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Mars Wrigley Partners With Square Enix® And Crystal Dynamics To Bring Special Digital Content To Marvel's Avengers Fans
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Players who purchase promotional packs of 5™ GUM can unlock a range of dynamic in-game content, including exclusive PlayStation themes and avatars. Fans in the United States will also be able to unlock exclusive benefits from the Marvel Insider loyalty program.
NEWARK, N.J., Aug. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — 5™ GUM, part of the global confectionery company Mars Wrigley, announced a partnership with Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics to bring Marvel's Avengers players a range of new and dynamic in-game content. 5 GUM is the worldwide exclusive gum partner of Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics for one of the highest-profile games of the year.
Starting August 17, with the purchase of every 5 GUM promotional pack, Marvel's Avengers players can go to http://www.PlayAvengers.com/5Gum to unlock a series of in-game content pieces with a code found inside each promotional pack. By logging into their Square Enix Members account (registration required), fans begin to unveil their redemption journey. Participating players will receive 5 Gum Marvel's Avengers name plates with their first code redemption while subsequent codes will unlock items that enhance their Heroes within the game when it is released on September 4. Fans can also redeem codes to download exclusive PlayStation themes, avatars and, in the United States, Marvel Insider points. In-game content offer available while supplies last.
"We're so excited to partner with Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics to serve up some exciting new digital content to fans," says Scott Koplowitz, Sr. Brand Manager of Gum & Mints at Mars Wrigley. "This partnership will help deliver two things that every fellow gamer desires – the focus needed by chewing gum while you play, and new content to take your Marvel's Avengers gaming experience to the next level."
"From the beginning of this campaign we strived to align ourselves with partners who were willing to step outside 'the usual' and bring their customers a strategic offering that goes beyond what's expected," said Karl Stewart, Head of Worldwide Strategic Partnerships at Square Enix. "From day one, 5 Gum and Crystal Dynamics were aligned to do something transformative as a partnership that's focused on rewarding gamers. The core of Marvel's Avengers is the idea that the team, and our players, are stronger together. That's what motivates our heroes in-game and our partnerships outside of it. As a result, our global program with 5 Gum offers players far more than anyone expects."
The promotion begins August 17 in North America and select territories around the world. Further details are available at http://www.PlayAvengers.com/5Gum.
Marvel's Avengers is an epic third-person action-adventure combining a rich single-player campaign with expansive online co-op action. The game features iconic Heroes as you've never seen them before, notable villains, recognizable locations, and awesome powers set in an original Avengers story. Players must reassemble, rebuild, and customize their heroes' roster to play an original Avengers single-player campaign, then battle solo or online alongside friends in new missions around the globe.
Players can also customize Earth's Mightiest Heroes by unlocking powerful skills, heroic abilities, and unique gear for each of the Avengers to suit their playstyle. They'll master each Hero's unique powers, and assemble up to four players online, to defend the world from escalating threats for years to come.
Marvel's Avengers will release simultaneously for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Stadia, and PC on September 4, 2020.
Marvel's Avengers will be available on PlayStation®5 and Xbox Series X when the consoles launch in Holiday 2020. Players who own the current-gen version of the game will be able to upgrade to the next-gen version at no additional cost, regardless if players are moving from PlayStation® 4 to PlayStation 5 or Xbox One to Xbox Series X. Those moving their saves to next-gen will transfer their player profiles and progression so they can pick up right where they left off. In addition, cross-gen play will be supported so PS5™ players will be able to play with their friends on PS4™ and Xbox Series X players will be connected with their friends on Xbox One. The game is currently rated T (Teen) by the ESRB.
About Mars, Incorporated
Mars is a family-owned business with more than a century of history making diverse products and offering services for people and the pets people love. With more than $35 billion in sales, the company is a global business that produces some of the world's best-loved brands: M&M's®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5™, SKITTLES®, UNCLE BEN'S®, and COCOAVIA®. Mars also provides veterinary health services that include BANFIELD® Pet Hospitals, Blue Pearl®, VCA® and Pet Partners™. Headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars operates in more than 80 countries. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire its more than 100,000 Associates to create value for all its partners and deliver growth they are proud of every day.
For more information about Mars, please visit www.mars.com. Join us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.
About Crystal Dynamics
Crystal Dynamics has developed and published over 30 award-winning titles during its 27-year adventure. Some of the most beloved franchises include Gex®, Legacy of Kain® and most recently, TOMB RAIDER® which has sold over 78 million copies worldwide. With over 30 video game titles released and hundreds of awards, the heroine Lara Croft® has been a cultural icon for over 20 years and has made an indelible mark on virtually every facet of entertainment. Most recently, Crystal Dynamics expanded its operations by opening Crystal Northwest in Bellevue, Washington.
For more information on Crystal Dynamics, please visit http://www.crystald.com/, their Twitter account, Facebook page, or their LinkedIn page.
About Eidos-Montréal
Eidos-Montréal™ (a Square Enix® studio) is focused on creating immersive and captivating experiences. For the last decade, the development teams at Eidos-Montréal have orchestrated the successful reboot of the DEUS EX® series (Deus Ex: Human Revolution®, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided®), released the latest entry in the THIEF® franchise, and have also played a key role in the development of the award-winning TOMB RAIDER® series.
For more information on the studio, please visit https://eidosmontreal.com/ and find us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.
About Square Enix, Inc.
Square Enix develops, publishes, distributes and licenses SQUARE ENIX®, EIDOS® and TAITO® branded entertainment content throughout the Americas as part of the Square Enix group of companies. Square Enix, Inc. is affiliated with a global network of leading development studios such as Crystal Dynamics® and Eidos Montréal™. The Square Enix group of companies boasts a valuable portfolio of intellectual property including: FINAL FANTASY®, which has sold over 154 million units worldwide; DRAGON QUEST®, which has sold over 82 million units worldwide; TOMB RAIDER®, which has sold over 78 million units worldwide; and the legendary SPACE INVADERS®. Square Enix, Inc. is a U.S.-based, wholly owned subsidiary of Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd.
More information on Square Enix, Inc. can be found at https://square-enix-games.com/.
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U2 Share Final Video Of The Virtual Road Series
Bruce Henne | 04-12-2021
(hennemusic) U2 are streaming a 2015 concert in Paris, France in the fourth and final installment of their limited-edition series, "The Virtual Road." The Irish rockers played two shows at the AccorHotels Arena before postponing an additional two nights at the venue following a November 13 terrorist attack in the city that included an assault on an Eagles Of Death Metal show at the Bataclan.
A month later - in December 2015 - U2 returned to Paris for a highly-emotional pair of gigs, with the December 7 finale filmed for home video release and featuring a guest appearance by the Eagles Of Death Metal.
"iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE: Live in Paris" marked the final performance on the tour of the same name. "We had played two shows when the attacks happened, and were due to play another two," recalls Bono. "We didn't want to leave, but followed through on a promise to return three weeks later... to do our best to raise people's spirit in the city. But in truth, the spirit in the city of lights was sky high and lifted us up on one of the greatest nights ever...Even for a moment, to share the state with the Eagles Of Death Metal after what they'd been through was almost too much..."
"Walking out on stage that night to see all those faces, those fans who came back to support us," adds The Edge. "It was an incredible feeling. We played those songs with everything we had...And the audience gave us everything they had...Paris, on t'aime."
U2 launched "The Virtual Road" on St. Patrick's Day with their 2001 homecoming performance "U2 Go Home: Live from Slane Castle, Ireland", and followed that up with 1983's "Live At Red Rocks" and "Popmart Live From Mexico City." Watch the Paris show here.
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April 23, 2010 by Mark Athitakis, posted in Belle Boggs, Deborah Eisenberg, Ernest Hemingway, J.D. Salinger, Mark Twain, Pearl S. Buck, Willy Vlautin
Sven Birkerts makes a lovely statement in the American Scholar about why he reads novels: "I read novels in order to indulge in a concentrated and directed sort of inner activity that is not available in most of my daily transactions. This reading, more than anything else I do, parallels—and thereby tunes up, accentuates—my own inner life, which is ever associative, a shuttling between observation, memory, reflection, emotional recognition, and so forth. A good novel puts all these elements into play in its own unique fashion." Unfortunately, that statement is swaddled in much keening about how the Internet has destroyed our powers of concentration, with little evidence of whether that's actually the case. He concludes: "Concentration is no longer a given; it has to be strategized, fought for." I'm as susceptible as anyone to online distractions, but isn't concentration something we've always fought for?
Hilary Spurling's new Pearl Buck in China: Journey to the Good Earth, is an interesting biography, even if, like me, you were raised with the notion that Buck wasn't truly Nobel timber. The book speeds through her later, potboiling years, and Spurling tells the Guardian why: "[W]hat we need now is a shorter, tighter, more sharply focused form, that concentrates on inner meaning rather than its outer chronological and documentary casing."
Willy Vlautin, author of two admirably spare road-trip novels, The Motel Life and Northline, on his inspirations: "I drive around and listen to 'Ironweed' on tape and listen to Tom Waits all day."
Ruth Franklin takes a close look at the J.D. Salinger letters currently on display at the Morgan Library in New York City.
There's a Mark Twain impersonator in Hannibal, Missouri, who doesn't know a whole heck of a lot about Mark Twain.
Chasing Beat writers' history in Mexico City.
Deborah Eisenberg: "One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people."
The Chicago Sun-Times asked me to participate in a poll of sorts on which authors belong in the first class of the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. Ernest Hemingway didn't get my vote, but I wasn't alone in thinking Papa doesn't count as a Chicago author.
Belle Boggs' forthcoming story collection, Mattaponi Queen, was a random pull from my to-be-read pile, an activity that usually doesn't end well. Happily, this time it worked out: Boggs' stories, mostly set in southern Virginia, are grim, funny, plainspoken, and are unusually attentive to race and class conflicts. Her short story about man pursuing a sex change, "Jonas," ran a week back at Five Chapters. Her "Imperial Chrysanthemum," an even better story, is in the latest issue of the Paris Review.
Displeased with a negative review of the new Yann Martel book, a couple of booksellers take to the Huffington Post to complain. "I think part of the issue is that most newspaper critics try to judge books according to their own personal taste," they write, then proceed to defend the book based on their own personal tastes.
Roundup: Shooting Script
September 10, 2008 September 10, 2008 by Mark Athitakis, posted in Donald Roy Pollock, Keith Gessen, Willy Vlautin
The film version of Willy Vlautin's Northline (reviewed) will be directed by Courtney Hunt (Frozen River); yes, they sent a copy of the book to Paul Newman.
Thank Photoshop for the cover of Donald Roy Pollock's Knockemstiff, which shows a sign for the downtrodden Ohio burg riddled with bullet holes. "The actual sign had only one, but they (the publishers) liked the look of it, so they put in several more," Pollock says.
Keith Gessen attempts to Tumblr some sense out of the current Georgian turmoil. Not that the media are helping: "So information moves very quickly. But Russian fighter planes—even more quickly." (FWIW, George Friedman's article in the New York Review of Books is the clearest assessment of the situation I've read.)
Best Westerns
May 8, 2008 by Mark Athitakis, posted in Dept. of Self-Promotion, John Steinbeck, Rudolph Wurlitzer, William Saroyan, Willy Vlautin
The Charlotte Observer ponders the legacy of William Saroyan, who was born 100 years ago in Fresno, California. Donald Munro writes: "Who can say why Saroyan doesn't have the name recognition today of, say, his contemporary John Steinbeck?"
Funny you should ask! In today's Washington Post, Jonathan Yardley joins Robert Gottlieb as a member of the Salinas Handwringers Society—a small but apparently growing group of critics who take whacks at Steinbeck's works yet still find themselves enchanted by them. "Why do people still read Steinbeck today while his contemporary William Saroyan…is almost completely forgotten?" Yardley asks, then proposes an answer:
The only reason I can come up with for the high esteem in which Steinbeck is still held is his transparent sincerity. It has long been my pet theory that in the popular marketplace, readers instinctively distinguish between writers whose work draws on genuine feeling and those who rely on art or artifice, and that they reward the former while repudiating the latter. From Jacqueline Susann to Danielle Steel, from James Michener to James Patterson, readers have recognized the sincerity of feeling beneath the utter lack of literary merit, and have rewarded it accordingly.
Yardley isn't being cute or glib here—his assessment is couched in a wise reading of Cannery Row, and the whole essay is worth your time.
Staying in the West a little longer: I'm a little out of practice in long-form reviewing, but I wanted a little more room than usual to discuss Rudolph Wurlitzer's The Drop Edge of Yonder and Willy Vlautin's Northline. My review of both novels is in this week's City Paper.
Vlautin in Ireland
April 11, 2008 April 11, 2008 by Mark Athitakis, posted in Willy Vlautin
Willy Vlautin's second novel, Northline, is one of my recent favorites–I've talked about it before, and I suspect I'll return to it again after it officially comes out in a few weeks. In the meantime, he talks a little about some of his inspirations for the novel, particularly racist skinheads, in the Galway Advertiser. The World Church of the Creator–an organization that, depressingly, got a lot of attention when I was living in Chicago–plays a bit part Northline's story. Vlautin explains:
"The boyfriend is based on about three different guys I grew up with," he says. "I worked jobs with these really tough work-a-day skinheads guys. When the Mexican immigrants would come into Reno they would get construction jobs because the bosses would hire illegal workers.
"Anyway, I would see these guys that I'd known my whole life get more and more racist and violent. I suppose I wanted to kind of try and understand that situation because it's a common thread that runs through any country that has lots of different people. The thing that really cemented the character in my mind was when the guy who does a lot of the Richmond Fontaine artwork got stabbed by a skinhead."
A Man in Reno
February 12, 2008 February 12, 2008 by Mark Athitakis, posted in Willy Vlautin
Last week, following a writer's recommendation, I picked up Willy Vlautin's The Motel Life, a sweet-sad-simple road story about two brothers in Reno. I enjoyed its simplicity–even the type formatting recalls middle-school reading primers–though that bare-bones style doesn't recall Raymond Carver as much as critics say. Woody Guthrie lyrics might the better point of comparison–Vlautin loves free-flowing narratives that get told simply, have room for some humor and irony, but are mainly about something gone terribly wrong.
Vlautin, as it happens, is a musician–he plays in the alt-country band Richmond Fontaine–and his second novel, Northline, has just come out in the U.K. (It comes out in the U.S. this summer, in much the same way that The Motel Life came out overseas before arriving here.) The interview with Vlautin in the Guardian suggests another Reno story. Vlautin's notes that the book has a soundtrack, and features a rare book trailer that I can get behind:


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A starred chef with five restaurants managed by a team of trusted cooks who share the same attention to biodiversity
Enrico Bartolini, the starred chef from Tuscany, has been busy at the stove since he was in kindergarten, when he prepared pine-nut brittle for his schoolmates. His passion for food took him to work abroad, initially in the kitchens of Paolo Petrini in Paris and Mark Page in London, and later in Italy under the guidance of Massimiliano Alajmo. "During the day, I would learn from them and the memory of those moments is very useful today because I have a much greater awareness about running a business myself, about being an example to others myself, about knowing how to involve and motivate other people, and cultivate their desire to share our culture", says Bartolini.
Enrico Bartolini. © Francesco Mion
He earned his first Michelin Star at the age of 29 while he ran the restaurant Le Robinie in the Oltrepò Pavese region. The second one came a few years later at the Devero Ristorante and the Dodici24 Quick Restaurant in Cavenago Brianza. In the years that followed, his desire to face new challenges in food and business finally brought him to Milan, where in 2016 he opened the Ristorante Enrico Bartolini on the third floor of MUDEC, the Museum of Cultures in Milan, designed by British architect David Chipperfield.
A highly prestigious showcase for an important beginning which would soon prove to be replete with further conquests: here he would earn two more stars. Shortly thereafter Bartolini inaugurated the Casual Ristorante in Bergamo Alta, took over the management of the restaurant at L'Andana, in the heart of Tuscan Maremma, opened the Ristorante Glam in Venice. At the end of 2017 came the Ristorante Cinque inside FICO Eataly World in Bologna, the largest agri-food park in the world, with a comprehensive plan designed by Thomas Bartoli, head of Eataly Design, and projects by Carlo Ratti and Limiteazero. The next step will be, at the end of March, the inauguration of the Locanda del Sant'Uffizio, in the area of Monferrato.
Pork breast. © Francesco Mion
Now the number of restaurants is significant, and to optimize their operation, Bartolini, who manages the one in Milan personally, has surrounded himself with a team of trusted chefs, each of whom takes into account the concepts of biodiversity and the relationship with the territory. This is a characteristic that makes each restaurant unique, and is the heart of the business model: "Biodiversity is the rule of our activities and it is in our interest to represent the richness of our territories – explains Bartolini. In Venice for example, the restaurant features a cuisine that is not in the Venetian tradition, but it is entirely reinterpreted with local ingredients".
The success of Bartolini, who collaborates with Skelmore Hospitality for the Roberto's restaurants in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, and with Dining Concepts for Spiga in Hong Kong, lies in the competence and balance with which he addresses tradition and the contemporary age. The distinctive trait of his dishes is a synergy of flavours that is reminiscent of the former, but also offers the suggestion of new food experiences.
I love traditional cuisine and when I taste one of our grandmothers' dishes, I am in ecstasy. Fortunately however, our cuisine is lighter now and our taste buds more sensitive to the origins of flavours and ingredients; so while tradition is an ancient culture, it may be respected and preserved today, but improved in terms of taste and ease of digestion.
Enrico Bartolini
This is true for example in the restaurant in Bologna, where following the logic of biodiversity, "Cinque interprets the traditions of the past and the trends of the present – continues the chef. A conscious and responsible use of ingredients (most of them from the Farm Factories in the Park), espouses a philosophy of food that is based on tradition but reinterprets it in a lighter and more modern way".
Another fundamental ingredient in the "Bartolini" formula derives from the interaction between the advice of his architects (Thomas Bartoli, Franco Costa, Stefano Guidotti, to name just a few) for his restaurants and his way of understanding space. And then there is his dream: "For every dish that is served at the table, we would need a different context, but this philosophy is very hard to enact". Never say never.
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City governments and municipalities alike are moving from manual systems, that have been inefficiently handling inventory to automated inventory management systems that have saved thousands of taxpayer dollars. Here are just a few of the reasons why city governments have started using industrial vending machines and smart locker systems.
With busy workdays and emergencies to handle, city personnel may not notice that items sitting on the shelf have become obsolete or expire. When an item is not readily available, emergency runs need to be made. This costs more than just the price of an item, but also time. Municipalities have procedures in place for purchasing supplies or equipment and following protocol in an emergency situation can slow resolution. With an inventory vending machine, municipalities save on overhead costs, while emergency runs become few and far between. AutoCrib Software uses complex algorithms to calculate how much stock is required in your storeroom so you never have too much or too little. The system can also automatically reorder when stock hits minimum quantity to eliminate stock-outs. By eliminating both over ordering of seldom used items and stock outs of high use items, AutoCrib systems provide cities the means to reduce waste and eliminate inefficiencies.
City governments operate during normal business hours, so when city personnel need to access materials or tools outside of the supply room hours, they are often left out in the cold. Store's hours are limiting and in case of emergencies it can be quite costly. Inventory management systems have 24/7 access. For example, when the Department of Transportation needs to fix a traffic light at 9 P.M. when the store room is closed, they simply enter their ID into the vending machine and pull the necessary tools or supplies they need to complete the job. By allowing for 24/7 access, municipalities can heed to any call no matter the time of day.
City governments are made up of many different departments, tasked with very different responsibilities. Inventory management systems have the capability to address the needs of every department. A single AutoCrib system can vend safety glasses, high visibility vests, and first aid kits for Environmental Health and Safety as well as hard hats, spill kits, and shovels for the Solid Waste Division.
Manual systems rarely enforce discipline. With the use of AutoCrib's access control and employee verification to issue the items or tools they need, accountability is restored. Employees can access equipment that will help them get their tasks completed while keeping items that they don't need secure. By enforcing accountability, employees in each department become conscious of the costs and become more responsible with tools and supplies that they use.
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Manual systems are wasteful and inaccurate. Municipalities and city governments with implemented industrial vending systems have put taxpayer dollars to better use while increasing the service level to their taxpayers.


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Pharma Executives Share What's Involved in Pricing Drugs
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The 6th Annual "Made in NJ" National Manufacturing Day
When: Friday, Oct. 6, 2017
Where: Bridgewater Marriott, 700 Commons Way, Bridgewater
NJ Innovation Institute and Columbia University's "Biopharmaceutical Product Development & Data Science Symposium"
When: Tue, Oct. 10, 8 am – 5 pm
Where: NJIT, Campus Center Atrium, 150 Bleeker St., Newark
HINJ's Life Sciences Celebration 2017
When: Thu, Oct. 12, 8 am – 10 am
Where: Historic Trenton Masonic Temple, 100 Barrack Street, Trenton
NJ Tech Council's 2017 Leadership Summit
When: Thu, October 12, 2:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Where: Synchronoss, Bridgewater
NJ Tech Council's Women in Tech
When: Wed, Oct. 18, 8 am – 1 pm
Where: New Brunswick
BioNJ's Fifth Annual CEO Summit
When: Fri, Oct. 27, 7 am – 4 pm
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From her home on Pimisi Bay, west of Mattawa, Louise de Kiriline Lawrence explored and documented the natural world surrounding her. From her exquisitely detailed notes documenting her observations of birds she penned several acclaimed books, and was a frequent contributor to Audubon magazine.
The Nipissing Naturalists Club has received approval to honour Louise de Kiriline Lawrence with an Ontario Heritage Trust plaque installed at Pimisi Bay - next door to Louise's "Loghouse Nest". Funds raised through this auction will go toward the installation cost of $5,000.
A diverse and friendly group, the Nipissing Naturalists Club originally formed in 1976, with the primary objective to observe and enjoy nature through field trips, meetings and discussions, and to stimulate interest and understanding of natural history.
The Nipissing Naturalists Club has received approval to honour Louise de Kiriline Lawrence with an Ontario Heritage Trust plaque installed at Pimisi Bay in Calvin Township, Ontario. The club is currently raising funds to have the plaque installed in summer 2016.


This cleaning supplies dolly, mobile cart is well designed and helpful in transporting heavy loads to their destination! Hotels, shopping malls and other large office buildings typically use this pushcart to tote needed supplies around. This mobile cart, such as a janitor dolly or multi purpose haul, is commonly used in hospitals as well as in schools. This mobile cart holds whatever you need to bring around with you while you move to each task. Hospitals make use of this plastic trolley by transporting medical supplies to patients! Another way the mobile cart is utilized is by helping housekeepers bring all their cleaning products along with them as they work. Bussing tables in any restaurant is simple with one of these handy trolleys. The tall narrow design is easy to steer down narrow passageways commonly associated with the hospitality industry.
This economical utility truck, mobile cart is made of polyethylene, a tough and light weight plastic. This material is used throughout the world because it is a cheap, reliable, and chemically resistant plastic. Another great feature about this mobile cart is its two, 2-3/4" deep storage shelves that securely holds supplies and other necessities. Each commercial dolly has four swiveling caster wheels for precision steering. This mobile cart, also known as a hand truck, will make every task easier and completed faster! This unit ships unassembled to save on shipping costs.
Please Note: This mobile cart requires two people for assembly. Rubber mallet and hardware necessary for assembly are included.
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Rumble / Funny & Cute Animals - People love kisses, and so do dogs. This cute lovely bulldog becomes such a sweet little girl who always asks for more kisses from her master. Every time the guy stops kissing the puppy, it puts its hand on the guy's face and tries to get him back to kissing. So demanding, sheesh! But dogs truly are man's best friend.
You gotta love the bulldogs. They may have been in the wrong line when Mother Nature was creating them, but they are still silly adorable. With those stubby mouths and the snoring, you just can't have enough.
Although kissing promotes affection, you might want to think twice about kissing your dog, especially on the mouth. Just think about where that muzzle has been stuck recently and you'll get the picture.


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im going to Lucille's ce soir for my brother's 30th: will be in your 'hood ;) LOL!
I can't find something in her to say, YES! She's a top model! But I can't say that she doesn't break the rules of the fashion!
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How does segregation shape intergroup violence in contested urban spaces? Should nominal rivals be kept separate or instead more closely integrated? We develop an empirically grounded agent-based model to understand the sources and patterns of violence in urban areas, employing Jerusalem as a demonstration case and seeding our model with microlevel, geocoded data on settlement patterns. An optimal set of parameters is selected to best fit the observed spatial distribution of violence in the city, with the calibrated model used to assess how different levels of segregation, reflecting various proposed "virtual futures" for Jerusalem, would shape violence. Our results suggest that besides spatial proximity, social distance is key to explaining conflict over urban areas: arrangements conducive to reducing the extent of intergroup interactions—including localized segregation, limits on mobility and migration, partition, and differentiation of political authority—can be expected to dampen violence, although their effect depends decisively on social distance.


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Wild Preview
by David Brian on February 22, 2016
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If you're into 1-player action games then Wild is a game you can look forward to, if you own a PlayStation 4. Since it's being made by the same guy who created Rayman, it has been catching a lot of attention. Michel Ancel has created Wild Sheep, but has recently revealed 50 percent of his time is still at Ubisoft, and he's been with them since 1992.
I have recently read an article on Wild in Game Informer where it caught my attention and inspired me to do more research on the upcoming game. I have dug up everything we know about the game so far and combined it into one article.
About Wild and What Makes it Different
It is clear that Michel Ancel has ventured into new grounds with Wild, as it is a much different game than the Rayman series. Wild takes place in the Neolithic era of mankind, right when man started to use tools for farming. Don't expect to see or use any guns since the game is set so far back in time.
Wild is different from other titles in many ways, but let's start with the fact that you will control animals. Yes, animals are your friends and you can use them to fight your battles and protect you in dangerous situations. So, you won't have guns, but directing a group of crows to dive down and attack cannibals is just as cool.
Not everything animals help with is related to combat, and you will be able to survey the land from the view of a hawk. Stealth is easy when you can take control of a rabbit to sneak up on an enemy tribe, as your main enemy in the game will be humans.
This is different because most games kind of put us in a world where nature is the enemy. You know what I am talking about; worlds with beasts, overgrown rats, spiders, wolves, etc. This time, they are your friends and you're in control of them.
Wild is being created in a way that will make it entertaining for a large amount of time, so it's definitely not a game you can beat over the weekend. Actually, there is not even an end goal, as the game is about the player's unique journey and you basically choose what you want to do in Wild's large open world.
"One thing I hate in games is when you have these mission things and you know exactly what you have to achieve," said Michel.
Speaking of large open world, did I forget to mention that Wild is roughly the same size as Europe? Yes, the world is that big! The environment will change with the seasons, and the weather patterns will adjust accordingly.
Michel Ancel discussed why the game is so big last year, writing, "When we started working on Wild we wanted to make sure that we would have fun playing our own game even after months and months of development."
In Wild, you will start the game as a child, where your main mission is adventure. When you first start playing you will focus on learning about your environment and start domesticating small animals.
Each time you unlock an ability the character adds a tattoo to his body to represent that animal. You're playing as a shaman who wants to track down a god that can give him the ability to control snakes. The shaman needs to control snakes in order to save a woman in his tribe who was recently bit by one.
Basically, smaller animals will help you spy on your enemy and larger animals will help you take them down. In the game you're main enemy is other men, including tribes of cannibals (which was shown in the demo). It isn't clear if you will ever have to fight with an animal or if there are animals that refuse to work with you.
It appears that Michel Ancel has a fresh vision for open-world games and Wild looks very promising. Playing in an open-world that's nearly the size of Europe is just incredible, and being able to work with nature to fight off antagonist tribes sounds exciting. A completely fresh take on the genre, without any technology or vehicles.
Wild is arriving exclusively on the PlayStation 4 this year, although the title doesn't have an official release date yet. Check out the videos below to get a good look at what Wild is all about…
Action, Adventure, Featured, Playstation 4, Previews
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Mega Cat Studio, who brought us Coffee Crisis and Bite The Bullet, along with Retrotainment Games, creators of Haunted Halloween '86, have been working with 8BitLegit, Gradual Games, and 6502 Collective to release Trophy, a new retro NES game inspired by [...]
Pumpkin Jack – New Gen Edition (XSX) Review with stream
Pumpkin Jack is clearly inspired by platforming classics of the late 90s and is all the better for it being released in 2021 (the original non-New Gen Edition was released in 2020). If Pumpkin Jack was released during the 360 era, it probably would [...]
God of War Ragnarok (PS4/PS5) Preview
by Michael P Cleworth on December 12, 2021
When we think of great exclusives, our minds always go back to the God of War franchise, particularly the PlayStation 4's 2018 chart-topper. With the game still selling well even today, we can't help but think of how the upcoming sequel, God [...]


A multi-institutional report published in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association sheds new light on how often, and at what age, a patient's family history of cancer should be updated to ensure he or she is appropriately screened and has the best chance of early detection.
Through the Cancer Genetics Network, a United States population-based cancer registry, a team of statisticians, clinicians, oncologists and geneticists reviewed data on family history of cancer of more than 10,000 patients who were followed for almost 10 years.
Focusing on cancers of the breast, colon and prostate, the team looked at how clinically relevant changes in family cancer history changed over each individual's lifetime.
Only first-and second-degree history (parents, siblings, grandparents and aunts and uncles) were noted in the analysis. Breast, colon and prostate were focused on because they have effective and proven methods of screening. They followed existing cancer screening guidelines developed by major cancer groups such as the American Cancer Society.
"We took data provided by people in the Cancer Genetics Network database that allowed us to determine their family of cancer literally from birth until entry into the network. To assess the need for screening, it's crucial that a clinician has knowledge of how an individual's family history changes over time," said Dr. Sharon Plon, director of the Baylor College of Medicine Cancer Genetics Clinic and a professor of pediatrics and of molecular and human genetics at BCM, and senior author of the report.
The analysis revealed that the family cancer history was most likely to change between the ages of 30 and 50 but after age 50 there were fewer additional cancers that would put a person at a higher risk.
For example, Plon said a 30-year-old woman may not be eligible for a breast MRI (magnetic resonance imaging, used in high-risk women to detect cancer at earlier stages) but five years later, if there are changes in her family history, she may need to be placed in a higher risk category who needs this type of advanced screening earlier.
Dr. Dianne Finkelstein, a member of the Massachusetts General Hospital Biostatistics Center, professor of biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, served as the principal investigator of the Cancer Genetics Network.
Based on the analysis, the team concluded that a comprehensive family history should be taken from young adults and updated again about every five to 10 years until at least age 50.
Plon said the wider use and implementation of electronic health records could make this an easier task for physicians in the future.
"Our hope is that this new information will help educate physicians to more frequently ask patients these important questions," said Plon, also a member of the NCI-designated Dan L Duncan Cancer Center at BCM. "As most healthcare systems are moving toward the use of electronic health records, there is tremendous potential to ensure that people at higher risk of cancer are being screened earlier and using the best methods."
The CGN is funded by the Epidemiology and Genetics Research Program in National Cancer Institute's Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences.
BCM has been a member of the Cancer Genetics Network since its inception in the late 1990s.
In addition to BCM and Massachusetts General Hospital, other institutions involved in the study include the University of California in Irvine; Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City; University of Colorado in Denver; University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia; Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.; Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore; Duke University Medical Center in Durham N.C.; University of Washington in Seattle; University of New Mexico in Albuquerque; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio; University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; National Institute for Child Health and Development.


In the second teaching on this important subject about the Holy Spirit, Peter takes time to explain the differences between the gifts and the fruit of the Holy Spirit. He teaches how gifts, both natural and spiritual are given in an instant but how fruit takes time to grow.
This is an essential teaching for all those seeking greater understanding in this area.


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Celebrate innovation & success
BWF Annual Dinner & Awards 2019
The 2019 BWF Awards
The winners of the BWF Awards 2019 were revealed on Friday 22nd November in the sensational setting of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, London.
Congratulations to this year's winners who all epitomise the talent, creativity and professionalism of our wider industry. The standard of entries this year was truly exceptional, and the judges had no easy task separating them.
All of the 2019 BWF Award winners are detailed below.
BWF Woodworking Project of the Year Award
The Woodworking Project of the Year Award, kindly sponsored by Centor®, was awarded to Gowercroft Joinery for the design manufacture and installation of over 300 timber external and internal joinery items at Templeton House, a Grade II listed property in Roehampton. The timber joinery was part of a £32m restoration of the Grade II listed mansion which included sympathetic replacement of the original sliding sash windows, to provide modern levels of performance at no detriment to the historic value of the building.
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BWF Product Design in Wood Award
The Product Design in Wood Award, kindly sponsored by Teknos, was awarded to Tom Pearson & Sons for a unique replacement entrance door solution that incorporated the original stained glass. The company designed a vented system that incorporated a clear toughened double-glazed unit. The stained glass was then suspended in front and beaded into place, with a vented bottom bead and further venting to the top bead to prevent moisture build up.
BWF Apprentice of the Year Award
The Apprentice of the Year Award, kindly sponsored by Remmers, was awarded to Bailey Donkin, apprentice at Middlesbrough-based ERW Joinery. Bailey picked up the Award for his creativity, innovative approach and outstanding joinery. According to Bailey's company: "In the four years that Bailey has been with ERW, we have seen him grow to become not only an outstanding joiner but an integral part of our team. His ideas and innovativeness set him apart from not just other apprentices, but many other time-served joiners."
BWF Rising Star Award
The first ever Rising Star Award, kindly sponsored by the Timber Trade Federation, was awarded to Carol Bruce, HR Manager at Allan Brothers. Carol was named as the BWF Rising Star of 2019 for her support of colleagues and guidance across the business which has been pivotal to the company's recent transformation programme. According to Carol's company, "Her support of colleagues and guidance across the business has been pivotal to the success of a recent change transformation project."
BWF Process Efficiency Award
The Process Efficiency Award was kindly sponsored this year by W20 Exhibition and the FIT Show. This year's winner was West Port Timber Windows & Doors for its fire door manufacturing project which focused upon customer value by reducing waste. By reducing waste throughout its fire door manufacturing processes West Port Timber Windows & Doors were able to significantly improve efficiency across several key areas. A faster turn-around time to meet customer demand was key to this project.
BWF Health & Safety Hero Award
The Health & Safety Hero Award, kindly sponsored by CITB, was awarded to GE Door Manufacturing for its health & safety first culture to drive continuous improvement across their factory, with clear measurement of colleague engagement and adoption. GE Door Manufacturing has introduced a number of health and safety initiatives over the years. More recently, to monitor progress, the company introduced an innovative scoring outcome system and a near miss reporting system. The company also revisited all personal and machine-related risk assessments to ensure they still met the needs of users.
Thank-you to our sponsors
A massive thank-you to our sponsors this year, without whom we wouldn't be able to celebrate the best and brightest in the industry.
Also, thank-you to Gaudio Awards for creating the beautiful 2019 BWF Awards.
The BWF Awards 2020 will be launched next June at the BWF Members' Day. We look forward to receiving a record number of Award entries next year as our industry is one to be truly proud of!


A massive amount of RC's, pharms, and other substances. The topic of our discussion.
If you feel that you have reputable information about the reduction of harm of illicit substances or have refences that would prove helpful for articles feel free so send me, Dr_InsertSmartName, a private message stating how you could assist in the development of this wikia. This is a community tool for proactively spreading harm reduction, not a place for false information to be propagated. Your cooperation is deeply appreciated by the editors and community members. If you encounter false, suspicious, or dangerous information please inform Dr_InsertSmartName Thank you.
Soon, we will be starting a forum for the discussion of illicit substances and their harm reduction. This forum will be closely affiliated with our goals here and will be mainly for disscussing misunderstood information and alerting admins about pages with misleading/false information. Though, the forums will have a section for open discussion because we're such nice people here at the DrugsAreBad Wikia.
3/9/2012 - The idea for this Wikia was formed by a small group due to tragic events that proved near-fatal and resulted in the hospitalization of multiple close friends.
DrugAreBad Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community.


Card-Carrying American: Is the Afghanistan war legal?
Over the weekend, I got in a discussion with some folks who claimed that "The war in Afghanistan is illegal." I pointed out how Congress has fully authorized the war effort, and in fact demonstrated continued authorization only a few weeks ago. They then said that it was illegal because the UN hasn't approved it....they have. So I thought I'd put something down in the old blog on this.
Is the war in Afghanistan legal under US domestic law?
In 2001, Congress passed a joint resolution (see 1, below) authorizing the use of military force in Afghanistan. The wording is pretty clear: "…the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons."
The resolution further states that it intends itself to meet the requirements of the War Powers Act, which Congress passed to further define its Constitutional power to declare war. Congress can remove that authorization at any time. Indeed, many attempts have been made to do just that. The most recent was by Representative Kucinich in March 2011 (see 2, below). It was soundly defeated by Congress with wide bipartisan rejection of the measure. This makes it clear that the war effort carries the continued authorization of Congress in accordance with the Constitution and the law.
Is the war in Afghanistan legal under international law?
If you're looking for an international mandate, the effort is endorsed by both the United Nations and NATO.
You'll have to look in other places than the UN if you want to claim the war effort there is illegal.
I'll add, that if, for legal advice, you lean on an organization that elects Libya to chair its Human Rights Commission , you're probably about to fall over.
As for NATO, they also have approved the action. In fact, the war in Afghanistan is the first time they have invoked Article 5, declaring that 9/11 was an armed attack and invokes collective self-defense. NATO also leads ISAF, which would be a very strange thing if it felt it was not legal under international law.


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As the world's leading brand in rehabilitation, Chattanooga is sold in over 80 countries worldwide. Our Chattanooga distributors and customers are supported for order placement, training, product delivery and after sales service by a dedicated team of highly-skilled DJO employees based all over the world.


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UW, NFL team up on research to reduce head injuries
Daniel Cobian holds a specialized mouthguard that will be used by football players involved in the study. The sensors in the mouthguard will collect data on head impacts. Image courtesy of UW School of Medicine and Public Health
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health are partnering with the National Football League (NFL) to study how on-field head impacts can inform injury reduction efforts at the professional and collegiate levels.
Researchers will collect data from high-tech mouthguard sensors currently being used by the football team at University of Wisconsin–Madison that measure kinematic details, such as impact speed, direction, force, location and severity of head impacts. Insights gleaned from the data collected will help inform the NFL's approach to injury reduction and decrease head impacts overall. Football players at the university have the opportunity to opt in to the NFL's novel program.
"Reducing the risk of sport-related concussions is a priority for athletes, coaches, and health care providers alike," said Daniel Cobian, assistant professor of orthopedics and rehabilitation at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health and co-principal investigator for the study. "The more we learn about sport-related concussions, the better we can protect our student-athletes from these injuries and maintain a desirable balance between the benefits of sport participation and the risk of injury."
Data collected from athletes will be anonymized and analyzed by the NFL Players Association's independent engineering experts and affiliated consultants. The program is overseen by NFL's Jennifer Langton, senior vice president of Health and Safety Innovation. UW researchers will also be given a specific statistical analysis that can be used to help inform the UW football team's efforts to advance player health and safety.
The NFL launched the mouthguard sensor program in 2019 as part of the league's $60 million commitment to promote health and safety initiatives. The research partnership with UW and three other universities is an expansion of the NFL's broader approach to driving innovation in the sport, and is the first phase of a program the league expects to expand to additional universities in the coming months and years.
"Sophisticated and specific data collection is central to our work to find better ways to research, diagnose, understand and better prevent injuries," said Dr. Allen Sills, chief medical officer, NFL. "We are excited to establish this partnership with not only nationally-recognized collegiate football programs who have a direct pipeline to the NFL, but also with esteemed research universities to expand the universe of inputs from which we can analyze, draw conclusions, and develop recommendations for how to make the game safer."
This latest study strengthens the ongoing research partnership between the NFL and the School of Medicine and Public Health. Earlier this year, UW researchers were awarded a four-year, $4 million grant by the NFL to study the prevention and treatment of hamstring injuries for elite football players.
Original story by School of Medicine and Public Health
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Suspected sex offender re-employed by MSD to work with vulnerable children
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Credits: Newshub Nation.
The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) is being accused of bullying survivors of state abuse and sweeping their claims under the carpet.
One survivor, who we've called 'Rachel' to protect her identity, was sexually abused while in state care in Dunedin Girls' Home during the 1980s.
New Zealand's state abuse shame: Survivor's struggle for justice
Royal Commission of Inquiry gives hope to state abuse survivor
She told Newshub Nation she made formal complaints about her abuser, an employee named Edward Anand, but that her complaints were never passed to police.
Anand eventually resigned following further allegations of misconduct. But the ministry rehired him to work with other vulnerable children in 2001, at the Epuni Care and Protection Facility.
He faced more disciplinary action there, and resigned after a year.
Eventually more survivors came forward, and in March 2016 Anand was found guilty on multiple counts of rape and indecent assault.
Abuse survivor advocate Louise Nicholas has worked closely with Rachel and she was "speechless" that he was re-employed by the ministry.
"He ripped her childhood away from her, and she has to live with this."
Ms Nicholas accompanied Rachel to meetings with MSD officials in 2016 and says she was shocked at the treatment Rachel received.
"In the first meeting I absolutely felt that the survivor was being bullied."
Rachel says she felt the ministry tried to brush her off and dismiss her claims.
"It was disgraceful, they wanted to hide it. They wanted to sweep it under the carpet and hope I went away."
Ms Nicholas is now calling for the Royal Commission into Historical Abuse in State Care to investigate cases right up to the present day.
Rachel says she wants to ensure the ministry learns from its mistakes, to prevent this happening again.
"If MSD want to help people, put their hand up, say we made a mistake. Don't hide.
"I would put everything on it that Anand has more victims out there and they're unaware of what they can do."
MSD says their records show the original abuse complaint was passed on to police in the 1980s.
Watch the video for the full story.
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Analysis of the effects of COVID 19 on the operations and sustainability of SMEs in South Western region, Uganda
Tamwesigire, Caleb
Turyahebwa, Abanis
Kaaya, Siraje
Byamukama, Eliab
SMEs are considered huge boosters to the economy of Uganda. They serve as the engine and driving force for growth, development, innovation, economic prosperity and wealth creation of Uganda. The study aimed at establishing the upshot of COVID 19 on the operations and sustainability of SMEs in Uganda with a view to creating a lucid model for successful SMEs operations and improved performance. The study examined factors for efficient operations and sustainability for SMEs in Uganda. The study embraced a positivist quantitative approach with correlational design and cross sectional, survey design, underpinned on the interpretivism philosophy. The study used a sample of 205 SMEs working in Kabale, Kisoro, Rukiga, Rukungiri and Ntungamo. The findings revealed that COVID19 pandemic accounted for a significant variance in the operations and sustainability of SMEs in the selected boarder districts in Uganda. The study confirmed the hypothesis that the effects of COVID19 pandemic have positively affected performance, operations and sustainability of SMEs. The pecking order theory was largely supported by the study and resource based view lays the ground in explaining, sustainability, performance and operations of SMEs in Uganda. The study recommends that the respective government of Uganda authorities and partners offer appropriate liquidity intercessions to support SMEs in handling instant liquidity encounters, to avoid closures and bankruptcies.


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by Markus Zusak
DON'T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK'S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF.
The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul.
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.
When Death has a story to tell, you listen.
It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.
Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.
In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.
"The kind of book that can be life-changing." —The New York Times
"Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank." —USA Today
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From the book DEATH AND CHOCOLATE
First the colors.
Then the humans.
That's usually how I see things.
Or at least, how I try.
***HERE IS A SMALL FACT ***
You are going to die.
I am in all truthfulness attempting to be cheerful about this whole topic, though most people find themselves hindered in believing me, no matter my protestations. Please, trust me. I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.
***Reaction to the ***
AFOREMENTIONED fact
Does this worry you?
I urge you—don't be afraid.
I'm nothing if not fair.
—Of course, an introduction.
A beginning.
Where are my manners?
I could introduce myself properly, but it's not really necessary. You will know me well enough and soon enough, depending on a diverse range of variables. It suffices to say that at some point in time, I will be standing over you, as genially as possible. Your soul will be in my arms. A color will be perched on my shoulder. I will carry you gently away.
At that moment, you will be lying there (I rarely find people standing up). You will be caked in your own body. There might be a discovery; a scream will dribble down the air. The only sound I'll hear after that will be my own breathing, and the sound of the smell, of my footsteps.
The question is, what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying?
Personally, I like a chocolate-colored sky. Dark, dark chocolate. People say it suits me. I do, however, try to enjoy every color I see—the whole spectrum. A billion or so flavors, none of them quite the same, and a sky to slowly suck on. It takes the edge off the stress. It helps me relax.
***A SMALL THEORY ***
People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations, with each passing moment.
A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors.
Waxy yellows, cloud-spat blues. Murky darknesses.
In my line of work, I make it a point to notice them.
As I've been alluding to, my one saving grace is distraction. It keeps me sane. It helps me cope, considering the length of time I've been performing this job. The trouble is, who could ever replace me? Who could step in while I take a break in your stock-standard resort-style vacation destination, whether it be tropical or of the ski trip variety? The answer, of course, is nobody, which has prompted me to make a conscious, deliberate decision—to make distraction my vacation. Needless to say, I vacation in increments. In colors.
Still, it's possible that you might be asking, why does he even need a vacation? What does he need distraction from?
Which brings me to my next point.
It's the leftover humans.
The survivors.
They're the ones I can't stand to look at, although on many occasions I still fail. I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair, and surprise. They have punctured hearts. They have beaten lungs.
Which in turn brings me to the subject I am telling you about tonight, or today, or whatever the hour and color. It's the story of one of those perpetual survivors—an expert at being left behind.
It's just a small story really, about, among other things:
* A girl
* Some words
* An accordionist
* Some fanatical Germans
* A Jewish fist fighter
* And quite a lot of...
Markus Zusak is the international bestselling author of six novels, including The Book Thief and most recently, Bridge of Clay. His work is translated into more than forty languages, and has spent more than a decade on the New York Times bestseller list, establishing Zusak as one of the most successful authors to come out of Australia.
All of Zusak's books – including earlier titles, The Underdog, Fighting Ruben Wolfe, When Dogs Cry (also titled Getting the Girl), and The Messenger (or I am the Messenger) – have been awarded numerous honors around the world, ranging from literary prizes to readers choice awards to prizes voted on by booksellers.
In 2013, The Book Thief was made into a major motion picture, and in 2018 was voted one of America's all-time favorite books, achieving the 14th position on the PBS Great American Read. Also in 2018, Bridge of Clay was selected as a best book of the year in publications ranging from Entertainment Weekly to the Wall Street Journal.
Markus Zusak grew up in Sydney, Australia, and still lives there with his wife and two children.
xxpish - Liesel Meminger's life isn't so great; her brother died not too long ago, her mom is taken away and she is left to foster parents. When she sees a book lying on the ground at her brother's funeral, she picks it up, and keeps it. So begins her childhood as a book thief—fascinated by books, by words. Her foster mother is not the nicest person—she calls Liesel words that shouldn't be said to a child. She bonds with her foster father Hans though, over late-night story-times, writing lessons in the basement, and accordion playing. Hans isn't quite a Nazi; his loyalties lie somewhere else. That life, knowing what to expect and that continuity is disrupted by the son of Hans' friend from the war, who shows up at their front door. Max is a Jew, and he is looking for help. So the Hubermanns take him in, give him a hiding place in the basement to stay and provide him with food. Over the time, he and Liesel become friends and realize that they have a lot in common. They share memories, and spend time together. The only thing is, he has to be kept secret. If someone finds out, the consequences won't be good. This is the story of a young girl, growing up and living life surrounded by Nazi Germany, stealing books and living with a Jew. Narrated by the unique voice of death, this acclaimed novel is definitely worth reading. My thoughts: This book was very enjoyable. With the narration of death, it had all sorts of fun different perspectives of looking at the world. It is written in a really quirky and awesome way; it'll be in the middle of telling a story of someone dying, and then it'll break into this little mini-paragraph and say something like "The sky was the color of burning newspaper." It was intriguing and the story was great, as were the characters. You know, this was a weird book. In a good way. It kind of HAS no summary. Call me crazy, but in my mind it was one of those books that you can't really describe, other than "a girl living in Nazi Germany." Does that make sense? Probably not. I absolutely loved Zusak's writing style, and I think this definitely deserved the Printz award. I look forward to more Markus Zusak!
Starred review from January 30, 2006
This hefty volume is an achievement—a challenging book in both length and subject, and best suited to sophisticated older readers. The narrator is Death himself, a companionable if sarcastic fellow, who travels the globe "handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity." Death keeps plenty busy during the course of this WWII tale, even though Zusak (I Am the Messenger
) works in miniature, focusing on the lives of ordinary Germans in a small town outside Munich. Liesel Meminger, the book thief, is nine when she pockets The Gravedigger's Handbook
, found in a snowy cemetery after her little brother's funeral. Liesel's father—a "Kommunist"—is already missing when her mother hands her into the care of the Hubermanns. Rosa Hubermann has a sharp tongue, but Hans has eyes "made of kindness." He helps Liesel overcome her nightmares by teaching her to read late at night. Hans is haunted himself, by the Jewish soldier who saved his life during WWI. His promise to repay that debt comes due when the man's son, Max, shows up on his doorstep. This "small story," as Death calls it, threads together gem-like scenes of the fates of families in this tight community, and is punctuated by Max's affecting, primitive artwork rendered on painted-over pages from Mein Kampf
. Death also directly addresses readers in frequent asides; Zusak's playfulness with language leavens the horror and makes the theme even more resonant—words can save your life. As a storyteller, Death has a bad habit of forecasting ("I'm spoiling the ending," he admits halfway through his tale). It's a measure of how successfully Zusak has humanized these characters that even though we know they are doomed, it's no less devastating when Death finally reaches them. Ages 12-up.
Starred review from March 1, 2006
Gr 9 Up -Zusak has created a work that deserves the attention of sophisticated teen and adult readers. Death himself narrates the World War II-era story of Liesel Meminger from the time she is taken, at age nine, to live in Molching, Germany, with a foster family in a working-class neighborhood of tough kids, acid-tongued mothers, and loving fathers who earn their living by the work of their hands. The child arrives having just stolen her first book -although she has not yet learned how to read -and her foster father uses it, "The Gravedigger -s Handbook", to lull her to sleep when she -s roused by regular nightmares about her younger brother -s death. Across the ensuing years of the late 1930s and into the 1940s, Liesel collects more stolen books as well as a peculiar set of friends: the boy Rudy, the Jewish refugee Max, the mayor -s reclusive wife (who has a whole library from which she allows Liesel to steal), and especially her foster parents. Zusak not only creates a mesmerizing and original story but also writes with poetic syntax, causing readers to deliberate over phrases and lines, even as the action impels them forward. Death is not a sentimental storyteller, but he does attend to an array of satisfying details, giving Liesel -s story all the nuances of chance, folly, and fulfilled expectation that it deserves. An extraordinary narrative." -Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley Public Library, CA"
Copyright 2006 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
New York Times "Brilliant and hugely ambitious...Some will argue that a book so difficult and sad may not be appropriate for teenage readers...Adults will probably like it (this one did), but it's a great young-adult novel...It's the kind of book that can be life-changing, because without ever denying the essential amorality and randomness of the natural order, The Book Thief offers us a believable hard-won hope...The hope we see in Liesel is unassailable, the kind you can hang on to in the midst of poverty and war and violence. Young readers need such alternatives to ideological rigidity, and such explorations of how stories matter. And so, come to think of it, do adults."
Random House Children's Books


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Q: Expectation of a random variable given another random variable
Under a group insurance policy, an insurer agrees to pay all of the
  medical bills incurred during the year by employees of a small
  company, up to a maximum total of one million dollars. The total
  amount of bills incurred, X, has probability density function where
  f(x)= $\frac{x(4-x)}{9}$ for 0 $\leq$ x $\leq$ 3, and 0 otherwise, where x is measured in millions. Let Y be the total
  amount of money paid. Compute $\mathop{{}\mathbb{E}}$[Y] and
  var[Y].

So for this question, I was thinking of computing the expectation of X, and then if it was greater than 1, the expectation for Y would be 1,000,000, otherwise it would be $\mathop{{}\mathbb{E}}$[X]*1,000,000. Is this the correct strategy? If so, would I go about computing the variance the same way? If not, what is the best way to go about this?
Edit: I actually realized that to get the expectation of Y, I need to take the integral of xf(x) from 0 to 1, and then add the integral of f(x) from 1 to infinity, in order to account for if x is less than 1,000,000 and greater than 1,000,000. I ended up getting around 0.935, but I'm still stumped on how to get the variance of Y.

A: No, that's not correct. For one thing, if $E[X]>1$ this only implies that sometimes $X>1$ and then sometimes (those times) $Y=1,000,000$ ; but sometimes it will still happen that $X<1$ , and in those cases $Y=X * 1,000,000$, so, the mean will be below: $E[Y]<1,000,000$.
You should first write the formula for $Y$. To avoid messing with the one millon factor, I'l denote by $Z$ the amount of money paid in millions (hence $Y= 1,000,000 Z$).
Then
$$Z=\begin{cases}
 X & \text{if } X \le 1\\
1 &  \text{if } X >1
\end{cases}
$$
Now  , using $E[g(X)] = \int g(x) f_X(x)dx:$
$$E[Z] = \int_0^1 x \frac{x(4-x)}{9} dx+ \int_1^3  1 \frac{x(4-x)}{9} dx$$
and
$$E[Z^2] = \int_0^1 x^2 \frac{x(4-x)}{9} dx+ \int_1^3  1 \frac{x(4-x)}{9} dx$$
from which we can get the variance of $Z$.
Can you go on from here?

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The best rated hotels in Wiltshire and what their guests say
Inside the best rated Wiltshire hotels
By Nicole Baddeley @nicole_baddeley Digital reporter
All images - Booking.com
Have you ever wondered what people say about Wiltshire's best hotels?
With guest reviews of 9.3 stars or more, people have flocked to these top hotels for their hospitality, spoiling rooms and excellent facilities.
In the midst of a third lockdown with non-essential travel completely banned, it can be hard to think of a time we will be able to treat ourselves to a holiday or night away.
However if we go back to something similar to the tiers system then we could be booking that well-deserved night away a little closer to home - so why not start looking now?
These are the best reviewed hotels in Wiltshire according to Booking.com:
Elderbrook House
The gorgeous Elderbrook House in Avebury is the top reviewed hotel in Wiltshire - it features a restaurant, bar and garden.
Rooms are individually designed and they are equipped with an ensuite, complimentary toiletries, comfy bed and a flat-screen TV.
Guests at Elderbrook House can enjoy a continental, full English or buffet breakfast.
Prices start at £188 for two people for a two night stay, with breakfast included.
As the best rated hotel in the whole of the county on Booking.com previous guests have absolutely raved about their stay at Elderbrook House giving it a nearly perfect score.
Booking.com has a rigorous category system for customers leaving reviews asking them to leave a rating out of 10.
Elderbrook House was awarded 10 stars for comfort, value for money and staff.
For all other categories including cleanliness, location and facilities they were awarded nine stars or higher.
Visit Booking.com for more.
Greyhound Inn
This 17th Century coaching inn has been lovingly looked after and each room has been impeccably designed.
Located in the lovely village of Wilton just outside of Salisbury this hotel is great for families and couples alike, looking to explore our county a bit more.
The deluxe double room costs £190 for a two night stay including breakfast.
Previous guests have left the hotel incredible reviews and rated it as superb with 9.4 stars.
The hotel scored 9.4 stars or more across the board on all of Booking.com's criteria with more than 500 reviews.
One happy customer called the hotel a "home away from home".
He said: "The rooms are comfy and tastefully decorated, contemporary but hitting the right balance for a building of this age."
If you want to see more pictures visit Booking.com.
Helen Browning's Royal Oak
The Royal Oak is among the most raved about places to stay in the county offering top quality service and terrific food.
Situated in Swindon, a few miles from Coate Water Country Park, Helen Browning's Royal Oak is a pet-friendly, dining pub with rooms and boasts a children's playground and terrace.
Prices start at £190 for a two night stay with breakfast in a standard double room.
The hotel received nine stars of more for its staff, location, comfort, cleanliness, facilities and cleanliness.
One previous guest said: "We had a tremendous time here!
"I would highly recommend this [hotel] and will 100 per-cent be coming back."
For more information visit Booking.com.
Whatley Manor
Nestled within 12 acres of picturesque Wiltshire countryside, this hotel is a stylish venue where you can really relax and unwind.
The hotel has stunning manicured gardens with sculptures and fountains.
There is also a wonderful restaurant where guests can enjoy a 12-course tasting menu - there is also an informal brasserie.
Aquarias, the spa at Whatley Manor, was voted in the top 10 of UK spa retreats by Condé Nast Traveller Readers, and offers Natura Bissé signature treatments for the ultimate in well-being.
A two night stay in a classic double room costs £708 including breakfast.
One happy customer said: "It felt more like a very luxurious home away from home than a hotel which was lovely.
"The dining at Whatley was exceptional and, once again, the restaurant staff pushed the overall experience even further."
A two night stay at The Royal Oak in Swallowcliffe costs £200 for a two night stay including breakfast.
This award-winning country pub hotel boasts a restaurant with a bar, garden and idyllic village location.
With a wonderful blend of traditional 18th century architecture and stylish, modern interior design, The Royal Oak is the ideal rural hideaway.
People who have stayed here have raved about the location, comfort and staff - rating every category with nine stars of more.
Guests often leave reviews describing the hotel as a "hidden gem" due to its immediate comfort and tranquil setting.
One reviewer said: "What an amazing place!
"There are immaculate and stylish rooms, friendly staff and a great restaurant for both comfort and food.
"I travel a lot with work and this is one of the nicest places you could choose to stay."
All prices correct at the time of publishing for a two night stay from Monday, July 5 to July 7 2021.
Have you stayed in any of these hotels? Let us know your experience in the comments.


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The Illuminati Ball: An Immersive Excursion by Cynthia von Buhler
"The kind of night that taps into the artistic foundation of what New York used to be: lavish, worth loving and completely ludicrous." – Inside Hook
"Seducing you away from your sense of reality into a more subconscious, dreamlike state of mind, where anything is possible." – Gothamist
"Lavish, eccentric, mysterious, and exclusive." – Untapped Cities
When: Bimonthly on Saturday evenings through October 29, 2016 (specific dates here)
6:00pm – midnight
Tickets: $450 per person (includes dinner, cocktails, and luxury round-trip transportation)
THE ILLUMINATI BALL TAKES IMMERSIVE THEATER TO NEW LEVEL, TRANSPORTING
THEATERGOERS TO SECRET ESTATE FOR SURREALIST SOIREE & PLAY
New York, NY (March 17, 2016) – Adventurous theatergoers will be whisked from Manhattan to a secluded lakefront estate outside of the city for a lavish dinner, exotic cocktails, and an extraordinary theatrical excursion inspired by the infamous Surrealist Ball hosted by the Baron and Baroness de Rothschild in 1972.
It's all part of The Illuminati Ball, the latest production from playwright and director Cynthia von Buhler, creator of such acclaimed immersive theater experiences as Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic at The Liberty Theater (2015), Speakeasy Dollhouse: The Brothers Booth at The Players Club (2014), and Speakeasy Dollhouse: The Bloody Beginning, which ran in a historic Lower East Side speakeasy from 2011–2014.
In addition to delighting in mouthwatering delicacies and libations as the story unfolds, guests will be dazzled with a fire performance, opera, aerial silk acts, and esoteric ritual ceremonies. On select dates, Prodigy of Mobb Deep, one of hip-hop's most original acts, will make a guest appearance to perform a new song he wrote for The Illuminati Ball that combines elements of rap and opera sung by Katie Kat.
"Illuminati and secret societies have been a recurrent subject in my lyrics throughout my career," said Prodigy. "I find The Illuminati Ball to be a very intriguing play and I am extremely honored that Cynthia invited me to be a part of the production."
Guests are whisked away in a luxury limousine bus and transported to the secret estate, which is located on a secluded peninsula just one hour from Manhattan. En route, champagne will be served while guests are briefed, masked and rehearsed. Candidates will be returned to the city via the limousine before midnight.
The play is written and directed by Cynthia von Buhler. She is also the set designer. PJ Mead is the Associate Director. The cast are Vincent Cinque (Pig King), Travis Moore (Chumazee), Delysia LaChatte (Circe), Prodigy, Justin Moore (Moloch), Kat Mon Dieu (Demeter), Luka Fric (Vacanti), Eden Atencio (Kamadhenu), Katie Kat (Parthenope), Tim Hospodar (Dr. Rubenstein/Pig King), Koppyr Snyder (understudy) and Persephone, a miniature pot-bellied pig, as herself. Aerial is performed by Rachel Boyadjis and Sara Zepezauer. Fire performance is by Lady Blaze. Kat Mon Dieu is the costume designer.
The Illuminati Ball: An Immersive Excursion by Cyn...


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Ethiopia Turns to Venable
Mon., Feb. 15, 2021
Venable is providing US government outreach to Ethiopia under a $35K per-month contract that went into effect Feb. 1.
Ethiopia prime minister Abiy Ahmed launched an invasion of the separatist Tigray region of the country in November. That attack has triggered a humanitarian crisis as more than 60K Ethiopians, who are largely Christian, fled across the border to Sudan, which is a Muslim nation, seeking refuge.
Abiy took the helm of Africa's second-most populous nation in 2018 with a promise to unite Ethiopia, but has struggled to contain growing ethnic violence, reported the New York Times.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken spoke with Abiy on Feb. 4 and "expressed grave concern about the humanitarian crisis in the Tigray region and urged immediate, full, and unhindered humanitarian access to prevent further loss of life," according to the State Dept.
Venable's contract runs through April 30 but may be extended upon mutually agreed to terms.
The engagement letter notes that Venable has agreed "not to perform governmental affairs work for any client that may be in opposition to the Embassy of Ethiopia."
Venable partner Thomas Quinn, a long-time Democratic activist who worked on the Hubert Humphrey and Ted Kennedy presidential campaigns, heads the Ethiopian work.
Policy advisor Loren Aho, a former aide to Democratic congressman Bart Stupak, assists Quinn.
They report to Fitsum Gebrekida, Ethiopia's ambassador extraordinary plenipotentiary.
Category: Foreign government
More Foreign government posts from O'Dwyer's:
Finn Partners Lands Enterprise Ireland
Fri., Jan. 13, 2023
Finn Partners is working with Enterprise Ireland to promote Ireland as a hub for innovation and entrepreneurship and to showcase the impact that Irish companies have in the US.
Montenegro Seeks Bipartisan Support in DC
Fri., Dec. 30, 2022
Bipartizan Solutions is providing strategic communications counsel to Montenegro to further its bid to bolster relations with the US.
Navigators Global Guides Qatar's DC Push
Thu., Dec. 15, 2022
Navigators Global, which has close ties to the Republican party, has signed on to represent Qatar on its relationship with the US.
Sonoran Reps Angola's Dos Santos
Fri., Dec. 9, 2022
Sonoran Policy Group makes DC case for Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of Angola's former leader, who has been charged with massive corruption. She claims to be a victim of a witch hunt.
Ogilvy Gauges US Opinion About Japan's Whaling
The Embassy of Japan has hired Ogilvy to conduct an audit of US public opinion about the country's commercial whaling activity.
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