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What Might a Biden Admin Look Like for Showbiz? | So, as things continue to shake out and we get closer to a final result, heres the question Im most curious about: What does a Joe Biden presidency (if that comes to pass!) Here are three key things to consider. At this point, the surest way to save theaters would be to spearhead an effective response to the coronavirus, one that eliminated the disease and explained to people that it is safe to head back to the theaters. Sadly, theres not a lot that can be done now on the federal level aside from getting a vaccine to people and convincing them to use it. And thats already well underway. Since people have talked themselves into the idea that theaters are unsafedespite there being literally no evidence of any transmissions in theaters; despite the fact that the activity one engages in in a movie theater is not conducive to transmitting the disease; and despite the fact that theaters have never been cleaner or better distanced than they are right nowand a vaccine is at best months away from wide distribution, the real question is what form a bailout might take. One possible route to salvation for theater chains is their purchase by someone looking to move into the theatrical business. There are only a handful of players in this game: Apple and Amazon seem the two most likely, given Apples enormous cash reserves and Amazons amazing revenue streams; Netflix has never shown much interest in theatrical and cant afford to redirect money away #content anyway. This route has been opened by the recent court decision holding that the Paramount Decreesthe decades-old settlement that prohibits movie studios from owning their own theaterswill end in 2022. But its unclear how a Biden Department of Justice might look at efforts by tech giants to bring another element of the economy under their control. (Same is true of Trumps given antipathy to the tech moguls there.) Also unclear is how the DOJs antitrust division might respond to, say, Disney requiring block booking of a number of Disney titles if theaters wanted the chance to show MCU or Star Wars or Pixar pictures. Given Disneys control of the domestic box office, its not hard to imagine a world in which they leverage the success of their franchises to require extended runs for more mediocre performers. Struggling theaters and indie distributors dont need Mickey Mouses boot on their necks in addition to everything else. Ensuring the health of domestic theaters is about more than protecting jobs. Its about protecting Americas greatest export, its culture. The most troubling thing Ive heard in months on that front has come from Christopher Nolan, who suggested in a recent interview that the studios were wrong to focus on Tenets lackluster domestic draw and instead should be focusing on where the movie did make money: overseas. Heres Nolan: Warner Bros. released Tenet, and Im thrilled that it has made almost $350 million. But I am worried that the studios are drawing the wrong conclusions from our release that rather than looking at where the film has worked well and how that can provide them with much needed revenue, theyre looking at where it hasnt lived up to pre-COVID expectations and will start using that as an excuse to make exhibition take all the losses from the pandemic instead of getting in the game and adapting or rebuilding our business, in other words. In a way, this is relatively anodyne; if all hes saying is hey, release movies now because a modest overseas take is better than nothing and our theaters need something rather than nothing, then great. But reading between the lines, you can see the concern: where the film has worked well includes China, and the Chinese box office has come roaring back in general. At the moment, it is the biggest market in the world by far, easily eclipsing Americas. And if studios decide to focus more on overseas results by, say, pressuring the Biden administration to get China to further open its market to more American moviessomething hes done before!it could radically change the type and tone of movies Hollywood focuses on. The best bulwark against creeping foreign influence in our film industry is a healthy domestic exhibition sector. Hopefully we can help save it. If you like what youre reading, please share it with a friend! Its the best recommendation this little newsletter here can get. Share Screen Time Review: Triggered (on VOD now) Triggeredwhich, despite what you may have guessed at from the name, isnt about politics in any wayis one of those pictures that involves a series of curious choices that have nothing to do with the movie, exactly, but greatly hamper the ability to enjoy it. Something about it just seemed a little bit off, right from the get-go. But it was hard to figure out what, exactly, was nagging at the back of my mind. No, it wasnt the absurd plot; the absurd plot is kind of fun in the way that most absurd plots are if you really commit to them. A group of high schoolers are having a reunion in the woods; after passing out following an evening of hard drinkin, hard partyin, and hard sexin, they wake up to discover bombs have been strapped to all of their chests by one of their teachers from high school. A timer is on each of the suicide vests, ticking down to zero. If one of them is killed, the person who killed them gets the victims time. Last man standing wins their life. Borrowing bits and pieces from Battle Royale, Scream, Saw, and The Hunger Games, theres nothing terribly original here, and thats fine. Less fine is the mediocre acting and the completely cursory nature of the characterizationtheres the brainy one and the slutty one and the jock and the musician and some others; Im not going to lie, learning their names seemed pretty pointless at the time and Im not particularly interested in pulling up IMDB to recall them for you herebut that feels like a quibble. Still. Even for a cheapo teenie horror flick, something felt wrong about what was onscreen. Like it had dipped just onto the wrong side of the uncanny valley. An irritant, picking away at my brain. I couldnt figure out exactly what was wrong with Triggered until, in the closing moments, one character runs up to a truck being driven near a campsite. This character approaches the truck and looks in and, wait, oh, yes. I see. Thats whats wrong. Thats whats been wrong with this whole picture. The movie slowed to a crawl as I realized the truth, images and voices flashing through my head. Imagine my coffee mug falling to the ground in slow motion, la The Usual Suspects, and you get the gist. It all made sense now: accents that never quite held up, fading in and out of a standard American; high schoolers who seemed utterly unlike any teen from any high school in the United States; dialogue and cardboard cutout characters that felt like theyd been cribbed from a generation of John Hughes movies. As the final girl ran to her salvation, we realize whats been wrong with the movie all along: The drivers sitting on the righthand side of the vehicle. A little bit of Googling and you learn that this is a film made by South Africans, starring South African actors, none of whom really had a firm grasp on the neutral American accent. Its a small thing, not really worth getting hung up over. Frequently, it doesnt matter, as when New Zealands Jason Lei Howden directed the British Daniel Radcliffe opposite the Australian Samara Weaving in Guns Akimbo. But it does explain exactly why everything feels just a little off about Triggered. Thats just the snowflake in me, I guess, demanding little things like consistency in my accents from a picture like Triggered. You could even say I was . . . well, you know. Assigned Viewing: The Rock (Hulu) Speaking of shaky accents! I went on a bit of a Sean Connery kick this week following his passing last weekend at the age of 90. The Wind and the Lion was a trip, Connery not bothering with anything other than his standard Scottish brogue as he played a Berber warlord rampaging throughout the Arab lands and spouting dialogue crafted by the one and only John Milius. But The Rock remains my favorite Connery movie, and it happens to be streaming for free on Hulu if you have that service. I know there are folks out there who dont care for Michael Bay, and Ill deal with those communist subversives in due course. And I can understand why some are intimidated by a flick like Armageddon: Its big, its loud, and its cut like an epileptic fit brought to life. The Rock, on the other hand, is big-budget, high-concept action at its best: a ridiculous premise with a compelling villain brought to life by a cadre of great actors (Connery, of course; Nic Cage, fresh off his Oscar win; Ed Harris; and a bevy of character actors like Michael Biehn and David Morse and John Spencer and William Forsythe and John C. McGinley and Tony Todd and Bokeem Woodbine) working from a script thats just punchy enough to be funny without being eye-rollingly absurd. If you need a palate cleanser after this weekand, honestly, who among us doesnt?you could do much worse than The Rock. | https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/what-might-a-biden-admin-look-like |
Can Cincinnati continue to tax the income of remote workers? | CINCINNATI The city budget is finally balanced, but it took $67 million of American Rescue Plan funding to make it happen. On Thursday, at the first public hearing for Cincinnatis 2022 budget, groups made their case to receive a portion of whats left. But members of council are still uncertain about the citys financial future. Decisions made in Columbus could radically change Cincinnatis plans. The issue: "There is significant uncertainty in the short term regarding the the extent of income taxes, said assistant city manager Chris Bingham. Earnings tax, which funds a majority of Cincinnatis city budget, can usually only be collected from people working in city limits. During the pandemic, Gov. Mike DeWine signed an order allowing Ohio cities to collect the tax from people working remotely for local companies while living elsewhere. RELATED: Remote workers want to stop paying city income taxes That measure isnt permanent, however. And if people dont return to working in-person, inside city limits, the tax revenue they generated for local government will be lost. Worst of all, from a local governments point of view: The Ohio House and Senate are considering bills that would require cities to refund the remote workers who paid earnings tax during the pandemic. It would be absolutely devastating for a city like Cincinnati that is so dependent on the earnings tax, said Councilmember David Mann, who chairs City Councils budget and finance committee. But Cincinnati would also have time to plan. Mann said he and his colleagues are ready to use American Rescue Plan money to fill the tax gap this year and next if necessary. Its not like the money disappears the next day if a new bill is passed, Mann said. One of the things we did when we made estimates about how to use the stimulus money was to increase our contingency because of those issues. The city budget must be finalized and approved by the end of June. | https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/hamilton-county/cincinnati/can-cincinnati-continue-to-tax-the-income-of-remote-workers |
Whats the Downside of Humoring Him . . . Still? | Leading The Bulwark TIM MILLER: Its happening all over again. Join now On the Pods On todays Bulwark podcast, former Congressman Denver Riggleman joins host Charlie Sykes to discuss Congress and the integrity gene, Arizonas cyber ninja search for bamboo ballots, Liz Cheney, Elise Stefanik and the House GOP power struggle, and why we need an insurrection commission. This week Sonny is pleased to be joined by Jesse Nelson, the co-owner of Diabolik DVD and Cauldron Films For Bulwark+ Members CHARLIE SYKES on Rationalizing the Cheney purge THE TRIAD: Catholics Have a Rad Trad Problem JVL: All of this has happened before. And all of it will happen again. From The Bulwark Aggregator In Todays Bulwark... TIM MILLER: Q-drops, frazzledrip, and the crazy conspiracy coming to South Carolinaand Republican politicians near you. BRIAN KAREM: Two big national problems rolled into one. DESMOND LACHMAN: An overstimulated economy could crash right before the 2022 elections. Join now OVERTIME Throwback Thursday Two years ago today, I solved the puzzle. (And yes, I have horrible handwriting.) Shes just asking questions! This NYT item on pasta is well worth the read. If it can be scaled, it will result in massive transportation and packaging savings for pasta. Well see. I look forward to trying it! Amanda Carpenter activates beast mode. Earlier today on CNN, our colleague Amanda unleashed the fury, and it is fantastic. Josh Hawley is parodying Lisa Kudrow parodying people like him. Its kind of amazing. Really. This is the GOPs likely new conference chairman. (And unless you ever worked in Congress, you probably have no idea what the conference chair even does.) Like clockwork, some, like Henry Olsen, are arguing that Elise is just what the GOP needs. The GOP has work to do. But wouldnt you know a week later so long as the House Republican caucus is unwilling or unable to break with Trump... the caucus's leadership may as well reflect that." Thats it for me for today, folks. Well see you tonight. Drop me a line if you have something to say and Ill do my best to get back to you: [email protected]. 30 Editorial photos provided by Getty Images. For full credits, please consult the article. | https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/whats-the-downside-of-humoring-him |
Where Does Joe Biden Go to Get His Apology? | 1. Masks For the last half year Joe Biden has been both preaching and practicing a commonsense approach to safety and public health. And for this, Biden was mocked by Donald Trump and his partisans. I want to pause for a minute to remind you how stupidaggressively, perniciously stupidTrump and his enablers have been on this point. Lets take a brief tour. There was True Conservative Matt Schlapp. There was Dons Big Boy Mike Huckabee: The fact is, he prided himself on wearing a mask the other day at the memorial ceremony. The truth is, that was not a mask, Sean, that was a gag. His staff put it on him to keep him from saying something that they would spend the next three days walking back. There was Brit Hume, who is smart enough to know better. There were the click-whores at the Federalist, who are not smart enough to know better. There was moral paragon Jason Miller. There was Kayleigh McEnany, the most honest press secretary in the history of the White House. And, of course, there was President Trump doing it again: "But did you ever see a man that likes a mask as much as him?" Trump asked a crowd in Pennsylvania earlier this month of Biden. "And then he makes a speech, and he always has itnot always, but a lot of times, he has it hanging down. Because, you know what, it gives him a feeling of security. I'd say, this guy's got some big issues. Hanging down." And again: Wallace: President Trump, you have begun to increasingly question the effectiveness of masks as a disease preventer. And in fact, recently you have cited the issue of -- of waiters touching their masks and touching plates. Trump: No, I think that masks are OK. You have to understand, if you look -- I mean, I have a mask right here. I put a mask on, you know, when I think I need it. Tonight, as an example, everybody's had a test and you've had social distancing and all of the things that you have to, but Biden: Just like your rallies. Trump: I wear masks when needed. When needed, I wear masks. Wallace: OK, let me ask -- Trump: I don't have -- I don't wear masks like him. Every time you see him, he's got a mask. He could be speaking 200 feet away from them and he shows up with the biggest mask I've ever seen. The president of the United States now has COVID-19. Joe Biden does not. Share The Triad 2. The Truth About Masks There is a sizable contingent of Americansclose to 15 percentwho refuse to wear masks even in close-contact indoor settings. I cant tell you why this is. Most of these people are, just by the numbers, self-identified Republicans. Maybe its stupidity. Maybe its in-group peer pressure. Maybe its tribal signaling. What I can tell you is that this behavior is madness. You dont have to wear masks all the time for everything. Ive written about this a lot, but in case you want a refresher: You cant really understand masks unless you know a little bit about virology and a little bit about fluid dynamics. On the virology front, you dont get sick from intaking a single virus particle. You need to take in an infectious dose sufficient to allow the bug to overwhelm your bodys defenses and get a foothold within your system. . . . Which brings us to the viral load: Thats the number of virus particles floating around in a persons system once they have the bug. For respiratory diseases in general, the higher your viral load is, the more virus particles youre going to shed when you cough, sneeze, or exhale. So far, so good. Now the fluid dynamics. . . . When you cough or sneeze or breathe, the virus particles arent being expelled as pure particlestheyre suspended in your fluids, which become aerosolized. . . . A mask isnt going to filter out virus particles. Thats what respirators are for. The design purpose of the mask is to retard the spread of aerosolized droplets which carry virus particles. The mask either blocks these droplets entirely (if they are large) or slows their exit velocity (if they are small) so that gravity brings the droplets to ground at a shorter distance, reducing their physical spread. Using just this basic understanding of how infection works, its not hard to come up with commonsense use-case guidelines: Youre out walking and passing other people occasionally: You dont need to wear a mask. Youre gardening and your neighbor pops into your yard to chat for a minute while standing 6 feet away: You dont need to wear a mask. Youre sitting next to your spouse on a zoom call: You dont need to wear a mask. On the other hand: Youre sitting in an auditorium with 40 people watching a movie for 2 hours: Wear a mask. Youre in a classroom with a number of children/teachers for several hours: Wear a mask. Youre in an office with several other adults for a prolonged period of time: Wear a mask. And for the love of God, if youre ass-to-elbows with 300 people for more than an houreven if youre outsidelike this: WEAR A FORKING MASK. Or better yet, wear a respirator, either of the N95 or KN95 or FFP2 variety. Theyre not hard to get hold of anymore. Every time I look at that picture, it makes me viscerally angry because I cannot understand for the life of me why every single person there isnt wearing one of these. We do not need to live in hermetically sealed bubbles. We do not have to stop our lives indefinitely. We do not need to be locked down. And in places where security theater is being imposed, it ought to stop because it is counterproductive. But the base problem we have right now is that this pandemic is being kept alive by the absolute refusal of some people to take obvious and relatively easy precautions to curb it. Maintain social distance from non-household members when possible. Wear a mask when youre going to be close to people for more than a couple minutes. If you absolutely have to be in close contact with large numbers of people for a prolonged period of time, wear at least a mask or, if possible, a respirator. Anyone who isnt doing these things is helping the virus. And anyone who mocks or bullies people who are doing these things is . . . Well, were not supposed to say that part out loud. So, you know, thoughts and prayers. 3. Flying From the beginning of this pandemic Ive been telling anyone who would listen that entire industries were going to be decimated: movie theaters, the hospitality sector, and airlines chief among them. This Guardian piece gets into the details of just how much trouble airlines are in: When an airline no longer wants a plane, it is sent away to a boneyard, a storage facility where it sits outdoors on a paved lot, wingtip to wingtip with other unwanted planes. From the air, the planes look like the bleached remains of some long-forgotten skeleton. Europes biggest boneyard is built on the site of a late-30s airfield in Teruel, in eastern Spain, where the dry climate is kind to metallic airframes. Many planes are here for short-term storage, biding their time while they change owners or undergo maintenance. If their future is less clear, they enter long-term storage. . . . In February, Patrick Lecer, the CEO of Tarmac Aerosave, the company that owns the Teruel boneyard and three others in France, had one eye cocked towards China. Lecer has been in aviation long enough to remember flights being grounded during the Sars epidemic in 2003. This year, when the coronavirus spread beyond Asia, he knew what was coming. We started making space in our sites, playing Tetris with the aircraft to free up two or three or four more spaces in each, he told me. By late March, after the US shut its skies to Europe, planes began streaming into Tarmac Aerosaves boneyards. No one knew if they were going into short-term residency or long-term storage. On one day alone, 3 April, the Teruel boneyard received five Boeing 747s and two Boeing 777s. Throughout the next few weeks, planes arrived from Lufthansa, Air France, Etihad and British Airways. Before the pandemic, there were 78 aircraft at Teruel. By June, there were 114, running near the full capacity of 120-130. Patrick Lecers other three boneyards were also close to saturation, he told me in July. He sounded grave. He had just spent two hours on the phone with an airline that wanted him to house another 30 planes. Ive been in this business almost 40 years, and Ive never seen anything like this. The mood is bad. It feels like a tragedy. Among all the industries hit by Covid-19, aviation suffered in two distinct ways. Most obviously, there was the fear of contagion. No other business depends on putting you into knee-by-thigh proximity with strangers for hours, while whisking potentially diseased humans from one continent to another. Less directly, there was the tumbling economy. It is an axiom in aviation that air travel correlates to GDP. When people have more money, they fly more. But in the midst of this historic downturn, no one was buying plane tickets. In the past, airlines have only been stung by one or the other of these factors. During Sars, travel was unsafe, but the global economy didnt flatline. During the 2008 financial crash, money was tight, but flying was not a health risk. In the 110 years since the dawn of commercial flight, these blows had never been dealt in tandem, until this year. Read the whole thing. | https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/where-does-joe-biden-go-to-get-his |
Where Is the President of the United States? | (Photo by Al Drago/Getty Images) Before we start: Tonight were doing a livestream that Im hoping will go down in legend as The Bulwark version of the Star Wars Holiday Special. The first 12 minutes will be entirely in Wookie. After that Bill Kristol will lead us in a Life Day celebration. Itll be tight! If youre not a Bulwark+ member, sign up today so you can join us tonight at 8:00 p.m. Join now so you can be with us tonight. I promise to say at least one optimistic thing. 1. AWOL This week we crossed the 317,000 dead mark from this pandemic. Even though vaccinations have begun and the end is in sightseveral months from nowtens of thousands of more Americans will die from COVID because the public health response from the federal government wasnt just ineffectivein many cases it made the pandemic worse. One out of every 1,000 Americans has now died from COVID. In New Jersey, the number is 1 of every 500. I want you to read that again: One of every 500 residents of New Jersey has been killed by COVID-19 over the last 10 months. The entire federal government has been hacked by Russiathe autocratic state which President Trump has spent his entire administration buttering up. (You may remember the time he publicly sided with Russias dictator against his own intelligence agencies.) This same state did everything in its power to help get Donald Trump elected in 2016 because Vladimir Putin believed that a Trump presidency would be good for Russia. Putin turns out to have been completelytotallyvindicated in this belief. Donald Trump has been the greatest boon to Russia since the discovery of the Bovanenkovo gas field. And millions of unemployed Americans who have been put out of work by the virus are facing economic ruin, foreclosure, or eviction. We still do not have a third round of stimuluswhich is desperately needed. And it appears that while we might finally get a stimulus deal, it will only be as a defensive measure: So that Republicans can make sure Joe Biden doesnt get credit for getting money to families in need. These are three gigantic problems. The kind of challenges that require a diligent, competent, effective president. This. And this. And this. And this. And this. And this. In 45 tweets this week (so far) the president has not said a single word about the record deaths from COVID. Or economic stimulus. Or the Russian hack. Not. One. Word. Instead, it is an endless litany of complaints, self-aggrandizement, and conspiracy theorizing. We have never seen a dereliction of duty at this scale from an American president. With citizens dying by the thousands every single day and the federal government being raided by the intelligence services belonging to his good friend, he pouts and rages and tweets and tries to overturn a free and fair election in order to break our democratic republic. There is no precedent for this. No historical analog to help us understand the scale of destruction and the level of irresponsibility, stupidity, and derangement. At least not in American history. Of all the depredations of the Trump era, the thing that grinds my gears the most is the sophisticates who airily wave away the danger we have been in. Guys who strut around saying, Oh dont be so dramatic. Hes just a clown. Everything is fine. To my mind, that sort of posturing is more dangerous than the Stephen Millers of the world. Because with Stephen Miller, at least hes open with what hes about. He tells. you what he really thinks. Hes not calculating to find the optimal career track that lets him maintain his perch in Conservatism Inc. while still getting invites to the Ideas Festival at Aspen. We dont do that. At The Bulwark we will always tell you what we really think. Were not interested in preserving access or having a seat at some imaginary table at the cool kids club. No favors. No hard feelings. Because thats the job. Swallowing the truth and making excuses for the people on your side is a big part of what got us into this mess in the first place. Come with us. Join now 2. China In my buddy Damian Pennys newsletter today he talks about Chinas newest target of religious persecution: the Jews. Its bad. In the course of his discussion he brings up something Id missed: That Chinas forced labor in Xinjiang now includes the picking of cotton. Which means that something like 25 percent of the worlds cotton supply is probably the product of ethnic minorities being held at labor camps by an authoritarian regime. And because China is the size it is, theres not a whole lot the rest of the world can do about it without taking the conflict to 11. Heres Penny: We will keep doing it, at least until China makes a move against Taiwan. I think globalization is a wonderful thing, compared to world stifled by nationalism and protectionism, but I cant deny that it has a darker side. Im not sure Id go as far as that. Globalism is an okay thing, that results in net improvements for the world, but at real costs for lots of specific segments of people. And not just displaced factory workers in Ohio, but people like the Uighurs. I tend to think of globalism much the same way I think of capitalism: A system that is less bad than all the others, but which must be constantly monitored in an effort to temper its very real downside effects. 3. Murder in Malta Amazing piece by Ben Taub: Daphnes sons worried about her. She was fifty-three and lived in an old stone farmhouse on the edge of Bidnija, a hilltop hamlet on the island of Malta. From the dining-room table, where Daphne wrote, she could see the morning sunlight glisten on the Mediterranean. But she hadnt been to the beach in four years. When she left the house, people spat at her, followed her, photographed her, and hurled insults and abuse. Once, when she was taking an afternoon walk in a nearby village, a former mayor gathered a mob and began chasing her. She took refuge in a monastery, where the villagers pounded on the heavy wooden doors. All over the island, there were people who were certain that they hated her but had never read a word she had written. They simply knew her as is-sahhara tal-Bidnijathe witch of Bidnija. Beyond this little rock, as Daphne referred to Malta, she was known for her reporting, which exposed malfeasance and hypocrisy within the governing class. She had come to think of the country as fractured by time, with all the worst elements of globalization grafted onto a population that was otherwise stuck in the past. Malta is 17 miles by nine and flooded with cocaine, corruption, and filthy money, she wrote. Her blog, Running Commentary, laced deep investigations with withering taunts, and had an online readership as large as all of Maltas newspapers combined. In late 2016, Politico Europe included Daphnealong with George Soros, Recep Tayyip Erdoan, and Sadiq Khanon its list of people who are shaping, shaking and stirring Europe. She was the blogging fury, the list read, a one-woman WikiLeaks, crusading against untransparency and corruption in Malta, an island nation famous for both. But her subjects were her neighborsthe Prime Minister lived just down the hill. In recent years, he and his Cabinet had sought to smother her with libel lawsuits. People in his office used their work computers to post cruel gossip about her, accompanied by unflattering photographs. There was little serious effort to refute Daphnes reportsonly to disdain her as an litist, partisan fraud. . . . On the afternoon of October 16, 2017, Daphne prepared a plate of tomatoes and mozzarella for Matthew, her eldest son. He was thirty-one, a computer scientist and a journalist himself. An expert on shell companies, he had shared a Pulitzer Prize for the Panama Papers leak. He sometimes got so caught up in his work that he forgot to eat. Daphne set down the plate and put on her shoes to go to the bank. . . . Across the valley, a man peered at the house. He watched Daphne climb into her car, and called his brother, who was waiting on a boat just offshore. When she was partway down the hill, the man on the boat sent a text message: REL 1 = ON. A local farmer heard a pop and a scream, and watched Daphne yank the emergency brake. Then the gas tank exploded, launching her car into a field. Read the whole thing. And remember: We rely on your help to spread the word about The Bulwark. Share The Triad Give Bulwark+ as a Gift | https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/where-is-the-president-of-the-united |
Who Are These Republicans? | Leading The Bulwark Mona Charen: You can tell a lot about the state of the party by the people who are joining it, the people who are leaving it, and the people its pushing out. Join now On the Pod On today's Bulwark Podcast, Josh Kraushaar joins host Charlie Sykes to discuss the 2020 election, the VP debate, President Trump's COVID gamble, and the GOP's down-ballot problem. JVL, Sarah Longwell, and Tim Miller talk about Trumps steroidal exuberance, when (and if) he was tested, and whether or not the bottom is falling out on the presidents campaign. The Next Level is a podcast we created for members of Bulwark+. You can listen to this episode, but soon itll only be for members. Give it a listen! And remember, when you become a member of Bulwark+ you get access to cool member-only features like our post-debate livestream chat! Join now From The Bulwark Aggregator From Todays Bulwark Arch Puddington and David J. Kramer: Nothing Trump has done to smash norms and corrupt institutions is new. Hes copying autocrats from around the world. Tim Miller: About last nights eruption of more than 40 drug-induced tweets and retweets. David Priess: The vice presidency remains an insignificant office most of the time. Lets use these debates to gain better insight into whether these potential vice presidents, when it matters, will be what we need them to be. Overtime Thanks to all for the kind birthday wishes! I even got a fun story related to my George W. Bush campaign bar stool from reader Greg Jenner: I just read your story about the stool. I am pretty sure I played a role in that speech. At the time, I was Acting AS for Tax Policy at Treasury. My wife and I were in MA that weekend visiting friends. I was on the golf course Saturday morning when the WH called asking me to fact check his speech. There went my round of golf. They wanted to verify that X% of the tax code focused on the estate tax (making the point that it was unfair AND complicated). I told them they were wrong, that it was a MINUSCULE portion of the Code. They were disappointed but revised the speech. The other takeaway is that the WH gave a damn about accuracy and the words coming out of Ws mouth. Flash forward 16 years. Inconceivable! :-) Yep, that was the speech, alright. Greg also adds: Seeing the Code on the stool triggered that memory - to this day I can picture the hole we were on, getting the call, arguing with the WH (FYI I did not have the Code in the golf cart!) and completely losing my focus on golf. Keep in mind, this was Labor Day, 2004. Long before the era of truly smart smartphones. In 2020 you can easily go into the tax code with a few taps. In 2004, even the best Blackberries or Palm Pilots didnt make that easy. It was a different time. Just wanna stay up all night Theres nothing that we wouldnt rather do than stay up all night talking about politics with you.. If youre a Bulwark+ member, you can see a Zoom live chat with JVL, Sarah Longwell, Amanda Carpenter and others and ask them questions! You can always email your questions, too: [email protected]. Members will get an email from me at the beginning of the debate with the Zoom / call-in information. Join now Maybe Im Immune James Corden is an immense talent. How you turn around this song and be able to pull it off so quickly is beyond me. Having a normal A play in four acts Ari Fleischer never disappoints when it comes to being a Trump toadie. Playing golf with Charles Barkley At The Athletic, theres a cornucopia of Barkley stories from people who have played golf with him. Here are a few of my favorites: Blake Derman (caddie): Charles was on nine. He was like 220 to the hole or something. He was out of the rough, decent lie, and he was gonna hit an 8-iron and lay up to like 105 yards. I was like, Chuck, Ive already got the hybrid in my hand. I go, Chuck, layups are for basketball. Come on. Hit the hybrid. He says, All right, Ill trust you. So he hit the hybrid, and right before he hit, he was like, Mama Barkley didnt raise no bitch. And I was like, Thats right, sir. He knocked it on the green, then left his eagle putt like 20 feet short, and we were all dying laughing, man. Roy Green (former NFL player): Right before he went to TNT, I said, Chucky, I need some new clubs. He said, Fk you, I aint buying you no clubs. I said, OK, Ill tell you this. Im going to either raise our bets when we play, or youre going to buy them for me. I mean, either way, youre going to get them cause youre not gonna beat me so lets just do this a little quicker. (Cracks up.) So he went and got me the clubs. Rob Dillon, a financial consultant who had a chance to win $1 million if he sank a 20-foot putt in Lake Tahoe in 2000: Jerry Rice was holding the flagstick for me, Grant Show from Melrose Place was patting me on the back. But I missed it. I came up short. I knew it as soon as I hit it. Charles said, Man, how do you leave a putt for $1 million short? I walked past him and didnt really acknowledge that he said that. I said, Bro, youve never won anything. Come on. ? He said, The least I can do is buy you a beer. Ten minutes after that putt, Ive got a picture of him, my wife and my son, with my son in his lap and were drinking a beer. Ive never played golf with anyone famous, but if I wrote up a wish list, Sir Charles would be right up there at the top. An interesting feature at the New York Times about mail-in voting. I failed miserably. Check out how different places verify signatures for your ballot. The Luckiest Man If youre looking for something to add to your reading pile that is worthwhile, our friend Mark Salters latest is coming out here in a week on his life working with the late, great John McCain. The McCloskey Grift The recently-indicted gun-toting lawyers from the Central West End apparently have set up a webpage where theyll generously accept your donation. I wish I were kidding Yard Signs Dont Vote. As weve previously highlighted, yard signs are just a form of signalling your priorities. Yet, people are obsessed with them. People put up dozens of them. They steal them. Some even electrify them or come up with elaborate schemes to catch people messing with their yard signs like a Rube Goldberg cartoon. Heres a story of a man in Iowa who was busted for stealing a Joe Biden yard sign. The local paper The Dickinson County News wrote it up. And then, the man went around stealing newspapers from local convenience stores. Yard signs do not vote. They are not important. They can be a nice way to signal your opinion on something, but they are not worth getting obsessed over. Much less committing multiple acts of theft to cover up the theft of one. Thats it for me today, friends. Well see Bulwark+ members tonight after the debate. You know how to reach me: [email protected]. 30 | https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/who-are-these-republicans |
Who Killed Hollywood (Again)? | The books about Hollywood I find myself recommending most frequently are those by William Goldman. More Adventures in the Screen Trade are must-reads for those of you who have any interest in how Hollywood works on a personal level. Goldman, who died in 2018 at the age of 87, had on his resume Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the Presidents Men, The Princess Bride, Marathon Man, Misery, Maverick, and a host of other pictures. He won two Oscars (for Butch Cassidy and Presidents Men), published a couple of collections of his screenplays, wrote a handful of solid novels, authored two memoirs, wrote a book about a year on Broadway, and, in his spare time, spent the 1990s chronicling Hollywoods downward spiral for publications like Premiere and New York magazine. and Other Essays, a 2001 series of essays he wrote in the 1990s about the state of the movie business, complete with predictions about what will capture the box office and what will get lost in the shuffle, as well as the state of the Oscar races in each of those years. These two things are inextricably linked, power (in the form of box office gold) and prestige (in the form of Oscar gold) commingling in ways that can only truly be appreciated by someone who accepts the absurdity of the entire situation. Goldman accepts this and the book sings as a result. Hes interested in star power because star power means sales, and as the years go on we watch the rise of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Kevin Costners unexpected tumble and Tom Cruises ascent and Tom Hankss unforeseen placement as king of the hill, undisputed star of the decade. Hes interested in prestige because he knows thats how executives making movies for overgrown boys who like to watch things explode real good soothe themselves to sleep at night: Sure, thats a mattress stuffed with hundred dollar bills theyre lying on top of, but they love to cuddle with their gold statues. So its informative to watch Goldmans despair grow as the big studios fail to put out anything worthwhile and the indies fill the void, capturing Oscars attention. While this leads to some amusing moments in hindsightGoldman names Miramax studio of the decade and sings the praises of the Weinsteinswhat really jumps out is just how static the industry has been in the almost 20 years between the publication of The Big Picture and last years COVID-sparked theatrical apocalypse. Heres a passage from a 1997 essay on the Oscar-nominated films released in 1996: The studios have forgotten that movies had better thrill us herein America. The reason they make comic-book bloodbath pictures is simple and businesslikethere is an audience for them abroad. The biggest-grossing films of last year, Independence Day, Twister, Mission: Impossible and The Rock, all performed better overseas than they did hereat last count, by at least $335 million. The studios are making movies today for mouth-breathers in foreign lands, testosterone-filled young men who get off on violence. And this was before the comic book boom really kicked in, before Blade and X-Men and Spider-Man and then another Spider-Man and the MCU (and the MCUs Spider-Man, the best of all Spider-Men) and the DCEU, before cinematic universes and the rest. Hell, the Star Wars prequels hadnt even started filming yet and domestic/foreign splits were closer to 50/50 than the 67/33 they more frequently resemble now. What Im saying is, that downward spiral became the new normal, and it more or less worked until the black swan of COVID. And all of the things Goldman cared about and could track are gone, wiped away. We have no way to tell. Box office data is irrelevant and the streamers closely guard their data. We have no idea if Chris Hemsworth or Emma Roberts moves the needle more. No one knows and who cares anyway: The Oscars matter less than ever, with the annual awards ceremonys ratings tumbling due to structural issues revolving around television audiences in general and also because theyve become the playground of micro studios like A24 and Neon. Whatever wins the little gold statue will be something most people see on TV. And yet, Hollywood doesnt die. It shifts, it transforms, it mutates. But it persists. Well, thats the story of the decade ahead. Hopefully we find someone as brilliant as Goldman to chronicle it. Part of that fracturing and siloing involves the rise of Substack. I really appreciate you taking the time to read my scribblings, and if you enjoy themas well as essays by folks like James Emanuel Shapiro (who founded the analytics department at Alamo Drafthouse) or podcasts like Across the Movie Aisle and the Bulwark Goes to Hollywoodplease consider signing up for a Bulwark+ membership! Not only will you get access to exclusive members-only episodes of our podcasts, youll also help keep this enterprise sustainable. If you dont support the things you love, they go away. So if you love this newsletter, consider chipping in. Review: Ted Lasso and Mythic Quest (Apple TV+) If the story of the 1990s was, at least in part, one of audience consolidationbigger budgets to afford bigger stars to ensure bigger openingsthe story of the 2020s will likely focus on audience scission. Its still too early to say whether or not theatrical exhibitions collapse will be a permanent casualty of COVID, but its demise would shatter the model Goldman followed in the 1990s; a shift to VOD and streaming means a shift to more, and cheaper, movies competing for your attention rather than a handful of movies trying to dominate it. On the TV side of things, this dissolution is the culmination of a long-running trend, one that saw us go from three broadcast networks dominating attention to cable siphoning off audience share to streaming services offering up a nigh-on unlimited amount of content targeting every niche audience around. One result of this scission is siloing: Very few people can afford to subscribe to every channel and every service, and, as a result, some great stuff gets siloed off from the masses and fails to receive the attention its due. Consider Ted Lasso and Mythic Quest, the two best reasons to subscribe to Apple TV+. Ted Lasso stars Jason Sudeikis as the titular Ted, a college football coach who gets hired to manage a soccer team in Englands Premier League. Hes being set up to fail by Rebecca Welton (Hannah Waddingham), who has taken ownership of the team after a nasty divorce; she wants to punish her former husband by destroying the only thing he ever truly loved, his soccer team. Needless to say, the players, press, and public all hate the American, chants of wanker raining down on him whenever he nears the touchline. But Ted, with the aid of Coach Beard (Brendan Hunt) and locker-room attendant Nathan (Nick Mohammed), slowly wins everyone over with his boyish charm and exuberance. And in so doing he does more than help his players win games and help his owner realize that the club means more than a method of revenge against a former husband. He helps them all become better people. Whats so delightful about Ted Lasso is its earnestness; its not saccharine, but it is sweet. Hes the best life coach youve ever seen, a fountain of positivity that never stops flowing. Whether hes aiding aging midfielder Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein) in his effort to come to grips with the fact that his days as a Premiership star are coming to an end or teaching young phenom Jamie Tartt (Phil Dunster) how to be less selfish on the pitch, Lasso is making all of their lives a little bit better. In a world of cynicism verging on despair, theres something to be said for a compelling demonstration of common decency. And, of course, its funny. Ive long argued that Sudeikis is one of the most underrated cast members in SNL history, and his rubbery grin in this show is deeply contagious. Hes got great chemistry with Brendan Hunt, the two bouncing off of each other like old friends. Mythic Quest is similarly funny. The Office by way of Silicon Valley from the team that brought Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia to life, Mythic Quest follows the travails of a team of executives responsible for a hugely popular MMORPG as they attempt to navigate the wilds of the Internet and office politics alike. Ian (Rob McElhenney) is a megalomaniac game designer who thinks of himself as an artistic visionary, even when the extent of his vision is ensuring that people can use shovels in the game as weapons. Poppy (Charlotte Nicdao) is a programmer who wants nothing more than credit for a shovel (that doesnt kill people). And David (David Hornsby) is the executive who has to deal with the mundane aspects of Internet management, like trying to figure out how best to ban Nazis from your service without it turning into a whole thing. Mythic Quest is one of the best shows Ive ever seen about Internet culture, and the weird (and occasionally insidious) ways online space can intrude into meat space. As such, it probably shouldnt be surprising that Mythic Quest is literally the only piece of entertainment programming out there that has successfully pulled off a quarantine episode. Theirs is a world of screens as it is; shifting to work Zooms and communicating solely via computer was a natural extension of the shows internal logic. More than visual logic, though, was the emotional logic of such a shift. The isolation leading to weird behavioral tics and difficult home lives. Loneliness creeping toward something close to despair as singletons who have given up basic things like bathing and getting dressed become desperate for connection, wondering if theyre ever going to see anyone again. Mythic Quest is a bit more cynical than Ted Lasso, but the quarantine special was one of the most earnest, emotionally intelligent explanations of what life has been like over the last year for so many people. It deserves to be one of the defining cultural documents of this era. And it deserves to be seen by more people. Odds are a lot of you got a new iPhone laptop or some other piece of Apple gear for Christmas. Do yourself a favor and take advantage of the free year of Apple TV+ that came along with it so you can watch Mythic Quest and Ted Lasso. You wont regret it. Assigned Viewing: Conan the Barbarian (Blu-ray, Showtime) One of the few bright spots over the last week or so, politically speaking, was Arnold Schwarzeneggers warning against Americas potential journey down an anti-democratic path. The living embodiment of the American Dreams stirring video was a reminder of what American greatness really looks like. One of the props in the video was the sword from Conan the Barbarian. Replete with classic lines about what is best in life and whether or not Crom can go to hell, Conan the Barbarian is one of the greats. | https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/who-killed-hollywood-again |
Why Are So Many Republican Elites Supporting Biden? | I'm going to make a wild-assed guess that, based on conversations I've had with readers over the last year and a half maybe 2 percent of you use Snap. And boy do I have a treat for all seven of you guys! We've just launched a weekly show on Snapchat. It's called Not My Party. It's hosted by Tim Miller. It's really fun. You can subscribe to it here. Come for the video of Tim and Trump going at each other in person; stay for the Chewbacca call-out. And if you don't use Snapchat, you can watch the show on YouTube by clicking here. Honestly: It's incredibly charming. Also charming: My new podcast, The Next Level. This week's episode is out. You can listen to it here or subscribe on iTunes by clicking here. If you like this newsletter, then this show is pretty much for you. Moving on . . . Former Michigan governor Rick Snyder announced today that he will be voting for Joe Biden. You can read his essay about it here. I think it's worth highlighting how unusual this is. It is not uncommon to see one or two defections from a president's party during a campaign. Sometimes these come from elected officials, sometimes from media boosters. Most of the time, the explanations are a variation of, "I didn't leave the XXX party. The XXX party left me." These are ideological moves caused by policy disagreements as the party coalitions shift. So when a Zell Miller endorses George W. Bush or Colin Powell endorses Barack Obama, it's pretty much politics as usual. But what we have seen in the Trump era is not politics as usual. For starters, the number of disaffected partisans who have abandoned Trump is way bigger than "one or two." Just off the top of my head:Jeb BushGeorge W. BushMitt RomneyJohn KasichCarly FiorinaJeff FlakeMia LoveCondeleezza RiceLarry HoganBill WeldThis is just a partial list of politicos. A list of Republican intellectual/media types would be even longer. So the sheer size of the exodus is unusual. But what's even more unusual is that the reasons given by nearly all of these people have little to do with policy: They are about Trump's basic mental and characterological fitness for the job. And then there are the defections of people who worked within Trump's administration who, after seeing Trump up close while in office, make the same arguments about his mental and characterological unfitness:John BoltonJim MattisRichard SpencerJohn KellyRex TillersonAlexander VindimanFiona HillGordon SondlandMiles TaylorElizabeth NeumannAgain: These are just people who staffed the administration at high levels and it is not a complete list. None of them disagree seriously with Trump on policy grounds. All of them say, in one way or another, that what they saw suggests a man unfit to be president of the United States. Now maybe you believe these people and maybe you don't. But the point is that their very existence is highly unusual. Scratch that: It's unprecedented. There is no historical analog. You would think that this sort of thing my register with any remaining undecideds. But I've been assured that, like violations of the Hatch Act, Real Voters don't care about this sort of thing. Good luck, America. (2) Digital Asbestos Gizmodo has a roundtable discussion up on the subject of dystopias. Here's the set-up: For the most part, fictional characters rarely recognize when theyre trapped in a dystopia. Watching their neighbors get carted off for harboring subversive thoughts, they almost never say, I wish we werent living in this dystopia. To them, that dystopia is just life. Which suggests thatwere we, at this moment, living in a dystopia ourselveswe might not even notice it. We might call this or that policy/data-harvesting technique dystopian, but, at least on some level, we believe we arent totally there yetthat there is still room, in our world, for a modicum of personal freedom/happiness. I mean, I don't want to brag but . . . I haven't been fooled. If you don't think that America in the Year of Our Lord 2020 counts as a dystopia then you are a pathological optimist. Anyway, the most interesting answer to this question comes from Harvard law professor Jonathan Zittrain: Ive started thinking of some of our most promising tech, including machine learning, as like asbestos: its baked wholesale into other products and services so we dont even know were using it; it becomes pervasive because it seems to work so well, and without any overlay of public interest on its installation; its really hard to account for, much less remove, once its in place; and it carries with it the possibility of deep injury both now and down the line. Im not anti-tech. But I worry greatly about the deployment of such power with so little thought given to, and so few boundaries against, its misuse, whether now or later. More care and public-minded oversight goes into someones plans for an addition to a house than to what can be or become a multi-billion dollar, multi-billion-user online platform. And while thanks to their power, and the trust placed in them by their clients, we recognize structural engineers, architects, lawyers, and doctors as members of learned professionswith duties to their clients and to the public that transcend a mere business agreementwe have yet to see that applied to people in data science, software engineering, and related fields who might be in a position to recognize and prevent harm as it coalesces. This is an interesting frame for thinking about technology. (3) NBA Draft Busts I stopped caring about the NBA when the Sixers dumped Allen Iverson, but for the same reason people rubberneck at car wrecks, I'm fascinated by NBA lottery busts. Zombie Deadspin has a ranking of the nine worst #1 picks in NBA history. I'll link to it as a professional courtesy, but it's a clickbait slideshow. I would not recommend clicking. That is, unless you want to get really torqued off at the idea of the Kandi Man not taking the Overall Biggest Bust award. Not just because of his underwhelming NBA career. Not just because he was a total reach at #1. But because there were three Hall of Famers picked in the top ten! (Big Dirk, Air Vince, and Paul Pierce.) And aside from those greats, the top ten was stuffed full of quality players who had good NBA careers: Mike Bibby, Antawn Jamison, White Chocolate, Larry Hughes, and Raef LaFrentz. The only unproductive players in the first ten picks of the 1998 draft turned out to be Tractor Traylor (who was drafted at #6 and had health problems) and Olowakandi. It was the most Clippers pick, ever. | https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/why-are-so-many-republican-elites |
Why Won't Republicans Take the Next Step? | 1. Logic Chains We are seeing some slow bits of unwinding as a handful of conservatives and Republicans start to say that what Donald Trump is doing is irresponsible/dangerous/what-have-you. Stephen Schwarzman says Trump lost. Chris Christie says that Trumps legal teamnota beneis a national embarrassment. The editors of National Review call Trumps behavior disgraceful and the most outlandish and irresponsible performance ever by a group of lawyers representing a president of the United States. I think its actually worth quoting that National Review editorial at a little more length: Getting nowhere in court, the White House appears to be shifting to a political strategy based on blocking the certification of results and getting state legislatures to appoint Trump electors in states Trump lost. This is a profoundly undemocratic gambit that, if it were to enjoy any success, would precipitate a major constitutional crisis. . . . The most obvious way to prevent this travesty is for Republican state legislators to continue to reject it, the way almost all have done to this point. But they havent yet experienced a potential full-court press from Trump and his supporters (the Republican leaders of the Michigan state senate and house have been summoned to a White House meeting today). Its also important for Republican senators to speak out against this effort and make it clear that they wont stand for it when it comes time for Congress to consider electors. Finally, itd be best of all if the president reconsidered going down this route. Hes turning a narrow election defeat into a bid for infamy. But it would be nice to have these peopleat least some of them, or even one of themtake the next logical step. Thats all Im looking for. Just one Trump defenderliterally just oneto stand up and say, Yeah, I was wrong. This guy is dangerous in ways I didnt fully understand. Im glad Joe Biden won. America dodged a bullet by not reelecting this man. The reason I want someone, somewhere to follow this logic chain isnt spite or self-satisfaction. Its that Republican/conservative politics has become utterly dominated by the precepts of kabuki theater, where one side is dastardly and the other side is pure and good and everyone plays pretend, no matter what the reality is. Of course not. But they told their viewers it might, because thats what their kabuki dance required. And, if were going to do #RealTalk, a whole lot of Republicans/conservatives knew that Trump was dangerous all along. But they wouldnt say it out loud. Because it would violate the rules of kabuki. Even now, when a thimbleful of these people are finally saying Trump is doing something dangerous they cant bring themselves to say, And its a good thing for America that Joe Biden is the president-elect. This is true for bad guys,like Peggy Noonan, who now says that what Donald Trump is doing is deeply destructive, but just a few weeks ago was equivocating and bragging about how she wrote in Edmund Burke for president. And its true for good guys, like Larry Hogan. Over the weekend Gov. He wrote in Ronald Reagan. Again: Im not demanding that all of these people sit in a corner with dunce caps on for the next four years. But the fact that literally not one of them, anywhere, has come out to say that they were mistaken, that Donald Trump is and was a danger, and that Bidens win was important for liberal democracy is telling. At The Bulwark, we dont do kabuki. We tell the truth, without fear or favor. Come with us. Join now 2. Skynet In case you dont have enough to worry about, the entire shape of modern warfare is changing right before our eyes. Armenia and Azerbaijan just fought a 44-day conflict. One side had tanks, missile defenses, and dug-in positions. The other side had a bunch of cheap, disposable drones. From the Washington Post: Azerbaijan used its drone fleet purchased from Israel and Turkey to stalk and destroy Armenias weapons systems in Nagorno-Karabakh, shattering its defenses and enabling a swift advance. Armenia found that air defense systems in Nagorno-Karabakh, many of them older Soviet systems, were impossible to defend against drone attacks, and losses quickly piled up. . . . Azerbaijan, frustrated at a peace process that it felt delivered nothing, used its Caspian Sea oil wealth to buy arms, including a fleet of Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones and Israeli kamikaze drones (also called loitering munitions, designed to hover in an area before diving on a target). . . . In the early stages of the war, Azerbaijan used 11 slow Soviet-era An-2 aircraft that had been converted into drones and sent them buzzing over Nagorno-Karabakh as bait to Armenian air defense systems tempting them to fire and reveal their positions, after which they could be hit by drones. Azerbaijan used surveillance drones to spot targets and sent armed drones or kamikaze drones to destroy them, analysts said. . . . Their tally, which logs confirmed losses with photographs or videos, listed Armenian losses at 185 T-72 tanks; 90 armored fighting vehicles; 182 artillery pieces; 73 multiple rocket launchers; 26 surface-to-air missile systems, including a Tor system and five S-300s; 14 radars or jammers; one SU-25 war plane; four drones and 451 military vehicles. Azerbaijan, the group concluded, had visually confirmed losses of 22 tanks, 41 armored forced vehicles, one helicopter, 25 drones and 24 vehicles. This is a revolution in military affairs and its not going to stop at air-to-ground conflict. Were going to see drones equalize naval conflicts, too, making it even more expensive to project power across oceans. If theres a good news when it comes to drone warfare, its that the drones arent autonomous yet. But thats coming, too. The world around us is less stable than we think. And its becoming more so every day. 3. Down Syndrome A heart-stoppingly beautiful piece from my friend J.D. Flynn: My son Max is a beautiful boy. He is tall and lean, with soft blonde hair and eyes the color and shape of almonds. Max is 8. He loves Spiderman, his brother and sister, and wrestling with Dad. Max is sensitive, empathic and kind. My daughter Pia is 7. Pia is the funniest person I know. I dont say that because I am her dad; I say it because Pia has great timing and a penchant for mimicry. She is hilarious. Pia is also athletic, curious and a performer. If they let her, she seats guests on the couch and performs for them the entire score of The Greatest Showman or Hamilton. Pia and Max are both adopted, and they both have Down syndrome, trisomy 21. Of course, I thought about my children as I read the December cover story of The Atlantic on Down syndrome diagnoses and abortion. But I also thought about their birth moms. . . . The best estimates suggest that more than 70 percent of U.S. women with prenatal diagnoses of Down syndrome have abortions. Women report facing medical and family pressure to do so. But our childrens birth mothers took hard news, and they chose to bring vulnerable, inconvenient, unpredictable and challenging babies into the world. That was not easy. . . . When parenting their children did not seem like the right choice, they chose to make adoption plans for them. I cannot imagine a more difficult moment for a mother or a more poignant expression of selfless love. They are our heroes. They gave life to our children and made choices for them that came at great personal cost. . . . My wife and I are not pious or sentimental about our childrens lives. And we do not think facile stereotypes represent them well. They do suffer. Pia has had cancer twice and has come very close to death. Max has sensory issues that make textures and tastes and sounds sometimes a near insurmountable burden. Speech is a struggle for them. Reading and math take focused efforts. They want to be with and befriend their peers, and gradually, I fear, they are becoming aware of their limitations and aware that they are different. . . . But I have realized they are not unique because they suffer. They are unique because they do not hide suffering well. It does not occur to them that suffering might be secret or a source of shame. I mask anxiety with a veneer of confident affability. I know how to make it seem I am doing better than I am. I have picked up the idea that I should project strength, independence and poise. My children have no such pretenses. Read the whole thing. Youll be glad that you did. | https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/why-wont-republicans-take-the-next |
Will Coastal Theaters Reopen in Time for Black Widow? | The bad news is simple: no one knows for sure, and that uncertainty paralyzes every aspect of the film business, from marketing to production to distribution to exhibition. The good news is more complicated, but very good. Between crashing case numbers and rapidly increasing vaccination rates, theaters in major metropolitan areas could very well be open by the time Black Widow is scheduled to hit theaters on May 7, according to an analysis by the Entertainment Strategy Guy. You should really read the whole thing, as the kids say, but the basics are pretty simple: After building a vaccine distribution model (with three scenarios), Im confident that by early May, between 33%-44% of the population will be fully vaccinated, and up to 61% will have had a first dose. Given the initial data that even one dose provides nearly full efficacy, this level of vaccination will likely decrease deaths and hospitalizations by 76% or more. It is much more uncertain what the volume of cases will look like by May 7th. The key metrics to focus on, for studios and other entertainment companies, will be the pace of vaccinations, the current caseloads, and the rate of death. A problem with all of this is that the movie theaters are at the mercy of local and state governments, and local and state governments in New York and Californiawhere the biggest movie markets are locatedhave been very hesitant to reopen theaters. This despite the fact that other indoor activities like gyms and dining and [checks notes] tattoo parlors have been allowed to open. This despite the fact that, as I noted in the Atlantic this week, theaters are about as safe an indoor activity as you can manage. Between the actual activity in a movie theater (people all facing the same direction, distanced, with minimal talking) to the added precautions taken by theater owners (especially the implementation of superior air filters and increased ventilation) to the basic rules of life during a pandemic (wear your mask until you get your vaccine, people! ), the risk of transmission is incredibly low and theaters should already be open, even under todays conditions. But dont listen to me! Listen to this doctor: I dont think theaters should be closed at this point, Robert Lahita, a clinical professor of medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and the chair of the department of medicine at St. Josephs Healthcare System, told me. In fact, a month ago, I said they should have been open, especially if were taking kids to school and kids are before teachers in live learning. Theres no reason that theaters should be closed. With any luck, theaters will get the green light in Los Angeles and New York City soon. And if they do, the ball will be in Marvels court. Whether the Mouse House goes for the winner or lobs for time remains to be seen. Forward them this email! Theyll appreciate. And, more importantly, Ill appreciate it. And if you havent already, please consider signing up for Bulwark+ as a paying member; itll help keep this newsletter sustainable and ensure I can keep the heat on as I dig out of the frozen wastes of Dallas. Share Screen Time Nomadland Review (theaters/Hulu) Everyone who has ever complained about the film industrys focus on the coasts, on the big cities, on the elites, about its refusal to tell stories about real Americans, about the heartland, about normal people struggling during tough times, better be lining up to watch Chlo Zhaos Nomadland. Nomadland follows Fern (Frances McDormand) after she decides to pack her life into a van and hit the highways. All of them. After the collapse of a plant owned and operated by United States Gypsum, she doesnt have much choice. Not only is her job gone; her town is gone. Literally: In a title card at the films beginning, we learn that her zip code is being discontinued. Fern picks up work here and there. As the film opens, shes working part time at an Amazon warehouse during the Christmas rush. Later she works for a rock seller; a burger joint provides more cash later on. Disease has taken her husband and the Great Recession has taken her work, but she presses forward, trying to make her way through the world of nomads. Whats most impressive about all of this is Zhaos sense of empathy. In the hands of a lesser filmmaker, life in an Amazon fulfillment center couldve been raw material for mockery or, perhaps worse, pity. This is not the sort of job were used to seeing treated with dignity and respect, but Zhao shows Fern and her coworkers getting to know one another, having fun, making it through the day. When the seasonal work ends, theres a quiet desperation to Ferns insistence that shes not ready to retire, that she wants to keep going. Not because she needs the money, though she does. But because she needs work. She wants something to do. The wandering, in its own way, gives her that something. Learning how to live on the roadhow to manage little things like bodily waste; how to fix what you can fix and get by with what youve gotis a full-time job on its own. And it gives her access to a new community, a group of fellow travelers who pick up work as they go, hitting up local festivals and the like when and where jobs are available. Zhao uses this travel to show us the natural beauty of the American West, from the plains to the mountains to the sideshows. Terrence Malick would be impressed by her use of golden-hour lighting; this is very much a movie I would have rather seen in IMAX, where its playing now, rather than via a screener DVD on my home theater. Hopefully the snow in Texas will melt before its out of theaters. Theres not much in the way of plot here; Nomadland calls to mind Antonionis sense of wandering ennui. This is about showing a slice of life, a way of living. Uprooted and restless, Fern and her newfound friends find meaning on the road. And, honestly, thats what keeps me from loving this film. I admire the performances; McDormand deserves all the praise shes getting. I admire the look of it; Zhao knows how to shoot a Western landscape, as anyone who has seen her 2018 film The Rider can attest. Nomadland doesnt leave me cold, as some slice-of-life pictures do; theres genuine pathos and human feeling in her wanderlust and the stories she hears from fellow travelers. I guess I just found myself wishing for a bit more drama. Assigned Viewing: The Night of the Hunter (Criterion Channel) There was a rather dumb blowup on Twitter this week when a New York Times reporter and a director of middling talent both decided now would be a good time to share that they hate old movies in black and white. The director of middling talent doubled down by suggesting it wrong to give people grief about being unable to watch older films because, hey, those films are probably racist anyway. You should spite them by watching something old and in black and white. Its departing from the Criterion Channel at the end of this month, which gives you a little more than a week to check it out. And check it out you should! Written by acclaimed film critic and journalist James Agee and directed by actor Charles Laughton, The Night of the Hunter is one of the darkest movies Ive ever seen. Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) is a preacher and a murderer trying to get at a hidden fortune; to find it, he ingratiates himself into the lives Willa Harper (Shelley Winters) and her children, Pearl (Sally Jane Bruce) and John (Billy Chapin). Laughton gives the gothic plot an expressionistic visual panache; the film is all black shadows and sharp angles, an outward manifestation of the inward spikiness and ugliness of the storys villain. Its a great movie and, despite being made before 1970 and being filmed in black and white, it holds up nicely. I strongly recommend checking it out. | https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/will-coastal-theaters-reopen-in-time |
Are Cowboys Still Looking at Signing NFL Free Agents? | The Cowboys eventually have to cut down from 90 to 53. FRISCO - The fun thing about OTAs and minicamps and training camp is watching the individual battles between players in position groups. The Cowboys have plenty of those happening this off-season. Welcome to the Daily Blitz by DSP Media in partnership with CowboysSI.com. With all the young players and new additions to the roster from free agency and the draft, one cant help but wonder if the final 53 will come from the 90 players already here, or if the Cowboys are still looking elsewhere to improve their club. We believe the proof is in the pudding. Our Mike Fisher's reporting on Seattle linebacker K.J. Wright and Dallas' relative disinterest is telling. Fish is also telling us not to bother too much with defensive tackle Shelton Richardson. And we've reported the same inactivity at cornerback, where Richard Sherman still makes sense to us - but apparently not to Dallas' higher-ups. Still, we say here are several positions already that might be able to use additional help from players not currently on the roster. Lets discuss! Please join us daily for the Daily Blitz or each Tuesday night starting at 7 pm for sports talk LIVE on Facebook, or listen to the recorded podcast the next day at CowboysSI.com and TheBlitzcast.com! Please continue the conversation on Twitter: @BlitzcastNFL, @ColbySapp, and @IndyCarTim. And make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel for all the latest videos and visual content! To be featured in our BlitzBox segment please reach out to us on Twitter with the hashtag #Blitzbox or send your questions to [email protected] and well read your question and answer it on the air on our next show. | https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/podcasts/are-dallas-cowboys-signing-free-agents-2021-nfl |
What is the release date of Shin Megami Tensei V? | The official Japanese site accidentally leaked the release date for Shin Megami Tensei V, along with some story details for the upcoming title. According to the leak before it was promptly deleted the game will launch on November 11, 2021. And this can be assumed to be the global release date, since V has been previously confirmed to have a worldwide launch. Most likely the Shin Megami Tensei V release date announcement would have been timed for Nintendos E3 2021 presentation, since its a Nintendo Switch exclusive. Theres a special edition version planned for it called the Forbidden Naobino box, which will feature music from the game as well as an item that resembles the hero Naobino. However, this will most likely be a Japanese-only set as there was no indication of a Western release. Story and gameplay details have also been revealed through the leak. The protagonist is an ordinary high school student who is suddenly transported to Daat, a world filled with both gods and demons. He merges with a mysterious being called a Naobino, and is thrown into the conflict between the two sides. Players will encounter over 200 demons in the game, including many familiar ones, as well as brand new demons designed by character designer Masayuki Doi. | https://www.gamepur.com/guides/what-is-the-release-date-of-shin-megami-tensei-v |
Was bleibt aus dieser pandemischen Zeit? | Gedanken von Alexander Solloch. Nie ist doch eine Zeit ausschlielich bleiern; wir haben ja auch in den vergangenen Monaten gelacht und gespielt und Quatsch gemacht. Tierischer Zuwachs in der Familie Zum Beispiel haben wir - wo wir gerade von Quatsch sprechen - einen Hund in die Familie aufgenommen. Und jetzt wundern wir uns, wenn wir mit ihm vor die Tr gehen: wie er immer zieht, wie er immer zerrt, wenn er eines Artgenossen auch nur flchtig ansichtig wird, wie er sich ber diesen alle zwei Minuten stattfindenden Skandal gar nicht mehr beruhigen kann! Wie es in ihm brodelt, in ihm zischt, wie er dem anderen am liebsten in die Gurgel bisse oder in den Schwanz! Ja, "dem anderen", man muss es so sagen, weil Hunde ganz offensichtlich lngst noch nicht diejenige Zivilisationsstufe erklommen haben, die es ihnen erlauben wrde, ordnungsgem zu gendern. Hingegen wir! Beinahe schon auf dem Gipfelpunkt der Zivilisation! Immerhin kann man nicht sagen, dass wir jeden Passanten (oder jede Passantin, die schon gar nicht! ), dessen (oder deren) Nase uns nicht passt, unverwandt zusammenschlagen. Der Kampf um die Zivilisierung des Menschen geht weiter Einige tun es natrlich doch, indem sie Rechtsradikale in die Parlamente whlen, die das Zusammenschlagen der Unliebsamen dann rhetorisch fr sie erledigen, aber auch darin steckt vielleicht ein tieferer Sinn: Bevor die Sonne in unserer Galaxie nachhaltig randaliert, indem ihre (oh!) Korona den Merkur und die Venus verschluckt und sie die Erde gleichsam verbrennt, bevor das also in ungefhr sechs Milliarden Jahren passiert, muss uns ja noch die eine oder andere Aufgabe gestellt sein. Der Kampf um die Zivilisierung des Menschen geht weiter! Oder anders: "Der Kampf gegen die Dummheit hat gerade erst begonnen!" Mit diesem schnen Satz auf Plakaten, auf denen Springerstiefel oder Hhner in Massentierhaltung abgebildet waren, hat die Wochenzeitung "Die Zeit" vor 20 Jahren fr sich geworben. Entschuldigung, eine unsinnige Abschweifung. Nicht bleiben sollte jedenfalls diese aus Mdigkeit geborene gedankliche Zerfaserung, diese mentale Bruchstckhaftigkeit, deren angenehm geduldige Zeugen Sie gerade sind. Das sollte nicht bleiben. Natrlich muss Homeoffice bleiben Bleiben aber sollen all die schnen lustigen Hunde, die in dieser Zeit ein neues Zuhause gefunden haben. Tierschtzer sagen vielen von ihnen eine Zukunft auf der Strae oder im Heim voraus. Homeoffice ist ja bald wieder vorbei, und dann Moment! Natrlich muss Homeoffice bleiben als Mglichkeit, als Ergnzung unserer Arbeitswelt, als kleine phantasievolle Ausschweifung. Vielleicht ist hin und wieder mal ein Ksebrot mehr gegessen worden, und es ist whrend all der wichtigen Konferenzen zweifellos weitaus mehr Wsche aufgehngt worden als frher blich, aber gegen die sinnvolle Nutzung ehedem verschwendeter Zeit kann ja niemand ernsthaft Einwnde erheben. Homeschooling hingegen, dieses grauenvolle Instrument zur Folter von Kindern und Eltern, ist hoffentlich fr alle Zeiten abgeschafft! Was jedoch bleiben darf: die Erkenntnis bei den Eltern, welch groes Glck es ist, dass es Lehrerinnen und Lehrer gibt, die ihr schwieriges Handwerk verstehen, und die Erkenntnis bei diesen, welch zauberhaft wichtigen Beruf sie ausben drfen. Vielleicht kann ihnen dieses Wissen ein etwas schwungvolleres Lcheln ins Gesicht malen, als es die Statuten des Deutschen Lehrerverbandes vorsehen. Eine Germanistik-Dozentin sagte ihren von tausend Online-Lehrveranstaltungen mde und depressiv gewordenen Studentinnen und Studenten zur Motivation, das Gute sei doch, dass jetzt endlich wieder whrend des Seminars geraucht werden drfe. Vielleicht als ein kleiner Kringel Gelassenheit, der aus den Mndern und Nasenlchern in die Lfte steigt. Und dann ist Corona nur noch ein Bier und ein Gedicht von Celan: "Es ist Zeit, dass der Stein sich zu blhen bequemt!" Weitere Informationen NachGedacht Unsere Kolumnisten lassen die Woche mit ihren Kulturthemen Revue passieren und erzhlen, was sie aufgeregt hat. Persnlich, kritisch und gern auch mit ein wenig Bsartigkeit gespickt. mehr Dieses Thema im Programm: NDR Kultur | NachGedacht | 04.06.2021 | 10:20 Uhr | https://www.ndr.de/kultur/sendungen/nachgedacht/Was-bleibt-aus-dieser-pandemischen-Zeit,solloch334.html |
Can mixing two COVID vaccine doses boost immune response? | As of June 3 evening, cumulatively 26,53,446 Covid-19 cases have been confirmed in the state, which includes 30,531 deaths and 23,36,096 discharges, the Health department said in its bulletin. (file photo) Recently, Dr NK Arora, chairman of the central governments COVID-19 working group said that experts may start testing to see if mixing doses of two different COVID vaccines could boost immune response. The government, however, went to clarify thereafter that there would be no mixing of vaccine doses. Meanwhile, researchers around the world have been studying the effects of mixing COVID vaccine doses. A study in Spain, led by the Carlos III Health Institute in Madrid, found in its preliminary trial that vaccinating people with both OxfordAstraZeneca and PfizerBioNTech COVID-19 could produce a potent immune response. A UK study called Com-COV found that people in the mix-and-match groups had mild to moderate common vaccine-related side effects than those who received two doses of the same vaccine. Countries like Canada, France, Norway, and Sweden, among others, have recommended mixing vaccine doses as some other countries continue testing. The strategy is known as heterologous prime-boost COVID-19 vaccination, and adopted to mitigate supply shocks or shortages that might otherwise reduce the speed of vaccine roll-out, according to a study published by The Lancet in May. Whether one can receive two different doses of the COVID vaccine can only be determined by extensive research, said Dr Vikas Maurya, head of department and director, pulmonology, Fortis Hospital, Shalimar Bagh. Researchers are already studying the effects of mixing the vaccine shots. Further research is required to understanding if doing this will boost the immune response or reduce it. For now, what we can say is a Covaxin shot should be followed by a booster dose of Covaxin only; the same applies for Covishield, he added. | https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/health/can-mixing-two-covid-vaccine-doses-boost-immune-response-7341247/ |
Do I Need To Get Tested For Covid-19 If I'm Vaccinated? | No, you can skip routine testing, with some exceptions. The latest guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says you don't need to be tested or to quarantine if you're fully vaccinated, even if you've been exposed to someone who was sick. An exception is if you develop COVID-19 symptoms such as fever, cough and fatigue. The updated guidance reflects recent studies showing vaccinated people face very little risk of serious disease. Even if you get an infection, you'll be less likely to spread it to others and any symptoms will likely be milder. As a result, the CDC says vaccinated people can also be excluded from routine workplace screening, though many companies aren't tracking employees' vaccination status. Screening is still recommended for people working or living in homeless shelters or prisons, due to the higher risk of outbreaks. The relaxed guidelines also don't apply to doctors, nurses and other health care workers, whose employers might still require testing. Guidance may vary by country. U.S. citizens returning from abroad also still have to present a negative COVID-19 test before boarding their flights home, regardless of their vaccination status. Anyone who tests positive for COVID-19 should still isolate for 10 days, the CDC says. As vaccinations increase, many experts expect the CDC to further relax testing guidelines, even for vaccinated people with symptoms. Many common colds and viruses can cause symptoms resembling COVID-19, experts say, which could lead to a wave of unnecessary testing in the fall. As we race to open back up, a whole variety of infections that we don't routinely test for are going to cause those same symptoms, said Dr. Rebecca Wurtz of the University of Minnesota. You should wash your hands and stay home from work, but there's no need to run out to be tested. For in-depth, objective and more importantly balanced journalism, Click here to subscribe to Outlook Magazine | https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/world-news-do-i-need-to-get-tested-for-covid-19-if-im-vaccinated/384306 |
What now for Ash Barty after French Open exit? | Ash Barty's return to Roland Garros has ended in disappointment, but now attention has swiftly turned to recovery for the 25-year-old Queenslander. After a stellar return to the WTA tour where she won titles in Melbourne, Miami and Stuttgart and reached the final in Madrid Barty looked primed to once again challenge for a grand slam title. However, the rigours of a return to full time playing after 11 months on the sidelines thanks to the coronavirus pandemic eventually took its toll, as Barty was forced to retire hurt during her second-round clash. Barty said that it was a "small miracle" that she even took to the court for her first-round match, such was the extent of the injury, but that she could not manage the injury further. "We did everything, absolutely everything we could to give myself a chance," she said. Ash Barty first claimed the world number one spot shortly after winning back-to-back titles in Paris and Birmingham in 2019. ( AP: Michel Euler Despite leaving the French Open early, Barty will still be number one heading into the grass court season on account of a number of her closest rivals pulling out of the French Open. She is currently top of the rankings with 10,175 points, ahead of world number two Naomi Osaka, who has 7,461. Osaka, who was Barty's closest challenger for the number one crown, withdrew from the French Open after her first-round win, citing mental health issues. Simona Halep, who is in third, did not even start the tournament after tearing her calf muscle in Rome. Barty has held the number one ranking since September 2019, after first claiming top spot in June 2019 after winning back-to-back titles at the French Open and Birmingham Classic. The tennis world ranking system has been thrown into disarray since the postponement of a huge number of tournaments throughout 2020. While normally the ranking points system works on a 12-month rolling average, since the coronavirus pandemic that has been adjusted. Points earned for tournaments played in 2020 that then did not take place in 2021 will now drop off the list after 104 weeks, as the WTA transitions back to the traditional ranking structure. Ash Barty has not experienced this type of injury before. ( Reuters: Christian Hartmann Aside from the problem being in Barty's hip, it's not 100 per cent clear what the issue exactly is. Barty said after the match that the "completely new injury" was something she had "never experienced before". "Even chatting with my physio, not something she has seen regularly either," Barty said. The 25-year-old said she had "been consulting with people all over the world to try and give us some insight into what the best ways to manage it are, to handle it." However, Barty also said that although the timing of the injury was "disappointing", it was not "panic stations" yet. "I'm confident we do have a plan," Barty said. "It's just that we ran out of time here, which sucks. "We know what's going on. We just need time to manage it, to get back on the court as quickly as we can." Since winning the girl's singles title in 2011, Wimbledon has not been a happy hunting ground for Barty. ( AP: Ben Curtis Depending on the hip injury, next up for Barty is the relatively short grass court season, culminating at Wimbledon from June 28 to, hopefully, the final on July 10. Two of Barty's 11 WTA singles titles have come on grass, Nottingham in 2018 and Birmingham in 2019. However, at Wimbledon aside from becoming girl's champion in 2011 her record is less impressive, with her best result being a fourth-round appearance in 2019, where she was top seed. That was actually the last time Barty played a competitive game on grass, 75 matches ago. Prior to the French Open, Barty said she was "not entering the grass court tournaments to lose them," when asked about transferring her clay court form to the grass. Unfortunately for Barty, time again may be against her, with just three full weeks to recover. | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-04/what-now-for-ash-barty-after-french-open-exit/100190222 |
Will Competition Destroy Tesla? | Norway has been in the news lately and not just a little but across a wide range of news organizations. Norway has been very embracing of the move to EVs supporting just about every version that has come out from small EVs that would remind one of a Golf cart and illegal on the roads in the US to the luxury level of Tesla with the X and S auto's. Norway has even been leading the world in the change over of their countries taxi fleet to EVs. One benefit to the taxi owner is the ability to write off half of the auto cost in the first year and the rest in the second year as long as the taxi travels over 100,000 kilometers per year. This allows private taxi drivers to purchase their own luxury ride to use as their work tool every day. Tesla was the first to build out a very extensive network of charging infrastructure to support their auto's allowing owners to drive their EVs in any type of weather even very cold snowy winter. As anyone in sales would know and to help everyone else understand, single month sales, and quarterly sales sales cannot always clearly show a trend about the success of a company. Even bi-yearly sales numbers while getting close to be considered a trend by some is not enough to state that a company has been a long term success. Tesla ever since they started to sell auto's in Norway back in 2009 with just 13 sold has pretty much had a captured market to themselves especially since Norway has been trying various ways to push a clean green agenda going back into the 1990's. Tesla sales spiked in 2019 at 18,798 EVs sold before plummeting as VW introduced the much more affordable ID.4 and other luxury makers such as Audi with their e-tron came on the market in 2020. As per the jalopnik story, Tesla did not sell many auto's in association with other auto choices till recently making the sample size very small in auto markets around the world. Norway then becomes an even more important picture on EV sales as a country that was in many ways the first to embrace EVs, will be the first to phase out all new ICE auto sales starting January 1st 2025. Currently contrast Diesel auto's that sold in 2011 with a 75.7% market share to only 8.6% market share in 2020. A market where there are more EV options at various price points than any other market has transformed their auto market. Lately, Tesla sales have not been that great and Ford Motor Company is off to a hot start with their Mustang Mach-e. Yes one can contribute this to the Ford EV being a new model but keep in mind that a year ago new auto sales had BEVs make up 43.1% of sales, this year, BEVs are averaging 60.4% of new auto sales with Ford having sold 1,384 Mach-e in May for a 10% share of Norways auto market. Toyota RAV4 hybrid is in second place and Skoda's electric Enyaq is in third. Currently in the top ten EVs sold in Norway, Tesla is coming in at 6th place. Let's let the monthly numbers speak for what is being sold in Norway: May 2021 top 10 best-selling auto's in Norway. April 2021 top 10 best-selling auto's in Norway. March 2021 top 10 best-selling auto's in Norway. We then have no numbers, but a list was produced of the top 10 auto sales and unlike March, Tesla was in 8th place for auto sales in February: The clear observation is that Tesla is NOT the dominant auto company in Norway and a concern for the CEO and company one would think. Clearly now that real competition is showing up, Tesla is going to have to address concerns about fit n finish, service, warranty issues, etc. In 2019 Tesla dominated the market for BEVs: Per Norways largest news covering the auto industry, December pretty much saved the year, but even then shows some very interesting changes from 2019. This on top of the full 2020 year showing that Tesla is only #6 in auto sales in Norway. At this point, Tesla needs to deliver on a low end solution of BEVs for Norway and the world if they are to remain competitive and survive it would seem. This would be the time for a Model 2 and even maybe 1 to come out of Tesla giving low end solutions for auto buyers that currently cannot afford higher priced auto's. Ford Is Beating Tesla In One Of The Most EV-Saturated Markets In The World (jalopnik.com) Norway: Tesla car sales 2009-2020 | Statista Ford's electric Mustang tops Norway car sales in May | Reuters Ford's electric Mustang tops Norway car sales in May | Nasdaq Historic December saved car sales | Dn | https://www.cheersandgears.com/articles/news/tesla/will-competition-destroy-tesla-r6266/ |
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Is Toni Cipriani the most underrated protagonist in the GTA series? | Toni Cipriani is perhaps one of the most criminally underrated GTA protagonists of all time. When the average fan thinks about underrated Grand Theft Auto protagonists, they might not even think about Toni Cipriani. In and of itself, that is often a sign of something being underrated, but there are more reasons why somebody like Cipriani can be considered "underrated." He's an interesting character from an underrated game. There isn't any other GTA protagonist like Toni Cipriani, which makes him a one-of-a-kind personality. He's an unbelievably brutal, loving, and loyal protagonist who is more aligned with true crime than modern GTA protagonists. Toni isn't an over-the-top caricature of what a criminal can be, making him more grounded in reality (as far as twisted sociopaths go, anyhow). Why Toni Cipriani is one of the most underrated protagonists in the GTA series Toni in Chinatown (Image via Amazon) Underrated protagonists are often characters fans don't think about for one reason or another. Even players who played GTA Liberty City Stories might not think about Toni Cipriani as far as memorable protagonists go. However, he's a legitimately entertaining protagonist with several endearing qualities that make him stand out from the rest of the pack. He might not be the best protagonist overall, but he's criminally underrated given who he is and what he brings to the GTA series. He commits vile acts Toni Cipriani commits some of the most atrocious acts that almost no other GTA protagonist would consider doing. At his core, Cipriani represents the old-school criminal mentality that isn't as glorified as it is in recent GTA titles. The act of bombing Fort Staunton is one of the most heinous acts done by any GTA protagonist. The total death count isn't known, but it makes the area virtually uninhabited afterward. A once-prosperous city is nearly wiped to ashes, all in the name of $5000. Many innocent pedestrians died as a result of this. That's not even bringing into question the sheer economic damages Toni caused by his actions. Worst of all, this one crime isn't the only noteworthy one he's done. Other questionable acts Not many GTA protagonists can claim that they killed a prominent public figure and got away with it. In Toni Cipriani's case, he's able to kill Mayor R.C. Hole. It's insane to think that something like this would just be a minor mission in the grand scheme of things, especially since other GTA protagonists have done less. He's a twisted protagonist like Trevor Philips, except with far less notoriety. Given how much love Trevor gets from the fanbase, that would make Cipriani underrated by comparison. Toni Cipriani even butchers a butcher just to send his meat back to his own deli. Some GTA fans love it when a protagonist is brutal, and Toni has that in spades. Of course, he isn't just a ruthless killing machine. Toni Cipriani's character Toni Cipriani's loyalty is admirable at times (Image via GTA5-mods.com) While Toni Cipriani is an unquestionably violent sociopath at times, he is also an incredibly loyal person with a strange sense of honor. This honor extends heavily into filial piety, as everything he does often has some connection to his mother. Despite the fact his mother puts a hit on him, he still loves her dearly to the point that he would do anything to get her admiration. This love also extends to how he believes other people should be treating their parents, as he's utterly abhorred by how Vicenzo Cilli is receiving oral sex from a prostitute while talking to his mother. Of course, Toni will also do anything to please Salvatore Leone. He's loyal to a fault, but it's a trait some GTA players can sympathize with. Toni Cipriani mixes some excellent qualities to have in a friend and some horrifying traits to have in an enemy. GTA Liberty City Stories, as a game GTA Liberty City Stories is a fun title (Image via GTA Wiki) If GTA Liberty City Stories is considered a criminally underrated game by some fans, then that would make Toni Cipriani an underrated protagonist by association. The title itself is pretty excellent, as it fixes many problems GTA 3 had and reintroduces players into the world of Liberty City in a better light. The characters are more fleshed out, the gameplay is less frustrating, and several quality of life updates have been introduced to appeal more to casual players. As a protagonist, Toni Cipriani is an interesting character that often gets overlooked thanks to the game he's from being overshadowed by the others in the series. Fun facts about Toni Cipriani Toni's art in GTA 3 (Image via Rockstar Games) He is the first voiced protagonist in the modern GTA era. He's technically not the first protagonist to have spoken in their own game, but he is voiced in GTA 3. Unsurprisingly, Claude is mute in that game, which means Toni is the first protagonist to be seen speaking in the series. Likewise, Toni is also the first protagonist to be a minor character in one game and then become the main protagonist of his own game. His name is an apparent reference to Tony Soprano (which also coincides with their mother's distaste for them at some parts of their stories). Edited by Ravi Iyer | https://www.sportskeeda.com/gta/is-toni-cipriani-underrated-protagonist-gta-series |
What is Race norming in the NFL? | The term "race norming" was thrust into the spotlight this week after it was revealed the NFL had used the practice since the 1990s. The NFL has said they will stop the practice, which assumes black players start out with a lower cognitive function than white and non-black players. Race norming has made the news as part of the fallout of the $1 billion brain injury settlement agreed to by the NFL in 2013. Race norming goes back 40+ years when it was developed as a way to account for racial bias in aptitude testing for federal jobs in the United States of America. It was first used during President Jimmy Carter's administration and then continued by Ronald Reagan before being banned by George H.W. Bush in 1991. The purpose was to eliminate racial bias in these tests so everyone was on an equal playing field. Unfortunately, race norming was adopted to actually instigate racism. The practice of race norming was used to assess legal damages in the brain injury lawsuit brought against the NFL, by former players. What race norming did was make it harder for black players to show a mental deficiency and therefore qualify for an award payment. According to ESPN, more than 2,000 NFL retirees have filed dementia claims, but fewer than 600 have received awards. An Associated Press article shows that so far the awards have averaged $516,000 for the 379 players with early-stage dementia and $715,000 for the 207 players with moderate dementia. Retired players can also seek payouts for Alzheimers disease and a few other diagnoses. Thats literally the definition of systematic racism. The NFL recently announced that a panel of neuropsychologists formed recently to propose a new testing regime to the court includes two female and three black doctors. "The replacement norms will be applied prospectively and retrospectively for those players who otherwise would have qualified for an award but for the application of race-based norms," the NFL said in a statement issued Wednesday by spokesman Brian McCarthy. As the fallout continues over race norming, more lawsuits are expected to be filed against the NFL. Edited by Prem Deshpande | https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/news-what-race-norming-nfl |
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Are we in a new era of inflation? | Surge in US job creation could signal an easing of labour shortages Your browser does not support playing this file but you can still download the MP3 file to play locally. The Biden administration is banning Americans from investing in dozens of Chinese defence and surveillance technology companies, and US job creation is expected to have accelerated sharply in May which could signal an easing of labour shortages. Plus, the FTs economics editor, Chris Giles, examines whether this current rise in prices is temporary, or whether inflation is back for an extended stay. https://www.ft.com/content/b6dfb1dc-eb86-4bad-87b0-d800b79195d3 United hopes to revive supersonic era almost 20 years after Concorde https://www.ft.com/content/903b47e9-86b3-4e68-a5e4-414b142cc7b0 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. A transcript for this podcast is currently unavailable, view our accessibility guide. | https://www.ft.com/content/5b39d432-0507-46b4-881c-e6e3a0c20c6e |
Why did the Texans decide to sign RB Rex Burkhead? | The Houston Texans made an interesting signing on June 1 when they decided to add running back Rex Burkhead. It made sense that general manager Nick Caserio, who had worked with Burkhead with the New England Patriots from 2017-20, would want to bring in a player he was familiar with. What made the move puzzling was that the Texans had added their seventh running back to a stable that already has Pro Bowlers Mark Ingram, David Johnson, and Phillip Lindsay. According to coach David Culley, who met with the Houston media on Thursday on a Zoom call after organized team activities, the signing was all about generating competition. That same competition is all over the field here, said Culley. Now, what happened is Rex has been a good football player during his career. Basically, when there are good football players out there and you have a chance to be able to bring them and be a part of what youre doing and what youre trying to build, you do that. Burkhead rushed 253 times for 1,026 yards and 11 touchdowns while catching 96 passes for 856 yards and seven touchdowns in his 41 career games with New England, eight of which he started. Obviously, Nick had some background with him, Culley said. We all know what hes been in this league and we had an opportunity to get him to add to the mix and we added him to the mix. Im happy to have him here with us and to get right in the mix of what were doing with the competition at that position, also. The other running backs the Texans have on the roster include Scottie Phillips, Buddy Howell, and Dontrell Hilliard. | https://texanswire.usatoday.com/2021/06/03/why-texans-sign-rex-burkhead/ |
Should we lift Covid restrictions on June 21? | Debate has been raging this week about whether the government should delay lifting Covid restrictions completely on June 21 as planned, amid worries that we may be seeing the start of a third wave of infections. The latest data show that there were 4,330 new cases of Covid in the UK recorded on June 2 - and 25,240 new cases in the week up to then.That was a rise of almost 35 per cent on the week before. There were also 12 deaths recorded on June 2 - though earlier in the week, the UK recorded the first day without any Covid deaths since March 2020. PM Boris Johnson insists that there is nothing in the data at the moment to prevent Covid-19 restrictions being lifted as planned on June 21. But experts remain divided over the issue. Professor Adam Finn of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) said many people were still vulnerable to Covid-19 and that pressing ahead with the easing of restrictions on June 21 may be a bad decision. The Governments former chief scientific adviser, Sir Mark Walport, has also argued that ministers need more data before they can make a final decision. But Robert Dingwall, professor of sociology at Nottingham Trent University, said it is really important that we go ahead with lifting restrictions on June 21 from a societal point of view. The key changes on June 21 that may be most likely to help retailers and the hospitality industry would be the scrapping of the one-metre plus rule, and lifting the rule of six indoors. There would probably be less debate about deciding that face masks should still be required on public transport and in shops, or that social distancing should be maintained. We asked around... The shop owner York Retail Forum chair Phil Pinder, owner of The Potions Cauldron in Shambles, is dismissive of the whole idea of delaying lifting restrictions. He points to that day earlier in the week when there no Covid-related deaths in the UK at all - for the first time in more than a year. I think this is just media scaremongering, he said. Phil Pinder of York Retail Forum: 'It's just media scremongering' The restaurant owner Chef and restaurateur Michael Hjort, owner of Meltons Too and The Chopping Block, says the worst thing the government could do would be to continue insisting it would lift restrictions on June 21 - only to change its mind at the last minute. Businesses needed to be able to plan, Mr Hjort pointed out. The last thing the industry wants is changes done late. I would much rather have that date (June 21) put back now rather than find out some time later on that were going backwards again. Restaurateur Michael Hjort: 'What we don't want is a last-minute U-turn' York businesses Andrew Lowson, executive director of the York Business Improvement District (BID), said: If there is a delay, like previous restrictions it will effect some more than others. On the plus side, many retail and hospitality businesses have adapted business models to work within current restrictions. However, certain pubs and bars suffer from having restricted numbers or cannot offer table service easily, so any delay will impact them. Anyone involved in weddings and events will (also) be very worried. Andrew Lowson: 'Pubs and bars are suffering from restricted numbers' The GP York GP Dr David Fair of the Jorvik Medical Group says he is not particularly concerned about a third wave of infections. I think that any spike probably would not be a very big spike, mainly because such a huge percentage of the population now have been vaccinated, he said. He does have two slight, niggling concerns, however. One is that younger people who have not been vaccinated may catch the virus - and while they may not become seriously ill in the short term, could develop long Covid in the longer term. His second concern is that virus circulating among younger, unvaccinated people and children could mutate into a more dangerous form. It is very unpredictable, he said. Dr Fair says we must, as a nation, begin to think about whether or not we should vaccinate children under the age of 18 so that they do not unwittingly act as a reservoir of infection. York GP Dr David Fair The Hospital York Hospital stresses that there are no signs so far of a rise in Covid cases at the hospital. As of yesterday morning, it was looking after only two Covid-positive patients. It is, however, geared up to deal with any future rise in cases, a hospital spokesperson said. Experience of dealing with previous waves of Covid would help. Many of the things we will need to do to manage another wave, such as isolating and testing patients, and creating separate areas for infected and non-infected patients, are already firmly established and have been well tested. The hospital currently has one ward set aside for Covid patients but could quickly increase capacity if needed, the spokesperson said. The main concern about any third wave might be about its impact on the hospitals ability to tackle the huge backlog of patients waiting for non-urgent treatments and operations. Our ability to tackle the backlog, should a fresh wave happen, will depend on the number of patients needing hospital care for Covid, the spokesperson said. Its fair to say we are much better placed to respond than we were several months ago. By building on the lessons we have learned, we are able to flex our hospital capacity and community services as needed. As with all hospitals during the first wave, planned care was paused for three months, so everyone on the waiting list for planned care at that time was affected. In the most recent wave, only a small number of operations were postponed, where the clinical need was less urgent. York Hospital: prepared for any future rise in cases The MPs In his most recent column for The Press, York Outer MP Julian Sturdy pleaded with the government not to delay lifting restrictions. This prolonged disruption to everyday activities has now taken up an alarming proportion of all of our lives. The vaccination programme meant many people were now protected, he said. The information coming through does suggest the vaccine is holding up against the Indian variant. Given the reality that the virus will mutate into new variants, I feel it would be dangerous to set the precedent that each new variant means delaying the return of everyday freedoms. We could face a grim stop-start future of sporadic lockdowns without end. York Central MP Rachael Maskell said it was important to keep on top of the data - and if there was evidence of an increase in cases that may pose a risk to the NHS, then the government might need to think again about June 21. The date could perhaps be pushed back a few days if necessary, to allow more people to be vaccinated, she said. What she doesnt want to see is a return to tiers - because there is always the risk of people travelling from a higher tier to a lower tier, and spreading infection. If restrictions are lifted, she said, it might be wise to set up a testing station at York Railway Station. | https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/19348890.lift-covid-restrictions-june-21/?ref=rss |
How does our American namesake compare? | Sign up to our newsletter for daily updates and breaking news Invalid Email Something went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice When English settlers first arrived in what we now call the United States of America, they weren't exactly imaginative when it came to deciding on names. The county of Berkshire in Massachusetts was founded in 1761, making it positively brand new in comparison to our own ancient county. There are some striking comparisons between the original Berkshire and its US counterpart, for a start one of its towns is called Windsor. Unlike us though, Berkshire US has two cities - we don't even have one. Here, we'll compare the counties to see what we have in common and what the biggest differences are. Size Size isn't everything, which is good as Berkshire US is almost twice as big as us. Our Berkshire is around 1,262km while the US version is a massive 2,460km. They have much more space to work within the US. In terms of population, we have around 915,000* people, whereas Berkshire US has just 125,000*. Towns Berkshire US has 30 towns, one of which is creatively called Windsor. We have half as many, at just 15. That said, we have countless parishes, hamlets and villages. Our biggest town is Reading while the biggest city in Berkshire US is Pittsfield. While Reading is known in history for its status as an important market town, Pittsfield was primarily an agricultural hub. BerkshireLive email updates: We bring the stories to you Signing up to the BerkshireLive newsletter means you'll receive our daily news email. It couldn't be simpler and it takes seconds - simply press here, enter your email address and follow the instructions. You can also enter your address at the top of this page in the box below the picture on most desktop and mobile platforms. There's an 'unsubscribe' button at the bottom of every newsletter we send out. You can also sign up to our website and comment on our stories by pressing here and signing in. History As is often the case with US settlements, little is known about pre-colonial Berkshire. The native Mahican tribe lived in the area before the English settlers took their land and as such, their history is pushed aside and we sadly don't have much to go on in terms of pre-1700s history. According to the biography of King Alfred, written by Welsh monk Asser in 893AD, Berkshire was called Bearrocscir - meaning wood of box trees. The Celtic word bearroc means 'hilly'. We're not the only Berkshire that's hilly... Geography In the US, the Berkshires are also known as the Berkshire Hills, the Berkshire Mountains or the Berkshire Plateau. They're the southern continuation of the Green Mountains of Vermont, and many visit them to enjoy the cooler highland temperatures in summer. The highest point is Crum Hill, which is 2,841ft high. In Berkshire UK, our downs are just as important as our peaks. In West Berkshire, the plain of the River Kennet rises to high chalk hills. Where the land crests along the Hampshire boundary, Walbury Hill forms the highest point in south-east England, reaching 974ft high. Landmarks and notable residents Berkshire UK has a number of historic buildings and landmarks that bring people here from all around - Windsor Castle perhaps the most iconic among them. It is the museums in Berkshire US that keep its residents in touch with the past. The Hancock Shaker Village is a living history museum telling of the Shakers who lived there for 179 years until 1960. The Mount, Edith Wharton's Home, is a historic house museum that was the country estate of Edith Wharton. It's where she wrote The House of Mirth and Ethan Frome. Author Edith Wharton lived between 1862 and 1937. We have our own famous female author from history; Jane Austen went to school in Reading. * According to 2019 statistics | https://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/berkshire-england-vs-berkshire-usa-20724355 |
How Many Vaccines Will The US Give The Caribbean? | By NAN Staff Writer News Americas, WASHINGTON, D.C., Fri. June 4, 2021: After months of ignoring the pleas for COVID-19 vaccines by their Third Border neighbors, the Caribbean, the Joe Biden administration has now agreed to open up and share a stash with the region and Latin America, as well as with the world. President Biden on Thursday said the US will share up to 80 million does with the world. Of that, at least six million doses will go to both Latin America and the Caribbean. It is unclear how many will go to the Caribbean exactly through the regional public health agency, CARPHA, as the region has a smaller per capita rate than Latin America, which had been more decimated by the COVID-19 virus than the Caribbean region. The US will also separately give vaccines to Haiti, a White House briefing said Thursday even as Guatemalas President Alejandro Giammattei said on Thursday that the United States will supply half a million COVID-19 doses to the Central American country. That leaves 5.5 million for the rest of the entire region, including the Caribbean. At a press briefing officials from the COVID-19 response team and public health officials revealed that the Biden-Harris administration will be working closely with CARPHA, the public health authority in the Caribbean, who will be making some of the key determinations for where the doses are allocated. The Biden administration has been under pressure to share doses from the nations vaccine stockpile, particularly as the pandemic recedes in the United States while continuing to surge abroad. On Thursday, the Us Caribbean roots Vice President, Kamala Harris, spoke to Vice President Kamala D. Harris spoke this morning to Trinidad and Tobagos Prime Minister Keith Rowley, Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), to notify him that the Biden-Harris Administration will begin sharing the first 25 million doses of COVID vaccines to their respective countries and others, as part of the Biden-Harris Administrations framework for sharing at least 80 million vaccines globally by the end of June. The Vice President reiterated that the Administrations efforts are focused on achieving broad global coverage, responding to surges and other urgent situations and public health needs, and helping as many countries as possible who requested vaccines. China, Russia and India have been the only countries donating vaccines to the Caribbean, which has largely managed to contain the virus but has seen rise in places like the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Cuba and Trinidad and Tobago. The US has so far only shared just over four million doses of vaccines with Canada and Mexico only. The first from the 80 million doses donation will go to Asia. | https://www.newsamericasnow.com/caribbean-news-how-many-vaccines-will-the-us-give-the-caribbean/ |
Is it possible to see the revival of the bullish market soon? | Even though bulls keep controlling the situation on the market, the rise is not so sharp and some coins have already come back to the red zone. Top coins by CoinMarketCap BTC/USD The rate of Bitcoin (BTC) has increased slightly since yesterday. The price change is +1.86%. BTC/USD chart by TradingView The rise of the main crypto is not accompanied by the trading volume. Moreover, it keeps going down, which means that bulls have not accumulated enough strength for continued growth. In this case, the more likley price action is sideways trading in the range of $37,500-$39,000 until the end of the week. Bitcoin is trading at $38,666 at press time. ETH/USD Ethereum (ETH) has not showed such growth as Bitcoin (BTC) and the chief altcoin has gone up by only 0.15%. ETH/USD chart by TradingView Although the price of Ethereum (ETH) is almost unchanged since yesterday, there are high chances of returning to $3,000 soon. At the moment, the altcoin is located in the area where most of liquidity is focused, which means that traders are accumulating power in the range. If bulls can keep the rate above $2,600, the possibility of a retest of the resistanance will be quite high. Ethereum is trading at $2,788 at press time. LTC/USD Litecoin (LTC) is almost following the price action of Ethereum (ETH) as the growth of the "digital silver" has gone up by +1.80%. LTC/USD chart byTradingView From the techical point of view, bulls are losing their efforts while trying to come back to $200 and above as the trading volume is declining. The volatility is also reduced, which means that a sharp move may happen soon. However, at the moment, neither bulls nor bears are dominating on the market, confirming trading in the range between $180 and $190 for the next few days. Litecoin is trading at $188.57 at press time. DOGE/USD DOGE is the only coin from our list trading in the red zone. Its rate has gone down by 2.29% over the past 24 hours. DOGE/USD chart by TradingView The fall may not have ended yet as bulls could not get to the crucial mark of $0.45. Thus, the selling trading volume has increased, confirming the presence of sellers on the market. All in all, there is a high chance to see a restest of the recently formed mirror level at $0.38 soon. DOGE is trading at $0.4036 at press time. | https://www.fxstreet.com/cryptocurrencies/news/is-it-possible-to-see-the-revival-of-the-bullish-market-soon-202106040510 |
Will Law Firms and Gen Z Attorneys Be Able to Meet in the Middle? | By their very nature startups are risky projects. Startup founders can have great ideas but monetizing those ideas requires a specific skill set that often doesnt reconcile with those of the risk-taker mentality of entrepreneurship. The unfortunate truth is that for every Facebook there are hundreds, if not thousands, of failures. One would think that lack of funding would be the primary factor threatening success. However, according to a study conducted by Harvard Business School professor and author of Founders Dilemma, Noam Wasserman, 65% of startup failures are the result of disputes amongst cofounders. Thats significant, to say the least. Seed investors generally know that their investment comes with the expectation that they will back the investee by leveraging their own network to open doors, share their expertise and insights and, generally, support the investee company and its founders as needed throughout its life cycle. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2262961976779/will-law-firms-and-gen-z-attorneys-be-able-to-meet-in-the-middle |
Where Did It All Go Wrong for the Defending Champion Los Angeles Lakers? | Michael Gonzales/Getty Images The defending champion Los Angeles Lakers are out of the 2021 postseason after three straight losses to the Phoenix Suns. On Thursday, they fell behind by 29 points in the first half of Game 6. And though L.A. showed some fight in the second half, Phoenix never truly seemed to lose control en route to a 113-100 victory. Now, just under eight months after winning the 2020 Finals, LeBron James has lost a Round 1 series for the first time, and the Lakers' title defense is already in need of a postmortem. The injured groin of Anthony Davis (which limited his availability in each of the last three games) certainly played a role in the outcome, but the Suns often looked like the more complete team. And with several organizations around the league boasting younger and arguably deeper rosters, it's fair to wonder about L.A.'s prospects for a 2022 championship. There really isn't one answer. Possible Offseason Missteps Video Play Button Videos you might like Mark J. Terrill/Associated Press Following the bulk of the 2020 offseason, analysts were understandably high on what the defending champions did. They lost a number of valuable contributors from the previous run, including Danny Green, Rajon Rondo, JaVale McGee and Dwight Howard. But those losses were seemingly addressed (and then some) with more dynamic offensive players. In theory, Marc Gasol's passing and outside shooting would make more sense next to Anthony Davis than the old-school, physical presences of Howard and McGee. Not having Green's three-and-D prowess would hurt, but Schroder brought more off-the-bounce pop. Montrezl Harrell would seemingly be able to dominate second unit bigs. And Wesley Matthews could replace some of what Green provided. "[Gasol] and James are going to conduct symphonies on offense, and though he's aging, Gasol remains one of the sturdiest low-post defenders in the league," Grant Hughes wrote for Bleacher Report. "The champs got better in virtually every facet. So much for post-title attrition." At various points throughout the season, all of the above looked to be true. But it never came together all at once. Despite what seemed to be multiple offensive upgrades, L.A. finished the season at 23rd in points per 100 possessions. Of course, that can be blamed in large part on significant injuries to LeBron and AD (more on that later), but most of those new additions took individual steps back with the Lakers. Harrell, Schroder and Matthews all had worse marks in box plus/minus (BPM "...is a basketball box score-based metric that estimates a basketball players contribution to the team when that player is on the court," according to Basketball Reference) than they did last season. And though Gasol improved in that catch-all, he found himself out of the rotation by the time Andre Drummond was signed. Hindsight is, once again, 20/20, but forfeiting the bruising, physical style of the championship squad for a bit more offense may not have been the right call. Passing on Kyle Lowry Mark J. Terrill/Associated Press If those moves did indeed take L.A. in the wrong direction, it had a chance at a potential course correction around the trade deadline. The Athletic's Jovan Buha and Bill Oram detailed the Lakers' shot at Toronto Raptors legend Kyle Lowry: "Multiple sources told The Athletic that the Lakers and Raptors discussed a trade that would have sent both members of Los Angeles starting backcourt, Dennis Schroder and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, and likely some draft compensation to Toronto for Lowry. Throughout Thursday morning, sources said, the sticking point was the inclusion of Talen Horton-Tucker. "The same sources said that Rob Pelinka, the Lakers vice president of basketball operations, insisted that price was too high for the 35-year-old Lowry, and that he was not willing to trade Horton-Tucker, the 20-year-old combo guard who has emerged as a valuable rotation player for the Lakers in his second season." Even now, that price still feels high. Lowry was on an expiring contract. If he lived up to the asking price, re-signing him may have been costly, and he'll turn 36 next season. But it was tough to watch the Lakers' performance this postseason without thinking that Lowry could've helped. Despite his advancing years, Lowry averaged 17.2 points and 7.3 assists while shooting 39.6 percent from three this season. His ability to space the floor would've created more room for LeBron's drives, and his experience playing alongside ball-dominant wings like DeMar DeRozan and Kawhi Leonard would've made his adjustment to L.A.'s system fairly straightforward. Of course, Lowry's durability was an issue this season. He only appeared in 46 games, but that may have had a little to do with a not-so-stealthy tank job in the second half of the campaign. Giving up that much depth and an intriguing young player for someone who's likely in the twilight of his career would've been a tough pill to swallow, but lineups featuring LeBron, Davis and Lowry would've had a lofty ceiling, regardless of who the other two players were. The Andre Drummond Debacle Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associated Press Allow me a little liberty with the classic Ian Malcolm line from Jurassic Park. "Your [executives] were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should." Yes, when Andre Drummond, a 27-year-old two-time All-Star, was just sort of floating there in the buyout market, it's hard not to go for it. The contract he signed with the Lakers was for the minimum. But signing a big man with that kind of cachet meant committing some playing time to him. And switching from a Cleveland Cavaliers jersey to the Lakers' purple and gold didn't make him look any more suited for the modern game. Drummond used 2.4 post-up possessions per game as a Laker, and his 0.82 points per post-up possession ranked in the 27th percentile. Over the entire season, the 6'10" Drummond somehow shot just 50.0 percent on twos. Theoretically, adding Drummond should've replaced some of the physicality that was lost without Howard and McGee, but he's still at a point in his career where he may be trying to do a bit more than he should. Maximizing the rest of his career will probably require a realization that Drummond should be more of a pure rim-runner like Tyson Chandler or Rudy Gobert. His efficiency there was terrible too, but the fact that he averaged fewer roll man possessions than post ups is even more alarming. On a team like the Lakers, anything that's not a spoon-fed dunk or a putback for Drummond feels like a possession that would've been better spent by LeBron or AD. And trying to make Drummond fit all the way up until Game 6 of the first-round series against the Suns, when he was finally benched for Gasol, was maybe the most obvious misstep by the defending champs. Injuries Galore Mark J. Terrill/Associated Press All of this discussion is fair game. When a team with the expectations of this Lakers squad goes down in the first round, questions abound. But there's also a very legitimate excuse. L.A. finished seventh in the West because AD missed 36 games, and LeBron missed 27. If any team in the West had their top two players out for that amount of time, it would've similarly cratered. And though both were back in time for the postseason, neither looked right. After returning from a sprained ankle, LeBron wasn't as explosive vertically or laterally as we're used to seeing. And a new groin injury for Davis knocked him out of three separate games (including all of Game 5). If the front office wanted to chalk up this season's failure to the injuries, it'd be within its rights. For a team like the Lakers, though, that answer might not satisfy many of its passionate fans. As the Lakers head to the 2021 offseason, seemingly in decline, a handful of other teams around the league are headed in the other direction. If L.A. can stay healthy in 2021-22, it figures to be in contention, but that's far from a given. LeBron will turn 37 next season. For the first time in his career, he may be showing the signs of age that eventually catch up to every professional athlete. He can adjust his game to a more ground-bound, pass-heavy approach to prolong his chance at winning, but Father Time is, as they say, undefeated. As for Davis, his durability may be in question for the rest of his career. He's played in just over three quarters of his teams' games since he entered the league, but he has a long and varied injury history. And it's fair to wonder about his legitimacy as the heir apparent to LeBron's alpha role. Over his two regular and postseasons in L.A., the Lakers are minus-2.1 points per 100 possessions when AD plays without LeBron. They likely need another high-impact player to compete with rising challengers in the East and West, but their commitments for 2021-22 already outpace the projected salary cap. It will be trickyto put it mildlyto find avenues for meaningful improvement. Ultimately, L.A. contending for more titles in the near future probably still depends on LeBron more than anything else. Based on everything he's shown in a nearly-two-decades-long career, defying Father Time in his final act wouldn't be surprising. | https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2944142-where-did-it-all-go-wrong-for-the-defending-champion-los-angeles-lakers |
How many Big 12 heading to 2021 NCAA Outdoor Championships? | The Big 12 conference will send a total of 114 men and women student-athletes to the 2021 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Oregons Hayward Field from June 9-12. The final list was completed, following the NCAA East and West Regional Preliminary Round meetings last week. Big 12 Teams To 2021 NCAA Outdoor Championships Representing the Big 12 are 59 women and 55 men who are heading to Oregon hoping to secure podium positions in their respective events. Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. League champion Texas leads the way on both the womens and the mens sides with 12 entries apiece. The Longhorns are followed by Iowa State which will send 10 individuals on the mens side, while K-State has 10 representatives on the womens side. Tara Davis of Texas is the overwhelming favorite for the womens long jump gold medal, while Ackera Nugent and Aaliyah Miller of Baylor are among the leading contenders to win national titles in the womens 100m hurdles and the womens 800. There are four Big 12 mens programs ranked in the latest USTFCCCA Rating Index, with Texas sitting at No. 4, Iowa State at No. 20, No. 21 is Oklahoma, and No. 24 is Kansas. Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. In the meantime, the conference will send five womens programs to Oregon that are in the USTFCCCA Rating Index, as the Longhorns head to the championships ranked at No. 7. They are followed by No. 14 Texas Tech, No. 15 Baylor, No. 17 K-State, and No. 22 Oklahoma. The Big 12 conference will battle against teams from leading conferences such as the SEC, Pac-12, and Big 10, among several other leagues, at the four-day 2021 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships. 2021 NCAA Outdoor Championships Participants (Big 12 Men Only) 100-meter Dash Kamden Jackson, Baylor Tinotenda Matiyenga, TCU Courtney Lindsey, Texas Tech Jacolby Shelton, Texas Tech Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. 200-meter Dash Robert Gregory, TCU Tinotenda Matiyenga, TCU Micaiah Harris, Texas Courtney Lindsey, Texas Tech Terrence Jones, Texas Tech 400-meter Dash Howard Fields III, Baylor Ashton Hicks, Oklahoma State Jonathan Jones, Texas 800-meter Run Alexander Lomong, Iowa State Jason Gomez, Iowa State Festus Lagat, Iowa State Yusuf Bizimana, Texas Crayton Carrozza, Texas Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. 5,000-meter Run Wesley Kiptoo, Iowa State 10,000-meter Run Wesley Kiptoo, Iowa State Edwin Kurgat, Iowa State Isai Rodriguez, Oklahoma State Victor Shitsama, Oklahoma State 400-meter Hurdles Eric Fogltanz, Iowa State Isaiah Levingston, Oklahoma Charles Brockman III, Texas Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. 3,000-meter Steeplechase David Too, Iowa State Ryan Smeeton, Oklahoma State 4100-meter Relay TCU Texas Texas Tech 4X400-meter Relay Baylor Oklahoma TCU Texas Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. High Jump Tejaswin Shankar, Kansas State Vernon Turner, Oklahoma Long Jump Jullane Walker, Kansas State Rayvon Allen, Oklahoma Steffin McCarter, Texas OBrien Wasome, Texas Triple Jump Jelaani Davis, Oklahoma Chengetayi Mapaya, TCU OBrien Wasome, Texas Safin Wills, Texas Tech Jalen Seals, Texas Tech Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. Hammer Throw Vlad Pavlenko, Iowa State Bayley Campbell, Oklahoma Pole Vault Hussain Al Hizam, Kansas Zach Bradford, Kansas Hammer Throw Gleb Dudarev, Kansas Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. Shot Put Adrian Piperi, Texas Javelin Throw Scott Fuchs, Iowa State Logan Wolfley, Kansas State Decathlon Leo Neugebauer, Texas Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. NCAA Championship Participants (Big 12 Women Only) 100-meter Dash Ackera Nugent, Baylor Wurrie Njadoe, Kansas State 200-meter Dash Kennedy Blackmon, Oklahoma Kynnedy Flannel, Texas Kevona Davis, Texas Rhasidat Adeleke, Texas 400-meter Dash Aaliyah Birmingham, Oklahoma State Stacey Ann Williams, Texas Kennedy Simon, Texas Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. 800-meter Run Aaliyah Miller, Baylor Kaytlyn Larson, Oklahoma State Stephanie Moss, Oklahoma State Sivan Auerbach, Oklahoma State 3,000-meter Steeplechase Ceili McCabe, West Virginia 5,000-meter Run Gabby Hentemann, Oklahoma State Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. 10,000-meter Run Cailie Logue, Iowa State 100-meter Hurdles Ackera Nugent, Baylor Brittany Brown, TCU Aasia Laurencin, Texas 400-meter Hurdles Kimisha Chambers, Kansas State Madison Langley-Walker, Oklahoma Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. 4100-meter Relay Baylor Oklahoma Texas Texas Tech 4400-meter Relay Baylor Oklahoma State Texas Texas Tech Pole Vault Tuesdi Tidwell, Baylor Samantha Van Hoecke, Kansas Sydney King, Oklahoma Chinne Okoronwko, Texas Tech Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. High Jump Madison Langley-Walker, Oklahoma Falyn Reaugh, Oklahoma Saara Hakanen, Oklahoma State Long Jump Alex Madlock, Baylor Taishia Pryce, Kansas State Tara Davis, Texas Ruth Usoro, Texas Tech Monae Nichols, Texas Tech Triple Jump Alex Madlock, Baylor Rhianna Phipps, Kansas State Mikeisha Welcome, Oklahoma Sophia Falco, Texas Ruth Usoro, Texas Tech Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. Discus Throw Alexandra Emilianov, Kansas Ashley Petr, Kansas State Seasons Usual, Texas Tech Hammer Throw Helene Ingvaldsen, Kansas State Shaelyn Ward, Kansas State Shot Put Taylor Latimer, Kansas State Payden Montana, Oklahoma Elena Bruckner, Texas Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. Heptathlon Lauren Taubert, Kansas State Ariel Okorie, Kansas State Kristine Blazevica, Texas Kaylee Hinton, Texas Tech Callie Jones, Texas Tech | https://world-track.org/2021/06/how-many-big-12-heading-2021-ncaa-outdoor-championships/ |
What happens after a malicious email reaches employees inboxes? | On average, it takes three and half days (83 hours) from the moment a malicious email attack lands in an employees inbox, to when it is discovered by a security team or reported by end users and remediated, says new insight from Barracuda Networks. Researchers analyzed threat patterns and response practices across 3500 organizations, analyzing what happens after a malicious email bypasses an organizations security measures and lands in a users inbox. They found that an average organization with 1100 users will experience around 15 email security incidents per month, and on average, 10 employees will be impacted by each phishing attack that manages to get through. 3% of employees will click on a malicious email link Most worryingly, it was observed that 3 percent of employees will click on a link in a malicious email, exposing the entire organization to attackers. Whilst this figure sounds small, experts reminded businesses that an average organization of 1100 users will have around five users that will click on a link within a malicious email every month, and it only takes one click or reply for an attack to be successful. Considering it only takes an average of 16 minutes for users to click on a malicious link, so improved investigation and remediation is key, the Threat Spotlight concluded. Interestingly, two-thirds of the malicious emails which had landed in employees primary inbox were discovered through internal threat hunting investigations launched by the IT team. These investigations can be initiated in a variety of ways. Common practices include searching through message logs or running keyword or sender searches of already delivered mail. Another 24 percent of incidents were created from user-reported emails, 8.1 percent were discovered using community-sourced threat intelligence, and the remaining 0.4 percent through other sources such as automated or previously remediated incidents. Michael Flouton, VP Product, Barracuda Networks comments: There is no such thing as cybersecurity software which is 100 percent effective against inbound email attacks, and organizations must prioritize security awareness training sessions for its employees our research even revealed that organizations that train their users will see a 73 percent improvement in the accuracy of user-reported email after only two training campaigns. Organizations should also consider automating incident response systems, adopt threat hunting tools, and share and receive threat intelligence from other companies, all for the purpose of significantly improving incident response times to post-delivery email threats, and catching these malicious attacks before they develop into something more severe. | https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/06/04/malicious-email-inbox/ |
Can Norwich fans hope for VAR improvements? | Published: 6:00 AM June 4, 2021 A Canaries fan made their feelings perfectly clear at the end of a home draw with Crystal Place during January 2020 - Credit: Paul Chesterton/Focus Images Ltd Theres no avoiding it. Followers of every Premier League club have their own tale of woe by now. For Canaries fans it's the debatable offside decision that denied Teemu Pukki against Tottenham which will forever hold a painful memory. GOAL A brilliant bit of control from Teemu Pukki and the Finn thinks he's doubled Norwich's advantage but VAR intervenes and it's ruled out for offside. Watch on Sky Sports Premier League Follow #NORTOT here: https://t.co/pm8QqbkSkK Download the @SkySports app! pic.twitter.com/suOUcEngss Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) December 28, 2019 Mario Vrancics beautiful pass was converted by Citys star striker in December 2019, to put Daniel Farkes team 2-0 ahead at Carrow Road before half-time, and on course for a deserved and rejuvenating win rather than the 2-2 draw which eventually concluded. Frustrations about ridiculously tight offside calls and marginal infractions have continued throughout the top-flight season, while the Canaries have been enjoying football as it used to be during their Championship title triumph without having to worry about whether it was safe to celebrate scoring. The lack of spectators has taken the heat out of the situation to a certain degree, ensuring that VAR becomes a television spectacle whether supporters like it or not. If anyone wants a picture from a clearer and more obvious angle. Thanks as always to @RobotCanary for the design pic.twitter.com/FI4U3NDB3s Jon Punt (@puntino) December 28, 2019 Lets not forget that Norwich fans were among those to make their voices heard on this matter. The chant of its not football anymore echoed around an angry Carrow Road after that disallowed Pukki goal against Spurs, with supporters in the lower Barclay unfurling a banner which stated VAR - clearly and obviously not working. Decision: get in the bin. However, there may be a glimmer of hope to cling to ahead of Citys return to the hype and drama of the most-watched football league on the planet. The Football Supporters Association (FSA) ran a major fan consultation on VAR online earlier this year and posted its results on Wednesday. Of over 33,000 participants, just 26 per cent said they supported the video assistant referee system. An overwhelming 95pc of those who had experienced VAR in a stadium, as well as 94pc of those who had watched matches on TV, said that VAR had made watching football less enjoyable. The results have been shared with Premier League chiefs that are working on a similar consultation of players and managers to try and make improvements of the technology from next season. FSA vice-chair Tom Greatrex said: There is a clear feeling among fans that VAR has ruined the spontaneity of goal celebrations, and taken away a big part of our most enjoyable matchday moments. With four in 10 fans saying that VAR is likely to lead them to attend fewer matches in the future we hope that the Premier League and referees body PGMOL will hear the fans voice and take urgent steps to improve a system that isnt delivering clear and understandable decisions in stadiums. Norwich and Sheffield United players await a VAR decision at Carrow Road Road in December 2019 - Credit: Paul Chesterton/Focus Images Ltd While refereeing organisation the PGMOL which coordinates VAR and its operation from Stockley Park in west London has highlighted reduced decision times and the use of pitchside screens when appropriate, the survey found that just 13pc of fans believed that overall accuracy of decisions had improved. Only 4pc of fans think VAR has had a positive impact on the team they support. FSA National Council member, who is part of the organisations VAR working group, Steve Moulds said: One of the main concerns raised by supporters is that VAR decisions are taking too long, and even then they arent always clearly communicated to those fans in the stadium when they are made. Ben Godfrey was sent off after a VAR check during CIty's win over Bournemouth in January 2020 - Credit: Paul Chesterton/Focus Images Ltd Despite being part of our game for several years, there is still great confusion over exactly how VAR operates, and that is having a detrimental impact on the enjoyment of match-going fans, as well as those watching on TV. Wed like to see much better communication and explanation from officials on VAR decisions, which will go some way to improving supporter confidence in the system. With the return of fans to stadiums set to step up in August as the UK continues to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic, those anti-VAR chants are likely to return swiftly, unless significant progress can be made with a system which has become far too conspicuous. You can read the full results of the consultation at thefsa.org.uk. | https://www.pinkun.com/sport/norwich-city/can-city-fans-hope-for-var-improvements-8026198 |
Did Prashanth Neel sign one more Telugu Biggie? | With one film named KGF, Kannada director Prashanth Neel is in the big game. He joined the list of top directors and signed films with Prabhas, NTR. He is also holding talks with Mahesh Babu, Allu Arjun and others. Marking his birthday, wishes poured in from all the production houses from which Prashanth Neel signed projects. Top production house DVV Entertainment, the producers of RRR came out with a surprise. A Birthday poster has been out that reads Wishing our Spectacular Director @Prashanth_Neel garu a very Happy Birthday. Looking forward to witness more blockbusters from you. This makes it clear that Prashanth Neel has a commitment for the top production house but the lead actor is yet to be finalized for now. Prashanth Neel is busy with the post-production work of KGF: Chapter 2 that will release this year. He is all set to resume the shoot of Salaar featuring Prabhas in the lead role. The film releases in summer next year. Soon after this, Prashanth Neel will direct NTR and the project will be produced by Mythri Movie Makers and NTR Arts. Wishing our Spectacular Director @Prashanth_Neel garu a very Happy Birthday. Looking forward to witness more blockbusters from you. #HBDPrashanthNeel pic.twitter.com/o9TXEtjizK DVV Entertainment (@DVVMovies) June 4, 2021 | https://www.telugu360.com/did-prashanth-neel-sign-one-more-telugu-biggie/ |
Can a Cristiano Ronaldo Return to Manchester United Help Them End Their Trophy Drought? | Christiano Ronaldo is arguably the greatest player in football history and it was at Manchester United, where he first burst onto the scene. In fact, it was at Old Trafford, where he graduated from an inexperienced forward to the world's best footballer after spending six years with Sir Alex Ferguson, Utd's legendary manager. During his six-year stint with the Red Devils from 2003-2009, Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo's contribution to the club was immense. He was the most expensive teenager in English football history when Manchester United signed him for over $15 million in 2003 and he never fell short of his price tag, as far as performance on the pitch was concerned. Ronaldo powered Manchester United to three Premier League titles, an FA Cup, a FIFA Club World Cup, a Community Shield, two League Cups, and a Champions League title during his stay at Old Trafford. CR7 also won his maiden FIFA World Player of the Year award in 2009, when he was still playing for Manchester United. He eventually moved to Real Madrid the same year, where he spent a considerable part of his career before signing to play for Juventus three years ago. His switch to Juventus hasn't produced the desired results as the Italian side had signed him to deliver the coveted Champions League title, a trophy the Serie A giants haven't won since 1996. The surprising part is that Ronaldo hasn't failed as a player, because he has scored more than 100 goals for the Turin-based side in the last three years. But somehow the club's performances in the Champions League have been extremely disappointing. Juventus has been ousted in the round of 16 by Ajax, Lyon, and Porto respectively in the previous three years. With the club struggling in the Champions League, Ronaldo is feeling discontented with his life in Turin and there is immense speculation about his immediate future at Juventus. Multiple reports have emerged, suggesting he is planning to move back to Man Utd. Since Sir Alex Ferguson left in 2013, the Red Devils have failed to regroup as a team and have failed to win a Premier League or the Champions League crown in the last eight years. Although they have made a considerable amount of progress under Norwegian manager and former Man U player Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, United still doesn't look like a side that can win silverware in the near future unless an inspirational figure like Ronaldo joins the side. The Red Devils had a great chance to win a trophy against Villarreal in the Europa League final, but they lost 11-10 in a dramatic penalty shootout. The one big problem that United has faced since Sir Alex's departure is their failure to deliver in crunch situations and it was the case against Villarreal as well. Someone like Ronaldo, who has won almost everything that is there to be won on a football field, can certainly help them in this department. That is why Ronaldo possibly returning to Old Trafford could prove to be a watershed moment in the club's history. Speaking to Sputnik, former India international, Syed Rahim Nabi, agreed that Ronaldo's presence would inspire other Man Utd players to push themselves to the limit. "Ronaldo's return to Manchester United will be like a son returning to his mother and when a player like CR7 comes back, other players automatically get charged up", he said. "With Ronaldo in the team, United is almost certain to do exceedingly well, both in the EPL and European competitions, because he is a player who delivers for his side. United's trophy drought will surely come to an end because with Edinson Cavani, Ronaldo will form one of the most lethal combinations up front, which would be enough to dismantle even the best of defences in the world", Nabi added. The truth is Solskjaer's side hasn't been able to provide enough support for Cavani at the front line. Whatever little support the Uruguayan has received in the past few years is from Marcus Rashford and to a certain extent from Mason Greenwood. However, both Rashford and Greenwood are not in the same class as Ronaldo. CR7 is indeed in a league of his own. Just the sight of Ronaldo together with Cavani will make a huge dent in the confidence of other Premier League clubs. Moreover, Ronaldo can play at any position - as a right-winger, centre-forward or a left-winger, giving Solskjaer enough room to balance his side regardless of the strengths of the opposition. If that wasn't enough, then, Ronaldo can definitely be an example of professionalism for the team and act as a mentor for the club's young, inexperienced players. Former international footballer Abdul Khalique, who played for Mohun Bagan, East Bengal, and Mohammedan Sporting, believes that Ronaldo returning to Old Trafford could benefit both the club and CR7. "Ronaldo's return to United may very well prolong his career as he can take the Club to new heights even at the age of 36. His experience, and hunger to win is unparalleled in football history and his arrival at Old Trafford augurs well for the team's future". Despite all the positives regarding his potential return to the Red Devils, it won't be an easy decision to make for Solskjaer, considering Ronaldo has already turned 36 and having him in the squad could hamper his long-term plans for the club. But Ronaldo is still one of the best players in the world and the charm of having him back at United is simply too good to resist. | https://sputniknews.com/sport/202106041083063787-can-a-cristiano-ronaldo-return-to-manchester-united-help-them-end-their-trophy-drought/ |
Where Did the Soul Go? | by Rayna Mathis Seattles Central District (CD) has gone through drastic changes over the last 20 years. Many communities have called this historic neighborhood home: Jewish people, Japanese Americans, and African Americans. Long-time residents and displaced families whose histories go back generations will lament this sentiment. If youve been to the CD in the last month, you might have noticed an important piece of 23rd and Yesler missing the Soul Pole. In the summer of 1969, as part of President Johnsons Model Cities Program (which ended in 1974), the Soul Pole was carved in a month by five teen artists, aged 1416: Brenda Davis, Larry Gordon, Gregory Jackson, Cindy Jones, and Gaylord Young and was led by Seattle Rotary Boys Club Art Director, Gregory X. The sculpture honors 400 years of African American history by using four figures to represent significant moments of the Black mans experience from primitive, to slavery, to liberation. A 1969 Seattle Times article from the Seattle Public Librarys archives about the creation of the sculpture shared this interpretation of the Soul Pole: The lack of bodies and arms show that the black man was not truly a man, when he was not allowed to act on his own. The last figure, done by Gregory X, is not bound by the chain. A complete figure with body, arms and feet, it represents the free black who knows himself as a man. It is where I hope were at today, said Gregory X. The plaque at the base of the Soul Pole, which is still there (photo courtesy of Seattle Public Library). The 21-foot sculpture was gifted to the Seattle Public Library (SPL) in 1972 by the club and installed in 1973 at the Henry L. Yesler Memorial Library aka the Yesler Branch as it was known before its renaming in 1975 to the Douglass-Truth Branch, after Black abolitionists Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth. Since then, it has braved the dramatic elements of the Pacific Northwest and provided shelter to little critters for almost five decades. As time passed, it became clear the Soul Pole was carrying more than a heavy history on its shoulders. Due to age and exposure, the wear had become apparent and it was time to face the reality that the Soul Pole in its current state was becoming a safety concern. On the morning of April 26, 2021, Artech Fine Art Services, an organization of established professionals, highly skilled in art restoration and preservation, and with a particular expertise working with public art made of wood, carefully deinstalled the sculpture then wrapped, loaded, and transported it to an art storage facility. After a thorough fumigation process (to eliminate any insect activity) it is drying out in a controlled space where it can be properly and extensively evaluated for possible restoration. Deinstallation of the Soul Pole (photo courtesy of Seattle Public Library). For nearly 50 years, the Soul Pole stood rooted on that corner in the Central District. And just like that, in a few hours, it was gone. Many people with personal relationships and fond memories of the Soul Pole are waiting with bated breath on the outcome of this evaluation. Interim Director of Library Programs and Services Andrew Harbison informed the public in a press release about the Soul Poles removal and restoration that Once we have more information about the potential for restoring the Soul Pole, we can develop a plan. He went on to say, The Library knows how important the Soul Pole is to the history and culture of the Central District and the greater Seattle community. In the Soul Poles absence, visitors can still view the plaque with the artists names where the brick foundation will remain. To follow the Soul Poles journey, SPL will be posting updates on the project at www.spl.org/SoulPole. Photo courtesy of SPL. The ownership and shared sense of responsibility over what happens next that is felt by the community is evident. As soon as the Soul Pole was disturbed, many community members noticed and responded. One passerby saw the deinstallation in progress and was concerned it was coming down for good but after talking to the staff at Douglass-Truth realized the importance of this process. In their conversation, it was discovered this person may also be able to find information on the current whereabouts of one of the original artists, who attended Garfield High School. This potential lead is exciting news for the Library as they have been on a mission to track down the original artists for their archival records. They know some of the teen artists attended Garfield, such as Gaylord Young, who was the president of the Black Student Union. Unfortunately, Young died in 2007, and few details are known about the remaining artists current locations or lives. In another account, the historian of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (AKA) heard of the Soul Poles deinstallation and reached out immediately to Stephanie Johnson-Toliver, president of the Black Heritage Society of Washington State (BHS) since 2018, to investigate. Johnson-Toliver connected with Marcellus Turner, then SPLs executive director and chief librarian, to voice their concerns. After reassurances and a better understanding of the projects scope, Johnson-Toliver gave support to the project and has since been aiding SPL in community outreach. Johnson-Tolivers connection is especially personal. She is also a lifelong resident of the CD, raising her sons as frequent visitors of Douglass-Truth, and whose familys local history traces back to the early 1900s. Steve DelVecchio, SPLs Regional Manager, believes her close eyes on the project, as well as those of other notable organizations such as AKA and the Northwest African American Museum, have, in some ways, validated the efforts of the project. Johnson-Toliver also connected with and sought support from Omari Salisbury, co-founder of Converge Media, a news outlet specifically for the Northwests Black community. Salisbury grew up in the Central District too. He recalls spending hours at Douglass-Truth, as there werent many safe spaces for young folks to go. Their high regard for one another, developed by working together on several ventures, adds another layer of credibility to the Soul Pole restoration project. While other regional organizations ignored the regions Black history, Salisbury acknowledges, Their [Black Heritage Societys] archives are not appreciated by contemporary viewership, despite it bringing real meaning to our contemporary culture. They have been waiting so long to share this wisdom with Black people who are in the everyday. If it wasnt for the BHS, our history would be so incomplete, so scattered. She [Johnson-Toliver] is this moral compass that comes into play now more and more. There have been some challenges along the way. For example, the Seattle Rotary Boys Club was transferred to Boys Clubs of Seattle and King County and all records about the Soul Pole were lost, hence the call to the community to locate the artists. Concerns about the uncertainty of the Soul Poles future have also been large hurdles to face. Despite this, SPL has continued to stay intentional and committed in their efforts to keep community input at the forefront of this journey, which has proven to be a fruitful and rewarding endeavor. SPL has long aimed to have its neighborhood branches reflect and respond to the needs of its communities and witnessed wide demographic changes in the communities it serves. In recent years, they have further prioritized designing programs and services not just to meet community needs, but to involve them from the beginning. Some elements of this approach included providing better accessibility to the Librarys archives and African American collection, varying program times and services, having a dedicated special collections staff who maintain documentation of Seattles history in the Pacific Northwest, convening community listening sessions and conversations, as well as involving stakeholders as co-creators of programs, with the goal of creating a sense of ownership where the community feels their feedback is heard and implemented. Multiple community members have expressed how carefully they are watching everything unfold and their intentions to keep the Library accountable, while also offering their unwavering support. In a statement supporting SPL, Johnson-Toliver, emphasized the importance of this historic artwork. At the Black Heritage Society of Washington State, we deeply appreciate the preservation efforts by SPL to assess the condition of the Soul Pole that depicts 400 years of African American history. Currently more than ever, the Soul Pole represents a beacon of pride that anchors the history of Black people to Seattles Central District. As assets are razed and vanishing from the Central District, with some recognized as historic footprints, it is our combined responsibility to act as good stewards of the art and culture that define our community. When SPL does what it takes to assess and preserve the Soul Pole, it signals a proactive commitment to solidify and honor the significance of the past to acknowledge the future of more than a pole. Likewise, SPL leadership states they also believe the only way to move forward is by honoring the past. While the sculpture is being assessed, the Library encourages the public to continue to engage with the Douglass-Truth Branch as it remains a vital space for community dialogue. In addition to being the site of the historic Soul Pole, Douglass-Truth self-manages and maintains one of the largest collections of African American literature and history on the West Coast. In 1965 the Library, with the help of the local chapter of AKA, founded at the branch the African-American Collection, previously known as the Negro Life and History Collection. There are over 10,000 items of African American literature and history maintained by SPL, including a budding digitized section known as the Black Culture and History Collection. Additionally, SPL is still searching for the original artists to learn their stories and more formally recognize their efforts. If you are one of the original artists or have information about them, SPL asks that you contact Andrew Harbison at [email protected]. The Soul Pole has stood as a symbol of Black resilience, history, artistry, and community efforts for generations. While the buildings and the people around it changed, the Soul Pole stood still, ever watchful and never changing. Soul can be found in more than a single object. It is in the community members who speak up when the neighborhood continues to forcefully change. Its in the people who see the importance of this sculpture, the art and history of Seattle, and who strive to meet the needs of the community. And there is no question, that spirit runs deeper than the violence of gentrification and displacement could ever reach. So long as that drive remains, there will always be soul in the CD. Rayna Mathis (she/her) is a graduate of the University of Washington with a B.A. in history. Her work at the SAM as a museum educator, seeks to amplify the work and voices of teen artists and activists. In her spare time, Rayna can be found tending to her Little Library in Beacon Hill, outside of The Station coffee shop. Featured Image: Close up of sculpture the Soul Pole in Seattles Central District, before its removal in 2021 for restoration (image courtesy of SPL). Before you move on to the next story Please consider that the article you just read was made possible by the generous financial support of donors and sponsors. The Emerald is a BIPOC-led nonprofit news outlet with the mission of offering a wider lens of our regions most diverse, least affluent, and woefully under-reported communities. Please consider making a one-time gift or, better yet, joining our Rainmaker Family by becoming a monthly donor. Your support will help provide fair pay for our journalists and enable them to continue writing the important stories that offer relevant news, information, and analysis. Support the Emerald! | https://southseattleemerald.com/2021/06/03/where-did-the-soul-go/ |
When Does The Conjuring 3 Drop on HBO Max? | Theres a strong case to be made that Warner Bros. and New Lines Conjuring franchise is the most consistently successful and under-appreciated in mainstream Hollywood this side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Its not just that five of The Conjuring Universes eight pictures are certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, though that certainly helps. Its also that the film series continues to print money at the box office. With manageable budgets ranging from just $6.5 million to $40 million, The Conjurings seven released films have grossed more than $1.9 billion combined at the global box office. Audiences love themselves some horror (as evidenced by A Quiet Place Part IIs impressive opening weekend) as the film series averages nearly $100 million domestic and nearly $240 million in global ticket sales per picture, according to The Numbers. The consistent profitability is impressive in an era when the majority of films released, particularly small- to mid-budget films, fail to generate much interest at the box office. On Friday, June 4, the newest installment in the seriesThe Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do Itwill arrive in both theaters and on HBO Max. For any of you out there who are either unable or uncomfortable returning to movie theaters, the film will be made available domestically for 31 days on HBO Max beginning 12:00am PT / 3:00am ET on the day of its theatrical release. To watch the new blockbuster, you must have an HBO Max subscription, whichll run you $14.99 per month if you are not eligible to convert an existing HBO subscription at no extra charge. Unfortunately, HBO Maxs newly launched ad-supported tier, which costs $9.99 per month, does not feature Warner Bros. day-and-date film releases. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It reveals a chilling story of terror, murder and unknown evil that shocked even experienced real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. One of the most sensational cases from their files, it starts with a fight for the soul of a young boy, then takes them beyond anything theyd ever seen before, to mark the first time in U.S. history that a murder suspect would claim demonic possession as a defense. Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson return to star as Lorraine and Ed Warren, under the direction of Michael Chaves (The Curse of La Llorona). The film also stars Ruairi OConnor (Starz The Spanish Princess), Sarah Catherine Hook (Hulus Monsterland) and Julian Hilliard (Penny Dreadful: City of Angels and The Haunting of Hill House). James Wan (Aquaman) produces. | https://observer.com/2021/06/conjuring-devil-made-me-do-it-hbo-max-release-time-premiere-date-box-office/ |
Are UFOs encountered by Navy aliens or hypersonic technology? | U.S. officials will say in a highly-anticipated report that they can't rule out the possibility that Navy pilots have encountered aliens, the New York Times reports. A highly-anticipated government report is reportedly expected to say there is no evidence that aerial phenomena encountered by U.S. Navy pilots in recent years are extraterrestrials. But it also cannot rule out the possibility that they are alien spacecraft. The New York Times reported the expected findings, citing senior administration officials who were briefed. An unclassified version of the report is expected to be presented to Congress by June 25. American intelligence officials reportedly have determined that nearly all of the incidents over the past two years -- more than 120 -- did not come from the U.S. military or any other advanced U.S. technology. But, as the Times reports, that's expected to be the only conclusive finding. Because of that, the officials reportedly said they could not rule out the possibility that the phenomena did not originate on our planet. The Times reports that one of the briefed officials said there was concern in the intelligence and military communities that China or Russia may be experimenting with hypersonic technology. Two things make hypersonic weapons special are speed and maneuverability. Speed brings surprise, and maneuverability creates elusiveness. Together, those qualities could mean trouble for missile defenses. By generally agreed definition, a hypersonic weapon is one that flies at speeds in excess of Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound. Most American missiles, such as those launched from aircraft to hit other aircraft or ground targets, travel between Mach 1 and Mach 5. Former President Donald Trump referred to them in May 2020 as a "super-duper missile." | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/nation-world/ufo-navy-sightings-aliens-not-conclusive/507-9b321080-88bd-4c44-a59c-b2518a9cf68e |
Did Someone Hand Out KKK Flyers in Central Sioux Falls? | You wanna believe something like this is incapable of happening in a city like Sioux Falls, but as the city grows, so do its racial problems. Sioux Falls police are currently investigating the possibility that someone handed out over a dozen Ku Klux Klan flyers in a neighborhood located in the central part of the city. Dakota News Now is reporting the potential hate crime was committed sometime before 7 AM on Sunday (May 30) near South 3rd Avenue and East 18th Street, about three blocks north of McKennan Park. The report states that residents in that neighborhood received between 15 to 20 flyers on their porches and in their yards. Officer Sam Clemens with the Sioux Falls Police Department told Dakota News Now the pamphlets contained information on how to join the KKK. Authorities were able to obtain security footage from the neighborhood that they hope will aid them during their investigation. The primary objective of the investigation at this time is to try and find out if any state laws were violated. Police hope to garner enough information to determine if this act is considered a hate crime according to state law. According to Dakota News Now, two similar types of incidents happened back in 2018 in Sioux Falls. The first occurred In August of that year. Several KKK pamphlets were distributed in a number of neighborhoods around the Sioux Empire. The second incident happened in November around election time. KKK flyers were found outside of a polling place at Longfellow Elementary. Source: Dakota News Now | https://ksoo.com/did-someone-hand-out-kkk-flyers-in-central-sioux-falls/ |
How Did Manoj Bajpayee from 'The Family Man' Land Up Interviews with Top Indian Startup CEOs? | Job hunting has always been an intimidating task. Updating your resume to perfection, lining up applications as well as preparing for interviews if you get lucky, there are a lot of things we need to keep up with along with worrying about getting a job. Srikant, however, seems to be one of the few lucky ones for whom, getting job interviews with the top CEOs of the country is like a walk in the park. We are not talking about any ordinary man named Srikant, but Srikant from Amazon Prime Videos The Family Man, who decided in the latest season of the hit show that it was time to move on from TASC and enter the corporate world. Once Amazon Prime Video put out a tweet asking people to help Srikant with his job hunting, fans of the show sprang up in action and it even landed the former TASC member get interviews with heads of some of the top startups in India. In a series of promotional videos that led to the release of The Family Man season 2 that released today, Amazon Prime Video showed the shows protagonist Srikant, played by Manoj Bajpayee, attending interviews with leaders of a few of the most successful Indian startups. In his interview with NearBuy co-founder Ankur Warikoo, Srikant was told that HR would conduct a background check of his previous job, which as we know from the previous season would not go down well. In the interview with Xiaomi Vice President Manu Kumar Jain, Srikant was told to submit a case study of his work, while the interview with Dunzo CEO Kabeer Biswas ended up in a confusion regarding whether he will work in Lonavla or Lokhandwala. Srikant also attended an interview with OYO CEO Ritesh Aggarwal where they discussed their looks and yoga. Read all the Latest News, Breaking News and Coronavirus News here | https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/how-did-manoj-bajpayee-from-the-family-man-land-up-interviews-with-top-indian-startup-ceos-3809084.html |
Has anyone on Love Island ever kept the 50K? | (Picture: REX/Getty) Romanticism aside, love and finances have always gone hand-in-hand, with marriages of yesteryear set up by families to secure their childrens futures. Fast-forward a few (hundred) years, swap out bonnets and ballgowns for bikinis and bevs and youll still find the question of love and money playing out on the hit reality show Love Island. Love Island has transformed love languages think melts instead of Mr Darcy, the sauce instead of society and so on but each year, the question of whether its real love or was it all about the prize money gets asked. When the wining couple is announced both members of the couple are given an envelope; one containing the 50,000 prize money and one which was empty, and it was up to the person who received the money to decide whether to split it with their partner or take the cash and run for the hills. So far, love prevails. Every year, the winning couples have decided to split the cash and use it to help their relationship start off on a high note once they leave the island. Paige chose love and so far, its worked out. (Picture: ITV/Shutterstock) Paige Turley and Finley Tapp were crowned winners in 2020 and Paige was given the responsibility of choosing love or love of money. She chose to split and it turned out to be the right decision (so far) as the couple remain happily shacked up, eyeing a big wedding day in the future. Cynics be damned all the couples chose to believe in true love. (Picture: REX/Getty) Theyre not the only ones though/ In 2015, winners Max Morley and Jess Hayes had to choose if they were in their couple for Love or Money. They both chose Love and got to split the 50,000 prize. In 2016, Cara De La Hoyde and Nathan Massey were given the gold envelopes in the final. Cara chose to share the money with Nathan after picking the envelope with the money inside The following year Amber Davies and Kem Cetinay had the choice, with the power in Kems hands after he chose the envelope containing the money. He also decided to split it with Amber. Well have to wait and see if love wins again when Love Island returns later this month with the show being tipped to return to screens on Monday June 28. MORE : Love Island 2021 first look as Laura Whitmore returns in new teaser trailer Follow Metro across our social channels, on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Share your views in the comments below. | https://metro.co.uk/2021/06/04/has-anyone-on-love-island-ever-kept-the-50k-prize-money-14681208/ |
Why is Veracruz Mexico's Most Dangerous State for Political Murders? | Running for office in Mexico means risking one's life. Days away from local elections on June 6, at least 89 political candidates had been killed during the current campaign. The 2021 election cycle has been the most dangerous in recent years, with 782 acts of violence against incumbents and challengers alike, edging out the 774 violent acts recorded in 2018, according to a regularly updated report on political violence in Mexico by risk analysis group, Etellekt. The eastern state of Veracruz has been at the center of attacks on politicians. Since September, it has seen 117 acts of violence, including 16 politicians murdered, about one-fifth of the total killings nationwide, despite only being the country's eighth-most violent state in terms of overall homicides. Oaxaca had the second-highest number of attacks at 68, just over half the amount in Veracruz. In this article, InSight Crime breaks down why Veracruz has been particularly vulnerable to attempts to intimidate or kill politicians, whether by organized crime or by other interests. The Invisible Hand of the CJNG On May 16, the body of Jos Alfredo Gaspar Gutirrez was found in a garbage dump. He had been kidnapped three days earlier. He appeared to have been tortured. Gutirrez had been campaigning to become mayor of Misantla, a town of around 30,000 people in central Veracruz. The town is also a strategic location for drug trafficking and production, just a short drive from the state capital Xalapa, and close to highways heading north towards Tampico and the US border. The town is controlled by the Jalisco Cartel New Generation (Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacin CJNG), which has a production facility there for manufacturing methamphetamine, according to an investigation by Televisa. From there, the drugs are sent either to the Port of Veracruz to be sold abroad or to the United States. The CJNG appears to care deeply about keeping hold of Misantla. After three of its members were reportedly killed there by police in March 2019, the group organized blockades along the important Crdoba-Veracruz highway, burning trucks and opening fire on police, killing at least one. The town was hard-won. Misantla was formerly an important operational center for the Zetas, before the group was violently ousted from Veracruz by the CJNG. SEE ALSO: Smaller Mexico Cities Now Most Violent in the World While nobody has claimed responsibility for the murder of Gutirrez, a number of murders of politicians this year have taken place in towns the group controls. In March, mayoral candidate Jos Melquiades Vzquez Lucas was killed outside a municipal building in La Perla. The state governor blamed the murder on organized crime. The CJNG has a comfortable grip on La Perla, even distributing food parcels there during the COVID-19 pandemic. In February, former Cosoleacaque mayor Gladys Merln and her daughter, Carla Enrquez Merln, who was planning to run for office in the town, were shot dead at their home. Again, the area has been a regular operating base for the CJNG. And there is little fear of retribution. Much of the violence has involved surprise attacks by masked gunmen driving cars and motorcycles, who shoot the politicians in broad daylight. It is difficult to blame the CJNG alone for these actions. Veracruz has been a battleground state in recent years, with Mexico's most powerful cartel being challenged by the Zetas Vieja Escuela (Old School Zetas), a splinter group of the Zetas trying to reclaim their former territory. Central and southern Veracruz, where the CJNG and Zetas Vieja Escuela have been fighting for control, account for the overwhelming majority of political murders. InSight Crime found that, of the political candidates and incumbents killed in Veracruz since 2019, all were murdered in towns with either a direct recorded presence of the CJNG or close to areas they control. Better Cooperative than Dead Of course, as shown by the Etellekt report, most candidates are not killed but threatened. One candidate, Onn Hernndez Lpez, said he received messages telling him to get out of the race. In other municipalities, masked men have shot up candidates houses. Organized crime has had a decisive influence on the electoral process through violence and threats, to the extent that many candidates have stopped campaigning or dropped out, the Democratic Revolution Party (Partido de la Revolucin Democrtica PRD) said in a May statement. And for those that do stay in the race, there are clear benefits to cooperating with criminal groups instead of opposing them. Authorities have long warned about the political influence the CJNG and other criminal groups wield in Veracruz. "Today, the large part [of Veracruz] is under the control of the CJNG. ... They have all the police commanders at their disposal and obviously, this structure is going to finance candidates," said crime researcher Ricardo Ravelo in an interview with Mexican media last April. While not naming any specific officials, human rights groups and journalists have pointed to the local governments in Coatzacoalcos, Papantla, Poza Rica, Las Choapas, Tezonapa and Crdoba as having ties to the CJNG and groups linked to the Zetas. State governor Cuitlhuac Garca said steps are being taken to improve security, including the beefing up of surveillance in jurisdictions holding elections. But there are 212 mayoral seats up for grabs in Veracruz this midterm, in addition to 50 deputies, and it is proving nearly impossible to protect everyone. Indeed, less than a week after Garca Jimnez spoke out about the violence, masked men in Chalma ambushed mayoral candidate Fernando Argelles, beating him so badly that he and his driver had to be sent to the hospital. All Roads Lead to Veracruz When Mexican criminal groups target political candidates, they are usually trying to bully them into working together or, if that fails, remove them from the race. Although this is happening to some extent in every state across the country, Veracruz is particularly conducive to it for a few different reasons. First, the state is an especially attractive place geographically to set up a criminal operation. It touches seven other states, connecting southern Mexico with Tamaulipas, the final stopping point before drugs, contraband and migrants enter the United States. And its seaports bring in international shipments of legal goods, as well as precursor chemicals for synthetic drug production. Second, criminal groups and politicians often make backdoor agreements in order to operate. The problem dates back to at least the early 2000s, when then-Governor Fidel Herreras administration allowed a criminal group that would eventually become the Zetas to enter the state if it agreed to contribute to certain candidates' campaigns. His successor, Javier Duarte, helped strike further deals with the Zetas and obstructed numerous investigations into homicides and kidnappings. Duarte, who would go onto become a notorious fugitive, oversaw a systematic teardown of Veracruz's government, turning it into a criminal operation that embezzled millions of dollars. Subsequent governors have tried to get a handle on corruption, even creating a "Truth Commission" to document the crimes committed during the Herrera and Duarte eras, while also increasing accountability for future governments. But it has failed to root out the problem at the local level, which continues to see municipal police and other officials working closely with criminal groups. That might explain why most of the political violence has involved municipal candidates. Criminal groups need to make sure that the person who wins office will be willing to uphold the status quo. Third, years of corruption have helped fuel political fragmentation, making it easier for criminal groups to prey on weak governments, and for governments to solicit the help of criminal groups. Veracruz was long a stronghold for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional PRI). But since Duartes ouster in 2016, the state governors office has cycled from PRI to the National Action Party (Partido Accin Nacional PAN) to Morena. The parties have become increasingly unwilling to work across the aisle, which means different parts of the government have become fragmented and arent always coordinating their efforts against organized crime. In 2016, even though the state was suffering from a budget crisis partly caused by Duartes embezzlement, the federal government declined to provide it a bailout, saying that the state was responsible for its own financial situation. A lot of that money could have replaced the millions of dollars that Duarte stole from municipal governments that criminal groups are trying to intimidate today. Worse, this political in-fighting is likely leading to more attacks on candidates. Too Easy to Always Blame Narcos However, while the analysis of political murders in Veracruz points to the strong involvement of the CJNG, that does not tell the whole story. Of the 16 murders in Veracruz registered by Etellekt, 11 were from opposition parties to the state government. Eight were challengers, not incumbents, and did not hold any political office when they were killed. In a new project launched in June 2021, entitled "Elections & Violence in Mexico," Noria Research seeks to better understand the motives behind political violence. The project introduction states that most studies explain electoral and political violence only "through a criminal incentive model," leaving aside "the active or passive participation, protection, collaboration or patronage from politicians, ... armed forces, as well as from other private or public actors." It is difficult to pinpoint which Veracruz murders were committed exclusively by criminal groups or which may have had the involvement of local officials. But some of those killed had deep family connections with Veracruz politics, spanning over different decades, administrations and political parties. Numerous theories have emerged concerning the murders last February of Gladys Merln Castro, former mayor of Cosoleacaque, and her daughter, Carla Enrquez Merln, who was considering entering the local mayoral race. The Merln Alor family had held power and influence over Cosoleacaque in southern Veracruz for decades, holding key political positions, running the local ranchers' union and owning key businesses. Heliodoro Merln Alor, the father and grandfather of the two victims, was described as a cacique (chieftain) who ran a group known as La Banda de los Merln" (The Merln Gang). The family has withstood a series of attempted murders and kidnappings in the past. Historically, "the main actors in electoral violence were the professionals, the street-fighters, policemen [above all the municipal ones], union thugs, pistoleros [gunmen] and soldiers. Their role was to guarantee the victory of the favored candidate," wrote Paul Gillingham in a recent Noria Research summary of political violence in Mexico. | https://insightcrime.org/news/veracruz-mexico-most-dangerous-state-political-murders/ |
How is Krishna related to the Pandavas? | Krishna and the Pandavas are first cousins. Kunti, the mother of the Pandavas, is the paternal aunt of Krishna. Which is to say, Kunti is the sister of Krishnas father, Vasudeva. Here is how the relationship works. Even though Kunti was raised by Kuntibhoja, she is in fact the biological daughter of a king called Shursena who gives her off to his friend to raise since he has no children of his own. By virtue of being the daughter of Kuntibhoja, Pritha comes to be known as Kunti. Kuntibhoja doesnt just raise her has his own, he carries out all the duties that a biological father would, including arranging her swayamvara where she marries Pandu. Best place to visit in rishikesh for inner peace of mind and soul Now, Shursena, Kuntis biological father, has 15 children in all. One of them is Vasudeva. This means Vasudeva and Kunti are siblings. Vasudeva grows up to marry Devaki, who is the sister of the mighty Kamsa, the king of Mathura. Kamsa is very fond of his baby sister and after her wedding, offers to drive the newlywed to their new home. It is here that a divine prophecy announces that the eighth son of his beloved sister would be his assassin. Kamsa immediately imprisons the two and proceeds to kill all their children, without realising that Vasudeva had already managed to hide away his eighth son, Krishna in a village with a local tribal leader, Nanda and his wife, Yashidha. Balarama, Vasudevas other son is born of Rohini, the second wife of Vasudeva. It is believed that the embryo transferred from the womb of Devaki to that of Rohini. Technically, Balarama and Krishna are step-brothers and Balarama is older to Krishna by a few years. As we know, Yashodha and Nanda raise Krishna as their own. After killing Kamsa, he is reunited with his biological parents and eventually rules Dwarka with Balarama. Kunti gets married to Pandu and, using her boon, begets him three sons herself Yudhishthira, Bhima, and Arjuna and two more from his other wife, Madri Nakula and Sahadeva. Following the death of Pandu and the sati of Madri, Kunti returns to Hastinapur Pandu had retired to the forest following a curse that prevented him from having sexual intercourse with the five sons and stakes claim to the throne through Yudhishthira. Story continues FOR MORE CONTENT FROM OUR MAHABHARATA SERIES, CLICK HERE The battle for the throne eventually leads to the Kurukshetra war in which her nephew, Krishna supports her sons, the Pandavas. Krishna even serves as Arjunas charioteer in the war. While Krishna and the Pandavas, especially Arjuna, become thick friends and Krishna becomes their ambassador and spokesperson in Hastinapur, their blood relationship hardly ever comes up throughout the entire epic. Arjuna eventually marries Krishnas sister (which is to say his cousin), Subhadra. As a result, Krishna and Arjuna also become brothers-in-law. It is a match that Balarama initially resents and even sends his soldiers to capture Arjuna. However following Krishnas intervention, he calls off the hunt and accepts Arjuna as his brother-in-law. Eventually, Balarama also trains Subhadra and Arjunas son Abhimanyu is the art of war. In some folk versions of the epic, Abhimanyu also ends up marrying Balaramas daughter Vatsala. FOR MORE CONTENT FROM OUR MAHABHARATA SERIES, CLICK HERE | https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/how-is-krishna-related-to-the-pandavas-060814781.html?src=rss |
Should Public Schools Ban Critical Race Theory? | A kindergarten classroom in North Carolina (Mint Images) If you want to understand how Critical Race Theory functions you cant do much better than watching this recently leaked clip of a teachers meeting in Portland, Oregon. Academics would say absolutely not. They will point out that CRT is, exactly as the name suggests, a theory one developed in the 1970s by legal scholars to expose the way racism was baked into the structures and systems of American life. But the reason that moms and dads across the country are discussing Critical Race Theory at their dinner tables is not because theyve all just discovered critical theorists like Derrick Bell. Its because that academic idea or worldview, really has captured schools across the country. Its because it is affecting what their children are taught about America and about themselves. If youre new here welcome! let me catch you up on a few flashpoints that will give you a sense of what I mean: An elementary school in Cupertino, California, instructed third graders to rank themselves based on their power and their privilege. The San Diego Unified School District told white teachers that they are guilty of spirit murdering black children. Californias Department of Education is proposing to eliminate opportunities for accelerated math in the name of equity. That means discouraging algebra for eighth graders and calculus for high schoolers. Most recently, the University of California system decided to scrap the SAT and the ACT on the argument that the tests themselves are biased against low-income applicants of color. Those are just a handful of examples from California, where Im currently living. I could pull similar headlines from other public school systems in other states. And this is to say nothing of the countrys private schools: The more elite the school, the more in thrall they are to this ideology, for reasons I explain in depth here. If you are reading this, I suspect you are disturbed by an ideology that segregates people by race; that insists on a racial hierarchy in which entire racial groups are monolithically good or bad; that does away with race-blind tests in the name of progress; and that insists that any inequality of outcome is evidence of systemic discrimination. Those are bad ideas at odds with our most foundational American values. On Friday, Andrew Sullivan published an essay arguing that CRT removes the bedrock of liberalism. I agree. Republican lawmakers across the country think theyve come up with the solution: banning Critical Race Theory from public schools. There are more than a dozen states with proposed legislation banning or restricting the teaching of this ideology. So far three of those bills in Arkansas, Idaho and Oklahoma have passed. In Texas, a bill limiting CRT has passed the House and is on its way to the Senate. In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis had repeatedly slammed CRT and said he would be willing to sign a law that prohibits it. Critical Race Theory is race essentialism, he said a few days ago. Thats not something appropriate for schools. The idea of banning ideas should make any American shudder. Heres what supporters of these bills will say. They push back and say that this has nothing to do with free speech because public education is not a free marketplace of ideas, but a government-run monopoly. Thats why the courts have consistently ruled that restrictions on curricular speech are not restrictions on free speech. Theyll also point out that these ideas, or at least their downstream effects, are themselves shudder-worthy. CRT suggests, for example, that basic values like objectivity and individualism are characteristics of white supremacy. If that sounds like hyperbole, consider that the KIPP charter school network got rid of its motto Work Hard, Be Nice because, as the school put it, the slogan diminishes the significant effort to dismantle systemic racism, places value on being compliant and submissive, supports the illusion of meritocracy, and does not align with our vision of students being free to create the future they want. At a conference a few weeks ago I asked former Indiana governor Mitch Daniels what he thought of the bills and he compared banning CRT to banning phrenology. Critics of these bills will point say that bad ideas need to be fought with better ideas, and that the way to defeat CRT is through rigorous inquiry and parental involvement, not through the blunt force of the administrative state. (Theyll note that such initiatives are being pushed by the party that is supposed to be allergic to government intervention.) Theyll also argue that because the language in many of these bills is so vague some limit the teaching of so-called divisive concepts they will inevitably lead to a chilly atmosphere for free inquiry and censoriousness around important subjects like race in America. For Exhibit A of the danger, consider the fact that Oklahoma City Community College just cancelled a summer class because of that states new law. I called up two people I admire to debate these questions: Christopher Rufo and David French. Chris has done more than any journalist in the country to shine a light on this ideology; he deserves credit for breaking many of the stories I mentioned above. Chris is an outspoken supporter of these bills, though he has small quibbles with some of them, which he explains in the conversation. David French is a lawyer, a former JAG officer, and an Iraq War veteran. He has been a champion of civil liberties for decades, including when he led the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). David is far more skeptical of these laws. Chris and David are both conservatives, but they represent the interesting and growing tension on the right between traditional conservatives like Chris, and civil libertarians, or conservative liberals, as people like David have sometimes been called. I hope you learn as much from this conversation as I did. Oh, and one note: since we recorded this conversation, the New Hampshire bill that we discuss at one point has been revised. You can read the new draft of the bill here. Relatedly, there are two headlines from higher ed that you shouldnt miss. Classics majors at Princeton will no longer be required to learn Greek or Latin. This change is being undertaken in order to combat systemic racism. | https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/should-public-schools-ban-critical |
What Happens When Doctors Can't Tell the Truth? | Several hundred health-care workers protest against police brutality on June 5, 2020, in St Louis. (Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images) I always thought that if you lived through a revolution it would be obvious to everyone. As it turns out, thats not true. Revolutions can be bloodless, incremental and subtle. And they dont require a strongman. They just require a sufficient number of well-positioned true believers and cowards, like those sitting in the C-suite of nearly every major institution in American life. Thats one of the lessons I have learned over the past few years as the institutions that have upheld the liberal order our publishing houses, our universities, our schools, our non-profits, our tech companies have embraced a Manichean ideology that divides people by identity and punishes anyone that doesnt adhere to every aspect of that orthodoxy. This is wrong when it happens at a company Apple or Cond Nast. But there are sectors where the stakes of the ideological takeover are higher. Like K-12 education. Readers of this newsletter know that Ive been particularly focused on it. In part, this is because the legacy press is ignoring or lying about the story. In part its because the stakes feel so high. But if any area is more urgent, it is the world of medicine, where the ability to speak truthfully is quite literally a matter of life and death. Without being able to discuss reality and take intellectual risks, its impossible to get to the truth. No truth, no medical progress. For several months, I have been talking to a group of doctors who are alarmed at what they are witnessing in some of the top medical schools and hospitals in the country. It was clear that this was a story that deserved to be told. And Katie Herzog was the perfect person to pursue it. Katie could have had a career as a stand-up, but for some reason she decided to become a journalist. And she is a fearless one. I first learned of her work when she was writing for The Stranger in Seattle, covering topics including detransition, the scandal at Evergreen State College, and the impact of what we now call cancel culture on some small businesses in the Pacific Northwest. She is now, along with Jesse Singal, the host of a podcast called Blocked and Reported. This story is the first in a series. People Are Afraid to Speak Honestly They meet once a month on Zoom: a dozen doctors from around the country with distinguished careers in different specialities. They vary in ethnicity, age and sexual orientation. Some work for the best hospitals in the U.S. or teach at top medical schools. Others are dedicated to serving the most vulnerable populations in their communities. The meetings are largely a support group. The members share their concerns about whats going on in their hospitals and universities, and strategize about what to do. What is happening, they say, is the rapid spread of a deeply illiberal ideology in the countrys most important medical institutions. This dogma goes by many imperfect names wokeness, social justice, critical race theory, anti-racism but whatever its called, the doctors say this ideology is stifling critical thinking and dissent in the name of progress. They say that its turning students against their teachers and patients and racializing even the smallest interpersonal interactions. Most concerning, they insist that it is threatening the foundations of patient care, of research, and of medicine itself. These arent secret bigots who long for the good old days that were bad for so many. They are largely politically progressive, and they are the first to say that there are inequities in medicine that must be addressed. Sometimes its overt racism from colleagues or patients, but more often the problem is deeper, baked into the very systems clinicians use to determine treatment. Theres a calculator that people have used for decades that predicts the likelihood of having a successful vaginal delivery after you've had a cesarean, one obstetrician in the Northeast told me. You put in the age of the person, how much they weigh, and their race. And if theyre black, it calculates that they are less likely to have successful vaginal delivery. That means clinicians are more likely to counsel black patients to get c-sections, a surgery they might not actually need. Theres no biological reason for race to be a factor here, which is why the calculator just changed this year. But this is an example of how system-wide bias can harm black mothers, who are two to three times more likely to die in childbirth than white women even when you control for factors like income and education, which often make racial disparities disappear. But while this obstetrician and others see the problems endemic in their field, theyre also alarmed by the dogma currently spreading throughout medical schools and hospitals. Ive heard from doctors whove been reported to their departments for criticizing residents for being late. (It was seen by their trainees as an act of racism.) Ive heard from doctors whove stopped giving trainees honest feedback for fear of retaliation. Ive spoken to those who have seen clinicians and residents refuse to treat patients based on their race or their perceived conservative politics. Some of these doctors say that there is a purge underway in the world of American medicine: question the current orthodoxy and you will be pushed out. They are so worried about the dangers of speaking out about their concerns that they will not let me identify them except by the region of the country where they work. People are afraid to speak honestly, said a doctor who immigrated to the U.S. from the Soviet Union. Its like back to the USSR, where you could only speak to the ones you trust. If the authorities found out, you could lose your job, your status, you could go to jail or worse. The fear here is not dissimilar. When doctors do speak out, shared another, the reaction is savage. And you better be tenured and you better have very thick skin. Were afraid of what's happening to other people happening to us, a doctor on the West Coast told me. We are seeing people being fired. We are seeing people's reputations being sullied. There are members of our group who say, I will be asked to leave a board. I will endanger the work of the nonprofit that I lead if this comes out. People are at risk of being totally marginalized and having to leave their institutions. While the hyper focus on identity is seen by many proponents of social justice ideology as a necessary corrective to Americas past sins, some people working in medicine are deeply concerned by what justice and equity actually look like in practice. The intellectual foundation for this movement is the Marxist view of the world, but stripped of economics and replaced with race determinism, one psychologist explained. Because you have a huge group of people, mostly people of color, who have been underserved, it was inevitable that this model was going to be applied to the world of medicine. And it has been. Whole Areas of Research Are Off-Limits Wokeness feels like an existential threat, a doctor from the Northwest said. In health care, innovation depends on open, objective inquiry into complex problems, but thats now undermined by this simplistic and racialized worldview where racism is seen as the cause of all disparities, despite robust data showing its not that simple. Whole research areas are off-limits, he said, adding that some of what is being published in the nations top journals is shoddy as hell. Here, he was referring in part to a study published last year in the Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences. The study was covered all over the news, with headlines like Black Newborns More Likely to Die When Looked After by White Doctors (CNN), The Lack of Black Doctors is Killing Black Babies (Fortune), and Black Babies More Likely to Survive when Cared for by Black Doctors (The Guardian). Despite these breathless headlines, the study was so methodologically flawed that, according to several of the doctors I spoke with, its impossible to extrapolate any conclusions about how the race of the treating doctor impacts patient outcomes at all. And yet very few people were willing to publicly criticize it. As Vinay Prasad, a clinician and a professor at the University of California San Francisco, put it on Twitter: I am aware of dozens of people who agree with my assessment of this paper and are scared to comment. Its some of the most shoddy, methodologically flawed research weve ever seen published in these journals, the doctor in the Zoom meeting said, with sensational conclusions that seem totally unjustified from the results of the study. Its frustrating because we all know how hard it is to get good, sound research published, he added. So do those rules and quality standards no longer apply to this topic, or to these authors, or for a certain time period? At the same time that the bar appears to be lower for articles and studies that push an anti-racist agenda, the consequences for questioning or criticizing that agenda can be high. Just ask Norman Wang. Last year, the University of Pittsburgh cardiologist was demoted by his department after he published a paper in the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA) analyzing and criticizing diversity initiatives in cardiology. Looking at 50 years of data, Wang argued that affirmative action and other diversity initiatives have failed to both meaningfully increase the percentage of black and Hispanic clinicians in his field or to improve patient outcomes. Rather than admitting, hiring and promoting clinicians based on their race, he argued for race-neutral policies in medicine. Long-term academic solutions and excellence should not be sacrificed for short-term demographic optics, Wang wrote. Ultimately, all who aspire to a profession in medicine and cardiology must be assessed as individuals on the basis of their personal merits, not their racial and ethnic identities. At first, there was little response. But four months after it was published, screenshots of the paper began circulating on Twitter and others in the field began accusing Wang of racism. Sharonne Hayes, a cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic, implored colleagues to rise up. The fact that this is published in our journal should both enrage & activate all of us, she wrote, adding the hashtag #RetractRacists. Soon after, Barry London, the editor in chief of JAHA, issued an apology and the journal retracted the work over Wangs objection. London cited no specific errors in Wangs paper in his statement, just that publishing it was antithetical to his and the journals values. Retraction, in a case like this, is exceedingly rare: When papers are retracted, its generally because of the data or the study has been discredited. A search of the journals website and the Retraction Database found records of just two retractions in JAHA: Wangs paper and a 2019 paper that erroneously linked heart attacks to vaping. After the outcry, the American Heart Association (AHA), which publishes the journal, issued a statement denouncing Wangs paper and promising an investigation. In a tweet, the organization said it does NOT represent AHA values. JAHA is editorially independent but thats no excuse. Well investigate. Well do better. Were invested in helping to build a diverse health care and research community. As the criticism mounted, Wang was removed from his position as the director of a fellowship program in clinical cardiac electrophysiology at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and was prohibited from making any contact with students. His boss reportedly told him that his classroom was inherently unsafe due to the views he expressed. Wang is now suing both the AHA and the University of Pittsburgh for defamation and violating his First Amendment rights. To the doctors on the Zoom call, his case was a stark warning of what can happen when one questions policies like affirmative action, which, according to recent polling, is opposed by nearly two-thirds of Americans, including majorities of blacks, Hispanics, and Asians. Im into efforts to make medicine more diverse, a doctor from the Zoom group said. But whats gone off the rails here is that there is an intolerance of people that have another point of view. And that's going to hurt us all. JAHA isnt the only journal issuing apologies. In February, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) released a podcast hosted by surgeon and then-deputy journal editor Edward Livingston, who questioned the value of the hyper focus on race in medicine as well as the idea that medicine is systemically racist. Personally, I think taking racism out of the conversation will help, Livingston said at one point. Many of us are offended by the concept that we are racist. Its possible Livingstons comments would have gone unnoticed but JAMA promoted the podcast on Twitter with the tone-deaf text: No physician is racist, so how can there be structural racism in health care? Even more than in the case of Norman Wang, this tweet, and the podcast it promoted, led to a massive uproar. A number of researchers vowed to boycott the journal, and a petition condemning JAMA has received over 9,000 signatures. In response to the backlash, JAMA quickly deleted the episode, promised to investigate, and asked Livingston to resign from his job. He did. If you try to access the podcast today, you find an apology in its place from JAMA editor-in-chief Howard Bauchner, who called Livingstons statements, inaccurate, offensive, hurtful and inconsistent with the standards of JAMA. Bauchner was also suspended by JAMA pending an independent investigation. This Tuesday, JAMA announced that Bauchner officially stepped down. In a statement, he said he is profoundly disappointed in myself for the lapses that led to the publishing of the tweet and podcast. Although I did not write or even see the tweet, or create the podcast, as editor in chief, I am ultimately responsible for them. Shortly after this announcement, the New York Times reported that JAMAs reckoning led to a backlash from some JAMA members, who wrote in a letter to the organization that there is a general feeling that the firing of the editors involved in the podcast was perhaps precipitous, possibly a blot on free speech and also possibly an example of reverse discrimination. Bauchners last day at JAMA is June 30. Calling Out Patients What happened to Norman Wang, Edward Livingston, and Howard Bauchner contribute to what one clinician described as a a chilly atmosphere. That chill extends to teaching the next generation of doctors. Some attending physicians are hesitant to provide constructive criticism to trainees over fears of being perceived as racist, a doctor in the Northeast said. You ask yourself, Is this worth bringing up? You second guess yourself. The doctor said this ideology has impacted how some trainees and physicians respond when they encounter bias from patients, which is hardly uncommon for people working in health care. Female doctors are mistaken for nurses. Black doctors are mistaken for aides. Patients refuse care from doctors who arent white. A Jewish doctor in the Northeast told me about encountering antisemitism at work. Years ago, I had a guy slowly roll up his sleeve and put his arm down on the table in front of me and he had a big swastika tattoo. And he says my name and repeats it slowly three times. Clearly he is saying he knows Im Jewish. I never learned much about that. He actually chuckled. The doctor kept seeing the patient, who gradually stopped doing drugs, got a job, and pieced his life together. Twelve years later, he said, I was leaving that program and on our last visit, he had a terrible rash on his arm. I said we had to treat that rash, and this big, tough guy started crying. He said, I knew I was going to see you. People are changeable, but it takes time and it cant be done by scolding. This was what he was taught in his training years ago: You meet patients where they are, help them as much as you can, and hope they are better off for the encounter. That philosophy, however, is changing. Increasingly, the doctors told me, this next generation of trainees seem to believe its also their duty to confront patients about their own prejudice whether theyre open to it or not. Last year at Harvard Medical School, a seasoned psychiatrist interviewed an elderly white patient about his battle with substance abuse on Zoom. The patient talked about shame. He felt so much guilt over his drinking and his past behavior, he said that the only person he could have ever confided in was an Eskimo in Alaska who didnt speak English and even then, he would have to slit his throat. It was the sort of thing health-care workers occasionally hear. Historically, the guideline in a situation like that would be to ignore it: They were there to discuss addiction, not the patients insensitivity. But a Native American student named Victor Anthony Lopez-Carmen observing the session on Zoom was disturbed. He wrote about it later in Teen Vogue: His words sparked an immediate, visceral reaction. I felt my blood pressure rise and anxiety overtake my mind and body. My next reaction was to look at how the rest of my classmates were responding. The blank, remote expression on some of their faces, and the silence that followed, remains burned into my psyche. When neither the psychiatrist nor any of his fellow students paused in the moment to educate the elderly man about his violent and racist language, as Lopez-Carmen described it, he complained. One doctor from the Zoom chat said, unequivocally, no. Patients' life experiences, stories, attitudes, beliefs, whatever they may be, are data that help us take good care of them. As major medical institutions formalize their commitments to social justice ideology, the sentiment that medical professionals need to put aside their feelings in service of treating patients seems increasingly old-fashioned. Some institutions, including Harvard Medical School, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Medical Association (AMA), the largest association of physicians and medical students in the U.S., have released statements acknowledging their own history of racism, a trend one of the doctors described as confessional. In an 83-page report released in May, the AMA pledged address its white supremacist past, which includes horrific 19th-century practices like performing surgeries on enslaved people without anesthesia as well as the organizations endorsement of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. But its not just ancient history the organization is concerned about: the report also mentions the JAMA podcast that cost Edward Livingston and Howard Bauchner their jobs, referring to the podcast as an egregious, harmful error. The report recommendations rely heavily on diversity training, but as one of the doctors on the Zoom call said, more diversity trainings are not going to change anything, but they are going to waste time we already dont have to spare. There are, of course, an array of diversity trainings, including some that simply lay out anti-discrimination laws and others that require white people to confess their privilege. Trainings that may have seemed obviously racist just a few years ago like separating employees into affinity groups or caucuses based on race are now commonplace, including at large corporations, small non-profits, and medical institutions. (My wife, a nurse in Seattle, recently joined the white caucus at her hospital, and noted that she felt very strange asking to join a whites-only group.) The diversity industry is now worth billions of dollars, but there have been surprisingly few evaluations of whether or not such trainings actually work. The research that has been done is not encouraging. One study found that these trainings can be counterproductive; another found that positive effects dont seem to last. Whats more, the doctors said, statements like the AMAs seem destined to create backlash. You have to wonder about the unintended consequences of these organizations falling over themselves to declare that they're structurally and systemically racist, one of the doctors said. Clearly, they think theyre going to get virtue-signaling points. I mean, would you want to get vaccinated at an institution thats enthusiastically broadcasting to the world, Were racist! I wouldnt. Im Not Going to Treat That White Guy Theres clearly a generation gap between these doctors on Zoom, the youngest of whom has been practicing for at least 10 years, and doctors just beginning their career. The older clinicians are more likely to appear politically neutral, at least at work, while younger students and clinicians are more likely to prioritize activism. Those differences can be a major source of tension. One prominent organization, White Coats for Black Lives, was formed by medical students in 2014 and now has at least 75 chapters all over the U.S. In addition to publishing a Racial Justice Report Card that grades medical schools, the group encourages medical students to make specific demands of their institutions, including that medical schools and hospitals end all relationships with local law enforcement. When asked what severing ties with police would do in his urban emergency room, one ER doctor said it would be a total disaster. Police, he told me, are a vital part of emergency operations, from securing crime scenes so emergency responders can see victims to helping transport patients to keeping hospital staff and patients safe when private security is inadequate. I was in a situation once where an ambulance brought in a gunshot victim, he said. We brought the patient in, and about 15 minutes later, a group came looking for him. They came to finish him. They were going from room to room, looking for him, and when a couple of guys from hospital security tried to get them to leave, one shot a gun in the air. Luckily enough, we heard police sirens bringing someone else in, and when they heard the sirens, they ran. If not for the police, I dont know what would have happened. As another example of the generation gap, an ER doctor on the West Coast said he sees providers, particularly younger ones, applying antiracist principles in choosing how they allocate their time and which patients they choose to work with. I've heard examples of Covid-19 cases in the emergency department where providers go, Im not going to go treat that white guy, I'm going to treat the person of color instead because whatever happened to the white guy, he probably deserves it. Some in medicine would like to see such race-conscious bias mandated on an institutional level, particularly in regards to Covid-19, which has killed black, Hispanic, and Native American people at three times the rate as whites. These discrepancies are likely due to an array of factors, including income, housing, work, language, pre-existing conditions, access to health care, and, yes, possibly some degree of racism. But some politicians and public health officials decided the remedy was to distribute vaccines by race. In April, Vermonts Republican Governor Phill Scott announced that any resident over age 16 who identified as a black, indigenous, or a person of color would be eligible for the vaccine before white people, a decision that, according to some legal scholars, likely violated federal law. The CDC itself considered recommending that states prioritize essential workers over the elderly despite the fact that the number one risk factor for dying from Covid is age. The idea had plenty of supporters. Harold Schmidt, a professor of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania, told the New York Times, Older populations are whiter. Society is structured in a way that enables them to live longer. Instead of giving additional health benefits to those who already had more of them, we can start to level the playing field a bit. Ultimately, the CDC did recommend prioritizing vaccines by age, but race-conscious policies go beyond Covid. In May, the Boston Review published an editorial by physicians Bram Wispelwey and Michelle Morse entitled An Antiracist Agenda for Medicine. In it, the doctors argue that in order to address discrepancies in health-care access and outcomes, hospitals should commit to preferentially admitting patients historically denied access to certain forms of medical care. That is, they should admit people to health services based on their skin color. This idea is not coming from people with no power. Michelle Morse is a physician at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Womens Hospital. She was recently appointed to be the first Chief Medical Officer of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Dr. Morses experience has combined the best of public health, social medicine, anti-racism education, and activism, said Health Commissioner Dr. Dave A. Chokshi in a press release. Health equity requires leaders who propel change and I am grateful that she has joined the Department to help us create a healthier, more equitable, city. In the same article in the Boston Review, Dr. Morse and her co-author write that because a study they conducted found that white heart failure patients are more likely to be referred to cardiology specialists than some minority groups, in their own practice they have developed a preferential admission option for Black and Latinx heart failure patients to our specialty cardiology service. So when these patients seek care, they are now far more likely to be referred to specialists and admitted to an inpatient service, regardless of whether thats the most appropriate strategy for their condition, or their primary care providers recommendations, or their own personal preferences. What the authors dont mention is that while their own study does show that white heart failure patients are more likely to be referred to specialists, this alone doesnt demonstrate theyre more likely to have better outcomes: More whites in that very study died soon after discharge. This, according to one physician, is exactly whats wrong with race-conscious policies. We have been working for almost a decade now to keep people from getting unnecessary care and unnecessary hospitalization because there are all these unintended consequences, he said. You can get infected with an antibiotic-resistant bug; you can get the wrong medication; errors happen. Were trying to keep people out of the hospital if they don't need to be there. So when you enact a policy like the one proposed by Michelle Morse, youre just opening that person up to all these potentially negative consequences. In other words, in an effort to address racial disparities, its possible the very patients they are attempting to help will suffer more, not less. A Moral Panic The day I spoke to the doctors, Id spent the morning caught in a labyrinth of hold calls, trying to find a new primary care doctor after my insurance had changed for the fourth time in five years. And I was one of the lucky ones: At least I have insurance, something nearly 30 million Americans in this country lack. Besides the problems with accessing health care at all, the doctors themselves told me the disparities in medicine arent imagined. Minority populations, especially poor ones, do have worse outcomes than whites in all sorts of metrics. Weve got this opportunity right now to advance really important, progressive reforms, one doctor said. Every American understands that the system doesnt work, that we need better public health, we need better primary care. But this physician is concerned that the people leading the woke effort have a deeply unsophisticated understanding of how change occurs in this country. Its dangerous. Im fearful theres going to be a counter-reaction that's going to be huge and vicious and ugly. Others fear the same. Another doctor on the call, a psychologist, called the new orthodoxy a moral panic and symbolic crusade, like Prohibition, in which the outcome is less important than the sacredness of the movement. What happens with symbolic crusades is they overreach and you get a tremendous backlash, he continued. It would play into every fear that what this is really about is suppressing liberty, chilling free speech. I didnt used to think those fears were legitimate. Now I do. I get it. 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What Happened To De Bruyne? When Will Kevin De Bruyne Return? | Earlier on Thursday, Belgium head coach Roberto Martinez claimed that Kevin De Bruyne is unlikely to feature in the team's opening fixture at Euro 2020 against Russia on June 12th. The 29-year-old midfielder suffered facial injuries during Manchester City's 1-0 defeat against Chelsea in the Champions League final last weekend. There were initial fears that De Bruyne would be forced to sit out the entirety of this summer's European Championship after picking up an untimely injury. However, Martinez has confirmed that the playmaker might have to wear a mask when he returns to action with the national team. Kevin De Bruyne injury update De Bruyne had suffered a nose bone and left orbital fracture in the Champions League final, following his collision with Chelsea's Antonio Rudiger. He didnt get up for several minutes and Citys medical staff treated him on the pitch before he was then subbed off in the second half. De Bruyne spotted in tears on the sidelines as he couldnt even walk down the tunnel on his own. Hi guys just got back from the hospital. My diagnosis is Acute nose bone fracture and left orbital fracture. I feel okay now. Still disappointed about yesterday obviously but we will be back Kevin De Bruyne (@DeBruyneKev) May 30, 2021 On Sunday, the midfielder provided his fans with an injury update and said he was feeling 'okay'. De Bruyne took to Twitter and wrote, "Hi guys just got back from the hospital. My diagnosis is Acute nose bone fracture and left orbital fracture. I feel okay now. Still disappointed about yesterday obviously but we will be back." While speaking at a press conference on Thursday, Roberto Martinez revealed that De Bruyne might not feature in Belgium's opening game at Euro 2020, but the playmaker may yet have to play a prominent role for the Belgian Red Devils, "De Bruyne is unlikely to be fit for that first match so whoever replaces him will have to show he's ready. We made a decision about his mask. It will be one of the producers who made Jan Vertonghen's mask. We were very satisfied with that," he said. Kevin De Bruyne is unlikely to be fit for Belgiums opening game of Euro 2020, his manager Roberto Martinez has said, the Belgian is still recovering from the injuries he sustained during the Champions League final defeat to Chelsea. pic.twitter.com/U0j0Q8ccMX WatchForce (@watchforcelive) June 3, 2021 "I would say that until next week we won't know exactly where we are with Kevin. Now, allow him to relax. He could be available for the Euros but we don't know when at the moment. It's too early to give you an answer now, we must first get the green light from the medical side." added Martinez. Belgium Euro 2020 schedule for Group stage games Belgium will begin their Euro 2020 campaign on June 12th against Russia. Martinez's men are then due to face Denmark on June 17 and Finland in their final Group B fixture on June 21. Image Credits - Kevin De Bruyne Instagram | https://www.republicworld.com/sports-news/football-news/what-happened-to-de-bruyne-when-will-kevin-de-bruyne-return.html |
Is Danielle Savre leaving Station 19? Was Maya Bishop fired? | Entering the Station 19 season 4 finale tonight, we knew that there were going to be a number of exciting, happy developments. However, at the same time we were still concerned about a cliffhanger looming behind the scenes. Once we got around to the 50-minute mark of the episode, we were starting to feel some legitimate signs of hope here. After all, we saw Maya and Carinas wedding go off nearly without a hitch! Not only that, but Mayas mother showed up after her daughter opted to pay her a visit. Heres where some of the drama started to enter the picture Andy and Sullivans marriage is in trouble, and things got from bad to worse when she felt like he threw Maya under the bus in order to save the station. His story, however, was that he was trying to step up to ensure that the station didnt get shut down out right. In the end, the station does seem to be saved but at the same time, it seems like Maya has lost her job. We should start off with this: We dont think that Danielle Savre is leaving the show at all. Theres a story to be told here with her fighting to get her career back meanwhile, theres also a story about her being fired right on her wedding day. There are some other stories within the show that were wanting some additional insight on. Take, for example, what is going on when it comes to Vic and Dean. Be sure to share right now in the attached comments! After you do that, be sure to stick around for all sorts of other updates. (Photo: ABC.) Be sure to like Matt & Jess on Facebook for more updates! | https://cartermatt.com/440984/is-danielle-savre-leaving-station-19-was-maya-bishop-fired/ |
Is Skittles Selling 'White Pride' Candies to Celebrate LGBTQ Pride? | This month, June, marks the 51st celebration of Pride Month -- a time when millions of people come together in support of the LGBTQ community not only in the United States but other countries as well. On June 3, Thursday, a Twitter user shared an image that appeared to show a bag of white Skittles, designed to commemorate Pride, labelled "Skittles White Pride" in a U.K. supermarket. This was interpreted by many as a racially charged expression of white supremacy. "I don't think that's the kind of pride they mean," the photo is captioned. The image shows the Skittles bag on a retail display at a SPAR convenience store. The packaging bears the Skittles logo (rendered in all white) and contains all white Skittles. The text on the bag reads, "During Pride only one rainbow matters #onerainbow." Nothing More than a Labelling Error SPAR responded to the tweet to clarify that the labelling on the Skittles display rack was due to an oversight that took place in that particular supermarket last year and was rectified as soon as it was brought to their attention. "Hello, this was a labelling error last year that was quickly rectified. We will make sure it never happens again. Many thanks!," the convenience store's official Twitter handle tweeted. In 2017, Skittles ditched its signature rainbow-colored candies in favor of an all-white appearance to honor Pride month, as pointed out in a Time article. The point of the campaign was that the limited-edition Skittles would be stripped of the colorful theme during Pride month, in deference to and solidarity with Pride and the LGBTQ community. At the time, many consumers expressed concern that the message could be linked to white pride, a racialist concept promoted by white supremacists and neo-Nazi groups, as reported by Marketing Dive. Critics took to Twitter to share that they felt the new direction was inadvertently tone-deaf, rather than supportive of LGBTQ people, as the company intended. | https://www.ibtimes.sg/skittles-selling-white-pride-candies-celebrate-lgbtq-pride-57938 |
What is a Model Lease Act? | Following the release of the draft in 2019, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday adopted the Model Rental Law (MTA) to guide the process of renting property in India and to help the rental economy in the wealth sector. According to the 2011 Census, more than 1 crore houses were vacant in urban areas. Existing rent control laws are restricting the growth of rental housing and discouraging landlords from renting out their vacant homes for fear of repossession. One possible measure to unlock the vacant home is to bring transparency and accountability to the existing premises rental system and balance the interests of the property owner and tenant in a reasonable manner, says the new Act, piloted by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. States can adopt the Act as it is with new legislation, as it is a state entity, or they can amend their existing lease acts to factor in the new MTA. The states and territories of the Union have memoranda of understanding with the Center under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban, which has this provision. The government says the Act aims to formalize the shadow market for rental housing, unlock vacant properties, increase rental yields, facilitate / remove operating practices, reduce procedural barriers to registration, and increase transparency and discipline. Newspaper | Click to get the best explanators of the day in your inbox Si u conceived In 2015, before the Housing for All Mission 2022 (Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban) was launched, it was decided that 20% of the two crore homes to be created should be exclusively rented. The decision was based on a 2013 report by a Rental Housing Task Force, which stated that affordable rental housing addresses issues of underprivileged and inclusive growth, in an even more direct way than affordable property housing . The Expenditure Finance Committee cleared an expense of Rs 6,000 crore for a leased component in PMAY-U; The center would hold 75% with the rest borne by states, local urban bodies, or through NGOs or private sector CSR activities. Where applicable After the implementation of this law, no person may allow or rent any premises, except with a written agreement. Abolishing local rent control Acts have been a politically sensitive issue in cities with high-value rent markets, such as South Mumbai in particular, where old properties in major countries have been occupied for decades by negligible tenants. The Model Law has been in draft since 2015, but has been maintained at this point. The new act will be enforceable in perspective and will not affect existing leases. The act aims to cover urban and rural areas. Whats new States will establish a grievance redressal mechanism consisting of the Lease Authority, the Lease Court and the Lease Tribunal to ensure a speedy resolution of disputes. Filing a complaint / appeal from the Lease Court and the Lease Tribunal will be mandatory within 60 days. There is no monetary ceiling. Currently, in many old properties issued under Archaic Lease Control Acts, such ceilings have left landlords stuck with outdated rent amounts. A digital platform will be set up in the local language or in the language of the State / Union Territory for the submission of the lease agreement and other documents. The Lease Authority will keep a record of these agreements. Verbal agreements will be out of sight, as the MTA orders written agreements for all new leases to be submitted to the Lease Authority. The tenant will continue to pay the rent even during the extension of the dispute with an landlord. The subdivision of the premises can be done only with the prior consent of the landlord and no structural changes can be made by the tenant without the written approval of the landlord. Practices provided in the Law The security deposit to be paid by the tenant should not exceed two months rent for residential property (six months rent in case of non-residential property), and should be a minimum of one month rent for non-residential property. The act lists the types of repairs that each party would be responsible for, provided that the money for repairs can be deducted from the security or rent deposit, as applicable, if a party refuses to do their part of the work. No arbitrary eviction of a tenant may be made during the currency of the lease period, except in accordance with the provisions of law. The Lease Court may allow repossession by the landlord if the tenant misuses the premises after a notice has been served by the landlord. Misuse of the premises, as defined, involves public concern, harm or their use for immoral or illegal purposes. If the tenant refuses to vacate, the landlord can claim double the monthly rent for two months, and quadruple the monthly rent thereafter. In the event of a force majeure event, the landlord will allow the tenant to continue in possession for a period of one month from the date of termination of such a catastrophic event, under the terms of the existing lease agreement. | https://exbulletin.com/world/963625/ |
Whats the best way to get rid of belly fat? | We have all heard of it. You cant get rid of belly fat by exercising your stomach. You dont have to repeat crunches, sit-ups, and twists to flatten your stomach. Spot reduction does not work. I want to know how I can get rid of belly fat if targeted exercise doesnt flatten my stomach. Brian Sygan, founder of Exercise Coach, co-host of the Strength Changes Everything podcast, and Amy Hudson, an exercise coach franchisee, overturned the most common myth about losing fat in the abdomen. Learn the best ways to lose fat. Removing belly fat is a common goal. There are two motivations for driving this goal. The first is to achieve a better shape and the second is that excess abdominal fat is a sign of health problems. Abdominal fat is associated with insulin resistance and systemic inflammation, which work together to worsen overall health. You should start by understanding why spot reduction and targeted exercise dont work. The place where you first put on fat is the place where you lose fat last. For men, it is often the abdomen, and for women, the buttocks and thighs are common. Even if you exercise to make your stomach hungry, this reality does not change. The ideal approach to reducing belly fat is a combination of strength training and natural food nutrition. This combination results in intensive weight loss, where you lose only body fat instead of losing both fat and muscle at the same time. Most people experience stomach dents after 30 days of full food nutrition and strength training. It takes effort and patience to see these results, and it can take an additional 30-60 days to lose abdominal fat and reach your body composition goals. You dont need to exercise daily or do joint-damaging aerobic exercise to change your body and hormonal health. Smart strength training and whole food nutrition are all you need to radically change your life. For more information, listen to Strength changes everything. Episode 11.. | https://exbulletin.com/world/health/963683/ |
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Who All Get 25 Million US Vaccines And How Much? | Riding on strong vaccination numbers at home where more than 63 percent of American adults have received at least one dose, US President Joe Biden announced on Thursday the US will donate 75 percent of its unused Covid-19 vaccine stockpile to the United Nations-led COVAX global vaccine program which has delivered less than 80 million doses so far. Heres the breakdown of the numbers coming out of the White House: The first batch accounts for 25 million doses. Of that, 19 million will be earmarked for three regions: 6 million for South and Central America, 7 million for Asia, and 5 million for Africa. Within Asia, the allocated 7 million vaccines will go to India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Maldives, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Laos, Papua New Guinea, Taiwan, and the Pacific Islands. Follow NewsGram on Twitter to stay updated about the World news. The remaining 6 million will be divvied up between more than 15 countries: Mexico, Canada, South Korea, West Bank and Gaza, Ukraine, Ukraine, Kosovo, Haiti, Georgia, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, and Yemen, and United Nations frontline workers. The initial 25 million doses will be a mix of Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines. The White House also announced lifting restrictions on vaccines from AstraZeneca, Sanofi, and Novavax these three are not authorized for use in the US The White House confirmed that 1 million Johnson & Johnson doses are headed to South Korea. More than 500,000 South Korean troops serve alongside American soldiers in the country. Mexico and Canada have already received a combined 4.5 million doses. ALSO READ: Know If The Covid-19 Vaccines Can Get Adulterated By the end of June 2021, the US plan is to share 80 million doses globally, mostly via COVAX. Biden plans to hold back about 25 percent of the nations stock for domestic emergencies and allies. As long as this pandemic is raging anywhere in the world, the American people will still be vulnerable, Biden said. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said the US will retain the say on the ultimate destination for vaccines released through the COVAX pipeline. (IANS/KB) (covid vaccine, how do vaccines work, after-effects of covid vaccine, COVID-19 side-effects) | https://www.newsgram.com/who-all-get-25-million-us-vaccines-and-how-much/ |
Is Mainstreaming Cryptos In Absence Of Utility Just Greater Fool Theory? | Jeremy Bentham was a philosopher and economist who viewed utility as that property in any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness. Utility, or usefulness, finds mention in economics, and from the production of goods and services to their demand and supply, it shapes everything. Utility is the crucial element that puts a price tag on any commodity or service, be it a pen or childcare. If there is one thing that, to some extent, changed how utility shapes demand and price, it is marketing. It can lure the customer into buying something at a price that is not proportionate to its utility. But the digital currency realm is a step ahead. In 2021, we saw the launch of the S&P Dow Jones crypto indices that track the price of cryptocurrencies tied to them. Bitcoin and Ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have been launched to serve as alternatives to crypto exchanges, where one can buy and sell virtual currencies. Entities are undertaking cryptocurrency mining as a primary activity, and new partnerships are being forged to shift this mining process from non-renewables to renewables. In this entire scheme of things, the utility of the underlying product, cryptocurrencies, is yet to be proved. Digital currencies are yet to be accepted as legal tender anywhere globally, although this was envisioned as their only utility. A fiat currency is a store of value backed by central banks. Cryptocurrencies do away with any regulatory oversight, be it a central bank like the Federal Reserve or a market regulator like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This act of doing away with authorities that inject accountability and stability into the system is why countries are not embracing cryptos. However, blockchain tech has found many takers owing to its utility and many central banks plan to launch their blockchain-based digital currencies without compromising on regulatory oversight. Disheartened by this dramatic turn of events, proponents of digital currencies found solace by envisaging digital currencies as some investment instrument. But digital currencies cannot be considered on par with traditional instruments like stocks and government bonds, which essentially have an underlying entity carrying out an economic activity that has a definite utility. By contrast, digital currencies have become nothing but a speculative asset class. There is a reason why digital currencies ended up as a speculative asset. Take, for instance, the recent crash in the crypto market, when the total market value fell below the $2-trillion mark. Billions of dollars of investors wealth just vanished in the wink of an eye. In the equity markets, a crash or a bull run is always backed by reason. For example, stocks of companies operating in any sector tend to rise with anticipation of increased demand for their products. However, the crypto market tumbled on tweets of a multi-billionaire CEO and a particular ban by China on any activity related to cryptocurrencies. Mainstreaming the cryptocurrency ecosystem and elevating it to conventional economic activities added glitter to the crypto world. It resulted in markets parking over $2 trillion in cryptos, which was wiped out in hours. It is not just about the total market cap of cryptocurrencies. It is way more than that. From S&P indices to ETFs to large-scale mining, every single development elevated cryptos to new heights. Scarce resources are being deployed to an activity, which is yet to prove its utility. With every step forward, we catapult cryptos into the mainstream without realizing that the entire arrangement is fragile and volatile in the absence of their utility. Even the best marketer will find it hard to sell a pen at the price of an airplane. The market understands the usefulness of the two and knows at what price to buy them. In the cryptocurrency realm, the biggest concern is nobody knows cryptos price value. In the conventional economic landscape, demand, supply and price interact with each other. But in the crypto world, demand and supply forces alone do not shape up the price. Every market crash has a lesson, and the latest crypto episode is a lesson on the fragility of an economic activity that lacks utility. We know that a tweet or two tomorrow by an influential CEO can reverse the fall and lift the market cap back to where it was before the crash. Before we move any further on digital currencies, the market needs to find the exact utility of cryptocurrencies to stabilize their values and remove their susceptibility to crypto whales. It will also justify the financial, energy and human resource allocation to the crypto ecosystem. The greater fool theory, on which the cryptocurrency world has thrived until now, is not likely to be a long-term sustainable economic activity. The theory states gains derived from a product result from further bets by new investors at an enhanced price. For example, an investor purchases a virtual currency for $1 and sells it to someone else for $2, allowing a dollar profit. But until subsequent buyers find utility in the currency that justifies a price tag above $2, the entire scheme loses steam. To justify mainstreaming cryptos, proponents and supporters need to find its utility or else risk manipulation of prices by a few. Kunal Sawhney is the CEO of the Kalkine Group | https://www.manufacturing.net/economics/blog/21485417/is-mainstreaming-cryptos-in-absence-of-utility-just-greater-fool-theory |
Is Trump Planning Another Coup To Win Back Presidency? | Undermining the hearsay, even if it lacks solid evidence, can lead to a consequential and potentially dangerous event, considering the former presidents history of inciting insurrectionist mobs. Highlights Latest reports suggest Trump is telling a number of people hes in contact that he expects getting reinstated as the US president by August. Trumps infamous National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn further fueled a coup theory on Memorial Day. As per unverified reports, Trump has strong pieces of evidence to present to the Supreme Court in August for the election audit case. However, few from Trumps inner circle deny any possibility of the former presidents reinstatement. Former President Donald Trump might be in the midst of planning another coup with his presidential ambitions again in the headlines. Washington correspondent for the New York Times, Maggie Haberman shared on Twitter that Trump has been telling a number of people hes in contact with that he expects he will get reinstated [as president] by August. Fueling the controversy was Michael Flynn, Trumps infamous national security advisor, who expressed at a Memorial Day event in Dallas that a coup similar to that of Myanmar should happen here. This is the same man whom Ivanka Trump nominated to be the part of the Trump administration and was later pardoned by Trump during his last few days in the oval. Trump has been telling a number of people hes in contact with that he expects he will get reinstated by August (no that isnt how it works but simply sharing the information). https://t.co/kaXSXKnpF0 Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 1, 2021 To quote Seth Abramson, attorney, and reporter, There are efforts afoot now in GA, AZ, NV, and WI to delegitimize Bidens victories there. Meanwhile, Trump advisers Flynn and Powell are saying that once those victories are delegitimized, the military should move in. If Trump is in on the conversations, its a coup attempt. To be clear, I have consistently said that I do not believe the military would ever participate in a coup. The point of this thread isnt to suggest a coup will happen, but that Donald Trump and his co-conspirators must be investigated for seditious conspiracy immediately. The infamous former president has the history of inciting insurrection at the Capitol through hate speech demanding a call to action. Past record suggests that undermining the hearsay even if it lacks solid plans can lead to a consequential event with a potential danger to the officials. Amid the ongoing discussion, loyal Trump supporters around the nation have begun rejoicing at any possibility of the word being true, whatsoever. During an event named For God and Country Patriot Roundup held on Saturday, the crowd burst into cheers when former Trump Election Lawyer Sidney Powell mentioned that Trump could simply be reinstated. Another emerging proponent of the theory is the CEO of MyPillow Mike Lindell who believes that Donald Trump has strong pieces of evidence to present to the Supreme Court in August for the election audit case. Lindell believes that the evidence will be convincing enough to reinstate the former president, spelling the abrupt end of the Biden administration. However, there are also a few from Trumps circle who deny the possibility of the reinstatement of the former president. One such person is his attorney Jenna Ellis. The election was lawless, six states allowed their delegates to vote by false certifications, but the EC process happened. The Constitution has only one process for removal of a sitting president: impeachment and conviction. While vacating the office earlier in Jan 2021, Donald Trump made it very clear that he will return to contest for the oval in 2024. Given the fact that the Senate acquitted him during the impeachment trial earlier this year, he has the legal clearance to run for the presidency of the U.S. once again. However, there are plenty of factors that might influence his fate. The two most significant of all are his legal troubles and financial obligations that Trump faces. Donald Trump still remains popular among the vast majority of GOP. According to a Reuters poll, 63% of Republicans support the former presidents claim that the Democratic win in the U.S. Presidential elections was corrupt. Only 28% oppose the idea of Donald Trump running for the presidency again. Trump might clear level one of the 2024 elections but getting through the peoples vote still remains a highly distant possibility. According to Trumps adviser Jason Miller, If the president feels like hes in a good position, I think theres a good chance that he does it. For the more immediate impact, theres the issue of turning out Trump voters for the midterm elections. He further added: President Trump is the leader of the Republican Party. Trump advisor Jason Miller However, things can get difficult for him at the stage too. Even if he successfully secures a Republican nomination for the presidency, Trump will still fall behind during popular voting. The reason is Trumps public approval rating. Despite the political momentum, the notorious former president still remains infamous with a feeble 32% peoples approval rating. To quote an operative in conversation with NBC, he will have a hard time building an infrastructure to win the general election. He could win the primary on his name alone. The problem is building a coalition of people among the light-leaning Republicans and independents. He would completely have to make a pivot of 180 degrees on his rhetoric, the operative said. He would have to change and ask forgiveness. For Trump to win back light-leaning Republicans and independents Related: Where Joe The Optimist Biden Is Leading America Despite the odds being against Trumps ambitions, he is still optimistic to get back to the White House. As the blueprint of mission 2024, his first target is helping Max Miller, the Ohio Congressional candidate to win against Rep. Anthony Gonzales who voted to impeach Trump, in the primary. The next milestone is to replace Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, again the Republican who agreed with the decision of the electoral during elections and defied Trump. Jody Hice is Trumps bet against Raffensperger. | https://www.dkoding.in/newsline/donald-trump-august-coup-back-presidency/ |
What if we could match every patient to their ideal doctor? | If theres one industry that is (or at least should be) highly personal, its healthcare. When it comes down to it, we each have different preferences: as patients, we might like to analyze our medical data and discuss facts and figures with our doctor, or be more emotionally inclined and prefer a softer touch. The same goes for clinicians: some may choose video over phone consultations, or prefer to specialize in treating a very specific condition. Imagine a healthcare system that can match each patient with their perfect GP, specialist, or even hospital based on acuity, capability, availability, location and even personality type. It might be closer than you think. This concept may be alien to most of the healthcare industry, but its very familiar to consumers. Multi-player gaming services can match you with other people based on your age, skills and when you want to play; Amazons service AWS IQ matches business customers looking for technology partners; while the likes of Netflix and dating apps learn about your preferences to match you with the best movie or partner based on your past choices and personal profile. Theyre all services that get smarter over time, as the artificial intelligence (AI) learns more, improving recommendations for each individual. Back to healthcare, and now that were seeing a cultural shift toward more acceptance of virtual care, innovators across the industry are taking some cues from these matchmaking services. To personalize and improve the experiences of patients and health professionals, while getting better health outcomes. | https://www.philips.com/a-w/about/news/archive/blogs/innovation-matters/2021/20210603-what-if-we-could-match-every-patient-to-their-ideal-doctor.html |
Why isnt Monty Don on Gardeners World? | Gardeners' World: Adam Frost gives advice on growing veg 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. Gardeners' World worked its way into more houses than ever over the past year as people have been forced to spend a lot of time at home. The BBC Two factual series has helped viewers make the most of their gardens and continue to do so after lockdown restrictions were lifted. Monty Don played a huge role since he is the face of Gardeners' World but he has recently been hosting the series far less frequently. Last month, gardening expert Monty Don took time away from filming Gardeners' World to focus on a different project. He was working on an audiobook which Monty was forced to postpone during the coronavirus pandemic. As he resumed work on the project, this meant he needed to take some time away from the show. Hence, why he briefly went missing from the gardening series last month. Gardeners' World: Arit Anderson will be co-presenting the series this week. READ MORE Monty Don clarifies Gardeners' World future episodes as hes replaced Taking to Twitter, Monty explained: "Having been delayed by a year due to Covid I am off today (and for the next four days) to a studio to read 'My Garden World' as an audiobook. He will once again be missing from tonight's (Friday, June 4) episode which will air on BBC Two. Monty hasn't given an explanation as to why he won't be presenting the latest episode but could have something to do with his upcoming audiobook. But fear not, as he has already said when he will return to giving gardening tips. Gardeners' World: Monty Don has been focusing on his own personal projects. Trending Gardeners' World: Frances Tophill will return to present the series. Gardeners' World will be taken over by presenter Arit Anderson who works as a gardener designer and writer. She writes for Gardens' World magazine and has presented Garden Rescue but before turning her attention to agriculture, Anderson worked in the fashion industry. Anderson used to manage teams that delivered collections and events around the world but then first made a name for herself at the 2013 RHS Chelsea Show. The presenter won't be alone though as she will be joined by Frances Tophill. | https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1445153/why-monty-don-not-on-gardeners-world-bbc-2-cast |
What Is The Best Way To Sell Gold Jewellery? | New York City, NY, 2021-Jun-04 /EPR Network/ Fathers Day is around the corner. You must be thinking, where can I sell my jewellery for cash, do not worry, we have got you covered! You might be attached to a piece of gold jewellery, but you have to understand that you do need it anymore. In fact, you can do something a lot better and benefit yourself by getting the best deals on selling gold. In this article, we are going to discuss some of the best places to sell jewellery. Moving ahead, know how to sell old jewellery for more money! Sell Gold Jewellery Online If you want to sell old Jewellery on Fathers Day, online is ideal for you to sell it. There are various places to sell it, and the process is also simple. You can form contact with a reputed online gold buyer from their website. The company that will buy your gold will provide you various options for shipping to send other items in exchange for gold. The advantage of selling gold jewellery online is that you will get the best price options, fast payments, and the process is straightforward. You will receive an email from the gold buyer, and all you have to do is pack your item and transfer it via DHL, FedEx, etc. Sell It Own Pawn Shops You must be thinking about selling old jewellery for more money; pawn shops are one of the best options. In fact, it is one of the easiest and convenient ways to sell. Compared to the online buyers, pawn shops offer lower prices for jewellery, and the reason is that they loan money to their customers. The advantage of selling gold jewellery at pawn shops is that you will receive an instant payment without any delay. Local Jewellery Shops Local jewellery shops are also an ideal option to get the best deals on selling diamonds and gold. One of the advantages of selling gold is that you will get immediate payment for your sold jewellery, making it convenient for you to get your cash as soon as possible. Since it is a local shop, you do not have to worry about shipping your jewellery. | https://express-press-release.net/news/2021/06/04/942717 |
Are board exams necessary? | The pressure only increases at the thought of board exams, which is often looked at as an all-important decider for a students future. The COVID-19 pandemic however necessitated a rethink on holding of these exams amidst the high number of cases. And after much debate, the Goa Government finally cancelled both the examinations, stating that the grading would be done based on internal assessment right through the year. Like many others, class 10 student Sheniah Menezes is happy with this decision. To me boards have always been something Ive dreaded and Im glad they have been cancelled, she says, adding that more than the fear of answering boards, students worry more about attaining a high percentage so as to be seen in a favourable light in society. Further, Menezes believes its high time that the education system became much more practical. Extra-curricular activities should be taken seriously being well balanced with common subjects like history, science and math, she opines. There is a need for a more holistic approach to education, agrees Bineeta George, parent of a class 10 student. A two to three-hour exam cannot define a student. I feel marks dont make a man. In todays world a child has to be street smart to survive the onslaught of challenges that come their way, she says. Mother of a class 10 student, Joana Monteiro however isnt as happy about the cancellation as she believes that board exams help students to gauge their capabilities and is an experience to face life ahead. For class 12 students who will now have to prepare for entrance examinations to pursue further education, the cancellation comes with a whole new set of challenges. Reizenio Rodrigues, a class 12 science student for instance is a little worried about what the future will entail for him. Class 12 board exams, he says, are necessary, especially for the science stream as they have to qualify for entrance exams based on their class 12 board results. Noronha e Rodrigues, a parent of a class 12 student, echoes similar sentiments stating that the board exams are a good preparation for the entrance exams. A class 12 teacher also believes that some traditions should be maintained. As board exams need year-long academic preparation, students remain busy in studies by learning the lessons in class, doing homework, project assignments, reference work from various sources. This keeps their brain active, they learn to take decisions, and understand certain things for doing specific work, she says. And while given the pandemic situation, the cancellation of exams was necessary, she believes that going forward in the years to come, board exams should be continued. Even though we can evaluate students through the virtual medium, many students still do not get proper facilities and their future should not be hampered, she says. And the internal assessment solution does not sit well with everyone. Is it fair to suddenly assess students on year-long progress, when they were told all along, that the system they are in requires top performance at a single, major, highly pressured year-end examination? asks consultant for Academic & Professional Communication, Margao, Ranjit Rodrigues. India, he says, is blessed with the worlds largest adolescent population, and this bright young demographic, if offered modern educational training, will benefit not just our nation socially and economically, but the world itself. Yet an outdated and ineffective education system, with its obsession with future-determining board exams, continues to repress and strait-jacket millions of ingenuous and capable young minds across our nation, he says. Its late but never too late, says Rodrigues, to call for a revamped assessment system in education, one where cramming, repetition and rote-learning are replaced by independent, critical thinking skills and capabilities. Similarly, academic communication-anxiety provoking course-end exams should be replaced by progressive and comprehensive course-wide assessment. Let us work to transform our young minds from passive beneficiaries to active participants in their pursuit of real education. Teacher Grade I, Holy Trinity Higher Secondary, Benaulim, Anisha Dicholkar, also feels that the current model is heavily based on theoretical knowledge which severely lacks the emphasis that needs to be given to the application of this knowledge in practical life. The shift from exam-oriented theory cramming to inculcating a skill set for the student to excel in life is essential. Until this change is implemented, exams will be the only credible judgement of talent and capability. Furthermore, she says there is a need to break the mould of engineering and medicine being the optimum choices. Children need to choose for themselves a career wherein they put to use their aptitudes and interests in the best way possible. This is the only way to solve the current unemployment crisis and open the doors to a holistic and accelerated growth for India. I hope the new education policy steps in the right direction, she says. Principal Dhempe College of Arts and Science, Miramar, Vrinda Borker, is also in favour of revamping the entire education system and examination setup. In the present examination system, she says, emphasis is on memorising, rote learning and reproducing it during examination. When thousands of students are appearing for the same exam, this method is suitable to provide a level playing field to all candidates. However, there is less scope to check conceptual understanding of students. The way forward, says Pushkar, director, The International Centre Goa, Dona Paula, may well be to find ways to make all-year internal assessment workable so that there is less emphasis on school-finishing exams. At the same time, a common entrance exam for college admissions may become necessary and/or perhaps an Indian version of SAT may be needed. Not necessarily, says a learning coordinator at a five-star hotel, stating that in the hotel industry more emphasis is placed on skills. Mostly, the staff have an IHM degree or at least a diploma which is good. We dont always pay 100 per cent attention to education. But yes, we do look into it. For back office jobs, its a given that they need to be a graduate and that means the education is important, he says. With regards to hospitality, only after one qualifies in board examinations, do they get admission in various diploma courses, graduation and post-graduation, says area human resource director (IHCL), Goa and director of human resources Taj Resort & Convention Centre, Goa, Ramu Vemulapally. When people come for placements in our hotels, we look at their academics and training (industrial exposure training) as part of their course during their graduation, post-graduation, diploma and craft courses. We consider the major qualification and the contribution during the interview process. There are also few people who really dont pursue graduation and will choose the skill development courses post their class 10 so as long as they undergo a skill certificate course thats fine with us, he says. HR and admin executive at a renowned real estate company, Nadia Goes also says that marks dont matter entirely. Im not saying they dont. They do. But not entirely. And class 12 students still have an option of studying further so there again they dont have to rely on their class 12 marks for a job. We mostly look for specialisations if a degree is a prerequisite for the job, says Goes, adding that most of the learning happens on the job itself. Though we may know a lot through theory, the actual assessment of a candidate happens on the job itself. Thats another reason we have probation periods so that the company and the candidate can understand and adjust to the reality of the job, she says. | https://www.navhindtimes.in/2021/06/04/magazines/kuriocity/are-board-exams-necessary/ |
Who are the leading players in the Genomics Market? | Pune , India , 2021-Jun-04 /EPR Network/ The major factors driving the growth of this market include the increasing government funding to support genomics projects, the growing incidence of cancer and increasing applications of NGS in cancer research, the entry of new players and start-ups in the genomics market, and the growing application areas of genomics. The global Genomics Market is projected to reach USD 54.4 billion by 2025 from USD 22.7 billion in 2020, at a CAGR of 19.0% during the forecast period. Ask for PDF Brochure: https://www.marketsandmarkets.com/pdfdownloadNew.asp?id=613 Market Segmentation:- The next generation sequencing sub segment accounted for the largest share of the sequencing technology segment in the genomics market in 2019. Based on technology, the genomics market is segmented into sequencing technologies, PCR, nucleic acid extraction and purification, microarrays, and other technologies. The sequencing segment is further sub segmented into next-generation sequencing (NGS) and other sequencing technologies. In 2019 the next-generation sequencing technology accounted for the largest share of the genomics market. The advantages associated with NGS such as ultra-high-throughput, scalability, and high speed, enable researchers to perform a wide variety of applications, including animal breeding, agriculture, and human genomics. This is one of the major drivers of this segment. The hospitals and clinics segment accounted for the largest share of the end user segment in the genomics market in 2019. Based on end users, the genomics market is segmented into hospitals & clinics, research centers and academic & government institutes, pharmaceutical & biotechnology companies, and other end users. In 2019, the hospitals & clinics segment accounted for the largest share of the market. Hospitals & clinics are shifting from traditional genomic testing methods to cost-effective and more sensitive methods, such as whole-exome sequencing, which is a major factor driving the market growth. Market Drivers: 1 Rising Government Funding and Growth in the Number of Genomics Projects 2 Growing incidence of cancer and increasing applications of next-generation sequencing in cancer research 3 Growing Application Areas of Genomics 4 Entry of New Players and Start-Ups in the Genomics Market Regional Analysis: In 2019, the Asia Pacific region accented for the fastest growing region of the genomics market. It is also estimated to grow at the highest CAGR in the genomics market during the forecast period, mainly due to favorable government support for genomics projects, increasing awareness about newer genomics technologies such as NGS, and expansions of key players to strengthen their presence in the APAC region. Request for sample Pages :- https://www.marketsandmarkets.com/requestsampleNew.asp?id=613 Top key Players:- Some of the leading players operating in the genomics market are Illumina, Inc. (US), Thermo Fisher Scientific (US), QIAGEN N.V. (Netherlands), Agilent Technologies, Inc. (US), F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. (Switzerland), Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (US), and BGI (China). | https://express-press-release.net/news/2021/06/04/943589 |
Do Aberdeen Gaelic schools need catchment areas? | A row has erupted over proposed catchment areas for Gaelic education in Aberdeen. The city offers Gaelic Medium Education (GME) in two schools, and officials have drawn up catchment areas for them for the first time. But there are fears that restricting the map gives the impression that children from outwith the two areas are not eligible for GME and might put parents off enrolling. During Thursdays education operational delivery committee meeting, members agreed to put it to the public before creating new catchment areas for the GME provisions at Hazlehead Academy and Gilcomstoun School. The council proposed zones that align with the existing catchments areas for the English Medium schools. They passed the motion to present this plan to the public by a split vote that was carried by the convener. There are currently no catchment areas for the Gaelic schools in Aberdeen. According to council papers, creating catchment areas will help with budgeting for student transport to and from school and should not have any effect on who can attend. But members of the committee and other councillors expressed concerns that the proposed area is too restrictive and should instead cover the entire city. At the secondary level, the proposed zone for Hazlehead will overlay the existing English Medium zones for Hazlehead, Northfield Academy and Aberdeen Grammar School. The proposed catchment area for the GME primary school at Gilcomstoun will align with the existing English Medium school zones for Gilcomstoun, Ashley Road, Mile End and Skene Square schools. Councillor Martin Greig was concerned that excluding parts of the city from the catchment areas might make GME seem inaccessible to some families. He proposed that the forthcoming public consultation should be based on a citywide catchment area. He said: The real risk of creating this catchment area is that it will suppress interest and demand for Gaelic Medium Education. There will be families and pupils thinking that they dont live in the zone, therefore they dont have a right to GME. That principle that you have to live in the right area to get access to any specialised or any particular form of education is not welcome. The public has the final say Any permanent changes to school zones must first be discussed and approved through public consultation. During the discussion, chief education officer Eleanor Sheppard said that GME enrolment is well below capacity at the schools. It is unlikely that applicants who are technically outwith any new zone would be denied entry. She also said that casting too wide a net with the catchment area could tie the council up in obligations that it might struggle to fulfil. The approach in Gilcomstoun is one of total immersion, so the reliance is on Gaelic speaking teachers and support staff in terms of supporting that provision. We have actually had significant challenges in terms of recruiting Gaelic speakers into those posts, so I think it would be very high risk to look to try and expand that further into different locations. She added that education officials are looking into adding to the provision further by tapping into digital learning resources and teachers available nationwide through e-Sgoil. Other members worried that discussing the issue at this point would only serve to pre-empt the public consultation and pushed for the agenda to move forward. Regardless, it will be up to the public to decide whether to implement the proposes catchment areas, modify them or scrap the idea completely. The councils vote paved the way for a consultation period to begin at the end of the summer. There will be a public meeting in September. | https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/news/schools-family/who-can-go-to-gaelic-school-confusion-over-proposed-catchment-areas-for-aberdeen-gaelic-education/ |
Is it time we all adopted skin minimalism? | Long gone are the days wed splash a bit of water on our face and get on with our lives: now, many of us have wised up to the world of skincare and use multiple products a day. While thinking more about protecting our skin can only be a good thing it is our bodys largest organ, after all knowing exactly what to put on your face can get confusing. It seems like were constantly told about new, unpronounceable ingredients we should immediately start using, and by the time youve bought everything thats supposedly good for your skin, youre piling on 12 products a night. This can be expensive and perhaps even irritating for your skin which is why a new trend has emerged to combat these complicated, multi-step routines: skin minimalism. Using the minimum amount of skincare products to achieve a basic skincare routine, explains Dr Shaaira Nasir, consultant dermatologist at sk:n (sknclinics.co.uk). Skin minimalism can save you money and time, says Nasir. Additionally, it reduces the chance of causing irritation from using too many products, or of using products that arent needed (they can overlap in use and function). The pandemic caused many of us to move away from make-up and get more invested in the self-care rituals of skincare. However, falling into the trap of using too many products is something Nasir sees time and time again. She says many of her clients are continuously adding more steps into their routine over time, either because they feel like they arent getting the results they want, or because they think more is better. Following trends can contribute to this as well for example, the 10-step Korean beauty trend. Layering on too many products comes with potential dangers: it can cause irritation, Nasir says, which can lead to breakouts and worse conditions like acne, rosacea and eczema. Nasir recommends taking things slow. Instead of binning all the products in your routine, take them out one at a time waiting a few weeks in between changes so you can really analyse whether a product has been helping or harming your skin. She also advises knowing what your skin type is, and picking product ranges accordingly for example, if you have oily skin, look for specifically-formulated products. Everyones skin is different consult your GP or a dermatologist if you have questions but for Nasir, there are three basic products everyone should have in their armoury to build a solid, but simple, skincare routine: a good cleanser, moisturiser and sunscreen (SPF 30 or above). When trying a new routine, dont expect to see changes straight away. Usually, you should wait eight weeks before seeing the full results of a product, Nasir says. Minimalist skincare products This is when its handy to know your skin type. When it comes to cleansers, dry skin needs more hydrating or milky cleansers, while oily skin might use foaming cleansers, recommends Nasir. For moisturisers, she suggests dry skin will benefit from moisturising creams, while oily skin may want to use a lotion or hydrating serum something that wont block pores. And lastly, for SPF only needed in the mornings, after youve washed and moisturised Nasir recommends a gel sunscreen for oily skin, and everyone else will be fine with a regular cream or fluid. If you want to go a step further than these basic three issues, Nasir recommends using a chemical exfoliant once or twice a week. Depending on skin type, oily skin can tolerate more and are better suited to using a BHA (beta hydroxy acid), she says. For anti-ageing skincare, I recommend adding in a vitamin C serum in the morning, and retinoid at night. This would mean adding in more products so be careful, go slow, and remember this is all about stripping things back, not adding in as many ingredients as you can. Depending on what your skin condition is like, you may need a specific targeted treatment that uses active ingredients, Nasir says. The cleansers Murad Clarifying Cleanser, 27 Murad Clarifying Cleanser, 27 Keys Soulcare Golden Cleanser, 20, Cult Beauty Keys Soulcare Golden Cleanser, 20, Cult Beauty Scientia Peachy Clean Milky Oil Cleanser, 24 Scientia Peachy Clean Milky Oil Cleanser, 24 The moisturisers La Roche Posay Toleriane Sensitive Cream Moisturiser, 12.37 (was 16.50) La Roche Posay Toleriane Sensitive Cream Moisturiser, 16.50 Sukin Facial Moisturiser Pump, 7.95 Sukin Facial Moisturiser, 7.95 Cerave Hyaluronic Acid Serum, 16.99, Superdrug Cerave Hyaluronic Acid Serum, 16.99, Superdrug The SPFs Grown Alchemist Natural Hydrating Sunscreen, 33, Harrods Grown Alchemist Natural Hydrating Sunscreen, 33, Harrods Hawaiian Tropic Mineral Sun Milk Face SPF30, 7.99, Superdrug Hawaiian Tropic Mineral Sun Milk Face SPF 30, 7.99, Superdrug Heliocare 360 Oil Free Gel, 31 Heliocare 360 Oil Free Gel, 31 | https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/spf-korean-bha-superdrug-harrods-b1859516.html |
What Makes Linux Hosting Cheaper Than Windows Hosting? | Shared hosting is the king when it comes to choosing an affordable hosting plan. Every type of web hosting service has its unique characteristics and features that set it apart from others. For example, where shared hosting provides affordability and reliability, dedicated server hosting offers uncompromising performance. Both sit at the opposite ends of the web hosting pricing spectrum. But each hosting plan can be the right choice for a different set of website owners. Similar to segregating by the technology it uses, hosting can also be categorised by the operating system. Different operating systems can power the same type of hosting platform. All hosting platforms can use either Linux or Windows operating systems. Apart from the differences in performance, the Linux variant is always cheaper than the Windows version. Lets look at the reasons that make Linux Hosting cheaper than Windows hosting. It is open source Windows is a proprietary operating system that charges a license fee for use. Linux, on the other hand, is an open-source operating system that charges no such fee. Cost-wise, this is the biggest difference between the two. Hosting providers pass on the cost of licensing fee to their customers, which adds to the cost of the hosting plans. It is modular Linux is a modular operating system which essentially means that you can add extra functionalities through easy-to-use plugins. All these plugins and extensions are also open source, and almost all of them are free to use. Windows is modular to a certain extent, but its plugins, like the operating system, are also proprietary. So site owners end up paying extra for adding crucial functionalities. It is efficient Linux hosting with cPanel is often easier to maintain and costs less than maintaining a Windows hosting server. The ease of maintenance results in improved efficiency, which in turn keeps unexpected downtimes to a minimum. Lesser downtimes equal less spending on maintenance and more savings on associated costs. Thus, while it may not be obvious, efficiency is a major reason for Linux hostings lower prices. It is reliable As an operating system, Linux deeply supports a web hosting environment. The best Linux hosting offers robust reliability that keeps maintenance cycles to a minimum. If you consider the average, a Linux web hosting server requires a significantly lesser number of reboots to keep functioning at peak performance. Thus, the reduction of time spent in more frequent reboots results in more savings, keeping the prices low. It is customisable Since Linux is an open-source operating system, it allows site owners to modify behaviour or add customised functionality. Windows offers no such access to its source code. If you want to add any functionality to your website, you must purchase and install the appropriate plugin. It adds to the overall cost. And many a-times, an extra module may not even completely fulfil your requirements. Regardless of your choice of hosting platform, you will have to choose between Windows and Linux. While that choice will be based on your specific requirements, it can also be the other way round. Share this post: on Twitter on Facebook on Google+ | http://www.wavemagazine.net/what-makes-linux-hosting-cheaper-than-windows-hosting/ |
Is losing from one hand enough? | Elie Wiesel, who wrote so compellingly about the Holocaust, said in an interview, "Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain." It might be useless removing a loser from the dummy if you remain with a loser in your hand. South, after starting with a strong, artificial two clubs and receiving a negative reply, might have jumped to three spades, guaranteeing a solid suit. But if North had, say, jack-sixth of hearts, that could have been the best trump suit. After North showed diamond length and some 4-7 points, South bid what he hoped he could make. South had 11 winners and two club losers. But as dummy luckily had only two hearts, declarer's plan was to discard one of dummy's club losers on the third heart, then to ruff his last club on the board. So, declarer won the first trick with the club ace (though he could have ducked here), cashed those three heart tricks, discarding a club from the dummy, and conceded a club trick. South won the next trick and ruffed his last club with dummy's spade eight, so there was no risk of an overruff by East. After drawing trumps and claiming, declarer thanked his partner for having the spade eight and West for not having a trump to lead at trick one. Love 0 Funny 0 Wow 0 Sad 0 Angry 0 | https://thetandd.com/is-losing-from-one-hand-enough/article_28cf72bf-6722-5f67-ab13-2ef8a6aef2a4.html |
Is The Conjuring 3 a True Story? Is Devil Made Me Do It Based On Real Life? | The fantastic horror franchise The Conjuring has often been lauded for telling stories with its roots set in reality. The movies portray deeply frightening and scary cases that real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren have worked on in their careers. James Wan directed the first two movies of the series, while The Curse of La Llorona fame Michael Chaves took up the helms for 2021s The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It. The story of the third movie revolves around a murder suspect who admits to carrying out a murder. However, he adds that he was not responsible for the crime as a demonic power possesses him and forces him to commit the murder. Even with the premise sounding like a far-fetched story, fans are interested to know if the third installment has its claws in real life. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is partially based on a true story even though the film employs numerous fictional tropes and occasionally gives way to completely fictionalized incidents. According to history, Ed Warren was a veteran of the second world war who became obsessed with Demonology after studying the subject. On the other hand, his wife, Lorraine Warren, alleged that she was a clairvoyant. She claimed that she could reach out to and even communicate with various spirits and demons who dont belong to our world. Together, the Lorraines opened their own organization in 1952. Through the organization called the New England Society for Psychic Research, Ed and Lorraine took on paranormal cases and began investigating them to the best of their abilities. 2013s The Conjuring was based on the actual experiences of the Perron family after they moved into a house on Harrisville, Rhode Island. The hauntings shown in the movie, as well as the spirit, Bathsheba, were found to be real. Ed and Lorraine did investigate the case, and although they did not attempt an exorcism as shown in the movie, they did attempt a sance. 2016s Conjuring 2 also borrowed its plot from another real-life Ed and Lorraine case. Between 1977 and 1979, there were several claims of paranormal instances and demonic possessions at a house in Brimsdown, Enfield. Later gaining fame as the Enfield Poltergeist, the claims mostly revolved around two sisters and their supposed possession by a spirit. The real-life case caused quite a stir in the paranormal circuit, which led to numerous arguments debating over the authenticity of the case. Like the previous two movies, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is also based on a paranormal case that Ed and Lorraine Warren worked on in Connecticut. Borrowing its plot from the real-life trial of Arne Cheyenne Johnson, the film takes us back to the first and the only time in the United States when a suspected murderer pleaded not guilty based on claims of demonic possession. Arne Cheyenne Johnson was arrested for killing his landlord while in the middle of a severe argument. When produced in court, Arne admitted to the murder but claimed that he was under the possession of a demonic spirit while committing the crime. The film portrays this real-life incident perfectly and shows how the entire courtroom, as well as the country, were astonished at the never-heard-before line of defense. The movie also stays true to the real-life incident of David Glatzel. Several months before Arnes landlords murder, the Warrens were called to check up on an 11-year-old boy named David Glatzel. There were claims that he was possessed by an evil spirit and the Warrens were their last-ditch effort at getting him cured (Though, it should be noted that Davids brother, Carl, never believed in these claims). After investigation, the Warrens concluded that David needed an exorcism. Lorraine admitted later that David showed most signs of demonic possession, including growling and making unusual noises not befitting of human beings. However, not being formal members of the church, neither Ed nor Lorraine was authorized to carry out a proper exorcism. Thus, they took the help of priests and began asking the church to take up the matter and set up an exorcism. In total, three exorcisms were carried out on David Glatzel. Arne was dating Davids sister at that time and was present in the room during the exorcisms. He reportedly provoked one of the spirits to possess him. Eyewitnesses on the scene later claimed that the spirit left Davids body and entered Arnes. However, it should be kept in mind that there are various dramatized versions of how Arne ended up getting possessed with no specific way to find out what actually happened. It has also been reported that after being possessed, Arne often showed symptoms of growling and hallucination, though the presence of an otherworldly spirit could never be scientifically proven. Furthermore, the movie also stays true to the ending wherein the Judge refuses to entertain a demonic-possession argument and instead finds Arne guilty. Even with the movie borrowing its story from real life. The writers and producers have wildly exaggerated the real-life case if only to provide more thrills and scares. The satanic cult called the Disciples of the Ram did not exist in real life. The frightening totems, reanimated corpses, and visible spirits are also quite far-fetched. Additionally, the director has used conventional horror tropes like cobweb-infested spaces, scary empty houses, and the dark, which have no mention in the real-life case either. Thus, we can see how The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It borrows its central plot from reality. However, the movie deviates wildly through far-fetched supernatural incidents that look fantastic on the movie screen but have no base in real life. | https://thecinemaholic.com/how-much-of-the-conjuring-the-devil-made-me-do-it-is-true/ |
Is Liseys Story a True Story? Is Stephen King's Show Based on Real Life? | Directed by Pablo Larrain and created by Stephen King from his own bestselling novel, Liseys Story is a horror-thriller miniseries of considerable strength. The story follows the titular character, a widow of a famous author, who posthumously embarks upon a journey to rediscover herself after her husbands untimely death. At the same time, she is followed by one of her husbands psychopathic fans, who seeks to extract his unpublished manuscripts by scaring her. Staying true to the authors predispositions, the horror of the story is humane, as it stems from turbulences in psychology. Atmospheric, brooding, slow-burning, and driven by the star powers of Julianne Moore and Clive Owen, the series creates enough tension to keep one hooked from the very first episode. However, if you are asking whether the story has a real-life basis, allow us to be your ally. No, Liseys Story is not based on a true story. Although the story is fictional, it is a deeply personal one for the author. The series is directed by Pablo Larrain of Jackie fame and based on Stephen Kings novel of the same name. In a rare occurrence, the author also wrote the screenplay himself to have complete autonomy over the creative process, whereas he has expressed his discontent before with some of the earlier adaptations of his works that excluded the author from his creation altogether. Examples include the highly acclaimed Stanley Kubrick classic The Shining, which garnered overwhelming fan praise but failed to impress the author, who initially imagined the protagonist as an essentially good man morphed by cosmic diabolical forces. In the re-imagination of Kubrick, the protagonist becomes a psychopath, (driven by a delirious performance by the prolific Jack Nicholson), and the director bases the story on his own interpretation, erasing the boundaries between good and evil. In Scott Landons imaginary world of Booya Moon, however, there is no place for evil. Scott Landon is figured in the story as an internationally recognized author guided by his peculiar artistic vision. In this description alone, we find parallels between the creator and the character. The picture gains a little more clarity when we get to know that the inspiration behind the story is a near-death experience faced by the author, which in turn, profoundly impacted his ideas on mortality. Most of Kings novels stem from a simple what-if premise, and the present work followed the thought, What if, one fine day, I found myself departed from life? The thought consumed the mind of the author as he was recovering from a fatal accident. As King himself reconstructed the events, June 19, 1999, was a day as any other. The writer saw his son off at the airport, came back to his home in western Maine, arranged for a movie night with family, and went out on his regular walk into the woods, and took a leak. However, on his way back home, a blue Dodge caravan hit him with all its might, effectively throwing him into a ditch 14 feet away. On the wheel was a 43-year old drifter called Bryan Smith, who immediately became subject to nationwide hatred from Kings fans. It was a miracle that the writer was still alive, but he contracted pneumonia two years later as an after-effect of the accident. The story came to him as he was going through these trying times. Although the author denied the story being completely autobiographical, he was keen to indicate his wifes quietude over the book. In Kings own words, I do think sometimes she feels like Ive gotten caught in a little bit of a warp there. And she may feel that its a little close to the bone. Spouses of acclaimed people are often discredited, and he worked the factor into the story. Lisey is called Yoko by a character in the story, and the sudden pop-cultural association inevitably reminds one of the deaths of Lennon. Like Landons assailant, Lennons murderer Mark David Chapman was a fan of Lennon. But more than that, Lennons killing indicates the profoundly impactful nature of fiction in the readers imagination, as Chapman was influenced by J. D. Salingers rambling masterpiece Catcher in the Rye. Other than these immediate associations, another driving force behind the story is the authors contempt towards academia with all its unmistakable self-importance. The pool of the story is also very much real, as it alludes to the bottom of the conscience where feelings and memories transmute into language. So, although the story is fictional, as it unfolds in the same Maine fog the author is familiar with, it resides too close to home. Read More: Stephen King Shows/Movies on Netflix | https://thecinemaholic.com/is-liseys-story-based-on-a-stephen-kings-novel/ |
Is Dancing Queens a True Story? Is the Netflix Movie Based on Real Life? | Netflixs Swedish comedy-drama Dancing Queens dives into Queer culture and explores gender fluidity through a glitzy, heartwarming lens. The movies protagonist Dylan finds an unlikely outlet for her innate dancing talents when she gets the chance to be part of a famous, albeit aging, drag act in the city. To blend in, however, she must pretend to be a man, who must then pretend to be a woman for the drag performance. The ruse, though daunting, opens up a new world for Dylan, who in turn breathes new life into the once-famous, now irrelevant drag performance. The film gives us interesting, albeit brief insights into the nuances of drag culture and stardom, references which Dylan also uses to convince her troupe that she is one of them. Lets take a look at whether this movie is based on a true story. No, Dancing Queens is not based on a true story. The films portrayal of an aging drag queen, his frustrated troupe, and their young choreographers attempts to revive them rings true with its accurate pop-cultural references, like the dated song I Will Survive which is a point of contention between the old guard and the new. Most significantly, the movie features the famous Swedish drag artist Robert Fux, who commends the Queens on their performance. However, behind these convincing touches of realism is a fictional story co-written by the films director Helena Bergstrm and Denize Karabuda. Helena doesnt believe in the air-tight compartmentalization of peoples identities, which is what first inspired her to make a story about transgender identities. She wanted to explore the lifestyle through a lens of empathy and understanding, in a way that made transgender culture accessible to a wide range of audiences. Additionally, her message of embracing ones identity is delivered through Dylans story wherein she initially tries to change her identity but ultimately finds success when she is unapologetically herself. The exploration of drag culture is one of the major story arcs of the movie, with the cisgender female protagonist attempting to disguise her way into the drag dance performance. Hence, both the audience and the protagonist learn about the nuances of the lifestyle choice simultaneously. The authenticity of Dylans performance was further bolstered by Molly Nutley, the actress essaying Dylan, also being new to drag culture and subsequently learning about it during filming. Hence, even before it was finished, the film was already achieving its goal of educating people about drag. Actors Claes Malmberg, who plays the aging drag queen Tommy, and Razmus Nystrm who essays Sacha, also brought to the roles their own past experiences with portraying queer characters. They both attributed their initial knowledge of drag culture to the famous Swedish drag act named After Dark, inspired by the Stockholm nightclub it premiered at. The cast also listened to lectures to familiarize themselves with drag culture, which each of them described as deep, intricate, and vast in scope. Helena attributes the feel-good nature of the movie to her aim of making it as accessible as possible, going so far as to call it a love bomb for all humans. She points out the scene where Tommy, upon the discovery that Dylan is a woman, cant understand what all the fuss is about and keeps saying that theyre all women anyway. For Helena, this scene is one of the most important and encompasses the films theme of acceptance and empathy. Everyone, in the end, is human, she says. Dancing Queens makes the clever use of modern-day drag icon Robert Fux and various real venues like the Grand Theatre, known as the Stora Teatern, in Gothenburg to give viewers the feeling that they are watching a true story. To its credit, the film delivers a message of universal truth through a fictional story and aims to simplify a complex lifestyle choice to make it more accessible and acceptable to audiences. Read More: Best LGBTQ Movies on Netflix | https://thecinemaholic.com/is-netflixs-dancing-queens-based-on-a-true-story/ |
Is Why Women Kill a True Story? Is the TV Show Based on Real Life? | Why Women Kill is not your average murder mystery series. Created by Marc Cherry (Desperate Housewives), the anthology series is a blend of dark comedy and satire that looks at age-old women-centric issues in a new light. It features an ensemble cast that includes the talents of Lucy Liu, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Ginnifer Goodwin, Allison Tolman, and Alexandra Daddario. If you have binged watched even a handful of episodes of the gripping series, you must be wondering whether its interwoven tapestry of personal conflicts laced with sharp humor is inspired by any true stories or real events. No, Why Women Kill is not a true story. The series is based on an original concept from the creator Marc Cherry. The first season of the show consists of three seemingly unconnected stories of three women living in different eras dealing with infidelity in their marriage. The second season set in 1949, follows a group of housewives and their dark secrets. Despite the muli-narrative structure, the basic outline of the show remains the same: a journey of self-discovery. The intentionally misguiding title might lead you to believe that the show tackles the titular question. However, the show tweaks the murder mystery format, and the murders only become relevant towards the end of the season. For the most part, the series takes a satirical look at the reaction of a woman to a certain situation. Marriage and Infidelity are the major themes in the first season, and social status and acceptance are the major themes in the second season. In an interview, creator Marc Cherry revealed that he harbored an idea for a series about a housewife for quite some time before deciding to play around with the idea in the murder mystery genre sandpit. Cherry wished to examine the response of women from different time periods to the same situation. For the first season, Cherry took infidelity as the starting point for the womens distinct journeys of self-discovery. The start of the second season finds the main character in a place of social anonymity and sets her on a path of becoming a popular figure in the local community. These vastly different journeys that the female characters on the show go through are designed to address how the role of women in society has changed over the past decades. In an interview with New York Post, Cherry revealed that he wished to tackle the current political issues differently. Im dealing with classic issues, and I do hope to say a little something about how womens roles have changed and how marriage has changed. Its a reminder of why women make different choices in different eras they were affected by the times in which they live. Im sneaking the politics in the middle of all this fun debauchery, said the writer/ producer. Cherry has also revealed that while developing the female characters for the show, he drew inspiration from his mother to make the characters relatable. Likewise, Cherry also sought inspiration from classic TV show characters and actresses of the bygone era for the personalities and appearances of the female characters. In conclusion, Why Women Kill upholds the idea that women are hiding more than they let on, as hinted by the title. However, the shows fictional story completely flips the murder mystery tropes and deals with issues that women have faced for decades. Its a mostly fun take on relevant issues which and has little semblance with reality. | https://thecinemaholic.com/is-why-women-kill-a-true-story/ |
Do The Upfronts Still Matter? | Radha Subramanyham, chief research and analytics officer at CBS Corp., says AVOD and SVOD streaming options and linear TV can coexist without enmity. It is our job to understand our customer base and move people seamlessly through our experiences, she says. Note: This story is available to TVNewsCheck Premium members only. If you would like to upgrade your free TVNewsCheck membership to Premium now, you can visit your Member Home Page, available when you log in at the very top right corner of the site or in the Stay Connected Box that appears in the right column of virtually every page on the site. If you dont see Member Home, you will need to click Log In or Subscribe. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2262988423941/do-the-upfronts-still-matter |
How do Instagram influencers grow their following and make money? | The lives of online influencers often seem interesting, exciting and glamorous and those who work hard to build up a loyal follower base can also find its a good way to make money. Georgia Kelly, strategic partner manager at Instagram says she loves seeing people grow their brands and businesses. Creators are at the heart of culture on Instagram; they set trends and signal whats next, says Kelly. Its so exciting to witness that, and we want Instagram to be a place where they can both grow their personal brand and make money. Georgia Kelly Its tough for creators starting out not least during a pandemic so weve worked really closely with them and tried to put ourselves in their shoes, so we can build products and features that can be genuinely useful, she adds. Instagram has various initiatives to support its creators, such as recently testing out the use of IGTV video ads. It allows Instagram to support creators using IGTV, by offering them payment for ads shown. Kelly says there has been positive feedback from content creators and advertisers. The website has also expanded access to a paid partnership with tool, which clearly shows when a commercial relationship exists. According to the platform, this allows people to be up-front and build trust with their fans about when they are being paid to post content. In October, it also launched Badges for Instagram Live to more than 50,000 creators globally, opening up more monetisation options. Badges can be purchased by viewers during a live video and they appear next to a persons name. Fans buying them will stand out in the comments and unlock additional features, Instagram says. It has also been testing out shopping initiatives in the United States and hopes to bring this to more markets soon. Here are some top tips from filmmaking duo TOPJAW (@topjaw) who create food and travel content. Were primarily a long-form (longer and more detailed) content creator. The pair advise being as authentic as possible. When we speak to our audience like we would our friends, thats when we see the most engagement and growth. Its also important to keep content real, as though youre giving others an insight into your life behind the scenes, they add. Tone of voice is key to TOPJAW. We write how we speak, with all the hyperbole, sarcasm and of course the jokes at each others expense. Its all part of the TOPJAW brand and one of our USPs. Posts with close-up faces, action and food and possibly all three together can also really grab attention, they add. Our long-form content is just food and travel. Sure, our personalities and relationship shine through, but it is heavily sandwiched between fast-paced cinematic informative content, resembling a Netflix show on fast-forward. Instagram allows followers to get a clearer insight into our lives, interests, other relationships, and wider friendship circle. They say consistency is also important, and caution against the temptation to over-post, adding: Quality and relevance is key. Prior to posting anything, we stop and think, do our followers reeeaaallly want to see this? How do you work with companies. Its reasonably rare for us to approach companies. Were always planning and working on self-produced and self-funded content, as we are still growing. They do have a list of dream companies theyd love to work with, but note: We find that we are in a much better position regarding creative control and fee negotiation when the brand has approached us, rather than the other way around, so we tend to play the waiting game. | https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/instagram-igtv-instagram-live-united-states-london-b1859528.html |
How Were The Carbon Contents In Terrestrial And Lunar Mantles Established? | According to the theory of planet formation, rocky bodies such as the Earth were formed by repeating collisions from dusty materials. In this process, a number of Mercury- or Mars-sized planetary embryos, were formed, and eventually these bodies merged together and formed terrestrial planets in our solar system. During the formation of the planetary embryos, the interior of these bodies was likely to be molten due to the heat by radiative-decay elements and a collisional energy of the planetary embryos. At this stage, iron and silicate separate, and form the metallic core and silicate mantle. Elemental partitioning occurs between the metallic core and mantle, and siderophile (iron loving) elements are removed from the mantle. Previous studies have experimentally investigated carbon partitioning between liquid core and molten mantle in terrestrial planets, and pointed out that carbon partitioned into the mantle was much smaller than the estimated carbon contents in the Earth's mantle today. Thus, how and when most of the carbon in the Earth's mantle was delivered in was a great mystery. In previous experiments, the sample was saturated with carbon because of the use of a graphite capsule. However, given the carbon contents in chondrites which are considered as the main building block of the earth, it is unlikely that the bulk Earth is saturated with carbon. Moreover, element partitioning between two phases varies with the concentration of the element of interest even if the pressure and temperature conditions are identical. Thus, care must be taken when previous experimental results under carbon-saturated conditions apply to terrestrial planets. Nevertheless, the effect of the carbon concentration on its metal-silicate partitioning behavior was not investigated. Researchers of Ehime University, Kyoto University, and the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) conducted new high-pressure experiments on carbon partitioning between metal and silicate using chondritic starting materials and an SiO2 glass capsule instead of a graphite capsule. As a result, they found that the carbon partitioned into molten silicate in the sample using an SiO2 capsule was nearly saturated with carbon. This suggests that if planetary embryos contained the similar amount of carbon as chondrite, their mantles may also have been nearly saturated with carbon. In addition, if the mixing between metallic core and mantle was not efficient during the merging impact of planetary embryos, the mantle of proto-planets would be expected to retain nearly saturated amounts of carbon. Indeed, the solubility of carbon in magma equilibrating with metallic iron is very consistent with that in the Earth's mantle, suggesting that the carbon content in the Earth's mantle may be a natural consequence of the core-mantle partitioning of carbon during the formation of the Earth. Please follow SpaceRef on Twitter and Like us on Facebook. | http://spaceref.com/moon/how-were-the-carbon-contents-in-terrestrial-and-lunar-mantles-established.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceref%2Fjext+%28SpaceRef+-+Space+News+as+it+Happens%29 |
Will Oakland Version Of The Battery SF Club Get Weird If A Lot Of Black Folks Try To Join? | video by the YouTube channel in the videos upper left hand corner. Five years ago I visited the Battery SF Club at 77 Battery in San Franciscos Financial District, had a ton of fun, and vlogged that it was what Oakland needed because my city has a tendency to be, well, uptight. Fast forward to today, and what has change is first, the homeless problem in Oakland was just starting to be, well, just that. Second, a lack of affordable housing has pushed a number of Black Oaklanders either out of Oakland or to the streets of Oakland. And Third, the seemingly constant problem of police brutality came to a head nationally with the murder of George Floyd. And finally, we have The Pandemic to make all of this just that much worse. And now, that has caused massive population shifts because of closures of businesses all over America. Its estimated that as many as 20,000 people left San Francisco for Oakland, Berkeley, and the East Bay in 2020. All of that brought Michael Birch to focus on purchasing The Bellevue Club on Lake Merritt and making it into a kind of Battery SF East, or I prefer Battery SF Oakland. The San Francisco Battery has a handful of Black members, and when i went the folks I ran into I knew were all white and in tech. Look. I am not the norm. For example, I was at The Twitter Launch Party at Mighty SF and so was my friend Cathy Brooks, who was also working for Loic Lemur on his LeWeb events in France. I could go on. But, today, the number of Blacks in tech who live in Oakland has grown and a good set are venture capitalists. Some of my friends who are Black and in business in Oakland have been members of the Battery in SF and quit because they thought it was elitist. A lot of questions and because what Michael Birch is about to do should be regarded as a social test of Oaklands culture in the wave of tech wealth thats washing over it. Lets talk. Stay tuned. via IFTTT Note from Zennie62Media and OaklandNewsNow.com : this video-blog post demonstrates the full and live operation of the latest updated version of an experimental Zennie62Media , Inc. mobile media video-blogging system network that was launched June 2018. This is a major part of Zennie62Media , Inc.s new and innovative approach to the production of news media. What we call The Third Wave of Media. The uploaded video is from a YouTube channel. When the video is liked by Zennie62 YouTube, then it is automatically uploaded to and formatted automatically at the Oakland News Now site and Zennie62-created and owned social media pages. The overall objective here, on top of our is smartphone-enabled, real-time, on the scene reporting of news, interviews, observations, and happenings anywhere in the World and within seconds and not hours is the use of the existing YouTube social graph on any subject in the World. Now, news is reported with a smartphone and also by promoting current content on YouTube: no heavy and expensive cameras or even a laptop are necessary, or having a camera crew to shoot what is already on YouTube. The secondary objective is faster, and very inexpensive media content news production and distribution. We have found there is a disconnect between post length and time to product and revenue generated. With this, the problem is far less, though by no means solved. Zennie62Media is constantly working to improve the system network coding and seeks interested content and media technology partners. LET ZENNIE62MEDIA TELL YOUR STORY Let ZENNIE62MEDIA Tell The Story About You The Media Refuses To Produce. Visit our site and hire Zennie62Media. Send the link to [email protected] for consideration for Oakland News Now. | https://oaklandnewsnow.com/will-oakland-version-of-the-battery-sf-club-get-weird-if-a-lot-of-black-folks-try-to-join/94809/ |
Where was Sweet Tooth on Netflix filmed? | New Netflix fantasy series Sweet Tooth is set in a verdant post-apocalyptic North America (specifically places like Essex County and Yellowstone National Park) but in real life, deer-boy Gus (Christian Convery) and his friends were strolling around New Zealand, which doubled for an overgrown US. Advertisement We looked into New Zealand and after shooting that first episode, its like, there was just no other place that we wanted to be, executive producer Susan Downey told RadioTimes.com. Everything seems a little brighter and bigger than real life. And so it made for the perfect setting for this adventure and the crew. It was amazing. I mean, everybody fell in love with it. Originally, we were only going to do the pilot there, just to sort of establish a great, big look, and then do the show somewhere in North America, added co-showrunner Jim Mickle, noting that this first episode was shot in 2019. But I think within a week or two, it was like, You cant do this show anywhere else. Weve got to come back here. And then it wound up being, obviously, the best place during COVID. Check out more details of Sweet Tooth filming in New Zealand below. Netflix Sweet Tooth filmed in a variety of locations around New Zealand, mostly around the South Island and Auckland, with the latter including the Animal Army headquarters, filmed at an actual amusement park called Rainbows End. We shot it in New Zealand, we shot it kind of all around the South Island and Auckland, Downey told us. And it was an incredible place to shoot. I mean, you know, look, that place in and of itself feels like a fairy tale. This IS the news you're looking for The best sci-fi news and features this side of the Outer Rim. Thanks, you are now signed up to our sci-fi and fantasy newsletter! We look forward to sending you our email updates. Sign in to/ register for a RadioTimes.com account to manage your email preferences Sign in Register To manage your email preferences, click here. Sign me up! Immediate Media Company Limited (publishers of radiotimes.com) would love to send you our sci-fi and fantasy newsletters. We may also send occasional updates from our editorial team. You can unsubscribe at any time. For more information about how we hold your personal data, please see our privacy policy. Netflix The production team apparently fell in love with New Zealands look, which they felt perfectly matched the mood of the story they were telling. When we were building our production plan, I dont think we immediately knew because it wasnt like set in New Zealand or anything, Downey said. But we knew we wanted something that offered incredible production value. I really love the way that stuff looked that was shot there you know, because of A) the locations, but also theres just the way that the light falls thats interesting, you know? added Mickle. And the craftmanship of, you know, the cinematographers and the designers. I was always enchanted by the idea of doing something there. We brought it up really early in the process because we were like, We need to find somewhere that has a fairy tale America kind of thing. That is kind of the definition of the look there. The production value, you know, its unlike anything else, agreed co-showrunner Beth Schwartz. It has the beautiful landscapes. You just get so much out of shooting there. Netflix While many of the team had been keen on New Zealand as a location for some time, others took some convincing. And apparently, what finally swung it was something very simple the weather. At first, I think it made everyones head explode, the idea of getting up and going to this tiny island, co-showrunner Jim Mickle told RadioTimes.com. And then we lucked out because when we were going to shoot the pilot, it was actually the wrong season in North America to shoot it. Suddenly, we were like, Well, you know where we can go? And everybody felt that was a good idea. And we got all ready. And then we got delayed by like six months. And we actually filmed with the opposite problem. But by then, wed fallen in love with it so much, and we ended up going. Advertisement Sweet Tooth is now streaming on Netflix. Check out our Sci-Fi and Fantasy pages or our full TV Guide. | https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/sweet-tooth-netflix-filming-locations/ |
Which prefecture would one regret never visiting? | goo Ranking asked which prefecture people would regret all their life not visiting. The top 10 is no real suprise, and Fukuoka is the only place I havent been to; Fukuoka city has a quite famous night-time street food culture that Id like to see, but perhaps not eat as its mostly ramen 15 and 16 are the first mostly-unknown prefectures for me. Toyama has mountains and fluorescent squid, but Shimane is just the back-of-beyond for me. It has a couple of well-known shrines, but so has every other prefecture. Next-door Tottori is 32nd, but it has huge sand dunes that I might be interested in seeing, as well as a quite famous coffee culture. I put last-place Tokushima into a picture search engine, and heres the first (well, second; first was a scenic valley ) photo that popped up. This is the traditional dance, Awa Odori, which is performed at an annual festival that I thought was popular. (Sample size=500, multiple answer) Rank Votes 1 Hokkaido 239 2 Okinawa 202 3 Kyoto 153 4 Tokyo 82 5 Osaka 80 6 Fukuoka 79 7 Chiba 60 8= Kanagawa 56 8= Nara 56 8= Hiroshima 56 11 Nagasaki 52 12= Hyogo 49 12= Kagoshima 49 14 Ishikawa 45 15 Toyama 41 16 Shimane 35 17 Miyazaki 33 18= Nakano 30 18= Mie 30 20= Gifu 27 20= Kagawa 27 22= Shizuoka 22 22= Kumamoto 22 24= Miyagi 19 24= Akita 19 24= Kochi 19 24= Oita 19 28= Aomori 18 28= Iwate 18 28= Tochigi 18 28= Saitama 18 32= Yamagata 15 32= Fukushima 15 32= Aichi 15 32= Tottori 15 32= Ehime 15 37= Gunma 14 37= Niigata 14 37= Wakayama 14 40= Fukui 11 40= Yamanashi 11 40= Shiga 11 40= Yamaguchi 11 40= Saga 11 45= Ibaraki 7 45= Okayama 7 45= Tokushima 7 Demographics goo Rankings asked iBRIDGEs Research Plus to conduct this survey, where on the 23rd of March 2018 500 members, 50:50 male and female and aged between 20 and 49 years old, of their monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. No further demographics were given. | https://whatjapanthinks.com/2018/04/15/which-prefecture-would-one-regret-never-visiting/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WhatJapanThinks+%28What+Japan+Thinks%29 |
Could Game 6 loss be Terry Stotts' final game as Blazers head coach? | originally appeared on NBC Sports Northwest The Trail Blazer season -- and perhaps Terry Stotts' tenure as the team's head coach -- ended not with a bang, but a whimper Thursday night in Moda Center. Portland lost its first-round playoff series in its sixth game, by blowing a 13-point lead with three minutes left in the third quarter and collapsing down the stretch at both ends of the court. The final score was 126-115 in what likely will be the final game Terry Stotts coaches the Trail Blazers. This began as a no-excuse season when the Blazers took off-season steps to shore up last seasons leaky defense -- but to no avail. And even though the Portland offense was extraordinarily good, defense was a constant problem in what proved to be a disappointing season -- in a year when it appears the Western Conference is as wide open as it has been in several seasons,. Stotts has had nine seasons in Portland and there is evidence that in the last few seasons, he either hasnt been able to find a useful defensive scheme, or his players quit listening to him. His other issue has been accountability. At times, it didnt appear so. Asked about his future in Portland after the game, Stotts responded with a predictable answer. Im under contract for two more years, he said. Just like at the end of every year, we're all evaluated -- players, coaches, management, we're all evaluated. So, we'll see what happens. But, you know, at the end of the season, when you lose, everybody's evaluated so we'll see what happens. But all I know is that I'm under contract for two more years. The smart money is saying that he will likely be collecting that contract somewhere other than Portland. Story continues Change is in the air. And this playoff series, against a team without its starting backcourt, didnt do anything to help Stotts. The Blazers shot 50.6 from the field and 41.7 from three-point range Thursday and the Nuggets did better in both categories. In the fourth quarter, with the season on the line, Denver shot 50 percent from the field and the same from three-point distance. Portland, with that great offense all season, was completely disconnected on offense making just 5 of 18 shots, including 0-5 from three. The Nuggets rattled off 11 straight points late in the fourth period to put the game away. The Blazers were outscored 28-14 in the fourth quarter. Asked about the final-quarter meltdown, Stotts played it down. I kind of tend to stay away from the word meltdown, Stotts said. Sounds a little over the top. But we didn't make some shots. They made some big plays. It may not have been a meltdown, but if not, it was a nice impersonation of one. And likely the last one Terry Stotts will see as the Trail Blazer coach. | https://sports.yahoo.com/could-thursday-nights-blazer-playoff-034454623.html?src=rss |
Was Gavin Hunt architect of his own downfall at Kaizer Chiefs? | Sibongiseni Gumbi Chiefs announced Hunt's shock sacking last week with only two leagues games left before the end of the season. There are signs that Gavin Hunts man management skills or lack thereof may have been a cause for his downfall. ALSO READ: I cant say anything: Hunt on his Kaizer Chiefs sacking This comes after Amakhosi just lit up in their first game after his sudden and unexplained recusal. Long serving midfield workhorse, Willard Katsande hinted at the team getting a new lease on life post Hunt in his comments before Wednesdays match. And on match day, Amakhosi were buzzing and managed to come back from behind twice to end up winning the tie 3-2. This season has been bad, we should have done better . we should have built from last season because we had a good run in the league, and we got a spot in the Champions League. We should have continued from there, said Katsande earlier this week. Katsande also said Chiefs players revel when they are happy and it showed on Wednesday. Here we look at three players who suddenly found their groove post Gavin Hunt: 1. Willard Katsande He was as committed and hard working as he has always been. He looked willing to help the team and his solo run where he took on and beat three Arrows defenders for pace before setting up Lebogang Manyama for the first goal is evidence to this. 2. Lebogang Manyama Manyama was lively. Perhaps it was the position he played that allowed him to get into the right spaces to score the hattrick. He played as a wide forward with Leonardo Castro on the other side and Samir Nurkovic in the centre. 3. Leonardo Castro He also looked to enjoy himself and sent in some telling crosses from the right as a wide forward. Nurkovic could have scored from one of his pinpoint crosses but headed wide. Castros work rate was also high, and he didnt look tired at all. | https://citizen.co.za/phakaaathi/local-soccer/2513212/was-gavin-hunt-architect-of-his-own-downfall-at-kaizer-chiefs/ |
What have Indias farmers achieved after six months of protests? | For six months now, images of Indian farmers protesting on Delhis roads have been beamed around the world. Farmers have been protesting changes to Indias agricultural laws they say would undermine their autonomy as cultivators. The new laws would create monopolies in the grain markets and trap farmers into contract farming arrangements with corporate buyers. Beginning with the north-western state of Punjab in July 2020, the protests gradually spread to other regions of the country. The most spectacular of these protests occurred when farmers arrived in large numbers at the borders of the national capital in late November 2020. Estimates of their numbers at this point vary, but they were certainly in excess of 50,000, and their numbers swelled to around 300,000 within a week or so. It peaked in January when nearly a million more of them arrived from across the country and drove their tractors on the roads of the Indian capital. They have been sitting on the roads since their arrival, surrounding Delhi from all four sides, and occupying the major highways connecting the national capital to different parts of the country. Their sit-ins covered so large an area they began to look like distinct townships, covering an area of 10-15 kilometres at each site. They have been sleeping in the trolleys they brought along tied to their tractors and have set up huge pandals (temporary auditoriums made of canvas tents) for their protest speeches. They also play protest music, most of which is composed and sung by their own, the Punjabi singers from Punjab, Mumbai, and Canada. Their resilience has been remarkable. They have sat through the harsh winter when night temperatures in Delhi are as low as 1-2. They are now sitting in protest in the scorching heat, undeterred by a deadly second wave of Covid raging across India. This has been no picnic, as has been reported by some news channels in India. More than 400 protesting farmers have died, mostly at the protest sites around Delhi, unable to bear the hardships of the weather and living conditions. Some have also died at the local protest sites in different states, and a few in road accidents while travelling from their villages to the protest sites on Delhis borders. The Indian government introduced a set of new laws that would change the way farmers sell their farm produce. Affairs relating to agriculture are legally a domain of the provincial or state governments. But the national government took the extraordinary step of pushing these three new laws through as trade and commerce bills. The government not only ignored all objections raised by the opposition parties, they also held no meaningful discussions with the farm unions and other stakeholders to allay their concerns. The professed motivation behind the introduction of these laws was the liberalisation of the agricultural market by incentivising large corporates to engage with farmers and farm produce directly. The first of the new laws proposes to deregulate the purchase of agricultural goods, bypassing the existing marketing arrangements where grains such as wheat and rice could not be sold below a certain price. The second provides a framework for contract farming where the farmer enters an advanced contract with a buyer and the buyer gets to decide what seeds to use and how to grow the crop. The third is an amendment to a pre-existing law, which abolishes the previous restrictions on the storage of food grains and other agricultural goods to discourage large-scale hoarding. Together they open up the agricultural sector of India to active commercial engagement by the big corporates, enabling them to purchase and hoard produce and sell it later at a much higher price than what they pay to the farmers for their crops. It also means these large corporates could be in charge of deciding what crops a farmer must produce. More than 85% of Indian farmers have small holdings, less than two hectares. This means it would be hard to engage, and compete, with the large corporates. The farm unions see these laws as the Indian government pandering to the corporates, and fear the end of independent farmers. Indian agriculture has been in a state of crisis for the past two decades or more. The most painful manifestation of this has been the rising rate of suicides among farmers across the country (28 per day in 2019), many of whom are indebted to informal sources such as relatives or usurious money lenders. Various governments over the years have promised to help agriculture by raising farm incomes. The current government, led by Narendra Modi, promised to double farm incomes by implementing the recommendations of a 2006 pro-farmer report prepared by a government-appointed committee. The farm unions have had 11 rounds of talks with representatives of the central government, but the stalemate continues. Farmers hope if they keep the pressure on, the government will be forced to concede to their demands. But perhaps their biggest achievement so far has been putting farming back on the national agenda. The second wave of Covid-19 has dampened the farmers mobilisations. But they continue to sit on the borders of the national capital, just in lesser numbers. Farmer leaders campaigned against the ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) during the recent state elections in West Bengal. They see the BJPs defeat as their victory. Their protests continue locally, across the states of Haryana, Punjab, western Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and elsewhere. They have said they will protest until the next national election in 2024 if they have to, where they would be hoping their campaigning would defeat the Modi government. If West Bengal is anything to go by, perhaps prime minister Modi would do well to heed their demands. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. | https://qz.com/india/2016852/what-have-indias-farmers-achieved-after-six-months-of-protests/ |
Where did Australias first cases of the Delta variant come from and how infectious is it? | Photograph: William West/AFP/Getty Images Two members of a West Melbourne family who visited New South Wales last month before testing positive for Covid-19 have been found to have the Delta variant of Covid-19. Its the first time the variant first identified in India has been found in the community in Australia. The World Health Organization has begun using letters of the Greek alphabet in its designation of new Covid variants, and the Delta variant, also known as B.1617.2, is the name given to the variant first detected in India in October 2020. The WHO says it has now been detected in 62 countries and is becoming the dominant variant in several countries including Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. In the United Kingdom it is estimated to be the variant in 75% of cases. Related: Delta variant of Covid found in West Melbourne family who travelled to NSW In Australia, all of the more than 60 cases in Melbournes outbreak have been linked to the other variant first detected in India the Kappa variant except for the two West Melbourne cases. Victorian health authorities said the Delta variant was discovered after examining the genomic sequence of the virus detected in two cases in a family of four that travelled to NSW in late May. They visited Goulburn and Jervis Bay before becoming symptomatic and getting tested. The variant was first detected in a child in grade five in a school in North Melbourne, and it is likely it was child-to-child transmission. There are now seven cases across two families linked to this cluster, after two adults and a child tested were reported as positive cases on Friday. Another child is an indeterminate case. About 70% of the 300 identified close contacts of the family who have been isolating have returned a negative test result. The source of the original transmission remains unknown. Victorias chief health officer, Prof Brett Sutton, said health officials in Victoria are hunting down any leads, by looking at sequences of the virus detected in hotel quarantine, through airlines, and through maritime, diplomatic and other ways people have returned to Australia. Story continues We have to explore all avenues, he said. Honorary senior research fellow at the George Institute for Global Health, Prof Alexandra Martiniuk, said variants were more likely to occur in countries with large numbers of cases. Martiniuk said Delta is one of four so-called variants of concern where the variation either increases transmissibility, increases virulence, has a more severe presentation in hospital or decreases the effectiveness of the public health response. Kappa is a variant of interest, which is still more infectious than other strands but hasnt been observed to have as high community transmission as Delta and other variants of concern. Delta is a more concerning variant than the Kappa variant, she said. Kappa is currently listed as a variant of interest not as concerning as Delta at this point. Sutton said he was concerned about the very high level of transmissibility, plus the anecdotal reports that it was more transmissible between children than other variants. Its too early to say. The severity or duration of disease compared with original SARS-COV2 for the Delta variant is currently not yet known, [theres] not enough research yet, Martiniuk said. In England where 38,805 cases were sequenced, they found the Delta variant was associated with a 2.61 times higher risk of hospitalisation within 14 days than the Alpha variant. Vaccines seem to have an impact on transmission. In the UK, it was reported that 75% of the Delta cases were people who were unvaccinated, with just 3.7% of people who were fully vaccinated getting the Delta strain. A total of 5% of those hospitalised with the Delta variant were fully vaccinated. Australias chief medical officer, Prof Paul Kelly said the efficacy of AstraZeneca against this particular variant was yet to be seen. Sutton said the identification of the Delta variant in the community would not change plans immediately, as close contacts connected to the family were isolating and getting tested. But he said it was important to find the source, and whether there were more cases linked. We need to understand where it has come from. That means there are unidentified upstream cases, whether they are in Victoria or elsewhere is to be determined. | https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/where-did-australia-first-cases-074406712.html?src=rss |
Why Do Monthly Android Updates Matter? | Owning an Android phone used to mean a guessing game over whether or not you would receive updates and for how long. Thankfully, that has changed quite a bit in part because there are fewer players to try to understand, but also because the few remaining companies making phones have been clearer with their schedules. For example, we know that Google delivers monthly security updates for a full three years and rarely misses delivery. We know that they also deliver three years of big Android version updates the minute they are available. Samsung, on the other hand, gives a full three years of monthly updates (sometimes before Google pushes them) followed by an additional year of quarterly updates. They give three years of version updates too, but not as quickly as Google, though they have started to push them within about 3-4 months of Google doing so. And then you have OnePlus, who is on a three year schedule for bi-monthly security patches, along with two years of regular updates that includes feature updates and Android version upgrades. Their update schedule is not easy to follow, but they do issue updates pretty regularly, especially for their newer, higher-end devices. If you own one of their Nord phones, well, you shouldnt buy those expecting much software support. After those three companies, there arent many left who make phones worth talking about, but we do know that Motorola is really bad at updates. Their $1,000 Edge+ phone has seen all of six updates in a year, one of which was an update to Android 11 that took six full months from when Google released it. Sony is equally as bad here in the US, if not worse. So as you can see, Android updates arent so unpredictable any longer. We know when Samsung and Google will release them and for how long. OnePlus has mostly committed to telling us whats going on too. And then after that, Im not sure there are many players left who you can rely on, but those first three companies carry a good portion of Android sales in the US. Let us know. Yes, won't buy a phone without them No, but I still need regular updates I don't care much about updates View Results | https://www.droid-life.com/2021/06/03/poll-do-monthly-updates-matter-to-you/ |
Can Boris Johnson Fix Britains Rail System? | Boris Johnson Image Credit: Gulf News My father loved to tell a story that during the last days of WWII he was traveling through England and then working for the Department of Supply, ensuring that agricultural produce, mainly food for war rationing got where it should be. And that meant traveling through England by train. If youve traveled to North London before, the Cheshire town of Crewe is where train passengers change to Manchester, Liverpool or North Wales. And it was in Crewe that my fathers story took place. As he relates, a group of soldiers were playing cards and there was a large amount of banknotes in play on the table. The lights in the waiting room suddenly went out, there was a growl and then a scream. When the lights came back on, a soldier had his hand impaled on the banknotes with a dagger, stopped in his attempt to steal the money by the swift actions of another player. I thought about it as I walked through Crewe on the train to London. The railway industry still dominates the city, its local League One club in the third tier of English football is known as The Railwaymen, and there is an intricate network of sidings at Central Station where dozens old trains, rolling stock, engines all in the liveries of ancient incarnations of British rail systems now stand in homage to the train as a mode of transport. Successive governments since World War II have tried to fix the British rail system, whether by cutting thousands of miles of track and closing hundreds of stations, nationalizing the railway under a large British Rail umbrella, or by selling parts to franchise operations. twenty years ago, in a disastrous policy that saw only shareholders rewarded as rail services dwindled and ticket prices skyrocketed. Booking a train ticket in England is now a complicated matter more complex than booking a flight, requiring you to carefully monitor when traveling, which train provider you may be using, and to make sure you dont accidentally get lost in them. first class coaches. For example, I had planned to travel from London to Glasgow. A one-way trip during off-peak hours booked at least a week in advance would cost 104 (540 Dh). I flew for 39. Regular commuters to London face an annual seasonal pass cost of up to 5,000 with limited seats and overcrowded trains, or when rail union collective action stops service because franchises want the driver is solely responsible for ensuring that the train doors are closed and the passengers are all on board. Last week it was the turn of Prime Minister Boris Johnsons government to try to fix the broken train service. Yes, my return trip from London was initially delayed by an hour due to an unruly passenger on a train in Watford who delayed all train services from Euston, then a signal failure further delayed service by from Northampton. The government said its massive overhaul would improve the situation for long-suffering passengers. Instead of British Rail, which died with the franchise spin-off, Great British Railways will now set train times and ticket prices as well as manage the rail infrastructure. Im a big fan of rail, but for too long passengers havent had the level of service they deserve, Johnson said. By creating Great British Railways and investing in the future of the network, this government will provide a rail system of which the country can be proud. As it stands, UK passengers have the highest price per kilometer in Europe. Indeed, one of the fallacious arguments used by many Brexit supporters to push to leave the EU was that Brussels was preventing proper reform of the UK rail system. This was overkill, given that train travel across the EU is generally cheap, efficient and always on time! I must hasten to add that Luxembourg yes, it is small but nevertheless became the first country in Europe to make all public transport free. Yes, you read that right. ALL public transport is free. The government has also pledged to give an additional $ 1 billion to Transport for London (TfL) to cover operational costs for the rest of the year. But there are strings attached. TfL should actively strive to run London Underground trains without train guards, with the driver alone responsible for ensuring trains run safely. Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, is grateful for the extra money, but says hell is fighting tooth and nail against the idea of an individual train. As it stands, the UK government has also committed to building HS2 a high speed rail link between London and Birmingham first, then to Manchester and Leeds and other northern cities. The price to date is 100 billion and is increasing day by day, the first trains will not run until 2028 and a good part of the possible investment will have to be recovered from the passengers. HS2 will cut travel times between London and Birmingham to just over an hour. Its great for commuters, but after Covid-19 there are now fewer people making train trips to or from offices as work from home has taken hold. And with HS2 to fund, is that a reason critics are already saying that Johnsons Great British Railways plan will go without adequate funding, a prerequisite for an efficient rail system, like you will find on the continent. | https://exbulletin.com/politics/963823/ |
How to play Land Races in GTA Online for triple money and RP? | Each week GTA Online introduces new bonus activities for players to participate in and reap double or even triple cash and RP. This week, players will get to test their driving skills as Land Races will net them triple the amount of cash and RP they usually would. Land Races are Rockstar Created races that offer plenty of variety and excitement, and each track is a great way to make some extra dough in GTA Online. One of the biggest reasons why players aren't able to participate in such PvP modes is that they might not be playing the mode for lobbies to fill up quickly in matchmaking. However, given the fact that Land Races are worth Triple Cash and RP this week, players are bound to be flocking to the mode right now. Participating in a Land Race is fairly easy and straightforward in GTA Online. Since it is a bonus activity, there will be an option to load right into the mode while on the loading screen itself. However, if the player is already in the game, they can follow these steps to participate in a Land Race: Open the Pause Menu Go to Online Select Play Job > Rockstar Created > Races Under Races, look for "Type: Land Races." Select the most interesting one and wait for matchmaking A Land Race will test the player in various vehicles in different environments, which makes them so exciting. GTA Online truly leaves no room for complaint when it comes to variety in game mode, as one can spend countless hours and still not discover everything that the game has to offer. Also in store for this week for players in GTA Online is the Overflod Entity XXR in the Diamond Casino as the Podium Vehicle. Players can try spinning the Lucky Wheel and hopefully land on the Podium Car to get a free vehicle. Edited by Shaheen Banu | https://www.sportskeeda.com/gta/how-play-land-races-gta-online-triple-money-rp |
Which is the best Minecraft Dream SMP series? | The Dream SMP, a private survival multiplayer (SMP) Minecraft server, was originally for the Dream Team, but has spread to dozens of other YouTubers and streamers. At this point in time, it is mostly known for being a roleplay-themed server with slightly improvised scripts that involve tons of wars, nation creation, and tons of laughter and heartbreak. The Dream SMP was created on April 24th, 2020, meaning it just finished its one year anniversary. Because of it's somewhat long run, it can be daunting for new Dream SMP fans to get caught up on all the action, simply because so much does happen in such a short time. Below is a bit of information about the this server, followed by the best Dream SMP series for users to get caught up on all things Dream SMP related! Read: Minecraft Bedrock 1.17.10.21 beta version patch notes: Full list of changes for Windows and Xbox revealed The server has 34 members, apart from a few guests (Image via YouTube) Current members of the Dream SMP As of now, there are about 34 members on the Dream SMP. Most are Minecraft streamers and YouTubers, and they include: Dream GeorgeNotFound Callahan Sapnap Awesamdude Alyssa Ponk BadBoyHalo TommyInnit Tubbo Fundy Punz Purpled Wilbur Soot Jschlatt Skeppy Eret Jack Namifold Niki Quackity Karl Jacobs HBomb Technoblade Antfrost Philza Connor Puffy Vikkstar LazarBeam Ranboo FoolishGamers Hannah Slimecicle Michaelmcchill In the Dream SMP, there are also tons of guests who have been added and who have played very occasionally, including Ninja, Andrea, Pokimane, Corpse, KSI, Mr Beast and more recently, Lil Nas X. With so many very active streamers and YouTubers on the Dream SMP, it can be hard to keep up with everything going on. Of course, those who broadcast often keep the stream up for people to view later. Even then, so many users stream simultaneously, so it can be challenging to keep track. However, a YouTube channel called "BlueBerry TV" has multiple playlists for each aspect of the Dream SMP Minecraft server: Tales of the SMP, Seasons 1-3, a singular plot playlist, and some others as well. If players are interested in getting into the Dream SMP or have not been caught up in a while, BlueBerry TV is a handy channel to get caught up on the Dream SMP Minecraft server, so they must ensure to give this channel a watch! Note: This article reflects the author's views. Edited by Ravi Iyer | https://www.sportskeeda.com/minecraft/which-best-minecraft-dream-smp-series |
How much is the Floyd Mayweather vs. Logan Paul fight on PPV? | One of the most discussed events in recent boxing history, the Floyd Mayweather vs. Logan Paul bout, takes place at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, on June 6, 2021. The pay-per-view (PPV) cost of the event is $49.99 and can be purchased through Showtime or Fanmio. While Showtime is accessible for viewing solely in the United States and its territories, viewers from the rest of the world can purchase and watch the PPV through Fanmio. The card consists of four fights: Jared Hurd (24-1-0) vs. Luis Arias (18-2-1) Chad Johnson (0-0-0) vs. Brian Maxwell (0-3-0 Badou Jack (22-3-4) vs. Dervin Colina (15-0-0) Floyd Mayweather (50-0-0) vs. Logan Paul (0-1-0) Former NFL star Chad 'OchoCinco' Johnson will make his boxing debut against Brian Maxwell in the night's second fight. While the first three fights are pro boxing bouts with betting odds, the headliner between Mayweather and Paul is an exhibition that will not affect either fighter's record. Floyd Mayweather and Logan Paul face off ahead of their highly anticipated bout 'Money' and 'The Maverick' came face-to-face ahead of their fight at Villa Casa Casuarina, popularly known as the Versace mansion. The media scrum hosted at the popular venue saw fans reminded about the towering height advantage Logan Paul has over Floyd Mayweather. Regardless, 'Money' exuded nothing but cold confidence. He even followed Paul when the YouTuber seemed to walk away from the face-off a tad early. The faceoff is over when Mayweather says its over @FloydMayweather wouldnt let @LoganPaul take a step back or break eye contact during todays stare down. (: @OmarESPN) pic.twitter.com/Pw76MYZMnq ESPN Ringside (@ESPNRingside) June 3, 2021 Also Read: Watch: The bizarre moment Floyd Mayweather needed a member of his entourage to open a bottle of water for him Logan Paul seems to be taking his preparations rather seriously and is confident that he can use his size advantage to knock 'Money' out. Mayweather, on the other hand, will look to make a statement and earn another easy payday. Please take 30 seconds to answer this survey so that we can better understand how to serve your MMA needs. Edited by Avinash Tewari | https://www.sportskeeda.com/mma/news-how-much-floyd-mayweather-vs-logan-paul-fight-ppv |
What are the benefits of rosehip oil? | Welcome the tea tree oil face washes into your beauty routine and see the magical results in just a few days. Tea tree oil is one of the most effective elements in skin care products that protect from rashes, blemishes, dark spots, and acne. This ingredient helps to control the excess sebum in order to reduce the emergence of those horrible breakouts. If you have severe issue of skin redness and itchiness, then it is also a helpful element. Needless to say, it deserves place in your skin care routine and definitely a great addition. If you are planning to shop different essential beauty products and items, then you must explore couponegypt.com for discovering Faces code. Apply this code at the cash counter and receive major reduction on entire beauty range. After tiring and hectic research, we have finally uncovered some best tea tree oil face washes that you can use daily without any danger of side effect. Scroll down to see the list. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2263627798229/what-are-the-benefits-of-rosehip-oil |
Can Workers in California Legally be Paid in Cryptocurrency? | Zein Obagi Jr. LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, June 3, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- As the value of cryptocurrencies has exploded in 2021, many people are looking to get in on the craze. But as with many new business trends, the waters of the crypto world can be very tough to navigate. One area where these waters are particularly murky is in how most people get their currency. Both federal and state employment law do not specifically address cryptocurrency as a form of payment, which leaves the answer to that question open to interpretation. But two areas which could hold the key to that answer are A) whether cryptocurrency is actually currency, and crypto's notorious volatility. Federal law allows employers to combine U.S. and foreign currency to be used as payment to employees, so long as payment is in a "negotiable instrument payable at par." California law prohibits payment in the form of coupons or other redeemable items, though it does not specifically mention cryptocurrency. So if cryptocurrency is found to have the same legal standing as foreign currency, that could help it qualify as currency. In terms of cryptocurrency's well-documented volatility, two issues could be at play when it comes to determining its potential as payment for wages. And the issues of payroll reporting and tax withholdings for cryptocurrency are far from settled. If you have been paid in cryptocurrency, or have questions about potentially being paid in cryptocurrency, you should seek counsel to discuss your options. ------------------------- Zein E. Obagi Jr. With more than a decade of experience as a licensed attorney serving Californians, Zein E. Obagi, Jr. carries a reputation as a game-changing fierce advocate. He fights for employees who have fallen victim to hostile employers and for individuals who have lost assets to dishonest business partners. With his combination of experience, passion and willingness to bring the full power of the law to bear for his clients, Zein has built a firm that delivers on its credo to each of its clients. After working for a variety of firms in Los Angeles, including one of the largest and most prestigious in the city, Zein founded what is now Obagi Law Group, P.C. in 2012. In the years since, Zein has built a team of diverse, energetic and highly skilled attorneys who specialize in righting the wrongs of discrimination, unlawful retaliation, wrongful termination and other abuses in the workplace, as well as protecting clients interests in the world of business in California. With Zein leading the way, the attorneys at Obagi Law Group treat each client as if he or she were the firms only client, delivering time and again and attaining awards at times in the millions of dollars. While Zein makes social justice and fighting for the little guy hallmarks of his practice, he also lives by the same values he has woven into the fabric of Obagi Law Group. For instance, being raised with six sisters and married to a successful physician, Zein understands that men and women are equal in every way. He continues to advance this belief not only in his practice, but through his work with the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA). In July 2020 the organization appointed Zein to the Presidents Advisory Committee on Women in the Legal Profession. Among Zeins other public-service endeavors are a trio of trips to the Katrina-ravaged Gulf Region to supply critical pro bono legal aid as part of the inaugural and two subsequent Legal Aid Alternative Breaks Projects; volunteer work with the Los Angeles 5 (LA5) Chapter of Rotary Club International, and two runs as a candidate for U.S. Congress in Californias 33rd District. A graduate of UC Berkeley (BA, political science) and the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law (JD), Zein enjoys admission to practice law throughout the State of California; the U.S. District Court for the Central, Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of California; the Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals; and the Supreme Court of the United States. Zein also serves as Co-Chair of Programs with the LACBA Small Firm Section, and in 2020 was appointed to another LACBA committee, the Judicial Appointments Committee, which responds to requests by the Governor to evaluate individuals under consideration for appointment to the Superior Court of California bench. | https://www.einpresswire.com/article/542892545/can-workers-in-california-legally-be-paid-in-cryptocurrency |
What is CBSE's objective criteria for Class 12 evaluation? | After the cancellation of Class 12 exams, it brought a big relief for the students who were awaiting a decision. But there is still some confusion regarding the evaluation criteria. In the meeting chaired by PM Narendra Modi, he directed CBSE to ensure that the results criteria are objective and announced in a time-bound manner. In this series, CBSE has given a couple of suggestions on how the class 12 board exam result should be evaluated. However, a clear decision is still pending. All the students are advised to keep track of the official website of CBSE for further notice. Watch the video to find out more. | https://www.indiatoday.in/india/video/cbse-board-exams-what-is-cbse-s-objective-criteria-for-class-12-evaluation-1810684-2021-06-04 |
What is Braun Strowman's net worth? | Braun Strowman's WWE release wasn't something that the fans had anticipated. The Monster Among Men won the Universal title at last year's WrestleMania by putting down Hall of Famer Goldberg. He was recently involved in the WWE title picture alongside Bobby Lashley and Drew McIntyre. Braun Strowman moved tons of merchandise during his WWE run and was paid handsomely by the company throughout his stint. Braun Strowman's net worth The latest reports indicate that Braun Strowman's net worth as of 2021 is $2 million. It's safe to say that if Strowman has been smart with his finances over the years, he won't need to approach another wrestling promotion anytime soon. Strowman's intimidating stature played a crucial role in him getting over in front of the WWE Universe. He signed a deal with WWE way back in 2013 and had a brief run in NXT. He was revealed as the newest member of Bray Wyatt's Wyatt Family in August 2015. Braun Strowman was pushed as a main event star in 2017 when he kicked off a feud with Universal Champion Brock Lesnar on the road to No Mercy. The Beast finished him off with a single F-5 and The Monster Among Men never really recovered from this loss. When Roman Reigns pulled out of his Universal title match against Goldberg at WrestleMania 36, it turned out to be a blessing for Strowman. He realized his dream of becoming the top titleholder in WWE when he defeated Goldberg on The Grandest Stage Of Them All and held the belt for months on end. Strowman consistently sold a huge amount of merchandise and was among the top sellers in the first quarter of 2020. Looking at his popularity among fans, his lucrative WWE salary doesn't seem too surprising. The latest report by Sean Ross Sapp stated that the primary reason for Braun Strowman's release was his WWE contract. I've learned Braun Strowman's huge contract was likely the catalyst for his release. More here. Subscribe to https://t.co/jy8u4a7WDa for morehttps://t.co/ZEbNWOf4JS pic.twitter.com/tvGiz3yued Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) June 2, 2021 Fans might remember that Strowman signed a four-year contract with WWE in 2019. He shared a message with fans shortly after inking the deal and looked hopeful for his future as a WWE Superstar. Unfortunately, Braun Strowman's WWE career has come to an end and he has yet to reveal what he plans to do in the near future. Dear reader, could you take a quick 30-second survey to help us provide you with better content on SK Wrestling. Here's the link for it. Edited by Alan John | https://www.sportskeeda.com/wwe/what-braun-strowman-s-net-worth |
When does Portugal go on the amber list? | BRITS currently on holiday in Portugal were thrown into chaos after the Government demoted the country to its amber list. The announcement was made on June 3 with the change coming into effect next week. The change officially takes place at 4am on Tuesday, June 8, 2021, meaning anyone returning after that date will have to self-isolate for 10 days. Brits are now rushing to book flights home in order to beat the deadline. Travellers returning from Portugal and other amber list countries will be required to take a pre-departure PCR Covid test and provide a negative result. They will then have to pay for a further two tests on days two and eight of their 10-day quarantine. Brits can opt for private Covid test providers, which can cost between 120 and 300 per person - or slightly cheaper options are available from Boots and Superdrug. Portugal was today relegated from its green status after ministers sounded the alarm about a worrying new "Nepal mutation" of the Indian variant detected in the holiday hotspot. Confirming Britain's "difficult but decisive decision" - first revealed by The Sun Transport Secretary Grant Shapps warned 68 cases of the Indian "Delta" variant had been identified in Portugal. They include cases of the emerging Nepal mutation - and the minister said it was currently unclear if vaccines were effective against the strain. Portugals foreign and tourism ministers have said it's hard to grasp the logic behind the demotion, describing it as "unfair and completely inadequate". Portugal's Ministry for Foreign Affairs tweeted: "We take note of the British decision to remove Portugal from its green travel list, a decision whose logic is difficult to grasp. "Portugal continues to carry out its prudent and gradual deconfinement plan, with clear rules for the safety of those who live here or visit us." Whether or not you're entitled to a refund for your Portugal holiday depends on the advice from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). The Government's traffic light system indicates what countries it deems safe for Brits to travel to and what processes must be followed upon return. But the assessed risk factors for travel are different to those of the FCDO - sometimes the FCDO will deem a country safe, even though it's on the amber list. And it's the FCDO advice that holiday firms use to assess whether a holiday can go ahead. Although the FCDO advice hasn't changed yet, if it does advise against travel to Portugal, then you will be entitled to your money back from a package holiday provider. You aren't entitled to your money back if the the Government simply moves it to the amber list. If you need to cancel your trip because you aren't able to self-isolate when you're home the you should expect to forfeit the full or part of the cost of the trip. This is because you've decided not to go on holiday not because the trip has been cancelled by circumstances beyond your control. Most countries, including most of Europe, are on the UK's amber list - and are currently not advised for travelling to on holiday. People travelling to the UK from amber list countries have to quarantine for 10 days at home. Most read in News Exclusive KILL BUDGET 'Fat' Freddie put aside 35k to murder David 'Daithi' Douglas with Lee Canavan ROBBERY PROBE Cash-in-transit worker held at gunpoint during armed robbery in Dublin torturers' threats Captors told Kevin Lunney they watched him for six weeks, court hears covid crisis Donnelly and Holohan to meet Limerick officials after Covid spike in county MEALS ON WHEELS 21 great street food options to enjoy around Ireland during outdoor summer COURT HEARING Boy to face five-day trial accused of sexually assaulting teen girl in park All amber list arrivals will also need a pre-arrival Covid test, as well as tests on day two and day eight of quarantine. However, Brits can pay for a fourth test as part of the Test to Release scheme, meaning they can leave the self-isolation earlier. While travelling to amber list countries is not banned - unlike red list countries - the government has warned against holidays to them. | https://www.thesun.ie/news/7090241/portugal-amber-list-holiday-when-rules/ |
How does Overwatch 2s Push game mode work? | With the release of Overwatch 2 looming sometime in the future, fans of the franchise are always ready to dig into new aspects of the game. One of the key features we continue getting new information about is the new game mode, Push. Push, which will be released alongside Overwatch 2, and features a singular robot named TW-1 that will be tasked with pushing a large barricade deeper into enemy territory. However, unlike a normal Escort or Hybrid game where only one team is tasked with pushing the objective, Push is more of a tug-of-war between both sides. Players will battle around TW-1 and try to gain control of it by standing near enough to have the robot push it towards the opposing side. There will be multiple checkpoints for both teams, with new spawn points unlocking as progress is made towards either base. Players can win a game of Push by getting TW-1 to push the barricade all the way to the end of its line on one side, which will end the round. And if the game ends without one team reaching the end when time or overtime runs out, the team that reached the furthest point will win. Blizzard developers have specifically noted that the game was designed to focus less on pushing the robot to the final checkpoint and more around frantic battles to keep the other team from undoing your progress. Push will be a core game mode, with multiple maps specific to it being added to Overwatch 2. Right now, those maps include Rome and Toronto, with more likely to come in the final version of the game. | https://dotesports.com/overwatch/news/how-does-overwatch-2s-push-game-mode-work |
How old is Matilda Freeman? | MATILDA Freeman is a rising star who shot to fame on Corrie. In June 2021, the actress was praised by fans when she came out as bisexual. Matilda was born in Chester on August 31, 2004, which makes her 16-years-old. She is best known for playing Summer Spellman on Coronation Street from 2017 to 2020. The actress made her TV acting debut when she was just 12-years-old playing Esther in the 2016 television show Dropperz. You can follow Matilda on Instagram @officialmatildafreeman. Matilda last appeared in Corrie as Summer in August 2020. On her Instagram stories, Matilda explained that she'd decided to leave Corrie to "able to work on other shows/films/projects". She said: "When you work at Corrie you're under a contract which means you can't work on anything else while youre there so it was quite limiting." Matilda featured in several big storylines during her time in the soap, including Todd Grimshaw's initial exit and Billy Mayhew's drug addiction. On June 3, 2021, Matilda was praised by her fans after she came out as bisexual. She was asked what her sexuality was on Instagram and she revealed that she is attracted to both men and women. "I'm bisexual," Matilda simply answered, adding another love heart to the post. Most read in Celebrity Pippa's palace Pippa O'Connor sends fans wild as she transforms garage into 'dream' bedroom tot troubles Donal Skehan shares video of son getting head stuck in bin on holiday in Clare fav family Dermot Bannon 'emotional' meeting family who lost dad to suicide on new show THE CRAIC WAS 90S How Ireland has changed in the 30 years since hit Barrytown trilogy Exclusive wandering eye Chloe Ferry's boyfriend Owen Warner 'messaged model begging to meet' winning strategy Ex-Eurovision winner says Sinead O'Connor or Westlife 'answer' to crown After fans sent their support, she returned to her Instagram Stories to thank everyone for getting in touch. Matilda said: "Can I just say thank you for all the love and support I've received after making my sexuality aware on my socials. "I really wasn't expecting it and it means the absolute world, you guys are amazing. I love you all." | https://www.thesun.ie/tvandshowbiz/7090156/matilda-freeman-actress-age/ |
Is it the end of the road for live news on OTT? | With the ambiguity surrounding intermediary guidelines and the FDI in digital news, several large OTT platforms are planning to remove live news channels from their platform. SonyLIV has already initiated the move by pulling down their news bouquet. The intermediary guidelines call for OTTs to classify content based on age. But the platforms contend that the regulation is silent on live news feeds, which cannot be classified. Further, the platforms have no control over the content that is transmitted through live news channels. The other reason why OTTs have done away with the news bouquet is the 26% FDI limit in digital news, which they believe is also a grey area. The move to remove live news has raised questions about whether the platforms have anything to lose. Since the category had a negligible impact on the viewership as well as revenue, experts say that OTTs can afford the decision. The streaming players have lakhs of hours of on-demand entertainment content, which drive consumption on the platform as well as ad and subscription revenue growth. While the news is an important category, the OTT platforms are not too concerned since it is not a driver content for them when it comes to viewership. Its impact on OTT revenue is even less. Interactive Avenues EVP Harish Iyer said: "None of the OTT guys were depending heavily on news that much and the kind of traffic that news generated for them was less than 10%. It's not going to impact anything. I don't think so. "With the amount of content that resides on their platform, I don't think anyone is able to monetise more than 35-40% at best. News going out will not pinch but will allow them to save some licence fee." According to Iyer, linear channels had a different understanding with different OTT platforms. "Everyone was operating at a different understanding with linear TV guys. Some OTT players would opt for a clean feed and on that clean feed, they would insert their advertising using technology by players like Amagi. Some of them were not giving clean feeds so they were deprioritised from being easily discovered on the platform," he noted. A digital media expert said that the OTT players would not be paying more than a couple of lakhs a month in licencing fee to news channels. He further added that one of India's topmost news networks was not getting more than Rs 35 lakhs a year from individual OTT platforms and they were not available on more than two or three OTT platforms. "I think that a single OTT platform is not spending more than Rs 5 crore per year on news. That amount would be spent on multiple channels across languages. Disney+ Hotstar and SonyLIV don't have a presence in the news so they would have to spend more than other platforms like say ZEE5, which has in-house news channels. Other smaller OTT platforms will not be spending much on news," the expert said. Since most news channels are free to air (FTA) they don't have the pull to get subscription income. "TV news is an FTA business. News cannot be monetised on OTT beyond the licensing fee. Even from a viewership point of view, the news genre is not more than 10-12% of the overall viewership and the peak time is only for an hour. Monetisation is significantly smaller," the expert said. The fragmentation of news viewership is another area that bogs down the category. "News is fragmented and doesn't have the ability to get significant revenue from digital. It doesn't impact OTT at all. Despite being a grey area, OTT platforms are removing news since it doesn't impact their business. For them, entertainment is much more significant business to be taken care of," the expert averred. He feels that the focus area for all OTT platforms is to comply with the new IT rules rather than focus on live news. "Rather than getting sandwiched between news and OTT regulation they are saying 'let's focus on OTT regulation'," he noted. The growth in the volume of entertainment content has diminished the value of news in the overall scheme of things. "Three or four years ago, news was important because there was only television content on OTT. But now, the volume of entertainment content has gone up significantly between original and acquired content. So news has become a very small segment for OTT platforms," the expert said. According to the revenue head of a leading OTT platform, even if OTT players are investing in live news, there are a lot of challenges as far as advertising is concerned, which is why there is not much demand for it. Some of the deals between OTT and news channels are pure licence fee deals while some are on a revenue share basis. "The intermediary issue will lead to the untimely demise of live news. No one is even talking about it. News is not the core of any OTT platform. It might be important for players like YuppTV. The consumption of news is very low at 9-10%. Over and above that, we cannot serve ads on live news because programmatic ads cannot run on live TV. On the video, programmatic ads have the highest demand," the source said. Uday Reddy, CEO of YuppTV, which aggregates and distributes 58 news channels to subscribers in India and abroad, said, "News is an important category on OTT. We are mostly aggregating broadcast news channels and have seen good traction. We will continue to have live news on our platform as it drives traffic. Audiences that are shifting to digital also want to consume news on OTT." Read more news about (internet advertising India, internet advertising, advertising India, digital advertising India, media advertising India) | https://www.exchange4media.com/digital-news/is-it-the-end-of-the-road-for-live-news-on-ott-113353.html |
Why Cant We Call It An Emergency? | TV newsman Bill Moyers likes to tell the story of how Edward R. Murrow, the pre-eminent US broadcast journalist of his time, insisted on covering what became Germanys invasion of Poland in 1939. Murrows bosses at CBS News had other priorities; they ordered Murrows reporters to cover dance competitions in Hamburg, Paris, and London, explaining that Americans needed some happy news. Murrow wouldnt do it. Itll probably get us fired, he told his colleagues, but he sent his correspondents to the German-Polish border; they arrived just in time to witness Hitlers tanks and troops roar into Poland. Suddenly, Europe was at war. And Americans heard about it because journalists at one of the nations most influential news outlets defied convention and did their jobs. Today, all of humanity is under attack, this time from an overheated planet and too many newsrooms still are more inclined to cover todays equivalent of dance competitions. The record heat waves and storms of 2020 confirmed what scientists have long predicted: climate change is underway and threatens unparalleled catastrophe. And because carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere for centuries, temperature rise and its effects are only getting started. As one scientist said as wildfires turned San Franciscos skies orange last September, Were going to look back in 10 years, certainly 20 and say, Wow, 2020 was a crazy year, but I miss it. A handful of major newspapers are paying attention. But most news coverage, especially on television, continues to underplay the climate story, regarding it as too complicated, or disheartening, or controversial. Last month, we asked the worlds press to commit to treating climate change as the emergency that scientists say it is; their response was dispiriting. We created Covering Climate Now in April 2019 to help break the medias climate silence; Bill Moyers talked about Murrow at our inaugural conference. Since then, Covering Climate Now has grown into a consortium of hundreds of news outlets reaching a combined audience of roughly 2 billion people, and the climate coverage of the media as a whole has noticeably improved. But that coverage is still not going nearly far enough. To convey to audiences that civilization is literally under attack, news outlets should play the climate story much bigger, running more storiesespecially about how climate change is increasingly affecting weather, economics, politics and other spheres of lifeand running those stories at the top, not the bottom, of a homepage or broadcast. News reports should also speak much more plainly, presenting climate change as an imminent, deadly threat. This message is muted at best today, and the result is predictable. In the United States, only 26 percent of the public is alarmed about climate change, according to opinion polls analyzed by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communications (a member of the CCNow consortium). Less than a quarter of the public hear about climate change in the media at least once a month. Sign up for CJR 's daily email Good journalism leads the conversation, and there is certainly plenty of climate news worth covering these days. In a pair of stunning developments last week, a court in The Netherlands ordered the Royal Dutch Shell oil company to reduce its own and its customers greenhouse gas emissions by 45 percent by 2030 in accordance with the Paris Agreement, even as shareholders of ExxonMobil and Chevron rebelled against managements refusal to take strong climate action. A week earlier, the International Energy Agency declared that all new fossil fuel development must stop to prevent irreversible climate destruction. The climate emergency is upending politics, economics and virtually every other subject journalists cover, and newsrooms need to catch up. They can start with the Climate Emergency Statement that CCNow issued in April as part of our Earth Day coverage. Co-signed by eight of our partnersColumbia Journalism Review, The Nation, The Guardian, Scientific American, Noticias Telemundo, La Repubblica, The Asahi Shimbun, and Al Jazeera Englishthe statements first sentence said it is time for journalism to recognize that the climate emergency is here. Emphasizing that this was a statement of science, not politics, the statement linked to articles in peer-reviewed journals where thousands of scientists affirmed that fact. The statement noted that the Covid-19 pandemic illustrated how well news outlets can cover emergencies when they commit to it, and it invited journalists everywhere to apply that same urgency to the climate story. More than 30 newsrooms have now signed the statement (an updated list is here), but some major outlets told us privately they wont sign. The phrase climate emergency sounded like activism, they said; endorsing it might make them look biased. Instead, they added, they would let their climate coverage speak for itself. But thats the problem: their coverage does speak for itself, and it is simply not reflecting the facts of the story. It is a fact that thousands of the worlds scientists, including many of the most eminent climate experts, say humanity faces a climate emergency. Most major news outlets still present climate change as no more important than a dozen other public issues, when the fact is that if the world doesnt get it under control, fast, climate change will overwhelm every other issue. Another fact: the climate emergency comes with a time limitwait too long to halt temperature rise and it becomes too late; CO2s long atmospheric life makes further temperature rise inevitable, perhaps irreversible. Were not obsessed with whether a news outlet does or doesnt use the term climate emergency; what matters is whether the outlets overall coverage treats climate change like an emergency. At a summit in Glasgow this November, world leaders are supposed to adopt much stronger measures against the climate emergency. Between now and then, journalists have a responsibility to make sure the public understands whats at stake and, crucially, that humanity already has the technologies and solutions to decarbonize our economies; whats needed is the political will to implement them. Journalists also have a responsibility to hold powerful interests accountable for doing whats needed to preserve a livable planet. That starts with telling the truth: about the climate emergency, its solutions, and how little time remains before its too late. Help us by joining CJR today Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope are the authors. Mark Hertsgaard is the executive director of Covering Climate Now, the environment correspondent for The Nation, and the author of HOT: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth. Kyle Pope is the editor and publisher of Columbia Journalism Review. | https://www.cjr.org/covering_climate_now/climate-emergency-statement.php |
What are WWE's plans for the Intercontinental Championship? | Hello everyone, its Friday and that means were in for another episode of WWE Smackdown. Tonight is the go home show for WrestleMania Backlash on Sunday so we should be some kind of decent lead in to Smackdowns portion of that card. The big story is the return of Jimmy Uso last week and his not falling in line with Roman Reigns, which led to Romans challenger Cesaro leaving all 3 members of that stable laying to end the show. Roman will certainly have some kind of response to all of that, and well have to see what Cesaro will have to say as well. The Smackdown tag team titles will be defended Sunday when champions Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode defend against Rey and Dominik Mysterio so there will likely be another interaction between those teams. We dont have a clear picture for the Intercontinental title yet, so well either get some kind of multi man set up coming out of this show or an announcement about who Apollo Crews will be defending that title against. Im also sure well get the umpteenth iteration of Tamina and Nia Jax doing stuff while Shayna Baszler, Reginald, and Natalya hang around. Anyway, lets see what WWE has in store for us. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2262952566140/what-are-wwe-s-plans-for-the-intercontinental-championship |
Could severe 'space weather' pose the next major threat to our way of life? | Artist's impression of a coronal mass ejection hitting the Earth. Photo / Getty Images The far-fetched can quickly become reality, as Covid has shown. Now, scientists worry we are unprepared for a geomagnetic catastrophe. If you had taken an evening stroll through Manhattan on August 29, 1859, you might have thought the night sky had burst into flames. That night, across North America, a magnificent display of auroral green illuminated the houses, streets, and farms, before settling into a livid blaze of blood-red. In Boston, San Francisco, and Chicago, crowds of amazed sky-gazers wandered the streets at midnight. In New Orleans, sparks fell from the sky, like rain. Gold miners in the Rockies began to cook breakfast, because they thought it was morning. "Streamers of yellow and orange shot up and met and crossed each other," wrote one New York Times reporter, "rapidly changing [the sky's] hue from red to orange, orange to yellow, and yellow to white, and back in the same order to brilliant red." Telegraph communications failed across the world, as poles burst into flames. Some thought it was a gift from God; others thought it signalled the world's imminent demise. Most looked for a scientific explanation, but were left stumped. In fact, a billion tons of plasma had been beamed away from the sun in just a few hours, creating intense patches of light on the sun's surface, which were spotted through a telescope by English astronomer Richard Carrington from the Kew Observatory in west London. The Carrington event, as it was later named, helped introduce scientists to the concept of "space weather": sun-driven geomagnetic activity just outside the Earth's atmosphere. It unlocked a fascinating new scientific frontier, but also signalled a new threat to our way of life. And if one particular former Downing St aide is to be believed, Britain is woefully unprepared for a similar space weather event, were it to strike tomorrow. Last Wednesday, addressing Parliament's science committee, Dominic Cummings generated headlines with his blistering attack on the Government's pandemic preparedness. Then, about two hours in, he made a rather worrying aside, mentioning that Whitehall's plan for solar flares, a form of space weather, is "completely hopeless if that happens we're going to be in a worse situation than Covid". If the past 14 months have done anything, they have focused our minds on the fragility of our existence. We now know that the far-fetched can quickly become reality; the plot of a Hollywood film like Contagion, once considered a work of speculative fiction, can move into the realm of the mundane. "Covid has been a wake up call," says Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, and founder of Cambridge University's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. "It's made people more aware the unfamiliar is not the same as the improbable, to quote [US elections guru] Nate Silver." Last month, scientists at Cornell University suggested that major solar storms are once-in-a-century events. Given the last was in 1921, we can expect one to hit some time this century. Before Covid, the movie Contagion was seen as speculative fiction. Photo / Supplied We tend to think of the sun as a solid ball of heat, burning steadily. In fact, it is more like a boiling pan, constantly emitting a stream of vapour made up of gas, radiation, and magnetic activity. Normally this "sun vapour" moves happily around the solar system. Humans, protected by the Earth's magnetic field, don't notice, except at the North and South poles, where disturbances in the magnetosphere allow us to see wondrous green auroras in the night sky. Astronauts get an even clearer view. Chris Hadfield, who spent four months aboard the International Space Station in 2012 and 2013, remembers seeing occasional "flashes of light" when he closed his eyes; and at one point space-walked directly through the southern lights. But every now and again, thanks to storms of magnetic activity within the sun, our star spits out a larger than normal amount of material. The most common of these events are known as solar flares: intense bursts of ultraviolet radiation that can disrupt radio communications when directed towards Earth. Rarer, but far more serious, are coronal mass ejections, in which part of the sun's atmosphere blasts away, taking one to four days to reach Earth. It was one of these events that fried global telegraph lines in 1859. Space weather has affected the Earth for millennia. In 1582, "fiery flames" were recorded as having dazzled the skies over Europe and Asia. "At midnight, great fire rays arose above the castle which were dreadful and fearful," wrote author Pero Ruiz Soares, an eyewitness from Lisbon. But our modern dependence on technology means a similar event would be much more impactful today. According to a 2015 UK Government report, a Carrington-scale space storm could destroy global satellite signals and GPS navigation, plunging us into a communications deadzone, with no phone, radio, TV or internet. Power grids could burn, causing blackouts lasting a year in parts of the world. After the (relatively minor) Halloween flares of 2003, planes in the UK lost GPS function for a day; passengers on polar flights (such as Dubai to Los Angeles) may have been exposed to 70 per cent of their recommended annual radiation limit in one go. The damage would cost trillions. And we've already seen it happen on a miniature scale: a small solar storm in 1989 triggered nine-hour blackouts across Quebec, Canada. In his dark call-to-arms, Apocalypse How?, published last year, former UK Tory cabinet minister Sir Oliver Letwin argues we have become increasingly reliant on a global network of energy and communications. These technologies provide "huge insurance" against some types of threat, like floods and famines; but magnify other threats, such as space weather: "[We should not] assume that all is well because someone, somewhere, is 'dealing with the problem'," he writes. "There are structural issues why such issues and risks don't rise to the top of political agenda, until and unless a disaster materialises." Also at play is the deeply human desire to avoid thinking about anything too unpleasant or far-fetched. "[Disasters] that are extremely severe but rather improbable they're the ones it's easy to overlook," says Lord Rees. But prepare we must, he says. The threat of a pandemic was top of the global risk list long before December 2019, when doctors in Wuhan first reported the outbreak of a "Sars-like pneumonia". Virologists even pinpointed that "Disease X" would probably come from a bat in Asia. And still, much of the Western hemisphere was caught off guard. Space weather is much less predictable. Governments may want to up their game to prevent catastrophe the next time the skies turn green. | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/could-severe-space-weather-pose-the-next-major-threat-to-our-way-of-life/JQJUUWBTET44L3IJREVF5YSXDU/ |
How to watch Spain vs Portugal in Euro 2020 pre-tournament friendly from India? | European giants Spain and Portugal lock horns in a Euro 2020 pre-tournament friendly in Madrid on Friday... Cristiano Ronaldo will be in action as Portugal face Spain in a Euro 2020 pre-tournament international friendly match at the Estadio Wanda Metropolitano in Madrid on Friday. All eyes will be on the Portuguese captain as he returns to action ahead of Portugal's title defence in the upcoming Euro 2020. Where to watch or stream Spain vs Portugal friendly match Sony Networks have the rights to broadcast Euro 2020 matches in India. TV Channel Online Streams Sony Ten 2 SD & HD Sony LIV & JIO TV Spain and Portugal squads for Euro 2020 Spain squad Luis Enrique announced a 24-player Spain Euro 2020 squad on May 24. The big name exclusion from the panel is Sergio Ramos, while Aymeric Laporte has been included following his switch from France. Goalkeepers: David de Gea, Robert Sanchez, Unai Simon Defenders: Aymeric Laporte, Jose Gaya, Jordi Alba, Pau Torres, Eric Garcia, Diego Llorente, Cesar Azpilicueta Midfielders: Marcos Llorente, Sergio Busquets, Rodri, Pedri, Thiago, Koke, Fabian Forwards: Dani Olmo, Mikel Oyarzabal, Gerard Moreno, Alvaro Morata, Ferran Torres, Adama Traore, Pablo Sarabia Entreno oficial de la @SeFutbol en el @Metropolitano!! Maana estas gradas estarn repletas de los nimos de los aficionados al equipo de todos. CORRE!! An puedes hacerte con tu entrada!! https://t.co/rmO2XyGCxQ pic.twitter.com/WqQzx44eGc Seleccin Espaola de Ftbol (@SeFutbol) June 3, 2021 Portugal squad Portugal named their final squad on May 20. Cristiano Ronaldo will be once again leading the Portuguese squad. Goalkeepers: Anthony Lopes, Rui Patrcio, Rui Silva Defenders: Joao Cancelo, Nelson Semedo, Jose Fonte, Pepe, Ruben Dias, Nuno Mendes, Raphael Guerreiro Midfielders: Danilo Pereira, Joao Palhinha, Ruben Neves, Bruno Fernandes, Joao Moutinho, Renato Sanches, Sergio Oliveira, William Carvalho Forwards: Pedro Goncalves, Andre Silva, Bernardo Silva, Cristiano Ronaldo, Diogo Jota, Goncalo Guedes, Joao Felix, Rafa Silva ltimo treino antes do jogo com Espanha #VamosComTudo pic.twitter.com/vGbwTyVpxS Portugal (@selecaoportugal) June 3, 2021 Spain and Portugal fixtures in Euro 2020 Spain are clubbed in Group 'E' in the Euro 2020 alongside Sweden, Poland and Slovakia. La Roja begin their campaign on June 14 against Sweden followed by facing Poland on June 19. In their final group game, Spain lock horns against Slovakia on June 23. Portugal are clubbed in Group F' in the Euro 2020 which is also being called the group of death, alongside reigning world champions France, former champions Germany and Hungary. A Selecao Portuguesa begin their campaign on June 15 against Hungary followed by facing Germany on June 19. In their final group game, Spain lock horns against France on June 23. | https://www.goal.com/en/news/how-to-watch-spain-vs-portugal-euro-2020-from-india/mzhvybjlf31x1t9kse379cldq |
How many EU citizens have been granted settled status in Chelmsford? | Thousands of EU nationals have been granted permission to continue living in Chelmsford ahead of this month's application deadline, figures show. Around 7,590 people successfully applied to the EU settlement scheme in Chelmsford by the end of March, according to Home Office figures. This was 640 more than the 6,950 who had been successful by the end of December, when the Brexit transition period ended. EU citizens who have lived in the UK for at least five years, and meet certain criteria, can receive settled status and remain in the country indefinitely if they apply by June 30. Those who have lived in the country for less time can obtain pre-settled status, and the chance to reapply for settled status once they have done so for five years. In Chelmsford, 4,290 applications had been granted settled status by March 31, and 3,300 pre-settled status with 230 applications either refused, withdrawn or deemed invalid. But a research hub at York University warns that many people across the UK will miss the fast-approaching post-Brexit "cliff-edge" and risk becoming illegal migrants overnight. Read more: The EU Rights and Brexit Hub, a legal research facility at York University, say this month's hard deadline is not necessary, and represents an "imminent timebomb". Professor Charlotte O'Brien said: "The universal rule of deadlines is that people will miss them. "Those who miss the deadline will become, overnight, unauthorised or illegal migrants, subject to a hostile environment and possible removal. "It means they will go from being lawful, in many cases long-term and economically contributing EU citizens, to people who cannot lawfully work, rent, or even drive a car." She added that guidance for caseworkers dealing with late requests was not sufficiently clear and may trigger a "late application lottery". In Chelmsford, the highest number of applications were submitted by people from Romania (2,250), followed by those from Poland (1,150) and Italy (830). Across the UK, 385,000 people applied to the EUSS between January and March down from 855,000 in the three months to December, and 713,000 during the first three months of last year. The Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford said economic turmoil and the coronavirus lockdown in January coinciding with the introduction of the post-Brexit immigration system impacted visa applications to the UK. Madeleine Sumption, director of the organisation which analyses immigration and migration issues affecting the UK, said: Covid has had an extraordinary impact on migration, and low migration from EU countries is one consequence of that. "In fact, theres evidence that net migration from EU countries was actually negative last year. "Add to that the impact of a more expensive and restrictive visa system for EU citizens and it makes sense that not many have come under the post-Brexit immigration rules. Kevin Foster, minister for future borders and immigration, said if an EU resident has "reasonable grounds" for missing the deadline, they will be given further opportunity to apply. He added: "The Home Office has also made up to 22 million available in funding for a network of 72 UK organisations to help vulnerable people apply the scheme, and has invested nearly 8 million in marketing campaigns to encourage people to apply to the EUSS." | https://www.chelmsfordweeklynews.co.uk/news/19347292.many-eu-citizens-granted-settled-status-chelmsford/?ref=rss |
What is the latest on restoration to the Jagger Library? | Today at 10:30 SA muso collab - It's Not Enough The Morning Review with Lester Kiewit Guests Marc Lottering Vicky Sampson - Musician at ... 125 125 Today at 11:05 Lester Tester: male grooming (The Syrian Barber) The Morning Review with Lester Kiewit Guests abdul joudi 125 125 Today at 14:40 Entertainment News Lunch with Pippa Hudson Guests Craig Falck Chanel September Stephan Lombard 125 125 Today at 15:20 Polyandry would be a superficial solution to-deeply entrenched genderinequality Afternoon Drive with John Maytham Guests Lwando Xaso 125 125 Today at 15:40 We need a black bank to stop black people from begging Afternoon Drive with John Maytham Guests Khaya Sithole 125 125 Today at 16:55 Desiree Ellis is the #AnHourWith presenter this Sunday Afternoon Drive with John Maytham Guests Desiree Ellis - Banyana Assistant Coach at ... 125 125 Today at 17:05 Difference to the Palestine issue the new Israeli government coalition might make Afternoon Drive with John Maytham Guests Yossi Mekelberg 125 125 | https://www.capetalk.co.za/podcasts/144/afternoon-drive-with-john-maytham/519959/what-is-the-latest-on-restoration-to-the-jagger-library |
Why Tech Giant Prosus paid $1.8 Billion for Stack Overflow? | Today at 10:30 SA muso collab - It's Not Enough The Morning Review with Lester Kiewit Guests Marc Lottering Vicky Sampson - Musician at ... 125 125 Today at 11:05 Lester Tester: male grooming (The Syrian Barber) The Morning Review with Lester Kiewit Guests abdul joudi 125 125 Today at 14:40 Entertainment News Lunch with Pippa Hudson Guests Craig Falck Chanel September Stephan Lombard 125 125 Today at 15:20 Polyandry would be a superficial solution to-deeply entrenched genderinequality Afternoon Drive with John Maytham Guests Lwando Xaso 125 125 Today at 15:40 We need a black bank to stop black people from begging Afternoon Drive with John Maytham Guests Khaya Sithole 125 125 Today at 16:55 Desiree Ellis is the #AnHourWith presenter this Sunday Afternoon Drive with John Maytham Guests Desiree Ellis - Banyana Assistant Coach at ... 125 125 Today at 17:05 Difference to the Palestine issue the new Israeli government coalition might make Afternoon Drive with John Maytham Guests Yossi Mekelberg 125 125 | https://www.capetalk.co.za/podcasts/201/the-best-of-the-money-show/520393/why-tech-giant-prosus-paid-18-billion-for-stack-overflow |
Could co-operatives inspire a better economy? | The Mondragon federation of co-operatives has been the foundation of the economy in Spains Basque country for decades. It was founded back in 1956 by a priest Jos Mara Arizmendiarrieta who believed that the best response to the hostility and neglect of the region by the fascist dictator Franco was to develop co-operatives that relied on mutual self-help and independence. Today there are 96 co-operatives which are members of the federation, employing more than 81,000 people. The federation includes manufacturing businesses, financial institutions, retailers and its own university which operates as a knowledge, research and development centre for the group. Mondragon is the largest business operation in the Basque region and one of the ten largest commercial organisations in Spain. There are similarities and differences between the Basque region and Northern Ireland. It is the similarities that have led many people over the years to ask if the Mondragon example could inspire a comparable movement here. The positive experience of credit unions financial co-operatives in Northern Ireland provides hope that it might. In the latest Holywell Trust podcast, Fred Freundlich, a professor at Mondragon University, discusses what can be learnt from Mondragon and whether its success can be replicated. The interview can be heard here. It is one of a series of conversations about what can be learnt from best practice in community and economic development elsewhere. The Holywell Trust Forward Together podcasts are funded by the Community Relations Councils Media Grant Scheme. Disclaimer: This project has received support from the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council which aims to promote a pluralist society characterised by equity, respect for diversity, and recognition of interdependence. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Community Relations Council. | https://sluggerotoole.com/2021/06/04/could-co-operatives-inspire-a-better-economy/ |
Could the next step for medical marijuana in Miss. be lawmakers crafting their own program? | JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Some members of the legislature are not waiting for a potential special session call from the Governor to start looking at how to revive a medical marijuana program. The Senate Public Health and Welfare Committees hearing questions may provide some insight into what parts of the medical marijuana program could get a rewrite. A repeated topic was whether municipalities should be able to opt out. Would it make sense for us to treat medical marijuana as a local option where someone could have a referendum to vote whether they would want their citizens to utilize medical marijuana? asked Sen. Barbara Blackmon. Another potential change some lawmakers seemed to be interested in from 65 is the amount of marijuana and THC content allowed per person. Personally five ounces in a month seems like a lot of marijuana, commented Sen. Kevin Blackwell. The Mississippi Medical Marijuana Association admits there are some changes in logistics they believe could be made. Putting everything under the umbrella of the health department was a short sighted mistake, added Ken Newburger, Mississippi Medical Marijuana Executive Director. The purpose of that was to make sure that everything had one decision maker so that way it didnt get gummed up in bureaucracy. But I think that the flip side of that is that we were asking your health department to do things that were very very far out of their expertise. Newburger added that he believes the fees to become licensed could probably sustain the program and any excess fees or taxes may could be directed to the general fund. They asked State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs for his opinion since the State Board of Health had been in the process of getting rules and regulations in place prior to the court ruling. The quickest that I think that could happen from a free-market perspective and other people may disagree but starting over and I think some people would kind of pulled back would be 6 to 9 months, added Dobbs. To watch the hearing in its entirety, click HERE. Copyright 2021 WLBT. All rights reserved. | https://www.wdam.com/2021/06/04/could-the-next-step-for-medical-marijuana-in-miss-be-lawmakers-crafting-their-own-program/ |
Why is the City removing water management meters? | Today at 10:30 SA muso collab - It's Not Enough The Morning Review with Lester Kiewit Guests Marc Lottering Vicky Sampson - Musician at ... 125 125 Today at 11:05 Lester Tester: male grooming (The Syrian Barber) The Morning Review with Lester Kiewit Guests abdul joudi 125 125 Today at 14:40 Entertainment News Lunch with Pippa Hudson Guests Craig Falck Chanel September Stephan Lombard 125 125 Today at 15:20 Polyandry would be a superficial solution to-deeply entrenched genderinequality Afternoon Drive with John Maytham Guests Lwando Xaso 125 125 Today at 15:40 We need a black bank to stop black people from begging Afternoon Drive with John Maytham Guests Khaya Sithole 125 125 Today at 16:55 Desiree Ellis is the #AnHourWith presenter this Sunday Afternoon Drive with John Maytham Guests Desiree Ellis - Banyana Assistant Coach at ... 125 125 Today at 17:05 Difference to the Palestine issue the new Israeli government coalition might make Afternoon Drive with John Maytham Guests Yossi Mekelberg 125 125 | https://www.capetalk.co.za/podcasts/613/the-morning-review-with-lester-kiewit-podcast/520164/why-is-the-city-removing-water-management-meters |
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