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I write books. Very very slowly I write books. And I promise more. Then I get busy here, with other projects, beating myself up and with just being lazy (like the mighty tiger).
Here’s a recap of what’s STILL in production, hopefully for release this year (then a freebie):
Shape Up America or Perrin’s Fitness Plan or something like that (name subject to change);
Fight Back! Personal Anti-Terrorism Tactics (name subject to change);
The (Fictional) History of Cigars (name probably locked in…). This one may feature, among many other great things, original artwork by yours truly. The collector’s item of our times. The times meaning the future. When I get around to it. Etc.
Additionally I have a ton of ideas and manuscripts in various states of disarray. The pretty darned good success of The Happy Little Cigar Book (buy now!) has me thinking about a Second Addition. Or maybe I could get to Cigar Stories sooner or later. Or maybe I could get off my butt and fix the original Kindle version of THLCB (don’t buy that one, please, still…).
Often overlooked and forgotten is my lovely, little, free e-book, Perrin On Politics:
Click HERE or on the cover picture and instantly have it on your computer. Seriously, the pic above or any word in red. Well, blue on a mobile device… It’s free and worth every penny. And, it always available over on the left in the margin; down at the bottom under “View Full Site” on your phone.
63 pages of wit, wisdom and the tragedy of everything political. They tell me another election is right around the corner. By the growing odor I believe them. This little gem is your election guide – How to Save America – and so forth…
You’ll laugh, cry, and mug like Bert:
Download it now before I revise it and start charging. And y’all know how fast I move with stuff like that…
I hope your Monday was as great as mine. Night, friends.

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Sensitivity can be adjust,
Delay time can be adjust,
Trigger mode is be defined as repeatable;
[small size,Wideer working voltage range,small current,stable performance]
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Unrepeatle:if the moudul detect human body is moving,output high level at once,this moment,signal input line be closed,PIR detect is disabled, until the delay time to over,will output low level,waitting next trigger.
LDR worke mode
Customer can sold a LDR then the module will not work at the day time and will work at the evening.
Sensitivity adjust and Delay time adjust
If you want to change the sensitivity level you can folow the formula Usens=R1/(R1+R2)*VDD.if the Usens=3.3V it’s highest sensitivit and if the Usens=0.15V is Lowest sensitivity.You also have to consider the power comsumption For Lower Power comsumption the Resistance value of R1+R2 should Over 500k ohm.
if you want to change delay time take this tale as reference shows as below.
The module ouput is MCU IO port direct output,to use,advise series connection a resistance,4.7K to 10K;
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2.When power on,IC has 20S to 60S self-testing process,in the meantime,will output high level,then,output low level,into stable waiting state.(waiting state,it is also on standby);


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Back bracing may be a cost-effective means of providing immediate relief from low back pain, and can act as an effective bridge to other interventions.
Low back pain (LBP) is a frequent problem in industrialized countries and is the second most common reason for visits to physicians.1,2 Approximately 70% to 85% of adults have suffered or currently suffer from LBP, and its prevalence continues to rise.1 In any given year, 15% to 45% of the population will experience an episode of LBP, with the incidence increasing in older adults up to age 65.1
Although the duration of most LBP episodes is usually brief (1-2 weeks), recurrent symptoms are common.3 Among patients who report recurring problems, symptoms often resolve spontaneously, many times without any intervention. However, many patients suffer from prolonged symptoms that do not resolve quickly. Some authors have reported that between 10% and 33% of patients report persistent pain after 1 year.3 Within this group, recovery is often protracted, and their treatment accounts for a majority of the spending on the problem. This segment of patients makes up a large portion of individuals on work disability.
Lumbar supports have been used in the workplace to treat LBP and to prevent strains. They also are used in primary care to reduce pain and improve mobility.1 Although interventional pain physicians routinely see patients with LBP, lumbar supports are not a common part of most of their treatment plans. This may be due to the widely held notion that a lumbar support might result in atrophy of already weakened core muscles. Research does not definitively support this position.4-6 One study even reported an increase in muscle strength after the brace was worn for 6 weeks.6 The authors acknowledged that the brace itself likely did not affect muscle fiber size, but rather that the patients’ reduced pain allowed greater mobility, thereby encouraging increased strength and flexibility.
Previous studies demonstrate that use of a lumbar support can be a viable and helpful method of improving back pain symptoms. One recent multicenter, randomized controlled trial measured three outcome measures for patients wearing an elastic lumbar support: pain level, function, and medication use. Patients in the treatment group showed improvement in all three areas, and the authors concluded that back bracing is an effective treatment option for LBP.2
Bridge to Pain Relief
Most patients seeking treatment from a pain management specialist have experienced pain for upwards of 1 year. By the time they present to a pain clinic, their pain has generally caused them significant distress, and they are seeking rapid intervention to alleviate their symptoms. However, fully understanding each patient’s unique situation with diagnostic tools such as injections and planning the appropriate course of treatment to produce long-lasting, definitive results can take several weeks. Even after treatment is performed, patients may not benefit for several weeks. For example, a physician may perform one or two medial branch nerve blocks prior to proceeding with radiofrequency (RF) nerve ablation. However, the patient may not experience the full benefit of the RF procedure for up to 4 weeks. Opiates are an option for providing relief during this period, but they come with certain risks, and many patients are already using them with unsatisfactory outcomes or with side effects. For this purpose, we undertook a study to determine if back bracing was a reliable means of providing immediate relief from LBP.
Read the full article in its entirety: http://www.practicalpainmanagement.com/treatments/bracing/prospective-study-lumbar-back-brace-interventional-pain-practice

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Yesterday, Facebook announced that Oculus headsets will soon require a Facebook account to use. The policy change comes into effect from October 1st for Rift and Quest newcomers. It will also be mandatory for every headset that Oculus releases in the future.
If you already own a Rift or Quest and want to keep using an Oculus account, it’ll work until January 1st, 2023. “Full functionality” will require a Facebook account, though, and it’s possible that you’ll lose access to some VR games and applications over time.
The announcement came out of nowhere, and Oculus users were immediately angry and disappointed. “What the fuck,” Junge Willmichregistrieren wrote. “Fuck you,” Michael Edwards added.“Yeah that’s going to be a no-go for me,” another Facebook user added.
Many users feel betrayed. Oculus was a startup founded by Palmer Luckey, Brendan Iribe, Michael Antonov and Nate Mitchell in 2012. Following a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign, the company was acquired by Facebook for $2.3 billion in 2014.
Some people were understandably wary given that Facebook’s empire is built on data-driven advertising. Luckey assured skeptics on Reddit, however, that Oculus hardware wouldn’t require a Facebook login. In a separate comment, he promised that Oculus wouldn’t “track you, flash ads at you, or do anything invasive.”
Luckey left Facebook in 2017 and has subsequently created a ‘virtual border wall’ company called Anduril, which signed a contract with US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) earlier this year. He’s no longer associated with Oculus, but responded to accusations yesterday that he was lying back in 2014.
“I want to make clear that those promises were approved by Facebook in that moment and on an ongoing basis, and I really believed it would continue to be the case for a variety of reasons,” he wrote on the r/Oculus subreddit. “In hindsight, the downvotes from people with more real-world experience than me were definitely justified.”
In its blog post, Oculus argued that the policy change will make it easier for people to find and play with their friends in virtual reality. The company highlighted Horizon, a Second Life-style platform announced last September, as a key beneficiary.
Pairing users with a Facebook account would make it easier to protect the growing Oculus community, the company said, and “offer additional integrity tools.” Oculus will replace its dedicated Code of Conduct with an updated version of Facebook’s Community Standards, for instance.
The company claims that this will offer “a more consistent way to report bad behavior” while still respecting the unique aspects of virtual reality.


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Hello! Welcome to my website. Right now I am doing a premiere, by video, of my work Scenes of their Childhood. This is a work of 11 miniatures for piano about my daughters Libe and Ariela growing up in the first decade of the millenium. You will see the titles of the 11 sections listed underneath. As the names turn blue, you will be able to hear the pieces by clicking on them. The 11 pieces take a total of 13 minutes. Each piece is between 1-1:30 minutes long.
I hope you enjoy them:
- The Nintendo
- The Carpool
- Wake Up!
- My Family
And now, to hear the whole work, you can just go to this link:
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All my videos are there.
Continue scrolling to learn my story!
I started to learn the piano when I was six. I am still working at it. Hard.
My mother was an amateur pianist and she was my first exposure to the instrument. My mom’s family was musical, she had 2 sisters and the three of them played. I was given piano lessons, but I was lucky, because 20 years earlier my cousin Bush was not allowed to study piano due to it being”a lady’s pursuit” and “improper for a boy”.
My first teachers of note were Marcia Freyre and Marcia Freyre de Andrade, two exiled Cuban pianists who used to teach a few blocks from my home in Mexico City. I didn’t practice very hard when I was younger, but I kept making progress, so my teachers encouraged me on. I won a silver medal as a teen in the Estudio Internacional de Arte.
I met Mario Feninger when he came to play in Mexico City and later, when I heard him play in Los Angeles, California. It was after hearing him play The Pathetique Sonata of Beethoven and the Minute Waltz of Chopin, that I decided to become a concert pianist
In 1981 I moved to Los Angeles to study with Mario and his partner, Ian Brooks. I spent four years working with them until I started appearing in concert in Mexico City. From 1985 to 1988 I appeared in recital in different venues and I also appeared on TV repeatedly, in a TV Show called “Estudio 54”.
However, in 1988, before leaving for a tour in South America, something happened. I was practicing the 6th Hungarian Rhapsody of Liszt, I did a jump with my left hand, falling hard on my left pinky to get the bass note out and I felt a searing pain on the outside of my left wrist. I had injured my left hand.
I started to compose in 1995. All of a sudden, my ability to conceive music and to think in terms of music opened up. This caught me by surprise. I had studied the fundamentals of composition earlier with Mario Feninger, as part of my training as a pianist and musician, without any particularly notable results. I could write music, laboriously. It was hard work, not particularly pleasurable.
But one day, it happened.
For the first time, I was able to hear musical phrases forming in my head, and as I was writing them down, more phrases formed. The first works I composed were studies, which I used to improve my piano technique. But they are concert studies, pieces which are interesting enough to perform in public.
My idea at the time was to help my piano carreer with my pieces, to give myself a chance to stand out among other pianists by playing my own works.Many pianists had written pieces for themselves, including Sergei Prokofieff, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Anton Rubinstein, Ferruccio Bussoni and, of course, earlier musicians who, for the most part, performed only their own music, like Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, etc.
But I also decided to try and develop a musical style of my own and to see how far I could take this new ability before bringing my music to the public. My efforts went in several directions. After the first etudes I decided to write pieces inspired by ideas I wanted to express. I created about five suites and sonatas on different subjects, adding a short poem before each piece. I wrote about the media, about emotions, about the environment, about society in general, about children.In addition, I undertook the creation of a musical form.
This form I called “evolution” which is discussed in the page Works. I started to get into chamber music, vocal music, choral music, and orchestral music. After a period of 8 years of writing music, in 2003 I decided to embark on my first public project as a composer/pianist by creating a CD called Almost Songs. I learned the pieces and recorded them in 2005, releasing the CD with a concert at Zipper Hall of the Colburn School of Music in Los Angeles, California.
My Story Continues...
It took me about a year and a half to prepare this recording. I had neglected the piano in order to compose during the past few years and the piano wasn’t happy with me, so it demanded a lot of attention in order to play well for me.
The recording was done in July of 2006 in Zipper Hall of the Colburn School of Music in LA. The CD came out in October of that same year with a recital in that same hall. It was very well received by the audience and got a nice review. “Almost Songs” is so called because each piece or movement is preceded by a short poem, which adds a little meaning to the work. So it is almost a song because it has “lyrics” and music but they are not played at the same time. The CD contains two works: Moods, which consists of 9 short pieces: Sadness, Despair, Fear, Anger, Hostility, Boredom, Seriousness, Cheerfulness and Enthusiasm.
And The Media Sonata, which has 4 movements: The Press, The Internet, Adults Watching TV and TV for Children. I’m uploading the pieces to YouTube and there will be links added to each piece as it becomes available. The first one that went up was The Press. I hope to have all of them up shortly. My story continues below.
The Composer Now
(2019) I am now involved in several projects. The big one is called The Nightmare and the Dream, which is an oratorio for choir, brass ensemble and soloists which takes us from the persecution of Jews in Europe in the Middle Ages through the emergence of Theodore Herzl as a visionary intent on creating a Jewish State, through his works describing such a state and his activities to bring about its actual existance, to the settlers and the Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel.
I also just finished writing two choral pieces based on poems of the Aztec king Netzahualcoyotl with some Aztec colors. And last December my first work for children’s choir called “Who is Judah Maccabee?” was premiered, as well as “Quita’l Tas”, (Remove the Tray), a Hanukkah song written for choir a capella, two voices, men and women and in October my work for mixed choir a capella “Isaiah Said” was also premiered. Lastly, I did an arrangement of a choral piece by Dr. Diane White-Clayton, “Clap Praise”, adding strings to a piece written for choir with piano accompaniment.
This was a new experience for me, which demanded that instead of getting into my head to dig deeply into my own ideas, I get into another composer’s head, look into his ideas and then help them come out in a more beautiful way through a bigger ensemble of instruments. I will probably continue doing this in the future, parallel to my writing my own new works, as I found it creative and musically satisfying.
Here is a compilation of my works. If the name is underlined or in bold letters, you can hear it by clicking on it. If the word Score is underlined, you can see the score by clicking on it. If you want to perform any of these pieces or have any questions or comments, please press the button “Contact Me”.
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1. Echoes of Mexico (flexband) – Score
2. Memories of my Childhood (Symphonic Band) Hear the orchestral version – Score
3. The Spirit (Symphonic band) Hear the orchestral version– Score

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Four of the major airlines operating at Faro Airport have announced new summer services linking the Algarve to the UK, Spain, Italy and France. In addition to catering for Portuguese travellers, the new routes offer increased opportunities for British tourists to enjoy multi-country holidays during their stay in Europe, using the Algarve as a convenient base.
New EasyJet routes are now on sale from Faro to Barcelona (for journeys from 26 June) and Toulouse (from 28 June). Faro’s summer schedule includes a total of 21 EasyJet routes, including the two new ones.
“We are delighted to offer this update to our summer 2023 schedule,” said José Lopes, EasyJet’s country manager for Portugal, “so customers have even more possibilities to book travel in advance. This year is expected to be very positive for EasyJet. We are making a big investment in Portugal… Our customers consider us the best airline for their trips to the most varied destinations in Europe.”
Ryanair has announced a new route between Faro and Rome, starting in April and operating twice a week.
“With the fast approach of Easter,” said Elena Cabrera, country manager for Portugal and Spain, “we provide another option and more value to our customers with the addition of this new route to Rome for the summer of 2023.”
British and other European tourists staying in southern Portugal will also be able to enjoy a summer stopover in Bilbao on their return home. Vueling is planning to launch direct flights to the home of the famous Guggenheim museum, starting on 2 July and operating twice a week on a 180-seat Airbus A320-200.
Meanwhile, Jet2 is also boosting its summer services around Europe, including additional Thursday services from Manchester to Faro from 11 May, “in response to a strong customer demand as more passengers seek out an early getaway”.
“Just weeks after being recognised as a Which? Recommended Provider,” said Jet2.com and Jet2holiday CEO Steve Heapy, “we are delighted to be announcing even more award-winning flights and holidays for customers and independent travel agents to choose from.”


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ESL 011 Reading I
Reading skills development is the focus for this course. Students have short readings on a variety of topics to work on finding meaning in context, reading comprehension, identifying main ideas and significant details, retelling stories, and scanning for specific information. As students read out loud, they practice sounding out words and using correct pronunciation. Through vocabulary instruction and academic reading, students begin building high frequency vocabulary necessary at the undergraduate level. Through the act of extensive reading, students improve reading fluency. An introduction to both the university and community library is made.

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Downtown Phoenix will be home to the city’s inaugural Jane’s Walk on Saturday, May 2, 2009. The free walking tour — part of an international annual event commemorating the birthday of renowned urban activist Jane Jacobs, who died in 2006 — will take place between 9:00 and 11:00 am. It will start, and end, at Portland Park on First Avenue and Portland Street (next to the Roosevelt and Central light rail station).
Jane’s Walk is a “street-level celebration” of Jacobs’ legacy and ideas, combining the simple act of walking with personal observations, urban history and local lore as a means of knitting people together into a strong and resourceful community through bottom-up approaches and neighborhood involvement.
Jacobs was an urbanist and activist whose writings championed a fresh, community-based approach to city building. She had no formal training as a planner, yet wrote what many consider to be the ‘bible’ of urban planning. Her 1961 treatise, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, introduced groundbreaking ideas about how cities function, evolve and fail — concepts that are now common sense to generations of architects, planners, politicians and activists. Jacobs championed the interests and knowledge of local residents and pedestrians over a centralized, car-centered approach to planning. She also promoted refurbishing old buildings instead of tearing them down and building new ones, and demonstrated the desirability of increasing the density of cities instead of sprawling endlessly outward.
Cities across Canada, the U.S. and India will also host Jane’s Walks the first weekend in May. This is the third consecutive year of Jane’s Walks in North America. So far, the walks have occurred in Toronto and New York in 2007, and in Ottawa, Calgary, Winnipeg, Vancouver and Salt Lake City in 2008. This year, the walks have spread to 41 cities, including two in India. Several cities are host to multiple walks. You don’t have to be familiar with Jacobs’ work to walk. The event is intended to be fun and participatory – everyone has a story and they’re usually keen to share it. Whether you’re a local activist, resident, business owner, politician, preservationist, or simply a citizen who loves your community, participating in Jane’s Walk Phoenix is a great way to celebrate the reemergence of downtown Phoenix as a vital urban hub, and to honor Jacobs’ legacy.
Jane’s Walk USA is managed by the Center for the Living City, a non-profit organization operating out of the University of Utah’s Department of City & Metropolitan Planning. The Center for the Living City is linked in spirit and purpose with its sister organization, The Centre for City Ecology in Toronto.


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DISCLAIMER NOTICE: The Pervasive Online Impersonation of the NATION NEWSLEAD Brand and Identity
The attention of the Management of Nation Newslead Services Limited, publishers of NATION NEWSLEAD Online newspaper (www.nationnewslead.com) has been drawn to the continuous activities of impostors and fake news websites attempting to impersonate our brand and identity, while seeking to pass off suspicious, if not disreputable, content to the public as emanating from NATION NEWSLEAD.
We are a very ethical organisation with a clearly defined mandate and principled ethos hinged on delivering the highest standard of socially reliable news and information to the public. As such, we urge all our readers to be a lot more wary – particularly in these times of the endemic infestation of fake news – of news and information coming from a number of dishonourable sources, attempting to imitate our name and brand identity. They are trying to thrive on and create confusion through the inflections of our name – in barely noticeable form – and/or visual character.
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As far as we are concerned, some of these news sources that have been trading through different clones of our brand identity, are also doing so in the malicious endeavours to deceive the public and create credibility issues for our noble profession, and platform.
As the time affirmed maxim goes, “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty”, please be perpetually cautious of news and information floating around in this post-truth age, while continually interrogating their rapidly metastasising origins, even as a number of them keep attempting to act or look like us.
At NATION NEWSLEAD, we are primed to continually delivering on socially responsible journalism, whilst expanding the space for constant civic engagement with institutions and social processes.
We will also keep working with law enforcement to rein in on identity thieves and manipulators, whose ultimate aims are to misinform the public and profit from this, in manners that abuse our sacred mandate as a purveyor of truth and accountability.

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Human Papillomavirus And Risk For Head And Neck Cancer.
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REAL Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kyle Richards is living large in her La Quinta mansion.
The large home- which happens to be near pal Kris Jenner’s mansion- features a golf course, massive pool and more amenities.
Kyle’s tour began in the living room, which features an open floor plan with white couches, brick-lined walls and a coffee table.
The room also features a huge bar, a flat screen TV hung up on the wall and a fireplace below it.
The room opens up to a large patio, which offers great views of a golf course and mountains.
A number of outside chairs and tables sit on the patio, while the backyard also boasts a huge swimming pool and palm trees.
While standing in the living room, Kyle told the viewers: “Seeing this view, just wide open like this to the golf course, makes me feel instantly relaxed and peaceful.”
She then explained that “La Quinta is about a two hour drive from Los Angeles,” adding that people from LA often travel to the area over the weekends.
Kyle said she and her family spent time at their La Quinta house during the coronavirus pandemic quarantine when they wanted “a change of scenery.”
She shares the home with husband Mauricio Umansky, 50, and their children: Alexia, 24, Sophia, 21, and Portia, 13.
The RHOBH star also shares daughter Farrah, 32, with ex Guraish Aldjufrie.
Moving into another room, Kyle explained she wanted to have a room for “the kids to hang out” in.
The room features a pool table, TV, fire place, bean bag chairs and elliptical machine, while Kyle explained that each of her daughters have their own rooms in the house.
Kyle next gave her fans a look at the kitchen, which includes a large island in the center of the room, stainless-steel appliances and dark wooden cabinets.
She said: “I really fell in love with this kitchen because I can just see myself cooking and laying up a little buffet up here.”
The Bravo star then revealed she wants to “completely re-do” the kitchen to make it more “light and bright.”
Moving on to the bedroom, Kyle said the room is the one she has made “the most effort with.”
Similar to other rooms in the house, the walls feature brick details and fireplaces.
Additionally, the room includes a large white bed, a couch, a gold chandelier, tall plants and multiple windows that welcome natural light into the room.
She explained: “I tried to make everything lighter and more modern.
“Eventually I’d hope to have the whole house more like this.”
The tour then took viewers outside, as Kyle pointed out the mountains surrounding her mansion and the golf course backdrop.
Kris isn’t the only famous Kardashian to have a home in the area, as Kourtney Kardashian recently purchased a mansion in La Quinta for $12 million.
Kourtney, 41, bought a six-bedroom, eight-bathroom mansion in La Quinta, California for $12million on May 27, The Sun exclusively confirmed.
According to Realtor, the “contemporary” and “luxurious” home is newly constructed and located in the prestigious Madison Club.


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Muslim Basketball Player Quits USF Team
Greg Auman, St. Petersburg Times, September 16, 2004
Andrea Armstrong, the USF women’s basketball player who was seeking NCAA approval to wear religious clothing during practice and games, quit the team Wednesday, saying she did not want her Muslim religion to become a distraction for her team.
But the leader of a local Muslim rights group said the 22-year-old was frightened by hate e-mails and negative reactions she’s encountered since a St. Petersburg Times article detailed her story Saturday.
“The controversy with USF and the NCAA was peanuts compared to the backlash that has erupted,” said Ahmed Bedier of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, who spoke with Armstrong on Wednesday night. “The bigger fight is against public opinion and the bigotry and ignorance we have in our society.”
Armstrong could not be reached for comment.
The 6-foot-3 senior quit the team two weeks ago but rejoined Friday, after Bedier’s group sent the university a letter protesting “a case of apparent religious discrimination.”
This time, Armstrong said she’s left the team for good, though she will remain on scholarship this season.
“Knowing the potential of my team and how hard coach (Jose) Fernandez and the rest of the coaching staff is working with the team, I don’t want this issue to cause further distraction,” Armstrong wrote in a letter to Fernandez and released by USF. “I am concerned that this is dividing my team, school and community. Because of this concern, I believe it best to withdraw from the team.”
Armstrong recently converted to Islam and sought to wear long pants, long-sleeved shirts and a Muslim head scarf with her uniform in games, allowing her to comply with Islamic codes that require a woman’s skin to be covered.
An NCAA official said Wednesday there would be no obvious problems with such a uniform waiver request, that no such appeal had ever been denied by the NCAA.
Armstrong told the Times last week that Fernandez had told her the clothing would make teammates uncomfortable and that Islam oppresses women. She also said he called her parents in Oregon and warned them that she had joined a cult. In announcing her decision Wednesday, USF offered a letter written from Fernandez to Armstrong, reiterating that both of her decisions to quit the team were completely voluntary and that she was under no pressure to do so.
“The Department of Athletics is committed to a comfortable and inclusive environment for our student athletes, and we want to be sure that no one pressured you to quit the team,” Fernandez wrote. “ . . . I believe that you clearly understood that USF will not tolerate discrimination, harassment or retaliation.”
Those, however, are exactly what Armstrong has encountered since Saturday, Bedier said. She endured people saying things to her on campus, heard negative responses on talk radio and received vulgar e-mails that bashed her and her religion. The Times has received similar e-mails and phone messages since the story was published.
“She’s away from her family, here by herself. . . It really scared her,” said Bedier, who said his group supports her decision to quit the team. “I think she was overwhelmed with the amount of attention she was receiving. She didn’t want to be the center of negative feelings. She felt frightened, and decided this for her safety, No. 1.”

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The Western Union Co. on Tuesday reported a 14 percent decline in first-quarter profit from the same period a year ago, as the company has had to cut its fees on money transfers.
Douglas County-based Western Union (NYSE: WU), the world’s largest money transfer company, reported quarterly net income of $212 million, or 37 cents a share, down from $247.3 million, or 40 cents a share a year earlier.
Analysts, on average, had expected earnings of 32 cents per share, according to Thomson Reuters.
The company’s total revenue fell 5 percent to $1.32 billion in the first quarter from $1.39 billion a year earlier. Revenue in its largest consumer-to-consumer segment fell 7 percent from the first quarter of 2012, which included “a negative 2 percent impact from [the] Vigo and Orlandi Valuta brands and a negative 1 percent impact from currency,” the company said.
Western Union offers money transfer services in Latin America under the Vigo and the Orlandi Valuta brands, in addition to its own.
“Our strategic pricing investments in consumer money transfer are working, electronic channels continue to expand at a robust pace, and Business Solutions delivered solid results,” said Hikmet Ersek, Western Union president and CEO.
“As we stated in February, we expect 2013 to be a transitional year as we implement key strategic actions, but we remain confident these actions will drive revenue and profit growth in 2014 and beyond.”
Western Union’s Business Solutions segment reported a 7 percent increase in revenue in the quarter.
Cash flow from operating activities was $237 million in the quarter. Western Union returned $260 million to shareholders, consisting of $190 million in share repurchases and $70 million in dividends.
The company affirmed its full-year 2013 outlook, which includes full-year earnings per share in a range of $1.33 to $1.43 and cash flow from operating activities of about $900 million.

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Trillo to run for governor as independent
Former Republican state Rep. Joe Trillo said Tuesday that he will run for governor of Rhode Island as an independent.
“To win with my message in Rhode Island, I will need Democratic support, a lot of independent support, and Republicans. I feel this can only be accomplished by shedding party politics and running as an independent,” he announced on the WPRO Matt Allen talk show Tuesday afternoon.
Trillo’s defection from the Republican party after more than 20 years leaves two candidates vying for the nomination from the G.O.P.
NBC 10 News political analyst Wendy Schiller said the departure of Trillo, who was the honorary chair of the Trump for President campaign in Rhode Island, will allow the remaining candidates to edge away from the controversial president.
“I think Fung can pivot a little bit away from Trump if Patricia Morgan pivots away from Trump,” Schiller said.
Trillo was a Republican state representative for 15 years. He believes the Trump philosophy will win him Republican votes, and those of Democrats who are rejecting progressive principles.
“I’m going to look for radical change that everybody’s afraid to talk about,” he said. “I’m talking about reforming schools. I’m talking about making major changes in our police department, stop tying the hands of police and telling them what they can and cannot do.”
He will not reveal if the president will come to campaign with him, but did note a surrogate, Pastor Mark Burns, will come to support the effort.
Trillo’s candidacy will mean a third party in the race, which is good for Democrat Gov. Gina Raimondo, if she wins her party’s nomination.
“I do think it hurts Alan Fung or Patricia Morgan to have Trillo out there siphoning off dedicated Republican voters who they need to beat Gina Raimondo,” Schiller said.
Just to add to the calculations, the Moderate Party told NBC 10 it plans on putting up a candidate, which might complicate Raimondo’s campaign, according to Schiller.
“I think it depends all on what the Moderate party candidate focusses on,” she said. “If they focus on taxes or good government, Gina has some problems with a Moderate Party candidate in the race. “
Progressive Democrats believe Raimondo needs a challenge from the left, and could conceivably run a fifth candidate.


President Trump’s attorneys withdrew from a case in Pennsylvania on the eve of oral arguments to challenge more than 600,000 votes in Pennsylvania and keep alive his hopes of reversing a projected win of presumptive President-elect Joseph R. Biden.
His new counsel from Scaringi Law petitioned a federal court judge Monday evening to ask for a postponement of oral arguments, which were scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.
The move was designed to put former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani at the front of the legal fight.
“The president announced Saturday that he has asked Mayor Rudy Giuliani to lead the national legal team, along with local counsel. Our substitution of local counsel is consistent with routine managing of complex litigation,” said Trump campaign legal adviser Jenna Ellis.
Mr. Trump’s attorneys and campaign team have argued that Pennsylvania election officials caused a constitutional crisis with the disparate treatment of Republican and Democratic voters.
Keeping Mr. Biden out of the White House come Jan. 20 is an uphill legal battle, but any shot at succeeding depends on a court victory for Mr. Trump in Pennsylvania, where he trails in the unofficial results by about 69,140 votes.
The crux of the Trump team’s case is that election workers in heavily Democratic counties notified voters whose mail-in ballots had errors, allowing time for the ballots to be corrected or “cured” before Election Day. In heavily Republican counties, voters whose mail-in ballots had problems were denied opportunities to cure them.
At issue is more than 600,000 ballots from Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia County. The campaign claims the ballots were counted unlawfully. Those included some mail-in ballots that were opened before Election Day, in violation of state law.
“We are still arguing that 682,479 ballots were counted illegally, in secret,” Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh said. “Our poll watchers were denied meaningful access to watch the vote counting, and we still incorporate that claim in our complaint.”
Attorneys for the Democratic Party say the number of ballots contested is lower than the roughly 70,000-vote margin that separates Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden.
“The numbers aren’t even close to the margin between the two candidates, not even close,” Cliff Levine, a lawyer representing the Democratic National Committee, told The Associated Press.
Mr. Trump’s attorneys filed court papers Sunday to head off an attempt by Pennsylvania officials to have the case dismissed. The amended complaint argued that unlawful ballots were counted and the state used different processes to tally votes in various counties.
The complaint says unlawful actions violate the Constitution’s framework for elections and the 14th Amendment guarantee of equal protection under the law.
“This Court should hear it and grant … a remedy that vindicates their right to have their vote ‘correctly counted,’” the complaint said.
Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar denied wrongdoing. She argued in court papers that the president’s legal team presented “repeatedly rejected legal theories” with “no evidence.”
She has asked the court to dismiss the president’s case.
Last week, a judge in Arizona dismissed a Trump campaign case disputing ballots in Maricopa County.
The Arizona Republican Party still has an active lawsuit seeking a hand audit of the ballots. Unlike other legal battles launched by the Trump campaign, the litigation is not in federal court.
Mr. Trump’s attorneys also have a federal lawsuit pending in Michigan before Judge Janet T. Neff, who was appointed by President George W. Bush.
Similar to the Pennsylvania challenge, the Michigan case presents equal protection claims. Trump attorneys say mail-in ballots were not able to be reviewed for errors, and they are asking the court to postpone the certification of the results until the president can present the evidence of fraud his legal team has gathered.
The president’s attorneys also asked the court for an opportunity to inspect software in Michigan after Dominion Voting Systems ballot scanners switched 6,000 votes from Mr. Trump to Mr. Biden in Antrim County, though the mix-up was caught and corrected. The company denies any malfunction, and state officials attributed the problem to human error.
At this juncture, the most likely path to victory for Mr. Trump would be through Pennsylvania.
Matt Morgan, general counsel for Trump 2020, said the goal is to keep Pennsylvania from certifying election results before the campaign can prove that officials counted illegal votes. He said the target is to reach an automatic recount in the state, which would be triggered if the candidates were 0.5 percentage points apart in the vote tally. The current margin is 1 percentage point.
If Mr. Trump succeeds in nullifying Mr. Biden’s projected win in Pennsylvania, he would then have to do the same in Arizona or Nevada and win the still too-close-to-call race in Georgia in order to clinch a second term.
Georgia officials started a hand recount of the results Friday. Republican observers will be able to object to ballots that they consider erroneous. The president trails Mr. Biden by 0.3 percentage points in Georgia’s unofficial results as tabulated by AP.
The president is not part of a federal case in Nevada, where a voter and Republican candidates are claiming fraud and irregularities in Clark County, which includes Las Vegas.
The lawsuit claims thousands of nonresidents voted in the state illegally.
Mr. Trump trails by about 33,596 votes in Nevada.
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General Motors yesterday withdrew a request for loan guarantees from European governments, saying it now had the firepower to finance a restructuring of the company without outside support.
Last year, the US car-maker, which owns the Vauxhall and Opel marques, asked the British, German, Spanish, Polish, Austrian and Belgian governments to guarantee loans of €1.8bn (£1.5bn) to help it raise crucial financing from the debt markets. GM's poor credit rating would have meant that borrowing the money without public-sector support would have prohibitively expensive.
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(Yicai Global) Jan. 10 -- China's leading network security company Beijing Qihoo 360 Technology Co. (360) has instituted the world's first shared cloud platform based on blockchain technology and will release a corresponding router and app, it has announced.
Users of the cloud platform can share idle bandwidth and computing resources and storage space with those in need, ithome.com reported yesterday. The platform also offers an incentive scheme offering rewards correlated to the amount of resources users swap, and lets them use the app to view these prizes in real time.
The facility uses blockchain technology to build a stable, secure, decentralized bottom-level computing system whose data is tamper-proof and thus ensures information authenticity, per the report.
The company will also set up a blockchain technology lab with QTUM, a blockchain platform and BTN Foundation -- the BitMEX institute -- to promote practical application of this technology in China's internet field, 360's Blockchain Research Center further announced on Jan. 7.
Blockchain technology is now considered speculative, but this is a misapprehension, since its true value has not yet been fully tapped, said Liu Wei, head of jinrong.360.cn. The laboratory will gather more blockchain experts and developers to promote future change in the internet sector.


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Gisele Bundchen presented the Trophy together with retired player from Spain named Carles Puyol, the previous World Cup winner. Gisele is a native Brazilian and she likely shed some tears when Brazil got humiliated by Germany in the quarter-finals.
Gisele posted a photo of here Puyol and her just before the award presentation on Facebook, joking about keeping the Trophy.
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Just two days after a rousing inaugural speech in which the president laid out his vision for an equal and just America where women are paid fairly, members of Congress have an opportunity to take a significant step to address the gender-based wage discrimination that has plagued our nation for decades. Passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act, which was introduced today, must be a top priority.
The wage gap is a matter of basic fairness and economic well-being for the country’s working families. America’s women are paid just 77 cents for every dollar paid to men, resulting in more than $11,000 in lost income each year. For African American women and Latinas, who are paid just 70 and 60 cents, respectively, for every dollar paid to men, the financial impact of the wage gap is even worse — and the consequences can be devastating.
According to a recent analysis by the National Partnership, eliminating the wage gap would mean that African American women would have enough money for more than two years’ worth of food or more than three years’ worth of family health insurance premiums in a year. Latinas would have enough for nearly two years of rent or an additional 5,743 gallons of gas. Losses of this magnitude are unacceptable.


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Essaouira is a popular surfing destination for surfers from all over the world. As a coastal town on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, Essaouira offers an ideal surfing environment, with powerful and consistent waves all year round.
This guide will explain everything you need to know about surfing in Essaouira, the best surf spots and conditions to be aware of, safety equipment and accommodation.
Why start surfing in Essaouira?
Surfing is a sport that is attracting more and more people. Essaouira’s waves offer surfers a variety of conditions to suit all levels.
Essaouira is an ideal destination for beginners, as the waves on its beach are relatively calm and the weather conditions are favourable all year round.
Starting surfing in Essaouira is a very attractive option for those who want to learn to surf. The beach is lined with sand dunes and offers ample space for surfing, with waves that are perfect for beginners. The weather conditions are very stable and the sea is calm, making it an excellent place to learn.
Starting surfing in Essaouira has several advantages over other destinations. Firstly, there is no high or low tide, which means surfers can enjoy the best swell all year round. In addition, the shallow waters are ideal for learning to surf as they offer excellent support and are shallow enough for beginners to feel comfortable.
Essaouira’s beach is also very well equipped for surfing. There are schools all over the city as well as qualified instructors available to give personalised lessons to beginners and a wide range of surfboards available for hire.
The coastal waters are also protected by buoys, which means surfers can be safe and concentrate on learning without having to worry about other boats or coastal obstacles.
These assets make Essaouira an ideal choice to start surfing.
What equipment do I need to start surfing?
Surfing is an exciting sport that requires a variety of equipment. You should choose the equipment according to your surfing skills. If you are a beginner, you need less equipment than an experienced surfer.
During your stay in Essaouira, there are some materials in common between a beginner and an experienced surfer.
Of course, this is the equipment that everyone knows! The surfboard is the main equipment that allows surfers to ride the high waves.
The leash is a piece of surf equipment that looks like a rope. It allows the surfer to stay attached to the board.
In case a big wave takes you away, you will find the board attached to your feet and you won’t risk losing it.
Wetsuits keep surfers warm in the cold sea water. You can choose a full wetsuit or a spring wetsuit depending on the water temperature. The thickness of the suit also varies from 2 mm to 4/3 mm.
Surfers apply a special kind of wax to the surfboard before surfing. The wax allows the surfer to keep his grip on the surfboard.
This can be considered as a secondary surfing accessory. Surf cameras are not only used to capture the beauty of the sea and your movements, but they also record the moments when surfers make mistakes. Beginning surfers can improve their performance by watching their images and videos. Of course, your surf camera should be waterproof.
This selection of surfing equipment is not exhaustive, but it represents at least the essentials for beginning surfing.
You should also know that it is possible to rent all this equipment locally, through the schools or via specialist guides.
Essaouira, a city known to surfers around the world
Essaouira is a town on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, famous for its fine sandy beach and its impetuous waves. Essaouira is also known by surfers around the world as an ideal resort for both beginners and experienced surfers.
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Essaouira beach has a beautiful stretch of white sand and crystal clear water that is perfect for surfing. The waves are generally calm and can be very high when the weather conditions are right. The surrounding beaches also offer interesting spots for advanced surfers looking for more intense conditions.
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Essaouira’s waters offer surfers an idyllic setting to practice their passion, with a rich and varied natural environment. The tropical forest bathed by the turquoise waters of the Atlantic Ocean provides a magnificent backdrop for surfing sessions.
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Finally, Essaouira is also known for its festive atmosphere and unique ambiance. The city is also home to several bars and cafes where surfers can meet up after a day of exploring the waves of the Atlantic Ocean.
In addition, the city offers a variety of activities to do, including hiking and biking around the bay, boat trips to nearby small islands and cultural tours of the historic city centre. Travellers can enjoy the city to the fullest while experiencing the best of surfing.

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This is another attempt to set reality straight, to show that the current reality has flaws that deserve attention but will not receive attention because very few believe them to exist. The reason for trying to fix reality, to examine accepted reality and reality itself is to set stage for arguments that may seem absurd but which really are not, are understood to be absurd because a warped sense of reality is the reality that is not only accepted but trusted.
Here is a suggestion for school districts in financial trouble such as our local district, the Washoe County School District that is facing a deficit of around $40,000,000 and somehow, its administrators and Board of Trustees, came to believe that a viable way to deal with financial crisis was to cut the number of teachers by raising the size of classes.
In a reasonable world, in a reality shaped by good reasoning, the district –no school district–would never have even considered reduction in teacher force and increases in class size as remedy because those in decision making positions would have been sensible enough to understand that class size, in far too many instances, is already too large and, as I have said in other posts, the sensible class size is a key factor in instructional programs of worth.
That said, I ask the Board and district administrators to consider this proposition, that football programs be eliminated and the land that is now used for football become land used for new buildings to accommodate projected increases in school enrollment.
As I say this, I realize that a good many who “care” about education and the welfare of students who attend our schools will say that this is not only the wrong thing to do but that it is absurd to make such a suggestion at all. They will cite tradition and the central role that the games and the pageantry play in the schools, their contribution to the growth of young men and to school spirit and other such things important to making the school experience a worthwhile one.
Those who have paid attention to the good amount of research that has been done on the effects of football on the brains of those who play the game should understand that it is beyond ridiculous that institutions trusted with the welfare of young people should sponsor such an activity. All one has to do to get a sense of the crisis that is football is watch the Frontline documentary (PBS) League of Denial (LOD) and check the program’s website on occasion for updates on the latest findings that recommend that the sensible response is the end of football as a sport, most particularly as a sport played by youth.
I think it most fair to say that those who, after watching LOD, continue to support football in the schools because it somehow benefits school and students are being in denial. I wholeheartedly welcome anyone to help me understand why the game should continue to be played on those tracts of land that are sites for this terrible spectacle.
The average acreage covered by a football field is 1.32 and with spectator stands and all else that comprises a proper stadium, considerably more, enough to accommodate facilities for healthy forms of instruction.
Washoe County School District is now planning to build several new schools and, I assume, all high school sites will appropriate at least 1.32 acres of land to football. Eliminating the football field from the school plan will allow the District to spend less money on land for new schools. As I have suggested, land now used at extant schools for football could be repurposed, this reducing the number of new schools needed while saving the minds of students who would have become football players.
In actuality, land dedicated to football at each school averages around three acres or more. At the present time, there are 11 high schools in the district that have football programs and the fields to accommodate the game. An end to the most dangerous game would free put 33 acres of real estate. The monetary costs of football are, of course, not confined to acreage and, I have to think that they will rise precipitously as more becomes known about the health effects of football on players and the long lasting consequences of a game involving repeated bumps to the head.
Now, I ask again to hear from those who find my suggestions here to be anything less than sensible and those who do find them sensible to help me, as a candidate for Board of Trustees, to bring others to their senses, to help them understand that football really does not make sense because it does, in too many cases, destroy minds.


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Ever seen a human mandible violently split open down the middle Predator-style? Well, do I have a movie for you! Red Letter Day asks a question similarly presented by bigger budget (better) horror film The Purge. What happens to peaceful suburbia in the face of impending violence? The answer is mayhem.
While The Purge‘s premise encouraged citizens to murder each other lawfully, Red Letter Day takes a more nefarious and mysterious approach. We never know for sure (until the end) who is mailing the entirety of a suburban neighborhood red letters instructing the addressee to murder a named neighbor…before the neighbor can kill them. At first amusing and a touch startling, a sense of paranoia overcomes the film’s lead Melanie (Dawn Van de Schoot) and her two teenage kids, daughter Madison (Hailey Foss) and son Tim (Kaeleb Zain Gartner).
Because this is a horror movie, the trio separate to face their quickly unraveling suburbia. Melanie visits her target and best friend, only to have to protect herself from her friend’s irrational spouse. Madison splits to be with her boyfriend while Tim is hunted in his own home.
In the film’s Blu-ray extras, writer and director Cameron Macgowan explains the inspiration for Red Letter Day came from the anxiety of not trusting your neighbors, but also Donald Trump’s polarization and how quickly groups of people turned on each other. In theory, it’s a fantastic idea, but in execution, the director fails to flesh out the basic concept. Small budget horror films tend to obsess over practical effects, and here is where Red Letter Day fumbles. The blood and gore overshadow and overcompensates for the lack of story. There’s no chemistry between leads, and the antagonist, of course, is hiding behind a computer screen in his mom’s basement. Originality? Nope.
There are worse horror films out there, but not many. The film is a breezy watch at 76 minutes and probably worth a viewing from fans of the genre, but don’t expect a well-manicured slasher or you may want to murder your friendly neighborhood film critic.

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Law enforcement is notorious for not taking online harassment—of which women are often the targets—seriously. The frightening futility of bringing reams of threatening evidence to the police or even the FBI has been painstakingly documented by numerous female writers, but even women who don’t make their living online log on at their own risk.
Isolated cases involving sexual photos have been successful by making copyright violations the central issue, but the Supreme Court made prosecuting verbal threats even more difficult last year when it reversed the conviction of a man who had posted violent threats against his ex-wife, a female FBI agent, and even a local kindergarten.
Elsewhere, though, there are signs that these crimes—the seriousness of which wouldn’t be at issue if the mails or telephones were being used to issue the threats—are being taken increasingly seriously.
In Australia, 25-year-old Zane Alchin pleaded guilty to “using a carriage service to menace” today after posting dozens of threatening comments on Facebook. He had originally posted the Tinder profile photo of Olivia Melville alongside an derogatory caption. When her friend, Paloma Brierley Newton, requested that he remove the picture, Alchin attacked her, according to The Guardian:
Among the comments Alchin made were: “You know the best thing about a feminist they don’t get any action so when you rape them it feels 100 times tighter”; “You’ll be eating my cock till you puke”; and “I’d rape you if you were better looking”.
When Brierley Newton threatened to report him to police, Alchin replied: “What law am I breaking? I’m not the one out of the fucking kitchen.”
Alchin posted 55 comments in a two-hour period. Brierley Newton reported him to police, gave them a USB drive containing screenshots of his comments and blocked him on Facebook.
Alchin didn’t seem especially remorseful at first—he claimed he was drunk when he wrote the inflammatory comments, originally entered a not-guilty plea, and did this at a court appearance last year—but last Monday he reversed that plea. At his sentencing, scheduled for next month, he’ll face up to three years in prison. Whether law enforcement elsewhere will start treating threats made online as they would any other remains to be seen.


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The Buffalo Bills and former general manager Bill Polian could be reuniting as early as Monday according to Pro Football Talk. The report cites "league insiders" and their "beliefs" but the rumor mill is churning fast and furious. Polian has since denied the rumors.
What the reports don't say is what Polian's title would be. If he's hired as a full-time employee - say general manager - his Hall of Fame candidacy in the newly created Contributor category could be in jeopardy. That might require Polian's job to be in a short-term capacity or "football czar" who helps new owner Terry Pegula evaluate the football department following the season, but only for a brief period of time. That would theoretically include performance reviews on general manager Doug Whaley, head coach Doug Marrone, players, and coaching staff. As PFT points out, Polian has been outspoken in his support of Marrone, in particular, going as far as to say he should be in the running for Coach of the Year.
Terry Pegula bought the team this September but hasn't spoken publicly about the futures of anyone associated with the organization since Ralph Wilson family members and long-time Wilson confidantes left the team immediately upon the transition. Pegula himself took over the title of CEO from Russ Brandon, who stayed on as team president. Any talk of Polian's scope including Brandon and the business side of the team would be premature at this point.


In the run-up to the US presidential election, politicians and political activists have turned to the video game “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” as a platform.
But how can gaming be a forum for political activism?
On November 3, the US will elect a new president, bringing to a conclusion a bitter election season highlighted by a pandemic that irrevocably altered economic and social life. There have been losses and winners, as is typical in crisis situations.
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Online games are used by political activists and officials to raise awareness of their issues. For instance, a Black Lives Matter activist erected a memorial to George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other Black victims of racial brutality on an island in the video game Animal Crossing.
However, political campaigns have long utilized video games. This phenomenon is not particularly recent. They used to be built specifically to promote activities for a team or a leader with a specific audience.
But in-game advertisement is a completely different matter because, like social media commercials, it functions more as an accessory than as the game’s primary objective. But for the most part, business in video games is still the exception, not the rule.


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The opening to the week was a rather surprising one for those of us who did not catch, watch, follow, tweet about, update, talk about the Super Bowl. Launching twitter in the early morning surprised me with an onslaught about the Super Bowl, the advertisements and of course, Beyonce. Some humorous folks out there on Twitter who were not following the epic event rambled on with hilarious tweets like ‘Just woke up. So, did Beyonce win?’ Guys, you are too funny.
Anyway, according to the news CBS announced via its website and blog the exact number of people who were glued to their TVs, tablets, laptops, personal computers and phones during the Super Bowl. They had the Super Bowl XLVII game covered on the internet via their live stream too and they said that there were more than three million UNIQUE viewers just for the live stream alone. Not a surprising figure, actually, and some also reported that, despite the sheer number of people logging in and streaming the event, the quality was good and there was not much lagging too. The news network said that the figure doubled from last years’. The event also racked up more than 52.5 million mentions all around the world…in a single day, more mentions for last year’s Super Bowl and the Grammy Awards. For non twitter users, this means that people said something about the event on Twitter.
If you are not one for figures, basically, researches are saying that it is the ‘most social event in the history of television’.
We are sure Beyonce’s half-time performance have something to do with it, of course. Why? For one, it is Beyonce. Second of all, it is the first time that a half-time performance is ever streamed LIVE on a website. Yes, this is a first for Super Bowl to stream the performance in the U.S. The LIVE streaming also helped Super Bowl fans stay connected to and share and followed on online social networking sites. Doesn’t it sound to you that the internet is turned into a huge bar with multiple televisions and the world is just watching the game and performance together? Yes, let’s say it together…the internet is amazing.
The President of CBS Interactive was quick to quip that he was proud of his team and station’s performance and achievements. ‘Our goal was to create an environment that would serve as a perfect complement to CBS Sports’ coverage of the game. We are extremely proud of this historic experience,’ says Jim Lazone.
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Atlantic City casinos saw a 13 percent decline in casino revenue last month, the Atlantic City Press reported.
The city’s casinos had hoped that June numbers would give them momentum going into the peak tourism season.
“The gambling industry has struggled with revenue declines in each month so far this year, showing that the sluggish economy and competition from casinos in surrounding states continue to hurt Atlantic City,” Donald Wittkowski of the Press reported.
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ZAGREB, 22 January (Hina) – The Croatian Tourism Board (HTZ) on Friday selected five foreign marketing and PR agencies for advertising activities on ten markets, announcing that next month it would launch safety labels guaranteeing the safe stay of tourists in Croatia.
“For the 2021 season Croatia is sending a clear and strong message that the tourism sector in Croatia is responsible and that tourists are safe here,” the HTZ President and Minister of Tourism and Sports, Nikolina Brnjac, said.
“It is encouraging that people are eager to travel and cite Croatia as a desirable destination. Today we have made important decisions that will significantly contribute to Croatia’s promotion across key international markets,” she added.
“We are aware of how important it is to adopt and implement clear and high-quality health and safety protocols. Therefore, in cooperation with the Croatian Institute of Public Health and professional associations, we have supplemented the safety label of the World Travel and Tourism Council with an additional national safety label Safe Stay in Croatia, whose application and promotion will begin in February”, Brnjac said.
HTZ Director Kristjan Staničić said that the selection of agencies was crucial for promotion and other activities across key international markets.
“We expect a strong contribution from the agencies and effective implementation of marketing and PR campaigns that will provide our country on the international market with the position of a safe, high-quality and well-prepared tourist destination that guarantees its guests a diverse offer and safe stay,” Staničić said.
The HTZ selected marketing agencies Real Group, MediaCom, Aviareps, Pro Media Group and Check-in PR for the development of an advertising strategy and media plan and the implementation of marketing activities on 10 markets. For PR activities on international markets, Aviareps was selected for media relations, while Hills Balfour was selected for the implementation of social media activities and online/digital communication.
The HTZ also confirmed decisions on advertising activities on social networks Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Google search engine, as well as a proposal for select strategic partners to conduct promotional campaigns across international markets. Thus, for 2021, cooperation with a total of 43 partners was approved, of which 32 are partners in the category of tour operators and agencies, and 11 partners from the category of carriers.


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This special issue of the Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture is based on a conference we convened in 2019 entitled "Inhuman Screens." The conference explored cinema, social media, and emerging technologies, as well as concerns related to posthumanism; and will continue to explore these themes in future iterations. We were lucky enough to have keynotes from Adrian Martin and Jack Sargeant, who have contributed to this issue. We also included appropriately digital and disembodied interviews with acclaimed psychoanalytic philosopher Alenka Zupančič and fiction and nonfiction writer Donna Freitas.
This issue of JAPPC, like the conference, explores how we are mediated by screens; how the human as a pure, detached category is no longer viable. Although screen technologies offer utopian transhumanist and posthumanist potentialities, they also offer threats: the threat of inhuman standards of perfection online (what Freitas call the Happiness Effect), surveillance and new modes of labor. The title Inhuman Screens designates an approach that tries to explore rather than condemn how technology shapes and reshapes the human. Inhuman Screens thereby seeks to interrogate discourses around the framing and screening of the human as transformed and mediated by technology.
Starting with early visual recording technologies in the nineteenth century, the idea of the human has been challenged. As Sean Cubitt has argued, photography orphaned the image from subject.1 Effectively, photography split the person between self and trace; between life and a dead reflection. The photograph created a mirror of the self while at the same time removing color, movement, and embodiment. Cinema soon followed. [End Page 1] The great Russian writer Maxim Gorky described cinema in inhuman and even supernatural terms:
Last night I was in the Kingdom of Shadows.
Every thing there—the earth, the trees, the people, the water and the air—is dipped in monotonous grey. Grey rays of the sun across the grey sky, grey eyes in grey faces, and the leaves of the trees are ashen grey. It is not life but its shadow. It is not motion but its soundless specter.2
Gorky underscores an uncanny similitude to the cinema; its corpse like proximity to life when he states that "suddenly a strange flicker passes through the screen and the picture stirs to life."3 Cinema, this uncanny animation, coincides with, as Barbara Creed notes, the emergence of Freudian psychoanalysis, which like the cinema, split the subject and offered images familiar and yet disturbing to the psyche.4 Both psychoanalysis and cinema concern the machineries of desire.
The vocabulary of Gorky finds echoes in the writings of Antonin Artaud, who describes cinema as murdering reality. Artaud argues that theater possesses an animal magic that cinema could never recover as it is "filtered through machines."5 Instead, Artaud explains that cinema remains sterile and dead with movies "murdering us with second hand reproduction." Cinema can only record movement and thereby can never attain a living engagement with the spectator.
Yet the prophetic power of Gorky's text—an analysis of shadows—has not been exhausted as its shadows linger. Jacques Derrida coined the term hauntology to describe a temporal disruption whereby presence recalls absence and absence becomes presence.6 For Derrida, hauntology was a haunting of ontology—challenging traditional metaphysics of presence and absence. Animation theorist Alan Cholodenko has amply deployed Gorky alongside Derrida to describe cinema as a crypt and haunted house, where movement and frozen stillness coexist amid the relay, describing the cinema as a deathly reanimation.7
This hauntological power of technologies of trace has become complicit in capitalist cultural recycling, according to Mark Fisher. Fisher notes that "in the conditions of digital recall, loss is itself lost."8 According to [End Page 2] Fisher, cultural life has lost its vitality as culture is continually sampled and redeployed, unable to generate any of the modernist delirium of creation, resulting from the absence an ideological alternative to capitalism. As capitalism has effectively led to "the slow cancellation of the future"—a term Fisher borrows from Franco "Bifo" Berard—culture becomes stuck and digital technology becomes complicit in our emaciated and ghostly condition. Unable to move beyond the ghosts...


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When the pandemic hit them hard, India’s talented craftspersons turned to their talent and creativity. Across the country, artisans are embroidering beautiful designs onto masks to create stunning pieces of work that are eco-friendly, unlike the
use-and-throw surgical masks.
Entrepreneurs across India have been roping artisans in to make reusable masks, giving them opportunities to use their craft creatively. Among them is Nishi Srivastava, founder of The Craftsutra, who works with folk artists from various states for her ‘Masks of India’ initiative.
“Reviving dying or endangered artforms is a passion,” Srivastava says. “‘Masks of India is entirely a livelihood project and social campaign. It encourages art in the form of masks.”
The Craftsutra has also worked with famous Phad artist Kalyan Joshi—Srivastava’s “guru”—to create face masks specially for weddings.
Among the traditional prints you will find on The Craftsutra’s masks are Lucknow’s intricate Chikankari embroidery work, Gujarati Ajrakh and Ikat block prints, West Bengal’s Kantha embroidery, Andhra Pradesh’s Kalamkari prints…
...Gond work from Madhya Pradesh, Lippan designs from Kutch, Cheriyal paintings from Telangana, Eri silk work from Assam and Madhubani work from Bihar.
Similarly, Coonoor-based Indian Yards works with rural and tribal women in the Nilgiris to make patchwork quilts and cotton bags. As their business took a turn for the worse during the pandemic, they turned to making face masks.
These artisans embroider Toda motifs—native to the Nilgiris—on their cotton masks. So far, Indian Yards has sold over 700 masks with Toda embroidery and more than 50,000 overall.
In Jaipur, Kaarii Designs works with artisans from its sister company Aagam, which is involved in the export of women’s wear, to give them a source of income during the lockdown. They now make masks with Jaipuri block prints that are sold for as low as Rs13 to Rs20 per piece.
Maharashtra’s Paithani saree weavers have also turned to this trend to save their businesses. Arati Baandal, founder of OnlyPaithani sarees, is in the process of working out designs and logistics to begin selling Maharashtrian Paithani- and Bengali Jamdani-woven masks.


[JURIST] UN expert Alfred de Zayas [official profile] on Tuesday warned against [press release] investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanisms in trade agreements, saying that they “are incompatible with democracy, the rule of law and human rights.” ISDS mechanisms, which according to Zayas, provide for “privatized or semi-privatized dispute settlement” he warns, work against the public interest and allows calculated risks for profit in accordance with a “ideologically-driven corporate narrative.” He believes that the “Investment Court” proposed in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which was signed in New Zealand [JURIST report] in February, is simply a “zombie of ISDS” with many “fundamental flaws.” He concluded his remarks urging the abolishment of ISDS and similar mechanisms. Currently 28 nations are negotiating the TPP.
The development of the TPP has had an impact on US trade laws in the last year, though not without controversy. In February de Zayas urged [JURIST report] governments in the Pacific Rim not to sign the TPP without first “reaffirming … human rights treaty obligations and their recent pledges to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.” However, two days later 12 countries across the Pacific-Rim signed the TPP in New Zealand amid waves of protest. In June the US House of Representatives voted [JURIST report] 286-138 to approve a trade law that provides assistance to workers who lose their jobs to international trade and renews Obama’s authority to negotiate trade deals on behalf of the country. The Trade Preference Extension Act included measures Obama had long pushed for and was seen as clearing the way for him to complete negotiations on the TPP. Also in June South Korea and China signed [JURIST report] a bilateral free trade agreement that will eliminate most tariffs between the two countries, which are not party to the TPP, over the next two decades after about three years of negotiations. In July 2014 the European Court of Justice ruled [JURIST report] that the European Commission was not being sufficiently transparent regarding negotiations with the US on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, which, like the TPP, aims to remove trade barriers between the EU and US.


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