Striking Vipers, the game In the simplest of terms, Striking Vipers is literally just Mortal Kombat, but obviously, Black Mirror can't use the actual game in the series.
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"Striking Vipers" follows the story of Danny and Karl (Anthony Mackie, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), who are former roommates who used to play the video game Striking Vipers together.
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It's high time we get to see these vipers bite.
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Cottonmouths and rattlers are vipers, and rat snakes are not.
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Tampa Bay Vipers Coach: Former Bears head coach Marc Trestman.
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The Vipers mimicked the Rockets in almost every conceivable way.
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" Mr. Trump was slow to react to "Team of Vipers.
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ScienceTake Vipers were thought to have the fastest strike of all snakes until researchers at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette decided to test two different kinds of vipers along with the nonvenomous rat snake.
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Motifs of tiger-shark teeth, vipers and, yes, warthogs feature prominently.
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The sheer gravity of "Striking Vipers" is surprising, given the lunatic video game playfulness of the Striking Vipers world itself and the potential to play all of this with a heightened sense of revved-up drama.
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Unfortunately, "Striking Vipers" doesn't carry the same emotional weight of its predecessor.
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"Striking Vipers" operates more like a calm conversation in a therapist's office.
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Are the characters in "Striking Vipers" based off of Mortal Kombat characters?
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You know what would've helped Rachel navigate this nest of vipers significantly?
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In a generally toothless season, "Vipers" at least provides comfort in its ending.
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For 25 years, Vipers got you Ferrari power for BMW 5-series money.
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This is an election of vinegar and venom and endless nests of vipers.
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She is dowdy and plain-spoken, an outcast among the perfumed vipers at court.
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Here are some of the juiciest snippets from Vipers have been released so far.
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While we don't see an actual white bear in season 5, "Striking Vipers" shows us a quick look at a polar bear in Striking Vipers X. "Bandersnatch" also has a secret easter egg game on its website about a white bear game.
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The remark came the same day Sims's tell-all book, "Team of Vipers," was published.
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Mr. Klinger cited sport utility vehicles, trucks, early Dodge Vipers and Ford GTs as examples.
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In response, the president took to his favorite social media platform to denounce Team of Vipers.
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Onuaku ranked third in the D-league averaging 10.3 rebounds over 16 games with the Vipers.
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Motiejunas will continue to play for the Vipers until he has reclaimed prime health and conditioning.
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But the comment also verifies press reports that this White House is a nest of vipers.
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All of the snakes were impressive, but the vipers were no better than the rat snakes.
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"Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House" hits shelves next week.
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Owners arrived with camels and cows, with vipers and rodents and all sorts of house pets.
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Among those garaged at M22.1 are Vipers, an Alfa Romeo and an 21.5-horsepower Dodge Demon.
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In the game of Striking Vipers, Karl becomes Roxette (Pom Klementieff), and Danny becomes Lance (Ludi Lin).
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The hidden world of Vipers, which he thought he had compartmentalized, is proving to be his detriment.
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That said, there's a good chance you'll see Flowers used in some trickeration during the Vipers season.
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Overall "Striking Vipers" is one of the simpler Black Mirror outings, but that may be its strength.
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He had greater success with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, for whom he actually made some shots.
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" Sims appeared to use the new moniker to publicize the release of his book, "Team of Vipers.
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Despite this beauty, Claire, Jamie and Murtagh are essentially charting a course through a pit of vipers.
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In each of Nurse's two seasons with the Vipers, they led the league in 313-point attempts.
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Honeybees can see in the ultraviolet spectrum, pit vipers can sense the infrared, and sharks can feel electricity.
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With all of that in tow, "Striking Vipers" seems a little nakedly—pun intended—obvious, a little stale.
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Saw-scaled vipers, to give the group's common name, are found in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
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So Osorio took a risk by joining a local club, the Staten Island Vipers, as a conditioning coach.
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There are a lot of vipers in this industry, people who only have their own interests in mind.
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Nicholas Kristof UNITY STATE, South Sudan — THERE are cobras and vipers here, and hungry crocodiles and belligerent hippos.
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Troubled NFL receiver Antonio Callaway has found a new home -- he's signed with the XFL's Tampa Bay Vipers.
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As recounted in Sims' memoir — "Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House," out Jan.
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Watching Black Mirror's "Striking Vipers" zoomed me back to childhood, plugging dirty quarters into the Street Fighter II game.
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Because the presentation is so measured and quiet, "Striking Vipers" never feels like it's going for sensationalism or tension.
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The book is "Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days In the Trump White House," to be published Jan.
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Onuaku ranked third in the D-league with an average of 10.3 rebounds over 16 games with the Vipers.
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The existing stuff is cool, mostly because the team colors are slightly unhinged (the Vipers' uniforms are neon green).
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"Vipers" has been moving up the list ever since, and as of Tuesday afternoon, it stands at No. 6.
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Bamboo vipers, six-foot cobras, foot-long centipedes, scorpions, small deer, multicolored Asian jungle birds and large monitor lizards.
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He is the author of the book Vipers In The Storm, which chronicles my experiences during Operation Desert Shield/Storm.
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His book, "Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House," is set to be published Tuesday.
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He is the author of the book "Vipers In The Storm," which chronicles his experiences during Operation Desert Shield/Storm.
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The stories are recounted in Sims' book "Team of Vipers," out next week and obtained in advance by the Post.
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Hennard had a history of making misogynistic threats, often calling women "vipers" and stalking neighbors, the New York Times reported.
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The Senate hearing on Trump's White House nest of vipers drew nearly 20 million viewers — more than the N.B.A. finals.
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The exception is the New York team, which is a 2½-point underdog at home to the Tampa Bay Vipers.
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Hennard had a history of making misogynistic threats, often calling women "vipers" and stalking neighbors, the New York Times reported.
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" — SETH MEYERS Jimmy Kimmel is getting excited about the latest tell-all book about Trump's White House, "Team of Vipers.
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"Striking Vipers" starts with college sweethearts Danny (Anthony Mackie) and Theo (Nicole Beharie), and their roommate Karl (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II).
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This is where "Vipers" deconstructs and challenges the very language we have to describe what's going on with Danny and Karl.
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"Striking Vipers" has many other opportune moments to explore queerness in more interesting, nuanced ways, but doesn't really dig into them.
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The Vipers are powered by a 8.4-liter V10 engine that churns out 645 horsepower and 600 pound-feet of torque.
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First, she and her team created fake snakes out of chicken wire and plaster that resembled deadly gaboon and rhinoceros vipers.
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In addition to the snake aliens — known as "vipers" — XCOM's alien ranks are filled with other horrors from beyond the stars.
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Still, genetic rescue has had successful outcomes too, for panthers in Florida, bighorn sheep in Montana, vipers in Sweden and others.
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Sims' book, titled "Team of Vipers," reportedly illustrates the "ruthless" band of staffers and aides who served in Trump's White House.
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Evil characters have hair "like black vipers" or "a little bird's laugh," and good ones have skin that glints like stars.
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In its greatest twist of all, "Striking Vipers" does not end in the devastation of two relationships, but in their successful integration.
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As you probably know by now, all Black Mirror episodes are connected and this is "Striking Vipers" biggest connection to everything overall.
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In 12 games (seven starts) with the Vipers, Taylor averaged 21.1 points and 6.1 assists while shooting 49.7 percent from the floor.
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As "Striking Vipers" opens, Danny and Karl, two young men, play with what at first appears to be a regular fighting video game.
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"Striking Vipers" shows the carnal pleasure of the sex, but glosses over the actual intimacy of the pleasure shared between Karl and Danny.
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By that measure, a homerun, a single and a pop up isn't bad, but "Striking Vipers" is the one that really draws blood.
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But "Striking Vipers" had the opportunity to tell a different kind of story—one about what happens when lifelong camaraderie blossoms into romance.
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Seventeen years later, the 69-year-old put on his skates one more time to play for the International Hockey League's Detroit Vipers.
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Extraterrestrial beacons, mysterious balls of fire, lost pyramids and a secret site guarded by specially bred Uzbek vipers all get a look in.
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Mortal Kombat: Striking Vipers: You can also pick the location that these battles take place, just like in the real Mortal Kombat game.
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NBA G League game between Rockets affiliate the Rio Grande Valley Vipers and Dallas Mavericks affiliate the Texas Legends in China is canceled.
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The Vipers carry two air-to-air missiles, rocket pods, a handful of air-to-surface missiles, and a 20 mm Gatling cannon.
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I see several Vipers, the game's standard fighter units; a Cobra Mark III, a versatile mid-range ship; one or two trading crafts.
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Both players appeared in all five games with the Vipers, with Onuaku averaging 12.2 points and 13 rebounds while Wiltjer averaged 21 points.
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Even the poster for "Striking Vipers" directly recalls Moonlight, in which a young black man hides and ignores his sexuality before quietly accepting it.
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Black Mirror's "Striking Vipers" opens at the bar, where Danny (Anthony Mackie) roleplays picking up his girlfriend Theo (Nicole Beharie) for the first time.
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"It will be eight Venoms and four Vipers," Metnar told reporters on a trip to a military base, in remarks broadcast on Czech Television.
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While Sims doesn't address this claim in Team of Vipers, he does reflect on the collective cost of being in the Trump White House.
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"Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House" is out today, written by the most famous "gofer" in the world!
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Black Mirror is not a show we turn to for optimism, victory, or sex positivity, but Season 5's "Striking Vipers" somehow has all three.
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But at least they can bond over Striking Vipers, a Street Fighter-esque head-to-head battle game they're willing to play together all night.
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According to Team of Vipers, Ivanka led a group of aides determined to convince her father not to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement.
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It's an upgraded version of the video game Striking Vipers, the one-on-one combat game one they used to play when they lived together.
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It is a gargantuan task, but it may well be the only thing that can defang the vipers now at the heart of our politics.
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In 23 games with the Vipers, including the playoffs, Wiltjer took 22 22013-pointers, which worked out to a league-leading 33 attempts a game.
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In "Team of Vipers," Sims wrote that Trump explained to one visitor, "I'm told this is where Bill and Monica" but didn't finish the sentence.
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If Team Trump really believed that our Justice Department was the den of treasonous vipers it describes they wouldn't be so prone to distraction and misdirection.
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The setup gives "Striking Vipers" a great opportunity to explore black queerness, which rarely get screen time outside of works that are explicitly centered around it.
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Some stay because they are in lines of work not easily transferred abroad, like Simyon Ismailov, who extracts venom from vipers for sale to pharmaceutical companies.
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The best of the antivenoms, EchiTab-Plus-ICP, did well against toxins used by the vipers of Ghana, Nigeria, one of the Malian regions and Senegal.
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He wound up spending most of the season with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the N.B.A. Development League in between sporadic appearances for the Rockets.
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Cliff Sims, a low-level communications adviser, reportedly received a seven-figure advance from his publisher and propelled himself into moderate fame with Team of Vipers.
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Mr. Sawvel was comparing the speed of rat snake strikes on video with known speeds for vipers, just to make sure the software was working properly.
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According to Sim's account in "Team of Vipers," Trump also created an "enemies list" made up of members of his own administration, which Axios first reported.
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Sims, a former White House communications staffer, wrote in "Team of Vipers" that Miller made the remark while the two were having a discussion about immigration.
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Though Trump claims Team of Vipers to be "another boring book based on made up stories and fiction," he's clearly upset by it, and understandably so.
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"Striking Vipers," starring Anthony Mackie and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as friends brought together by a video game, is the one people will be talking about.
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Sims' book, "Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House," released in January, is his candid account of a chaotic White House.
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But, the ex-Florida Gator has an opportunity to put all that behind him -- and in his home state -- by signing with the Vipers on Thursday.
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He believes that players need to play, and he cited Clint Capela, now the Rockets' starting center, as one of the Vipers' more notable success stories.
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She didn't stand much higher than the doorknob, so she barely had to bend over to glue her eye to the keyhole, vipers tangling in her gut.
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The New York Guardians played their first game in franchise history on Sunday, defeating the Tampa Bay Vipers 23-3 in Week 1 of the revamped XFL.
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The temperature could climb to almost 122 degrees and the rocks were home to scorpions and vipers, including the rare, magnificent Vipera latastei, whose bite is lethal.
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According to The Athletic's Shams Charania, the CBA canceled a planned G League game between the Rockets' affiliate — the Rio Grande Valley Vipers — and the Texas Legends.
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Rosenkranz is a former U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter pilot, combat veteran of the 1991 Gulf War, and author of the book Vipers In The Storm.
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This time the author is Cliff Sims and the book is "Team of Vipers," a candid account of life inside the chaotic and competitive Trump White House.
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An Uber ride later and I was on Frenchman Street in the Marigny, catching the end of the Jazz Vipers' Monday night gig at the Spotted Cat.
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In 1998, at age 37, he landed his first soccer job, as a conditioning coach for the now-defunct Staten Island Vipers in the United Soccer League.
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The media like CNN and others on the Left coddling them should be careful; you can only embrace vipers for so long before they turn on you.
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One body bore gold bracelets with designs of vipers, a gold triple-strand necklace and a parazonium, a triangular dagger sheathed in seashells, with an ivory hilt.
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China also canceled an exhibition game between the NBA G League teams the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, which is affiliated with the Rockets, and the Texas Legends.
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To find out, he obtained venom from saw-scaled vipers in Ghana, India, Kenya, two regions of Mali, Nigeria, Pakistan, Senegal, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
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The rat snakes were just as fast as the known times for vipers, which did not seem correct, given the prevailing view of viper speed, Mr. Penning said.
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The current Marine rotation features an aviation element with four AH-1Z Vipers, three UH-1Y Venoms, and 10 MV-22 Ospreys, Kennard, previously told Marine Corps Times.
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It was unclear what sparked Trump's tweet, but it comes shortly after former White House communications aide Cliff Sims's new tell-all book, "Team of Vipers," was published.
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The new book, "Team of Vipers," is written by Cliff Sims, a former aide in the White House communications office who had previously worked on the Trump campaign.
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Years later, Danny and Theo are married, and Karl makes a sporadic reappearance in their lives to gift his old bestie the video game Striking Vipers for his birthday.
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Then Karl gives him a present — a virtual reality update of Striking Vipers — that puts both men in a startlingly convincing immersive version of their old 2D battle world.
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Though Sims is critical of the president and the chaos of the White House in Team of Vipers, he has no such qualms about fully defending the first lady.
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Inside the box there were six venomous Wagler's temple vipers, which are native to southeast Asia; three ball pythons, two hognose snakes, nine various tarantulas and three scorpions. Creepy.
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The concept of Striking Vipers is that two characters go head-to-head in a battle, using their fists, feet, and special strengths to try and KO the other.
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The characters in Striking Vipers — Roxette and Lance, played by Pom Klementieff and Ludi Lin — appear to be brand new, not composites of characters from any Mortal Kombat universe.
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I've taken Vipers to race tracks and drove them lap after lap after lap, ignoring a Ferrari and a Corvette and an Audi R8 and various BMWs and Cadillacs.
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The CBA also canceled four games scheduled later this month in Suzhou, China, which included some matches between the Houston Rockets' G League affiliate the Rio Grande Valley Vipers.
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And perhaps more troublingly, "Striking Vipers" also never concerns itself with the optics of using Asian bodies to perform sexual acts that would be uncomfortable to perform in real life.
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While he ultimately didn't make the Bengals roster, the Vipers have him listed as a running back as well, so it seems likely he'll stick with the position for now.
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"Striking Vipers" does get at the deep fantasy underlying so may virtual worlds, the way a layer of plausible remove can keep wish-fulfillment fantasies from being too embarrassingly naked.
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He spent the majority of last season in the G League, where he averaged 10.8 points and 9.6 rebounds in 40 games (39 starts) with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers.
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As recounted in a passage from "Team of Vipers" that you're seeing first on Axios: Trump took out one of the black Sharpies that he usually carries in his coat pocket.
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IN THIS week's episode of "The Economist asks", Cliff Sims, a former White House staffer and the author of "Team of Vipers", tells Anne McElvoy why he's suing President Donald Trump.
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The music includes red howler monkeys, breathy thumps from the mutum jungle fowl, droning cicadas, eerie calls locals attribute to deadly bushmaster vipers and the unhinged excitement of elusive titi monkeys.
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Troy Williams, who was recalled from the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the Developmental League and arrived in Phoenix late Sunday morning, hit six of eight shots in the first half.
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In an interview with the U.K.'s The Sunday Times, Wood said there are "vipers in this industry" and Hollywood has "darkness in the underbelly" that takes advantage of young performers.
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Trump took to Twitter early Tuesday to criticize Sims's new book "Team of Vipers," the latest to come from former White House staffers depicting the chaos and infighting inside Trump's administration.
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But their extraordinary variety in our modern world — from noodle-width threadsnakes to venomous vipers to behemoth pythons — is a testament to the success of their unique heads and serpentine bodies.
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But even bigger than that, the same technology that Robert Daly (Jesse Plemons) uses to get to the Callister in the episode is what Striking Vipers X uses to play the game.
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The VR Striking Vipers world is vivid and hot, full of eye-searing colors and familiar fight-game effects, obviously mirroring the way emotions there seem to be simpler and more intense.
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But Dr Fry says that both it and Sii Polyvalent Anti-snake Venom Serum are routinely found on the shelves of African clinics, even though they grant no benefit against native vipers.
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One of the new episodes in Black Mirror season 5, "Striking Vipers," focuses on a video game that seems familiar and playable, both in terms of our real world and the show.
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The good news is that over its lifetime, more than 30,000 Vipers have been made, so there's able opportunity to buy a used one when the production line shuts down for good.
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The XFL features four Western Conference teams (Dallas Renegades, Houston Roughnecks, Los Angeles Wildcats, Seattle Dragons) and four Eastern Conference clubs (DC Defenders, New York Guardians, St. Louis BattleHawks, Tampa Bay Vipers).
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"In this system, you're supposed to do what you do well," Wiltjer said before the Vipers' season ended last week with a loss here to Raptors 23 in the D-League finals.
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But it did little against all other saw-scaled vipers, despite being listed as a treatment in Kenya and in the region of Mali for which the experiment suggested it did not work.
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The Vipers competed in the A-League, the second level of American professional soccer at the time, behind Major League Soccer, but played their home games at Tottenville High School and Wagner College.
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Elijah Wood's long career in Hollywood, beginning when he was just 8, taught him that there "are a lot of vipers" in the industry, he told the Sunday Times in a new interview.
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"Striking Vipers" stars Anthony Mackie and Nicole Beharie as a couple whose efforts to start a family are undermined by Mackie's character's furtive use of reality-altering nodes he attaches to his temples.
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The best friends have become somewhat estranged over time, but Karl gifts him a VR edition of Striking Vipers—the same one-on-one combat game they used to play together on a console.
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Spoiler warning: This essay does not give away the ending of "Striking Vipers," but it does reveal the episode's first major plot twist since it's difficult to address any of the episode's themes otherwise.
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After seven years, the two are reunited (and now living completely different lives and lifestyles) when Karl gifts Danny with Striking Vipers X — and the brand new VR console to use with the game.
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The choices we see in "Striking Vipers" include some sort of garden, an alleyway, the beach, and on top of a building (some of which are reminiscent of locations in the original Capcom game).
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Previously appearing in the service's immensely frustrating sci-fi drama IO and "Striking Vipers" (a good but not great episode of Black Mirror Season 5), Mackie is a regular Netflix partner as of late.
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The premise of "Striking Vipers" made me think of Black Mirror's wonderful third-season episode "San Junipero" (at least, when I wasn't thinking of the childhood fortune I spent on mastering Chun Li's special moves).
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Total: 215 Season 3.5, episode 1 College friends Danny and Karl enter the sensorially real video game Striking Vipers, intending to beat the shit out of each other's avatars but instead having crazy, phenomenal sex.
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Russia's transport helicopters are some of the best in the world, and their attack helicopters have gotten better and better as well, though the most-modern Apaches and Vipers can likely still clear the sky.
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Nurse has been an assistant coach in Toronto dating to the 2013-14 season after stints as head coach with the Iowa Energy and the Rio Grande Valley Vipers in the N.B.A.'s development league.
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I don't know anyone who now thinks of pelicans as models of Christian self-sacrifice, or the imagined couplings of vipers and lampreys as an allegorical exhortation for wives to put up with unpleasant husbands.
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Nurse, who is from Iowa and attended the University of Northern Iowa, also coached in the D-League, winning championships in 2011 with the Iowa Energy and in 2013 with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers.
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Nobody thought we'd have a character like Ned Stark – a decent, good man who was trying to find his way in a nest of vipers – and he was taken from us, which was a game-changer.
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Armed with what he says are "hundreds of pages of notes" that he took during his tenure, he has written Team of Vipers, out now and already quickly rebuked by President Donald Trump himself on Twitter.
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And in his book Team of Vipers, former White House official Cliff Sims recounted how Trump signaled an early desire to politicize NFL players kneeling during the national anthem, believing it would fly in middle America.
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Once a year, Danny gets to join Karl in Striking Vipers, and Theo gets a night off from married life to explore the desires she admitted to cutting herself off from in order to prioritize their family.
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Apart from the ubiquitous thin folding phones and dishwashers that warn users if they put knives into the silverware caddy blade-side-up, "Striking Vipers" could be taking place today from what we see of the world.
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And a new excerpt from former Trump aide Cliff Sims' book on his time in the White House -- "Team of Vipers" -- offers one very likely theory: Conway is the person most like Trump in the White House.
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Cliff Sims, who worked on the Trump campaign before spending time on the White House communications staff, is releasing a new book entitled "Team of Vipers," which is being touted as an inside look at the presidency.
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The inventory list of animals that had to be put down by Australia's Department of Agriculture and Water Resources after arriving in Melbourne includes:Three ball pythons, also known as royal pythonsTwo hognose snakesSix vipers, identified as Wagler's temple vipers— a venomous pitviper species native to South-East AsiaTwo Colombian giant tarantulasFive Mexican redknee tarantulasTwo Brazilian salmon pink tarantulas— considered to be the third-largest tarantula in the worldFour Asian forest scorpionsIt's unclear who sent the box of snakes and spiders to Australia and the intended recipient has not yet been named.
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Written by series creator Charlie Brooker, "Striking Vipers" builds on that idea, asking: If the fantasy of being someone else gives you a certain sense of freedom, what happens if you chase that freedom in your own life?
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The men finally conclude, in a display of surprising emotional maturity (and after an impulsive "I love you" from Karl via Roxette), that they should kiss in real life to see if their chemistry exists outside of Vipers.
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The last thing a Black Mirror episode should feel—or any work of speculative fiction, really—is predictable and even antiquated, but "Striking Vipers" only gives a surface-level view of a subject that had much greater potential.
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The stakes never feel very high in "Striking Vipers," in part because director Owen Harris (who also directed "San Junipero" and the season 2 episode "Be Right Back") keeps the episode's tone so low key and even-keeled.
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While the Rockets were setting N.B.A. records this season for the most 26.9-pointers attempted and made, Wiltjer, 238.7, was launching shots from distant galaxies for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, Houston's affiliate in the N.B.A. Development League.
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We may already live in a world where the best, most "transcendent" sex a person experiences is alone or involves a screen of some sort, and "Vipers" suggests that this can coexist with established practices like monogamy and marriage.
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By comparing the DNA of snakes and lizards, Cohn and Leal found that while some snakes, such as cobras or vipers, are totally without a hint of previous limbs, pythons and boa constrictors have tiny limb rudiments left over.
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In present- day animals, the special nerves are thought to enable birds to navigate long distances, allow pit vipers to detect infrared radiation from warm bodies and let alligators lurking in murky waters sense slight vibrations to catch prey.
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Those are some of the portraits of the Trump White House sprinkled throughout "Team of Vipers," an inside account of working there written by Cliff Sims, a former communications staff member and Trump loyalist who worked on the campaign.
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"While other venomous animals like vipers and scorpions require fangs or stingers to deliver its toxins, [the kambo] frog utilizes its absorption enhancer poison to allow a fast entry of toxins through the predator's skin to its bloodstream," he adds.
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Feldman's latest comments come in the wake of Elijah Wood's remarks to London's Sunday Times, in which he reportedly said that there are "a lot of vipers" in the industry, and referred to the U.K.'s Jimmy Savile abuse scandal.
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There's a lot to unpack in "Striking Vipers," which complicates a familiar "friends uncomfortably attracted to each other" plot with different layers of fantasy, turning it into something admirably specific that isn't just a clumsy metaphor for same-sex experimentation.
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It's not an exact recreation, but when the model is highly venomous and feared like the Gaboon vipers, predators usually can't tell the difference, said Eli Greenbaum, study author and director of the University of Texas at El Paso's Biodiversity Collections.
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Meanwhile, Cliff Sims, a former Trump staffer who wrote a book called "Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House," sued the president this month to seek an injunction against his nondisclosure agreements, according to CNN.
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But this President's mercurial temperament and the nest of vipers that is his West Wing has inflicted more nerve-rattling pressure on his staff than is normal even in the White House, where crises are always just around the corner.
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In a scene from his forthcoming book Team of Vipers, former Trump aide Cliff Sims describes a phone conversation between Trump and Paul Ryan, who had just criticized the President's response to the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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The President is in a den of vipers shot through with a cadre of aides trying to save the world from a crisis, according to the book (and since the start of his presidency, we've seen little reason to doubt it).
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The episode plays with ideas of pleasure, violence, role-playing, and how this all complicates our own realities, with best friends Danny (Anthony Mackie) and Karl (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) and a fighting game called Striking Vipers serving as our case study.
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This goes on until Danny ends it, but a final night in the game prompts him to tell his wife, and for her to allow Striking Vipers once a year on his birthday while she gets a night out as a single woman.
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Vanity Fair's Hive last night posted one of the juiciest dishes in the sumptuous buffet that is "Team of Vipers" — the memoir by former White House aide Cliff Sims, which is out Tuesday but is already the subject of much West Wing gossip.
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In his White House memoir, Team of Vipers, out now, ex-staffer Cliff Sims reveals insider details about Melania and her relationship with the president — some of which counterbalance reports of marital strife that have plagued the couple since the 2016 presidential campaign.
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"We could tell almost immediately that he would be very successful, because what set him apart from just about everyone was his professionalism and work ethic," said Adrian Gaitan, the Vipers' coach at the time, who now guides a club in Spain.
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Though the book was officially released Tuesday, excerpts from Sims's Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House had already made their way around the internet as prime examples of how cutthroat and messy this White House can be.
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Even for more minor events, he wants to use the majesty of the White House to give himself a communications advantage," said Cliff Sims, the former director of White House message strategy under Trump and author of the memoir "Team of Vipers.
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But it was the campaign organization that filed an arbitration claim against him last week, accusing him of violating the nondisclosure agreement he signed with it during the 2016 presidential race with the publication of his book, "Team of Vipers," last month.
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It's neat that a television series wants to assert sexuality is a spectrum, and that male aggression and carnal sexual pleasure are adjacent, but based on the lacking execution of "Striking Vipers," you'd maybe be better off reading a personal essay about the same things.
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The Trump campaign has gone after several former staffers who publicly aired their grievances against Trump, his administration, or his campaign, including Omarosa Manigault Newman and Cliff Sims, who recently wrote a book about his time in the White House called Team of Vipers.
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What seems clear from Dr Fry's work is that makers of antivenoms—including, presumably, antivenoms against snakes other than saw-scaled vipers—need to look more closely at how snake venom varies from place to place, even within what appear to be single species.
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More of an outsider than the others, he might be the most forgiving of the bunch; Sims appears to remain grateful for the opportunity to be involved in the administration even as he presents the "team of vipers" as a band of petty, squabbling imbeciles.
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They reminded me of the creatures I grew up reading about: wood frogs that can live in frigid temperatures, relying on the antifreeze in their veins to stay alive, or sidewinder vipers that move so rapidly upon the Southwestern desert they barely touch its sands.
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It wasn't until they got back home, when they started reviewing the pictures, that they noticed a third unidentified aircraft that they described as a "triangular" object which appeared to be dogfighting the "Vipers" (as the F-16s are dubbed within the fighter pilots community).
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What results is an affirmation of both the fashion industry as a pit of facile, well-accessorized vipers and the fascination that de La Falaise engendered, due not only to her role as haute gamine but to her indifference to the whole glittering shebang.
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And while he is shooting 71.6 percent on free throws during his more frequent appearances with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the N.B.A. Development League, Rick Barry — ever the perfectionist — argues that Onuaku has flaws in his shot that he could help fix.
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And to do that, they need to get out of the habit of being reflexively baited into tweet-based arguments that happen on the terrain of Trump's choosing and serve to endlessly reinscribe the narrative of a champion of the working class surrounded by media vipers.
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Biologists lately have identified cases of superblack coloration in birds, spiders and vipers that go far beyond the standard melanin-based pigments of a crow's plumage or a black cat's fur, and vie with lab-grown carbon nanotubes in their structural complexity and power to conquer light.
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English at Payne is not so much an intellectual nest of idiot vipers, as in The History Man, but rather a collection of people with very little energy left to give, trying in their semi-competent way to keep their subject alive in a hostile culture.
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ABOUT THE SUNS (9-18): With Devin Booker (03 points) expected to miss 2-3 weeks with a left groin strain, Phoenix added swingman Danuel House, who averaged 17.7 points and 22012 rebounds in 21 games with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the G League.
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As The Economist went to press Mr Johnson was preparing to demonstrate his loyalty to Mrs May by sitting in the front row for her speech, having proclaimed, poetically, that the cabinet was a "nest of singing birds", as if voters cannot discriminate between trilling nightingales and hissing vipers.
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In excerpts from "Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House," obtained by Vanity Fair, author and former White House aide Cliff Sims accuses the top Trump adviser of trashing current and former top members of the administration by name in text messages to reporters.
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Darrell and Jordan were most impressed the season opener, "Striking Vipers" — which uses a VR fighting game as a launching point for a thorny exploration of sexuality and friendship — while Anthony preferred "Smithereens," in which the the driver with an Uber-style app takes a social media intern hostage.
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In Cliff Sims' book, "Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House" set to be released later this month, Sims writes that in a meeting with the two of them, Trump asked Sims who he thought was the source of leaks to the media, Axios reported Friday.
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Cliff Sims, a former communications aide to Mr. Trump who wrote the book "Team of Vipers" about his time in the White House, said he and others took notes during meetings with the president to "ensure everyone was echoing his messaging" when they went out to speak for him in public.
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"Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House," a scathing West Wing exposé by a former communications aide, Cliff Sims, debuts at No. 4, and "Let Me Finish," a largely laudatory memoir by one of the president's former advisers, Chris Christie, enters the list at No. 5.
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