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Mexico’s Thriving Global Trade Relationships and Economic Diversity
Table of Contents
- Mexico’s Largest Trading Partners: A North American Connection
- Vietnam’s Trading Powerhouse: China
- Mexico’s Valued Trade Partner for Petroleum and Natural Gas
- Vietnam’s Exports: A Global Outreach
- Mexico’s Top 5 and Top 10 Trading Partners
- Mexico’s Main Exports: A Varied Mix
- Top 3 Mexican Exports: Driving Economic Growth
- Global Reach: Top Export Destinations
- Mexico’s Leading Import Partner: The Neighborly Connection
- The Mosaic of Mexico’s Income Sources
- Mexico’s Global Significance
- Mexico’s Economic Status: A Tale of Diversity
Mexico’s Largest Trading Partners: A North American Connection
Mexico’s most significant trade relationship is with its northern neighbor, the United States. This close economic partnership is driven by geographical proximity and reinforced by trade agreements like the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which succeeded NAFTA. The United States is Mexico’s largest trading partner and absorbs a substantial share of its exports.
Vietnam’s Trading Powerhouse: China
Meanwhile, in Southeast Asia, Vietnam has established China as its largest trading partner. The close proximity of the two countries and their robust economic ties have led to a substantial trade relationship.
Mexico’s Valued Trade Partner for Petroleum and Natural Gas
For petroleum and natural gas, Mexico looks northward to the United States. The U.S. is Mexico’s most valued trade partner for these resources, making energy a vital component of their trade dynamics.
Vietnam’s Exports: A Global Outreach
Vietnam, too, has made a mark on the world stage with its exports. The United States, China, Japan, South Korea, and various European Union countries, including Germany and the Netherlands, are among Vietnam’s most significant export destinations.
Mexico’s Top 5 and Top 10 Trading Partners
Mexico’s trading portfolio extends beyond the United States and Canada to include China, Japan, and Germany among its top five trading partners. Expanding to the top 10, South Korea, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Spain, and France join the list, reflecting Mexico’s diverse trade relationships.
Mexico’s Main Exports: A Varied Mix
Mexico’s main exports encompass a diverse range of products, including manufactured goods, machinery and equipment, and petroleum and natural gas. This diversity underscores Mexico’s versatility in the global marketplace.
Top 3 Mexican Exports: Driving Economic Growth
The top three Mexican exports are automobiles and automotive parts, electrical machinery, and computers, and crude petroleum. These exports are pivotal in driving Mexico’s economic growth.
Global Reach: Top Export Destinations
The United States, Canada, and China are the primary recipients of Mexico’s exports, reinforcing their significance in the country’s global trade network.
Mexico’s Leading Import Partner: The Neighborly Connection
The United States is also Mexico’s leading import partner. Mexico imports a wide array of goods, including machinery, electronics, and agricultural products, from its northern neighbor.
The Mosaic of Mexico’s Income Sources
Mexico’s income derives from multiple sources, including manufacturing, agriculture, and the thriving tourism sector. The export of oil and petroleum products, coupled with remittances from Mexicans living abroad, significantly contribute to the nation’s income.
Mexico’s Global Significance
Mexico plays a vital role on the world stage. Its strategic geographic location between North and South America makes it a crucial trade partner for various nations. With one of the world’s largest economies, Mexico contributes significantly to global trade and supply chains. Beyond economics, Mexico’s rich cultural heritage, tourism, and its substantial presence in industries such as automotive manufacturing underscore its importance to the world.
Mexico’s Economic Status: A Tale of Diversity
Is Mexico considered a rich or poor country? The answer is not straightforward. Mexico’s economic landscape is marked by diversity. Classified as an upper-middle-income country by the World Bank, Mexico boasts a burgeoning middle class and a thriving industrial sector. However, it also grapples with income inequality and poverty in certain regions. The designation of Mexico as a rich or poor nation depends on the criteria and metrics applied, but it generally falls within the middle-income category.
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I feel fit and healthy despite some poor habits, but like many young men I don't see a doctor regularly.
So when Trevor Schofield came into the Times office he convinced me I'd better try out the Men's Health Education Rural Van.
I arrived about 1.30pm on Monday and lo and behold, there was a line-up. Filling out the forms was easy and the Rotarians there made sure we sat in the shade.
First-up was a hearing test with the expert, Tania. Years of blasting music through earphones were on my mind before I began, but I passed the 'beep' test. I'll put the result down to my age though.
Tania asked if she could show another man my results in comparison. While his hearing had deteriorated, the man was upfront and had his options for further help clearly explained in a judgement-free atmosphere.
READ MORE: Free health check gives locals wake-up call
Next, we both joined the queue for the check with the lively registered nurse Rob Woolley. While we waited we spoke about retail, good and bad things about the area, bush fires and the driver education program run for Ulladulla High School students.
For all I know it might have been the only conversation some of the men waiting would have all day. When Rob called me in, he explained what he was testing - blood sugar, blood pressure/heart rate and cholesterol.
The cholesterol test was new to me and I can't remember ever knowing my LDL (low density lipoprotein) level. Rob pricked my finger and squeezed a drop of blood onto the machine's sample pad.
We waited three minutes for the results and in that time he could check my blood sugar and blood pressure.
When the three minutes was up, Rob ran through my results. While I was either normal or low, Rob explained the risks of high systolic or diastolic readings, blood sugar and cholesterol.
Following that he gave me the talk he gives everyone - drink a glass of milk if you feel indigestion. Just 30 seconds later you'll know if it's because of excess stomach acid, or there may be something more sinister at play.
The last advice Rob gave was about cholesterol - best foods to lower your level and what to stay away from.
While I went well, which I put down to my age, Rob identified six people from 82 assessments who needed to see their GP or seek medical attention immediately. That's six fathers, brothers, mothers, sisters and mates.
While it was advertised as a men's health check, women were more than welcome to attend. If you're in need of a check the van, a project of Rotary Clubs of NSW, will be in Nowra on Wednesday and Thursday and Gerringong and Kiama on Saturday and Sunday.

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One pie-crust promise that often tops lists of New Year's resolutions is to get fitter by going on a diet. But most people fall off the health bandwagon just a few weeks after making this weight-loss vow. As many health professionals will tell you, there's no such thing as a temporary or quick fix when it comes to fitness.
Whether he or she tells you the brutally honest truth or takes a more demure approach, your doctor wants you to hear -- loudly and clearly -- that fad diets don't work. One diet tip your doctor may offer is to eat frequent, small meals to boost your metabolism, fueling the fat-burning process. He or she also yearns for your "aha moment," when you realize there's no way to get around exercise to reach your perfect weight (and to maintain it).
We've got more diet tips from doctors on the next page.


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Shocked none of you geno/pheno/hablo ppl (c)Chinks posted this :kicks
The inhabitants of the Solomon Islands - east of Papua New Guinea - are very dark-skinned - but have puzzled scientists for decades with their blond hair.
Now a genetic study has found that the islanders have a 'homegrown' gene that gives them blond hair - and it's different from the one in Europeans.
‘Its frequency is between 5 and 10 percent across the Solomon Islands, which is about the same as where I'm from,’ said study author Eimear Kenny, PhD, who was born in Ireland.
Globally, blond hair is rare, occurring with substantial frequency only in northern Europe and in Oceania, which includes the Solomon Islands and its neighbors.
Many assumed the blond hair of Melanesia was the result of gene flow — a trait passed on by European explorers, traders and others who visited in the preceding centuries.
The islanders themselves give several possible explanations for its presence - they generally chalked it up to sun exposure, or a diet rich in fish, say the researchers.
‘Within a week we had our initial result. It was such a striking signal pointing to a single gene — a result you could hang your hat on. That rarely happens in science,’ said Kenny‘It was one of the best experiences of my career.’
In terms of genetic studies, the analysis was straightforward, said Kenny.
But gathering the data, accomplished in 2009 by Myles and co-first author Nicholas Timpson, PhD, was more difficult. Much of the Solomon Islands is undeveloped, without roads, electricity or telephones.
It's also one of the most linguistically diverse nations in the world, with dozens of languages spoken.
Myles and Timpson went village to village explaining what they wanted to do and asking for permission to gather data, Myles speaking in Solomon Islands pidgin, the most widely understood language.
When the local chief gave the OK, the researchers recruited participants and assessed hair and skin color using a light reflectance meter, took blood pressure readings and measured heights and weights.
They asked the villagers to spit into small tubes to provide saliva to be used for DNA extraction. In the span of a month they collected more than 1,000 samples.
Soon after, Kenny joined the lab and started the analysis, selecting 43 blond- and 42 dark-haired Solomon Islanders from the opposite 10 percent extremes of the hair pigmentation range.
She used these in a genome-wide association study, a method to reveal differences in the frequency of genetic variants between two groups, that usually requires thousands of samples.
Because the vast majority of human physical characteristics analyzed to date have many genetic and environmental factors, Kenny expected an inconclusive result that would require much further study. Instead, she immediately saw a single strong signal on chromosome 9, which accounted for 50 percent of the variance in the Solomon Islanders' hair color.
The team went on to identify the gene responsible, TYRP1, which encodes tyrosinase-related protein 1, an enzyme previously recognized as influencing pigmentation in mice and humans. Further research revealed that the particular variant responsible for blond hair in the Solomon Islands is absent in the genomes of Europeans.
‘So the human characteristic of blond hair arose independently in equatorial Oceania. That's quite unexpected and fascinating,’ Kenny said.

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In the past couple weeks, grocery shoppers in an Oregon town have found $100 bills stuffed into everyday food items, like eggs, cookies and
candy bars, and inside shopping carts — all for the taking.
Shoppers and employees at the Fred Meyer store in Salem have found a total of $2,000.
Across town at the Wal-Mart, a man named Phil found 2 of the bills, and was especially grateful.
“My girlfriend is in the hospital with renal failure.” Phil said. “I’m driving to the hospital
every day. So $20 bucks in gas each way, it’s comes at a very opportune time for me.”
The person supplying the cash is still a mystery but each time a bill is found another day is brightened. Sharing wealth with others who may be in need. Sunshine!

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Honour Monash - A great Australian
|The Deasey Monographs||
In 2023, Lieutenant Colonel David Deasey OAM RFD (Ret'd) wrote a series of four Monographs for the Royal United Service Institute of New South Wales Javelin Monograph collection. The title of David's series is:
How three American Divisions ended up under Australian Command in World War One
The complete work quite seminal. Well worth reading in detail by anyone interested in military history, the development of all arms tactics and international military cooperation. The focus is on Monash and his command of United States and his own Australian troops during the battles that broke through the German lines in late 1918 paving the road to victory.
You can download the monographs, all on .pdf form here:
Lieutenant Colonel David Deasey OAM RFD (Ret'd) is a military historian with a particular interest in the 2nd Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) and the Great War in the Middle East Theatre (1915-1919). A former high-school teacher of modern history, he also was a citizen soldier who saw regimental service in the Royal New South Wales Regiment and later commanded the University of New South Wales Regiment. David was awarded the OAM in 2019 for his work toward the National Boer War Memorial, Anzac Parade Canberra and the RFD for his Army Reserve service.

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Raised bogs are unique natural landscapes. They are located on high plateaus and are characterized by a large excess of water, which is supplied solely by the rainwater. In contrast to peat bogs, which draw their water essentially from the groundwater.
Raised bogs have a water content of up to 90% and thus also form water holes and lakes.
May 10, 2018
The Brackvenn is on both sides of the Monschauer Straße (N 67), which leads from Monschau to Eupen. The hiking trails are well signposted and there are always information boards along the wooden walkways.
North of the N 67, the Brackvenn is divided into Nahtsief and Puzen. Parts of the area have been renatured. On the northern edge of this area is the duck pool, a pingo or palsen, which was filled with water through drainage ditches in order to have extinguishing water for fires in the Venn.
South of the N 67 are the Venn areas in the Platten Venn, Hobbe and the royal peat bog. In this area there are several palsen or "bog eyes". One of them, the Hellenketel, is close to the Nahtsief car park.
No peat was mined in the royal peat bog and the original raised bog vegetation is still preserved. The area is therefore under strict nature conservation and is not accessible.
There are several pals in both parts of the Brackvennes. They originated at the end of the last ice age about 10,000 to 11,000 years ago and consist of a round earth wall that surrounds a water hole, the so-called bog eye. These geologically interesting formations can be easily recognized on aerial photographs, e.g. on google-earth.
As in all Venn areas, there is a risk of fire if the drought persists. In such a case, a red flag is hoisted at the entrances to the Venn - entry into the Venn is then not permitted.
June 22, 2019
Nice walk on wooden walkways through the Brackvenn; the bridges are sometimes quite narrow and can be smooth and slippery when wet. In a few places the bridges are not in a particularly good condition.
The bog must not be entered when it is dry (red flag). Better go early in the morning or in the evening on hot summer days and don't forget sun protection.
Many dragonflies can be seen near water pools.
June 2, 2019
The Brackvenn is part of the raised bog between Monschau and Eupen.
There are mostly easy-to-walk trails here. The bridges are sometimes very narrow and they can be very slippery when wet and ice.
The paths should not be left for your own safety and nature conservation
April 3, 2020
Here you can still find the vegetation typical of a raised bog with peat moss, heather, cranberries and cotton grass. If you want to hike here, you should bring sturdy shoes, rucksack provisions and, if available, binoculars. Warning: dogs are sometimes not allowed here! Please inquire beforehand whether it is possible to bring your four-legged friend.
February 13, 2021
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Fast food chains are among the many businesses that have benefitted from the growth of mobile internet payments in china the growth of digital marketing, electronic payments and delivery have helped mcdonald’s develop a strong. Mcdonald's has a new recipe for its business in asia—let someone else do the cooking the company has received more than six bids for its over 2,000 restaurants in mainland china and hong kong worth about $3 billion, reuters reports, including one from china's sanpower group. Conventional wisdom says that the entry of a competitor hurts sales and profit, especially when both are operating close by and targeting similar customers. High-end hamburgers will be the focus of product innovations in mcdonald's in china, said phyllis cheung, ceo of mcdonald's china , in shanghai tuesday. Mcdonaldscom is your hub for everything mcdonald's find out more about our menu items and promotions today. Complete list of mcdonald's china locations this is a complete list of mcdonald's china locations along with their geographical coordinates mcdonald's china sells hamburgers, cheeseburgers, chicken and fish products, french fries, breakfast items, soft drinks, milkshakes and fried pies. Mcdonald's (china) co, ltd 被认证为 top employers china 为其员工提供了优异的雇员福祉，注重培养发展组织内各级别的人才，彰显了在人力资源领域杰出企业的风范. 麦当劳中国更名金拱门 mcdonald's changes its china company name to 'golden arches' mcdonald's china changed its business name, and consumers aren't.
The case focuses on the us- based fast food chain mcdonald's entry and expansion strategies in the chinese market mcdonald's entered china in 1990 with its first restaurant in shenzhen. Mcdonald’s to offer franchises in china the world's leading fast food providers, mcdonald's and kentucky fried chicken (kfc), will both resort to franchises to further expand their presence in the chinese mainland. From a food-safety scandal to increased competition in the fast-food industry, mcdonald’s is struggling to revive its fortunes in china. Analysis of the case introduction mcdonald's corporation world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants operates in 119 countries across 35,000 outlets. Mcdonald's made some headway in june last year, when it announced a 20-year agreement with sinopec, china's state-owned and largest petroleum retailer, to build drive-through restaurants at sinopec gas stations throughout the country.
Mcdonald’s and yum brands’ kfc have each recently unveiled plans to tinker with mobile payments in china, a move to lure the nation’s hundreds of millions smartphone users that increasingly use those devices for their day-to-day needs mobile payment adoption has already accelerated here in. Ever wonder what is on a mcdonald's menu in china well, we find out, plus we take a look at kfc and pizza hut have to offer. Mcdonald's corp said it will almost double the number of chinese employees by the end of this year to follow its fast expansion plan. According to cnn money, the global fast food chain is changing from maidanglao, meaning mcdonald’s, to jingongmen, roughly translated to the chain’s nickname, “golden arches” though the change from iconic mcdonald’s would seem like a huge deal, “the name change only applies to the chain.
Mcdonald’s has found a formula for success in china – but it hasn’t been an easy recipe by cnbc's wally griffith. This study focuses on the multinational fast food giant mcdonald’s corporation, with particular attention paid to the corporation’s situation in china. Hku802 stephen ko mcdonald’s: is china lovin’ it mcdonald’s, the world-famous brand that defined american fast food, first. During the olympic month, when eating in mcdonald's, you could hear the song, china wins, we win broadcast repeatedly jim skinner, vice-chairman and ceo of the world's largest fast-food company, says he appreciates the slogan actually, he has reason to mean what he says, since setting up the.
Mcdonald's may see better sales in china based on yum brands' improving comparable sales the meat supplier issue that brought down both stocks is slowly fadin.
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Grooving down memory lane: record covers that defined an era
Following the success of Jazz Covers,
this volume features over 500 legendary covers
from the golden era in black music that have conquered the world. From Marvin Gaye to Michael Jackson, the Temptations to Earth, Wind & Fire, and James Brown to Prince, Funk & Soul Covers
portrays the often breathtaking album art that helped make these essentially African-American musical forms both world famous and massively influential, and an essential part of 20th century music history. Featuring interviews with key industry figures—including performers, producers, and writers—Funk & Soul Covers also
provides cultural context and design analysis for many of the record covers.
Funk & Soul Covers
Softcover with flaps, 9.4 x 9.4 in., 4.58 lb, 432 pages


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Exquisite, classic Georgian craftsmanship exudes from this elegant little mourning ring. A vivid, colorful cabochon-cut opal is held within the face of the ring, surrounded by an array of prong-set silvery pearls. This opal is a modern addition, replacing the original glass-enclosed lock of hair, for a colorful and brilliant touch. The wide shank bears border high-relief detail in rich 18k yellow gold, while black enamel inlay details out intricate memorial lettering on the outer shank surface. This stunning little treasure is a wonderful example of Georgian mourning jewelry, and is an excellent addition to any collection of historical and antique jewelry.
Materials and Features:
- Cabochon-cut central opal
- Black enamel
- 18k yellow gold [acid tested for fineness]
Age/Origin: Georgian, c.1817. Opal is a modern replacement for the original glass-enclosed lock of hair.
- Weight: 8.19 g
- Dimensions: 11.0 mm ring face width; 0.8 mm band thickness
- Ring size: 8.0 US
Marks: SAM HORROCKS OB 23 JUNE 1817 A35 [gold lettering, with black enamel backdrop, on exterior shank surface]
Condition: The opal and pearls are all sturdily-set. The opal is a modern addition, a replacement for the original glass-enclosed lock of hair (a more traditional feature of many mourning pieces), bringing a unique feature. The gold is a bright and sunny 18k yellow, with sturdy craftsmanship, and particular attention paid to fine details. The band has a well-formed circular shape, with no distortion, for a comfortable and consistent fit. The black enamel has some minor, typical wear, but has overall held up well. There is some minor fading/wear to the external inscription. Some minor age wear is typical and to be expected for antique and vintage pieces.

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11 July 2016
Government calls on members of the public, civil society, faith-based organisations, business and all sectors to join the 5 Days Countdown to the 21st International AIDS Conference. The countdown commemoration will be on Wednesday the 13th of July 2016.
The 21st International AIDS Conference, commonly known as AIDS2016, will be held from 18 to 22 July 2016 at the Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre in Durban under the theme “Access Equity Rights – Now”. More than 18 000 delegates comprising the world’s top scientists, civil society members and policymakers from 180 countries are expected to converge to discuss the fight against HIV and AIDS.
All citizens are invited to wear black, white and red clothing, the official colours of the #AIDS2016 conference, and gather as groups from 12:00 - 12:30. The public is requested to do symbolic acts of lighting candles, observing prayer moments, or releasing red/white/black balloons at exactly 12:15 to remember those affected or living with HIV/AIDS.
The colours symbolise the following:
Red: Awareness and support for those living with HIV and AIDS.
White: A beacon of hope in the fight against HIV and AIDS.
Black: A symbol of honour and remembrance for all those who passed on due to the pandemic.
Government also calls on motorists who will be on the roads at 12h15 to support the campaign by hooting for 5 minutes as a sign of support.
Deputy Director General of GCIS, Nebo Legoabe said: “Organisations are requested to also display HIV-related educational information and provide services at various strategic points of their choice around the country. HIV/AIDS affect us all and as a country we have come a long way in fighting this pandemic and the struggle continues. It is in our hands as citizens of this country to have an AIDS free generation”.
Members of the media wishing to cover the 21st International AIDS Conference are advised to apply for accreditation by completing the online registration form on the link https://www.gcis.gov.za/content/media-registration. The deadline for the submission of applications is Friday, 15 July 2016.
Media accreditation enquiries should be directed to Mmemme Mogotsi on 072 856 4288/ email@example.com. No media will be allowed access to the Conference venues without accreditation. Details for collection of accreditation cards will be communicated accordingly.
Join the conversation on twitter @GCISMedia @GovernmentZA @HealthZA @SA_AIDSCOUNCIL on twitter by using the hashtag #5Days #AIDS2016. For more information on the 21st AIDS Conference, visit the webpage: www.gov.za or www.aids2016.org.
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RSA Insurance – owner of the More Than brand – has reported a 14% drop in annual profits as snow ion the UK and floods and typhoons overseas pushed up claims more than £255 million than expected levels.
In the UK, severe cold weather led to thousands of burst pipe claims adding up to £110 million more than expected in the last to months of 2010 alone.
RSA has around a 6% home insurance market share in the UK. Despite soaring claims, the firm has posted pre-tax profits of £474 million for 2010, down from £554 million in 2009.
The company says results in the UK were disappointing while losing £95 million in underwriting losses against £75 million profits in 2009 even though premiums were increased.
RSA UK chief executive Adrian Brown has predicted continued double-digit rate increases in motor, and household increases towards double digits, in 2011.
He warned household and motor insurance premiums still face increases despite a 19% rise in motor rates and a 5% hike in household policy prices.
“The household market is underpriced by three, four, five per cent and may be this sort of event will cause rates to rise closer to double digit rather than low single digit. The weather event can be used as an excuse, but really that’s about having the right long term pricing strategy,” said Mr Brown.
The total insurance premium take in the UK for RSA in 2010 added up to £2.9 billion.
The combined operating ratio (COR) – an insurance industry measure of claims and costs as a percentage of premiums – hit 102.2% in the UK. Figures below 100% are regarded as profits.
Looking forward, RSA Group expects to perform better in the UK this year, providing the weather improves.


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Temples in Rajgarh
Rajgarh is home to various temples with rich cultural Heritage. Jalpa Mata Temple, Bhainswa Mata Mandir, Shani Temple and many temples are famous pilgrimage sites and are visited by many devotees. The best time to visit is the month of March to June. Here you can check about Rajgarh temple darshan and aarti timings.


The XOP Gas Gun is a flamethrower that appears in Serious Sam: Next Encounter.
The XOP Gas Gun was presumably designed by the same group that made the XOP Flamethrower. It sprays a pillar of fire when the fire key is held down. These flames can set enemies on fire, damaging them over a long amount of time. However, the flame itself has a short range, making it ineffective past short range.
In addition to napalm, the Gas Guncan also use liquid nitrogen and laughing gas canisters.
NETRISCA information Edit
AMMO: HV Napalm cannisters
RATE OF FIRE: Continuous
The XOP Gas Gun is the latest from the flamethrower range, allowing the user to save the world and BBQ all at the same time. The latest in micro-filter servos and gas-delivery systems ensures a smooth and even spread.
Loading the relevant cannisters allows the XOP Gas Gun to deliver three very different packages:
Napalm fires a jet of highly flammable liquid across a burner to produce a large jet of flame that can stick to enemies and carry on burning.
Liquid Nitrogen coats an enemy in extremely cold liquid and freezes them where they stand. This mode is less useful against larger foes who may take forever to freeze.
Laughing Gas is supported by the XOP Gas Gun but the cannisters are in short supply. If found, these deadly cannisters will paralyze an enemy in his tracks, forcing a convulsive laughter that will ultimately end in brain death.
- The Gas Gun is very useful against weak enemies, such as the Beheaded-type enemies and Dum-Dums.
- The weapon's short range makes it dangerous to use against Beheaded Kamikaze's. The XOP's maximum range is enough room for a Kamikaze's explosion to harm the player.
- The Gas Gun is too weak to be used against medium or greater strength enemies.
- The flames from the Gas Gun can make it difficult for the player to see if the screen is flooded with fire, so make sure to occasionally stop firing for a second to see where you're at if it is being used for a long amount of time.
- It is an excellent way to conserve bullets for the XM4000 Minigun. It can destroy hordes of weak enemies with ease, but doesn't chew through bullets like the Shofield Uzi Pistols do.
- The liquid nitrogen ammo is the same as regular napalm, but freezes enemies when the enemy is killed.
- The laughing gas seems to do the same amount of damage that regular Napalm does, but stuns enemies if they are hit with the gas, making it useful for making large enemy groups more manageable while you spray them with it.
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- Serious Sam: Next Encounter (First appearance) (Non-canonical appearance)


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Jan. 17 - BETHANY, W.Va. – Following a week off after an impressive road win last Wednesday, the Bethany College men’s basketball team (10-5, 4-2) will close out the first half of the PAC schedule by hosting Washington & Jefferson (6-10, 3-3) Wednesday night at Hummel Field House in an 8 p.m. tip-off.
The match-up will continue the longest-running hardwood rivalry in the PAC, as it will be the 164th meeting between the schools. W&J leads the series 90-73, but the Bison have taken five straight from the Presidents. Although BC has won eight of the last 10 meetings, nearly every game is contested to the final minute, as the average of margin of victory is just 7.4. Not only are the games tightly-contested, but they are usually meaningful in the standings and Wednesday will be no different. The Bison are tied for second place in the standings with Thomas More and Saint Vincent, who play each other Wednesday, while W&J lurks just a game behind the three-team pack.
Bethany pulled out a close victory in its last outing when they nipped Thomas More on the road 71-66 Jan. 12. After taking a one-point halftime lead, BC fell behind by six early in the second half. A 12-0 run, sparked by a pair of three-pointers from senior Dustin Opalka (Cortland, Ohio/Lakeview), gave the Green and White the lead for good and after building a 12-point lead with a minute to go, the Bison held off a late Saints charge. Sophomore Nick Wilcox (Venetia, Pa./Peters Township) notched his second double-double of the year with 19 points and a career-high 13 boards and sophomore James Barton (Bethel Park, Pa.) hit for 16 in the win.
Wilcox is currently in his best stretch of basketball in his two years at Bethany. In the last three contests, he is averaging 22.3 points, 9.3 rebounds and 3.3 steals per game while shooting at a 63 percent clip from the arc. Although he does a lot of different things on the court, Wilcox’s big scoring efforts are tied directly to Bison wins, as the team is 7-0 this season when he drops in 15 or more. His recent surge in productivity has shot Wilcox up the PAC rankings in several categories, as he leads the circuit in steals (2.93) and is in the top 10 in scoring (ninth-14.3), rebounding (eighth-6.1), field goal percentage (third-57.3), assists (eighth-2.60) and blocked shots (fifth-1.27).
W&J may also be playing their best basketball of the season as they come into Bethany. After starting the year 2-0, the Presidents dropped nine of their next 10. But since the calendar flipped to 2011, they have won three of four, including a two-point win at home over Saint Vincent, a three-point victory at Westminster after rallying from an 11-point deficit with 5:45 to play and a complete domination of Waynesburg Saturday.
In an 86-45 rout over the Yellow Jackets, their 13th straight win over Waynesburg, W&J dominated the glass by a 54-28 margin and held a 48-12 advantage in points in the paint. Guard Paul Matthews and Zach Bellhy tied for game-high honors with 20 points each and Brian Felker totaled 16 points and nine rebounds. Those same three are the top scorers on the year for the Presidents, as Bellhy (15.5), Matthews (15.0) and Felker (13.8) are accounting for nearly 68 percent of the team’s scoring this year, the second-highest percentage by any trio in the conference.


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Few Syrian refugee and Lebanese women participate in the labour force in Lebanon, often due to critical gender barriers: housework and childcare obligations. This is particularly true for low-income women, who participate in economic activities at lower rates than men and are often unable to afford home help. Inadequate or absent childcare services contribute to women’s economic inactivity and serve as barriers that limit women’s mobility.
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There are a number of ways to track dysfunction in a character’s life. The character can unravel gradually before the readers’ eyes, and then reassemble, as Claire Messud’s angry spinster does in “The Woman Upstairs.” Or the writer can describe a character’s derailing with impartiality and let you into that character’s mind with the radiance of select details, as Denis Johnson did with his addled protagonist in “Jesus’ Son.”
In “The Realm of Last Chances,” Steve Yarbrough takes a calm, somewhat relaxed attitude toward his characters’ decay, as if he were opening a door to each person’s psyche and telling us to look as long as we want and leave the keys when we’re done. Sometimes this works beautifully, but at times it leads to a slackness between moments of narrative heat.
The novel takes place in academia, and on the East Coast, both departures for Yarbrough, whose books are often rooted in the South. He shoulders the changed environs with grace and believability, even if every now and then, extra moving parts lessen the novel’s impact.
Though Kristen and Cal seem at first like the sort of couple whose opposite traits balance each other out, it eventually seems more likely that their differences keep each other occupied, in the sort of listless manner that could very easily either disintegrate or blossom, without much warning either way. Kristen has been laid off from a high-ranking administrative position at a California university, and she has relocated to the suburbs of Boston with her hapless husband. While Kristen is at work, Cal spends most of his time repairing the house — or growing more acquainted with his musical instruments, or with his whiskey, or both.
As we get to know this couple, we realize that neither person is necessarily more grounded than the other. They’re both carrying baggage: Kristen’s first marriage didn’t last long, because of her spouse’s infidelity; Cal seems unable to commit to a relationship because of an abiding narcissism, along with childhood wounds that have bred suspicion and a tendency toward loner-hood.
The longer Kristen and Cal stay in the suburbs, the more trouble they get in, and the more the novel becomes a cutaway diagram of each character’s psychological damage. Kristen quickly meets her neighbor Matt, a semi-intellectual who is quite thoroughly damaged; he lost a bookstore job after stealing thousands of dollars from the cash register, and his first marriage was destroyed by his drug addiction. By the time we meet him, he’s single, working at an unfulfilling deli job, but he has not let his sensitivity or intellect go to seed, though they threaten to vanish at any moment. Naturally, he and Kristen have an affair. Does Cal find out? Of course, but he keeps it to himself. The explosions that occur here all occurred in the past; the present exists in an emotional still chamber.
Yarbrough tracks emotional drift, calving, and regeneration lovingly, and the novel has many moments of psychological poetry. However, he dampens these effects by adding unnecessary extras that stall the book more than anything else: A plot line about plagiarism, for example, could be said to belong in a book about dishonesty, but its progress seems only weakly related to the rest of the novel.
On a broader scale, though, the passions and disappointments of these characters hit home. Why? Because Yarbrough allows the opening and closing of chasms between these individuals the proper space and time to develop, thus allowing them the chance to achieve maximum resonance.
By the end, we feel as if we, like Yarbrough’s soulful figures, have wandered into the titular, despairing realm of last chances, in which we push ourselves away aggressively from loss, and then return, somewhat wiser. For isn’t this the way all of us move through our lives, when all is said and done, at one time or another?Max Winter’s second book of poems, “Walking Among Them,” was published in 2013. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.

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Rarely does an event occur that affects a company’s unexpected medical plan expenses as is the case COVID-19. The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates coronavirus treatment for the average patient without complications averages $9,763. If someone has complications, it doubles to a cost of $20,292. The Kaiser researchers arrived at the numbers by tracking and reviewing hospital costs of patients with pneumonia.
With numbers like these, the case for continuous medical claims auditing services like the ones we provide at TFG Partners is even stronger. Real-time, detailed oversight of payments at this level is essential as you manage your plan through the needs of your employee members through a pandemic. Corporate self-funded medical plans have rarely run into such sudden changes in treatment patterns and financial changes: From COVID-19 to shockwaves caused by an overnight shift to telehealth, and a virtual complete stop of elective procedures, to yet know the impact on future costs from complications of delayed care, to the resurgence of pent-up demand and stress.
If you’re managing a self-funded plan, handling oversight of your claims processor is a crucial duty. But doing it based on audits after the fact, some limited by random samples, can make it time-consuming. When 100-percent of claims are monitored in real-time, with data reported to you, suddenly the picture is clear. Catching errors and over-payments early makes it easier to correct them and recover funds.
Because of the enormous expense of COVID-19 cases, which may be numerous among your employee-plan members, the financial exposure for your company is significant. It has brought a new urgency to cost management and review of claims and cases. With the stakes this high, putting in place a continuous monitoring program makes excellent sense. You’ll serve members better while managing costs.
For health benefits plan managers, one of the most challenging aspects of COVID-19 treatment costs is the wide variation. Depending on where a plan member seeks treatment or how their case is handled, the charges can vary enormously. Some horror stories from urgent care facilities in Texas had patients and their health plans billed more than $10,000 for a routine coronavirus test that cost the clinic $8.
Monitoring claims payments continuously with superior technology flags abnormalities like a $10,000 test check instantly. It also picks up things like costly name-brand medications being filled when lower-cost generics are readily available – and equally effective. It’s why high-performance self-funded plans today more often sign up for continuous monitoring. They catch and correct errors in real-time.
Conserving the company’s dollars so that they can go toward legitimate (and reasonable) medical expenses for the benefit of employees needs to remain the plan goal at all times. When a sudden development puts the health care system and plans under a unique, new pressure, additional management controls and strategies are needed. It’s why claims monitoring is on the rise today.
The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted life and systems in unprecedented ways while straining self-funded health plans to their limits. As news reports continue to bring up the overpayments, overcharges, and inconsistencies, it makes tightening up medical claims payment oversight an imperative. In times like these, the plans need added help to stay on track financially while serving members well.


text: Parasitology Research Monographs presents carefully refereed volumes on selected parasitological topics. Parasites have an increasing impact on animal and human health in the present times of globalization and global warming. Parasites may be agents of diseases and- often at the same time- vectors of other agents of disease such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa and/or worms. The growth in knowledge of parasitic physiology, cell structure, biotechnological and genetic approaches, ecology, therapeutic capabilities, vaccination, immunology, diagnosis, transmission pathways and many other aspects of parasitology is increasing dramatically, even in the face of the breakthroughs that have already been made. Reflecting these most recent achievements and the importance of parasites as a threat to human and animal health, the series' broad scope concentrates on particularly hot topics that were recently covered by review articles in the journal Parasitology Research or in other journals. These reviews offer compact but intense insights into the ongoing research and into the methods and technologies used to control parasites. The volumes in the series will be built on these topics, and the volume editors are well-known experts in their respective fields. Each volume offers 10 to 20 comprehensive reviews covering all relevant aspects of the topic in focus.


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Has the media struggled to do justice to the coronavirus emergency?
When the time comes for South Asia to look back at this year’s astonishing disruptions, the biggest story won’t be coronavirus, because the contagion will be behind us by then.
Much greater and more lasting impact will come from the massive de-peopling of our cities, as untold millions of migrant workers have already decamped. When lockdown lifts, even more will go.
This signal moment marks the end of processes that seemed irreversible. The sub-continent has only urbanized -- from 10% of the population in 1901 to over 30% in 2001. If the dense, concretized sprawls beyond municipal boundaries are included, over 60% of us are city dwellers.
Whichever way you measure growth (area, population, economy), the majority of the world’s fastest growing cities are in the sub-continent. According to The Economist’s most recent survey, three are in Kerala alone (this anomaly is probably because the southern Indian state reports numbers reliably, while others fudge).
Lockdown guillotined the growth. Hundreds of millions have seen livelihoods disappear, with inadequate accommodations made for their welfare. They’re told to remain strictly indoors, but in living conditions that are highly vulnerable to coronavirus. Thus, calculating correctly that the state will do little for them, the workers want to leave.
The case of Surat is illustrative. Gujarat’s commercial capital was projected to be the fastest growing city in the world until 2035. But now workers have rioted repeatedly, demanding to go home. It’s unlikely they will come back.
Future historians will say this moment of reckoning was inevitable. South Asians had become unconscionably inured to condemning huge numbers of their own people to the worst and most unsustainable living conditions on the planet. As 2020 began, 25 of the most polluted cities in the world were in our region (21 in India alone). What is more, at least 20 Indian cities -- including the national capital of New Delhi -- will run out of groundwater this summer.
These are potentially survivable conditions for elites (who will take care of themselves) and the middle class (because our governments will endeavour to deliver for them). But for the 85% majority that comprises the informal sector in India alone, they’re a death sentence. This is why so many people -- soon to outstrip Partition numbers by orders of magnitude -- have taken responsibility for themselves by taking to their feet.
Even while it’s readily apparent this exodus is the most important dimension of the coronavirus emergency, the media has struggled to do it justice. One notable exception is the veteran anchor Barkha Dutt (in 2017 she left mainstream television, and now runs Mojo, her own digital channel).
Every day, over the past month, she has tirelessly covered the story on the highways, and online, including to over 7 million Twitter followers. The barrage worked. Earlier this week, the Home Ministry finally relented to allow relatively safer large-scale return for migrants.
Dutt told me she was compelled to persist where others did not because, “my former medium -- which is national television -- totally flunked this story. I was appalled by this journalistic abdication by mammoth media organizations. We are talking about millions of Indians being judged as if they were the perpetrators, instead of the victims. It just made me so angry.”
A pioneer of Indian television news, who rose to stardom after covering Kargil battlefields in 1999, Dutt told me: “I have reported war, conflict, insurgencies from the front line, and this figures right alongside in the breathtaking scale of its tragedy. In some ways, it has been even tougher -- the greatest mass exodus since the Partition, and yet rendered invisible. I had to work doubly hard, physically and emotionally, to go out there, walk with the migrant workers, and get people to care about them. I definitely draw some satisfaction from the fact that our relentless coverage did finally have an impact.”
To get some perspective on Dutt’s achievements over the past month, I wrote to Patricia Mukhim, the indomitable veteran editor of Shillong Times in Meghalaya, and member of the executive committee of the Editor’s Guild of India.
Mukhim responded: “Every once in a while we see a committed journalist pursuing the path of the true scribe -- that gives the agency of voice to the voiceless. It goes beyond the cacophony of television debates, and brings readers and leaders face to face with what is often the ugly truth they would rather not know about.
“In this crisis, Barkha Dutt has been that soul of journalism, stepping out of the comfort zone of the TV studio to empathize with those most affected by Covid19 -- the migrant labourers who lost their jobs, their hope, and their dignity, by having to walk thousands of miles. Such journalism is what keeps our hopes alive.”
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They are the most popular source of energy for people of all ages – kids, adults and even the elderly. Bananas provide quick energy, just like sugarcane or beetroot. But, there are many more health benefits of bananas which prove that it has got lot more to offer than just plain energy. The most common form of bananas are the green ones but there is a special variety which is red in color.
Health Benefits of Bananas :
- Potassium : Bananas are a great source of potassium which is much less available in diet than sodium, mainly because processed and packaged foods mainly have a small amount of salt. Both sodium and potassium are electrolytes and enable the conduction ( transmission ) of messages through the nerves and prevent stroke
- Health benefits of bananas help in relieving constipation : health benefits of bananas have dietary fiber and they form smooth bulk in the colon. They can be taken with milk for added benefit. They relieve constipation.
- Health benefits of bananas help in relieving weakness and cramps in diarrhea : Whenever a person suffers from diarrhea, he or she is susceptible to weakness and muscle cramps. Eating bananas during that time and drinking tea can combat the effects of diarrhea.
- They help in growth and bone formation : health benefits of bananas have the ability to improve the absorption of calcium from food by intestines. When there is more calcium in the body, bones grow well and dense.
- Health benefits of bananas prevent kidney cancer : They seem to have a protective effect on the kidneys and thus reduce the risk of developing kidney cancer at a later stage. The kidneys are a vital organ and any problem to them can put a person on dialysis.
- Eating bananas with milk helps in reducing stomach ulcers. They both have an alkaline effect that neutralizes excess acid in stomach. Health benefits of bananas also prevents heartburn and improves digestion.
- Nutrition In Banana : They provide about 90 calories per 100 gram serving. Within this, health benefits of bananas offer good amount of Vitamin B 6 and other vitamins and minerals. Most of the banana is carbohydrates. It can quickly replenish the body’s reserves of energy.
Many people wonder whether bananas are fattening. Well, there is no conclusive evidence but the health benefits of bananas are evident. Therefore, eating a moderate number of bananas a day is going to contribute to better health.
Health Benefits of Bananas Peel
Banana peel is also eaten in certain cultures. It is either fried or it is boiled in water and then that water is taken. Health benefits of bananas peel is rich in nutrients which improve mood because it helps in synthesis of serotonin in body. Banana peel is also great for the skin.
- Reduces itching and inflammation : Health benefits of bananas peel is soothing for the skin. It can be apply to reduce itching caused by mosquito bites, hives etc.
- Applying health benefits of bananas peel is a simple remedy for depressing warts.
- Health benefits of bananas peel is use to reduce pimples, acne and other inflammatory spots.
- It is also use for whitening teeth. Apply the inside of health benefits of bananas peel on the teeth for some time and they would whiten slightly in a single application.
A surprising use of health benefits of bananas peel is clean water off heavy metals. Banana peel has certain affinity for toxic metals and it takes away these metals with itself, thus making the water clean. There is a special variety of bananas which have red color of the skin and inside flesh is cream color. They called red bananas. They have slightly different taste but health benefits of bananas are pretty much the same.


Life in America is a mixed bag for Muslim Americans, said Jane Lampman in The Christian Science Monitor. The nation's youngest and most racially diverse community is still struggling for a sense of belonging, partly because some others harbor "post-9/11 suspicions about the Islamic faith." But a Gallup survey found that Muslims are among the most highly educated and prosperous religious groups in the U.S.
Not only that, said Rachel Abrams in The Weekly Standard, but it turns out that American Muslims "are pretty much the happiest in the world." And it's not surprising. "They're citizens of the most welcoming and inclusive place on Earth," a country where desperate immigrants find refuge from tyranny and "grinding poverty."
Now it's time for Muslim Americans to take the next step, said Amreena Hussain in the Baltimore Sun. Muslims are still largely excluded—"or exclude themselves"—from American social and political life. "It is time we realized that we have left our monarchies and dictatorships on a different continent and arrived in a land where we can assert ourselves."
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[JURIST] Russian President Vladimir Putin [official website] has signed a controversial law against extremism that a Kremlin statement described as "aimed at improving the definition of extremist activity by classifying socially dangerous actions as extremist." Crimes embraced by the legislation approved late Friday following passage by the Russian parliament [RFE/RL report] earlier this month include incitement to racial hatred, publicly defending terrorism, "humiliating national merit, public slander of state officials and hampering the lawful activity of state organs.
Human rights groups, independent media organizations and government critics fear that some of the categories are so broad that the law could be used to stifle dissent and repress opponents [WAN press release], and a Moscow radio station reported that G8 leaders had tried to dissuade Putin from approving the measure during the recent St. Petersburg summit. A spokesman for the Committee to Protect Journalists [advocacy website], an international media right group, said in a statement: "This measure is reminiscent of the kind of catchall laws that were used in Soviet times to control the media. Those in power can now label any journalist an extremist and effectively stifle critical reporting. The law could result in three years' imprisonment for journalists and potential shutdown of their publications. It is expected to go into force in 90 days. AFP has more.


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Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) will be conducting a pan-India Khoa quality survey after industry stakeholders raised concerns on adulteration. Khoa, also known as Khoya or mawa, is the main ingredient for traditional Indian sweets such as barfis, milk cake and peda among others.
The Commissioner Food Safety of all States/UTs were requested to select Khoa mandis in their respective States/UTs especially in big cities in the middle of October 2020 and encourage Khoa buyers to get their Khoa sample tested, according to the food safety authority.
FSSAI said that it had received about 700 samples from 15 States and UTs as part of the pan-India survey conducted in October and added that it is expected more samples from other States in the coming days.
The regulator said it continued to receive complaints regarding manufacturing and marketing of adulterated Khoa and recently the Federation of Sweets and Namkeen Manufacturers also raised concerns on the issue.
The regulator said that the final survey would help to identify the key hot spots for adulteration of Khoa in different parts of the country and strengthen efforts at the States/UT levels in devising targeted enforcement drives in the coming months.
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I first started making greeting cards as part of a charity fundraiser. Although I have always loved to paint and sketch, working in a big city like London means that it can be challenging to find time to be creative. The fundraising project reminded me of how much I love to make and create and soon after, we were inspired to start Two Fat Birds.
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I’ve always enjoyed working on the tech side of things and when Cynthia started creating these beautiful cards, I felt that they should be shared with a wider online audience. I love the idea of Two Fat Birds - a simple, cheeky and creative brand.
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With just a week to go for the premiere of Venkatesh Daggubati-starrer Narappa on Amazon Prime Video on July 20, Telangana theatre owners expressed displeasure over the Telugu film’s direct-OTT release when speaking to Silverscreen India on Tuesday.
Narappa, the Telugu remake of the hit Tamil film Asuran, is directed by Srikanth Addala, and jointly produced by D Suresh Babu and Kalaippuli S Thanu. It is written by Vetrimaaran and stars Priyamani and Karthik Rathnam in the lead roles.
Speaking to Silverscreen India about the release of Narappa, Anupam Reddy, owner of Hyderabad’s Sudha Theatres and executive committee member of the Telangana State Film Chamber of Commerce, said, “We were told that the makers were re-negotiating the OTT deal, but unfortunately, I don’t think that has happened. Now, that it is officially signed, it is a big disappointment for us and this will only further increase when Virata Parvam and Drushyam 2 also fly to OTTs.”
Earlier, the TSFCC, had requested producers to wait until October to release their films in theatres before opting for direct-OTT releases. A special request was made at the time to Suresh Productions, which is also producing Virata Parvam and Drushyam 2, and a source told us on condition of anonymity that the production house was re-negotiating the deal to premiere Narappa and Drushyam 2 on OTT platforms.
The same source told us on Tuesday that Virata Parvam and Drushyam 2 are set to premiere on Netflix and Hotstar, respectively.
Balgovind Raj Tadla, secretary of Greater Telangana Exhibitors Association, and partner at Sudharshan 35mm and Devi 70mm Theatres in Hyderabad, said that the Narappa release is a huge disappointment not only to theatres owners but also moviegoers. “OTTs to provide content to your homes, but the enjoyment and immersiveness is more when watching a film in a theatre. Narappa is now just a video-on-demand and that is a sad thing,” he said, adding that the collective experience of watching films on the big screens has played a pivotal role in the growth of the cinema industry. “When you convert it into an at-home event, the charm is lost, and this is a worry to the film industry.”
However, Reddy believes that although these OTT releases are a big disappointment, it will not create any impact on the industry as a whole. He mentioned there are several films lined up to hit theatres when they open, particularly highlighting small-budget films like SR Kalyanamandapam which are ready to release on the big screen. “By July-end, we are planning to open theatres for sure. We have Narsapuram coming on July 23, Thimmarusu on July 30, and Paagal and Seetimaar along with Fast and Furious 9 on August 6. So there is plenty of content and everything will fall in place once theatres open up,” he added.
Gopal Reddy, owner of Ranga 70mm single screen theatre in Hyderabad, agrees that OTT releases will not impact theatres in the long run. “The revenues producers get from theatres is much more than when their film is released on OTTs. In cases like Narappa, the audience will miss the theatrical experience and it is a huge disappointment,” he said.
Tadla feels the performance of films on OTT can only truly be ascertained when the field is level, with theatres also functioning. “Films like Jathi Ratnalu were enjoyed more in theatres than small screens. As far as the cinema watching experience goes, the small OTT players will always be overshadowed by theatres. Theatres are where actors became stars. OTTs are probably where stars will be reduced to actors,” he said.

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Ruling scheduled after this week’s suspension of planned October 8 vote due to disputes between Fatah, Hamas
The top Palestinian court is to decide on September 21 on the fate of keenly anticipated local elections after the latest attempt to hold polls was suspended, a minister said late Thursday.
Municipal elections had been scheduled for October 8 but were suspended by the court on Thursday following disputes between the rival Fatah and Hamas movements.
It now remains to be seen if a new date will be set or if the vote will be shelved indefinitely.
“The Supreme Court will consider [the case] in a session on Wednesday, 21 September and make a definitive and final decision,” local government minister Hussein al-Araj told the official Palestinian news agency Wafa.
“We will implement any decision of the court in accordance with the applicable laws.”
The Hamas terror organization, which rules the Gaza Strip, boycotted the last Palestinian municipal elections in 2012, but had been due to participate this year. Hamas has rejected the suspension, calling it a “political decision.”
Fatah and Hamas have not contested an election since 2006 parliamentary polls, which Hamas won — sparking a conflict that led to fierce fighting in Gaza the following year that saw Fatah forces ousted from the Strip in a violent coup.
An attempt to hold local elections in 2010 was abandoned.
This year’s vote was planned with 81-year-old PA president and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas under heavy political pressure as opinion polls have suggested most Palestinians would like him to step down.
There has been no Palestinian presidential election since 2005 and Abbas has remained in office despite the expiry of his term in 2009.
The high court said it had suspended the elections after an appeal by lawyer Nael al-Houh.
Houh said his appeal was based on the fact that the elections were not being held in Jerusalem and over concerns related to polling in the Gaza Strip.
In Gaza, a court run by Hamas cancelled Fatah candidate lists in several municipalities for “violating the election law,” according to a judicial source and a spokesman for Fatah.
Jamal Dajani, a spokesman for Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah in the Fatah-run government in Ramallah, downplayed suggestions of political pressure to cancel the elections.
“We look at it as a judicial decision and not a political decision,” he told AFP, saying the court had made its decision independently.
“The president, the prime minister and the central elections committee were proceeding with organising the elections for October 8.”
Arif Jaffal, head of the Marsad elections monitoring group NGO, called Thursday’s announcement a “sad day for Palestinians.”
He said the electorate was “expecting the local elections to move towards [ending] the political stalemate between the West Bank and Gaza.”


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On the deadline set to complete the Twitter deal, Elon Musk clarified in his tweet that the company is now his name.
Meanwhile, US media are also reporting that Twitter CEO Parag Agarwal and two other executives have been tipped to exit the company.
Indian-born Parag Agarwal was appointed as Twitter’s CEO in November last year. But he was working in Twitter company since 2011.
Agarwal replaces Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey. Dorsey announced the selection of Parag Agarwal on Twitter and also said what qualities made Agarwal such a big responsibility.
However, ever since Elon Musk announced his purchase of Twitter in April this year, speculation about Parag Agarwal’s role in the company began. This situation is believed to have arisen due to the lack of consensus between Elon Musk and Parag Agarwal on many issues.
After graduating from India, he made a name for himself in America
Born in Mumbai, Parag Agarwal graduated in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. After that, he went to America in 2005 and did his PhD in computer science from Stanford University there. Here Agarwal joined a research team working on databases.
Parag Agarwal His mother is a retired school teacher and his father worked in the field of nuclear energy. Parag Agarwal also attended Central School in Mumbai.
The New York Times In an article cited by lab head Jennifer Wydom, who helped Parag Agarwal with his thesis, Parag was known for having a good understanding of the subject while studying at Stanford.
He had good knowledge in both mathematics and theory. He says the focus on databases makes Parag Agarwal a big contender for the job at Twitter.
Parag Agarwal joined Twitter in 2011, even before he completed his PhD, and became a key part of the engineering team, tasked with managing the company’s ad technology. At that time the company had only 1000 employees.
Parag Agarwal was then made a member of a group considered to be the most important for the creation of Twitter. It was the company’s team of top engineers who oversaw the review and development of Twitter’s upcoming projects.
Despite having important responsibilities on his shoulders, Parag Agarwal has always stayed away from the news. In 2017, he was named the company’s Chief Technology Officer. While in this position, he managed Twitter’s technical strategy and software development.
Before joining Twitter, Parag Agarwal also worked with Microsoft, Yahoo and US telecom giant AT&T.
After announcing his resignation as CEO of Twitter last year, Jack Dorsey said that Parag Agarwal was behind every important decision of the company. They are curious, inquisitive, logical, creative, ambitious, aware and humble.
He wrote, “He leads the team with heart and soul. He is someone I learn from every day. I have a lot of confidence in him as CEO.”
Vijaya Gade also discussed her departure from Twitter
According to reports in US media, two other senior managers including Twitter CEO Parag Agarwal and the company’s legal head Vijaya Gade have been fired.
Ged, 47, is a well-known name in Silicon Valley. Vijay Gad also reportedly played a role in banning former US President Donald Trump’s Twitter account.
Born in Hyderabad, Vijaya Gade grew up in Texas, USA. He attended Cornell University and New York University School of Law. Vijaya Gade also joined Twitter in 2011.
Vijaya Gad’s job at Twitter was to manage content moderation and security policy for the platform.
In 2020, Vijaya Gade made headlines when Twitter banned political ads during the presidential election in America.
In addition, Gade allegedly blocked the New York Post from sharing news stories on Twitter based on files recovered from the laptop of US President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. The New York Post’s Twitter handle was also suspended for about two weeks at the time.
The departure of Gade, one of Twitter’s highest-paid executives, was almost certain when Musk announced his purchase of the company.
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Most people wouldn’t voluntarily enter a war zone, but James Spenceley has recently crossed into Ukraine for the fourth time since the war broke out.
The Australian businessman is on a mission to deliver lifesaving ambulances to the front lines.
“We’re in Mykolaiv, which is about 20km from the frontline around Kherson in the south,” he said.
The town typically has a population of about 500,000, but that number has essentially halved since the war began.
This is Mr Spenceley’s fourth trip to the war zone since Russia invaded almost eight months ago.
The founder of international telco Vocus Group and chairman of Airtasker has followed the invasion very closely, as his wife Viktoriia is Ukrainian.
“We were just looking for a way to help,” he said.
On Tuesday his team crossed over the Polish border with seven ambulances in tow.
They delivered the first to the Red Cross before they moved on to deliver the critical care vehicles to first responder teams on the frontline.
“Mykolaiv is probably the hardest-hit town,” he said.
“The guy from the Red Cross was telling me they get six to eight rockets every night.”
Just as he spoke, a warning alarm sounded through the window.
“It’s just gone off actually,” he said.
He cracked open the window and the eerie scream of the siren rang through the night.
Mr Spenceley said he’s pretty safe in the middle of the hotel, but he walked into the bathroom anyway. It’s the safest space he can get to before the rocket approaches the town.
“I’m definitely more used to it,” he said.
“We were walking to dinner tonight and the siren went off and that was pretty eerie because the streets are pitch black.
“It’s not like the first time you hear it when your whole body goes cold and you think something is going to land on your head at that very moment.”
Mr Spenceley decided to help fundraise money to purchase ambulances after discovering the Ukrainian army was losing them at a rapid rate from bombings and damaged roads.
“Once we got in the country, we saw just how much they appreciate the ambulances and how many lives it can save,” he said.
An ambulance can evacuate around 20 people to urgent medical care in one trip, a need which is becoming more pressing than ever as Russia has turned to targeting civilian populations with more force.
Mr Spenceley said the thing that struck him about the Ukrainians was their resolve to not back down as the war raged on.
“I was talking to a volunteer soldier and he had kids about the same age as I did,” he said.
“And I said to him how do you do that when you have kids at home, how do you reconcile that you might not see them again?
“He said, ‘The thing that I fear most, more than not seeing my kids again, is that my kids don’t get to grow up in a free country’, and that’s the feeling here.”
When Mr Spenceley was in Lviv in August, he came across two primary-school-aged kids running a lemonade stand on the side of the road.
They said they were raising money for the Ukrainian army.
“There is no sugar-coating it, the kids know they are at war, they know members of family won’t come back,” he said.
“They don’t seem afraid of it, they just seem motivated by it.”
Overnight, Mykolaiv residents grieved the loss of a six-year-old child who was killed during a rocket attack.
Despite facing the devastation of their people and country every day, the Ukrainians showed a single-minded determination to win the war, Mr Spenceley said.
“The more Russia throws at them, it’s having the reverse effect,” he said.
“It’s strengthening the resolve that Ukrainian people can’t live under Russian terrorists.”
Mr Spenceley reminded Australians that even though the war might not feature on our television screens as often, it still raging on.
“Nothing’s changed here, there’s still cities getting hit with rockets, there’s still front lines with people in villages that are caught there, a lot of fighting, a lot of injured and unfortunately, a lot of people are dying,” he said.
“They need as much support as they can get.”
His GoFundMe fundraiser has raised more than $260,000 to bulk purchase an extra 10 ambulances.


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Political polarization is “the defining feature of early 21st century American politics.”1 A 2014 study conducted by the Pew Research Center1 found that Republicans and Democrats are “further apart ideologically than at any point in recent history” and that this polarization “goes beyond politics” and is reflected in the personal lives and lifestyles of those on both the right and left.
These divisions between Republicans and Democrats have grown even larger since Donald Trump’s first year as president, and the “magnitude of these differences dwarfs other divisions in society, along such lines as gender, race and ethnicity, religious observance or education,” according to an updated 2017 Pew Report.2
Political differences have been found to “spill over into nonpolitical domains,” with evidence suggesting that physicians are also increasingly polarized3 and that physicians’ political beliefs may predict their clinical decisions.4
A 2016 study of >20,000 primary care physicians (PCPs) from 29 states, linked physician records to their political affiliation (based on a voter registration database). A sample of Democratic and Republican PCPs was then surveyed to ascertain attitudes to 9 patient vignettes that addressed particularly politicized healthcare issues (marijuana, abortion, and firearm storage).4
Democratic and Republican physicians were found to “differ substantially in their expressed concern and recommended treatment plan” regarding these issues. The researchers concluded that “physician partisan bias can lead to unwarranted variation in patient care.”
A 2018 study3 offers a different perspective. While acknowledging the significant partisan gaps that affect physicians as well as others, the findings suggest that physician political affiliation is not associated with the intensity of end-of-life care received by patients in the hospital.
The researchers used a random sample of Medicare beneficiaries (N=1,480,808) who were hospitalized between 2008-2012 with a general medical condition and died in the hospital or shortly thereafter.
They examined total inpatient spending, intensive care unit (ICU) use, intensive end-of-life treatments among patients dying in the hospital, and hospice referrals among patients discharged but at high predicted risk of 30-day mortality after discharge.
The researchers characterized physicians as Democrat (N=1523), Republican (N=768), or non-donors (N=23,627), using federal contribution data.
They found that mean end-of-life spending as well as intensive end-of-life treatments for patients who died in the hospital did not vary by physician political affiliation. Similarly, the proportion of patients discharged from the hospital to hospice also did not vary between physicians of differing political affiliations.
To shed further light on the study’s implications, MPR interviewed lead author Anupam B. Jena, MD, PhD, Ruth L. Newhouse Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
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The Student Government Association has seen a rise in scholarship application numbers along with progress on the new First Year Village project, according to executive members Garrett Edmonds and Abbey Norvell.
Tuesday’s SGA meeting saw an effort to organize an SGA labor committee from WKU student Jay Wells, who advocated for workers’ rights following recent budget cuts from the university.
Members of the Student Government Association's executive board defended their stance on rejecting Resolution 4-19-F as it was presented to them following last Tuesday’s meeting.
Chairperson nominations to multiple senate committees were confirmed at the Student Government Association meeting Tuesday evening. SGA’s plans to handle the issue of racial slur use within Greek organizations, however, were not.
The SGA Judicial Council has filled out with four nominations this Tuesday. This comes before the elections to be held in the next two days, where the senate will see itself at near-full capacity.
The executive and legislative branches of the Student Government Association failed to pass a budget at their second weekly meeting on Tuesday, due to disagreements over whether to use funds for scholarships or for recreational amenities.
A revival of WKU’s “Earn-A-Computer” program is slated for the current Fall 2019 semester. The revitalization plan was brought up during a Student Government Association meeting last Tuesday by Director of Academic and Student Affairs Abbey Norvell.Norvell frames “Earn-A-Computer” as a group…


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New research out of Australia appears to have found a way to train the human body to overcome a peanut allergy, one of the most common and deadly allergies in the world.
The discovery was made at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Victoria, where a team of researchers treated children with an experimental immunotherapy treatment as part of a small clinical trial, according to the Australian Associated Press.
Rather than avoid the allergen altogether, the researchers designed a treatment that combined a probiotic with peanut oral immunotherapy to trigger an immune system response. The hope was that the immune system would reprogram its response to peanuts and—over time—develop a tolerance to the allergen.
The approach worked for 82% of the 48 children who were given the treatment daily for 18 months in 2013. Now, four years later, the majority of those children are still able to consume peanuts in their diets without adverse reactions, according to the research, which was published this week in The Lancet Journal of Child and Adolescent Health.
For decades the peanut allergy was the top cause of anaphylaxis, which within seconds can trigger the immune system to release a variety of chemicals that can cause a person to go into shock, among other things. Each year in the US, more than 200,000 people require emergency care related to an anaphylaxis reaction to an allergen, according to the Mayo Clinic.
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