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A husband has murdered his wife for a reason that his wife was cheering on the demise of his mother-in-law. This incident is from Kolhapur of Maharashtra. It is being told that Sandeep Lokhande, a resident of Kolhapur, was ill for quite some time and on March 9, his 70 year old mother, Malti Lokhande, passed away. Sandeep was very unhappy with his mother's death. But Sandeep's wife was happy with the death of her mother-in-law and she expressed her happiness in front of Sandeep.
His wife Shubhangi Lokhande was unhappy with her mother's death, Sandeep got angry over her and she killed her wife on 9th March. This led to the death of two members of this house within a day. Although Shubhangi's death was first seen from the angle of suicide, but later when the police examined the matter well then the truth of the death of Shubhangi reveals.
According to the police, Sandeep lives with his family in the Attenagar suburb and he threw his wife down with the second floor of his house. Sandeep's wife was standing in the balcony of her house, and at the same time Sandeep did this incident. However, after falling off the Shubhangi balcony, it was considered as suicide and it was said that Shubhangi jumped from the balcony in the gum of his mother-in-law.
The news of Shubhangi's suicide was spread to the newspapers and it was written in the local newspapers that it was "sad because of the death of a mother-in-law and her daughter-in-law's suicide". But the police did not pay attention to the theories of news published in the newspapers and investigated the case with every angle. At the end of its investigation, the police found that Shubhangi did not commit suicide and he was murdered. When the police interrogated Sandeep, he confessed his crime.

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Camera-toting immigration protesters crowded around Rep. Paul Ryan on Wednesday at a book-signing in Colorado – making him the latest GOP lawmaker to be confronted by activists this month.
Greisa Martinez, a national organizer with United We Dream, and three others bought books and waited in line – loudly hitting the Wisconsin Republican with questions when they got to the front of the crowd, Roll Call reports.
"I do not understand why you want to deport me and my mother," she said. "Why didn't your party pass immigration reform when you had the opportunity?"
"I am DACA-mented and I am here to stay," she declared, while another protester unrolled a banner.
Story continues below video.
Ryan, pushing his book "The Way Forward,"
at a local Barnes & Noble, told Martinez he wasn't taking questions, and then ducked into another room until police escorted the activists out of the store.
But while he was holed away, Martinez kept knocking on the door to the room where he'd retreated, Roll Call reported.
"I didn't get it in Texas; I didn't get it in Oklahoma," Ryan told Roll Call. "In Florida, you've got huge governor's race there, so I see it where there is a lot of agitated political activity."
Activists ambushed Republicans in two other recent instances.
Earlier this week, Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio was confronted by members of United We Dream during a fundraiser
in Anderson, S.C.
And earlier this month in Iowa, Republican Rep. Steve King and Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul were ambushed
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We’ve now reached the semi-final stage and France could well do it again, with Didier Deschamps emulating Aime Jacquet’s formula of a team based on hard work, defensive structure and unity, along with creative geniuses in attack.
It has to be said, France have barely shone in this tournament so far, except for a fireworks display in the 4-3 win over Argentina. Group stage qualification was reached with 2-1 (Australia) and 1-0 (Peru) wins, alongside an awful 0-0 draw against Denmark. There was nothing to lift the fans’ spirits in those performances.
The France team clearly reflects their manager’s personality in their football style: pragmatism and results first, style next, and optional. It’s no surprise that the four top performers in the team are hard working players. The number one being Chelsea’s N’Golo Kante, who has been exceptional so far, and is in the top 3 for interceptions and ball recoveries.
Then you have the very versatile Blaise Matuidi, who is crucial to the balance of the team with his left foot, tactical understanding and awareness of danger. And finally, the non-scoring centre-forward who is doing all the hard work for Griezmann and Mbappé, Arsenal’s former striker Olivier Giroud.
Giroud is still getting a fair bit of criticism for not scoring goals. Those who remember ’98 know that Stéphane Guivarc’h was crucial for France as the lone striker, but did not score any goals, and we won nonetheless. Giroud’s hard work creates time and space for his teammates, and is extremely valued by them and the coaching staff. He thrives in the system set-up by Deschamps.
Of course France could certainly play in more attacking style, and use the wealth of talent available, but we know Deschamps will never change. The current tactics might be good enough to win the world cup anyway, in an unspectacular fashion.
First, France will have to beat Belgium, and their array of attacking talent in Hazard, Lukaku and De Bruyne. There’s no doubt that it’ll be an open game, with France being useful on the break, but also capable of keeping the ball to smother the opponent like they did against Uruguay. A difficult task, but it will be an exciting game with end-to-end football.
Then, if we reach the World Cup final, it will be either the attacking and entertaining Croatia or the the boring but efficient England. France v Croatia would be similar to France v Belgium with quite an open game and many chances created. In terms of entertainment it would be a winner.
France v England would be extremely tense with both teams trying to score via set-pieces and making sure they don’t concede the first crucial goal. Both sides have similar defensively minded set-ups relying on speedy attacking players like Mbappé, Sterling or Alli to provide the creativity and the spark.
Overall, I would say France’s chances to win the World Cup are as good as the other three teams. I think there is no team that is vastly superior to the other three.
To me Croatia are slightly more creative than England, and Belgium are more powerful than France, so I would say Croatia 30%, Belgium 30%, France 20% and England 20% chance of winning the tournament. We’ll see.


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A bill that would allow people at risk of suicide to voluntarily give up their gun rights passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 77-20 on Friday, Feb. 23. The bill had already passed the Senate unanimously on Jan. 24.
SB 5553 allows a person to waive their rights to a firearm for at least seven days if they believe they are prone to moments of suicidal thoughts. The bill as it passed the House was amended to add protections for an applicant’s identity, which must be verified through a county clerk. The amendment would require the waiver to be entered into the national instant criminal background check system to identify prohibited purchasers. Waivers would be exempt from the Public Records Act and would only be disclosed to law enforcement.
“We are trying to take all the steps we can to move forward,” Representative Tina Orwall, D-Des Moines, said during floor debate in the House of Representatives.
The language of the bill is problematic, Representative Vicki Kraft, R-Vancouver said. She voiced concerns that people might interpret the bill as a waiver of Second Amendment rights and suggested that it could be termed more akin to a “do not sell” list.
“It allows you, in a moment of lucidity, to say when I get into those moments, please don’t sell me a gun,” Representative Paul Graves, R-Fall City, said during floor debate.
Suicide is the eighth leading cause of death in Washington state according to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the state’s annual rate is higher than the national rate.
A chart from nonprofit suicide prevention and education organization Forefront shows that 47 percent of the 1,129 suicides in Washington State in 2015 involved a firearm.
The bill will go back to the Senate, where it will be reconsidered with the amendment.
Suicide is a public health issue. If you need help, please call the suicide lifeline at 800-273-8255, the teen lifeline at 866-833-6546 or text 741741 for the crisis text line. Counselors are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
This report was produced by the Olympia bureau of the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association.


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We all face challenges in ensuring food security and these challenges will continue to intensify over the decades ahead. There are several global trends, which tell us that we are going to face challenges in making food sufficiency an issue of national security. First, the world’s population is projected to increase at a tremendous pace from 7 billion today to 9.7 billion by 2050. We will need to ramp up food production to accommodate more people that can have a positive impact on our food sufficiency. Second, climate change will impact food production. More extreme weather will impact yields. The availability of water resources which is insufficient in many parts of the world, will pose a challenge with regard to the amount of arable land that we have. Third, we are seeing migration to urban areas. Today, about half of the world’s population lives in urbanised environments. By 2050, this figure could rise to 70%.
So what can we do to address these challenges? Challenges which may seem insurmountable? How do we ensure sufficient production and availability to feed the population? How do we create more global food security? The WAF has already identified two crucial areas to look at - trade and technology.
It is a truism, but it is worth repeating that no country can achieve self-sufficiency in all types of food. In today’s globalized world, such an attempt does not make real economic sense, because the theory of comparative advantage suggest that you should specialize in areas that you can do better and let someone else do the jobs that you are unable to do so. Open trade in food encourages specialization which in turn encourages economies of scale. This means that there will be more markets for producers, and more availability and affordability for consumers. More open trade in food also helps us to achieve greater food security.
So it is worrying that we seem to be witnessing more protectionism in different parts of the world. Tariff and non-tariff barriers are manifestations of this. These moves may have short-term appeal, but they are counter-productive for consumer and producer alike in the longer-term. It is better for us to resist the urge to go into protectionism. Instead, we can reach out to one another, in forums like this, where we forge friendships, partnerships and create open markets in a sensible and calibrated way, taking into account domestic sensibilities. Governments, businesses, and individuals can strengthen trade links to benefit everybody concerned.
If freer trade is one way to enhance global food security, technology is another important way in which we can do so. Technology is an enabler, a multiplier, that helps mitigate constraints like limited arable land, water and weather changes for example. Technology allows us to grow much more with lesser resources. For example, there are irrigation systems, such as drip-irrigation systems, that drastically reduce water consumption. It is then possible in areas that are water-stressed, to develop farming as a viable industry sector. Greenhouses also increase yields by shielding plants from unpredictable or harsh weather conditions. There are also controlled indoor systems using LEDs, climate control systems within the building, that help us ramp up production in otherwise non-arable areas. For example, people are starting to do vegetable farming under viaducts, below bridges, in areas that would previously be shielded away from sunlight. But today, with LED lighting, these are all possible now; what used to be ‘dead space’, can now support agriculture and life.
Technology can mitigate the impact of urbanisation. We are seeing more automation in farms. This can reduce reliance on manpower. In this day, it is difficult to encourage people to do the back-breaking work of cultivation in the hot sun for very little returns. But with technology, we can reduce reliance on cheap manpower, and move the manpower on to higher value jobs. I recently came across an article about how farms in California are using robots to harvest their crops! Conversely, technology also allows us to urbanise farming. New vegetable farming methods that use soil-less substrates and hydroponics do not require vast tracts of arable land, allow farming to be done indoors, or in urbanised environments. The fact that they save water is an added benefit. Meanwhile, indoor farming can also allow farming to go vertical, so you are not concerned by the spread of the land, you can use the space above the land to grow more. Therefore, the yield per metre square of land can be multiplied several times because of that.
Singapore feels these global challenges even more acutely. At just 719 sq km, we are a tiny City-state in terms of geographical size. Even if we were to farm on every inch of our land, we would not be self-sufficient. In fact, we import more than 90% of our food. Trade is not just important to us, not just in terms of economic importance, it is an existential issue for us.
To facilitate this trade, we have built up our infrastructure and logistics capabilities. Particularly for perishable food, we have developed cold chains, cold storage, and even a Coolport to handle perishable items coming by air freight. Today, about 20% of the global agri-commodities trade comes through our sea and air ports in some shape or form. We are also home to 70% of the top agri-commodities trading companies here in Singapore.
We are constantly seeking ways to diversify our food sources and enhance our food trade. As of April this year, meat shipments from New Zealand destined for EU markets now transit through Singapore at the Coolport. We are the first country to receive EU approval to provide such services for meat originating from New Zealand. The way we see it, this is a win-win. New Zealand can export more lamb to the EU. The EU gets an additional source of good quality lamb from New Zealand. Singapore benefits from new trade flows and we also take in delicious New Zealand lamb!
Another way we try to enhance our food security is through local production. Our local farms provide a critical buffer for key food items like vegetables, eggs, and food fish. While it will never be able to meet 100% of our needs, we want to keep our farms here as a significant buffer against supply shocks, should any international sources that we have suffer from the consequences of a weather disruption or political change for example. This will provide a buffer for our local needs and therefore local farmers play a very important role.
But given our land constraints, we need to adopt new technology whenever we can. So we are always on the look-out for ways that will increase yields, especially if it means a smaller land footprint to give us a better yield. Technological solutions span the gamut from simple things like better irrigation systems and semi-enclosed greenhouses, to cutting edge solutions like multi-tiered vertical farming, LED technology, automation, and ICT. We help our farmers through incentives that encourage the adoption of productive technology.
Several of our local farms have embraced this trend. For example, Sustenir Agriculture grows hydroponic crops in an industrial building. They use LED lights, automated systems, and centralised controls that help them set environmental parameters for optimal growth. The result - crops that grow in half the time. Local fish farm Apollo Aquaculture has adopted technology and ICT sensors as well. They have also internationalized to a nearby country in Brunei.
We have found that one big benefit of adopting technology is that it attracts younger people to join the farm sector which previously would have been unattractive for them. Just 2 weeks ago, I was at the opening of a place called Citizen Farm. The farm is a ground-up initiative by a group of young people. It comprises a diverse mix of urban farming techniques and systems. It is also a community space that galvanizes people around the area to come together and they also have a social mission to help the less privileged, adults with learning disabilities, to use farming as a way to actualise their aspirations. The founder of Citizen Farm was only 31 when he started the company. His team is equally youthful.
I recognize that Singapore’s conditions are very different from most other countries. But I know that we are all experiencing rapid urbanization and we all face a common challenge. So I hope that some of Singapore’s experiences can be shared with all of you and we hope that from this conference, we can learn many useful lessons.
Ultimately, our common future depends on our ability to facilitate change and work together to overcome challenges. So sharing of experiences, knowledge, and best practices will help us as we try to enhance our national and global food security.
By Dr. Koh Poh Koon
Senior Minister of State, Ministry Of Trade and Industry, Singapore.

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Washington [US], January 19 (ANI): Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's daughter Lucie Arnaz commented on the discussion encompassing the actors that will portray her parents in an impending film.
According to Fox News, recently, it was accounted for that Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem are in converses with to play the television icons in 'Being the Ricardos', an Aaron Sorkin-directed film that will follow a week of production on the sitcom 'I Love Lucy.'
From that point forward, an objection from fans has offered criticism of the projecting, especially from fans wishing that Ball look-alike Debra Messing should be offered a chance at the role.
Messing even spoke out regarding the controversy, saying she's "available" to take on such a role.
Messing even stood up with respect to the debate, saying she's "accessible" to take on such a job.
However, the 69-year-old Lucie is sticking to her guns and standing up for Kidman's casting, as per Fox News.
Lucie who is an actress herself, shared a video on her Facebook handle on Sunday referring it to as 'a little chit chat sessi0on' with the fans who were enthusiastically commenting on the casting.
"There seems to be a lot of discussion about 'Nicole Kidman, it should be Debra Messing, it should be Carole Cook,' I don't know," her video hears as she began to speak.
"Here's the deal, what you should understand: We are not doing a remake of 'I Love Lucy.' No one has to impersonate Lucy Ricardo nor do the Vitameatavegamin routine or ... any of the silly things," she continued.
Arnaz played Ricky Ricardo in "I Love Lucy" from 1951-1957, while Ball portrayed Lucy Ricardo.
Lucie added in her video that "It's the story of Lucille Ball my actual mother, not Lucy Ricardo and her husband Desi Arnaz, my dad not Ricky Ricardo."
The star highlighted that the film will have comic factors and on the same time would largely focus on Ball and Arnaz's relationship and their love affair.
"I hope I can set the record straight here and say stop arguing about 'Who should play it? She doesn't look like her? The nose isn't the same, she isn't as funny, just trust us. It's gonna be a nice film. And P.S.: The voting is over." the actor told.
Fox News reported that Lucie was confident about the flick will not bring disappointments as she reiterated that the movie isn't her parents' 'whole story', nor is it 'a biopic from cradle to grave'. (ANI)


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We actually had a hawk land on the back deck railing this morning! What a sight that was!
I unpacked my new beach/camping chair this afternoon and it wasn’t what I expected. It’s not the chair I ordered, however after trying it out and looking at it and it’s quality I’ve decided to keep it. Strangely the chair they sent me was actually more expensive than the one I had ordered. The only real difference is it doesn’t have the cooler and it appears to be of a really good build quality, so I’ll take it. Comes in a really nice carrying bag too.
NECN did a section on the news broadcast highlighting one of my photos (where the anchor actually called it beautiful). It was the scene from the Boston seaport with the gull lapping up some water from a puddle in the foreground. It’s always cool to see them highlight my stuff like that.
This afternoon’s movie watch was something a little different as it was animated, plus only I really watched it. Batman: The Killing Joke based off the graphic novel from the 1980s of the same name. Not as good as the book (but how could it be? Nothing could beat Bolland’s artwork from the original, plus they seem to have added some stuff for the whole first half the movie which really didn’t have anything to do with the original source material).
Today is 9-11. Never forget.

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It is finally Thanksgiving — a time to celebrate and express gratitude for our most familiar faces. And yet, as per usual, I’m thinking about strangers.
I got coffee this past weekend with two of my closest friends from high school. We all stayed home this fall, but hadn’t seen one another much — school accelerated, as did the pandemic. Aside from our masks and the distance between our chairs, I felt as though I was catching a glimpse of some non-pandemic alternative universe, where we were just old friends home from college, catching up.
It could have been a comforting thought, but it only made me wistful and nostalgic. In high school, we would lie on the floor in someone’s basement most weekends and talk for hours. My memories from those Sunday afternoons are largely tactile — my fingers entwined in the shag of a carpet, the warmth of a head in my lap, sesame seed crackers and pear caught in my teeth.
Sitting outside a Starbucks on a cold weekend created an ugly, jarring sterility. We fluttered through neutral topics of conversation: “It’s cold out!” “Watch anything good lately?” “‘How’s your family?” My fingers were too numb to feel anything.
I am grateful for much this Thanksgiving, but I am mourning a loss of that sense of homecoming. I’ve lived the last eight months in my childhood bedroom, but I’ve also been forced to distance from the friends that constitute my adolescence. That dissonance — the regression of being at home coupled with the unfamiliarity and surreality of what home has become — has left me unsettled and restless this week. I wander around my house, finding my way with my eyes closed and feeling like a guest who has overstayed her welcome.
When I first started writing this column, aware of how fortunate I was to be safe at home with my family, I wanted to make a sort of photo album of my interactions with strangers during the pandemic. I missed that daily thrum of overheard conversations, jostled shoulders, unplanned eye contact, and all of the other once-ubiquitous reminders that we are surrounded by people we do not know and never will. My most sustained gripe with quarantine became its predictability: an ecosystem without the joys of strangeness.
But I’ve realized that I placed an artificial ceiling on the stranger phenomenon; people and even places we are close to can become strangers again. Or rather, the world and time can conspire to make us feel alienated from them.
That alienation sounds bleak, but I have begun to find it generative.
The idea of finding the familiar strange is a cornerstone of cultural anthropology. In 1956, cultural anthropologist Horace Mitchell Miner wrote “Body Ritual Among The Nacirema” as a parody of the way Western anthropologists approached studying non-Western cultures. He turned the othering eye inwards, describing Americans as a “magic-ridden” people he termed the “Nacirema” — (spoiler:) “American” spelled backwards. He detailed rituals like visiting the “holy-mouth-men” (dentists) and using “charm-boxes” (medicine cabinets) to store “potions” (medicine). It was a facetious way to promote epistemological distancing: the tactic of looking at what is most familiar and intimate, and then asking ourselves what we can learn from making it feel strange.
I wonder if this anthropological lens has interpersonal utility. This Thanksgiving, the pandemic has made life sufficiently weird; instead of striving to make it normal — a dead-end I found outside Starbucks — we might continue the inversive experiment, and treat ourselves and our families as Miner’s Nacirema.
For those of us who have been at home with the same people for months, I see this as a welcome opportunity to interrupt patterns of engagement that feel routine to the point of tedium, and try to find magic and novelty, rather than irritation, in the idiosyncrasies of our loved ones.
I am reminded of a beautiful neologism that describes how we interact with strangers: “Sonder” refers to the sudden, transcendent experience we have when we remember that everyone we see is leading a life as complex, vibrant, and bizarre as our own. Sonder explains our willingness to offer strangers the benefit of the doubt, and give them a mystery and a dimensionality we might not afford to the people we think we know best.
I declared a concentration in Integrative Biology last week, so I find myself thinking about sonder in biological terms. Chimps, our closest extant relatives, could not sit side by side on an airplane for hours, one of my biology professors pointed out in a recent lecture — they would kill one another. But we can, and we do it remarkably well; unlike chimps, we are able to recognize the dignity of every individual as they exit the plane safely, even if we have no idea where they are headed.
We are able to provide strangers with such a degree of respect because we have the humility to recognize that we don’t know what they’re dealing with. Thanksgiving, a holiday notoriously characterized by familial conflict even in better years, is a time we would benefit from extending that tolerance inwards — making strangers of the people we’re quarantining with and even our own selves.
When I interact with a stranger, I appreciate the moment we have together as something precious and precarious. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed by how many decisions and conditions, down to an atomic level, had to happen exactly as they did for me and another person to exist in the same space concurrently.
As I stay home, rather than come home, this Thanksgiving, I will do my best to treasure the people I am with in the same way.
Talia M. Blatt ‘23, an Integrative Biology concentrator, lives in Currier House. Her column appears on alternate Tuesdays.
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My name is Marjorie Robinson and I am the program director here at Anon Drug Rehab. We are an inpatient rehab facility that helps out patient overcome various types of addiction.
Our patients come to us prisoners to their addiction, they have often alienated friends and family and their situation feels desperate. Our job is to help them finally manage their addiction and look forward to the future again.
Our programs range from 30 – 180 days and they are intensive inpatient care. We can help you conquer your addiction but doing the work will be up to you.
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text: High frequency shoot regeneration and evaluation of product synthesis at various stages in Psoralea corylifolia were investigated. In vitro regenerated shoots were induced from germinated seedling on MS medium supplemented with 2, 4, 8, 20 and 40 μM of thidiazuron and N 6–benzylaminopurine. The results revealed that optimum concentrations of thidiazuron (8 μM) into the medium increased shoot regeneration frequency. Root differentiation was achieved from regenerated shoots on growth regulator free MS medium with frequency of 91.2% and mean number of 4.5 roots per shoot. High concentrations of Indole-3-aceticacid (IAA) into the rooting medium resulted in slow growth. Regenerated shoots and roots enhanced isoflavones production compared to field grown plants. A reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography analysis revealed that in vitro regenerated shoots accumulated 0.85% dry wt of daidzein and 0.06% dry wt of genistein. Maximum daidzein (1.23% dry wt) and genistein (0.38% dry wt) were accumulated by roots which obtained from regenerated shoots, which is 6.3-fold more daidzein and 77-fold more genistein respectively than field grown plants. The regeneration protocol developed successfully in this study showed the possibility for rapid propagation of P. corylifolia and enhanced isoflavones production.


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On Wednesday, August 3, 2022, OCS had the pleasure of hosting a dedication ceremony for the new Clear View Elementary School.
The Onslow County Board of Education and Board of Commissioners came together, alongside school staff and community members, to cut the ribbon and officially mark the opening of the county’s newest education facility.
Dr. Barry Collins, OCS superintendent, spoke at the dedication ceremony and thanked the Willis family for donating the land the school is built on and thanked the county commissioners for their willingness to work together for the benefit of Onslow County children.
CVES is opening a full year ahead of schedule due to the Board of Education and commissioners working together to move up the timeline in response to community needs.
“The vision and the leadership of our school board and our county commissioners, and the relationship that we have, is tremendous,” Collins said.
CVES, located at 180 Clear View School Road, will serve those in both the Southwest and Richlands communities, with its orange and blue school colors showing both Stallion and Wildcat pride.
Commissioner Tim Foster, who recently retired from being the principal of Southwest High, spoke on behalf of the Board of Commissioners and expressed how important milestones like the opening of schools are to the community.
“We appreciate it when the community comes together to support our education in Onslow County,” he said, “because the only thing that’s going to maintain our future is providing a solid, quality education for our children.”
CVES will welcome its first Cubs on Monday, August 29!

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There are new statistics out about Americans without health insurance. In 2017 (the year after the last presidential election) there were 25.6 million Americans without health insurance. The next year in 2018 there were 27.5 million Americans without health insurance. An increase from 7.9% to 8.5% of Americans. In addition, there was an increase from 4.9% to 5.5% of children younger than age 18 years who are not covered by health insurance. The U.S. Census Bureau has estimated that this deterioration in insurance coverage is at least in part due to Republican criticism of the Affordable Health Care Act that was initiated by the Obama administration.
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The Election Commission on Wednesday ordered re-polling in five more polling stations in Chandragiri assembly constituency in Andhra Pradesh’s Chittoor district May 19, when the last phase of polling is going to be held in different parts of the country.
According to an official communication from the EC, re-polling will be held in polling stations at Kammapalli, N R Kammapalle, Pulivarthipalli, Kothakandriga and Venkatrama Puram villages from 7 am to 6 pm.
The decision was taken based on the report sent by chief electoral officer Gopala Krishna Dwivedi, following complaints from both YSR Congress party and Telugu Desam Party over alleged electoral malpractices during the polling held on April 11.
The EC already conducted re-polling in five other polling stations in three districts of Guntur, Nellore and Prakasam of Andhra Pradesh on May 6.
The elections for 25 Lok Sabha seats and 175 assembly seats in AP were held in April 11. The polling was marred by violence in some areas, besides large scale complaints of malfunctioning of EVMS and abnormal delay in starting of polling.
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The backlash to your #MeToo motion is here now. The groundswell of general general public transparency about intimate harassment in present months has just been feasible due to the public’s unprecedented willingness to hear away and help accusers as opposed to shame them. That help ended up being therefore effective that the quantity of previously harassers that are untouchable finally brought face-to-face utilizing the effects of these actions. But absolutely absolutely nothing silver can remain. This week, with an unsuccessful вЂњstingвЂќ operation targeted at discrediting rape survivors, a survivor-shaming op-ed when you look at the paper of record, and mass hand-wringing that is cultural the matter of вЂњfalse accusations,вЂќ rape culture is fighting straight right right straight back.
All ladies. on Tuesday, the newest York days published an editorial entitled: вЂњThe Limits of BelieveвЂќ Its author, Bari Weiss, contends that вЂњвЂ[t]he huntresses’ war cry вЂ” вЂbelieve all women’вЂ¦creates terrible brand brand brand brand new dilemmas along with re re solving old people.вЂќ Especially, that the theory if We had been wrongly accused, that would trust in me? that individuals must вЂњbelieve all ladiesвЂќ is terrorizing guys, whom will have to worry that false accusations of intimate misconduct will derail their professions or everyday lives: вЂњIn a weather by which intimate mores are changing therefore quickly, lots of men are asking:вЂќ
It’s greater than a small strange to intimate attack survivors as вЂњhuntressesвЂќ to start with; to my knowledge, no-one has actually shot Harvey Weinstein and mounted their at once her wall surface. Women can be coming ahead to make their work spaces safer, maybe maybe maybe perhaps not for kicks, and although the effects for the accused men have already been unpleasant, they are non-violent and, from my vantage point, completely deserved. The accusers, whoever sexual harassment tended to be extremely violent indeed, cannot say the exact same.
Needless to say, if guys are truly stressed about being called away for harassment because of вЂњtransforming intimate mores,вЂќ maybe they’ll stop participating in the actions that appear very likely to offend their feminine colleagues. That might be good. For the time being, the social shift Weiss envisions more or less boils down seriously to males learning to be a bit more considerate in the way they treat ladies. It’s scarcely the Bonerpocalypse.
But Weiss fears a lot more than an epidemic that is sudden of politeness. She contends we’re establishing ourselves up to think false rape and intimate harassment allegations. For proof this, she points toвЂ¦ some effortlessly, immediately debunked false allegations, including and particularly the botched Project Veritas вЂњstingвЂќ attempted during the Washington Post.
вЂњ Just yesterday The Washington Post stated that a girl known as Jaime Phillips approached the paper with a tale about Roy Moore,вЂќ she writes. вЂњShe advertised that in 1992, whenever she ended up being 15 , he impregnated her and that he drove her to Mississippi to possess an abortion. perhaps maybe Not just a lick of her tale holds true.вЂќ What exactly is real is the fact that Moore’s bid for an Alabama Senate chair was affected by a revolution of legitimate intimate attack allegations since November, as soon as the Post printed the initial four allegations against himвЂ”most notoriously, Leigh Corfman’s declare that Moore had caught her inside the automobile and forced her to the touch their crotch whenever she had been simply 14. It has made the Post a target of hostility from Moore’s campaign, which alleged that вЂњ[the] Washington Post has recently endorsed the Judge’s opponent, as well as for months, they’ve engaged in a systematic campaign to distort the facts in regards to the Judge’s record and career.вЂќ Conservatives, constantly wanting to bite straight straight down for a вЂњfake newsвЂќ hook, have actually frequently portrayed the Moore allegations as a tale about liberal news bias. Not merely is President Trump securely in Moore’s part (claiming that Moore вЂњtotally denies [molesting https://www.datingmentor.org/pl/przypadkowy-sex-randki children]вЂќ and him, alsoвЂќ), conservative author Dinesh D’Souza has stated, вЂњIf Roy Moore wins it should be probably the most demoralizing blow when it comes to news since Trump’s election. thatвЂњyou have actually to listen toвЂќ
If Roy Moore wins it’s going to be probably the most demoralizing blow for the media since realDonaldTrump вЂs electionвЂ”so let’s make it work well
But, in reality, the Post expose ended up being a typical example of news working the method it is likely to. The accusations within the initial piece have actually been very carefully supported with witnesses and supporting proof; the moms of two accusers, Corfman and Wendy Miller, have actually testified they saw Moore bothering their daughters. Miller’s high-school yearbook, through the year she switched 16, bears a flirty inscription from Moore. None for this depends on the accusers’ term alone; as CNN anchor Jake Tapper recently noted, вЂњ we do not think a whole tale with 30 sources and four females making the accusations regarding the record is gossip.вЂќ Which will be precisely why, whenever Phillips approached the Post, these people were in a position to get her red-handed.
In line with the Post’s account, Phillips’ tale raised suspicions as a result of вЂњinconsistencies inside her tale as well as A web publishing that raised doubts about her motivations.вЂќ These were additionally keyed directly into one thing fishy in regards to the whole tale whenever вЂњshe over and over pushed Post reporters to provide their viewpoints regarding the impacts that her claims might have on Moore’s candidacy if she went general general public.вЂќ The Post elected to not ever publish her tale, and kept an eye on her until they saw her head into the workplaces of right-wing lie factory task Veritas.
Venture Veritas, led by James O’Keefe, are notorious malefactors; they create misleading вЂњstingвЂќ videos aimed which will make modern organizations (or those who they perceive become modern, but are in reality simply media organizations) look bad. They have struck Planned Parenthood and NPR. These times, O’Keefe presumably meant to strengthen the narrative that the Post ended up being printing false accusations in a deliberate work to destroy Moore’s profession. It is a ploy that is vile. ButвЂ”and right listed here is the significant partвЂ”it can also be a ploy that did work that is n’t.


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Advanced Intelligent Paradigms in Computer Games
The evolution of technologies has greatly changed the basic structure of our industry and nature of our daily lives. Industries which did not exist several decades ago have made remarkable progress in recent years and ?ourished. One of the most typical examples is the computer game industry. This book presents a sample of the most recent research concerning the application of computational intelligence techniques and internet technology in computer games. This book contains eight chapters. The ?rst chapter, by N. Baba and H. Handa, is on utilization of evolutionary algorithms to increase excitement of the COMMONS GAME. It is shown that the original COMMONS GAME which is one of the most popular environmental games has been made much more exciting by the intelligent utilization of the two evolutionary algorithms. The second chapter, by H. Barber and D. Kudenko, is on adaptive g- eration of dilemma-based interactive narratives. In this chapter, they present an interactive narrative generator that can create story lines that incorporate dilemmas to add dramatic tension. They also brie?y touch upon the pos- bility that their work could provide a useful tool for making dramatically interesting game playing possible. The third chapter, by J. Tongelius, S.M. Lucas, and R.D. Nardi, is on computational intelligence (CI) in racing games. The authors suggest that CI techniques can be used for various purposes such as controller evolution for the racing and track evolution for a pro?cient player.
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Woodchuck’s design studio presents fine furnishings from leading manufacturers, including Bassett and Flexsteel, that offer lines of customized furniture including:
How The Woodchuck’s Customization Process Works
Woodchuck’s provides their customers with an easy way to create their own unique furnishings by allowing them to select from the myriad of customized furniture options available for the particular type of furnishing chosen.
The customized furniture process begins with selecting the type of furnishing that is desired. If a customer desires a sofa, they would determine what size would best suit their needs. This step of the process can be assisted with the Woodchuck’s online Room Planner. This tool allows users to create an accurate room layout according to the dimensions and features that are present in the room where the sofa will be placed and help determine the best size for the room.
For example, Bassett sofas are available in the following sizes:
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- Medium: 84 to 88 inches in length with a depth of 37 inches
- Large: 82 to 92 inches in length with a depth of 38 inches
- Extra Large: 87 to 95 inches in length with a depth of 40 inches
The next step would be for the customer to choose what seating options they want from several available options, including:
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With the sofa being fully customizable, additional options including arm styles, base options and back styles will then need to be selected. A selection of comfort levels, including standard, extra firm, blend down and spring down are available to build the customer’s perfect sofa that will provide them with the comfort they desire.
Once the style of the sofa has been configured, the next step is for the customer to select the type of fabric to be used. Both Bassett and Flexsteel offer over 1,000 different fabric choices in which to choose from including leather. With this many choices of fabric, furniture shoppers are sure to find a fabric that will suit their décor color scheme. The fabric for any pillows that are included with the sofa will also need to be selected during this step of the customization process.
To finish off the sofa customization process, the customer will then select the contrasting welt and wood finish for the sofa. Additional design flairs for the pillows such as fringe or cords are also available for customization. Once this step is complete, the customer can add the sofa to the Room Planner and email it to their interior designer or print a copy to bring to the Woodchuck’s showroom.
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By customizing their own furniture, customers can create a piece of furniture that is uniquely their own. In many cases, the designed piece is a one of a kind that reflects the customer’s personal tastes and will directly fit into their lifestyle. No longer are they limited to modifying their preferences and design vision to what someone else’s ideal piece of furniture may be.
One might think that the customization process results in a longer wait for their furniture but in most cases, the customer will have their finished product within 35 days or less of order submission. This is often comparable to the delivery time of furniture that is not normally in stock at Woodchuck’s onsite warehouse.
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The market has been in a panic over the past few weeks, which is causing some stocks to sell off by ridiculous amounts. In particular, it has focused a lot of its selling pressure on dividend stocks because it's amplifying the short-term concerns by magnifying any problems. While many of the problems facing these companies are real -- and it's why some have already reduced their dividends -- that doesn't mean the market hasn't over-reacted. There are three dividend payers in particular that appear to have sold off well past a justifiable level, making each a strong bounce-back candidate in 2016.
Matt DiLallo: Over the past year, Kinder Morgan's (KMI 0.68%) stock is down nearly 70%. That's despite the fact that the company's primarily fee-based business model is expected to produce slightly more than $5 billion in cash flow in 2016, which is 8% higher than last year. Instead, what investors have reacted to are concerns surrounding the company's debt, which led to worries that its dividend would need to be reduced in order to address the issue. This became a self-fulfilling prophecy, because the company was left with no choice but to cut its dividend after the capital markets cut off its external funding options.
Having said all of that, Kinder Morgan has addressed this major concern. By significantly reducing its dividend, the company expects its leverage ratio to fall back to a more acceptable level by the end of 2016, with further improvements in future years. At some point, the market will realize that the company's balance sheet troubles are behind it, which would take some of the pressure off of its stock price.
In addition to that, there's a growing belief that the price of oil could rebound sharply in 2016. While the near term is decidedly bearish, with many believing oil has further to fall, a growing number of analysts and oil company executives expect a second half rally in the oil price, with some suggesting that a rebound above $60 a barrel isn't out of the question.
It's this combination of easing credit concerns with a sharp rally in the oil price that could catapult Kinder Morgan's stock back into the mid-$20s in short order.
This has been the result of both a lot of competitive pressure, and serious concerns about the global economy, which Textainer relies on to support demand for the shipping containers it leases and rents to cargo shippers. Low interest rates and cheap material prices have led many container suppliers to ramp up inventories over the past few years, and Textainer has been one of the biggest buyers.
But while the debt binge did lead to big revenue growth and some profit growth, earnings have tanked recently:
The company continues to face some very real challenges with macroeconomic concerns looming large, and interest rates set to rise. The funny thing is, those threats to the industry at large could very well come out in Textainer's favor.
To start, it's the gorilla in the industry, and Textainer should feel less impact from higher rates than smaller competitors, with a stronger balance sheet and lower leverage than its biggest competitors. Moreover, Textainer has 85% of its container fleet under long-term leases, with only 8% of that total set to expire in 2016.
Lastly, as CEO Phillip Brewer put it, the market seems to be valuing Textainer on the basis of current container prices, versus the cash flow the company will generate from them over their lives.
Between riding out the current volatility, the market's likely readjusting of its valuation of the business, and Textainer's overall strength, there's a very real chance this dividend stock -- currently yielding 10% in these fearful days -- will more than double in 2016.
Tyler Crowe: I can see why investors have sold off shares of Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (POT) as much as they have over the past year or so, but that doesn't mean I agree with them. Over the past year, shares are down more than 50% as the prices for potash and other fertilizer products have declined. Today, the price for a metric ton of potash (the fertilizer) is below $300 per metric ton, a low we haven't seen since 2007. These low commodity prices can put a scare in any investor as profit margins have dried up for Potash Corp.
What so many investors seem to be missing, though, is that Potash Corp. has drastically brought down its capital spending as it has brought its new mines online.
With such large reductions in capital spending, the company estimates it can support its existing dividend even if prices for potash were to sink to as low as $200 per metric ton.
The market may be pricing Potash Corp for a dividend cut as prices for potash decline in the near term, but the company appears to have the low-cost operations and less need for capital spending right now to support the dividend at today's prices. Longer term, we can count on the need for more food and, hence, more fertilizers.
Once the market starts to realize these things, it's not too much of a stretch to envision shares of Potash Corp. doubling in 2016.


Welcome to Beyoncé Online - your #1 source for everything Beyoncé Knowles. You'll find here a lot of interesting information, one of the biggest photo galleries with over 100.000 pictures, downloads and more! Be sure to check out the latest news about Mrs. Carter and leave your comments. We hope you'll enjoy your stay and come back soon! Have fun!
The 2018 Latin American Music Awards are coming back in October to celebrate the best of Latin music. Beyoncé's collaboration with J Balvin & Willy William "Mi Gente" is up for two awards! The show is slated to air live Oct. 25 on Telemundo from The Dolby Theater in Hollywood, Ca.
Song of the Year
Becky G feat. Bad Bunny - “Mayores”
Daddy Yankee - “Dura” J Balvin & Willy William feat. Beyoncé - “Mi Gente”
Luis Fonsi & Demi Lovato - “Échame La Culpa”
Maluma & Nego do Borel - “Corazón”
Nicky Jam & J Balvin - “X”
Wisin feat. Ozuna - “Escápate Conmigo”
Favorite Song - Urban
Becky G feat. Bad Bunny - “Mayores”
Daddy Yankee - “Dura” J Balvin & Willy William feat. Beyoncé - “Mi Gente”
Nicky Jam & J Balvin - “X”
Wisin feat. Ozuna - “Escápate Conmigo”
Beyonce and Jay-Z have been nominated in 3 categories at the 2018 BET Hip-Hop Awards. The ceremony will take place at The Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater on October 6, and BET Networks will premiere the annual telecast on October 16.
Album of the Year
Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy
Drake - Scorpion
J. Cole - KOD
Migos - Culture II The Carters - Everything Is Love
Best Collabo, Duo or Group
21 Savage & Offset & Metro Boomin - Ric Flair Drip
Blocboy JB - Look Alive feat. Drake
Cardi B - I Like It feat. Bad Bunny & J Balvin
Post Malone – Rockstar feat. 21 Savage The Carters – Apes**t
Single of the Year Apesh*t - Produced by Pharrell (The Carters)
God's Plan - Produced by Cardo, Young Exclusive and Boi-1da (Drake)
I Like It - Produced by Craig Kallman, JWhiteDidIt and Tainy (Cardi B Feat. Bad Bunny & J Balvin)
Nice for What - Produced by Murda Beatz (Drake)
This Is America - Produced by Donald Glover and Ludwig Goransson (Childish Gambino)
Nominations for the 2018 People's Choice Awards have been announced and Beyonce is up for 5 awards! The show will be broadcast live from Santa Monica on Nov. 11 at 9 p.m. ET. Voting is open now at pca.eonline.com.
THE FEMALE ARTIST OF 2018
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Music stars gathered at New York's Radio City Hall on Monday for the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards. The Carters were not present at the ceremony but won in two categories. Congrats!
Alessia Cara – “Growing Pains” – Def Jam Recordings – Cinematography by Pau Castejón
Ariana Grande – “No Tears Left to Cry” – Republic Records – Cinematography by Scott Cunningham The Carters – “APES**T” – Roc Nation/Parkwood Entertainment – Cinematography by Benoit Debie (WINNER)
Childish Gambino – “This Is America” – mcDJ / RCA Records – Cinematography by Larkin Seiple
Eminem ft. Ed Sheeran – “River” – Shady/Aftermath/Interscope Records – Cinematography by Frank Mobilio & Patrick Meller
Shawn Mendes – “In My Blood” – Island Records – Cinematography by Jonathan Sela
Best art direction The Carters – “APES**T” – Roc Nation/Parkwood Entertainment – Art Direction by Jan Houlevigue (WINNER)
Childish Gambino – “This Is America” – mcDJ / RCA Records – Art Direction by Jason Kisvarday
J. Cole – “ATM” – Dreamville/Roc Nation/Interscope Records – Art Direction by Miles Mullin
Janelle Monáe – “Make Me Feel” – Bad Boy Records/Atlantic Records – Art Direction by Pepper Nguyen
SZA – “The Weekend” – TDE/RCA Records – Art Direction by SZA and Solange
Taylor Swift – “Look What You Made Me Do” – Big Machine Records – Art Direction by Brett Hess
Nominations for the 2018 iHeartRadio Much Music Video Awards were announced on Wednesday morning and The Carters are nominated in three categories! You can vote for Fan Fave Video here.
Best Hip-Hop Artist or Group The Carters
Jay Martin (Shawn Mendes – "In My Blood")
Karena Evans (Drake – "God's Plan")
Karena Evans (Drake – "Nice for What")
Hiro Murai (Childish Gambino – "This Is America")
Arturo Perez Jr. (Justin Timberlake – "Say Something") Didier Charette (The Carters – "APESHIT")
This week, Billboard is celebrating the music video with a week's worth of content that looks at the past, present and future of the video, at a time when it seems to be as relevant as ever. Here, we flashback ten years for an extended look at how arguably the most legendary video from the 21st century's greatest music video star came together, and why its legacy endures a decade later.
On the St. Louis stop of the 2016 Formation World Tour, Beyoncé and her dancers -- including her dance captain, Ashley Everett -- were just about to wave their hands through the final bars of “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)” when the pop star paused. The buoyant bass continued to blast as she vamped, coyly pacing the stage before she turned on her heel and signaled for a gentleman in a white jacket to join her. John Silver, Everett’s boyfriend, trotted into the spotlight and took the floor, where he presented his dumbstruck love with an engagement ring -- one that got an all-too-appropriate cameo during a sequence as familiar to the crowd as the “Single Ladies” chorus itself. If you like it, then you shoulda put a ring on it: he did, so he did, and Everett flicked her wrist and flashed her newly-minted diamond in the routine she helped create.
That such a life-changing moment went down in the middle of a “Single Ladies” performance is perfect, as the song has proven to be a monumentally transformative force in the lives of Beyoncé and those of her closest collaborators. Everett was at Beyoncé’s side when she filmed the music video for “Single Ladies” and in the three months leading up to the shoot, when they and choreographers Frank Gatson Jr. and JaQuel Knight worked tirelessly to hone every kick, waist-wind, and lift that would go on to define one of the most iconic dances in pop music history.
Apparently shutting down one epicenter of cultural history was not enough for Beyoncé, because she is now reportedly trying to film something at the Colosseum. You know, the ancient Roman landmark where gladiators once dueled to the death some 2,000 years ago? Yep, that Colosseum.
According to Italian newspaper Il Messaggero, Beyoncé has put in a request to film something at the Colosseum (it's not yet clear what). She initially requested to book the amphitheater on July 7 and July 8, when she and Jay-Z were in town for their On the Run II tour, but was reportedly rejected by Italy’s Ministry of Cultural Heritage because Italian scientist Alberto Angela already had it reserved. Il Messaggero also notes her request was too last minute, as the Colosseum is “a very complicated place.” (Closing down the Louvre to shoot "Apes--t," on the other hand? A total breeze.)
But Beyoncé, being Beyoncé, is not ready to throw in the towel, and has reportedly resubmitted her request, which is currently under review.
It's worth mentioning she has filmed at the Colosseum before (remember that Pepsi commercial with Britney Spears and Pink?), so if the timing is right, it seems like things will be a go. Block out your Saturday nights for another surprise!
The 2018 MTV Video Music Awards nominations have been announced today. Cardi B leads the noms with 10, while The Carters follow with eight. Beyonce also scored one nomination for Eminem's "Walk on Water". Beginning today, fans can vote in eight of the categories. Voting concludes Friday, August 10. The VMAs will air live from Radio City Music Hall at 9 PM on Monday, August 20.
VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Ariana Grande – “No Tears Left to Cry”
Bruno Mars ft. Cardi B – “Finesse (Remix)”
Camila Cabello ft. Young Thug – “Havana” The Carters – “APES**T”
Childish Gambino – “This Is America”
Drake – “God's Plan”
Bebe Rexha ft. Florida Georgia Line – “Meant to Be”
Bruno Mars ft. Cardi B – “Finesse (Remix)” The Carters – “APES**T”
Jennifer Lopez ft. DJ Khaled & Cardi B – “Dinero”
Logic ft. Alessia Cara & Khalid – “1-800-273-8255”
N.E.R.D & Rihanna – “Lemon”
It's been a year since Jay Z released his thirteenth studio album, the critically acclaimed 4:44. In honor of its anniversary, producer No I.D., who picked up a producer of the year Grammy nomination for his work on the album, reflected on how it all came together and which beat on the album almost went to Beyoncé.
“Family Feud” (Featuring Beyoncé)
Scientifically to me, certain vibrational tones create a reaction, a feeling, an emotion, tension, joy or suspense. So that’s what I look for in music. Whether it’s musicians, sampling — whatever. And the The Clark Sisters just had this emotion already going. Just like joyous and pain and spiritual and I know part of Bey’s joy in music stems from that type of emotion.
And when I first did the music, of course I wanted her to be a part of the album and when she first heard the track, she was like, “Oh, no, no! I’m GETTING on that!” So she really kind of jumped in and did her part. And that song came in at the very end. Maybe about a week before the album came out. I didn’t really have to incorporate her. She’s a producer in her own right. She came in and wove herself right into it. Did an amazing job at completing the song to be honest.
Jay-Z and Beyonce released their joint album Everything is Love as a surprise on June 16th on their streaming service TIDAL, which was followed by a wide release two days later on all platforms.
For those looking for the physical edition of the album, here’s some good news: it hits stores July 6th! This edition will feature 9 songs as the 10th track ‘Salud!’ continues to be a non album exclusive on TIDAL.
As Beyoncé and JAY-Z earn their first charted album as a duo, as Everything Is Love, billed as by The Carters, opens at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 123,000 equivalent album units, according to Nielsen Music, five tracks from the set debut on the Billboard Hot 100.
"Apes**t" debuts the highest of the bunch on the Hot 100, at No. 13. Sparked by its official video, the song arrives with 24.1 million U.S. streams in the tracking week, as well as 20,000 downloads sold.
The Carters' "Boss" debuts at No. 77 on the Hot 100, followed by "Summer" at No. 84, "Nice" at No. 95 and "Friends" at No. 99.
Beyoncé and JAY-Z have each tallied 59 and 97 solo entries on the Hot 100, respectively. The husband-and-wife luminaries have logged eight shared Hot 100 entries under their usual monikers (Beyoncé and JAY-Z), including the eight-week No. 1 "Crazy in Love" (credited to Beyoncé featuring JAY-Z) in 2003.
Everything Is Love concurrently debuts at No. 1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, while "Apes**t" opens at No. 9 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.
The names Cool & Dre ring out across the hip-hop landscape for more reasons than one. If you're feeling nostalgic, their work on the Game's "Hate It or Love It" and Ja Rule's "New York" will get your blood flowing. If you're feeling contemporary, look no further than Fat Joe and Remy Ma's anthemic "All the Way Up," which dominated airwaves and peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100.
They've been locked into the music game for more than a decade—but it still came as a surprise when credits on JAY-Z and Beyoncé's joint album Everything Is Love revealed the veteran production duo produced three out of nine tracks: "Summer," "713," and "Black Effect." They couldn't sound any more different: "Summer," with its deceptively lazy but thoroughly soulful pace, "713," with driving keys just south of in tune but hard enough that it doesn't matter, and "Black Effect," with its comparatively sparse beat and haunting background vocals. The Carters also released a bonus track, "Salud!" which Cool & Dre produced, and Dre laid down vocals for. As its name suggests, it sounds like a toast to victory.
As expected, Cool & Dre are floating on Cloud Nine now that their contributions to Everything Is Love have officially reached our ears. In an interview with Complex, the pair talked about their favorite moments creating with JAY and Bey, how easy it was to keep the collaboration a secret, and their status after producing for two of the most revered artists on the planet.
Where were you when the joint Beyoncé and JAY-Z album dropped?
Producer duo Cool & Dre won't forget the answer to the question on everybody's minds this weekend anytime soon. After all, they were right alongside the Carters on tour in London, having literally put finishing touches on Everything Is Love just a few hours before it arrived with no warning on Saturday evening (June 17).
But just because the album's release came down to the wire doesn't mean its creation was hasty: Marcello "Cool" Valenzo and Andre "Dre" Lyon describe the work ethic of hip-hop's perfectionist power couple as nothing short of fastidious -- no drum sound, sample or melody was spared their scrutiny. Below, Cool & Dre take Billboard behind the scenes of their Paris stadium sessions, Beyoncé's hands-on role in the writing process and just how much music they have left in the vault.
Beyoncé and JAY-Z work in mysterious ways. Were you surprised that the album came out when it did?
Dre: Nah, we knew what was going on. We were in London with them when the album dropped. JAY-Z and Beyonce are Golden State Warriors: they shoot half-court shorts, and it goes in. We spent three weeks in Paris recording, then we went to Cardiff for like a week. We got to London and knocked out two to three tracks 10 days of finishing up the album. An hour and a half before showtime, Bey and Jay were still cutting up vocals. Three hours later it was released to the world. There are no rules when it comes to those two.
When Beyoncé and Jay-Z's album Everything Is Love appeared suddenly on Tidal on Saturday night, a surprising name stood out on the credits list: veteran duo Cool & Dre co-produced three of the nine songs on the album, along with a bonus track. Cool & Dre were ubiquitous on much of the radio in the mid-2000s – see Ja Rule's "New York" and the Game's "Hate It or Love It," for starters – and enjoyed a recent renaissance as the team behind Fat Joe's "All the Way Up." The pair had never worked on a Jay-Z or Beyoncé album before, though. On Everything Is Love, they're responsible for "Summer," the album's soul-sampling opener; the radio-ready, Dr. Dre-interpolating "713"; and a pair of triumphant cuts that appear near the end of the LP, "Black Effect" and "Salud!" Cool & Dre co-produced more tracks than anyone on the album other than Beyoncé and Jay-Z themselves.
"We always joke with Jay: Working with them two is like working with the Golden State Warriors," Dre says. "We can just dribble the ball up the floor and look like geniuses." Rolling Stone spoke with the duo – Dre is by far the chattier of the two – about how they ended up on Everything Is Love, the recording sessions in Paris and Cardiff, and how Jay-Z and Beyoncé's talents pushed them to new creative heights.
How did you get involved in the album?
Dre: We've had a relationship with Jay-Z shit, for 15 years. OG Juan introduced me to Jay shortly after "Hate It or Love It" was ringing off. He told me back in the day: "'Hate It or Love It,' I get it, I gotta let that go. But 'New York,' you were supposed to hand deliver that to me. You gotta find a way to get to me." We've always had a cordial relationship with him. We never had the opportunity to get on one of his albums. You have to be right beside him. Jay has a thing, he'll text or email: "Stay close." That's advice you have to take literally. He'll record in two weeks and the album is done.
Beyoncé and Jay-Z have added their brand new collaborative album to major streaming services and iTunes.
Originally a timed exclusive to TIDAL, Everything Is Love, featuring the new single APES**T, is now available across Spotify, Apple Music and Deezer, while it is now available to download for the first time on iTunes and Amazon.
Everything Is Love was revealed following The Carters' final On The Run II UK tour performance at London Stadium, London. The video to APES**T was played to the audience in full to close the show.
Everything Is Love is nine tracks long, and features uncredited vocals from Pharrell, Ty Dolla $ign, plus Quavo and Offset of Migos. One more track Salud! - billed as a non-album promotional song - remains exclusive to TIDAL.
A joint Beyoncé-Jay-Z album has finally dropped after years of rumors. Titled "Everything Is Love," the announcement was made by Tidal, the streaming company owned by Jay-Z. It features nine tracks, each credited to Beyoncé and Jay-Z — or The Carters — and clocks in at just under 40 minutes.
The album, unusually brief for both artists, sent fans scrambling to sign up for Tidal, a subscription-based music streaming service started by Jay-Z and other artists. That's where they could find the bonus track called "Salud" that the duo presumably felt didn't fit with the album's sequence.
According to unofficial credits, the album features production from Pharrell Williams (two tracks, "Nice" and "Apes---"), Cool & Dre, Boi-1Da, Vory, Jahaan Sweet and Sevn Thomas, and guest spots from Migos ("Apes---") and Pharrell.
The nominations for this year's BET Awards were announced Tuesday night and Beyonce is up for two awards:
Best Female R&B / Pop Artist Beyonce
Bruno Mars feat. Cardi B - Finesse (Remix)
DJ Khaled feat. Rihanna & Bryson Tiller - Wild Thoughts DJ Khaled feat. Jay-Z, Future & Beyonce - Top Off
Cardi B feat. 21 Savage - Bartier Cardi
French Montana feat. Swae Lee - Unforgettable
Kendrick Lamar feat. Rihanna - LOYALTY.
BET's annual telecast celebrates black excellence in music, film, TV, sports and philanthropy and will air live June 24 from the Microsoft Theater at 8 p.m. Eastern time.
Michelle Williams knows how to keep a secret. “We’re the secret queens,” the singer tells Billboard in the wake of performing two consecutive weekends at Coachella with headliner Beyoncé and Kelly Rowland. The trio, who rose to commercial acclaim in the late ‘90s and early aughts as Destiny’s Child, had been keeping the surprise under wraps since February, when Bey reached out to her former band members and asked them to join her for a medley of their mega-hits including “Say My Name,” “Lose My Breath” and “Soldier.”
“It’s just like old girlfriends coming together,” explains the 37-year-old, who last reunited as Destiny’s Child at the 2015 Stellar Awards where they performed her upbeat gospel single “Say Yes.” “It’s something that when the three of us come together, we all know we feel safe within each other. Like I got your back. We’re good. I really love that about us.”
Since Destiny’s Child went on hiatus in the wake of their last album, 2004’s Destiny Fulfilled, Williams hasn’t slowed. She’s put out four solo full-lengths including her final release, 2014’s Journey to Freedom (which won’t be her last); starred on stage as leads in Chicago and Aida; launched her own furniture and candle line Believe by Michelle; and, more recently, got engaged to pastor Chad Johnson just prior to her Coachella performance. Still teeming with excitement from the pair of shows, Williams explains how it all came together.
There were rumors before Coachella that a Destiny’s Child reunion might happen. How did the conversations begin for this? Did Beyoncé call you and just say, “It’s time?”Read more...
Beyoncé’s debut at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 14 powered big gains for her music sales and streams in the U.S. in the week ending April 19, according to Nielsen Music.
The diva headlined the second night of the festival, which was streamed live on YouTube. Her well-received performance featured her husband JAY-Z, her sister Solange and a Destiny’s Child reunion alongside group members Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams .
Combined, the album and song catalog of both Beyoncé and Destiny’s Child saw an 83 percent increase in sales in the week ending April 19, as the two acts combined sold 8,000 albums (up 102 percent from 4,000 a week earlier) and 37,000 digital tracks (up 79 percent from 21,000).
The biggest-selling album between the two acts was Beyoncé’s 2016 set Lemonade, which re-enters the April 28-dated Top Album Sales chart at No. 24 with 5,000 sold (up 142 percent) -- its best sales frame since the week ending Dec. 28, 2017.
On the Billboard 200 -- which ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption -- Lemonade re-enters at No. 91, while her self-titled 2013 album returns at No. 138 and 2008's I Am… Sasha Fierce jumps back onto the tally at No. 160. Read more...
Not only did Beyoncé's Coachella 2018 performance make history and shake pop culture, it also sold a ton of music. In particular, that snazzy Destiny's Child reunion where Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams harmonized with Bey to sing "Soldier," "Lose My Breath" and "Say My Name," ushered in a major bump in digital sales.
According to Nielsen, after the performance ended, digital song sales for Destiny's Child hits soared some 767% on Sunday, April 15, not even 24 hours after the group collectively wowed the crowd. The trio is marking the 20th anniversary of the chart-topping girl's group, and the sudden uptick in downloads means the ladies have not lost relevancy even though they don't often perform live together. As for Bey, though it's hard to fathom that there are some people out there who don't already own her music, she still managed to sell yet more of it. Digital song sales for Beyoncé's catalog saw a 228% increase compared to a baseline established prior to Coachella.
Beyonce, with 7,000 units sold, overall moved more units because her baseline is larger than that of Destiny's Child, which moved around 1,200 units, according to Nielsen.
Of all that music, the song "Hold Up" was the top-selling track for Beyoncé with a sales spike of 287%.
The singer's most recent album, Lemonade, hit the number 1 spot on the overall worldwide iTunes chart, as well as national charts in Brazil, Denmark and Norway. In the United States, it ascended to the fifth position.
The nominees for the 2018 Billboard Music Awards have been revealed! Beyonce is up for two awards:
Top R&B Female Artist: Beyonce
Top Latin Song: J Balvin & Willy William Ft. Beyonce, “Mi Gente”
Becky G ft. Bad Bunny, ”Mayores”
Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee ft. Justin Bieber, “Despacito”
Maluma, “Felices Los 4”
Wisin ft. Ozuna, “Escapate Conmigo”
The 2018 Billboard Music Awards will air on NBC live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday, May 20 at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's new album "Unmasked: The Platinum Collection" featuring "Learn to Be Lonely" performed by Beyonce at the 2005 Academy Awards was released on Friday. Buy the album now on iTunes to listen to the song!
In the most recent Rolling Stone cover story, former White Stripes frontman Jack White revealed the existence of an unreleased version of Beyonce’s “Daddy Lessons.”
White spoke openly of his collaborations with Beyonce, saying the two were supposed to take to Saturday Night Live to perform "Don't Hurt Yourself" -- the searing cut from Lemonade that explicitly referred to Jay-Z’s infidelity, laced with White's cryptic guitar keys -- though the plan never came to fruition.
He also revealed another unreleased collab with Queen Bey, saying the singer had requested an (even more) country-inspired version of “Daddy Lessons,” citing blues musician Seasick Steve as the alternate arrangement’s inspiration. White was impressed by the request, but his version of the song remained unused on Lemonade.
DJ Khaled's new single "Top Off" has arrived. The track features guests Beyoncé, JAY-Z, and Future, and will appear on the producer's eleventh studio album, Father of Asahd. Buy the song on iTunes or listen below!
DJ Khaled has announced a new song featuring JAY-Z, Beyoncé, and Future called “Top Off.” He writes that the song will be “available everywhere” this morning at 6 a.m. eastern. Watch his teaser video for the collaboration below. In the announcement, Beyoncé is notably billed as just “B.”
The newly released Documentary "Girls Tyme - Making a Child of Destiny (The Andretta Tillman Story)," shares never before seen interviews from key people who influenced Beyoncé and Destiny's Child on their rise to fame. The documentary includes clips of rare unseen performance footage of the Flawless star and the rest of her Girls Tyme crew.
Produced from largely previously unreleased footage and personal interviews, the documentary examines Andretta Tillman's life as the driving force in launching Queen Beyoncé and Destiny's Child's legendary careers, as well as many other Houstonian artists, who also rose to fame under Andretta's management.
"We felt an obligation to show the world the true impact of Andretta's irreplaceable contribution to the success of Queen Bey and her Destiny's Child band mates. We opened the vault of Andretta Tillman's estate to provide the viewer with an understanding that, what you see Beyoncé and Destiny's Child doing on stage today, was rooted in them through Andretta's irreplaceable influence and tutelage, from way back in the early 1990's as young ladies in Girls Tyme. Where they are today, is a direct result of the solid foundation Andretta Tillman taught them." cited Executive Producer of the documentary, Brian "Kenny" Moore (from whose book the documentary evolved).
"We at Dousic are delighted to have secured a partnership with Amazon to ensure the documentary reaches the masses. We are giving Beyoncé and Destiny's Child fans an up-close look at the excitement, distresses and sacrifices made to elevate the band to stardom, by revealing the hidden part of their story of Andretta's enormous contribution and sacrifice that has not been told, or has hitherto been omitted," said Michael Ferguson, Executive VP of Dousic Media Group.
The documentary features interviews with Gospel great Kathy Taylor, Original Girls Tyme/Destiny's Child members Nina and Niki Taylor. Former Co-manager Kenny Moore, Hip Hop Producer Cory Mo, Former Rap a Lot recording group Flajj, Destiny's Child first choreographer Harlon Bell, and members of Andretta Tillman's family.
The pair created one of the most memorable movie soundtracks ever for The Lion King 25 years ago.
And now Sir Elton John will be returning to the studio with theatre legend Tim Rice — as well as superstar Beyonce — for Disney’s live-action remake.
The Sun revealed last month that Bey had reached out to Elton to ask if they could work on the soundtrack together and now the Rocket Man has confirmed that they intend to collaborate on a new song for the eagerly anticipated movie.
In an exclusive interview, Elton told the Sun: “They need to have a new end credits song.
"There’s going to be four of our songs in the film, from the original: Can You Feel The Love Tonight? Hakuna Matata, I Just Can’t Wait To Be King and Circle of Life.
“And then there will be an end, closing song, and we’ve been speaking to Beyonce’s people and hopefully Tim and I and her can cook up something.
“That’s going out in 2019 as well. And it will be great to work with her. So we will see.”
Beyoncé has emerged as one of this year's Billboard Latin Music Awards nominees.
The global icon scored seven nods, thanks to "Mi Gente," her hit collaboration with Latin star J Balvin:
Crossover Artist of the Year: Beyonce Justin Bieber Little Mix Ed Sheeran
Hot Latin Song of the Year: J Balvin & Willy William Featuring Beyonce, “Mi Gente” Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee Featuring Justin Bieber, “Despacito” Maluma, “Felices Los 4” Wisin Featuring Ozuna, “Escapate Conmigo”
Hot Latin Song of the Year, Vocal Event: J Balvin & Willy William Featuring Beyonce, “Mi Gente” Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee Featuring Justin Bieber, “Despacito” Shakira Featuring Maluma, “Chantaje” Wisin Featuring Ozuna, “Escapate Conmigo” Read more...
With his 70th birthday just around the corner, Andrew Lloyd Webber is letting all the memories flood back with a special retrospective release.
Barbra Streisand, Beyoncé, Lana Del Rey, Madonna, Michael Ball, Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman are just some of the big names who appear on Andrew Lloyd Webber Unmasked: The Platinum Collection, due out March 16 through UMe / Polydor.
One of the most successful theatrical-music composers of the modern era, Lloyd Webber's portfolio includes the celebrated musicals Sunset Boulevard, Cats, Aspects Of Love, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Starlight Express, The Phantom of The Opera, and Love Never Dies.
The new collection, available now to pre-order, is curated and overseen by Lloyd Webber to feature works from early in his career through to his most recent, School of Rock, and includes newly-recorded songs from Lana Del Rey ("You Must Love Me", Evita), Nicole Scherzinger ("Memory", Cats) and Gregory Porter ("Light at the End of the Tunnel", Starlight Express).
Unmasked: The Platinum Collection will be available in 2-CD or 4-CD editions, the latter containing a 40-page book containing in-depth notes on each song and an introduction from Lloyd Webber. Scherzinger’s version of “Memory” is available now as an instant grat track. Read more...
Ed Sheeran and Beyoncé's "Perfect" tops the Billboard Hot 100 for a fifth week. The song also takes over as the most-heard hit on U.S. radio, reaching No. 1 on the Radio Songs chart.
"Perfect," released on Atlantic Records -- first as a solo track by Sheeran on his album ÷ (Divide) -- spends a sixth week at No. 1 on the Digital Song Sales chart with 109,000 downloads sold (down 34 percent) in the week ending Jan. 4, according to Nielsen Music.
The song also lifts 2-1 on the Radio Songs tally, up 7 percent to 139 million audience impressions in the week ending Jan. 7 (with radio playing both Sheeran's original solo version and the duet). Sheeran scores his second Radio Songs leader, following ÷ lead single "Shape of You," which reigned for 12 weeks beginning last Feb. 25.
Beyoncé adds her sixth solo Radio Songs No. 1 and first in nearly nine years. Her previous toppers: "Crazy in Love," featuring JAY-Z (eight weeks, 2003); "Baby Boy," featuring Sean Paul (nine, 2003); "Check on It," featuring Slim Thug (three, 2006); "Irreplaceable" (11, 2006-97); and "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" (five, 2009). Beyoncé first ruled Radio Songs as a member of Destiny's Child with four singles (consecutively) in 2000-01: "Say My Name," "Jumpin', Jumpin'," "Independent Women Part 1" and "Survivor."
On Streaming Songs, which "Perfect" led for a week, the song slips 2-4 with 36.4 million U.S. streams (down 4 percent) in the week ending Jan. 4.
Jay-Z dropped a new video for “Family Feud,” from his eight-times-Grammy-nominated latest album “4:44” at 4:44 p.m. ET on Thursday and the Beyonce-starring video looks likely to light up the internet with chatter deep into New Year’s Day weekend.
Below you can watch a 35-second preview for the clip, but to see the rest you’ll have to go to Tidal, which is offering a free-trial holiday promotion.
Directed by Ava DuVernay, the “Godfather”-esque video features Jessica Chastain, Michael B. Jordan, Thandie Newton, Brie Larson, Rashida Jones, Mindy Kaling, Rosario Dawson, Niecy Nash, and Susan Kelechi Watson among star-studded cast.


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Every time American military personnel are killed, someone inevitably trots out the clich ASCIICHAR_e9 : "They died in defense of freedom."
If we are ever to construct a peaceful world and to save the lives of our military personnel, then we are going to have to stop lying.
The 17 young Americans killed by a bomb in the harbor of Yemen were brave and loyal Americans. We mourn their loss. But they did not die in defense of freedom. They died to protect contracts British and American oil companies have in the Persian Gulf. They died to maintain a cruel embargo against the people of Iraq. They most likely died because of America's one-sided support of Israel.
What country in the Persian Gulf is a threat to American freedom?
Not one. The very idea is absurd on its face.
The Americans who lost their lives in Somalia did not die in defense of freedom. Somalia was in a state of anarchy. They died trying to enforce the meddling by the United Nations in the internal affairs of Somalia. They died because some jerk of an admiral decided he would play sheriff and arrest one of the very competent warlords in Somalia. They died because the Clinton Administration refused to send the backup America's military men on the ground had requested.
But they did not die in defense of freedom. There was no freedom in Somalia. Somalia's competing warlords were not a threat to anyone but their own people.
You have to go back to the Vietnam War to find Americans who died in defense of freedom, and even in that war, they died in defense of someone else's freedom, not Americans'.
It is interesting to note that the American left bitterly opposed that war and never hesitated to slander American soldiers and even harass their families. Apparently the left, which now occupies Washington, doesn't like wars against communists. Oddly enough, as long as it doesn't have to fight them, the left seems eager to make war on non-communist countries.
Since Vietnam, no American serviceman has died in defense of freedom. They have died to carry out the imperialistic policies of the central government in Washington. Often soldiers have died to protect or advance economic interests of which they were not even aware. The U.S. government has worked hard to turn the American armed forces into a mercenary force.
And that is something that the American people should not tolerate. One area where I part company with libertarians is that I believe that all American males should take a turn in the military. An army of citizen-soldiers is the best protection against political leaders turning the army against its own citizens.
No American fighting man should ever die except in defense of his own country. No American force should ever attack any country that is not attacking or preparing to attack the United States. And no American serviceman should ever, under any circumstances, serve under the command of foreigners.
Wars and acts of terrorism are born out of America's unjust foreign policy. Unless we change that policy, Americans will face a new century of wars, large scale and small scale. Unless we change that policy, Americans will continue to die in places where they have no legitimate reason to be and killed by people who, were it not for American injustice, would have no reason to wish us harm.
We owe it to the men and women of the armed forces to give them a government and policy worthy of their sacrifice.

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From start to finish a great time. Was bought an hours flight in a 72 year old chipmunk. The pilot (and Co-owner) of the airfield, Richard, was fab.
Showed us around the hangers, told us about the various aircraft, the airfield, explained the flight safety in an understandable non-worrying way , asked what I wanted to see.
You could tell from the way he talked and things he mentioned that the locality and environment were important to him. Not flying too close to homes, wildlife etc so as not to disturb.
Learnt a lot as well as thoroughly enjoyed myself. Well worth a visit.
And not forgetting all the other staff - friendly and helpful. Superb cafe Thursday to Sunday.
Simply amazing !