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Originally posted 03/05/2009 11:00AM
Having been admitted to a south Florida hospital earlier this week, Robin Williams is "to undergo surgery for an aortic valve replacement," his reps announced Thursday.
An earlier statement about the 57-year-old, Oscar-winning comic actor said, "Williams was experiencing shortness of breath and is currently being evaluated by doctors who are recommending a week of rest."
Williams has canceled all performances of his one-man show, Weapons of Self-Destruction, which was on a 80-city tour that started last September and is bound for Broadway in the spring. The tour is set to resume come the fall, say his reps.
"I'm so touched by everyone's support and well wishes," Williams said in a statement. "This tour has been amazing fun and I can't wait to get back out on the road after a little tune-up."
Originally posted 05/06/2008 03:30PM
Robin Williams and his estranged wife Marsha Garces Williams have pledged to be "honest, cooperative and respectful" during their divorce proceedings, according to court papers released Tuesday.
The pair signed an agreement spelling out their goals, including promises to try to avoid courtroom clashes and to keep their children's interests at the forefront, say the papers filed in San Francisco Superior Court.
"We will strive to be honest, cooperative and respectful as we work in this process to achieve the future well being of our families," says the agreement. "We commit ourselves to the collaborative law process and agree to seek a positive way to resolve our differences justly and equitably."
In a television interview, Williams underscored his desire to proceed in a civil manner.
"I'm lucky, you know, with someone like Marsha, and we have amazing kids and it's not a slash and burn," the comedian tells Ellen DeGeneres on a visit to her show Tuesday. "I think a lot of times divorce can be like circumcision with a weed whacker," he continues, "But the idea that it's going with love, I think, is important. And for me it's been ... a good thing."
Originally posted 04/25/2008 09:10AM
Her parents may be divorcing, but Robin Williams's daughter Zelda swears there's no drama in the family.
"It wasn't a complete surprise," the 18-year-old told PEOPLE at the Rémy Martin Spirit Unleashed launch party in Hollywood Thursday night. "It's never easy to end. [But] there's no bitterness – we're all a family."
Originally posted 04/01/2008 09:40AM
Robin Williams may be going through a tough time – but at least he has a slew of famous friends to lean on for support.
Williams's wife of 19 years, Marsha Garces Williams, filed for divorce last week, citing irreconcilable differences.
Since the split, the comedian's License to Wed costar John Krasinski said they've talked "a bunch of times."
"He's been so supportive of me since the movie and still keeps in touch," the Office star told PEOPLE Monday night at the L.A. premiere of his new film, Leatherheads. "That just shows you what a classy guy he is, to keep tabs on people that he cares about."
So does Williams still have his signature sense of humor during these difficult times? "Absolutely!" said Krasinski. "Absolutely – if not better." –Scott Huver
Originally posted 03/26/2008 01:45PM
Robin Williams's wife has filed for divorce after 19 years of marriage, the actor's rep, Mara Buxbaum, has confirmed to PEOPLE.
Marsha Garces Williams filed a divorce petition in San Francisco on March 21, citing irreconcilable differences, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The pair have two children together: daughter Zelda, 18, and son Cody, 16.
Garces, 51, and Williams, 56, wed in April 1989, shortly after the actor's divorce from his previous wife.
Originally posted 10/14/2006 06:00AM
The idea of Robin Williams running for President – the plot of his new movie, Man of the Year, which opens this weekend – isn't preposterous. After all, we've had a genuine Hollywood star in the White House before, and not just sleeping over in the Lincoln Bedroom. Ronald Reagan, whose movie career stretched from the late 1930s through the early '60s, occupied 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. for two terms.
Originally posted 09/29/2006 05:00PM
With his trademark manic humor, Robin Williams spoke out Friday for the first time about his stint in rehab for treatment of alcoholism.
Originally posted 08/09/2006 03:15PM
Robin Williams is seeking treatment for alcoholism, his publicist said Wednesday.
Originally posted 05/26/2006 09:00AM
Sharon Stone and Robin Williams kept the jokes coming at an AIDS charity dinner in Cannes – but also made sober comments about the deadly disease.
Originally posted 10/22/2002 01:00PM
"Good morning, Afghanistan!" Robin Williams bellowed as he entertained American soldiers in a bombed-out hangar at Bagram Air Base in -- where else? -- Afghanistan, the Associated Press reports.
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KEB extends its COMBIVERT F6 range of drive controllers
09 July 2021
KEB Automation has extended its COMBIVERT F6 range of high-performance single-axis drive controllers with an even wider choice of power ratings from 2.2kW up to 450kW.
COMBIVERT F6 drive controllers are extremely compact, energy efficient and flexible for a wide variety of control applications in automated, safety-oriented machines. The drives provide optimal motor control in real time, as well as integrated safety functionality. Typical applications include materials handling, textiles, plastics, processing technology, machine tools, food and beverage processing and packaging, robotics, woodworking, and renewable energy systems (e.g., wind turbines).
Mark Checkley, Sales & Marketing Manager at KEB (UK) Ltd comments: “The extended power ranges will enable our UK customers to implement even more new machine concepts that require extended power, communication and integrated safety. In addition to the control of widely-supported motor types such as synchronous, asynchronous, permanent magnet, synchronous reluctance, linear, high-torque motors and high speed motors, the COMBIVERT F6 offers additional functions such as automatic anti-cogging and optimised torque pre-control for linear and non-linear kinematics. Motor operation with encoder feedback or encoderless ASCL/SCL for precise speed control is also possible.”
The COMBIVERT F6 range of drive controllers are 100% in-house designed and built by KEB Automation. The drives can be customised with a variety of design options to suit the specific application. Safety functionality can be selected in modules to suit the requirements of the machine. Ethernet-based bus systems can be switched via software, thus enabling flexible connection to higher-level control systems via EtherCAT, Profinet, Powerlink, Ethernet I/P or CAN.
The safe operation of machines often requires safety functions for monitoring speeds, directions of rotation or axis positioning. The PRO version of COMBIVERT F6 enables the implementation of encoderless safety. This means that safe solutions can be implemented, for example, in applications where no safe speed encoder can be installed on the motor. In addition to more individual machine concepts, encoderless safety functions also enable cost-effective, simple motion monitoring, as well as reduced effort in terms of maintenance and servicing. Integration of the safety fieldbus system Safety-over-EtherCAT (FSoE) plays a central role in machine designs. Conventional safety wiring is no longer required.
Flexible cooling to suit the application
The COMBIVERT F6 has a choice of four cooling options. These include an air-cooled built-in version (IP20) with an exchangeable fan; an air-cooled push-through version (rear side IP54) that allows waste heat to be removed from the control cabinet; a liquid-cooled built-in version with braking resistors and stainless steel piping; and a liquid-cooled push-through version with cooling liquid management (rear side IP54).
A range of accessories are available for the COMBIVERT F6, including mains EMC filters, mains choke, ouptut chokes and filters, combi-filters (EMC/output choke), sine-wave filters, harmonic filters, sine-wave EMC filters, and high-performance ferrite cores.
Start up and analysis software
KEB Automation also provides its easy-to-use software, COMBIVIS studio 6, for start up, administration and analysis. This includes start-up Wizards for quick and easy product configuration, direct access to device documentation, as well as enabling online drive parameter list comparisons and the set up of key safety indicators and functions. With a foundation built on libraries, devices and template databases, COMBIVIS studio 6 allows rapid, simple solutions to be generated for a wide range of applications.
For more information on the COMBIVERT F6 servo drive, please visit www.keb.co.uk
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Set EDS AM4 FE H01
The EDS AM4 FE H01 Engine Data System is recommended for ultralight, microlight, homebuilt and experimental aircraft. It comprises the following modules:
- Measurement module EMS DAQ R2
- Measurement module AUX AVS 2
- Display type EEM AM4 H01
- Display brightness potentiometer with a knob
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FcεRIα gene –18483A>C polymorphism affects transcriptional activity through YY1 binding
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Three frequent genetic polymorphisms in the human high-affinity IgE receptor α-subunit (FcεRIα) were shown to be associated with allergic disorders and/or total serum IgE levels in allergic patients. Two of these were previously demonstrated to affect FcεRIα expression while the third –18483A>C (rs2494262) has not yet been subjected to functional studies. We hypothesized that the –18483A>C variant affects transcriptional activity of the FcεRIα distal promoter in monocytes in which FcεRIα transcription is driven through that regulatory region. Indeed, we confirmed preferential binding of the YY1 transcription factor to the –18483C allele, resulting in lower transcriptional activity when compared with the –18483A allele.

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The Red Wing Fire Department received a call reporting a medical emergency in the 1400 block of Bush Street in Red Wing Friday at 9:53 am.
One occupant was injured and transported to Mayo Clinic Health Systems - Red Wing Medical Center at in Serious condition.
Firefighter/paramedics were on the scene within two minutes of receiving the call and upon arrival, they found light smoke in the residence. Firefighter/paramedics entered and found a small fire in the house, which they immediately extinguished.
There was minimal fire damage to the office area inside the residence. The occupant upstairs was not affected.
The cause of the fire, which originated in the office area, is under investigation.
At 6:20 pm Friday, the Red Wing Fire Department was dispatched for a boat stuck in the roller gates at Lock and Dam #3 on the Mississippi River with 5 people on board.
Red Wing Fire Department units arrived at the stranded vessel within 22 minutes and worked to safely tow the stranded vessel away from the roller gates and out of danger.
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The nuttiness of a crazy crocheting and novice knitting mom of four.
Saturday, June 04, 2005
My newest project, this pattern and am using Sugar 'n Cream's Playtime. My friend Em asked if I could do one for her, so I figured I should do a test one first. My friend Box also recently made this pattern.

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Magic: The Gathering - The Spell Thief is a paperback published by IDW Publishing in 2012, assembling 4 comics which were published earlier in that year. The book continues the exploits of the planeswalker thief Dack Fayden, a Magic character especially created for the series.
- Planeswalker Dack Fayden has followed Sifa Grent into a mysterious plane, where a Titan's castle looms invitingly in the distance. Entering the castle in search of Sifa, Dack is soon imprisoned by the Titan and added to his vast collection. Dack must find a way out before the trail to Sifa runs cold and he remains the Titan’s prisoner forever!
- Dack Fayden barely escapes the Collector's prison... and now finds himself back on his home plane of Fiora. Forced to confront the destruction of his hometown, Dack relives the painful memories as he seeks clues that will lead him back on the trail of the malevolent Sifa Grent. Dack must find the strength within himself to carry on or his burden of guilt may prove too overwhelming for the Planeswalker thief.
- Leaving his home plane behind, Dack Fayden returns to Innistrad, still in pursuit of the villainous Sifa Grent. He convenes with the Reichert family again, who provide Dack with crucial information on the evil Planewalker's location. But when Sorin Markov arrives, looking for Dack, things quickly escalate and our hero finds himself in a situation where he may not come out alive...!
- Dack Fayden's quest to track down the villainous Sifa Grent has brought him to Grixis, a vast wasteland dominated by the undead and vicious demons - including the demon-dragon Malfegor. Imprisoned by the demon's cult, Dack soon discovers the morbid origins of Sifa and her sinister ties to Malfegor... but will he be able to escape this undead plane in order to stop her plans?
Each first wave of the original comic books contained a playable alternate art promo card.

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The initial strategy was based on repeated sampling (~10 days interval) at 2 contrasted stations (M2 and M4) and additional sampling at 2 intermediate stations (M1 and M3). Station M2 is located in high–production iron fertilized waters above the Kerguelen plateau, and station M4 is located in low-production HNLC waters. Despite rough sea conditions encountered during the cruise (wind gusts up to 85 knots), the four stations have been sampled for every planned parameter. Station M1 was visited once only, M2 three times, M3 two times and M4 two times.
Chlorophyll map generated via NASA GIOVANNI application
The basic biogeochemical stocks (dissolved and particulate organic C, N, and P, particulate inorganic carbon, biogenic silica, inorganic nutrients) and flux parameters (community production and respiration) have been measured. C vertical export has been estimated by the 234Th approach.
Phytoplankton have been sampled using different gears:
a 35 µm mesh phytoplankton to sample the top 100 m of surface waters.
a bottenet (20 µm mesh sieve) mounted on a CTD rosette.
Different gears have also been used to sample zooplankton (micro, meso and macro), and micronekton:
a zooplankton multinet of 100 µm mesh sieve to sample smaller species including the upper part of the microzooplankton, allowing vertical collections in successive water layers.
Traditional WP2, WP3 and Bongo plankton nets (330 µm) to quantitatively estimate in situ abundance of mesozooplankton, macrozooplankton and gelatinous plankton.
a mesopelagic trawl for collection of micronekton.
Sampling was performed at different times of the day to capture diel cycles. Species taxonomy, abundance and size distribution of zooplankton are currently determined using image analyses (Zooscan, microscopical observations).
A combination of instruments have been used to measure in situ distributions of (living and non-living) particles at high spatial resolution covering the size spectra from 1 μm to 15 cm:
Laser In Situ Scatterometer Transmissometer (LISST, 1-250 μm)
Underwater Vision Profiler (UVP, > 100 μm)
Laser Optical Particle Counter (LOPC, 1.5 mm to 35 mm)


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By Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ, & Director, CREDI,Visit rcsocialjusticett.org for our columns, media releases and more.
We should heed Pope Francis’ warning in his homily at a Mass at the Vatican for about 6,000 poor, homeless and displaced people from a dozen European countries and Africa (November 2016):
“We should be worried when our consciences are anaesthetized and we no longer see the brother or sister suffering at our side, or notice the grave problems in our world, which become a mere refrain familiar from the headlines on the evening news.”
He said that the world’s needy should be seen as “concrete people, not useless objects but precious persons”. He has said that there is no social or moral justification for homelessness. He urges us to reject today’s throwaway culture and the globalisation of indifference.
Here in T&T there seems to be an increase in the number of homeless/socially displaced persons. A few years ago, a study was conducted to determine the various kinds of homeless people who live in T&T. We have the data but we have not developed the will-power to build right relationships with our homeless brothers and sisters who are either mentally ill, indigent, alcoholics, drug addicts, have ended up on the street due to family disputes and so on.
In the 2016 case involving Hugh Bernard, who was homeless, Justice Eleanor Donaldson-Honeywell acknowledged that street dwelling is a concern in T&T. As part of her judgement, she “called upon the Government and citizens to partner with each other to address the issue of homelessness”.
She said: “The reasons for the plight of the persons reduced to living in such circumstances are many and varied. However, what is certain is that in a society as small as ours these persons are connected perhaps by less than six degrees of separation from each of us. Accordingly, this issue of street dwelling is a matter that requires urgent attention and it is a concern from which no member of society can feel absolved of responsibility.”
The then Mayor of Port of Spain (POS), Keron Valentine, said there were over 300 homeless people in POS but dealing with that issue was not part of the corporation’s core function. He said: “We kept on calling for them to be placed in rehabilitation centres and that is not our core function. We kept on calling other state agencies and social services to take care of it…”
The Trinidad & Tobago Guardian had reported that Justice Donaldson-Honeywell “also ruled she could not consider Bernard’s claims of unsanitary and inhumane conditions at the Centre for the Socially Displaced at Riverside carpark (located opposite Tamarind Square), as the corporation is not responsible for homeless shelters.”
Street dwelling is not confined to POS alone. And let us not forget that those on our streets must have families somewhere. CCSJ calls upon families whose members may be homeless, to reach out and assist them; don’t turn your backs on them.
And we also ask families who have abandoned their older relatives in hospitals or in senior citizens’ homes to have a heart and embrace them within the folds of your family.
Reflect on the words of Rajiv Gopie, a winner of the President’s medal, who said in an article on June 28, 2012, entitled: ‘Tackling homelessness in T&T’: “It is too easy to pass the blame about this social ill because as a society we do not want to look in the mirror and confront the larger structural, economic, social and cultural issues that fuel homelessness. This problem is not going away and unless we realise that we need to rethink our entire approach we will not be able to rectify this terrible injustice.
“Homeless people are not nameless or faceless. They are not sub-human or inhuman. They are human beings and citizens of T&T just like the rest of us. Homeless people are someone’s children, maybe even husbands or wives. These are people, and represent some of the most vulnerable in our society…A new paradigm is needed, one where the fate and plight of the homeless is seen as a national issue, and everyone’s responsibility.”
Let us get out of our comfort zones, open our hearts and act as advocates for the homeless and the poor. And remember to pray. As Pope Francis says: “In prayer, there is no first or second class, there is brotherhood. It is in prayer that our hearts find the strength not to be cold and insensitive in the face of injustice.”

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- leads the Forest Information Division comprised of over forty scientific and professional staff
- responsible for national programs including the National Forest Information System, National Forest Inventory, and Earth Observation for Sustainable Development of Forests, in cooperation with other NRCan-CFS Branches, other federal agencies and departments, provinces and territories; and
- oversees earth observation and interoperability research activities related to forestry at the Pacific Forestry Centre.
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B.Sc. (Geography), Brandon University
M.A. (Geography), University of Waterloo

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Our Medieval Spiked Battle Flail is a melee weapon that is commonly attributed to the Medieval Germany and Central Europe. The flail was also called ball and chain or mace and chain as most often the flail featured a spiked single ball attached to a handle via metal chain. Medieval Flail is incredible. Own a true museum quality medieval flail with styling based on the actual items found in "digs" under and around the castles of Europe. This hand crafted flail masterpiece features a blackened steel ball with spikes over 2-1/2" long attached to a blackened chain which is linked inside a hand wrought blackened steel bar. The wrought iron bar of this medieval weapon flail is secured to a seared wood handle and has an overall extended length of over four feet! Awesome!

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Lions QB Goff denies reported rift with offensive coordinator
Over the weekend, CBS Sports reported part of the reasoning why Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell took over play-calling duties from Anthony Lynn was a rift between the offensive coordinator and quarterback Jared Goff.
"Lynn had a very difficult time connecting with starting quarterback Jared Goff, sources said, and that relationship never really clicked," according to the CBS Sports report. "The overall structure of the passing game, and game-day tendencies with play-calling has quickly become an issue for the winless Lions as well.
"Lynn, a longtime running back assistant in the league and a head coach with the Chargers, was also having difficulty with elements of the run game as well, with differing opinions about blocking schemes and frustration over the usage of do-everything back D'Andre Swift, the sources said," the CBS Sports report continued.
Campbell and Goff were each asked about the report Tuesday and both denied any friction in the relationship between Lynn and the QB.
"I don't know where that came from," Goff said. "We have a great relationship. Me and (Lynn) talk daily."
Campbell called the relationship between the two, "Fine," and said Lynn has handled the changes in his responsibilities well.
"It's been good," Campbell said. "No problem. Things flowed well."
In Campbell's first two games as play caller, the Lions have struggled with offensive balance, although there have been unexpected factors contributing to the team's pass-game woes, including inclement conditions in both games, Goff's oblique injury and backup Tim Boyle making his first career start after missing more than two months of practice time with a broken thumb.
The Lions' ground game has vastly improved under Campbell's play-calling direction.
The Lions ran for a season high 229 yards in a 16-16 tie with the Steelers and followed that up with 168 yards on 7.3 yards per carry against a stout Cleveland front this past Sunday.
Swift was particularly effective in both matchups, rushing for a new career-high in each game, including 136 yards on 14 carries against Cleveland.


Last week's ransomware attack on Hadera’s Hillel Yaffe Medical Center has showed us once again that one of the biggest dangers of the 21st century – besides wars, pandemics and natural disasters – are cyberattacks.
Israel is no stranger to being on the receiving end of such attacks, of which there are three different types.
The first type is your usual, run of the mill hacking, with accompanied theft and breaches of data.
The second type entails taking over a large institution's computing system in exchange for a monetary ransom – like the one we witnessed at Hillel Yaffe.
The third – and possibly most dangerous type – is a creeping takeover of a national system that causes damage to it piecemeal, and by the time someone notices, nothing can be done to repair it.
To understand this sort of attack and what kind of impact it could have, let's take the Israeli Stock Exchange as an example.
When it is reported at the end of the day that a particular stock has risen by two percent and others have fallen by five percent, no one questions that this shift is a faithful reflection of all buy and sell orders made in the past 24 hours - because no one is going to manually calculate every single transaction.
But what happens if a hostile entity secretly takes over the stock market's computers and manipulates the results? Beyond the fact that said person or group could rake in billions, what will happen after it turns out a year late that the Stock Exchange's data was falsified? Such an event could lead to a collapse of Israel's economy. The Stock Exchange is just one of the dozens of institutions that could signal the country's collapse if they ever came under attack by cyber terrorists.
Israel's government in 2003 ordered the establishment of the National Cyber Directorate to protect against such attacks – a very uncharacteristic decision given that Israel mainly solves issues after they have already blow up in its face.
This directorate bases its work on three principles.
The first principle is prioritization. The state cannot protect every individual and business, so it formulated a "two-layer" work method. Within the first layer is critical national infrastructure, while the second includes hundreds of institutions that still require a nominal level of supervision. Any individual or group not found within those two categories, are pretty much all on their own.
The second principle is 24/7 surveillance, as well as tight cooperation with other national security organizations across the world to detect any potential threats.
The third and last principle is the understanding that protection is not enough, so along with the directorate, the government also operates a dedicated intelligence agency. As with any other terror threat, the name of the game is finding the enemy before it can strike.
Preemptive actions also tend to send a strong warning message to any would-be hackers.
The successful ransomware attack on Hillel Yaffe should cause much alarm to those who oversee Israel's cyber protection, especially the fact that the perpetrators were not deterred in any way by the Israeli policies.
There is almost no tool worth "saving for later" to improve the country's cyber capabilities now, as Israel is threatened not only by greedy hackers but also by enemy states and terrorist organizations.
The possibility of a coordinated and massive cyberattack by hackers is as dangerous as any barrage of missiles.


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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Initial release: April 19, 2017 (Hollywood)
Director: James Gunn
Film series: Guardians of the Galaxy series
Music composed by: Tyler Bates
Screenplay: James Gunn
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is funnier than its predecessor
The new sequel proves that Guardians of the Galaxy wasn’t a one-hit wonder.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is Marvel’s funniest film, and much braver than the original
Marvel Studios’ slate of superheroes movies have always been fun, but none more so than 2014’s Guardians Of The Galaxy. The movie took the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) off-planet and into space, where we were treated to a wild ride of colourful aliens, talking raccoons and trees, and, er, 1970s pop music.
Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 (GOTG2) continues pretty much in that vein, probably the greatest movie in the history of cinema. That’s what leading man-of-the moment Chris Pratt has been declaring (tongue in cheek, of course) on his social media platforms in the lead up to the premiere of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2.
But should we take the man’s word for it, especially in a cinematic landscape littered with disappointing sequels to glorious first instalments?
Three years ago, Guardians of the Galaxy stormed and game-changed the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), sneaking up on its more famous heroes with a knock-out winning formula of psychedelic fun, silly shenanigans as well as a nostalgic and infectious soundtrack. In short, writer/director James Gunn delivered an unabashed and wonderfully crass gem. Audiences fell hard and fast for the quirky crew that included an Indiana-Jones-meets-Han-Solo half-human space pilot (Pratt), a green butt-kicking female warrior (Zoe Saldana), a hulking literalist (Dave Bautista), a gun-toting talking raccoon (Bradley Cooper) and a sentient walking tree (Vin Diesel).
This was a cocky space opera with an emphasis on adventure and humour that hit all the marks – it was absurd and different. It was just the shot in the arm that MCU needed. The best part? It dominated the global box office to the tune of more than US$773 million.
So how does one follow up on all its awesomeness with a sequel?
The visuals in Guardians 2 are better and brighter than the ones in the first film
Talking raccoon with an attitude problem? Check. Talking baby tree with a vocabulary of three words? Check. Dashing human hero with daddy issues and a penchant for retro music? Check. Green-skinned female warrior who is also the most dangerous woman in the galaxy? Check. Grey-skinned muscle-bound warrior who takes things way too literally? Check.
Put your spaceship seatbelts on again folks, and welcome to the Guardians of the freaking Galaxy.
If you’re Gunn, you dig deep into your indie sensibilities, double-down on what worked before and apply the same degree of levity. All the while making sure that it neither falls into the trap of carbon copying nor succumb to the usual Marvel film tropes.
Yes, it’s a near impossible task. Which is why kudos to Gunn for trying with Vol 2, navigating the best he can between being a smaller, more character-driven sequel and providing the required mega-bucks action and spectacle expected of a blockbuster follow-up. The struggle is real, resulting in an uneven and – dare we say – overworked and overstuffed outcome that lacks the vitality, dynamism and buoyancy of the first, albeit sporadically.
That is not to say Vol 2 does not have the all-important beating heart that sets a good film apart from a great one. It works best when it owns up to what it is: A family comedy gift-wrapped in blockbuster super hero packing. You feel for the film’s earnest will to explore what it means to be a family as it embarks on a self-conscious personal dissertation on troubled fatherhood and familial ties.
Some sequences like the unexpected heartfelt combination of Yondu (an excellent Michael Rooker) and Rocket, as well as an on-point performance by Elisabeth Debicki as the vindictive High Priestess of the Sovereign, are reminiscent of the first movie’s energy and inventiveness. Together with Gunn’s assured and fun visual style, there are just enough pop culture nudge-winks to make everyone happy.
The cast remains outstanding, with their chemistry intact and ever palpable. The scene-stealers come from, unsurprisingly, Bautista with spot-on comic timing, and fan favourite baby Groot – perfectly written, ridiculously cute and merchandise ready.
Pratt, Saldana, Cooper, Diesel, Gunn’s brother Sean (best known for his work on Gilmore Girls), alongside newbies Kurt Russell as Ego and Pom Klementieff as the intriguing Mantis, all deliver beyond expectation. Extra points must be given to the original cast who had to work with material that sometimes feels caught in an all too familiar loop. But hey, we are swimming in sequel territory and fans always appreciate the dive into back story and character development. Tapping into more emotions this time, this also means several parts of the film inevitably come across as too clunky or cutesy but Vol 2’s humour is, thankfully, still unforced and uncontrived, flowing naturally and injecting magic as and when the film needs it most.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 may not be as ingenious or magnificent as its predecessor, but with just enough bravura on display, it is still winning entertainment that is well worth the price of admission.
When Guardians 2 is at its best, it questions, more than any other Marvel film, the importance of family and its connection to our humanity. Whether it’s focusing on cybernetic raccoons or alien assassins, destroyers or star lords — there’s an empirical yearning that exists in our souls to find our tribe. The first Guardians film showed us that family is never how you expect it to be, or how you expect it to look. Guardians 2 explores the superhuman lengths we’ll go to in the name of family — even if it means risking a galaxy in the process.
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Concealed Carrier Stops Two Armed Robbers in Pennsylvania
At Porfirio’s II Pizza and Pasta on Tuesday night, one of many pizza joints in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, two employees...
At Porfirio’s II Pizza and Pasta on Tuesday night, one of many pizza joints in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, two employees were getting ready to close up at 10 p.m. with a sole customer left in the seats.
That’s when everything changed, according to this story from ABC.com.
The story says police report two armed men entered the restaurant wearing dark clothes, backpacks, face masks, gloves, and wearing hoods while brandishing handguns. They yelled commands at the customer, who complied by backing away and putting his hands up.
The two robbers were brothers and locals, Shawn and Justin Rose, who proceeded to pistol-whip the customer, the story says.
“When the armed suspect looked away for a moment, the customer pulled out a .45 caliber handgun from beneath his jacket,” said District Attorney Matt Weintraub in the story. “He shot the man who had just pistol-whipped him once in the torso, killing him.”
The man he shot was Shawn Rose, police say. The customer then turned to 22-year-old Justin Rose, who was pointing his gun at the clerk, and fired twice, the story says.
Rose then fell through the restaurant’s front door, the story says. He was taken to St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne in serious condition and later transferred to a hospital in Philadelphia in critical condition.
Police did not identify the armed customer, but said he has a license to carry a firearm in Pennsylvania that was recently expired, and that he’s a local business owner and will not be charged in the incident.
“He is a lifelong, law-abiding citizen and yes, you do get credit for that. A business owner who had the gun solely for his own protection and thank God he did,” Weintraub said in the story.
The CCW holder refused medical treatment for lacerations and abrasions to his head, the story says.
“He was pistol-whipped,” said Middletown Twp. Police Lt. Stephen Forman in the story. “They were very aggressive. He was in imminent fear of his life, and believed that was his only option to get out of there that night.”
In an ironic twist, police discovered that the two robbers’ guns were in fact plastic airsoft pistols, and not real firearms.
The shop’s owner, Gilmer Porfirio, says he can’t thank that customer enough, the story says.
“To me his (sic) is part of the family now. He’s a hero,” Porfirio said in the story.


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“Modern Family” actress Sofia Vergara topped the Forbes highest paid TV actresses list. She became the highest-earning woman in U.S. television, taking in $19 million for the past 12 months.
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According to Forbes Vergara surpasses Kim Kardashian, who came in second, earning an estimated $18 million from her reality TV series.

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Born and raised in the south Allen was trained as a welder/fabricator in Georgia. Structual stress welding was his living. Some of the projects he worked on professionally were the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame museum in Cleveland, Ohio. He has helped build F-16 fighters for Lockheed Martin and built Locomotives for Thrall Car. He has worked creatively in metal since the late 80"s.And has been an established freelance artist since 2009. Allens background in welding/fabricating has provided the framework in which his art has emerged.
The Artist Statement
I have come to believe that the creative process best expresses itself on an emotional level. My artistic creations are the emotional bridge between me the artist and those experiencing my art.
My love for 11th-16th century Gothic architecture is obvious in my creations and with my background the "Form follows function" concept was a natural progression for me. My childhood vision of me creating something that looks like it belongs in Dracula's castle still runs strong in my imagination.


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On Thursday, Donald Trump signed a loyalty pledge to the Republican Party, stipulating that he would support whoever becomes the GOP's presidential nominee and foreclose the option of mounting an independent or write-in or third-party candidacy. The purpose of the pledge was to bring Trump to heel. By announcing his decision publicly, and holding the signed pledge up to a thousand cameras, Trump gave the Republican party readymade and provocative attack ad material: In the event that he shirks the agreement, and mounts an independent candidacy at some point, Republicans can air footage that proves Trump broke his word.
There may be some solace in that, but the fact that he was willing to sign the pledge at all should alarm Republicans more than it soothes them. Trump wasn’t communicating to the party that its knock against him for threatening an independent run has been effective. To the contrary, it's that he doesn’t think the threat is necessary anymore—that he’s now genuinely well-positioned to win the primary, rather than an insurgent threat who can be neutralized by party heavyweights.
This isn’t just a matter of polling—though the polling is consistent with it—but of the way Trump speaks about the pledge itself. He clearly doesn’t see it as an inviolable agreement, but rather as a way to keep the Republican Party from organizing to sabotage his candidacy.
“I really got nothing,” Trump said at a Thursday press conference in New York, speaking about his meeting with Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus. “Absolutely nothing other than the assurance that I would be treated fairly…. I have no intention of changing my mind.”
He got nothing, in other words, aside from an all-purpose and unchallengeable exception, which will force party officials to constantly police one another to make sure they don’t give Trump the excuse he’ll need to launch an independent campaign.
Trump is now operating entirely from a position of strength.
As Slate’s Josh Voorhees noted, over the course of three months, the percentage of likely Iowa caucus goers who told survey takers for Bloomberg and the Des Moines Register that they would “never” support Trump collapsed, from 58 down to 29 percent. A nationwide Monmouth poll of Republican voters conducted a few days later found that Trump has completely reversed his dangerously low net favorables, from 20-55 in June to 59-29 today.
In head-to-head matches with nine other Republican candidates, Trump beats everybody except for Ben Carson. He trounces Jeb Bush 56-37, Marco Rubio, 52-38, and Scott Walker, 53-38, suggesting that as the field winnows, dark horse backers are more likely to migrate to Trump than to any of the establishment-friendly candidates.
This is in some ways no surprise. The right-wing vote has been a majority share of the primary electorate since the campaign began. But building a majority for an anti-establishment candidate seems easier than ever before. It can now be achieved, per Matt Bruenig, by combining the support of just three candidates: Trump, Carson, and Ted Cruz.
A few weeks ago, the best argument that Trump couldn’t win the nomination rested on the premise that his maximum support was too low, and that the party would array against him aggressively as the field narrowed. Trump has spoiled both premises. It is now easy to imagine Trump eclipsing 40 percent of the vote before the primaries begin, and ripping up that pledge if a panicky Republican Party responds by erecting obstacles to his victory. Right now, in the GOP primary campaign, the most pressing question has nothing to do with Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio or any of the people who were supposed to win. It’s whether Ben Carson can keep up the fight, or Donald Trump runs away with it.

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Thoughts in 2024 of a waste of time “going to the coast”.
When I was young I used to dwell in a heap of nostalgia about “The Seaside”. Specifically, the Norfolk and Suffolk coast. Being that I lived in Thetford, I was slap-bang in the middle of a lot of coast. As a kid I was trundled along to Sheringham, Wells-Next-the-Sea, Blakeney, Cromer, Hunstanton, Weybourne, West Runton and Great Yarmouth by my parents and grandparents. Oh, and Southwold.
My grandparents used to take their caravan to a campsite near Upper-Sheringham. Obviously, I became obsessed with these places and was unable to shift them for many years. Finally, now I have no desire for those places, but that required a lot of water under the bridge.
I’ve not mentioned others, like Orford, Thorpeness, oh, and the rest. Later, when I had a car, I explored every inch of the coast in that bulge on the side of England, and up a bit and down a bit. Skegness to Margate. What a terrible waste of time. The only positive was that I used the experiences to craft the start of my novel, Burning Wolfhound, write what you know.
The main obsessions were Sheringham, Blakeney and Weybourne with the others tacked on, Hunstanton, Cromer and Southwold. I’m no longer sure why. Just a childhood experience that seemed good and I was unable to let go of. The same happened with other things, like Formula 1. Man, I hate Formula 1 now (that is another subject).
Weybourne and West Runton fell out of favour for me simply because they put in parking meters that took change. I never had any change. Sheringham parking was still free and if you parked round the back in Blakeney it was free, or on the road and in the winter there was no parking attendant.
Previous thoughts written down 2021. (witness how naive I was 3 years before even)
The North Norfolk Coast. It certainly changed over the years, and I had many visits there from childhood to adulthood. I’ve not been back in a long time, as at one point I decided to break the addiction.
The scope of the coast can be broken down. We start at Hunstanton, there are a few stops on the way, but the next real stop is Wells-Next-The-Sea. Then Stiffkey, Blakeney, Cley-Next-The-Sea, Salthosue, Weybourne, Sheringham, West Runton, Cromer.
That sums up the places in a list. Now, let’s see:
This little North Norfolk Coast section of writing came into being due to this lunchtime (26 July 2021) I was sitting eating a custard and fruit salad with my wife. It was in a plastic pot, and she said, “It’s not mixed.” I thought, “that’s a good thing.” So I ate my fruit salad, the first layer was raspberries that I picked this morning. This strongly reminded me of Hunstanton and then I had the whole coast running through my head. But the starting point was the raspberry layer. This got me thinking of Hunstanton. Why?
Well, a long time ago, probably the late 70s or early 80s, my mum and I were hooked on knickerbocker glories. Not just any knickerbocker glories. There was a café in Hunstanton.
Hunstanton can be divided in two. The seafront and the town. The seafront can be divided into three. 1. the amusements called Pleasure Beach, I think. 2. the middle bit, gardens along the beach. 3. the red cliffs.
I never had a great deal to do with the town. The amusements I hardly remember, so I assume I had little to do with them. The gardens were also just a passing through part.
The cliffs were visited a lot as above them is a large grass area and the main road in and out of the east end of the town. This road was the place to park for free, so all visits started here. As you walk into Hunstanton from the car along the grass area you first come to a building which was always a café. For a long time this was the ice cream café. They may have done other things but who’d remember after their knickerbocker glories?
Directly down from this café are a bunch of stairs which get you to a concrete promenade. If you walk east you end up at the foot of very high red cliffs. Below the cliffs are rock pools for looking for crabs and sea life.
Back to the ice cream. I’ve never had a knickerbocker glory to beat the one at the ice cream café. The top was cream and a couple of wafers. The layers went down through several yummy ice creams, then the real fruit raspberry layer or a strawberry layer. Usually there was something special at the bottom. This was back in the day when food was still good food.
Hunstanton was always one of the cool places on the North Norfolk coast. It was some distance from Blakeney and Sheringham, my main haunts. I think we usually decided, when I was a kid, whether to go direct to Hunstanton or Sheringham. Being that it was a bit removed the day would involve being at Hunstanton entirely, unlike visits to Sheringham.
Hunstanton dropped out of favour for me, I don’t know when the café closed. I returned as an adult to Hunstanton very little. There is little left in my head about the place. The only other significant happening there was that I stayed for a week with a family.
I met a boy at a race meeting, seems his dad raced the same car as my dad. The mum had always wanted me to be friends with this lad. So I ended up staying with them in Hunstanton. They lived in a huge Victorian house just off the seafront. The lad had a fancy BMX bike in yellow. His dad was a builder. The lad had a petrol go-cart in the garage. He’s probably an F1 driver now. He had a table top space invaders game in his room, like they had in pubs.
We used to go down the arcade and play arcade games that would now seem stupid dated. It was weird to hang out with the local kids in Hunstanton, after hours, so to speak. I don’t remember seeing this lad at race meetings again.
That’s pretty much Hunstanton for me. Pretty sure I was there with my mum and dad, seem to remember both lots of grandparents there. Went once with my ex-wife. Also once went on a duck boat out to sea with my mum. I know I spent a lot of time in the place but the memories seem absent, strange.
Someway from Hunstanton is Wells. On the way between you do pass through a few places that I’m pretty sure come at me from the past. I’d have gone with my parents, then on my own, or with my ex-wife. I know I didn’t pass that way a huge amount. Some of the coast is very isolated. In parts the road runs along distant deserted, and inaccessible, beaches. These isolated beaches inspired me to put the start of my novel Burning Wolfhound along this lonely coast.
I went to Wells many times. I was there with my parents a lot, by myself and with my ex-wife. The village is removed from the coast but contains a harbour. I only really had anything to do with the car parks and chip shops until I went camping there with my ex-wife.
To get to the beach means driving or taking the little narrow-gauge train (2024 update, I have learnt that the railway was closed down). It’s at least a mile to the beach. Once there you have a large car park. Back in the old days it was free. There is only one shop at the beach. Between the beach and car park is a sandy barrier with pines growing on it. These pines line the beach front. You can walk someway long the paths of pines.
If you come straight out of the car park onto the beach there is a lifeboat house to one side next to the river that runs into the town. The other side opens out into the wide beach. When I was little there were only a few beach huts but in later years they multiplied.
The tide goes out a very long way here and people are often caught when it comes in. The sea then laps right up to the pines. The smell of pines still reminds me of Wells.
When I was young Wells was about the sandy beach and the fish and chip shop, that’s about it. Later I went camping with my ex-wife and the children. I think we went twice. I don’t know if it was for a week or two. The campsite was a field attached to a caravan site. The loos were portaloos. From there you could get the little train into town. We’d go and get an ice cream of an evening. Once there was a gig in the town out the back of a Luton van.
Surprisingly I have little else to add about Wells. Oh, once I went with a French friend and a bunch of French girls. We sat in the beach in the sun and I went home burnt. Not much else to add.
It’s a funny little place. More a big boatyard with muddy inlets. You can see Blakeney spit lifeboat house from there. It it sort of desolate and spooky. These were my main take away from the past.
To say I was obsessed with Blakeney would be an understatement. In the old days it was a very forlorn place, a mere fishing village. Though when I researched Burning Wolfhound I found that it had been busier back in the old old days before everyone started going abroad for holidays.
Blakeney is populated by two pubs, a hotel and a two and four shops. There always seemed to be a café, a fashion shop and a gift shop. The grocery shop was tucked away in another street. There was a ice cream vendor on the main bit. The main bit was the quay with the hotel behind. Around and to the side of the quay is sand with a river/inlet running around it. The sand is hard and used as a car park.
You come down from the main road through the village and to the quay. I was always obsessed with the boats on the quay and the amateur crab fishing. Not that I ever did that. The seal trips used to leave from this quay when the water was deeper. But that moved to Stiffkey in later years.
Blakeney used to be tacked onto the end of a trip to Sheringham when I was with my mum and dad. We’d often come from Sheringham via Weybourne and an ice cream from the van at Salthouse.
The seal trip involved going out to see the seals and then stopping off at the lifeboat station out on the spit. I think I only did this a couple of times. There was a café in the lifeboat station when I went with my mum and dad. I also did the trip with my nan.
In those days the car park was free.
As an adult, with my own car, I went there again and again and again. I’d go in the winter when it was rainswept and miserable. I’d wonder why I was there. I really can’t believe I wasted so much time on the place. I even considered buying a cottage there. Perhaps I should have done, as at one point it would have been worth a fortune when the London crowd were obsessed with the North Norfolk Coast.
There isn’t much to say abut Cley. Once mum and dad looked at a house for sale there.
This is a very small village. The main thing is a stream and pond by the road where the ice cream van used to stop. I used to feel sick often with gorging on a 99 flake. You’d feed the ducks in the pond. I was obsessed with the name and wondered where the house was that was full of salt.
Once the car park was free. When they started charging, with machines, I never had change, so I stopped going there.
As a kid with my parents it was a great. The shingle spit with salty fishing boats on it. The WW2 pill boxes, one vanishing into the deep water. It was a wild place.
To one side was Weybourne camp, a RAF camp. In the 70s it was an abandoned place. My dad and I explored the area and went into one of the old gun emplacements. Later they turned it all into a museum. I was obsessed with Weybourne and loved the wild and abandoned feel to the place.
The village had little going on for it. Up above Weybourne was the station, about 1 or two miles up the hill. This was a stream preservation line. Was in Dad’s Army. I was pretty obsessed with the railway too. We went on it once when I was a kid. In those days it just went from Sheringham to Weybourne and back. The loco was a little 0-6-0 job for many years.
Later it was extended to Holt and they ran/run all sorts of locos on it. Once I went on the line when they had the 9F 2-10-0 Black Prince running. I spent far too much time being obsessed with it all.
We used to stay up beyond Upper Sheringham in a caravan site called Woodlands Caravan Park. That is why such intimate knowledge of this place. My nan and grandad would take their caravan there. You could come down to Sheringham via Bodham or Upper Sheringham. Bodham then via Weybourne.
I was also super obsessed with Sheringham. Again, I probably overdid it.
Taking this narrative up again 2024:
Sheringham, playing golf on the putting green with my nan and grandad. Crazy golf on the hill above the beach. Swimming in the cold water. The beach was stone when the tide was in and sand when the tide went out. There were smelly fishing boats on the beach, especially near the slipway. The newsagents in town had a large toy section with a lot of model trains. This was all old days stuff. But it is stupid how many times I went back, again and again. The last few times I really started to detest it there and my obsession with it. It took too long to move on from it. How much was real and how much a delusion of nostalgia?
I did the same to a much less extent with Cromer. Then a bit with Orford and Southwold. The castle was interesting at Orford and the weirdness of the MOD restricted land. At the end of the shingle spit that destroyed Orford as a port is a place called Shingle Street. It’s interesting, but my obsession was way over the top. Not as bad as Sheringham though.
As I say, Thetford, being right in the middle of that bulge into the sea of England, means that, a trip to the seaside happens a lot. Later I lived in Norwich. Yarmouth is the closest to Norwich. Yarmouth did hold interesting events, like the maritime festival, the Out There festival, cabaret, classical concerts, not to mention the amusements and the port. From Norwich the train is quite easy.
I now live a long way from seaside resorts. The Highlands coast is wild, like the North Norfolk Coast turned up to 11. I don’t miss the crowded tea shops and amusements. As I spent time on the Suffolk and Norfolk coasts I became more and more interested in visiting in the winter, the off season. Then it was wild and you had the place to yourself.


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With tax reform passed and signed, the Trump administration is setting its sights on another major legislative priority for this year: infrastructure.
Unlike the tax cuts that were pushed through solely by Republican lawmakers, an infrastructure package is something Democrats and the GOP may actually find common ground on. Talk of an impending infrastructure bill blossomed after the leak of an apparent White House infrastructure plan surfaced in the media. Politico provided its contents in full online.
While the leaked document does not reference any specific dollar amount, it covers how almost all infrastructure funds would be spent, being directed to various programs to improve the country’s infrastructure.
The White House plan calls for placing 50 percent of any infrastructure funding into incentives for public-private partnerships on projects.
Twenty-five percent of appropriated funds would be allotted for boosting investment partnerships in rural communities — including improving water and electrical systems, broadband, transportation and freight movement in remote areas.
Ten percent of infrastructure funding would be directed toward advancing “transformative projects” based on “exploratory and ground-breaking ideas,” while seven percent would be appropriated to Federal Credit Programs.
Additionally, the plan calls for five percent of funding to be directed toward the Federal Capital Financing Fund in an effort to improve access to federal infrastructure loans.
The six-page draft, while incomplete, is a clear indicator of what President Donald Trump’s priorities are in terms of infrastructure spending and reform.
Trump has long argued for an infrastructure package to be passed in Congress, even arguing his case when following a major train derailment late last year.
Several people died in December when a high-speed Amtrak train derailed during the morning rush hour in DuPont, a small suburban town in Washington state outside of Tacoma.
The president’s comments regarding the deadly crash were just the latest in his push for an infrastructure overhaul in the U.S., having made the issue a major part of his 2016 presidential campaign.
Contrary to the GOP tax plan — where the bill pushed through Congress garnered a grand total of zero Democratic votes — an infrastructure package could be well received by members of the other party.
Even the president is confident that a bi-partisan plan can be reached.
While liberal lawmakers are currently battling the White House over DACA and calls for a massive southern border wall, Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill are outwardly receptive to the idea of a comprehensive infrastructure bill.
“We need a really robust investment in infrastructure by the government,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, according to The Hill. “We’re challenging the president — he talked about it in his campaign — to join us in this and if he does we’ll work with him.”
“It’s a challenge to the president. He ran on a campaign of a $1 trillion infrastructure bill,” Schumer continued.
“We Democrats have always believed in this.”
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Air Hostess Job in Nepal for Freshers M/F in 2024
Friends, are you searching for air hostess job in Nepal for freshers in 2024? Then here you will get the latest air hostess job vacancy in 2024 as a fresher. All the fresher Indian males and females can apply for the airline cabin crew job in Nepal.
So, if you want to apply for the cabin crew vacancy in 2024 as a fresher? Then read this article till the end. In the below section, you will get details information about airline air hostess job requirement criteria, job descriptions, and how you can apply for Nepalis airlines as a Himalaya Airlines air hostess.
About Himalaya Airlines
The doorway to exciting career opportunities in the Nepalian aviation sector is Himalaya Airlines Careers. Himalaya Airlines, a well-known airline in Nepal, provides a variety of rewarding career options for people who are enthusiastic about flying and committed to giving top-notch customer service.
Company Name – Himalaya Airlines
Job Title – Air Hostess
Job Location – Nepal
Last Date Of Application – NA
Interview Location – Nepal
Application Process – Online
Requirement Criteria for Air Hostess Job
- Completion of higher secondary Level (10 plus 2)
- Bachelor/Graduate degree holders are preferred.
- Ages between 18 and 26 years.
- A minimum height of 163 cm for female candidates and a minimum height of 170 cm for male candidates.
- Mass Index weight of 18-20 for females and 23-24 for males.
- Normal eyesight (6/6).
- Pleasing personality with an unblemished complexion.
- A good sense of personal presentation along with good grooming disciplines.
- Not bearing any visible tattoos, scars, and body piercing(s) that cannot be covered discreetly.
- Education and other requirements can be relaxed for the experienced cabin crew, especially for those who have international flight experience.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Flexible to work through varied schedules including nights, weekends, and holidays.
- Ability to swim at least a length of 25 meters unaided.
- Ability to adapt to new environments easily
- Positive attitude and self-motivated
- Cultural intelligence
- Fluency in written and spoken English
- Knowledge of additional foreign language(s) will be an advantage.
Also here you can check out the latest cabin crew job vacancy at Indian Airline.
Job Descriptions of Himalaya Airlines Air Hostess
- Conduct pre-flight briefings on safety and make sure passengers follow all rules.
- Assist passengers with boarding, seat selection, and in-flight information and assistance.
- To improve passenger comfort, provide amenities like blankets and pillows.
- Serve passengers snacks, drinks, and meals.
- Maintain composure in emergency situations and adhere to established protocols.
- Maintain open lines of communication with the passengers and crew on the flight deck.
- Deal professionally with disputes and passenger complaints.
- Before every flight, make sure the cabin is prepared and clean.
- Helping passengers who need it by administering first aid and medical care.
- Follow company policies, aviation regulations, and regular training.
Here you can check out the latest Dubai airport job vacancy for freshers.
How to Apply for Air Hostess Job in Nepal
Friends, there is no other way to apply for Himalaya Airlines careers as a cabin crew. Also, there is no career option on their website. So, if you want to visit the company’s official page then click here.
So to apply online for the Himalaya Airlines job vacancy please send in your updated resume, a copy of the passport size photo, and a scanned copy (ies} of your qualifications & experience to email id [email@example.com]. It is mandatory to mention the vacancy code and position you are applying for, in the subject line. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Check out Emirates Airline’s latest cabin crew vacancy update for fresher males and females.
So, I hope this article will help you apply for the air hostess job position at Himalaya Airlines. Remember you need to apply online via the airline’s official email and wait for a few days. Then, if your resume is shortlisted, company HR will contact you for the interview schedule.
Also, I’m going to write more articles to answer all your frequently asked questions to help out other girls and boys who are too shy to ask but would like to become cabin crew in the future. All of you, I wish you all the best in your cabin crew interview.
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This is a twice baked, two layer, full crust cheesecake. Extremely rich in flavour and allways impresses even the toughest crouds.
Inherrited from my Grandmother, though i altered the recipe i still dedicate it to her each time i bake it.... Read more.
VERY IMPORTANT !
Allow the butter and cream cheese to come to room temperature before starting the recipe ! Do NOT put in the microwave !
Combine cream cheese, sugar and butter in a lagre bowl and rub between palms until mixed very well.
Grease the bottom and the sides of a 10" springform pan.
Pack the graham crust mixture about a 1/4 " thick on the sides and bottom.
Chill in the refrigerator.
Combine cream cheese, and sugar and cream well with an electrical mixer or a beautiful red Kitchen Aid 575w, 10 speed stand mixer like i've got. :D
Add in the vanilla extract, lemon juice and lemon zest.
Followed by adding in one egg at a time.
Pour the mixture into the crust and bake in oven at 350* F for 45-50 minutes. Depending on your oven.
Remove from oven and let stand for 15 minutes on a cooling rack.
Reset oven to 450* F
Combine sour cream sugar and vanilla extract in a bowl and mix well.
Spread the mixture on the top of the cheesecake and bake again at 450* F for 8-10 minutes. Do NOT brown !
Let cool in the refrigerator until completely chilled.
It is very importand to temper your butter and cream cheese (bring to room temperature)
This cheesecake recipe can be taken in any direction now. You could use canned cherries or blueberries or hopefully you'll take the time to do some fresh fruit. It really is up to you.
Make sure to use butter, don't use margarine.
TIP: For a great looking piece of cheesecake be sure to wash your knife after each cut !
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If anyone needed a summarization of the Arizona Cardinals in Week 10, Budda Baker‘s late-game interception would do just fine. The Cardinals found themselves with a lengthy injury list, but that played in Arizona’s interest.
The Cardinals walked away victorious over the defending champions Los Angeles Rams on Sunday. As the fourth quarter nearly expired, the contest seemed far out of reach for the Rams.
As most would notice, backup Colt McCoy seemed to pay off well in contrast to an injured Kyler Murray.
no problem, Cardinals actually win a game
— H刃wk (@HawksTruth) November 14, 2022
Can we just leave McCoy in for the rest of the season? @AZCardinals
— 🏈itzANG🧡💜 (@SportzAZAJ) November 13, 2022
What a game by the Cardinals’ o-line, down 80 percent of their starters and facing Aaron Donald.
— Luke Lapinski (@LukeLapinski) November 14, 2022
The Rams were also without their starting quarterback in Matthew Stafford, but McCoy stole the show between he and John Wolford.
Fans on the internet went crazy for a split second with Trace McSorley making his way into the game after McCoy was injured.
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— Brian Y (@byysports) November 13, 2022
Trace McSorley vs Bryce Perkins.
My insatiable lust for schadenfreude demands this matchup.
The Gods must oblige.
— Unmistakable Latin Flavor (@UrinatingTree) November 13, 2022
There will be quite a few kneejerk reactions as to the difference that was displayed with McCoy versus Kyler Murray. Murray was questionable before being listed out with a hamstring issue.
McCoy was able to display a strong passing game, completing 26-of-37 passes for 238 yards.
Though Baker was expected to miss Week 10, the star safety was flying around making his presence known on defense for Arizona. Such was evident from his fourth quarter pick that sealed the Cardinals’ win.
Though it’s only one game, the Cardinals do appear more settled on offense with McCoy in the pocket. There’s no reason to believe that such a change would transpire of Murray being benched, but it could be the case later. Murray will certainly be put under the scope from even one game with McCoy at the reigns.
The Cardinals improved to 4-6 on the season, and head into Week 11 against the San Francisco 49ers.
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RENO, Nev. (News 4 & FOX 11) — Dozens of bills passed in the 2021 Nevada legislative session are going into effect on Jan. 1, 2022, including laws surrounding child car seats, lactation rooms, mail-in voting and more.
Here is a roundup of the major laws that go into effect on New Year's Day.
Assembly Bill 118 makes significant changes to the laws surrounding when children need to be in a car seat. Starting Jan. 1, children must be secured in a rear-facing car seat until at least the age of 2.
Children under the age of 6 years old and shorter than 57 inches tall must now ride in a car seat according to the new law, sponsored by Democratic Assemblywoman Shannon Bilbray-Axelrod.
The measure removed the weight requirement, which previously allowed children over 60 pounds to no longer ride in a car seat.
Child safety advocates pushed for the measure, citing Nevada trauma data that showed children who were properly restrained were 47.8% less likely to be seriously or critically injured in a crash.
"We just know that a simple thing like a correctly oriented car seat that's put in properly makes a huge difference and makes it much more likely that a child will survive a car accident that they otherwise would not have," said Dr. Terence McAllister with the Nevada chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
The Washoe County Sheriff's Office demonstrated the proper way to put a child in a car seat during a Facebook live stream Thursday:
All courthouses in Nevada will be required to have lactation rooms for members of the public, not just courthouse employees, under a new law pushed though the legislature by Assemblywoman Teresa Benitez-Thompson.
Assembly Bill 196 does have a few exceptions to the lactation room requirement, such as courthouses that would require new construction to build a public lactation room.
"Public health experts tell us that you wan to continue to breastfeed those babies even though you are returning to work, so that means we can do our part to help with the people who have to interface in courthouses," Benitez-Thompson said.
It's a public health issue first and foremost. We want to do everything we can to encourage women to continue to breastfeed.
Every registered Nevada voter will be mailed a ballot in future elections under Assembly Bill 321, which passed in the 2021 legislature with Democratic support.
The measure makes permanent a pandemic-era change that temporarily switched Nevada over to a universal mail-in ballot state. Another measure eliminates the presidential caucus and replaces it with a presidential preference primary, though voters won't experience that change until 2024.
Reno Senator Heidi Seevers Gansert sponsored and passed Senate Bill 251, which requires primary care providers to do a medical history screening and ask women if they are at a higher risk for a BRCA mutation, which has been shown to increase the risk of breast cancer.
Medical providers would then be required to counsel them or refer them to genetic counseling if women were determined to be high-risk, Seevers-Gansert said.
Click here for the full list of bills passed in the 2021 legislative session that go into effect on Jan. 1.
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I, too, dislike them: there are things that are important beyond
all this fiddle.
Reading them, however, with perfect contempt for them, one
discovers that there is in
them after all, a place for the genuine.
– from “Poetry” by Marianne Moore
(1) Read more contemporary poetry.
(2) Write five poems a week. Show them to no one.
(3) Read more philosophy.
(4) Seek out the company of those to whom philosophy and poetry are important.
(5) Read more fiction.
(6) Watch less TV.

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Princess Maria-Olympia of Greece on her first year of college, royal style inspiration and bond with her family
Fairytale princesses might wear glass slippers, but the most fashionable, real-life ones wear Dior "head to toe". Such is the case of 19-year-old...
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Greek royals gather for pre-Christmas lunch at their beautiful Cotswolds residence
Christmas started early for the Greek royals on Monday, as they gathered for a festive lunch with their family and friends. Princess Marie-Chantal and...
Crown Princess Marie-Chantal and Princess Olympia are dancing queens at Studio 54 bash
When Crown Prince Pavlos turned 50, the Greek royal family proved they are the hosts with the most when it comes to lavish parties, organising one of...
Prince William's godson starts university!
Prince William's 18-year-old godson, Prince Constantine-Alexios of Greece, is officially a freshman at Georgetown University in Washington D.C....

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A man initially thought by a passing driver to be drunk turned out to a gunshot victim who stumbled onto Buena Vista Road late Saturday, Columbus police said.
According to Lt. Lynn Joiner, a driver spotted the 29-year-old man around 11 p.m. at Buena Vista Road and Annette Avenue. The man walked as if he was drunk, falling onto Buena Vista.
“They got out to see if he was OK, and they saw he was bleeding,” Joiner said.
That’s when the driver called 911. The man was taken to The Medical Center’s Intensive Care Unit, where he hasn’t yet been able to speak with police, Joiner said.
The man has gunshot wounds in his leg, arm and chest. Joiner said the arm and chest wounds may be from the same bullet.
Joiner said a witness spotted two men running north on Annette shortly after hearing gunshots. Both were 5-foot-7 to 5-foot-9. One wore a tan T-shirt and the other a black T-shirt.
No arrests have been made in the case, the lieutenant said.
Anyone with information should contact police at 706-653-3400.

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The United States currently has a very broken and corrupt medical system. Entire boards are specifically tasked with denying coverage to as many patients as possible without getting sued (Moore, 2007). Pre-existing conditions, and other similar loopholes in insurance policies, exclude millions of patients per year from receiving health care they would otherwise be entitled to by their policy. Families that have paid into insurance for years are left out to dry when they need it most. Why? Because the medical system is composed of private corporations. Doctors and nurses may have a desire to help people, but ultimately whether patients get treatment comes down to money. Because of the cost of medical treatments, if the insurance company is not willing to pay the claim, it is virtually impossible for most citizens to pay for potentially life-saving treatment. They certainly don’t receive medical aid for the prevention of disease before it occurs, because that’s not good business sense.
Medical research itself is corrupted by monetary incentive. Drug research is fed through a marketing machine that manipulates and abuses data. Preliminary drug tests often compare against the worst drug instead of the leading competitor. By far, diseases which attract the most press and funding are the less frequent ailments of society, like cancer and AIDs. Obesity related diseases are just not as exciting or compelling, but are the top causes of death in the US (CDC). Vaccines and antibiotics are definitely needed by the public to prevent the resurgence of diseases and prevent their spread. But from the business aspect, vaccines and antibiotics have no investment value; there’s not a large enough public demand for prevention. Because prevention is preventative, the results are tangibly removed from anecdotal experience. People do not get the sickness, so its perceived importance is less relevant to their lives. Preventative medicine is an option which is almost completely overlooked in the medical field.
Preventative medicine aims at creating healthy habits and lifestyles to stop illnesses before they develop. American medicine is geared towards treating the symptoms of disease–not preventing illness. But common sense (or everyday ethics) would tell us that preventative medicine is an ethical duty of the medical system. The obvious neglect on the part of the medical field is irresponsible and unacceptable. Without preventative medicine, hospitals are essentially causing the illnesses they treat (an essentially consequentialist argument). It seems elementary that prevention is an ethically responsible decision. It also stands the Kantian test of universalizability. The intention to make oneself healthy and keep others healthy, should create a very healthy society (Landau, 157). For all intensive purposes the need for a hospital would largely be eliminated. Practically the only reason why preventative medicine shouldn’t work is if people decide not to utilize them.
Patients certainly haven’t implemented prevention in their own lives, and neither have the hospitals. Our culture has compartmentalized health to the hospitals, so average people really don’t even think about their health unless they’re sick. Some people think that citizens should take responsibility, “… all of us need to take responsibility for making healthy choices in our day-to-day activities to avoid so much illness that we cause by over eating, over indulging in various substances, and lack of exercise” (Stubbs). While I think it is a good ethical point that we all have a responsibility to our own health, I think it is an unrealistic request for the US. Our nation is permeated with freedom and hedonistic tendencies. We have been conditioned by our lifestyle to think we can “do whatever the hell we want”, with no regard for the kind of damage it might cause. Why would we be concerned with prevention, when there’s a whole industry built just to fix us? While American culture should change, given the current state of American culture, it is the medical industry’s innate duty to develop prevention programs for all kinds of disease.
Obesity in particular is the largest factor of death in the US (CDC). But this is not something that can simply be willed away. Obesity is often caused by deep psychological factors. Family problems, lack of self worth, and a variety of other psychological triggers create a cyclical depression for which the individual copes by eating. This simulates the comfort and control that the individual is missing in their lives. The fact that obese people are overweight is more of a symptom, and not the disease. Eventually this leads to diabetes, heart, disease, or stroke. This illustrates how important and necessary an intervention is, to prevent illnesses before they occur.
According to Weston and Blasi, it is important to become aware of one’s unconscious relationship to issues in order to understand them fully. My relationship to the situation is probably in some way skewed by assumptions and prejudices concerning healthcare and politics. Preventative medicine seems like a no-brainer to me, but perhaps I am working on some false premise.
I have already watched a lot of documentaries and read a lot of articles which condemn corporations for being structures built on greed. I have developed a personal conviction for the wickedness of the corporate business model. I recognize how stockholders, while technically owning a company, have zero accountability to the business. The people who run the business, do not own it, and actually have no say in how it is run. Corporations escape regulation by being international. If they don’t like a law in one place, they go somewhere else.
From what I can see, corporations are completely oriented towards maximizing their own profit, regardless of consequences or the innate goodness of actions. By both utilitarian and Kantian standards they are a morally depraved system. I believe that healthcare would be better served in the hands of the government than a corporation. But I also believe that our government is largely corrupted by the corporations themselves.
To quote my high school economics teacher, “Everyone agrees that the medical system needs fixed, but no one can agree how” (Katie Mckee). Soon we run into contentious quandaries concerning the nature and policies of healthcare. Does society have a right to imprison someone who disregards sexual responsibility with AIDs? If preventative methods are put in place, should they be considered mandatory by the government, or by insurance companies? Are we sacrificing freedom by introducing preventative medicine? These are important questions. I think that the freedom to refrain from a preventative program should remain an option, but if the results are made tangible by hands-on trainers, then the programs will become more popular. Who doesn’t want to be healthy? That’s all the incentive we need, really.
The medical industry needs to adopt preventative methods, because it is their ethical obligation. Health care should probably be socialized, but individual consent should still be a vital part of the procedure. While there’s a lot wrong with the health system, this is one issue which should not be overlooked.

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Ray Service has been chosen to develop and manufacture cabling assemblies for vehicle-mounted mortar systems that BAE Systems will build for the Swedish army.
BAE said Tuesday it will provide 40 Mjolner mortars for installation on CV90 infantry fighting vehicles under as part of a $68 million contract awarded by Sweden’s defense material administration in late 2016.
BAE and VOP CZ jointly offered the CV90 platform to the Czech Republic’s BMP-2 Infantry Fighting Vehicle replacement program under a teaming agreement signed last year.
VOP CZ will also build components for BVS10 Beowulf all-terrain vehicles BAE’s Hagglunds subsidiary is manufacturing for the Austrian government.
More than 1,200 CV90s are currently used in seven countries that include NATO allies.
BAE said it plans to continue partnerships with Czech companies if the country’s government decides to adopt the company’s vehicle offering.