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Yuvraj Singh-Mohammad Kaif stand which PM Narendra Modi referred to in context of COVID-19 fight
Vijay TagoreVijay Tagore / Updated: Mar 23, 2020, 08:45 IST
GETTY IMAGES/TWITTER; WORTH RE-TELLING: Scenes after India won the Natwest final at Lord's
July 13, 2002 is as memorable as June 25, 1983 and April 2, 2011 in the annals of Indian cricket history. When the Prime Minister himself remembers the day, the extraordinary turn of events at Lord's in that NatWest Series final against England in 2002 cannot be anything less. Can it be?
Yuvraj Singh and Mohammad Kaif were the architects of India's incredible victory, achieved through a 121-run back-to-the-wall partnership that Narendra Modi mentions in his social media post in reference to the fight against COVID-19 virus. The two are understandably moved by the reference and comparison in the current context.
"It was very kind of the Prime Minister to compare this fight against Coronavirus with our partnership. We need to fight this virus out," Yuvraj, who hammered a 63-ball 69 in India's chase of 326, told Mirror in his recollection of the game and appreciation of Modi's post.
Yuvraj had walked in at 132 for 4 with India in need of another 194 runs. Minutes later Sachin Tendulkar got out (at 146/5) and the fans started leaving the ground.
"I remember that Sachin had just gotten out and probably the stands were getting empty. People started leaving. They thought that the game was over. We (he and Kaif) decided to go through the motions, never thought about the result. We wanted to play normal cricket. We ran well and suddenly got a few boundaries going. That put England under pressure, and they realised that the game is not over. It was an epic partnership," Yuvraj remembers. India won the thrilling final by two wickets with three balls remaining.
There was a bit of method in the way they went about doing the job but Kaif was not always going by the instructions. Recalls Yuvraj, "I remember taking charge, I was hitting the big shots, and Kaif was milking it around. Sourav (Ganguly) shouted (to Kaif) from the balcony saying, ' ek de, ek de'. What he meant was that Kaif should take singles and give me the strike. And very next ball, boom, Kaif hit a six."
Yuvraj and Kaif then went to the middle of the pitch and did the customary and celebratory punch-off. Kaif then told his partner, " Arre bhai, hum bhi khelne aaye hain". Yuvraj, who enjoyed the shot, thought that was funny.
"After I got out, he took charge and played the best of his career. It was a happy win for India," Yuvraj reminisces. "It was meant to happen. We were destined to win that final. We were young and were trying to pull ourselves on big occasions. We had scored a lot of runs at the Under-19 level and not on the big stage. We were keen to prove that we belonged to this level."
(Ganguly) shouted (to Kaif) from the balcony saying, 'ek de, ek de'. What he meant was Kaif should take singles and give me the strike. And very next ball, boom, Kaif hit a six
-Yuvraj Singh
Kaif and Yuvraj have retired from international cricket for some time now and both only have respect for each other. Yuvraj thinks Kaif had a huge influence on India's collective fitness levels and fielding standards.
"We are very much in touch, we talk a lot of that partnership. We joke around a lot. We recently played a road safety tournament. I thought Kaif was brilliant in the field, got some runs too. He is a fit guy, he was a fit guy then as well. His fielding standards took India to a different level in the early years of Sourav Ganguly's captaincy."
The Yuvraj-Kaif partnerships were major contributing factors to many an Indian win in the early years of this millennium and Modi has evidently not forgotten this. He utilised the COVID-19 fight to remind India of the memorable day 18 summers ago.
"Here are 2 excellent cricketers whose partnership we will remember forever. Now, as they have said, it is time for another partnership. This time, all of India will be partners in the fight against Coronavirus," Modi said.
Kaif saw the point when Modi spoke of the value of partnerships. "I thank the Prime Minister for talking about us and the partnerships. We can overcome this crisis through partnerships, just like I and Yuvi had done. We have to go step by step, run by run, which used to be my style. People should not take this as a holiday but must accept it as a challenge.
"As about that final, what can I say. Winning the final at Lord's… what else one would want? I and Yuvraj were very young and we were starting our careers then. I announced my retirement on that day (in 2018). It's a special day in my life." It's a special in Indian cricket too.
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The Insitute has decided that the domain of the Henri Wheaton Prize concerns "The Protection of the Environment and International Law". The deadline for submission of your manuscript is 31 December 2018. For more information about the Henri Wheaton Prize, please consult the flyer.
The Prize Award Regulations were established already in 1931 and now include several amendments adopted since. The current version was approved on 1 January 2018.
A particularly distinguished American lawyer, James Brown Scott, was born in 1866, studied at Harvard, Berlin, Heidelberg and Paris and went on to teach international law over the course of a remarkable University career. In particular, he created the Los Angeles Law School, was Dean of the Law Faculty of the University of Illinois and Professor at Columbia University.
His talents were such that he was appointed Solicitor at the State Department of the United States. He was also a delegate of his country at important international conferences, including the Second Hague Peace Conference (1907) and the Paris Peace Conference (1919).
For several decades he held the position of Secretary General of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Elected in 1908 an Associate of the Institute of International Law, he became in 1910 a regular Member. Quite exceptionally he was called upon twice to preside over the Institute, which he would do at the Lausanne (1927) and New York (1929) Sessions.
It was in 1931 that J.B. Scott inaugurated the prize. In the spirit of recognition towards the Institute and in a feeling of heartfelt homage to the memory of his mother, Jeannette Scott, who had had a constant influence on his life (Institute Yearbook, 1931, vol. II. p. 229). During his lifetime, he looked after the awarding of the prize in person. He passed away in 1943 and bequeathed to the Institute, in memory of his mother and sister, a sum of capital, the interest of which enables the regular disbursement of the prizes. The prizes bear each time the name of a distinguished jurist, on the basis of a list elaborated for the initiator of the prize, namely Andrès Bello, Carlos Calvo, Grotius, Francis Lieber, Frédéric de Martens, Mancini, Samuel Pufendorf, Louis Renault, G. Rolin-Jaequemyns, Emer de Vattel, Vitoria, John Westlake, Henri Wheaton.
Applications for the John Westlake Prize on 'Dispute Settlement before International Courts and Tribunals' are now closed. The Institute wishes to express its gratitude to all persons who have participated in this competition. However, the John Westlake Prize has not been awarded during the 78th session in Hyderabad.
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The Caucus | Setting Up Tonight's Debate
Setting Up Tonight's Debate
By Katharine Q. Seelye
September 5, 2007 7:32 pm September 5, 2007 7:32 pm
Remember when a debate was a big deal? It wasn't just the main course at dinner, it was the entire dinner.
Now, a debate is just one course in an evening's rolling buffet of politicking.
Take tonight's Republican forum in Durham, N.H., starting at 9 P.M. on Fox.
There's the debate, of course, with the eight declared candidates. And then there's Fred Thompson.
He's skipping the debate (to the consternation of many in New Hampshire) but running an ad during it. He's also going on Leno. Then at midnight tonight, he rolls out a 15-minute video announcing, at long last, that yes, he is a candidate.
Not to be outdone, Mitt Romney has already put up a "debate central" segment on his Web site, which includes video of Mr. Romney campaigning as well as a clip of Mr. Romney's own appearance on Leno earlier this year.
This is the Republicans' fifth debate of the primary season. Perhaps the profusion of debates has diminished their singularity. In this long-running campaign, they have become their own television mini-series, with each episode moving the plot forward, however incrementally.
When we left our Republican characters at their last debate, in Iowa last month, they were mostly attacking the Democrats. Tonight we expect them to turn up the heat on each other _ if only to ensure that they get as much post-debate coverage as Mr. Thompson.
Mike Luo, our colleague who is on the scene in Durham, just spoke with Matt Rhoades, Mr. Romney's communications director, who promised an "interesting" debate. Mr. Romney leads in the polls in New Hampshire and Iowa, while Rudolph W. Giuliani leads in the polls nationally.
"I expect differences on the issues to come up," Mr. Rhoades said dryly.
Mr. Romney has started to step away from President Bush's policy on Iraq, and that will no doubt be a central topic. He also has been accusing Mr. Giuliani of running a "sanctuary city" for immigrants when he was mayor of New York.
Mike says that someone dressed up in a yellow duck outfit is stalking the area outside the debate arena and is taking Mr. Thompson to task for "ducking" the debate. His sign says, "Quacks should stay in Hollywood."
James September 5, 2007 · 7:40 pm
By skipping the debate, Thompson is showing his true colors. He is not capable of distinguishing himself amongst his fellow candidates, and is afraid to make a fool of himself in a nationally televised debate. His lack of substance on policy would be evident in any debate.
Thompson, we're looking for someone who is committed…and you are not showing any committment at all. Have some guts, and stand up to your opponents in a debate. Taking the easy way out is going to make you look very very weak.
bob September 5, 2007 · 8:11 pm
Watch McCain, he's losing and he knows it and he's been drug through the ringer by King George and others. He'll be swinging. Romney will be ducking and Rudy will be wearing the flag and they will all dodge Iraq, the debt owned by the Chinese, global warming, domestic spying, torturing innocent in secret prisons in eastern Europe and the Sudan, dismissing habeas corpus, taxing us for Big Oil subsidies, taxing us for the church, taxing us for moving bridges in Mississippi. Romney and Guiliani will be at each other and the old man McCain will just be swinging at anything he can hit. None of them have a snail's chance from Pluto of winning.
Aaron September 5, 2007 · 8:11 pm
No mention of Tancredo, Huckabee, Brownback or Paul. How surprising. Although I do appreciate the tearing on Thompson, and the lack of mention of McCain, I wholeheartedly believe Ron Paul is the only GOP candidate that can defeat a democrat in the general election.
Brad September 5, 2007 · 8:27 pm
I can't believe they didn't invite Huckabee! I firmly believe he would be the best choice for the republicans to run, or maybe a ticket of Fred Thompson & Mike Huckabee.
Shully September 5, 2007 · 8:40 pm
Only as an actor can Thompson (Fred) can make a difference. He is jumping in from the wings as a near-gimmick, hoping most of all to profit from public fatigue with the others. It is a comment on the lukewarm crop of current GOP candidates that his choreographed and well-foreshadowed entry into the mix is treated as news. Interestingly, he seemed to be taking a page from Al Gore's (possible) playbook by building a little suspense… but he couldn't wait any longer. The GOP didn't need him for a few more months. I don't think in two months it will make any difference. Actors should have better timing that that.
J. Harry Sutherland September 5, 2007 · 8:58 pm
Thompson will get a few votes here in Tennessee, but nationwide he lacks the charisma and knowledge to tackle any subject. He would have to surround himself with the same types Bush has, to advise him on anything governmental. Fred should have stayed on Law and Order, at least he would be paid a large sum of money for his poor acting ability.
He is the least qualified of any candidate and should ride around in his red pickup truck. Can anyone imagine Fred reuniting our people and restoring our reputation around the world? He is too much like Bush and McClain to suit me.
Ruth Beazer September 5, 2007 · 9:00 pm
He sure is coming on with a lot of fanfare. I am waiting to find out what he going to campaign on but not with bated breath.
Will he be as triumphant in his campaign as his entrance would indicate. Other than a general statement about his aims, he has little else to say at this time. No one could dispute his aims being desirable. But that by itself is no measure of what his presidency would be like.
I will be following him as the months go by, as I am sure many others will be. He sure to please the one or two issue voters. By that I mean those who vote on abortion (against) gay rights (against.)
Ruth Beazer
Robert M September 5, 2007 · 9:04 pm
Something doesn't make sense… if Thompson is the republican savior and everyone has known that he was planning to run then why are his poll numbers below some of the others? He is just a corny actor trying to lazily back his way into the White House. I think the American people are more serious now about having a President who is smart and works hard (unlike Bush) and unfortunately for the republicans, Thompson is neither.
Nick van Nes September 5, 2007 · 10:30 pm
This guy Thompson was in the senate, then he went into acting and now he wants back into government. Sounds like he's having some kind of identity crisis, at a not so young age.
James September 5, 2007 · 11:04 pm
The anti war guy seemed like a spineless worm, most of the others didn't say anything of any real consequence. Romney and all the rest of the Mormons scare me. McCain was uninspiring. The only candidate who really suprised me was Huckabee. I have the distinction of being an Arkansan who never really liked Huckabee as Governor. My dislike was more of a personal dislike of his personality rather than his politics or actions. I was really suprised by him. He showed a clarity of purpose that I feel the other candidates have failed to demonstrate. If he continues as he has I think I may have to change my opinion of him. I might even support him over his rivals for the GOP nomination.
I am an Arkansan who has never really cared for Mike Huckabee.
Jiayi September 5, 2007 · 11:48 pm
I think Thompson's strategy, get everyone tired of these burned out candidates, and then come in fresh. It's smart, it's sneaky, but what the hell does he stand for, and is it even any good.
Huckabee's a good speaker, and has an honest face. But if I think about the words he says coming from anyone else's mouth, I shudder. His policies aren't any different from the current president's, and however well meaning he is, I don't want a war and I don't want abortion to be banned outright. States, people, should make their own decisions about that. Preacher Huckabee, you can be as well meaning as you like, but making moral decisions for me still violates my freedom.
Paul keeps saying the same things. I mean, I know he's consistent, but maybe he could shake it up a little, be creative? There's so many issues I haven't from him about in the debates. But I suppose that has more to do with the moderators.
Steve Bolger September 6, 2007 · 8:51 am
These debates only stand to get more ridiculous with Thompson's pomposity added to the mix.
Arun Mehta September 6, 2007 · 10:27 am
With his grumpy non smiling face on the TV screens will keep reminding the viewers that finally the voter's have a right choice for a right successor to Dick Cheney.
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Salt Lake City, Utah, will host the 2016 Olympic Team Trials for Weightlifting at the Calvin L. Rampton Salt Palace Convention Center on May 5 – 8, 2016. This is the final competition to determine who will be nominated to represent the United States in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. 30 of the USA's top athletes will compete in the Olympic Trials, which will be the final competition to determine who will become members of the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team.
In conjunction with the Olympic Team Trials, the 2016 USA Weightlifting National Championships will take place. The Olympic Team Trials will occur during one afternoon of the weekend's events. This will be the second time in four years that Salt Lake City has hosted Weightlifting's annual showcase, it will be the first time the city has hosted a U.S. Olympic Team Trials for a summer sport.
As the host city of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, Salt Lake City is rich in Olympic history. The Utah Olympic Park, located near Park City, features the 2002 Winters Olympics Museum, Alf Engen Ski Museum, and Joe Quinney Winter Sports Center. The Salt Lake City organizing committee will be drawing on this rich Olympic history to create a first rate athlete experience for both the U.S. Olympic Team Trials and the USA Weightlifting National Championships.
The site operates today as a training center for Olympic and development level athletes and a recreational point of interest.
"We are delighted to be returning to Salt Lake City for a second time. The experience provided by the Utah Weightlifting, Utah Sports Commission and Visit Salt Lake for the 2014 Nationals was outstanding. It is a logical partnership, for both ourselves and the USOC, to execute this pivotal competition as we prepare for the 2016 Olympic Games," said USA Weightlifting CEO, Michael Massik.
"Through the hard work of many key partners following our Olympic and sports legacy strategy, we have been able to broaden Utah's sports landscape", said Jeff Robbins, president and CEO of the Utah Sports Commission. "We continue to have Olympic level competition taking place in Utah keeping the experience and excitement of the Olympic spirit we felt 13 years ago".
Salt Lake City was selected to host this prestige event from pool of three finalists. USA Weightlifting would like to thank the two additional finalist bids from Columbus, Ohio, and Reno, Nevada.
The 2016 U.S. Olympic Weightlifting Team is subject to approval by the United States Olympic Committee.


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Q: Delay the foreach Loop in Node JS I hope you are well. I am getting data from one API and sending to Shopify store API. As its working fine but its entering some products as when it iterates in the loop API is busy with index suppose 0,1,2 and then indexes 3,4,...10 bypassed. So , according to me I should delay the foreach loop with 10,15 seconds. Please help me to do this . I tried it many times with SETTimer etc but foreach loop structure is difficult for me as a new person. Please check the below code. Thanks
const request = require('request');
const { json } = require('express');
const { Parser } = require('json2csv');
const fastcsv = require('fast-csv');
//const csv = require('csv-parser');
const fs = require('fs');
const { privateDecrypt } = require('crypto');
const { time } = require('console');

const fields = ['Vendor', 'Price', 'SKU','error'];

const opts = { fields };

const createCsvWriter = require('csv-writer').createObjectCsvWriter;
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});

let new_products = {
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    Vendor: String,
    Price: String,
    SKU: String,
    Error: String,
  }
};
//////////First API from which I am getting the data

const options = {
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  headers: {
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products = ['Vendor','Price','SKU','Error']
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//// As handle is busy to entering the product.
/// I have to delay the foreach loop 10, 15 seconds

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        for (let z = 0; z < row.length; z++)
        {
            product[pro.headers[z]] = row[z];
            product_final2[pro.headers[z]] = row[z];
        }

        productssdata.push(product_final2)

        products.push(product)

        var Price = product.Price;
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            const options = {

            method: 'POST',
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            headers: {
            accept: 'application/json',
            'apiKey': '07649cABSDCCSD8ffbae7af02',
            'password': 'sSDCSDFDF',
            body: new_products,
            json: true,

            };

          request(options, function (error, response, body) {

          if (error) throw new Error(error);
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          });

          }

);

}

);

A: you don't need to use setTimeOut() to delay the loop. thats what async and await are for let me share you an example how to make the forEach loop delay with await!!.
step1 : return a function with promise and use await until it is complete.
    const wait =async props => {
    return new Promise((reslove,reject) => {
    return reslove(Math.random());
})

}
       const x = [1,2,3,4]
       x.forEach(async number =>{
       const num = await wait();
       console.log('start')
       console.log(num);
       console.log('end');

})

A: *

*Request is deprecated

*It can't be used with await anyway, which makes it inconvenient. There used to be another module, request-promise, that as wrapping request and return a Promise, so one could await it, but it's still deprecated.

*For these reasons, use Axios or Fetch instead

*You can't use await or delay a .forEach() loop, but you can in a for loop.

*You think you need to delay the calls, because they are asynchronous, but in reality you should simply await each call. Delaying calls with an arbitrary timeout is a dirty workaround.

In the end, you can do something like :
( async () => {

    let options = {
        url : "http://......"
    };

    const response = await axios.get(options); // Add try/catch block around this to manage errors

    const pro = response.data;

    for( let row of pro.rows) {

        options = {
            url : "http://some.other.url"
        }

        const response = await axios.get(options); // Each call will be done one by one and awaited in order
    }
})()

A: setTimeout(pro.rows.forEach((row) => {...}), 10000)

This executes the forEach after 10 seconds.

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Due to the web site being down, this end of season post was delayed. (But you all seem to have read the weather and know that berry season is over!) Fittingly, the last day we were open was the first day of Fall. What an entry Fall made, tossing summer out with a vengeance.
We will miss summer. Although brief, it was a great berry summer. Thank you all for making our third season the best ever. We enjoyed seeing you again and meeting others for the first time. Each of you give purpose to what we do out in the field all year. And make it fun too! We are grateful to you for visiting the farm, being cheerful, patient and supporting local agriculture.
Always the entrepreneurs, we'll continue to push our wares during the winter. If you find yourself eating yourself out of blueberries, we are selling 5lb. bags of frozen blueberries for $15.
We now have a steady supply of pastured eggs selling for $4/dozen.
We have frozen pastured chicken for $4/lb. Most of the chickens are 7 to 8 lbs.
And pumpkins and squash for your autumn celebrations. Many varieties, sizes and colours. Large pumpkins and squash $5 each, smaller ones $3.50.
Call the farm at 338-7750 to shop.
I may miss this little corner of the web so I may post periodically throughout the off-season---never at a loss for words, I'll come up with content. I won't promise it will be of interest (!) There are some beautiful pumpkins out there that will surely make it into a post.
One little guy is sad to say goodbye (and tuckered out). It's a while yet before we hunker down on the couch with books but those days will come.


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Malala Yousafzai's appearance in the House of Commons Wednesday was another occasion to recognise Canada's best intentions. And a reminder of how much more this country might do to lead the world.
Such is Canada's current brand that the occasion of an internationally acclaimed activist's address to Parliament should include references to the prime minister's yoga abilities and tattoos.
"When I was coming here, everyone was telling me, like, 'Shake the prime minister's hand and let us know how he looks in reality,'" said 19-year-old Malala Yousafzai, deviating from her prepared text and drawing laughter from the assembled dignitaries and guests.
"And people were just so excited about meeting Trudeau. I don't think anyone cared about the Canadian honorary citizenship."
Seated together in the centre aisle of the House of Commons, Justin Trudeau and Sophie Grégoire Trudeau both laughed and sheepishly put their hands to their foreheads.
It is an accident of history that Yousafzai came to meet Prime Minister Trudeau. If not for the attack on Parliament Hill in October 2014, she would have accepted her honorary citizenship from Stephen Harper, who actually asked Parliament to bestow the honour a day before the shooting rampage.
But her appearance on Wednesday was another occasion to recognize Canada's best intentions and recently celebrated actions.
And a reminder of how much more this country might do to lead the world.
Yousafzai praised the unity Canadians have shown in the wake of both the October 2014 attack and January's deadly shooting at a mosque in Quebec — a multicultural commitment that is exemplified, she said, by this country's welcoming of refugees.
"Your motto and your stand, 'Welcome to Canada,' is more than a headline or a hashtag," said Yousafzai, who was shot by a Taliban gunman in 2012 after she gained attention as an advocate for girls' education in Pakistan. "It is the spirit of humanity that every single one of us would yearn for if our family was in crisis.
"I pray that you continue to open your homes and your hearts to the world's most defenceless children and families and I hope your neighbours will follow your example."
Seated directly to Yousafzai's left was KellieLeitch, the Conservative leadership candidate who has come to prominence with her proposal that all visitors to Canada be screened to ensure their commitment to this country's values.
Setting aside questions about the practicality or wisdom of such a policy, to propose it is to suggest Canadian values are faced with some threat from newcomers. And that Leitch would embrace the policy suggests there is some existing public concern she hopes to harness.
That much doesn't mean Canada is unworthy of Yousafzai's praise. But it does suggest that brand of Canadian tolerance isn't quite unanimously embraced or absolute.
Much thus depends, both domestically and internationally, on the success of Canadian resettlement and integration efforts; not only welcoming refugees and immigrants, but ensuring they succeed.
In the past six months, public attention has also turned to the phenomenon of illegal border crossings from the United States, an issue Leitch tweeted about less than two hours before she took a front-row seat to listen to Yousafzai.
If the Trudeau government is successful at integrating newcomers and minimizing the grounds for public angst, Canada might persist as the sort of model that it is sometimes made out to be. It might even continue to welcome more and more new Canadians each year.
But that would still leave questions about what Canada is doing to more directly shape the world beyond its borders.
Just a day before Yousafzai addressed Parliament, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development released a report on global development aid that found Canada's contribution decreased slightly in 2016.
Canada contributed approximately $4 billion, but as a share of gross national income it still lagged below the OECD average and was well short of the international target of 0.7 per cent.
Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says the development community seeks not only money, but also leadership and effective policy. She can point to her government's work to help raise $13 billion for the Global Fund last fall. And a new development strategy is due to be unveiled soon.
But more aid money would certainly bolster Canada's claim to leadership.
Missing too, for now, is any follow-through on the signature Liberal commitment to pursue new peacekeeping opportunities.
And perhaps, while Canada is trying to meet its own climate targets, the Trudeau government can convince its friends in Donald Trump's administration to at least refrain from officially pulling the U.S. out of the Paris accord.
Yousafzai followed her praise with a few requests.
"Dear Canada, I am asking you to lead once again," she said.
Girls' education should be a central theme of Canada's G7 presidency in 2018, she said. Canada should use its influence to "fill the global education funding gap" and raise new funds to help girls go to school. And the government should prioritize ensuring that refugees can access post-secondary education.
Later, during question period, Elizabeth May would put these ideas directly to the prime minister and he would at least suggest some interest in pursuing them.
"If Canada leads," Yousafzai had said, "I know the world will follow."
The tattoos and yoga poses might help draw global attention.
The extent of Canadian leadership will depend on what else the world sees.


FRANCE (VNS) — Vietnamese fashion show organiser and model Jessica Minh Anh will return to the world's fashion capital, Paris, to produce another grand show on October 29.
She held her first successful show at the Eiffel Tower last October.
Entitled J Autumn Fashion Show 2015, the fashion event will be organised on a large glass boat on the River Seine that will be transformed into a special 100m-long catwalk.
To create an illusion of the models walking on water, the invitees will be seated opposite glass windows. Major landmarks of Paris such as the Eiffel Tower, the Notre Dame Cathedral, Louvre Museum and 37 bridges spanning the River Seine will become natural backdrops of the special show.
Presenting a combination of arts, architecture, culture and fashion, the show will introduce eight collections by designers from four continents. Special invitees such as renowned international fashion designers, ambassadors, ministers and leaders of many companies and newspapers will attend the event.
In addition to jewellery, high-grade and casual fashion collections, Jessica Minh Anh's special hair styles, created by talented artists, will be another highlight of the programme.
Jessica is organising the J Autumn Fashion Show 2015 in collaboration with top fashion designers and luxury brand names such as Mont Blanc, Paul Costelloe, Addy van den Krommenacker and Yumi Katsura.
"I believe that wonderful designs should be displayed in the most beautiful places and organised with the most creative performing ideas. It is a challenging but very interesting process," Jessica said, while speaking about the location of her special fashion show.
Jessica was born in Ha Noi and grew up in Moscow, Russia. She won full Petronas Scholarship to study IT in Malaysia. After graduating, she earned a master's degree, majoring in public relations in the United Kingdom, and started to realise her dream of becoming a fashion show organiser and to produce shows at iconic landmarks.
Jessica has made a deep impression through her special fashion shows that have been held at the Eiffel Tower (Paris), the London Tower Bridge (the United Kingdom), One World Trade Centre (the United States), and Gardens by the Bay's Skyway (Singapore), as well as the Twin Towers' Skybridge (Malaysia) and especially the world's highest catwalk on the Grand Canyon Skywalk in the United States.


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Uzbekistan Halts Power Supply to Afghanistan: DABS – Tolo News
The country's power distributor, Da Afghanistan Bereshna Sherkat, said on Sunday that the imported electricity from Uzbekistan has been disconnected due to technical issues. DABS official Safiullah Ahmadzai said that Islamic Emirate officials are negotiating with Uzbekistan officials about the reconnection of power supply to the country. He said to address the lack of electricity in Kabul, the company has activated the Tarakhil thermal power station. Click here to read…
Former woman MP shot dead in Afghanistan – The Tribune
A former Afghan female lawmaker who refused to flee Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover was shot dead along with her bodyguard by unidentified assailants in Kabul late Saturday night. This is the first time a lawmaker from the previous administration has been killed in the city since the takeover. Mursal Nabizada (32), extremely critical of the Taliban's policies, was elected MP under the previous western-backed government from a constituency in Nangarhar district, considered the base of the Islamic State (IS). Click here to read…
Afghan bank's cash remarks 'misleading, unhelpful' says UN – Devdiscourse
The United Nations (UN) mission in Afghanistan has slammed the Taliban-controlled central bank for making what it described as "misleading and unhelpful" remarks about cash destined for humanitarian work in the ravaged country. "CLARIFICATION 1-Cash shipped to #Afghanistan by the UN is placed in UN accounts in a private bank. It is used by UN agencies to support its humanitarian work 2-Announcements by non-UN entities about UN fund shipments are misleading & unhelpful," the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) tweeted. Click here to read…
Bangladesh pins hopes on nuclear energy as its way out of power cuts and rising fuel prices – Scroll
The Rooppur nuclear plant is being built by Rosatom, Russia's state-owned nuclear energy corporation, using Russian technology and a Russian loan of $11.38 billion to be repaid over two decades from 2027. Click here to read…
Let's talk the talk: Confronting Bangladesh's national security threats – Dhaka Tribune
The discourse of national security takes place rarely, and even in such rare discourses, there is a deliberate effort to demilitarize it. It is often portrayed to the public and indoctrinated in academic settings that Bangladesh has no security threats. Therefore, all it needs to do is focus on economic development. Click here to read…
Cutting Extrajudicial Killings: US satisfied with Rab's progress – Daily Star
Visiting US Assistant Secretary Donald Lu yesterday expressed satisfaction that Rab reduced extrajudicial killings since late 2021, when the US imposed sanctions on the forceClick here to read…
China, Bhutan agree to expedite negotiations to resolve border dispute – The Economic Times
China and Bhutan have reached a "positive consensus" to push forward the implementation of the agreement to expedite negotiations to settle their border dispute through a three-step roadmap. The 11th Expert Group Meeting (EGM) on the China-Bhutan Boundary Issues was held in China's Kunming city from January 10 to 13, according to a joint statement issued by both countries. Click here to read…
New Delhi hopes Bhutan will factor in Indian concerns on trijunction – The Economic Times
Following Bhutan-China expert group meeting in Kunming on boundary issues, India is hopeful that its concerns on the trijunction will be considered in the next round of Sino-Bhutanese consultations. Senior Indian officials visiting Thimphu, coinciding with the January 10-13 meeting in the Chinese city, underlined the special nature of Indo-Bhutanese ties, people in the know said. It is understood that various aspects of Bhutan-China talks were discussed. Click here to read…
Bhutanese economy to grow at 4.1 percent in current FY: World Bank – Kuensel Online
The World Bank forecast the Bhutanese economy to grow by 4.1 percent in the fiscal year 2022-23, in its report "Global Economic Prospects" report, released on January 10. The reopening of borders in September last year is expected to support growth in the industry and services sector, the Bank said. Bhutan's growth has revised down by 0.6 percentage points from the World Bank's June projection last year of 4.7 percent. Click here to read…
Maldives Presidential Election to be held on Sept 9 – Avas
The Presidential Election will be held on September 9 this year. The date of the election was announced by the Elections Commission (EC) at a press conference at the Manhattan Business Hotel this morning. EC's President, Fuwad Thawfeek, said if the election goes to a second round, the voting of the final round would be held on September 30. This year, 280,000 people are eligible to vote in the election, he said. Click here to read…
Cambodian PM arrives in the Maldives on official visit – Avas
The Prime Minister of Cambodia, Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen, arrived Sunday morning on an official visit to the Maldives at the invitation of President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih. This is the Cambodian Prime Minister's first visit to the Maldives. Click here to read…
Local resistance, not foreigners, key to Myanmar's future – Financial Review
Myanmar's abject deterioration since the February 2021 military coup accelerated throughout 2022, with more violence, retribution and pain spread across the rapidly impoverishing country of 55 million people. The military regime spent the year trying to reinforce its positions on the battlefield and its claims to institutional legitimacy. It is failing on both fronts. Click here to read…
Global firms help Myanmar's military make weapons, says report – BBC
Myanmar's military is producing a vast range of weapons to use against its own people thanks to supplies from companies in at least 13 countries, former top UN officials say. The US, France, India and Japan are among those named, despite Western-led sanctions intended to isolate Myanmar. The report says the home-produced arms are used to carry out atrocities against those who oppose the military. Click here to read…
Myanmar shadow government raises $132m to oppose junta – Strait Times
Myanmar's shadow National Unity Government said it has raised more than US$100 million (S$132 million) to fund its democracy effort and topple the junta. About 45 per cent of the funds are from the sales of so-called Spring Revolution Special Treasury Bonds, according to Mr Tin Tun Naing, shadow minister for planning, finance and investment. Click here to read…
Myanmar Junta Airstrikes On Rebel Camps Spark Scare In Mizoram – Swarajya Marg
Airstrikes by Myanmar's ruling junta on the headquarters of the Chin National Front (CNF), the political wing of the rebel Chin National Army (CNA), earlier this week has caused a scare in neighbouring Mizoram. Fighter jets of the Myanmar Air Force dropped bombs on the CNF headquarters at Mount Victoria in Chin province of that country, killing five CNF members and injuring scores of others, on Tuesday (10 January) and Wednesday (11 January). Click here to read…
68 dead in Nepal's worst domestic air disaster – The Kathmandu Post
Nepal saw its worst domestic air disaster on Sunday morning when Yeti Airlines flight NYT 691 from Kathmandu to Pokhara crashed a few minutes before landing at the new international airport. The plane carried 72 persons, including passengers and crew, and 68 had been confirmed dead as of Sunday evening, the country's civil aviation regulator said in a statement. Rescue efforts have been suspended for Sunday. Click here to read…
Govt forms panel to probe plane crash- The Himalayan Times
The government has formed a five-member probe committee to investigate Yeti Airlines plane crash near Pokhara Regional International Airport today. An emergency Cabinet meeting held today decided to form a panel under former government secretary Nagendra Ghimire to investigate the accident and submit its report within 45 days, said government Spokesperson and Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad Paudel. Click here to read…
Kerung border reopening brings little joy to traders – The Kathmandu Post
Nepali traders had cheered when China allowed two-way trade to resume at the Rasuwagadhi-Kerung border last month, but they are finding out that the joy may have been premature. Beijing has declared that exports from Nepal will be allowed to pass only on a fortnightly basis. Imports to Nepal, however, are permitted to pass daily, officials said. "For now, China has allowed 14 goods carriers to cross the border every fortnight," Narayan Prasad Bhandari, chief of the Rasuwa Customs Office, told the Post. Click here to read…
Nepal PM Prachanda says he will visit India soon – The Hindu
Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' has said that he will visit India soon on his first foreign trip after assuming the top executive post of the country for the third time. However, the Nepal government is yet to officially announce the Prime Minister's visit to India. The date and itinerary of the visit are yet to be finalised. Click here to read…
Embarrassing to ask for more loans: Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif – OpIndia
Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif, said that it is becoming very embarrassing for him to ask for further loans from other countries. Pakistan, which is perennially in an economic crunch, is once again getting bailed out by other countries like Saudi Arabia. The Pakistan PM thanked Saudi Arabia for their support but at the same time, mentioned that it is not a solution as the loans would have to be returnedClick here to read…
Oil dips, but hovers near 2023 highs on China demand optimism – Dawn
Oil prices dipped in early Asian trade on Monday, but held close to the highest levels since the start of the year on optimism that China's reopening will lift fuel demand at the world's top crude importer. Brent crude fell 36 cents, or 0.4 per cent, to $84.92 a barrel by 0116 GMT while US West Texas Intermediate crude was at $79.65 a barrel, down 21 cents, or 0.3pc amid thin trade during a US public holiday. Click here to read…
HC Moragoda meets Gujarat State Governor, Chief Minister – Daily News
The High Commissioner congratulated the Chief Minister on his resounding victory at the recently concluded assembly elections in Gujarat. The discussion focused on the interactions between the State of Gujarat and Sri Lanka in multiple spheres and particularly in the tourism sector. Click here to read…
Sri Lanka to cut army by half after financial crisis – Deccan Herald
Bankrupt Sri Lanka will drastically slash its military, the defence ministry said Friday, as the government works to overhaul its shambolic finances after an unprecedented economicClick here to read…
We are discussing problems of Tamil people, says Sri Lankan President on Pongal festival – The Print
Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Sunday said his government is discussing problems of the North and the Tamil people, in a step towards reconciling the island nation that has suffered three decades of war and insurgency. Click here to read…
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Things change, you make gains large and small, you suffer losses equally large and small. There's nothing new or profound in that statement. It's just one of those things that you're forced to take notice of now and then. As you get older, you notice it more and more. If you're lucky, the losses are less significant than the gains.
What brought this on? Do I need an excuse?
As I flip through my old collection of vinyl LPs, converting them to crispy new electronic formats, change is "writ large" on nearly every album cover, and every album or single tells a story that goes well beyond the songs or the comedy patter vibrating between the grooves.
I guess the biggest thing that's been lost in the digital and marketing revolution is the sense that every record is a little brick of history. I remember where I bought each and every one of these records, and the circumstances surrounding the purchase. The records become a photo album in my mind.
I got my copy of David Bowie's Station to Station in a little New York City record store, one of those dark hole-in-the-wall places. I'd just read about it in the Times, and I was out wandering around, and in those days I went into every new record store that I found. The girl behind the counter looked like a young Bohemian, and she gave me a smile and a look that said she agreed with my taste in records. A normal guy would have chatted her up, I suppose, but as I now understand, Asperger's made that impossible for me. I just bought the record and have remembered her smile ever since.
I got a used copy of The Moody Blues album The Other Side of Life at a record store in Boston. My friend BC was there, and even though The Moody Blues is not his cup of fur and then some, he urged me to get it because we both knew I wouldn't find it at home for that price. This was at a time when, maybe once a year, maybe twice, I would join a small pack of my friends and make regular pilgrimages to Boston, just to get out of Maine and get a taste of Civilization. The internet was not yet even a gleam in Al Gore's eye, and the big-box bookstores (one of which is now defunct) had yet to move into the state, bringing civilization with them, for a time. We had regular rounds that we made in town that included the great and nifty (and also now defunct) Avenue Victor Hugo Bookstore, and Tower Records (where I picked up Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow, the only album by that group that anyone could need), and Wordsworth out in Cambridge, who stocked imports, among several other great book and record stores, especially including one of the latter called "In Your Ear!" that stocked a great selection of vintage vinyl and bootleg albums, at reasonable prices. Now, whenever I see their sticker on one of my record albums, I think back on those fun trips to Boston with the guys. As I write this, I note that The Brattle Theater -- where I saw Warner Brothers cartoons on the big screen for the first time -- is running Ninotchka tonight. Oh, Ninotchka, Ninotchka... once you get started down Memory Lane you never know where the little offshoot avenues will take you.
And so now today it seems like the stories attached to each album are at least as important as the music they contain -- sometimes more so! They all occupy specific locations along my personal timeline, and have the power to draw me back along the corridor to places and people that no longer exist. For that reason, even after I have them all duplicated I'll never part with them.
Buying music today is nowhere near as memorable. Nearly every "album" that I've bought in the last six years, I've done so while sitting right here in this chair at this keyboard. The music shoots down the internet pipeline and into my computer.
The good part is, I don't have to drive all the way to Boston to look for obscure used books and music that can't be found in local stores (record stores are pretty much a vanished breed now, anyhow), and then take my chances on what I'll dig up. It's all right here in front of me: if I think of something, my fingers do the walking and no matter what it is, I can pretty much find it somewhere and have it delivered to my doorstep. In a purely cultural sense, life in the age of the internet is almost unbelievably richer than it ever was in my "formative years." I have more access than I know what to do with, and more culture of various kinds than I have the time to digest. And I have made some wonderful discoveries, especially recently. More on them in another post.


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Q: python regex validator for repetitive character I am struggling to write regex pattern.
I want, It must NOT have  or more consecutive repeated digits.
5133-3367-8912-3456
so it should return false, Consecutive digits are repeating 4 or more times

5123-4567-8912-3456
and it should return True

my code now: re.match('[0-9]{4}', string)
I can do with many way in python but i want to do with regex as my case is very different.
Can anyone please help me in this case?

A: You may use this regex in python with a negative lookahead:
^(?![\d-]*(\d)(?:-?\1){3})\d+(?:-\d+)*$

RegEx Demo
RegEx Details:

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*^: Start

*(?![\d-]*(\d)(?:-?\1){3}): Negative lookahead to fail the match when we find 4 repeats of the same digit optionally preceded by a single -

*\d+(?:-\d+)*: Match digits sets delimited by -

*$: End

A: If you remove all hyphens first, you can use a positive lookahead to search for a repeating pattern for a specified number of times.
if re.search(r"(\d)(?=\1{3})", string):
    # Successful match -> This would be your false case
else:
    # Match attempt failed -> This would be your true case


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Letter: Education/poverty merry-go-round
William F. Buckley Jr. said, "Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views but are shocked and offended to discover there are other views."
An article by Devin Bodkin for IdahoEdNews.org proclaims, "Research highlights the long-running correlation between high poverty rates and low student performance." That may have been news before the typewriter was invented, but certainly not today. With two sides to the coin, the headline might well have read, "There is a correlation between student performance and poverty." But like the individuals who choose to prosecute inanimate objects, guns, instead of the source of shootings, trigger fingers, the problem continues to replicate.
The way the problem of education/poverty is being fought reminds me of trying to put out a fire by smothering it with gasoline. Federal and local efforts to provide cradle-to-grave comfort to the unneedy/worthy are continuing to escalate the U.S. as a welfare state, with the working class forced to shoulder the financial responsibility. Showing a McGraw-Hill film on purchasing and bartering to a local group of elementary students led to horror and disbelief as students saw their peers spending money for their school lunch. Why? Because at their school, each student is entitled to free breakfasts and lunches.
Undoubtedly, there are those who could benefit from the program temporarily. But although my dad was illiterate and my family often destitute, he taught me: "It's better to do without than ever be on the dole." He was poor, illiterate, unfulfilled and often taken advantage of, but didn't believe others should have to pay for his condition or mistakes. That's why he was part of America's Greatest Generation.
"No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce." — Dr. Thomas Sowell
Letters to the editor on topics of general interest are welcomed and encouraged.
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Intro to Reality Games for Game Designers and Critics
Being involved with artistic and critical communities around play, it's easy to see repeated narratives about games eventually made into a canon. Certain games and play experiences are seen as exemplar and in-turn define how we think of what games are, particularly good ones. As with any sort of curation, canonization is political and reflects the values of the community that holds it up. So it's always a fun venture to see what is left out of the canon and explore how it could complicate conversations around the medium of play. I've had a long-standing interest and history with reality games, the most famous being the US versions of Survivor and Big Brother, which are curiously absent from games discourse. I want to pose some potential areas of interest where I believe reality games stretch and challenge game conventions and critical thought around play. Also I just think people would get a kick out of analyzing and designing them.
Survivor and Big Brother created genre expectations for the reality games we see on TV today and even other sorts of game shows. The basic premise has a group of players sequestered away from their lives and other people to play in an elimination game that usually take a month to three to complete. These games are played in structured rounds that usually include some sort of physical, mental, or social challenge to either gain safety, control, or rewards and then a voting phase to eliminate another player from the game. Interpersonal dynamics mix with game theory as participants maneuver through the game until eventually there are only two left. Some eliminated players then act as a jury to choose the winner, who gets the grand prize. It is worth noting that film and TV conventions also affect how the game is viewed by audiences and that there is an audience at all is a strong factor in both the design and mythos of reality games. Just as we wouldn't ignore the audio-visual elements of a video game, we must keep in mind cinematography and film/TV choices when thinking about reality games.
I should also note that amateur reality games exist off the TV and are played across internet forums, instant messaging services, and chat rooms (Online Reality Games, called ORGs for short). Communities of reality game fans play multiple of these over time and expect written episodes from the host that oversaw all the chat logs and journaling from the players. While the formats differed, they ultimately conformed to the structure and expectations of Survivor and Big Brother, with one of the most prolific of these using RPG elements and novelized into full-length fiction. ORGs that aren't about or inspired by existing reality TV shows tend to bleed into the alternate reality games (ARGs) genre, to which many members of this community played before they reached public attention as marketing stunts.
Design Narratives & The Twist
Despite the game aspect being such a focus in this form of media, reality games are first and foremost creative works of non-/fiction (we can see them as both at the same time). While this would be true even if we were just peeping through cameras at the unfolding of the game, the players are aware the entire time they are being watched and a story will be made out of both public and behind the scenes drama. Confessionals, the usual name for private interviews between players and camera people, are frequent and contestants are asked about their personal perspectives and stories to eventually turn into dramatic episodes. And while the strategy of the game is interesting, the structure of the game is made to produce dramatic and interesting television, to create interpersonal tension and conflict since that's what people want to see. The design of reality games are not simply for the enjoyment of the players', rather it's more important that the design creates a good spectacle. We can see this with regards to the introduction of 'the twist;' much like how we use the term 'plot twist' for injecting interest into writing we're familiar with, in reality games there are also game twists. For example, the strategy of the first couple seasons of Survivor followed the same pattern: sixteen players start off in two teams of eight and after six eliminations merge into one group. When one team gets majority, they pick off members of the other team before turning on themselves. This was becoming predictable and therefore by the third season, an unexpected twist switched team members before the merge to shake up the dynamics of the game. Ever since, there's always been a twist and further adjustments to the game whenever it started to get predictable. Games often contain plot twists in the story but rarely design ones; game developers tend to add on layers of general complexity that gradually helps the player progress, but not necessarily a design upset that completely shakes up how they play. One of my favorite board games, Betrayal at the House on the Hill incorporates a twist, where players know a twist will happen but unsure of what kind. Another example might be Michael Brough's Corrypt, which is why it caught many developers' and critics' attention.
The Vote & Politics
In many games there's some sort of force that makes sure that everyone has a fair shot and are playing fairly, like referees, dungeon masters, other players, or the computer. In reality games, fairness mostly comes from the fact that everyone has one vote that they can use in each elimination phase they attend, otherwise they are victim to the whims of the challenges, twists, and social dynamics of the experience. Players are often reduced to their votes or voting power in terms of strategy; alliances form to create a majority of votes, players act as swing votes between alliances, and jurors at the end of the game vote to decide who wins. Scholarly writing on reality games picked up on this imagery of voting and how it represents American or general Western fantasies of political systems. Voting is the most important part of these games and there is strong rhetoric at least in the US that voting is the most important part of being a citizen. By creating a game based on this sort of democratic idealism of equality through voting power we see reality games express a range of arguments around ethics and personal advancement in 'fair' societies. With Survivor taking place in 'exotic' locales and Big Brother taking place in a heavily surveilled compound to live up to its reference, critical perspectives could easily see how media and games contain imperialist, nationalist, and capitalist values. We can see not only the players' expressions within political systems but also understand how audiences relate to watching ones play out. Implications of how people view prominent members of social media as they do reality TV characters are also interesting to follow.
Replays & Strategic Evolution
Though in the majority of televised reality game contestants only play once, there are many ways that knowledge of how past games affect how present ones are played. These sorts of effects are considered incidental or auxiliary enough to not merit consideration in conventional design or analysis, but in reality games, past relationships and how much knowledge you have of the game becomes much more important. This is particularly true for ORGs, where the same community of people are playing reality games multiple times, so players are bound to have played games with others and have both relationships and reputations. Because these games are so wrapped up in interpersonal dynamics, strategies will play out strongly biased by relationships and expectations already established. For example, who you decide to align with or vote out will change if you left a friend or foe with another player in a previous game, as well as if they played honorably or not and how far along they placed. If you know someone to be a generally nice under the radar player, you will be conscious of them sneaking too far along unnoticed. If instead a player was revealed to have backstabbed you and many people in the last game you played, you will know not to trust them and might want to eliminate them as soon as possible.
If someone was to research the change of the game and players over time, the fact that people who have watched and possibly discussed reality games in depth could play the game becomes important. Fans of the shows know the strategies and archetypes of players, forcing the game to move in certain directions, and eventually prompting new kinds of twists and structure changes. The audience of reality games cannot be ignored since their language discussing the shows eventually get into the games and shape design and discourse; the first recognized instance of an ORG player being drafted into the actual show of Survivor ended up placing 3rd out of 18. More games could take into consideration the same group of people playing games together and developing a set of dynamics, like Legacy: Risk.
Reality & Deterioration of Magic Circle
In the canon of game design and criticism is the 'magic circle,' an anthropological term about a sacred space where play exists outside the rules of real life. It points to the tendency for games and play to not have any consequences on real life, that how one acts in a game shouldn't really affect them outside of it. And while the magic circle becomes more porous over time, reality games, especially ORGs, challenge its influence since one of the main elements of these games is reality. On TV, players are looking to win a million dollars, which will no doubt change their lives, and also exposure as models and actors, or some other PR reason. With ORGs you find players developing relationships over time that have an impact in and out of the game. Televised Big Brother games have a reputation for mixing in people's lives with the games, such as secretly bringing in some players' ex-partners to play the game, twin twists, and even seeing a player getting put on leave from his job for appearing on the show. The reality aspect of reality TV requires that the game meld in some way with players' lives, and audiences indulge in the authentic emotional expressions of players when watching.
More pressing is the ever frequent questions of ethics in reality games. In games discourse, the only kind of play that is described as frowned upon are cheaters, who know and break the rules, and the 'spoilsport,' who doesn't recognize the rules of the games as legitimate and plays outside the rules in that play space. In reality games, backstabbing and lying are not against the rules but highly frowned upon because backstabbing and lying are taboo in reality. In most games, lying and backstabbing are brushed off because for reasons such as 'it's just a game,' and are easily forgotten outside of the context of play. And while this sort of reasoning comes up in reality games, because the game is much longer, the stakes are higher, and everything is more personal, what is moral stays in debate because humans decide who's the winner of the game, not any objective win condition. Player's personalities and understanding of how one one treats each other in the real world affects how the game proceeds and is resolved. This goes hand-in-hand with conversations around 'deserving;' who deserves to be voted out, who deserves to win? While a contemporary game designer and critic might conclude to the objective fact of who actually won and lost, within reality games is a constant discourse over these questions which ultimately shapes how the game concludes. There have been instances where between the clearly more strategic, cutthroat player and the under the radar, never lied player, a jury will pick the latter because they would feel morally compromised choosing who others might think of as a 'better' player but was a 'bad' person.
Players & Characters
In reality games, a players' personalities undeniably impact the procedure of the game; are they likeable? Charismatic? Manipulative? Honorable? Can I stand being around this person all this time? Can I bare the thought of this person getting far in the game? Do I feel good about taking this person with me to the Final Two? Am I okay with this person winning? Personal preferences have always found expression in games, but never so much take a central role in the development of play as they do in reality games. Game designers that lament the difficulty of designing around relationships would find much use in how reality games prompt bonding and social dynamics. The personalities and strategies that emerge from the clash between the game's structure and players' morality are then viewed in highly edited episodes that turn real people into characters. This mediates audiences' understanding of 'reality,' that even if there's an awareness of creative intent in the production of these games and episodes, the relationship to the game is through some level of appreciating authenticity. Players' emotions are real, there are close-up shots of their real emotions, information is shown and hidden in a way to show a real drama. Audiences eventually notice archetypes of players that are simultaneously their character and strategic editing; fictive and strategic elements are completely intertwined. Understanding the editing of reality TV has taken on its own art-form to create a meta game of guessing the winner, called Edgic. In this way, audiences are playing along to guess who the winner is, much like a reader would try to find out who the killer is in a whodunit. We can't ignore the influence of editing and fan culture, not only because they eventually seep back into the canonized game, but they ultimately outline what a reality game is and how far its bounds stretch. Rarely has fan culture affected commercial games in such a manner.
I hope designers and critics give reality games a chance to be a part of our medium's canon and history. There's a lot to learn and chew on, especially considering the focus on interpersonal dynamics and how audiences relate to the game. If anything, I'd just like to see contemporary versions of these games that play with how people relate to one another and recognize that qualities of our culture can be used in the creation of play. There are strategies reality games have in spades that contemporary game design lacks and I think could help raise the bar in the kind of experiences we choose to create.
Big Brother/Design/ORGs/Reality Games/Survivor


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James Keach
It took Walter Hill's "The Long Riders" (1980) to help establish Keach. With his brother Stacy, he co-executive produced, co-wrote and co-starred in this revisionist Western. The film's hook had real-life brothers portraying legendary outlaws: David, Keith and Robert Carradine were the Youngers; Randy and Dennis Quaid were the Millers; Nicholas and Christopher Guest were the Fords; and the Keach brothers played Frank and Jesse James. With an effective Ry Cooder score and stunning visuals, "The Long Riders" received excellent reviews and is considered a minor classic. The film, however, did not jump-start Keach's career. He went on to supporting roles as a motorcycle cop in Harold Ramis' "National Lampoon's Vacation" (1983), Catherine Hicks' husband in John Byrum's misguided remake of "The Razor's Edge" (1984) and gave a snortingly amusing turn as a Gestapo-like traffic officer in "Moving Violations" (1985). Keach began moving behind the camera. He devised the story for and, with Brian Grazer, produced "Armed and Dangerous" (1986), a low-brow comedy vehicle for John Candy and Eugene Levy. Keach had slightly better luck with his directorial debut, "False Identity" (1990), an uneven murder mystery that starred Genevieve Bujold and Stacy Keach. His sophomore effort, "The Stars Fell on Henrietta" (1995), was a box office disappointment but earned some critical praise. The film detailed the effects of a wildcat oilman (Robert Duvall) on the lives of a young couple (Frances Fisher and Aidan Quinn) in Depression-era Texas.Keach has had better success in the director's chair on TV. He forged a relationship with the USA network, helming telefilms like the actioner "The Forgotten" (1989) and the mystery "Praying Mantis" (1993). During the filming of the mystery "Sunstroke" (USA, 1992), Keach fell in live with his leading lady, Jane Seymour. They married in 1993 and he has since directed her in episodes of the CBS series "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" and the TV biopic "A Passion for Justice: The Hazel Brannon Smith Story" (ABC, 1994).


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The Art of Asking : How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
Categories: | Art History: From c 1960 | | Psychology | | Personal Development | | Memoirs | | Business Ethics | | Assertiveness, Motivation & Self-esteem |
Author: Amanda Palmer
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
REDISCOVER THE FORGOTTEN ART OF ASKING IN THIS NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING BOOK 'Amanda Palmer joyfully shows a generation how to change their lives' Caitlin Moran 'To read Amanda Palmer's remarkable memoir about asking and giving is to tumble headlong into her world' Elizabeth Gilbert 'The Art of Asking is a book about cultivating trust and getting as close as possible to love, vulnerability, and connection. Uncomfortably close. Dangerously close. Beautifully close' Brene Brown Imagine standing on a box in the middle of a busy city, dressed as a white-faced bride, and silently using your eyes to ask people for money. Or touring Europe in a punk cabaret band, and finding a place to sleep each night by reaching out to strangers on Twitter. For Amanda Palmer, actions like these have gone beyond satisfying her basic needs for food and shelter - they've taught her how to turn strangers into friends, build communities, and discover her own giving impulses. And because she had learned how to ask, she was able to go to the world to ask for the money to make a new album and tour with it, and to raise over a million dollars in a month. In the New York TImes bestseller The Art of Asking, Palmer expands upon her popular TED talk to reveal how ordinary people, those of us without thousands of Twitter followers and adoring fans, can use these same principles in our own lives.
Amanda Palmer joyfully shows a generation how to change their lives Caitlin Moran, author of HOW TO BE A WOMAN and HOW TO BUILD A GIRL
Amanda Palmer joyfully shows a generation how to change their lives * Caitlin Moran, author of HOW TO BE A WOMAN and HOW TO BUILD A GIRL * Amanda Palmer's generous work of genius will change the way you think about connection, love and grace * Seth Godin * To read Amanda Palmer's remarkable memoir about asking and giving is to tumble headlong into her world. Immediately, you notice that her world is really different from yours and mine. Amanda's world is more open, more vulnerable, more fearless, more messy, more surprising, more dangerous, more rich with human encounters and exchanges at every imaginable level. At first, you find yourself thinking, "Goodness, what a crazy world that Amanda Palmer inhabits! How does she possibly endure it?" Then, gradually, as you read along, a doorway opens up in your heart, and you realize, "I want to live in a world exactly like hers". God willing, this book will show us all how to do it * Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of EAT, PRAY, LOVE * Amanda has a direct line with her audience - a lifeline for them and for her, the codependency all truly great performers surrender to . . . she's capable of anything, incapable of telling anything but the truth * Bono * The Art of Asking is a book about cultivating trust and getting as close as possible to love, vulnerability, and connection. Uncomfortably close. Dangerously close. Beautifully close. And uncomfortably close is exactly where we need to be if we want to transform this culture of scarcity and fundamental distrust * From the foreword by Brene Brown, author of the bestselling DARING GREATLY * A story about a life in one dollar bills, from statue to icon, where media doesn't matter, crowds do. Mandatory reading in the digital age, for aspiring artists and their doubtful parents * Nicholas Negroponte, Founder, MIT Media Lab * From this beautiful, heart wrenching story of art comes an incredible account of the nature and future of commerce - or one part, certainly the most important part, of that bit that's new. Here's a truth that someday the economists might begin to grok, but which meanwhile will define everything that's interesting about how art and culture will thrive * Lawrence Lessig, author of FREE CULTURE * This is the kind of book that makes you want to call the author up at midnight to whisper, 'My God. I thought I was the only one * Jenny Lawson, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of LET'S PRETEND THIS NEVER HAPPENED *
Amanda Palmer Biography
Amanda MacKinnon Gaiman Palmer (born April 30, 1976) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and performance artist who is the lead vocalist, pianist, and lyricist of the duo The Dresden Dolls. She performs as a solo artist and was also a member of the duo Evelyn Evelyn, and the lead singer and songwriter of Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra. She has gained a cult fanbase throughout her career, and was one of the first musical artists to popularise the use of crowdfunding websites.
Palmer was born Amanda MacKinnon Palmer in New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital, and grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts. Her parents divorced when she was one year old, and as a child she rarely saw her father.She attended Lexington High School, where she was involved in the drama department, and later attended Wesleyan University where she studied theater and was a member of the Eclectic Society. In 1999, Palmer founded the Shadowbox Collective, a performance group devoted to street theatre and putting on theatrical shows (such as the 2002 play, Hotel Blanc, which she directed). Palmer briefly studied under Marcel Marceau in 2000. Palmer graduated from Wesleyan University with a BA in 1998. Palmer then spent several years busking as a living statue called "The Eight Foot Bride" in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Edinburgh, Scotland; Berlin, Germany and Melbourne, Australia (where she met future collaborator Jason Webley); and many other locations. She refers to her street performance work in The Dresden Dolls song "The Perfect Fit", as well as on the A is for Accident track "Glass Slipper".
2000–2007: The Dresden Dolls and The Onion Cellar
At a Halloween party in 2000, Palmer met drummer Brian Viglione and afterwards they formed The Dresden Dolls. In an effort to expand the performance experience and interactivity, Palmer began inviting Lexington High School students to perform drama pieces at the Dresden Dolls' live shows. This evolved to The Dirty Business Brigade, a troupe of seasoned and new artists, performing at many gigs.In 2002, after developing a cult following, the band recorded their eponymous debut album, The Dresden Dolls, with producer Martin Bisi (of Indie, Brooklyn, New York fame). They produced the album before signing with the label Roadrunner Records.In 2006, The Dresden Dolls Companion was published, with words, music and artwork by Amanda Palmer. In it she has written a history of the album The Dresden Dolls and of the duo, as well as a partial autobiography. The book also contains the lyrics, sheet music, and notes on each song in the album, all written by Palmer, as well as a DVD with a 20-minute interview of Amanda about making the book.Palmer conceived the musical/production The Onion Cellar, based on a short story from The Tin Drum by Günter Grass. From December 9, 2006, through January 13, 2007, The Dresden Dolls performed the piece in conjunction with the American ... Read full biography
Authors: Amanda Palmer
Imprint: PIATKUS BOOKS
Illustrations: Integrated b/w photos
Publication date: Nov. 11, 2014
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The Aztec people were certain ethnic groups of central Mexico. (Wiki) The Aztec and Mayan used Cocoa as a sacred drink. It was brewed with various spices and drank unsweetened as part of ceremonies.
There is also a drink called Mayan hot chocolate which seems to be inspired by this spice mix.
Spice up your palate with this rich, exotic blend of cinnamon drenched chocolate, elevated gently by the warming kick of spicy chili flakes.
I opened my pack of Aztec Spice – Art of Tea to the deep aroma of cinnamon and chocolate. Like a dark perfume. The tea leaves looked beautiful both dry and after steeping. The dark color of the Pu-erh tea leaves, cinnamon and cocoa nibs combined with the pop of color from the honey-bush. I followed the recommended brewing method. For the first steep, I let the tea leaves infuse for 3 minutes. The liquor was a dark color. The key flavor was definitely the cinnamon. I was expecting a bit of heat from the chili flakes but unfortunately, that punch of additional flavor was missing.
I did a second steep and this time I let the tea leaves steep for 5 minutes.
The additional few minutes of infusing were what this tea needed. The flavor of the tea was bolder and it finished with that slight hint of spice.
This is one of those drinks that you can enjoy in solitude. Aztec Spice from Art of Tea took me back to NY 2015 in London. Noble and I had visited a fun fair called 'Winter Wonderland'. That's where I first had Mulled Wine. And I fell in love with the drink. Aztec Spice by Art of Tea reminded me very much of the strong but warm flavors of Mulled Wine.
The Aztec spice – Art of Tea would qualify to be included in the tea for special occasions category.
Disclaimer: tea sample provided for review by Art of Tea . This is my honest opinion. I was not paid to mention or review the products mentioned in this blog post.


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#### According to
Index Fungorum

#### Published in
Bull. Jard. bot. État Brux. 32: 101 (1962)

#### Original name
Ganoderma aureolum Steyaert

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