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The catchphrases ‘we’re doomed’ and ‘you stupid boy’ have earned a special place in TV history.
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But stars of three new recreated Dad’s Army episodes had to add them in – because they weren’t in the original scripts from the late 1960s.
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Three episodes of the sitcom shown in 1969 were wiped by the BBC shortly after they were screened. UKTV channel Gold has remade them with Kevin McNally, Robert Bathurst and Timothy West in lead roles.
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But rather than sticking to every word of writers Jimmy Perry and David Croft’s screenplays – the new cast slotted in some trademark lines.
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David Hayman, who plays glowering coffin maker Private Frazer, made famous by John Laurie, said: ‘It’s really interesting that two of the iconic phrases “you stupid boy” coming from Captain Mainwaring and “we’re all doomed” weren’t in the three scripts that we shot but we added them in during the mishaps that go wrong during the recording.
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‘So we threw them in and got wonderful responses to them,’ he told the Radio Times BFI Festival yesterday.
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The episodes – The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker, A Stripe for Frazer and Under Fire – were seen by an average audience of 12.2million in 1969, an improvement on its 1968 debut.
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Cold Feet’s Robert Bathurst plays Sergeant Wilson, Pirates of the Caribbean actor Kevin McNally is Capt Mainwaring (pictured) and veteran stage and TV star Timothy West recreates bumbling first aider Godfrey.
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Bathurst, 62, who replaces John Le Mesurier as Arthur Wilson, said when making the programme they were conscious of not mimicking the original shows too much.
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‘You didn’t want it to be a museum piece’, he said.
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MANCHESTER UNITED are unlikely to pose a threat to Arsenal’s hopes of snaring Ivan Perisic before deadline day, reports claim.
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Manchester United have been credited with interest in Ivan Perisic for the past two years thanks to his performances at the San Siro.
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And Jose Mourinho was eager to get him on board last summer after he impressed during Croatia’s shock run to the World Cup final.
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Mourinho was sacked by Manchester United in December, though, with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer installed as his replacement.
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And reports indicate the chances of Perisic heading to Old Trafford to play under Solskjaer are extremely slim.
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The London Evening Standard claim United chiefs have been aware of Perisic’s availability for a number of weeks.
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However, they have shown little sign of reviving their interest in the 29-year-old winger.
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Inter Milan knocked back offers for Perisic in each of the last two summer transfer windows as Mourinho desperately chased a deal.
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However, it now looks as though Arsenal will have a free run at the wantaway former Borussia Dortmund ace with no United hijack on the cards.
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Perisic has handed in a transfer request in an attempt to force his way out of Inter before the end of the month.
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And talks between Arsenal and Inter are ongoing, with the Gunners hopeful of signing Perisic on loan to begin with.
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Inter boss Luciano Spalletti has revealed he would rather Perisic be sold after he made it clear he wants to leave.
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"Perisic, it's simple," he said. "As I said [on Saturday], players can say what they want.
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"Of course they're at the club, they're paid by us, so you need to have a buyer. He cannot go away for free.
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"If he does not want to play as [Giuseppe] Marotta said, it is clear that he will stay out [of the team].
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"There are no problems. But when one cannot make a contribution, it helps to get rid of them."
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Arsenal have until 11pm on Thursday to wrap up a deal for Perisic, who has scored three goals in Serie A this season.
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United, meanwhile, are set for a low-key end to the window with incomings improbable.
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Ed Woodward and co. are happy to wait until the summer before spending big on a new centre-back.
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While Solskjaer has reduced concerns over the previously problematic right wing by deploying Jesse Lingard there to good effect.
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United may wave goodbye to Matteo Darmian, with Inter and Juventus keen to take the defender back to Italy.
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The Penn State football family was in mourning on Thursday with news of former running back Wally Triplett passed away at the age of 92. Triplett was the first African-American to start for Penn State in 1945 and play in the Cotton Bowl in 1948.
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The Penn State Football family is extremely saddened to hear about the passing of Nittany Lion great & trailblazer, Wally Triplett. Wally will forever be admired for the history he made at Penn State & beyond.
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Triplett and former Nittany Lion Dennie Hoggard made history on January 1, 1948 by becoming the first African-Americans to play in the Cotton Bowl against SMU. It was this game that legend says inspired the signature “We are” chant used by Penn State football fans to this day. Penn State was asked to leave the two players home instead of bringing them to play in the Cotton Bowl, but Penn State captain Steve Suhey declared “We are Penn State, there will be no meetings,” to make it clear Penn State would bring and play Triplett and Hoggard to the game or the team would not come at all. Triplett caught a touchdown pass in the game, which ended in a 13-13 tie.
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Triplett later went on to become the first African-American football player to be drafted by an NFL team, the Detroit Lions, in the 1948 NFL Draft. Triplett remains in the Penn State record book with the second best career punt return yard average and the fourth-longest punt return in school history, an 85-yard return against West Virginia in 1948.
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BEST CAKES: Every one is worthy of a prize from chocolate to fairy cakes.
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MONTHS of planning go into Mallorca’s Biggest Coffee Morning at Mood Beach. Funnily enough the whole process normally starts with a coffee between myself and Edward Ingram from the 41 Club. Edward works hard to make sure the event has all of the elements that it takes to be successful whilst remaining cheerful and calm, not always so easy in my opinion!
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There’s an army of cake bakers (many of them the long suffering wives of the members of the 41 Club and members of the church congregation) that emerge for the day and present themselves and their cakes at Mood first thing in the morning.
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Some of their cakes they insist are emphatically NOT to be entered into the competition, perhaps the baker is shy, but I always think that every single cake is worthy of a prize. Chocolate, fruit, spice, buns, fairy cakes, you name it and it arrives hot from the oven of a dedicated cook. Congratulations to Sylvia Moneypenny who had the Best Fruit Cake and won a Majorca Daily Bulletin subscription.
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Lynn Myers won Best Decorated Cake and received an original painting from Vivian Borsani. Barbara Raven got Best Chocolate Cake and won a photo session with Aimee K Photography.
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Micky Loly won Best Novelty Cake and was given a voucher from Nice Price. Sharon Oliver won Best Cupcake, her prize a full body massage from Bodhana Wellness in Portals.
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There were also raffle prizes which were donated by the extremely generous business people of Palma, Calvia and Andratx. Thank you!
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Gaia Bathtime in Palma, Bodhana Wellness, the Mallorca Tutoring Academy, Laura Gisbert Make-Up Artist, Angela Pryce, the Universal Bookshop, nutritionist Suzanne Garaty, Dr Huw Jones, TopAs shoes, Salon Bling, Confetti and Julia Ball, yoga teacher Saskia Griffiths, Studio 1, the Meson del Rey, the House of Katmandu, Golf Fantasia and Mallorca Solutions.
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More than 200 cups of coffee were served, countless slices of cake eaten, and more than 400 raffle tickets were bought raising €1,500 which goes to cancer charities on the island. Izzy Newman entertained the guests, the President and Chairman of the 41 Club both gave excellent speeches, and ex Chairman, Nigel Skinner, gave a very personal speech about his current experiences of living with cancer.
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All in all, a very successful and enjoyable morning. I am very proud to be involved for the third year running.
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Education Minister Rob Stokes says he is open to trialling separate morning and afternoon schools in NSW to reduce traffic peaks and address the enrolment boom.
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"Effectively having double schools by having morning and afternoon schools is one option, it's already being done in some countries," Mr Stokes said in response to a question at the launch of a new report into school design by architecture and engineering firm Arup on Tuesday.
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"That would create problems in the middle of the day and we don't have any concrete plans to look at that at the moment because the resourcing implications would be significant, but how I'd like to look at that is by piloting it to see how it would work."
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Mr Stokes also said that all schools, including private schools, are public buildings and should be opened up to the community.
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"We pay for them, I feel the same way about private schools as well, a lot of money goes into them and a way they can get a social licence to operate in the local community is to let the community utilise them," Mr Stokes said.
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"By their nature, they're public spaces."
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He envisioned a future where public, Catholic and private schools and the local community all share libraries and sports fields that are larger than the separate resources and able to operate more efficiently.
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Mr Stokes said the typical fenced-off public school, with buildings wrapped around a concrete play area and an oval off to the side, eventually has to go.
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"They're buildings where young people are neither seen nor heard ... the way the education system worked was institutionalised, it was a Fordist system where students were educated on a production line," Mr Stokes said.
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"They were date-stamped, effectively, it was where you were educated according to the age you were."
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An artist's impressions for a new 14-storey high school in Surry Hills.
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Instead, schools being built now need to look at new ways of teaching, look towards the next century and be designed in partnership with the local community.
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"Kids in education today will be ending their working lives at the dawn of the 22nd century and that's the trajectory along which we need to plan what goes on in our classroom," Mr Stokes said.
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He said the NSW Department of Education will continue to experiment with different models of education in its schools, such as through the stage-based, rather than age-based, approach being taken at the Lindfield Learning Village.
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"The school building program at the moment is working with local architects and local parents and teachers, and considering the local context," Mr Stokes said.
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"Despite [Sydney's] vastness, there's all sorts of diversity within it as well, and while we want to componentise costs, we want to recognise that different places are different and design can celebrate those differences."
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The Arup report describes the school environment as an important "third educator" and looks at the need for new schools to be highly flexible to reflect the rapidly changing nature of education and work.
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It addresses a number of the major problems that exist in NSW, including a rapid growth in the number of students and challenges around incorporating new technology and digital teaching methods into schools that are still operating with ageing internet infrastructure and devices.
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"[Schools] should be flexible to cater to varied teaching styles, a range of activities and the differing numbers and needs of students," the report states.
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"They should also be able to adapt over time to different functions and long-term changes."
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The Huffington Post Media Group has named John Pavley its new Chief Technology Officer. Pavley was most recently Vice President of Engineering at Spotify, the music streaming startup. Pavley has also held positions at DoubleClick, Yahoo and Lime Wire.
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Journalist Jacob Silverman applies a corrective critique to the idea that technical progress is inevitably determined by what is possible rather than what might be desirable or useful. He pushes back against the tag of “neo-Luddite,” but in a precise sense Silverman’s first book embodies some Luddite sensibilities — the idea that there is some logic to smashing up a new machine rather than being rendered disposable or irrelevant.
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The book takes a broad look at the development of social media and the corporate ideology that Silverman sees embedded in the growth of connected networks of users sharing their personal information, preferences, desires, thoughts and feelings — not only with their real-life friends and family, but also with a more nebulous array of virtual “contacts” and marketers.
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The Andy Ozments of the world might find this to be remedial reading, but “Beyond Cybersecurity” delivers real value for the rest of us.
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Written by technologists from McKinsey and Co. and the World Economic Forum, the book targets private-sector executives who aren’t giving cybersecurity as much thought as they should. That shortcoming is all too common in government as well, and the authors go deep enough to truly educate without driving away readers who don’t make a habit of carefully parsing technology standards.
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The fundamental message is simple if somewhat distressing: “Cybersecurity, as it is practiced today, is hurting large institutions’ ability to derive value from technological innovation and investment,” the authors write. And the impact is most keenly felt when it comes to cloud computing and mobile technology.
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Over the course of 256 pages, they map the trends that have created this situation and the building blocks required to begin to change it.
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This book takes a meta look at business strategy by exploring five major schools of strategic thinking before proposing the concept of a “strategy palette” in which leaders synthesize elements from each of the offerings.
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As the authors — all of whom hail from the Boston Consulting Group — break down the pros and cons of myriad business strategies, they sprinkle in accounts of real-world business decisions. Tech giants provide examples of visionary and shaping strategies, while American Express illustrates renewal in action.
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In the depths of the 2008 crisis, American Express faced an uncertain future and a cash-strapped environment familiar to many federal leaders. But the company survived and thrived by slashing spending on professional services while maintaining customer service budgets and investing in future growth.
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“Your Strategy Needs a Strategy” targets corporate chieftains, not agency CIOs. But the many mini-sagas provide ample inspiration for federal leaders seeking to put their own “strategy palette” to use.
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Richard Stiennon’s book opens with an alarming fictional scenario: The Chinese military has used cyber and electronic weapons to disable U.S. naval forces guarding Taiwan. Stiennon scripts a congressional report, dated May 2018, that diagnoses what went wrong. Among the findings is that American spooks were fooled by the intentions of China’s alleged state-sponsored hacking of the U.S. industrial base.
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“While stealing designs of advanced military systems such as the Joint Strike Fighter and other weapons platforms was evident, it was not clear that the purpose was to discover weaknesses in those systems that the People’s Liberation Army could exploit in conflict,” he writes.
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The implicit warning of this fictional scenario, of course, is that it might not be fiction for long — and that it would be a shame, despite the writing on the wall, to read about it in the dry, post-mortem language of a congressional report.
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Stiennon, founder of cybersecurity analysis firm IT-Harvest, has made his case to FCW readers about the cyber vulnerabilities inherent in big Pentagon weapons systems like the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jet. He expands on that argument in this book and reflects on what is and isn’t known about U.S. cyber capabilities.
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“We do know, thanks to the numerous breaches and failures of military operations and weapons systems, that the U.S. is woefully unprepared to counter theater cyberwar,” he writes.
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Although he conjures scenarios that probably aren’t far off, Stiennon’s prescriptions for bolstering network defenses are focused on present, rather than futuristic, capabilities. He recommends deploying encryption schemes across the battle commands and hardening the Defense Department’s IT supply chain.
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The book is an enjoyably brisk read that blurs the lines between what’s happening in cyberspace and what’s on our doorstep. As the author understands, hacking — and defending against it — takes imagination.
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This science fiction novel imagines a 21st-century cold war between the United States and Russia that’s fought not only on land, air and sea but also online and in outer space — and all with weapons and systems co-developed by the federal government and Silicon Valley.
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The book was co-authored by two leading tech experts, P.W. Singer and August Cole, who are on the cutting edge of national security. The science fiction-like trends and technologies in the book are real, according to the authors, and could illustrate the future of a more coherent relationship between Silicon Valley and Washington.
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Singer and Cole advocate a closer, more agile partnership between the Defense Department, the federal government and Silicon Valley in developing federal systems and weapons.
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TANNER, Ala. — A recent study suggested that ambulance oxygen tanks are likely contaminated with the MRSA superbug.
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Researchers at Calhoun Community College tested nine oxygen tanks from three ambulances at an Alabama EMS agency and found MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, on all of them, Reuters reported.
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MRSA was also found on 96 percent of stored oxygen tanks at the agency.
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“Oxygen cylinders are exchanged pretty rapidly between facilities, they (need) to be refilled, they’re not like normal pieces of medical equipment or supplies, which are disposable,” study author Cody Gibson said.
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Gibson added that the bacteria could be spread across large areas due to the frequency of tank exchange between facilities, and said MRSA could be on the tanks because of a lack of universal protocol for disinfecting oxygen equipment.
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Researchers asked EMS personnel if they remembered the last time the oxygen tanks were disinfected, and they could not remember.
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Gibson pointed out that it is unclear whether anyone was infected by the bacteria, and added that the study only looked at one EMS station at one point in time.
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Two Story Spanish Style In Eastwood High School Area With Refrigerated Air. Minutes from I-10, Fort Bliss & walking distance to Eastwood Knolls Middle, Eastwood High & Travis White park. Spacious 5 bedroom with 4 baths. 3 bedrooms downstairs with Jack & Jill style bath for 2 upstairs bedrooms. Inviting front courtyard leading into formal living & dining area. Den with cozy fireplace, built in cabinetry, wet bar, high beamed ceilings. Open kitchen with breakfast area, stainless steel appliances, lots of cabinetry, walk-in pantry. Downstairs master with walk-in closet with safe & back patio entrance. Many improvements in April 2018: replaced shingles on home & backyard storage shed, painted inside & out, replaced carpet, granite counter tops, & downstairs refrigerated air unit. This home also offers recessed lighting, plantation shutters, ceiling fans throughout, numerous walk-in closets, 2-car garage with storage area & parking space for extra vehicles or an RV, balcony & covered back patio.
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Come take a look at this gorgeous home located in the beautiful The Falls at Cimarron sitting on a big cul-de-sac homesite. Spacious 2 story, 1 bedroom downstairs/office, big master bedroom and bathroom. Enjoy the beautiful backyard on this amazing afternoons, close to i-10 and shopping.
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Comedian Lizz Winstead’s Twitter feed is typically filled with sarcasm and jokes, but many users were appalled by a tweet the “Daily Show” writer and co-creator posted shortly after yesterday’s deadly tornado in Oklahoma.
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In a now-deleted message, Winstead tweeted about the politics of the Midwestern states, joking about the day's events.
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“This tornado is in Oklahoma, so clearly it has been ordered to only target conservatives,” she wrote Monday afternoon.
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She then deleted the message, but not before it was captured in screen grabs by several websites, including LifeNews.com.
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