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Tara's Palace Museum of Childhood News
Tara's Palace
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Tara's Palace Trust
The History of
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Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
The magical miniature world of Tara's Palace Museum of Childhood is yours to explore at Powerscourt House, Enniskerry. The Museum is home to Ireland's Largest Period Doll House, Tara's Palace. Perfect for all ages from 5 to 105. Must be seen to be believed! All profits are donated to Irish Children's Charities.
A Unique Day Out for all the Family
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The Smallest Doll in the World
The doll itself measures about 1.3cm in height. The arms and legs are jointed and moveable.
MINIATURE BOOKS
Come and See the latest additions to the Tara's Palace Library.
Come and See for yourself the limited edition miniature Gullivers Travels on display in the Tara's Palace Library.
A pair of blue and white vases from the time of K'ang-hsi, emperor of China 1654-1722, Tara's Palace.
Ivory Miniatures
The Ivory Room in Tara's Palace features miniature antique ivory furniture from Goa in India and some pieces made by French prisoners of war in the Napoleonic period.
Model Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa
One of the world's rarest and most sought after cars, a Testa Rossa (not this one!), was sold at auction in August 2011 for $16.4m. This model by Burago is 1:18 scale. Exhibition
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The Big Shoulders 5K race directors caused quite a stir in 2008 with their event t-shirts and medals with the likeness of President Obama.
Unlike Hurricane Hanna's cancellation of the Brooklyn Bridge Swim, Hurricane Gustav only caused a water temperature drop at the 2008 Big Shoulders Swims.
Under a gorgeous fall morning, 410 swimmers completed the 5 km swim and 193 swimmers entered the 2.5 km race in Lake Michigan.
Although Hurricane Gustav lowered the water temperature by 10°F in Lake Michigan, the lakefront was relatively calm on race day. Northwestern University's Eric Nilsson showcased his stamina and won the 5 km in 56:38, followed by Washington D.C.'s Steuart Martens at 57:21, and Mike Alexandrov at 57:24.
1998 world 5 km champion and fellow Northwestern University Wildcat Erica Rose led the women's field with a time of 1:01:13, followed by Indy Swimfit's Victoria Rian at 1:02:50 and Kelly Perry at 1:04:19.
English Channel legend Michael Read and ubiquitous Bill Ireland also competed.
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The spring semester seems to finally be holding the promise of warmer days, and the Curriculum in Global Studies is ready to meet the thaw with some exciting opportunities for students and the wider Carolina community. In April we will be co-sponsoring two "student's choice" visiting lectures alongside of visits of other scholars from around the world. One of the highlights this month was a visit by Kevin "KAL"' Kallaugher, whose illustrated lecture on "Political Cartooning after Charlie Hebdo" captivated the audience and attracted the attention of local media. We have also been exploring new ways to support and encourage our undergraduate and graduate students with small grants and network-building opportunities within and beyond UNC. In addition to kick-starting collaboration with NC State, our first cohort of Masters students has successfully secured a range of competitive grant and study awards including the FLAS (Foreign Language Area Studies) fellowship. In the meantime, our faculty is engaging global audiences in scholarship and policy, producing new and unique research, and winning awards for teaching. We are especially looking forward to celebrating the graduation of the Class of 2015 on Sunday, May 10! (Be sure to check out the details for commencement on our website). – Elizabeth Olson
Global Studies Joint Faculty member Townsend Middleton, a cultural anthropologist, focuses on tribal recognition and autonomy in the Himalayas. Engaging in research directly with communities as well as government personnel provides insights on impact of government recognition and programs on everyday lives. Learn more about Professor Middleton's research on our website.
New Global Studies Staff Member
The Curriculum in Global Studies welcomes Zach Ward as the Student Services Specialist. In this capacity, Zach will oversee the day-to-day management of all student services, in the areas of admissions, financial aid, outreach, and course registration, for both undergraduate and graduate students. He's excited about the opportunity to support such a dynamic program and work with such amazing faculty, staff, and students. Apart from higher education, some of Zach's interests include tennis, collegiate sports, hiking, photography, This American Life, and North Carolina barbecue.
Master Program Collaboration with NC State
The Global Studies MA Program is excited to announce a new collaboration with the Masters of International Studies (MIS) program at NC State. Through this program, students and faculty will connect for research, career opportunities, and more. The collaboration kicked off this spring with a Careers Showcase event at NC State on March 20th featuring alumni from the MIS program.
A Ugandan-American originally from Atlanta, Shamira Lukomwa is a fourth year Global Studies and Communication Studies student. During her SIT study abroad program in Kenya she conducted research on the prevalence of sugar daddy relationships amongst female university students in Nairobi. She recently presented her research the Human Development Conference at the University of Notre Dame. Learn about Shamira and other featured students
Adriana Golindano graduated in 2014 with a dual degree in Global Studies and History. She was recently selected as one of the 120 Student Ambassadors to represent the US at the Milan Expo 2015. Of her time at UNC, she says "I am so grateful to UNC and the Global Studies major for shaping me into the intellectual that I am and helping me feed my wanderlust." Learn more about Adriana's work since graduating.
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Just finished this one last week and it's called 'One Tough Varmint.' It was also done on the Ipad Pro with Procreate. I love science fiction, robots, and westerns, so I combined all three into one mashup. For every illustration I create, I also write a little story about them when I post them on Instagram.
What's your instagram? I wanna read your stories!
It's 'doodle_worx' on Instagram. I actually forgot to write a story for this one, but I am going to do another version with the story.
@Doodleworx I guess that's a robo-bolo tie? I couldn't resist. I haven't watched it myself but I'm guessing you're a fan of the show, West World?
@smithdraws I like that, 'robo-bolo,' and yes I like West World, but I am also a fan of old Western movies; I watched a lot of them when I was a kid (especially Clint Eastwood ones!). I used to love black and white old TV shows and movies as a child, even the Lone Ranger!
@Doodleworx I watched, Bonanza and Rin Tin Tin, and Hopalong Cassidy re-runs. And of coure Zoro, but not as much Lone Ranger. It's too bad Westerns fell out of favor with Hollywood. But I enjoyed the recent remakes of, True Grit and 3:10 to Yuma. Good stuff.
@smithdraws I watched Bonanza and Zorro as well. Everything old is new again, so maybe Westerns will make a comeback once everyone gets sick of zombies!
I tried a night time version with lightning as I have never tried that effect before, as it seemed to difficult for me to do. I was pleasantly surprised with the results! I learned an important lesson, and that's : try something even if you don't know how to do it, you might actually figure it out!
I think this version is a good improvement. It's less expected and it works with the wacky subject matter very well (I'm using wacky as a good adjective, btw).
@tessw Thanks Tess! I'm glad I tried another version. That's what I like about digital, the ability to experiment and try differenet versions that you didn't think of the first time, or were scared to try. I like wacky too; it's much more interesting!
@doodleworx i like the night time piece better too, but think the lightning is not needed. It also seems strange to be coming from a clear cloudless sky. I think it woul dbe enough to have just the night time sky behind them. That leaves a bit of a place for the eyes to rest.
Second comment: try muting the colors a bit in the background (walls/door etc) behind the characters. THat way it feels less busy and we pay attention to the characters the best.


The 512 Fund was established in honor of Boise Police Officer Mark Stall (Badge #512), who was killed in the line-of-duty on September 20th, 1997. The primary purpose of the 512 Fund is to provide emergency financial and logistical assistance to the eligible family members of injured officers from outside the Boise area who may be transported to Boise for emergency medical treatment. The 512 Fund is also available to eligible family members of a similarly-situated local officer who is hospitalized in the Boise area and whose family is coming from out of the area to respond to the situation.
The 512 Fund was initially funded by contributions from members of the Boise Police Union (IBPO Local 486). Since then, the 512 Fund has become a Non-Profit Corporation and will continue to be funded by police employee contributions and donations from other individuals and groups.
Since being founded in October, 2010, the 512 Fund has already been quite busy. We have now assisted the families of three different Idaho police officers brought to Boise for emergency medical treatment of injuries sustained on-duty. In every case, our efforts have been well-received and appreciated by those families and we hope to be able to continue to serve in that capacity.
The 512 Fund is a Tax Exempt, 501(c)(3) organization, as recognized by the I.R.S. That being the case, all donations made to the 512 Fund are tax-deductible.


This Georg Jensen Savannah ring has an oval of translucent multifaceted rock crystal which has been set into a frame of highly polished sterling silver that has been crafted into this bewitching, mesmerising ring.
The Georg Jensen Savannah jewellery collection has been redesigned using images of earlier designs from the Jensen archives. If the size you require is not shown please contact us directly for availability.


Background: Colonizers usually present their agenda in positive terms–theirs is a civilizing mission and they pretend to be healers. For the colonized people, on the other hand, colonialism represents poverty and disease or at least disease-causing agents. In Oromia, the rinderpest virus (RPV) epidemic is one of the pathways by which colonialism and racist mindsets caused famine, poverty, diseases and millions of deaths.
Objective: The objective of this paper is to learn from the past, envision a better future by preventing infectious diseases, diversify the economy, develop public health institutions, promote healthy public policy and guarantee food security.
Methods: In this paper, using documents and oral narrative analyses, I explore the origin of RPV and its impacts on human lives and natural environments in Oromia.
Findings: In 1887, the Italian army stationed in Massawa-the Red Sea port had brought cattle infected with RPV. The Abyssinian army seized the cattle and unwittingly introduced this infectious disease to the highlands of the present state of Eritrea. In the 1880s, Abyssinia- supported by the European empire builders was expanding its colonial territories and in the process annexed Oromia and introduced RPV. RPV epidemics, compounded with the Abyssinian colonial war and widespread looting, caused famine in Oromia and accounted for the deaths of two-thirds of the Oromo people.
Conclusion: The RPV epidemic made the Oromo people easily succumb to Abyssinian rule and hindered their aspirations to rebel against the siege. RPV persisted in Oromia for over 120 years and severely harmed Oromo social, cultural and political institutions. Public health students and policy makers need to learn from the past and oppose all forms of racist views and promote social justice as a means of granting better public health.
Keywords: Rinderpest virus (RPV); Infectious diseases; Oral narrative analyses; Epidemics; Public health.
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You can't go back again / By Bobby George & Charlie Williams.
Do my heart a favor & 4 other titles; musical compositions.
You can't go back / By Marcellus Hall, Tony Lee & Stephen Cerio.
Don't be jealous & 43 other titles; musical compositions.
You can't go back / Co-writer: Guy Clark.
All of the time & 91 other titles; songs.
You can't go back / By Richard "Spady" Brannan.
words & music: Rhett McDaniel.
You can't go back / John Metcalfe.
words & music: John A. Metcalfe.
Thomas Pasquariello & Erwie Susser.
You can't go back / words and music by Lawrence Boisen.
You can't go back home / written by Valentina, G. Christopher, B. Dickens.
You can't go back / by Sharon J. Nolte.
words & music: Kelly J. Cole, 1957-.
arr.: Word Music, employer for hire of artist/arranger.
Tunes composed & performed by Ken Medema.
You can't go back home / Fleming, Morgan.
words & music: Kye Fleming, pseud. & Dennis W. Morgan.
You can't go back / Gina Gibson.
What a shame we can't go back.
Prev. reg. June 1985, PAu 736-970.
(With Jus' goes t' show).
words & music: Edward O. Eberstadt, Gina Lei Gibson.
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Tom Collins Music Corporation, Keith Stegall Music, April Music, Inc.
words & music: Roger Murrah, Keith Stegall.
You can't go back / words and music by Loretta Butler.
Flies On Fire. : 1 compact disc ; Atco Records 7 91284-2, c1989.
Octa Music, Inc., Capitalist Bloodsuckers of Doom, Ltd.
words & music: Timothy Paruszkiewicz.
Performed by Flies On Fire.
Copyrights records by Octa Music, Inc.
Copyrights records by Capitalist Bloodsuckers of Doom, Ltd.
words & music: Roger Murrah & Keith Stegall.
The language of flowers. : Compact disc ; Victor VICP-60195, c1998.
words & music: Kevyn Lettau, Bill Cantos.
Lucky man. : Compact disc ; Curb Records D2-78707, c2001.
words & music: Al Anderson, 1947-, & Hal Ketchum, 1953-.


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Impact Wrestling TV viewership and rating coming out of the Hard To Kill pay-per-view
CategoriesImpact News NEWS TICKER
Thursday's Impact Wrestling television show finished with 111,000 viewers for AXS-TV, according to Showbuzzdaily.com. The viewership count was up from the previous episode's 104,000 viewers.
Powell's POV: Impact finished with a .03 rating in the 18-49 demographic, up from the .02 rating drawn last week. Impact finished 147th in the cable ratings after failing to crack the top 150 in recent weeks. The buzz regarding the pay-per-view, Mickie James entering the Royal Rumble, and the ROH crossovers all seems to have helped the cause.
Topicsimpact wrestling
WWE Royal Rumble 2008 on FS1, Impact Wrestling on AXS, AEW Dark, poll results for NXT TV, AEW Dynamite, and WWE Smackdown, Brandi Rhodes, Billie Kay
WWE Hell in a Cell, Impact Wrestling Bound For Glory, WWE Smackdown on FS1, NJPW Strong, and WWE 205 Live coverage, next advertised pro wrestling dates, Carmella, Harris Twins
Fight Network launches in the UK, includes Impact Wrestling live simulcast and replays


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HomeQuizzesQuiz: How Well Do You Know Zombies From Movies & TV Shows?
Hollywood has produced hundreds of zombie stories. Each director, writer, producer, and makeup artist has put their unique spin on the look of the undead. While all of them may seem the same in spirit, the flesh looks quite different. Use your delicious brain to test your knowledge and match the zombie to its movie or TV show.
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The site says that the storage size difference would act as a major differentiator between the 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch models other than display size, allowing people to get a true "phablet" experience with lots of storage space to save various documents and data. This would partly mirror Apple's iPad models, which allow for up to 128 GB of storage while iPhones only allow up to 64 GB of storage.
However, if Apple abandons the 16 GB model and introduces a 128 GB variant for the 5.5-inch iPhone 6 only, it would mean the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 only has two storage size variants, going against Apple's trend of releasing iOS devices with at least three different storage size options.


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Chat-your-own-Adventure #31: The Worming Llewynn Line
March 11, 2018 ~ Blaine Arcade
Death Hammer Justice Spear Majesty Mace
There were more than five hundred graves to sort through, and any one of them might have been the resting place of the death hammer of the hideous commander Baross Varnivore. He might not have always been an evil man, there were tales that his violent behavior and strange last name didn't come along until he picked up the habit of eating varnish in his adolescence. The facts were that, when he died, he left a collapsing empire that had dominated two continents.
Marci was there to claim his weapon. The legends of Varnivore always exaggerated him into a giant-mouthed consumer. He ate disobedient villages. His numerous apothecaries fed him potions of black magic, exacerbating the demons arguing inside his skull. His weapon had the aura of these stories as well. One strike could fell a building, but not before every living thing inside instantly dropped dead.
The only question was which plot to dig up. She walked through them, shovel in hand, holding her breath here and there to make sure no lingering ghosts could tug it out of her. Gray clouds rolled overhead, never letting sun hit the mass grave. Nobody was supposed to claim any part of his empire; the world was supposed to go back to having a will separate from his.
So all his belongings had been scattered, scooped from the ashes of the ashes of his immolated body. His wedding ring, he was married to a man-eating bear, was cast into the sea. His helm, with horns upon its horns, was buried in the barrens by a treacherous werewolf.
His death hammer was clutched by one of his victims, the only piece of vengeance they were allowed. Under one of those monuments it waited for the flesh of a living hand. She crept forward, looking for any sign of anything unusual. Most of the graves came with statues: brave men and women willing to face Varnivore's maw rendered in marble or granite staring off into the gray sky.
She crossed a stone marked with the name Llewynn. Her aunt. One of the last victims of his appetite. She was part of the final charge that broke through the walls of his fortress and cut down his royal guard. The hammer would not be in her hand, for the Llewynn's were never allowed to rise into greatness. It would be someone with a real title.
Aunt is a real title, Marci thought. Better than any of the others. She could prove her point, earn a high place for her family, with the power of the death hammer. An idea struck. It would take more than a few strokes of the shovel to earn such a weapon. Surely Varnivore had done more to claim it in the first place.
She moved to the exact middle of the graveyard, at least as far as she could tell. It was an irregular shape, with many people laid to rest where they had initially fallen on this battlefield. Varnivore's cursed and abandoned fortress was visible just over the nearest hill. Some of the graves were outliers, perhaps asocial warriors only forced to fight by Varnivore's tendency to lump all his enemies together and refer to them as 'meat'. Some monuments were hidden over little grassy mounds, their raised swords providing a home for climbing vines.
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Marci dropped to one knee and planted the blade of her shovel in the ground. Surely another wanderer would spot her before she could dig up everyone, so she needed eyes that could go where she couldn't. She needed a mind with just a little bit of greed to see the hammer, smirk, and whisper its location in their descendant's ear.
I call upon the Llewynn line, she thought, eventually turning it into a whisper. "I respect the wisdom of each and every one of you, but I need a troublemaker. I need someone who wouldn't normally be caught by the plea in this spell. I need the fish that would wriggle off the line. Please, ancestors, help me claim power and fortune so that the next spirit that reaches is you is gilded and wreathed."
She reached inside her coat and put hand over her heart, not to feel its beat, but to activate the rune tattooed there. Three X shapes with a line through them. The Llewynns only found partners and lives in the midst of conflicts where they could be mere pawns. They never seemed to have children or wed if they couldn't fight, lost in throngs of other more respectable citizens. Each X was a death, which meant the line would continue, and their family rune could cut through the flesh of war like a barbed wire through a sprinting ankle.
She felt it stir. It wasn't hot or cold or moving or electrified. It was just a puff of time, a breath from someone long dead. Her eyes rolled back in her head as she held her weight on the shovel. Her body was used as a gateway, so she had to hold tight while her heart held the stillness of death for one brief moment.
When she opened her eyes she was face to face with a crouching spirit: ethereal, blue, and grinning just as she had imagined. She was a younger girl of no more than fourteen with a giant scar moving across her scalp, down a shredded and mostly-missing ear, and ending at her collarbone.
"Who are you?" Marci asked, still not strong enough to rise.
"I am Artella," the girl said, grin widening, as if the very sound of her name filled her with mischievous joy. "I am the quickest to trick and quickest to die on the Llewynn line, as long as we've had names. I've never been back to the land of the living." Marci always imagined spirits hovering, but she simply stood and skipped around, looking at the monuments and dancing under the gray clouds as if it was raining.
"You're the troublemaker I asked for?" Marci grunted and got back to her feet, vision blurring only for a moment. Artella nodded. "We're partners then. I'm not allowed to use the rune, except in the most dire situations, and I have used it out of greed. Are you still willing to help?" Another nod and a giggle. Artella slapped at a dragonfly that buzzed by, and though her hand passed straight through, it fell to the ground, dead and stiff, eyes black.
"What trick are we pulling today?" the precocious spirit asked. "I'm a very good thief and a very fast runner. And I bite with the best of them."
"I need a spirit's eyes," Marci explained. "In one of these graves is a powerful weapon. A hammer. With it, I can change the course of the Llewynn line. I need you to help me figure out which grave."
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"That sounds awfully easy," Artella said, disappointed. "Do I even get to disturb the dirt? Throw a clod or two?"
"You can throw whatever you like," Marci said with a shrug, "but just keep in mind one of our own is buried here. Nothing but respect for my aunt." Artella nodded. "If you would please just use that ghostly body of yours, go under the earth, and find which hand holds the death hammer. If we succeed I promise my eventual children will bear your name and know your stories."
"Good enough," Artella chimed. In the span of a second she sank into ground and disappeared under the drooping pale grass. Marci walked over to the spot but was careful not to step on it exactly in case her ancestor rose up into her boot and smelled the sweat of her feet.
"Can you hear me?" she asked the ground, leaning over and cupping her ear. There was no answer. She walked back and forth, listening, shushing the wind whenever it picked up. She was alone for two full minutes before she spotted the blue scar of Artella rising. She was a hundred feet away, facing one of the monuments, scratching at her chin as if confused. She hurried over, unwilling to disturb any other ghosts with a shout. "Did you find it?"
"Not yet," Artella said, "but I think you should get up on this here." The ghost pulled herself onto one of the stone caskets above ground and patted the place next to her like a seat on a bench. Marci did as she was told.
"So… why are we sitting here?" she asked. Perhaps she has wisdom to share. A story of the bravery I inherited. Bravery that is the actual motive for my grave robbing. Please, tell me our line is less bloody than it looks and I'm not as ferocious as I feel.
"We shouldn't be on the ground right now," the girl warned. Marci felt something churn underneath them. She grabbed the side of the coffin and leaned forward. The grass was disappearing, being subsumed by the dark wet earth the purple bodies of large wriggling worms.
"What's down there!?" she asked, feeling a spark of panic.
"Worms," Artella answered simply. She stood up on the coffin and held out her arms, as if balancing on the middle board of a sinking canoe. "Tons and tons of worms. They've been feeding on the flesh and spirits of some nasty warriors as well as valorous ones. They're very protective. They didn't like me peeking around."
"What!" Marci hoped up as well, but the entire coffin lurched. Everywhere around them the green of the grass was swallowed up. More and more worms came to the surface until the ground seemed to be made of them. Monuments fell over and drifted on a sea of their fleshy writhing bodies. They were set adrift as the worms worked to shuffle the corpses, to keep the hammer out of their hands. "It figures. So much blood was spilled here that even the worms think themselves warriors! What do we do now?"
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"I have an idea," Artella said. Marci noticed a slight knitting of her brow. The ghost actually seemed a little worried.
"Why do you look scared?"
"Worms eat the dead," she explained. "Surely you know that. Body or spirit, they love to pass us through their gross little stomachs. I think if these got a hold of me I'd be deader than ever! But it doesn't matter. Do you want to hear my idea or not?"
"Yes!" They were forced to leap to another monument, the statue of a man riding a horse and holding a saber aloft, when the worms overturned the coffin. It sank beneath a bulge of squirming purple lumps. The stone face of the soldier was pressed into Marci's lap as she held the top of his head for balance. "I think this qualifies as disrespect for the dead." Artella had a hold of his shoulders and was stood on the horse's haunches.
"I'm going to go all the way out there," she said, pointing to the boundaries of the graveyard. "Since they're all up here, they're not down there. I come in from under them, grab the hammer, and kill them all! As the rune wielder, I need your permission."
"Permission granted!" Marci squeaked as the horse bucked in the tide of worms. Artella leapt away, hopping from stone to stone until she reached the edge of their influence. A moment later she was gone, and Marci was left straddling a stone horse. "You can't even use the hammer!" she shouted at the worms. "You don't even want it! Only a fool would be associated with Varnivore!"
Her pleas failed to convince them, or even be understood. They knew only that an unboxed spirit was trespassing in their bloody loam. She tried stabbing at them with the shovel, but the mass somehow grabbed the blade and sucked the whole thing down. Its handle disappeared. The worms devoured the horse's legs, the hanging stone buckle of its saddle, the knees of its rider…
"Artella!" she cried, begging for help. Another bulge appeared in the worms, but this time it burst, spraying the creatures in all directions, raining them into her hair and clothes. Out crawled Artella, wielding the death hammer of Baross Varnivore. Its stone head was the exact shade of many of the monuments. A flatted skull was carved into side, worms pouring out of the mouth, both literally and recreated in stone as part of its morbid decoration.
"I've got it!" she shouted, looking down to closely examine it for the first time. She didn't have long though, for the worms poured back in. With a mighty swing and a very unbecoming grunt for a ghost, she struck a wave of the creatures. They broke away, changing the color of death, and sinking into their kin. Twice more the flood of worms struck and twice more she struck back, killing thousands.
"It works," Marci whispered, barely noticing that the tide of vermin receded. There was the object of her quest, and wielded by her line no less. Does it matter that it's not me? She's a child; she wields it irresponsibly. She'll give it over. My rune can't keep her forever and she has no use for it in the realm of the dead. It's mine. It's ours.
Stern Disciplining Ghost Suicide Varnivore's Hunger
She was wrong. The hammer belonged only to Varnivore. So great were his appetites, so deep the well of magic in his stomach, that his imagery was not devoid of his power. The stone skull on the side of the hammer moved, its jaw flexing up and down. Artella, startled, dropped it, only for it to roll away on its own, chasing after the last of the worms as they burrowed in retreat.
"Get it!" Marci shouted, rolling off the horse and chasing it. She grabbed its handle, but was barely able to lift it. It swallowed down a mouthful of worms and soil, growing heavier as it did so. She kept her grip on it, but it pulled her low so it could lap up the fluid from some of the worms it had already blasted to pieces. A stone tongue emerged and dragged across the ground with a horrible sound like a cave lion licking the last flesh off a femur.
"That thing's more than trouble!" Artella warned, approaching from behind. "We don't need it! Let it go!"
"Maybe you don't need it," Marci growled, "but I do. I'm not just going to wait for that red sunrise, that inevitable battle whose blood I must bathe in just for fate to give me a family. I'll smash it all before it starts; I'll be Marci: murderer of war itself!"
"Just wait…" She heaved with all her strength, pulling the hammer, its tongue, and a lash of dirt and roots with it. The weight pulled her in a circle, turned it into a swing. The flat face of the hammer struck Artella. The ghost gasped and fell backward, hitting the ground hard enough to leave an imprint.
Artella looked at her hands. They went from blue to peach. There was nothing visible through her. Her fibrous scar filed with tiny red broken blood vessels. She took a breath. Marci was so stunned that she dropped the death hammer. It crawled along like an inchworm with its stony tongue, but it didn't get far.
She felt another puff of breath on the rune over her heart. She turned away from Artella to see the stern spirit of her aunt, wielding the death hammer. The ghost punched the skull and forced the tongue back inside, holding it closed with one hand.
"Do not return," her aunt warned as she sank back into the soil, taking the hammer with her.
"But wait! How will I get a family without them awash in blood! The blood that took you!" Her aunt's hand pointed as the soil passed her shoulders.
"You already have one," her voice assured as the wind took it. Marci whirled back around. Artella was on her feet. Flesh and blood. Rune visible under her torn shirt. She was struck by the death hammer, and being already deceased it had reversed her condition completely. The girl was alive once more, with a second chance at corporeal trouble making.
"Let's go," Artella said, grabbing Marci's hand and pulling her away before the worms got their nerves back. "I've got a new quest for us. We're going to pay a visit to the man who did this." She touched her scar, which, with its red color, was now obvious as the cause of initial death.
"Is he far?" Marci asked.
"No," she said with a strange expression. Her voice teetered between shock and sadness. Even with the rune, even with ten generations to talk to, there was no explanation for what she was about to say. "He's a Llewynn."
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Increasing numbers of them see mobile as the primary part of their strategy.
GreenPal CEO Bryan Clayton came to realize he had to scrap his company's $90,000 website.
The business aims to link homeowners with lawn care companies, but its software wasn't equipped to easily handle requests from mobile users, and 85 percent of visitors using those devices left without a transaction.
"We knew we had to completely gut the entire experience and build it from a mobile-first perspective," Clayton says.
More small business owners are recognizing that however they've reached customers in the past, mobile not only needs to be part of their strategy but may need to be the primary focus of their marketing. Research showing phones and tablets edging out other means is helping persuade them. And some are operating only with apps on mobile devices, forgoing websites.
When GreenPal was launched in 2012, the site was set up for traditional computers. "It was almost a different world," Clayton says. A year later, GreenPal realized it had to change. Now, 95 percent of customer interactions come from mobile devices. Customers get bids from lawn care providers, make appointments and can pay using GreenPal's mobile site or app.
"You don't walk into the other room and sit down at your computer. You just do it on your smartphone," says Clayton, whose company operates in metropolitan areas including Atlanta and Decatur, Georgia; St. Louis; Nashville, Tennessee; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Tampa and St. Petersburg, Florida.
More than half of Google searches, which number in the trillions, take place on smartphones and tablets, and more than half the visits to websites that use Google analytic services come from mobile devices. What's known as responsive design has made it easier for companies to fashion sites that work for smartphones, tablets and traditional computers, taking pictures, text and links and reconfiguring them for the particular type of screen.
As consumers rely more heavily on mobile, especially younger people whose phones are never far away, experts say that strategy needs to be the priority.
"Investment in growth really should be focused on the mobile market," says Gene Alvarez, an analyst with technology research company Gartner.
Giftagram, which allows shoppers to buy and send gifts, can only be accessed through its app. People who visit the company's website from a computer can download the app to their phone or tablet, which is the only way to browse or order.
As a startup with limited resources, Giftagram decided to put its money where the growth was, says Jason Reid, CEO of the Toronto-based company. Another reason: An app makes it easy to choose a gift and have a notification sent to a recipient via email or text.
"The simplicity of what we're able to do in mobile can't be replicated in a desktop," Reid says.
A mobile-first strategy also makes it easier for companies to cater to specific groups. At GreekGear, which sells clothing, tote bags and other items with fraternity and sorority logos, half the online visitors use mobile devices, CEO Joe Tantillo says.
Many of them are college students who don't want to spend time browsing all the merchandise, he said, and the items featured on smartphones or tablets are the top sellers. "They can just pick a size and go," Tantillo says.
GreekGear, founded in 1999, began its mobile-first strategy about four years ago because of the increasing number of visits to its website from mobile devices.
"Because they're coming to us this way, it needs to be a priority," he says.
Bear Mattress has seen sales from mobile devices increase since it was launched last year. About half now come from phones and tablets and CEO Scott Paladini expects that to grow because 85 percent of company's online visitors are using mobile devices.
"It's the best device to contact and be in touch with our customers," Paladini says.


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Abstract: Silicon wafers implanted at adequate conditions (such as room temperature, SOkeV, 5 × 10^<16> H-crn^<-2>) induce exfoliation phenomena after 500℃ heating. In this study, for making of the influence of impurity clear, the damaged layer in the hydrogen-implanted silicon was observed with cross sectional transmission electron microscopy. And the exfoliated surface was observed by optical-microscopy and atomic force microscopy (AFM) The behaviors of three types of specimens (p++, p and n type, respectively) were compared by carrying out in furnace annealing. The quantity of defect is proportional to the concentration of dopant, and it is interesting to note that p++ and p type had a sharp peak in the depth profile, but n type had a broad peak and a second peak in a shallow region. The number of exfoliation was proportional to the dopant concentration. So was the total exfoliated area (ratio of area). The other hand, the average area of exfoliation was biggest in n type silicon and was in smallest in p++ type. It seems that the average area was not affected by dopant, while it was affected by the depth of exfoliation.


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Car repo man says suspect pointed gun at him
Darrell Clem
hometownlife.com
A 48-year-old Canton man is facing criminal charges after he was accused of pointing a gun at a man who came to repossess a vehicle at a residence on Beck, north of Hanford.
No shots were fired and no injuries reported as the incident unfolded about 2 p.m. Friday, a Canton police report said.
Police found a BB gun at the scene, but the 27-year-old victim told authorities he believed the man had a different weapon — possibly a semiautomatic handgun — before police arrived. The investigation was continuing.
The worker contacted police to report he had been threatened while trying to do his job repossessing a vehicle. He said the suspect came outside, yelled at him to leave, pulled a weapon out of a pocket of his pajamas, pointed it at him and then went back inside.
The worker said the suspect came back out with a different gun — a BB gun he said was pointed at him before the resident threw it on the ground, a police report said. The worker said he pushed the suspect to the ground when the suspect approached him.
According to the report, the suspect told police he pointed the BB gun at the worker to scare him away. He said he didn't want the worker to drive across his lawn to hitch the vehicle onto a tow truck.
Police ran a background check and learned that the suspect had a pistol registered in his name, but he insisted he only used the BB gun to threaten the worker. Police also learned the suspect had unrelated warrants for his arrest.
Fake gun at school
A Canton teen caught with a replica handgun in his car at the Plymouth-Canton Educational Park has been issued a citation by local police.
The incident unfolded shortly before 11 a.m. March 9 when a school resource officer patrolling the Salem High School parking lot noticed two students apparently skipping class, a police report said.
The students told police they were waiting near the car of a third student, saying he had send a text indicating he needed to talk.
An officer peered inside the car, a 1999 Oldsmobile Intrigue, and noticed through the window what appeared to be a handgun in a backseat passenger side pouch.
Police called school security and had the car's owner, a 17-year-old student, brought to the scene. He denied texting the other students and said the gun was a replica weapon — an airsoft pistol — that had the orange tip missing from it. A police report said ammunition for the fake gun also was in the car.
The student told police he plays with the gun with his friends. He was issued a ticket for being under 18 and having a replica firearm. The two other students were taken to a school office for allegations they were skipping class.
Near head-on crash
A 69-year-old Westland man told police his vehicle was nearly struck head-on — close enough that it damaged a side mirror on his car — while he was driving west on Palmer near Lotz.
The man said he was driving his Chrysler 200 along Palmer, near the I-275 overpass, when the driver of a purple Ford Focus crossed the center line shortly after 2 p.m. Saturday.
The man said the other driver struck his car just enough to damage the mirror. The man wanted to document the incident.
Unruly customer
Police went to the Days Inn on Michigan Avenue, near Lotz, amid reports of an unruly customer Sunday.
An employee said a 41-year-old man had rented a room for a month and paid $900, signing a no-refund policy and then later complaining about the room. The employee said the suspect began yelling and demanding his money back.
The employee told police he had dealt with the customer in the past and described him as bipolar and schizophrenic.
The suspect became unruly and was ordered off the property, a police report said. A police investigation indicated the suspect had gone to another motel nearby.
Authorities warned the man to stay away from the Days Inn. Police also told Days Inn employees to report the man if he comes back.
dclem@hometownlife.com
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I've never liked urban myths. I've never liked pretending to believe in them; never understood why everyone else doesn't see straight through them. Why is it they've always happened to a friend of a friend – someone you've never met? Why does everyone smile and nod and pull the right faces, when they must know they're not true? Pointless. A waste of breath. So I sneered at the myths about Scaderstone Pit. It was just an old quarry – nothing more. I never believed in the rumours of discarded dynamite. It had decayed, they said. It exploded at the slightest touch, had even blown someone's hand off. I shrugged off the talk of the toxic waste. It was dumped in the dead of night, they said. The canisters rusting away, leaking deadly poisons that could blind you, burn your lungs. I laughed at the ghost stories. You could hear the moans, they said, of quarrymen buried alive and never found. You could see their nightwalking souls, searching for their poor crushed bodies.I didn't believe any of it – not one word. Now, after everything that's happened, I wonder whether I should've listened to those stories. Maybe then, these things would've happened to someone else, and I could've smiled and said they were impossible.But this is not an urban myth. And it did not happen to someone else, but to me. I've set it down as best I can remember. Whether you believe it or not, is up to you.
I've never believed in the end of times. We are mankind. Our footprints are on the moon. When the last trumpet sounds and the beast rises from the pit---we will kill it.
I've found I still serve a purpose. I remind people to pray, to calculate the odds, to thank the fates, the gods, good karma, whatever it was that made this happen to me and not them. I'm in the worst sort of club. The one no one else wants to be in.
I've never known anyone who was saved who did not first save herself.
I've never been bothered with my conduct. I've only been bothered by people that don't get it correct when they gossip about me.
I was never able to conquer the distance between persons. An animal is fixed to its here-and-now by the senses, but man manages to detach himself, to remember, to sympathize with others, to visualize their states of mind and feelings: this, fortunately, is not true. In such attempts at pseudo merging and transferral we are only able, imperfectly, darkly, to visualize ourselves. What would happen to us if we could truly sympathize with others, feel with them, suffer for them? The fact that human anguish, fear, and suffering melt away with the death of the individual, that nothing remains of the ascents, the declines, the orgasms, and the agonies, is a praiseworthy gift of evolution, which made us like the animals. If from every unfortunate, from every victim, there remained even a single atom of his feelings, if thus grew the inheritance ofthe generations, if even a spark could pass from man to man, the world would be full of raw, bowel-torn howling.We are like snails, each stuck to his own leaf.
I guess that guys who'd never do something like that have a hard time believing some other guy would," I said, but I could see her point. Awareness and apologies were fine and good, but they could come too late.
I've heard it said many times when talking about going to heaven, 'You can't take it with you.' It's true that you cannot take with you your house, car, money, or other things you have valued here on earth, but how about your husband, wife, parents, children, friends, and acquaintances? You personally will never be able to get someone into heaven, but God certainly can use you as a tool to spread the good news as He brings more people to Himself.
Well, I've had my fun; I've had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms—his fun, for it was half made up, as he knew very well; invented, this escapade with the girl; made up, as one makes up the better part of life, he thought—making onself up; making her up; creating an exquisite amusement, and something more. But odd it was, and quite true; all this one could never share—it smashed to atoms.
I've always preferred the city at night. I believe that San Judas, or any city, belongs to the people who sleep there. Or maybe they don't sleep - some don't - but they live there. Everybody else is just a tourist. Venice, Italy, for instance, pulls in a millions tourists for their own Carnival season but the actual local population is only a couple of hundred thousand. Lots of empty canals and streets at night, especially when you get away from the big hotels, and the residents pretty much have it to themselves when tourist season slows during the winter. Jude has character - everybody agrees on that. It also has that thing I like best about a city: You can never own it, but it you treat it with respect it will eventually invite you in and make you one of its true citizens. But like I said, you've got to live there. If you're never around after the bars close, or at the other end of the night as the early workers get up to start another day and the coffee shops and news agents raise their security gates, then you don't really know the place, do you?
I know that I've never been perfect. I think we determine what's perfect to us. I think we understand perfect doesn't come perfectly. If I was to be bare face or a face full of make up. I won't be perfect until I determine what I see as perfect enough.
I've never believed in fairy tales. One day, the fairies will tell this story. There will be a valiant prince, a part no doubt played in history by the brave Vartan who journeys to rescue his bride from a dragon. There will be fairies. There will be horse-birds and there will be an enchanted blade. But, I will no doubt be stricken from the tale, a cursed blemish on a shining story. Happy endings don't always happen in the real world.
Either I've got a wart on my nose they find curious, or I've grown a tail, Albie Merani muttered to himself. Just then he thought. I'd better get a move on, got work to do. He hurried across to some stairs, heading down deeper into station, then followed the signs to the pod station.
I've never been this nervous before. Why aren't you here yet?
Loneliness, I've read, is like being in a long line, waiting to reach the front where it's promised something good will happen. Only the line never moves, and other people are always coming in ahead of you, and the front, the place where you want to be, is always farther and farther away until you no longer believe it has anything to offer you.
My father and I used to watch a ton of old horror movies when I was growing up. 'The Creature from the Black Lagoon' was one of my father's favorites and he was very excited for me to see the film. But after the movie was over, I told him that I was kind of bored. I said to him, 'I'm sorry, Daddy, but I saw the zipper in the back of the monster's costume. From that point on, I was really never scared at all. The point I'm trying to make is that I don't believe someone intentionally tipped off the target. And I maintain that no one made some horrendous mistake, which I'm now trying to cover up. I believe what really happened with the operation was that our target ended up seeing the zipper. Orlo Kharms realized something around him wasn't… real. And he was able to avoid the trap we had laid out for him.
I've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones - by faith alone. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run an organization, whether universe or a smaller one.
I've never believed that they're separate. Leonardo da Vinci was a great artist and a great scientist. Michelangelo knew a tremendous amount about how to cut stone at the quarry. The finest dozen computer scientists I know are all musicians. Some are better than others, but they all consider that an important part of their life. I don't believe that the best people in any of these fields see themselves as one branch of a forked tree. I just don't see that.People bring these things together a lot. Dr. Land at Polaroid said, "I want Polaroid to stand at the intersection of art and science," and I've never forgotten that. I think that that's possible, and I think a lot of people have tried.
I've never seen anything like it. I've had lots of people ask me about it, and I wish to heck I could explain it. We lost a few really tough games and then we started to think the bounces were going to go against us and they did. You can look at it one of two ways. Was the aberration at home or on the road? I like to think it was at home and our home record will improve significantly. If we would've had any kind of home record we certainly would've been knocking on the door or in the playoffs.
Just being a human being, I've realized that before every big problem you create for yourself, before every huge mess you have to clean up, there was a crucial moment where you could've just said no.
What I've always insisted on from myself is to do as well as I could, and keep doing better until I'm at least competent. Long ago I learned that to achieve anything, one must start where one stands. Or spend eternity waiting for the right moment. Which never comes.
I'm completely library educated. I've never been to college. I went down to the library when I was in grade school in Waukegan, and in high school in Los Angeles, and spent long days every summer in the library. I used to steal magazines from a store on Genesee Street, in Waukegan, and read them and then steal them back on the racks again. That way I took the print off with my eyeballs and stayed honest. I didn't want to be a permanent thief, and I was very careful to wash my hands before I read them. But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read. And it's far more fun than going to school, simply because you make up your own list and you don't have to listen to anyone. When I would see some of the books my kids were forced to bring home and read by some of their teachers, and were graded on—well, what if you don't like those books?


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Home Health News Health Reviews Smoking 1 in 4 High School Kids Vape, Mint Flavor Preferred
1 in 4 High School Kids Vape, Mint Flavor Preferred
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More than one in every four U.S. high school students (27.5%) currently vape, a new study shows.
About one-third of these teen vapers do so on a nearly daily basis, and nearly three-quarters favor flavored varieties of the addictive, nicotine-laden products.
And nearly 60% of high school students who currently vape use the popular Juul brand, according to researchers who analyzed 2019 federal data on almost 20,000 U.S. teens.
"In 2019, the prevalence of self-reported e-cigarette use was high among high school and middle school students, with many current e-cigarette users reporting frequent use and most of the exclusive e-cigarette users reporting the use of flavored e-cigarettes," concluded a team led by Karen Cullen of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Middle-school kids weren't far behind their older peers when it came to vaping rates, the report found. The data showed that about one in every 10 in this age group are current vape users, with 18% of this group reporting frequent use. Again, Juul and flavored varieties of e-cigarettes are very popular among younger teens.
Health advocates who've long fought for declines in smoking among the young said the rise in vaping is troubling.
"Most of the products studied contain nicotine - often in concentrations that surpass the average nicotine content in a combustible tobacco product," noted Andrea Spatarella, who directs the Center for Tobacco Control at Northwell Health in Great Neck, N.Y. "Considering these factors, young e-cigarette users are at high risk of becoming addicted to nicotine," she said.
A second study outlined the allure of flavored e-cigarettes for kids.
The study found that mint is the most popular e-cigarette flavor used by American teens, and fruity and "dessert" flavors are much more popular in this age group than tobacco flavoring.
The findings come just a few weeks after Juul - which makes the best-selling e-cigarette brand in the United States - said it would bow to pressure and take fruit and desert flavors off the market, but keep selling mint, menthol and tobacco flavors.
In September, the FDA announced that it would ban all non-tobacco e-cigarette flavors, but the Trump administration is reported to be backing away from a ban on mint and menthol flavors.
However, with mint the clear flavor of choice for teens, lead author Adam Leventhal said his team's study "calls into question whether regulations or sales suspensions of flavored e-cigarettes that exclude mint flavors would meaningfully reduce youth vaping." Leventhal directs the Institute for Addiction Science at the University of Southern California (USC).
Spatarella agreed. "The preferences [of teens] for flavors is shifting," she said, with users "'graduating' from candy or fruit flavors to more 'grown-up' flavors, such as menthol and mint."
In her view, "regulation and oversight of these products in not enough. Eliminating access to flavored e-cigarettes is a pro-active approach to a growing problem."
The USC study was based on data from a 2019 survey of more than 14,000 students in grades 8, 10 and 12, across the United States, who were asked which Juul flavor they use most often.
Among 10th and 12th graders, mint and mango ranked first and second - about 44% and 27% among 10th graders, and 47% and 24% among 12th graders, respectively.
Among 8th graders, mango was most popular at 34% followed by mint at 29%, the findings showed.
In all grades, fruit flavoring was ranked third, followed by "other." In heavy-vaping teens who used Juul on 20 or more days in the past month, mint was the most popular flavor in all grades.
Both of the new studies were published online Nov. 5 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
A study by Leventhal published Oct. 28 in the journal Pediatrics found that teens who use flavored e-cigarettes are more likely to become regular users and vape more heavily.
"Regulations which reduce youth exposure to flavored e-cigarettes may aid in preventing young people who try e-cigarettes from becoming long-term e-cig users," Leventhal said in a USC news release. "[Such moves] could also encourage the millions of U.S. adolescents who already use e-cigarettes to quit vaping, especially if they can no longer access e-cigs in flavors they like."
Dr. Len Horovitz is a lung specialist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. He agreed with Leventhal, saying that "vaping needs to be outlawed, and will produce illness and death unless it is stopped."
Sources: Andrea Spatarella, DNP, Center for Tobacco Control, Northwell Health, Great Neck, N.Y.; Len Horovitz, M.D., pulmonary specialist, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City; Nov. 5, 2019, Journal of the American Medical Association; University of Southern California, news release, Nov. 5, 2019.
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Bhanipura is a village positioned in Shahpura Block of Jaipur district in Rajasthan. Positioned in rural region of Jaipur district of Rajasthan, it is one among the 88 villages of Shahpura Block of Jaipur district. As per the administration register, the village code of Bhanipura is 79269. The village has 169 families.
According to Census 2011, Bhanipura's population is 927. Out of this, 507 are males whereas the females count 420 here. This village has 103 children in the age group of 0-6 years. Among them 51 are boys and 52 are girls.
Literacy rate in Bhanipura village is 70%. 656 out of total 927 population is educated here. Among males the literacy ratio is 82% as 417 males out of total 507 are literate while female literacy ratio is 56% as 239 out of total 420 females are educated in this Village.
The Negative part is that illiteracy rate of Bhanipura village is 29%. Here 271 out of total 927 individuals are illiterate. Male illiteracy rate here is 17% as 90 males out of total 507 are uneducated. In females the illiteracy rate is 43% and 181 out of total 420 females are illiterate in this village.
The number of occupied person of Bhanipura village is 395 yet 532 are non-working. And out of 395 working people 20 peoples are totally dependent on agriculture.


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The Pickering Fellowship offers a unique opportunity to promote positive change in the world. Upon successful completion of a two-year master's degree program and fulfillment of Foreign Service entry requirements, fellows have the opportunity to work as Foreign Service Officers in accordance with applicable law and State Department policy, serving in Washington, DC and at a U.S. embassy, consulate, or diplomatic mission around the globe. Fellows also agree to a minimum five-year service commitment in the Department of State's Foreign Service. The five-year service commitment begins upon entry into the Foreign Service.
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Pakt (English: "The Pact") is a Polish television series that originally aired on HBO Europe, running for two seasons between 2015 and 2016, about a journalist who investigates a web of lies and betrayal. The first season was based on the Norwegian TV series Mammon, while season 2 was an original concept. Pakt was one of the first series produced by HBO's international affiliates to be optioned for its American video-on-demand platform, HBO Now.

Principal cast
 Marcin Dorociński as Piotr Grodecki, journalist
 Witold Dębicki as Andrzej, newspaper editor
 Adam Woronowicz as Dariusz Skalski, finance minister
 Mariusz Bonaszewski as prime minister

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By Patrick Hollis
11th Oct 2022, 2:37pm
Data from the Office of National Statistics has revealed the unemployment rate in the UK has dropped to the lowest level in nearly 50 years.
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The latest data from the ONS also looked at the number of vacancies from July to September 2022, a figure which fell.
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An ONS spokesperson said: "Despite three consecutive quarterly falls, the number of vacancies remain at historically high levels.
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Stasis is something of a miracle. It's a tiny budget game made by the tiny team at The Brotherhood Games (the majority of the development was handled by brothers Chris and Nic Bischoff), five years in the making, and it's one of the best adventure games I've played in a long, long time.
The game opens above Neptune on the medical research vessel the Groomlake as main character John Marachek awakes from stasis. He's woozy, injured, and things have gone very, very wrong in the time that he's been asleep. John doesn't know where his wife and child is, so he sets off to find them. Lights flicker, broken computers spark, blood and bubbling ooze abound, and we're off on a gothic science fiction horror show.
While there are a couple of jump scares in Stasis, the game is more concerned with disturbing you. Kurt Vonnegut said in his rules of fiction, "Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them-in order that the reader may see what they are made of." The Bischoff's are sadists, and I mean that as the best sort of compliment. John Marachek is put through hell, forced to perform morally compromising actions and suffer horrors of all kinds. I'm rarely surprised by games, but Stasis managed to surprise me with the depths it sunk to.
As you guide John through the Groomlake, you'll face somewhat typical adventure game puzzles – pick up items, combine them, use them where they're needed – and it's here that the game stumbles the most. While the majority of the puzzles are pretty great (I particularly enjoyed the puzzles that required me to really pay attention to the environments), there were a couple of times when I was stumped. When that happens, the game kind of grinds to a halt as you run around, clicking on things, trying combinations, running the mouse over the environment hoping for hot spot hits. It's a problem common to the adventure genre so Stasis is not the only offender, but it is still a problem. I am tempted to suggest that a key that would highlight interactive areas might alleviate this issue, but I'm not sure I would want the extra handholding once it was in place, unless it was togglable. Where this really becomes a problem is when there seemingly aren't enough hints. The hydroponics area held me up for a while, as did the stasis chamber puzzle (although that one was fair, it just needed some laser focused examinations). I couldn't figure out where to go in one area, but as it turns out, I just didn't walk in the right spot, which seems unfair. While I generally loved reading the PDA journals that divulge clues and tell the stories of the characters that inhabited the Groomlake – I particularly enjoyed reading about the technician who had some bad luck and an unhappy marriage – there can be times where you have to sit and read quite a bit at one time. The villain is a little flat, too, coming off as a bit of a one-note version of Doctor Frankenstein. It's all forgivable, because the rest of Stasis is just so strong. Stasis' environments are absolutely stunning, so much so that I found myself constantly screenshotting for this review. To paraphrase Hellraiser's Pinhead, the Bischoff's have such sights to show you. It's a joy to explore the horrifically gorgeous world of the Groomlake. The sound design is also great, as is the tremendous music by game legend Mark Morgan, Christopher Bischoff, Daniel Sadowski, Jovana Djordjevic, and Meesah Kuteyi.
One holdover from adventure games of yore that I was delighted to see return was that John can die, the pains of which are mostly avoided due to autosaves. The new, episodic King's Quest game from The Odd Gentlemen also employed this, and both it and Stasis show how old mechanics can be freshened up and made palatable again. I enjoyed every single one of the gruesome deaths that I lead John Marachek to. It felt like The Brotherhood truly enjoyed thinking up and animating each one.
If you have any love for adventure games, buy Stasis now. It's a beautiful, horrifying ode to Alien, Event Horizon, and game classics like BioShock, Dead Space, and The Dig. It's scary, it's smart, it has a dark sense of humor, and it has soul. I was frequently disturbed, and I was left exhausted and beaten down by the end. What more can you ask of horror? Highly recommended.
Stasis is available now on PC and Mac, via Steam and GOG.
I'd heard nothing about this game until now, but I've got a feeling I really have to give it a go.
Awesome! The worry that people probably won't hear about this game was definitely one of the reasons I wanted to cover it. It's excellent, and well worth a go if you like adventure games.


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Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Update, Issue 1, 2018 (Video Program)
Released December 2018
Proceedings from video interviews with Prof John G Gribben and Dr Jennifer R Brown on the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia. (Video Program)
This activity is intended for medical oncologists, hematologists, hematology-oncology fellows and other healthcare providers involved in the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).
The clinical course of CLL and outcomes for patients vary widely, largely based on the presence of individual predictive and other risk factors. In recent years the identification of cytogenetic abnormalities and their subsequent incorporation into traditional clinical staging systems has refined clinicians' ability to determine patient prognosis, and based on the improved understanding of the biology of CLL, a number of novel agents and therapeutic strategies have been investigated. Some of these efforts have proven successful and are already available for use in the clinic, but along with these many exciting advances, vexing questions and clinical challenges are emerging simultaneously. To bridge the gap between research and patient care, this program features one-on-one discussions with leading hematology-oncology investigators. By providing information on the latest clinical developments in the context of expert perspectives, this activity assists medical oncologists, hematologists and hematology-oncology fellows with the formulation of evidence-based and current therapeutic strategies, which in turn facilitates optimal patient care.
Recall the incidence, prognostic significance and clinical implications of select biomarkers and chromosomal abnormalities that may be associated with a diagnosis of CLL, and use this information to develop evidence-based testing algorithms in general oncology practice.
Individualize the selection of systemic therapy for patients with newly diagnosed CLL, considering clinical presentation, biomarker profile and psychosocial status.
Implement a plan of care to recognize and manage side effects and toxicities associated with current and recently approved systemic therapies in the management of CLL.
Appreciate recent therapeutic advances and related FDA approvals in CLL, and discern how these agents can be appropriately integrated into routine clinical practice.
Review emerging clinical data on the efficacy and safety of the recently FDA-approved antibody-drug conjugate moxetumomab pasudotox for hairy cell leukemia.
Evaluate available data with and consider the potential clinical roles of novel agents and regimens that may provide treatment options for additional patients beyond those for whom they were initially indicated.
Audio Program: Research To Practice designates this enduring material for a maximum of 2.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Video Program: Research To Practice designates this enduring material for a maximum of 3 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Successful completion of each of these CME activities, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 2.75 (audio) and 3 (video) Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for each activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.
Audio Program: This CME activity consists of an audio component. To receive credit, the participant should review the CME information, listen to the MP3s, complete the Post-test with a score of 80% or better and fill out the Educational Assessment and Credit Form located at ResearchToPractice.com/CLLUpdate118/CME. The corresponding video program is available as an alternative at ResearchToPractice.com/CLLUpdate118/Video.
Video Program: This CME activity consists of a video component. To receive credit, the participant should review the CME information, watch the video, complete the Post-test with a score of 80% or better and fill out the Educational Assessment and Credit Form located at ResearchToPractice.com/CLLUpdate118/Video/CME. The corresponding audio program is available as an alternative at ResearchToPractice.com/CLLUpdate118.
Prof John G Gribben, MD, DSc, FMedSci
Chair of Medical Oncology
Barts Cancer Institute
Advisory Committee: AbbVie Inc, Acerta Pharma — A member of the AstraZeneca Group, Celgene Corporation, Janssen Biotech Inc, Kite Pharma Inc, Novartis, Pharmacyclics LLC, an AbbVie Company, Roche Laboratories Inc; Consulting Agreements: Acerta Pharma — A member of the AstraZeneca Group, Celgene Corporation, Janssen Biotech Inc; Data and Safety Monitoring Board: Acerta Pharma — A member of the AstraZeneca Group.
Jennifer R Brown, MD, PhD
Director, Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Center
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Consulting Agreements: AbbVie Inc, Acerta Pharma — A member of the AstraZeneca Group, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Biogen Idec, Celgene Corporation, Genentech, Gilead Sciences Inc, Janssen Biotech Inc, Loxo Oncology, Novartis, Pfizer Inc, Pharmacyclics LLC, an AbbVie Company, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd, Sunesis Pharmaceuticals Inc, TG Therapeutics Inc, Verastem Inc; Contracted Research: Gilead Sciences Inc, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd, Verastem Inc; Data and Safety Monitoring Board: Invectys, MorphoSys.
This activity is supported by educational grants from AbbVie Inc, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP/Acerta Pharma — A member of the AstraZeneca Group, Janssen Biotech Inc, administered by Janssen Scientific Affairs LLC, and Pharmacyclics LLC, an AbbVie Company.
Expiration date: December 2019
Interview with Prof John G Gribben, MD, DSc, FMedSci
Case: A 73-year-old woman who presents with fatigue and cervical lymphadenopathy receives ibrutinib as first-line therapy for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)
Assessment of biomarkers to inform therapeutic decision-making for patients with CLL
Perspective on watching and waiting versus treatment for patients with newly diagnosed CLL
CLL12: An ongoing Phase III placebo-controlled trial of ibrutinib versus watch and wait for previously untreated Binet Stage A CLL in patients at risk of disease progression
Case: A 49-year-old man with CLL with an IGHV mutation experiences profound fatigue and rash with fludarabine/cyclophosphamide/rituximab (FCR) as first-line therapy
Minimal residual disease (MRD) status and prognosis for patients with CLL
Response to ibrutinib as front-line therapy for CLL
Risk of ibrutinib-associated hypertension and bleeding
Selection and sequencing of treatment for CLL
Results of the Phase III MURANO trial evaluating venetoclax/rituximab versus bendamustine/rituximab for relapsed/refractory CLL
Assessing the risk of tumor lysis syndrome (TLS) with venetoclax
Prevention and management of venetoclax-associated TLS
Benefits and risks of the venetoclax/ibrutinib combination as potential up-front therapy for CLL
Case: A 65-year-old man with FCR-refractory CLL who has a history of poorly controlled atrial fibrillation receives acalabrutinib on a clinical trial
Use of acalabrutinib in patients with preexisting, poorly controlled atrial fibrillation
Acalabrutinib-associated headaches
Perspective on the use of venetoclax/rituximab as second-line therapy
Risk of bleeding with Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitors and use for patients receiving anticoagulants
Role of allogeneic transplant in the treatment of CLL
Clinical presentation and management of hairy cell leukemia
BRAF V600 mutations in hairy cell leukemia
First-line therapy for patients with hairy cell leukemia
Approach to therapy for patients with relapsed hairy cell leukemia
Mechanism of action, efficacy and tolerability of the antibody-drug conjugate moxetumomab pasudotox for hairy cell leukemia
Interview with Jennifer R Brown, MD, PhD
Viewpoint on observation versus initiation of treatment for patients with newly diagnosed CLL
Comparison of efficacy and tolerability among BTK inhibitors
Effects of deletion 17p and TP53 mutations on response to therapy
IGHV mutation status as a prognostic and predictive biomarker
Benefits and risks of FCR as first-line therapy for patients with CLL with IGHV mutations
Correlation between MRD status and outcomes for patients with CLL
Choice of obinutuzumab-based therapy in the first-line setting for CLL
Use of ibrutinib for patients with previously untreated CLL
Adherence to treatment with ibrutinib and reasons for discontinuation
Efficacy and side-effect profile of acalabrutinib
Incidence of acalabrutinib-associated atrial fibrillation and headaches
Treatment options for patients who experience disease progression on ibrutinib
Clinical implications of the MURANO trial investigating venetoclax/rituximab for relapsed/refractory CLL
Monitoring and prophylaxis for venetoclax-associated TLS
Activity and tolerability of PI3 kinase inhibitors in CLL
Perspective on the efficacy of ibrutinib with venetoclax
Role of obinutuzumab with venetoclax for previously untreated CLL
Benefits and risks of ibrutinib with FCR
Case: A 75-year-old woman with relapsed CLL/small lymphocytic lymphoma with del(13q) and unmutated IGHV achieves an excellent response to venetoclax on a clinical trial
Sequencing of treatment for patients with relapsed/refractory CLL
Case: An 85-year-old woman with relapsed CLL with del(13q) experiences recurrent congestive heart failure after receiving ibrutinib
Case: A 65-year-old man with CLL with unmutated IGHV and a TP53 mutation receives acalabrutinib as second-line therapy
Case: A 49-year-old man with CLL with unmutated IGHV and del(13q) achieves an MRD-negative complete remission on venetoclax and obinutuzumab
Approach to TLS prevention for patients receiving venetoclax
Case: A 90-year-old man presents with loss of vision and is diagnosed with CLL with unmutated IGHV and del(11q)
Emerging data with checkpoint inhibitors for Richter's transformation
Efficacy of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy for CLL


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Self-reliance doesn't mean boycotting foreign goods but believing in 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam': Harsh Vardhan
Updated Jan 14, 2021 | 21:48 IST
On leveraging technology in the fight against the pandemic, Dr Harsh Vardhan said, "The Aarogya Setu application was developed for the purpose of helping in COVID management.
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan | &nbspPhoto Credit:&nbspPTI
New Delhi: Self-reliant India does not mean boycotting foreign goods but believing in the concept of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam and only a self-reliant nation can make its nation paramount, said Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday.
Addressing a webinar organised by Swarjya Magazine, Health Minister said, "Atmanirbhar Bharat has become one of the focal areas of our government, around which all economic policies are being drawn up. Our government is focused on bridging the gap between the rich and the poor and on providing equal opportunity to all citizens."
"India can progress only if each citizen progresses and for each citizen to progress we need to be self-reliant. Self-reliant India does not mean boycotting foreign goods but believing in the concept of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam. It means ending India's dependence on other countries and moving towards development and progress. Only a self-reliant nation can make its nation paramount," said Harsh Vardhan, as quoted by a press release issued by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
Speaking on the issue of Aatmanirbhar Bharat, Swatantra Bharat, and India's Healthcare Ecosystem in a post-covid-world, he continued, "As a step in the direction of Atmanirbhar Bharat, we launched the Make in India initiative to drive India as a hub for the manufacturing, cutting edge research and innovation. With industry will come greater employment for our youth, which will ignite prosperity in their lives."
On the self-reliant initiative during the pandemic, Health Minister said, "India utilized the time during lockdown to upgrade the health infrastructure, build the capacity of healthcare workers and ensure availability of requisite logistics in the country. We are today self-sufficient in the indigenous manufacturing of PPE kits, masks etc, and also in a position to export the same. From one lab in Pune, we now have more than ICMR-certified 2,323 labs."
On leveraging technology in the fight against the pandemic, Dr Harsh Vardhan said, "The Aarogya Setu application was developed for the purpose of helping in COVID management. The application has been downloaded by 168 million users."
Noting the efforts undertaken to rapidly increase the infrastructure in the country during the pandemic, he said, "Total isolation beds increased to more than 1.5 million by the end of Unlock 6 as compared to 10,180 before the lockdown. Similarly, the number of ICU beds has increased to around 80,669 as compared to just 2,168 before lockdown."
A National Expert Group on vaccine administration for COVID-19, NEGVAC was constituted under the guidance of the Prime Minister to monitor and decide on prioritization of population groups for vaccination, the delivery mechanism of the vaccine including tracking of the vaccination process and selection of delivery platforms, health minister added.
Ending the speech, the Union Minister said, "The call for Atmanirbhar Bharat is an inspiring call to keep pursuing your mission without being overcome by any obstacles, to establish a system of sacrifice and hard work, and to work towards nation-building."
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MANILA, OCTOBER 18, 2010 (MALAYA) HOUSE minority leader Edcel Lagman yesterday said Malacañang is arrogating unto itself Congress' power of the purse when it allegedly forced the passage of the P21-billion conditional cash transfer program (CCT) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development under the P1.645-trillion proposed budget for 2011.
"The repeated intransigent demands of President Aquino of having the CCT appropriation approved intact reveal a motive to preserve a partisan war chest even as he derogates the constitutional power of the Congress to independently appropriate public funds," he said.
The House approved the proposed General Appropriations Act on second reading early Saturday despite moves by the minority to reduce the allegedly bloated CCT budget.
President Aquino's allies terminated the period of interpellation and debate on the proposed DSWD which was the last remaining agency for consideration by the plenary.
The majority also rejected Lagman's proposal to cut the CCT funding to P15 billion, and instead adopted the original proposed budget of P34.3-billion budget for 2011.
Lagman said the proposed reduced amount is the reasonable and adequate funding for the DSWD to service a projected 1.5 million household beneficiaries or an increase of 500,000 grantees from the current level, "instead of the overly ambitious proposed beneficiaries of 2.3 million households or an increase of 1.3 million family-beneficiaries which is beyond the absorptive capacity of the DSWD."
Of the proposed DSWD allocation, P29.2 billion will be for the implementation of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) which will provide conditional cash grants to extremely poor households.
Of the P29.2 billion, P21.2 billion will go directly to conditional cash transfers or grants aimed at helping 2.3 million extremely poor households by the end of 2011. The remaining P8 billion will cover food programs such as food-for-work and rice subsidies.
The DSWD will implement the cash transfer program for some 582,000 poorest families through a $400-million loan from the Asian Development Bank, which will be spread out over five years.
The welfare program can be availed only if the families will comply with the government's requirements, like keeping their children in school and undergoing medical check-ups.
But Malacañang said it is "pleased" that the House of Representatives approved President Aquino's proposed P1.645-trillion 2011 budget, with the P21-billion conditional cash transfer (CCT) fund intact.
Abigail Valete, deputy presidential spokeswoman, said the much-criticized lump sum appropriations will be used properly and there are mechanisms to ensure that the money will go to where it is allocated.
The House passed the 2011 budget bill on second reading early Saturday morning after a 17-hour marathon session, with only House minority leader Edcel Lagman objecting.
Aquino, in his budget message, told members of Congress that the 2011 General Appropriations Bill showed his strong commitment to fight poverty.
Aside from the P21-billion CCT fund which was included in the P34-billion budget of the Department of Social Welfare and Development, the budget bill also contained more pork barrel for lawmakers.
It also contained a controversial P400 million allocation for contraceptives under the health department's family planning program.


Blessings, everyone! Please enjoy the poem.
"Smile" lines by the eyes.
On each side of the mouth.
Don't do much, or live up to our expectations.
Some hint of positive progress.
Hands of time on the 'wrinkle clock'.
Nothing looks better on us.
Even if we have to pull 'em up and tie them there!
From the book, Water Running Downhill!