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Maps. Sculptures. Lecture halls. Art galleries. Ballet classes. Parades. Concrete blocks. Bodies splayed over stairs. Community gardens filled with tires. The genre of “p[art]icipatory urbanisms” describes a range of art forms, practices, and institutions that invite us to think creatively and critically about urban space, community building, activism, and artmaking in the contemporary city. Examples range from the Khirkee Hip-Hop Community Center in New Delhi, India, where youth find a creative outlet in art forms like breakdancing, to the Ciclistas Bonequeiros, or “puppeteer cyclists” of São Paulo, Brazil, who stage idiosyncratic performances with puppets made of recycled materials staged in diorama-style boxes mounted on bicycles.
Now anyone with internet access can engage with dozens of projects of this variety, thanks to P[art]icipatory Urbanisms, an innovative collaboration by UC Berkeley graduate students Kirsten Larson (from the Department of Architecture and City Planning) and Karin Shankar (from the Department of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies), whose work was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Global Urban Humanities Initiative.
Since debuting last fall, this project has received thousands of hits (more than 4000 in the first week alone), articles have been reblogged and reposted numerous times, and Larson and Shankar have heard from several academics saying that they will be using the anthology in their research and teaching. Larson and Shankar are also planning to curate an exhibition based on this work in São Paulo this fall.
The stylized, bracketed title of P[art]icipatory Urbanisms highlights the project’s interest in blurring the boundaries between aesthetics and politics, whether the subjects in question are performance collectives, educators, collectors of e-waste, or community journalists. “Given the multitude of arenas in which participatory urban activity has been proliferating in the past two decades—including within a range of public, private, civil society, and hybrid formations—participation itself, as mode of engagement, is a critical terrain of negotiation between state, society and market forces,” Larson and Shankar observe in a co-written introductory essay.
There are two parts to the project. The first is a collection of interviews conducted with urban practitioners and artists (broadly defined) in the cities of New Delhi, India, and São Paulo, Brazil. These cities were chosen both because of the project curators’ respective backgrounds in South Asian and Brazilian urbanisms, and, as noted on the project website, because of their similar sizes and “positions in global urban imaginations and political economy.”
The second part is a peer-reviewed anthology of articles divided into four sections: “Memory and the City-Body”; “Austerity Politics, Occupation, and Performance”; “Curating Publics”; and “Ruptures in Neoliberal Space.” The anthology takes readers to and through Port-au-Prince bidonvilles, or shantytowns, in Haiti; street protests in Madrid and Rome; art installations in the Black Sea port town of Batumi, in Georgia; and numerous other cities, including New York City, Shanghai, Guangzhou, San Francisco, and Zurich.
The interviews, collectively titled “Urbanismo Participativo/ Participatory Urbanisms,” are displayed online in a carefully designed diptych, a conceptual form used in visual art to extend canvases and draw parallels. Readers also have the option of downloading the interviews as a 143-page publication. This PDF version presents the interviews one at a time, but reproduces the effect of the diptych by offering Portuguese and English translations displayed side by side.
“We chose [the form of the diptych] so that readers and interviewees from the two cities could form unexpected connections,” Shankar said in an interview.
Such juxtapositions invite audiences to read between and across Komita Dhanda and Suddhanva Deshpande’s street plays of personal narratives of industrial workers, at IG Khan Memorial in Aligarh, India, on the one hand, and Brazilian graffiti muralists pioneering the practice of “Cartograffiti,” on the other. Each interview also includes a number of arresting photographs, such as the image of Mauro Neri da Silva reproducing the posture of a trash-bin sculpture of a man, chin raised to the sky in a posture of almost yogic supplication, on the edge of the Billings Reservoir, in the Grajaú region of São Paulo.
The interviews, Larson and Shankar note in a joint preface to their publication, “map the multiple and disjunctive ways in which ‘participation’ is enacted…. [They] trace how these urban actors create politico-aesthetic ruptures; experience and experiment with the material and affective force of participation; leverage its power to potentially reshape urban space; and contend with the limits of participatory working processes.”
This ambitious project statement is fulfilled by the scope and scale of the work itself. The interviewers, including both Larson and Shankar as well as a number of research assistants, elicit provocative, deeply thoughtful reflections on the intersections of time and space, the performance of collectivity, the fact of urban multiplicity, pedagogical practice, voice, mediation, and the relationship between individual city dwellers and city infrastructures. Interviewees reflect on challenging issues of urban informality and inequality—on the fact that, in the words of Ravi Vasudevan of the SARAI Collective, people live in these cities “despite not being allowed to have all sorts of things that they should be allowed to have.”
The emphasis in each interview is the concept of “praxis,” which Shankar defines as “a being, doing and knowing.” As she explains, “the artist collectives, waste worker collectives, graffiti muralists, and other groups that we have interviewed define, enact, and create knowledge about a multitude of ways in which to effectively ‘take part’ in the cities of New Delhi and São Paulo. In São Paulo, for instance, Coletivo Pi, a feminist dance collective, is thinking about how to create urban kindness through their movement and dance works…. Graffiti muralists from the collective Imargem, in the periphery of São Paulo, are thinking about how graffiti may provide an alternate itinerary through the city. In New Delhi, a media collective in a working class neighborhood thinks about urban citizenship as a sense of ‘belonging’; a dance collective is working towards creating a ‘dance ecosystem’ . . . These present different and generative ways of thinking, doing, and knowing about urban participation.”
Of course, not all of the interviewees agree on the key terms of the larger project—including “publics,” “counter-hegemony,” “agonism,” “memory,” “occupation,” “participation,” “infrastructure,” and “cooptation”—and that is half the fun of hearing their ranging perspectives. Shankar points out that at least two different views of “urban citizenship” emerge from interviews with a waste workers’ collective in New Delhi and a media collective in a working class neighborhood. For Bharati Chaturvedi in Chintan, New Delhi, urban citizenship is “when everybody has a basic standard of living, and can access the city, whether it’s the park, the metro station . . . urban citizenship is about how and where you are able to contribute to the city and whether the city administration facilitates . . . or allows you to contribute.” By contrast, for SARAI’s Vasudevan, questions of “rights and entitlements” lead to “a limited notion of citizenship.” Citizenship, he says, “is also about belonging; you are here in the city and so the city is yours. Now, that’s a different order proposition, and a much more interesting one.”
P[art]icipatory Urbanisms also includes a peer-reviewed, 156-page anthology of articles, which features both traditional journal articles and five formally experimental articles that perform urban scholarship in new ways, including a manifesto for “a liberatory black spatial politics”; a photo essay on a wrestling rink in Gurgaon, India; and a personal essay about the democratic politics of basketball played on a public court in Oakland, California.
In the instructive introductory essay to the edited volume, Larson and Shankar link this work to other contemporary movements, “from Occupy (2011) to Tahrir (2011) to São Paulo (2013) to Taksim (2013) to austerity protests in Southern Europe and Greece (2014-) to #BlackLivesMatter (2014-).” This genuinely global view of relational art practices, urbanisms, activism, politics, and aesthetics (as in its older meaning, they note, “as simply ‘perceptible to the senses’”) is matched by scale and scope of the articles themselves. For example, Kavita Kulkarni’s “Ruptures in Neoliberal Space” examines ‘Soul Summit,’ an open-air house music dance party that has been held since 2001 in the historically black, rapidly gentrified neighborhood of Fort Greene, in Brooklyn, New York. Larson and Shankar especially appreciate how this work “explores the political potential of the various assemblages (both ‘live’ and in social media) of open-air house music culture . . . and how, through various forms of participatory co-production, Soul Summit works to counteract ‘the spatiality of peripheralization’ and the ‘temporality of extinction’ imposed on black social life in the [United States].”
Shankar recalls being particularly moved by two of the articles in the “Austerity Politics, Performance, and Occupation” section, which emerged from participant ethnographic research in Athens and Madrids. She and Larson describe these essays thus: “[They] present urgent and vivid ethnographic accounts of the urban manifestations of radical democratic responses to Europe’s contemporary austerity regimes. Andreea Micu’s reading of the affective forms of protest around ongoing housing struggles in Rome and Madrid identifies ‘indignation’ as the prevailing affect in times of austerity…. Her article] explores how this affect is mobilized to powerful effect in street protests…. [Gigi Argyropoulou’s article] describes how emergent and collective participatory practices in the occupied [Embros theatre in Athens during the debt crisis] may have faced repeated failures, but succeeded in marking a paradigm shift, thereby opening up the space of possibles for alternate ‘instituent’ practices of politics and culture in times of austerity.”
Reading the essays from the anthology, I was struck not only by the quality of the interventions, luminosity of the prose, and genuine interdisciplinarity of the work as a whole, but also by all the ways in which the anthology—like the curated interviews—is itself a participatory, collaborative work of art, an artifact not only of scholarly research but citizenly and neighborly love. The artist Pâmella Cruz’s description of Brazil-based Coletivo PI might very well also apply to Larson, Shankar, and their scores of collaborators and co-creators as well: plainly, they “believe in the possibility of positive transformation”; of using scholarship to “establish affectionate relationships, relationships of real complicity, of getting to know and not being afraid of the other, the unknown, the faraway.”
The sheer plenitude of P[art]icipatory Urbanisms is worthy of celebration. That the project is also deeply critical yet hopeful, attuned to global urban inequalities yet redolent with possibility, and celebratory of the lives, aspirations, artworks, frustrations, and conceptualizations of men, women, and children from cities around the world, is worthy of wide dissemination, animated discussion, and the praxis of close reading.
Images: Courtesy of Karin Shankar. All rights reserved.
Top Image: Performance and theater collective, Companhia Antropofágica’s, walks with a Karroça (stage cart) performing street plays in the city, 2011.
Image 2: A Jana Natya Manch (People’s Theater Form) performance in Jhandapur, Delhi, 2013.
Image 3: Artist Amitabh Kumar paints a mural for a Khirkee shopfront, Khoj Artist Workshop, Delhi, 2012.
Image 4: Actors from the performance collective, Coletivo Pi, walk down São Paulo’s Avenida Paulista dressed as “petrified” executives, covered in clay and blindfolded, 2015.


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Bruno Mars Debuts New Song 'Moonshine'
The project was launched with the first single, "Locked Out Of Heaven," and followed by the current emphasis track, "Young Girls."
Now, Bruno is offering fans a preview of "Moonshine," another new song from the album. "I've been jammin to this song for a while now," tweeted Mars. "I hope yall can groove wit me and slide wit me but most important BOK wit me #Moonshine." Listen to the song here.
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2024 quarterback Dylan Raiola, the top ranked player in the nation, sent shock waves throughout college football when he announced his commitment to Georgia on Monday.
The 6-foot-3, 220-pound passer out of Phoenix, Arizona, chose Georgia over Nebraska, Oregon and USC.
This commitment raises the question: With the No. 1 player secured, is Georgia in position to flip the nation’s No. 2 player?
Enter Jeremiah Smith, a five-star wide receiver from Opa Locka, Florida, who is committed to Ohio State..
He’s the No. 2 player in America, and he’s been committed to the Buckeyes since December. But now that Raiola is taking his talents to Athens, Smith told Chad Simmons of On3Recruits that he’ll have to take a closer look at UGA.
“Georgia getting Dylan means a lot to me and my interest in them…
I have to really give Georgia a look now that they have Dylan.”
Smith will visit Athens this Friday, per 247Sports.
Ohio State WR commit Jeremiah Smith reacts to Dylan Raiola's commitment to Georgia👀
(via @ChadSimmons_) https://t.co/9AEc8n9Ap2 pic.twitter.com/ty3LsdGZk7
— On3 Recruits (@On3Recruits) May 15, 2023
Remember, Raiola was also committed to Ohio State at one point. Actually, Raiola decommitted from Ohio State just three days after Smith announced his commitment to OSU in December of 2022, suggesting a pre-existing relationship.
Smith is a 6-foot-3, 198 pound receiver who 247Sports calls “one of the most talented wide receiver prospects to come out of South Florida in the modern recruiting era.”
According to Steve Wiltfong, the director of recruiting at 247Sports, if any school has a chance to convince Smith to change his commitment, it would be Georgia.
“If I had to mark a school that was the biggest threat to flip Jeremiah Smith from Ohio State, it would not be Florida — it would be Georgia.”
And he said that on Sunday, a day before Raiola announced his commitment to UGA.
Could you imagine the offenses in Athens if Georgia had the nation’s No. 1 player throwing passes to the nation’s No. 2 player? This is a situation to monitor in the coming months.
“I’m just having fun,” Smith tweeted.
I’m just having fun😂
— Jeremiah Smith ✞ (@Jermiah_Smith1) May 15, 2023


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VANCOUVER—A Vancouver Island man testified Wednesday that he didn’t kill his two daughters and denied he tried to take his own life on the day they died.
Instead, Andrew Berry’s lawyer Kevin McCullough presented a different theory to a Vancouver jury.
Berry was a problem gambler who owed a lot of money to bad people, McCullough said.
He said his client will testify that he was attacked in his apartment on Christmas Day 2017 and when he came to, six-year-old Chloe Berry and four-year-old sister Aubrey Berry were dead.
Berry took the stand in his own defence, charged with two counts of second-degree murder.
A jury has already heard the children were stabbed to death in Berry’s Oak Bay apartment and that police found him injured in the tub.
“Did you kill Chloe and Aubrey,” asked defence lawyer Kevin McCullough.
“No, I did not,” Berry answered.
“Did you attempt suicide on Christmas 2017?”
“No, I did not.”
Berry testified that he had a happy life with the two girls.
He described going camping with them, reading books before bedtime and taking the girls to school. He talked of how their personalities changed as they grew.
Chloe was outgoing while Aubrey was shy, he said.
“(Chloe) would talk to anyone,” he said choking up. “She was not shy.”
Berry described Aubrey as a watcher.
“She wasn’t as easy as Chloe was,” he said.
The court has already heard that Berry and the children’s mother had a difficult relationship co-parenting the girls.
Sarah Cotton had testified previously that she had called the Children’s Ministry twice saying that Berry had sexually touched Aubrey, but police found no evidence the touching was sexual or criminal in nature.
Berry told the court that he did not sexually assault Aubrey.
He testified that he began gambling when he worked as a bellboy at the Sutton Place in the 1990s. He would gamble once a week, adding he lost more than he won.
He played baccarat and went on to sports betting, he said.
He said he began to “cut corners” and struggled to pay rent.
In 2015, Berry said he won $99,997 on a long-shot bet. But he spent about $60,000 of those winnings on more betting, he said.
In January 2017, Berry said he took a loan of $10,000 from a man named Paul who he had met at River Rock Casino. He said he didn’t know Paul’s last name. The interest rate was $2,000 a week.
He decided to quit his job at BC Ferries so he could cash his pension and pay Paul $25,000. Berry told the jury that Paul agreed to that proposal on the condition that he could store a bag in Berry’s apartment.
“I agreed. It was easy…I was in a desperate place,” he said.
Berry said he knew the bag had something illegal in it.
Later that summer Berry said he still couldn’t pay back the amount he owed Paul so he agreed to store another bag for him.
That was when Paul also demanded a set of keys to his apartment, Berry said.
Earlier in the trial, the jury heard that police found a note at the crime scene addressed to Berry’s sister that detailed grievances with relatives and the girls’ mother.
“Betrayed, bullied, and miscast I set out to leave with the kids,” the letter read. “But I thought it better for myself and kids to escape.”
The note contained Berry’s passwords and banking information.
Barry testified Wednesday that he did try to kill himself, but that was in November 2017, a month before the girls were killed.
“I wanted to die,” he said.
His testimony is to continue Thursday.

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Foyles hosts The House That Groaned Launch Party!
I’m still reeling from the fantastic launch party last Thursday at Foyles in Charing Cross Road! Crowds of smiley people shrugged off their back-to-work blues and came to welcome my first graphic novel The House That Groaned into the world. A huge thank you to Susan Yan Mach and Sabrina Dallot-Seguro for the excellent photos below!
We had magician Olive Meech producing flames and water from the book, We had life-sized cartoon characters walking around (thank you Rachel, Suzie and Jules!) and Emily Grogan from Brighton Bakery produced a beautiful house-shaped cake (so good it made me groan!).
Many thanks also to Adam Zygadlo for his epic animation and Jonathan Plackett for his stunning interactive website www.thehousethatgroaned.com.
You can play with the book, buy the book and meet the neighbours here: http://www.thehousethatgroaned.com/

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This is the Team Integy Type II complete wheel and tire set for drift racing.
Features: Chrome wheels and tire premounted
Includes: 4 Wheels and tires
Requires: Installation onto drift car
Diameter: 2.5 (63mm)
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New Kids on the Blockchain: A Symposium on the Dawn of the “New Internet”
Madiha Khan Student Writer, Windsor Law LTEC Lab Dual J.D., 2019 On November 30, 2018 University of Windsor’s EPICentre hosted the second annual New Kids on The Blockchain Symposium. The Symposium introduced guests to the concept of blockchain technology, with speakers presenting on its various applications, current developments, as well as the legal perspective of this… Continue reading
Blockchain has the potential to remake the internet landscape. Are we ignoring the legal and regulatory risks?
Muharem Kianieff Associate Professor University of Windsor, Faculty of Law Satoshi Nakamoto is a name that most people associate with the development of Bitcoin, the famous crypto-currency payment system that promises to make direct peer to peer payments between individuals without the use of an intermediary. While Bitcoin has yet to displace traditional payment… Continue reading

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Worse than doing nothing – that was Labour’s damning indictment of the coalition’s flagship Work Programme following the publication last week of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC)’s report on the scheme. The Work Programme’s performance so far has been ‘extremely poor’, declared Margaret Hodge MP, as only 3.6% of people referred to the programme moved off benefit and into work – amounting to less than a third of the government’s 11.9% target. ‘In fact, performance was so poor that it was actually worse than the department’s own expectations of the number of people who would have found work if the programme didn’t exist,’ said the chair of the PAC.
The Coalition launched the Work Programme in April 2011 to help long-term unemployed people move off benefits and into sustained employment. The payment-by-results model – estimated to cost between £3 and £5 billion over five years – was the brainwave of then employment minister Chris Grayling, with providers being paid for taking on a jobless person, finding them a job and then ensuring they keep it. Ministers at the time declared the Work Programme to be a ‘boost for the “big society”’, with voluntary sector groups, as well as private contractors, being offered the chance to deliver the Programme.
This has proved to be yet another dollop of coalition rhetoric, however, as last week’s figures painted a picture of the Work Programme as a chaotic, expensive failure. Whilst the DWP was keen to defend the scheme, stating that the report presented a ‘skewed picture’ and the programme is in fact ‘transforming tens of thousands of lives’, shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne MP labelled the government’s handling of the Programme figures ‘farcical’, and criticised the DWP for its lack of transparency. Frances O’Grady, the TUC General Secretary, said the programme had ‘spectacularly underachieved’, having ‘failed those in greatest need, especially unemployed young and disabled people’ and Len McCluskey, Unite general secretary, called for the programme to be abandoned: ‘What will it take for this government to finally accept that their workfare programme simply does not work?’
‘Creaming and Parking’
The PAC said it shared the concerns of commentators that providers are concentrating on creaming off job placement bonuses from the easiest cases, and sidelining clients who require more time and investment, a process known as ‘creaming and parking’.
Richard Johnson criticised this approach in the Guardian last week, arguing that such cherry-picking by the ‘prime’ welfare-to-work providers is having a negative impact on their subcontractors – mainly charities and third sector organisations which are best equipped to help vulnerable people with more complex needs into work – and this has the knock-on effect of costing the state more in the long-run.
‘With every day of unemployment, your chances of getting stuck there increase, and other associated problems start to appear, such as poor mental and physical health. The 70% who are parked will go on to cost far more, in basic benefits as well as across a whole range of other public services.’
Such ‘creaming and parking’ seems to me to be an inevitable – albeit cynical – consequence of a payment-by-results model. As Johnson points out, those who won the most contracts in the DWP’s tendering process were those who offered to do it cheapest and so the only way they can deliver these contracts viably is by focusing on the ‘easier’ cases to meet their targets, leaving the more vulnerable unemployed by the wayside, with little hope of finding long-term employment.
A dangerous idiocy
The DWP has defended the payment-by-results structure of the Work Programme by asserting that it ‘offers the taxpayer real value for money’ as previous schemes had paid out ‘too much up front regardless of success.’ Toby Lowe, however, has dismissed this notion as ‘a dangerous idiocy’ and ‘a pernicious, damaging nonsense’: ‘If you pay (or otherwise manage performance) based on a set of pre-defined results, it creates poorer services for those most in need. It is the vulnerable, the marginalised, the disadvantaged who suffer most from payment by results.’
With such palpable inadequacies in this public services version of ‘no win no fee’, it is worrying that Grayling is planning on extending it into the realms of criminal justice in his new portfolio as Justice Secretary. As part of his planned ‘rehabilitation revolution’ Grayling wants to privatise the probation service, and underpin it by a ‘payment-by-results’ mechanism whereby private probation companies are paid bonuses for meeting reoffending targets.
I can’t imagine anything further from Cameron’s precious ‘big society’ notion. As with the Work programme, it is inevitable that only large private companies will be able to absorb the risks involved in bidding for the wholesale contracts proposed by Grayling for probation services. That is why it is the Sercos and A4Es of this world delivering the Work programme rather than even the largest charities involved in welfare to work, and why they will also take on the responsibility of rehabilitating offenders and protecting the public when Grayling’s plans are implemented.
Meanwhile, the most vulnerable groups in society will continue to suffer in the name of profit. It’s a great shame the coalition shows no indication of learning lessons from the Work programme.

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text: We built a home with Kennedy Homes in 2023, and we could not be more pleased with our experience. The upfront bidding process, their willingness to accommodate our custom details, and communication with our project manager was wonderful. We are very pleased with the quality of materials in our home, as well as the craftsmanship with a very reasonable build completion timeframe. Ryan and his crew were willing to answer questions, promptly give attention to any concerns we had, and served us well from start to finish. We have received many compliments on the style and finishes of our custom home by Kennedy Homes!

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Have you heard of Mr. Holme’s Bakehouse? They’re famous for their cruffins, a hybrid of croissants and muffins. People line up for it. While they’re good, I personally think it’s a little difficult to eat since it’s big and super flaky. lol. They do have amazing croissants too. Like this raspberry rose croissant. It’s sooo delicious. And isn’t it the prettiest croissant you’ve ever seen?
In this week’s finds…
How delicious does this banana cake with cinnamon buttercream look? It’d be perfect for dessert. Or for a early morning breakfast. Yes, I do eat desserts for breakfast. Lol.
This raspberry blueberry french flaugnarde looks soo delish and perfect for weekend brunch.
You know I love all sorts of noodles so this vegan yaki udon is sooo mouthwatering to me.
If you’re looking for a simple weeknight dinner, this lemon chicken piccatta and this pineapple fried rice and this thai basil turkey fried rice look so good. Or what about this shrimp spring roll bowl?
This orange scented challah french toast is perfect for weekend brunch.
I have a ridiculous obsession with all things ramen so this sesame garlic stir fry ramen sounds so amazing to me.
How delicious do these slutty brownies look?
Another instant pot recipe I want to try: tortellini with basil and parmesan.
This sauteed mushroom garlicky quinoa is perfect for garlic and mushroom lovers.
I can definitely go for this instant pot tapioca pudding for dessert.
Korean food is my favorite so this kimchi fried rice is definitely up my alley.
This prosciutto fennel and asparagus frittata looks perfect for spring.
I love how this chai spice pound cake sounds soo warm and comforting.

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Yandex.Weather Mod 11.0 Apk – Yandex Android weather forecasting application,
the original and complete version of the program, presented to you, the regular companions of Farsroid
One of the natural factors that has a direct impact on the lives of all human beings around the world is the weather. At the moment you are reading the description of this startup, it may be snowing in one part of the world, or the temperature may be as high as in the west of the country! These effects have led many people to anticipate predictions before starting their activities. Apart from mass media such as television or radio, one of the best ways to find out about weather conditions is to use Android startups, which Farsroid website has introduced several types so far. Yandex.WeatherThe title of the app is a precise weather forecast developed by Yandex Apps and published on Google Play. As we mentioned in the title of the post, one of the main features of this software is the accuracy of the information provided by it, so that each time you can refer to important factors such as air temperature, wind speed, point Access to dew, UV and.. Gathering information from the most accurate forecasting centers in the world has provided the conditions for the user to be able to view smart predictions for the next ten days! It doesn’t matter where you live on the planet, because just by turning on the GPS, the software will find your location and provide information. If you take the time to run the program on a daily basis, it’s best not to forget to use widgets and place them on the main screen of your smart device.
Some features and capabilities of Yandex.Weather Android app:
- Access to climate data collection at any time such as temperature, dew point, wind speed and direction, etc.
- Provide accurate hourly forecasts
- Possibility to observe weather conditions for the next ten days
- Gather information from the most accurate weather forecasting centers
- Smart home widgets
- Support from different parts of the world
- Ability to view information from several cities simultaneously

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Welcome to my Twelve Books for Christmas blog. Over these first twelve days of December I'll be introducing you to twelve romance books to warm your heart and make you feel all Christmassy. :) They'll all make wonderful presents for a friend, or you could even treat yourself.
My Christmas book today is Christmas Kisses, a sweet collection of love stories by Alison May. Alison is a romance novelist, creative writing tutor and a member of the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Three girls, three kisses, three gorgeous Christmas stories.
Holly hates Christmas with a passion and can't wait to escape it - but then the flight to her once-in-a-lifetime holiday destination is cancelled.
Cora has had the year from hell, and faces a bleak Christmas working in Golding's department store - in the most unflattering reindeer costume imaginable.
Jessica is in denial after her husband's betrayal, and can't help but think back to when her life still seemed so full of hope and promise ...Three years from hell, three sets of broken dreams, three girls in desperate need of Christmas spirit.
Is the perfect Christmas kiss all it takes?
Includes Holly's Christmas Kiss, Cora's Christmas Kiss and Jessica's Christmas Kiss.
Alison is a novelist, short story writer, blogger and creative writing tutor who grew up in North Yorkshire, and now lives in Worcester. She worked as a waitress, a shop assistant, a learning adviser, an advice centre manager, a freelance trainer, and now a maker-upper of stories.
She won the RNA’s Elizabeth Goudge trophy in 2012, and her short stories have been published by Harlequin, Choc Lit and Black Pear Press. Her romantic comedies, Sweet Nothing, Midsummer Dreams, and the Christmas Kisses series are published by Choc Lit. Alison has been shortlisted in the Love Stories and RoNA Awards.
I asked Alison to tell us a bit about her family's festive traditions.
Do you have any favourite family Christmas traditions? If so, what are they?
That’s tricky, because I don’t think of my family as having a lot of set traditions, and then if I spend Christmas somewhere else I realise that we must have loads, because I’m absolutely certain that other families do it wrong! A couple of things I knew growing up were different from my friends – no TV on Christmas day, and so much more food that you would think it was possible to each. The first year that my husband spent Christmas at my parents’ house he couldn’t believe the way the food just kept come. Turkey and all the trimmings obviously, and then Christmas pudding (or fruit pie, or ice cream), and then cheese and savoury biscuits, and then chocolate biscuits and mints. And then you might just about have time to do the washing up before you get offered a mince pie to tide you over until teatime. So yeah… that’s a lot of food!
When do you open your Christmas presents?
For preference as early as possible on Christmas Day, but you can’t start opening presents until everyone is up, which makes me very frustrated when we stay with my husband’s family and his brother tries to have a lie-in, when I’m sitting in the lounge with all my presents gathered on the floor around me waiting to get started.
Ooh, I don't think I'd be able to wait, Alison!
If you could invite any author living or dead to share your Christmas lunch, who would it be?
Well I’m not sure inviting a dead author would be particularly festive. They’d probably be all smelly and peeling, unless they were working a ‘Ghost of Christmas Past’ vibe in some way. That would be seasonal at least I suppose. Actually this question is too hard – I think inviting a random author who you’ve never met for Christmas dinner might just be a bit odd, and choosing between the authors I know in real-life seems unfair, so maybe it’s better to just let the authors spend Christmas in their own homes where it’s safe and I’m not there demanding that they dress like festive-themed literary ghosts.
What book would you like to find in your Christmas stocking?
Oh, so many. There’s a couple of books that I’ve got in ebook from this year that I’d love to get a print copy of – Kate Johnson’s Max Seventeen for one. I’m reading Natasha Solomon’s The Novel in the Viola at the moment, and there’s a couple of others by her that I haven’t read yet so I’d love either of those. She’s an awesome writer. What I’d love most of all though would be something by a brilliant author I’ve never come across before and who has a massive back catalogue I can go on to lose myself in. I’m open to suggestions!
What is the most unusual Christmas present you’ve ever had/given?
I always struggle to remember presents I’ve received – which just goes to show that the presents are really not the most important bit of Christmas. I generally remember what I’ve given better, simply because Christmas shopping is a whole big thing for my sister and me. We’ve been Christmas shopping together since we were children, and what started as half an hour with a pound from my mum to get something for our grandparents is now a whole five day shopping extravaganza. We had a shared phase of always buying our aunt comedy kitchenware – Flintstones salt and pepper shakers, a spaceman jelly mould, that sort of thing. I don’t think we had any reason to believe that she particularly wanted comedy kitchenware, but we just kept buying her it.
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If the Conservatives MPs and members don’t choose Penny Mordaunt this time then they will deserve to lose the next election.
The public are not fools. They understand ambition and ideology. They engage with politics at a peripheral level, having to get on with the business of their own lives, but are perceptive enough to suss out what’s going on.
The public are not that interested in policy. They just want our politicians to look the part (yes, a lot of it is about image unfortunately) to do sensible things, represent our country well, and make our lives a bit easier.
The problem is that the Conservative MPs are increasingly taking members of the public for fools. The MPs think they know best. But if they actually stopped for a minute, stepped outside their bubble, and thought for a nanosecond about which person would be most likely to win the next election for the Conservatives, then they would come to the conclusion that most of the public would come to – Penny Mordaunt.
The public know that Boris didn’t put the country first when he got his backers to support Liz Truss a few weeks ago. Boris knew her abilities. Knew she would crash and burn, and his plan is working out for him.
But the public can see this. Just as much as they can see that Boris Johnson wanted to block Rishi Sunak from getting the top job.
And the public can see that if Rishi Sunak did become Prime Minister, it would simply be a battle, right up to the next election, between the Sunak supporting MPs, and the Johnson supporting MPs. And the public will turn off, and vote Labour.
The public would like Ben Wallace, too. But he’s not going to run. So that just leaves Penny Mordaunt.
She is someone the public can identify with. They don’t know much about her policies, but they’re not that interested. In the same way they’re not that interested in Sunak’s policies either. They just want things to improve in their own lives.
They can see Penny Mordaunt as one of them. Rishi Sunak, with his upper-class accent, billions in the bank, and excruciating (oft to be replayed if he becomes PM) interview where he had no working class friends, will turn them off.
The public may not be too keen on Kier Starmer. But they will choose him over both Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak.
But Keir Starmer versus Penny Mordaunt? We don’t think the MPs and commentators are right when they say that whoever the Conservative party choose they will lose the next election. It doesn’t work like that.
When the public go to the polls, whenever it is, they will think about who the leaders are. And why? Because that is exactly what they’ve done for pretty much every election over the past four decades.
They liked John Major. Nice chap, could be the bloke next door.
They liked Tony Blair. The sort of fella you could get on with and represent the country well.
They didn’t much like Gordon Brown. Too broody. Not really someone you’d go to dinner with. All that policy talk!
They liked David Cameron. Decent bloke, nice family, seems to be one of us.
They weren’t much keen on Theresa May. Bit awkward. Made us feel a bit uncomfortable watching her. You’ll happily have her as your neighbour, but you’ll probably build your fence a foot higher so you didn’t have to do much talking when you went to mow the lawn.
They liked Boris Johnson. But only in a fashion that he was the funny cousin who you would go and visit, have a laugh at his antics, but be quite relieved you weren’t living with him.
The public have had their fill of Boris Johnson. It’s not really about Partygate or Pincher or Patterson with him. It’s just that they’ve had their fun with him, and that’s enough, thank you very much.
When the Johnson supporters say he is the only one that can win the Conservatives the next election, they conveniently don’t tell us that the 2019 election was won on Brexit, which is why the red wall seats in the north voted for Johnson (and the fact that Jeremy Corbyn was never going to appeal to anybody much).
Brexit is over and done with. People are forgetting about it. This isn’t 2019.
And the final question is, who would the opposition parties least like to see as their opponent? They won’t say it, but it isn’t rocket science to work out that Penny Mordaunt would be the one they don’t want to win.
So the public want Penny Mordaunt. It is almost certainly only with her that the Conservatives might still have a chance of winning the next election. The opposition parties wouldn’t want Penny Mordaunt. So isn’t it obvious?
Not really. Because the recent history of who the Conservative MP’s choose tells us that they simply can no longer reach out past their bubble, talk to people who disagree with them, and find out who the public would really want to be the next Prime Minister.
And if they don’t choose Penny Mordaunt, not only will the Conservatives lose the next election, they will deserve to have lost it.Back to Blog


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Richard Simmons, the fitness guru of the 80’s and 90’s who has been fairly reclusive in recent years, is suing the National Enquirer and Radar Online for defamation because they said he is a transgender woman.
Simmons’s lawyer is quick to point out that, even though he’s suing someone for calling him transgender, he has no problem with trans people.
“The cruel and malicious publication of these stories is particularly offensive because Mr. Simmons fully supports individual autonomy and the essential human dignity of every person to make his or her own personal choices regarding sexual identity,” the lawsuit asserts. “Mr. Simmons has been an avid support of the LGBTQ community for his entire life.”
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He says that his lawsuit is about “a legal right to insist that he not be portrayed as someone he is not.”
Well, that’s not true. In order to sue, you have to be able to show damages. Defamation is no different. The legal definition of defamation requires that the victim’s reputation be hurt.
There is a history of suing for being labeled as part of an unpopular minority, and these suits send a clear message.
In 1844, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled in favor of a white plaintiff who sued because someone said he was part black. While it is easy to show that there were material consequences if a white person was known to have “one drop” of African blood, the problem was the institutionalized racism, not that a white person might have gotten treated the way that black people were treated.
In 1900, the Louisiana Times-Democrat was sued for accidentally transcribing “cultured man” as “colored man,” which then got turned to “negro” by an editor. The judge understood that it was an error, but still ruled that it was “enough to arouse the most profound indignation of the most patient man.”
Well, assuming that the “most patient man” is white and racist.
Tom Cruise’s lawsuit that resulted in millions in damages because he was accused of being gay in 2003 was just wrong because there is nothing wrong with being gay.
But in 2009 Howard K. Stern, lawyer and reality TV star, saw his gay defamation lawsuit rejected. The judge cited the fact that sodomy laws were overturned by the Supreme Court as evidence that there is no “widespread view of gays and lesbians as contemptible and disgraceful.”
Simmons’s suit says that he lost business and personal contacts because of the stories. While this points to actual damages, “It sucks that I’m on the receiving end of transphobia” is not a convincing reason to sue for defamation.
The problem is transphobia, not being seen as transgender. If someone loses a business deal because they are transgender and the other person is transphobic, then blame transphobia. If this is a reason to sue anyone, then it’s a reason to sue the people who refused to do business with Simmons, not the Enquirer and Radar.
Because where do transgender people go when they lose business because of transphobia? Not every state bans employment discrimination based on gender identity, and even in a state that does it’s just not possible to sue people for not buying your exercise video because they hate trans people.
At best, the message of this suit is “transphobia sucks when it’s directed at a cisgender person,” implying that transphobia is acceptable when directed at trans people.
At worst, the message is that there is something wrong with being transgender. Putting a little “I’m not transphobic, but…” disclaimer in the suit does not erase this message.


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Milwaukeeans will have to wait a little bit longer to experience three hand-crafted ice bars in the Third Ward.
The Third Ward's Toast to Winter event was scheduled to open Friday, but organizers announced that the event has been postponed to next due to this surprisingly milder temperatures.
The ice is set to be delivered and sculpted the morning of Jan. 24 at 6 a.m.
Guinness World Record holder and master carver Max Zuleta of Art Below Zero will carve over seven tons of ice outside The Wicked Hop, creating the "Wisco Inferno" ice bar.
Other ice bar locations will be at St. Paul Fish Company and Cafe Benelux.
Each bar is setting aside portions of the proceeds from the event to go towards charities such as the ALS Association, the Wisconsin Humane Society, the Fisher House Foundation and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee.
The Third Ward's Toast to Winter event will run from Jan. 24 through Feb. 18. The Wisco Inferno bar at The Wicked Hop will follow the restaurant's regular hours opening at 5 p.m.


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Bell’s Super Bowl Ad Rates of Nearly $200K for 30 Seconds Return, on Hopes of CRTC Reversal
Bell plans to charge prices for Super Bowl ads on the assumption simsub will return for 2018, which if it does, would allow the company to swap Canadian ads over U.S. television feeds in Canada, reports The Globe and Mail:
The ad sales strategy is the same one that Bell pursued last year. At the time, it had already taken its fight to the Federal Court of Appeal, and also asked for a stay of the simsub change – selling ads on the assumption the stay would come through. That did not happen, though the court granted Bell leave to appeal in November, 2016. The issue is still before the courts. Earlier this month, Bell filed an application asking the CRTC to overturn its ruling.
The report says Bell last year reduced its ad pricing by 35 per cent, when it was unable to overturn the CRTC’s simsub ruling, and if history repeats itself, it will revise pricing similarly again this year. The company claimed the simsub ban has cost the Canadian economy $158 million, based on research from Communic@tions Management.
“The pricing was revised, which obviously contributes to delivering less revenue. And we also sold less inventory because of it,” said Perry MacDonald, senior vice-president of English television and local sales for Bell Media.
McDonald added “Advertisers are being very supportive of our position,” saying the company will again make adjustments to ensure any lost views for ads are made up for.
“These are long-valued relationships that we have with advertisers and their agencies. We’re going to ensure that they get what they paid for,” explained McDonald.
According to unnamed sources speaking to The Globe, Bell has been able to charge $150,000 to $190,000 per 30-second ad during the Super Bowl, with prices rising as the finale draws near.
Bell said its Super Bowl ratings plunged 39% due to the CRTC ruling on simsub, with the game this past February seeing an average audience of 4.47 million, versus 7.32 million in 2016.


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One of the worst aspects of the old Manchester Arndale was that it was a beast with three backs. The largest covered shopping centre in Europe when it opened, the Arndale only welcomed visitors via Market Street, which became the UK’s second busiest shopping street (after London’s Oxford Street) by footfall. High Street, Corporation Street and particulary Withy Grove died.
This is about to change. When the IRA bombed it, Corporation Street was home to a crappy pub. Now it’s been partly absorbed by Exchange Square and is home to that huge Next, Nike and Top Shop.
Here’s a view of a new entrance to the Arndale opposite Withy Grove Stores. The older building’s been terribly neglected. That signage must pre-date the Arndale. It looks derelict, but does house what looks like a never open stationers. It’ll be interesting to see what happens here once Withy Grove’s exposed to the masses.
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BIG RAPIDS \u2014 Big Rapids Department of Public Safety officers responded to the following calls on Tuesday and Wednesday. All calls might not be reported. Tuesday A vehicle driven by a 21-year-old Big Rapids woman was rear-ended by a vehicle driven by a 21-year-old Orleans woman at 8:11 a.m. near the intersection of Morrison Avenue and Division Street. The Orleans woman was cited for failing to stop within an assured, clear distance. A woman reported an animal cruelty complaint at 10:01 a.m. on the 1000 block of South State Street. She told police she witnessed a man punching the dog. An officer identified the suspect as a 48-year-old White Cloud man. The man\u2019s dogs appeared to be in good health; however, the complainant advised she was willing to testify to what she observed. A warrant will be forwarded for review. Police received a harassment complaint at 7:38 p.m. on the 800 block of Rose Avenue. Police received a noise complaint at 8:33 p.m. on the 400 block of Woodward Avenue. Wednesday A personal property damage accident occurred at 2:11 a.m. on the 800 block of Tioga Park. Additional details were not released. Police received a report of an intoxicated person at 2:44 a.m. on the 600 block of Oak Street. They located the person and called a taxi to transport them home.


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Robo tripping is one of the street names for cough medicine abuse, a growing form of drug abuse. Sometimes referred to as “robo-tripping”, cough medicine abuse has increased dramatically in recent years. Whether in syrup form or tablet form, teenagers and children often consume huge and potentially lethal doses of cough medicine in their quest to get high from Dextromethorphan, which is an active ingredient capable of offering relief from coughs.
According to a recent study by the National Institute of Drug Abuse involving over 48,000 students, out of the ten most common drugs being abused by those in 12th grade, at least seven are either available over the counter or else they are prescribed. Hardly surprising perhaps, but cough medicine ranks relatively high.
Astonishingly enough, kids frequently take up to fifty times the recommended dose when robo-tripping in order to get the desired results. These results include going into a trance like state, hallucinating or “tripping”. However, it comes as little surprise that in some circumstances, such a significant dose can prove to be fatal.
Understanding the Effects & Risks
Contrary to what some may believe, cough medicine abuse is without a doubt just as dangerous as any illegal drugs. Because of the very nature of DXM (Dextromethorphan), the effects vary depending on the dosage taken and most abusers compare the effects to different plateaus. While some teenagers describe it as a very mild stimulant, others may experience hallucinations or even total dissociation from the body. In fact, because DXM’s only produce effects when such huge doses are taken, The line is thin between attaining a trance or zoning out and losing consciousness.
Because of the way in which the drug effects one’s visual perception and cognitive processes, coupled with the fact that these effects can last for up to six hours, abusers are at risk of causing injury to themselves and others while under the influence. Judgment and impulse control may be affected.
Essentially, large doses of DXM can produce alarming effects such as the inability to move one’s arms or legs, or even the inability to talk. In fact, such high doses may also result in slow breathing, cerebral hemorrhages, brain damage, stroke, or even death. Furthermore, if the drug is abused when one is over exerting oneself, such as in nightclubs or raves, or if it’s abused in an exceptionally warm environment, the abuser is at risk of hypothermia.
In addition to the serious risks already mentioned above, DXM abuse can also result in nausea, irregular heartbeat, increased blood pressure, head pains, abdominal pain, loss of feeling in fingers and toes, unconsciousness, seizures and death.
There are literally thousands of overdose cases reported by the emergency services across the country and according to the authorities, there seems to be a tendency for DXM overdoses to occur in clusters as word regarding the drug spreads through different schools within a community.
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They say that prevention is better than cure, and this is particularly true when it comes to substance abuse. Whether or not you suspect abuse, all responsible parents should discuss the matter with their kids. Highlighting the dangers of cough medicines and other over the counter drugs at an early stage may well result in you preventing such a scenario from developing. Likewise, if you do have reason to suspect your child is involved, you need to confront them immediately and make your concerns known. Depending on the circumstances, it may also be advisable to involve a counselor or even the family doctor.


The Russian representative at the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) reported that the Russian officers at the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination (JCCC) prevented two attacks at the Donetsk airport on Tuesday, which the Ukrainian representatives confirmed.
No details were given by the OSCE report on the circumstances of the attacks or their perpetrators. The observers noted that the situation around the airport was otherwise calm, with reduced shooting and explosions heard. The Donetsk airport was the scene of heavy fighting in 2014, with self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic eventually taking over the all-but-destroyed facility.
"The Russian Federation Lieutenant-General highlighted that two possible attacks had been stopped on 15 June around the area of Donetsk airport, due to early intervention by the Russian Federation JCCC representatives. The Ukrainian Major-General, Head of the Ukrainian side to the JCCC, confirmed that the former reacted promptly to their request for action," the OSCE release said.
The report added that the SMM was prevented by Ukrainian forces from accessing a government-held town near Lugansk and a facility where anti-tank missiles which were supposed to be withdrawn according to the Minsk agreements were held. The SMM group was also held up for ten minutes before accessing a DPR facility while guards communicated with their superiors on the phone.


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BATON ROUGE (AP) — When the new term for Louisiana’s governor and lawmakers begins in January, state government will be more sharply split than at any other time in recent history, raising question
Demon rum was much on the minds of the people of at least part of south Louisiana a century ago, if newspapers reports are any indication.
Some folks are still sitting around trying to figure out how Gov. John Bel Edwards won a second term and shut down a challenge from Baton Rouge businessman Eddie Rispone.
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Bill Cosby could be sent to prison next week for drugging and molesting a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004 in what became the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era.
Cosby is due in court Monday for a two-day sentencing hearing that follows his conviction in the spring on three felony counts of aggravated indecent assault.
The judge's options are broad, because the state guideline range of about one to four years spans the gamut from a prison term to a jail stint to house arrest or probation. The maximum term is 10 years per count.
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Reefer Madness has gripped Wall Street.
Investors are craving marijuana stocks as Canada prepares to legalize pot next month, leading to giant gains for Canada-based companies listed on U.S. exchanges. Some experts are concerned that the ending will be a buzzkill.
Billions of dollars have poured into the stocks in the last few months, and investors smell green (money, not leaves) in the air as they consider the opportunities these companies might have as the marijuana market in Canada grows, along with the possibility that the U.S. and other countries could follow suit.
The value of one company, British Columbia-based Tilray, has jumped tenfold since its initial public offering just two months ago.
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The widow of a police officer who was shot and killed in the line of duty screamed profanities at her husband's accused killer as he was led out of court following his arraignment Thursday.
Emanuel Lopes, 20, was ordered held without bail after pleading not guilty to multiple charges in the July shooting deaths of Weymouth Sgt. Michael Chesna and 77-year-old Vera Adams during a hearing in Norfolk Superior Court in Massachusetts.
More American voters now oppose Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination than support it after he was accused of committing sexual assault while he was in high school, with opposition increasing 9 points since last month, according to a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
Kavanaugh has categorically denied the accusation, which delayed his scheduled confirmation vote before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and which has roiled American politics less than seven weeks before the 2018 midterm elections.
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Disabled and elderly people were discharged from overwhelmed hospitals with bedsores that led to fatal infections. Medical oxygen ran out. People caught lung infections in sweltering private nursing homes and state facilities. Kidney patients got abbreviated treatments from dialysis centers that lacked generator fuel and fresh water, despite pleas for federal and local officials to treat them as a higher priority, according to patient advocates.
There was Ernesto Curiel, a diabetic who died of a heart attack after weeks of walking 10 flights twice a day to fetch insulin from his building's only working refrigerator. Alejandro González Vázquez, 47 — unable to obtain his anti-psychotic medication, he committed suicide instead of boarding his flight back to the U.S. mainland. Juana Castro Rivera, 52, dead of leptospirosis, a disease transmitted by contaminated water. After several visits to a community clinic, she was diagnosed — too late — by a hospital in a neighboring municipality.
The joint project interviewed 204 families of the dead and reviewed accounts of 283 more to tell the stories of heretofore anonymous victims. Dozens more have contacted the Quartz, CPI and AP since their results were first reported.
The woman who killed three people and wounded others before shooting herself to death at a Maryland drugstore warehouse had been diagnosed with a mental illness and used a legally purchased gun in the rampage, a law enforcement official said Friday.
Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler told news reporters Friday that the suspect, 26-year-old Snochia Moseley of Baltimore County, had been diagnosed with a mental illness in 2016. "That's as far as I'll go with it," he said, declining to give any more details about the illness.
He said Moseley had become increasingly agitated in recent weeks, and relatives had been concerned for her well-being.
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Much of the political world is consumed with a battle over a Supreme Court nominee, an expanding international trade war and President Donald Trump's social media posts. Yet in Minnesota, the first votes of the 2018 midterm elections are being cast.
Voting machines are set up inside city buildings. A series of get-out-the-vote rallies is scheduled. And each party is spending millions of dollars to push its supporters to the polls.
While Election Day 2018 is technically Nov. 6, Minnesota law allows in-person voting to begin Friday — a full 46 days early — making it the first battleground state to begin casting actual votes in the broader fight for control of Congress.
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A man who allegedly had his small child climb into a game machine and steal various items at a New Hampshire mall turned himself in to authorities Wednesday.
Salem police identified the man as 34-year-old Anthony Helinski of Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Helinski is a teacher at Doherty Middle School in Andover. Parents there can't believe he was the man seen in a video prompting a toddler to steal prizes from a KeyMaster game inside the Mall at Rockingham Park around 7 p.m. Friday.
Police had received several tips after releasing the video of the incident last week.
Hundreds of solemn people watched Friday as body after body was pulled from a capsized ferry that Tanzanian authorities said was badly overcrowded and upended in the final stretch before reaching shore. The death toll was above 130 but horrified witnesses feared that would rise as a second day of searching neared an end.
"This is a great disaster for our nation," President John Magufuli said. He announced four days of national mourning and urged calm in the East African country with a history of deadly maritime disasters. And he ordered arrests of all responsible as a criminal investigation began.
In a televised address, the president said the ferry captain already had been detained after leaving the steering to someone who wasn't properly trained, The Citizen newspaper reported.
An employee at a Rite Aid warehouse opened fire at work Thursday, killing three people before taking her own life, authorities said. Several other people were wounded.
The suspect was a 26-year-old temporary employee at the Rite Aid distribution center in northeastern Maryland, Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler told a news conference. She had been taken into custody in critical condition that morning.
It appears only one weapon, a handgun, was used and no shots were fired by responding law enforcement officers, Gahler said. The shooter used a 9 mm Glock that was registered in her name, he said. He said authorities don't know her motive.
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Christine Blasey Ford may testify against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh after all, her attorney said Thursday, breathing new life into the prospect of a dramatic Senate showdown next week over Ford's accusation that he assaulted her when both were in high school.
The preference would be for Ford to testify next Thursday, and she doesn't want Kavanaugh in the same room, her attorney told Judiciary Committee staff in a 30-minute call that also touched on security concerns and others issues, according to a Senate aide who wasn't authorized to discuss the matter and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Ford is willing to tell her story to the Judiciary Committee, whose senators will vote on Kavanaugh's confirmation — but only if agreement can be reached on "terms that are fair and which ensure her safety," the attorney said in an email earlier Thursday.
Hurricane Florence is still wearing out the Carolinas, where residents have endured an agonizing week of violent winds, torrential rain, widespread flooding, power outages and death.
Frustration and sheer exhaustion are building as thousands of people wait to go home seven days after the storm began battering the coast. Roads to Wilmington, which has been cut off sporadically by Florence, are opening and closing as floodwater rushes to the coast.
Florence is blamed for at least 37 deaths, including those of two women who drowned when a sheriff's van taking them to a mental health facility was swept off a road.
President Donald Trump on several occasions has taken credit for making Medicare “stronger.” In one instance, he said, “Medicare will be $700 billion stronger over the next decade thanks to our growth.”
In fact, Medicare’s finances have worsened since he took office, and economic growth is not expected to help the program as much as he claims
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President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer claimed Thursday he is providing "critical information" as part special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election and possible coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign.
Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty to campaign finance and other charges last month, said he is providing the information to prosecutors without a cooperation agreement.
Trump's longtime fixer-turned-foe could be a vital witness for prosecutors as they investigate whether Trump's campaign coordinated with Russians. For more than a decade, Cohen was Trump's personal lawyer, and he was a key power player in the Trump Organization and a fixture in Trump's political life.
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LAIE, Hawaii (Feb. 17, 2014) - The BYU-Hawaii men's golf team will play in another tri-match against Hawaii Pacific and Chaminade on Tuesday at the Hawaii Prince Golf Course in Ewa Beach.
The match was originally scheduled for the Koolau Golf Club but moved due to wet conditions.
The Seasiders are coming off a win at Turtle Bay with a team score of 308 to beat HPU and Chaminade last week.
This is just the second match for BYU-Hawaii in 2014 after so much rain on the island forced the cancellation of two earlier events.
Visit BYUHawaiiSports.com for complete results following the match.


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CINCINNATI – Titans wide receivers caught eight of quarterback Jake Locker's 17 completions against the Bengals – for only 81 yards.
In the last two games, wideouts have 15 receptions for an average gain of 10.9 yards. Meanwhile, tight end Delanie Walker has 14 catches for a 13.8 average.
"We're shooting ourselves in the foot a lot right now," wide receiver Kendall Wright said. "We all need to take a look in the mirror."
Asked about the confidence level of those in the passing game, veteran Nate Washington said: "It's very low right now."
Washington did not have a catch against the Bengals, who beat the Titans 33-7.
Snap decision: During a terrible first-half performance on offense, the Titans even had trouble completing the center-quarterback exchange.
After the two-minute warning before halftime, Locker, who was lined up in the shotgun, was gesturing to his receivers and calling an audible when center Brian Schwenke delivered the snap.
The ball glanced off the torso of the surprised Locker, but the Titans recovered.
"We were in second down and our center snaps the ball," coach Ken Whisenhunt said. "That's not Jake's fault."
The drive fizzled when the Titans failed to convert a third-and-12.
Thompson injured: Tight end Taylor Thompson suffered a knee injury but the extent was unknown, Whisenhunt said.
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This is another outstanding dog who reflects positively on both parents and their strong pedigrees. He won at Class in Show level up to Junior - when he was titled, then placed out in the best pet home, where he has thrived being one of 2 pet house dogs instead of living in our kennel situation. We have Biggles to stay every summer when his family goes away on holidays and it is great to have him back in the house. He easily gaited to his Endurance Test title in 2007.
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This is the last week to see the koalas and of the creatures down under as well as the birds of prey exhibit at The Stone Zoo.
The Stone Zoo is the only zoo in the North East where visitors can see koalas this summer in their large cage filled with colorful budgies (parakeets). Visitors can purchase a seed stick so visitors can feed the budgies.
The Masters of Flight offers visitors an up-close view of birds of prey from all over the world, including bald eagles, king vultures, Eurasian eagle owls and black vultures. These magnificent birds are on display until Labor Day. There are three shows a day at 11 a.m., 1 p.m., and 3 p.m. until September 2.
Admission to the Stone Zoo is $14.00 for adults; $12.00 for seniors; $10.00 for children (ages 2-12); children under 2 are free. Zoo hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekends.

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In the classic Brothers Grimm account of Tiny Red Riding Hood the prevailing moral seems to be, as Little Red Cap puts it at the finish of the story, “Never once more will you stray from the path and go into the woods, when your mother has forbidden it (Brothers Grimm 16.)” Even though easy, this conclusion entails that girls have been not to consider for themselves, as it would surely get them into problems this is a lesson that Small Red Cap nearly learns the tough way. This sugarcoated version of the fable is not as bold or risqu? as other interpretations where the young protagonist is ravished by the wolf or is even killed in some circumstances, as the authors let each the guiltless heroine and her grandmother to survive and live happily ever soon after. Alternatively of an empowering statement about the advancement of women, this account serves to illustrate far more than anything the helplessness of females, and their reliance on guys to bail them out. It is not until Small Red Cap is caged inside the ribs of the happy and snoring wolf, (and assumed dead as the outcome of her own unadvised gullibility,) that she is saved by a brave and attentive neighboring huntsman, who cuts the wolf open and redeems her from the pits of her captor’s stomach. In his evaluation on “The Meaning and Significance of Fairy Tales,” Bruno Bettelheim concludes that the caesarean operation and liberation of Small Red Cap by the huntsman symbolizes rebirth, by stating that the central theme “is that of a rebirth to a greater plane (Bettelheim 179.)” Just as Jonah’s remain in the belly of a whale was God’s way of teaching him a lesson and enlightening him, Red Cap emerges a far more careful and knowing being following she is released from the stomach of the wolf. This marks the transformation of Red Cap from na?ve and dangerously curious to circumspect and submissive. The Grimm Brothers’ adaptation shows that girls at the time were not to be independent, as it was a certain means to an end. The theme of rebirth suggests that despite the fact that it might take a harsh lesson, ladies will eventually come to the understanding that they are dependent on other individuals, typically men. This rendering of the children’s fable serves as a lot more of a cautionary tale for females than anything else. Soon after all, the huntsmen will not always be around to save the day.
“The Business of Wolves” has an completely different intention than its predecessors, expressly the Brothers Grimm account. Whereas in the Grimms’ version Little Red Cap is saved by a huntsman, therefore sugarcoating the dangerous reality that sexual predators pose, Carter’s tale is brutal, as the heroine is forced to use her female sexuality in order to evade death. The world Carter creates is actual. There is no huntsman and no noble gentleman to pull Red Riding Hood out of the mess she is in. It is now up to her to spare herself, use her wit, and ultimately sacrifice her dignity and grow to be 1 of the “wolves.” In her modern interpretation of the fairy tale, Carter reassesses women’s self-understanding. Presently women are conscious of the power of eroticism rather than crying out for assistance, Small Red Riding Hood is her own savior. In truth, Carter’s heroine, who begins off the story as a pure and seemingly untouchable virgin of a kid, knows how to use her sexual allure to her advantage far better than most. As she watches the wolf’s “jaw commence to slaver” and “the space fill with the clamour of the forest’s Liebestod”, she laughs in the face of death and bravely thinks “I am nobody’s meat (Carter 118.)” Carter’s ending leaves no question that a woman’s awareness of the influence of seductiveness is an empowering understanding, as it enables Little Red Riding Hood to rescue herself. Nonetheless, it also offers a sad reality. At times ladies are forced to minimize themselves in order to elevate in society and a partial loss of dignity have to be sacrificed. Carter acknowledges this female energy and the excellent deal of responsibility that accompanies it. The principal difference amongst modern day Carter’s version of Tiny Red Riding Hood and the earlier Brothers Grimm version is that presently girls are not feeble and guarded, rather they have developed an understanding of the weakness that their libido precipitates in most guys, specifically in rapists and sexual predators. This realization has allowed some ladies to elevate themselves and avoid trouble, as is the theme of “The Business of Wolves.” It is not possible for the werewolf, who symbolizes sexual predators, to turn down consensual relations with a girl who “stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity…an unbroken egg…a sealed vessel…[who] has inside of her a magic space the entrance to which is shut tight with a plug of membrane.”
This is why the heroine laughs at the prospect of death she is completely aware that she serves a a lot more helpful purpose to the wolf alive and willing to meet his sexual demands than if she is raped and eaten. Unlike her helpless grandmother whose “old bones set up a terrible clattering beneath the bed (Carter 118,)” due to the fact she presented no prospective sexual pleasure to the wolf, the red-cowled vestal maiden is spared by the carnivorous beast. In the end Tiny Red Riding Hood’s fearlessness proves valid as she sleeps “between the paws of the tender wolf,” who like numerous rapists, makes her life less unpleasant for deciding on consent over struggle. The moral of Carter’s interpretation, then, is that woman’s sexuality is one of their most strong tools, and if used wisely can support to level the societal playing field among males and girls, or get them out of dire straits. But, females need to hold onto this distinctive influence meticulously and use it wisely because it is so closely tied to their self-worth and self-respect.
As occasions have changed the Little Red Riding Hood saga has evolved. Though in both the Carter and Grimm accounts the young girl does not modify in terms of curiosity – as she lets her guard down when she encounters the wolf on her way to grandmothers property – the true alter is revealed when she meets the wolf for the second time. Exactly where in the Brothers Grimm account Small Red Cap is feeble and yielding she is now cunning and seductive. This adjust is borne of a new understanding of the energy of sexuality, and the irresistibility that accompanies it. By altering the moral and theme of the classic fairy tale Carter is commenting on the advancement of girls and the principle that they can now care for themselves.
“Little Red Cap” by Brothers Grimm pg. 16, from The Classic Fairy Tales, Ed. Maria Tatar. NY: Norton, 1999
“The Company of Wolves” by Angela Carter pg. 118, from The Bloody Chamber, NY: Penguin, 1979
Bettelheim, Bruno. The Utilizes of Enchantment: The Which means and Importance of Fairy Tales, New York: Vintage, 1977.
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