One worker Lasley interviews describes his rig as a “floating bomb.” Everyone knows the horror stories, of rigs sunk or exploded, and the industry’s shorthand, such as Shell’s “T.F.A.” (“Touch Fuck All”), which stood for a protocol that instructed riggers not to waste time on maintenance. Though the work pays well, it is not without its dangers. Today, men who live in areas that were once home to chemical plants or mines are still the greatest share of the offshore workforce. Birds flew into the flames burning off the gases from the rig, leaving crisp carcasses strewn on the top deck. Often, he said, fog would force choppers to land by radar. At the time, the only compulsory safety training was a video that told you how to get into crash position and that, if the helicopter went down, you would die of hypothermia in under seven minutes. Like Lasley’s subjects, he flew by helicopter from Aberdeen, and chose the work because his options were it or the dole. My uncle worked on such rigs in the eighties. For decades, they have been one of the few sources of well-paying blue-collar employment on the eastern shore of the U.K. Rigs are insulated ecosystems-situated miles into the ocean, and populated mostly by men, who are stationed on board for several weeks at a time. In Aberdeen-a city that combines “Louisiana avarice with Protestant thrift”-she insinuates herself in, “buying drinks, inviting confidences, like the tipsy hostess of a dour, exclusively male cocktail party.” The exchange encapsulates the dynamic at the heart of the book, in which Lasley’s entrance into the worlds of her subjects, and the friction between them, produces the keenest insights. “But you’ll be around,” the editor replies. (Her laptop was stolen from the apartment in London that she shared with her emotionally abusive boyfriend, whom she left when he did not sympathize with her loss.) “ Sea State,” the result of her second try, was written out of the desire to “see what men are like with no women around,” as Lasley tells her editor. In 2015, Tabitha Lasley, a former freelance magazine journalist, arrived in Aberdeen, Scotland, the United Kingdom’s oil capital, having spent four years on a novel about rig workers with nothing to show for it.
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The super model, who started modeling at the age of 12, credits her upbringing in San Francisco by her artist mom and green-builder dad with inspiring her to create a line of natural beauty products. As the Chief Empowerment Officer of Josie Maran Cosmetics, she produces a line of “chicological” cosmetics and skincare products that are luxurious and environmentally friendly. Josie Maran is a supermodel, a natural beauty expert, a wife and mother, and a fiercely passionate ecopreneur. There’s a veggie garden at her school, and we have one at home, and when it’s mealtime, Rumi loves to pick some kale or strawberries and bring them to the table for us to share. My husband and I look for every possible teaching moment with our daughters-and now that Rumi’s almost eight, she’s teaching us a lot about staying close to nature. When we get take-out food, we ask for no chopsticks, no plastic utensils, and no napkins. We refill our water bottles instead of filling our fridge with plastic bottles. We use cloth napkins and dish towels instead of paper. I’m guessing that you already do a lot of the chicological things we do at our house. You can choose what you and your family eat, where you shop, what you buy, how much you throw away and where you throw it, how you spend your time, and how you manage the balance between what you take and what you give. Personal empowerment is the key to being green. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” But as Margaret Mead said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. With all the problems we face as individuals and as a society, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and powerless. Living green means, first of all, believing that you have the power to make your life and your world the way you want them to be. Po3 hovered into her direction, it didn´t take her long to see though, that it wasn´t as untampered as she. Grimora turned around to see if it truly was the beeping of whom she expected. She was one of the first to be deleted, wasn´t she? So why is she in such decent condition? A look at her hands revealed though, that her own graphics where still in tact. surrounded by fragments of what once was of inscyption, models bugging out, textures appearing on surfaces they didn´t belong on, this realm had been left in an condition that she would´ve never asked for. He took the disc out before all the data could be deleted. As she opened her eyes, Grimora realised it. Luke´s actions took it from her, for an unknown reason. She was written to be this symbol for death, as she is the scrybe of the dead. Grimora had been ready for it ever since she can recall existing, in a way. Literally even describing anything about this character is a spoiler, so be warned.She wanted to give in and leave this realm of reality for quiet some time. P03 is one of four Scrybes (powerful beings who employ various methods of creating trading cards so as to play a game kind of like Yu-Gi-Oh) in the game-within-a-game of Inscryption, and it uses a factory to mass produce other robots and then scan them to put them on the cards. To clarify, the actual game Inscryption available on Steam in the real world and the fictional game Inscryption within the narrative of the game are technically different things, and it only exists in the latter. The game the real world player plays has segments that cut to videos of a trading card YouTuber who the player controls while playing the fictional game within the narrative. If that sounds confusing, you'd be right. The four Scrybes are all aware they're in a video game and are fully sentient beings within it. The game that they're in also has some kind of evil data buried in it that causes the Scrybes to fight for its power. In the game's second act, P03 finds the data while the other characters battle, and uses it to restart the game with its rules alone (and some borrowed from the other Scrybes). P03's goal is to trick the player into preparing the game to be uploaded to Steam, with it as the main lead and its preferred rules, fully aware it could spread the evil data even further. It's implied that it succeeded and the game the real life player is playing on Steam is evidence of that. It talks directly to the player and uses actual files from their computer and the profile pictures/account names of people on their Steam friends list in a boss battle. PO3 is trapped in the form of a talking stoat card at the start of the game. It handcuffs the player to the table and forces them to play its tabletop game.īoth is a robot that occasionally malfunctions as a plot point and breaks the boundaries of its video game world via glitching in order to advance its sinister motives. Heavily associated with glowing neon blue. Successfully tricks the player into fulfilling its evil plot under the guise of playing a tabletop game. Literally even mentioning its name is considered a spoiler. Bonus points for having a digital screen for a face. Such a powerful entity within its video game that it manages to break out of it and spread across the real world.ĭuring a Q&A stream involving Inscryption creator Daniel Mullins, when asked if the two Scrybes Leshy and P03 were divorced he responded “Yeah,” and shrugged his shoulders. Additionally, although P03 is sexless, the robot canonically uses it/he pronouns ("he" used by one of P03's workers, "it" used by other characters). G0lly, a self-insert representation of P03 in act 3 of the game, is referred to exclusively by she/her pronouns by both P03 and Goobert, another NPC. This sparked a popular headcanon that the robot is transgender. Diversity win! The manipulative robot is LGBT. "Total misplay." as Stoat, and "You're a stupid, stupid, idiot gamer like the rest." as itself in act 3. The same day he was shot in the head in Muridke, Pakistan. On the 16th of April, 1995, Iqbal returned to Pakistan to see his family. This made Iqbal a target for all the factory owners within Pakistan as most of them were using child labor. The more attention Iqbal was getting the more factories in Pakistan were being closed in order to put a stop to child labor and enslavement. Iqbal wanted to tell his life story to the whole world so that no other child had to endure what he had gone through. His story and achievements lead him to win the Reebok prize for human rights ($50,000) in that same year. Iqbal became so popular that he was invited to hold talks in the United States and other European countries in 1994. Iqbal started working with various NGOs around the world and even educating children that were older than him on child slavery and life within a third-world country such as Pakistan. With the help of BLLF, the boy was able to get his story into the world stage, even getting the support of the United Nations. Since his liberation, he only had one wish and that was to free all the other children forced to labor within Pakistan. Without Iqbal’s effort and sacrifice those children would have never been liberated. This time he had done some research and instead of going to a police station, he went to a local NGO which was fighting against the enslavement of children and child labor named Bonded Labour Liberation Front ( BLLF). The NGO got all the paperwork necessary to free all the children working in his factory. For these children, life was a living hell with no light at the end of the tunnel.Īt the age of 12, Iqbal started to think of another way to escape that cruel life. The boy knew that if the escape would fail his life would be in danger.ĭuring a working day, Iqbal and a few other children managed to escape to the nearest police station but the cops were so corrupt that rather than helping the children, they took the children back to the factory have they received a prize from the owner of the factory.įor the escape, the children were punished severely by being beaten and starved. The boy started planning an escape, not just for himself but for every child within that factory. The Great EscapeĪt the age of 10, Iqbal became fed up with the life he was living, being beaten on a daily basis, and working to exhaustion. The corruption within Pakistan was at an all-time high and nobody could do anything for the fate of these children, not that many people seemed to care, especially the parents who would “sell” their children. Iqbal, as well as the other children, kept working even when the Government of Pakistan made child labor illegal in 1986. Iqbal also mentioned that if a child didn’t want to work they would be locked up in a small closet for a whole day. The enslaved children were barely getting enough food and water to stay nourished and if a child was sick or unable to work they would be brutally beaten. The living/working conditions in these factories weren’t pleasant at all. Iqbal was stuck in the factory just as the fate of many other children who worked all of their childhood in chains. The boy worked for five years until his parents managed to scrape together the $12 owed to the factory owner, but with interest, the debt went up to $200 which in the 1980s Pakistan was a fortune. The longer Iqbal’s parents took to come back with the money the bigger the interest was getting. Locked in chains in order to not escape and forced to work over 12 hours per day, seven days a week. It wasn’t just Iqbal, but thousands of children that were doomed to the same fate. This is the sort of modern slavery that still takes place in third-world countries and the worst thing is innocent children are caught in the middle. Iqbal was forced to work until his parents returned with the money to take him back. At the age of four, his parents gave him to a person who owned a carpet factory in order to borrow 600 rupees (currency used in Pakistan)($12). Iqbal went through the same treacherous life. The children would have to work in intensive labor until their parents were able to come back with the sum of money they were given when pawning the children as if they were objects and not souls. The families were so poor and desperate that they were pawning their own children to factories. Most people lived below the poverty line in a country affected by recent historical events. Qbal Masih is a 12-year-old hero that not enough people talk about, presumably because not many people know about his accomplishments and sacrifices made for others. Iqbal was born in 1983 in a poor family in Lahore, Pakistan, where life was very difficult for the average citizen. "Sometimes I felt like they were more dedicated than we were! It wasn’t easy. “Our agencies were all so dedicated to us being active as GOT7 again,” Jinyoung said. Each of the GOT7 members now belongs to different management, but their new agencies have cooperated for the group’s comeback. GOT7 The band's comeback serves as an inspiration for K-pop groups to go on, even after members' contracts with their agencies end. So we took a break in our individual activities and will focus on the team for now.” “Unlike a lot of people’s misunderstanding, GOT7 did not disband, and we wanted to prove it. “We wanted to keep our promise to fans,” BamBam said. We always said all seven of us would be back, but it’s like a dream that it has actually become a reality.” “We’re so glad we can keep our promise and repay our fans, who have waited for us,” said Jinyoung. “We’d like to thank each member’s agency for cooperating and making this possible. “We feel very lucky that we’re able to make a comeback as a complete group of seven,” said Jay B. They did however, emphasize that they were not disbanding and true to their word, after a year-and three-months, they're back. But after releasing a digital single in February 2021, the band members’ contracts with JYP Entertainment ended and they went their separate ways. The group of seven - Mark, Jay B, Jackson, Jinyoung, Youngjae, BamBam and Yugyeom - is back together with its new EP “GOT7.” The boy bad debuted in 2014 and released hit after hit including “A” (2014), “Just Right” (2015), “If You Do” (2015) and “Hard Carry” (2016). Boy band GOT7 showed that it still stands proud and tall as a team during its comeback showcase in southern Seoul’s Gangnam on Monday. Boy band GOT7 poses during a press conference for its new EP "GOT7" on May 23. empowers youth from impoverished communities to become leaders. Realizing that with success comes responsibility, Usher has also proven to be a major philanthropic force. Usher is currently in the studio recording his ninth studio album which will be released in late 2020. Musically, he recently released the single "Don’t Waste My Time," which hit #1 on Billboard’s R&B chart, as well as "I Cry," a powerful and emotional song about the social and racial injustices of our time. Usher has attained nine Hot 100 #1 hits (all as a lead artist) and 18 Hot 100 top 10 singles.Ģ020 continues to be a busy year for Usher. 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Founded in 1999 by Usher as a young man barely out of his teens, UNL is on a mission to transform the lives of underserved youth through a comprehensive program that develops passion-driven, global leaders. July 2021: 16, 17, 21, 23, 24, 28, 30, 31Īdditionally, Usher, Live Nation Las Vegas and Caesars Entertainment are donating $1 of every ticket purchased to Usher’s Las Vegas residency to Usher’s New Look, Inc. All tickets and packages can be purchased online at in-person at The Colosseum box office. General ticket prices begin at $59, plus applicable tax and fees, and a limited number of VIP meet & greet packages are also available for each show. For complete presale details visit In addition, Caesars Rewards members, Caesars Entertainment’s loyalty program, as well as Live Nation and Ticketmaster customers, will have access to presales running Tuesday, Sept. As such, Citi cardmembers will have access to purchase presale tickets beginning Monday, Sept. PT.Ĭiti is the official presale credit card of Usher’s residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace. Fan presale tickets will be available beginning Monday, Sept. Tickets will go on sale to the public starting Thursday, Sept. "My residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace will be full of surprises and an Usher experience like they’ve never seen or heard before!" "I have missed performing for my fans live and I am so excited to see them in Las Vegas," said Usher. The exclusive, only-in-Vegas spectacular will be performed in The Colosseum, an intimate 4,300-seat world-class performance venue, allowing Usher’s fans a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see him up close and personal. Promoted by Live Nation and Caesars Entertainment, the show will be packed with an impressive repertoire of smash hits spanning Usher’s 20-year career, including his early records and more recent songs, as well as new music. 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Crossword Forge 7.3 Removal Tutorial - How to Easily Uninstall Crossword Forge 7.3 The band then toured live in the Midwest and on the East Coast in mid 1973 with Captain Beyond drummer Bobby Caldwell and former Gregg Allman bass player Charlie Souza. Mike Pinera, formerly of Blues Image and Iron Butterfly, came in on guitar, along with Roland Robinson on bass and Jerry Norris on drums. The New Cactus Band, formed by Duane Hitchings, released one album, Son of Cactus (1973), which featured none of the original Cactus members. A recording exists of Rusty Day, Steve Gaines, and the rest of the band performing in 1973 called The Band Detroit - The Driftwood Tapes. The band's initial flame burned out quickly due to many different issues going on at once. The Band Detroit was formed as an offshoot of the Detroit Wheels by members Steve Gaines, Ted "T-Mel" Smith, Nathaniel Peterson, Terry Emery, Bill Hodgeson, and others. Having made a name for himself in Detroit's rock scene as a force to be reckoned with, Rusty Day worked to restore one of Detroit's most legendary bands, the Band Detroit, to the national stage. Their second album remains unreleased to this day, along with recordings of the band's last concert at the Rainbow Theatre in London on January 26, 1974. After one studio album, the self-titled Beck, Bogert & Appice (1973) and one live album, Beck, Bogert & Appice Live (in Japan) (1973, released only in Japan), the band dissolved. Shortly before the final breakup, Guitarist Ricky Ramirez replaced Fritzschings.Īfter 1972 break-up Beck, Bogert & Appice Īfter Cactus's dissolution in 1972, Bogert and Appice finally joined with Jeff Beck to form Beck, Bogert & Appice. The fourth and last original Cactus album, 'Ot 'n' Sweaty (1972), featured original rhythm section Bogert and Appice joined by Werner Fritzschings on guitar, Duane Hitchings on keyboards and Peter French (ex- Leaf Hound and Atomic Rooster) on vocals. Day was fired from the group shortly afterwards. or Another (1971), and Restrictions (1971), before intraband troubles led to McCarty quitting at the end of 1971. This line-up released three albums on Atco Records, Cactus (1970), One Way. In early 1970, Bogert and Appice brought in blues guitarist Jim McCarty from Mitch Ryder's Detroit Wheels and The Buddy Miles Express, and singer Rusty Day (born Russell Edward Davidson) from The Amboy Dukes. History Original line-up (1969–1972) Ĭactus was initially conceived in late 1969 by former Vanilla Fudge members bassist Tim Bogert and drummer Carmine Appice, after plans to team up with guitarist Jeff Beck were canceled when Beck had an automobile accident and was out of the music scene for over a year. 1969–1972 (original Cactus), 1976–1979 (Rusty Day's reformed Cactus), 2006–present (current Cactus)Ĭactus is an American hard rock band formed in 1969, and currently comprising Jimmy Kunes as lead singer, guitarist Paul Warren, drummer Carmine Appice, bassist Jimmy Caputo and Randy Pratt on harmonica. The status bar will disappear once the game download is complete. The software icon will appear on the HOME Menu, with a download status bar.The software will begin downloading once the code is confirmed. O, I, Z, commas, hyphens, etc.) will be disabled from the on-screen keyboard. 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An internet connection and Nintendo Account are required to access Nintendo eShop for Nintendo Switch.Instructions on redeeming a software download code in Nintendo eShop for Nintendo Switch. Metaphor: There are many metaphors in the poem, like road, fork in the road and yellowwoods.The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost is also filled with important undertones with the following literary devices. The use of literary devices is intended to bring richness and clarity to the text with different meanings. The analysis of literary devices explains the hidden meanings of a literary text or a poem. Analysis of Literary Devices in The Road Not Taken Though there is some regret over his choice, he realizes that the things he has encountered and the places he has visited, because of this path, have made all the difference in his life. However, he also has a feeling that his choice will confront him with new adventures and challenges. He thinks he may come back one day to travel on the other road. He finds two roads at a point where he has to choose one and must abide by his choice. Similarly, the narrator faces a situation during his travel. It is because life is full of choices, and the choices we make, define the whole course of our lives.
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