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Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery finally lets you join the wizarding world without Harry
By Emma Boyle 2018-04-25T10:00:33.114Z
We did our waiting! Twelve years of it! In the Muggle world!
Over the past twenty years, JK Rowling has convinced several generations that despite the prejudices, lack of electricity and unnervingly easy murder methods, the wizarding world and Hogwarts are vastly preferable to our own world. It seems incredible, then, that after all this time we're only just getting a Harry Potter RPG.
Created by Jam City for iOS and Android, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery is the first Harry Potter game that will allow fans to create their very own character and attend Hogwarts without Harry. We had the chance to go hands-on with the game and ask its developers a few questions before its launch so steel yourself, because we're about to lay some Hermione-like knowledge on you.
Set two years after Voldemort's attack on Harry and his parents, Hogwarts Mystery drops you into a period of relative peace in the wizarding world. There's still suspicion and fear surrounding dark magic, but with Voldemort gone we imagine there are probably far fewer mysterious deaths to contend with.
You're attending school at the same time as characters such as Charlie Weasley and Nymphadora Tonks (you'll even spot them during your Sorting Ceremony thanks to their distinctive hair colors).
It's hard to miss Tonks
Time turning
Of course, Harry Potter is not patient zero when it comes to childhood angst and adventurous plots. Your own character has a story and problems to face in their time at Hogwarts. You take up the role of a student whose older brother was obsessed with finding cursed vaults under Hogwarts, expelled from the school and ran away from home never to be seen again. Scandalous, right?
It's not made entirely clear what happened that lead to your brother's expulsion – let's face it, it's rare that a cursed vault obsession is going to end well – but the widely held belief is that he was a supporter of Voldemort and fled to join him after his defeat at Godric's Hollow.
The game's main narrative, then, revolves around you unravelling the mystery behind your brother's disappearance and trying to shake yourself free from his negative reputation to be seen as your own person. It's not quite the 'raised for eventual self-sacrifice' path Harry trod but we'll take it.
Like any RPG worth its wand, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery starts things off by allowing you to create your character. You can select your sex, skin tone, eye and hair color, hair style, and choose between a range of preset eye, nose, eyebrow and face shapes. You can also name yourself anything you like. Naturally we used our own name because we deserve to see ourselves in the wizarding world, thank you very much.
Put yourself in the wizarding world
After this you're immediately dropped into Diagon Alley to pick up your things for school. It doesn't go into the nitty gritty of collecting your gold from Gringotts or getting that pewter standard size 2 cauldron, but you will purchase your books from Flourish and Blotts, your wand from Ollivanders and you'll even meet your first friend.
Rather than being talked at incessantly in Hogwarts Mystery, you'll be given dialogue options, some of which will have a direct impact on the perception of your character and how the game's narrative unfolds. You'll be given an early example of this when you help your new friend decide what she should buy herself to make it known that she's a serious witch with Head Girl prospects. Do not blame yourself for her fashion sense when she does make her purchase, she's beyond saving.
Not all instances of this feel entirely natural – for example, we attended Charms class with Professor Flitwick who essentially asked us whether we would be following the rules or causing trouble in his class. It's not often you go into a classroom in your first year at school and declare yourself as resident hell-raiser to the teacher. We're looking forward to getting a better look at more examples of the game's dialogue when we play the full thing.
Though the majority of speech in the game is text-only, it has been confirmed that some of the actors from the Harry Potter movie universe have provided their voices for cutscenes, so anticipate the dulcet tones of actors like Michael Gambon, Dame Maggie Smith, Zoe Wannamaker, and Warwick Davis at some point. We didn't get to hear those but we're pretty sure Maggie Smith is the Midas of the acting world so we're not worried.
The wizard chooses the house
Then it's straight to Hogwarts where you'll be sorted into your house. We were surprised that, unlike Pottermore, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery doesn't present you with any kind of quiz to determine your Hogwarts house. Instead, it just asks you outright where you'd like to be placed.
We both liked this and didn't. There's an element of exciting non-committal self-discovery that comes with being sorted into your house by a quiz – it's almost like being given an identity. Saying you've been sorted into Ravenclaw is almost a way of telling people how you see yourself and what your priorities are without having to actually admit to deciding on them yourself. "Oh the internet told me I'm a Ravenclaw/Gryffindor/Hufflepuff/Slytherin, don't hate me because I'm smarter/braver/nicer/more ambitious than you."
Then again, in the Harry Potter universe it's made clear that there's an element of choice to the sorting hat's decisions; Harry avoids Slytherin because he doesn't want to be a Slytherin, not because he lacks Slytherin qualities after all.
Sort yourself out
When we asked the game's developers the reason behind this decision they told us it was simply a matter of wanting to give players as much choice and agency in this world as possible. This is the Hogwarts experience that you want to have, right down to the common room you want to spend your evenings in.
Once you've been sorted your first year begins. As you'd expect, Hogwarts Mystery will have you attending classes and learning spells and potions. You'll attend charms with Flitwick, transfiguration with McGonagall, potions with Snape, flying with Madam Hooch and more besides. The game spans your seven years at school, so while your classes will be limited in the beginning, you'll find you unlock more as you go along.
It's in your first lessons that you'll take real notice of the three modes of in-game currency: energy, gold coins and gem stones. You exert energy in your classes by learning new things, purchase more energy using gem stones and you can buy cosmetic items using gold coins. All of these currencies can be earned through gameplay, but you can also use your real-world money to purchase more gold coins and gem stones.
Spending your galleons
This is where the inevitable microtransactions come in. Though Hogwarts Mystery is free to play and you don't need to spend your real money on it at all, those unwilling to wait for their energy to build back up will be tempted to buy gem stones in order to purchase more energy, while those that want their character kitted out like Draco Malfoy will be willing to purchase some in-game gold.
Using your energy and learning in classes is as simple as tapping the screen a few times as directed, which is more than a little underwhelming and not especially engaging. At the very least, the final stage of learning a spell involves tracing the correct wand movement with your finger on the touchscreen, which is a little more involved.
You don't learn for the sake of learning in your Hogwarts classes – the spells and potions you pick up will be useful to you as you move through the game's main narrative. So, when you find yourself in tight spots it'll be up to you to remember the right spell to cast and do so correctly.
Attend classes and spend all your energy on them. Just like real life!
Outside of the main story and your lessons, you can also take part in duelling, and form relationships with other students. We asked the developers if there would be any online elements which would allow players to interact with their real-life friends at Hogwarts and while we were told these would be introduced, it wasn't made clear how they would be implemented. We suspect some kind of duelling scoreboard but we can't be sure at all.
Overall, we enjoyed our short time with Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery but we couldn't help but wish we were finally getting a console and PC RPG rather than a mobile one.
We did ask if there are any plans for a wider release (Nintendo Switch wouldn't, after all, be such a far-fetched idea) but we were told that's not going to happen. The developers said that mobile was the preferable option for them because, quite reasonably, it offers the most accessibility. It's true that as fanbases go, Harry Potter is a wide ranging one.
Mobile magic
Not everyone that loves Harry Potter will have the most recent games console or a good PC. They won't all have a smartphone, either, but the likelihood is greater. You just have to look at Fortnite mobile to know that given a dedicated fanbase and good gameplay mobile games can be outrageously popular.
That said, this is a good-looking mobile game. Characters are expressive and the world is colorful with nice attention to detail. You can't directly control your character through the game world, instead you tap on locations to enter and interact with them. The environments are scrollable, however, so it's possible to see a little more.
We played the game on a tablet rather than a smartphone and we think this is the way we'd like to play it all the time. As convenient as a smartphone is, we want to enjoy this adventure on as large a screen as possible.
Despite the fact that it's not the in-depth Harry Potter RPG we always dreamed of, Hogwarts Mystery is certainly not a bad game. It's great to be able to attend Hogwarts and not see it through the gaze of Harry, instead creating your own story and forging your own relationships in the house you always wanted to be in. Even better, it's completely free.
There's also a Harry Potter AR game in the works. Here's everything we know about Wizards Unite


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Unsafe Drinking Water Creates Misery In Beirut
The people in Lebanon, especially youth, are working hard with UNICEF to rebuild their nation
By Ishita Chakraborty
Polluted water in Beirut. Photo Credit: Google Images
Mamata Banerjee Says Center Renamed Andaman and Nicobar Islands to "Gain Popularity"
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London Uses Anti-Pee Paint to Stop People Urinating on Public Walls
Ishita Chakraborty
Editor-in-Chief at Transcontinental Times, Computer Science Graduate, PG diploma in Journalism and Mass communication. Ishita is a youth activist for PETA India, President of Girlup IWO, and a linguaphile. She covers social issues, politics, UN initiatives, sports, and diversity.
LEBANON. Beirut. According to a report by UNICEF, around 30,000 people are facing a scarcity of water and sanitation services in Lebanon after the explosion that tore through Beirut 4 August.
Beirut Mount Lebanon (BML) Water Establishment along with UNICEF is assessing damage to public water networks. They are also providing support on repairs and re-operations wherever necessary.
The public water infrastructure sustained only minor damage and remains functional; however, the explosions worsened access to safe water within Beirut. A large number of water tanks and plumbing systems in buildings near the explosion are damaged. Around 130 buildings are completely disconnected from the main water network. The water systems of 50 occupied buildings are damaged.
Absence of basic amenities
With the increase in COVID-19 cases, UNICEF is making efforts to supply safe water and sanitation to families whose lives were overturned. Special precautions are taken as the danger of water-borne diseases along with COVID-19 can increase with inaccessibility to safe water.
According to the report, many households in affected neighbourhoods are purchasing either bottled or trucked drinking water. The prices are most likely to rise as temperatures increase. The situation is quite critical for the people in Beirut, especially for the estimated 30,000 people, including 10,000 children whose homes were damaged or destroyed.
A kid filling fresh drinking water in cans. Photo credit: Google Images
Efforts to rebuild
With the efforts by UNICEF and BML, over 100 buildings are reconnected to the general public water system. Around 570 water tanks have been installed in damaged households. UNICEF has also provided drinking water to the first respondents. A total of 4,340 hygiene kits and 620 baby kits have been distributed by UNICEF to the affected families. A water trucking facility is being provided to twenty households and three hubs of the Lebanon Red Cross.
The authorities associated with UNICEF ensured that their immediate priority was to provide access to safe drinking water to the affected families. Around 6,650 children and their families have been helped by the authorities and partners in UNICEF.
UNICEF is working hard to provide resources and training to thousands of youth across Lebanon. Training sessions are been conducted to teach repair and maintenance of critical water and sanitation infrastructure. The people in Lebanon, especially the youth are working hard with the help of UNICEF to rebuild their nation.
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Archita September 1, 2020 At 5:29 am
Very good article and well written❤

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Spring has (almost) sprung and in Japan that means cherry blossom. The Land of the Rising Sun is known for it. It's obviously high season there.
I always wanted to go to Japan. I grew up with Japanese anime on French television such 'Saint Seiya' ('Les Chevaliers du Zodiaque'), 'Dragon Ball', 'Nicky Larson' and 'Maison Ikkoku' ('Juliette, je t'aime'). I watched that last one because my sister loved it. In the early 90s it was okay to be into boyish things as a boy and not like girly activities or shows. We didn't think much (wrong) of it.
Cherry blossom or sakura is always a feature in anime. It's so Japanese, it's so romantic.
I almost went in 2011. But my mother pleaded not to go, as in March of that year something happened at Fukushima. A good boy as I am, I complied.
But in 2013 I did go. If memory serves me well it was my sister who proposed to me to accompany her and her family to go to Japan. I couldn't say no.
We didn't stay long. I flew to Tokyo International Airport (Haneda, HND) on 21 March 2013 and flew back on 1 April.
We did Tokyo, Hakone and Kyoto. Next to enjoying onsen, we got very lucky to arrive just in the highpoint of sakura. Usually the cherry blossom time is a bit later, but nature was kind to us.
It's no surprise then I made many photos of the Prunus serrulata in bloom.
This is just a selection. The photos of Kyoto are made in the streets connecting the famous temples such Kinkaku-ji (Golden Pavillion), Kiyomizu-dera, Ryoan-ji (Temple of the Peaceful Dragon), Nanzen-ji, Tō-ji, Myōshin-ji and Ginkaku-ji (Silver Pavillion).
The photos of Tokyo are mostly made in parks, such as Ueno Park, the Imperial Palace East Garden and Hama Rikyu.
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What America Thinks: Global Warming or Ice Age?
It's no secret this winter's been a brutal one, pummeling the northeast with record snowfall and bringing snow, ice and extremely low temperatures across much of the country. But is this just a typical February chill, or is climate change to blame? We decided to find out what America thinks.
Well, for one thing, most Americans think the media overhypes weather conditions to make them seem worse than they are. Nonetheless, there's no denying we've had some extreme weather this winter, and 45% of voters think global warming is causing it. Nearly as many disagree.
By a similar margin, slightly more voters think global warming's caused by human activity, but a sizable number say it's due to long-term planetary trends instead. Regardless of their views, most voters recognize that scientists don't agree on global warming and that the scientific debate isn't over yet. Still, nearly half think we need to take immediate action to stop global warming, while 39% say it's better to wait a few years to see if global warming is really real.
The good news this year, at least? There are only 25 days til spring. For Rasmussen Reports, I'm Alex Boyer. Remember if it's in the news, it's in our polls.
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Computer simulation studies of dense suspension rheology
A.J Hopkins, Tennessee State University
Rheological properties of idealised models which exhibit all the non-Newtonian flow phenomenology commonly seen in dense suspensions are investigated by particulate-dynamics computer-simulations. The objectives of these investigations are: (i) to establish the origins of various aspects of dense suspension rheology such as shear-thinning, shear thickening and dilatancy; (ii) To elucidate the different regions of a typical dense suspension rheogram by examining underlying structures and shear induced anisotropies in kinetic energy, diffusivity and pressure;(iii) to investigate the scaling of the simplest idealised model suspension; i.e. the hard-sphere model in Newtonian media and its relationship to the isokinetic flow curves obtained through non-equilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) simulations; (iv) to preliminarily determine the effects of perturbations present in all real colloidal suspensions, namely particle size polydispersity and a slight `softness' of the inter-particle potential. Non-equilibrium isokinetic simulations have been performed upon systems of particles interacting through the classical hard-sphere potential and a perturbation thereof, in which the hard-core is surrounded by a `slightly soft' repulsive skin. The decision to base the present work upon isokinetic studies was made in order to obtain a better understanding of suspension rheology by making a direct connection with previous NEMD studies of thermal systems(93). These studies have shown that the non-linear behaviour exhibited by these systems under shear is attributable to a linear-induced perturbation of the equilibrium phase behaviour. The present study shows this behaviour to correspond to the high shear region of the generalised suspension flow curve.
A.J Hopkins, "Computer simulation studies of dense suspension rheology" (1989). ETD Collection for Tennessee State University. Paper AAIU016797.
https://digitalscholarship.tnstate.edu/dissertations/AAIU016797


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Report: Stacey Abrams' Group Attempted To Purchase Multi-Million Dollar Real Estate In "Bizarre Deal"
The New Georgia Project then fired their top earning staff citing lack of funds.
Posted by Fuzzy Slippers Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 11:00am 39 Comments
Twice-failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams appears to have taken a page out of BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors's playbook.
According to the Washington Free Beacon, Abrams's nonprofit (ha!) attempted to purchase multi-million dollar real estate . . . and then fired its chief operations officer as well as its directors of design and digital marketing, citing a lack of funds.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
The New Georgia Project had $11 million in its investment account in August when it set out to pay $2.45 million in cash for a sprawling Atlanta compound. Less than two months later, the organization dismissed half its leadership staff, citing a lack of funds.
A series of internal documents and correspondences obtained by the Washington Free Beacon reveals the bizarre circumstances surrounding the real estate deal, which several parties close to the matter say are indicative of a leadership crisis within the Stacey Abrams-founded group. The deal was spearheaded by Erin Ferguson, a junior New Georgia Project staffer who in a group text urged senior leadership in late August to sign a letter of intent to purchase the two adjacent properties and swiftly pay a $30,000 non-refundable deposit.
But a former New Georgia Project senior executive told the Free Beacon that the rush to purchase the properties was strange, noting that the buildings needed at least $288,000 in repairs to be compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The group was already locked into a $15,000-per-month lease at its current office through 2025, the former senior executive said.
And the strangeness just gets stranger.
The Free Beacon continues:
The real estate deal is the latest murky financial situation involving the New Georgia Project. The group, which was founded to register non-white voters and once helmed by Sen. Raphael Warnock (D., Ga.), missed the deadline to file required financial disclosures to the IRS. The Free Beacon reported this month that the group's top accountant was fired after claiming he was unable to work there out of fear of breaking the law.
According to an Aug. 26 letter of intent obtained by the Free Beacon, the New Georgia Project sought to purchase the properties from Global Resource Partners, LLC. But Global Resource Partners never owned the properties. A real estate agent representing the Sheet Metal Workers Building Association, which owns the compound, told the Free Beacon that Global Resource Partners went under contract to buy the properties for around $1.92 million during the same timeframe the LLC was ostensibly trying to sell the properties to the New Georgia Project.
The real estate agent was surprised to learn that Global Resource Partners was simultaneously trying to flip the properties for at least $530,000. He added that he couldn't recall hearing about the New Georgia Project until contacted by the Free Beacon on Nov. 21.
"It makes you wonder why someone would go so far, put something under contract, not close on it, and not tell you any good reason why they didn't do it," the real estate agent said. "They kept saying they had to go out of town. Well, a bank wire can be sent anywhere in the country."
Something is definitely strange here.
It's not clear if New Georgia Partners ever signed the letter of intent or submitted the $30,000 earnest money deposit to purchase the properties from Global Resource Partners. It's also not clear why Global Resource Partners dropped out of purchasing the properties at the last minute.
On Oct. 7, the New Georgia Project's director of human resources during a video conference fired its chief operations officer as well as its directors of design and digital marketing. The reason given was that the organization could no longer afford their salaries.
Fired top staff during a video conference? Citing lack of funds?
This whole thing is surreal. Investigations should be launched, but I would be surprised if they are.
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Morning Sunshine | December 1, 2022 at 11:24 am
I am so confused by this story.
Paula in reply to Morning Sunshine. | December 1, 2022 at 12:31 pm
A big lady makes a big deal.
The big lady is bizarre. So is the big deal.
It's still not clear to me. That's because it's not clear to anybody.
coyote in reply to Paula. | December 2, 2022 at 10:50 am
"Give 'em the old razzle dazzle…."
CommoChief | December 1, 2022 at 11:32 am
No way! These 501c entities are all pure as the driven snow, without one iota of corruption. /S
MAJack | December 1, 2022 at 11:52 am
Was this to be an enormous Golden Corral buffet complex?
Paul | December 1, 2022 at 11:57 am
Wait! What? She's a race hustler and grifter? Who coulda known!?!
Paula in reply to Paul. | December 1, 2022 at 2:19 pm
As Gomer Pyle said, "Surprise, surprise, surprise."
Paul in reply to Paula. | December 1, 2022 at 6:37 pm
Gee thanks, now that is gonna be on a loop in my head the rest of the day.
2smartforlibs | December 1, 2022 at 12:21 pm
The hustlers just can't help using the money for personal gain. The justice brothers, BLM all of them never dropped a dime to help the downtrodden.
healthguyfsu | December 1, 2022 at 12:42 pm
"The Free Beacon reported this month that the group's top accountant was fired after claiming he was unable to work there out of fear of breaking the law."
This definitely sounds like something illegal, but IANAL
daniel_ream in reply to healthguyfsu. | December 1, 2022 at 9:16 pm
Accounting is a professionally licensed occupation in many jurisdictions, and a licensed professional who knowingly colludes in illegal behaviour is running great personal risk. The payoff has to be private Caribbean island money to make it worth the risk of never being able to work again.
I don't know about accountancy but professional engineering usually has a duty to report as well, making quitting an employer blatantly engaging in criminal activity the only option.
healthguyfsu in reply to daniel_ream. | December 1, 2022 at 10:59 pm
It doesn't say he quit. It says he was fired.
coyote in reply to healthguyfsu. | December 2, 2022 at 10:52 am
It says that he said he couldn't go on working there for fear of breaking the law. AND it says he was fired.
It might come down to who was quicker at the draw.
stevewhitemd | December 1, 2022 at 12:45 pm
So who is Global Resource Partners, LLC? Per the OpenCorporates website (https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ga/08026161), the agent is 'Haywood Smith'. They were incorporated in 2008. The Georgia LLC last filed papers with the state in March 2022, but I can't get these (filing #22975507).
There are a number of similarly-named LLCs filed in other states, though some of these were dissolved since their incorporation.
It does make me wonder if the idea here was to push money from the New Georgia Project to the LLC. But I can't find who controls/owns the LLC today.
Paul in reply to stevewhitemd. | December 1, 2022 at 1:50 pm
My thought was that whoever the individual is within New Georgia Project who was pushing for the real estate transaction to go through is in cahoots with the entity that was trying to purchase/flip the property. The $500+K is grift.
You have good insight. I think you might be on to something.
Strelnikov in reply to Paula. | December 1, 2022 at 5:43 pm
Didn't you two have a hit in the 60's?
Paula in reply to Strelnikov. | December 1, 2022 at 6:33 pm
Oh yes,
Like two straws in a coke
Why not come over
And you'll meet my folks
Let's go steady
You are my first love
Jack Klompus | December 1, 2022 at 1:22 pm
What exactly does this person DO?
lc in reply to Jack Klompus. | December 2, 2022 at 7:10 am
I read elsewhere that she is now lobbying for a job on FCC.
Frightening!
But do they keep their money in the Caymen Islands?
diver64 in reply to BierceAmbrose. | December 1, 2022 at 3:16 pm
Same bank the SPLC uses.
BierceAmbrose in reply to diver64. | December 3, 2022 at 3:40 pm
Well, they had good references.
diver64 | December 1, 2022 at 3:16 pm
I don't find this murky at all. That person at the Georgia Project saw a chance to buy two adjoining properties and must have thought the price was good enough that it could be fixed and flipped for profit and be a hero. They didn't do the research on the property well enough, though and talked to who they thought owned it. Those people said "hmmm, if we can buy it from the actual owners for under what that group wants to spend we can flip it and make a profit". Everyone saw some money in it maybe enough to keep Abrams in Golden Corral buffets for a year or two.
MajorWood | December 1, 2022 at 3:19 pm
I couldn't get past the $228K needed to likely make it possible for her to get up the steps and through the door in a timely fashion.
MrE in reply to MajorWood. | December 1, 2022 at 4:28 pm
A conveyer belt would be faster and less expensive.
henrybowman in reply to MrE. | December 1, 2022 at 4:29 pm
One that just brought the food out to the sidewalk would be more efficient.
MrE in reply to henrybowman. | December 1, 2022 at 5:18 pm
Thanks for the chuckle … John Deere with a grapple … Slip'n'Slide and a couple gallons of Wesson's …
henrybowman in reply to MajorWood. | December 1, 2022 at 4:28 pm
I couldn't get past the "$2.45 million in cash for a sprawling Atlanta compound." That's about the price of a quarter-section of unimproved Arizona desert.
diver64 in reply to MajorWood. | December 3, 2022 at 6:05 am
You know how much it costs to install freight docks, ramps and pour reinforced concrete floors?
henrybowman | December 1, 2022 at 4:26 pm
Sounds suspiciously like Realtor Suppression!
Strelnikov | December 1, 2022 at 5:42 pm
Information which would have been useful to know a month ago.
henrybowman in reply to Strelnikov. | December 1, 2022 at 6:43 pm
They just pried it off Hunter's laptop yesterday.
dr. frank | December 1, 2022 at 5:50 pm
Stacy has nothing to worry about, her sister is a Judge!
Vile Abrams is committed to displaying the same pathological narcissism and obnoxious entitlement as her father, Idi Amin.
Skip | December 1, 2022 at 6:48 pm
No one who should care, cares
guyjones | December 2, 2022 at 5:16 am
Hustlers gonna hustle.
MontanaMilitant | December 2, 2022 at 11:50 am
That space between her front teeth….. That's the credibility gap.
NotKennedy | December 3, 2022 at 5:59 am
Stacey Y. Abrams is current a member, in good standing, of the Georgia Bar Association. I wonder if they have a code of ethics.


Considered by many as the 8th wonder of the world, the Migration of Wildebeest across the vast plains of the Masai Mara and the Serengeti is a unique phenomenon on Earth.
Hundreds of thousands of wildebeest follow an annual cycle that seems to be a function of the food abundance, the availability of water, predators and the level of phosphorus in grasses. Their crossings of rivers are most spectacular, epitomising the migration and the fight with the elements and predators.


I was asked to participate in the Star Wars Legion Gallery Show where over 75 artists customized a mini-Storm Trooper Helmet anyway they wished.
Medium: VInyl with Krylon and Acrylic Paints.
Participated in the Mickey 100 Vinyl Project, where over 100 artists were asked to customize a Mickey Mouse Vinyl for display at the Uniqlo Booth at D23 in 2015.


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Hi-ReS! – Alexandra Jugovic & Florian Schmitt
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We meet in Shoreditch, a popular, vibrant district in East London. The view stretches over the roofs, all the way to the high-rise buildings of the city. The HfG graduates Alexandra Jugović and Florian Schmitt have lived in London since 1999. When they first came to the city, Shoreditch was still 'really rough,« says Jugović. Before their move, they worked at the Frankfurt film production company INmotion. Schmitt took care of 3D graphics and film, and Jugović was the art director of the company's record label.
For one of their first digital projects, the website soulbath.com, Jugović and Schmitt used a test version of the Flash software. In 2000, in the middle of the DotCom crash, they opened a web exhibition of banners. The approach to these banners was not to indulge in consumption, but to use the pixels to sell ideas or simply beauty, says Florian Schmitt. After the New York Times unexpectedly featured it, the cult director Darren Aronofsky also did an unanticipated report. He commissioned Jugović and Schmitt with a website for his film Requiem for a Dream - their first commercial project. The result was an interactive, non-linear narrative, which allowed one to repeatedly experience the perspectives of various film characters. »With that, Hi-ReS! really began to take shape,« says Jugović.
In the meantime, Hi-ReS! has grown and has offices in Hamburg, New York and Berlin. In 2008, Jugović and Schmitt sold their agency to the SYZYGY Group, but remained as board members. Schmitt is still Chief Creative Officer there to this day. They have, however, withdrawn from daily business at Hi-ReS!: »We have always tried to head into new directions, not to repeat ourselves.«
Schmitt is currently running an innovation lab, which has as its first project a set of cards that, through a mixture of design thinking and positive psychology, is intended to help designers realise their projects. »We are also working on the evolution of the travel industry, developing a new financial product and a museum project,« he says. »How can we create meaningful products, instead of simply contributing to the noise with marketing campaigns?« - Jugović pursues this question by working on Internet projects.
The two see technology as »part of their toolbox,« but rarely as the trigger for ideas. In their projects, film and music, graphic design and animation are all used to create a »narrative.«
They mainly learnt how to work with technology at the HfG Offenbach. Jugović studied in the art department (formerly Visual Communication), Schmitt in the design department (formerly Product Design) and the two were already working in an interdisciplinary fashion in their Offenbach days. »For us, the HfG was often like a playground.«
Beijing Ballett
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Soulbath 'Greyscale Paradise'
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Kodak Black Leaves Hospital Using A Walker After Reportedly Getting Shot In The Leg
February 15, 2022 12:33AM EST
Kodak Black is out of the hospital after being reportedly shot in the leg, and he's needing some assistance getting around.
Kodak Black has left Cedars-Sinai hospital after being reportedly shot in the leg. In a video you can see here, the rapper can be seen getting into a black SUV while using a walker and moving slowly on Monday afternoon. The "Patty Cake" rapper was surrounded by numerous bodyguards as he climbed into the SUV which was a smart move, considering the danger he faced early Saturday morning after Justin Beiber's concert after party.
The rapper was identified as one of the three victims shot outside the after-party at the Nice Guy, according to NBC News. A police report previously stated that the victims of the incident were a 19-year-old male, a 24-year-old male, and a 60-year-old male. Kodak was transferred to the hospital while the other victims were treated on sight. All of the victims, including Kodak, as we can see from the aforementioned video, are reportedly in stable condition. HollywoodLife reached out to Kodak Black's reps for comment but received no response.
In footage obtained by TMZ, Kodak can be seen leaving the party surrounded by an entourage of friends and associates including rapper Gunna. As the group stops to take photos with fans outside the event, a fistfight breaks out and the chaos escalates when ten gunshots send the crowd screaming and scrambling.
Rapper Kodak Black has been identified as one of the three people injured after gunfire broke out at Justin Bieber's concert after-party in LA on Friday. » Read Full Article
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