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  Rollers, breakers, waves, rocks - the river becomes your own wild playground. Experience kayaking and rafting in some of the most demanding environments in the world. Go solo or take to the water with up to four players as you ride the rapids in a series of adrenaline-charged challenges. Wild Water Adrenaline has been developed in collaboration with Salomon, with support and advice from some of the best kayakers in the world to ensure 100 per cent realism. Single-player kayaking or rafting with up to four players simultaneously Stunning 3D scenery from France, New Zealand, Canada and the US Customise the different elements of your Salomon gear and equipment
  
  These fun solar powered lanterns are waterproof and add beauty to your outdoor space. The lights automatically turn on at night so you never have to worry about turning them on to enjoy them. They do all the work for you. The sun charges the battery during the day and they light up at night!
  
  Vander and The Gardens of Babylon – two names that go hand in hand with each other. As one of the Amsterdam-based spiritual communities’ original resident artists, he has seen it grow from beloved local tribe to robust international community, himself integral in this success. Hailing from the white sands of the Dominican Republic yet now calling the Netherlands home, Vander is the very embodiment of worldliness. Both in music and life, his focus on spirituality, romance, and connection has resulted in a beloved fan following and affiliations with some of electronic world music’s most in demand entities. Vander’s uniquely inspired music has been felt on the likes of Klassified, Art Vibes, Pipe & Pochet, Crossings and more, whilst crisscrossing the world, DJing and performing everywhere from Amsterdam to Istanbul, Marrakech to Qatar, as well as at his very own concept Corals: The Underwater Tribe.
  Now with the Aspiras Ep Vander delivers a love letter to his musical and spiritual home via its own record label. The Ep’s name and eponymous second track draw inspiration from the Aspiras Foundation, the Dominican Republic based charity aimed at improving the lives of local children through education and football. As a track, Aspiras represents dancefloor readiness via analog synths. Its driving energy through bass and arp yields to a monumental breakdown, each element combined to create the kind of atmosphere experienced at peak time The Gardens of Babylon. Before Aspiras hits, though, Can’t Stop Loving You kicks things off with a dreamy fusion of organic elements, broken beats, and Ámika’s sultry vocals. Both classic and contemporary, it is a track meant to stand the test of time. The Aspiras Ep then ends on another romance-heavy note with The Attraction. This a perfect-for-every-moment track (although, of a particular effect, if that moment involves loved ones) that goes heavy on intimacy and desire. Through chopped vocals and a steady groove, it is a surefire way to set the mood for love, whether on or off the dancefloor.
  With Vander – Aspiras EP, Vander his trek continues through the ranks of the global music scene that started with humble beginnings behind the decks (and desks) of The Gardens of Babylon. Now, a seminal member of its family, he joins the likes of Carlita, Jacob Groening, and Geju as label mates, poised more than ever to continue his lifelong search for experience and knowledge, connecting all the pieces of the human puzzle with sincerity and kindness.
  
  1. The Advocate endorsed Hillary Clinton for president, only the second time in the publication’s near 50-year history that they’ve endorsed someone for president.
  4. MTV’s upcoming “True Life” will follow survivors of the Orlando shooting as they recover from the incident.
  5. VIDEO OF THE DAY: “Before I came out to the world on the cover of Sports Illustrated, I came out privately to the Clinton family. I have known their family for almost 20 years. I knew that they would accept me for who I was and that they would help pave a path for others to do the same.” Jason Collins, a former Atlanta Hawk who became the first active openly gay player in NBA history in 2013, spoke at the Democratic National Convention on Monday night.
  
  Sky News published this video item, entitled “Opposition figure ‘refused to leave Belarus'” – below is their description.
  One of the Belarus’ most prominent opposition leaders destroyed her passport to avoid being deported to Ukraine, supporters say. Maria Kolenikova was abducted by masked men in the capital Minsk and taken to the border along with two other activists.
  
  Solskjaer: "Nobody thought we would be here in January" | Crystal Palace 0-2 Man Utd - The Global Herald
  
  The Goldfish Club was formed in 1942 so you can imagine that there are some incredible stories of survival and hardship as well as sheer luck.
  Whilst the newer members may not have had to endure such lethal operating environments, the job comes with it's own inherent dangers, nonetheless, and occasionally things go wrong.
  Below are a few stories from some our members, kindly reproduced with their permission. Simply hover over the images to read a taster, or click on the image to read the story in full.
  "A REJOINERS STORY" Stephen C Ananian, has kindly given his permission for me to include an extract from a work he has written entitled Ramrod to Munster. Ramrod…	
  "GLIDING DOWN" Staff Sergeant Cyril Line, piloting a glider, was forced to ditch after Line found himself "in the embarrassing position of overtaking my own tug".
  "A NAVAL STORY" Here are two stories of ditching from the war. In early 1945 Pete was on his way to join the Pacific Fleet when he ditched…	
  "WHISKY GALORE" On the 10th May 2012, Tim Cousins was the Captain with fellow Goldfish F/O David Pountain, of an EC225 that suffered a catastrophic gearbox failure and…	
  "Torque-Split, Call NR" A German helicopter pilot ditches a British Sea Lynx about 150 NM from the Brazilian coast into the Atlantic.
  
  I defenestrated Idoru, by William Gibson, though I really, really wanted to love it, because my then-supervisor cherished him so that while not steampunking the dirt in the yards forth and back of her large tippy house or smoking before early in a side yellow nook, she busily bid on his blue pencils and won. The me I imagine in her poring over that copy flips author/editor/author/editor and recites to the typeset the fastest litany, Agree. Disagree. Agree. Agree. And the other eye and the other hand meanwhile impatiently reads whatever novels are there, in only one sitting.
  It is such a dramatic and pleasing event: revulsion, frustration, culmination, too much, decision, fling, cleared, sails, arcing, freed, breeze–or blackwater air dampened dark, even more sound because wilt, melt, decompose, fuse, settle, mulch, compost, wet in a way that never will dry, scapegoated, displaying revulsion all over again to passersby who falsestep too near. Maybe stained in semen? disgorged by a beast? somehow used to bludgeon? buried bodies?
  What else has cleared the sill, or sailed into the dark-grown mouth just glimpsed in the night off of balconies? The only titles I recall choreographing thus are The Celestine Prophecy and The Da Vinci Code. So, no, never read them. Don’t know if they’re good.
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  Why is it de-fenestration instead of ab-fenestration? Any word with ‘ab-‘ in it is fab. It is still a great word, though.
  I think “de-” gives the sense of removing the object in question from the window, so that it descends down and away, as opposed to merely sending the object away from the window.
  First, I had to look up defenestrated. Then, I concluded you didn’t like it. Well, can’t argue with your assessment too too much. Gibson is often inaccessible, he’s often anticlimactic, but always the story seems to come through in the subtext and sort of novel ideas he proposes. In this one, he predicted the emergence of sentient personalities with the whole craze over holographic tv hosts in Japan (just did a post about that btw, in reference to the Tupac appearance at Coachella). The other was the prediction that data mining would become a sort of big business ticket, thanks to the emergence of the internet. With so much data available, people who could surf the patterns and determine the nexus points (nodal points, he called them) where events in real-life intersect and made evident by a convergence of digital signatures, would become invaluable.
  The idea of sentience as something that can be potentially projected onto an icon or character is extremely interesting to me, especially as an expression of the constant fear/desire struggle with the Other–how might such projections affect innovations in AI, for example. Have you by any chance seen this yet?
  I had not! But I am looking forward to the premier. I loved Alien and just about anything Ridley Scott ever did, at least in the realm of sci-fi.
  
  My name is Twinkle Ravindran. I am new to this path, started about 4 years ago. I was introduced to Wicca and my Wiccan teacher introduced me to the runes. Runes were really mesmerizing for me so I started to look for a teacher who’d teach me more about the Runes. That’s how I ended up with Ivy Coyote-Mulligan , becoming her student. She taught me everything I know about them.
  Even though I am pretty new to this path , I have been sensitive to energies and spirits since I was a child. Foreseeing future in dreams, talking to spirits and receiving messages is something I have been doing since I was a child without even knowing about it.
  – a rational Heathen who believes our ancestors had scientific knowledge and understanding of energies that really worked and that’s what we are all trying to re-learn.
  – a person who believes in runic connections as in I strongly believe the Runes are the representation of the cosmic cycle just like a Mandala is the 2D representation of the entire Universe.
  Please reach out to Twinkle in the mail link below with any questions on her curriculum, registration, and enrolment options. Or if you have general questions for the Guild, use the Contact button below.
  
  A former campaign manager for Rep. Joe Wilson Addison (Joe) Graves WilsonBiden faces deadline pressure on Iran deal Top Republican congressional aide resigns, rips GOP lawmakers who objected to Biden win READ: The Republicans who voted to challenge election results MORE (R-S.C.) denied an assertion by a top Democrat that he and his firm ran an unknown Democrat's successful primary bid for Senate in the state.
  The former campaign manager for Wilson, Preston Grisham, who now runs his own political consulting firm, called an assertion by House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) that he or Wilson's current staff had run Alvin Greene's Senate campaign a "laughable" one.