The media has come below harsh scrutiny for the way it has coated Covid-19, for good and typically for unfair causes. It’s completely true that overlaying a fast-moving pandemic in an age when science is being carried out at a file cadence and below an unrelenting highlight is a really tough job. However errors below duress are errors nonetheless, and the one means we get higher at this job is to be taught from them.
One recurring theme within the media missteps over the pandemic is a failure to assume by and convey uncertainty to readers. And one evident instance of what number of journalists and retailers failed the general public is in its protection of the so-called lab leak principle of Covid-19’s origins.
This turned freshly related once more lately when Self-importance Honest printed a reasonably gorgeous piece of reporting by Katherine Eban on the lengthy and ugly combat amongst scientists and officers over the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
It’s price remembering how preliminary studies of the lab leak principle had been met by the press when it first began trickling out within the earliest months of the pandemic. On the time, it was extensively agreed that China was possible concealing details about the origins of the pandemic, simply because it had initially downplayed the virus itself.
On the similar time, there was loads of nonsense floating round, like claims that Covid-19 was intently associated to HIV (it’s not) or that it was engineered by Invoice Gates (additionally a no). When Republican Sen. Tom Cotton speculated that Covid may have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) lab, many scientists condemned that as the identical conspiratorial nonsense, and lots of journalists echoed them.
That features me — I printed an article on February 6, 2020, warning that the coronavirus would possibly develop into an enormous deal. I’m happy with it total, however much less so concerning the half the place I referenced the “conspiracy principle” that the virus was from a Wuhan lab.
However lab origins weren’t a conspiracy principle — they had been a reputable scientific speculation, at a second once we knew little or no, for a way Covid-19 may have originated. The WIV was conducting analysis on SARS-like coronaviruses, and we later discovered that shortly earlier than the pandemic started they took offline an enormous database of viruses they’d studied.
As was well-known on the time, China’s authorities had a historical past of mendacity and overlaying up illness outbreaks, together with the unique SARS outbreak in 2002 and 2003, which was at all times going to make it very tough to resolve a scenario like this one.
Privately, Eban discovered, a number of scientists had been writing to one another that there could have been a lab origin for Covid-19. However publicly, they mentioned one thing totally different, shutting the door on the lab origins principle.
It’s not that they had been overlaying up clear-cut proof of a lab origin. As an alternative, there appeared to be a push to prematurely resolve the dialog — maybe out of a way that the general public couldn’t be trusted to deal with uncertainty.
Why we have to get higher at residing with uncertainty
This isn’t only a query of media or science criticism — it’s an enormous downside for our faltering efforts to arrange for the following pandemic.
The very fact is that we don’t have sufficient proof, a technique or one other, to show definitively whether or not Covid-19 originated in a lab or within the wild. And that’s okay. We must be comfy with speaking that uncertainty.
Covid origins are removed from the one story in the course of the pandemic the place there have been efforts to place ahead a “‘united entrance”’ or an look of scientists all agreeing, when the truth is the science was unsure and the scientists did disagree.
The attitudes which are missing right here — tolerance of uncertainty, a willingness to withhold reassuring however incomplete solutions, and braveness to confess previous errors — are attitudes that we’ll must undertake to do higher within the subsequent pandemic.
However the uncertainty problem goes the opposite means, too. All too typically, communicators appeared a bit too timid to place ahead provisional conclusions based mostly on the out there proof, typically ready for the definitive phrase from a really conservative and sclerotic CDC earlier than hitting “publish.”
In February 2021, individuals wished to know whether or not vaccines lowered the chances you’d go on Covid to a different particular person. There was some preliminary proof that they did. However because the proof wasn’t sure, and since they didn’t need vaccinated individuals to desert all warning, plenty of public well being communicators had been reluctant to say something concerning the subject.
I wrote an article on the rising proof that vaccines lowered transmission, a principle that turned out to be correct, although it was months earlier than the CDC got here to the identical conclusion.
Efforts to create a “united entrance” are supposed to scale back misinformation and confusion, however typically they find yourself inflicting it, as everybody waits to see what everybody else is saying. I’ve come to imagine it’s higher to immediately and publicly clarify what you imagine and why, whereas acknowledging disagreement the place related.
Reviving belief within the media
From the beginning of the pandemic, well being officers made questionable pronouncements at instances, typically amplified by the media. First, some officers informed us to fret extra concerning the flu. Then we had been informed to not purchase masks. The reversals on these and different questions could have contributed to declining belief in our public well being institution and the media.
As an alternative of attempting to current a united entrance, scientists ought to say that there’s disagreement, and clarify what particularly the disagreement is about. And as a substitute of attempting to current readers with “the reply” on massive questions just like the origins of Covid, journalists ought to get comfy saying that we have no idea for positive, sharing what proof now we have, and being okay with not understanding.
Consultants must also get extra comfy disagreeing with different consultants publicly after they disagree privately. One painful lesson has been that our public well being officers are solely human, and a recurring theme in Eban’s piece is that they typically had massive disparities between what they believed privately and what they mentioned publicly.
Primarily based on the discourse concerning the lab leak principle, it’s not clear we’ve discovered the teachings above. We have to adapt — shortly — if we need to do higher within the subsequent pandemic.
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Per Deadline, Idina Menzel is joining Adam Sandler, Eric Bogosian, Lakeith Stanfield and Judd Hirsch in the cast of the new movie Uncut Gems. Set in the Diamond district of New York City, Adam Sandler will star as a jewelry store owner with a gambling addiction who is juggling two relationships and escalating debts. Idina will play his wife.
The film, which will reportedly begin filming later this year, was written by Josh and Ben Safdies and their regular writing collaborator Ronald Bronstein. Producers are Scott Rudin and Eli Bush through Scott Rudin Productions and Elara Pictures’ Sebastian Bear-McClard and Oscar Boyson. Martin Scorsese & Emma Tillinger Koskoff are executive producers.
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I have been sitting on some exciting news. I am releasing a live album! It’s a double disc with lots of great art and a personal letter from me. Also a studio version of Bridge over Troubled Water recorded last summer on tour. Preorders tomorrow. Hope you like! #idinalivepic.twitter.com/rwAJTb15PI
Idina Menzel announced today that she will be releasing a live album, idina:live, on October 5! The album, which was recorded while she was on tour last Summer, also features a studio version of “Bridge Over Trouble Water”. You can pre-order the album beginning Friday. The tracklisting is as follows, per Amazon:
1. Queen of Swords (Live)
2. Small World (Live)
3. Seasons of Love (Live)
4. It’s Good to Be Back in Vegas! (Live)
5. Don’t Rain on My Parade (Live)
6. Cello & Keys (Live)
7. Everybody Knows (Live)
8. Cake / Black Dog (Live)
9. I’m Not That Girl (Live)
10. Perfect Story (Live)
11. Wind Beneath My Wings (Live)
12. Defying Gravity (Live)
13. I Do (Live)
14. Bridge Over Troubled Water (Live)
1. Rock Steady (Live)
2. Did I Sing at Your Mom’s Wedding? (Live)
3. No Day But Today (Live)
4. Dear Prudence / Do You Want to Build a Snowman? (Live)
5. Thank You to the Band (Live)
6. For Good (Live)
7. Let It Go (Live)
8. Every Time We Say Goodbye / I’ll Be Seeing You (Live)
As we all know, Idina is starring in a new Off-Broadway play, Skintight, this Summer. Of course, I had to make a special trip out to NYC to see her! I made the most of it and caught the show in the evening on Friday, July 13 and then again at the matinee on July 14. This was my first play, and I tried to avoid spoilers, so I wasn’t totally sure what to expect going into it. I’ve always liked to joke that I would go see Idina perform even if she were singing the phone book and unsurprisingly, now I know that I would find her just as compelling and engaging if she were reading it instead! I found Skintight very funny and thought-provoking. Idina’s performance is intense and layered, and the entire cast was amazing alongside her. If you have the chance to catch Skintight before it closes on August 26, I highly recommend it! You can get more information and buy tickets at RoundaboutTheatre.org.
Idina graciously let my sister & I visit with her after the show, so I put her to work signing Playbills for a few lucky fans and she was happy to oblige! All you have to do to enter is retweet the tweet above! Get a bonus entry by liking the tweet, as well. The winner must live in the US and follow @Idina_Here on Twitter (Idina does, so you should, too! :-P) I’ll randomly choose three winners on Monday, July 30.
Idina chatted with Kelly and Ryan about Skintight, Walker’s first sleepaway camp experience, and her wedding last year. Watch the interview above!
Idina also spoke with NY1 recently about Skintight, the perks of being a Disney Queen, her mentors, and her Tony win. Watch that NY1.com. Here’s a short part of the interview where she talks about her upcoming tour with Josh Groban:
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce announced today that Idina Menzel is part of the Walk of Fame Class of 2019! Idina will be recognized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the live theater/live performance category. The ceremony will be announced at a later date. Congratulations on this honor, Idina!

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Despite policies, ‘Working Class Joe’ wins the educated, wealthy
by Brendan Hartnett (class of ‘23)
The 2016 election revealed novel trends shaped by demographics that altered the electoral results significantly compared to past elections. Non-college educated whites voted overwhelmingly for Trump, while Clinton won the college-educated vote. In sharp contrast to previous elections when pro-business Republicans won the vote of wealthier Americans with their promise of tax cuts, Clinton won about 50% of the vote from those above the national median income. Clinton’s gains were offset by her underperformance with Hispanic voters, where Trump outperformed Romney’s 2012 campaign by 8-points. Hispanic voters break from the Democratic Party was particularly visible in Florida, where Trump won 35% of Hispanic voters and 54% of the Cuban vote.
Did the 2020 election produce a continuation of these trends, or did we see different patterns emerge? I examine the relationship between race, income, education and 2020 presidential vote choice. To do this, I employ data from the 2020 Cooperative Election Study (CES), a nationally representative survey of 61,000 American adults. I utilized questions that asked for whom respondents voted, their level of education, their race and their self-reported household income, applying weights to make the sample nationally representative.
Household income was a potentially important, yet relatively understudied factor in the 2020 election. The Trump presidency was, in many ways, good for the pocketbooks of wealthy voters. From deregulation of the economy to massive tax cuts, Trump’s policies were a boon to the wealthiest Americans.. Meanwhile, Biden and the Democrats campaigned on a promise of $2,000 stimulus checks and tax credits to the majority of American households making less than $200,000. If Americans voted solely based on their economic self-interest, lower-income voters would have every reason to choose Biden while high-income voters would likely prefer Trump.
A recent study in The Washington Post concluded that Trump’s victory came primarily from non-college educated whites of middle- and upper-household income levels. They argued that the traditional narrative that Trump’s supporters are primarily working-class whites, though they agree that his supporters had lower-levels of education and were whiter than Clinton and Biden voters. While this study examined levels of household income and education among Trump supporters, I analyze these features, along with race, relative to the two party vote, seeking to examine demographics relative to vote choice in the 2020 Presidential Election.
Household Income, Race and Education Findings
In the CES 2020 survey, about 95% of Black respondents, 75% of Asian respondents, 65% of Hispanic respondents and 40% of white respondents said that they voted for Biden over Trump. When analyzing the aggregate relationship between income, regardless of race, and voting for Biden, there was a statistically significant relationship, by which wealthier respondents were more likely to vote for Biden compared to those at lower incomes.
The first graph shows the percent of respondents, divided by self-reported race, who voted for Biden in the 2020 election across different household income levels. At higher income levels, white respondents’ preferred candidate flipped. While a minority of white voters with household incomes below $150,000 chose Biden, the majority of white voters with higher household incomes chose Biden.
There was no statistically significant relationship between Asian voters’ household income and their support for Biden. It declined slightly between $50,000 and $100,000 but increased again and otherwise remained stable. Similarly, Black voters’ support for Biden declined slightly as income increased, but never dropped below 85%.
Most noticeable, and deviating from the national trend, is the relationship between household income and support for Biden among Hispanic voters. As household income increased, significantly fewer Hispanic voters supported Biden — although support did slightly increase among respondents with household incomes above $200,000. Unlike with other racial/ethnic groups, as Hispanic voters reported higher levels of income they also indicated much more support for Trump.
Of course, the relationship between income and vote choice is complicated by the degree to which income is correlated with education.Thus, the next graph depicts the relationship between household income and support for Biden among those with and without a college degree. Both the 2016 and 2020 elections demonstrated polarization between voters without college degrees — mostly white voters. Over 60% of those with a college education voted for Biden in our survey, regardless of income, compared to under 45% of those without a college degree.
There was no relationship between income and voting for Biden among college educated voters. Across all income levels, support remained mostly unchanged. There was a significant negative relationship between income and support for Biden among those without a college degree. As income increased within this group, voters were less likely to support Biden over Trump. Support for Biden declined rapidly as income increased prior to household incomes of $100,000, after which point support for Biden began to increase significantly.
Income had no effect on support for Biden among white, Black and Asian voters with a college degree. Support among white voters with college degrees remained consistent with about 60% of voters supporting Biden regardless of household income level. Asian voters remained similarly unchanged, with approximately 70% of college-educated Asian voters supporting Biden across household incomes. Black voters with college-degrees continued to support Biden at high levels regardless of income, with 93% voting for Biden.
There was a negative relationship between income and support for Biden among college-educated Hispanic voters. Lower income Hispanic voters with college degrees supported Biden to about the same extent as did Asian voters with college degrees did, but with incomes exceeding $150,000 they began to support Biden as the same level as do white college educated voters. This negative relationship was significant and consistent with other observations regarding Hispanic voters in the 2020 election.
Although the extent to which this relationship existed varies across races, all non-college educated voters of color had a negative relationship between support for Biden and income levels. Least visible, though significant, was the decline among Black voters without college degrees. In total, 95% of Black voters without a college supported Biden, though this decreased as household income increased. Asian voters also experienced a statistically significant decline in support for Biden with increased incomes. About 70% of Asian voters without college degrees supported Biden. Despite the trendline, it was not nearly as significant as the decline among Hispanic voters without college degrees, likely due to the limited sample size of high-income Asians without college degrees.
Most significant was the negative relationship between higher household incomes and voting for Biden among Hispanics without college degrees. As household income increased among this group, support for Biden declined consistently. In total, however, 75% of Hispanic respondents without college degrees voted for Biden.
There was no statistically significant relationship between income level and support for Biden among non-college educated white voters. Approximately 35% of white voters without a college degree supported Biden across income levels.
Overall, household income had a significant, positive correlation with support for Biden in the 2020 Presidential Election. This trend was especially clean among white voters. Black and Asian voters showed no statistically significant relationship between household income and support for Biden. However, Hispanic voters had a negative relationship between household income and voting for Biden. CES data suggest this is largely due to social issues and immigration. Hispanic voters who were anti-immigrant and held conservative social beliefs were significantly more likely to vote for Trump, suggesting Hispanic voters are falling out of touch with progressive social issues pushed by the Democratic Party.
When analyzing the relationship between income and support for Biden, college educated respondent’s aggregate support did not waver. Only among Hispanic voters with college degrees was there a negative relationship between household income and support for Biden. There was a negative relationship between those without a college education and support for Biden. Black, Asian and, most significantly, Hispanic voters without college degrees supported Biden to lesser extents as household income levels increased. Race, thus, serves as a factor needed to effectively analyze the relationship household income and 2020 presidential vote choice. Additionally, due to its significant variation across income levels, the Hispanic vote’s fluctuation and deviation from national trends necessitates further examination.

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I must confess to not knowing too much about Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, the pair that make up American Folk/Rock duo Indigo Girls, before this UK tour was announced. Growing up as a child, I was heavily influenced by my brother and his musical collection, which mainly consisted of hard rock and metal from bands such as Guns n Roses, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Aerosmith, and the like.
As much as I still love this genre of music (classic rock, hard rock, blues rock, and metal are my music of choice) I have come to appreciate and love all styles of music (except rap because that’s rhyming slang, right?) over the past decade or so. I now truly love all music, and can go from listening to slit-your-wrist-blues, hypnosis inducing folk, to full on heavy metal, and everything in between; heck, I even enjoyed Kiefer Sutherland and his country music when he came over last month, and I mean, REALLY enjoyed! If only my brother could see me now…
When the press release about the Indigo Girls tour dropped into my inbox, I jumped at the chance to request a photo pass. There was just so much hype about the girls and this tour as it was their first visit to these shores in nearly a decade. I was approved, I was in.
Like I say, I knew very little about Saliers & Ray (one of the duos original names actually) so the next few days were spent listening to their back catalogue and swatting up on a bit of history of the pair.
Armed with slightly more knowledge and their infectious songs fresh in my head, I headed to the Bierkeller in Bristol.
The evening was opened up by Lucy Wainwright Roche, the sister of American Canadian singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright with a laid back folk style. The evening got off to a slow start with Wainwright Roche commenting that that the Bristol crowd must be a shy type. Roche talked to the audience reciting stories about her travels and similar struggles with crowd engagement on her Eastern European travels and this helped break the ice, as did a sing along of Springsteen’s, “Hungry Heart”.
It was now time for the main event, what everyone had been waiting for, Indigo Girls. Amy & Emily entered the stage to raucous applause from a packed and wanting Bierkeller audience. You could already feel the atmosphere and could tell that the crowd were up for this, a stark contrast from Wainwright Roche’s opening set.
I was still not entirely sure what to expect from the pair but what I witnessed was truly something else. The duo ripped through their catalogue of hits, old and new with such ease and proficiency, joined on backing vocals by Wainwright Roche and Violin virtuoso Lyris Hung.
They duo have been performing together since the 80s and although a lot of time has passed, many albums released, and many, many tours completed, you could tell that these pair were not just going through the motions, far from it. You could just tell that these two thoroughly enjoy what they do and wanted to be there. They truly seemed to be loving the UK and were humbled that so many people made the trip out on a Tuesday to see them.
Who would that thought that just two women with two guitars, a mandolin and a ukulele joined only by a violin and a backing singer could produce such a full and powerful sound?
There were many a crowd favourite played from ‘Closer to Fine’, ‘Galileo’ and ‘Let it Be Me’ and at times the crowd were out-singing the venue PA, with incredible passion and love for the pair.
Saliers and Ray briefly left the stage before the now almost obligatory and inevitable encore and the crowd went wild with even more chanting, hand clapping, foot stomping requests for “more”.
And so they returned, joined by their new found friend and up and coming talent Georgia Paris for ‘Closer to Fine’ with Paris taking the lead at times, only to be outshone buy the ever enthusiastic crowd. Georgia is one talent to look out for I reckon.
What was witnessed on Tuesday 25th July 2017 was two hours of outstanding multi instrument mastery, poetic and political, sometimes angry lyrics, passionate storytelling, intricate, beautiful and mesmerising harmonies and a bucket load of earworms to leave with; I was singing all the way back to the hotel. The Indigo Girls music is an infectious rollercoaster ride of emotions, taking you down but immediately bringing you back up again with all the twists and turns a lifetime on the road can bring.
The girls now head to Brighton, Cambridge Folk Festival, and two nights at Islington Assembly Hall London and I urge you to make an effort to see these two girls if you can, you will not be disappointed.
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Subcommittee members on Monday asked final questions of gun manufacturers, state and local police officials and municipal leaders about myriad issues. They included the ramifications of limiting the size of ammunition magazines, the thoroughness of background checks and current rules for obtaining gun permits.
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Golpes y Flores
With her new album Golpes y Flores, Eliana Cuevas has created a beautiful musical love letter to her native land of Venezuela.
The award-winning singer/songwriter has been based in Toronto since 1997, but she drew inspiration from her homeland for this, her fifth record (to be released on ALMA Records in September). Eliana explains that “Venezuelan music is very rich and I wanted to showcase some of what my country has to offer musically speaking. I was keen to feature traditional Afro-Venezuelan rhythms and mix those in with what I do here in Canada.”
Cuevas was able to discover and record some of the finest percussionists in that country, and their contributions mesh seamlessly with those of her A-list Canadian accompanists. Their work is framed within her eloquent original compositions, while Eliana’s fluent and pure vocals complete a sound that is both timeless and freshly contemporary.
Golpes y Flores was arranged and produced in Toronto by noted composer and keyboardist Jeremy Ledbetter, and recorded and mixed by award-winning engineer John “Beetle” Bailey (Serena Ryder, Molly Johnson).
The sessions featured Cuevas’ regular band of Ledbetter, drummer Mark Kelso (Holly Cole), bassist George Koller (Loreena McKennitt), and percussionist Daniel Stone (Nelly Furtado), plus guests Rich Brown, Aquiles Báez, Adolfo Herrera, Gustavo Márquez, Aleksandar Gajic, Peter Cosbey, Aysel Taghi, Vedran Curic, Jonathan Tortolano, Marcus Ali, Alexis Baró, Luis Deniz, Marito Marques, Yonathan "Morocho" Gavidia, Javier Suárez & Juan Carlos. Many of these players contributed to Eliana’s previous album, 2014’s Espejo, and their musical empathy is on vivid display here.
Three of the compositions on Golpes y Flores, “Alegria,” “No Se Puede,” and “Mi Linda Maíta,” were co-written by Eliana and Jeremy, with the remaining seven being Cuevas originals.
Eliana has never been constrained by genre boxes in her songwriting, drawing freely from jazz, Latin, folk and world music elements. Cuevas' stylistic diversity is reflected in the fact she has won a Toronto Independent Music Award (in 2007), a National Jazz Award as Latin Jazz artist of the Year (2009), and for Best Latin Album at the 2014 Independent Music Awards in the US, for Espejo.
That variety is again evident on Golpes y Flores, as songs range from the sparse and tender ballad “Mi Linda Maíta” to the dramatic and strings-driven “Nunca Jamas,” the horns-embellished “Despierta” and breezy “Poderosa,” and the full-blooded Latin jazz feel of “Seré Libre.”
Afro-Venezuelan rhythms are a consistent thread on the album, and Cuevas is thrilled at their presence. “Once I found these percussionists to record with, we adapted some of the songs I’d already written, as well as writing some new songs around those rhythms.”
Eliana credits Venezuelan musician Aquiles Báez with facilitating the collaboration. “He performed in Toronto last year, so we took the opportunity to record a couple of my songs with Aquiles and his trio here. He then connected me with the percussionist Yonathan “Morocho’ Gavidia, who put me in touch with the other players.”
Cuevas draws upon personal experiences in her very poetic songwriting. For example, “A Tear On The Ground” was inspired by her family’s visit to India. “It was a very spiritual experience, I spent a few days doing yoga at an ashram that was right by a lake that had a sign warning people to be careful of the crocodiles. It was a beautiful quiet place where I could go to to meditate and it inspired me to write… ”
Another song with special resonance is “Mi Linda Maita,” dedicated to Eliana’s grandmother. “She passed away a couple of years ago, and I wanted to honour her,” Cuevas explains. “’Poderosa’ is about the strength women have and their ability to make life. I wrote it as I was pregnant with my second daughter.”
The album title also possesses a deep meaning, Eliana states. “’Golpes’ means hit, often referring to rhythms, while ‘flores’ means flowers. To me, the title suggests a combination of the sophistication, beauty and gentleness of flowers and the strength and force of the Afro-Venezuelan rhythms.”
Golpes y Flores is dedicated to Eliana’s two daughters and to Venezuela. “It is not a secret there are problems there right now, but not enough people know how rich Venezuelan music truly is and I’d like to show the world some of the beauty my country still has to offer despite all of the problems it is currently facing” she says.
She has certainly done that here, crafting a lovely work that is highly worthy of your attention.
Mi Mundo introduces a shining new star on the world music firmament. This is the solo debut of Brenda Navarrete, a Cuban-based singer, songwriter, percussionist and bandleader of rare skill and musical originality.
She has previously made an impact singing in the internationally-acclaimed Cuban group Interactivo, performing at clubs and festivals in the U.S. and Canada, but she now takes a giant creative leap forward with Mi Mundo. Set for worldwide release on ALMA Records in January/18, the album was recorded in Havana with producer Peter Cardinali (ALMA's founder), award-winning engineer John "Beetle" Bailey, and an all-star cast of Cuban instrumentalists.
"Being able to record Mi Mundo in Havana is a dream come true," Brenda explains. "Havana is where I was born. Cuba is my country, my homeland, and having the opportunity to record here with musicians who know me and who understand my musical style is amazing. The energy of Cuba and Havana is very important to me, and I think that we have captured that force on this album"
The stylistically eclectic album features a variety of group settings, with the primary instruments consisting of drums, piano, electric bass and percussion, including batá and congas played by Navarrete. Renowned special guests include Horacio ‘El Negro’ Hernandez, Rodney Barreto and Jose Carlos on drums, Roberto Carcasses, Rolando Luna and Leonardo Ledesman on piano, Alain Perez on bass (he also arranged several of the songs and wrote "Taita Bilongo"), Adonis Panter on quinto and Eduardo Sandoval on trombone.
Brenda's initial musical reputation centered on her ability as a percussionist, on batá, but it is her warm and fluent voice and songwriting ability that take centre stage on Mi Mundo. Four of her original compositions appear on Mi Mundo, including "A Ochun." "That song is very special to me," says Brenda. "It was my first composition and one of my first recordings. Ochun is the goddess of love and it’s a song that I wrote while sitting on the bank of a river, where Ochun is said to live. Most of the song came out that first day and I finished the arrangement at home and dedicated it to her when it was recorded.
"I have infused new colors into the version that we have recorded for Mi Mundo. The new recording is very special due to the quality of the music and my improved vocals." A genuine highlight on an album devoid of lowlights, "A Ochun" is a dynamic and delightful treat that begins with percussion and call and response vocals, which then fade away in favour of gentle piano and flute stylings.
Navarrete describes Mi Mundo as "a World Music record, with an Afro-Cuban flavour. I chose that title because this is a reflection of my musical world. I have a tremendous range of influences, having grown up in a very musical environment.
"When I was a little girl, my sister and I loved to listen to jazz greats like Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday. I also gravitated to artists like Nat King Cole, John Coltrane, Bobby McFerrin, Miles Davis, Yellow Jackets and Cassandra Wilson, but also BoyzII Men and Take 6. My home environment also featured music from great Cuban artists like Cecilia Cruz, Benny More and Celeste Mendoza.
"All those artists and musical styles have contributed to my musical growth since I was a child. All of that energy and the different rhythms, colours and styles of Afro-Cuban, Latin Jazz and World Music have inspired me as a composer. I adore Cuban music, and mixing all of those styles together with traditional Cuban music is powerful and exhilarating."
An example of this original and compelling fusion is "Caravana," Brenda's distinctive take on the Duke Ellington classic "Caravan." "Rumbero Como Yo" is another tune Navarrete had previously recorded, but the version on Mi Mundo is fuller and more powerful, featuring six musicians imparting an intoxicating rumba feel. Also re-recorded for the album is "Taita Bilongo," an infectiously rhythmic number boosted by trumpet and a guest male vocal appearance by the song’s composer, Alain Perez.
Navarrete's formal musical education included studying percussion at the Amadeo Roldán Music Conservatory in Havana. "I was trained in symphonic and Cuban percussion on a variety of instruments, as well as piano," she recalls. "I also studied the history of universal music, Cuban music and music theory, but learning batá was more of a street classroom experience along the way. As for singing, it was very spontaneous, without any formal training. I just sang what I felt, without ever really wondering whether it was good or bad. It was just what I felt."
Her skill as a percussionist was confirmed in 2010 when Brenda won the Bata drum competition at the Fiesta del Tambor in Havana, and she was subsequently endorsed by Canadian cymbal-maker, Sabian, as well as the Gon Bops percussion company. She has played on the recordings of many notable Cuban artists, and Brenda recently guested on batá and vocals on Contumbao, the upcoming album from Cuban-Canadian pianist/composer Hilario Duran.
Brenda Navarrete's focus is now firmly set on Mi Mundo. This beautiful expression of her musical universe is now going out into the world, and it deserves your close attention.


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Without property and income tax relief, housing in Illinois will continue to be less attractive, Illinois’ population is likely to continue its decline and housing price appreciation can be expected to continue to lag the rest of the nation.View Report
Amid two record-breaking income tax hikes, growing property tax bills and population decline, the Land of Lincoln’s income growth is trailing the rest of the nation.
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Call it what you will: An experimental, cathartic, arthouse, some kind of docu-drama hybrid…it is – in fact – a very effective, quick-working, brain-killing barbiturate…battling sleep was the only thing that kept 'us' awake throughout the first hour!
Laura Benson states that she is 90% terrified of…and, 10% ‘kind-of-comfortable’ with…filming. Only sado-masochists would be ‘comfortable’ to watch this ‘character’ indulge in her quest – usually via sex workers – to break down the [mighty] barriers of her intimacy problems! Sweetness, there are therapists that can do a [much] better job than this cathartic indulgence!
If the ‘director’ had not been so self-absorbed, Touch Me Not could have/should have been an absorbing and touching [pardon the pun] look at intimacy through various percspectives…instead, rather than feeling the 'humanity' that is intimacy, she went for the ‘shock’ effect – wrong direction, resulting in a disaster of a film. Who knows, it may have become a master-work in the second part, hence the awards…but, when you can’t retain an audience, this particular audience member embraced disinterest and walked out...thereby, saving the audience from uninhibited and unbridled snoring!
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NEWPORT NEWS — Police in Newport News have arrested the third suspect in a homicide from last December.
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Nichols was initially identified and questioned as one of the suspects in the homicide. Police did not immediately charge Nichols in the homicide, but they served outstanding warrants charging him with three counts of failure to appear in court on other charges. Two juveniles were charged in the homicide, one of whom has been identified as 16-year-old Arnez Boyd, who will be tried as an adult for murder.
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Updated: Mar 23, 2021
On Saturday March 17, I will be marching in the Irish Channel in New Orleans. Hope to see you out there.
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While we may often assume a big age space shows a mature guy, there are many ladies who date and marry males which can be considerably younger (although maybe not quite since extreme as Brigitte Macron, that is almost a quarter-century senior to her spouse, Emmanuel Macron, the president of France). Effective partners originate from all tales and backgrounds. Having said that, age gaps happen shown to cause some challenges that are unique problems.
Like, for example, reminiscing about pop music tradition phenomena from your own youth. You realize, keep in mind that song from that television show everybody was viewing in highschool? Blank stare. But those plain things it is possible to laugh down if the rest is certainly going well. Other stuff, nonetheless, may be a tad bit more tricky to address.
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Watching Blinded by the Light, I couldn't help but remember those old musicals when, all of a sudden, someone would start signing, and everyone else would join in the singing, sometimes dancing, sometimes accompanied by a full orchestra that magically emerged on the movie set. Minus the orchestra, Blinded by the Light does something similar as its 16-year old lead character Javid (Viveil Kalra) - a member of a Pakistani immigrant family in the dead-end English city of Luton, at an emotionally and economically fraught moment in his family's and Margaret Thatcher's Britain's intersecting stories -discovers Bruce Springsteen's music and is excited and inspired by its power to move beyond melancholy to reimagine his life.
The power of music to express otherwise inexpressible longings and to inspire change is the transformational agent in Javid's coming of age struggle against the rigid traditionalism of his father, while growing up in a society itself in flux and not sure of where it is going or the kind of country it wants to be. The film touches all the traditional bases of stereotypical coming-of-age narratives (including the feel-good family reconciliation at the end), all set in t e context of the Thatcherite assault on the British working class and social responses to it from both the left (represented by Javid's love interest, Eliza, a politically active daughter of true-Blue "no society" Tory parents) and the right (represented more ominously by the racist, sometimes violent, nativist movements that thrive amid such social distress).
Everyone who hated high school (presumably most people) will find something to identify with in this film, as will anyone who struggled to grow out of the confines of limited family expectations and limited economic and social resources.
Based on a true story about actual Springsteen fandom, this film highlights the particular power of music to speak simultaneously to our frustrations and aspirations. In real life, of course, different people find different vehicles for escape, inspiration, and motivation, music being perhaps only one of several such possibilities. It is likely always the case, however, that love and friendship will play a prominent part. For all the social stresses of the immigrant experience, economic collapse, cultural breakdown, and nativist hostility, the film highlights the necessity and power of community, of a networks of family, friends, neighbors, teachers, all of whom live out one fo the film's favorite Springsteenisms: "Nobody wins unless everybody wins."
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Voice Typing in Google Search, GBoard for Android Gains 30 New Languages
Google today updated its Google Search and GBoard applications for Android devices and expanded the number of languages supported in voice typing by 30. Google said it worked with native speakers of these languages from around the world to build the needed speech sample data. In this round of additions, Google targeted African, Indian, and other Asia-Pacific dialects to help those who are coming online perhaps for the first time. Some of the bigger additions include Amharic and Swahili in Africa; Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, and Telugu in India; Javanese and Sundanese in Indonesia; as well as Armenian, Azerbaijani, Georgian, Khmer, Lao, Latvian, Nepali, Sinhala, Tamil, and Urdu. Google says these same languages have been added to the Google Speech API, so developers can add support for them to their own apps. Further, Google will soon support voice dictation for these languages within Google Translate. Separately, English speakers in the U.S. can now use voice dictation to find and insert emoji into text. People can utter phrases like "winky face emoji" and GBoard for Android will find the proper emoji and drop it in. Google says it will add voice-dictated emoji support to more languages soon. GBoard is free to download from the Google Play Store.
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Google today updated its GBoard keyboard application for Android handsets and made it possible for people to draw emoji. In the emoji search tool, GBoard can recognize finger-scrawled pictures and then automatically insert the correct emoji into your text.
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GBoard for Android gained a handful of helpful new features thanks to a fresh update from Google. The keyboard application now comes with a dedicated text editing mode that includes buttons for common actions such as copy, cut, and paste.
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Google today updated its GBoard application for the iPhone and gave the keyboard some powerful new tools. Moving forward, a tap of the "G" button calls up not only Google Search, but YouTube and Google Maps as well.
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Google today updated its GBoard mobile keyboard application for Android devices and added a handful of new, interactive features. Chiefly, the app gains support for stickers, which you can now slap into messages.
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Google is adding 22 new languages to Gboard for Android, including Chinese (traditional and simplified) and Korean. Google says these were the top two language requests for Gboard, which now supports more than 300 languages, or 74% of the world's population.

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DALLAS (3/14/12)--CU Members Mortgage is making a "CU Home Promise" to close mortgage loans within 40 days of receiving documentation or give members a $500 credit toward their closing.
The CU Home Promise service guarantee applies when CU Members Mortgage processes a mortgage loan for direct lending partners. The program also educates members about home loans throughout the mortgage process and provides value-added benefits, the company said.
A CU Members Mortgage release stated the guarantee was offered to say "thank you" to credit union partners as part of the company's celebration of 30 years in business.
CU Members Mortgage also introduced CU Home Advantage, a real estate services program that connects credit union members nationwide with a "member advocate" who helps them purchase or sell their home. Participating members are referred back to credit unions for home loan transactions.
Members who participate in the free program can receive a 20% rebate of real estate agent fees in states where rebates are permitted. They also benefit from a CU Members Mortgage partnership with Altair Global Relocation, Plano, Texas, said, said the mortgage services provider.


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Members of bands such as Fleet Foxes, Grizzly Bear and Fairport Convention will perform in celebration of the Byrds singer's 1974 LP Members of Fleet Foxes, Beach House, Grizzly Bear and Fairport Convention have announced a tour in celebration of a little-known solo album by the Byrds' Gene Clark. The project was spearheaded by Beach House's Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally, who described ...
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Welcome... the Gene Clark No Other Band End Of The Road Festival thrives on a communal atmosphere, on musicians and fans coming together. In a new move, organisers have taken this spirit to fresh levels. The Gene Clark No Other Band will headline this year's event, an all star collaboration featuring members of Beach House, Grizzly Bear and Fleet Foxes. The line up of the group features Beach ...
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The Arab Lands Under Ottoman Rule 1516-1800
Jane Hathaway with contributions by Karl Barbir
In this seminal study, Jane Hathaway presents a wide-ranging reassessment of the effects of Ottoman rule on the Arab Lands of Egypt, Greater Syria, Iraq and Yemen - the first of its kind in over forty years.
Challenging outmoded perceptions of this period as a demoralizing prelude to the rise of Arab nationalism and Arab nation-states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Hathaway depicts an era of immense social, cultural, economic and political change which helped to shape the foundations of todays modern Middle and Near East. Taking full advantage of a wide range of Arabic and Ottoman primary sources, she examines the changing fortunes of not only the political elite but also the broader population of merchants, shopkeepers, peasants, tribal populations, religious scholars, women, and ethnic and religious minorities who inhabited this diverse and volatile region.
With masterly concision and clarity, Hathaway guides the reader through all the key current approaches to and debates surrounding Arab society during this period. This is far more than just another political history; it is a global study which offers an entirely new perspective on the era and region as a whole.
Jane Hathaway is Professor of History at Ohio State University. Her previous publications include The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt : The Rise of the Qazdaglis (1997); A Tale of Two Factions: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen (2003); and Beshir Agha, Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Imperial Harem (2006).
This is an essential addition to the shelves of any student of Middle Eastern and Ottoman history. The first comprehensive English-language survey of the pre-modern Arab world to be published in forty years.
- The first comprehensive English-language survey of the pre-modern Arab world to appear in 40 years.
- Lucidly written
- Extensive bibliographic essay
- Includes a glossary, maps and illustrations
Designed as the successor to P.M. Holt's classic 1966 book Egypt and the Fertile Crescent,
here for the first time in forty years is a comprehensive survey of the Arab Lands under Ottoman rule.
This book is written for students of Middle Eastern and Ottoman history, as well as scholars and general readers looking for historical background on the Arab world. It presents a knowledgeable, unbiased and insightful guide to the diversity and complexity of society in the Arab lands during the centuries between the regions incorporation into the Ottoman Empire and the wrenching socio-political changes of the 19th century.
Lucidly written, the book introduces the diverse groups who made up Ottoman Arab society government officials, merchants and shopkeepers, peasants, religious scholars, women, ethnic and religious minorities. It shows how their fortunes changed during these pivotal centuries and demonstrates how Ottoman rule transformed the regions political, economic, intellectual and religious life.
About the Author
Professor of history at Ohio State University, Jane Hathaway has written and researched extensively on Egypt and Yemen under Ottoman rule and on the Ottoman Chief Harem Eunuch. Previous titles include: The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt: The Rise of the Qazdaðlýs (1997) and Beshir Agha, Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Imperial Harem (2006).
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Note on transliteration and dates
List of figures
List of maps
Introduction: Rewriting Arab history, 1516-1800
- Lands and peoples
- The Ottoman conquest of the Arab lands
- The organization of the Ottoman provincial administration
- Crisis and change in the seventeenth century
- Provincial notables in the eighteenth century
- Religious and intellectual life
- Urban life and trade
- Rural life
- Marginal groups and minority populations
- Ideological and political changes in the late eighteenth century
- Transformations under Ottoman rule
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Ukraine Says It's Shipping Grain via Croatian Ports
Ukraine has started exporting grain via Croatian seaports, aiming to broaden its export routes while its Black Sea ports are blocked, a senior Ukrainian official said on Thursday.
Ukraine's main grain export route is usually via its deep Black Sea ports, but Kyiv has been looking for alternative routes since Russia invasion last year and Moscow's decision to quit the Black Sea grain export deal in mid-July.
Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said during a visit to Zagreb in late July that Ukraine and Croatia had agreed on the possibility of using Croatian ports on the Danube and the Adriatic Sea for the export of Ukrainian grain.
"Ukrainian grain has already been exported through Croatian ports. We are grateful for this possibility. Although it is a niche trade route, it is already popular," First Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said in a written statement.
"We are ready to develop it by expanding the capabilities of the transport corridor," she said. "We believe that this logistics route will play an important role in bilateral trade between our countries even after the war."
Svyrydenko did not say how much Ukrainian grain had already been shipped via Croatian ports.
Since Russia quit the U.N.-brokered deal that had guaranteed safe exports of Ukrainian grain via the Black Sea, Kyiv has increasingly used its Danube River ports to export grain. Russia has, however, been attacking Ukrainian port infrastructure on the Danube.
Some exports are also sent by rail, but Ukrainian brokers have said rail deliveries to European ports are much more expensive than direct exports via Ukrainian ports.
The Ukrainian traders union UGA said this week the 2023 combined grain and oilseed harvest could reach 80.5 million metric tons, and this means that around 49 million tons could be exported in 2023/24 July-June season.
The agriculture ministry said this month that exports totaled 4.5 million tons as of Sept. 1.
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Sal reported that he went back to his friend Ian's house yesterday to apologize to his wife, Laura, for ruining her birthday party. Sal said he also listened to yesterday's segment with his wife and saw her mouthing "Yes" to herself as Howard critiqued his behavior: "You almost acted as her therapist yesterday."
Sal claimed that his wife had never really addressed her feelings about his behavior until that moment – which confused everyone, as her signals seemed so clear to them. Howard laughed: "You do all this stuff so then she's so fuming mad...she's not talking to you because she thinks you're a f'ing retard." Robin seconded: "The point is you miss every signal."
Sal said his inability to read his wife was the main reason he was in therapy – though it didn't start out that way: at first it was couples therapy. Howard then speculated that Sal resented women because they take attention away from him.
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Sal told the crew that his behavior has only gotten his ass kicked once – a black guy once punched him out after a "rap battle" in a parking lot: "It was a rap battle like something you see in 'Beat Street'...and I won the rap battle."
To celebrate his victory, Sal capped with one last zinger: "You're mother's so old, she looks like a prune." The guy replied by knocking him out, later telling a dazed Sal: "Don't talk about my mother. She raised me for 9 months."

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Elton John, cricket and Glastonbury fans could all be facing travel chaos as a large-scale train strike is being planned. Talks are to be held in a bid to avert strikes by railway workers after the scale of disruption to services by the planned industrial action became clear, it has been revealed.
Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union at Network Rail and 13 train operators will walk out on June 21, 23 and 25, in the biggest outbreak of industrial action in the industry in a generation. The RMT also announced another 24-hour strike on London Underground on June 21 in a separate row.
The disputes are over pay, jobs and pensions, with the union complaining that railway staff who worked through the pandemic are facing job cuts, a pay freeze and attacks on employment conditions. Talks between Network Rail (NR) and the union are expected to be held in the next few days, sources told the PA news agency.
NR is also drawing up contingency plans, with the strikes expected to cause disruption to services for six days, from the first walkout on Tuesday June 21 to the day after the third strike.
Fewer than one in five trains are likely to run, and only between 7am and 7pm, probably only on main lines. No direct talks are planned between the union and train operators, although the RMT said it is open to “meaningful negotiations” to try to resolve the dispute.
The strikes threaten widespread travel disruption during a number of major events, including concerts, Test match cricket and the Glastonbury festival. Glastonbury starts on June 22, while that week will also see England play New Zealand in a Test match in Leeds, the British Athletics Championships in Manchester, and gigs in London’s Hyde Park by Sir Elton John (June 24) and The Rolling Stones (June 25).
There will also be a Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in London on June 24 and 25 and it is Armed Forces Day on June 25. The union said it will be the biggest strike on the railways since 1989.
RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said: “Railway workers have been treated appallingly and, despite our best efforts in negotiations, the rail industry, with the support of the Government, has failed to take their concerns seriously. We have a cost-of-living crisis, and it is unacceptable for railway workers to either lose their jobs or face another year of a pay freeze when inflation is at 11.1% and rising.“
Mr Lynch added: “Our union will now embark on a sustained campaign of industrial action which will shut down the railway system.” Network Rail chief executive Andrew Haines said the organisation is “doing everything we can” to avoid the strike action.
“There are two weeks until the first strike is planned. We will use this time to keep talking to our unions and, through compromise and common sense on both sides, we hope to find a solution and avoid the damage that strike action would cause all involved,” he said.
Rail Delivery Group chairman Steve Montgomery said the strikes are “needless and damaging”. Health Secretary Sajid Javid said union leaders should “act like adults” and come to a “sensible solution” to the disputes.
He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “When it comes to these strikes, it is very disappointing what the unions have said, because it’s not just going to cause misery for the travellers, but it’s actually, I think, the wrong outcome for the workers as well.
“Because anyone working in this industry, any industry for that matter, you want it to be sustainable for the long term. It’s not possible to keep giving it the same level of support it got during the pandemic.”
Put to him that the Government could legislate to ward off the strikes, he said: “There are of course options for the Government. And I know that my colleague, the Secretary of State for Transport, will be looking at all options.
“But the most important thing right now would be for the union leaders to get around the table with the industry leaders and just basically act like adults and just to come to a sensible solution.”


how do you set the timing belt on a 1997 ford contour 2.0 4cy
Ignition timing is automatically set. sorry.
The 2.5 litre V6 engine in a 1995 Ford Contour doesn't have a timing belt , it uses ( 2 ) timing CHAINS
timing is off check it
You cant. It is all controlled by the ecu.
u cant most newer vehicles timing is controled by the cars computer
you set timing by the marks on the cam shaft and the crank shaft. they should point at together to make it run right.
To set the ignition timing on a Ford Probe GT 95 with an MX engine, remove the two 12 mm head bolts holding the distributor in place. Then rotate the distributor to set the ignition timing.
can u give me a diagram on the timing marks for my 95 hyundi elantra
The distributor is set to 0 deg with a scan tool. It can not be done with a timing light.
I don't have a Contour, but if it has a distributor, then you use a timing light and simply twist the distributor cap to change the timing. If it has coil packs, then it's all done electronically, and you can't adjust it. If your timing is still off, you have a sensor somewhere feeding the ECU bad info. ====================================================== All of the Contour engines' ignition timing is controlled by the computer, and is not adjustable. If there were any sort of problem in this area, the computer would turn on the "Check Engine" light and store an error code.
Go to this website http://www.aa1car.com/library/2004/us70444.htm. It tells you how to adjust the timing.
It's a FORD Contour.
There should be information regarding the timing degree on a decal locaded under the hood.
No the head lights are designed different from 95-97 to 98-00.
The ignition timing on Contour engines is controlled by the computer, and is not adjustable. However, if you're talking about the 4-cylinder 2.0 liter, it uses a timing belt for the cams, and if it is worn and slips a tooth, it would cause some real problems. (The 2.5 liter V6 isn't subject to this, as it uses a timing chain for the cams.)
The 2.0 L - DOHC - 4 cylinder engine in a 2000 Ford Contour has a timing belt
At zero. Tdc ( top dead center )
You dont. It is an LT1 engine and the distributor is behind the water pump.
No, a 95 GMC Sonoma does not use a timing belt on it. The 95 GMC Sonoma uses a timing chain on it.
i put timing sensor on car chand water pump and it turning but want crank is it easy to ben a valve
I had the same question for a 96 contour. found the answer by calling my local ford dealer parts dept and asking them if it was an interference or non interference engine.


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If you are reading this post you may be asking: when is the best time to visit the Maldives?
I visited the Maldives in the last week of August. Some days were sunny and beach weather perfect, while others were cloudy and rainy. For someone who chose the Maldives as a destination for a beach holiday, the cloudy days were very disappointing. On those days, you spend the day at the outstanding Anantara Dhigu Spa or at any of the other great spas at the other Anantara resorts on the island.
During my six-day stay, I had two full spa days. I’ll be writing about the spa and the treatments that I had in another post.
For now, let me share with you some information about the Maldives weather around the year. This knowledge was shared to me by the locals who I met on the island.
The best time to visit the Maldives
The best months for visiting the Maldives are from September through April. This is considered to be the best season for sunny and clear skies. During December, a lot of activities take place at the resort for the New Year. So a lot of entertainment, live bands and fun events are held during this period.
The Rainy Season in the Maldives
The rainy season starts in May and continues until the end of August. Which is why I experienced the Monsoon rains while I was there. Honestly, coming from the desert, it was nice to get some light showers in the evening. But I wasn’t very happy when it rained during the day and I couldn’t lounge by the beach or swim in the ocean.
So, if I were to visit the Maldives again, then I would consider going there sometime in November. And I would try to stay for at least ten days. Yes, 10 days! because that way, even if I experience cloudy days, I would still end up with many sunny days by the beach. Another reason is that one week in my opinion isn’t enough to relax and de-stress. Especially coming from a busy city like Dubai. Where the lifestyle is so fast-paced leaving us with little room to breathe 🙂
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Fritz Redl (1902-1988) was born in Austria and emigrated to the US, where he developed a distinguished career as a child psychologist working with troubled adolescents.
His first two publications (1933-4, in German) - on learning difficulties and exam phobias - were followed by an influential article on 'Group Formation and Leadership' published in Psychiatry in 1942. There he explored the role of what he called the 'central person' in group dynamics, singling out ten main types of central figures, ranging from the hero or the tyrant, to the good influence or the bad example.
His interest in group dynamics extended into his work with disturbed children, where he developed the concept of the Life Space Interview, as a means of crisis intervention in the life of the troubled child. Redl also explored the role of behavioral contagion in promoting regression in children, and how close attention to the child's milieu could help enhance behavioral control. His work with groups, summer camps and residential care came together in the residential setting of Pioneer House.
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Plaque vs. Tartar: What’s The Difference?
What Is Plaque?
Dental plaque is that soft, sticky film that builds up on your teeth and under your gums throughout the day. And guess what? It contains millions of bacteria! When you eat—especially carbohydrates or sugar—you’re not the only one getting a meal, so are the bacteria on your teeth. After “eating,” these bacteria produce acids that erode your tooth enamel and cause cavities.
That’s why good daily oral hygiene is essential to preventing tooth decay and protecting your smile from the bacteria in plaque. To prevent plaque buildup, remember to brush at least twice a day and floss once a day. Drinking water and chewing sugar-free gum after meals and snacks can also help!
What Is Tartar?
So if that’s plaque, what’s tartar? Tartar is what accumulates on your teeth when plaque is not removed. If plaque is left on your teeth for too long, it will harden into tartar and is much more difficult to remove. In fact, tartar can only be removed by a dental professional–you can’t get rid of it with regular brushing and flossing. Tartar removal is one of the reasons that visiting your dentist every six months is so important!
Plaque buildup that hardens into tartar can cause more than just cavities. It can cause tooth discoloration and sensitivity as well as gum recession and periodontal disease. To reduce plaque buildup and tartar from forming, make sure you are brushing and flossing daily.
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Congested highways with half built
bridges give way to folding chairs,
and people too restless to stay in their
cars. The weeds on the edge of the highway
wrap around each other and the insects
fly around them like they’re drunk.
Tying up their dogs by feeding their leashes
through rusted holes eaten through their
license plates, most of them are small
and can’t escape.
A father orders his son to give him back
the binoculars because he thinks he sees a
deer out in the distance.
When taking a closer look it becomes clear
that it’s just a leafless fallen tree.
Bizarrely shaped clouds create awkward
shadows that stretch across the ground
like leaking engine oil, and there is acid
in the water held within them.