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Is Yamba going to be the new Byron Bay? | PEACEFUL: Yamba's Main Beach is one of the attractions that competes with Byron Bay for visitor credit. PEACEFUL: Yamba's Main Beach is one of the attractions that competes with Byron Bay for visitor credit. WHEN I think of Yamba, it is of diehard surfies, brawny fisherman and reclusive coastal dwellers. I think of my grandparents' old weatherboard house and how sometimes at night, when the swells are good, I could smell the salty sea vapour drift through my room. There has always been a soothing predictability here. I've always liked the fact I could leave and come back and things would be, for the most part, the same. But there's something you need to know about Yamba, the town is longer a secret. For the first time in a long time Yamba is changing, and like many locals, I am equally anxious and ambivalent about its future. For a while now, there's been talk about Yamba becoming "the next Byron Bay. As our small population of 7000 has been increasing at a steady rate of 5 per cent these past few years, it's the threat of invasion - not births and migration - that's cause for concern. I can't deny I like Byron Bay. Outside the maelstrom of summer holidays, Byron can be a lot of fun. There are cool bars and cafes and places to shop. And although tinged with a mark of superficiality, it is a place that celebrates and fosters diversity in the arts, small business, and people. Yamba has been doing more of this. In the past few years, new stores and eateries down Main St and Coldstream have injected well-needed jobs, money, and life back into the town. They've made Yamba cooler and more accessible to young people. Yet, Byron Bay is a place that's undeniably different to the one it was 30 years ago. You walk around its crowded landscape and forget that it was once very much like Yamba. Some part of you enjoys the chaos while the rest of you is terrified that it'll move down south too. People here aren't worried about being put on the tourist map. What they're worried about is the possibility that Yamba will be opened up to the kind of development that's left Byron Bay permanently disfigured. Yamba is developing, and change is always scary. But, we shouldn't resign ourselves to doomsday finality. With protected national parks and beaches, Yamba has so far been shielded from the rampant growth that's gripped Byron Bay. Importantly, it's a small town whose people are intent on preservation rather than expansion. There's a cultural heritage grounded in surfing and community here, and the locals are fiercely protective of it. Byron Bay will not come to Yamba for the simple fact that people won't allow it. The attraction of Yamba lies in its small-town community, good surf, and beaches that empty by five at night. It's a place brimming with stuff to help you forget slick city living and everything else. Although development is an inevitable probability, it's community which will ultimately have the final say. So, while I too worry about the future of this place, I'm placing my faith in "Yamba Time and people to stop the clock. Claudia Talon is a Melbourne University student living with family at Yamba over summer. | https://www.dailyexaminer.com.au/news/is-yamba-going-to-be-the-new-byron-bay/3627697/ |
Which Warriors Star Would Jump Ship for Lakers in 2019 Free Agency? | Bart Young/Getty Images LOS ANGELES The Golden State Warriors have won three championships over the past four seasons, and they expect to add another banner in June. The outcome feels even more inevitable after DeMarcus Cousins' promising return to the court Friday. The real drama comes in July, when the Warriors will try to secure their three key free agents: Kevin Durant (player option), Klay Thompson and Cousins. The buzz around the league is that general manager Bob Myers has the authority from ownership to offer whatever is necessary to keep the group together. If he succeeds, Golden State will continue as the NBA's top team. If he doesn't, the Los Angeles Lakers will eagerly make appeals to any available Warriors star. The Lakers would love to sign Durant or Thompson, as either would be a tremendous fit next to LeBron James. However, Cousins appears the likeliest of the three to end up in Lakers purple and gold in 2019-20. It's hard to see, but not impossible. Perhaps Durant is jealous of the local love Stephen Curry gets as the team's homegrown champion, but reading body language or psychoanalyzing postgame quotes isn't likely to tip his hand. It would take strong feelings for him to join James and the Lakers at a lower salary ($164 million over four years). David Zalubowski/Associated Press It's even harder to guess why Thompson would want to break up the "Splash Brothers" backcourt to take nearly $141 million (also over four seasons) from the Lakers. While his father, Mychal, won two titles with the Lakers in the 1980s and is currently on the team's radio broadcast, Thompson seems like a lock to stay in the Bay Area. Cousins is a different story. The big man, who made his season debut Friday night in a 112-94 win over the Clippers, didn't find a team this past offseason that was willing to give him a maximum contract while he rehabbed from a devastating Achilles tear. The Warriors added him using their taxpayer mid-level exception of $5.3 million. While he looked a bit rusty against the Clippers, fouling out in only 15 minutes, he still finished with 14 points while shooting 3-of-4 from three-point range. After the victory, Cousins celebrated the open looks and lack of double-teams he faced while playing alongside Golden State's elite shooters. "This is a first in my entire basketball career," Cousins said. "I definitely can get used to this." But basketball fit may not be the priority for Cousins when it's time for him to make a business decision this summer. Because the Warriors only have Cousins' non-Bird Rights, they can offer him no more than 120 percent of his 2018-19 salary, which would be $6.4 million. The Lakers, however, could use their cap room in July to offer him a four-year, $140.6 million max contract with a starting salary of $32.7 million. Golden State projects to face hefty luxury-tax penalties next year, especially if it retains Durant and Thompson. While the Warriors could potentially carve out enough cap room to give Cousins more money, they likely couldn't do so without losing Durant and Thompson. That should be a non-starter for them. Players in the past have sacrificed financially for the good of the team. Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh and James each took around $20 million less than their max when they joined forces on the Miami Heat, but Cousins may have to give up more than $25 million next year alone to stay with the Warriors. His financial sacrifice would be far greater than what Miami's Big Three eschewed. That doesn't mean he won't. In fact, Marc Stein of the New York Times recently reported: "One of the wildest predictions I've heard lately, from one wise insider, who thinks even DeMarcus Cousins will consider re-upping with the Warriors for one more season despite the (comparatively) minuscule raise they can offer on Cousins' current $5.3 million salary." If Cousins waits until the summer of 2020 to sign a long-term deal, he'll be eligible for a higher starting salary by virtue of having 10 years of service in the league. He may be willing to lose upward of $26 million in 2019-20 to stay with Golden State so he can cash in on a four-year, $178 million contract with a projected $41.3 million starting salary the following season. Mark J. Terrill/Associated Press However, if the summer of 2020 is a priority for Cousins, he could sign a one-year, $32.7 million deal with the Lakers this summer and then re-up at the higher salary tier the following offseason. If that kind of money is available to Cousins, he'd be a shocking pioneer to turn it away. The Lakers' top priority appears to be obtaining New Orleans Pelicans big man Anthony Davis, who shares an agent with James in Rich Paul of Klutch Sports. Since Davis is under contract through at least 2020, the Lakers are dependent on a trade to land the All-Star forward. If the Lakers give up on Davis and their top choices in free agency (such as Kawhi Leonard, Durant and Thompson) go elsewhere, they would have to change gears. If Cousins returns to his past form, they may prioritize him over other potential targets like Jimmy Butler, Kyrie Irving, Kemba Walker, Nikola Vucevic, Marc Gasol and Khris Middleton. Before Cousins signed with the Warriors, former Cleveland Cavaliers general manager David Griffin said James is a big fan of the way Cousins plays basketball. An Achilles tear is one of the worst injuries in basketball, but if Cousins can prove he's recovered over these next few months, the Lakers should at least consider him an option this summer. Yes, he might sacrifice to stay with the Warriors, especially if they win a title, but NBA careers are relatively short. After suffering such a traumatic injury, Cousins would be wise to lock in the largest possible salary as quickly as he can, regardless of a potentially higher payout in 2020. Doing so with the Lakers and James might be too great an opportunity, even if the basketball fit with Cousins and the Golden State Warriors yields another championship this season. Email Eric Pincus at [email protected] and follow him on Twitter @EricPincus. | https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2816651-which-warriors-star-would-jump-ship-for-lakers-in-2019-free-agency |
Will Governments Require their Employees to be Microchipped? | Please like, share, and subscribe! It would be a great way to get a majority of the population microchipped quickly. If I were a government employee, I would be concerned. Here's some of the articles discussed in the video: Arkansas legislative agenda: https://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog... Microchips implanted in Mexican Officials: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5439055/ns/... Follow on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/AskMikePalumbo Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/professional... Let's stay on top of this stuff together! Good luck to you! Mike Palumbo http://www.AskMikePalumbo.com Please like, share, and subscribe! Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. | http://blog.al.com/your-career/2019/01/will_governments_require_their.html |
What is Q fever? | Q fever is a bacterial infection you can catch from breathing in dust from feaces of infected farm animals such as sheep, cattle and goats. It's usually harmless, but can cause serious problems in some people. Symptoms include a a fever, aching muscles, tiredness, feeling sick and swollen glands. You can also get Q fever from drinking unpasteurised milk (milk that hasn't been heated to kill bacteria), but this is less likely. Although Q fever is rare, people who work closely with animals are more at risk, such as farmers, vets, stablehands and abattoir workers. In rare cases, it can lead to chronic fatigue syndrome. Source: NHS | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/fb-6615441/What-Q-fever.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 |
Who does the world trust more CEO or politician? | Davos People around the world place much more trust in their companies than their political leaders, according to a major survey that suggests a mood of uncertainty and pessimism on the eve of the World Economic Forum in Davos. The annual Edelman Trust Barometer shows only one in five people believe the economic, political and social system is working for them, while nearly 60% think trade conflicts are hurting their companies and putting their jobs at risk. The sense of gloom is strongest in developed markets led by Japan, where 84% of the general public excluding the informed public who are university-educated, earn above-average incomes and consume news regularly do not believe they will be better off in five years' time, followed by France at 79%, Germany at 74% and Britain at 72%. That is far above the average 49% of the 27 countries examined in the research. Amid low confidence that politicians will fix the problems, these people are turning to companies, with 75% saying they trust "my employer", compared to 48% for government and 47% for the media. "CEOs now have to be visible, show personal commitment, absolutely step into the void, because we've got a leadership void in the world," Richard Edelman, head of the communications marketing firm that commissioned the research, said. Optimism was higher in the US, where nearly half of the general public believed they would be better off in the next five years. The corresponding figure there was 62% for the better-educated, higher-earning informed public. "The stock market was very good, the deregulation and lower taxes for the wealthy its pretty good if you are an elite, Edelman said of the US findings. The survey, based on the opinions of over 33,000 people and conducted between October 19 and November 16, is published on the eve of the Davos gathering in the Swiss Alps, which brings together about 3,000 business and world leaders in 2019 amid anxiety over the US-China trade war, Brexit and a slowdown in global growth. Violation of trust The pessimism in Japan, France, Germany and Britain reflects a variety of factors. "I think Japan's never really recovered from Fukushima, there was such a violation of trust when that happened," said Edelman, referring to the authorities' botched response to a massive nuclear accident in 2011. Signs of slowing global demand and a sharp rise in the yen have clouded the outlook for Japan's export-reliant economy, and the government plans tax hikes to pay for ballooning healthcare costs for its rapidly ageing population. "The problem for the three (European) countries is that given the reality of the potentially diminished economic future, there is deep anger in advance," Edelman said. In France, what started as a grassroots rebellion by low-paid workers to protest taxes on diesel fuel and a squeeze on household incomes has morphed into an assault on President Emmanuel Macron and his reforms, seen by the protesters as favoring the wealthy. And in Britain, the Brexit crisis intensified last week after Prime Minister Theresa Mays two-year attempt to forge an amicable divorce from the EU was crushed by parliament in the biggest defeat for a British leader in modern history. | https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/world/2019-01-21-who-does-the-world-trust-more--ceo-or-politician/ |
Is Ole Gunnar Solskjaers start at Manchester United the best in Premier League history? | Get daily updates directly to your inbox Subscribe Thank you for subscribing See our privacy notice Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email Victory for Manchester United on Saturday saw interim manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer join an elite Premier League club. The Red Devils have won their first six league games under the Norwegian, putting him level with Carlo Ancelotti and Pep Guardiola for the longest winning run after taking charge of a Premier League club. Here, Post Sport compares the trio. Carlo Ancelotti - Chelsea 2009-10 Ancelottis Chelsea had a favourable opening run of league fixtures but beat Hull, Sunderland, Fulham, Burnley and Stoke, a run book-ended by injury-time winners, before adding a 3-0 win over Tottenham. Wigan ended the run by inflicting Ancelottis first league defeat, in his 10th game in charge in all competitions. The London Blues had also beaten Porto in the Champions League and QPR in the League Cup having opened Ancelottis reign by winning the Community Shield, albeit on penalties against United. They went on to win the Premier League and FA Cup double but Ancelotti lasted only one more season in charge. Pep Guardiola - Manchester City 2016-17 The former Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss began his reign in England with 10 wins in all competitions, though the first required a Sergio Aguero penalty and a late Paddy McNair own goal to see off Sunderland. A 5-0 Champions League win away to Steaua Bucharest and a 4-1 league success at Stoke proved more indicative of things to come, while a derby win over United and back-to-back 4-0 wins over Borussia Monchengladbach and Bournemouth provided further highlights. Celtic eventually ended the run in a 3-3 Champions League draw and City failed to win a trophy, finishing third in the league before winning the title the following season. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer - Manchester United 2018-19 Taking over after the lacklustre end to Jose Mourinhos reign, the former United forward has revitalised the team - albeit aided by a friendly fixture list. A 5-1 rout of his former club Cardiff set the stage, with Huddersfield, Bournemouth and Newcastle also dispatched before United edged out Tottenham 1-0 in their first big test on January 13. A 2-1 win over Brighton made it six, with an FA Cup success over Reading along the way. The latter competition may be Solskjaers best chance of silverware this season, with United still sixth in the league and 16 points behind leaders Liverpool. | https://www.dailypost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/ole-gunnar-solskjaers-start-manchester-15708094 |
Who will be the first Netflix for video games? | Now, it's video games' turn. The idea of a "Netflix for games" service has been floating around since long before video-streaming became a thing, but it hasn't found a solid foothold quite yet. Streaming games is a more complicated process than streaming video, since it adds user input to the mix. While being piped into a player's home or phone from a server that could be hundreds of miles away, the game has to respond, without lag, to every button press a player makes. Think Bandersnatch on steroids and with much higher stakes, especially for competitive games like Fortnite and multiplayer Call of Duty and Overwatch. The technology and infrastructure necessary for consumer-scale, seamless game-streaming is nearly here. NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Verizon and more major companies are making moves in this space, and they finally have the server dispersion and broadband support necessary to roll out their own Netflix-style services as early as this year. Streaming will alter the video game industry just like it did film and TV. On top of further disrupting the flailing physical market (GameStop might just be the Blockbuster of the game-streaming apocalypse), distributors will likely hold an inordinate amount of power over a game's visibility, pushing it onto the main screen or pulling it into the recesses of the search bar based on unknowable algorithmic variables. If each platform becomes as crowded as Steam or the App Store (or Netflix, for that matter), this means smaller, independent games could find it difficult to grab screen time. Low visibility doesn't just impact potential revenue -- projected sales affect how much funding developers can secure from investors, as described by gamesindustry.biz. But at this point, nothing is going to stop the cloud-gaming train. As it comes screeching into the station in 2019, here's where eight major companies stand. Verizon Here's one fresh off the rumor mill: Verizon is currently quietly testing a game-streaming service called Verizon Gaming, as first reported by The Verge earlier in January. Verizon is apparently testing the service on a handful of NVIDIA Shield set-top boxes; the alpha version includes 135 games, including AAA hits like Destiny 2, Red Dead Redemption 2, Fortnite and God of War. Participants are reportedly promised a $150 Amazon gift card, alongside receiving a Shield and Xbox One controller. The plan, according to Verge, is to eventually roll out Verizon Gaming on Android devices. The company hasn't officially announced Verizon Gaming, but it's openly building the infrastructure to support such a system. Verizon is making a big push for 5G, the next-generation broadband network that will likely enable average connection speeds of 300 Mbps. Note that Google's cloud-gaming test required a connection of 25 Mbps, at least. "We frequently conduct internal and external proof-of-concept trials to explore new ways to enrich the customer experience and expand our portfolio of products and services," a Verizon spokesperson told Engadget. Google Speaking of Google, the company recently held a beta test for Project Stream, a service that promises to run any game on any laptop or PC via the Chrome browser. It required a connection of 25 Mbps, but even at that low end of the broadband spectrum, Project Stream worked well. The beta went live in October and Google wasn't shy about enticing people to give it a go. Google has a clear advantage in the streaming space with a vast and robust server infrastructure, and it already has streaming devices in tens of millions of houses with Chromecast. We learned at CES 2019 that Project Stream uses AMD Radeon graphics (no word on whether that means the coming Radeon VII), rather than any of NVIDIA's offerings. Which brings us to Geforce Now. NVIDIA Geforce Now is the closest thing we have to a subscription-based, consumer-ready game-streaming service, and it's been running for the past three years. However, it's been in beta the entire time (currently available on PC, Mac and Shield devices), and the company hasn't made any announcements about a wide-scale launch. However, Geforce Now is impressive. It supports more than 400 games and generally offers a stutter-free gaming experience. The company is continually updating Geforce Now alongside Shield upgrades, recently adding support for in-game voice chat and streamlined Twitch sharing. Amazon Amazon already has a footprint in a slightly different game-streaming space: Twitch. Amazon bought Twitch for nearly $1 billion in 2014, and since then it's grown into a cultural touchstone, hosting celebrities, taking over mainstream headlines, and helping turn live-streaming into a lucrative career for some creators. Add this acumen and brand recognition to Amazon's Fire TV efforts and Lumberyard game engine, and the company has a clear spot in the cloud-gaming race. Amazon is building a game-streaming service a la Project Stream, though it's unlikely to launch before 2020, according to The Information. That's about all we know so far, and Amazon didn't respond to Engadget's request for comment. Microsoft The house of Xbox announced Project xCloud in October, with an emphasis on streaming games to PCs, phones and tablets. However, that's surely not where Microsoft's ambition ends -- the next generation of consoles is on its way and Xbox is reportedly working on hardware designed specifically to support cloud gaming, due out in 2020. Project xCloud hasn't launched just yet, but Microsoft is planning a beta test this year. Microsoft is in a similar position as Google -- it's spent the past decade or so building out Azure, a robust cloud network that should help keep latency low. Plus, there's the Xbox Game Pass. Microsoft is preparing its audience for a subscription-based future, offering access to more than 200 games for $10 a month, though unlike PlayStation Now, these aren't streamed. After Sony pulled out of E3 2019 completely, Xbox is poised to own the show this summer (and maybe even the next hardware generation entirely), and it may offer more details about its streaming plans then. Sony Sony was an early adopter in the cloud renaissance, buying Gaikai in 2012 and OnLive in 2015, and launching the PlayStation Now game-streaming service in 2014. PlayStation Now is still running today, but it offers subpar streaming capabilities. It's more of a case study in how streaming used to be, rather than where it's going. Sony hasn't made any recent announcements about its approach to streaming and it won't be at E3 this year. Of course, there are still plans for the future of PlayStation and executives promise we'll hear more throughout 2019. Electronic Arts EA isn't building a cloud-gaming platform, but it is working on the technology that could power a streaming-first ecosystem. Project Atlas is EA's upcoming cloud-gaming-development platform, and it's designed to help creators build games from the ground-up with streaming in mind. This move makes sense for EA. It owns the Frostbite engine, which currently powers franchises such as Dragon Age, FIFA, Madden and Battlefield, and it runs the digital Origin store, which features monthly subscription options. EA bought GameFly's cloud-gaming technology and personnel in mid-2018 (not its streaming business, mind), and by October, CTO Ken Moss had announced Project Atlas. EA's vision of cloud gaming involves creating a social, constantly connected universe where developers can craft personalized and immersive experiences for players, all driven by artificial intelligence and machine learning. Moss has ambitious goals for Project Atlas, as he described in a Medium post: EA's vision of cloud gaming involves creating a social, constantly connected universe. "Project Atlas is designed to seamlessly converge EA's Frostbite game engine and game services as well as artificial intelligence -- giving rise to a new game development platform, optimized for a cloud-enabled world. This will be a fully integrated platform, capable of building the scalable, social, and large-scale experiences of the future." Nintendo Yes, Nintendo -- the company that was years behind the competition when it came to implementing online and social features in its games and consoles -- is experimenting with streaming. Players in Japan can stream Resident Evil 7 and Assassin's Creed Odyssey on the Switch right now, with shockingly good results. | https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/21/netflix-for-games-microsoft-sony-google-nvidia/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+weblogsinc%2Fengadget+%28Engadget%29 |
Is Julie Chen Still Married to Husband Les Moonves After His Scandal? | Former CEO of CBS Corporation Les Moonves was ousted from the network last year following multiple allegations of sexual misconduct against him. Since then, his wife Julie Chen, former co-host of The Talk and current host of Celebrity Big Brother premiering tonight, has stood by her husband of 15 years and the two currently remain married. Chen, whos hosted the Big Brother franchise since its U.S. inception, made a point to show her loyalty to her husband last season, signing off to the world with, Im Julie Chen Moonves. Goodnight, marking the first time she used her married name on-air. She continued using the Moonves monicker throughout the rest of Big Brother 20. However, even as the disgraced Moonves negotiated his exit from CBS, six women raised new assault and harassment claims against him, as reported by The New Yorker. The CBS board of directors announced in December that it completed its investigation into the allegations and found there were grounds to terminate for cause. Prior to that, in a New York Times expose released on November 28, Phillips leveled an accusation of sexual assault against Moonves, claiming that Moonves forced himself on her in 1995 when he was the head of Warner Bros. Television. The Times further claimed that Moonves had taken steps to keep Phillips quiet in the wake of the various claims made against him in the last year. Chen supported her husband since the allegations broke in the summer of 2018, tweeting: I have known my husband, Leslie Moonves, since the late 90s, and I have been married to him for almost 14 years. Leslie is a good man and a loving father, devoted husband and inspiring corporate leader. He has always been a kind, decent and moral human being. I fully support my husband and stand behind him and his statement. The host then backed up her statement on The Talk, saying: Some of you may be aware of whats been going on in my life the past few days. I issued the one and only statement I will ever make on this topic on Twitter. And I will stand by that statement today, tomorrow, forever. While Chen has stayed on board for Big Brother, she left The Talk following the announcement of Moonves departure. As CNN wrote, On the show, her fellow co-hosts reacted to the news. It seemed unlikely that she would return to the set, given the obvious tension that would exist every time the hosts discussed the #MeToo movement. Chen and Moonves were married in 2004 in a private ceremony just weeks after his divorce from Nancy Moonves, his wife of 25 years. Chen and Moonves married in Acapulco, Mexico on December 23, 2004. Chen gave birth to their first child Charlie, on September 24, 2009. She is also the stepmother to Moonves three children from his previous marriage. While it still remains unclear whether Chen will stick around CBS long enough to host this summers 21st edition of Big Brother, shes on board to resume duties for Season 2 of Celebrity Big Brother, premiering tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m. ET. | https://heavy.com/entertainment/2019/01/julie-chen-married-les-moonves-scandal/ |
Are Banks Open or Closed Martin Luther King Jr 2019 Holiday? | Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a federal holiday in our nation, which means that there is no mail and finances are put on hold as well. While most banks are closed, very few choose to stay open, so it may be best to check with your local branches. But, your bank is most likely closed today. Online banking and ATMs will remain open, as they always are, though transactions such as transfers may not show up in your account until the next day. U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday this year, but Market Watch previously reported that overseas markets may run as usual. The site also reported that the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association recommended last year that no trading take place in U.S. dollar-denominated bonds in the United States, the UK and Japan. Saving Advice reported that whether or not banks are open today can be confusing because the day off work only applies to federal employees and private businesses. While most banks are closed, there are exceptions. Keep in mind that just because one bank was open last year, does not mean this years holiday schedule runs the same way. For example, in previous years, TD Bank stated, While Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a federal holiday and most banks close their doors for the day, not all do. TD Bank is one exception, and its branches stay open on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Some banks located in other retail outlets, such as Walmart and grocery stores, may also remain open for the day. However, TD Banks holiday schedule has changed and it is closed on MLK Day. Other holidays that TD Bank stays open for are Veterans Day, Columbus Day, and Presidents Day. Banks including Citibank, Wells Fargo, Chase, and Bank of America are closed on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In addition to banks being closed today, schools are usually closed as well, along with public libraries. Recycling and trash removal is also halted. Most garbage disposal companies will not be running. For example, NYC.gov reported that their holiday schedule includes MLK Day and recommends that people put out their garbage after 4 p.m. on the evening of the holiday, for collection beginning the next day. For other communities, garbage removal may not occur until the next cycle day. When it comes to recycling schedules, this definitely depends on your county. However, many organizations are following the same guidelines. There is also no mail delivery on MLK Day. Martin Luther King Jr. Day always falls on the third Monday of January each year and it is a federal holiday, which marks the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. Kings actual birthday is January 15, 1929 and he was assassinated on April 4, 1968. He is famous as a Baptist minister and activist, who was a major leader in the Civil Rights Movement in our nations history. His most famous speech is his I Have a Dream speech, which he delivered at the 1963 March on Washington. | https://heavy.com/social/2019/01/banks-closed-mlk-day-martin-luther-king/ |
Is Sanity Breaking Out in Washington? A Bipartisan Fix to FAFSA Complexity? | Literally for decades, a major impediment for individuals wanting federal student financial assistance is the Free Application for Federal Student Assistance (FAFSA) form. I remember in about 2008 sitting in an interminably long meeting with Education Secretary Margaret Spellings and underlings trying to simplify a form over 100 questions long and hideously complex. My wife, a retired high school guidance counselor in a low income Appalachian setting, told me the FAFSA form scared off many low income students seeking financial assistance. Some academic research has said the same thing. More than a decade has passed and the problem of the FAFSA form still remains, no doubt reflecting federal bureaucratic inertia and infighting. On December 20, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed legislation, dubbed the FAFSA Act, helping achieve rationality in applying for federal assistance by permitting the Internal Revenue Service to share tax information on applicants for aid directly with the Department of Education. Notable in this era of hyper-partisanship: the bill was co-sponsored by two liberal Democrats, Patty Murray and Sheldon Whitehouse, and two conservative to moderate Republicans, Lamar Alexander (chair of the Senate Education Committee and a former president of the University of Tennessee) and Cory Gardner. In today's extremely acrimonious environment, when Senators as diverse as Ted Cruz and Elizabeth Warren can agree on something, it is notable. The legislation must pass the House, where hopefully its merits will overcome partisan bickering or maneuvering that might keep the bill off the House calendar. If I recall from the 2008 meeting, University of Michigan Professor Sue Dynarski and I argued that the FAFSA form provides very little important information not available on federal income tax forms. Income is the predominant determinant of financial need, although tax returns also provide other useful information, such as the number of children of college age in the family. The marginal gains from other information provided by the FAFSA, such as family assets, mortgage payments, etc., are outweighed by the barriers created by form complexity. Students should be able to apply for federal student aid by signing a simple postcard sized form that says "by signing this form, you understand that your income tax returns will be provided to the U.S. Department of Education for purposes of determining eligibility for federal student financial assistance; please provide your Social Security(Taxpayer Identification) number and sign the enclosed form." This should eventually open up the use of IRS data in other ways which could provide enormously useful consumer information without invading the privacy of individual taxpayers. In particular, data on the financial success of students by school attended and academic major would be great. Some information is already provided and published on the College Scorecard of the U.S. Department of Education, but it excludes large number of students who have not applied for student aid. That is true, and in a perfect world we would quickly phase out or drastically reduce federal financial aid in favor of better alternatives. Indeed, if I had my way, we would abolish the U.S. Department of Education. But we have a highly imperfect world, and the political process is certainly not producing optimal results these days. IF we are going to have a substantial federal presence in financing college education, than we should reduce barriers to student participation in the program. That is why I suspect that even the bitterly partisan and rancorous U.S. Congress might be able to get its act together and pass this legislation. | https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardvedder/2019/01/21/is-sanity-breaking-out-in-washington-a-bipartisan-fix-to-fafsa-complexity/ |
What is Leicester City's identity under Claude Puel? | Get Weekday Leicester City FC updates directly to your inbox Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email It has often been aimed at Claude Puel that his Leicester City side lack an identity. It isn't entirely correct, although it is true City moving away from their image of the past few seasons. Under Claudio Ranieri and Craig Shakespeare, City had the reputation for being a counter-attacking team, a side adept at sitting deep, soaking up pressure before breaking with lightning speed to score. Invariably with a direct pass over the top for Jamie Vardy. Ranieri believed that tactic lacked longevity as clubs wised up on how City play, but his attempts to change identity ultimately cost him his job. Craig Shakespeare had immediate success by returning to the tied and tested, recapturing Citys DNA, but Puel has attempted to add more strings to Citys bow. At times it has been muddled as City sway between a more possession based style while remaining most effective on the counter attack. It is a slow transition and there are certainly question marks whether Puel has the players at his disposal who can play the way he wants his side to. (Image: Mike Egerton/PA Wire) In an interview in France over the weekend Puel admitted the capabilities of his squad are different to the expectations placed upon them. In essence he has admitted they are not as good right now as many would wish them to be. That may shock many City fans, but it is consistent with his insistence that this is a work in progress at City. He isnt saying his City players arent good enough players, full stop, but that they many of his squad are young players emerging and growing together. They have potential and he is trying to develop them to fulfil their potential. At the moment the process is proving to be a bumpier ride than many would have imagined or desired. But this is the main identity of Puels City, the transition from the established title-winning squad towards a much younger, but vastly inexperienced, squad that has scope to improve given time. Under Puel Ben Chilwell has established himself as Citys first choice left-back and an England international. Harry Maguire is now one of the first names in Gareth Southgates squad, and James Maddison and Demarai Gray have been promoted from the under-21s into senior squads. Academy graduates Hamza Choudhury and now Harvey Barnes have both made their full Premier League debuts under Puel. Citys squad is the second youngest in the Premier League but Puel has given youth a chance more than any other manager with 37 percent of Citys match-time has been given to players aged 22 and under. The next highest figure is 19 percent, achieved by both Arsenal and Everton, with Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United on 18 percent. Citys identity is a youthful one, although the playing style they are being asked to play is in need of clarification, and that seems to be the greatest criticism being aimed at Puel. | https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/what-leicester-citys-identity-under-2452109 |
Why has the Government cut my state pension by 10% with no explanation? | In August 2018 my wife received a letter informing her that her basic state pension had been reduced from 125.95 to 113.36. It stated that she had been overpaid from February 2007 when she retired. There was no explanation as to why it had been reduced. I contacted the Northern Ireland pension office and they informed me that it was due to not having paid enough National Insurance contributions. Income cut: We received a letter saying my wife's state pension would be reduced, with no explanation (Stock image) I wrote to the Northern Ireland pension office to appeal this decision and asked for a mandatory reconsideration as required. I explained that prior to my wife retiring in February 2007 she applied for Home Responsibilities Protection to cover the time she was receiving child allowance for our two sons born in December 1973 and February 1977. She received a letter from the NI contributions office dated January 2007 stating that she was entitled to HRP for years 6 April 1980 to 5 April 1992. This was more than enough years to cover any shortfall. We cannot understand how after issuing a letter stating she was entitled to HRP from 1980 to 1992 HMRC can now come back 10 years later and change it. If there were insufficient credits for a full state pension we were prepared to pay for any shortfall, and now it is too late to do so. Steve Webb: Find out how to ask the former Pensions Minister a question about your retirement savings in the box below We feel that we should not be financially penalised for the mistake of HMRC as we acted in good faith and followed the correct procedure. At present the submission still stands and we are waiting to hear from the Appeals Service (NI) regarding our appeal. SCROLL DOWN TO FIND OUT HOW TO ASK YOUR PENSION QUESTION Steve Webb replies: It is shocking to hear that your wifes state pension has been cut more than 10 years after she retired, and with so little explanation. It is also unclear what has happened now to trigger this recalculation. But from the details that you have supplied I can see roughly what is going on in terms of the calculation and will try to explain. For women who reached state pension age before 6 April 2010, the target for a full pension was in most cases 39 qualifying years of NI Contributions. The way that the system of Home Responsibilities Protection (HRP) worked was that if you were not working but receiving Child Benefit through a full financial year then that year was knocked off your target for a full pension. This means that HRP years werent as good as full years of contributions - because its better to have an actual year of contributions towards your target rather than a smaller target but no contributions. But they did help to reduce the mountain you had to climb to get a full pension. However, the ability of married women to pay a 'reduced stamp' (a lower rate of NI contributions) affects HRP in a rather unfortunate way. For any year when your wife was paying, or was entitled to pay, reduced rate NICs, she was not entitled to *benefit from* HRP. This is where the confusion arises. Technically, your wife satisfied the one test for HRP receiving child benefit and so received a letter saying she was eligible for it, but then another part of the system comes along and says that because she continued to pay the reduced rate for some of those years this meant she could not *benefit from* HRP in those years. This is of course not remotely obvious from the correspondence that you receive. Because years of actual contributions are better than years of HRP, in any year when your wife was both working and claiming child benefit, these would be scored as actual years of contributions rather than years of HRP. Your wifes new rate of pension is precisely 90 per cent of the full rate of the basic pension. If I was guessing, I would say that your wife is probably actually benefiting from HRP for two years (84/85 and 85/86) which reduces her target from 39 years to 37 years. She has her pre 1975 contributions plus her years from 1986/87 onwards. If together they made 33 years then 33/37 of a full pension rounded up is 90 per cent. But its possible the calculation has been done in a slightly different way. I would encourage you to take this issue further, perhaps via your local MP, as your wife has clearly been treated badly and the communications you have received have been very confusing. I would particularly encourage you to ask your MP to find out what happened to trigger the reassessment of your wifes pension - please let me know how they respond. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/pensions/article-6614867/Why-Government-cut-state-pension-10-no-explanation.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 |
Could bioenergy help reduce energy bills? | A major new review that will explore the future of bioenergy in the UK, including its ability to reduce energy bills, has been launched. The Renewable Energy Association (REA) has announced a call for evidence and is seeking views from stakeholders, experts, academics, NGOs and industry in relation to three areas: Bioenergy technology deployment in the UK, ensuring sustainability in the bioenergy sector and the role of bioenergy in the bioeconomy. Bioenergy is energy that is generated from bio-based fuels such as wood pellets and biodiesel. The review is expected to result in a new policy strategy for government and industry, with a comprehensive up-to-date assessment of the current role of bioenergy and the potential it has in meeting carbon targets by 2032. It will also look at bioenergys role in meeting the UKs 2050 decarbonisation targets. The announcement comes after the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) estimated bioenergys contribution could more than double by 2050. The International Energy Agency (IEA) has also forecast bioenergy from liquid biofuels and biogas will lead the growth of all renewables to 2023. Adam Brown, Independent Author for the Bioenergy Strategy report and former IEA Senior Energy Analyst said: Bioenergy has been at the heart of the move to renewable energy in the UK. It currently provides the largest share of renewable energy, both globally and in the UK. Many of the policies which have helped spur the growth of bioenergy are now coming to an end and the energy markets and technologies have advanced significantly. So its time for an update of the UKs strategy. We want to explore the role of bioenergy and how public policy and industry practice need to change if were to get the most out of this sector. Were looking at everything from sustainability and air quality to economic value and its ability to cut energy bills. The call for evidence is open until 25th February 2019 and the report is expected to be published later this year. | https://www.energylivenews.com/2019/01/21/could-bioenergy-help-reduce-energy-bills/ |
Why is pop music still obsessed with madness? | For the past month, the UK Top 40 top spot has been occupied by a surprise hit called Sweet But Psycho. Sung by Ava Max, the song is an unapologetically generic piece of pop. But it boasts lyrics akin to clickbait, perjoratively using terms such as "psycho" and "crazy" to evoke a sentiment that seems starkly at odds with the recent progress the music industry has made in how mental health is discussed. On face value, Sweet But Psycho feeds into a long history of stigma over mental health in pop culture. Perhaps sensing an inevitable online backlash, Max (who was born Amanda Ava Koci, and is 25), has gone on record to explain what the song actually means. Its... | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/pop-music-still-obsessed-madness/ |
What does Blue Monday by New Order mean? | New Order in 1989. For Radio X, theres only one Blue Monday - the famous New Order one. But theres another one you may not know about. In March 1983, New Order finally ditched the comparisons with their previous incarnation Joy Division with the biggest selling 12 single of all time. Released three years after the death of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, Blue Monday was influenced by the flood of new music technology and a lot of time spent sampling the early 80s nightlife of New York. Featured a jackhammer drum machine beat and octave-leaping bassline, the record was a huge hit in clubs across Europe that summer, prompting people to buy it in their droves when they returned home. It was inspired by a book that New Order drummer was reading at the time: Breakfast Of Champions or Goodbye Blue Monday by the noted science fiction author Kurt Vonnegut. Its post-modern satire on society and was published in 1973. Author Kurt Vonnegut in 1973. Picture: Waring Abbott/Getty Images Keyboard player Gillian Gilbert told The Guardian in 2013: It's a reference to the invention of the washing machine, which improved housewives' lives. One of the illustrations in the book interprets the banishing of the washday blues is given a more extreme solution. If youre on the market for an ultra-obscure New Order reference in your home, the official Kurt Vonnegut site sells prints of some of the illustrations. | https://www.radiox.co.uk/artists/new-order/what-does-blue-monday-by-new-order-mean/ |
Who is Shipwrecked castaway Kalia? | (Picture: Channel 4) Shipwrecked is making a return to E4 for the first time in seven years with nine new castaways finding themselves on the island. Fans will see the show will once again take the Battle Of The Islands format with separate islands fighting to win new arrivals with 50,000 at stake for the winning team. Former Strictly contestant Vick Hope will be hosting this years series which kicks off next week. Among those taking part is stubborn and honest model Kalia and heres what you need to know about her. : Kalia revealed that this was a completely new experience, saying: I have the the V festival but thats not the same! I have not been away from my family for such a long time before. Advertisement Advertisement She also admitted to feeling nervous at first but started to set into life on the Iland, admitting: The main thing for me was that the people on my island I wouldnt want to hang out with back at home. They did not have the same humour. Confirmed: Shipwrecked starts Monday 28 January at 9pm on E4 pic.twitter.com/JeCnehCFUm Channel 4 Press (@C4Press) January 16, 2019 The series kicks off on E4 on Monday January 28 at 9pm. If you've got a story, video or pictures get in touch with the Metro.co.uk Entertainment team by emailing us [email protected], calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page - we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Meet Shipwrecked castaway Liv the hot-headed waitress bringing drama to the island MORE: Meet Shipwrecked castaway Harry a model with a skill for making fires | https://metro.co.uk/2019/01/21/shipwrecked-castaway-kalia-8369719/ |
Should Nottingham Forest 'think about letting Danny Fox go'? | Get Weekday Nottingham Forest FC updates directly to your inbox Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email It will be interesting to see what happens with Danny Fox, whether he ends up staying at Nottingham Forest or not. It sounds like Wigan Athletic are quite keen on him. He is out of contract in the summer, so I would maybe think about letting him go. But it just depends on our injury situation and whether we would need another centre-half to replace him. I like Michael Dawson a lot and I love his attitude, but he is injured at the minute. So are Tobias Figueiredo and Michael Hefele. Jack Robinson does well when he plays in the middle, but it would be good to get him playing at left-back again. Fox and Figueiredo were outstanding together at the end of last season. They were our two best players. But I dont think Foxs form has been quite as good this year, although he has had his injury problems. I wasnt too impressed with his sending off at Reading the other week. He needed to keep his composure. I was always taught aggression is nothing unless it is controlled, and Fox channelled his frustration in the wrong way. Yohan Benalouane did very well on his debut against Bristol City on Saturday, though. If he keeps up that level of performance, he can be a very good signing for us. He was our best player at the City Ground. We didnt have many who came away with too much credit, but he was one. Benalouane looked strong and athletic. He was up against quite a big, awkward player but he won his headers. All you really want from your centre-halves is to win their tackles and their headers, then give the ball to someone who can play. Benalouane did exactly that. Thats the kind of performance you want from everyone in the team; you want players to do their jobs. I would definitely keep Benalouane in the team against Wigan, this weekend. | https://www.nottinghampost.com/sport/sport-opinion/should-nottingham-forest-think-letting-2452368 |
Who is CBB 2019s Lolo Jones and what championships has the Olympian won? | Lolo Jones is entering the Celebrity Big Brother house (Photo by Skip Bolen/CBS via Getty Images) Olympic athlete Lolo Jones is entering the Celebrity Big Brother house for the second series of the US show. Ricky Gervais nearly crying 'a little bit' during SAS: Who Dares Wins is all of us The 36-year-old is one of the 12 famous faces swapping the comforts of home for the reality TV show, which kicks off on Monday. Heres what you need to know about the housemate. Lolo (Lori) has won world championships in both track and bobsled and has represented the US in the summer and winter Olympics. Among her biggest achievements are the gold medals won in hurdling at the World Indoor Championship in 2008 and 2010. Lolo was one of the favourites to win the 100-metre hurdle at the 2008 Olympics but lost her lead after she stumbled on the penultimate hurdle. Advertisement Advertisement She returned to the Olympics in 2014, when she took part in the winter Games in bobsledding. Lolo will have her game face on in the house, and reckons shes got what it takes to win the three-week show. As an athlete, shes got her competitive nature on her side but who knows whether itll win her any fans both in and outside of the house. She told Entertainment Weekly: I have a potential to win this game because I love competing. I get a thrill out of challenges. Lolo will be joined by a number of famous housemates including actress Lindsay Lohans mum Dina, Mean Girls star Jonathan Bennett and Anthony Scaramucci, Donald Trumps former communications director. Singers Tamar Braxton and Kandi Burruss will also grace the series, alongside witness in the OJ Simpson murder trials Kato Kaelin, ex NFL star Ricky Williams and WWE wrestler Natalie Eva Marie. Olympic medallist Ryan Lochte, comedian Tom Green and actor Joey Lawrence round off the celebrity dozen. | https://metro.co.uk/2019/01/21/cbb-2019s-lolo-jones-championships-olympian-won-8368890/ |
When will the contenders for the 2019 UK Eurovision entry be revealed? | (Picture: BBC) Its Eurovision season, and the continent and beyond is alive with the sound of music as this years participating countries choose their entries. So far weve had songs from Albania and Spain, while San Marino have confirmed the very exciting news that former participant Serhat will be back this year. Our six acts and songs for #Eurovision: You Decide will be revealed from 10am on Wednesday! https://t.co/crerHR8Jqn and the Ken Bruce show @BBCRadio2 pic.twitter.com/ZBceGa5DJQ BBC Eurovision (@bbceurovision) January 18, 2019 Once again as in recent years itll be down to the public to decide who represents us in the contest via the You Decide format. Advertisement Advertisement However this year the show will look a little different. In the past few years the viewers have voted on a selection of six songs chosen by the BBC following a lengthy submissions process resulting in the likes of Joe and Jake, Lucie Jones and last years hopeful SuRie carrying the hopes of the nation to the Eurovision stage. This year youll have six artists but only three songs to choose from. Each song will be interpreted by two of the hopefuls but in different ways with the folks at home not only having to pick their favourite song from the three but their favourite version of it. Lucie Jones finished 15th in 2017 (Picture: Getty Images) We dont have too much longer to wait as the songs will be unveiled on Radio 2s Ken Bruce Show this Wednesday morning. It starts at 9.30am and the songs will be gradually revealed throughout the show so youll have to stay tuned throughout. The UK is one of the most successful acts in Eurovision history, having won the contest five times but we havent taken the trophy since Katrina and the Waves triumphed in 1997. Our last top ten finish was a decade ago, when Jade Ewen took Its My Time all the way to fifth place with a little help from Andrew Lloyd Webber. Last years contest in Lisbon saw SuRies song Storm finish 24th. Not at all, Eurovision fans. Leaving the European Union makes no difference to the UKs participation at Eurovision at all, as that is determined by membership of the European Broadcasting Union an entirely different organisation which is unrelated to EU membership. Eurovision: You Decide, hosted by Mel Giedroyc and former Swedish Eurovision winner Mans Zelmerlow, is on BBC Two on Friday February 8 at 7.30pm. The 2019 Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Tel Aviv, Israel following Nettas victory last year, with the semi-finals on May 14 and 16 and the final on Saturday May 18. As a member of the Big Five the main financiers of the contest the UK is automatically qualified for the final along with France, Spain, Italy and Germany, as well as the host nation. If you've got a story, video or pictures get in touch with the Metro.co.uk Entertainment team by emailing us [email protected], calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page - we'd love to hear from you. | https://metro.co.uk/2019/01/21/when-will-the-contenders-for-the-2019-uk-eurovision-entry-be-revealed-8369558/ |
Could Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley be about to buy Derbys HMV? | Get Business updates directly to your inbox Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email The founder of Derbyshire-based Sports Direct Mike Ashley has put forward a bid to buy troubled music chain HMV, according to reports. Last month, HMV, which has more than 100 stores, including one at the Intu Derby shopping centre, went into administration for the second time in six years, putting 2,200 jobs at risk. Since then, administrators KPMG have been running HMV as a going concern while inviting offers from interested parties for the business. A deadline of January 15 was set and according to KPMG it has received a number of offers, but declined to reveal the identity of the bidders. However, according to Sky News, one of the bidders is Mr Ashley, the man who founded Shirebrook-based Sports Direct. (Image: Joe Giddens/PA Wire) Mr Ashley is said to have spoken with music and entertainment industry figures about his possible rescue deal. Speaking about the bids that have been submitted, Will Wright, a partner at KPMG and joint administrator of HMV, said they would evaluate these further over the coming days. He added: We will continue to endeavour to trade all stores while discussions with all the relevant stakeholders continue. HMV owner Hilco, which took the company out of its first administration in 2013, has blamed a "tsunami" of retail challenges for the latest collapse, including business rate levels and the increasing use of streaming services to deliver music and movies. (Image: Derby Telegraph) When the chain fell into administration last month, Paul McGowan, executive chairman of HMV and Hilco, said HMV sold 31% of all physical music in the UK in 2018 and 23% of all DVDs, with its market share growing month by month throughout the year. However, he added that the industry consensus was that the market would fall by another 17% during 2019. Back in August, Mr Ashley saved House of Fraser, the department store chain, from collapse in a 90-million deal. (Image: Derby Telegraph) The takeover included all 58 of its UK stores, which he vowed to turn into the Harrods of the high street. Then in November, it was revealed that Mr Ashley had bought Derbys former BHS store from Intu Properties. The deal for the St Peters Street premises, which has a floor space of 53,000 sq ft set across four levels, was part of a wider 25 million deal Mr Ashley secured for buildings owned by Intu. Derbys BHS store closed for good on July 30, 2016, after the department store business went into administration. It is not yet know what plans he has for the property. Related stories: | https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/business/could-sports-direct-boss-mike-2451432 |
Who is Kamala Harris? | LOUISVILLE, Ky. Kamala Harris, a first-term senator and former California attorney general known for her rigorous questioning of President Donald Trump's nominees, entered the Democratic presidential race on Monday. Vowing to "bring our voices together," Harris would be the first woman to hold the presidency and the second African-American if she succeeds. Senator Kamala Harris addresses 2020 rumors The junior senator from California and closely watched Democratic star talks about the 2020 presidential campaign and her two new books. Though she has served only two years in the Senate, Harris has drawn attention from Democrats for her trenchant examinations on the Senate Judiciary Committee, particularly during last year's Supreme Court confirmation hearings for now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Harris, who grew up in Oakland, California, and is a daughter of parents from Jamaica and India, is one of the earliest high-profile Democrats to join what is expected to be a crowded field. She made her long-anticipated announcement on ABC's "Good Morning America." The 54-year old portrayed herself as a fighter for justice, decency and equality in a video distributed by her campaign as she announced her bid. "They're the values we as Americans cherish, and they're all on the line now," Harris says in the video . "The future of our country depends on you and millions of others lifting our voices to fight for our American values." On ABC, she cited her years as a prosecutor in asserting: "My entire career has been focused on keeping people safe. It is probably one of the things that motivates me more than anything else." Harris launched her presidential as the nation observes what would have been the 90th birthday of the slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. The timing was a clear signal that the California senator who has joked that she had a "stroller's-eye view" of the civil rights movement because her parents wheeled her and her sister Maya to protests sees herself as another leader in that fight. Harris launches her campaign fresh off of a tour to promote her latest memoir, "The Truths We Hold," which was widely seen as a stage-setter for a presidential bid. Harris is framing her campaign through her courtroom experience. The theme of her nascent campaign is "Kamala Harris, for the people," the same words she spoke as a prosecutor, trying a case in the courtroom. She plans a formal campaign launch in Oakland on Jan. 27. The campaign will be based in Baltimore, with a second office in Oakland. Harris graduated Howard University, is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority and also attend Hastings College of Law. RELATED: Senator Kamala Harris jumps into presidential race RELATED: Sen. Kamala Harris announces she will run for president in 2020 | https://www.whas11.com/article/news/local/seen-on-tv/who-is-kamala-harris/417-9ff645f4-d407-4cac-8ead-61fddfc93b94 |
How Does a Certificate of Deposit (CD) Work? | A certificate of deposit, or CD, can help you get more interest from your idle cash. Heres what you need to know about them. Image Credit: Getty Images A certificate of deposit, also known as a CD, is a type of bank account that involves placing a deposit with a financial institution for a certain amount of time. For this reason, a CD is often referred to as a time-deposit account. The ending date of a CD account is known as its maturity date, and the entire account balance is generally removed when this date is reached. CDs generally pay fixed interest rates that are determined upon opening the account, and while the interest rates paid by CDs generally depend on market conditions, they can vary significantly between financial institutions. CDs vs. Savings accounts While a CD is technically a type of savings account, it differs from a traditional bank savings account in a few important ways -- some include: The most obvious difference between a CD and a savings account is that youre committing to leaving your money in the CD for a certain amount of time. CD term lengths generally range from a few months to about five years, although shorter or longer terms may be available. With a savings account, you are free to withdraw your money whenever youd like. Because youre committing to leave your funds on deposit, banks typically pay higher interest rates on CDs than they do on savings accounts. And, the longer the term of the CD, the higher the interest rate it will typically pay. There is generally no such thing as a partial withdrawal from a CD. For example, if you deposit $1,000 into a savings account, you can choose to withdraw a portion of it and leave the rest in the account. With a CD, your withdrawal generally has to be for the entire amount, even if you decide to access your funds before the maturity date and accept a penalty. The interest rate paid by a CD depends on a few factors. For one, overall financial market conditions tend to influence CD yields. Specifically, if the Federal Reserve raises interest rates, CD yields will generally rise across the board. On the other hand, when the Federal Reserve lowers interest rates, CD yields tend to fall. Having said that, the type of financial institution offering the CD also plays a big role. Brick-and-mortar banks tend to have lower CD yields than credit unions, for example. And, online financial institutions tend to have the best CD yields of all. As an example, as of Nov. 5, 2018, the national average interest rate for a 12-month CD was 0.49%. Meanwhile, Marcus by Goldman Sachs offers an annual percentage yield, or APY, of 2.55% -- more than five times the average. Its very important to shop around for the best rates as the variation between institutions can be substantial. Additionally, its important to mention that CD interest compounds throughout the term. For example, lets say that you deposit $1,000 in a five-year CD that has an annual percentage yield of 3%. This means that at the end of the first year, your CD would be worth $1,030. Then during the second year, you would earn 3% on $1,030. Over time, this can really add a significant amount to your returns if you choose a CD with a longer maturity. Jumbo CDs If you have a lot of money to deposit, you may be able to obtain a so-called Jumbo CD. Many financial institutions are willing to pay higher interest rates for Jumbo CDs, but not all of them do, so if you have a large deposit, be sure to inquire about Jumbo CD rates. Jumbo CDs are generally defined as a minimum deposit amount of $100,000, but many institutions have lower thresholds that pay preferable interest rates. CDs as retirement investments Its also important to mention that you can hold CDs in certain retirement accounts, such as individual retirement accounts, or IRAs. If you put your money in a CD with a bank, the interest your account earns is generally considered taxable income. However, if your CD is held in an IRA or other tax-advantaged retirement account, you wont have to worry about paying tax on the interest you receive on an annual basis. If you invest in a CD through a tax-deferred retirement account like a traditional IRA, your account deposit may be tax deductible, and you wont have to worry about any income taxes on your interest income until you make a withdrawal from the account. Or, if you invest through an after-tax account like a Roth IRA, your contributions wont be deductible, but qualified withdrawals from the account (including your interest income) will be 100% tax-free. If were defining risk as the potential loss of your deposit, the answer is almost certainly no. Bank CDs are FDIC-insured up to $250,000 per depositor, per institution. And credit union CDs are also insured through the National Credit Union Administration with the same limits. | https://news.yahoo.com/does-certificate-deposit-cd-143000911.html |
Who made Rob Maclean's team of the Scottish Cup fourth round? | The weekend Scottish Cup ties threw up some surprises and outstanding performances. Here, BBC commentator Rob Maclean reveals his picks for team of the fourth round. Formation 4-3-3: Scott Bain (Celtic); Tony Ralston (Celtic), Craig McCracken (Auchinleck Talbot), Stuart Findlay (Kilmarnock), Gordon Pope (Auchinleck Talbot); Jamie Glasgow (Auchinleck Talbot), Ryan Gauld (Hibernian), Daryl Horgan (Hibernian); Lewis Vaughan (Raith Rovers), Brian Graham (Ross County), Scott Sinclair (Celtic). Goalkeeper - Scott Bain Celtic stand-in keeper Scott Bain's save on Saturday which stopped an Airdrieonians equaliser was so good it came in five instalments. That's how many stops he made in the space of a 10-second goalmouth scramble at the end of the first half as the League One team tried to spring a surprise. Media playback is not supported on this device Celtic goalkeeper Scott Bain's denies Airdrie with five of the best Defenders - Tony Ralston, Craig McCracken, Stuart Findlay, Gordon Pope As Celtic continue their search for a right-back, 20-year-old Tony Ralston has to be worthy of consideration. He's had loan spells with Queen's Park and Dundee United to give him game time and the Scotland Under-21 international was an eye catcher in the 3-0 Scottish Cup defeat of Airdrie. Defender Craig McCracken has a happy habit of scoring big goals. His stoppage-time winner in last May's Junior Cup final took the trophy to Auchinleck Talbot for a 12th time. On Saturday, his 78th-minute header against Ayr United delivered the biggest shock of the Scottish Cup fourth round. Media playback is not supported on this device What a goal! Kilmarnock's Stuart Findlay scores cup cracker Another central defender in great goal-scoring form at the weekend was Kilmarnock's Stuart Findlay. His stunning left-foot strike was the opener in Killie's 2-0 home win against Forfar, which set up a likely last-16 Scottish Cup meeting with Rangers. Gordon Pope is the Auchinleck postie and a long-serving player in the Talbot team. An offside flag wrongly denied him a Scottish Cup goal against Hearts seven years ago but he's heading back to Tynecastle in a few weeks after playing a big part in that sensational Ayrshire derby win on Saturday. Media playback is not supported on this device Scottish Cup: Watch the moment Auchinleck Talbot became giant killers Midfielders - Jamie Glasgow, Ryan Gauld, Daryl Horgan Jamie Glasgow epitomised the impressive work ethic of the Auchinleck Talbot team as the minnows of the competition showed local rivals Ayr the exit door. Midfielder Glasgow was a bundle of energy as the underdogs got the result they richly deserved. Ryan Gauld and Hibs could be just the right fit. The on-loan Sporting Lisbon midfielder made a classy contribution to the 4-0 Scottish Cup defeat of Elgin City and, while there are obviously bigger challenges to come, the former Dundee United youngster promises to be a great signing. Gauld might have grabbed the attention but it was midfield partner Daryl Horgan who scored two of the goals that eased Hibs into the cup's last 16. The Irishman is a big talent who just needs to come up with the goods on a more regular basis. Forwards - Lewis Vaughan, Brian Graham, Scott Sinclair Lewis Vaughan's hat-trick was the highlight of Raith Rovers' derby defeat of Dunfermline at Stark's Park on Saturday. He's been injured and missed a lot of football this season but that's nine goals in 12 games now on the back of a total of 23 last season. Brian Graham has scored goals wherever he's been. Ross County are his ninth club and his double for the Championship promotion chasers secured a cup shock at Fir Park. Top-flight Motherwell were knocked out by two typical close-range finishes from Graham. Scott Sinclair made it six goals in his past five Celtic games as he nabbed a couple in the comfortable cup defeat of Airdrie. He also missed a sitter, had a penalty saved and had a perfectly good goal ruled out. Sinclair's not yet back to his best but he's getting there. | https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/46948768 |
Is it Planet Nine or a massive disc? | Cosmos Magazine - 2 hours ago Theres another suggestion for whats causing some unusual orbital architecture. Nick Carne reports. Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by 'Planet Nine' Phys.org - 6 hours ago The strange orbits of some objects in the farthest reaches of our solar system, hypothesised by some astronomers to be shaped by an unknown ninth planet, can instead be explained by the combined ... Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by 'Planet Nine', Eurekalert - 15 hours ago Planet Nine might not actually be a planet Popular Science - 2 hours ago Space It could be something even cooler. Weird Orbits of Distant Objects May Have Different Explanation SPACE.com - 2 hours ago The weirdly clustered orbits of some far-flung bodies in our solar system can be explained without invoking a big, undiscovered "Planet Nine," a new study suggests. | http://abitofscience.com/news/cluster/941239/ |
Can Clemson repeat as national champions? | We have seen the schedule. We have an idea what the projected depth chart might look like for next year. Now we can go ahead and ask this one question. In the history of the Associated Press Poll, which began in 1936, the defending champion has repeated just 10 times. Since 1980, it has happened just three times. Nebraska won back-to-back titles in 1994 and 1995, while Southern Cal did it in 2003 and 2004. The last team to win back-to-back national championships was Alabama in 2011 and 2012. Dabo Swinney pointed out during the champions press conference following the Tigers 44-16 win over Alabama on Jan. 7, that the program has done everything in terms of streaks except win the national title in back-to-back years. Clemson went 21 years between 10-win seasons, but in 2011 it broke that streak and has recorded eight straight 10-win seasons. The Tigers went 20 years without an ACC Championship, but in 2011 they snapped that cold spell by beating Virginia Tech, 38-10, in the conference championship game. Now they have won it four other times, including the last four a first in the ACC for an outright champion. Clemson had not been to a major bowl game (BCS, New Years Six, College Football Playoff) since the 1982 Orange Bowl. They snapped that streak in 2012. Since then, Clemson has played in eight of them, including seven straight CFP games. In 2015, the Tigers played for the national championship for the first time in 34 years before falling in a heartbreaker to Alabama. The very next year, they returned to the title game and this time beat the Crimson Tide on a last second touchdown pass from Deshaun Watson to Hunter Renfrow. The 2017 CFP National Championship marked Clemsons first national title in 35 years. Like everything else the Tigers have accomplished under Swinney, it did not take long for them to do it a second time. Clemson won its second national championship in three years on Jan. 7, with its dominating victory over the Tide. So, if we look at the pattern in which the Tigers have done everything else under Swinney in the last eight seasons, then repeating as national champions is the next thing to accomplish. Its not a stretch to believe it can happen, either. Clemson could return nine starters on offensestill waiting on tight end Garrett Williams decision to join the military or notincluding quarterback Trevor Lawrence, running Travis Etienne and wide receivers Tee Higgins, Justyn Ross and Amari Rodgers. Granted the defense has to replace six of its front-seven from the 2018 National Champions, including arguably the best defensive line in the history of college football. But there are already four- and five-star standouts ready to line up and replace them without much of a drop off and the secondary returns almost intact. In other words, with a favorable schedule that will see the Tigers play 10 of their 12 regular season games in the Carolinas, winning a second straight national championship is not out of the question. Odds are, after beating Alabama the way it did in the national championship, Clemson will enter the 2019 season as the No. 1 team in the country for the first time. Back-to-back AP National Champions Minnesota: 1940, 1941 Army: 1944, 1945 Notre Dame: 1946, 1947 Oklahoma: 1955, 1956 Alabama: 1964, 1965 Nebraska: 1970, 1971 Alabama: 1978, 1979 Nebraska: 1994, 1995 USC: 2003, 2004 Alabama: 2011, 2012 | https://theclemsoninsider.com/2019/01/21/can-clemson-repeat-as-national-champions/ |
What is the greatest film theme music of all time? | Every truly great movie needs a great soundtrack: a musical score that lifts the film and stays in your mind long after the closing credits. RadioTimes.com has teamed up with BBC Music Magazine to find the answer, and decide the nations favourite film theme. A team of critics from both brands have created a shortlist (below), and now its time for you to vote on the winner. The music choices span 80 years of cinema from the 1930s to today, and include works by many of the greatest ever film composers including John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Alan Silvestri and Danny Elfman. Now all you have to do is cast your vote. Advertisement Vote now to have your say on the greatest film theme of all time. | https://www.radiotimes.com/news/film/2019-01-21/best-film-theme-music-soundtrack/ |
What TV shows and films has Gillian Anderson been in? | The award-winning actress recently appeared on Netflixs Sex Education (Pitcure: Chris Delmas/AFP/Getty) Gillian Anderson will be throwing it back to the 80s as she takes on the role of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, according to reports. Ricky Gervais nearly crying 'a little bit' during SAS: Who Dares Wins is all of us The actress will portray the political figure in series four of Netflix hit The Crown and will begin shooting in summer, Sunday Times reports. The 50-year-old has enjoyed a successful career spanning decades in TV, film and theatre, most recently in Netflixs Sex Education in which she starred as sex therapist Dr Jean Milburn. Gillian has won both a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award for her role as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the X Files, which shes starred in for over 25 years. Gillian Anderson will play Margaret Thatcher in the fourth season of The Crown (Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage) She also appeared in BBCs 2013 crime series The Fall and later she starred in its 2015 drama Bleak House. Advertisement Advertisement On the big screen, Gillian notably starred in The Last King of Scotland, Viceroys House and Shadow Dancer. While fans may be rejoicing at the thought of her on The Crown, they may be waiting a while as series three itself is yet to be released and theres no word as to when filming will begin on the fourth. Gillian will be joining the ranks of esteemed portrayals of Margaret Thatcher, which includes Meryl Streep and Janet Brown. The controversial prime minister will play a major role in Queen Elizabeths life as the show reaches the 1980s, and is likely to cover major moments in UK history including the Falklands War and the Miners Strike. MORE: The Crown series 3: Helena Bonham Carters Princess Margaret debuts toyboy as they join Olivia Colman on set | https://metro.co.uk/2019/01/21/tv-shows-films-gillian-anderson-8369351/ |
Who is EastEnders' new Ben Mitchell actor Max Bowden? | Max Bowden is the new Ben Mitchell (Picture: BBC) Ben Mitchell is set to make a dramatic return to EastEnders with the role to be played by yet another new actor. Actor Max Bowden will be taking over where previous Ben Harry Reid left off at the start of 2018 and is set to begin filming this week. The character was last seen fleeing the country and heading for Calais after stealing the money from Aidan Maguires heist only to discover, when he reached France, that most of the money had disappeared. His return comes alongside that of Lola Pearce, who is the mother of his daughter Lexi. Max previously starred in Waterloo Road (Picture: BBC) Max is 24 years old and is best known to date for his role as Justin Fitzgerald in Waterloo Road. Advertisement Advertisement The character appeared in the final series of the show from 2014-2015, arriving at Waterloo Road where his dad Vaughn was the head teacher along with his brother Leo after they moved in with him after mum Olga had a nervous breakdown. Justin was initially a tricky customer, who showed anger towards his father for abandoning him and his brother but he showed his softer side after discovering fellow student Tiffany had a crush on him. He also took the blame after his brother Leo began cyber-bullying another student, Bonnie. As well as Waterloo Road, Max has already been seen in episodes of Saved, Casualty and Doctors. Max is taking over from actor Harry Reid who previously played Ben Mitchell (Picture: BBC) Speaking about his new role in the show, Max enthused: Im so excited to be joining the cast of EastEnders and taking on the role of Ben Mitchell. Ive always been a fan of the show so to be joining one of the most iconic families in soap is beyond exciting. I cant wait to get started and see whats in store for Ben. The character has been at the centre of some huge plotlines over the years from the murder of Heather Trott to his grief at the loss of his soulmate Paul Coker, who was murdered by a homophobic gang. EastEnders airs Mondays and Fridays at 8pm and Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7.30pm. If you've got a story, video or pictures get in touch with the Metro.co.uk Entertainment team by emailing us [email protected], calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page - we'd love to hear from you. | https://metro.co.uk/2019/01/21/eastenderss-new-ben-mitchell-actor-max-bowden-seen-8368489/ |
How dangerous is Spain's far-right Vox party? | On the night of last month's regional elections, Ana L. and Lucia M. went to bed scared. The lesbian couple from Sevilla, both in their late 20s, could not believe that around 400,000 of their fellow citizens would vote for a populist party that "is against us," Ana told DW as they walked their dog in Sevilla. The outcome has shaken Spain's political foundations. The far-right party Vox won 12 seats (out of 109) in the elections, marking the first time they've made it into a parliament. The fact that it happened Andalusia, which has been ruled by the PSOE (Social Democrats) since 1982, was all the more surprising. Until that point, it had seemed that Spain was somehow immune to the electoral rise of populist far-right parties that has spread over parts of Europe, like the Alternative fr Deutschland in Germany or Italy's League party. Read more: Spain proves sterile ground for far-right parties Political scientist Eduard Gell told DW that several factors had made this possible, including an "unexpectedly high" abstention rate (around 42 percent), resulting partly from a "demobilization of the left." The other issue, once again, is the divisive question of Catalan secession. The Catalan crisis began almost 18 months ago, but there are still no political or legal solutions in sight. In contrast to the former government's more combative approach towards separatism, Prime Minister Pedro Snchez's Social Democratic cabinet has pursued a path of dialogue. And although this has achieved a relative de-escalation of the dispute, not everyone is happy with his course. A battle of flags The Conservative PP and the liberal Ciudadanos party have been pushing for a more hard-line intervention of the national government against the secessionist government in Barcelona. Although just a regional election, "PP and Ciudadanos focused on the issue during the Andalusian electoral campaign, and Vox bet higher," Gell said. For Domingo G., an 83-year-old pensioner on his morning walk through his neighborhood, "those parties are to blame" for Vox's electoral gains. "They did not talk about the problems of the people here, about education, healthcare or housing," he told DW. There is concern that the Vox party could make inroads in Spain similar to those made by other European far-right parties He thinks Vox is a "danger" to the Spanish democratic system and he's not the only one who holds that view. Indeed, Vox's radical stance on immigration, feminist policies, and LGBTI rights is, for many, justification enough to place a cordon sanitaire around them. Catalonia unites the right, but social issues divide it Guillermo Fernndez, an expert on far-right Identitarian forces, believes this will be difficult as long as PP, Ciudadanos and Vox have such a similar position when it comes to the Catalan problem. In fact, these three parties have already struck a government deal for Andalusia, which will now be governed by a conservative-liberal coalition, with the support of the far right. The answer lies again in Catalonia and the "wounded national pride" of many Spaniards, Fernndez told DW. "They [Vox] are the ones who have prioritized the defense of our homeland," 35-year-old Juan F. told DW. Yet he does not want to say whether he voted for them in the elections. Nevertheless, the moderate conservatives could find it difficult to work with Vox. The party is against many of Andalusia's progressive laws, including those on gender protection, LGBTI equality or those in support of the victims of Francisco Franco's dictatorship. No one currently knows what their strategy and demands will be now that they have reached a deal with PP and Ciudadanos. Read more: Spain fails LGBTI victims of Franco regime A Spanish (and European) trend Meanwhile, the entire country is closely watching the situation in Andalusia. Most polls predict that Vox would make similar gains at the national level. And snap general elections are a distinct possibility should Snchez fail to get enough support in the Spanish parliament for his budget. In addition, the upcoming trial of several secessionist Catalan leaders is likely to add further fuel to the fire. "All signs indicate that Vox has come to stay," Gell said. In his opinion, "one cannot understand how the far right has erupted in Spain without understanding the European and international perspective and how these populist far-right parties communicate and feed off each other." Sociologist Fernndez is slightly more optimistic, at least in the long run. "They have the ability to condition the public debate and the agenda, and they will promote polarization," but he also believes that "they do not propose any solution, so at some point Spanish society will turn its back on them." The question is now what part, if any, they will play in helping to solve the region's economic problems, including high unemployment and easier access to affordable housing. Paqui G., a 53-year-old teacher, is also worried about Vox's influence on the other parties. "If they get a similar result in the general elections, we are going to lose a lot of rights and values that we gained over the course of many years. It's not just about gender equality," she told DW. "My generation lived it, we fought for [those values] in the streets, we voted for them as citizens. And now we are moving backwards, like crabs." | https://www.dw.com/en/how-dangerous-is-spains-far-right-vox-party/a-47164488 |
Who Is 5 Seconds Of Summer's Luke Hemmings' Girlfriend? | Luke Hemmings and his girlfriend Sierra Deaton aged 27. Picture: Instagram 5 Seconds Of Summer's Luke Hemmings' girlfriend Sierra Deaton is as gorgeous as you'd expect her to be and you might actually recognise her too. Luke Hemmings' girlfriend Sierra Deaton is no stranger to the spotlight as she was in fact the winner of the third and final season of The X Factor US. The 5 Seconds Of Summer star and one half of former duo Alex and Sierra have been Instagram official since August 2018 when Luke posted this adorable snap of the couple. Fans Defend 5SOS Luke Hemmings After His Ex-Girlfriend Lays Into Him On Instagram Sierra Deaton, aged 27, won the last ever season of The X Factor US with her musical partner Alex Kinsey however things didn't work out for the pair and they eventually went their separate ways both romantically and professionally in 2017. However, almost one year after their split, it looks like Sierra has found love again with Luke, n'aww. 5 Seconds of Summer are still serving us banger after banger and are currently in the vote for Best Song at The Global Awards with their 2018 hit 'Youngblood'. They go up against tunes from the likes of Ariana Grande and Little Mix. "Youngblood, Say You Want Me, Say You Want Me, To Download The Capital App" - Yes We Do. | https://www.capitalfm.com/artists/5-seconds-of-summer/luke-hemmings-girlfriend-age-sierra-deaton/ |
Is a Prophet Like MLK Possible Today? | Photo: Francis Miller/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images On the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday of 2019, it is entirely possible to look back on Kings courage and self-sacrifice as inspirations in especially difficult times. But its not as easy to imagine that a miracle like the civil rights movement can recur in the Trump Era. For those who think of what King and his contemporaries achieved as inevitable and overdueand now universally praised by everyone this side of open white supremacistsits miraculous nature might seem overstated. But make no mistake, the civil rights movement achieved a progressive breakthrough and a national consensus on an issuethe equality of races before the lawthat had divided Americans from the Republics very beginning. Indeed, racial equality is still controversial, as evidenced by the furies of resentment that accompanied the backlash to the countrys first African-American president and led to his startling successor. Its painful to remember how recently many of us thought Barack Obama represented a permanent consolidation of Kings accomplishments; that he was the Joshua to Kings Moses, who would lead his people into a promised land of opportunity and justice. Now at a time of general reconsideration of the 44th presidents significance, this, too is in serious question. The historic bell sounded by Obamas election cannot be unrung. But few would deny that the unrighteous remnant of Americans who think white people are oppressed by the aspirations of people of color has grown larger and more militant, effectively reclaiming the appropriately named White House for the race that occupied it for so long. While that doesnt mean full-on racial segregation will return, it does mean that Kings legacy has been domesticated almost to the point of vanishing, even though we need it more than ever to combat a resurgence of overt racism. In the ears of those who cant imagine life under Jim Crow, Kings fiery challenge to the America of his time has been reduced to feel-good bromides and truisms. And Kings words have been appropriated by reactionaries to rebuke social justice warriorsthe sneering term that King would have worn proudly like a crown of thornsfor not being satisfied with race-neutral policies that cloak continued discrimination. So before we can even consider who might be appropriate successors to King and the heroes of the civil rights movement, the crucial question is whether conservative white Americans have so hardened their hearts against the pleas of the oppressed that they will no longer even hear them. In a discussion of Kings legacy on the 50th anniversary of his assassination last year, my colleague Ezekiel Kweku expressed this same fear: My biggest disagreement with King maybe it is less a disagreement with him than it is just a recognition that America has changed over the past 50 years I dont think the American conscience can be shocked into true repentance anymore. I think it is callused and atrophied. Im still thinking through the consequences of that. I am, too, with growing despair. King succeeded because he held a mirror up to Americans and forced them to compare their behavior to the ideals they professed to cherish, as articulated in the Declaration of Independence and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Enough of them recoiled at their reflection and repented that they demanded the national government take up the abandoned task of Reconstruction, even though it required abrogation of states rights and long-established customs, and breached an unjust peace. In his Letter From a Birmingham Jail, King flayed the consciences of white moderate clergy who found endless excuses for delaying the change their values urgently required: On sweltering summer days and crisp autumn mornings I have looked at the Souths beautiful churches with their lofty spires pointing heavenward. I have beheld the impressive outlines of her massive religious education buildings. Where were their voices of support when bruised and weary Negro men and women decided to rise from the dark dungeons of complacency to the bright hills of creative protest? Nowadays the white evangelical clergy rooted in those southern churches of the 1950s and 1960s are (with honorable exceptions) cheerleaders for the descendants of Barnett and Wallace, those who similarly spit contempt at liberal judges and outside agitators and hide behind states rights to restrict the franchise, cut social benefits, deny health care coverage, and starve public schools. Last year I wrote that the North Carolina preacher and activist Rev. William Barber II, who among other things has taken up the banner of the Poor Peoples Campaign that King was planning when he was murdered, might become a worthy successor to King. Its telling that despite his conventionally progressive goals he finds himself often under arrest, like King, and marginalized, perhaps even more than King. Despite his calls for a meeting of hearts and minds across partisan and ideological lines, hes consigned to one side of the barricades in the bitterly polarized political battles of our time. Probably not in the foreseeable future. And the miracle breakthrough civil rights activists wrought with their own hands might today require something more like divine intervention. | http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/is-a-prophet-like-mlk-possible-today.html?utm_source=flipboard.com&utm_medium=social_acct&utm_campaign=feed-part |
Where will the Islanders finish this season? | Just as ... no one predicted, the John Tavares-less New York Islanders are in first place in the Metropolitan Division on Jan. 21, with a plus-26 goal differential. Greg Wyshynski, senior NHL writer: The Islanders have 62 points in 48 games -- three points ahead of second-place Columbus. They're eight points clear of the Buffalo Sabres, who sit right outside the wild-card bubble. As shocking as all of this is, it would be just as shocking now if the Islanders missed the playoffs. The math is very much in their favor. Speaking of math, the Islanders are all over the stats map. Their 47.93 Corsi for percentage is sixth worst in the NHL, but they're ninth in shots allowed (30.3 per game). They get 48.89 percent of the five-on-five scoring chances, but they've gotten 56.88 percent of the high-danger goals scored at even strength. They're 16th in goals per game (2.98) but first in team save percentage (.919). As Andrew Gross noted, the Islanders have allowed "one goal or fewer 18 times this season, including the last five games, and have kept opponents under 20 shots in three straight games." I think so. Barry Trotz, your 2018-19 Jack Adams Award winner, has this team playing a style and a structure that's going to be really difficult to break through against in a seven-game series. But there's something else going on here: There's that chip on their shoulder. Maybe it's what the punditry said before the season about the team and the players or John Tavares leaving or Trotz and Lou Lamoriello on their own redemption tours. There's a defiance and a resolve here that's become undeniable. I'm not sure they have the horses to win the conference, but they have what it takes to win a playoff round. If only the hockey gods would deliver unto us a Capitals vs. Islanders divisional series. Dimitri Filipovic, hockey analytics writer: It's not the sexiest take in the internet era, when everything needs to either be the absolute worst or the very best, but there's surely a reasonable middle ground for the Islanders to settle in between now and the end of the regular season. I don't know very many people who predicted that they'd be this good after the sobering summer they had, and whenever a team blows our collective expectations out of the water the way they have thus far, there's typically some level of pushback to it and nitpicking of it that follows. But here's the thing: Even if they might not actually be the best team in the Metropolitan Division as the standings would currently suggest, there's plenty of reasons for optimism that they'll be able to still hang around in the playoff race moving forward. If you're looking for a fly in the Islanders' ointment here, you don't have to overexert yourself. As a team, they're currently first in save percentage at both five-on-five and in all situations. They're also fourth in shooting percentage at five-on-five, and ninth overall. Even if you're a subscriber to the idea that there is some wrinkle in Barry Trotz's heralded system that organically inflates those figures, history has understandably instilled a level of uneasiness that's associated with a team that's relying on great numbers in those categories to win games. The NHL on ESPN+ Catch more than 180 NHL games streaming live this season on ESPN+. Click here for the upcoming schedule and to learn how to subscribe. That overall package doesn't tell the full story, however. While their underlying shot metrics aren't particularly sparkling, they've actually been perfectly fine since an ugly opening month of the season. After an October in which they were 30th in the league in shot attempts (42.2 percent differential) and shots on goal (40.9 percent), they've progressively been trending upward and improving in both categories ever since they called up and started utilizing some of their younger pieces like Devon Toews, Michael Dal Colle and Josh Ho-Sang. In nearly 25 games since Dec. 1, they've skyrocketed all the way up to 10th in shot attempts (52.1 percent) and 12th in shots on goal (51.5 percent). In typical fashion for a Trotz team, they've stumbled upon a formula that works: They slow the game down (only the Blues play at a slower pace), limit the events that take place, and control what happens around the net. I'm willing to give them a pass for that early-season hole, and believe that this recent sample they've put together is more indicative of their true talent level. If that really is the case, that's more than good enough to give them a fighting chance on most nights considering how good their goaltending has been throughout. I'm still skeptical that they possess enough offensive firepower to deal with the top teams in a playoff series, but just the fact that that's a legitimate discussion now is a testament to how far the outlook for the Islanders has come in such a short period of time. | http://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/25815843/where-islanders-finish-season |
Should trains have separate compartments for 'bear children'? | As millions of people travel on trains across China in order to celebrate the new year, they are asking: "Should trains have children's compartments?" The hashtag #ChineseNewYearTravel2019 has been viewed more than 879 million times on Weibo where thousands of people are debating the issue. China's flagship radio station (CNR) discussed the question on air. A senior official at the China Railway Corporation, Huang Xin, thinks the idea is very creative. Billions travel for Chinese new year Nearly three billion trips - including train, road, air and boat - are expected to be completed between Jan 21 and March 1 this year, with 413 million of those by rail, according to China media. With so many people moving across the country at the same time it is perhaps inevitable that social media users are discussing ways to make travelling as stress-free as possible. Image copyright VCG Image caption People are divided over whether there should be a separate compartment for children on trains According to the Chinese newspaper People's Daily, separate compartments for children has attracted a lot of discussion online recently. More than 2,000 Weibo users have been discussing whether it would be a solution to "noisybear children" on the journey. 'Bear children' Some support the idea, saying "what most people are afraid of on a train is noisy bear children". A "bear child" is a common Chinese slang phrase meaning a child who is spoilt. The use of the word "bear" in this instance suggests some people in China think some children on trains can act in a feral way. Image copyright Reuters Image caption There's an emerging generation of "bear children" (children who lack discipline) in China The comment "a carriage full of 'bear children', I can't even imagine" gained more than 4,000 likes on Weibo. One Weibo user says: "Imagine them crying, one after another" Another says that maybe there wouldn't be a problem with excessive noise, if a child had people to play with. One says that there's room to discuss partitioning trains for family areas, adult-only areas, and private mother and baby areas. Children's compartments already exist in Germany. Deutsche Bahn (German Rail) offers a Mutter/Klein Kind (mother and small child) compartment in their newest trains. You may also like: But many think the idea is ludicrous. One says it is a "lazy" solution, and that "parents should be teaching their children public etiquette". Another agrees, saying "it doesn't make sense, nor improve the quality of people." One Weibo user says: "I don't support this! If I have children in the future, I don't want to have to sit in that carriage!" Some joke that it's a hark back to Cultural Revolution times, with one asking whether landlords should be segregated in their own carriage too. Analysis: Kerry Allen, BBC Monitoring Perhaps bizarrely, there have been a lot of stories in China's media in recent months, stressing that there's a demand for better controls on Chinese trains. This started with a spate of incidents involving "seat robbers" going viral. Travellers began flagging up badly behaved people refusing to move out of seats belonging to other people, and social media users jumped on the bandwagon sharing videos that they had seen of bad behaviour leading to nationwide shaming. At the same time, there has been a lot of dialogue in recent years about an emerging generation of "bear children" - children who are raised with no discipline, and misbehave at will. The one-child policy has been partly to blame for parents spoiling their only children and leading them to believe they can get whatever they want. Newspapers recognise that it is a modern phenomenon, and similarly, videos have circulated online shaming the parents of "bear children", and commentaries often appear debating how such children can be properly dealt with. China Railway Corporation's Huang Xin, said she always welcomed new ideas being put forward to the rail services. "(Translated from Mandarin) Whether or not it's necessary to concentrate noisy children in one compartment, all public transport faces a similar situation. "There are people suggesting that those who like to watch films or listen to music should be concentrated in one department. These suggestions provide inspiration for the improvement of the public transport sector, but also bring new challenges about how we can further improve and refine the services of public transportation." | https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-46946642 |
Which Teams Are Going to Super Bowl LIII? | Its official! The New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams are officially set to face off at Super Bowl LIII at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Sunday, February 3. Patriots quarterback Tom Brady helped guide his team to their third consecutive NFL championship game as they defeated the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, January 20, for the AFC Championship. Earlier in the day, the Rams claimed the NFC title after beating the New Orleans Saints. Both highly anticipated games went into overtime, with the Patriots besting the Chiefs 37-31 at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, and the Rams defeating the Saints 26-23 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. This will be the Patriots fourth Super Bowl in five years, while the Rams last advanced in 2002, when they lost to the Patriots 17-20. I think when youve got 70,000 people cheering against you, its pretty sweet when you win on the road, Brady, 41, told reporters after Sundays big win. And its a hard thing to do in the NFL. Its certainly a hard thing to do against the first-ranked team in the conference whos been playing great all year and certainly played well at home. We knew it was going to take a lot. Us Weekly exclusively revealed in September 2018 that Maroon 5 will headline this years halftime show. The Adam Levine-fronted band will be joined by special guests Travis Scott and Big Boi. Gladys Knight will sing the national anthem, and Beyoncs protges Chloe X Halle will sing America the Beautiful. Super Bowl LIII airs on CBS Sunday, February 3, at 6:30 p.m. ET. Sign up now for the Us Weekly newsletter to get breaking celebrity news, hot pics and more delivered straight to your inbox! Download the Us Weekly iPhone app now! | https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/which-teams-are-going-to-super-bowl-liii/ |
Did I overstep when I gave unsolicited advice to my sons soccer teammate? | The question My 12-year-old son plays soccer and at a recent practice I made two comments to the goalkeeper about mistakes he was making. I was wearing ear buds at the time and apparently I was louder than I would ordinarily have been. I said: You should roll the ball out with more vigour and it wont be picked off." And after several went through his hands into the net: You should tip those over the bar. Fairly innocuous but, true, totally unsolicited. The reason I spoke to him was he was frustrated with his play and was pounding the turf and punching the posts, so I thought I could help him. And Ive coached this team, though I do not know this boy. But the boy didnt appreciate my comments and told me to stop talking to him. The following day at their game I offered the parents an apology and the mom accepted but I felt some lingering resentment then and still do almost one month later. I get the cold shoulder: no eye contact, smiles or greetings. The mom also is the club co-ordinator and when the soccer kits were given out, all I got was a T-shirt with no socks or shorts and a perfunctory explanation. I now feel tense going to watch my boy practise and play and cant imagine how this can go on. The answer I scarcely know where to begin. First of all, take your ear buds out of your ears, bud, when youre talking to people. I do not understand this modern phenomenon of leaving them in but to me it seems the height of rudeness. Especially since you approached the kid, not the other way around. Second, unsolicited is the lowest form of advice. Maybe teachers and parents can get away with it. I would use this as a teaching moment and never, ever try to foist your counsel on anyone ever again unless they ask you for it. I dont even like unsolicited comments. It so happens I wear shorts well into the fall. Oh-ho-ho shorts in October eh? some total stranger on the street will say, snapping me out of whatever reverie I might have been enjoying. Youre quite eccentric! I know they mean no harm, but its annoying. Because I could offer a few about you. (Of course I dont.) And your target and timing couldnt possibly have been worse. Story continues below advertisement Story continues below advertisement To be a goaltender, as I know from having a hockey-goalie son, is a highly emotional and pressure-filled thing to be. You feel the entire weight of the games outcome on your shoulders and know your teammates kind of feel the same way. Youre a hero. They cant even look you in the eyes. Ive seen it many times. Ive also seen my son let in an easy one, costing his team the game and subsequently throw himself face-down on the ice and weep. Unwise. Im surprised the kid didnt tell you off in stronger language. And Im not surprised the mom is giving you the cold shoulder and stiffed you on the shorts and socks. Well, I know from bitter experience what its like having someone who hardly knows you form a dislike for you. It can really prey on your mind. But I wouldnt keep trying to reapproach them. Give them a wide berth for a while, be kind and friendly if you do encounter them, and see if the passage of time solves it, soothes it and acts as a balm. Story continues below advertisement After all, I know Ive been giving you a hard time, but in the grand scheme of things, its a pretty minor and obviously well-intentioned infraction. Maybe theyll come around to seeing that. If not, well, something I learned a long time ago: Not everyone can like you. You might just have to learn to live with their frostiness. Send your dilemmas to [email protected]. Please keep your submissions to 150 words and include a daytime contact number so we can follow up with any queries. Live your best. We have a daily Life & Arts newsletter, providing you with our latest stories on health, travel, food and culture. Sign up today. | https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/relationships/article-did-i-overstep-when-i-gave-unsolicited-advice-to-my-sons-soccer/ |
Was ist mit Claudio Pizarro? | Josh Sargent. Wenn Kohfeldt in den letzten Partien offensiv wechselte, fiel die Wahl hufig auf den 18-jhrigen US-Amerikaner. Routinier Claudio Pizarro kam kaum noch zu Spielzeit. Spielertrainer sollte er sein, ein Strmer, der gleichzeitig die jungen Talente mit ausbildet. Die Rolle von Claudio Pizarro war nach seinem vierten Comeback in Bremen von Beginn an klar. Allerdings berraschte er mit seiner Fitness. Schoss zwei Tore in der Bundesliga, eines im DFB-Pokal und schaffte es gegen Dsseldorf sogar in die Startelf. Doch nachdem der Nachwusstrmer Josh Sargent in der Nachspielzeit der Partie sein erstes Bundesligator schoss, setzte Kohfeldt als Offensiv-Joker immer hufiger auf den 18-Jhrigen. Ist das richtig so - und hat Claudio Pizarro genau mit dem Erstarken Sargents seine Rolle perfekt ausgefllt - oder ist er zu gut fr die Bank und sollte in den nchsten Spielen wieder hufiger und lnger eingesetzt werden. Schreibt eure Meinung in die Kommentare. | https://www.meinwerder.de/news_artikel,-was-ist-mit-claudio-pizarro-_arid,1800432.html |
Was escaped goat one of the famous Bagot herd that spends summer holidays on Cromer cliff face? | The goat was spotted again on Sunday afternoon, but has now been found. Photo: Peter Rounce Archant A goat that went AWOL for about 48 hours has been found. Share Email this article to a friend To send a link to this page you must be logged in. The escaped goat was spotted in Wiveton at 10.20pm. Photo: PETER ROUNCE The escaped goat was spotted in Wiveton at 10.20pm. Photo: PETER ROUNCE Police in north Norfolk responded to reports of an escaped goat with large horns on the loose on the A149 in Blakeney and nearby Wiveton on Saturday and Sunday afternoon. But PC Jon Parker tweeted today that it had been found. He said: I got tweeted by the lady and her daughter who found it and I think the owner Mark Frosdick had posted on Facebook about it and the lady who found the goat knew the owner so was able to organise the reunion! The goat is believed to be one of the Cromer Bagots that spend their summer holidays on the cliff face in the north Norfolk town, eating the foliage which overgrows there. They are now grazing at Salthouse Heath and Kelling Heath, both in north Norfolk, on their winter break. | https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/crime/goat-found-after-police-search-in-north-norfolk-over-weekend-1-5860184 |
Where are foodbanks in Norwich? | People enjoying the caf at the New Hope Christian Centre, which is one of the Norwich Foodbank's distribution centres. Share Email this article to a friend To send a link to this page you must be logged in. Food boxes at one of Norwich Foodbank's distribution centres, based at the New Hope Christian Centre, ready to be bagged up for clients. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY Food boxes at one of Norwich Foodbank's distribution centres, based at the New Hope Christian Centre, ready to be bagged up for clients. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY The Norwich foodbank is part of a network of Trussell Trust banks around the country. While its main location is at the Henderson Business Centre, on Ivy Road in Norwich, there are 10 other foodbank centres in and around the city. MORE: It could happen to anyone - the harsh reality of life as a foodbank user They are at: St Elizabeths Church, on Cadge Road, NR5 8DG The centre is open from 10.30am to 12pm on Mondays. Witard Road Baptist Church, Witard Roda, NR7 9XG Open from 2pm to 3.30pm on Mondays. Wymondham Baptist Church, Queen Street, NR18 0AY Open from 11am to 12pm on Mondays and 10am to 11am on Fridays. Oak Grove Community Church, 70 Catton Grove Road, NR3 3NT Open from 6pm to 7pm on Tuesdays. St Stephens Church, Rampant Horse Street, NR2 1QP Open from 10am to 12pm on Wednesdays and 10.30am to 12pm on Saturdays. New Hope Christian Centre, 2 Martineau Lane, NR1 2HX Open from 12pm to 2pm on Wednesdays. Wroxham and Hoveton United Reform Church, 114 Norwich Road, NR12 8SA Open from 10.30am to 12pm on Thursdays. Mile Cross Methodist Church, Aylsham Road, Mile Cross, NR3 2RU Open from 1.30pm to 3pm on Thursdays. Norwich Central Baptist Church, Duke Street, NR3 3AP Open from 1.30pm to 3pm on Thursdays Alive! Church, Nelson Street, NR2 2DR Open from 10am to 12pm on Fridays. A free breakfast is offered to those accessing the foodbank, or for 50p for those not using the foodbank. MORE: About 10,000 emergency food parcels given out at Norwich foodbank last year Opening hours exclude bank holidays. For more information, or to find out how you can help, click here. | https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/where-can-i-find-foodbanks-in-norwich-1-5860239 |
Why have the chatty geese stopped talking so much? | CLICK HERE if you are having trouble viewing these photos on a mobile device DEAR JOAN: I was looking for some information on the nocturnal habits of Canada geese and found your column on where geese go at night. I was wondering more about their nighttime conversation. I have a pond near my house and recently the irrigation district decided to put a fence around the pond. Mostly, the communication sounded happy and l thoroughly enjoyed hearing them talk through the night. Now the geese are almost silent. They are still at the pond. Mary Bouman, Bay Area DEAR MARY: Canada geese are among the most vocal of birds, honking at each other at every opportunity, even in flight. When geese turn in for the night, they like to find a good-sized pond on which to roost. That keeps them safe from most predators that either dont want to go into the water, or would make a lot of noise attempting to get to them, giving the flock the opportunity to escape into the sky. As they settle in, theres a lot to talk about, and depending upon the season, a lot to squawk about. Over-protective males honk at other ganders that get too close to their mates. Older geese often will chide younger ones about their mothering skills and will sometimes take over flocks of goslings, if they think the parents arent taking good care of them. And of course, the goslings talk a lot, seeking the attention of their parents and siblings. Although the geese have found what they believe to be a safe roosting spot, they continue to have guards about to sound warnings, and the geese tend to be a little honk happy, alarming at the slightest provocation. While we might consider that the geese are unhappy about the fence and have gone silent out of depression or petulance, it might be that the geese recognize the fence is giving them more protection and thus have less to honk about. As we move into nesting season, the conversation should pick up. DEAR JOAN: Our beloved bichon frise died in November. We are beyond heartbroken, we loved him so. Having said that, the house is really, really empty without a dog and we are looking to adopt a rescue. A young adult small poodle, bichon or mixed breed of that type, hopefully already house trained. If you can give me any tips about where to look it would be great. Jackee, Bay Area DEAR JACKEE: I am so sorry about your loss. Losing a pet is difficult and painful, but Im glad youre willing to open your heart to a new pet. The best way to find your new dog is to visit animal shelters and rescue groups, and meet the dogs. You can do some research ahead of time by going to the online websites of the groups closest to you and checking out the pets they have available. Those might not be the most up-to-date, but if you find a dog that grabs at your heart strings, you can email or call to check on availability. Related Articles Couple doesnt know what to do with aggressive dog How to convince your dog to go out in the rain Bay Area readers help with land purchase, advice on cats, dogs and birds Frog invasion has homeowner a little freaked out How to keep an excited dog from digging up the yard By meeting the dogs in person, youll get a better idea of the animals personality, and by talking to the people whove been caring for the dogs, youll know about certain quirks and house-training status. Keep an open mind. Your dog was unique and youll never find another just like him, but there are other wonderful dogs just waiting for you. For more pets and animals coverage follow us on Flipboard. | https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/01/21/why-have-the-chatty-geese-stopped-talking-so-much/ |
Is It Safe To Consume Amla During Pregnancy? | When a woman is pregnant, her hormones are at peak, causing her to crave for a variety of food items that she never used to eat before willingly. In the first trimester, the expecting mother experience morning sickness and vomiting symptoms. Naturally, she craves for sour food that keeps her vomit sessions in check. Amla or gooseberry is one such remedy for these cravings. Amla is round and light green in colour, which looks very similar to lemon. It is a superfruit that tastes sweet and sour. It is an excellent source of antioxidants and vitamin C. It also contains healthy nutrients like iron, calcium and phosphorus. That is why amla has always found a special place in Ayurveda since ancient times. In this article, we will explore all the aspects of this healthy berry and whether it is healthy to consume during pregnancy. Health Benefits Of Gooseberry During Pregnancy 1. Gives relief from constipation The digestive system is off the track during pregnancy. Problems like constipation and haemorrhoids become a common pain [1] . As amla contains a lot of fibre, it serves as an amazing source to cure bowel movements and regularize the discrepancies. Indigestion, vomiting, acidity can be minimized to the extent of being negligible [5] . 2. Rejuvenates and revitalizes the entire body During pregnancy, a mother's body works overtime to feed itself as well as the baby. The body can easily become exhausted to produce extra blood and pregnancy hormones. Nausea can make the situation worse. Amla boosts the energy and provides the tired body with the necessary energy, thus rejuvenating the immunity [2] . The sweet-sour flavour of amla plays an important role in the control of nausea symptoms. It can be taken as a juice or eaten raw, and the body strength will gradually improve over time. 3. Detoxifies the body Amla contains a good amount of water. Hence, when it is consumed, the body feels the urge to urinate more often. Also, amla is an effective antioxidant. It detoxifies the body by eliminating deposits of mercury, free radicals and harmful toxins through urine. Thus eating gooseberry every day would ensure that the foetus receives a constant supply of clean blood and oxygen [3] . 4. Boosts the immunity system Gooseberry is an antioxidant and can enhance the immunity system. It is common to deal with infections like common flu, cold, cough, urinary tract infection, etc. during pregnancy [6] . The high amount of vitamin C helps in fighting against such diseases and sustain the health. It builds resistance within the body if consumed every day. Amla also enables lactation post pregnancy. This gives the added benefit to the baby to feed on immunity-boosting breastmilk. 5. Prevents gestational diabetes Even if mothers had no history of diabetes prior to pregnancy, they are still susceptible to contract gestational diabetes. When pregnancy hormones interfere with the normal functioning of the body and disrupt insulin, this form of diabetes can occur. Amla has a lot of antidiabetic abilities which can normalize the flow of insulin and eliminate gestational diabetes over time. 6. Improves eyesight and memory of baby Amla is a superfood that can be consumed to increase brain power and eyesight. It has been known to improve the cognitive and memory functions. Drinking a cup of amla juice every day can benefit the mother as well as the baby. 7. Helps in control of oedema Gooseberry has anti-inflammatory properties and aids in the effective circulation of blood [7] . Women tend to suffer from swollen hands and feet during pregnancy, which causes them great discomfort and pain. Eating amla every day can help to reduce swelling by increasing blood flow, thus making the symptoms easier for expecting mothers. 8. Regulates normal blood pressure High blood pressure during pregnancy is never a good sign. It can cause several complications at a later stage such as premature baby, miscarriage, etc. Amla has an abundance of vitamin C, which is an excellent antioxidant to dilate blood vessels. This conducts a normal blood pressure, thus increasing the chances of safe delivery of the baby. 9. Provides calcium The mother's body starts craving for more calcium during pregnancy, because it is an essential nutrient needed in the formation of teeth and bones of the foetus. If the mother is not maintaining a proper level of calcium in her body, the developing foetus will extract its requirements from the mother's bones. She will be depleted of calcium and may be at high risk of osteoporosis. Amla is an excellent source to gain calcium; it can help the mother recover easily and meet all her body demands. 10. Cures morning sickness During the first three months of pregnancy, the mother suffers from frequent episodes of vomiting, nausea and morning sickness. She craves for more sweet and sour food, and it feels refreshing on consumption. Amla is effective to tone down the vomiting symptoms; it helps the body to be energized and recover from the loss of appetite. Morning sickness can completely weaken the mother due to dehydration. Amla makes up for it with its high water content. 11. Prevents anaemia The baby needs additional blood during pregnancy. Therefore, a mother's body needs to produce double the quantity of red blood cells than it does on a usual routine. Amla contains a good quantity of iron and vitamin C. Vitamin C plays an essential factor in absorption of more iron during the gestational period, thus contributing in good health of the baby. Amla juice is highly effective in fighting anaemia during this phase; it normalizes blood circulation and haemoglobin levels to a great extent [4] . Possible Side Effects Of Amla Consumption During Pregnancy Amla has a plethora of benefits. However, it should be consumed in limit else it can cause problems like diarrhoea, dehydration, indigestion and constipation. Sensible care should be taken to avoid eating it during certain times. - As amla gives a cooling sensation within the body, the mother should avoid eating it during cough and cold, as it can worsen the symptoms. - Amla has laxative properties, so if the mother is already suffering from diarrhoea, it can disrupt the bowel movement even further. - It's necessary to be considerate about the quantity of consumption. If eaten in moderation, amla is a superfood with wonderful healing properties. More than normal can reverse all the goodness. One amla a day is really beneficial for health. A teaspoon of amla powder can be consumed if it is available, which roughly amounts to 4 g. Vitamin C is present in sufficient quantity in a single amla. One amla contains more vitamin C than what is present in an orange. It consists of 85 mg of vitamin C, which provides a substantial quantity during pregnancy. 100 g of amla has 500 mg to 1800 mg of this vitamin. How To Eat Amla During Pregnancy 1. Amla can be boiled in sugar syrup along with cardamom powder. This can be a yummy substitute to sweet pickles. Amla murabba helps in the promotion of good health and immunity. It increases appetite during pregnancy and helps in effective digestion. The mother and the foetus are provided with enough strength. It enriches both of them with vitamin C. 2. Amla candy, which is prepared by boiling amla, is a good snack. It can be stored and eaten whenever the mother craves for something sweet-sour. To prepare this candy, amla pieces can be boiled in water. Later ginger powder and cumin powder can be sprinkled along with sugar. The slices are supposed to be kept in sunlight and dried for two days. Later, it can be sealed in an airtight container and enjoyed whenever possible. It improves the immunity of both mother and baby, and give them a beautiful skin. It is also good to be consumed during cough and cold. 3. Amla juice is a healthy part of the diet. Blend pieces of amla in a mixture along with honey, water and some crushed pepper. A pinch of salt can be added if needed. The pulp can be filtered to extract the juice. This entire combination is very soothing for the body. Although amla has cooling properties, honey acts as a warming agent. It helps to prevent cough and cold. It removes harmful toxins from the body and treats acidity. 4. Amla supari can be eaten as a mouth freshener. It is effective in controlling vomiting and morning sickness. It stimulates the secretion of gastric juices, thus treating indigestion. It relieves from abdominal cramps, colds and infections. 5. Amla powder, which is completely the by-product of amla, has wonderful health benefits for hair, skin and overall health. The fresh amla can be cut into several pieces and dried under the sunlight. It might be a little time-consuming. However, once they dry, they can be ground together to form a powder. It can be used while cooking or washing hair. It helps in hair growth and removes any scalp diseases. It has the same health benefits as fresh amla. 6. Amla pickle is a quick bite to satisfy pregnancy cravings. Fermented gooseberry is immensely beneficial to boost the body's cell repair system, in case of injuries. It reduces mouth ulcers. The liver remains protected from any potential damage. Consumption of amla is not harmful in general. However, the doctor must be consulted before eating a particular food item during pregnancy. | https://www.boldsky.com/pregnancy-parenting/prenatal/2017/amla-during-pregnancy-benefits-and-how-to-eat-119641.html |
Is Cannibalism the Only Explanation for Tiger Death in Kanha National Park? | All that was left of the tiger were scattered remains head, partially exposed skull and limbs, with only the paws still intact. The cause of death, officials suspect, was a fatal fight between two big cats and a suspected act of cannibalism. But what exactly is this case of cannibal act in Kanha Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh?Forest officials found the remains on Friday evening at Mundi-Dadar area in the reserves core area in Mandla district during patrolling. Another tiger had been spotted in the area, leading the forest department to conclude that it might have killed the tiger. With the tigers claws and teeth intact parts that have great value in the black market the department safely concluded that it wasnt a case of poaching.But the scarce remains made the immediate identification of the big cats gender and age difficult. Its viscera has been sent for analysis and identification is also being attempted via facial markings. Identification is very difficult, but we believe the body is that of a tigress who hadnt yet reached maturity, said deputy director, Anjana Tirki.The tiger-eats-tiger theory stems from the presence of a male tiger in the area and circumstantial evidence that points to the corpse having been dragged for about 700 meters, said officials. But experts argued that this isnt conclusive. Raghu Chandawat, conservation biologist, said that while instances of tiger cannibalism have been recorded in the scientific interpretation, concluding the exact cause of death in this case needs more evidence.No one saw the fight. No one saw the tiger feeding on the carcass. Usually, fights for territory are common between females and females or males and males. After the fight, both tigers go somewhere and hide, recuperating from their injuries while the tiger that lost could die.He added that scavengers, ranging from hyenas to vultures, could then eat the corpse a possibility the forest department isnt ruling out. We cant rule out scavengers eating the animal. There isnt any camera trap images of the kill, Tirki said.In most large carnivores, aggression and territoriality are the key drivers of social interactions, and killings over territory arent uncommon. Juveniles, such as the tigress that died in Kanha, in particular, are vulnerable. For male tigers, infanticide where juveniles are killed by an immigrating male is a reproductive strategy aimed at bringing the mother to come into oestrus (a period of sexual receptivity and fertility).A 2014 study by the Wildlife Institute of India, which looked at the impact an immigrating male had in Ranathambore from 2008 to 2010, said that in such a situation, females with cubs have only two ways of saving their cubs: Move to an alternative location outside the new males territory or enhance chances of injuries or deaths during repeated attempts to defend cubs.The study found that while one mother died after a fatal fight with the male, another moved outside her established range to an area with less prey, making it harder to fend for her cubs. Not just tigers, such selective killing of cubs to increase chances of mating has been documented in lions, brown bears and jaguars as well.Cannibalism might be a taboo among humans, but is ubiquitous in the natural world. As early as 1906, British soldier LB Montresor published an anecdotal note in the Journal of Bombay Natural History Society about cases of cannibalism in leopards and tigers in India, including an instance of him finding a tiger scat composed of (another) tigers hair and a tiger claw.In 1984, an independent researcher PC Kotwal also recorded the incidences of intraspecific fights and cannibalism among tigers in Kanha National Park.A forest department official at Kanha explained, In case of a tiger killing another tiger over territory or sexual selection, the act is not driven by hunger. The motivation to kill is different but it is still a predator, so it might eat part of the kill. You cant view the tigers behaviour from a human lens that views cannibalism a certain way.The problem, the official explained, is that forests, especially dry forests like those in Madhya Pradesh, have far exceeded their carrying capacity in terms of the number of tigers it can hold.In 2010, scientists from the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, argued that the survival of the tiger also depends on proper management of potential tiger habitats across the country and warned against loss of corridors and dispersing grounds that would affect the animals trapped in tiger reserves leading to aggravated cannibalism and inbreeding depression.Prerna Panwar, Wildlife Trust of India added, The tiger population reaching the carrying capacity of the forest is happening in some parts of India. That is what drives human-animal conflict as well.Catch the biggest newsmakers and the biggest newsbreaks on CNN-News18, the only news destination.. 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Is the James Bond Franchise Actually a Moneymaker? | The James Bond film series is a bit of a contradiction. After more than five decades, 007 has maintained a healthy fan base, yet despite all the glitz and the glamour associated with the character, he hasnt always been a massive moneymaker for studios. For all of Bonds tailored suits, fancy cocktail parties, gadgets and garages (he puts Christian Grey to shame), its difficult to gauge how much profit the super spy has really generated. The Bond franchise is incredibly valuable as a familiar titlea brand that audiences can consistently put their trust in. Todays successful movie marketplace is mostly made up of the MCU, The Fast and the Furious, DC Films, Foxs X-Men and reinvented classics such as Jurassic World and Star Wars. While smaller franchises such as the Cloverfield series, John Wick and Fifty Shades of Grey can be profitable in a different income bracket, James Bond remains one of the few long-running box office biggies (as opposed to Star Trek, which has been struggling recently). Theres a reason it was such a sought-after free agent when its distribution rights hit the open market following 2015s Spectre. Over 24 films, the series has grossed more than $7 billion worldwide. Subscribe to Observers Entertainment Newsletter Thats why it was such a curiosity to see MGM partner with the relatively untested Annapurna Pictures in May for domestic release rights on the upcoming 007 adventure (Universal Pictures scored the international rights). Its certainly a coup for Annapurna, a fledgling studio that now boasts one of the most popular series in cinematic history, but a precarious arrangement for all involved as a one-film test run. The Bond producers have everything to lose, while Annapurna has everything to gain. The deal, surprising at the time, looks even more questionable now after studio head Megan Ellison began reevaluating the film division amid financial woes in October. Dig deeper into the history of the franchise, and it seems unlikely that itll emerge as the studios savior. Overall, 007 has really meant more to a studios reputation than it has to its bottom line. Sonys four-picture deal with Eon Productions for the Daniel Craigera Bond movies helped bolster the studios image, but it didnt yield huge profits. Per Forbes, Sony covered half the budget for those movies but reaped just 25 percent of the profits. So even though Skyfall (which grossed $1.1 billion) and Spectre (which grossed $880 million) are the two highest-grossing films in the franchise, the studio didnt exactly make out like a bandit. But the MI6 spy is still one of the most lucrative movie star names in the world. The last James Bond film not to land among the 10 highest worldwide grossers in its release year was 1989s License to Kill. And 007 is the fourth-highest-grossing film series in history behind the Marvel Cinematic Universe ($17.3 billion), Star Wars ($9.2 billion), and the Wizarding World of Harry Potter ($8.5 billion). But due to the complicated ownership structure, studios that handle domestic distribution dont always see that success translated fully in their profit-and-losses reports. Disney likely makes more from one Avengers film than any distributing studio does from a couple of Bond flicks (Thanos would totally disapprove of that imbalance). Given the increasing box office success of Craigs recent outings and Annapurnas lack of a track record as a distributor, it would hardly be surprising to learn that Eon played hardball at the negotiating table when it agreed to partner with the studio for North American distribution on Bond 25. Its quite possible that Eon squeezed out an even better deal than it had with Sony. The real hidden gem of the Bond series financials lies in the marketing sponsorships it generates. Every major brandOmega watches, Gillette shavers, Belvedere vodka, Heineken beerwants to be associated with 007s prestige. Jacques de Cock, a marketing consultant and lecturer at the London School of Marketing, estimates that the franchise has earned between $4 billion and $5 billion in marketing sponsorships since 1962s Dr. No. If were working from the high end of that projection, that amounts to roughly $208 million per film. For perspective, Skyfalls entire production budget was $200 million. But that sponsorship money is going to the production companies, not the distributor. Still, that means the cost of each film is practically covered, and then some, long before the actual movie arrives in theaters. For that reason, the James Bond series may never end (there was even talk about a small-screen spin-off when Apple and Amazon were vying for the rights). These days, Hollywood is built on repetitive cash flow (i.e., sequels), but unlike the Star Wars or Harry Potter filmswhich earn more on average picture by picture, but only run for eight or nine installmentsBond is set up to live on ad infinitum. No matter who the next James Bond actor and director areand no matter how much money the next film makes at the box officethe value of the franchise lies in its longevity. | https://observer.com/2019/01/james-bond-movies-box-office-next-007-film/ |
Who won the Kentucky 2A championships? Who won the Toyota Classic? | Scott Countys girls didnt get much time to reflect on their first loss of the season. After suffering a 79-69 defeat at the hands of Lincoln County on Friday night, the Cardinals turned around and played Clark County the defending 10th Region champs Saturday afternoon. Last years 11th Region champs fended off GRC, 75-65, to finish 2-1 overall in its annual round-robin event. Maaliya Owens had 19 points and four rebounds and played the entire game. She also went the distance in the Cardinals loss to Lincoln County and its 74-63 win over Simon Kenton to kick off the Toyota Classic on Thursday. Owens, who has signed with Tennessee Tech, is one of three girls in program history to reach 2,000 career points (she did so in an 88-53 rout of Paul Laurence Dunbar on Jan. 8). The other two Rebecca Gray and Ukari Figgs won Miss Basketball. Digital Access For Only $0.99 For the most comprehensive local coverage, subscribe today. Scott County Coach Steve Helton likened Lincoln County star Emma King to Maci Morris fitting, as King has signed with the University of Kentucky and praised her off-the-court persona. He touted the scoring prowess of Savannah Boyd, a Marshall signee who led Boyd County to the state semifinals last year and has the Lions geared up for another run. With all their teams in the thick of state-title conversations, the Miss Basketball race as of mid-January seems like it will come down to between those two along with Owens. With Maaliya, obviously Im biased, but I just think she makes everybody better, Helton said. And in my opinion, thats part of the criteria. ... Obviously, itd be a really great honor for her, but theres some really talented players kind of speckled throughout the state and all these young ladies, I wish them all the best, cause were just trying to get them ready for college ultimately. Toyotas finest Lincoln County swept Clark County, Scott County and Simon Kenton to win the girls round-robin event. Maddy Boyle had 20 points on 8-for-11 shooting to lead the Patriots in their 65-52 win over Simon Kenton to seal the sweep. It was the Patriots 12th win in a row; they havent lost since dropping back-to-back games in December an 80-79 decision Christian Academy of Louisville and a 59-48 game against Highlands, both at neutral sites. Three days in a row, three good teams Lincoln County Coach Cassandra McWhorter said. It was a good test for us, I dont want to say early in the season, cause weve got the rest of January and February to play, but (it was) three good teams and (we had) three good days. Im proud of how the girls showed up and we performed. Scott Countys boys had their hands full with Woodford County but prevailed with a 64-62 in the championship round of the boys bracketed event. The Cardinals led by 15 points early in the second quarter but the Yellow Jackets chipped away and got it to single digits, 37-28, before halftime. Woodford County pulled within four points after three periods and on three occasions took the lead in the fourth quarter, and tied things at 62-all on a pair of free throws by Brandon Cromwell with 1:25 to play. Scott County killed about a minute of clock before taking a timeout, after which Glenn Covington connected on an and-one layup with six seconds left. He missed the free throw but a three-point try by Cromwell on the other side drew front iron; Cromwell finished with 22 points and 12 rebounds, both game highs. Small-school titles The inaugural Class 2A state basketball championships had to deal with some minor rescheduling in the earlier rounds due to weather, but the title games went off without a hitch on Sunday. Christian Academy of Louisville defeated Scott, 49-40, for the girls championship while John Hardin romped in an 83-60 victory over Knox Central for the boys title. CAL won its eighth straight game. Its seventh win in that stretch was arguably its most impressive the Centurions rolled in a 53-34 decision over Webster County, which entered the 2A state tournament ranked ninth overall; CAL was knocking on the door of the top 25. Shelby Calhoun, a junior whose offers include UK, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio State and N.C. State, finished with 13 points, nine rebounds, four assists and three steals to lead CAL in the finals. John Hardin won its 21st straight game, matching the school record for consecutive wins, and remained the only high school basketball team in the state without a blemish on its record. Alex Matthews had 22 points on 9-for-10 shooting and eight rebounds to lead the Bulldogs. Dane Imel scored 21 points to lead Knox Central. Lexington Christian Academy and Berea will represent the 11th Region at the All A Classic state tournament this week at Eastern Kentucky University. LCAs boys the defending All A state champs defeated Model, 68-42, in the 11th Region finals to secure their fourth straight trip to the statewide event. Bereas girls won the 11th Region title for the first time since 2000 by fending off region host Frankfort, 60-56, on Saturday. Mati Stepp (14), Adrienne Beggs (12) and Chesney Lovins (10) all finished in double-figure scoring to help the Pirates win their third straight game and improve to 18-4 overall. Berea hasnt finished with a winning record since the 2012-13 season, when it ended 19-11. Ballers David Johnson, Trinity: The U of L signee had 15 points and seven rebounds for the Shamrocks in their 44-41 win over Waggener in a battle of top-10 squads in the semifinals of the Louisville Invitational Tournament, which Trinity went on to win after a 57-40 victory over Seneca in the finals. Johnson had 25 points and 13 rebounds in Trinitys 61-51 win over Male in the LIT quarterfinals. Zoie Barth, Highlands: Barth eclipsed 20 points in all three of the Bluebirds games this week, leading them to three straight wins after missing their game at Butler on Jan. 12, a 47-39 loss. She scored 28 points and was 4-for-8 from the three-point line in a 77-49 win at Walton-Verona on Monday, had 24 points and was 5-for-8 from behind the arc in a 79-47 win over Cooper on Thursday and the next night poured in 21 in a 57-39 win at Campbell County. Kristen Clemons, Sacred Heart: She was 10 of 13 from the field and led the Valkyries with 21 points and five rebounds in a 71-66 win over Ryle, Sacred Hearts sixth win overall. Ashlee Harris added 20 points in the game, which was only the second one Ryle has dropped to a Kentucky foe this season. Keaston Brown, Henry Clay: The Blue Devils held off Tates Creek, 61-54, in their only contest this week. Brown contributed all-around in the win: He had 17 points, nine rebounds, three assists and two blocks all team highs. Elizabeth Curtis, Murray: She averaged 21.6 points this week in the Tigers three 1st Region All A Classic games, capped by a 17-point performance in a 47-29 win at Mayfield on Saturday, to help Murray secure its eighth straight bid to the statewide tournament. | https://www.kentucky.com/sports/high-school/prep-basketball/article224840230.html |
What Really Killed Rising Journalist? | Young up-and-comingChristian conservative TV news personality and writer Bre Payton died in December, allegedly from a freakish case of swine flu and meningitis. Ms. Paytons father has said, We may never know what caused her illness and eventually took her life. By Donald Jeffries On Dec. 28, 2018, Bre Payton, 26-year-old staff writer for the conservative website The Federalist, died suddenly. Paytons friend, San Diego politician Morgan Murtaugh, found her unresponsive early in the morning of the 27th. She was rushed to a hospital, and a web page that was very quickly set up informed the public, After a CT scan and hours of testing, they have determined she has the H1N1 flu and possibly meningitis. She was placed in a medically induced coma and deteriorated rapidly. Murtaugh announced her death in a tweet on Friday: Thank you everyone for your prayers. It is with a heavy heart that I type this. Unfortunately Bre has passed. Please send prayers to her family. Rest in paradise, you beautiful soul. The Washington, D.C.-based Payton was in California to guest host a show on the One America News Network. Jack Posobiec, a regular host on the network, expressed the startling abruptness of her death: Everyone says she seemed perfectly fine on Wednesday when she hosted. Bre was a young star who always shared her Christian faith. All of us are in shock and tears and we are praying for her family. Payton had a bright future ahead of her and had already made numerous appearances on television networks like Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN. Payton was also known to be an anti-vaxxer, one of an increasing number of Americans aware of the strong indications that vaccinations are linked to a variety of afflictions, including autism. In 2011, Payton had tweeted: State urges more people to get vaccinated. . . . No! Vaccines are from the devil! Although information from official sources was scarce, many online claimed that the particular strain that allegedly killed Payton affected no one else in the state of California. H1N1 is more commonly referred to as the swine flu. Payton was said to be reporting on the migrant caravan at the time of her death, and barely two weeks previously had broken a hard-hitting story about Robert Muellers team deleting text messages before they could be reviewed. Paytons deadly illness came on in an astonishingly swift manner. Her last tweets, at 9:36 p.m. Wednesday night, consisted of a promo for viewers to tune in and watch her guest host the OANN program Tipping Point and a final reply of Appreciate it! to a compliment at 10:06 p.m. One doesnt have to be a so-called conspiracy theorist to question how a healthy and vibrant 26-year-old could be discovered nearly dead from some sort of flu/meningitis combination less than 10 hours later. Everyone reported shed seemed perfectly normal the previous night. It is difficult to believe that whatever illness took her life could come on so abruptly, without any warning signs. While the initial reports mentioned meningitis, The New York Times noted in its obituary that Ms. Payton had the H1N1 flu, also known as the swine flu, and encephalitis, according to her family. Meningitis and encephalitis are two different ailments. Mystery Haunts Family, it was revealed that her family stated, She went to bed with flu-like symptoms and never woke up. Her father, George, declared, When I dropped her off (at the train), she seemed fine. Her mother reported speaking to her Wednesday night, when she told her she was nauseous and unable to keep anything down. The doctor doesnt actually know . . . what caused all of it, Paytons father said, and we may never know. As many have noted on Internet forums, swine flu symptoms typically are present for quite some time before it becomes a deadly threat. Payton had exhibited rare courage for a journalist, especially one of such tender years. She had exposed how her local municipality installed $2 million of special artistic lighting under a highway where a bunch of homeless people lived, forcing them to relocate. She once witnessed a junkie overdose in public and had to prod police, who were ignoring the situation, into taking lifesaving measures. Many in the alternative media compared her death to those of journalist Michael Hastings, who strangely ran his car into a tree at a very high speed after announcing he was going off the grid to break a huge story, and the founder of Breitbart News, Andrew Breitbart, who dropped dead at a young age immediately upon declaring he was going to blow the lid off of Barack Obamas real history. Short life expectancies are common among those who challenge the Deep State. Donald Jeffries is a highly respected author and researcher whose work on the JFK, RFK and MLK assassinations and other high crimes of the Deep State has been read by millions of people across the world. Jeffries is also the author of two books currently being sold by AFPs Online Store. | http://americanfreepress.net/what-really-killed-rising-journalist/ |
Are the Toronto Maple Leafs Simply Not Good Enough? | After John Tavares signed as a Toronto Maple Leaf last summer, the hopes of the fans were buoyant. Certainly, this was to be the season the team would contend for the Stanley Cup after so many seasons of frustration. With the exception of the drama of William Nylanders extended holdout, everything looked so promising. This team would rock! That hasnt happened. After a strong start, the Maple Leafs are on a losing skid no one saw coming. In fact, with last nights 4-2 loss against the suddenly-surprising 22-22-4 Arizona Coyotes, the Maple Leafs have now lost six of their last seven games at Scotiabank Arena. After Christmas break, the team simply hasnt come back from vacation. Every once in awhile, the team rises up to beat a strong opponent such as the 4-2 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning in Florida on Jan. 17. But, after being teased to believe things surely are now on the right track, the team tanked 3-1 the next night to a weaker Florida Panthers team. Then, they lose the next game at home. Its been that kind of season. Reasons for the Ups-And-Downs There are at least two reasons for this up-and-down, back-and-forth season. Reason #1: The Defense Needs Fixed Perhaps the one positive thing about the loss to the Coyotes was that Jake Gardiner wasnt on the ice. Not that the fans needed him as a target: they were equal-opportunity booers. Gardiner is injured and has been suffering back spasms. But Gardiner aside, the Maple Leaf defense hasnt been good enough this season. Morgan Rielly cant carry the entire back end alone. Travis Dermott jumped into the top-two and scored against the Coyotes, but hes young and still makes glaring errors. Weve talked about Gardiner before. If he could be used in a clearly offensive role, that would be better for the team, but the defense hasnt been good enough to allow that to happen. Hes been used almost entirely at five-on-five, which is a role that doesnt allow him sustained success. Ron Hainsey is doing better than people expected, but hes not a long-term answer. The pieces just dont seem to be there. I say seem because, surprisingly, when you study the Maple Leafs NHL defensive statistics, the team doesnt rank like a weak defensive unit. Before Sundays game, they were tied for fifth-best in goals against with the Winnipeg Jets and Vegas Golden Knights (133 goals against). They were eighth-best in goals against per game, just after the Calgary Flames. However, they were ninth-worst in shots allowed per game (32.4 shots). That said, it is interesting that the team they are tied with is the Lightning with exactly the same number of shots allowed per game. The Jets are even worse at 32.8 shots allowed per game. And, theyre good teams. Given these statistics, one could make a case that the defense isnt as bad as people think. But, fans know better. Its obvious on the ice. In a recent post, I discussed what defensive help the Maple Leafs might trade for that would help them this season and next. I believe fixing the Maple Leafs defense is a long-term issue. The good news is that help seems to be coming from the Toronto Marlies. These young defensemen look like strong prospects, which is good because home-grown talent usually comes cheaper than acquiring help through trade. Calle Rosen, Andreas Borgman, Timothy Liljegren and Rasmus Sandin all have potential as NHL defensemen. Even if Gardiner moves on, which I believe he will, with Dermott and Reilly, that group could grow into a strong top-six defense. The bad news is that it wont happen this season. Reason #2: Scoring Aside, the Team Lacks Something There is no doubt that the Maple Leafs are blessed with a strong top-six forward unit, plus other young talent. The team can score. They were ranked fifth in goals (166) before Sundays game. Its not as if they are tripping over their skates. Its more like they are smoothly skating miles but heading nowhere. They shoot lots, but keep missing the net. The team hits more crossbars than it scores goals, which, given the relative size of the net vs. the iron, seems tough to do. During Sundays game against the Coyotes, they controlled the puck much of the game, but didnt score. Thats so typical. When the same thing happens over and over, as it does, that isnt bad luck. Something is missing. In fact, the Maple Leafs controlled the play for long stretches against the Coyotes. They had 76 shot attempts compared to the Coyotes 51, but 30 of their shots were blocked. Watching the game, the team simply doesnt seem to have push. Even young Dermott suggested that the team could use some extra urgency in their game. Im seeing the same thing. Post-Game Notes The Maple Leafs seem to play much better on the road than at home, which is a bit of a mystery. Their record is 13-11-1 at home and they are 1-6-0 over their last seven games after their loss to the Coyotes. It was their fourth-straight regulation loss at home. Thats horrible. The team currently stands just a point ahead of the Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens for second place in the Atlantic Division. Andreas Johnsson, rumoured to be trade bait for a defenseman, had to leave the game with a concussion. Mike Babcock reported that Johnsson wont play against the Washington Capitals on Wednesday, which gives him the All-Star break to heal. Nylander, who has been in a scoring slump since coming back from his self-imposed exile until Dec. 1, played on the fourth line against the Coyotes. His assist on Dermotts goal was his first point in seven games since Jan. 3. He has one goal in the 19 games he has played this season. This news is getting stale. Auston Matthews is also struggling. After his goal-a-game start this season, he has only one goal in his last 13 games. After the game, he noted, Were going through some adversity. Hopefully in the long run this is something good for us and we learn from it. His comments, if taken seriously and not just as media-speak, suggest he believes losing should be educational. As a fan watching the team closely, it seems that education should have happened a long time ago. Last nights loss was not a new thing: its no longer even a surprise. The Maple Leafs play has seemed consistently poor for the last while. Unlike Matthews, Im not seeing that they have to learn more: Im seeing that they have to do more. Im left wondering if we were fooled about the team being good enough to contend this season. Related: Why Jake Gardiner Will Leave the Toronto Maple Leafs | https://thehockeywriters.com/toronto-maple-leafs-not-good-enough-playoffs/ |
Why do I get horny before my period? | Dear Sarah, I want to know why I get horny right before and after my period. Dear anonymous, There haven't been a lot of studies looking at the connection between women's libido and hormones at various points in the menstrual cycle, but some research has shown a spike in lust around the time we ovulate, mid-cycle. There are many variations in the different sex hormones throughout the month, and these changes are different for every woman. Arousal isn't cyclicalit can happen at any time, and that's completely normal. This is why one week you may you jumping on your partner as soon as he walks in the door, and another week you may be pushing him off you. But if you're lucky enough to have such predictable arousal levels, plan your dates accordingly and have fun. | https://www.pulse.ng/hotpulse/why-do-i-get-horny-before-my-period/w4y2z94 |
What Happened To Todd Gurley in the NFC Championship? | One of the NFLs most prolific offensive weapons watched much of the NFC championship game from the sideline. Todd Gurley paced, stretched and rode the stationary bike while C.J. Anderson carried a heavy load against the New Orleans Saints during the Rams 26-23 win in NFC championship game. After the game, Rams coach Sean McVay explained sort of: It was a flow for the game. I thought Todds run from the 5 on the two-minute drive was outstanding. I think what personifies Todd is this is an MVP-caliber player and he just kept fighting, he just kept supporting his teammates. Hes going to have an instrumental role against whoever we play, whether it be the Patriots or the Chiefs. Today, that was just kind of the feel for the flow of the game. Not anything against Todd. C.J. did a nice job, but I think (the Saints) did a nice job as a whole slowing down our run game and we kind of just had to grind some things out. Todds a special player and couldnt be more impressed with the way that he handled himself and he ended up making a big-time play that ended up in us winning that football game today. We didnt learn a lot from that. The Los Angeles Rams also said Gurley wasnt dealing with any physical issues during the game, according to the FOX broadcast. In the week leading up to the game, Gurley was not listed on the injury report for any of the teams practices. Most puzzling, Gurley, who rushed for more touchdowns (17) than anyone in the NFL in 2018, watched while Anderson failed to score on two rushes inside the 5-yard line on a Rams drive with six minutes left in the game. At the time, the Rams were trailing, 20-17, and settled for a game-tying field goal. At times, the Rams seemed intent upon featuring Anderson over Gurley, particularly in the third quarter when Gurley didnt touch the ball. In the first half, he had three carries for four yards and a touchdown with two drops, including one which went through his hands for a Saints interception. On the game, Gurley had four carries for 10 yards, a rushing touchdown and one reception for three yards. Anderson, meanwhile, finished with 16 carries for 44 yards and one reception for five yards. The Rams signed Anderson after Gurley suffered a knee injury, and Anderson rushed for 299 yards and two touchdowns with four receptions for 17 yards in the final two weeks of the season. When Gurley returned for the NFC divisional win over the Cowboys, they didnt abandon Anderson, who had 23 rushes for 123 yards (5.3 ypc) and two touchdowns. Gurley, meanwhile, had 16 carries for 115 yards (7.2 ypc) and a touchdown. In the NFC title game, they were still in a committee. It didnt go in Gurleys favor. Gurley almost looked like a backup but perhaps not for long. I expect Todd to have a hell of a game in the Super Bowl, Rams quarterback Jared Goff said on FOX after the game. | https://thebiglead.com/2019/01/21/what-happened-to-todd-gurley-in-the-nfc-championship/ |
What is Hyperlocal Advertising? | In todays very digital day and age, there's a bunch of overused technical buzzwords - based around advertising - that get thrown around A LOT. Probably too much. And mainly by people who also don't always understand what they mean! Here's a couple to try - or not - to get your head around; Pre-Roll Ad Programmatic Direct Real-Time Bidding or RTB ROS or Run-of-Site Okay thats more than enough for now. In all honesty, I have a lot of trouble understanding what the latest acronym means, so for people who are new to the advertising world, I can only but imagine what an annoyance this must be. If you're a new local start-up business or even if you've been operating in your local area for while - and are now starting to think about advertising your business online - there is one technical term that is worth understanding. And that word is Hyperlocal. But more specifically the term Hyperlocal Advertising. In very simple terms, Hyperlocal advertising is the advertising of any product or service (or any advertising really) that targets a very specific geographical location. Nowadays you can even target people in a particular postcode! This is where the 'hyper' part of 'hyperlocal' comes from. To sum up why it's so important in one word, I would say: relevance. Targeting potential customers in a very specific geographical location means the messaging of your advert is going to be specific to those potentials in that particular area. For example; Lets say you run a Yoga class at a local Sports Centre. Realistically, your core customers will more-than-likely live (or even work) within a certain mile radius of the Sports Centre. Possibly within a few miles. The reason you'd target these people is because it's more likely - and thus more relevant - that these people live or work within a suitable distance from the Sports Centre than people who live 10-20 miles from it. Here's an example of what that would look like visually - using the InYourArea Ad Platform Image 1: The above image shows you a preview of what your advert could look like on InYourArea Image 2: The below image gives you a precise idea of the area it will cover. All users within the shaded circle will be shown your advert. Please note: we have different packages available that cover different radiuses depending on your budget. This is Hyperlocal Advertising in a nutshell - Showing locally relevant ads to locally relevant people. This means you're not wasting your hard earned cash on showing local ads to people who aren't local. Hyperlocal advertising also works for other businesses that rely on local trade i.e; Local Tradesman Local Restaurants/Cafes Tutoring Shops/Retail Gyms/Sports Centers Estate Agents Removal/Cleaning companies Plus many many more. In fact Hyperlocal advertising works for ALL local businesses that rely on a local trade. A recent study by website Yodle found that 82% of local people use local businesses, which in turn account's for over 50% of the total businesses they use regularly. What this means for you is that potential local customers are searching online for local businesses just like yours, over larger national corporations. So whether you're a start up, a medium sized business or a large business, if you're not fully utilising Hyperlocal advertising, fewer potentials will know your business exists. Which makes growing your business much harder. So it's worth remembering, Potential customers are always looking for businesses like yours. So make sure they can find you! Why not take action now and start targeting your local area today with our Hyperlocal Advertising platform. It's super easy to do and your advert can be live on InYourArea within minutes. | https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/what-is-hyperlocal-advertising/ |
Has WhatsApp found the answer to spread of fake news? | WhatsApp has announced new rules for forwarding messages through the service, in an effort to limit the spread of fake news and misinformation. From today, the company said it will only allow a message to be forwarded to five further recipients. The decision comes after the new limit was trialled in India last year, after false information was deemed responsible for outbreaks of violence. Now that limit will be implicated worldwide, and will replace the current 20-recipient limit in place in countries like the UK. Related: Best VPN 2019 Speaking to the Guardian, WhatsApp head of communications Carl Woog said: We settled on five because we believe this is a reasonable number to reach close friends while helping prevent abuse. The Facebook-owned company has been actively working to halt the misuse of the platform to spread unverified information. While the end-to-end encryption of messages benefits users in terms of privacy, it also makes it nigh-on impossible to discover the true scale of misinformation being spread among WhatsApps 1.5 billion users. Forwarded messages are noted as such within the WhatsApp conversation thread, but critics of the app say this method simply strips away the identity of the sender and allows messages to spread virally with little accountability. The roll out is beginning today, WhatsApp said in Jakarta on Monday (via Reuters), where it reported that the limiting forwarded messages had reduced the total by 25%. Whether the change will have an impact in other territories around the world remains to be seen. Let us know @TrustedReviews on Twitter | https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/whatsapp-forward-fake-news-2-3648702 |
Has Davos actually made the world better? | The Davos meeting reportedly faced an existential threat in the early 2000s after sustained protests stretched the patience of the local community. In response, Schwab opened the meeting to more civil society groups while widening media access to an event that had previously been mostly held behind closed doors. That move was not voluntary, said Christian Dorer, the editor-in-chief of Swiss media group Blick, who recently had rare access to Schwab for a profile. Sorbom said her research showed an organisation that tolerated some dissent, up to a point. You can voice criticism, but if you are too critical, then you are out, unless you are Bono, she said. | https://gulfnews.com/business/has-davos-actually-made-the-world-better-1.61578461 |
Who is Shipwrecked 2019 castaway Emma? | (Picture: Channel 4) A new series of Shipwrecked finally returns to our screens for the first time since 2012. Meet Shipwrecked contestant Hollie, the Bromley influencer who's never even camped before The popular Channel 4 show is back with nine new castaways joining the island with more to come as the series progresses, and it will be presented by former Strictly star Vick Hope. This time around the show will once again take the Battle Of The Islands format as nine castaways fight to win new arrivals to their islands with 50,000 at stake for the winning team. Among those taking part is publishing and english graduate Emma and heres what you need to know about her. : Emma initially decided to apply to be on Shipwrecked as a joke, saying: I never thought I would get in! Advertisement Advertisement I watched it when I was younger and I was obsessed with it. I thought why not. The graduate does have some camping experience as she had spent a month in Zambia when she was 17, but said: It wasnt nearly as intense as this and I was with friends. Despite feeling nervous about entering the jungle Emma felt she adapted to life on the island pretty quickly and admitted: I loved being outside. Confirmed: Shipwrecked starts Monday 28 January at 9pm on E4 pic.twitter.com/JeCnehCFUm Channel 4 Press (@C4Press) January 16, 2019 The series kicks off on E4 on Monday January 28 at 9pm. If you've got a story, video or pictures get in touch with the Metro.co.uk Entertainment team by emailing us [email protected], calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page - we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Meet Shipwrecked castaway Kalia a model who is not used to life away from family MORE: Meet Shipwreckeds 2019 cast including an ex pop star, a part-time wigmaker and a jetsetting model | https://metro.co.uk/2019/01/21/meet-shipwrecked-castaway-emma-graduate-applied-joke-8369908/ |
How 'redlining' shaped New Orleans neighborhoods is it too late to be fixed? | Onchel Holmes' brick apartment building is sandwiched between a boarded-up vacant home and a corner bar that anchors the block. She thinks the rats that have clawed their way into the walls of her ground-floor unit are coming from outside. A water heater in the kitchen obscures the hole in the wall behind it. She heats the unit's three rooms with one of the burners from her gas range. She knows it's not the safest way to heat the room there's one air-conditioning unit with a busted heater near the front door but it's keeping out the chill and moisture on another wet winter morning. "It's dangerous, too, I know," she says. "But I have to stay warm." Holmes grew up Uptown and has lived everywhere in the city from Laurel Street and Josephine Street to two apartments in New Orleans East. She's back Uptown in an apartment with her husband of 32 years who gets a small monthly Veterans Administration check that helps supplement his construction income. Rent is $650, recently bumped up from $600. They've lived there for two years. She just put a fresh coat of white paint on the bedroom walls. "I had to do something to it," she says. Holmes hopes one day to move to New Orleans East, where most of her family stays, including her daughter Shawanda. "I know everything around here," she says. "I don't drive. I love to stay Uptown. I'm just not ready." Less than half a mile from her apartment is new condo construction on Tchoupitoulas Street. Between them are mixed-income housing units, St. Charles Avenue mansions, decades-old shotgun homes and people living under freeway overpasses. Zoom out of the neighborhood and you'll see a map of New Orleans with arbitrarily carved-out areas, traced in lines that aren't defined by major thoroughfares or landmarks but by the kinds of people who live in them. The impact of redlining in which lower-income families had been denied access to credit based on their race stamps through New Orleans' geography. It built the city's modern-day housing market, and the areas defined by its lines still suffer from its invention. A 2016 report from the Center for Investigative Reporting found that people of color still are denied mortgages at higher rates than white homebuyers in 61 U.S. metro areas. And a 2018 report from National Community Reinvestment Coalition found that nearly 75 percent of redlined neighborhoods in the U.S. remain low- to moderate-income areas, and people of color live in nearly 64 percent of those neighborhoods. Though redlining was eliminated with the passage of the Fair Housing Act in 1968, its damage was never undone. The National Housing Act of 1934 established the Federal Housing Administration, which promoted homeownership through federally backed loans. In 1935, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board tasked the Home Owners' Loan Corporation to determine "residential security" across the U.S. by marking up maps in 239 cities to indicate whether mortgage backers should support them. Green "Type A" neighborhoods were determined "safe" suburbs. Yellow "Type C" neighborhoods were considered "declining" areas that could be riskier investments. And in red, "Type D" neighborhoods largely black, poor and working class were determined "hazardous" for their "infiltration of inharmonious racial or nationality groups." That explicitly racist language was dropped a decade later, but its effect was the same rampant racial segregation from "redlined" neighborhoods that had been denied mortgage capital, unable to attract homebuyers to those areas, as well as the businesses to support them. Across the U.S., thousands of builders were able to secure federally backed financing in suburban areas, with the condition that African-Americans and people of color not live there. There were rare exceptions in 1954, then-Mayor DeLesseps Morrison pleaded with the federal government to support housing for middle-class black families, opening up 1,000 homes in Pontchartrain Park. Redline maps of New Orleans from the 1930s show Lakefront and City Park neighborhoods in green, while Central City, downtown and Garden District neighborhoods are red. Redlined areas later became primed for outside development through gentrification from 2000 to 2016, African-American populations in the Irish Channel dropped from 75 percent of the area to 27 percent. But black New Orleanians largely relied on housing without the support of commercial loans, at a significant disadvantage compared to white homeowners and the private market also supported discriminatory policies, with the National Association of Real Estate Boards warning its members in 1924 not to integrate neighborhoods with "members of any race or nationality ... whose presence will clearly be detrimental to property values in that neighborhood." Over the next few decades, the maps came to define whether loan agents would support "redlined" neighborhoods, leaving largely black populations in cities devastated not only by the institutions that failed them but the poor health, education and economic outcomes that followed. In its 2018 report "Rigging the Real Estate Market: Segregation, Inequality, and Disaster Risk," The Data Center traced the foundation of redlining to racist zoning ordinances throughout southern areas in the early 20th century, despite a 1917 U.S. Supreme Court decision (Buchanan v. Warley) that declared that kind of discrimination unconstitutional. Still, New Orleans passed a discriminatory housing ordinance in 1924 prohibiting integration "except on the written consent of a majority of the persons of the opposite race inhabiting such community." The proliferation and protection of zoning rules for "single-family" areas excluded blacks from "desirable" neighborhoods, according to the report, to prevent the "blighting of property values and the congesting of the population, whenever the colored or certain foreign races invade a residential section," as a U.S. District Court in Ohio ruled in 1926. 'Undesign the Redline' Through March 1 The Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design, 1725 Baronne St., (504) 314-2330; www.small.tulane.edu "Undesign the Redline," an exhibit at Tulane University's Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design, hosted in partnership with design firm Designing the WE and affordable housing nonprofit organization Enterprise Community Partners, connects the legacy of redlining to today's inequities through a timeline of American racism that begins in its colonial foundation. "Health outcomes, life expectancy, low birthweight of babies, school performance all those things match closely with the redlining maps," says Cashauna Hill, director of the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center. "I don't think it's an overstatement to say that all the continuing inequities in American society can be traced to our history of racial segregation and racist housing policy." The exhibit charts the city's battle over land use and how wealthy white developers captured higher ground and primed the segregation patterns that followed, from construction of the Claiborne Avenue overpass and post-Hurricane Katrina recovery and the shortcomings of the Road Home program, to legislation that supported developments at the exclusion of the city's African-American population. "We cannot separate displacement and the affordability crisis from redlining and segregation," Hill says. New Orleans' Neighborhood Development Foundation helps provide home loans to low-income homebuyers through counseling, home-buying training and other programs. In his office on the second floor of the foundation's Jackson Avenue office in Central City, Fred Johnson says, "in the African-American community, it's not just housing you get redlined in." "You get redlined in everything," says Johnson, who has worked with the foundation since it opened in 1986. "The choice of food you get, the choice of meat you get, whether you get art, whether the streets get taken care of. Housing just happened to be the biggest ticket out." That path to homeownership can help build economic stability and generational wealth. But more than half the city rents. Half of renters, and a growing number of lower-income homeowners, are "cost-burdened" spending at least 30 percent of their income on housing costs. New Orleans also endured decades of segregated public housing and the bulldozing of mostly black communities through "urban renewal" programs in the late 1940s and 50s. By the end of that decade, nearly nine out of every 10 displaced families pushed into public housing were nonwhite. Through "blockbusting," speculators would stoke racist fears of integrated neighborhoods by preying on buyers selling their homes at undervalued prices, only to flip them to black buyers leaving redlined areas. Unable to get bank financing, they were often subject to rent-to-own schemes that denied them the ability to build wealth through property ownership. Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures made the city vulnerable to gentrification as residents were displaced, or forced from public housing, opening the door for public dollars to prime neighborhoods for private investment. That disaster arrived as white residents after decades of white flight from urban areas started moving back into cities, including New Orleans, bringing with them disproportionately higher incomes than the black residents they displaced. After city officials approved an infrastructure for short-term rentals, speculators and real estate buyers bought up more areas exclusively for tourist housing what housing advocates say put salt in the wound of the city's long-gestating affordability crisis. New Orleans officials and housing organizations now are beginning to tackle whether New Orleans can reverse more than a century of damage. "Redlining you can narrow it down to housing, but it is deeply marinating into all these systems we touch," Johnson says. "It's bigger than housing." Across the street from the Small Center, The Muses Apartments building contains 263 units of mixed-income housing; 65 percent of the units are set at market rate, with another 35 percent constructed with low-income tax credits. It opened in 2010. "Those kinds of units need to exist in New Orleans because those people live here," says Kathy Laborde, president of Gulf Coast Housing Partnership, which built the project. "In our minds, because there was nothing here, we had an opportunity. We do want investment in our communities. We want them to thrive. We want an outcome that includes all people." This month, the New Orleans City Council is expected to weigh in on an inclusionary zoning plan through the creation of a so-called "smart housing mix," which would create rules for building affordable housing in new developments. Last year, Mayor LaToya Cantrell's administration pitched three options two proposals would provide for voluntary affordability and one would impose mandatory affordability requirements for certain new construction. In its report, the City Planning Commission staff agreed that "the creation of inclusionary zoning regulations is an integral piece of an overall housing policy that seeks to address the city's housing needs." But city planning commissioners were skeptical; they argued that large-scale apartment projects clustered in the Central Business District could drive down market prices. "I think it's clear, based on recent history, that asking developers to build affordable housing and hoping that they'll voluntarily do it in a way that produces enough affordable housing in this city, that's not a viable plan," Hill says. "It's not going to work. It hasn't worked. We need tens of thousands of affordable units in this city. The way to get that done is to require that it be done." Housing NOLA, the city's long-term guide for housing affordability, determined that New Orleans needs as many as 33,000 units of affordable housing to meet the needs of the city's residents and workforce, which has witnessed the cost of living outpacing increases in wages. Laborde says opposition to The Muses' construction came not necessarily from neighbors but from people opposed to the prospect of mixed-income housing between Central City and the Garden District. "It's high ground. It is well-located. It cost us a pretty penny $7 million for 4 acres of land," Laborde says. "It needed to physically demonstrate that people can live together. There's no way you can convince people of that through words. You have to show them." Developers should be incentivized "to do more," she says, "not just incentivized to do." I don't think so. Make it hurt a little," she says. "We either give it lip service, or we don't. Culturally, as a community, we need to think long and hard of the unintended consequences of not thinking about this now and not putting the tools in place." City planners argue that the city needs more "tools" to address the affordability crisis while "wages are not growing to meet the demand for higher costs of housing, transportation, medical care, and life's basic necessities," with fewer federal funding sources to fill in the gaps. Those "tools" include the creation of three types of zoning overlays and districts in areas where disparities exist or that allow some flexibility in zoning or density on the condition that affordable units be created. Up against an affordability crisis and a deadline, New Orleans officials consider 'mandatory' affordable housing With a limited availability of federal funding, more cities are looking at local options to support affordable housing by leaning on legislati "We often hear from uninformed people that the market determines where people live, that segregation occurs because of choices people make," Hill says. "We know that's just not correct. Massive amounts of government resources, planning and infrastructure went into creating segregated communities so it's important that we're clear that the same kind of investment and intervention from government is going to be necessary to address the legacy of redlining." In its report, city planners wrote that inclusionary zoning could offset the "rental housing construction boom" from the last decade and open opportunities "to secure long-term affordable housing units for residents facing displacement." Affordable housing rules for developers to go back before New Orleans City Council next week Plans aimed at increasing the amount of affordable housing in New Orleans could gain momentum next week, as the City Council will consider ste The commission, however, didn't endorse the plan to make that mandatory. "The [commissioners were] willing to disregard the staff report and recommendation as well as the expertise shared and the experiences shared by long-term residents about what was needed to fix the affordability crisis," Hill says. "Working-class New Orleanians, culture bearers who made this city what it is, who draw those tourist dollars those folks are at the mercy of developers if [the proposal for mandatory affordability requirements] is not part of the package." Cantrell's administration also is preparing an inclusionary zoning report, and the City Council is expected to review city planners' recommendations Jan. 24. "What we received in exchange for giving our taxpayer dollars to those developers hasn't been an even exchange," Hill says. "It makes sense, I think, for us as residents of this city to demand that developers live up to their end of the bargain." Onchel Holmes' daughter Shawanda Holmes dodges light rain under the awning of her old home on Freret Street, part of a row of similar shotgun houses in bright, pale colors. "You could push on the walls when it rained," she says. "The rain would come in and go down into the walls and into the sockets." Shawanda also lived in a house on First Street the state Department of Health ordered her to move from the shotgun home after state inspectors discovered lead throughout the property. Doctors found that her son, now 6 years old, had lead levels four times higher than the smallest amount considered lead poisoning. The health department later discovered that the property tested positive for lead two years earlier. Late last year, she moved into a newly constructed apartment in the East it's peaceful and quiet, she says, but it's a one-hour ride on the Broad Street bus to get Uptown. Her son wakes up at 5 a.m. to catch a school bus. "I've been through so much," Shawanda says. Cantrell, as District B Councilwoman, pushed for the creation of a "healthy homes ordinance," a "rental registry" measure that proponents said would remedy the existing rental housing stock by enforcing safer properties. Just in 2016 alone, one attorney with Southeast Louisiana Legal Services was handling at least 150 rental habitability cases and dozens of complaints, pointing to a parallel crisis for existing rental units developing alongside affordability issues. Part of the "healthy homes" plan would require landlords to be subject to possible safety checks, and it would make low-interest loans for repairs available through the city's Neighborhood Housing Improvement Fund. The City Council put the proposal on indefinite hold last year. Cantrell included the issue in her "affordability plan" during her mayoral campaign, and her transition team's report outlined steps to reintroduce the measure. 'Make New Orleans right for residents': City Council supports short-term rental rule changes The countless hours of public comment and debate over the regulation of short-term rentals in New Orleans has felt for many like dj vu, as c Critics feared the proposal would force landlords to raise rents to recoup expenses on their renovated properties and argue that lower rents wouldn't guarantee better-quality housing. "These problems are happening or are found in areas that aren't going to be gentrifying soon," Hill says. "If landlords are required to implement some health and safety standards, realistically speaking, the rent isn't going to go up to $1,500 it's still in Central City or New Orleans East, where units are not commanding that kind of rent." And landlords aren't necessarily setting rent based on their expenses, Hill argues. "People deserve to have a safe and healthy place to live, and if someone is paying rent every month, even if it is $700, they should not be subject to having feces running down their wall, their child falling through their termite-infested floor," she says. Johnson argues that government support not only is crucial to address the affordability crisis but also affects how lenders and real estate respond. "From where I see it, it starts with the whole level of insensitivity," Johnson says. But because the level of sensitivity persists from [the White House] on down, what happens is the directive and direction becomes the directive and direction of the rest of America. If they don't see the government backing something, they stop backing it." Onchel Holmes says she's working on a plan to move, possibly after her husband retires. Four of her five children live in New Orleans East now, and she's not sure if the couple can withstand another rent increase. "I'm gonna get my own house," she says. "Watch." | https://www.theadvocate.com/gambit/new_orleans/news/article_e0b3b32e-19e4-11e9-8850-ebd36b3c414d.html |
When Will We Hold Them to Their Oath? | Do you swear that you will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic; that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that you will take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that you will faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which you are about to enter so help you God? Each member of Congress newly elected or reelected must solemnly swear allegiance to the above oath at the beginning of each two-year session of Congress. Many do so in robotic fashion, placing as much value on the solemn words of the oath as would an actual robot. Some others possess varying degrees of loyalty to and awareness about the Constitution. But all are encouraged to look to their partys leaders, not to the document itself, for guidelines about how they should vote on proposed legislation. In January 1993, during his very first day as a member of Congress, newly elected Congressman Richard Pombo (R-Calif.) somewhat angrily recounted his experience when he stood to swear the oath with his colleagues. He first told of his surge of pride and patriotism as he was about to make the solemn pledge. Immediately, however, he heard a colleague propose granting full congressional voting privileges to the delegates from Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia. Each of those areas is a part of the United States, but not a state. The Constitution grants full voting rights only to elected members from states. The regions named above are not and never have been states. Pombos colleague who made the proposal said it addressed a matter of fairness, not constitutionality. Theres no mention of fairness in the oath or in the Constitution itself. But constitutionality should be foremost in the considerations of any congressman. The wish to grant full voting privileges to delegates from non-states didnt get very far. But Pombo admitted to experiencing a rather rude awakening about the lack of respect for the Constitution. Overwhelmingly, the answer is, No, they dont. The Constitution is adhered to selectively, and disobeyed regularly. However, one provision of the document earns unquestioned respect from all in Congress. Appearing in Article I, Section 6, it states, The Senators and Representatives shall receive a compensation for their services. No member of Congress ignores that. Though most American adults are likely aware that congressmen routinely ignore the U.S. Constitution at least some of the time, most likely believe that the Supreme Court has allowed their behavior in order to keep up with the times the living document argument. There are multiple problems with that rationale. First, the Constitution has a list of specifically enumerated powers stating what Congress may do. The federal government has no unspecified powers. All other powers not specifically listed in the Constitution (in the words of the 10th Amendment) are reserved to the states, respectively, or the people. As well, the Supreme Court does not have any lawmaking powers under the Constitution, and any changes to the Constitution must be made via the amendment process, so the Supreme Court can neither add nor change federal powers. Unless a change is made to the Constitution via a constitutional amendment, the Constitution must be interpreted as it would have been at the time it was written. If instead, the federal government is allowed to decide the scope of its powers by redefining the clear language of the Constitution, then the government will usurp the powers and rights of the states and the people, and the American people will essentially have elected dictators who follow a rulebook of their own making. Of course, this is exactly what has been happening. Even if a sizeable majority of Americans want the federal government to tackle some problem such as environmental problems or drug crimes unless a constitutional change is made, violating the Constitution renders it a dead letter, no more than an artifact. Any breach of the Constitution by our elected representatives represents another step toward the day when our federal government fails to even pay heed to, or reference, our founding document and the rights and protections therein. And we are far along that road: Government surveillance eliminates privacy and property protections; so-called hate-crimes laws undo free-speech protections; civil asset forfeiture brings about excessive fines, unusual punishments, and the loss of due process of law; gender equity buries freedom of religion; and anti-gun laws chip away at our right to self-defense. And congressmen dont merely make small breaches in the bulwark of the Constitution, they gouge it. To demonstrate the disdain for the venerable document held by most members of Congress, we list 11 key parts of the Constitution regularly ignored, or fraudulently given new meaning. Each portion being violated or ignored still exists in the document and is part of what all members of Congress swear to support. But a majority does not honor the oath and, instead, allows government to expand its power while still claiming adherence to the Constitution. Sadly, most Americans, victims of deficient schooling about the Constitution, do not protest. We do not claim that what follows covers all deviations from the Constitutions text and intent. Unfortunately, there are more. But the importance of what follows can be summed up with a claim we have frequently made: America became great, not because of what government did, but because of what government was prevented from doing by the Constitution. If the Constitution were accorded the importance it deserves, the federal government would be 20 percent its size and 20 percent its cost and we would have 50 states whose laws more closely align with the mores and the desires of their populaces, a freedom that Americans in general should seek. 1. Article I, Section 1, Sentence 1: All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States. The word all leaves no room for exceptions. In this instance, therefore, no government entity, individual, or group has been awarded any lawmaking power except Congress. But commonly employed presidential executive orders have been allowed to assume lawmaking status which is obviously unconstitutional. Hundreds of executive mandates handed down by presidents over recent years have immediately been elevated to law governing the American people and their endeavors. Obama administration heavyweight Paul Begala summarized the practice when he arrogantly stated, Stroke of the pen; law of the land; kinda cool. The president may issue executive orders that concern only how members of the executive branch function in order to comply with federal law, but he cannot change or make law. If a presidential executive order establishes a law governing the entire nation, the president has overstepped his bounds, and his edict should be disregarded. Its similar to a corporation president: He certainly has the right to issue an executive order directed at his employees, but he should be in trouble if he issues one aimed at all Americans. Photo: GettyImagesPlus This article appears in the January 21, 2019, issue of The New American. To download the issue and continue reading this story, or to subscribe, click here. The prime example of unconstitutional reliance on executive power to make law saw President Nixon create the Environmental Protection Agency on December 2, 1970. Congress actually had no role in creating the EPA. President Nixon alone did so with an executive order and Congress allowed this enormously powerful agency to exist. Whether the American people support or reject the idea of federal power over the environment is not the question. The way the EPA was created is our issue. Now the enormously powerful EPA has risen to become a legislative powerhouse with more than 14,000 personnel and a lengthening list of edicts and controls that are considered laws, which you may be arrested and incarcerated for ignoring. Similar reliance on illegitimate presidential executive-order power continues in other areas of government. And barely any member of Congress complains. 2. Article I, Section 8, Clause 1: The Congress shall have power to provide for the ... general welfare. In this portion of the Constitution, the Founders meant only power toward establishing and maintaining general (national) conditions that would enable the people to start a business, invest in some enterprise, apply for a job, etc. The welfare they referred to was not the well-being of individual persons; it was the general welfare of the nation itself. The common view that the clause provides Congress with an open-ended power to take goods from some people to give to favored individuals and organizations makes no sense, as it is immediately followed by a list of powers that Congress can exercise to provide for the general welfare. Too, the Founders mocked the now-common view. In a letter dated January 21, 1792, James Madison said: If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions. There was absolutely no thought of using taxpayers money to pay for meals, housing, healthcare, etc., all of which is being justified today by a deliberate misreading of the intent of the Founders and their mention of the term general welfare. 3. Article I, Section 8, Clause 5: The Congress shall have power To coin money. Power was granted to Congress to stamp the precious metals of the people into coinage of a fixed size, weight, and purity. Congress used this grant of power to establish a mint in 1792 to carry out its constitutional assignment. The power to coin money, however, granted no power for Congress to print paper dollars or to delegate to some other organization such as the Federal Reserve the authority to do so. Congress possessed the authority not to create money, but to perform a service for the people by transforming their wealth (precious metals) and making usable coins that would stimulate commerce. The regular practice of the Federal Reserves creation of paper dollars and computer notations representing money is totally unconstitutional. 4. Article I, Section 8, Clause 11: The Congress shall have power ... To declare war. Power was granted to Congress and to no other government entity to authorize war. But the last reliance on this grant of power occurred during WWII. All other wars (Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, et al.) were never entered into via a proper declaration issued by Congress. Congress claims it handed that power to the president, but the Constitution doesnt allow such an action. During the time in which Congress retained its power to declare war, the United States never lost a war; after Congress illegally transferred its power to the president, newer wars ended in stalemate (Korea) and loss (Vietnam). Other wars have generally either dragged on endlessly (Afghanistan) or have resulted in victories where the liberated countries are arguably worse off than before (Iraq and Libya). Minor military victories in Panama, Grenada, and Kuwait, in which the actual fighting took mere days or weeks, may be the only exceptions. Currently, a state of war has existed in Afghanistan for 17 years, the longest shooting war in our nations history. Congress should either declare war and win the struggle in Afghanistan or terminate U.S. military action in that war-torn nation. 5. Article I, Section 8, Clause 15: The Congress shall have power To provide for calling forth the militia to repel invasions. Power was granted to Congress to activate the militia for the purpose of combating any type of invasion, not only the type that sees an unfriendly military force storm across our nations border. If the illegal entry into our country of as many as 20,000,000 border crossers isnt an invasion, then words have lost their meaning. In fact, the concept of a Militia has lost its meaning because the National Guards have become so intertwined with the U.S. military that they have been deployed on overseas missions that have little or nothing to do with defending the United States. President Trump has recently called up some National Guard members to assist at the U.S.-Mexico border, but under the Constitution the power to call up the militia belongs to Congress, not the president. 6. Article I, Section 8, Clause 18: The Congress shall have power To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof. Many members of Congress refer to the necessary and proper wording when asked where their authority exists for enacting various questionable lawmaking. Their response regularly avoids mention of the important phrase the foregoing powers. This three-word portion of the Constitution limits the power of Congress to make any law it deems necessary and proper. The words the foregoing powers grant power to make laws only to carry into execution the powers listed in the previous 17 clauses of Article I, Section 8, and in other parts of the Constitution. Similar to the misuse of the General Welfare clause, the Founders wouldnt list 17 clauses delineating the areas where Congress is authorized to make law and then, in Clause 18, give Congress the power to make any law it deemed necessary and proper. The text of Clause 18 also mentions the grant of power to carry into execution all other powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States so Congress was also given power to carry out missions assigned to the government in other portions of the Constitution. Every member of Congress who uses the above justification to make laws in areas where there is no authorization to do so is dismembering and destroying the Constitution. 7. Article II, Section 2, Clause 1: The President shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States. Presidents, with the acquiescence of Congress, have taken it upon themselves, under their power as commander in chief, not only to wage war, but to also essentially transfer American troops to foreign commands for military operations in conflicts around the world though this is blatantly unconstitutional. Alexander Hamilton, in The Federalist Papers, No. 69, made clear the powers that the Founders placed in the president by making him commander in chief: The President is to be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. In this respect his authority would be nominally the same with that of the king of Great Britain, but in substance much inferior to it. It would amount to nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the military and naval forces, as first general and admiral while that of the British king extends to the declaring of war and to the raising and regulating of fleets and armies all which, by the Constitution under consideration, would appertain to the legislature. Yet during the 1950-53 Korean War, Americas military forces were ordered to fight under the command of the United Nations. The state of war in Korea, which has never been terminated even though an armistice has prevailed since 1953, has continued for close to 70 years. Tens of thousands of uniformed Americans are currently serving in Korea as part of a UN command. The Vietnam War, which saw American military involvement starting in the late 1950s, was another undeclared war in which American troops were regulated by the United Nations through SEATO, a UN regional arrangement. American casualties in the Vietnam War totaled 58,000 dead and 153,000 wounded. There was never any declaration of war as required by the U.S. Constitution. Nor was each U.S. president who held office during that war the ultimate commander in chief of the U.S. forces as required by the Constitution. And none of the presidents who served during the Vietnam War has ever been held accountable for allowing United Nations officials to supersede his constitutionally granted power. As well, all major American plans for executing the war were passed to the Security Council and the communists posted there. Americas forces have been engaged in the struggle in Afghanistan for 17, years though shortly after these troops began operations in this war-torn nation, NATO was given command of the entire operation. There have been numerous American generals overseeing the efforts of the U.S. troops, but NATO is in charge in the same way SEATO dominated military activity in Vietnam. The U.S. president is not the ultimate leader of our nations forces sent to fight in Afghanistan. NATO is the ultimate commander. 8. Article IV, Section 4: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion. Two important mandates are mentioned in this passage of Article IV. The first requires the federal government to ensure that each state shall have a republican form of government. The Founders were adamantly opposed to democracy (rule by a majority) and heavily committed to the republican form (rule by law). The reality is that it is difficult to find any federal official who will point to the true meaning of this passage and insist that the U.S. system of government is a republic, not a democracy. In The Federalist, No. 10, future president James Madison sought to explain the various portions of the Constitution to the people. It was his hope shared by his colleagues who created the Constitution that the people would promote ratification of the newly created governmental system. Explaining what the Founders meant with the choice of government they established for the states and the federal government, Madison wrote: Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Every instance of referring to our nations governing system as democracy displays ignorance about the Constitution while inviting democracys turbulence and contention that will lead to our nations destruction. The importance of understanding the Founders choice of a republic can never be overestimated. They gave us a republican form because they had knowledge of the history of failed democracies. All congressmen who promote democratic socialism or progressivism are stating plainly the intention to ignore the oath of office, and are not to be trusted. The second mandate contained in this passage repeats the requirement given in Article I, Section 8, Clause 15 requiring the national (federal) government to protect the states against invasion. Again, it does not point only to a military invasion. If millions of illegal immigrants cross the border into the United States, it is the responsibility of the federal government to protect the states against such an invasion. That the government has not done so is no secret. 9. Article VI, Clause 2: This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any thing in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding. This clause, known as the supremacy clause, is commonly misinterpreted to mean that all federal laws are superior to state and local laws and therefore they trump state and local laws that conflict with federal laws. Yet this clause is clearly referring not to the entire body of the laws of the United States, but only to those laws that are made in pursuance thereof that is, in accordance with the Constitution. Rather than making the federal government supreme over the states, this clause clearly limits the supreme law of the land to constitutional laws (and treaties), as opposed to unconstitutional laws that never should have been enacted to begin with. It is certainly relevant that the very next clause in Article VI Clause 3 requires that all U.S. senators and representatives (and other officeholders, too, on both the state and federal levels) shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution. Congress may not pass any law it chooses, it may only exercise those few and defined powers delegated to it by the Constitution. To step outside these constitutional parameters is usurpation and should be treated accordingly. As Thomas Jefferson explained in the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798: Whensoever the general [federal] government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force. He added: Where powers are assumed which have not been delegated, a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy: that every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact [the Constitution] to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by others within their own state boundaries. The Constitution binds federal lawmakers by oath to support the Constitution, and when they fail to do so the rightful remedy is for states to nullify their usurpations declaring them void. 10. Amendment I: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. The sole intent of this portion of the First Amendment was to bar the federal government from establishing a national religion with possible government funding and suppression of other faiths. In no way did it intend to ban expressions of religion by the people. And it never included any requirement for separation of church and state, a phrase commonly heard today that does not appear anywhere in the Constitution. In fact, expressions of religion were numerous: Every state constitution gave praise to God, there were regular prayers in the U.S. Congress, some states had official religions for a time after the Constitution was ratified, the Bible was cited in federal court cases, the Thanksgiving holiday began to give thanks to God for our abundance, religious emblems adorn the U.S. Supreme Court, etc. Part of the revered Bill of Rights, this portion of the First Amendment prohibited Congress (not the states or local school boards) from making any law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. It did not deny high-school sports teams their right to ask Almighty God to keep participants from injury, or ban school choral groups from singing Ave Maria at a school function, or prohibit students to ask Gods blessing at the start of their class day. It was the Supreme Court making changes to the meaning of the First and 14th Amendments that supposedly gave power to the federal government to diminish religion and the U.S. legislature allowed both misinterpretations to stand. Religion, which had always been a matter for states, came under federal purview when the Supreme Court declared, using the 14th Amendment, that all U.S. amendments apply to states as well as to the federal government. In part, the 14th Amendment states nor shall any State deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. This was meant to protect blacks after the Civil War from being treated more harshly than whites under the law, yet the court deemed it to mean that many states rights were now null and void a gross abuse of jurisprudence. Under this incorporation doctrine, a bastardized reading of the First Amendment led to the barring of religious liberties of individuals. In 1962, the U.S. Supreme Court decreed that the New York State Regents Prayer, already in use, violated the Constitution. That prayer, formulated by clergymen from an assortment of faiths, favored no religion. Its complete text stated: Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence on Thee, and we beg Thy blessing upon us, our parents, our teachers, and our country. The prayer was not mandatory and school policy allowed children to remain silent or even to leave the room if that was their choice. When the 1962 Supreme Court rendered its sweeping decision, the justices had to overlook the Declaration of Independence and its four mentions of God. Most notable of those is the self-evident truth that all are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. And if mans Creator granted such rights, those rights cannot justifiably be cancelled by any government. They also had to overlook the fact that the First Amendment bars Congress from making laws regarding the establishment of a religion or the free exercise thereof. So even if the amendment were held against states, only state congresses not every aspect of local government would be affected. Another clear abuse of the reading of an amendment by the courts. Rights, says the Declaration, are God-given, not awarded by a government that can change its mind and cancel basic rights. The 1962 court decision, a total perversion of a basic element of Americas design, even constituted an attack on the Declaration of Independence, yet Congress heeds abuses by court justices to pervert the meaning of the Constitution, even ignoring Congress power to keep the court from reviewing certain types of cases. Importantly, Congress has the constitutionally authorized power to rein in rogue justices and their questionable decisions. This power, appearing in the Constitutions Article III, Section 2, Clause 2, states that the Supreme Court and all lower federal courts can be limited in their jurisdiction under such regulations as the Congress shall make. Congress can, for instance, bar the court from having anything to say about prayer in the schools. It can bar the court and all federal courts from rendering decisions dealing with numerous other topics. But Congress has chosen not to use this power. One result of the school prayer decision is that the court by its action has actually established a new religion Godless humanism while the publics free exercise of traditional religious expression has been widely prohibited. 11. The 10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. In effect, this amendment says, If the Constitution or state action does not award power to the federal government in any instance, then any such acquisition is prohibited. There is no constitutional authorization for the federal government to be involved in education, energy, medicine, transportation, banking, housing, workplace safety, environment, and more. Nor does Congress have power to delegate its lawmaking power to some other legitimate or illegitimate federal agency. The federal Department of Labor operates the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which creates laws mainly having to do with workplace safety, despite not having any power to legislate in what is a state and local function. Not only has the federal government illegitimately relied on delegated congressional power to control the nations businesses, its reliance on delegation of authority is completely illicit. *** Each of the above instances of avoiding the clear intent of the Constitution has resulted in great harm to our nation and the American people. But the good news is that the Constitution is still in place, and it needs only to be enforced to bring about the restoration of sound government. All that is necessary to bring about this restoration is to inform and involve fellow citizens to hold the feet of their lawmakers to the fire and insist that their oaths of office mean something once again. As always, this depends on we, the people. Photo: GettyImagesPlus | https://www.thenewamerican.com/print-magazine/item/31101-when-will-we-hold-them-to-their-oath |
When is Dirty John released on Netflix? Who stars in the drama adaptation of the true crime podcast? | With the true crime craze still booming, Netflix is bringing viewers the chilling real tale of John Meehan with their latest drama series, Dirty John. Advertisement Based on the hit podcast of the same name, the eight-part one-off series delves into how this con man and sociopath tore apart the lives of businesswoman Debra Newell and her family. Heres everything you need to know. The true-life story will drop on 14th February 2019 on Netflix. We wouldnt recommend this as a romantic watch for Valentines Day, though. Many US viewers have already seen the series, as it was originally broadcast by US station Bravo from late 2019. Yes, the series is a dramatisation of the true story originally documented by journalist Christopher Goffard into the con man John Meehan. The hit podcast from Wondery and the Los Angeles Times is available for free on iTunes and most podcast services. The series follows a true story originally documented by journalist Christopher Goffard in his investigation of John Meehan and the reign of terror he inflicted on Debra Newell and other victims over several decades. Newell was a successful businesswoman, looking for love on various dating applications after four failed marriages. Its there she met John Meehan. Meehan posing as an anaesthetist at the time easily charmed Newell with his charisma and good looks and the two enjoyed a whirlwind romance, marrying in Vegas two months after they met. However, all was not as it seemed. Without giving too much away, Meehans easy-going nature soon started to slip. As Newells daughters, Jacquelyn and Terra, spotted inconsistencies in his lavish stories, Meehan gradually unleashed a cycle of abuse and psychological manipulation. Its this downward spiral that led to crime, drugs and the deadly events of 20th August 2016 (which we wont spoil here). Munich and Troy star Eric Bana stars as the titular con man, while Connie Britton (American Horror Story, Nashville) stars as Debra Newell. The cast also includes Atonements Juno Temple (Veronica Newell), Ozarks Julia Garner (Terra Newell), 13 Reasons Whys Keiko Agena (Nancy) and Gossip Girls Kevin Zegers (Toby). Yes, and its as creepy as youd expect. (Beware: spoilers!) John Meehan learnt how to be conman from a young age. As the podcast documents, he learnt from his criminal father how to run insurance scams and get deliberately hit by cars. It was at the University of Arizona where Meehan got the nickname Dirty John for the many women he slept with and the way he spoke about them afterwards. He was also called Filthy John or just plain Filthy. He married his first wife Tonia Sells a practising nurse anaesthetist in 1990. He was married for 10 years and had two children with Sells in Ohio before filing for divorce. After discovering Meehan had stolen a box of surgical anaesthetics, Sells called the police. Meehan then fled the state, but was found by police barely conscious and surrounded by drugs in Michigan some days later. After unsuccessfully trying to escape from custody, Meehan was sentenced to 17 months in prison. On his first day out of prison, he created a Match.com profile and searched for female victims. This led him to Newell and the events of Dirty John. (Major spoilers ahead!) Meehan was killed by Newells daughter Terra in an act of self-defence. Meehan attacked Terra with a knife in a car park, but she managed to kick the weapon out of his hand, eventually managing to use the blade against him. Advertisement Meehan died in the hospital a few days later after the incident. | https://www.radiotimes.com/news/on-demand/2019-01-21/dirty-john-netflix-release-date-cast-plot-podcast-adaptation-true-crime/ |
How were the Japanese Irezumi tattooed body parts created for Silent Witness? | In the Silent Witness two-parter titled To Brighton, To Brighton, the team from the Lyell Centre take a field trip to Brighton (lucky) and a smelly landfill site (not so lucky). Mixed in with the rubbish at the dump is a collection of heavily-tattooed body parts, wrapped in newspaper and hidden in pizza bags. While Silent Witness has a store of fake cadavers, this one actually had to be specially-made weeks and months in advance by prosthetics expert Pauline Fowler. After all, the team couldnt exactly get this victim to lie still on a gurney and pretend to be dead. Instead, they took a full body cast of the actor, made a replica, and chopped it up into pieces. But first, the body had to be covered in Irezumi tattoos a traditional Japanese body art. This was easier said than done. A traditional Japanese form of tattooing, irezumi eschews electronic machinery instead using wooden handles and metal needles attached via silk thread. Irezumi artists are hard to find with body art still seen as a taboo in some parts of Japanese society and those who carry out the style required to train for many years under a master to learn the unique styles of shading and methods for applying the tattoos by hand. Traditional irezumi tattoos can feature a variety of creatures, from lions and tigers to dragons, and fauna including cherry blossom and lotus flowers as well as a selection of warriors, geishas and mythological figures. Irezumi also takes a long time to complete and requires deep pockets; body suits can take years to create and cost many thousands of pounds. We did initially talk about tattoo artists doing it, producer Kiaran Murray-Smith tells RadioTimes.com. But it would have taken too long, and knowing TV schedules youve got to do everything in half the time. Instead, the designs are the work of make-up supervisor Gary Jordan, who inked them onto the prosthetic. We talked to the director, made sure that the designs were absolutely bang on, and then we actually left him to tattoo with transfers onto these prosthetic body parts, Murray-Smith explains. Because they had to be dismembered, we then had to cut them up. But we had to do that at specific moments, and have specific areas of the body where they had to be cut up in order to make sense for the story. Advertisement But all that work pays off when the drama begins | https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2019-01-21/silent-witness-japanese-irezumi-tattoos/ |
What did Sadhguru think of Manikarnika ? | January 21, 2019 16:09 IST Kangana hosts Manikarnika screening for Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. Kangana Ranaut hosted a special screening of Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi for Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, at whose ashram she spent some time last July. Sadhguru loved the film and tweeted '#Manikarnika epitomizes valour, commitment & passion of an Indian woman who left a mark on the nation's history & its struggle for freedom. This wonderful work of Indian cinema instills immense national pride. Congratulations. -Sg' Kangana Ranaut looks awesome! Kangana with her nephew Prithvi. Anita Lokhande, who has a stellar part in the film. Mishti Chakraborty. Nihar Pandya, who makes his movie debut a few weeks ahead of his wedding. Unnatii Davara. The tot who plays Kangana's onscreen son. Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, who directs Kangana in Panga, and Nitish Tiwari. Raveena Tandon. Prasoon Joshi, who inspired Kangana to direct the film. Shankar Mahadevan with son Siddharth Mahadevan. Juhi Chaturvedi, Ashwiny, Kangana's sister Rangoli. Manikarnika Producer Kamal Jain is in hospital, but his wife and daughter attended the screening. Jaggi Vasudev poses with the folks at the screening. Photographs: Pradeep Bandekar | https://www.rediff.com/movies/report/what-did-sadhguru-think-of-manikarnika/20190121.htm |
Is New Jerseys $15 minimum wage good or bad for small businesses? | For example, a 2017 analysis carried out by the University of Washington concluded that that the costs of Seattles minimum wage increases which were mostly cutbacks in employee hours outweighed the benefits by a three to one margin and an additional investigation by the National Bureau of Economic Research that same year found that there was robust evidence that employers who raised the minimum wage also reduced the amount they paid workers for healthcare and other benefits to offset the added costs. Supporters, however, point to studies like the one released in late 2018 by the University of California at Berkeley that found minimum wage increases in cities such as Washington, Chicago, San Francisco and, yes, Seattle resulted in no job losses. | http://www.philly.com/business/small-business/nj-minium-wage-hour-small-business-impact-20190121.html |
Could Linlithgow have 54 new homes? | A housing developer has confirmed that it will submit a planning application for a major new development on the eastern edge of Linlithgow. Cala Homes has stated that it has now submitted revised plans to West Lothian Council in its bid to bring 54 new homes to Boghall East on Blackness Road. The developer had staged a consultation evening with the public at the Low Port Centre last August. This was attended by more than 70 people who wanted their say on the future of the site, which lies within WLCs Local Development Plan. A quarter of the homes involved will be earmarked for social housing in a move which has won the approval of Linlithgow and Linlithgow Bridge Community Council whose members argue that Linlithgow needs more of this type of housing. Now CALA has stated that the council is scrutinising the bid. And it insists has been formed in line with the wishes of those who came along. Craig Lynes, land director with CALA Homes (East), said: Wed like to thank all the local people who have engaged with us in offering their comments. Were now in the process of reviewing those public and statutory consultation responses with the local authority . Our hope is to get to a planning committee in the near future. A spokesperson for WLC said: The representations that were received during the notification period and the technical consultation responses on the development proposals are currently being assessed. They will be taken into account in processing the application. Representees will be notified of the decision on the application or whether it is being referred to committee for a decision, in due course. This is the second time that CALA has submitted the plan which was originally rejected back in 2014. This was partly due to fears about infrastructure which had included the availability of places at Linlithgow Academy at that point in time. | https://www.linlithgowgazette.co.uk/lifestyle/could-linlithgow-have-54-new-homes-1-4859990 |
Who's who in Sweden's new government? | This article is available to Members of The Local. Read more Membership Exclusives here. In total, five of the 22 ministers come from the Green Party, which is one fewer than in the last government following a bad election in which it went from having 25 members of parliament to 16. In total, five of the 22 ministers come from the Green Party, which is one fewer than in the last government following a bad election in which it went from having 25 members of parliament to 16. Six of the ministers are new (as is one government department), while several others have changed roles and a few have stayed on in the same positions as before. Here are some of the names and faces you'll be hearing more about over the next four years. Isabella Lvin (Green Party), Minister for the Environment and Deputy Prime Minister Photo: Erik Simander/TT Lvin is spokesperson for her party and served as Minister for International Development Cooperation in Lfven's previous government and as Deputy Prime Minister for the past two years, a role she continues in. Before going into politics, she was a successful journalist who was nominated for some of Sweden's most prestigious awards for her book on over-fishing, Tyst hav (Silent Ocean). Hans Dahlgren (Social Democrats), Minister for EU Affairs Photo: Henrik Montgomery/TT Dahlgren has an impressive CV as a diplomat and politician, first working in the foreign ministry and then becoming press secretary and adviser to one of Sweden's most famous and longest-serving prime ministers, Olof Palme, in 1976 when Palme was leader of the opposition. Before that, he was a TV reporter covering domestic politics. Dahlgren went on to hold various posts working in Sweden, New York and Geneva, but this is his first time as minister. At 70, he's the oldest minister in Lfven's cabinet, and he said two of his priorities as minister would be dealing with the uncertainty following the UK's exit from the EU, and working towards a common EU migration policy. Morgan Johansson (Social Democrats), Minister for Justice Photo: Henrik Montgomery/TT Johansson is staying in the role he had in the previous Lfven cabinet as Justice Minister. Between 2014 and 2017, he was also Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy, and before 2014 he held roles as chairman of the parliamentary committee on justice, and Minister for Public Health. Before entering politics, Johansson was a journalist. Mikael Damberg (Social Democrats), Interior Minister Photo: Kristian Pohl/Regeringskansliet Previously Minister for Enterprise and Innovation, Damberg takes up the role as Justice Minister. First elected to parliament in 2002, the Stockholmer's parents were also both active in politics and he joined the Social Democrats' Youth League in the late 1980s. He became its chairperson in 1999, telling media at the time that he was a big fan of Swedish rap music and wanted politicians to take note of the messages in the genre. Since then, the 47-year-old has held various roles within the Social Democrats, acting as their parliamentary group leader between 2012 and 2014. He's also a long-time campaigner against honour-related violence. Margot Wallstrm (Social Democrats), Foreign Minister Photo: Pontus Lundahl/TT Of all Lfven's previous cabinet, Wallstrm probably has the highest profile internationally and it was expected that she would keep her post. She's best known for pioneering Sweden's feminist foreign policy, which has inspired several other countries to follow suit, and for her frank approach. She's previously held key roles in the UN and the EU Commission, as well as being Deputy Prime Minister and, between 1988 to 1991, Minister for Consumer Affairs, before returning to government after 16 years in 2014. Before she was first elected to parliament aged 25, Wallstrm, who did not attend university but now has several honorary doctorates, worked as a bank clerk. To hear her talk about feminist foreign policy and more, listen to our podcast interview. Peter Eriksson (Green Party), Minister for Development Assistance Photo: Anders Wiklund/TT Hailing from Smland and having begun his political career after moving to Norrbotten, Eriksson became an MP in 1994 and later became municipal councillor in Kalix in 1998 where he led a seven-party coalition. In the next election in 2002, the Greens had their best municipal election result ever in Kalix, scooping over 40 percent of the vote. Eriksson was one of the Green Party's two spokespeople between 2002 and 2011. He was an MEP from 2014 to 2016 before Lfven named him Minister for Housing and Digitalization in 2016. Now, he takes on a new role in the Foreign Ministry. Ann Linde (Social Democrats), Minister for International Trade Photo: Ninni Andersson/Government Offices Previously Minister for EU Affairs and before that, State Secretary for the Interior Minister, Linde is another member of the cabinet changing jobs for the next term of office. She has previously held several different political roles and lives in Stockholm. Peter Hultqvist (Social Democrats), Minister for Defence Photo: Hossein Salmanzadeh/TT Hultqvist has been Minister for Defence since 2014 and stays in the role. He survived a no confidence vote against him in 2017 following a security leak at Sweden's Transport Agency. Before entering politics, Hultqvist worked for Social Democrat magazines. He's been a member of parliament for the past 12 years. Lena Hallengren (Social Democrats), Minister for Children, the Elderly and Gender Equality Photo: Kristian Pohl/Regeringskansliet This is Hallengren's first ministerial post, but she's had various key roles in parliament, including being Deputy Minister for Education between 2002 and 2006, and the Social Democrats' spokesperson on socio-political issues during the most recent four-year term, which included elderly care. First elected as an MP in 2006, she has also been part of several parliamentary committees and has chaired two of these. Annika Strandhll (Social Democrats), Minister for Social Security Photo: Erik Simander/TT Strandhll held this role between 2014 and 2017 and returns to it after a year as acting Minister for Public Health, Healthcare and Sports while that minister was on sick leave. Like Prime Minister Stefan Lfven, the Gothenburger has a background as a trade unionist and was totally new to politics when she joined the government in 2014. Magdalena Andersson (Social Democrats), Minister for Finance Photo: Anders Wiklund/TT Staying in the role she held in the last government, Andersson has previously held several high-ranking posts both in the Finance Ministry as well as being senior director at the Swedish Tax Agency. A trained economist, she has studied at Stockholm School of Economics, in Vienna, and at Harvard University in the US. In her younger years, she was a competitive swimmer. Per Bolund (Green Party), Minister for Housing and Deputy Finance Minister Photo: Erik Simander/TT In the previous government, Bolund was Deputy Finance Minister, and he stays on in that role while also becoming Minister for Housing, a role he previously took on in an acting capacity (37 days in total). Bolund was first elected to parliament in 2006; after losing his seat in 2010 he was able to return one year later after one of his party colleagues decided to leave. Ardalan Shekarabi (Social Democrats), Minister for Public Administration Photo: Hanna Franzn/TT Shekarabi held this role in the last government. After first training in law and working briefly as a notary, he joined the Social Democrats' youth league and became its chair, joint with Mikael Damberg. He was also chairperson of the Crisis Commission in charge of investigating the Social Democrats' failure in the 2010 election. Anna Ekstrm (Social Democrats), Minister for Education Photo: Lisa Johansson/ TT With a background in law and trade unions, Ekstrm is the former general director of the National Agency for Education, and was Minister for Upper Secondary School and Adult Education between 2016 and 2018. That appointment marked her return to politics after a 15-year break. Matilda Ernkrans (Social Democrats), Minister for Higher Education and Research Photo: Jessica Gow/TT A new face in the cabinet, Ernkrans, 45, has been an MP since 2002 and was chair of the parliamentary committee on education. Before that, she has had roles as chair or member of several other parliamentary committees. Born in rebro, she worked at the Swedish Public Employment Service before entering politics. Ibrahim Baylan, Minister for Enterprise Photo: Lisa Johansson/TT Baylan, 46, has been active in politics since his youth, when he had leadership roles in the Social Democratic Youth League and Union of Students in Ume. When he became Minister for Education in 2004, he was the first non-European immigrant to be part of a Swedish government (Baylan is Assyrian-Swedish and moved to Sweden as a child). He now takes on the role of Minister for Enterprise. Jennie Nilsson (Social Democrats), Minister for Rural Affairs Photo: Anders Wiklund/TT Nilsson first entered politics as a part-time substitute when the spokesperson in her municipal council fell sick, and was first elected as an MP in 2006. Since then, she has been chair or member of several parliamentary committees. Amanda Lind (Green Party), Minister for Culture and Democracy Photo: Bjrn Larsson Rosvall/TT Trained psychologist Lind, 38, has been a party secretary for the Greens since 2016 but this is her first time in government, replacing her party colleague Alice Bah Kuhnke. Lind has previously been spokesperson for her party in Hrnsand and Vsternorrland and a municipal councillor in Hrnsand. Ylva Johansson (Social Democrats), Minister for Labour Photo: Kristian Pohl/Regeringskansliet Johansson is a veteran minister: previous posts include Minister for Schools (1994-1998), Minister for Healthcare and Elderly Care (2004-2006) and Minister for the Labour Market and Integration (2014-2018, taking on the second part of the title from 2016). She's also worked as a maths and science teacher and as a Senior Adviser at Telia. In politics, she started out as a member of the youth wing of the Left Party (at the time called Left Party - the Communists) and was first elected as an MP for that party in 1988, before joining the Social Democrats in 2006. sa Lindhagen (Green Party), Minister for Equality Photo: Anders Wiklund/TT Another of the new faces in this government, Lindhagen was Stockholm's Commissioner of Social Services between 2014 and 2018. Between 2012 and 2014, she was group leader for the Greens in Stockholm city council, and was previously on the board of Save the Children. Tomas Eneroth (Social Democrats), Minister for Infrastructure Photo: Ninni Andersson/Regeringskansliet Eneroth became Minister for Infrastructure in 2017, and now he'll be leading the newly created Department for Infrastructure. He's been an MP since 1994, and has chaired several parliamentary committees before becoming parliamentary group leader for the Social Democrats in 2014, but the role as Minister for Infrastructure was his first ministerial position. Anders Ygeman (Social Democrats), Minister for Energy and Digitalization Photo: Henrik Montgomery / TT Ygeman is no stranger to a high-profile post in government; he was Interior Minister in the last government until he was forced to resign over a security leak at Sweden's Transport Agency in 2017. Since then, he has been the Social Democrats' group leader in parliament. He's now back in the newly created Department for Infrastructure, with responsibility for energy and digitalization. | https://www.thelocal.se/20190121/whos-who-in-swedens-new-government-stefan-lofven-cabinet-ministers |
Is Apple paving the way for a new budget mini iPhone? | Over the weekend, cut-priced versions of the iPhone SE made a brief appearance on Apple's US clearance page, before being quickly snapped up by buyers. Priced at $249 for the 32GB version, and only $299 for the 128GB variant (which represent a price cut of $100 and $150 respectively compared to the original price), it makes sense that these were quickly snapped up by those looking for a new iPhone, but who weren't interested in paying the big bucks for the iPhone XS or iPhone XR. Must read: 2019: The Apple products you shouldn't buy As far as smartphone go, the iPhone SE is a pretty vintage piece of kit. First released in early 2016 (it was initially offered in 16GB and 64GB capacities, but those were phased out in March 2017 and replaced with 32GB and 128GB versions), it was powered by Apple's A9 processor (the same chip found in the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus), and featured a more pocketable 4-inch display. The iPhone SE also retained the chunkier, boxy look of its predecessors, such as the iPhone 5 and iPhone 5s. Apple's sudden profits warning, issued January 2, made it clear that the all the rumors, speculation, and reports of a collapse in iPhone sales was indeed happening. While Apple offered up a number of factors why it issued the profits warning (even going so far as to admit that some of the damage might have been self-inflicted), The bottom line is that iPhones aren't selling like they once did. It would make sense. After all, there have been plenty of credible reports to suggest that Apple has been working on a replacement for the iPhone SE (while Apple had discontinued selling the iPhone SE back in September 2018, the handset was still available from authorized resellers) This clearance aside, the cheapest iPhone available from Apple is the 32GB iPhone 7, which has the much heftier price tag of $449. While we don't know how many iPhone SE handsets Apple had available, the fact that they were snapped up so rapidly suggests that there's interest in the aging handset, and it could be yet another way that Apple could use to help shore up flagging sales. For those looking for a basic iPhone, and who are perhaps upgrading from a handset that's a few years old, or who are upgrading because they want upgraded storage capacity, there's little wrong with the iPhone SE. And if the line was given a processor refresh could very well be relevant for a few years. After all, it's a solid design, has a decent camera and features such as Touch ID that users of older iPhones will be familiar with. Given that Apple is also rumored to be working on a new iPad mini, along with an updated version of the budget iPad, so introducing a new budget iPhone with a 4-inch display would fit in with this pattern of refreshing the bottom-end of the product line up. That said, Apple will want to be careful not to cannibalize sales of high-priced models, so any refresh to the iPhone SE is likely to be cursory, and allow enough of a technological air gap between it and the higher-end (and higher priced) models. See also: | https://www.zdnet.com/article/is-apple-paving-the-way-for-a-new-budget-mini-iphone/ |
Were parked vehicles damaged in police chase? | The car that was discovered in Norwich. Picture: Staff Archant Residents believe two parked vehicles may have been damaged in a police chase in Norwich. Share Email this article to a friend To send a link to this page you must be logged in. Amanda Dowe found her van had been damaged. Picture: Amanda Dowe Amanda Dowe found her van had been damaged. Picture: Amanda Dowe A family were woken at 4.15am to a loud bang, screeching tyres and flashing blue lights in Bracondale. Later that day, Friday, January 18, James Shreeve, from Abbey Court, discovered that his car had been hit and was blocking the side of the pavement. The county council worker said: It was just a bit of a shock really. I walk down the hill [to work] so obviously in the morning I dont even look that way. So I went down to work and came back for lunch to find my car had been pushed across the pavement. James Shreeve's car was hit in Bracondale. Picture: James Shreeve James Shreeve's car was hit in Bracondale. Picture: James Shreeve I took photos because I knew obviously Id have to deal with insurance and what-not. I understand the police arent going to come out with flashing blue lights to see my car on the path but they just emailed me giving me a quote number saying they didnt have any information so they cant really do anything. Amanda Dowe, 48, and her daughter, Hannah, 17, were startled when they heard a bang in the early hours of the morning. When Mrs Dowe left for work that morning, she noticed her van had been hit. She called 101 and was told to report the incident online. The mother-of-two said: I havent heard anything back since and Im not sure if anyone else here has been affected as Im new to this block of flats. James Shreeve found his car on the pavement. Picture: James Shreeve James Shreeve found his car on the pavement. Picture: James Shreeve All I can do is wait to find out more. Mr Sheeves has parked his car on the road for more than four years and never had a problem. The highways officer added; I took photos because I knew obviously Id have to deal with insurance and what-not. You just have to get on with it really its just annoying how you have to go through your insurer, get everything claimed. Amanda Dowe found her van had been damaged. Picture: Amanda Dowe Amanda Dowe found her van had been damaged. Picture: Amanda Dowe Im literally just starting to buy a house a week ago so Ive had phone calls going everywhere. On the same day police were involved in two car chases. One saw them pursue a stolen car, spotted in Norwich, along the A47 for more than 10 miles before the driver crashed on a road near Acle. And another along Sweet Briar Road towards Hellesdon. In both incidents male suspects were arrested. Police have been contacted for a comment. | https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/police-chase-damaged-parked-cars-bracondale-1-5860390 |
When will Cromer Pier be shown on Antiques Roadshow? | Fiona Bruce during filming of the Antiques Roadshow at Cromer. Share Email this article to a friend To send a link to this page you must be logged in. A. The episode of BBC1s popular TV series filmed at Cromer Pier is due to air on Sunday, February 3, at 8pm. This will follow a weeks break from the show to make way for the fourth round FA Cup match between Chelsea and Sheffield Wednesday this Sunday (January 27). Q. A. The BBC has confirmed there will be a second episode, however, an air date for it has not been set. BBC One isnt showing the episodes in order, so it could be shown the following Sunday, on February 10, but they may well hold off until later in the year before putting it on. MORE: Test your Antiques Roadshow knowledge ahead of the show coming to Cromer Pier Q. A. Having dusted off much-loved and long-neglected pieces of furniture, musical instruments, silverware, dolls and even Third Reich-era toys, scores of people will present their goods to the Antiques Roadshow team to have them valued. All pretty standard stuff for the shows host, Fiona Bruce, and the team, except this will be the first time in the shows 40-year history it will have broadcast from a pier. MORE: Nazi toys amongst items valued as BBC Ones Antiques Roadshow comes to Cromer Q. Maria Cox, from Scarning, and her daughter, Georgie, from Cromer, with some of the Pelham puppets from Maria's collection after being filmed for the Antiques Roadshow at Cromer. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY Maria Cox, from Scarning, and her daughter, Georgie, from Cromer, with some of the Pelham puppets from Maria's collection after being filmed for the Antiques Roadshow at Cromer. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY A. The Antiques Roadshow team came up to the town they call the Gem of the north Norfolk coast for a full day of filming on May 24, 2018. It was gorgeous spring day which saw people flock to Cromer from across the region, either bearing antiques they were secretly hoping were worth a fortune or simply to enjoy the atmosphere. Among the items presented to the valuers were a 1920s gold-plated Conn saxophone Happisburgh woman April Vogel rescued from a skip, a pair of miniature Asian vases brought in by Jeff Dady, and a model of Hitlers Mercedes Benz made in Germany in 1935. Oh, and Fiona Bruce enjoyed a crab sandwich at the Rocket House Cafe, but that probably wont be part of the episode. An expert looks at Maria Cox's Pelham puppets collection during filming of the Antiques Roadshow at Cromer. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY An expert looks at Maria Cox's Pelham puppets collection during filming of the Antiques Roadshow at Cromer. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY People crowd round as an expert looks at items during filming of the Antiques Roadshow at Cromer. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY People crowd round as an expert looks at items during filming of the Antiques Roadshow at Cromer. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY Crowds at Cromer for the filming of the Antiques Roadshow. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY Crowds at Cromer for the filming of the Antiques Roadshow. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY Fiona Bruce during filming of the Antiques Roadshow at Cromer. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY Fiona Bruce during filming of the Antiques Roadshow at Cromer. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY Crowds at Cromer for the filming of the Antiques Roadshow. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY Crowds at Cromer for the filming of the Antiques Roadshow. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY | https://www.edp24.co.uk/going-out/cromer-on-bbc-one-antiques-roadshow-2019-1-5860322 |
Is the Fitbit Charge 3 too big on small wrists? | Best Answer: It's entirely subjective, but the Fitbit Charge 3 is a bit bulkier than other activity trackers that Fitbit offers, such as the Alta HR. The dimensions of the Charge 3 are 1.6 by 4 by 8.9 inches, and it weighs 1.76 ounces. While it may not seem like a big deal, the bulkiness of the Charge 3 may lead to some discomfort as it might press against wrist bones, depending on the fit. If you are looking for a slim and small activity tracker that still has continuous heart rate monitoring, you should look into something like the Fitbit Alta HR instead. I think I still want to try a Charge 3. Again, the entire thing about whether it's too big or not is entirely subjective. You're still free to give a try for yourself to see if it works for you. The Fitbit Charge 3 is available in both Small and Large sizes, and every Charge 3 gives you both S and L bands in the box. But if you are reading this because you have a small wrist, then it's safe to say that you should be using the small band instead of the large one. However, if you just want to double check, we also have a guide on how to measure your wrist before buying a Fitbit. Since the Charge 3 has a continuous heart rate monitor, you'll want to make sure that it fits snugly when you wear it. The Charge 3 should not be too tight, but it should also not be very loose. With activity trackers that have heart rate monitors, you want to ensure that they're snug but comfortable, because this is the best way to get a fairly accurate reading. However, as mentioned earlier, if the bulkiness of the Charge 3 is causing discomfort because it's pressing against your wrist bone or something else, then it probably isn't the best choice for you. I don't think the Charge 3 is for my small wrists. Personally, for smaller wrists, I would recommend the Alta HR, especially if you want to stay in the continuous heart rate monitoring family of Fitbit activity trackers. The Alta HR is one of the smallest trackers that the company makes, and it's also very stylish and never looks bulky or out of place. Both the Fitbit Charge 3 and Alta HR can be personalized with different band accessories, and Fitbit even has some official options for you on their website. However, we personally like to go with third-party bands for the Charge 3 and Alta HR, because there are more options to choose from and they're usually cheaper. | https://www.imore.com/fitbit-charge-3-too-big-small-wrists?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheIphoneBlog+%28iMore%29 |
Is Brad Pitt dating Angelina Jolies enemy Charlize Theron? | If its true that Brad Pitt is dating this beautiful Academy Award-winning A-lister, the world could look forward to the next Hollywood super couple. The Daily Mail, picking up on a story from another British tabloid The Sun, reports that 55-year-old Pitt started seeing Charlize Theron, 43, over the Christmas holidays a few weeks after he and estranged wife Angelina Jolie reached an agreement in their bitter, high-profile custody battle. On Jan. 12, Pitt and Theron were seen getting cozy at an insider event at Chateau Marmont, the famous Hollywood gathering spot. The new lovebirds were all over each over at the event, a source told The Sun. CLICK HERE if you are having trouble viewing the gallery on your mobile device. The event was a screening and party for the acclaimed film Roma. Pitt had been at another screening earlier that evening at a private home in the Hollywood hills for If Beale Street Could Talk a film for which he is an executive producer. BRAD PITT AND CHARLIZE THERON!!!!!!!! Im so shook!!!!!! https://t.co/ii0n4tZaRW Perez (@ThePerezHilton) January 20, 2019 When the Beale Street party wrapped, Pitt headed to Chateau Marmont, where he changed his outfit and joined Theron in a corner at the bar, The Sun said. She was on a vodka cocktail while he stuck to mineral water, a source told The Sun. They were ridiculously touchy-feely, and his arm was around her back. At one point he winked at her. Brad seemed in a really good place, the source added. They both looked really happy. With regard to Pitt sticking to mineral water, the Fight Club actor said in a 2017 interview that he stopped drinking alcohol after Jolie filed for divorce in 2016. Pitt and Jolie couple had been married for two years, but they had been together more than a decade, leading a high-profile life of making movies, raising six children and presenting themselves as globe-trotting humanitarians. Amid their nasty breakup, reports surfaced that Jolie left Pitt because he was drinking too much, and he had trouble controlling his anger, including when he got involved in some kind of altercation with oldest son Maddox, then 15, on a private plane returning from Europe. If its true that Pitt and Theron are seeing each other, their romance could mark Pitts first serious relationship since he split from Jolie. It could also mean that Pitt has chosen to date another talented, glamorous female star who also has happens to be his ex-wifes enemy, the Daily Mail reported. Angelina Jolie seen for the first time since claims Brad Pitt is dating Charlize Theron Daily Mail https://t.co/BPQTOEZ597 pic.twitter.com/axXbGDAP4i U.S.A. News (@US_NewsXP) January 20, 2019 Citing Radar Online, the Daily Mail said Theron and Jolie cant stand each other and have been feuding for years over film roles, including a proposed remake of the horror classic Bride of Frankenstein. Jolie was courted to play the lead role, and Theron was the runner-up, the Daily Mail said. But Radar Online claimed Jolie was stringing Theron along, refusing to commit to the project, and denying the star the opportunity to accept other roles, as she awaits a decision. The Sun said Pitt and Theron were first introduced when Theron was engaged to Sean Penn. Theron called off the engagement in 2015. The Sun said Theron has recently been seeing Pitt at his home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Los Feliz, but has yet to meet his six children: Maddox, 17; Pax, 14; Zahara, 13; Shiloh, 12; and twins Vivienne and Knox, 10. Theron has two adopted children: Jackson, 7, and August, 3. They have been casually seeing each other for nearly a month now, a source told the Sun. Theyve been friends for some time ironically, through Sean but things have developed. The Daily Mail contacted representatives for Pitt and Theron, but had not received a comment about their possible relationship. Though Theron and Pitt have never worked together on a film, she co-starred with his friend Matt Damon in the 2000 film The Legend of Bagger Vance. Theron previously was linked to Big Little Lies star Alexander Skarsgard. | https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/01/21/is-brad-pitt-dating-angelina-jolies-enemy-charlize-theron/ |
Was halten Sie von Mays Vorgehen beim Brexit? | 21. May sagte, sie knne nicht garantieren, dass es keinen "ungeregelten Austritt" aus der EU gebe. Der Oppositionsfhrer Jeremy Corbyn hatte dies zur Voraussetzung dafr gemacht, um mit May ber einen Alternativplan zu sprechen. Die britische Premierministerin May hat ihren "Plan B" fr den Brexit prsentiert. Dabei bleibt sie vage, sichert aber zu, weiterhin Gesprche fhren, um einen grtmglichen Konsens vor allem in der Nordirland-Frage zu erreichen. Wie Sie sich zur Diskussion anmelden knnen und welche Regeln gelten, erfahren Sie hier. Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. Mailen Sie an [email protected] oder twittern Sie an @SZ. Alle Kontaktmglichkeiten finden Sie hier. | https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/leserdiskussion-was-halten-sie-von-mays-vorgehen-beim-brexit-1.4297006?source=rss |
Can we survive without coffee? | According to a new study published in Science Advances, at least 60 percent of the world's coffee species are at risk of extinction. Among the species at risk is the Arabica bean, which is the most popular coffee for commercial production. Both casual coffee drinkers and addicts shutter at the thought of higher-priced coffee and empty pots. Others say they'd be just fine if coffee disappeared; there are other ways to get a caffeine boost. PERSPECTIVES According to the new report published in Science Advances, 60 percent of the world's coffee species are "threatened with extinction." CNN's Lauren Kent spoke with senior researcher Aaron P. Davis on why this is the case: 'Considering threats from human encroachment and deforestation, some (coffee species) could be extinct in 10 to 20 years, particularly with the added influence of climate change,' Davis said. Fewer coffee crops means your morning cup might get more expensive and taste worse. The year is 2030. Your Starbucks order costs no less than $10.00 and is less "triple-pump-cold-foam" and more "dark-brown-sludge-in-a-cup." It won't even matter that your coffee is not Instagramable because Instagram no longer exists; the world is too bleak. The Sunday Scaries have taken on a whole new meaning as you rock yourself back and forth, with no steaming cup near to awake your soul. The world's most popular coffee species are going extinct According to one write-in on Quora, the world would continue to turn without coffee. The market will adjust and fill the hole in everyone's coffee-laden hearts with other sources of energy: Coffee is a commodity, so results of a shortage is relatively easy to predict. As supplies of coffee dwindles, the price would shoot up higher and higher. These price spikes would quickly move consumers from coffee to other caffeine sources such as energy drinks or sodas. Life goes on a normal... Another writer offers a different proposal for survival: Thanos' plan would come to pass. Half the population would kill the other half and we'd have enough resources to continue without further damage to the environment. A world without coffee would also have huge economic consequences. According to Vice's Samantha Power: In Canada, over 170,000 jobs relate to coffee, from roaster to barista. In the US it's over 1.6 million. The National Coffee Association in the US estimates economic impact of coffee to be $225.2 billion (EU200.5 billion EUR.) 7.75 million 60 kilo bags were exported globally in July alone. Plus, as more and more people turn to other caffeine sources like soda and energy drinks, sugar consumption will likely go up, accelerating America's obesity epidemic. Perhaps a life without coffee would be better for everyone. According to Caffeine Informer, quitting coffee can lower your blood pressure, improve your sleep quality and decrease anxiety. Maybe the world should do away with caffeine consumption altogether: Bottled coffees, teas, energy drinks, and sodas often contain an assortment of preservatives designed to give them a longer shelf-life...Cutting these out of your diet can be beneficial to one's overall long-term good health. 20 Awesome Benefits of Quitting Caffeine or Coffee The Tylt is focused on debates and conversations around news, current events and pop culture. We provide our community with the opportunity to share their opinions and vote on topics that matter most to them. We actively engage the community and present meaningful data on the debates and conversations as they progress. The Tylt is a place where your opinion counts, literally. The Tylt is an Advance Local Media, LLC property. Join us on Twitter @TheTylt, on Instagram @TheTylt or on Facebook, we'd love to hear what you have to say. | https://www.al.com/food/index.ssf/2019/01/can_we_survive_without_coffee.html |
Did bad calls determine this year's Super Bowl teams? | Barry Wilner, The Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The last thing the NFL would ever want is for an officiating mistake to decide the Super Bowl. On Sunday, the league might have made enough errors to determine both teams that will play in the championship game in two weeks. The most egregious gaffe came in the NFC title game in New Orleans. The Saints were in position to put away the Rams when Tommylee Lewis blatantly was interfered with inside the Los Angeles 5-yard line by cornerback Nickell Robey-Coleman. Not only did Robey-Coleman hit Lewis early, he did so helmet to helmet. Next weekend, we'll hear about Robey-Coleman being fined for the collision -- even though, incredibly, no flag was thrown. "Came to the sideline, looked at the football gods and was like, 'Thank you,"' Robey-Coleman said. "I got away with one tonight." Such a big one that it kept the Rams alive. Instead of a first down and the chance to run down the clock before making a field goal, or score a touchdown for a bigger lead, the Saints wound up with Wil Lutz's 31-yard kick. That made it 23-20 with 1:41 left in regulation, plenty of time for the Rams to march to Greg Zuerlein's tying 48-yard field goal. "Greg The Leg" won it with a 57-yarder in OT. His heroics almost certainly never would have happened had the call on Robey-Coleman been made. And the fact the defender led with his head into Lewis' helmet at a time when the NFL is adamant that it's doing everything to get such hits out of the sport should be even more maddening. "They felt like the players -- the player -- arrived at the same time that the ball did," Saints coach Sean Payton said, trying to be diplomatic when he had every right to rant and rave. "They didn't feel like it was an interference call. "Look, it's a tough way to lose a game, especially when you're in a position like that to win it. It's all the more reason why we need more replay. We lose a chance to go to the Super Bowl with a call like that, it's just disappointing. But, credit the Rams. They did a good job, made the plays in the end when they needed to." Plays that wouldn't have existed if Bill Vinovich's crew got it right. An argument often is made, and rightly so, that plays seen in slow motion become clearly illegal, but at full speed in an increasingly fast and physical game, they look OK. That contention has no place here; even at warp speed, Robey-Coleman's hit was obviously a penalty. NFL senior vice-president of officiating Al Riveron "couldn't believe" no penalty call was called on the play, Payton said. "It's tough to get over it," Payton said. It happened though." A few things happened in Kansas City, too, where the Patriots won 37-31, also in overtime. These had more to do with replay, with two critical calls going New England's way in the fourth quarter. The first, which required a lengthy video review, involved Julian Edelman muffing a punt. The original call was that the bouncing ball touched him. Replays, even in stop motion, seemed inconclusive, which means the call should stand. But Riveron and his staff in New York saw enough evidence that Edelman never made contact with the football. Even Kansas City's laid-back coach, Andy Reid, became highly demonstrative with the overturned decision. The Chiefs, perhaps in a dose of poetic justice, soon after intercepted a pass that went off Edelman's hands. But later in the quarter, Chris Hogan attempted a one-handed catch on third down. Reid challenged, and replay indicated far more evidence the ground helped Hogan make the catch than the previous review showed Edelman whiffed on the ball. No matter. The catch was upheld, and six plays later, Sony Michel scored a touchdown. Chiefs linebacker Dee Ford also went offside on the Patriots' final drive in regulation, negating an interception by Charvarius Ward that could have clinched a win. But there was little controversy there. The league has been under heavy scrutiny and drawn massive criticism about its officiating in the last few years. The perception is that the NFL needs full-time officials, which might help somewhat, and in part is being done. However, the deeper issues are too many rules and tangents to those rules; points of emphasis that get hammered in, then seemingly are discarded; and officials who struggle to keep up with the speed of the sport. The league prizes experience, but when one of its most experienced crews blows a call so blatant that even the perpetrator acknowledges he caught a break, the storm of protest will rage. Rightly so. | https://www.ctvnews.ca/sports/did-bad-calls-determine-this-year-s-super-bowl-teams-1.4262201 |
How best to protect Lancashire's hen harriers? | A bird of prey which is emblematic of the Forest of Bowland could benefit from the area being given a special status, a group of rights of way experts has been told. A bird of prey which is emblematic of the Forest of Bowland could benefit from the area being given a special status, a group of rights of way experts has been told. The Lancashire beauty spot was a haven for hen harriers until just over a decade ago and was home to 38 out of the 45 harrier chicks born in England as recently as 2007. But those numbers later collapsed, eventually falling to zero - and have shown no significant sign of recovery. Natural Englands lead ornithologist, Steve Murphy, told the Lancashire Local Access Forum that Bowland should be designated as a wintering Special Protection Area (SPA). The site is already classed as an SPA during the breeding season over spring and early summer. It would increase protection [for the hen harrier] - and the evidence is there for all to see, Mr. Murphy said. There are 13 hen harriers on Salisbury Plain and they are cock-a-hoop with it [as a protected area in winter]. Weve got 30 birds around here...so why isnt Bowland a wintering SPA? he asked. SPAs are designed to protect wildlife and their habitats. But forum member and Lancashire county councillor Cosima Towneley warned about the implications of the status. It must not affect access [to an area] which makes a livelihood for some people. This is not a panacea to save one species - and its often best when humans dont interfere, County Cllr Towneley said. Steve Murphy agreed that hen harriers value areas which are not subject to intensive management, but added that wintering SPA status would not result in a massive influx of people. The forum also heard that a controversial trial which sees hen harrier chicks temporarily removed from Bowland during the height of the grouse shooting season has engendered trust with local gamekeepers. Harriers are natural predators for grouse and are vulnerable to persecution, but their relocation has angered some conservation groups. People thought that the birds were being permanently sent down south, Mr. Murphy said. But estates can apply to have chicks taken away to a creche - even if just for a month - and then they are released back in the same area. Weve tried other ways for 15 years and there was no active resurgence of the hen harrier population. This [move] has given gamekeepers a safety net and they respect that, he added. The meeting was also told that satellite tracking had given a much more accurate picture of the winter activity of hen harriers than previous radio controlled monitoring. While females which had nested in Bowland largely stayed in Pennine areas, males were found to travel as far a afield as Spain and Denmark. | https://www.lythamstannesexpress.co.uk/news/environment/how-best-to-protect-lancashire-s-hen-harriers-1-9549760 |
Who are the world's richest people? | Just 26 billionaires now own as much wealth as the poorest 3.8billion people half the world's population combined, according to Oxfam. A new report by the charity says the 26 richest men and women in the world control a combined 1.1trillion equal to everything owned by the bottom 50 per cent of all people. But Oxfam was criticised for alleged flaws in its report and for pushing a hard-Left agenda that goes beyond its remit as a fundraising body. The charity counts anyone whose debt is greater than their assets as poorer than someone who is debt-free. For example, a Harvard law graduate with 100,000 of student debt who has just landed a job with a massive salary would be judged poorer than an Ethiopian farmer who is debt free. Matthew Lesh, of the free market Adam Smith Institute, described the report as 'complete hogwash'. But an Oxfam spokesman said: 'The way our economies are organised, wealth is increasingly and unfairly concentrated among a privileged few while millions of people are barely subsisting.' Here, MailOnline looks at the 26 wealthiest men and women in the world, according to the Forbes rich list - and starting with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos: This graphic shows the top 26 in the Forbes rich list - with their wealth given in GBP () Jeff Bezos, pictured with his wife MacKenzie Bezos, from whom he is now separating 1) JEFF BEZOS Age: 55 Wealth: 86.8billion Lives: Seattle, Washington Known for: Amazon founder Family: Separated from wife MacKenzie Bezos; four children Education: Bachelor of Arts/Science, Princeton University * * * Jeff Bezos owns 16 per cent of Amazon, which is now the world's biggest internet company by revenue. As the world's richest man, Oxfam said he could fund the health budget of Ethiopia with just 1 per cent of his estimated 87billion fortune. Mr Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, one year after marrying his novelist wife MacKenzie Bezos. They met while working at hedge fund DE Shaw in New York and the couple later moved to Seattle, where Mr Bezos started his business in his garage. However he now faces the most expensive divorce in history after revealing earlier this month that he would be separating from Mrs Bezos after 25 years of marriage. 2) BILL GATES Bill and Melinda Gates run a foundation which invests in health and poverty projects Age: 63 Wealth: 69.8billion Lives: Medina, Washington Known for: Microsoft co-founder Family: Married to Melinda Gates, three children Education: Harvard University (dropped out) * * * Bill Gates founded software firm Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1976, but now owns just 1 per cent of its shares. However he remains a board member and has donated 28billion worth of Microsoft stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest private charitable foundation - which he chairs with his wife. It invests in health and poverty projects - and among its current interests are working with Rotary International to eliminate polio. Speaking about his wealth in 2011, he said: 'I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars, there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that. But once you get much beyond that, I have to tell you, it's the same hamburger.' Warren Buffett and his wife Astrid Menks 3) WARREN BUFFETT Age : 88 Wealth : 65.1billion Lives: Omaha, Nebraska Known for: Berkshire Hathaway holding company Family: Married to Astrid Menks, three children Education: University of Nebraska Lincoln and Columbia University * * * Warren Buffett made his money through hugely successful investments which led him to be known as the 'Oracle of Omaha'. He runs Berkshire Hathaway, which owns more than 60 firms including insurer Geico and battery maker Duracell. Mr Buffett has promised to give away more than 99 per cent of his fortune - and has so far donated 27billion. Bernard Arnault with his wife Hlne Mercier 4) BERNARD ARNAULT Age: 69 Wealth : 55.8billion Lives: Paris, France Known for: LVMH Family: Married to Hlne Mercier, five children Education: Ecole Polytechnique de Paris * * * Bernard Arnault is head of LVMH, the world's largest luxury-goods company, which includes Louis Vuitton, Dior, Mot & Chandon champagne and Hennessy cognac. He oversees 70 brands and is the richest person in fashion - and in France. Mr Arnault is married to Helene Mercier, a concert pianist whom he is said to have wooed by playing Chopin and other classical composers. Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan 5) MARK ZUCKERBERG Age: 34 Wealth : 55billion Lives: Palo Alton, California Known for: Facebook Family: Married to Priscilla Chan, two children Education: Harvard University (drop out) * * * Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook with his college friends while at Harvard University in 2004, and is still the the social media giant's chief executive. It was founded when he was just 19 as a network for students to match names with faces in class. Facebook had its initial public offering in 2012, in what was the most hotly anticipated share sale since Google's in 2004. Similar to Warren Buffett, Mr Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have pledged to give away 99 per cent of their Facebook stake over their lifetimes. Amancio Ortega Gaona, who is the founding shareholder of the Inditex fashion group 6) AMANCIO ORTEGA Age: 82 Wealth: 54.3billion Lives: La Coruna, Spain Known for: Zara Family: Married to Flora Prez Marcote. three children Education: Left school aged 14 * * * The 82-year-old Spanish business tycoon is founder of the Inditex fashion group, which includes high street favorite Zara. His company also has brands including Massimo Dutti and Pull & Bear, with about 7,500 stores around the world. Mr Ortega, who is the world's wealthiest retailer, has also invested heavily in real estate in London, Madrid and New York. Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helu controls Latin America's biggest mobile telecom firm 7) CARLOS SLIM HELU Age: 78 Wealth: 52billion Lives: Mexico City, Mexico Known for: America Movil Family: Widowed from Soumaya Domit, six children Education: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico * * * The Mexican business magnate was the world's richest person from 2010 to 2015. He has made his fortune from buying into Mexican companies, and accounts for 40 per cent of the listings on the Mexican Stock Exchange. He and his family control America Movil, Latin America's biggest mobile telecom firm. He has a museum in Mexico City dedicated to his huge art collection which was designed by his son-in-law. Koch brothers Charles (left) and David (right) 8 & 9) CHARLES AND DAVID KOCH Ages: Charles, 82; David, 78 Wealth: 46.5billion each Lives: Charles - New York; David - Wichita, Kansas Known for: Koch Industries Family: Charles - married to Liz Koch, two children; David - married to Julia Flesher, three children Education: Both at Massachusetts Institute of Technology * * * Brothers David and Charles Koch share majority control of Koch Industries, the second-largest privately held firm in the US. The company, which operates pipelines and makes toilet paper among other interests, has revenues of 78billion. Charles has funded various think tanks, while David is a well-known philanthropist. California-based tycoon Larry Ellison co-founded software company Oracle in 1977 10) LARRY ELLISON Age: 74 Wealth: 45.3billion Lives: Woodside, California Known for: Oracle software Family: Divorced from Melanie Craft, two children Education: University of Chicago (drop out) * * * The 74-year-old American co-founded software company Oracle in 1977, before giving up his chief executive role in 2014. However he is still board chairman as well as being the owner of the sixth largest Hawaiian island, Lanai, and his own racing yacht team. Among his philanthropic acts was a 155million donation pledge to a cancer treatment centre in California in 2016. Michael Bloomberg and partner Diana Taylor 11) MICHAEL BLOOMBERG Age: 76 Wealth: 38.8billion Lives: New York Known for: Bloomberg LP Family: In a relationship with Diana Taylor, two children Education: Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Business School * * * Michael Bloomberg co-founded media company Bloomberg LP in 1981, and still has an 88 per cent stake. He spent three terms as New York City mayor between 2002 and 2013, before becoming a major philanthropist. Mr Bloomberg, who owns six homes including one in London, attended the Conservative party conference in Blackpool in 2007. Larry Page, the co-founder of Google 12) LARRY PAGE Age: 45 Wealth: 37.8billion Lives: Palo Alto, California Known for: Google Family: Married to Lucinda Southworth, two children Education: University of Michigan and Stanford University * * * Larry Page co-founded search engine Google in 1998 with Sergey Brin, who was a fellow PhD student at Stanford University in California. They invited Google's PageRank algorithm together - and Mr Page is now chief of its parents company Alphabet. He is known to be a keen backer of green energey, with his homes using fuel cells and geothermal energy. Sergey Brin and his ex-wife Anne Wojcicki 13) SERGEY BRIN Age: 45 Wealth: 36.8billion Lives: Los Altos, California Known for: Google Family: Divorced from Anne Wojcicki, two children Education: Stanford University and University of Maryland * * * Sergey Brin is president of Google's parent firm Alphabet, and was previously behind the Google X division, which built the unsuccesful Google glasses. He co-founded Google in 1998 with Larry Page, whome he met while studing computer science at university. Moscow-born Mr Brin is the richest immigrant in America. 14, 15 & 16) JIM, ROB & ALICE WALTON (From left) Rob, Alice and Jim Walton appear at a Walmart shareholders meeting last June Ages: Jim, 70; Rob, 74; Alice, 69 Wealth: 36billion each Lives: Jim and Rob - Bentonville, Arkansas; Alice - Fort Worth, Texas Known for: Walmart Family: Jim - married to Lynne McNabb, four children; Rob - married to Melani Lowman-Walton, three children; Alice - divorced, no children Education: Jim and Rob - University of Arkansas; Alice - Trinity University * * * The Walmart heirs have a combined wealth of more than 100billion, thanks to the success of the world's largest retailer by revenue. Sam Walton founded Walmart in 1962 - and two of his children, Rob and James, have been involved in running it. His third, Alice, has not taken an active role and instead has worked in the arts. His fourth child John died in 2005 aged 58. Ma Huateng - also known as Pony Ma, chairs Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings 17) MA HUATENG Age: 47 Wealth: 35.1billion Lives: Shenzhen, China Known for : Tencent Holdings Family: Married to Wang Danting Education: Shenzhen University * * * Ma Huateng - also known as Pony Ma, who chairs Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings, is known for his secretive and low-key lifestyle. His company's social messaging app WeChat has more than one billion users. Tencent is also one of the world's largest video game publishers, and is behind the likes of Call of Duty and Dungeon Fighter Online. Franoise Bettencourt-Meyers (right) inherited the L'Oreal fortune after the death of her mother Liliane (left) aged 97 in 2017 18) FRANCOISE BETTENCOURT MEYERS Age: 65 Wealth: 32.7billion Lives: Paris, France Known for: L'Oreal Family: Married to Jean-Victor Meyers, two children * * * Franoise Bettencourt-Meyers inherited the L'Oreal fortune after the death of her mother Liliane Bettencourt aged 97 in 2017. This has led her to vie with Walmart heiress Alice Walton for the title of the world's richest woman. The Bettencourt family founded L'Oreal and has a 33 per cent stake in the firm. She owns properties including a villa in Neuilly-sur-Seine and secluded island in the Seychelles. Mukesh Ambani chairs and runs the Indian oil and gas giant Reliance Industries 19) MUKESH AMBANI Age: 61 Wealth: 31.1billion Lives: Mumbai, India Known for: Reliance Industries Family: Married to Nita Ambani, three children Education: University of Bombay * * * Mukesh Ambani, who chairs and runs the oil and gas giant Reliance Industries, a company founded in India by his late father Dhirubhai in 1966 as a small textile manufacturer. The firm launched 4G phone service Jio in 2016, sparking a price war through it offering very cheap data services and smartphones. Last month Mr Ambani gave away his daughter Isha to billionaire industrialist Ajay Piramal's son Anand in a wedding estimated to have cost nearly 80billion. Jack Ma, co-founder of the Alibaba Group 20) JACK MA Age: 54 Wealth: 30.2billion Lives: Hangzhou, China Known for: Alibaba Group Family: Married to Zhang Ying, three children Education: Hangzhou Teacher's Institute * * * Jack Ma is the co-founder and chair of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, although he is set to step down as chairman this September. Five years ago in New York, the group had the world's biggest public stock offering on record, raising 20billion. The former English teacher, who also has a stake in entertainment firm Huayi Brothers, owns a vineyard in France and is known to be a martial arts fan. Sheldon Adelson, the chief executive and chairman of casino firm Las Vegas Sands 21) SHELDON ADELSON Age: 85 Wealth: 29.8billion Lives: Las Vegas, Nevada Known for: Las Vegas Sands Family: Married to Miriam Ochsorn, five children Education: City College of New York (drop out) * * * Sheldon Adelson, the chief executive and chairman of casino firm Las Vegas Sands, is the son of immigrants from Lithuania and Wales. He first got into the casino industry in 1988 and made his first fortune in 1995 when selling a computer trade show for 670million. One of his first ventures was selling newspapers on a street corner in Boston aged 12, after buying the rights for $200 thanks to a loan from his uncle. Steve Ballmer is the former chief of Microsoft 22) STEVE BALLMER Age: 62 Wealth: 29.8billion Lives: Hunts Point, Washington Known for: Microsoft Family: Married to Connie Snyder, three children Education: Harvard University * * * Steve Ballmer was chief executive of Microsoft between 2000 and 2014, through a time that saw Google advance in search engines and Apple in mobile phones. When Mr Ballmer who was in the same class as Bill Gates at Harvard - retired he bought the NBA basketball team Los Angeles Clippers for more than 1.5billion. Charasmatic businessman Li Ka-shing is the former chairman of CK Hutchison Holdings 23) LI KA-SHING Age: 90 Wealth: 27.1million Lives: Hong Kong Known for: CK Hutchison Holdings Family: Widowed from Chong Yuet Ming, two children Education: Left school aged 15 * * * Li Ka-shing started Cheung Kong plastics aged 21 with 5,000 in savings and loans from family members and turned into one of Asia's top businessman. Dubbed 'Superman', he said it took him five minutes to decide to invest in Facebook in 2007 despite its lack of revenue. He retired as chairman of CK Hutchison Holdings last May but is still an advisor. Property tycoon Hui Ka Yan is a football fan =24) HUI KA YAN Age: 60 Wealth: 23.5billion Lives: Shenzhen, China Known for: Evergrande Group Family: Yang Huiying, two children Education: Wuhan University of Science and Technology * * * Property tycoon Hui Ka Yan, also known as Xu Jiayin, is the founder of developer Evergrande Group, based in the southern city of Guangzhou. The former steel technician is known as an avid supporter of Chinese football and has invested in the sport domestically. Lee Shau-Kee, who is a father of five, co-founded property developer Sun Hung Kai =24) LEE SHAU-KEE Age: 90 Wealth: 23.5billion Lives: Hong Kong Known for: Henderson Land Development Family: Divorced, five children Education: Wuhan University of Science and Technology * * * Lee Shau-Kee, who is a father of five, co-founded property developer Sun Hung Kai - before starting Henderson Land Development in 1976. He grew up in a poor family but has donated more than 300million of his wealth towards education. Wang Jianlin, Dalian Wanda Group chairman 26) WANG JIANLIN Age: 64 Wealth: 23.5billion Lives: Beijing, China Known for: Dalian Wanda Group Family: Married to Lin Ning, one child Education: Liaoning University * * * Wang Jianlin is chairman of commericial real estate developer Dalian Wanda Group, which has hundreds of plazas in China. The tycoon, who served in the Chinese military from 1970 to 1986, also owns US cinema chain AMC and film studio Legendary Entertainment through his group. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6615359/Who-worlds-richest-people.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 |
When Does Grace and Frankie Season 6 Hit Netflix? | You can never spend too much time with your loved ones, especially if those loved ones are named Grace and Frankie. And after five seasons on Netflix, thats truly what these characters feel like now! Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin are the great aunts we never knew we needed but are so glad we found. The same goes for the rest of the cast, from Robert and Sol to Mallory, Bud, and Coyoteheck, even to fierce ice queen Brianna. We love spending time with all of them, and Season 5 gives us that opportunity. You have so many questionsand we have answers. But first, lets refresh ourselves on what happened at the end of Season 5. You bet! Yes! Season 5 sees Grace and Frankie grow closer than ever before after their shared struggle to break out of an assisted living facility and re-establish their independence. Frankie fought a crosswalk and won, and Grace finally found love with a younger-ish man. But things started to fall apart at the end of the season, after one of Frankies wild whims put their sex toy business Vybrant out on a shaky limb. Grace and Frankie had a major falling out, with the two of them storming off in opposite directionspossibly for good! And its right then that we got to see a truly wild alternate reality episode wherein Grace and Frankie never connected after their husbands left them. The Season 5 finale is set in this horrible daydream, one where Frankie is a dependent layabout with horrible hair, and Grace has a new husband and a new face. These two realized that they need each other to keep the other one in check. Without that push and pull, theyll spin off into super destructive directions! The season ends with Grace and Frankie making upbut theres just one major, major catch. It turns out that Grace quickie married her boyfriend Nick (Peter Gallagher) during her half-a-day spent estranged from Frankie. Season 5 ends with Grace and Frankie reunited but under totally different circumstances. Theyre still BFFs, but now theres another important person in Graces life. Is this era of Grace and Frankie truly over?! The final shot of the season is of the two of them on the beach, pondering these exact things. Yes, it is! Netflix has already announced that Season 6 is comingand they even announced it before Season 5 dropped. This never happens with Netflix! Netflix usually likes to keep you guessing! We dont know for sure. The Season 6 announcement just said 2020. However, knowing that Season 4 and Season 5 were released at basically the exact same time, we can make a guess that Season 6 will arrive in January 2020. Thats our guess since Netflix has made January G&Fs month. We will update this article with information about Grace and Frankie Season 6 as Netflix announces it. Stream Grace and Frankie Season 5 on Netflix | https://decider.com/2019/01/21/grace-and-frankie-season-6/ |
Is Remote Work the Answer to Brexit? | U.K. businesses need access to the best talent to grow, enter new markets and sustain their competitive advantage. January 21, 2019 5 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Being the CEO of a U.K.-based recruitment platform, I constantly hear the question "What is the impact of Brexit on the recruiting industry?" It is not surprising that both recruiters and businesses are worried about the potential shortage of talent post-Brexit. CIPD and The Adecco Group recently surveyed 2001 employers. The quarterly Labour Market Outlook sheds some light on the Brexit Effect on the recruiting industry. The number of applicants coming from E.U. countries has decreased, resulting in lower quality and higher pay rate expectations of the new starters. Key staff and highly skilled workers are likely to receive a pay rise above the 2 percent average set for the wider workforce. E.U. headquarters Some businesses, predominantly in the financial services industry, have already opted for E.U. headquarters in an attempt to address both the changing regulatory requirements and the talent shortage. However, this decision comes at a cost that not all businesses can afford, neither it is the right decision in all cases. There is no guarantee that talent will be in abundance. Actually, the opposite is more likely as most companies are considering moving to the same cities in the E.U. Moving Transformify outside of the UK has never been on my to do list as the cost will substantially exceed the potential benefits. Remote teams Since the very beginning, we relied on a remote team of freelancers working around the world. Taping into the global talent pool has many advantages, especially when entering new markets, as the team is not only highly skilled but also familiar with the local culture. Each job listing receives 200+ highly-skilled applicants on average as the search is not limited to a particular location. Add to this the much lower office costs as everyone works from the closest WeWork, one of our global partners. There is a growing number of remote companies worldwide including Automatic, HotJar, Zapier, TimeDoctor, etc. However, managing a fully remote team is not a good fit for every business model. Production companies, research & development centers, etc. need at least some of their staff working on the same premises. Distributed teams A hybrid between a remote team and a traditional in-office team, distributed teams are a viable option that fits most business models and industries. Having a distributed team in the U.K. means that a London-based business may hire skilled workers in Birmingham and have them work as a team in a coworking office. The distributed team is on-shore, there is a dedicated team manager reporting to the HQ in London, but the office costs are lower and the company has access to a completely different talent pool. The high-unemployment rate areas in the U.K. are often neglected but having a distributed team there is good for the business and the U.K. economy. Since we introduced the Market Entry Pack, it quickly became the most popular service of Transformify. After all, it is a win-win -- the businesses make an informed decision about the best location based on information about the skills and desired pay rates of the job seekers living in that area and consolidate a team in a coworking office, thus optimizing the costs. Instead of moving to London or another big city, the job seekers enjoy career growth opportunities, a better work-life balance and bigger purchasing power where they are. Of course, a distributed team can be consolidated abroad as well. Sometimes, there is a concentration of highly-skilled workers living in university cities, close to abandoned production plants, etc. Post-Brexit, it will not be easy to relocate candidates in the U.K. The process is time-consuming, substantial cost is involved, and it may happen that the candidate is not the best fit or decides to leave after a couple of months. Spending a few months sourcing and relocating talent impacts productivity as the business is understaffed and the situation becomes worse if the candidate decides to leave during the trial period. As many of Transformifys clients have already been through the cycle of sourcing and replacing talent, it was obvious that the option to test a candidate on the job prior to engaging with work permit and relocation is much needed. Test-and-hire allows you to source highly-skilled candidates regardless of their location and initially hire them via an umbrella company. The candidates are entitled to all employee benefits and work out of the local office of the umbrella company during the trial period. This allows to test the candidates on the job, let them interact with the team, etc. After the trial period, the employer has an option to either engage with work permit and relocation or to hire someone else who is likely to be a better fit. There are a number of umbrella companies having subsidiaries worldwide that can help U.K. businesses to test-and-hire non-U.K. residents, including Generate, Contractor Taxation, ShieldGeo, etc. U.K. businesses need access to the best talent to grow, enter new markets and sustain their competitive advantage. With all the uncertainty surrounding Brexit, remote work may not be the first solution that comes to mind. However, it is a viable option allowing to source, test, hire and relocate talent while optimizing the costs and mitigating the risks for the U.K.-based businesses. | https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/325703 |
Is David Camerons new haircut an apology for his breezy Brexit gamble? | The former prime ministers punt on the EU referendum didnt work out as hed planned. Name: David Camerons haircut. Age: About a month. Appearance: Short, neat, chastened. Yes. People are desperate for him to say sorry with something, and last week he was pictured jogging, with hair much shorter than he has had before, cropped close on the back and the sides. No, perhaps not quite that severe. Apparently, Cameron got a short back and sides while on holiday in Costa Rica, then had it tidied up by his usual hairdresser back in London. A celebrity stylist called Lino Carbosiero. You may remember that he sensationally changed the position of Camerons parting back in 2010. Ah, yes. That was such sweet sorrow. Carbosiero has also cut the hair of Madonna, Kylie Minogue and Paul McCartney. A basic cut from him at the Daniel Galvin salon in Marylebone costs 50. Yes. A referendum that he said would settle the European question has made it much more divisive and damaging because the question was so vague that its impossible to agree what implementing the decision means. Not even leavers think theyre getting what they want. It was kind of irresponsible, in retrospect. Oh, it was just a breezy gamble that he assumed would work out OK. Things generally do work out OK when youre a millionaire who is married to an aristocrat. He doesnt put much thought into it, Carbosiero told the Times. OK. Thats right. Perhaps he could get even sorrier, now I think about it. No. He says he doesnt regret calling the referendum because he promised that he would then conveniently says nothing about whether he regrets making the promise. No. He regrets the way things have gone, but adds: I dont think its going to be helped by me giving a running commentary. Pity. Luckily, Carbosiero will do the commentating for us. Hairdressers could have done a better job, says Carbosiero. Do say: Come back when its a hair shirt. Dont say: Lets spend the 350m we send to Brussels every week on locking Cameron in the stocks. | https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/shortcuts/2019/jan/21/is-david-camerons-new-haircut-an-apology-for-his-breezy-brexit-gamble |
Was kann die Hanf-Dit? | Zutaten fr 4 Portionen: Fr den Teig: 200 g Dinkelvollkornmehl, 50 g Hanfmehl, 30 g Olivenl, 120 g Wasser, TL Salz, 1 EL getr. Rosmarin. Fr den Guss: 400 g Zwiebel, 150 g Sauerrahm, 1 Ei, 1 Prise Muskat, 1 EL Kruter der Provence, Salz und Pfeffer, optional: 50 g Bio-Schinken in Wrfeln Zubereitung: 1. Fr den Teig alle Zutaten in der Kchenmaschine verkneten, Kugel formen, in Frischhaltefolie wickeln und im Khlschrank mind. 30 min rasten lassen. 2. Fr den Guss Zwiebel fein hacken, mit Sauerrahm, verquirltem Ei und Gewrzen verrhren und abschmecken. 3. Backofen auf 230 Grad vorheizen. 4. Teig dnn ausrollen und auf das Backblech legen. Die Rnder leicht einrollen. Zwiebelguss gleichmig auf dem Teig verteilen und ca. 2025 Minuten knusprig backen. | https://www.gesund24.at/diaet/Was-kann-die-Hanf-Diaet/364771861 |
How will NFL officiating be changed after it overshadowed Championship Sunday? | It's no secret that controversial officiating played a big role on Championship Sunday around the NFL. Sure. Sure. But refereeing was still perhaps the most discussed issue of Sunday's conference title spread, and deservedly so, according to Danny Kanell and Casey Keirnan, Monday's guest host on the "Off The Bench" podcast. Not only do Kanell and Keirnan run through all of the controversial calls from the AFC and NFC championships on this week's first episode, but they discuss how officiating overshadowed the run-up to Super Bowl LIII. Then, with their sights set on the future, they break down how the Saints will be affected by their particularly influential -- and debatable -- penalties and no-calls moving forward, as well as how the NFL might consider tweaking officiating after this latest round of blunders. Listen and Subscribe to Off The Bench with Kanell & Bell: iTunes | Stitcher | TuneIn | https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/how-will-nfl-officiating-be-changed-after-it-overshadowed-championship-sunday/ |
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Is There Mail Delivery On MLK Day? | Monday January 21 marks the celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. All across the country, schools and businesses alike are closed to acknowledge the late civil rights activists amazing life and legacy, and the lasting impact he made on America. As reported by Time Money, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was made into a federal holiday way back in 1986. Since then, Americans have taken the third Monday of every January to celebrate King and how he changed the world. As it is a federal holiday, that means all non-essential federal employees have a day off on Monday. Generally speaking, government offices are also closed during this time. Probably not; MLK Day is also a postal holiday, meaning all the post offices are closed until Tuesday. As such, the US Postal Service will not be delivering any mail or packages today. Regular service is expected to resume on Tuesday, after the holiday has ended. But that doesnt mean deliveries arent being made at all in fact, many delivery companies are treating Monday as business as usual, despite the federal holiday. UPS and Fed Ex are both working today, and will be delivering packages regardless of the holidays impact on standard mail. Theyre also offering most of their regular services today, so if you have to make a delivery that just cant wait until tomorrow, they might be able to help you out. The Social Customer Response Center will be closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day Monday, January 21. Normal business hours will resume Tuesday, January 22. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Dr. Martin Luther King pic.twitter.com/3tvw0Je7o1 USPS Help (@USPSHelp) January 19, 2019 Although the mail situation is pretty standard for a federal holiday, this particular MLK Day is a little different due to one big factor: The ongoing government shutdown. With hundreds of thousands of federal employees furloughed during the shutdown, there are quite a few spots that are closed today that would otherwise be open to the public. Many historical spots are museums that honor Martin Luther King, Jr. are federally funded meaning theyve been impacted as a result of the government shutdown. Tourists attempting to visit and honor the fallen civil rights leader should check beforehand to see if the spots are open, or if theyve been closed until the shutdown is resolved. Both the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park and the Tuskegee Airman National Historic Site have been closed for the duration of the shutdown, and will stay closed even on MLK Day. It has now been over a month since the shutdown began. | https://www.inquisitr.com/5259759/is-there-mail-delivery-on-mlk-day/ |
Were parents forced to rent textbooks at a CT school? | It is understood parents were told they would have to pay R1,000 to rent textbooks for the year. CAPE TOWN - The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) is looking into allegations parents have been forced to pay to rent textbooks at the Northpine Technical High School. It is understood parents were told they would have to pay R1,000 to rent textbooks for the year. The department's Bronagh Hammond says no learner can be denied textbooks and has indicated officials will meet with the school to discuss the matter. In the case of Northpine, the school requested learners to pay a deposit which would be returned at the end of the year when the books are returned. Parents who could not afford to pay the deposit were instructed to inform the school and indicate that they could not do so and those learners were issued textbooks. The WCED will be meeting with the school, however, to discuss that. (Edited by Mihlali Ntsabo) | https://ewn.co.za/2019/01/21/were-parents-forced-to-rent-textbook-at-a-ct-school |
Why are Leicester City such slow starters? | Get Weekday Leicester City FC updates directly to your inbox Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email Leicester Citys slow starts to games appear to be as baffling to manager Claude Puel as it is to frustrated City fans. When City conceded the first goal at Molineux against Wolverhampton Wanderers it was the 15th time in their 23 Premier League games in which they had gone behind first. In fact, City have the worst record in the first 15 minutes in the Premier League and are now 18th in the first half table. It has been a consistent problem and Puel has not been able to put his finger on why his side are so slow out of the blocks. There have been reports of the training sessions being too long and tedious the day before matches being an issue, but whatever the reason for the slow starts Puel has vowed to get to the bottom of the problem as it is crippling his sides campaign. Puel said they would review every aspect of their preparation, including the warm-up, to identify where the problem lies. I think we have to take the difficulty aspect, for example our start to the game, he said. We are the first team to concede goals in the first 15 minutes, it is not possible to accept this. After we recovered. We had the offensive possibility to play good football and to put the opponent under pressure, but often it is the opponent scoring first. We know it is a big aspect we have to correct, because after it is a shame. We will keep going all the time to find a good aggressiveness and we can repeat things in training, simulate the kick-off and we can have words and different sentences, but after it is the situation of the day of the game with the spirit, with the warm-up and all the right details, and to start with the right intensity, to play forward, the first press, the first battle. It is the same feeling to try to start and give the right direction in the first ball, the first impact. We have to manage this situation better in the future. We have done different things from the kick off, but after the kick off it is just two minutes after the kick-off that we conceded. All the time it is different situations. We try different things and different feeling and different management and situation in training or before the game, of course we will find different things. | https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/leicester-city-slow-starters-2453162 |
What Are Omega-3s? | Each day we are bombarded with heaping helpings of health headlines - the latest, must-know, must-do health advice. Sometimes the tips seem obvious; but often, its quite difficult to understand what will produce health benefits - especially when headlines and social media can make legitimate advice seem irrelevant in a moment. Over the years, weve seen more conflicting advice around omega-3 fatty acids such as eicosapentaenoic (EPA) and docosahexaenoic (DHA). Thousands of published scientific studies have shown the benefits, and we know that the human body needs them to function but cant create them on its own. Among their numerous benefits, EPA and DHA have been associated with overall heart health and improving eye, brain and joint performance. Yet most are confused Unlike many other important measures of health, most people have no awareness of their omega-3 levels. Omega-3s are found in fatty fish such as salmon, sardines and mackerel. But the reality is, many people have difficulty achieving optimal levels with diet alone. And according to one recent study, even among people who believed they were eating a balanced diet, 98 percent had levels of omega-3s that were below the optimal level. I had heard fish oil was critical to a balanced diet, said Schnelle Nellie Acevedo, a fitness blogger and mom of three. As an avid runner and working mom, making smart choices about my health is really important to me. As I learned more about omega-3s and their health benefits, I started worrying that I could be omega-3 deficient and wondering what kind of toll that could be taking on my health. What we can do Today, there are resources available to help us get an answer on where our levels stand - the Omega-3 Index test is a simple blood test that unveils what percentage of red blood cells contain EPA and DHA. Theres also a brief quiz online that provides a general guide for individual omega-3 scores. The five-question quiz at www.knowyouromega3s.com was launched by MegaRed, an omega-3 supplement brand dedicated to helping support overall health. By answering the simple questions, you can determine if your levels might be low, and learn helpful tips and actions to ensure you are getting enough omega-3s. When it comes to health, knowledge is just the first step Every health journey is unique, so regardless of the latest trend, its key to act to determine where you stand and the changes that work for you. Like understanding your cholesterol or blood pressure levels, knowing your omega-3 levels is an important marker of health. Its tough to be sure of your health and fitness choices, but I got an answer when it comes to omega-3s. Last year, I sent in a test to check my omega-3 levels. When I got my results, my numbers were not nearly where I want to be. I needed to supplement my diet to get my numbers up! said Acevedo. Its important for you to know whether or not you are getting enough omega-3s, and what you can do to fix it! (BPT) | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/brandpublishing/a-better-you/os-what-are-omega-3s-20190116-story.html |
How has defeat of Leeds United and appointment of Nathan Jones affected Stoke City promotion odds? | The video will start in 8 Cancel Get Weekday Stoke City FC updates directly to your inbox Subscribe Thank you for subscribing See our privacy notice Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email Stoke City still have a lot to do to convince bookies they are the real deal under new boss Nathan Jones. His debut win as manager came at the bet365 Stadium on Saturday when Sky Bet Championship leaders and title favourites Leeds United were beaten 2-1. But that notable victory followed defeats at Brentford in the league and against Shrewsbury in the FA Cup, leaving the Potters ranked at no more than 11th in the race for the top-six and possible promotion to the Premier League via the play-offs. That defeat for Leeds - their third in four games - saw Norwich close the gap at the top of the Championship to one point following their 3-1 Friday night success over Birmingham City. Meanwhile, third-placed Sheffield United went down 1-0 at Swansea City in the teatime Saturday match. Bristol City are the big movers in the odds as they come in from 14/1 to 9/1 for promotion after Lee Johnson's side made it five straight wins with a 1-0 victory at Nottingham Forest. Here are the latest Championship odds from SkyBet... PROMOTION Leeds United - 1/3 Norwich City - 2/3 Sheffield United 1/1 West Brom - 3/2 Middlesbrough - 10/3 Derby County - 7/2 Bristol City - 9/1 Aston Villa - 10/1 Hull City - 20/1 Birmingham City - 22/1 STOKE CITY - 20/1 Nottingham Forest - 25/1 Swansea - 22/1 QPR - 28/1 Birmingham City - 28/1 TITLE WINNERS Leeds United - 5/4 Norwich City - 3/1 Sheffield United 8/1 West Brom - 8/1 Middlesbrough - 25/1 Derby County - 33/1 Aston Villa - 150/1 Bristol City - 150/1 Nottingham Forest - 250/1 Birmingham City - 250/1 Swansea City - 300/1 STOKE CITY 500/1 TOP SIX Leeds United - 1/50 Norwich City - 1/20 Sheffield United - 1/12 West Brom - 2/9 Derby County - 4/7 Middlesbrough 4/7 Bristol City- 2/1 Aston Villa - 3/1 Nottingham Forest - 11/2 Swansea City - 11/2 STOKE CITY - 13/2 RELEGATION Ipswich Town - 1/10 Bolton 2/7 Rotherham 8/15 Reading 8/11 Wigan 9/1 Millwall 12/1 Sheffield Wednesday 25/1 Preston 33/1 Brentford 80/1 Birmingham 200/1 STOKE CITY 250/1 How they stand... | https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/stoke-leeds-united-promotion-odds-2453269 |
Who did Richard Blackwood play in EastEnders and will he return? | Richard Blackwoods journey on ice didnt last long (Picture: Matt Frost/ITV/REX) Richard Blackwood has become the second contestant eliminated from Dancing On Ice after his performance in the rink failed to impress the panel of judges. The former EastEnders actor found himself in the skate-off against Loose Women host Saira Khan, and despite giving it his best, he lost his place on the show by the narrowest of margins, sent packing by Jayne Torvills casting vote after the judges failed to reach a majority verdict. Richard arrived in Albert Square 2015 as Vincent Hubbard, and was soon revealed to be the husband of Kim Fox. Fans dont actually know whether his character is alive or dead (Picture: BBC/Jack Barnes) During his time in the East End, he garnered a reputation as a bad boy and was involved in some pretty dramatic storylines. Advertisement Advertisement When it came time to wave goodbye to Walford in 2018, his characters actual fate was left unclear after fans saw him tricked into a car with a fake policeman and a gun pointed at his face. While Vincents disappearance remains a mystery to all including his wife who gave birth without him by her side the actor has previously teased the return of his character. Asked about the possibility of reprising the role, Richard told Good Morning Britain: I dont know. Ill be honest I really dont know. I think its smart move. I would go back. EastEnders, I would go back. He added that he doesnt want his character shirking his responsibilities as a new father: Ive just had a baby on the show, I dont want to be an absentee dad. EastEnders airs Mondays and Fridays at 8pm and Tuesdays and Thursdays on BBC One at 7.30pm. Dancing On Ice continues next Sunday night on ITV at 6pm. | https://metro.co.uk/2019/01/21/richard-blackwood-play-eastenders-will-return-8370306/ |
How to watch Celebrity Big Brother USA in the UK and who's in the cast? | Celebrity Big Brother US has a pretty awesome line-up January might be missing its usual dose of Celebrity Big Brother since the curtain came down on the final UK series but that doesnt mean you cant get your fix elsewhere. Because Celebrity Big Brother is up and running in the US, with their second series starting tonight. The line-up is looking pretty darn stellar too from a Mean Girls alumnus through to Olympians, chart stars and even a former White House employee. Well heres the bad news the show isnt, as yet, being aired on any UK TV channel however you can still keep up with the action via the shows Twitter feed and Facebook page. Heres wholl be gracing the doors of that US house Jonathan Bennett (Picture: Getty Images/CBS) Jonathan will be familiar to most people as Mean Girls Aaron Samuels the object of Cady (Lindsay Lohan)s affections. With Lindsays mum Dina also in the house we reckon the pair will have a lot to talk about. Advertisement Advertisement Kandi Buruss Kandi is best known in the US for her role in The Real Housewives Of Atlanta, but its not just reality TV where shes made her mark as she also penned the TLC classic No Scrubs and Destinys Childs Bills Bills Bills. Tamar Braxton (Picture: Getty Images/CBS) Singer Tamar is the sister of Toni (Unbreak My Heart) Braxton and performed with her sisters in a group called The Braxtons (we see a theme emerging here). She also appeared alongside them in the reality series Braxton Family Values as well as having a successful solo career. Tom Green (Picture: Getty Images/CBS) Actor/comedian Tom is probably best remembered for The Tom Green Show on MTV but also for such movies as Road Trip, being married to Drew Barrymore for a year and for the movie Freddy Got Fingered, widely regarded as one of the worst films ever made. Lolo Jones (Picture: Getty Images/CBS) Olympian Lolo (real name Susan) is known for competing in both the summer and winter Olympics one of the few athletes to do so taking part in both hurdling and bobsledding. She missed out on gold at Beijing 2008 after tripping over a hurdle just a short distance from the finish line. Kato Kaelin (Picture: Getty Images/CBS) Actor Kato (real name Brian) gained notoriety for his part in the OJ Simpson murder trials in 1995, being called as a witness for the prosecution as he was living in Simpsons guest house at the time the killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman happened. Advertisement Advertisement Joey Lawrence (Picture: Getty Images/CBS) Joey Lawrence one third of the Lawrence brothers acting trio (alongside Matthew and Andrew) found fame in 90s sitcom Blossom but more recently has appeared alongside his siblings in Brotherly Love as well as the comedy series Melissa and Joey. Ryan Lochte (Picture: Getty Images/CBS) Another Olympian, Ryan is a 12-time medalist in swimming, and is second only to Michael Phelps when it comes to winning medals for the sport. He also notoriously made the news for the wrong reasons after his false claim that he and other swimmers had been robbed during the summer Olympics in Rio in 2016. Dina Lohan (Picture: Getty Images/CBS) Aka Lindsay Lohans mum, and a reality star in her own right having appeared in the likes of Living Lohan and Lindsay. Eva Marie (Picture: Getty Images/CBS) A name that will be very familiar to E! viewers, WWEs Eva Marie was one of the stars of Total Divas. She joined the WWE in 2013, before amicably parting company with the organisation in 2017. Anthony Scaramucci (Picture: Getty Images/CBS) Aka The Mooch, Anthony Scaramucci is the former White House director of communications who lasted just 10 days in the job, from July 21-31 2017, being fired after a controversial interview with The New Yorker in which he said some less than complimentary things about other White House staff. Ricky Williams (Picture: Getty Images/CBS) American Football running back Ricky played 12 seasons with the New Orleans Saints before being traded to other clubs including the Miami Dolphins. These days though hes better known for his analysis on the sports network ESPN. Advertisement Celebrity Big Brother US season two kicks off in the US on Monday. If you've got a story, video or pictures get in touch with the Metro.co.uk Entertainment team by emailing us [email protected], calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page - we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Roxanne Pallett will be back on TV screens next week so get the popcorn ready MORE: Mean Girls Aaron Samuels is moving in with Lindsay Lohans mum Dina as part of epic Celebrity Big Brother US line-up | https://metro.co.uk/2019/01/21/can-watch-celebrity-big-brother-usa-uk-cast-8370555/ |
Could Roger Goodell have saved Saints with obscure NFL rule? | CLOSE SportsPulse: This will likely go down as the worst officiated championship weekend ever. But if you are a fan of chaos and pure insane entertainment it was incredible. Trysta Krick breaks down how the Patriots and Rams punched their ticket to the Super Bowl. USA TODAY Yes, the officials at the NFC Championship game whiffed on what should have been pass interference on Los Angeles Rams cornerback Nickell Robey-Coleman after he rammed into New Orleans Saints wide receiver Tommylee Lewis. But no, there is NO WAY Roger Goodell is going to step in and tell the Rams and Saints to go back to the Mercedes-Benz Superdome and play the game over from that egregiously missed penalty call. Yet that's something the commissioner theoretically has the authority to do, and it's a rule fans started citing on Monday morning, partially thanks to Saints wide receiver Michael Thomas sending out this tweet: Rule 17 Section 2 Article 3 @NFL Michael Thomas (@Cantguardmike) January 21, 2019 From Rule 17, Section 2 ("Extraordinarily unfair acts"), Article 3 of the NFL rule book: "The Commissioner's powers under this Section 2 include the imposition of monetary fines and draft-choice forfeitures, suspension of persons involved in unfair acts, and, if appropriate, the reversal of a game's result or the rescheduling of a game, either from the beginning or from the point at which the extraordinary act occurred." Again: Goodell can reverse a game right to the moment an "unfair act" occurred. Let's just stop it right there, though. Let's go back to Article 1 ("Commissioner Authority") of Section 2 to figure out what this means: "The Commissioner has the sole authority to investigate and take appropriate disciplinary and/or corrective measures if any club action, non-participant interference, or calamity occurs in an NFL game which the Commissioner deems so extraordinarily unfair or outside the accepted tactics encountered in professional football that such action has a major effect on the result of the game." "Outside the accepted tactics encountered." That doesn't sound like it's covered by an official's missed call. Sorry, Saints fans. Not happening. MORE: NFL Championship Sunday Awards: Bill Belichick angrily tossing a tablet was too good New Orleans papers front page perfectly roasted refs over missed Saints pass interference call Tom Brady dropped an emotional F-bomb on live TV when asked about Super Bowl Tom Brady found a classy way to share a special moment with Patrick Mahomes after win Complain all you want, you'll miss these Patriots when they're gone | https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ftw/2019/01/21/roger-goodell-could-have-saved-the-saints-with-obscure-nfl-rule/38932261/ |
Is Lady Gaga calling off wedding as she is in love with Bradley Cooper? | Rumours surrounding Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper seems to refuse to die down. The two have been hounded by romance reports since they starred together in A Star Is Born. According to In Touch, the singer is having second thoughts about her wedding to Christian Carino. Lady Gaga got engaged to the 50-year-old talent agent in October 2018. An alleged source stated: "She's on top of the world with all the praise she's getting for the movie and she has no time in her super busy schedule to plan a wedding, especially with the Oscars coming up." "But then there's the Bradley factor. They've grown incredibly close. If Irina [Shayk, 33] wasn't with Bradley, I bet Gaga would be with him. She even gushed about him in her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes and didn't thank Christian!" the insider added. The source went on: "Gaga clearly has feelings for Bradley, and he does for her, too. She can't help but wonder, what if...?" Meanwhile, the two had gushed about each other constantly during the press tour for their film. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the 32-year-old artist said Bradley was phenomenal in the film that also marks his directorial debut. "It just has changed me. Watching Bradley work was phenomenal and then having him believe in me it gave me more ammunition to believe in myself, and I just feel so blessed to have had that experience," she said. Adding on, the Hangover star also praised Lady Gaga. He told People: "I made a friend for life. As great as this movie was the thing that I think I'll take away forever is the relationship I have with her because she is an incredible person. I'm very lucky to have worked with her." | https://www.ibtimes.co.in/lady-gaga-calling-off-wedding-she-love-bradley-cooper-790492 |
Is there any point in recycling? | To sort or not to sort, that is the question. Lots of people wonder whether its really worth their time and effort to separate, wash and store recyclable materials especially if it takes more energy to recycle, or if the plastics sent for recycling end up in overseas landfill. The truth is, the issue is complex, and even experts cant agree on the economic and environmental benefits of recycling. There are four popular arguments, typically used by organisations and individuals to promote recycling: that it reduces landfill waste, that it saves public money, that it creates jobs and that it encourages consumers to reduce waste in the first place. Lets consider each of these in turn. Recycling reduces landfill waste Katy Wheeler. , Author provided Images of putrefying waste in landfill sites, generating greenhouse gas emissions and polluting the environment, are one of the most compelling reasons for recycling. The 1999 European Landfill Directive set targets to reduce biodegradable waste, and in response the UK government increased tax on landfill disposal, introducing an escalating duty, which currently sits at 88.95 per tonne. Then, in 2003, the Waste and Recycling Act established kerbside collection of recyclable materials. Rising levels of recycling and incineration, as well as the escalating landfill tax, have certainly reduced the proportion of waste dumped on landfill sites in the UK. But the National Audit Office revealed that some of the plastics that residents separate for recycling are being exported overseas, to places such as Malaysia and Vietnam, where there are insufficient checks to ensure this material is actually recycled. The industry is also facing investigation for fraud and corruption, over these matters. So it could be that millions of tonnes of UK recycling is simply ending up in landfill in other parts of the world. Part of the problem is that there are limited facilities to recycle mixed plastics in the UK. It costs a lot of money to separate and recycle different types of plastic, using specialist machinery. But there is infrastructure for plastic bottle recycling in the UK, which is why many council schemes historically only collected this type of plastic. Recycling saves public money It costs a lot of money for local authorities to manage household waste. Disposal facilities owned by private companies, such as Veolia and SITA, charge local authorities gate fees per tonne of waste - around 107 per tonne for landfill and 86 per tonne for incineration. Local authorities in England produced 22.4m tonnes of waste in 2017, of which 45% was recycled so thats a lot of money saved. Variations in collection systems across England and in material streams (such as paper, glass, cans) make it difficult to predict the cost per tonne of recycling, but it does cost significantly less than disposal, because the material can be sold. Aluminium cans are one of the more profitable materials in your waste and are sold by local authorities or waste contractors to be melted down and made into new cans. In the UK, campaigns such as Recycle for Londons Nice Save use a moral message to emphasise the savings that local authorities can make when people recycle. But this is partly because laws such as the landfill tax have made recycling the cheaper option. The prices of different recyclable materials can fluctuate, which can limit the savings made. But this depends on the contracts local authorities strike with private waste management companies, and who takes on the risk. In any case, UK citizens might wonder why taxpayers foot the bill for recycling, when in other parts of Europe producers are responsible. The governments new waste strategy for England does include plans to extend responsibility for packaging to producers, by introducing a deposit scheme for bottles and asking producers to pay to cover the cost of recycling. But its not clear how this will work with existing private waste contracts. Recycling creates jobs The charity Green Alliance claimed that recycling and reuse could create over 200,000 new jobs in the UK. Compared to disposal, recycling does create jobs, because waste sorted by consumers provides feed stock for an economy in global materials. How consumers sort their waste whether in one box or separate boxes leads to different supply chains and labour processes. For example, if youre putting all of your dry recyclables into one box, these materials will need to be taken to a special facility that employs people to sort them by hand, alongside machine processing. Many jobs in the recycling industry are low skilled and dirty work. They are often performed by migrant labour, or within the precarious informal economy overseas. Yet there are also mid-skilled, professional jobs such as public and private waste service officers, who manage and supervise operations and these opportunities will grow if the government creates incentives for producers to use recyclable materials, or invests in systems to promote reuse. Recycling encourages waste reduction There are, of course, more effective ways of dealing with waste than recycling. Reusing, reducing and preventing waste for example, by choosing products that are less packaged, refusing disposable coffee cups or buying secondhand are all better options. Environmental organisations and influencers have targeted keen recyclers with this message, in the hope that they will take further steps to live more sustainably. But there are only limited changes a person can make to their shopping habits, in a marketplace where packaging is embedded within infrastructures of provision. So responsible waste management is really a responsibility shared between governments, producers, local authorities, waste companies and citizens. In particular, the companies that create the materials that become household waste have huge power to reduce it. On the whole, it probably is worth the effort to sort your waste, despite some problematic practices, because recycling does drive down the amount of waste going to landfill and demand for recycling services will help drive improvements and oversight. Theres still a long way to go, before the UK can manage its waste sustainably as a society and itll only get there if governments and citizens keep up their efforts to improve this process. | http://theconversation.com/is-there-any-point-in-recycling-109550 |
Where is Kentucky ranked in the top 25 by the Associated Press? | Kentucky ended its six-week absence from the Associated Press Top 25 after it moved up to eighth in Mondays poll. The Cats (14-3, 4-1 Southeastern Conference) hadnt been ranked in the APs top 10 since it was 7-1 and ranked ninth on Dec. 3. It is the highest UK has been ranked since starting out at No. 2 in the preseason poll. Kentucky is coming off an 82-80 win at then-No. 14 Auburn on Saturday. This week it hosts No. 22 Mississippi State and No. 9 Kansas. UK has rebounded in the AP poll in a big way the past two weeks. After being slotted 18th on Jan. 7, the Cats moved up six spots to 12th last week. Digital Access For Only $0.99 For the most comprehensive local coverage, subscribe today. Tennessee (16-1, 5-0 SEC) took over the No. 1 spot after three of the top five teams lost last week. | https://www.kentucky.com/sports/college/kentucky-sports/uk-basketball-men/article224856470.html |
Which James Bond Is the Biggest Drunk? | James Bond is calm and collected. Hes suave and refined, yet tough and competent. He can embarrass you in a game of baccarat and then humiliate you again when you foolishly attempt to take back your money by force. He is, in essence, a wish fulfillment of the male fantasy. Hes also a raging, unabashed alcoholic. Researchers at New Zealands Otago University, Wellington recently analyzed the 24 James Bond films and concluded that the super spy drank heavily and consistently over six decades. What an iron liver on this champ! Not only does Bond drink his contemporaries under the table, but the liquid courage also emboldens him to attempt death-defying feats while completely shitfaced. Subscribe to Observers Entertainment Newsletter Chronic risks include frequently drinking prior to fights, driving vehicles (including in chases), high-stakes gambling, operating complex machinery or devices, contact with dangerous animals, extreme athletic performance and sex with enemies, sometimes with guns or knives in the bed, lead author Professor Nick Wilson said. We struggle to get into the right Uber after a night of adult beverages, let alone execute perfect headshots and helicopter maneuvers. We will give Bond credit, however, for his patented shaken-not-stirred order, which allows the ice to dilute the alcohol so he can keep his wits about him. Still, the man is a booze hound through and through. Just look at you, barely held together by your pills and your drink, Javier Bardems Silva barks at Bond in 2012s Skyfall. The man wasnt wrong, as Daniel Craigs 007 is, by far, the biggest tippler in the franchises history (what a distinction). According to The Telegraph, Craigs alter ego consumes 20 units of alcohol per film; the National Health Service recommends that adults consume no more than 14 units per week. Turns out, 007 has only grown thirstier over the years. Sean Connery, the original big-screen Bond, drank 11 units per film in his seven-picture tenure, which began with 1962s Dr. No. George Lazenby knocked back a pretty impressive nine units in his one-film stint, On Her Majestys Secret Service. Roger Moore pumped those numbers back up to 11 units in his seven-film run, an impressive accomplishment considering he was eligible for an AARP card for five of them. Timothy Dalton was the buzzkill of the group, consuming just 4.5 units over his two films (go home, nerd!). But the 1990s brought a party animal back to the role, when Pierce Brosnan came onboard and proceeded to chug 12 units over four films. No wonder everything after GoldenEye was such a mess. But when it comes to hitting the bottle, Craigs Bond cannot be defeated. We can probably thank lucrative sponsorship deals with Heineken and Belvedere Vodka for that. Were certainly not complaining though. Because James Bond is the coolest drunk the world has ever known. | https://observer.com/2019/01/james-bond-actors-007-movies-alcoholic-drinks-consumed/ |
Can I Fit a Bed and a Dresser in Here? | As he and his real estate agent, Marien Richardson of Citi Habitats, toured listings around Murray Hill and Kips Bay, they kept bumping into another apartment seeker and his broker. Sometimes wed be there first, sometimes theyd be before us. I was like, O.K., youre my competition. Mr. Bejan said. It was really intense. At a building in the East 30s, the unit they had come to see wasnt available for viewing the tenant was in the midst of moving out but the one below was empty. For $2,325 a month, the apartment was not too small but not too large. There was a small entrance hall and space for not only all the furniture he owned, including the bed, but also for a small sofa. Plus, there was laundry in the building and an unexpected bonus, a dishwasher. And if the view was nothing much the one window faced a brick wall at least the wall was on other side of a street, so there was natural light. He was told that the apartment above had a newer floor and stainless steel appliances, but it also cost about $75 more a month. I dont need that stuff that bad. This floor is fine; its not like its ruining my life, he said of his older parquet. He put in an application and hoped for the best. The response came fast: Because he didnt meet the landlords income requirements and neither of his parents lived in the tristate area, so they couldnt act as guarantors, the landlord wanted four months rent as security deposit. I was like, I dont have that much money! Mr. Bejan said. The first months rent was being offered free, but he still had to come up with last months rent and the brokers fee. He offered two months rent as a security deposit and the landlord countered with three. The discussion stopped there. | https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/21/realestate/can-i-fit-a-bed-and-a-dresser-in-here.html |
When does Shipwrecked start on E4? | Get celebs updates directly to your inbox Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email Dancing on Ice, Westlife and the Spice Girls have all done it and now its the turn of reality show Shipwrecked to make its long awaited comeback. Back in the noughties, Sunday morning hangovers were gently soothed with a weekly dose of the series on the much loved channel T4, which saw two separate teams of young nubile half naked contestants battling it out for survival on deserted islands. As well as providing weekend entertainment, the show spawned a few stars who youll recognise, some broken hearts - because all good TV has to have some of those and some of the best tans youve ever seen. Sadly since 2012, weve been lost in a sea of reality TV, which to be fair has kept us pretty occupied but now, a whole seven years later the original returns. (Image: Channel 4) The show returns on Monday January 28 at 9pm. It will air on E4 Channel 4 has confirmed because its old home, the very cool T4, is no longer RIP. There will be 15 hour long episodes on week nights. (Image: Channel 4) The location is the same as the first series in 2000 and again in 2006. Castmates will be living on two islands called Rapota and Moturakau in the lagoon at Aitutaki in the South Pacific. Filming has already taken place over the summer. (Image: Channel 4) The contestants, who are yet to be revealed, are split into two different teams, the Sharks and the Tigers and they will live on two different islands. They must compete to convince newcomers to the islands to live with them in their team. At the end of the series, the winners are the camp with the biggest team. They will share the 50,000 prize between them. Capital FM and recent Strictly Come Dancing star Vick Hope has announced she is the voice of the show. A self-confessed fan back in the day, she spoke of her excitement at her role in the comeback series. "Im chuffed to be voicing the all new series of Shipwrecked," she said in a statement. "I was such a fan of the show back in the day on T4, and my friends and I would be so invested in all the tribal twists and turns on Shark and Tiger Island, so its a real honour to get to have the first sneak peek at winters hottest reality show. The nine castmates have been announced and include models, a waitress and a CEO of a company - all suitably beautiful and ripped, obviously. It's also been confirmed that romance did indeed blossom among the cast... See the full list with their pretty pictures here . Stephen Bear (Image: E4) The pottiest mouthed, possibly naughtiest reality star with a horribly handsome face first popped up on our screens back in 2011 on Shipwrecked. Yes, Stephen Bear, who has kissed / licked the face of a stupidly large percentage of girls on the planet and probably some on other planets too, was just as modest about his prowess back then too. Speaking after filming but before the show aired, he said: "I think I'll be the main man on the island. I was the most likeable character. I'm also a bit of a joker. So I think I'll have come across all right. Hes certainly done alright for himself since with a presenting gig on Just Tattoo of Us, a Celebrity Big Brother win and plenty more notches on that battered bedpost all to his name. And he still looks like that. Jeff Brazier Cheeky chappy Jeff was all blonde quiff and white teeth when he appeared on the show and he went on to have a successful career in presenting, thanks to his likeable character. He also had two children with fellow reality star Jade Goody, who tragically died from cervical cancer. As well as brining up his sons, Jeff is often seen on primetime TV, including slots on This Morning. Sarah Jane Crawford Sarah Jane starred in the third series and went on to work in TV, mainly in music. She's presented on XFactor and appeared in Celebs Go Dating too. Mark Byron Mark's stint on Shipwrecked was back in 2009. He has since popped up on X Factor - but was given a resounding NO - and also in Big Brother - RIP. | https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/shipwrecked-start-e4-13888648 |
Does El-Deif Mark a Turning Point in Egyptian Cinema? | By Malak El-Lamie The highly anticipated film starring Khaled El-Sawy, Shereen Reda, Jamila Awad and Ahmed Malek has just hit theatres this month across Egypt. Immediately after its release, the movie El-Deif sparked extremely heated debates. The film has already found itself in the midst of highly mixed reviews, ranging from damning accusations to remarkable appraisals. Dont worry, there arent any spoilers ahead. A unique depiction of controversial topics The star-studded cast is not the reason why it has attracted so much attention, its appeal lies in its daring portrayal of sensitive themes. El-Deif represents a strong schism in the mainstream Egyptian film industry. The plot boldly addresses topics no one has ever dared to tackle before, or simply put, topics that never made it past the censorship committee. Many are still wondering how this film managed to make its way into theatres. The films animated dialogue particularly centers around discussions regarding religion and its role in society. The characters intensely but respectfully argue over typically taboo subjects, notably the hijab, sheikhs credibility, hadiths, womens independence, inter-faith marriage and political Islam. Another element that makes this movie an enjoyable experience was the presence of a balanced flow between heavy thought-provoking moments and casual humor. The story also includes multiple twists and turns in the events taking place. This effectively managed to capture the audiences attention throughout the film. El-Deif thereby showcases two completely opposing mentalities regarding these matters. Each character presents their own arguments with admittedly more emphasis placed on those expressed by El-Sawys controversial Dr. Yehya. He doesnt beat around the bush when it comes to his radical views, but shamelessly presents them with factual evidence. Whether or not one agrees with the opinions conveyed in the movie, theres no denying that it initiated a long overdue conversation. Catalyst for change The critical issues confronted in the plotline have been suppressed for far too long, and have become the grassroots of indoctrination. This ideological repression ultimately enabled the brainwashing of large parts of Egyptian society. In a totally bold and blunt fashion, El-Deif challenges this phenomenon. It confronted its audience with the opportunity to think critically about matters they were never permitted to question in the first place. Thus, the viewer walks out of the theatre with a new perspective, probably thinking what the hell was that?. In addition, the actors performances were particularly impressive. From Ahmed Maleks subtly suspicious body language to Khaled El-Sawys passive-aggressive wit; they perfectly illustrated their personas down to the smallest detail. The film sets an example of how to properly apply the art of debate. Despite the characters mindsets being worlds apart, they nonetheless conducted civil exchanges of their contrasting views which is a rare occurrence in Egyptian media. Overall, this is a project that merits commendable recognition. It is admittedly accompanied by a strong political undertone. However, irrespective of whether or not Egyptians are ready to be exposed to such radical ideas, this is a story that needed to be told. Unlike most philosophical films, the message here is clearly straightforward: it contests blind faith and invites people to question their beliefs. This movie is necessary, and should be seen by everyone. Art is meant to provoke its audience, to incite debate and contemplation. This is something El-Deif beautifully managed to deliver. Just like Egyptian society, our film industry desperately needs a stark revival. Hopefully, this film will initiate a new movement of similar works in the media. | https://identity-mag.com/does-el-deif-mark-a-turning-point-in-egyptian-cinema/ |
Is there an end in sight for people profiling online? | Programmatic advertising based on personal information may be peaking and ready to slide back down into the depths from whence it came (warning: I am very partial on this topic). These are the ads that can chase you around from site to site or from video to video, even though they may be irrelevant or out of date. These are the ads that are placed automatically and can find their way to you most effectively if they know all about your likes, dislikes, habits and vital statistics. But programmatic actually covers much of the digital advertising you see online. Only the most objectionable form uses personal information to refine your profile. Doubts are surfacing. Just as one example - many people have similar anecdotes - I have a particular cluster of Japanese ads for hotels and bullet train rides that have been stalking me since 2015. I have no current plans for Japanese travel. Thats seen as a growing problem. Lets roll out the other side of the story Programmatic proponents can list a whole collection of pluses, mostly for the media industry rather than you or society at large. They talk about granular targeting and the audience of one. This is about making best use of advertising spend to get the right message to the right person at the right time. Unlike conventional scattergun advertising, which doesnt give the advertiser much feedback (except the sales figures), programmatic can collect data about its own performance so that campaigns can be refined. But targeting consumers not on their data profile but on the keywords and contextual relevance of the page they are viewing can also be highly effective. Their main assertion is that programmatic is a significant cost-saver for the advertiser, since the targeting options mean that campaigns can become more efficient with advertisers only paying for ads going to users that fit a particular audience profile. The only way to build the profile, its argued, is through personal information gathering. However, most of the huge cost-savings involved in digital are not due to the programmatic targeting as understood above, but through the simple fact that the marginal cost of a digital ad is next to nothing... literally. And even that tiny amount is getting smaller as network and cloud costs lower. The significant costs here come from content generation, ad sales and marketing. Things like paper print costs - content production, printing, mailing etc - have gone. There still needs to be targeting, but that can be inferred by context. In other words the user makes content choices which select the ad, rather the ad selecting the user through his/her personal profile. This is how advertising worked, and still works, on paper products. So in the digital world if the content of an online magazine is about fly fishing, then its a very good bet that scattering very cheap ads (remember there is no marginal cost) through several fishing magazines will get more users hooked than will a smaller number of targeted ads. It might do if programmatics based on user profiles using personal information were outlawed. If we accept for the moment that the profiles do (probably slightly) improve the targeting and therefore reduce the cost-per-ad by a certain amount, then removing personal profiling and relying on various sorts of context (title, specific content subject, time of day or time of year etc) would see ad supply and demand define a new level, perhaps involving more ads at lower cost. And it would overcome the privacy problem too. There is some evidence that some content owners may be moving in this direction. That scourge of Trump, The New York Times, has decided to eschew Europes digital ad exchanges because of the extra hassle occasioned by the introduction of Europes General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It is opting instead for contextual and geographical targeting only for its programmatic advertising. It claims that, at this stage, it has not seen ad revenues drop as a result. The NYTimes might be an outlier, thanks to the Trump push-back effect. Rather than failing, as Trump would have it, its been booming. But there has been other anecdotal evidence playing out over a longer time-scale, indicating that many users, at least, are now wary of information gathering and will take steps to prevent it happening to their click-streams, especially in the wake of the Facebook data scandals. Search engine DuckDuckGo has been serving keyword-based ads (no user profiling or data collection) since 2014 and has kept on growing right through period attracting more investment as it goes. | https://www.telecomtv.com/content/privacy/is-there-an-end-in-sight-for-people-profiling-online-33843/ |
What is swamp cancer and how is it killing wild horses? | The wild ponies of Chincoteague are legendary. Made famous in Marguerite Henry's 1947 book, "Misty of Chincoteague," these colorful, shaggy horses actually live on nearby Assateague Island. There are two herds, separated by a fence, with one living in Virginia and one in Maryland. These sturdy, resilient horses have learned to adapt over the years by eating marsh grasses and finding fresh water in ponds. Every summer, the ponies are rounded up and made to swim the channel between the islands so some of the foals can be auctioned off to raise money for the local fire department and to help control the size of the herd. But a recent outbreak has caused distress among the Virginia herd. Seven of the Chincoteague ponies have had to be put down due to an uncommon fungus-like infection called pythios. Also referred to as "swamp cancer," the disease is caused by Pythiosis insidiosum, an organism that can be found in standing or stagnant water. Despite various medications, surgeries and round-the-clock care, Chincoteague ponies Essie, Rain Dancer, Lyra, Shadow, Lightning, Calcetin and Elusive Star were unable to battle the disease. According to the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Department, the rest of the herd now appear to be healthy. In early January, the group posted on its Facebook page, "All the ponies that suffered from the 'swamp cancer' have crossed the rainbow bridge. We currently have NO ponies that are dealing with this fungus. The rest of the herd is healthy and doing very, very well." How the disease is spread and treated The fungus can be spread in the water or can be inhaled. (Photo: Dennis W Donohue/Shutterstock) Pythiosis typically survives when winter temperatures aren't cold enough to kill the fungus. Although the fungus can infect dogs, cats and even people, it's most common in horses, according to Today's Veterinary Nurse. In the U.S., the disease is most often found along the Gulf Coast, but cases have been found in other areas across the country, including Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin. The fungus grows on dying or dead grass near the water. Horses often are infected when they stand in water with open cuts or sores. They can also drink, eat or inhale the dangerous spores. It cannot be spread from animal to animal or from animal to person. They have to come in direct contact with the fungus. Once the fungus is in a horse's body, it compromises the animal's immune system and starts triggering granular, seed-like lesions, often on the lower legs and abdomen. The disease sometimes can be treated with a therapeutic (not preventative) "vaccine," immunotherapy and surgery. Treatment success rates are high if the disease is caught early, Georgia equine veterinarian Kenneth Marcella writes in DVM360. Local veterinarians helped fire company volunteers treat the sick Chincoteague ponies and thought treatments were working for a while. Dr. George Marble of Eastern Shore Animal Hospital told CNN he had some success with an antifungal treatment, but the pythiosis "came back with a vengeance." Prevention is key Caretakers are concerned that the fungus also could affect the wild horses in Corolla, North Carolina. (Photo: lembi/Shutterstock) The key to dealing with this devastating illness is prevention, rather than treatment, say those who have worked on the front lines. A preventative vaccine is being developed, but it hasn't been approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture yet. "Cross your fingers that it gets approval and we can work to vaccinate our ponies very soon," the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Department posted on Facebook. "Also, Fish & Wildlife service is taking a good hard look at this fungus and will hopefully be doing everything they can to eradicate it from the refuge. It isnt only a pony problem. It can affect any animal that comes in contact with it. This has been a learning experience, an exhausting experience and a life experience." In the meantime, the disease is on the radar of other wild pony protectors, as they hope it doesn't impact their herds. The outbreak has people also concerned about the ponies that roam North Carolina's Outer Banks. The short answer is yes, they are," the Corolla Wild Horse Fund wrote in a Facebook post. Volunteers and people who care for the horses are asking people to help clean up the area to reduce the risk of injury so the fungus would be less likely to cause an infection. "We will also be distributing examples of what to look for in case of an outbreak (like pictures of Pythiosis lesions) and ask people to call and report any horse they see with open cuts and scrapes, or suspicious wounds ... We will continue to stay on top of the latest research and developments, and we will be ready to act should we see an outbreak here. Hopefully it will not come to that, but we'd certainly rather be safe than sorry." A rare fungus-like infection known as swamp cancer is threatening the lives of the legendary Chincoteague ponies. | https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/swamp-cancer-pythiosis-killing-wild-horses-chincoteague |
Why Do We Forget? | Giz Asks In this Gizmodo series, we ask questions about everything from space to butts and get answers from a variety of experts. To live is to forgetaccount numbers, names, the precise locations of keys and wallets, friends from childhood, peripheral characters from prestige TV shows, inside jokes, past ambitions, U.S. history, much else. Goldfish with guns: thats the human race. But every frailty, we know, serves some larger adaptive purpose. For this weeks Giz Asks, we reached out to a number of neuroscientists and psychologists to find out. For years, researchers have attempted to adjudicate between two possibilities. The first is that forgetting occurs because, like colors that fade, memories decay over time. The second possibility is that similar memories interfere with one another. For instance, when meeting many new people on the same day, we might forget some of the faces because we have many similar memories of faces interfering with one another. Recent scientific evidence has shown that forgetting can occur either due to decay or due to interference, depending on the brain structure supporting memory. The hippocampus, a structure important for memory, has unique properties which enable it to distinguish between similar memories. Therefore, memories relying on the hippocampus are not likely to interfere with one another. However, these memories fade and decay quickly. Another structure which supports memory, the Perirhinal cortex, does not have a good ability to distinguish between similar memories. Therefore, memories relying on this structure are more likely to interfere with each other. Like colors that fade, memories decay over time. Nicole Long Assistant Professor of Psychology and Head of the Long Term Memory Lab at the University of Virginia Exactly why some experiences stand the test of time and others fade from memory is an on-going topic of research across a number of psychology, cognitive, and neuroscience labs as experiences can be forgotten for a number of reasons. The cause of that forgetting is likely due to inattention. Were so familiar with the procedure of an introduction that we start to tune out or stop paying attention, even before the other person has said their name. This is why strategies such as repeating the persons name back to them are recommended during interviewsrepeating a name will increase the likelihood that you attend to it, helping you remember it later. The cause of that forgetting is likely interference. Every day, you park your car in a particular location, maybe having to change it depending on available spaces. Your brain forms a link or an association between the car and the location. When you next think of your car, your brain retrieves, or brings to mind, many of those past associations. You then have to sift through all of those associations to find the right one, making it more difficult to remember. This process can be made more challengingif not impossibleif you didnt pay attention to the location when you first parked the car, analogous to the introduction example. If you didnt form that association in the first place, it wont even be there to retrieve. Its a great question, but a really tricky one to answer. You might have forgotten your 4th grade teacher, but if you went back to your elementary school and re-experienced being there, you might be able to remember. Many instances of forgetting are like this, in that the memory might be stored in your brain, but you have insufficient cues or lack the information needed to access it. Despite the benefits that might come with being able to remember every single experience in our lives, research suggests that some forgetting is actually beneficial. For instance, if your usual parking lot is demolished and replaced with a high rise, retaining those old car-location associations simply isnt useful anymore and will actually get in the way (in the form of interference) of forming new car-location associations. Thus, although we may lament forgetting experiences, ultimately such a process enables us to adapt flexibly to the world in which we live. Advertisement Emotional events tend to be better remembered than neutral, every day oneswe remember them simply because they may guide future behavior back to positive rewards, or away from threatening places. Lila Davachi Associate Professor, Psychology, NYU and Head of the Davachi Memory Lab I think you are asking the wrong question. The only way to answer the question Why do we forget? is to know the answer to Why do we remember?. Once we have a full understanding of why we remember, only then can we begin to understand why we forget. But we can start with the fact that forgetting is one of the most reliable effects in memory. We forget most of what we encounter every day, and forgetting is not picky: we forget places, things, colors, sounds, names. Whole days and sometimes years of our lives become inaccessible. Well, my first assumption is that this must be a clue to how the memory system is supposed to work. Forgetting must be adaptive. There are many theories about why forgetting is a good thingperhaps we dont have enough room to store all of our experiences, so we save room for only the most important, the ones that we will likely need in the future. That could explain why emotional events tend to be better remembered than neutral, every day oneswe remember them simply because they may guide future behavior back to positive rewards, or away from threatening places. We experience a lot in the world that simply will not be relevant or important very soon, so the brain dumps it. Over time, what the brain tends to be good at storing for the very long term are the elements of our experiences that are repeated over and over again, or even that are approximated. We can recall our walking path to our first job, or to our college dormitories. We may be able to recall the layout of our childhood homes. These are the elements that were a part of several dozen or hundreds of experiencesand the brain finds a way to extract and represent these regularities pretty faithfully and for a very long time. As I mentioned at the outset, that is the burning question When the brain experiences new information, it tries to overlay that new information on top of previous experiences that its had. Jason Ozubko Assistant Professor, Psychology, SUNY Geneseo, whose work examines the cognitive and neuropsychological properties of human memory The main reason we forget is due to a phenomenon called interference, which is when new information interferes with previous things youve learned. Lets say you watch a new episode of your favorite TV show. Chances are, youll remember a lot of what happened in the episode before its over. But if, immediately after you finished watching it, you then watched the second episode, your memory for the first one would be worse. Thats because, as youre encoding the second episode in your brain, its overlapping and interfering with what youd learned before, in the first one. When the brain experiences new information, it tries to overlay that new information on top of previous experiences that its had. This is efficient for the brain, because when you encode new experiences in the context of older things, you can sort of piggyback your new experiences on top of your older memories. But youre kind of changing things as you go, and that can lead you to forget elements of what youve experienced before. Rehearsal is another important element in all of this. One of the reasons why we forget a given memorywhat makes a memory vulnerable to forgettingis how well weve rehearsed it. If you watch that first episode five times in a row before watching the second, youre going to retain a lot more than you would have otherwise. Forgetting isnt always a bad thing. Sometimes we actually want to forget. Studies have shown that people can intentionally forget things that are no longer useful to them, seemingly by just not rehearsing those things. If you do experience something that you dont want to remember later on, for whatever reason, you can just try not to think about it, and that memorybecause its not being rehearsedwill end up interfered with and forgotten. Advertisement Forgetting in such instances happens when memories interfere with each other and memories that are unique are less subject to forgetting due to interference. Eda Mizrak Postdoctoral Fellow at the Dynamic Memory Lab at UC Davis One way we forgot is when we try to access information from our memory, but fail at it. This is, essentially, a retrieval failure, and in these cases we know what we want to access (an email password, for instance). The goal of accessing the email requires the password, and this starts a search in our memory, using a cue: password. This search activates not only the target informationi.e., the correct passwordbut also non-target information, like old passwords for the same email address. Now we have password candidates from our search process, and one of these need to be selected. During this selection process, these password candidates compete with each other. In the end, we choose one of these candidates. If it is not the correct candidate, it means we failed at retrieving the target information which we describe as forgetting our password. This type of retrieval failure happens because memory representations that are activated by a certain retrieval cue interfere with each other. This type of forgetting especially happens when we reset our password. The connection between the cue and the old password is very strong compared to the newly formed connection between the cue and the new password which makes the old password a very strong candidate. In my research, I have investigated how forgetting due to interference happens for emotional memories compared to neutral ones. I found that although the mechanisms behind forgetting work similarly for both types of memories, there is consistently less interference, less forgetting, for emotional memories. So you might not forget emotional memories such as the 2016 U.S. presidential election at all because there are not many memories that can compete with that. It is also impossible to create memories that can compete with that even if we wanted to. On the other hand, if you try to remember where you parked your car yesterday, good luck with that! There will be hundreds of memories up for competition. In summary, forgetting in such instances happens when memories interfere with each other and memories that are unique are less subject to forgetting due to interference. Neurons that fire together wire together. Jerry Fisher Graduate Student, Cognition, Brain & Behavior, University of Notre Dame, whose research focuses on memory and event cognition From my perspective, this question can be answered from either a cognitive or a physiological standpoint. Of course, both standpoints should be mutually supportive of one another. First, however, the reader should keep in mind that forgetting can be adaptive. It is important to forget irrelevant information that would otherwise clog up the memory system. Cognitively, there has been a longstanding debate as to whether forgetting is due to (a) the decay of information in the memory stores or (b) interference from competing information at retrieval. In terms of the interference hypothesis, memory researchers make a distinction between availability (i.e., is the information still in the memory system?) and accessibility (i.e., can the existing information be presently reached at this moment of retrieval?). To illustrate, consider the tip-of-the tongue phenomenon where you know the word is in your mind somewhere, but you just cant get in the right frame of mind to grab that word. Or consider the case where you visit your old high school, see your old locker, and suddenly a series of old memories spring back into mind. From the interference perspective, these old memories were still preserved in some manner and form (albeit buried by interference), and they have become accessible once again and able to be utilized for retrieval processes. Physiologically, the dominant explanation is the synaptic plasticity hypothesis that can be summed up with the common phrase, neurons that fire together wire together. That is, learning (or encoding new information) is facilitated by strengthened synapses in our neural circuitry. Similarly, forgetting occurs when the specific synaptic circuitry that holds a memory is weakened. For the events of our lives, new memories are thought to be largely dependent on the hippocampus at first. However, over time, this information is translated into neocortical areas. Such translation likely alters the memory trace in some manner, and so, in a literal sense, this also leads to some forgetting of the original trace information. Advertisement Over very short intervals memories require changes in the strength of connections at synapses, the meeting points between neurons; over longer periods information is moved around the brain. Adam Zeman Professor, Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, University of Exeter There are many reasons why we forget. One way to think about these is in terms of the stages involved in memory processing, which include perception, memory formation, storage and retrieval. Failure to perceive is a common reason for (apparent) forgettingthe last time you forgot something your partner told you, it may well have been because you werent listening in the first place! This also helps to explain why we forget many mundane events, like brushing our teethwe pay them little attention. But assuming we are paying attention, memory formation is a complex process, extending over seconds to hours at least and, probably, much longer. Over very short intervals memories require changes in the strength of connections at synapses, the meeting points between neurons; over longer periods information is moved around the brain. This process of building a memory can be disrupted dramatically by such things as a significant head injury: its common to lose the fragile memories for events occurring just before them. There is also evidence for a natural decay of memories for events of little importance: these consolidate less well than emotionally important onesand are forgotten. But even memories which have been well consolidated can be forgotten. I study people with epilepsy who lose memories for salient personal events: in some cases, these seem to be deleted by the electrical storm that occurs in an epileptic seizure. More commonly, we lose such memories transiently, because we are unable to locate themthis is a failure of retrieval rather than storage, which we can overcome by finding the right cue to fish the memory to the surface. And finally, we can forget because we decide to: the surprising phenomenon of directed forgetting. Im sure there are other reasons toobut I forget. Email us at [email protected]. | https://gizmodo.com/why-do-we-forget-1831865406 |
How Long Before Facebook's New Petition Feature is Complicit in Genocide? | Photo: Getty Images Facebook, a tech company that the United Nations said has been literally complicit in genocide, has a new feature thats being rolled out this week. And theres a very good chance that its going to be abused, no matter what assurances the company provides. Facebooks new feature is called Community Actions and functions much like a petition, according to Techcrunch. Community Actions has been in limited trials and will be introduced to a wider audience today, which means that we can probably expect a full-on abusive shitshow by Wednesday. Thursday at the latest. According to Techcrunch: Users can add a title, description, and image to their Community Action, and tag relevant government agencies and officials wholl be notified. The goal is to make the Community Action go viral and get people to hit the Support button. Community Actions have their own discussion feed where people can leave comments, create fundraisers, and organize Facebook Events or Call Your Rep campaigns. Facebook displays the numbers of supporters behind a Community Action, but youll only be able to see the names of those youre friends with or that are Pages or public figures. One advocacy group that got in on the feature early is called Colorado Rising which has advocated for a moratorium on new oil drilling in the state. The petition is tagged with both the governor and lieutenant governor of Colorado. You know its coming. We all know its coming. Facebooks community guidelines are open to interpretation, which means that were probably going to see some very inconsistent enforcement as this new feature descends upon the world. All we know for sure is that plenty of people will test Facebooks limits and when some of them are shut down theyll cry censorship. Of course, there will no doubt be a handful of great petitions started. But if weve learned anything from the past few years, its that Facebook doesnt give a shit about anything aside from making money. And the social media network makes more money when it keeps you engaged and angry. Spreading joy doesnt pay the bills. Ive been wrong before. But new ways to engage with the world are the last thing that we need. As weve seen with the government shutdown, you can complain all you want. And none of those complaints matter if a man like President Trump is in power. Gizmodo has reached out to Facebook for comment and will update this post if we hear back. The company isnt very fond of getting back to media outlets that are critical of the damage that Facebook has done to the world. Which might explain why they told Techcrunch about their new feature before anyone else. [Techcrunch] Update 12:10pm: Facebook sent Gizmodo the following statement: Building informed and civically engaged communities is at the core of Facebooks mission. Every day, people come together on Facebook to advocate for causes they care about, including by contacting their elected officials, launching a fundraiser, or starting a group. Through these and other tools, we have seen people marshal support for and get results on issues that matter to them. Community Action is another way for people to advocate for changes in their communities and partner with elected officials and government agencies on solutions. Advertisement Sure. Why not. | https://gizmodo.com/how-long-before-facebooks-new-petition-feature-is-compl-1831922324 |
Has murdered mother-of-10 who vanished in 1976 finally been found? | Police believe they may be close to finding a mother-of-ten who disappeared 43 years ago after a night out dancing. In 1976, Geneva Adams, 53, went to a country music bar in Hurculaneum, Missouri to meet a man, but did not return home. Her family never saw her again, although authorities believe she may have been murdered and buried in a private local cemetery under an unidentified Jane Doe grave. Geneva Adams disappeared in 1976 after meeting a man at a bar to dance in Herculaneum, Missouri (Picture: KSDK) Jane Does body was found in a nearby park about a month after Adams vanished, but it was too decomposed to identify, according to The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Records indicate the body was buried in the Greenwood Cemetery and had upper dentures, reddish-brown hair, and a small stature like Adams but when police recently dug up the grave, they only found the handle of a casket. 31-stone man 'moaned in pleasure' as he forced air stewardess to wipe his backside Ive always in the back of my head hoped theyd find her body one day, said Adams son, Steve Crump, who is now 53. Advertisement Advertisement Ive lost four siblings since mom died. Its been hard on us, so maybe having a funeral now could bring us some peace. Adams children discovered she met a man named Jimmie Lee Mills at the Artesian Lounge, where she was last seen. Her husband had died of cancer in 1969 Geneva Adams is believed to be buried somewhere in Greenwood Cemetery in Fairview Heights, Illinois (Picture: Google Maps) They met Mills in his trailer and he told them that he dropped their mother off at a doughnut shop at 4 am off a highway after they went to the bar. It made no sense, Crump said. Mills is currently serving a ten-year prison sentence for a weapons conviction and was a suspect in another womans disappearance nine years after Adams went missing. Cynthia Horan, 21, shared a kitchen and bathroom with Mills in her St. Louis, Missouri flat and dissappeared on July 18, 1985. A neighbor told police she heard screams of Help! coming from Mills apartment that night but just like Adams, no body was ever found after she went missing. Mills is a suspect in Adams disappearance, as well as another womans murder a decade later (Picture : Cape Girardeau Sheriffs Office) At the time, police told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that they heard that Mills had bragged that a body could be easily buried at an abandoned quarry that he leased. Advertisement Advertisement Authorities searched the area hoping to find Horan and Crump joined them in hopes of finding a link to his mothers disappearance, but neither were found. Man 'made gun threats against children, 8,' for insulting his mother We were digging through these huge pits where he dumped his junk and we never found anything., Crump said. A break in the case was made in 2009 when a hiker discovered Horans body in a shallow grave in a nearby county, which DNA later confirmed to be her although Mills has not been charged in her death. Five years later, Adams case was reopened when Illinois State Police began working to identify remains in their cold cases and focused on the body buried in Greenwood Cemetery. Police also suspected Mills in the disappearance of Cynthia Horan, but he was never convicted (Picture: St. Louis County District Attorney) Authorities believed that she may have been buried in the Jane Doe plot in Greenwood Cemetery and started digging to exhume to body, but only found the casket handle of another burial nearby. We cant just go digging up every body there, Herculaneum police Chief Mark Tulgetske said. According to Tulgetske, authorities will not continue to dig unless they discover additional information about the location of Jane Does burial. Advertisement In 2006, Mills told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch I dont have nothing to hide because I dont know anything, and in light of the news that the grave was recently exhumed, the newspaper reached out to Mills for another interview, but he never responded. He is set to be released from jail in August. ' | https://metro.co.uk/2019/01/21/has-murdered-mother-of-10-who-vanished-in-1976-finally-been-found-8370410/ |
Why are wages so low for garment workers in Bangladesh? | The Spice Girls and Comic Relief said they had checked the ethical sourcing credentials of Represent, the online retailer commissioned to make the T-shirts, but it had subsequently changed manufacturer without their knowledge. Represent said it took full responsibility for problems identified by a Guardian investigation this week. But it is little surprise that workers at the Bangladesh factory where the T-shirts were made were paid less than the local living wage. Tesco, Mothercare and M&S use factory paying workers 35p an hour Read more Countries such as Bangladesh are popular places in which to operate because they offer cheap labour alongside expertise in clothing manufacture. The legal minimum wage for garment workers in the country is 8,000 taka (73.85) a month, slightly less than the amount received by workers spoken to by the Guardian. The amount was increased by 2,700Tk a month in December, but campaigners say workers need 16,000Tk to live a comfortable life in Bangladesh. With such low wages, employees often feel compelled to take on large amounts of overtime to make ends meet. Beyond wages, checking conditions in clothing supply chains requires considerable resources, covering a complex web of thread and fabric makers, dying services and stitching work, all located in distant, developing economies with poor communications infrastructure. Local laws may regulate fire safety, pay and working conditions, but enforcement is often weak because there are not enough inspectors and there is significant potential for corruption of officials. At the same time, workers can struggle to raise awareness of issues as a result of low levels of union recognition and fear of reprisals. After the Rana Plaza clothing factory collapse in Bangladesh, in which more than 1,000 workers died, dozens of retailers and brands signed up to the accord on fire and building safety. The accord funded inspections and improvements to buildings, including fire doors and structural work, and helped inform workers of their rights. It also helped train managers to spot and respond to problems. Mary Creagh, the chairwoman of the UK parliaments environmental audit committee, which has carried out an investigation into sustainable fashion, previously said: The best audit [of conditions] is taken by workers through their elected representatives in your factories. Globally, less than 10% of garment workers are in trade unions, she added. But action to increase union representation in Bangladesh and other supplier countries has been slow, as union leaders and members can face intimidation because business owners and some governments see activists as a threat. Where local regulation and union representation is weak, retailers have traditionally tried to weed out poor factories with regular inspections carried out by their own staff or professional ethical auditors. Sedex, which has 50,000 members in more than 150 countries, enables brands to share data on ethical standards at thousands of factories around the world. The Guardian view on Bangladesh: when charity goes wrong | Editorial Read more But Peter McAllister, the executive director of the Ethical Trading Initiative, which brings together businesses, unions and campaign groups to try to improve conditions in clothing manufacturing, said retailers and brands cannot rely solely on inspection reports, and those that do are either naive or wilfully ignorant. The best retailers have teams on the ground that work closely with suppliers to monitor conditions and check details about the capacity of the factory, alongside the time needed to carry out particular work. Such a detailed investigation can then identify when unrealistically low price points are being quoted for work prices that can prompt factory owners to cut corners by forcing staff to do unpaid overtime, or outsourcing work to less reputable establishments that may not have been inspected. McAllister said price is one of the best indicators of working conditions: If something is very cheap, you have to ask yourself, is it really possible to make it in a factory that is run properly, with a living wage? | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/21/low-wages-garment-workers-bangladesh-analysis |
Who should be the Hollis Wright Coastal Basketball Player of the Week? | Here is your chance to vote for the Hollis Wright Player of the Week. The poll is open now and will close Thursday morning. The winner will be announced in next Mondays Player of the Week post. Nominations come from game results reported by area coaches. Results should be emailed to [email protected] following each game in order for candidates to be considered and results to be included in roundups during the week. Here are this weeks choices: BOYS Jack Flynn hit six 3-pointers, four in the first quarter, and finished with 25 points as Class 7A No. 6 McGill-Toolen defeated No. 5 Fairhope 75-62. McGill stuns No. 2 Lee-Montgomery Travis Kidd had 24 points, 10 rebounds and two assists as Faith Academy defeated St. Pauls 58-39 in Class 5A, Area 1 action. Freshman Jarel Williams scored 22 points as Saraland edged B.C. Rain 72-70 in overtime on Friday. D.J. Brown scored 20 points, grabbed five rebounds and made three steals as Williamson edged UMS-Wright in a key Class 4A, Area 1 game. Mobile Christian junior Andrew Bartlett broke a school record for 3-pointers in a game with nine all in the first half and finished with 32 points as the Leopards defeated Bayshore Christian. Coastal Friday Roundup GIRLS Nya Valentine hit six 3-pointers and finished with 20 points as Class 7A No. 2 McGill-Toolen defeated Fairhope for its 19th straight victory. Ariel Thompson had 22 points and 12 rebounds as Theodore defeated Baker 61-48. Sophomore point guard MG Lymon scored a career-high 25 points to lead Foley to a 59-51 victory over Murphy. Tiarra Boggs led the Lions with 20 points and six steals and nailed the game-clinching 3 with three seconds remaining to lead Williamson to a 39-36 win over Escambia County. Janiya Labyzon led Vigor with 18 points, 10 rebounds and three steals as the Wolves beat St. Pauls. B.C. Rains Elsie Harris scored 41 points in a losing effort against Blount. PREVIOUS WINNERS WEEK 1: Kaitlyn Knight (Foley) WEEK 2: Lue Williams (Escambia County) | https://www.al.com/sports/2019/01/who-should-be-the-hollis-wright-coastal-basketball-player-of-the-week.html |
What will Joanie Mahoney do with her $500K political campaign fund? | SYRACUSE, N.Y. One of the things left unresolved by Joanie Mahoneys abrupt departure as Onondaga County executive is what she will do with a political campaign fund of more than half a million dollars. Mahoney said she hasnt decided what to do with the $539,000 remaining in her campaign account. If it were possible, she said, shed give much of it to her successor, Ryan McMahon, who is running for election in November. But Mahoney's campaign can donate to McMahon's only as much as any other donor could give, according to election law. That would be less than $20,000 at most, even if McMahon runs in both a primary and the general election. Here are Mahoneys options for using the rest of the money if she decides to close out the account, according to the state Board of Elections campaign finance handbook: -- She could give it all to charity. -- She could give it all to a political party committee, to spend as the party sees fit. -- She could refund all the money to contributors. -- She could contribute to political candidates, subject to each candidates receipt limits. There's no deadline to do anything. Mahoney can hang onto the money as long as she sees fit, provided she does not use it for personal expenses. She can continue to make donations to charity or to political candidates, or simply hold onto the money in case she decides to run for office again. "I have not made any decisions yet,'' Mahoney said Friday. "I actually havent taken the time to understand what's possible.'' Mahoney resigned Nov. 1, with a year left on her term, to take a job as chief operating officer at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. She said she has been impressed that McMahon has "hit the ground running'' since taking over, and she will enthusiastically support his election bid. "I completely support Ryan, and if it was possible I would use the resources to help him in his re-election,'' Mahoney said. "I want to honor the intent of the people who donated the money. I think what they donated the money for was, generally, to keep the progress that we were making going forward. I think Ryan is doing that.'' Contact reporter Tim Knauss | email | Twitter| 315-470-3023 | https://www.syracuse.com/news/2019/01/what-will-joanie-mahoney-do-with-her-500k-political-campaign-fund.html |
How does Isaiah Stewarts decision impact Syracuse basketball? | Syracuse, N.Y. -- On the day after Syracuse missed out on an elite level recruit, its important to remember the words of Jim Boeheim when Syracuse lost another top recruit just two years ago. It happens all the time,'' Boeheim said. "You lose many, many times. Many times we lose key recruits, or supposedly, key recruits. It happens every day and, uh, geez, were still here. Its not a disaster. Theres no disasters that have happened. Boeheim made those comments following a win in November of 2016. Actually, though spoken in his post-game press conference, Boeheims comments were in response to reaction from fans and media after Quade Green, a highly sought-after guard from Philadelphia, had spurned the Orange in favor of Kentucky. On Sunday, Isaiah Stewart, the No. 5 player in the 2019 recruiting class and a native of Rochester, announced that he would attend the University of Washington. Stewart picked the Huskies over Syracuse, Duke, Michigan State and Kentucky. Once again, it pays to refer back to what Boeheim said in November of 2016. "Lets cover one thing on recruiting because everybody seems to have lost their .... They think were all done, I guess, with basketball in Syracuse all of a sudden,'' he said. "In 1995-96, we lost the best point guard in the country and we went to the Final Four that year. Lets not get too upset over a recruit or two. Weve lost 50-60 recruits over the years. Well continue to lose recruits. Weve got commits from two very good pl.ayers, which is pretty good. Well continue to recruit.'' Boeheim is right. Syracuse has been good for the entirety of his tenure, and the program figures to remain relevant on his watch. However, Stewart could have taken Syracuse from relevant to a national championship contender. Powerful and skilled at 6-foot-9, 245-pounds, Stewart is the low-post offensive threat that Syracuse has lacked since Rakeem Christmas graduated in 2015. Stewart would have been the highest-ranked recruit to come to Syracuse since Carmelo Anthony (and Orange fans know how that one turned out). Stewart would have changed the look of the Oranges attack next season. Opposing teams would have been facing the impossible choice of either double-teaming Stewart down low and leaving 3-point marksman like Elijah Hughes, Buddy Boeheim and incoming freshman Joe Girard III open on the perimeter, or staying out on those shooters and leaving Stewart in one-on-one coverage in the paint. When Stewart dominated the EYBL circuit last summer, Jim Hart, his coach with the Albany City Rocks AAU team, credited the presence on Girard for creating space. Some critics will point to Syracuses lack of inside scoring over the past few years as the reason Stewart chose Washington, but that would ignore the fact that former Syracuse assistant Mike Hopkins is running basically the same system as his former mentor. Hopkins played a much larger role in Stewarts decision than did Syracuses offensive system, which has featured the center when he was a skilled scorer -- Christmas, Arinze Onuaku and Etan Thomas come to mind. Hopkins had built a relationship with Stewart that had begun when the young prospect was a freshman at Rochesters McQuaid High School. With Stewart, the 2018-19 version of the Orange might have been great. Without him, Syracuse will continue to be good. Syracuse figures to lose both of its starting guards after this season. Frank Howard is a senior and Tyus Battle, a junior, will likely head to the pros, a route he considered but put off last summer. Syracuse will probably bid farewell to starting center Paschal Chukwu. The 7-foot-2 senior could petition the NBA for another year of eligibility because of the season he missed due to an eye injury, but with a degree in hand and turning 23 in April, Chukwu has given no indication that he intends to stay another year. Still, Boeheim will have plenty of talent and experience on hand next season. Oshae Brissett figures to return for his junior season. Talk of Brissett turning pro seems to be premature. Although an excellent rebounder, his offensive game needs work. Hughes, the transfer from East Carolina, has been a revelation, scoring in double-figures in 15 of SUs first 18 games and making 36 percent of his 3-pointers. Freshmen guards Jalen Carey and Buddy Boeheim have gained experience in their roles behind vets Howard and Battle. Both have shown hints of what they could do in another year. Carey scored 26 points in a loss to Connecticut, while Boeheim is coming off a 13-point game against Pitt in which he canned a season-high four 3-pointers. Howard Washington, who is redshirting this season, provides another option at the point. Syracuses current recruiting class will bring in more perimeter help with Brycen Goodine, a 6-4 guard from St. Andrews in Barrington, R.I.; Joe Girard III, a 6-2 guard at Glens Falls High School; and Quincy Guerrier, a 6-7 forward from Thetford Academy in Quebec City. The real key, though, will be at center. While Stewart would have given Syracuse a huge inside threat, its not like Syracuse is bereft of possibilities in the middle. Marek Dolezaj, a 6-foot-10 sophomore, is a natural forward, but he has spent a lot of time at center this season. If Dolezaj can add some weight to his 180-pound frame, he could handle more time in the middle without getting pushed around by stronger opponents. Bourama Sidibe could be the Oranges real answer. Sidibe, a 6-10, 205-pound sophomore, continues to work his way back from off-season surgery to relieve tendinitis in his left knee. Sidibe can score inside, but he must improve defensively and cut down on his tendency to foul. Incoming freshman John Bol Ajak, a 6-10 center at Westtown School in West Chester, Pa., figures to come in behind the two rising juniors. It all adds up to a lineup that looks much like the one that Syracuse sent out onto the court last season and is doing so again this season. Its a group that will need its young guards to step into much larger roles. The forward group of Brissett, Hughes, Guerrier and current freshman Robert Braswell will be the teams strength. Stewart might have come in right away and dominated. Most recruiting analysts think he will have an immediate impact at the college level. However, thats not a given. Quade Green struggled at Kentucky before transferring, ironically, to Washington, earlier this season. Instead of pinning its hopes on a one-and-done star, Syracuse will now have to focus on the development of Sidibe and Dolezaj in 2019. Follow Syracuse basketball on Twitter and Facebook. Isaiah Stewart says Mike Hopkins was the main reason he picked Washington | https://www.syracuse.com/orangebasketball/2019/01/how-does-isaiah-stewarts-decision-impact-syracuse-basketball.html |
Why are energy stocks so cold when Canadian oil prices are so hot? | Albertas crude curtailment plan has caused a dramatic rise in the price of heavy Canadian oil. But for shares of energy companies, it hasnt been as much of a help. Since the production curtailment was unveiled early last month, Western Canadian Select crude has almost doubled to about $43 a barrel, narrowing its discount to benchmark U.S. oil to an almost decade-low of $6.95 a barrel on Jan. 11. Yet in that same time, the S&P/TSX Energy Index is up less than 4 per cent. Driving the stagnant performance are the forced cuts in output among the larger producers as well as a series of conservative moves by smaller drillers who are less affected by the program. Overall, the industry is dialling back spending and waiting for better days a strategy that analysts have lauded as prudent but that investors have found less than compelling. Certainly the curtailment program has helped the cash flows, but its sending a clear signal: You cant grow. Dont even try, said Laura Lau, who helps manage $1.4 billion in assets at Brompton Corp. in Toronto. The larger producers that are most affected by the curtailment, such as Suncor Energy Inc., Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. and Cenovus Energy Inc., are all planning on flat or reduced spending next year. Smaller drillers who arent forced to cut as much output are following suit. Whitecap Resources Inc. said last month that its keeping spending in line with last years levels and heavily weighting it to the second half. Crescent Point Energy Corp. said last week that its slashing its spending by $500 million to about $1.3 billion and trimming its dividend. The frugality has even spread beyond the oil industry to gas producers, much of whose output goes to fuel oilsands operations. Peyto Exploration & Development Corp. last week set a capital budget of $150 million to $200 million for the year, down $100 million from the forecast it gave in November, and cut its dividend. While many of those moves were cheered by analysts, investors were less enthused. In the first trading session after announcing their plans, Peyto slid 11 per cent, Crescent Point fell 1.3 per cent and Whitecap dropped 6.8 per cent. The message that companies are sending to investors is that they dont have confidence that the long-term problems the industry is facing such as the inability to get new pipelines built will be fixed, Lau said. And even though the curtailment program is achieving its goal of boosting Canadian crude prices, the fact that it was even needed sends a negative signal to investors, she said. If Alberta, which Id argue is the most entrepreneurial of the provinces, is seeking government intervention, it just shows things are really bad, Lau said. Bloomberg.com | https://business.financialpost.com/commodities/energy/canadian-oil-surge-fails-to-lift-producers-out-of-the-doldrums |
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