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The Staff Selection Commission (SSC) conducts SSC CHSL at 10+2 level for recruiting candidates for various vacant central government positions of Data Entry Operators (DEO), Postal or Sorting Assistants, Lower Divisional Clerks (LDC), Junior Secretariat Assistant (JSA) and other positions at ministries of Government of India.
The examination has already begun from March 4 and will continue till March 28, 2018, around 438 examination centers in 92 cities across the country. Until March 8, 2018, total 5,58,319 candidates have appeared in the examination and a total of 10 cases of malpractices have been reported so far by the commission at the various examination centers of the SSC CHSL 2017 exam.
Out of these, five cases have been reported at examination centers of Patna, two at those at Delhi and one each at Chandigarh, Gorakhpur and Allahabad locations.
According to reports, some people tried to impersonate the candidates registered for the examination and attempt the Tier I test of the SSC CHSL 2017 exam in their place. The cases were detected by the invigilators and the culprits were handed over to the Police for required action.
An official of SSC stated - "This examination is being conducted under strict surveillance and there is no report of any untoward incident. So far, 10 cases of impersonation have been detected from various venues across the country (i.e. 5 at Patna, 2 at Delhi and 1 each at Chandigarh, Gorakhpur and Allahabad)."
Apart from this, four cases of cheating were reported by the candidates of SSC CHSL 2017 exam. Two of such cases were reported at the exam centers of Patna and the remaining two at those of Delhi.
Police has already registered dates complaints against the candidates who were found to be involved in cheating. Further complaints were also registered against individuals, who tried to attempt the exam in place of the registered candidates. Concerned candidates were then debarred from any future SSC exam, along with the cancellation of their current CHSL 2017 exam.
As per an official notification by SSC - "Police complaints have been registered against the delinquent candidates/ persons involved in these exam related to malpractices. Further action against the involved candidatesviz. cancellation of their candidature and debarment from future examinations of the Commission has also been initiated".
Candidates who have or will successfully attempt their Tier I test of SSC CHSL 2017 exam can view their results on the official website of SSC at - ssc.nic.in, once they are released. SSC is expected to release the Tier I results on the official website soon after completion of the exams on March 28, 2018.
SSC also re-conducted the Tier II test of the SSC CGL 2017 examination on March 09, 2018. The same was intended for all the candidates who appeared for the exam earlier on February 21, 2018 across all exam centers in India.
However, the test was cancelled post reporting of some technical problems in the Quantitative Ability part of the test. As per SSC, the re-test was conducted successfully on March 09, 2018, without any incidents reported of malpractice. It was conducted at 174 exam centers at 61 cities, and total 35,146 candidates took part in the same.


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In the international bestseller The Power of Habit, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charles Duhigg explained why we do what we do. In Smarter Faster Better, he applies the same relentless curiosity, rigorous reporting and rich storytelling to explain how we can get better at the things we do. The result is a groundbreaking exploration of the science of productivity.
A group of data scientists at Google embark on a four-year study of how the best teams function, and find that how a group interacts is much more important than who is in the group.
A Marine Corps general, faced with low morale among recruits, reimagines boot camp – and discovers that instilling a -bias toward action' can turn even the most directionless teenagers into self-motivating achievers.
The filmmakers behind Disney's Frozen are on the brink of catastrophe – until they shake up their team in just the right way, spurring a creative breakthrough that leads to one of the highest-grossing movies of all time.
What do these people have in common?
They know that productivity relies on making certain choices. The way we frame our daily decisions; the big ambitions we embrace and the easy goals we ignore; the cultures we establish as leaders to drive innovation: these are the things that separate the merely busy from the genuinely productive.
At the core of Smarter Faster Better are eight key concepts – from motivation and goal-setting to focus and decision-making – that explain why some people and companies get so much done. Drawing on the latest findings in neuroscience, psychology and behavioural economics – as well as the experiences of CEOs, educational reformers, four-star generals, airplane pilots and Broadway songwriters – this painstakingly researched book explains that the most productive people, companies and organizations don't merely act differently.
They view the world, and their choices, in profoundly different ways.
Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times and the author of The Power of Habit. He is a winner of the National Academies of Sciences, National Journalism, and George Polk awards. A graduate of Harvard Business School and Yale College, he lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children.
Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive
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At this years Sankalp Global Summit, held on December 7-8, 2017 in Mumbai, we set out to answer some of these important questions. The conference theme focused on issues around Social Defaults, the notion that we must deliberately work to ensure all people are guaranteed access to education, health, food, and good work as foundational human rights.
700+ entrepreneurs, innovators, investors, corporates, academics, policy makers, and other thought-leaders joined together to engage collaboratively around pressing topics including innovative finance, the future of work, the future of food, access to energy, and building a new health economy.
Insights and perspectives from thematic tracks and spotlight speakers are shared throughout this report. As we begin to prepare for Sankalp Global Summit 2018, our 10th anniversary convening, we look forward to brainstorming with you about how we can continue the conversation and set the agenda within the impact entrepreneurship space going in
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The cyber attack on South Korean banks and media outlets in March was part of a wider four-year military espionage operation against the Seoul government, McAfee Labs said this week.
In an analysis of a series of hacking attacks on South Korea since 2009, the security software company said the attackers used a remote-access Trojan to compromise an internal server in the latest disruption on March 20. In this attack, which became known as Dark Seoul, three TV networks and two banks were partly or completely crippled.
McAfee said it was not clear who was really behind the attacks, which have been claimed by groups calling themselves The NewRomanic Cyber Army Team and The Whois Hacking Team. "The clues left behind confirm that the two groups claiming responsibility were a fabrication to throw investigators off the trail and to mask the true source," the McAfee report said.
McAfee said it had renamed the anti-Seoul attacks Operation Troy, because the word "Troy" cropped up repeatedly in the malware used over the four years.
"We have determined that the attackers had access to the environment prior to wiping the systems [on March 20]," the analysis said. "The remote-access Trojan was likely delivered to an internal PC via a spear-phishing campaign. From this system the attackers accessed other internal resources. The Trojan was designed to operate within Internet Explorer; it launched a hidden instance of Internet Explorer and injected itself into the running process."
The report said Operation Troy was aimed only at South Korea. "The malware connected to legitimate Korean domains that were running a bulletin board and sent a specific command to a PHP page to establish an IRC channel and receive commands," it said.
"McAfee Labs has determined that domestic espionage activities occurred before the March 20 attacks, most likely to gain intelligence regarding the targets to carry out further attacks (such as the March 20 incident) or to benefit the attackers in some other ways. This spying operation had remained hidden and only now has been discovered through diligent research and collaboration."
McAfee said whoever was behind the attacks had designed "a sophisticated encrypted network designed to gather intelligence on military networks. We have confirmed cases of Trojans operating through these networks in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2013. This network was designed to camouflage all communications between the infected systems and the control servers via the Microsoft Cryptography API using RSA 128-bit encryption."
Everything extracted from the military networks would be transmitted over the encrypted network once the malware identified interesting information, the report said.
"What makes this case particularly interesting is the use of automated reconnaissance tools to identify what specific military information internal systems contained before the attackers tried to grab any of the files …
"The search criteria are primarily specific file extensions and keywords in document titles. The keywords are all military specific. Some refer to specific military units and programs that operate in South Korea."
McAfee said the espionage malware had the capability to destroy systems in the same way that the March 20 attacks disabled thousands of systems. "This capability could be devastating if military networks were to suddenly be wiped after an adversary had gathered intelligence."
The McAfee report did not refer to more recent cyber attacks on South Korea, such as those last month on the anniversary of the start of the Korean War in 1950. Several government websites were shut down by the attacks.
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Korsteel Sweet Iron Eggbutt Snaffle
This Korsteel bit has stainless steel rings and a sweet iron single jointed mouthpiece with eggbutt cheeks.
Price: £19.00
Sweet Iron Mouthpieces:
Sweet iron is a dark colour metal and is designed to rust. As it rusts, it produces a sweet taste that horses like.
Eggbutt Cheeks:
The eggbutt is a fixed cheek bit, this may be useful for horses that are a bit unsure of the bit as it doesn't move around to much in the mouth, it should encourage the horse to stretch into the contact. An eggbutt bit would be less suitable if your horse is prone to leaning or taking hold of the bit.
Single Jointed Bits:
The single joint puts pressure on the sides of the tongue, on the lips and on the bars due to the nutcracker action. The single jointed bits tend to have a head raising action so would be less suitable for animals with a high head carriage. Also they are not so suitable for horses with particularly large tongues because they have less room in the mouth for a single jointed bit as this pushes the bit nearer the roof of the mouth, also Arabs and alike may have a low palate, with both of these examples the nutcracker action may cause brushing of the roof of the mouth.


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Anna Burns won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday with Milkman, a vibrant, violent story about men, women, conflict and power set during Northern Ireland's years of Catholic-Protestant violence (1968-1998).
Burns, 56, is the first writer from Northern Ireland to win the £50,000 (RM270,000) prize, which is open to English-language authors from around the world. She is also the first woman in five years to win the Booker after Eleanor Catton became the youngest winner, at the age of 28, in 2013.
Milkman is narrated by a young woman dealing with an older man who uses family ties, social pressure and political loyalties as weapons of sexual coercion and harassment. It is set in the 1970s, but was published amid the global eruption of sexual misconduct allegations that sparked the #MeToo movement.
"I think this novel will help people to think about #MeToo, and I like novels that help people think about current movements and challenges," said philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah, 64, who chaired the judging panel.
"But we think it'll last – it's not just about something that's going on in this moment.
The judges had never read anything like it before, he said, adding that Burns' "utterly distinctive voice challenges conventional thinking and form in surprising and immersive prose".
Though set in an unnamed city, Milkman undoubtedly drew on the author's experiences growing up in the Northern Irish capital Belfast for this exploration of the city's three decades of sectarian violence told through the voice of a young woman.
"From the opening page her words pull us into the daily violence of her world – threats of murder, people killed by state hit squads – while responding to the everyday realities of her life as a young woman," Appiah said.
"The novel delineates brilliantly the power of gossip and social pressure in a tight-knit community, and shows how both rumour and political loyalties can be put in the service of a relentless campaign of individual sexual harassment.
"Yet this is never a novel about just one place or time," he said. "The local is in service to an exploration of the universal experience of societies in crisis."
Milkman appears on the printed page as a continuous torrent with few paragraph marks, which has led some to label it experimental and challenging. But Appiah said the vivid, distinctive Belfast language in Burns' book was "really worth savouring".
"If you're having difficulty, try reading it out loud," he said.
"The pleasure of it really has to do with the way that it sounds.
"It's challenging in the way a walk up (Mount) Snowdon (in Wales) is challenging. It's definitely worth it, because the view is terrific when you get to the top."
Burns beat five other novelists, including the bookies' favourites: American writer Richard Powers' tree-centric eco-epic The Overstory and Canadian novelist Esi Edugyan's Washington Black, the story of a slave who escapes from a plantation in a hot-air balloon.
The other finalists were US novelist Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room, set in a women's prison; Robin Robertson's The Long Take, a verse novel about a traumatised D-Day veteran; and 27-year-old British author Daisy Johnson's Greek tragedy-inspired family saga Everything Under.
Founded in 1969, the Man Booker Prize was originally open only to British, Irish and Common-wealth writers. Americans have been eligible since 2014, and there have been two American winners – Paul Beatty's The Sellout in 2016 and George Saunders' Lincoln In The Bardo in 2017.
A third consecutive American victor would have revived fears among some British writers and publishers that the prize is becoming too US-centric.
But Appiah said neither the nationality nor the gender of the authors was a factor in the judges' deliberations on the shortlist of four female authors and two men.
"If we had been drifting towards thinking that one of the men on the list was the best one, I wouldn't have said, 'No guys, we're going to get in trouble for this' any more than if we'd been drifting towards an American," he said.
"We picked the one ... most deserving of the prize."
The Man Booker has a reputation for transforming writers' careers, and the one who will emerge from the field to beat other finalists is always subject to intense speculation and lively betting. Previous winners include Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Arundhati Roy and Hilary Mantel.
It's likely to bring a big boost to Burns, who has two previous published novels – No Bones (2001) and Little Constructions (2007) – but is hardly a household name. Purchases of last year's winner, Lincoln In The Bardo, jumped 1,227% in the week after Saunders claimed the award, with nearly three-quarters of its sales following the win, according to prize organisers. – Agencies
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Use outdoor plants and foliage to bring beauty to your home, office, or event! Cotton & Wheat Bundle features tall brown wood twigs, light yellow and green wheat spikes, cotton bolls, and two decorative orbs made of wrapped wood pieces.
Offering varied heights and lots of various textures, add this tall floral bundle into a large vase or large, rustic milk can for a charming tabletop accent.
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- Ball Width: 3 1/4"
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Understand Your Users to Improve Your Website's UI/UX Design
The user interface or user experience design of your product or service is playing a vital role in having a successful web presence and being successful with your business in general. It takes a lot of skill, time, effort and testing to create an optimal UI. There are many philosophies on how to achieve great results with your interface and today we'll walk you through a few of them.
Creating a good user interface is a complex process that requires you to take many aspects into consideration. But your goal is quite simple. It's to create an interface that helps users achieve their goals as easily as possible and as joyfully as possible.
To do that, you need to understand both them and your own goals completely. You'll have to rely on a lot of information you get from the experience angle to know how the user flow is going to play out, identify any problems and determine key hierarchies and how product areas will look like.
If you have a well-rounded idea of what you want your users to experience and reverse it from there, you'll be on your way to making a successful user interface. You should know your users almost better than your product, to know how they can benefit from your service and how you can provide them with a quality experience.
We have already covered the main aspects of a successful user interface and why they are so important in one of our previous article. There are a lot of factors to juggle with when it comes to developing such an interface and it's important that you don't let any of the particular aspects lessen the quality of others. For example, don't let creating an attractive interface compromise any of the functionality or don't overdo the aspect of clarity with additional texts.
In this article, we'll give a guide to better understanding your potential users and your overall audience. Knowing how they think, what they're looking for and how they use your website or service will prove to be of great help when you place different elements of your interface. After that, we'll move on to some tips that will help in making an interface that much better suits your users.
So, without beating any more around the bush, let's get started!
Understanding the User
In actuality, users don't behave much differently from the way people shop in stores. They come in, look around and check out anything that comes close to what they wanted in the first place. Analyzing people is of key importance to creating a successful UI design and it is needed to aim the design in the right direction. Creating a list of clear goals is an important step towards defining what your interface should include and how it should function. The important questions to consider are:
How familiar is the user with technology?
What does the user want my interface to accomplish?
How would a particular user interact with the interface in a normal scenario during their visit?
Understanding the users doesn't launch the project but it helps a lot in setting goals. Even after you have your goals established, the process of understanding your user's behavior continues.
Use the data from Google Analytics (user paths, keywords and successful interactions) and gather feedback from interviews, surveys and social media interaction. This will help you develop much better content and remove any barrier that might hold you back.
How Users Search
One of the most important things to consider when you're placing various elements and content in your interface is that users don't read through your page, they scan it. As users analyze your webpage they search for certain points that will guide them through the content of the webpage. These key points help them pick the information piece by piece until they can grab on to what they came for.
Once you used this to guide them in the right direction, they will want to see quality content. It's incredibly important to provide users with high-quality content. People are willing to compromise the content they view with ads or the design of the website if they find your content to be top quality and worth viewing.
How Users Think
Internet users are incredibly impatient and insist on getting what they want instantly. A site has to meet the users' expectations; otherwise the company will lose money. The more they have to think about navigating and finding content, the less intuitively they navigate and the faster they'll leave the site.
Users are looking for a way to just fly through websites instead of reading through the information that a designer has provided. Users simply don't care. They follow their intuition and just muddle through your website. Web users don't scan websites in a linear fashion; they just let their attention jump around and click on the first reasonable option they come across.
Although they don't care too much, they still want to have control over their browser and have content presented to them consistently throughout the entire site. This means they wouldn't like any windows to pop up unexpectedly and they want to navigate back to exactly where they came from with the "back" button.
How To Make The UI Better for Users
Now that you know how users analyze your website and how they think, its time make some moves to take your UI one step further.
Don't Make Users Think Too Much
What a webpage stands for should be obvious and self-explanatory. As you're creating your website, you should weed out as many question marks as possible. Make sure that the site's architecture is intuitive and users can comprehend how the system works and how it can get them from point A to point B. A clear structure and complimenting visual clues make sure that they can easily find links and the path they aim for.
Work on Catching Users Attention
With web pages offering both static and dynamic content, some parts of the UI attract more attention than others. Images obviously catch more attention than text, just like bold or colored text grabs more attention than plain text as well.
For example, having a word like "free" written with large letters is going to stand out and will instantly catch users' attention. It will have a lot more interest, make the site much more appealing yet stay purely informative. It will let the user know that he or she is about to receive a free product.
Focusing your users' attention on certain visual elements will help in getting them from point A to point B, without thinking about how it should be done even for a second.
Keep The Users in Control
Human beings feel most comfortable when they are in control of the environment and themselves. If your software is thoughtless, it will force users out of that comfort with confusing pathways and unplanned interactions. Keep them in control by surfacing a system status regularly and give insight into what they should expect at every turn of your page. Don't be shy about stating the obvious. It almost never is.
Don't Expend Users' Patience
Like we mentioned before, users are highly impatient beings. So always make sure that when you are offering visitors some kind of service or something valuable, keep their requirements to the minimal. The less information and action is required from users to try a service, the more likely it is that a random person will actually test it out. First time visitors will be willing to play with a service only if it doesn't require them to fill out long forms for an account that many of them won't even use in the future.
Let users discover your website without having to provide too much of their personal data or tinker with their email accounts.
Make it as Simple as Possible
"Keep it simple" is a principle that should be a primary goal of a website's design. Users rarely visit a website to enjoy its design. Most of them are looking for information and aim to get it as simply as possible.
The best design for users is pure text without any advertisements or content blocks getting in the way of their information. They are looking for the content that is matching the exact query they used to find your site with. Give users what they want as simply as possible without overcrowding them with any unnecessary content.
Consistency is Important
As we mentioned previously, screen elements should remain consistent with each other throughout the web page. If they do so, they should also behave in a consistent manner with each other. Basically, elements that look the same should act the same as well. It is also important for elements that are unlike the others to appear that way.
This concludes one of our articles about better understanding your users. We only covered the tip of the iceberg, so we'll continue with another article in the same topic. We'll cover further details on understanding user behavior and implementing various UI designs that complement them. So stay in tune for more!
I hope that you have found this information useful and that it will aid you in improving any project you might be working on!


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Say hello to our new monthly planner! Designed by our fellow Portlander Ashley Low and printed in the neighborhood at Scout Books, this streamlined planner has personal reference pages along with 12 undated months to start at any time. It's everything you need for a quick organizational overview of your life!
-6 personal resource pages (quick reference dates, personal info, addresses, back-up phone list, birthdays/gift list, movies/books/music to check out)
-12 dateless month overviews with a month spread over two pages and a lined column for notes
Measures 5" wide x 7" tall, 32 pages. 100% recycled gray chipboard cover and white interior pages printed with black vegetable-based ink. Saddle stitched with two black staples. Made in Portland.


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Motorcyclists visiting Belgium can experience mile upon mile of stunning scenery as a backdrop to thrilling and numerous routes, spanning the country from Bruges in the north to Bastogne in the south. The Ardennes is a veritable motorcycle playground, and the First World War battlefields of Passchendaele and Ypres as well as the iconic Menin Gate Memorial.
In the east of the country you'll find the legendary Circuit De Spa-Francorchamps (Spa Racing Circuit in English).
Sticker features slightly rippled flag of Belgium with the coat of arms in the shape of a teardrop shield along with Belgium on the top.
Looks great on motorcycle panniers, bikes, boxes….. just about anything to show where you've travelled.
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As I was lying in bed this morning after my alarm jolted me out of R.E.M. I began the process of rationalizing my need for a few more minutes of sleep. There is something about having to wake up when the house is cold and the bed is warm. I have begun to develop a pretty significant love-hate relationship with this time of year. At night there is nothing better than going to bed when it is cool…in the morning there is nothing more painful than getting up when it is cool.
When I went down to wake up Alexa she was totally under the blankets. I pulled back the blankets and whispered that it was time to get up. Schwoooop! The blankets are suddenly ripped out of my hand and once again covering her head. "I don't want to get up" she says. I empathize since it had just taken me 20 minutes to roll out of bed myself. Now I expect her to do it immediately. In the end we both made it out of bed and off to school and work.
After making it into a cold car and finding my way downtown, I have had some time to think….life is full of difficult decisions. Where should I live? Who should I vote for in the coming elections? How can I mend a troubled relationship? What is the best way to raise children? I have concluded that quite possibly the most difficult question of all is the one we have to make every day, "Why should I get up?"
If you are a morning purist, please do not join in this conversation. If you hear the alarm clock and jump out of bed with no effort at all…you make me sick. Furthermore if you can get by on 3-4 hours of sleep you need to have a full psychological evaluation. At the very least you are proof that life is not fair. If you are like me and spend time thinking about these issues of life, this e-mail is for you.
This Saturday night is DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME…we all get an extra hour of sleep. I am very optimistic that the service at 10:45am on Sunday will be full of smiling, well rested faces. I hope you will be there.
If you have time to read through John 9:1-41, it will help as you allow God to prepare your heart for the service.
I know I have mentioned this before, but if I can help you in any way, please feel free to reply.
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the drain holes to create a stable implant unit (Fig. 1) (32). Catheters may be open at one (single leader) or both (double leader) ends, if they run from skin to skin, or they may be blind ended and terminate within the wound. Stabilization of blind-ended tubes is more difficult than for skin-to-skin AZD6244 manufacturer catheter arrangements. The Jackson–Pratt technique fixes the blind-ended tubes within the wound and helps prevent postoperative catheter displacements. Tissue expanders can Sulfite dehydrogenase be used to protect normal structures from high exposure rates from the radiation sources. Gelfoam, drains, or inflatable (removable) materials can be placed between the catheters and critical structures to prevent normal tissue injury in the very high–dose region. The radiation oncologist must consider the
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I hate appearing as weak or ineffectual to her. I think there could be something important still to play out betwen us… Maybe my confession of depression has ruined that possibility. It's too late to worry about that now; the proverbial cat has escaped the proverbial bag. It is what it is. Still it hurts.
The sleep aid the doctor prescribed is too strong by half! It left me dry-mouthed, sleepy but unable to sleep. I don't think I'll continue with those. Taking Wellbutrin again; hope it helps.
Suicide still feels like a logical continuation. I am aware that the mood I'm currently in is temporary. But when I look back over my life there has been very little happiness overall. I feel like I never get what I want. Or perhaps I've simply always been over-reactive and the failure to get what I want during formative years has imprinted me with shame and unworthiness. That's probably a better perspective. And one that lends itself to improvement through meditation.
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I got to hold this little bundle of cuteness during the ceremony, because his parents were both members of the bridal party. Is he adorable, or what?
Colette in her bridesmaid's dress (J. Crew, if you're interested).
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Labour has this morning revealed that if it were currently in power all of the long term-unemployed would be given temporary jobs , those in work would each get a Ferrari, barmaids would be 32% more attractive, and old people would remember more than they used to, and be slightly less annoying, talkative and urine-scented.
Ahead of next Tuesday's debate on whether benefits should rise in accordance with inflation, shadow work and pensions secretary, Liam Byrne said "We have this really good scientific calculator, that Ed Balls's mum bought him for doing his A-levels, and we all sat round and did the maths the other day, and we could afford to do all this right now, if we were in office. I bet you wished you'd voted for us now."
Byrne added "We are throwing down the gauntlet to the conservatives with this hypothetical spending plan, and feel we can promise, hand on heart, that if we were in their shoes, everyone would have a job and a really fast car. This puts the onus on them to explain just why it is that Britain is not currently full of happy, employed people speeding around in new automobiles."
Labour were quick to point out that this did not constitute an election promise, and that should they win in 2015 the proposals would no longer apply.
"This is sort of a 'right here, right now' spontaneous thing," said Ed Miliband, "Naturally we aren't committing to it, because the Tories will spend the next two years setting fire to every banknote in the country for lighting cigars or warming brandy, and then when we win, through no fault of our own, we wouldn't be able to deliver."
But political analyst, Professor Hamish McEyebrau, of the Slough School for Waste-disposal and Sky-pies, said "This is essentially a promise that is entirely unfalsifiable, and is therefore as trustworthy as the telephone voting system for a talent TV show. No one would dream of seriously believing that ringing up a production company would – sorry? Oh they do? Really? Oh well forget it then."
But conservative chairman and winner of 2012's Oleaginous Little Prick of the Year award, Grant Shapps, said "This is typical posturing from the opposition, who are no more capable of getting the plebian, hateful lower-class scum of this country to work than we are. When will you people in the media realise that unless you get behind our eugenics plan there's no-"
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I've been contemplating all day how to put this into words, and I am stumped. The first photo was taken in January of 2015, we set up our "booth" at the Rolling M Youth Rodeo Series that took place at the Champions Center in Springfield Ohio. My mom was watching it while I ran East Bound Jet, the mare that got this whole adventure started. The second photo was taken this weekend, about 11 feet from where the first photo was snapped. Three years. In three years we went from a folding card table and a pre made Vistaprint banner to LED lighting, a barcode system and custom made graphics by Untethered Design Studio. Do not tell me dreams don't come true- and if you say you can't do it, you're right.
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Messi, Ronaldo, Kane? Lloris lauds Spurs striker as a Ballon d'Or 2018 contender
Hugo Lloris believes Harry Kane is already as good a player as Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.
The Tottenham star set a new record for Premier League goals in a year when he ended 2017 with a hat-trick against Southampton on Boxing Day, taking his tally in the English top flight to 39.
Only Messi and Paris Saint-Germain star Edinson Cavani scored more for their clubs in the last 12 months than Kane did, and his latest achievement prompted many to hail the England international as one of the world's best attackers.
Messi and Ronaldo have both been at the pinnacle of the world game for over a decade, having won five Ballons d'Or each, and the 24-year-old striker himself believes he still has "a long way to go" to develop into a player of their calibre.
However, his Spurs team-mate and captain is sure the Premier League's top goalscorer for each of the last two seasons is already on a par with the Barcelona and Real Madrid stars.
"With players like Messi and Ronaldo it's difficult to catch them. But Harry is by the side of them and he is still young," he told The Telegraph.
"He has his head on his shoulders and he has a lot of humility and that's the key.
"I've never played with a striker capable of scoring so many goals in a year. I played with a lot of top strikers and probably he is the best."
Lloris is just the latest voice to insist Kane is on the level of one of the best around, as Alan Shearer, whose record he broke this month, says he would be a star for either of the Clasico sides, after Lothar Matthaus claimed he would walk into any team in Europe and keep scoring.


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Friday, August 27, 2010
The President
This is Johan. He is a history buff. His preferred dressing style is the fashion of the 1940s, and it was his outfit (and bag), that caught my eye when I noticed him in Handen. He was in a hurry and had a train to catch, but was kind enough to give me a few minutes of his time. Johan's big history interest dates back a bit more than seventy years. He is the President of Albrecht's Handgonnes. A living history society that focuses on King Albrecht of Mecklenburg's Swedish reign (1364-1389). It's a non-religious and non-political group that enjoys re-enactments of the life in a group of royal handgunners during the last 50 years of the fourteenth century. If you would like to know more about this check out their informative web site. Johan, who is planning a move to a new apartment in Uppsala (where his girlfriend studies at the University), is a trained Medieval archaeologist, but at the moment he works as a personal assistant.
11 comments:
- MrsLittleJeans said...
Outstanding...love how creative people are! And he looks great in his outfit too!
- Friday, August 27, 2010
- RedPat said...
You have quite an assortment of people in Handen. The portraits are always so interesting!
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- Living In Williamsburg Virginia said...
Great photo of a great character and a great story.
Darryl and Ruth : )
- Friday, August 27, 2010
- Bjork said...
Is there anybody who does nothing in Haninge? You know a total lazy layabout slob, with grey hair and a flabby face. A bit like me? Are you all totally photogenic?
- Friday, August 27, 2010
- Paula said...
He looks really interesting and it's a great portrait.
- Friday, August 27, 2010
- Olivier said...
il a un superbe look avec une tres belle casquette
- Friday, August 27, 2010
- Halcyon said...
I love his style!
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- Daniel Marklund said...
Vilken trevlig blogg du har! Gillar din stil - enkelt och rent!
- Friday, August 27, 2010
- AB said...
Something of a character! I can I only wonder what his Mediaeval archaeologist girlfriend wears
- Friday, August 27, 2010
- Steffe said...
I find most people interesting.
@ Bjork. No. Possibly. Not sure. Yes.
A very good question AB!
- Friday, August 27, 2010
- VP said...
For what I know a perfect outfit, straight from a 1940's movies...
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Asian Tribune is published by World Institute For Asian Studies|Powered by WIAS Vol. 12 No. 2785
President Mahinda Rajapaksa is expected to make a three-day visit to Jaffna on the invitation of Douglas Devananda, Jaffna Electoral District MP and the Minister of Traditional Industries and Small Enterprise Development.
'Asian Tribune' has learnt through its sources in Saudi Arabia that Saudi Arabia has revoked the suspension on the execution of Sri Lanka's housemaid Rizana Nafeek and it has now become imminent that she will be executed anytime, despite appeals and prayers of 20 million Sri Lankans and sympathizers all over the world including Saudi Arabia.
The wife of Mr. Abdul Qader Al Mashoor Moulana - a Saudi National, who lives in Riyadh, met yesterday evening with Mr.& Mrs Naif Jiziyan Khalaf Al-Otaibi, who are the parents of the 4 month old Saudi boy who died in the hands of Rizana Nafeek, the Sri Lankan Housemaid while bottle-feeding on 22 May 2005.
DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Sunday made it clear that he will name his younger son and party treasurer M K Stalin as his political successor.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa in a request sent to the King of Saudi Arabia on the 5th January has sought the release the Lankan maid Rizana Nafeek who faces death sentence in Saudi jail on charges of murdering an infant boy while bottle-feeding, states a release from the Department of Government Information of the Ministry of Mass Media and In formation.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagawat gave yet another controversial statement terming marriage as social contract between husband and wife in a function on Saturday in Indore.
The Party Leaders meeting is to be held today morning with the Speaker of the Parliament Chamal Rajapaksa presiding to decide on holding parliamentary sessions on 10th and 11th of this month to take up the impeachment motion against the Shirani Bandaranaike, the Chief Justice.
Flying in face of the ban on revealing the identity of the Delhi braveheart, who succumbed to injuries sustained fighting six rapists, her father Badri Singh Pandey has given the permission to reveal her name: Jyoti Singh Pandey.
The Party Leaders meeting presided over by the Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa decided to hold the impeachment motion debate against Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake on 10th and 11th of this month.
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How to Bet on Tennis and Win Big?
Betting on tennis is one of the most popular sports for gamblers. With so many matches being played, there is always something to bet on. The tennis season runs for 11 months of the year. This means the short off-season is the only time when matches are not ongoing. And the players work so hard you cannot deny them having December away from the court!
The tennis season is built around the four major tournaments that are held each year. These start with the Australian Open, which takes place in January. There is then a gap in the summer when the French Open is held on the clay courts of Roland Garros. Just a couple of weeks later, players head to London. Wimbledon is arguably the most prestigious tennis tournament of them all. The last major tournament of the year is held at Flushing Meadows in New York – the US Open. Then, the best performing players face off at the ATP Finals to complete the year.
But away from the majors, there are plenty of events to bet on as well. Most weeks there will be multiple tournaments to pick from on the senior tour – involving both male and female players. In addition, the challenger and future tournaments offer further opportunities to place tennis bets. But what if you are new to betting on the sport? Well, you are in luck! This guide will cover everything you need to know about betting on tennis – so let's crack on!
Types of Tennis Bets
As with most sports you can bet on, there are a number of types of a bet to understand. At its most basic level, tennis betting is very straightforward. You can bet on which player will win just about any match taking place anywhere in the world. And you can also pick out a player to win a tournament if you want to place a slightly long-term bet as well.
But just like other sports available on bookmaker websites, the option is there to go deep. You can bet on the correct score, or whether a player will be able to win a set. You can bet on the number of games or number of sets it takes to complete a match. And there are handicap markets too. These work in just the same way as they do for other sports like football or rugby.
Your handicap bet on a tennis player will usually be on the number of games they win across the whole match compared to their opponent. So if your bet is Roger Federer -4.5, for example, he would have to win at least five more games than his opponent for the bet to be a winner.
Gamblers placing bets on tennis can also group matches into accumulators as you would in other sports, while live tennis bets are becoming increasingly popular as well. Odds can move slowly in live matches, especially those that are not of a high profile with big names involved. This can mean there are opportunities to make a lot of money out of living betting. All you need to do is to be on the ball.
Live Bets
So how does live betting work when it comes to gambling on tennis? It works in much the same way as any other sport! Technology means you can now bet while out and about or on the move. Bookmakers all have mobile websites to help you to place a bet in a matter of seconds. Many of them even have their own mobile app in a bid to make betting faster than ever before.
Live tennis bets have a number of different options aside from obvious wagers such as which player is going to win the match and go through to the next round. You can bet on who wins the next game. Or wagers on the player who will win the next set are popular as well. Bookies will also offer odds on the score of the next set. Check out the options on bookmaker websites. There are absolutely loads to pick from. Just be aware that you do not have to be an expert in every single market that is offered. Many people make a good living out of tennis bets by focusing only on a few markets. The bottom line is you are likely to be more successful in gambling by sticking to what you know. Try to specialise in a couple of markets you know well.
Among the benefits of betting on live tennis is the number of stats that are available. Bookies in this day and age will often present a selection of these alongside the odds they offer. These can be a very useful tool to help you to decide which tennis bets you want to place. However, be aware these are only a small snapshot of the match. More detailed stats are likely to be available elsewhere. Take a look at the ATP website for live statistics on men's matches. For games involving female players, the WTA website should be your first port of call for this.
Tips and Tricks
A lot of people who like to gamble prefer to stick to a strategy. So it is not a surprise that there are a few different tennis betting strategies that people like to use. However, there is not necessarily any tangible advantage to having a strategy. Many people manage fine without. But it is still worth checking out the options available to see if any of them are right for you to use.
Tennis betting tips are on offer all over the internet. As part of your research, it cannot hurt to spend some time reading what the experts are predicting for your chosen tournament. But be aware that even those with the best levels of knowledge often still get things wrong. Sport is unpredictable and surprising things happen all the time. Even odds-on favourites can lose.
Be wary also of tips on tennis betting that are presented on bookmaker websites. After all, it is not in the interest of the bookies for you to win. Feel free to listen to their advice, but do not necessarily follow it. Instead, do plenty of your own research. With so much data and a lot of statistics out there, there is no excuse for failing to be fully informed about a tournament.
One thing to keep in mind is that unknown player very rarely win the biggest events. The majors are typically dominated by the biggest names in the sport. And the same is true for the next tier of tournaments, the Masters series, which offers a high number of ranking points. So if a player is offered at high odds to win a tennis tournament, this is usually for a very good reason. Outsiders do sometimes come from nowhere to win, but this is increasingly rare. Even the best young players on the challengers and futures tours are now known through the game.
This guide should have covered everything you need to know to begin betting on tennis. Keep in mind a couple of the golden rules whenever you are betting on any type of sport. Always look for the best value. Do this by comparing odds and prices across a wide range of bookmakers. Also, try to take advantage of offers and promotions when you can. These are a great way to earn easy money out of gambling. And the final rule is an obvious one. Gambling should be a fun habit that helps you to win a lot of cash. If you are losing, it is fine to walk away. And never place more money on a bet that you can afford to lose, no matter how confident you are. Good luck!


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Darling on deck: Kristin Ducote's top tips for entertaining ladies on board
by Kristin Ducote
Author, attorney and yacht owner Kristin Ducote dishes advice for equal opportunity fun on board. Listen up, fellas...
If you want your lady to spend more time on that extraordinarily expensive toy of yours, here are some tips to ensure she loves yachting as much as you do.
• Don't poke the bear. Prepare yourself for abnormally large sun hats, huge sunglasses and white, chemical-free marine-safe suncream like on a 1980s beach volleyball player. Also expect moments of horrifically un-sexy long-sleeved SPF shirts. Wrinkles are not chic, so hold your tongue and don't make fun of our extreme methods of sun protection.
• Don't urinate off the transom. You think we can't see you but we can.
• Don't fight us on that insanely expensive Chanel tote to carry our towel and sunscreen to the beach. We don't begrudge you that fourth engine on your tender. And while we're on the subject of tenders, please choose a mutually acceptable one. All we really care about is how dry it is. An errant wave over the bow on the way to a fancy dinner can ruin the evening.
• And yes, do plan a fancy onshore dinner or two. Although one of the great things about yacht life is the ability to let your hair down and relax, we still like to wash the salt off now and then. No matter how superb the chef on board, give us a few nights of excitement. Give us a reason to swipe on bright lipstick and slip into a great pair of heels.
• Do splurge for the best crew you can find. No matter what size boat you're working with, in the end it's the crew that makes the trip. Look for yachties with extra things to offer, like a yoga background. Yoga classes on the aft deck at sunset aren't just for her; they will make you appreciate the moment too.
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Three years after taking a course encouraging more women into public life, DUP Alderman Hilary McClintock, is set to complete an unprecedented three year run of female Mayoralties in the Maiden City and Strabane.
No major town on the island has ever promoted women to first citizenship with such regularity, though Mildred Garfield and Kathleen McCloskey and later Lynn Fleming and Helen Quigley have served back-to-back terms in Londonderry in the recent past.
Following her nomination on Monday evening, the new Mayor said it was a great honour, both to have been selected by her party, the DUP, but also to be following so closely in the footsteps of predecessors Brenda Stevenson and Elisha McCallion.
"I'll be the third female Mayor in a row, which is quite an honour as well. I think it is unprecedented here. As far as I know it is the first time there have been three in a row.
"And three Mayors from three different parties. So it's quite nice that women are being elevated to this position in the SDLP, Sinn Féin and now the DUP as well," she said.
The new Mayor, who coincidentally, is only six letters off sharing a name with the most famous female politician on the planet, US Presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, says her nomination reflects something of a sea-change in women's representation here politically.
Up until Michelle McIlveen and, later, Emma Little-Pengelly, joining Arlene Foster on the Executive in Autumn 2015, unionist parties' record in terms of promoting women had been execrable.
In fact, immediately prior to Mrs McIlveen and Mrs Little-Pengelly's promotion there had been more Protestant women, Heather Humphreys and Jan O'Sullivan, in senior office in Dublin, than in Belfast.
But that's all changed now and Mrs McClintock, for one, is glad to be leading the charge for the party in the North West.
"The big thing for us, it's a big year for women in the party with Arlene Foster being First Minister as well. It's nice to be the first citizen down here in the same year.
"All the women who have been elected to Stormont within our party have all positions of responsibility. They are not token women. They are there in their own right and because they can do the job. You have Emma Pengelly, Paula Bradley. They are either Ministers or Chairs. They are not token women. They are there in their own right. So it's a great example to women really anywhere, what you can achieve."
Mrs McClintock is also conscious of the fact that she is the first woman unionist to serve as Mayor since Mildred Garfield fifteen years ago.
"Mildred's a big act to follow. She was a very good Mayor, a very good people person."
The well-known Waterside community workers' political rise has been remarkably swift.
Mayor, just two years after being elected to the new Derry City and Strabane District Council, Mrs McClintock, says she only really decided to take the plunge into politics shortly before then.
"I become involved in Foyle Women's Information Network and through that I did a course, 'Women into Public Life,' which was a cross-border course.
"There were a lot of women from Donegal and a lot of women from the city here as well and that was really what spurred me on because I've often said it since, that I went into that course, when other people were talking about going into political life, I went in saying, 'Why me? How could I ever do that?'
"But I ended up doing a vox pop for a video and I ended up saying, 'Why not me?' That's what spurred me on. That was about three years ago and I still have those contacts with those women from the city and Donegal, life-long friendships are there, and the strange thing is I'm, as far as I know, the
only person who's actually taken the step of going into public life.
"I always felt I was the most unlikely one in the course to do that because I was a sort of a shy and retiring type, believe it or not, when I was younger, but I thought, 'Why not me? You have to take that step.'
"My Christian faith is very, very important to me and my Christian faith comes in there as well, because I would say, anything you're called to do, you're given the strength to do it.
"And that's important to me. If you're called to a role, you do get the help and strength to do it."
The Mayor says her goal throughout her term will be to 'make a difference' to people's lives, both personally and corporately, in union with her Councillor colleagues.
"What I'm going to take for a theme for the year is 'making a difference.' I feel that I personally can make a difference. All through my career in community development and other places that I've worked, I've tried to make a difference in people's lives on a personal basis.
"I worked in the civil service, then I went into play groups, worked with young families, worked in a play group in Strathfoyle, worked in Gobnascale for years in a play group up there, worked in all the community play groups in the city.
"I always felt I was making a difference helping young children and young parents as well. Then I went in as a classroom assistant to Belmont House school and worked in the Woodlands language unit for 13 years and that was with children with specific language impairments and you always felt you were making a difference there.
"I went in to Waterside Area Partnership (WAP) and obviously then I was working with loads of different groups throughout the Waterside and beyond like community groups, sports groups, women's groups, cultural groups, bands, child care groups, youth clubs and you always felt you were contributing something and I think that's a big part of what I am. It's about contributing something personally.
"But with the theme of 'making a difference' corporately, as well, as a Council I want to see us making a difference on different levels.
"Making a difference in the lives of older people, making a difference in the lives of younger people.
"I'll be calling for continued work around Magee, the whole Magee issue and the expansion of Magee.
"It's about making a difference on all those different levels, in individual lives and corporately for the city as well."
Mrs McClintock also vowed to continue working towards reconciliation in Londonderry and Strabane throughout the year ahead.
"I'm Democratic Unionist Party through and through but during this year I want to be able to visit anybody, visit everybody. I will do my best to take on as many engagements as I can.
"Whatever invites I get, I'll look at everything. I want to get out there among people. I love meeting people. I love hearing what people are doing and I want to be Mayor of all of the district.
"There have been precedents set over the years. There has been a lot of good work done and I think it all helps towards better understanding of each other's traditions. Everybody is the same underneath. People are people.
"Everyone has the same issues and I would like to think that during my year. I would do my bit to try and improve community relations.
"It's about respect for everybody. We are a diverse people and yet we need to acknowledge our differences and move on and get on with the things that really matter to people."
The new Mayor said she's looking forward to the next challenge and that she's extremely grateful for the love and support of her family who helped encourage her take the leap of faith into public life in the first place.
"I'm married 40 years, have two daughters and three grand children.
"My grandchildren go to school in Letterkenny so I do see them at the weekends.
"It's important for me to be a big part of their lives. Grannies are very important."


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Given the recent explosion of web-based social apps and widgets, there are a handful of companies who are making it easier to build and host your apps. Sites like Sprout and KickApps have Flash-based IDE's to let you easily build lightweight apps, and the big guys like Google are building out full stacks to support larger-scale efforts. However, one big piece of the puzzle that I haven't seen is the ability to create a very simple hosted web service that allows developers to create a basic CRUD (Create/Read/Update/Delete) interface to a data store.
Here are a few key features that a service like this would need to succeed:
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Other interesting features? A set of open source or shared read web services that could be created or used by anyone. This could be as simple as basic options to fill a drop down list (i.e. standard set of countries, states, cities) or something more complex like IP-to-location mappings.
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Ok, so 2016 wasn't the best year for a couple of reasons. Oh boy…yea. But instead let's focus on why it wasn't all that bad! Some pretty cool stuff happened this year, like:
Rio Olympics: Ok, so the trails had some controversy, but hey, we did pretty well! We topped out at first with the most gold medals (46) and the most medals overall (121)! And in the Rio Paralympics we did pretty well, too, with 40 Gold and 115 total medals (and a 4th place ranking overall)! There's nothing quite like watching your country excel in the Olympic trails to help brighten up the year.
Pokémon Go: Remember this mobile game that blew up? Love it or hate it, this game became huge, fast! It's been downloaded 500 million times worldwide and helped to boost local business and encouraged physical activity. Though many were quick to try to outsmart that part. But hey, it was a a really cool augmented reality game that had some glitches. And if you're still playing it Gen 2 is set to come out sometime in December.
Solar Powered Plane: Some big science milestone were completed this year too. On July 26th the Solar Impulse 2, a solar powered plane, completed it's around the year trip making it the first ever piloted fixed wing solar powered plane to circumnavigate the earth! Though it's not winning any prizes for speed, since the trip took around 16 1/2 months due to a battery failure from Japan to Hawaii and weather.
Video Games: This year hasn't been so bad for videogames in general to. There was the incredibly popular Overwatch, Watch_Dogs 2, Firewatch, Titanfall 2, Dark Souls III, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Gears of War 4, Mafia III and also Batman: the Telltale series. So plenty of awesome games and that's barely scratching the surface. Like there was the amazing game Inside or Pokémon Sun and Moon!
NASA's Juno: The satellite Juno reached Jupiter this year! It will continue to study Jupiter and it's moons until 2019, were it will make a controlled plumet and disintegration into Jupiter's atmosphere so to not cause space debris. How lovely. But did you know that they scientists included some little mementos on board? There's a aluminum plaque with Galileo's own handwriting carved into it of him first describing the Galilean Moons! Plus Lego teamed up with the scientists and made special aluminum Lego figures of Galileo Galilei, and the roman god, Jupiter and his wife, Juno.
Recovered Artwork: In the art world two of Van Gogh's paintings that were stolen 14 years ago have been found! During a mafia bust of all things, his early work "Seascape at Scheveningen" (1882) and "Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen" (1884/85), were discovered in Naples Italy. Interesting since they were stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. It's believed they got there through trading between the families, though everyone is just glad they're safe.
Rouge One: Star Wars makes everything better! And with loads of positive reviews and a movie that puts the "war" in Star Wars, how could you go wrong?! I still haven't seen it as I'm typing this, but I heard it's great!
And if nothing else it was a great year for movies! Now I have a bias towards animated films, so here me out when I mention that we got Zootopia, Moana, Finding Dory, and Sausage Party (well, that could go either way)…because we also got amazing movies like Deadpool, Fantastic Beasts and Where to find Them, Doctor Strange and Captain America: Civil War! Plus Leonardo Dicaprio got his Oscar with the 2016 movie, The Revenant! So it can't be all bad..right?
Well, here's to hoping 2017 is even better! Way better. Was there anything that your glad happened in 2016?