Smart because it is compact on the outside, as well as being spacious and well-equipped on the inside. Smart because a range of remarkable technologies make every drive as comfortable and enjoyable as possible. And smart because state-of-the-art engines and transmissions deliver rewarding performance and outstanding fuel-efficiency.
Busy city roads, tight parking spaces, narrow side streets…Thanks to clever design, EcoSport navigates them all with ease. This agility and manoevrability is matched by visibility: an elevated driving position giving you and your passengers an impressive view of the road ahead and the world around you.
The 1.0 litre, 3-cylinder EcoBoost petrol engine is a product of ingenious design and clever engineering. In fact, its revolutionary technology delivers both the power of a big engine and the fuel economy of a smaller one: a feat that’s led to EcoBoost winning the prestigious International Engine of the Year Award for an unparallelled three years in succession.
Ford EcoSport price starting from just £15,645 and available to buy from Underwoods - Ford Main Dealer in Tiptree, Essex.
Ford’s remarkable technologies are designed to do many things. And every feature and system exists to keep you connected and entertained, as well as make life easier.
Advanced hands-free technology
Ford SYNC lets you control your music and make and receive calls on your mobile, using simple, direct voice commands. You can use voice commands to play songs from a USB or MP3/iPod® too, or stream music from a Bluetooth®-compatible phone. The system even reads your incoming texts aloud.
*The Bluetooth® word mark and logos are allowed and owned by the Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and any use of such marks by Ford Motor Company Limited and its associated companies is under licence. Other trademarks and trade names are those of their respective owners.
Extra control during hill starts
Choose the PowerShift automatic transmission option and you get Hill Start Assist: a system that temporarily stops you rolling backwards when making a hill start. It works by maintaining pressure to the braking system for an extra 2.5 seconds, giving you more time and control as you move your foot from brake pedal to accelerator. The technology is also useful when you’re stopping and starting on slippery surfaces.
Sensors that take the stress out of parking
Parking distance sensors help you judge the distance between your vehicle and obstacles behind you. When the sensors detect an object, they activate an audible warning that intensifies the closer you get to it. (Optional across the range)
Less tiring drives, more economical journeys
Cruise Control helps keep your car at a pre-set speed limit that you select, making for more relaxed driving on long motorway journeys. As well as minimizing the likelihood of you exceeding the speed limit, it can also help to save fuel too. (Standard on Titanium.)
Striking, LED ‘signature’ lights enhance EcoSport’s distinctive looks, creating a recognisable, bold and highly visible presence on the road.
More fuel-efficient gear changes
A Shift Indicator light on the instrument panel tells you when to change gear for maximum fuel efficiency. It’s a simple but effective way to help make every journey more economical.
Essential journey information
An on-board trip computer gives you useful facts and figures about your mileage, fuel consumption, speed and the outside air temperature. It also includes ‘distance to empty’: roughly how far you can go on the fuel left in the tank. This is particularly useful on long journeys, or if you know you’ll be driving somewhere remote.
PERFORMANCE, EFFICIENCY: ENJOY THEM BOTH
Petrol or diesel power? Whichever option you choose you’re guaranteed performance, power and economy. The car’s aerodynamic body shape and design details like the rear pillar ‘kicker’ combine to deliver a low drag co-efficient. The result: lower wind resistance and greater fuel efficiency.
Making every drop of fuel go further
The revolutionary 1.0 litre 3-cylinder EcoBoost petrol engine gives you all the power you’d expect from a conventional 1.6 engine (up to 125 PS) whilst delivering around 24% better fuel economy and 25% lower CO2 emissions at just 125g/km. No wonder EcoBoost has been awarded International Engine of the Year for a record three years in succession.
A 1.5 litre TDCi diesel option enables you to enjoy up to 95 PS of power, as well as 4.4L/100km (64.2 MPG) fuel efficiency. This advanced engine is available with a 5-speed manual transmission that delivers both high torque (for fewer gear changes and exceptional pulling power) and CO2 emissions as low as 115g/km.
COMFORT AND CONVENIENCE
Clever design makes ingenious use of every square millimetre of space, maximising convenience and comfort in a compact vehicle.
Comfortable seats, always with a great view
The driver’s seat has built-in lumbar support and is 6-way adjustable, making it easy to find and fix your ideal driving position. Driver and front passenger seats can also be heated (part of optional Winter Pack). Passengers can tilt their seats forwards and backwards, so they can make themselves comfortable too. And everyone gets an elevated view of the road.
Key-free means hassle-free
Walk towards your car and the Ford KeyFree System senses the presence of your key fob, even if it’s in your pocket or bag. The doors unlock and when you take your seat there’s no need for an ignition key. Just depress the clutch, push the Ford Power Starter Button and the engine fires into life. (Standard on Titanium)
More than just a steering wheel
A perfectly weighted, ergonomically designed and leather-trimmed steering wheel puts you in total control of your car. And a series of integrated toggles put key functions at your fingertips.
A very cool feature
In an EcoSport, you can choose a glove box that doubles as an air-conditioned chiller-cabinet. So on hot days, cool drinks or snacks are always close to hand. In fact, there’s room for up to six standard-sized fizzy drink cans.
Flexible seating for extra space
A removable storage shelf, plus rear seats that are rake adjustable, split 60:40, and incorporate a ‘tip and tumble’ system: in a EcoSport it’s quick and easy to create room for luggage and/or bulky items.
Effortless manoeuvring and cruising
Electric Power-Assisted Steering (EPAS) adjusts to provide easier, lighter steering when you’re parking in a tight spot and firmer steering for more control on motorways. Unlike conventional power-assisted steering that operates continuously and consumes energy and fuel, our EPAS only operates when required, further improving fuel economy.
Set the ideal temperature for you and your passenger
With Electronic Automatic Temperature Control you can select the temperatures you and your passenger prefer and the system maintains it with advanced air conditioning.
(Standard on Titanium, optional on Zetec as part of the Winter Pack.)
A place for everything
Ingenious design means there’s lots of room for driver and passengers, as well as plenty of storage compartments for phones with USB chargers, sunglasses, coins, cups, drinks and snacks.
Peace and quiet while you’re driving
Sound-deadening materials and precision seals in the doors and windows, roof and body help make the EcoSport an exceptionally quiet drive.
Clear your windscreen quickly, with Quickclear
This clever feature is designed to get you on the move quickly on frosty mornings. Just touch a button and ultra-thin filaments can superheat to de-ice, de-fog and de-mist your windscreen as well as help de-freeze the wipers. The system works in seconds, even if it’s below zero outside. (Available as part of the optional Winter Pack)
Wing mirrors that heat up when it’s cold
As well as Quickclear for your windscreen, a heating system can help clear your all-important wing mirrors too. (Available as part of the optional Winter Pack)
SAFETY AND SECURITY YOU CAN DEPEND ON
Whether you’re the driver or a passenger, you can be sure that a comprehensive package of safety measures are designed to protect you. The New Ford EcoSport is also equipped with security measures that can help keep your car (and your valuables) safe from thieves.
State-of-the-art airbag system
The new EcoSport comes with driver, passenger, curtain and side airbags, as well as a driver's knee airbag: all fitted as standard. Advanced sensors are also positioned at key points in the vehicle to ensure a swift and controlled response.
Ford SYNC with Emergency Assist
An important and potentially life-saving part of Ford SYNC is Emergency Assist*. In the unlikely event of an accident, where the airbag is deployed or the fuel-pump deactivated, the technology can help make a direct call to the Emergency Services for you. Crucially, the system will supply vital information, such as your GPS coordinates, even if you are unconscious*
*Ford Emergency Assist operates in over 30 European countries. This feature works when paired with a compatible connected mobile phone that is with you when an airbag is deployed (excludes knee airbags) or a sensor that registers a crash deactivates the fuel pump. Text function and Emergency Assist not supported by all European languages.
Helping to keep children safe
The new EcoSport is designed to help keep young children safe and secure on every journey. And it comes with four rear ISOFIX child seat attachment points, so you can easily fit two child seats
An effective deterrent
A standard perimeter alarm protects your vehicle by sounding if the doors, bonnet or luggage compartment door are opened by force or if the ignition is switched on whilst the alarm is set.
Advanced systems for more controlled braking
Anti-lock braking system (ABS) and electronic brake-force distribution ensure that your braking is more controlled. Emergency Brake Assist also helps the EcoSport brake more effectively in an emergency situation. It does this by sensing how much pressure you’ve applied to the brake yourself and automatically increasing it, if necessary.
An early warning if a tyre is going flat
If any of your tyres starts to lose pressure during your journey, the Tyre Pressure Monitoring System warns you there’s a puncture by lighting up an icon on the instrument panel.
BUILT FOR PURPOSE, MADE TO ENJOY
With a range of practical, useful and tough features, the New Ford EcoSport is made for city streets… and built to escape them.
Rise above it all with higher ground clearance
High kerbs, potholes, road works, speed humps…Town and city streets can prove hazardous. Which is why the EcoSport’s rugged construction includes an elevated ground clearance.
Makes U-turns easy
Unlike traditional, more bulky SUVs, EcoSport has a tight turning circle which makes U-turns on busy streets quick and easy, even when there are cars parked on both sides.
Clearing obstacles with room to spare
The Ford EcoSport’s ‘approach’ and ‘departure’ angles are set at 21.0 degrees and 33.3 degrees respectively, with a ramp breakover angle of 23.3 degrees (unloaded). These degrees relate to the angles at which your car can drive over an obstruction and avoid scraping its underside: essential for a modern SUV.
Complete the tough, SUV look
A spare wheel can be mounted on the rear door, adding to the Ford EcoSport’s stand-out-from-the-crowd image. With a body coloured cover too, the option is as stylish as it is practical. If you’d prefer not to take the spare wheel option, a tyre repair kit is supplied as standard.


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This weekend, I set myself free.
The much-needed atmospheric rivers of late have swollen the nearby creek, and with two crossings in the first two miles of trail, it soon became a barrier to the longer walks I’ve come to enjoy. All that was required was a change of footwear—shoes to barefoot and back again—twice, then I was on my way to the miles of trails into the backcountry. But it took me days—weeks even—to see that the barrier was only ever in my mind.
There are plenty of metaphors in life for barriers, real and imagined, and they are powerful forces. For millennia, natural barriers have led to speciation—isolating populations long enough that they become their own species. Take, for example, the Grand Canyon—squirrels on the north rim are similar but different than those on the south rim, separated from one another once the Colorado River cut so deeply into the earth that the rift could not be crossed.
Barriers are used for protection—we installed a fence around the perimeter of our back yard to keep the dogs and chickens from wandering the neighborhood and getting into trouble. Sunscreen limits ultraviolet radiation, protecting the skin. In the -40-degree winter of the Boreal forest, I wore what would under any other circumstances be a ridiculous amount of clothing and gear to protect my appendages from freezing: a barrier from the dangerous cold.
In the same way that barriers protect, they also divide. Once divided, disparate parts change, no longer able to exchange—in the speciation example, alleles (variant forms of a gene)—between them. Is speciation a good thing? Sure, inasmuch as it allows the divided to adapt to new conditions. This would be the case for species that are fairly abundant on both sides, and—more importantly—allowed to adapt over the course of geologic time, as the squirrels at the Grand Canyon did. But what about species that are already struggling due to persecution, over hunting, and habitat loss, like the Mexican gray wolf and the Sonoran pronghorn? What happens to those species when a barrier is placed in the middle of their range, preventing them from accessing food, water, mates, and other important resources?
The outlook is not good. According to recent research, a continuous barrier along the U.S-Mexico border would disconnect approximately 350 species whose habitats currently straddle the human-made line from the largest portion of their ranges. Adding more border barriers will only further sever critical migration corridors. Our human-conceptualized borders turned to real-life barriers have made arbitrary and artificial boundaries between individuals that were once free to roam for millennia. The existing boundary has only been present for an infinitesimally short period of time compared to the time span that situated the plants and animals there in the first place.
For those unable to appreciate the intrinsic or ecosystem value of wildlife, consider the $26 billion in hunting, fishing, and wildlife watching revenue generated by the biodiversity in and around border towns. We stand to lose much as a nation and a global community when additional border barriers alter the normal patterns of wildlife, flood regimes, and entire landscapes in its path. Researchers are working to count biodiversity at the border to take a baseline before construction—and the damage—ensue.
North America is not alone in its anguish over large-scale perimeter fencing at its borders. Denmark plans to install 40 miles of fencing to keep wild boars—and presumably African swine fever—out. The fence is only slated to be 5 feet high, but it is enough to disrupt the migration patterns of wolves, which have only recently begun to recover after a 200-year absence. Swine flu threatens the pork industry in Denmark, which is one of the largest pork exporters in the world and boasts more pigs than people. Sweeping, drastic measures to solve complex problems cannot be implemented without consequences, both intentional and unintentional.
I am fortunate to live in a place where it is safe to be a woman hiking alone, that I can afford to take a day off to go for a walk in nature, and that I live on the doorstep of 1.7 million acres of barrier-free open space. Public lands are one of America’s best ideas—that land and waters can be held in the public trust for all to enjoy. This is one of the many privileges of being an American, and something that we entrust the U.S. Government with stewardship of.
I removed my shoes, rolled up my pant legs, and walked across the frigid, bubbling barrier that had only moments before been impassable in my mind. Our attitudes are powerful, and can trick us into fearing the harmless, the other—that which could enrich us, make us more human, more whole.

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Just two years into his coaching career, Jerod Mayo already is drawing interest as a head-coaching candidate.
The New England Patriots inside linebackers coach is expected to interview for the Philadelphia Eagles’ head-coaching vacancy, according to a report Wednesday from NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport.
This would be the first head coach interview for the 34-year-old Mayo, and joined New England’s coaching staff before the 2019 season. Mayo also played eight seasons at middle linebacker for the Patriots from 2008 to 2015, earning two Pro Bowl nods and one first-team All-Pro selection.
Mayo also would be the first Patriots assistant to interview for a head-coaching job this year. Offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels, a perennial candidate, has yet to receive any known interview offers during this hiring cycle.
The Eagles earlier this week fired head coach Doug Pederson, who led the franchise to its first Super Bowl title in 2017.


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Vicky Kaushal, the heartthrob is considered to be one of the best actors in recent times. He has demonstrated his versatility in a variety of roles, including those in Sardar Udham, Sanju, Raazi, Manmarziyaan, and Masaan. With his performance, he has blazed the route right into the hearts of his followers. The actor recently appeared as a guest on the courtroom comedy series Case Toh Banta Hai on Amazon MiniTv. The show is a combination of various formats including light-hearted roasts, talk shows, and sketches. It is a unique court play with numerous celebrities as guests who will be subjected to some atrangi and amusing allegations made against them by the people. Riteish Deshmukh, a prosecutor, and Varun Sharma, a defense attorney, respectively, gave Vicky some amusing roasts.
Vicky was asked if he fixes household gadgets because, as everyone knows, he has an engineering background and studied electrical engineering. Vicky responded by saying that because Sunny Kaushal likes to fix everything, he is more of an "engineer" than him. Vicky said, "He repairs AC and all too."
Vicky Kaushal has an intriguing schedule of movies coming up. The actor's upcoming film alongside Bhumi Pednekar and Kiara Advani is Govinda Naam Mera. In addition to this, he also has Laxman Utekar and Sara Ali Khan's untitled film. Vicky will then appear in Meghna Gulzar's Sam Bahadur, which is based on the life of India's first Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, together with Fatima Sana Shaikh and Sanya Malhotra.

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Yes, yes we know that Black Ops has only just released, but part of gaming is that gnawing anticipation for the next title. You might already know that in May this year, Activision registered a whole bunch of domain names under the Call of Duty label. Those registered included names like Call of Duty: Space Warfare, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Call of Duty: Future Warfare and Call of Duty: Â Secret Warfare.
Now, in the wake of Treyarch’s latest release, new rumours have bubbled to the surface. According to sources for Gamasutra, a futuristic Call of Duty is in development already and will land next year.
Sledgehammer is a newly-formed Activision studio headed by Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey, who used to belong to EA’s Visceral Games studio. Sledgehammer is currently working on a Call of Duty title. According to Gamasutra’s sources, that Call of Duty will be â€œset in the futureâ€ and will feature â€œspace marinesâ€.
Of course, despite massive staff departures and firings earlier this year, Infinity Ward still exists under Activision. The development team, famed for creating the Modern Warfare label, is also busy with a project, but few details exist. Could this project be the oft rumoured Call of Duty MMO game?
Time will tell, but for now, if Gamasutra’s Chris Morris is on the money, we can expect Sledgehammer’s project to be 2011’s Call of Duty game. Whether it will be set in the future is still up for debate, especially when one considers that Infinity Ward is the Activision studio responsible for all Call of Duty titles set in present day and the future. Of course, that could have all changed since Jason West and Vince Zampella were dismissed.
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November 10, 2010 at 14:17
I have played that one, it is called halo.
November 10, 2010 at 14:30
Future warfare I say . Just 10 years into the future with some remote controlled robots as perks.
Bobby Kotick for Dummies
November 10, 2010 at 14:47
Like a futuristic Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter but featuring a secret Nazi base on the moon
(PS I wish they get funding for this movie).
Iron Sky 😀
November 10, 2010 at 15:27
AKA Killzone 3 with Space Nazis and a necromorph zombie mode :biggrin:
November 10, 2010 at 15:42
OMG, Can’t You Guy Just Enjoy Black Ops Which Came Out Less Than 48 Hours Ago…. I’m Pretty Angry There Won’t Be A Modern Warfare 3 Next Year :angry:
November 10, 2010 at 15:46
I’m not.. I think Modern Warfare has run its course, and overstayed its welcome.
November 10, 2010 at 18:18
:blush: :blush: 🙂 :cwy: :alien: :angry: :angry: :sideways: :pirate: :wub: :pirate: :biggrin: 😉 :pirate: :getlost: 😉 :wassat: :wassat: :w00t: :ermm: :face: 😎 :sleeping: :sideways:
November 10, 2010 at 19:58
@SOAP Modern Warfare 3 isn’t it being done by sledgehammer games at the moment?
im sure they’ll be something next year.
Activision will make sure of that


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I would say that this place is a bargain especially for the price that I paid. Location was good and near many eateries and shops. It's very basic. I really like the decor, refreshing and tastefully done. There's cable tv too!
The other visitors were right about not getting any mobile reception in the room which I find it quite strange. It can be quite noisy as well with the motorbikes passing through the side lane so if you're a light sleeper, this may not be your place.
I stayed in a double room but checked out those that share a common bathroom. They were generally clean and pleasant. The breakfast area has a balcony which is nice.
What could be improved is the cleanliness in the bathroom. I felt it could use a good scrub for me to give this place an excellent rating.
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Reading List: The Best YA Books About Sisters, in Honor of Frozen 2
> Discover > Articles > Reading List: The Best YA Books About Sisters, in Honor of Frozen 2
Disney fans everywhere are extremely excited for the Frozen 2 movie!
Along with stunning animation, the promise of new characters and songs, and the Disney magic guarantee, we can’t wait to see sisters Anna and Elsa back in action in Frozen 2. And when the credits roll and you miss that feeling of sisterhood, there are a ton of great YA books about sisters, like the captivating new YA fantasy Gravemaidens by Kelly Coon, waiting to fill that void.
So, in honor of Frozen 2 and our royal twosome (sorry, Kristoff), here is our list of the best teen fiction about the bond between sisters . . . ice magic not included.
In Frozen, Anna braves the winter winds to find Elsa . . . but would she scheme her way into a royal court full of deadly secrets? Healer-in-training Kammani does exactly that when her sister is chosen as one of the sacred maidens that will die alongside the ailing ruler of their city. Determined to cure the monarch, Kammani finds a sickness within the walls of the palace that is not what it first appears.
Warning—this book does not have a Disney-style happy ending. But this heartbreakingly real depiction of sisterhood, grief, and family is a contemporary YA classic.
When her older sister, Olga, dies in a tragic accident, Julia is left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family, stuck in the shadow of her perfect sister’s legacy. Julia has to reckon with the pressures and expectations of growing up in a Mexican American home, while coming to terms with a side of her sister that she never knew.
Forget about Arendelle—welcome to the royal kingdom of America. This addictive reimagining of American history features the ruling House of Washington . . . and American princesses Beatrice and Samantha. These sisters have to stand their ground and protect their hearts in a glittery world of scandal and romance, while trying to manage the overwhelming pressures of the crown.
Why settle for two sisters when you can have twelve? Beware, the Thaumus sisters have a habit of dying in mysterious ways. In fact, only eight girls remain. Annaleigh and her sisters are drawn into a world of magical portals, midnight balls, and shimmering gowns, but something much darker lurks beneath the waves. And if Annaleigh wants to save her sisters and herself, she will have to face secrets, lies, gods, and ghosts.
Let’s hear it for BROTHERS!! Okay, okay, we’re getting off track here, but this YA thriller from the author of One of Us Is Lying is a must-read, and Ellery and her twin brother, Ezra, are Anna and Elsa–level siblings.
Ellery and Ezra are forced to return to their mother’s hometown, which has a terrifying history of missing girls and murder. When Echo Ridge’s past refuses to stay buried, Ellery finds herself in the middle of the mystery and at the very heart of the danger.
When Anna falls from her bedroom window to her untimely death, her identical twin sister Jess starts to investigate. As Jess digs into her sister’s personal life and secrets come to light, she begins to question how well she knew Anna. If you’re in the mood for a dark YA book about sisters, put this novel on your TBR.
Five identical sisters, exploitation, fame, and tragedy combine into a fascinating true story of sisterhood. When the Dionne quintuplets were born in Canada in 1934, the Ontario government took custody of them, put them on display, and exploited their fame. For fans of nonfiction and true stories of sisterhood, this book documents the tragic, tumultuous lives of these five sisters.
Faith’s older sister was abducted when they were children. 13 years later, Laurel is returned to their family. But as everyone adjusts to having Laurel home again, Faith begins to suspect her sister is not who she claims to be.

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This piece represents a great factor that seems to play on the minds of people regardless of where they come from. It is a phenomenon that has deep psychological factors, instilled into the mindset of humanity. The one prerequisite, if we are to follow Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, is that the person surpasses the biological/physiological-need stage.
It’s a phenomenon that even I, at times, struggle with; even if I consider myself to be aware of it, for it to have already registered its place in my conscience and I am able to spot and identify it when it comes along. Although largely misdirected, it’s that attention-seeking, confidence-pursuing, self-esteem-hunting collection of actions that so many of us perform day in and day out in the hopes of fulfilling some sort of insecurity or some missing piece of a puzzle that somehow appears as if it would complete the whole.
First of all, I agree to the consensus that we all have insecurities. We all have areas of improvement, and yes, the cliché does say that no one is perfect. But the way we act on it, the way we tackle it makes a huge difference; it’s the difference between saying “I’m a human being, and this is the way I am” and “I admit my faults, but I’ll tackle them sensibly”.
This extreme effort in trying to either get people’s attention and/or acceptance or this desire to impress appears to me as a strong effort to put something out, to overcompensate for a gaping hole that lies within. And it just begs the question that, after all the effort, will that insecurity be corrected? Will that person feel rewarded with self-confidence? For all the image-building and all the stress, I doubt many come out with positive, long-term results – if pursued in the erratic manner that it is. Now don’t get me wrong, I enjoy a beautiful car, fancy clothing, and the latest gadgets as much as the next guy (or girl!). But there is a fundamental difference in the two, that being that my intention is to personally enjoy them while for others it might be primarily to seek attention.
It might sound like a platitude; but truly, the way to get confidence is for you to look into yourself and be happy with yourself, with all your faults, with all your issues, with all the problems that you face, be happy with yourself, forget everyone else. Tell yourself “I know I have faults, I know I have some issues to deal with, but that’s okay, I’ll love myself, and I’ll work on fixing the things that I consider a problem”.
I remember being in class once, and I believe it was a humanities course, the first question the professor asked was “who is the most important person to you?”, we got the usual, “my family”, “my mother”, “my best friend”, even “my dog”! Then someone said something, and it really hit the spot, she said “the most important person in the world, to me, is me!” – And that is absolutely, 100% on spot! You should be the most important thing in your life to you. I’m not saying that you should treat your loved ones and whoever else is important to you in any other way but to treat yourself the best.

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'Mugamoodi' weekend collections cross Rs 10 Crores
By IANS - Chennai
03rd September 2012 04:03 PM
Audiences have given the thumbs up to Jiiva's superhero image in Mysskin directed Tamil movie 'Mugamoodi'. Made on a budget of Rs.20 core, it has reportedly raked in about Rs.10 crore at the box office over the weekend.
"The film has been made on a budget of Rs.20 crore inclusive of all miscellaneous expenses and it is estimated to rake in Rs.10 crore by weekend at the box-office," said a source from UTV Motion Pictures.
Released in around 600 theatres worldwide on Friday, 'Mugamoodi' has maintained 100 percent occupancy in Chennai, Trichy, Madurai and surrounding areas, and above 80 percent in all other areas.
It is being played in close to 15 theatres here and there are about 10-12 shows per day in all major multiplexes.
Critics gave it mixed reviews, while industry expert Sreedhar Pillai felt that the film lacks the fizz and spark needed for a superhero movie. But audiences are lapping it up.
"I watched back-to-back shows, once with friends and the second time with family," Rajesh Kandavel, who went for the second viewing with family because he enjoyed the non-stop entertainment, said.
Neha, an Engineering graduate, said: "The cross between martial arts and superhero worked brilliantly for the film. I haven't seen one superhero with exemplary martial arts skills. I watched the film on the first day."
The promotion on social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook seems to have also worked strongly in the film's favour.
There was a special contest held for 'Mugamoodi' on Twitter where participants were filtered through a selection process and were invited to watch the film with the lead cast on the first day.
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DOTHAN, Ala. (WDHN) — Alabama is experiencing the lowest vaccination rate in the country, and with only one COVID-19 vaccine authorized for children 12 and older, medical experts push vaccinations as the Delta variant spreads more rapidly.
According to pediatrician Doctor Michael Ramsey, at Dothan Pediatric Clinic, the Delta variant is becoming the dominant COVID-19 strain across the country, and here in the Wiregrass. He said since most children are under 12 and can’t get the vaccine, they are at a higher risk for getting the Delta variant.
“The main concern with pediatric is that it is much more contagious than previous variants,” Ramsey said. “It’s 60 percent more likely to pass to someone else if you have it.”
According to Ramsey, complications are not very common in children. He said medical experts will be monitoring very closely, especially as kids head back to school this Fall. This is why officials are getting creative in their approach to get young people their vaccines.
“As children go back to school, especially as schools try to decide whether they are going to mask or not.”
Ramsey said. “What some of the isolation protocols are going to be for this fall. If you are eligible for vaccinations we do recommend it for most populations.”
According to District Medical Officer with the Alabama Department of Public Health Doctor Karen Landers, the Delta variant is a much more contagious strain and it’s important to keep children safe.
This is why the department is launching a Tik-Tok contest with hopes to get Alabamians ages, 13 to 19, their shots. Even on the national stage, celebrities like, pop singer, Olivia Rodrigo have also joined the fight by making a White House appearance urging younger people to get vaccinated.
“Any COVID-19 any SARS-CoV can spread from one person to the next and we do know that the Delta variant is more transmissible,” Landers said.
Ramsey said the Pfizer vaccine is safe for anyone 12 and older and he urges parents to vaccinate their kids.
“Because there is a vaccine for adults, that is going to be the way we help keep children from catching it,” Ramsey said. “To inoculate our adults so they are less likely to have it, bring it home from work and give it to their families.”
Dr. Ramsey tells WDHN he can only guess that COVID vaccines will be available for children under the age of 12 by the end of this year or even as late as next year. He urges everyone in the community to get their vaccines, so kids under 12 don’t have to live with the risk of getting COVID.

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Chris Hemsworth Helping Out His Homeland In A Big Way, Donating $1 Million To Australian Bushfire Relief
Australia is burning, as we’re sure you already know. Over 200 bushfires have been raging across the country and have burned over 12 million acres.
At least 19 people have died and dozens more are missing. Experts predict nearly 500 million animals have died, which is such a shocking number. I didn’t even know there were 500 million animals in the world.
That’s a lot of wildlife. These fires are going to change Australia forever.
If you want to really put this in perspective. The wildfires California experienced in 2018 burned less than 2 million acres.
Several celebrities are coming out and donating to help Australia, the firefighters and the wildlife groups attempting to save the animals. Chris Hemsworth, who was born and raised in Australia, just announced that he’s donating $1 million to help support firefighters.
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Hi everyone. Like you, I want to support the fight against the bushfires here in Australia. My family and I are contributing a million dollars. Hopefully you guys can chip in too. Every penny counts so whatever you can muster up is greatly appreciated. Beyond appreciative to everyone around the world for their well wishes and donations.
It’s not just Australian natives donating. P!nk announced last week that she was donating $500,000 to Australian fire services.
She wrote that she was “totally devastated” by the fires.
I am totally devastated watching what is happening in Australia right now with the horrific bushfires. I am pledging a donation of $500,000 directly to the local fire services that are battling so hard on the frontlines. My heart goes out to our friends and family in Oz.
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are also donating $500,000. There is a lot of money pouring in. Hopefully it all goes to the people who need it most, and hopefully they can get the flames under control.
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Puglia is the heel of the Italian boot, and is an area, which is often overlooked by tourists who travel to the more popular areas of Tuscany, Rome and Sicily. However, Puglia has much on offer in terms of culture, history, food and wine, not to mention the incredible views from all around! If you are considering taking a trip to one of our luxury villas in Puglia, educate yourself on the area with these ten facts that you probably didn’t know:
1. Puglia (pronounced poo-li-ya) is also known by the name of Apulia, and has a population of around 4-million.
2. Puglia is most famous for its incredible olive oil production, providing around 40% of the country’s olive oil, which amounts to around 300,000 tonnes every single year!
3. In the past, Puglia was known as the ‘bread basket of Italy’. This is due to their high production level of pasta and breads – partially because of their high quality and quantities of olive oil!
4. The title of the longest coastline in mainland Italy has been granted to Puglia, with the heel of its boot-like shape being the defining feature of the area and being the reason behind the flowing lengths of coast, totalling around 800km!
5. Its generous coastline means that Puglia is home to some of the most desirable beaches in the region with amazing crystal clear waters and its perfect climate; the beaches are worth a visit all year around!
6. Although famous for olive oil, in recent years, Puglia has been famed more and more for its vibrant and fruity flavours in the red wine varieties.
7. One of Italy’s most archeologically interesting areas, Puglia is an absolute hub for history, having been originally colonised by Mycenaean Greeks! A Town in Puglia, Lecce, is often named ‘Florence of the South’, it is packed with historical gems including a Roman amphitheatre.
8. The rich farming heritage of Puglia is prevalent in the landscape picture, with mushroom shaped white trulli dotted all around. These stone dwellings date back to the Middle Ages and were once used as homes for the peasant farmers. Alberobello – a UNSECO site, is one of the best places to experience these, with more than 1000!
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10. Puglia is home to the most eastern point in Italy and is a particularly special area, with a towering lighthouse, Norman Cathedral and a beautiful ‘tree of life’ mosaic, the perfect place to visit on a road trip around the much lovely country of Italy!
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With all this inclement weather, we know what you're thinking: "How the heck is my makeup going to stay put with hail, sleet, and snow thrashing at my face?" Add the fact that it's prime Netflix-binging season — with all the crying sessions that entails — and the answer becomes simple: waterproof makeup.
In Western cultures, we tend to avoid death at all costs. We avoid thinking about it and talking about it, and when faced with it, we often go to extraordinary measures to delay it. Photographer Cathrine Ertmann decided to confront death head-on. Her project "About Dying" is a "photo essay from the morgue" that "works as read


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Approximately 53,000 miles: The car almost broke down when 5 of the 6 ignition coils burned out. The Nissan dealership charged $850 to replace all 6 coils.
Approximately 60,000 miles: Replaced front and rear brake pads. Cost $481.00.
Approximately 60,000 miles: Replaced the brake light wiring harness because it chafed and shorted the brake lights and the tail lights. Cost $132.
Approximately 63,000 miles: Replaced the brake light wiring harness because of the same problem. Cost $200.
After 2 years: The motorized antenna sounds like a DC-9 when extending or retracting.
I purchased this vehicle new. In general, this is an overpriced and unreliable for a Japanese-manufactured vehicle. I would never purchase another Maxima unless I am receiving at least a 50% discount from MSRP.
The vehicle lacks performance (190 ponies, but Nissan rectified this issue with the newer Maximas) and handles slowly. Nissan should have borrowed the handling design of the Infiniti G20 for the Maxima. Additionally, the transmission tends to stay in second gear unless I come to a complete stop. Gas mileage is adequate--probably due to the weight of the vehicle. The interior wind noise level is acceptable (not as good as an Acura TL).
I should have spent the extra $5,500 and purchased the Acura 3.2TL. Would have been a lot happier.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Yes
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An immersive journey through the New York music scene of the early 2000s, featuring never-before-seen footage of artists like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Strokes, TV On the Radio, Interpol and LCD Soundsystem. Set against the backdrop of 9/11, the film tells the story of how a new generation kick started a musical rebirth for New York City that reverberated around the world. Inspired by the book by Lizzy Goodman.


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For Colfer, his character on Glee is more reality than fiction. He was out during his real high school years; and, according to an Access Hollywood interview, had accepting parents. Colfer is also open about being bullied while in school—an issue often talked about on Glee.
It may come as a surprise that the role of Kurt Hammel was created for Colfer. He originally auditioned for Artie (Kevin McHale), but the producers were so impressed with Colfer's performance that they wrote in the part of Kurt.
According to Colfer's bio on the Glee website, he was "very active during high school" and grew up performing in community and regional theatre. At age 14, he assistant-directed a theatrical benefit for Valley Children's Hospital. He was also president of the writer's club, editor of the school literary magazine and a speech and debate champion.
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Giovanni Ramirez, Los Angeles police say they have the “primary aggressor” in the beating Byran Stow today behind bars. Police raided an apartment building east of Hollywood this weekend and arrested Ramirez Giovanni 31 years of age, on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.
He was arrested yesterday morning, three miles from Dodger Stadium in Stow, a Giants fan, was savagely beaten after the opening match of 31 March. According to the media, Ramirez has a history of charges of robbery and firearms.
He is being held without bail. More than 20 detectives have been working on for the past two months, relentlessly pursuing the driver and asking the media and the public for help. Last week, the police increased the reward for information leading to the arrest of the attackers and 200,000.
Parole Officer Ramirez said police tipped off after noticing that one of the men he had overseen a new tattoo on his neck, which was clearly an attempt to cover up an old brand that had been described by witnesses in attack. Officers are still-hunting for one of the suspects and a woman who they say drove the getaway car. LAPD Chief Charlie Beck told reporters that it is a huge crack in the case and encouraged the other suspects to turn himself in.
Ramirez, who was arrested in an apartment building east of Hollywood, a poor and hard it’s been riddled with bullets, is accused of kicking Stow several times while he was on the floor, unconscious. Two men while walking back to his car after the baseball game attacked Stow. He was beaten into a coma, because he is a fan of the Giants.
Stow, a paramedic and father of two remains in a coma at San Francisco General Hospital. Doctors have said that if Stow awake, could have significant brain damage.
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He saddled three for the final and two of them were battling it out in the final strides for the win. BS Special was able to fend off La Vencedora right at the wire for the mild upset, giving Sharp a one-two finish in the race.
Starting from post nine in the 10-horse final, BS Special had earned her spot in the final by winning her trial, but all eyes were on La Vencedora, the fastest qualifier and the most celebrated horse of the field.
La Vencedora, winner of the Grade 2 $1 million Remington Park Oklahoma Bred Futurity earlier this year, had a mild misstep out of the gate right to the inside of BS Special, giving Jockey David Pinon the early edge in the 350-yard dash.
It was clear halfway through the race that the top two were the ones to beat. Side by side, BS Special and La Vencedora began their battle, and neither filly was giving in an inch. Jockey
James Flores had ridden both fillies to victory in the trials and it was no surprise he chose La Vencedora in the final. He was aware that BS Special would give it her all en route to the finish line and it would take a big effort to get by her.
Although La Vencedora closed in during the final few strides, BS Special was able to maintain control of the race, winning by just the margin of a head at the finish over La Vencedora.
"I am surprised every time I ride this filly (BS Special)," said Pinon, who is now undefeated on her in three outings. "Every time, she has given me a little more. I got her out of the gate and looked over and La Vencedora looked like she slipped just a little. If it had been the other way around, Iím not sure what would have happened."
BS Special, owned by Duane Murphy, paid $10.00, $4.00 and $3.20 across the board. The daughter of FREIGHTTRAIN B is now five for seven lifetime.
The homebred filly bred and raised by Barley and Sharp Farm of Missouri, now has more than $114,000 on her books for Murphy. She and La Vencedora have been stabled side by side at Indiana Grand since before the trials for the Governorís Stake held Oct. 7.
"Iím pretty winded," added Pinon during a post race interview with Martha Claussen, Wrangler Q-Racing Ace who was on hand to assist with the final all-Quarter Horse racing night of the 2017 meet. "She kept going after the wire. I had trouble pulling her up."
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This was a student project by Tyler Hardie for Troy Malmstrom's ARCH 241 course, Autumn 2007.
"The requirement of the project was to design a rest stop located off of a major interstate near Alum Creek Lake in Westerville, Ohio. The site is an oasis of trees, sand, and water surrounded by heavy urban sprawl. Due to the suburban context of the site, I decided to design a rest stop directly off of the interstate and a community center near a highly traveled road off of the freeway. In response to the dissection of the site by man-made features, such as roads and a water dam, I propose that the primary road through the landscape be converted to a pedestrian walkway and traffic be directed onto the interstate ramp. The design of the rest stop and community center was derived from the motherboard of a computer. The property of data that influenced me most is that it's invisible to the human eye. This brought me to redesigning the landscape by raising pieces of the landscape in order to tuck the programmatic spaces under them so that the program would be unseen from outside of the centers. The shapes of the pieces of landscape being raised were dictated by the circulatory grid created in a motherboard. The program was then placed in the landscape according to its importance and function to the site." -- Tyler Hardie
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Hi everyone and welcome back to our bird of the day! Today’s bird is the rose-breasted grosbeak, and this is a pic of a female of that species. Since moving to this spot I have only seen the males one summer, and that was the first summer I lived here and I didn’t have a camera that year. But the females are nice enough to come to the feeders each year in May when they return from the south, then they will show up again in late summer. They are the one grosbeak that only shows up in summer around here, though I have also seen the black-headed grosbeak once. The male is brilliantly colored with black and white and a bright red triangle patch on his chest. The female looks like a rather large female purple finch. These birds are about the same size as the evening grosbeak. They breed across southern Canada, just getting into our area, and down into the U.S. Have a wonderful day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
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The video shows Trump responding to questions about releasing his tax returns by saying they are complex. It then shows Pritzker using the same reason for not having released his returns.
The new ad comes on the same day Democrat Chris Kennedy plans to announce a new endorsement from the head of the Chicago Police Board, as he releases a new anti-violence ad, pledging to end gun violence.
On the Republican side, State Representative Jeanne Ives, who is mounting a primary challenge to Governor Bruce Rauner, is set to have her first big fundraiser with a Chicago Bears connection. Virginia McCaskey, the matriarch of the ownership family, is listed as a $10,000 table host for an Ives fundraiser next Monday.
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DreamWorks Animation offers all this, plus a stunningly beautiful campus work environment. The center court water fountain -- and the immense Koi Pond at DreamWorks -- are legendary.
For 2019, it merged with the company's annual holiday bazaar. Lots of gift items as well as art on sale.
With travel, set-up and tear down all in one day, it's a busy time for the SNB support staff. But also super fun to be there, and to enjoy shopping the booths during breaks.
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Comedy as social change? Only in Jerusalem. 🙂 December 21-22 saw the arrival of a group of comedy change-makers from around the world for the premiere Comedy for a Change conference. Originally signed up as an attendee, I was honored that they subsequently hired me as social media manager for the conference – I created and managed the @JJJComedy Twitter for the three weeks before the conference, during the event itself, and for several weeks after.
The brainchild of comedy writer and exporter of Israeli TV formats Omri Marcus, the conference brought to Israel people who had never been there before, to experience different styles of comedy, examine how comedy informs the social and political perspectives, and to participate in an international writers room.
As the social media manager for the conference, I watched the tweets fly fast and furious throughout the day, documenting the unique proceedings as they transpired. The mayor of Jerusalem was interviewed by a foul mouthed puppet (think Avenue Q, but ruder). Participants were treated to an inside scoop of from the writers of the German, American, and Israeli versions of the hit show, “The Office.” Two Canadian comedians talked about their Yiddish-language comedy series, YidLife Crisis. The head of television programs for the BBC spoke about his network, Israel in the news, and the changing face of anti-Semitism in Europe. Session panelists talked about pushing the envelope, the process of producing video, and how social change messages can be embedded in comedic contexts.
The United States, of course, was well-represented. Other comedy professionals hailed from countries as far away as Sweden, Denmark, Hungary, South Africa and Canada; there were also two Muslim comics (from Denmark and Brooklyn), who were a vital component to the “Non-Diplomatic Peace Talks” session (covered by CNN), an experience pairing them with two Israeli political comedians and moderated by a German. (If you pause at 2:00 in the clip, you can spy me in the audience, smiling demurely and looking down at my notebook.)
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What’s “Ranch-Style” Social Media? Good question…well, it has little to do with the creamy dressing that people use to dip hot wings and occasionally vegetables into, and everything to do with the location of my last social media training .
I was honored to have been invited by the folks at See3 Communications to be part of the social media boot camp they were conducting for the Leichtag Foundation, a foundation whose mission it is to honor the legacy of Lee and Toni Leichtag through igniting and inspiring vibrant Jewish life, advancing self-sufficiency and stimulating social entrepreneurship in coastal North San Diego County and Jerusalem. The event was held Monday, September 15, at the Leichtag-run ranch in Encinitas (near San Diego), where a number of social entrepreneurship programs and Jewish organizations also were headquartered under an initiative called the North County Jewish Hub. (You can view tweets, photos & vines from the day at #NCJHub.)
My presentation on Twitter provided some best practices, as well as some examples of what constitutes good engagement (like the @midnight #HashtagWars) and what constitutes a Twitter #fail (for instance, the recent DiGiorno’s #WhyIStayed snafu).
The media session provided lots of hints about how to approach – and most importantly, develop ongoing relationships with – members of the media, to maximize your chances of getting coverage for an event or organization.

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Each month at The Lexington in London, Ja Ja Ja hand-pick 3 emerging Nordic artists for you to come along and discover. And with the line up they have in store for the upcoming show on Thursday 26th March, it’s safe to say we’re all in for an absolute treat.
Iceland’s Máni Orrason, Sweden’s LOVA and Finland’s The Hearing will all be making their way to London to join us, bringing powerful pop, outstanding voices, bags of energy, captivating light shows and boundary-pushing music that’s breaking all the rules. The artists will bring the music, we’ll bring Nordic vibes, competitions, and treats – so make sure to join us there!
“I think I’ve had a bit of a crisis,” states rising pop talent Máni Orrason. “Just thinking ‘what is the point of this?’ or ‘what is the point of doing what I’m doing when it feels like, a couple of generations from now, we’re gonna be living in the apocalypse? Am I just gonna keep writing love songs and look cute on Instagram and hope for the best? What do I do?”
The tumultuous landscape of the world at present has been taking its toll on the 22-year-old Icelander, who has been rattled into questioning the role of a musician in 2020. He has spent the time since the release of last year’s EP BABY ANGEL ruminating over such things in the debris of a breakup.
“[BABY ANGEL] was more naïve; it was very blissful, and I thought I’d cracked the code for myself there in the way that I was happy. That EP is so much about falling in love and everything that comes with that and coming out of depression and uncertainty, and attributing all of that to another person,” says Orrason.
A symbol of the mythical intersection of sincere love in consumerism and advertising, the new collection BABY ANGEL LOVES YOU sees Orrason endeavor to bring joy to those who are searching for such light. “In the past, my music has been much darker or with more self-criticism and self-hatred,” he says of his early work. “I was realizing that I wanted to make music from a more empathetic, genuine place of something that could be of some value to a teenager. What is the point of giving more pain to the world? What is the moral responsibility of an artist?”
For all the pep and zeal of the music, the need to incite light into a nihilistic world is again reflected in the project’s visuals, which draw inspiration from sci-fi and Japanese anime such as Blade Runner, Neon Genesis and Akira with their lush and colorful interpretation of dystopia. “I read this article about how Japanese anime processes the cultural trauma of Hiroshima and the atom bomb. I was thinking about how today, in an age where a climate crisis is building up and you can start to really see it in the world and it’s just getting worse with the political state of the world, it’s not too farfetched to be looking at these shows and movies processing these traumas as some kind of reflection of today.”
The emotional burden of despair can become overwhelming. “I thought to myself, if I’m really gonna live a moral life, I need to move back to Iceland and live in the north fjords by myself with three sheep. If I truly want to be good, that sounds like my only option!” laughs Orrason as he concludes his contemplation. “I’m just a tiny little piece in the world and whatever reach or impact I can have can only be through what I’m doing now.
“So, my hope is that, on whatever minuscule level, I can at least bring some kind of comfort or refuge for someone, if not just myself. For me, that’s success if that’s attainable.”
For some reason, it’s become fashionable in pop to play down your ambitions and to avoid becoming a role model for your fans. Much easier to play it coy and defer the responsibility. Well, thankfully 19-year-old Swede LOVA, aka your favorite new pop star, isn’t like everyone else.
LOVA, aka Lova Alvilde, was born into a household full of the sort of music you don’t immediately think of when you think of Sweden. ABBA and big shiny pop were eschewed in favor of opera (her dad was an opera singer), early disco and the likes of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Pop crept into her listening habits later, with inspirations coming from the likes of Swedish pop royalty Robyn (“I think that was the first concert I went to”) and the UK’s very own Natasha Bedingfield (“These Words is still a reference for me in the studio now”). From the age of three she’d accompany her dad at the piano, then, aged seven, she started writing her own songs in Swedish.
“I want to take over the world,” she beams. “I want to be the biggest I can be.” She’s off to a cracking start, with the deliciously odd You Me and The Silence’ – a song that mixes the organic, warm production of her 60s music idols with very modern, idiosyncratic songwriting – the perfect introduction to the sort of young, outspoken female artist 2018 needs and deserves. “I definitely want to be a role model for younger girls because I know how hard it can be,” she says. “Role models should make mistakes and own up to them and grow from them. You’re human.” This acknowledgment of her flaws is laid bare on the ludicrously catchy single Insecurities, which features a playful chorus of “meet my insecurities, let’s count ’em one, two, three” over scratchy guitars, bright handclaps, and zipping electronics. “I don’t want to make my songs about another person; my songs are about self-love,” she says. “You are the most important person in your life.”
Unafraid to sing about important issues, but with a lightness of touch that never comes across as preachy, LOVA’s rapidly carving out a niche for herself as Sweden’s best pop export. Inspired by the musical greats from the 60s and 70s, as well as the melodic magicians of the present day, her brand of emotional pop music feels classic. It’s not about chasing trends or chucking in today’s go-to sonic signifier for the sake of it, this is minimalistic, organic pop that feels truly universal. At the heart of it all is a proper star. “More wants more so I’m never satisfied,” she states. Keep your eye on this one.
The Hearing is the solo alias of Helsinki-based musician Ringa Manner. Since its creation in 2012, The Hearing has released two albums: Dorian (Gaea Records, 2013) and Adrian (Solina Records, 2016), as well as played more than 260 live shows in 16 different countries.
On her third album Demian, The Hearing takes a turn towards a more polished sound. Taking elements from modern Scandinavian pop, techno, and the Helsinki club scene, while letting distorted tidal waves of howling synthesizers and choir harmonies battle it out amongst themselves, she creates a musical combination that is not easily labeled as any one genre. What started out in 2012 as mere looper pedal experimenting has evolved into a world of its own.
The artist has this to say:
‘Demian’ is the next evolution stage of a being, and the missing piece of an album trilogy. It’s the start of something new, and an end to something meaningful from before. It’s having your broken heart heal just in time for someone to break it all over. It’s crying for people living in nightmares, and for the deafening beauty of one’s own cosmic uselessness. It’s shielding your mind with a pillow fortress, but inviting everyone else in too.


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Herd Immunity vs. Herd Mentality
About a week ago, I noted here that the global governance consortium and its media spokesmen are currently in a race against time to impose universal vaccination on every human being as a moral and regulatory condition for being allowed to participate in “normal life” again. They are doing this partly to serve the financial interests of the big pharmaceutical companies and their lobbyists, to be sure; but also, and perhaps most importantly, for another reason:
If the world were allowed to emerge from the pandemic without universal vaccination having been achieved first, the people who advised restraint, moderation, and the necessity of reaching herd immunity from the outset would be completely vindicated, while the unjust and unreasoned power grab of lockdowns and mandates would be thoroughly exposed as a deadly folly.
Amusingly, the day after I wrote that, I read a New York Times headline directly crediting the vaccine with slowing the pandemic, and of course urging the necessity of immediately vaccinating everyone. Every day now, we are inundated with urgent warnings that without universal vaccination, implemented immediately, the next and most deadly wave of the virus is sure to begin soon. I see that a Texas hospital system has demanded that its employees submit to vaccination or be fired, and a Texas judge has just upheld this order, which decision (right or wrong as a strictly legal point) will be used to amplify the chorus — once a background murmur, now a global chant — that vaccination, and vaccination alone, is both the only way out of this “unprecedented health crisis” (scare quotes essential) and the only means of earning the “right” (scare quotes also essential) to continue or resume one’s normal human life, including one’s employment, travel, shopping, visiting of loved ones, attendance at community events or performances, and general social acceptance. “Mandates” in private hospital chains or other businesses are one thing, of course, since they are not really mandates, but merely privately-imposed conditions of employment or service; government-imposed mandates are quite another, and that is self-evidently where all of this is headed. At the very least, if government uses fear-mongering and other “incentives” to bully enough private businesses and industries into enforcing vaccination requirements for most normal social activity, then this will leave no practical choice for anyone who wishes to work, travel, shop, attend events, and so on; these government-prodded “private mandates” will become de facto government mandates. The designer-colored “I’m fully vaccinated!” wristbands (with little happy faces or hearts on them, no doubt) will be the global standard for being granted full access to ordinary social life around the world this time next year, one way or the other.
Here is a problem: A recent largescale study has found, and common sense agrees, that vaccination gives no added benefit to those who have already had the virus and thus developed immunity naturally. Now as of last October, before the supposed “third wave” of the outbreak (or was it the fourth?), the U.S. CDC was already estimating, based on a projection from known cases (positive tests), that at least fifty million, and perhaps upwards of eighty million Americans may already have had the virus, though of course most of them had experienced no discernible symptoms. Since that time, a long winter (aka flu season) has passed, during which period there were millions of additional positive tests, thus undoubtedly expanding the number of unidentified cases proportionately. In short, we have no way of knowing for sure how many people have had this virus, but based on the CDC’s own estimates, it is entirely plausible that over a third, maybe even half, of the U.S. population has already been infected, and is thus producing antibodies. In other words, it would appear that America is nearing herd immunity on natural terms, in spite of the government’s best efforts to prolong the outbreak as long as possible by “flattening the curve,” i.e., reducing the short-term burden on healthcare facilities by sustaining the virus’s period as an active public health risk for as long as possible. (Are we still allowed to interpret phrases like “flattening the curve” in plain and non-euphemized language, or is that now strictly forbidden?)
However, if the pandemic waned naturally, due to herd immunity achieved in the normal way, then the World State’s tyrannical power grab of lockdowns, mask mandates, stay-at-home orders, nation-bankrupting and perpetual “stimulus packages,” and so on, would be exposed even further as the moral (and medical) outrage it has been from day one. The World State therefore has the most urgent vested interest in preventing that result from being achieved, or at least from being noticed and acknowledged by the general population, aka “the masses.” Hence the mad rush to vaccinate everyone on the planet immediately against a virus for which hundreds of millions, perhaps billions of humans have already developed antibodies. In short, without the worldwide assertion of tyrannical, fluid, arbitrary restrictions on human activity, this might all have been effectively over with some time ago — but then the statists would not have had the time they needed to exploit it to alter the global power structure and economy so radically and irreversibly.
Counterargument: But if the disease had been allowed to run its course unrestricted before the development of vaccines, then even more people would have died. At least the vaccines might reduce the total number of deaths from this pandemic here at the tail end of the outbreak. Are you suggesting that more lives should have been sacrificed before vaccines were available, merely to speed through to the end of the pandemic, when the vaccines now available could at least lower the eventual total mortality?
Allow me to answer this counterargument in two ways, first in terms of its medical logic and then in terms of its moral logic.
First of all, it does not follow from the fact that a certain number of people have died from a virus over an artificially prolonged outbreak that the same number (let alone more) would necessarily have died in a shorter time frame had the virus been allowed to run its course more swiftly. The opposite calculation, after all, was precisely the case many formerly respected and elite “experts” in the medical world — who suddenly found themselves relabeled pariahs and laughingstocks — were making at the outset for pursuing a more moderate strategy of protecting the elderly and recommending reasonable flu season precautions, while otherwise allowing this new virus to spread as was inevitable through the healthy majority of the population. This was the so-called herd immunity argument that the official government medical-officers-cum-television-celebrities were snickering at and ridiculing as absurd at the time, in lieu of having any actual argument to make against it — until, of course, those same government-approved experts started using the herd immunity language themselves, once the tyranny their supposed expertise had been exploited to facilitate was firmly entrenched, and universal terror of what is in effect a bad new flu been allowed to fester in the global imagination for months, overwhelming common sense and the basic human self-respect and daily courage essential to a civilized citizenry.
The concept of herd immunity is, and always was, based on the mathematical calculation that if a contagion is allowed to spread through the healthier and more active segments of the population quickly, among whom it will do little harm, but will produce antibodies, this will establish a web of “dead ends,” if you will, cutting off or reducing the available conduits to further dispersal for the virus. By artificially slowing this development of a web of dead ends, through coerced social distancing and lockdowns, you effectively grant the virus more avenues through which to disseminate itself to the more vulnerable segments of the population for a longer period of time.
Would the full-on herd immunity approach likely lead to more deaths in the early stages of the outbreak? Yes. But the hypothesis, supported by the math, is that the long-term death rate would be lower. Hence, it is at best questionable, and perhaps completely untenable, to suggest that slowing the spread of the virus for over a year through artificially imposed social distancing actually reduces mortality rates at all in the end. On the contrary, it may well cause many more deaths, by preserving more paths for the virus to spread itself over such a long time — which, by the way, was more or less the admission, though quietly stated, of the world’s “flatten the curve” advocates during the early months of the pandemic.
In any event, it is far from obvious that the case against lockdowns, mask mandates, and enforced social distancing entails any sort of choice to “sacrifice more lives” for the sake of fewer restrictions on normal life. But what about that accusation, on its face? Even if there were any truth in it, which there is not, would it really be an unqualified evil to suggest that the possibility of greater loss of life would be a rational, though in some ways unpleasant, bargain, given the alternative? Is not that bargain, in fact, the one we all accept every day with regard to the common flu, which kills hundreds of thousands of people annually, or traffic accidents which kill almost as many, or any number of other somewhat dangerous behaviors that we admit as reasonable risks, i.e., as the normal price of pursuing our ends as rational, happiness-seeking animals?
This brings us to the second objection to our hypothetical counterargument. The moral premise underlying the accusation that allowing the pandemic to run its course more naturally would entail coldly and unnecessarily sacrificing additional lives, is that preventing risk is the only or overriding priority of life, regardless of what must be sacrificed to prevent that risk. This premise, and the fact that governments around the world may now subdue their populations with it so easily, is evidence of a fundamental shift in the modern world’s understanding of the proper calculations necessary to life in a political community.
The great early modern thinkers, in their zeal to combat religious zealotry and the tyrannical abuses of social hierarchy, bravely sought to redefine human nature in accordance with its most basic and universal inclinations, rather than in accordance with its rarest and most elevated aims (wisdom, virtue, heroism, piety), which had previously been the standard. Grounding everything in the elemental desire for self-preservation, they attempted to derive the nobler or more human aspirations — freedom, community, civilized coexistence — from this basic will of every material animal to stay alive. It was essential to their project, however — essential both theoretically and with regard to the practical feasibility of the project — that the desire for self-preservation be understood as the source of human moral development, but not the end of it. That is to say, the desire for self-preservation, they held, leads to reasoning about the best means of securing that end while maintaining the aspirations that make survival worthwhile. Morality, on this view, is a natural discovery of rational man calculating the best means of living a properly human life with the least risk to his preservation, which necessarily implies the mutual respect for and protection of property, liberty, and so on. In other words, the calculation of the need to protect the self-determination essential to self-preservation leads men to agree upon certain rules of behavior with regard to one another, i.e., moral tenets.
Today, by contrast, and signaling the full and unequivocal collapse of the modern political project as conceived by its seminal minds, morality, at least for purposes of political life, has been reduced to little more than the pre-rational urge to self-preservation itself. A clear demonstration of this may be seen by comparing the current pandemic, which politicians and their media mouthpieces have frequently described as a “war,” with our near predecessors’ approach to a real war.
The planners of the D-Day invasion at Normandy, for example, knew full well that their daring strategy would lead to massive casualties, regardless of outcome, and that the outcome itself — victory or defeat — was far from clear. They also knew, however, that the stakes were freedom versus tyranny, and therefore decided that the overwhelming risk of massive allied deaths, and even ultimate failure, was a reasonable, though heavy, burden to assume, granting that succumbing to tyranny for the sake of avoiding material risk was not an option. The instinct for self-preservation itself was not morality for those men, but rather the source of certain rational calculations about the acceptable conditions of survival which gave rise, in turn, to properly moral considerations — the chief of which, in that case, being that freedom purchased at great risk and loss is better than safety purchased through enslavement to unlimited government power.
A more universal, but perhaps also more immediately relevant, analogy: Disarming the entire private citizenry of a nation would certainly help to reduce the number of weapons-related crimes. However, disarming the citizenry would itself be a much greater crime than all the accumulated weapons-related crimes that might thus be prevented. There can be no criminality more comprehensive than that practiced by the state itself, such as when it effectively renders the citizenry defenseless against any current or future expansions of state power beyond the legitimate limits and purposes of government.
Likewise, then, in the current case of the pandemic, an early decision was made, by men whose interests clearly lay on the side of governmental or global quasi-governmental authority (political leaders, high-ranking bureaucrats, and the various factions that live parasitically off of those two groups), to assert extreme and extraordinary coercive powers, and to justify these on the grounds that every loss of life is unacceptable, which is to say that bare physical survival or “safety” supersedes all other concerns or interests. Alarmingly, the vast majority of the world’s private citizens, displaying the effects of decades of moral diminution and infantilized dependence on the will of authority, simply accepted this premise — better safety through tyranny than freedom with risk — without blinking. And to the extent that humans today still recognize any meaningful distinction between freedom and enslavement, we must conclude that they knew they were accepting the latter in the name of something they called “safety.” They said so repeatedly, often in furious and frustrated tones, to any of us who questioned their moral logic.
Do you remember those conversations from early 2020? I remember them well, and some of them, in my own case, have even been preserved online. In every instance, they invariably went something like this:
Us: Voluntary changes to behavior aimed at reducing the spread of the virus among vulnerable people are one thing, but mustn’t we draw the line at relinquishing to governments the authority to commandeer or restrict the private actions and choices of innocent citizens in the most overtly intrusive and arbitrary ways — ways that plainly and unmistakably transcend the proper limits of government authority in a free republic?
Them: So you’re saying you don’t think saving an elderly person’s life is important?
Us: No, I’m saying that sacrificing everyone else’s freedom is too high a price to pay for the hope that maybe, just possibly, establishing the dangerous precedent of granting the government open-ended “emergency” powers might help “save an elderly person’s life,” and further that if I were the elderly person in question, I pray to God I would have the dignity to reject the enslavement of my fellow citizens to my personal physical survival.
Them: Well then I guess I value life more than you do, because I am willing to pay the price.
That is the final formula right there, expressed in a thousand thinly veiled ways at microphones, keyboards, and dinner tables all over the formerly civilized world a year ago: Bowing to tyranny equals valuing life; resisting tyranny equals not caring about life.
Eventually, the conversation, mired in futile repetition, simply ended, and the two sides parted ways — one to enjoy the fruits of victory in his newly unlimited paternalistic state, the other to a lonely life of alternately pounding his head against the table and staring wistfully out the window, wondering how his fellow human beings, after centuries of painful and intermittently glorious struggle for a faint breath of practical freedom on this Earth, finally reached the conclusion that merely continuing to breathe was life enough for them.


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(Crain's) — Katie Benson fits the archetype of the itinerant hotel executive, with a 30-year career including tours in the Middle East, United Kingdom and China.
“I've been a gypsy,” says Ms. Benson, regional vice-president for Europe and North America for Langham Hotels International. “I still am a gypsy.”
The 53-year Aussie now is getting her passport stamped in Chicago. Hong Kong-based Langham in December bought floors two through 13 in former IBM Building downtown, and it's Ms. Benson's job to open a 320-room Langham Hotel in the space by May 2013.
It will be the third U.S. property for the Langham chain, which has hotels in Boston and Pasadena, Calif., but has focused mainly on China, India and other overseas markets.
Related story: Hong Kong firm plans hotel at former IBM Plaza
Designed by Mies van der Rohe, the landmark tower at 330 N. Wabash Ave. is a monument to modernism, a stark contrast to the hotel chain's flagship hotel in London, which opened in 1865.
“The Langham brand suits historic buildings and there are different ways to be historic,” Ms. Benson says. “The Mies van der Rohe building is historic because it's an architectural icon and it was designed by him and built for a pre-eminent world industry leader at the time.”
Raised in Melbourne, Ms. Benson has managed and opened hotels for Langham and Starwood Hotels Resorts & Worldwide Inc., which tapped her to launch the first foreign-managed hotel in Shanghai, a Sheraton, in 1987.
In a conversation with Crain's, she explained her firm's interest in Chicago and how its new luxury hotel here will match up against the competition.


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Tiffany & Co. introduced one other large Beyoncé second: The pop artist collaborated with the American home to create a group of knickknack. The restricted version Return to Tiffany X Beyoncé was created for Renaissance Singer World Tour.
They function the iconography used on the tour and the identify of the tour, and naturally the Tiffany & Co model.
Tiffany & Co & Beyoncé
But the perfect a part of the brand new collaboration between Tiffany & Co and Beyoncé is that 100% of the proceeds will probably be donated to the About Love Scholarship Program, an ongoing partnership between Tiffany & Co., BeyGOOD and the Sean Carter Foundation which gives scholarships to younger college students learning in artistic fields.
This charitable present follows a $2 million dedication in 2021 to fund college students in arts and creativity at 5 traditionally African American universities and schools: Lincoln University, Norfolk State University, Bennett College, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and Central State University.
Of course, these aren’t the one jewellery from Tiffany & Co. and Beyoncé. The firm additionally created all the jewellery for her world tour. This is adopted by a collection of performances during which the artist wore customized jewellery from the model, in addition to jewellery Tiffany HardWear and Elsa Peretti from Tiffany.
The assortment was launched on July 29 when Beyoncé took the stage throughout her debut efficiency on the Renaissance Tour in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
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