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Could COVID-19 Change Celebrity Culture?
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Australian Fashion Week is touting itself as one of the first live fashion shows since the COVID-19 pandemic began. The runway shows, which are slated to start on May 31, will feature established names like Romance Was Born and Zimmermann, as well as emerging-stage designers. The foray back into physical shows after a year of lockdowns and pandemic-related restrictions follows from a decades-long routine that has seen journalists, editors, buyers, celebrities and taste-makers descend twice a year on Paris, New York, London and Milan to attend the seasonal fashion weeks, where global and emerging designers present new collections by way of runway shows. Tokyo, Shanghai, Seoul and Moscow have since joined these four global fashion centers, along with Australian cities.
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https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2264470904287/could-covid-19-change-celebrity-culture
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What is a Movie?
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Seeing a movie in the theater is by far my favorite thing to do in life. I could lie and try to seem more attractive and deep by saying something like swimming in the Pacific Ocean or an al fresco dinner at sunset when someone asks an unanswerable question. But lets be honest, I dont know if Ive had a better day than seeing Stntang at Austin Film Society, or blowing off a drunken roommates apology dinner for a 70mm screening of Lawrence of Arabia at the Cinerama in Seattle, or even just seeing Michael Manns Collateral at 11:50 a.m. after working all night on some rote, meaningless bullshit one does to get by. I remember all of those better than most New Years Eves. As our benevolent little king Marty (Scorsese) says: Cinema isnt about life it is life. We are now in a period of stark transition technology and a global pandemic may more or less render movie theaters to something akin to a jazz club, a novelty simulacra of some halcyon past which only exist in mid-size and larger cities. In the past few months, the beloved ArcLight chain, which owned several hundred theaters across Southern California, including the legendary Cinerama dome perhaps the best place to see a big movie in the whole world shuttered all its theaters permanently. Alamo Drafthouse has entered Chapter 11 and some vampiric private equity firm is now in control. Nothing Will Change they say, as every movie you see post-pandemic is suddenly filled with 20 minutes of Mortal Kombat previews. Storied and charming two- or three-screen neighborhood art house theaters like the lovely River Oaks are closing with such frequency its hard to keep up and properly note their passing. I am not alone in my alarm and anguish. Scorsese penned a beautiful essay about seeing art-house movies in New York as a teenager in the late 1950s, in particular ones by Fellini, and how the comic movies of today are functionally and literally a different entity entirely. This moving and gentle remembrance of course resulted in the sputtering brays from the MCU fanbase as adults ranted and raved in a manner suggesting membership in a cult that ends in mass suicide when they kill off Tony Stark for the third time or whatever. Richard Brody engaged in a piercing and provocative discussion with Paul Schrader, another hunched saint of cinema, more or less resigned to the fate of film as a medium headed toward extinction to be replaced by the amorphous and endless jellyfish of streaming. On this years Oscars broadcast (which only 9.8 million people watched, down from 43.7 million in 2014), Frances McDormand received her third Oscar for her wondrously flinty performance in Nomadland, and implored people to see the film on the biggest screen possible. The inevitable Nomadland backlash had already begun by then with accusations that it romanticizes poverty; makes working at an Amazon factory seem swell; its a work that allows the rich to see the poor as not shackled by their grim circumstances, but rather choosing a lifestyle of adventure. I find myself baffled at these didactic critiques when the movie I saw was a beautiful docu-fiction paean to connecting with others, and that the bleak future coming for all of us will be survived with the help of friends. I think my opposite reaction to the film can be attributed partially (maybe even largely) to my seeing it on a big screen. Nomadland was the first movie I saw in a public screening since a revival screening of Goodfellas in March 2020, and it was impossible not to be swept up into Nomadlands gorgeous vistas and emotional sincerity. I wept several times. Any great movie, no matter how intimate its setting and cinematography, will be grander on the biggest screen. I think movie theaters will continue to exist in some capacity. Afterall, symphonies still exist (for now). There is an appetite for a sensory spectacle that most people cant replicate at home no matter how hi-def their set-up is. The question is which movies will be playing at theaters. I believe something does. Im one of those pretentious pricks who thinks that no TV show is as great as the greatest film; no TV show reaches the heights of Andrei Rublev, Under the Skin, Seven Beauties, Thief. The Sopranos and Twin Peaks: The Return come close. I just finished Sam Wassons delightful The Big Goodbye, which chronicles the making of the 1970s classic Chinatown from the perspective of the main players: producer Bob Evans, director Roman Polanski (whose perversion is not ignored), writer Robert Towne, and star Jack Nicholson. The ultimate, elegiac point of this chronicle is that 1974 was the last year of a different, more noble way of making movies. Before Jaws and Star Wars and the summer tentpoles that carpet-bombed the US (and now the whole world), there was a brief, Edenic period when louche but elegant and genuinely sincere executives like John Calley and Robert Evans would shepherd startling original works from chrysalis to butterfly. On a given weekend in 1974 you could go the movies and see (Im including only American movies): The Conversation, Chinatown, The Godfather Part II, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Young Frankenstein, Lenny, The Parallax View, The Gambler, California Split, Blazing Saddles, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Sugarland Express, The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3, and A Woman Under the Influence. Wassons thesis is that 1974 was the greatest year for the factory of Hollywood and then in one poof of the smoke-machine, it was gone. Jack Nicholson has never appeared in a TV series (and most likely wont, because at 84, he seems firmly retired), and not even in TV interviews. Historically, the only time you saw him on TV was grinning and sozzled at a Lakers game or the Oscars. Nicholson is a true modernist romantic who believed actors were the novelists of their time, and he managed his appearances so his big-screen performances were maximally beguiling. He explains his love of film and disdain of television: The overall concept of film is the story, the pace at which its told, the progressions, the aesthetic viewpoint. The object is to make all of that a part of an audiences life, for that period of time. But on television, you are turned on and off. They can make you different colors. Likewise, Schrader describes the special narrative quality of films (versus streaming series) as: Its ability to compose concise stories which land like a punch in the face. So we can identify at least two main characteristics that separate cinema from shows and streaming/TV: the heightened aesthetic sense and spectacle, and a narrative concision that is immersive and striking. Twenty years ago and before you could say cinema had an explicit frankness with sex, violence, and the general stark and existential nature of life. Once upon a time, TV was cheerful and square, but no longer. Im not sure any American movie ever made is more violent than the most savage episodes of Game of Thrones and Sons of Anarchy. Sex is almost absent from American film now; even cheesecake films like Fifty Shades of Grey are chaste, but there are seemingly endless prestige TV bodice-rippers (I know because my mom is always watching a new one) with an HBO after dark vibe. Schrader notes that the new, excellent cable series Mare of Easttown is as dark and as grim as anything in American cinema from the sixties. That may be true on a granular level Mare of Easttown has a prickly anti-hero (a tremendous Kate Winslet), unspeakable crimes, and bleak denouements but its missing the soaring sadness: the end of Carnal Knowledge, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Shampoo, The Parallax View, and of course most magisterially, Chinatown. That ending: Forget it Jake, its Chinatown is a perfect emblem of disillusionment, resignation, and despair for a post-Vietnam War, Watergate nation. But its also a summation of the artistry of Hollywood Cinema, through an intense period of creative consternation; its the perfect stinger. Robert Towne envisioned Chinatown not as a physical place but as a psychological state. Polanski insisted on ending the film in the actual Chinatown of Los Angeles, but their intentions merged: Chinatown was where you think you knew the score, but the bottom fell out; where you thought you were the hero but you were actually the patsy; where the bad guys always win. Its grim, but rendered as such a real dream, its always intoxicating every bummer time. Thats the ineffable quotient separating cinema from media the wild, doomed dream. What Cahiers du Cinma has written about for decades, what every countrys new wave tries to whittle and strike into flame, this indelible constellation across continents. Its Val Kilmer saying Ill be your huckleberry in Tombstone; and the teenage survivor declaring hell have cognac and marshmallows after robbing a john in Pixote; the devastating swinging door to expansive endings of The Searchers and Brokeback Mountain; the way cinema echos and skips on itself like rocks thrown on an alpine lake Winter Light, The Sacrifice, First Reformed, Twelve Monkeys, et al. I dont think this feeling or energy is exclusive to cinema, but I do think its rare and elusive, and the vineyard of movies cultivates it more regularly than other fields. Perhaps its the tilting-at-windmills, moonshot nature of what making a movie has been, historically speaking: fraught gambler territory there would be no sequel or second season. There wasnt the built-in vertebrae of a franchise, the true Nietzschean eternal recurrence, i.e. : You will make a movie adaptation of the Monopoly board game, and regardless of how it is received, another one will be made, and another and another, and in each remake the titular monopoly man will become more twisted and Gollum-like. The astute critic Robert Warshow once wrote: In a movie it is not the intrinsic worth of an idea that counts but the power with which it is made into an image. In the movie theater we think with our eyes. This is the real dream, the Chinatown vision where cinema excels. Sound and vision symbolized, processed, and received in just a few frames. Nothing has really improved on this mechanism, and Im not sure anything ever will. Just as when filmmakers get a little too high on the tech and make movies shot at 48 or 120 frames per second (The Hobbit Trilogy, Gemini Man) and they look like strangely repellant soap-operas, perhaps the human mind and its eyes are perfectly calibrated to the 24 frames per second of the modern film camera. Some cosmic equation, like how the moon is an exact fraction of the size of the sun, and the exact distance away to occasionally perfectly align for an eclipse. This is what sustains my hope. Cinema may be only about 100 years old, but its form seems eternal. The greatest of films exist as monuments equal to any other. Cinema may be in a rut, out of favor, with a disinterested public content to watch endless shows instead a veritable diet of SnackWells and Hardtack (all you can eat). But the greatest films will remain, the same way Monument Valley continues to remain, as both a place and a symbol the symbol perhaps brighter, more vital, more illuminated than the physical place itself. Like the legend of fizzy 1930s Hollywood, Ernst Lubitsch, said: Ive been to Paris, France and Ive been to Paris Paramount. Paris Paramount is better.
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https://glasstire.com/2021/05/29/what-is-a-movie/
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Does the U.S. Really Need Another Oil Pipeline?
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Native American communities living alongside the route of the Line 3 pipeline project in northern Minnesota are asking all activists to join them in solidarity this June. by Sonali Kolhatkar A decades-old pipeline called Line 3, run by the Canadian company Enbridge , is in the midst of a controversial upgrade sparking fierce resistance from Indigenous communities living along the route. Line 3 is being replaced in order to enable the transport of nearly 800,000 barrels of dirty tar sands crude oil per day from Calgary, Canada, to Wisconsin. The majority of the pipeline cuts across northern Minnesota through the heart of lands where the Anishinaabe people have treaty rights to hunt, fish and harvest wild rice and maple syrup. Indigenous leaders, embodying the spirit of Standing Rock five years ago, have been resisting the Line 3 replacement project and are now calling on all Americans, including those who are not Indigenous, to join them for what is being called a Treaty People Gathering from June 5 through 8 to demand an end to the project. One of them is Nancy Beaulieu, co-founder of the Resilient Indigenous Sisters Engaging (RISE) Coalition, and the northern Minnesota organizer for 350.org . Beaulieu explained to me in an interview that, as Indigenous people, we have the inherent responsibility to protect the waters and all that is sacred. And as settlerspeople who signed those treaties with our ancestorsthey have an obligation to uphold those treaties. In other words, everyone has a responsibility to the treaties signed with tribal nations. Non-Indigenous Americans have largely forgotten not only that we have treaty obligations, but also that we live in a nation with a bloody history of settler colonialism. Former Republican Senator Rick Santorum demonstrated that ignorance in his tone-deaf comments on CNNwhich later got him firedwhen he said, We birthed a nation from nothing. Yes, there were Native Americans, but there isnt much Native American culture in American culture. Leaders like Beaulieu are determined to fight such erasure by reviving the conversations around treaty obligations and how the fight against pipelines and climate change is central to Indigenous stewardship of the natural world. She sees the June gathering as building on the Standing Rock mobilization and the Keystone pipeline activism, saying it is the same exact thing but with different tribes. According to Beaulieu, President Biden could cancel the Line 3 project with the stroke of a pen, and she is perplexed about why he doesnt just do so. When the president convened a virtual climate summit in April with dozens of world leaders, he pledged to slash the U.S.s greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent in less than a decade. That is an enormously ambitious goalone that would only be helped by a cancelation of the Line 3 pipeline project. Not only should Biden stop Line 3 but he should also step in and stop these corporate giants responsible for the mess theyre leaving us in in this beautiful country of ours, said Beaulieu. Instead, she worries that corporations are just buying their way through lobbying our politicians. When politicians do stand in their way, companies like Enbridge respond with shocking impunity. Take the case of Michigan where Gov. Gretchen Whitmer last year demanded the closure of another decades-old pipeline run by Enbridge called Line 5. That pipeline, first built in 1953 , carries more than half a million barrels of crude oil per day under the Great Lakes and has had dozens of leaks over the years, spilling more than a million barrels across its length. Michigans Great Lakes hold more than a fifth of the entire worlds fresh surface water and remain in jeopardy as the aging Line 5 pipeline continues to operate. Rather than comply with Gov. Whitmers order, Enbridge, backed by the Canadian government, simply refused to shut it down. Enbridge is taking a similarly defiant position in northern Minnesota with its continuation of the Line 3 replacement project in the face of mass opposition. Shockingly, the company is even going as far as anticipating police responses to protesters by paying into an escrow account to reimburse local Minnesota law enforcement departments for costs related to policing the resistance. In other words, a Canadian fossil fuel corporation is essentially hiring public servants to protect their private financial interests against the public. Pipelines leak. That fact is as inevitable as greenhouse gas emissions fueling climate change. The United States has the largest number of pipelines , both existing and planned, than any other nation on the planet. According to Greenpeace , Enbridges pipelines have leaked hundreds of times, spilled millions of gallons of hazardous material, and contaminated water at least 30 times. The original Line 3 project suffered the largest inland oil spill in the nations history in Minnesota in 1991, and Enbridges Michigan Line 5 pipeline dumped hundreds of thousands of barrels of tar sands into the Kalamazoo River in 2010. So, when Indigenous leaders like Beaulieu say their treaty rights to pristine land and water are threatened by Line 3, the facts are on their side. While the fate of our planet and human life remains precarious in the face of ongoing emissions and a changing climate, fossil fuel companies have been laughing all the way to the bank. According to one analysis, since 1990, when the impact of emissions on the climate was well established, the top four largest oil and gas companies on the planet accumulated nearly $2 trillion in profits . Its about power, said Beaulieu. Its about the 1 percent and whos going to be in charge of our government. However, the climate justice movement is slowly winning. A Dutch court recently ordered Royal Dutch Shellone of those top four profitable companiesto slash its emissions by 45 percent by the year 2030 in a remarkable and historic case that could inspire similar legal challenges to other oil and gas companies. Another one of the big four ExxonMobil , which is the U.S.s most profitable oil corporationis being challenged internally by an investor shareholder who ousted two board members over the companys climate policies. It was the first time such a thing happened, prompting one analyst to exclaim, Investors have sent a shot across the bow of Exxon, but its impact will ricochet across the boards of every major fossil fuel company. Joining such efforts are on-the-ground movements like the one opposing the Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota. As she prepares for the mass gathering in June, Beaulieu told me, we are going to peacefully resist this pipeline, and were calling on all our allies across Turtle Island to come here to northern Minnesota, using the Native American term for North America. Treaties dont only protect us as Native people. They protect those people that signed the treaties as well, she added. This article was produced by Economy for All , a project of the Independent Media Institute.
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Has Pep Guardiola Been Good Value For Money For Manchester City?
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PORTO, PORTUGAL - MAY 29: Pep Guardiola, Manager of Manchester City leaves the pitch with their ... [+] runners up medal following the UEFA Champions League Final between Manchester City and Chelsea FC at Estadio do Dragao on May 29, 2021 in Porto, Portugal. (Photo by Valerio Pennicino - UEFA/UEFA via Getty Images) UEFA via Getty Images For the best part of a decade, the Champions League has been the final frontier for Manchester City. Funded by Abu Dhabi oil money, the club won its first Premier League PINC title in 2012. And its second in 2014. By the time Pep Guardiola arrived at the Etihad Stadium in the summer of 2016, the objective was clear - conquer Europe. Five years on and the former Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss has yet to deliver on that objective. Saturday was meant to be Citys continental coronation, but Chelsea had other ideas as they claimed a 1-0 win in the 2020/21 Champions League final in Porto. Everything had been in the favour of Guardiolas side. It still wasnt enough. Of course, losing to Chelsea is no great humiliation. Thomas Tuchel is considered one of the best coaches in the game right now and his team is packed full of elite level talent. Manchester City, however, have more elite level talent. And in Guardiola they have the greatest coach of his generation. PORTO, PORTUGAL - MAY 29: Phil Foden of Manchester City consoles teammate Sergio Aguero after defeat ... [+] during the UEFA Champions League Final between Manchester City and Chelsea FC at Estadio do Dragao on May 29, 2021 in Porto, Portugal. (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images) Getty Images There is no measure by which Guardiola been a failure at City. Any manager who wins three Premier League titles in four seasons deserves acclaim, and plenty of that has come the Catalans way. Many believe he has changed English soccer for the better, with his ideology taking root in the country. However, its entirely fair to ponder whether Guardiola has delivered value for money for Manchester City. No club in Europe has had a greater net spend (505.6m) since Guardiolas appointment five years ago. No club can match Manchester Citys total transfer expenditure (818.5m) in that time either. Whatever Guardiola has demanded, City have delivered for him. When 15.4m goalkeeper Claudio Bravo was deemed unworthy for the first team by the Catalan coach in his first season at the club, a 34.7m replacement arrived 12 months later in the form of Ederson. PORTO, PORTUGAL - MAY 29: Ruben Dias of Manchester City applauds prior to the UEFA Champions League ... [+] Final between Manchester City and Chelsea FC at Estadio do Dragao on May 29, 2021 in Porto, Portugal. (Photo by Jose Coelho - Pool/Getty Images) Getty Images Last summer, when Guardiola wanted defensive reinforcements made, close to 100m was spent on Ruben Dias and Nathan Ake. This was after close to 300m had been splurged on central defenders and full backs in the four years beforehand. No expense has been spared in the construction of the current squad at the Etihad Stadium. Guardiola is also reportedly the highest-paid manager in the sport right now, collecting a salary of around 20 million. PORTO, PORTUGAL - MAY 29: A dejected Pep Guardiola the manager / head coach of Manchester City ... [+] reacts during the UEFA Champions League Final between Manchester City and Chelsea FC at Estadio do Dragao on May 29, 2021 in Porto, Portugal. (Photo by Matthew Ashton - AMA/Getty Images) Getty Images The great Barcelona side of 2010/11 might be Guardiolas greatest test, but this Manchester City group is the strongest squad he has ever possessed. This was evident in the options they had on the bench in the Champions League final against Chelsea, with 58.5m Aymeric Laporte, 52m Ferland Mendy, 40m Ake, 58.5m Joao Cancelo, 21m Ferran Torres and 56m Rodri not even getting on the pitch. City might well use the experience of what unfolded in Porto to fuel another challenge next season, but until then Guardiola will have to face questions on why he has been unable to translate his teams domestic dominance into European success, the thing he was hired in the first place to achieve.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/grahamruthven/2021/05/30/has-pep-guardiola-been-good-value-for-money-for-manchester-city/
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How Successful Is the Tobacco Industry in the Middle East?
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Being grown and cultivated in the MENA region for many centuries, tobacco's popularity continues to rise over the years, with Arab states leading global smoking rates. a Yemeni passes a wall sprayed with anti-smoking graffiti on World No Tobacco Day in #Sanaa , #Yemen ... pic.twitter.com/btevYkLKtO Tamer Yazar (@tameryazar) June 8, 2016 Not only because the traditional hookah, AKA shisha containing tobacco, has become one of the most consumed products in the MENA region, but its roots date way back in the region's history. By 2020, Jordan has had the global lead in smokers rates, which includes smoking both regular cigarettes and the widely popular hookah. About 66% of Jordanian men consume an average of 23 cigarettes a day. Similar figures on women's smoking are still lacking but they are estimated to be almost as high both in Jordan and neighboring countries. Historically, tobacco has been frequently grown in different parts of the MENA region. According to FAO data, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Algeria were amongst the leading countries in the region in terms of farming tobacco in the early 1960s. Today, Yemen, Syria, Algeria, and Lebanon head the list producing more than 62 tons of tobacco every year. Despite numerous campaigns warning adults of consuming nicotine products over the past decades, tobacco is still widely popular amongst people in the Middle East. According to an article published in the Al-Raed Al-Arabi magazine in 1961, the first workshop dedicated to making cigarettes in Jordan was founded in 1924 by Qorman Deik and Salti and partners Co. By 1929, they bought another workshop that was owned by the Sharabati family merging both into what has become known as the National Arab East Co for Cigarettes. This interest in consuming tobacco products has inspired many businesses in the region, including manufacturers and developers of cigarettes that can potentially compete with international brands. Amongst the region's successful tobacco businesses are the UAE-based Lermirich Trading DMCC and Mid-layer Tech in addition to VK Tobacco. In Lebanon, Akiki's Sarl and F.A Kttaneh are amongst the most prominent developers of cigarettes. While in Jordan, Union Tobacco and Wael Ereidi International Group lead the market.
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https://www.albawaba.com/business/tobacco-indsutry-middle-east-1429943
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Where was Congressman Darin LaHood on the important vote concerning Liz Cheney?
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Rosemarie M. Gardner Letter to the editor Darin LaHood missed the vote when the House GOP voted to strip Liz Cheney of her leadership position in the chamber. I showed up at the polls to vote when LaHood was on the ballot. He should show up to vote on my behalf, no excuses. It wasn't his option to vote, it was his obligation. He was elected to be our voice in Washington, D.C., and to be honest with his constituents concerning his voting record. If its too difficult for him to be at an important vote, then he doesn't belong there. There wont be much gained by not voting. He was elected to deal with difficult situations, not run from them. Absent on vote:Darin LaHood missed U.S. House GOP vote on Liz Cheney If LaHood doesn't represent my vote, I'm not voting for him to be my representative. If he doesn't have to vote on my behalf, I don't have to vote on his behalf. His actions wont be forgotten. He was elected to represent Republican voters in this area. He didnt. Im not comfortable giving him the authority to vote or speak on my behalf again. Rosemarie M. Gardner, Peoria
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https://www.pjstar.com/story/opinion/2021/05/30/darin-lahood-absent-gop-vote-liz-cheney/7447855002/
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Was geschah mit den kanadischen Ureinwohner-Kindern?
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Ein grausiger Fund erinnert an eines der dunkelsten Kapitel in der Geschichte Kanadas. Noch ist unklar, was genau den Kindern von Ureinwohnern bis 1978 zugestoen ist. Klar ist aber: Es war fr viele tdlich. Ottawa (dpa). Ein Fund, der die Nation schockiert: Auf dem Grundstck eines ehemaligen Internats im Westen Kanadas haben Spezialisten mit Radargerten berreste von 215 Kindern entdeckt. Es sei eine sehr schmerzhafte Nachricht, die alte Wunden offenlege, schrieb Perry Bellegarde, der oberste Vertreter der indigenen Vlker des Landes, am Wochenende auf Twitter. Das Internat war zwischen 1890 und 1978 in Betrieb und diente als sogenannte Residential School als eine Art Umerziehungscamp fr die Shne und Tchter kanadischer Ureinwohner. Die Kinder galten offiziell als vermisst, doch die Menschen, die in der Gegend nahe der Stadt Kamloops in der Provinz British Columbia leben, hatten seit Jahren das Schlimmste befrchtet. Niemand sprach darber, aber wir alle ahnten, was geschehen war, sagte Rosanne Casimir, die Leiterin der in Kamloops beheimateten indigenen Gruppe, am Wochenende in einer Pressekonferenz. Diese Ahnung hat sich nun besttigt. Der Tod der Jungen und Mdchen sei ein unvorstellbarer Verlust. Einige von ihnen wurden laut Casimir nur drei Jahre alt. Woran und wann sie starben, sei noch unklar. Es handelt sich um eines der dunkelsten Kapitel in der Geschichte Kanadas: ber einen Zeitraum von mehr als 100 Jahren entriss die Regierung fast 150 000 Kinder ihren Familien und steckte sie in Internate. Dort sollten sie ihre Kultur vergessen ihre Feste, Lieder, Sprache, Religion und die Traditionen der europischen Einwanderer erlernen. Gewalt, Zwangsarbeit und sexueller Missbrauch waren dabei an der Tagesordnung. Die Residential School bei Kamloops war nach Angaben von Casimir die grte in Kanada. Sie wurde zunchst von der katholischen Kirche betrieben, spter von der Regierung. Bis zu 500 Jungen und Mdchen htten dort gelebt unter schlimmen Bedingungen. Viele von ihnen litten unter Hunger, weil die Regierung nicht ausreichend Geld fr die Verpflegung zur Verfgung stellte, wie Casimir sagte. Den Tod der Kinder, deren berreste nun gefunden wurden, habe die Schulleitung nie dokumentiert. Der Fund lste in der kanadischen Politik eine Welle von Beileidsbekundungen aus. Die Nachricht bricht mein Herz, schrieb Premierminister Justin Trudeau auf Twitter. Carolyn Bennett, Ministerin fr die Beziehungen zu den Ureinwohnern, sprach in einer Mitteilung von einem tragischen und beschmenden Teil der Geschichte ihres Landes. Tausende Kinder wurden in diese Schulen geschickt und kehrten nie zu ihren Familien zurck. Trudeau hatte sich im Jahr 2017 unter Trnen bei den indigenen Vlkern entschuldigt. Dem Verband IRSSS, der berlebende der Residential Schools vertritt, gengt das nicht. Co-Chef Rick Alec wandte sich am Wochenende an die katholische Kirche, die viele der berchtigten Internate betrieb. Der Papst msse die Frage beantworten, warum man den kanadischen Ureinwohnern so etwas angetan habe, sagte Alec dem TV-Sender CBC. Im Jahr 2015 verffentlichte eine kanadische Regierungskommission einen Bericht, der das Leid in den Internaten detailliert beschrieb. Darin finden sich auch Erfahrungsberichte aus Kamloops. Jeder Schler roch nach Hunger, wird ein berlebender zitiert. Zudem wird die Einrichtung als extrem unhygienisch beschrieben. Viele Kinder, heit es, seien an Masern, Tuberkulose oder Grippe gestorben. Insgesamt verloren in den Residential Schools dem Report zufolge mehr als 6000 Jungen und Mdchen ihr Leben. dpa-infocom, dpa:210530-99-796625/3
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https://www.rhein-zeitung.de/deutschland-und-welt_artikel,-was-geschah-mit-den-kanadischen-ureinwohnerkindern-_arid,2264295.html
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Who Was the First Woman to Lead the Indy 500?
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This year's Indianapolis 500 will feature Swiss driver Simona de Silvestro, one of only nine women to race in one of the most storied races in the world. The first woman to compete in the race was Janet Guthrie, who made history in 1977. However, the first woman to lead the race was Danica Patrick, who did so in 2005. Patrick, who officially retired after the 2018 Indy 500, also had the best finish among women racers when she finished third in 2009. De Silvestro is making her first start in the race since 2015. She made her Indy 500 debut in 2010, winning the Rookie of the Year honor and finishing in 14th. Her 2021 team could also make history if she becomes the first woman to win the Indy 500. In addition, her team owner Beth Paretta could be the first female owner to win since 1929, when Maude Yale won with driver Ray Keech, notes the Associated Press. "I feel like we climbed a mountain together," Paretta commented after De Silvestro qualified for this year's race. Paretta hired women for almost every role in her team, but De Silvestro's over-the-wall pit crew will be made of mostly men. "If we have zero women over the wall for the Indy 500 youll see them at the next race," Paretta explained. "Just the fact that you see this lineup and how far weve gotten in these four months, thats how Im measuring our progress. Every time we can integrate and add one more woman in a key role, thats what were going to get to." Patrick will be at the race this year, as she reprises her role as an NBC commentator. However, she will also have a role on the track. She will drive the 2021 mid-engine Chevrolet Corvette Stingray pace car to lead "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing." Patrick said she was "honored" to get the spot. "It is even more special because of the past year we have all endured, and it will be so nice to see fans back in the stands. Im also excited to again be a part of the NBC broadcast team for the race," she said. "I have always loved Chevy vehicles, and the Corvette convertible is such a beautiful car. Maybe they will let me drive it home!" While IndyCar is taking steps to have more women on the track, there are still no new female drivers in the developmental system. It is also challenging for new women racers to find sponsorships needed to fund IndyCar racing. In fact, there were no women in last year's race at all after IndyCar veteran Pippa Mann could not secure corporate sponsorship because of the coronavirus pandemic. Last year's race was the first time since 1999 there was not a single woman in the starting lineup. In a recent interview with the IndyStar, Mann, 37, who is not racing this year, said she was concerned for the future of women in the sport. Since 2013, Mann, De Silvestro, 32, and Patrick have been the only women racing on the track. "Its not so much as we need new female IndyCar drivers now, but we need these racers to have the opportunities to climb the ladder," she said. "Or the situation we saw in 2020 will become a longer-term issue." Mann even pointed out there are several women drivers who could compete in Indianapolis, but the issue is getting funding for them. The 105th Indy 500 starts at 12:45 p.m. ET, with NBC coverage starting at 11 a.m. The race is also streaming on NBC's Peacock Premium and the NBC Sports app.
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https://popculture.com/sports/news/indy-500-first-woman-lead-danica-patrick/
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Can Rocket's Other Businesses Help It Overcome a Slowing Mortgage Market?
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The past year was a great one for mortgage lenders. The Federal Reserve cut interest rates to historically low levels, and mortgage rates dropped to record lows as a result. Those rates prompted people to refinance at a record pace, and Rocket Cos. (NYSE:RKT) was masterful in leading the way. According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rocket Mortgage was No. 1 in the country in mortgage originations last year, with 1.1 million. Of those, 87% were refinance loans, totaling $274 billion in volume. These staggering numbers outpaced second-place competitor UWM Holdings, which issued 560,000 loans. Rocket's solid performance continued in the first quarter, but the lender has noted that the mortgage market has begun to slow down. This is to be expected as the economy normalizes and rates begin to rise once again. Rocket understands the cyclicality of the mortgage market, and it has made strides to expand its other sources of revenue. The cyclical nature of the mortgage industry The mortgage lending industry is highly cyclical due to how interest rates change in response to economic conditions. When interest rates are cut to low levels, as they were last year, refinancing is attractive for homeowners and drives mortgage origination activity. As the economy recovers, and interest rates rise, refinancing becomes less common and loan origination activity cools off. Because of this, mortgage lenders trade at lower multiples during good times, and it's why Rocket's current P/E ratio is 6.8, while competitors PennyMac Financial Services and Mr. Cooper Group are trading at ratios of 2.7 and 3.1, respectively. According to Freddie Mac, 30-year fixed-rate mortgages bottomed out near 2.65% in January and have risen to 2.95% since then. The agency expects these rates to rise to 3.4% by the end of 2021 and continue climbing through next year. The agency also projects total originations to drop from $4 trillion in 2020 down to $3.5 trillion in 2021 and $2.4 trillion in 2022. If Rocket is going to buck the trend of cyclicality, it's going to have to do it by serving markets outside of mortgages. The company sees opportunities in automotive financing and other financial services, and it believes it can make an impact digitizing the processes in these fragmented markets. In 2020, the company generated $15.7 billion in revenue from its other Rocket businesses, which accounted for 13.1% of its total revenue during the year. Other Rocket Companies 2020 Revenue (in millions) % of Total Revenue Amrock $1,251 7.95% Rocket Homes $46 0.29% Rocket Loans $394 2.50% Rock Connections $90 0.57% Rocket Auto $24 0.15% Core Digital Media $253 1.60% Total other revenue $2,057 13.10% Total revenue $15,735 Rocket's biggest revenue producer from other Rocket companies is Amrock, a provider of title insurance, property valuation, and settlement services, which is all built into the Rocket platform. Amrock makes up 8% of the combined company's revenue, but it still relies on mortgage lending, making it subject to the cyclical nature of the industry. Rocket's ultimate goal is to get customers in the door with its mortgage lending platform and then keep those customers for life through its personal lending or automotive lending solutions. Rocket Loans makes up 2.5% of total revenue and is the company's digital personal loans business, which allows clients to apply for a loan and receive funding the same day. The company also has its Rocket Auto business -- one of its smallest revenue producers last year, at 0.15% of revenue, but this is an area where the company wants to expand further. In an effort to grow its Rocket Auto business, the company partnered with AutoFi, a leading software provider for the automotive retail industry. AutoFi works with 2,000 dealer partners across the country and will help Rocket Auto connect with those dealers, increasing its access to inventory. The company likes how AutoFi integrates with its Rocket Auto platform, providing it with a full automotive point-of-sale solution that includes financing and insurance. Opportunity for growth is there, but progress must be made In the first quarter, these other Rocket companies provided gross revenue of $554 million, accounting for 12.1% of the company's total revenue in the period. While this other revenue as a percentage of total revenue hasn't changed significantly, gross revenue did increase by 83% from the year before. These services don't provide a significant source of revenue for Rocket right now, but they potentially could down the road. Building up these other revenue sources is key to Rocket's success and could help the lender break the trend of others in its industry. However, the company is still heavily reliant on mortgage lending for its revenue, and it must continue to deal with the cyclical nature of the industry, which expects slowing growth in the coming years.
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https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/05/30/can-rockets-other-businesses-help-it-overcome-a-sl/?source=eptyholnk0000202&utm_source=yahoo-host&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=article&yptr=yahoo?src=rss
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Who Is Prince William Modeling Himself After?
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Although the world appears to be laser-focused on Prince Harry these days, his older brother Prince William is focused on his role as a senior member of the royal family and the future king of England. William is currently second in line to the British throne, and will become king after his father, Prince Charles, dies or steps down. Charles is set to become king after his mother, Queen Elizabeth, dies or steps down, though the latter is highly unlikely, according to The Independent. As William has gotten older, he has taken on more responsibilities within the monarchy. In fact, after William's grandfather Prince Philip died back in April, it was revealed that the two men had been spending a lot of quality time together in recent years. "Philip was crucial in helping coach William as a future King. It was Philip's idea to set up the lunches between William and his grandmother. When the time came for the Queen to talk business with William, Philip would quietly excuse himself because he didn't feel that the constitutional side of the Queen's job was something he wanted to interfere in," historian Robert Lacey told People magazine. William has apparently taken those meetings seriously, and that he's been modeling himself after someone close to his heart, according to The Sun. Keep reading to find out who that person is.
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https://www.nickiswift.com/424169/who-is-prince-william-modeling-himself-after/
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Does Bangladesh need foreign university branch campuses?
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As the Foreign University Operating Rule 2014 is going through its final drafting stages at the education ministry, it is time to assess the merits of running foreign university branch campuses. However, there is an impediment - a difference of opinion between the UGC and the Ministry of Education. While the UGC wants foreign university branch campuses to operate within the country, the Education Ministry has never expressed its interest in such a move. Nonetheless, only Monash University has been allowed to operate after the declaration on 25 February 2021. The reason is apparent: the ministry has a deep penetration of private universities that have created an oligopolistic market structure; they operate within the state to preserve their interest. As in any sector of the economy, firms that dominate a particular economic sector do not desire competition as it might negatively impact their profit margins. The state has been marginally successful in retaining its autonomy and offering quality education to the next generation of youth, which can only be assured through foreign competition as it enhances productivity: evidenced by existing economic theories. Despite the apparent advantages, the narrative of foreign universities deteriorating the quality of education dominates media discourse, particularly in television talk shows. International student enrolment in Malaysia increased after legislative reforms were introduced in 1996 that opened the higher education market to foreign competition. The opening up of Australian and British University branch campuses in Malaysia attracted quality talent from foreign countries, enabling the mobility of academics and students that enhanced the country's research output and teaching quality. Moreover, neighbouring India has recently passed a legislative reform that will allow foreign universities to set up branch campuses in the country as it prepares to establish itself as a hub of higher education in the region. Already, Bangladesh is ranked among the least innovative countries in the world, and quality higher education is critical to harness creativity. And private universities will play a critical role in this: currently, 47 per cent of the country's student population are enrolled at private universities. However, the biggest impediment to good education in private universities is prioritising profit over quality education: Matt Hussain's doctoral thesis, 'The Rickshaw Faculty: A nadir of Academic Exploitation,' perfectly captures this trajectory. Faculty is replaced every year as the prospect of promotion or research is bleak; besides, commercialization also becomes highly prevalent in the classroom as education standards are often lowered to aid students in getting the degree - a paper credential. This lowering of the standard is especially prevalent in the professional Masters' program, where learning is essentially minimal. Sadly, selling that paper credential has become the primary aim of most universities. This makes the presence of foreign universities crucial to bridge the gap and enable competition: as stated by the UK envoy to Bangladesh in a trade dialogue organised in February this year, several British universities have expressed their concerns to operate in the country. Undoubtedly, this will benefit the students and faculty as it will increase research collaboration, enhance the mobility of both groups, and improve teaching and research quality. More importantly, reputable foreign university campuses will act as key to solve our PhD crisis as very few faculty members in our country have a doctoral degree. We have plenty of professors without a PhD. Therefore, these reputable universities can attract talent and fill the vacuum of well-qualified Bangladeshis migrating abroad each year. Besides, as we produce well-trained graduates, we can become more reliant on our domestic workforce. This will reduce our reliance on foreign workers in the long run. Needless to say, we need to ensure that only reputable universities are allowed to operate within the country, as India has mandated. Besides, we need to take other steps to attract top universities: create entertainment facilities like more parks, sports clubs, swimming pools, and other recreational facilities. We also need to think of the geographic distribution of these foreign university branch campuses, ensuring that we can attract more investment in the underdeveloped regions. Moreover, even geographic distribution of reputable universities will create employment opportunities in less-developed regions. The writer is a graduate of Heidelberg University, Germany. She works in the development sector
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https://www.observerbd.com/news.php?id=314769
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Why are Wuhan lab leak theories gaining traction?
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Reports that British agents believe it is feasible the coronavirus pandemic began with a leak from a Chinese research laboratory in Wuhan have led to renewed calls for the World Health Organisation (WHO) to be allowed to fully investigate the origins of the outbreak. The Sunday Times reported that the development, which Beijing has angrily denied, has prompted US diplomatic sources to share their concerns that we are one wet market or bio lab away from the spillover. The UKs vaccines minister, Nadhim Zahawi, told Sky News: "I think it's really important that the WHO is allowed to conduct its investigation unencumbered into the origins of this pandemic and that we should leave no stone unturned to understand why, not only because of the current pandemic that has swept the world, but also for future-proofing the world's capability to deal with pandemics." Mr Zahawi was asked if he could trust the WHO after a team of experts from WHO and China said in February the virus was "extremely unlikely" to have entered the human population as a result of a laboratory-related incident, and was instead probably transmitted from bats to humans through another animal. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the WHO, has said he did not believe the initial report was "extensive enough" and called for more research, adding that all hypotheses into the origins of the virus that causes Covid-19 "remain on the table". Mr Zahawi said: "I think the WHO at every step of the way has tried to share as much data with the world as it is able to verify. "This is a very difficult situation, as we've seen around the world, not just in the WHO but in our own country, with our own evidence gathering and, of course, advice and in other countries, every country, whether it's Singapore or Australia or New Zealand or elsewhere. Professor Dale Fisher, part of the WHO team that visited China, said the lab leak theory had not been ruled out but there was little evidence for it. "China has had many instances where there has been whistleblowers before and to me that's another striking point here, is that there is no whistleblower," he told BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend. "So, in fact, the only evidence in my mind for there being a lab leak is that there was a lab." He added: "The lab leak theory is not off the table, there's more research to be done." Charles Parton, a former diplomat who worked in China and senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi), told Times Radio that if the virus had escaped a lab it would have been an accident. He suggested efforts should be made to "keep the temperature down whatever is discovered". He added: "It may be that scientists are clever enough without access to Chinese laboratory records to work out fairly conclusively over time how it came to come out and maybe it was a leak. "If that's the case, and it's a big if, we should nevertheless not be too blaming because we have got to look to the future and try to get Chinese cooperation." He said measures such as "UN nuclear inspection mechanisms" should be in place to monitor laboratories. "I think in the immediate aftermath of this pandemic it's going to be a very sensitive matter to set that up because the Chinese will see that as an accusation of fallibility," he said. It comes after the US president, Joe Biden, ordered his intelligence officials to "redouble" their efforts to investigate the origins of the pandemic, including any possibility the search might lead to a Chinese laboratory. On Wednesday, Mr Biden asked US intelligence agencies to report back within 90 days, and he said that he aimed to release their results publicly. His remarks prompted the WHOs top emergency expert, Mike Ryan, to say the search for the origin of the outbreak was being poisoned by politics. "We would like for everyone out there to separate, if they can, the politics of this issue from the science. This whole process is being poisoned by politics," Mr Ryan said on Friday. "Every country and every entity is free to pursue their own particular theories of origin, it's a free world," Mr Ryan said. "WHO is a member state organisation and we seek to work with all of our member states to seek answers collectively." Lawrence S Young, virologist and professor of molecular oncology at Warwick Medical School, said: It is important that WHO have unfettered access to laboratory records from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. While the balance of scientific evidence remains in favour of animal spillover, the possibility of an unintentional release from a laboratory working on coronaviruses needs to be thoroughly investigated otherwise the current speculation will never be dispelled. It is vital that we fully understand the origin of SAR-CoV-2 to ensure that we can do everything to prevent another pandemic in the future.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/china/covid-china-wuhan-lab-leak-b1856637.html
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Whos on the Sunday morning news shows this week?
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WASHINGTON (AP) Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows: ABCs This Week: Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg; Thomas P. Bossert, former White House homeland security adviser; retired Gen. Keith Alexander, former director of the National Security Agency. NBCs Meet the Press: Matthew Pottinger, former White House homeland-security adviser; Peter J. Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine; Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo.; former Rep. Barbara Comstock, R-Va. CBSs Face the Nation: Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo; Kevin Washington, president and CEO, YMCA of the USA; Stephen Kaufer, president and CEO, Tripadvisor; Paul Gionfriddo, president and CEO, Mental Health America. CNNs State of the Union: Buttigieg; Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.; Reps. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Michael McCaul, R-Texas. Fox News Sunday: Buttigieg; Sen. Shelly Moore Capito, R-W. Va.
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https://www.marketwatch.com/story/whos-on-the-sunday-morning-news-shows-this-week-01622381267
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How did Iran target a secret CIA site in Iraq?
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cnxps.cmd.push(function () { cnxps({ playerId: '36af7c51-0caf-4741-9824-2c941fc6c17b' }).render('4c4d856e0e6f4e3d808bbc1715e132f6'); }); if(window.location.pathname.indexOf("656089") != -1){console.log("hedva connatix");document.getElementsByClassName("divConnatix")[0].style.display ="none";} A scoop at The Washington Post by John Hudson and Louisa Loveluck revealed that Iranian-backed militias were able to target a secret CIA hangar using a drone in April. This attack hit a hangar in Erbil in the autonomous Kurdistan region.This is a major escalation and shows careful planning and complex know-how by the Iranian regime and its militias in Iraq. It means that Iran was able to transfer the drone itself to Iraq and gather the intelligence on the apparent location of this secret site, which is inside a known US facility, and precisely set the drone to strike it.This kind of kamikaze drone is similar to the technology Iran used to target Saudi Arabias Abqaiq and similar to the kind of drones the Iran-backed Houthis use to attack Saudi Arabia and drones that Hamas unveiled in recent attempts to attack Israel.Iran has thus transferred its drone threats all over the region.The attack in Iraq is particularly interesting because US bases are supposed to have some sort of defenses against this known and rising threat. US CENTCOM head Kenneth McKenzie has warned for a year about the rising threats of drones in the region. He warned in March 2020, and again in February 2021.We've spent billions of dollars in the Department of Defense on counter drone systems. I'm concerned that we're still under grave threat from them. But I'm also encouraged to see that your command has been experimenting with so many new and more effective counter drone systems, he told the US Senate in March 2020.The US has sent Patriot missiles, C-RAM and other defenses to Iraq to stop ballistic missiles and rocket threats. The US army has also acquired two Iron Dome batteries which can be used against drones, although this is not linked to the current threat in Iraq.The drone attack alarmed the US according to the report. It has led to questions about the warehouse and whether Iran knew specifically who was running the building. Remains of the drone were recovered after the attacks. The article says that the drone was used a new method after years in which pro-Iran militias used rockets, such as the 107mm.The evolving drone threat is a major concern in Iraq. The drones flight was tracked to within 10 miles of the site, but its path was then as it moved into a civilian flight path, the coalition official said, according to the report. Preliminary analysis suggested it was made in Iran.The White House was unnerved. The facility was covert and the attack was sophisticated. The April 14 attack was the first major drone attack by the pro-Iran militias in Iraq. However, they have provided Kataib Hezbollah with drones in the past to strike at Saudi Arabia in May 2019 and again in January 2021. Another drone was used to target Al-Asad base in May 2021.The type of kamikaze drone used in Iraq is not known. It could be like an Ababil or Qasef what Hamas calls its Shehab drone. This is a drone about the size of a person with a warhead and guidance up front and two sets of small wings. It is launched from a catapult. However, Iran has a plethora of other types of kamikaze drones.According to the Twitter handle Alex Almeida, the drone attack may have targeted a hangar housing one of the CIA or Special Operation Commands contractor-operated turboprop aircraft that fly from the base and which are used for reconnaissance and intel gathering missions. The US has its own drones at the base, according to Joseph Trevithick at The Drive. He wrote in May that a Long Endurance Aircraft Program drone crashed in July 2020. This kind of drone is basically a small prop plane that looks no different than a civilian two-seater aircraft but has had everything removed and flies autonomously now as a UAV. According to online sleuths who use OSINT to find information, a hangar was damaged by the April drone attack on Erbil airport.According to the image showing the damage, the location is a hangar in the central eastern part of the base near an area where chinook helicopters are parked. This is a huge, sprawling base that has expanded with the war on ISIS and also likely expanded as the US reduced forces in other facilities. How one would determine to attack that specific hangar, out of dozens of other locations and hundreds of buildings, is unclear. The particular complex is unique for having four buildings with red-colored roofs.If an Iranian-backed militia used a drone to target a hangar where drones fly from, this could be one of the few instances of drone versus drone combat, using drones to take out other drones.Targeting US drones in Iraq using Iranian drones may be a sort of new drone "world order", so to speak, taking place in the Middle East, especially if Iran knew this hangar was used for surveillance droned that might one day be used against its own forces in Iraq. The region, as it were, is now rapidly approaching a kind of cross between The Terminator, Robocop and Skynet, as machines are doing the fighting and people are just watching computer screens though we may not be there quite yet.At the very least the US needs to be concerned that Iran is collecting intelligence on its covert and secure sites, its hangars and other systems in Iraq, and that Irans vastly expanding precision missile and drone technology could be used more in the future.The drones give Iran some plausible deniability because they can be launched by Iranian proxies. However, the gyroscopes and other systems on the drones link them to Iran, at least in the past.It should be noted that a drone mysteriously entered Israeli airspace on May 18 and was shot down by Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later said it came from Syria or Iraq. A drone damaged a hangar in Asad base in Iraq on May 8. The Erbil attack was on April 14. These attacks may all be linked and have an address in Iran.
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https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/how-did-iran-target-a-secret-cia-site-in-iraq-669612
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Can people vaccinated against COVID still spread the virus?
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Studies attempting to directly answer this question through contact tracing are just beginning When the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed its guidelines about mask-wearing on May 13, 2021, plenty of Americans were left a little confused. Now anyone who is fully vaccinated can participate in indoor and outdoor activities, large or small, without wearing a mask or physical distancing. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, said the new guideline is based on the evolution of the science and serves as an incentive for the almost two-thirds of Americans who are not yet fully vaccinated to go ahead and get the shot. But some people cannot be vaccinated because of underlying conditions. Others with weakened immune systems, from cancer or medical treatments, may not be fully protected by their vaccinations. Children aged 12 to 15 became eligible for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine only on May 10, 2021. And no COVID-19 vaccines are yet authorised for the nearly 50 million children in the US younger than 12. Vaccines dont always prevent infection. Researchers had hoped to design safe COVID-19 vaccines that would prevent at least half of the people vaccinated from getting COVID-19 symptoms. Fortunately, the vaccines have vastly outperformed expectations. For example, in 6.5 million residents of Israel, aged 16 years and older, the PfizerBioNTech mRNA COVID-19 vaccine was found to be 95.3 per cent effective after both shots. Within two months, among the 4.7 million fully vaccinated, the detectable infections fell by 30-fold. Similarly in California and Texas, only 0.05 per cent of fully vaccinated health care workers tested positive for COVID-19. Vaccine developers often hope that, in addition to preventing illness, their vaccines will achieve sterilising immunity, where the vaccination blocks the germ from even being able to get into the body at all. This sterilising immunity means someone who is vaccinated will neither catch the virus nor transmit it further. For a vaccine to be effective, though, it doesnt need to prevent the germ from infecting an immunised person. The Salk inactivated polio vaccine, for instance, does not completely stop polio virus from growing in the human gut. But it is extremely effective at preventing the crippling disease because it triggers antibodies that block the virus from infecting the brain and spinal cord. Good vaccines provide effective and durable training for the bodys immune system, so when it actually encounters the disease-causing pathogen, its ready to mount an optimum response. Advertisement Also read: Indias failure on the vaccine front, and what needs to be done now When it comes to COVID-19, immunologists are still figuring out what they call the correlates of protection, factors that predict just how protected someone is against the coronavirus. Researchers believe that an optimum amount of neutralising antibodies, the type that not only bind the virus but also prevent it from infecting, are sufficient to fend off repeat infections. Scientists are also still assessing the durability of immunity that the COVID-19 vaccines are providing and where in the body its working. Immunologists expect vaccines that protect against viral illnesses to also reduce transmission of the virus after vaccination. But its actually tricky to figure out for sure if vaccinated people are not spreading the germ. COVID-19 poses a particular challenge because people with asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic infections can spread the disease and insufficient contact tracing and testing mean those without symptoms are rarely detected. Some scientists estimate that the number of asymptomatic COVID-19 infections in the overall population could be 3 to 20 times higher than the number of confirmed cases. Research suggests that undocumented cases of COVID-19 in people who either were asymptomatic or experienced very mild disease could be responsible for up to 86 per cent of all infections, though other studies contradict the high estimates. In one study, the CDC tested volunteer health care personnel and other front-line workers at eight US locations for SARS-CoV-2 infections weekly for three months, regardless of symptoms or vaccination status. The researchers found that fully immunised participants were 25 times less likely to test positive for COVID-19 than were those who were unvaccinated. Findings like this imply that if vaccinated people are so well protected from getting infected at all, they are also unlikely to spread the virus. But without contact tracing to track transmission in a larger population, its impossible to know if the assumption is true. What we know for sure is that if someone does get sick with COVID-19 after vaccination, in what is called a breakthrough infection, symptoms will be milder. Studies have found that people who tested positive for COVID-19 after getting just their first vaccine dose had lower levels of virus in their bodies than unvaccinated people who tested positive. The researchers believe the decreased viral load hints that vaccinated people who do contract the virus will be less infectious because they will have much less virus that could be spread to others. A preprint study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, suggests that the Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccine can produce coronavirus-fighting antibodies in the oral and nasal fluid. Since thats where SARS-CoV-2 makes its entry, antibodies in the mouth and nose should block the virus from getting into the body, effectively providing sterilising immunity. This would also mean vaccinated people probably wouldnt spread the virus through respiratory droplets. These bits of evidence are promising. But without more studies, scientists cannot yet conclude that COVID-19 vaccines really do protect against all transmission. Also read: All talk, no vaccine, poor optics: The three COVID mistakes of Modi govt Studies attempting to directly answer this question through contact tracing are just beginning: Researchers will track COVID-19 infections among vaccinated and unvaccinated volunteers and their close contacts. Protection and prevention go hand in hand Vaccines help slow down the spread of an infectious disease by breaking the chain of infection. Those who are infected eventually have fewer and fewer unprotected people to pass the virus on to. This is how a vaccine increases herd immunity. Susceptible and not-yet-immunised people are surrounded by a herd of people who have become immune, thanks to vaccination or previous infection. But studies suggest that, for a combination of biological and social reasons, vaccination alone is unlikely to achieve herd immunity against COVID-19 and fully contain the coronavirus. In fact, vaccination alone can take a long time to eradicate any disease. Even diseases that are nearly eliminated such as chickenpox, measles and pertussis can resurface with waning immunity and declining vaccine rates. The recent outbreak of infections among the vaccinated New York Yankees shows that vaccinated people not only can still get infected, they might also transmit the coronavirus to close contacts. Highly tested groups, such as professional sports teams, spotlight the fact that mild, asymptomatic infections among the vaccinated in the general population might actually be more frequent than reported. A similar outbreak in airport workers in Singapore shows that, even among the fully vaccinated, new and more infectious variants can spread fast. The CDCs relaxed guidelines on masking are meant to reassure vaccinated people that they are safe from serious illness. And they are. But the picture is less clear-cut for the unvaccinated who interact with them. Until near herd immunity against COVID-19 is achieved, and clear evidence accumulates that vaccinated people do not spread the virus, I and many epidemiologists believe it is better to avoid situations where there are chances to get infected. Vaccination coupled with continued masking and social distancing is still an effective way to stay safer. The writer is Project Coordinator and Staff Scientist, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Vanderbilt University Nashville, United States The Conversation/PTI
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https://thefederal.com/covid-19/can-people-vaccinated-against-covid-still-spread-the-virus/
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What are the key economic issues facing the country?
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Jeff MacLellan As we mark the first four months of the current administration, it is worth discussing the most pressing issues facing the current administration as we head into summer. We are recovering from the most significant pandemic in over 100 years and that pandemic caused untold harm to the economy, not to mention the over half a million lives lost due to the virus. Following are a few of the significant ones. The Federal Deficit For the first seven months of the Federal Fiscal year ended April, 2021 amounted to $1.9 trillion dollars, a record for that period in any year. When you look at the components of the deficit, tax revenue rose to a record $2143 billion but those record revenues were more than offset by the egregious growth of spending which amounted to $4075 billion resulting in the $1.9 trillion deficit. While tax revenues set a record high for any previous seven-month period, expenses increased from $3465 billion to $4075 billion, an increase of $610 billion or 17.6%, clearly an unsustainable trend. The previous administration passed a $2.2 trillion pandemic relief bill last year and this year the current administration passed a $1.9 trillion dubbed the American Rescue Plan. As if that stimulus were not enough, there are at least two other significant spending plans being contemplated by the current administration. The first of these plans is the $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan, which is the current administration's infrastructure plan. The largest categories of the infrastructure plan are expansion of the child, earned income, and child and dependent care tax credits - $600 billion; Care for people with disabilities and older adults - $400 billion; Child care - $225 billion; Paid family and medical leave - $225 billion; Affordable housing - $214 billion; Electric vehicle incentives - $174 billion follow. Traditional infrastructure projects are projected to get the following amounts: Roads and bridges - $115 billion; Airports - $25 billion; Waterways and ports - $17 billion. It seems like the definition of infrastructure has changed. Finally, we have the American Families Plan, which amounts to $1.8 trillion. While the details of this plan are vague, it does include universal preschool for low-income children, and two years of free junior college for all Americans, including the Dreamers. In fairness, some of this spending is spread over 10 years and it is paid for by increases in corporate taxes and personal income taxes for joint returns over $400 thousand and single filers over $200 thousand. This deficit spending further mortgages the future of this country and the current administration seems to have elevated the deficits to new heights. Our total national debt stands at $28+ billion and climbing quickly. Inflation My last article dealt with the specter of inflation that has popped up in most everything we spend on, including gasoline, lumber, basic foodstuffs and most commodities. This was further evidenced by the rise in the most recent consumer price index which increased by .8% last month. More importantly, the year to year increase was 4.2%, the highest since 2008 and well above the Feds target of 2%. I lived through the high inflation years of the 70s and early 80s and it is not something we want to go through again. Wages did not keep up with the rate of increase in inflation and it eroded buying power. As prices go up, wages go up and it creates an upward spiral that we do not want to experience again. GDP and Unemployment GDP grew at a robust 6.4% in the first quarter of 2021. The growth was catalyzed by a 10.7% growth in consumer spending due largely to government stimulus payments. That said, overall GDP has not yet reached pre-pandemic levels, although it is close. Continued growth in GDP will be a challenge after the stimulus wears off. Unemployment came in at 6.1% in April, up from the March reading of 6.0%. This occurred as more people rejoined the workforce, which is a good thing. Each of the foregoing are key issues to be addressed. I am hopeful that additional stimulus will not pass as our national debt is out of control. I am also hopeful that policy makers will slow the monetary policy accommodation which has been overly accommodative. Finally, that tax increases and regulatory sclerosis do not slow the growth of BDP and hamper the decrease in the unemployment rate. Jeff MacLellan is retired from Landmark Bank. He spent 37 years in banking, and has been tracking local economic indicators since he came to Columbia in 1987.
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https://www.columbiatribune.com/story/business/columns/2021/05/30/what-key-economic-issues-facing-country/7467284002/
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Was wre ein Staatsstreich ohne die SP?
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Langsam dmmert es den Genossen, dass seit Corona einiges nicht mit rechten Dingen zugeht. Im Titel dieses Beitrags nehme ich Anleihe bei Facebook-Usern, die auf ein Posting des SP-Abgeordneten Jrg Leichtfried reagierten. Er kritisiert, dass Finanzminister Gernot Blmel fast 37 Milliarden Euro am Parlament vorbei vergibt als sogenannte Corona-Hilfen. Rene Benko etwa hatte hunderte Millionen Euro Dividende und bekam 1,4 Millionen Hilfe, kaufte sich aber (nicht nur) einen Gutshof um 30 Millionen. Starbucks zahlt bloss 8200 Euro Steuern, wurde aber ebenso untersttzt wie Elektronikketten, die ihre Bilanz um 200 Millionen verbesserten. Leichtfried illustrierte sein Posting mit der unten verwendeten Montage, die Rene Benko, Martin Ho und Johann Graf zeigt. Wenn man verstehen will, warum die SP zum einen fanatisch jede Corona-Massnahme verteidigt, zum anderen aber fest davon berzeugt ist, dass Sebastian Kurz weg muss und nur die VP korrupt ist, muss man sich fragen, was die Herren im Bild mit den Genossen zu tun haben. Rene Benko wurde auch von Alfred Gusenbauer gefrdert, worauf die deutsche Zeitschrift Capital in einem Portrt des schwer greifbaren Benko unmittelbar nach Ibizagate 2019 hinwies. Doch Gusenbauer ist auch Investor und Aufsichtsrat der Signa Holding, an der sich Novomatic-Grnder Johann Graf ebenfalls beteiligte. Martin Ho ist mit Benko verbunden und Pchter des Novomatic-Forums, vor dem neuerdings die Fahne der kommunistischen Diktatur Vietnam hngt. Sein Anwalt Georg Zanger ist ein Hawerer von Gusenbauer und Gabriel Lansky, und dies bereits seit vielen Jahren. Wer denkt, dass damit schon alles zu SP-Connections gesagt sei, muss sich auf ein komplexes Netzwerk einstellen. Man ist mit wenigen Klicks bei einer Verbindung zwischen Zanger und Novomatic; diese ist bekanntlich an den Casinos Austria beteiligt, die beim Mondfest 2019 von Zangers Austrian Chinese Business Association prsent waren. Rene Benko, Martin Ho und Johann Graf Apropos Casinos: Hier kann man sich eine Anfrage der FP zur Novomatic herunterladen, in der es ausfhrlich nicht nur um die Trkisen, sondern auch um die SP geht, die bis 2000 den Finanzminister stellte und im Beamtenapparat nach wie vor vorhanden ist. Erwhnenswert ist auch, dass Gusenbauer, Benko und Gusenbauers Geschftspartner Beny Steinmetz 2014 bei der CASAG einsteigen wollten, die heute mehrheitlich in auslndischem Besitz ist. Dies htte die BAG mit Thomas Schmid verhindern knnen, doch sie nahm es passiv hin. Was die Anfrage betrifft, so sind Versuche der Novomatic im Juli 2017 Thema, via Finanzministerium Steuererleichterungen in bella Italia zu erwirken. Auch Kurz wurde danach gefragt, gab aber an, dass er als damaliger Aussenminister nicht zustndig sei. Novomatic-Chef Harald Neumann wandte sich auch an Berater Gusenbauer, der bekanntermassen mit dem frheren italienischen Prsidenten Romano Prodi fr Kasachstan und die Ukraine lobbyierte; Gusenbauer will aber nichts unternommen haben. Gusenbauer bei den Atos-Gipfelgesprchen Freilich muss Kommunikation mit Gusenbauer nicht unbedingt nachvollziehbar gewesen sein; schon allein, weil die Korruptionsstaatsanwaltschaft ja nicht jedes Handy beschlagnahmt, beispielsweise nicht jene stndig wechselnden, die Johann Graf verwendet. Wir sehen Gusenbauer oben bei den Atos-Gipfelgesprchen vor wenigen Tagen in Krnten, bei denen wie bei Benkos Trggelen Andreas Tischler als Fotograf fungierte. Unter den Teilnehmern finden wir Landeshauptmann Peter Kaiser und Andreas Matth von den BB, die beide auch der Austrian Chinese Business Association angehren. Ausserdem waren u.a. der Wirecard-Lobbyist Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg, Gerald Gerstbauer (Prsident der sterreichisch-aserbaidschanischen Handelskammer ATAZ) und Gabriel Lansky anwesend. Gerstbauer war eimmal als Chef der SP Niedersterreich im Gesprch, an deren Spitze jetzt der ehemalige Magna-Sicherheitschef Franz Schnabl steht; er ist Businesspartner des SP-Mitglieds Gabriel Lansky. Trggelen 2019: Brandsttter, Rendi-Wagner und Drozda Lansky ist Prsident der sterreichisch-israelischen Handelskammer, Vertrauensanwalt der russischen Botschaft, Vertreter Kasachstans, Freimaurer und vieles mehr er gehrte zu den Grndern der ATAZ und bernahm 2012 deren Vorsitz. Wenn sich die ATAZ trifft, ist wiederum Andreas Matth mit von der Partie, ebenso der SP-Abgeordnete Christoph Matznetter (siehe Mondfest der ACBA, deren Kuratorium er wie Christian Kern angehrt). Der Wirtschaftskammer-Vizeprsident Matznetter vertritt die SP im Ibiza-U-Ausschuss und ist schon lange mit Gusenbauer und Lansky verbandelt. Als Vizeprsident der sterreichisch-russischen Freundschaftsgesellschaft (im Vorstand: Lansky) kandidierte er nach der Aufregung um Sponsoring von Jan Marsalek und Markus Braun von Wirecard nicht mehr. An der Spitze der ATAZ stand zeitweilig mit Alon Shklarek ein Geschftspartner von Alfred Gusenbauer und Leo Specht. Aserbaidschan ist ein Backdoor fr Israel in den Iran, steht aber auch fr ein mit Malta verbundenes Regime; wie zu erwarten spielt der Mittelmeerstaat auch fr Gusenbauer und Co. eine wichtige Rolle. Im verlinkten Artikel von 2018 zeige ich auch die Verbindungen auf zwischen ATOS und Benko bzw. ATAZ und Benko oder Lansky, Specht und den BB. Martin Ho hat das Novomatic-Forum bernommen Bei unseren Nachbarn macht die Gesellschaft fr deutsch-aserbaidschanische Beziehungen Schlagzeilen, bei der Ellada M. ttig ist, die mit der CDU-Politikerin Karin Strenz eine Firma grndete. Strenz stand jngst unter Korruptionsverdacht, da das Regime in Aserbaidschan in europischen Staaten Geld wscht und sie zu dessen Lobbyisten gehrte. Strenz starb am 21.Mrz 2021 auf dem Rckflug von Kuba an Bord eines Flugzeuges im Alter von 53 Jahren; die Todesursache ist weiterhin unklar; man vermutet einen Herzinfarkt. Selbstverstndlich warf sich auch Gusenbauer fr Aserbaidschan ins Zeug, der ja der ATAZ eng verbunden ist siehe deren Advisory Board; man trifft sich gerne im Steirereck oder in Benkos Park Hyatt. Nebenbei bemerkt ging ein anderer Sprecher, Robert Leingruber im Dezember 2008 zur Signa, wo er auch heute noch ttig ist; er verfasste 2017ein Dossier fr Tal Silberstein ber die Kampagnefhigkeit der SP, in dem Hirsch und der damalige Verteidigungsminister Hans Peter Doskozil besonders gut wegkamen. Hochegger steht fr ein Papier zur politischen Landschaftspflege fr die Novomatic, aber auch den BUWOG-Deal und die Telekom-Ostgeschfte des SP-Mitglieds Martin Schlaff. 2006 bernahm Schlaff die Anteile der Erste Bank am Feuerfest-Konzern RHI; spter wurde Gusenbauer dort Aufsichtsrat und Christian Kern hatte schon einen Vertrag als CEO in der Tasche, als er im Mai 2016 mit Untersttzung von Peter Kaiser SP-Chef und Kanzler wurde. Aus einem Artikel des Trend Typisch fr die SP ist auch Untersttzung fr russische Oligarchen, etwa wenn Oleg Deripaska, der bei Strabag, Magna und Hochtief einstieg, seinem Schwiegervater Walentin Jumaschew samt Familie zur Staatsbrgerschaft verhelfen will. Der obige Screenshot weist darauf hin, dass Kanzleien in Wien als Geschftsfhrer fr Firmen nicht nur von Oligarchen, sondern auch von Konzernen z.B. aus Brasilien fungieren. Dies spielt eine Rolle bei der Festnahme des Ex-Meinl Bank-Chefs Peter Weinzierl in UK auf Anordnung der USA unter Geldwscheverdacht. Deripaska bernahm 2008 ein Hotel in Lech und errichtete die LPG Projektentwicklungs GmbH; diese wollte Luxusappartments errichten, was fr eine Einbrgerung der Jumaschews sprechen sollte. Geschftsfhrer dieser und vieler anderer Firmen ist der Leiter der TMP-Niederlassung in Wien. Mit dieser ist die Kanzlei Specht-Bhm personell verflochten, die auch der Sitz von Gusenbauers Business-Aktivitten ist. Im November 2008 (Gusenbauer war noch Kanzler) wurde eine Wohnung in einem heruntergekommenen Haus an einer Durchzugsstrasse in Winden am See auf ein Jahr befristet angemietet. Die Jumaschews hielten sich dort nie auf, aber die Landesregierung spielte mit; Landeshauptmann Hans Niessl kam tglich auf dem Weg nach Eisenstadt vorbei und Doskozil hatte gerade in seinem Bro zu arbeiten begonnen. Niessls Wege von Frauenkirchen nach Eisenstadt Im Korruptions-U-Ausschuss 2011/12 wurde offen angesprochen (siehe Seite 60 im Protokoll), dass die Landesregierung bei der Einbrgerung des Putin-Beraters Jumaschew mitwirkte, der zuvor die Prsidentschaftskanzlei seines Schwiegervaters Boris Jelzin leitete. Auch Gnther Apfalter (Europa- und Asien-Chef von Magna) und Franz Schnabl setzten sich ein. Bei Meinl muss man brigens auch daran denken, dass die Kanzlei von SP-Anwalt Michael Pilz zum Masseverwalter bestellt wurde; er war Konzipient bei Lansky und bei Zanger und ist an der PR-Firma Skills Group beteiligt, die Mitglied der ACBA ist. Der gemeinsame Nenner aller SP-Verflechtungen ist wie bei anderen Parteien (siehe Grne und NEOS), dass es um Netzwerke geht, die ber viele Jahre etabliert wurden und der kommunistischen Sache dienen. So erklrt sich, warum bestimmte Personen fr die Justiz tabu sind, warum alles untersttzt wurde, was unter dem Deckmantel Corona verkauft wurde. Aber auch, wo investiert wird und was vorangetrieben wird: Digitalisierung, Bauen wie verrckt, Public Health als Tool fr berwachung, Zerstrung des Mittelstandes, gleichgeschaltete ffentlichkeit, komplett umgepolter Staat usw. Erkennen mssten dies Verfassungsschutz und Nachrichtendienste des Bundesheers, doch auch dort wurde erfolgreich unterwandert. PS: Weil ich mich seit Jahren mit solchen Hintergrnden befasse, wird mir sehr zugesetzt. Ich freue mich daher ber eure Untersttzung und den Austausch mit euch und bin unter 066499809540 erreichbar. Weil Zusetzen auch bedeutet, mich konomisch zu treffen, bedanke ich mich auch fr eure finanzielle Untersttzung unter Alexandra Bader, Erste Bank, AT 592011100032875894 BIC GIBAATWWXXX vielen Dank!
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https://alexandrabader.wordpress.com/2021/05/30/was-ware-ein-staatsstreich-ohne-die-spo/
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What Did John Cena Say? Why Is John Cena Taiwan Trending?
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During a promotional interview, WWE icon and Hollywood actor John Cena ended up referring to Taiwan as a country. Taiwan is a self-ruled democratic island and Cena's words immediately resulted in a strong backlash. The actor has apologised now, admitting that he was indeed at fault. In the recent interview, Cena went ahead and said Taiwan will be the first "country" to watch Fast 9, the Fast and Furious franchise's latest sequel. The backlash was immense, with many even threatening to call off the film's screening in Taiwan. Taiwan, allowed to govern itself since 1949, has not been allowed official recognition on international platforms. John Cena China controversy apology John Cena apologized in Chinese on Sina Weibo after calling Taiwan a country during an interview promoting Fast & Furious 9 pic.twitter.com/dzRKIYgEzL Joe Xu (@JoeXu) May 24, 2021 "I have many, many interviews and in one of them I made one mistake, I must say right now...I love and respect Chinese people and that I am very sorry for my mistake. I am so sorry, I apologise," Cena said in Mandarin, issuing a heartfelt apology. His second apology video was on Weibo a social media platform. Cena's apology was deemed sincere by most, the actor giving no excuse. People were glad he apologised and hoped he would be mindful in the future. That being said, some fans were upset over yet another comment made by a star without being well informed. The conflict dates back to the 1920s when a civil war broke out in China. It continued till 1949 and was won by Mao Zedong leading the Chinese Communist Party who are in power to this day. The other half, led by Chiang Kai-Shek, fled to Taiwan with his refugees. Even after all these years, China never recognised Taiwan as a separate country. As of now, China has blocked Taiwan from WHO's World Health Assembly and has asked hotel chains and countries to stop referring to Taiwan as a country. As of now, many believe a military invasion is possible in Taiwan. John Cena Taiwan Twitter reaction #JohnCena and the rest of Hollywood are carrying water for China and the NBA and corporations keep apologizing and bending the knee to them. #china Steven Crowder (@scrowder) May 26, 2021 I bet John Cena was told hed get no more Hollywood roles unless he bent over for China. Aubrey Huff (@aubrey_huff) May 26, 2021 John Cena browsing twitter waiting on someone to disrespect his name so he can follow them pic.twitter.com/0ewBnfGRJ2 (@grandoldmemes) May 27, 2021 John Cena WWE appearance As per recent reports, Cena might make his return to the WWE. (Image credits: AP)
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https://www.republicworld.com/sports-news/wwe-news/what-did-john-cena-say-why-is-john-cena-taiwan-trending.html
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How Can The Cowboys Improve Their Run Defense?
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"I think it starts with understanding our fits and making our hits," he said. "The main thing is stopping the run, and that's the main thing. You stop the run, then you earn the right to rush the passer." As the $105 million man on this defense, a lot is expected of Lawrence in both departments. He has been active to this point in the season, but it's well-documented that it hasn't shown up on the stat sheet. A big part of that is the added attention the All-Pro is drawing. On Sunday, Green Bay used tight ends and receivers to help Bryan Bulaga, and the result was Lawrence finishing with just one tackle and a sack in the game. Regardless of how many players chip in on him, Lawrence said he can't let it dictate his effort level or his contributions.
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https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/how-can-the-cowboys-improve-their-run-defense
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Will Jeff & Jordan Ever Return to Big Brother or The Amazing Race?
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Popular Big Brother couple Jeff Schroeder and Jordan Lloyd also competed on The Amazing Race shortly after they met on Big Brother. In an interview with Heavy, Schroeder recently revealed if theyd ever return to either show. Read on to find out why Schroeder really wants to return and what his wife has to say about that. Schroeder Wants Another Shot at Amazing Race Our Hectic Home LifeOver the past two weeks we have been so busy and it looks like things are gonna get even more busy for us. Tune in for an update on what's been going on in our house. 2020-07-16T18:14:53Z Schroeder said that he and Lloyd fight good-naturedly, of course about whether or not theyd go back on any of the shows theyve appeared on in the past. When he asks her if she would do The Amazing Race again, she says no, but he says yes. Ive had so many chances to win these shows and I could never win, so I would like a chance to win one time, said Schroeder. I dont know if Im ever going to win I got my shot and it just didnt happen. But he said that they are in such a different place now than when they first did The Amazing Race that it would be interesting to see how they do now. When we did Amazing Race, we were off [Big Brother] for like one month, said Schroeder. So having a relationship in the house was a lot diffrent than having it outsid the house. I think that was a big trial in how our relationship was going to go we grew in our relationship being in that stressful environment, but the way we communicate now as a couple I think is a hundred times better, so if we got to go back on The Amazing Race, I think our communication would be a lot better, which I think is key to that show. He Thinks Their Big Brother Days Are Behind Them Big Brother Jeff Proposes To JordanJeff surprises Jordan in the Big Brother house with a proposal. 2014-09-08T15:43:00Z Schroeder laughed when asked about returning to Big Brother, saying thats the question of all time. But he thinks their Big Brother days are over. I dont think so. I think now with the two little ones, its too hard to get away, said Schroeder, adding, They do 100 days now on that show, thats just too much to be away from the kids. He also said that having worked for the show is a better blessing than being on three, four, five times. Finally, he did say that he and Lloyd watch the show as much as they can because they owe everything to Big Brother. Like anybody else, were just fans now. Once we watch it, we fall in love with the characters were still very much invested in it. I mean, we owe everythign in our lives to that show, said Schroeder, adding that when they watch it, it brings back so many memories because its been such a big part of their lives. He also said his favorite seasons other than the ones they were on are seasons 10 and 16 because Dan Gheesling and Derrick Levasseur are two of the best players of all time. Big Brother season 23 premieres Wednesday, July 7 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS. READ NEXT: Big Brothers Jeff Schroeder Updates Fans On If He and Jordan Will Have More Children
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https://heavy.com/entertainment/big-brother/jeff-schroeder-jordan-lloyd-amazing-race/
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Who Is Performing at the 2021 National Memorial Day Concert?
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PBSs National Memorial Day Concert has been a tradition for more than 30 years. The concert will air tonight, Sunday, May 30 at 8 pm ET. American troops serving around the world can also watch the concert on the American Forces network. Tonights program will honor American veterans, servicemen and women, and military families. Emmy award-winning actress Kathy Baker will perform a tribute to nurses who served in Vietnam and Scandals Joe Morton will pay tribute to the 70th anniversary of the Korean War. Here are all of tonights performers, according to the PBS website. Gladys Knight R&B legend and seven-time Grammy winner Gladys Knight is among the performers taking the stage tonight. Knight celebrated her 77th birthday Memorial Day weekend on May 28. She took to Instagram to thank fans for the birthday wishes. Every birthday is truly a blessing and I am praying you are well, happy and remaining safe my loves, she wrote. Knight made a name for herself as part of Gladys Knight & The Pips, with iconic songs such as Midnight Train to Georgia and I Heard It Through the Grapevine. More recently, the Empress of Soul placed third on The Masked Singer in 2019, disguised as a bee. Sara Bareilles Sara Bareilles, a Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter and composer of the Broadway musical Waitress, will also be performing. Bareilles made a musical splash in 2007 with the release of her hit single, Love Song. You can now catch Bareilles on the streaming service Peacock in Girls 5Eva, a musical-comedy written by Tina Fey. In a May 6 Instagram post, Bareilles said that filming the series was one of the most joyful and gratifying experiences of my whole life. The U.S. Navy Band Sea Chanters It wouldnt be a Memorial Day concert without performances from military bands. The U.S. Navy Band Sea Chanters are among the musical servicemen and women performing this evening. According to the United States Navy Band website, the Sea Chanters were first formed in 1956 by Lieutenant Harold Fultz. The group was originally men only, but women have been part of the ensemble since 1980. The group performs everything from operatic pieces to choral music to sea chanteys. Alan Jackson Country artist Alan Jackson is a member of both the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Among his many Top 10 hits are Its Five OClock Somewhere and Country Boy. His most recent album, Where Have You Gone was released on May 14. He is also the owner of AJs Good Time Bar in downtown Nashville. Mickey Guyton NPR named country star Mickey Guytons song Black Like Me one of the top 10 songs of 2020. A relatively new artist, Guyton released her self-titled debut EP in 2015. Since then, Guyton has performed at the White House, the ACM Awards, and the Grammys. She was the first Black female solo artist to be nominated for a Grammy in the Country category. All Other Performers Here is the full list of all other performers in tonights Memorial Day Concert, as listed on the PBS website.
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https://heavy.com/entertainment/memorial-day-concert-2021-performers-lineup/
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Who was Gwen Shamblin Lara?
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A SMALL jet carrying seven people - including Gwen Shamblin Lara - crashed into a lake in Tennessee on May 29, 2021. Authorities said that no one on board survived. Gwen Shamblin Lara was a Christian diet guru who founded the Remnant Fellowship Church in 1999. She was born in February of 1955 in Memphis. Her husband of three years, actor Joe Lara, also perished in the plane crash. She is the author of The Weigh Down Diet, "a groundbreaking approach to weight loss," according to the book's description. 4 Gwen Shamblin Lara Credit: gwenshamblinlara/Instagram "People who have known no end to their hunger and who have no control over their late-night binges have learned through the Weigh Down Workshop that they can remove the irresistible desire for food," according to the Amazon summary. "This is not a diet like others, because it is not food-focused." Chapters include Its Not Genetics or Your Mothers Fault, I Feel Hungry All the Time, and How to Eat Potato Chips and Chocolate. The book was originally published in 1997. The Remnant Fellowship Church is located in Brentwood, Tennessee. The church features "an international community of people who are finding renewed hope, profound love and deep purpose by putting the undiluted teachings of Jesus Christ into practice," according to the organization's website. "While divorce, depression, obesity and out-of-control children are increasingly the norm these days, at the Remnant we are experiencing healed marriages, increasing joy, restored health, repaired finances and children who love to follow the guidance of their parents." More than three decades ago Gwen had launched the Weigh Down Workshop - a Bible study series that "directed hurting, imprisoned souls how to turn away from destructive vices and unwanted behaviors and emotions - such as overeating, alcohol indulgence, anger and depression - and point them to a genuine relationship with God." Her book - and the creation of the Remnant Fellowship Church - would later follow. The author was one of seven people killed in a plane crash in May of 2021. A Cessna C501 crashed into Percy Priest Lake near Smyrna, Tennessee, after taking off from a nearby airport about 11 am on May 29. Our efforts have transitioned from a rescue effort to that of a recovery effort. ... We are no longer ... looking for live victims at this point, said Rutherford County Fire Rescue Captain Joshua Sanders. The seven killed were Brandon Hannah, Gwen and Joe Lara, David L. Martin, Jennifer J. Martin, Jessica Walters and Jonathan Walters. The small plane was reportedly bound for Palm Beach International Airport in Florida. The plane was registered to JL&GL Productions LP, which the Laras owned together, according to WTVF. Most read in News FACING JUSTICE Cheerleader's killer' will be tried as an ADULT as murder details revealed DEATH MYSTERY Boy & dad found alive after body found on trail WRONGLY identified as brother Breaking GIG BLOODBATH 2 dead & 25 hurt at Miami concert as '3 gunmen with assault rifles open fire' CACKLIN' KAMALA Harris' 'woke joke' about female Marines falls flat in Naval Academy speech MAGIC COMBO Powerball results: Winning numbers for Saturday, May 29 - $253million jackpot 'PERV' PILOT Pilot who watched porn and exposed himself to female officer fined $5,000 Gwen's daughter Elizabeth Hannah reportedly sent out a text message to Remnant church members asking for prayers. She said that the plane had to go down "for a controlled, quick landing," according to the outlet. Hannah said that the Laras were on the plane with other church leaders.
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https://www.the-sun.com/news/2984090/gwen-shamblin-lara-plane-crash-tennessee-lake/
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How fast is the Grotti Itali RSX in GTA Online?
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Chances are, once players make a million or two in GTA Online, they will be looking to spend it on a fast car, or the biggest gun in the store. It is in times like these that players should consider all their options and figure out which is the best purchase for them. The key is to save up money only for essentials and spend money on what is the absolute must-haves in order to move up quickly in rank. To cross off a few essentials, players are definitely going to need a Buzzard Attack Chopper, an Oppressor MKII and properties required for heists. Apart from that, one really fast super/sports car in the garage should be enough for players in GTA Online. However, sometimes, players gotta splurge a little and go crazy with their money, which is exactly the kind of situation the Grotti Itali RSX is perfect for. For all intents and purposes, the Grotti Itali RSX is one of the fastest on-ground vehicles without a boost. The car stacks up quite well against the Ocelot Pariah as well as other fast cars that are in the same class. According to stats gathered by Broughy, the Itali RSX has a Top Speed of 135.30 mph (217.74 km/h). This puts it just a hair behind the Ocelot Pariah, which has been considered the fastest car on a straight in a GTA Online in most runs. However, what sets the Itali RSX apart is its nimble handling, which allows the driver to navigate corners with ease and save time on turns. The Itali RSX is quite possibly the best car in its class, and even though it is priced at $3,465,000, it might just be one of the most value-for-money cars in GTA Online. This is purely because the Itali RSX can hold its own in a race with ease given its superb acceleration, top speed, and unparalleled handling and braking. So, if the player is in the market for a fast car in GTA Online, then they need not look any further than the Grotti Itali RSX.
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https://www.sportskeeda.com/gta/how-fast-grotti-itali-rsx-gta-online
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Who won Minecraft Championship 2021?
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After nearly two hours of minigames designed to push competitors to the limit of their Minecraft skills, the Aqua Axolotls became the team champions of Minecraft Championship 14. The Minecraft Championships (MCC) are a series of events held through the Noxcrew. It features 10 teams of four players who compete in eight different minigames chosen by the participants. Minecraft Championship 14 took place on May 29th, 2021 at 8:00 PM BST. It was the first Minecraft Championship to be held since February 9th, 2020. The hiatus was due to the announcement that the Minecraft Championship 14 would mark the first tournament of the second season. It took months to renovate new maps, redesign old locations, and add new features into the upcoming tournament, but it was all worth the wait in the end. The Aqua Axolotls placed first, with Brandon "PeteZahHutt" Clemont placing first in the individual ranks. Minecraft Championship 14: Individual & Team Standings (Image via MCChampionships) In the finale of the Minecraft Championship, the top two teams compete in a final activity called, "Dodgebolt." The two teams in this competition were the Blue Bats, and the Aqua Axolotls. The team that came out on top was the Aqua Axolotls, comprised of: Wisp, Smajor1995, Hbomb94, and Solidarity. Here are the final Dodgebolt standings: Round 1: Aqua Axolotls win. (1-0) Round 2: Aqua Axolotls win. (2-0) Round 3: Blue Bats win. (2-1) Round 4: Aqua Axolotls win. (3-1) The Aqua Axolotls dominated the final activity, winning over half of the rounds and securing their win at Minecraft Championship 14. Competitors in the Minecraft Championship are also ranked both individually, and through the number of coins collected as a team. Here are the final standings for team coins: 1st: Blue Bats (21528) 2nd: Aqua Axolotls (20218) 3rd: Purple Pandas (19833) 4th: Red Rabbits (17982) 5th: Yellow Yaks (17504) 6th: Pink Parrots (15566) 7th: Green Guardians (15252) 8th: Orange Ocelots (15093) 9th: Cyan Creepers (13730) 10th: Lime Llamas (13523) Although the Blue Bats (comprised of: Sapnap, Seapeekay, Punz, and KatherineElizabeth) collected the most coins over the course of Minecraft Championship 14, they didn't manage to pull through in the final Dodgebolt match against the Aqua Axolotls. Here are the individual standings: 1st: PeteZahHutt - 3862 2nd: Punz - 3451 3rd: Sapnap - 3380 4th: Quig - 2948 5th: Krtzyy - 2877 6th: Fruitberries - 2859 7th: HBomb94 - 2731 8th: Smajor1995 - 2721 9th: TommyInnit - 2619 10th: Tubbo - 2553 11th: Fundy - 2500 12th: Wisp - 2447 13th: Vikkstar123 - 2429 14th: SB737 - 2403 15th: Ph1LzA - 2328 16th: InTheLittleWood - 2286 17th: Seapeekay - 2255 18th: TapL - 2239 19th: Dream - 2224 20th: SolidarityGaming - 2099 21st: CaptainSparklez - 1968 22nd: GeorgeNotFound - 1961 23rd: TheOrionSound - 1871 24th: Grian - 1827 25th: DanTDM - 1810 26th: TheEret - 1671 27th: Shubble - 1630 28th: Cubfan135 - 1593 29th: CaptainPuffy - 1578 30th: JackManifoldTV - 1571 31st: KatherineElizabeth - 1547 32nd: Sylvee - 1517 33rd: Nihachu - 1450 34th: BadBoyHalo - 1449 35th: WilburSoot - 1431 36th: Skeppy - 1402 37th: KaraCorvus - 1398 38th: Rendog - 1388 39th: FalseSymmetry - 1248 40th: Quackity - 1186 PeteZahHutt, member of the Purple Pandas, came out on top in the individual standings for Minecraft Championship 14. Collecting nearly four hundred more coins than the runner-up, Punz. Hopefully all competitors are looking forward to the upcoming Minecraft Championship 15.
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https://www.sportskeeda.com/minecraft/news-who-won-minecraft-championship-2021
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Does 'Gamebred' Jorge Masvidal own a tequila company?
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Jorge Masvidal owns his own brand of Mezcal liquor which is slightly different from tequila. While both liquors are extracted from the agave plant, tequila is typically produced by steaming the plant inside industrial ovens before being distilled two or three times in copper pots. Mezcal, on the other hand, is cooked inside earthen pits that are lined with lava rocks and filled with wood and charcoal before being distilled in clay pots. Running a give away for #Recuerdo on my Instagram. Free case of the best Mezcal to the best caption. Usman and colby fans are ineligible to win pic.twitter.com/C9y7Xrgyet Jorge Masvidal UFC (@GamebredFighter) January 23, 2020 Recuerdo Mezcal was initially launched by Jorge Masvidal in Florida, California and Texas with plans to spread out to more markets later this year. Also referred to as 'El Recuerdo', the liquor is currently available in two varieties, The Joven, which is a bit sharper with a crisp, green agave taste, and The Gusano, which incorporates maguey worms, which live on the agave plant, during the bottling process. According to Saul Moise, the U.S. commercial director for the brand, these two variants of Mezcal have been available in duty-free shops in Mexico for around a decade. When Jorge Masvidal unveiled his new liquor Jorge Masvidal decided to unveil his liquor brand during a press conference for UFC 246. Although he was forbidden from promoting 'El Recuerdo', Masvidal decided to go ahead in typical BMF fashion. Hes just presented the Mezcal. Thinks hell probably be fined for doing so. pic.twitter.com/dfDJDteYYM Peter Carroll (@PetesyCarroll) January 16, 2020 According to Jorge Masvidal, he prefers sipping Mezcal with orange slices dipped in Sal de Gusano (salt made out of maguey worms) but will take shots if the time is right. Masvidal also prefers it to vodka as it doesn't leave him with a hangover. Jorge Masvidal mentioned in an interview from 2020: "I cant afford to have an extra-bad day, I cant be half-assing it. I need to always be able to wake up at 6:30 and do my practice. Jorge Masvidal was also worried about what would go into his body and finalized the deal only after paying a visit to the distillery in person. Masvidal further said: "I went down to the factory. I wanted to see everything from start to finish. They do everything from seed to bottle. I got to see it with my own two eyes and thought thats where I need to be at." Please take 30 seconds to answer this survey so that we can better understand how to serve your MMA needs.
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https://www.sportskeeda.com/mma/news-does-gamebred-jorge-masvidal-tequila-company
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Which Cincinnati schools clinched spots in the boys volleyball state tournament?
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A win on Saturday did not just give teams a regional championship to put in the trophy case, but put each winner into the state tournament. A loss on Saturday punched a ticket to watching the battle for state from home. Eight Cincinnati teams were still competing, but only four came out on top. Division II - West The No. 1 seed in the west, Fenwick had a familiar foe standing in its way for a regional championship. The Falcons won the Greater Catholic League Coed partly because of wins over Alter. A third win over Alter would put Fenwick into the state tournament with a chance at its first state championship since 2013. In the regional final played at Centerville. Alter gave Fenwick a bigger battle than it did in either regular season meeting. Instead of beating Alter in three sets, it took four on Saturday. The Falcons won the four sets 25-16, 25-19, 17-25, 25-19. The victory sent Fenwick to the state semifinals on Saturday, June 5, at Pickerington Central. Division II - South The first of three regional finals to be played at Princeton on Saturday, a top-two battle between No. 1 Badin and No. 2 La Salle broke out. Despite both teams playing for the same regional championship, the game was slightly more personal for the Rams: La Salle had been the team to eliminate Badin from the last two postseason tournaments. La Salle was one set from eliminating Badin again, but the Rams took the final two sets and won in five, 25-23, 18-25, 24-26, 25-14, 15-9. "We knew coming in it was going to be a battle," Badin head coach Anitra Brockman said. "It wasn't going to be a cakewalk and we struggled initially in the beginning and had to find our way, but it's an amazing feeling. I got emotional in the locker room with the boys because it's the first time we've ever gone to the state final four." Badin and Fenwick split regular season meetings and a third match will send one to the state finals. The two lockup again at 5 p.m. on June 5. Division I - West After sailing to a three-set over Wayne in the regional semifinal, Lakota East drew a match, as the fifth seed, against No. 1 Beavercreek. Beavercreek dispatched the Thunderhawks almost as easily as they sent Wayne packing. Beavercreek claimed the regional from Lakota East in three sets, 25-13, 25-16, 25-22. Just the winner of Saturday's marquee matchup between St. Xavier and Elder. Division I - South #1 In the second of Princeton's regional finals and the first of two Division I showdowns, No.1 Moeller met No. 4 Walnut Hills, a newer, but sill powerful challenger on the court. Standing head-to-head against Moeller, the Eagles from Walnut Hills went on a strong run in the middle of the first set, cushioning the score enough to win 25-21 to go up 1-0. Moeller, the program with more state titles than any other boys volleyball team in Ohio, was undeterred and responded with a 25-11 win in set two. The final two sets were closer, but Moeller still took both 25-23 and 25-21. "It's a remarkable feeling, " Moeller head coach Lee Meyer said after winning his first regional as a head coach. "I thought our guys, despite starting off slow in game one, came out and settled into their own culture and composure and started to rally behind one another. "To beat a very tough Walnut Hills team in four, especially after dropping the first set, is a remarkable win for our guys." The loss ended Walnut Hills' season at 18-4, losing just twice to Moeller and once each to St. Xavier and Elder. When the region is typically won by two of those three every year, Walnut Hills' surge to top ranking and competitive volleyball was a welcome sign for the program and the region. "It's probably one of the best seasons a public school team from the south region has ever had," Walnut Hills head coach Zac Ober said. "We end the year ranked top five in the state. It stinks to end our season this way, but its great to show that with the time and the effort, any school can come and play volleyball at a high level." Moeller will be the kickoff to the state tournament, meeting Centerville at 10 a.m. on June 5. The Crusaders beat Centerville twice in the regular season, the first in a five-set game that concluded with a 15-2 final set win, and the second a three-set win at Centerville on May 11. Division I - South #2 Walnut Hills and Moeller were strong teams who played a strong game, but the final game of the night was a true heavyweight bout between GCL South opponents St. Xavier and Elder. In five physical, back-and-forth sets, the Panthers and the Bombers traded blows with Elder landing the final punch, winning 27-25, 21-25, 29-27, 13-25, 15-11. St. Xavier seemed to have set one all wrapped up. The Bombers had set-point with a 24-20 lead, but Elder snapped off five-straight points to take a 25-24 lead. St. Xavier tied the match at 25-25, but Elder took the final two points and the opening set. The Panthers almost played comeback again in set two, cutting a 19-13 deficit to a 21-20 deficit, before St. Xavier ran away to take it 25-21. More:St. Xavier lacrosse outlasts Springboro for DI regional title, return to state Final 4 Elder had a thing with comebacks on Saturday. After set one and two, Elder had to come from behind to win both the third and the deciding fifth set. "Another great GCL contest," Elder head coach Sean Tierney said. "Both teams were battling. It wasn't the prettiest volleyball sometimes. It came down to rebounding after that fourth set and even rebounding in that fifth set. We were down 10-7 and this team just didn't quit. Ultimately I'm very proud of how they grinded it out and they believed in each other and snared victory from the jaws of defeat." Elder will see Beavercreek at 11:45 a.m. on Saturday. The Panthers saw Beavercreek twice and won both, most recently a 25-16, 25-20, 25-14 decision on April 27. If Elder and Moeller both reach the state finals, it will be an all-GCL South final for the second tournament in a row. Elder and Moeller have met in the state final four times, splitting with two title apiece. "To fight your way out of the south region is an accomplishment in itself," Tierney said. "Especially this year I think the south region was particularly strong in the state. To get back to state is a goal we have every year, but as we talked about in the post-match locker room, our goals aren't accomplished yet."
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https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/high-school/high-school-sports/2021/05/30/four-gcl-schools-punch-tickets-boys-volleyball-state-tournament/5267574001/
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Is Boris and Carries wedding a bad sign for lockdown lifting on June 21?
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A Cabinet minister has said that the small ceremony should not suggest that larger weddings wont be allowed from next month (Picture: 10 Downing Street/AFP) The vaccines minister has urged people not to read into the prime ministers wedding as a signal that plans to lift restrictions next month could be delayed. Nadhim Zahawi sent his congratulations to Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds after the couple revealed they married at a small, secret ceremony yesterday. However, he said the timing of it should not cause anyone to suspect that larger weddings will not be allowed from the end of next month. According to the governments road map out of lockdown, all social distancing restrictions are set to be lifted from June 21 paving the way for couples to plan larger weddings again. When Mr Zahawi was asked if the timing suggested that large ceremonies from next month were not on the cards, he told Sky News: I wouldnt extrapolate anything from that. He added: On June 14, we will set out very clearly, the data that we are continuing to gather from step three, which was on May 17, and then well share that with the nation, as the prime minister has done in each and every step from step one, two and three and then of course, step four. Weddings and receptions in England are currently only permitted for up to 30 people in Covid-secure venues. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video The parents celebrated their wedding with close friends and family (Picture: Twitter/JamesCleverly) But dancing is advised against due to the increased risk of transmission, except the couples traditional first dance. The couple tied the knot at Westminster Cathedral in front of a small group of close friends and family on Saturday, No 10 confirmed. A spokesman said: The Prime Minister and Ms Symonds were married yesterday afternoon in a small ceremony at Westminster Cathedral. The couple will celebrate their wedding with family and friends next summer. The couple were pictured gazing at each other in the garden of No 10 following the nuptials (Picture: AFP) They are understood to have sent save-the-date cards to family and friends for the celebration on July 30, 2022. The pair were pictured smiling at each other in the garden of 10 Downing Street following the nuptials. Mrs Johnson, 33, wore a long white dress and a floral headband and the Prime Minister, 56, a dark suit and blue tie, with a white flower in his buttonhole. It is understood that Carrie will take her husbands surname and be known as Carrie Johnson from now on. Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at [email protected]. For more stories like this, check our news page.
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https://metro.co.uk/2021/05/30/is-boris-and-carries-wedding-a-bad-sign-for-lockdown-lifting-on-june-21-14677059/
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How in the world do solar panels work?
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Stephen Shankland/CNET It sounds like magic: Capturing energy from the sun and converting it into electricity to run your toaster. It's science, not magic, though. Solar panels use a curious bit of science called the photovoltaic effect to convert one form of energy into another. Here's how solar panels harvest light, converting it into electricity. Sun science The sun is an intense powerhouse, outputting in the region of 10 decillion (that's a 1 followed by 34 zeroes) joules of energy per year. That's a lot. The whole planet is bathed in this wash of energy, and it is one of the things that makes this such a pleasant place to live. It drives the weather, heating the atmosphere and making life possible. That's what plants do through photosynthesis, using light to combine carbon from the atmosphere into sugars that they metabolize to grow. And the solar panels that you see on an increasing number of roofs do something similar, converting light into electricity. They can do this because of something called the photovoltaic effect, which converts solar energy into electrical energy. Enlarge Image Colin McDonald/CNET It works like this: sometimes, when light hits an atom, it is absorbed by one of the electrons around the atom, boosting the energy of the electron. On some materials (such as some metals and silicon), this extra energy is enough to kick the electron loose of the atom, letting it move within the crystal structure of the material. If you create two crystal layers, you can exploit this. One layer, called an N-type material, is contaminated with a chemical (scientists call this doping) that means there are lots of electrons in it, so it has electrons to spare. The other layer is contaminated with another material that makes it want to soak up more electrons, called a P-type material. These electrons can't easily jump over the junction of these two materials (called an NP junction), so there's a voltage difference between the two layers. If you then connect a circuit to each side of this panel, that voltage can be used to power an appliance, or to charge a battery. Each solar cell generates only a small voltage, typically about 0.5V. The amount of current created depends on the size of the cell. If you connect multiple cells together, this voltage can be increased. So, if you cover your roof with solar cells wired together, you can harvest enough electricity to power most of the house. Solar panels also generate direct current (DC) rather than the alternating current (AC) that your utility company delivers. This means that the energy from a solar panel has to be converted before it can drive the toaster. It also often has to be stored: you may want toast when the sun isn't up, and the solar panels don't generate power in the dark. Of course, this depends on how much light there is to convert, and there are other limitations to the process. The amount of energy they capture is dependent on the properties of the material absorbing the light, and the junction between the two materials. This combination will only absorb specific frequencies of light. Some modern solar panels get around this by including multiple materials and junctions between them (called multijunction cells) that can absorb different frequencies of light to capture more of the available energy. Solar panels are expensive, but prices are slowly going down And there is the cost. Solar cells are not cheap to make, as they require precise growth of large crystals with very exact chemical compositions. The other parts of the system (such as the controller) are also expensive, as they need to be able to handle large amounts of energy. When I put the details of my home near Boston into the Google site Project Sunroof (which calculates the cost and benefits of putting solar panels on your roof), it estimated that I would be able to generate about 7 kilowatts of energy by putting up just under 490 square feet of solar panels on my roof. That, it estimated, could save me over $900 a year, or $18,000 over the 20-year life of the system. The initial cost, however, would be high: that system would cost over $30,000 to install. You don't have to buy a solar system outright, though, as there are companies that lease these systems, so you pay over time. In America, the feds also kick in to help -- installing a solar system can get you a big tax credit of up to 26 percent of the cost. This price is constantly falling, though, as new ways to make solar cells are being developed and new factories are opening up to make solar cells. Although solar power isn't likely to completely replace other ways of generating power, we are going to see solar power as an increasingly important source of electricity. And that's all because of that strange quirk of some materials that convert light into electricity. Read more: 5 things to consider before you buy solar panels
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https://www.cnet.com/home/energy-and-utilities/how-in-the-world-do-solar-panels-work/
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Could the New York Yankees and San Francisco Giants pull off another trade?
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Manager Aaron Boone said after Saturday's win over the Orioles that Hicks (wrist) will be placed on the injured list, Pete Caldera of The Bergen Record reports. The team was hoping the 31-year-old would be able to avoid the injured list despite tearing a sheath that holds a tendon in his left wrist, but it's not a major surprise he still ended up on the shelf. Boone previously said it's possible Hicks would receive surgery, so his return timeline remains unclear while the next step in the recovery is determined. Brett Gardner should see increased time in center field for the Yankees in the meantime.
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https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2264431766137/could-the-new-york-yankees-and-san-francisco-giants-pull-off-another-trade
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Is It Safe To Drink Alcohol After Getting Covid-19 Vaccines?
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(Photo by John Keeble/Getty Images) Getty Images So you just got your Covid-19 vaccine. Well, certainly dont pull out that beer bong. Excessive alcohol drinking can suppress your immune system and in turn reduce the amount of protection that the Covid-19 vaccine can offer. A review paper published in the British Journal of Nutrition described how alcohol may impair the movement and functioning of key immune system cells white blood cells such as B and T lymphocytes, natural killer cells and monocytes/macrophages as well as alter the immune systems ability to produce important chemicals (e.g., cytokines). Excessive drinking can even make you more susceptible to infectious diseases like the Covid-19 coronavirus. As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows, its either binge drinking or heavy drinking in general. Binge drinking would be four or more drinks for women and and five or more drinks for men over a two to three hour period. So if you need a full hand to count the number of shots that you just had, you just binged on alcohol. Heavy drinking would be at least eight drinks for women and at least 15 drinks for men over the course of a week. Note that one drink does not mean one beer bong. A drink consists of a single 12-ounce can, bottle, or glass of beer, five ounces of wine or 1.5 ounces of 80-proof spirits like bourbon, vodka or gin. Well, the clinical trials for the Covid-19 vaccine didnt explicitly test how alcohol consumption may affect the vaccines effects. It wasnt part of the protocol to give study participants the vaccine and then say, now try some Sex on the Beach, meaning the alcoholic drink and not Cake by the Ocean, which incidentally is not about cake. Researchers have debated over whether a few drinks a day will impair, do nothing to, or even enhance your immune system. The jury is still out on this question and some of them are having drinks. The other issue is Covid-19 vaccine side effects. According to the CDC, common side effects include tiredness, headaches, muscle pain, chills, fever, and nausea. Drinking too much alcohol before or after the Covid-19 vaccine could end up worsening whatever side effects you may get from the vaccine. Plus, it is a good idea to monitor your symptoms after getting the vaccine, just in case you are one of those rare individuals who has a worse reaction. It would be preferable if you can. There are plenty of other ways to celebrate getting your Covid-19 vaccine dose. Instead of a gin and tonic toast, you can try avocado toast. Rather than have a margarita, you can chat with Rita. You can go for a hike. You can wax different parts of your body. Just be reasonably safe with your alternative activity, because the pandemic is still continuing. Dont replace a Dark and Stormy, with storming the Capitol. Maybe youve already waxed everything on your body that you could possible wax. Perhaps Zachary is a douche-bag. Well, one drink (or possibly two drinks) on occasion is probably not going to mess with your immune system or the potential Covid-19 vaccine side effects. So it is OK to celebrate your vaccination with some alcohol in moderation.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2021/05/30/is-it-safe-to-drink-alcohol-after-getting-covid-19-vaccines/
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Should The Toronto Raptors Rebuild Or Retool This Offseason?
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PORTLAND, OREGON - JANUARY 11: Fred VanVleet #23 and Pascal Siakam #43 of the Toronto Raptors react ... [+] in the first quarter against the Portland Trail Blazers at Moda Center on January 11, 2021 in Portland, Oregon. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Abbie Parr/Getty Images) Getty Images The Toronto Raptors failed to qualify for the 2021 NBA Playoffs, their most treasured long-term player is an unrestricted free agent and the constructor of their 2019 championship could be building teams elsewhere within the near future. Its thus safe to say the Raptors are heading into an offseason with a lot of potential change. Sure, maybe both Kyle Lowry and Masai Ujiri stand pat, in which case crisis averted for another year or two. The retooling option The short-term future lies mostly in the hands of Lowry. If he stays, the Raptors will likely go to war with roughly the same core they used this year, plus a presumed Top 10 draft selection. If he doesnt, that allows the Raptors to pivot into a re-tooling project. With Fred VanVleet and Pascal Siakam already on the roster - both of whom are 27 - it stands to reason the Raptors will attempt to construct the roster around those two, and hope to present a competitive product sooner than later. The re-signing of Gary Trent Jr, who the Raptors acquired in a trade deadline deal with the Portland Trail Blazers, should be of immense priority as he would factor a great deal into whichever direction the Raptors decide to go. With no Lowry earning over $30 million, the Raptors could clear significant cap space by waiving Rodney Hood, who is on a non-guaranteed $10.8 million contract for next season and declining the $7.3 million team option on Aron Baynes. Toronto could have somewhere in the area of $30 million to spend on players, identifying players in a similar age bracket as Siakam and VanVleet, such as Evan Fournier, Tim Hardaway Jr, Spencer Dinwiddie or Josh Richardson. Getting two of the above should bring the Raptors back into playoff contention, and if they consider moving off their own 2021 selection for an established veteran, that too could be an intriguing avenue for them. Of course, theres also a different path available. The rebuilding option The Raptors could pivot into a youth movement and use Trent Jr, just 22, and OG Anunoby, 23, as major building blocks. This would mean moving off of Siakam and VanVleet, but both should fetch major hauls. The New York Knicks are armed with cap space to upwards of $50 million this summer and looking to be a player in the point guard market, as theyre rumored to target Lonzo Ball or Devonte Graham, neither of whom are as good as VanVleet. If VanVleet is available, the Knicks are very likely to jump at the chance. New York could pick on behalf of the Raptors in the 2021 NBA Draft with their selection at #19 and complete the trade in free agency, when their cap space kicks in. That way, the Knicks can absorb most of VanVleets contract, while also sending Immanuel Quickley and a 2023 Top 10 protected first-rounder to Canada. The Raptors could then follow up by swinging a trade with the Golden State Warriors that fetches them Siakam, where they take back James Wiseman, the Minnesota pick (Top 3 protected this year, unprotected in 2022), Golden States own pick in 2022 and a signed-and-traded Kelly Oubre Jr to make salaries work. The Raptors would get an immediate talent injection via the acquisitions of Wiseman, Quickley and Oubre (and a high-lottery rookie if the Minnesota pick conveys this year), while also setting themselves up for a steady stream of incoming draft picks in the future. Toronto would enter next season with a core of Wiseman, Oubre, Anunoby, Trent Jr, Quickley, and their own 2021 selection, setting themselves up for the future. While the rebuilding option might present a ton of future upside, there will be a ton of question marks hovering over such a team. Moving off of Siakam and VanVleet means giving up two highly productive two-way players, who are both known commodities. There is absolutely zero insurance that the Raptors find players as good as those two, essentially making the rebuild option a roll of the dice. Sometimes, that might be enough for a team to go all-in on the future. For others, its not. This likely boils down to whether or not Ujiri returns. If he doesnt, a new Team President would undoubtedly love to put his own mark on the team, suggesting a larger likelihood of a rebuild, than if Ujiri remained long-term. If he does, it would stand to reason he wishes to remain competitive at his earliest convenience making a brief, but effective, retooling process all that more appealing.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/mortenjensen/2021/05/30/should-the-toronto-raptors-rebuild-or-retool-this-offseason/
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Is UGAs athletics program too focused on football?
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Theres no denying football pays the bills for UGA athletics, but its also the chief beneficiary of the schools sports spending. In fact, the athletic association has been on a bit of a football spending spree of late, with more than $173 million spent on facility upgrades since 2017, including the renovation of the west end of Sanford Stadium, the new indoor practice facility, and completion of Phase 1 of the new $80 million football building added to the Butts-Mehre complex. And, there are more plans in the works. While that kind of support for Kirby Smarts program is a popular notion in a largely gridiron-focused Bulldog Nation, some Dawgs fans would like to see the nonrevenue sports getting a little more financial love. The issue has been highlighted recently by word that Petros Kyprianou, the national championship-winning coach of the mens and womens track and field teams, probably is leaving UGA when his contract runs out at the end of June, because the athletic department wont commit to building a new indoor track facility. Thats on the mind of the first Blawg reader we hear from in the latest edition of Junkyard Mail. Bill, This latest move (or lack of one) by new athletic director Josh Brooks, letting one of the nations best and most successful track and field coaches get away because they dont want to take a penny away from football to build a proper track facility, is appalling. Along with allowing the Georgia basketball program to continue to languish at least another season in the ineffectual hands of Tom Crean, because they want to wait for his buyout amount to drop, it sends a strong but unfortunate message: UGA cares only about its football program and facilities. I know a lot of Dawgs fans probably couldnt care less about track and field and are happy as long as Kirby gets what he wants, but Id like to know if youre as bothered by this as I am. Scott Burns I recognize that Brooks inherited an athletic program lacking in much strategic facilities planning, other than football (where UGA has done a great job of catching up with other major programs over the past 10 years). However, I do think letting Kyprianou walk over the lack of track facilities is a bit shortsighted. University of Georgia , Dawgnation As I noted at the top of this Blawg, football does generate most of the athletic associations revenue (basketball was the only other sport to turn a profit last year), and you have to spend money in order to stay competitive with football programs like Alabama. But, if youre going to have the sort of overall elite athletic program expected of a states flagship university, you have to keep up with the needs of your other sports, too. Brooks staff revealed at the athletic board meeting this past week that the sports medicine and equipment spaces being abandoned at the Butts-Mehre building as the football program moves into its new operations center will be turned over to UGAs track and field teams. But, thats really only nibbling around the edges of what Kyprianou has said his program needs, if its going to continue to recruit elite track and field athletes. He wants an indoor track facility capable of hosting major tournaments, like the NCAA championships. The current outdoor track on Lumpkin Street, which the team shares with the rest of the university, is not suitable for such events. Whats most baffling is UGAs apparent intransigence on the issue. Kyprianou is not asking the athletic association to pony up the $10 million to $30 million it would take to build an indoor facility right away. He just wants a commitment that, at some point, theyll build it. University of Georgia , Dawgnation Speaking to the Athens Banner-Herald this week from Jacksonville, where his teams were competing in the NCAA preliminaries, Kyprianou said: I just needed a written commitment that were going to break ground at some point, whether its three years, five years, seven years, eight years. Something that will give me the peace of mind that I can recruit and tell the current student-athletes. We won a lot, but it gets to the point where youve got to keep up with your competitors, Kyprianou said. Every sport on campus has their own facility where they can train uninterrupted. Every single one of them except track. Josh knows. Josh is a great administrator. It is what it is at this point. He understands. He knows it. There are priorities and there are things he has to do. I understand. Im sorry, but thats mind-boggling. I am trying to buy tickets online and have searched, but cannot find the answer to this question. Please excuse my ignorance, but Ive never dealt with digital tickets before, and I dont have a millennial in the household to educate me! Uptown Dawg Heres the UGA ticket offices response: Yes, the ticket office will send an email to address on record with notification that tickets are available to access and save to smart device. This will occur by mid-August. Entire season tickets or individual tickets may be downloaded by clicking on the email link at that time and tickets may be transferred to someone else. The ticket office will send mobile ticketing process tutorials via email as well as postings on the ticket office home webpage leading up to ticket distribution. Also, the ticket office is available to answer specific questions about the process during normal business hours at 877-542-1231. And, they also provided a link to additional information on the ticket offices homepage: https://georgiadogs.com/sports/2020/8/18/digital-tickets.aspx Heres a question related to last weeks Blawg about the Georgia-Clemson series Hey Bill, thanks for all the great articles! The Clemson-/UGA [game] in Anderson [South Carolina] in 1916 was an interesting reveal. With this years game in North Carolina, wondering if any others can claim they have played a rivalry game in three different states? Keith Cheek Interesting question! I dont know the answer, but, since many rivalry games are either in-state affairs, or feature bordering states, with the schools alternating being the home team, Id say Georgia and Clemson playing in three different states is highly unusual, if not unique. Perhaps some football history savant out there can tell us whether anyone else has done that. Tony Walsh , Dawgnation Bill, you sure know how to spark enthusiasm for the upcoming Dawgs-Tigers matchup, and I hope that in future years that optimistic enthusiasm is still the norm, and not overshadowed by transfer portal news or NIL agreements. But, I fear that college football has just entered an era of commercialization that is a breeding ground for corruption and student athlete dissent. And can a team survive, monetarily divided, with the perception that the popular players (skilled position) mostly benefit while the in the trenches player toils in anonymity? Tony Tyson Right now, theres not much clarity about legislation that has been passed in some states (including Georgia) allowing college athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness. So far, the NCAA has been sitting this one out, in hopes that some sort of overriding federal legislation might pass. In the meantime, UGA has signed up with a firm called Altius Sports Partners, which helps athletes with the education process on what the new rules mean, and how they can benefit from it when Georgias law takes effect July 1. Georgias law does give schools the option of requiring that student-athletes contribute earnings to a pool that would be shared with teammates when they graduate, but UGA has said it does not plan on implementing such a rule (which might put it at a recruiting disadvantage against schools in states where that is not done). As for whether teams might suffer from less celebrated players not being able to make as much NIL money as their star teammates, I tend to doubt it. Its not like all players on a team were on the same level before this. There always have been stars and nonstars; teams are made up of scholarship players and walk-ons, future pro prospects, and those who never will play the game again after college, and yet they all have the same goal: win the game. Unless that somehow changes, I dont see the ability of some players to sell their autographs or make endorsements as becoming a team-killer. UGA News
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https://www.dawgnation.com/football/uga-athletics-program-focused-football/GFSTNWLFCRCPRBPLRVBC2UNNOI/
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Does MLB even have a marketing department?
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Hey MLB, this seems like a thing you might want to promote. Illustration : Getty Images Last weekend, when writing about Jos Godoy becoming the 20,000th player in Major League Baseball history, I brought up the story of Bob Watson being the man who scored MLBs one-millionth run, and all the hoopla around that in 1975. Advertisement There were countdown clocks in stadiums, a promotion with Tootsie Roll and Seiko watches, and a whole setup in New Yorks Rockefeller Center to drum up anticipation. Because of all that, Astros teammates knew that Watson had a chance to score the millionth run when Milt May hit a three-run homer, and urged him to sprint home, which he did, earning his odd but celebrated place in history. MLB has known that run number two million was coming, not just as a matter of simple counting, as recently as 2015. Thats when Anthony McCarron of the New York Daily News wrote a piece looking back at Watsons million milestone. In that piece he noted, MLB estimates it is approaching the 1.9 million mark and could reach 2 million in 2020. Obviously, nobody saw COVID-19 coming along to erase most of the 2020 season, but had it been a regular year, the 2,000,000th run would have come last year. Instead, it happened Sunday, when Josh Donaldson scored on a ground-rule double by Nelson Cruz. Granted, theres some nuance to this milestone, because once Negro Leagues stats are included as part of MLB records, the run number 2,000,000 will have already been scored years ago. Same for Godoy definitely not being the 20,000th major- leaguer. People get excited for the silliest things in baseball. Advertisement Do something with that energy. Advertisement A QUADRUPLE DOUBLE The NBA playoffs sure did let everyone else have the spotlight on Saturday, as all four games were decided by double-digits, led by the 76ers 132-103 rout of the Wizards to take a 3-0 series lead. The Heat clocked out by bowing meekly to the Bucks, the Trail Blazers knotted their series with the Nuggets at 2-2, and the Jazz regained home-court advantage by taking care of the Grizzlies in Game 3. Advertisement The last time there were four NBA playoff games with double-digit margins on the same day was April 21, 2013, when the scores were: Pacers 107, Hawks 90 Heat 110, Bucks 87 Thunder 120, Rockets 91 Spurs 91, Lakers 79 One thing to note about this is that the following day, the Knicks won their playoff game by 16 points, en route to a six-game victory in their first-round series. Just saying for no reason at all.
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https://deadspin.com/does-mlb-even-have-a-marketing-department-1847000695
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How Does Competitive Research Help In Strategic Planning?
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One of the foremost and extremely vital parts of strategic planning is studying the competitors, i.e. competitive research. Analyzing how your competitors operate, what their key strategies are, and also engaging in social media analytics , are just a few of the many parameters to consider here. These are not simply parameters to study; these are, in fact, the key performance indicators that will also help you to assess how your business is performing. Comparison and continuous improvement, by way of strategic planning, are the key to survival amidst a cut-throat competitive environment. And strategic planning can be taken to the next level with the help of in-depth competitive research. This is because competitive research Helps enhance services and products You are a part of this rat race where your competitors are launching ace products and services to serve the same set of audiences. Understanding their products and services or, what they are providing and how you can make your products and services stand out will help you go a long way. Look at the price points they offer, think whether or not you can incorporate a few more features, and remodel it to present it to your clients at a similar cost. Analyze how good that will do to your brand and adopt the changes accordingly. Helps bridge gaps in the marketplace There will be certain gray areas that your competitors might have overlooked. A detailed analysis will help you understand what is and what can be once your strategic planning gains traction and you start to reap the benefits by filling up those gaps aggressively. You can use a competitor map, a tool, to understand a lot about where your competitors are lagging. Help understand prevalent market trends Understanding the market trends is yet another part of your strategic planning that cannot be done without the support of competitive research. The market trends will tell you how to present your services/products to increase sales. It is also a necessary step that will tell you whether or not you need to enhance your products/services. Sometimes, going against the trend might prove beneficial, for instance, one might discover that every one of its competitors is selling croissants while a very limited yet loyal set of target customers who are looking for macaroons, and pretzels are left out. Now, the person will start selling macaroons and pretzels to get the left out and unnoticed segment into their pockets. Helps develop a solid marketing plan Today, as we know, marketers aim at providing value and ease to their customers. When a product or service is fortified with value, benefit, and ease, the desirability of the product or service increases tenfold. So, it is crucial to analyze the opponents initiatives taken to develop a given product or service. Understanding the buying sentiment of the customers is a vital step; what they think they are buying is far more significant than what they are investing in! Going through the client testimonials or reviews can help you understand how your competitors products or services are performing. You will also get to know a lot about the strengths and weaknesses of a product or service. For instance, a software developer may well understand what his competitors are presenting to their audience in the market. If one competitor claims that their software is convenient for customers to use, then note that their product highlights ease. Now, to counter this marketing strategy, the developer can remodel his software and ask the same set of target audiences to try it first and then believe in the usability of the software. To do this, he will start providing a get free trials option to the clients. When the software developer can vouch for his product, he can easily understand that people will come back to him after using the software. Strategic planning helps design market entry If you want to be successful in the market, your entry and product launching time need to be perfect. We know of companies who want their products to be launched in the market first. Some follow the first-movers in the market to see how the market is reacting to the products or services launched by the first-movers. Then they schedule their product launching strategy accordingly. By doing competitive analysis, you will be able to gather the schedule of all the product launches to compete with your opponents. This way, you will be able to establish a timeline of your own to plan the development of your product or service followed by the launching. Conclusion
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https://www.praguepost.com/business/how-does-competitive-research-help-in-strategic-planning
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What is known about the plan that ended Trujillo?
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Santo Domingo, DR. It has been 60 years since the end of a bloody regime in the Dominican Republic. On May 30, 1961, seven men executed dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. The attempt, planned for months, took place on May 30, 1961, on George Washington Avenue as the dictator was on his way to the Fundacin hacienda in his native San Cristbal. Those who participated in the plot against the satrap were men of his close circle, fed up with the dictators excesses of power and crimes. The so-called action or avenue group, responsible for the execution, was formed by Antonio de la Maza, Juan Toms Daz, Antonio Imbert Barrera, Modesto Daz, Pedro Livio Cedeo, Salvador Estrella Sadhal, Roberto Pastoriza, Huscar Tejeda and Lieutenant Amado Garca Guerrero, who was part of the Presidential Guard. In addition to those already mentioned, Luis Amiama Ti, Luis Manuel (Tunti) Cceres, and General Jos Ren (Pupo) Romn, head of the Armed Forces at the time, who was later accused of being a traitor, were also implicated in the plot. But none of these were present the night of the attack. The plan was to kidnap and imprison the dictator and then communicate it to the Minister of the Armed Forces, who would be in charge of carrying out a coup dtat the same night of the event. But nothing went as planned. On a daily basis, the Generalissimo traveled on Wednesdays from the then Trujillo City, today Santo Domingo, to San Cristobal to meet with young women, but on this occasion, it was a Tuesday. His customary military uniform for this kind of outings was the green flag that marked the beginning of the extermination. The dictator rode in a blue Chevrolet driven by his faithful driver Zacarias de la Cruz. Part of the conspirators followed him in another car, Chevrolet, but black; the rest waited in two other vehicles. When the lights of the car that would chase the Generalissimo went on and off three times, the others would move forward to block him. But the expected signal did not happen. Upon noticing that one of the vehicles was already pursuing the tyrant, the rest went ahead to make the planned blockade. The Chevrolet of the conspirators overtook the vehicle carrying the so-called benefactor of the homeland. In the middle of the maneuver, the first shot rang out, wounding the tyrant in the shoulder. Trujillos driver braked at the same time that the second shot was fired. When cornered, Trujillo preferred to fight and die in combat. He opened the door and got out, firing his revolver. He died on the asphalt, riddled with bullets. About 60 shots hit the vehicle, six hit the body of the dictator, and seven hit his driver, who survived the ambush, resulting in a loose end that cost the lives of most of the executioners. The last shots were fired between Antonio de la Maza and Antonio Imbert Barreras, and before the satrap died, Imbert exclaimed: This guaraguao does not eat chicken anymore. After being arrested, Pedro Livio Cedeo said during an interrogation that the M-1 automatic rifles they used had been supplied by personnel close to the U.S. embassy in the country. Pedro Livio Cedeo was the first to be wounded during the confrontation and the first to be captured by the Military Intelligence Service (SIM). While receiving medical attention, he was tortured in the clinic by Johnny Abbes. According to journalistic records, Dr. Jos Joaqun Puello testified that the only phrase that came out of his mouth was: Cunt, we killed him like a dog, and I wish he would live again to kill; him again. Although they were unable to follow through with the second part of the plan, which was to carry out a coup dtat and lead the country out of Trujillos clutches, these men ended an era of repression marked by imprisonment, torture, and assassinations. Trujillos death put an end to 31 years of dictatorship, violence, and abuses against the citizenry.
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https://dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2021/05/30/what-is-known-about-the-plan-that-ended-trujillo/
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Should Dak Have A Bigger Say In Cowboys Decisions?
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Such a notion is, after all, very much in vogue now in the NFL, where headlines and storm clouds gather over Seattle, Green Bay and Houston because of conflict regarding the issue of QB power. I trust the people around here that have those titles and have those positions to do what they need to, Prescott said, waving off the idea that he needs more front-office pull. And I feel like they do ask me and bring me into the loop on things when they feel like they should.'' And there is the key: With subtlety and without storm clouds, Dak Prescott already has a voice that is listened to, all the way up to the Jones family. Listen closely over the years and you will note Jerry and Stephen Jones referring to Troy Aikman, Tony Romo and now Dak as, essentially, business partners. That is the nature of the leadership position at QB - and it's also the result of paying Prescott $160 million in his new four-year contract. There are issues in other NFL cities with exactly how to do this. Seahawks QB Russell Wilson has made noises about wanting to get out because he wants a bigger voice in the playbook. Aaron Rodgers perpetually feels unloved by Packers management and seems steadfast in his trade wish. Deshaun Watson feels betrayed by Texans management as it fudged on its pledge to include him in front-office hirings, and along with his legal limbo, wants to escape Houston. READ MORE: Dak's OTAs: 'I'm Pretty Much Full-Go,' Says Dallas QB "I dont want to ever begin to compare whats going on here in Dallas and how we handle things to other organizations,'' said Prescott, who is busying himself with his successful pretty much full-go'' rehab following 2020 season-ending ankle surgery. "We have a great relationship.'' Prescott is the highest-paid player in franchise history. That's a good start to a "good relationship'' with the front office. It's not an issue in Dallas, as it is elsewhere, because Dak Prescott, to his satisfaction, already has that voice.
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https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dak-prescott-bigger-say-dallas-cowboys-decisions
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Does Rhule See Brady Christensen as a Guard?
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Carolina head coach Matt Rhule may have an idea of where the rookie from BYU will fit best. Coming into the 2021 NFL Draft, the Carolina Panthers knew they needed to add some depth to the offensive line and create some competition at both tackle and guard. In the third round, the Panthers made a trade with the Philadelphia Eagles in order to move up and select BYU offensive tackle Brady Christensen. Since the Panthers have made that pick, there has been a lot of speculation as to whether or not Carolina will leave him at left tackle or kick him inside to guard. Earlier this week, the Panthers released a behind-the-scenes video documenting the draft. At one point, head coach Matt Rhule was discussing with GM Scott Fitterer about trading up to get Christensen and may have given a small hint as to where they see him settling in at position-wise. "Remember, we have Brady Christensen. Third-round tackle, second-round guard." Now, obviously, this doesn't necessarily mean that they like Christensen more at guard but it could mean they think he has a higher ceiling at that spot. However, it may not mean anything at all because they may have had more tackles rated ahead of him on their big board but not guards. Regardless of what the Panthers plan to do with him, Christensen will be ready and prepared to step in and produce. Yeah, Im trying to prepare for a little bit of everything," Christensen told reporters earlier this month. "Im just trying to be the best version of me at any position they want me to play, so Im trying to learn every spot and be ready to go in and compete and excited to do so. Im really open to playing at anything. Obviously theres a ton of carryover from position to position. As an offensive lineman, its different at each position, but youve got to have great feet, whether youre playing at guard or tackle. Youve got to be physical, youve got to be able to run off the ball, thats a big thing were focusing on right now is just running off the ball and being really physical. So you need that at all five spots and I feel like I can do that, whether it be right tackle or left guard, I feel like I can do those things. You can follow us for future coverage by clicking "Follow" on the top righthand corner of the page. Also, be sure to like us on Facebook & Twitter: Facebook - @PanthersOnSI Twitter - @SI_Panthers and Schuyler Callihan at @Callihan_.
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https://www.si.com/nfl/panthers/gm-report/does-rhule-see-brady-christensen-as-a-guard
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Is it convenient to educate through entertainment?
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It seems that it is a fight between staunch rivals. In one corner is education, which, by definition, involves concentration of attention. In the other corner, entertainment, associated rather with the opposite: the fragmentation of attention. Yes, through the edutainment. It is a proposal in which teachings are transmitted through stories that capture the attention of students. This is not a new resource, since it has already been done for centuries with fables and childrens stories, but now it has more force, through digital media. We explain the Mnemonic Rules or how to train the brain to have a super memory The business of educating with anecdotes We are addicted to telling stories, our brain has been doing that for many years. Human beings learned through stories. The first survival exercises in the human being were made through stories that were easy to tell from generation to generation , he talks in an interview for Tec Review, Juan Luis Rodriguez Pons, content director of Grand Masters, edutainment digital platform. This communication expert recalls that the way children have been taught not to accept gifts from strangers is through the story of Snow White. We also learned about the importance of using quality materials through the history of The Three Little Pigs, there the issue is the convenience of using bricks in the construction of a house, he says. However, Rodrguez recognizes that classical education for adults, that received for example in a university, in which there are curricula subdivided not into stories of dwarfs or talkative animals, but into themes and subtopics of abstract themes, is irreplaceable. Formal education is always going to be a very important foundation, but edutainment is for those who want to nurture their life of experiences and are eager for applicable and exciting knowledge. Even in an after-dinner it will serve to make a conversation much more interesting, clarifies Rodrguez. Through personal anecdotes told by experts such as Jos Hernndez, astronaut; Hugo Sanchez, ex-footballer; or Antonio del ValleAs an entrepreneur, people can acquire useful knowledge to, respectively, know how to persist in a scientific vocation, how to excel in the world of sports or how to succeed in an endeavor. These are just a few of a total of 10 famous mentors who on the Grand Masters platform tell edutainment-style stories. The annual membership has a special price of $ 95. The sessions, divided into chapters, last between two and five hours; They are developed in a very intimate tone, as if one had the unique opportunity to spend a day with each of those great mentors, and it is a very calm and leisurely conversation, explains Rodrguez. Yuya, youtuber; Jose Ramon Fernandez, sportscaster; Y Edgar Nunez, a professional chef, are some of the other mentors who share their secrets in this digital proposal launched this May. The objective of Grand Masters is to generate audiovisual content that enriches people. The approach is to attend to what the student wants to know and find the best way to narrate it , Juan Luis talks. Fun is not fought with knowledge The narrative is the element that, according to two professors consulted by Tec Review, is key to crystallize a style of edutainment, even within the university. Francisco Orozco, Director of the Accounting and Finance Department, North Region, in the Tecnolgico de Monterrey, affirms that to achieve this it is necessary to take the elements of storytelling to narrate a story within the class, without neglecting the essential objective: the content of the subject. Its a mixture of 60% knowledge and 40% entertainment, because if we go to 50 and 50 it would no longer be a class, it would seem more like a comedy monologue. Whereas if we put the percentages the other way around (60% entertainment and 40% knowledge), there would not be so much time to teach the content, because the teacher would be more busy with the elements that are outside the sphere of knowledge , details this academic. By the way, Orozco speaks from his own experience, since he says that on one occasion he put on the mask of the Anonymous hacker, a very popular character on social networks. The goal: to cause an emotional impact that would lead his accounting students to prepare more thoroughly for the delivery of a final paper. They were scared and now they have started to work, says this academic. @profejuanjiAcademia de ## teachers part 2 ## humor ## thingsofprofes ## yosoycreador ## students Dynamite BTS Classes with a tiktokero touch Edutainment is in fashion, even on TikTok you can find teachers who give some teaching in a fun way. One of them is Juan Jose Holgun, professor of marketing at Tec de Monterrey, Hidalgo campus. Better known as @profejuanji in that famous social network, Juan Jos makes short videos in which he tells, in a comical way, the flats that the practice of teaching at the university level entails. A few months ago I uploaded a video of what we teachers keep quiet and at that time it collected 350,000 views. Now I have 400 thousand followers on the account and I keep uploading videos with little bits of my classes , Juan Jos talks. Holgun comments that his subject, marketing, lends itself to using innovative digital resources to attract the attention of students, as this can later become a more formal topic of analysis during classes. Its about changing the stimulus. This gives the students a lot of learning experience , concludes this teacher and tiktoker.
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https://www.explica.co/is-it-convenient-to-educate-through-entertainment-tec-review.html
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Who cut the wires of Har Nof's eiruv?
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Last Friday, notices were posted in the streets of the Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Nof, informing residents that the local eiruv had been damaged and therefore, it was not permitted to carry items beyond ones home for the duration of Shabbat until the eiruv was fixed. The notices were printed by the Beit Din of the Eidah Haharedit, after they learned that unknown vandals had deliberately cut the wires of the eiruv around the haredi neighborhood and that insufficient time remained before Shabbat began to fix them. We hereby announce that since malicious vandals have destroyed the eiruv of the Eidah Haharedit around Har Nof, and there was not enough time to fix it before Shabbat, this coming Shabbat the eiruv is not operative in the Har Nof neighborhood, the notices read. An eiruv is a halakhic device that permits Jews to carry objects beyond their private residences on Shabbat. In most cases, it is constructed using wires strung between poles to demarcate the area included within its boundaries.
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https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307156
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Who is Carrie Symonds?
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A former Conservative Party communications chief, Carrie Symonds is now the wife of Prime Minister Boris Johnson after the pair held a secret wedding at Westminster Cathedral on Saturday. Ms Symonds first found herself making headlines when she was romantically linked to Mr Johnson, and has more recently been in the spotlight following the birth of their baby boy and rumours about her influence inside Number 10. On April 29 last year, Ms Symonds gave birth to her first child, Wilfred, in the same month Mr Johnson was taken into hospital with coronavirus. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Carrie Johnson in the garden of 10 Downing Street after their wedding on Saturday Credit: Rebecca Fulton/Downing Street/PA Later in 2020, she made her first joint television appearance with Mr Johnson to thank NHS workers for treating him in hospital and delivering their baby. In 2021, Ms Symonds was appointed head of communications for animal conservation group the Aspinall Foundation, which is under investigation for "serious concerns" over its "governance and financial management" by the Charity Commission. The Government watchdog said it began probing the foundation in July 2020 in relation to claims of "unauthorised trustee benefit", but added the launch "is not a finding of wrongdoing". Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his then fiancee Carrie Symonds arrive to cast their vote during local elections in May Credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA A spokesman for the charity, which has launched its own internal review led by independent specialists, said it was "firmly committed to its ethical and legal duties as a charitable body". Ms Symonds has also clashed with the Prime Ministers former top aide Dominic Cummings, who alleged she had distracted Mr Johnson from the pandemic by "going crackers" over "trivial" stories about them in the press. Carrie Symonds has been accused of trying to influence Government hiring and appointments Credit: Victoria Jones/PA Mr Cummings also accused her of trying to change appointments and get her friends jobs, and confirmed his resignation was "definitely connected" to this. Tory think tank The Bow Group has also said an inquiry should look at Ms Symonds "possible influence" in Government hiring and appointments. This came after two of her allies, Baroness Finn and Henry Newman, were appointed as key advisers in No 10. The public relations expert had been in the so-called Westminster Bubble for most of her remarkably ascendant career, a high-point being made head of party PR aged just 29. In 2018, PR Week listed her in its top 10 figures in political communications second only to No10 chief Robbie Gibb. Prior to the role, Ms Symonds was a special adviser to Sajid Javid during his tenure as communities secretary after a similar stint as John Whittingdales "spad" (special adviser) during his time at the top of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport. The Prime Ministers wife Carrie Symonds, pictured with the family dog Dilyn, has had several jobs in the world of communications. Credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA She also worked on Zac Goldsmiths failed bid to succeed Mr Johnson as London mayor. Ms Symonds joined the Tory party media machine in 2009, first as a press adviser, then head of broadcast at Conservative Campaign Headquarters ahead of the 2015 general election. Her association with Mr Johnson dates back to the early years, having worked on his successful re-election bid at City Hall in 2012. Prior to political PR, Ms Symonds had several jobs in the world of commercial communications and marketing. Ms Symondss acquaintance with the media and national discourse has a familial link. She is the daughter of Matthew Symonds, a co-founder of The Independent, and Josephine Mcaffee who was one of the papers lawyers. Ms Symonds graduated from the University of Warwick with a bachelors degree in theatre studies and history of art in 2009.
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https://www.itv.com/news/2021-05-30/who-is-carrie-symonds
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Is it time to forget Do not forget slogan?
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By Christos P. Panayiotides The slogan Do not forget emblazoned over a map of Cyprus dripping blood was created by the well-known communication consultant Nicos Demou, in the course of the second phase of the Turkish invasion in August 1974. I am of the opinion that the image and the slogan associated with it have not served any real purpose. Quite the contrary, they have damaged the national cause. They have not served any real purpose because it is nave to argue that anyone who experienced the horror of that war and the pain that was inflicted on the people of Cyprus, would ever forget that experience. The anguish and the despair caused during those agonising days will never be forgotten, nor will the fact that those ugly events were initiated by a group of insane people who launched an insane coup detat. The truth is that the slogan has had and probably continues to have a negative impact in two ways. The first and most important one is that the slogan projects a goal that can easily be attained, thus allowing complacency. The message is clear: You do not have to do anything beyond ensuring that you do not forget. By doing this, your obligation to discharge a national duty is exhausted. Ensuring that the wounds do not heal is the other problem. The dripping blood visually ensures that the wounds remain open for a very long time. As I have said on numerous occasions, I have the impression that many of our compatriots, while strongly in favour of the reunification of Cyprus, hesitate to attempt it because they are afraid. This fear is systematically cultivated by most mass media and by all the political parties of Cyprus, without exception. They consistently remind us what a bad country Turkey is and how much of a sultan its leader is. There is no doubt that our neighbouring country is confronted by problems: those associated with the democratisation of its society; of modernising its economy; of repositioning itself in the world as well as in the Eastern Mediterranean. But equally indisputable is the fact that Turkey is a large country with notable potential and capabilities, a country that is located in a region of great strategic importance. The critical question for the Greek people is whether the basic goal of Turkey is to enslave Greece and Cyprus and to force Greeks to become subservient objects of a new Ottoman empire or whether it is willing to compromise and to cooperate with its neighbours. Most Greek Cypriots fear that the former is the correct response to the question. I do not have a basis on which I can argue that these fears are foolish and unjustified. What is, however, clear in my mind is that we have not consistently and honestly sought to formulate and secure the framework that would have promoted the desired level of cooperation between the two communities. In my opinion, this failure was partly caused by the significant negative role the slogan Do not forget has played, indiscriminately placing all Turkish Cypriots and all their leaders in the same basket. There is little doubt that extremist elements do exist within the Turkish Cypriot community, as they do within the Greek Cypriot community, but it is equally certain that there are many serious and responsible Turkish Cypriots who are not at all happy with the current situation in northern Cyprus. These are the people that the Greek Cypriot leadership must approach, with genuine interest and a commitment to a constructive approach, in contrast to the prevailing confrontational mentality, which rests on the belief that every gain of the Turkish Cypriots is by definition a loss for the Greek Cypriots and vice-versa. The time for formulating and implementing a new approach in resolving the Cyprus problem is running out.
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https://cyprus-mail.com/2021/05/30/is-it-time-to-forget-do-not-forget-slogan/
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Can exports cushion a sagging economy?
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NEW DELHI : Skier Export and Import Pvt. Ltd is a small textile unit that makes towels, blankets, and bedsheets in a factory in Ghaziabad on eastern edge of New Delhi, and exports them to foreign markets, including the US and Europe. Vikas Singh Chauhan, who handles international business at the firm, which records annual sales in the range of 20 crore, is suddenly confronted with a problem of plenty. Skier has been flooded with more orders from overseas buyers than it can possibly meet, said Chauhan. Last time we saw this type of orders, it was five years ago," he added. At a time when Indias domestic demand is muted due to persisting covid-induced caution and regional lockdowns, exports are emerging as a surprising silver lining. Led by engineering goods, gems and jewellery, and pharmaceuticals, exports grew more than 60% year-on-year to a record $34.5 billion in March and earned a robust $32 billion in April, the first month of fiscal year 2021-22. While the figures for May are expected to slip a bit due to movement restrictions, the March and April shipments have given rise to optimism about the short- and medium-term prospects. The reason: global demand, particularly in the West, is recovering much faster. In FY20, Indias overall exports (by value) plunged by 7.3% to $291 billion. But, this year, exporters and government policymakers have seen enough signs of a rebound that a steep target has been setat least $400 billion. Biswajit Dhar, professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, said in the short run, the surge in external demand is a window of opportunity for the Indian economy. Domestic demand is not going to pick up soon. So, foreign demand will be critical for the economy." Minister of commerce and industry Piyush Goyal recently picked pharmaceuticals, engineering goods, auto components, fisheries and agricultural products as the key focus areas. V-shaped mirage Most economic forecasters have begun to pare Indias FY22 growth projections, holding that the earlier presumption of a swift V-shaped economic recovery is unlikely to be realized since a second covid-19 wave has abruptly cut short a nascent economic recovery. Moodys Investors Service, for instance, has slashed its FY22 growth forecast for India to 9.3% from the earlier estimate of 13.7%. S&P Global Ratings expects Indias gross domestic product (GDP) to expand by 9.8% in a moderate" scenario and 8.2% under a severe" scenario. The rapid spread of the virus into the hinterland, which has rudimentary healthcare infrastructure, has added to the uncertainty about the economys growth trajectory in the months ahead. In sharp contrast, the key export markets for Indiasuch as the US and the European Union (EU)are experiencing a strong economic rebound, boosted by a $1.9 trillion fiscal stimulus programme by the Joe Biden-led US administration and a sharp drop in covid-19 infections. An accelerating vaccination drive and the easing of lockdowns has led to a rebound in household confidence levels in the US and Europe to well above the pre-pandemic levels. Morgan Stanley has projected the US and the EU to grow by 7.5% (the fastest since 1984) and 3.5%, respectively, in 2021. According to the World Trade Organization (WTO), prospects of a rapid recovery in global trade has improved as merchandise trade expanded quicker than expected in the second half of 2020. According to the new WTO estimates, the volume of global merchandise trade is expected to increase by 8% in 2021 after having fallen 5.3% in 2020. The pandemic-induced collapse had clearly bottomed out by the second quarter of last year. Indian ratings agency Crisil Ltd wrote in a recent research note that Indian exports were above their pre-pandemic levels and the momentum remains strong. Faster recovery in advanced economies will spur global demand in the second half of 2021, thereby supporting Indias exports (too)," it added. To be sure, India has a paltry share of the worlds merchandise exports, at 1.7%as against Chinas 13.2%. Indias share of global services exports is 3.5%, compared to Chinas 4.6%. But despite this limitation, Indias exportsboth merchandise and servicesas a share of the domestic GDP are around 20%, and their performance is a key factor in overall economic expansion, particularly at a time when other growth cylinders arent firing. Although the economy is primarily driven by domestic demand, exports can offset a slump in the home market to some extent. Demand environment The product composition of Indias export basket has remained largely unchanged in the past five years, with petroleum and mineral products, precious stones and metals, and chemicals and textiles making up the largest chunk. The share of machinery and electrical equipment has increased during the last five years, reflecting, in part, a shift towards medium technology exports that involve greater local value addition. Over the past few months, the US has emerged as the main destination for Indian exports after Britain exited the EU, which is now the No.2 market. Around a third of the countrys exports are destined for other nations in Asia, where the principal markets remain China, Hong Kong and Singapore. The share of Indias exports destined for the Middle East (West Asia) and Africa has been declining. India has a net surplus in its services trade, in which the main components are computer, information and telecommunications services. Travel services and transportation are other key services exports. A spokesperson for the National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) said although the industry body has stopped making growth projections for the information technology (IT) sector, the demand environment looks very healthy for FY22. Of course, the healthcare situation in key Western markets will be a key determinant, the spokesperson said. In FY21, the IT sector grew by 2.3% to touch $194 billion of revenue in a demonstration of its resilience amid the first wave of the pandemic. Trade shy However, apart from the highly successful IT sector, Indian industry has been largely reluctant to look at opportunities beyond the shores, often content with serving the large domestic market. This is in sharp contrast to the growth model of China and other East Asian economies. Indias liberal foreign direct investment (FDI) policy has also not succeeded in orienting overseas inflows towards boosting exports. After a false start through Make In India in September 2014, the Narendra Modi government realized in its second term that without fiscal incentives, it is difficult to boost manufacturing and exports. It first offered a massive corporate tax rate cut in September 2019 and followed it up with sector-specific production linked incentives worth 2 trillion for 13 sectors under the Atmanirbhar Abhiyan last year. It has also hiked tariffs on one-third of its tradable goods in the last five years in order to protect domestic industry and to reduce import dependence. Indias average tariff increased to 14.3% in FY21 from 13% in FY15, with policymakers frequently using trade policy measures to encourage domestic production and curb inflation. That may now conflict with Indias plans to start negotiations on free trade agreements with the EU and the UK, which may require tariff elimination on up to 90% of product lines. Due to this mix-and-match approach, which has plagued trade policy for many years, Indias external posture remains obscure and seemingly inconsistent, wrote Suman Bery, a global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in a recent report published by the Hinrich Foundation. But it does appear that India is reducing its bets on integration with its East Asian neighbours and (is) investing greater energy in links with Europe and the US. The deeper message is that in its post-covid recovery, Indias pursuit of strategic trade and industrial policy means it prefers the flexibility offered by bilateral trade agreements over more ambitious regional structures (in Asia)," he added. The post-covid world may thus offer an opportunity for a clear break from the mish-mash approaches of the past. In a recent lecture, Arvind Panagariya, a trade economist and the first vice-chairman of Niti Aayog, said India needs to have an export policy which can help create a vast number of jobs, which come with attractive wages, in the lower end of the skill spectrum. The only way this can be accomplished is by creating an environment in which successful export-oriented firms can emerge and flourish in labour-intensive sectors such as apparel, footwear, furniture, toys, kitchenware, stationery, and simple electric and electronic devices. For instance, the global apparel market alone is worth $800 billion. If India could capture 15-20% of this market in the next decade, it could create millions of jobs at decent wages," he added. Immediate challenges Although states have not completely halted manufacturing activity during the second wave, many have put stringent conditions in placelike limiting the workforce to 50% (West Bengal) and making it mandatory to house workers within the factory premises (Karnataka). Luckily, we have not gone for a national lockdown. Also, the Centre has not restricted the inter-state movement of goods and most export-related services are in the exempt category, said Federation of Indian Export Organizations (FIEO) chief executive officer Ajay Sahai. So, this time we are not facing many challenges with logistics as was the case in the first wave. But one cannot deny that when you are facing such a virulent second wave, there is bound to be some impact," he added. Many workers, for instance, have returned to their villages, resulting in localized labour shortages. Oxygen has also been in short supply. It is a key input both in the steel and automobile industry. The ban on the supply of industrial oxygen is threatening to bring the metal works industry to a standstill because pre-heated metal cannot be cut without oxygen, said former chairman of the Engineering Export Promotion Council of India Anupam Shah, who is concerned about how that will affect engineering exporters who are flush with orders from overseas. If the oxygen ban is not lifted soon, there will be a long-term damage because our customers from developed countries are going back to China and Brazil, and getting a customer back once you lose them is very difficult," he said. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that contribute roughly 40% to Indias exports are, meanwhile, battling liquidity challenges. After losing a case at the WTO, the commerce ministry has stopped the Merchandise Export Incentive Scheme (MEIS) that used to offer sops to exporters. The government replaced it with the WTO-compatible Remission of Duties and Taxes on Exported Products (RoDTEP) scheme starting 1 January, but is yet to finalize the incentive rates for exports, making it ineffective. Exporters claim that 10,000 crore is still pending with the government under the MEIS for FY21 and around 4,000 crore on account of the RoDTEP for the first four months of the calendar year 2021. The government has also not yet notified the Service Exports from India Scheme (SEIS) since FY20, denying incentives to sectors like travel and tourism, healthcare, and education. We understand the governments concern that at this point of time, providing health and creating health infrastructure should be the priority. We are not looking at new incentives or fiscal support. But we expect the money that is stuck with the government to be released on a priority basis. Then, the liquidity situation would ease significantly," the FIEOs Sahai said. Meanwhile, at the Skier textile factory in Ghaziabad, Chauhan is cautiously optimistic that the order influx would last. We have a duty disadvantage of around 8% as against our competitors in Pakistan, Vietnam, and Bangladesh," he said. But the high freight cost of the past few months is moderating and yarn prices are also easing. Our Christmas orders will start arriving from the end of May and last till September. If cases come down and if the government supports us, our exports can double." Subscribe to Mint Newsletters * Enter a valid email * Thank you for subscribing to our newsletter.
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Why did the chicken wear red eyeglasses?
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In the early 1900s, chicken farmers had a major problem. Their chickens were killing each other! The chickens had a tendency to attack their housemates by pecking away at an injured birds feathers, devouring its flesh and eventually killing the attacked bird. Once a chicken was wounded, a strange thing happened. The sight of blood encouraged the entire flock to peck at the injured one, leading to an inevitable death. They made their chicken wear red eyeglasses! The insight was simple. The sight of red-coloured blood intensified the pecking instinct in chickens. The red eyeglasses tricked the chicken from seeing the red colour of the blood, thus reducing pecking and even cannibalism. Suddenly, each one became a good neighbour with a rosier outlook! While the equity markets tend to deliver over long periods, it has its own version of red blood every yearthe scary temporary declines. The accompanying chart shows the largest fall recorded during each year for the Sensex, i.e. the fall from the highest index value to the lowest index value during the year. As seen from the red bars, equity markets had a temporary fall each and every year. You read it right. There was not a single year where the markets did not have a temporary fall. Similar to the chicken, most of us have this tendency to peck at our portfolios (trying to time the markets by moving out and in) at the first signs of red in our equity portfolios. As with the attacked chicken, we all know what happens to our portfolio returns in the end. These red eyeglasses based on history simply let us know that a 10-20% temporary fall is almost a given every year. Inevitably, there is always some new bad news leading to these temporary falls each and every year. While every fall looks like the start of a large market crash, more often than not, its just the usual 10-20% temporary decline. Assume, once we wear the new metaphorical red lens, the 10-20% temporary decline that occurs almost every year becomes invisible when it comes to our portfolio decisions. Rather, the new lens allows us to unsee these temporary declines by enduring them as a fee to be paid for long-term returns and lets us peacefully continue with our long-term asset allocation. Using history as a rough guide, once every 7-10 years, equity markets have seen sharp temporary falls of 30-60%. While the historical pattern may or may not repeat, this is a reasonable expectation to have. A 10-20% fall would be considered as normal equity market volatility and requires no major action. However, if there is a larger fall that our metaphorical lens wont be able to see beforehand, it is better to be prepared with a preloaded plan to take advantage of the crash without panicking. Pre-decide a portion of your debt allocation (say Y) to be deployed into equities if in case the market corrects. If the equity market falls by ~20%, move 20% of Y into equities; if the equity market falls by ~30%, move 30% of Y into equities; if the equity market falls by ~40%, move 40% of Y into equities; if the equity market falls by ~50%, move the remaining portion from Y into equities. Instead of perennially worrying that every 10-20% decline might become the big one, the new metaphorical lens can help us accept and endure this as the normal temporary decline to be expected every year. Further, if the temporary decline becomes more severe, we are also prepared with the preloaded plan to take advantage of the not-so-frequent market crashes and convert it into an opportunity. This simple thought process of accepting, enduring and taking advantage of temporary declines can help us stick to our asset allocation plan and let compounding work its magic over the long term. Arun Kumar R. is head of research, FundsIndia. Subscribe to Mint Newsletters * Enter a valid email * Thank you for subscribing to our newsletter.
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What Is Craniosacral Therapy?
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WHEATLAND The old nursing home is being put to good use by housing the brand new Physical Therapy Department at Platte County Memorial Hospital. They just held a public open house to show off the new room with lots of natural light and plenty of space to allow for social distancing. There is three-times the equipment they had before in their previous location and there is still room to move around. There is a private consultation room and a dedicated wound-care space for certified Wound Care Specialist Jeff Nielsen to work. Therapist Jacob Lee has been certified to perform dry needling. According to the Mayo Clinic, Dry needling is a treatment performed by trained physical therapists who use a thin needle to penetrate into underlying muscular tripper points to help with pain and movement impairments.
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https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2264437432046/what-is-craniosacral-therapy
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What will be the size of Battlegrounds Mobile India (PUBG Mobile)?
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Indian PUBG Cell followers had been blown away by the announcement of Battlegrounds Cell India. Theyd been extraordinarily overjoyed about the actual fact that their most well-liked title may perchance be returning quickly after a protracted absence. A number of different difficult tendencies occupy taken state of affairs, and the beginning up of the pre-registration route of turned as soon as one among them. As nicely, the pre-registration trailer starring Dynamo, Kronten, and Jonathan with Arshad Warsi obtained a gargantuan response, accumulating better than 12 million views. Furthermore, a number of maps occupy been teased by art work on the video video games social media platforms. Furthermore examine: PUBG Cell influencer Maxtern apparently reveals Battlegrounds Cell India launch date, and it suits Ghataks ticket Anticipated file size of Battlegrounds Cell India The size of Battlegrounds Cell India is one different subject that may be very regularly mentioned amongst the players. The well-known PUBG Cell caster, Ocean Sharma, aka Gamingpro Ocean, has answered assorted queries, along with one among the sports size. (aggressive, avenue contrivance, worthy further), Ocean turned as soon as quoted the subsequent about the size: BGMIs size may perchance moreover differ from 660 MB to 750 MB. After that, with the procure of the useful resource packs, itd perchance further enlarge. (From 3: 30 3: 40) Alternatively, Ocean additionally mentioned that the first-time procure may perchance moreover very efficiently be higher by method of size. Subsequently, consistent with him, the anticipated file can lie between 660 and 750 MB. Minimal requirements As per the Google Play Retailer description for Battlegrounds Cell India, the instructed draw requirements are as follows: BATTLEGROUNDS MOBILE INDIA instructed machine requirements: Android 5.1.1 or above and as a minimal 2 GB RAM memory. If the mobiles of the players meet these requirements, theyre going to be able to dart Battlegrounds Cell India. Pre-registration hyperlink, rewards, and social media handles $3 $3 $3 Right heres the hyperlink to the Google Play Retailer net web page of Battlegrounds Cell India, the place clients can pre-register: Given beneath are the rewards that the builders occupy supplied for all other people who pre-register for BGMI: Recon Conceal Recon Outfit Birthday celebration Knowledgeable Title 300 AG Prospects can defend be aware of the whole information in the sport by following its social media handles: Internet pages: Click on right here Fb: Click on right here Instagram: Click on right here YouTube channel: Click on right here Discord server: Click on right here Furthermore examine: All capability Battlegrounds Cell India launch dates leaked on the net Sign In/ Sign As lots as Reply
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How to reach Amazon's customer care service?
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As some of you like me would have experienced, if you encounter any exceptional issues with purchases on Amazon, for which you need to contact the customer care service of Amazon, you seem to hit a wall. This is because Amazon's website seem to prevent you from accessing the contact information of its customer care service right away. Also, if you search on the web about this, there isn't really any clear consensus about how to reach Amazon's customer care service. This is especially difficult in non-US countries, as there is a flood of information regarding Us's amazon.com, but hardly anything for Amazon's service in non-US countries. On the Amazon's website, the options that are supposed to take you to the customer care service will often either take you back to your order information, or move you in circles thorough their FAQ pages. In my own experience, and I would imagine in others too, this is truly frustrating you to the point that you'd want to give up on troubleshooting your purchases. I think this question is relevant to this channel. So putting this issue up for discussion here in this channel might be helpful for some.
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https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/141279/how-to-reach-amazons-customer-care-service
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Who are Gwen Shamblin Laras children?
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GWEN Shamblin Lara, who was killed in a plane crash on May 29, 2021, was survived by two adult children. She was one of seven people to lose their lives when their Cessna C501 crashed into Percy Priest Lake near Smyrna, Tennessee. Gwen Shamblin Lara has two children with first husband David Shamblin - Michael Shamblin and Elizabeth Hannah. Gwen was married to David Shamblin from 1978 until 2018. She would then tie the knot with Joe Lara, who was also tragically killed in the plane crash. Gwen Shamblin Lara was a Christian diet guru who founded the Remnant Fellowship Church, based in Tennessee, in 1999. The small plane carrying the seven people was reportedly bound for Palm Beach International Airport in Florida. The aircraft was registered to JL&GL Productions LP, which the Laras owned together, according to WTVF. 3 Gwen Shamblin Lara and husband Joe Credit: Facebook Gwen's daughter Elizabeth reportedly sent out a text message to Remnant church members asking for prayers following the crash. She said that the plane had to go down "for a controlled, quick landing," according to the outlet. Hannah also said that the Laras were on the plane with other church leaders including her own husband, Brandon. "More information to come, but be in prayer - and be at peace," Hannah's message continues. "GOD IS IN CONTROL, and we will not stop moving forward with WHAT GOD WANTS with this church." Elizabeth wrote on the Remnant website that she and Brandon were married in 2003. 3 Gwen Shamblin Lara Credit: gwenshamblinlara/Instagram "Our precious children consist of Grace, Gweneth, Gloria and Charles Grantham," she wrote in her online bio. "My family LOVES God, and my children LOVE to get on their knees and pray every morning and night with us. "All we strive for is to DO the will of God and pass that down to our children for nothing else has blessed us more than learning the BLESSINGS that come from obedience to God!!" She said that they helped to oversee and direct the youth group at the church. Michael Shamblin, Gwen's other offspring, has four children with his wife Erin. The seven killed were Brandon Hannah, Gwen and Joe Lara, David L. Martin, Jennifer J. Martin, Jessica Walters and Jonathan Walters. There were no survivors. Our efforts have transitioned from a rescue effort to that of a recovery effort. ... We are no longer ... looking for live victims at this point, said Rutherford County Fire Rescue Captain Joshua Sanders.
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https://www.the-sun.com/news/2984468/gwen-shamblin-lara-children-tragic-plane-crash/
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Can We Please Stop With the Ted Bundy Movies?
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Few criminals of the past century have struck fear into the hearts of people quite like Ted Bundy. His very name has become synonymous with a certain kind of evil: brutal, merciless, concealed by irresistible charm. During the 1970s, Bundy kidnapped, raped, and murdered numerous girls and young women. He eventually confessed to no fewer than 30 homicides, committed across several states, but the true total of his victims remains unknown. Some investigators speculate it could be in the hundreds. After a years' long reign of terror, Bundy was eventually brought to justice. During his trial, the myth of Bundy as a handsome and charismatic figure who wooed everyone around him took root in the media and public consciousness. His showboating on the stand was reported on in agonizing detail, including a moment wherein he proposed to his girlfriend while she testified on his behalf.
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https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2264458223662/can-we-please-stop-with-the-ted-bundy-movies
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Why Are So Many Decent People Single Nowadays?
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1. They have high expectations of their other half. When looking for a life partner, decent people will see if the other half is a good match for them. There may be many partial matches, but few perfect matches. 2. There are few quality people they can take a fancy to. The better the person, the fewer people of the same quality are around her, and the chances of meeting someone of her own calibre and developing a relationship are significantly lower. 3. They have high expectations of themselves and their future. They have goals they want to achieve in life and want to find someone who can make things happen for each other, not someone who will be a burden to them and hold them back. 4. They think there are other things in life that are more important than being in a relationship. They may be obsessed with their career, learning new skills and developing new hobbies, while a relationship may be seen as a waste of time and life. 5. They will carefully judge the sunk cost of being in a relationship. They will carefully assess the risks and benefits of a relationship and choose their partner carefully and deliberately, rather than just getting together with someone else. 6. They may already have someone in mind. This person may be someone she can never be with, but she is unwilling to find someone else to replace that person, so she stays single. 7. The person they like does not like them. The decent person may like someone who is better than her, but that person doesnt like her, and in that persons eyes, she may be an extremely ordinary person. The one who is not willing to settle for anything else will just wait and stays single. 8. They may not know what kind of partner they want. They may be good at business, friendships and platonic relationships, but not at romantic relationships and love. They also need to keep learning to get out of being single. In general, finding a partner is not like finding a job, and many people want to wait until they are good enough to find a good person to spend their lives with. But the reality is that by the time you are good enough, you will have missed the right person and will not be able to find another one. By: Marcus Okoebor
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https://niyitabiti.net/2021/05/why-are-so-many-decent-people-single-nowadays/
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Is Trulieve a Purchase After Acquiring Harvest Health & Recreation?
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$ 2.1 billion is hardly a pocket change. But an ambitious Florida marijuana business Cannabis Trulieve (OTC: TCNNF) pony such a bunch from his stock, anyway to buy a west coast peer Harvest health and recreation (OTC: HRVSF). As it reveals in this segment of Motley Fool LiveSeasoned Fool contributor Eric Volkman thinks its money (well, technically, company stock) well spent. He explains his reasons with Corinne Cardina, head of the health and cannabis office. This video was recorded on May 21. Eric Volkman: Yes. It is not a cheap stock, and it is not a cheap stock, as Trulieve, so far following Harvest, has been one of the very rare and very specials. They are hardly multistate. Outside of Florida up to Harvest again they only had small operations in places like Pennsylvania. But yes they were profitable, not always and because they were one of the few profitable MSOs investors really hung on to them. They are not cheap. But what I love about Trulieve is that they are very good at maintaining and even increasing their market share in Florida. They know their market very well and I think their strategy so far has been good for the places theyve ventured into places like Pennsylvania which are limited license states where you only have a little one. number of licenses and, consequently, theoretically low competition. I think Trulieve is expensive, but if a stock of marijuana is worth the price, its Trulieve. This profitability will be at stake with Harvest because Harvest, like many of its other peers, is consistently aprofitable. In their last reported quarter, the first quarter, they lost almost $ 23 million. Its not the end of the world, but with the merged company its going to affect the bottom line. However, they are progressing in terms of turnover. In their quarter they made almost $ 89 million and it was 27% higher quarter by quarter which is admirable for the most recent set of results it is higher and slightly more than double. from one year to the next. I think Trulieve gets one of the best assets and again I like the geographic and complementary nature of it. This article represents the opinion of the writer, who may disagree with the official recommendation position of a premium Motley Fool consulting service. Were motley! Challenging an investment thesis even one of our own helps us all to think critically about investing and make decisions that help us become smarter, happier, and richer. What Are The Main Benefits Of Comparing Car Insurance Quotes Online LOS ANGELES, CA / ACCESSWIRE / June 24, 2020, / Compare-autoinsurance.Org has launched a new blog post that presents the main benefits of comparing multiple car insurance quotes. 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What Does Justice for Sarah Halimi Mean?
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JNS.org There was a particularly nasty incident that was reported in the crime sections of the French press this week. It caught my eye because certain details were disturbingly reminiscent of the case of Sarah Halimi the 65-year-old Jewish woman brutally murdered in her Paris apartment in April 2017 by her antisemitic neighbor who, exactly four years later, was deemed to be criminally irresponsible for his act by Frances highest court, his consumption of marijuana on the night of the killing supposedly having eliminated his self-awareness. Mondays incident involved a 17-year-old girl and a 21-year-old man. As with the Halimi case, it occurred in the early hours of the morning, just before dawn, in a crowded inner-city neighborhood in eastern Paris. And again, as with the Halimi case, it was the harrowing screams of the female victim that woke up many of the residents of Place Jean-Ingres in Garges-ls-Gonesse, who then inundated the local police with emergency calls. Several of these residents who looked out of their windows, some holding cell-phone cameras, witnessed the man violently force the young woman to perform a sexual act. He punched and kicked his victim repeatedly, and then raped her as she lay helpless on the ground. Thankfully, and in marked contrast to their response in the Halimi case, police officers were reportedly on the scene within minutes of being alerted, and they acted immediately. They overpowered the male assailant, who by this time was naked from the waist down, and rushed his victim to hospital, where she presently remains alive but in severe shock. In the Halimi case, fearing that they were dealing with an armed Islamist terrorist, the police officers who arrived at the scene dithered outside her apartment while her accused killer, Kobili Traor, continued to beat his victim to death. Related coverage You Cant Be Even-Handed About Condemning Those Who Hate Israel and Jews JNS.org - On Thursday, both Democratic and Republican congressional leaders joined with the Anti-Defamation League and the major Jewish religious... The most striking overlap between the Halimi case and this one concerns the mental state of the assailant. Tests carried out by the police revealed that the accused rapist had just over 0.025 fluid ounces (0.75 grams) of alcohol in his blood a proportion that by American DUI law enforcement standards would be relatively low. Still, it was enough to indict the assailant on a charge of rape committed by a person in a state of obvious drunkenness. Nothing in the media reporting of this shocking episode suggests that the assailant will be able to take the path of drug-user Traor, whose chronic use of marijuana enabled him to cross the line drawn by the French penal code between intentional murder committed by the sane and unintentional murder committed by the insane. Police interviews with Traor, now 32, revealed that in his altered state, he had been traumatized by the sight of a menorah and Shabbat candles in Halimis apartment (Jewish symbols some called signs of the devil). As he beat Halimi before throwing her body out of a third-floor window, Traor screamed that she was Shaitan, Arabic for Satan. Using the same logic, the accused rapist described above should be able to make the same legal case. Our client was blind drunk, his lawyers might argue, and therefore not in control of his discernement (self-awareness). There was something about his victims dress or manner that traumatized him, they might add, and since he consumed one too many drinks that night (remember, Traors mindset was allegedly transformed by one acute delirious puff on a marijuana joint, according to the court ruling in the Halimi case), our client cannot be held criminally responsible for the appalling sexual abuse and physical violence he visited upon the victim, as this exact behavior was brought on by a state of alcoholic delirium. At this point, they would offer a solemn apology to the victims family, just as Traors lawyers did to the relatives of Sarah Halimi. But in the wake of the Halimi travesty, there is less patience now in France with the idea that mental breakdown caused by alcohol or drug use excuses someone from a criminal trial. The French Senate has just adopted the first draft of a bill that would amend the penal code by closing down this escape route for offenders. But all that, of course, comes too late for Halimi and her family. Traor never has to worry about facing a criminal trial in France. At the discretion of his doctors, he will probably be discharged from psychiatric hospital sooner rather than later, having already been released from the secure psychiatric unit where he was originally held more than a year ago. So, when we hear the worthy slogan Justice for Sarah Halimi, we are compelled to consider whether, realistically, those words mean anything. Justice, in the strictly legal sense of that word, has already been denied to her in France. The only other possible judicial avenues at this point are the European Court of Human Rights, which is a long shot, or putting Traor on trial in Israel under the Jewish states own antisemitism law, as some people have rather hopefully suggested; however, the French categorically dont do extraditions. At a recent online rally for Sarah Halimi, her son, Yonatan, delivered a stark message to French Jews. My mother always taught us to take responsibility. It is very difficult for us that today, the justice system, the authorities did not assume their own responsibility, he stated, adding, each of us should guarantee his own security because, unfortunately, security in France is not assured. Some might interpret that last line as a call for more communal self-defense; others might hear in it a cry for more aliyah to Israel; and still others might take it as a mere statement of fact. After all, less than a year after Sarah Halimi was murdered, another Jewish woman living alone in Paris 85-year-old Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll was robbed, stabbed to death, and then burned by two young men who preyed on her based on the conviction that Jews, because they are rich and mean with their pennies, always have plenty of cash squirreled away in their homes. France is in no position to guarantee that another atrocity of this kind wont happen again. Neither, frankly, is any other European country. True, because of Sarah Halimis terrible ordeal, its unlikely that a future killer in France will be able to turn a drug habit into legal good fortune and that is to be welcomed. However, as far the law is concerned, that may be all the justice there is. Ben Cohen is a New York City-based journalist and author who writes a weekly column on Jewish and international affairs for JNS.
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How many stepchildren does Carrie Symonds have after marrying Boris?
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Carrie, 33, has now become a step mum after marrying the prime minister Boris Johnson tied the knot with his new wife Carrie Symonds yesterday in a secret ceremony at Westminster Cathedral. The couple have already welcomed a son, Wilfred, who was born in April last year. And as Boris, 56, already has children from previous relationships, it means that Carrie, 33, is technically now a step mum. Johnson already had five known children, making the new addition to the family at least his sixth child. He shares four children with his former wife Marina Wheeler, who are all now in their twenties. In addition, he fathered another child, Stephanie Macintyre, after having an affair with art consultant Helen Macintyre while he was Mayor of London. There has also been speculation he may have had another child, however this has not been confirmed. Johnson has four children with his estranged wife Marina Wheeler (Picture: Rex Features) Lara Lettice is Johnsons oldest child (Picture: Getty Images) In 2019, LBC presenter Nick Ferrari asked him how many children he had and if he was fully involved in their lives. The prime minister responded: I love my children very much but they are not standing at this election. He declined to answer with an exact number. Boris and Marina couple announced the end of their marriage in September 2018 as his new relationship came to light. They agreed a divorce settlement in February last year. Lara Lettice, 28, is the former couples eldest child and works as a writer and broadcaster. After her parents marriage came to an end, she was reported to have called her dad a selfish b*****d and declared that her mum would never take him back. Milo Arthur, 25, is their second oldest child and the oldest of Johnsons sons. He graduated from Londons School of Oriental and African Studies in 2014 and speaks Arabic, Russian and French. Johnson is then father to Cassie Peaches, 23, who has also completed work as a writer, having previously been student editor of Highgate Schools alumni magazine, Cholmeleian. Theodore Apollo, 21, is the youngest of Johnson and Ms Wheelers children, and studied at Cambridge University. Milo Arthur, 25, is Johnsons oldest son (Picture: PA) Johnson and Ms Wheeler split in September 2018 (Picture: Rex Features) Theodore Apollo, 21, is Johnsons youngest child from his marriage (Picture: Rex Features) Boris Johnson had previously denied being Stephanies father, until a court battle in 2013 revealed he had sought an injunction to prevent knowledge her existence being reported in the media. Lawyers for the Daily Mail had argued it was in the public interest, as it was an issue of recklessness and whether on that account he was fit for public office. Johnson and his four oldest children are not believed to be involved in Stephanies life. Carrie shared an Instagram post of Wilfred yesterday Art advisor Helen Macintyre has a daughter Stephanie with Johnson (Picture: WireImage) Ms Symonds announced she was pregnant on Instagram (Picture: Reuters) Carrie shared a new photograph of her first child Wilfred, one, yesterday, showing the toddler in a patch of bluebells. He was born while Boris Johnson was in hospital with coronavirus. Carrie, a former Conservative Party communications chief, made her first joint television appearance with the PM to thank NHS workers for treating him in hospital and delivering their baby. Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at [email protected]. For more stories like this, check our news page.
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https://metro.co.uk/2021/05/30/how-many-stepchildren-does-carrie-symonds-have-after-marrying-boris-14677096/
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Is Microsoft Edge better than Google Chrome?
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Googles Chrome is arguably the most popular browser on both mobile and desktop. However, user concerns about Googles retention of the Internet and its sophisticated online tracking have led many to look for alternatives, and Microsofts edge browser is one of the major alternatives. is. That growth may be tied to the fact that Microsoft is promoting Edge to Windows 10 users in a big way, but its undeniable that browsers arent getting much better. Weve received a lot of new features since becoming a Chromium-based project. Over the past few months, Microsoft Edge has received some new features. Prior to the Build 2021 developer conference earlier this week, Microsoft will be coming to browsers with sleep tabs to fix Chromiums RAM-intensive tendency, new themes, and a startup booster that claims Edge will be the fastest browser on Windows. Announced major new features. ..Besides these, Edge[]Tabs can streamline your workflow, and Kids Mode can help parents prevent their children from accessing inappropriate content. Like Windows, the Edge browser has a rich suite of features for Android. Edge91 for desktop has recently added new features to help you save money while shopping online. This feature can also be accessed from the Edge Canary flag for Android. Recently, Microsoft added built-in screenshots and markup tools to Edge for Android to take screenshots on web pages, edit the screenshots, and share them with other apps. All of these additions to Microsoft Edge have made it an attractive alternative to Google Chrome. Features such as the Sleeping tab and Startup Booster are also suitable for resource-constrained systems. Let us know in the comments below! 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What's the Bears' most important position battle heading into training camp?
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There are plenty of positional battles that will be on display during Chicago Bears training camp in late July. From the battle at cornerback for the starting outside cornerback opposite Jaylon Johnson and the slot corner position to wide receiver to offensive tackle, there are starting spots and roster spots up for grabs. But according to Bleacher Report, Chicagos most important position battle is the one where the Bears arent leading anyone to believe theres going to be a competition the quarterback position. Nagy did mention that the team wants to utilize both quarterbacks this year, however, saying the coaching staff will implement strategies for each in the playbook. Nick Foles is also still on the roster, but barring injuries or unforeseen circumstances, the Super Bowl MVP isnt likely to see the field. Fields has the talent to be the next star quarterback in this leaguegiving the Bears the elite player under center it has long lackedbut hell need a standout training camp to usurp Dalton at the top of the depth chart. Chicago has already laid out the groundwork for the 2021 season, where the intent is to ride with veteran Andy Dalton while developing rookie Justin Fields. One thing is clear: The Bears dont want to make any mistakes when it comes to Fields development. They dont want to rush him, and they feel that Dalton is someone they can ride with while they develop their young quarterback. And while Fields has only practiced three times as a Bear during rookie minicamp he already looked calm and in control. Although, theres certainly a long way to go with Chicagos new quarterbacks both learning a new offense. While the Bears might not consider it to be a competition at quarterback heading into training camp, Fields performance might just turn it into one.
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https://bearswire.usatoday.com/2021/05/30/bears-training-camp-most-important-position-battle/
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Was Covid-19 A Failure Of Policy Or A Failure Of Information?
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Non-pharmaceutical interventions were critical to the control of Covid-19 prior to the development ... [+] of vaccines. getty Reasonable people disagree, but my opinion is that the Covid-19 epidemic in the US, which has taken at least 592,000 and possibly as many as 900,000 American lives to date, was avoidable. It is inevitable that new infectious diseases will emerge. What will be essential in the future is to prevent them from becoming as widespread in the population as Covid-19 has become. I was asked earlier today if I think the failure to prevent the Covid-19 epidemic in the US was a failure of policy or a failure of information. The answer is neitherand both. The question implies a binary answer, but we need to stop thinking of infectious disease intelligence and mitigation this way. Yes, the Covid-19 epidemic in the US was partly a failure of policy. There was a tremendous lack of coordination both in the US and internationally that could have been prevented. There was a 69-page pandemic playbook developed in 2016 by the Presidents Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, but it wasnt used. Perhaps part of the reason that our policy was ineffective was that we delayed taking action because we did not fully understand the virus we were up against. This could be viewed as a failure of information. Certainly, we did not have timely information during the early phases of transmission. But to say the fault lies here is mere finger-pointing. Complete information is never available during crises and if our society requires complete information to take action we will be routinely overwhelmed. The fog of war is just as real in epidemics as it is in wars against human adversaries. What is needed is a paradigm for decision-making under uncertainty. Such frameworks are not unfamiliar. They already underlie national intelligence assessments and virtually all actuarial analysis. A plethora of conceptual frameworks exist for such decision making, including maximization of expected future value, robust optimization, info-gap decision theory, and adaptive management. Learning from near misses In addition to learning from Covid-19, we must learn from near misses as well. And there have been several. In 2009, a new strain of influenza A originating in North America caused a worldwide pandemic. We were lucky that this particular strain wasnt nearly as lethal as some of the avian influenza viruses that are also considered to have pandemic potential. In the introduction to an after action report titled 2009 H1N1 Influenza Improvement Plan, former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius Kathleen Sebelius at the Aspen Institute on June 26, 2015 WireImage noted that preparedness is a process, not an end-state. The US experience with Covid-19 (and the experience of much of the rest of the world as well), seems to suggest that we have forgotten this fact. The report goes on to say, euphemistically: The real-world test of the 2009 H1N1 response provided valuable insight into the scope of previous planning and emphasized the need for continued planning and implementation efforts that focus on a broad range of scenarios, including differing severity levels. Given the near complete failure to mitigate the 2009 flu pandemic, this statement translates we werent ready and wed better be much more prepared next time. The 2009 experience is particularly pertinent because the transmission of influenza is very similar to that of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, and the playbook of interventions is virtually identical. Not all pandemics are respiratory illnesses, and we should not let our imaginations fail us just because flu and Covid-19 have been our primary experiences. The US probably only avoided widespread transmission of Zika virus because the mosquito species that is most competent to transmit Zika, the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti, is relatively rare in the continental US. Its only coincidence that its close relative, the much more common Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), is relatively less effective at transmission. An Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus. The species is capable of transmitting Zika virus, but is ... [+] not nearly as effective as its relative the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Getty Images Similarly, the introduction of Ebola into the US in 2014 showed that US hospitals werent prepared to widely implement the infection control procedures needed to combat an epidemic of that disease. If Ebola had been as transmissible and fast moving as Covid-19, those introductions would have been catastrophic. Even though in a crisis decisions must be made under conditions of uncertainty, reducing that uncertainty is equally a critical task. This points to the value of information. Reducing uncertainty in a crisis requires real time data collection and real time research. As we answered these questions we improved our ability to strategically intervene in the transmission process. But early lack of answers should not have delayed intervention as much as it did. In the future, answering questions like these quickly and unequivocally will be essential for rapid containment, but equally important will be the ability to act deliberately even when the intelligence is incomplete.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/johndrake/2021/05/30/was-covid-19-a-failure-of-policy-or-a-failure-of-information/
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Did we just watch one of the worst plays in baseball history?
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Baez went 1-for-2 with a two-run home run during Game 2 of Tuesday's doubleheader against the Dodgers. Baez went 0-for-2 with a walk (just his second of the season) in the Cubs' 7-1 win in Game 1, but he made his presence felt in Game 2 -- he came into the game and reached on a fielder's choice as a pinch hitter in the sixth, then launched a two-run shot with two outs in the bottom of the eighth. The slick-fielding shortstop now has eight homers and 24 RBI this season, matching his totals in both categories from last season in 34 fewer games.
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https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2264422031614/did-we-just-watch-one-of-the-worst-plays-in-baseball-history
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Could Mac Jones emerge as the Week One starter in New England?
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Getty Images The Patriots really like quarterback Cam Newton. But they didnt like him enough to refrain from taking another quarterback with the fifteenth overall pick in the draft. Mike Reiss of ESPN.com emerged from seeing Jones at Thursdays OTA session believing that the rookie already has shown that hes mastering the nuances of the new England offense. Along those lines, writes Reiss, every throw from Jones in 7-on-7 and 11-on-11 drills Thursday seemed to go to the right place. There was little, if any, indecisiveness. Hes probably further along than any Patriots rookie quarterback, at this point, than anyone who came before him. But Newton also has looked good as he enters his second season with the team. Its possible that the Patriots will have two extremely viable options at quarterback. That possible approach cuts against the importance of having one quarterback who leads the team. But it potentially meshes with the idea that Belichick is always playing 4D chess, while everyone else isnt.
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https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2021/05/30/could-mac-jones-emerge-as-the-week-one-starter-in-new-england/
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Does post come on Bank Holiday Monday?
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When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they'll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Our Privacy Notice explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time. Sign up forhealth tips to live a long and happy life Bank Holidays are a great occasion for most people to relax over an extended weekend. Royal Mail will deliver and collect mail throughout the week, but while the day of rest is welcomed by many, if youre expecting deliveries or need to send post you may be wondering if Royal Mail is running any kind of service this bank holiday. Post offices will be open as normal throughout the bank holiday weekend, but youre recommended to check your local branch before setting out to avoid disappointment. Bank and public holidays usually see some businesses close their doors or restrict their operating hours, and Monday, May 31 is no different. This means there will be no postal deliveries or collection services this bank holiday Monday. A statement on the Royal Mail website reads: We deliver and collect your mail on most days of the year. However, we dont usually deliver or collect on bank and public holidays. READ MORE: Royal Mail warning as convincing scam targets 'unsuspecting victims'
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Why is Laila Morse leaving EastEnders as Big Mo?
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EastEnders: Big Mo finds out that the house is being sold FREE now for the biggest moments from morning TV SUBSCRIBE Invalid email Sign up fornow for the biggest moments from morning TV When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they'll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Our Privacy Notice explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time. The BBC have confirmed Laila Morse will be leaving EastEnders after being on the famous soap for more than 20 years. Laila plays Big Mo on the show, but will soon be waving goodbye to the iconic character. Express.co.uk has everything you need to know. EastEnders is set to air Big Mos exit storyline next week, as she leaves the square with Fat Elvis (played by Shenton Dixon). In the upcoming scenes, Jean Slater (Gillian Wright) will hide her concerns that her cancer may have returned and give Mo her blessing. Later on, Big Mo will leave the square in style as Jean and Kat Slater (Jessie Wallace) organise her a going away party. EastEnders spoilers: Jean Slater will hide her concerns that her cancer may have returned and give Mo her blessing. This isnt the first time Laila Morse has left the soap and its expected to just be a temporary departure, while the actress takes a break. The star has had a number of breaks from EastEnders over the years. Avid viewers will remember Big Mo last returned in March 2018 with her granddaughter Kat in tow. An EastEnders spokesperson recently opened up about Laila Morses decision to leave the show and confirmed it would only be a temporary exit. Laila Morse has played market trader Big Mo (also known as Mo Harris) in EastEnders for over 20 years. She first appeared on the soap in September 2000 and soon became a fan favourite. Mo is the mother of Viv Slater and grandmother of Lynne (Elaine Lordan), Kat, Belinda (Carli Norris) and Little Mo (Kacey Ainsworth). Trending
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Why does the DOJ need PNP consent to probe cops in drug war?
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The Philippine National Police (PNP) thinks its doing the Filipino people a favor in allowing the Department of Justice (DOJ) access to records of 61 cases of killings involving police officers in Dutertes bloody drug war. Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra is very grateful and called it a very significant milestone because it did not happen in previous years. This is no different from President Duterte thanking China for allowing Filipino fishermen to fish in the area of Scarborough Shoal, a Philippine territory. But thats another topic that requires a separate discussion. This so-called very significant milestone came after a meeting with newly installed PNP chief Gen. Guillermo Eleazar who said this is being done to dispel allegations that they are hiding facts on the killings from the public to protect the law enforcers involved in carrying out Dutertes brutal banner program that has elicited international concern and condemnation. No one is biting the bait, especially the families of the victims and their lawyers. Not Joel Butuyan of CenterLaw, which represents families of the victims of the drug war in 28 barangays in San Andres Bukid. Butuyan said: The fact that the PNP's consent is required for the DOJ to investigate the deaths in the hands of policemen is in itself anomalous. The DOJ is supposed to have unobstructed leeway to conduct investigations when deaths occur in the hands of policemen. In fact, under DOJ rules, when death occurs during a police investigation, the police are required to submit all relevant documents to the prosecutors and the prosecutors are mandated to conduct a preliminary investigation. So, all deaths in the hands of policemen should have been investigated by the DOJ, and the police should submit all documents, not just the 61 deaths in question, he added. The 61 cases constitute less than 1% of the more than 7,000 that the government uses as the number of deaths during police anti-illegal drugs operations. Human rights advocates say the numbers could be higher. The 61 cases, Guevarra said, had been reviewed and evaluated by the PNP Internal Affairs Service which had found administrative/criminal liability on the part of law enforcement agents. Edre Olalia, secretary general of the National Union of Peoples Lawyers (NUPL)-Philippines that also represents several families of victims of Dutertes drug war, is wary that it might be another tokenistic and cynical mirage, a puny, even if sincere, desire at real institutional reforms that actually go far beyond them alone. He said victims, families and witnesses in the so-called drug war and rights advocates cannot be euphoric at this supposed shift. With grounded disbelief, they should see it for what it might be: a finger to plug the hole in the dam i.e. to deflect and dissipate overwhelming criticisms over the lack of immediate, fair and comprehensive accountability, he said in a statement. That only 61 cases are currently seen with clear liability out of the thousands of cases that are supposedly within the purview of the drug war panel review is simply incredible and scanty when seen in the context of the records, experience and reality over time, he noted. The disclosure of the records, given the inordinate delay, the hemming and hedging, the issues of transparency, impartiality and independence, and the insultingly petty number to be made available, may even eventually validate the view that it may have been sanitized and cherry picked to be used as possible showcases, inconclusive or not emblematic as they may turn out to be, Olalia said. The international Human Rights Watch describes the PNP-DOJ collaboration as a breakthrough while noting that Metro Manila police chief Eleazar was a key enforcer of Dutertes drug war. With only five months before his retirement, HRW said: If Eleazar is serious about these reforms, he should ensure the polices full cooperation with investigators into the drug war killings and take more concrete steps to hold abusive officers accountable. Families of drug-war related extra-judicial killings had long ago demanded access to police records of the operation but were denied despite repeated orders from the Supreme Court. Finally, in May 2019, the PNP and the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) submitted to the High Court 289 compact discs supposedly containing information on the 20,322 drug-related deaths as mentioned in the governments 2017 Accomplishment Report. But the documents turned out to be rubbish, CenterLaw said, as discs contained irrelevant non-drug related cases like a love triangle in which the suspect was the live-in partner who got jealous of the deceased victim, and a killing caused by a misunderstanding over a videoke song. CenterLaw accused the PNP and OSG of resorting to underhanded machinations. What the OSG and PNP virtually want is for the Supreme Court and the petitioners to utterly waste valuable time and resources examining case files which are totally irrelevant and, in fact, absolutely rubbish insofar as the instant cases are concerned, it said. The timing of this PNP-DOJ cooperation makes us suspicious that it is more for the consumption of the International Criminal Court (ICC) that is expected to release its decision on the result of the preliminary examination of the situation in the Philippines before Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda retires on June 15. The ICC, in its website, states: Specifically, it has been alleged that since 1 July 2016, thousands of persons have been killed for reasons related to their alleged involvement in illegal drug use or dealing. While some of such killings have reportedly occurred in the context of clashes between or within gangs, it is alleged that many of the reported incidents involved extra-judicial killings in the course of police anti-drug operations. Once the ICC decides to open an investigation, investigators would start collecting evidence. Summons would be issued. Refusal to cooperate could lead to issuance of warrants of arrest and freezing of assets. Watch more in iWantTFC The Rome Statute that created the ICC provides that it is the duty of every state to exercise its jurisdiction over those responsible for committing international crimes. The ICC can intervene only when it sees that the government is unable or unwilling to genuinely carry out the investigation and prosecution of the perpetrators. (The views in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of VERA Files.) RELATED VIDEOS: Watch more in iWantTFC Disclaimer: The views in this blog are those of the blogger and do not necessarily reflect the views of ABS-CBN Corp.
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How can baby boomers boost our energy?
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After a year of high tension, BoomerCaf is offering up not just fresh stories, but some of our best of pieces from the past. Around the time Hannelore Schlottmann turned 50, she started to notice that she didnt have the get-up-and-go that she used to. I had all these vague symptoms of being tired and not having energy, and just not feeling that great. When I finally went to the doctor, I was diagnosed with vitamin D deficiency, says Schlottmann, who lives in Mokena, Illinois. Taking vitamin D supplements helped, but she says she still deals with some fatigue. I do still feel tired sometimes, she says. I think when you get to this age, you just naturally feel more tired than you did in your 40s. Schlottmann and her family live on three acres of land, and during spring and summer, she spends a lot of time of time mowing and gardening. Work that she could knock out in an afternoon now takes a couple of days. I just cant do the whole yard in one day like I could before, she says. It just seems insurmountable theres no way I could spend five or six hours doing that work or even if I can, I dont want do. I will spread it out over two or three days instead. Schlottmann isnt alone in her quest for more energy. One study on aging and exercise published in 2016 found that about 20 percent of men and nearly 30 percent of women over the age of 50 report feelings of fatigue. While occasional tiredness may simply be the result of a restless night, here are six simple lifestyle changes that are natural energy boosters and provide a better chance of feeling energetic every day: 1. Eat a Better Breakfast Weve told you before that breakfast really is the most important meal of your day. By the time you get up, your body is in a fasted state. Prime your energy levels with a meal that includes some protein, healthy carbs and a little bit of fat for steady energy all morning long. (Think an egg-white omelet with spinach and peppers and some whole-grain toast or Greek yogurt topped with fresh fruit.) Even a quick smoothie that includes fruit and a scoop of protein powder is a better option than black coffee. 2. Get Your Steps In Regular exercise not only helps you control your weight and reduces your risk of developing conditions like heart disease and diabetes, it also improves your energy levels as well. If youve been inactive for a while, get your doctors approval before starting an exercise program, and aim for an intensity that feels invigorating (like a brisk walk), not exhausting (an all-out run). Even small bursts of activity, like getting up and walking for five minutes every hour, increases blood flow and can give you more energy throughout the day. 3. Boost Your Energy A healthy diet that contains plenty of vegetables and fruits, whole grains, lean proteins and healthy fats will help give you sustained energy all day long. Vitamins and supplements can help, too. One in particular called TRU NIAGEN gives your cells a coenzyme that they need to create energy. It helps your cells function optimally. 4. Maintain a Good Sleep/Wake Schedule When your alarm goes off and you dont feel rested, it can be tempting to sleep in. But it turns out that its better for your sleep habits and energy levels to set a consistent sleep and wake-up schedule and stick to it, even on the weekends. Youll have an easier time falling asleep and better quality slumber, which restores you for the coming day. Sleep hygiene matters, too. That means your bedroom should be dark, quiet and cool. 5. Get More Green in Your Life Chances are you spend most of your time indoors. Studies show that forest bathing, or spending time outdoors in nature, produces a slew of health benefits. Taking time to get outside during the day, even for a 10-minute walk, helps alleviate stress and increases your mental and physical energy. 6. Gerontologist Dr. Bill Thomas calls boredom, loneliness and helplessness the three plagues in older adults. They can cause you to feel tired, isolated and hopeless if you arent careful. Break out of your routine by taking a class, learning a new skill or making plans to visit somewhere youve never been before. Youre never too old to discover something youre passionate about and excitement about your life is one of the best energizers there is. Follow these steps and you will be feeling more energetic and rested no matter how old you are.
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https://www.boomercafe.com/2021/05/30/how-can-baby-boomers-boost-our-energy-2/
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Is It Now or Never for Cal Football in 2021?
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CBS Sports provides spring overreactions for each Pac-12 team for the coming football season. The story suggests the Bears must get it done this season if it ever going to happen. USC: The Trojans are Pac-12's only CFP-caliber team Oregon: Ty Thompson gets the nod before October ends California: It's now or never for Bears These statements are part of what CBS Sports is calling 2021 Pac-12 spring football overreactions. Each statement contains some logic, but, as the title suggests, each may be overreaching to elicit debate. Its possible that USC and its wealth of talent could wind up being the only Pac-12 team good enough to contend for the four-team College Football Playoff. However, Oregon will probably be ranked higher than USC in preseason polls and could be a CFP contender, too. Its also possible that true freshman Ty Thompson could replace senior Anthony Brown as Oregons starting quarterback before the 2021 season is over. However, true freshmen seldom become a starting quarterback for a Pac-12 team vying for a conference title, much less a national title. CBS Sports provides an overreaction for each Pac-12 team, and we will list the other 10 here, with our counterpoint to each. The overreaction for Cal is listed last: . Thats asking a lot. He can make practices fun with some innovative moves, but during the season fun is a product of victories. . Arizona State: Jayden Daniels is league's best QB USCs Kedon Slovis might argue that point. A few others might too. Daniels ranked ninth in the Pac-12 in competition percentage last season. . Colorado: Jarek Broussard is vastly underrated He received little national attention last season despite ranking third in the nation in rushing yards per game. But lets see him do it again with defenses now focused on stopping him. . Oregon State: Tristan Gebbia determines the ceiling The Beavers went 2-2 with Gebbia at quarterback, then went 0-3 after he suffered a season-ending hamstring injury. But the presence of Jermar Jefferson was a big reason for the Beavers early-season success. And there are still questions about Gebbias health since he did not participate in any meaningful way in spring ball. . Stanford: Cardinal will be lucky to get bowl eligible Stanford lost a lot of talent from its 5-2 team that won a lot of tight games in 2020, and it has serious questions at the quarterback position with David Mills gone. A bowl berth is not guaranteed, but coach David Shaw usually finds a way to be competitive. . UCLA: Bruins will beat LSU in Week 1 UCLA will play a game before it meets LSU, which will be playing its opener and has to travel to Los Angeles. But the Bruins have had five straight losing seasons, including all three under Chip Kelly, and LSU will be hungry after its 2020 disappointments. . Utah: Charlie Brewer is the league's third-best QB Brewer was a four-year starter at Baylor, so it makes sense to rank him behind Kedon Slovis and Jayden Daniels. But Chase Garbers and Dorian Thompson-Robinson have had about as much experience and are not learning new systems. . Washington: Sam Huard needs an early opportunity Folks in Seattle have been raving about Huard, but as we mentioned earlier true freshmen quarterbacks seldom lead teams that are contending for a Pac-12 title. . Washington State: It's still Jayden de Laura's job De Laura is the returning starter at quarterback, but he has some baggage after his February arrest for driving under the influence. He was suspended for spring practice, and his status is still unsettled. De Laura is still likely to be the starter in 2021, but Tennessee transfer Jarrett Guarantano could challenge. . California: It's now or never for Bears Here is what CBS Sports David Cobb wrote about that: Last season was shaping up to be a great one for Cal football until the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on the program's ability to conduct normal operations and the Bears limped to a 1-3 record following three seasons of progression under coach Justin Wilcox. However, Cal's lone victory came against Oregon to close the season, and that was no fluke; the Bears returned a ton of productive players last season from their squad that went 8-5 in 2019. Many of those same key playmakers are back yet again, including a group of sixth-year "super seniors" highlighted by defensive anchors Kuony Deng and Cameron Goode at linebacker. Defense is Wilcox's specialty and the Bears have a high floor on that side of the ball. The offense, however, remains a source of concern. Fourth-year quarterback Chase Garbers has the tools, experience and surrounding weapons to lead a quality attack. However, the Bears looked awful offensively last season under new offensive coordinator Bill Musgrave, and there will need to be significant strides in that system this season if this team is going to reach its potential and compete for the Pac-12 North title. On that topic, it feels like it might be now or never for Cal. Perhaps the Bears can be a perennial bowl team under Wilcox, but in terms of competing for a Rose Bowl spot, the window may be closed after 2021. Oregon's prolific recruiting suggests the Ducks could reclaim absolute authority in the Pac-12, and Washington may not be far behind after coach Jimmy Lake's 3-1 debut season and the arrival of Sam Huard at quarterback. You can see why CBS Sports made this declaration. The Bears best defensive players outside linebackers Cameron Goode and Kuony Deng and safety Elijah Hicks are entering their final college season. Quarterback Chase Garbers has two seasons of eligibility left, but this will be in his fifth season at Cal and he has already graduated, so 2021 might be his final season with Cal as well. This is Cals second year under offensive coordinator Bill Musgrave, and you would expect the offensive improvement that was anticipated when Musgrave was hired to materialize in 2021 if it is ever going to happen. On the other hand, Cal has a few quarterbacks lined up to succeed Garbers, and the Bears young talent is considerable. The program seems to be ascending little by little under Justin Wilcox, and the 1-3 season last year should not be seen as a decline in the program since the 2020 situation was so unusual. A Cal berth in the Rose Bowl may be a lot to ask in 2021, but it could happen if Wilcox remains at Cal for the foreseeable future. . Cover photo of Justin Wilcox by Stan Szeto, USA TODAY Sports . Follow Jake Curtis of Cal Sports Report on Twitter: @jakecurtis53 Find Cal Sports Report on Facebook by searching: @si.calsportsreport or going to https://www.facebook.com/si.calsportsreport
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https://www.si.com/college/cal/news/cbs-sports-overreactions
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What does it mean to be non-binary?
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While transgender and non-binary people are more visible today than before, they are also facing more attacks. Worldwide the numbers of murders and assaults of trans and non-binary people are rising annually, as are restrictions on access to services such as medical treatment. Some people dont neatly fit into the categories of man or woman. For example, some people have a gender that blends elements of being a man or a woman, or a gender that is different than either male or female. Some people dont identify with any gender. Some peoples gender changes over time. Non-binary is a way such people commonly describe themselves. But the Tories reaffirmed last week that non-binary will not be allowed as a legally recognised gender identity. A consultation in 2018 looked into proposed reforms for the Gender Recognition Act (GRA). It found that 65percent of respondents thought changes needed to be made to allow non-binary identification. Yet in their analysis, the Tories said the consultation did not bring forward any proposals to extend the GRA to provide legal recognition to a third, or non-binary, gender. The Tories scrapped plans to reform the GRA last year. A new petition to the government has called for non-binary legal recognition. The Cabinet Office recently responded that there are complex practical consequences if non-binary was recognised. Non-binary people at the receiving end of the Tories hostility spoke to Socialist Worker about how the lack of recognition affects their lives. Bee identifies as trans non-binary and gender fluid. There is a misconception that non-binary means not having a gender or being genderless. Its not feeling you fit into the existing binary gender categories of man or woman, Bee explained. The biggest problems they face because of their gender are constantly being misgendered, and a lack of any recognition that gender could be anything other than man or woman. They say these difficulties stem from a lack of understanding and general recognition of non-binary as a concept and gender. Moss is non-binary. This means I dont fit into the pre-set genders, they said. They said the Tories decision means you arent covered legally for discrimination laws. Moss added, Its a lot easier for people to say non-binary doesnt exist. Lake is also non-binary and explained the effects of limited recognition and education. I have to figure out how someone feels about gender before coming out, they said. If someone doesnt know, I have to make a connectionfor example if theyve talked about having trans friends, Lake said. Outing yourself is a big thing and its always on your mind. There is a misconception that non-binary means not having a gender or being genderless. Its not feeling you fit into the existing binary gender categories of man or woman, Moss added, Its exhaustingit feels really demoralising not really being seen or understood by society. Trans people and gender nonconforming people are still the butt of jokes. How were represented in the media is then how people view things. Different non-binary people may use different pronouns. Many nonbinary people use they while others use he or she, and others use other pronouns. These should be respected. Bee explained, If people use the wrong pronoun, then Im locked into the woman Im perceived as. I have to make a split decision to let it go and feel crass about myself, or name the problem and risk becoming the problem, they said. It would be really helpful if people could not feel excluded from discussions and spaces. But any system I have to engage in I get put into a box. I cant have my gender recognised and be seen as who I am to access medical care. Stigma Lake added that there needs to be less stigma for trans and non-binary people. People who say we dont need to worry about pronouns are the ones who get concerned when pronouns are used in a way they dont like, they said. Bee also thinks that misgendering matters. Its about having basic respect for people, they said. They explained that theres also a perception of nonbinary as a new thing, and a fad. That misconception comes from people not being able to exist outside the binary way of thinking about gender, they said. We need to start from much further back and explore how gender was constructed. Lake said, We live in a society that doesnt put peoples needs firsttheres boxes you have to fit into and if you dont, youre demonised. Moss said that narrow ideas of gender dont benefit anyone. Think about attitudes towards mental health, they said. The idea that men shouldnt talk about feelings, to man up and be a manly man is damaging. Challenging gender means moving beyond the binary Con identifies as bi-gender. Rather than being outside the binary genders, they flick between genders. Con says they would prefer to not have to pick between man or woman when formally identifying. This isnt because they care what the Tories think, but because they should be referred to correctly on paperwork. Its also about validation, Con said. Lake agreed. Non-binary people arent confusedand being non-binary can look different on everyone. Theres not one way to live. Experience And Bee thinks, The only way people reject the boxes were put in is to erode the boundaries. The more genders we have then everybody can describe their own experience in a way that suits them. Con added that in a liberated world, Were going to have people expressing how they want in lots of different genders, or no gender whatsoever. The only way people reject the boxes were put in is to erode the boundaries. But we wont have the association with gender stereotypes. A society without gender stereotypes also wont be based on physical characteristics. We live with specific gender stereotypes invented by class society and capitalism. The ruling class dismiss gender identity because it poses an alternative to some of the oppressive ideals their system relies on. Transphobia isnt random prejudices. Oppression is used by the ruling class under capitalism to keep the working class dividedand gender roles are vital to capitalism. The right uses gender identity to ramp up culture wars. They look to cut across class by demonising trans people as a risk to family life that is intertwined with class society. Women lost out thousands of years ago with the emergence of classes. Society had progressed to the point where there was a surplus beyond the necessities to survive. Those who controlled it became a ruling class, and created state structures to protect it. There was simultaneously a shift in womens status, described by socialist Frederick Engels in the 19th century as the world historic defeat of the female sex. From being co-decision-makers with men, they were thrust into a position of dependence and subordination. The new intensive production techniques tended to prioritise mens labour over womens for the first time. A woman became a wife, part of a tightly organised family. For the ruling class that family was to produce heirs and pass on property. Unpaid And the working class family played a key role in reproducing the next generation of labour, based on the unpaid labour of women. The freedom to express gender or sexuality was lost. The rise of capitalism pushed people into big cities and factories with appalling conditions. This threatened the family set-up, and bosses panicked as they needed new generations of healthy workers to profit off. The creation of the ideology of the nuclear family was pushed so that children were raised at no cost to the state or the bosses. Anything that threatened this, such as alternatives to gender norms, was denounced and sometimes criminalised. To uphold this, further fusing of gender and biological sex determined what women and men were naturally expected to do. Myths are pushed that women are naturally emotional, caring and nurturing, so take on the care-giving role based on the fact they have certain physical characteristics. Worldwide this saves the ruling classes trillions annually in unpaid labour. Meanwhile men are tough, competitive, made to earn a living and prefer the colour blue. But these gender roles are a product of the material basis of class society. They are created by the structure of the nuclear family to shape the social relations between the exploited and exploiters. So-called differences between men and women have been used to justify womens oppression ever since. Biological sex isnt as binary as capitalist ideology would have us believe. And that goes further than the existence of intersex people who dont fit into XX or XY chromosomes. Women and LGBT+ people have won gains through struggle. But ruling classes can roll back such achievements in order to deepen divides and step up oppression. The presidency of Donald Trump saw assaults on LGBT+ rights as well as attacks on the rights of women, migrants, Muslims and black people. The gay liberation movements of the 1960s won rights for sexualitybut gender rights were only given limited recognition decades later. As a result, same sex couples can legally marry and adopt children to serve the nuclear family and gender roles the system is dependent on. Transgender and gender nonconforming people are still seen as a threat By fighting against oppression as a class and removing the economic base to itcapitalismthe foundation for womens oppression is removed. As are the gender roles and nuclear family that flow from it. Only in a socialist society can people win real liberation.
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https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/51872/What+does+it+mean+to+be+non+binary
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Was sind die Vorteile des Allradantriebs?
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Essen - Fahrzeuge mit Allradantrieb kommen in vielen Situationen besser voran. Das ist vor allem auf rutschigem oder gefrorenem Untergrund der Fall, aber etwa auch beim Anfahren am Hang, beim sportlichen Durchfahren von Kurven und abseits der Strae im Gelnde, erklrt der Tv ... Bei Wstentouren ist ein Allradantrieb die beste Wahl. Auch auf der Strae sorgt er fr eine grere Spurentreue. Foto: Daniel Karmann/dpa Fahrzeuge mit Allradantrieb kommen in vielen Situationen besser voran. Das ist vor allem auf rutschigem oder gefrorenem Untergrund der Fall, aber etwa auch beim Anfahren am Hang, beim sportlichen Durchfahren von Kurven und abseits der Strae im Gelnde, erklrt der Tv Nord. Anders als beim herkmmlichen Zweiradantrieb drehen die Rder allradgetriebener Fahrzeuge nicht so schnell durch, weil jedes einzelne Rad nur einen Teil der Kraft auf die Strae bertrgt. Das ermglicht eine grere Spurtreue auf Straen mit unterschiedlich griffigem Grund und sorge fr mehr Sicherheit. Die Allradtechnik kommt deshalb nicht nur in Gelndewagen und SUVs zum Einsatz, sondern immer fter auch in Mittelklasseautos. (dpa/tmn)
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https://www.mz.de/leben/auto/was-sind-die-vorteile-des-allradantriebs-1294202
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Where is the source?
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In response to James Buckleys commentary, Missing the Trump era (Voices May 23): In the first paragraph, Mr. Buckley implies that some unnamed miscreants are claiming that 300, 200, 100 or 84 million people voted for President Biden. In the second paragraph, he self-righteously asserts that he is one of the 75 million real voters who cast a ballot for Donald Trump. This is the most flagrant example of attempted voter fraud to date. Donald Trump received 74.2 million votes to President Bidens 81.2 million. In regards to Mr. Buckleys litany of imagined instances of voter fraud: Mr. Trumps acolytes had filed 62 court cases on this matter and lost 61 times! This includes the U.S. Supreme Court where six of the nine justices were appointed by Republican presidents and three by Mr. Trump himself. Seven justices would not even hear the attempt to overrule the lower courts. The two dissenting justices were Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas. Judge Alito said he would be willing to hear the case, but would not grant other relief. Simply put, had the case been heard by the court, the likely vote would have been 9-0 against Mr. Trump. Robert Baruch Yeosu, South Korea (formerly of Goleta)
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https://newspress.com/where-is-the-source/
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Why are combustible materials still being used in new buildings?
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Eighteen months after the Grenfell Tower fire the government announced a ban on the use of combustible materials in the external walls of high-rise residential buildings. It was too late for the 72 people killed at the west London council block that was wrapped in plastics. In the preceding years, a boom in building flats meant that thousands of other blocks were wrapped in similar materials, and the country is now enmeshed in a 15bn high-rise fire safety crisis, leading to rows about who should pay to replace the dangerous materials. The government rationale for limiting the ban to residential buildings over 18 metres tall is that they represent the highest risk: if schools and lower apartment blocks burn, loss of life is less likely. But many wanted the government to go further, not least when some buildings below 18 metres went up in flames. So the government consulted on banning combustible cladding and insulation on residential buildings above 11 metres and asked what other buildings should be protected. Schools, hospitals and care homes, came the reply from many. That consultation closed a year ago and no government response has been forthcoming. Informed sources suggest that ministers are reluctant to widen the scope of the already sprawling safety crisis by declaring many more buildings off limits for plastic insulation and combustible cladding. The plastics-based materials industry is also a determined lobbyist and does not want more of the insulation market that it dominates to be placed out of reach. After Grenfell, Kingspan, the Irish company that made some of the combustible phenolic foam insulation used on the tower, launched a Westminster lobbying campaign to pull out all the stops to convince the government that an outright ban was wrong, the inquiry into the disaster has heard. Last month the lack of action on schools sparked community anger not far from Grenfell. Residents in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea noticed Kingspan foam boards on the building site of a new school project. They confronted the councils deputy leader, Kim Taylor-Smith, expressing disbelief that the council was using materials from one of the Grenfell manufacturers. Under pressure, the council has now banned the use on its projects of any materials by Kingspan and others linked to the tower. The council said that some of the evidence submitted to the inquiry had brought into question the reliability of the safety certificates and the evidence on which they were based. But everywhere else, as the government ponders its next step, combustible materials continue to be used in schools. Last week the department of education began a consultation recommending some improvements in fire safety standards in schools, but proposing that combustible cladding could still be used on buildingsunder 18m in height. That is in line with current regulations, if not always with the views of parents and teachers.
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/30/why-are-combustible-materials-still-being-used-in-new-buildings
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Is the Hubble constant notConstant?
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Cosmologists have been struggling to understand an apparent tension in their measurements of the present-day expansion rate of the universe, known as the Hubble constant. Observations of the early cosmos mostly the cosmic microwave background point to a significantly lower Hubble constant than the value obtained through observations of the late universe, primarily from supernovae. A team of astronomers have dug into the data to find that one possible way to relieve this tension is to allow for the Hubble constant to paradoxically evolve with time. This result could point to either new physicsor just a misunderstanding of the data. The point is that there seems to be a tension between the larger values for late universe observations and lower values for early universe observation, said Enrico Rinaldi, a research fellow in the University of Michigan Department of Physics and coauthor on the study. What if it actually changes? Somethings rotten in the state of the Universe Cosmologists employ a variety of probes and observations to determine the fundamental properties of our universe. They try to measure its age, its contents, its expansion rate, and more. After almost a century of intense scrutiny, those cosmologists have developed a coherent, consistent model of the universe. In short, our cosmos is about 13.77 billion years old, is constantly expanding, and is made of mostly dark energy and dark matter with normal matter like stars and planets and clouds of gas making up a brightly-lit minority of the ingredients of the universe. Leaving aside the gigantic mysteries of the true nature of dark energy and dark matter, in recent years cosmologists have run into another frustrating puzzle: different probes disagree about the present-day expansion rate, known as the Hubble constant. Measurements taken of the young universe, like the cosmic microwave background (the afterglow light pattern that was released when the universe cooled from a plasma state when it was 380,000 years old), tell us that the Hubble constant is somewhere around 68 km/s/Mpc (which means that for every million parsecs away from our vantage point, the expansion rate of the universe increases by 68 kilometers per second). But more local, late-universe measurements, like observations of supernovae, lean towards a different answer: a Hubble constant of more like 74 km/s/Mpc. Bin it A team of astronomers led by Maria Dainotti, an assistant professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI in Japan and an affiliated scientist at the U.S. Space Science Institute dug into this discrepancy more. The work was published in May in The Astrophysical Journal. The team focused their work on Type-1a supernovae, which are a particular kind of explosion that happens when white dwarf stars accumulate too much mass from a companion star, which triggers a runaway nuclear fusion event. This fusion event has roughly the same brightness every time it happens, so astronomers can use these supernovae as standard candles since they know how bright the supernovae should be, they can compare that to how bright they appear to be and calculate a distance. By combining many such measurements over a wide range of distances, astronomers can calculate the expansion history of the universe. The team used a catalog of over 1,000 supernovae observations and separated them into different bins of distance ranges, with each bin representing the same number of supernovae. They then used each bin to measure the Hubble constant. In the standard cosmological picture, the expansion rate of the universe is constantly changing as the cosmos evolves, but the Hubble constant is a fixed number its the expansion rate of the universe right now. Each bin of supernovae should yield the same Hubble constant, but in their analysis the researchers allowed the Hubble constant to not be so constant they allowed for the possibility that it could change with time. By using different bins, they could test to see if the Hubble constant stayed fixed across the different bins, or if it did indeed vary. If its a constant, then it should not be different when we extract it from bins of different distances. But our main result is that it actually changes with distance, Rinaldi said. The tension of the Hubble constant can be explained by some intrinsic dependence of this constant on the distance of the objects that you use. Not very constant Ultimately, the astronomers found in the study that by adding a little bit of flexibility to the standard cosmological models by allowing the Hubble constant to change with time they could relieve almost all of the tension between the supernovae and cosmic microwave background measurements. The researchers were able to extrapolate their evolving Hubble constant back to the time of the cosmic microwave background and match it up with those results. The extracted parameters are still compatible with the standard cosmological understanding that we have, he said. But this time they just shift a little bit as we change the distance, and this small shift is enough to explain why we have this tension. The new results are not altogether surprising. Its always possible to make differing observations agree by adding more complexity to models. In this case, the researchers added a new variable how quickly the Hubble constant changes with time and they were able to find a way to connect the early- and late-time measurements of the Hubble constant. Also, the work did not find a statistically significant measurement of this varying Hubble constant. Although they were able to relieve the tension in cosmological observations, they were not able to conclusively say that the Hubble constant is changing with time. These results, if they hold up, could give theorists a pathway to introducing new physics into the universe to explain the Hubble constant tension. Or it might also mean that supernovae arent as standard as we think they are, and that perhaps some bias is creeping into the observations to spoil those measurements of the Hubble constant.
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https://www.universetoday.com/151325/is-the-hubble-constant-notconstant/
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What Coffee Is Best for Cold Brew?
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For all its hype, cold brew coffee remains a mystery. The brewing method which involves exposing ground coffee to water (room temperate to refrigerator cold) for up to 24 hours is still mostly unexplored, as far as hard science is concerned, anyway (especially so when compared to its hot coffee counterpart). This means that, to this point, most information on subject is based on anecdotes and repeated half-truths. An example: "cold brew coffee is less acidic than regular coffee." Wrong. Cold brew coffee is a similar pH level to hot coffee the acidic difference, so far as we know, is only perceived. Another half-truth: cold brew coffee tastes the same no matter what. We've reported on this one. This isn't exactly right. Here's what you need to know about what makes the best coffees for cold brewing. The same coffee will taste different hot vs. cold. Perhaps this bears repeating. Removing how water of different temperatures changes the brewing equation, the simple fact that you drink cold brew chilled and regular coffee hot plays a huge role. Elika Liftee, a trainer at Arkansas-based Onyx Coffee Lab, uses a hot bottle of Coke to explain. "Have you ever left Coke in your car, when its hot it tastes way too sweet and heavy, but can be refreshingly sweet when cold?" That's cold brew, Liftee says, which means even your favorite bag of beans may not stand out when served on ice. For better cold brew coffee, go big or go home. One of the beautiful things about coffee is its enormous complexity. Depending on how its grown, processed, roasted, ground and brewed, its flavor possibilities are nearly endless. According to Jackson Shuttleworth, co-founder of Jova Coffee, a soon-to-be-released cold brew coffee maker, the traditional cold brewing cycle has a knack for flattening certain flavors. "Because people primarily drink immersion cold brew, and because those flavors can be muddled, you're not going to get super bright, sharp notes," Shuttleworth says. Shuttleworth, who started prototyping the design with his business partner Olivia vonNieda in their last year at Harvard Business School, suggests this is where many cold brew drinkers develop the idea that cold brew is always "smooth." Liftee's solution: go big or go home. "If there are not any punchy standout flavors then the cold brew will taste muted, mild or boring," Liftee said. "More mild, or even more balanced coffees may not seem very flavorful in cold brew like something with one or two hard hitting flavor notes." Great Coffees for Cold Brewing Organic Single Farm Ethiopia Superlost superlostcoffee.com $16.00 SHOP NOW Light, delicate and floral, this coffee will come out reminding you of a really good iced tea but with delicious coffee flavor. H.O.M.E.S. Blend Sparrows Coffee drinktrade.com $17.35 SHOP NOW This hit-you-in-the-face coffee blend is for someone who wants their coffee to wake up their tastebuds as well as themselves more generally. Flatlander Signature Blend PT's drinktrade.com $17.35 SHOP NOW Like dark chocolate-covered oranges, this coffee brings bright acidity as well as a nutty and slightly bitter flavor. Good Vibes Greater Goods drinktrade.com $17.40 SHOP NOW This coffee comes out rich and dark without those bitter components often associated with a darker roast coffee like this. Huehuetenango Q'anil City of Saints drinktrade.com $17.40 SHOP NOW A medium roast coffee that combines the full-bodied, cozy feeling of a dark roast with the nuance and fruitiness of a light roast. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io
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https://www.gearpatrol.com/food/a33264759/best-coffee-for-cold-brew/
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Is Microsoft Edge better than Google Chrome yet?
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Googles Chrome is indisputably the most popular browser on both mobile and desktop. But Googles hold over the Internet and users concerns against being tracked online in sophisticated ways has led many to search for alternatives, and Microsofts Edge browser is one of the primary substitutes. While its growth can be tied to the fact that Microsoft is heavily promoting Edge to Windows 10 users, its hard to deny that the browser hasnt gotten really good. Its received many new features since it became a Chromium-based project. Over the last few months, Microsoft Edge has received several new features. Ahead of the Build 2021 developer conference earlier this week, Microsoft announced key new features coming to the browser, including Sleeping tabs that fixes Chromiums RAM-hogging tendency, new themes, and a Startup Booster, which Microsoft claims makes Edge the fastest browser on Windows. Other than these, Vertical tabs on Edge let you streamline your workflow while a Kids Mode helps parents prevent their children from accessing any inappropriate content. Like on Windows, the Edge browser has a rich suite of features on Android. Edge 91 for desktop recently added new features to help people save money while shopping online, and this feature is also accessible through an experimental flag on Edge Canary for Android. Recently, Microsoft also added a built-in screenshot and markup tool on Edge for Android to take screenshots on webpages, edit the screenshots, and share them via other apps. With all of these additions to Microsoft Edge, it has become a compelling alternative to Google Chrome. Features such as Sleeping tabs and Startup Booster also make it better for systems with limited resources. Let us know in the comments below!
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https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-edge-better-google-chrome/
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Where will the Argo Blockchain share price go in June?
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Argo Blockchain (LSE: ARB) has had a volatile 2021 so far. And Ill give you my answer up front, right here: I have absolutely no idea. So if thats all you wanted to know from me, you can stop reading now. But I hope you wont. I hope youll stay with me while I explain why I dont have a clue, and why Argo is in a class of shares that I would never buy. Sure, by not buying Argo Blockchain shares a year ago, Ive missed out on a 3,700% profit. And thats even after the stock has lost 55% of its value since its peak in March. 5G is here and shares of this sleeping giant could be a great way for you to potentially profit! According to one leading industry firm, the 5G boom could create a global industry worth US$12.3 TRILLION out of thin air And if you click here well show you something that could be key to unlocking 5Gs full potential... But a year ago, I didnt know anything about it. And even if I did, I had no way to guess at what was going to happen to the Argo Blockchain share price. Like almost everyone else, I only learned about the company after the shares had started soaring. And if Id bought then, Id have had every chance of getting in too late. Now, not knowing where a share price is going is nothing exclusive to Argo Blockchain. But at least with most stocks, we can have a clearer forward view. For example, if I buy a FTSE 100 dividend stock, I expect to keep earning dividends over the long term. Ill also hope for share price appreciation, but thats a bonus. The reason I have such expectations is that I can see a companys earnings. For companies producing essentials, like food, energy, raw materials, and the like, theres pretty much a guaranteed long-term demand. Thats dependent entirely, 100%, on the price of Bitcoin. And I have absolutely no idea where that is going either. All I know is that if I cant guess at the answers, I wont buy the shares. The Argo Blockchain share price rise is nothing new The Argo Blockchain story repeats something Ive seen time and time again during my investing career. A new growth stock appears, typically a technology one. Investors buy and push the price up, usually to valuations that cant be justified by current revenue and profits. Thats usually because theres little of one, and none of the other. The price almost invariably tops out and falls, just as has happened to Argo Blockchain in 2021. It will either be a washout and completely collapse. Or it will recommence its upwards climb and go on to ever better things. Ive already given my answer to that. And because I have no idea where it will go and no way to work out a rational valuation, buying for me would be a pure gamble. And I dont do that.
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https://www.fool.co.uk/investing/2021/05/30/where-will-the-argo-blockchain-share-price-go-in-june/
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Are the Boks locked and loaded for the British Lions tour?
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Injuries to De Jager and Snyman could have big effect on the Springbok approach to the British Lions series Jacques Nienaber is in the fortunate position of not having many injuries to deal with as he approaches his first big act as Springbok coach by announcing a 45-man squad for the British and Irish Lions series on Saturday, but it will be interesting to see how those he does have will affect his plans. Apart from the players who have retired Francois Louw, Tendai Mtawarira and Schalk Brits most of the players who were part of the group that won the World Cup in Japan in 2019 are in the frame for selection...
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https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times-daily/sport/2021-05-30-are-the-boks-locked-and-loaded-for-the-british-lions-tour/
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Who is Bo Burnhams girlfriend Lorene Scafaria?
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LORENE Scafaria is a filmmaker who has directed Hustlers and Seeking a Friend for the End of the World. She has been dating comedian and Promising Young Woman actor Bo Burnham for nearly a decade. Lorene Scafaria is a 43-year-old screenwriter, playwright, actress, and film director. She is a New Jersey native who was born and raised in Holmdel Township. Scafaria, who has been dating Burnham since 2013, is perhaps best known for directing Jennifer Lopez in Hustlers and the Steve Carell film Seeking a Friend for the End of the World. Hustlers follows a crew of savvy former strip club employees who band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients, according to its IMDb page. Scafaria is also a writer on the film. 3 Scafaria in New York City in 2016 Credit: Getty "Hustlers has a marvelous sense of motion to it, rollicking us along while occasionally stopping for some contemplative, poignant, or otherwise lovely moment," writes Richard Lawson in Vanity Fair. "Its a dexterously crafted film, stylish without smothering its substance, archness and sincerity commingling." The magazine notes that Hustlers "marks an exciting evolution for Scafaria, who previously made the wistful dramedies Seeking a Friend for the End of the World and The Meddler, the latter a terrific character study that saw Susan Sarandon doing her best work in maybe 20 years." Hustlers, which also stars Constance Wu and Julia Stiles, is based on a New York Magazine story published in 2015. "I missed the story when it first came out, but I read it in 2016, and I was immediately drawn to it as a film," Scafaria told Vox. "Its such an incredible world to see from a perspective that we havent seen a lot of, even though there are strip clubs in every movie and TV show. "So I was really excited to tell the story from [the strippers] point of view." The director would add: "I was excited to look at these women close up - from the neck up - and in ways that maybe we arent used to looking at them. Most read in Celebrity DRAKING OVER THE COALS Kim 'attended party with rumored fling & ex Kanye's nemesis Drake' HOOKED ON A FEELING What to know about singer BJ Thomas MODERN FAMILY Kylie Jenner shares rare video of baby daddy Travis with daughter Stormi, 3 pretty in pink Tristan Thompson's 'mistress' stuns in pink bodysuit after 'affair' KANYE TO THE RESCUE! Tyson claims Kanye tried to get tough with actor for slamming Kim IT'S ON Kristin & Jay fighting over her jewelry company in divorce as he 'wants 50 percent' "Theyre in the service industry. Theyre entertainers. "I dont think people connect the dots between what theyre doing for a living and that they are in fact doing something for a living. "Theyre there to make money. Theyre there to pay bills. Its a job like anything else. You meet some creeps; you meet some nice people."
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https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/2984689/bo-burnham-girlfriend-lorene-scafaria-hustlers-jlo/
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When does the second round of the 2021 NBA Playoffs start?
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The Milwaukee Bucks swept the Miami Heat in the first round of the 2021 NBA playoffs and are now eyeing their matchup in the second round. They are the first team in the 2021 NBA playoffs to advance to the conference semifinals and it looks like the Philadelphia 76ers will soon follow suit. Fear the Deer. The Bucks sweep the Heat to advance to the second round. #NBAPlayoffs pic.twitter.com/dwNQuboueZ NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) May 29, 2021 Most of the first-round series have gone to three or four games, and the NBA has now released a tentative starting plan for the second round of the 2021 NBA playoffs. Philadelphia 76ers have a 3-0 lead in the first round of the 2021 NBA Playoffs Naturally, the second round of the 2021 NBA playoffs cannot begin at the same time for each advancing team. Some first-round series will go on for six or seven games, while some will get over in five games or less. Let's begin with the bottom bracket of the Eastern Conference. The Milwaukee Bucks have advanced in four games and are awaiting the result of the Boston Celtics-Brooklyn Nets series. If the Boston-Brooklyn series ends in five games, then the second round of the 2021 NBA playoffs will begin on June 5th, 2021. If the Boston-Brooklyn series ends up going to six or seven games, then the second round begins on June 7th, 2021. For the top bracket in the Eastern Conference, it appears like the Philadelphia 76ers are going to advance given they have a 3-0 series lead. However, the start of the second round will depend on the outcome of the New York-Atlanta series as well (which is currently destined for a Game Five). If both the series ends in five or six games, then the second round will start on June 6th, 2021. However, if either of the two series ends up going to a Game Seven, then the second round of the 2021 NBA playoffs will begin on June 8th, 2021. Just like the Eastern Conference, the West will operate in a similar fashion. Every first-round series is destined for Game Five, with the Denver-Portland series guaranteeing a Game Six in Portland. For the top half of the bracket, the two series are Utah-Memphis and LA-Dallas. If either series ends in six games or less, the second round of the 2021 NBA playoffs will begin on June 6th, 2021. However, if even one series ends up going to a Game Seven, then the second round begins on June 8th instead. For the bottom half of the bracket, the two series are Phoenix-LA and Denver-Portland. If either series ends in six games or less, the second round of the 2021 NBA playoffs will start on June 5th, 2021. However, if either series goes to a Game Seven, then the second round will start on June 7th instead.
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https://www.sportskeeda.com/basketball/news-when-second-round-2021-nba-playoffs-start
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Can Mpuuga and NUP succeed where others failed?
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By Yasiin Mugerwa More by this Author When the National Unity Platform (NUP), a first-time party in Parliament, takes its rightful place in the political arena, Mathias Mpuuga (Nyendo-Mukungwe), a silver-tongued critic of President Museveni, will lead the Opposition side as a new government- in- waiting. Emerging from a bitter race for Speaker, NUP president Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu, aka Bobi Wine, in consultation with the relevant party organs, moved quickly and picked his second-in-command in charge of Buganda region to lead the Opposition in the 11th Parliament. He also appointed Manjiya MP John Baptist Nambeshe to replace Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda as the Opposition Whip in Parliament. The Leader of Opposition in Parliament (LoP) tittle is bestowed upon the designated leader of the Opposition party with the largest number of representatives in Parliament. The LoP appoints and leads a Shadow Cabinet whose sense of duty is to challenge and influence government legislation in Parliament. The Office of the Leader of Opposition is bankrolled by the taxpayer to a tune of Shs4b annually. Mr Mpuuga joins the ranks of Prof Morris Ogenga Latigo who represented Agago/Agago North (2006-2011), Mr Nathan Nandala Mafabi from Budadiri West (2011-2014), Mr Wafula Oguttu from Bukhooli Central (2014-2016), Ms Winnie Kiiza from Kasese (2016-2018) and Ms Betty Aol Ocan, the Gulu Woman MP (2018-2021). The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), led by Patrick Oboi Amuriat, in the January 14 polls, lost its parliamentary majority to Bobi Wines NUP party. For the last 15 years, FDC, under its One Uganda One People mantra, has steered shadow government in Parliament as the main Opposition party. After the return of multiparty politics in 2006, FDC won Opposition majority in 8th Parliament and Prof Latigo became the fifth in the countrys history. While NUP leaders have instructed the 57 MPs to advance the struggle for freedom and democracy in Uganda, Mpuugas rallying call to a dominant ruling party, a polarised Opposition, and a sceptical public that is angry and teetering on the edge of giving up on their representatives on account of what political analysts called greed, is explicit: Lets cultivate a new path paved with accountability and service delivery. Advertisement With the path forward difficult to envision amid the fog of scepticism, outgoing Shadow Attorney General Wilfred Niwagaba explains what is at stake, even if it requires Mpuuga to play hardball. Mpuuga comes in on the heels of a violent election that saw a number of people lose their lives and some get arrested for what some analysts have called trumped-up charges. He must lead the Opposition to continue putting government on its toes on human rights and governance issues. He must reach out to those parties and individuals who are genuinely interested in regime change, bearing in mind that some of the parties and individuals in Opposition are in bed with the Museveni regime, Mr Niwagaba said, adding that He will need to galvanise the few forces in the House, as former LoP Winnie Kiiza used to do, to principally show that his team is up to the task of being an alternative government by promoting issues that resonate well with the citizens of Uganda in all aspects of governance and service delivery. Mr Mathias Mpuuga at the NUP offices after he was announced Leader of Opposition in Parliament on Friday. Mpuugas agenda In trying to unite Opposition in Parliament, a perennial challenge that has eluded all the former Opposition leaders, is to create a well-organised team. In his first 100 days in office, Mr Mpuuga promises to create a joint platform for the forces of change through dialogue and agenda-setting. Part of the 100 days, he says without providing specifics, Shall include moving key motions, including those that will initiate accountability for actions by individuals and groups during the last elections in which lives were lost. The November 18 to 20 2020 demonstrations against the arrest of former NUP presidential candidate Bobi Wine left at least 54 people dead with scores injured. The President had indicated that 32 of the fatalities were rioters, but recent security investigations found that 11 were rioters while 42 succumbed to stray bullets. Asked how he intends to circumvent the tyranny of numbers in a House dominated by the ruling National Resistance Movement members, Mr Mpuuga vowed to rally Opposition legislators to Seek the truth from the numbers, adding that, Their fidelity to the country and people shall be put to a stern test. An agenda sitting at the heart of peoples aspirations shall expose the fragility of these numbers. We shall push them to the peoples agenda. To FDC leaders, DP, UPC, Jeema, Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) and independent-minded members, Mr Mpuuga called for collaboration and reiterated that, The need to work together cannot be overemphasized! We are the choice of our common peoples. They need hope from their leaders as opposed to trading egos. Prof Latigo weighs in Prof Latigo and other former leaders in Parliament who talked to Sunday Monitor commended NUP for appointing Mr Mpuuga and John Baptist Nambeshe (Manjiya) to lead Opposition in 11th Parliament. Prof Latigo, who described Mpuuga as a competent leader and also a competent lawyer, however, asked the deputy president of NUP (Buganda region), to recognise the fact that those positions are not where you play politics and cautioned that if emotions are allowed to clog cross-party thoughts on matters of national importance, Bills and motions, then, NUP will be isolated not by NRM majority but by other Opposition parties in the House. You do your work as LoP, and then the outcome of what you do will define peoples recognition of your role, whether its positive or negative. You gain support when its positive and lose support when its negative regardless of whether you are very active politically or not, he said. An Office of the Leader of Opposition requires acting in a very mature manner and so Mpuuga must show maturity in his leadership, not only in dealing with Opposition but also NRM. Dont be provoked, dont be emotional and focus on the issues. When you focus on the issues, you gain either politically, morally and socially. Treat everybody without any negativity thats what I did when I was LoP and my record speaks for itself. Talking about maturity in the handling of House businesses, Prof Latigo recalls how he clashed with leaders at Najjanankumbi when they attempted to force unsuitable positions upon MPs. He advises Mpuuga to deal with such matters with care and maturity since as Lop you also have a responsibility towards your party and taking and finding a common basis for working for the country... so Mathias will have to deal with not only MPs and NRM, but also with his own party NUP so that he creates the kind of harmony that allows Opposition to grow and play their role in the politics of Uganda. Shadow Cabinet positions They have made these appointments, but there are still opportunities to bring DP and FDC in Shadow Cabinet. It will make Mpuugas leadership a more united Opposition front. I know there are decent people in FDC, DP and even within UPC, bring them on board ask them to leave their political shades aside and serve the country as a government- in- waiting, he advised. As LoP, Latigo explained, Your work is to rally other Opposition forces to check the ruling party and project an image that will allow the country to trust the government-in-waiting as you build sufficient momentum to grow Opposition and God wiling takeover leadership of the country. I only wish them well, and the NRM must recognise that NUP, even when its a young party, is the reality of our politics now. So NRM must treat them with respect, reach out to them and focus more on how to develop our country together, how to bring down the high political temperature generated out of the previous elections and bring decency to politics in Uganda. Alaso on integrity Former FDC secretary general Alice Alaso, now deputy national coordinator for the Alliance for National Transformation (ANT), a new Opposition political party in the country, congratulated NUP leadership, and asked Mpuuga and other leaders to know what is it that must not go without a fight and what is it that they must fight for so that not everything is to let go, and not everything is to be fought for, that is the delicate balance they must content with. They have the individual capacity, these are accomplished legislators. But they should stay open to consultations with other stakeholders on matters critical to this nation, because they are the official leadership of the Opposition in Uganda... the expectations and challenges are high and serious. A number of legislators have not been in the House before, the new Lop should do whatever it takes to ground them in leadership, needs of the House, decorum and recognise their own inability to legislate and must be open to learning, Ms Alaso says. They must be able to exercise a lot of integrity... if there is anything that brings down politicians, its when anyone of us in the Opposition gets compromised. If you take any bribe it goes to the cupboard of the regime and will wait for you and nail you on it. I want to encourage members of NUP and other leaders to exercise the utmost integrity, utmost discretion and as much as possible try to read and be very balanced. Matembe wants action Former Ethics and Integrity minister Miria Matembe, who served in President Musevenis government for more than a decade, explained that official Opposition should play an oversight role and reiterated that the alternative government must work as a block which can bring the government to order to do what they promised to people. They must carry the interest of the people in their hearts unless they dont know why they are in Parliament for us as Ugandans who are outside Parliament and outside government, we want better services, we dont want a Parliament which is not pro-people, I dont want nonsense, Im looking for action, Ms Matembe says. I dont want leaders who are going to become an extra burden on our heads... they should be united and work as a team, I dont expect them to be bought, I expect the Opposition to come to us and reject those privileges, pin down the government on poor service delivery and say enough is enough. The Opposition must be a positive critic of what government is doing. Absenteeism, broke MPs This is a perennial problem in Parliament, even before Covid-19 hit the country. Its not clear how Mpuuga and Opposition Chief Whip Nambeshe intend to deal with it. However, their predecessors, including former Speaker Rebecca Kadaga and outgoing LoP Aol Ocan tried and didnt win. In a recent interview with this newspaper, Ms Ocan explained that during her term in office, she had 31 Shadow Cabinet members, but whenever there were meetings, a scarce number of about 10 would be present. The absence of members during meetings affected the effectiveness of what should have been a government-in-waiting. Some Opposition members dont even attend committee meetings, and for others they had turned Parliament into a hunting ground. The other challenge was weak communication among us, which made conducting work very difficult. For example, you would find that in a meeting, issues on health were being discussed, yet the Shadow Cabinet [minister] tackling this area was absent with no communication, Ms Ocan said as she gave an account of internal disorganisations within respective Opposition parties, including FDC, DP and UPC. She also cited financial challenges and disclosed that on many occasions, she had all sorts of people reach out to me asking for help, but she could not help everyone. These are some of the challenges Mpuuga faces as he takes over FDC. Inexperienced MPs For Eddie Kwizera (Bukimbiri), the biggest challenge NUP faces in 11th Parliament will come from Opposition, and suspects that they are likely to be isolated in the House as FDC, DP, UPC and PPP protest what he has called emotional appointments that sidelined experienced members. During campaigns, NUP raised public expectations but the way they are addressing public expectations, according to Kwizera, is wanting. Their deployments, especially for committees, do not add value to parliamentary business and they are going to have serious challenges. They missed opportunity to unite the Opposition in Parliament, Mr Kwizera says. They should have looked beyond winner-takes-it-all mindset, and tapped into senior FDC or DP members to lead accountability committees. The new MPs are going to struggle and absenteeism is going to get worse. According to Prof Venansius Baryamureeba, a former presidential candidate, LoP and Opposition Chief Whip are both excellent candidates and both qualify to hold either position. He, however, argues that their number one challenge is being undermined by fellow Opposition members, especially those from FDC. The disagreements from speakership elections will continue for at least two years, according to Prof Baryamureeba. Their other challenge, he says, is pleasing the other Opposition members, especially when it comes to benefits like chairing committees, shadow Cabinet positions and foreign travel, among others.
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https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/magazines/people-power/can-mpuuga-and-nup-succeed-where-others-failed--3419408
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Is the UGA athletics program too focused on football?
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There is no denying that football pays the bills for UGA athletics, but it is also the main beneficiary of school sports publishing. In fact, the athletics association has been on a bit of a football spending lately, having spent more than $ 173 million on facility upgrades since 2017, including the renovation of the west end of Sanford Stadium, the new indoor practice facility and completion of Phase 1 of the new $ 80 million football building added to the Butts-Mehre complex. And more plans are in the works. While that kind of support for the Kirby Smarts program is a popular household name in a largely gridiron-focused Bulldog nation, some Dawgs fans would like to see the unpaid sports take a little more financial love. The issue was recently highlighted by word that Petros Kyprianou, the national championship-winning coach of the mens and womens track and field teams, is likely to leave the UGA when his contract expires at the end of June, as the athletics department will not commit to building a new indoor track facility. Thats in the mind of the first Blawg reader we hear of in the latest edition of Junkyard Mail. Bill, This latest move (or lack thereof) of new athletics director Josh Brooks, who lets one of the best and most successful track and field coaches in the country escape because they dont want to take a dime from football to create a real track facility to build is terrible. Along with allowing the Georgia basketball program to languish in the ineffectual hands of Tom Crean for at least one more season as they want to wait for his buyout amount to drop, it sends a strong but unfortunate message: UGA only cares about its football program and facilities. I know a lot of Dawgs fans probably dont care about the track and field and they are happy as long as Kirby gets what he wants, but I would like to know if this bothers you as much as I do. Scott Burns I recognize that Brooks inherited an athletics program that was missing from many strategic facilities planning other than football (where UGA has done a great job catching up on other major programs for the past 10 years). However, I do think its a bit shortsighted to let Kyprianou run over the lack of track facilities. Matthew Boling has been playing for UGA in the NCAA Eastern qualifying rounds last week. (University of Georgia) University of Georgia, Dawgnation As I noted at the top of this Blawg, football generates the most revenue from the athletics associations (basketball was the only other sport to make a profit last year), and you have to spend money to stay competitive with football programs like Alabama. . But if you want the kind of top overall athletic program expected from a United States flagship university, you need to keep track of the needs of your other sports too. Brooks staff revealed at the athletic board meeting last week that the sports medicine and equipment spaces left in the Butts-Mehre building while the football program moves to the new operations center will be handed over to UGAs track and field teams. But thats really just nibbling at the edges of what Kyprianou has said his program needs if it is to continue recruiting elite track and field athletes. He wants an indoor track facility where major tournaments can be held, such as the NCAA championships. The current outdoor track on Lumpkin Street, which the team shares with the rest of the university, is not suitable for such events. Whats most baffling is the UGAs seeming intransigence on this matter. Kyprianou is not asking the athletics association to pay the $ 10 million to $ 30 million it would take to build an indoor facility right away. He just wants a commitment that they will build at some point. Coach Petros Kyprianous mens and womens track and field teams at UGA are among the most successful countries. (University of Georgia) University of Georgia, Dawgnation I spoke to the Athens Banner-Herald this week from Jacksonville, where his teams competed in the NCAA preliminaries, Kyprianou said, I just needed a written commitment that was going to be groundbreaking at some point, be it three years, five years, seven years, eight years. Something that gives me the peace of mind that I can recruit and tell current student athletes. Weve won a lot, but it gets to the point where you have to keep up with your competitors, Kyprianou said. Each sport on campus has its own facility where they can train undisturbed. Any of them except track. Josh knows. Josh is a great administrator. It is what it is at this point. He understands. He knows. There are priorities and there are things he has to do. I understand. Track is not always a priority. Brooks said this week that he doesnt want to over-commit, but he does want to start drawing up a strategic vision of where our facilities are going for the next five to seven years. Im sorry, but thats baffling. Now back to football with a question about the season opener against Clemson in Charlotte The UGA ticket office sends tutorials on the mobile ticket process to season ticket holders via email. I am trying to buy tickets online and have searched but cannot find the answer to this question. Thanks! Jaxlawdawg UGA athletics spokesperson Claude Felton replies: The tickets we were assigned are on the south side. Apologies for my ignorance, but Ive never dealt with digital tickets, and I dont have a millennial in the household to educate me! Uptown Dawg Here is the response from the UGA ticket offices: Yes, the ticket office will send an email to the registered address notifying you that tickets are available to open and save on a smart device. This will happen in mid-August. Full subscriptions or single tickets can be downloaded by clicking the email link at that time and tickets can be transferred to someone else. The ticket office sends tutorials on the mobile ticketing process via email, as well as messages on the ticket office home page, prior to ticket distribution. The counter is also available to answer specific questions about the process during normal business hours at 877-542-1231. And they also provided a link to additional information on the checkout homepage: https://georgiadogs.com/sports/2020/8/18/digital-tickets.aspx This is a question related to last weeks Blawg on the Georgia-Clemson series Hey Bill, thanks for all the great articles! The Clemson / UGA [game] in Anderson [South Carolina] in 1916 was an interesting revelation. Keith Cheek Interesting question! I dont know the answer, but since many rivalry games are either in-state affairs, or feature contiguous states, with the schools alternating between the home team, Im saying Georgia and Clemson playing in three different states is highly unusual, if not unique. . Maybe some football history connoisseur can tell us if someone else did. Famous players like Zamir White can cash in on their own name, image and likeness, thanks to a new Georgian law coming into effect on July 1 (Tony Walsh / UGA) Tony Walsh, Dawgnation Bill, you sure know how to spark enthusiasm for the upcoming Dawgs-Tigers matchup, and I hope for years to come that optimistic enthusiasm will still be the norm, and not overshadowed by transfer portal news or NIL deals. But I fear college football has just entered an era of commercialization that is a breeding ground for corruption and dissent from student athletes. Tony Tyson At the moment there is not much clarity on legislation passed in some states (including Georgia) that allows college athletes to take advantage of their name, image, and likeness. So far, the NCAA has sat down on this issue, hoping that some sort of coercive federal law could be passed. In the meantime, UGA has signed up with a firm called Altius Sports Partners, which is helping athletes through the education process about what the new rules mean and how they can benefit from it when the Georgian law goes into effect on July 1. Georgian law allows schools to require student-athletes to contribute income to a pool shared with teammates when they graduate, but the UGA has said it does not intend to introduce such a rule (thus it could be detrimental to recruitment against schools in states where this is not done). I tend to doubt teams are bothered by the fact that less celebrated players cant make as much NIL money as their star teammates. It is not the case that all players on a team were previously at the same level. There have always been stars and non-stars; teams are made up of stock market players and walk-ons, future pro prospects and those who will never play the game again after college, and yet they all have the same goal: to win the game. Unless that somehow changes, I dont see some players ability to sell their signatures or do approvals as a team killer. UGA news
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https://exbulletin.com/sports/951722/
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What Next For Manchester United And Ole Gunnar Solskjaer?
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Embed from Getty Images Manchester United have finished their campaign, another one in which they have not won a trophy. The Red Devils have made improvements looking at overall results, especially in the Premier League, where they finished as runners-up to Manchester City. However, the results in other three cup competitions were not ideal, since the team did not win at least one of them. In the League Cup, they ended up losing in the semifinal, in the FA Cup one round earlier, while in the Europa League they got to the final. Still, the penalty shoot-out was won by Villarreal and this Man United will now be at least five years without a single trophy won. Solskjaer Brought Stability We need a bit of a context. It has been eight years since Sir Alex Ferguson decided to end his managerial career and since then, Man United got themselves in a lot of mess. David Moyes not even completed season at the helm was terrible, before Louis van Gaal arrived. His football was against everything the club prided on, uninteresting and dull, and he brought a single FA Cup, after which he was replaced by Jose Mourinho. Another new manager in quick succession which was completely different to his predecessor meant Man United were once again going in different direction, even though it mostly felt the club did not know in which direction they actually want to go. Mourinho did bring trophies in League Cup and Europa League, but afterwards he managed to burn all bridges between him and the players, him and the fans, him and the board In came Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, whose two and a half years at the club did not bring any trophies, but it did bring stability. The Norwegian was brought in to work with a team that was to rely more on youngsters and he did that well. This side did improve under Solskjaer, but mostly through the team having better individuals. Solskjaer Must Evolve Or The Club Should Make A Change After the Europa League final, which quite nicely summed up Solskjaers entire time at the club, it became obvious Man United need to make a decision this summer. If Solskjaer is to stay and be the future of the club, he needs to evolve, because the style of football he is trying to get results with is simply not going to be good enough for the highest level. We saw that in the Champions League last season. Solskjaers main plan seemed to be to chuck in the best 11 players on the pitch and have faith in their individual qualities. But United will need an intricate system, a playing style that will revolve around complex attacking patterns of play which we have not seen under Solskjaer nor Mourinho. That kind of football is what brought immediate success to Chelsea, catapulting them to a Champions League final. If Solskjaer cannot evolve tactically, then the time for his departure might be getting closer
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http://www.stretford-end.com/2021/05/next-manchester-united-ole-gunnar-solskjaer/
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Will we see Mabaso in an Orlando Pirates jersey again?
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The 30-year-old was sent off after just 31 minutes in Nelspruit on Sunday - having received two yellow cards, the first on 15 minutes Orlando Pirates defender Abel Mabaso didn't do his chances of cementing his place in the starting XI or indeed the squad any good with a needless sending off in Sunday's 1-0 league defeat against TS Galaxy at the Mbombela Stadium. While Mabaso got some good game-time for Bucs in their Caf Confederation Cup campaign, where he featured in six matches, he has only played eight games in the domestic league as well as making one appearance in the MTN8 competition. Seven of his eight league appearances have come in the past six weeks - it's only been recently that Mabaso has been given a chance to prove himself in the Pirates starting XI. He can play at right-back and central midfield and it's been in the latter position where coach Josef Zinnbauer has been using him. Mabaso, however, has failed to impress during his recent run and made his case worse on Sunday with a needless sending off for two reckless challenges, at a point when his side were already trailing. Although Galaxy had Spiwe Msimango sent off 14 minutes later, Pirates' hopes of a comeback were not aided by Mabaso's dismissal. At a time when they're chasing Champions League football for next season, it was irresponsible of the player and he will now be suspended for the next two matches the Buccaneers final two of the 2020/21 season. Article continues below With this the case, the former Mamelodi Sundowns, Ajax Cape Town, Mpumalanga Black Aces, Maritzburg United and Chippa United man may find his time coming to an end with Bucs. He has after all been a bit-part player in the three seasons hes been at club, and with the Sea Robbers set for an off-season rejuvenation after a not especially impressive campaign, Mabasos failure to make the most of his recent opportunities might come back to haunt him. Sundays defeat left Pirates in fourth spot on 46 points, level with Golden Arrows and four behind second-placed AmZulu.
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Have Russians started to smile more?
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Russians never smile is a long-standing stereotype among foreigners. Whether its true, and whether smiling plays any role in Russian life, we found out by talking with Russian flight attendants, retail and restaurant employees, as well as others in the smiling professions. Its 5 a.m., a young waiter with black curly hair, after his latest shift at the club where he works in Orenburg (1,400 km from Moscow), lies on the bed and stares at the ceiling. The lines of Russian rapper MiyaGi ring in his ears: The neighborhood is wrecked, cest la vie Were exhausted, help Bosses and kites without love Lanterns fly over the city above. Bilal has been working as a waiter for 12 years. Six days a week he wears his uniform and shows off his perfunctory smile for several hours each shift. I was always told that if you smile, people will like you and tip you. The stereotype still exists, so I now smile automatically. Half the time I get a smile back in response, says Bilal. The only downside is that it drains your mood. My colleagues have the same thing. Maybe we give them [customers] our energy. He plays the MiyaGi track after each shift and dreams of opening his own restaurant, as well as writing a book about the restaurant business. Then, hed no longer have to serve cocktails and smiles for a living. Gastronomic festival "Hold the Crab" in Vladivostok Russia. Vladivostok. July 3, 2016 Yuri Smityuk/TASS Yuri Smityuk/TASS According to the 2019 Smiling Report by the Mystery Shopping Professionals Association (MSPA), employees in Russian stores, cafes and restaurants now smile 18% more often than in 2010. The top smiling year for Russian sellers was 2017, when they took second place in the ranking for the first time. In the opinion of Karina Pipiya, a sociologist at the Levada Center, this was due to the general rise in public sentiment that year studies from that period painted a picture of overall satisfaction with life, income and the powers-that-be. Pandemic-stricken 2020 has had a negative impact, however, and judging by conversations with flight attendants, waiters and retail workers, Russians now smile less. Wearing a smile Daria became a flight attendant at a major Russian airline in April 2021, after completing her training. We were told in class to put on a smile together with our uniform, to leave all problems on the ground. Psychologists taught us to think positively and recommended meditation, but when a passenger violates the on-board rules of conduct, does not fasten their seat belt or takes off their mask, there is no time for smiles we have a very serious word, says Daria. Daria said that most Russians reaction to flight attendants smiles is "neutral", that is, they rarely smile back. She says that Europeans, as well as Russians who often fly abroad, smile most often. But Russians on domestic flights tend to be straight-faced. Daria has not yet flown to Asian countries. Anna, a flight attendant with more than three years experience, said that Russians smiled most often during the 2018 FIFA World Cup, which the country hosted. With the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, theres been a sharp drop in on-board smiles (as well as flights). Flight attendants go down the stairs of an Airbus A350-900 long-range wide-body passenger aircraft of the Aeroflot airline at the Sheremetyevo international airport named after Alexander Pushkin in Moscow Ramil Sitdikov/Sputnik Ramil Sitdikov/Sputnik You cant imagine how happy people were when we announced the scores of matches during flights when the World Cup was on. Everything was simpler, people were more warm-hearted. Today, a rude person might react nastily to a smile, anything can happen. Even if people do smile, we cant see it behind the masks, and its increasingly hard for flight attendants to keep smiling, since the virus has decimated the industry, people are losing their jobs. People have become angrier, everyones tired of all this, surmises Anna. According to Natalia, a flight attendant with more than two years experience, the requirement to wear masks during the pandemic has made smiling less common. But weve learned to smile with our eyes, which passengers feel and respond positively to, says Natalia. In October 2020, Pobeda, a leading Russian airline, even planned to purchase 3,500 face trainers mouth braces to improve smiling technique for use at its flight attendant training school. But the company canceled the order, explaining that it first wanted to test the effectiveness of the device on a small sample of wearers. Our flight attendants have mastered the art of the flawless smile: every day we get feedback from appreciative customers who note the mood on board, the airline's press service told Russia Beyond. All-day smiling is tiring According to Natalia, who has waitressed for nine years, cafe- and restaurant-goers in Russias regions almost never smile. In Volgograd, people practically never smile, but when I moved to Moscow, I was shocked by the friendliness and kindness of Moscow customers. Theres probably no point smiling at people in the regions, she admits. In regional shops and showrooms, the situation with smiles is the same, says Roman Gotovko, a sales assistant at the Abrau-Dyurso wine boutique in Irkutsk. I think customers capacity to smile and radiate warmth depends on their emotional load of personal problems and worries. If you smile sincerely, not forced, you can extract a reciprocal smile from the customer. But in ordinary situations, I feel that Russians generally are smiling less often, explains Roman. According to Ksenia Semenkina, a sales assistant at a Svyaznoy cell phone store, the number of smiles among customers has dropped sharply in the past five years, but not due to personal problems, but because the public has grown accustomed to smiles from salespeople. Sale of red caviar Vitaly Ankov/Sputnik Vitaly Ankov/Sputnik Lots of competitors have appeared where the customer service is no worse, so [customers] have started taking it for granted. Why should they bother smiling back? reckons Ksenia. Furniture seller Leonid Sobchenko agrees that the number of smiling Russians has declined, but attributes this to rising poverty. I remember back in 2012 people smiled much more often when buying new furniture for their apartments. Now its much harder for them to part with the cash, theres no time for smiles, Sobchenko is sure. Smiling is not for Russians Almost half of all Russian citizens are likely to experience negative emotions, such as ill-treatment, fear, resentment and envy, says Karina Pipiya. In general, smiling is not synonymous with happiness and positivity in the minds of Russians. Moreover, the negative emotions experienced by Russians are unlikely to ever be voluntarily converted into smilingness. Another matter is that work standards and algorithms in the service sector (the obligatory smile and greeting as a job requirement) are perhaps changing, which in turn affects the positive dynamics, explains Pipiya. According to psychologist Olga Golitsyna, the Russian service sector is indeed trying to accustom people to smiles and positive thinking, but the perma-smile everythings great attitude does not work. Smiling all the time is not inherent to human nature. It is natural for a person to react emotionally to many things, and all these emotions get reflected on the face. You cant constantly conceal household, financial and family problems beneath a smile, this will negatively affect your health. Another question is the culture of working through such problems with a psychologist, which is developed in the U.S. and Europe, says Golitsyna. People on a street in central Moscow Alexei Kudenko/Sputnik Alexei Kudenko/Sputnik In her opinion, Russians do not smile not because they are rude or tetchy, but because they do not know how to handle their emotions, which leaves an imprint of national gloom, Golitsyna believes. In order to smile, its first necessary to learn to communicate with yourself and your inner being; then Russians will start smiling more often, the psychologist concluded. If using any of Russia Beyond's content, partly or in full, always provide an active hyperlink to the original material.
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https://www.rbth.com/lifestyle/333839-have-russians-started-to-smile-more
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Which Russian cities have a subway system?
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Only seven cities in the country have their own metropolitan train lines and only one city offers a high-speed underground train service. The construction of the metro in Russia was not an easy task, especially in the difficult climatic conditions. In the Soviet years, there were many ambitious projects, such as all cities with more than a million of people were to have their own subway. However, by the time of the collapse of the USSR in 1991, there were just 13 cities of the former republics with a metro (besides Russia, metro systems also appeared in Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Uzbekistan). And in the 1990s, the construction of new lines was suspended. Today in Russia, there are subway systems in seven cities, as well as several unfinished projects. Moscow Komsomolskaya station. Legion Media Legion Media Although plans for the metro in Moscow already appeared as far back as in the 1870s, it was realized only in the Soviet era. The first line was opened on May 15, 1935. Even during the Great Patriotic War, the Moscow Metro was fully operational: during the daytime, it transported passengers and, at night, it was a bomb shelter for them. Today, the Moscow Metro is one of the biggest in Europe with 278 stations and sees 9 million passengers every day. The interiors of the metro stations are so beautiful that they are considered one of the main Russian attractions for both local and foreign tourists. Amazing marble, gorgeous chandeliers and stained glass may trick you into thinking you are in a palace, not on public transport! St. Petersburg Avtovo station. Legion Media Legion Media The second subway system in Russia was opened in 1955. Due to the city being a port and being riddled with canals, it has quite a difficult ground and most of its stations had to be laid deep underground. The deepest one is Admiralteyskaya, which is located 86 meters below the surface. Local resident Irina Efros says its her favorite station: It has amazingly beautiful decorations dedicated to naval topics. You can spend half an hour just staring at the mosaic panels! A unique feature of the St. Petersburg Metro is that it is Russias only subway system with platform doors. Soviet experts believed that such double doors would protect passengers from falling on the railways. Nizhny Novgorod Leninskaya station. Alexey Trefilov (CC BY-SA 4.0) Alexey Trefilov (CC BY-SA 4.0) This small subway system was opened in 1985. It consists of only two lines and carries only 115,000 people a day (although there are more than 1.2 mln residents). In Nizhny Novgorod, the lines run through the city center, but dont reach residential areas. Therefore, the subway is in little demand, says Pavel Zuzin from the HSE Institute of Transport Economics. In the near future, its planned to build new stations on the other side of the Oka River. Novosibirsk Marshala Pokryshkina station. Legion Media Legion Media The only metro in Siberia was opened in 1986 and is considered the third busiest in Russia, consisting of only 13 stations. Some stations of the Novosibirsk Metro have exits directly into residential buildings: the apartments are above the entrances on the ground floor. Novosibirsk also has the longest subway bridge in the world (2,145 meters), which crosses the Ob River (the section over the river is 896 meters). Samara Gagarinskaya station. Legion Media Legion Media In this city of more than 1.1 million people, there is only one metro line with ten stations, which opened in 1987. Its also not a very popular transport there, but the stations themselves deserve attention. They are decorated with beautiful marble and themed frescoes. For instance, the majestic Pobeda station is dedicated to the victory in the Great Patriotic War, the futuristic Gagarin Station - to space exploration, while the modernist Sportivnaya Station - to the countrys sporting achievements. Yekaterinburg Botanicheskaya station. Legion Media Legion Media The only subway system in the Urals is in city of Yekaterinburg. It was opened in 1991, although construction began back in 1980. The metro connects the Uralmash plant with the historical center and the residential areas. It consists of one line and nine stations (one of the smallest subways in the world), but carries more than 90,000 passengers a day. Along with modern paying systems like credit cards and Apple Pay, old Moscow Metro tokens are also in use, which cause a constant nostalgia in tourists from the capital. Kazan Kremlyovskaya station. A.Savin A.Savin The newest Russian subway system was opened in 2005. There is also only one line with 11 stations, which connects residential and industrial areas. The Kazan Metro has an interesting national flavor: all the inscriptions are duplicated in the Tatar language and some stations are decorated in a local traditional style like, for example, the Kremlevskaya station. Kazan is also planning to launch the countrys first driverless subway in 2025. Volgograd Ploshchad Lenina station. Legion Media Legion Media In this southern city, passengers use an unusual transport for Russia called the metrotram. Since 1984, a high-speed tram has been in operation, but some of its stations are situated underground and come off like real subway stations. These stations are also decorated with large beautiful chandeliers, vaults and marble trim, just like a classical Soviet metro looks! Unfinished subway This is how a station in Chelyabinsk metro could look like. Chelyabmetrotransproject (CC BY-SA 3.0) Chelyabmetrotransproject (CC BY-SA 3.0) Several Russian cities have begun construction of a subway system, however are currently not finished. In the Ural city of Chelyabinsk, two stations and several tunnels have been built, but the construction was stopped due to lack of finances. City authorities are considering the possibility of a high-speed tram instead of a subway. In Krasnoyarsk, construction of a subway has repeatedly been touted, only for the deadlines to be postponed all the time; so far, the latest expected launch date is 2024. But this is also not clear. Unfinished Omsk subway. LagunOff 57 (CC BY-SA 4.0) LagunOff 57 (CC BY-SA 4.0) In the Siberian city of Omsk, several tunnels and railroad tracks and draft versions of stations have been built and one of them was even opened. Construction didnt continue, but the now abandoned station has become a local attraction. Subway construction was also planned in Perm, Rostov-on-Don and Ufa, but, at the moment, it has been deemed impractical and plans have been shelved indefinitely. If using any of Russia Beyond's content, partly or in full, always provide an active hyperlink to the original material.
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https://www.rbth.com/travel/333836-russian-cities-subway-metro
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Is closing classrooms best for NYC children during the pandemic?
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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK CITY COVID-19 cases are rising in New York City, but not inside public schools, according to the latest testing data from the Department of Education. The city on Tuesday remained below the 3% threshold that would trigger closures and full remote learning for all students, with the latest testing results over a seven-day average at 2.74%. But, according to the Department of Education, of the 46,035 students who have been tested for COVID-19 since October, when random testing at public schools began, only 95 were positive, prompting conversations about whether schools should stay open even as coronavirus cases continue to climb citywide. Its very frustrating for us, moreso for the young people and their parents, said Mark Torres, a high school teacher in Manhattan. Dont tell me kids going to their neighborhood school are gonna be sick everywhere and not be sick in school. I dont buy that. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said schools could be safer for kids than being home in the neighborhoods where the virus is rapidly spreading. What I am suggesting to the parents and teachers and the mayor is, lets take a second calculus and take a look at infection rates in the schools, he said over the weekend. Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Monday the city would consider different approaches, including whats going on in schools across the board. The teachers union, meanwhile, is urging New Yorkers to do their part to reduce the positivity rate so schools can remain open. Our public schools have been among the safest places to be because educators, parents, and students have followed the rules even when it has been hard, the union said in a statement to PIX11 News. City Councilman Mark Treyger, chair of the Education Committee, said there also needs to be a supportive plan in place for kids who require face-to-face time with their teachers. Our most vulnerable children special needs, homeless give them an option of five days a week in person with the option to opt-out, he said. With the possibility of another citywide school shutdown looming, parents, teachers and principals are putting their thinking caps on again to figure out how to keep kids safe and properly educated. I wish we would stop depending on a vaccine and actually do the public health measures we need, so the kids could get a great education, Torres added.
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Who Sought to Kill The 'Black Panther of Oxford' Sasha Johnson?
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A teenager has appeared in court charged with conspiracy to murder over shooting of Sasha Johnson, as the BLM activist fights for her life in hospital. Ms Johnson, a mother-of-two, dubbed the 'Black Panther of Oxford', was shot in the head at a 30th birthday party in Peckham, south London, on Sunday and remains in hospital in a critical condition. Five males were arrested in connection with the incident on Wednesday. On Friday, four of the suspects were released on bail until a date in late June while Cameron Deriggs was charged with conspiracy to murder. Deriggs, of Bromley Hill, Lewisham, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Saturday morning dressed in a grey zip-up hoody and blue jeans. He did not give an indication of plea. Prosecutor Carol Udenze said: 'This offence happened on May 23 at an address where a lady was shot in the head and another person was shot in the foot - this was at a house party. She shut off comments to her post so that nobody can point out that Sasha Johnson was shot by a group of black men https://t.co/sQV8a4lPEC Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) May 25, 2021 'The crown's case is that the defendant in agreement with others conspired to murder somebody at that address.' Ms Udenze confirmed the police do not believe Ms Johnson was the intended victim. Remanding Deriggs in custody, District Judge Michael Snow said: 'This case is sent to the criminal court. 'You will be there on June 25, probably by live link, where the judge will want confirmation of your plea and give directions for the smooth running of your case.' Several members of Deriggs's family, including his parents, were present in the public gallery. Ms Johnson, 27, had been among 30 guests at a silent disco in the back garden of a home in Consort Road when four men in dark clothing burst in through a side gate and shots were fired, investigators said. Detective Chief Inspector Richard Leonard, of the Metropolitan Police, said Ms Johnson was shot in the 'ensuing melee' before the suspects fled. A second person injured only suffered a superficial wound, police said. Ms Johnson, a mother-of-two, is a prominent member of the Black Lives Matter movement and a founding member of the Taking the Initiative party which launched last year. Poor Sasha Johnson I pray for her recovery.. ..but how embarrassing ..to spend your life railing against white men only to be shot by a black man Right now evil white racist doctors are struggling to save her life.. pic.twitter.com/d3mqu5jK79 Also Read Black Lives Matter Support Palestinians Amidst Israeli Attacks May 25, 2021 She graduated with a first in social care from Oxford Brookes University, and was well known for her activism in her community. On Monday, a vigil was held by supporters in Ruskin Park in Denmark Hill - close to the hospital where she is being treated - to pray for her to pull through. This article has been adapted from its original source.
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https://www.albawaba.com/news/who-sought-kill-black-panther-oxford-sasha-johnson-1430337
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Should Blue Jackets rebuild now that Seth Jones reportedly wont re-sign?
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Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Click to share on Flipboard (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) During Hockey Night in Canada on Saturday, Elliotte Friedman dropped a bombshell: Seth Jones reportedly told the Blue Jackets that he wont re-sign with them. (Jones, 26, is set to be an unrestricted free agent after his $5.4 million cap hit expires at the end of the 2021-22 season.) On Sunday, re-installed Blue Jackets president of hockey operations John Davidson didnt flat-out confirm to The Athletics Aaron Portzline that Seth Jones will be traded. That said, sources told Portzline that the Blue Jackets are most likely to trade Seth Jones during the offseason, possibly during the 2021 NHL Draft. Again, Davidson didnt tell Portzline (sub required) that Seth Jones will be traded. But he didnt shoot that down, nor did Davidson deny the possibility of a Blue Jackets rebuild. The No. 1 thing wed like to do is keep Seth, Davidson told Portzline on Sunday. He has every right in the world to leave if he wants to not extend the contract, but well do whats best for our team. We just want players who want to be here. In the past, the Blue Jackets held onto pending free agents like Sergei Bobrovsky and Artemi Panarin, rather than trading them before their contracts expired. Interestingly, Davidson mentioned that was a different scenario, though. Earlier in May, Portzline indicated that Blue Jackets GM Jarmo Kekalainen might consider repeating that experiment with Jones as a pending UFA. That now seems largely unlikely. Now, theres the outside chance that Jones has a change of heart. But all signs point to Jones leaving the Blue Jackets, whether it be via a trade this offseason, sometime in 2021-22, or leaving as a UFA. Lets discuss some of the most important aspects of the Blue Jackets Seth Jones situation. The answer hinges on who you ask. The discrepancy between eye-test and analytic folks on Seth Jones is amazing. Which 100% means some team is going to pay a bushel for him via trade and then extend him to a deal that will age terribly. /Cam Robinson/ (@Hockey_Robinson) May 30, 2021 For quite some time, an arguments been building that Jones underlying work doesnt match the perception that he is an elite defenseman. J Fresh dove into that last year, and the 2020-21 season was even more unkind to Jones. Last summer I was skeptical about Seth Jones' obvious talent translating to top-level on-ice results. Even I didn't see his disastrous 2020-21 season coming. #CBJ pic.twitter.com/kGvJJzSePZ JFresh (@JFreshHockey) May 30, 2021 Truly, based on a lot of analytics metrics, the Seth Jones outlook can be outright jarring. His three-year player card from Evolving Hockey should give any even vaguely analytics-minded suitor at least a moment of pause: Troublingly, its not just about fancy stats. Almost a year ago, Jack Han broke down subtle issues with Jones defensive skating. Not necessarily. But keep in mind the stakes. The Blue Jackets were on the verge of handing Jones what would almost certainly be the biggest contract they ever signed. And consider how many teams are regretting the extensions they handed out to defensemen: People are making an argument that being forced to trade Seth Jones might be a blessing in disguise for the Blue Jackets. Maybe its that last extra push, actually. During the 2021 NHL Trade Deadline, Kekalainen and the Blue Jackets made the best of a bad situation. By trading pending free agents Nick Foligno and David Savard, the Blue Jackets jump-started a reload with complex deals headlined by first-rounders. Even before a possible Seth Jones trade, the Blue Jackets already have two extra first-rounders. Cap Friendly presents an eyeball-friendly outlook of their next three years of picks: In all of this, ask yourself a key question. Sure, its easy to talk yourself into rosier situations. Maybe youll just look at the teams handful of upsets, and think that brighter days are ahead. But look at that roster and try to picture it truly morphing into a contender anytime soon. This is a franchise thats never finished second in its division, let alone won a division title. Just one 100-point season to its name. It sure didnt look like help was on its way, either. Back in January, Scott Wheeler ranked the Blue Jackets prospect pool 27th at The Athletic (sub required). Earlier, Elite Prospects placed the Blue Jackets farm system dead-last. Theres an uncomfortable scenario where the Blue Jackets felt like they needed to sign both Seth Jones and Patrik Laine to risky, long-term deals. Maybe they would have had to overpay Zach Werenski to stick around, too. Instead, the Blue Jackets might be forced into prizing long-term gains, even if it means short-term pain. Jones could fetch a hefty price in a trade. Werenski, 23, might not be as sour on Columbus as others. Again, the Blue Jackets already have a lot of ammo after trading Foligno and Savard. Things could get even more interesting if they trade Jones, and possibly others. (In a recent mailbag, Aaron Portzline provided an amusingly short answer for the question of whether Laine would be back: No.) * Fascinatingly, Puljujarvi might work out nicely for Edmonton, but it took a long time. Silver linings, but questions down the line Now, theres no doubt that the Blue Jackets face big questions about keeping players in Columbus long-term. Plenty of people love Columbus, but its true that it doesnt have the same cache as, say, New York or Boston. Ohio doesnt have those sweet tax breaks like Texas or other states. And no ones going to mistake the weather for the jet-ski-friendliness of Florida. But, if theres any truth to John Tortorella being a repellant factor, well thats one issue out of the way. Eventually, the Blue Jackets need to nurture an atmosphere where they keep Grade-A talent. Its possible that they might be better off just blowing up this current setup, and trying to lay down a better foundation. Consider it the hockey equivalent of being forced to pull off the Band-Aid. Nope, none of this seems like it will be easy. Yet it might have been better than the Blue Jackets boxing themselves into a corner, especially if Jones isnt as good as many think he is.
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https://nhl.nbcsports.com/2021/05/30/should-blue-jackets-rebuild-now-that-seth-jones-reportedly-wont-re-sign/
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Are The Flavours Added To E-cigarettes Safe?
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Gooseberry fizz. Strawberry watermelon bubble gum. Vanilla custard. University of Otago food scientists have received an Explorer Grant from the Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) to develop novel testing methods that will enable regulatory bodies in New Zealand to evaluate the unknown safety and long-term health effects of flavours commonly added to the liquids used in e-cigarettes. Lead researcher Dr Graham Eyres, who has significant experience researching flavours used in the food industry, says the flavourings added to the liquids used with e-cigarettes or vaping devices are currently regulated under the Food Standards Code. The problem is, he says, that the code only covers the safety of ingesting these flavourings in food; it does not consider the use of these flavourings when inhaled. Dr Graham Eyres E-cigarettes heat a liquid into an aerosol or vapour cloud that is inhaled by the user, typically delivering doses of nicotine to the lungs, says Dr Eyres. In New Zealand, the range of flavourings added to the liquids in e-cigarettes have not been characterised or quantified. This is concerning because some of the volatile organic compounds generated during vaporisation may be directly harmful if inhaled at high concentrations or may degrade to form harmful compounds, he says. As an example, Dr Eyres cites the use of diacetyl a flavouring responsible for the buttery characteristic of chardonnay which more than 20 years ago was linked to causing an incurable lung disease in popcorn factory workers who were breathing in large amounts of the compound over hot vats of oil while making flavoured popcorn. Dr Eyres says recent international research has shown that 74 percent of commercial liquids in e-cigarettes contained diacetyl, with more than 40 percent at concentrations higher than the recommended safety limits. The proportion of New Zealand e-cigarettes that contain diacetyl is unknown. With this Explorer Grant, we will use methods developed in food and environmental science and redesign them to better understand what compounds are in these e-cigarette liquids and how these compounds are distributed within different-sized aerosol droplets. Armed with this knowledge, we can then work with toxicologists and health professionals to determine what the level of risk is from these compounds and hopefully provide regulators with the evidence they need to develop specifications and standards on e-cigarettes, says Dr Eyres. E-cigarettes are generally considered to be less harmful than smoking traditional cigarettes because they operate at a lower temperature and are therefore likely to generate lower levels of carcinogenic compounds. For this reason, they are often recommended as an effective tool in helping people stop smoking, including by the Ministry of Health1. HRC Chief Executive Professor Sunny Collings says the use of e-cigarettes in New Zealand has been growing, with over a third of school students reporting having tried an e-cigarette in 2019 and 12 percent reporting to be regular users of e-cigarettes2. There has also been a marked increase in the marketing and availability of e-cigarettes. She says this innovative research will provide some fundamental tools and data to help ensure that e-cigarettes do not become yet another cause of harm. Smoking has a huge impact on public health and Mori health outcomes with half a million New Zealand adults smoking daily 31 percent of whom are Mori and more than 5000 fatalities each year as a result. E-cigarettes may have a part to play in achieving a smoke-free Aotearoa by providing an alternative to smoking cigarettes, however, we need to be able to effectively evaluate and monitor the safety of e-cigarettes and other vaping devices to ensure any long-term health effects on New Zealanders are minimised, says Professor Collings. The HRC has awarded 15 Explorer Grants to a total value of $2,250,000 in this funding round. These grants are designed to support transformative research ideas that have a good chance of making a revolutionary change to how we manage New Zealanders health. See below for the full list of award recipients. 24 months, $150,000 Scoop Media
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https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE2105/S00142/are-the-flavours-added-to-e-cigarettes-safe.htm
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Will a Migration Toward Suburbs Help Save Malls?
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When the coronavirus crisis first struck, panicked apartment dwellers were quick to flee New York City, the outbreak's epicenter, in search of larger homes and private outdoor space to hunker down and ride out the pandemic. And that trend wasn't limited to New York City. Across the country, Americans abandoned cities and migrated toward the suburbs, where they could not only secure larger homes but reap savings on housing costs. In fact, the Wall Street Journal reports that larger cities like New York, San Francisco, and Chicago saw hundreds of thousands more residents move out than come in during the pandemic. Not surprisingly, the suburbs of large metro areas took in most of those former city dwellers. In fact, net new suburban households rose 43% in 2020 compared to the previous year, thanks to an uptick in suburban migration. Of course, this trend has been devastating for landlords and property owners in large cities, some of whom have struggled with vacancies and a glaring lack of leasing demand. In New York City, for example, there was a point when landlords became so desperate for tenants they started giving away free rent just to draw them in. But while larger cities' residential markets may have taken a temporary beating during the pandemic, the suburban migration trend could benefit another hard-hit real estate sector -- shopping malls. Malls have struggled immensely since the pandemic began. Not only has foot traffic been extremely sluggish at malls, but many retailers have made plans, or are making plans, to close down stores after a year of devastatingly low revenue. Furthermore, the pandemic caused a notable shift in the way people make purchases. Last year, online shopping soared as consumers favored digital sales over dragging themselves into stores and potentially getting exposed to COVID-19 in the process. As such, a lot of retailers are now sinking resources into building out warehouses and distribution centers to allow for a continued boom in online orders. That's money they won't be spending to open new stores or improve those that are underperforming. All told, it's a tough time to be invested in malls. But one factor that could help save malls is the aforementioned influx of new suburbanites. Now that there are more people living in the suburbs, it puts more consumers in close proximity to malls. And that means their foot traffic could pick up in a very meaningful way, especially now that it's much easier to get a coronavirus vaccine. Mall investors should remain positive At one point last year, roughly one-third of consumers were scared to set foot in malls, but that sentiment is likely to change among the fully vaccinated. And some consumers who mostly shopped online last year may specifically want to start visiting malls again after months of being cooped up at home. All told, there's no reason to give up on malls just yet, despite the challenges they face. And the fact that there are now more people living near malls could be just the thing that fuels their recovery in the near term.
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https://www.fool.com/millionacres/real-estate-investing/articles/will-a-migration-toward-suburbs-help-save-malls/?source=eptyholnk0000202&utm_source=yahoo-host&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=article&yptr=yahoo?src=rss
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What's Really Going On With Kristin Cavallari And Jay Cutler?
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Since calling it quits, Kristin Cavallari and Jay Cutler have seemingly put up a united front, proving that even though they are going their separate ways, the two are still dedicated parents to their three kids. The "Very Cavallari" alum and the former Chicago Bears quarterback announced their split in April 2020, revealing they came "to a loving conclusion to get a divorce" after a decade together. "We have nothing but love and respect for one another and are deeply grateful for the years shared, memories made, and the children we are so proud of," Kristin wrote on Instagram at the time." This is just the situation of two people growing apart. We ask everyone to respect our privacy as we navigate this difficult time within our family." Kristin and Jay who wed in June 2013 share joint custody of their three kids, sons Camden, Jaxon, and daughter Saylor. The outlet reported the ex NFL player and the Uncommon James owner became "joint custodians and joint decision makers" for their children in May 2020. Despite the split, the pair has proved they are willing to co-parent their children as amicably as possible. On Mother's Day 2021, Jay uploaded a photo of Kristin and their youngsters writing, "Some kids have all the luck. Happy Mother's Day." But while it seems like the ex-lovers are on cordial terms, there might be more happening behind-the-scenes. Keep scrolling for an update on what's really going on between Kristin and Jay.
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https://www.nickiswift.com/424252/whats-really-going-on-with-kristin-cavallari-and-jay-cutler/
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How Much Was B.J. Thomas Worth At The Time Of His Death?
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B.J. Thomas followed his dreams. Like the time, he and his brother cruised into Graceland, hell-bent on meeting The King, per Chron. Unfortunately, Elvis Presley was in Hollywood that day. However, they were still invited to look around the bottom floor of the house, and Elvis Presley's mother offered them sandwiches. Thomas relayed, "We never even thought twice about it." He continued, "All we knew is we wanted to see him." Thomas hit the road again and signed to Scepter Records after his cover version of "Lonesome" blew up. He revealed that he didn't make a lot of money, explaining, "When you're that young, you're not thinking about the money, you just want to make a record." While his musical career went from strength to strength, he became hooked on amphetamines while trying to recover from a knife wound after a fight. "There was no psychological help with that kind of thing back then," the star told Chron, adding, "And it turned into a big problem for a number of years." However, Thomas burned out with his drug-filled, fast lifestyle. He became a Christian and mused, "I'm lucky. I got to the other side. I survived where [a] lot of guys and girls didn't make it through that." While he was never able to "rebuild" his "mainstream career" after making his religious beliefs public, he still had a very successful run. Celebrity Net Worth reports that Thomas had a net worth of $5 million. If you or anyone you know is struggling with addiction issues, help is available. Visit the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration website or contact SAMHSA's National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357).
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https://www.nickiswift.com/424265/how-much-was-b-j-thomas-worth-at-the-time-of-his-death/
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Is Mitchell Robinson trolling or teasing a return for the Knicks?
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The NBA regular season is rapidly coming to a close, with the start of postseason play just a couple of weeks away. Injury issues have played a major factor this season as a plethora of players have been forced to the sideline for an extended period of time with various ailments. While injuries occur every year and are part of the game, the frequency seems to be a bit higher this season. Some team personnel members around the league reportedly feel it's a direct result of the compressed 2020-21 schedule, as the league wanted to fit in a whole 72-game schedule despite the season not starting until the end of December.
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https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2263080517310/is-mitchell-robinson-trolling-or-teasing-a-return-for-the-knicks
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Is Kohls open on Memorial Day 2021?
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Memorial Day 2021 is on May 31. Kohls has regular store hours on Memorial Day. It will open at 10 a.m. and close at 9 p.m. Shoppers still should ultimately check with their local store in the event hours vary by location. Yes. You can find deals across all categories. Here are just a few: RELATED STORIES ABOUT RETAIL AND SHOPPING: Disney is closing 2 more N.J. stores amid shift to online sales Filipino taqueria Flip Sigi opening 1st N.J. spot Whole Foods expansion will include 4 new stores in N.J. Our journalism needs your support. Please subscribe today to NJ.com Christopher Burch can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @ChrisBurch856. Find NJ.com on Facebook. Tell us. nj.com/tips
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https://www.nj.com/business/2021/05/is-kohls-open-on-memorial-day-2021.html
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Is an independent director indeed independent?
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In March 2021, a 3 Judge Bench of Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice of India, finally settled one of the most infamous corporate disputes of India which began nearly 5 years ago after a fallout between the Indian corporate giant Tata and Cyrus Mistry. However, on the 25th of April 2021, the Shapoorji Pallonji Group moved the Honble Supreme Court with a review petition against its March 26 verdict. It set aside the NCLAT order of reinstating Mistry as the executive chairman. One of the key issues that has finally caught the attention is whether an independent director is indeed independent. This issue arose when Tata Group of Companies called Extraordinary General Meetings (EGM) for the removal of Nusli Wadia and Cyrus Mistry from their Board of Directors. This was followed by Independent Directors of IHCL and Tata Chemicals extending their support to Mistry for standing up for minority interests. This led to an extensive debate on the true independence of independent directors and the say of promotors in their removal. One may think that the person finally appointed as an Independent Director is truly independent. But the law fails to make adequate provisions to safeguard his independence post-appointment. The process of removal of an Independent Director had been kept the same as in the case of an ordinary director. Section 169 of the Act provides that a director can be removed by way of an ordinary resolution that can be passed with a simple majority (at least 50%). The effect of this provision is that the removal of an Independent Director remains in the hands of the promoters who hold a majority stake in the company. The position regarding an independent director serving his second term has since been changed for better after a recent amendment in section 169 of the Act. The provision, as it stands now, requires a special resolution (super-majority of 75%) to be passed for the removal of an independent director who is serving his second term. An independent director should be given an opportunity to be heard before a resolution is passed against him. This amendment provides a certain safeguard to an independent director re-appointed for a second time. It can be considered as a step towards ensuring better corporate governance and independence of independent directors. However, the absence of any provision which requires the removal of an independent director to be based on sufficient and reasonable grounds makes these provisions a bit redundant. The removal process effectively still remains a number game, notwithstanding that such number has been increased to 75% in the case of re-appointed independent director. The recent Tata-Mistry-Wadia fiasco has highlighted loopholes in the law surrounding independent directors. Though, the Companies Act, as a legislation, does well to ensure the appointment of an impartial person as an independent director, it fails in ensuring that such impartiality remains even after the appointment by not providing a separate regulatory mechanism for the removal of independent director. SEBIs recent consultation paper for regulatory provisions related to Independent Directors has proposed making the process of appointment and resignation of Independent Directors more transparent. This shall secure the approval and interests of minority shareholders thus engaging them in governance decisions that shall affect them. This paper has also proposed for remuneration of independent directors through long duration stock options replacing the current practice of profit linked commission-based remuneration. What might be construed a significant proposal is disclosure of full resignation letter to stock exchanges. Although this might not be a big move but it could be construed as an indication of SEBIs willingness to step in. The lead ought to be taken by the legislature to level the potholes on the road of independence of independent directors. This can be done, firstly, by enabling the minority shareholders to have a complete say in the appointment of a certain number of independent directors. There should be no interference of the majority shareholders, especially the promoters either in their appointment or their removal. Other directors should be appointed in a proportionate manner. Further, the removal of an independent directors shall be precluded by showing sufficient and reasonable grounds. The special resolution required for the removal of a re-appointed independent director ought to be made universal, irrespective of the term that such independent director is serving. The Companies Act places a colossal responsibility on the shoulders of Independent Directors. It, however, fails to provide sufficient safeguards for them to ensure that such responsibilities are discharged in the manner envisaged by the Code. The change in the law must come to secure the independence of independent directors, and sooner the better. (The writer is an Odisha-based lawyer and honorary member of Advisory Council of Harvard Business Review.)
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https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/is-an-independent-director-indeed-independent-991857.html
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What Are Blue Chip Stocks?
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plavevski / Shutterstock.com If you follow the stock market even as a casual observer chances are that youve heard the term blue chip stock. These stocks, known for their reliable returns, are often used as a benchmark to track the stock market. Keep reading to learn more about blue chip stocks and whether theyre a good choice for you. A blue chip stock is the stock of a company that is considered to be a reliable performer, with a history of consistent growth. Thats not to say a blue chip stock will earn money every year, or that it will never decline in value. In general, though, blue chip stocks rise in value over time and often outperform other companies in their industry, which may give you peace of mind if youre concerned about whether blue chip stocks are safe. Because they perform well, however, blue chip stocks tend to cost more than other types of stocks. Price isnt the only feature that makes blue chip stocks different from the rest. They tend to pay smaller dividends than income stocks and greater dividends than growth stocks. Their prices also tend to be higher than growth stocks because they are considered less risky, but they dont have the same potential for growth. There are no specific criteria for earning the label of a blue chip company, so there is no listing of all blue chip stocks. The 30 companies on the Dow Jones Industrial Average are all considered blue chips. These companies cover a diverse range of industries, from manufacturing to entertainment, and include powerhouses like Apple, Disney, Facebook and Exxon Mobil all of which are considered top-10 blue chip stocks. Some investors prefer to invest in blue chip stocks because of their history in being both reliable and stable. Although they may cost more to buy and pay smaller dividends than other stocks, they tend to be less susceptible to volatility in the market. Like other stock investments, blue chip stocks are not guaranteed, but they have a better chance of surviving and recovering from a crisis than less established stocks. Like any other stock, you can purchase blue chip stocks through a broker. As with any investment, you should understand what you are buying. Blue chips make for a good place to start since these companies have products that are so well-known. Since they are generally large companies, blue chip stocks tend to be stable, so most people purchase them intending to hold them for a long period of time. Because they typically appreciate over time, investors are rarely disappointed with this strategy. Blue chip stocks are a good place to start if you want to invest in a recognizable company that has a good chance of performing well. As with any other investment, you should understand what you are buying, diversify your holdings and be aware of fees. Blue chip funds are a type of stock fund that invests primarily in blue chip stocks. Because theyre invested in blue chip stocks, they have similar advantages, like lower volatility, than other stock funds. They also dont have the same potential for growth as funds that invest in companies within a specific market index. Investing in stock funds offers several advantages over investing in individual stocks, including diversification, capital appreciation and liquidity. At the same time, stock funds increase and decrease in value depending on the performance of the stocks in the fund. It is possible to lose money on the investment. Dividends earned on stock funds are subject to taxes. Back to top More From GOBankingRates This article has been updated with additional reporting since its original publication.
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https://news.yahoo.com/blue-chip-stocks-180007077.html
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Who is Gavin MacLeods wife Patti Kendig?
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GAVIN MacLeod, who died on May 29 at the age of 90, was married three times - twice to the same woman. The actor was surrounded by his loved ones at his home in Palm Desert, California, when he passed away. Patti Kendig was married to Gavin MacLeod from 1974 until 1982, and then again from 1985 until his death in 2021. They both became born-again Christians by the time they got remarried, according to The New York Times. MacLeod was also married to Joan Rootvik from 1955 until 1972. The actor had battled alcohol abuse but vowed to sober up when he married Kendig the first time in 1974, according to NBC News. Patti, who is 90, was an actress who appeared in a handful of television shows, including The Love Boat, which starred her husband. Gavin MacLeod has four children - all with his first wife Rootvik. They share Meghan, Julie, David, and Keith. MacLeod does not have any children with Kendig. Gavin MacLeod is best known for playing Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Captain Merrill Stubing on The Love Boat. He was struggling as an actor when he auditioned for The Mary Tyler Moore Show, according to The New York Times. He was expected to audition for the role of Lou Grant, which ended up going to Ed Asner. Instead, MacLeod fit into the role of Murray. Demi slammed for 'promoting diet soda' after ripping 'sugar-free cookies' HOOKED ON A FEELING What to know about singer BJ Thomas MODERN FAMILY Kylie Jenner shares rare video of baby daddy Travis with daughter Stormi, 3 Murray represented all the brown-baggers - not just in newsrooms, but in all sorts of professions, he wrote in his autobiography This Is Your Captain Speaking: My Fantastic Voyage Through Hollywood, Faith and Life. People felt they knew me. MacLeod was born on February 28, 1931, in Mount Kisco, New York.
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https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/2985115/who-is-gavin-macleods-wife-patti-kendig/
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Where do Vikings players rank in the top 50 for league apparel sales?
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The Telegraph A bad-tempered Dan Evans maintained his unhappy record at the French Open as he departed in four sets to world No48 Miomir Kecmanovic, swearing and tossing rackets as he went. Broadcasters were forced to apologise for Evanss language as he struggled for traction on Pariss red clay. He railed against chair umpire Jimmy Pinoargote, complained about unruly fans, and lambasted himself for leaving too many balls in inviting positions. The defeat was all the more disappointing because Evans the world No27 had made such an excellent start, moving to 5-0 in the first set before Kecmanovic was able to establish himself on the scoreboard. At that stage, it seemed reasonable to imagine that he might claim his first victory at Roland Garros, after four previous failed attempts. But Kecmanovic, a Serbian 21-year-old, is a former world junior No1. He found an ever-improving rhythm with his groundstokes, which carried more weight throughout than Evanss, while also dealing well with the touch-based exchanges at the front of the court. In the end, Kecmanovic came through by a 1-6, 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 scoreline in 3hr 4mins, and Evans will have to refocus on the grass-court season. It was a deflating end to a clay-court swing that had started so promisingly when he beat world No1 Novak Djokovic in Monte Carlo and reached the semi-finals there to boot. But Evans appears to be at his most vulnerable at the slams, where he has not reached the third round in his last five attempts. Perhaps the nature of his game which usually involves disrupting more powerful opponents with surprise net-rushes and dainty drop shots is less effective over the long haul of a best-of-five-set match, as the tricks come to be more predictable every time he uses them. Or perhaps there is a mental block developing here. It is true that Evans has not had a gimme of a draw for a while not since he faced world No150 Tatsumo Ito at the start of 2019. But then neither have the opponents who have overcome him in slams of late Kecmanovic here, fellow Brit Cameron Norrie in Melbourne and Frances Corentin Moutet in New York last year been huge names. Afterwards, Evans did not try to find excuses for his loss. Asked why he remains winless in five attempts at Roland Garros, he replied What probably hurts a bit more is that I prepared as good as I did. I've got a great coach and fitness trainer and I worked hard, I've tried my best to come out and win the match, and I just didn't do it. That's the hardest part, Evans added. To go back and look yourself in the mirror and [say] not good enough, you know. It's a difficult thing to, there is no kind of sugarcoating it. It wasn't good enough and he was better. It's not that it doesn't work for me here. They [his opponents] have just been better than me, and that's the facts. Even more alarmingly, this result means that it is still two years since a Briton won a match at Roland Garros, after the embarrassing tally of six first-round losses recorded in Paris in the autumn. I dont have anyone to talk about.
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https://sports.yahoo.com/where-vikings-players-rank-top-181609221.html?src=rss
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Are pedestrians safe in Monaco?
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Whilst lockdown restrictions are finally easing all over the world, this freedom has created new problems: speeding and road traffic accidents are now on the rise. More and more pedestrians are falling victim to poor driving and Monacos roads are no exception. One lapse in concentration is all it takes to cause a serious accident. Drunk driving, last minute breaking and drivers using their phone at the wheel are becoming common occurrences on todays roads. As a result, Monacos Magistrates Court are receiving a growing number of cases from pedestrians caught up in instances of poor driving. A reality all the more shocking considering pedestrians always have right of way. Pedestrians are everywhere in Monaco Building works: every pedestrians nightmare in Monaco Around every corner in Monaco, a crane or scaffolding is sure to dot the landscape. As the Principality strives to expand and modernise, it is quite hard to find areas without any building works underway. Most recently, the vehicles used by construction workers have been causing a stir online: Pedestrians are everywhere in Monaco, wrote one local, with another saying the construction is a bit shameful. I hope no wheelchair users need to get past! There is no respect for the community any more, one lady on Facebook added. Blocked walkways, poor markings and misleading signs, often left in place when works are not in progress, pedestrians are having their daily lives disrupted by this constant construction. Noise-reducing panels need mentioning. Opinion is divided on how efficient they are, but if they are put in front of a junction, its impossible to see, explained one woman on social media. >> READ ALSO: Marie-Pierre Gramaglia: We are working on a line between Nice and Cap dAil Noticeable efforts to help the visually impaired community A lot has been done over the last few years to make it easier for those with reduced mobility to get around. This increased accessibility benefits everyone, but particularly people with prams, says Audrey, a resident in Monaco, who prefers to travel around the city on foot. The Princely Family regularly take part in global road safety campaigns led by the Fdration Internationale de lAutomobile (FIA). In 2019, Princess Charlene appeared in an awareness campaign focusing on road traffic accidents involving pedestrians. >> READ ALSO: Princess Charlene takes a stand against road safety Recently, the Principality has added bright white lines to pedestrian crossings. For visually impaired people, who can still detect changes in brightness, as well as the blind, whose guide dogs are taught to find the lines, these markings will make crossing roads much easier. Prior to this, the Principality also lowered pavements and added a beeping noise to traffic lights.
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https://www.monaco-tribune.com/en/2021/05/are-pedestrians-safe-in-monaco/
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What has gone wrong for Axel Tuanzebe at Manchester United?
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Axel Tuanzebe struggled with injuries for the majority of the 2019-20 Premier League season. He came into the 2020-21 season desperate to make his mark and cement a spot in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's starting eleven. The 23-year-old center back produced a man-of-the-match performance against Paris Saint Germain in the Champions League on his return to the starting eleven. His sensational performance in Paris displayed how good he can be and Manchester United supporters wanted him to partner up with Harry Maguire for the rest of the season. Axel Tuanzebes game by numbers vs. PSG: 100% aerial duels won 92% pass accuracy 7 clearances 2 fouls 1 block Excellent performance. pic.twitter.com/eDdlKgGS8h Statman Dave (@StatmanDave) October 20, 2020 Since then, Tuanzebe's performances have gone downhill. The center back produced disastrous performances against Istanbul Basaksehir and Sheffield United. As a result, he was pushed down the pecking order by manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Tuanzebe has everything in his locker to become successful at Manchester United. His incredible pace and strong physical stature make him the perfect partner for Harry Maguire at the center of the defense. Injuries and lack of consistent game time has hampered Axel Tuanzebe's progress Axel Tuanzebe was sensational during his loan spell at Aston Villa Axel Tuanzebe impressed everyone with his performances during his loan spell at Aston Villa. His astute performances at the back for Villa in the Championship helped them secure promotion to the Premier League at the end of the 2018/19 season. Aston Villa manager Dean Smith was keen to keep hold of the Englishman for another season. However, Manchester United decided to recall the center back and give him the chance to prove his mettle at Old Trafford. With Eric Bailly's poor injury record and Victor Lindelof's lack of consistency, Axel Tuanzebe was presented with the perfect opportunity to cement his position in the starting XI. However, serious injuries at the start of the campaign kept him out for the entirety of last season. By the time he returned from injury, Victor Lindelof and Harry Maguire had already established themselves as the first-choice centre-back pair. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer stuck with the duo for the entirety of the season. That made it difficult for Axel Tuanzebe to get a consistent run in the team and his lack of game time hampered his progression. As a result, his performances on the pitch degraded and he has pushed down the pecking order. Tuanzebe might have to leave Manchester United to fulfil his potential Manchester United want to bring in a new center back this summer. This means Axel Tuanzebe will become the fifth-choice center back at the club and his game time will be reduced further. It would make perfect sense for the defender to seek a new challenge elsewhere and leave United either on loan or on a permanent deal this summer. If he gets regular game time and manages to stay injury-free, he could transform into a world class center back.
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https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/why-axel-tuanzebe-struggled-manchester-united
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Is the exchange closed on Memorial Day 2021?
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Memorial Day is the traditional start of summer, and Memorial Day in 2021 will certainly seem a little more normal to you than in 2020. The annual rituals of opening the pool, crossing a sandy beach, and throwing a backyard barbecue were hung in various parts of the country last year as states battled the COVID-19 pandemic. However, one thing remains the same year after year: Investors will get an extra day off. The stock market and bond market are closed on May 25 in Memorial Day observation. Additionally, the bond market closes early on the Friday before Memorial Day. Regular trading in stocks and bonds resumes on Tuesday. Here we are providing a calendar of stock and bond market holidays for 2021. Please note that regular trading hours for the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Nasdaq Stock Market are 9:30 am to 4:00 pm local time. from the East, during the week. Stock markets close at 1 p.m. on early closing days; bond markets close early at 2 p.m. Holidays 2021 Dated Vacation NYSE Nasdaq Bond markets * Friday January 1 New Years Day Closed Closed Closed Monday, January 18 Martin Luther King Jr Day Closed Closed Closed Monday February 15th Washington Presidents Day / Birthday Closed Closed Closed Friday April 2 Good Friday Closed Closed Early closure (Midday) Friday May 28 Friday before Memorial Day Open Open Early closure (2:00 p.m.) Monday May 31 Memorial Day Closed Closed Closed Friday July 2 Friday before independence day Open Open Early closure (2:00 p.m.) Monday July 5 Independence Day (observed) Closed Closed Closed Monday September 6 Labor Day Closed Closed Closed Monday, October 11 Christopher Columbus Day Open Open Closed Thursday November 11 Veterans Day Open Open Closed Thursday 25 November Thanksgiving Day Closed Closed Closed Friday November 26 Day after Thanksgiving Early closure (1:00 p.m.) Early closure (1:00 p.m.) Early closure (2:00 p.m.) Thursday 23 December Day before Christmas Eve Open Open Early closure (2:00 p.m.) Friday 24 December Christmas Eve (observed Christmas day) Closed Closed Closed Friday December 31 new years eve Open Open Early closure (2:00 p.m.) * This is the vacation schedule recommended in the bond market by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA). This program is subject to change. Observations on public holidays When it comes to the stock and bond markets, if a public holiday falls on a weekend, market closures are dictated by two rules: If the holiday falls on a Saturday, the market will close the previous Friday. If the holiday falls on a Sunday, the market will close the following Monday. Stock and bond market hours The core trading hours for the NYSE and Nasdaq are 9:30 am to 4:00 pm on weekdays. However, both exchanges offer pre-market trading hours between 4 a.m. and 9:30 a.m., as well as late trading hours between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. Bond markets typically trade between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Stock markets close at 1 p.m. on early closing days; bond markets close early at 2 p.m. What Are The Main Benefits Of Comparing Car Insurance Quotes Online LOS ANGELES, CA / ACCESSWIRE / June 24, 2020, / Compare-autoinsurance.Org has launched a new blog post that presents the main benefits of comparing multiple car insurance quotes. For more info and free online quotes, please visit https://compare-autoinsurance.Org/the-advantages-of-comparing-prices-with-car-insurance-quotes-online/ The modern society has numerous technological advantages. One important advantage is the speed at which information is sent and received. With the help of the internet, the shopping habits of many persons have drastically changed. The car insurance industry hasn't remained untouched by these changes. On the internet, drivers can compare insurance prices and find out which sellers have the best offers. View photos The advantages of comparing online car insurance quotes are the following: Online quotes can be obtained from anywhere and at any time. Unlike physical insurance agencies, websites don't have a specific schedule and they are available at any time. Drivers that have busy working schedules, can compare quotes from anywhere and at any time, even at midnight. Multiple choices. Almost all insurance providers, no matter if they are well-known brands or just local insurers, have an online presence. Online quotes will allow policyholders the chance to discover multiple insurance companies and check their prices. Drivers are no longer required to get quotes from just a few known insurance companies. Also, local and regional insurers can provide lower insurance rates for the same services. Accurate insurance estimates. Online quotes can only be accurate if the customers provide accurate and real info about their car models and driving history. Lying about past driving incidents can make the price estimates to be lower, but when dealing with an insurance company lying to them is useless. Usually, insurance companies will do research about a potential customer before granting him coverage. Online quotes can be sorted easily. Although drivers are recommended to not choose a policy just based on its price, drivers can easily sort quotes by insurance price. Using brokerage websites will allow drivers to get quotes from multiple insurers, thus making the comparison faster and easier. For additional info, money-saving tips, and free car insurance quotes, visit https://compare-autoinsurance.Org/ Compare-autoinsurance.Org is an online provider of life, home, health, and auto insurance quotes. This website is unique because it does not simply stick to one kind of insurance provider, but brings the clients the best deals from many different online insurance carriers. In this way, clients have access to offers from multiple carriers all in one place: this website. On this site, customers have access to quotes for insurance plans from various agencies, such as local or nationwide agencies, brand names insurance companies, etc. "Online quotes can easily help drivers obtain better car insurance deals. All they have to do is to complete an online form with accurate and real info, then compare prices", said Russell Rabichev, Marketing Director of Internet Marketing Company. CONTACT: Company Name: Internet Marketing CompanyPerson for contact Name: Gurgu CPhone Number: (818) 359-3898Email: [email protected]: https://compare-autoinsurance.Org/ SOURCE: Compare-autoinsurance.Org View source version on accesswire.Com:https://www.Accesswire.Com/595055/What-Are-The-Main-Benefits-Of-Comparing-Car-Insurance-Quotes-Online View photos
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Can the cocktail of antibodies used in Trump's treatment be a game-changer in the fight against Covid in India?
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NEW DELHI: Last week, an 84-year-old man from Haryana received the famous anti-Covid cocktail which was also given to former US President Donald Trump. The monoclonal antibody cocktail has been touted as a game changer in the fight against Covid. Studies have shown that 80% of patients who take the drug do not need hospitalization. The most famous example is that of Trump himself who tested positive last year. Within a week he was back to work. However, the cost of the drug remains expensive. Cipla markets the drug in hospitals at an estimated price of Rs 59,000 per dose. Only one dose is needed. In an interview with ANI, Dr Arvinder S Soin of Medanta Hospital said that producing the monoclonal antibody at a reasonable price in India could be a game-changer for the country. If these (monoclonal antibodies) are manufactured in sufficient quantities at a reasonable price. Monoclonal antibodies could be a game-changer for India and the world, and especially for elderly patients and high-risk children. the year anyone who tests positive can have monoclonal antibodies, and to avoid serious illness we should adopt them early, said Dr Soin. He pointed out that three specific drugs (monoclonal antibody drugs) authorized by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and one by the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) of India can choke off the drug. Covid infection in the bud. Dr Soin said the drug should be given soon after the patient tested positive, and most likely within the first week of infection. It can prevent serious illness and death. Echoing this, Dr Nirmal K Ganguly, former director general of ICMR, said monoclonal antibodies work because they are made against targeted epitopes. Since this (monoclonal antibody) is a very expensive product, do not use it for all people infected with Covid. Use it only for those who have severe infection, who are hospitalized, at very high risk and with greater chances of mortality, added Dr. Ganguly. Dr Raman R Gangakhedkar, former Chief Scientist at ICMR, said: We cannot say that (the rational use of plasma and remdesivir) are the only reasons why variants are attributable. In the next few days, well find out how monoclonal antibodies work against Covid and its variants. Dr Ganguly told ANI that the cost of monoclonal antibody therapy can be reduced if a highly efficient system for its manufacture is developed. Monoclonal antibodies are produced by a mammalian cell culture system and can be produced in larger quantities through fermentation technology, said the former CEO of ICMR. This mammalian cell culture system must to be a very high expression system because it is given in grams and not in milligrams or micrograms for which the required amount has to be produced very efficiently and that makes it expensive, Dr. Ganguly added. antibody cocktail therapy Therapy is a cocktail of two monoclonal antibodies. Antibodies are proteins that the body generates to defend itself against any disease. Monoclonal antibodies are created artificially in a laboratory. roof and tailor-made to combat a particular disease. Normal antibodies in any Covid patient do not develop until 14 days after contracting the infection. But in this drug, the antibodies made in the laboratory work instantly. Casirivimab and imdevimab, which are part of the cocktail of antibodies produced by the Swiss company Roche, are specifically directed against the peak protein of SARS-CoV-2, responsible for Covid. They block the attachment of the virus and its subsequent entry into human cells. The use of two antibodies protects against the bodys resistance to them. A cocktail of antibodies is given intravenously or subcutaneously (under the skin) as an injection. Currently, it is administered at Medanta Hospital in Gurugram, Haryana and Fortis Escorts Heart Institute and Apollo Hospital in Delhi. Zydus Cadila has also requested approval for early to late-stage human trials of its antibody cocktail candidate, ZRC-3308, to treat patients with mild Covid-19. (With ANI entries) What Are The Main Benefits Of Comparing Car Insurance Quotes Online LOS ANGELES, CA / ACCESSWIRE / June 24, 2020, / Compare-autoinsurance.Org has launched a new blog post that presents the main benefits of comparing multiple car insurance quotes. For more info and free online quotes, please visit https://compare-autoinsurance.Org/the-advantages-of-comparing-prices-with-car-insurance-quotes-online/ The modern society has numerous technological advantages. One important advantage is the speed at which information is sent and received. With the help of the internet, the shopping habits of many persons have drastically changed. The car insurance industry hasn't remained untouched by these changes. On the internet, drivers can compare insurance prices and find out which sellers have the best offers. View photos The advantages of comparing online car insurance quotes are the following: Online quotes can be obtained from anywhere and at any time. Unlike physical insurance agencies, websites don't have a specific schedule and they are available at any time. Drivers that have busy working schedules, can compare quotes from anywhere and at any time, even at midnight. Multiple choices. Almost all insurance providers, no matter if they are well-known brands or just local insurers, have an online presence. Online quotes will allow policyholders the chance to discover multiple insurance companies and check their prices. Drivers are no longer required to get quotes from just a few known insurance companies. Also, local and regional insurers can provide lower insurance rates for the same services. Accurate insurance estimates. Online quotes can only be accurate if the customers provide accurate and real info about their car models and driving history. Lying about past driving incidents can make the price estimates to be lower, but when dealing with an insurance company lying to them is useless. Usually, insurance companies will do research about a potential customer before granting him coverage. Online quotes can be sorted easily. Although drivers are recommended to not choose a policy just based on its price, drivers can easily sort quotes by insurance price. Using brokerage websites will allow drivers to get quotes from multiple insurers, thus making the comparison faster and easier. For additional info, money-saving tips, and free car insurance quotes, visit https://compare-autoinsurance.Org/ Compare-autoinsurance.Org is an online provider of life, home, health, and auto insurance quotes. This website is unique because it does not simply stick to one kind of insurance provider, but brings the clients the best deals from many different online insurance carriers. In this way, clients have access to offers from multiple carriers all in one place: this website. On this site, customers have access to quotes for insurance plans from various agencies, such as local or nationwide agencies, brand names insurance companies, etc. "Online quotes can easily help drivers obtain better car insurance deals. All they have to do is to complete an online form with accurate and real info, then compare prices", said Russell Rabichev, Marketing Director of Internet Marketing Company. CONTACT: Company Name: Internet Marketing CompanyPerson for contact Name: Gurgu CPhone Number: (818) 359-3898Email: [email protected]: https://compare-autoinsurance.Org/ SOURCE: Compare-autoinsurance.Org View source version on accesswire.Com:https://www.Accesswire.Com/595055/What-Are-The-Main-Benefits-Of-Comparing-Car-Insurance-Quotes-Online View photos
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Why nomination not enough for inheritance of asset?
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Last week I wrote about 'why and how of the will writing'. This week, I would like to elaborate a bit on its importance and its relevance, when compared to the nomination, etc. The general understanding about protecting the rights on the ownership of the assets, at least to the extent of financial assets, we tend to agree that nomination is a way. This is where most of us get it wrong. The dictionary meaning of nomination is the process of appointing or proposing someone to an obligation (to an office, post, etc.,) and a nominee in finance refers to a person or entity entrusted with safekeeping securities or property of an owner during their absence. In simple terms it translates to a role of a custodian not a legal owner upon the death of the actual owner. The latter is the conventional thought when discussed about nominee. Many thus use this as an interchangeable concept about a will. One must thus recognize that the mere presence of nominee allows the rights of the asset to be transferred is not legally tenable. Hence, nominees become mere caretakers of various accounts and have no legal power to operate that account in the absence of the original owner, despite they are being kith and kin of the demised. Though, the presence of nomination certainly makes things easier during the eventuality for a transfer of securities, assets, etc., when there's no contention or claim. Moreover, not all assets have an option to declare a nominee. While all financial investments come with a mandatory disclosure of nomination, they don't act similarly. A nomination for a savings or a Demat account remains as a caretaker and not a legal owner. Of course, the only exception of nominee gaining the right of the benefits is in Life Insurance Sum Assured and Public Provident Fund (PPF). In these two instruments, the nominee is also the beneficiary of the proceeds out of the investments. The presence of nominee, however, reduces the lead time of a resolution in favor of the nominee, if there's no counter claimant. Then there's another perspective of joint account holder solving the problem of overriding the will or replacement to the will. Even in joint ownership, the law assumes each one of the account holders as equal contribution unless specified. And post the death of the one of the joint holders, the access is limited to that extent of the proportion and not to the entirety of the account holdings. Again, the earlier mentioned obligations arrive for the nominee during eventuality. Nomination prevents disputes and delays in claim settlement of death by establishing a clear title to the instrument. In case of a conflict, then the will would help decide the actual beneficiary. And in the absence of a will, the nominee and the legal heir contest in the court of law to prove their right of ownership. While nomination is important and in some instances is mandatory, it shouldn't stop individuals from creating a will. A will or a testament thus becomes prominent legal document for a legal title transfer of any asset of the deceased. There's a conventional thought that the will has to be written at the end of one's life or it's also superstition in some that the person dies soon after a will is written. Another assumption among many is the notion of their family or children wouldn't indulge in disputes over property or money. Disregarding such irrational fears, one should realize that a 'will' allows to gain control over their assets while alive or after death. While it's known that all the details can't be encompassed into the will, as there's a possibility of further additions and deletions in their net-worth, a supplement is allowed to the original will and it's called codicil. Though any written will is accepted by law, it must be dated and signed by the testator (the person preparing the will). It must express a desire that the testator's wishes must be carried into effect after their death. There must be a disposition of property and every will should be attested by at least two witnesses. A witness needn't read the contents of the will before signing it. A witness or their spouse can't be a legatee (person receiving the legacy) in the will. Probate is a process in which a 'will' gets certified under the seal of court competent jurisdiction with a grant of administration of the estate of the testator. A probate can be granted only to the executor appointed under the will, especially required if there're properties across multiple states. Ideally succession executor should be mentioned so that it gets executed in case of the former's death. So, in these testing times, it's advised each one of us make a will to ensure our surviving family members sustain the estate as desired. (The author is a co-founder of "Wealocity", a wealthmanagement firm and could be reached at [email protected])
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Why is India lacking drugs to beat Covid and black fungus?
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What is the role of governments and pharma industries in discovering corona drugs in India. India is second largest country by population because of which the spread and impact of corona virus is in multi-folds in India. It is the responsibility of both government and pharma industries to discover new medication to fight against Corona drugs. While government is creating awareness on health protocols and giving tax incentives to produce medicine, helping in getting raw materials and has permitted companies to work round the clock, the Pharma companies are busy in producing lifesaving drugs like Remedesvir and also the huge number of vaccine doses. Ever since Corona pandemic broke out, the demand for life saving drugs like Remdisivir injection and other medicine increased many fold. People succumed to virus due to non availbility of such medicine in the crucial hours . India is the major producer of life saving drugs and exports to major part of the world. However, we were not prepared for wave 2. Soon after recognizing the surge in the covid cases, the industry started gearing up which took time to replenish the stocks and thus created havoc for non-availability of key medication for cure from covid. Black Fungus has emerged as another big threat among covid infected persons. But the availability of black fungus drugs is also in short supply and costly. Even Black fungus is very much like wave-2 which was not anticipated and hence not prepared. Medicines can't be produced in anticipation as they have short shelf life. The medical expenses and medicines are much cheaper in India and thus most of the foreigners prefer to have medical treatment in India. Demand, availability of raw material, research and development costs, promotion, distribution arrangements etc. will have impact on initially launched products and hence the prices tend to be on high side. India has been depending on other countries for covid drugs including Oxymeters, thermometers, oxygen concentrators etc . Due to surge in the covid cases, there is lot of demand for such equipment. The surge in cases led to sudden demand though there was no real requirement for these tools. Moreover, lockdowns is also impacting the production of such tools. The answer is yes. Though in some cases India is dependent on other countries for raw material with the Prime Ministers call of 'Make in India' lot of new and young entrepreneurs are doing business differently and mass production is now a trend.
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What Happened to Ariana Grandes Tattoos?
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Some of the Positions singers tattoos were covered up in her recent wedding photos from May 15. Other eagle-eyed fans noticed that some of those same pieces were covered for her iHeartRadio Awards performance of Save Your Tears with The Weeknd on May 27. The tattoos that were seemingly not present included two butterflies on her upper arm near her shoulder. She debuted the first butterfly tattoo at the 2020 Grammys and later added a second similar design to her arm. Grande's Pokmon character Eevee was also missing from both her wedding day and performance. The black and white portrait sat above her inner elbow. She got the ink in 2019 and wrote on her Instagram at the time, Ive wanted this for so long. In summer 2018, Grande got a tattoo of the Spirited Away character, Chihiro, inside her right arm, which was also covered. Chihiros growth into a capable individual is a core factor to the movement of Spirited Aways plot, she previously wrote on Instagram. During her adventure in the Spirit World, she matures from an easily-scared girl with a child-like personality to match her age to a hard-working, responsible and brave young girl who has learned to put her fears aside for those she cares for. Finally, the other missing tattoo was the Japanese characters for "let's sing," that sat above her elbow. Grande got the tattoo in 2019 and used it to tease fans with the promise of new music. See fan reactions to her missing ink, below.
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How long will Knockout City be free-to-play?
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Knockout City launched for free across all platforms just last week and it has already been quite the success. However, the launch was acting almost like a free trial, and after it was up, players were expected to purchase the game. Knockout City referred to it as the Block Party event. Players who hopped into the Block Party will now need to purchase the game to keep playing. However, while players who have already been knocking some fools out in the game will need to pay up, new players do have some good news. Over on the games official Twitter account, the developers announced that new players will be able to play for free until they reach a Street Rank of 25. After the level is reached, they will need to purchase the game. Since the game has gained quite a bit of notoriety, this is the perfect way for players to ask their buddies to give it a try before purchasing. However, if you are a member of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, then you are in luck because the game is offered through EA Play, which is offered as part of your Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription.
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