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Ælfgif-who? provides short biographies of early medieval English women every two weeks. Click on the podcast player if you’d like to hear this newsletter read aloud in my appealing Yorkshire accent. Æthelflaed was born in the 870s, at the height of Viking invasions in England. She was the eldest child of King Alfred of Wessex and his wife Ealhswith. Though born into the West-Saxon royal house, her maternal grandmother Eadburh was of Mercian royalty.

"So…what do you want to talk about?" Cody Rhodes asks WWE audiences before launching into his scripted promo. In this particular case, I want to talk about a question that’s surely crossed at least a few of your minds: Is wrestling megastar John Cena a steroid user? Read on to find out! ncG1vNJzZminnJ7Dpr7BmquepZGjsbCx0q2fnq%2Bfp7hvv9Sbqq2Zk6B7pLvMaKdorJiaeri70aRkqJ5dn7ypuoycnKeZo2KBd3nYnpirZZ%2BhsQ%3D%3D

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This newsletter is presented by Rebuy. If you like the newsletter, feel free to subscribe below, get in touch, or follow me on Medium, X, and LinkedIn. The current pace of AI research is staggering. Keeping up with the most recent publications is a difficult feat, leaving even experts in the field feeling as if they are failing to grasp the finer details of this evolving frontier. In the domain of large language models (LLMs) especially, impactful research is being released constantly, including anything from new foundation models (e.

Welcome! As 2022 draws to a close, we bring you one last issue of Animation Obsessive before the New Year. We’re going out with a bang. Here’s the plan: 1️⃣ Creating the backgrounds for Tokyo Godfathers. 2️⃣ International animation news. 3️⃣ [UNLOCKED] Our 2022 signoff, and our hopes for 2023. If you haven’t yet, you can sign up for our Sunday issues — you’ll be the first to know when our next one drops:

This weekly feature for Andelman Unleashed, continues on its mission to explore how the media of other nations are reporting and commenting on the United States, and how they are viewing the rest of the world. Reporting today from Vienna. Much of the world is trying to figure out just what the United States is prepared to do with respect to the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine—how far to push the Israelis to restrain their offensive in Gaza, and how deeply committed to Ukraine’s continued survival the country might be, with its divided and increasingly skeptical, if slender, GOP majority in Congress.

This review was meant to go out this morning, but I have been flip-flopping on this foundation so much that I needed extra time to formulate my opinion. Seriously! I’ve never been this conflicted about a product. I was innocently scrolling through Instagram one evening when I saw that Fenty Beauty had released a new “hydrating, blurring skin tint.” Immediately I was contemplating breaking my no-buy (for the second time — the Glossier 50% off bonanza already did me in).

One of the worst things (not the worst cheese, but one of the worst things) I ever ate was Brie noir, “black” brie cheese. Noir can mean both dark and black, and I sometimes (helpfully, I think) correct salespeople at chocolate shops in Paris who ask people, in English, “Do you prefer milk chocolate or black chocolate?” While there is black cocoa powder,… ncG1vNJzZmickau2pbjEm6avoaSve7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZq2glWLEsL7SrWScoJWawKZ5yKdkn6qRo7Cm

It’s freezing this morning where I live in southwestern Pennsylvania, and the world looks brown and dead. But while black bears hibernate and migratory birds enjoy the warmth of the tropical sun, white-tailed deer are just out there, walking around, and doing the best they can with what they’ve got. Some of them even have ribs poking through their gray winter coats. And that doesn’t sit well with a lot of people.