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James McArthur is hoping Crystal Palace can use the momentum gained from their recent matches to pick up valuable points across the busy festive period.
The Eagles started the season in fantastic fashion, winning three of their opening four matches, and Alan Pardew’s men were at one stage challenging for top spot in the Premier League.
However, there was a slight blip in October as the club suffered back-to-back defeats against West Ham United and table-toppers Leicester City.
Palace refused to let their charge for a European position fade away and only one loss in their last five outings has left the side in sixth position, just three points behind fourth-placed Manchester United.
The most recent outing was a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Southampton and, despite the performance not being the most attractive, being able to win ugly was a big positive.
McArthur has been a vital member of the first team this season and the Scotland international has featured in every league game.
Palace face Stoke, Bournemouth, Swansea and Chelsea in a hectic festive fixture list and the 28-year-old is confident his side can put together a good run and climb further up the table.
“We’re on a good bit of momentum at the moment and we need to continue it through Christmas,” he said. “It will be a tough spell for us all but we’ve got games we feel we can win, and we want to win as many as possible.”
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[Vilhelmson Silfven: Georges, presented by The Axel Johnson Group, during the day and the first “Friday Night Stars” Grand Prix Freestyle presented by AMCI Group to benefit Brooke USA, beginning at 7pm]<IMG><I_6156><I_2157><I_669><I_4898><I_680><I_5003><I_1639><I_6949><I_3239><I_680><I_680><I_1639><I_143><I_669><I_1639><I_1245><I_680><I_4756><I_680><I_669><I_1639><I_3239><I_1639><I_680><I_2160><I_6020><I_1790><I_3957><I_143><I_1657><I_1639><I_5452></IMG>
Wellington, FL – January 14, 2016 – The experienced pair of Tinne Vilhelmson-Silfven (SWE) and Don Auriello commanded attention in the Global International Ring on the first afternoon of CDI-W competition at the 2016 Adequan® Global Dressage Festival (AGDF) hosted at Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC). The duo, in their first competition since the FEI European Championships in August 2015, received a score of 76.900% for the win in the FEI Grand Prix, presented by MTICA Farm. Laura Graves (USA) and Verdades finished in second with a score of 75.540% and Canada’s own Leah Wilson Wilkins collected third place honors aboard Fabian JS. Competition at AGDF will continue tomorrow with the FEI Prix St. Georges, presented by The Axel Johnson Group, during the day and the first “Friday Night Stars” Grand Prix Freestyle presented by AMCI Group to benefit Brooke USA, beginning at 7pm. The first week of AGDF competition is sponsored by the AMCI Group to benefit Brooke USA.
Vilhelmson-Silfven and her experienced mount Don Auriello, a 2002 Hanoverian gelding (Don Davidoff x Wey o mey) owned by Lövsta Stuteri, wowed in their first performance of 2016, showcasing only a bit of what is to come for the veteran pair, who are looking to qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
“I felt very, very good with our ride today. He felt great in the warm-up as well as yesterday. He got a bit excited when he came into the ring, and I think it’s because he hasn’t shown since the European Championships and I could feel that,” noted Vilhelmson-Silfven. “He has like five gears more so I started off a bit careful, but then as we continued he began to settle. I’m pleased, and it was a good feeling to be in the ring again.”
The duo rode in the final group of the day, which saw many of the most seasoned competitors also take their first go at competition in the New Year. Today only offered a glimmer of what is to come for the rest of the AGDF circuit, which will host seven CDIs in total. Vilhelmson-Silfven felt that she and her horse knocked off a bit of rust today and will look to improve their overall performance in the coming weeks.
“I think the power is something that I’ll look for in the future. Just to have it a bit more there on top without losing control, but I’m still very pleased with today,” she noted.
Don Auriello has graced some of the largest stages in the sport of dressage in his career with Vilhelmson-Silfven, including European Championships, World Equestrian Games, World Cup Finals, and the Olympic Games. Bringing a wealth of experience to Wellington for AGDF this year, Don Auriello will be the main mount for Vilhelmson-Silfven, who is on the quest to qualify for her seventh Olympic Games for her home country of Sweden.
“It always makes you feel good to ride an experienced horse because you already know what you have, but still it changes and when you haven’t shown in a while you really don’t know where you are until you’re in the ring again,” she explained. “He has such an extremely nice character and he wants to do his best all of the time. He’s a nice horse to compete because he always tries and it’s rare that he ever puts me into a difficult position.”
Laura Graves and Verdades took to the Global International Ring for the first time since they were crowned USEF Grand Prix Dressage National Champions at the U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions, presented by The Dutta Corp., at the AGDF grounds nearly a month ago, but looked as though they haven’t missed a beat. Graves and Verdades, a 2002 Dutch Warmblood gelding (Florett AS x Liwilarda), have been dedicated to searching for “the next gear” which Graves commonly refers to, and seemed to have found it on the first day of Grand Prix competition.
“I’m really excited to seem to be finding that next gear. We’re getting past that 74% rut that we were stuck in for a lot of last year. That’s really exciting for us and especially what we were able to produce at the Festival of Champions last month carried over into this competition too,” elaborated Graves. “We had a couple of mistakes today that were mine and that’s always a nice thing to say. I’m very fortunate like Tinne to have a horse who tries so hard for me in the ring no matter what.”
Leah Wilson Wilkins (CAN) found herself “flabbergasted” at being seated next to Vilhelmson-Silfven and Graves, as she and Fabian JS earned their first top CDI Grand Prix finish at AGDF. Wilson Wilkins and the 1999 Hanoverian gelding (Feiner Graf x Daloa) led the large Grand Prix class of 38 entries, which included rider representation from 15 nations, for most of the day until the final group.
“Obviously he performed really well for me today since not having been in this ring since January or February of last year. I’m so pleasantly surprised with how it all turned out,” she noted. “I’m excited about our performance. He was just really on for me today and much more relaxed than I expected, which gave me a lot more rideability than I’m used to having. I’m hoping that we will be able to carry that forward.”
Earlier in the afternoon, the Adequan® Global Dressage Festival hosted a media Q&A session on the opening day of CDI competition at the facility. Thomas Baur, Director of Sport at AGDF, Kim Boyer, a major sponsor for the competition, as well as a member of the Wellington Equestrian Partners, Kasey Perry, a United States Grand Prix dressage rider, and Mark Bellissimo, CEO of Equestrian Sport Productions, were each on hand to receive the media.
As the 2016 edition of AGDF competition is set to be the largest in circuit history, talks of expansion were addressed, as more riders, trainers, and owners are flocking to Wellington each winter to participate in the event.
“We are quite excited about this season because we see a true international competition here with fifteen flags already in week one, and we’re expecting that number to grow throughout the season,” said Baur. “This week we had 38 rides in the Grand Prix and in week three it is projected that we will have 55 entries. It’s the first time that we have seen a rider from Asia in the ring this morning and at the end of the month the first rider from Africa will come to join us.”
“We continue to be very excited and this venue has lived up to our expectations, but also exceeded them in terms of what we believed could occur here. The sponsorship is great, the prize money is great, and we’re attracting riders from all over the world,” commented Bellissimo. “I’m very confident that this competition will continue to get larger, and the bigger issue will become how do we expand in a way that is respectful to the people who are supporting it? We really appreciate the owners, sponsors, riders, and everyone who has made this possible. It really is a breath of fresh air for dressage in this country.”
Kim Boyer, who not only represents the Wellington Equestrian Partners, but is also a major sponsor of the event through the U.S. P.R.E. Association and Chairperson of the Dressage Owners Task Force, discussed the importance of High Performance ownership, as well as education of riders as they continue to advance their careers and businesses through their individual successes at the Adequan® Global Dressage Festival.
“We have had four events approved by the Dressage Owners Task Force. There will be two High Performance Owner Receptions. We also will be hosting a Parents’ Reception for High Performance Youth Riders, where we will talk about expectations for moving riders from the national level to the international level,” explained Boyer. “We also will be hosting a Rider Workshop for riders on sponsorship and syndication practices. We’d like to widen their possibilities for sponsorship and support.”
A rising talent in the Grand Prix arena for the United States, Kasey Perry discussed her passion for the sport, and her reasons for returning to AGDF each winter, as she is originally from Northern California. She explained, “There is an atmosphere here that you don’t get at many other shows. When we traveled to Europe this summer, I thought the competition atmosphere here was harder than it was over there, for me. This show really prepares you for competing in Europe. We have wonderful people behind this show, and it’s a great opportunity to be here.”
Competition at AGDF will continue tomorrow with the FEI Prix St. Georges, presented by The Axel Johnson Group, during the day in the Global International Ring before the start of the first “Friday Night Stars” FEI Grand Prix Freestyle, presented by the AMCI Group to benefit Brooke USA, beginning at 7pm. For more information and to see a full list of results, please visit www.globaldressagefestival.com.
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In their year-ahead assessment of the foreign exchange market, it is the Euro that is seen outperforming over the coming months.
"We expect the USD to further loosen its grip over the next two years as the Fed is set to cut rates in 2024 at a more intense pace than the ECB. We thus expect a narrowing of the differential between the US Fed funds rate and the ECB depo rate, which will be consistent with a higher EUR-USD exchange rate," says UniCredit's Milan-based foreign exchange strategist, Roberto Mialich.
The Euro to Dollar exchange rate (EUR/USD) is down 8.80% in 2022, however this deficit has been slashed over the course of the past two months amidst a broad retreat by the Dollar.
The Dollar might have peaked as investors see the Federal Reserve's rate hiking cycle entering its closing stages amidst signs U.S. inflation might have commenced a downward turn.
"The strong dependence of the USD strength on the rise in US yields means that the greenback will be forced to loosen its grip as US yields fall again, as already occurred on the back of the latest US CPI inflation data. We expect the Fed to end its tightening cycle at 5.00% in 1Q23 and start an easing cycle down to 3.50% in 2024," says Mialich.
But other considerations suggest the Euro-Dollar can go higher next year.
UniCredit sets a forecast target of 1.07 for end-2023, but the trade can be carried into 2024 when they expect further upside potential. (If you are looking to protect or boost your international payment budget you could consider securing today's rate for use in the future, or set an order for your ideal rate when it is achieved, more information can be found here.)
But the Euro is also tipped to outperform the Swiss franc over the coming months.
UniCredit's economists expect the Swiss National Bank to keep its policy rate below the ECB deposit rate for the remainder of this rate-hike cycle, which they expect to end at 1.25%.
The ECB is expected to maintain a higher base rate owing to Eurozone inflation, UniCredit economists expect Eurozone inflation to remain above 10% YoY until year-end, before entering a downward path that would take it towards 2.5% by the end of 2023 and to 2% by mid-2024.
"The ECB appears willing to accept, and cause, economic pain to bring inflation back under control as soon as possible," says Marco Valli, Global Head of Research at UniCredit Bank.
The Euro to Franc exchange rate has fallen by 5% in 2022, making it the second-best performer against the Euro after the Dollar.
"Also, given the positive carry, this trade has room to be extended into 2024 to benefit from the additional recovery we expect for the pair," says Mialich.
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[Free Market lede: The idea here is that some developers price their apps differently based on the market, or sometimes they run regional sales]<IMG><I_6156><I_680><I_7797><I_4615><I_680><I_7325><I_686><I_5708><I_3705><I_2157><I_680><I_7797><I_106><I_686><I_8098><I_5708><I_680><I_2388><I_7309><I_8098><I_3483><I_686><I_3483><I_2157><I_7224><I_8098><I_5753><I_5848><I_106><I_106><I_4615><I_7270></IMG>
In doing this job, there’s the easy news – apps, device reviews, leaks – and then there’s the hard news, like criticizing Microsoft, leaking too much or talking about illegal apps. Today’s story falls into the latter category, but it’s more about the aftermath.
Long story short, a developer named Al Gihuni released a free app called ‘Free Market’. The app did something unique: it allowed you to find an app listed in a different region, perhaps at a lower price. The idea here is that some developers price their apps differently based on the market, or sometimes they run regional sales. ‘Free Market’ though took advantage of that by letting users find those price differences with a few clicks and the app tagline – “Download paid apps for free!” – was quite inflammatory.
Developers were not pleased, to say the least.
We opted not to cover the app due to the somewhat controversial nature of the subject matter. Windows Phone already has enough issues in trying to convince developers to invest their time to make apps. And forget their time, it’s really about money, as it’s quite difficult to make a buck on such a small – but growing – ecosystem.
Still, this is certainly a grey area app as giving consumers the power to search for cheaper prices does have a nice ring to it. Getting lower prices is more of an issue for emerging markets, where many people don’t have credit cards to make Store purchases. That means they can never buy an app, so they often rely on those temporary sales and discounts.
Regardless of which side of the debate you fall on, Microsoft has evidently revoked the app from people’s phones. That’s a rare move – one of last resorts – reserved for apps that are malicious or are themselves pirated software.
For example, way back in December 2011, we reported to Microsoft a popular paid navigation app had been re-uploaded as a free app to the Store. Sure, Microsoft could just remove the app from the Store, but they took the extra step of revoking it from those who had already downloaded it, essentially mitigating any damage to the original developer.
In fairness, Gihuni did delist the app before Microsoft was able to do so. We asked him to comment on that issue and how it transpired:
“I don't think it jeopardized the security or functionality of Windows Phone however. Developers have made their apps free in some markets by their choice, and users have always been changing their regions for these offers. My app was just a search tool, nothing more.
It got popular in a few hours and got thousands of users, mostly from China and South America. I myself also put my other apps in the list. It was very useful, but developers didn't like it.
I unpublished it before Microsoft revoked it, because of the negative reactions of developers…A good relationship between devs and users was important…”
For what it’s worth, Al Gihuni’s ‘Free Market’ was not malicious to the user, but it was damaging to developers looking to make money. It also looked bad for Microsoft. Earlier, Gihuni actually helped to identify a Store bug that could allow an app to bypass privacy permissions. Microsoft eventually patched that bug after we had some back channel discussions with them. We would not describe him as malevolent, just another developer trying to make a name for himself. In that sense, we’re not getting out the pitchforks, as we think sometimes devs test the waters and learn from their mistakes. And at least for now, Microsoft has put their foot down.
What do you folks think? Should apps like that be allowed on the Store?
Thanks, Fadil R., for the screenshot
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Consider this -- what if you were the Ad Copywriter tasked with coming up with the campaign to... "sell ice to Minnesotans"?! That was I, hawking pure, refreshing and most of all uncloudy party ice to the public at large. In said capacity I acted as both the writer and studio producer for on air character talent. The campaign was so successful, the company was bought out for untold millions by, and I'm - not - making this up, "Arctic Glacier" of Canada! After that I ventured forth to L.A. to start out as a script typist, then advertising assistant at J. Walter Thomson when they had the Fox Film Account where I pushed “Young Guns” for Joe Roth. Then to Columbia where I worked for Frank Price when he was shunting off control to Peter Guber and Jon Peters. Next, it was on to being a Legal Assistant at Disney / Touchstone where I did such things as incorporate Hollywood Records and proofread Michael Eisner’s Deal Memo while working nights as an office P.A. for Daniel Petrie, Jr. I then returned to Minnesota to turn out everything from Technical One-sheets to Corporate Newsletters. On the weekends I worked as Assistant Cameraman with my budding adventure filmmaking friend to produce segments (...and occasionally stand in for "man-on-the-street" reaction inserts) for the "Life To The Max" television program. Today, as another "left turn," I serve on the Board of a Leaseholding Company that manages major Commodities Holdings. In doing so, I track market trends, local state resources governing bodies and corporate legal cases around the world – and parlay said findings into, one hopes, well-versed advice for the Board Chairman.Through all this, I never lost the writing bug and have strived to improve my craft working with "go to" industry consultants and coverage services.
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[bornwicked: And if their secret is discovered by the priests of the Brotherhood, it would mean an asylum, a prison ship—or an early grave. Before her mother died, Cate promised to protect her sisters]<IMG><I_1603><I_2157><I_8031><I_7673><I_2157><I_2191><I_579><I_4695><I_5945><I_2315><I_2157><I_5945><I_579><I_6676><I_4695><I_7673><I_2315><I_1950><I_2541><I_4695><I_5945><I_3513><I_930><I_2315><I_1287><I_2541><I_5945><I_5945><I_2080><I_579><I_7673><I_4199></IMG>
What is it about:
Everybody knows Cate Cahill and her sisters are eccentric. Too pretty, too reclusive, and far too educated for their own good. But the truth is even worse: they’re witches. And if their secret is discovered by the priests of the Brotherhood, it would mean an asylum, a prison ship—or an early grave.
Before her mother died, Cate promised to protect her sisters. But with only six months left to choose between marriage and the Sisterhood, she might not be able to keep her word... especially after she finds her mother’s diary, uncovering a secret that could spell her family’s destruction. Desperate to find alternatives to their fate, Cate starts scouring banned books and questioning rebellious new friends, all while juggling tea parties, shocking marriage proposals, and a forbidden romance with the completely unsuitable Finn Belastra.
If what her mother wrote is true, the Cahill girls aren’t safe. Not from the Brotherhood, the Sisterhood—not even from each other.
I will confess I have little patience with the trope of 'older sibling promised dying parent to look after the others and is being overly protective'. So Cate did annoy me a lot whenever she was deciding to keep things from her sisters to 'protect' them or when she decided for her sisters what they should do.
That annoyance aside I enjoyed this story. The setting is intriguing, the romance sweet and the overall plot suspenseful. I especially liked Tess, the youngest of the sisters, and Cate's love interest Finn. They were both really nice and interesting characters.
I have to say that my copy of this book had a different backcover story than the one I posted above and because of that spoilery backcover story the ending didn't come as a surprise, which was a shame in my opinion. Even though I saw it coming, the ending was quite something though and I'm very curious what will happen next.
So all in all this is an entertaining read and I will try to get hold of the next book in this series.
Why should you read it:
It's an enjoyable Paranormal YA read
This has been sitting on my TBR pile for a while. I've hear such mixed things about it. But I'm intrigued by the sisters, witches, and, now, I have to know the end.
I really liked this book, especially the world building and alternative history aspects. It sucks that the back cover was spoilery. :(
I have a weakness for witches, so I will be putting this one on my wishlist :) Thanks for the review Sullivan.
I have this one but I still have to read it.
Thanks for your comments everyone.
It's a really nice read and I'll have to get book two one of these days.
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This is one of my favourite books. The narrator describes an odd habit he picks up while performing the spectacle of his captivity:.
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There are several books to which this one may be compared. The hangover lasts for a surprisingly long time, but after it enteando cleared our narrator finds the tribe to be practically obsessive in its routines and prohibitions of politesse.
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Jesus, if you were here with me now, I would hug you fiercely. A day or an hour or ten minutes from now, I might ignore you or jeer you with sarcasm or scream at you in anger, but were you here this second, I would grip you […]
I’ve thought for some time now that, given the current escalation of political malevolence, I would repost this from roughly a year ago, written during the height of the presidential election campaign. A year later, I am attending the same conference I was at when it was first […]
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I learned yesterday it is possible to domesticate and train zebras. In fact, they can be made docile enough to trust them in close proximity to young children. Zebras are stunning animals to see up close. They are almost otherworldly, the way their black and white stripes display […]
As Absence Does to Worry
I’m hoping for feedback on this one. I plan to enter it in a story contest next month, and I want to get a head start on tweaking before I submit it. Comments, please! (Note: I’m working with a 750 word limit, so don’t bother telling me it […]
This is something I wrote a few years back. It was inspired by an image of Miley Cyrus, back around her Hannah Montana days. My prayer for her now is that she eventually find freedom from the web of lies that she’s been lured into, that she remembers […]
There are those who write and those who call themselves “writers”. They’re known to hold quiet celebrations upon learning to describe themselves this way. I’ve come to find the characterization oddly repellent. For me to find pride in being labeled a writer – it feels like developing severe […]
The first sensation he discerned as he awoke was the taste of blood in his mouth. There was the taste, then the overwhelming urge to vomit, his stomach outraged with intake of bodily fluid and from enduring the inevitable aftershocks left behind when adrenaline blitzkriegs through a body, […]
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A meal with a difference
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For over 65 years, Meals on Wheels services have been operating in almost every Australian community, supporting over 100,000 older Australians every year.
Each weekday morning, over 45,000 volunteers arrive bright and early, to cook, prepare or heat nutritious, flavoursome meals, ready to deliver to vulnerable members of the community who cannot cook or shop for themselves.
The heart of the Meals on Wheels purpose is supporting older Australians to live the life they want, by helping them stay well-nourished and socially connected.
It is this essential service that has enabled 74-year old Dennis Reynolds to feel supported while he remains living independently in his home in Camden, New South Wales.
Mr Reynolds says he first started getting Meals on Wheels earlier this year, after undergoing his third surgery to repair five hernias.
“Having had two previously unsuccessful hernia surgeries, I couldn’t cook that much, so my twin brother and I decided I should get Meals on Wheels to help me out… it’s been a tremendous help,” he explains.
After spending a couple of weeks in hospital to recover from surgery, Mr Reynolds said arriving home to a Monday to Friday delivery from Meals on Wheels ensured he felt supported on his journey to improved health and independence.
Mr Reynolds also lost his loving wife of 47 years to cancer in February and says Meals on Wheels has provided him with the peace of mind of ensuring he is eating well, while reducing feelings of loneliness through the daily social and wellbeing check provided by the friendly volunteers at Camden Meals on Wheels.
“I used to do a little bit in the kitchen but my wife was a really good cook and she did all the main cooking,” he explains.
Not having to worry about what to eat for lunch or dinner has allowed Mr Reynolds to instead focus on his recovery.
“I really appreciate the meals I receive. I know I’m getting a decent meal every day and it’s really helping out.”
Mr Reynolds says his brother lives around the corner and although he has friends who live nearby, the Meals on Wheels volunteers have added another layer of valued social connection.
“When I saw my regular delivery volunteer after my operation he said ‘well, you look a lot better now.’”
“They’re nice people to talk to and always very concerned about how you’re going,” he says.
Mr Reynolds says he is very comfortable in his Camden home and is thankful for the Meals on Wheels service, which he says is helping him remain living at home for as long as he can.
“I appreciate the work Meals on Wheels has done for me,” he says.
“I previously volunteered at Apex (similar to Rotary) for over a decade and it makes you realise how much volunteering helps people.”
To find out more and get meals delivered to your door, visit https://mealsonwheels.org.au/
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Leader of I Have Honor Alliance Artur Vanetsyan
Artur Vanetsyan, the leader of the I Have Honor Alliance which won seven seats in Armenia’s next parliament, has stated that he is in discussion with other parties on potentially disputing the June 20 snap parliamentary election results in the country’s Constitutional Court. Vanetsyan stated this in a press conference on June 23.
The I Have Honor electoral bloc garnered 5.23% of votes in the 2021 legislative elections, and is led by former National Security Service head Artur Vanetsyan. Two other major figures in the bloc are former President Serzh Sargsyan and former Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan.
Despite not passing the 7% necessary threshold to enter parliament, the bloc still enters parliament because Armenia’s electoral code stipulates that a third force must enter parliament regardless of its performance in the election. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract Party came in first and second President Robert Kocharyan’s Armenia Alliance came in second.
“I haven’t said that we accept the election results, all the violations that took place are being collected, the issue of applying to the Constitutional Court is being discussed with other political forces,” Vanetsyan said.
When asked by a reporter whether Vanetsyan himself will take up his seat in parliament, he responded that he will go to parliament and “not leave his team alone.”
Also Watch: Why did Pashinyan win?
On June 21, one day after the election, the Armenia Alliance electoral bloc of former President Robert Kocharyan announced that it would apply to the Constitutional Court, regarding the validity of the election results, citing widespread violations and discrepancies.
“The bloc is launching political consultations with other forces who participated in the elections to discuss the possibility of applying to the Constitutional Court together,” the bloc’s statement read.
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The Irkutsk region children were photographed holding photos of Putin and wearing signature military-style uniforms and red berets of the “Youth Army” movement that the president formed in 2015.
Organizers in the town of Vikhorevka 4,500 kilometers east of Moscow said the march was part of a series of events marking the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War II as well as St. George’s Day.
“We decided to mark our column with portraits of Putin and quotes from his speeches,” Alexander Starukhin, head of the regional Youth Army branch, told the Siberia-based Tayga.info news website.
“Our project ‘We’re Bound by One Fate’ is dedicated to St. George’s Day and it includes several stages,” Starukhin said.
He added that one of the stages includes a “costumed procession representing different eras, including the Putin era.”
[zoom directly sell russian govt agencies after controversy]Zoom to Directly Sell to Russian Gov’t Agencies After Controversy
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Six hilarious short stories combine to form a macabre tango at the gates of madness in this outrageous comedy about the trials of modern life.
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Road-rage drivers, loan sharks, shady lawyers, critics, corrupt politicians, cheating husbands, traffic wardens – all the pressure points of 21st-century life get a roasting in this delirious black comedy from Argentina. Bringing together six unrelated stories in a gloriously retro-styled portmanteau package, beginning with the economic and stunningly funny opener ‘Pasternak’, Wild Tales hot-wires the dry, mordant satire patented by Luis Buñuel with the manic pop energy of the post-Tarantino generation. The participation of the Almodóvar brothers as producers is no surprise – Wild Tales brings to mind such frantic early El Deseo productions as Labyrinth of Passions and Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown – but director Damián Szifrón brings his own voice and style, not to mention some of the biggest names in Argentine cinema (notably Ricardo Darín as a demolition expert who becomes a criminal celebrity and Leonardo Sbaraglia as a yuppie who encounters Deliverance-style payback). The icing on the cake is the score by Gustavo Santaolalla; his Latin-funky, twangy, world-weary Ennio Morricone-flavoured theme song sticks in mind just as readily as the late Bobby Womack’s cover of ‘Fly Me to the Moon’, which Szifrón sagely uses to accompany the wedding dance from hell in the final story, ‘Till Death Do Us Part’.
The screening on Sunday 12 October will be BSL interpreted.
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The view on the left shows the church beside part of the house. The photograph on the right is an informal view of two men chatting in the courtyard, in front of a carriage entrance.
This is a photograph of Mrs. Albert (Charlotte) Ricardo’s pony carriage.
Berkeley Castle, in Gloucestershire, at some distance from Badminton, is a medieval fortress near the River Severn where King Edward II was brutally murdered in 1327. Its walls were breached during the Civil War in the 17th century, but it has been the home of the Berkeley family for over 800 years. Francis William Fitzhardinge Berkeley (1826-1896), who succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Fitzhardinge in 1867, was a Captain in the Royal Horse Guards and a cricketer who often played for I Zingari and other teams between 1848 and 1859. He was M.P. for Cheltenham from 1856 to 1865.
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[West Street bedroom]The Morningside Heights apartment that former President Barack Obama once called home is now up for grabs. The erstwhile commander-in-chief rented the three-bedroom, two-bathroom unit at 622 West 114th Street while attending Columbia University, and now it’s on the market for $1.45 million.
The co-op has been renovated in the many years since the 44th president, who studied political science at Columbia from 1981 to 1983, resided in the apartment.
It’s not clear precisely when Obama rented the apartment, but it was at some point during his time at the Ivy League university. The 39-unit building was all rentals when Obama lived there, but has since been converted to a co-op, per the listing shared by Brown Harris Stevens brokers Scott Harris and Dean “Riley” Moody Jr.
The apartment is currently virtually staged, according to the listing photos. The windowed eat-in kitchen is fitted with white cabinetry, custom countertops and stainless steel appliances, as well as a cozy breakfast nook.
The owner’s bedroom features a wall of closets and an en-suite bathroom with a double sink and a windowed shower. There are two other bedrooms, which share a separate bathroom.
The apartment last sold for a touch under $1.45 million in 2015; it was listed for $1.48 million in September, and was slightly discounted to the current $1.45 million asking price at the end of October.
This particular building apparently has quite the history, as the former president isn’t the only famous past resident. Legendary filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille once resided there, as indicated by a plaque on the front of the building.
Obama, who recently broke publishing records with the release of the first volume of his presidential memoir, A Promised Land, has rather substantially upgraded his real estate portfolio since his time living in this Morningside Heights apartment. Shortly after vacating the White House, Barack and Michelle Obama purchased an $8.1 million mansion in D.C.’s Kalorama neighborhood, and they also maintain a vacation compound in Martha’s Vineyard, which they bought for $11.75 million last year.
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Toward a Better Society
AAR Japan organizes various events and conduct lectures in pursuit of
gaining a deeper understanding for its activities in "refugee assistance,"
"landmine and unexploded ordnance prevention," "support for the disabled,"
and "infectious disease prevention”. We also make proposals to the government
and the international community based on our expertise and research
findings gained through our activities.
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At a United Nations-sponsored international conference on mine action held in Geneva, Switzerland
Toward a better society
Policy change is crucial in tackling various conflict, poverty, and human rights-related issues, along with providing direct support to the affected people. We aim to create a better society by picking up the voices of those who are unable to speak out, and channeling them to local governments, the international community, and public opinion in developed countries, using the knowledge we have gained in the field.
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Workshop on "What if I became a refugee?
Spreading the word about global issues
We hold various events, such as charity concerts, or lectures and workshops conducted by our staff including expatriates at schools or offices. We create a number of opportunities for people to casually participate in international cooperation.
Campaigns in which we participate
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AAR is a member of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), which aims to ban the manufacture and use of anti-personnel landmines. In the 1990s, the ICBL, in cooperation with supporting countries, called on the world to create a treaty to ban anti-personnel landmines. AAR participated as an observer in the Fourth Review Conference of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Treaty (Ottawa Treaty) held in Oslo, Norway, in November 2019.
AAR has been a member of the international steering committee of the Campaign to stop killer robots since its inception in 2013. In February 2020, AAR attended the 2nd International Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and linked up with campaign promoters from the Asia-Pacific and South America regions.
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This view will turn out to be incorrect, however the the reason why it’s flawed will prove illuminating, and our dialogue will pave the best way for a discussion of Philosophical AI.
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They is probably not family names, but these 34 artificial intelligence firms are engaged on some very good expertise. So much has come out beneath this category. We have the photo voltaic power, the wind powered crops, hydrogen battery expertise. These have proved actually helpful instead of their different applied sciences. They’ve helped to interrupt monopoly of various energy sectors. Many houses within the US and Europe power their homes with photo voltaic vitality. This and others are fruits of other vitality. Pretty much as good as these are, they come with some environmental hazards. They generate a degree of pollutions in our environments like air and water pollution and warmth generation to say but a couple of. In 2020, traditional banks will maintain higher worth, however companies might want to carve out more adoption space for growing digital transaction sources. It is no coincidence that banks like Financial institution of America are gathering blockchain patents.
Thus, the development of AI began with the intention of creating related intelligence in machines that we find and regard excessive in people. Let’s take a better look at machine learning and deep learning, and the way they differ. Sustaining and rising analysis and development spending within the COVID-19 period is crucial for prime know-how vendors to deliver new solutions and companies, proceed to innovate, and place their businesses to rebound from the detrimental results of the worldwide pandemic. Analysts, financial advisors, and buyers concur that, wherever possible, distributors should continue to aggressively invest in R&D. espoilertv A way that can be referred to as encoding down, which might enable machines to purpose efficiently over information that, had been it not encoded down, would, when reasoned over, lead to paralyzing inefficiency.
Deep studying is a kind of machine learning that runs inputs through a biologically-inspired neural community architecture. The neural networks comprise quite a lot of hidden layers by means of which the data is processed, allowing the machine to go “deep” in its learning, making connections and weighting input for the perfect outcomes. Way forward for Humanity Institute : A multidisciplinary analysis institute bringing the tools of mathematics, philosophy, and science to bear on massive-picture questions about humanity and its prospects. 1967: Frank Rosenblatt builds the Mark 1 Perceptron, the first laptop based on a neural community that ‘discovered’ though trial and error. technology ideas Just a yr later, Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert publish a guide titled Perceptrons, which becomes each the landmark work on neural networks and, not less than for some time, an argument against future neural community analysis tasks.
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Nowadays, the pc technology trade is quickly growing and altering. How is this impacting expertise and the long run? bio tech In nearly each discipline, nanotechnology is being used for improvements in engineering, medical units, imaging, computing and many more. Nanomedicine is one area experiencing speedy and dramatic development. As a result of many sicknesses and problems within the body happen at the cellular level and grow as dominated by the formation of genetic make-up, nanotechnology has the potential to deal with at the very root of the situation, reasonably than after it is absolutely spread all through the physique. It can be each preventative and curative because remedy reaches the narrowest and most minuscule centers of control. Neurosurgery and gene remedy are just two areas within nanomed that are notably effectively-suited for nanotools and technology.
While Hollywood films and science fiction novels depict AI as human-like robots that take over the world, the present evolution of AI technologies is not that scary – or quite that smart. As a substitute, AI has advanced to supply many specific benefits in every business. Hold studying for modern examples of artificial intelligence in health care, retail and extra. Family robots:Â iRobot’s Roomba vacuum makes use of synthetic intelligence to determine the dimensions of a room, establish and keep away from obstacles, and be taught essentially the most environment friendly route for vacuuming a floor. Related technology drives robotic lawn mowers and pool cleaners. espoilertv Machine Intelligence Analysis Institute : A non-revenue group whose mission is to make sure that the creation of smarter-than-human intelligence has a optimistic impression.
In the long run, an essential query is what’s going to happen if the hunt for sturdy AI succeeds and an AI system turns into higher than humans at all cognitive tasks. As pointed out by I.J. Good in 1965, designing smarter AI methods is itself a cognitive job. Such a system may potentially undergo recursive self-enchancment, triggering an intelligence explosion leaving human mind far behind. By inventing revolutionary new applied sciences, such a superintelligence may help us eradicate warfare, disease, and poverty, and so the creation of strong AI may be the biggest occasion in human historical past. Some specialists have expressed concern, though, that it may additionally be the final, unless we learn to align the targets of the AI with ours earlier than it becomes superintelligent.
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The 21st century has been the age of so many technological breakthroughs and advances, technologies aimed for one function and that is to make the lives of individuals better by serving to them become more environment friendly of their work. bio tech Their evolution of technology has demonstrated how far one can go to create a brand new actuality with no family or no individuality but just pure†happiness. With expertise at their reach, ache and different emotion people hate to feel is rarely felt with usage of 1 single soma. They drastically encourage people to make use of the drug so as to be completely satisfied and have no sorrow which is stated and quoted And if ever, by some unfortunate chance, something unpleasant should someway happen, why, there’s always soma to provide you a holiday from the info. And there is always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you affected person and long-suffering.
Technology videos – be it through video conferencing or Internet, can be helpful in a variety of domains. Educational training, business meetings, instructional coaching and collaborative communication with health officers are a few of the areas where advantages of know-how movies will be felt. Manzano, M., 1996, Extensions of First Order Logic, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Forbus, Ok. D. & Hinrichs, T. R., 2006, Companion Cognitive Techniques: A Step toward Human-Degree AI,†AI Magazine, 27.2: 83. 1950: Alan Turing publishes Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Within the paper, Turing—well-known for breaking the Nazi’s ENIGMA code throughout WWII—proposes to answer the question ‘can machines assume?’ and introduces the Turing Take a look at to find out if a pc can display the identical intelligence (or the results of the identical intelligence) as a human. espoilertv The value of the Turing take a look at has been debated ever since.
twenty first century is a century of technological advancements. Another very important choice you must have the ability to access to get your self updated is by way of a number of TELEVISION packages that function on the latest and upcoming devices and much more. Nonetheless, the issue with this source of information is that you’ll be only up to date whereas the TV present goes on air which really means that you’ll have to make your schedule in accordance to the time the program is being aired. technology ideas As a substitute, you are able to do one factor and that may be to document the programs even if you happen to shouldn’t have sufficient time to look at whereas they’re being broadcasted and you’ll watch them later in accordance to your comfort as a way to catch up with the most recent technology news with the rest of the world.
Readers fascinated about AI (and computational cognitive science) pursued from an overtly brain-based orientation are inspired to discover the work of Rick Granger (2004a, 2004b) and researchers in his Mind Engineering Laboratory and W. H. Neukom Institute for Computational Sciences The distinction between the dryâ€, logicist AI started on the original 1956 conference, and the approach taken right here by Granger and associates (in which mind circuitry is immediately modeled) is exceptional. For those all in favour of computational properties of neural networks, Hornik et al. (1989) handle the general representation functionality of neural networks impartial of learning. The person began to work within the fields and he required sharp edged implements, knives and different equipment with a purpose to until and plow the land. technology ideas Man began to search for his need and as the need increased, it gave rise to know-how. From then onwards, know-how progressed to satisfy the growing demands of man.
It should also be famous that there have been well-established formalisms for dealing with probabilistic reasoning as an instance of logic-primarily based reasoning. Computers can already resolve issues in restricted realms. The power to watch structural health in real-time and make things better before they break will result in safer, extra resilient infrastructure and every thing from wind farms to bridges and unmanned aerial vehicles being protected by an actual-time digital twin.
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[Alfa Romeo Giulia Totem Automobili Restomod Tuning 2 E drive & carbon body: Alfa Romeo Giulia by Totem!]After the guys from Alfaholics their full carbon Alfa Romeo Giulia GTA-R body presented there is now another very similar project. And that from the tuner Totem Cars! The boys and girls have launched a very interesting Restomod project called "GTelectric". And maybe in the long run it is even a little more promising due to the type of drive. Because Totem Automobili wants to transform a classic Alfa Romeo GT Junior 1300 into a completely electric carbon monster. Small side effect: 525 hp and a massive 940 Nm of torque are supposed to ensure proper propulsion. Enough steam to sprint from 3,4-0 km / h in 100 seconds and, depending on the gear ratio, to reach a top speed of over 300 km / h.
The Alfa draws its strength from a battery pack with a capacity of 50,4 kilowatt hours, which should also allow a range of around 320 kilometers. According to the totem, the weight of the batteries should be around 350 kg. And a part of the decent range is also the saved weight due to the large body parts made of carbon, which should replace 90% of the original chassis. The rest are said to be self-made from aluminum. Visually, the focus is on new headlights and modified rear lights and a chic Scudetto grill in a new design. In addition, the C-pillar is slightly changed and the wheel arches have forged 17-inch aluminum in the style of the 6s GTAm racing cars with 225 and 245 tires from Continental. And regarding the chassis, the tuner would like to rely on a MacPherson setup with Bilstein Clubsport dampers.
The cabin should have a modern infotainment system
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If you prefer something a little more comfortable, you can optionally have an air suspension installed. Incidentally, a completely new subframe is installed in the rear area, which should withstand the torque of the electric motor and is connected to an aluminum multi-link axle. And also in the interior, the tuner wants to set the Giulia apart from the series. A carbon dashboard with two 3,5-inch displays for the instruments and an infotainment system of identical size are planned. And amenities such as power windows, air conditioning, central locking or modern LED ambient lighting are also included. When exactly a completed vehicle will be seen is still unclear. If we get the first information about this, there is of course an update for this report. You will be informed if you simply use ours Feed subscribe to. Have fun watching the pictures and stay true to us!
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One of the more interesting cult rock figures of the '80s was blues-rock singer Top Jimmy. Although he earned accolades from such renowned outfits as X and Van Halen, Jimmy's popularity never spread outside of Los Angeles, making him something of a local legend. Born James Koncek during 1954 in Louisville, KY, Jimmy grew up in Southern California before eventually relocating to Hollywood to launch a music career. It was during the late '70s that Jimmy began to make a name for himself with his hot blues style, as he became aligned with the area's burgeoning punk scene (he'd been longtime friends with X guitarist Billy Zoom). Jimmy's popularity with punks also quickly grew when he would sneak free burritos to penniless musicians from his taco stand, Top Taco on La Brea. He also quickly developed a reputation for his hard-living lifestyle, which spilled over into his band, Top Jimmy the Rhythm Pigs, who made it a point to drink as much as possible during performances. Despite the alcohol abuse, Jimmy was still able to build a sizeable regional following during the late '70s/early '80s, but unfortunately, he was never able to issue a recording during this era.
The group became one of L.A.'s must-see live acts, as they mixed originals with covers of Jimi Hendrix, Merle Haggard, Bob Dylan, Otis Rush, and Howlin' Wolf, while such distinguished guests as Tom Waits, David Lee Roth, Maria McKee, and his pals from X and the Blasters would join the group on-stage. Jimmy's name was introduced to rock fans worldwide when Van Halen recorded a tribute to the performer on their mega-hit 1984 album (the appropriately titled song Top Jimmy), which led to the release of the Rhythm Pigs' debut recording, Pigus Drunkus Maximus, in 1987. Shortly after the album's release, however, the group split up, as Jimmy relocated to Las Vegas to try and clean up his act. Not much was heard from the singer during this time, as his only appearances on record consisted of brief spots on compilation albums (1989's Only 39,999,999 Behind Thriller and 1990's L.A. Ya Ya). Jimmy's health continued to deteriorate throughout the '90s, a decade that saw the cult icon manage to issue a sophomore recording, The Good Times Are Killing Me, in 1998. The album's title proved to be sadly prophetic for Jimmy, as he died from liver failure in Las Vegas on May 17, 2001, at the age of 46. ~ Greg Prato, Rovi
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On a cold night at a Southeast Asian coffee mill, Touby swings his feet over the edge of a large water tank and plunges in. He’s up to his waist in bobbing coffee cherries, and he’s volunteered to skim off the defective ones floating on the top.
Touby is the type of guy willing to jump into anything and give his best. In fact, he’s seizing the opportunity to become a coffee farmer after you helped supply him with seedlings.
A small gift like a seed kit from the BGR Christmas Gift Catalog could be all the go-getters like Touby need to start a business, provide for their families, and transform their lives.
Touby wanted to provide a decent life for his family.
When you donated to help the mill purchase coffee directly from local farmers, Touby was just a day laborer living with his wife and small child in his father-in-law’s house. He had one goal: build a home for his family. He came to the mill as often as he could for work. Touby’s tenacity paid off, and he was finally offered a part-time position.
He quickly proved to be a valuable hire, ready and willing to help with any task. He saved up his salary and built a bamboo house for his family. During that time, another bouncing baby was born.
If Touby’s story ended there, it would be enough to praise God that he now has steady work and a home for his family. But Touby is always looking forward. And he was ready to jump headfirst into something even bigger.
Touby saw your gift as an opportunity.
Touby noticed how the mill purchased coffee at a higher price and realized that by growing his own coffee and selling it to the mill, he could make more money. That meant improving his home for his growing family.
So, when the mill used BGR funds to grow and distribute 10,000 high-quality coffee seedlings to locals, Touby jumped at the chance. He received 1,000 yellow caturra seedlings and planted them all within a week, dreaming of plump yellow coffee cherries, like shiny lemon drops. When staff at the mill asked him why he wanted the seedlings, Touby told them he was excited to try to grow something new.
It will take a total of three years before Touby can look forward to his first harvest, but he has patience. He knows that perseverance and hard work can pay off.
Now, Touby’s seedlings are thriving, and he’s praising God for many blessings.
In the meantime, Touby has landed a promotion at the mill! He’s now the full-time assistant farm manager and heads up the quality control for the coffee cherries purchased from local farmers. He’s even become a pillar in his church, leading worship services and Bible studies every week.
Touby took a small opportunity that you helped provide and became a leader in his family, job, and community.
At BGR, we’re inspired by hardworking, self-made entrepreneurs like Touby. We know you are, too. Here’s how you can continue to be a blessing:
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A press conference was held in Krefeld, Germany for Ugur Sakar who self-immolated to protest the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Ocalan.
Ugur Sakar set himself on fire in front of the courthouse in Krefeld on Wednesday. Sakar was taken to a hospital in Duisburg with a helicopter and is reportedly in a critical condition, with 67% of his body covered in burns.
Thousands gathered in front of the Duisburg hospital after Sakar set his body on fire, calling on people to break the silence. NAV-DEM, AGIF and ATIK members and administrators attended the protest.
The first statement was made in the name of the Wuppertal Democratic Kurdish Society Center. Administrator Harun Demirel said Sakar is in a critical condition and pointed to the letter he left behind. In his letter, Sakar protested the disinterest of European institutions and the CPT in the face of the isolation and called on the Kurdish people to take action. Demirel said: “So, all must be aware and take action.”
Former HDP Siirt MP Besime Konca stated that the party doesn't approve of self-immolation protests and added that Sakar’s demand is the same as the demands presented by the hunger strikers. Konca said Sakar’s letter stressed the silence of European institutions and the violence by German police against the Kurdish people. Konca said: “This is the way he presented his protest in the face of such a strict approach.”
Konca pointed to the importance of a mass protest by the youth and women and all of the Kurdish people to support the hunger strikers. Konca wished Sakar a swift recovery and said: “We all should put forth our protest against the silence of Europe, and Germany in particular. This friend of ours has shown that the German government has some responsibility in the self-immolation protest.
NAV-DEM Co-chair Ayten Kaplan said Sakar’s protest was against the European governments who refuse to see or hear the people putting their bodies on the line, and added: “There is an attack against our efforts, actions, colors and almost all Kurdish publications (in Germany).” Kaplan said the people should respond to both the German and the Turkish States, and continued: “We say ‘Edi bes e’, enough. We say it is now time to come together and form a wall of people to resist against them.”
WE HOPE TO SEE HIM AMONG US IN PROTESTS
ATIK Co-chair Suleman Gurcan offered his condolences to the family and comrades of Sakar and said: “We hope to see friend Ugur healthy and among us in protests. Gurcan added that they don't approve of this type of protests and that everybody has many things to contribute to the struggle when they are healthy.
Uğur Şakar burned himself to protest the isolation of Öcalan
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Debate surrounding legislation to address a long-neglected radioactive waste dump in the outskirts of St. Louis is playing a key role in Missouri’s contentious Senate race.
One issue both sides will continue pushing is the cleanup of the West Lake Landfill, a Superfund site in the town of Bridgeton near Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.
Both candidates agree on the need for the federal government to do more, particularly with an underground fire in a separate landfill smoldering nearby. But the discussion has turned into election-year simplifications and sniping.
West Lake was first a limestone quarrying and crushing operation in the 1930s. Two decades later, it became a dumping ground for municipal refuse, industrial solid wastes, and construction and demolition debris.
And in 1973, a company contracted by Cotter Corp. dumped 8,700 tons of leached barium sulfate at West Lake, where it was mixed with the soil and trash, according to U.S. EPA.
The radioactive material was from the Manhattan Project, the World War II program in which the United States developed the nuclear bomb.
"The families living near the West Lake landfill have made clear that they are fed up with the EPA’s long delay in implementing a plan to clean up the site," Blunt said in a statement earlier this year.
The Senate passed the Blunt-McCaskill language in February by unanimous consent. But Kander, looking to get ahead in the polls and score an upset, says Blunt’s efforts are lacking.
"Despite spending nearly 20 years in Congress and another eight as Missouri’s Secretary of State, Senator Blunt has only recently noticed the crisis at West Lake landfill," Kander said in a statement. "Senator Blunt should be held accountable for his inaction."
Blunt Senate spokeswoman Katie Boyd pointed to multiple letters and press releases dating back to at least 2013 that chronicle the senator’s involvement with the issue.
And Blunt’s campaign spokeswoman, Burson Snyder, told Greenwire that the Democratic challenger’s statement represents "a serious lack of understanding" of the legislation and debate surrounding it.
"Team Kander has obviously determined that they will throw a bunch of half-cooked spaghetti at the wall to see what will stick," Snyder said, "but Missourians aren’t buying it — especially on an issue this serious for these families, who deserve better."
Despite Blunt’s efforts, Kander’s comments are resonating with at least some voters unfamiliar with Congress’ sluggish pace and who expect their representatives to deliver results fast.
Dawn Chapman, a founder of Just Moms STL, vouched for Blunt. "Sen. Blunt’s people have been there from the very beginning, from the very moment I learned about this," she said in an interview.
Still, Chapman says she is unhappy with the time it has taken for the Senate to take up and pass the legislation.
"My frustration with this whole bill, with this whole situation, was that this should’ve been done three years ago," Chapman said. "They waited until the last minute. That’s my critique of everyone involved."
She continued, "I’m not sure what Sen. Blunt and others were thinking waiting so long. Appropriations could’ve already been done, and we could’ve had this."
Chapman is referring to the reality that Blunt’s legislation wouldn’t set aside any new money for West Lake cleanup. Appropriators would have to debate that in a separate process.
Kander criticized Blunt for filing "unfunded legislation, and not being able to pass it through Congress."
A source with knowledge of the Kander campaign’s thinking said Blunt, as the Senate’s fifth-ranking Republican and a member of the Appropriations Committee, "obviously has the ability to impact the funding for FUSRAP."
When the fiscal 2017 energy and water spending bill came to the floor in May, Blunt and McCaskill, along with 88 other senators, voted to cut FUSRAP funding by $1 million, from $104 million to $103 million.
The younger Blunt is the founder of lobbying firm Statehouse Strategies LLC, which represents Exelon Corp. The Chicago-based energy firm acquired Cotter a year after the radioactive dump took place in 1973, and later sold it in 2000.
"The burden of proof is still on the senator to prove that he’s putting Missourians first and ensuring the right program is in place to clean up West Lake as quickly as possible," Baskin-Gerwitz said in an email.
The Rothenberg & Gonzales Political Report rates the race as favoring Blunt. Similarly, The Cook Political Report and the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics say it leans Republican.
But RealClearPolitics has recently moved the contest into its tossup category. The organization’s average of polls has Blunt up by 4.7 points.
Adding to the drama is the legislation’s uncertain outlook in the House. Missouri Reps. Lacy Clay (D) and Ann Wagner (R) were hoping for fast-track consideration of H.R. 4100. It hasn’t happened.
Clay and Wagner, with the help of Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.), tried to persuade House leaders to put the bill on the suspension calendar. It could pass with little debate as long as it got a supermajority of votes.
The aide pointed to a letter from Steven Stockton, the Army Corps’ director of civil works, questioning the legislation.
"The addition of the [West Lake] site to the FUSRAP program would not accelerate remediation at the WLLF," Stockton wrote in June. "Transferring the site to FUSRAP would subject the site to the limitations of the FUSRAP budget and appropriations process."
He added that "there is no guarantee that the ultimate cleanup actions would be different than those which would occur under the current [EPA] process."
During a hearing in July, Mathy Stanislaus, assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of Land and Emergency Management, echoed Stockton’s concerns about the legislation and cost.
Pallone said, "I think we can debate tweaks in policies, but without funding, these policies are meaningless."
Some observers wonder whether Pallone wants to add provisions to address his own state’s many Superfund sites. He may also want to press his legislation to create a dedicated funding stream for cleanups.
"We are just going to see more communities waiting for cleanups and more communities dissatisfied with the cleanups that are being done," Pallone said at the hearing. "So I really think the most important thing is reinstating the Superfund tax."
He was referring to the "polluters pay" tax on companies. A previous one expired in 1995. EPA must now rely on taxpayer dollars and settlements with companies to help pay for cleanups.
And while a Clay aide declined to comment on Pallone, they pointed to Clay’s testimony at the July hearing.
"Some of the forces who want to keep this nuclear waste in the unlined West Lake Landfill ganged up to stop it," Clay said.
"And I am greatly disappointed that this common-sense bill has been delayed, obstructed and even deliberately misrepresented by some staff and certain members of this committee," he added.
A source close to the Missouri delegation said Clay and Wagner plan to push Pallone in September on the bill once Congress returns from its seven-week recess. An aide to the Energy and Commerce Committee majority said no hearings are currently scheduled for H.R. 4100, but that could change after lawmakers return to Washington.
It has been 25 years, 11 months and four days since EPA added West Lake to its National Priorities List under the Superfund law.
The underground fire at the nearby Bridgeton Landfill, not an uncommon occurrence, has added urgency to addressing West Lake.
The two objectives, advocates say, are to clean up the radioactive waste at West Lake and to put out the fire before it reaches that area.
"Moms and dads are watching their children suffer from and fight uncommon health afflictions. Local school districts are sending kids home with notices of emergency procedures related to the hazardous landfill," Wagner said at the hearing.
"I cannot possibly imagine what it would be like to open my child’s book bag when they got home from school and learned that they are subject to extreme health risks."
Both Kander and Blunt are apparently planning to attend the Missouri State Fair on that date. The campaigns offered to tape video messages for the meeting, but Chapman declined.
"They’re both doing a dance, but it’s good to see them dance. It’s what we have to do every day," Chapman said. "At the end of the day, we’re a community living at the edge of a Superfund site. It’s a very stressful situation with no end in sight."
She added, "I know they’re worried about getting elected, but they need to look holistically at the situation."
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Sorby's nomination is subject to regulatory approvals. He will step into the new role just as Uninor reached cash flow break even at the end of 2013, as projected after only four years of operation, the company said in a statement.
A Norwegian national, Sorby had joined Telenor in 1993 and has been a member of the group's executive management team since 2003. Previously, he was executive vice president in charge of corporate strategy and regulatory affairs in Telenor Group.
''Uninor enjoys a firm market position in India as a leading mass-market, best-on-value operator. When Sorby now steps into the role as CEO of Uninor, he will meet an organisation that is highly energised, market-savvy and possesses a tremendous innovative spirit,'' said Jon Fredrik Baksaas, President and Chief Executive Officer of Telenor Group.
Uninor has more than 32 million customers in the country.
''Uninor's journey has just begun. We will continue to build on the company's competitive spirit and innovation skills to capture new ground, both in basic services and by providing affordable internet services to the masses,'' said Sorby.
''The strategy is clear and our model is proven. My job will be to deliver on this strategy alongside the management team and every single Uninor employee. I have actively contributed to the development of our India operations since we first entered in 2008, and now I look forward to joining the remarkable Uninor organisation,'' he added.
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[When Doctors Took ‘Family Planning’ Into Their Own Hands. Melvina Hernandez did not find out that her tubes had been cut until four years after her son was born. In 1975, these four women were among the 10 plaintiffs who filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court claiming that the Los Angeles County U.S.C]<IMG><I_7549><I_3449><I_6161><I_2952><I_680><I_1940><I_4448><I_5283><I_2568><I_2157><I_2157><I_2952><I_2952><I_6645><I_6434><I_5283><I_2157><I_4769><I_2157><I_2952><I_3191><I_2952><I_5067><I_2157><I_7387><I_2952><I_781><I_5033><I_6434><I_2952><I_6434><I_5572></IMG>
When Doctors Took ‘Family Planning’ Into Their Own Hands
Dolores Madrigal remembered being told that her sterilization could be reversed. Jovita Rivera and Georgina Hernández said they were bullied by doctors and nurses who declared their children burdens on California taxpayers. Melvina Hernandez did not find out that her tubes had been cut until four years after her son was born.
In 1975, these four women were among the 10 plaintiffs who filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court claiming that the Los Angeles County U.S.C. Medical Center was systematically sterilizing Spanish-speaking mothers who delivered their babies via cesarean section.
Madrigal v. Quilligan was, from its outset, the kind of striking David-versus-Goliath story that Hollywood and history books usually love — Erin Brockovich with an East L.A. twist. It was championed by a Latina fresh out of law school, and backed by the marginalized feminist wing of a growing Chicano activist movement. It was directed against some of most the powerful institutions in the state, including the Department of Health and the University of Southern California. The events in the trial even had a famous setting: For decades, Los Angeles County hospital served as an exterior shot for the soap opera “General Hospital.” And the claims were disturbing — that the hospital had made a practice of misleading women about sterilization and coercing them into giving consent.
Yet when Virginia Espino, a historian, began researching the case in 1994, almost all these details had been lost and forgotten. For years, Espino could not even obtain complete copies of the court documents at the County Hall of Records. “They said that it was lost, missing, somebody had borrowed it,” she told me. “They couldn’t find it.” And until Espino teamed up with her friend, the Academy-Award-nominated filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña (“Who Killed Vincent Chin?”), the public had never heard any of the plaintiffs describe their own experiences with the ill-fated suit. The documentary that sprang from their collaboration — “No Más Bebés” (“No More Babies”), which is being broadcast on PBS tonight — aimed to change that.
Madrigal v. Quilligan revolved around two fundamental questions: Did obstetricians at County Hospital perform tubal ligations on their patients without proper consent? And did doctors single out Latinas for the procedures?
When the suit came to trial in 1978, Judge Jesse W. Curtis ruled that neither of these charges was true. “This case is essentially the result of a breakdown in communications between the patients and the doctors,” Curtis wrote. “Misunderstandings” occurred because the women were, primarily, Spanish-speakers. Some of them, including Dolores Madrigal and Consuelo Hermosillo, had even signed consent forms for their procedures. Their emotional distress at being sterilized, Curtis wrote, was caused by their “cultural background” as immigrants from rural Mexico who believed that a woman’s worth is tied to her ability to raise a large family — not by their sterilizations. Dr. E.J. Quilligan, the head of County Hospital’s obstetrics unit (and a pioneer in lifesaving fetal-monitoring technology) told a reporter, “We were practicing good medicine.”
The disconnect between Curtis’s ruling and Tajima-Peña’s portrayal of the same events in “No Más Bebés” may be due, in part, to changes in our notions of what “consent” should mean. As Dr. Karen Benker, the only physician to testify against the hospital, explained to me last fall, the notion of “voluntary informed consent” barely existed during the early 1970s. (The National Research Act, which required doctors to get “voluntary informed consent” from the subjects of their experiments, wasn’t passed until 1974, after the abuses of the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male” were made public.) Asking a woman to consider and sign off on an irreversible contraceptive procedure in the midst of her worst labor pains? In 1973, amid federal initiatives to encourage birth control and family planning, that might be construed as “good medicine.”
And “No Más Bebés” suggests that the environment at County Hospital made coercion and deception very possible, even if it wasn’t authorized. According to the film, more than 1,000 babies were born there every month during the 1970s, with no clear protocol for their delivery. Women labored on gurneys in the hallways, assigned to no particular doctor. One night, Benker told me, she saw a medical resident hold a hypodermic needle filled with painkiller in front of an African-American woman in labor and say: “You want this? You want the pain to go away? Well, sign this [sterilization consent] paper!”
According to Benker, the patients in County’s obstetrics unit were mostly low-income African-American and Mexican-American women. If the rates of sterilization were highest among Latinas, that could have been a result of practical realities, not deliberate policy. “I think it was easier to coerce or to trick who people who didn’t speak English well or who didn’t read English well,” she told me, “or whose immigration status might have made them feel afraid.”
Disturbed by the situation, another resident in County’s obstetrics unit, Dr. Bernard Rosenfeld, quietly copied the medical records for hundreds of sterilizations. Eventually, he passed this documentation along to Antonia Hernández, a recent graduate from U.C.L.A. Law School who worked at the Los Angeles Center for Law & Justice, a legal advocacy group just a few blocks away from County Hospital. She and her colleagues joined forces with the Chicana feminist organization Comisión Feminil, led by a legal secretary named Gloria Molina, to build a case on the foundations laid by the recently decided Roe v. Wade. If a woman had a civil right to terminate a pregnancy, they argued, she also had a civil right to procreate.
Like many of the plaintiffs that Hernández and Molina persuaded to join Madrigal v. Quilligan, Consuelo Hermosillo initially wanted nothing to do with the case. Her sterilization at County hospital had become a secret so painful that she and her husband never shared it with anyone. They did not even discuss it when they were alone. But after Hernández showed her the evidence Rosenfeld had gathered, Hermosillo joined the suit, without telling her husband, in hopes that would help protect other women — perhaps even her two daughters. She told a baby sitter she was going to work and rode a bus alone to the courthouse, angry, ashamed and afraid.
After Judge Curtis’s ruling, Hermosillo’s silence cemented. She never built friendships with the other plaintiffs. Some of them, she’d learned, were being beaten and castigated by their husbands for being sterilized. Her husband didn’t do that. But Hermosillo had no one to confide in either. Once, she told me, she accompanied her son to a funeral for his friend’s mother and was surprised by the photographs at the wake: Until that moment, she had no idea that the deceased was also one of the “Madrigal Ten.”
Though the hospital won, Madrigal changed state laws and buttressed the careers of several prominent Latino politicians. In its wake, the California Department of Health revised its sterilization guidelines to include a 72-hour waiting period and issued a booklet on sterilization in Spanish. The California State Legislature unanimously repealed its sterilization law, which had legalized over 20,000 nonconsensual procedures since 1909. Hernández went on t
o become the president of the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund; Molina later became the first Chicana elected to the Los Angeles City Council.
“What interested me about this case,” Tajima-Pena told me, “is how you have well-meaning policy and some very well-meaning doctors, and how women could still be abused.” Where Espino sees a history of “backdoor eugenics,” Tajima-Pena is more persuaded by the sociologist Elena Gutiérrez’s argument that the sterilizations at County Hospital were a result of a “perfect storm” of pressures: fears about a global “population bomb” mixing with prejudice against welfare use and illegitimacy, accelerated by a rush of federal funding for family planning through the War on Poverty.
“It’s not like these evil old white guys are the problem,” Tajima-Peña told me, the day before “No Más Bebés” screened at the NYC Doc festival in November. “We’re all the problem. Because we all have this really complicated, maybe misguided thinking about what reproductive freedom really means.” Such beliefs are still common even among progressives, she pointed out. When she and Espino showed rough cuts of the film to friendly audiences before its June debut, people would find out that one of the plaintiffs, Maria Hurtado, had five children and say, “Well, she already had five kids.”
But Espino is not the only historian to look at Madrigal v. Quilligan and think of eugenics. Alexandra Minna Stern, a professor at the University of Michigan, has documented that, by the 1940s, California accounted for 60 percent of sterilizations performed nationwide. The operations, she found, always disproportionately affected African-Americans and foreign-born residents — including immigrants from Italy, Poland, Scandinavia, Russia and Germany. Mexican-Americans were long singled out for special attention. In Stern’s book “Eugenic Nation,” Madrigal v. Quilligan appears as “a concluding link in California’s protracted history of eugenics.”
“That concept of ‘we’re being threatened by this overbreeding subpopulation’ seems to be a very powerful strain in our culture,” Benker says. Two years before Hernández filed Madrigal v. Quilligan in California, the Southern Poverty Law Center filed Relf v. Weinberger in Washington. That case, which revolved around the sterilization of two African-American sisters, 14 and 12 years old, at a family-planning clinic in Alabama, revealed that more than 100,000 poor people were being sterilized every year under federally funded programs. According to the S.P.L.C., “Countless others were forced to agree to be sterilized when doctors threatened to terminate their welfare benefits unless they consented to the procedures.”
You can detect the same strain in the arguments once used to support Proposition 187 in California, which barred unauthorized immigrants from using some state services, and in the justifications for denying Mexican-American children birth certificates in Texas. It runs through the current movement to repeal the 14th Amendment. “No Más Bebés” is an investigation into what happened at one hospital during the early 1970s, but the larger questions it raises are still with us today: Who do we believe is allowed to create citizens in our country? Does it matter what they look like? Does it matter which languages they speak?
Marcela Valdes is a journalist specializing in Latin American culture.
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Marcela Valdes is a journalist specializing in Latin American culture.
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Tesla is working on a new version of “Launch Mode” that will include something called “Cheetah stance” to involve the adaptive suspension in a launch from a standstill.
It was part of the new “Raven” Model S and Model X update.
Tesla described the new suspension at the time:
We’ve also upgraded our air suspension system for Model S and Model X with fully adaptive damping, giving it an ultra-cushioned feel when cruising on the highway or using Autopilot, and a responsive, exhilarating confidence during dynamic driving.
Now Tesla is taking advantage of the new suspension to build a new feature around it.
According to Tesla hacker Green, who had access to an upcoming Tesla software update, the automaker is updating Launch Mode, which enables Tesla performance vehicles to launch at full power, for the Model S and Model X Raven.
Tesla writes about the new launch mode in the release notes:
It sounds like Tesla will lower the suspension in the front, which is already required to use the current ‘Launch Mode,’ but it will leave the back higher — like a cheetah:
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On Twitter, Green posted a graphic that Tesla produced to explain how to activate the new Launch Mode:
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The new version of Launch mode is reportedly being tested in Tesla’s early access program, which is a group of owners providing feedback on early versions of new or updated features.
It’s not clear when it will be pushed to the wider fleet. Sometimes it’s days after it hits the early access program, sometimes it takes weeks.
Tesla has currently several new features in the early access program — the most significant one being the new “Stopping at Traffic Lights and Stop Signs” feature, which is a big step toward Tesla’s goal to deploy a fully self-driving system in its vehicles.
The automaker is also going to release a new Dashcam Viewer.
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A comparison between Toyota Crown versus Nissan Cima makes perfect sense because these sedans share comparable features. The superbly made Toyota Crown and Nissan Cima are part of the best-selling sedans.
These cars are good for family affairs thanks to comfortable seating options, roomy interior, and high-end cabin features. Since both vehicles offer plenty of power, they are great for family vacations and long trips.
N.B: Prices are reflective of average BE FORWARD prices as of April 2021.
The Toyota Crown is getting better and better and there’s no argument that it’s one of the best Japanese luxury cars. The latest generation that was launched in late 2012 is perfect and it is a leap forward with an innovative exterior design and a flawless interior that competes with the world’s elite.
The Toyota Crown has a very plush interior that is comparable to the Mercedes Benz E-Class. The cabin is actually superior in size and offers great space. The seats are made of the best leather similar to what you find in many high-end German automobiles. At the front, both driver and passenger are given brilliant legroom.
At the back, there is sufficient space on the outer seats to entirely stretch and recline. The cabin is so quiet that you hardly hear the engine or exterior noise.
The cargo space is enough to afford normal family luggage such as suitcases and groceries but nothing bulky. The boot does not expand as the rear seats do not have a fold-down mechanism.
Nissan Cima is an executive and full-size luxury car produced by Nissan for the Japanese market only. The hood decoration uses an icon of an acanthus leaf. The acanthus leaf was commonly used by the usual Greeks to make a wreath for use as a crown.
In Japan, the Nissan Cima has usually been Nissan’s rival to the Toyota Crown Majesta and Toyota Crown Royal Saloon G. The Cima is a 4-door hardtop Sedan that was produced from 1988 to the present.
The Nissan Cima has a spacious interior with quality materials and large boot space and an easy-to-use infotainment system.
There are many storage sections in the cabin. There is a small section with a cover that is appropriate for storing small items such as rings and coins, and then it is followed by a storage section that also serves as a hand rest.
Also, there are suitable sections for storing items such as smartphones, goggles, beverages, handbags, etc.; at the front, there is a central storage tray, a shelf below the dashboard, 2 cup holders, and door pockets. At the rear, there are 2 cup holders, storage on the door pockets, and the front seat jacket pockets.
The Nissan Cima has a large boot, larger than Toyota Crowns. The boot space is wide and flat, making it simple and easy to put in a couple of sets of golf clubs or a few carry-on bags. Some trims have a 6-disc CD changer in the trunk. The cargo space is enough to accommodate normal family luggage such as suitcases and groceries but nothing bulky.
The 2.5L Hybrid petrol has an approximated fuel consumption of 23.2km/L.
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Nissan Cima F50 and some older versions transferred power to the wheels via a five-speed automatic or the old four-wheel automatic transmission.
The 3.0L VQ30DET turbocharged V6 petrol has an approximated fuel consumption of 9.0 KM/L.
The 3.5L Hybrid petrol has an approximated fuel consumption of 11.4km/L.
Based on the review, it is easy to find that the Nissan Cima Y51 fifth-generation seems to provide better performance and more features. As a result of Toyota Crown vs. Nissan Cima, you can go with the Nissan Cima because of its attractive exterior looking, power, and being a full-size luxury car. Actually, there isn’t a bad choice between the Toyota Crown and its Nissan Cima rival, it’s just a matter of choice, convenience, and affordability. To buy either a Toyota Crown or Nissan Cima, please visit BE FORWARD.
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[Chuck Schumer, left, Democrats, Cunningham, zipper, failure, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, RBG, Supreme Court,. Thom Tillis, who was ultimately declared the winner in a tight race. The Senate balance stands 50-48 with control of the upper chamber to be determined in two Jan]<IMG><I_2200><I_680><I_1435><I_1435><I_680><I_6783><I_2023><I_1435><I_2023><I_2157><I_2157><I_581><I_2023><I_2132><I_1435><I_3081><I_2157><I_6783><I_2023><I_1435><I_2023><I_2695><I_581><I_2315><I_2132><I_1435><I_1310><I_5741><I_2023><I_2023><I_2533><I_3653></IMG>
Charlotte, NC — More information continues to emerge on how Democrats are dealing, more like reeling, after their Election Day beatdown they suffered courtesy of responsible, values-based voters who spoke loud and clear that a majority of Americans are not on board.
Those of us who help provide this beatdown are not on board with the defund movement, massive wealth redistribution, and all other such far-left tripe. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has talked in private phone calls about why he believes Democrat hopes to regain control of the Senate were doomed from the outset, as reported by Axios.
And of course, Cryin’ Chuck being Cryin’ Chuck, he’s pointing fingers at everybody but himself.
In one recent call with donors, Schumer lamented that the Democrats’ best chance of regaining control of the Senate was squashed, according to Axios, by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and North Carolina Senate candidate Cal Cunningham’s extramarital affair; about which Schumer told donors Cal “couldn’t keep his zipper up.”
Axios reports that the senior senator from New York has made the “zipper” comment on numerous calls, according to sources with direct knowledge of the conversations.
Prior to ZipperGate, many analysts believed Cunningham had a good chance of unseating GOP Sen. Thom Tillis, who was ultimately declared the winner in a tight race.
The Senate balance stands 50-48 with control of the upper chamber to be determined in two Jan. 5 runoff elections in Georgia. Democrats must win both races to take back the Senate. This also assumes Biden is ultimately certified as the winner of the presidential election; therefore, this would make Kamala Harris as vice president the tie-breaker vote.
Schumer told donors Republican Susan Collins [only] won re-election in Maine because of her opposition to Amy Coney Barrett filling Ginsburg’s vacated seat prior to the election. Collins’s defection proved moot; Barrett was confirmed by 52 of 53 Republican votes.
In another excuse offered up by Schumer, one source told Axios the New York senior senator told donors he regretted being unsuccessful in his attempt to recruit failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams to run for a Senate seat in Georgia.
Abrams claimed she actually won the 2018 gubernatorial race and still insists she won — not unlike Hillary Clinton, still blaming everything and everybody on the planet for her 2016 loss to Donald Trump, except herself, of course. If Biden is certified as the winner and if Abrams is invited, it’s likely, she will rush the Inaugural Stage, take Biden out, and then proceed to take the President’s oath of office.
Schumer’s excuses ignore the reality that Speaker Pelosi’s House Democrat Caucus got absolutely decimated on election night, namely due to far-left support of the aforementioned far-left support of the defund movement, so-called “Medicare for All” — government-administered health care — and other such socialist nonsense. Moreover, the refusal of Pelosi and Schumer to compromise with Trump and the Republicans on a second, stripped-down, COVID relief package — out of fear of Trump receiving credit prior to the election — did not sit well with voters either.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) talked about that very issue on Tuesday on the Senate floor.
“We all have bipartisan agreement to support those people who are still in need, yet Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi will not relent on their $3.5 trillion wish list.”
Are you listening, Chuck?
Sen. Tom Cotton: "We all have bipartisan agreement to support those people who are still in need, yet Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi will not relent on their $3.5 trillion wish list." pic.twitter.com/uk8srNpiXR
On Tuesday, Schumer did everything short of cry on the Senate floor about potential Senate Republican opposition to Biden cabinet selections.
“If Senate Republicans are concerned about someone who made controversial comments running OMB, perhaps they shouldn’t have confirmed Russell Vought who once said ‘Muslims… do not know God because they have rejected Jesus Christ his son.’”
Schumer was referring to Biden’s pick for director of the Office of Management and Budget, Neera Tandan, who in 2016 spread wild conspiracy theories about Russian vote-hackers, all the while denying that Hillary Clinton lost the election.
Sen. Schumer: "If Senate Republicans are concerned about someone who made controversial comments running OMB, perhaps they shouldn't have confirmed Russell Vought who once said 'Muslims… do not know God because they have rejected Jesus Christ his son.'" pic.twitter.com/d8bLfcXsjh
Chuck Schumer’s excuses for why he believes the Democrats are doomed — at least to the extent that he’s reportedly told donors — are just that. Excuses.
Still, it’s far more fun to think about Cryin’ Chuck anguishing that were it not for a zipper that refused to stay up, he might’ve become Senate Majority Leader in less than two months.
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[3142086-trailers_worldofff_opening_20161012. Players will lead a pair of twins through varied FINAL FANTASY worlds and capture and raise such adorably familiar beasts as cactuar, chocobo® and behemoth to discover alternate forms and learn new abilities]<IMG><I_3999><I_680><I_6434><I_4103><I_680><I_5003><I_6947><I_4509><I_3370><I_2157><I_2157><I_4275><I_300><I_4393><I_6434><I_7399><I_2157><I_5516><I_376><I_5823><I_7539><I_4448><I_376><I_2157><I_8165><I_3067><I_6947><I_708><I_5293><I_376><I_2250><I_1842></IMG>
LOS ANGELES (Oct. 17, 2016) – Adventurers can journey into the WORLD OF FINAL FANTASY™ with the playable demo now available from the PlayStation®Store.
Players can get a feel for the unique evolution of the classic “active time battle” (ATB) system as they capture and raise companion monsters called Mirages, customizing a variety of stacks and upgrading Mirage Boards to unlock special skills and attacks. Additionally, legendary characters from the FINAL FANTASY® franchise, including Faris (FINAL FANTASY V) and Cloud (FINAL FANTASY VII) will appear. Players who complete the demo will unlock the ability to obtain “Magitek Armor P” in the Coliseum when playing the full version of the game.
About WORLD OF FINAL FANTASY
WORLD OF FINAL FANTASY, a brand-new title in the FINAL FANTASY franchise, combines classic RPG gameplay mechanics with fresh and imaginative visuals to welcome both fans and newcomers to the series. Players will lead a pair of twins through varied FINAL FANTASY worlds and capture and raise such adorably familiar beasts as cactuar, chocobo® and behemoth to discover alternate forms and learn new abilities. This title is rated E10+ (Everyone 10+). Please visit the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) website at www.esrb.org for more information about ratings.
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The motorsport body of Formula One on Monday announced about organizing the first ever all female esports competition, where they revealed plans for a female-only qualification route into the Pro Exhibition called the F1 Esports Series Women’s Wildcard.
Set to begin from the autumns, the online event that will only be open to female participants, will be overseen by the F1 teams for scouting talent in order to shortlist and add to their rosters for the upcoming Pro Championship. The competitors will be required to compete to set the fastest lap times on the official F1 2020 video game, developed by Codemasters, across a one-week window from May 3 till May 9.
The participants with the fastest qualifying laps will be called up for the Pro Exhibition event later that month, where the next gen esports drivers will show off their skills and be assessed according to their abilities by the ten F1 esports teams who will chose the potential drivers from the list.
The Pro Exhibition show featuring the Women’s Wildcard qualifier will be broadcast across a number of online platforms on the official F1 channels of YouTube, Facebook, Twitch and Huya, on May 27.
While there has been a number of F1 esports events that had female participants in it, like the Virtual Grand Prix, there has never been a female driver taking part in the F1 esports series at a professional level. However, with this in motion, Formula 1 will hope that it will encourage more drivers from the female sim-racing community to engage with the F1 Esports Series from the basic level, and therefore, establish the first ever female professional F1 esports driver.
The announcement was followed after F1 launched a campaign for 2021, with a goal of enhancing the diversity and inclusion within the F1 community, named as ‘WeRaceAsOne.’
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The Parable of the Good Samaritan.
Everyone knows the story. Or, at least, they know what a “good Samaritan” is. It’s someone who does a good deed, someone who helps a person in need.
Sure, but it’s more than that. The story is actually more jarring than that. Or, at least, it should be.
Jesus tells the story to describe what “neighbour-love” looks like, what it actually means to “love your neighbour as yourself.” This “neighbour-love,” Jesus says, is vitally connected to “God-love,” what it means to “love God with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind.” The Greatest Commandment—the One Thing God asks of us, the One Thing that encompasses all things God requires—is to love God and love others.
So what does this “neighbour-love” look like? It looks like a Samaritan showing compassion and extending care to a Jew in desperate need.
Simple, right? Just your everyday good deed, a random act of kindness, the kind of thing any decent person would do. Right?
Not quite. Read it again. And then again. And again—this time with feeling. (And maybe a little context.)
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First note: As any first-year seminarian can tell you, the Samaritans and Jews in Jesus’ day didn’t really get along. Okay, that’s understatement. There’s one story of some Samaritans throwing human bones into the Jewish temple in Jerusalem, defiling it. But then again, a century before that the Jews completely destroyed the Samaritan temple on Mount Gerizim. You know, “eye for an eye” and all that. So a Samaritan and a Jew? We’re talking “despised other” here, like when Donald Trump talks about “Mexicans” or “Muslims.”
Note #2: The Samaritan shows compassion and extends care without reservation: no questions asked, no conditions to be met, no fine print to qualify the offer. He’s not concerned about his own safety and security. He’s not concerned about who’s going to pay him back. He’s not all, “Well, maybe if I help this Jew he’ll convert to my religion and come worship at my temple.” (Seriously, think about that a moment.)
A third note: The people who you’d think would most likely help the victim are exactly those who refuse to do so. A priest, a Levite. A Christian, a Canadian, a pastor. Nope. Instead, it’s the least likely person (from the Jewish perspective) who is the hero of the story, the “despised other” themselves.
Did I say “Good Samaritan”? I meant “Good Muslim.”
Now there’s an idea. Let’s try that out and see how it feels—and if this makes you uneasy, if it makes you all up-in-arms and red-in-the-face and furious with me, then maybe you’re starting to hear the story correctly.
Wanting to make himself look good, the expert in ethics asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbour?”
Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Morden to Winkler by a back road, and fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead in the ditch.
“But a Muslim immigrant while traveling came near him; and when he saw him, he was moved with pity. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, having treated them with antiseptic. Then he put him in his own car, brought him to the hospital, and sat with him through the night. The next day he wrote a cheque worth two days’ wages and gave it to the nurse on duty, and said, ‘This is for any extra expenses he has; when I come back, I will repay you whatever more is needed.’
“Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbour to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?”
The ethical expert said, “The one who showed him mercy.”
Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”
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Louis Vuitton presents its new pre-spring 2023 collection. For this new season, and through the eyes of Virgil Abloh, the luxury brand is interpreting and exploring the experience of the legendary money-free Loft parties that David Mancuso organized during the 70s in New York and which turned 52 this year. Unfortunately, Virgil could not finish creating the collection before his death. His work was carried on by the creative teams with whom he worked at Louis Vuitton.
Love Will Save the Day
Disco music has always been a symbol of mixture of contradictions, developing in an environment which attracted both straight and gay, black and white, the glamourous and the plain-Jane, the bold and the fearful.
During those times when most people were disappointed about the lost prosperous 60s and with all the political and financial challenges hitting, there was a man who believed that passion could always save lives. David Mancuso was born in 1944 in New York. He organized his first party “Love Will Save the Day” in 1970, motivated by the fight for civil rights and themes of counterculture of that era. Mancuso played records to transform his guests’ spirits, and Louis Vuitton is adopting a similar approach for its campaign, using Virgil’s heritage to explore how dress codes can be used to promote anti-bias and equality.
There have already been complaints about this; one of which is Tim Lawrence’s essay, published in his website, rebuking Louis Vuitton for manipulating and abusing Mancuso’s values.
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While writing Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979, Lawrence had become well-acquainted with Mancuso, and he is now denouncing the brand for its inaccurate portrayals of Mancuso’s principles.
“What about the Loft being the absolute inverse of everything Louis Vuitton stands for?”
Lawrence addressed the fact that Mancuso, who passed away in 2016, would have never agreed to take payment in exchange for having his name on a line of apparel. He also opposed the idea that Louis Vuitton and Mancuso shared the same set of values: “Although the text is short it contains several inaccuracies that David would have found extremely irksome (…) that Louis Vuitton and David Mancuso share the same set of social values.”
Mancuso opposed materialism and capitalism; the essay specified. The Loft’s guests initially had to pay only 2$ to get in, and then the price went up to 19$ by the end of the 1970s. Nothing was being sold on the premises; people could bring their own alcohol if they wanted to and there was free food and fresh juices inside. Lawrence says that Mancuso tried to create a situation where there was no economic inequality, and that he wanted the Loft to be a space of utopian freedom and expression excluding the use of money.
“In 46 years of hosting parties—David passed away in November 2016 aged 72—he didn’t once advertise an event. Nor did he ever accept any form of sponsorship.”
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[Scarlett Johansson and Chris Evans. In a moment of coincidence, Annie bumps into Grayer (Nicholas Reese Art), the young son of rich Upper East Side socialites, Mrs]<IMG><I_4305><I_680><I_2376><I_4365><I_680><I_2643><I_4061><I_375><I_6630><I_2157><I_2157><I_25><I_7886><I_2489><I_5895><I_375><I_680><I_2643><I_2157><I_375><I_1981><I_4365><I_4061><I_2157><I_3758><I_4365><I_7318><I_7219><I_2376><I_4365><I_7089><I_4059></IMG>
“My desire to be an observer of life was actually keeping me from living one.”
I was curious to see The Nanny Diaries because this movie was released three years before Scarlett Johansson debuted as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow in Iron Man 2 – and also eight years before Chris Evans debuted as Steve Rogers / Captain America in Captain America: The First Avenger. It was nice to see these two actors before they spent a decade in their MCU roles.
Annie Braddock (Scarlett Johansson) is a recent university grad with a major in business and a minor in anthropology. Her mother’s (Donna Murphy) dream is for Annie to work at a financial firm in Manhattan, but Annie is a bit lost in life. In a moment of coincidence, Annie bumps into Grayer (Nicholas Reese Art), the young son of rich Upper East Side socialites, Mrs. X (Laura Linney) and Mr. X (Paul Giamatti).
Annie impulsively decides to accept a job as Grayer’s nanny without any prior experience. Through her job, as told by herself using the lens of an anthropologist, she sees first-hand what it is like to be rich and how it is not all that it’s chalked up to be.
The movie shows the veneer of a happy marriage between Mr. and Mrs. X – with Mr. X always on “business” trips and Mrs. X always shopping. Unfortunately, with how Mrs. X treats others, it was hard to emphasize with her. Annie is in a situation in which she could easily exit at any time, but she continues to stay and be abused by Grayer’s parents – something that Harvard Hottie (Chris Evans), the bro that is interested in her, astutely observes and mentions to her. It is hard to feel sorry for Annie. The only person that suffers is the kid because of the way their selfish rich parents mistreats and ignores him. I felt bad for the kid.
Scarlett Johansson can be goofy and it was definitely fun to see her in a role that was so different than those I am normally see her in. She was great in this movie and was captivating as she moved between dramatic and comedic. Laura Linney was equally good in the movie, and she did her best to make us care for her unlikeable character. Donna Murphy is not given enough in the movie, but she was wonderful in the scenes she was given. Actually, the whole cast of The Nanny Diaries was fantastic.
It is unfortunate that with such a wonderful cast, the script itself is so weak and unable to support the cast. The characters are mostly one dimensional – and for most of them, that dimension is not one that is likeable. The story meanders all over the place and never finds its stride. The romance between Annie and Harvard Hottie never feels right and is underdeveloped.
It is worth mentioning that the movie has a wonderful sense of surrealism that makes parts of it delightful.
This was a mediocre movie at best with a few laughs. I did like how Annie applied anthropology throughout the movie to the society that she observed while taking her journey of self-discovery. The movie ends up in a place that was satisfactory, but the journey itself was a bit lacking. It is too bad that the movie itself did not have a much stronger core because the cast is fantastic and deserved more.
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Diesel technicians from around the state of Arkansas will square off Friday for bragging rights and the title of Arkansas’ best.
This year’s competition is scheduled for May 31 at the John Q. Hammons Convention Center in Rogers, Arkansas.
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Calvin Harris has just announced a brand new album titled Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1. The renowned Scottish artist took to Twitter to proclaim his excitement for the project and let fans know of all the big-name features involved.
Enjoy a snippet of an unreleased song by Calvin Harris featuring Khalid and Future in the announcement below, and look out for Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1 on June 30.
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5 Things A Guy Needs To Become A Hero In Bollywood!
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We talk about the things need to be done by guys to become the leading man in Hindi movies. However, this is a satire, because no one really knows that what works out in the industry and what not!
Hero in Bollywood! Role model of an entire nation!
To be a superstar, first step is obviously to become a hero in a Hindi film. Now, if you’re a star son or have the backing of some big filmy family, don’t bother to read on.
For rest of you guys, this requires some innovative steps to be followed as gone are the days of simply getting a portfolio and meeting film-makers for work.
It’s a new age and with changed requirements, guys need to do some different stuff. Let’s see what all is needed:
2) Work: Whatever You Get
Well, jokes apart, this is serious business. So find your own way and try everything written and unwritten in the books to achieve your goals! May be your strategy gives direction to many others.
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Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, tours the LHC with a group of engineers.
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With 15 petabytes of data (that's 15,000,000 gigabytes) gathered by the LHC detectors every year, scientists have an enormous task ahead of them. How do you process that much information? How do you know you're looking at something significant within such a large data set? Even using a supercomputer, processing that much information could take thousands of hours. Meanwhile, the LHC would continue accumulating even more data.
CERN's solution to this problem is the LHC Computing Grid. The grid is a network of computers, each of which can analyze a chunk of data on its own. Once a computer completes its analysis, it can send the findings on to a centralized computer and accept a new chunk of data. As long as scientists can divide the data up into chunks, the system works well. Within the computer industry this approach is called grid computing.
The scientists at CERN decided to focus on using relatively inexpensive equipment to perform their calculations. Instead of purchasing cutting-edge data servers and processors, CERN concentrates on off-the-shelf hardware that can work well in a network. Their approach is very similar to the strategy Google employs. It's more cost efficient to purchase lots of average hardware than a few advanced pieces of equipment.
Using a special kind of software called midware, the network of computers will be able to store and analyze data for every experiment conducted at the LHC. The structure for the system is organized into tiers:
Any Tier 2 site can access any Tier 1 site. The reason for that is to allow research institutions and universities the chance to focus on specific information and research.
One challenge with such a large network is data security. CERN determined that the network couldn't rely on firewalls because of the amount of data traffic on the system. Instead, the system relies on identification and authorization procedures to prevent unauthorized access to LHC data.
Some people say that worrying about data security is a moot point. That's because they think the LHC will end up destroying the entire world.
Is it really possible? Find out in the next section.
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Duncan Campbell, director of property advisers Campbell Gordon, has appeared on a BBC video offering perspectives on furloughing during the COVID-19 crisis.
And Mr Campbell has given Thames Tap an exclusive view of the effects the crisis is having on transactions.
Speaking from home in the BBC video, Mr Campbell calls for flexibility in the furloughing process to allow staff to work part-time and receive top-up pay from the Government.
Some of the Campbell Gordon team, normally based in Reading Bridge House, have been furloughed, due to the reduction in fee income.
Mr Campbell told us on Wednesday, April 8, the day the video went live: “Like all transactionally-led businesses, we have seen a downturn in deal flow due to the pandemic.
“This means there has been a change in our normal level of fee generation, which has triggered our decision to participate in the Job Retention Scheme and place some of the team on ‘furlough leave’.
“It’s really interesting to see that in the past 24 hours we have been told by two applicants wanting to take over 5,000 sq ft a piece, that they remain committed to their acquisitions, but just not right at this moment in time as they simply will not be able to access the space during lockdown.
“There are other transactions which may be delayed more significantly or affected more fundamentally.
“However, the current signs are that, once we are out of lockdown, a proportion of the letting activity will return immediately with the majority of the remainder poised to return within six to nine months.
“There is, of course, no certainty. We all wait to see the state of the economy once the world is more stable. But the sentiment is there to pick up from where we left off, wherever possible and practical.
“The Government have shown welcome and valuable leadership with the creation of the scheme, they reacted quickly, which was important.
“But we believe it is now time for them to adapt it. It is essential in our view that they support businesses in their ability to take a nuanced approach to the Job Retention Scheme.
“There is still work to be done by property advisers. We are optimistic about the future and if staff are, not only retained in businesses, but allowed to continue to undertake an amount of work, even if it’s only one day a week, the businesses and the economy as a whole will come out of this much stronger.
“And people who want to do their jobs could benefit enormously from their continued active involvement.”
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Before that she was a TV correspondent and wrote poetry as well as a column on children's education in a local magazine.
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MANKATO — Within the past year, refugee resettlement agencies have had to contend with anti-immigrant rhetoric during a contentious presidential election cycle, the fallout from a 2017 executive order banning refugees from countries like Somalia or Sudan — where most of Mankato’s refugees come from — to battling misinformation surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.
But with the pandemic on the wane, and the election of President Joe Biden, who announced on May 3 that he would raise the cap of refugees allowed into the country from 15,000 to 62,500, with the plan to double that the following year, Habiba Rashid, director of MCC Mankato Refugee Services, is feeling optimistic.
“I’m very hopeful,” Rashid said. “We have learned that when you come to the table, change happens.”
As with other staff here, Rashid was first a refugee, facing some of the very same uphill battles and challenges as the people she serves, after fleeing the Angolan civil war 30 years ago as a young child. Her journey, like many who have come after her, was a decades-long process.
Now an American citizen, Mankato resident, and the first Black woman to hold the title of director at the MCC Mankato Refugee Services office, she hopes her story will inspire people who are just beginning make their way in the United States. Rashid said on average that it takes 15-20 years for a refugee to eventually resettle in the U.S.
While she’s encouraged by President Biden’s comments on prioritizing refugee resettlement, it’s hard to say what kind of an impact that will have on resettlement in Mankato. Her office provides secondary resettlement, which means the clients they serve have moved to Mankato from somewhere else in the United States. In contrast, primary refugees, or new arrivals, arrive in the U.S. directly from another country.
In 2019, the Mankato MCC office served 236 individuals in the Mankato area. That number increased to 265 in 2020, despite the COVID-19 pandemic leading to a dramatic drop in secondary resettlement.
On top of that, Ahmed “Jaffer” Mohamud, a community navigator and employment specialist for MCC Mankato who also helps new arrivals stay on top of immigration paperwork, points to other challenges of moving from one state to another.
“When you are in a process to be resettled, any small changes you make effects your process,” Rashid said. “It can delay it. We are used to the culture of remaining in your place until you’re told when the next step is, because when you do take the next step, that takes you back two steps in the process.”
Rashid’s job, as well as her colleagues, is to make that process less daunting, and part of that means helping new arrivals feel welcomed and connected. It’s been a challenge following four years of anti-immigrant rhetoric that has specifically targeted refugees.
Mohamed Ibrahim, a community navigator at MCC Mankato with a background in health care, said the trauma that refugees face from escaping war and persecution is re-triggered as they navigate the angry rhetoric directed at them in a new, unfamiliar country.
“These people came from a war zone and they already were dealing and struggling with mental health problems when they came here,” Ibrahim said. “The system was very difficult, plus this rhetoric. That made their trauma active again.”
But Rashid said Mankato has largely stepped up to that hateful rhetoric and has remained a beacon of hope for not just her staff and herself, but for others who relocate here.
“I’m proud to be a resident of Mankato, because the community here is so much different than the communities elsewhere during that time of rhetoric,” she said. “I think the community is very supportive to the work we do as well as the refugees we serve.”
One community program, the Tapestry Project, held twice a year over several sessions, connects U.S.-born citizens in Mankato with refugees who are new to the community.
“It helps to integrate individuals to understand the American way, as well as Americans learning about the refugee journey and experience,” Rashid said.
Guests from public safety, the health-care field and others come to build personal relationships and answer questions. The Tapestry Project recently expanded to an entrepreneurship seminar where people interested in starting a business can get tips from others who have been successful.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, MCC Mankato Refugee Services also created a new position to focus on helping refugees navigate access to vaccines and testing, as well as education on the virus through a hotline for people to call and have questions answered in their first language.
Ruth Aganya, a community navigator and COVID care navigator with the local organization, said when she answers the phone, the first question people ask is whether she herself has been vaccinated.
“A lot of refugees who get the vaccine, they don’t want to at first because they don’t believe it,” Aganya said. “We encourage and talk to them. Now a lot of them are getting the vaccine.”
In April of 2020, a leaked video was released of two French doctors suggesting that a vaccine, not yet available then, should be tested first on Africans. The backlash and accusations of racism were swift, but the damage had been done, especially considering that most secondary refugees who resettle in Mankato primarily come from the African countries of Sudan and Somalia.
“That made refugees not trust the vaccine,” Rashid said. “We had to educate much harder for people to see that this vaccine does work. We wanted to get vaccinated first, because you have to teach by example. We had to take that step and be leaders.”
After filming themselves getting vaccinated, Rashid and her colleagues connected with Nicollet County to provide vaccines on-site at the MCC Refugee Services Office, with its familiar faces and surroundings, earlier this spring. A total of 23 people were vaccinated, many who are leaders in their communities.
“That opened up a lot of doors for these families to understand the importance of this vaccine,” said Ibrahim. “Now people are going everywhere requesting the vaccine themselves.”
It’s one of many steps they take in ensuring that new arrivals thrive here. Rashid said refugees who utilized their services in the past are an important ally in helping to alleviate some of the anxiety that new arrivals face when first moving here.
In 2020, they were serving a family in Mankato for about five months when one of the parents died from COVID-19.
“Many in the community didn’t know this family well, but they were connected to our office,” Mohamud said. “We talked to the community and in one week, they collected $8,000 for the family. Groups were visiting with them and connecting them to other services that they needed. The burial was covered, and the family really felt that they had support here.”
Rashid said it’s a chance to not only give back, but to show others that they are not alone in their journey and they can thrive here too in the long run.
“Our job is not just integrating individuals, but also helping individuals who have been here longer to elevate to that American Dream,” Rashid said.
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Samuel Anderson (The History Boys, Gavin & Stacey, Emmerdale) is set to join the cast of Doctor Who as a recurring character in series 8, which will also introduce Peter Capaldi as the Doctor to millions of viewers for the first time. Anderson will play Danny Pink, a teacher at Coal Hill School where companion Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman) also teaches.
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When asked about joining the cast Samuel Anderson said:
‘I was so excited to join Doctor Who I wanted to jump and click my heels, but I was scared I might not come down before filming started! It’s a quintessential part of British culture and I can’t believe I’m part of it. It’s an honour to be able to work alongside Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman and I can’t wait to show people how my character becomes involved with such a fantastic duo!’
‘For the fourth time in Doctor Who history, Coal Hill School is coming to the aid of the TARDIS. In 1963 teachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright accompanied the First Doctor. These days it’s the turn of Jenna Coleman as Clara Oswald. And very soon now, Sam Anderson as Danny Pink will be entering the world of the Doctor. But how and why? Answers are coming later this year in Peter Capaldi’s first series of Doctor Who!’
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A lack of sunlight and our use of artificial lighting is contributing to an epidemic of modern health problems.
Tellingly, human eyes — those portals to light, and an outgrowth of the brain — contain about 100 million rod cells and 7 million cone cells (photoreceptors in the retina) to detect particles of light (photons). Testimony to light’s importance for the human body, a rod cell can detect a single photon.
98% of light infiltrating the body enters via our eyes, yet most of that isn’t for eyesight, says Dr Jacob Liberman, a pioneer in the fields of light, vision and consciousness, light sparks, or catalyses, our internal biological processes, including metabolism, hormone production and the synthesis of nutrients such as vitamin D, and therefore calcium regulation.
“Every function of the human body is light dependent,” says Dr Liberman.
Light not only switches on our physiology and tells us when to get up, but it boosts our moods and energy. And, as the tool through which we see our universe, light is a teacher that develops consciousness. Today, most of us work and live indoors well into the night within artificially lit environments. Only a minority of workplaces across the country have changed the modern workplace environment and embraced natural lighting resources. Increasingly disconnected from nature, including the sun, our interaction with the world occurs largely through light-emitting glass screens. This is of particular concern for the current generation of children — the first to be fully shaped since birth by such a world.
The primary light that most impacts on us today comes from LEDs (light-emitting diodes) via a computer screen. Since around 2007, LED back lighting has been used to illuminate the screens of digital computer devices like smartphones, tablets, laptops, computers and TV screens, shares Jim Kokkinakis, an optometrist and senior lecturer at the University of NSW’s School of Optometry and Vision Science.
LEDs are more cost- and energy-efficient than the older LCD technology, but are much brighter and emit far more light on the blue spectrum, he says. “Blue light, especially the violet blue, is at the upper end of the visible radiation spectrum. It has also now been called ‘high energy visible light’. It’s one step away from ultraviolet (UV) light — and we all know that excessive exposure to ultraviolet light is harmful.” Like UV, blue-violet light can penetrate deep into the eye — as far as the retina – and can also cause harm. “
It’s a worry when you consider that, according to statistics from social demographer Mark McCrindle, Australian children spend 27 per cent of their waking hours on electronic media. And Kokkinakis, who runs The Eye Practice in Sydney, reports he’s seeing massive problems with computer-induced eye strain and dry eyes in children.
“Staring at digital devices reduces our instinctive blinking rate (the natural lubrication of our eyes) to around 20 per cent of what is normal,” he says. “Once a desktop screen used only at work, the computer screen has been promoted to a mobile device that is with us 24/7. The effect is exponential. Who knows where we will be in another generation of children?”
The dark side of artificial light
Screens aren’t the only sources of blue light; we’re also inadvertently consuming it from the low-wattage LEDs and CFLs (compact fluorescent lamps) lighting our interiors. Most homes today are lit by CFLs and LEDs, according to Efterpi Soropos, a visual designer and the creator of therapeutic interior spaces called Human Rooms. Commercially, the most common lighting is still fluorescent; in retail, LED predominates, she says.
Fluorescent lighting can cause eye strain, insomnia and headaches and it can also generate bigger problems. In 1982, The Lancet published a study by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the University of Sydney’s Melanoma Clinic, showing women who worked under fluorescent lighting in an office had double the risk of melanoma of those who worked outdoors.
According to Liberman, “the healthiest artificial lights we can get are the ones they’re doing their best to get rid of: the incandescents and halogen light sources.” These emit more red and yellow light. More recently, he says, science is discovering that too much blue light at night “can cause problems in terms of the way your bodies handle insulin, obesity and mood disturbances”.
What’s the solution to all of this?
We need to get outside.
Yet, thanks to the hole in the ozone layer, rising skin cancer rates and the Slip, Slop, Slap campaign, many of us fear the sun. To this, Liberman counters, “Light is the most powerful nutritional source we have. If you don’t have a daily minimum requirement of light, you will suffer from malillumination. Part of the problem is a lack of light; the other problem is the type of light.”
It’s an assertion borne out by research. According to a large-scale study conducted from 2008 to 2010 by the University of Sydney, many of us aren’t getting enough of “the sun vitamin”. The study showed that 33 to 58 per cent of Australians over the age of two are deficient in vitamin D.
“Vitamin D may be one of the most important vitamins there are,” Liberman says. He believes many of the diseases of modern civilisation relate to lack of light and our indoor culture. Sunlight lowers blood pressure, blood sugar and blood cholesterol, and increases energy, he says. It also has a disinfectant action as well as the ability to kill bacteria and improve skin conditions like psoriasis.
Hazards of the sun
Isn’t too much sun bad for us? Yes. Well known effects of overdosing on sunlight — particularly the intense UV portion of the spectrum — include skin cancer, sunburn, ageing of the skin, cataracts and other eye damage, and suppression of the immune system.
We do, though, need small doses of the UV light within full spectrum sunlight, Liberman advises. He thinks sunglasses are fine, but not for wearing every day, all day. “The light going through the eye is continually modulating the body — thus you’re impacting your physiology.” There’s also nothing wrong with sunscreen unless you lather your skin in it all the time: “Your production of vitamin D needs the skin to be illuminated by sunlight.” The keys, of course, are moderation and balance.
As much as natural light is essential for good health, you also need darkness. According to the International Dark Sky Association (IDA), a global organisation campaigning to reduce light pollution, the abundance of artificial light at night (ALAN) glowing from our homes, car headlights, street lighting and cityscapes threatens the planet, adversely disrupting the natural biological processes of animals and plants, as well as humans.
Since 1999, numerous studies show shift workers, who are exposed to bright artificial lighting at night, have a greater risk of hormone-dependent cancers such as breast and prostate cancer. In response to these studies, in 2007 the International Agency for Cancer Research declared shift work a probable human carcinogen.
It would seem, when it comes to health, it’s time to embrace your true nature as a creature of darkness and light.
To achieve the right balance of light for you and your children, try the following tips.
Dose up on sunlight vitamins
Linda Moon is a qualified naturopath and freelance writer.
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West’s utilities abandon coal because it costs too much
“It’s all about the economics,” the expert said. “Technologies have improved to make other forms of energy less expensive than coal.”
One might figure sure, that’s some tree-hugging environmentalist arguing for solar and wind energy. But in fact, that’s the largest utility in the state of New Mexico, PNM, putting the dagger into the heart of inflexible and expensive coal generation. In April, PNM announced plans to shut the coal-fired San Juan Generating Station outside Farmington decades ahead of schedule.
And it’s not the only one. PNM’s neighboring utility in Arizona, Salt River Project, plans to pull the plug on the West’s largest coal-fired power plant, Navajo Generating Station, for the same fundamental reason – coal costs too much. One of the largest customers of Navajo’s coal-fired electricity is the Central Arizona Project, which powers massive pumps to move water hundreds of miles from the Colorado River to Phoenix. The utility figured it could have saved $38.5 million last year buying power on the open market rather than expensive electricity generated by coal from Navajo Generating Station.
We are surrounded by utilities abandoning coal faster than rats escaping the Titanic. In Colorado, Xcel Energy has dropped its coal portfolio by half in the last decade. In Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico, all the big utilities are fleeing coal.
There are many arguments against coal – including the climate-change impacts of burning coal and how the local economy could benefit from renewable energy generated right here at home. But for these utilities, it is a bottom-line, dollar-and-cents question – coal has rapidly become the most expensive source of electricity.
What about our own electric generation source, Tri-State, which powers our local La Plata Electric Association? As we watch PNM, Salt River Project and Xcel all dump coal simply because it is too expensive, what’s different with Tri-State? Tri-State claims it has better deals for its coal and power plants than these other utilities, arguing that new solar and wind is still slightly more expensive than old coal.
Just a few years ago, in 2013, Tri-State and its member electric cooperatives, railed against a requirement to generate 20 percent of its electricity from renewable sources. Tri-State and its coal suppliers argued 20 percent by 2020 was an “unreasonably difficult” goal and created an unprecedented “government-generated crisis.”
Guess what? Today, Tri-State touts the fact it obtains 25 percent of its power from renewable sources, easily besting the standard. Clearly, not at all difficult to achieve, and it certainly hasn’t affected affordability. But Tri-State still prohibits local co-ops like LPEA from generating more than 5 percent of energy from local sources.
Some years ago, a third coal power plant, Desert Rock, was planned for Farmington. Opponents hired a consulting outfit, Ecos, which demonstrated the same power could be found from energy efficiency, wind, solar and gas generation. Desert Rock bit the dust during the Great Recession. Sure enough, now PNM says it no longer even needs one of the existing Farmington power plants, San Juan, because exactly what Ecos envisioned a decade earlier has come to pass – efficiency, solar and wind can effectively and more cheaply replace coal generation.
The world of power generation is rapidly changing. Gains in efficiency are curtailing electric use and contributing to a West-wide power glut, which gives more nimble players the ability to find cheaper rates in a competitive market.
Can LPEA, joined at the hip with Tri-State, deftly negotiate the swirling currents of change? Time will tell.
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I admit that I was dubious of this film. It just didn’t feel right in some of the initial trailers I saw for it. However, in a bizarre turn, its tie-in ads with Royal Purple Motor Oil got my attention. Something about how the movie was portrayed in that ad started to change my mind. Its A- review from Lisa Schwarzbaum in Entertainment Weekly and Will’s desire to see it moved it to the top of the list for the weekend.
I’m glad I went. The movie is great.
The mix between the human drama of a father and his estranged son and the rock-em-sock-em showdowns between boxing robots is spot on. With the movie set just a couple decades away from the present, the story doesn’t come off as a Transformers prequel. Instead, how robot boxing came about is told over a couple of scenes that don’t come off as too much exposition.
Hugh Jackman and Dakota Goyo, as father and son, play off each other perfectly. Their relationship transformation over the course of the film gives this movie the heart and soul it needs so that it’s not just a robot movie. Goyo is quite the child actor find. He’s done a lot of TV and played young Thor in this summer’s superhero movie. Here he displays a great range. Ultimately you can help but cheer for him and his robot…and for his dad to come around to want to fight for him in the custody battle that kicks the film off.
The other element that makes this film work so well is the use of practical special effects. Many of the robot scenes are done with actual remote controlled robots or with some sort of puppetry. It gives a reality that and a motion to the scenes, that CGI still can’t completely match (look at the Transformers films and you’ll see the difference). For the scenes of robots pummeling each other, that’s motion-capture CGI work. The fighting, however, looks so good because the fight choreographer was none other than Sugar Ray Leonard.
Hopefully this movie, the first I’ve seen of the fall season, is a sign of good things to come as 2011 winds down.
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When you realise that you already watched this story, just not animated, five minutes before the end of the film.
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I like the animated stuff DC Comics provides. Their style (usually) works, the voice acting works and because I’m not familiar with the majority of the stories, I can’t get frustrated over a film or series “getting it wrong”.
So, yes, this isn’t just a comic but large parts of the plot were used for one of the recent DCEU films as well (Superman? Superman 2?). Yet that one didn’t make enough impact on me to remember the name of, so just stick around for the animation and better dialogue.
I think the thing about DC animation is what gets me is that it reminds me of the excitement you felt as a child: when animation styles were still appealing and the plots exciting. It gives me that Wednesday-afternoon feeling, opposed to the dumbed down stuff that’s around now way too often.
Yes, the comic did it first. But moving pictures and hearing voices add a lot.
Oh, and what it’s about? Superheroes, and villains. Duh.
I'm a copy writer, a journalist and a teacher, and my life evolves around reading, creating and writing. I watch a lot and read a lot, and sometimes I review it as well. View all posts by vnfrd
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An-148 Crash in Moscow Region
An An-148 plane of Saratov Airlines en route to Orsk disappeared from radars shortly after taking off from Moscow’s Domodedovo airport. Debris from the plane was found in Ramensky district, Moscow region. Later, it was confirmed that all 71 people on board the plane were killed in the crash.
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The Australian Fauna series celebrates Australia's vanished fauna with this three-coin series. The first features the Tasmanian Tiger, which is one of Tasmania's most familiar animals, although extinct for almost a century. The second coin in the series features the Lesser Bilby, another extinct animal that inhabited Australia's arid desert. The third and the final coin of the series celebrates the Night Parrot, which was once feared to be extinct, but recently has been re-discovered. All three coins in the series feature the design in 1 ounce of Proof Silver, with black nickel-plating, and selective Gold-plating.
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ChessPublishing is a well-known site devoted to opening theory. This column deals with updates on recent developments from the site. Focus would be both on topical variations and rare lines that can be used in practice. Bent Larsen loved rook pawns and when he moved them they were imbued with a magic of their own. Modern grandmasters also follow his example and rook pawns come into play early in the opening itself.
Nevertheless, I was surprised to see the following line in a recent update on Sicilian Najdorf at ChessPublishing.com.
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White gains space on the kingside ruling out any possibility of Black castling at this end. The line has been tried on quite a few occasions in recent months, with White scoring a win. It is also the subject of two updates on Sicilian Najdorf by Michael Roiz at ChessPublishing.com. So what should Black play? Roiz prefers 6…Nc6 retaining the option of playing…e6 or …e5 depending on White’s choice of development. Alternately, he can try 6…e6 or 6…e5 followed by 7…Be7 and…Be6. In each case he prepares the advance…d5. While playing…Be6, move order is important as White also has the threat f4-f5, forcing the bishop to exchange itself for the knight on b3.
As for White, he has to castle on the queenside. If he is carried away by the advance of the h-pawn, he may fall behind in development. Here is the analysis of a recent game in which I have compared both lines, 6…e5 and 6…Nc6.
(The modest move, 6…e6 has only got a brief mention and it has potential of its own and time will tell)
What can one say about the game? White’s problems stemmed from his indifference to the development of his bishops and queenside castling that was available to him. The new move, 6.h4 still has issues and both White & Black players need to be aware of them.
The King’s Indian section features a loss by White in the classical variation.
I have always found the old line 9.Ne1 followed by Nd3 preparing a queenside advance c4-c5 a bit slow. In search of a more aggressive line I took a look at the material on the
Bayonet Attack (both the ebook and database on the King’s Indian) at ChessPublishing.com.
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From the point of theory, one important game is the encounter, Wojtaszek-Bacrot, Gashimov Mem. Tournament, 2014. This hard-fought draw analysed by David Vigorito is too long to be given here. While few OTB players have ventured into this terrain correspondence players have tried side lines and come up with fascinating results. Here is a game that supplements Vigorito’s analysis.
Surely, it is not easy to beat the King’s Indian!
There is much else to see and explore at ChessPublishing.com (now June updates have also already come in). Remember, you also need to do your home work thereafter.
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German court rules against bid to block Greece aid | Germany | News and in-depth reporting from Berlin and beyond | DW | 08.05.2010
A group of euroskeptics has failed in its legal effort to block German financial aid for Greece. Germany's highest court ruled against the appeal on Saturday.
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Germany's highest court on Saturday rejected a request by a group of academics to block the immediate release of Berlin's multi-billion-euro loan to debt-stricken Greece.
A group of four lawyers and one businessman had argued that the financial rescue package broke German constitutional law, that it was not provided for under European Union treaties and that it would lead to policies that cause inflation.
They lodged their appeal in the hope that the court would halt the flow of funds while the case was being considered.
The court rejected their request, arguing that there was insufficient evidence that the property rights under the German constitution would be severely and irreversibly altered.
"The complainants did not present concrete evidence that their rights, in particular as regards article 14 (on property rights) of the basic law (constitution), would be severely and irreversibly affected as a result of the guaranteed loan," the court said in a statement.
Court to give ruling later
A court spokeswoman said it was still to decide on a parallel challenge to the legality of the aid but that this was unlikely to take place before the funds were released to Greece.
In 1998, the four lawyers - known as the "euro rebels" - failed in a legal challenge to prevent Germany from entering the single European currency.
Despite widespread resistance to the aid plan, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said earlier this week that Europe's future was dependent on its approval.
The German parliament has approved the country's contribution to a European Union aid deal for debt-laden Greece. The Bundesrat upper house has also approved the multi-billion pound rescue package. (07.05.2010)
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Five people have fled from a cafe in the heart of Sydney where a dramatic hostage taking is unfolding Monday.
But an unknown number of people remain in the cafe, held by at least one armed hostage taker.
Hundreds of police officers have shut down a usually bustling area in Australia's most populous city amid the crisis.
Chilling images from local media showed people, believed to be hostages, with their hands pressed against the glass of the Lindt Chocolate Cafe in Sydney's central business district.
Footage showed them holding up a black flag with Arabic writing on it that reads: \"There is no God but God and Mohammed is the prophet of God.\"
Three people who were seen running out of the cafe \"are now out of the building and they are now with police,\" said New South Wales Police Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn, declining to give details about whether they escaped or were let go.
Authorities said many of the details about the situation remained unclear, including the number of people inside the cafe and the motivations of the hostage taker.
\"We don't know whether this is politically motivated, although obviously there are some indications that it could be,\" Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott told reporters.
The Islamic writing on the banner stoked fears that the crisis in Sydney could be linked to extremists. Australia, which is part of the international coalition fighting the terrorist group ISIS in the Middle East, said in September that it had foiled a plot by Islamic militants to carry out a public execution.
New South Wales Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione said it wasn't yet clear whether the situation at the cafe was a terrorist event but that police are on \"a footing that would be consistent with a terrorist alert.\"
Burn said police negotiators are now in contact with a hostage taker, who appears to have taken staff and customers captive as people were heading to work on Monday morning in the Martin Place area.
Chris Kenny, an editor at The Australian newspaper, said he was at the cafe Monday morning. He left shortly before the siege started.
\"As police quickly swarmed and cleared the area, I turned to see a man against the window, facing out with his hands raised,\" he wrote in his account of the incident. \"At first I was relieved thinking this was the gunman responding to police -- but soon the awful realization the customers were being forced against the windows.\"
Seven Network reported that at least 13 people are being held at the cafe, but Scipione declined to say how many were in there.
Police barricaded off streets and evacuated buildings near the cafe, bringing an eerie quiet to a district typically buzzing with pedestrians and vehicles.
The Martin Place train station was shut down, according to police. They urged people to stay away from the area, but some local office workers gathered at the scene to try to find out what was going on.
The buildings evacuated included the U.S. Consulate General, said Alicia Edwards, a spokeswoman. All personnel have been accounted for, although it's not known whether there are any U.S. citizens among the hostages. U.S. President Barack Obama has been briefed on the situation.
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Home / Health News / Reasons for not having sex are often curable
Reasons for not having sex are often curable
Sex is one of the most basic physiological needs. But millions of people spend at least some of their adulthood not having sex. People who have more sex report higher self-esteem, life satisfaction and quality of life. In contrast, lower frequency of sex and avoiding sex are linked to psychological distress, anxiety, depression and relationship problems, reports CNN. Researcher, Alfred Kinsey found that up to 19 percent of adults do not engage in sex. This varies by gender and marriage status, with nearly no married males going without sex for a long duration. Other research also confirms that women more commonly avoid sex than men. In fact, up to 40 percent of women avoid sex some time in their lives. Pain during sex and low libido are big issues. The gender differences start early. More teenage females than teenage males abstain from sex. Also Read - COVID-19 affecting women's sexual behaviour: Factors that may sabotage your sex life
Women also are more likely to avoid sex because of childhood sexual abuse. Pregnant women fear miscarriage or harming the fetus and can also refuse sex because of lack of interest and fatigue. The most common reasons for men avoiding sex are erectile dysfunction, chronic medical conditions and lack of opportunity. For example, heart disease patients often avoid sex because they are afraid of a heart attack. Other research has shown the same for individuals with cerebrovascular conditions, such as a stroke. Chronic pain diminishes the pleasure of the sexual act and directly interferes by limiting positions. Read more about 7 times when you should definitely NOT have sex Also Read - Don't let menopause take a toll on your sex life
The depression and stress it causes can get in the way, as can certain medications for chronic pain. Metabolic conditions such as diabetes and obesity reduce sexual activity. In fact, diabetes hastens sexual decline in men by as much as 15 years. Large body mass and poor body image ruin intimacy, which is core to the opportunity for having sex. Personality disorders, addiction and substance abuse and poor sleep quality all play major roles in sexual interest and abilities. Many medications, such as antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs, reduce libido and sexual activity, and, as a result, increase the risk of sexual avoidance. Read more about 6 reasons why not having sex can be sexy
Finally, low levels of testosterone for men and low levels of dopamine and serotonin in men and women can play a role. Few people talk with their doctors about their sexual problems. Indeed, at least half of all medical visits do not address sexual issues. Embarrassment, cultural and religious factors, and lack of time may hold some doctors back from asking about the sex lives of their patients. Some doctors feel that addressing sexual issues creates too much closeness to the patient. Others think talking about sexuality will take too much time. Yet while some doctors may be afraid to ask about sex with patients, research has shown that patients appear to be willing to provide a response if asked. This means that their sexual problems are not being addressed unless the doctor brings it up. (Read: Having sex can set you up for a heart attack! Are you at risk?)
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Twitter Having A Blast With The ‘River Bear’ Trend (Viral Tweets)
Well, well, another day on twitter, another adorable animal goes viral, and you would never expect it to be this one. A bear in a river. That’s right. You hear that ad may not think anything of it, but my gosh, that bear is the cutest bear that we’ve ever seen (and that’s despite the fact that all bears are totally adorable), and we are not even slightly surprised that the internet went crazy over it.
It’s so cute, it inspired endless artists to create adorable versions of the bear themselves, and we felt the need to give them all (and the bear) some love. So, enjoy this adorable fluffball in all of its versions, and have a pawtasitc weekend!
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Joining in on this river bear trend cause how could I not? 🥺🐻❤️ pic.twitter.com/mC4GijLGuf
I saw a lot cute art of this lil bear vibing in a river so naturally I had to join in pic.twitter.com/3GnPUzQQBb
river bear is enjoying a nice relaxing bath and you deserve the same 💛 pic.twitter.com/fT4YB1frJ9
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Appreciating the Arvind Kejriwal-led party’s government in Delhi for working for the welfare of the people, Kalappa on joining the party said, it is showing the country what quality governance is like. ”The AAP has the potential to counter the BJP’s misrule which lacks even the slightest concern for the common man.
The future of the country will be strengthened only if AAP wins and comes to power in various upcoming elections,” he said. AAP Brijesh Kalappa joined at a time when the party is preparing to make its presence felt in the state electorally, during the upcoming Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) and next year’s state assembly polls.
Welcoming Kalappa to the party, AAP’s state president Prithvi Reddy said good leaders are being sidelined by parties like the BJP, Congress and JD(S), as they need leaders who loot people’s tax money in the form of commissions and not honest leaders.
”The leaders of those parties are always planning to sideline good people, people without money and muscle power. As a result, many good politicians are turning towards the Aam Aadmi Party. AAP’s truthfulness in politics and keeping up with promises is attracting good minds,” he added.
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Universally hailed as one of the most popular rock acts in the world, Foreigner will rock across Europe and Israel for a massive summer 2016 Tour. A formidable musical arsenal that continues to propel sold-out tours and album sales, the band will belt out full electric performances of their biggest anthems at some of Europe’s greatest venues starting at London’s Palladium on Tuesday 7th June, followed by dates at Belgium’s Graspop, Cologne’s Tanzbrunnen, Tel Aviv’s Caesarea Amphitheatre, and many more.
Fans will see why it ‘Feels Like The First Time’ when the band performs rock’s greatest hits including the unforgettable anthems ‘Juke Box Hero’, ‘Cold As Ice’, ‘Urgent’, and ‘I Want To Know What Love Is’. With ten multi-platinum albums and sixteen Top 30 hits, Foreigner is universally hailed as one of the most popular rock acts in the world with album sales, now exceeding 75 million. Responsible for some of rock and roll’s most enduring anthems, the band continues to rock the charts more than thirty years.
Foreigner’s popularity continues to soar, having taken over the US media in 2015 with recent music usage in shows like Orange Is the New Black, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, and the films Pitch Perfect, and Magic Mike. Foreigner is sure to generate the same excitement in Europe and Israel this summer as they bring their enduring brand of rock and popularity across the sea. “Our music has touched a lot of people worldwide,” says lead guitarist Mick Jones. “Unwittingly, we’ve weaved into the fabric of people’s lives.”
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Bear with me here; Venom the movie is an actual “turd in the wind.” Chop off its legs thanks to a weak first act. Lose the arms because every single supporting character is essentially worthless. The head obviously has to go because Venom is pretty brainless. And, not for nothing, but that leaves us with the heart (or for the sake of this visual, the torso) of the movie, the Venom and Eddie relationship, a component that’s just going where the wind takes us in this downright wacky comic book adaptation.
The movie stars Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock, a journalist who’s made a name for himself by exposing the malicious and corrupt. When he’s given an assignment to cover the achievements of the nefarious Carlton Drake (Riz Ahmed) of the Life Foundation, Eddie refuses to hold back, slinging one allegation at Drake after the next. Eddie loses his job, home, and fiancée (Michelle Williams) over the matter but eventually he gets the chance to circle back around and dig a little deeper, revealing that the Life Foundation is indeed up to no good, experimenting with an alien creature dubbed a symbiote, and one – Venom – takes a liking to Eddie.
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The set-up in Venom is a colossal failure. Familiar faces attempting to play believable scientists are a dime a dozen. Not only does Venom give us another one of those, but also an unconvincing lawyer, journalist and evil mastermind. Let’s run down the list; Jenny Slate steps in as Dr. Skirth, one of Drake’s top employees at the Life Foundation. Slate has charisma for days – do check out Obvious Child if you haven’t seen it already – but in Venom she comes across as a robot wearing a lab coat and glasses (obviously). The script does attempt to raise the stakes for her by giving her something to fight for, but “saying” she cares about something is different from making a viewer “believe” she cares about it.
Williams’ character Anne Weying is our lawyer, but failing to sell her as a capable one is the least of Williams’ worries. It may have gotten a laugh on the internet and seem trivial, but yes, that terrible wig is very distracting and even worse, Williams doesn’t get all that much to do in the movie. The amount of screen time isn’t the issue; it’s what she gets to do with it. Williams and Hardy have zero chemistry and when the script lets her step beyond her romance with Eddie and take charge, it often cheapens her actions with a quippy line to pat herself on the back for her accomplishment.
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Next up? Ahmed as Carlton Drake. Eddie Redmayne’s work in Jupiter Ascending is untouchable in the “so bad, it’s good” department, but Ahmed seems to be going for it here. He often adopts the whisper way of speaking that, oddly enough, screams, “I’m an evil villain!” He also experiences abrupt and extreme mood shifts that, one, are rarely justified and, two, are rarely frightening. Ahmed comes close to selling Drake’s powerful manipulation tactics a few times but ultimately, he runs into a similar problem as Slate – failing to make you believe what he’s saying, and in his case, that decimates his chances of making Drake feel like a real threat.
As for Eddie, the investigative journalist side of him never works. It’s abundantly clear right from the beginning that the guy is essentially a wrecking ball when he works. He’s got zero tact, weak presentation, and worst of all, he’s selfish. Yes, there is a combination of those qualities that could give a journalist the drive and gusto to uncover dirt, but in the case of Venom, it makes Eddie pretty deplorable at first.
But thankfully the one shining ray of light in Venom is Hardy and what he manages to do once Venom comes into the picture. Again, at that point, the movie has no legs to stand on but the back and forth between Eddie and Venom is so zany and outrageous, I for one couldn’t get enough of it. Venom is a tonal anomaly so I do suspect some “laugh out loud” reactions weren’t what the filmmakers were gunning for, but unintentional or not, something was working well. Very well in fact, which makes it an even bigger disappointment that Sony didn’t just swing for the fences with this one. Ditch the dead weight supporting characters, go heavier on Eddie and Venom, and let them take it to an 11. Even though respect for Eddie is at rock bottom thanks to his actions at the beginning of the film, Hardy has the charm and chemistry with Venom to not only dig himself out of that hole but basically turn Venom into a shockingly sweet buddy bromance adventure of sorts, albeit one that makes almost no sense. Venom has something special in the simplicity of the Eddie and Venom connection and using that to explain what a symbiote is, how it works and what its intentions are, but thanks to the Life Foundation component of the story, countless inconsistencies pop up throughout the film.
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On the technical front, Venom vacillates between impressive and just plain old fine. Some of the digital effects get a little muddied and even dated looking sometimes, and the visual style feels a bit haphazard, but every now and then you’re reminded that Academy Award nominee Matthew Libatique is the cinematographer here. In particular, he’s got a handful of especially well-lit visuals that really pop, a favorite being a chase scene in the woods. As for the PG-13 rating, it is noticeable when you have a movie featuring an alien creature that rips victims’ heads off with zero blood, especially when a number of scenes are clearly deliberately cut short before showing too much carnage.
Venom almost gets away with its nonsensical plot in the end thanks to that Eddie and Venom bromance, but then you’re reminded of the major missed opportunity here – more than once, actually. Venom should have been a quality start to Sony’s own Marvel franchise. This, however, is a film that doesn’t earn it and the multiple reminders from the studio saying, “Hey, don’t forget we want to make more of these,” only makes it worse. Perhaps its box office will determine the future of this franchise, but from a quality perspective, Venom won’t give Sony a solid base to build on.
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Visitors to the towns on the Cape Whale Coast of South Africa get to within almost touching distance of whales in Walker Bay. The nature of the rocky coastline which allows this closeness between whales and watchers, has resulted in Walker Bay gaining a firm place on the WWF’s list of top 12 whale viewing locations in the world. Whale watching in South Africa has gained such popularity that whales have now joined the ranks of lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino and leopard! Collectively they make up the ‘big six’ of African game viewing.
“The sheer elegance of these massive sea mammals, their spectacular displays of water gymnastics and gentle majesty leave even hardened cynics oddly moved,” one observer said.
Whales usually start arriving along the Cape coastline, from St Helena Bay on the west coast to Plettenberg Bay on the south coast, from the colder southern ocean in May and June and stay until about November to calve. The most common species is the Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis), but Humpback and Bryde’s Whales also visit. Southern Right Whales were protected from whaling back in 1935 and humpbacks in 1963, and over the past 30 years the stocks of both these species have been increasing. Until recently, it was assumed that all whales return south in summer, but research has shown that a sizable group head up the west coast to feed. To ensure that our giant visitors are not disturbed during their nuptial activities, Walker Bay has been declared a Whale Sanctuary Marine Protected Area, which means that no unauthorized boats of any kind are allowed within its boundaries during the peak months of July to November.
The Southern Right Whale is a baleen whale, one of three species classified as right whales belonging to the genus Eubalaena. (The term “right” whale originated in the whaling days of yore, when these species were regarded as the right whales to kill for their blubber.) Like other right whales, the Southern Right Whale is readily distinguished from others by the callosities on its head. Callosities are simply rough patches of skin that has become thickened as a result of repeated contact and friction on which barnacles and whale lice (cyamids) live which make these callosities appear white. Each whale has a unique pattern of these callosities on their head, and the patterns prove useful as mechanisms for individual identification, either directly or by examining photos. The Southern Right Whale has a broad back without a dorsal fin, and a long arching mouth that begins above the eye. Its skin is very dark grey or black, occasionally with some white patches on the belly. There are ± 10,000 southern right whales spread throughout the southern part of the Southern Hemisphere.
By a quirk of Nature, the Southern Right Whale, which weighs up to 47 tonnes, feeds on organisms the size of a mustard seed! It has to filter huge quantities of zooplankton through baleen plates in its mouth to get its meal for the day.
The maximum size of an adult female is 15 m (49 ft). The testicles of right whales are likely to be the largest of any animal, each weighing around 500 kg (1,100 lb). This suggests that sperm competition is important in the mating process. Right whales cannot cross the warm equatorial waters to connect with the other (sub)species and (inter)breed: their thick layers of insulating blubber make it impossible for them to dissipate their internal body heat in tropical waters.
Visitors to Landmeterskop are within a short driving distance to the coastal towns, Hermanus, De Kelders and Gansbaai. Boat trips offering whale watching are offered from various harbours.
Contact Dyer Island Cruises, for whale & eco tours or you can book online.
The photos of the Southern Right Whales were taken by Charles Naudé of Hermanus.
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Benchmark Results: ATTO shows that the SAMSUNG XP941 256GB M.2 SSD has some very impressive performance numbers for a used primary drive, it was able to hit 784MB/s read and 460MB/s write! These are a bit off from the 1080MB/s read and 800MB/s write speeds advertised by Samsung, but these are real world results!
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Benchmark Results: The compression benchmark performance of the Samsung XP941 M.2 256GB SSD was pretty consistent along the entire test, there’s going to be some slight variations but nothing that we saw should give any reason for concerns.
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Famous Kids Who Are Out Of Control
@Natalie McCabe update: results just came and to use your words i aced it. Thanks and good luck in whatever you do.
Unpopular opinion I didn’t see any issues with P!nk’s children. She was with them and also it didn’t look like they were running around. As for the balloons it was clear she was supervised and not just by herself. I’m sorry if my opinion offends anyone.
Nobody be talking about how she said ‘‘ Danielle Coen ‘‘ 😂😂😂
Tell me why you can't tell Kourtney's kids genders
Get the belt out and they will change
Every single person under the age of eighteen on dr Phil
Stupid parents. They are so rich that they're detached from reality
And I'm over here getting in trouble for sneaking up to the fridge in the middle of the night.
These spoiled children really need to get disciplined.
All of these kids are fucking ugly too...wtf?
It's almost as if spoiling children turns them in to little demons. 🤔🤔
This is a normal kid they go through these stages
I love how Dani was in the intro🤣🤣🤣
why do I watch this shit
What is wrong with these people ??? Really discipline goes a very long way js this is why kids develop self entitlement and expect everyone in the entire world to be just as understanding and giving like mommy and daddy is this world will chew them up and spit them out !! Makes ya almost feel bad for them... And I did say almost ....
Why did I get a vision of years from now, these kids are on Dr. Drew Rehab complaining about their childhood...the parents will get what they deserve.
Last time this exact channel put North in a video saying she has the perfect manners??
My sister is ridiculously rich. Her kids are both nightmares. So the other day I had enough of it and spanked the youngest one. Laid down the law on his little @$$ yeap he doesn’t try that with auntie anymore. 😂
Talko should absolutely stop talking like that about other people kids. This channel is obviously obsessed with giving every person in Hollywood a bad reputation by being dramatic about every little thing they do. Did anyone else noticed how many videos about celebrities kids they post a year,or even a month? also,did you also noticed these are almost the same kids over and over and over? Also,the topic is always the same! Every parent wants the best for their kids,every kid has a shady or picky moment in childhood. This channel is one of the reason of why stupid people hate rich kids for being kids like others. A while ago I dumped in a normal paparazzi photo on Pinterest about the daughter of Tom Cruise crying in front of the game shop and a stupid person comment with saying she’s spoiled because she is crying for having a doll,like WTF?Since I was little I have always been the most shy,quiet and obedient kid and I still am,yet I did cried because my parents didn’t want to let me enter in a clothing store. These people seem to be born as robots already in adulthood. Most of this kids are under 8 , at this age you can’t judge much about them because kids do have a lot of picky moments ,because they are still learning , because they can’t control too much their emotions and because most kids change after a certain age. Never heard yours or another mother speaking of how different their kids were during childhood? You really can’t say much unless they are like Dr.Phil clients, which (basing on your videos) obviously are not. This channel really overdramatizes celebrities lifes and post the same things over and over to make it even more dramatic and to mark the fact that there is an issue. I would have understood if you did a pair of video time on time but you are literally OBSESSED! Please ,stop dramatizing all of them and stop giving them already such a BAD reputation and future when they are still learning to make divisions. And stop making people think so bad about them,you are just empowering superstitions about Hollywood and rich people in general. Yes, these are superstition because not all rich people are bad exactly like not all poor /average people are humble. And these superstitions should not exist to be fair and not hypocrite. *Sorry but this channel is toxic and it makes their subscribers toxic too.*
Seems like Kanye is trying to actually be normal
I only see criticts in this comments. Ya'll really need to stop this mean comments about spoiled kids or teenagers who not act their age. If you don't have anything positive to say just don't say nothing. (sorry for my bad English, I'm not an native speaker)
This whole Kardashian’s family is really did functional. All they care about money and who is more famous. None of them have maternal instincts or any idea how to be a mother. It’s just more money for them and more famous
Let the children be children !! They need to play not become work machines
How are you gonna say Alana Thompson is out of control? Umm no. That would be her mother. Her drug addict, bail skipping, creakheaded, loser boyfriend having mother
pink clouds on a starry night
Call me old school but do people not discipline anymore?
They're kids. Do you know what kids are? Yeah no, you obviously didn’t had any. They make mistakes cause they’re humans and more precisely, kids. Yes, kids are like that: they get hungry very fast and they need attention. They are not patient and get sad easily. That’s what kids are. *They’re just kids* Can't you just leave them alone before they get ready or 10 at least? And I do want to remind people that they are not “too spoiled”, they've just (most of them) not been well educated. It’s never the kid's fault but the parents's. And let’s remember that some of these parents are *very young* so they say dumb things. And you’re hearing this from a fourteen year-old... I would question myself if I were you *OH AND* -CAN I JUST ADD THAT THE PAPPARAZZI'S CAMERAS MAKE LIGHT WHEN THEY PICTURE SO IT DIDN'T COME TO YOUR MIND THAT MAYBE IT HURTED THEY'RE EYES OR WELl...I DON'T KNOW... they were SHY??? Just an idea. -And, IT NEVER CAME TO YOUR MIND THAT THERE WAS ANOTHER EXPLANATION?? AND YOU MAKE PEOPLE LISTEN TO THAT CRAP, WHICH THEY OBVIOUSLY BELIEVE CAUSE MOST OF THEM ARE DUMB. Ok I got mad but I meant every word-
Who else loves the Talko?❤️
I'll tell you one thing for sure no matter how rich or poor my kids would never hit adult. Haha 💯. Spoiled or not!
Not only are these kids absolute brats, but their parents are just as bad, no, even worse! J. Lopez, holy cow what a brat and she’s not THAT talented, come on. And K. West, what a large j.a. Suffice it to say all these kids need to back up a bit and the parents need serious parenting skills classes.
Most of this isn't unusual. Biting,hitting is normal for toddlers. Tantrums too. But maybe saying " I dont want my nanny anymore. " is because she rather get attention and care from her actual parents? The rest just comes with lack of boundaries, attention from parents and buying their love / spoiling them.
Lol Blue Ivy over there controling her parents.
Handling kids is a nightmare if you cant take care of kids don't have any -.-. They need some good parenting.
Danielle Cohn though...that is out of control. Needs military school by now.
Dee Mwaura She just wanted to have a little fun, it was all joke (and I’m not even a fan) and for the pregnancy, accidents do happen...
The parents don't care to raise the kids. They have the nannies raise them! The kids have No rules or consequences so they do whatever they want..😏
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Famous Kids Who Ruined Their Careers
10 Famous Kids Who Are Out Of Control
THIS RUINED OUR TRIP....
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Our intentions only become something when we have a clear plan of action.
» Get your audience to articulate their intentions » Prompt people to think about when, where and how they will make this into an action » Ask them to write down their plan or share it with a friend
Research. During the 2008 US presidential elections, researchers found that voting turnout increased by 4.2% when citizens made a voting plan. Asking these three questions made people more likely to vote: (1) when they would vote, (2) where they would be going to the voting place from, and (3) what they would be doing immediately prior to voting.
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
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In the dimly lit room of Sabin’s Tavern on June 9, 1772, Providence merchant John Brown gathers a motley group of men and boys and prepares to lay out what will become the most infamous plan in Rhode Island history. With the Boston Tea Party still over a year away, Brown convinces his fellow colonists to row up the Providence River with him to attack and burn the H.M.S. Gaspee. Earlier in the afternoon, the Gaspee—a customs schooner whose captain had a long history of harassing local merchants—had run aground on a sandbar while chasing down the packet ship Hannah.
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As the rebellious colonists sip pints of ale for liquid courage, there is an unlikely eavesdropper in their midst. Adam Hersko-Ronatas ’18 crouches hidden behind the bar, holding a wireless mic and making sure the audio from John Brown and the others is being properly recorded.
Welcome to the intersection of history and virtual reality. Hersko-Ronatas is one of fourteen students working on a virtual reality project to re-create what’s known as the Gaspee Affair. The Rhode Island colonists, with their muskets, tricorner hats, and stockings, are actually a combination of students and re-enactors, and the tavern is Buckman’s in Lexington, Massachusetts. In the center of the room stands a tripod holding a JUMP camera—a circle of sixteen synchronized GoPros that capture 360-degree video footage.
Under the supervision of the Granoff Center’s VR artist-in-residence, Adam Blumenthal, and thanks to Google, which is lending the equipment,
Hersko-Ronatas and his collaborators are researching, developing, and combining various virtual reality techniques—from 360 video to such computer animated graphics as Tiltbrush—to test their effectiveness for educational scenarios. As Blumenthal explains, “The [Gaspee] project is a computer-science project also using art and design and history to apply the most advanced twenty-first-century storytelling technology to an eighteenth-century story.”
The goal, he adds, is to produce something that will capture the attention of high school students: “We want to address the problem of student disengagement in the classroom by creating compelling content that also allows students to learn effectively.”
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Errol Danehy ’18 and Ashley Washington ’17 combine old culture with new technology.
he students, employing what game designers call a “hub-spoke model,” created a virtual museum centered on a hub—a room that includes artifacts, paintings, and other animated and digitally reconstructed objects. By putting on a special headset, a viewer can not only walk around the environment but pick up and interact with different objects.
From the hub, the viewer can then experience different “spokes,” which constitute the chronological parts of the Gaspee story: the planning, the burning of the ship, and sequences from the aftermath, when colonists faced the wrath of King George III and interrogation by a sinister Royal Commission. (Spoiler alert: no colonists were ever arrested.) Students spent last spring semester working on the project as part of a group independent study project. They partnered with the Newport and Rhode Island historical societies to shoot in locations like the Old Colony House and the Newport mansions, while working with state archives to dig up primary source documents.
Blumenthal says he hopes to see Brown continue to develop its VR production capabilities and provide a space for more projects like this in the future, and, he says, Google has offered to continue supplying Brown with VR-related products to test. But, he stresses, the project was the brainchild of the students, not Google.
“I loved all the ideas that students had, how clever and creative and smart they are, all coming from different concentrations and backgrounds,” Blumenthal says. “It was exciting for me to introduce them to a very Rhode Island story, and everyone got really into the subject matter and the technology.”
For more information visit the group’s blog at blogs.brown.edu/gaspee
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She was born March 21st, 1934 to Eli McKibbon and Mary (Goodin) McKibbon in Oklahoma.
In 1949 she married Cleman Bryant. They lived in the Oklahoma area where she worked in food service.
She married Frank Strong in 1953 in Muleshoe Texas. They lived and worked in Texas, later moving to Colorado where she worked for the Eaton School District in food service, and then for Kodak of Colorado.
Ruby married Bill Spaedt in 1979 in Greeley, Colorado. They lived and worked in the Eaton area. She loved gardening and making her home beautiful. She was known for making every plant she touched grow.
She was preceded in death by her infant daughter Pricilla Bryant, her parents, and eight brothers.
She was a generous person and loved her family. She was known for how much she loved to talk and never knew a stranger.
Condolences can be offered at www.aspenaftercare.com.
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Death of an Idol
I heard the news today, oh boy. My idol, Maurice Sendak, has died. I have always loved children’s book illustrators and wanted to be one when I grew up. Since he and I were the same age, he wasn’t around doing books when I was a child, so I had to wait until I was a grownup to enjoy his work. Before “Where the Wild Things Are” he had illustrated some books I liked, written by other writers, like “A Hole Is To Dig.” It was when he started to write and illustrate his own work that he really came into his own. He never got over being a child, I think, which is why his books are so appealing to children and people like me.
When the Wild Things came out, as soon as I read about it, I bought a copy for Polly, because I knew she was the kind of child who would love that sort of thing. The reviewers thought it might be too intense for sensitive kids, and they were very wrong. It was only a few years after I got her the book (she was four at the time) that one of her favorite painters was Hieronymus Bosch, so wild things were even a bit tame for her. All of my kids loved that’ book, as have children for over fifty years. They loved “In the Night Kitchen” and “The Little Bear” books, too. He did beautiful black and white drawings for Randall Jarell’s “The Bat Poet” and a wonderful Grimm’s Fairy Tales”
I have collected all of his newer books, even though they began to be a tad weird after a while, like “Down in the Dumps With Jack and Guy.”
Many years ago I b ought, on sale, a wonderful book about Sendak which contains his biography and terrific illustrations form all of his books up to that time. It also has pictures of toys and an actual pop-up that he and his older brother created, as well as a miniature book he created which was a precursor to the wild Things.. He talks about his fear as a child in hearing about the Lindbergh kidnapping, which explains another haunting book “Outside Over There,” one of my favorites. I am using an illustration from “The Moon Jumpers,”an early book he was not satisfied with. However, I love the pictures in it, so there, Maurice dolling.
He was a terrific artist and his work will live forever. R.I.P., Maurice Sendak.
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Jimmie Allen has announced nine additional duets will be added to a “Gold Edition” of his July 2020 album Bettie James. Allen promises “cool and different” songs, as well as duets with artists he “can’t believe would work with him this early in his career.”
Bettie James was inspired by and named after his late father, James Allen, and late grandmother, Bettie Snead, who passed away in September 2019 and February 2014, respectively. Allen also recently announced the Bettie James Fest, which will take place Aug. 7, 2021, in his home of Milton, Delaware. Allen himself will headline, with special guests DJ Jazzy Jeff, Neon Union, Hero the Band, Chuck Wicks, and Chase Martin.
The deluxe version of Bettie James is due on June 25; you can pre-order the album at your streaming service of choice.
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Dhanush is an Indian actor, producer, director, director, writer, lyricist, screenwriter and performer who usually works in Tamil cinema. He has also played in some Hindi films. In the past 15 years, Dhanush has appeared in more than 25 films. Dhanush won Best Actor at the 58th National Film Awards for his performance at Aadukalam. In 2011, Dhanush's popular song "Why this Kolaveri Di" became the first Indian music video to be seen more than 100 million times on YouTube. Dhanush produces films through his production company, Wunderbar Films. In addition to his Best Actor Award, he received a national award for a film that he produced, Visaranai. He has also won seven Filmfare Awards.
He is currently 36 years old.
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His popular issue Why This Kolaveri Di was the first Indian music video to exceed 100 million views on YouTube.
In 2002, Dhanush made his screen debut in his father's teenage film Kasthur Raja, Thulluvadho Ilamai.
As a backing singer, Dhanush first lent his voice to the Naatu Sarakku song in the film Pudhukottaiyilirundhu Saravanan under the music of Yuvan Shankar Raja.
He did not appear in any television series other than promotional talk shows.
In August 2013, he was appointed brand ambassador for the Fresh Perfetti India brand.
Dhanush has a net worth estimated at $ 20 million dollars from 2019. It charges Rs 10 per rupee per rupee per 15 as remuneration. He lives in a luxurious house located in T. Nagar, Chennai. It has a large fleet of exotic cars from luxury car manufacturers, including Audi A8, Jaguar XE, Bently Continental Flying Spur, Rolls Royce Ghost Series II and Harley Davidson.
Some lesser known facts about Dhanush
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Not factoring in renovations, the couple may have actually lost millions in the sale.
Originally they listed the 25-foot-wide house for $25 million in September 2012; the price dropped to $22 million, then again to $19.95 million. A buyer came around March of this year.
The recently “refreshed” home, which also features five floors, six bedrooms and a state-of-the-art kitchen, was never lived in by the family but was featured in Vogue’s 73 questions franchise in 2014.
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UNESCO has announced more than a dozen World Heritage Sites this year.
This year’s entries include an ancient Chinese port city, an iconic boulevard in Spain, an eight-century-old Indian temple, an archeological site in Turkey that dates back more than seven thousand years.
Other new sites include the Korean Tidal Flats, the mountainous Kaeng Krachan forest in Thailand, and the Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands that lie along the Black Sea in western Georgia, the last remains of a landscape belt that stretched across Eurasia nearly ten million years ago.
In Iran, the Trans-Iranian Railway, which started construction in 1929, linking the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea, has been recognized in 1929.
The Dutch Water Line is a 17th-century defenses against flooding that has now been elevated to World Heritage status.
In India, Telangana’s beautifully decorated Ramappa Temple dates back to the 13th century and is thought to have taken 40 years to complete
An ancient temple in India and a ?cultural landscape? in Spain have become two of the latest sites to be registered on the UN?s prestigious World Heritage List.
Other honorees include a group of European spa towns, a 13th-century Hindu temple and a lighthouse in France
Unesco decision recognises Quanzhou in southeastern China as the ?emporium of the world? in the Song and Yuan dynastiesThe listing brings the country?s World Heritage Sites to 56, one fewer than top-ranked Italy
Towns from Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Italy, the United Kingdom and Czechia got together to seek joint recognition.
The archaeological site of Arslantepe in Turkey’s eastern Malatya province has been registered on the UNESCO World Heritage List, becoming the…
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I’ve been shocked by the lack of media coverage over one vital issue: why hasn’t Prince William made a plan to visit his father in Scotland? The British press has been fretting and hand-wringing about how nasty, selfish, arrogant and “Hollywood” Harry has been because Harry has not abandoned his wife and child to return to the UK to personally visit Charles and “help” ease the burden of the Willileaks Regency. But… William is already in the UK? Why has no one asked why he isn’t visiting his grandmother or his father? Is it because there’s one set of unhinged expectations for Harry, and one completely different set of expectations for William?
In any case, I actually think William is doing what’s appropriate – he and Kate took the kids to Norfolk and they’re isolating and social distancing for the time being, and they’ll likely be doing that for a few months. Of course, that’s given William and Kate time to work on their embiggening campaign and their regency plans. It’s also given William time to – wait for it!!! – think about how he would like to return to the air ambulance job. You know, the one where he could only qualify to be a co-pilot and he barely worked part-time and he only did it because he hated working for the Firm and he wanted some middle-class cosplay? That air ambulance job.
Prince William wants to return to the NHS as an air ambulance pilot to do his bit in the fight against the deadly coronavirus. The Duke of Cambridge, who flew as a medic for two years until 2017, has suggested he misses it. The 37-year-old is understood to have made the confession during a visit to an NHS call centre earlier this month.
A source told the Sun: ‘William has been seriously considering returning as an air ambulance pilot to help in the current pandemic. He knows the whole country is doing its bit and he wants to help. But it’s complicated as he was originally grounded from the job so that he could become a senior working royal. That role is even more important now given that Charles has been ill, Harry has walked away with Meghan and Andrew has been effectively barred from public life. But William is very keen to do anything he can to help.’
The Prince is seeing out the coronavirus crisis at Anmer Hall on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk with his wife Kate, 38, and children George, Charlotte and Louis.
Basically, William wants keen credit for “seriously considering” a return to being an ambulance pilot, but really he just wants to remind everyone that we’re just a few coughs away from King William, the most important and most work-shy king in the world. Of course he’s not going to return to co-piloting. He barely co-piloted when that was his actual job. Real question: why can’t William just hole up in Norfolk for a few months without all of this embiggening fuss? If the pandemic wasn’t happening, he would be doing the same thing – f–king off to Norfolk and not working. Is he just a contrarian?
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KYOTO, Japan (Reuters) – The global push among carmakers to make ever lighter vehicles is leading some auto suppliers in Japan to turn to what seems like an unlikely substitute for steel – wood.
Japanese researchers and auto component makers say a material made from wood pulp weighs just one fifth of steel and can be five times stronger.
The material – cellulose nanofibers – could become a viable alternative to steel in the decades ahead, they say, although it faces competition from carbon-based materials, and remains a long way from being commercially viable.
Reducing the weight of a vehicle will be critical as manufacturers move to bring electric cars into the mainstream. Batteries are an expensive but vital component, so a reduction in car weight will mean fewer batteries will be needed to power the vehicle, saving on costs.
“Lightweighting is a constant issue for us,” said Masanori Matsushiro, a project manager overseeing body design at Toyota Motor Corp.
“But we also have to resolve the issue of high manufacturing costs before we see an increased use of new, lighter-weight materials in mass-volume cars.”
Researchers at Kyoto University and major parts suppliers such as Denso Corp, Toyota’s biggest supplier, and DaikyoNishikawa Corp, are working with plastics incorporated with cellulose nanofibers – made by breaking down wood pulp fibers into several hundredths of a micron (one thousandth of a millimeter).
Cellulose nanofibers have been used in a variety of products ranging from ink to transparent displays, but their potential use in cars has been enabled by the “Kyoto Process”, under which chemically treated wood fibers are kneaded into plastics while simultaneously being broken down into nanofibers, slashing the cost of production to roughly one-fifth that of other processes.
“This is the lowest-cost, highest-performance application for cellulose nanofibers, and that’s why we’re focusing on its use in auto and aircraft parts,” Kyoto University Professor Hiroaki Yano, who is leading the research, told Reuters in an interview.
The university, along with auto parts suppliers, are currently developing a prototype car using cellulose nanofiber-based parts to be completed in 2020.
Kyoto University Professor Hiroyuki Yano, who is leading the research into using wood pulp fibers to make lighter auto parts, shows wood chips (L) and fibers which are chemically treated before they are converted into cellulose nanofibers as they are kneaded into plastics and formed into pellets, at his laboratory in Tokyo, Japan July 25, 2017.Naomi Tajitsu
“We’ve been using plastics as a replacement for steel, and we’re hoping that cellulose nanofibers will widen the possibilities toward that goal,” said Yukihiko Ishino, a spokesman at DaikyoNishikawa, which counts Toyota Motor Corp and Mazda Motor Corp among its customers.
Automakers are also using other lightweight substitutes. BMW uses carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRPs) for its i3 compact electric car as well as for its 7 series, while high-tensile steel and aluminum alloys are currently the most widely used lightweight options because they are cheaper and recyclable.
Yano said he was inspired in his research by a photo of the “Spruce Goose”, a cargo plane made almost entirely of wood in 1947 by U.S. billionaire entrepreneur Howard Hughes. At the time, it was the world’s largest aircraft.
“I thought that if Howard Hughes could find a way to use wood to build a massive plane, why not use wood to make a material that was as strong as steel,” he said.
The cost of mass producing a kilogram of cellulose nanofiber is currently around 1,000 yen ($9).
Yano aims to halve that cost by 2030, which he says will make it an economically viable product, since it would be combined with plastic, and so competitive against high tensile steel and aluminum alloys, which currently cost around $2 per kg.
Industry experts anticipate that carbon fiber prices will fall to around $10 per kg by 2025.
Analysts say high-tensile steel and aluminum will be the more popular alternative for many years to come, considering parts makers would need to overhaul production lines and figure out ways to fasten new materials like cellulose nanofiber onto other car parts.
Anthony Vicari, an applied materials analyst at Lux Research in Boston, said it “would be a big deal” though if Yano’s projections prove to be correct.
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[WXfUDYCqnoo LzE zfrpa: The consolidation brings together NBC’s sports operations based at Rockefeller Center in New York and Landmark Square and Harbor Drive in Stamford with Comcast’s sports properties at the Comcast Center in Philadelphia. “It’s the first time since we merged with Comcast that all of our sports properties will be under one roof,” said Dave Mazza, senior vice president and CTO of NBC Sports Group and NBC Olympics]<IMG><I_4788><I_3449><I_2887><I_3259><I_2157><I_3585><I_7578><I_3532><I_2543><I_2157><I_2157><I_2900><I_7578><I_7578><I_1754><I_1754><I_2157><I_3585><I_2157><I_1754><I_7578><I_2900><I_7578><I_2157><I_7578><I_2454><I_8175><I_7813><I_2427><I_2970><I_1754><I_2171></IMG>
NEW YORK—NBC and Canada’s CBC-TV celebrated the belated return of NHL hockey by launching technological innovations. At NBC, the first broadcast on Jan. 19 was anchored by the first “NHL Live” broadcast from the NBC Sports Group’s new 300,000 square-foot International Broadcasting Center in Stamford, Conn. At CBC, “Hockey Night in Canada”’s return included the introduction of “Hockey Night in Canada: 2nd Screen,” an interactive social media feature staged in real-time during the broadcast.
IBC READY FOR ITS CLOSEUP
Currently being built inside a renovated former Clairol hair color factory, the NBC Sports Group IBC and headquarters will be the new home of NBC Sports, NBC Sports Network, NBC Olympics, NBC Sports Digital and NBC Sports Networks. The consolidation brings together NBC’s sports operations based at Rockefeller Center in New York and Landmark Square and Harbor Drive in Stamford with Comcast’s sports properties at the Comcast Center in Philadelphia.
“It’s the first time since we merged with Comcast that all of our sports properties will be under one roof,” said Dave Mazza, senior vice president and CTO of NBC Sports Group and NBC Olympics. When completed later this year, the IBC will be home to more than 500 employees, working out of six studios, six master control rooms, one newsroom, 50 edit rooms, and 50 graphics stations. Renovation of the former shampoo factory began in February 2012. When finished, the IBC will have more than 1,000 miles of broadcasting and networking cable deployed across its 33-acre campus.
NBC’s state-of-the-art NBC Sports Group International Broadcast Center in Stamford, Conn. began studio operations last month with “NHL Live,” featuring (L to R) Liam McHugh (host) Mike Milbury (analyst) and Keith Jones (analyst). After news of the NHL’s return to hockey came out in January, NBC scrambled to get one of the three recently completed studios checked out for air. Given that the new facility was spurred into life by NBC/Versus signing a 10-year deal with the NHL in 2011—committing NBC to build a studio for the NHL Network—pushing up the deadline made sense. Still, “it was a scramble during the past two weeks,” said Mazza. “We had to do all the final checks of the finer points, such as the monitor walls, lighting, transmission feeds in and out of the building.”
Despite the last-minute scramble, the first IBC broadcast of “NHL Live” “was surprisingly uneventful,” Mazza said. “The guys from the SportsNet [formerly Comcast SportsNet] facility had been coming over for two to three weeks, getting things configured to their liking. By the time Jan. 19th arrived, they had already blocked their shots in-studio, and were quite comfortable when we went to air.”
The late start of the 2012-2013 NHL season marks the 60th year of telecasting for Hockey Night in Canada (HNIC), still one of this hockey-mad country’s most popular programs. To mark the occasion, the CBC is plunging into live social media with its “Hockey Night in Canada: 2nd Screen” (HNIC:2S) app.
Designed for viewers watching the game at home while glancing at their smartphones, tablets, or laptop computers, HNIC:2S is a serious attempt to keep these eyeballs completely glued to the CBC’s product. During the broadcast, viewers log into HNIC:2S via their Facebook accounts. Once online, they can answer skill-testing questions, predict team/ player performance to win prizes both weekly and at season’s end, plus connect with other fans via Facebook and Twitter in real time. HNIC:2S also includes a live NHL scoreboard of all games being played at the time, a live Twitter feed from the broadcast, and a schedule of upcoming HNIC broadcasts on CBC.
In the near future, HNIC will be made available to Xbox viewers. CBC is tailoring a package of content for this particular audience, including “near instant” three-minute highlight packs after each game, scores, schedules, and a Weekly Top 5 featuring the best saves, goals and plays of the week.
Of course, some things won’t change at HNIC. One of these is commentator Don Cherry, former Bruins coach and an icon among Canadians for his plain-spoken views. Speaking on HNIC’s Jan. 19 return, Cherry said, “I suggested and guaranteed you that they [the NHL] would start January 15th. I was four days out. Guaranteed! The only one!”
Another is “Hockey Night in Canada Punjabi” (HNICP) and its weekly Saturday night doubleheader. Hosted by Harnarayan Singh with analysts Bhola Chauhan and Inderpreet Cumo, HNICP is broadcast nationally via Canadian cable and satellite TV carriers, and online at CBCSports.ca. According to the 2011 Canadian census, Punjabi is the most-spoken-at-home immigrant language in Canada, followed by Chinese, Cantonese and Spanish.
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The Asus MeMO Pad 7, the company’s inexpensive 7-inch Android tablet is now available for $149, $50 less than the Nexus 7.
Asus’ new Android tablet has a 7-inch screen similar to that of the Nexus 7, though it has a lower-resolution 1024×600 display. Because both the new MeMO Pad 7 and the Nexus 7 come from the same manufacturer they look almost exactly the same at first glance, at least when turned off.
The Asus MeMO Pad 7 runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean with a custom skin laid over it. Like other Asus Android skins, it loo fairly similar to stock Android with a few added widgets and an extra virtual button for floating apps such as a calculator, stopwatch and small browser window.
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Asus also loads a number of apps onto the MeMO Pad 7 including SuperNote Lite for taking handwritten notes, MyPainter for sketching and Asus Studio for photo editing.
Inside the Asus MeMO Pad 7 is a 1GHz VIA processor and 1GB of RAM, which likely means the tablet is slower than the Nexus 7 that uses an NVIDIA Tegra 3, and is just $50 more. The MeMO Pad 7 has 16GB of internal storage, the same as the base Nexus 7. There’s also a 1MP front-facing camera that can shoot 720p video for video chats.
Unlike the Nexus 7, the MeMO Pad 7 comes in a variety of colors including grey, pink and white. Users who want colors on their Nexus 7 have to buy a cover for the tablet for an extra $20.
At $149 the Asus MeMO Pad ME172V is hard to recommend over the only slightly more expensive Nexus 7 (especially with a new Nexus 7 potentially coming soon), but it’s likely a decent option for those who can only afford a $150 tablet.
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[ALB: For an explanation of our Advertising Policy, visit this page. There are big competitive changes coming to Los Angeles International Airport this fall, and everyone seemingly wants in on the action. Alaska Airlines plans to fly 35 routes from Los Angeles (LAX) — its most ever — by the year's end]<IMG><I_6442><I_2157><I_3864><I_966><I_2157><I_6783><I_241><I_3853><I_3438><I_2157><I_2157><I_3438><I_966><I_241><I_838><I_3853><I_2157><I_6783><I_3426><I_3853><I_3438><I_3853><I_241><I_3449><I_546><I_3853><I_4698><I_7427><I_8112><I_7157><I_3853><I_6942></IMG>
Alaska Airlines makes bigger play for Los Angeles with 8 new routes from LAX
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There are big competitive changes coming to Los Angeles International Airport this fall, and everyone seemingly wants in on the action.
Alaska Airlines plans to fly 35 routes from Los Angeles (LAX) — its most ever — by the year's end. That will come after eight new routes that will launch between September and December, the Seattle-based carrier said Thursday. The additions range from Eugene (EUG) and Medford (MFR) in Oregon to Kona (KOA) and Lihue (LIH) in Hawaii, and Tampa (TPA) in Florida.
In addition, the airline will add three routes to Florida from other airports along the West Coast. Nonstop flights between Seattle (SEA) and Fort Myers, Florida (RSW), will begin Nov. 20, as will flights to Fort Lauderdale (FLL) from both Portland, Oregon (PDX), and San Diego (SAN).
The new routes are just the latest from airlines that target traditional holiday markets and those with open spaces during the coronavirus pandemic. But Alaska's additions come just as the recovery in air travel stalls and questions over who will be flying this fall — leisure travel traditionally gives way to more business flyers after Labor Day — are top of mind at the nation's carriers.
"There’s a lot of unknowns around markets that skew a bit more business heavy and what happens after Labor Day," Brett Catlin, Alaska's managing director of alliances and capacity planning, told TPG in an interview. The airline's new routes are something of a "diversification strategy so that we have a couple of different angles for winter."
Wall Street analysts are warning of a tough autumn for airlines. The recent resurgence in COVID-19 cases has many large corporations rethinking plans to return staff to offices this fall, a fact that does not bode well for a return to the skies. On July 14, Raymond James analyst Savanthi Syth said she does hot expect business flyers to return in a "significant way" until 2021.
For Alaska, this could mean fewer cross-country flights to the Northeast — Boston and New York, for example — that are typically full with business travelers and more flying to Florida and along the West Coast, Catlin said. He emphasized that the airline has not finalized its schedule plans for the winter beyond the new routes.
Executives have previously warned that Alaska will be a smaller airline in 2021 than it was in 2019, and may have to shed some 3,000 jobs.
Alaska is not the only airline making a play for Los Angeles during the pandemic. JetBlue Airways unveiled plans to open a new base at LAX with seven new routes in October. The operation will replace its long-standing base at nearby Long Beach (LGB), where it will end service on Oct. 6.
Asked about the timing vis-a-vis JetBlue, Catlin called it "coincidental." He said the new routes were the result of more a more than six-month evaluation of growth opportunities for Alaska at LAX, an airport he described as a "super important hub" for the airline.
Based on pre-pandemic schedules, JetBlue will compete with Alaska on four routes from LAX beginning in October: Las Vegas (LAS), Salt Lake City (SLC), San Francisco (SFO) and Seattle. In addition, the airlines will face-off between LAX and Bozeman, Montana (BZN), when Alaska begins service in November.
Alaska will also compete with JetBlue on its two new routes to Fort Lauderdale, which is a base for the latter airline.
Alaska's play for LAX also pits it against partner American Airlines on six routes. Before the crisis, the Fort Worth, Texas-based carrier flew between Los Angeles and six of the cities Alaska is adding: Bozeman, Eugene, Fresno (FAT), Kona, Lihue and Medford.
“There are many markets where we compete with American on, we see these as kind of complementary with the added frequency but it’s a competitive situation nevertheless," Catlin said when asked about the overlap.
American has only published plans to return to the Kona and Lihue routes to date, according to Cirium schedules. Airline spokesperson Nichelle Tait told TPG that resuming the other routes "remains to be seen" depending on how air travel demand recovers.
Catlin added that Alaska's new routes are also designed to connect with its future Oneworld alliance partners. The airline aims to join Oneworld by the end of the year.
The coronavirus appears to have thrown out the typical U.S. airline network planning playbook. Alaska and JetBlue are making plays to build new bases or expand existing ones in various markets, while American has abandoned its long-held goal of building an Asia gateway in Los Angeles. More changes are undoubtedly coming, though the full extent may not be evident for some time.
In Los Angeles at least, both Alaska and JetBlue see their recent route announcements as something of an investment in future potential growth. Scott Laurence, senior vice president of airline planning at JetBlue, told The Cranky Flier on July 13 that the carrier's new LAX base was, in a way, to "strategically position" the airline for future growth.
Catlin made a similar comment about Alaska's new routes being a "down payment" on its future at the Southern California hub. He added that with the majority of Terminal 6 at LAX under Alaska's control, the airline has no concerns about facility constraints limiting its growth.
In 2019, Alaska was the fifth-largest airline at LAX with a nearly 8% share of the airport's 86 million passengers, according to Bureau of Transportation Statistics data via Cirium. JetBlue was the seventh-largest with just over a 2% share of passengers.
Alaska is also reviewing its pre-coronavirus decision to close its Airbus pilot base at LAX, said Catlin. The final decision will be a "function" of the airline's future network and fleet plans.
Alaska will add the following routes from Los Angeles beginning in September:
Previous route additions by Alaska at LAX in 2020:
Other new Alaska routes this winter:
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Protesters Ask Clinton to Step Away from Fossil Fuels
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Protesters in several cities, including New York, focused on the lack of diversity in Hollywood
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Artest’s Big Test: Can He Finally Help A Team Win?
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A Portrait of the Artest as a Grown Man
Now that the Los Angeles Lakers have re-signed Lamar Odom to a four year deal, they will be able to overcome Andrew Bynum’s nearly annual mid-season injury. After resigning Odom and snagging Ron Artest from the Houston Rockets, the Lakers should cruise to another title, right? What they are attempting is almost impossible in basketball—that is to repeat as NBA champions after losing in the Finals. Even if they had Michael Jordan and Julius Erving on the team, winning again in 2010 will be a highly improbable feat for the Lakers.
The last and only team to do what the Lakers are attempting, the 1988-1990 Detroit Pistons, was one of the strongest defensive teams in NBA history. The only problem is these Lakers are known for being about as soft as silly putty on defense. But, does Artest automatically transform a team, defensively?
These last two seasons the Lakers have gone to the NBA Finals. Record 1-1. Despite one win and one loss, these seasons had a lot in common, for the Lakers and for the league. For one, Andrew Bynum has been hurt both seasons, allowing Odom to step up and fill in valiantly. Also, between 2007 and 2009, the Spurs struggled to regain their championship form, mainly due to age and injury to Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili. There was also no Lebron James in the Finals. This year, however, teams have made monumental moves that have built up enormous expectations for how the upcoming season will play out.
Sure, the Los Angeles Lakers added Ron Artest, but will he help them win?
Wherever Artest goes, the team wins less. He played for a Sacramento team that had won 50 games the year before he arrived. In the Artest years, from ‘05-’08, the Kings experienced a steady decline down to 44, 33, and 38 win seasons. Even the Houston team he joined from ’08-’09, won two more games the year before Artest came to town. A pattern starts to appear: when Artest moves to a new team, that team loses more games.
Artest does not help teams win. Sure, some will argue that Artest helped Houston’s Yao Ming past the first round of the playoffs for the first time ever. This is partially true, but the Rockets also proved against the Lakers in the ’09 playoffs that they are deeper than people give them credit for—between Aaron Brooks, Shane Battier, Luis Scola, Brent Barry, Brian Cook, Carl Landry and Kyle Lowry. Furthermore, Artest’s playoff numbers were decent, but not significantly better than his regular season numbers.
On the surface this signing looks awesome for the Lakers, but how have Artest’s teams faired in recent years? In addition to a decrease in winning, Artest always seem to become the focal point of whatever team he plays for. Indiana had Jermaine O’Neil. Sacramento had Kevin Martin. And the Rockets had Ming and McGrady. But, what do you remember most about those teams with Ron Artest? You remember the Brawl at the Palace, featuring Artest. You recall Martin got injured, which allowed Artest to be the focal point of the offense. Even before the injuries, Artest had already carved out an equal limelight to Ming and McGrady for himself in Houston. And, in the playoffs, Artest eclipsed the others as he shared the media spotlight with Kobe Bryant, not Yao Ming.
Beyond the obvious, that Artest is 29 years old, last year was also one of Artest’s worst seasons statistically. His points per game dropped from 20.5 to 17.1 (-3.4). He also had his worst recent season as far as assists, rebounds, blocks, and steals go (all down from the previous year). In essence, my argument against Artest helping the Lakers win a championship is: Artest can’t win, can’t share, and can’t get any younger.
This season is shaping up to be a great one. With health and all things being equal, the Celtics and Cavaliers will battle in the Eastern Conference Finals and the Spurs and Lakers will have a good chance of meeting in the Western Conference Finals. And, as an L.A. native and die-hard fan, I have to hope for a Lakers-Celtics Finals rematch where the Lakers can redeem their loss from ’07.
I would be overjoyed if I felt the Los Angeles Lakers were getting better, but this off-season they have taken a step back. The Lakers have gotten older, slower, but are still one of the deepest and most experienced teams. Since they have retained Odom, he should again help give the Lakers’ bench an advantage over most teams. With Odom, Pau Gasol, Kobe Bryant and Phil Jackson to lean on, the city of Los Angeles’ title hopes lean a little less heavily on the frail, young legs of the oft injured Andrew Bynum, but will still depend on how well Artest can help a championship team.
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