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Victoria, BC – We're inviting you to join us for a special evening focused on our VicPD Block Watch Program and our Watch Commander's Open House on Thursday, December 6, 2018 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
During the event we'll present the results of our fall 2018, VicPD Block Watch survey. Over 300 participants provided feedback and insights into how, working together, we can make this excellent program even better. We have some exciting ideas that we are looking forward to sharing with you. Come meet the VicPD Block Watch team and help us chart the future of this cornerstone VicPD program.
Part of the evening will be hosted by the Patrol Watch Commander. The Watch Commander is the Staff Sergeant who oversees a Patrol Watch and is the person who is most immediately responsible for keeping Victoria and Esquimalt safe. In this, our fourth Watch Commander's Open House of the year, we'll provide direct insight to members of our VicPD Block Watch community on how a Patrol watch works to keep you and your neighbourhood safe. You'll also hear directly from the person responsible for leading a Patrol watch how you, as a member of our VicPD Block Watch community, can help us too.
You don't have to be a VicPD Block Watch member to join us for this event. Everyone is welcome!
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McFly and Strictly Come Dancing star Tom Fletcher coming to Kent to meet fans
The singer will be signing copies of his new children's book at Waterstones Bluewater
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McFly and Strictly Come Dancing star Tom Fletcher will be meeting fans in Kent next month (Image: Guy Levy/BBC/PA Wire)
McFly fans will have the chance to meet Tom Fletcher next month at Waterstones Bluewater. The singer and author will be signing copies of his new children's book Space Band.
Fletcher - who waltzed his way to seventh place in the 2021 series of Strictly Come Dancing - is releasing his fourth solo novel. He will be signing copies of the new book from 3pm on Saturday December 10.
Space Band is a new out-of-this-world adventure which follows best friends and bandmates George, Neila and Bash, who find themselves beamed up into space to compete in an intergalactic Battle of the Bands. This is a perfect chance to bag a unique Christmas present for a loved little one from their favourite author.
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Staff will be on hand to capture the moment, so be sure to bring your camera or mobile phone. However, due to time constraints, selfies will not be possible.
This year marks a decade since the 37-year-old released his first children's book, the festively-titled The Dinosaur that Pooped Christmas - co-written with McFly bandmate Dougie Poynter. It proved to be an instant hit and became the best-selling debut children's book of 2012.
Fletcher has been a public figure for almost 20 years after first finding fame with pop rock band McFly in 2003. Their first two albums topped the UK charts, and they hold seven number one singles including Obviously, All About You and Star Girl.
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Two Canadian provinces drop mandates in win for Freedom Convoy
by mcardinal February 9, 2022
Chris Lange, FISM News
As Canadian Freedom Convoy demonstrators enter their 13th day of protests, their efforts to pressure lawmakers into rescinding strict COVID-19 health protocols appear to have yielded a partial victory. While protesting truckers continue to block major arteries on the Canada-U.S. border and streets surrounding the Canadian capital, despite a crackdown from the Ottawa police, two lawmakers decided to end vaccine mandates in their provinces.
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney announced an end to his province's vaccine passport program as of midnight Tuesday.
"The time has come to lift COVID-19 health restrictions in Alberta and begin getting back to normal," Kenney said, adding that other health protocols like mandatory masking for children and restrictions on gatherings at restaurants and other public venues will be lifted Feb. 13, and all indoor masking requirements will stop March 1.
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe made a similar announcement, notifying his constituents that beginning Feb. 14, they will no longer be required to provide proof of vaccination or negative tests.
"It's time to heal the divisions over vaccination in our families, in our communities and in our province," Moe said in a video posted to his Twitter account announcing the changes.
"The benefits of the proof of vaccination policy no longer outweigh the costs, this policy most certainly has run its course, so it's time for us to take a step back in living with COVID and make every effort to get our lives back to normal."
The Conservative lawmaker's announcement makes good on his Jan. 30 promise to end Saskatchewan's COVID-19 policies, outlined in a letter voicing support for the Freedom Convoy truckers in which he said Canada's restrictive health protocols place an undue and unnecessary burden on the economy.
Both lawmakers said the time has come to turn over a new page and end divisiveness over vaccine mandates.
"Those divisions are in our families, yes, they are in our communities, but they are across our province and across this nation," Moe said.
Kenney echoed the sentiment, saying "Now is the time to begin learning to live with COVID. These restrictions have led to terrible division."
Kenney acknowledged that Canadians likely haven't seen the end of COVID-19, with the emergence of new variants a distinct possibility, but said that "restrictions, mandates, and those kinds of interventions will not and must not become a permanent feature of our lives."
Kenney also challenged Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to end the vaccine mandate for truckers.
Trudeau, who went from calling the protesters a "fringe group" to accusing them of serving as a "blockade" to democracy bent on harassing locals with "violent" imagery, continues to refuse to meet with demonstrators to hear their concerns. He issued a stern warning during an emergency debate in the House of Commons on Monday night that the protests "must stop," and recounted complaints from locals whom he says are being harassed by people brandishing images of swastikas and Confederate flags.
Trudeau appeared to have relented somewhat Tuesday during a Canadian Press interview after truckers showed no sign of backing down. Speaking through a mask, Trudeau said he understands "how frustrated everyone is" and that "the time is coming when we will be able to relax" mandates while making a case for them in the next breath.
It remains to be seen if the Prime Minister will show further signs of cracking as pressure mounts with the Alberta and Saskatchewan decisions and Quebec MP Joël Lightbound shocking decision on Tuesday to resign. Lightbound was member of Trudeau's own Liberal party, who accused the Prime Minister of creating division among Canadians after Trudeau sparked outrage for painting anti-mandate demonstrators as "swastika wavers."
"Where the hell are we heading here in Canada?"
Joël Lightbound becomes the first member of Trudeau's government to break ranks. It won't take many more… pic.twitter.com/2wwihJXd31
— Doomberg (@DoombergT) February 8, 2022
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Did Hitler Have Dark Brown or Black Hair?
Thread: Did Hitler Have Dark Brown or Black Hair?
Re: Did Hitler have dark brown or black hair?
I've seen a color film with Hitler, and to my surprise, his hair was sort of dark-reddish-brown. I always thought it was black, but it ain't.
The author, who met Hitler, wrote that Hitler had light brown hair and blue eyes.
By obersvation I would say dark brown, but the color photos could be wrong but it even looks dark brown in the black and white picture. I have never even heard of anyone saying that he has black hair before.
He had dark blue really strong eyes and in the sunlight his hair was somewhat reddish-brown, but generally blackish-brown.
i always thought it was dark brown. why?
Sort of chestnut brown with tendency to darkish. On black/white photos, rather darkish than fair brown tones of hair color all look "black".
You knew Hitler in person?
Why a lot of Germans have brown or dark eyes?
Curly Dark Brown Hair and Icy Blue Eyes?


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The Green Movement
BY the mag
He's written a handful of blockbuster books, launched a pair of robust online communities, and cultivated an incredibly large T-shirt collection. Oh, and he hosts the mental_floss YouTube channel. Here's how John Green made a generation believe in the power of awesome.
BY JESSICA GROSE | PHOTOGRAPHY BY JASON WALLIS
It's about 10 minutes into our conversation that John Green starts talking about the meaning of life. "I find it totally unconvincing to argue that everything happens for some discernible reason," he says.
He's describing the seven months he worked as a student chaplain at a children's hospital, and the sentences spill fully formed from his mouth. "We have to grapple with the world as we find it, and we find a world that's either random or else acts in a way that's identical to how it would act if it were random."
At 22, he watched 8-year-olds, who suffered every day of their short lives, die. It was difficult and sobering, but the experience also inspired The Fault in Our Stars, his latest novel. TFiOS (pronounced "Tiffayos" by fans) skyrocketed to the top of the young-adult charts without pandering to type: It's a love story told by a heroine with stage four thyroid cancer. There are no vampires or mean girls in its pages.
But TFiOS is just the latest in a long line of Green's achievements. He's written four young-adult novels—three of which were simultaneously on the New York Times' bestseller list. He's cultivated a blockbuster YouTube channel with five different shows, all either hosted by him or his brother, Hank. He has millions of fans, or "nerdfighters," as they're lovingly called—who hang on his every word on Twitter and Tumblr and, of course, in print. And then there's Brotherhood 2.0—the video experiment that began in 2007 when Green and Hank realized they were talking to each other only once or twice a year. To improve their relationship, they committed to communicating daily via YouTube, enforcing silly penalties when they missed a deadline. Six years in, they've not only grown a rabid fan base, they've charmingly discussed everything from religion to gay marriage to, well, songs about pants. Today, even celebrities are paying attention. Rapper Lupe Fiasco is addicted to Green's YouTube history show and likens it to crack. Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch has been caught in photos throwing the nerdfighter gang sign (two Vulcan hand signs placed across one's chest). Yet Green's appearance is hardly that of a celebrity. With slightly disheveled sandy hair, wire rim glasses, and a seemingly bottomless closet of polo shirts and tees, the quirky fast talker is like the enthusiastic Apple Genius Bar expert you have a secret crush on.
His guiding mantra—the one he constantly shares with readers—is "Don't forget to be awesome." The nerdfighters have not. As of this writing, through the microloan organization Kiva, more than 40,000 of his fans have given $3,148,825 to small-business owners in underfunded parts of the world. Green makes it a point to give back to his nerdfighters too. He personally signed every copy of the 150,000 first-print run of The Fault in Our Stars with a Sharpie, ensuring that anyone who couldn't make it to one of his cross-country readings still had access to a signed book.
Of course, it isn't just nerdfighters Green has touched. Though his most devoted cheerleaders tend to be teenagers, his books have reached millions of people of all ages. I first heard about The Fault in Our Stars from my 60-year-old mother-in-law. Time declared TFiOS the best fiction book of 2012. His fellow YA star author and sometime collaborator Maureen Johnson says she believes Green's work is popular because "there's something about him himself that's coming through, and it's not particularly sugarcoated." It might not be shiny and happy all the time, but it is emotionally honest, and people respond to that.
It's this hyper-contemporary combination of endless curiosity, Internet community engagement, and a do-gooder spirit that has made Green the pied piper of a certain kind of young nerd. Not only can he spin a great yarn, he's pinpointed the next generation's sweet spot, somewhere between self-reflection and the desire to do good.
Green comes by his sense of community involvement honestly. He grew up in Orlando, Fla., where his father was state director of the Nature Conservancy, and his mother was a community activist and organizer who worked in low-income neighborhoods. His interest in theology notwithstanding, he wasn't raised in a religious household. Green, in fact, jokes that his brother has no patience for such "crap."
Though they weren't avid churchgoers, the Greens were encouraged to talk about big issues at the dinner table, where they were nightly reminded "what the meaning of life was and what your values should be." Arguments with his parents were often about philosophy and ethics. "I'm sure it was infuriating for them to have this pseudo-intellectual kid who wasn't very informed about this stuff that he was preaching about," he says.
Green's description of his teen self sounds like one of his characters. The heroes of his books are smart, funny, well-read outsiders, proud of their arcane knowledge. Miles "Pudge" Halter, the narrator of Green's debut, Looking for Alaska, memorizes famous last words. Colin Singleton, from An Abundance of Katherines, is a math prodigy determined to derive a theorem that will predict the future of any relationship (he's motivated by the fact that 19 consecutive girls named Katherine have dumped him).
The most fervent John Green fans—ahem, nerdfighters—are outsiders too. They love to read and write and don't quite fit into the mainstream. The Nerdfighter Ning—a mini social network for diehard John and Hank Green lovers which Hank helped start—has nearly a hundred thousand members and provides a good illustration of the typical superfan. It has large subgroups for writer nerdfighters, nerd nerdfighters (apparently not a redundancy), gay-straight-alliance nerdfighters, and more than one theater geek nerdfighter coven. On Tumblr, a nerdfighter has put up a photograph of John and Hank rocking out like goofballs, overlaid with the text "John and Hank taught me not to care what other people think. Just be yourself. Your best nerdy self."
What beams through Green's work, aside from the humor, is his authenticity. In Looking for Alaska, teenage Pudge goes to boarding school in Birmingham, Ala., like Green did. At Indian Springs School, Green was in awe of his fellow students. He loved the atmosphere and the conversations; it's a large part of why he writes for teens. "There's this intense kind of almost joy," Green said, of tackling philosophical issues for the first time. "Maybe we were talking about girls while we were talking about this stuff too, but it gave a certain intellectual charge."
At Kenyon College, a liberal arts school in central Ohio, Green studied religion with a focus on early Islamic history. "I was interested in becoming an Episcopal priest," Green remembers. "I don't know that I thought it through very carefully." Postcollege, however, he didn't see many other career options. "It didn't seem like anyone was hiring someone who had read a lot of Mark Twain. That didn't seem like a job to me."
He got into the University of Chicago Divinity School, but before enrolling, he began working at the children's hospital. "It was difficult and traumatic," he says. "I've never done anything harder than sitting with a parent as their child died. That happened every day." When Green talks about his time as a chaplain, a slightly different self comes through. In conversation, he's still like the online John Green, just dialed down a few notches. "He's not always that shouty and spinning around in a chair," Johnson says.
Green skipped divinity school and instead landed as a temp at the review journal Booklist, where he worked for the next six years, an experience that changed him. That seems to be a recurring theme in Green's professional life. He follows his passions and through hard work, a bit of luck, and a boatload of natural talent manages to succeed beyond his wildest expectations. Around that time, he began writing about his experience at the children's hospital.
Green describes this first attempt at a novel as "super embarrassing and humiliating" to read now. It was about teenagers fighting illness but "also about this alcoholic, 22-year-old, handsome hospital chaplain and which hot doctor he would hook up with next."
But it was his mentor at Booklist, children's author Ilene Cooper, who helped usher his first real book—Looking for Alaska—into publication. Though these days, when everyone and their mom seems to be writing a YA book to get onto the money train, Green says, "I sold my first book for $8,000. It wasn't that much of a business opportunity." He had another reason for writing for teens. "The world of adult publishing just seemed so packed and competitive and catty," Green says. Besides, the books that were still the most important to him were the ones he'd read as a teen. As Green puts it, 16-year-olds see no problem with their two favorite books being a literary book like The Catcher in the Rye and a fantasy like Twilight.
In January 2007, following the publication of Looking for Alaska, the Greens launched Brotherhood 2.0. They were inspired by the work of Internet video pioneer Ze Frank, who uploaded a video every weekday, referred to his viewers as "sports racers," and launched projects like having two people on opposite sides of the Earth place a slice of bread on the ground to create "an Earth sandwich." "There was something so invigorating and special about those communities," Green says.
Early on, the brothers had a few hundred dedicated fans. Friends thought they were crazy. Johnson says that when she first heard about the project, she thought, "That's dumb—that's superdumb. Why would you do that instead of writing?" Then, seven months later, Hank uploaded a song about Harry Potter, and the brothers' YouTube channel exploded to 8000 viewers overnight. On the one-year anniversary of TFiOS's release, John and Hank brought their Brotherhood to the stage at Carnegie Hall and sold out the place. Nerdfighters had united.
Let's go back to that stuff about being busy for a minute. Because these days Green also hosts videos for Crash Course, AP-level history and biology classes geared toward high school students and written by Green's high school history teacher, Raoul Meyer, among others. John and Hank sell music, posters, T-shirts, and other merchandise through their DFTBA (Don't Forget to Be Awesome) Records, and they organize VidCon, an annual conference for emerging YouTube stars that expects to draw 25,000 people this year. Meanwhile, he's raising two young kids, both under 5 years old, with his wife, Sarah Urist Green, who curates and hosts a show for PBS Digital called The Art Assignment, in which he also appears. If you're wondering if he ever wants to take a nap, the answer seems to be not really.
"It's a privilege to have a platform to talk about things you care about, but it's an irrevocable privilege. I try to take it seriously," he says. And that includes admitting when he's wrong. "Early on, I made a video where I made fun of Young Earth creationism. That seems like the safest joke in the world," Green says, but "so many people were hurt because they felt like they were part of something [as a nerdfighter] that had been turned against them." He still stands behind his pro-evolution beliefs but feels bad about being snarky. "It's wrong to make people feel other and separate."
That spirit of inclusion is at the big beating heart of what Green's fans love about him. Mostly, they are bright teenagers who feel alienated from their peers. In Green, they've found a mentor—a kindred spirit who encourages them without pandering.
In a recent video, Green tells the nerdfighters about his experience on set at The Fault in Our Stars, and he connects it to a grander statement about humanity in his singular way. "I would argue that curiosity is not the most important human trait—the urge to collaborate is," Green says. "Only we have the ability to cooperate, to make online communities and space telescopes and imaginariums and movies, so the great thrill of this whole experience is seeing humanity do what I think it's best at, which is not competing, it's cooperating." At the moment, Green looks less pied piper and more Mr. Rogers, another figure who turned down ministering in a church to make people feel special. And as Green races from project to project, working relentlessly in every medium to bring in outsiders, it becomes abundantly clear: This guy knows what it means to be a good neighbor.
This story originally appeared in mental_floss magazine. Subscribe to our print edition here, and our iPad edition here.


It was a proud evening for Thomas Jefferson School of Law.
Casa Cornelia's Inn of Court recently named two Thomas Jefferson School of Law alumni, Travis M. Sills '04 and Regis Worley '04, as recipients of the Pro Bono Publico Award.
Thomas Jefferson School of Law's strong connection to the international courts at The Hague, Netherlands continues with more TJSL students headed there.
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Doubts, Protests Prevail in Belo Monte
Mon, 06/06/2011 - 9:38pm
Zachary Hurwitz
Kayapó leader on the Xingu River
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Brazil's environmental agency IBAMA stepped further into controversy last week when it granted Belo Monte Dam consortium Norte Energia a full installation license to begin construction. By doing so, the agency drew the Belo Monte project further into what will be a long, drawn-out quagmire of doubt, legal and technical problems, growing social unrest, and – more likely than not – large cost overruns. The fight over the Belo Monte Dam is not over. It's just getting good.
Lawsuits Continue
The full installation license sparked an 11th – count 'em, 11 – lawsuit from Brazil's Federal Public Prosecutor's office. The Public Prosecutors had warned IBAMA over the past year that by issuing an installation license without proof that Norte Energia fulfilled each of the dam's 40 prerequisites would make them liable to legal action.
Now, the troubled IBAMA, criticized over the years for doing too little to stop illegal land grabs and deforestation mainly due to constant budget shortfalls, has buckled further under government pressure to approve the dam without assuring that the prerequisites were met. By disregarding its own legal process mandated by federal law, IBAMA seems headed down a misguided path of fast-track licensing for controversial infrastructure, rather than diligent compliance with the law. Without a doubt, IBAMA is kicking the project's can of environmental problems far down the road.
Concerns Spread to the UN
A protestor in São Paulo decries IBAMA's shameful actions
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The installation license was granted in blatant disregard to the recommendation of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR),which advised the government to suspend the dam in order to ascertain whether or not Free, Prior, and Informed Consent was properly obtained from indigenous tribes who will be directly impacted by the project. The Brazilian government reacted harshly against the IACHR, threatening to withdraw its commissioner if the group did not change its opinion. Secretary-General Insulza of the Organization of American States (OAS), loosely affiliated with the IACHR, publicly backtracked on the opinion, saying the commission would "revisit" the recommendation.
But, the doubts over the lack of indigenous consent for the project have festered and are growing into an even greater blight on President Dilma's human rights record. Community representatives last week filed a complaint at the United Nations Human Rights Council, which may investigate the lack of consent obtained by the government.
Protests Continue Unabated
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After news of the installation license was broadcast over the internet, street protests against Belo Monte began to erupt in São Paulo, Rio, Salvador, Belém, and in the Xingu basin itself, where last weekend legendary Kayapó chief Raoni convened men and women from the tribe to protest in the town of Colider, dancing and chanting war songs, vowing to put their lives on the line to resist Belo Monte.
Apparently, Norte Energia doesn't care much for what the tribes themselves have to say. Rather, it sounds like plans for them have already been made. In an interview yesterday with O Globo, Norte Energia's Director of Construction Luiz Fernando Rufato was quoted giving what sounded like a neo-colonial blurt aimed at indigenous people: "It's inevitable that the indios, eventually, have to change their way of life. Are they going to live their whole lives hunting with bows and arrows and living in villages?" If that sounds like blatant disregard for the sovereign right of indigenous peoples to self-determination, well, it is.
The public is becoming increasingly aware of how due diligence has been sacrificed to please private interest groups wedded with the government who want this dam built at any cost. As more and more become aware of the back-handed maneuvers the government pulls – including violating its own Constitution and packing federal tribunals to overturn civil lawsuits on the turn of a dime – the Dilma administration is setting itself up for a massive embarrassment.
Resistance against Belo Monte has grown substantially inside Brazil since this time last year, and more and more people are furious at how the government has handled this project. Keep track of the news, because the problems with Belo Monte are just beginning.
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The first stop of the week was at Salomon to showcase the new shoes and new products coming down the line in 2017 with the latest and greatest updates. Salomon tied for Best OCR Shoe Brand in the MRG Best of OCR Awards in 2016. See why they are a favorite among obstacle racers and mud runners alike.
I like Solomon, just wish that they had more shoes with a lower drop.


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Q: Using a while loop to restrict user to input only integers in the concept of operator overloading in Python how can I use a for loop in OOP to display an error message when a user inputs something other than an integer for variables a & b, and loop it until the user inputs an integer?  This is in the context of operator overloading in Python
class Number:

    def __init__(self, x):
        self.x = x

    def __mul__(self, other):
        x = self.x + other.x
        return x

a = Number(int(input("Enter a number: ")))

b = Number(int(input("Enter another number: ")))

print("\nThose two numbers added together are",a*b)

A: class Number:

    def __init__(self): # taking in put in init! This will run whenever an object of the class is created
        while True:
            try:
                self.x = int(input("Enter a number: ")) # trying to convert the input to int
                break
            except Exception as exp:
                print(f"Here is your ERROR: {exp}. RETRY!")  # if conversion failed, retry!

    def __mul__(self, other):
        x = self.x + other.x
        return x

a = Number()

b = Number()

print("\nThose two numbers added together are",a*b)

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"Shockwave" is a song by American heavy metal band Black Tide. It is credited to Gabriel Garcia, Alexander Nuñez and Raul Garcia Jr. It was the first track and first single from their 2008 debut album Light from Above, with the other two singles being "Warriors of Time" and "Shout". It was released before the album. Today it is one of the band's most famous songs and has been played live on almost all of the band's concerts, also it was performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on March 27, 2008. It charted only in the US at number #25. The CD Single was the band's first official release and is also known as the "Black Tide EP". The single version is a clean edit of the song, the word "fuck" that is mentioned in the chorus is removed.

Music video
Two music videos were made for the song and both were aired on MTV2's Headbangers Ball.

The first was directed by Travis Kopach and features the band playing and trashing a house along with some fans. Later the Police comes and everybody escapes the house. At the beginning Vocalist/Guitarist Gabriel Garcia hangs in a lamp from the ceiling. That picture later became the cover for their E.P Road Warrior.
A  second video was also made and is a compilation of live scenes from Ozzfest 2007 and backstage footage. It was directed by Jason Bergh

In popular culture
 "Shockwave" is featured on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 video game Skate 2, the North American version of Guitar Hero: Modern Hits, and is also available as a downloadable song for the PlayStation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360 versions of Rock Band.

Track listing

CD Single

Digital Single

Black Tide EP

Chart positions

Personnel
 Gabriel Garcia: vocals, lead guitar
 Alex Nuñez: rhythm guitar, backing vocals
 Zakk Sandler: Bass guitar, backing vocals
 Steven Spence: drums, percussion

References

2007 songs
Black Tide songs
Song recordings produced by Johnny K

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France may set age of consent at 13 after man acquitted of raping 11yo
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'The French government is considering setting the minimum age for sexual consent following a controversial decision by a jury to spare a man accused of raping an 11-year-old girl. The verdict has sparked a public outcry and calls to revise the law.
The bill, if adopted, will set a benchmark in French law on sexual violence, as it will for the first time define the age limit under which any sexual intercourse with a minor is legally considered rape.
"The question of the age below which the minor's consent is presumed not to exist is crucial, because there are obviously extremely shocking and unacceptable situations," French Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet said, as cited by RTL radio.
Regarding the age of consent, Belloubet said that the age of 13 "is worth considering," while noting that the final decision in each case should lie within the discretion of the judges.
Marlene Schiappa, a junior minister for gender equality, argues that it should lie somewhere between 13 and 15 years.'
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City life Mike City shows his Midas touch with killa tunes + 24 karat talent
Following Day Super producer James Day makes his mark with his supreme soul sound
Success is Dua Dua Lipa drops some serious chart topping moves as she continues her rise to the top
It doesn't get much hotter than this double cover, super producer issue! So ladies and gentlemen, if I may introduce - in no particular order - firstly, in the R&B, Hop-Hop, House and Reggae corner, Mike City. AND, in the soul and jazz corner, we have James Day. Both these distinguished musical heavyweights possess a killer touch when it comes to delivering their own brand of aural deliciousness, within the genres they proudly represent - it's an absolute pleasure to have these deftly talented black music maestros adorn our covers this issue... How do you follow that? Well, how about a chat with current chart sensation, Dua Lipa? Or dynamic dancefloor guru's, Rhemi? We have also thrown in a quadruple helping of soul sensations to compliment those already mentioned - we find out about a delicious solo project from Soul II Soul's Simon Law, we herald the return to the limelight (where have you been?) of Shaila Prosper, we welcome an interview with ridiculously talented, Decosta Boyce, who happens to have a soul CV which that would make James Brown scream! Making up our fantastic 4 is producer Tom Glide, his fusion of contemporary and retro soul has always given his releases a luxurious (must hear) feel... ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: We are front row, centre, at neo-soul queen, Erykah Badu's Hammersmith Apollo show. Plus one time Curtis Mayfield led - also achieved plenty of chart action in their own right - The Impressions played their last European dates EVER! We were there to review their penultimate show at intimate London venue, Union Chapel... We give our festival coverage some welly (see what I did there?) in our print issue, with exclusive to our print issue reviews from Holland's North Sea Jazz, East Sussex's Love Supreme and Somerset daddy of them all, Glastonbury! ...B&S' Frank Elson check's out not one, but two Northern Soul club nights at the Greatstone Hotel in Manchester and St Marks in Blackburn... Almost within touching distance of the B&S all-time top 100 chart singles - we continue our top 500 countdown from 140 to 112 in this issue. Artists include; Rose Royce, Sister Sledge, Rufus & Chaka Khan, The Supremes, Prince, Ike & Tina Turner and The Gap Band + many more 'outstanding' (too subtle? Lol) bands/artists ...No print issue would be complete without our exclusive to print esteemed columnists covering Soul, Northern Soul, Dance and Blues respectively - all are on hand to give you essential news and share their views on the genres they proudly represent. Until next time…may the music be with you! Lee Tyler (Editor, Blues & Soul Magazine)B&S
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NASA space telescope spots most powerful light ever seen on Jupiter, helps solve 30-year-old mystery
By Chelsea Gohd
Jupiter's southern hemisphere, as seen by NASA's Juno spacecraft. In a new study, NASA's NuSTAR space telescope spots the highest-energy light from Jupiter. (Image credit: Enhanced image by Kevin M. Gill (CC-BY) based on images provided courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS )
NASA has detected the most energetic light ever seen on Jupiter and, in the process, solved a 30-year-old mystery.
In a new study, researchers using NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) space observatory were able to spot the highest-energy light ever seen on Jupiter. The light, which is X-ray radiation, is also the highest-energy light ever seen on a planet in our solar system other than Earth.
But this finding isn't just an incredible observation; it's also helping scientists to understand why NASA's Ulysses sun-studying mission mysteriously saw no X-rays from Jupiter when it flew by the planet in 1992.
In photos: Juno's amazing views of Jupiter
NuSTAR detected high-energy X-rays from the auroras near Jupiter's north and south poles. NuSTAR cannot locate the source of the light with high precision, but can only find that the light is coming from somewhere in the purple-colored regions. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
This is not the first time that X-rays have been spotted at Jupiter; NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory as well as the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton observatory have both observed low-energy X-rays coming from auroras on the giant planet.
Jupiter's auroras, which occur at the planet's north and south poles, are created by ions coming from the planet's volcanic moon Io that are accelerated by the planet's magnetic field toward the poles. There, the ions interact with Jupiter's atmosphere and release light, creating aurora light shows. NASA's Juno spacecraft, which arrived at Jupiter in 2016, found that electrons from Io also interact with the planet's magnetic field.
Scientists have suspected that these electrons from Io could create even more powerful X-rays than the planet's auroras. With the NuSTAR observations, researchers have confirmed for the first time that Io's electrons are indeed creating high-energy X-rays.
NuSTAR, which launched to space in 2012, is a space-based X-ray telescope that studies the cosmos in high-energy X-rays.
"It's quite challenging for planets to generate X-rays in the range that NuSTAR detects," Kaya Mori, an astrophysicist at Columbia University and lead author of the new study, said in a statement. "But Jupiter has an enormous magnetic field, and it's spinning very quickly. Those two characteristics mean that the planet's magnetosphere acts like a giant particle accelerator, and that's what makes these higher-energy emissions possible."
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According to the researchers behind the new study, Ulysses likely didn't spot any X-rays because, due to the mechanism that brings this light about, the X-rays become fainter at higher energies. And so, in Ulysses' detection range, they suspect Jupiter's X-rays were simply too faint to see.
This work was described in a new study published Thursday (opens in new tab) (Feb. 10) in the journal Nature Astronomy.
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Chelsea "Foxanne" Gohd joined Space.com in 2018 and is now a Senior Writer, writing about everything from climate change to planetary science and human spaceflight in both articles and on-camera in videos. With a degree in Public Health and biological sciences, Chelsea has written and worked for institutions including the American Museum of Natural History, Scientific American, Discover Magazine Blog, Astronomy Magazine and Live Science. When not writing, editing or filming something space-y, Chelsea "Foxanne" Gohd is writing music and performing as Foxanne, even launching a song to space in 2021 with Inspiration4. You can follow her on Twitter @chelsea_gohd and @foxannemusic.
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Jefferson welcomes new elective: African American History
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After being refused service, African-American demonstrators occupied a lunch counter in Nashville, Tennessee during the year of 1960. "One thing I am really excited about is the opportunity for students to examine how African Americans are not a monolith group and that there is a lot of diversity within the ethnic group. Being able to look at areas of intersectionality can help us better understand how that particular ethnic group is diverse within itself along with how different perspectives and viewpoints vary," assistant principal Cynthia Hawkins said.
Evelyn Li, Staff Writer
In the next school year, Jefferson students will have the opportunity to enroll in a new humanities elective– African American History. Completely new to Fairfax County Public Schools, the course explores the perspective and experience of African Americans from pre-colonial Africa to modern day North America. The one year course will satisfy Jefferson's Social Studies credit requirement. It will be open to any student in 9th through 12th grade.
"The course is going to begin in indigenous Africa, and will look at how Africans were captured, enslaved, and forcibly brought to what would become the United States. It will look at the way those enslaved persons helped to build our country and the experiences of those enslaved persons through their fight for emancipation in the Civil War. The course will analyze the conflicts of the Reconstruction Era, and follow through to the Civil Rights Era and up to the present issues African Americans are facing," assistant principal Cynthia Hawkins said.
In addition, a deeper look at the African American experience throughout US history is taken through the course. In contrast to the broad overview that current American history classes provide, African American History is designed to zoom in on a specific ethnic group and explore their influence on the development of the United States.
"This is going to be a dedicated opportunity to look at how African Americans have influenced and been influenced by the story of Virginia and America. So, not just looking at a passive experience of African Americans in our history, but looking at an active experience and how they have actively helped to shape our nation," Hawkins said.
Furthermore, the course surrounds an essential question: what is freedom? Throughout the African American History elective course, this question will arise frequently. The goal of this course is to generate civic engagement and informed action through compelling questions that stem from the key question of what freedom is.
"Looking at diverse perspectives and voices of how different groups have been impacted by events in history and how they have had an impact on those events are really important questions," Hawkins said.
Although the course does not have an AP level distinction or a honors level distinction, this elective is prepared to take history lessons to the next level.
"It is a general level course, but we will be teaching in a rigorous way. There is a lot of flexibility for students to do independent research and inquiry into things that are interesting to them. So, that tends to lend to a pretty high level of rigor that doesn't feel super rigorous, because it's something that people are interested in," Hawkins said.
Additionally, the African American History elective has a unique aspect that other humanities courses do not have– a required capstone project. The African American History capstone is an independent research project conducted by students regarding a question or problem.
"Students are going to pick a question or a problem that's going to be related to the essential questions for the course and some understanding of African American History. Students are going to be able to do that research over the course of time," Hawkins said. "There are other courses that will incorporate the capstone project, but it being a requirement of the state is unique to African American History."
While explaining what the African American History capstone project is, Hawkins uses the freshman IBET project for comparison.
"When you think about the IBET project, you've got a project that you're revisiting over the course of the year. By the time you get to the end of the year, you're going to have something that will reflect what you've learned. The IBET project is somewhat of a capstone project," Hawkins said.
Although the content of the course is unknown, many teachers are looking forward to seeing students learn the accurate story of America.
"I would love to teach this course, and we've got a lot of people who are really excited about this course," Hawkins said.
Moreover, teachers and students alike are excited to see African American History on the course request selection website.
"African American history is something that I've wanted to learn more about. It was always something that was just briefly mentioned in my social studies classes. It was not really delved into much even though African American history is American history," freshman Anya Dutta said. "I think it's the course I'm most interested in taking."
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Ранняя история

Истоки биатлона кроются в повседневной жизни первобытных людей, населявших северные районы Земли. Найденные в Норвегии наскальные рисунки, сделанные около 5000 лет назад, являются самым древним свидетельством охоты с помощью лыж и оружия. Древние рисунки, найденные в Азии, изображают «летучих лошадей» на ногах охотников, которые использовались для преследования диких животных в снежных условиях. Всё это показывает, что сочетание бега на лыжах и стрельбы издревле являлось необходимым условием выживания северных народов.

Однако, являясь частью повседневной жизни, сочетание бега на лыжах и стрельбы не рассматривалось как некое спортивное увлечение. Впервые же соревнования, отдалённо напоминавшие биатлон, прошли в 1767 году. Их организовали пограничники на шведско-норвежской границе. В числе трёх номеров программы два приза предусматривались для лыжников, которые во время спуска со склона средней крутизны попадут из ружья в определённую цель на расстоянии 40-50 шагов. Несмотря на столь раннее зарождение, биатлон не получил распространения в других странах. Его развитие в современном виде началось только в конце XIX — начале XX века. В частности, в XIX веке в Норвегии он был введён в качестве упражнения для солдат.

Впервые на крупных международных соревнованиях состязания, напоминавшие современный биатлон, были включены в 1924 году на I зимних Олимпийских играх во французском Шамони. Назывались они «соревнования военных патрулей» (в некоторых источниках упоминаются также как «гонки военных патрулей») и проходили как демонстрационные состязания (хотя позже их участникам официально были вручены медали). В статусе демонстрационных состязаний соревнования военных патрулей позже были представлены на зимних Олимпиадах 1928, 1936 и 1948 годов, после чего их исключили из официального календаря в связи с нараставшими пацифистскими настроениями в мире по окончании Второй мировой войны.

Становление современного биатлона

3 августа 1948 года была создана Международная федерация современного пятиборья (, UIPM — УИПМ), которая с 1953 года начинает курировать биатлон. В 1954 году Международный олимпийский комитет признает биатлон как вид спорта. В 1955 году в швейцарском Маглингене УИПМ была представлена Концепция современного зимнего биатлона. 17 ноября 1956 года Международной федерацией современного пятиборья в Мельбурне были одобрены правила проведения современных биатлонных соревнований. За каждой нацией-членом УИПМ было признано по две федерации — современного пятиборья и биатлона, — а сама УИПМ с 1957 года стала именоваться Международной федерацией современного пятиборья и биатлона (, UIPMB — УИПМБ). В 1957 году УИПМБ в Стокгольме объявляет себя ответственной за проведение зимних биатлонных соревнований.

Уже в следующем 1958 году проходит первое крупное международное биатлонное соревнование — Чемпионат мира в австрийском Зальфельдене, в рамках которого официально была проведена одна мужская индивидуальная гонка на 20 км. Через два года биатлон включается в официальную программу зимних Олимпийских игр. В 1965 году утверждаются правила проведения мужской эстафетной гонки, устанавливается лимит возраста для юниоров в 21 год. В том же году проводится первый Чемпионат Северной Америки в канадском Принс-Джордже. В 1966 году в рамках Чемпионата мира впервые проводится мужская эстафетная гонка 4х7,5 км. На том же Чемпионате впервые применяются изменённые правила стрельбы: штраф отсутствовал лишь при попадании в центр мишени, если же биатлонист попадал во внешний радиус мишени, то к общему времени прохождения дистанции прибавлялась штрафная минута, если он вообще не попадал по мишени — то прибавлялись две штрафные минуты. В 1967 году впервые на Чемпионате мира начали соревноваться юниоры (в том же месте, что и взрослые). В программу первого юниорского Чемпионата мира были включены индивидуальная гонка на 15 км и эстафета 3х7,5 км. В биатлонную программу зимних Олимпийских игр эстафета попала в 1968 году. С дальнейшим развитием биатлона появляются и новые дисциплины: в 1974 году в рамках Чемпионата мира впервые проводится спринтерская гонка, а с 1980 года её включают в календарь зимних Олимпийских игр. В том же 1974 году биатлон включён в программу Праздника Севера. В 1978 году на биатлонных соревнованиях крупнокалиберное оружие уступает место малокалиберному (калибр .22 LR). С этого же года начинают применяться механические биатлонные установки (до этого мишени были бумажными).

С 1978 года начинается также история Кубка мира. Первоначально соревнования включали в себя лишь мужские индивидуальные, спринтерские и эстафетные гонки. В 1980 году вновь были подкорректированы правила стрельбы: двухминутный штраф был исключён. В том же году в Сараево были одобрены правила проведения женских биатлонных соревнований, а возрастной предел юниоров был снижен с 21 до 20 лет. В 1983 году биатлон включён в программу зимних Универсиад. Начиная с того же года женщины начинают соревноваться в Кубке Европы (ныне — Кубок IBU), а на следующий год проводится первый женский Чемпионат мира во французском Шамони, в рамках которого проводятся женская индивидуальная, спринтерская и эстафетная гонка. С 1986 года биатлонные состязания начинают проводиться в рамках зимних Азиад и Арктических зимних игр. С сезона 1987/1988 женские дисциплины включаются в календарь Кубка мира, а со следующего сезона мужские дисциплины появляются в календаре Кубка Европы. Таким образом, с 1988 года на обоих крупнейших кубковых биатлонных соревнованиях представлены как мужские, так и женские дисциплины. В том же году Международный олимпийский комитет принимает решение включить женские дисциплины (индивидуальную, спринтерскую и эстафетную гонку) в программу зимних Олимпийских игр 1992 года в французском Альбервиле. В 1989 году женский и мужской Чемпионаты мира объединяются и проводятся в австрийском Файстриц-ан-дер-Драу, а юниоры (которые в период с 1967 по 1983 годы соревновались совместно с мужчинами, а в период с 1984 по 1988 года — совместно с женщинами) начинают соревноваться отдельно. Кроме того, первый отдельный юниорский Чемпионат мира, который прошёл в норвежском Воссе, впервые включал в себя соревнования юниорок в тех же дисциплинах, в которых соревновались юниоры. В 1989 году также были увеличены дистанции женских гонок: индивидуальной гонки — с 10 до 15 км, спринта — с 5 до 7,5 км и эстафетного этапа — с 5 до 7,5 км. Кроме того, в программу взрослых и юниорских Чемпионатов мира была включена командная гонка. С этого же времени начали использоваться электронные биатлонные установки.

Биатлон под руководством Международного союза биатлонистов

30 ноября 1992 года во французском Амели-ле-Бен-Палальда было принято решение об отделении биатлона от современного пятиборья. 2 июля 1993 года в Лондоне на Чрезвычайном конгрессе УИПМБ было официально объявлено о создании Международного союза биатлонистов в рамках Международной федерации современного пятиборья и биатлона. 12 декабря того же года в Зальцбурге начала свою работу штаб-квартира новой международной организации. С отделением биатлона от современного пятиборья началось расширение формата соревнований. В том же году он был включён в программу зимних Европейских юношеских олимпийских фестивалей. Через год в финском Контиолахти прошёл первый Чемпионат Европы, через два года — первые крупные международные соревнования по летнему биатлону — Чемпионат мира в австрийском Хохфильцене. В 1997 году на Кубке мира появляются две новые биатлонные дисциплины — гонка преследования (которая уже в том же году проводится и на уровне Чемпионата мира) и масс-старт (на Чемпионатах мира с 1999 года). Первая дисциплина включена в олимпийскую биатлонную программу с 2002 года, вторая — с 2006 года. Однако через два года из программ крупнейших международных биатлонных соревнований исчезла командная гонка, которая за всю свою историю так и не попала в олимпийскую программу. 26-28 июня 1998 года проходил Третий регулярный конгресс Международного союза биатлонистов, на котором было принято решение окончательно отделиться от Международной федерации современного пятиборья и биатлона, что и было сделано.

Современное развитие биатлона идёт в сторону увеличения количества участников по возрасту и странам, а также развития летнего биатлона. Так, с 2002 года на юниорских Чемпионатах мира вместе с юниорами и юниорками (19-20 лет) начали соревноваться юноши и девушки (младше 19 лет). В 2003 году на этапе Кубка мира в немецком Рупольдинге впервые была проведена смешанная эстафета, которая через два года дебютировала на Чемпионате мира, а в 2014 году — на Олимпийских играх в Сочи. Начал проводиться Чемпионат Европы по летнему биатлону, а с 2007 года — два Кубка IBU по летнему биатлону — кроссовый и лыжероллерный. С 2010 года биатлон включён в программу зимних Всемирных игр мастеров и зимних Всемирных военно-спортивных игр, а с 2012 года планируется проведение биатлонных гонок в рамках первых зимних юношеских Олимпийских игр. В 2015 году на этапах Кубка мира появилась ещё одна новая дисциплина — одиночная смешанная эстафета, а уже в 2019 году она впервые прошла на Чемпионате мира. Правила Международного союза биатлонистов содержат также регламент проведения суперспринта, соревнования в котором проводятся пока в основном локально (например, на национальных чемпионатах). Однако в сезоне 2018-2019 дисциплина дебютировала на Кубке IBU. Возможно появление новых дисциплин и в летнем биатлоне, а также, в будущем, включение их в программу летних Олимпийских игр.

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We're delighted to announce the fourth and final round of winners in our Great People Awards for 2017, which included naming our all-new Employee of the Year as Service Desk Team Leader, Alex Nicol.
In our quarterly awards, we celebrated Marketing Executive, Zee Sheldon as the new L.O.V.E Award winner. Matt Coppin also returned as the winner of the Outstanding Customer Service Award, making it his third time lucky across the whole year.
Influenced by internal and external feedback our Great People Awards allow colleagues and clients to recognise and reward those who have gone the extra mile in their roles.
Marketing Executive, Zee Sheldon was crowned winner of the L.O.V.E Award which is awarded to the employee who has achieved most recognition for 'Living Our Values Everyday'.
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The term acid rain has been around for a long time. Pollution from various sources such as power plants, amongst others, is released into the earth's atmosphere in one place on earth and fall back to earth in another.
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