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A joy-filled family show brimming with astonishing stunts and enchanted adventure. Dive into the rhythms and roots of Ethiopia’s rich musical and artistic traditions. A tale of two brothers told through death-defying tricks, stunning ensemble feats of human juggling, hoop-diving, Chinese pole, and contortion, performed to the irresistible beats of live Ethiopian song.
Circus Abyssinia is the first Ethiopian circus made by and for Ethiopian artists. Ethiopian Dreams thrills and inspires, celebrating the beauty and power of the imagination. It transcends our differences, and reminds us, wherever we’re going, whatever our hopes are, we all dream under the same moon.
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It has been revealed that the killer of a Trump supporter at a Colorado Trump rally on Saturday was not a private security official, contrary to the claims made by 9NEWS.
Denver city officials have confirmed that the killer was not a licensed private security worker in the state of Colorado:
New: Denver is investigating whether alleged shooter Matthew Dolloff was operating without a security guard license in his reported work for 9News. That could include criminal charges and action against Pinkerton.
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— Andy Kenney (@AndyKnny) October 12, 2020
One America News Network journalist Jack Posobiec noted that 9NEWS will likely be in tremendous legal trouble over their use of an ANTIFA-style thug to provide security for their reporters:
The lawyers are going to win this one, btw. Unlicensed armed security guard means big, big lawsuits. You better believe it.
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) October 11, 2020
Big League Politics reported on Saturday when a private security goon hired by the fake news media shot a supporter of President Donald Trump dead during a contentious rally in Colorado on Saturday.
Read the full story from Big League Politics
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Beijing An HIMARS-like rocket system was tested in China. The Chinese military has been testing the precise strike capability of its new MLRS in the highlands, according to state media broadcaster CCTV.
The People’s Liberation Army, according to a quote from the Eurasian Times, employs a PCL-191 MLRS mounted on a truck. According to CCTV, these parts were used to launch missiles against targets located several kilometres distant at firing ranges in the western Chinese deserts.
Military analysts claim that the purpose of the PLA’s most recent MLRS demonstration is to show off its firepower and combat readiness. Then, action is taken to address any potential border emergencies. The enhanced range of the Chinese MLRS, which may now attack Indian military equipment close to the disputed border, makes this most recent test much more relevant.
Two 750 mm Fire Dragon 480 tactical ballistic missiles with a combined range of up to 500 km can also be carried by the system. This is also true when it is equipped with eight 370 mm (1412 inch) rockets, each of which has a 350 km range (220 miles).
The rocket launch system’s range has been boosted to 500 km, according to Zhou Chenming, a researcher with the Yuan Wang military science and technology think centre in Beijing. When the PCL191 is deployed at high altitudes, its maximum range is multiplied by multiple, making it more effective.
China also has the PHL 03 in addition. According to Military Today, the Chinese counterpart of the Soviet BM-30 Smerch rocket system is known as the PHL 03, also known as the Type 03. This artillery rocket system’s main function is to attack distant strategic targets.
Airfields, command posts, administrative buildings, air defence batteries, sizable troop concentrations, and so on are a few examples. The PHL 03 still uses 12 launch tubes for 300 mm artillery rockets in its original Russian design.
An average rocket weighs roughly 800 kg and has a 280 kilogramme warhead. The maximum shooting range varies based on the kind of warhead from 70 to 130 kilometres. The function of both PCL 191 and PHL 03 is to fire surface-to-surface rockets, which is nearly identical.


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Staff nurse Anne Duncan retired from the Surgical Unit at Stracathro Hospital after more than 40 years service.
Anne’s friends and colleagues came together to wish her well in her retirement.
Anne was presented with vouchers from NHS Tayside and garden vouchers, flowers and a candle holder engraved with the Stracathro logo from colleagues.
Friends and colleagues gathered to say farewell to Fiona Rattray who has retired from the Dundee Midwifery Unit (DMU) at Ninewells Hospital.
Over a cup of tea and cake, colleagues heard that Fiona, a staff midwife in the DMU, had clocked up an impressive 34 years of nursing care with the majority of her working life spent within NHS Tayside.
During her career Fiona has worked in the labour suite and in wards 36 and 37 at Ninewells. She was heavily involved in the creation of the DMU 11 years ago where she remained until her retirement.
In her retirement Fiona is hoping to use some of her free time to catch up with family and friends and she has a few holidays in the pipeline. Fiona is very much looking forward to the start of the next chapter of her life.
Linda Gierasik, senior charge midwife, said, “Fiona is a much valued member of the team and will be greatly missed. She was very much involved with the birth of the Dundee Midwifery Unit, helping to lead the team and develop the service over the years.
“On behalf of everyone in the unit I would like to wish Fiona a long and happy retirement.”
Improvement advisor Karen Kendall celebrated her retirement from NHS Tayside after 40 years of service.
Karen started her NHS career in 1979 as an auxiliary nurse before gaining her nursing qualification in 1983. She spent the next 20 years working in areas including oncology and surgery, becoming one of the first members of staff to work in the Surgical High Dependency Unit.
She became a senior charge nurse in 2003, then in 2007 she took the opportunity to be seconded to the Improvement Team.
Associate Director for Improvement Tracey Williams said, “Karen has been a driving force in supporting the improvement of services across a number of areas. This has included changing how emergency department staff deal with patients with an unspecified chest pain.
“In the last year she has been instrumental in setting up NHS Tayside’s Value Management programme, helping teams to engage and organise their own areas of improvement.
“It has been an absolute pleasure working with Karen during her time with us in the Improvement Team. She will be missed and we all wish her an extremely happy and well earned retirement.”

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I have been writing about Gold since past 2 years expecting it to climb upto $2000 and more.
You must have made huge profits in this spectacular rally of Gold. If you are still holding on Gold ETFs or MF or Mining Companies Shares, hold it. Dollar has declined yesterday to its 14 years low virtually breaking all supports. I believe this is a major major fall in dollar. This may continue and may turn in severe fall in days to come. If Dollar index remains below the level of 75 and continues to fall in next 7-10 days, consider it as a major attempt to devalue dollar at its fullest strength by FED.
Why FED will devalue dollar? This might be the question you asking.
As i have explained earlier too, Bernanke is completely convinced with the theory to trash the dollar to save the economy. Even in the Reseach Paper written by FED Chairman Bernanke, he concluded the same thing about 1930 crisis. He wrote, it was a biggest mistake of Fed at that time to raise the interest rates and to withdraw stimulus package too soon.
Here are the few beliefs of Ben Bernanke on the Great Depression while comparing it with recent crisis from Larry from Money and Markets, who had rightly predicted dollar’s fall and gold’s rise:
Bernanke Belief #1: Monetary Policy Was Overly Tight at the Outset of the Great Depression. Ergo, Keep Interest Rates Low Today to Avoid Another Depression.
Bernanke believes that in the spring of 1928 and in the absence of any signs of inflation, the Federal Reserve unjustifiably raised its discount rate from 4 percent to as high as 6 percent in 1929 with the explicit aim of deliberately pricking the stock market bubble.
While it succeeded, ultimately the tight money move backfired. Instead of the stock market bubble bursting naturally of its own weight and overvaluations, the stock market imploded.
Naturally, once the stock market bubble burst in 1929, the Fed started lowering rates, all the way down to 1.5 percent by October 1931. But then the Fed made yet another tight money blunder, doubling rates within the next four months to 3 percent by February 1932, and in the absence of any signs of an economic recovery.
In Ben’s mind, the Fed engaged in overly tight monetary policy from 1929 to 1932, turning what would otherwise have been a fairly normal recession into a depression. The tight monetary policy had two effects …
1. It killed off any possibility of a recovery, by raising short-term rates above market rates.
2. Importantly, the higher rates artificially boosted the value of the dollar in international markets, importing deflation.
So what is Ben’s thinking today? Keep rates as low as possible and don’t even dare think about raising them until there are plenty of signs of a rock solid economic recovery. Furthermore, don’t dare make any moves that will strengthen the dollar, for fear of importing deflation.
Keep that latter point in mind because it’s going to re-emerge in Ben’s thinking when we look at how he viewed the latter stages of the Great Depression, and particularly, the dollar.
Bernanke Belief #2: Encouraging Bank Failures Was A Disastrous Policy During the Great Depression. Ergo, Do Not Encourage Failures Today.
In the aftermath , not suof the 1929 Crashrprisingly, as dollars were being cashed out of stocks, bonds, and many other dollar-denominated assets (excluding gold, which was hoarded), the supply of money and credit in the U.S. began to implode, and banks began to fail.
But the Fed and the Treasury did not want weak banks to stay in business. Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon actually publicly called for weak banks to close their doors.
But that policy clearly backfired, causing a banking panic, which saw more than 11,000 banks go bust by 1932. And it also started to drain the country of its gold reserves, which — because of the gold standard at the time — further caused the supply of money and credit to contract, in a virtually non-stop freefall.
Bernanke thinks encouraging financial institution failures was the wrong policy, a major blunder — especially so since in the 1930s there were no safeguards in place for depositors — the innocent victims of bank failures. Not one. There was no depositor insurance whatsoever.
Today, we have FDIC insurance and other safeguards to protect innocent investors and savings. But Mr. Bernanke still believes that encouraging banks to fail is the wrong policy.
Why? Because he knows darn well that there is no way depositors can be protected, even today, if a mass banking panic were to spread throughout the country. Washington simply does not have the resources to control an all-out panic.
Bottom line: Do not expect to see Bernanke encourage bank or broker failures, other than Lehman Brothers last year. His views on this have not changed regarding today’s great financial crisis. Nor are they likely to change.
Bernanke Belief #3: Tight Money Policy Yet Again, in 1932, Was Disastrous for the Economy. Ergo, Keep Rates As Low As Possible for As Long As Possible Today.
In February 1932, after seeing the devastation to the economy that the high interest rate policy caused, the Fed suddenly reversed course and dropped the discount rate from 3.0 percent back to 2.5 percent in June, just four months after raising rates.
That was a smart move. But they botched it up again. Just nine months later, in March 1933 — under strong pressure from Congress — the Fed cranked rates back up one full point from 2.5 percent to 3.5 percent. Again, in the absence of any solid data that the economy was recovering.
The result? The economy immediately took yet another devastating plunge, taking down thousands more banks with it, and causing unemployment to soar past 25 percent.
What will Ben do today? It’s pretty clear: He’s not likely to raise interest rates for quite a long time, until well after the economy has cleared the crisis stage and is solidly back on firm footing. That could be a year from now, or, even longer.
Bernanke Belief #4: Vigorously Defending the Dollar — Via Protecting the Gold Standard Come Hell or High Water — Was the Biggest Mistake of All.
Bernanke’s major conclusion is that almost all policy initiatives taken by Congress and the Federal Reserve during the Great Depression were designed based on one underlying motive: To protect the dollar and its underlying gold reserves, at all costs. Even at the cost of causing a Depression and 25 percent unemployment.
But that policy, according to Bernanke, had devastating unintended consequences.
Foreign countries around the world — worried that they were going to lose gold reserves to the higher interest rates offered in the U.S. at the time — began to competitively raise interest rates to defend their own gold reserves, without any concern whatsoever for deteriorating economic fundamentals.
Hence, a worldwide race toward higher interest rates broke out in the early 1930s, causing the entire globe to sink into a major economic depression that became self-fulfilling and self-perpetuating.
Bernanke Belief #5: The Longer a Country Defended Its Currency — Via Defending Its Gold Reserves — the Worse the Depression.
In one of his most important papers, published in October 1990 — “The Gold Standard, Deflation and Financial Crisis In the Great Depression: An International Comparison” — Bernanke puts all the cards on the table from his years of studying the Great Depression, with the following two conclusions …
1. Supporting the dollar via the direct and indirect actions taken to vigorously defend the gold standard was the single most important factor causing the Great Depression.
2. The sooner a country abandoned the gold standard during the Great Depression — and effectively devalued its currency — the faster the economic recovery.
ERGO, TODAY, DO NOTHING TO SUPPORT THE DOLLAR AND INSTEAD, LET THE DOLLAR FALL AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE TO HOWEVER LOW THE FREE MARKET FORCES TAKE IT, NO MATTER WHAT.
You now know pretty much how Bernanke thinks. The only questions that remain are …
1. Will his policies work?
2. Or will they backfire?
3. What unintended consequences might there be?
4. How does one protect their wealth and profit from Bernanke’s views and likely actions regarding the economy, the dollar, interest rates?
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Indianapolis man jailed after knife attack
Indianapolis – Police say three men suffered severe cuts when a knife-wielding man attacked a crowd of people in downtown Indianapolis after being told to stop playing a siren on a bullhorn.
Jail records show 57-year-old Gary Madison of Indianapolis faces three preliminary charges of battery by means of a deadly weapon.
Police say 28-year-old James Anderson Jr., 26-year-old Edward Lee Atkins and 46-year-old Johnny Gilson were injured in the attack Saturday afternoon on the American Legion Mall and outside the Central Library across the street.
Indianapolis Fire Department Battalion Chief Rita Reith says four people, including Madison, were hospitalized after the attack. Two were in critical condition and two in serious condition. Their medical conditions Sunday were not clear, but police say Madison was being held at the Marion County Jail.
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Monday, September 20, 2010
My daughter and faithful side kick Maddy came up with this fabulous idea :)
Cut a large tomato in half. (This is perfect for a mommy-daughter facial evening, you will have 2 knobs out of one tomato) Dip the juicy part of the tomato in natural cane sugar. Grasp the un-sugared portion, "the knob" of the tomato. Gently use this sugared tomato to scrub and buff away any makeup residue or dry, flaky skin. Rinse your face with warm water. Discard your tomato knob. Lastly, apply a few drops of extra virgin olive oil as a moisturizer. Your skin will be silky soft and supple. Enjoy :)
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Sunday, September 12, 2010
Free radicals are highly unstable oxygen molecules missing a single electron form their outer orbit. Since these little guys prefer traveling in pairs, they steal electrons from healthy cells, wounding those cells and setting off an inflammatory response. These little devils aka "free radicals" surround us internally and externally. They are formed on the skin within five minutes of unprotected sun exposure and reek havoc on our skin, specifically the collagen layer of the skin.
External factors include: pollution, sun, x rays, chemicals and toxins in lotions and cosmetics. (GREAT TIME TO START USING NORABLOOM):)
Internal factors include: smoking, hormonal imbalance, poor diet, high glycemic foods, undiagnosed food sensitivities, artificial sweeteners, and trans fats.
To make significant improvements in the tone and texture of your skin, you need to soothe inflammation on 2 levels:
1. by neutralizing free radicals (inside and outside)
2. boosting immune function through fantastic nutrition, supplements, hormonal balance, detoxification and topical support.
To counteract the devilish free-radicals, our immune system relies on certian nutrient that defend the cells from free radicals. Antioxidants neutralize free radicals and quench minor inflammation by sacrificing an electron without the adverse effect.
CO Enzyme Q-10
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This paper presents a new method for estimating the capacity of a lithium ion battery cell in the presence of a reference cell — the parameters of which are well characterized — in series with it. The method assumes that both cells are cycled using the same current trajectory starting from the same state of charge (e.g. fully charged). Voltage measurements for both cells as well as current measurements for the series string constitute the input to a nonlinear least squares minimization problem. The goal of this problem is to estimate the capacity of the cell given the difference between its voltage and that of the reference cell. We refer to this as the differential estimation problem, and use Monte Carlo simulation to compare it to the more traditional approach of estimating the capacity of each cell in a battery string independently using its current/voltage measurements. Two key conclusions emerge from this simulation. Compared to traditional estimation, differential estimation results in capacity estimates whose variance is (i) twice as sensitive to voltage measurement noise but (ii) significantly less sensitive to current measurement noise. This makes differential estimation more appealing for battery packs with high current measurement noise and low voltage measurement noise.
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Friday, March 19, 2010
Live Updates from Adelaide and Hong Kong Sevens
Sure it's half way around the world for most of you, but that does not mean Walker Sports does not have their finger on the pulse of international rugby. Thanks to our friends over at UR7s.com we are proud to bring you live updates from the Adelaide Sevens which is currently in progress, and the Hong Kong Sevens which is just around the corner.
Be sure to catch up with friend of Walker Sports Robin Heymann as he brings all the latest action from both of these amazing tournaments. Adelaide Sevens are already underway and the US Eagles are making headlines for all the right reasons. On the first day they managed to knock off powerhouse England 24-21. That's right there's never a dull moment on the sevens pitch. Catch up on what you missed yesterday, and get ready for the games today.
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NOURISHING LIP BUTTER
Lip Butter with Chamomile + Sea Buckthorn
Promotes elasticity and protects against dryness and sun damage with nourishing plant based ingredients.
Ingredient Spotlight ~
Sea buckthorn A favorite GCE ingredient with an abundance of active constituents! The range of vitamins and fatty acids in Sea buckthorn (including unique unsaturated omega 7) have been shown to have regeneration, repair and protective properties. It easily penetrates through the epidermis, where Gamma linoleic acid (omega 6) is converted to prostaglandins which inhibit aging and have anti-inflammatory effect.
Chamomile Great for calming inflammation and protecting against free radicals and UV damage!
Ingredients: Simmondsia chinensis (jojoba)* seed oil, Persea gratissima (Avocado)* oil, Theobroma cacao (Cocoa)* seed butter, Euphorbia cerifera (Candellia) wax, Cannibis sativa (Hemp)* seed oil, Rubus idaeus (Raspberry) seed oil, Hippophae rhamnoides (Sea buckthorn) oil, Anthemis nobilis (Roman Chamomile)* oil, Boswellia carteri (Frankincense) oil, Pelargonium graveolens (Rose Geranium)* oil.
Nothing works better than this lip butter. I have tried many kinds of natural lip balms, but this is the only one that replaces the heavy duty Vaseline products I've always had to resort to. I love that it's beeswax free, as beeswax dries out my skin. The packaging is plastic free - it wouldn't hold well being lugged around in a bag, but for bathroom or bedside it works great.
I absolutely love this lip butter! Not only is it in plastic free packaging, which is amazing, but it feels wonderful on my lips, leaving them soft and moisturized. Also, I have been struggling with a crack at the side of my lips for weeks now and within a few days of using this, the crack had fully healed! I’m super impressed- this lip butter is definitely a good investment- especially for the winter season!


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From My Twilight Series of Sparkling Czech Glass Crystal and Gunmetal
the sun sets and evening moves in I hear the symphony of crickets, see
the twinkling stars, and wait for that magical moment of Twilight. I am
adding this version of my Twilight Collection to my Etsy account. It's
the perfect addition for your evening-out adornment. These photographs
don't even do justice to the cascade of sparking iridescent crystal.
32+2 inches long of crystal glass and gunmetal wire with a front
clasp. It can be worn at its full length or doubled. Let me know if you
need me to work in a few additional beads for length.


The first full-length trailer for season four of Orange is the New Black has been released! Check it out below!
Check out the final promo video for Game of Thrones season six that was released before this Sunday’s premiere!
Witness the power of the Sorcerer Supreme in the first teaser for Marvel’s ‘Doctor Strange,’ in theaters November 4! FULL video below.
A brand new movie trailer to Suicide Squad was released during the MTV Movie Awards last night! Check out the FULL trailer below.
The Harry Potter prequel film, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them movie trailer has been released! Check out the video below.
Check out the new Star Wars Rogue One trailer that gives fans a first look at the franchise’s new female hero and the return of Darth Vader! Full video below.
A new trailer for Disney’s adaptation of the children’s book The BFG (aka the Big Friendly Giant) hit the Internet, and it’s just as magical!Disney’s The BFG comes to theaters July 1, 2016. Watch full…
A sneak peek at next week’s season finale of The Walking Dead was released yesterday. Check out the FULL video below.
Check out the new Game of Thrones Season 6 trailer that premiered during March Madness over the weekend! FULL video below.
The trailer for The Lego Batman Movie has finally been released! Check it out below. In the irreverent spirit of fun that made “The LEGO® Movie” a worldwide phenomenon, the self-described leading man of that…
The first trailer for Bridget Jones’s Baby is here! Check it out below! Bridget Jones is back! In the third installment of the highly anticipated movie franchise, Renée Zellweger returns as the beloved Brit as…
Check out The Four Horsemen in the new Now You See Me 2 movie trailer! This time around they are in China in hopes of exposing the unethical practices of a tech magnate, played by…
Check out the brand new movie trailer to The Legend of Tarzan that features a shirtless Alexander Skarsgard! FULL trailer below.
Check out the brand new trailer for Captain America Civil War! Spiderman makes his first debut! The conflict ignites in a brand-new trailer for Marvel’s “Captain America: Civil War,” hitting theaters May 6
HBO has finally released the official Game of Thrones season 6 trailer! Check it out below.
Check out the first official movie trailer to the ALL female Ghostbusters reboot!
The full length trailer for Finding Dory just debuted online! Check it out below!
With the Oscars this weekend, Jimmy Kimmel is back with another edition of Mean Tweets- MOVIE edition! Check out the FULL video below. The Oscar ceremony is a magical night on which starving movie stars…
Check out Tom Hardy in the official trailer for Taboo- a new miniseries that will debut on FX later this year. Set in 1814, Taboo follows James Keziah Delaney, a man who has been to…


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A is for Aurelan, his sister-in-law during the 2250s and 2260s in the Prime timeline.
B is for Blonde technician who James Kirk almost married.
C is for Carol Marcus, with whom he fathered a child, and quite possibly that blonde tech.
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Marriott (NASDAQ:MAR) earnings for the hotel company’s second quarter of 2020 have MAR stock rising higher on Monday. That is despite its adjusted losses per share of 64 cents missing Wall Street’s estimate for a loss of 42 cents. Its revenue of $1.46 billion also comes in below analysts’ estimate of $1.68 billion.
Here’s what else is worth mentioning from the most recent Marriott earnings report.
- Adjusted per-share losses are much worse than the company’s adjusted earnings per share of $1.56 from the same time last year.
- Revenue for the quarter comes in 72% lower than the $5.31 billion reported in the second quarter of 2019.
- Operating loss of $154 million is a negative switch year-over-year from an operating income of $409 million.
- The Marriott earnings report also has net loss coming in at $234 million.
- That’s a major decline compared to the company’s net income of $232 million reported in the same period of the year prior.
Arne Sorenson, president and CEO of Marriott, said this in the earnings report.
“Greater China continues to lead the recovery. As of early May, all our hotels in the region are open, and occupancy levels are now reaching 60 percent, compared to 70 percent the same time last year, and a marked improvement from single‐digit levels in February.”
Marriott currently isn’t providing guidance in its earnings report. That’s due to the effects of the novel coronavirus. This has it joining many other companies in withholding outlooks during the pandemic.
MAR stock was up 2.8% as of Monday afternoon.
As of this writing, William White did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.


A study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Assocation has looked at the outcomes of people with severe respiratory complications from swine flu who required a specific treatment to oxygenate their blood.
The study was in all people with swine-flu associated acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in Australian and New Zealand intensive care units during the winter flu season. Patients were given extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). This involves pumping a patient's blood through a machine that oxygenates it and removes carbon dioxide before pumping it back into the body.
By the end of the study, 71% of patients had been successfully discharged from intensive care, 9% were still in intensive care, and about a fifth died (21%). The researchers say that this is a relatively low death rate considering the severity of their condition and the intensity of the ECMO treatment.
Such studies are useful for planning purposes. The researchers estimate that the EU may need to provide ECMO to approximately 1,300 patients during this winter season.
- This study looked at the characteristics and outcomes of all 68 intensive care unit (ICU) patients in Australia and New Zealand who received ECMO for ARDS associated with confirmed or suspected swine flu between June and August 2009 (their winter flu season).
- This represented 2.6 people out of every million in the population who needed ECMO for ARDS associated with confirmed or suspected swine flu, compared with an estimated 0.15 cases per million in the previous flu season. The proportion of people with swine flu requiring ECMO was not calculated.
- Based on these figures the study’s authors predicted that the EU might need to provide ECMO to about 1,300 patients during the upcoming winter flu season.
- Patients who needed ECMO were mainly young adults (average [median] age of 34.4), with only three children aged under 15 and no elderly patients requiring ECMO. About half of the patients were obese, 28% had asthma, 15% had diabetes, and 15% were pregnant or had recently given birth.
- On average, ECMO continued for 10 days (median), median length of ICU admission was 27 days, and the median length of hospital admission was 39 days.
- Most patients survived ECMO treatment. By the end of the study in September 2009, 21% of patients who received ECMO had died, 3% were still receiving ECMO, 6% were still in ICU but no longer receiving ECMO, 24% had been discharged from ICU but remained in hospital, and 47% had been discharged from hospital.
- Although some of the patients had not yet been discharged from hospital, deaths after being taken off ECMO or after discharge from ICU were uncommon, so the death rate was not expected to change considerably.
- Because the study was a case series that does not have a control group, we do not know how ECMO compares to other treatments. In most cases mechanical ventilation and other methods had been tried in these patients, so ECMO is likely to have been one of the few remaining treatment options.
- The study did not assess long-term outcomes.
Where did the story come from?
This study was carried out by the Australia and New Zealand Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ANZ ECMO) Influenza Investigators. Sources of funding for the study were not reported. The study was published in the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA ).
What kind of scientific study was this?
This case series analysed the outcomes of patients with severe swine flu-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) who had been treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). The study looked at patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) in Australia and New Zealand during their winter flu season.
ARDS is a severe complication that can occur in people with influenza. It occurs when the insides of the lungs become inflamed, leading to difficulties in getting oxygen into the blood stream and carbon dioxide waste out. The condition can be fatal and usually requires the patient to have mechanical ventilation (such as a ventilator) until their condition improves. ECMO is an alternative method that can be used if mechanical ventilation is not successful. It involves pumping the patient’s blood through a machine that oxygenates the blood and removes the carbon dioxide before pumping it back into the patient’s body.
The researchers contacted all 187 ICUs in Australia and New Zealand to identify all patients that had received ECMO for ARDS associated with strongly suspected or confirmed swine flu between June and August 2009. Children and adults were included, but not newborns. The search found 68 patients who had received ECMO in 15 intensive care units during this period. In addition, patients from the same ICUs who had confirmed influenza A but did not receive ECMO were identified. All patients were followed up to September 7 2009 to determine their outcomes. The researchers then calculated what proportion of people received ECMO, the characteristics of these patients, and their outcomes.
What were the results of the study?
When the researchers divided the number of people who received ECMO for severe flu-related ARDS (68 people) by the number of people in the general population, it represented 2.6 people per million who needed ECMO for confirmed or suspected swine flu.
Of these, about 78% (53 patients) were confirmed as having swine flu (influenza A (H1N1)); about 12% were confirmed as having influenza A but the subtype not confirmed; and the remaining 10% had experienced symptoms of flu-like illness before developing ARDS and were suspected as having swine flu. In the same ICUs, 133 people with suspected or confirmed swine flu received mechanical ventilation, but not ECMO.
Patients receiving ECMO were aged 34.4 on average (median); three of the patients were children (younger than 15) and none were over 65. Almost all (97%) of the patients requiring ECMO fulfilled criteria for pneumonia. There was an even proportion of men and women. As well as suspected or confirmed swine flu, half of these patients were obese (BMI>30), 28% had asthma, and 15% had diabetes. Six patients (9%) were pregnant and four patients (6%) had recently given birth. Over a quarter (28%) also had a secondary bacterial infection when they entered hospital.
The average (median) time between start of flu-like symptoms and ICU admission was five days, and it was an average of nine days between the onset of symptoms and ECMO. Oseltamivir (Tamiflu) had been used in 94% of the patients. The patients had severe respiratory failure that persisted even though they had received mechanical ventilation for an average of two days. Most patients (81%) had also received at least one other treatment for their ARDS before they started ECMO.
ECMO was given for an average (median) of 10 days (ranging from seven to 15 days).
During the study, 21% of the patients on ECMO died (14 out of 68 patients). By the end of the study, 9% of the patients (six patients) were still in the ICU, including two patients (3%) who were still receiving ECMO. Forty-eight (71%) of the patients had been successfully discharged from the ICU. Of these 48 patients, 32 had also been discharged from the hospital and 16 remained on a non-ICU ward in the hospital.
What interpretations did the researchers draw from these results?
The researchers concluded that one third of patients in ICUs with swine flu-related ARDS received ECMO in Australia and New Zealand in June to August 2009. These people were mainly young adults who had severely low oxygen levels in their blood. About a fifth of these patients died, and the authors report that these death rates are low considering how severe their condition was and the intensity of the treatment.
What does the NHS Knowledge Service make of this study?
This study has given an idea of how frequently ECMO might be required for cases of ARDS associated with swine flu. The study’s strengths include the fact that these patients are likely to represent all patients who received ECMO in Australia and New Zealand during the study period, so it is not likely to have been affected by biases in how patients were selected.
Such figures are useful for planning. Using these findings, the researchers estimate the European Union might need to provide ECMO to about 1,300 patients during the upcoming winter season.
The study does have some limitations, which the authors acknowledge:
- The study collected data retrospectively, which can reduce the accuracy of findings. However, the researchers did try to counter this by using standardised data collection forms and definitions for various conditions, and trained research coordinators.
- Only 78% of the patients had confirmed swine flu. The remainder were also very likely to have swine flu however, as they had either flu-like symptoms or confirmed influenza A at a time when swine flu was the main circulating flu strain.
- As a case series, the study did not have a control group, and therefore it is not possible to know what would have happened to patients had they not received ECMO. However, the severity of their illness would have made it unethical not to provide what was considered to be the most appropriate treatment.
- In order to publish the study in time for the northern hemisphere’s winter season, the study was finished in September, before all patients had been discharged from hospital. The outcomes of the patients remaining in hospital are therefore not known, and the death rate could actually be higher than that estimated. However, the authors note that most of the patients had been weaned from ECMO or discharged from ICU, and deaths after this stage in other patients were uncommon. The study was also not able to look at the longer term outcomes of these patients, for example, how well their lungs continued to function.
- The study does not offer an estimation of what proportion of people with swine flu will require ECMO, as it would have been difficult to determine exactly how many people had swine flu overall in the population during the period of the study.
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BULAT, Denis; BULAT, Dumitru; USATÎI, Marin; CROITORU, Ion; VATAVU, Dmitri. Particularities of Prut river ichtyofauna in 2016 study year. In: Sustainable use, protection of animal world and forest management in the context of climate change. Ediția IX, 12-13 octombrie 2016, Chișinău. Chișinău: Institutul de Zoologie, 2016, pp. 190-191. ISBN 978-9975-3022-7-2.
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Investigations conducted in the Prut River basin using sapling seine in the 2016 study year revealed the following ichtyofaunistic features: 1. At the confluence region with Danube River the ichtyofauna is the richest, owing to the ecoton zone (during spring - 25 species and during summer - 27 species were encountered), forming joint contact surfaces between the riverbed, flood plain and Danube River. It noted that in this area the highest taxonomic diversity is found, holding a significant share in catches the invasive and interventing fish species as: Carassius gibelio, Lepomis gibbosus, Pseudorasbora parva, species of gobies (Neogobius fluviatilis, Babka gymnotrachelus, Proterorhinus semilunaris, Ponticola kessleri, Benthophilus nudus) and Syngnathus abaster. This ichtyofaunistic image is largely determined by the major influence of Danube River on Lower Prut ecosystem and presence, in this area, of numerous fish farms, canals, ponds and lakes, which, during high floods, make active mutual exchange of fishery representatives. Among the native fish species in the area of Danube River confluence become common the following taxons: Alburnus alburnus, sapling of Aspius aspius, Blicca bjoerkna, Rhodeus amarus, Rutilus rutilus, Abramis brama and Perca fluviatilis. During the spring, in the reproductive season, eloquent increase the abundance of Gymnocephalus cernua) and Gymnocephalus baloni. 2. In Braniste village resort, located directly downstream of the Costesti -Stanca lake, the species diversity (in spring - 15 species, in summer - 18 species) is also determined by the abundant presence of limno - rheophyls fish species as: Carassius auratus s. lato, Pseudorasbora parva, Perca fluviatilis, Rutilus rutilus, Esox lucius and Scardinius erythrophthalmus. At the same time, it should be noted that this hydrobiotop, with clean and transparent water, sandy substrate and with intense shady trees sides, offer a favorable habitats for rheophyls native fish species as: Squalius cephalus, Barbus barbus, Chondrostoma nasus, Romanogobio kesslerii, etc. 3. In Cahul halt there is a similar situation, the typical rheophyls ichtyofauna is complemented by ubicvist fish species as: Pseudorasbora parva, Carassius gibelio, Rutilus rutilus, Perca fluviatilis and culture one (breeds of carp) coming from numerous limitrophe ecosystems with nearby stagnant water (abandoned ponds near Cahul city, Manta ponds, fish farms, flooded canals, etc.). 4. From gobies group inhabiting Prut River, Neogobius fluviatilis is the most numerous and frequent in captures, becoming eudominant (D5) species and characteristic one (W4, W5) in most of collection sites of Prut River bed. High values of ecological indexes for intervening species Proterorhinus semilunaris are alarming downstream of the Costesti-Stinca dam (Braniste village). In spring this can be a dominant taxon in catches - D4 (D = 8,48% W = 3,39%). From gobies group we have mentioned the emergence and expansion in the Lower Prut of the Bentophilus nudus species, first identified in the spring of 2015 (Bulat, 2015). 5. Some allogenic fish species signaled in Prut River in the 2016 study year, the most abundant in catches are Carassius auratus s. lato, Pseudorasbora parva and Lepomis gibbosus, their affinity degree growing in areas with calm water and rich in aquatic vegetation. 6. Among the native fish species caught in the Lower Prut ecosystem in 2016 most representative are those with short life cycle: Alburnus alburnus and Rhodeus amarus (eudominant in most habitats), and from them of medium size the juvenile of Squalius cephalus, Aspius aspius, Rutilus rutilus, Abramis brama, Blicca bjoerkna can be mentioned. Among the taxons with diverse rarity state captured in Prut River ecosystem in the 2016 study year should be mentioned: Sabanejewia balcanica, Zingel zingel, Leuciscus idus, Barbus barbus, Vimba vimba, Chondrostoma nasus), Gymnocephalus baloni, etc., each of them being identified in species characteristic habitats and at certain times of the life cycle. 7. In the region of the Costesti-Stinca dam control fishering in the summer of 2016 revealed an ichtyofaunistic diversity established of 10 fish species, including the next eudominant (D5) and characteristic (W4 , W5) species: Alburnus alburnus (Wsummer = 8,93%), Rutilus rutilus (Wsummer = 9,57%), Gymnocephalus cernua (Wsummer = 16,11%) and Perca fluviatilis (Wsummer = 10,98%). Among indigenous fish species with major economic and environmental importance which have proved satisfactory strength in catches in the summer of 2016 we can mention: Aspius aspius (Wsummer = 0,79%), Abramis brama (Wsummer = 1,01%) and Sander lucioperca (Wsummer = 1,8%). From interventing fish species, most abundant and frequently represented becomes Neogobius fluviatilis (Wsummer = 2,07%). When analyzing similarity ecological index (Sorensen) of fish catches fish from Prut River in the summer of 2016 using sapling seine, we find that the greatest degree of similarity of fish communities is observed between the resorts: Sculeni - Leova (83%); Leuşeni - Leova (78%) and Cahul –Giurgiuleşti (77%), and the lowest similarity is found between the resorts Leuşeni and Giurgiuleşti (43%). Acknowledgment: The study was performed within the national project 15.817.02.27A

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“We are the taco meat of Rock and Roll” front man, Brian Villers, explains the bands musical direction, “The concept behind NEW CREATURE is never being satisfied with who you have become. It’s about constant regeneration, and reinventing yourself in every way possible.” The thundering drums of Casey Glass and Fred Goodwin’s rocking bass playing lay down a strong foundation. Louis Micciullo adds soulful shredding guitar solos that flirt with greatness. Then, heartfelt vocals and intriguing lyrics from Brian Villers top off a sound that is instantly unforgettable. When Brian, a founding member of Northern Colorado’s veteran metal band Immortal Dominion, and his new team of musicians hit the Blasting Room Studios in Aug 2013, he knew they had come up with material that was very different. But, none of them expected the transformation they were about to experience. After one listen, you will agree that they have created a sound as mighty as the Rocky Mountains.
NEW CREATURE will launch on the wings of their first EP, “I CAN SEE”, recorded at the legendary Blasting Room Studios in Fort Collins, Colorado. The songs are produced by Jason Livermore who has worked with Rise Against, As I Lay Dying, Puddle of Mudd, Flobots and many more. “Jason was able to take our ideas and smooth out the rough edges to help us create something really original. “I was fueled on Fritos and King Dog energy mints” commented Louis. “Once you hear it you will agree that something special is going on here.” This also remains true about the bands live shows, which Casey describes, “it’s like watching the birth of a solar system through the eyes of a gerbil.” Check out NEW CREATURE and you will not be disappointed.


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SECTION 1. Section 44A of Chapter 149 of the General Laws shall be amended to add:-
“Quasi-Public Agency“ means a department, agency, board, commission, authority, entity, or other instrumentality that is created by legislation which is legally separate from the commonwealth but receives state grants or federal grants or has authority to issue bonds or any combination of those factors.
SECTION 2. Each lettered subsection in GL c. 149 sec. 44A shall be amended to add “or procured through or administered by quasi-public agencies” after the words “public agency” every time the term “public agency” appears.
SECTION 3. Section 44A1/2 of Chapter 149 of the General Laws shall be amended to add the words “or entity receiving assistance or contracts through or administered by a quasi-public agency” after the words “public agency” every time the words “public agency” appear in all subsections.
SECTION 4. Section 27 of Chapter 149 of the General Laws shall be amended as follows:-
After the words “public works” add “or contracts procured through or administered by a quasi-public agency” every time the term “public works” appears.
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After the words “public work” add the term “or work receiving the benefit of public dollars as through a process connected to a ‘quasi-public agency’ as defined in GL c. 149 Sec. 44A or a project for which a private company has garnered a public tax credit”.
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Prince Harry has blamed the Capitol Hill invasion and the continuous harassment of his family on social media.
Prince Harry pleaded for social media regulation and said “time is running out”.
He said big-tech internet firms needed to be held accountable after supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the building in Washington on January 6. Five people died including a Capitol police officer.
“We are losing loved ones to conspiracy theories,” he went on, “losing a sense of self because of the barrage of mistruths, and at the largest scale, losing our democracies.”
When asked about the “well-documented online harassment” he and wife Meghan Markle experienced while in the UK, Harry says that false reports circulated through social media contributed greatly.
“I was really surprised to witness how my story had been told one way, my wife’s story had been told one way, and then our union sparked something that made the telling of that story very different,” he said.
“That false narrative became the mothership for all of the harassment you’re referring to. It wouldn’t have even begun had our story just been told truthfully.”
“We have seen time and again what happens when the real-world cost of misinformation is disregarded,” he continued. “There is no way to downplay this. There was a literal attack on democracy in the United States, organized on social media, which is an issue of violent extremism.”


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Mastering Location-Based App Testing with Maestro UI Testing Framework's Travel Command
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Optimize your mobile app's user experience with Maestro UI testing framework's travel command. Test location-based or map-related features for reliable app quality.
Simulating User Motion in Mobile App Testing with Maestro UI Testing Framework
Mobile app testing is a critical aspect of ensuring the quality and performance of applications. One of the challenges developers often face is testing their app's response to user motion, particularly when it comes to apps with map or location-based functionality, such as delivery or ride-hailing apps. That's where the Maestro UI testing framework comes in, offering a simple and effective solution to simulate user motion.
In this blog post, we will explore how to use the
travelcommand in the Maestro UI testing framework to simulate user motion, moving from one coordinate to another. We will go through an example that demonstrates how to move from Tower Bridge to London Eye with a stop at Piccadilly Circus.
Travel Command in Maestro UI Testing Framework:
travelcommand in Maestro is designed to mock user motion by specifying a set of points (latitude/longitude coordinates) and a speed. This feature can be particularly useful for testing the behavior of apps with map functionalities or those that rely on user location.
Requires Maestro version:
Example: Simulating a Journey with Google Maps on Android
To illustrate the use of the travel command in Maestro, let's consider the following example, where we will simulate a journey using Google Maps on an Android device. Note, you should already have Google Maps installed on your mobile.
Add below code in a file, example:
travel.yamlstored in a directory
.maestro. Note, you can name the file anything!
appId: com.google.android.apps.maps # 1 --- - launchApp # 2 - travel: # 3 points: - 51.505456, -0.075356 # Tower Bridge (starting point) - 51.510091, -0.135293 # Piccadilly Circus (midpoint) - 51.503399, -0.119519 # London Eye (ending point) speed: 200 # 4 (speed in m/s)
In this example, we begin by:
- specifying the app ID for Google Maps (com.google.android.apps.maps).
- Next, we use the
launchAppcommand to start the app.
- Following that, we issue the
travelcommand, providing a set of coordinates for the starting point (Tower Bridge), midpoint (Piccadilly Circus), and ending point (London Eye).
- We also set the speed of travel to 200 meters per second.
To run the above
travel.yamlfile, you can do on terminal:
maestro test .maestro/travel.yaml
Mocking user motion in Google Maps using Maestro
As the test runs, pay attention to the blue dot on Google Maps; you'll see it moving along the simulated route! By using the
travelcommand in Maestro, you can easily mock user motion to test your app's behavior and performance.
The Maestro UI testing framework's travel command offers a convenient solution for simulating user motion in your app testing process. By specifying a set of coordinates and speed, you can quickly test map functionality, location-based features, and the overall behavior of your app in response to user movement. With Maestro, you can ensure that your app delivers a seamless and reliable experience for your users.
Installing Maestro: https://maestro.mobile.dev/getting-started/installing-maestro


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This year, Open House Rome was held on May 12-13 and NOS Design took part for third consecutive year with our studio located on the Fleming hilltop and our ongoing project ’Penthouse Fleming’, which is in the same building. Open House Rome is an association that celebrates the architecture and design of Rome, and this year’s edition showcased 150 sites in seven main areas of the city. For one weekend, the public was invited to visit the best architecture and contemporary design that the city has to offer. This year’s focus was on contemporary design, which corresponded well with the nature of the studio and ‘Penthouse Fleming’. The team of NOS Design, headed by the director of the studio – Architect Benedetta Gargiulo Morelli – welcomed the guests and gave them a tour around the studio and ‘Penthouse Fleming’, as they shared their work, the mission of the studio and how the current projects have been developing so far. The visitors got familiar with all the challenges the studio faced during the construction process of ‘Penthouse Fleming’ and how they were resolved. A special video material, containing the most important highlights of the construction work, was running throughout the entire event and it was greatly appreciated by our guests. We are happy finish the week successfully.
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Recently I saw a this reading challenge and I decided to do it. Its my first reading challenge and I’m so excited. Without further ado welcome to my post for the Reading Quest.
Basically you choose a character and follow them on a TBR quest that begins August 13th to September 10th 2017.
These are your options of characters. If you complete one path you are allowed to follow another quest.
I have decided to do the character, Knight first.
My TBR list.
The First Book in a Series
A Book Set in a Different world
A book based on Mythology
A book that contains magic
A Book with a one word title
A Book published by a small press
A Book with< 500 ratings on goodreads
I will be posting updates every week once the challenge starts so keep and eye out for them. Thank you.

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Morehouse School of Medicine at the NMA Convention
2018 Annual National Medical Association (NMA) Convention and Scientific Assembly
August 11-15, 2018
The National Medical Association (NMA)'s Annual Convention and Scientific Assembly is acclaimed as the nation’s foremost forum on medical science and African-American health. Each year, African-American physicians and other health professionals from across the country convene to participate in the scholarly exchange of medical advances, discuss health policy priorities, and to share experience through networking opportunities. Through NMA's 26 Scientific Specialty Sections and Interest Groups, the Convention attracts the broadest spectrum of African-American physicians, academicians and scientists in the country. The program opens on Saturday, August 11, with special sessions and workshops, and continues through Wednesday, August 15.
Attending the 2018 NMA Convention?
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Saturday, August 11th
Edward C. Mazique, M.D., Symposium
12:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: Rosen Shingle Creek Resort Center (Room TBD)
NMA Opening and Award Session
6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Sunday, August 12th
Council on Concerns of Women Physicians Awards Session
12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
MSM Welcome Reception
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Location: Cala Bella Shingle Creek, 9939 Universal Boulevard, Orlando, Florida 32619
Monday, August 13th
MSM Alumni Reception & Dinner
6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Location: The Rosen Shingle Creek Resort (The Sebastian Ballroom L 1 & 2)
Tuesday, August 14th
6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
The President‘s Ball
8:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m.
Wednesday, August 15th
The Satcher Health Leadership Institute Symposium: Empowering Communities to Create
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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Danish national team midfielder Christian Eriksen Hope to return to football in England again after being denied playing in Italy. The 29-year-old star had a heart problem at Euro 2020 that made headlines in the middle of last year. Although the agent confirmed
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, head coach of Manchester United, has confirmed that the team’s readiness is complete because Paul Pogba is back in the team for European games. Manchester United are scheduled to visit Atalanta’s Gaviss Stadium in the fourth leg of their Champions League group
Manchester United midfielder Bruno Fernandes has returned to training with former club Boavista. The 26-year-old was outstanding last season, scoring 30 goals and providing 18 assists and winning the Sir Matt Busby Award and joining Portugal at Euro 2020 past.
Ralph says Ings rumours hurt the team. Southampton manager Ralph Hasenhuttl admits the rumors surrounding Danny Ings have had a “devastating effect” on the team. Ings’ situation remains unclear after the player entered the final year of his contract with Southampton. The 28-year-old has been
David de Gea decided to cut off his vacation to return to the club. By hoping to vie for the position of goalkeeper, Manchester United’s 1 hand to occupy again. The Spain goalkeeper has lost his No 1 position in the Red Devils to Dean Henderson
Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel underwent two vaccinations for COVID-19 on Saturday. Chelsea served as a distribution center for the COID-19 vaccination. This covers the Hammersmith area of London Borough and the Fulham region, where Chelsea’s management and staff have been vaccinated. Chelsea boss Tuchel has received
Chelsea failed to make an offer of £85m for Juventus winger Federico Chiesa, with Zebra not interested in selling him this summer. The 23-year-old star plays for the Italian national team. And was named in the UEFA Euro 2020 Team of the Year after leading
Real Madrid lost 300 million euros. Real Madrid have revealed their accounts for the 2020/21 season. Which have lost more than 300 million euros in revenue. On Wednesday, the Real Madrid released the club’s financial accounts for the 2020/21 season. The Spanish club losing more
Phillips ready to challenge the real Swans defender. Nathaniel Phillips sees the return of the long-lost team as a positive as it has a positive effect on the overall strength. Even those who were revived all played the same position, which would spur a fierce competition.
Dortmund warned Chelsea to stop thinking about Haaland this summer. Borussia Dortmund have sent a warning to Chelsea not to waste time with Erling Braut Haaland this summer. Haaland has emerged as one of the most sought-after centre-forwards at the big clubs this summer. Even in


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An African American woman moved home to take care of her dying mother giving up the opportunity to experience a world beyond segregation. Zoraida Hughes Williams finds that some things have changed about her hometown of Fort Worth, Texas while some have stayed the same, like Hell’s Half Acre, an area where saloons, prostitution and gambling runs wild. Like most of the residents, she wants to keep her head down and stay away from trouble, but it comes in the unlikely form of an Anglo Baptist preacher. He messes up everything and almost gets them killed.
Jacob Lawrence is renowned for his narrative painting series that chronicles the experiences of African Americans, which he created during a career of more than six decades. Using geometric shapes and bold colors on flattened picture planes to express his emotions, he fleshed out the lives of Tubman, Frederick Douglass, John Brown, and African Americans migrating north from the rural south during and after slavery. Lawrence was 12 in 1929 when his family settled in Harlem, New York, at a time when African American intellectual and artistic life was flourishing there.
Kara Walker’s art has been exhibited across the globe. Her 1994 room-sized mural, titled Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred b’tween the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart, brought her into the art world spotlight. The work consists of black cut-out silhouettes and depicts narratives of slavery and racism in the history of the south.
Charles White, the meticulous draftsman used his skill to render human emotion and endurance in the face of such obstacles as discrimination. His works from the 1950s, the decade when the civil rights struggle exploded in the United States, show the cost of such perseverance in images of black men and women fighting for social justice.
Artist and author Faith Ringgold was inspired by the fabrics used by her mother when she was a child. She has written children’s books, taught visual art, and produced narrative works about gender and race. Notably, Ringgold helped form an activist committee in the 1970s protesting the inequal presence of female artists at the Whitney Biennial. Her mosaics are present in subway stations, and her sculptures and quilts, such as the 1985 Flag Story Quilt, are part of permanent collections in New York City.
Painted 11 years after Henry Ossawa Tanner first settled in Paris in 1891, this rapidly executed plein-air oil sketch is one of the artist’s rare depictions of the French capital. His vantage point is from the right bank of the Seine looking west toward the towers of the Palais du Trocadéro, the exhibition hall built for the 1878 World’s Fair. A diffuse, hazy light fills the scene, which is free of human activity save for a solitary figure dressed in black at the lower right. With short, loose brushstrokes laden with paint, Tanner captured the scattered reflections of light across both river and sky. (from National Gallery of Art)
May Flowers, a compelling photograph of three young African American girls, succinctly addresses the issues of race, class, and gender that the American artist Carrie Mae Weems has explored for decades. Related to a video Weems made in 2002 titled May Days Long Forgotten, the photograph evokes both spring’s renewal and May Day, the international workers’ holiday. Befitting these themes, May Flowers depicts girls from working-class families in Syracuse, New York, wearing floral-print dresses. Its tondo format, truncated foreground space, and tight focus on the figures harks back to Renaissance paintings of the Madonna and child, while its subject—adolescent girls with flowers in their hair, lounging on the grass—recalls both 19th-century paintings and photographs, such as those by Édouard Manet and Julia Margaret Cameron. Weems intensified this historical character by printing the photograph in sepia tones and placing it in a circular frame like those gracing the walls of 19th-century parlors. (from National Gallery of Art)


Shares of Irvine-based Vizio Inc. (NYSE: VZIO) rose Thursday on news of a deal struck with Verizon Media on what’s expected to be greater ad targeting capabilities across devices.
The company’s shares were up about 2% to $27.35 for a market cap of $5 billion.
The deal for Vizio could help with targeted advertising for the advertisers it works with across TV and mobile using Verizon’s 200 billion cross-screen signals, which allows brands to present their ads to viewers in a consistent way across various types of device screens.
The deal also gives New York-based Verizon data of the more than 18 million Vizio smart TVs that have opted in to have their information shared.
Verizon will have exclusive access to that viewership information starting next year.


Insta-review: Local tequila drinks
While taste-testing nachos last week, we also sampled refreshing local sparkling tequila drinks that promote environmental or social missions.
- This warmer week (finally!) makes it the perfect time to share our reviews.
🌶 Big Star Spicy Margarita: This jalapeño-flavored drink hit shelves last year as part of a local margarita line made by Big Star restaurants and Apologue Liqueurs, a certified B corporation ($17–$19, four-pack).
Justin: Wow! I haven't been much of a fan of canned cocktails, but this drink was delicious and very, very potent.
- The jalapeños give it an extra kick and linger in your mouth.
- One can is 12% alcohol, so probably not great on a school night, but this is work, after all!
Monica: Tasty, tangy and strong!
♻ Freshie Organic Tequila Seltzer arrived in local stores last year ($10.99, four-pack).
- The Northbrook-based company touts its drink as the "only USDA-certified organic and sustainably produced tequila seltzer" out there, using tequila from a "solar-powered, zero-waste, all-organic, fourth-generation, family-owned distillery."
Justin: This is more on par with the hard seltzers on the market, but without the weird flavoring. It's a refreshing experience.
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In spring 2020, The Old Vic will present Amy Herzog’s Pulitzer Prize for Drama nominated play 4000 Miles, directed by Matthew Warchus with Eileen Atkins and Timothée Chalamet in the lead roles, opening on 16 April 2020 with previews from 6th April.
‘It was to finish something I started. Micah and I started something. I finished it. That’s it. People want to make it really complicated but it’s not’
At the beginning of the summer 21-year-old Leo set out from the West Coast cycling across America with his best
friend. After weeks of radio silence, no one is more surprised than his 91-year-old grandmother, Vera, when Leo
turns up on her Manhattan doorstep in the middle of the night.
His life just starting, hers nearly ended, in a faded Greenwich Village apartment their griefs collide.
‘A funny, moving, altogether wonderful drama’ The New York Times.
Artistic Director and Director, Matthew Warchus, said ‘Amy Herzog is one of my favourite living writers – she writes with a deceptively powerful simplicity, full of extraordinary grace, precision and radiance. I’m very much looking forward to working with this exceptional cast on her gorgeous play which abounds with intimate beauty and truth’.
4000 Miles is part of Matthew Warchus’ Season 5 joining the forthcoming productions of A Christmas Carol,
Endgame (in a double bill with Rough for Theatre II) and Local Hero.
By Amy Herzog
Directed by Matthew Warchus
Starring Eileen Atkins and Timothée Chalamet
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If you had any questions or doubts, or just plainly needed a reminder that Mary J. Blige is the unrivaled Queen of Hip-Hop Soul, the musical legend blessed us with her own tribute that solidified her pre-eminent impact in R&B. Yes, she performed her own tribute. Icon status: confirmed.
Following the touching memento, the R&B icon delivered a powerful, show-stopping 20-minute medley of her classic hits such as “Just Fine,” “Real Love” and “You’re All I Need.” Mary served live vocals, fly fashion and dance routines. The R&B legend came out in an icy all-white ensemble to give us a quick, soulful acapella before switching things up and bringing out Lil Kim and Method Man to give us that hood-R&B Mary we know and love.
As Mary said in her acceptance speech, she is a queen and a living legend indeed. Celebrities and fans alike are still recuperating from her performance of a lifetime. It was truly one for the records, and we’re still getting our life to it.
Late last night after the 2019 BET Awards ended, 50 Cent took some time away from his social media antics to send his kudos. Fif, who did not attend the awards show, posted a simple one-sentence message to his Instagram account that aptly sums up how we all are feeling right about now.
“Mary J. Blige destroyed it,” Fifty declared to his 23 million followers.
John Legend also had a word for hip-hop’s most soulful songstress.
“Thrilled to be in the presence of Queen @maryjblige!! That parade of hits made me so happy!” the “All of Me” singer tweeted during the awards show. “The entire crowd knew every single word and sang at the top of our lungs!”
“I stan until the end of time,” sports commentator Jemele Hill proclaimed on Twitter.
No other commentary is needed. Point blank, simple. Check out the wildest reactions to Mary’s performance below:
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In the week since the Oscars the internet has been streaming with stories about Parasite and director Bong Joon-ho. There’s even a clip doing the rounds showing how to cook Jjapaguri, the beef noodles in black sauce mentioned in the film. It’s a long time since an Academy Award for best picture has so delighted film fans. It seems a good time to tell my story.
Twenty-five years ago, a young filmmaker with a merry face and disorganised hair came into the Sydney studios of ABC Radio National. Bong Joon-ho was in town because a short film he’d made was screening in an Asia-Pacific Film festival here.
I didn’t broadcast the interview: it was tough going. I knew little, back then, about Korean cinema, and the festival organisers, and perhaps Bong, had vastly overestimated his ability to speak English. There is a huge difference between conversational English and the capacity to express more complex ideas in a language not your own.
But I admired his chutzpah, and his persistence. And perhaps we both learned from the attempt. Thereafter, I tried never to put filmmakers from other cultures at such a disadvantage, and became rather obsessed about finding good interpreters who were also good broadcasters and understood cinema. It’s harder than you may think. Perhaps Bong also learned from the experience: even now, he has a film-literate interpreter at his side for key public appearances.
Some years later, I saw his first feature, a satire called Barking Dogs Never Bite, at a European film festival. Afterwards, I strolled along the foreshore trailing two colleagues, both very distinguished European critics. “And what,” one enquired of the other, “are we to make of this silly little film?”
A few months later, at a different film festival in Asia, this silly little film won a critics’ award. And one of those colleagues, I was startled to see, was on the jury. Context, I think, helps a lot.
Many qualities make Bong Joon-ho a fine filmmaker. He is a perceptive observer of large-scale and small-scale human interaction. He has a belief in social justice — a moral sense, if you like. He doesn’t do cardboard cut-out heroes and villains: his characters have foibles, vanities and weaknesses; they may do bad things but they are not bad people.
Parasite’s Kim family, infiltrating the household of the wealthy Parks, are doing what they can to get by. It’s impossible to distrust the broad, dependable face of the father, Kim Ki-taek, played by the wonderful Song Kang-ho, who has enriched Bong Joon-ho’s films since he first played the self-deluding detective in Memories of Murder. The director may have his fun with the naive mother’s pride in the wealthy Park family, and with how her six-year-old plays off his parents, but these are all people we recognise, and each has their moment.
Bong’s pungent sense of humour has been evident since his short-film days. It’s based partly on his observations of human failings but also on his fondness for certain cinema traditions. He has a weakness for slapstick, and almost every film he makes features a chase sequence. Often a comic one.
In his third film — the wildly funny monster movie The Host, based on newspaper accounts that chemical waste in Seoul’s Han River had produced deformed fish — a monster fish makes off with a little girl. Bong’s protagonists are a hapless family operating a snack bar on the riverbank, but his satire neatly skewers the bureaucratic and military response to the crisis.
Those slapstick chase sequences have been there from the get-go. In an early short, Incoherence, we see an affluent jogger, pristine in a white tracksuit, stealing milk from doorsteps to refresh himself en route. A newspaper deliveryman gives chase, and it doesn’t end well. Even in the much tenser Memories of Murder, about a serial killer and two not very wily cops, there’s a moment when the pair hear a particular song on the radio and suddenly start running.
Among cinema’s hugely important elements is the arrangement — and movement — of bodies in space. Bong Joon-ho gets this. We see it early in Parasite, in a tableau of the impoverished Kim family in their scungy basement flat, scrambling into some kind of human pyramid to free ride on nearby wi-fi. When the same family manages to insert itself into the Parks’ luxurious house we see them spread out drunk while their employers are away. This scene is pretty well shot at floor level, in the style of Japanese directors like Yasujirō Ozu, but Ozu never imagined a family so louche.
Bong knows how to move his actors and can confidently choreograph complex scenes like the mayhem of the child’s birthday in Parasite. Just as importantly, he knows how to create on-screen spaces. The luxurious modern house in Parasite is such a great piece of contemporary architecture — it was receiving plaudits in architecture journals before some twigged it was a set — that I wanted to move into it myself.
It is a very particular set, built to convey both openness and secrets. An eavesdropper can hide on the stairs or behind a sliding door, and secrets can hide in the basement. There are two picture windows in Parasite: the one in the Parks’ luxurious mansion that frames a carefully manicured garden, and the one in the Kims’ grungy basement flat that looks out on an alley and a dumpster against which drunks regularly piss. There’s metaphor here of class difference and its prospects.
So far, Bong has leapt from genre to genre: social comedy (Barking Dogs), dystopia (Snowpiercer, Okje), policier (Memories of Murder) and monster movie (The Host). At his best, he can twist from comedy to drama in a blink.
I was not a complete fan of the director’s two American-backed movies, in each of which he was experimenting, I think, with budget and scale opportunities not afforded in Korea. Snowpiercer, adapted from a French graphic novel, had much to say about class, but the film was overwhelmed by its production design. And Okje, about capitalist exploitation of animals for profit, was let down by the giant pig. Its digital creators didn’t provide body language expressive enough to endear us to this member of a very intelligent species.
After last week’s award, Bong Joon-ho reflected on the fact that a film set very specifically in his own culture had proved more universally popular than those designed for a global audience. It’s salutary. A good story, convincingly set in a place and a time, can cross national boundaries to speak to us all. •


EC delays Nord Stream 2
According to analysis of experts from the Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW), European Commission tries to delay realisation of Nord Stream 2. The goal behind the intentional – as OSW claims – activity of EC is buying some time and putting the project off beyond 2019 when a transit agreement between Ukrainian Naftohaz and Russian Gazprom expires. Nord Stream 2 is to be completed by 2019 and have annual transmission capacity of 55 billion m3 of the raw material. According to experts, the Commission, through their actions, are trying to coerce conclusion of a new contract between Russia and Ukraine on transmission of Russian gas after 2019. Russia plans to terminate transmission of gas by gas pipelines situated in the territory of Ukraine.
It should be noted that at the end of March the EC extended a letter to Danish and Swedish governments touching on inconsistency between the project and the aims of the energy union, as the situation strengthens the position of Russia as the biggest supplier on the European market.
At the same time as the Commission’s letter was extended, several dozen Members of the European Parliament extended a letter to the President of the European Council and Deputy President of the European Commission calling for suspending the construction of Nord Stream 2.
The authors of the analysis stressed that the EC, despite publishing the project as early as 2015, have not voiced their opinion on the project – a statement on the issue of compliance of NS2 with the law and political goals of the EU has not been established. A problematic issue is also a fragment of the EC spokesperson’s statement, who declared that EU law does not apply to the sea part of the project. The statement is in contrast with the expressions used in the letter and is not fully in line with the Commission’s statement.
There is a visible, currently deepening, division between the EU member states. The proponents are corporations, such as British-Dutch Shell, French ENGIE or German Uniper and Wintershall, which support it. Among the opponents are Poland, Slovakia and the Baltic states. There is also a group of countries, such as the Scandinavian states or the Czech Republic, that do not have a clear opinion on the project. On the one hand, they appreciate the possible economic benefits, but are concerned about the negative effects when it comes to security. The Scandinavian countries also raise the issue of the geopolitical consequences of the project.


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René Vidal (born March 18, 1970) is the founder of Uníque Capacíty, a St. Louis-based executive coaching company. A former nationally-ranked junior tennis player and six-time NCAA championship tennis coach at Boise State, Colgate, and Mississippi State, he is the author of Execute to Win: How Leaders Get Resultsand Play Smart to Win in Business.
Vidal is recognized as “one of America’s top coaches” (Dick Gould, Stanford).
His style has been described as focused and unbending.
Early life and education
Vidal was born New York City in 1970 and grew up in Dix Hills, Long Island. He is the son of Angelo Vidal, a teenage orphan turned successful business owner in commercial printing. His mother Carmen, a Brooklyn native and cancer survivor, kept the books. In 1992, he graduated from Florida International University (FIU) with a degree in public administration. After graduation, he went to work for the United States Tennis Association’s (USTA’s) Player Development Headquarters in Miami where he learned sport science, leadership psychology, and the fundamentals of high performance coaching. In 1994, he embarked on a successful collegiate coaching career before going into business on his own.
- Principal Author – Execute to Win: How Leaders Get Results (2018)
- Principal Author – Play Smart to Win in Business (2015)
- Author – The Power of Focus eBook (2014)
- Author – Play Smart to Win: Better Tactics Lead to Better Results (2013)
Credentials, Affiliations, & Achievements
- Founder, Uníque Capacíty
- Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Executive Coach
- Read “Victorious Vidals” in The CHS Globe
- 3 Big Sky Championships at Boise State
- 2 Patriot League Championships at Colgate
- 1 SEC Championship at Mississippi State
- 5 NCAA Tournament appearances
- 2019 Elite Eight at WASHU
- Patriot League Women’s Coach of the Year at Colgate
- IMG-appointed Technical Advisor, Williams Sisters book: “How to Play Tennis”
- Coached professional tennis player Jesse Levine (ATP Career High #69)
- Recognized as “one of America’s top coaches” (Dick Gould, Stanford)
- USA High Performance Coach
- Keynote Speaker, major industry trade associations
- Leadership Development Workshops at Fortune 500 corporations
In 2014, Vidal led a modest $15,000 tennis fundraiser to support the American Diabetes Association (ADA). His father was Diabetic.
René Vidal has been a featured leadership guest on STL-TV Live, Fox 2 News, Amazing Business Radio, and the Something Extra Podcast.
He lives with his family just outside downtown St. Louis.

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If asked about an “alternate universe Star Wars story,” most people might immediately bring the Star Wars Tales comics to mind. Others might bring to mind the old Infinities comics exploring different takes on the Original Trilogy. A few might think of alternate universe scenarios in video games, such as the dark side endings to various games or The Force Unleashed franchise allowing its pet character Starkiller to kill all of our beloved heroes. A really cheeky person might ask if we meant the Legends Expanded Universe. Alternate universe stories might be common in other franchises – especially comic books – but Star Wars rarely draws from that well, except in fan-created works. Even most Star Wars video games would fall into whatever was the canon continuity at the time. Though the obsession of Star Wars with fitting everything into continuity could be the subject of its own article, it’s still strikingly odd that Star Wars almost never consciously creates alternate universe stories. Taking aside the alternate endings for video games, only Dark Horse committed to alternate universe content in any consistent way. The novels conspicuously never touched it, except for early works of dubious continuity value. (Before anybody asks, no, this is not a “Bring Back Legends” article)
Disney Book Group is doing something rather interesting – they’re publishing a series called A Twisted Tale, which takes their extremely well-known animated features and shooting their stories off in an alternate direction by changing a key fact of the story. It’s a little like Back to the Future II, and if we have to explain that reference to anybody we’re going to be very distressed. Now, this idea is pretty cool not just conceptually, but because Disney is pretty strict about the use of its animated brands on a level fairly comparable to Lucasfilm. So if they’re willing, why not Star Wars?
The first book in the series is called A Whole New World, and it’s an Aladdin alternate universe story by Liz Braswell. It’s a pretty fun story, and so we’ll illustrate what we mean about Star Wars by reviewing this book. It’s a darker and more realistic take on Aladdin, being geared towards young adults who might have grown up on Aladdin (though folks like us who saw it in theatre are decidedly past the young adult stage, at least “young adult” as it’s understood in publishing). The story follows along the movie at first, developing it the way a film novelization might, until the point at which Jafar sends Aladdin to recover the lamp: Jafar betrays Aladdin but manages to keep the lamp, and is able to institute his dark plans far earlier. He becomes a sultan and sorcerer, and Princess Jasmine has to escape and become a revolutionary leader… which is a version of Aladdin we never knew we needed until now. And that’s the beauty of an alternate universe story: it can be more than just a plot twist if it explores different sides of characters or a different type of story.

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Two Harrogate men were arrested on suspicion of affray after a scuffle broke out on a a town centre street over damage to wooden benches.
Harrogate police are appealing for witnesses to come forward after damage to park benches led to the disturbance in the town.
Last Saturday evening (August 10) a group of men damaged benches on the grassed area of Montpellier Hill in Harrogate town centre.
Passing members of the public challenged their behaviour which resulted in a fight.
Two men aged 22 and 23, both from Harrogate were arrested on suspicion of affray. They have been released on bail to allow for further police enquiries.
PC David Minto, of Harrogate Safer Neighbourhood Team, said: “This kind of behaviour is wholly unacceptable and not something we will tolerate.
“If you were in the Montpellier Hill area at the time the damage occurred or witnessed the disturbance I ask you to come forward and contact the police straight away.”
Anyone who can assist with this enquiry is asked to contact Harrogate police on 101, select option 2 and ask for David Minto.
Alternatively information can be emailed to firstname.lastname@example.org.
Or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 quoting reference number 12130136632.


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President Barack Obama signed into law the toughest ever US sanctions on Iran, which he said would strike at Tehran's capacity to finance its nuclear program and deepen its isolation.
The measures, on top of new UN Security Council and European sanctions, aim to choke off Iran's access to imports of refined petroleum products like gasoline and jet fuel and curb its access to the international banking system.
Originally posted by C0le
Change we can believe in, I'm still waiting on him to get the troops out of Iraq as he promised in his campaign...
I told everyone I knew who voted for this joke hes just like bush, a puppet for TPTB who will continue this "war on terror" load of garbage, this is the first official step towards war. same crap happening now that lead up to the Iraq quagmire.
unfortunately just as the neocons did with bush, they supported his war mongering and the democrats protested it. now that the tables are turned its the democrats supporting it and the republicans protesting it. all over POLITICS
and both sides are completely oblivious to how big of hypocrites they are and to the fact that they are all nothing but ignorant puppets being used and mocked behind the scenes.
Good job you war mongering pricks were all getting screwed and all that matters is that your side is "right" but unfortunately for the rest of us who aren't puppets your ignorant majority is going to destroy everything.
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Originally posted by ironfalcon
It's wholly true. Mainstream U.S. politics is nothing but an elaborately staged pro-wrestling match, as former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura said (I don't know if you're from Minnesota or not).
Remember, Obama receives his marching orders from Bilderberg and CFR in the same fashion as his immediate predecessor as Bush 43, who got his marching orders from his CFR and TC handlers and every other former U.S. president.
The viper's den of Capitol Hill is densely populated with bought-out traitorous politicians who sell out their nation in return for more promising rewards by the globalists the same way Judas Iscariot sold out Jesus Christ for 30 pieces of silver.
[edit on 2/7/2010 by ironfalcon]
Originally posted by virgom129
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Israel should have the toughest sanctions for not agreeing to UN resolutions and not allowing inspections by the IAEA...
But heck, lets screw the other guy...