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Good advice (for students and parents) on dealing with exam stresses.
Congratulations to the following winners of the 50:50 club who were drawn from the hat during our meeting tonight.
In March year NASA scientists were asked how many decimals of the mathematical constant pi (π) they use when making calculations.
The answer is — fewer that you would think. Even with a spacecraft that’s 12.5 billion miles away!
Another opportunity for students interested in the sciences for a summer placement. This one is with Nuffield Research Placements that give students the opportunity to work alongside professional scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians for 4 – 6 weeks over the summer holidays.
Applicants need to be in the first year of post-16 studies and studying one or more A-levels (or equivalent) in maths, science, engineering or a technology-related subjects. Students also need to have have five GCSEs (or equivalent) at grade B or above, including Maths, English and a science.
Nuffield offer weekly bursaries to students who meet one of their criteria for support. They are particularly keen to encourage students with no family history of Higher Education, or who have not had the opportunity to participate in an enrichment activity of this nature before, to apply.
To learn more read the information for applicants on the Nuffield Foundation website.
Trinity Gardens come to life!
To learn more, read their latest blog post and we have a permanent link to their blog from this website.
Trinity Academy Under 18s won the Edinburgh Schools Under 18s rugby 7s championship.

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In Gibson we currently have one public library. EveryLibrary.com includes information on the following public libraries in Gibson, Louisiana. Choose a library in Gibson for more information on the resources available including books, digital media, movies, computer resources, budget information and directions.
This library is a Central Library serving a population of 17,883 offering 44,050 books to 61,039 annual patrons.


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The traditional version of this fairytale ballet brings to life the story of Clara, Fritz and their eccentric uncle, Drosselmeyer.
A perennial favourite for the festive season, the traditional version of this fairytale ballet brings to life the story of Clara, Fritz and their eccentric uncle, Drosselmeyer.
Featuring the dancers of the CAPE TOWN CITY BALLET, joined by a cast of Cape Town’s younger dancers.

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Imprint Events Las Vegas, formerly AWG Destination Services, is a nearly 50 year old company with 27+ years' of experience in Las Vegas. We are a full-service DMC and experiential event group that seeks to create one-of-a-kind experiences for our clients… events with identity. We understand that every event is different, but to us, each is equally important. Our boutique-style approach offers comprehensive design and execution strategies providing solutions for everything from high-level corporate meetings with in-house content driven products to custom activities, transportation and special events.
Our diverse team of industry experts have over 507 combined-years of experience bringing energy, originality and unerring customer service to every event we produce. An Imprint event has character, it’s just in our DNA. We are committed to delivering creative and distinct experiences for your guests so no one Imprint event ever feels the same. That’s the Imprint way. We invite you to experience the difference!

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Thought this was Freddie Flintoff when I heard it a couple of months back. But I am deaf, and stupid.
now, that would have been prescient of them.
is this some fantasy football squad or some'at?
I thought it was your death list at first De L.
Kevo or Matthew Wood? Malevolence or good?

industry_corpus2: Sports


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Earlier this year it was revealed that video game publisher Square Enix had decided to part ways with developer IO-Interactive. This left the future of the popular Hitman game series, created by IO, with a large question mark next to it.
Yesterday the Hitman Game of the Year Edition, which was announced last month, was released. To mark the occasion, IO-Interactive CEO Hakan Abrak released a statement. And in this statement, he made Hitman fans very happy by confirming that the developer, now operating independently, is working on the next game in the series.
A Game of the Year Edition has been announced for Hitman, the latest entry in the hit series developed by IO-Interactive.
IO has released an announcement trailer for the new edition, and has also offered details on what it will include, when it will be available, and how those who already own the game can upgrade.
You can find all of this below.
The Hitman video game franchise been up in the air in recent weeks, making longtime fans of the series very nervous. Square Enix, who published the last two main games in the series, 2012’s Hitman: Absolution and last year’s episodic release simply titled Hitman, and also developed mobile games for the series such as Hitman GO and Hitman: Sniper, decided that they were going to part ways with the creator and developer of the games, IO-Interactive.
Square Enix attempted to sell IO-Interactive, but instead IO was able to buy themselves back, making them an independent developer once again. We still don’t know exactly what the future holds for the Hitman franchise. But to kick off their return to independence, IO has decided to make the first location in their episodic game available to play for free.
You can read more about it and watch a video below.
The latest entry in the Hitman video game series is changing things up a bit. Instead of releasing the entire game at once they’re going episodic this time around, releasing multiple parts of the game over the course of the year. They’ll also be releasing special contracts and challenges to take on each week.
The hope is that, in doing this, they can keep fans of the series busy and entertained for many months instead of them getting it and beating it in a matter of days or weeks and moving on to something else.
The start of this assassination journey arrives on March 11th when the first of these episodes will be released. In celebration of its arrival, a season premiere trailer has been released, which includes plenty of peeks and praise. You can check it out below.

industry_corpus2: Gaming


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For the pig farm with 10.4 thousand sows in the Belgorod region holding Rusagro will pay 1.8 billion rubles immediately and another 1.9 billion will go to repay the debts.
The Rusagro group acquired two companies - CJSC Capitalagro and OOO TD Capitalagro, the agroholding said. Both companies are the structures of the Belgorod meat producer "Capitalagro". This company has been operating since 2010 in the Belgorod region and calls itself the first Russian producer of marble pork. This type of meat the company receives from the pigs of a particular breed, bred by crossing and selection of several elite breeds. During the maintenance, animals actively move, increasing muscle mass, the description on the company's website says: the meat turns out to be bright pink with a marble pattern.
"This asset has a synergy with other assets of Rusagro." As a result of the transaction and the development of this asset, Rusagro will increase its share in the pork market and cut costs, "says Rusagro CEO Maxim Basov.
Earlier, the newspaper Kommersant called the former owners of Kapitalagro. The owner of 50% in the TD was the chairman of the Belgorod regional Duma Vasily Potryasayev, but from March 3, 2015 his share was in trust with Sergei Chebotarev. Another 35% was at the former vice-mayor of Belgorod Alexander Pashkov, 15% - from Ivan Roshchupkin. While the distribution of shares in the TD has not changed. CJSC Capitalagro is 100% owned by Chebotarev.
The deal with Rusagro included pig farms with 10,400 sows and a slaughterhouse with an annual capacity of 400,000 heads, the buyer said. The transaction amount is 1.8 billion rubles, the company said. Whether she takes into account the debt or not, there is not specified. The net debt of the acquired companies is 1.9 billion rubles. This means that the group "Rusagro" pays the seller 1.8 billion rubles. and it still has to repay the debt of 1.9 billion rubles., explained the press service explanation of Basov. In addition, "Rusagro" is going to invest about 300 million rubles. in the modernization of farms and slaughterhouses. As a result of the transaction, Rusagro will increase its market share in half-carcasses, large and small pieces, agroholding reports.
The Rusagro group is controlled by the family of ex-senator from the Belgorod region Vadim Moshkovich. Agroholding is the third largest pork producer in Russia with a share of 5.4%, which produced 207 420 tons of pork in 2017, according to the National Union of Pigs.
Buyers lose interest in "White Bird"

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Mapecontact SRT is a double-sided, sound dampening, foam-core, dry-film tape for rapidly and permanently installing solid vinyl sheet, vinyl tile, and vinyl plank flooring, as well as prefinished engineered or solid wood. Mapecontact SRT allows for immediate foot traffic after installation and features unlimited working time. This feature is controlled by simply leaving the release liner in place protecting the adhesive film from dust and other debris. The release liner also acts as a finished floor protection film by simply folding it back over the installed floor.
Mapeguard WP 200 is a thin and flexible, two-sided, nonwoven, polypropylene fabric, used for both waterproofing and crack isolation under ceramic, porcelain, and natural stone tiles. The laminated fabric webbing is designed to anchor the membrane to the substrate and tiles to the membrane using the bonded thin-set method with recommended, polymer-modified mortars. Mapeguard WP 200’s low perm rating performance is ideal for vapor protection in showers and wet areas.
Mapesonic™ RM is a high-performance, acoustic underlayment designed to reduce the passage of ambient and impact sound transmissions for ceramic tile and stone installations. Composed of dense post-consumer rubber, Mapesonic RM provides the dual uses of sound reduction and crack isolation. It is ideal for multi-floor arrangements like apartments, condominiums, college dormitories, classrooms, and office buildings. In addition to noise reduction, Mapesonic RM carries a lifetime warranty when it is used in combination with MAPEI’s tile and stone installation products.

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Almost everyone is talking about the nature of the relationship between Tiwa Savage and Wizkid. There has been wide spread speculation that the two singers are dating, and according to Kimora, Tiwa Savage is the one doing the most.
Kimora Nelson, an up and coming singer who has ‘Queen of Afro-pop’ on her Instagram bio, shared a video on the social media platform, raising questions about the nature of the relationship between Wizkid and Tiwa Savage. The singer who seems to have her eyes on the ‘Afro-pop Queen’ title which Tiwa Savage is famed for, accused the Mavin Records songstress of forcing herself on Wizkid.


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I rediscovered smoothies recently and can’t get enough! I’ve mentioned on the blog before that my youngest son is a picky eater. He’s slowly expanded the veggies he will eat, but it can still be a challenge to get those valuable nutrients in him. After one particularly rough refusal, it dawned on me that we never try to hide his veggies in a smoothie. We did this all the time with his big brother and it worked like a charm! So, I whipped up a green smoothie and passed it along to our toughest critic. He slurped it down and asked for seconds!
So, I’m back on the smoothie train! The thing I love about smoothies is that you don’t need to follow a recipe to make one. Building a smoothie is as simple as pairing ingredients that you have in your fridge and making them palatable enough to slurp down! Ha! While you don’t need a recipe, following one when you are first making smoothies, rebuilding this habit, or when trying new combinations, is always helpful. This Ginger Pear Smoothie may have a few unknown ingredients and it will help to follow the recipe the first time you make it.
Our Kitchen Council member, Kaleigh McMordie of Lively Table, created this immune-boosting ginger pear smoothie with just a few ingredients. She used kefir as the base, which offers probiotics for gut health. She then layers in vitamin C-rich spinach and fiber-filled pears. Let’s not forget about the addition of ginger – it has a bioactive substance called gingerol that may lower the risk of infections and inhibit the growth of bacteria. Put together, this smoothie is creamy and sweet with just enough spice and super refreshing.
Watch the video below before making your own Ginger Pear Smoothie. If my picky eater drank this without a fight, then yours will too! Enjoy!
Add all ingredients to a high-powered blender and blend until smooth. Enjoy immediately!

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Budget Car Rental has launched money-saving offers on U.S. vehicle rentals. Now, for a limited time, customers can rent an economy or compact vehicle for a base rate as low as $17 per weekend day or $129 per week.
Customers can also choose an intermediate SUV for a base rate as low as $23 per weekend day or $149 per week, according to Budget.The rates are available at participating U.S. Budget airport locations through Feb. 28, 2017.
"As a company known for providing value to its customers, we're pleased to bring travelers another great reason to plan a trip and take to the roads," said Scott Deaver, executive vice president and chief marketing officer, Avis Budget Group. "But act fast! Like winter, the low weekend and weekly rates won't be around for long."
The offers are subject to vehicle availability and blackout dates apply. Customers must mention Budget Customer Discount (BCD) Number D726100 and coupon MUWZ018 at the time of reservation to take advantage of these offers, according to the company.

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Founded in 1776, and property of the same family since 1819, Champagne Louis Roederer is today one of the last major champagne houses to be an independent family affair. The annual production of its wines (Brut Premier, Carte Blanche, Brut Vintage, Rosé Vintage, Blanc de Blancs, Cristal, Cristal Rosé) represents just over three million bottles, distributed to 100 countries worldwide. In 1974, almost 200 years after the establishment of the Champagne house of Louis Roederer and 100 years after the creation of Cristal, Jean-Claude Rouzaud decided to create the Cristal Rosé cuvée. To achieve this, he selected old-vine Pinot Noir grapes using massal selection, which involves propagation from the vineyard’s most successful plants.
The Cristal Rosé 2006 is made from the finest Grand Cru vineyards at Aÿ. The limestone bedrock and unique calcareous clay soil enable the vines to attain exceptional fruit maturity complemented by a pure and crystalline acidity that is a perfect evocation of the Cristal style. Today the vineyards are cultivated according to biodynamic principles. This wine is only produced in the very best years.
20% of the juice is vinified in oak tuns, which undergoes weekly bâtonnage. No malolactic fermentation takes place. Champagne Louis Roederer’s Rosé champagnes are produced using the saignée (bleeding) method. A cold maceration lasts five to eight days. The Cristal Rosé cuvée is aged, on average, for six years in the cellars and left for eight months after disgorging to attain the perfect balance.
2006 was a very warm year, characterised by contrasting rainfall patterns. Following an unusually cold and rainy August, a warm, dry September hastened up the ripening process producing distinctive, rich, complex grapes.


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Aid to the Church in Need’s core mission, is to support the suffering Church around the world. By providing our benefactors and potential supporters with up-to-date information, analysis, personal testimony and prayer priorities we aim to not only to encourage support for our cause but also to deepen the faith of UK Catholics and Christians and encourage solidarity for their brothers and sisters in Christ.
Using Legitimate Interest (GDPR), we keep in touch with benefactors who have voluntarily offered us their personal details by providing regular mailings which include Project Country Reports, our international Mirror newsletter, product offers, events and prayer and fundraising priorities. For those who choose to, we also keep in touch through our weekly e-newsletter.
In gratitude for the prayers and support of our benefactors, Aid to the Church in Need always responds with a Thank You letter. If a donation is enclosed with a coupon or online, a ‘No Acknowledgement’ option can be used if you prefer not to receive a letter to save on administrative costs. Alternatively, please let us know your wishes when enclosing your donation.
Where necessary we ask benefactors to provide their telephone number for administrative purposes. This is only used if there is a query about a donation or order payment, product availability or to confirm despatch details.
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To amend the number of mailings you receive, please write to Aid to the Church in Need, phone: 020 8642 8668 or outline your wishes at [email protected] . To help us identify your details, please provide your full postal address and postcode or your benefactor ID, if you have it.
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AfterDeployment is a resource supporting service members, their families, and veterans with common post-deployment challenges. Check out the “Work Adjustment” feature to learn about the changes you might experience when returning to your civilian job after deployment. Take an assessment to determine how well you are adjusting to your work environment. After the assessment, you can watch a number of videos about adjustment and visit the e-library for more in-depth information on how to adjust back to a civilian career.
With Career One Stop’s “Explore Careers” feature you can find wage information, employment trends, and skills needed for any occupation. This feature can also help you learn the different tasks and activities associated with a specific job, what types of tools and technology you will use on the job, and the education and training required for the job. Take an interest assessment to identify careers that fit your likes and dislikes, a skills assessment to determine what careers you are already qualified for, or a values assessment to learn what careers match your beliefs.
The interview process is the most difficult part of a job search for some. What should you do before an interview? What information should you have going into an interview? These questions, and many more are answered by this resource. The website reviews the different types of interviews, what to prepare before an interview, what to do during an interview, and how to follow up after an interview. Take the interactive quiz to determine if you are interview ready!
Ladders’ resume builder helps you build a resume from scratch starting with where to place your name and personal information. As you follow the information entry prompts, you can click on the information icon to get an idea of the job titles, skills, accomplishments, employment history, and education history you should list on your resume. This resume builder takes the hassle out of following a resume template. You can create an account to save your progress and work on your resume when the time is right.
There are many ways we go about choosing which jobs to apply for including the type of job, the job location, among many other criteria. Monster has a long list of ways in which to search, and filter, jobs postings. Along with blogs, templates and other resources relating to job searching Monster.com is one stop for career resources.
The O*NET OnLine Military Crosswalk Search allows you to find civilian career information associated with your Military Occupational Classification. Simply enter your title or code to generate a list of tasks and work activities you may have participated in, tools and technology you may have utilized, and knowledge, skills, and abilities you may have gained. The search also generates a list of interests you may have if you enjoyed your military job, work styles that benefit that job, and work values that are important for success in that position. If you are interested in a civilian career similar to your military job you will find related occupations as well as wages and employment trends associated with those civilian occupations.
Rally Point lets you network with others connected to the military community. The site makes it easy to identify those you know and makes suggestions for other contacts to help extend your professional network. Rally Point is endorsed by a number of Joint Chiefs of Staff which demonstrates existing support in the military community. This is a great tool to grow your professional network.


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Prehistoric Animals: Have you watched the Ice Age Movie? Wasn’t it interesting? It would have been and why won’t it be, as unraveling the life of prehistoric animals is so intriguing.
From the largest prehistoric mammal to the largest prehistoric sea creature, all these animals unique in their own way we’re ready to unveil their own tale. Some were scary, some were ferocious while some were cute and naughty, but the enjoyment was overwhelming.
Today, more than 500 million years have passed, still when you have a look at this prehistoric animals list, undoubtedly, you wallow in the pool of facts about prehistoric animals.
Certainly, you would be surprised to unveil the history of these prehistoric creatures. Starting with the prehistoric sea animals list: Amazingly, the first creatures that were found on our earth roamed in the seas.
Unlike our contemporary ocean animals, strikingly these were jawless and spineless. With the passing time and the changing periods, these ancient sea animals evolved and became the forefathers of vertebrate life on this planet.
You will be flabbergasted to know that some of these prehistoric sea creatures still alive and are living since the time of the dinosaurs. Scroll down and you will find the list of ten prehistoric sea animals out of which five are still alive.
Perhaps, but surprisingly, one of the largest sharks prowled during the Cenozoic period (25 to 1.5 million years ago), these Megalodon were larger than the size of a school bus.
Coexisted with dinosaurs, these were found until the last ice age. This prehistoric sea creature is considered as the largest predator or more precisely the biggest shark that ever lived.
Have you ever heard about “hypercarnivorous” whales? If not, then it is time you learn something about it. Livyatan is that ancient sea animal, which lived approximately 13 million years ago in Miocene Period.
Although its teeth were not as big as an elephant’s tusk, the teeth of this prehistoric creature were definitely the largest in the world that helped it to eat other whales.
Kronosaurus was a pliosaur that lived around early Cretaceous period, i.e. approximately 125 million years ago. It got its name after the King of Greek Titans “Cronus”.
Just like Cronus, who tried to eat his own kids, Kronosaurus loved eating smaller pliosaur. Technically, it was a marine reptile of length 30-35 ft. Its fossil fragments were first discovered by Andrew Crombie in 1899.
Cretaceous seas were once ruled by this carnivorous aquatic lizard known as Mosasaurs. This terrifying prehistoric creature was found around 70 to 66 million years ago during the late Cretaceous period.
Fossil evidence, which was first discovered in 1790 from Maastricht suggests that their length was 50 ft with sharp killer teeth.
With an appearance of a reptile, this is a whale or basically the predatory ancestor of contemporary whales and is about 50 to 85 ft in length. This prehistoric sea creature is believed to exist in the late Eocene period around 30 to 40 million years ago.
A powerful swimmer, Basilosaurus is also known as “King Lizard”. The fossil fragments were first discovered in Louisiana and then in Egypt.
Evolved 100 million years ago, the Giant Stingray survived the ice ages and today it is on the verge of extinction. Lurking around fresh water, this prehistoric creature is really an ancient design with neurotoxin covered spike. Certainly, this prehistoric beast is not going to harm if you avoid fooling around it.
Found in sub-Arctic, temperate and subtropical rivers, Sturgeon is considered 200 million years old. Sadly, today this prehistoric sea creature still alive is on the verge of extinction just like Giant Stringray.
Being the common name of Acipenseridae family fish species, this fish is valued for its flesh and eggs. Beluga, Lake Sturgeon, Alabama Sturgeon and White Sturgeon are some of the famous sturgeons found across the globe.
Also famous as “living fossil” this deep-sea shark is a prehistoric animal, which is harmless to humans. Belonging to the Mitsukurinidae family, Goblin Shark is a ferocious looking huge sized shark.
Discovered in the late 19th century, these have an ancestral history of 125 million years old. They are fond of eating squids and crustaceans and have a stable population. Its length is around 12 ft and weighs approximately 430 to 460 pounds.
Hailing from the Chlamydoselachidae family, this shark is found mainly in the depths of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. This fierce shark with deep cleft mouths is a serpent looking sea animal. Interestingly, the females are bigger than males and have a gestation period of 3.5 years.
It is believed that they date back to the late Cretaceous period and certainly had an ancestral history of 100 million years old.
Remember the movie “Finding Nemo” and how Dory was injured by the tentacles of Jellyfish. It might have thrilled you, but this is no movie. In reality, one the most dangerous animals Jellyfish stings are painful and highly dangerous.
From yellow, pink, blue to purple, you may find Jellyfish in every ocean and is one of the most luminescent prehistoric animals dating back to 700 million years. This is the only prehistoric sea creature still alive, which is expanding and has no backbones.
They love eating shrimps and tiny plants. Their tentacles have stinging cells that paralyze their prey. Technically, it is not a fish and is one of the delicacies of Chinese medicines. Are you amused to learn such fabulous facts about these prehistoric sea animals? If yes, then do not stop now.
Unfold some more interesting things about the prehistoric mammals. Dwelling on the life of ancient animals other than sea creatures, you will be surprised to know that there are around 27 prehistoric mammals. Here you can learn about five prehistoric creatures, some of which are one of the largest prehistoric animals.
The ancient animal names might not sound familiar to you, but after looking at them you may point out that this animal has a resemblance to this prehistoric creature.
When its name shifted from a prehistoric creature to an adjective is not known, but definitely, its size had a remarkable effect on the European mind. This prehistoric beast has many species and its last one Wooly Mammoth lived during the Pleistocene era.
You might have seen its distant relative African and Asian elephants. This is one of the reasons why its earliest remains were found in Africa and Asia.
Lived approximately 10 million years ago, this “saber-toothed cat” was discovered in early 19th century and got the name meaning “giant beast” in 1828. The fossil fragments of Megantereon had been found from Africa to Eurasia to North America.
Don’t you think Diego of Ice Age resembles this Megantereon? Its fossil traces found in North America belongs to Pliocene era which dates back to 4.5 million years.
Brontotherium also was known as Megacerops hailed from the plains of North America and belonged to Late Eocene-Early Oligocene, approximately 35 million years ago.
This herbivores prehistoric animal is a megafauna mammal that weighed 3 tons and was around 16 ft long. This animal might be huge but was the main menu on the tables of mammals like Andrewsarchus.
Speak of the devil and devil is here. Well, it might be an exaggeration of Andrewsarchus character, but undoubtedly this is considered as a giant predator and scariest prehistoric animal. This ancient beast belonged to the middle Eocene epoch, which is certainly the most ferocious prehistoric creature.
In 1923 Kan Chuen Pao first discovered the fossils of this extinct prehistoric mammal in Mongolia. In 1924, it was named in honor of naturalist Roy Chapman Andrews. This carnivorous prehistoric animal of 12 feet in length had powerful jaws and weighed 500 to 1000 pounds.
This “perfect teeth” extinct prehistoric mammal had habitat in the plains of Eurasia and was 10 ft long. Also known as “killer pig” Entelodon just like other prehistoric mammals of Eocene era became extinct.
This ancient animal has the close living descendants wolf and it was an omnivore. Compared to its body, the brain was unusually small and this prehistoric creature weighed around 1000 pounds. The ancient animals names are not only different but so was their features.
You must have enjoyed scanning this write up dealing with the facts of prehistoric animals. Now, when you watch any such movie that has characters based on these prehistoric creatures, then you can remember their names.
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text: A chair with a slender structure that recalls an exotic silhouette. The Italian designer worked on the concept of minimising materials to enhance the decorative power of her creations. She used just a few natural, handpicked contrasting elements: Manila reed tubing (which gives the project its name), oxidised copper for the structure, and leather-wrapped technical cord for the woven seat itself. A special tanning technique and Indian ink dye improve light resistance. The outdoor collection, which is available in shades of blue, aquamarine and green, is completed by a series of accessories made from terracotta, cocciopesto and volcanic stone.


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Can you work out what this advert is selling? Possibly a backpacking holiday somewhere cool and exotic like Brazil or Thailand? Or maybe a shiny new 4×4, perfect for offroad trekking?
Or maybe glorified ibuprofen. That’s right, this is the latest advert for the irritatingly-spelled Nurofen. So what’s my problem with it? Mostly I think they’re kind-of overreaching a bit. Their tagline for the campaign is “for lives bigger than pain”, but what they really mean is “for headaches”.
Nurofen’s Facebook page is filled with stories of people bravely taking their own decisions, living life to the full etc. I guess when you’re competing with every generic manufacturer out there, you’re forced to try to differentiate yourself somehow. That said, I can’t help but feel that the “normal” approach to selling drugs – sciencey words and images or maybe before-and-afters – is more effective than desperately wishy-washy life-affirming claptrap.
In fact, maybe there’s room in the market for a new drug that takes the Ronseal approach – “Headache pills. For when you have headaches. Take two with water and your headache will stop.” At least that advert wouldn’t give me a headache!
Everything Everywhere is the name for the joint venture between Orange and T-Mobile, but that’s about to change. It’s going to become EE, following other companies in ditching words in favour of letters. PricewaterhouseCoopers would rather you thought of it as PwC and Marks & Spencer is slowly moving to become M&S. Even BT hasn’t been British Telecom for more than 20 years, but I’m sure some people still think of it as that.
Unlike EE, the abbreviations for those other companies were all being used by their customers and the media before they were adopted. Everything Everywhere is so new that barely anyone knows what it is and it’ll be gone before they can learn. So EE (can you say it?) will be a terrible abbreviation for what many people have criticised as a terrible name, hence the rebranding.
Like Aviva (formerly Norwich Union) before it, EE can expect to be followed by its former name in explanatory brackets for a while at least. Or maybe the even more awkward construction: “EE (formerly Everything Everywhere, the company formed by the merger of Orange and T-Mobile)”. Awkward and annoying. No wonder Prince went back to his old name.
What is it with delivery? Why do people think this word solves everything?
A few years ago the word was solution – a word that might more reasonably be thought to solve things. Now everything has to be delivered – even things that can’t be.
You can deliver a report, by all means, but how can you deliver goals, visions and the like? Can an organisation deliver, for instance, sustainable communities? Where do you deliver them, and what happens to them in the course of delivery?
Elsewhere I find people “well placed to deliver against our strategic plan” or “deliver on” some ambition or other. Does this mean to achieve or fulfil the plan, or merely to make progress towards it? It is all so infuriatingly imprecise.
Possibly the most fatuous usage I have come across recently was an executive thanking his staff “for delivering so far this year”. He didn’t say what they were delivering or whether they were doing it on time, but the “so far” suggested he was afraid they might stop.
I would like to stop people “delivering cost savings” when they could simply cut costs. If I could achieve this, would I be delivering a word saving?

industry_corpus2: Biopharmaceuticals


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Al Gravola (Aviator47 on ModernVespa) was incredibly helpful and made a significant contribution to the planning for the Tuscan Loop. Al and his wife used to live in the Pacific Northwest, but retired in the Greek Islands. Avid scooterists, Al and his wife organize scooter tours of Tuscany and Provence as a hobby. I had found Noleggio Moto Toscana on my own, but had no clue if they were a reputable rental outlet. I know based on reviews on Trip Advisor for instance that Bici & Baci in Rome which looks like a great place to rent Vespas in Rome, has some serious reputation issues.
When I checked out the shop on Google street view, it looked a little sketchy to me.
I reached out to Al for advice. He came through in a big way. First off he confirmed that Noleggio Moto Toscana was the preferred scooter rental supplier for the Tuscan tours they organize. He also introduced me to Roberto.
Al also very kindly suggested a moto tour looping route: the Tuscan Loop.
The starting point, Pontedera, is the opposite of Volterra and is not at all a tourist town. It's pretty much like every mid-sized town in America, with recently built residential and commercial properties, and thoroughfares that are paved with asphalt and reasonably wide. From a tourist's perspective it's not much to look at.
Roland, yours truly, and Sonja, in that order, with Roland leading the way and Sonja riding sweep, made our way out from Pontedera and south in the direction of Volterra, following the route that Al suggested.
Along the way we encountered roundabouts (in Montreal we call them traffic circles, and they are the exception in Canada rather than the rule). Along our route there were too many roundabouts to count. I now consider myself semi-expert in the ways of roundabouts.
I have to say I'm a fan, but the Garmin GPS we used on our road trip in the rented car was not nearly as good at roundabouts as I am. "Enter roundabout and take the third exit." Sounds simple when you hear it, no? Counting to no more than three, maybe four, is a skill I pretty much mastered in grade two. Maybe grade three, tops. Brittany, our Garmin gal, must have gone to a different school.
From time to time she had to resort to "re-calculating". Sometimes she did this mere meters from the roundabout. Sometimes, even more irritatingly, she had to re-count within fifty meters of a fork in the road, where manifestly there were only two choices. At least in a roundabout I could just keep going round and round in the circle until I figured out the right exit all by my lonesome. Brittany in a similar fix, just stubbornly stuck to her original inaccurate guess, gleefully sending us off in the wrong direction. She figured she could always take her time recalculating later. After all, if we were on vacation and more laid back than usual, why shouldn't she be relaxed about the trip too?
Roland had no such issues. Following Roland was as reliable as the day is long. He had a TomTom. But I'm convinced it's Roland, not the GPS. Roland is just a damn fine navigator of Italian roundabouts. And that's that.
As the town yielded to the countryside, the straight roads yielded to twists and turns. I now firmly believe that Italian civil engineers are incapable of going from A to B, or Volterra to San Gimignano, in anything resembling a straight line. In any dimension.
We travelled left, we went right, up we went and down we went. Sometimes very nearly in circles. We traced corkscrews, figure twos, sometimes figure nines. Taking into account differences in elevation, I am reasonably sure we also traced figure eights.
None of this happened slowly. The prevailing speed limit was fifty kilometers an hour. By my estimation we pretty much always went faster than the government intended. Positioned on the road between the two Vespas, I felt like a learner.
I had never ridden 'twisties' like this before. Well perhaps once and very briefly last summer in New Hampshire while riding through a notch behind a couple of motorcycles. But in all honesty, that was, as they say these days, a fail. And this day in Tuscany I was struggling as well.
I'm not entirely to blame. I countersteer pretty well. I understand the principle, and the practice. But my Vespa, like Sonja's Vespa, suffers from a significant disability. Left turns are a huge psychological challenge. It's all the fault of the cursed Vespa side stand. On a good left hand sweeper, that @#%?% side-stand does its level best to scrape a furrow in the asphalt. If it sounds terrible, and trust me it does, it feels even worse, and the mental image it conjurs of the bike vaulting off the side stand into a high side spill, is psychological torture.
I knew I was riding what is quite possibly, outside of the moto grand prix circuit, the most stable motorbike ever built. I knew the MP3 can out-lean most motorbikes. I had seen the videos on YouTube of MP3s in the Los Angeles canyons heeled way over with showers of sparks trailing from the centre stand. But Pavlov and his susceptible hound had had their way with me. Curses.
On the right-hand sweepers I was countersteering with brio and leaning just right, following Roland's impeccable line with assurance. On the lefties (how ironic for a southpaw), the Vespa side-stand-o-phobia got the better of me. Looking in my left mirror, I could see Sonja's side stand and the narrow sliver of daylight between the stand and the asphalt dwindling away. Her sidestand was psychicly grafting itself onto my MP3 and it was taking a lot of conscious effort to shake the feeling as it sapped my confidence in left-handers. I guess they call them sinistras in Italy for a reason. Yikes.
Some of my left sweeps went wayward, taking me into the left hand lane like a rookie. I had discussed my sidestand issues with Sonja back at the shop in Pontedera. She candidly offered that she hated her sidestand for it, and admitted to cringing when the bad scrapes rattled the bike. But Sonja is a seasoned rider with years of experience earned since before her time in Canada. I am not.
Still, I did my best to earn my keep. At one point, after a decent section of tight S turns, Sonja hit the intercom and remarked that my line in that series was near perfect. Coming from Sonja, it meant the world to me. Roland offered similar words of encouragement. He said that the MP3 looked amazing leaning deeply into the turns. With fellow riders as gracious as Sonja and Roland, any moto tour would be memorable, with or without the unending moutainous twisties.
This tour was nevertheless heaven on two wheels.
A sharp right turn at a T in the road followed by a series of climbing twisties brought us to the ancient walled city of Volterra.
Remarkably, Italians allow motor vehicles right into the heart of these patrimonial treasures. Riding through the massive midieval city gate, and cruising sedately through the narrow passages, I felt like we were crusading knights on trusted steeds. The visor on my helmet raised, I surveyed the town with what I imagined to be a knight's noble gaze from the saddle of my MP3.
Roland found the dedicated motorcycle parking and we parked as the rules suggested we should. Roland is characteristically Teutonic in his appreciation of, and respect for, society's rules. They exist for a reason, and they deserve to be heeded. If only he knew what a passionate scofflaw my inner Vespisti is. He might blush.
We strolled Volterra's by-ways, finally settling on a tiny little restaurant. The intriguing feature of the place was the glass floor revealing the structure of foundations from a long ago and otherwise forgotten past. We settled into an outdoor table, and I followed Sonja and Roland's cue, opting for bruschetta and a soft drink. In my case, an order of cheese bruschetta and a fizzy lemonade.
I was not disappointed. The bruschetta was broiled to perfection, the ample cheese melted over the four crusty slices of bread, with crisp lacy edges all around. My mouth waters as I write this on the plane to Paris for our connecting flight to Montreal.
We indulged in a relaxed friendly chat, comparing notes on Tuscany, the value of fresh locally sourced ingredients, temporarily forsaken diets, the unsuspected wonders of Vespas as touring vehicles, and the beauty of the Tuscan countryside.
We slowly made our way back to our bikes, saddled up once more, and followed Roland out of Volterra. Roland pulled over so we could record the view of the Tuscan valley spreading out below Volterra.
I crossed the road to snap a properly framed shot of our little group. I lay back on the grassy embankment, taking up as little space as I could. A large transport van loomed into view, passing me with what seemed to be inches to spare beyond my toes. There is enough room on these two-lane provincial stradales for two vehicles to pass abreast. Just.
We had settled on San Gimignano as the next stop on the journey along the Tuscan Loop.
I dragged myself out of bed at the villa we rented in Cappanori just southeast of Lucca. The neighborhood rooster made my iPhone alarm redundant.
I showered, grabbed by motorcycle jacket and photo gear, pulled on my summer riding gloves and climbed into the back seat of our rented Fiat 500L.
It was seven-thirty as we pulled up and out of the steep gravel driveway and began weaving our way through the narrow, twisting, hillside backroads headed to Noleggio Moto Toscana in Pontedera. My son Jonathan took the wheel hurtling around blind corners with Italian brio. My son Andrew rode shotgun handling the GPS, adding timely hints (no! Right, hard right!) and blasting tunes from his iPad over the Fiat's Bluetooth.
We pulled into the rental shop's parking area. The front door to the shop was wide open. A comforting sight. I'll be the first to say that the shop doesn't look like much, but never judge a book from its cover, as the saying goes.
I strolled into the shop lined with Vespas and a few motorcycles. I spotted a distinguished looking gentleman in the glassed-in office at the back of the shop. Guessing it was Roberto, I introduced myself.
He rose to greet me, struggling somewhat with a pair of crutches. He made a face explaining the cast on his foot. He had been riding and was sideswiped by an errant driver. Having experienced what it means to drive in Tuscany the previous day, twisting our way to Siena, and on to Montefioralle, it's a wonder to me that half the riders in Tuscany aren't hobbled with broken limbs.
As Roberto worked on the inevitable paperwork, I selected a helmet. I settled on a copter style open face helmet with a full face shield. I would have picked a modular, but that option wasn't available. I wear vintage Bausch and Lomb aviators with loop-around arms. A full face helmet just wouldn't have worked.
I dutifully signed the rental forms, here, here, and there, inserting my signature opposite Roberto's X marks. I'm a lawyer, so I read nothing.
Roberto went about the remaining paper-shuffling with the enthusiasm you might expect. I busied myself with the helmet, installing my Sena SMH10 headset which went on without any difficulty at all.
Satisfied with that bit of work, my attention returned to the business of getting a bike ready to roll.
The black Piaggio MP3, the only MP3 in the shop, was parked Italian style, the second to last bike in the long line of bikes in the shop. Roberto grimaced at his foot, and apologized that his colleague would be there soon to get the bike out. I asked if he minded if I took on the challenge. He sized me up quickly. I guess I looked convincing enough in my Corazzo 5.0 jacket with the ModernVespa patches and 10,000 mile badge. Roberto nodded his approval.
When I say that the bikes were parked Italian style, you'll understand if you've ever been to a major Italian city, like Rome, or Florence.
You can certainly wedge a piece of paper between the bikes, maybe even a piece of cardboard. But that's about it. I angled the handlebars on the MP3, then angled the handlebars on the neighboring BMW GS, sucked in my gut, held my breath, and edged myself between the bikes.
The MP3 was on the centre stand. I straddled the bike. Roberto was quite focused on the proceedings. I held the rear brake firmly and rocked the bike off the stand. With the back wheel locked, the bike barely moved forward and dropped off the stand. Roberto looked at Jonathan and Andrew and said appreciatively "your father knows what he's doing". He looked visibly more relaxed now. I released the MP3's parking brake, turned on the ignition and released the front wheel locking mechanism. I gingerly walked the bike out of its parking spot into the open area in the centre of the shop, executing a four or five-point turn. Roberto added "your dad's really good!" There have been prouder times in my life no doubt, but I confess that I couldn't think of any at that precise moment.
I flipped the kill switch to the run position, held the rear brake and hit the starter. The MP3 stuttered to life, purring gently in the confines of the shop. Keeping a little pressure on the rear brake, I twisted throttle and rode the bike to the shop door. I negotiated the door sill, angling the handlebars gently left then right to avoid touching the door frame.
I hit the switch to lock the bike's front suspension which holds the bike in a vertical stance, and engaged the parking brake. As I switched off the ignition I found Roberto had followed me out. He patiently explained how to use the ignition key's multiple functions to release the rear trunk, the underseat storage, and the fuel filler lid.
Much of the explanation was lost on me because Sonja and Roland had pulled up to the shop on their Vespa GTSs and half my attention was focused on them. Fortunately Roland was paying attention and he was able to show me how to unlock the underseat storage a little later on. Sonja's orange Vespa GTS 300 i.e. Super Sport is a brand new bike purchased in Germany. Roland's red GTS is the bike he had in Vancouver. I had ridden behind that bike a few years back.
We indulged in the inevitable rider chit-chat while I stowed my camera gear and rain jacket in the MP3's storage compartments and installed the RAM mount for my GoPro camera on the right mirror stem. A few more minutes were lost as we struggled to pair our Sena helmet headsets. With those preliminaries dispatched, I said goodbye to my sons, we saddled up, fired up the bikes and merged into the morning traffic on the Via Pisana.
None of us had eaten, and we all needed to gas up, so a few pit stops were in order. We stopped first for some coffee followed by a refueling stop.
Then we hit the road headed southeast towards some of the very best spots Tuscany has to offer.
In a word, that's Venice.
It's that, and impossibly romantic.
Can anyone think of a more romantic place on earth? Perhaps the universe? I can't. I tried. There are any number of places that certainly compete for the number two spot. But rivals to Venice for the crown? None I can think of. That's Venice.
The other thing I couldn't summon, was any time I had gone for days on end without seing cars, buses, motorbikes, or even bicycles. Venice is heaven for pedestrians. Pretty much what heaven must be, minus the angel wings. And clean too. Even the canals were clean. The water, some shade of pale green. I am tempted to say emerald green, but my inclination to colour-blindness robs me of the confidence to say so. Susan marveled that there were pigeons, but no visible pigeon-poop. Where is the pigeon poop? Yes, it's that clean. That's Venice.
Venice has alleyways that, if you were anywhere else on earth, you wouldn't dare venture into without trepidation. In Venice, when you first encounter such a passage, barely more than a person wide, dim, crooked, sometimes with only a sliver of sky visible overhead, with no one around you, and no visible end in sight, you hesitate. Every urban instinct is an angel perched on your shoulder whispering ¨really?¨. You advance warily, your fight or flight instincts on tippytoes. Then, walking confidently in your direction, not a care in the world, is a woman. Unaccompanied by burly men. Alone and carefree. That's Venice.
You get used to it. Wandering home from the restaurant in Canareggio; headed in the general direction of the Rialto bridge and Piazza San Marco; in the dead of night; no comforting crowds; here and there the occasional knot of fellow humans; not entirely certain where in the rabbit warren of tiny streets you are, exactly; not entirely certain where your hotel is, exactly. But carefree. Relaxed. A pleasant spring late-evening stroll. That's Venice.
Venice is grand. The grand canal is clearly grand.
Piazza San Marco is very, very grand. It's visually grand.
A city filled with glitsy glass and fantastic masks, silken renaissance fabrics and sleek black lacquer gondolas, a harlequin's fantasy. Yet it all works nicely. That's Venice.
Our train is hurtling south, Firenze-bound. Venezia is behind us. Perhaps forever. Too many other places to see, to be. A must see, that's certain, but perhaps just once. Like an impossibly sweet desert. Once may be just right. That's Venice.
We will only be in Florence long enough to pick up our rented car on Borgo Ognissanti. Then it will be time to fire up the GPS and head to Lucca, for the second stage of this wonderful holiday. Our villa awaits our arrival in Cappanorri, our base for the next five days. We will have visited Venice, Cinque Terre, Rappallo and Portofino, Sienna, Greve in Chianti, Montefioralle, Panzano, Pontedera, Volterra, San Gimignano, Florence and more by the time our Italian sojourn winds down.


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industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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Those who don’t know what I’m talking about please visit IPC Camp 2017 IPC Camp 2016.
It was not organised in 2018. Only reason I found on Quora is this answer by codechef admin @anup - we may not see good participation.
I don’t know what is the plan this year. But personally, I would love If codechef starts organising it again.
So I’m creating this poll to request community members to please vote here. A huge response may help codechef to decide this year’s fate.
Requesting @admin @anup @vijju123 to please organise this camp this year again.
If codechef decides to organise this camp this year.
I will definitely apply. Would love to become a part of it.
I won’t apply. But this camp will help participants a lot. I would like to see it happen.
I won’t apply and I don’t care. Codechef is doing a good job by not organising this camp.
How do I pin it??
can beginners can take part in that too?
This is not for beginners for sure. CodeChef came up with https://www.codechef.com/school/workshop/ for beginners this summer.
They organised https://www.codechef.com/school/workshop/inoi-2019 in January’19. Maybe they will do the same next year.
If not this may be a summer camp would also be a good option especially for 2nd year students like me.
Join https://www.codechef.com/school/workshop/inoi-2019 next year. If they organise. Or demand this in next Jan.
Definitely. Codechef must organize bootcamps regularly. India is seriously lacking quality bootcamps.
This is not true. Maybe you need to look around better.


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In England, Ashwin has managed just 11 wickets from five Tests for an average of 30.63 and strike-rate of 67.2.
Former England offspinner Graeme Swann has endorsed India’s R Ashwin as the best spinner in Test cricket, ahead of Australia’s Nathan Lyon.
Ashwin, 31, has played 61 Tests and taken 324 wickets from them. Of these, 225 have come in India at an excellent average of 22.79 and strike-rate of 49.4, with 20 five-wicket hauls and six ten-wicket hauls in a Test. In England, Ashwin has managed just 11 wickets from five Tests for an average of 30.63 and strike-rate of 67.2.
Lyon, 30, is Australia’s most successful finger spinner wth 306 wickets from 78 Tests, at 32.21 apiece and a strike-rate of 62.7. Lyon has fared less successful in Australia, with 139 wickets in 37 home Tests. In eight Test matches in England, his 25 wickets have come at 30.20 apiece and his strike-rate there is 61.2.
Asked if he regarded Ashwin as the best spinner, Swann replied in the affirmative as far as Test cricket was concerned, and spoke highly of Afghanistan legspinner Rashid Khan.


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The Trump administration on Monday continued its battle to keep chlorpyrifos available for use on more than 60 crops, asking an appeals court to reconsider its decision to reinstate an Obama-era ban on the chemical, which has been linked to developmental deficits in children.
The Trump administration appears ready to go to the mat for chlorpyrifos, a widely used pesticide that has been linked to developmental disorders in children whose mothers were exposed to it during pregnancy.
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The department said use has declined steeply from more than a decade ago. Growers have struggled to find a replacement. They have switched to more pest-resistant crop varieties and tried alternative ways to control pests, including disruption of their mating cycles.
The original ban, enacted in November 2015, was the result of pressure from lawsuits brought by environmental groups. Those groups cited studies that linked the nerve-agent chemical to enduring intellectual deficits in children born to mothers who were exposed to the pesticide during pregnancy.
“The EPA has never made any such determination and, indeed, has itself long questioned the safety of permitting chlorpyrifos to be used within the allowed tolerances,” New York District Judge Jed S. Rakoff, who was filling in on the 9th Circuit, wrote for the panel in August.
Environmentalists vowed to continue their opposition to chlorpyrifos.
“The Trump administration is shameless in its refusal to ban this dangerous chemical that is poisoning our children’s brains,” said Erik Olson, senior director of health and food at the Natural Resources Defense Council, one of the environmental groups that originally petitioned the EPA to ban the chemical in 2007.
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text: The Railway Museum at Mysore, the first regional Rail Museum in India was set up in 1979. The Museum sets a good pattern for regional display and has good collections. A circular gallery called Chamundi Gallery has interesting collections of photographs, series of paintings showing the development of the Railways and signaling signs right from its inception. The adjacent building named Sri Ranga Pavilion houses two Royal coaches that formed part of the Royal train of Maharaja of Mysore reflecting the era of bygone splendor. This pavilion incorporates in its construction beautifully carved wooden pillars, doors and balustrades from the old Srirangapatna Railway Station. It is said that these carved wooden works came from the wooden royal palace of Mysore, destroyed in a fire accident. The saloon used by the Maharajas is now at the National Railway Museum at Delhi. Mysore Rail Museum has the Maharanis’ saloon, kitchen and dining care unit. The eight wheeler Maharanis’ saloon was built at Mysore Railway workshop in 1899 adjustable to both the broad gauge and meter gauge.


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Chapter 566 – Concentration Camp!
He then proceeded to pass the order to look for those talents as per Yue Zhong’s instructions.
As one of the 6 Demons, her combat strength was truly astonishing. If Yue Zhong could successfully win her over, he would gain another peak-level expert amongst his ranks.
He gazed at her, and his killing intent became thicker. With such a high-level expert as an Assassin, not many could defend against her. If he couldn’t subdue her, then he would rather see her dead.
Yue Zhong wasn’t Japanese, if he insisted on establishing a Japan force, it would be incredibly difficult. Furthermore, he didn’t even intend to in the first place. He had just wanted to obtain some benefits before heading back to consolidate his strength in China.
“Concentration camp?” Yue Zhong hissed and his expression turned extremely ugly the moment he heard those words. This was a notorious institution used during the World War II, and countless people have suffered and died in them.
During the second World War, all the countries involved had some form of such a place. Who knew that it would resurface during these apocalyptic times.
In an area where dirty waters flowed, and there were steel fences and wooden stakes embedded all around, there were dozens of tents and simple wooden cartons. This was the concentration camp set up by the Yaro Gang.
Within this camp, gender didn’t matter, everyone was naked and gathered together for warmth. Around the camp, corpses could be seen strewn around. There were many female corpses, with each of them bearing the evidence of countless abuse and torture.
Near the entrance of the camp, there were rows and rows of dead Chinese people lined up neatly. There were men and women, old and young. It was practically hell.
In this post-apocalypse, many Japanese were cruel to their own people, it was needless to speak about the Chinese and other nationalities.
If even ordinary Japanese became the slaves of other Japanese, then the Chinese, Americans, English and Africans were treated worse than humans.
The moment Yue Zhong neared the camp, he could smell a thick stench of excrement and rot, causing him to feel his bile rush up his throat. He almost wanted to turn around and walk away.
There were many Chinese like Jin Li who revered the Japanese. Over the course of many years, many of these Chinese had assimilated entirely into the Japanese culture. Yue Zhong loathed seeing such people.
The rest of the people in the camp ignored him and just stared at him coldly.
Behind the person, a number of blond Caucasians were rushing towards him.
The moment those 3 Caucasians saw the Tang Replica Sword, their eyes flashed with fear and they turned tail and ran.
Although Tenpyo Saka wasn’t some nationalistic person, she was still proud of her country and people. In her mind, most Japanese were decent people, and would not do such deranged things.
The Chinese had been humiliated by the Japanese, and most of them had lost hope for the future. Although they were all filled with hate for the Japanese, they lacked the strength to do anything. Hence, they could only live on like pigs and dogs. However, they bore a grudge, and now that they had Yue Zhong to aid them, Miao Xi Gui could not help but sob emotionally.
In order to integrate into the local community, there were many Chinese whose later generations had developed and assimilated into the Japanese culture. Many of them forgot their Chinese language and had totally become Japanese. Yue Zhong did not want these people within his ranks as well.
“Yes!” Bai Xiao Sheng then took 10 experts and entered the camp.
That single order from Yue Zhong caused a bloodbath to be shed. A 100-over Yaro Gang members were all dragged out to be executed, and their families were branded as slaves to be given as gifts to victorious people.
Within the concentration camp, Yue Zhong discovered over 160 Chinese survivors. They were all excited about joining Yue Zhong, and becoming part of his troops.
As for the other foreigners within the camp, Yue Zhong directly executed those who had eaten Chinese people, whereas the rest were released.
The Yaro Gang’s city had a total of 50,000 Japanese survivors, and many were talents in their own fields of research and development. Many were sent back towards Sakura Town in preparation to be brought back to China.
There were also various top-of-the-line machinery and manufacturing equipment, which were commissioned to be brought back to Sakura Town as well.
Being in the Shizuoka Prefecture, the Yaro Gang’s city was like a bucket in a body of water. The moment the 3 million zombies launched an assault over here, the city will absolutely fail to withstand the onslaught.
In Yue Zhong’s hands, there were over 2,000 Kingdom of God and Takama-ga-hara captives. The ordinary Kingdom of God soldiers numbered about 700 Japanese. They were just normal people who fought to survive and didn’t particularly swore by any allegiance. Yue Zhong thus incorporated them into the troops belonging to Ida Kyoko, Muto Shin and Yuan Tian Gang, to bolster their strength.
As for the 1,400 Japanese soldiers of the Takama-ga-hara, over 200 of them had weak wills and decided to switch loyalties, and were immediately sent to his 3 subordinates. The remaining 1,200 soldiers were unwilling.
Working together with Kazuki Nobuhiko, Yue Zhong soon gained control over the Yaro Gang’s city, and it regained its peace.
Inside a particular master bedroom within a mansion, Yue Zhong pulled out one of the Jasper Green Fruits and swallowed it. He only had the time now to consume this treasure.
The energy continued to travel along Yue Zhong’s meridians, before finally settling in his mind, and landed on the bronze rune representing the Stealth ability, carving out additional engravings.
The Steel Body skill directly impacted Yue Zhong’s survivability in combat, whereas the Stealth ability was related to his assassination skills.
Haha! Second order stealth! Do I sense an assassin incoming??

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Of course there have only ever been five Holyrood elections, so the SNP’s achievement is “historic” and their constituency vote share the highest “ever achieved” only in the context of a rather short period of time, but nevertheless the statement accurately describes how the SNP have cemented their position as the dominant party in Scottish politics. But politics is all about the narrative, all about momentum and the direction of travel and (whisper it) the SNP are moving backwards.
Having 63 MSPs represents a loss of 6 SNP MSPs since 2011 and means they no longer command an overall majority at Holyrood. Coming within just 2 seats of retaining a majority in a voting system which is specifically designed to avoid that outcome is undoubtedly an impressive achievement, but it is also undeniably a step backwards.
Over 1 million constituency votes is a good headline number, but let’s not forget that it would have taken over 1.8 million votes for Yes to have won the independence referendum.
The SNP’s 46.5% constituency vote share was marginally up from the 45.4% they achieved in 2011 and compares extremely favourably with the 36.9% share with which the Conservatives won the UK general election. But you’d need to have been living in an isolation chamber for the last 3 months not to be aware of the “both votes SNP” campaign which focused on ensuring their supporters voted SNP on both constituency and regional ballot papers. Despite this, their share of the regional vote actually declined from 44.0% to 41.7%.
Add together the constituency and regional votes and the SNP’s combined vote share fell from 44.7% to 44.1%.
So the SNP achieved a thumping victory - but compared to 2011 they received a lower vote share, won fewer seats and lost their parliamentary majority. They can spin their “historic” victory as much as they like, but it is an observation of objective fact that the SNP are in a weaker position now than they were in 2011 prior to the independence referendum campaign.
As for the opposition, the Scottish Conservative & Unionist party saw a spectacular surge in their support while Scottish Labour took a pasting. This has gifted the SNP an explicitly unionist opposition who have to defend the current UK government’s record. It will now be easier than ever for the SNP to deflect attention away from their own record in office by rerunning tired independence referendum arguments and training their fire on the Tories.
Among the also-rans, the Greens passed the Lib Dems who effectively stood still. Some Nationalists argue that if you include the 6 Green MSPs you can say that “independence supporting parties” hold a majority at Holyrood. The problem with this argument is that every SNP or Green vote is not a vote for independence and that these parties combined still hold two less seats than they did in 2011 - so even on this measure support for independence has declined below 2011 levels.
So what does this mean for the prospects of a second independence referendum? Scots voted No to independence when presented with a case that assumed we’d benefit from £6.8 - 7.9billion a year of oil revenues. It’s now clear that the true figure is in fact going to be close to zero for the foreseeable future. That’s a difference between what the Yes campaign claimed and the inconvenient reality of around £1,500 per year for every man woman and child in Scotland. This is before we even start considering issues like what currency we’d use, what would happen to our EU membership terms and other costs of separation. The base from which the SNP have to argue we’d build following separation from the rest of the UK is far worse than they previously assumed. The economic case for independence lies in tatters and Nicola Sturgeon knows it.
The problem for the SNP is that they’re a one-trick pony. Their electoral success shows that it’s been a very good trick, but if you try to repeat any trick too often people eventually work out how it’s done and the magic is ruined. This particular trick only works if you have a credible economic case for independence, and that simply doesn’t exist.
“undertake new work, starting this summer, with the aim of persuading a clear majority of people in Scotland that independence is the best future for our country”.
It's a shame that our First Minister isn't able to even consider the possibility that separation from the UK (like separation from the EU) may not in fact represent the best future for Scotland.
We can only live in hope that, despite their obsession with rerunning arguments they’ve already lost, our newly elected Scottish government finds time to use their extensive powers to improve the lot of those for whom they’re meant to be governing.

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POLICE are warning of a disturbing rise in crimes in which conmen force victims to go to their banks and withdraw cash. The targets are usually elderly and vulnerable homeowners who are cold-called or door-stepped by gangs posing as tradesmen.
They seem plausible and offer to repair guttering, roofs or driveways. Once the 'work' is carried out, the conmen turn nasty, demanding anything up to £50,000 for a few hours' labour.
Any protest is met with threats and when the victims cave in, they are frogmarched to the labourers' van and driven to their bank. Then, while the thugs lurk outside, the victim is forced to withdraw cash.
'We have a lot of complaints about this crime,' says Steve Playle of Surrey Trading Standards.
Playle who is based in Leatherhead, Surrey, believes that the culprits are itinerant crooks, possibly part of travelling communities, who circulate lists among themselves of people who have succumbed once and who, the criminals believe, might well be worth targeting again.
These 'sucker lists' usually feature elderly, single women, often living in isolated locations or quiet suburbs.
Playle became so concerned last year that he involved Surrey Trading Standards, banks, building societies and the police in an initiative to try to stamp it out. The scheme relies on encouraging bank staff to recognise customers under duress. And it is starting to work.
Andrea Lucas, a cashier with Lloyds TSB in Woking, played a pivotal role in the arrest of several criminals in May. Her quick thinking saved one Lloyds customer £ 19,000 and helped the police to catch a gang that they had been tracking for months. Mike Hill, the manager of the town centre branch where the incident happened, says: 'The customer came in with an adult and a child aged seven or so.
In the privacy of a back office, 24-year-old Andrea immediately phoned Trading Standards' rapid response team. Meanwhile, the branch's CCTV cameras were trained on the suspects.
While they waited, says Hill, another member of staff chatted with the customer to keep him at ease. The man cannot be named, but was 'clearly confused and vulnerable', according to branch staff.
As the wait dragged on, the adult suspect left the building, but the child remained and appeared to be watching the victim.
The Trading Standards team arrived soon after, closely followed by police. After a chase, the man outside the branch was arrested along with one other in the same gang.
For Playle, it was a significant coup. He says: 'It is horrifying to think that had they been successful, they might have targeted this vulnerable person again.' He knows of cases where victims have not only lost their entire savings, but have also been terrified and harassed.
Surrey Trading Standards chalked up another victory recently after a woman phoned to say she was facing demands for £2,000 from a gang who initially promised to tarmac her drive for £35.
The men drove the woman, from Farnham, Surrey, to a bank to withdraw the cash, but because of the woman's call, police were waiting at her home when she returned.
The men involved were arrested but later released and the gang leader remains at large. Surrey Trading Standards impounded their vehicle.
According to banks, it is difficult to assess the scale of this type of crime, but it is significant.
• DON'T do business with uninvited doorstep sellers and be wary of anyone telling you that your home requires work.
• BE sceptical of traders offering you their services who also claim to be employed by the council or working on local roads or motorways. Almost certainly, they will be lying.
• DON'T keep large sums of cash in your home.
• BE neighbourly - if you have elderly or vulnerable people living nearby, let them know they can call on you for advice or help if they need it.
• ALWAYS report suspicious people or incidents to the police and Trading Standards. This type of crime is often highly localised and the authorities rely hugely on residents' vigilance to track down criminals. Details of your local Trading Standards office appear in the phone book, or you could find them through your local council.

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Think of a prototypical healthy adult. You’re likely imagining someone who works out, meditates, goes to therapy, journals, contributes to social causes, eats a plant-based diet, and, wait . . . are they married or single? If you’re a regular consumer of popular research, you’d probably say married, citing studies promoting the mental and physical benefits of marriage.
With more than 110 million single adults in America, comprising 45 percent of the population, we therapists need to better understand this growing population as something more than people waiting to find the right partner. In other words, we need to keep our matrimania in check.
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Takuya Sato is going to hold a special event on his birthday.
TRIGGER released today a snippet of music video for “DIAMOND FUSION“, the unit’s new song. The song is going to be released later this month.
TRIGGER are going to release a new music video.
A new promotional video for TRIGGER‘s upcoming spin off series is out. A preview to the unit’s new song “DIAMOND FUSION” is also out.
TRIGGER‘s massive popularity has made the impossible, possible.

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If you're Irish, then you've probably seen the film "In Bruges" starring Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and Liam Neeson. Farrell and Gleeson play criminals sent by their boss (Neeson) to hide under the radar in the quaint Belgian town of Bruges. Farrell's character is frustrated by the dullness of Bruges and sums it up rather funnily in the line "Ken, I grew up in Dublin. I love Dublin. If I grew up on a farm, and was retarded, Bruges might impress me, but I didn’t, so it doesn’t." Rude comments about Bruges aside, the film does a great job of using the spendid setpieces of scenery available in the town, featuring the Belfry, the Main Square and the canals. The film actually turns out to be rather pro-Bruges and I suspect a lot more Irish tourists have visited the town in the last year than in previous years.
Bruges is only an hour by train from Brussels, making it quite accessibe and the train station is about a 15 minute walk from the Main Square. From the minute you leave the station and enter the clean, paved streets, it's clear that you're being taken back in time. That feeling never leaves you as you wander the town. It's clear that the locals fight to preserve the town just the way it is, with a minimum of the modern world allowed to intrude. (Barring a QuickBurger on the Main Square). Sometimes the tweeness of Bruges is too much and you wonder what modern hi-fis and home cinemas lurk behind those perfect curtains, because surely, the modern world has intruded.
We stayed at the Pand Hotel on Pandreitje. It's a small, family owned hotel with superbly welcoming staff and a champagne breakfast in the morning. The rooms were decorated with Ralph Lauren fabrics, possibly to the point of overkill. We were initially shown to a room with a terrible faded floral pattern and I was resigned to the fact that I had made a bad hotel choice. However, after a few minutes in the room, it became clear that there was a weird odour, and when we complained, we were moved to a nearby room, decorated with a red and white pattern. This was a much better choice, and we slept like logs that night. While the bedrooms may be traditionally decorated, the bathrooms are sleek and modern. Breakfast, while good, was not great, but was alleviated by the charming waiter and the glass of champagne. I enjoyed the Pand Hotel, but if I'm ever back in Bruges, I think there might be better hotels.
The following day, we climbed the Belfry, all 366 steps of it (shown at night in the photo above). As you climb higher, the wide stone steps are replaced with narrower and narrower wooden steps, turning the ascent and descent into a fun experience. You'd bettter pray that you don't meet an overweight or breathless person here. It's well worth the climb though for two reasons. Firstly, the sense of achievement and secondly the view from the top.
I was thrilled to also give my new SLR camera its first proper road trip in Bruges. I've a long way to go in learning how to use the camera but some of my nighttime photos turned out quite nice indeed.
Nowadays there is even a much better option to stay: Bonifacius, a very charming 16th century along the canal. It's a private house with 3 guestrooms but with all the luxury of a hotel (minibar on the room, flatscreen TV, free WIFI, jacuzzi,...).

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Through the Looking Glass: GenZ - They're in your classroom right now!
GenZ - They're in your classroom right now!
Why are some students not engaged in class? Are they not wired to learn? Does what we teach have relevance? have context? Are we connecting then to the content? Because for them context and connection are everything!

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River Edge Foundation conducts an annual giving campaign, supported by foundations, corporations, and individuals in the Central Georgia community. Money raised by the annual campaign supports the general operations of River Edge Behavioral Health Center.
In addition to the annual giving campaign, River Edge Foundation is currently conducting a capital campaign to raise money for the River Edge Recovery Center. The Recovery Center will provide care to people in crises in a state of the art facility.