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New Delhi: In the last 24 hours, 8,300 people in India have been newly infected with Covid-19. More than 4,000 have recovered.
Across the country, 24 people have died from corona infection in the past 24 hours, according to data updated Friday (June 10) by the Union Ministry of Health. With this the total number is 4,32,05,106. The death toll rose to 5,24,747 with a further 24 deaths. This data is based on information updated at 8am.
The number of people in treatment has increased to 3,769. It accounts for 0.08 percent of all infections. The National Covid-19 recovery rate has been recorded at 98.70 per cent, according to the Ministry of Health.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 2.26% and the weekly positivity rate was recorded at 1.50%. The number of survivors has risen to 4,26,44,092.
The mortality rate was 1.21 percent. The total number of Covid vaccines vaccinated in the country so far exceeds 194.76 crore.
India’s Covid-19 numbers crossed 20 lakh on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16.
The number crossed 60 lakhs on September 28 and 70 lakhs on October 11. The number of infections crossed 80 lakh on October 29 and 90 lakh on November 20 and crossed one crore on December 19. India crossed the worst milestone of two crores on May 4, 2021 and three crores on June 23.
On June 9, 7,240 people in India were newly infected by Covid-19. This has provoked fears of a fourth wave. For the next two days, the incidence of Covid infection in India has increased by 40%.
Meanwhile, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tetros Adonom Caprais, has warned that the epidemic is not over.
He also stressed the need to be vigilant even if many countries abandon their corona virus protocols and try to live with the virus.
Tedros noted that 18 months after the start of the first mass corona virus vaccination programs in rich countries, 40% of people in 68 countries are still not vaccinated.


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On Thursday, June 6th, 2009, at the Queens College Colden Auditorium, a ceremony was held honoring the largest Allen School graduating class in its almost fifty year history – a full 1400 graduates – which included graduates from the Medical Assistant and Nursing Assistant programs and the first group of graduates from the Allen School’s new Online Medical Insurance Billing & Coding program. The online graduates who attended with their families were not only from New York, but also from such distant places as Florida, Kentucky, Minnesota, and Ohio. For some of them, the trip to Graduation 2009 represented their first trip to New York.
The ceremonies began with a quiet reflection delivered by Mike Perez, Executive Director of Admissions, followed by a powerful rendition of the Star Spangled Banner by current Queens’ Medical Assistant student, Elizabeth Guzman.
Annette Jill Luke, Director of the Queens campus, Lillian Mitchell, Director of the Brooklyn campus, and Linda Passamaneck, Director of the Online school, addressed the graduates and guests. Their abiding devotion to the graduates was expressed in heartfelt and meaningful words of encouragement and enthusiasm, clearly tinged with a bit of melancholy as yet another group of their carefully nurtured “offspring” flew out of the Allen School “nest” into the world at large.
Valedictorians, Medical Assistant, Renee Heron (Queens, New York campus), Erica Myers (Brooklyn, New York campus), and Billing & Coding professional Terry Sherman (Online school), spoke eloquently.
Renee advised her fellow graduates to “shoot for the moon,” in terms of reaching their full potential.
Erica compared the grace under fire of the pilot, Chesley Sullenberger, who safely landed the plane in the Hudson River on January 15th of 2009, to the potential that each graduate has to incorporate their training and skills into successfully handling a crisis when others will be depending upon them.
Terry Sherman spoke of her challenging “journey,” returning to school after having raised “three beautiful daughters,” and the great self-confidence she regained as a result.
Janet Kramer, the new and first Executive Director of Career Services, using the metaphor of Dr. Seuss, inspired the graduates to strive for lofty goals and to never give up. Dr. Stephen Davis, Academic Dean (Queens), distributed the diplomas. Dr. Robert Jannicelli, Academic Dean (Brooklyn), presented the graduates to the President of the Allen School, Mr. Robert Teich.
Mr. Teich spoke of the remarkable history of the Allen School, of the fact that ownership now includes three full generations, having passed from Loretta Teich, his mother, to him and now including his son, the Vice President, Jason Teich. He spoke with emotion and pride of the longevity of employment of so very many of the Allen School personnel, as close as family to him, many of whom have been with the school for ten, twenty and even thirty years. Mr. Teich praised the first group of online graduates and congratulated all of the graduates encouraging them to go higher.
Evening Dean, Gail Skeete (Brooklyn), lead the graduates in the recitation of the Professional Code for Health Career Graduates, that includes the promise to provide services with respect for human dignity…regardless of the social, cultural, economic or religious differences of the patients…to be a role model for one’s family, a professional in the community and a part of the global healthcare team…”
Members of the Allen School’s 2009 graduating class, will be part of the new frontier in the medical industry, as advancing techniques in science, medicine and technology, meet the challenges in a world of “firsts.”
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Vandal Summer Fulbright Soaks Up Culture
Written by Amanda Cairo
For Ashley Vincent, this summer was about making connections and halfway across the world in Newcastle, England, she did just that — on a global level.
The civil engineering junior was one of five U.S. students selected for the Fulbright Summer Institute at the Newcastle University International Summer School for five weeks.
“It was the most amazing experience; it really shrank the world for me,” says Vincent. “I’ve wanted to work abroad since I was in the fifth grade.”
Being in a structured program like civil engineering and in the University honors program, the Charlo, Mont., native jumped at the chance for this distinctive summer program. According to Vincent, it was more than a study abroad experience; it was the Fulbright sponsorship that drew her to the program. This is the first year the U.S./U.K. Fulbright Commission hosted a program for U.S. students to study in the U.K.
As part of the Fulbright program, Vincent went to Newcastle two weeks prior to the summer school session to take in more cultural and educational opportunities. She participated in several field trips, but also attended sampler sessions taught by 13 academics from around the world. It wasn’t just museums and cathedrals, Vincent says; they ate fish ‘n' chips with an international executive in Edinburgh and attended a lecture from the man whose work inspired the movie “Slum Dog Millionaire.”
“I was so amazed at how much we were able to learn in such a short time,” she says. “I loved the experience, but it also made me appreciate coming home to the United States.”
During the three-week school portion, Vincent was enrolled in a political science course with 13 people from nine different countries. What impressed her the most was learning about American politics from an outsider’s point-of-view.
“The course content was much the same as we get in the U.S., but it’s from a different perspective,” says Vincent. “It really struck me what a big player we are globally.”
Vincent adds she learned just about as much from meeting students from all over the world as she did from her professors. The summer school had about 60 students from 19 countries and she fascinated to find herself at a McDonald’s at 4 a.m. debating gun control with students from Austria, France, the Netherlands and Dubai.
“It was such an enriching experience to have all that knowledge and diversity around you,” says Vincent. “It gives you such a sense of the world, a global consciousness.”
Vincent also had a chance to be an ambassador of good will. She was interviewed by BBC Radio about the Gulf oil spill in an atmosphere where many Britons felt the U.S. blamed them.
"It was wonderful to be able to remove that perception of hostility and to reinforce a friendly relationship between citizens of both countries." she says.
For Vincent, the summer was a great academic experience, but also it gave her connections to the rest of the world. In three weeks, she became fast friends with 60 people from around the world with whom she hopes to visit and network.
As she hits the engineering books back at the University of Idaho, she brings back the global experience and her passion for travel. It is an experience she wishes for every Vandal; but if you can’t make it to Newcastle, Vincent will be more than happy to tell you all about it.

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The Map of Knowledge
In The Map of Knowledge, Violet Moller traces the journey taken by the ideas of three of the greatest scientists of antiquity – Euclid, Galen and Ptolemy – through seven cities and over a thousand years. Vividly told and with a dazzling cast of characters, The Map of Knowledge is an evocative, nuanced and vibrant account of our common intellectual heritage.
I am an independent historian with a particular interest in the history of ideas and how knowledge has been transmitted through the centuries. My Ph.D was on libraries in Early Modern Britain, focusing on the organisation and collection of intellectual knowledge, which led me to look at the history of science in a wider context and resulted in The Map of Knowledge, published in February 2019. In 2016 it was awarded the RSL Jerwood Prize for Non-fiction (for a work in progress).
I started my career as a journalist, contributing articles and reviews to The Face, Arena, The Scotsman, Metro Scotland and The List amongst others, covering theatre, art, books, going out, music and culture in general. I lived in Denmark for six years where I worked as an editor and translator, in addition to various branding/research projects. On moving back to the UK, I joined the Bodleian Library as a volunteer – this resulted in being commissioned to write three small books for the Publishing Department. I graduated with MA in Classics and Medieval History and Ph.D in History from the University of Edinburgh. I live in North Buckinghamshire with my husband and our three children.
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27 JUNE Chalke Valley History Festival, Broadchalke www.cvhf.org.uk
21 SEPT Hay Festival Segovia www.hayfestival.com/segovia/home
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12 OCT Classics Forum Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge www.eventbrite.co.uk
4 NOV European Space Agency, Paris www.esa.int/ESA
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17 NOV Travels Through Time podcast www.historytoday.com/podcast
5-8 MAR 2020 Aldeburgh Literary Festival www.aldeburghliteraryfestival.co.uk
19 MAY 2020 The Bath Festival www.bathfestivals.org.uk/the-bath-festival
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Tommie forward Taylor Young (JR-Edina) on Monday was named MIAC women's basketball Player of the Week. It's the second career weekly award for Young, a 2011-12 All-America honoree.
Young helped the Tommies to a 3-0 week that extended their winnign streak to five games. She averaged 14.3 points, 4.3 rebounds, 3.0 assists, 3.0 blocked shots and 2.0 steals per game while shooting 52.9 percent from the floor. Her high was 18 points -- two off her season high -- in Saturday's 19-point win over MIAC co-leader St. Benedict.
Young's defense also helped UST hold the Blazers to a season-low 46 points and all three opponents under 56 points.
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Among the memorabilia sold in Kazimierz’s Plac Nowy, or New Square – as well as in other parts of Krakow and throughout Poland – are pictures and figurines of the “Lucky Jew.”
There are quite a few artistic variations on this theme. A common Lucky Jew portrait depicts a bearded man dressed in pre-World War II Eastern European Jewish garb counting gold coins. Another shows a bearded Jew writing numbers in a ledger with a quill pen.
Such items are thought to bring good luck, especially financial luck, and are hung in homes and shops throughout Poland.
In the U.S., these images would immediately be identified as expressions of anti-Jewish prejudice. In Poland, it is perhaps more complicated.
Since 2017, another Jewish festival has taken place in Krakow alongside the more established Jewish Culture Festival. Called FestivALT, it was founded in 2016 by Jason Francisco, Michael Rubenfeld, Magda Rubenfeld Koralewska and Maia Ipp.
“Essentially, FestivALT was created to bring contemporary art about Jewish history, memory and identity in Poland to Krakow,” Francisco, who has lived there on and off since 2010, told me when I asked why a second Jewish festival was needed in the same place at the same time.
When Rubenfeld, a Canadian actor now living in Krakow, first saw the Lucky Jew images, he was surprised. One of his responses was to create a performance piece in which he, Francisco and the author Menachem Kaiser grew beards, dressed in garb resembling that of one of the commonly portrayed Lucky Jew characters, and set up a booth in Plac Nowy. There, seated amid a pile of coins, a ledger and a quill pen, they interacted with passersby.
I ran into Rubenfeld in a pub in Plac Nowy late one night. He was wearing his Lucky Jew attire, and I recognized him from an article I had read a year or two ago. I joined him at his table and he informed me that there would be a Lucky Jew performance in the square this year too, followed by a panel discussion at the Galicia Jewish Museum titled “Real, Live, Lucky Jews.”
One of the people I met at a Shabbat dinner in Krakow was a non-Jewish woman, Agnieszka Skladzien, 31, who had left Poland to work as a nurse in Switzerland. Before moving to Switzerland, she had been a volunteer at Krakow’s Jewish Community Center. Skladzien had returned to Krakow for the Jewish Culture Festival. I asked her to go with me to the Lucky Jew performance.
We arrived at Plac Nowy to find that Rubenfeld and a writer, Adam Schorin, were set up in the same Lucky Jew booth as two years ago, but now – having had their portraits painted in the style of the coin-tallying Lucky Jew – they were selling Lucky Jew portraits of themselves. A number of curious and amused Polish passersby stopped and had friendly conversations with Rubenfeld and Schorin. A riveted British tourist bought several of their portraits.
I asked my new friend what she thought of all this. Skladzien replied that Jews had natural financial intelligence and Polish people wanted some of this luck. For her, it was not a negative stereotype. In fact, she said, she had purchased a Lucky Jew portrait for her mother and owned one herself.
As I said, in Poland, it is perhaps more complicated.
As part of the panel discussion at the Galicia Jewish Museum that afternoon, there was a screening of a short documentary film in which Rubenfeld heads to a Krakow fair on Easter to sell portraits of himself as a Lucky Jew. This was followed by clips of various intellectuals’ reactions to the Lucky Jew performance piece.
In the video clip of his response to the piece, Rabbi Michael Schudrich, the American-born chief rabbi of Poland, stressed that provocation is not necessarily education. He considers the widespread Lucky Jew phenomenon to be upside down and wrong: both anti-Semitic and anti-Polish. (Editor’s note: Schudrich is the brother of Cantor Nathaniel Schudrich of New Bedford’s Tifereth Israel Congregation.)
After the event ended, I turned to a woman who sat next to me, Margaret Krawecka, and asked for her thoughts. This ended up being one of the most emotional conversations I had in Krakow.
“Polish people have intergenerational trauma from witnessing the abuse and destruction of their friends and neighbors,” said Krawecka, a Polish-born artist and architectural and interior design consultant who lives in Canada. “Non-Jews are trying to come to terms with the fact that about one-fifth of the population [in Poland] was wiped out [during World War II]. Some Polish people helped Jews at risk to their lives, some collaborated, but most just watched, paralyzed by the fear and terror spread by the Nazi occupiers. There is a feeling of helplessness – and maybe also a confused sense of guilt.
“This country is still very deeply affected by the trauma of World War II. Even me. I was born in 1978, many years after the war, and still the weight is heavy. It is the memory.
“Some Polish people seem like they are not ready to move on. Of course, they have to. You can never forget what happened, but you also have to move forward – without forgetting. A lot of people have an existential void, a sense of nostalgia, a missing of another time and place.
“In some strange way, perhaps these figurines of Jews, these lucky charms, are an attempt to bring back the past. There are so many complexities, so many layers. It is almost like the word ‘Jew’ has become a symbol.”

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There are eight tuna fillet varieties, all but one of which is packed in olive oil:
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Paolo Nuncio, former secretary of State on Tax Affairs for the government of Portugal and tax partner of the Lex Mundi member firm Morais Leitao, was our firm’s guest speaker during the 15th Athens Tax Forum organized by the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce. Paolo shared with the audience, the Portuguese experience from introducing electronic invoicing, as a tool to combat tax evasion.
Alex Karopoulos, tax partner, lectured on what the future holds for VAT during a seminar organized on the side of this year’s Advanced Diploma of International Taxation (ADIT). Among others, Alex focused on intra-union B2B supplies and the impact that the revised regime may have to the market. He also guided participants through changes in VAT rules that are entering into force this year or will be entering into force in 2020-2022.
Many thanks to our clients and peers for their valuable feedback resulting in Zepos & Yannopoulos being ranked once again as the only Band 1 tax practice in Greece by Chambers Europe 2019!
We remain committed in providing top quality services to our clients.
Katerina Vagia, tax senior associate, spoke in a conference organised by the Greek Company Association on 14 June. Katerina focused on the framework of transparency in the field of taxation, concerning corporate taxpayers. Reporting of cross-border arrangements, exchange of cross-border rulings and advance pricing arrangements, as well as CbC reporting, were items that Katerina touched upon. She also briefly presented recent developments on the taxation of the digital economy, referring to the two Directive proposed by the EU Commission.
Zepos & Yannopoulos proudly supported the 14th Athens Tax Forum 2018, organised by the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce on 19 April. Tax Partner Costas Kallideris shed light on Directors’ liabilities for company tax debts. Costas briefly presented the current framework on criminal and personal liabilities of directors and proposed revisions towards the rationalisation of the regime.
The Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV) interviewed Costas Kallideris on the scope of application of tax evasion rules and current tax audit practice in Greece. Costas Kallideris’ interview, which has been published in the Federation’s November 2017 Bulletin, comes as an introduction to the new edition of his book on BoD member liabilities from corporate tax assessments. The book is expected to be released by the end of the year.
Alex Karopoulos spoke about VAT refunds on bad debts, during the 9th Tax Forum organised by the Hellenic-American Chamber of Commerce in Thessaloniki.
Alex’s full presentation (in Greek) is accessible at the link below
For yet another year, Zepos & Yannopoulos is the only independent law firm in Greece that is ranked Tier 1 in Tax by all three major professional directories: Chambers, Legal 500 and International Tax Review’s World Tax.


"Some Republicans suggest a solution to the dreamers' terrible dilemma should have been from Congress, not the president," Reid said on the Senate floor Monday. "I repeat ... it's Republican opposition that has prevented Congress from acting."
Reid's sentiments are the complete opposite of those held by Republicans, who argue that President Obama essentially announced that his administration would selectively enforce immigration law. The GOP says it is not up to Obama to re-write laws passed by Congress, but to enforce them evenly.
Reid spoke about an hour after a few House Republicans criticized Obama for announcing an "imperial decree" without any input from Congress. Some Republicans have already threatened to sue the administration for the decision.
Elsewhere, Reid also announced that the Senate would continue to work on the farm bill this week, S. 3240. The two parties are still working out an agreement on which amendments would get a vote under the bill, but Reid said Republicans are being far more demanding on this issue.
Reid also indicated that he could file a motion to limit debate on the bill so the Senate can move ahead with the bill, and said that motion could be coming shortly.
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Tor 2nd XV arrived at Minhead Saturday to be greeted by some wet and windy conditions. As the team departed the mini bus the excitement and eagerness was evident in the eyes of the players. As the whistle for the start of the game blew, this over eagerness cost Tor dearly, as 2 consecutive penalties for lack of disciple at the breakdown, allowed Minehead a line out on Tor’s 5 meter line. A good catch and drive allowed Minehead to cross just 5 minutes into the game.
Tor kicked off and soon found that they were far superior than their opponents in all aspects. After some good forwards play the ball found its way to the Tor backline, which some good hands from Roland Hall and Casey Pitman, allowed Jack Burge the space to score in the corner.
Minehead kicked back off and soon found themselves back in their half due to some good play from the Tor forwards. Just outside of the Minehead 22 Tom Ansell found Burge, in the centre of the pitch, and with a dummy pass found the Minehead defense part like the red sea, with just the full back to beat Burge scored his second under the posts.
Minehead couldn’t find an answer to Tor’s dominance and were soon again pinned on their own try line, a charged down clearance kick allowed John Mullins to get Tor’s third try. With the first half drawing to a close more good hands from the backs allowed Burge space to complete a first half hat trick.The first half finished with Tor 22-5 up.
The second half was much of the same, with periods of good defense, from the likes of the evergreen James White and Roland Hall, and strong forwards play, with Louie Burge and Steve Bradley the pick of the ball carrying forwards.
Once again some good all round play from Tor allowed some room on the blind side for Louie Burge and Steve Bradley to show off their quick hands to put the on-fire Jack Burge in the corner for his fourth.
Minehead battled on despite seeing no real joy in penetrating the Tor defense. Pinned in their own 22 a clearance kick found Tor’s winger Jamie Brown, his strong run pierced a whole in the Minehead defense and allowed him to score.
Tor weren’t done yet, some good play, once again, found Tor 5 meters out from Minehead’s try line, and substitute Mike Forscutt forced his way over. The final scoring a resounding 37-5.
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DescriptionUniversity of Colorado – School of MedicinePost-Doctoral Fellow
TheUniversity of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus is a public researchuniversity serving more than 18,000 students. We award nearly 4,000 degreeseach year, including more graduate and professional degrees than any otherColorado institution. With our solid academic reputation, award-winning facultyand renowned researchers, we offer more than 140 highly rated degree programsthrough 13 schools and colleges. The university receives over $400 million inresearch awards each year. In addition to the wide array of health-relatedprograms and facilities offered at CU Anschutz in Aurora, Colo. a significantnumber of undergraduate and graduate degree programs are taught at CU Denver,our comprehensive campus in the heart of downtown Denver—one of America’s mostvibrant urban centers. CU Denver is located steps from the Denver Center forPerforming Arts and the LoDo District affording our students, faculty and staffaccess to a broad array of academic, professional, community, recreational and culturaloutlets
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TheDepartment of Pathology has Postdoctoral fellow position available for highlymotivated candidates with a fresh PhD in Biochemistry, Molecular/ cell Biology,Cancer Biology or Neuroscience to join the the Department of Pathology, Schoolof Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
Thisposition provides a unique opportunity to be part of an enthusiastic researchteam working towards increasing survival for brain metastasis patients boththrough basic and translational research. Our goal is to unveil the mechanismsthat allow cancer cells to spread to and colonize the brain and to discovernovel therapeutic strategies for brain metastases
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It’s been a long time since I shot my last sporting event and I honestly forgot how much fun it can be.
This past Friday, April 5, I got the opportunity to shoot Wayne State baseball in their game versus Purdue Northwest and even though the box score may show a fairly average baseball game, it was a tense back and forth with highs and lows for both teams.
Upon showing up to the game about an hour early, I immediately noticed a crowd of professionally dressed men near the bullpen in right field. I later learned that today’s starting pitcher for Wayne State, Hunter Brown, is being scouted by several major league teams and is likely to get chosen in this year’s draft.
Purdue Northwest’s Kyle Flessner matched Brown with zeroes until the fourth inning when Purdue Northwest pulled ahead with a run-scoring single from Kevin McCune.
Wayne State answered in the bottom half of the inning with a run-scoring single of their own by Tristen Jorah, bringing the game to a 1-1 tie.
Purdue Pulled ahead once again in the top of the sixth inning after an RBI single and an error by Wayne State right fielder Hunter DeLanoy.
With two outs in the bottom of the sixth, Jacob Finkbeiner hit a long fly ball off the left field wall. Head coach Ryan Kelly came out to argue that Purdue’s catcher didn’t have possession of the ball as he attempted to tag Finkbeiner crossing home plate. Kelly remained on the field, protesting the call for several minutes before conceding back to the dugout for the seventh inning.
Wayne State’s bats finally broke through in the bottom of the seventh inning, sparked by a bases loaded walk by catcher Justin Kelly, lowering Wayne State’s deficit to 3-2. Freshman Rudy Ramirez then came off the bench and delivered a long 2-run single off the left field wall, scoring Jorah and DeLanoy. Following a wild pitch, passed ball, and a fielders’ choice, second basemen Noah Miller drove another 2-run single to left center to give the Warriors a 6-3 lead.
Following the rally, left hander Brennan Cox came in for the Warriors to pitch the eighth and ninth innings to earn his first career save.
Wayne State is now 23-8 overall and 7-5 in GLIAC play. After the series with Purdue Northwest, the Warriors are 22nd in NCAA Division II baseball rankings.


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By Brian Summerfield, Online Editor, REALTOR® Magazine
When the Bourbon royals took over France again after the violent revolutions and Napoleonic wars that spanned more than two decades through the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the famous French diplomat Talleyrand supposedly said they had “learned nothing and forgotten nothing.” In other words, they immediately resumed the behaviors that had led to those national catastrophes in the first place.
Unfortunately, Talleyrand’s quip may apply to the United States during the Great Recession that started in late 2007. In remarks this morning at a 30 Under 30 event held in NAR’s Chicago office, Bethany McLean, co-author of the best-selling All the Devils Are Here, said the response to the financial crisis shows how much we — politicians, business leaders, regulators, and the public — haven’t learned. The book, written with New York Times columnist Joe Nocera, is a riveting account of the financial innovations and regulatory decisions that led to the near collapse of the world economy in the fall of 2008. McLean is a contributing editor with Vanity Fair, a columnist for Slate, and a frequent guest on Bloomberg news.
Part of the problem with bringing about real change is the complexity of the crisis. “What makes the narrative unsatisfying is that there’s not one simple explanation for it,” she said.
Attempts to boil it down are often politically motivated. For instance, some analysts want to pin the blame for the meltdown entirely on the government and thus use government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as a scapegoat. However, while the GSEs make convenient villains, they didn’t actually play a “determining role” in the financial meltdown, said McLean, who characterized them as a sort of red herring in the story.
At this point, no one is seriously proposing that the government get entirely out of the secondary mortgage market, McLean said. Without the government guarantee, she acknowledged, the 30-year mortgage would be history. However, she questioned the wisdom of blending public and private functions in the market, because it leads to a situation where risk is socialized (that is, spread to taxpayers) yet profits are privatized (with the beneficiaries being corporate executives, shareholders, and employees of specific companies). That’s a position NAR has taken as well in its testimony to Congress on proposals to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. “The rich irony is that’s exactly what we’ve done with the big banks. The banks were the biggest critics of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,” McLean said. “Yet they enjoyed the benefit of private gain and socialized losses, because the government determined they were too big to fail.”
While Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have taken the greatest heat — Fannie, in particular, has been a continued target because of the challenges it has had regaining profitability — individual borrowers have also been faulted for making poor financial decisions. McLean said she was initially critical of consumers — and still maintains the need for personal responsibility — but the research she conducted for her book showed that, to a much greater degree, it was perverse financial incentives in mortgage lending that led to the breakdown.
“The industry sold [consumers] bad mortgages,” she said. “Everyone could make money, even if the borrower couldn’t repay the loan.”
So if not Fannie, Freddie, and borrowers, which parties were primarily to blame for the financial crisis, and what could have been done differently in the immediate aftermath?
McLean put most of the responsibility at the feet of the big Wall Street investment banks and the institutions charged with regulating them, such as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Federal Reserve, and the U.S. Treasury. She said the biggest, most meaningful step that could have been taken in the wake of the downturn would have been to break up the so-called too-big-to-fail banks.
Instead, the opposite occurred. Lehman Brothers disintegrated, and Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch were bought by other financial institutions as part of bailout packages. Now, the too-big-to-fail banks are even bigger, and, consequently, more assets are consolidated in fewer enterprises than ever before.
The Dodd-Frank bill passed last year only gets at the margins of financial reform, she said. “Much of Dodd-Frank was a blueprint of what Congress wanted to see,” McLean explained. However, the details of interpretation and enforcement have been left to the regulators, and provisions such as the regulation of derivatives and the new Consumer Financial Protection Agency are being fought tooth-and-nail by big banking interests.
At play is what McLean termed “implicit corruption” caused by the fact that regulators are so close to the industries they’re regulating and share the same pro-market mentality. In fact, many high-level regulators came from law firms that count the biggest Wall Street banks as clients. On the one hand, she said, these people know high finance better than anyone else. Unfortunately, they have as much of an interest in protecting that industry as policing it.
“That aspect of corruption is hard to fix,” McLean said. “Until you outlaw greed or strip selfishness out of human nature, some of this stuff is inevitable.”
At this point, the best way to fundamentally change the conditions that led to the near-collapse of the financial system is to alter the mentality at all levels by putting a greater focus on responsibility, education, and skepticism.
For a consumer, that means understanding that a financial instrument that’s being pushed on you isn’t necessarily in your best interest. For home buyers, it means taking a practical view of the value of home ownership.
“If the home turns out to be a great investment, that’s wonderful,” she said. “But I don’t think it should be compared to other kinds of investments. Your home should be a place to live, a place of security, and I think we’ve lost sight of that.”
McLean served as a primary consultant to the HBO dramatization of the financial crisis, “Too Big to Fail,” which premiered last night on the network. A preview clip is below.
Also, to read more about the causes of the financial crisis, go here and here.


Despite the arrival of rookie star Victor Wembanyama, San Antonio Spurs guard Devin Vassell could very well be the team’s best player next season if Wemby takes time with the NBA learning curve.
And if Vassell keeps up his offseason training with basketball royalty, then his potential title of “San Antonio’s best player” could be bumped up to “NBA All-Star.”
After a season that saw him average career-high marks in points (18.5) and assists (3.6), Vassell is training with Phoenix Suns star and NBA legend Kevin Durant this offseason.
Pictures of the pair were getting spread around by Spurs fans on Twitter recently. And though no one’s speculating that Durant is somehow going to end up in San Antonio, seeing him spend offseason time to work out with the young guard has Spurs faithful excited about the jump Vassell could make this upcoming season.
Though Vassell finished last season with career-best numbers, he played in only 38 games due to mid-season knee surgery that kept him out an extended period. After being sidelined for about two months, he came back to average 15.6 points in 30.1 minutes in the month of March.
His absence may have been a blessing in disguise. Had Vassell played for most of the year, it’s possible the Spurs would have won a few more games, which could’ve hurt their chances at securing the No. 1 overall pick and landing Wembanyama.


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Part 2 of our feature, celebrating Hampton township’s 20th anniversary: The drive from London Road towards Serpentine Green stops abruptly at Hempsted.
The red lights blink into green and the road deviates left, a slow 20mph trundle for a few hundred yards , before it joins back to the original road.
Only buses and cyclists can pass along the A15 unimpeded. Motorists must use the loop system, and it is the same story in the reverse direction, towards Woodston.
This writer has fielded several phone calls from readers asking one question: “Why?”
My answer lies in the barren land with the car parking spaces and Tesco signs in the centre of Hempsted, and was supplied by Roger Tallowin of O and H Hampton, the company which delivered the Hampton infrastructure: a district centre will be built on the land and developers didn’t want turning on a road with a 50mph limit. So the one-way loop system was created to slow drivers down.
It is one of many little snippets I pick upduring a Land Rover tour of the development to learn more about the past, present and future of Hampton, as it celebrates its 20-year anniversary in 2013,
A big part of the story is the nearby GKL Group, the civil engineering company which has formed a ‘strong partnership’ with O and H.
There are also at least ten housing developers, adding their own angle to the various slices and segments of the Hampton development.
It is clear that the image of the 200 affordable houses in Hempsted are not, in Roger’s opinion, one of the highlights: “It should have been split into five areas by different developers, because it now looks too ‘samey’.
“In any development you don’t want to be able to see who lives where, and that’s what works well in Hampton Hargate.”
The other Hampton neighbourhoods might be distinct from Hempsted.
But many would argue that once inside the densely-packed rabbit warrens they all look the same. The list of visitors to the township who have never been hopelessly lost, or reached an impasse at one of the many confusing and frustrating crossings, would be a short one.
On Ruster Way, Roger’s answer is to challenge me with a rhetorical question on the aesthetic qualities of the homes: “Which of these are private properties, and which are housing association?”
I guess successfully, but the point is taken. Despite people’s attitudes towards social housing which ranges from ambivalence to snobbiness to fear, the buildings aren’t always abominations.
And Roger would no doubt contend that their proximity to houses costing in excess of £650,000 – the splendid self-builds on Winsor Crescent complete with five en-suite bedrooms, and in some cases acting as prototypes for zero-carbon properties on the South Bank – represents success.
I learn much about the thinking behind the development and quirky little stories which accompany it.
I learn that News International’s alarm systems have been set off by rabbits on several occasions.
I learn that a pub was planned opposite Maharani’s but residents complained about an establishment with a drinking licence being so close to schools.
I learn that the allotments at Hampton Vale are fully occupied – no mean feat in Peterborough.
I learn that O and H installed a £50,000 ‘cat fence’ along back gardens of Hampton Hargate Road, to prevent moggies escaping into the wildlife areas – ineffectively, as it transpires.
And I learn that even halfway into the life of Hampton there is no clear consensus which is best in terms of vehicle usage in a green area; parking for cars at the rear of a house, or parking at the front.
We go past the flourishing football club. In ten years Hampton has achieved a triple award winning football club and is one of the region’s fastest growing and most dynamic grass roots club, enjoying 35 per cent growth year on year – with plans to increase to over 50 teams within the next five years
It also provides funding for projects for members between 13 and 25 run to help the local community.
We drive past the Tump, the natural level of the land before development started. Roger tells me that someone is suing him after injuring themselves on their toboggan earlier this year, when it struck a signpost at the base.
Apparently legal action is quite commonplace on developments, and so various failsafes are in place. We pass Serpentine Lake and see the three metres of thick reeds, designed to stop young children from wading in from the edge.
O and H visits schools to talk to youngsters about the danger of the water, and Roger is dreading the day that he would ever have to look a grieving mother in the eye.
Along the journey he refers to everything from roads to play areas as his possessions – at Molyneux Square “The winter weather has killed all my plants” – but his tone is more paternal than capitalist.
And people know him. Workmen laying roads smile and two conservationists detailing vole numbers in the nature reserve stop to chat.
Nature and greenery is an integral part of Hampton, which has been cited by Natural England as an exemplar of how to integrate new development into the surrounding landscape, with a successful pledge to maintain 50 per cent of open space.
Around 110,000 trees have been planted, while £1.1 million has been spent on tunnels for great crested newts.
Crown Lake has its own bat cave, and those ridges of soil, bricks and rubble which look like the result of flytipping? They are hibernacula, specifically designed as perfect homes for small beasts to thrive.
Ecology and biodiversity charities Froglife, the Wildlife Trust and Buglife were involved with the design of 630 acres set aside for wildlife, and are managing these open spaces.
An hour, and several bumpy tracks later, we find ourselves on a lofty ridge to the south of the city. Yaxley is in the distance, but in 20 years it will be hidden behind the Goliath that is the 5,300-home Great Haddon development.
There is much more to come, many more hundreds of thousands of tonnes of ash and clay to be moved and deposited and worked before then. And it will never really stop.
Roger adds: “When Hampton started we did a lot for the community.
“But now people are self-organising, with thriving groups and clubs. It has a parish council, and a residents association, and lots of other things.
“Hampton has now grown up.”
Growing the economy: Hampton business in facts and figures
Hampton has created a jobs-to-homes ratio of 1.25 compared to the national average of 0.75. The total rateable value of Hampton businesses now exceeds £20m.
To date 5,800 new jobs have been created within Hampton – most recently national IT suppliers Kelway, bringing 200 jobs
The 2011 UK census showed Hampton and Orton wards have the highest proportion of employed people throughout the city.
During Hampton’s development, around 90 per cent of O&H’s £120-150million turnover was spent in the Peterborough area, employing local firms to do the work.
Big names include IKEA, Debenhams and Prologis – all of whom have distribution centres at Kingston Park.
Other well-known names include News International, Kiddicare, GKL Northern and Volvo. Deafblind UK and Mencap’s national headquarters are in Hampton
The new Opus development provides 61,000 sq ft of office space for both established and start-up businesses.
Footfall in the 280,000 sq ft Serpentine Green shopping centre increased in 2012 from 5.8m to 6.1million.


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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Her question is a glowing beacon on the reason that our monogamous culture can't accept polyamory as a lifestyle. For them, relationships follow a pattern; they have to "go" somewhere. I was told when I was young that I would meet "the one" (presumably my soul mate) and fall in love, and date, and marry, and have kids and grow old with this all-encompassing completion of my soul in the form a living, breathing person. Talk about pressure. How does even the most willing of individuals live up to something like that?
How many beautiful, loving relationships end because one or both partners believe the relationship has to go somewhere? How often do movie couples split because one wants kids while the other feels compelled to see the world? Must be that they weren't "meant" for each other. This is what we're taught by Hollywood, books, our parents, the old lady down the street.
We are finally living in a society that questions religious beliefs like never before. Yet humanity seems to be stuck with this notion of "one and only forever." Relationships, whether they be friendships, romantic, sexual, take on forms of their own if we let them. And they're not permanent forms either. They're constantly in flux. Society doesn't place such stringent restrictions on our friendships. In fact, friendships span generations, time, space, race, and any other barrier. But if you want to be more than friends ... well, there's only one way to do that kind of relationship.
I suggest fear is the reason for humanity's inability to let go of this childhood fairy tale. Being vulnerable with a lover is so much more dangerous (we think) than with a friend. So, if I'm going to submit myself to the possibility of being truly vulnerable with someone, then it's going to be within the safe, predictable environment of "the right path." This way I can't get hurt, at least that's what we think.
We all know how it ends though. Rarely do people who start out on this path make it to the "growing old together" stage. (Kudos to those who do. But I hope you did it out of joy and not obligation.) No, people get divorced, they have affairs, they break up, they end up in jail for domestic violence. This is a safer way to be vulnerable?
The truth is there is no safe way to be vulnerable with another human being. That's what makes it so beautiful, wonderful. You take the chance and you fly or you fall. In the end, that's what makes it all worth it.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
In creating the human raceI did achieve perfection;a perfection of balancebetween the forces driving it toward good, and those driving it toward evil.+Last Testament: A Memoir by GOD
Though this was meant as a humorous statement, most Christian doctrine would agree. Or worse, that man was created entirely evil, seeped in sin, as it were. The only way to achieve even an ounce of goodness is through God's most gracious gesture, the murder of his son.
I would argue that it is unfair for god to expect us to be good little boys and girls when he created us balanced between good and evil. It's like saying, "Here, I've created you with only one leg, but if you really want to please me, I need you to learn to run really fast."
Not that I really believe in "good" and "evil" as concepts. It's one of the big religious paradoxes I have never been able to put on blinders to: "Here's all these enjoyable things I created and I've given you a body capable of enjoying them. But if you really love me (meaning: God), if you really want to be a worthwhile (read: holy) person, then I want you to not enjoy them." What?! Might as well ask "evil" lions to stop eating prey, or beavers to stop building dams, etc. Alright, I think I've beaten this dead horse ..
A friend of mine argued that being overly attached to ego or the physical world can make someone evil, and I used to agree. But lately I've come to see these individuals (those who embody "separateness") as more lost than anything else. Like they can't really help themselves. Of course they can, but sometimes you can be so down deep in a hole, buried under so many false ideas and information about yourself and the world, that it's too difficult to overcome on your own.
Working from a base of false information (for example a religious paradigm), you can come to some pretty "evil" seeming conclusions about what you "should" or "must" do. I remember very clearly what it's like to be down in the bottom of that hole (everyone's is unique of course), feeling like there is no possible solution, etc. So, that being said, I see so called evil people, or people who do evil things, as severely deluded about the reality of ... um ... reality.
I feel sorry for them. They can control their actions, and they still need to be held accountable for them (especially criminals and such), but until they have a paradigm shift, they won't really be motivated (not quite the right word) to act differently. They won't understand why it's the right way to act. They might simply act that way to avoid further punishment. And you really need someone (even if it's through the written word) to help you through that shift. We can't all be little Buddhas and come to enlightenment on our own. Like I said, I don't really believe in good and evil, except for when you're talking about archetypal cartoon characters. (Too much Power Rangers for me today.)
Those who are severely deluded about the nature of reality can almost be seen as acting on instinct. They are more animal that cerebral human. Simply reacting, instead of thinking. Heavy doses of religious (and other forms) of conditioning can also have this effect. Does this visceral or conditioned state of mind make someone evil? Are they ever beyond all hope? Or is knowledge -- about the universe, the self, reality -- the cure for evil, as Plato suggested?
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Growing up, this was something my parents said to me constantly, at the zoo, at the water park, at my own birthday party. My opinion, my lack of cooperation, my outside-the-boxness was "ruining it for everyone else."
Is this really so bad? I mean, what exactly did I ruin? Their ultimate happiness and source of joy? Just think where'd they all be today if it weren't for me. If I hadn't ruined that perfect Christmas where nobody got what they really wanted anyway.
I was unhappy, sure. And I made a lot of others around me unhappy as well, though that wasn't really my goal. But can one person, or child, really ruin your life? Reality?
I will give my parents a break. I was relentless, and never really gave them a sporting chance. But their words stick with me. Am I doing anyone favors by not speaking what's on my mind? Perhaps something I say, some kernel of truth, will affix itself to you in an uncomfortable space. And now that it's been said, and you've heard it, it can't be taken back. You can no longer ignore the small piece of truth that tells you, you must change. Have I ruined your life?
Truth and beauty can't be ruined. They aren't less true or beautiful when criticized or heckled. It is only the delusion of truth and beauty that gets spoiled. In that sense, I'm doing you a favor by saying what no one else will say. By telling you the truth, even when it's uncomfortable.
Here's to ruining your complacent, settled life -- and choosing the road less traveled by.

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“You can bet there will never be another book on the films of Norman Mailer. This always intelligent look back at the despised movie career of this famously talented writer is made all the more astonishing by the collected essays honesty, respect and attempt at historical context. Reading about these movies is way more fun than actually seeing them and even Norman might agree.” – John Waters, Director and Screenwriter, USA
“Bozung’s collection represents a major advance in our understanding of Mailer’s films―their origins, creation, reception, relationship to his literary work, and enduring influence. His assiduous archival work, communication with almost everyone alive involved with Mailer’s film-making, the collection of previously published essays (including Mailer’s), and the commissioning of new ones, plus an extraordinary collection of photographs, makes The Cinema of Norman Mailer the definitive volume on Mailer’s film career.” – J. Michael Lennon, author of Norman Mailer: A Double Life (2013) and Emeritus Professor of English, Wilkes University, USA
The Cinema of Norman Mailer: Film Is Like Death features new and previously-published analytical essays written by an array of film and literary scholars, enthusiasts, and those who had a personal relationship with the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of such books as The Naked and the Dead, An American Dream, and Armies of the Night. For Mailer, film was “legitimately more interesting than books,” and the author made six films between the years of 1947 and 1987. By re-examining Mailer’s polarizing cinema experiments into the avant-garde, direct cinema, and Hollywood noir, we may be afforded a deeper understanding of his cubist oeuvre of writing that featured the novel, non-fiction, biography, and new journalism—but also find an alternate vision of Mailer. Mailer was not just a writer of the beat 50s and turbulent 60s, but was also one of the key post-modern artists of the 20th Century who had deep roots in cinema itself. Mailer’s interest in the philosophy of cinema aesthetics influenced his writing but also aided in the crafting of one of his most potent metaphors—film is like death.
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A riveting and startling companion to the bestselling Impulse, Ellen Hopkins's Perfect exposes the harsh truths about what it takes to grow up and grow into our own skins, our own selves
Everyone has something, someone, somewhere else that they’d rather be. For four high-school seniors, their goals of perfection are just as different as the paths they take to get there. Cara’s parents’ unrealistic expectations have already sent her twin brother Conner spiraling toward suicide. For her, perfect means rejecting their ideals to take a chance on a new kind of love. Kendra covets the perfect face and body—no matter what surgeries and drugs she needs to get there. To score his perfect home run—on the field and off—Sean will sacrifice more than he can ever win back. And Andre realizes that to follow his heart and achieve his perfect performance, he’ll be living a life his ancestors would never have understood.
The first book I read by Ellen Hopkins was Impulse then after that I was hooked. When I found out that Perfect was a companion book to Impulse I was excited. It's been a few years since I read Impulse so I may have forgot a few details but that didn't matter when reading perfect. Since it's not necessary to read Impulse before Perfect But I would definitely recommend any one to read it and any of Ellen Hopkins other books.
Perfect mostly focuses on Cara, who strives to be perfect to please her overbearing mother and distant father and friends. Kendra who works hard to look perfect she needs the right look,clothes,and perfect body no matter what cost. Sean thinks every things fine as long as he excels at baseball no matter what ,has the perfect girlfriend Cara and juiced up body. Andre who has two paths set out for him,he can follow his dreams of being a dancer or follow his father and mothers path with the right school and career choice. Then there are other characters that blend in the background but also are a big part of the story like Jenna Kendra's younger sister who lives in her sisters shadow and has her own issues to face. Conner Cara's twin bother who went over the edge pushed by stress to be the perfect son. His story is told in Impulse but we get glimpse of what he went though in this story from his sister Cara
The story is captivating and draws the reader into the story desperate to find out what happens next.The cover is eye catching like the majority of Ellen Hopkins books. To me it almost looks like translucent skin with purple writing on it. This story is for anyone who has ever struggled to meet the unrealistic expectation of being Perfect. 5/5


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American makeup artist and social media sensation Avani Kiana Gregg. She entered the world on November 23, 2002, a Tuesday, in the United States. Her early popularity stemmed from her activity on the video-sharing app TikTok. Gregg portrays Gemma in the web series Chicken Girls. She won the Shorty Award for TikToker of the Year in 2019, and Forbes will include her among the 30 Under 30 in the field of social media in 2020. So, let’s discuss Avani’s lifestyle and fortune.
Avani Gregg Early Life:
Born on November 23rd, 2002, in Brownsburg, Indiana, Avani Gregg is a proud American citizen. Avani’s childhood is also mostly unknown.
Avani Gregg Education:
No information on Avani Gregg’s academic credentials appears publicly published or accessible. Nonetheless, we are keeping a careful eye and will continue Avani’s education as soon as we get access to the necessary information.
Avani Gregg Family:
Avani was introduced into the globe on November 23, 2002, in Brownsburg, Indiana. She has a complex heritage of Indian, Mongolian, and African-American roots. Avani has two sisters, both named Gregg and they are named Shanti and Priya. Her older sibling, Shanti, shares her online presence across many networks. Avani’s career as a competitive gymnast was cut short when, as a child, she suffered a stress fracture in her spine. We will also revise this piece on the Avani Gregg family to incorporate credible sources.
Avani Gregg Zodiac Sign:
Avani is a citizen of the United States from her birthplace, the state of Indiana. It’s safe to say she comes from more than one culture. In the year 2022, Avani Gregg will become 19 years old. Her birthday is November 23rd, making her a Sagittarius.
Avani has also become famous for promoting her cosmetics line through online videos and branded merchandise. She had worn clown makeup to an occasion and had been a viral sensation. This sort of public presence is also a part of her merch.
Avani Gregg Physical Stats:
Avani Gregg is exactly 5 feet and 1 inch tall. She participates in gymnastics at level 9 and weighs 50 kilograms. In addition, she has brown eyes and jet-black hair and is often spotted in several different outfits. She does not appear to be tattooed. According to US standards, she wears size six shoes.
Avani Gregg Relationship Status
Many people wonder if Avani is married, and many more wonder what her status is. As a result of our research into Avani’s love life, we can inform you that in March 2020, Gregg verified that she was dating the social media sensation, Anthony Reeves. This information is accessible to us as a consequence of our study. Three years ago, they met for the first time on Musical.ly (currently TikTok).
Avani’s gymnastics career was cut short when she had a back injury. Despite this, she occasionally shows off her social media prowess. She has been cast as Gemma for the upcoming Chicken Girls on Brat season. She will star as one of the key characters. The first season of the show will premiere in 2020.
Avani Gregg Profession:
Avani Gregg is a TikTok personality born on November 23, 2002. She has more than 10 M followers on the app, and her videos have earned 568 million likes. She frequently engages in comic skits, physical challenges, dances, and transitions in her films. Moreover, she is a member of a group known as “The Hype House.” Charli D’Amelio, Chase Hudson, and Daisy Keech, all huge names in the world of social media, are all part of this crew. Gregg became known as the “Clown Girl” with the publication of her first viral TikTok video that year, which showed her transformation into a clown in the style of Harley Quinn.
With her best friend Charli D’Amelio, she became a member of the Los Angeles-based collective The Hype House in December 2019. In the internet sitcom Chicken Girls, Gregg plays the part of Gemma, one of the major characters. She declared that Gallery Books would publish her autobiography in the coming months, beginning in September 2020. Starting in 2020’s November, she hosted a Facebook Watch conversation show titled Here For It, in which she addressed Gen-Z issues brought forward by her audience. In conclusion, Avani Gregg is on track to becoming a highly respected Makeup Artist in the United States.
Avani Gregg Social Media Appearance
Avani Li is an extremely popular American makeup artist with many devoted followers. In addition, she has 18.8 million people following her @avani account on Instagram and is well-known for the gorgeous photographs she shares there.
Avani Gregg’s Twitter handle is @avanigregg, and she has over 2.2 thousand followers.
Avani Gregg Net Worth:
The amount of Avani Gregg’s financial assets and debts is the measure of her net worth. Homes, autos, many forms of bank accounts, and financial resources belong to Avani. Some examples of financial assets that add to Avani’s net worth are equities and bonds and Avani itself.
Moreover, Avani Gregg is a new name to you, and you are curious about the source of her wealth. Let’s get one thing straight: Avani Gregg, the well-known American make-up artist, is reported to be worth $400,000, and she has amassed a substantial fortune due to her career. No matter how you slice it, that’s a lot of money, especially for someone of Avani’s age.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Avani Gregg?
American makeup artist and social media sensation Avani Kiana Gregg. She entered the world on November 23, 2002, a Tuesday, in the United States. Her early popularity stemmed from her activity on the video-sharing app TikTok.
How tall and how heavy Avani Gregg was?
Avani Gregg is exactly 5 feet and 1 inch tall. She weighs 50 kg and performs at the highest level of gymnastics.
What is Avani Gregg’s marital status?
Gregg confirmed her romance with social media sensation Anthony Reeves in March 2020.
How much money does Avani Gregg have right now?
Avani Gregg has a net worth of $400,000 as of 2022. She has amassed a considerable fortune thanks to endorsements and sponsorships for her online content.

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In response to COVID-19, the City of Dallas is announcing a pilot grogram called Dallas Slow Streets. The program allows neighbors to nominate their streets as Slow Streets with a 30-day permit. At this moment, the City allows 10 neighborhoods to receive the designation on a first-come, first-approved, first-served rotation.
Based on programs in Kansas City, Missouri, and Austin, the initiative is designed with neighbors’ safety first. Slow Streets will be considered for low-traffic, neighborhood streets that must remain open to local traffic, emergency vehicles, and deliveries.
Dallas Slow Streets pilot program is in partnership with the City of Dallas, Better Block Foundation, Coalition for a New Dallas, BikeDFW, Amanda Popken Development, and Council office, District 1.
Why Slow Streets
Throughout COVID-19, vehicular traffic has reduced, while the need for spaces for people has increased. With the Dallas Slow Streets pilot program, we’re working to give neighborhoods a chance to slow down the streets in their communities by shutting them to thru traffic and opening them to activities such as walking, running, and bicycling while maintaining safe social distancing.
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Crooner remembered for 'Monster Mash'
Bobby “Boris” Pickett, whose dead-on Boris Karloff impression propelled the Halloween anthem “Monster Mash” to the top of the charts while cementing his place as one of pop music’s most enduring one-hit wonders died of leukemia April 25 in Los Angeles. He was 69.
Pickett’s multimillion selling single hit the charts three separate times: when it debuted in 1962, again in August 1970, and for a third time in May 1973. The resurrections were appropriate for a song where Pickett gravely intoned the forever-stuck-in-your-head chorus: “He did the monster mash. … It was a graveyard smash.”
The novelty hit’s fans included Bob Dylan, who sang Pickett’s praises before playing the single on his XM Satellite Radio program last October. “Our next artist is considered a one-hit wonder, but his one hit comes back year after year,” Dylan noted before mentioning that “Monster Mash” reached No. 1 on Oct. 20, 1962.
Pickett’s Karloff impression was forged in Somerville, Mass., where 9-year-old Bobby watched horror films in a theater managed by his father. When Pickett launched a Hollywood nightclub act in 1959, it inevitably featured his Karloff impersonation.
Pickett also did the voice when performing with his band the Cordials, particularly during the spoken part of the ’50s hit by the Diamonds, “Little Darling.” Bandmate Lenny Capizzi convinced Pickett they needed to do a song featuring his impression of the horror impresario, and “Monster Mash” was born — “written in about a half-hour,” said radio host Dr. Demento.
The song was recorded in another two hours, featuring a then-unknown piano player named Leon Russell and a backing band christened The Crypt-Kickers. It was rejected by four major labels before Gary Paxton, lead singer on the Hollywood Argyles’ hit “Alley Oop,” released “Monster Mash” on his own.
The instant smash became a Halloween perennial — a sort-of Christmas carol for the pumpkin and ghoul set. In a 1996 interview with People magazine, Pickett said he never grew tired of his biggest hit: “When I hear it, I hear a cash register ringing.”
While Pickett never again recreated the success of “Monster Mash,” he continued performing through his final gig in November 2006. He remained in demand for Halloween performances, including a memorable 1973 show where his bus broke down outside Frankenstein, Mo.
Although considered a one-hit wonder, Pickett actually cracked the charts on two other occasions: “Monster’s Holiday,” a Christmas follow-up to his Halloween hit, reached No. 30 in December 1962. And “Graduation Day” hit No. 80 in June 1963.
Pickett is survived by a daughter, a sister and two grandchildren.


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Did Mitt Romney and Rick Perry Make an Illegal Million-Dollar Backroom Deal?
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All of which recalls the old Texas political joke:
“What’s the difference between a bribe and a campaign contribution?”
“You report the contribution.”
“Who butters his biscuits?”
Few if any Texans have watched Rick Perry longer or more closely than Jim Hightower, the populist rabble-rouser and author. Perry first gained statewide office in Texas by beating Hightower, the incumbent, in the 1990 election for agriculture commissioner. The Svengali behind the scenes of Perry’s success was a political operative by the name of Karl Rove.
Perry and Hightower first crossed swords when Hightower, as agriculture commissioner, issued regulations limiting the amount of pesticides that could be applied in Texas.
“The chemical lobby was really pissed off,” Hightower told Salon, “so they wrote legislation to take pesticide authority away from my office and make my office appointed rather than elected.”
Perry, then a state legislator, carried the chemical lobby’s bill in committee, Hightower recalled, but it failed after Hightower drew hundreds of people to the hearing by inviting singer Willie Nelson as his lead witness. “When Perry called for a motion on his bill, nobody [else on the subcommittee would speak up] in front of this crowd. I remember Perry saying, “C’mon guys!’”
“That made the chemical lobby even more furious,” added Hightower. “So suddenly Karl Rove appears, recruits Perry to switch parties from Democrat to Republican and run against me.”
“Perry was a terrible campaigner back then, and Rove sent him out to attend [Texas] Farm Bureau meetings in the Panhandle to keep him away from the media. Then Rove raised millions of dollars for TV attack ads — typical stuff of a hippie burning a flag, and my face appears out of the flag.”
“What I learned from this about [Perry] is, he knows who butters his biscuits,” Hightower said. “He saw what they could do, which is to raise bucks and win him an election he probably didn’t think he could win. And that’s still who he is today: a corporate crony. You want an appointment to state office? You want a state contract? Just give him a contribution.”
“Twenty cents of every dollar he’s raised as governor has come from someone he appointed, or that someone’s spouse,” McDonald of TPJ noted. And the quid pro quo works in the other direction as well. Forty-three of Gov. Perry’s largest contributors have employed 89 people whom Perry has appointed to state boards and commissions, Crony Capitalism reports.
The “Wild West political past”
Whether Rick Perry’s apparent weakness for cronyism will hurt his chances of becoming president remains to be seen, but it does not appear to have affected his standing in Texas.
“He’s certainly been attacked on it, by both his Republican and Democratic opponents,” said McDonald. “Deborah Medina, the Tea Party candidate in the 2010 Republican primary, went after him for pay-to-play, as did [former Texas Sen. Kay Bailey] Hutchison. [Democrat] Bill White tried it in the general election too. White’s people would tell you, though, that cronyism and pay-to-play didn’t focus-group or poll very well with Texas voters. White kept pushing it, but it never did stick.”
“Why the hell not?” McDonald asked, chuckling. “Well, maybe there’s just less outrage about this stuff in Texas than in other parts of the country because of our Wild West political past and the extremely corrupt system it left us with. We have very few restrictions about how much money people can give to politicians; there’s actually no limit on what an individual can give, as long as it’s not during the legislative session. It’s outrageous, but it’s the system we’re used to.”

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Is a monetary apocalypse imminent?
James Rickards, bestselling author of Currency Wars, has a new New York Times bestseller out, about the possible imminent collapse of the dollar: The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System (Portfolio/Penguin). More interestingly, he writes about what could come next: a golden age.
Advance praise (“A terrifically interesting and useful book….”) from Brookings’s senior fellow Kenneth W. Dam, former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury and author of The Rules of the Game: Reform and Evolution in the International Monetary System, is an attention getter. Rickard’s Currency Wars was a hot best seller on the New York Times list, and also, more significantly, in the United States Senate.
The Death of Money is getting the attention of reviewers, James Mackintosh, investments editor of the FT, John Aziz at The Week, David Merkel at The Aleph Blog, as well as Kirkus, among the more prominent. Reviewers are respectful… but not persuaded of his claim of “Nighness of the End." As David Merkel says, “extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. There is evidence here, but not extraordinary proof.”
This columnist, too, is not persuaded that death of money is imminent. Reuters recently reported that a senior official of the Bank for International Settlements — sometimes referred to as the central banks’ central bank — states that “The dollar's share of central bank reserves may fall by as much as 10-15 percentage points in coming years without threatening its role as the world's main reserve currency….”
But the reviewers’ skepticism as to imminence of death may be beside the point. Rickards states as reported by this blog:
a lot of people are running around talking doom and gloom, the end of the dollar and all that. I might even agree with that, but I don’t think it has a lot of content.
What I try to do is provide a more in-depth analysis describing what will come next, what the future international monetary system will look like.
I point out that the international monetary system has already collapsed three times within the last 100 years—1914, 1939, and 1971—and that another collapse would not be at all unusual. But it’s not the end of the world. It’s just that the major powers sit down and reform the system. I talk about what that reformation will look like.
And “what that reformation will look like” really does constitute the most interesting part of The Death of Money.
Sen. Nelson Aldrich (chairman of the National Monetary Commission, and called in his day America’s “general manager”) stated, before the New York Economics Club in 1909, that “[T]he study of monetary questions is one of the great causes of insanity." Rickards provides a wonderful antidote to some of the insanity too often evident around the study of monetary questions.
Rickards critiques hysterics, apparently Nouriel Roubini (who he does not name and shame but with whom he engaged in a spirited 16 hour Twitter war some time ago) for an indictment of gold investors as “paranoid, fear-based, far-right fringe and fanatics.” Then Rickards berates reactionary hysterics for claims such as that Fort Knox surreptitiously has been emptied of gold.
Rickards observes that
Understanding gold’s real role in the monetary system requires reliance on history, not histrionics; analysis should be based on demonstrable data and reasonable inference rather than accusation and speculation. When a refined view is taken on the subject of gold, the truth turns out to be more interesting than either the gold haters or the gold bugs might lead one to believe.
He goes on to strip the bark off of some of the criticisms of, and polemics surrounding, the gold standard. First he disposes of the myth that “there’s not enough gold.” (This myth is even more persuasively demolished by George Mason Professor Lawrence White, elsewhere. Further refutations are welcome until the culture fully assimilates just how asinine is the myth of "not enough gold.")
Rickards then disposes of the even more pernicious myth that the true gold standard caused and perpetuated the Great Depression.
The Great Depression, conventionally dated from 1929 to 1940, was preceded by the adoption of the “gold-exchange standard,” which emerged in stages from 1922 to 1925 and functioned with great difficulty until 1939.
The gold exchange standard was, at best, a pale imitation of a true gold standard and, at worst, a massive fraud. …
The sequence of events from 1922 to 1933 shows that the Great Depression was caused not by gold but rather by central bank discretionary policies. The gold exchange standard was fatally flawed because it did not take gold’s free-market price into account. … The gold exchange standard did contribute to the Great Depression because it was not a true gold standard. It was a poorly designed hybrid, manipulated and mismanaged by discretionary monetary policy conducted by central banks, particularly in the U.K. and the United States.
Central bank mismanagement as causing the Great Depression is in no way a fringe claim. As then Federal Reserve Board governor Ben Bernanke stated, in a 2002 speech on the occasion of Milton Friedman’s 90th birthday, “I would like to say to Milton and Anna: Regarding the Great Depression. You're right, we did it. We're very sorry. But thanks to you, we won't do it again.”

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Inception – 3 levels of dreams hits well with gamers and forums
If you only saw one movie this summer, we hope it was Inception. OK, not really ; but seeing as the level of buzz around the movie was just too great not to dig a little deeper, we thought we’d do just that…
At the first level of dreams, we found out that Warner used a multichannel marketing campaign to launch the initial Inception buzz and maintain it throughout the summer. They launched a Facebook page which not only asked for movie-goers’ reviews but also included a ‘must read’ online comic book prequel, The Cobol Job. Even earlier, they had launched the official movie site at the same time as an online video game Mind Crime. Players could unlock various hints and pieces of information about the film as they went further, creating a “drip feed” for fans.
Unfortunately we can only go back 6 months for social media monitoring data, so we decided to look at the breakdown of online buzz starting on the very first launch date – July 8, 2010 in the UK.
If we look at blogs, forums and mainstream media from July 8 to today, August 30, we can see that the buzz created via social media has paid off.
79.1% of all conversations around Inception have taken place on social media – – not counting Facebook and Twitter!**
Where, exactly though, were these conversations taking place ? If we dig a bit deeper into where people were talking, we can see that
A major part of the Inception buzz has been happening on forums :
Makes sense for a movie that launched much of its buzz through an online video game. Forums allow visitors to ask each other questions that others can find answers to later. Skilled gamers can equally share their expertise with others by being the first to leave acceptable answers about unlocking secret codes, finding hidden paths, etc.
Which forums, then, were the most popular ?
If we limit the scope to just forums, still in 25 countries and 50 languages,
The most influential forums for Inception have been :
- The SuperHero Hype! Boards (USA)
- Rotten Tomatoes (USA)
- Fan Forum (USA)
- Inthemix Forums (Australia)
- Naruto Forums (USA)
- Forum Cinema em Cena (Brazil)
- Comics in Leipzig Forum (Germany)
- Forum Blue Ray en Français (France)
- Forum Allo Cine (France)
- Project COVO Global Forum (USA)
Quite an international mix of forums, wouldn’t you say ?
What do you think ? Does this look like a healthy mix of forums? Which types of sites would you have targeted for a film like Inception?
If you still haven’t seen the movie – – what are you waiting for ? 😉
**Facebook groups and pages would only lead to higher levels of social media buzz, as well as Twitter ; Twitter only allows 10 days of backdata, however.
NB : Inception still has a few more premiers to make – so may the buzz continue!