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She has put her hat on to be the mentor and protector of her former gymnastic athletes, but also of the new team,” says Eden Ghebresellassie, a former creative strategy lead at ESPN. Now working as a creative strategy consultant, Ghebresellassie’s role focuses on diversity, equity, inclusion, and social and sustainable impact in the sports industry, providing her with inside knowledge of the systems that control athletes. The Tarnished encounters Gurranq in the Bestial Sanctum in Caelid. The beast, dressed in the robes of a clergyman, gives them an eye which trembles in the presence of Deathroot, [21] and instructs them to bring him any Deathroot they find in return for bestial incantations. [22] Despite consuming all the Deathroot the Tarnished could bring him, Gurranq is not sated, yet he realises that he has done all he can for the land and departs, with his hunger as his only companion. [23] Everything and everyone collides. Friendships and marriages are broken and repaired and broken again. Reputations rise and fall with the tide. The politics are increasingly ferocious as Westminster and Whitehall are dragged into the 1970s debate about whether or not it’s “Scotland’s Oil”. During your viewing we will give you a brief tour of the barn, followed by a discussion of how we can help you create your perfect day.Gurranq, Beast Clergyman: "It is... It is all...consumed. Still, I am not sated... Not nearly sated..." The discovery of oil is the fulcrum of the novel, impacting everyone for good and for ill. Kelly takes many cues from history, but what’s most impressive about this assured, deeply researched novel is how it captures male friendship: its competitiveness; the undemonstrative, indirect ways men express fondness; as well as the grudging camaraderie among workmates, who might not connect otherwise.

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MyHome.ie (Opens in new window) • Top 1000 • The Gloss (Opens in new window) • Recruit Ireland (Opens in new window) • Irish Times Training (Opens in new window) Sixty years later, from Hollywood to Norway , Pioneer offers a strong, detailed evocation of the offshore environment, its director Erik Skjoldbjærg having first earned his spurs with the thriller Insomnia, later remade by Christopher Nolan. Where Pioneer excels is in its focused depiction of the surreal and insanely risky world of saturation divers: heroic men who made the first offshore boom possible by subjecting themselves to extraordinary pressures and taking mixed gases into their bodies so as to work long stretches at extreme depths on the seabed. These are workers for whom a gruelling dive is merely their commute to a yet more dangerous workplace. Pioneer’s hero, commercial diver Petter (Aksel Hennie) jokes that entering the diving chamber is “one small step…”; but the astronaut analogy has some force given that these divers go 200 miles offshore and 500 metres down, there to be kept alive only by umbilical cables. Pioneer is not perfect, but in its high points it really captures the surpassing eeriness of saturation. It is, inevitably, a story about safety: an accident that shouldn’t have happened, the cover-up that follows. Its detail is authentic: key to the plot is the intolerable process of decompression, the days a diver must sit out in confinement before their bodies are fit for return to civilian life. But Pioneer is above all a conspiracy thriller, about Norwegian complicity in American corruption.From the author of Crusaders and The Knives comes a soulful drama of five lives transformed forever by the discovery that changed 20th century Britain. This week, Simone Biles unexpectedly withdrew from the team and individual all-around gymnastics events at the Tokyo Olympics. The 24-year-old told reporters she wanted to focus on her mental health after experiencing the “twisties” – a condition in which a gymnast loses his or her spatial awareness during a move – in practice. It is no surprise that Biles is under overwhelming stress. With speculation that the four-time Olympic champion has plans to retire after Tokyo, pressure to walk away on a triumphant note would have left any athlete anxious. Similar to Osaka, who has the weight of her sport on her shoulders and her community looking at her to lead, Biles stepped down because of mental exhaustion and not receiving the same grace white athletes are offered. I will provide the festival with any additional information required pursuant to these rules and regulations.

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Then there’s Mark and Ally, who attend “an Edinburgh private school built like a French Gothic palace”, and the fractious Killday clan, who run an Aberdeen trawler-fishing firm. The patriarch’s son, Joe, has ambitions beyond the boats. His degree in economics from Edinburgh University “has led him to endorse Adam Smith’s idea that a man has ‘natural liberty’ to develop his own interests are long as others are not molested.” Soon enough, he is running his dad’s company, bringing it into the orbit of the oil rigs during the years of unbridled speculation, borrowing and avarice that typify the Thatcher era. There is a hint of American-style ambition in the reach and intensity of this book and its focus on the workplace; Kelly’s rendering of occupations such as welding or underwater exploration, or his depiction of the prison-like conditions aboard the earliest rigs, is achieved so convincingly you could almost believe he has done these jobs himself. Leaps into the air and drives his sword into the ground, followed by either an area of effect explosion, or a spinning slash.

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Few subjects are better suited to drama than the discovery of oil in the North Sea. For years, the 20th century’s version of gold prospectors sank bore holes and brought up samples from beneath the seabed, desperate for a trace of oil. Not until 1970 did it become clear that vast reserves of crude oil lay below, and it was later still before the first fields were able to go into production. All the primary characters are Scottish males: there’s Aaron, an insecure yet gifted geologist who helps a US company find oil in the North Sea; his best friend Robbie, who Aaron hires to labour on the oil rig; there’s socialist journalist Mark, who harbours political ambitions in contrast to his investment banker schoolmate, the dandyish Ally; and finally, there’s Joe, whose father wants him to take over his fishing company, but Joe wants to avail of this oil rush. Nov. 20 – In 1945, 24 Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany….Just a month before Biles’s Olympic withdrawal, Naomi Osaka pulled out of Wimbledon. The decision came after the 23-year-old exited the French Open due to social anxiety, particularly around press conferences. Osaka has always been vocal about topics like anxiety and race, yet the public didn’t let her off easily. Immediately after her withdrawal, Osaka faced criticism about her decision to prioritize her mental health.