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← NBC #1 Sunday in the U.S. BBC One #1 in the UK. Nine #1 in AU. AMC #1 Cable Net.
CBS #1 Tuesday in the U.S. ITV #1 in the UK. Nine #1 in AU. FNC #1 Cable Net. →
NBC #1 Monday in the U.S. BBC One #1 in the UK. Nine #1 in AU. 'Black Panther' #1 Film
Nielsen delays Monday.
Drama and Reality dominated viewing on television throughout the world on Monday.
The Daily Diary Of Screens #dailydiaryofscreens 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺💻📱📺🎬🌎🗺🇮🇳. For Monday, February 26, 2018.
6, 2018. This is your North America, Central America, South America, India, UK and Australian Daily Television Ratings Platform.
In the U.S., NBC #1 broadcast network as 'The Voice' was the top broadcast program.
In the UK, BBC One #1 broadcast network as 'MasterChef UK' season premiere was the top program as 'Coronation Street' top soap.
In Australia, Nine #1 broadcast network as 'Married At First Sight' was the top broadcast program with over 1.5 million viewers and 'Seven News' #1 newscast.
'Black Panther' was the #1 film at the domestic box office this weekend. See Below.
'Black Panther' was the #1 film at the international box office this weekend. See Below.
In Canada, CTV Total #1 network week of 15-21 January 2018 as 'The Big Bang Theory' was the #1 program in Canada.
In Argentina, El Trece #1 broadcast network as 'Simona' was the top program 22 February 2018.
In Chile, CHV #1 broadcast network as 'Festival de Viña' premiere was the top program 21 February 2018.
In Perú, 'AméricaTV' #1 broadcast network as 'Ojitos' series premiere top program 20 February 2018.
In Colombia, Caracol #1 broadcast network as 'Tarde lo conocí' top program 22 February 2018.
In México, Las Estrellas #1 broadcast network as 'La Rosa' was the top Méxican program 21 February 2018 with 3.3 million viewers.
In India, Sun TV #1 Hindi broadcast network as ZEE TV's 'Kumkum Bhagya' was the top program week and 'Comedy Central' #1 English broadcast network during #4 on 20-26 January 2018.
'Black Panther' #1 at the U.S. box office weekend 23-25February 2018. Complete box office Top Ten this weekend listed below.
Black Panther #1 at the International box office weekend 9-11 February 2018. Complete box office Top Ten this weekend listed below.
This Weekend in 1943, 'Keeper Of The Flame' was directed by George Cukor, and starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Very controversial film when it came out, although the film was held over for a fourth week at Radio City Music Hall (most films lasted a week), it did not do well at the box office nationally and is considered the least successful of the Hepburn-Tracy films. It earned $2,190,000 in the United States and Canada and $1,032,000 elsewhere, making an overall profit of $1,040,000.
This weekend in 1943, ''There Are Such Things'' Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra was the #1 record. This was the first and only week at #1 on Billboard.
The latest social media stats include this: Americans spend 25% of their time on social media.YouTube has viewers now watch 1 billion hours of video each day. 85% of digital video viewers will be YouTube viewers as daily usage of YouTube, is estimated the video-sharing platform will reach 185.9 million monthly US users in 2017. YouTube overall, and even YouTube on mobile alone, reaches more 18-34 and 18-49 year-olds than any cable network in the U.S. Facebook having 2.047 billion monthly active users watching 8 billion videos each day. 100 million hours of video content are watched on Facebook daily. In addition, 81% of all shares come from Facebook. 41% of Millennials use Facebook every day. And, there are now 5 million active advertisers on its platform, up from 4 million in September 2016 and 2 million in February 2015. Instagram has 700 million users of which 250 million are daily users. 51% of Instagram users access the platform daily and 35% say they look at the platform several times per day. Most Instagram users are between 18-29 years old. 88% of Twitter users are on mobile. An average of 500 million tweets are sent every day with 330 million active users. Twitter had 9 million new members sign up in Q1 2017. 81% of millennials check Twitter at least once per day. The Google+1 button is hit 5 billion times per day. 80% of Internet users on Pinterest are female. Eighty-one percent of US consumers use Facebook regularly, compared with Google (79%), Twitter (43%) and Instagram (40%), System1 Research reported.
Pinterest has 110 million monthly active users. 93% of Pinterest users use the platform to plan or make purchases. Pinterest drives 25% of all retail website referral traffic. LinkedIn has 450 million registered members with 100 million active users who spend 17 minutes per month on the site. Tumblr has 555 million users and Weibo has 100 million daily users. Skype has 300 milllion active users and there are 1.000 billion users on Whatsapp. With 900 million active users on Facebook Messenger, 60 billion messages are sent via Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp every day, each with over 1 billion daily users. Netflix now has 75 million streaming subscribers. QQ has 853 million active users. WeChat has 697 million active users while QZone has 640 million. Baidu Tieba has 300 million active users while Viber has 249 million. Sina Weibo has 222 million active users while Line has 215 million. Snapchat has 200 million users and 150 million users are active each day, watching 10 billion videos each day. Over 400 million snaps are shared on Snapchat per day, and almost 9,000 photos are shared every second. YY has 122 million active users; VKontakte has 100 million active users as does BBM and Telegram. Of note, Almost 80% of time spent on social media platforms happens on mobile.
Google Sets Trials For Upgraded Version Of SMS For Businesses. Select retail, travel, food and delivery businesses in the US will soon have a chance to sample Google's new Rich Communication Services. Sign-ups are underway for the upgraded version of SMS, offering features such as branding, interactivity, rich media and analytics. For more, go to:http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-rcs-messaging-available-businesses/
Remember, social media marketing isn't always the tech. It's the people.
Today, traditional TV still accounts for the lion's share of video viewing, but online and mobile are where the growth is. When managed together, TV/digital/mobile hold the potential to drive real impact for advertisers—enabling them to maximize the customers they reach and/or reinforce key messaging across screens. After all, 'It's all about screens'.
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For Monday, February 26, 2018 (Posted on February 27, 2018)
According to Nielsen's National Television Household Universe Estimates, there are 119.6 million TV homes in the U.S. for the 2017-18 TV season.
The Peacock Network
8P 'The Voice' season premiere finished with an average 12.231 million viewers.
9P 'The Voice' finished with an average 12.214 million viewers.
10P 'Good Girls' series premiere finished with an average 5.975 million viewers.
The Tiffany Network
8P 'Kevin Can Wait' ('Wingman') finished with an average 6.049 million viewers.
830P 'Man With A Plan' finished with an average 5.856 million viewers.
9P 'Superior Donuts' finished with an average 5.132 million viewers.
930P 'Living Biblically' series premiere finished with an 5.003 average million viewers.
10P 'Scorpion' finished with an average 4.995 million viewers.
The Alphabet Network
8P 'The Bachelor' finished with an average 6.460 million viewers.
10P 'The Good Doctor' ('Heartfelt') finished with an average 7.780 million viewers.
The Animal Network of Broadcast
8P 'Lucifer' ('High School Poppycock') finished with an average 3.199 million viewers.
9P 'The Resident' ('None The Wiser') finished with an average 3.850 million viewers.
The Little Network That Couldn't …
8P 'DC's Legends of Tomorrow' finished with an average 1.517 million viewers.
9P 'iZombie' finished with an average 1.007 million viewers.
NBC finished with an average 10.140 million viewers.
ABC finished with an average 6.922 million viewers.
CBS finished with an average 5.338 million viewers.
FOX finished with an average 3.525 million viewers.
The CW finished with an average 1.262 million viewers.
Broadcast (Big Five) Networks finished with an estimated 27.187 million viewers, DOWN -341,000 viewers (-0.01%) vs 27.528 SD 2017.
Today In Communication History
On this date in 1968, CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite delivers a scathing editorial on America's chances of winning the Vietnam War.
'We have been too often disappointed by the optimism of the American leaders, both in Vietnam and Washington, to have faith any longer in the silver linings they find in the darkest clouds. … But it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.'
Box Office Weekend 23-25 February 2018 Domestic
#1 'Black Panther' $111,658,835in 4,020 theaters
#2 'Game Night' $ 17,005,332 in 3,488 theaters
#3 'Peter Rabbit' $ 12,760,382 in 3,707 theaters
#4 'Annihilation' $ 11,071,584 in 2,012 theaters
#5 'Fifty Shades Freed' $ 7,147,285 in 3,265 theaters
#6 'Jumanji:Welcome To The Jungle' $ 5,650,497 in 2,519 theaters
#7 'The 15:17 to Paris' $ 3,573,259 in 2,752 theaters
#8 'The Greatest Showman' $ 3,411,649 in 1,601 theaters
#9 'Every Day' $ 3,016,149 in 1,667 theaters
#10'Early Man' $ 1,773,963 in 2,494 theaters
Box Office Weekend 16-19 February 2018 (International)
#1 'Black Panther' $168,700,000 in 48 markets
#2 'The Shape Of Water' $ 12,300,000 in 40 markets
#3 'Maze Runner:The Death Cure' $ 11,000,000 in 66 markets
#4 'The Greatest Showman' $ 9,600,000 in 31 markets
#5 'Ice' $ 8,700,000 in 1 market
#6 'Jumanji:Welcome To The Jungle' $ 4,800,000 in 93 markets
#7 '3 Billboards' $ 4,500,000 in 40 markets
#8 '15:17 To Paris' $ 2,800.000 in 27 markets
#9 'Ferdinand' $ 2,700,000 in 34 markets
#10'Phantom Thread' $ 2,200,000 in 27 markets
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In the UK, Peak time is defined as Early Peak is 17:30 to 20:00 and Late Peak is 20:00 to 23:00.
BBC One #1 broadcast network Monday in the UK as 'MasterChef UK' season premiere #1 program.
7P 'The One Show'
730P 'Inside Out London'
8P 'EastEnders'
830P 'Classic Mary Berry' finished with an average 2.8 million viewers and a 13.2% share.
9P 'MasterChef' season premiere finished with an average 3.8 million viewers and a 18.5% share.
The Little Two
7P 'Top Gear'
8P 'Only Connect'
830P 'University Challenge'
9P 'Collateral'
The Independent One
7P 'Emmerdale'
730P 'Coronation Street'
8P 'The Martin Lewis Money Show'
9P 'Marcella'
8P 'Dispatches'
830P 'Food Unwrapped'
9P '24 Hours In Police Custody' season premiere
The Viacom Five
7P 'Aviva Premiership Rugby Highlights'
8P 'Winter Road Rescue' season premiere
9P 'The Unstoppable Flying Scotsman'
NOTE: While Australian considers Prime Time 6P-Midnight, we use the US prime time system to measure television effectiveness in Australia. Thus 7P-10P is the standard from which this rating is based. Newscasts are considered only as newscasts and not television programs inside or outside of this period except in special periods. The % share is based on the Australian Prime Time 6P-Midnight period.
Nine #1 broadcast network in Australia Monday as 'Married At First Sight' top program.
The First Commercial Network in Australia finished #1 Monday evening with a 29.9% share.
7P 'A Current Affair' finished with an average 902,000 viewers.
730P 'Married At First Sight' finished #1 program Monday evening with an average 1.325 million viewers.
9P 'Travel Guides' finished with an average 673,000 viewers.
The Second Commercial Network in Australia finished with a 29.7% share.
7P 'Home and Away' finished with an average 688,000 viewers.
730P 'My Kitchen Rules' finished with an average 1.074 million viewers.
9P 'The Resident' finished with an average 576,000 viewers.
The CBS Commercial Network in Australia finished with a 16.6% share.
7P 'The Project' finished with an average 629,000 viewers.
730P 'I'm A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here!' finished with an average 579,000 viewers.
9P 'Law & Order:SVU' ('Flight Risk') did not finish in the top 20 programs.
The Alphabet Network in Australia finished with a 18.0% share.
730P '7.30 Report' finished with an average 633,000 viewers.
801P 'Australian Story' finished with an average 608,000 viewers.
831P 'Four Corners' finished with an average 563,000 viewers.
918P 'Media Watch' finished with an average 552,000 viewers.
935P 'Q&A' did not finish in the top 20 programs.
The Special Broadcast Service in Australia finished with a 5.9% share.
730P 'River Cottage Australia' did not finish in the top 20 programs.
830P 'Michael Mosley:Trust Me, I'm A Doctor' did not finish in the top 20 programs.
930P '24 Hours In Emergency' did not finish in the top 20 programs.
Top Newscasts In Australia
#1	SEVEN NEWS	Seven	985,000	viewers #1 in Adelaide & Perth
#2	SEVEN NEWS/TT	Seven	983,000	viewers #1 in Melbourne
#3	NINE NEWS 6:30	Nine	964,000	viewers #1 in Sydney & Brisbane
#4	NINE NEWS	Nine	936,000	viewers Melbourne top market
#5	ABC NEWS-EV	ABC	757,000	viewers Melbourne top market
#6	EYEWITNESS NEWS Ten	457,000	viewers Sydney top market
TUESDAY AUSTRALIAN OVERNIGHT TV RATINGS
Nine #1 broadcast network in Australia Tuesday as 'Married At First Sight' top program.
The First Commercial Network in Australia finished with a 31.4% share.
730P 'Married At First Sight' finished #1 program Tuesday evening with an average 1.253 million viewers.
902P 'Date Night' finished with an average 451,000 viewers.
933P 'Friends With Benefits' did not finish in the top 20 programs.
9P 'The Good Doctor' finished with an average 949,000 viewers.
830P 'Hughesy, We Have A Problem' finished with an average 441,000 viewers.
930P 'NCIS:Los Angeles' ('Uncaged') did not finish in the top 20 programs.
802P 'The Checkout' finished with an average 486,000 viewers.
831P 'Catalyst' finished with an average 388,000 viewers.
930P 'Hannah Gadsby's Nakedy Nudes' did not finish in the top 20 programs.
730P 'Who Do You Think You Are? Jane Seymour' did not finish in the top 20 programs.
830P 'Insight' did not finish in the top 20 programs.
930P 'Dateline' did not finish in the top 20 programs.
#2	NINE NEWS	Nine	945,000	viewers #1 in Sydney
#3	NINE NEWS 6:30	Nine	943,000	viewers #1 in Melbourne & Brisbane
#4	SEVEN NEWS/TT	Seven	921,000	viewers Melbourne top market
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John Coltrane 'Alabama'
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This pebble pool reservoir is easy to install in your garden, or on a patio or floor, using the separate tub as a sump. This is a highly versatile item that can also be used in conservatories, reception areas and other interiors to which a garden feature can add an extra dimension.
Made from toughened plastic this pebble pool can support up to about 100kg and has been designed for all-weather durability so it will not warp or twist. The interlocking lid provides extra strength.
Please Note: The bucket supplied with this product is green, not black.
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Q: Print not giving any output I wrote a code to perform some Metropolis-Hastings MCMC and when I ask for it to print a list of results, nothing happens not even an error message. Does anyone know why I'm not getting any output?
def Gaussian(sigma, x, mu):
    p = 1/(sigma*np.sqrt(2*np.pi))*np.exp(-(x-mu)**2/(2*sigma**2))
    return p

N = 10
i = 0
x[0] = 0.5
results = []

for i in range (0,N):
    y = x[i] + np.random.normal(0,0.01)
    H = Gaussian(1,y,1)/Gaussian(1,x[i],1)
    alpha = np.random.uniform(1,1)
    if H >= alpha:
        x[i+1]=y
        results.append(y)

print(results)

A: You can not initiate a python list as x[0] = 0.5
if you want to hardcore x[0] = 0.5 then use it as x=[0.5]
hope this works for you

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Aug 06, 2018Passenger compartment fuse panel '03-'04: Mercury Grand Marquis – fuse box diagram – passenger compartment '05-'11: Mercury Grand Marquis 4th Generation – fuse box – passenger compartment. The fuse panel is located below and to the left of the steering wheel by the brake pedal. Remove the panel cover to access the fuses.
The video above shows how to replace blown fuses in the interior fuse box of your 1999 Mercury Grand Marquis in addition to the fuse panel diagram location. Electrical components such as your map light, radio, heated seats, high beams, power windows all have fuses and if they suddenly stop working, chances are you have a fuse that has blown out.


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Home Chevron icon It indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options. Executive Lifestyle
Meet Yusaku Maezawa, the Japanese billionaire giving away $9 million on Twitter and looking for a 'female partner' to fly to the moon with him and Elon Musk
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Maezawa's pledge to give $9 million to his Twitter followers is the second most retweeted tweet of all time.
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa ignited a frenzy on Twitter on New Year's Day when he pledged to give $9 million to his followers as part of an experiment to see if money would increase their happiness.
Maezawa also made headlines in 2018 for purchasing the first tickets for Elon Musk's SpaceX flights around the moon.
Maezawa built a $2 billion fortune running online clothing retailer Zozotown, Forbes reported.
Before fashion, Maezawa had a career in punk rock.
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When most billionaires want to fund scientific research, they donate to universities or hospitals. Not Yusaku Maezawa.
In a New Year's Day tweet, the Japanese fashion tycoon announced that he would give away $9 million to a group of his Twitter followers to see if money really does make people happier, Reuters reported. Maezawa, 44, previously made headlines for buying out SpaceX's first flight around the moon for himself and a group of artists in 2018.
Keep reading to learn how the eccentric billionaire made and spends his fortune.
Yusaku Maezawa was born in Japan's eastern Chiba prefecture in 1975.
Yusaku Maezawa.
KIM KYUNG-HOON/Reuters
Maezawa still lives in Chiba, according to Forbes.
5歳の時にすでに8段飛んでたらしい笑。 When I was 5 years old. This is not Donald Judd😁
A post shared by Yusaku Maezawa (@yusaku2020) on Mar 16, 2018 at 3:44pm PDT Mar 16, 2018 at 3:44pm PDT
He also has an apartment in Tokyo's ritzy Hiroo district, according to The Times.
Maezawa knew early in life that he did not want to be a traditional businessman.
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa attends a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo.
In a 2004 interview, Maezawa said that "seeing all the tired faces on my morning commutes" inspired him to forgo college and a traditional white-collar job after graduating from Japan's prestigious Waseda Jitsugyo High School, according to The Daily Beast. Maezawa briefly moved to the United States with his then-girlfriend, before returning to Japan.
Maezawa turned his passion for music into his first business, launching a CD and record mail-order business in 1995, The Daily Beast reported. The first albums Maezawa sold were from the personal collection he built up while living in the United States.
He also had a career in punk rock.
DAVID MCNEW/AFP via Getty Images
At the time, Maezawa went by the stage name YOU X SUCK as the drummer for 1990s punk rock band Switch Style, Conde Nast Traveler reported. The name lives on his Twitter handle, @yousuck2020.
In videos from the group's 1997 "....TO INFINITY" tour, Maezawa can be seen headbanging while playing the drums. The group released an EP in 1995 and subsequently another four albums before Maezawa announced that he was taking a break from music in 2001, according to Discogs.
Maezawa made his multibillion-dollar fortune from his 38% stake in the parent company of Japanese fashion retailers ZOZOTOWN and fashion app WEAR.
SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son (L) and Zozo founder Yusaku Maezawa (R) pose for photographs during a press conference on September 12, 2019 in Tokyo, Japan.
The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images
Zozo's clothing brands are extremely popular among Japanese youth but little known outside the country. Sales topped $1 billion in 2019, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Yahoo Japan acquired a majority stake in Zozo in September 2019 for ¥400 billion ($3.65 billion), according to The Japan Times. Maezawa stepped down as Zozo's CEO as a part of the deal.
Maezawa founded the company, then called Start Today, in 1998, according to Forbes. Zozo began as an online retail business platform and started selling clothing in 2000. Maezawa didn't abandon his musical roots until 2005, when Zozo stopped selling albums; he severed the music division of the company that year "as some of the music they handled were not suitable for the company image in going public," he explained, according to The Daily Beast.
Zozo even tried to launch an affordable bespoke clothing brand in 2018.
Former Zozo President Yusaku Maezawa sheds tears during a press conference on September 12, 2019 in Tokyo, Japan.
採寸ボディースーツ「ZOZOSUIT」を無料配布します。ZOZOTOWNにて予約開始。一瞬であなたの体型を採寸できます。プライベートブランドでの活用はもちろん、ZOZOTOWNでのお買い物も圧倒的に便利に。川上から川下まで、ボディーデータ利用でファッション産業を新次元に導きます。 ZOZOSUITは、街頭やコラボ企業経由等、圧倒的な速度で世界中で無料で配りまくり、体重計や体温計のように一家に一台の存在にします。そして、世界中のお客様の体型を最も知り尽くした企業となり、そのデータを元に一人一人にピッタリの服を提供する、世界でも類を見ないファッション企業を目指します。 http://zozo.jp/zozosuit I'm happy to announce the ZOZOSUIT, a revolutionary new device that can accurately measure your body for perfect fitting clothes. Preorder now!! http://zozosuit.com #ZOZOSUIT #ZOZOTOWN
A post shared by Yusaku Maezawa (@yusaku2020) on Nov 21, 2017 at 7:18pm PST Nov 21, 2017 at 7:18pm PST
The service, called ZOZO, gave customers a free bodysuit covered with sensors that worked with an app to take their exact measurements, according to the Wall Street Journal. The brand folded in August 2019, as "users felt the suits were simply too cumbersome to use, given that they were mostly ordering casual clothing that didn't need a perfect fit," The Journal reported.
Maezawa has since turned his attention to a new product — Zozomat, according to The Journal. Zozomat is a paper sheet that can take custom measurements of user's feet so they can order bespoke shoes from select brands.
"I believe everyone will be able to measure their precise body size within the next few years," Maezawa told The Journal. "The hard part is how to make things once that happens. [Making custom clothes quickly] is going to be an absolute requirement in the fashion industry. If you can deliver custom clothes within a week, customers may be willing to wait. Then there won't be excess inventory, there won't be waste, and there won't be excessive discounts."
The success of Zozo's other brands have made Maezawa the 22nd richest person in Japan.
Yasuka Maezawa is a Japanese entrepreneur and billionaire who is paying SpaceX to fly him and a handful of artists around the moon inside a Big Falcon Rocket spaceship.
Chris Carlson/AP
breakfast meeting with Jack Dorsey
A post shared by Yusaku Maezawa (@yusaku2020) on Mar 10, 2018 at 8:01am PST Mar 10, 2018 at 8:01am PST
Forbes estimates that his net worth is $2 billion.
Just because Maezawa got out of the music business doesn't mean he's not investing in other forms of art. He spent $98 million on contemporary art in two days in 2016.
Maezawa's $110.5 million Jean-Michel Basquiat painting on display during the auction.
DON EMMERT/AFP via Getty Images
Maezawa bought pieces from Adrian Ghenie, Jeff Koons, Christopher Woo, and a $57.3 million for a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting during the two-day shopping spree at Sotheby's, according to The Japan Times.
In May 2017, Maezawa broke records by spending $110.5 million for another Jean-Michel Basquiat painting called "Untitled," the largest amount ever paid for at auction for a US artist, according to The Chicago Tribune.
"I am happy to announce that I just won this masterpiece," he wrote on Instagram after the auction. "When I first encountered this painting, I was struck with so much excitement and gratitude for my love of art. I want to share that experience with as many people as possible."
Maezawa plans to build a museum in Chiba to share his art with the public, according to Forbes. For now, much of Maezawa's collection, including the $22.6 million "Buste de Femme" by Picasso and a $6 million sculpture by Alexander Calder, are displayed in his Toyko apartment, according to The Times.
He's also funding and preparing to embark on an elaborate space mission, a move that Elon Musk said restored his faith in humanity.
SpaceX founder and chief executive Elon Musk, left, speaks after announcing Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, right, as the first private passenger on a trip around the moon.
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has described Maezawa as incredibly brave and said Maezawa's desire to participate in and pay for this trip restored Musk's faith in humanity.
"This is going to be dangerous. This is no walk in the park," Business Insider previously reported that Musk said of the mission.
He added: "It's not 100% certain that we succeed in getting this to flight ... But we're going to do everything humanly possible to bring it to flight as fast as we can and as safely as we can."
It's unclear how much the moon's first space tourist paid for access to the lunar flight, though Musk has said Maezawa is "paying a lot of money that would help with the ship and its booster," Business Insider reported.
"He's ultimately paying for the average citizen to travel to other planets," Musk said.
Maezawa was inspired to bring artists with him to space after thinking about the art Basquiat might have created had he flown through space.
Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese fashion billionaire, poses with a Starship model and SpaceX spacesuit helmet before a news conference in Tokyo on October 9, 2018. Maezawa plans to ride Starship around the moon in 2023.
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"One day when I was staring at his painting, I thought, 'What if Basquiat had gone to space and had seen the moon — what wonderful masterpiece would he have created?'" Maezawa said, according to CNET.
Maezawa said the artists will be part of a project called #dearmoon, which will involve them creating work inspired by their lunar journey.
Maezawa is also searching for a "female partner" to accompany him on reality TV.
Maezawa shared an application for the position on Twitter Sunday with the text: "[WANTED!!!] Why not be the 'first woman' to travel to the moon?"
—Yusaku Maezawa (MZ) 前澤友作 (@yousuck2020) January 12, 2020
The search will be chronicled in "Yusaku Maezawa's serious matchmaking documentary" called "Full Moon Lovers," Business Insider reported. Criteria for applicants include being over 20 years old, having an interest in space travel, and being "someone who wishes for world peace."
The deadline for applications is January 17, and Maezawa aims to have selected a partner to take to the moon by March this year, according to the website.
Despite Maezawa's overwhelming love of art, he also dabbles in science. The billionaire tweeted on New Year's Day that he is giving away $9 million on Twitter for a "social experiment" to see if it makes his followers happier.
Maezawa tweeted that he would give $9,000 to 1,000 of his Twitter followers who retweeted a particular message, Reuters reported.
It is now the second most retweeted tweet in Twitter's history, according to MarketWatch. The most retweeted tweet ever also came from Maezawa. The 2019 tweet was advertising a similar, but smaller-scale giveaway, offering 100 of his followers a share of 100 million Japanese yen ($923,000 at the time), according to CNBC.
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Last year was undoubtedly the year of extreme self-care, and with good reason. Between a pandemic, a presidential election, and a summer of protests against police brutality, self-care has evolved beyond a modern luxury and into a literal means of surviving during a pivotal time in our nation's history.
If you go by social media, it's easy to think self-care is simply a series of Instagram posts, candles, bubble baths, and yoga pants mainly accessible to well-off young people in expensive urban areas and the suburbs. However, the origins of today's self-care industry are deeply embedded in the Black Power movement of the 1960s and '70s, in underserved communities across the country.
The medical community latched onto the term self-care in the 1950s, before the Black Panther Party popularized — and politicized — it in the United States during the height of the civil rights movement. The fullness of the Black Panther Party's legacy has only recently been uncovered, and yet it can be seen everywhere in the wellness space.
"Holistic needs of Black communities and Black activists have always been a part of community organizers' tactics. Black women, often queer, pushed other activists toward caring for themselves as a necessary, everyday revolutionary practice," says Maryam K. Aziz, Ph.D, postdoctoral research fellow at Penn State University.
Trailblazers and former Black Panther leaders Angela Davis and Ericka Huggins adopted mindfulness techniques and movement arts like yoga and meditation while incarcerated. Following their release, they both began championing the power of proper nutrition and physical movement to preserve one's mental health while navigating an inequitable, sociopolitical system, creating wellness programs for adults and children in recreational centers across the country, in neighborhoods like Brooklyn, New York, and Oakland, California.
"It is exactly this type of activism that [is] so prevalent today, and it is really rooted in the work of Black women," adds Aziz, who is also a self-defense instructor.
Self-defense was a key component of the Panther's famed Ten-Point Program, outlined by cofounders Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966. By the time the Ten-Point Program was modified in 1972, medical racism had become an increased focus. The Black Panther Party's persona as militant warriors was birthed out of necessity to preserve the health of Black bodies.
"Rather than focusing on the physicality of such moves, the [Black Panther] Party's martial arts program emphasized appreciating one's Black body as it was," says Aziz. "Martial arts practice teaches Black women and girls to unlearn the idea that they are not strong and powerful. This is important for not only young Black girls, but for young, Black, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming youth as well." Instagram pages like Black Women Martial Arts continue the legacy, showcasing the power of martial arts reinforcing self-defense and self-healing.
By the 1980s, activist and writer Audre Lorde amplified the intersectionality of self-care and civil rights as she dealt with cancer, in her book A Burst of Light: and Other Essays, which now stands as a manifesto for the Black female identity.
"Audre Lorde's teachings highlight how self-preservation is foundational for community building," says Sabre Burroughs, cofounder of Newark Water Coalition. Based in Newark, New Jersey, the organization focuses on making clean water accessible for all. Burroughs says revisiting civil rights icons' teachings on self-preservation has helped her maintain her mental health at this time.
Today the self-care industry has ballooned into an estimated $10 billion business, with a large portion coming from the beauty sector. Following the Black Lives Matter protests in June, a number of beauty brands spoke out against racial injustice before the majority of their social media feeds noticeably moved on.
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The elementary school student council is the first chance many students have to express their opinions and learn more about running for a public office. The role of treasurer is a significant one because the treasurer is responsible for handling the money the school raises and budgeting that money for special events. Election ideas for the treasurer position include creative ways to get the word out about the campaign.
Look for play money from board games like Monopoly and fake money designed for children. Check with teacher supply stores for inexpensive fake money used to teach counting. Use brightly colored markers to decorate each piece of paper money, writing "Vote for X" in bold letters on both sides. Pass the fake money out to students voting in the election.
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Cut long rectangular shapes from light-green construction paper, making each piece the same size and shape as a dollar bill. Use darker colors of green markers to decorate each piece, making it look like a million dollar bill. Take a photograph of the candidate and have black and white copies made, getting one for each piece of paper. Cut the photograph copies into an oval shape and glue to the center of the paper. Write the candidate's name on the top and stick a piece of double sided tape on the back. Tape at least one of the papers to every locker in the school, or the lockers in the main hallway.
Bathroom Posters
Make small posters that explain the reasons the candidate is running for student council treasurer. List any upcoming events or fundraisers that will bring money into the school. Explain what the money from each event will go towards and what the candidate plans to do as treasurer. Write the lists on plain sheets of white or brown craft paper and decorate the edges with stamps, stickers and other decorative elements. Hang the posters in the bathroom stalls, where students will see the signs every day.
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Draw an image of an old-fashioned looking cash register, with a stick figure standing beside it. Glue a picture of the candidate's face onto the top of the stick figure. Write the campaign slogan at the bottom, such as "Voting for X Makes Cents." Make dozens of copies of the poster and hang it around the school in common areas, including the cafeteria and gym.
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Are We Looking at the new iPad 5?
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Multiple rumors were circling around in the digital world about the development of the new iPad 5. Recent pictures have emerged on the scene when a site, who are the actually the accessories maker based in China, published them earlier today.
The photos show the rear of the new iPad 5, possibly with 9.7 inch display and similar look and feel to the recently released iPad mini. The back panel is an iridescent black with a shinning apple logo at its center. The back cover thickness seems to be the same as the iPad mini. The design in the pictures suggest a black and slate or white and silver combination.There were no specs leaked alongside the photos, however we might see significant improvement in the hardware section for the new iPad 5.
The images do not officially confirm the new iPad 5, but it does provide an overview of what Apple's new iPad 5 will look like. Rumored to be released in March, recent reports about the new iPad 5 indicate that the launch date has been delayed till October of this year. The delay in the release date makes total sense. The new iPad mini has just kicked in the market and the iPad 3 is still doing pretty good and both the devices are withstanding tough competition from the Kindle Fire HD, Google Nexus 7 and Samsung Galaxy Tab.
Back cover of the fifth-generation iPad?
The authenticity of the images could not be falsified because they were released from the same source who leaked the first images of the new iPhone 5, 5 months before its launch. The timing of these new photos of the new iPad 5 is also to be noticed. If, let's say, the actual release date is the October, then it makes a total sense that these pictures might represent the new iPad 5.
There is still nothing officially from the Apple or any of its employees, but we firmly believe that the new iPad 5 is going to hit the stores in October, as expected. Other Apple products that are also rumored to be released in 2013 include the iPhone 5S, a budget version of the iPhone and a new iPad mini with Retina Display.
With all the rumors going around and the pictures released today, it is clear that the current CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, is handling things at Apple more differently than the former (late) CEO Steve Jobs.
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Well I think these are some rumors. You also mentioned. But sometimes rumurs are true/ There is still nothing officially from the Apple inc or any of its employees. Lets see
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But this rumor is backed by a very powerful source and they also leaked the first picture for the iPhone 5 as well, which came out later and testified the pictures leaked earlier. Plus with the increasing competition in the Tablet world, Apple do need something very soon
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Gillian Flynn's debut novel, Sharp Objects, is a psychological thriller set in a small Missouri town. In it Camille Preaker, a reporter currently living in Chicago, is sent to her hometown of Wind Gap, Missouri to cover the murder of one girl and the disappearance of another. As Camille searches for information on the murder of both girls, which is revealed early on, she is also confronted with her own turbulent past, her problems, and very dysfunctional family.
Camille has stayed away from Wind Gap for a good reason. It is a small town full of dark secrets, including many in Camille's own family. All the woman in Sharp Objects, including Camille, are deeply flawed. Do not expect to necessarily like Camille, she is fragile and many of her actions are self destructive, but perhaps, in the end, you will feel some empathy for her. She can be tragic, disturbing, and darkly humorous.
Gillian Flynn is a very good writer. The strength of Flynn's book is not so much in the suspense, since most readers will easily guess where the story is heading, but in the revelations that Flynn slowly discloses and in the descriptions of the small town and the people. Everyone is scarred in some way. The tone is very atmospheric, as Flynn slowly reveals more information and the back-story.
If you haven't read Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn yet, I don't want to say too much. I felt like many reviews gave away too much information when part of the pleasure in reading any creepy psychological thriller is slowly gaining more information and insight into the characters as well as the narrator. Even when I knew where it was going, I liked having Flynn direct me there.
"....Preaker, read the wires sometime. I guess there was a murder last August? Little girl strangled?"
"What do you care? They're not your kids, they're Wind Gap kids." He stood up, sat back down, rearranged some papers. "I bet I'm pretty safe to say Chicago never cared about Wind Gap kids before." His voice cracked at the end. Vickery sucked on his cigarette, twisted a chunky gold pinky ring, blinked in quick succession. I wondered suddenly if he was going to cry.
"Are there any theories about Ann?" I asked.
"Some loony, some crazy man musta done it. Some guy rides through town, forgot to take his pills, voices are talking to him. Something like 'at."
He stopped, pulled a package of chaw from his back pocket, buried a fat pinch in his gumline and worked it until he got the first tiny cut to let the tobacco in. The lining of my mouth began tingling in sympathy.
"Why else would you pull out a dead little girl's teeth?"
I really enjoyed this book when I read it as well. I liked that I went into reading the book not really knowing anything about it and agree that sometimes reviews can give too much away. Great review!
Thanks, Samantha! I know I put Sharp Objects and Dark Places on my wish list based on blog reviews, but, thankfully, I waited so long to read them that I forgot what was said (or if anything was revealed) before I read them, other than they were highly recommended. I hope Gillian Flynn is working on another novel!
Glad to see you loved this one. It's another book that's been sitting on my TBR shelves for years! I love psychological thrillers, so I'm thinking I will love it, too.
Oh, you will enjoy it if you like psychological thrillers!


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More turmoil in Singapore track and field.
Just weeks after the resignation of coach Margaret Oh as coach to Shanti Pereira during the Southeast Asian Games, Singapore Athletics (SA) has now seen the sudden resignation of two of its relay coaches.
On 1 January, the Straits Times reported that Melvin Tan and Hamzah Afik have both resigned from their positions as the relay team's coaches.
Both coaches contracts were due to run till January 2021.
Tan told the Straits Times, "It was emotionally draining. The environment is not so conducive for coaches if we always have to deal with other issues instead of focusing on what we're supposed to be doing, which is coaching."
Hamzah, a former national sprinter himself, did not say much.
But the little which he said painted a sorry picture of the state of the sport.
"There's just no way I can progress the sport. I'm very sad and it's time to move on," he told the Straits Times.
Pereira, in quotes published in the Straits Times, suggested that there was "a lot of different information going around" in relation to the selection criteria for the relay teams.
Another sprinter Timothee Yap said the criteria used to select the relay runners were different from what the athletes were told.
Singapore Athletics' executive director Malik Aljunied told the Straits Times that the departures were a result of "differences in coaching philosophies and opinions within the fraternity" and not selection criteria.
"While we have our criteria, the head coach will make the final call in terms of the four runners and the order, that has always been SA's policy," he said.
He added that the association has identified a few people who can take over the roles left vacant by the duo.
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Nevertheless, I ventured on the long walk from Queensferry Road to Bristo Square to take in Edinburgh Fringe central for the first time this year.
And what a sight it was. I think. I don't really know anymore. This is the only time I see Edinburgh now, so it's normal for a giant purple cow to be there, and for pictures of strangers faces to be posted on every wall, while huge tents are erected in what's supposed to be a university establishment.
Excitingly, I spotted the first signs of Laugh Out London's invasion of Edinburgh taking success, thanks to Jigsaw kindly putting up our kind words about them on their poster (see top image). More excitement was to follow, after I picked up Laugh Out London's media pass, meaning we get to hang around with Robin Williams and snort coke round the back of the Pleasance.
I then ventured into the Mile for the first time this year, and was only flyered twice. Disappointing. Was expecting a lot more. Lazy wet students. I did stop for a bit and listened to some pelt out a song about AIDS from Rent, so that was nice.
Next up was a lovely chat with Sad Faces (1pm, Underbelly and one of our sketch recommendations), which you can hear in the podcast, before heading off to my first show of the Fringe – Phil O'Shea (Belushi's, 3.40pm, free).
Not only was this the first show I saw at the Fringe this year, but it was also the first one I was in. I won't tell you what part I played though so not to spoil it, but let's just say I left covered in butter.
I then bumped into Adam Larter (one of our free recommendations) before joining him for a surprisingly delicious vegetarian curry at some place near his venue. He wore a hat. Go see his show, like I intend to some point this week.
The greatest moment of the day came when I spotted a poster for the return of my favourite performer from last year, Olivia Rhee. In 2011, she enthralled all with her one woman show the Absolutely Amazing Adventures of the Singing Acupuncturist and now she is back with the Absolutely Agitated Acupuncturist Returns to Find IT! I'm pretty certain IT doesn't stand for Information Technology in this context, but that doesn't make me any less excited to see this show about one Korean-American lady trying to fulfill her dream of becoming a musical star. She's at the Meadow Bar at 1pm, and it's free, so go go go.
Next up was more chats with Checkley and Bush (podcast coming soon), before my second show of the Fringe – the excellent Thomas Hardie (7.3opm, Voodoo Rooms, free).
Then, a brief interview with Caroline Hardie on a chaise longue before battling the rain to bring you this nonsense. I hope you're happy. Because I am.
Shows seen so far: Two. Which means an average of one per day. Which is quite rubbish. Sorry.
Celebrity spots: Mark Thomas walking around near Lothian Road. As if he's not Mark Thomas but someone normal.
Slightly gothy/retro looking girls I've fallen in love with: Three today, which is okay going I think. Plus another one who I think was leading a ghost tour, so it doesn't really count.


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Brook Benton – Kiddio
Kiddio, Benton's single was the fourth time in a year that Brook Benton had topped the R&B charts. However, two of those times, he'd hit number one with duet partner, Dinah Washington.
Kiddio was covered by Johnny Littlejohn in 1966 under the title "Kitty O". Johnny Littlejohn scaled back the instrumentation (no violins, or orchestral sounds) and applied an electric Blues guitar treatment to the song.
Kiddio was later covered in 1990 by Native American Blues artist Charlie Musselwhite in 1990 under the title "Kiddeo". Charlie Musselwhite emphasized the modern harmonica Blues in his version.
In 1990, The Paladins recorded a roots-rockabilly version on their Let's Buzz album.
In 1995 John Lee Hooker included a version on his Chill Out album
No one sings his song better than Benton, himself.. "Kiddio" also continued Brook Benton's popularity on the pop charts by making it his fifth top-ten pop single. Enjoy!
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Daniel Torday
Perpetual Fear
My shul is in Philadelphia, directly across the state from Pittsburgh, where eleven Jews were murdered in October at the Tree of Life Synagogue by an anti-Semite with an AR-15. To have been young and Jewish in this country in the '80s and '90s was to have lived in a subconscious state of fear. That was my idiosyncratic experience, anyway—unconscious, inarticulable fear, the product of knowing enough of the "never again" canon, of a Jewish education that emphasized Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi and Deborah Lipstadt, Schindler's List and Shoah and Night and Fog. In the '60s and '70s, the facts of the Shoah were being recovered. No one needed to be reminded not to forget while actively endeavoring to remember.
I don't like the electric lock on the door to our shul.
Jews and Jewishness
On the desk in front of me are two objects. The first is a gray and black key fob that I've taken off my keychain. Inside it somewhere is a transmitter that opens the lock on the door to the synagogue I joined two years ago.
Until recently my youngest daughter went to daycare at this synagogue, which is why we were given this key fob. Every morning when she was at school there, my daughter walked up to the door to the shul and opened it herself using the fob. She still does that when we come to shul on Saturday mornings. The plastic panel outside the door has a small lightbulb that turns green when you touch the key fob to it. The door clicks open when the light goes on. It brings her a little thrill to see it light up, to open this locked door herself.
My shul is in Philadelphia, directly across the state from Pittsburgh, where eleven Jews were murdered in October at the Tree of Life Synagogue by an anti-Semite with an AR-15. To have been young and Jewish in this country in the '80s and '90s was to have lived in a subconscious state of fear. That was my idiosyncratic experience, anyway—unconscious, inarticulable fear, the product of knowing enough of the "never again" canon, of a Jewish education that emphasized Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi and Deborah Lipstadt, Schindler's List and Shoah and Night and Fog. In the '60s and '70s, the facts of the Shoah were being recovered. No one needed to be reminded not to forget while actively endeavoring to remember. In the following decades, never forgetting meant not forgetting that for centuries anti-Semitism has been the first recourse of western cultures under duress. The events of the 1940s were a culmination. Now, after Squirrel Hill, with violence against Jews underway, there are new facts to uncover. The fear is unambiguous—the fear that again no precaution can keep you safe from the kind of hatred that was unleashed in Pittsburgh.
Ashkenazi Jews don't own the market on this fear. "How irrelevantly remote seem all our usual refined optimisms and intellectual and moral consolations in the presence of a need of help!" William James wrote in The Varieties of Religious Experience. "Help is the real core of the religious problem: Help! Help! No prophet can claim to bring a final message unless he says things that will have the sound of reality in the ears of victims such as these." James was writing barely a century after George Washington himself considered the Jewish plight in America. If he needed hired help, according to Ron Chernow, Washington felt that "if they are good workmen, they could be Mohammedans, Jews or Christians of any sect . . . no man's sentiments are more opposed to any kind of restraint upon religious principles than mine are." In 1794 there weren't a lot of Jewish carpenters around for Washington to hire.
What the Jewish American does know is that William James's "Help! Help!" carries inside it a reciprocal. The instinct in another bent of mind, an irreligious mind, to think instead, "Harm! Harm!" It is the central instinct of anti-Semitism. As James watched his Varieties come to publication in the States in 1902, the first pogroms were underway in Russia. "My world was small and ugly," the narrator of Isaac Babel's "The Story of My Dovecote" repeats after he's been attacked in a pogrom in 1905. "I closed my eyes so I wouldn't see it . . . Somewhere far away disaster rode across [the earth] on a large horse, but the sound of its hooves grew weaker and vanished, and silence, the bitter silence that can descend on children in times of misfortune, dissolved the boundary between my body and the unmoving earth." Fear turns into harm, and in turn becomes a newer fear. A fear that lasts generations. "A single coin in a box causes a noisy rattle," Rabbi Moses Isserles of Krakow wrote in 1570. All he was talking about was a fear of the uninitiated practicing Jewish mysticism.
I don't like the electric lock on the door to our shul. A sanctuary is not a sanctuary if it locks out people who do not have key fobs. The deity cannot be locked out of a sanctuary, and locks will not keep the deity in. Anyway, those same locks are turned off on Saturdays, as it is against halakhic law for many members to use electric locks on the sabbath. On Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year, the doors never close at all, as kids run in and out and play on the playground. On those days there is no reason to lock the doors. What about all the others?
The second object on my desk is a piece of cloth in a gold frame. The summer before last, my cousin Hajnal came from Budapest to the States for her first visit in years. She left me a yellow star sewn onto a blue cloth that was once part of a shirtsleeve. It is the star her grandmother, my great-grandmother, was forced to wear through the last years of World War II, at the end of which more than 400,000 Hungarian Jews, including essentially all of my father's family, were taken to Auschwitz to their deaths.
Ever since my cousin passed it along to me I've wondered what to do with this yellow star. I'm not sure I could get anything done if every morning I had to stop to look at this framed cloth hanging on the wall, this cloth that according to family lore exists only because my great-grandmother's non-Jewish maid managed to grab it while my great-grandmother was being deported. Yet all year I have been forced to look at this yellow star anyway, because after Hajnal gave it to me I left it on my desk and never moved it. If I were to hang it on my wall I would probably look at it less, but I'm not comfortable elevating it to that kind of prominence. The cloth is fear incarnate, and I can't spend every day looking directly at fear.
Like the key fob, the cloth began to take on a different meaning after the murder of eleven Jews at the Tree of Life Synagogue. The murderer stated afterward that his intention was to "kill all Jews." Fear is no longer on the wall, or on my desk. "Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear," is how Philip Roth opens The Plot Against America, the 2004 novel in which he imagines Charles Lindbergh, an anti-Semite and Nazi sympathizer, being elected President in 1940, and which has become a dark mirror and menacing premonition of our current moment. I come back to the line again and again for its clear-eyed retrospection. Alongside the details of an imagined America that supports Nazi Germany, Roth slips in earnest reflections on his own childhood, on the childhood of the main character, whose name is Philip. The family he imagines is his family, as it might have been if blighted by terror.
The yellow star my great-grandmother wore allowed Hungarian Nazis, the Arrow Cross, to target her, but also narrowed her own sense of what she could be, what she might do. Hungarian Jews had been among the most assimilated in Europe and held positions of political power. Hajnal's father, György, was a commissar in the communist party before the war. Having survived—by the odd luck of being drafted into Hungary's Nazi-collaborating army and shipped to the Eastern Front—he returned to that position. He raised Hajnal in Budapest.
Meanwhile, in 1948, my grandparents immigrated with my father to New York. They lived in this country as Catholics. A fear presided over their days. It passed through us like X-rays when we entered their Long Island home, a space wholly devoid of religious markers. There was nothing on their walls or shelves to suggest a family history of any kind. Instead their living room was filled with tchotchkes from the yearly trips they took to Eastern Europe. The attic where we stayed was covered in socialist-realist depictions of muscular men and humble women busy at physical labor. In place of books their shelves were piled high with cartons of hoarded Marlboro Reds.
As an adult, my father converted back to Judaism. My mother was Jewish, and so I was raised Jewish, less than a generation removed from my grandparents' escape. Like them I wanted my identity to be a choice. I was expected to succeed professionally, so whether I became a rabbi, or an actuary, or a radiologist seemed as significant as any deeper religious identification. That I chose more or less secular novelist and professor meant I settled on an identity.
Now my Judaism has come to feel like less and less of a choice. I've always been drawn to people of faith, whether Jesuits or Sufis or all those American believers William James interviewed a century ago—I don't know what I believe, but I love knowing others do believe. "I'm frightened by the devil," Joni Mitchell sings, "and I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid." I've been reading Kabbalistic texts with a rabbi friend for a couple years, and feel interested in the joy central to the teachings of Rabbi Nachman. I like that Annie Dillard is interested in him, too. There's an intellectual pleasure in honing my ability to read Hebrew again. Yet here I am still more apt to quote Joni Mitchell than a tzadik.
The yellow star my great-grandmother wore was on her arm until just before she was deported in 1944. At first it marked her as someone who could be shunned, then dispossessed, then abused, then slaughtered. Then, after the war, it carried the inchoate hidden terror that something like this could happen again. My cousin Hajnal has lived as a secular atheist in Hungary her whole life, and so that star meant something different when it hung on the wall in her agnostic house. I can't say exactly what. She's given her whole life over to not talking about such things. Her English has never been strong enough, and my Hungarian too insufficient. I've slept in her house in the Buda hills for days without being able to ask. The star's meaning changed when it changed hands between us, and it can change again. It will.
A fear pervades these memories. One thing the past month bears out: we can feel vulnerable without being forced to wear anything on our sleeves. A swastika on a synagogue wall, a swastika on a bathroom stall, a swastika in a meme posted to Gab or Twitter: they're all the same swastika. The meaning is fixed. "Assimilation," Hannah Arendt writes, "never was a real menace to the survival of the Jews. Whether they were accepted or they were welcomed it was because they were Jews." The star on my desk makes clear that my grandparents were always hiding. My grandmother was already hiding when she converted in the 1930s. My grandfather was hiding behind her when they moved to the States. Now it's clear that I've been hiding, too.
As I turn the key fob over and over in my hand, I realize that maybe my ambivalence about the identifiability of my own Judaism is not the inheritance of American Freedom I've always thought it was. Maybe it's the old fear, the Dohány Street Ghetto fear. Maybe the only way to maintain a sanctuary is to leave it unlocked, come what may. After Squirrel Hill, no more hiding. No locked doors. The choices to make going forward are the ones we're willing to make on our own, never the ones imposed on us. The great danger in the response to "Help! Help!," and "Harm! Harm!," and fear of all varieties, is that it threatens to become anger. To forestall joy. William James knew better than to succumb: "the world is all the richer for having the devil in it," he wrote. So we accept, act, move forward. And yet remember that James didn't stop there. "The world is all the richer for having the devil in it," the passage ends, "so long as we keep our foot upon his neck."
Make Ford Great Again
This corporate carnival is what Walmart calls "Shareholders' Week," though it's open to associates only.
How Much Are They Paying You for This Shit
Alice Hines
Scores of police in riot gear were ready at the northeast corner; perhaps there were as many at the other gates.
Last Night at Zuccotti Park
Issue 26 Dirty Work
Why Are We in the Middle East?
Toward an Index of the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture
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NORTHWICH Victoria have signed a footballer from Cape Verde to shore up their defence ahead of tomorrow's Evo-Stik League Premier Division clash with Mickleover Sports.
Pedro Monteiro, who has played in the Premier League, will cover for injury absentees Matthew Brown (groin) and Steve Woods (groin).
"It's a boost for us," said Vics boss Andy Preece.
The 32-year-old started the current campaign at League One club MK Dons following a successful summer trial, but left in September when a short-term deal expired.
He has trained with Shrewsbury Town since then.
Monteiro arrived in England four years ago in a £1m transfer to then Championship side Southampton from Portuguese top-flight club Belenenses.
A switch to West Bromwich Albion for the same fee followed a year later.
He was part of a Championship-winning team at the Hawthorns, making a handful of appearances in English football's top flight during his second year.
The Portuguese-born stopper, also known as Pele, switched to Falkirk in 2009 where he featured ten times.
He will play initially for Northwich on non-contract terms.


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Poetry Toolkit: 'How to Read a Poem'
Literary criticism has quite a bad press among certain circles, and I confess to be myself a bit wary of it. As much as I like the insights it can offer, when dissecting texts like a coroner would a corpse these people indeed tend to, more often than not, go overboard with dry analysis if not complete wild fancies. An invite like here on 'how to read a poem', made not by a poet but a literary critic like Terry Eagleton, therefore had me a bit on edge, although curious.
To his credit, the author himself is well aware that literary criticism can be labelled -as he puts it- 'bombast, hot air, specious manipulation'. Funnily enough then, he starts this whole book by defending his field, those roots he traces back to that noble exercise: rhetoric. It's a nice endeavour, and one that certainly makes for a punchy and interesting argument:
'Language if the medium in which both Culture and culture -literary art and human society- come to consciousness; and literary criticism is thus a sensitivity to the thickness and intricacy of the medium which makes us what we are.'
Great! Great, but then so what?
Then follow an attempt to define poetry through a discussion of Russian Formalism, and, beyond, the work of Yury Lotman. It's interesting, but I must say a dry and circumvallated way to finally arrive at what is, strikingly, a rough and imperfect definition:
'Poetry is language organized in such a way as to generate certain effects, and to this extend it has much in common with everyday speech. One difference, as we have seen, is that everyday utterances skim over the flavour and texture of words in order to achieve their ends; whereas in poetry, one of these ends is precisely the exploration of words in themselves. This is how poetry can be rhetorical without being crudely instrumental.'
Or, again:
'If a piece of writing had no striking verbal effects at all, and no moral insights, then it is doubtful we will call it a poem.'
Obvious, isn't it? Obvious and certainly not very helpful. And that, THAT is exactly the problem with such a book. It's unnecessarily too circumvallated, to make obvious statements, that are not helpful.
Now, don't get me wrong! I love his take on how to fully engage with poems via an holistic approach encompassing both form and content, those interplay -in harmony or at loggerhead- is the core of poetical effects. Discussing it all, Terry Eagleton can indeed here again throw some punchy insights:
'(…) the language of a poem is constitutive of its ideas.'
'(…) poetry grants us the actual experience of seeing meaning take shape as a practice.'
'Poetry is not supposed to be a bare record of experience; (…) it is also expected to draw deeper or wider implications from what it observes.'
But, considering his target audience is (as I assume, in any case!) people willing to fully engage with the deepest meaning of poems while not having a clue on how to go about it, I don't think such intricate yet given babbling will serve as an easy way in. The numerous example he gives might read like boring and unengaging school homework. Worst, among all poets available to really nail his point he choose... the difficult to read T.S. Eliot! The tools could have been handed down otherwise than in such a pompous way.
Or could they?
I mean, was the goal of the author here to enrich and educate novice poetry readers, or to show off his abilities to dissert on even the most challenging poems of the English canon? I wonder, and that's a point going beyond this book alone and Terry Eagleton per se to touch at literary criticism as a discipline. And here we are, going full circle. Yes, literary criticism can be rich in interesting and punchy insights. Yet, left into the sole hands of academics who are not poet themselves it tend to turn condescending, self-indulgent, and arrogantly showy. OUCH!
Who was the first to admit that literary criticism could be perceived as 'bombast, hot air, specious manipulation'? Well...


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A águia-perdigueira (Aquila fasciata, até 2014 Hieraaetus fasciatus), também chamada, pela tradução de outras línguas (como o inglês), "águia-de-bonelli", é uma ave pertencente à família Accipitridae.

Esta ave de rapina, devido a ser uma espécie em perigo de extinção, foi classificada em Portugal com o estatuto de conservação "raro" (Livro vermelho dos vertebrados de Portugal continental) e na União Europeia com o estatuto de conservação prioritário.

Tem um comprimento de cerca de 60 cm e envergadura de asas de 165 cm.

Habita normalmente regiões montanhosas, onde pode ser avistada a pairar, geralmente aos pares. A sua silhueta em voo é facilmente confundida com a águia-real, mas distingue-se por ter as guias mais curtas e a cauda mais longa e direita.

São predominantemente residentes, mas alguns indivíduos migram para zonas mais quentes no inverno.

A águia-perdigueira está presente no emblema do Portimonense, sendo também a mascote desta equipa de futebol do Algarve.

Caracterização morfológica
Águia de tamanho médio, com uma envergadura que varia entre o 1,5 m e 1,8 m, e com peso entre 1500 a 2400 gr. Em adulta com plumagem escura nas asas, branca na parte inferior do corpo, e com mancha branca típica no centro do dorso (bem visível por ter penas muito escuras em redor). Tem uma banda negra na extremidade da cauda. Os juvenis têm uma plumagem totalmente distinta, com asas castanho escuras e restante corpo em tons castanho amarelados, cor de mel. Progressivamente, ao longo de 4 anos, vai adquirindo os padrões da plumagem adulta. Os sexos distinguem-se sobretudo pelo tamanho, cerca de 20 cm de diferença em termos de envergadura.

Em voo, as águias perdigueiras adultas podem confundir-se com outras aves com plumagem branca (ou claro) no ventre como a águia-calçada ou a águia-cobreira. A identificação faz-se sobretudo pela detecção do contraste entre o branco do ventre e o negro das asas, muito nítido na águia perdigueiras, mas também pela mancha branca dorsal e observação do aspecto mais pesado do voo, planando em círculos comparativamente mais abertos e lentos. A grandes distancias a sua silhueta distingue-se da águia-real pelo facto de ter a ponta das asas ligeiramente dobrada para baixo (contrariamente à águia-real).

Distribuição mundial
A águia-perdigueira possui uma distribuição indo-africana, numa extensa área desde a Indochina, Sul da Ásia, Médio Oriente, e em África a Norte e Sul do Saara até à bacia do Mediterrâneo. No Paleárctico Ocidental encontra-se confinada à zona mediterrânica, nomeadamente na Albânia, Bulgária, Chipre, Croácia, Espanha, França, Grécia, Itália, Portugal e Turquia. A águia-perdigueira é uma espécie protegida principalmente na Península Ibérica. Adapta-se a praticamente todos os ambiente excepto desertos e florestas serradas.

A nível europeu, tem sido assinalada uma drástica redução da população em diversas regiões nomeadamente França e na metade norte da Península Ibérica.

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Aves de Portugal
Aves descritas em 1822

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Pritzker says Madigan should step down as party chairman
FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2020, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker speaks in Springfield, Ill. Central and west-central Illinois, including the capital city, became the latest region of the state to face restrictions on social interaction Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020, ... more >
By JOHN O'CONNOR - Associated Press - Thursday, November 5, 2020
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Thursday said that Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan should step down as chairman of the state Democratic Party, agreeing with the state's senior U.S. senator that the longtime political powerbroker's implication in a federal bribery investigation hurt Democrats in Tuesday's elections.
Pritzker made a more general statement on Wednesday that voters jaded by a spate of corruption involving Democrats had helped sink his administration's top priority, implementing a graduated income tax that would hit the wealthy harder and generate billions of dollars to help Illinois' sad fiscal state.
But after Sen. Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Springfield, told WTTW-TV Wednesday night that he blamed Democratic electoral setbacks on Madigan's refusal to step aside after he was named by the Justice Department as a participant in a decade-long bribery scheme admitted to by utility company ComEd, Pritzker went further.
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"I agree with Sen. Durbin that opponents were able to tap into voters)'concerns about corruption and their lack of trust in government …," Pritzker said of the failed tax amendment. "The Republicans and the billionaires that sided with them were able to use the speaker as their foil and that hurt our ability, our state's ability to get things done."
When asked if that meant he supported new party leadership, Pritzker said, "Yes."
Pritzker and Durbin were joined late Thursday by Sen. Tammy Duckworth in calling for Madigan to step down as state party leader. However, she went further by calling for Madigan's ouster as Illinois House speaker.
"The ongoing investigation surrounding Speaker Madigan is an unnecessary distraction and makes it harder to carry out the work of helping the people of Illinois," Duckworth said in a statement, adding new leadership is need to continue the progress Democrats have made at the state level.
ComEd admitted in a deferred prosecution agreement signed with the U.S. attorney for the northern district of Illinois in July that its top administrators offered no-work lobbyist jobs and sub-contracts to allies of Madigan in exchange for favorable legislation. Madigan is identified in the document only as House speaker. He has not been charged with a crime and denies wrongdoing.
His spokeswomen did not respond to a request for comment Thursday.
Durbin, the Senates' No. 2 Democrat, who cruised to re-election to a fifth term on Tuesday, told WTTW-TV that Democrats "paid a heavy price" for Madigan's refusal to step away from the party chairmanship. He also has rebuffed calls to give up the speaker's gavel, which has had held for 35 of the past 37 years, controlling Springfield's agenda and choosing the politicians who pursue it.
"Candidates who had little or no connection with him whatsoever were being tarred as Madigan allies who are behind corruption," Durbin said.
In addition to the failed tax amendment, Democrats lost seats in the state House, Madigan ally and Supreme Court Justice Thomas Kilbride failed to win retention to a third, 10-year term. In central Illinois, Democrat Betsy Dirksen Londrigan, after losing to GOP Rep. Rodney Davis by 2,000 votes in 2018, was hammered in her rematch by a Davis ad that tied her to Madigan, although the two don't interact, that said "Betsy Londrigan will make Washington more corrupt."
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