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Louisiana AG ramps up push for restart of executions
BATON ROUGE, La. – Louisiana could find ways to carry out long-stalled death sentences if its governor wanted to follow the law, Attorney General Jeff Landry said Tuesday, adding new fuel to a clash with Gov. John Bel Edwards over capital punishment.
The Edwards’ administration fired back that Landry’s suggestions for “policy changes” are unworkable.
Landry sent a letter to Edwards recommending that the Department of Corrections could switch the drug used for lethal injection or get the Louisiana State Penitentiary’s pharmacy to make the drug, a process known as compounding.
“If you truly respect the criminal justice system, the rule of law and the rights of victims, there are a number of initial steps that can be taken,” the Republican attorney general wrote to the Democratic governor.
Natalie LaBorde, the corrections department’s deputy assistant secretary, said Tuesday that the department looked into compounding lethal injection drugs at one of Louisiana’s prison pharmacies during former Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration. She said the facilities don’t meet state standards for compounding pharmacies, but she said the larger problem involves buying the ingredients.
She said pharmaceutical companies refuse to sell their products for executions. She said private pharmacists don’t want to sell ingredients to make into a lethal injection drug through a compounding pharmacy because their identities could be publicly disclosed.
“The bottom line is you have to be able to get the ingredients, which you cannot do. We can’t get anyone to sell it to us,” LaBorde said.
Lawyer Elizabeth Murrill, with Landry’s office, said she’s spoken with compounding pharmacists who say the state could order the chemicals to make a lethal injection drug “from the people who make the basic chemicals,” not a pharmacist or a drug company.
Landry, who is considered a possible challenger to the governor in the 2019 election, describes the issue as a broader concern. He said Edwards doesn’t appear interested in carrying out the death sentences.
The governor hasn’t directly answered questions about whether he supports capital punishment, saying instead that he pledged to uphold Louisiana’s laws and constitution when he took his oath of office and would follow that oath.
Louisiana’s last execution was in 2010. Both the Jindal and Edwards administrations have described difficulties obtaining the drugs for lethal injection.
Other states have had similar problems and faced lawsuits when changing the combination of drugs in response. Some states have expanded their execution methods to allow the use of gas chambers and firing squads, while states like Texas, Georgia and Virginia changed laws to shield information about the drugs they use or how they obtain them.
Louisiana would have to change its laws to use another form of execution besides lethal injection or to keep information about compounding pharmacies hidden. Landry said he supports such changes. In his letter Tuesday, he proposed draft language that lawmakers could use to allow Louisiana to execute people by hanging, firing squads or electrocution.
But the next legislative session to consider any law changes isn’t scheduled until April 2019.
The spark for this latest feud between Edwards and Landry was a federal court order earlier this month prohibiting Louisiana from carrying out any death sentences until mid-2019.
The Edwards administration asked for the extension, citing trouble getting lethal injection drugs. In response, Landry’s office said it was withdrawing from defending the corrections department against the lawsuit challenging its lethal injection protocols.
Louisiana has more than 70 inmates on death row.


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text: News Rapper Snoop Dogg Returns to the Horror Genre With ‘The Thrill’ as Producer Published 2 years ago on March 19, 2018 By Nick Bond Share Tweet American rapper Snoop Dogg is making a return to the horror genre with production entity Dark Circus’ upcoming anthology series The Thrill, this time taking on producing duties. Snoop starred as Jimmy Bones in the 2001 horror film Bones, he then went on to host 2006 anthology feature Hood of Horror. While we all wait to see what The Thrill has to offer, you can read the plot and other details below. Synopsis: “A mysterious hotel on a lonely stretch of foreboding highway, where the unlucky guests who check in each week struggle to understand the supernatural events that unfold during their stay. Something dark lurks behind the façade of this roadside motor lodge… something even the macabre cast of regular employees can’t quite explain… an unsettling puzzle new guests slowly piece together during each episode that answers the question: Why have they been inexplicably drawn to The Last Stop Inn? Through a series of flashbacks, each new guest remembers how they arrived and through this story, the guest comes to the horrific realization: The Last Stop Inn is a gateway between Heaven and Hell – a Purgatory in which the guest has been trapped because of something they did… and the fate of that guest’s soul is determined over the course of the episode.” Producer Deon Taylor and his Hidden Empire Film Group have launched a new shingle, Dark Circus, that will produce film and television content aimed towards urban audiences, with a focus on the comedy and horror genres. Taylor on the series: “We have the resources and market expertise to deliver branded content with a unique voice — one that speaks to an urban audience,” said Taylor. “I won’t say that this market is underserved, as there are a great deal of films still finding their way to the marketplace. However, our intention is to raise the bar with Dark Circus and create an enduring brand. Partnering with Snoop on this first anthology series will have us coming out of the gates strong, and we couldn’t be more excited.“ Related Topics: Up Next Horror Legend Dee Wallace Joins the Cast of Rob Zombie’s ‘3 From Hell’! Don't Miss Bruce Campbell Warns Fans: Franchise Might Be Done if “Ash vs. Evil Dead” Gets Cancelled Advertisement You may like Click to comment Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Comment Name * Email * Website Advertisement Facebook Dark Universe Presents https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNZEMdODcq4 Advertisement Latest Popular Videos News2 days ago Jamie Lee Curtis Promises “Sensational” End to the ‘Halloween’ Trilogy News3 days ago James Wan Produced ‘Mortal Kombat’ Movie Begins Filming in Australia Blu-Ray & DVD4 days ago 88 Films Bringing Jamie Lee Curtis Slasher ‘Terror Train’ to UK Blu-Ray This November Blu-Ray & DVD4 days ago 88 Films Releasing ‘Christmas Evil’ on UK Blu-Ray This December Blu-Ray & DVD6 days ago Rob Zombie’s ‘3 From Hell’ Brings the Carnage to Blu-Ray and Digital in the UK This October News7 days ago Blumhouse’s ‘Halloween Kills’ Begins Filming Today in Wilmington, North Carolina News3 weeks ago Scene-Stealer Jibrail Nantambu Will Return for ‘Halloween Kills’ and ‘Halloween Ends’ News4 weeks ago Charles Cyphers Rumored to Appear in Blumhouse’s ‘Halloween Kills’ News3 weeks ago Anthony Michael Hall Will Play Tommy Doyle in ‘Halloween Kills’ News3 weeks ago Kyle Richards Will Reprise Her Role as Lindsey Wallace in ‘Halloween Kills’ News2 days ago Jamie Lee Curtis Promises “Sensational” End to the ‘Halloween’ Trilogy News1 week ago [Trailer] Blumhouse’s ‘Black Christmas’ Remake Unwraps a Masked Killer News2 weeks ago ‘Gretel & Hansel’ Teaser Trailer and Poster Awakens Blood-Curdling Witch News1 month ago [Trailer] John Carpenter’s ‘Halloween’ Returns to Theaters This Fall! News2 months ago Shudder’s “Creepshow” Series to Get Its Own Maze at Universal Studios Hollywood Trending Editorials3 years ago The Many Different Michael Myers Masks Used In Halloween: H20 News2 years ago Todd McFarlane Makes An Announcement on His ‘Spawn’ Script News2 years ago Photo of Doug Bradley Back in Pinhead Makeup for First Time in 12 Years! Blu-Ray & DVD2 years ago Arrow Video Bringing J.S. Cardone’s 1982 Slasher ‘The Slayer’ to Blu-Ray! News2 years ago George A. Romero to Bring ‘Pint of the Living Dead’ to Ottawa ComicCon News2 years ago Official “Friday the 13th: The Game” Release Date Finally Announced! News2 years ago New Photos From Adam Ripp’s Demonic Horror Flick ‘Devil’s Whisper’ News2 years ago Spike’s “The Mist” New Series Trailer Features Gore and Scares!

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New research on cycling habits is in from Sydney, and it turns out that city dwellers are less likely to start biking if they're afraid a lumbering SUV might crush their back tire or that errant car doors will send them over their handlebars. Who knew?
The Australian city is in the process of implementing its 2030 blueprint for a greener city, and it's building a hell of a lot of bike lanes. As in 200 kilometers (125 miles) worth. City government is also spearheading a program to increase ridership amongst its citizens—it wants 10% of the metropolis biking by 2030. And its research on ridership reveals that there's a magic ingredient to success: separate bike lanes.According to the Guardian, the lanes
have been successful in persuading previous non-cyclists to get out on their bikes. Research done by the council has shown that the likelihood of a resident commuting by bike increases exponentially with the proportion of their commuting trip made possible on a separated bike lane.The city is now in the process of building 55 kilometers of them.
Sydney also introduced a raft of other measures, including "decreased speed limits and extensive junction redesigns which give cyclists priority and improve visibility." There are also safe cycling courses, bike maps, and free bike bells. The result? Less accidents all around—and here's the kicker: "All these measures have combined to produce rapid growth in cycling over two years, with numbers up by an average of 82% across all areas of the city."
82%? That's almost doubling ridership. That's insane.
This, ladies and gentleman, is how you get people interested in bikes—safe infrastructure and concerted efforts to put cyclists first. They're after all, the vulnerable ones, exposed on small aluminum frames in dense, high-traffic roadways.
I know there's a modicum of controversy around separated bike lanes—they're expensive, and as Lloyd has pointed out, it'd be preferable if we could "accomplish the same thing just by squashing this ridiculous notion that cyclists are somehow “second class” road users." But the fact is, they work. My friends who don't bike in New York almost always cite safety reasons. I don't blame them—I've nearly been clipped by swerving sedans plenty of times, and a good friend has been creamed by a cab. To get the average citizen interested in biking, it has to seem like a safe, easy proposition.
Good thing then, that the investment pays off in dividends: decreased congestion, a happier, healthier public, and fewer accidents. Me, I'm not so concerned about the "Us vs Them" mentality some fear separated lanes may seed between cyclists and motorists—we should simply be striving to get more people biking. So let's build some lanes—and they will.

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Justifiable outrage has swept across the country over the recent undercover videos documenting inhumane treatment of aborted babies in several Planned Parenthood facilities.
The first video shows the senior director of medical services for Planned Parenthood Federation of America blithely describing the harvesting of fetal organs to an undercover investigator.
“I’d say a lot of people want liver,” Deborah Nucatola said. “And for that reason, most providers will do this case under ultrasound guidance, so they’ll know where they’re putting their forceps.”
Ultrasound – most often associated with pregnancy when women first get to see an image of their unborn child – is clearly being used by Planned Parenthood to make certain that specific organs aren’t damaged during the abortion procedure.
While some lawmakers have called for investigations into Planned Parenthood, they might also look into the organization’s public and vehement opposition to a law that would allow ultrasounds to save lives.
During the 2011 legislative session, former state Rep. Joe Lyons, D-Chicago, introduced the “Ultrasound Opportunity Act.” This legislation would have allowed a woman the opportunity to view an ultrasound prior to an abortion. Since ultrasounds are practically always performed before an abortion for medical safety issues, the bill would not have mandated an additional test. The legislation made it clear that a woman only had to be offered the “opportunity” to view it – nothing more. She could always say “no.”
The bill cleared a House committee, yet progressed no farther. Planned Parenthood and those elected officials who stand with the organization created such a firestorm in Springfield that the bill failed to be called for a vote in the House. After viewing the videos about Planned Parenthood’s provision of fetal organs and tissue for apparent sale, one has to wonder if there were other motives to so strongly oppose such an innocuous bill.
Lyons has since retired from the legislature, but Rep. Barbara Wheeler, R-Crystal Lake, has taken over sponsorship of the bill. However, the initiative has repeatedly been shunted to atypical subcommittees to die.
The number of abortions in Illinois has hovered around 40,000 per year since 2011, so approximately 160,000 lives have been lost since Lyons first sponsored the Ultrasound Opportunity Act.
How can Planned Parenthood oppose this simple legislation when it uses ultrasound technology to extract fetal body parts for apparent compensation? How can they claim to champion “choice” but oppose the choice of a woman to see an ultrasound prior to having an irreversible procedure?
It’s time for those who claim to stand with Planned Parenthood to stand up to the organization and use ultrasound technology to save lives, not to harvest body parts.
Robert Gilligan is the executive director of the Catholic Conference of Illinois, which serves as the public policy voice of the Catholic Church in Illinois.

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text: Picking up on debates about the narrow geographical focus of gentrification research, this paper pro-bes the geographical scope of internationally published gentrification research over the last forty years. While recent critique of geographical selectivity has particularly addressed the Global North/South divide, we focus on differences within the Global North and analyze the relevance of different European capital cities (all EU28 capitals). We conduct a bibliometric analysis based on the SCOPUS database. The analysis is structured along three dimensions: the development of publication output over time across all cities (1), the number of publications on different cities across the whole period of analysis (2) and the development of publications in different cities over time (3). We find a highly skewed distribution of pub-lication output on gentrification in European capital cities, dominated by London and three other West European cities. The longitudinal analysis reveals, however, that the geographical scope has become broader in recent years.


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Binance invests in Saatchis and 72andSunny as global creative partners.
It’s the first time the crypto giant has hired an agency on a long-term basis.
Binance, which has the most spot trading volume of any digital asset exchange in the world, chose Saatchi & Saatchi and 72andSunny Amsterdam as its global creative partners.
After a long competition, the two agencies were chosen to help with several global projects.
One of these projects is the recently announced partnership with Cristiano Ronaldo, who will make a series of NFTs that will only be available on the Binance NFT platform.
Advertising for cryptocurrencies has been growing, and this year’s Super Bowl has been dubbed the “Crypto Bowl.” Four cryptocurrency exchanges, Coinbase Global, FTX, Crypto.com, and Bitbuy, chose to run ads during the game, which reportedly cost $7 million.
But Binance didn’t take advantage of the chance. Instead, it asked NBA star Jimmy Butler to help it warn its social media followers about crypto promotions by celebrities. “On Feb. 13, the day of the Super Bowl, some of the most famous people will tell you to get into crypto. But they don’t know anything about you or your money “Butler said.
After hearing that Binance had stopped Bitcoin withdrawals during a big market drop in June, the two creative agencies were hired.
The company, which has 90 million users around the world and says it handles the equivalent of $76 billion (£67 billion) in cryptocurrency trades every day, said it wants to expand by adding new features to its platform.
Less than a year after the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) put a “red alert” on crypto-asset advertising, Saatchi & Saatchi got Binance’s creative account.
Read Also: A Zambian cameraman exposes Bushiri: “I helped him fake angels”.
“Crypto-assets have become very popular in the past few years, but there’s a real risk that people won’t understand them well enough to invest their life savings and then lose it,” a spokesperson said at the time.
“We know how important it is to make sure that ads don’t mislead people about the risks of a product or act irresponsibly when promoting it.”
Last December, the ASA banned seven examples of cryptocurrency marketing as part of a crackdown in which the watchdog said it was working to police content better.

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Queen Elizabeth National Park is the top tourists Uganda safari destination located in the western part of the country with several beautiful terrains including volcanic craters, woodlands acacia, savannah grasslands, swamps, and tropical forest. The park was created in 1952 by that time to was still called Kazinga Channel National Park later in 1954 was changed to Queen Elizabeth after Queen visited Uganda. More so, Queen Elizabeth national park is situated in the western part of Uganda surrounded by several districts including Kamwenge, Kasese, Rukungiri, and Rubirizi. However, it is approximately a 5 to 6 hours’ drive from Southwest Kampala the capital city’’ Uganda’’.
More so, the park is the second largest game drive in Uganda measuring about 1978 square kilometers which are habitant to the diversity of; African Leopard, Lion, Chimpanzees, Buffaloes, Nile Crocodiles, and Kob and extends its land to Lake Edward, Lake George, Kazinga channels among others. The park is home to over 95 mammal species and about 600 bird species.
Queen Elizabeth National Park’s most attractions are the famous tree-climbing lions which can be adventured in Ishasha sectors. In the world, there are few places to see the rare tree-climbing lions –Lake Manyara National Park in Tanzania. Animal species to see include; buffaloes, elephants, Bush bucks, waterbucks, bush pigs, warthogs, hippopotami, and reedbucks among others. primates to see include; chimpanzees, Olive baboons, black and white colobus monkeys, vervet monkeys, grey-cheeked mangabey, and red-tailed as well as beautiful butterflies.
The park is hoven for birders and birding is best done in the wet season when food is in plenty birds to see includes; Heuglin’s gull, Pink-backed pelican, Great blue turaco, Caspian plover, Broad-billed roller, Common sand martin, Pell’s Fishing –Owl, Caspian plover, Broad –billed roller, Black-rumped buttonquail, Yellow-bellied wattle-eye, Spotted redshank, Western banded snake eagle, Rufous-bellied heron, Palm-nut vulture among others.
Activities in Queen Elizabeth National Park
Game drives; This is one of the most exciting activities that travelers choose to engage in while on their safaris, which are conducted in open savannah grasses. The game drive is recommended to use a 4×4 wheel drive vehicle that allows you to explore various animals such as lions, leopards, buffalos, elephants, and antelopes among others.
Birding; This is an interesting activity in the park done on different walking trails that allows you to spot some of the endemic and migratory bird species which can be seen in different areas such as African wattled plover Crowned plover Senegal Plover Hooded Vulture, Griffon Vulture, Brown snake Eagle, Wahlberg’s Eagle, long –created Eagle, Martial Eagle, Grey Kestrel, Africa crake, Lappet Faced Vulture among others.
Chimpanzee Trekking; This is one of the most done activities in the park after the game drive which is carried out in Kyambura gorge home to various chimpanzees and other primates. The activity starts early in the morning with a briefing at the park headquarters. After the park ranger guide will allocate you to a chimpanzee family which can take 30 to 5 hours to find them. Once you find them one hour is given to you to spend with them and observe as you learn chimps behave, feed, playing among others. Other primate species to see while trekking includes; red-tailed monkeys, olive baboons, white colobus monkeys, and red Columbus monkeys, and some birds to see include; greater and lesser flamingoes, African skimmer, papyrus canary, White-tailed lark, papyrus gonolek veered eagle owl lesser, shoebill Chapin’s flycatcher among others.
Boat Cruise; This activity is done along Kazinga Channel which links to Lake George and Lake Edward and attracts a large number of animals and water birds which are easily spotted while the boat cruise such species to see includes; crocodiles, a large number of hippos, Nile Lizards and other animals can be seen along water banks such as buffalos, elephants, the Uganda kobs among others.
Photography and Filming; This is an exciting experience where tourists can enjoy capturing and filming for future remembrance. Filming tours can also be done in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. While on a filming tour into the park expect to see herds of elephants, bushbucks, kobs, and waterbucks among others.
Queen Pavilion; This is another stunning attraction that travelers can’t miss out on a Uganda safari to the park. It is a great spotting point for tourists who enjoy photography while in the park because of its amazing history.
Where to stay in Queen Elizabeth National Park
There are no worries about where to stay while on safari in Queen Elizabeth National Park which ranges from Luxury, Mid-range, and Budget accommodation.
Luxury Accommodation; Mweya Safari lodge, Elephant plains lodge.
Mid-range Accommodation; Buffalo safari lodge Marafiki safari lodge.
Budget Accommodation; Simba safari camp, Tembo safari lodge, Engiri game lodge, and campsite
How to access Queen Elizabeth National Park
Queen Elizabeth National Park can easily be reached either by air or by road.
Drive from Kampala through the Mbarara-Masaka highway that makes a different stopover at the equator in Masaka, Mpambire drum makers. Driving takes about 5 to 6 hours to the main destination.
Travelers can visit the park by booking charter flights from Entebbe to Queen Elizabeth by Aerolink or Bar Aviation a domestic flight landing at Mweya and Kasese airstrip, it is reliable and quite safe.


“The timing is especially fitting since, when it comes to severe weather, we’ve been running the gamut here lately in Floyd County,” said Tim Herrington, deputy director of the Floyd County Emergency Management Agency.
The week runs Monday through Friday, with each day having a specific theme. Monday is family preparedness day, thunderstorm safety will be spotlighted on Tuesday, Wednesday will be a statewide tornado drill, Thursday’s theme will be lightning safety, and Friday rounds out the week with a flood safety focus.
“In recent years, Georgia has experienced record flooding, tornadoes and wildfires,” said Charley English, director of the Georgia Emergency Management Agency, in a press release. “Urbanization and population growth increase the potential for these storms to impact more people and structures, so I encourage our citizens to become more aware of severe weather safety measures and to participate in the various awareness programs during Severe Weather Awareness Week.”
Herrington said he also encourages the public to inform themselves about what to do when severe weather strikes and share that information with their families.
Wednesday’s statewide tornado drill is the only special event planned for Floyd County, according to Herrington.
All county residents are encouraged to participate in the National Weather Service drill when it is broadcast around 9 a.m. over weather radios.
Participation in the drill is being stressed to schools, nursing homes and day care centers, partly to make sure the weather radios at these critical facilities are operating properly, Herrington added.
For more information about Severe Weather Awareness Week, visit the new Georgia Emergency Management Agency website at www.ready.ga.gov.


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I meant to post this last week, and had my blog all written and ready to go, but the day completely got away from me! So here it is now. I’m also excited to announce that next week I will be hosting Flannel Friday for the first time!
I should have posted this sooner, but the feltboards really didn’t come together until the end. But here is my groundhog program at little late 🙂
The first little groundhog crept out of his lair (creep fingers)
The second little groundhog said, “Is spring in the air?” (sniff air)
The third little groundhog asked, “Is the time right?” (point to “watch” on wrist)
The fourth little groundhog squirmed, “The sun is too bright!” (shade eyes)
The fifth little groundhog squeaked, “My shadow I see!”
“I’m not staying out here! No siree! Not ME! (shake head no)
“Back to my burrow I’m going to creep.” (creep fingers)
“And for six more weeks I’m going to sleep!” (rest head on hands and close eyes)
I also made a feltboard based (loosely) on the story from Liz and Dick Wilmes’ book Magnet Board Fun called “Gregory Groundhog Sees His Shadow.”
I just basically used the first and last paragraph from their book, where Greggory goes out to look for his shadow and sees the shadows of other animals. As he sees each shadow I put it on the feltboard and had the kids guess what the animal was. Most of them were pretty easy. I narrated what he was thinking as he sees the shadows and discovers what each one really is. Like for instance he realized he should have known the giraffe’s shadow was not his own since his neck isn’t nearly that long. At the end he sees a shadow that scares him so much he races back to his burrow where he realizes he has just been frightened by his own shadow. He decides to stay in his den for 6 more weeks to rest and recover from his fright. The kids really liked it and they and the parents all had some good chuckles over Greggory’s confusion about the different animal shapes he sees. I decided to just grab a few animals from my assorted felt board color sets and make matching shadows for them to use for this program.
At the end of the program we had a cute little craft that I also found at teachingheart.net where they linked back to a blog called Skip to My Lou that had the most adorable groundhog craft ever. I substituted craft foam for the felt she used and used pompoms for the noses. We had a variety pack of pompoms so some of the groundhogs had really colorful noses!
I had the slits in the cups cut ahead of time and the green felt glued around the cup already in place before storytime. The kids did make their own grass by cutting the inch or so of felt that I left at the top of the cup. They then glued their pre-cut groundhogs to the stick, added googly eyes, a nose, and teeth and were all set. I made the groundhog body in one piece-the ears were part of the body, not separate pieces, again just to cut down on parts to assemble.
the kids all loved them and laughed out loud when I demonstrated how the puppet worked, they were a huge hit. My youngest daughter continues to carry her groundhog (out of the cup) around the house. 🙂Fiona shows off her groundhog 🙂
Katie at storytimesecrets is hosting the round up today and they will be posted later this evening.

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Wendy pretend play cooking with a Peppa Pig restaurant kitchen toy that has an oven and refrigerator! Wendy has a Peppa Pig kitchen, but needed a blender toy, so she went to buy another Peppa Pig kitchen that includes a blender toy. She cooks pretend food with the two Peppa Pig kitchen toys such as chicken salad, fruit and veggies, cupcakes, bake bread, and also fried eggs! She buys some more food toys from Uncle K’s toy store and makes him some rice toys with the rice cooker. She makes him a yummy and healthy lunch out of toys.
Emma pretend play with her cute pink kitchen restaurant toy. She cooks pretend food kids toy at her new restaurant kitchen. Uncle K gave Emma the new kitchen toy and chef’s costume to wear. They pretend play selling and making food at a pretend restaurant. Uncle K takes Emma to Uncle John’s toy store and buys her a lot of pretend food toys for the restaurant. Emma cooks French fries, taco, fruits and veggies, spaghetti, eggs, bread, sandwich, burgers, and pizza toy!
Emma and Jannie pretend play cooking competition with their cute kitchen kid toys! They decide to have a cooking competition to see who makes better food with their pretend food toys. Jannie makes a cake and Emma makes spaghetti, bread, and eggs. They can’t decide who makes better food and thinks theirs is better! They go ask Auntie to see who made the better food toy. Uncle K took their giant kitchen to the donation store. Auntie told him that he must get it back because the girls are still playing with that toy. He brings it back and they have another cooking competition to see who made better food. Jannie makes cupcakes for dessert and Emma makes sushi! Who do you think won the competition?
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Emma pretend cooks with a giant cute kitchen and food truck toy with her Uncles. Emma goes to her chicken coop and gets some toy eggs to cook for her Uncle to eat. Emma cooks her Uncle some pretend food when Uncle Tim appears with his food truck toy. Uncle Tim is selling hamburgers, hotdogs, ice cream, and many other pretend food toys. Emma sees the competition and decides to make something that Uncle Tim doesn’t have. She bakes a yummy pizza for Uncle John to eat. Uncle Tim and Emma decide to sell food together! They setup a table and chairs for their new customer. Auntie arrives and orders a bunch of food toys from them!
How to learn cooking by yourself? If you’re a busy person, simple cooking might be essential for you. If you’re someone who eats fast food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, you might feel daunted by the idea of cooking at home. Whether you’re an ace in the kitchen or have a hard time naming all your kitchen utensils, these hacks can give anyone an easy and efficient cooking experience. Who doesn’t like to save time cooking instead of spending hours over the stove? You don’t have to be a professional chef to make a healthy and tasty dish quickly. You just need to know several helpful tricks. It’s really cool when you can cook tasty dishes. But if you cook them fast, it’s even more awesome. TIMESTAMPS: Peel ginger the correct way 1:11 Grill your fish without sticking 1:59 Use 2 plates to slice cherries 2:41 Consider tea brewing temperatures 3:25 Create a “sling” for brownies 4:13 Stop bananas from over-ripening 4:57 Reheat pizza like a pro 5:39 Freeze onions before cutting to prevent tears 6:26 Keep your cookies moist 7:13 Peel garlic the easy way 7:48 Music by Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/ SUMMARY: - Ginger skin is really thin, so you can just scrape it off with a spoon without risking injury to your fingers. Once you do it this way, you’ll never go back to using a knife. - If you really want to impress, place the fish on top of lemons. Slice up some lemons, and place the slices close together on the grill. - Cutting up cherries one by one could be a zen experience. If that’s your kind of thing, go right ahead. But here’s another option for those who need a faster method. - To get the best flavor from your drink, be mindful that different types of tea may have different requirements for brewing time and temperature. - Use plastic wrap to wrap the stalk of each banana tightly. This will prevent the stems from being exposed to the air and receiving too much oxygen. - Place the pizza inside the microwave, and place a glass of water next to it. Run the microwave for the time your pizza would usually take to warm up. - Pop the whole onion in the freezer for about 15 minutes before cutting it. The cold temperature inhibits the release of that tear-causing chemical. - Place the garlic bulb on a cutting board. Turn a knife on its flat side, and crush the garlic underneath. The skin will be much easier to remove now. This is a popular hack with a lot of chefs. It might crush the garlic a little, so if you need the clove to stay whole, try the next hack. Subscribe to Bright Side : https://goo.gl/rQTJZz ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brightside/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brightgram/ 5-Minute Crafts Youtube: https://www.goo.gl/8JVmuC ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me/
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Jannie is pretend cooking with a giant Minnie Mouse kitchen toyset! She is trying to fix her broken kitchen toy, but she can’t fix it. Jannie asks Uncle John to buy her a new one and they go to the toy store. They find an even bigger Minnie Mouse kitchen at the toy store and buy it! Jannie sold her old toy to get a discount on the new cooking toy. However, it was too heavy to carry home, so they had to wait for Uncle K to return in order to help them deliver it home. Jannie cooks pretend food for Uncle John. She makes him spaghetti and meatballs! Jannie also pretend bakes cupcakes for Uncle John to enjoy.
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September 24, 1999 (Ira Pilgrim)
The wierdest ills are put to route
By having teeth and tonsils out,
But if, with teeth and tonsils banished,
The ills referred to haven't vanished,
It is generally understood,
The operation did no good.
Samuel Hoffenstein, 1923
Very much more is known about diseases, their prevention and cure, than was known 100 years ago. Even though it is considerable, it is still very very small when compared with what remains to be discovered. I could write a long list of once fatal diseases, that are now curable. I could write a longer list of diseases that aren't curable. That list would include all viral diseases, including the very common cold, and diseases related to ageing.
When some people find out that doctors aren't gods, they sometimes turn to people who know a good deal less. The results are predictable, and "going to the doctor" becomes the equivalent of going to church, or Lourdes; with the same results.
A number of years ago, I had a virus infection that ended in a cough that persisted for over a month. I finally went to the doctor. He did something that delighted me. He suggested three remedies, provided some samples and three prescriptions. He told me to try one for about a week. If it didn't work, to try the next one. What delighted me was that this approach is in stark contrast to the usual approach to dealing with such a problem. Usually, a patient is given a single prescription. After a week or so, the patient comes back and is given a different prescription. This practice is bread and butter for many doctors, particularly people who treat chronic diseases.
What happened with the cough? The first two remedies didn't work at all. The third seemed to help, but the drug was too powerful to use for a long period of time for something as trivial as a cough. Eventually the cough went away by itself.
What did do me a lot of good was that my physician had ruled out several things that are much more serious than just a cough. That's worth a lot to me; but then, I don't expect miracles. I know what doctors know and when they are guessing.
Competent physicians spend a lot of their effort treating the mistakes of their less competent colleagues. There are a number of iatrogenic diseases. Those are diseases that are caused by physicians. Perhaps the most deadly of these are X-ray caused cancers, particularly breast cancer. These were caused by the excessive use of X-rays; much more radiation than was really needed to take a picture and diagnose diseases. This has to be equated against many people who have had their lives significantly prolonged by procedures where X-ray was an essential part. The correction of congenital heart anomalies, that used to mean certain death, had to involved diagnostic X-rays. There is no question that the increase in risk of breast or other cancers 40 to 80 years down the road is insignificant compared to an immediately fatal heart problem.
Nowadays, the amount of X-ray exposure that an infant is exposed to is a small fraction of what it used to be. As a new generation of physicians becomes aware of the risk of radiation, we can hope that exposure of patients will decrease in the future. All that is necessary is for every physician, chiropractor, or dentist to ask himself "Is this X-ray really necessary?" Much of the time, the answer will be "No."
The use of ultrasound as a diagnostic tool has made a good deal of x-ray unnecessary. Ultrasound has no known undesirable side effects. It has the added advantage of being able to take pictures of organs like the heart in motion. Hopefully much of x-ray use, including cat-scans, will be replaced by MRI(Magnetic Resonance Imagery). At the present time, MRI is frightfully expensive and cannot be used on some people.
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Tina Turner passed away on Wednesday at her home in Switzerland following a protracted illness, her spokeswoman said.
Following her passing at 83, another great is paying tribute to Tina Turner.
Priscilla Presley discussed her legacy in a statement following the confirmation of the rock ‘n’ roll icon’s passing by her spokesman Bernard Doherty on Wednesday.
Presley revealed that Tina Turner was one of Elvis Presley’s favorite artists. “It was pure enchantment when she entered the stage. I recall how her Tina energy captivated a crowd’s attention. We will all sincerely miss her and her great legacy.”
Doherty claims that the iconic singer passed away on Wednesday at her home in the Swiss town of Zürich following a protracted illness. The German actor and music producer Erwin Bach and the American vocalist, born in the United States, have been residents of Switzerland since 1994. In 2013, the singer was granted Swiss citizenship.
“Tina Turner, known as the “Queen of Rock’n Roll,” passed away peacefully today at the age of 83, following a protracted illness in her home in Küsnacht, Switzerland, not far from Zurich.
The statement stated, “With her, the world loses a music legend and a role model. Close friends and family members will attend a private funeral service. Please respect her family’s privacy at this trying time.”
Turner’s career spanned decades, much like Elvis’, and he shared with Elvis many Top 40 Billboard songs, 25 Grammy Award nominations, a Kennedy Center Honor, and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021.
Before going solo in the 1970s, Turner served as the frontwoman for the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, delivering frantic renditions of “Proud Mary,” “Come Together,” and “I Want to Take You Higher.”
She produced popular songs like “What’s Love Got to Do with It,” “Private Dancer,” and “We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)” in the 1980s.
Her MTV videos gave her stardom to an entirely new generation and elevated her to the status of a world icon. Four Grammy Awards were given to her 1984 solo album Private Dancer, which sold over 20 million copies worldwide.
The Tennessee native made two albums that sold a lot of copies and sang the theme song for the James Bond movie GoldenEye throughout the 1990s, extending her career.
In the program for the London musical based on her life, Tina, the musician, reflected on her career and said it had been “wonderful.”
“I’ve been blessed with a fantastic career,” she stated in the program for the performance, “and after more than 50 years of performing, I don’t need a musical, I don’t need another show. However, I receive a ton of cards and messages, and I’m constantly in awe of how people feel about me as a performer and the legacy they claim to have left.”
“I’ve been told that I gave them hope. I feel compelled to pass it on since it meant so much to so many people. I also hope this show will serve as a reminder of my efforts for the people.”


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Such is the fate of a white southern intellectual with slavery, the civil war and segregation in his heritage. But that did not stop him returning to the south, attracted not only by its rich literary and political history, but by a fascination with its constantly shifting significance to America as a whole. "I go back to the south physically and in my memories, to remind myself who I am, for the south keeps me going," he wrote in Terrains of the Heart and Other Essays on Home.
The south, and in particular the tiny town of Yazoo City where he grew up, also helped fuel his career, providing a constant backdrop for his essays and memoirs. The town, which he described as being "on the edge of the delta, straddling that memorable divide where the hills end and the flatland begins", became a focal point for many of his stories including Yazoo and North Toward Home.
Morris remained in the south for most of his youth, leaving Yazoo for the University of Texas at Austin, before going to England for two years on a Rhodes scholarship.
He returned to Austin to edit the Texas Observer. But like many southern writers, from James Baldwin to Maya Angelou, the south could not hold him. He loved it and left it, as his sense of ambition trumped his sense of place. In 1963 he was made associate editor of Harper's Magazine and, within four years was running the show.
It was a remarkable time for magazines and America, and Morris seized the moment with a bold editing style. The March 1968 issue of Harper's included a 45,000-word excerpt from William Styron's Confessions of Nat Turner and 90,000 words of Norman Mailer's Steps of the Pentagon about a Vietnam war demonstration.
"He brought that magazine kicking and screaming into the present," said writer David Halberstam, who was recruited by Morris. "With his love of words and very considerable charm, he'd taken an archaic magazine and made it an exciting magazine that was on the cutting edge. There was a moment he sort of owned New York."
A change of management at Harper's, however, prompted his departure in 1971, although he stayed in New York until 1980. He returned to Oxford, Mississippi, where he became writer-in-residence at the university's Centre for Southern Culture.
Morris went there as something of a pioneer - one of the few southern scholars at the time who was interested not only in the south itself but in its developing relationship with the rest of America. Like others, he was keen to understand how the north had affected the south, particularly since the civil war: "If there is anything that makes southerners distinctive from the main body of Americans, it is a certain burden of memory and a burden of history . . . I think sensitive southerners have this in their bones, this profound awareness of the past."
But unlike others, Morris also had a keen interest in how the south had influenced the rest of the nation, giving it everybody from Elvis to BB King, from Clinton to Newt Gingrich.
"Willie said that Mississ-ippi is America writ large," Richard Howorth, owner of Square Books, the main literary haunt in the town square of Oxford, Mississippi, told the New York Times. "And to understand Willie you have to know that he had this amazing knowledge of American history. And I think his understanding of the south and curiosity about the south was very much a part of his understanding and curiosity about America. He understood the south as only a southerner could, but his perspective was so much broader than just thinking and writing about the south."
It was a breadth evident in his writing, with subjects ranging from his childhood English fox terrier in My Dog Skip to the intersection of football and race in The Courting of Marcus Dupree. In 1996, he won the Richard Wright Medal for literary excellence. His last work, The Ghosts of Medgar Evers (1998) was about the history of the production of the 1996 film Ghosts of Mississippi which focused on the assassination of civil rights campaigner Medgar Evers, and the trials of his killer. While his intellectual approach was eclectic, Morris sought to break through southern clichés and find new avenues to illustrate how the south was changing and what remained the same.
"One has to seek the answer on one's own terms, of course," he once wrote. "But to do that I suggest one should spurn the boardrooms and the country clubs and the countless college seminars on the subject and spend a little time at the ball games and the funerals and the bus stations and the courthouses and the bargain-rate beauty parlours and the little churches and the roadhouses and the joints near closing hour . . . Perhaps in the end it is the old devil-may-care instinct of the south that remains in the most abundance and will sustain the south in its uncertain future. It is gambling with the heart. It is a glass menagerie. It is something that won't let go."
Morris leaves a son, David.
William Morris, writer, born November 29, 1934; died August 2, 1999


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Using the Beam Central Vacuum
Using the system
The Beam Central Vacuum System becomes active when you attach the suction hose to one of the inlet points in your home. The Beam tool kit allows you to suction clean virtually every surface, with dirt being sucked straight into the main dirt receptacle.
As well as the floor head, there are attachments for cleaning upholstery and soft furnishings, dusting furniture, walls and ceilings and removing dirt from narrow gaps.
Once you’ve finished vacuuming, all you have to do is put away the suction hose and tools. There is no cylinder or upright cleaner for which to find storage room.
Central vacuum systems provide stronger suction than cylinders or uprights. This is valuable when cleaning carpets as it sucks dirt from the base of the pile.
The vacuum motor is located with the dirt receptacle. This reduces noise levels created by vacuum cleaning in the home.
Reduction in allergens
Dust and other allergens are sucked straight into the dirt receptacle, which is located outside the main living area of the home. This means they are removed altogether, not simply stored within a portable cylinder of upright cleaner.
Reduction in maintenance costs
Statistically, central vacuum systems require less maintenance than portable cylinders or uprights. This means less money spent on replacement parts.
Beam suction hoses are much longer than those supplied with cylinder or upright vacuums. This allows a wide area to be cleaned from one outlet point.
Hard to move
You cannot pick up a Beam Central Vacuum System and take it to a new home. If you try to do so, you will leave holes in the walls which your house’s new owners may not appreciate.
It is quite expensive to have a Beam Central Vacuum installed in an existing dwelling. However, if you are having a new home built, this is the perfect time to get the work done, so discuss it with your builder.
The length of the hose can prove a nuisance if you want to quickly clean up crumbs on a mat or chair rather than do a thorough vacuum. It’s easiest to purchase a hand held vacuum for small jobs such as this.


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Urology at the Yale School of Medicine has historical roots that date back to the early 20th century when urology became officially accepted as a medical specialty in the United States.
In Europe, urology as a distinct medical specialty began at the advent of the cystoscope, which was designed by Dr. Max Nitze of Vienna, Austria at the end of the 19th century. Although an awkward instrument at first, it improved significantly after Thomas Edison’s invention of a small incandescent carbon filament bulb, which replaced the cumbersome water-cooled platinum wire bulb in the original design. With this improvement, the cytoscope became more widely used in Europe in 1889 for performing genitourinary surgery.
In the United States, urology gained recognition as a specialty in 1910 when Dr. Hugh Hampton Young was appointed Professor of Urology at John Hopkins Hospital. One of Young’s early trainees, John W. Churchman, came to Yale in 1913 as an Assistant Professor of Surgery and performed the first cystocopy in New Haven, only 25 years after Dr. Nitze designed the first cystoscope.
A separate section for urology was created at Yale when the Chief of Surgery, Dr. Samuel Harvey, recruited Dr. Clyde Leroy Deming from Johns Hopkins to develop the section and serve as Chief of Urology. Three small rooms were designed for cystoscopy and sigmoidoscopy in order to promote urology and proctology. At that time, the main focus of urology was to treat venereal diseases, so for the first six months, Deming’s practice was limited to referrals from surgeons whose patients had venereal disease, and only occasionally for cystoscopic consultation. Within two years, the urology section at Yale grew immensely, performing nearly 600 cystoscopies annually. Dr. Deming soon expanded his practice to incorporate urologic surgery, which included the early use of radium to treat cancers of the prostate and bladder.
Residency in urology began in 1924 under Dr. Deming, when a third-year surgery resident elected to specialize in urology, and spent one year on urology service. Urology residents continued to be appointed for the next ten years when surgical residents expressed interest. By 1934, there were regular assignments of a urology resident for an extra year of service, after the completion of their general surgery training. A number of leaders in academic urology have been trained at Yale as a result of the residency program, including John Libertino, Edward McGuire, Martin Schiff, Demetrius Bagley, Rodney Appel, John Colberg, and Michel Pontari.
Dr. Deming would remain as Chief for the next 34 years, during which time he performed more than 3,000 perineal prostatectomies for benign disease, and published more than 100 articles on urology. After his retirement in 1955, Dr. B. Marvin Harvard became Chief, arriving from the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans. Dr. Harvard would proceed to establish an official three-year urology training program that was approved by the ACGME and the Residency Review committee.
In 1967, Dr. Harvard was succeeded by Dr. Bernard Lytton, who had trained in England in General Surgery and Urology. Dr. Lytton, along with Dr. Howard Levitin, a nephrologist, would go on to open the first dialysis unit in Connecticut. This unit made it possible to begin a program in renal transplantation at Yale. Later that same year, Dr. Lytton would perform the first kidney transplant in Connecticut. For the next 15 years, all vascular access for dialysis, as well as renal transplants, was carried out by the urology service under the supervision of Dr. Martin Schiff, Jr., a faculty professor at Yale. During his tenure as Chief of Urology, Dr. Lytton implemented many urologic programs at Yale and introduced brachitherapy for prostate cancer, percutaneous nephrolithiasis, ureteroscopy and continent urinary diversion.
In 1987, Dr. Robert Weiss, who had been part of the urology section at Yale since 1967, was appointed Chief of Urology. He trained at Columbia Presbyterian, and initiated the Pediatric Urology program. He established an active research laboratory investigating ureteral and bladder smooth muscle activity at the molecular and biochemical level, and was the first urologist to receive a NIH Merit Award. Dr. Weiss' laboratory was later expanded to study signal transduction and the role of nitric oxide as a neurotransmitter. Dr. Weiss has also explored the role of survivin with bladder cancer, and the use of nanoparticles for drug and siRNA delivery to treat bladder diseases. In collaboration with Radiology, he devised a method of assessing the degree of renal obstruction by the estimation of renal blood flow using Doppler ultrasound.
In 2012, the Urology section officially became a department within the Yale School of Medicine, and Peter G. Schulam, MD, PhD, who was on faculty at UCLA and received his training at Johns Hopkins and Baylor, was appointed the inaugural Chair of Urology.

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Here’s a little information about the beautiful 1938 Dubonnet Hispano-Suiza H6B Xenia which was on display at the 2022 Concours of Elegance. Just look at it. Wow. Beautiful. One of our favourite cars of all time. You can see more Concours of Elegance news, reviews, videos and galleries here.
André Dubonnet was heir to the Dubonnet apéritif fortune and the man responsible for this extraordinary automobile. He served in the Stork squadron of the French Air Force during World War One and is credited with five aerial victories. He was an accomplished sportsman too and was passionate about motor racing.
Dubonnet was also an inventor and working with engineer Antoine-Marie Chedru, patented a four-wheel independent ‘hyperflex’ suspension system in 1927 that he promoted as having the ‘suppleness of a cat’. It would be used in various forms by General Motors, Fiat, Delahaye and Alfa Romeo.
Dubonnet needed a rolling showcase for his ideas and purchased an extensively modified Hispano-Suiza chassis he’d seen at the 1932 Paris Salon. The car was designed by Jean Andreau, who’d made his name designing avant-garde streamlined aircraft and automobiles.
This Hispano-Suiza H6B was intended to have a V12 engine, something the firm had experience of having built 50,000 fighter planes that were so-equipped. However, the new engine was so powerful with only six cylinders that Hispano-Suiza proceeded without the other bank of cylinders. The engine block and cylinder head were constructed entirely from aluminium, with the valves-which stood vertically in the block – driven by a single overhead camshaft. Despite the potential for horrendous damage from this novel setup, Hispano-Suiza persisted because not one of its V12 aero engines had dropped a valve. The brakes, meanwhile, were power-assisted and employed a patented servo system that used the car’s momentum to decrease speed, with braking assistance taking power from the gearbox which drove a shaft at 1/64th of the engine’s speed.
In 1938 Dubonnet employed renowned coachbuilder Jacques Saoutchik to construct the revolutionary body you see here-Dubonnet’s fifth prototype attempt-that he named Xenia after his late wife. Xenia was hidden during World War Two and didn’t reappear until June 9,1946 at the opening of the Saint Cloud tunnel outside Paris. Alain Balleret, president of the French Hispano-Suiza Club, purchased Xenia in the 1960s and had it restored.
In 1999 an American, Charles Morse, bought the car at auction, and would keep it for just a few years before Peter Mullin purchased the Xenia in 2003. Today, this car is part of the Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard, California.


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The Hogarth Press is perhaps most famous for its association with Virginia Woolf, as she was both a partner in the Press and its most important author. But there is more to the Press than Woolf herself. This catalogue, published to accompany a 2009 exhibit at the University of Alberta's Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, highlights the broad international scope of the Hogarth Press, as well a...
Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections
Paperback: 142 pages
Publisher: The University of Alberta Press; 1 edition (February 1, 2009)
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Manhattan's Mission Chinese Was Reportedly a Brutal, Racist Place to WorkLatest
Under the best circumstances, working at a restaurant is physically grueling, at times surreally fast-paced, and at others completely dead, giving one plenty of time to wonder how to make rent and tuition on $2 an hour after a shift of no customers, as it is also a job that forces one to rely on the generosity of the general public, who are monsters at every given opportunity. Yes, I’m still bitter about my time as a server. And this lingering bitterness is coming from someone who had a great manager that let me smoke cigarettes in her office when it was raining, nothing even vaguely comparable to the employees of Mission Chinese—one of Manhattan’s most celebrated restaurants of the past decade—who say they were routinely physically and mentally abused by allegedly racist, sexist superiors.
Former employees of Mission Chinese’s Manhattan location, which was permanently shuttered in September, recently told Grub Street that, despite constant glowing reviews touting celebrity chef Danny Bowien’s and executive chef Angela Dimayuga’s policies of LGBTQ-friendliness, stance against sexual harassment, and other ideas that set them apart from the traditionally male-dominated and purportedly toxic kitchen environments, working at Mission Chinese was a nightmare. When no reporters or camera crews were around, former kitchen workers and front-of-house staff say that Bowien and Dimayuga left the restaurant under the charge of chef de cuisine Quynh Le, who allegedly treated workers brutally:
“One night in 2016, [Le] instructed a sous-chef to heat up a spoon by dipping it in hot oil. Le then took the broiling silverware and approached a dishwasher, who was Black. Le had been picking on the dishwasher since he started at the restaurant, calling him “Pimp Hand” and referring to Black employees as “boy.” Now he took the red-hot spoon and placed it directly on the man’s arm, searing his skin and causing him to cry out in pain. As employees watched in horror, Le looked a line cook straight in the eyes and asked, ‘What are you going to do about it?’”
Black and Latinx employees say that they routinely heard disparaging racial remarks in the kitchen, including Le reportedly assuming a Black worker was also a drug dealer and telling a Mexican food runner that he was looking forward to Donald Trump winning the presidency so “you can’t come back to this country.” A line cook said Le also called her “a sad excuse for an Asian person” after she couldn’t properly use a broken rice cooker.
After Bowien and other restaurant owners insisted Dimayuga fire Le, with whom she had previously worked with at Brooklyn’s Vinegar Hill House, his replacement, sous chef Angelo Kinget reportedly engaged in similar bad behavior. In one memorable incident, multiple employees say he showed up drunk to the kitchen threw plates at staff.
For her part, Dimayuga says she did not know of the spoon branding incident and kept Le on longer than she should have: “I got reports from other upper management of his bad behavior,” Dimayuga told Grub Street. “I admittedly—what I have a lot of remorse for—I struggled objectively navigating this, because I wrongly hoped he would reform.”
Kinget denies that he threw plates or that he was drunk but says kitchen staff were “moving really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really slow” the night employees described, adding “I came up in kitchens where I was just used to stuff being thrown at me. Like I said, maybe they were just too sensitive about it.”
In a lengthy Instagram post, Bowien acknowledges the abuse, his part in ignoring it, and the harm of the industry at large, writing “It’s true I abandoned the people who worked for me the second I could. It’s a horrible industry that only exists off the abuse of everyone involved.” In the post, he outlines some of the mistreatment he suffered in the restaurant industry and writes that he accepted the abuse as normal after surviving childhood sexual trauma and complex psychological abuse. And though Bowien says that he is “truly fucking sorry,” the post also says that he was “terrified” of Angela Dimayuga, his employee, and that many of the accusers in the Grub Street report were “active participants” in the culture at Mission Chinese.
“It sucks I made money off this industry,” Bowien writes, “I guess it will be cleansing to hear I walk away with nothing but debt.” Mission Chinese’s San Francisco and Brooklyn locations remain open, which has rebranded as Mission, though Bowien says he is currently “barely holding on to one place that will most likely close.”


Carmen and Dave: It’s Over!
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Carmen Electra and Dave Navarro have split up, according to their publicist.
The pair, who star in MTVs hit show Til Death Do Us Part, in which cameras follow the pair around as they enjoy being madly in love, have parted, although not due to death thank goodness.
The pairs publicist, Brit Reece, told Star Magazine that "they are amicably separating."
The guitar legend and supermodel have been together since 2003.


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ZIMBABWE star forward Khama Billiat was the talk of the ‘Battle of Zambezi’, after scoring a brace against Zambia on Tuesday at Heroes Stadium in Lusaka.
Billiat opened his goal account in the 10th minute when he connected a corner from captain Knowledge Musona.
Musona provided all the assists in either half as the Warriors were looking for their first win to revive their hopes in the Afcon 2020 qualifiers.
The skipper proved naysayers wrong with a scintillating overall performance despite his lack of game time abroad.
Zimbabwe is now behind log leaders Algeria who are on six points, while Zimbabwe is two points shy from Algeria followed by Botswana who picked a point against Zimbabwe.
Zambia will look forward to redeem themselves when they play Botswana on their next assignment.
The Warriors fought hard to defeat the ’wounded’ Zambian side on home soil.

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20 February 2009
In Country: Global Economic Downturn Effects Brasil Too
In the past two months, Brasil has lost 750,000 jobs as a result of the global economic crisis. And these are just the "formal" jobs registered with the federal government. Since many millions of people in Brasil work in unregistered jobs, we will never know the real impact of the economic slowdown. Informal jobs include street vendors selling pirated DVDs, beer, fruit and vegetables, and myriad other economic transactions that the government does not know about and views as illegal. While many here in Brasil don't even realize there is a global crisis (probably because life was hard even when the rich were flush with cash), the cloud gathering overhead suggests worse times are on the horizon.


California health officials are gearing up for the launch of a statewide screening effort that aims to help doctors measure children’s exposure to trauma and their risk of related health problems.
Starting Jan. 1, California will become the first state in the nation to reimburse health care providers who screen patients enrolled in the Medi-Cal program for “adverse childhood experiences” or ACEs.
The $40 million effort has been hailed as a revolutionary change in California’s approach to health care, particularly within Medi-Cal, the state’s health program for people with limited incomes. At the same time, it’s raised questions about whether the state and health care providers are adequately prepared to act on the information the new screenings reveal.
“It’s a pretty big deal,” said Lishaun Francis, associate director of health collaborations with the organization Children Now. “We see (the screenings) as an opportunity for physicians to have a better understanding of what’s happening with children and families, and what impact that might have on their wellbeing,”
But, Francis said, “The state hasn’t quite rolled out a comprehensive plan on how providers can connect with community resources if families do say yes to any one of these adverse childhood experiences. That’s something we’ve been highlighting as the missing piece.”
ACEs are stressful childhood events that can include being homeless, not having enough food, being neglected or abused, having a parent who’s incarcerated, experiencing discrimination, and having parents who separate or divorce.
Children exposed to these types of trauma are at higher risk for physical, emotional and mental health problems as they grow and when they become adults, research shows. The more trauma a child experiences, the greater the risk for short- and long-term health problems, ranging from asthma, allergies, heart disease and obesity, to learning difficulties, depression and drug abuse. That’s because children’s brains and immune systems react physically to the trauma, a response known as toxic stress.
To screen children for adverse experiences, the California Department of Health Care Services selected a screening tool developed by researchers and pediatricians at UC San Francisco and the non-profit Center for Youth Wellness. California Surgeon General Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, who is leading California’s initiative to implement ACEs screening statewide, founded the center, which is a pioneer in the field.
The idea is that, by screening for ACEs, doctors can take steps to mitigate their harmful effects, and also educate families about how to prevent toxic stress in the first place. Burke Harris has said she wants to cut ACEs in half within a generation.
“To say that it’s groundbreaking would be an understatement,” said Dayna Long, who co-developed the screening tool and serves as medical director for the Department of Community Health and Engagement at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland. “California is leading the way to address trauma as a public health crisis, and the first step is universal screening.
“We are transforming the practice of medicine across the state and my hope is that other states will follow,” Long said.
Both adults and children enrolled in Medi-Cal can be screened for ACEs. The state will only reimburse providers for a one-time screening of adults, but children can be screened annually.
The screening tool for children is a questionnaire to be filled out by caregivers or—if a child is 12 or older—by the child. It asks about exposure to abuse, neglect and household dysfunction, including whether the child has been separated from parents because of immigration issues or foster care, whether they’ve witnessed violence in their homes or communities, if they’ve lived with a caregiver who died, or with someone who has a serious illness or disability.
Health providers review the answers and calculate a child’s ACEs score. If a child has suffered four or more adverse childhood experiences, or if they’ve experienced at least one and have a health problem that could be related, providers are advised to link them and their families to support services, such as social workers and mental health care. Even if a child is at low risk for toxic stress, the state advises doctors to educate families about the problem and how to protect against it.
Adverse childhood experiences are extremely common, Long said. Screening of low-income children and their caregivers in Oakland revealed that around 80 percent of children had experienced at least one ACE by age five, and over half had experienced four or more, she said.
“What that’s telling us is ACEs are ubiquitous, particularly in the population that are served by safety nets,” she said. “ACEs are happening every day in the lives of our children and we as a health care system need to understand that these upstream factors are actually directly influencing the health of the children that we see.”
Long agreed more work must be done to develop and fund interventions to help children experiencing adversity. But she said simply getting doctors to screen for adverse childhood experiences and talk about them with families is a first preventive step.
“The fact that we’re able to get reimbursement from (Medi-Cal) for screening and asking hard questions and having to raise conversations is a huge win for the state of California,” she said.
Ultimately, “if as a state we can prevent that trauma from happening, we can improve the health outcomes for millions of kids, and that is remarkable,” Long added.


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Although the end of the year is coming, along with all of its attendant and obligatory “Top 10” lists, I thought this year I’d try something different . While 2008 was a year of great films, I wanted to pause and reflect on some of my favorite quotes of the year. Some pretty great actors said some powerful stuff this year. Taken together, these quotes capture some of the memorable moments, and give a taste of the zeitgeist of 2008. Before we begin, you should know:
MAJOR SPOILERS FOR ALL THE FILMS MENTIONED BELOW. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED…
Actor: Morgan Freeman
Quote: “Shoot THIS Motherfucker!”
Why: Timur Bekmambetov’s Wanted is not a good film. It’s a crap script covered with pure cheese, topped with escapism and a small dose of visually arresting action, the type of midnight cinematic treat that might taste good going down, but that leaves you with the feeling you’re going to wake up with a mess in your bed (and if you’re lucky, the toilet) when you wake up in the morning.
In the midst of all the chaos, there’s Morgan Freeman, whose appearance in this film is as bizarre as it is necessary for giving the film just enough credibility so as to prevent you from laughing throughout the proceedings. Like many actors approaching or experiencing their golden years (see: Alec Baldwin), Freeman seems to be cutting loose and just having fun at this stage of his life. This is nowhere more obvious than in this monologue at the end, where Freeman finally loses it and tells the society of weavers to end James McAvoy’s life. A departure from the normally calm, austere, father-figure that Freeman usually embodies, this F-bomb is pure awesomeness.
4. Iron Man
Actor: Jeff Bridges:
Quote: “Tony Stark was able to build this in a cave! With a box of scraps!”
Why: In a year filled with angsty, self-loathing, and tortured superheroes, Iron Man showed us that a superhero film which didn’t take itself too seriously could be an absolute blast. Iron Man’s style is best encapsulated by this quote by Jeff Bridges. Trying to master the outlandishly implausible arc reactor technology, Bridges loses it at one of his underling scientists. The resulting quote leave us asking, “Yeah, how the hell DID he build that in a cave anyway?” before we realize that we don’t really care. This quote is self-reflection at its finest.
Actor: Ben Burtt/Elissa Knight (plus computer enhancement)
Why: Some people might not remember that the first 20-30 minutes of Wall-E had virtually no dialogue whatsoever. Pixar took a chance on its animation, betting that it could create characters and animations that could successfully anthropromorphize robots, and I’d say it unquestionably succeeded. They were able to make you believe that these machines had emotions.
But while the animation deserves a lot of credit, the voicework is also phenomenal. This exchange between Wall-E and Eve (their first “conversation”) has Wall-E uttering his name in a timeless combination of human voice and computer enhancement. This single quote was so powerful, so adorable, that, coupled with Wall-E’s appearance, it moved at least one girl to tears (click here to see the video and click here for the awesome story behind it).
2. The Dark Knight
Actor: Heath Ledger
Quote: “Why so serious?”
Why: While The Dark Knight was filled with lines that are certain to be repeated ad nauseam by college students and high schoolers for years to come (“Wanna see a magic trick?” “Let’s put a smile on that face.” etc. etc. However you cut it, the Joker was this year’s Borat), I thought Joker’s chilling “Why so serious” rose above the pack. Joker’s bizarre backstory was imbued meaning as it changed, Rashomon-like, throughout the film. In the end, he remains as inscrutable as he is completely and utterly destructive. And as Gotham falls apart around him and corpses fall to the ground, it’s almost as though Joker’s asking us the whole time, “Why so serious?” (You can hear us review The Dark Knight with writer/director Kevin Smith by clicking here.)
1. The Wrestler
Actor: Mickey Rourke
Quote: “I’m an old broken down piece of meat.”
Why: In David Ansen’s wonderful review of Darren Aronofsky’s tremendous film, The Wrestler, Ansen writes the following: “[This film] was a kind of harmonic convergence of player and part that happens once in a blue moon—the actor vanishing so completely inside a role that our sense of his ‘real’ identity is permanently altered.” Indeed, Rourke’s career and personal life have mirrored the tragedy of wrestler Randy Robinson’s story arc. Between his bad career choices and the near-horrific plastic surgery that left his face straining to display emotion, Rourke had used up virtually all of his good will with the moviegoing public.
But in The Wrestler, Rourke takes control of his public image and of his latent acting talent. When Rourke breaks down in front of his daughter and confesses his sins, on some level he’s confessing to the audience as well. And as the tears flow down his face, we are left with the simple conclusion there is still some redemption in the world left for Mickey Rourke. In fact, there’s probably no other lead actor that could have made The Wrestler one of the best films of the year.
Discuss: What were your favorite quotes of 2008?
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If You Do Not Conform, The Thought Nazis WILL Get You
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April 4, 2014
If you do not conform to the new politically correct moral code in America, you cannot be a CEO of a major corporation. If you think that I am joking, just read on. I am actually deadly serious. If you are a young person in America today, what you believe about certain issues is going to determine how high you can climb the ladder in your professional life. In fact, a day is rapidly approaching when anyone that wants to have any measure of professional success in our society is going to have to conform to the moral code. If you choose not to conform, the thought Nazis WILL get you.
Image: Brendan Eich (Wiki Commons).
Just check out what happened to Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich this week. He was forced out after it was discovered that he had donated $1,000 to support Proposition 8 back in 2008…
Mozilla Chief Executive Brendan Eich has stepped down, the company said on Thursday, after an online dating service urged a boycott of the company’s web browser because of a donation Eich made to opponents of gay marriage.
He broke the politically-correct moral code of the thought Nazis, so he must pay.
It doesn’t matter that 52 percent of the voters in California actually voted in favor of Proposition 8.
It doesn’t matter that this is something that happened six years ago.
It doesn’t even matter that he was really good at his job…
“Brendan Eich is a good friend of 20 years, and has made a profound contribution to the Web and to the entire world,” venture capitalist Marc Andreessen tweeted.
He broke the code and so he must pay.
And in case you are wondering, this basically means that anyone who is against gay marriage is now essentially disqualified from being CEO of any major corporation in America.
So if you are a CEO and you are reading this, you better keep your mouth shut if you want to keep your job.
The thought Nazis are monitoring you.
But this isn’t just happening in the private sector. According to a stunning Buzzfeed report, Barack Obama told the top military officers in this country that they could either support the end of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell or they could resign…
In a meeting with the heads of the five service branches in 2010, President Obama offered the leaders a choice: Support my efforts to end the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, or resign, the Commandant of the Coast Guard said.
In a video obtained by BuzzFeed via a Freedom of Information Act request, Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Robert Papp revealed that Obama was unwilling to compromise with service leaders over DADT during a meeting in 2010. “We were called into the Oval Office and President Obama looked all five service chiefs in the eye and said, ‘This is what I want to do.’ I cannot divulge everything he said to us, that’s private communications within the Oval Office, but if we didn’t agree with it — if any of us didn’t agree with it — we all had the opportunity to resign our commissions and go do other things,” he said.
Could this have something to do with the widespread purging of the military that has taken place under Obama?
That is a very good question.
But one thing is crystal clear – if you want to rise to the top of the U.S. military in the future, you better conform to the new moral code.
If not, the thought Nazis will come after you.
We live at a time when political correctness in America has gotten completely and totally out of control. If you can believe it, there is even a major movement to ban the word “bossy”…
Sheryl Sandberg, the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook and author of the best-selling book “Lean In,” has recruited a slew of celebrities to launch a national campaign to ban the word “bossy,” claiming it discourages girls from taking on leadership roles.
“I think the word ‘bossy’ is just a squasher,” “Glee” star Jane Lynch says in a campaign PSA, while Beyonce states: “I’m not bossy… I’m the boss.” Actress Jennifer Garner asserts that “being labeled something matters,” and famed fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg adds the kicker that we “should just ban the word ‘bossy’.”
Singer Victoria Beckham, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Girl Scouts USA CEO Anna Maria Chavez and CNN foreign correspondent Christiane Amanpour are also involved in the campaign urging the word be silenced.
If we continue down this path, what will this nation look like in a few years?
During a recent interview, Dr. Ben Carson compared the current political environment in the United States to Nazi Germany…
“[We’re] very much like Nazi Germany,” he responded. “And I know you’re not supposed to say ‘Nazi Germany,’ but I don’t care about political correctness. You know, you had a government using its tools to intimidate the population.”
“We now live in a society where people are afraid to say what they actually believe,” he continued. “And it’s because of the PC police, it’s because of politicians, it’s because of news. All of these things are combining to stifle people’s conversation.”
And you know what?
He is right.
We are becoming more like Nazi Germany with each passing day. In fact, if you want to read much more about this, please see my previous article entitled “25 Signs That America Is Rapidly Becoming More Like Nazi Germany“.
In America, we are supposed to be able to believe what we want to believe.
In recent years, about half of the nation has been in favor of gay marriage and about half the nation has been against it.
Are we now going to tell half the country that they are going to be banned from holding any high position in our society unless they conform to the new moral code?
What kind of country will we have if we do that?
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