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While Final Fantasy VII Remake does include an updated take on the original game's infamous crossdressing scene, there isn't a way to play as Cloud in a dress throughout the game. Or, at least, not an official way. Thankfully, PC players who want Cloud to keep rockin' his feminine side have options, like this PC mod from Nexus Mods, which gives our golden boy a flowy dress, gorgeous locks, and a cute tiara. That's not the only available mod for the game's PC port that gives Cloud some stunning feminine fashion options, however, as evidenced by YouTuber Suzi Hunter.
Read More: Cloud Always Wears A Dress In This Final Fantasy VII Mod
Hunter tweeted several images of Cloud in a variety of dresses, including a sexy red-and-black one, a princess-like pink one, and a short blue one. As you can imagine, the tweet blew up for all the right reasons, and I'm in love.
See, Cloud was already a beautiful boy. His facial features, perfectly oval face and pointed jaw, plus his amazing hair and captivating Mako eyes, make him a sight for sore eyes. Or any eyes, let's be honest. But these mods — one of which is called Cosplaying Cloud, which dresses our mercenary up as Bowsette or Booette — turn him into a hot femboy.
I'm happy to see the FF7 Remake mods are already taking off! ???????????? pic.twitter.com/p3hnsVWayE
— Suzi Hunter (@TheSphereHunter) January 7, 2022
As you can see, Cloud is incredibly hot in the above images. His makeup's on point, the dresses are striking, and everything seems to go well together. Folks are loving how adorable Cloud looks in these getups, and if I'm being honest here, I'm salivating at the mouth over how he looks. He's stunning, honey! I may be married, but I am bisexual, too, and I'd totally drop my partner for Cloud if he were real, dress or not. (Please don't tell my partner, she'd probably be pissed. Hi baby, I love you! Don't leave me.)
We've reached out to Suzi Hunter for comment and will update if we hear back.
The image of Cloud in a dress has always been controversial ever since players first experienced the original Final Fantasy VII's crossdressing scene back in 1997. While in-game NPCs are never overtly hostile toward Cloud in a dress, some members of the community were uncomfortable seeing their stoic hero in feminine attire, even if he wore it begrudgingly. While it could be perceived as a "joke" punching down at men who don't conform to rigid gender expectations, I always thought of it as progressive, a nod to the real-world drag community and effeminate boys, like me, who sorta like women's clothing.
Read More: Worth Reading: A Close Look At Final Fantasy VII's Crossdressing Scene
So yeah, Cloud is hot. And he's even hotter in a dress. Who knew? You know what's not hot? This Sephiroth mod that turns him into Ronald McDonald. I'll probably have nightmares of this, with "One-Winged Angel" playing in the background as a McRib descends onto my consciousness.


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Being in business is challenging. There are a lot of unsexy things about business and entrepreneurship a lot of people don't talk about. Because the business environment has become so secular, I'm challenging you today to make sure you incorporate principles from the scripture in your daily practices. Consult with Him, he loves you and wants you to succeed in life and business.
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text: January 19, 2021 fa-translate dropdown trigger Eng. A- A+ read facebook twitter email print Creative Armenia and AGBU announce 2021 Fellows Image Seven cutting-edge Armenian artists receive funding, mentorship, and promotion to push the frontiers of Armenian culture Creative Armenia and the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) are delighted to announce the seven selected artists of the 2021 Creative Armenia-AGBU Fellowships, which provide funding, mentorship, industry connections, and promotion uniquely designed for career breakthrough. The selected Fellows for the 2021 term are: writer Olivia Katrandjian (Luxembourg); bass player and composer Noah Garabedian (USA); curator Nairi Khatchadourian (Armenia); filmmaker and writer Emily Mkrtichian (USA); musician and composer Bei Ru (USA); media artist and landscape architect Aroussiak Gabrielian (USA); and illustrator and animator Arevik d'Or (Belgium). "We are proud of these incredible artists," remarked AGBU Central Board Member Ani Manoukian." They represent the wide range and depth of creativity that Armenians have to offer the world." Alec Mouhibian, the founding VP of Creative Armenia noted, "These powerful creators are in the business of building a culture that lasts. It will certainly be a culture of resilience, innovation, and infinite possibilities." As the 2021 Fellows step in, the 2020 Fellows — composer and musician Armen Bazarian; visual artist and curator Nvard Yerkanian; theatre director and dancer Tsolak Mlke-Galstyan; composer and conductor Alexandr Iradyan; composer and pianist Zela Margossian, and filmmaker Vahagn Khachatryan — continue their role as creative ambassadors for Armenia, leading and mentoring a new wave of artists. Now in its historic third term, the Fellowships are a collaboration of Creative Armenia and AGBU, which entered into a strategic partnership in 2018. Creative Armenia is a global arts foundation for the Armenian people that discovers, develops, and champions innovative talents across the arts. AGBU, a trusted non-profit organization across the diaspora for over a century, has opened many doors for talented Armenians through such offerings as university-level performing arts scholarships, summer internships, and professional programs such as the Musical Armenia Program (MAP) and Sayat Nova International Composition Competition—all under the aegis of the AGBU Performing Arts Department (PAD) established in the United States in 2012 and in Europe in 2016. Creative Armenia is a global arts foundation for the Armenian people that discovers, develops, and champions innovative talents. Its founding advisory board includes Serj Tankian, Eric Esrailian, Arsinée Khanjian, Eric Bogosian, Carla Garapedian, Simon Abkarian and Michael Aram. For more information, please visit www.creativearmenia.org. Click here to read this article in Armenian. Please note that archived content may appear distorted as it has been stripped of formatting and original images. What's New > News Archives > Press Release


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William R. and Patricia L. Verhagen Study Abroad Scholarship Fund
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William R. and Patricia L Verhagen established this scholarship in 2013 to support Kelley School of Business Bloomington students who participate in IU-approved, credit-bearing overseas study programs.
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Pendant lamp
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Aplomb is a small suspension lamp that creates direct and precise lighting on an underlying surface. Visible concrete is part of the expressive language of modern architecture and Foscarini, with Aplomb, uses this material with a spirit and a technology that is entirely original. The lamp displays a light touch of extreme elegance and formal simplicity, which softens the massive solidity of the concrete by enhancing its polished and yet unrefined material aspect. The small size of the lamp allows it to be used on its own (for example on a coffee table), in a line to light up a surface or even as a composition at different heights. The GU10 version is available in six different colours. The choice of colours, with pigments added directly into the concrete mix, enhances the personality of the lamp in different ways: the natural grey bring out its materiality, the brown gives a touch of warmth, while the white highlights its elegance. Brick red, sand yellow and olive green are the colours that join the tones already in the catalogue.
Suspension lamp with direct light. Cement diffuser, consisting off a special amalgam colored with pigments, produced by pouring the fluid mixture into a mould. Internal parabola shaped aluminium diffuser for the halogen version. Ceiling rose with galvanized metal bracket and batch-dyed ABS cover. Canopy decentralisation kit - multiple canopy available (up to 9 suspension lamps).
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Item Code | 代码
No. | 编码:FN195007L-3_52C
Dimensions | 尺寸
Ø170mm × H360mm
Materials | 材料
Concrete and aluminium.
Adjustable | 调节性
Only has switch function.
Light source | 光源
LED bulb GU10 (not included). 1个LED 灯泡 GU10灯头(不包含)
Input: 220/240 Vac. (50 Hz / 60 Hz). 电压: 220/240伏
Other light sources: Max. 80W. 灯泡最大可使用功率为 80瓦
Bulb socket: GU10 (Max. hgt. 80 mm). 替换灯泡的最大适合长度为 80mm
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Daily cleaning and wiping with a soft towel.
Do not use ammonia, solvents or abrasive cleaning products.
Please turn off the power before maintenance.
Warranty | 质保
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European Week of Sport - #BeActiveDay 23 Sept 2022
The European Week of Sport will take place from 23 to 30 September 2022 with the the kick-off day of this year's campaign, the #BEACTIVE Day, set for Friday, 23 September 2022.
Every year from 23 to 30 September, the European Week of Sport promotes more active, healthier lifestyles to millions of people in Europe and beyond
Prague will be the host of this eighth edition of the European Week of Sport with several events scheduled around the capital of the Czech Republic and around Europe. Find out more HERE.
#BEACTIVE DAY is an European-wide campaign celebrating the fun of physical activity and the benefits of being active for mental, social and physical wellbeing. #BEACTIVE DAY materialises through thousands of events and activities organised across the continent.
As part of the European Week of Sport, #BEACTIVE DAY is a collaboration between EuropeActive and its 20 national association partners, which will be hosting during the European Week of Sport (23-30 September) thousands of free events and activities organised across Europe and beyond in different locations such as health and fitness clubs, workplaces, outdoor facilities and many more places.
#BEACTIVE DAY is open to everyone. All organisations are welcome to get involved and to organise free events to enable people to be more active - in the workplace, at school, indoors or outdoors.
Get involved and find out more information about involved countries and their respective campaign timings here: https://beactiveday.eu/
Commenting on the campaign, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, Mariya Gabriel said:
"The #BEACTIVE DAY campaign is a wonderful example of how our partners can contribute to the success of the European Commission's European Week of Sport. I was impressed by the results of last year's #BEACTIVE DAY, and now look very much forward to seeing it gain further momentum this year. With EuropeActive and its actors, we join forces to encourage Europeans to be more active, to improve their general health and wellbeing and to make the most of our HealthyLifeStyle4All campaign!"
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The leading British universities should be allowed to privatise themselves, argues Alan Ryan, recently returned from the US.
The foul weather that greeted the November 19 Day of Action was all too apt. All hopes for British higher education seem doomed to be doused in cold water. It is no wonder that most academics who remember the 1960s do so with some affection: we were not affluent, but we were not much worse off than doctors and solicitors, and much on a level with civil servants and MPs. Universities ran on small budgets, but government assistance was predictable, if not generous. Anyone who talked of quinquennial grant settlements today would be derided as a wild utopian; you are lucky if you can see five months ahead.
What is maddening is that the future shape of British higher education has in fact been determined, and the decisions about its funding have been taken. With the characteristic British passion for doing slowly and painfully what we might do more easily, we refuse to notice the fact, and successive governments do nothing to make it easier for us to live with the new realities.
Of course, the important decisions have been taken piecemeal and not by governments - the whole western world has decided against a regime of high taxation and high public spending; the income gap between the elite that Robert Reich baptised as "information analysts" and ordinary production workers has widened enormously; and the need of so many women to return to work in their thirties and forties has created an entire new class of mature students.
The shape of the future can be seen on the other side of the Atlantic, where what was once a higher education system dominated by white 18-year-old men now processes some 14 million students, most of them part-time, a majority of them women. Only a minority are "traditional" post-secondary students.
Of course, Britain is not obliged to copy every American response to the new pressures on higher education; but these are pressures we have to meet. The chaotic fashion in which American institutions always adapt to new demands ensures that a lot of what goes on is pretty dreadful; two-thirds of all students are in programmes in "business studies", and many of these are closer to remedial reading and writing courses than to a Harvard MBA; there are too many impoverished community colleges that do nothing for the employment prospects of their students; and there's some outright fraud by fly-by-night private colleges that exist only to steal the federal loans that their students take out to pay their fees.
But the US has more than 3,000 institutions of higher education; the federal government has minimal responsibility for higher education; and states vary dramatically in what they provide and how. If Britain cannot manage to adapt more coherently and with fewer casualties, it really is a disgrace.
What is needed? Three things, unpalatable to large parts of the academy, but inescapable. The first is that means-tested grants plus loans have to be the major source of funding for students - not only for maintenance but for everything. In a rational universe, people know that whether you get a grant now and pay higher taxes later, or receive a loan now, and pay lower taxes later plus whatever income-related repayment the loan requires, is an accounting and not a moral issue. Given the current antipathy to a high-taxation economy, means-tested grants and loans with means-tested, tax-based system of repayments are the only way to fund students.
There is no reason why parents who can afford the fees at expensive private schools should get a gift from the taxpayers of the fees for medical school for their children, and every reason why governments should pay modestly for hard-up students and especially for hard-up mature students.
Socially speaking, it is rational to invest in improving your human capital, which is what higher education does, and, individually speaking, it is rational to invest in improving your earning potential. To the extent that we want benefits that do not appear in the national income accounts, that can be coped with by forgoing repayment or offering more generous grants to targeted groups or for targeted courses.
The second is that top-up fees (no doubt by some other name) are inevitable. No rational student will pay as much for a course that adds only marginally to their future prospects as for a course that makes all the difference. If the government wants there to be any universities in this country as good as even second-rank American universities, it must allow universities to charge what the market will bear.
As a starter, the leading dozen British universities must be allowed to privatise themselves. In science, where large capital expenditures are the order of the day, the government must concentrate its own investment in successful departments and leave commercial research to go wherever it chooses. This would not produce an Ivy League, but some version of the Ivy League plus Michigan, Berkeley, and the best liberal arts colleges.
There is too much anxiety about the impact of higher fees on working-class students. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Chicago, and their liberal arts college peers such as Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr do a very good job of making an expensive education available to clever young people from hard-up families by giving back something like 40 per cent of their income from tuition in the shape of scholarships. Given time and some government help, British universities could build up scholarship funds to do the same. Although this needs private money, it needs government assistance to get it started, and something like ten years to get British graduates used to such American habits as annual giving, and to get employers to encourage charitable giving by their employees.
The third implication is an end to national pay scales, which are more honoured in the breach at the top of the scale, and to light-weight talk of parity of esteem. In abolishing the binary system, the government put a hierarchical system in its place. Everyone knows it, but it is felt to be indecent to say so.
Parity of academic esteem is not to be had and should not be sought after. Other sorts of esteem have nothing to do with academic excellence. In moral terms, in social usefulness, or even in economic terms, the best English department in the country may well do less good than a mediocre accounting department - the latter may rescue students from unemployment and drudgery while the former plunges them into endless wrangles about aesthetic ideology.
In that case we should hold the bad accountants in high esteem. But it doesn't alter the fact that there's a wide measure of consensus about which are the best English departments in the country, and indeed the best accountants, too.
Good departments will be the most expensive - their faculty will want more sabbaticals, will know they could earn twice as much if they went to Yale, and will want to rocket up the promotions ladder. They will also live under a lot of pressure and put each other under a lot of pressure. The best departments may be less nice to work in than less distinguished departments; but the freedom to charge fees and to set pay and conditions in a way universities currently cannot would allow the more and less ambitious (or gifted, or driven) to sort themselves out.
Will this produce an academic paradise? Not in the least. Would it be an improvement on the present system? Yes. It would do nothing to help low-paid manual and clerical workers, and would not reduce the conflicts over rents, fees and charges that all universities encounter, but it would at least allow each institution to manage its own affairs. Some would make a hash of it but most would do perfectly well.
Would it result in more students or fewer closings or openings? It's impossible to say. We do not know what the real demand for higher education is, whether from students looking to earn more or from employers wanting to employ better-qualified workers. But making the most directly interested parties bear more of the cost would give us some clues.
Alan Ryan is warden, New College Oxford, and has recently returned to the UK after nine years in the US at Princeton University.
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If you have seen the first installment of 'Commando' then you don't need a warning to go watch the sequel with lowered expectations. This is where it gets frustrating. 'Commando 2' touches new levels of rock bottom. Even if you go in with an open mind you will lose your patience at the utter imbecility of the entire team. The big question in your mind right now is – 'how was Vidyut Jammwal in the film?' Well he is flawless in the heavy duty action department but equally ineffective as a performer. After watching him in the previous film people fell in love with his physical agility and his mastery over different forms of martial arts. He carry forward the same legacy in the sequel but when the driving force of the film itself is weak, his actions ends up as mere decorations in a vehicle that doesn't move forward.
The motley group of actors that supports him are a step ahead of him in the inefficiency department. If Vidyut can't act, the leading ladies cannot even say their lines properly. It almost looked like a conscious decision to cast two low-brow actresses to balance out the non existing histrionics of our action hero. Freddy Daruwala who plays the bad guy has a solid screen presence but he needs more experience to grow as an actor. The film is designed as a thriller dealing with a contemporary social menace (Black money) but it hardly manages to captivate your attention. The story drags and throws bland surprises at us to keep the interest alive but the film never reaches a high point.
'Commando 2' is the first directorial venture of Deven Bhojani who is a respected name in the world of television. To speak the truth he should have stayed within his comfort zone of comedy because his film is substandard in every which way possible. It is like going to watch one of those Sunny Leone movies where you are willing to sit through the mundane proceedings just for the sake of her beauty and sex appeal. If you think you can do the same for action star Vidyut Jammwal in this one then please book your tickets, otherwise 'Commando 2' is the kind of movie that Bollywood should stop making.
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As Time Rolls On So Do Spoliation Claims
By: Gus Sara and Lian Skaf
Subrogator Magazine
Fall/Winter 2021
It can sometimes be an overused threat, or a hollow charge thrown around by overzealous defense counsel, but even frivolous spoliation claims can cause headaches. In some respects that has always been the case, and in others, it is a new landscape for plaintiffs to navigate. What has always been true is that the potential for spoliation of evidence is relevant from the day a matter is assigned all the way through resolution.
In their article in the Fall/Winter 2021 edition of NASP's Subrogator magazine, Gus Sara and Lian Skaf address the evolution of spoliation by focusing on investigating, litigating and resolving subrogation claims.
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Newkirk Main Street representatives met at Community Nation Bank at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8 to welcome them as part of the Newkirk business community. The bank opened the branch last winter. Shown from left are Holly Cline, Newkirk Main Street Director Alyssa McCleery, Jordan Powell, Shaddia Adwan, Branch Manager Caroline Golay and Commissioner Jason Shanks.


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Launched in July 2011, ciNE65 aims to capture our Singaporean identity through the lenses of local budding film-makers. It encourages aspiring young film-makers to share what Singapore means to them. This seminar is part of ciNE65 2019. Share your Singapore story and submit a 3-min short film before 18 March 2019! Visit the website for more details.
The director sets the tone and brings together her/his crew and actors to bring the film to life. But what makes a good director and how can a director inspire his cast and crew to deliver their talents for the film? Veteran filmmaker K Rajagopal shares what makes a good director and how a director can inspire his cast and crew to deliver their talents for the film.
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K. Rajagopal has worked on stage and in film for over fifteen years. He has collaborated with many notable theatre directors on projects such as Medea and Beauty World. His debut feature, A Yellow Bird, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 2016.
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Hold onto your hats: Nicole Scherzinger is coming back to set the charts ablaze.
"Doing a video for my new single #boomerang #returnofnicole," she tweeted yesterday. She then spent the rest of the day tweeting shoddy Instagrams from the set, one of which you can lay your eyes on here.
We don't have any official release details yet, but 'Return Of Nicole' would be an amazing album title, actually.


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A few weeks ago, we had houseguests Arnie and Jane stay with us. Arnie is my mom's first cousin and a current resident of Northern California; Matt and I got to know him and his wife Jane during our time in San Francisco.
A typical Arnie and Jane visit revolves around Matt, Simon, and I lazing from the sidelines as they pack in 4 days of activity into a weekend. It's exhausting just watching, but works out well for us because they inevitably bring us a variety of food goodies from their various adventures that Matt and I pounce on like vultures. A typical visit also includes some opportunistic catching up over breakfast or late-night tea. They always thank us profusely, but we really look forward to their visits and need little thanks.
This last trip coincided with my bringing Cambria home. They arrived on the fourth day of his tenure, and "cat" was very much on the brain. This information is relevant within the context of my last chat with Jane, minutes before she left for the airport. I'm paraphrasing a bit, but the general tone is exactly as follows. Our conversation began with a discussion of my not-terribly-inspiring efforts towards career reinvention.
"Well thank you again so much for your hospitality. And keep me posted on everything that is going on, will you?"
"I will, but so far I've mostly been busy with KIP, Agotich, and other volunteering. I'll get there eventually, I suppose."
"Oh, I know. And you know what? The most important thing right now is upstairs."
"I do know that, trust me. I think he's going to work out just fine."
"I do, too."
"It could change, but he seems like a real sweetie."
"Oh, very sweet. I have no doubt about that."
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"He's definitely a keeper."
"But you know, we have to knock two pounds off of him."
"What?! Who said that."
"The doctor. He's overweight."
"Simon has to lose two pounds!?"
And that is when the verbal wheels screeched to a halt.
"No, no. Not Simon, Cambria."
Jane looked a bit confused. Then she smiled and continued walking to her car. And then it occurred to me. It's not just that we had been talking about different "him"s at the very end. We had been talking about different "him"s the entire time! So what's worse? The self absorbed mother who thinks everything is about her child? Or the distracted mother who doesn't realize when someone is talking about her child?


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The signage has been scrubbed and the dining room emptied at 41B George St., the former site of Menkoi Ramen House. The sign on the door reads, "Thank You Bye" with a tiny sad face in the corner. Menkoi arrived in Charleston in 2014. It shuttered for a bit in 2015, and quickly reopened with new owners and the same menu.
The restaurant served as an affordable meal option for nearby students, a late night spot for King Street partiers, and a hangover cure for a few.
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Late last year, veteran MC/producer Apathy turned quite a few Heads with his take no prisoners message of "Rap Is Not Pop." That talking-point single belongs to the just-released (June 10) LP, Handshakes With Snakes. The member of Army Of The Pharaohs and Demigodz's latest album includes appearances by B-Real, Bun B, Twista, O.C., Ras Kass, and the late Pumpkinhead, among others.
In conjunction with the release, the former Atlantic Records artist who has worked with Nas and DJ Premier, made it available to the masses—as a free, full preview. Premiered at The Source, the Dirty Version release is 13 tracks of hardcore Hip-Hop without compromise, from a trusted and lasting voice of the late '90s Underground movement.
DJ Premier & The Berklee Symphony Orchestra – RE:Generation Remix ft Nas & Apathy
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As a Cal fan, I find Jim Harbaugh a curious oddity. At times I worry that he's the next big thing and could supplant Cal as the dominant Bay Area college sports team. At other times I feel like he's just an overrated prop for media types to discuss that yes, academic schools can compete on the big stage.
However, his Twitter page is surprisingly mesmerizing, because most of his Tweets seemed to come from a man who had taken one too many bong hits. Andy Staples has noticed the exact same things (HT Hydrotech from California Golden Blogs), and has come to a different conclusion, one that should greatly amuse all Golden Bears while alarming the Cardinal folk. Is Harbaugh violating recruiting regulations with his inane comments?
Take a look at some of the more cryptic messages after the jump.
NCAA Rule 13.11.2 is what's in play here, which states the following:
13.11.2 Comments Before Signing. Before the signing of a prospect to a National Letter of Intent or an institution's written offer of admission and/or financial aid, a member institution may comment publicly only to the extent of confirming its recruit of the prospect. The institution may not comment generally about the prospect's ability or the contribution that the prospect might make to the institution's team; further, the institution is precluded from commenting in any manner as to the likelihood of the prospect's signing with that institution.
Hmm...well, what exactly is Harbaugh doing here? You be the judge.
My interpretation: Shane Vereen is pretty diminutive, Coach. Might want to think of going small.
Staples's interpretation?
At first glance, I thought this one might not be about recruiting. Maybe Harbaugh pulled from the Book of Matthew because he wanted a six-month head start on memorizing lines so he could audition to play one of the Magi in his local church's live nativity. But then I read this post from the indefatigable Spencer Hall of EveryDayShouldBeSaturday.com. Indeed, Harbaugh's tweet referred to the commitment of Tucker, Ga., linebacker James Vaughters, a 6-2, 233-pound tackling machine whose home is most assuredly east of Palo Alto. An Atlanta Journal-Constitution interview with Vaughters the next day erased any shred of doubt. "Vaughters ... said he actually has had his mind made up a while," the AJC's Chip Towers wrote. "He said he called Coach Harbaugh to inform him about 9 o'clock Wednesday night..
My interpretation: Cal is actually to the west of the Furd. Yeah, surprising, I know, but look at the map!
And finally, perhaps the most bizarre Tweet of all...
Staples's interpretation?
Rivals.com told me the commitment came a night earlier from 6-4, 220-pound Flushing, N.Y., receiver Devon Cajuste, who pledged to play for the Cardinal after a standout performance at Stanford's camp. This handy list of Greek deities told me that Kairos was the god of opportunity, or, more specifically, of the opportune moment. It also told me the god's name can be spelled Caerus. That version looks a little more like the mystery recruit's name. But Harbaugh hadn't dreamt it; Cajuste had made the most of his opportunity at the camp.
My interpretation: Thank goodness Staples cleared that up. Because really coach, Mike Mohamed is half Pakistani, not Greek.


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Dharma Talk presented by Ven. Shikai Zuiko O-sensei
Dainen-ji, July 16th, 2011
Hi! What's your name? Where do you come from? Been here long? Are you having a nice time?
shoulders rising, falling,
heart beating,
maybe you can hear it your ear,
oh and there might be little signals from various parts of the body,
maybe it's being stretched a little bit beyond how it has been stretched,
and you might have noticed,
sometimes there's a tendency to want to focus on it,
you know and self-image will say:
"I'm having the roughest time ever!"
which of course is silly
because one of the things, really, if we scratch the surface of our ideas about who we are,
how the world is,
and what we're doing here,
when we scratch the surface, we kind of uncover something,
perhaps it's not fully fledged,
perhaps it's not fully expressed,
but this idea that, hey,
what's really going on?
Why do we human beings keep doing horrible things to each other?
Why do I sometimes notice that I have these ideas that I'd like to do horrible things to someone else?
And we scratch the surface,
go a little bit deeper,
and there may be this realization,
however momentary,
that the process of being a human being is the same
for every human being who has ever walked on the face of the earth.
And as we practise even more thoroughly,
we start to see that hey,
we're not our thoughts and feelings,
those are things happening that we are aware of.
And wait a minute,
there's just the Awareness,
even of this sense of a "me" and sometimes we might hear a little voice going:
"Sit up straight, feel the breath, open the eye gaze"
and we practise that moment of clear seeing,
that moment of seeing reality.
We were caught up in a thought,
we're not caught up any longer,
that is the moment of clearly seeing what's going on.
You practise it and you get better at it.
Over time, all there is is this clear seeing,
the tendency to be pulled and swayed by random patterns and contractions
drops away,
and what Dogen said about studying the self when we sit in zazen,
studying those moments of contraction
with little beliefs about who we are and how the world is,
drop away
and all there is is this clear seeing.
And we recognize that it's possible for everyone,
in the past,
(and we know about the past because people have written about it,) and now,
we're sitting here right now in this moment,
which is the only thing that's going on,
and we do not know what's going to happen in the next moment to each one of us or to all of us,
but that's life.
No point in worrying about it,
but if you notice a moment of worry,
you've noticed a contraction,
you've noticed a set of dharma or experiences that you have labelled "worry"
or that I've said were "worry" or that were listed under this word "worry"
which of course is just a word to point to experiences.
And so you practise.
And finally, she said, I'll read the verse: [students giggle]
Seeing those who make offerings,
"May all beings
Forever abandon
The three contracted paths and destinies."
We like stuff like this, there's a number: three!
It's a great number, huh? Three.
Two has some kind of an exclusionary sense,
but three, it's balanced, it's like this little tripod.
And "three contracted paths and destinies",
now self-image likes this too,
it's like one of those questionnaires in magazines, so, here we go.
What are the "three contracted paths and destinies" that are referred to here?
"Senso: birth in the hell realm, or states of extreme claustrophobic contraction."
Been there, okay.
"Gaki: states of extreme sense of poverty."
Been there.
"Shikusho: states of dull fixation on eating, excretion and sleeping."
Hey, haven't we all at one time or another
fixated on these three contracted paths and destinies?
Do we have to?
And do they exist somewhere as things that we can capture
and then kill or starve or throw away?
No, not really.
They're ways that people have used to describe contractions that arise
that when followed can lead us to states of, how shall we say this?
States of doing really stupid things,
and often these really stupid things are things that we don't want to do at all,
in fact,
all the time,
let's face it, they're things that we do not want to do.
We don't want to fixate only on eating, excretion and sleeping,
but yet when you look at your own experience, your own patterns,
the content that self-image has filed away as being absolutely essential,
you might find that there are little lists,
little lists about what we should eat to get our desirable result,
how much we should excrete and when,
and then how we'll never get enough sleep,
the old "8-8-8" and we, of course, forget that the old "8-8-8"
which used to be something like 16-6 and 2 for everything else,
in the time of the Industrial Revolution,
when our lives started to be "organized"...
So anyway, we fixate on this and we think:
"Okay, if I can get these all in line and get rid of them,
then I'll really be able to practise."
It is very interesting, very revealing,
and very important to notice, in your own experience,
this statement of "when I get these things over with, then I'll really be able to practise"
because that is a misunderstanding.
These things and variations of them,
claustrophobic contraction,
poverty mind, and the animal realm—
(actually I have a little problem with that because I really like animals you know,
and they do more than just eat, shit, and sleep but anyway,)
this is what's called classically "the animal realm".
If we find that in our experience we have this idea we have to get rid of all of them, we're wrong,
and that, of course,
is a statement of self-image saying we have to get rid of all of these things
and then we'll be able to practise.
You practise with them,
in the midst of them.
When they come up you have an opportunity to see them for what they are,
recognize that they are not exclusive to,
as it were,
your self-image,
but are the stuff that people have dealt with since the beginning of people.
But here you are,
you're sitting in front of a white wall
and have this marvellous opportunity to actually practise very clearly, very simply
with all of this stuff.
So when you notice anything,
(and you do not have to sit there with a little checklist and say:
"Is this one that I should practise with?"...
No, that's the business of self-image, being this accountant.)
...you notice anything,
you don't have to decide bad or good
worthwhile, not worthwhile, just feel the breath,
pull up,
open the peripheral vision.
There, you've practised it,
you've practised mindfulness.
And a little aside:
those of you who are interested in things such as mindfulness
may have noticed that over the past couple of years
there has been an increase in the number of mentions of the word "mindfulness" in popular media.
Science is now saying:
"hey, yeah, what people need to do is notice when they're fixated on something,
then notice other things that are going on,
such as the breath."
So science is finally catching up to 2600 years
of mindfulness practice instruction.
Isn't that wonderful?
So it's very clear here for you,
sitting in front of the wall:
notice anything,
sit up straight,
feel the breath,
open the eye gaze.
I wish I could say: "Done",
I wish I could take this little stick here and go "pft!"
And there would be fairy dust that comes out
and it happens for everybody all at once,
that would be great but that's not possible.
But, what we do have,
and what we can recognize is that those flickering,
what shall I call them...
thoughts that you may have had
about how the world would be a better place
if people did not go around acting out contracted paths and destinies,
acting this sense of poverty by grabbing for everything they can get their hands on
to fill up their bank accounts,
or just becoming so fixated on eating, shitting, and sleeping
that they're ignoring many of the truly heinous things
that are actually going on in the world...
...but, this is not a political movement.
What we're noticing,
and what we may have known,
and what we're getting words for is
the fact that we do not have to act out from any of these contracted states.
And sitting in front of that wall, you see it moment after moment after moment.
And how is this all possible?
Well, it's all possible in the particular instance
of White Wind Zen Community and the Northern Mountain Order
through offerings that have been made to build this room,
this building that is now a monastery,
and the offerings have come in many shapes and forms,
and are freely given.
And why do we do this?
Again because we might have this vague sense that this knowledge,
this process of Waking up to Reality is indeed valuable
and in spite of talk that's gone on in the past about the Dark Age of the Dharma,
that perhaps in spite of the many instances where something
that was called "Dharma"
turned out to be simply another manifestation of social culture with all its tendencies,
but maybe wrapped up in a black or a brown robe,
believing it's "one with everything", with a bunch of like-minded people,
and nice, "so let's have some tea and talk about how we all felt about the sitting."
[O-sensei laughs] I mean really?
So, we think okay,
here it is, it's clear,
and it should be made available.
To whom?
Well, each and every one of us benefit from it.
But, we see in social culture all sorts of pleas for explanation about what's going on...
Questions about how to live a life that will not be based on exclusion.
And then we might have an inkling that "wow,"
there are other people who may not be sitting in this room
who might have vague ideas that the world would be different
if all beings could be happy, peaceful, and free.
Those people might not even be born yet,
but who knows,
they might end up right here in this very room?
But don't cross your fingers,
don't hold your breath,
and there's no point in getting all mawkish and sentimental,
Seeing those who make offerings,
"May all beings
Forever abandon
The three contracted paths and destinies."
So here we sit.
All different...
sizes, shapes, colours, ages...
Some of us have come from halfway around the world to be here in this moment right now.
Sometimes some of us might think that "hey, we're from another planet!"
Some of us might think "hey, they're from another planet!"
Doesn't matter, those are thoughts and feelings and when expressed skillfully can sometimes be kind of funny.
Because let's face it, it's a very peculiar situation we're in, we human beings.
In a way it's kind of absurd.
But here we are, sitting in front of that wall,
and that wall was made possible by many people,
most of whom you've never met.
That's kind of nice.
Thank you for listening.


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He was the only person she trusted. Now, she can't even trust herself.
He was the only person she trusted. Now, she can't even trust herself.
After escaping from an abusive halfway house, "Jack" Elsie Johnson forges her own path forward as a successful model, determined to forget about the town of Harmony, Maine, her family—and the pain of knowing their betrayal almost cost her her life.
Jared Ross, her first love, isn't so easy to forget, even though he's the reason she ended up in the halfway house in the first place. When she meets Jared again, Jack knows it would be safer if she stayed away. She's a lifetime away from that wild teenager he kissed one forbidden summer. How can Jack learn to trust him again when she doesn't even trust her own mind?
He knows they screwed up. Jared Ross has lived with that reality ever since Jack's father sent her to a glorified juvenile detention center. When Jack ran away, Jared and her brothers never stopped looking for her.
Now Jack has reappeared, a thriving international model with a new makeshift family. But something is deeply wrong with her, something that even a great career and caring friends can't cover up. If Jared wants to earn her love, he's going to have to confront Jack's dark secrets, no matter how costly—or deadly—the price.


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Disclaimer. Don't rely on these old notes in lieu of reading the literature, but they can jog your memory. As a grad student long ago, my peers and I collaborated to write and exchange summaries of political science research. I posted them to a wiki-style website. "Wikisum" is now dead but archived here. I cannot vouch for these notes' accuracy, nor can I say who wrote them.
Lake. 1996. Anarchy, hierarchy, and the variety of international relations. International Organization 50 (winter): 1-34.
The focus on systemic anarchy within international relations has led us to forget that dyadic relations are hierarchic, not anarchic. Lake begins with a puzzle: why did the US and USSR (two great powers in similar circumstances after WWII) choose such different means of security in the post war years? The US opted for an (anarchic) alliance, and the USSR opted for an (hierarchic) informal empire.
Y: The form of dyadic cooperation, ranging from anarchic relations to hiearchic ones (alliances, protectorates, informal empires, formal empires).
X1: Expected costs of opportunism. This is the product of (a) the risk that your partners will behave opportunistically and (b) the actual costs to you if they do so. This risk falls as relations become more hierarchic. Opportunistic behavior can involve shirking, entrapment (partner starts a war), abandonment, or a hold-up (forcing a change in the contract).
X2: Governance costs. More hierarchic systems entail higher governance costs, for a few reasons. First, monitoring costs rise when you have more to monitor. Second, you'll have to make greater side payments to get a state to voluntarily submit. Third, if states don't voluntarily submit, you'll have to use coercion, which is costly.
Figure 2 (page 16) illustrates how X1 and X2 determine the form of cooperation.
This entire analysis is rooted in a central analogy: state cooperation in anarchy is like firm development in markets. Two parties in a market can either interact with spot transactions (anarchy), make a long-term contract (alliance), or vertically integrate (empire). The difference between these levels of integration is there different residual rights of control. No contract is perfectly specified. In more anarchic forms of cooperation, each party retains the right to decide what to do in situation not covered by the contract. In more hierarchic forms, however, the dominant partner has more residual rights of control to make decisions in such situations.
Lake notes that this theory will be exceptionally difficult to test scientifically for three main reasons (see page 22). First, the variables are not easily operationalized. Second, both variables are defined as probability distributions; states estimate the expected costs of opportunism and the expected costs of governance. Third, we can observe only the relationship a particular dyad actually chooses, not the costs and benefits associated with the counterfactual relationships that it could have chosen.
Instead of a scientific test, then, Lake uses an illustrative case study comparing the US and the USSR. The economic and military dependence of Western Europe on the United States meant that the US did not fear that its European partners would abandon it. Thus, the expected costs of opportunism for the US were low. At the same time, the governance costs to the US would have been high. Besides the costs of running an occupation from across the ocean, the US would have had to establish its control by turning on its allies.
The USSR, on the other hand, fought on the eastern front alone. Thus, it already had its soldiers (and only its soldiers) all over the eastern countries. Its governance costs were much lower because it had already established control as part of fighting Germany. Moreover, the USSR managed to extract considerable resources from eastern Europe until 1956, making its governance costs even lower. At the same time, the USSR had a high risk of opportunism; its Warsaw Pact "partners" generally feared the USSR more than the West, and many had actually saw the Third Reich as a welcome balance to the Soviet threat.
Thus, the US used a more anarchic alliance and the USSR selected a hierarchic informal empire.
Research by the same authors
Research on similar subjects
Lake, David (author) • International Relations • Hierarchy • Anarchy • Transaction costs • Firms • Security Dilemma • Alliances • Imperialism • Westphalia System • Anarchy vs Hierarchy
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Emil was born with a spinal cord defect. He was diagnosed with Spina Bifida at the Children's Republican Clinical Hospital of the Republic of Tatarstan in Kazan. It's a fault in the development of the neural tube and surrounding bones which leaves a split in the spine with a spinal cord cyst.
When the baby was 1.5 months old, he had an operation as a result of which part of the fat tissue was removed. The boy needed annual clinical MRI scan to be carried under sedation. Regular massage, therapeutic gymnastics and rehabilitation courses became an integral part of the boy's lifestyle and put the whole family to the test.
In 2014 the boy was diagnosed with yet another problem – acute pyelonephritis, acute urinary retention. In spite of the regular rehabilitation procedures the boy has developed a club foot and started walking on tiptoes. His general condition was deteriorating and this year he was diagnosed with tethered spinal cord syndrome.
Although the current diagnosis was more than serious, Emil happened to be a cheerful boy. He could read, he liked listening to stories and he was planning to go to school next year. The boy as especially fond of constructing imaginary cities from Lego building sets. What's more, Emil was keen on horses. He never forgot to bring them a treat when he was on a visit to an eco-farm. In a way, the "tethered spinal cord" diagnosis was similar to a time bomb.
As the boy was growing older, his health was deteriorating. He might finally find himself confined to a wheelchair. The Assuta Medical Center in Israel had offered to operate on Emil on 26 of March 2018.
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Immigrants now account for ten per cent of the Irish population yet it's rare we talk to them when we're not at the McDonald's drive-through. Stuck with low paying jobs Irish people don't want to do, lodged in housing Irish people don't want to live in and hidden from a society that treats their presence with ambivalence, beneath the surface of the country there's a minor revolution going on. And in a nation obsessed with sport, we'll see it sooner than we think.
Last August Basketball Ireland held a multi-cultural tournament, aimed at bringing different nationalities together on the court. Chinese, Lithuanians and Latvians; even some African Americans flew over from the States for the event, as an emotional coming together of races resulted in a spirit of sporting communion.
Roger Mason Junior and Calvin Booth, stars for the Washington Wizards NBA, showed some of their hands to players unused to their sparkling earrings and designer hoodies. Mason and Booth are multi-millionaires, signed to multi-million dollar contracts, raised in Washington by middle-class families. They are not stereotypes, they are not superstars who found a way out of the ghetto through basketball but they recognise the need to spread their gospel. Basketball is what they love, they cherish it, nurture their talents and work hard to stay centre stage. Someday they envisage scouts coming to Ireland on a regular basis, someday they think the NBA will cross the Atlantic and a European team will take a place in the big league. Someday they hope their acceptance by American society will translate into other languages.
"We have a message, basketball is a universal language, a hook shoot is the same, a jump shot is the same. There are no differences on the basketball court, there are no barriers," says Calvin Booth, a 6′ 11 centre whose difference off the court isn't so much obvious as shadowing across the floor of the National Basketball Arena in Tallaght.
"The lifestyle that basketball has given us is a privilege. We wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for basketball, it gives us opportunities to travel, this is my first time in Ireland. It's a privilege to do what we do," says Mason Junior, whose ear bling sparkles as he speaks but his manner is grounded, his perspective down to earth. So is his team-mates.
"It's hard work doing what we do but then hard work is relative. This isn't hard work compared to a guy working on a building site all day."
The hard work is off the court. Breaking down barriers, encouraging others and convincing people, today it's the new Irish immigrants, that sport can help them integrate into society, can help them become accepted and help Irish people become more accepting towards them.
Basketball is a king among sports in Eastern Europe. In Lithuania and the Czech Republic it's bigger than soccer and the flood of non-nationals to Ireland has seeded a new wave of dreamers. The Lithuanians could run their own league. If they started one in the morning they'd have 12 teams. The Filipinos already have a league with six teams while the Chinese spend their time shooting hoops in Mountjoy Square, in the heart of inner-city Dublin.
Yet they face problems because no one knows about them, their own papers – another industry growing at a phenomenal rate – struggle to publicise and report on their games in the absence of resources, while the Chinese suffer through intimidation and nervousness about playing the game at all.
"They have to play in private now, in gyms and schools where they have to pay to play, because they were abused at the court in Mountjoy Square. They were attacked a few months ago by an inner-city gang of teenagers and three people ended up in hospital," says Frank Heran Suo, Editor of the Shining Emerald Chinese Newspaper. The hoops were taken down, either by the guards or the locals, and they don't play basketball there anymore.
Chinese people tend to be excitable and if a Chinese player ever appeared on an inter-county football team or an Eircom League pitch, the turnstiles would be spinning and the tills would be singing.
"Chinese are very emotional people, very excitable. They would get excited if they only got a free ticket for something. China will eventually have the biggest economy, we'll have a bigger soccer team than Japan. There are two Chinese players at Crystal Palace at the moment and they sell a lot of jerseys for the club," adds Heran Suo.
It's not just basketball where the cultural revolution is taking shape. In Cork there's a Polish six-a-side soccer league, run with the help of Cork City. Of all the new nationalities to find a new home in Ireland, the Polish have done it in the greatest numbers. A white, Catholic country repressed for decades, and often too fond of alcohol, find a lot in common with their Irish cousins yet they sail through their new lives without impacting on their new country to the extent that they could.
"We had a one-off tournament in Nemo Rangers at the start of the year but it was such a success that we helped them start a league which they run every Sunday in Bishopstown. They have 14 teams and in September the top two teams will play the top two teams from a similar league in Dublin. They're really organised. We had people from the African Community playing in Turner's Cross another day and there was a kid from Mali there, and he was top notch. We even had managers from local teams in Cork scouting for new players at it," says Adrian Desmond, Cork City Club Promotions Officer.
The problem is that this new talent is off the radar. Whether it's through sport or through work.
"I've met guys working as cleaners who are qualified PE teachers back home. It's a waste of their time to be doing those jobs. The money is great for them compared to what they would earn in Poland but they could be contributing to Irish society in a much more meaningful way. If you make Irish a requirement for teaching you're shutting out a lot of people and you need teachers from different backgrounds because the students are from different backgrounds," says Garret Mullan, the Irish National co-ordinator of Show Racism the Red Card, an initiative supported by the Department of Justice to combat racism in sport. It's about more than that though.
"We've heard stories of 10-year-old kids getting random, drive-by abuse. In order to have integration in Ireland we need immigrants to look at the GAA, soccer and rugby and think that's something they can do too. Sport can improve our health, it gives kids something to do rather than hanging around street corners but we're not investing enough into it. This isn't rocket science."
Mullan used to work with the Simon Community's Outreach programme for homeless people. When he put together a national soccer team of homeless people, he found brick walls instead of funding for some gear. He tells a story of a former U21 Dublin hurler who slipped away from the game, became homeless and was left to waste on the
streets, strung out on heroin. "Homelessness is a state of mind as much as anything. We're not about charity, charity is a misery business," he argues.
In October Show Racism the Red Card is releasing a DVD featuring well known Irish sports stars in an effort to foster greater social harmony. It's an attempt to bring more people into sport instead of them looking on from the outside and turning away. The DVD will be sent to primary and secondary schools because this as much an educational effort as it as a utopian dream.
"I worked with the original Red Card campaign in Newcastle. It started in 1995, two years after the Stephen Lawrence murder. We got Shaka Hislop, the Newcastle United goalkeeper to visit all the schools in the area. He told a story of when was at a shop one day and some kids starting abusing him because he was black. When they realised who he was they stopped and went over looking for autographs instead."
Now the Irish version brings sporting stars like Sean Óg Ó'hAilpín (Cork hurler), Paul Casey (Dublin footballer), Joseph Ndo (Eircom League) Justin Naughton (Irish basketballer) and Kevin Kilbane (Premiership) together to talk about their experiences. Tellingly O hAilpín, the most recognisable face of Irish sport, is reluctant to speak about specific incidents of racial abuse because he feels he'll open a can of worms.
"The GAA are living in the 1980s and they haven't moved on. There's no diversity within either of the clubs I played with in Balbriggan and Howth. Balbriggan is a very diverse town but the GAA club doesn't reflect that. The GAA has the best facilities of any sport in the country so they are in the best position to facilitate new people."
Ó hAilpín tells a story on the DVD which offers a glimpse at the future. In his own club, Na Piarsaigh in Cork, there's a new star rising through the ranks. He's a twelve year old hurler with bundles of talent. It's nothing new for Na Piarsaigh, nothing new for the county. Except the kid is from Romania.
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Miranda helps protect the Doom Patrol from some truly terrible ideas after a mysterious package arrives at Doom Manor. Rita's visit to the Cloverton beekeeper leads her to confront her lingering mommy issues. While on his way back to the manor, Cliff ends up stuck on the side of the road – literally. Niles heads north to find Dorothy's mother.
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Work will start next Tuesday on a resurfacing scheme on the Crossmore Road in Keady.
The works, which will also include footway refurbishment, will cost in the region of £146,000.
The improvement work will extend approximately 500 metres from its junction with the Armagh Road to its junction with Glebe Road and will also include approximately 120 metres of Mullaghmore Park.
Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon said it was a much needed investment and would "greatly improve the strength and surface quality of this section of the road network to the benefit of all who use it".
To facilitate the works, it will be necessary to operate a daily weekday road closure (Monday to Friday) between the hours of 8am and 6pm, pm from Tuesday, June 15 until Friday, July 2.
During these times a diversion will be in place with traffic being diverted via Kinelowen Street, St Patricks Street and Glebe Road. The road will be open to traffic during weekday evenings and all day Saturday and Sunday.
Local access for residents and emergency services will be maintained at all times.
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"All work will be carried out in line with current public health and health and safety advice, with safe systems of working in place for staff and contractors."


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The JFK Assassination Books, Reviews and Discussion Facebook page is an amiable place to hang out thanks to David Rees Jones's useful editorial rule: "We do not encourage comments on assassination theory unless as a direct result of reviewing the topic."
This is a pace to ask people for recommendations about JFK books, movies and documentaries, and share your thoughts, all without getting into an argument. You can't order your coffee from this page yet but presumably Zuckerberg's minions are working on it.
Fans of this page may be interested in my piece, JFK on film: the cinema of assassination in 2013 (Dec 26, 2013), and my recent piece, How I learned to stop worrying and love the secrecy system (Jan. 26, 2014)


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Any time a child experiences uncertainty, their sense of safety and security feels threatened. "Normal" life events can trigger big doses of uncertainty such as: a new sibling, a move, potty learning, starting school/daycare, a major change in the family's schedule. 2020 tends to be classified in a league of its own because the global pandemic creates a chronic undercurrent of unpredictability.
Adults can lovingly remind children "You are safe. You can handle this." with support structures embedded in the daily routine. One of my favorite ways to do this is with routine books.
Routine books are homemade books that explain a routine in simple, concise language, with pictures to support the words. Parents can take any routine: brushing teeth, mealtime, bedtime, getting ready for school and break it down into small steps. Then, parents can use clip-art or actual pictures of children engaged in each step to pair with the words. I recommend using actual pictures of the child whenever possible because these pictures will be more meaningful to children.
These books are particularly powerful for a few reasons:
- Our children process visual information much more readily than verbal information because our brain thinks in pictures before it thinks in words. The visual support is easier for our children to process.
- Explicit, visual step-by-step directions are the equivalent to an adult's "to-do" list. When our brains are overwhelmed by so many tasks, we alleviate some of the stress on our working memory by writing it all down, so we can focus on the immediate task at hand.
- They serve as a connection activity! The book is something we sit and read with our child, so we are connecting over a new, different, or daunting routine before "game time." This connection boosts their feeling of security.
- The child can reference the book at any time and "read the pictures," which empowers them to learn, process, and understand the routine; thereby, boosting their confidence.
When parents introduce a new or particularly challenging routine, we can explicitly emphasize "safety" throughout the book to reassure and empower the child.
Before diving into making a book, consider these prompts:
- What is a clear starting point?
- What are "anchor points" of the routine? That is, things (order, places, people, objects) that stay consistent. Be sure to incorporate those!
- Who are the "safekeepers" or the people that help keep the child safe during this routine?
- Are their activities or items that are particularly comforting or enjoyable to your child?
- Ask them how they think they may feel during the routine.
- Focus on "remembering" instead of "missing."
- Remember the purpose of these books are to provide some predictability to your child's life, not rigidity.
These books are particularly helpful at the beginning of the school year when children are in a new environment with new people. This year, the book can be helpful in explaining the new routine of home school/virtual schooling.
Here are some example scripts:
For in school:
Mom or Dad will take me to school in the morning (picture of child in the car).
They will walk me to the door and my teacher will take my temperature (picture of the child getting their temperature taken OR the thermometer used) to make sure my body is healthy.
When I get to school, I will have some time to play on the carpet (picture of carpet circle).
My teacher, Ms. Smith, will be there to help me play, learn, and keep me safe (picture of teacher).
After we eat lunch and have quiet time, we will go outside to play, and then Mom will come pick me up (picture of lunch box, blanket, playground, and Mom).
If you want to make this book before the school year starts, I recommend e-mailing the teacher and asking for these pictures. I've made many of these books and always found that teachers are happy to oblige!
For virtual school:
After breakfast, I will sit at my desk with my computer for my first circle time (picture of child sitting at desk with computer).
We will sing songs, read a book, and then my teacher will give us games or pages to do on the computer (screenshot of some actual work).
After I do my school work, I will go outside to swim, play, or ride my bike (picture of child outside).
Then, I will eat lunch and have quiet time (picture of child eating lunch and lying down).
After quiet time, I will have afternoon lessons on my computer (picture of child sitting at the desk).
The most important part about these books is that they are simple, concise, focus on safety, and are authentic to your family. You can even have your child help you make it so they take ownership over the book!
Pick a routine in your house that feels challenging and try it out! Happy writing.
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Play With Purpose founder Caley Kukla is a wife to her high school sweetheart and a mother to two boys. Her motherhood journey began in 2014, when she realized that her degrees in Early Childhood Special Education could be put to good work educating parents about their child's development.
Her passion is to help parents understand their children through the lens of empathy, developmentally appropriate practices, and emotion coaching.
As a mother, she has the unique ability to empathize with the daily parenting struggles, while grounding her coaching in brain research. Her mission is to change the world one family at a time while we raise the next generation to be compassionate, creative, and industrious leaders. She does this through a dynamic combination of one-on-one coaching, parent workshops, social skills classes for kids, and teacher education.


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3/4 Cup brown sugar
1/2 Cup GF soy sauce
3/4 Cup water
2 1/2 Tbsp cornstarch
Dash of Ginger
2 lbs Chicken drumsticks or wings
In a small saucepan, whisk brown sugar and cornstarch together. Add soy sauce, water and ginger. Bring to a slow boil on medium heat. Stir constantly until sauce begins to thicken. Remove from heat and set aside.
Spray a casserole dish and place chicken in dish. Pour sauce over chicken and bake uncovered for 40 minutes at 375F.
Yields: 4 Servings
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Dental implants can be a great way to replace missing or damaged teeth. Dental implants have a very high success rate, and are considered by many Periodontists to be a permanent tooth loss solution.
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The decision has not been made official yet, but there seems no prospect of Plymouth Argyle playing again in the 2019/20 season.
Their League Two campaign was put on hold in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, with nine of their scheduled 46 games still to be played.
Ryan Lowe's Pilgrims were in third position at the time and are set to be promoted, along with Swindon Town and Crewe Alexandra.
Confirmation of that could come after a meeting of the EFL clubs in all three divisions on Monday, June 8.
Given those circumstances, we at Plymouth Live are launching our 2019/20 Argyle player-of-the-year poll.
Our readers can cast their votes in the form within this story, with a closing date of Thursday, June 4.
We have selected eight players from Ryan Lowe's squad that you can choose from.
Now it is down to you to decide who will win the annual award, which went to Portuguese playmaker Ruben Lameiras in 2018/19.
Plymouth Argyle Player of the Year for 2019/20
The eight nominees in alphabetical order are as follows:
Appearances: 37 (2), Goals: 2
Star Man awards: 3
Part of Argyle's squad which slumped to relegation from League One in the last couple of months of 2018/19, he bounced back from that with some strong, aerially commanding displays in central defence.
Appearances: 24 (7), Goals: 3
Star Man awards: 6
Player-of-the-month awards: October, December
A loan signing from Peterborough United in August, he set up many goals for his team-mates with his wand of a left foot, either from open play or set pieces, as well as getting three himself.
Appearances: 5 (8), Goals: 7
Star Man awards: 1
Had only been on loan at Home Park for a couple of months before the football shutdown, but his impact in Argyle's surge into the automatic promotion places was vital, both as a supersub initially and then in the starting line-up, getting seven goals in 13 games.
Appearances: 13 (1), Goals: 7
Star Man awards: 1
Named the Sky Bet League One player-of-the-month for January following a fairytale return to Argyle after spending the first half of the season on loan to Cornish part-timers Truro City. The Green Army loved chanting 'He's one of our own' after each of his seven goals.
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Appearances: 36 (3), Goals: 1
Star Man awards: 6
There were high expectations and much excitement when the playmaker followed Ryan Lowe to Argyle from Bury last summer. Undoubtedly talented on the ball, he only scored one goal but was a marked man throughout the campaign and that allowed his team-mates to find more space.
Appearances: 31 (5), Goals: 7
Star Man awards: 1
His versatility was a real asset for Ryan Lowe, either as an out-and-out striker or at the wing-back positions, while his pace posed plenty of problems for opposing sides. His value to the team became increasingly obvious as the season went on.
Appearances: 41
Star Man awards: 4
Player-of-the-month awards: August, February
The only player to start every League Two game for Argyle, after arriving on a season-long loan from West Bromwich Albion in July. He kept 14 clean sheets along the way, inspiring confidence in those around him with his shot-stopping, poise and command of the penalty area.
Appearances: 36 (2), Goals: 11
Star Man awards: 9
Player-of-the-month awards: November, January
Like Niall Canavan, Sarcevic was highly motivated to make amends for Argyle's relegation from League One. Given the freedom to support the attack from central midfield, he was the Pilgrims' top scorer with 11 goals, although five came from the penalty spot.
Star Man awards = Given to an Argyle player by Plymouth Live after each game
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In most instances, when someone purchases a block of tickets to the red-hot show "Hamilton" for $100,000, then re-sells them for three times that amount, they're called a "scalper" or worse by the show's creative leadership.
That's probably not the case for the two California democrats who have used the show to put big bucks in their campaign coffers – U.S. House of Representatives members Tony Cárdenas and Maxine Waters.
A story by the LA Times reports both have made huge profits on the show, which is beginning to spread throughout the country following its smash success on Broadway. Waters' campaign spent just under $11,000 to tickets for the show in August, which was turned into $110,000 at a fundraiser.
"Everybody does it, whether it's a concert or a baseball game," she told a reporter who inquired about the practice.
Cárdenas made a much bigger investment, reportedly spending $105,500 in April buying tickets to the show, which were flipped into over $300,000. For both his campaign and the Victory by Investing, Building and Empowering PAC, it was the largest costly expense of the year.
"Basically they saw this as an opportunity to have a nice fundraising opportunity to go to a show that celebrates American democracy," campaign spokesman Josh Pulliam told the Times.
Lin Manuel Miranda, who's father is friends with Cárdenas, according to the LA Times, has been vocally anti-resale since his show exploded onto the scene. It would appear that these fundraising activities draw no complaint from the creative force behind Hamilton. Miranda has himself dabbled in the political fundraising sphere, staging an exclusive performance of Hamilton to benefit Hillary Clinton's campaign in 2016, with prices starting at $2,700.
It is unclear whether or not the California dems acquired their eventually resold tickets through regular sales channels, or if they were purchased from producer or venue holdbacks, or even gifts from Miranda or any of the other producers involved in the musical. Calls to Cárdenas' local campaign office in California were referred to his central office in Washington, D.C., which did not respond to multiple messages requesting clarification on the ticket purchases.
Waters' campaign stressed the commonality of using such events as fundraisers.
"These fundraising activities are similar and sometimes less expensive than the amount of money a candidate would spend to host a fundraising dinner within a private room at a restaurant or hotel — once you factor in associated catering costs," she said. "The price for the 'Hamilton' tickets was similar to what one would have to pay at these venues. There was nothing improper or unusual about the expenditure."