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2018 Canadian film
Keith Behrman
Keith Behrman
Allison Black
Josh Wiggins
Darren Mann
Taylor Hickson
Kyle MacLachlan
Maria Bello
Guy Godfree
Sandy Pereira
Michael Brook
euclid431 pictures
Scythia Films
Storyboard Entertainment
Sugar Shack Productions
Mongrel Media
September 9, 2018 (2018-09-09) (TIFF)
March 1, 2019 (2019-03-01) (United States)
$166,896[1]
Giant Little Ones is a 2018 Canadian drama film, directed by Keith Behrman.[2] The film stars Kyle MacLachlan and Maria Bello as the parents of a teenage boy (Josh Wiggins), whose lives are upended after their son and a friend are involved in an intimate incident after a party.[3]
The film was shot in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, in 2017.[2] It premiered on September 9 at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, and received a limited release in the United States on March 1, 2019.[4] In December 2018, the Toronto International Film Festival named the film to its annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list.[5] Behrman won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle award for Best Screenplay for a Canadian Film.[6]
1 Plot
3 Critical response
Ray Winter leaves his wife, Carly, for another man. Ray's popular, athletic son, Franky, refuses to talk to his father despite Ray's pleas. Some time later, as Franky is about to celebrate his birthday.[a] His best friend, fellow swimmer Ballas Kohl, pressures Franky to sleep with girlfriend Priscilla just as Ballas and his girlfriend, Jess, have done. Ballas boasts of having had sex repeatedly. After Franky's birthday party, a drunk Ballas attempts to have sex with an equally intoxicated Franky. Ballas is terrified that his actions have outed him, and he and his girlfriend begin to spread rumors that it is Franky who initiated the sex.
Franky slowly begins to piece his life back together with the support of his potentially transgender friend, Mouse.[b] He also rekindles his relationship with Ballas' sister, Natasha, whom everyone (including Franky) ostracized some time ago as a "slut" after she was sexually assaulted at a party. He reconnects with his father, and admits that he is uncertain, as he did not feel uncomfortable during the incident with Ballas. His father points out that he may not know his full truth yet, but he need not rush to immediately define himself. Through this guidance and the support of his family and friends, Franky finds himself confident and resilient, making an effort to reconnect with Ballas.
Josh Wiggins as Franky Winter
Darren Mann as Ballas Kohl, Franky's lifelong best friend
Taylor Hickson as Natasha Kohl, Ballas's younger sister
Kyle MacLachlan as Ray Winter, Franky's father
Maria Bello as Carly Winter, Franky's mother
Peter Outerbridge as Nic Kohl
Niamh Wilson as Mouse, Franky's female friend
Kiana Madeira as Jess, Ballas' girlfriend
Hailey Kittle as Priscilla, Franky's girlfriend
Stephanie Moore as Angie Kohl
Evan Marsh as Connor
Olivia Scriven as Deanne Winter, Franky's sister
Carson MacCormac as Michael, a bullied boy
Critical response
Giant Little Ones received positive reviews. On the website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 93% approval rating, based on 60 reviews. The website's consensus reads, "Giant Little Ones puts a complex and refreshingly nuanced spin on the traditional coming of age drama, further elevated by the admirable efforts of a talented cast."[9] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 67 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews."[10]
Writing for CBC Arts in his regular Queeries column on LGBTQ entertainment, Peter Knegt praised the film as part of a rising and necessary trend of honest depictions of teenage sexuality and sexual identity issues.[11] He wrote that the film "feels like something of an antidote to last year's gay teen rom-com Love, Simon, which felt like it barely scratched the surface of what its characters were going through."[11]
^ Sources differ as to whether he is turning 16[7] or 17[8] years old.
^ Mouse's gender and sexual identity are not clearly defined in the film. Reviewer Dennis Harvey in Variety says Mouse is "a lesbian teen so butch she has penis envy."[7]
^ "Giant Little Ones (2019)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved April 5, 2019.
^ a b "Euclid431 Pictures gets ready to GLO". Playback, July 18, 2017.
^ "Kyle MacLachlan Joins Maria Bello In YA Film 'Glo'". Deadline, July 17, 2017.
^ "Lady Gaga, Julia Roberts, and Hugh Jackman lead TIFF's 2018 lineup". The Globe and Mail, July 24, 2018.
^ "TIFF's Canada's Top Ten list skews a lot younger this year". Now, December 5, 2018.
^ "Vancouver Film Critics Circle names Edge of the Knife top Canadian feature film". Toronto Star, January 8, 2019.
^ a b Harvey, Dennis (September 13, 2018). "Toronto Film Review: 'Giant Little Ones'". Variety. Retrieved February 8, 2019.
^ van Hoeij, Boyd (September 11, 2018). "'Giant Little Ones': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 8, 2019.
^ "Giant Little Ones". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved October 10, 2021.
^ "Giant Little Ones reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
^ a b Peter Knegt, "Cinematic sex-ed: Giant Little Ones and why exploring teenage sexuality onscreen is vital". CBC Arts, March 27, 2019.
Giant Little Ones at IMDb
Giant Little Ones at Rotten Tomatoes
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24-hrs on the trot, in pursuit of a selfless agenda, Global Oneness and Peace, the Prasanthi Nilayam model timeless intonation, Global Akhanda Bhajan came to a grand culmination with Maha Mangala Arathi to Bhagawan this evening at 1800 hrs here, in Prasanthi Nilayam. The spiritual saga born of Bhagawan's Divine Sankalpa highlighting on communal prayer reserves answer for all worldly problems, achieving the selfless 'return' of Samastha Lokah Sukhino Bhavantu.
When ceaseless, relentless prayer happens, what ensues is His bounty of unceasing grace, and Prasanthi Nilayam ensures this for one and all, role-modeling His life as His message.
The bhajans that commenced last evening continued throughout the night to continue during the day-time and ended with a 'grand finale', that came in a most spectacular fashion, a rare bhajan by Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai HimSelf, echoing the oneness of Hari and Hara…. Aptly , the bhajan that began in His mellifluous voice with the line… "Shiva Shiva Shiva Shiva…Shiva Shiva Shiva Shambho…" ended with the climactic line "Jaya Kailasha Girisha Nivasa Giridhara Gopala".
Maha Prasadam was served to the entire assemblage, after the Mangala Arathi. Swarms of students soon spread across the spacious Sai Kulwant Hall, ably assisted by the Sevadal volunteers, distributing blessed Prasadam, tamarind rice and sweet pudding to the entire assemblage.
The Global Akhanda Bhajan is undoubtedly one of the most powerful spiritually unifying forces at work to bring all humanity together through loving faith in God, regardless of name or form.


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Road is in an area which may have existed since the nineteenth century or before. Housing stock dates between 1910 and 1925
Road · Silvertown · E16 ·
Woodcocks is a road in the E16 postcode area
VIEW THE SILVERTOWN AREA IN THE 1750s
Silvertown
Despite its argentine name, Silvertown is where Mr Tate and Mr Lyle (who never got on) have a sugar factory.
In 1852 S.W. Silver and Co moved to the area from Greenwich and established a rubber works, originally to make waterproof clothing. This subsequently developed into the works of the India Rubber, Gutta Percha and Telegraph Cable Company, which constructed and laid many submarine cables. By the 1860s a number of manure and chemical works and petroleum storage depots had been set up.
Sugar refiners in the area were joined in by Henry Tate in 1877 and Abram Lyle in 1881, whose companies merged in 1921 to form Tate & Lyle. Prior to the merger, which occurred after they had died, the two men were bitter business rivals, although they had never met in person. Tate & Lyle still have two large refineries in the area.
On 19 January 1917 parts of Silvertown were devastated by a massive TNT explosion at the Brunner-Mond munitions factory, in what is known as the Silvertown explosion. Seventy-three people died and hundreds were injured in one of the largest explosions ever experienced in the British Isles.
In the early twentieth century the area suffered greatly from road congestion due to being located between the Thames and the Royal Docks, then the largest and one of the busiest dock groups in the world. The area was cut off for much of the time by lifting bridges over dock entrances, and by level crossings which were closed for up to three quarters of each hour by train movements. This led in the early 1930s to the construction of the elevated Silvertown Way, one of the earliest urban flyovers.
On the first night of The Blitz, Tate and Lyle's sugar refinery, John Knight's Primrose Soapworks, and the Silvertown Rubber Works were all badly damaged by bombing.
Silver's was eventually taken over by the British Tyre and Rubber Co, later known as BTR Industries. The site closed in the 1960s and is now the Thameside Industrial Estate.[7]
Another major local employer was the Loders and Nucoline plant at Cairn Mills, a traditional port oleo industry and formerly part of Unilever. This originally milled seeds but later concentrated on production of fats from palm kernel oil.
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Fw: When the President Calls
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Bees in the Bonnet!
Several years ago I was doing a preflight when I noticed to my dismay that some wasps were hovering about the tail of my aircraft. This went on for a couple weeks, making my preflights more than a little interesting. But eventually they flew off in search of "greener pastures", and I quickly dismissed it from my mind. Not long ago when I removed the rudder fairing this is what I saw! I can only imagine what would happen in flight when they tried to exit the tail at 115 knots. No wonder they moved on!!!
The heart of an airplane is the engine… This is what carries you over 150 foot tall jungle trees, and returns us to Georgetown in time for supper. In these pictures we're removing the old engine and putting on the new one. It's amazing how much work goes into replacing an aircraft engine. It took us nearly three weeks to get the old engine safely removed, and the new one hooked back up. In Ezekiel 36:26, God has promised to remove the old heart from us and install a new one. Fortunately for us, the new heart doesn't cost $26,200 and require three weeks of work!
Annual Inspection
The irony in mission aviation is that "down time", is rarely "down time". Many times when the airplane isn't flying, these end up being some of our busiest times. As we've been waiting for the engine to come, and for it to clear customs, we've been steadily working the airplane to repair the "squawks". We've also been fortunate to have friendly help from time to time. In the hanger next to where we work, there is a maintenance training school, and frequently their students come over and hang out with us. While Todd Anderson is performing the critical maintenance work, these students are helping in other ways. In the picture below we're reinstalling the wing flaps after they were freshly repainted. I'm discussing the best way for them to get their fingers into the tight spaces, in between the flaps, in order to reconnect the bolts.
Bicycling to Bible Studies
Praise God, our branch sabbath school outreach is growing! We have about 10 active bible studies that we're involved with, and already two persons have been baptized and are actively participating in church. This last Sunday the weather was fantastic, so Derek Lindie and I rode on bicycles to two bible studies in the poor neighbourhood of Sophia. God is opening many doors of opportunity (almost too many!). At every location we find scores of people interested in studying the bible, but ironically we're having more difficulty finding church members willing to go out and give the bible studies. Please pray for our little evangelistic group that we would continue to move forward in faith, and that God would send out more workers into His harvest.
PRAISE: The airplane engine and engine mount are on the airplane!
REQUEST: Please pray as we begin the break-in process on the new engine. This is one of the most critical phases of an engine's life, and we ask that you would pray for a special hedge of protection about us as we fire up this new engine.
Never a Dull Moment in the Ash Family!
When the President Calls
Everyone knows that it's not "what you know", but "who you know" that makes the real difference.
For over a year now, we've been faced with an ominous challenge: Come up with $26,000 for a newly overhauled Continental O470-L32B airplane engine.
The engine in our missionary Cessna 182 had been showing signs of age. It was nearly 23 years since it was factory overhauled. Although the FAA doesn't regulate when private aircraft owners are to replace their engines, this is about twice the age typically recommended. On the other side of the coin, we've also been flying the airplane heavily since it's arrival in Guyana, and it's also gone over the allotted hours recommended by the manufacturer. Up until our last flight, the engine was still producing excellent power, but little signs were beginning to show, and we realized that for safety sake, we needed to pull the plug.
The Lord answered many prayers, and through a partial donation, and a partial loan, we were able to order a new, factory-overhauled engine and have it shipped directly to Georgetown.
It was then that we faced our biggest challenge. How do we import an airplane engine into Guyana without paying a huge amount of importation taxes? Big dollar items like this would most certainly incur a 5% -10% duty fee, and a whopping 16% Value Added Tax. Put together the taxes alone would be close to $6000 U.S. Dollars!
I had anticipated this, and my original plan was to request one of the government ministries to request a tax waiver in our behalf. But the first government ministry that I approached didn't respond to my letters and phone calls, so I contacted another ministry, and started a letter writing campaign.
I also took a trip down to the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) to get some more answers. After explaining my dilemma, the employees eventually directed me to the top floor, to the office of Mr. Low, who was one of the senior managers. Mr. Low listened carefully to my story, but very nicely explained that the only tax that could be waived was the 5% duty. The VAT was required by the Guyana constitution, and there was no way around it.
I had heard through the grapevine that the president's office intervenes in certain cases that they consider worthy. So I began praying in earnest, and requesting everyone that I knew who was influential to call and writing letters of petition to the presidential secretariat. I never saw the correspondence, but the result was swift and breathtaking.
Almost exactly a week later I was driving in Georgetown when my cell phone rang. I dug around in my pocket and finally fished it out on the last ring. I noticed that it was a "blocked" number, which didn't strike me as strange, because our flight base has a blocked phone number.
The gentleman on the other end of the phone said, "Is this James Ash, the pilot with the 'Seven-days church?'"
"Uh… Yes, this is James"
"This is President Donald Ramotar, and I have received your request, and have approved it. I just got off the phone with Mr. Sattaur the commissioner at the GRA, and if you call him right now, he'll help you to get through…"
"Thank you!!! Thank you so much!!"
I hung up the phone the phone in utter shock. I remember thinking, "Am I dreaming, or did the president of Guyana just call me on the phone?!" A few seconds later when the full impact hit home, I clenched my fist in victory and fairly shouted out "YESSSS!!!"
Two weeks later I had the privilege of driving to Timehri International Airport with all my paperwork in hand, to get the engine released from customs.
At this very moment the new engine is installed on the airplane, and Todd Anderson (one of our GAMAS mechanics), and I are working feverishly to finish up the annual inspection so we can get back in the air to continue this life saving work.
This experience was humbling for me, because it showed me how utterly helpless I was to solve this problem. The Lord also gently reminded me that it's not "what we know", but "who we know" (Jesus) that will ultimately save us in His eternal kingdom.
Wouldn't you agree?
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We have openings for missionary workers:
Bible Workers to do training and evangelism.
Construction Workers for different projects around Guyana.
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Fill out an Gospel Ministry International Application today and indicate your interest in Guyana
If you would like to help the missionary work go forward, you can send a tax deductible donation to: Gospel Ministry International, PO Box 506, Collegedale Tennessee 37315. Kindly write on a separate note that it is for Guyana Aviation Evangelism project (GAVE)
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Home Sports Why Was Formula 1 Racing Forced Out Of India?
Why Was Formula 1 Racing Forced Out Of India?
Brings back old memories
Natasha Lyons
Formula 1 racing, a sport which has a niche-based audience, is on the rise again. Domination of Mercedes and Lewis Hamiton that lasted for 6 years played a major part in subduing its craze, in recent times.
Also not to forget, Netflix's hit documentary series, Formula 1: Drive To Survive has a number of people talking about the possible drama about the last race of the year. F1 and its fandom are touching new heights this year.
There was a time when India too was on the map of F1 races. Not very long ago, The Buddh International Circuit, located in Greater Noida, known as the satellite town of Delhi NCR, played host to 3 sessions of the Indian Grand Prix. Due to political differences and financial troubles Formula 1 was forced to drop India from the host venue.
Before opening the International Circuit, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Gurgaon, and Bangalore were the prime contenders to host the Indian Grand Prix.
A great amount of discussion took place after it reached the advanced stage in 2007. Gurgoan was selected to be a host of the first edition of the Indian Formula 1 Grand Prix in 2010.
Last-minute changes were made to the plan and the whole event had to be shifted to Greater Noida. The Grand Prix was then held in 2011, and the event turned out to be a massive commercial success.
However, after the first race, a tax dispute arose, this was between the Indian organizers, Jaypee Group, and the State Government.
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The UP Government believed that F1 did not fall under the category of sports and it was rather an entertainment event. And according to laws, entertainment events like these were taxed a higher slab of 60%.
The Jaypee Group and the Government's failed negotiation resulted in the organizers paying 60% in taxes for the next 3 years.
The timing also coincided with a slump in the real estate market of Noida and Greater Noida. Jaypee Group had a great influence in the real estate field, their massive presence led them to a cash crunch due to all the falling prices.
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This forced the company to postpone the 4th edition of the Indian Grand Prix to 2015. Things were just going from bad to worse, as the tax dispute remained unsolved in 2015 as well. F1 International decided to call off the agreement with Jaypee Group and bid farewell to India.
The subsequent years saw many business ventures of the Jaypee Group turn south; they even went through bankruptcy proceedings. Their natural instincts kicked in and they changed focus from F1 to survival.
As Indian laws are yet to be amended in such a way that F1 can be considered as a sport and subjected to a lower tax slab, it's highly unlikely for India to host a Grand Prix in the near future.
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Meadowlark Botanical Gardens' "Experimental Meadow" was full of Eastern Tiger Swallowtails, Spicebush Swallowtails (click here to see the incredible caterpillar that this particular butterfly morphs from), American Painted Lady Butterflies, Silver-spotted Skippers, and Cabbage White Butterflies today.
Mary Ellen—no sighting of Monarchs at this garden today, unfortunately. I have seen a few in my garden this summer. In 1999 Mary Ellen founded Happy Tonics, Inc., a nonprofit 501(c)(3) environmental education organization and public charity. Happy Tonics also created the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary in Shell Lake, Wisconsin, a few years ago. I met Mary Ellen when I purchased milkweed seed from her eBay store and we have collaborated on design and environmental projects ever since!
GREAT PHOTO TIP! Here's a butterfly photography trick I learned from Mary Ellen a few years ago. Wait until the butterfly has it proboscis inserted into a flower and it becomes completely distracted by the task at hand—then move in closer, staying as still as possible.
I think this is a type of strawflower, hybrid unknown. I photographed this in the South African-themed garden at Meadowlark Botanical Gardens this afternoon.
I photographed this little gem in the South African-themed garden at Meadowlark Botanical Gardens in Vienna, Virginia. I believe it is a type of African Daisy, but I don't know the name of the hybrid. I'm not sure what the purple flowers in the background are either, but they certainly look like a type of Clematis. Love the combination of orange and purple—exceedingly garish, yet perfectly lovely. The weather was stellar today and great for photography, even if only for an hour out of my busy design workday!


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The real breakfast of champions — books!
By Amy Moellering | Columnist
PUBLISHED: September 22, 2008 at 9:43 p.m. | UPDATED: August 15, 2016 at 6:11 p.m.
BARB McKENZIE and her fifth-grade daughter Pixie sat on a picnic blanket in the multipurpose room of Walnut Grove Elementary waiting for the first breakfast book club of the year to start.
Six kids were assigned to Barbara's group to discuss Linda Sue Park's "A Single Shard." Around their marked turf, the Pleasanton students chomped on doughnuts and buzzed with excitement.
In its second year, this club has grown from 86 to 109 kids. It's the most popular extracurricular activity on campus and it's completely driven by volunteer parents. In these lean budget times for schools, parents are rolling up their sleeves and putting their energy into what they know matters: literacy.
"The push for kids to read is reinforced by parents who know that you have to start with reading in order for kids to succeed," said Kelly Vodanovich, president of San Ramon's Twin Creeks Elementary Breakfast Book Club. If school book clubs sound like a trend — a mere Oprah ripple-effect — consider this: Twin Creeks has successfully run its own book club for a decade. Currently, they have 118 students enrolled.
"It works so well we haven't had to change anything beside books, which we change depending upon the feedback we receive," said Vodanovich.
Most of these clubs follow the same format. Parents are charged between $40 to 50 to cover the cost of seven books, plus breakfast, which consist of bagels, doughnuts, fruit, juice and hot chocolate. The club meets once a month, before school, and kids are divided into groups of six to 10 students according to grade level. Group leaders will often devise games or puzzles to generate discussions.
The book club directors do the leg work ahead of time, ordering all the books for each month and grade. Walnut Grove's directors, Keely Parrack and Anne Reilly, consult American Library Association book lists, and with librarians, and their local independent bookstore, Town Center Books, which provides the books.
Vodanovich uses the children's book specialist at Barnes & Noble. "It's a challenge to find books that appeal to both boys and girls, are age appropriate and at a comparable level," she said.
Parrack and Reilly held volunteer training sessions before the year started to make sure everyone understood their philosophy about the club.
"This isn't an academic club. It's purely for fun," said Parrack. "Our aim is to encourage life-long readers and to foster self-esteem by letting kids know their opinions matter. The volunteers aren't there to teach but to moderate child-led discussions."
"I encouraged my daughter to join because she doesn't like to read all that much and I thought it would be fun," said McKenzie.
Pixie said she didn't like "The Single Shard" because she found it too depressing. But she had read it and was ready to see if anyone else shared her opinions.
"What usually happens," said Jane Moon, group leader for first-graders at Walnut Grove, "is the kids who like the book persuade others to see something of value in it that they didn't see before." Terry Koehne, spokesman for for the San Ramon Valley school district, has also led a small group before at Twin Creeks.
"Book clubs reinforce literacy and provide another way for kids to get engaged with literature," said Koehne. "It's one extra opportunity for parents to get kids engaged in reading."
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Korvus is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Korvus wields a weapon known as the Blade of the Phoenix and made his first appearance in The Uncanny X-Men #478 on September 6, 2006.

Fictional character biography
Though the Shi'ar have denied it for centuries, one of their race once wielded the power of the Phoenix. Rook'shir wielded the universal power through a giant blade, called the Blade of the Phoenix, and devastated much of the Shi'ar Empire until the Imperial Guard was formed to defeat him. However, a fraction of his power remained in the blade, which could only be lifted by a direct descendant of Rook'shir. Hoping that the blade would never be lifted again, the Shi'ar focused on wiping out Rook'shir's descendants.

The descendants were killed by the Vice-Chancellor K'tor, a loyalist of D'Ken, who kept only one survivor as a slave. The survivor was Korvus, and he was tortured as he worked on mechanical constructs, and when he reached adulthood, Korvus was imprisoned in the high security prison on the moon of Phygim and a device was placed on his brain that could be triggered if he tried to escape.

During "The Rise and Fall of the Shi'ar Empire", K'tor approached Korvus in prison and offered to commute the rest of Korvus' sentence if he acted against Marvel Girl, who was, along with Havok, Polaris, Professor X, Nightcrawler, Darwin and Warpath, coming to the Shi'ar Empire to stop Vulcan on his quest for vengeance.

K'tor allowed Korvus to take the Blade of the Phoenix and gave him a ship so he could slay Rachel. Korvus eventually found the band of X-Men by tracking Marvel Girl's Phoenix's brand, to which he was drawn. Korvus landed on their ship and easily thwarted the combined X-Men with the Blade. However, when he tried to slay Rachel, she grasped the Blade and their minds were involuntarily linked, reliving each other's lives in essence and forming a close bond between them. He then chose to ally with the X-Men and the device on his brain was deactivated with the help of Rachel.

Korvus taught the X-Men that their jumpship had the potential of opening a stargate using their own mutant power sources. Korvus worked on fixing the ship while the X-Men sent out a distress signal to the Starjammers. Korvus and Marvel Girl continued experiencing their mental bond, drawn together, and began a romantic involvement. She soon puts an end to the relationship, believing their connection isn't real and is due to the time their minds bonded because of the residual Phoenix force. This was much to Korvus' dismay, who actually began to fall in love with her.

After the death of Corsair at the hands of Vulcan, he, along with Havok, Polaris, Rachel, Ch'od and Raza become the new Starjammers, electing to remain in Shi'ar space and restore Lilandra to the throne.

Kingbreaker

During a battle with Vulcan's new guard, the Phoenix fragment in his sword, and within Rachel leaves them both.

War of Kings

Marvel has announced that Korvus and the Starjammers will play a large role in the upcoming War of Kings storyline, which also features Vulcan, The Inhumans, Nova, and The Guardians of the Galaxy.

Realm of Kings
It is known through Ch'od that Korvus, along with Rachel, Polaris and Havok, have departed for Earth, apparently to report the incident where Korvus and Rachel lost the connection to the Phoenix Force.

Rescue Mission
The quartet never made it, though, as they stopped by a Shi'ar space station on the way. Unfortunately, the station came under attack by an alien named Friendless, one of the telepathic alien workers on board, and he triggered a civil war amongst the races that lived on the station. In the chaos, Korvus was mind controlled by Friendless and the ship's gravity generators were damaged. As the war waged on, the station began to be pulled into the star it was orbiting. Rachel managed to get a message to Earth and help arrived in the form of Rogue and some X-Men. With Rogue's help, Rachel managed to block Friendless's mind control, freeing Korvus. Whilst Rachel confronted Friendless mind-to-mind, Korvus could only help by watching her limp body and doing his best to protect it. Friendless was eventually beaten and the space station was teleported across the universe into Earth's orbit. Whilst most of the heroes were glad to be home, Korvus could only think that he was even further away from his.

Stranded on Earth
When Korvus and the group returned to the X-Men, a new situation began to emerge. Rogue could feel that more people had returned to Earth than they knew and, when Dr. Nemesis conducted his tests, he found that Korvus held the key. Each of the eight heroes who had been on the station now possessed a small quantity of unknown energy, but Korvus' sword had a much higher concentration of it. The sword had become a doorway and someone was on the other side.

Rogue figured out it was a lost ally that she thought had died. Whilst Rogue set off on a rescue mission, Korvus was left to get acquainted with the X-Men's home of Utopia. He was not impressed by Cyclops or the fact the X-Men were being forced to live on a small island. Korvus was at a loss as to what to do now he was on Earth but thankfully an opportunity dropped in his lap. The space station that was teleported to Earth also contained a Shi'ar salvage crew that were just happening to be looking for a captain. Korvus left Earth to be in space where he was much more at home.

Back with the Starjammers
The distance between Rachel and Korvus didn't help their relationship and they drifted apart. The captain role didn't last long either, so he decided to leave everything behind and find the remaining Starjammers. He wasn't the only one to rejoin the team as Corsair, the team's dead leader, was resurrected and resumed his duty as captain of the space pirates. When the younger version of Jean Grey was put on trial for the crime of one day becoming host for the Phoenix Force, Korvus and the Starjammers intervened.

After his brief dalliance with Earth, Korvus remained with the Starjammers to travel the universe in search of adventure and glory. He found a suitable role amongst them as the mechanic for the starship and was even left in charge when Corsair was away. Unfortunately, when Corsair was off traveling with his son, the Starjammers were attacked by a rival gang of pirates and Korvus was cast out into space to die alongside his fellow crew. He was saved from certain death by a passing ship but the crew recognized the pirates and Korvus was arrested. He was due to be auctioned off as a slave but was saved by Corsair, who had stolen his ship back. Korvus is once again on the Starjammer, serving as its mechanic/muscle.

Powers and abilities
Korvus possesses all the typical attributes associated with the avian Shi'ar race of superhuman strength (typically able to lift 1 ton in Earth's gravity), enhanced speed, reflexes, agility, flexibility, coordination, balance, and endurance.

As wielder of the Phoenix Blade, Korvus is able to fly and fire energy blasts through the sword.

It is currently unknown if the Blade of the Phoenix further augments his natural abilities as a Shi'ar, although it is highly probable: Korvus survived two  direct hits from Gladiator and was seen back in action only a short time later.

During X-Men: Kingbreaker, the Phoenix leaves the sword making it powerless.

Korvus is well versed in Shi'ar technology, especially in Shi'ar Hyper Drives.

References

External links
Korvus at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe

Characters created by Ed Brubaker
Comics characters introduced in 2006
Fictional slaves
Fictional swordfighters in comics
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Marvel Comics characters who can move at superhuman speeds
Marvel Comics characters with superhuman strength
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The Creative Spark—How to Make Your Three-Act Structure Rock
Marie Well
Do you want to write sizzling stories?
I have a confession. I want to write Christian or inspirational fiction. Yet, I sleep through movies. I prefer my friend's two-minute movie summaries over watching the shows. Since I became of age, I have read four—yes, four—fiction books. To put it in perspective, I read four fiction books in thirty years.
But to write fiction, we need to read fiction, right? Well, if we won't do that, at least we could try learning plot. But if you happen to love fiction, learning plot could take you to fiction writing stardom.
And perhaps the easiest plot structure to learn is the three-act structure.
Let's explore:
A Three-Act Structure can Open the Floodgates.
"Each story (novel, short story, myth, screenplay) needs a beginning, a middle and an end. These three sections are 'acts':
– Act 1: Beginning
– Act 2: Middle
– Act 3: Ending
Imagine a novel divided into six equal parts. The beginning accounts for just one of them, the middle for three, and the ending for two" (16%).
I'm now going to attempt an outline for a three-act structure. My aim is to show you an original example of how it's done. And at the end of this article, I have a bonus for you: a gold-mine resource for writing plot.
Excite, no incite!
Author Rayne Hall says, "In this section, you need to establish the 'rules of the world', what kind of environment and society the main character lives in, and what kind of person he is, his strengths, weaknesses and ambitions …. An 'Inciting Incident' happens that upsets the status quo and propels the character into action" (17%).
A hook sets up the character's inner conflict: the desire versus the fear, says Abbie Emmons in her YouTube podcast. She says, "Ask yourself, what does my protagonist think will bring her true happiness …? And how is her fear stopping her from going after it."
Imagine you are an obese teenage boy, bullied so badly one day that you almost lost your life. On your way to the hospital in an ambulance, your face swollen and covered in bruises, you decide to lose fifty pounds and become a star wrestler, maybe like Hulk Hogan. Can you do it?
You have one friend and a nurturing mom who has severe anxiety. Your self-worth couldn't get any lower. But you're a strategic thinker.
Snap into a new world.
In other words, according to Rayne Hall, enter "the curtain between Act 1 and Act 2: Between these two acts is a doorway the main character must open and walk through, or, if you prefer, a curtain to lift. This signifies the main character's conscious decision to enter a new world or new phase of life. He knows that once he has lifted this curtain, things will never be the same again" (17%).
Here, you, the bullied teen, try out for the wrestling team. You are ridiculed, but the merciful, empathic coach lets you stay on the team.
High stakes keep you awake.
Author Rayne Hall says, in "Act 2 … the protagonist experiences struggles and growth as she gathers clues and acts on them. The stakes get raised. This is roughly the equivalent of the Trail of Trials. In the middle of Act 2 there's a Midpoint Reversal. This is the moment when everything turns upside down, and the main character changes direction" (18%).
You, the bullied teen, get taken under the wing of the empathic coach. He spends extra time alone with you, after school, helping you perfect your form. But the bullies turn on both him and you. They exact violence against the coach, showing up at his home, breaking his window, and popping his tires in thirty below weather. The school and police system turn a blind eye. The coach is at his wits end.
The bullies do the same to you, chasing you home and breaking your window. Most every day, you have bruises. Your mom has grown so spacey from fear, she shuts down mentally. She can no longer cook for you, do her banking, clean, or grocery shop.
Change direction by doing the opposite. Author Rayne Hall says of the protagonist in Act 2, "[He] changes course, adapting [his] goal or [his] strategy, or even using [his] skills to do exactly the opposite of what [he] has done up to now" (18%).
You, the bullied teen, quickly learn to take over your mom's banking matters. You learn to shop and cook. You double up your practice of wrestling, also teaching wrestling to your only friend. You read books on healthy eating. You begin fighting back when bullied.
Don't lose hope during the black moment.
Rayne Hall explains, "Shortly before or after the Midpoint Reversal, or at the same time, is the Black Moment when all seems lost. The main character is in the worst possible situation, perhaps imprisoned, injured, trapped, and betrayed. She is close to giving up but rallies her courage" (18%).
The black moment for you, the bullied teen, arrives when your spirit breaks and you quit the wrestling team. The team has turned its vilest against you. The harassed coach has resigned and recently begun anew at a different school. The new macho coach ridicules and torments you. Your only friend got so badly beaten up, you called it quits with him, secretly to protect him. Social services takes you away from your loving mom who is crippled with anxiety. You get placed into a dysfunctional foster home with a creepy, psychologically abusive foster father.
Readers will beg for the final world.
Enter, according to Rayne Hall, "the curtain between Act 2 and Act 3: Once again, the main character decides to open a door and enter a new phase. This is often a heart-wrenching or dangerous decision" (19%).
You start a new neighboring school.
You beg the school coach to let you on the wrestling team, only to discover that the captain of the team is a cousin of the main bully at your prior school. The bullying begins anew. The foster home bullying escalates, too. Your life is worse, and you have no-one to turn to for help.
A big wrestling meet is coming up between your new school and the old one.
You locate your empathic coach, and show up at his school. You beg him to coach you one-on-one after school and weekends. You don't want to put him at risk again, but he's your only hope. The coach refuses, but when he sees your bruises, he gently touches them as he always did. You tell him about your mom and your foster dad, and the merciful coach breaks. He'll train you for the meet.
Turn loose the climax.
Rayne Hall describes "Act 3: The ending: The story reaches the Climax. This scene pitches the main character against the main antagonist, perhaps in a duel to the death between hero and villain or a confrontation between investigator and serial killer. The book's tension is at its highest. Next comes the Resolution when the main character's problems are solved and the goal is achieved (or lost, depending on the kind of story you're writing) and problems are solved" (19%).
You, the bullied teen, train with your school, sucking up the abuse. You also train with the empathic coach at the school where he teaches. On top of that, you join a nearby gym and lift weights to avoid home life. You also spend hours at the local library. Plus, cycling to and from the empathic coach's school helps you drop the weight. You start to see a good-looking guy peer back at you in the mirror.
As the wrestling meet arrives, the abuse intensifies. The bullies show up at your gym or library to torment you. You keep pushing yourself, training and working harder, despite the fear.
The big wrestling meet arrives. You are paired off with the bullies, one by one, from your old school. You beat them all until you're paired off with the main bully. When it's one against one, it's a different story than five against one. You cream the main bully. Your only friend shakes your hand at the end of the meet as so does the captain of your new team. You've won the respect of your new team. The empathic, merciful coach pats you on the back, and gives you the name and number of a pro coach who can help you compete at a professional level.
Let 'em savor final thoughts.
Rayne Hall says, "There may be a Denouement showing what happens after the main story is over. Sometimes this is in the form of an epilogue, a scene taking place some years later. For example, a Romance novel may give a glimpse of the couple's happy married life with their children, to reassure the reader that the two are indeed living happily ever after" (19%).
You, the now tough, fit, and respected teen, meet your mom in her group home. She says she's proud of you, and you've inspired her to beat the odds. She is working hard on recovering from anxiety—reading medical books and seeing therapists. She hopes to have you back within a year. She says you and she can live wherever you like.
She pours out a bag of cash. "I save every penny for you. I spend nothing on myself. Use it to make yourself strong."
You ask your mom to use her phone. In the group home, there's one central line. You phone the professional coach, and set up your first lesson.
To make this three-act structure work, I used a free two-week trial of a story writing software called https://onestopforwriters.com/features_tools. I didn't use the software to its full capacity. If I had, I'm sure this would've been a much better plot. Go ahead and try out the free trial of the software. It's geared to help you write a story based on the characters' desires and their transformations. After all, character is the crux of most any story.
Hall, Rayne. (2016). Writing Vivid Plots. E-book.
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Jack Ruby Is the Key to the Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy Theories. So Why Have We Forgotten About His Trial?
June 2, 2021 in Crime Reads - Suspense, Thrillers, Crime, Gun!
Delving into any aspect of the November 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy is an ambitious and even perilous endeavor. So much has been said and studied: thousands of pages of scientific evidence, hundreds of witness accounts including some that have evolved over fifty-plus years, numerous government investigations and literally thousands of books. It has long been difficult for so many to believe that Lee Harvey Oswald, who had previously defected to Russia, killed Kennedy acting alone and that less than two days later, Jack Ruby, with his loose ties to the Dallas underworld, also acting alone, so easily killed Oswald. Dozens of conspiracy theories about who "really" assassinated JFK have abounded and become a booming and seemingly limitless business. After all, an angry and broadly anti-government Oswald pulling off the assassination of the century isn't nearly as intriguing as the Mafia, CIA, FBI, Fidel Castro, the Russians, or even Lyndon Johnson leading the effort.
In almost every single Gallup poll taken in the decades since Kennedy's death, a majority of Americans, across all demographic and political lines, were convinced that Oswald was part of a broader conspiracy to kill the president. Of course, if Oswald was part of any orchestrated plan to kill Kennedy, it also significantly increases the probability that Jack Ruby was involved in the assassination, as well.
The intrigue has been exacerbated by the fact that some significant information connected to the case still remains under seal. In 2017, as required by a law passed twenty-five years earlier, more documents and information were finally released. But like everything Kennedy assassination related, the new material presented as many questions as answers. For the first time the public saw a memo apparently dictated by then FBI director J. Edgar Hoover the night of Oswald's death: "The thing I am concerned about…is having something issued so we can convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin."
But was that an effort to convince the public that there was not a "scintilla of evidence" of a conspiracy as Hoover claimed publicly, or something more sinister? We also learned that some-one called a news service in Cambridge, England, twenty-five minutes prior to the Kennedy assassination, urging a reporter to call the American Embassy in London "for some big news and then hung up."
In that same memo, Hoover mentioned a specific threat to Oswald's life: "Last night we received a call in our Dallas office from a man talking in a calm voice and saying he was a member of a committee organized to kill Oswald," Hoover wrote. "We at once notified the chief of police and he assured us Oswald would be given sufficient protection. This morning we called the chief of police again warning of the possibility of some effort against Oswald and again he assured us adequate protection would be given. However, this was not done… Oswald having been killed today after our warnings to the Dallas Police Department was inexcusable."
About Jack Ruby, who had been arrested instantly for killing Oswald, Hoover said, "We have no information on Ruby that is firm, although there are some rumors of underworld activity in Chicago."
For many, understanding Jack Ruby, his background, travel and associates, became the key to blowing open the conspiracy. For example, one author and former high-ranking official in the administration of Richard Nixon has said that in 1982 Nixon recalled hiring Ruby as an informant for the House Un-American Activities Committee when Nixon was a member of Congress. The official, who believes Lyndon Johnson was the architect of the assassination, claimed Nixon said he hired Ruby at the behest of LBJ, one of "Johnson's boys." A document presumably from a congressional staffer in 1947 even sought to prevent Jack Rubenstein (Ruby's given name was Rubenstein) from having to testify in front of the committee in public. "It is my sworn statement that one Jack Rubenstein of Chicago noted as a potential witness for hearings of the House Committee on Un-American Activities is performing information functions for the staff of Cong. Richard M. Nixon, Rep. Of California. It is requested Rubenstein not be called for open testimony in those aforementioned hearings."
Putting aside the paucity of support for any theory that Johnson was somehow involved, some dispute the authenticity of the document; others more persuasively argue that the Jack Rubenstein referred to in the document was a prominent young communist of the same name who later became a labor union official. But perhaps most importantly, the source of the supposed Johnson connection came from a former Nixon official named Roger Stone, who was convicted, and then pardoned by former President Donald Trump of a host of crimes including lying to Congress. But this sort of conspiracy rabbit hole is familiar terrain for many Kennedy assassination buffs.
Even those with mundane intentions can get caught up in the desire to find that tantalizing Ruby connection that could break open the case. There would be no more certain way to do so than by offering proof of a connection between Oswald and Ruby who according to every official account did not know one another. Texas Judge Brandon Birmingham, an expert on the Ruby trial, had access to many of the original documents and pieces of evidence in that trial, which were stored at the Dallas courthouse. He described digging through the files as part of an effort to find and preserve evidence for a local museum. There, he made a startling finding: "One day, I found a transcript of a tape-recorded conversation between Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby from days before the assassination. I nearly had a heart attack."
If this transcript was authenticated, it would have proved that these two critical figures who supposedly had each acted alone and did not know one another, were actually part of a larger conspiracy to kill the president. "For about 30 minutes, I thought I'd uncovered a single piece of evidence that would have rewritten the history books."
It certainly would have done just that. Alas, it was not meant to be. He "realized it was a part of a movie script written in the '70s. In my defense, it did look like an official transcript, numbered margins and all."
In retrospect, it is fair to say that the official and often under-appreciated 888-page Warren Commission report, which ruled out any possible conspiracies, missed some details and got certain facts wrong. The FBI and CIA were partially responsible since both had Oswald on their radar—even though not as a threat to the president—and sought to minimize that fact. But did the report whiff on the ultimate question of whether Oswald and then Ruby acted alone?
That question certainly was in our minds when we decided to further examine one of the most interesting and often over-looked trials of modern American history. A forgotten trial somehow few have focused on despite the fact that it served as the genesis or launching pad for many of the conspiracy theories. Sometimes in the form of testimony, and many other times with questions left unanswered. And while the trial wasn't about a possible conspiracy, the issue was forever lurking within the halls of the courthouse and the courtroom itself. Both sides sought to use the possibility of there being "more to the story" for strategic advantage.
It has even been alleged that the defense team was involved in the conspiracy, that Ruby's lead attorney, Melvin Belli, then considered the nation's greatest legal showman, was part of an effort to ensure that Ruby was actually convicted. Neither David Fisher nor I take that seriously, but we did differ on the strategy employed by the defense. This was not an easy case, but I believe Belli did Ruby a disservice with the defense he chose and yet David felt Belli generally made a compelling case. So keep an eye out for the subtleties in our agreed upon characterizations of the defense and decide for yourself.
This is our fourth book together, where we have tried to tell the story of an overlooked trial while tracking the evolution of the American legal system, from the Boston Massacre trial, to defense attorney Abraham Lincoln and defendant Theodore Roosevelt, to The State of Texas v. Jack Rubenstein. By the time this trial took place in 1964, the once streamlined trial system had expanded to include a great variety of different legal paths, from pretrial hearings through appeals. More than just stories about trials with great repercussions, these books have been an exploration of the American legal system, in all its glories and complexities.
In the end, when examining this trial and Jack Ruby's role, re-member that fate played a role. If Oswald had not paused to put on a black sweater over his shirt before being transported that fateful day, or if Ruby had not agreed to wire $25 to a woman who worked in his club, history would have been changed forever.
"That's the prisoner, wearing the light sweater; he's changed from his T-shirt. Being moved out toward an armored car. (Pause) Being led out by Captain Fritz.
"There's the prisoner. (Shouting:) Do you have anything to say in defense?"
(Sound: A shot.)
"There's a shot! Oswald has been shot! Oswald has been shot! (Pause) A shot rang out…mass confusion here. (Pause. Background clamor.) All the doors have been locked. Holy mackerel. A shot rang out as he was… A shot… There's mass confusion here…rolling…fighting… As he was being led out, no, he is being led back… Looks like he was thrown to the ground. The police have the entire area blocked off. (Yelling:) Everybody stay back. Everybody stay back is the yell."
To an unidentified man: "Did you see it?"
"Yes, I did." (Indistinguishable)
"(Repeating:) The dark stocky man with the hat on…put the gun right in his belly. One of the wildest scenes I have ever seen… The man rushed up and jammed the gun right into Oswald's stomach and fired one shot. Oswald was carried back in the hallway…"
—Ike Pappas, CBS Radio News, November 24, 1963.
Excerpted from Kennedy's Avenger @ 2021 by Dan Abrams and David Fisher, used with permission by Hanover Square Press.


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Single state authorities (SSAs) are on the front lines of the opioid epidemic. They're in charge of overseeing the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment (SAPT) block grants, as well as the $1 billion in opioid treatment funds to be provided over the next two years by the 21st Century Cures Act. A key task: make sure everyone who needs treatment gets it, Richard Baum, acting director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), told attendees of the National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors (NASADAD) at its annual meeting, held in Indianapolis May 25-28.
"In 2015, 8.4 million people needed treatment for drug addiction, yet 4 out of 5 didn't receive it," said Mr. Baum, citing the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. "This has to change," he added. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) conducts that survey, and administers the SAPT block grant—as well as the $1 billion in grants from the State Targeted Response to the Opioid Crisis (STR Opioid Grants) that come from the 21st Century Cures Act.
One problem is that people aren't being referred to treatment by the health care system, said Mr. Baum, noting that there are "critically low levels of treatment engagement and access to treatment." In fact, in 2014, one-third of all referrals to any kind of treatment for substance use disorder came from the criminal justice system, and fewer than one in five came from the health care system.
Mr. Baum, who has been at the ONDCP for 20 years, had just briefed stakeholders on the White House budget request. That request would fund the agency for fiscal year 2018, despite attempts by the Office of Management and Budget to eliminate it.
Mr. Baum went on to call the Trump Administration "a pro-treatment administration," listing the 21st Century Cures Act funding (signed into law by President Obama in December of 2016). This infusion of funding is very important to the states. Mr. Baum also noted that the ONDCP is developing a new National Drug Control Strategy, with input from SSAs and others.
Among other challenges facing the country is the illicit fentanyl increasingly being found in street drugs. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid, more powerful than heroin. Its various analogues are so strong that even a small amount can cause an overdose.
Frequently, the fentanyl analogues are pressed into counterfeit pills, he said, "which means many people who are ingesting these synthetic opioids are not even aware of it." Many states have "improved their post-mortem toxicology screenings to determine whether fentanyl or its analogues were involved in an overdose death, so we can better track the supply of these drugs and their full impacts," said Mr. Baum.
Drug courts and corrections officials also have a role to play in making sure people have access to MAT when they leave incarceration, or when they enter a program designed to keep them out of jail or prison.
Mr. Baum urged the SSAs to "work with your governors" on such innovations.


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Jimmy Rodela is a Freelance Writer and a Content Marketer. He is the Founder of the Guild of Bloggers. He is a contributor on websites with millions of monthly traffic like Yahoo, Business.com, Monster, Business2Community and Social Media Today.
Twitter Marketing Strategies That Will Get You More Customers.
I hope you aren't using the "I'm just winging it" approach when marketing your business on Twitter. I mean, considering how the platform has about 120 million unique monthly visitors, it'd be such a waste if you aren't using it at its full capacity when you're fishing for more customers online.
Here's a thought. Would you sell cars to a factory that mass produces cars? Or, would you sell chickens to a poultry farm that grows nothing but chickens?
What marketing campaigns are you using right now? Are you into paid ads? Content marketing? Social media? Or video marketing, perhaps? There's no doubt that these marketing methods can give your business the boost that it needs, that is, if you are executing your campaigns the right way. In fact, countless businesses have garnered mind-blowing results using these marketing methods.


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Want to play the Classic Snakes like on the old Nokia devices? Then read on
By Kunal Khullar	 On Nov 17, 2011
Most of us have grown up playing the classic Nokia Snake game on our Nokia devices, but as development took place, the game went down the memory lane. But there are some who always wish to play the game again. Isn't it? Well now Nokia is reviving all the memories and has used the game in promoting its newly launched Windows Phone.
If you visit uk.yahoo.com today, then you'll find that the site is wearing a Nokia Windows Phone theme. Also there is an advertisement running on the left side where you have the Nokia Lumia 800 which says 'Play the Amazing Snake'. All you need to do is click the ad and the use your arrow keys on keyboard to control the snake.
And this is not just a 2D version but the game features what would appear to be live tiles and multiple colours making up the snake. Also, the game makes use of the Yahoo! webpage for elements to be eaten. It is very well made up and users can really enjoy this classic game.
Just a reminder that the game is not easy as it may seem in the beginning. And if you score a 10/10, then do share a screenshot of it with us. So head over to Yahoo UK (http://uk.yahoo.com) now and enjoy. If you miss the game today then you'll have to wait toll November 21st when the game will be on The Sun's website.
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HERRING, Clyde LaVerne, a Senator from Iowa; born in Jackson, Jackson County, Mich., May 3, 1879; attended the public schools; moved to Detroit, Mich., in 1897; served as a private in Company D, Third Michigan Regiment, in the Spanish-American War; moved to Colorado Springs, Colo., and engaged in ranching 1902-1906; moved to Massena, Iowa, and engaged in agricultural pursuits 1906-1908; entered the automobile business in Atlantic, Iowa, 1908-1910; moved to Des Moines, Iowa, in 1910 and continued in the automobile business; during the First World War served with the Iowa National Guard on the Mexican border; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Iowa in 1920; unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1922; member of the Democratic National Committee of Iowa 1924-1928; Governor of Iowa 1933-1937; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate for the term beginning January 3, 1937, but did not qualify until the expiration of his term as Governor, and served from January 15, 1937, to January 3, 1943; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942; senior assistant administrator in the Office of Price Administration 1943; resumed the automobile business in Des Moines, Iowa; died in Washington, D.C., September 15, 1945; interment in Glendale Cemetery, Des Moines, Iowa.
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This campaign closed on May 14, 2012 Solitaire Carroll brought clean water to Tseha Fordi Community.
Have you ever said, "I'm dying of thirst?"
If so, I bet you didn't really mean it.
If you're like me, you don't spend too much time thinking about water -- it's everywhere we go. When we're thirsty, we flip a handle or push a button. When we're dirty, we twist a shower knob. When our garden needs watering, when our pasta needs to be boiled, when we use the bathroom -- water is just there for the taking.
But for almost a billion people on the planet, it's not. Millions of women and children have to walk hours each day to get water from muddy ponds and rivers. And much of that water is infested with bacteria, parasites or leeches.
When I learned that only $20 can give someone access to clean, safe water, I decided to start a campaign to help. TBC Youth Ministries' goal is to raise $5,000. charity: water will use 100% of the money to directly fund the water projects in the field. Even better, when the projects are complete, they'll show me just where our money went. That's right -- we'll be able to see the GPS coordinates, photos and other details about the community we've impacted!
I've never actually been dying of thirst. I'm sure we'd all like to see a world where no one does.
Together, we can make a dent in the global water crisis. I hope you'll consider helping.
This campaign brought clean water to Tseha Fordi Community, Ethiopia.
This campaign closed on May 14, 2012 and the money is being sent to the field. Still want to donate? You can give directly to charity: water.
Thank you for what you do to help the poor. This means the world to a lot of people, but so many of us take it for granted. May the Lord bless you!!!
I am happy to help you with this very important project!!
This campaign raised $5,021. That money is hard at work in the field.


ATTRA | National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service | How can I organically control plum pox and bacterial spot in peaches?
How can I organically control plum pox and bacterial spot in peaches?
Answer: Sharka virus was confirmed in Adams County, Pennsylvania—the first outbreak in North America. The disease has since been found in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, and in Canada. This has caused much concern among producers because plum pox is an exceptionally destructive disease of stonefruit. Infected fruit are unmarketable because of spots and ring blemishes, and fruit may also drop prematurely.
Plum pox is transmitted either by aphids or by grafting. The disease was not found in nursery stock, and an ongoing quarantine has apparently contained the outbreak of plum pox to a limited area, although testing is ongoing.
The telltale symptom of bacterial spot (caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas pruni) is small light brown lesions on leaves. Eventually the affected tissue falls out, leaving a characteristic shotgun-hole appearance. Severe bacterial spot infections may cause premature defoliation and subsequent re-sprouting, similar to peach leaf curl. Bacterial spot on fruit occurs as sunken, dry lesions that eventually crack, opening the fruit to secondary infections and reducing fruit quality.
Selecting disease-resistant cultivars is the principal means of controlling bacterial spot. The ATTRA publication Peaches: Organic and Low-Spray Production includes a table from the Kearneysville Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center at West Virginia University on peach cultivar susceptibility to bacterial spot.
Fortunately for organic growers, copper fungicides—unique in that they also function as bactericides—are allowed for control of bacterial spot. The first spray should be applied before the tree leafs out in the spring; this timing often allows copper-based peach-leaf-curl sprays to double for bacterial-spot treatment. The next period when infection pressure is heavy is petal fall and for three weeks thereafter. Additional spray coverage may be necessary depending on varietal susceptibility and humid weather conditions.
Since the occurrence and severity of bacterial spot depend on moisture, this disease is rarely a problem west of the Rocky Mountains, and in the East, growers are able to rely on resistant varieties as the best line of defense. Contact the Cooperative Extension Service for resistant varieties suited to your region.
You'll benefit from reading the ATTRA publication Peaches: Organic and Low-Spray Production.. This publication describes the major diseases and insect pests of peaches and discusses organic or least-toxic control options for each. It emphasizes the considerable climatic differences between the arid West, which is relatively amenable to organic peach production, and the humid East, where it is more difficult to grow peaches without synthetic fungicides and insecticides. It profiles a successful organic peach grower in California, discusses new-generation synthetic and organic pesticides, and describes organic peach research for the East, as well as a model reduced-spray program for the East. A "postscript" examines the dilemma of the environmentally conscious consumer in regard to peaches.
Kaplan, Kim. 2007. Plum pox resistant trees move forward. Agricultural Research Service News and Events. July 25.


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TIP set to acquire PEMA as part of its international growth and diversification strategy
AMSTERDAM, 2019 – TIP Trailer Services, a portfolio company of I Squared Capital and a leading trailer leasing, rental, maintenance and repair provider across Europe and Canada, has signed an agreement to acquire PEMA GmbH from Société Générale. PEMA is a commercial vehicle leasing and rental company offering services in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Sweden and Switzerland, that will bolster TIP's geographic footprint, strengthen its position in Germany and provide an entrance into the Swiss market.
"This is an exciting step in our path of growth and diversification as we continue to build a stronger platform for the benefit of our customers, partners, employees and stakeholders," said Adil Rahmathulla, Chairman of the TIP Trailer Services Board and Managing Partner of I Squared Capital. "With the acquisition of PEMA, TIP will gain scale and increased geographic diversification with a stronger position in Germany. We continue to seek opportunities to grow the platform, including high-end specialized assets, while maintaining our established offerings and levels of service."
"The combined companies will have nearly 89,000 trailers and trucks as well as over 100 workshops offering the largest repair network in Europe and Canada and provide a one-stop shop solution for a wide variety of commercial vehicle equipment," noted Bob Fast, President and CEO of TIP Trailer Services. "Our customers will have a seamless service partner across Europe and Canada, simplifying their fleet management and enabling them to focus on their core business activities while enjoying TIP's strong reliability and customer service."
TIP and PEMA are both service-orientated companies with longstanding experience in transportation and logistics across Europe supporting customer needs throughout the entire lifecycle of trailers, swap bodies and trucks. PEMA has a modern and diverse fleet of trucks, rigid vehicles and trailers from leading brands including Krone, MAN, Schmitz Cargobull and Volvo. Since 2008, PEMA has been part of the GEFA Group, the equipment finance arm of French banking group Société Générale. Société Générale Equipment Finance holds a 100 percent stake in PEMA group through its German subsidiary, GEFA Bank.
Closing is expected in the coming months subject to customary regulatory approvals.
About TIP Trailer Services
TIP Trailer Services is an equipment service provider specializing in trailer leasing, rental, maintenance and repair, as well as other value-added services to transportation and logistics customers across Europe and Canada. The company has one of the largest and most diverse trailer rental and leasing fleets with over 70,000 units. Headquartered in Amsterdam, TIP has over 2000 employees and services its customers from 98 locations in 17 countries across Europe and Canada.
About PEMA
Founded in 1976, PEMA is a commercial vehicle lease and rental company specializing in trucks and trailers and employs around 440 people. PEMA holds a diversified fleet of over 19,000 units with a wide selection of leading brands including Schmitz Cargobull, Krone and Koegel (trailers) and DAF, Volvo, MAN, Mercedes and Renault (trucks). PEMA operates 18 locations throughout Northern and Central Europe including four in-house workshops.
About I Squared Capital
I Squared Capital is an independent global infrastructure investment manager focusing on energy, utilities, telecom, transport and social infrastructure in the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm has offices in Hong Kong, Houston, London, Miami, New Delhi, New York and Singapore.
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Andreas Moon
Managing Director and Head of Investor Relations
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For TIP Europe
Marc Aandeweg
Vice President Sales & Marketing
+31 (20) 504 - 1767
tipeurope@klenkhoursch.de
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Stanton Anderson's recent rambling op-ed was so full of myths, generalities and deceptions that I was almost stunned into silence, especially given his claim of academic excellence. Just almost silenced.
1) that immigrants generally, and Latinos especially, commit crime at a significantly lower rate than occurs in the white and general populations.
2) that immigrants do not take jobs away from Americans; in fact, "the vast majority of Latino immigrants are employed in low-paying, low-skilled jobs that require hard labor and that employers have extreme difficulty filling without an immigrant labor pool. So, in reality, immigrants are doing jobs that Americans won't take," according to David Neiwert.
3) that immigrants are not disease-ridden, nor afraid to learn English (it just takes a while), and only want a chance for a better life — kind of what our forefathers/mothers were looking for when they entered this country.
The large narrative created by the aforementioned myths is that "white culture" is under attack in the form of invasion by brown people and for that matter, all people of color. This narrative not only became the core of the nativist and white-supremacist assault on immigration but also was the essential story told to people on right-wing media such as Fox news and now popular on Alt-Right internet blog sites.
I have read many of Anderson's past letters and editorials. I have often been both bemused and troubled by his continual narrative of the poor beleaguered white male, always blaming someone else (The Other) for the demise of white civilization, and his perceived dwindling of white privilege.
Let's face it, beneath Anderson's dog whistle braying about immigrants "lies the ancient drumbeat of white identity politics, a fear of nonwhite people who speak foreign languages and follow alien creeds. These people embody the Other: non-or sub-human beings whose presence is felt as a form of degradation," according to Neiwert. Anderson may claim not to know this, but that means he is either very naïve or very ignorant, both unacceptable excuses for his postulation.
Anderson's statement about immigrants was more than naive and deceptive, it was harmful, hurtful, and detrimental to democracy. I bet my husband's Mexican mother is just rolling in her grave.


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Melbourne secures 40 business events worth AUD$150m
Melbourne Convention Bureau (MCB), Australia, has announced it has secured 40 business events worth AUD$150m (US$109m). This adds to MCB's pipeline of 118 business events between 2022-2028 that the Bureau says will attract 133,495 delegates, filling 387,372 hotel room nights and injecting $804m into Victoria's visitor economy. Julia Swanson (pictured), chief executive of MCB, said: "Driving econom...
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ATEC calls for clarity over the re-opening of international borders
Australia's export tourism industry is awaiting the announcement of the exact date for the reopening of international borders. With the announcement that New South Wales (NSW) will no longer require quarantine for overseas arrivals from November, there are now calls from the tourism industry for a date to work towards. Peter Shelley (pictured), managing director of the Australia Tourism Export Cou...
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Australia to ease border restrictions
Australia's export tourism industry, 1 October, welcomed the announcement of the reopening of international borders beginning next month. The move is being seen as the first phase of the roadmap for reopening international borders for both outbound and inbound travel. The announcement confirmed restrictions will be lifted in November for fully vaccinated Australians on all inbound and outbound tra...
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ICC Sydney launches webinar series for digital event organisers
International Convention Centre Sydney (ICC Sydney) is launching a new conversational webinar programme, 'Events in Focus', showcasing insights into the planning and delivery processes of digital events. Brian Nash, ICC Sydney's director of audio visual services, said: "We kick off the webinar series by introducing events delivered with a digital component. Through the webinar series, our team tal...
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Cairns Convention Centre mass vaccination hub gets underway
The Cairns Convention Centre in Australia has become a mass vaccination hub, as the venue team does its bit to help the business events industry get back on its feet. Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service (CHHHS) will be using the Centre as a Vaccination Hub for at least four weekends to boost the vaccination numbers in the region. As of 15 September, only 34% of Australia's population...
Mack doubles up to lead on Business Events, as Australia puts emphasis on domestic programmes
The new head of Business Events Australia (BEA), Robin Mack (pictured), has said the focus is on newer domestic programmes due to the pandemic. Mack has been in the role for less than two months, taking over from previous head, Penny Lion, following the company's recent pandemic-related reorganisation. This new role combines his past responsibilities as Tourism Australia's executive general manage...
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Research from Tourism Australia suggests optimism over industry's future
Tourism Australia has released the Business Events Consumer Demand Project (CDP), 19 August, which indicates that despite the ongoing challenges of Covid-19, association and incentive decision makers are optimistic about the industry's future. The CDP research surveyed 163 decision makers from the association sector and 354 from the incentive sector in 11 of Australia's key markets aimed to better...
ICC Sydney says G'day to new director of HR
International Convention Centre Sydney (ICC Sydney) has announced, 17 August, the promotion of Luke Fleming to the role of director of human resources. Previously in the role of senior manager of Human Resources Shared Services, Fleming has stepped up to steer the Human Resources department, which is responsible for the permanent and casual workforce at ICC Sydney. Fleming is also a diversity and ...
Illuminate 2021 aims to light the way for Australian travel industry
Illuminate 2021, an Australian travel industry's corporate travel management event, is set to return in October 2021. Based on a 'Time to Fly' theme, the event will be hosted by the Australian corporate arm of Flight Centre Travel Group and aims to capture the importance of doing business in a post-pandemic world. James Kavanagh, Flight Centre Travel Group managing director for Australia, said: "A...
ATEC aims to make Australian tourism industry Restart Ready
Following its 'Road to Recovery' tutorial webinar programme, ATEC, Australia's Tourism Export Council, is gearing up to launch a new series 'Restart Ready', commencing with a focus on the wellbeing of tourism business owners across the country. The Restart Ready programme will introduce tourism businesses to a recently launched programme, NewAccess for Small Business Owners, a free and confidentia...
ICC Sydney hosts 156 virtual and hybrid events over past year
International Convention Centre Sydney (ICC Sydney) successfully delivered a further three virtual events in the first week of August, bringing the total number of in-house virtual or hybrid events to 156 over the past year. Connect Media's Healthcare Leaders Forum, Landcare Australia's National Landcare Conference and The Law Society of New South Wales' Specialist Accreditation Conference all uti...
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After being one of the highest-performing countries during the early portion of 2021, Australia's hotel occupancy has been on a rapid decline amid the latest Covid-19 lockdowns across the country, according to data from STR through 1 August. Matthew Burke, STR's regional manager for the Pacific region, said: "New and extended restrictions amid the latest outbreaks have undoubtedly affected perform...
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Lots of todays automotive companies try to comply with a consistant type in their automobile line-up. The design of the cars are typically related to each other though one could possibly be a sedan and the other an SUV. Automotive Know-how: Ideas, Diagnosis, and Service (fifth Edition), by James D. Halderman James D. Halderman Barry Hollembeak James D. Halderman Mobipocket. Governments have been driving automotive growth for decades. Initially, they focused on security, particularly passive security. The method started with seat belts and padded dashboards and moved on to airbags, automotive black bins," and rigorous structural requirements for crash-worthiness, in addition to requirements for emissions and gasoline economic system.
Automotive engineers with five to ten years of expertise can earn between £35,000 and £50,000, while senior professionals can earn as much as £70,000. They're promoting a 100k pacificas a 12 months which is identical as Honda sells Odyssseys or Toyota sells Siennas. Plus they're nonetheless shifting 100k Grand caravans. Sylvie Abagayire is the only woman within the technical department. The good service she gives has earned her a promotion as head of electronics at ATECAR.
Expanding the Bicycle Network is a crucial strategy within the City's effort to scale back visitors congestion and help a clean, green and wholesome mode of transportation. When you find a good repair shop which you can trust to do nice work and offer you wonderful service, then be joyful to pay them their price and take your cars to them whenever you want them serviced. Building a relationship with a great shop can be good for you and good for the shop.