim President Ana Mari Cauce said sexual assault and harassment is "intolerable."
"The University will continue its efforts to improve its processes," Cauce said, "to educate and inform students, faculty, and staff about sexual harassment and assault in an effort to reduce its occurrence, and to hold persons accountable when it does happen."
The task force is scheduled to conduct a two-year review in November of this year.
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Of late, however, these warnings have assumed more sinister proportions. The family of late Hayatullah Khan alleges that his murder was perpetrated by an intelligence agency, and the detention incommunicado for over three months of Mukesh Rupeta, a correspondent of this newspaper and Geo TV, severely undermines the claims often made by the president and the prime minister that the press is free. Mr Rupeta had been missing since early March and it was only after his disappearance was disclosed by his employers that he was presented before a court. Till then, the government -- as per what seems to have become the 'standard operating procedure' in such cases -- had been denying any knowledge of his whereabouts. However, the day the national press reported that he had been missing for over three months, and that he might have been taken into custody by the intelligence agencies for filming a military installation, he was produced before a court and the police filed charges against him under the Official Secrets Act.
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Interscope Records would like to make consumers of Madonna's MDNA World Tour Blu-ray disc aware that the concert will be seen at its most optimal quality by properly adjusting the settings on your television to "Normal/Movie" mode rather than "Dynamic/Enhanced" mode.
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In this, the seventh Capital Investment Plan of the Patrick Administration, we continue to set forth our strategy for economic growth: investing in public education, supporting our innovation sectors and strengthening our infrastructure.
We are focused on growth because growth brings opportunity. The opportunity to build a better life for ourselves and our families is what has driven this administration for the past seven years. Positioning the Commonwealth to succeed in the 21st century and giving our children and grandchildren the opportunity to succeed is our generational responsibility. Meeting that responsibility by expanding opportunity for all the people of Massachusetts requires economic growth. And economic growth requires investment.
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We are strengthening our commitment to community colleges because community colleges are our best resource for creating lifelong pathways to opportunity – connecting students, businesses, and communities. In this plan, we make an unprecedented investment in new community college projects, including projects at Cape Cod Community College, Quinsigamond Community College, Middlesex Community College, Springfield Technical Community College and Northern Essex Community College.
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Working with the Legislature earlier this year, we secured additional funding for our transportation infrastructure. In this plan, we increase our investment in transportation, bringing public transportation and economic opportunity to the people of Fall River and New Bedford through the South Coast Rail Project, reducing congestion and increasing mobility in Somerville and Medford through the expansion of the Green Line, and bringing the MBTA to a state of good repair through improvements to track and replacement of cars.
Through our nation-leading Accelerated Bridge Program, we have reduced the number of structurally-deficient bridges by nearly 20 percent, and 17,000 jobs have been created throughout the state. In this plan, we fund this program through the completion of construction, with a focus on five major bridges throughout the Commonwealth.
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The Ejji menu is full of mouth-watering dishes. If you've checked out our appetizer section, you may have been distracted by the Mac & Cheese Ramen Dog or Vegetable Gyoza to notice a sneaky classic: Edamame [Pronounced: Eh- duh-mom-aye]. Our signature version of edamame is a little different than what your taste buds are used to, but we know you'll love it. Before we dive into what makes Ejji's edamame different, let's get back to the basics.
Edamame is a soybean, just an immature one. The plant is harvested before the soy beans become firm, like those used to make soy milk or tofu. Edamame is usually cooked in the pod, but can be taken apart and made into a salad or stir fry. The easiest way to cook the pod is in boiling water for 3-5 minutes.
Although it may have initially been eaten in East Asian cultures, edamame has made its way into the heart (and bellies) of Western countries. Though edamame is traditionally seasoned with salt, Ejji Ramen has our own twist on this crowd favorite.
At Ejji Ramen, we offer vegetarian-friendly dishes, and you guessed it – our signature edamame is one of them. Ready for the secret? We smoke ours in hickory and lemongrass, sprinkle some sea salt and togarashi chili pepper, and voilà! Ejji's organic edamame is a perfect choice for a pre-ramen appetizer or a mid-day snack.
There you have it! No need to worry about making decisions. Come into Ejji, relax, and let us take care of your tastebuds.


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Just over ten years ago, Minecraft launched on PC. Now, it has sold more than 176 million copies in almost every country in the world. As a way to celebrate 10 years for the franchise, Microsoft has announced a variant of the game – Minecraft Earth.
Click here to watch the trailer and to read more about the game.
Minecraft Earth is a free-to-play augmented reality game for mobile that is claimed to bring the creative nature of Minecraft to the real world.
The game's mechanics are simple: explore a neighbourhood to find blocks and unique mobs for your builds. Once you have them, any flat surface is an opportunity to build. Team up with friends to create amazing builds on Build Plates, and then place them in the real world to explore at life-size.
Craft new items, breed mobs, grow crops – it's Minecraft as you know it in a way you've never seen before. There's lots of fun to be had and it's even better with friends.
The game blends state-of-the-art Microsoft technology like Azure Spatial Anchors AR tracking and PlayFab integration to bring the Minecraft Earth experience to life.
To find out more about pre-registration for the game, visit http://minecraft.net/earth.
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Solasta: Crown of the Magister, a Dungeons and Dragons-like experience where players of the role-playing game are steered by the choices they make and the luck of rolling dice, will be available to back on Kickstarter later this year, and will be released on Steam.
Click below to watch the trailer and to read about the game.
French independent developer Tactical Adventures has announced that its new project, Solasta: Crown of the Magister, is coming to Steam. The game embraces the ruleset of Dungeons and Dragons, the world's greatest role-playing game, where a player's choice dynamically changes the adventure. The journey begins with creating a team of four explorers, selecting their race, class, background story, rolling for abilities, and personal stats. Players journey through the mystical realms of Solasta, unravelling a story that spans multiple worlds.
The dynamic and mysterious world of Solasta features new elements of verticality, allowing players to use their surroundings as an element of strategy. Players can position ranged characters on high vantage points or send their thieves down into shafts and caverns to scope out what's ahead. Utilise light as a tool to explore the depths and hollows of dungeons or use it as a weapon against the creatures of the dark. Solasta is a team-based adventure where each character plays a critical role in the campaign and can be a hero. Players must take advantage of each character's strengths and weaknesses if they are to succeed.
Players will have the opportunity to get in on the adventure before it even starts when Tactical Adventures launches its Kickstarter campaign at the end of summer. Players will be able to back Solasta: Crown of the Magister on Kickstarter and link arms with the developers, joining the Solasta community and being rewarded for doing so!
"Tactical Adventures is a small team comprised of Tabletop gamers, many of whom have been playing pen and paper games as well as D&D videogames for over 30 years," says Mathieu Girard, founder of Tactical Adventures and Creative Director of the game. "We have always dreamed of creating our own game, so we set out to create Solasta, taking the best elements of our favourite games and enhancing and building upon them. Additionally, we have added new features such as light, verticality, team-based adventure, dice rolls, etc. We are using the actual rulesets from Tabletop games to finally bridge the gap between Pen and Paper and videogames."
Tactical Adventures provided the following information on features:
Verticality: Solasta is a three-dimensional world rather than a series of flat maps. Locations can be explored by climbing walls, flying, teleporting, crawling through tunnels, finding secret passages, or falling through the unstable ground, and allow the player to use the environment to take on encounters in multiple different ways.
Team-Based Adventure: Players will have many options to choose races, classes, backgrounds, and can even roll for stats as they create their party. All members are essential – together players will adventure through Solasta as a group, where they must work together in pursuit of the quest.
Tactical CRPG: Each encounter can be handled in multiple ways. Will you use the high ground to strike your enemies from above as a Darkweaver Rogue, or shove your enemies into deep chasms as a Mountaineer Fighter? Players choices determine the destiny of your party.
Created by Tabletop Players: Tactical Adventures is a team of highly experienced Tabletop players and veteran game developers who are passionate about the genre, striving to create the best Tactical RPG videogame
Kickstarter: Tactical Adventures is giving players the opportunity to be heard by joining the community and backing Solasta on Kickstarter. The campaign will feature a tiered reward system and the team is already working on a demo of the game.
In 1986, harmonica player Adam Gussow asked if he could jam with one-man band Sterling "Mister Satan" Magee. Amidst the racial tension in New York City, the Jewish Ivy League graduate and black Mississippi blues man made an unlikely pair, but their musical stylings perfectly aligned.
Click below to watch the trailer and to read more.
Frank Marshall, Ryan Suffern, and Jeff Pollack have announced their most recent music documentary, Satan & Adam, is now available on Netflix. The critically acclaimed film follows unlikely musical duo Sterling "Mister Satan" Magee and Adam Gussow during their time on Harlem's sidewalks in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
After a chance encounter with members of U2 and a celebrated debut record, the duo rose to international acclaim from their Harlem street corner. But as quickly as they were discovered, their meteoric rise was cut short when Mister Satan mysteriously disappeared. The result is an odyssey 23 years in the making that captures a miraculous journey of friendship, heartbreak and the transformative power of music.
New York Times writes that "the filmmakers don't shy away from more complex issues — racial tensions, gentrification, art and anger. Like the blues, there's real pain here, mixed with real beauty".
The documentary is available on Netflix here.
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Under Security Surveilling, Shady Abu Zeid Attends His Father's Funeral
January 16, 2019 Ahmed Rashed Egypt Latest News
At the Nour Mosque in Abbasiya Square, in the heart of Cairo, the crowd were gathered waiting for detained blogger Shady Abu Zeid to attend his father's funeral. The family of 25-year-old satirist and video blogger Shady Abu Zeid, along with a number of his friends, were gathered for funeral prayers for Shady's father. Hassan Abu Zeid had died on Saturday evening, after a severe deterioration in his health over the past few months.
Funeral Postponed Waiting for Shady
The funeral prayers had been postponed for a few hours in the hope that Shady — who had been imprisoned since May 2018 — would be allowed to come and say goodbye to his father. On Sunday, the Supreme State Security Prosecution had agreed to grant him a temporary release so that he could attend his father's burial that day.
The move came as a surprise — similar requests made by detainees to attend their relatives' funerals are often rejected, or see release procedures stall for so long that the funeral proceedings are over before the jailed relatives arrive. Shady's family had petitioned for him to be able to visit his father in intensive care, a request that had been summarily rejected.
The Satirical Blogger and Vague Charges
A satirical video blogger, Shady is a comedian of slight build and strong presence. Last May, security forces raided his home with little warning. They searched his house, confiscated some of his belongings and arrested him.
Ever since, he has been held in remand detention on vague charges, however, they have been the common charges raised under al-Sisi's rule. He was charged by joining a terrorist organization and spreading false news.
He was added to Case 621/2018, known to be a case that non-Islamist defendants are added in order to silence them. Defendants currently include bloggers Mohamed Ibrahim (Oxygen) and Mohamed Khaled, as well as activists like Shady al-Ghazali Harb amd Amal Fathy and Sherif al-Rouby.
In less than half an hour, the funeral prayers at the mosque were over, but Shady had not arrived. His father was carried out in a casket on people's shoulders and placed in an undertaker's van to head to the family burial plot in Bab al-Nasr, in Cairo's Gamaleya district. Everyone hurried after the van, racing through a bitterly cold dust storm that seemed to reflect the cruelty of the situation: An imprisoned son, a father who had left before he could see him free and a family uncertain about whether their loved one would be able to make it in time to say a final goodbye.
At the burial plot, family and friends reconvened and the crowd had grown to be larger than the one at the mosque. All eyes were fixated on the road leading to the burial plot, as people swapped unconfirmed bits of information regarding Shady's whereabouts. To kill time and the anxiety of waiting, some began discussing how best to receive Shady when he arrived: "We shouldn't gather around him so as not to provoke security.""We should give him a moment 'alone' with his father.""He might not make it — many other prisoners weren't allowed to leave."
By time, people lost hope and began to believe that Shady wouldn't show up. "Perhaps they'll let him out tomorrow instead to receive condolences."The sheikhs present began reciting burial prayers. Shady's father was about to be lowered into the burial chamber when, suddenly, there was news — seemingly more sure of itself, this time — that Shady was on his way. Again, they decided to wait.
Another Two hours
It was a two-hour wait for everyone, including the grieving elderly, all of us standing in the midst of the growing cold and dust. Everyone continued staring at the road expectantly, while Shady's father's body waited in its casket.
As the sun began to set and darkness approached, a police sergeant emerged. He examined the road to the graveyard to figure out a "safe passage" for Shady's arrival.
Security personnel — a force that included officers from the State Security Investigations Services, the Cairo Security Directorate and the local police station — then appeared.
Shady emerged through what seemed like a back entrance to the burial plot. Wearing his prison uniform — a light, white tracksuit — he made his way to the front, surrounded by many guards and with his hands in shackles.
The Last Goodbye under Surveilling Security
Family members led him to the casket. There, he was permitted a few minutes to say goodbye, under the watchful eyes of the surveilling security detail.
The casket was finally lowered into the ground, amid increasingly loud sobs. Family and friends negotiated with the officers to allow Shady to receive a few quick condolences from people present. Shady was permitted to stand by the side of the road, surrounded by guards who grudgingly allowed his sister, mother and a few other family members to stand next to him. Shady was being held by security personnel as he stands to receive condolences.
Quicker than it had begun, the moment was over, and it felt as though there could have been little solace for Shady as he received a few hurried condolences before being escorted back to his prison cell.
This month, in an interview with Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes, the Egyptian government later asked not to be shown, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi denied jailing his opponents to maintain his regime and the massacre of 800 civilians by Egypt when he was Defense Minister.
Al-Sisi became the country's Minister of Defense when Mohammad Morsi became the country's first democratically elected president after the Arab Spring revolts.
A year later, President Morsi was ousted in a military coup by al-Sisi on live TV. As then-Minister of Defense, al-Sisi is blamed for the 2013 massacre of nearly 1,000 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood who protested the coup.
Human Rights Watch estimates al-Sisi, a former army general, is holding 60,000 political prisoners. "I don't know where they got that figure. I said there are no political prisoners in Egypt. Whenever there is a minority trying to impose their extremist ideology we have to intervene regardless of their numbers."
The U.S. State Department says killings and torture are carried out in al-Sisi's prisons today, just as they were before he took power.
Critics say al-Sisi became even more autocratic than any of his predecessors in Egypt's modern day history.
Pelley speaks with a former prisoner who was jailed for reporting false news while taking pictures of the 2013 massacre. Mohamed Soltan, an American citizen, recalls, "I was targeted because I had a camera. I had a phone and I was tweeting."
After almost two years in prison, the Obama Administration secured his release. Soltan says they used sleep deprivation and isolation to torture him. A strobe light was used to make him convulse. "Guards that were assigned to me…would pass razors under the doorstep and the officer doctors would say to me, 'Cut vertically, not horizontally so you can end it fast."
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Trump repeated false claim he 'was totally against the war in Iraq.' Matt Lauer didn't press him on it.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday stood behind his false claim that he was "totally against" the Iraq War from the beginning, making the assertion while speaking about his judgment.
"I was totally against the war in Iraq. You can look at Esquire magazine from '04, before that," Trump told Matt Lauer during NBC's "Commander-in-Chief Forum" Wednesday night, responding to a criticism Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton made earlier in the evening that Trump was not being honest about his position.
"I have taken responsibility for my decision. He refuses to take responsibility for his support," Clinton said during the first segment.
Trump regularly makes the claim that he opposed the Iraq War in an effort to draw a contrast with Clinton on foreign policy. The claim has been repeatedly debunked by independent fact checkers, though Lauer did not press him on the issue.
In an interview with Fox News one day after the March 2003 Iraq invasion, Trump praised the effort while talking about the war's impact on Wall Street.
"Well, I think Wall Street's waiting to see what happens, but even before the fact they're obviously taking it a little bit for granted, and it looks like a tremendous success from a military standpoint, and I think this is really nothing compared to what you're gonna see after the war is over," Trump told Fox News's Neil Cavuto.
Trump did criticize the way the war was handled during a 2004 interview in Esquire, as he said, but that was more than one year after the invasion.
Trump also said — as he has before — that the Islamic State grew because the United States failed to "take the oil" in Iraq after invading that country, allowing the militants to use it to finance their operations.
Although the Islamic State has occupied parts of Syria where they have been able to pump and sell some oil, they have never occupied oil-producing areas of Iraq, where reserves are exponentially bigger. Iraq's oil is in the Shiite south and in the north around Kirkuk and Kurdish areas.
The lack of oil in the Sunni-dominated parts of Iraq — the same areas occupied by the Islamic State — and the Iraqi government's failure to share the country's oil wealth with its Sunni population, is one of the reasons the non-oil deserts of western Iraq were fertile ground for militant growth.


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Interview: Sadiq Khan on his struggles during lockdown in London | The Sunday Times Magazine
City Corridor is a good modernist cathedral to the capital's energy, and usually teeming with municipal courtiers, nevertheless it feels extra like a mausoleum now. A solitary aide leads me up eight abandoned flooring of deathly hush to Sadiq Khan's workplace, the place I discover the mayor checking that his trousers nonetheless match. It's solely the third time he's put them on in 11 weeks — "I put on a shirt for Zoom, however the backside half's been joggers, to be sincere" — and he's relieved nonetheless to get into them. I don't know why he was apprehensive, although, for Khan doesn't seem to have gotten any larger below lockdown. He appears to me, if something, diminished.
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One of the many challenges in life comes about when you reach a point of knowing that it is definitely time to move forward on your life purpose. Yet you are in fear and holding tight to that block which, very loudly pounds in your mind "I am just not ready".
Sure you may have to do some research or study or practice in the first instance to get you going but there does come that point where you have done enough to just begin. Trust and have a little faith in yourself so you can spread your wings and become the butterfly of change!
You may be wondering now, "how do I know when I've discovered my life purpose"? Listen to your heart and hear the hum, listen to your soul and hear it sing and when the two are harmonising the same tune, guaranteed you have found your life purpose! So go explore and do what makes these things happen inside of you, and while you are serving your life purpose, know that your life purpose is serving you and others in return!
Take a moment to listen to this video by Doreen Virtue – Moving forward on Your Life Purpose and take the leap of faith and believe in yourself, for it is time!
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Next > Take time to hear what is not being spoken!
Wise words as per usual thanksThereseElizabeth and very appropriately timed.
Thank you Kay, sometimes we just need a little extra helping hand to take that next step! Happy journeying to your life purpose!


For many people, gambling can be harmless fun. A trip to a betting shop may be a way to relax at the end of a busy week, or a visit to a casino with friends could be an exciting addition to the weekend. Yet, for some people, the highs associated with gambling, followed by the risks and loss of money, can often lead to a cycle and a casino addiction.
To some, casinos offer a glamorous lifestyle with locations, such as Las Vegas, alluring gamblers from all around the world. The competitive aspect appeals to some, whereas the chances of winning huge jackpots appeal to others, and some may even see it as a financial solution.
Casinos are attentive to when their users are close to giving up and analyse behaviours that show players are close to throwing in the towel, whether this is taking a significant loss, lack of funds, or boredom. Like any other business, hosts and owners will do their best to avoid this behaviour; whether through a savvy casino layout or offering free drinks. Although online gambling may provide players with 24/7 access, a casino experience will hook a user to ensure maximum spend, whilst also offering them a closer physical interaction with the prizes and winnings up for grabs.
Who's at risk of a casino addiction?
Due to the nature of casinos—the bright lights, busy lobbies, fast-paced environments, and of course, alcohol and other substances—users with current drug and alcohol addictions may find responsible gambling even harder. For people with a casino addiction, the high of placing a bet can sometimes even feel the same as the high from drinking or taking drugs.
People should not view gambling as a financial problem. Instead, they should view it as a psychological and emotional issue that comes with financial consequences. Those with a betting addiction may experience senses of hopelessness after losing bets or large amounts of money, which in long-term cases, can lead to anxiety and depression. These psychological symptoms often then lead to physical symptoms. It is common to associate anxiety and depression with lack of sleep, which may result in weight loss or gain, a change in skin colour, and dark circles around the eyes.
Casino addictions often affect the users' families and friends too. If an addict is spending a lot of time in a casino, they will miss out on social events and plans with family and friends, all whilst betting away savings and well-needed funds. Following this will also be any possible side effects of a casino addiction, such as anxiety or depression.
Anyone who is unsure if they or a loved one is struggling from a gambling addiction should ask if the user could stop if needed, if the answer is no, then there is likely an addiction present. There is no medical cure for a gambling addiction; yet, you can ease the side effects of the addiction, such as anxiety or depression, with medical help, whilst you can help the initial addiction with talking therapies, such as cognitive behavioural therapy.
For more information on the treatments services offered by Charterhouse Clinic for gambling addiction, please visit our gambling addiction treatment page.
If you're looking to help someone with a gambling addiction or think it's time you got help, please do not hesitate to contact us to discuss treatment options.


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transitions Jesus into foretelling the end of the world.
it's cute, but it will disappear after childbirth.
It is merely a cocoon for the caterpillar until the butterfly emerges.
I survived the end of the world three times already.
Then there was that preacher in California back in 2011.
Then just recently the Blood Moon this past September.
many of you survived it many times more.
and to squint at the heavens…for the advent of our God.
than those moments took out of me.
and we say an earnest prayer for forgiveness and salvation.
We cannot deny the end.
Live aware that the world will end.
Know in your heart of hearts that this life is the prelude.
Look at our buildings and possessions and accomplishments as pregnant bellies that will soon disappear.
But for those who believe, the end of the world is not the end of the world.
the best means of living is ready for death.


I saw the Wonder Woman…nae spoliers | This is the future so where's my rocketpack?
I tell no lie. I did. I saw it. I watched it too. I experienced the experience of being sat in the pictures with a wee popcorn that barely lasts the length of the trailers and thus wasn't distracted by it while taking in a film which was simply majestical. Yeah, it's a word…Majestical.
Now I'm not sure I can really say any more than that for fear it may become spoilerific. Gawd just imagine going into the pictures knowing what was to come. There's a special sort of hell for individuals like that. A darkly vicious place where there is nought but flaming hot pokers that are poked in sensitive spots. Yeah you know the ones. I can sense you squirming in your seats as the thought of having with a razor-sharp prick get jammed into your…*ahem*…yes, shall we move on? Yes, you're right. We should.
I went into this with a fairly low expectation solely based on the last few efforts from DC. Man of Steel and Batman vs Superman had their moments but there were so many flaws that the moments we buried under piles of out of character actions, a mismatched tone and just being quite shite really. I am looking at the handling of Superman in this and dropping him into a thoroughly dark and depressing world that is the antithesis of what we expect from Superman but then….Wonder Woman.
It starts. Things happen. Then more things happen. Then story develops. Villains are revealed and an origin film grows naturally into a rather superb piece of cinema. The bane of the origin tale is that it usually had too much origin and not enough story. We have to put up with the character discovering their powers, learning how to use them, and thus unleashing them on the bad guy at the end. For Wonder Woman we have a nicely paced origin that leads to a fully trained Amazon Warrior all ready to do super stuff. And the stuff was so super. The reveal of….dammit….too close to spoiler.
Although it did not feel like a superhero film. It is. It does not shy from its comic book origin. It's not clinging on to the post-Nolan real world, lets not pretend this isn't a comic book film style that Zack Snyder appeared to stick a bit to close to. Zack, Zack, Zack, Zack….the more I say it the more is sounds like a Batman '66 sound effect. But I digest and digress. If you don't like superhero films then it's war film if you don't like war films then it's a fantasy epic. If you don't like any of that then…um…Guardians of the Galaxy vol.2 was good too. Wonder Woman does a fantastic job of meandering between fantasy, war film, and an adventurous romp. Maybe not romp, that does make it sound a bit camp. This definitely is not like the camp 70s tv series with he stupendous Lynda Carter. Although it does allude to it with the attempt at a secret identity.
I could say so much more but spoilers. I could think of a couple of critisims that come to mind but they would break the spoiler embargo and I want you to go see this without the shadow of poinless critisim. Could be a spoiler. Spoilers. Spoilers, Spoilers. It is just that good. Dare I say…too good? The costume is perfect. There is not a bad performance. The story and execution fabtacular and the director Patty Jenkins got the tone perfect. My only fear is that Justice League will pale in comparison. Though if that's the case there is always Wonder Woman II to look forward to.
Now go see it. Off you go. Go go GO. Have fun. Don't talk to strangers. Bring me back a sweetie.


Tried and true, this is one of Hy-Vee's most requested recipes. Nothing fancy or complicated about it. Just really good—and simple—lasagna.
In a large skillet, brown meat over medium heat. Drain. Return meat to pan and add spaghetti sauce. Simmer 10 minutes.
In a large bowl, stir together ricotta cheese, 1-1/2 cups mozzarella cheese, Parmesan cheese, eggs, parsley, salt and pepper.
Spread about 1/2 cup of the meat mixture on the bottom of a 9-by-13-inch greased baking dish. Arrange 4 pasta pieces lengthwise over the sauce. Spread one-third of the cheese mixture over pasta. Top with about 1 cup of meat mixture. Repeat twice, beginning and ending with pasta. Top with remaining meat sauce and sprinkle with remaining mozzarella cheese.
Cover with foil and bake 45 minutes or until hot and bubbly.
Remove foil and bake an additional 10 minutes. Let stand 10 minutes before cutting.
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Last week while at the Cattle Industry Convention in Nashville, Tennessee I had the opportunity to attend a series of classes designated to inform and educate cattle producers and the associating community on the latest technologies in cattle production. The Cattlemen's College covered a variety of topics ranging from Nutrition, Reproduction, and Ag Business Management. I took advantage of classes in Feed Efficiency and Reproduction. My mind usually logs material best when I share it with others, so I'll take a few days to cover the topics as a part of my Cattle 101 series. Some of this information might be over the top for non-cattle producers (some of it got pretty in-depth), but hopefully we can all learn a little better appreciation for all of the knowledge and effort that goes into raising quality cattle.
The first class I attended covered Strategies to Impact Feed Efficiency.
The first question that may come to mind is, Why emphasis on efficiency? Just like many other production systems in our country today, cattlemen must produce more beef with fewer resources. More land goes into urban development each day in this country, resulting in fewer acres for grazing and crop production. Cattle feed costs continue to rise with this shift and compose as much as 80% of the budget for cattle finishing operations. If we can manage to improve the efficiency of our cattle by 1%, that would be an economic impact equal to a 3% improvement in weight gain.
There are several methods to measure feed efficiency in cattle. Selecting a method that fits the current situation and observations available is an important step in determining how to measure efficiency. Understanding what these terms describe also helps producers better understand values when selecting replacement animals to improve herd performance.
Gross feed efficiency – ratio of live weight gain to dry matter intake (DMI; the amount of feedstuff after subtracting for % water present). How much weight does the animal gain per pound of feed consumed? A higher value is better.
Feed conversion – ratio of dry matter intake. For every pound of feed intake, how much weight does the animal gain? A lower ratio is better in this case. The average for cattle is usually 6:1 (For every 6 pounds of feed consumed, the animal gains 1 pound.) This value is negatively correlated with mature cow size and post weaning average daily gain (ADG).
Residual feed intake (RFI) – ratio between actual and predicted intake based on weight and desired gain. Lower values are good. Unlike measurements of feed conversion, this value is independent of growth and mature size and is better linked to biological traits for maintenance and efficiency.
Residual ADG – ratio of actual and predicted gain based on desired intake. A higher number is good.
Understanding these feed and gain conversions is an important step in identifying efficient cattle. Putting things into perspective, on average cattle require 6 pounds of feed for every one pound of gain. This compares to swine and poultry conversions that are closer to 3:1 and 2:1, respectively. Fish are closer to a 1:1 feed to gain conversion. Cattle producers as a whole have not made much genetic progress in feed efficiency with only a 1 pound improvement over the last several decades.
Why has there been little improvement accomplished? Efficiency measures are more difficult to obtain in cattle. Social interaction is required for normal eating habits, so isolation for individual measurements is hard to obtain. This requires expensive facilities and labor for separate feeding facilities. Technology advances are improving this situation. The use of systems like GrowSafe that utilize radio frequency identification (RFID) technology and individual bunk scales to measure intake are making data collection easier, but still expensive.
Quality herd measurement goes a long way in improving over-all herd efficiency. However, selecting animals for individual efficiency will go a long way toward helping farmers produce more with less. Over the next few posts I'll review why feed efficiency is more difficult to improve compared to other species and room we have for improvement, including the use of genetic information.
How do you measure efficiency in the cattle herd? How do you define efficiency?
Do you have a correlation coefficient number for the negative correlation mentioned in the article? Your example was used in class this morning to illustrate correlations but no coefficient number to illustrate the strength of the correlation. Yes, picky but I was curious.
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Teaching Shakespeare to Generation Geek
Written by Chris Curtis
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There seems to be, at the moment, a glut of superheroes on our TVs and in our films. If it isn't Batman fighting Superman, it is a group of different heroes getting together to fight an evil alien. It might seem that the works of one playwright hundreds of years ago bares no relations to our current obsession with people wearing Lycra, swishing about with their capes and saving the world. Most, if not all children, can tell you who Iron Man, Superman or Spider-Man is. But, little do they know, that the comic book heroes owe Shakespeare a huge nod, if not a cape. So when exploring or teaching a Shakespeare play to students it is helpful to have these ideas in mind.
1. Flawed characters and dual lives
Look under the surface of any superhero and we see a person who is torn between their desires and their responsibilities. Superman has to write newspaper stories, save the world and yet make sure he gets the story written by deadline or he'll get sacked. Our heroes struggle to control and survive in the world because of the numerous pressures they face daily.
They aren't your normal shiny perfect heroes who save the world and cook up a perfect dinner for the perfect family. They fail. They make mistakes. They let people down. They get it wrong.
Romeo + Juliet (1996)
Juliet from Romeo and Juliet is an example of such complexity. A girl who is torn between her duty to her parents and her love for Romeo. She can't do both. She has one life with her parents and she leads a different, married life with Romeo. The play watches this unfold. Can she keep her private life hidden from her public life? Take any superhero and their story is about watching them cope with what they have to do to keep those they love. Can they save the world and still keep a steady girlfriend? They often can't have both. That also applies to kings, queens and many people in Shakespeare's plays.
2. Epic proportions
We like to see epic CGI battles with our heroes fighting lots in films. If there aren't any explosions or battles, then we want our money back from a superhero movie. Shakespeare loved spectacle in his plays. He had wars, battles, fights and lots of death included. However, like modern films, all of this is empty and pointless makes a bad film / story without a magic ingredient. Shakespeare, like the best directors today, knew that you need to ground all action with relationships and people, or your audience will not care.
Kate Fleetwood & Patrick Stewart in Macbeth (2010)
Macbeth is one play that does feature battles; one at the start and one at the end. But Shakespeare, like writers today, know that you need to care about people for an epic battle to be epic. Okay, Shakespeare cheats and has the battles take place off stage, but boy, if he had some CGI, they would be brilliant scenes. He does, however, the epic and personal really well. He will show us large public events and then juxtapose that with touching and poignant scenes of two characters demonstrating an aspect of their personality. High drama needs high levels of emotion, and not just spectacle.
3. Symbolism
Superheroes are rife with symbolism. They aren't just people with special powers. They are symbols for aspects of human life. Spider-Man's journey could be seen as a journey into adulthood. The radioactive spider bite is just a polite metaphor for puberty. Their dual lives can also be symbol of the repressed feelings we have.
Hamlet is another play that deals with symbolism, but without the spider bites. Hamlet is growing up and he is having to deal with some pretty modern things like having a new step-dad (Of course, William Shakespeare add extra drama by making new step-dad a murderer and uncle). He then acts, or goes mad, depending on your interpretation. Hamlet is a symbol of the turbulence of the teenage years. He is also a symbol of the loss of innocence; he finally sees the skull beneath the skin – the reality of the world. On top of this, he's a symbol of our obsession with the past; it takes Fortinbras, a symbol of a new world order, to sweep away the self-destructive old order.
4. The Shakespeare Universe
Are you a Marvel person or a DC person? When we buy into a superhero, we buy into the world they inhabit. Daredevil and Spider-Man could meet or refer to each other, because they are all part of the same universe created by our comic book geniuses. Those people watching CW's Arrow or Flash on TV know how closely linked things are. Characters occasionally appear in both shows. There are story arcs that feature in both shows and they occasionally work together to fight baddies. Like all big bangs, the universe keeps expanding and the shows expand by developing further links with shows like Supergirl and Legends of Tomorrow.
Left to right: CW's Green Arrow, Supergirl & Flash
The stories can be experienced by a novice and still be enjoyed, but the show rewards long-term fans. There is a depth to the experience of knowing the universe and all the cultural references that are rewarded when the audience experiences more of the stories.
Like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Simpsons, Shakespeare rewards clever and knowledgeable people. Yes, he tells good stories that deal with common human experiences, but alongside those stories he'll make references to Greek myths, historical events, celebrities in Elizabethan times, popular stories, national stereotypes, religion and the odd, sly dig at a politician – who can blame him? On one level you have a story all can enjoy about a prince becoming a king or an everyman achieving his destiny. However, on another level you have a story about religion's historical interference with politics. On a far deeper level you have a story about what society expects from its kings.
5. Foils, evil twins and mistaken identity
"Like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Simpsons, Shakespeare rewards clever people."Every hero has a villain. That villain is either a complete opposite to the hero or they are an exact copy of the hero but with evil hair, costume and a name. Superhero writers know that you understand characters best when you place someone very similar next to them – a foil. We can see how better or worse our hero is in comparison. That's why superheroes tend to meet each other so often. We see how clean, happy and shiny Superman is when he fights the dark, gritty and grim Batman. Doppelgangers are also used in the superhero world through parallel universes or past / future versions of our hero.
Shakespeare's plays are full of foils and twins. Paris makes Romeo look better. Fortinbras shows us Hamlet's potential. Jessica shows how Shylock could have interacted with Christians and avoid murdering them, in theory. We judge our lives, well some of us, anyway, when compared to others on Facebook. We don't understand people as individual units. Instead, because we are sociable creatures, we understand people better when they are seen in relation to others.
6. Wonder Women
Superhero writers have always played with the gender stereotypes. Originally in the old comics we had a female damsel in distress, but over the years, we have had a male damsel in distress and female supervillains. There is quite a modern attitude towards gender (aside from costumes) as we see complex and well-rounded characterisations of women. They are flawed. They are complex. They have desires. They have responsibilities like all the male superheroes. Look at how Marvel treated many of the female X-Men characters. Storm is such an interesting character with clear and original motivations that it is a wonder she hasn't had her own series or film. Another example is the recent Netflix version of Jessica Jones (or Jewel from the original comics). Some cite this version as the best interpretation of a superhero so far.
Krysten Ritter as Marvels Jessica Jones
Given how long ago the plays were written, it is surprising how modern some of the female characters are and it is no surprise why some of our best actresses return to the stage to play them. Take Beatrice from Much Ado About Nothing or Lady Macbeth from Macbeth. These characters drive, lead and change the plot. Without them the stories would be weak, imperfect and lacklustre. These strong women are driven by desire and emotion and get things done. Yes, they are not perfect, but they don't faint or spend endless time crying or being silent, which is often the role of a woman in a Victorian novel. They are real people. Well, they seem real.
I have an image in my head of William Shakespeare as a superhero in disguise. He has a mask, a ruffled collar, a red codpiece and big W across his chest – The Masked Writer! Right, I am off to put on my cape and dig out my red underpants and fly off to teach students about Shakespeare, but I might stop off and meet a few superheroes on the way.
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Q: IntelliJ markdown: how to open localhost links in browser? When I click localhost links in the markdown editor of IntelliJ Ultimate 2020.3 nothing happens: i.e. I'd expect the link to be opened in the browser
Links localhost links that end with .html work (i.e. the link is opened in the browser)
here is a test-markdown file to illustrate the issue:
IntelliJ Ultimate 2020.3 (build 30.Nov.2020)

Following links do not work (i.e. the browser is not opened)
* http://127.0.0.1/
* http://127.0.0.1:8080/
* http://127.0.0.1:8080/ngsw/state
* http://localhost:8080/
* http://localhost/
* http://localhost:8080/ngsw/state

Following links work:
* http://127.0.0.1/index.html
* http://127.0.0.1:8080/index.html
* http://localhost:8080/index.html
* http://www.google.com

Is this a bug or some kind of security setting, that can be changed?

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