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Can’t find a photographer? If you’re already a photo pro, maybe it’s time to try a selfie photo session! This couple did – and the results are astounding! (Featuring: JEN MONTGOMERY PHOTOGRAPHY)
What do a camper van, one trusty tripod, and the finest attire have in common? All three were necessary for photographer Jen Montgomery to make her own engagement session with her fiancé Alex Johnson.
The pair ventured to Iceland from their home in Anoka, Minnesota, for the express purpose of photographing themselves in one of the world’s most beautiful landscapes. “Trust me when I say that it’s not as easy as you might think, taking your own engagement photos,” Jen admits. “But maybe I’m the only person who’d ever think it could be easy!”
We asked Jen to walk us through the process of how to take your own engagement photos. Here’s what we learned.
The Logistics of Taking Selfie Pre-Wedding Pictures
There are myriad logistical considerations for a selfie engagement session – and they extend far beyond gear.
“I wish I’d had more time in Iceland to [scout for locations],” says Jen. “There are so many lovely and unique areas in Iceland, I could have [explored] forever!”
Getting the Right Look
“I would have loved having someone to professionally do my hair and makeup, as well as steam my clothes so they were not wrinkly!” Jen explains. “Living out of a van during all of our shoots made for an interesting time putting on clothes, and getting my hair curled and make-up done. Let’s just say, there was plenty of dry shampoo involved!”
The Gear You Need for Selfie Engagement Session
While you can still experience a fun-filled day of save-the-date shots without lots of professional equipment, using some basic gear can make a big difference in your final engagement photos.
With a DSLR, you can play with focus, shutter speeds, aperture, and white balance. For her shoot, Jen used a Canon 5D Mark III. If you don’t have one, you may consider borrowing from a friend or investing in it for your wedding or future engagement photo sessions.
Lenses can help you create bokeh or beautiful background blurs for your pictures. The least expensive yet useful lens you can use is a 50mm 1.8 lens. For Jen’s photos, she used a 50mm f/1.2 lens, 24-70mm lens, and Sigma 35mm f/1.4 lens.
You might be wondering how to take your own engagement photos if there’s nobody else around to assist you. Meet the tripod, your trusty three-legged best friend for a DIY shoot. You can rely on a tripod to hold a camera level and stable.
Gone are the days of pressing the shutter down and running to the other side of the camera, looking too winded in time for the snapshot.
Instead, all you need to do is to trigger the shutter release remotely to take good engagement photos of you and your partner. Together with a camera and tripod, they are the ultimate trio for a great selfie engagement photo shoot session.
“I used a remote to trigger my shutter release,” Jen explains. “It is extremely helpful to be able to run away from the camera and shoot from afar!” She also shot all of the photographs at f/2.5 – an aperture that balanced beautiful bokeh with tack-sharp photos.
One of the great things about owning a smartphone is handiness, which is beneficial, especially if you can’t bring along much gear. While not every smartphone has the features of a camera, they come with basic shooting features like orientation, portrait mode, exposure, focus, and timer.
Look for Light
When you’re planning a DIY pre-wedding photo session, you must find the best lighting source. Aside from natural light, professional photographers typically add ring light, Speedlight, and light umbrella. Since you might not have this gear on hand, you need to make the most out of the available light.
The best way to save you from spending on lighting equipment is by using natural lighting. You can do this by considering what time of the day you want for your session.
For example, the golden hour, which is the period after sunrise and before sunset, creates a reddish-orange hue. This is a great time to take photos because the sky is showing interesting lighting dynamics.
Experiment While Having Fun
The idea of capturing your own save-the-date pictures may be a bit challenging because this is something new to you. To shoot photos that will look good on your wedding album, consider these things during your planning:
- Pegs and Poses: Start by looking through photoshoot style guides then add some candid shots. Make sure only to follow those you’re comfortable to execute.
- Angles: Try a variety of photo angles to see which ones will give you the best results.
- Expression: This is essential in creating an emotional connection and meaning in your photo session.
Have Patience, Young Grasshopper
If you tackle the challenge of making your own selfie engagement session, Jen offers this piece of advice:
“Be patient! There are so many photos which will not turn out, or you’ll find you moved just a hair during your poses and the focus is now off. Patience is definitely key.”
Jen and Alex also arrived at several shoot locations only to find them crowded with tourists. “At the black sand beach, there were a TON of tourists, so we had to wait for different moments when it cleared out a hair. Many of the tourists asked for photos with us; they just thought [what we were doing] was great!”
Weather was also an unknown, with rain falling sporadically and often. “Bring something warm and something to keep you dry,” Jen advises.
Culling Your Selfie Engagement Session
When you’re your own photographer, you can’t take a sneak peek at the back of your camera after every shot. So what do you do to make sure the photos are turning out well? You shoot a lot. More than normal. And you anticipate a culling session that’s at least twice as long as usual!
“Of all the photos, I think I edited about half, some of which I kept just for myself and Alex,” Jen shares. Half of the edited images wound up online for friends and family to enjoy.
Here’s Why a Photographer Didn’t Hire a Photographer
In all fairness, Jen and Alex did try to hire a professional to photograph their travels through Iceland, but they could never align their schedules. In the end, this inspired the couple to make their own engagement selfies – an experience they wouldn’t change.
“My favorite thing about this entire shoot was the journey,” reminisces Jen. “[our own] was not an easy thing to do, but we made so many memories while doing it. I will never forget what it was like to find the glacier location, to wake up in such a beautiful place and feel so inspired. [For those reasons,] this shoot is nearer to my heart than any other I have ever done.”
“Selfie”: it’s not a bad word.
“Selfies” are often treated as the unwelcome intruders of the photography world. However, self-portraiture has existed as long as the medium itself. What better way to learn, after all, than to make yourself the subject?
- What have you learned from making self-portraits?
- If you’ve never before photographed yourself using anything other than your phone, are you ready to give selfies a try?
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The Real Secret Life of Walter Mitty
A story every man should read, and not for the reasons you think.
Byon December 25, 2013
James Thurber may be the most underrated American writer of the twentieth century. Though he was enormously successful, he never quite attained the iconic status of a Hemingway or even an E.B. White. He just may have been too self-deprecating, or not macho enough. His work studiously avoided the pretentious and self-important. Yet his best bits of writing are as delicious today as they were when first published: My Life and Hard Times, The Years with Ross, and of course, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, the short story that is the basis for a much-ballyhooed, long-gestating film adaptation starring Ben Stiller. That movie will replace the 1947 classic starring Danny Kane, but the fact is, no film can capture the beautiful truth at the heart of Thurber's best story.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is the foremost example of that nearly extinct form of American fiction: the mainstream, highly accessible, highly influential little narrative. What a wonderful form it was, the midcentury magazine short storyconsumable fiction designed not for narrow academic specialists, but for everyone. While the subgenre includes stories like Shirley Jackson's The Lottery and Dorothy Parker's Big Blonde, Thurber's two-pager remains by far the best known. When Mitty was first published in The New Yorker in 1939, men everywhere wrote Thurber to express their deep love for his simple story of a dreamy man driving his wife around on errands, all the while imagining himself as a first-rate surgeon, or a great war pilot, each fantasy triggered by things like taking off his gloves or turning over his car engine.
The story blew up, and it stayed big. It was adapted into the aforementioned Danny Kaye film, and a musical in the 1960s. In 2001, Thomas Fensch published a Thurber biography titled The Man Who Was Walter Mitty. There is even a psychological condition named after the story, Walter Mitty syndrome, which describes ineffectual people who have delusions of grandeur.
The idea of Walter Mitty as a psychiatric case study comes mostly from the Danny Kaye film. That adaptation (which Thurber intensely hated) portrays Mitty as a chronic dreamer, a man whose dreaminess both limits and sustains him. (He works for a fantasy magazine, and, as the plot unfolds, one of his glamorous fantasies turns out to be true.) But in the original story there is no sense that Mitty is extraordinarily dreamythat's the beauty of it, and in a way the reason for its success. The story of a man whose mind is in the middle of an air battle while he's driving down a peaceful street is not the story of a delusional man; it is in a way the story of the men of that generation.
In 1939, a lot of nebbishy guys around the world found themselves thrust into extraordinary danger, and there were signs that their American counterparts would soon be joining them. Many of these men were enticed by the supposed glamour of the struggle, the possibility of shedding their ordinary lives and performing spectacularly under extreme pressure. As Patton told some of them in his speech to the Third Army, There's one thing you men will be able to say when this war is over and you get back home. Thirty years from now, when you're sitting by your fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks, 'What did you do in the great World War II?' you won't have to cough and say, 'Well, your granddaddy shoveled shit in Louisiana.'
During the war, of course, those same men faced situations of incomprehensible horror, and when they came back, they seldom discussed these experiences at all. My grandfather was a rear gunner in a Lancaster bomber during World War II who flew fifty missions (the average survival rate for a rear gunner was four). After the war he returned to rural New Brunswick, to the mild, busy life of a dairy farmer with seven children. He never talked about the warnot to me, not to anyone I knew. But it does not take much imagination to picture him running errands with my grandmother, his head full of flaming images of apocalyptic horror and his own heroism in the face of it. Like Mitty, he too had a secret life of intense drama that he kept buried within.
The conventional reading of Thurbers storythe one that the films take a few steps furtheris that Mitty is the classic milquetoast man, bored and a little emasculated, who comforts himself with daydreams in which he performs amazing feats of skill and daring. And while it is indeed about one man's fantasies, the real tension in the storyreconciling the hell of extreme conflict with the quotidian business of peacetime lifeis something that men who lived through the war knew intimately.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ends with its hero stuck out in the sleet while his wife is shopping, imagining himself facing the firing squad: "erect and motionless, proud and disdainful, Walter Mitty the Undefeated, inscrutable to the last." It's a brilliant final phrase, that "inscrutable to the last." Its what Thurber's story captures so perfectly, so finallythe inscrutability of the secret life of ordinary men whose minds are full of the extraordinary. And it's exactly that inscrutability that keeps Walter Mitty undefeated to this day.
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Names Calcaterra, Martinez Co-Transition Directors; Announces Meetings on Economy and Diversity
Hauppauge - Suffolk County Executive-elect Steve Bellone today invited all Suffolk County residents to serve on his transition team as he announced his process to ensure he can hit the ground running when he takes office on January 1. All Suffolk County residents can share their ideas and get updates through Bellone’s new transition website, www.suffolkcountyworksforyou.com.
“Travelling our county, I understand that most good ideas come from outside government,” Bellone said. “That is why I want each and every Suffolk County resident to serve on my transition team. I welcome your ideas to help me do more with less and make our county an economic powerhouse.”
Bellone named Babylon Town Councilman Antonio Martinez and Southold attorney Regina Calcaterra as the co-directors of his transition. Martinez and Calcaterra will be seeking leaders who fit the Bellone model of people who value the integral role that an efficiently run government plays in our lives, but who are also committed to doing more with less. They will also be working with all Suffolk residents who share their ideas on improving Suffolk County via the transition website. Bios follow.
“Tony and Regina are two self-made individuals from different backgrounds, who have not only overcome adversity, but have dedicated themselves to creating opportunities for others,” Bellone said. “I know and trust them both and they will help me put together an administration that all Suffolk residents can be proud of.”
As part of his transition process, Bellone will hold meetings throughout Suffolk County to get feedback from residents. He will begin next week by holding meetings on two of his priorities. He will discuss the economy in a meeting organized by the Long Island Association and other business groups and he will hold a forum on diversity in Brentwood to discuss how we can create an inclusive Suffolk County where everyone feels safe. Information on these and subsequent meetings will be available on the website.
Bellone also thanked County Executive Steve Levy for meeting with him earlier this week and pledging to work together for a smooth transition. Levy has offered assistance with setting up a transition office within the County, which will be staffed by existing personnel.
“County Executive Levy understands the importance of a seamless transition to Suffolk County taxpayers and I thank him for his cooperation,” Bellone said.
Biographies of Co-Transition Directors
Regina M. Calcaterra
Regina M. Calcaterra brings to County Executive-Elect Steve Bellone’s Transition Team over two decades of experience in the private and public sector and non-profit industry. She has represented defrauded public and labor pension funds by recouping billions of dollars from those who committed corporate fraud on Wall Street, secured the passage of laws that generated revenue for the New York state and city pension and treasury funds in addition to serving as an advocate for disabled veterans.
Ms. Calcaterra is the founding and managing partner of the New York office of Barrack, Rodos & Bacine, where for the past eight years she has represented public pension funds and labor funds when they lose money due to corporate fraud. She has served on the litigation teams representing the New York State Common Retirement Fund in its successful effort to recoup more $6 billion from WorldCom and over $1 billion in McKesson. More recently she was on the litigation team securing over $500 million from Merrill Lynch for their role in mortgage crisis. Ms. Calcaterra is presently serving on the litigation teams of other high profile global corporate fraud actions that are presently pending on behalf of wronged investors worldwide.
Prior to her work at Barrack, Rodos & Bacine, Ms. Calcaterra served as Deputy General Counsel at New York City Employees' Retirement System (NYCERS) (2001-03) where she counseled the executive leadership and members on all matters of public pension law and served as Director of Intergovernmental Relations to the former New York City Comptroller (1994-98) where she secured the passage of ten state laws that saved taxpayers millions of dollars, generated revenue, streamlined government operations and protected fair wages for working men and
women. Ms. Calcaterra began her career working towards the passage and implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act while serving as an advocate for disabled veterans and all Americans with disabilities at the Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association (1988-91) and later at NJ Transit (1991-93).
Raised in foster care in Suffolk County, Regina has served since 2006 as a Board Member of You Gotta Believe, a not-for-profit organization that works to get older foster children adopted rather than face homelessness when they age out of care and is a frequent commentator on politics and public policy for national and local media outlets. She is a graduate of Centereach High School (1984), SUNY New Paltz (1988) and Seton Hall Law School (1996). Born and raised in foster care in Suffolk County, N.Y., she is a resident of New Suffolk.
Councilman Antonio Martinez was born in El Salvador, Central America and emigrated to the United States in 1982 at the age of 13. Antonio and his family fled their native land due to a bloody civil war that ravaged the country in the 1980’s, but fortunately they settled in the Village of Lynbrook in the Township of Hempstead to begin their American dream.
Councilman Martinez is a proud product of New York State’s public education system; he attended and graduated the State University of New York College at Oneonta. Councilman Martinez majored in Political Science and History, and completed a public policy internship with the New York State Department of Labor.
Upon graduating college, Tony Martinez began his career helping and empowering people. His first job with Catholic Charities introduced him to community organizing which led to a career in helping others help themselves. Tony worked for affiliates of the Industrial Areas Foundation– Long Island Congregations Association and Neighborhoods (LICAN), and East Brooklyn Congregations (EBC) – helping homeowners battle unscrupulous contractors, predatory lenders and absentee landlords, building homeowners associations, assisting parents in addressing educational issues in their public schools, and supporting residents addressing quality of life issues. As a community organizer, Tony’s role was to build the organizations and empower their members to act for social change. Through his training and employment he learned the art of one-to-one, relationship building and provided the tools to people to be effective advocates for themselves.
After working as a community organizer, Tony Martinez was hired by the Empire State Regional Council of Carpenters as a union organizer. Tony used what he learned as a community organizer and helped carpenters and other workers recoup hundreds of thousands of dollars in back wages and assisted in leveling the playing field for contractors that played by the rules. With the carpenters union, Councilman Martinez represented the interests of union and non-union carpenters with the fundamental purpose to raise their standard of living. As a union organizer, Tony worked closely with law enforcement at the federal, state and county levels to protect and enforce labor laws, particularly in the area of prevailing wage and payroll tax laws.
Tony has been involved in numerous commissions and boards including: Suffolk County Workforce Housing Commission, Suffolk County Hispanic Advisory Board, Town of Babylon Planning Board, Pronto of Long Island, Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Gerald Ryan Outreach Center, and The Boys Scouts of America Sagtikos District Nominations Committee Chairman.
Currently, Tony Martinez is a partner at Pan American Communications and a proud resident of the Town of Babylon where he serves as an elected Town Board Councilman. Tony was appointed Councilman by Supervisor Steve Bellone and the Town Board on July 15, 2008. On November 4th, 2008 he was elected to serve the remainder of an unexpired term, and was re-elected on November 3rd, 2009 to a full four year term. As Councilman, Tony chairs the Parks and Recreation Committee, and works diligently to serve the interests of all residents in the Town of Babylon
Tony is married to Marisol, and they both are the proud parents of Zachary, Tomas and Nicholas. They live in the hamlet of Wheatley Heights.

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There she met Louis DeMattei, her future husband, who is now a tax attorney. Every evening her mother tests her relentlessly for intellectual prowess, such as knowing all the world capitals and multiplying large numbers in her head.
She was the stupid one," she decides. It won both the National Book Award and the L. In fact, she was so determined to look like an American girl that she even slept with a clothespin on her nose, hoping to slim its Asian shape.
Woo gets her ideas from television and popular magazines. Everything has been predigested for mass consumption. The quoted parts were filled with grammatical mistakes and the text was quite confusing.
Knowing she is not prepared but somehow thinking that the prodigy in her actually exists, June plays to her surprised and somewhat embarrassed parents.
Determined to thwart her mother's ambitions, Jing-mei neglects practicing the piano. She also worked on the movie screenplay of The Joy Luck Club, released in Five foreign publishers bought rights to the novel — all before publication.
Rose is overwhelmed but recovers. June accepts, seeing this as a peace offering, a shiny trophy that she has finally won back. To discover the fallacy of Mrs. She later abandoned the program in order to work with developmentally disabled children. Tan also explores the effect of popular culture on the immigrant.
A few years before her death, her mother offers her the piano for her thirtieth birthday. She decided to force herself to do another kind of writing. This realization brings together the theme of the tension between mothers and daughters. It is not enough that Jing-mei be merely successful, however.
At one time, writing it became such a challenge that she broke out in hives. I'd take her to China, and I'd write a book. Later she started a successful free-lance nonfiction writing business, partly in response to a supervisor who severely criticized her writing. Although John and Daisy rarely socialized with their neighbors, Amy and her brothers ignored their parents' objections and tried hard to fit into American society.
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Ten years later she marries Clifford St. One day, the Woos meet Lindo Jong and her daughter Waverly. Jong brags about Waverly's success as a chess prodigy.
The fourth series of stories focuses on Ying-ying. In her struggle with her mother, she is struggling with her own identity.
Young Amy was deeply unhappy with her Asian appearance and heritage. Admired for her mop of blond ringlets, her coy, flirtatious pizazz, and her affected, plucky singing and dancing, she became one of the most famous and popular of all child stars in the 30s.
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Summary In the essay Mother Tongue, Amy Tan talked about her love and fascination of language, and how language can evoke an emotion, a visual image, and how it’s a tool she uses everyday in writing.
The main idea of Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue" is the limitations that imperfect English can impose in society and the richness that such English can bring to writing. Tan elaborates this idea by scrutinizing her mother's language, her own use of English and society's response to different people's.
Complete summary of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Joy Luck Club. "A Pair of Tickets" is the final story in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck.
To Jing-mei's mother, America is the Land of Opportunity. She has high hopes that her daughter will be a great success as a prodigy. She's not precisely sure wh. In “Mother Tongue”, Tan writes about the awareness and discrimination about “broken English” compared to Standard English.
In Tans essay she quotes her mothers’ speech to demonstrate her mothers “broken English”, it was a very trivial story but the thing that is worth looking at was her mother’s grammar. From a general summary to chapter summaries to explanations of famous quotes, the SparkNotes The Joy Luck Club Study Guide has everything you need to ace quizzes, tests, and essays.
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"This will be the most significant overhaul of our espionage, counter intelligence, political donation legislative framework in decades", he told reporters in Canberra.
Australia will ban foreign interference in its politics - either through espionage or financial donations - in a move motivated largely by Russia's alleged involvement in last year's USA election and China's growing influence on the global political landscape.
Australia's new laws, modeled in part on the US Foreign Agents Registration Act, would criminalize foreign interference and require the registration of lobbyists working for nation states, Turnbull said.
"Foreign powers are making unprecedented and increasingly sophisticated attempts to influence the political process, both here and overseas", Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told reporters in Canberra on Tuesday.
Netflix fire actor Danny Masterson amid multiple rape allegations
No!" she said. "I'm going to be an awesome woman who will NOT shut my mouth when I find out my rapist raped countless other women. Netflix's statement does not address what is happening with Masterson's role as an executive producer on The Ranch .
"We have recently seen disturbing reports about Chinese influence", Turnbull said, adding the reforms were not targeted at any one country.
The push to curb foreign interference follows growing concerns about meddling by Chinese individuals and entities in Australian politics and universities.
Senator Brandis said the allegations against Labor senator Sam Dastyari would not reach the threshold of existing laws but that was why new laws would address that "gap". Dastyari, who remains in Parliament, had previously said that a Chinese company with links to Beijing had paid a A$1,670 (US$1,275) travel bill for him. It won't only be just sending information but also receiving information.
There will also be a new offence that will criminalise, for the first time, soliciting or procuring a person to engage in espionage, and a new preparation and planning offence.
Arsenal prepared to allow Theo Walcott to leave in January
Wenger is planning to raise funds for his transfer kitty by offloading a number of fringe players over the next eight-months. The England global is yet to start a league game for the Gunners this season, featuring as a sub in just three games.
Turnbull explained that the reforms would aim to protect and strengthen democracy in Australia and would ensure that Australians make decisions based on their own wishes. "We will not tolerate foreign-influence activities that are in any way covert, coercive or corrupt".
Former US president Obama's administration a year ago called for the Australian system to be reformed to remove the influence of political donations from China - Australia's largest trading partner and its biggest source of foreign political funds.
"Foreign interference is a global issue. for example, we're all familiar with very credible reports that Russian Federation sought to actively undermine the United States' election. the threat is real", Turnbull said.
Mueller subpoenas Deutsche Bank in Trump investigation
In September the IRS shared financial details about members of Trump's campaign team with Mueller's investigation. Mr Trump has repeatedly denied any collusion with Russian Federation , calling the allegations a "witch hunt".


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Game: Santos Laguna vs Tijuana Xolos
Where: Estadio TSM, Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico
When: Friday, Oct. 18, 2019
Time: 7:06 P.M. PST
TV: Fox Deportes
The Tijuana Xolos will play Santos Laguna away from home this Friday, Oct. 18, at the Estadio TSM Corona for a game in Week 14 of the Liga MX 2019 Apertura. The Aztec Canines are coming off a rough 2-2 draw against Atlas at home in what felt more like a loss for the border city club.
The Xoloitzcuintles finished the match with three red cards to Camilo Sanvezzo, Ariel Nahuelpan, and Kevin Balanta, who will all be unavailable for this game against Santos. This is a very tough away game as is, and it will be even harder for Oscar Pareja’s team without these key players.
Sanvezzo featured on the bench for Club Tijuana in its last game, but Kevin Balanta and Nahuelpan have been key starters all season. Players like Erick Torres and Ignacio Rivero are the likely candidates to replace the suspended players in Week 14.
The Xolos are on the cusp of a playoff spot, currently in 10th place with 18 points, and could finish as high as fifth place with a win in this match.
Santos Laguna has been one of the best teams this season, currently second in the 2019 Apertura, with 23 points. The Celestial Warriors will finish in first place on Friday night with a win in this match, and the team from Torreon has the massive home-field advantage.
Los Guerreros are living a low point in the season with two consecutive losses, coming off a 4-0 loss to Tigres UANL. Santos Laguna has conceded six goals in its last two games and has not scored a goal in these past two games. Overall, Santos has a very well-balanced team, but the defense is the weakest point with inconsistent players like Hugo Rodriguez and Carlos Emilio Orrantia.
Players to Watch
Without Ariel Nahuelpan and Camilo Sanvezzo, Miller Bolanos will be commanding the attack for Tijuana and will have much more responsibility than usual. The Ecuadorian forward has had a great season, currently leading the league with eight assists as he will need to feed the ball to Angel Sepulveda and Mauro Lainez in this game.
Furch has been one of the best players in the 2019 Apertura season, currently tied for the most goals this season with eight. The Santos Laguna striker is a very physical player standing in at 6-foot-2 and is masterful in the air with immense heading ability.
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This mountain may look like an impenetrable fortress of solid rock, but it is actually quite fragile. Every year thousands of hikers scramble to the top and the impact takes its toll on wildlife habitat. You can help keep this spectacular area in good condition by staying on the established trail and keeping pets on a leash. To view recent trip reports from the Washington Trail Association visit their website.
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Delhi's ambitious 24x7 water supply scheme may turn out to be pipe dream as pilot project reveals challenges
The Delhi Jal Board first discussed the ambitious idea of continuous water supply in 2009 and started a pilot project.
The Delhi government harbours a dream of providing 24x7 water supply to city residents and has been long exploring possibilities in this regard.
But if a pilot project is anything to go by, it may take decades for the scheme to become a reality.
The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) supplies around 935 million gallons of water per day (MGD) against the demand of 1,140 MGD.
New Delhi: The Delhi government harbours a dream of providing 24x7 water supply to city residents and has been long exploring possibilities in this regard, but if a pilot project is anything to go by, it may take decades for the scheme to become a reality, owing to the massive size of the distribution network and monumental challenges.
On an average, each household in Delhi gets around four hours of water supply per day. The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) supplies around 935 million gallons of water per day (MGD) against the demand of 1,140 MGD.
To cover the deficit, the utility has a number of plans in the pipeline, including setting up new water treatment plants and storing water in floodplains of the Yamuna, river but that too will take time.
In a city where lakhs of people rely on illegal borewell and private tankers, and 42 percent of water gets stolen or leaked, providing continuous water supply is a long shot.
The DJB first discussed the ambitious idea of continuous water supply in 2009 and started a pilot project, in a partnership with Suez Group, in January 2013, aiming at providing 24x7 water to every consumer in Malviya Nagar and Vasant Vihar.
According to officials, the deadline for completing the work was December 2014.
Around six and a half years later, the pilot project has covered only around 800 houses in two small pockets — Navjeevan Vihar and Geetanjali Enclave — in Malviya Nagar and 450 houses in West End Colony of Vasant Vihar, according to senior engineer Virender Kumar, who heads the project.
The entire work relates to covering 50,000 connections in Malviya Nagar and 8,000 in Vasant Vihar, he said.
The pilot project got delayed due to lack of permission from land-owning agencies, including the municipal corporations, the Delhi Development Authority and the Forest Department, Virender Kumar claimed.
The pilot project is stuck because the utility does not have enough water to ensure 24x7 supply in the entire project area.
"In the project area, we are getting around 65 million gallons of water per day (MLD) against 80 MLD required to ensure continuous supply. Currently, 24x7 water supply is available only in these three small pockets," Virender Kumar said.
"We cannot draw water from the quota of neighbouring areas as that would be unfair. People start asking questions — why they are getting three hours of supply while others get water 24x7," he said.
On Saturday, Chief Minister and DJB chairman Arvind Kejriwal chaired a meeting of senior officials of the board and discussed issues related to the pilot project.
The officials told him that the aim of round-the-clock water supply in Malviya Nagar "was never achieved".
The chief minister directed them to take corrective measures in this regard and to report back to him.
DJB member Shalabh Kumar said the round-the-clock supply project requires more water in initial phases because people generally don't believe it and start storing water.
In the areas covered by the pilot project, people started storing water in underground and overhead tanks. These tanks have leakages, and a lot of water flows out through them, he said.
"When the 24x7 supply started, people kept their taps open all the time. But when the hefty bills pinched them, they minimized the use of water," Shalabh Kumar said.
The pilot project has succeeded in bringing down non-revenue water (NRW) from 62 percent initially to 36 percent and the consumption from 600 litres per capita per day (LPCD) to around 200 in two pockets. In the third pocket, it is still around 350 LPCD. The reason — a lot of big houses and gardens and thus, the consumption is more.
As per the Bureau of Indian Standards, a minimum water supply of 200 LPCD is needed for domestic consumption in cities with full flushing systems. NRW means water lost due to leakages or theft before it reaches the consumer.
"One of the major challenges is creating awareness about the judicious use of water. People use drinking water in their gardens and to wash their cars. You can educate them, but you cannot force them. Those who have the paying capacity need to know money cannot create water," another DJB official said.
"People need to learn resource management. Water is a natural resource. The DJB, which currently provides around 900 MGD, cannot suddenly supply 10,000 in two years," the official said.
Experts said to ensure 24x7 supply, a leakage-proof pipeline network, constant water pressure, sensors and metred connections are musts to prevent leakages and theft.
In the existing infrastructure, the DJB supplies water at high pressure. So, whenever the supply exceeds the demand, say on rainy days, the pipelines burst at weak points, an expert said.
Virender Kumar said before starting the pilot project, the DJB surveyed its existing infrastructure and carried out replacement works to improve the water supply network.
"We replaced 30-35 years old pipelines. Around 60 per cent of the network in Malviya Nagar and 80 per cent in Vasant Vihar had to be changed," he said.
Most of the leakages are found in house-service connections. These pipes have a lifeline of 8 to 15 years. So, all the household connections have been changed, the DJB engineer said.
"Over the next two months, we will hire a consultant, who will study the entire DJB network and tell us about the improvements required. We are in the process of awarding the tender," he said, adding the feasibility report will be submitted by year-end.
The Delhi government on Sunday night extended the ban on the entry of trucks carrying non-essential items and work-from-home for its employees till 26 November to combat air pollution and minimise its health effects
An AQI between zero and 50 is considered 'good', 51 and 100 'satisfactory', 101 and 200 'moderate', 201 and 300 'poor', 301 and 400 'very poor', and 401 and 500 'severe'
Delhi's air pollution level dips to 'severe category' again; unfavourable weather conditions major factor
Neighbouring Faridabad (417), Ghaziabad (373), Greater Noida (378), Gurgaon (361) and Noida (383) also saw a dip in air quality on Friday morning.


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107 New Hobby Ideas [List] [Men & Women]
‘I’m looking for a hobby. What is a really nice hobby?’ Hobbies enrich your life. Here you will find ideas for your new hobby, for example at home or in a hobby club. Finding a new hobby or interest is fun when there is so much choice. Read along…
In the list below you will find creative hobbies for men and women…
In this article you will find – in addition to female – a number of very male hobbies and interests. Plenty of ‘cool’ leisure ideas for men, as well as fun creative hobbies for the home for men to do.
You’ll find hobbies and interests for young and older men in this list. Indoor and outdoor hobbies. See the list below as an online hobby test. Always feel whether you are enthusiastic about the suggested hobbies for adults (and young people).
There are also different kinds of hobby ideas for women in the list below. Let’s get straight to the ideas for finding a new hobby below.
Let’s start with the top 10 hobbies for men and women
With number 1 …
1 – Singing
Pop choirs and classical choirs … In every city there are dozens of choirs to join. Fortunately, singing is also an ideal and fun hobby at home to do in your room.
And what is special about singing? Singing is not only fun as a simple hobby, it is also therapeutic.
The key is to keep trying for years to come. In a few years, you will have a very pleasant voice if you take this up as a serious hobby. Take a look at the example below:
2 – Dancing
There is also a dance school nearby in every place of residence. Going to a dance school is certainly not just for children. There are many dance schools where adults only attend. Think for example of rock & roll, salsa or ballroom dancing.
3 – Play guitar, piano or drum
Learning to play the piano or guitar is an expensive hobby as it usually involves private lessons. For half an hour a week you will quickly lose more than 35 euros per week.
Fortunately, there are also reasonably priced online courses: for the price of two hours of private lessons you have a complete course with lifetime access.
4 – Photography
You can use a lot of creativity in photography. You can create photo series to which you connect a theme, you can capture emotions and you can capture special moments in people’s lives.
5 – Earning money online (ideal for at home)
This is a hobby in which you are building something beautiful and which also earns you money. Think of it like building a perpetual motion machine. And the most beautiful? It can be all about your favorite hobby.
There are three sustainable and reliable methods of making money online.
The first method is affiliate marketing. For example, if you like camping, you create a camping blog in which you give all your tips and recommend camping gear. You will always earn money if your readers order their camping gear from external stores via your blog. Costs? A few bucks for the web hosting – ditto for the course.
The second method is web shops. This means that you buy and sell products again, for example on Amazon.com. Isn’t this a hobby that is too extreme for which you have to exercise a lot of effort? Yes, but Amazon.com takes care of the logistics, so you only need your laptop.
The third method is to learn the basics about investing. Maybe you think it’s gambling, but it could be something serious.
It is certainly worth considering it as a hobby that also pays off in terms of money.
6 – Not everything has to be serious / productive… Playing games is also a hobby
Sometimes there doesn’t have to be a reason to play. In fact, that’s the whole point of playing. For board games and some video games, you are supposed to have at least someone else willing to take up this hobby with you. You’ll make good friends with it right away – and it’s good practice to play with your family anyway.
7 – Do a team sport or become the favorite member of the biggest gym there is
Football, handball and volleyball … it’s not only healthy, it’s fun – with the chance of making lifelong friends. So sign up after the Corona crisis.
Would you rather work out? Choose a gym and go there often. Really often. After all, it is your new hobby. Get the other members to consider you part of the furniture. Isn’t that weird? Hello, we are talking about the gym: the place to be for health and working towards a happy life.
Why should you choose the largest gym? Because you will automatically discover a lot of hobbies because you will discover the enormously extensive class schedule. Maybe you join the Calisthenics class one day, then Tai Chi and another day you work on a healthy body-mind connection with Yoga.
8 – Put together something beautiful and enjoy it every day
Are you looking for a creative hobby for your home? This is ideal for men and women. Anyone who really wants to be creative creates something. Literally. Just put together something beautiful and useful.
9 – Mindfulness & Yoga as a relaxing hobby
Mindfulness is a hobby you can do anywhere. You can be ‘zen’ everywhere. Where others may have a hobby of playing video games, it can become your hobby to feel less stimuli. You do that with mindfulness.
And then of course you also have Yoga. This is the same as mindfulness, but with specific postures in which you stand, sit or lie down.
10 – Tarot
Why is tarot a fun hobby? Because you can really work with your creativity and your intuition. It comes down to the fact that, based on the cards you draw, you let a story or message unfold with your own creativity and intuition.
11 – Public speaking
For example, you can join Toastmasters. That is a speaking club that is located in several cities. Then every two weeks you get the chance to give a presentation to a group of people, always focusing on a particular presentation technique. You can also choose to give feedback to others.
12 – Become a true parrot or parakeet hobbyist
Thanks to their intelligence, the parrot and the parakeet are very easy to train to do tricks and games. You can also let them fly outside on command.
This sounds crazy, but aren’t hobbies supposed to be crazy? A true hobbyist is not afraid to do something special and to become really good at it.
94 additional hobby ideas (list of fun inspiration)
What other hobbies are there? What do I like? Use all the ideas from this article as a test for yourself. Below are additional examples to get you inspired for your new interesting, fun, creative, or maybe even absurd hobby:
- Finishing furniture
- Flea market shopping
- Computer programming
- Editing, proofreading and editing language
- Become a stand up comedy artist
- Driving others around
- Graphic design, for example via Canva.com.
- Making T-Shirts
- Become a fitness teacher
- Start a YouTube channel
- Being a handyman
- Taking care of a pet
- Become a local guide
- Create and edit videos
- Teaching and tutoring in music
- Working on cars
- Life Coaching
- Cartooning & Animation
- Compose music
- Supervision of children
- Arrange flowers
- Dog training
- To walk
- Making candles
- Beach walking
- Learn to knit and sew. Maybe you can make your own party costumes from now on
- Magic Tricks & Card Tricks
- Watch documentaries
- Become a Wikipedia editor
- Participate in Trivia Contests
- Brain training
- Jogging / training for the marathon
- Review gadgets
- To climb
- Architecture. There are complete forums where you as an amateur can talk to about urban planning.
- Building robots
- Retro Gaming
- Wine / Cheese tasting
- Ballroom Dancing
- Joining a board game club
- Volunteer work
- Start an Etsy store
- Learning a foreign language
- People watching
- Breaking a world record
- Organize dinners
- Do trips
- To draw
- Modelvliegtuigen of modelscheepsbouw
- Sculpture with clay
- Collect seashells
- Solving mazes
- Making balloon figures
- Collecting leaves
- Making dolls
- Making bird feeders and bird houses
- Flower presses
- Story writing
- Pencil sketches
- Collecting marbles
- Make a collage
- Skateboarding. This is a great way to explore the neighborhood and meet cool people. It’s also a great way to exercise.
- Book clubs
- Podcasting. You have thoughts. Tell them to the world. Some recording equipment is super cheap, so why not hit record the next time you and your friends have a conversation?
- Doing nice things with friends
- Invent something
- Making knots
- Making sushi
- Building ships in bottles
- Beatboxing & rapping
- Flying Drones
- Photography and photo editing
- Museum / Art Gallery Hopping
- Growing a bonsai tree
When will you start your new hobby?
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Carlos Muñoz Portal, a location scout for the Netflix series Narcos (screenshot of the show, above) who had been working to find places to shoot for season four, is now dead after his "bullet-riddled body" and vehicle were found in a remote area near the borders of the Hidalgo state of Mexico, according to reports.
Netflix has said that the circumstances of his death are "still unknown". The Hollywood Reporter, though, reports, "Narcos season 4 moves from Colombia to Mexico and it centers on the fearsome Juarez cartel".
Deaths at nursing home sound alarms after Irma
Three patients died at the nursing home, and three others died after being transported to local hospitals. Statewide, Hurricane Irma left 39 nursing homes out of nearly 700 without power on Thursday.
Pakistan beats World XI, wins series
His and Pakistan's only hundred in a Twenty20 global had come against Bangladesh during the World Twenty20 tournament in 2014. Hasan Ali removed Ben Cutting and Miller, while Shadab Khan went for runs (including three consecutive sixes from Perera).
Father arrested in deaths of three children
The school district also brought in counselors and support personnel to help teachers and students during this time of grief. On the way to the apartment, they got a second call, saying that the children in the apartment were possibly dead.
Muñoz had worked for the production company Redrum, which is based in Mexico City, was an active members of the film industry for more than a decade. While there are no concrete details as to the backstory behind the man's murder, sources are saying that local authorities continue to gather information concerning the details of the homicide. Authorities are reportedly having trouble piecing together what happened leading up the Portal's death, and police are still investigating.
Portal was a highly respected and sought-after location scout with credits that include the films Sicario and Fast & Furious.
Netflix confirmed his passing to the Daily News. It's now unclear if Portal's death will affect production or whether the murder will move production back to Columbia.
India's Border Security Force (BSF ) said that Pakistani soldiers fired at several positions along the volatile global border. The jawan was identified as Brijendra Bahadur. "One BSF trooper has been executed in truce infringement by Pakistan officers".
Ankara has been a major supporter of Doha in the crisis that left Qatari diplomatically and economically isolated. Ankara has a military base in Qatar and deployed more troops after the hostilities erupted.
The ABS will not count any votes received after 6pm on November 7, and will announce the survey result on November 15. Bundaberg MP Leanne Donaldson reiterated her support for same-sex marriage urging people to vote yes.
Labor Department has an ongoing investigation of Google , alleging gender disparities in pay at the company . They are seeking to represent a class of women who worked at Google in California over the last four years.
The latest missile was launched from the Sunan district in Pyongyang and flew over the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. The North American Aerospace Defense Command also determined that the missile had posed no threat to North America.
On Aug. 9 six soldiers in Levallois, outside Paris , were hurt when a driver deliberately rammed into them, authorities said. The man reportedly shouted references to the Islamic State group while attacking the soldier and was quickly arrested.
A federal judge has just ruled that Attorney General Jeff Sessions can not withhold federal funds from sanctuary cities . Emanuel has said Chicago will not "be blackmailed" into changing its values as a city that welcomes immigrants.
It was supposedly a horror film, but the only thing disgusting about it was that I had to stay for the entire movie . When I am releasing a movie and it's really heavy and really intense and I just know that it will die down.
It is clear that the Iraqi authorities can maximally grant a broader autonomy to the Iraqi Kurds seeking independence. The referendum is planned to be held in Kurdistan and disputed areas including the oil-rich province of Kirkuk.
Urlacher nominated for Hall of Fame
His best seasons were with the Titans, when he collected 38 ½ of his 58 career sacks and earned his three Pro Bowl invitations. Jacoby has the resume: Three Super Bowl rings, four Pro Bowl selections and member of the NFL's all-decade team of the 1980s.
Trump tweets tough talk after London explosion
Thank God - after his response to Charlottesville, Virginia, we thought he'd lost his voice when it came to acts of terrorism. And we have to be very smart and we have to be very, very tough, which perhaps we're not almost tough enough.
Swearingen Likes State Budget; Senate Debating
Wisconsin competed with several other states to land the massive Foxconn factory which will make liquid crystal display panels. Vos likened the Senate GOP demands for changes to a "ransom note" and said the Assembly would not be "held hostage".
Canelo Alvarez ready to show 'how a true Mexican fights'
Fighting Miguel Cotto and Amir Khan in the fall of 2015 and the spring of 2016, Alvarez sold a combined 1.5 million PPV buys. Saunders has only fought once since then in which he scraped a decision victory against a massive underdog, Artur Akavov.
Get a glimpse of final Saturn images captured by Cassini
Its remarkable 20-year mission was full of discovery and cosmic glory, and is the only spacecraft to ever orbit Saturn. The spacecraft studied Saturn's atmosphere and took measurements to determine the size of the planet's rocky core.
Brains behind attack on Amarnath pilgrims shot
The army said "suitable action" would be taken against the troopers seen trampling the bodies of Ismail and Qasim. After the death Abu Qasim, Abu Dujana took charge and then you had Abu Ismail in-charge of the LeT.
Toffees to come unstuck at hands of old friend Lukaku
Gylfi Sigurdsson , Davvy Klassen and Wayne Rooney may all be good, technical players, but they largely perform similar roles. That, for Ronald Koeman , was the last straw and will now speak to his players about their extreme drop in form this season.
Madrid to take control of Catalonia's finances
Among the most populated cities, many will not get involved, and question marks remain over the biggest of them all - Barcelona. This new system will allow the Spanish state to "replace the region for the majority of essential spending", he added.
Equifax hack due to old bug in Apache
By now, you've heard about the breach of the financial records of Equifax , the credit reporting bureau. Equifax created a website so you can check to see if your personal information may have been affected.


Join NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota, the National Council of Jewish Women - Minnesota, Gender Justice, and the University Pro-Choice Coalition for a FREE screening of the critically acclaimed documentary RBG. The film celebrates the legacy of Supreme Court Justice and reproductive rights champion Ruth Bader Ginsburg. As the second woman ever to be appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States, RBG has played a critical role in crafting the legal precedents that defend abortion access in the United States. Before the film you'll have a chance to get involved in local reproductive rights activism and hear from all four host organizations. Grab your dissent collar and prepare to take notes on her iconic fitness routine; the Notorious RBG will leave you inspired and ready to join the movement!
The film screening is free and open to the public on a first come first serve basis the night of the screening. Doors open at 6:30 pm.


All-new Ford Focus RS Delivers High Performance on Road and Track
How versatile is the vehicle you use to get around town? Wishing you had something with a bit more horsepower? Something, dare we say it, that was fun to drive? Check out the all-new Ford Focus RS.
As part of Ford’s push to introduce 12 new vehicles by 2020, the automaker has lifted the veil on the Focus RS, a high-performance road car that debuts Ford Performance All-Wheel Drive with Dynamic Torque Vectoring Control, and comes equipped with a new 2.3-liter EcoBoost® engine producing in excess of 315 horsepower.
“The all-new Focus RS is a serious machine with high-performance technology and innovative engineering that sets a new benchmark for driving exhilaration on the road and track,” said Raj Nair, group vice president, Global Product Development, Ford Motor Company. “The RS line has a proud history of technical breakthroughs that have migrated to mainstream Ford vehicles to benefit all of our customers, and the new Focus RS is no exception. It’s a great example of our passion for innovation through performance, and creating vehicles that make people’s hearts pound.”
Under the hood, the all-new Focus RS exploits Ford Performance All-Wheel Drive with Dynamic Torque Vectoring to deliver a new level of handling capability, combining outstanding traction and grip with agility and cornering speed.
While high-performance will be the focus of the vehicle, Ford boasts that the interior, “features a reworked Focus control layout with its simpler, more intuitive design.” Their SYNC system connectivity provides access to audio, navigation, climate control and mobile phones via voice control, and via a high-definition, 8-inch color touch screen. SYNC system add-ons include a rear view camera with park distance control and a Sony premium sound system with 10-speakers including a subwoofer.
The RS features a new flat-bottomed steering wheel with a soft-feel leather-covered rim, alloy pedals and unique instrument graphics within the main cluster. An additional bank of gauges above the center console displays turbocharger boost pressure, oil temperature and oil pressure.
The 2016 Ford Focus RS will be sold globally.


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One year from today, somebody takes the oath of office to be president — either the current president for another term, or someone new. In today’s news: a sense of what Republican senators really think about impeachment; Lobby Day comes to Virginia’s state capitol; and the New York Times editorial board makes their decision about whom to endorse in the Democratic primary.
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Thank God he came along when he did.
What Republican Senators Really Think about Impeachment
When you get a chance to talk to a Republican senator off the record, you feel like you’re about to get the juicy inside scoop — particularly when the topic is something as big and consequential as impeachment.
Then reality sets in and you realize that what a senator thinks off the record is pretty much the same as what the senator says on the record.
This may not shock you, but it turns out that behind closed doors, and when they’re assured they will not be identified or quoted directly . . . pro-Trump Republican senators still aren’t convinced the president should be impeached. There are no signs of doubt, inner conflict, guilt, wavering, or any other indication that they fear they would be doing the wrong or unwise course by voting against removal. They largely concur with President Trump’s assessment that this impeachment is a partisan vendetta, a last-minute substitution for the impeachment over Russia that special counsel Robert Mueller was supposed to gift-wrap and hand-deliver. These senators haven’t forgotten the previous votes on impeachment or other signals like Rashida Tlaib’s off-color rallying cry and T-shirt marketing gimmick. They believe that this is ultimately driven by a portion of the Democratic party that simply cannot accept the results of the 2016 election — that this is a continuation of a years-long argument.
These senators would deny the accusation that they’ve reached a conclusion before the trial starts, of course. They intend to pay close attention to all of the proceedings and take copious notes. They contend they’re treating the impeachment process seriously — more seriously, they argue, than their colleagues who have spent the past few years furiously denouncing the president in every conceivable way and who now are implausibly pledging to be objective and impartial. One senator wondered whether any of the presidential candidates in the Senate will rush to Iowa on their lone day off each week and lead chants of something like, “Trump must go!” — and then put the “impartial juror” hat back on upon returning to Washington.
When pressed, Republican senators concede that Trump should choose his words more carefully, or that there was something worth criticizing in Trump’s approach regarding Ukraine, although they don’t dwell on that point for very long. They think the question of whether Trump’s actions warranted some lesser rebuke, like a resolution of censure, is moot because many House Democrats always desired impeachment.
Pro-Trump Republican senators contend their home-state constituents oppose impeachment — not just loyal Republicans, but CNN-watching independents as well. They describe constituents back home who see impeachment as a waste of time and a distraction from working on real issues. As they see it, impeachment is hurting the Democratic party among independents and centrists, and they wonder if the party has consciously or subconsciously decided to write off those voters and bet everything in 2020 in huge and enthusiastic turnout among their base. But they also doubt the 2020 elections will turn on the issue of impeachment — that ten months is a long time to keep grassroots enthusiasm ramped up.
The senators’ opinion of House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff, one of the impeachment managers, is barely better than that of the president. They simply don’t trust Schiff at all, and feel they have ample reason to not believe anything he says — from his decision to read a parody version of the transcript of Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky out loud during a hearing, to reports that the whistleblower met with Schiff’s committee before the whistleblower’s complaint was filed, to the chairman’s slippery-at-best description of his interactions with the whistleblower.
Asked about witnesses, one GOP senator wants to hear from Schiff and the whistleblower, adding that the label “whistleblower” may not accurately describe that government official’s role in this process. If the Senate is going to hear witnesses, GOP senators definitely want to hear from Hunter Biden. They strongly believe that the vice president’s son and Burisma Holdings engaged in something shady and perhaps illegal, and that the president was right to want it investigated. They look forward to seeing Hunter Biden answering questions about his arrangement and interactions under oath.
Pro-Trump GOP senators see the case that Democrats assembled and laid out before the House vote as a mess.
They can’t believe House Democrats want to introduce new evidence against the president, want to add new witnesses who didn’t testify during the House hearings, and may even add a new, third article of impeachment. (Nancy Pelosi’s lawyer, Douglas Letter, told the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that the addition of a third article of impeachment was “on the table, there is no doubt.”) To Republicans, these statements amount to an admission by House Democrats that the impeachment process was rushed and completed before the investigation was properly finished.
Republican senators think that House speaker Nancy Pelosi compounded those problems by delaying sending over the articles of impeachment for three weeks in an unsuccessful attempt to pressure Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell to agree to rules that Democrats wanted. They point to the public complaints about the delay from Senators Dianne Feinstein of California, Jon Tester of Montana, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, and Chris Coons of Delaware as a sign that even Democrats couldn’t see any logic in Pelosi’s strategy.
The general sense of these senators is that the trial will take a couple of weeks, with or without witnesses.
At this time, pro-Trump GOP senators say they don’t believe any of their Republican colleagues will vote to remove the president. While no GOP senator has yet called for Trump’s removal from office, Senators Mitt Romney of Utah, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Susan Collins of Maine have been the senators most likely to defy the party’s consensus in the past. Pro-Trump GOP senators predict, with surprising confidence, there’s a strong chance that Manchin, Doug Jones of Alabama, and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona will vote against removal. (I doubt that all three flip, but if they did and Republicans remained united, impeachment would fail, 56–44. The article of impeachment against Bill Clinton for obstruction of justice received 50 votes, and the one on perjury received 45 votes. At this point, it is likely that both articles against Trump will finish somewhere between those totals.)
Republican senators express all of this skepticism of the impeachment argument, but also insist that they’re taking it seriously — more seriously, in fact, than those prosecuting this case.
Lobby Day Arrives in Virginia
By the time you read this, Virginia state government’s Lobby Day will be well underway. Hopefully there is no trouble; as of this writing, everyone is peaceably assembling and the day is going as everyone would hope. Governor Ralph Northam is enacting unprecedented emergency security measures because he fears racists will be in attendance. (Pause for irony.) Some voices in the media are comparing the event to the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville. Hopefully it will be nothing like that; I note that the second “Unite the Right” rally held in Washington a year later had “approximately two dozen” attendees.
The gun owners of Virginia who are lobbying their lawmakers don’t believe that the right to keep and bear arms is a right of the Right, or a right of the whites, or of any other specific demographic. It is the right of the People to keep and bear arms that shall not be infringed. We are advocating for the human right of self-defense and our constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms, and for nothing else. We stand together regardless of color, class, or creed in support of those rights. This is not an insurrection or a violent protest. This is not an opportunity to clash with anyone, whether it’s the alt-right or antifa. Lobby Day is an act of civic engagement on the part of thousands of Virginia residents. If you have any other agenda planned, don’t come at all.
. . .For any Virginia lawmakers who support any of these gun control bills that have been filed this session and who are able to hear or speak to their constituents, I hope that you’ll be able to filter out the noise and the narrative from outside groups and actually listen to what the people you represent have to say. They’re asking you to focus on the real issues that are driving violent crime and the state’s mental health crisis. They care deeply about safe communities, but they know that their legally owned guns aren’t the problem. Many of them can tell you stories of their family members, co-workers, or friends lost to opiates that have flooded the state and killed more Virginians than firearms. They know that a red flag law that takes guns from those determined to be a danger, but leaves them with no mental health treatment, is not a serious solution to the serious problems we face. They also know that the vast majority of the state’s gun owners would be turned into felons overnight if bills like HB 961 became law, and they’re trying to help you avoid making a disastrous mistake.
A few other points that I feel get just about entirely ignored in these discussions: The best and most recent figure I can find is that 87 percent of gun sales are through federally licensed dealers. It is hard to find any mass shooter who purchased their weapon at a gun show or through a non-licensed but legal dealer (buying from a friend, etc.). Some mass shooters take their guns from family members, some steal their guns, some buy them illegally, one kept his gun after losing his license, and one assembled his own weapon. There is no evidence that peer-to-peer non-federally licensed gun sales are driving mass shootings or crime.
Instead of Good News for One Candidate, Okay News for Two of Them
The New York Times editorial board endorses both Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren in the Democratic party primary. They’re free to endorse anyone they like, but . . . to the extent the endorsement carries any weight, doesn’t splitting it lessen that weight? If the Times had endorsed only Klobuchar, it would have raised some eyebrows and given a shot in the arm to a campaign that, right now, looks like it’s coming out of Iowa with no delegates. (And if Klobuchar can’t do better than fifth place in Iowa, where does she do better, beyond her home state?) And if you’re Warren, how do you feel about splitting the endorsement with a much longer shot like Klobuchar?
Ten days ago, I wrote: “Look, one lucky Democratic presidential candidate is going to get one good news cycle out of this. Even if the endorsement is not enormously consequential, every Democratic campaign would rather have it than not have it. The candidate who gets it will almost certainly mention it in some television ads during the primary, although not the general election. And the stakes matter more for some candidates than others. Elizabeth Warren was more or less engineered in a laboratory to appeal to the Times editorial board. If she doesn’t get the endorsement, it’s a bad day for her.”
It turns out two somewhat lucky candidates get one “okay, I guess” news cycle out of this.
ADDENDUM: The Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl? Sign me up. Two great young quarterbacks, two exciting offenses, and the “San Francisco should have kept Colin Kaepernick” argument looks even less persuasive now.


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Chinese police are back in Italy looking to help out Chinese tourists in need while also taking in the sights.
On Monday, a group of Chinese and Italian police officers went on patrol in Rome’s historic Piazza di Spagna, kicking off the next chapter in an ongoing law enforcement cooperation program between the two countries. Over the next 20 days, 10 Chinese cops will be patrolling through the touristy areas of Rome, Florence, Naples and Milan.
The Chinese officers, accompanied by their Italian colleagues, will not be armed and can not make arrests. However, they can provide assistance and directions to lost Chinese tourists, while also snapping a selfie or two with them.
Before the officers went on patrol, Deputy Police Chief Antonio Cufalo praised the project, emphasizing the importance of “visibility” for travelers abroad. “We are certain that for the Chinese present in Italy, as for Italians present in China, the fact of being able to see friendly uniforms is very important,” Cufalo said.
The familiar uniforms appear to have done the trick for at least for one Chinese couple from Jiangsu province. “We think it’s a great idea, because Rome and Italy are very, very strange for us,” 30-year-old Li Dong, a construction manager from Shanghai on a trip through Europe with his wife, told Xinhua.
The initiative was launched last May with Chinese police going on patrol in Rome and Milan. This year also saw four Italian police officers walking their beat on the Great Wall in Beijing and the Bund in Shanghai.
Liao Jinrong, head of international cooperation at the Ministry of Public Security, has said that China hopes to expand the program to other European countries, like Spain and Austria, in the near future. Often Chinese tourists in Europe are targeted by thieves who know that they typically carry around more money than most.
Rome appears to be the perfect place to launch this policing project. Last month, a Chinese tour group was robbed of their baggage and passports in Rome on the first day of their 13-day tour through Europe, and, last December, a Chinese exchange student in Rome was tragically killed by a passing train while chasing after her stolen 1,000 euro purse.
But Chinese tourists now have nothing to fear. At least for the next three weeks or so.
[Images via Xinhua]
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The Philadelphia Eagles play meaningful football in five days. The team released its latest depth chart on Tuesday, an unofficial list compiled by the Eagles media relations department. Still, there is plenty to glean upon first glance.
For example, preseason standout Quez Watkins replaces Greg Ward as the starting slot receiver. It’s not a shocking move considering the way Watkins wowed throughout training camp and joint practices. And it should be noted that head coach Nick Sirianni has gone on record about his desire to move every receiver all over the formation. Jalen Reagor and DeVonta Smith are listed as the starters on the outside, but expect them to see inside snaps as well.
“I know you guys have asked me a couple times about a slot or an ‘X’ or a ‘Z,’ and I’m speaking obviously right now as a receiver group,” Sirianni told reporters on Aug. 31. “We do things by committee, and I feel really comfortable and really confident in the guys that we have on this roster right now to be able to run the offense that we want to run. We have guys to be able to do that, whether it’s option routes, whether that’s forced blocks, whether that’s speed routes.”
The tight end spot is another interesting area on the depth chart. Zach Ertz and Dallas Goedert are listed in tandem, with no clear indication of which player will start. Jalen Hurts is listed as QB1 and Miles Sanders as RB1. The starting offensive line features Jordan Mailata (left tackle), Isaac Seumalo (left guard), Jason Kelce (center), Brandon Brooks (right guard), Lane Johnson (right tackle). Brett Toth is the primary backup at right tackle; Andre Dillard at left tackle.
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Genard Avery Takes Over Starting SAM Spot
The Eagles attempted to convert Genard Avery to a defensive end after trading for him in 2019. He finished with two sacks and eight quarterback hits over those two seasons. Now he’s moving to SAM linebacker in new defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon’s scheme.
Look for him to possibly play the Joker role, too. Avery was a pass-rushing linebacker as a rookie in Cleveland’s 3-4 defense when he racked up a career-high 4.5 sacks in 2018. He’ll be joined by newly-minted captain Alex Singleton (WILL) and Eric Wilson (MIKE). T.J. Edwards, Davion Taylor, Patrick Johnson round out the second unit. And Shaun Bradley was bumped to third team.
No other real surprises on defense. Steven Nelson and Darius Slay are the starting outside cornerbacks, with Avonte Maddox manning the nickel spot. Rodney McLeod and Anthony Harris are the two safeties. The starting defensive tackles are Javon Hargrave and Fletcher Cox, with Hassan Ridgeway and Milton Williams backing them up. Brandon Graham is one starting defensive end, with Derek Barnett and Josh Sweat in a timeshare on the other side.
No Clear-Cut Kick or Punt Returner
It looked like Jalen Reagor would be the lead punt returner, but his name is listed alongside DeVonta Smith and Greg Ward at that position. The Eagles are likely to use a committee approach there until a clear-cut winner emerges.
Ditto for kick returner. Boston Scott was the best player there in 2020, but Kenneth Gainwell and Quez Watkins are in the mix for that job in 2021.
“You never know what’s going to happen,” special teams coordinator Michael Clay said. “There could be an explosive play on offense, and we can’t use them at the special teams situation. That’s why we have another guy in the holster ready to go to excel at the same, maybe even better at that level.”


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A grassroots voters’ protest motion started in early November towards a deliberate upward thrust within the tax on diesel and petrol, which Emmanuel Macron insisted would assist the rustic’s transition to inexperienced power. A ballot on the time discovered that the cost of gasoline had change into France’s largest speaking level.
The motion was once named “gilets jaunes” (yellow vests) as a result of protesters put on the fluorescent yellow high-vis jackets that every one motorists should by way of legislation lift of their automobiles. However what started as a gasoline tax protest has now morphed into a much wider anti-government motion.
Not like earlier French protest actions, it sprang up on-line via petitions and was once organised by way of unusual operating other folks posting movies on social media, and not using a set chief, industry union or political birthday celebration in the back of it.
A primary nationwide day of protests was once held throughout France on Saturday 17 November and the protests have persevered day by day, together with roadblocks, barricades of roundabouts and the blocking off of gasoline depots.

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In Arthur Clarke’s classic, 2001: A Space Odyssey, David Bowman is transported through the Stargate to a chamber decorated like a hotel suite. He examines what appears to be a telephone directory to find that it was a mock object made to seem like a book. So were the books and magazines; like the telephone directory, only the titles were readable. There was nothing less than three years old and little of intellectual content. Not that it mattered, for the books could not even be taken down from the shelves (1). I could empathise with Bowman’s sense of loss, for who could live in a world without books? The first book in my collection was a prize I received from the school I attended as a child. Sadanam was the Gandhian equivalent of a primary school. The book I got was a collection of essays called “Sadachara Padhangal”, lessons in ethics, printed on cheap grey paper and bound with a khaki cover. The book was presented to me by none other than Sucheta Kripalani. The book became a prized possession, perhaps sowing the seeds for the future hunger for acquisition. Another present received later in life was equally memorable. This happened when I passed out of secondary school with a first-class and a Maharajah’s Scholarship. My father, who was always proud of my academic achievements, took me to meet his former classmate and present boss, C. M. Cherian, known as Secretary because he held that position in the Forward Bank, where my father worked. My father told the Secretary of my achievement, and he went inside and came back with a thick book, which he presented to me. It was the Outline of the World History by H. G. Wells. Maharajah’s scholarship brought a princely sum of 5 rupees every month. My father allowed me to spend it as I desired, and I promptly started buying books from the National Book Store near the Maidan. This was the bookshop promoted by the Writer’s Co-operative Society and had all the books by Modern Malayalam writers. In those days, Kottayam also had a public library at the centre of the town near the Thirunakkara Maidan, where I became a member. The world of books expanded when I joined a college in Trivandrum. I became a member of the Public Library and got ware of wealth of English literature. Owning books was a challenging proposition since books were expensive. Most of the paperbacks were 25 cents, which in those days was about Rs. 5. Despite monetary constraints, I went to the Higginbotham shop on the Palayam road to browse and occasionally buy a book. One of the early possessions was ‘Our friend the Atom’. When I joined the Mar Athanasius College in Kothamangalam, I made friends with Prof. KC Peter, a writer of some repute. He had a vast collection of books, kept in stacks of library shelves in his house. Our occasional visits to his home stimulated the desire to own books. One of the advantages of my job as a scientist is the frequent travel abroad and the chance to look into book shops at airports and other strange places. I acquired a good part of my Dick Francis collection in London Book shops. While visiting the Max Planck Institute in Garching, near Munich, I found an English Bookstall, where I discovered the Thurber Carnival. In the narrow lanes of Aix en Provence, which I often visit in connection with the ITER work, my friend Abhĳit Sen showed me a shop, Book-in-Bar selling English books and I became acquainted with Provencal life depicted by Peter Mayle. This little book shop, situated in a lane on Cours Mirabeau, offers a wide choice of books in amiable surroundings. The coffee shop enhances the ambience. My collection of books by Peter Mayle started here. The one-year interlude in Vienna with the International Atomic Energy Agency was also a good opportunity for book collection. The UN Ladies’ Association used to have the weekly secondhand books sale in all languages, and I was an enthusiastic browser. I found that buying old books was more enjoyable than buying new ones. The reason is that in secondhand books shops, one occasionally comes across books that one had read a long time back. Moreover, there is a roadside bookkeeper near the Indian Institute of Management, and I go there regularly to browse the dust-covered old favourites. Recently I came across a blog by Shekhar Bhatia, former editor of Hindustan Times in LiveMint, where he mentioned LibraryThing.com., a virtual library where one can list and organise books. It’s an online database that allows you to create and manage an inventory of all your books. All you need to do is enter the book’s unique ISBN (International Standard Book Number…that ten or thirteen digit number over the bar code on the back of the book) and… Voila! It’s part of your online library with a photo of the book cover, pre-assigned categories, publisher, publication date, and many assorted goodies. I got a lifetime subscription, which allows me to catalogue all the 1000 odd books in my collection. I can sit at my Mac, look up the virtual library, call up a book, read the plot, be reminded of the characters, and even make the book nibble at my memory to recall where and when I had purchased it. The oldest printed book is thought to be the Diamond Sutra, dating back to 868 CE from China. In 1935, the book business changed forever when Penguin Books Ltd. heralded the paperback revolution (2). Penguin titles were inexpensive, well designed and the content had literary merit. This forever unlinked quality and cost. Later on, many more low cost publishers came into the scene, hoping to repeat Penguin’s success. By 1960, paperbacks were outselling hardbacks. The next Book revolution came in 1971 when Michael Hart invented the eBook. Hart’s innovation, like Gutenberg’s printing press, built on the prior art. These include Vannevar Bush’s “Memex”, Bob Brown’s “The Readies”, Brown University’s “FRESS” (the 1960s), Ted Nelson’s Xanadu (1960s), and many others (3). Hart’s innovation was providing eBooks freely for reading pleasure. In the period 1971–1991, Hart promoted the concept by bringing out the first 100 titles. Later on short videos, graphical collections, sheet music, audio files, and eBooks in dozens of languages and formats came out. By the turn of the new millennium, Project Gutenberg was producing thousands of new eBooks per year (3). Thus the notion of quality books being available free for unlimited distribution has gone from a utopian to a mainstream idea. Like all successful innovations, Project Gutenberg, has provided great social benefits. I joined the e-book revolution when we left Ahmedabad for Kottayam and moved into an apartment. My wife forbade me from buying more books because there was not enough room to keep bookshelves. So I switched to Kindle and enjoyed the ease of buying books from Amazon. I also found sites like the PdF Drive, where more than 70 million books in the pdf and Mobi formats are available for free access.
References: 1. 2001: A Space Odyssey p 164 2. 2. https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_understanding-media-and-culture-an-introduction-to-mass-communication/s06-books.html 3. https://www.gutenberg.org/about/background/50years.html

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Houston protesters brave storm, torrential rain to march on Trump's inauguration day
On Jan. 20 Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States of America. That same night, the People's Coalition Against Trump, made up of working-class people and organizations, rallied at Houston City Hall in protest of the inauguration.
Despite torrential rain and flooding across the city, every organization that was a part of the coalition attended and there was good turnout. They began with some rousing speeches about the importance of the masses to stand up against Trump and his oppressive policies.
The crowd then marched from city hall for over a mile around downtown Houston. The message people wanted to get across was summed up in the most popular chant, “Racist, sexist, anti-gay, Donald Trump you cannot stay!” It may have stormed the entire night, but much as Donald Trump's election was not stopped by weather, the protesters continued to march on. The action ended with one last rally in the pouring rain after people had marched the rest of the way back to city hall.
The protesters attempted to march in the street, but the police rushed on horseback to push the crowd back. No one was arrested. When the rain became torrential at the closing rally, the police on horseback left.
Fabian Sneevliet, with Students for a Democratic Society, said “The masses have come out here in opposition to the inauguration of Donald Trump. We will make this country ungovernable by building the people’s movements to fight back against his racist and sexist policies. Whether it is women or undocumented people we will be in the streets protesting and fighting back. Even if it rains, we will flood the streets with resistance.”
Ian Cox of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization said, “Donald Trump ran his campaign by calling all Mexican and Chicano peoples criminals, by classifying all Arab and Islamic peoples as terrorists, by being a sexist and gloating about his objectification of women and by preaching the ideology of white supremacy. It is important to remember however, that these anti-people policies didn't originate with Trump, they are a symptom of the oppressive capitalist system. The only way working people and oppressed nationalities will ever have true freedom and liberation is if we replace this oppressive system with people-based system, and that system is undoubtedly socialism.”
Some of the organizations that participated were Students for a Democratic Society, Socialist Alternative, the Peoples New Black Panther Party, and the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.


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Yesterday, in between whining about the state of politics in this country and taking care of a very, very sick little boy, I took an informal inventory of schtuff in the kitchen. Still no cinnamon, but hey, here are some pecans in the freezer that should probably be used. About a cup of oats. What good is that? Really ripe bananas. Dislike. Agave nectar but no sugar.
Now, quick breads and I have reached an understanding: I acknowledge the necessary ratios of wet and dry ingredients for a successful texture, but then I get to experiment with the spices and mix-ins. It’s like the baking equivalent of Oh Yeah! Ice Cream in Shadyside, although significantly more random and less dessert-y delicious.*
So given what I had on hand, I decided to push the envelope a little more. I considered a two-fruit bread, but that’s always dicey because of the moisture. I opted instead for an unconventional mix of spices. Unconventional even for me.
Renegade Banana Bread
2 cups flour (I used all-purpose because that’s all I had.)
1 cup oats
1 tsp baking soda
Pinch of kosher salt
About a tsp each of cloves, ginger and allspice
About 2 tsps of red chili powder
4 mashed bananas
1 cup agave nectar (I used light amber.)
1 cup crushed pecans
Mix the dry ingredients in one bowl and the wet in another. Combine but don’t overmix. Stir in pecans. Pour into a lightly oiled bread pan.
Bake for an hour at 350 degrees. I was astounded how long it took.
Cool in the pan for ten minutes or so before transferring to a wire rack.
The resulting bread has a hearty texture due to the pecans and oats, but stays pleasantly moist because of all the bananas. It is particularly delicious for breakfast. The chili gives it a unique kick, working admirably well with the other spices and the banana. I will likely tweak this further, experimenting with egg whites instead of full eggs and switching to whole wheat flour.
And tomorrow morning, I will try it toasted.
Nutritional information for one slice of bread (1/20th recipe), approximate: 181 calories, 4.8 grams fat, 21.5 grams cholesterol, 93.9mg sodium, 32.4 grams carbohydrates. 1.9 grams fiber, 16 grams sugar, 3.7 grams protein.
*We were supposed to go there last night after soccer practice and meet friends, but because Avi was very sick we postponed the trip. Then a huge storm came and canceled soccer anyway, but I am clearly still pining for an Oh Yeah! visit.

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