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Top 20 Most Awaited Upcoming Games of 2020
by Aashirvad Kumar · Published 17/10/2019 · Updated 01/02/2020
Every year, thousands of games are released for different devices like PC, PSP, Xbox, and Android phones. Most of these games are good, but there are only a few which makes an impact on our lives,
Like the amazing gaming titles that came out this year, there are some upcoming games of 2020 that are ready to be released soon. Let's have a look at our top 20 handpicked upcoming games of 2020 as follows:
The Complete List of 20 Most Awaited Upcoming Games of 2020
1. Final Fantasy 7 Remake
Since the last decade, Final Fantasy is one of the most entertaining and beloved games being played by most of the gamers. Back in 2015, Nintendo made an announcement to build its remake version that is coming on March 3, 2020.
Everything that we have seen for its remake version suggests that it's going to be an epic release next year proving it as worthy to wait.
2. Watch Dogs Legion
Being Developed by UbiSoft, the Watch Dogs Legion is another best upcoming action-adventure game in which the entire gameplay takes place in the cities of London. You have to play as a hacker who recruits different people, each one with different skills for accomplishing different missions.
All the characters recruited also have their own personal lives which when not being controlled. You can also customize them with several boosters and powerups to make them better. It is coming out on March 6, 2020.
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3. CyberPunk 2077
CyberPunk is an upcoming first-person shooter game in which you play like a fighter in a city where no one can be trusted. You have to play the role of a fighter having skills in hacking and machinery. You will find several friends as well as enemies along the way to your destination.
In a wide-open metropolis called night city, you will find multiple characters speaking different languages. It is being developed by the CD Project Studio and will be released for Xbox, PS4, and Windows on April 16, 2020.
4. Empire of Sin
Empire of Sin is an upcoming crime in which you have to play like a crime boss trying to gain control over the city of Chicago. As a boss, you will be given access to 60 different businesses that you can set up while protecting them from law agencies and other mafia gangs.
The game uses alcohol as currency which can be used to expand your businesses and influence other businesses. It is being developed by Romero Games and will be released for Windows, macOS, PS4, and Xbox in 2020.
5. Marvel Avengers
Marvel Avengers is another upcoming action-adventure game that features a list of characters from the Marvel Universe. The story begins with an incident that results in most of the cities being destroyed while causing the death of Captain America being blamed for the incident.
This deadly event puts the entire world under danger and the only hope left is to resemble the marvel heroes the save the world from destruction. The game is being developed by Crystal Dynamics and will be out on May 15, 2020.
6. Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Ori and Will of Wisps is one of the most anticipated upcoming games of 2020 full of missions and levels. You have to play as an Ori, a white spirit whose core mission is to go through different puzzles and solve them.
Being a sequel of the 2015 hit title Ori and the Blind Forest, they have added some new movements to the game allowing players to access inaccessible areas too.
7. Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Being Developed by Nintendo, Animal Crossing is an upcoming thriller in which the player has to go through different islands. In this release, developers have added a craft feature that will allow you to convert materials into buildings and furniture.
Along with this, they also have introduced Nook Miles, a new in-game currency that you can use to accomplish several tasks and unlock premium items.
8. Vampire: BloodLines 2
Being a sequel of the Vampire: Bloodlines, The BloodLines 2 is an upcoming RPG action game based on the White Wolf TableTop. The entire gameplay revolves around a human who was killed and then revived as a vampire.
In this upcoming release, you will find hundreds of different missions, boosters, and powerups. You can use these powerups and your vampiric abilities to defeat enemies. The game is still under development and will be out on March 31, 2020.
9. Rainbow Six Quarantine
Rainbow Six Quarantine is an upcoming three-player shooter game in which players have to fight against evil forces causing destruction. They are basically zombies who have started infecting humans and it's up to the players to save them from further destruction.
The game is still under development and being developed by the UbiSoft team. It will come put for Xbox One, PS4, and PC in the first quatre of 2020.
10. Phantasy Star Online 2
Phantasy Star Online 2 is an online multiplayer fighting game where players can explore the entire world with their friends. Along the way, players will have to fight battles, collect several rewards while defending them from enemies.
There are several different races available in the game. Players can choose any race and can jump up from one race to another if they want to do so. The game will be released in early 2020.
11. Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
Lego Star Wars is an upcoming open-world adventure game in which players have to go through several Skywalker Saga episodes. Unlike the previous releases, Now, players can choose to start their journey from any of the Skywalker Saga episodes.
Throughout the journey, you will have to experience random attacks and fights with the enemies. You can use several weapons to fight with them. It will be released for PC, Xbox, and PS4 in the first quarter of 2020.
12. Beyond Good and Evil 2
Beyond Good and Evil 2 is another upcoming thriller set in an open world where players have to go through different levels to reach the top level. You have to visit planets on which you will require to accomplish different tasks to gain technology to improve your spacecraft.
The more levels you will accomplish, the better rewards and attributes you will get. You can exchange these rewards for various boosters. It is one of the most awaited upcoming games of 2020 and will come out in Q4 2020.
13. Tales of Arise
Tales of Arise is another adventure gaming title in which the story revolves around the opposing worlds of Dahna and Rena. Dahna has a technological and advanced world, whereas the Rena has a medieval world.
The advanced world of Dahna having superior technology holds to have control over the world of Rena. The game is expected to be released in the third quarter of 2020. It will be initially released for PS4 and Xbox consoles.
14. Way to the Woods
Way to the Woods is another upcoming adventure thriller developed and published by the team of Happy Bee Studios. The story revolves around two deer who have lost their way to shelter and they are finding their way.
As a Player, you will have to help them find food, shelter, and safety while defending them from enemies. It is expected to come out in 2020 for PS4, PC and Xbox consoles.
15. Microsoft Flight Simulator
Microsoft Flight Simulator is a real-life simulation game in which you can feel the experience of being a flight pilot. As a player, you can fly several planes and travel through several countries and continents.
Unlike its previous releases, the recent edition has 4K graphics that make it so realistic that people weren't beliving the fact that its trailer was made out of in-game shots. The game is still under development and expected to come out next year.
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16. Halo Infinite
Halo Infinite is one of the most awaited first shooter game scheduled to be released in 2020. It is being developed by 343 industries team. The story begins with a UNSC soldier and chief getting ready for their new armors.
Unlike its previous releases, this time, you can create your own battle royale mode and invite your friends to play along with you. It is one of the best and upcoming games of 2020 that will totally amaze you.
17. Dual Universe
Dual Universe is a real-life space simulation game in which players can build different creatures and buildings. Along with this, it also allows players to do activities like they do in their real lives. You can explore different places, trade with other players and do politics
Besides that, players also have the ability to reconstruct several in-built vehicles and items. It would be an amazing journey for you if you love adventures and exploring different places. It is still under development and scheduled to be out in 2020.
18. Psychonauts 2
Psychonauts 2 is an upcoming 2020 game in which you have to solve different puzzles to earn rewards. As a player, you have some abilities like telekinesis and pyrokinesis which you can use to explore different missions.
Unlike the last release, you will find better graphics along with 3D platforming and much-needed tweaks. It will be released initially for PC, PS4, and Xbox and you can expect it to release in Q4 2020.
19. Ghost of Tsushima
The Ghost of Tsushima is an action-adventure thriller developed by the Sucker Punch Productions. The gameplay revolves around an open area in which players are free to explore. You can travel through different places by riding a horse.
As a Player, you will also have some weapons like Katana which you can use to fight with enemies. Unless Katana, you can also use Sleath which can silently kill your enemies. It is one of the most awaited upcoming games of 2020.
20. John Wick Hex
John Wick Hex is an upcoming strategic gaming title wherein players have to play the role of a gangster. You will have to go through different levels to accomplish tasks and earn rewards that can be exchanged for in-game items.
You would also require to pick up your enemy's items since you only have 15 bullets in the handgun. Currently, the game doesn't have a release date, but you can expect it to release in 2020.
That's it! These were the best upcoming games of 2020 which you can access in the upcoming year. I hope you found this list of upcoming games of 2020 pretty much useful. If you found it useful, then do share it with your friends to let them know about these most awaited gaming titles.
Also, let us know about the 2020 gaming title you are most excited to get hands-on? Waiting to hear from you in the comment section below.
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It has been colder than HECK here and we are busy getting our home decorated for Christmas! The house lights look beautiful inside and out! Now we just need a tree and decorate it! I am trying some new Christmas recipes, so excited to share them with you!
Thank you so much for featuring my Fall White Wine Sangria!!
G'day Thx for hosting this great party Pinned and shared!


Wendy's 3-D Cats: 3-D FRIDAY FREE-FUR-ALL!
I thought today I would just pick some random pictures of my 3-Ds and their furry FURiends. Each of the photos has something a little interesting about it, but they were never sufficient for a post all on their own.
Domino's in the foreground with neighbour kitty Figaro on the apPURRoach.
Figaro is kept at bay by Dante's imposing presence, while Dylan calmly looks on.
Dante continues to stand in Figgy's way with a look of exasPURRation on his face.
Finally Figaro! He's PURRsistent if nothing else.
Dylan at the reFUReshment stand.
His paws are covering the birdbath kitty's eyes, as he steals the contents of the basin.
It seems that Dylan's chin went for a dip in the birdbath as well. Ah -- reFUReshing!
Here's our gray squirrel FURiend. I thought this picture spoke volumes about how nature and technology are in such close juxtaPAWsition, especially in suburbia.
At first I thought our cute little gray squirrel had a bellybutton, until I looked it up on the internet and realized it's something else altogether! Let's just say it's a PURRivate part.
Here is Domino, calm, cool, determined and in control while on patrol.
Here is Domino calm, cool, and collected while lounging on the bench. She dominates her environment whereFUR she may be.
Dante is sniffing out the hiding place of our tiny furry FURiend.
He knows it's in there somewhere. Come out, come out, whereFUR you are!
In FURustration, boredom or PURRhaps simply fatigue, Dante yawns, displaying his magnificent whiskers in the PURRocess.
And here is the tiny beast who escaped to the safety of our neighbour's tree. I thought the tree itself had such PURResence in this picture, with all its knots and gnarls.
And finally on this Friday, it's a close-up of our little FURiend, Chippie.
You all look fabulous today! Especially Evil Squirrel and Chippie!
Very nice photos. They all have their on personalities.
Excellent photos...we loved seeing your friends!
These were all wonderful photos! It was fun to see all of you and all of your various animal friends!!
I don't get to see little Chippies down South.
Oh look at everyone in the bird bath! I wonder if there were any birds to sniff?
I must say this was a PURRfect post FUR a Friday evening! Thanks, W!!
Dante, Dylan and Domino are definitely rulers of all they survey! Benevolent, but rulers nonetheless.
Fantastic pictures, they tell the story of daily life around your place very nicely.
So glad to see you 3 communing with nature and fellow felines! We watched our squirrel friend tear down grandma's other sunflower head and steal all the seeds! Mom's glad she grabbed the big one before he got it too!
You have lovely friends and neighbors. Love the birdbath shot!
MOL, poor Figaro. can't believe he turned town treats though!


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British man shot dead by French hunter who mistook him for a wild boar
Tom WilliamsFriday 4 Dec 2020 7:39 am
Morgan Keane who was killed after being mistaken for a boar
A British expat has been shot dead in a village in France after being mistaken for a boar while out chopping wood.
Morgan Keane, 25, is thought to have died instantly when a bullet fired by a hunter hit him in the hamlet of La Garrigue, near Calvignac, north of Toulouse.
An unidentified Frenchman, aged 33, was taken into custody following the death on Wednesday afternoon, and he now faces manslaughter charges.
A source said: 'It happened while a boar hunt was passing by the edge of the village just before 5pm on Wednesday. The victim was chopping wood outside his home when a stray bullet hit him.
'The emergency services arrived soon afterwards, but they found that the young man had died on the spot.'
The gunman, who came from Montbazens, had not been drinking alcohol, and was said to be 'mortified by what happened,' said the source. He also had a hunting licence, and was in an organised shoot.
A spokesman for the Cahors Public Prosecutor's Office confirmed that it has since 'launched an enquiry for manslaughter.'
Morgan is believed to have died instantly when he was shot by a 33-year-old French man
Mr Keane had lived in the village for a number of years as part of a British expat family which included his brother.
One of their parents had recently died, according to local sources, and the brothers were looking after family affairs.
'They are friendly, nice boys,' said a near neighbour. 'Everybody is in a state of shock – this is a terrible tragedy..'
Didier Burg, the Mayor of La Garrigue, said Mr Keane 'lived with his brother, and was a quiet and very nice youngster.'
Reacting to the 'terrible accident', André Manié, the President of the Federation of Hunters of the Lot department, offered his 'sincere condolences' to the family of the victim.
Mr Manié said his organisation would 'redouble its efforts for better training and safer hunting practices.'
The incident came the day after another French hunter was jailed for a year for accidentally killing a British man two years ago.
Lucas Clerc a 24-year-old hunter, was sentenced on Tuesday after he admitted shooting Welsh man Marc Sutton (Picture: Wales News Service)
Marc Sutton, 34, and originally from Wales, was fatally shot with a rifle while cycling down a popular route in the French Alps in 2018.
Lucas Clerc, a 24-year-old hunter, was sentenced on Tuesday after he admitted firing the fatal shot, which he said was intended for a wild boar.
Clerc was sentenced to a total of four years, three of them suspended, and was banned from owning a gun for five years, and from hunting for ten.
Two other hunters were also given suspended sentences of between six and 18 months for concealing evidence.
Marc Sutton, 34, and originally from Wales, was fatally shot with a rifle while cycling down a popular route high in the French Alps in 2018 (Picture: Wales News Service)
Mr Sutton had lived with partner Jo Watts in the Haute-Savoie region of France for four years before he was killed on October 13, 2018.
The couple were well-known locally as the owners of two restaurants, one of them vegetarian.
An investigation found that Mr Sutton had been wearing high-visibility clothing and that visibility was good at the time he was shot.
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Attacker breaks woman's teeth trying to steal her bag at Croydon tram stop
The man ran away empty handed towards West Croydon railway station
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Police want to track down this man as part of the Croydon tram stop attack investigation (Image: Google Street View (main) British Transport Police (inset))
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A woman fell to the ground while trying to protect herself from an attacker attempting to steal her bag at a Croydon tram stop in broad daylight.
The victim broke multiple teeth during the horrifying attempted robbery at Reeves Corner tram stop at 11.30am on Tuesday, February 4.
A man approached the woman and tried to rip her bag from her hands, causing her to fall over and hit her face and teeth.
Witnesses challenged the man and he ran away empty handed towards West Croydon railway station, where he is believed to have boarded a train.
Why does West Croydon station have platforms 1, 3 and 4, but no platform 2?
British Transport Police have released a CCTV image of a man officers want to speak to because they believe he may have information that can help their investigation.
Anyone who knows him is asked to contact BTP by texting 61016 or by calling 0800 40 50 40.
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Dominick Dunne's Quarter-Century
Very soon after Vanity Fairrelaunched, in 1983, Dominick Dunne began his career at the magazine with a gut-wrenching dispatch from the trial of his daughter's killer. He hobnobbed with the legends of Hollywood and high society and chronicled the great scandals of our time, from the O.J. Simpson trial to Phil Spector's latest drama. Here, an archive of our beloved diarist's greatest hits.
By Vanity Fair
Justice (March 1984)
Dominick Dunne's account of the trial of his daughter's killer. Ava Now (June 1984)
Ava Gardner: The Love Goddess is still ravishing. The Mortimer's Bunch (June 1985)
Dominick Dunne opens up the carte des etoiles of cafe society's favorite cafe, Glenn Bernbaum's Mortimer's. One gala night, writes Dunne, the place "looked as if it were ready for a children's party, a rich children's party, which is what it was, even though the children were all grown up and divorced themselves." Fatal Charm: The Social Web of Claus von Bülow (August 1985)
During Claus von Bülow's second trial, Dominick Dunne is caught up among the dramatis personae—both sides choose him as their confidant. The children talk, the servants talk, mistresses talk, duchesses talk. And von Bülow himself talks, answering the telling questions: Does he love Andrea? Did he ever really love Sunny? What made him cry when he went back to Clarendon Court? Imelda in Exile (August 1986)
She had it all, and lost it all—or did she? Dominick Dunne penetrated the Marcos hideout in Hawaii for a Vanity Fair exclusive. The Rockefeller and the Ballet Boys (February 1987)
Another spectacular will contest is dividing the dinner parties of tony America. The recently deceased was Margaret Strong, a plain-Jane Rockefeller who always attracted effete men. Her first husband was the ballet-mad Marquis de Cuevas. Her second was nearly 40 years her junior: Raymundo de Larrain, who gave her a wheelchair and new teeth for the wedding. And then, according to her children, milked her out of $30 million. The Fall of Roberto Polo (October 1988)
The swell life of Roberto Polo, who backed charity balls, bought a fashion house, and gave art to the Louvre and the Met, crashed in Italy with his arrest for misappropriating $110 million of his mysterious investors' money. As Dominick Dunne tracks Polo's stupendous sting, a picture emerges of a Gatsby for the Reagan era. Robert Mapplethorpe's Proud Finale (February 1989)
The tragic news that Robert Mapplethorpe was sick with AIDS coincided ironically with the zenith of his critical acclaim as a photographer. His controversial portraits of the beau monde and the leather-bar underworld unflinchingly confronted the era of dangerous sex. Here, as he courageously orchestrates his own exit from the world stage, he talks to Dominick Dunne. Khashoggi's Fall (September 1989)
Lavish villas, perfumed houris, costume balls, fabulous deals with foreign powers and Oriental potentates—Adnan Khashoggi's life was an 80s remake of The Thousand and One Nights. The rumors started during the Iran-contra scandal, and the Saudi arms dealer once touted as the richest man in the world had to resort to such inconvenient economies as selling his famous yacht to Donald Trump. Now, after three months in a Swiss jail, he's been extradited to the U.S. on charges of mail fraud and obstruction of justice. Nightmare on Elm Drive (October 1990)
Did Lyle and Erik Menendez murder their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion and then make taped confessions? Dominick Dunne talks to the mystery witness who says she heard everything, and uncovers the secrets that turned the Menendezes' American dream into a fatal nightmare. The Verdict (March 1992)
Patricia Bowman and the Florida state prosecutors may have been blown away by the Kennedys' pageant of piety in Palm Beach. But as Dominick Dunne discovers in conversations with her mother and stepfather—patriarch of the other Irish Catholic family in the drama—William Smith's victory has not left her in defeat. The Menendez Murder Trial (October 1993)
Lyle and Erik Menendez stand accused of the cold-blooded murder of their parents, and though the brothers have confessed, they are fighting back with a shocking charge: that their Hollywood-executive father sexually abused them. Menendez Justice (March 1994)
After a long trial, two hung juries, and an earthquake, the story of Lyle and Erik Menendez seems murkier than ever. But, in interviews with friends and relatives of the confessed killers, Dominick Dunne debunks the tearful defense of sexual molestation that divided the juries, the press, and the public—and turned a family tragedy into a marathon courtroom drama. L.A. in the Age of O.J. (February 1995)
Barely recovered from four years of Menendez fever, Hollywood is obsessed with the O. J. Simpson circus. Every player in town has his own news and clues, sources and theories. All O.J., All The Time (May 1995)
In the fervid, obsessive world of the Simpson trial, no one ever takes a recess. Nicole's sister, O.J.'s sister, Faye Resnick, Mark Fuhrman—all are creating new plotlines for this dark, unfolding drama. Follow the Blood (July 1995)
The Fellini-esque tone of the O.J. trial has shifted to a grim focus; Ito means business, and even the defense is haunted by conscience. If the Gloves Fit… (August 1995)
Ito's teeth clench, Faye Resnick gets subpoenaed, and O.J. puts his hands into a murderer's bloody gloves. The Two Faces of O.J. (September 1995)
As the defense paints a weak, arthritis-plagued O.J., new questions arise about his actions after the murders. The 'N' Word: Not Guilty (November 1995)
Thanks to his Dream Team's histrionics—and to Mark Fuhrman—O. J. Simpson is a free man and the "race card" is trump. O.J.'s Life Sentence (December 1995)
The victory party is over. O. J. Simpson is finding his old world doesn't want him back—not at his Brentwood estate, not at ICM, and not at the Riviera golf club. Three Faces of Evil (June 1996)
Following the guilty verdict in L.A.'s other shocking double murder, Dominick Dunne makes his closing argument on the twisted tale of the Menendez brothers—and discovers new pieces of the O. J. Simpson puzzle. All That Glittered (August 1998)
Mexican silver-mining heir Charlie de Beistegui was perhaps the greatest party giver this century has known, and his 1951 costume ball at the Labia Palace in Venice made social history. As Sotheby's readies Beistegui's magnificent Château de Groussay, near Paris, to go on sale for $10 million, Dominick Dunne penetrates the heart of French society, visiting barons, countesses, and princesses, for a portrait of a master of illusion who created a world of utter splendor. In Cold, Blue Blood (September 1999)
Dean MacGuigan loved Pati Margello, and Pati loved Dean, but Pati was just a drug addict, scam artist, and hooker, while Dean was the drug-addicted, ne'er-do-well son of a glamorous du Pont heiress. Which is how part of a reported $25 million family fortune may have found its way into the hands of three hired killers, who are accused of beating and strangling Pati one summer night in 1998. Dominick Dunne tracks the crime from a red-neon-lit Las Vegas motel to a mansion in the rolling hills of Delaware. Trail of Guilt (October 2000)
For nearly a quarter-cenury after 15-year-old Martha Moxley was beaten to death with a golf club in the exelusive Greenwich, Connecticut, enclave of Belle Haven, police were stymied. Finally, last winter, Michael Skakel, son of a wealthy neighbor and nephew of Ethel Kennedy, was indicted for murder. Dominick Dunne, who based his best-selling A Season in Purgatory on the crime, charts his fateful involvement with the case: a rumor heard at the William Kennedy Smith trial, a growing friendship with Martha's mother, shocking revelations by two informants—and a town that still may hold secrets about a girl's violent death. Death in Monaco (December 2000)
The official explanation for the death of multibillionaire banker Edmond Safra, who was asphyxiated in a locked bathroom of his Monte Carlo penthouse in 1999, is that one of Safra's nurses set the fire in order to heroically rescue his employer. But why was the banker without his Mossad-trained guards? If reports of a second fire are true, who lit it? And were there two bullets in Safra's body? Smoke and Murders (July 2001)
Nicole Kidman makes a brave showing at Cannes. The wife of the nurse charged with setting the fire that killed Edmond Safra is suing Lily Safra. And Michael Skakel is facing a child-custody battle as well as a murder trial. Just another month in the life of *V.F.'*s plugged-in sleuth. The Rich and the Damned (July 2002)
After the sentencings of Sotheby's chairman Alfred Taubman and C.E.O. Diana Brooks, Dominick Dunne took his seat at the Moxley murder trial. There he found plenty to curl his hair, from photos of the victim to the ongoing campaign to pin the crime on Michael Skakel's tutor. Triumph by Jury (August 2002)
Of all the crimes Dominick Dunne has reported on for Vanity Fair, the long-unsolved 1975 murder of 15-year-old Martha Moxley resonated most deeply, not least for its echoes of his own daughter's slaying and his bond with the victim's mother, Dorthy. From the leaked document that convinced him of Michael Skakel's guilt and revived the investigation to the jury's emphatic verdict on June 7, the author devotes this month's diary to an unexpected victory of justice over privilege. Prime-Time Blood (May 2003)
In an edgy, strangely quiet New York, Dominick Dunne is fixated on a case that initially left him cold: the Robert Blake murder, which if it goes to trial could rival the O.J. spectacular—with Simpson himself hoping to provide TV commentary. A Death in the Family (March 2004)
After the death of his brother John Gregory Dunne, Dominick Dunne reflects on a relationship laced with tragedy and estrangement, then blessed by the joy of reconciliation, as well as the grace and strength of John's wife, Joan Didion. Oscar Galas to Remember (Oscar Night, 2005)
From Grace Kelly at Romanoff's (1955) to Madonna and Michael at Swifty's (1991), to the modern-day V.F. soirée, Dominick Dunne charts the glamour, the swank, and the star power of Hollywood's premier party. An excerpt from the book Oscar Night: 75 Years of Hollywood Parties.Sorcerer's Apprentice (February 2005)
Dramatic testimony, heavy irony, Hollywood gossip—the Disney trial brought all that and more to a small Delaware town, where C.E.O. Michael Eisner and former president Michael Ovitz played to a packed courthouse: longtime friends turned bitter enemies, now joined to defend Ovitz's hiring and $140 million firing against a lawsuit by angry shareholders. Chatting with Ovitz, dining with Eisner, hearing from fascinated locals, Dominick Dunne was in the thick of the action. Soaking Up the Dish in Beverly Hills (March 2005)
In rain-swept L.A. to cover Robert Blake's murder trial, Dominick Dunne runs into a potential witness against Phil Spector, hears from Howard Hughes's right-hand man, and gets an invitation from the increasingly reclusive Elizabeth Taylor. Sympathy for the Defense (April 2005)
Dominick Dunne finds himself feeling sorry for murder defendant Robert Blake, being grilled by Gary Condit's lawyers, and playing the role of the corpse in a new roman à clef.The Week of Living Glamorously (May 2005)
The awards show itself might have fallen flat, but Dominick Dunne finds plenty of entertainment in Oscar-week L.A. as even Michael Eisner and Liz Taylor make the scene. After *V.F.'*s epic bash, it's on to a Law & Order surprise, the end of a bitter dispute, and Robert Blake's courtroom stunner. Surviving the Darkness (December 2005)
A fortune-teller Dominick Dunne consulted as a young soldier was right on the money: his 80th birthday brings a mix of gratitude for his current life and grief over losing his niece Quintana. Meanwhile, a courthouse conversation with Robert Blake evokes memories of Truman Capote and battling demons. You're Nobody till Somebody Bugs You (May 2006)
A computer-hacking scandal has ensnared banking heir Matthew Mellon, ex-husband of Tamara Mellon, who built the Jimmy Choo shoe empire. After flying to London to talk to Matthew and Tamara, Dominick Dunne heads for Oscar-week Hollywood, where Topic A is the wiretapping trial of Anthony Pellicano. Greenwich Murder Time (June 2006)
When Dominick Dunne decides to spend a little quiet time in the country, lunch at a local tavern leads to a gold mine of Truman Capote's abandoned papers; a reclusive former neighbor and expert gun collector turns up in federal prison; and another sensational murder—the Kissel stabbing—rocks his corner of Connecticut. Saving Mrs. Astor (October 2006)
The shocking allegations that 104-year-old Brooke Astor, jeweled and generous doyenne of New York society, was suffering neglect at the hands of her son and daughter-in-law burned up the wires between Park Avenue, Southampton, and Northeast Harbor. But Dominick Dunne had heard and seen clues that something was amiss. The Queen and I (March 2007)
In the never published introduction to a book about Elizabeth Taylor's jewels—which caused a brief rift between the star and him—Dominick Dunne recalls scenes from their 30-year friendship, beginning on a movie set in Italy. Legend with a Bullet (August 2007)
Dominick Dunne reports from the murder trial of rock 'n' roll legend Phil Spector, catching the cast of legal stars, meeting with the defendant in the men's room, and listening to some damning testimony from women who say they've faced the barrel of Spector's gun. Cheating on Phil (with Paris) (September 2007)
Covering Phil Spector's murder trial, with its roller-coaster testimony and cross-examination, is Dominick Dunne's top priority. But when the Paris Hilton story explodes all around him, it's hard to resist a detour—and an invitation to the Hilton estate. Phil Spector's Cheap Shots (October 2007)
The Phil Spector murder trial gets Hollywood-style ugly as the defense summons Lana Clarkson's "friends" to paint her as a failure, "Super Madam" Babydol Gibson claims Clarkson was a call girl, and Transformers director Michael Bay leaps online to protect her memory. Guilty Feelings (November 2007)
By the time the jury begins its deliberations in the Spector murder trial, Dominick Dunne has become highly critical of the defense strategy, fascinated by the antics of Phil Spector's family, and close to two main characters—one living, one dead. The Verdict Is Missing (December 2007)
Talking to members of the hung jury, Dominick Dunne learns how Phil Spector escaped a guilty verdict, for now at least, while O. J. Simpson finally ended up in a prison jumpsuit. Palace Intrigues (February 2008)
There hasn't been a dull moment in London, what with Brad and Angelina at Claridge's, Nigel Dempster's memorial, the McCartney-Mills divorce proceedings, and not one but two huge royal dramas being played out. Dominick Dunne gets the latest on the British inquest into Princess Diana's death, Mohamed Al Fayed's fight to prove a conspiracy, and the sex-video blackmail at Buckingham Palace. Two Ladies, Two Yachts, and a Billionaire (May 2008)
The Diana inquest continues with a high-drama cast: the avenging father, Mohamed Al Fayed; the California model, Kelly Fisher, whose story rips a hole in Al Fayed's romantic myth; and the multi-millionaire butler, Paul Burrell, who may find himself up for perjury. What a Swell Party He Wrote (October 2008)
The author can take a bow for his inimitable crime and society coverage as he marks *V.F.'*s 25th anniversary by looking back at some epic murder trials—those of O. J. Simpson, Claus von Bülow, the Menendez brothers—as well as unforgettable encounters with everyone from Princess Diana to Monica Lewinsky. O.J. Simpson Deserves His Punishment (December 2008)
Dominick Dunne, who chronicled O.J. Simpson's murder trial in the early 1990s responds to Simpson's sentencing today. Sunny Memories (January 2009)
Twenty-eight years after she slipped into a coma in her Newport mansion, Sunny von Bülow died at a nursing home in New York City. The author attends her memorial service, speaks with her children, and remembers Claus von Bülow's trials for attempted murder. A Boldfaced Death (January 2010)
With his novels People Like Us and A Season in Purgatory, the late Dominick Dunne brought an imaginative touch to the world he covered for V.F.,illuminating the lives of the powerful and privileged in a way very few others could. In an excerpt from his final novel, Too Much Money, published this month, the funeral of a legendary New York philanthropist (Brooke Astor, anyone?) is the occasion for some ruthless social maneuvering, not to mention ideal fodder for Dunne's alter ego, Gus Bailey.
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Salads sound healthy. But get this: Some have more calories than a double cheeseburger from a fast food joint. With a little know-how, however, you can build a healthy yet delicious salad. Here are the basics.
• Use a variety of lettuce, vegetables and fruits. The more variety, the better the nutrition, textures and flavors.
• Go over the rainbow. Colors add not only visual appeal, but also different nutrients. Orange veggies like carrots and squash contain carotenoids, while red tomatoes and watermelon contain lycopene.
• Roast veggies and fruits. This brings out natural sweetness without adding extra sugar.
• Add protein, but not too much. Watch out for fat and calories when adding meat, cheese or nuts. Use only two to three tablespoons for the whole salad. Try strongly flavored cheeses. Use blue cheese, feta or fresh chevre instead of milder Swiss or cheddar.
• Watch the dressings. Many store-bought creamy dressings have a mayonnaise base and can have upwards of 200 calories and 15 grams fat in only two tablespoons.
• Use less oil. Vinaigrettes can be as fatty as creamy dressings because many use a ratio of three parts oil to one part vinegar. Instead, combine equal parts vinegar and oil, then add fresh herbs, a little bit of honey or fruit juices (to balance acidity without adding fat) and a touch of mustard.
• Experiment with infused vinegars and oils. This adds flavor without additional calories.
2. Toss grapes with 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar. Place on a baking sheet lined with aluminum foil and roast for 30 to 40 minutes, until shriveled and slightly caramelized. Let cool, then slice larger grapes in half.
3. Roughly chop half the spinach and half the kale. Mix together chopped spinach and kale in one large bowl, then toss together remaining spinach and kale in another bowl. In the bowl with the chopped greens, add chickpeas, red bell pepper, red onions and roasted grapes.
4. In a medium bowl, whisk together remaining balsamic vinegar, olive oil, lemon juice, honey, garlic, mustard, cumin, cinnamon, black pepper and sea salt. Pour over salad and toss together.
5. To serve, divide remaining kale and spinach among six plates. Place 1 cup salad on top of bed of greens. If using feta, crumble ½ ounce over each salad.
A serving is 1 cup salad and 1 cup greens: Calories: 205; Fat: 6 g; Sat. Fat: 1 g; Trans Fat: 0 g; Cholesterol: 0 mg; Sodium: 345 mg; Carbohydrates: 35 g; Sugar: 12 g; Fiber: 6 g and Protein: 6 g.
½ oz. feta adds: Calories: 20; Fat: 2 g; Sat. Fat: 1 g; Trans Fat: 0 g; Cholesterol: 8 mg; Sodium: 185 mg; Carbohydrates: 0.5 g; Sugars: 0 g, and Protein: 3 g.


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Is the 'biggest scandal and coverup in American History' about to come crashing down?
Much of Kennedy's warning to America still rings out loudly and clearly today
By Stefan Stanford -
As the 2016 presidential season begins to kick into high gear, Americans are now witnessing one of the biggest political coverups in the history of our nation with Hillary Clinton closing in on the White House despite a never-ending list of war crimes and scandals that continue to follow her around, along with an ever-expanding count of dead bodies lining up behind her. The fact that FBI files linking Hillary to the 'suicide' of Vince Foster have suddenly vanished from the National Archives should tell us that Hillary is 'playing for keeps', even if that means completely deleting history.
The new story from Infowars tells us that according to Julian Assange, the next Wikileaks 'data dump' could be a 'game changer'. Telling Megyn Kelly and Fox News that new Hillary information that is about to come out could swing the election in Trump's favor as heard in the 1st video below, we nevertheless continue to see a massive portion of the American public ready to put her into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue next January. How could someone who many consider of the most hated politicians in the history of America, somebody with so many scandals following them around, be so close to the highest office in the land? We learn at least one coverup may be in the process of unraveling with many more now waiting in the wings.
The new story from Michael Snyder over at Charisma News is called "Solid Evidence That The Media Is Biased Against Donald Trump" within which Snyder PROVES to us that the MSM has sold its soul to Hillary and the Clinton Foundation while Hillary sold America down the river. Should we be surprised that every mainstream media outlet across the country has turned upon Trump when they're donating hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars to the Clinton's?
As Snyder points out, it's not only traditionally 'liberal' news outlets that are donating to Clinton but 'conservative' news outlets as well such as Fox News and Newsmax Media not to mention businesses such as Google, Comcast, Twitter, Viacom, HBO, AOL, Time Warner, PBS and Bloomberg. Should we be surprised that all of these outlets are now turning against Trump (and Bernie Sanders before him) like a pack of wild dogs while covering up for Hitlery on many fronts?
Never before in recent history have we witnessed so many outlets completely abandoning impartiality to 'cheer on the home team', Hillary herself, which recently led NY Post columnist Michael Goodwin to completely trash such outlets in a column warning of the collapse of American journalism now happening before our very eyes. Should we really be surprised that outlets such as Google are covering for Hillary when they've donated so much money to her foundation?
As we hear in the 2nd video from Paul Joseph Watson of Infowars, we're also now witnessing a massive MSM coverup of her obvious health problems beginning to implode. From opening an already opened pickle jar on the Jimmy Kimmel show to Google attempting to completely disappear #HillarysHealth from their search engines, we see the globalists going into massive panic mode as their 1st choice for America implodes before their very eyes.
From Bill Clinton himself warning that Hillary wasn't healthy enough to run for president as seen in the story excerpt above to Hillary herself complaining of a 'cracked head' which prompted her advisors to contact the commissioner of the NFL as seen in the email below, it's easy to see that Hillary and the msm have something to hide about Hillary's health. However, her health issues may soon be the least of her concerns.
As ANP recently reported, Hillary Clinton's worst nightmares may be in the process of coming true with the appointment of Breitbart's Stephen K. Bannon to Donald Trump's presidential team, the appointment of a man who like Trump, will not back down. Despite Hillary's communications advisors warning that the alternative media doesn't even have the right to exist, we see its the same alternative media now preparing to pound Hillary's campaign into submission. If the MSM won't publish the truth about Hillary, the alternative media will darn sure beat the truth into Americans heads the old fashioned way, by reporting it over and over and over again until Americans have no choice but to 'awaken' or be lost forever.
All we need to do is remember that Hillary herself stated several years ago that 'they were losing the information war'. Well Hillary, we've got news for you, the truth will win out in the end no matter how hard you're attempting to deceive the American public with your never-ending series of lies. For if truth doesn't 'win', America, liberty and the free world don't stand a chance.
What is Hillary hiding and should the health of our next president be of concern to Americans? There's no doubt at all in our minds that Hillary has been 'groomed' to take over the White House from long ago and only an upstart no-name Barack Obama prevented her from being there back in 2008. With the globalists ducks all lined up in a row now behind Hillary, only Donald Trump and the American people can prevent her from getting there in 2016.
To stop her, the 'still-sleeping masses' who think that Hillary is good for 'peace' or good for the black community or good for the world will have to come out of their long slumber or those supporting the only REAL alternative to Hillary in the White House will have to show up 'en masse' numbers to not only keep her out, but numbers huge enough to prevent any possible election steal by Hillary and the globalists that ANP has warned of over and over again.
What does Julian Assange and Wikileaks have in store for us and Hillary this time around? Will it be enough to 'catch fire' and ensure that Hillary's rise to the White House is grounded forever? Why is Assange waiting so long to release this information? Would you trust Hillary Clinton in the White House again?
It can be argued that the scandals and never-ending list of dead bodies following Hillary and Bill around are the worst scandals in US history, dwarfing Nixon and Watergate, as they've been ongoing now for over 30 years. If you think that Hillary has been good for women, there's a long list of woman who would argue against that. If you think that Hillary has been good for 'peace' and 'love' in the world, please take a look at her handiwork over the years in the Middle East. War, war and more war follow her wherever she goes and she's clearly got American blood all over her hands.
As Donald Trump recently stated, Hillary Clinton should be required to issue an apology for all of the death and destruction that she has caused in the world. No real 'progressive' or anti-war activists would ever vote for her, her war crimes are unforgiveable, and it's quite easy to see now why so many Americans who formerly considered themselves 'democrats' will be crossing over the party line to vote for Trump in November.
From dissolving national borders to the further attacks upon our cultural identies, religions and language, we see the long worked plans of Hillary's globalists now playing out before our eyes. Give the globalists 4 years of Hillary and we won't even recognize America by 2020 from 2016, and that's saying a lot considering what we've witnessed since 2008.
In closing we'll take a look at the words of former US President John F. Kennedy back on January 29th, 1961 then a brief look at President Dwight Eisenhower's Farewell Address back on January 17th, 1961, only 12 days earlier. Much of Kennedy's warning to America still rings out loudly and clearly today. Surprising to some, Kennedy comes out very strongly in support of the 2nd Amendment and why Americans need to be ready to defend their liberty at a moment's notice.
Today America is the richest nation in the history of the world. Our power and influence extend around the globe. Yet the challenges and dangers which confront us are even more awesome and difficult than those that faced Roosevelt. And we too will need to summon all the energies of our people and the capacities of our leaders if America is to remain a great and free nation — if we are to master the opportunities of the New Frontier.
The dimensions of our problems overwhelm the imagination. At home millions are unemployed and the growth of our economy has come to a virtual halt. Abroad, we are faced with powerful and unrelenting pressure which threaten freedom in every corner of the globe, and with military power so formidable that it menaces the physical survival of our own nation.
To meet these problems will require the efforts not only of our leaders or of the Democratic Party–but the combined efforts of all of our people. No one has a right to feel that, having entrusted the tasks of government to new leaders in Washington, he can continue to pursue his private comforts unconcerned with America's challenges and dangers. For, if freedom is to survive and prosper, it will require the sacrifice, the effort and the thoughtful attention of every citizen.
In my own native state of Massachusetts, the battle for American freedom was begun by the thousands of farmers and tradesmen who made up the Minute Men — citizens who were ready to defend their liberty at a moment's notice. Today we need a nation of minute men; citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as a basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom. The cause of liberty, the cause of America, cannot succeed with any lesser effort.
It is this effort and concern which makes up the New Frontier. And it is this effort and concern which will determine the success or failure not only with this Administration, but of our nation itself.
Many of us have read Dwight Eisenhower's Farewell address below given 12 days before the remarks of President Kennedy seen above. As he wisely stated, 'only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry…'
The fact that Hillary is still running for office proves to us just how dumbed-down the American people have become. President's Eisenhower and Kennedy are probably rolling over in their graves right now at the sheer ignorance of the American people.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
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You will recall that most AF amplifiers use cathode bias. The audio amplifier tubes are operated ad Class A or Class B, because we are interested in obtaining good fidelity. The Class A amplifier sacrifices efficiency for fidelity.
In the case of an RF amplifier, we are not interested in fidelity, since we are not amplifying an audio signal. We ARE interested in EFFICIENCY of operation. We do not want to use more energy than necessary in order to accomplish effective communications.
An RF amplifier operates most efficiently in a transmitter as a Class C amplifier. In order to operate the tube as a Class C amplifier, the bias must be between one and on-half to four times the bias value necessary for cut-off. This condition is shown graphically in the diagram to the left.
You will notice that with a pure sine wave applied to the grid, the plate current consists of small pulses which certainly do not resemble the input sine wave. Since the plate current wave does not resemble the grid signal, the fidelity of a Class C amplifier is poor.
One important point to notice is that the plate current flows only for a fraction of a complete cycle of the input signal. Compare this to a Class A amplifier, where the plate current flows continuously. Obviously more power is wasted in plate dissipation in a Class A amplifier as compared to a Class C amplifier. Since the plate dissipation is decreased in the Class C amplifier, the useful power output is increased.
Note in the above illustration, that the input signal drive is quite large. This is so because the input signal must overcome the high negative bias and drive the grid positive.
The question that always arises at this point is: Of what good are the plate current pulses if we are interested in obtaining an amplified version of the sine wave input? The answer lies in the ability of the plate tank circuit to reproduce a pure sine wave from pulses of energy which are applied to it every cycle. From the discussion of the oscillatory circuit, it will be recalled that when the plate tank circuit is tuned to the resonant frequency of the grid circuit, the plate current pulses will reinforct the oscillations in the plate tuned circuit at just the right instant, and therby sustain the oscillations. The surges of plate current five the tank circuit the shot of energy which resusts in the tuned circuit making up that portion of the sine wave missing in the plate current pulses.
This is known as the FLYWHEEL EFFECT. Thus, we see that although the plate current is made up of pulses, the signal fed to the antenna or the next stage is a pure sine wave!


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The Right to Keep and Bear Children
By Anthony S. Layne
13 June AD 2013
In 1968, an ecologist named Garrett Hardin wrote an article for Science magazine titled "The Tragedy of the Commons." A utilitarian and Malthusian, Hardin argued that the modern welfare state made it possible for people to gain the advantages of large families while socializing their costs. Therefore, the solution to overpopulation must be based in part on "relinquishing the freedom to breed."
Forty-five years later, Peter Singer — also a utilitarian and Malthusian — essentially repeated the "tragedy of the commons" argument at the Women Deliver Conference in Kuala Lumpur. Ironically, given his hero status among progressives and the venue at which he was speaking, Singer began to speak of "reproductive rights" as though they would very soon be a thing of the past and that the nations would soon need to force contraception and abortion upon the unwilling.
It's possible of course, that we give women reproductive choices, that we meet the unmet need for contraception but that we find that the number of children that women choose to have is still such that population continues to rise in a way that causes environmental problems. … [We] need to consider whether we can talk about trying to reduce population growth and whether that's compatible with the very reasonable concerns people have about women's right to control their life decisions and their reproduction.
If it weren't for his invocation of climate change, Singer's faith in the population bomb would make him look like the last man on earth still concerned about the Y2K demon. In fact, to certain of the attendees, Singer appeared to embody the old colonial fear of brown people. Said Kavita Ramdas of the Ford Foundation in New Delhi, "We have been there before. … We have seen forced sterilizations. We have seen the fears that the West has of brown people overrunning the world. We are tired of being slaves to colonial masters."
But this brings up a very interesting question, and "Franklin" did indeed bring it up in the combox of Luke Foster's post in First Things:
Perhaps I will be permitted to raise the question of what would be meant by an "absolute right" to bear children. Did [Nadya Suleman], for example, have an "absolute right" to have octuplets through IVF? Does the Catholic Church consider it anybody's right to have children through assisted reproductive technology? If a woman appears to be infertile, does she have an absolute right to fertility treatments to be paid for by the community (government, etc.)? Does an unmarried woman have an absolute right to bear children, even if she chooses not to marry?
Absolute rights are … well … absolute. Suppose just for the sake of argument that we manage to establish a colony on Mars and then lose the means to resupply it. There is only enough food and oxygen to support the original colonists. [Why would we establish a colony on Mars if we couldn't make it self-sufficient? Utilitarians have a weakness for doomsday theoreticals whose premises don't bear much scrutiny.] Do the women have an absolute right to bear children, even if it means the demise of the colony? This seems to me to be a similar situation to what Peter Singer is talking about.
To many people, this would seem to be a nonsensical question because we have a tendency to think of rights as absolute by definition; a contingent right seems to be as oxymoronic a concept as is "dry water" or "ethical journalism." As hard as the Catholic Church has fought against contraception and abortion upon request, you would think we would hold it a woman's right to have children, right?
Not quite. We hold that, having been brought to life, the child has a right to be born. But to speak of a "right to have children" is not so much false as it is inappropriate:
A child is not something owed to one, but is a gift. The "supreme gift of marriage" is a human person. A child may not be considered a piece of property, an idea to which an alleged "right to a child" would lead. In this area, only the child possesses genuine rights: the right "to be the fruit of the specific act of the conjugal love of his parents," and "the right to be respected as a person from the moment of his conception." (Catechism of the Catholic Church 2378, cf. Donum Vitae II:8; bold type mine)
The Church's position proceeds from the assertion that humans have an innate, inherent dignity: we are all equally children of God, and no person is of greater or lesser value than another. (Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, 144) The first corollary to that postulate is that human life is of equal dignity, and may be taken only under the direst circumstances; the second corollary is that the human body is of equal dignity, and should never be violated or harmed. The same doctrine which denies abortion as a woman's choice also denies it as an instrument of State policy.
However, the same essential human dignity which forbids the State to impose abortion, contraception and sterilization upon the unwilling also forbids us to speak of children as commodities to which adults are entitled. Indeed, the rearing of children isn't a "right" but a responsibility that demands some self-sacrifice and self-denial. I discuss at greater length how IVF, surrogate parenthood and artificial insemination violate human dignity here and here; suffice it to say that the love of children doesn't make all manners of creating children licit.
On the surface, it would appear the Church and utilitarianism come to the same position: no absolute right to breed. But because they proceed from different assumptions, they lead to different practical conclusions. The Church asserts the fundamental dignity of the child, and therefore willingly baptizes the children of IVF and artificial insemination. Utilitarianism denies the fundamental dignity of the human person, and therefore supports China's methods of enforcing its one-child policy, including forced abortions and sterilizations.
Ironically, Singer was preaching his "greater good" doctrine at a conference where fear of the population bomb was notably absent. Hans Rosling of the Karolinska Institute "conceded that fears of a population 'explosion' are grossly exaggerated and the world's population will likely peak at about 9 billion, and then start to fall;" this peak is expected to hit sometime mid-century. Babtunde Osotimehin, executive director of the United Nations Population Fund, noted that some regions of the world have "more 65-year-olds than 5-year-olds and those countries have issues with how they are going to remain competitive."
The commons disappeared through privatization, not overgrazing. If there is an ecological disaster waiting to happen, its causes are far more complex than simple population load, and won't be staved off by imposing a worldwide one-child policy (and, most likely, it's already too late for that). Hardin's "tragedy of the commons" has served some use, but is now a reminder of how a memorable mental image can hijack debate for decades.
© 2013. Anthony S. Layne. All Rights Reserved.
Anthony S. Layne
Born in Albuquerque, N. Mex., and raised in Omaha, Nebr., Anthony S. Layne served briefly in the U.S. Marine Corps and attended the University of Nebraska at Omaha as a sociology major while holding a variety of jobs. Tony was a "C-and-E Catholic" until, while defending the Faith during the scandals of 2002, he discovered the beauty of Catholic orthodoxy. He currently lives in Denton, Texas, works as an insurance agent and in-home caregiver, participates in his parish's Knights of Columbus council and as a Minister to the Sick, and bowls poorly on Sunday nights. Along with Catholic Stand, he also contributes to Catholic365 and occasionally to New Evangelists Monthly.
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8 thoughts on "The Right to Keep and Bear Children"
Josephine Harkay
August 10, AD2013 at 7:08 pm
I am glad I got this question now straightened out. According to Catholic morality, every child conceived has a right to be born, but women, even if they are married, do not have a "right" to bear children. They may conceive only naturally and have the obligation to raise them. Of course that does not mean that an unintended pregnancy may be aborted for lack of finances. I wish though that it would be permissible to give up such an infant for adoption (even if the woman is married), if the couple cannot financially support him/her any more.
CathyH
June 21, AD2013 at 10:38 am
It always amazes me, that when you read the Catechism completely and not simply quoting parts, you see how holistic and well thought out it truly is. What a beautiful statement about the "rights" of children and recognition that they are their own persons and not property.
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Phil Dzialo
June 13, AD2013 at 1:53 pm
Sorry, "given his hero status among progressives" is quite untrue. I am about as progressive as they come and I have nothing but disdain for Peter Singer's bio-ethics. My area of interest is disability and advocacy and Singer is someone who who views human primates as commodities. Mary Anne Warren, Singer's pseudo-mentor, sold the concept of the differences between humans and persons…from which much of his solipsistic tripe flows on just about every issue in bio-ethics. To the severely disabled Singer and Warren allow that they are human, but not necessarily persons. You do not have to be progressive, liberal, orthodox, fundamental or conservative to hold this man's ideas as absurd. Singer appeals only to supporters of T-4 and they are a miniscule psychopathic bunch.
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That's fair, but then you aren't the one who put him on the faculty of Princeton, are you?
Nope, but I would contribute to send him back to the "land down under"…Australia, that is; sorry my Aussie friends.
KathleenBasi
June 16, AD2013 at 12:23 pm
That's a relief to hear, Phil. And as a parent of a child with T21, I thank you for your interest!
I do think (in response to the whole post) that sometimes we need to hear the fringes of both extremes in order to make it clear how twisted the human mind can become, so that we can recognize and counter those tendencies in ourselves. I've heard plenty of things from the far right that are just as twisted, and just as contrary to God's plan. At both ends of the spectrum it makes me ill, and I pray always for the grace to leaven the world, or at least the little corner of it I can influence.
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using System.Collections.Generic;
using System;
using UnityEngine;
using PureMVC;
using PureMVC.Patterns;
using PureMVC.Interfaces;

public abstract class BaseMediator :Mediator{
    //记录对应的面板的各项参数
    protected BaseView viewClass;
    protected string abName;
    protected string assetName;
    protected UIManager.DisplayLevel displayLv;
    protected UIManager.DestroyType destroyType;
    //对应的ui面板对象
    protected GameObject uiComponent;
    protected INotification preNotification;
    protected object notificationBody;
    protected string notificationType;
    public BaseMediator(string mediatorName,
                        /*BaseView viewClass,*/
                        string abName,
                        string assetName,
                        UIManager.DisplayLevel displayLv = UIManager.DisplayLevel.mainview,
                        UIManager.DestroyType destroyType=UIManager.DestroyType.IMMEDIATE_DESTROY
                        )
                        : base(mediatorName)
    {

//        this.viewClass = viewClass;
        this.abName = abName;
        this.assetName = assetName;
        this.displayLv = displayLv;
        this.destroyType = destroyType;
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// 只用于创建面板时的回调
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="obj"></param>
    public virtual void LoadViewCallBack(UnityEngine.Object obj) {
        //ViewComponent = obj;//viewComponent记录预设对象,不需要记录,只要在Uimgr里有相应view的对象保存即可,需要就去那里取,没了就重新加载
        uiComponent = MainFacade.instance.UIMgr.GetUIComponent(string.Format("{0}_{1}",abName,assetName).ToLower());
		viewClass.InitView(uiComponent,displayLv,destroyType);
		if (preNotification != null) {
			HandleNotification(preNotification);
			preNotification = null;
		}
    }

    public virtual void Hide() {
        viewClass.Hide();
        if (destroyType != UIManager.DestroyType.NEVER_DESTROY)
        {
            if (destroyType == UIManager.DestroyType.IMMEDIATE_DESTROY)
            {
                viewClass=null;
            }
            else if (destroyType == UIManager.DestroyType.DELAY_DESTROY)
            {
                MainFacade.instance.Timer.AddTimer(2f, () =>
                {
                    viewClass = null;
                }, 1);
            }
        }
    }
}

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Anne Serling told an LA Times interviewer one reason her father became a writer.
Not only did your father have physical issues because of the wounds he suffered in World War II, he also had nightmares of his experience in combat.
He absolutely did. I vividly remember him having nightmares and when I would ask him what happened he said, "I dreamed the Japanese were coming at me." Back then post-traumatic stress disorder wasn't even a term.
He always planned to go into teaching kids physical education, but because he had been so traumatized by the war, he switched to language and literature. He was quoted saying he needed to get it off of his gut and out of his system.
Serling had not given up writing about the world's crises.
He would script what is generally regarded as the bleakest Christmas movie ever made, an adaptation of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" about the horrors of nuclear war. Aired in 1964, "A Carol for Another Christmas" includes a visit to Hiroshima. The leads were played by Sterling Hayden, Peter Sellers, and Britt Ekland.
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Certainly a very weird Christmas movie! Only Rod Serling could write like that and get away with it … some of the time. Was that actually released in theaters? It looks so much like television production, somehow, rather than for the big screen.
It would be amusing to confront these three "ghosts" and inform them that the UN was a success, we are much better at talking than we were before, and that there are united, coordinated efforts toward alleviating poverty, ignorance and disease … but now we're being overwhelmed to automobile exhausts and religious zealotry… any suggestions, guys?
It was a made-for-TV movie, broadcast once in 1964 and mothballed for almost fifty years.


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Q: What is the "maximal" size (complexity) of a DB query that is tractable in practice in your RDBMS? With the growth of the size of the query, a query to a database can easily become computationally intractable by the RDBMS you use in pratice. So, I suppose, in order to use DBs in practice (do programming with a DB as a backend), you must know where the bound for the complexity/size of an admissible query is.
If you write programs that need to issue complex queries to relational databases, what is the "maximal" size/complexity of the queries that are expected to be effectively answerable by the RDMS you use?
And what is the usual size of the queries posed to relational database systems? How much is it lower than the maximal bound?
The motivation for asking this is the following theoretical speculation:
It seems to be known that to find an answer to a query Q
over a database D, one needs time |D||Q|, and
one cannot get rid of the exponent |Q|. (Looking for a clique is an example of the worst-case query.)
As D can be very large in practice, we wonder why database work at all.

A: For the note, I'd point out an issue in your question: you're assuming you'll always want a precise answer to a query. This is not the case in practice. When mining large amounts of data, an approximation of the answer will be good enough.
In the case of PostgreSQL, I'm not aware of any hard-coded limit to the number of joins, but depending on the transaction isolation level I'd expect to run out of locks long before it's reached.
Queries thrown at an RDBMS, in my experience, have a few joins at most and are written in such a way that they can use indexes. When not, the developer is usually doing something very wrong.
There arguably is the occasional report query that tends to be slower. These might involve much more complicated statements, with dozens of joins and unions and aggregates what not. But in this case a genetic algorithm kicks in, for one. And the planner will, upon reaching collapse limits, respect the join order, making it possible to write the query in an optimal way given advance knowledge on the data's repartition.
I've seem PostgreSQL swallow queries with two dozen joins without a hiccup... More typically, though, it's possible and more efficient to split such queries into smaller, bite-sized chunks; and/or to pre-aggregate some of the results it'll need.
For the row counts on large queries or data sets, running explain and returning the planner's estimate number of rows is usually enough: there's little point in knowing there are exactly 9,992 matching rows.

A: This is a very good question, in my opinion. In a typical scenario, human queries seem to be small and simple (for instance, contain few cycles, if any), and RDBMSs are really efficient. Now imagine a situation where you formulate your query in a certain vocabulary available to the user, which has to be translated by a computer to the vocabulary of the relational databases (say, on the Web). This is a typical Semantic Web scenario, for which languages like OWL 2 have been designed. In this case, your original query may be small, but the resulting query, posed to an RDBMS, can be exponentially larger.

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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) Seven-time All-Pro defensive tackle Aaron Donald will miss a game because of injury for the first time in his NFL career when his Los Angeles Rams host Seattle on Sunday.
Donald has a high ankle sprain from the Rams' loss at Kansas City last Sunday, and Los Angeles coach Sean McVay ruled him out Wednesday.
Donald sprained his ankle in the first quarter against the Chiefs, but kept playing on it, McVay said. He won't need surgery, but his ironman streak will end at 86 consecutive games since the finale of the 2017 regular season.
"That's what makes Aaron, Aaron," McVay said. "He's unbelievable. To be able to play through that, the toughness, everything that he embodies is what you love."
Donald has missed only two games in his nine-year NFL career, both in 2017. He sat out the Rams' season opener on the day after ending his contract holdout, and he sat out the finale to rest for the playoffs.
Donald has five sacks in 11 games this year, the slowest pace of his career, but he remains the anchor of a solid Los Angeles defense that has soundly outperformed its struggling offense all season long.
"So much of it is built around him," McVay said. "He is truly one of one. You don't replace anybody like him. Guys will be asked to step up, (and we) have confidence in those guys, but I think Aaron's resume speaks for itself, the way that he works, the way that he brings others with him, so it's a huge loss."
While McVay has repeatedly said he's not ready to shut down all of the Rams' key players for the final weeks of a season that's almost certainly lost, injuries are making the decisions for him. The defending Super Bowl champions (3-8) will attempt to snap a five-game skid against the Seahawks with a severely depleted roster.
Top receivers Cooper Kupp and Allen Robinson are out with injuries, along with much of the offensive line. McVay also confirmed Matthew Stafford is highly unlikely to play. Stafford is still in the concussion protocol after missing two of the past three games, although the Rams have yet to confirm whether Stafford ever actually had a concussion.
McVay said quarterbacks John Wolford and Bryce Perkins both are available for practice this week after Wolford sat out the game against the Chiefs with a neck injury.
The coach wouldn't say which quarterback will start or play more against the Seahawks, but he has previously indicated that both could see action in the game, as they did in previous instances without Stafford. Both quarterbacks will be playing behind an offensive line still missing several starters and backups because of injuries.
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An EPQ is the type of thing you are so excited to do but once you actually get into it you realise that you've just plunged head first into your biggest nightmare and there's no way out. If you're in the process of deciding whether you should do an EPQ I'd suggest you read my last post, but if you are one of those people who are already within the maze and now must find your way out…this post is for you!
One of the biggest nightmares with the EPQ is this new phenomenon of 'referencing' all the materials you use. Every single article you read needs to be mentioned in your Bibliography, which seems like an awful lot of work considering the many different sources of information you'll be using. When you're referencing anything you also need to make sure you link the source to the correct sentence in your project, so that's definitely something you don't want to leave until the end. Trying to find out which phrase you extracted from which of your 50 sources for a 5000 word dissertation will be no less difficult than trying to untangle a spider's web. The best thing to do is use an automated way of generating a bibliography. Microsoft has a really easy feature in which all you have to do is enter the details of all your sources and then when you need to reference it all you do is press one button. I've also heard of a website called Neil's Toolbox which supposedly helps you to easily generate a bibliography.
Your EPQ will most likely have many headings and subheadings where you've tried to approach your question from a variety of different angles. You'll also be carrying out your research and write up for your project over a good few months, so if you're not consistently revisiting it, the first section of your project could easily slip your mind. Your final conclusion will however need to mention all the different parts of your project. So one thing I found really helpful when doing mine was making sure I wrote a short summary of all the arguments for and against after I finished every section. This made writing my final conclusion so much easier because all I really had to do was combine these summaries and ta da!
There are lots of different ways to approach doing the research for the EPQ. You could do all the research and then attempt to compile it all into a good write up. I don't personally think this is a good idea because you do risk drowning yourself in research by going for this approach. Having tens of sources at your disposal and suddenly being expected to extract the right parts from each of these sources will be quite difficult. Just imagine how hard it will be to keep track of all your research and the possible points you've collected. Instead it's better to start off by splitting your project into smaller subsections, researching each small area and then writing it up. This will also make sure that you remain focussed on the topic which is a key point on the mark scheme.
Research then write, but don't make the mistake of not doing a little initial research. This will make you aware of the types of information available to you, help you direct your project and split it up into smaller subsections. I split my first EPQ topic (IVF) into headings of the different areas I wanted to cover in my project. I wanted to focus on the public cost and success rates of IVF treatments compared with it in the private sector. However when I got to that part of my project I realised there wasn't enough information on the financing of IVF and most of the journal articles I wanted to access required a subscription which meant I hardly had any sources. Because of this I had to change my whole topic which is something that you do want to avoid having to do. (I did enjoy putting together a short post on the question I initially chose on IVF for my EPQ though. Click here to have a read of it).
As early as you possibly can that is. I know just how easy it is to keep delaying sitting down and working on your EPQ especially when you have lots of other A level work or university applications to be getting on with, but please please don't. The later you leave it the more difficult it'll get to squeeze in time to complete it. If you were given it before the Summer holidays really do seize the opportunity to get the majority of it done then. Or dedicate a week of the half term holidays and just get it out of the way, you'll honestly be so relieved. Don't forget that after the dissertation you'll still have to spare more time to prepare your presentation too.
Like you've probably been told many many times…do keep it up to date. It'll only take a minute to just type a few sentences of what you've done. Imagine the horror of finishing the project and then coming to the realisation that it hasn't be done. And if you do want to get yourself a good grade in it bear in mind that it does hold a very substantial number of marks. Try and keep it as detailed as you can: any thoughts you've hard, anything you've researched or anyone you've spoken to about it. Don't be afraid to write things that aren't going so well in it too, because that'll secure you some marks if you can show how you've combated the problems you're facing.
Your supervisor can help keep you on track and you can discuss any problems you're having with them. They won't necessarily be telling you the answer, but they'll definitely be able to suggest a few things for you. They're the ones who are going to be marking your project after all so you can make sure you're doing things the way they'd prefer. Organising meetings with them regularly also helps to keep you progressing with it. A good idea is to set weekly targets together so in your next meeting you can discuss them together.
The idea of primary research seems quite daunting, but it doesn't have to be since it's a great way to secure a few marks. You're never going to be expected to set up a huge laboratory investigation or carry out a public demonstration. You can make it really easy if you want to…you can create a short survey and ask a few family members and classmates to give their opinions which you'd then be able to quote in your dissertation. Or you could even set up an online poll like I did. Click here to see mine. Poll daddy is a really easy way to quickly set one up, or you can just use a social media platform to quickly make one. I know Twitter has a nice and easy feature that you can use. And you don't need hundreds and thousands of people to respond, just a few will be fine, it's still primary research and that's what counts!
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