It is reassuring that in a country which produced HL Mencken, Homer Simpson and Mark Twain, reports of death of satire have been grossly exaggerated.
Recently, the faculty at Harvard were up in arms because their new health plan involves copayments and deductibles. With ninety cents to the dollar covered, the plan is generous by national standards, and would be rated “platinum” in Obamacare’s exchanges. It’s not as if the professors were placed on Medicaid to show solidarity with the poor.
Increased out-of-pocket contribution is the trend post health care reform. That same reform which many Harvard professors supported and some designed. This is why their revolt, an Orwellian political satire, has spread schadenfreude amongst conservatives who are enjoying Gore Vidal’s favorite words in the English Language: “I told you so.”Continue reading…
House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton along with Senate Finance Chairman Orin Hatch and Senator Richard Burr have outlined what is, at least for now, the Republican alternative to Obamacare.
Republicans will now argue they have a better health insurance reform plan and that Obamacare should be repealed and replaced by it––particularly if the Supreme Court plunges the new health law into chaos by throwing the subsidies out in 37 states.
They will have an uphill battle. Not because these Republicans don’t have a lot of good ideas, but because they have put a list of big and complicated changes on the table. Lots of people may not like Obamacare but Republicans have now really muddied the waters with a huge take it or leave it alternative that will have plenty of its own reasons to give voters pause. Continue reading…
The latest Gallup and Healthways poll doesn’t phrase it this way, but its findings that the Affordable Care Act “appears to be meeting its goal of reducing the percentage of Americans without health insurance” is more evidence Obamacare is good for white people.
In an interview with National Public Radio at the end of last year, President Obama was asked whether he and the Democrats had lost support among white voters. He denied it, comparing his share of the white vote favorably to that John Kerry in 2004 and pointing to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as a program that benefited working-class white voters without many realizing it. I’d written much the same thing about Obamacare in a THCB blog post a couple of weeks before the 2012 presidential election. But as with other issues related to race, it’s a topic that the president has only reluctantly discussed, even when good policy is also good politics.
In response to NPR questions about race, Obama noted that some of the biggest beneficiaries of the ACA live in places like “Mitch McConnell’s state,” home to relatively few blacks or Hispanics. Coincidentally, a front page story in the print New York Times documented Kentucky’s experience with the law – which, the president wryly noted, Kentuckians do not call “Obamacare” – the same day the NPR interview aired.
In the giddy days after the passage of ACA, I was chatting to a PhD student in health economics. He was in love with the ACA. He kept repeating that it would reduce costs, increase quality and increase access. Nothing original. You know the sort of stuff you heard at keynotes of medical meetings; ‘Healthcare post Obamacare’ or ‘Radiology in the new era.’ Talks warning us that we were exiting the Cretaceous period.
He spoke about variation in healthcare, six sigma, fee-for-value and ‘paying doctors to do the right thing.’
‘How?’ I asked.
‘I just told you, we need to pay doctors for value and outcomes.’ He smugly replied.
‘How?’ I asked again.
He did not answer. Instead he gave me the look that one gives an utter imbecile who doesn’t know the difference between a polygon and a triangle.Continue reading…
In more stunning proof that America’s 18th century style governing process just doesn’t work, a subset of a regional Federal court ruled against part of Obamacare. The Halbig ruling is certain to be overturned by the full DC court and then probably will stay that way after it makes it’s way through the Supremes–at least Jonathan Cohn thinks so.
But think about what the Halbig ruling is about. Its proponents say that when Congress (well, just the Senate actually as it was their version of the bill that passed) designed the ACA, they wanted states only to run exchanges and only people buying via states to get subsidies. But that they also wanted a Federal exchange for those states that couldn’t or (as it turned out) wouldn’t create their own. But apparently they meant that subsidies wouldn’t be available on the Federal exchange. That would just sail through Logic 101 at any high school. Well only if the teacher was asleep, as apparently most Senators were.
Now two judges interpret what was written down to imply that subsidies should only be available on state exchanges–even though logic, basic common sense and fairness would dictate that if we’re going to subsidize health insurance we should do it for everyone regardless of geography.
Don’t forget that in the House version of the bill there was only a Federal exchange. Continue reading…
Being against Obamacare has been the keystone, the capstone, the mighty sledgehammer, the massive metaphor of your choice for the right for five years now. They couldn’t stop it from being passed. They couldn’t stop it at the Supreme Court.
They weren’t able to choke it off by “defunding” it. They rejoiced at the rubber-meets-the-sky rollout of Healthcare.gov, but then the kinks got worked out of that.They railed at the administration using discretionary powers built into the law to help it work better. Every horror story of Obamacare ruining people’s lives they came up with turned out to be false.
Almost all of the people cynically cancelled by the insurance companies as a way to sell them more expensive insurance got insured again fairly quickly. Then 7 million people signed up on the exchanges, and altogether some 10 million formerly uninsured people now have medical coverage.
But the right still needs to call it a “train wreck.” The magic mantra has to work for them. Just this morning, here’s a Republican Congressman saying that we have to cut Food Stamps because: Obamacare. Say that again slowly?
It’s getting harder and harder on the right to come up with new ways to say it isn’t working when it actually seems to be working. I have to hand it to them, though: Those spin factories are filled with hard-working creative people. Get to work early, stay late, trash Obamacare. Hey, it’s a living.
So what’s the latest? This fall, Obamacare premiums are going to “skyrocket”!
You’ll be hearing a lot about the number six point five million over the next few days.
Six point five million — or whatever the exact number turns out to be at the end of the day — being the number of people that the administration say signed up for Obamacare through the exchanges when open enrollment ends March 31st.
How meaningful the official numbers are will be open to debate. The bloviation factor will be in full effect. The critics will be downplaying the administration’s number, ACA supporters defending it. Data geeks-turned-media stars will explain what it all means.
Here’s a guide to some of the other numbers we should be talking about as we try to make sense of what’s really going on and what really happened during the Obamacare rollout.
FUDs: The number of people who are innocently living their lives thinking they have bought health insurance, but who, for one reason or another, be it technical glitch, bureaucratic incompetence or technicality – are going to wake up one morning not long from now and discover that they do not have health insurance.
And who one day soon will discover that they do not have health insurance. This is the group that causes people in Washington to lie awake at night; because they are going to complain – and complain loudly. While the talk from the administration to this point has been all tough, it seems logical to assume it will build an appeal mechanism that will allow FUDs back into the system. The early signs are that this is the case.
404s : The number of people / applications lost in the system, either as a result of the Healthcare.gov fiasco or because their application is sitting forgotten on somebody’s desk somewhere or on a laptop. Anybody who tried to log into Healthcare.gov at the height of the meltdown or who has gone back and forth with their insurance company over a bill gets it.
It is safe to assume that this is another number that keeps planners up at night. Let’s just say it is safe to assume that there are a lot of 404s.
CANCELS: The number of people who had their insurance plans cancelled by insurers on the grounds that they did not meet the standards set by the Affordable Care Act. In a way, being a cancel can be considered a badge of honor in the gamification of the healthcare system that is Obamacare.
UNCANCELS: The number of people who had their plans cancelled by the health insurers only to have them declared “uncancelled” by the Obama administration or their state. Nobody really knows how many uncancels there are. Don’t ask. Yes, it will take a really long time to sort out the uncancels from the cancels and the QHPs.
And you will probably want to shoot the person explaining it to you. In the gamification of the healthcare system, level ups go to people who have been cancelled, uncancelled and bumped.
BUMPS: The number of people who have been “bumped” out of network and are being forced to change doctors. What’s going on? In gamification terms, bumps make things more exciting. In real life, they suck. Getting bumped off a flight is annoying, getting bumped in the health care system is potentially life-threatening.
LIVES SAVED: As we speak Nate Silver or a smart person who looks and sounds a lot like Nate Silver is sitting at a computer in a darkened room somewhere trying to come up with a reliable quantification of the number of lives the Affordable Care Act has saved and will save by shielding people from the barbaric US healthcare system.
How would you go about coming up with that number? Would you look at people turned away from emergency rooms? Would you look at the number of preventable deaths under the old system? Would you total the number of deaths from cancer, heart attack and stroke? Compare mortality rates over the decade from 2004-2014 with those from 2014-2024? It will be long time before we have the data we need to really understand how well we’ve done.
You can forget the nonsense we’ve been hearing about Obamacare costing the lives of thousands of Americans by taking their health coverage away from them. There is a difference between losing your coverage temporarily because the system is in transition and losing it and knowing that you’ll never be able to get it back. Ever.
Calculated over decades to come the number of lives saved is likely to total in the thousands, if not the millions. And that will be the true test of the Affordable Care Act as a historical accomplishment for Barak Obama and his administration.
So many old rules in health care and insurance no longer seem to apply.
I keep stumbling upon situations, where, what used to be up is now down and what used to be down is now up.
No one seems to know for sure how things will settle out under the new reality created by Obamacare and the even more unpredictable reactions to the law by health care companies, employers and, most especially, you and me.
I’ve started using the term “weightlessness” to describe this state we’re in. Picture the astronauts on the international space station, floating through a room, flipping at will, as likely to settle on a wall or on the ceiling as on the floor.
That’s what life is like under Obamacare now—for physicians, hospital administrators, insurance executives, benefits brokers and employers.
Here are a few examples:
1. I wrote last week about how a chunk of workers, even at large employers with generous benefits, would actually get a better deal on health insurance from the Obamacare exchanges than from their employers. So their employers are starting to consider whether they should deliberately make health benefits unaffordable for those low-wage workers, so they can qualify for Obamacare’s tax-subsidized insurance.
That could be good for both employers and employees. The effect on taxpayers, which would switch from granting a tax credit to employers to instead granting it to the employees, is unclear.
2. Even though insurers were certain that price would be king on the Obamacare exchanges, that hasn’t led most customers to buy the plans with the cheapest premiums. As I wrote Friday, 76 percent of those shopping on the exchanges in my home state of Indiana have picked the higher-premium silver and gold plans, with only 24 percent picking bronze plans.
“There are a few geographies where we believe we are gaining share despite lower price competition which points to the value of our local market depth, knowledge, brand, reputation and networks,” WellPoint Inc. CEO Joe Swedish said during an January conference call with investors.
It’s possible that’s a result of older and sicker patients being the earliest buyers on the exchange, and that as healthier people buy coverage, they’ll gravitate to the low-cost bronze plans. But that hasn’t happened—which, as I wrote on Friday, has proved wrong hospitals’ concerns about the super-high deductible bronze plans.
Rumors have been circulating in the marketplace all week that the administration was thinking of extending the individual health insurance policies that Obamacare was supposed to have cancelled for as much as three more years.
That the administration might extend these polices shouldn’t come as a shock. My sense has always been that at least 80% of the pre-Obamacare policies would ultimately have to be canceled because of the administration’s stringent grandfathering rules that forced almost all of the old individual market into the new Obamacare risk pool.
But with the literal drop dead date for these old policies hitting by December 31, 2014, that would have meant those final cancellation letters would have had to go out about election day 2014. That would have meant that the administration was going to have to live through the cancelled policy nightmare all over again––but this time on election day.
The health insurance plans hate the idea of another three-year reprieve. They have been counting on the relatively healthy block of prior business pouring into the new Obamacare exchanges to help stabilize the rates as lots of previously uninsured and sicker people come flooding in.
With enrollment of the previously uninsured running so badly thus far, getting this relatively healthier block in the new risk pool is all the more important. The administration’s now doing this wouldn’t just be changing the rules; it would be changing the whole game.
Republicans, and a few vulnerable Democrats, had essentially called for this last fall when legislation was floated in both the House and Senate with the “If You Like Your Policy You Can Keep It,” proposals. At the time, the administration and Democratic leaders rightly said if this sort of thing would have been made permanent it would have a very negative impact on what people in the new pool would pay––and on their already high deductibles and narrow networks.
At the beginning of this post I asked, Is Obamacare unraveling?
First, as I have said before on this blog, the law’s reinsurance provisions will mean Obamacare can keep limping along for at least three years. And, even making this change won’t alter my opinion on this. It will just cost the government more reinsurance money to keep the carriers whole.
By asking if it is unraveling, what I really wonder about is the whole sense of fairness in the law and the expectation that everybody needs to get the Democrat’s definition of “minimum benefits” whether they want them or not.
The Republican plan targets many of the most unpopular parts of the Affordable Care Act such as expensive mandated benefits and the resulting lack of choice, the individual mandate, the employer mandate, and age-rating disruptions.
My sense is that most independent voters––the ones that matter in an election-year––don’t want Obamacare repealed; they want it fixed.
The problem for Republicans is that they have such a visceral response to the term “Obamacare” that they just can’t bring themselves to fix it. The notion that Obamacare might be fixed and allowed to continue as part of an Obama legacy and as a Democratic accomplishment is something they can’t get past.
So, the only way Republicans can propose an alternative to Obamacare is to first wipe the health insurance reform slate clean and start over.


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FORMER child star Aaron Carter has revealed his is worried that he may be HIV-positive in a searing TV interview.
The singer breaks down as he speaks for the first time over his fears that he may have the virus, saying: "I need help, I'm scared".
In a hard-hitting US TV show, The Doctors, Aaron, 29, says that his tumbling weight is one reason why he believes he may be HIV-positive, telling the host: "Because I'm so skinny, I'm still so skinny. And that was the biggest one for me."
The singer, who is 6ft tall, weighs just over eight stone (115lbs).
According to the Daily Mail, he is due to get results of a test on Thursday.
The former child star has also opened about his devastating drug problems, but denied claims he was taking crack and meth.
The pop singer, 29, who is the younger brother of Backstreet Boys star Nick Carter , has spent years battling an addiction to painkillers.
He has now given a candid interview explaining that he got hooked on pills as he underwent more and more cosmetic surgery to enhance his looks.
In the hard-hitting US TV show Aaron dismisses rumours he has been addicted to crack cocaine and meth.
He even shows off his perfect smile as proof he hasn't dabbled in any hard drugs that would rot his teeth.
Aaron cried as he admitted he regularly pumps his face full of fillers in a bid to hang on to his youthful looks, and became addicted to drugs including Xanax and Oxycodone, which are used to treat anxiety and pain.
He went to extreme measures to get his hands on the medicines, and would even buy them illegally off the street.
During the show, he said: "I get fillers. Restylane, Voluma, Rejuviderm. I get all three, and I'm going to continue doing it. It makes me smile in the mirror.
"I see a pretty good looking guy, I'm just skinny... And I just want to get better."
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In another scene, Aaron adds: "I don't mix medications, I do it to release stress of pain or angst.
"I have no problem telling exactly what it is.
"The truth shall set your free and my father always said that...
"My family knows... that I was going to psychiatrists to do that. I know that there is no happy ending to any of those medications... It's a fact.
"My greatest fear... [is] not being able to live as long as I can."
He also opened up about the family issues that contributed to his problems, including his parents' divorce, the death of his father and sister, and a feud with pop star brother Nick.
Aaron sobbed as he talked about losing his family and his music career.
He said: "My heart hurts, my body hurts...
"It's always been my duty to make everyone happy to please every one, one stage and off stage...
"I lost my career, I lost my parents [in the divorce], I lost my dad, I lost my sister, I lost my brother, Nick... how do I keep going."
The TV interview, which airs in the US this week, comes after a turbulent few months for the singer.
The former teen star was recently arrested on a DUI charge along with marijuana possession of less than one ounce in Georgia.
Aaron also recently revealed he had an eating disorder, and came out as bisexual in an emotional social media post.
The singer revealed he is attracted to both men and women in a post on his Twitter account in which he said he wanted the "weight and burden" of hiding his sexuality to be lifted off of him.
He wrote: "To start off, I would like to say that I love each and every one of my fans.
"There's something I'd like to say that I feel is important for myself and my identity that has been weighing on my chest for nearly half of my life.
"This doesn't bring me shame, just a weight and burden I have held onto for a long time that I would like lifted off of me.
"I grew up in this entertainment industry at a very young age and when I was around 13-years-old I started to find boys and girls attractive.
"There were years that went by that I thought about it, but it wasn't until I was 17-years-old, after a few relationships with girls, I had an experience with a male that I had an attraction to who I also worked with and grew up with.
"To me music has always been my temple. Music will always be what transcends all of us and myself."
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Ahead of next month’s Women’s Rugby World Cup, we asked some of the stars of the England Women’s team to take us through some fitness drills that everyone can try at home.
The team have already shared their tips on rugby skills, diet, nutrition as well as the core skills required to compete at an elite level.
Now, Kat Merchant, Georgina Gulliver, Lydia Thompson and Kay Wilson highlight some fitness drills you can do in the comfort of your own home.
If you’re interested in giving rugby a go, then visit www.rfu.com/takingpart/clubfinder to find your local club.
The Women’s Rugby World Cup kicks off on August 1 with England taking on Samoa in the opening round. England then face Spain on August 5 and Canada on August 9 at Marcoussis in Paris.
The semi-finals and final take place on August 13 and 17 at Stade Jean Bouin, also in Paris. All matches will be broadcast live on Sky Sports.


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The Pittsburgh Pirates (21-15) finally snapped their seven-game losing streak Monday night, after a masterclass effort from Mitch Keller against the Colorado Rockies (14-22)
Keller decided to take things into his own hands and pitched a complete game shutout with eight Ks, one walk, and only four hits given up.
Keller had thrown just over 100 pitches at 103 and threw an incredible amount of strikes at 77. When we spoke with Derek Shelton earlier in the season, the message from day one was to fill up the strike zone, and Keller did just that.
As a result, the Pirates won 2-0 and maintain their slim lead in the N.L. Central.
First pitch is scheduled for 6:35 p.m. You can watch all of the action on AT&T Sportsnet, or listen to the game on the Pirates radio station, 93.7 The Fan.
You should expect a mostly sunny day on the North Shore, with temperatures around 70 degrees at first pitch. There will be a slight wind between 6-9 mph throughout the contest blowing northwest
The Pirates will send out RHP Luis Ortiz (Season Debut)
It is official now; the Pirates will have Ortiz start Tuesday night, which marks his season debut.
Ortiz has been in Triple-A Indianapolis since spring training ended and has put up good numbers to begin the year with a 2-1 record and an ERA of 2.23.
From the games I’ve seen of Ortiz in Triple-A, it seems to me that his changeup has come along, but the four-seam swing and miss still need some work as he matures.
Ortiz’s last start was on May 5 against the Toledo Mud Hens (Detroit’s Triple-A), and he pitched three innings of shutout ball, one hit, no walks, and three strikeouts.
Ortiz has never faced the Rockies.
The Rockies will send out RHP Connor Seabold (0-0, 5.30 ERA).
Seabold has made eight appearances in 2023 but made his first start on the season in his last game on May 4 against the Milwaukee Brewers.
Seabold, in his first start since Sept. 26 of 2022, went five innings, while giving up seven hits, three earned runs, no walks, and struck out one.
Seabold technically has four pitches, but he will stick to mainly two with a four-seam (56.3%), and a slider (32.3%). In addition, the righty will toss a changeup (11%) and rarely throw a curveball (1.5%).
His best pitch is by far his slider, with an opposing average of .222 and an average exit velocity of 84.4 mph. The Pirates will have to sit back and wait for the four-seam, as opponents hit an average of .293 with an average exit velocity of 91.4 mph.
Seabold has faced the Pirates once (no starts) and holds a record of 0-0 with an ERA of 0.00 in 2.1 innings pitched. In addition, Seabold has never played at PNC Park.
Interesting Batting Match Ups
- No one has faced Ortiz before on the Rockies’ roster
- Ji-Hwan Bae: 1-1 against Seabold
- Monday’s game time was a total of an hour and 55 minutes which is the shortest at PNC Park since an hour and 51-minute contest on April 13 against the San Fransico Giants in 2007.
- In addition, the fastest nine-inning game ever at PNC Park was an hour and 47 minutes on Aug. 25, 2004, against the Arizona Diamondbacks.
- Keller is one of seven Pirates’ pitchers since 2007 to throw a complete game shutout. The last Pirate to do it was Jameson Tailon on April 8, 2018, against the Cincinnati Reds.
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Manchester City fell to a 2-1 home defeat against Lyon on Wednesday and it’s certainly not the start Pep Guardiola will have wanted in the Champions League.
The Premier League champions looked out of sorts for chunks of the game and whilst the result was a surprise, the performance will have been too.
In France they were expecting a tough match for Lyon and a draw would have been considered a good result, so to come away from Manchester with all three points is certainly a boost.
As well as praising their Ligue 1 side, L’Equipe have taken aim at Manchester City in their Thursday edition. The French newspaper have a deserved reputation for being tough when marking players, and City get that today.
Fabian Delph was given 3/10 for his performance, and L’Equipe believe he completely failed to deal with Maxime Cornet.
Raheem Sterling was the only Manchester City player deemed worthy of a 6 or more. The England international was considered the team’s most dangerous player, whether coming from the left or right.
Manager Pep Guardiola got 4/10, and L’Equipe say that he wasn’t able to have full influence, being suspended, but did change things at half time, that worked a little but was considered ‘insufficient’.


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...The steps taken by the AAPS on the Elián González matter are most commendable and we hope that AAPS continues to be one of the loud voices of the medical community to appeal to the conscience of the nation in how this was handled by the Clinton Administration.
My name is Alfredo Manrara and my field of work is real estate. My wife is Dr. Lydia Usategui, psychiatrist, who had met the child Elián González and his Miami family --- although she was not Elián's treating physician.
On the day of the raid by federal agents, Lydia was at the González home as described in her article in this issue. I was there accompanying her and, within 10 feet of the home's front door, was thrown by the agents against a fence, sprayed with pepper gas, and witnessed the screaming child being taken right in front of me to the waiting van....
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Since I was 6 years old I watched the World Cup, many could say that I am a true fan, but usually it is a passion that I live without showing off. In 1986, when Argentina played against Germany and won their second Cup, I remembered Maradona taking the Cup triumphantly, at that time Maradona was one of the good guys.
I also remembered Italia 90′, I was 10 years old, one of my favorite games was looking at the mirror and singing with a toothbrush the song of the World Cup. I used to singing this verse:
“Notti magiche, inseguendo un gol,
Sotto il cielo di un’estate italiana.
E negli occhi tuoi, voglia di vincere
Un’estate, un’avventura in più.” (Italian version)
That was for me one of the best songs that have been made for a WorldCup “Un’estate Italiana” made by the italian musician Giorgio Morode and for the American lyricist Tom Whitlock. I watched all the games, I did not miss the final, I never missed a final. Germany won his third cup, I was fan of Italy, but they got only the third place at that time.
Then came the 94 ‘World Cup, which was held in the United States, by that moment the north-americans realized the potential that a World Cup had in many economics aspects. USA perceived the World Cup as a massive power mobilization with an endless opportunities for business. I felt close to that Cup, not only because it was in America, but because Brazil won. I remembered having gone to Las Mercedes in Caracas, Venezuela, to dance samba and celebrate.
Then came the 98’World Cup in France. There “Les Blues”won their First Cup. France won 3-0 against Brazil. In that Cup Zinedine Zidane became famous, without imagining that later on he would be even more famous for other reasons; as for example, his famous hit head in the middle of a game against the Italian player Marco Materazzi. That happened at the World Cup in Germany 2006. Zidane became viral on social media like You Tube and even at that time some people made a reggaeton about “Zizu” and the hit head.
In 2002 came Korea-Japan and I remembered waking up at 3 am to watch the games in live time. That for me was the World Cup of David Beckham, he was the star, although England did not won everyone talked about the English team. That World Cup was also historic because it was a witness to the best Brazil team that ever played soccer so far, not in vain, they took the cup for the fifth time, being the country with the most cups won in its history.
In Germany 2006, the excitement was unprecedented, Italy, one of my favorite teams won the final and in penalties. That had never happened to Italy to win in penalties, it was historic and a giant celebration in the Italo-Venezuelan Club, in Caracas, where I was watching the game at that time. I still keep the shirt that I wore that day and it says of course “Italy”, honoring my ancestors, because my last name is Fanti from my Italian great-grandparents.
2010, I named it the Wakawaka World Cup, I called that way because the hit song of Shakira:Waka Waka. It was a World Cup of true passion. Shakira left De La Rua and became girlfriend with the famous Spaniard soccer player Omar Pique in the middle of the World Cup, they called it the waka rumor; Casillas the winning goalkeeper of the Spain team kissed on camera a reporter, Sara Carbonero, who turned out to be his sentimental partner. It was a World Championship with a lot of entertainment, including Cristiano Ronaldo in the package. I also baptized the World Cup “Hola”, for the gossip Spanish magazine Hola because Spaniards love gossip and Spain won for the first time in history a World Cup that year.
And with the wakawaka we went to the Brazil World Cup 2014. With a host team that gave pity to others, it was unforgettable the match that Germans won over Brazil 8-0 and then 7-0 because in the end they annulled a goal to Germany. In that match was embarrassing to see the Brazilians play. Germany, on the other hand, crowned and won its fourth cup, being the European country with the most cups in the world to its credit.
And we arrived at Russia 2018. Where the unimaginable happened, Italy did not qualify. Spain, Portugal and Brazil left, Germany and Argentina that were favorites teams went even before the round of 16. No Latin American country succeeded, nor any African.The United States did not even go to the World Cup, Mexico lost. It was a World Cup full of great emotions, where Russia with help went very far. But, just could not do it until the end.
Russia 2018 finished in a final with 2 championship teams. France vs.Croatia. In the first time France did not seem to deserve to be there. France was favored with a free kick and then with a totally unfair penalty, to the majority of the spectators it seemed unfair and among that group of spectators I included myself. Croatia gave the battle until the last minute. The second time came and France finally played and showed why it had arrived there. Demoralized Croatia continued to demonstrate incredible fortitude.
Two champions emerged, a victorious France that won the Cup for the second time in its history and then exactly after 10 years (remember that they won it in 1998) and a Croatia that won the hearts of the whole world, for its example of perseverance, to fighter through the end and for leaving a positive mark on history.
Soccer is part of my life, is part of your history too, soccer is part of the walk of our humanity. Congratulations to all those who fought for this Cup and we will see what happens in Qatar 2022. Remember that in soccer as in life, for the true goals you have to fight. Always someone lose and others win, the important thing is the crossing, it is the battle that makes you stronger and inspires you to be better.

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Has it been a year already? 2017 has reached its end, but before we dive into 2018, we’d like to take a moment and look back. For DC fans, 2017 was a remarkable year in comics, film and TV. Our characters reached new milestones and audiences, our writers and artists achieved remarkable new heights and our universe continued to grow in surprising new ways. And yet, within it all, several moments stood out for their importance and relevance. Some of them were groundbreaking, others were a welcome return. All of them are worthy of acknowledgement and celebration. In a year in which fans had much to talk about, these are the moments we’ll continue to talk about well beyond the new year. These are DCComics.com’s “Ten Moments that Mattered in 2017.”
Timing is everything. WildStorm, the imprint and shared universe created in 1992 by Jim Lee, never truly went away. Characters and organizations like Grifter, Voodoo and Stormwatch were a core part of the early New 52 and Midnighter was playing a key role in the DC Universe (in both his own ongoing title and in the pages of GRAYSON) as recently as 2016.
But with this year’s relaunch and reimaging, the world of WildStorm has taken on more relevance than ever under the guiding hand of master storyteller Warren Ellis.
Trust in both government institutions and the mainstream media tasked with keeping them honest is at an all-time low. Unproven conspiracy theories are finding a more receptive audience and are being shared at the highest levels of public service. In a world of deep states, PizzaGates and salacious government dossiers, is it really that far of a reach to think that aliens may have a hand in it all?
An enticing, intelligent hybrid of The X-Files, Game of Thrones and superhero comics, THE WILD STORM, written by Ellis and drawn by Jon Davis-Hunt, is a quiet masterpiece. A highly original book that demands intelligence, patience and trust from readers, and rewards all three. Ten issues into the series and we’re still just scratching the surface of how all of the pieces fit together, but with such tightly, impeccably conceived characters, we can’t help but be hooked anyway.
The Wild Storm is a chess game rather than a boxing match (which makes its frequent dips into extreme violence all the more shocking), with readers left marveling at the moves and countermoves by the players for days after finishing a new issue. Whether it’s Angela Spica developing a transdermal exo-suit completely unbeknownst to her employers at IO and starting an international incident in the process. Or Jacob Marlowe assembling a highly effective covert action team to directly challenge IO and Skywatch. Or Michael Cray turning his back on IO and joining with Christine Trelane. It’s a breathtaking bit of choreography by Ellis which suggests extensive plotting done months before a single word of dialog was written.
More tantalizing still for readers who have found themselves entranced by The Wild Storm is that it’s just the beginning. Already Ellis and Davis-Hunt’s series has spun off a second excellent ongoing title, WILDSTORM: MICHAEL CRAY, and Ellis has suggested that more are on their way. It’s all built on a legacy of storytelling that turned 25 this year, marking the occasion with a graphic novel collection that featured both classic WildStorm comics and illustrations and new ones care of Jim Lee, Brandon Choi, J. Scott Campbell, Brett Booth and more.
It serves as a reminder that the world of WildStorm isn’t a new idea or even an idea ahead of its time—it’s an idea built on concepts that seem to hold continual appeal with readers. Aliens. Highly secret organizations. Conspiracies. Advanced technologies. Heroes and villains. Some of these are universal. Others may be more American in their appeal. But the bottom line is that as long as there are large, powerful, non-transparent organizations calling the shots in our society, we’ll have reasons to suspect that something shady may be going on. We’ll be willing to entertain conspiracies.
The Wild Storm is about as entertaining as conspiracies get.
Be sure to check DCComics.com again tomorrow for another Moment that Mattered in 2017.

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A CEO leaving after such a short period suggests that all is not well at the hotel company.
Millennium & Copthorne Hotels CEO Jennifer Fox has left the company only three months after taking charge.
The hotel company gave no reason for Fox’s abrupt departure on Friday but reports suggest there was a difference of opinion between her and the chairman and majority owner.
Fox will get a pay-out of $1.3 million (£1 million).
Tan Kian Seng, the current group chief of staff, will take over as interim CEO immediately, a position he held before Fox’s appointment.
Before joining Millennium & Copthorne, Fox served as president of Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, where she was responsible for the luxury brand’s global hotel portfolio, including the Raffles and Swissôtel brands outside of North America. She also worked for InterContinental Hotels Group and Starwood Hotels & Resorts.
After taking over on June 19, Fox brought in a group chief marketing officer and a head of human resources.
At the time she also said that she was “reviewing the earnings profile and potential of our most important properties” and that she was developing a strategic plan.
Millennium & Copthorne has 137 hotels with more than 39,000 rooms. It is particularly strong in the Middle East and Asia.
Majority shareholder Singapore-based City Developments, which owns 65.2 percent of the company, tabled a takeover offer for the rest of the shares last year but minority shareholders turned it down.
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Photo credit: The Millennium Minneapolis. The parent company's CEO is leaving. Millennium & Copthorne Hotels

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The NEOSETAC project has taken a significant stride towards achieving its objectives by aligning with the European Union’s groundbreaking Missions in Horizon Europe. The latest announcement by the EU Commission highlights the notable contribution of these missions in promoting a greener and healthier continent.
Over the first two years of implementation, the EU Missions in Horizon Europe have played a vital role in supporting the Commission’s endeavors in various areas, including the European Green Deal, making Europe fit for the Digital Age, and implementing Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan. This commendable progress reinforces the collective determination to combat climate change, unleash the potential of digitalization, and tackle the ever-pressing issue of cancer.
In this context, the NEOSETAC project is proud to be a part of this transformative journey. NEOSETAC’s primary objective is to demonstrate the anti-cancer therapeutic potential of a novel Selenium-based therapy for managing breast cancer. Building on recent clinical studies, which highlighted that increased selenium exposure could potentially reduce cancer risk, NEOSETAC aims to harness the power of this element in the fight against breast cancer.
By aligning with the EU Missions, NEOSETAC exemplifies the collaborative efforts of researchers, scientists, and experts coming together to achieve a common purpose – a future free from the burden of cancer. The project envisions bringing groundbreaking advancements to the field of cancer therapeutics by exploring innovative approaches and utilizing the immense potential of Selenium-based therapy.
Through dissemination of this news, the NEOSETAC project aims to raise awareness among stakeholders and the public about the significant progress being made in cancer research and the wider EU Missions Agenda. Collaborative endeavors, such as those highlighted by Horizon Europe, underscore the importance of collective action and knowledge sharing in addressing pressing global challenges.
As the NEOSETAC project continues to advance, it serves as a shining example of the ambition inherent in the EU Missions. By pushing boundaries, fostering research, and harnessing scientific excellence, we can pave the way towards a greener and healthier future for all. Together, we can make a remarkable difference in the fight against cancer and contribute to a sustainable and thriving continent.
To learn more about the NEOSETAC project and its innovative research initiatives, please visit our website . Stay tuned for updates on our progress and join us on this transformative journey towards a world without breast cancer.


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Green Beans with Hazelnuts and Lemon
- 675g (1 1/2 lb) fresh green beans, trimmed
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 1/2 teaspoons lemon zest
- 30g (1 oz) chopped toasted hazelnuts
- salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
Prep:10min › Cook:10min › Ready in:20min
- In a large pot of salted boiling water, cook beans 3 to 8 minutes or until tender. Drain and place in a large bowl.
- Add olive oil, lemon zest, hazelnuts, salt and pepper. Beans may be made 1 day ahead, chilled and covered. Reheat beans to serve.
Made just as the recipe except for the oil, used balsamic and its an unusual taste but all 6 at the table asked for more, that says it all. - 12 Dec 2010
Used different ingredients. Made this for Easter and it was very good. Used toasted almonds instead of hazelnuts and added some lemon juice to the cooking water. Reheats nicely if you don't overcook the beans. - 24 Jul 2008
Used different ingredients. Like some other reviewers, I used toasted almonds. The lemon gave the beans a lovely freshness without being overpowering & the almonds added a lovely crunch. - 24 Jul 2008

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Tired of April Fool's pranks in the guise of fake ads? Well, you're alone on that one because the internet still loves them if this week's Viral Chart is any indication.
Google had an amazing six ads on the Viral Chart this week, three real and three April Fool's pranks. The top ad, the one where YouTube chief Salar Kamangar announces YouTube will finally announce a final winning video -- and then shut down -- won 11.7 million views last week, a pretty amazing haul that topped Pepsi's first ad with "brand ambassador" Beyonce Knowles-Carter.
Google's other pranks hitting the chart included "Google Nose" and "Gmail Blue." But Google also had some real ads on the chart, including its ongoing "Chrome: For Everyone" campaign, part of its push to gain market share for its browser, a spot for the Nexus 10, and its year-end promo for YouTube, "Rewind YouTube Style."
But Google wasn't the only one having fun last week. Oakley unveiled golf pro Bubba Watson's new mode of transit on the links (a hovercraft) and Scope unveiled bacon mouthwash, for "breath that sizzles."


Embattled ESPN host Sage Steele not too long ago examined constructive for COVID regardless of being mandated for vaccination, in accordance with her Instagram and ESPN. Steele reportedly handled gentle signs, however will neither attend the espnW summit this week nor seem on any episodes of SportsCenter because of the constructive check.
Steele’s sickness coincides with a slew of crucial feedback made towards vaccination mandates in a podcast interview not too long ago, handing ESPN executives a simple excuse for pulling her off the air. Some kind of disciplinary motion for her feedback was probably, given ESPN and parent-company Disney’s intense liberal slant, however now the sickness can present cowl hearth for any suspension whereas execs take care of the leftist insubordination in-house.
Steele initially known as vaccination mandates “sick and scary,” referencing the corporate’s risk to fireplace her if she didn’t comply by Sept. 30.
“It’s scary to me in many ways, but I have a job that I love and frankly a job that I need,” Steele stated. “I’m not surprised that it got to this point especially with Disney, I mean a global company like that.”
To contract COVID regardless of complying with the corporate’s mandate simply provides insult to damage. But to problem the vaccine’s efficacy instantly attracts the ire of thousands and thousands of presidency sycophants who imagine that the complete pandemic would instantly finish if everybody simply bought the jab. For now, add Sage Steele to the rising record of vaccinated people who managed to contract COVID regardless of the entire protections that the vaccine gives.


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Purpose: Introducing a new CT based Monte Carlo calculation for dose evaluation following LDR brachytherapy and comparing the results with conventional TG‐43 calculation Methods: We adapted a voxel based mathematical phantom of patient's body modeling in MCNP using conventional DICOM images from post implant of prostate brachytherapy. With the aid of Image processing software, the implanted seed and their position are detected and conveyed to Monte Carlo SDEF source definition. The results of MCNP dosimetry is presented to the physicists in a GUI medium. Results: The developed software could aid the physicist to browse, explore or modify patient's CT and explore the results of Monte Carlo dosimetry. The software is designed to evaluate the absorbed dose (dose distribution contours) and the volumetric dose histograms. The software is used to evaluate the dose distribution of HDR seeds in a gel phantom  and the results are within 3% of experimental data. Conclusions: The developed image processing and mathematical voxel phantom generation software package is successful in producing accurate dosimetry data based on exact patient body information. Besides producing dose distribution in CTV and PTV, the dose distributions of adjacent sensitive organs are readily available with Monte Carlo accuracy. This is an advantage of the developed software compared with conventional TG‐43 based software which ignores patient's body heterogeneity in dose evaluation.
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What if you were told that you could make a fortune just by pushing a button on a box? But pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world . . . someone you don't know. Would you still push the button?
"Button, Button," Richard Matheson's chilling tale of greed and temptation, is now the basis of The Box, the new film from the director of Donnie Darko. In addition, this outstanding collection also contains many other unforgettable stories by Matheson, the award-winning author of I Am Legend and What Dreams May Come.
"The inventive plots and spare but convincing portraits of ordinary men and women caught up in forces beyond their control demonstrate why Stephen King has called Matheson his most significant influence."
About the Author
Richard Matheson is The New York Times bestselling author of I Am Legend, Hell House, Somewhere in Time, The Incredible Shrinking Man, A Stir of Echoes, The Beardless Warriors, The Path, Seven Steps to Midnight, Now You See It..., and What Dreams May Come, among others. He was named a Grand Master of Horror by the World Horror Convention, and received the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. He has also won the Edgar, the Spur, and the Writer's Guild awards. In 2010, he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. In addition to his novels, Matheson wrote several screenplays for movies and TV, including "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet," based on his short story, along with several other Twilight Zone episodes. He was born in New Jersey and raised in Brooklyn, and fought in the infantry in World War II. He earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri. Matheson died in June, 2013, at the age of eighty-seven.
“His stories not only entertain, but touch the mind and heart.” —Dean Koontz
“Perhaps no other author living is as responsible for chilling a generation with tantalizing nightmare visions.” —The New York Times
“Richard Matheson is one of the great names in American terror fiction.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Matheson is the master of paranoia--pitting a single man against unknown horrors and examining his every slow twist in the wind.” —San Jose Mercury News


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Baal - False - Parable - Biblical Truths?
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By Angela D Watkins
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Posted: Tuesday, February 05, 2008
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Scipture, Duty to KNOW and Obey Scripture... Whirlwind
Jeremiah 29:13, 19 Someone emailed me and referred me to read Jeremiah 23:19 and I read Jeremiah 29:13,19 instead thinking I was reading the right scripture. Then I read Jeremiah 23:19. Read Chapter 25 in your spare time. Is this a parable that we need to keep our eyes on in the future? Jeremiah 29:13,19 Verse 13 -- Mediums & Methods of Revelations, False Prophets, Punishment of False Prophets And I have seen "folly" in the prophets of Samaria; "they" .... prophesied in Baal, and "cause" my people Israel to err. "folly" -- Or, and absurd thing, unsavoury "they" -- Jeremiah 2:8 -- Sacred Persons and Offices, The Prophets, Wicked Prophets, Their Sins "cauised" -- Isaiah 9:16 -- Fallen Man, Punishment of Sin, Temporal Calamities For "the" leaders of this people cause them to err, and "they" that are led of them are destroyed. "the" -- Or, they that call the blessed "they" -- Or, they that are called blessed of them Verse 19 -- "Mediums & Methods of Revelation, The Prophets Reception By The People, Disbelieved, Penalty of Disbelief Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the LORD, which "I" sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD. "I" -- Jeremiah 25:4 -- Methods of Revelation, The Prophets Reception by The People, Disbelieved, Penalty of Disbelief ...... Scipture, Duty to KNOW and Obey Scripture, Refusals to Hear And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear. "I" -- Jeremiah 32:33 -- Sacred Persons & Offices, The Prophets, Wicked Prophets, Their Sins Jeremiah 23:19 -- Works of God, GOD's Providence in Moral Discipline Behold a "whirlwind" of the LORD is gone forth, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked. "whirlwind" -- Jeremiah 25:32 -- Works of God, God's Providence in Nature, Causes Winds, Storms, and Hail Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth ..... from nation to nation,...... and a great whirlwind.... shall be raised up from ....the coasts of the earth. "whirlwind" -- Jeremiah 30:23 -- Works of God, God's Providence in Moral Discipline, God the Avenger of Evil Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a "continuing" whirlwind: it shall "fall" with pain upon the head of the wicked. "continuing" -- cutting "fall" -- remain Biblical Truths -- Real Life 10: Watch Your Step ... Keep Digging Ditches Scripture reference taken from KJV, Topical Reference Edition, Crusade Bible Publishers, Mt. Juliet, TN


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Wine Dinner at Fitler Dining Room
Tomorrow, February 5th, Fitler Dining Room is welcoming wine consultant David McDuff for a special four-course wine dinner featuring wines from the Savoie region of France. Before Fitler Dining Room opened, chef Robert Marzinsky toured through France and Savoie in particular. For this dinner he’ll be highlighting the region’s cuisine with gruyere souffle, musssel cream soup and spiced duck breast.
There will be two seatings, 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Dinner is $85 per person and includes wine pairings (but not including tax and gratuity).
Reservations are required and can be made by calling 215.732.3331.
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"I peered through the Venetian blinds in our den, with its view of the playground next door, and watched mournfully as the popular girls played softball. I wanted to run fast, hit hard, and wear a cute uniform. These girls seemed to know something about life that I didn't."
When Binnie Klein took up boxing in her midfifties, the reaction from friends and acquaintances was always the same: "You?" Why, after all, would a middle-aged Jewish psychotherapist with no previous history of athletics take up boxing? In Blows to the Head, Klein offers a provocative tale of an unlikely contender whose unexpected fascination with boxing takes her beyond the ring and leads her back to her roots and to a surprising chapter of the Jewish immigrant experience. With candor and wit, she reveals a series of memories and insights that would never have been possible if she hadn't been drawn toward a pair of boxing gloves during a physical therapy session. In a story that will captivate and inspire women and men, athletes and nonathletes, Klein shows us that if we turn over the "weird stones" on our path, the ones we usually ignore, we may find ourselves on an unexpected journey that will summon vitality back into our lives.


The wait is over.
The Troup Tigers will leap into a new season this week, and they’ll get things started against their biggest rival.
On Friday night, before what will be a huge crowd at Callaway Stadium, Troup will renew its rivalry with the LaGrange Grangers.
While Troup didn’t play last week, LaGrange was opening its season with a 20-14 overtime loss to Callaway.
“We’ve very anxious,” Troup defensive back Vanquez Bonner said. “I’m counting the days. I’m ready to get out there. We’ve been practicing real hard going after it.”
Things will be different this year.
It’s a big game, just as it always is, but for the first time since 2003, Troup and LaGrange will be facing off as non-region opponents.
While LaGrange moved up to Class AAAAA, Troup remained in Class AAAA.
Just because a possible playoff spot isn’t on the line doesn’t mean the game means any less to the players, though.
Running back Dre Towns, who will be a big part of the Troup game plan Friday night, said he has “to play it like it’s my last game. Play every play like it’s my last play. We can’t wait to get back on the field.”
Offensive lineman Mitch Mathes, who has been starting since he was a freshman, is ready for his final game against LaGrange.
“It’s my last one. It’s going to be great,” Mathes said. “We want to finish with a bang.”
In recent years, LaGrange and Troup have played toward the end of the season, and the stakes have been high.
A year ago, LaGrange missed the playoffs, largely because of a 27-8 loss to Troup.
That pressure won’t be there when the two teams meet Friday night, but Troup head coach Lynn Kendall said there is still a lot of anticipation.
“As we move toward Friday, the excitement will build,” Kendall said. “It’s our opener, and your opener is always big, and this time it’s with LaGrange, who is a rival. It’s not a region game this year, but it’s still a huge, important game.”
Troup’s coaches got the chance to watch LaGrange play last week, and Kendall was impressed with what he saw.
LaGrange built a 14-0 lead before Callaway scored two late touchdowns in the fourth quarter to tie it.
Callaway then scored a touchdown in overtime to pull off the come-from-behind win.
“They’ve got a lot of assets on their team,” Kendall said. “They’ve got a big running back (Mon Denson), they’ve got a good offensive line, the defense seemed to be flying to the ball. I think you look at that game, they played pretty well. It was anybody’s ballgame down until the end.”
Slowing down LaGrange’s running game will be a key point of emphasis for Troup’s defense.
“We’ve been practicing for two weeks preparing for them running downhill, filling in spots where we should,” senior defensive back Hunter Mowers said. “We’re ready.”
Offensively, Troup will try to establish a strong running game, which was a key in last year’s win over LaGrange.
Troup’s running game was more effective as the game went along, and long scoring runs from Towns and Daryl Dunlap in the fourth quarter put the game away.
Dunlap has graduated and is now at San Diego State, but Towns is back, and he’ll get his hands on the ball a lot Friday night.
Fellow running backs Mess Bonner and Dexter Shealey also figure to get their share of carries.
Mathes said the idea is to come out Friday and “just smash them in the face. That’s what you have to do, and (the running backs will) run right behind us. We just need to go in their strong, pound them in the face.”
It helps that the Tigers have a veteran and talented group of offensive linemen, led by Mathes, who plans on playing college football at Mercer.
That group of offensive linemen also includes senior Jason Hernandez and Tristan Thompson.
Hernandez said the goal will be to “blow them off the ball, back in their area.”
While senior quarterback Will Smith is an effective passer and will no doubt get plenty of chances to put the ball in the air Friday night, Hernandez said when the offense is at its best it is controlling the action with the running game.
“That’s always been the emphasis of what this offense is all about,” Hernandez said. “It’s always been fast, execution, and just punching, and punching and punching.”
Towns said the offense will be looking to seize the momentum from the start.
“We want to get the ball, and just go put it in the end zone for six,” Towns said.
Towns is part of a large senior class at Troup, and while those players have enjoyed a lot of success over the years, they’ve also faced some adversity.
Mowers said everything the seniors have gone through in recent years has them ready to face whatever happens Friday.
“We’ve all been playing ball since the eighth grade. We all have chemistry,” Mowers said. “We’re ready to show everybody what we can do. We don’t go down easy.”


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Swathi is a popular Malayalam actress who comes to Hyderabad as a part of her movie shooting. Swathi wants to escape from something and is waiting for a VISA to go abroad. To her shock, she is informed that it takes 2 more days for the VISA and hence she decides to spend in some hide out till VISA gets approved. After a few twists and turns by the time they complete the short film, Swathi gets killed and a Police investigation under special officer Supreet starts. Then enters another key character of Sarat (Sijju) stated as the person whom Rebecca loves once. Who kills Swathi and for more watch the movie to know the rest.
The 2 hour 13 minute long movie was produced by Dinesh N and Vishnu Kumar N is on the story of three friends who are aspiring filmmakers and want to get noticed by their work on a short film. Sai (Ronak) plays the role of the director in the movie. Veteran actress Raasi, who featured in few super hits like 'Shubakanshalu,' and 'Pelli Pandiri,' is on a comeback trail and featured in horror drama Lanka for the first time in her career. Actors Sai Ronak, Ena Saha, Sathyam Rajesh and Supreeth have done justice to their roles.
SriCharan Pakala had made the music composition for this horror thriller movie. Srimuni had directed it which is like an usual movie with huge sound effects and the characters are not coordinated perfectly. The editing part is not very perfect and the background scoring is made well. The cinematography work was upto the satisfaction.
Despite not a great story line, the characterisations and the taut screenplay never lets you get bored. Rasi has once again got an author backed role and she has carried out the role of Rebecca with great ease. All the other roles though smaller were fine. On the whole, a good try from the director with just Rasi alone in the star cast who is well-established star other than the noted artists like Supreet, Satyam Rajesh, Satya, and Sudarshan. The movie can be watched only once and those who like suspense thrillers may like it.
Uuff! Finally, Allu Arjun avoids Tamil after looking at Mahesh Babu's 'SPYder' failure Stylish star Allu Arjun recently made news by floating a new business venture as a confectioner and is currently busy shooting for his upcoming action-packed entertainer Naa Peru Surya, in which he plays an army officer.
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After May 1st, Apple quietly pushed the iOS 14.5.1 update package. Some netizens after the first update said that their iPhone seems to have performance degradation, and the performance of iPhone 11 and iPhone 12 is not as good as IPhone XR that be released many years ago.
According to YouTuber Nick Ackerman’s evaluation comparison, after updating to iOS 14.5.1, the performance of iPhone 11 and iPhone 12 are not as good as the iPhone XR released many years ago.
Of course, so far, only iPhone 11 and iPhone 12 will experience a slowdown after upgrading to iOS 14.5.1, and other iPhones have not experienced such a situation for the time being, so there is no need to be frightened.
You know, iPhone XR is A12 processor, while iPhone 11 and iPhone 12 are A13 processor and A14 processor respectively. The processor performance of three years ago can surpass the last two iPhones which is really outrageous.
Therefore, iPhone 11 and iPhone 12 owners should not update iOS 14.5.1 for the time being, otherwise your experience may not even be as good as the iPhone XR three years ago.
If you have encountered a similar situation after upgrading to iOS 14.5.1. If you have, please let us know in the comment section. And forward to your friends.


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Theatre Royal Winchester announces Christmas Show 2020!
Posted: 26th October 2020
Theatre Royal Winchester has today announced that the show will go on this Christmas after all with a panto-styled show called Four Dames in Search of a Panto
Deryck Newland, Chief Executive of Play to the Crowd the charity that runs Theatre Royal Winchester comments ‘We know how important our pantomime is to so many families in Winchester and beyond. After we made the heartbreaking decision to postpone Aladdin until next year we promised we would do our best to put something on in its place. We are delighted that the same creative team behind our hugely successful pantomimes will be returning with Four Dames in Search of a Panto, with 4 familiar faces to our panto audiences in the cast!’
Four Dames in Search of a Panto will be written and directed by James Barry with original music by Simon Slater. Last year James Barry was nominated for Best Script in the Great British Pantomine Awards for Dick Whittington, and the previous year, together with composer Simon Slater, was nominated for Musical Achievement for Beauty and The Beast.
James Barry, comments ‘Our brief for this Christmas was to make the show feel as close as possible to our usual pantomime style, not only by bringing back our favourite cast regulars, but by also ensuring that all the ingredients our audiences know and love are in there. The show will feature panto set pieces, hilarious gags (plus some very corny ones too!), original songs and lots, lots more - all guaranteed to fill everyone, young and old, with some much needed Christmas cheer.’
Winchester’s favourite Dame, Julian Eardley, will be returning as one of the four Dames – his 11th Christmas in Winchester! The casting of the other 3 Dames will be announced shortly.
The theatre has put in several measures to make the venue Covid secure and have been granted use of UK Theatre’s See It Safely mark that certifies venues are complying with the latest Government and industry Covid-19 guidelines to ensure the safety of staff and audiences. Measures in place include the removal of every other row of seats in the auditorium and leaving two empty seats in between each ‘audience bubble’. Face masks must be worn in the auditorium by everyone over 11 years unless the customer is exempt. Hand sanitizer stations are in place throughout the building, a one-way system is in place and the venue has increased its cleaning routine throughout and regular disinfects the auditorium, foyer and toilet areas.
Four Dames in Search of a Panto will run from Saturday 5 December 2020 – Sunday 03 January 2021. Tickets are on sale now. There are relaxed; British Sign Language; and audio described shows also scheduled. The theatre has also announced that it will be live screening a number of the performances as well, which can be enjoyed from the comfort of your own home.
For more information and to book tickets, visit theatreroyalwinchester.co.uk or email email@example.com.

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Here's the latest from the folks at This American Life. Pitch away!
We've got a new round of themes-in-progress and we're coming to you for story pitches, thoughts and suggestions for our upcoming shows.
How this process works: When you send in a story idea to me, I'll respond with a generic email letting you know that I received your pitch and that I've read it. I promise. I read every pitch. (I won't send you the auto response until I've read your pitch so expect a bit of a delay getting that email.) If we think the pitch is right for us, or if we need more information from you, I'll send you another email asking for more info on the story or letting you know we'd like to commission the story. But if you don't hear back from us within two weeks, beyond the initial auto-reply email, it means the story just isn't right for us or for the needs of that particular show. The idea of doing it this way is just to get through pitches and get back to everyone a little more quickly.
Like always, these themes are shows we're actively pursuing right now but we're always on the lookout for new stories or ideas. So if you've got a story that you think would work especially well for us but doesn't fit a specific theme listed below, please send it along anyway.
Thanks so much for your pitches. All of us here are very appreciative.
FATHER’S DAY 2011: We’re a little under-the-gun getting this show together in time for Father’s Day (June 19th, in case you were wondering when to mail your card) so we’re mainly looking for stories that won’t take too long to produce. Interviews, essays, small documentaries would be great. But, basically, we’re looking for stories that, of course, feature dads but also comment in a larger way about what it means to be a dad – in good ways and bad. We’ve done a couple Father’s Day shows over the years and some successful stories have simply been about dads who tried to go above and beyond in their parenting efforts –sometimes they succeeded and sometimes they didn’t. We now have two really nice stories for this show but both stories are kind of bummers, in a way, so a story about a dad doing something nice, heroic, impressive, etc, would be really great for this show. Or maybe a story about a dad doing something unexpected – both to his kids and to himself. An overachieving dad? Or a dad who has/had an interesting philosophy about fatherhood? We’re also thinking about putting together two short segments for the show – one idea is a series of people (the “children”) talking about touching, emotional or affecting moments with their dads that they think their dads are unaware of; another segment could about various types of fatherly advice – the weirder, the sweeter, the misinformed, the better. If you remember any particular gems from either your own dad or friends’ dads, or moments with your own dads, will you let us know?
BREAKTHROUGH: This was originally a show about the search for a cure for cancer but we’ve decided to now make it a show about breakthroughs, discoveries and realizations of all kinds. One story we’re working on now is about the early days of natural gas exploration in Pennsylvania, and how those discoveries have affected research and development at national universities. We’re interesting in more stories about scientific breakthroughs with surprising consequences, but we’re also interested in stories of small, personal breakthrough moments. Maybe a story about a person conquering a fear or phobia – a fear of flying or of heights or something more unusual. Maybe a story about resolving a problem or dispute – two opposing sides coming to a truce. Another type of story could be a breakthrough that solved a crime, like a break in a case or something similar. Stories of smaller or more personal breakthrough moments would work best if there were surprising consequences.
A HOUSE DIVIDED: Stories where some kind of group who is usually very functional and civil (think family, or corporation or, in one example, the state of Wisconsin), finds itself in a circumstance where everyone takes sides. And where taking sides can even threaten to shove a portion of that group out. The idea of the theme is very Last Straw or Boiling Point. For example, we have one story about the recent recall petitions filed against 9 Wisconsin senators (6 Republicans, 3 Democrats), in a move that is so atypical of Wisconsin’s easygoing politics, that it leaves us wondering what the hot tempers are really all about. We have a couple of big institution stories in the plans for this show, so a story about an actual family feud or something more personal would be really nice.
REALITY SHOWS: We’re aware that talking about reality shows is a little late-90s but we’re now coming across so many stories where the engine of the story – the goals or the stakes – is simply the desire to either make or be cast on a reality show. The “reality show” as a plot device in stories is now taking the place of wanting to strike it rich or wanting to find love or wanting eternal life. It’s just understood that, of course, you’d do crazy, nefarious stuff and possibly go to extreme lengths because, in the end, you might get a reality show out of it. And, we’ve found, these types of stories can be really fun. We’re currently working on one story about a wannabe reality show private detective agency that actually gets involved in very real, very scary and very criminal work. We’re looking for more stories about the making of reality shows that take an unexpected turn or have surprising consequences for the contestants. We’d also love great reality show ideas. The difficulty of doing stories about reality shows, though, is that we’re often left wondering “what does this even mean?” So if you have a story or a thought about how reality shows can mean something larger, that’d be great.
THE SUBURBS: One of our producers was recently in a car with a friend of hers, driving down the wide streets and past the big box stores of a Chicago suburb when, both at the same time, our producer said “God, I could never live here” and her friend said “God, this would be so easy.” It’s that tension between a more livable life and the idea of the soul-crushing homogeneity of the suburbs that can be so interesting. Sometimes the darkest stories take place in the suburbs and often suburban life can run counter to what you’d expect. We’re looking for stories about things that can either only take place in a suburb or, conversely, shockingly took place in a suburb. One story we’re pursuing now is about a 21 Jump Street-type of undercover police sting at a suburban high school in Florida that set the town on fire. We may focus the show entirely on crime in the suburbs so if you have suburban crime stories, that’d be great. But we may also keep the more general theme, in which case historical stories about suburbs and how they came to be would be good but also stories about truly suburban events or politics or relationships could work, too.
AMUSEMENT PARK: We’ve done a few shows in the past where all of the stories are located in one place – for instance, a Rest Stop show set at a New York Thru-way rest stop, a show several years ago set at a 24 hour diner in Chicago – and we’re hoping to do another show like that this summer set at an amusement park. We’re still in the very early stages of planning this out and figuring out logistics and permissions but if you have thoughts or suggestions for this show, we’d really appreciate it. We might also set part of the show gathering day-in-the-life type of documentary stories at the park but also have part of the show with essays or short fiction about working at amusement parks or an event that happened at an amusement park and things like that. So if you have any interesting, emotional or funny stories about amusement parks, let us know.
SUMMER FLING: It’s possible this show and the Amusement Park show will join together but our hope for now is that the shows could be separate. We don’t have any particular stories yet for this show but we have a wish list of stories for this show. A classic “summer fling” story would be great – maybe something just really romantic or funny or time or place-specific? An unlikely summer fling? But we also don’t have to limit the show only to relationship/romance stories. We could also have any stories that are summer-specific – a business that only lasts one summer? Or someone who adopts a new identity for one summer? A friendship that lasts for the summer?
OUT OF MY DEPTH: Basically, stories about people getting in over their heads. We have one story about a man who comes up with a truly inventive and diabolical plan to pay off a debt, only to have the whole thing spectacularly backfire on him. We’d like more stories about simple plans or overconfidence or even just fingers-crossed-hope-it-works type of situations that quickly become too complicated or difficult. Because we have a few personal stories already in mind for this show, a story about a larger institution or business or enterprise could work well for this show.
GOSSIP: We'd like to do a show about the strange and surprising ways that gossip works. We've got one possible story about American researchers in Malawi, who track the way local communities think about AIDS. For more than a decade, they've been giving notebooks to certain women in Malawi, who are tasked with writing down whatever gossip they hear about AIDS in their villages – who's got it, how they got it, why they got it, whether they're getting treated, etc. In this way, they've figured out how people's ideas, and misconceptions, about the disease have changed – and how to better fight it. We'd love to have more pitches about the good side of gossip, the utility of gossip. Or perhaps well-meaning gossip that went very wrong. Or stories about how gossip spreads in unexpected ways — maybe you told the guy sitting next to you in an airplane a top-secret story, and then heard it repeated back to you at a party three years later. That kind of thing. Stories about how gossip has changed history would be great, too. We'd probably like to avoid stories of straight-up mean gossip that had awful consequences – just because we're all familiar with those stories. That said, if there's a really great one, we'd certainly consider it.
WAIT – YOU’RE THE CAVALRY?: This is a show about imperfect heroes. Much of the show we’re planning is about an FBI whistleblower who is now single-handedly reviewing thousands of criminal convictions at the heart of the famous scandal in the FBI’s crime lab ten years ago. But while the whistleblower may have been a great whistleblower – he’s obsessive, honest, and repulsed by deceit – he may not be the best person for the job of cleaning up the mess. We’re now looking for more stories about possibly flawed saviors. Maybe a story about a person or a group that is called to fix the problem they themselves created?


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It has been two weeks since we last saw the Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series take the track at Talladega. The “Big One” struck early that day and on lap 13 a crash ended multiple drivers’ days. The race was however exciting from lap one to 94. After a caution with two laps to go 19-year-old Canadian Raphael Lessard was able to get ahead of Trevor Bayne and secure his first NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series victory. On the final restart of the race, playoff spots were on the line. This being the final race in the round of 10; only eight drivers remain in the hunt for the championship. Advancing to the round of eight are as follows Austin Hill, Sheldon Creed, ZaneSmith, Grant Enfinger, Brett Moffitt, Ben Rhodes, Matt Crafton, and Tyler Ankrum. This race proved to be a letdown for playoff hopefuls Todd Gilliland who left the race after 47 laps due to engine issues and Christian Eckes who finished 27th and missed the playoff cutoff by eight points.
Today’s free pick for the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series race at Kansas Speedway is Matt Crafton ($9,000 DK). Since the start of the 2017 Truck Series season Crafton has raced at Kansas five times. In those five races he has finished first once, has two top five finishes, and four top 10 finishes. In those five races he has led 37 laps. Crafton will start this weekends race in the fifth spot which should easily put him in contention to drive for the win. Crafton at Kansas has an average start of seven and an average finish of 6.6. Look for that similar consistency as Crafton looks to lock his place into the next round of the playoffs with a win this weekend.
Starting at $5 per week subscribers can expect to find high value plays that are well priced on DraftKings. We have DFS Potential Dominators, DFS Place Differential Options and who to avoid for the upcoming Clean Harbors 200.
Austin Hill: Kansas Speedway has been kind to one of this week’s potential dominators Austin Hill ($ 10,700 DK). In four races at Kansas Speedway Hill has one win, two top five finishes and three top ten finishes. His win at Kansas came earlier this year. The worst Hill has finished at Kansas has been 12th. Hill starts in the 8th spot for the Clean Harbors 200. This is boasted by his average start of 9.3 and average finish of 5.75 at Kansas. If you widen your deep dive into how he has fared at intermediate tracks, you will see that success has come to Hill on intermediate tracks where he has two wins at Kansas and Las Vegas, six top five finishes and has finished top ten in all nine races. Hill is expensive this week; if you can fit him into your lineup I do not think you will be disappointed.
DFS Place Differential Options
Todd Gilliland: The last race at Talladega will surely leave a sick feeling in Todd Gilliland’s (9,200 DK) stomach as he was forced to exit the race with engine issues. Gilliland will start the Clean Harbors 200 in the 17th spot which based on his race last year at Kansas Speedway where he finished third he is an attractive option this week. Gilliland will be aggressive and try to prove that if he had not have had engine problems he would have been on the inside looking out of the playoffs as opposed to the other way around. Gilliland has seen success at intermediate tracks this year; earlier at Las Vegas Motor Speedway he started 25th and finished seventh, at Atlanta Motor Speedway he started 12th and finished fourth and at Homestead-Miami Speedway he started 18th and finished sixth. I think Todd could easily make his way into the top 10 or even top five this weekend.
Ryan Truex: Starting in the 21st spot this week is Ryan Truex ($7,600 DK). This will be Truex’s sixth race of the year with the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series. In his three races so far at intermediate tracks he has started 20th and finished 13th at Atlanta Motor Speedway, started 18th and finished 27th at Kentucky Speedway, and started 23rd and finished 12th at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. In previous years Truex has raced at Kansas twice in the truck series. In those two races he has started 21st and finished sixth and started fifth and finished sixth. Truex has shown that he can perform on intermediate, mile and a half tracks and with him starting 21st and being in the value pick range this weekend he has plenty of point differential potential.
DFS Picks to Avoid
Sheldon Creed: My pick of who to avoid this weekend is a driver who has had his ups and downs this year and that is Sheldon Creed ($9,900). Yes, Creed has won three races this year but, with that being said he has not had that same success on intermediate tracks. In nine races at intermediate tracks this year Creed has an average starting position of eighth and an average finishing spot of 11.56. In five of the nine races he finished eight or more places lower then he started. Starting fourth this week Creed does not have much place differential appeal either. Based on his history this year on intermediate tracks he could be negative points very quickly.
MY TOP-FIVE OVERALL AT KANSAS SPEEDWAY
- Austin Hill
- Ben Rhodes
- Brett Moffitt
- Matt Crafton
- Chandler Smith
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The only cookbook I’ve used for as long as I've used my 1975 copy of Joy of Cooking, is The Moosewood Cookbook, circa 1977. In case you’re not familiar with the cookbook, it’s the artist-illustrated, not-quite-100%- vegetarian cookbook based on recipes from the eponymous restaurant in Ithaca, NY.
Started in 1972 as a collective, Moosewood Restaurant, and later the cookbook, became a popular brand of eating, defined by healthy and conscious. This was way before there was Whole Foods.
The cookbook is written by Mollie Katzen, one of the original founders of the restaurant. The collective has gone on to publish many other cookbooks,
and Mollie has gone on to write scores of books about cooking.
Like millions, I came of age in the kitchen with Mollie and The Moosewood Cookbook. I loved the pictures she drew to accompany the recipes, and I loved all the cheese--there is cheese in everything. I still consult it now and then when I can't remember the sequence of steps in making lasagna.
Mollie is listed by the New York Times as one of the best-selling cookbook authors of all time, with over 5 million books in print! She is attributed with changing the way we eat. Her citation in Wikipedia states that she is “largely credited with moving healthful gourmet food from the fringe to the center of American dinner plates…”
I had no idea she was that good. (She’s also a consultant to Harvard University dining, and the architect of Harvard’s Food Literacy Initiative, and holds a charter seat at the Harvard School of Public Health Nutrition Roundtable--all of which makes me feel really bad about what I've been doing all these years).
I’ve heard (although I can find no substantiation of it) that Mollie, and not the collective, gets all the credit for “changing the way we eat.” Needless to say, she and the collective parted ways some time back.
The point of all this is to tell you that last week I went there--to The Moosewood Restaurant in Ithaca, New York.
As many times as I've pulled out that cookbook and prepared it's recipes I had never been to the legendary restaurant, this restaurant that launched a movement, mainly because you kind of need a reason to travel to Ithaca, like maybe you're a student at Cornell or at Ithaca College, or you have a child who is.
I had neither excuse.
But I do have a daughter who was in a production of "Dear Friend Amelia" at The Kitchen Theatre,
and for that we journeyed to this outpost.
I was a little disappointed in Moosewood, the restaurant. Maybe after all these years the legend had been built up to an unsustainable level.
It was pleasant enough. It was 5:30 on a Saturday afternoon in February. Outside the snow was falling softly. The interior of the restaurant was warm and sparkling with fairy lights.
But I wanted it to be a little edgier. In 1973 it was edgy. For 2011 it seemed ordinary.
I really can't remember what we had to eat. It was good, don't get me wrong. And it was healthy, for sure.
But I missed Mollie. I realized I was looking for 1977 Mollie Katzen in 21st- century Moosewood; for some remnant of the spirit of that funny, iconoclast of the first cookbook. It was nowhere to be found in the restaurant.
Oh well, a minor disappointment really, in the scheme of things.
After almost 40 years in business, the restaurant must be doing something right.
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