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Actress Samantha Ware has some choice words for her former Glee co-star Lea Michele on Monday. After Ware noticed sher voicing support for the Black Lives Matter campaign following the death of George Floyd, she revealed a disturbing story about her relationship with Michele.
Ware retweeted Michele’s original tweet from May 29 which read, “George Floyd did not deserve this. This was not an isolated incident and it must end. #BlackLivesMatter,” and responded with the following message:
“LMAO REMEMBER WHEN YOU MADE MY FIRST TELEVISION GIG A LIVING HELL?!?! CAUSE ILL NEVER FORGET. I BELIEVE YOU TOLD EVERYONE THAT IF TOU HAD THE OPPORTUNITY YOU WOULD “S*** IN MY WIG!” AMONGST OTHER TRAUMATIC MICROAGRESSIONS THAT MADE ME QUESTION A CAREER IN HOLLYWOOD…”
LMAO REMEMBER WHEN YOU MADE MY FIRST TELEVISON GIG A LIVING HELL?!?! CAUSE ILL NEVER FORGET. I BELIEVE YOU TOLD EVERYONE THAT IF TOU HAD THE OPPORTUNITY YOU WOULD “SHIT IN MY WIG!” AMONGST OTHER TRAUMATIC MICROAGRESSIONS THAT MADE ME QUESTION A CAREER IN HOLLYWOOD… https://t.co/RkcaMBmtDA
— SAMEYAAAAAA (@Sammie_Ware) June 2, 2020
Ware, 28, played the role of Jane Heyward during the sixth and final season Glee. Her character appeared in 11 episodes alongside Michele’s Rachel Berry. Since appearing on the musical series, she’s starred in What/If, guest-starred on Barry, NCIS: New Orleans, Chicago Med, Bull, and God Friended Me.
As the controversial tweet quickly went viral, another former Glee actor chimed in on the conversation. Alex Newell, who played Wade ‘Unique’ Adams on Ryan Murphy’s series between 2012 and 2015, responded to Ware’s message with a gif featuring RuPaul needing to use her opera glasses.
Ware Wrote the Song ‘Whattown’ About Toxic Platonic Relationship Between Friends
Before starring on Glee, Ware performed the role of Nablungi Hatimbi in the hit musical, The Book of Mormon. In an interview with MEAWW, Ware, opened up about what it was like being a black actress and singer in Hollywood after she released her debut single, “Westtown,” in 2019.
She said, “The song, lyrically is about a platonic relationship between friends that has kinda been burning up a long fuse and eventually ends with a realization that all this weight of others problems could potentially kill us if we don’t let go.”
“As a black woman out here, I feel there are many projections on what kind of artist I should be, how I should speak or even carry myself,” Ware said. “The vignettes we see in the piece elude to classic eras of the diaspora. So, I technically put myself in a few boxes just to showcase that wherever you feel the need to place me, I’ve been there and I’ve done that. It’s an introduction of sorts. Another side of myself as an artist. Something I get to claim as my own.”
As for her time spent on Glee, Ware said that being on the show “was a great intro to television. I’m grateful for the experience. Well, everyone’s got to start somewhere right? Every new job I have …read more
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Cubs came out on the wrong end of the Tyler Chatwood deal
The Chicago brass felt they had a diamond in the rough when they inked Tyler Chatwood to a three-year, $39 million deal prior to the 2018 season. Well, he turned out to be a a whole lot more ‘rough’ than ‘diamond,’ to say the least.
In his Cubs career, Chatwood has made 67 appearances, including 30 starts. He’s worked to a less-than-ideal 4.70 ERA and 4.88 FIP during that span to go along with a 1.608 WHIP – which is wildly inflated by his league-leading 95 walks back in 2018.
He showed signs of bouncing back early this year, looking outstanding in his first couple starts. But then things started going sideways and he soon after hit the shelf with an elbow injury. His recovery isn’t going well and, by all indications, it’s far from a sure thing he’ll throw another pitch this season.
In the short-term, it further destabilizes an already-questionable starting rotation. But given his struggles when healthy and his elbow woes, Chatwood is not a viable answer looking at the team’s pitching needs moving forward.

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There are a few early clues that a startup will be successful, according to market researcher Quid: Have the company's founders worked together before? Is the business in a hot sector, one where many other new startups are also focusing? Has it raised funding at a quick pace? Based on those criteria and others, Quid looked at more than 50,000 companies and chose 50 it deemed the most promising.
While venture capitalists often try to assess startups' potential one by one—at the moment they hear a pitch—some market researchers such as Quid are trying to crunch data on tens of thousands of startups to come up with their own set of best bets. This isn't Quid's first attempt to do this: In 2009, Businessweek asked Quid, then named YouNoodle, to pull together a list of 50 promising startups that were flying under the radar. Almost eight years later, it turns out that the list had its share of flops—companies that shut down or lost value—but some notable home runs as well. Cloudera, Palantir, Evernote, Twitch and Spotify all increased at least 30 times in value since 2009. If YouNoodle's list had been a venture portfolio, it would have been one of the best-performing funds of the last two decades. So we asked Quid's chief executive officer, Bob Goodson, to make a new list.
The companies, all founded in the past six years, have been raising money at an impressive clip—typically once every nine months, suggesting heavy interest among investors. The average business had already raised three rounds.
Average days between rounds
Average number of rounds
Investors had a particular interest in certain emerging sectors. Online security, fraud detection and artificial intelligence startups raised more than others on Quid's list.
Top Sectors by Capital Raised
Online Security & Fraud Detection
Autonomous Driving; Image Recognition & Mapping Technologies
Digitization of Education
Which investors will benefit if these businesses do in fact expand to become the next Spotify or Palantir? These are the venture firms that have taken stakes in the most number of companies on the list of 50:
VC firms investing in multiple startups on the list
- Andreessen Horowitz
- Sequoia Capital
- Felicis Ventures
- First Round Capital
- Y Combinator
- Kleiner Perkins
- Founder Collective
- Shasta Ventures
Here's the full, sortable list of the 50 most promising startups from around the world, based on Quid's research.
List of 50 startups to watch
Quid began with a list of around 50,000 private companies that had received venture capital or venture debt in the past three years. The data on investment received, investors, location and founding year came from S&P Capital IQ and are current as of September 2016. Quid narrowed the list down to around 5,000 companies by keeping those that fell into one of three categories: 1) early-stage startups with low valuations that raised money quickly from a set of top venture capital firms; 2) higher-valuation companies that already showed traction in their industry; and 3) companies that were in a sector that Quid determined was an expanding market opportunity. Quid found these market opportunity areas by analyzing the company descriptions of startups and finding what sectors were most popular among companies founded in 2015 and 2016, plus which sectors raised the most money from the top five venture capital firms. (The list of top venture capital firms comes from a top fund-of-funds that declined to be named for compliance reasons.)
Quid narrowed the list from 5,000 to 200 by ranking the companies according to a series of metrics: time between funding rounds, number of rounds, quality of investors and amount raised. The list was then narrowed to 50 by looking at such other metrics as whether the founders had worked together before (considered a plus), where the founding team had gone to school and how many employees the company had. Quid's Goodson also made subjective decisions about which companies seemed most promising, just as he did with the 2009 list. Goodson also excluded companies that had had extensive press coverage already. Quid declined to disclose numeric scores or exact formulas that it used to rank companies in the final stages.
The final list was shaped by some preset parameters: Biotech was excluded, and 10 of the companies were from outside the U.S. Note: One company, EyeVerify, was acquired in September, around the time the list was being made. Otherwise, all companies are independent.


It's happened to most of us: you order something with an olive in it -- maybe a salad or a sandwich -- and bite into it, discovering suddenly that the fruit is not of the pitless variety. This may lead to a grimace or, on a bad day, maybe a curse -- but a lawsuit?
That's apparently the end game for Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, who says in court papers that a wrap he ordered from a Capitol Hill cafeteria was “unwholesome and unfit for human consumption, in that it was represented to contain pitted olives, yet unknown to plaintiff contained an unpitted olive.”
Kucinich's suit, filed Wednesday in Washington, D.C., Superior Court, says that the wrap caused him “serious and permanent dental and oral injuries requiring multiple surgery and oral procedures.” The congressman also claims that he has suffered “significant pain, suffering and loss of enjoyment.”
Despite the significant media coverage that Kucnich's suit has engendered, the incident happened nearly three years ago -- his suit says that he purchased the wrap “on or about April 17, 2008.”
The suit targets Restaurant Associates, which manages the cafeteria in the Longworth House Office Building, one of the four buildings used by members of the House of Representatives, as well as its parent company Compass Group.
Kucinich, whose campaign Website labels him “America's most courageous congressman,” hasn't been publicly exhibiting any of the “pain [and] suffering” he says he has experienced. According to an ABC report, Kucinich gave a speech on the floor of the house shortly after the alleged incident occurred. He also made no public mention of the injurious sandwich until five days after the mishap.
Negligence and warranty claims alleged
Kucinich's lawsuit alleges counts in negligence and breach of implied warranty. As to the negligence count, his complaint says the defendants “breached [their duty of care] by serving plaintiff food that ... contained dangerous substances, namely an olive pit, that a consumer would not reasonably expect to find in the final product served.” Regarding the breach of implied warranty claim, Kucinich says that the defendants reneged on their implied promise that “food sold by them for consumption was was fit for the ordinary purposes for which such goods are used.”
The suit, which demands damages in the amount of $150,000, was filed by Andrew R. Young, a prominent Cleveland-area attorney whose website lists him as a Super Lawyer.


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Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis (WINN)- The Federation intends to boost its response to the coronavirus pandemic with the arrival of 20,000 AstraZeneca vaccines from India, Sunday night.
Premier Mark Brantley at his recent press Thursday (February 25) announced that the vaccines were due on Friday or the weekend.
” St. Lucia is to receive as well, St. Vincent and the Grenadines is to receive as well, Suriname is to receive as well, Antigua and Barbuda is to receive as well…so India is assisting all of those countries, ” Brantley said while pointing out that India had already assisted Barbados and the Commonwealth of Dominica.
Both Barbados and Dominica shared their supplies with their regional neighbours.
Dominica reportedly donated 2000 vaccines on Thursday, February 11 to St Kitts and Nevis.
Last week close to 700 people here had reportedly received their first dose of the vaccine with a second dose scheduled for 10 weeks later.
As vaccines continue to arrive, officials are encouraging everyone to get the vaccine so that the estimated 53,000 people in the country could quickly develop population immunity from COVID-19.

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Eating more of some foods and less of others can help reduce your carbon footprint
If you want to reduce your personal impact on the environment, you might think going increasingly vegetarian or vegan is the obvious answer in terms of diet.
However, ditching meat in favour of greenhouse-grown vegetables flown thousands of miles to reach your local supermarket, might actually increase your carbon footprint.
When it comes to a sustainable food and drink choices, there are lots of factors to consider, which is why some people choose to adopt a “Climatarian” diet, choosing lower-carbon options as much as possible.
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The Times-Tribune published an article today highlighting the unique theme of the June 6 First Friday art walk. The theme of the June First Friday event is “Celebrating Cancer Survivors” and the artwork at several participating venues was either inspired or created by cancer survivors.
At St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, in particular, there will be a photographic display of survivors by Ray Carlier. Visitors can create their own tiles as part of the Cancer Survivors Tiles Project and Northeastern Pennsylvania Susan G. Komen For The Cure will also offer a mural inspired by breast cancer created by 12 local survivors.
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HAMPTON, Va., April 8, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Measurement Specialties, Inc. (the "Company") (Nasdaq:MEAS), a global designer and manufacturer of sensors and sensor-based systems, is pleased to announce the appointment of Joe Gleeson as Chief Operating Officer, replacing Steve Smith, effective April 3, 2014.
On April 1, 2014, the previously-announced retirement of Steve Smith as Chief Operating Officer of the Company became effective. The Company and Mr. Smith currently expect Mr. Smith to continue working for the Company through July 2015.
On April 3, 2014, the Company promoted Joe Gleeson, its Regional Director of Operations – Europe, as Chief Operating Officer and a direct report to Frank Guidone, Chief Executive Officer.
Prior to his appointment as Chief Operating Officer of the Company, Mr. Gleeson held the position of Regional Director of Operations – Europe since May 2010. Mr. Gleeson joined the Company through its 2006 acquisition of BetaTHERM, a designer and manufacturer of precision thermistors and customized probes used for temperature sensing, where he held operational and engineering management roles since 2001. Mr. Gleeson held process engineering positions with both Hewlett Packard and Leoni from 1997 to 2000. He holds a bachelor degree in production engineering from University of Limerick (Ireland).
Frank Guidone, Company CEO commented, "I want to thank Steve for his years of hard work and dedication. He has guided MEAS operations through significant expansion, doing so with a tireless commitment to efficiently serving our customers, while compassionately supporting our employees. Under Steve's leadership, MEAS has nearly doubled its footprint and employees to ~4000 worldwide. I also want to welcome Joe Gleeson to the executive team. Joe has done a tremendous job managing operations in Europe, and we look forward to his continued contribution to global operations."
About Measurement Specialties: Measurement Specialties, Inc. (MEAS) designs and manufactures sensors and sensor-based systems to measure precise ranges of physical characteristics such as pressure, temperature, position, force, vibration, humidity and photo optics. MEAS uses multiple advanced technologies – piezo-resistive silicon sensors, application-specific integrated circuits, micro-electromechanical systems ("MEMS"), piezoelectric polymers, foil strain gauges, force balance systems, fluid capacitive devices, linear and rotational variable differential transformers, electromagnetic displacement sensors, hygroscopic capacitive sensors, ultrasonic sensors and switches, optical sensors, negative thermal coefficient ("NTC") ceramic sensors, mechanical resonators and submersible hydrostatic level sensors – to engineer sensors that operate precisely and cost effectively.
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A mythmaker at heart, Sandra Hurst has been writing poetry, fantasy and science fiction since her school days in England. Hurst moved to Canada in 1980 and was deeply influenced by the wild lands and the indigenous cultures that surrounded her. Y’keta, her first full length novel, is set in a mythical land reminiscent of pre-historic earth. An ancient world where legends walk and the Sky Road offers a way to the stars.
A member of the Alexandra Writers Centre Society, the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association, and The Mythopoeic
Society, Hurst works to build fantasy worlds that allow her readers to join her in exploring the depths of human interaction in a mythical game of ‘what if.’
Her first novel, Y’keta is long-listed for the prestigious Aurora Award, for best Canadian fantasy novel (Young Adult) and the American based RONE award for break out fantasy novel.
She now lives in Calgary, Alberta with her husband and son, both of whom she loves dearly, and has put up for sale on e-bay when their behaviour demanded it.
Welcome, Sandra, it’s lovely to have you in the Story Cave. Congratulations on your first book-birthday with Yketa!
Y’Keta is based on the Native American Thunderbird legend. Can you tell us a bit about the legend?
The native peoples of the Americas have legends of these half bird, half human creatures that are lords of the storms and lightning. I was fascinated by one legend that I found where the thunderbird (under many different names and guises) had the ability to take off their feathers and live unnoticed among the people, even marrying and having half human children.
Belonging seems to be a strong theme. Can you explain a bit about the concept of Kit’na, and the significance of belonging in the story?
During the dark ages in Europe it was common for children of the nobility to be raised away from home. They would leave around seven or eight years old and return, if at all, only when they were full grown. The concept of the Kit’na developed from this custom, but on a more humane, voluntary basis. A young person, between sixteen and eighteen in Y’keta’s world, can make the difficult decision to walk away from everything they had known and attempt to join their destiny with another village. This also echoes the concept of ‘roads’ and ‘walking’ that underlies the series. Each person must choose the road that they are going to walk and take the dangers and joys go with that choice.
For Y’keta this is all new. His people didn’t have the custom of Kit’na, he was forced out. He arrived at Esquialt with no skills, no knowledge, nothing to help him fit in.
In many ways, Y’keta has never belonged anywhere. He is struggling to find his destiny and to escape the one forced on him by his heritage. Esquialt can be a haven for him, if he can learn to belong there.
Siann is the one person to stand up for Y’Keta when he arrives in the village, but he insults her and is consistently confrontational towards her. What does he see in her that makes him so defensive?
Y’keta’s sister was very much like Siann, born to leadership and determined to be the responsible, grown-up person. When Netta died, Y’keta knew it was his fault, his flighty nature had put her in danger and he’d lost her. Every time Siann starts talking about being an adult and acting responsibly he feels the shame for Netta’s loss again.
In Y’keta, the Shamans ‘walk the lightning’. What is the significance of this, and how far does it reflect native American traditions?
The people of Esquialt hold great reverence for the Sky Road, the road that they believe passes between their world and the afterlife where the Elder Stars live. They believe that the Northern Lights and the Milky Way are signs in the sky showing the way to the Road. These Elder Stars speak to the Shamans in the lightning, their voices can be heard in the power coursing through and around the Shaman’s magic.
The magical system in Y’keta is one of my own making, and although it may reflect parts of the Indigenous people’s beliefs, it does so unconsciously. I would never assume to say I know enough about their beliefs to base a world system on them.
What inspired you to write Y’Keta?
The inspiration for Y’keta came out of two unconnected events about four years ago, the first was a casual comment made by a relative on the reactions she dealt with when she came out as LGBTQ in the early 80’s, the other was a long night sitting beside a campfire in Grande Cache, Alberta, watching the Northern Lights dance over the horizon and wondering about the cost of being who you really are.
Are you able to give us any hints about what is coming next in the series?
In the next book the question of belonging goes a step further as Y’keta learns how to deal with the responsibility that comes with having chosen to stay with the People. What happens when the war with the Utlaak comes to their forest? Y’keta ran away from the responsibility in his own village, can he be become a leader in Esquialt during a time of crisis.
What are you working on at the moment?
Right now, I’m working on the edits for a romance novella that will be coming out in May 2018. This is a huge departure from anything I’ve ever written before and I’ve found it a wonderful challenge. The novella is called Peace Out and will be a part of the Peace Novella Series available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.
Where can people find you online?
Coming soon to Kobo and B/N.
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How do you hold up a roof?
Seems like a simple question: Walls hold up a roof. And if your roof is heavy and two or three stories up? A stronger, thicker wall.
This is the problem faced by the builders of European churches in the 11th and 12th centuries. With those thicker, stronger walls, windows became a problem because they weakened the walls with holes, which meant that the churches had small windows and were rather dank and dark places to worship the Creator.
When we are taught about Romanesque and Gothic cathedrals in our art history classes, we are usually given a list of characteristics they have: round arches for Romanesque; pointed arches for Gothic: thick walls for Romanesque; flying buttresses for Gothic: barrel vaults for the Romanesque; rib vaults for the Gothic — as if the shift from one to the other were merely a catalog of stylistic tics and the change from one to the other nothing but a change in fashion, as if giving up pegged trousers and taking on bell bottoms.
Why would it be important for art history students to spend this much time on something so old and arcane? Our professors always seemed to think this was such a profound change and worth a week of class time. We couldn’t wait to move on to Impressionism.
It was never made clear in class why it would be important for us students to know these things: buttresses, rose windows, naves and aisles, apses and choirs. These cathedrals were in Europe, not America.
But the change from Romanesque to Gothic should not be seen as merely a change in styles, but as a major innovation in architecture whose results led to the glass and steel skyscrapers that populate all our cities. The Seagram Building in New York is merely an extension of the ideas behind Chartres cathedral.
What happened was (for reasons I will get into in my next blog post) someone figured out you didn’t really need walls to keep a roof up. You could, like a picnic pavilion, support the roof with posts, leaving the space between the posts open. And, if you build a church this way, you can glaze the open spaces with colorful glass and let inspiring light into the interior of the church. Wow. In an instant, churches became lighter, both by weight and by illumination. What had been dour and forbidding became bright and inviting.
Perhaps the most dramatic example of this is the small royal chapel built on the Ile de la Cite in Paris between 1238 and 1248. While it is tiny in comparison with the big cathedrals, such as Notre Dame or Reims, it is a glory of glass. Its walls are explosive with color and light.
If you were to stand in the middle of Ste.-Chapelle and gaze up at the ceiling, you would see that the ceiling and roof are supported by a cage of stone pillars, between which are cascading sheets of stained glass. When you realize that such roofs are made primarily of lead or slate, you realize how heavy it must be, and how brilliant was the engineer who figure out how to keep it up with only these spindly supports.
This is the genius of Gothic architecture. Follow its logic out to the 20th century and you understand that you can make a skyscraper with a cage, not of stone, but of steel, and glaze the open areas and let light into every one of the 40 or 50 stories of office space. In some sense, the International Style — all those glass-and-steel towers that define our urban architecture — are really just a further refinement of the Gothic breakthrough.
Ste.-Chapelle was built for King Louis IX, later known as St. Louis, as his private church on his palace grounds. It was meant to house a series of holy relics he had bought, including the supposed “crown of thorns” Jesus had worn upon his crucifixion, and a piece of the “one true cross,” of which there were a whole woodpile scattered across Europe. These relics were held in great esteem. Louis wanted a home for them that would honor their importance with great beauty and wealth, and Ste.-Chapelle is the result.
Louis spent 40,000 livres on the chapel, but nearly four times that in buying the relics from the cash-strapped Byzantine emperor, Baldwin II in 1239. The chapel was built to hold the relics and finished in record time.
Ste.-Chapelle is 118 feet long and 56 feet wide, but more importantly, 139 feet high. Above that a spire of cedar wood extends another 108 feet. (The current spire is a 19th century replica, designed after the 15th-century spire. It is unknown if the original chapel had a spire).
The church is a two-story affair, with the lower level once reserved for the royal staff and servants, while the upper level, with its grand windows, was for the king. He had an elevated walkway built between the palace and the chapel’s second floor so he never had to descend to ground level with the hoi-polloi. The palace is largely gone now, replaced with the bureaucratic buildings of the Paris metropolitan police force, but Ste.-Chapelle remains on the grounds, surrounded now by parking lot.
You can see how it once sat, in the illuminated manuscript of the Limbourg Brothers, made in 15th century and known as the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry.
Today, there are lines waiting to get in to see Ste.-Chapelle. You walk through security and through the parking lot and into the ground floor chapel, where the fleur-de-lys seems to be painted everywhere in gold. It is a stunning space, even if its ceilings are low. The paint is bright and colorful. The staff wasn’t cheated; the lower chapel is plush and beautiful.
But then, you walk up the stone staircase to the main floor and it is as if the heavens open up above you. The glass, the color, the light: They stun.
In 1323, the French writer Jean de Jandun wrote of Ste.-Chapelle in his Tractatus de Laudibus Parisius, “The most excellent colors of the pictures, the precious gilding of the images, the beautiful transparency of the ruddy windows on all sides, the most beautiful cloths of the altars, the wondrous merits of the sanctuary, the figures of the reliquaries externally adorned with dazzling gems, bestow such a hyperbolic beauty on that house of prayer, that, in going into it (from) below, one understandably believes oneself, as if rapt to heaven, to enter one of the best chambers of Paradise.”
While it is true that Ste.-Chapelle was restored in the 19th century, its restorers attempted to be exceptionally faithful to the original. And while most of the paint is more recent, a full two-thirds of the windows are original 13th century glass. The remaining panels replace glass removed when the chapel was used as a government records archive after the French Revolution.
The glass in the nave tell primarily Old Testament stories, in the apse the glass covers New Testament stories. The 15 stained glass windows, each more than four stories high, depict 1,113 scenes from the Bible in 6,458 square feet of glass.
The great Rose window is a replacement from 1390 when the original window, in Rayonnant style (as seen in the Très Riches Heures), was updated into the then-current Flamboyant style, with its curlicues and circles.
The tympanum painting above the king’s doorway is a recreation, but in the style of the original.
The designs in the floor are wonderfully graphic.
The columns and walls are brightly painted.
All this color, light and throat-grabbing beauty is understandable on esthetic terms, but its purpose was more than to be pretty, or even awesome. The philosophical momentum behind the architectural advance will be discussed more thoroughly in the next blog, about the basilica of St. Denis.
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People young and old complain about their belly fat. No matter how you gained the belly fat, a proper diet and exercise will help you flatten that belly, as well as adding more of these fat busting foods.
Oatmeal is a belly fat busing food. Oatmeal is filled with fiber. When selecting oatmeal, you should choose plain oatmeal, then add things like fruit. Stay away from flavored varieties that can be sugary. Oatmeal stays in your stomach for hours, meaning you won’t be reaching for a doughnut or other foods that pack on the pounds.
Choose whole grain foods as they are filled with fiber. Be careful when shopping for whole grain foods like breads and cereals. Sometimes a product labeled wheat doesn’t have much if any of their fiber or nutrients left. You want foods with the label of whole grain or 100 percent whole grain.
Berries are filled with fiber. Who knew such a little berry could give us many benefits. Berries are also filled with vitamins and other good things we need. There is one catch to eating berries to bust belly fat, that’s eating them just as they are picked. Once you begin cooking a berry, the benefits are almost gone. Also, that berry jelly or jam on your toast don’t count either.
Green vegetables have a lot of healthy benefits to them. Green vegetables are packed with vitamins and minerals, as well as fat fighting benefits too. Green vegetables are loaded with fiber and best of all, very few calories. Go ahead and load up on the green vegetables. Be careful not to cook them much, as you’ll cook all the health benefits out.
Lean Meats and Fish are healthy. Turkey is the most lean meat. If you want to cut down on more fat, then choose fish, like Salmon and tuna. Fish contains Omega 3’s which help prevent stress chemicals. Stress chemicals promote fat abs. When your body is digesting protein, it is burning more calories then when your body is digesting carbs and fats.
Legumes and Beans are low calorie and packed with protein and fiber. Protein and fiber help tone up the body and lose weight. It’s a good idea to cut one meat meal out of your diet each week and replace it with a bean meal, such as burritos. When selecting beans you should choose pinto, black or other varieties of beans. Stay away from refried beans as they are high in fat.
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When cooking choose an Olive or Canola Oil. Canola and Olive Oil have monounsaturated fats in them. Everyone needs a little fat in their diet. Also, they help keep your cholesterol under control and help satisfy those fatty food cravings. When selecting a cooking oil, you should stay away from hydrogenated vegetable oils.
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A study done by Purdue University found that people who ate nuts felt full longer. This study was done comparing people who ate rice cakes versus nuts. Just 24 almonds a day will keep you feeling satisfied without adding tons of extra calories. When selecting nuts, you should stay away from salted nuts. Sodium can cause water retention and weight gain in some. Also, sodium will raise blood pressure.
Drinking Iced Tea or Green Tea will help you burn belly fat. Teas are rich in antioxidants that have been proven to speed up metabolism. It’s recommended to enjoy four cups of tea each day.
Remember to always eat a healthy, balanced diet. Don’t forget to exercise as the benefits are helpful in many ways, as well as life longevity.

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You can't see straight when you hate. You can't walk straight when you hate. You can't stand upright. Your vision is distorted. There is nothing more tragic than to see an individual whose heart is filled with hate. He comes to the point that he becomes a pathological case. For the person who hates, you can stand up and see a person and that person can be beautiful, and you will call them ugly.
For the person who hates, the beautiful becomes ugly and the ugly becomes beautiful. For the person who hates, the good becomes bad and the bad becomes good. For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That's what hate does. You can't see right. The symbol of objectivity is lost. Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater.
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With a call to uncover any act that threatens their physical and mental integrity, the Mayor's Office of Cartagena, community leaders and the National Police recalled the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
A symbolic act called "Never More Sexually Violent Life" held in the El Pozón area, Minuto de Dios, is the importance of empowering and empowering women to know their rights and to deny if they are abused
"We try to educate ourselves, seek justice, talk about what happens to us and not be silent because this situation must end and when violent events come together to make you feel everywhere," says the social director Eliana Bustillo.  A New Park
In honor of Yadira Blanco, a killed social leader named a sector baptized along the canal, planted fruit trees and plants. Ales.
The District will adapt the area and create a park for children to provide space for relaxation.
Danis Salgado, president of the Community Council, Minuto de Dios sector of the El Pozón area, said that Yadira Blanco was an entrepreneur and fighter who was a victim of violence and in A robbery died.
"She was very critical, respecting her space and her sector. In her tribute, we asked the social manager for a park to adapt this space and she did not answer," she said. the community leader said.
The civilian citizen Claudia Anaya explained that the city hall collaborates with the other agencies in an articulated manner on the prevention of sexual violence and women are trained to be empowered.
The official explained that the District Government has a route that determines the steps to follow when violent acts occur.
Edwi n Gomez, General Secretary of Youth of the National Common Network, said that women work within the 60-year framework of the joint action councils across the country and articulate in Cartagena with the sole purpose of strengthening them and denies those who attack their physical or mental life.
The International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women or International Day of Violence against Women is annually commemorated on 25 November for the violence it is being exercised on women throughout the world and demanding policies in all countries for the extinction thereof.
The convocation began in 1981 by the Latin American feminist movement in honor of the date of murdering the three Mirabal sisters (Patria, Minerva and María Teresa) in the Dominican Republic in 1960.


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Gauge how hard you’re working out to get the most from your workouts and maximize your fitness gains. If you’re going to exercise, you want to know you’re getting the best results that you can for the effort, time and sweat you’re putting into it.
Exercising at the right intensity will prevent you from exercising too hard or not hard enough, and help ensure you achieve your goals.
So what’s exercise intensity? Exercise intensity is related to how hard an activity feels to you. More specifically exercise intensity can be measured using heart rate, but also by how hard you’re breathing, whether you’re sweating, and how tired your muscles feel.
Whether you use high tech or no tech, there are a number ways in which you can measure exercise intensity, and most of them are pretty simple.
Read more: How hard you should exercise?
Heart rate is a great way to determine exercise intensity, because it’s not subjective.
How it works: Your heart drives blood around your body. The harder you exercise, the greater the demand for oxygenated blood, and therefore the higher your heart rate will be.
Because your heart responds to exercise in a very predictable way, you can use your heart rate to monitor exercise intensity.
To effectively monitor heart rate you need to calculate your maximum heart rate and then base your workouts around training zones. These training zones are expressed as percentages of maximum heart rate (HR max).
Below is a popular method of categorizing effort, which is made up of 5 zones:
- Recovery Zone: 50-60% of HR max
- Fitness Zone: 60-70% of HR max
- Aerobic Zone: 70–80% of HR max
- Lactate threshold: 80–90% of HR max
- Anaerobic Zone: 90–100% of HR max
You can also use a simpler method, in which effort is simply divided into two broad categories:
- Moderate intensity: 50-70% of HR max
- Vigorous intensity: 70-85% of HR max
You can measure your heart rate by using a heart rate monitor, taking your pulse at your wrist or neck, or using the sensors built in to cardio exercise equipment.
Good for: Particularly good for recovery workouts to avoid exercising too hard and prevent overtraining. Also, great for fine-tuning training.
Limitations: Does not work well for HIIT training, in which you alternate short bouts of high intensity exercise with recovery intervals. Also, heart rate can be affected by external stressors such as lack of sleep, stress, or caffeine.
Read more: Heart rate training zones
THE TALK TEST
The talk test is one of the most popular, simple and convenient methods of gauging exercise intensity.
How it works: Talking is reliant on your ability to breathe — specifically exhale. When you exercise your breathing rate increases as your need for oxygen increases. The faster your breathing rate, the harder it is to talk.
The talk test works on this premise – the harder you exercise, the harder it is to talk. So, by simply monitoring that, you can gauge whether you’re exercising at low, moderate, or high intensity.
- Recovery & Fitness Zone: carry on a conversation.
- Aerobic Zone: speak in short sentences.
- Lactate threshold: utter single words.
- Anaerobic Zone: grunting, unable to speak.
Next time you are working out, try chatting to a friend and monitor your speech patterns. If you can tell them where you are going for your holiday, and what you’re going to pack, wear, see and do without pausing for breath you probably exercising below the aerobic zone.
If you are reduced to single words, you are probably exercising in the lactate threshold zone.
Generally, most training is done in the aerobic zone. You should be able to comfortably carry on a conversation by speaking in short sentences. It takes a little bit more work, but it’s not uncomfortable. This is often referred to as the sweet spot of cardiovascular training.
Limitations: Reliable for measuring intensity when you are exercising within your optimal aerobic zone (65% – 80% of maximum heart rate). For your workouts outside this zone, other techniques of monitoring intensity are useful.
How it works: When you perform aerobic exercise such as jogging or rowing, your muscles use more oxygen and produce carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide levels are monitored by chemoreceptors in your blood vessels which send messages to your lungs via your brain to increase the speed and depth of your breathing.
As you increase the intensity of your workout, you switch from nose breathing to mouth breathing. This is (or was because now you’ll be looking for it!) an automatic response to the increased demand for oxygen and occurs at around 60% of your maximum heart rate.
- Recovery Zone: can breathe through your nose
- Fitness Zone: start to breathe through your mouth
- Aerobic Zone: breathing is more labored
- Lactate threshold: breathing is heavy, difficult and uncomfortable
- Anaerobic Zone: gasping for breath
Bottom line – if you are breathing through your nose when doing your cardio, you’re probably in your recovery training zone.
Like a bad gambler, you have an exercise “tell”. You may go red, sweat at a certain exercise intensity, develop an intense “thousand yard stare”, clench your fists or exhibit a host of other signs that happen when you hit your training sweet spot.
Once you know what your “tells” are, you can use them to monitor the intensity of your workout.
This method, like breathing above, is a subconscious indicator of how you are feeling. But now, because you are aware of it, you need to relax and just “let it happen”.
RATING OF PERCEIVED EXERTION
– HOW IT FEELS –
Attributed to Swede Gunner Borg, the rating of perceived exertion scale, or RPE for short, is a method of monitoring intensity based on how you feel while exercising.
Rating your perceived exertion involves assessing how physically and mentally difficult a workout feels to you – not about how it should feel. It’s as simple as how easy or hard the exercise feels to you at any given moment on a scale of 1 to 10. And it is completely subjective.
It requires you take notice of you body, such as how hard you’re breathing, how your muscles feel, and how much you’re sweating.
RPE reflects your body’s actual reaction to what you are doing. In other words, it takes external and internal variables into consideration. That means it allows you to adjust workout according to how you feel on a particular day:
- External stressors (e.g. lack of sleep, poor nutrition, medication, caffeine or dehydration) that may negatively impact your performance and make your body work harder, are taken into consideration. So that might mean you make your workout easier to prevent yourself from overworking. Or it may teach you to become more comfortable exercising at certain training targets that you find uncomfortable.
- Fitness gains are factored in. As your fitness levels improve, you can do more (e.g. run or cycle faster), though the perceived effort stays the same. In other words, what felt like an 8 when you started running (maybe jogging for 3 minutes continuously), will feel different after say, 6 months of running (e.g. a tempo run)
Although RPE might seem unscientific at first glance, it is much used by elite athletes and allows you to turn things up a notch when exercise feel easy, and dial it back when you start to get winded.
The RPE Scale
Borg’s original scale runs from 6 to 20 which may seem a little odd. That’s because the original scale was linked heart rate, so his athletes wouldn’t have to monitor their pulses. They would be able to exercise at a particular heart rate, by simply “knocking off” a zero to determine RPE.
For example, if Borg wanted his athletes to work out at 140 bpm, they would simply exercise at level 14 RPE.
With practice, using Borg’s scale can be very precise. However, some users find the concept of a 6-20 scale off-putting and, as a result, a modified version of Borg’s scale emerged. Many users find this modified 0-10 scale far more logical and user friendly.
How to Use RPE
To get this scale clear in your mind, imagine level zero is equal to sitting at home, feet up, watching TV whilst level ten is sprinting after a bus that just won’t stop.
A disadvantage of perceived exertion is that it doesn’t take into account exercise discomfort tolerance. If you find a particular activity uncomfortable, you will probably perceive that you are working harder than you actually are. Also, RPE is totally subjective and it’s not always easy to make completely honest self-judgements. However, RPE is still an incredibly valuable tool that can really boost your fitness gains.
Therefore, think of RPE as an additional layer of monitoring to better inform your training. Combine RPE with the other techniques described above, to accurately estimate how intensely you’re exercising.
By combining the talk test, observing breathing patterns and using RPE, you should be able to get yourself into the appropriate heart rate training zone without having to use a heart rate monitor.
The table below summarizes RPE, the talk test, breathing pattern, and heart rate training.
|How it Feels
|Very, very easy
Light household chores.
Moving, but doesn’t feel quite like exercise.
|Breathing slightly elevated
Just about feels like exercise
|Noticeable faster breathing, full conversation
More purposeful exercise. Feels like a workout you could sustain a long time.
|Heavy breathing, shorter conversation
Feels like a good workout, could do it for an hour.
|Very heavy breathing, can talk in sentences
Challenging but sustainable, could do it for 30 to 40 minutes.
|Short of breath, short sentences only
Feels tough and uncomfortable. Can keep steady pace, but not sure how long.
|Short of breath, single words only
Really tough, can’t keep this up for long.
|Very, very hard
|Out of breath, difficult to talk
Almost flat out. Counting down the seconds for it to be over.
|Gasping for breath, grunting
Absolute limit. Running like your life depends on it. Feels like you might want to throw up.
*Approximate % of maximum heart rate (MHR)
RPE is simply another tool in your arsenal. It requires and reminds you to trust your body and to become familiar with yourself. Not to blindly trust high-tech tools, which can be imperfect and only tell part of the story.
Using multiple methods gives you a bigger, more holistic and therefore more accurate picture of your training. Heart rate monitoring is best used in combination with other techniques and not in isolation. Indeed, you can use a heart rate monitor to help you become more accurate at gauging RPE.
The more you monitor your RPE, the better you’ll get at determining it precisely and the better you can optimise your training.

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Way back in October, when the Chicago Blackhawks were struggling to score two or three goals a game, coach Joel Quenneville was patient.
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Sri Lanka holds rates; private credit at 26.5-pct
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s central bank said it was holding rates unchanged in April, awaiting the result of higher interest rates.
Banks gave 53.7 billion rupees in credit to private business in February.
"Going forward, a gradual slowdown in money and credit expansion is expected in the period ahead, as the recent monetary policy measures are expected to have an impact on the economy with some time lag," the central bank said.
Analysts say if the central stops rejecting bids at primary auctions of Treasury bills and stops repaying maturing bills with printed money as it had been doing in the past, monetary policy would be tight.
As far as possible overnight liquidity should not be allowed to go into surplus and if there are any inflows, central bank’s bill holding should be sold down to mop up cash so that banks borrow overnight at 8.0 percent.
The full statement follows:
Headline inflation, as measured by the Colombo Consumers’ Price Index (CCPI, 2006/2007=100), declined to 2.0 per cent on a year-on-year basis in March 2016 from 2.7 per cent in February 2016, mainly due to the decline in food inflation. On an annual average basis, CCPI based headline inflation edged up to 1.1 per cent in March 2016 from 0.9 per cent in the previous month.
Year-on-year headline inflation, based on the National Consumer Price Index (NCPI, 2013=100), was 2.2 per cent in March 2016 compared to 1.7 per cent in the previous month, and was 2.4 per cent on an annual average basis. Meanwhile, the CCPI based core inflation, which reflects underlying demand pressures in the economy, declined to 4.5 per cent in March 2016 from 5.7 per cent in the previous month, on a year-on-year basis.
In the monetary sector, broad money (M2b) recorded a year-on-year growth of 19.8 per cent in February 2016, compared to 19.1 per cent in the previous month, driven by the expansion in domestic credit aggregates. Credit granted to the private sector by commercial banks, which is the largest category of domestic credit, increased by 26.5 per cent in February 2016, on a year-on-year basis, compared to 25.7 per cent in January 2016, while in absolute terms, credit granted to the private sector grew by Rs. 53.7 billion during the month of February 2016.
Meanwhile, market interest rates have risen reflecting the tight monetary conditions in the economy. Going forward, a gradual slowdown in money and credit expansion is expected in the period ahead, as the recent monetary policy measures are expected to have an impact on the economy with some time lag.
In the external sector, the decline in expenditure on imports in February 2016 has been greater than the decline in earnings from exports, thereby narrowing the deficit in the trade account by 11.7 per cent, year-on-year.
Earnings from tourism are estimated to have increased by 22.8 per cent in March 2016, while workers’ remittances recorded a healthy increase of 8.3 per cent in February 2016. Gross official reserves are estimated to have stood at US dollars 6.2 billion by end March 2016 compared to US dollars 6.6 billion at end February 2016, and the Sri Lanka rupee remained broadly unchanged against the US dollar thus far during 2016.


According to a Credit Suisse report, the shift of the digital environment to the Metaverse, where an individual feels immersed in a virtual environment, would boost data consumption by 20 times globally by 2032, and telecoms companies Bharti Airtel and Reliance are well-positioned to benefit from the surge in India. According to the report, the Metaverse has huge potential to increase screen time and bandwidth use.
"Internet traffic is already 80% video, and it is expanding at a 30% CAGR (compound annual growth rate). Our team anticipates that even modest Metaverse usage would generate a 37% CAGR to 20x present data usage over the next decade "According to a paper published on Thursday.
Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality are projected to grow because these are the technologies essential for accessing the Metaverse, augmented reality and virtual reality are projected to grow. While 5G will sustain the Metaverse environment, the introduction of 6G will expand Metaverse use cases, according to the report.
It said that one of the areas where initial use scenarios of Metaverse are predicted is gaming. According to the survey, gaming is in its early stages in India, and mobile gaming is now being pushed by mobile phones as a result of the introduction of inexpensive smartphones and 4G broadband services.
"Given the low fixed broadband penetration, mobile internet remains the primary way for Indian people to connect to the internet. The proportion of mobile gaming in online games is predicted to grow in the future "According to the survey.
According to the research, India is one of the top countries in the world in terms of the number of time spent on mobile per day, but it has a limited presence of fixed broadband compared to its global peers, which will be critical to realizing the full potential of the Metaverse.
"While it is too early to estimate the impact of Metaverse on Indian telcos' revenues," the research added, "we believe Bharti Airtel (with 17% of sales from a fixed-line) and Jio are well-positioned to gain from a boom in data consumption led by Metaverse in the latter part of this decade."
According to the estimate, fixed broadband consumption in India would rise to 9% in the current fiscal year from 6.8 percent in FY20.
"We predict penetration to expand further to 12.6% by FY25E, driven by ongoing data demand and telcos' desire to boost utilization rate of existing fiber infrastructure," according to the research.
Metaverse is a network that connects individuals to live in 3D Virtual Reality space. The term 'Metaverse' is made up of two words: 'Meta+Verse,' where 'META' is taken from a Greek word that is a prefix that signifies 'Beyond,' and 'VERSE' is derived from 'Universe.' The word promises to live in an artificial world built on cutting-edge technology that connects people in a 3D Virtual Reality area. In the 3D virtual reality environment, individuals may connect with their friends, attend concerts, play games, and witness many typical daily life events in addition to actual life. Our technology is based on a scientific hypothesis that asserts there are several worlds on this planet.


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Stopping for a breath
I wanted to take some time today to just say thank you for being you. It is important to remember who you are and what you stand for, especially in times such as these that we are living in. Don’t ever stop believing that you are special, and God made you to be the person you are. As we go through life we learn many things that maybe we wish we hadn’t, but those lessons whether good or bad were given for a reason. Looking back on our lives we learn to decipher which lessons we need to toss aside and which ones to hold close to our hearts. We are not perfect and must remember that we were born into sin. Once we accept this reality, we are able to learn from past mistakes and change our points of view from there on.
God gave His perfect and one and only son to die a horrible death via crucifixion so that we could be saved and live with Him eternally. Do not let others dictate who you are and how you feel, but always pray for others that they may find peace, love, and understanding through Christ’s perfect sacrifice for us. We all fall short of God’s glory because of sin, but we do have a choice. We can choose to love, honor, and obey God, or we can choose to continue living in sin. God gave us the ability to make our own choice and I am not here to tell you which way you should go, but rather help you find the path to God and His grace. He loves YOU!! God Loves YOU!! Wow! That is quite a concept to know. He does not want any of His children to suffer the terrible fate of separation from Him, but we can make the choice to Love Him the way that He first loved us.
God knows your struggles and the things that we love and care about, and reaching out to Him does not make us weak….reaching out to God and accepting His love, guidance, and understanding is a true testament to how we feel about Him and His perfect and beautiful son, Jesus Christ. Accepting Jesus as your savior can change your life into a miracle. Search your heart today and listen, because He is talking to you and reaching out to you to find your way back to Him. He does not want any of His children to die, but to always love you!!
God bless and keep you always!!

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The magnificent ego of Father John Misty makes his music seem really important. The music is not really that important, of course, but when you hear that smooth and gentle soft-rock with his olden croon centered so perfectly on every pitch, it seems like it is, in the way that narcissists or the canon of classic rock seem important. This outsized persona bursting forth from singer-songwriter Josh Tillman is full of self-mythology descended straight from Bob Dylan, dripping with a painted-on significance: His greatest passion is his thoughts. The autofiction of his songwriting imparts its own patina of truth, something that seems unassailable if you subscribe to the man, the voice, the facial hair. He strolls through his own songs like a melancholy king finding every opportunity to catch his reflection.
His ego may keep some folks at arm’s length, but it is also precisely what makes his music fascinating. If the maxim is “write what you know,” then it is certain that Tillman knows himself a little too well. All this helps build a kind of lore around him, the Misty mythos: He is the former drummer for the sylvan Fleet Foxes, the rogue at house parties, the online satirist, the ham at live shows, the scamp who writes generic pop songs as a lark or as a hired gun, the ingester of mushrooms, the beefer with Ryan Adams, and of course the husband to his wife, Emma, to whom his cosmic romance was detailed with great overture on his 2015 album I Love You, Honeybear. This is only part of the vast Father John Misty universe Tillman has created, with its many footnotes and appendices. His fourth album, God’s Favorite Customer, is Tillman trying to destroy it all.
The record is comparatively small and vulnerable, as hook-filled as it is heartrending, the kind of back-to-basics turn that almost seems a bit too calculated after the density of last year’s Pure Comedy. Written over a period of two emotionally fraught months holed up in a New York hotel room, Tillman sounds more wise than clever. Instead of the romantic bombast of I Love You, Honeybear, now it’s love songs without ornaments, written from the perspective of someone looking up at the world, not down on it. Finally, the real lessons of his psychedelic trips of the past are taking hold: Father John Misty wants to destroy his ego, get out of his head, and be here for someone else.


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Parkour Climb and Jump
Parkour Climb and Jump is a parkour activity that allows you to jump over massive obstacles. In this fun parkour you can leap high enough to have fun. You will need to comply with certain conditions. Can you collect all the missing stones and complete your mission?
In this 3D-game, you will play the role a well-known superhero! Grand parkour gives you freedom to move about the area, jump off roofs, climb as high as you wish, and even leap over other people. Enjoy parkour and make sure to use all of your abilities for long distances. While you can play the game for free, it is still necessary to find the hidden diamonds scattered in the environment in order complete the tasks. Always pay attention to the distance keeper. It allows you the ability to see in which direction and at what distance the diamond is from you. Take advantage of the time you have now, as there are entire cities waiting for your arrival.
How To Play Parkour Climb and Jump

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The Future Mobility Calculator (FMC) is an Excel-based tool that helps cities make informed decisions about the future of their mobility and energy systems. Using city-specific demographic data, mobility scenarios, charging patterns and infrastructure, and cost data, the FMC estimates the quantity and cost of infrastructure required as well as related emission reduction and social benefits. The tool relies on local data and uptake scenarios input by the user, but in cases where local data is unavailable, the tool uses default data in its place. The FMC does not provide detailed quantitative analysis for EV uptake and goal setting, local distribution grid impacts from charging, or a rigorous benefits-cost analysis assessment. Therefore, more detailed quantitative analyses will be needed to make robust decisions.
The Overview tab describes the following tabs and their content while providing a simple user key. Yellow cells can be manipulated while gray cells cannot.
The Glossary tab provides definitions of terms used throughout the rest of the tool.
The Sources tab contains links to sources for and/or description to default data used throughout the tool.
Initial Data Input tab
The Initial Data Input tab is the first main step for the user to provide city-specific data. This data includes general city information and city electricity information. Based on this, the tool will assign certain characteristics to help source default data for the analysis.
City Data, Mobility Data, Charging Data, and Cost Data tabs
Starting in the City Data tab and continuing for the following tabs, information is split between manual input and default input. If no local values are available, the FMC will utilize the default data.
To the far right are information boxes that clarify the requested information for each data section.
Within these tabs, users provide more detailed information on their city, evolving mobility landscape, charging infrastructure, and related costs.
The Results tab contains three different results dashboards, each broken into different categories with results shown for the Baseline (tool assumes 2020 as baseline), 2035, and 2050.
The Costs Dashboard displays charging infrastructure costs, electricity costs, and vehicle investment costs. The Benefits Dashboard displays social and emission reduction benefits. The Infrastructure Dashboard displays different mobility characteristics as well as results for electricity consumption and chargers required.
Yearly Selected Costs and Benefits tab
The Yearly Selected Costs and Benefits tab provides yearly results.
This is an open-source tool, all data input sheets, calculation sheets, default data sheets, etc. can be viewed and edited as needed.
As this is the first version of the tool, please share your feedback and report any issues to Vishant Kothari, firstname.lastname@example.org. Your insights will help improve the tool development and functionality for future iterations.
Vishant Kothari, Ryan Sclar, Eleanor Jackson, Emmett Werthmann, Jone Orbea

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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Indonesia’s government debt was recorded at 39.09% of gross domestic product (GDP) in April this year. The ratio increased sharply compared to the pre-pandemic period, but is still lower than many countries including comradesnamely Brazil and Malaysia.
For the record, the government debt ratio in April 2019 was 29.65%. However, the debt ratio increased rapidly after the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world in March 2020. Since last December 2021, the government’s debt position has even penetrated 41%.
The amount of funding to manage Covid and mitigation efforts such as social assistance provision has made government debt soar.
Debt spikes have also been experienced by dozens of other countries from Sudan, Sri Lanka, Argentina, Brazil, to Malaysia.