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#283: The McGonagall of It All

The PotterCast Trio is still unpacking thoughts, feelings, and theories about the Crimes of Grindelwald and all it means for the canon and the fandom. Two episodes in and we have barely scratched the surface! Be sure to tell us your feelings and thoughts on @PotterCast everywhere, or by emailing staff@pottercast.com, or joining our Patreon! 




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Good news on care worker pay – but can employers fund further increases?


The new ‘national living wage’ has seen the sector’s pay bill rise by 6.9%, and further promised increases will add a total £2.3bn to wage costs




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SCVO launch third sector human rights campaign - Parliament & Government | The ALLIANCE



New campaign to promote human rights across the third sector.




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I gotta watch something.




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I'M GONNA BREAK THAT MACHINE




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KunstlerCast 326 — Confab with David Collum of Cornell U about Corona Virus, Markets Gone Wild, and Politics

Support this Podcast by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page   David Collum is the Betty R. Miller Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University. He is the intellectual utility infielder of internet commentary, covering all the bases: culture, politics, finance, science, and technology, with often surprising views on the the predicaments of our time. Here we attempt to more »

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Black Swans, Dead Cats, Live Bats, and Goodbye to All That

  Clusterfuck Nation For your reading pleasure Mondays and Fridays Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page Had enough excitement yet? At least the stock markets are following an established script: the bubble pops, the elevator drops, for a while it stops… and then investments sink to the deepest sub-basement, where they linger for a long, more »

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A Good Thanksgiving by The Pioneer Woman

We had a good Thanksgiving. It was Ladd, me, our four kids, and two extras…and I can’t remember the last time I cooked Thanksgiving dinner for eight people (well, and six dogs, obviously.) It was so relaxing and so enjoyable, and while I will always prefer to have the larger, whole fam damily together on […]




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I Got Nothin'

I suppose I really don't. It's a horrible situation and even the supposed "good guys" at the federal level, who don't run things entirely but who aren't entirely powerless, have shown no signs of having any sense of the catastrophe that is unfolding. "No one" panics unless stonks are tanking, and the Fed is making sure that doesn't happen.

As long as "the market" is happy, rich people are happy, "everybody" is happy.




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Pretty Good Business Model

Just do nothing and the Fed gives you free money and your stonk goes up.




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55 Quotes About Achieving Goals To Help You Stay Motivated

Setting and achieving goals is a process with different phases that will require lots of focus, commitment, and hard work. In order not to get distracted or overwhelmed, there is a need to stay constantly motivated on the journey to reaching your goals. Below are collections of quotes about achieving goals to help you sustain [...]Read More...




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How To Use Goals and Dreams To Achieve Personal Success

Goals and dreams are two concepts that are often used interchangeably in the quest for success. Although they can be used to complement one another, they do mean different things. This article looks at what goals and dreams are and how they can be used hand-in-hand in order to achieve personal success. What Are Goals? [...]Read More...




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RiteAid BonusCash rewards for Apr 5-11, 2020 ... 20% ROI on Xbox, GameStop, Apple, Google, Netflix, Nike, Panera, Fandango, AMC, & Regal GC's

It's a bumper crop of BonusCash at your local Rite-Aid this week, with not 1, 2, 3, but 4 gaming GC's, and 1 of those gives you even more options!

  • Nike, GameStop, Netflix ... $5 BonusCash when you buy $25 of these items.*
  • Google Play, AMC Theatres, Apple AppStore/iTunes, Fandango, XBOX, Panera Bread, Regal Theatres ... $6 BonusCash when you buy $30 of these items.*

FYI, "GameStop" is a big win, because not only can you purchase (additional) XBOX, PSN, Nintendo, and Steam credit there, but you order the GC credit from their website, and get a redemption code instantly after checkout.
 
For those who are new to the "Rite-Aid wellness+ reward BonusCash" program, you'll receive the $$$ amount when you purchase the minimum amount specified. Gift-cards within the same bullet-point share the same "limit 2 offers per customer", but you can earn rewards on the other bullet-point lines as well. For example, you can purchase $25 each of GameStop & Netflix (or $50 of GameStop) ... and still be able to purchase another $60 mix of Google & Apple & XBOX, and can stagger your 4 GC purchases throughout the week.

Screenshot of 2 separate GC offers (bullet points) included here:

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Small print (at bottom of weekly ad) and BonusCash T&C's included here:
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FYI ... the limit of "2 offers per customer" is tracked by your "wellness+ rewards" account, so you'll need to limit yourself to 2 offers per line item throughout the week, and not just "2 per transaction" or "2 per day". At the time of purchase, your printed receipt will indicate how many of the "limit 2" you've met, but neither the website nor register will indicate ...

  • if you've met the limit of 2 items per BonusCash group with the current transaction, or
  • if the transaction you're about to complete exceeds the limit of 2 per week, or
  • when your BonusCash rewards will expire.

Luckily the mobile RiteAid app (and website) list your individual accumulation & cashing out on a per transaction basis, so that's a good way to keep tabs on the expiration dates, since you only get 30 days to spend the BonusCash once earned. Good luck!

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    Iffy's Online Store 20% Off Everything, Golden Week Sale, Ends 5/6

    "Happy Golden Week! Receive 20% off all items added to your cart until 5/6!!
    Free shipping on all US orders over $57.99!"

     

    https://www.iffysonlinestore.com/

     

    Limited Editions included.

     

    A couple Switch recommendations (prices before discount),

     

    Moero Chronicle Hyper Standard Edition $29.99

     

    Fairy Fencer F: Advent Dark Force Standard Edition $39.99

     

    Enjoy.




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    Fortnite Darkfire Bundle (PS4/XB1/Switch) $14.99 & BOGO Fortnite Figures at Best Buy - DotD

    Fortnite Darkfire Bundle (PS4/XB1/Switch) $14.99  msrp $29.99

    Amazon has the PS4 version for the same price.

     

    BOGO Fortnite Figures

     

    Other Fornite deals:

    Buy any v-bucks card, get the SteelSeries - Arctis 1 Wireless Stereo Gaming Headset for PC for $59.99

     

     

    Here's what the Darkfire Bundle includes:

    https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/darkfire

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    free 2 play until 5-13 ... The Golf Club 2019 featuring PGA TOUR

    https://2k.com/en-US/blog/play-the-golf-club-2019-for-free-right-now/

     

    Trial available on Xbox starting 12:00AM PT 5/7/20 through 11:59PM PT 5/13/20 and on Steam starting 10:00AM PT 5/7/20 through 9:59AM PT 5/14/20. Progress will transfer for people who purchase the full game.

     

    2k is posting a free game play session each week

     

    2K’s Give Back Project offers Free Play periods for the 2K community on Xbox and Steam




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    the gods must know of it too LOL

    i'm sure those observing from mars have aseen this 【オリコン】嵐、2010年初のミリオンセラー達成 大野「これからも嵐を見捨てないで…」2010/10/12 13:49




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    Oregon: Latest updates on coronavirus

    Here's a look at the number of coronavirus cases in Oregon and the latest news about the COVID-19 outbreak.





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    Oregon Deputy Fire Marshal Receives National Award for Home Fire Sprinkler Advocacy

    NFPA’s  Fire Sprinkler Initiative and the Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition (HFSC) are pleased to announce that Chase Browning from the Medford Fire Department, is the recipient of the 2019 Bringing Safety Home Award.   The award recognizes




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    Where Things Stand: This Is Going To Backfire

    Another member of the inner circle has tested positive for COVID-19. MSNBC and CNN are both reporting that a member...




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    The UAE is going to Mars. Here's the plan for its Hope orbiter.

    The United Arab Emirates had its sights set on Mars the day before it launched its second satellite ever.




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    “Simone de Beauvoir alone would never have gotten me from intellect to action”

    Note from OBOS co-founder Judy Norsigian: After publication of my reflections piece in the June 2019 issue of the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH), I received this wonderful email from Kay Johnson. Her story reminds us all once again of how ONE life experience (reading a book/having a terrific teacher or mentor/participating in an eye-opening social justice action/etc.) can change the course of our lives and bring us into partnership with others also committed to racial, economic and social justice for all.

    I am ... More

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    Negocio Sucio: Falta de Equidad Menstrual en las Cárceles Colombianas

    By Charlie Ruth Castro

    Read this post in English

    Vamos a hablar de menstruación, el proceso más natural y necesario para la buena salud reproductiva entre las mujeres, pero aquel que culturalmente nos han enseñado a aborrecer, ocultar o incluso a hacerle burla. Y por otro lado voy a hablar de un negocio sucio perpetrado por ciertos funcionarios del INPEC -la institución nacional a cargo de la política penitenciaria- en muchas de las cárceles de Colombia: el desvío de presupuestos para el suministro de toallas higiénicas ... More

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    2019 US-to-UK Word of the Year: gotten

    For part 1 of the 2019 Words of the Year, click here.  Now we're on to the US-to-UK WotY.

    Radzi Chinyanganya, WotY inspiration
    I had pretty much decided not to do a US-to-UK Word of the Year for 2019. The words nominated were generally ones that had made a big splash in English recently on both sides of the Atlantic, rather than long-standing Americanisms that were making a splash in Britain. I had begun to think that BrE had reached peak Americanism. But then I went through my top tweets of the year, and saw one that made me think: "Oh yeah, that's it."


    The US-to-UK Word of the Year is:

    gotten



    Here's the tweet that reminded me: 
     


    Now, this choice might be controversial in that gotten is not just and not originally American. It is one of those linguistic things that mostly died in the UK while it thrived in the US. When I moved to the UK, a colleague told me that you'd still hear gotten among old people in Yorkshire. I haven't had the chance to bother any old people in Yorkshire about that, but -en forms of get were found far and wide in English dialects. That said, the OED has it as "chiefly U.S." and it is widely perceived in the UK as an Americanism. In England you do hear it more from Americans (in the media, if not in person) than from British folk. Here's a bit of what I said about it in The Prodigal Tongue:

    That part of the book goes on to examine the evidence that gotten only really got going in the US—that it was not used much in the formal English of those who came from England to the Americas, and that its use exploded only in the late 19th century, when the US was finding a voice of its own. (Want to know more? I have a book to sell you!)

    So, while gotten is not just American nor originally American, America is where gotten made its fortune. The "standard" British participle for get is have got, as discussed (along with its meaning) in this old post.

    What's interesting about gotten in Britain in 2019 is that it's been used quite a bit in places where you don't tend to hear non-standard, regional grammatical forms: like on the BBC and in Parliament. And I have heard it among my child's middle-class (orig. AmE) tween friends here in the southeast. Here are some interesting examples, besides our friend Radzi.*

    On the CBeebies (BBC channel for young children) website:


    In a BBC news story about an orange seagull in Buckinghamshire:

    Hospital staff said the bird "had somehow gotten himself covered in curry or turmeric".

    In the linguistically (and otherwise) conservative Telegraph newspaper:**
    Yet, it is the ageing filter that has gotten most people talking.

    By then-Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry, who got into trouble for saying:
    The Lib Dems have gotten kind of Taliban, haven’t they?

    And in the House of Commons:
    • "I would like to share some of the thoughts of organisations that have gotten in touch in recent days to share their experience of training mental health first aiders..." —Luciana Berger, 17 Jan 2019
    • "...those in Sinn Féin say, 'Well, we’ve gotten away with two years of saying we’re not going back into government until...'" —Gregory Campbell, 5 Mar 2019
    • "...the mess that this place has gotten itself into..."  —Deirdre Brock 19 Mar 2019
    • "...the best way of dealing with this is not through a voluntary levy based on the least that can be gotten away with" —Jim Shannon, 2 July  2019
    There's a difference, though, between the ones from the House of Commons and the others. The parliamentary ones have gotten in a set phrase of some sort. It's long been the case that British speakers say gotten in close proximity to mess and into, since they're alluding to Laurel and Hardy films, where gotten is indeed the form. And in the other cases above, we've got gotten away with and gotten in touch, which are figurative and idiomatic uses. (Neither of those particular idioms is particularly American.) Since gotten is heard in Parliament as part of set phrases, it's not clear that it would be a 'normal' way for those speakers to form the past participle of get in general.

    The other examples above (and indeed Radzi's uses that inspired my original tweet) are have gotten just as a plain old verb in its many meanings. Those interest me more because they do seem more like the re-introduction of the get-got-gotten paradigm, and not just certain constructions that have been remembered with a certain verb form.

    A lot of the British gotten that I've been exposed to is from homegrown children's television and children, and that's what really seals it for me as a 2019 word. After 20 years of not hearing it much (and training myself out of saying it much), I'm really noticing it. You can find lots of people, particularly older people, in the UK talking about its ugliness or wrongness, but the fact that younger people are un-self-consciously saying it makes me think that it will get bigger still.

    And on that note, a bit later than is decent, I say goodbye to 2019!


    Footnotes:

    * I haven't presented corpus numbers in this post, since the bulk of the gotten numbers in corpora tend to be (in news) quoted Americans or (in other things) in set phrases. The Hansard corpus tool at Huddersfield University doesn't seem to be able to separate the gottens from the ill-gottens—which is a form that has remained in BrE despite the more general loss of gotten.

    ** (I got quite a few google hits for gotten in the Telegraph, for which I could see the gotten in the preview. But for some, when I clicked through, the same sentence had got. Might this be because some stories were originally posted with gotten then changed when the "error" was caught?)




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    Torta de Liquidificador de Frango

    A melhor receita de torta de liquidificador que já fiz! A massa é super fácil e leva poucos ingredientes! Te ensino ainda como fazer um recheio de frango que é rápido e prático! Bora fazer para dividir com a família? Rende uma torta grande ????

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    Grade II listed Victorian home undergoes a green renovation

    London-based firm Will Gamble Architects has breathed new life into a dilapidated building in the small village of Gretton, U.K. The complex consisted of a Grade II listed Victorian house, a disused cattle shed and a set of ruins of a former parchment factory. Although the project presented several challenges, the architects managed to strategically incorporate the existing structures, as well as several reclaimed materials found onsite, into the new design in lieu of complete demolition.[...]




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    LEED Gold-targeted library and community park has otherworldly appeal

    Toronto-based architecture firm RDHA has completed the Springdale Library and Komagata Maru Park, a new inclusive gathering space for Brampton, a city located about 45 minutes west of Toronto. Designed as a visual contrast to the flat suburban environment, the architects created an undulating landscape of hills that is reinforced by the building’s mountainous form. Surrounded by walls of glass and solar shades, the green-roofed library is powered by geothermal energy and is expected to achieve LEED Gold certification.[...]




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    These Are the 51 GOP Senators Who Just Voted Against Expanding Paid Sick Leave to Protect Americans

    Republican senators on Wednesday teamed up to kill an amendment introduced by Democratic Sen. Patty Murray that would have expanded paid sick leave to millions of U.S. workers left out of a bipartisan coronavirus relief package. Every Republican present for the vote, 51 in total, voted against the amendment while every Senate Democrat voted in favor. […]




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    9/11 First Responders Got Screwed Over. Today's Frontline Workers Will Get Screwed Even Worse

    By Dan Duddy  Published: May 06th, 2020 




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    Gonna Get Dem Candids No Matter What

    Upskirts were much harder in the old days.





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    A Good Father Always Comes Through!

    "He wanted a pony on his birthday but I couldn't afford it. So I gave him a Camel."





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    Back in my day, if you had a headache you had to walk 5 miles to get Rosemary and by the time you got there the headache was gone






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    Nursing School: Where Smarty-Pants Kids Go to Learn Their Measurements





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    Oregon: Latest updates on coronavirus

    Here's a look at the number of coronavirus cases in Oregon and the latest news about the COVID-19 outbreak.





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    Episode 551 - The Goggles Do Nothing

    On this week's show I'm joined by Andrew Allen for a good chunk of Arsenal chat, looking back at the Vitoria game, another disappointing performance, Unai Emery's football and his future, the importance of a win this weekend and more. Then it's Leicester fan Joe Brewin to take a look at Brendan Rodgers, Jamie Vardy, and the threat they pose to the Gunners this weekend. Finally, some light relief as I chat to the creator of the fantastic Simpsons Arsenal Twitter account, how it got started, some favourite bits and episodes, and more extremely cromulent Simpsons related content.


    Follow Andrew - @AAllenSport

    Follow Joe - @JoeBrewinFFT

    Follow SimpsonArsenal - @SimpsonsArsenal

     

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    The Arsenal Women Arsecast Episode 9 - Going Dutch

    In this month's edition of the Arsenal Women Arsecast, Tim and Pippa talk to Dutch women's football journalist Annemarie Postma about the Gunners Dutch contingent. Annemarie has been covering the Netherlands team for some years now and is the author of two books on Oranje Leeuwinnen. Tim and Pippa chat with Annemarie about her experiences of talking to Danielle van de Donk, Vivianne Miedema and Jill Roord, as well as the perception of them back home and their roles with the national team. The panel chat about departed Dutchies Dominique Bloodworth and Sari van Veenendaal too- both of whom left the club this summer.


    Tim chats to Vivianne Miedema and Jill Roord exclusively for this episode and also talks to Leah Williamson about Vivianne Miedema as a teammate. It's a jam packed episode, so pass the Dutchie to the left hand side and get it in your lugholes!


    Please note: There were some issues with the Vivianne Miedema audio, we've done our best to clean it up, but it's a bit wonky, sorry!

     

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    Instant Pot Goulash

    Old-fashioned Instant Pot goulash is a classic family dish that comes together easily in your pressure cooker. Whether you call it goulash, Johnny Marzetti, or American chop suey, you have to agree that this recipe is simply THE BEST! Pressure Cooker Goulash Recipe Readers have been begging me to create an Instant Pot version of […]

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    03 – The Internet Musician – Five Things You Must Believe To Go Indie

    Show notes for Episode #3: Subscribe to the Internet Musician Podcast with iTunes: Also in this episode, I discuss the five things you must believe cultivate your DIY music attitude, including: 1. The business has been lying to you. Major label artists are not getting rich off of record sales. Radio is fake. Don’t belive […]



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    05 – How to Choose the Best Band Name for Google

    Show notes: In Episode 5 of The Internet Musician Podcast, we talk through the first two stages in my 8-step process to create a music website–including how to choose a band name and how to buy a domain name for your band’s website. Towards the end of the episode, we also examine several band names to […]




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    Success University, Scam Or a Good Income Stream? - The Uncensored Success University Review

    Today I am focusing on a question in many peoples minds - Success University, Scam or great income stream? I will be getting under the bonnet of this business and providing a brutal Success University review.




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    Xango - Scam Or Real Money Maker? The Mother of All Xango Reviews?

    You may be doing your research and come across other Xango reviews. This article is designed to be the the mother of all Xango Reviews and answer the question: Xango, Scam or real money maker?




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    Xango Distributor Tips - 3 Article Marketing Secrets For Free Home Business Lead Domination!

    Whether you are trying to build your team or retail the Xango juice, I have some distributor tips that will cover both. What you need to understand is there is a technique to successful article marketing.