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After the DNC & RNC: We Can't Breathe!
The murderers of Breonna Taylor have been let off the hook, just like the US war criminals overseas are never prosecuted. After the Democratic and Republican party conventions it is clear that neither of the two major parties have addressed the police killings, the wars, the health care crisis, the economic crises or any of the other problems that face people in the US today. However you vote on November 3rd, and regardless of who gets in by vote, fraud, or force, it will be important for our movement to stay in the streets and build an independent movement that will address the issues that are facing us. The videos below are representatives of many organizations that understand this and can help lead such a movement.
Recently, UNAC hosted this online rally Called, "After the DNC and RNC: We Can't Breathe - Keep it in the streets against Racism, Evictions and War." Below are the speakers. By clicking on the image, you can hear their talk (each talk is about 3 minutes).
Sanction Kill
UNAC is a founding member of the Sanctions Kill Coalition. Unilateral economic sanctions is the perfered way that the US has sought regime change recently in countries that will not follow the dictates of Washington and Wall Street. Crippling sanctions have been imposed on 39 countries and have been even increased during the COVID-19 pandemic.
For more information, please go to the Sanctions Kill web site at: https://sanctionskill.org/
Support the Black Alliance for Peace
UNAC Supports the work of the Black Alliance for Peace. Click here to read their statements: https://blackallianceforpeace.com/bapstatements/
BAP web site is here: https://blackallianceforpeace.com/
US Peace and Solidarity Delegation goes to Venezuela
A 13-member peace and solidarity delegation from the United States landed in Caracas, Venezuela on the weekend of March 9 and 10 despite American Airlines, the main US airline that flies to Venezuela, cancelling some flights. The delegation including leaders of antiwar groups from the US and Canada including: Bahman Azad the organizational secretary of the US Peace Council, who was the sponsoring organization for the trip, Gerry Condon, pres. of Veterans for Peace, Sara Flanders, co-coordinator of the International Action Center, Ajamu Baraka, national coordinator of the Black Alliance for Peace, progressive journalist, Eva Bartlett, Joe Lombardo, co-coordinator of the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC), Sarah Martin from Women Against Military Madness, Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers of Popular Resistance, Darien De Lu, President of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - US, Miguel Figueroa, president of the Canadian Peace Congress and Daniel Shea, board of directors, Veterans for peace. [read more]
U.S. Hands off Syria
(statement of the Hands off Syria Coalition of which UNAC is a founding member)
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End the Wars at Home and Abroad from Portland to Afghanistan
US Troops in Iraq US Troops in Portland
The antiwar movement's slogan, "End the wars at home and abroad" has never been more meaningful. As we see the federal forces in Portland and other cities in unmarked uniforms snatching people from the streets, we know that these are similar tactics used by US forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other countries where they operate. [read more]
Around 300 people registered for the national conference of the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC), which was held at the People's forum in New York City over the weekend of February 21 – 23. This was the fifth national conference that was held by UNAC, which is also celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2020. The conference, which was titled "Rise Against Militarism, Racism and the Climate Crisis – Building Power Together," brought together a range of experienced antiwar leaders and younger activists who are stepping into leadership of our movement.
Participants at the conference came from 27 states and 4 other countries. The conference was livestreamed. The livestreams were viewed by more than 5,000 people. The links to the videos are below [read more]
Seoul, South Korea, as a joint team from the North and the South marched into the stadium carrying a flag representing a unified Korea. The entire stadium of thousands, including dignitaries from the various countries represented, took to their feet in prolonged celebration, demonstrating the desire of the entire world for peace. The only people who remained seated were Vice President Pence and the right-wing president of Japan, Shinzo Abe. [read more]
UNAC Statement on the U.S.-North Korea Summit
After months of harsh talk towards the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), during which he threatened to destroy the country in "fire and fury," Donald Trump will meet with Kim Jong Un in Singapore. The world is hoping that the meeting will pull us away from the brink of nuclear war. This hope is understandably strong among Koreans, as reflected in a recent statement initiated by a host of Korean American organizations and signed by many other supporters. The statement calls for the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula (read the statement here).
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(now more than ever)
The two Sanctions Kill webinars, hosted by UNAC were important steps in the fight against US imposed Sanctions
Thousands attended through Zoom, Facebook and YouTube
View the first webinar here.
View the second webinar here.
The speakers at the webinars included:
Venezuela – Vice Minister for North America, Carlos J. Ron Martinez
Syria – Syrian Ambassador to the UN, Bashar Ja'afari
Nicaragua – Nicaragua Ambassador to the US, Francisco O Campbell
Cuba – Ana Silvia Rodriguez Abascal, Charge des Affaires, Permanent
Cuban Mission to UN,
Zimbabwe - Represented by Omawale Clay
Iran - Majid Takkt-Ravanchi, Ambassador to the United Nations
and Sayed Hosein Mousavian, Retired Iranian Ambassador
Palestine - Dr. Medhat Abbas, Director of Primary Care, speaking from Gaza
Yemen - Dr. Yahyia Mohammed Saleh Murshed, Union of Arab Academics,
speaking from Sana'a University, Yemen
Korea DPRK - Dr Kee Park, Harvard Medical School neurosurgery doctor,
who volunteers in DPRK
The US has imposed economic sanctions against 39 countries. In many cases, this denies them access to medicine and medical equipment as well as access to world markets for food and other necessities. During the coronavirus crisis the US, with the highest death count in the world, has upped the sanctions against countries like Iran and Venezuela, and has tried to weaponize COVID-19 to bring down governments that will not follow the dictates of Washington and Wall Street. The UN has asked that sanctions be loosened during this crisis but the US has done the opposite. Many US allies have broken with them and sent medical aid to some of these countries. Now is an important time for the people in the US to come out strongly against these sanctions, which are simply war by other means.
For more information on the Sanctions Kill campaign please go to the website at: http://sanctionskill.org. Also look at the important resource section on the website.
Sign the Open Letter to the Government of the US and the UN to end sanctions now
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US/Saudi Arabia, Stop Your War on Yemen
In recent weeks we have seen a huge escalation of the war against Yemen being waged by a coalition of forces that includes the United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, the UK and France. These forces have waged a relentless war against Yemen, the poorest Arab country. There has been continuous bombing of the country by Saudi Arabia, including hospitals, schools, food supplies, neighborhoods, infrastructure and other civilian targets. More than 14,600 civilians have been killed and injured and over three million people have been internally displaced. The devastation has been so bad that the country is now entirely dependent on outside aid as eight million Yemenis face famine. The worst cholera epidemic ever has caused over 1 million cases and resulted in more than 2,200 deaths.
The US always needs a major enemy (or many) to demonize in order to focus attention away from its real motives and crimes against humanity. Whether it's foremost economic rivals like Russia and China or other countries not under its control like North Korea, Syria, and Iran, or whether it uses Islamophobia, racism and anti-immigrant attacks at home, its hatemongering and demonization policies serve to cover what is the real target of US imperialism: domination of world markets and exploitation of the world's resources and people to the advantage of the super-rich in the US. [read more]
Free Julian Assange
UNAC hosted an important webinar with leaders of the movement to free Julian Assange. Click the link below to view the webinar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLIXTfuR3YI
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Rally in Yemen against US/Saudi War
Even before the war began, this impoverished country imported 90% of its food. The port of Hodeidah has been the primary entry point for food and other aid and is now the target of a new offensive by the US/Saudi/UAE coalition threatening mass starvation to get the Yemeni people to submit to their will. The recent attack on Hodeidah has included massive Saudi bombing of the port and a ground force that includes officers from the UAE leading anti-Ansar Allah Yemenis along with mercenaries, many from Sudan. This attempt to close the port of Hodeidah should be seen as a war crime. [read more]
The Venezuelan Election, a blow to US Imperialism
Hear from people who observed the elections as election observers and journalists.
Click on the image to view the video of the webinar
Speakers include: Margaret Flowers, Vijay Prashad, Bahman Azad and Zoe PC
Kevin Zeese — Presente!
Kevin Zeese, co-director of Popular Resistance passed away on September 6. Kevin has been a member of the UNAC Administrative Committee and playing a critical roles in numerous actions including our conference this spring and collaborations like the No Foreign Bases Coalition, the Hands Off Syria Coalition, the Sanctions Kill Coalition and others. Last summer he initiated and led the Embassy Protection Collective who stayed to protect the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington DC after the Venezuelan Ambassador was forced to leave. Below is a video of a recent interview. It was part of series of interview done with members of the UNAC Administrative Committee.
UNAC Blog
Visit the UNAC Blog for articles on important issues written by UNAC members and friends
UNAC Launches Odessa Solidarity Web site.
As the situation in Ukraine continues to deteriorate economically and politically, Progressive and anti-fascist forces are coming under increasing attack. This is the case for the Odessa Council of Mothers of May 2, which was formed by relatives of these killed and wounded by the fascist attack on protesters at the House of Trade Unions in Odessa on May 2, 2014. In response, UNAC has initiated the Odessa solidarity campaign. The web site is here: www.odessasolidaritycampaign.org. Please go to the web site and support the campaign.
Video, fascism in Ukraine:
https://youtu.be/APR5E4d3GKQ.
Read documentation of the growth of fascism in Ukraine:
http://nepajac.org/ukraine%20evidence.pdf (please wait a few seconds for documentation to load)
UNAC members and friends have launced a new web site called "Ukraine After Maidan." This web site will focus on the ever increasing repression from the US supported right-wing governement of Kiev. To access the web site, please go here: https://ukraineaftermaidan.wordpress.com/
War Propaganda and the Trump/Putin Summit
The relentless hue and cry denouncing the recent Trump/Putin summit meeting largely emanates from the so-called liberal establishment, the Democratic Party, and their partners in the corporate media. The Democrats hope to reverse electoral losses by vilifying Trump while simultaneously, once again, proving to be incapable of advancing critical policies that the people need and want. Many progressive people who claim to oppose Trump and his policies, are themselves shamefully supporting NATO and more aggressive policies and sanctions against North Korea and Russia. They express support for the "professional" FBI that has been responsible for COINTELPRO attacks on the Black movement and the left and the intelligence agencies that spy on everyone and engage in assassinations, war, and regime change. Robert Mueller, the Director of the FBI for 12 years, is falsely promoted as a hero and a possible savior of a non-existent democracy.
Remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Ban all Nuclear Weapons Beginning with the United States
Hiroshima after US atomic Bombing
On August 6, 1945 and again on August 9, 1945 the United States dropped atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. The stated reason for this first and still only use of atomic weapons was the need to hasten the end of World War II. [read more]
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The next webinar of the UNAC Youth Against Empire
No War on Iran
Jan 30 at 4:30 PM ET
Click here to register
US has been trying in instigate a War with Iran. Within the past year, the US has been seen to be behind the assassinations of leading scientific and military officials of Iran. The US has Iran surrounded with military bases and Navy ships and has imposed harsh sanction on Iran including sanctioning that deny Iran medical resources during the COVID-19 pandemic
Join us on this webinar to demand: No War with Iran!
This 4th of July
Statement by the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC)
An etching of those dead at Wounded Knee
On this 4th of July, Trump goes to Mount Rushmore to set off fireworks on Indian land even though the tribal leaders have asked him to stay away and fireworks have been banned in the area due to a drought. He speaks at Mount Rushmore where statues have been carved of 4 white presidents designed by a supporter of the KKK. The building of Mount Rushmore was a desecration of the Black Hills, sacred land of the Lakota Sioux people. It stands only 75 miles from Wounded Knee where US troops massacred hundreds of unarmed Sioux women, children, and men. Can the Native people truthfully celebrate freedom on this 4th of July? [read more]
UNAC in Odessa to Support Memorial of those killed by Right-wing on May 2, 2014
Gathering for memorial of those massacred Fascist try to disrupt
UNAC members and friends traveled to Odessa to support the memorial of those killed by fascist forces on May 2, 2014 while they were protesting the US supported coup at Maidan Square. Once again the fascist forces tried to disrupt and held their own rally to "celebrate" what they consider a victor.
Please read the report by UNAC co-coordinator Joe Lombardo here
A second report of Maidan Square in Kiev can be seenhere
In Ukraine pro-fascist organizations have been supported by the police and the government. Many from ultra-rightest organizations are in the government. The anti-Maidan organizations also functions but face arrest and assassination and are driven underground. This is the government that the US supports.
More than a year ago organizations around the world came together in a collective statement to demand U.S. Hands off Syria. U.S. Hands Off Syria signers included more than 265 organizations and over 1,500 individuals. They agreed with the Hands Off Syria Coalition's focus on opposing the criminal and illegal U.S. role in the 7 years of war and supported the demands and points of unity.
We must urgently raise our voices again.
The U.S. government has announced its continued determination to maintain a long-term military occupation of Syria and to create a border force of 30,000 on the Turkish and Iraqi border and the Euphrates Valley effectively partitioning Syria. This latest U.S. plan would separate the oil rich northern region from the rest of Syria and create a militarized mini-state, under U.S. contro [read more]
The strong-armed tactics and bluster from the Trump administration was deflated due to the diplomacy between North and South Korea initiated by South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who was elected partly on the promise to cool down the tension between North and South Korea. Today, polls show that Moon enjoys a popularity rating of 85% in South Korea. The results of the diplomacy became visible to the entire world at the recent Winter Olympics in
UNAC Statement on the Right-wing Mob Attack at the Capitol Building
While largely peaceful demonstrations against police killings of African Americans have been met by violent repression, the attempted takeover of the US Capitol by a white supremacist mob saw very light security and even collaboration.
When UNAC organized a peaceful demonstration in Chicago at the NATO summit in 2012, there were lines of cops all along the march route and, at the end of the event, when they saw there was no violence, the cops attacked anyway. There were no lines of cops in DC on January 6.
The US has always used right-wing forces and employed the same tactics to discredit elections that Trump is using now. Both Republicans and Democrats, especially Biden and of course Trump have used these tactics abroad for years.
Right-wing mob at the Capitol Right-wing mob in Venezuela
Every Regime Change operation began with repeatedly calling an election fraudulent, refusing to accept the results, and bringing in violently disruptive right-wing forces to try and change the results. These disrupters are always called "democratic forces" in the US media when they are in other countries.
This was the US tactic of choice in Ukraine, in Venezuela, in Syria, in Libya, in Hong Kong and in Bolivia, just to name a few recent examples. [read more]
Report on the UNAC 2020 Conference
 The Wars Come Home
UNAC Statement on the Current Uprising
Defend Black Lives!
NO Police State! NO Military Dictatorship!
Release all arrestees! NO more attacks on anti-racist protesters!
The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) stands in solidarity with communities across the country who are rising up in protest against racist police violence. As Donald Trump calls for the deployment of the U.S military in response to these national protests, UNAC condemns the use of any police and military forces being deployed to violently suppress these protests. We call on all anti-war activists to help organize or join in these actions demanding justice and an end to the state-terror being inflicted upon black and brown communities within this country.
The ongoing protests began in Minnesota on Monday May 25, 2020 in response to the murder of George Floyd, a 46-year old black man, by four police officers in the city of Minneapolis. The horrific killing was caught on multiple videos which revealed two cops pinning an already handcuffed Floyd facedown to the ground, one cop standing over him, and a fourth one pressing his knee into the victim's neck for nearly nine minutes even as he cried, "I can't breathe," and soon became unresponsive. Floyd died moments later. [read more]


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The Mighty Angels of Daniel 11: The Embodiment
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The Embodiment of the Antichrist
Vic Batista: Antiochus Epiphanes is a type of another leader who is still to come — the Antichrist.
Nathan Jones: Yes, the Antichrist, as the Bible calls him, will rise to power much in the same way Antiochus Epiphanes did. Theologians call Antiochus Epiphanes a type, a symbol, a predecessor, and the very embodiment of the coming one-world leader. Antiochus and the Antichrist are identical in personality — wretchedly evil. Some people even try to pass off Antiochus Epiphanes as the fulfillment of the Antichrist role, but that's clearly not true. Antiochus' scope of power extended nowhere nearly as far as the global government the Antichrist will control.
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Antiochus commits another heinous act, something that the Antichrist will also commit one day when he sets up his own False Prophet. Once Antiochus Epiphanes had defeated the Egyptians, he traveled back to Jerusalem and started selling the position of High Priest. Instead of the legal position being wielded by a descendant of Aaron, Antiochus sold the job off to the highest bidder. It ended up going to a man named Jason.
Antiochus also turned Jerusalem from being the capital of the Jewish people to a "polis," meaning a Greek city. He forcibly executed the process of Hellenizing the Jews, which means forcing the Jewish people to adopt the pagan Greek lifestyle. He built gymnasiums, which today we think of the gym as the place where we go to work out, but the Greek gymnasium also was a place of fornication, open sex, and the glorification of the body. Such lewdness shocked the Orthodox Jews.
Next what happens is a candidate named Menelaus outbids Jason and he ends up taking the job as High Priest. Jason still wants the job as High Priest, so he and Menelaus duke it out for the position. Jason gets so drawn into the heat of battle that he began slaughtering his own people, so they exiled him. Antiochus had created a great problem for the Jews by putting the High Priest job up for auction.
While Antiochus was busy in Egypt, he heard about the rivalry going on back in Jerusalem, and so turned around and headed back to Jerusalem. He sided with Menelaus to establish him in charge, but in doing so, Antiochus sacked the Temple.
The stunned Jewish people became desperate, so they turned, believe it or not, to the Romans for help. Israel asked the Romans to come and restore order, ironically enough. The Romans did come to the rescue. They told Antiochus that he was to leave Egypt and Israel, which is exactly what he ended up doing. Antiochus knew when to leave. Daniel 11:28-30 foretold the Roman intervention.
"The king of the North will return to his own country with great wealth, but his heart will be set against the holy covenant. He will take action against it and then return to his own country. At the appointed time he will invade the South again, but this time the outcome will be different from what it was before. Ships of the western coastlands will oppose him, and he will lose heart. Then he will turn back and vent his fury against the holy covenant. He will return and show favor to those who forsake the holy covenant."
Antiochus may have left, but sends down his General Apollonius in 167 BC into Jerusalem in order to punish the Jews for their obstinacy and his disgrace. The general slaughtered many Jews, all on the Sabbath day, because he knew they'd be at rest. The Sabbath kept the Jews from resisting. He went on to tear down the Jewish defenses. He prohibited circumcision. He set up pagan altars. He forced the Jewish priests to eat pork or die, which was about as equal to the Jewish mind.
Even though the Romans told Antiochus to get out of Israel, Antiochus returned anyway to revel. In 167 BC, after his General Apollonius had forced the Jewish people to become more paganized, Antiochus walked right into the Holy of Holies in the Temple, desecrating it with his very Gentile presence. The Madman set up a statue of Zeus, the head of the gods in the Greek belief system, and he sacrificed a pig on the very altar of Yahweh God. Every evil act that Antiochus committed was a declaration to the Jewish people that Yahweh was no more, and that Zeus was the ultimate god.
Antiochus' defilement of the Temple forced the Jewish people to flee out into the wilderness. The Jewish people called this desecration the "abomination that causes desolation." Daniel 11:31-32 foretold this very event would happen.
"His armed forces will rise up to desecrate the temple fortress and will abolish the daily sacrifice. Then they will set up the abomination that causes desolation. With flattery he will corrupt those who have violated the covenant, but the people who know their God will firmly resist him."
Vic Batista: Jesus in Matthew 24 mentioned this "abomination that causes desolation," but in the context of what the Antichrist is going to do one day. History will repeat itself. The most abominable act made against a Jewish person was what Antiochus did by slaughtering an unclean animal in the Temple and forcing the Jews to eat the swine, an act the Antichrist will one day replicate. To commit such a heinous act, and in the very temple of God, was a terrible sacrilege.
Nathan Jones: Antiochus in his hubris,by desecrating God's holy Temple, committed the worst insult that could have ever been devised. He contemptuously dismissed the Mosaic Law and its command not to eat pork. The Jews were forbidden to eat of any unclean animal, mainly because God was protecting them from getting a lot of blood diseases. Much of the Mosaic Law existed to help the Jewish people — former slaves — survive out in the wilderness. God gave His people all these health laws that have greatly benefited them even to this day.
Despite the Jews finding the eating of a pig a most detestable act, the most unclean thing possible, Antiochus entered in anyway and desecrated the Temple. This abomination caused many of the Jewish people to flee out of Jerusalem and run away into the wilderness.
That the Antichrist will commit this very same abomination makes me wonder if the Antichrist will one day read Daniel 11 and believe Antiochus to be the good guy in the story. One day the Antichrist, at the mid-point of the seven-year Tribulation, will march into the newly built third Jewish Temple, which has yet to be built, but will be built one day, and just like Antiochus, the Antichrist will desecrate the Third Temple. He will most likely sacrifice a pig on the altar, just as Antiochus did. But, instead of setting Zeus up to be worshiped, he will set up an image of himself to be worshiped. That takes a tremendous amount of gall!
Vic Batista: History repeats itself. It's sad that the Jewish people today don't understand that their biblical history is about to relived all over again. How sad that in the end of days they will once again be the ones caught in the middle of this spiritual crossfire and millions of Jews are going to lose their lives for it.
Nathan Jones: Sadly, very true. This abomination will happen again to Israel. Matthew 24 and other passages foretell this to be the case. The one-world ruler, the Antichrist, will act just like Antiochus Epiphanes. He will rise to power through flattery and intrigue. The whole world will be mesmerized by his charisma and charm. But, he will be totally contemptible, just like Antiochus Epiphanes. Revelation 13 even reveals the Antichrist will be possessed by Satan himself. Satan will obsess over the Jewish people and attempt to destroying them all. He will make a seven year peace covenant with the Jews, as we read about in Daniel 9, but he will break it mid-way by walking in to the Temple where no Gentile is allowed to enter. The Antichrist will sacrifice on the altar, likely a pig, then set up his own image up to be worshiped by the world. When the Bible says this man is contemptible, this is as contemptible as one can get!
In the fifty-ninth segment of this series on the mighty angels of Daniel, we'll marvel at how fulfilled Bible prophecy means Christians today can trust the Word of God.
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This easy gluten free lemon almond poppy seed bread recipe is moist, fluffy and bursting with lemon flavor! It's the best vegan lemon poppy seed bread – gluten-free, dairy-free, healthy!
Happy first day of Spring!!! Okay, fine, technically it's the second day of Spring!!! Yeah!
To celebrate, I'm sharing the scrumdiddlyumptious easy, vegan and gluten free lemon poppy seed bread recipe with almonds. It's perfectly moist, just the right balance between sweet and tangy… and seriously such a showstopper.
This recipe is adapted from my reader-fave Healthy Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins Recipe and my wonderfully gluten free Easy Orange Muffins Recipe.
I love making this gluten free lemon poppy seed bread for my mom (hint: this would be the perfect Mother's Day recipe), for brunch with loved ones ('cause I'm not making this for folks I feel tepid about… j/k!!) and just for me (we all need a little more self-love and appreciation, ya know?).
When's the last time you truly loved a vegan + gf quick bread recipe? Folks are always telling me how so often the gluten free vegan quick breads they try are gummy, overly moist, tough as nails and just plain 'ol tasteless. You know that's not how we roll here. Heck no!
This vegan lemon poppy seed bread recipe is fluffy, while also satisfyingly dense 'n light (you know that sweet spot in between) and will shock your friends when you reveal it's vegan and gluten free and made without refined ingredients. Whoop!
Are you ready to kick Spring in the face, um, I mean, kick off Spring in the tastiest, tangiest way possible? Okaaaay, it's not that tangy; it's just the right amount. 😉 Let's do this! Below, you'll find answers to common questions, notes and tips on how to make the tastiest gluten free lemon poppy seed bread!
GF oat flour: sub with gluten free all purpose flour. Do not substitute with coconut flour or almond flour—they won't work as swaps in this recipe.
Blanched almond flour: try subbing the almond flour with ¼ cup additional oat flour. See how you like the texture—I prefer the recipe as written, but you might enjoy this/it might suit those who are nut-free.
Coconut oil: sub with melted non-dairy butter or flavorless cooking oil.
Maple syrup: sub with brown rice syrup, agave or honey (if not vegan).
Unrefined Confectioners' Sugar: a few readers have tried grinding coconut sugar in a small food processor to make paleo powdered sugar. See how you like it.
Note: As always, proceed with caution. The more changes you make to the recipe, the lower your odds are that you'll bake something awesome.
After cooling completely, store your glazed gluten free lemon poppy seed bread in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 1 week. To freeze: cool lemon poppy seed bread completely and slice. Place in a freezer-friendly container or bag. Freeze for up to 2 months. Thaw at room temp for about 30 minutes or heat in the microwave in 15-second increments until just warm.
Wishing you the best Spring ever!! Filled with new beginnings, bright colors, even brighter smiles and joy. I hope that you and your loved ones absolutely adore this vegan lemon poppy seed bread! I can't wait to hear what you think!
Easy Vegan Lemon Almond Poppy Seed Bread Recipe (Gluten-Free, Healthy): this easy gluten free lemon almond poppy seed bread recipe is moist, fluffy and bursting with lemon flavor! It's the best vegan lemon poppy seed bread – gluten-free, dairy-free, healthy! Refined Sugar-Free.
Preheat oven to 350°F. Line an 8-inch loaf pan with parchment paper or greased foil. Set aside.
In a large bowl, sift together all the dry ingredients except salt and poppy seeds: oat flour, almond flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Whisk in salt and poppy seeds.
In a medium bowl, whisk together all wet ingredients: water, milk, lemon juice, lemon zest, oil, sugar, maple syrup and almond extract. Whisk until well incorporated.
Pour batter evenly into prepared pan. Using a rubber spatula, smooth batter into an even layer. Bake for 45-55 minutes. Mine took 50 minutes. Insert a toothpick in the center to check for doneness—once it comes out clean with just a few moist bits (no wet batter!), it's done.
Allow to cool on a cooling rack for 1 hour. Then, lift out of pan, transferring loaf along with parchment paper directly onto the cooling rack. Optionally, in a small bowl, whisk together Glaze ingredients until thickened: confectioners' sugar and lemon juice. Drizzle loaf. Top with sliced almonds. Allow to finish cooling for 1-2 hours. Slice loaf into 12 slices. Enjoy! Storing instructions below.
Also try my Lemon Coconut Macaroons, Orange Cardamom Muffins, and Best Moist Banana Chocolate Chip Bread!
- To Freeze: store in an airtight container or bag, unglazed, in the freezer for up to 1-2 months. Allow to thaw for about 30 minutes at room temperature before enjoying. Or, heat in the microwave in 15-second increments until just warm.
- *Powdered sugar substitutes: Swerve powdered sugar is a good sugar-free, low carb substitute. You can also grind the sweetener of your choice, such as Xylitol, in a coffee grinder or small blender until you get a powder. Since Swerve is a bit drier, use about 2 ½ teaspoons lemon juice to make the glaze.
Click the links below to check out my favorite tools & ingredients used to make this easy vegan lemon poppy seed bread recipe.
Lemon Juicer – Erik, my official juicer, says this is the BEST juicer ever. Quick, easy and effective!
Lemon Zester – actually an all-fruit and etc. grater. Super easy to use and perfectly sharp.
Homemade Oat Flour – my favorite recipe for GF all purpose flour.
8-inch Loaf Pan – such a sturdy and amazing loaf pan.
Almond Flour – my favorite almond flour brand. Super finely ground, great quality and taste.
Coconut Oil – a gluten free vegan baking must-have for the pantry!
I made this last night with the glaze and it was amazing! so light and refreshing with the lemon flavor.
YUM – I love lemon in my desserts, this one sounds great. Can't wait to try.
Same here, lemon desserts are the best! Hope you enjoy it Rosa!
I have a friend who's vegan. I am sure she is going to love this. Making this for her. I think I'll write the recipe on a pretty card and attach it. This is going to make a sweet gift.
I'm always happy to find good gluten-free baked goods. My 15 yr old has Celiac Disease so wer'e always looking for them 🙂 Love that you used oat flour in this one. And lemon and poppy seeds are always such a delicious combination.
This looks and sounds so tasty! I'm a big citrus fan and love the idea of using oat flour in this too. Yum!
Thanks Caroline! 😊 Then I think you'll definitely enjoy this recipe!
I'd LOVE a slice or two of this! It looks perfect!
This is making me hungry! This bread look so good! So easy and delicious!
Oh my, those pictures look to die for! I love a recipe like this, I'm crazy about anything lemon and poppyseeds bring back so many good memories. I have to get used to this though, I've never had bread like this! Only sweet sweet muffins. But I'm going to pin it for later: must try!
These look simply divine! I can't wait to make these at the weekend!!
Woohoo! Can't wait to hear how it turned out!
This looks amazing! Can't wait to make a loaf!
This bread looks like a DREAM! Need to try ASAP!
Haha more like a dream come true! 😂 Hope you enjoy it Taylor!
Looks heavenly! I'm sure everyone will love this, need to make this soon!
It's seriously so good! Hope you enjoy it!
I love it! Such a perfect spring treat!


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The traditional problems of AI research include reasoning, knowledge representation, planning, learning, natural language processing, perception and the ability to move and manipulate objects. General intelligence is among the field's long-term goals. Approaches include statistical methods, computational intelligence, and traditional symbolic AI. Many tools are used in AI, including versions of search and mathematical optimization, artificial neural networks, and methods based on statistics, probability and economics. The AI field draws upon computer science, mathematics, psychology, linguistics, philosophy and many others.
Artificial intelligence in Healthcare Market- Artificial intelligence is breaking into the healthcare industry by assisting doctors. According to Bloomberg Technology, Microsoft has developed AI to help doctors find the right treatments for cancer. There is a great amount of research and drugs developed relating to cancer. In detail, there are more than 800 medicines and vaccines to treat cancer. This negatively affects the doctors, because there are too many options to choose from, making it more difficult to choose the right drugs for the patients. Microsoft is working on a project to develop a machine called "Hanover". Its goal is to memorize all the papers necessary to cancer and help predict which combinations of drugs will be most effective for each patient.
Artificial intelligence in Automotive Market - Advancements in AI have contributed to the growth of the automotive industry through the creation and evolution of self-driving vehicles. As of 2016, there are over 30 companies utilizing AI into the creation of driverless cars. A few companies involved with AI include Tesla, Google, and Apple.
Artificial intelligence in Military -Worldwide annual military spending on robotics rose from 5.1 billion USD in 2010 to 7.5 billion USD in 2015. Military drones capable of autonomous action are widely considered a useful asset. In 2017, Vladimir Putin stated that "Whoever becomes the leader in (artificial intelligence) will become the ruler of the world". Many artificial intelligence researchers seek to distance themselves from military applications of AI.
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Voters would be a lot more engaged in our elections if they felt they had more viable choices and could vote for candidates they feel represent their concerns and wishes. Most voters are tied between the "lesser of two evils," and vote their fears rather than their dreams when they step into the voting booth.
A simple solution is to implement instant-runoff voting. IRV is a simple voting method in which voters can rank their choices in order of preference. The top vote getter only wins if he receives a majority of the votes. If he doesn't, then the candidates who are ranked lowest are eliminated and the votes are re-tallied until there is a majority winner.
I would like to see a series of articles about IRV that help educate readers about the benefits of this system and cite the towns, cities and states that are implementing it all over the country.


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Wear Whatever You Want. Fashion is Dead. /
Wear Whatever You Want. Fashion is Dead.
We unpack the rise and fall of American haute couture.
Brooke Ivey Johnson
As Carrie Bradshaw famously said, "Every year the women of New York leave the past behind and look forward to the future. This is known as FASHION WEEK."
While any real New Yorker knows that Sex and The City is a rose-colored depiction of the cockroach-filled-hellhole we happily call home, surely the show at least nailed its representation of fashion week. After all, it's a week devoted to all things shiny and inaccessible: beautiful people wearing beautiful clothes in elegant rooms with mysterious locations. Yeah, someone vomited on your Reeboks on the L train during your commute home to your 4th-floor walk up, but surely, despite all the things New York turned out not to be, it's still this one thing: the home of high fashion and unimaginable glamor.
You scroll through your Instagram feed, living vicariously through shots of six-foot-tall, eyebrowless women wearing clothing-adjacent structures, strutting down runways that could just as easily be in a dark room in Billings, Montana. But it's not about that. It's about knowing that it's here, here in this city of broken promises and overdraft credit cards, that something magical is happening. That's fashion week.
The haute couture industry was built on this air of inaccessibility. A select few get to be seen in the latest trends, which is only made consequential by the envy of those excluded. Without that envy, there is no high fashion. For many, the fashion weeks of the world and the kind of life they represent have seemed like untouchable, sparkling beacons of high-class living that couldn't possibly be affected by the daily life of your average American. After all, they're the kind of events people like Kendall Jenner and Rihanna frequent. But, it turns out, even high fashion is beginning to feel the tides of change in this specific and volatile moment in history.
The founder of Decades and Fashion Director of H by Halston and H Halston, Cameron Silver, told Forbes about the current state of the world of couture: "NYFW and the fashion industry, in general, is in an existential crisis at present. The way younger generations consume in a shared economy is ultimately providing huge challenges and fashion shows no longer engage the same way with customers." This is more than convincingly evident by the continued decrease of shows hitting the runway at the past couple of NYFW, as well as the average American's dwindling interest in high-end clothes. According to government statistics, in 1977, 6.2 percent of U.S. household spending went to clothing, now, that number is down by more than half.
GCDS - Runway - Milan Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2019
The truth is, fewer Americans than ever before are interested in high fashion. If your inner Carrie Bradshaw is screaming in despair at this news, well, tell her to shut up because her internalized misogyny is problematic, her looks were tacky and performative even then, and it's time to introduce her to a new concept: sustainable fashion.
For the first time in the history of industrialization, consumers are starting to care where their products come from. Enter: organic and locally grown food, renewed emphasis on the craftsmanship of home goods, and sustainable, ethically-made clothing brands like Everlane and Outdoor Voices. The fashion industry is the second largest polluter in the world, and more and more human rights violations are coming to light from even some of the most well-known brands. Consequently, consumers are choosing more responsible options, like vintage shopping, ethical brands, and simply buying less.
But to ascribe the death of high fashion merely to a rise in consumer ethics would be way too optimistic and straightforward. Perhaps even more influential than the corruption within the industry was the advent of e-commerce. Amazon and other online retailers are slowly but surely killing the traditional retail shopping experience that high end designers depend on. Shopping at Gucci is not merely about the clothing, it's about being seen shopping at Gucci. It's about the grandeur of the store itself. It's about the attentive salespeople who make you feel valued. It's about feeling like Carrie Bradshaw. High-end designers are selling self-importance to their consumers, and that doesn't translate to online shopping.
Not only that, but e-commerce has taught consumers that fashion is about instant gratification. With a few clicks, you can have that sweater waiting for you on your doorstep in just three days. Looks at fashion week usually don't go on sale to consumers for another 6 months, and while that used to be an accepted part of staying on trend, why wait when you can get something similar online?
What consumers need from their clothes is changing too. As more American workplaces go casual, there's less need for the kinds of tailored suits or pencil skirts that have long been the bread and butter of designer fashion houses. Instead, people are choosing versatile, durable clothing that can be worn over and over, no matter the occasion. Which makes sense, as people are choosing to spend their money on experiences instead of material possessions. According to government statistics, experiences (travel, activities, eating out etc.) have grown to occupy 18% of the average American's spending. After all, what's the point of that new dress if the picture is taken in your bedroom because you can't afford to go out? Wouldn't it be better to post a picture wearing an older dress, but with the Mediterranean sea in the background? Most people think so.
This goes hand-in-hand with perhaps the most significant factor affecting the decline of the high-end clothing industry: brands are losing their place as status symbols. While it used to be that your opportunity to compare yourself to your peers mostly took place in person, with ample time to analyze and pick apart every aspect of your acquaintances' outfits while you mingled, now, that comparison is happening online. When you post a picture of yourself on Instagram, it's unlikely that any of your followers are going to be able to identify the specific brands you're wearing, so as long as the outfit looks good and fills them with envy, why spring for a $400 black skirt when a $40 one will serve the same purpose?
Besides, is it really that enviable to have spent $400 on a skirt? As hipster culture takes root at every level of American society, even affluent millennials brag about their vintage thrift shop jeans. High fashion represents the newest thing, but the latest thing is being replaced by nostalgia for the old. This phenomenon is in part because many think fashion has finally hit a ceiling in which new innovations can only be variations on old innovations, and certain trends seem to be sticking around for good. As the New York Post points out, "Crucially, fashion hasn't produced a must-have shift in dressing since the skinny jean in 2005." Which means that there is a possibility that top you bought in the 90s is just as fashionable as anything you could go out and buy today. Why go shopping at all?
Tom Ford - Runway RTW - Spring 2018 - New York Fashion Week
This new emphasis on vintage and used clothing could also be in part because as ideals of democratic socialism have begun to gain traction among the left, the once glorified careless spending of the country's elite has started to look less appealing and more reckless and immoral to young Americans. While people still naturally aspire to wealth, they don't look up to millionaires and billionaires as role models the way they once did, which has led people to turn to new sources of inspiration when it comes to their style. Fashion bloggers and YouTubers will happily tell you that they got their cute new bag at a garage sale and their shoes half price at TJ Maxx.
So yes, it appears high fashion, and NYFW along with it is dying. Even Tom Ford, one of the most famous designers in the world, has acknowledged the phenomenon, saying, "Most of the American population is switched off fashion, [it's] become a spectator sport for the most part." While the elite may see this as a tragic loss of culture, what it indicates is a movement towards an equal nation. We're a long way away from entirely giving up the high value we place on material possessions, but the incremental demise of an industry run on lower-class envy, and the commodification of status is a step in the right direction. F*ck Carrie Bradshaw, wear what you want.
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A recent update to Bitcoin Satoshi's Vision (BSV) protocol has recently been exploited for posting data involving child abuse on the blockchain, prompting block explorers and apps to monitor the network for other similar content, TNW-powered publication Hard Fork reported February 4.
The detestable content was initially detected on Bitcoinfiles.org, a website hosted by the BSV protocol following a recent upgrade which expanded the network's storage capacity for data transactions by 450 times, that is, an additional 100KB more for recording various content on the blockchain, including images, video as well as audio files.
According to investigations, the illicit content was uploaded with Money Button facilitating the transaction, BSV's proprietary payment app.
Unless BSV network hard forks to revert such transactions, the illicit content will remain hosted by the blockchain, given its immutable nature.
BSV is a Bitcoin Cash hard fork created in November 2018 to dramatically increase the blockchain's original block size in an effort to boost the network's efficiency as usage increases over the years. These changes to the blockchain's transactional data limits is what eventually enabled BSV users to store images and videos onto the network.
Addressing the current situation, Jimmy Nguyen, the CEO of nChain, the blockchain R&D firm behind the BSV protocol, stated that BSV is simply a data ledger like any other platform that stores data, and as such, there is always a possibility that it could be exploited to record illicit contents.
If BSV is unable to revert back the network's latest transactional data limits, it is up to the services that comprise BSV's network to monitor and censor the entire blockchain, Nguyen concluded.
Echoing Nguyen's view, the firm further stated that the blockchain's immutability does not matter in such cases if there are enough firms working together to make it difficult to store such illicit content on the BSV network, with criminals having no one to write these such data for them.


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Phillies vs. Cardinals Betting Predictions 10/8/22
by Dave | Oct 8, 2022 | mlb
Philadelphia Phillies vs St. Louis Cardinals
Date: Saturday October 8th, 08:37 ET
Location: Busch Stadium
Money Line: Phillies -120 / Cardinals +100
Total Line: 6.5
STARTING PITCHING
Philadelphia: Aaron Nola (11-13, 3.25)
St. Louis: Miles Mikolas (12-13, 3.29)
Phillies Projected Lineup
Jean Segura 2B
Matt Vierling LF
J.T. Realmuto C
Nick Castellanos RF
Alec Bohm 3B
Bryson Stott SS
Bryce Harper RF
Kyle Schwarber LF
Rhys Hoskins 1B
Aaron Nola P
Cardinals Projected Lineup
Dylan Carlson RF
Yadier Molina C
Albert Pujols 1B
Lars Nootbaar LF
Corey Dickerson LF
Nolan Arenado 3B
Tommy Edman SS
Paul Goldschmidt 1B
Brendan Donovan 2B
Miles Mikolas P
STRAIGHT UP/ OVER/UNDER / RUN LINE RECORDS
Philadelphia Phillies: 87-75-0 SU / OU 83-75-5 / Run Line W/L 82-81-0
St. Louis Cardinals: 93-69-0 SU / OU 77-80-6 / Run Line W/L 87-76-0
The St. Louis Cardinals host the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday October 8th at Busch Stadium. The first pitch in this matchup is scheduled for 08:37 ET. The MLB Odds Board places Philadelphia as the favorite (-120), with an OU line set at 6.5.
In their most recent game, Philadelphia picked up a 3-run win over St. Louis (6-3). On their way to the victory, the pitching staff gave up 3 runs on 12 hits. The Phillies lineup had a good night at the plate, coming up with 4 hits, leading to 6 runs. Heading into their last game, Philadelphia was the betting favorite at -110.0. Through 110 games as the favorite, the team has found the win column at a rate of 59.0%. With the over-under line set at 6.5 runs, the Phillies and St. Louis combined to go over this total. This result is part of a larger trend, as Philadelphia has had the over has hit in more than half of their games (83-75-5).
The Phillies are looking to continue adding wins, as they are 3-2 over their last 5 games. During this time, they have an average scoring differential of +2. Philadelphia has put together this record, despite averaging just 3.8 runs per game, compared to their season average of 4.61. So far, Philadelphia has won over half of their 52 series played, going 25-22-5.
St. Louis will look to move on from a 3-run loss to the Pirates, falling by the score of 6-3. On their way to giving up 6 runs, the Cardinals staff allowed 9 hits. With their 8 hits, the Cardinals could only plate 3 runners. St. Louis dropped the game despite being favored at -110.0. So far, the team has won 67.0% of the games in which they were favored. The Cardinals and Pirates went over the run total line set at 6.5 runs. On the season, the team has an over-under record of just 77-80-6.
The Cardinals come into today's game looking to turn things around, as they are just 1-4 over their last 5 games. This recent slump is backed by a scoring margin of -7 over their last 5 games. In their 5 most recent contests, the team is scoring at a rate (4.2) similar to their season-long average of 4.77. On the season, St. Louis has won more than half of their series, going 25-13-12.
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Philadelphia will roll with Aaron Nola (11-13) as their starter. Currently, Nola has an ERA of just 3.25 while pitching an average of 6.41 innings per outing. So far, batters are hitting just 0.218 against him. In addition, to his strong BA allowed, he has been able to limit power, allowing just 0.83 home runs allowed per 9 innings. In terms of strikeouts, Aaron Nola has a strong strikeout percentage of 28.9%, including a per-game average of 7.34. For the season, he has struggled with command averaging 1.27 walks per outing.
St. Louis will roll with Miles Mikolas (12-13) as their starter. In his previous outings, Mikolas has lasted an average of 6.12 innings, putting together an ERA of just 3.29. Hits have been hard to come by against the right-hander, as his batting average allowed is just 0.226. Per 9 innings pitched, Mikolas is giving up 1.11 home runs. On the season, Miles Mikolas has had no problem racking up strikeouts, posting a strikeout percentage of 19.0%. This has led to an average of 4.64 K's per game. For the season, he has struggled with command averaging 1.73 walks per outing.
Philadelphia vs St. Louis History
For the season, the Philadelphia Phillies and St. Louis Cardinals will be playing their 9th game of the season. So far, Philadelphia is leading the season series, 5-3. Through 8 games, the series over-under record is 2-6, with the average run total sitting at 7.29 runs per game. The averge scoring margin in these meetings is 2.38 runs.
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Philadelphia's last 5 games when playing St. Louis
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Philadelphia's last 9 games when playing on the road against St. Louis
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of St. Louis's last 5 games when playing Philadelphia
Philadelphia Phillies at St. Louis Cardinals Prediction
In game 1 of this NL Wild Card series between Philadelphia and St. Louis, the Phillies pulled off a shocking win by exploding for 6 runs late in the game. Now, Philadelphia is an excellent spot to advance as Aaron Nola takes the mound. Even though the Phillies just squeaked into the playoffs, I recommend taking them on the moneyline to advance.
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Coalition Likely to Oppose Final Partnership Agreement
US - A coalition of agricultural organisations is likely to oppose a final Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement if it includes Japan but that country doesn't agree to comprehensive trade liberalisation, including elimination of tariffs on virtually all US agricultural products.
In a letter sent to US Trade Representative Michael Froman, the 17 groups said the unwillingness of Japanese negotiators to present a comprehensive offer on agricultural products is threatening to undermine the trade talks.
Japan is demanding special treatment for its agriculture sector, including exclusion from the agreement of certain "sensitive" products.
The TPP is a regional trade negotiation that includes the United States, Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam, which account for nearly 40 per cent of global GDP.
The agricultural organizations pointed out in their letter to Froman that, if Japan is allowed to claim exceptions for sensitive products, other TPP countries inevitably will demand the right to do the same. Countenancing such an action, they said, also will affect future trade agreements, including the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership now being negotiated between the United States and the European Union.
If the United States can't reach an agreement with Japan that includes comprehensive liberalization in the agricultural sector, it should conclude a TPP deal without the Asian nation, said the groups.
Japan is an important market for US agriculture – the fourth largest – which shipped $13.5 billion of food and agricultural products to the island nation in 2012.


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Mike Marino – affectionately known to millions of his fans worldwide as New Jersey's Bad Boy – is one of the most loved comedians of our time. He has performed in every major comedy club, theatre, casino and event center from New York to Los Angeles and around the world. Mike has also shared the stage with some of the biggest names in the business.
Mike Marino was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He entered the entertainment industry at an early age and has studied at some of the most prestigious acting schools in New York, the Herbert Berghof Studio and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Mike has appeared in over 200 national television commercials, including many endorsements and has received a Best Actor Clio Award Nomination. He has acted in many Prime Time soaps and television shows including: As the World Turns, One Life to Live, Becker, Nikki, Frasier and Party of Five. His film credits include Crooks, Pizza with Bullets, Hangin' in Hedo and Steven King's Lucky Quarter and Criticsized.
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Xiaomi Mi 8 Review
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By andre93
Xiaomi is making a push using its brand of Android smartphones into the UK. The Xiaomi Mi 8 Guru has impressed us with its design and creditable AI-enhanced camera . However, the Miami Mi 8 is equally as intriguing a bundle. It gives similar near-flagship specifications for a lower cost than the Miami Mi 8 Pro version. The Mi 8 provides up a large AMOLED display (complete with obligatory notch), top-end Snapdragon 845 processing power, and a solid double -12-megapixel camera to get a UK launch cost of 459. That is half the cost of a Huawei Mate 20 Pro. Maybe more importantly, it also undercuts the present #500 gorilla of the smartphone world, the OnePlus 6T.
Xiaomi Mi 8 – Design
Like its Pro brother, the Xiaomi Mi 8 is a curvy glass-bodied phone place in a 7-series aluminium metal frame. It does not have the attention-grabbing transparent back but to my head that leaves it feeling as the more classy telephone of the two. Instead of gawping at the exposed replica chips of this Pro version, you will only have to make do with a bunch of smudged fingerprints, and your face staring back at you in the reflective surface. There's also a more conventional fingerprint sensor on the rear of this Miami Mi 8, positioned just below and to the right of a dual-camera array. That fingerprint detector might look like a step but it's really a more reliable and quicker means to obtain access to this phone.
Otherwise, the dimensions of the Xiaomi Mi 8 will be nigh-on identical to the Guru, using a skinny 7.6mm-thick frame and the exact same surface region. Additionally, it is a 2g. It's hefty, but not uncomfortably or distractingly. Overall, this is a fairly unassuming phone that liberally borrows stylistic components from its rivals. Most importantly, it owes a debt to the X family with dual-camera module that is stacked and its screen. The Xiaomi Mi 8 feels premium at the hand, thanks to the glass and metallic composition, and an adequate amount of build quality. But there's a whiff of"me too" for it all, and you think that Xiaomi's local rival Huawei has stolen a march on it in recent years when it comes to distinctive design. It's a shame there are not any stereo speakers with just a single easy-to-cover grille on the bottom of the phone. Although this is only one of the signs that you're not dealing with an absolute top-tier phone. More comprehensible – although still very frustrating for some – is the lack of a 3.5millimeter headphone jack. I need that Xiaomi had utilised this to provide the Mi 8 some kind of proper waterproofing, but an IP rating is possibly a little over the phone's pay grade.
It's always pleasing to see AMOLED display technology at a less-than-flagship phone. That is no less true of this Miami Mi 8. As a result, colours really soda here, and there's full HDR10 support for all relevant media. There's none of that uncanny over-saturation of which AMOLED screens could be guilty of. All in all, this is a balanced screen. As is becoming customary, you can adjust the Xiaomi Mi 8's display to your personal tastes. Indeed, the Contrast & Colours tool at the Settings menu offers higher potential for and you can tinker with the contrast level.
There's also a Reading style which produces the tone of the display warmer for a more eye-friendly effect, and you can schedule this to come on automatically at night. This screen is a large 6.21-inch affair using a 2244 x 1080 (essentially 1080p or Full HD) resolution. No, it does not match the QHD screens of Android mobiles like the Samsung Galaxy S9, but you're talking about decreasing returns when you pack that many pixels into such a small location. The screen does not approach the eye-searing LCD brightness of a device like the Huawei Mate 20, of course. Nonetheless, it's perfectly alright in most conditions, and before it would become something like a problem you have to wait around for those bright British summer days to roll up. It is also a very long screen that fills the front of the telephone, using a stretched-out 18.7:9 aspect ratio. There is a notch set up to house IR sensor and the camera, along with a noticeable chin reverse. But otherwise, the display spreads out to fulfill 86.68percent of the front the gadget.
The Miami Mi 8 is a strong actress, courtesy of a Snapdragon 845 CPU and 6GB of RAM. The Snapdragon 845 has been set to be superseded with the initial tide of 2019 telephones, but it would be churlish to complain about that at a phone that costs less than 500. The Snapdragon 845 stays a very capable chip that will handle anything you throw at it. Within our benchmark tests the Mi 8 scored a multi-core score of 8781 and a single-core score of 2389, which will be roughly on par with the equally specced OnePlus 6T – one of the quickest phones on the market. I should also note that these dents appear to represent a bump up in performance from our Xiaomi Mi 8 Pro tests late last year. Those decreased scores of 7765 and 2275 are probably down to the subsequent software optimisations that have come about with the move to Android 9.0 Pie and MIUI 10.1. Within our previous Xiaomi Mi 8 Pro reviewwe noted that the operation seemed less than optimal, with lower grade scores and one or two high-end performance hitches. I didn't encounter anything of the sort from the Mi 8, therefore Miami appears to have ironed out the creases.
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Review: Small Soldiers
by Sean Axmaker, Film Reviews
[Originally written for Seattle Weekly, 1998]
Set the wayback machine to 1998. Parallax View presents reviews of films released 20 years ago, written by our contributors for various papers and websites. Most of these have not been available for years.
About halfway through Small Soldiersit struck me: just who is this film's audience? On the surface it's an adolescent boy's fantasy turned nightmare, a "War Toy Story" with a pair of spunky teenage heroes in the line of fire. But there's another film here too, a consumer satire crammed with pop culture references and movie quotes aimed at much bigger kids – well, adults actually.
Blu-ray Classics: John Huston's WWII documentaries, 'The Vikings,' 'Passage to Marseilles'
Blu-ray, by Sean Axmaker, Documentary, DVD, Film Reviews, John Huston
Let There Be Light (Olive, Blu-ray, DVD) – John Huston, like so many members of the Hollywood community, offered his talents to the armed services after Pearl Harbor. He was assigned to the Army Signal Corps, where he made four films. This disc features all four films, including a recently restored version of his final documentary for the armed services.
You can see his changing perspective on war through the productions, from Winning Your Wings (1942), a recruitment film narrated by James Stewart, to Let There Be Light (1946), his powerful portrait of the mentally and emotionally scarred men treated at a Long Island military hospital. Report from the Aleutians (1943) shows the routine of military life at a remote base in the frigid Aleutian Islands between Alaska and Russia (it's also the only film shot in color), but his tone becomes darker in San Pietro (1945), which documents the battle to take a small Italian village from the occupying German forces. Huston provides the ironic narration himself over the record of destruction and loss of life on a single battle. The scenes of bombed-out ruins and dead soldiers are real but the battle itself was restaged by Huston for maximum dramatic impact. The military chose not to show the film to civilian audiences but new recruits did watch the film to understand the grueling ordeal awaiting them in battle. The film was voted into the National Film Registry in 1991.
Let There Be Light, his final film, is on the one hand a straightforward portrait of soldiers receiving help for "psychoneurotic" damage, what today was call post-traumatic stress disorder, and on the other a powerful portrait of the damage that war left on these men. It's also a portrait of an integrated military, with black and white soldiers living and working in group therapy sessions together, before it ever existed in the barracks. The film was censored for 35 years and restored just a few years ago. This disc features the restored version.
Review: Law and Disorder
Ivan Passer must have taken another look at his countryman Milos Forman's American picture, Taking Off, before addressing himself to Law and Disorder, for the new film contains several notable echoes of its predecessor: a community-enlightenment seminar in which an obviously neurotic psychologist advises the women how to defend themselves against potential rapists (cf. the pot-smoking in Taking Off); a wife's comically grotesque attempts to turn on a jaded husband (cf. Lynn Carlin's pixilated drunk dance); the complaint of the protagonist, a beleaguered parent with a troublesome daughter, that "normal girls run away at 16—she stays around to annoy us" (a nod to T.O.'s central premise). There any resemblance to Forman's adroitly judged satire and Passer's own small masterpiece, Intimate Lighting ends. Passer's account of several middleaged middle-American males' endeavors to set their world a-right by forming an auxiliary police force to patrol the neighborhood attempts to limn the frustration of those who straddle the caste line between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, but he lacks any feeling for the specifically American experience. Actors like Carroll O'Connor and Ernest Borgnine are difficult to control at the best of times, and Passer, who steers his way so surely through the klutzy exoticism of blowsy Czech housewives and passed-over Czech Lotharios, apparently has no notion when satirical caricature gives way to gross overplaying.
Review: Shoot
[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976]
Guy starts his movie with loving closeups of a ramrod squeezing oil down a rifle bore and a hand stroking off the outer barrel, he'd better have either a sense of humor or a deep enough fetishistic commitment to justify the indulgence. Harvey Hart, a Canadian director who did several seasons of American TV and a couple of U.S. feature films in the mid-Sixties, apparently possesses neither, but he's consistently displayed a predilection for hanging his camera in pointlessly odd places and cluttering up his foregrounds as sententiously as possible. Since Shoot is based on a premise at once pretentious and preposterous, he's the last man I'd have nominated to save it—and whaddaya know, I'd have been right.
Review: Convoy
by Richard T. Jameson, Film Reviews, Sam Peckinpah
[Originally published in Movietone News 58-59, August, 1978]
Convoy continues Peckinpah's voyage into "nihilist poetry," in the phrase of Pauline Kael, which began to be dreamily insistent in The Killer Elite and became the whole show in Cross of Iron. At a glance, the new film looks closer to conventional narrative than that Yugoslav-based war picture, filmed in a nightmare neverneverland of green mud and orange blossoms of flame, with nary a Bo Hopkins or L.Q. Jones among Sgt. Steyner's Teutonic Wild Bunch to certify the place as home. Convoy rumbles down a linear track in the modern American Southwest, accommodating a couple of days' time in the lives of legendary badass trucker Rubber Ducky (Kris Kristofferson) and an ever-increasing number of his confreres, gathering initial impetus from a run-in with a trucker-hating, dirty-tricks-playing sheriff (Ernest Borgnine), and escalating through a series of deliriously ill-advised acts of rebellion that virtually compel the retributive/destructive force of The Law to come down on the vagabond heroes—these "modern cowboys," as both a fatuous politician and the logic of Peckinpah's own career would have it. Rubber Duck and some half-dozen good buddies, barreling toward the state line, gradually find themselves the vanguard of a vast caravan and the focus of a boundless populist movement whereby all sorts of abused "little punks" (Frank Capra's phrase this time) get to sound off about everything from Nam and Watergate to the infamous "double nickel" national speed limit, which restricts private-enterprise commerce and just plain interferes with a fella going down his own road (cf. Jr. Bonner) at his own good time. The poetry comes in less through the occasional overlap ballet of trucks amid backlighted dust clouds—a rather film-student-y idea carried off no better than the average film student might–than in the bemusement with which Peckinpah piles on the improbabilities. Finally, Rubber Ducky and cohorts are no more driving through a real piece of the American Southwest than Sgt. Steyner and his platoon were walking through a documentary version of the Second World War on the Russian front.
Review: When Time Ran Out…
[Originally published in Movietone News 64-65, March 1980]
Going in, Irwin Allen's latest disaster movie sounds as if it ought to be the ultimate in the genre. Entitled When Time Ran Out…, complete with ellipsis, and based on a novel called The Day the World Ended, the picture starts off with science-fiction-y images of a lone, safety-suited figure picking his way over a steaming grey landscape that surely does suggest a planet in line for burnout. I began to speculate whether a guy like Irwin Allen would bother ripping off a guy like Robert Altman, and have ol' Paul Newman, from Quintet more recently than Allen's own The Towering Inferno, materializing out of another bleak futuristic landscape (at least futuristic-in-the-making). But then the solitary stroller turned out not to be Paul at all; and the catastrophe portrayed in When Time Ran Out… proved to be nothing more than your basic Devil at Four o'Clock volcanic trashing of a single tropical island—and maybe only half the island at that.


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Expanding the Waikato River Trails, with their growing profile and popularity, by linking to other trails and activities in the area is an attractive proposition. Increasing the flow of visitors to the area for recreational activity would provide a major boost to retailers – particularly food-oriented businesses.
The rail corridor between Putaruru and Rotorua was closed to heavy rail 20 years ago. The route held commercial opportunity but only if it could be accessed cost efficiently and developed with agreement from all stakeholders.
established on the most effective use of resources, through the feasibility studies
costs estimated and accounted for, for more effective planning
TWO-STAGED PROCESS
recommended as best possible outcome for users of the trails
The Waikato River Trails Trust focused on a primary connecting trail option from Putaruru to Rotorua and a secondary option, from the rail line to the Blue Spring. Both had significant appeal and experiential value.
It was recognised that trails constructed to a cycling standard but also walkable provided the greatest rate of return / participation. However, a feasibility study was needed to assess the practicalities of each option. Option one, for example, would need to leverage a 30-year lease with KiwiRail and transform a rail link that had virtually been abandoned over 20 years ago. Option two meant unifying disparate stakeholders in order to achieve a high value experience including nine historic but dilapidated bridges and native forest through to the Blue Spring – a relatively hidden yet magnificent asset.
The feasibility study aimed to quantify the cost of building the trail, the process, including complexity of community consultation and the availability of experienced contractors to commence works.
Waikato River Trails Trust applied to SWIFT for funding to undertake the feasibility study that would determine, and ideally substantiate, the overall business case for expansion.
The feasibility study enabled Waikato River Trails Trust to narrow their focus on what was immediately possible and what needed to become a later stage effort requiring greater investment and community/stakeholder buy in.
The recommended two- stage approach was seen as ensuring mountain bikers gained a positive experience and worthwhile distance that would ultimately encourage their return for the next stage .
The next step is to leverage off the growing popularity of cycling and to continue to socialize the concepts with various stakeholders.
The feasibility study detailed the outcomes of consultation and the expectations of stakeholders. It also clearly identified the additional activities such as signage, boardwalks, clearing, surfacing and culverts and their costs that would impact project timeframes. These costs were on top of project management and engineering considerations.
This meant that the final recommendation was for the rail corridor from Putaruru to Ngatira it be completed first and the link to the Te Waihou Walkway second.
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REVIEW: 'Star Wars: The Bad Batch,' Season 2 Episode 4 – "Faster"
by Adrian Ruiz 01/18/2023 01/18/2023
The first three episodes of this season of The Bad Batch were chock-full of drama and overarching themes akin to Andor. The Bad Batch Season 2 Episode 4, "Faster," takes a step back for a more fun and high-octane side mission. Directed by Brad Rau and written by Jennifer Corbet, the Batch is split as Tech, Wrecker, and Omega find themselves without Hunter and Echo for their security detail for Cid.
The Bad Batch Season 2 Episode 4 opens with Tech, Wrecker, and Omega sitting around Cid's parlor. While Hunter and Echo are off on some kind of food delivery mission, the rest of the Batch has nothing to do but sit around and wait. Tech mentions that a food delivery mission is a misuse of Clone Force 99's talents. This isn't the first time this season that this notion has been brought up. In the season premiere, Echo believes that the Batch could be doing more to fight the Empire and Hunter begins to agree. It seems as if The Bad Batch is laying crumbs for the clone's relationship with Cid to run its course if these kinds of missions continue.
This notion is further explored in The Bad Batch Season 2 Episode 4 as Cid takes Tech, Wrecker, and Omega to a never before seen world, Safa Toma, to serve as her security detail. On the desert planet Cid bets on riot racing, the newest form of racing seen in the Star Wars universe. Cid's prize racer is TAY-0 played by Ben Schwartz (Parks and Recreation). TAY-0 is overly cocky and very quick with the quips making Schwartz the perfect acting to bring the character to life. TAY-0 is certainly a love-or-hate-him kind of character but it is fun to see a new droid that isn't automatically the most loveable thing on the screen.
Cid is so confident in TAY-0 that she makes a side bet with an old accomplice, Grini Millegi played by Ernie Hudson (Ghostbuster). The imposing Dowutin's size and presence make him the perfect antagonist for The Bad Batch Season 2 Episode 4 since he is not intimidated by Wrecker and Tech. After some banter (and revealing Cid's full name as Ciddarin Scaleback) the first race of the episode commences. When their side bet doesn't go Cid's way thanks to some good old fashion cheating on the part of Millegi, it is up to Tech to save Cid from being taken by her old crime buddy in a double-or-nothing affair.
The biggest draw for The Bad Batch Season 2 Episode 4 is certainly the final race where Tech takes the wheel. Racing has always been a staple in Star Wars from swoop racing in the Knights of the Old Republic series to racing starfighters in Star Wars Resistance and of course podracing in The Phantom Menance. Riot racing mixes the best of all of those types of races into a Mario Kart kind of event. Modified speeders with shields and weapons, various obstacles on the track, and racers at the helm who aren't afraid to wreck their competitors make for exciting sequences. Even spectating is dangerous and stray weapons fire peppers the crowds.
The Bad Batch Season 2 Episode 4 gives Tech the main focus this week. This continues the season's trend of not just focusing on the relationship with Hunter and Omega. It allows for characters like Echo in the season premiere and Tech on Safa Toma to continue their own character arcs. We get to see that Tech's intelligence and reasoning make him an excellent racer even when he does things that are not conventional in the riot racing world. However, it is the subtle lines of dialogue that he drops throughout the episode that provide the underlying themes of the episode.
It is no secret that Cid falls into that morally reprehensible type of character. Her past always seems to be coming up to bite her and it has been the Batch cleaning up her messes as of late. Tech is aware of this and makes a point to reference it throughout The Bad Batch Season 2 Episode 4. While TAY-0's antics and the riot racing are fun, they feel like the next straw being added onto the bantha's back for Clone Force 99. By the episode's end, Cid still doesn't feel any more or less trustworthy despite Omega's and Tech's saving her from an ill fate at the hands of Millegi.
While The Bad Batch Season 2 Episode 4 might not go down as the best episode of the season, there is plenty to love. Ernie Hudson's and Ben Schwartz's performances are fantastic. Riot racing is an exciting addition experience to the canon and one I hope to see in a video game someday. And it's great to see Tech have time to shine. What separates itself from being just a filler episode is the subtle writing by Corbet which lays the groundwork for a potential falling out between the Batch and Ciddarin Scaleback.
The Batch Batch Season 2 Episode 4 is currently streaming exclusively on Disney+, with new episodes every Wednesday.
The Bad Batch Season 2 Episode 4
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Railway Empire (6.96 GB) is a Strategy, Simulation video game. Developed by Gaming Minds Studios and published by Kalypso Media Digital. In Railway Empire, you will create an elaborate and wide-ranging rail network, purchase over 40 different trains modelled in extraordinary detail, and buy or build railway stations, maintenance buildings, factories and tourist attractions to keep your travel network ahead of the competition.
Open "Railway Empire" folder, double click on "Setup" and install it.
Open folder, double click on "RailwayEmpire" icon to play the game. Done!