Liposuction is one of the most popular plastic surgery procedures in Turkey. Liposuction aims to reshape specific regions of the body — improving body contours and proportions by removing stubborn, unwanted body fat.
Treatable areas of the body can include the thighs, arms, hips, waist, back, chest and chin.
ESTEVIP plastic surgeons are experienced, board-certified medical professionals who can safely perform liposuction procedure to achieve the most desired results. Liposuction in Turkey can treat a wide array of areas where excess fat is deposited including stomach, hips, love handles, thighs, breasts, neck, arms and back.
It is the latest in advanced techniques that uses ultrasound energy to selectively target unwanted fat for smooth, precise results with minimal downtime and fast recovery.
Another added advantage to VASER liposuction that distinguishes it from traditional body-slimming techniques is its excellent skin tightening effect. In a few weeks following VASER liposuction in Turkey, your skin will contract in the treated areas, leaving you with smooth, firm and natural looking results.
The best candidate for liposuction is an individual of average or slightly above-average weight.
Complete blood tests and cardiac evaluation.
Do not ingest any food or drink after the time set by the doctor. Pack a bag with comfortable shoes and loose fitting clothes.
Shower or bathe normally. Do not use facial creams or body lotions.
Liposuction is performed under general anesthesia or intravenous sedation. Your plastic surgeon will make a small incision in the skin, where a cannula is inserted through the incisions and moved back and forth to loosen fat. A surgical vacuum is attached to the cannula is used to help as power suction to dislodge fat out of the body.
During the first 48 hours following liposuction, patients experience varying degree of bruising and swelling.
Bruising normally disappears within seven to ten days. Stitches are usually removed within a week of surgery.
Most patients can expect 90 percent of the swelling to be subsided in about 4 weeks. Depending on the extent of stitches used with incisions, swelling may persist for 8-10 weeks.
How long before I see results from my Liposuction?
You will be able to see an obvious improvement after liposuction. In 3 weeks, you will see a more evident difference in the shape and body profile. The final results will be noticeable will be witnessed after 6 months.
Will my incisions from Liposuction be visible?
Incisions made during liposuction are very small, about 5mm and are typically placed in hidden locations.


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Check Out The Nureva Design Studio, The Central Library's High-Tech Workspace
by Nathan Kunz September 16, 2019 September 16, 2019
Using technology from Calgary tech company Nureva Inc., InceptionU is the host of the new space looking to foster innovation and collaboration for Calgarians.
Photograph courtesy of Nureva Inc.
Calgarians have a new space to help make their big ideas a reality.
The Nureva Design Studio opened on the third floor of the Central Library on September 12, 2019, fully equipped with technology from Calgary company Nureva Inc. specifically designed to help traverse the barricades that come with collaborative work.
"In an ideal world, I would like to see people who are trying to deal with big challenges saying 'Here's a place that I can come, I can bring my team and I can occupy a different kind of space with different kinds of tools available to me," explains Greg Hart, co-founder of InceptionU, the non-profit educational organization which hosts the design studio.
"We're creating a permission space, because innovation requires a permission space."
Central to the design studio is the triple Nureva Wall, consisting of three touch-screen surfaces resembling whiteboards which are positioned around a corner in the room. Paired with Nureva's Span Workspace — an expansive cloud-based software which acts as a canvas for work on the wall — the screens become an interactive hub for jotting down and sharing ideas.
The technology is made to mimic and streamline already familiar group-work habits, creating a digital stand-in that can be shared within the space or in real-time with others using Span Workspace around the world. In its simplest function, tapping on the screen brings up digital sticky notes, which can then be filled with text or sketches and moved around the display. When working with a remote partner, the same workspace can be shared, offering an immediate transfer of ideas.
"We went out and watched what a lot of people were doing — with sticky notes and flip charts and whiteboards — and what we tried to do was replicate some of that and enhance it in the digital world," explains Nancy Knowlton, CEO of Nureva Inc. and former co-founder of SMART Technologies Inc., creator of the SMART Board. "What we want to do is just make it easy for people to collaborate when nobody teaches them how to collaborate."
The design studio is also equipped with Nureva's audio conferencing system, including their Microphone Mist technology which utilizes "thousands of intelligent virtual microphones" to pick up audio from those working throughout the space.
InceptionU moved into its space in the Central Library in February 2019. The organization holds a number of educational programs, specifically focusing on technology and design, with broader objectives of creating skills to help thrive in the uncertain future.
Ultimately, Hart says the Nureva Design Studio represents a mutual pursuit held by Nureva Inc., InceptionU and the Calgary Public Library. "We all share the same ambition, which is to launch Calgary into a globally significant position in a different narrative than exists now or in the past," says Hart. "That's the kind of the thing that ties all of us together."
Access to the Nureva Design Studio can be coordinated through the InceptionU website here.
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This book, written by Margaret Craven, is a truly beautiful book. I thoroughly enjoyed it. It is the story of a man who works in a remote place with people whose culture is eroding and being absorbed by the wider world. It is just lovely and I highly recommend it.
It is a book that calls you to enjoy it, I thought about it during the busy day and couldn't wait to get to it. It is a small book, too small – it didn't last long enough.
Luckily I have a mountain of other great books waiting, or I might be miserable right now having completed it.
PS: There is a movie, so I will look out for it!
I am sending a big bottle of cool English rain in the post to you!
I will look out for this book, it sounds good!
Have you heard of the film or book 'The man who planted trees'?
I am not sure about the person who uploaded it to youtube though 'popef**ker'?
It is great little animation and story to watch and Christipher Plummer the narrator has a lovely soothing voice.
Make a cup of tea, put your feet up and watch it if you can.
Martin, I can't get that video. The link didn't work! Boo hoo. I had my cup of tea and my feet up and I wanted to watch it. Maybe I'll search the username.


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With more and more forms of beautification techniques coming up, it is hard to decide which to opt for and which not. Tattoos came up as a method of enhancing one's social status. Tattoos are mostly done by teens or by athletes. Teens do it majorly to show off and tattoo is designated to be a cool aspect.
Athletes have their own reasons for having tattoos. Maximum of them do so in order to hide scars and the sort. Permanent makeup is considered to be a cosmetic technique in which tattoo is used as a form of design or in others, it helps in designing one's eyebrows if the person has lost it either due to old age, or due to some disease and the like.
Makeup is a very frustrating experience for some people and so cosmetic tattooing is done to get rid of that hassle. No matter what, the risk involving cosmetic tattooing cannot be overlooked.
The major risk of cosmetic tattooing is the disastrous spread of infection. Unsterile tattooing instruments and needles pose a deadly threat of transfer of detestable diseases like HIV, hepatitis and other such diseases.
The ink used for pigmentation may not suit you and this can lead to skin irritation, rashes and the like. Your blood cannot be of any help to the needy. Many times, although the tattoo artist has undergone hygienic conditions, the germs still remain intact.
Once a permanent tattoo is done it is as good as irreversible. Nothing is stable in this world. Who knows when we want to get rid of the tattoo we created with so much of effort? Although there has been a good advancement in laser technologies, but to get a tattoo removed is difficult, very much painful and quite costly. Removing the entire tattoo without leaving scars is almost impossible.
Another imposing threat to the procedure of tattooing is by getting it done by an untrained physician. Extreme accuracy and precision is required while doing cosmetic tattooing. Even a slight disturbance in the concentration level will not only destroy the effort but it will cause extreme pain and swelling.
Make sure that you see the license of the physician and if possible, even talk to the customers who have undergone cosmetic tattooing from that physician. It is better to be sure than sorry.
This is a very common problem that almost every alternate cosmetic tattoo user undergoes. With time, fashion changes and so does the latest trend. What might have looked desirable, eye catching and beautiful might now be considered off the trend and something that evokes no botheration from the crowd.
When you undergo any form of beautification procedure, your first aim is to attract the crowd and leave it like that every time it sees you. If that is not the case, then why undergo a painful treatment?
There have been reports of adverse allergic reactions due to the presence of foreign pigments from cosmetic tattooing. These allergic reactions are troublesome and pose threat to the person.
There is also a fair risk of forming keloids, which are scars that grow much beyond their normal boundaries. These occur more frequently as a direct consequence of tattoo removal.


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Lawmakers hate the idea—but the Pentagon says closing excess bases would save $2 billion a year.
Another week, another finding of wasteful defense spending. Last Wednesday, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) charged that the Pentagon wasted some $28 million over the past decade on uniforms for the Afghan army. That's real money but $28 million in waste over 10 years should not be grabbing headlines. To put it in perspective, $28 million is 0.0004 percent of the defense budget over the past 10 years—a truly insignificant figure.
Of course, small pockets of waste are scattered all over the budget; a few million dollars in wasteful spending in one small area, like buying uniforms for another country's military, means there is likely a few million dollars of waste in hundreds of other accounts. But there are much larger, systemic sources of waste in the defense budget and as lawmakers prepare to take up the annual defense authorization bills this week, they should not let SIGAR's findings distract from the much-needed broader reforms.
One of the largest sources of waste in the defense budget—and one that Congress can fix with a single piece of legislation—is the massive number of excess bases and facilities the Defense Department maintains here in the United States. The military has requested permission from Congress to launch another round of base closures year after year, projecting savings of roughly $2 billion per year if allowed to close some of this excess infrastructure. But every year, Congress denies those requests.
With few exceptions, the Department of Defense can't close installations in the United States without permission from Congress. Since the end of the Cold War, the only way Congress has allowed these closures to happen is through an independent commission, known as a Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) commission. A new BRAC is desperately needed: The Defense Department estimates it has more than 20 percent excess capacity, most of it in the Air Force and Army. For that reason, I joined 45 scholars from 33 think tanks and academic institutions across the political spectrum in signing an open letter calling on Congress to step up to the challenge and authorize a new round of BRAC this year.
To be clear, no one is suggesting that the military cut all of its excess capacity. This BRAC would eliminate only 2 to 5 percent of the excess, leaving plenty of room to grow the force in the future if necessary. In the meantime, a BRAC would eliminate $2 billion in wasteful spending each year, much-needed money as lawmakers fight over the size of the defense budget.
The problem, of course, is political. This wasteful spending on excess bases and facilities pays for people's salaries—mostly government civilian employees and contractors—and eliminating the waste means eliminating some of those jobs. Moreover, the pain from base closures is concentrated in a small number of communities, which will lobby fiercely against closures in Congress.
Instead of focusing only on who might be hurt in the future by closing excess bases, Congress should also consider who is being hurt right now by not allowing the military to close excess bases—the opportunity costs. In a constrained budget environment, $2 billion wasted on unneeded bases and facilities means that $2 billion in other priorities are going unmet. For example, the Pentagon has been forced to make significant cuts to military construction and facilities sustainment accounts over the past several years, depriving bases of the funding needed for basic upkeep and maintenance. Buildings, roads and runways that are dilapidated and falling apart harm military readiness and local communities. It is death by a thousand cuts.
But to be successful, this BRAC will need to be different than previous rounds, and Congress needs to write the BRAC legislation carefully to ensure it is different. First, the legislation should specify that each action recommended by the BRAC commission break even within five years—i.e. the savings over five years must be greater than or equal to the implementation costs. Too many of the moves in the previous BRAC had high upfront costs but little ongoing savings. Second, this BRAC must consider the need to maintain geographic diversity in major military installations so the military can recruit from a broad segment of U.S. society. It is hard for the military to recruit in regions where it does not have as much of a connection to the local communities, and recruiting the best and brightest requires casting a broad net. Third, the legislation should create a more robust and independent cost estimation process to check the math before the commission makes its recommendations. A valid criticism of the most recent BRAC is that the costs and savings estimates were overly optimistic. Having an independent body outside the Defense Department conduct a separate assessment of each BRAC recommendation would help prevent this from happening again.
Several key members of Congress have expressed some support for BRAC this year, including Sen. John McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Rep. Adam Smith, ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee. There finally appears to be real momentum to implement a new BRAC commission. Congress should seize it.
Todd Harrison is director of the Aerospace Security Project and director of the Defense Budget Analysis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where he leads efforts to provide in-depth, nonpartisan research and analysis of space security, air power and defense funding issues.


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Inside design is one of the most essential methods used by many householders to adorn their homes. It's a difficult process and entails many steps. The primary is planning of all the inside house angles by an expert. It's all the time better that one takes help from the most effective designers within the business. Householders have a great penchant to do some adorn design for the house.
Interior redesign is also a process, which is quite just like inside decoration. Nevertheless, it will increase the value of the house in order that homeowners can profit from it. In contrast to interior ornament it's not targeted on making the house more engaging for potential patrons. Home staging on the other hand contains growing the value of the house by adding showcases so that consumers genuinely become all in favour of it. This process additionally entails use of extra furnishings and alter of the wall colors together with lights.
Such process additionally consists of taking the wants of the client into consideration so that he's fully glad with the look of the house. It entails exploring his numerous ideas, that are mixed with the creativity of the designer to produce a visually appealing decor of the house. Inside design involves altering every side of the house together with its bedroom colour scheme, curtains and the furnishings of the house. Even the situation of power retailers might be modified in such a plan.
Interior beautify design course of involves making heavy modifications to the house. It is done so that owners are able to refresh their very own environment. They need to make their home a greater to dwell, so opt for this procedure. Such modifications are obligatory as per the life-style needs of the owners. They are executed so that the house is able to adopt higher to the approach to life of a person. Changes in flooring, home windows and lighting fixtures are additionally made as part of such inside ornament plans.
The interior decoration is an enormous subject and owners have to decide on all the necessary components with caution. Anything goes incorrect and the complete home seems to be like a multitude. Therefore, it has to maintain points the liberty of motion in the house after the ornament plan has been implemented. As well as, the room's view ought to be lovely after the introduction of plan. The entire ornament of the room ought to be balanced so that too many ornament items will not be positioned in one nook. A home-owner also has to deal with all the elements if he needs to rent the house.
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"The art in the building moves me; it compliments the style of the building and adds to the selling features," said Marc Katz, an artist's representative and artist himself, who has been a resident at NuRiver Landing since last June. "It is amazing to know that all the work was done by Lorraine because her styles are so diverse," he said. "I've heard a lot of compliments on her work by other residents," said Katz.


Lisa received her B.S.N. from Boston University School of Nursing. She worked as an RN at Children's Hospital for several years before receiving her M.S. in Maternal-Child Nursing from Boston College School of Nursing. She is certified as a pediatric nurse practitioner through the American Nurses Credentialing Center and the Pediatric Nursing Certification Board. She is a Fellow of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners and is a member of the Massachusetts Coalition of Nurse Practitioners. Lisa serves on the Boston College Advisory Committee for Education and is an advanced practice clinical preceptor for Boston College and Northeastern University. She has been a long-term volunteer as a medical supervisor for the Pan Mass Challenge (a fund-raiser for the Jimmy Fund), and is involved in her parish health ministry.


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Cargo and Contraband during the Civil War
May 3, 2012 April 23, 2020 by textmessageguest, posted in Civil War, Digital Projects
Today's post is written by Stephanie Stegman, the special media projects volunteer at the National Archives at Fort Worth. This is the third post in a three-part series. (If you missed them, follow these links to the first and second posts.)
Cargo – it was the main business of the New Orleans Custom House. After the captain submitted his manifest, employees inspected the vessel's cargo and appraised the cargo's value. Then, they collected taxes or stored merchandise in the Custom House's bonded warehouses. These records of commerce are part of Record Group 36: Records of the U.S. Customs Service, 1745 – 1997, preserved at the National Archive at Fort Worth.
Before the Civil War, there were two different types of cargo that came into the Port of New Orleans. Each required a different list, or manifest. The Cargo Manifest was for all goods onboard the vessel with a description of each package, its contents, and the owner or shipper.
(ARC ID 6210353) Cargo manifest of S.S. Texas from Galveston to New Orleans arrived March 5, 1860
The second dealt with human cargo. Slaves were not recognized as passengers (who were listed on a separate form) but, rather, cargo "held to service and labor." The Slave Manifest was for all enslaved persons (and occasionally free persons of color) onboard with a list of each person's name, sex, age, height, color, and owner. In 1860, the Steam Ship Texas made weekly trips between the Galveston and New Orleans. On one such trip, the S.S.Texas had both types of cargo: 140 bales of cotton and 28 slaves from New Braunfels, Texas near San Antonio.
ARC ID 6210358 Front and back of Slave manifest of S.S. Texas from La Salle to New Orleans arrived March 5, 1860
Louisiana's state-owned slaves also participated in state commerce as they worked to clear obstructions along the Mississippi river ways. However, Slave Manifests are the only records in the New Orleans Custom House's collection that show the city's booming slave trade before the war. The 1807 slave trade law prohibited the importation of slaves from foreign countries into the United States. Therefore, the master of the ship had to sign the Slave Manifest to testify to the validity of his human cargo, just like he signed for merchandise.
After the Union captured New Orleans in May 1862, President Lincoln reopened the port to commerce and the U.S. Treasury declared some goods contraband of war. In September, the Foreign Entry and Clearance Clerk at the New York Custom House warned his superior that, while not contraband, other goods had the potential to impact the war. The clerk estimated over 25,000 oz. of quinine and other "indispensible medicine[s]" had been shipped from New York to New Orleans since June. "[M]any other articles sadly needed in the Rebel army, it is believed, have found their way into rebel hands," wrote the clerk, "…and if so, the opening of these ports may be considered of doubtful benefit, and may perhaps be the means of prolonging the war."
ARC ID 6016161 New York Customs Collector Ciran Barney wrote the U.S. Secretary of Treasury Salmon P. Chase about the concerns of clerk Sidney J. Norton. Collector Ciran Barney to S.P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, 09/18/1862
With Union loyalists in charge of the Custom House, goods entering New Orleans still went through inspection and appraisal. In November 1862, the Brig Poinsett entered the Port of New Orleans bound from Boston. Its manifest showed 269 tons of cargo and a crew of 9 men. The charcoal was not allowed to land while the cherry juice and cordials, subsequently, were confiscated by a Customs House inspector after he discovered that they were, in fact, whiskey.
ARC ID 6016138 Coaster's Manifest for Brig Poinsett of Boston, 1862
Commerce continued during the war, but the volume and type of cargo had changed.
[Editor's note: This post was updated to reflect the correct spelling of New Braunfels, Texas and not "New Brunsfels, Texas" as originally posted.]
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2 thoughts on "Cargo and Contraband during the Civil War"
Wendy Crawford says:
Hi – I love the article (and the series), as I am a minor amateur historian (especially the Civil War). However, I would like to change one tiny thing. In Ms. Stedman's article she notes "New Brunsfels, Texas near San Antonio" which is not true. The city is correctly identified as "New Braunfels" on the manifest. Having spent many hours there, it is one of the neatest cities in Texas.
Bob Coren says:
If you look closely at the SS Texas slave manifest, the slaves were coming from A.J. Chambers, a shipper in New Braunfels, Texas, not New Brunsfels. Sorry to nitpick.


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UN: Unity is essential for Somalis to achieve lasting peace
Unity is essential for Somalis to achieve lasting peace and stability, the top United Nations political affairs official said on Thursday during a visit to the Horn of Africa country, which faces numerous challenges, including the establishment of an effective federal government system and a combat against Al-Shabab insurgents.
"I wanted to come to show how important Somalia is to the United Nations," Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo said in an interview after meeting with Federal President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmaajo at the presidential palace in the Somali capital. Mogadishu.
"It's a high priority" for her and UN Secretary-General António Guterres, she added.
The visit is her first field trip since she was appointed to the high-ranking position one month ago and is part of a regional tour of three countries in the East Africa, including Kenya and Nigeria.
"I had a very good discussion with the President, and it is very clear Somalia has made a great deal of progress over the last decade," Ms. DiCarlo stated, adding that she had assured the President of the UN's continued support to Somalia.
Ms. DiCarlo expressed satisfaction with the progress the country has achieved on the political and security fronts and noted recent efforts to expedite the constitutional review process.
Speaking at the presidential palace, Ms. DiCarlo said the aim of her first field visit was to support the ongoing political and peace processes in the country as well as explore how best to assist Somalia to overcome some of its challenges, ranging from the humanitarian situation and security to the political agenda.
The UN official commended the work undertaken by the federal constitutional bodies and the recently held National Constitutional Convention that underscored inclusivity, cooperation, and compromise for the good of the country as critical aspects for finalizing the constitutional review process within this year.
"Somalia is at a critical juncture. Progress on the constitutional review could lead to a breakthrough. Unity of Somalis is essential to advance federalism, reduce violence, defeat extremism, tackle the humanitarian challenges and deliver real benefits to the population," the Under-Secretary-General added.
Also today, the Security Council issued a Presidential Statement on Somalia.
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Tom Holland And Zendaya: Spider-Man co-stars confirmed as a couple!
By Carrie McCarthy, December 14, 2021
If you've ever looked at co-stars Tom Holland and Zendaya and felt your spidey sense tingling, there's a reason for that. The duo has finally come out as a real-life couple, and fans are going wild over the adorable pairing.
The two young actors, both 25, have been hitting the talk show circuit as part of the promotional push for their new movie, Spider-Man: No Way Home. It's the first time the loved-up stars have gone public with their romance, though social media users have speculated for some time over whether the twosome's chemistry was manufactured or if there was a genuine spark.
Way back in 2017, sources told PEOPLE that there was romance afoot, and in early 2021 Page Six published photos of the lovebirds kissing in a car.
Just this past Tuesday, paparazzi caught Holland and Zendaya on a dinner date in NYC, though Holland's affection for his stunning significant other was obvious in interviews the Spider-Man cast did for the Associated Press in London.
When a reporter asked Holland about his girlfriend, he referenced her red carpet appearance, saying, "There she is, looking beautiful, might I add — as ever. [She's] very wise, she's like an owl. She's like a wise owl."
Hilarious animal comparisons aside, it's easy to see the admiration the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology has for his partner, and it seems the affection goes both ways. Zendaya, who has been in the spotlight since childhood thanks to work as a child model and backup dancer as well as a role on the Disney Channel show Shake It Up, helped Holland cope with the sudden fame that came with joining the Marvel Universe.
Discussing how the couple supports each other while navigating the ups and downs of Hollywood, Zendaya told reporters, "I think one is just by supporting, you know, just being there. I think sometimes you just have to be a person to vent to, someone to just be there and listen."
Explaining the difference between her journey to celebrity and Holland's, Zendaya said, "I was lucky enough to where my life didn't change overnight. I started when I was young so it was kind of like a slow progression so I kind of got to learn it as I went and figure it out and get my footing a little bit whereas for him, it was so much all at once because when you're Spider-Man, that's kind of how it works… I have an extreme amount of empathy for that."
Despite the increasingly public way in which the young couple is showcasing their relationship, they're notorious for trying to keep their private life private. "One of the downsides of our fame is that privacy isn't really in our control anymore," Holland said, "and the moment you think is between two people that love each other very much is now a moment that is shared with the entire world."Spider-Man: No Way Home hits theaters on Friday, December 17.
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Athlon's take on the Huskies
Posted by Jon Fisch
If it's June, it must be time for the college football preview magazines to begin hitting the newsstands.
And that means our annual entries examining what they are saying about the Huskies (and with the usual caveat that yes, I know these predictions don't mean anything and that all that matters is what happens on the field this fall. I realize further that my opinion doesn't mean anything. Your opinion doesn't mean anything. Lou Holtz's opinion doesn't mean anything — especially Lou Holtz's. But it's a long off-season and if we decided just to wait until we saw the Huskies on the field again to talk about them, we obviously would have very little to talk about until then. So it's in the spirit of thinking that talking and analyzing and speculating about college football is half the fun of it all that we do this. Okay, lecture over for this year).
First up, Athlon's, which picks UW ninth in the Pac-10 this year, where I would imagine most of these magazines will.
In fact, here is how Athlon's sees the Pac-10:
1, USC
2, Cal
3, Oregon
4, Oregon State
5, Arizona State
6, UCLA
7, Stanford
8, Arizona
9, Washington
10, Washington State
Really not much to argue with there from my perspective. The first three are pretty much how everyone is going to see it. The middle five will likely have some variation in the pre-season picks and figures to be pretty fluid once games start, as well. But OSU has begun to earn a lot of benefit of the doubt and I think the Beavers may be a consensus fourth heading into the season.
And UW and WSU did nothing last year and have so much uncertainty heading into this season that it has to expected the two in-state teams will be picked at the bottom this year. UW will get the nod over the Cougars from almost everyone, I think, due largely to Jake Locker and the feeling that Steve Sarkisian will get a lot more out of the talent on hand than did Tyrone Willingham (again with the obvious caveat that it would be impossible to get less).
Athlon's All-Pac-10 First Team doesn't include any Huskies.
The second team features Locker and Daniel Te'o-Nesheim, and the third team has D'Andre Goodwin and E.J. Savannah.
In its unit rankings, Athlon's judges UW this way, on a scale of 1-10, one being the best:
QB — 3
RB — 10
WR/TE — 7
OL — 9
DL — 9
LB — 9
DB — 10
I'm sure a lot of you will find cause to argue with those, and it would be little surprise if units like LB would rank a lot higher at the end of the season. But again, the stench of 0-12 and a team that was barely competitive the last two months of the season is going to take a while to overcome.
The team preview is pretty detailed and I won't repeat it all here, though for the hard-core fans, it probably doesn't contain a whole lot you don't already know. Most interesting may be the answer to this question — which teams have have the second-longest losing streaks in the nation after UW's 14? SMU and Iowa State, each with 10.
Maybe most interesting to UW fans is the "Scouting The Huskies" segment in which opposing anonymous coaches "size up Washington."
Here are those comments: "I think it's going to be a process. I don't know how long it will take. It's going to take a year or two to recruit probably to be competitive in the conference. … (Quarterback) Jake Locker makes a difference, there's no question — his leadership, his skill. … I thought their team speed on defense was very suspect. Their talent level on defense was not very good. It was shocking to see, to tell you the truth. It was shocking to see how slow they were, and not real physical, either. They need to get some people in there. … A chance of scenery is going to make it better for them. I don't know if it's going to happen overnight. (Steve) Sarkisian knows what he's doing. He's worked for Pete Carroll. He's going to have a good handle on doing things. They'll probably do a lot of what USC does, while tweaking it a little bit. It's going to be a battle for this new staff, with the trust factor wanting to get their own players in there. Inserting your own culture can be tough."
The magazine also lists UW No. 76 out of the 120 teams in the country — Arizona, picked eighth in the Pac-10, is at 58 while WSU is at 88, sandwiching the Huskies.
Athlon's national champ is Florida with a top ten following of Oklahoma, Texas, USC Ohio State, Alabama, Penn State, Virginia Tech, Oklahoma State and Ole Miss.


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I'm back today with my final recap from our trip to Portland. Of course, there will be more food but today it's all about our overall trip.
Besides Feast Portland we explored Portland and the surrounding area.
After riding the MAX light rail into the city center, checking into the Hilton Downtown and picking up my Feast blogger pass we decided to wander around the city with no destination in mind.
First up was lunch at one of the many food carts! Next we stopped in The Spice & Tea Exchange of Portland and Powell's Books before getting ready to our first Feast event.
Friday we rented a car and headed to Multnomah Falls.
After checking out the falls and snapping a few photos we continued along the Columbia River Gorge to Hood River for Lunch.The views were breathtaking.
Once in Hood River we decided on lunch at Double Mountain Brewery.
Nick enjoyed a pint of Hop Lava.
We split a greek salad and truffle shuffle pizza.
After lunch we walked around town. Hood River has a cute little downtown lined with shops and restaurants. Of course we had to stop at Mike's for ice cream! The baby demanded it. I love that they offered smaller portions too.
We couldn't leave without a stop at Full Sail Brewery! Unfortunately we missed the brewery tour, but that's ok since I wouldn't have been able to enjoy any beers.
Instead Nick went for a flight of beers. Afterwards he said he wished I could have split it with him. Next time babe.
On our way back to Portland we stopped at the Bonneville Dam and geeked out. The fish ladder was pretty cool and we were able to watch a fair amount of fish make their way up the ladder.
Friday evening was mellow -- dinner at Bottle + Kitchen and an early night.
Saturday before Feast we strolled around the city. I had the freshest blueberry pancakes at Bijou Cafe before heading to the Portland Art Museum and then Feast for more food.
Sunday we wandered around the city for a bit then packed our bags before heading to Feast and home.
Although we didn't see everything we wanted to there's always next time.
I highly recommend visiting OR. We can't wait to go back and explore more. Lucky us it's about an hour flight from Tahoe!


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Quarter of Yorkshire tourism firms fear going bust in 2022, survey finds
More than a quarter of Yorkshire tourism firms fear their business is "quite likely to fail" in 2022 as the pandemic continues to hit their operations, a new survey has suggested.
By Ian Hirst
Saturday, 1st January 2022, 11:45 am
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Ongoing research being conducted by the Tourism Alliance with the support of Welcome to Yorkshire has spoken to 150 regional tourism businesses so far.
Peter Box, chairman of Welcome to Yorkshire, urged more tourism companies in the region to participate in the online survey to help make the case to the Government to provide extra support for the industry in 2022 as it continues to deal with the impact of Covid on business operations.
He said: "Tourism and hospitality are the backbone of Yorkshire's economy and must be protected.
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"This survey presents an opportunity for the industry to make a powerful case for further and sustained Government intervention."
To date, the survey has found one-third of businesses have reported seeing their revenue fall by more than 50 per cent since Covid arrived, with more than half having fewer than two months of cash reserves to rely on.
Almost five per of respondents said it was "very likely" their business would fail in 2022 given the current outlook.
A further 26 per cent saying they were "quite likely" to fail.
A total of 57 per cent of firms have seen their revenues fall by at least 20 per cent, with 33 per cent reporting income decline of over half their pre-pandemic levels.
A lack of any cash reserves at all were reported by 19 per cent of those questioned, with 53 per cent having less than two months.
Mr Box said the recent announcement of Government support is a welcome step but may not go far enough.
"I welcome the Chancellor's announcement of a £1bn fund to support hospitality and leisure businesses.
"However, the rise of the Omicron variant means that the situation is incredibly fast-moving so it would be helpful for businesses to complete the survey sooner rather than later and to share the link with relevant contacts.
"I note that the Chancellor has also boosted the Additional Restrictions Grant for councils to support businesses by a further £102m.
"I would encourage hospitality businesses to contact their local authorities for details on how to access this support."
The package announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak earlier this week includes one-off grants of up to £6,000 per premises for businesses in the affected sectors in England, which the Treasury expects will be administered by local authorities and to be available in the coming weeks.
The Government also intends to use taxpayers' cash to cover the cost of statutory sick pay for Covid-related absences for firms with fewer than 250 employees.
Cultural organisations in England can also access a further £30m funding during the winter via the Culture Recovery Fund.
Mr Sunak said: "We recognise that the spread of the Omicron variant means businesses in the hospitality and leisure sectors are facing huge uncertainty, at a crucial time."
Tourism in Yorkshire pre-pandemic was worth £9bn annually to the county's economy and employed almost 225,000 people.
The survey is running until January 10 and details are available on Welcome to Yorkshire's website.
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It didn't take long to decide to take what they called the "Behind the Scenes Tour," which included, according to the description, a tour "…through the first floor of Monticello and up the narrow staircase to explore the private quarters on the second and third floors, including the iconic Dome Room." Although it was a bit expensive as museum ticket prices go, I felt like I wanted to see as much as possible, since it might be my only opportunity to take such a tour.
Since photography was prohibited in many of the areas within the home, where I was unable to make my own images, I have notated the sources for the images provided.
Upon arrival, I joined a handful of other enthusiasts along a path in front of the East Front main entrance for a brief introduction to the rules governing what was expected regarding visitor behavior–not touching anything on display, not sitting in any of the chairs except where designated, no photography was permitted in certain areas, and reminders about how challenging the stairs might be for anyone not accustomed to such climbing. Once the introduction was complete, we were led to the main entrance where our guide was waiting to greet us.
The feeling of standing in this enormous and storied hall gave me a clear sense of just how significant this home must have been even to the original visitors in the early 1800's when Jefferson lived in the home. Many of the artifacts are those which were originally on display at one time or another, and I could feel the anticipation building to see more.
It took a total of forty years to complete what would become the permanent residence for Jefferson in Monticello, and although he took an active role in its construction throughout that time, he had always intended it to be the place where he would live out the remainder of his days, once his public life had concluded. During his tenure as President, from 1801 to 1809, he directed the tasks to complete Monticello from Washington, D.C., and the home itself was mostly completed when he arrived there in 1809.
Standing in the hallway leading up to the library room, preparing to move forward on the tour, I was momentarily overtaken by a keen sense of standing in a place where Jefferson himself surely had stood innumerable times, and looking ahead into that room, I felt myself drifting into an almost hypnotic state, almost expecting to see him turn the corner to greet us. From this point on, at various times throughout the tour, I couldn't shake the sense of intercepting and sharing momentary flashes of a presence of spirit in several of the areas of the home, pressing me to stay back at times behind the group, in order to linger and absorb this sense of spirit.
During his lifetime, Jefferson had accumulated some 6,000 volumes in his personal library, and our guide reported that after the British burned many of the buildings in the city of Washington during their occupation in 1814, including the Library of Congress, Jefferson donated a large portion of his own personal collection to help America's Library to recover from that disaster.
Throughout our tour of the upper floors, I continued to be struck periodically by how potent the sense of presence persisted in certain rooms, and the expert commentary provided by our guide, combined with the authentic and thoroughly researched artifacts which were present in each area, only enhanced this sense within me. Once we reached the very top of the house, in what was called the "Dome Room," we were once again allowed to take photos, and the story surrounding the dome, which was added in 1800, brought us back to earth. Its original purpose was apparently never fully realized, as a kind of gathering place or receiving area for visiting dignitaries, and ended up being mostly used for additional storage according to the records obtained by the foundation.
The payoff came when we were directed to a set of double doors leading out to what should have been the West Front outside terrace, but instead revealed a secret room, apparently taken over by the grandchildren who lived in the house as a kind of getaway from what was very likely a fairly busy household.
Obviously, the implication was controversial as it seemed an attempt to minimize the very difficult fact that slaves were employed in nearly every aspect of both the construction and the maintaining of the plantation. While the existence of slavery was a fact of life in those years leading up to Jefferson's writing of the Declaration of Independence, and while the treatment of those individuals was, by most accounts, much less harsh than it was elsewhere in America at that time, there was no escaping the reality that these individuals were considered property, and that Jefferson struggled broadly with this reality, without taking any concrete steps to change the arrangement.
His relationship with Sally Hemmings, with whom scholars have verified that he fathered six children, didn't come fully into the light for many years after his death in 1826. Today, we know a great deal more about this side of the Jefferson legacy, and the periodic reunions which take place at Monticello, now include all of the descendants of both Jefferson and Hemmings.
Taking a long walk around the grounds after the main tour permitted some additional views of the quarters for the workers and slaves, the original kitchen, and storage areas common to plantations at that time, but obviously on a grand scale due to the size of the estate, which originally was spread out over 5,000 acres, covering about eight square miles. One of my favorite points of interest was a huge tree along the gardens in the West Front area, which very likely existed when Jefferson walked those paths.
While we know so much more now about this controversial figure from American history, the fascination contained in any study of all of his accomplishments and contradictions seems never to diminish while standing in this architectural marvel or walking on the grounds just as Jefferson no doubt did many times during his tenure at Monticello. When Jefferson died in 1826, he was deep in debt, in today's equivalent of several million dollars, and everything in the house and the property itself were auctioned off to pay his debtors. For some years afterwards, the house fell into disrepair and was nearly lost to history, but for the efforts of Uriah Levy, a Commodore in the U.S. Navy, who purchased the house and several hundred acres surrounding it in 1834. When Uriah passed away in 1862, the preservation efforts fell to his nephew, Jefferson Monroe Levy who took over in 1879, who restored many of the features of the home. In 1923, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation purchased the property from Levy and began years of restoring and purchasing of neighboring property and original artifacts, and has handled the care and preservation of Monticello ever since.
The memory I now carry with me of a sense of the Spirit of Jefferson's Monticello, may largely be a part of my lifelong interest in stepping through the door, and the realization as a grown man that my childhood dream of standing in that house had finally come to fruition. The experience itself affected me profoundly, while still educating me in the ways which the flawed and very human Jefferson didn't always keep in step with his words and declarations. The same might be said of any one of us, and while I found these revelations sobering at times, I still experienced a sense of awe as I walked the halls and staircases of Monticello.


Just as the name suggests, Data warehousing defined as "a subject-situated, incorporated, time-variation and non-unpredictable gathering of information in the help of the administration's basic leadership process." The server farm, as we have come to know it, is the focal area that houses the assets and offices for dealing with every one of the information utilized by an association's applications. Not very far in the past, a few sellers needed to begin calling this place the information stockroom, envisioning a market where organizations accumulate business insight information for quite a long time. Then, incorporate that information away volumes of regularly expanding limit yet consistently contracting physical size, and associations transfigure themselves into massive protected innovation files, the focal point of endless amounts of certainties and archives.
What is Data warehousing today?
The process of today's version of data warehousing (DW) is much less centralized, much more dynamic and it still involves the process of collecting and storing business intelligence data. However, it is no longer a massive database. Because of the development of cloud innovation, an information distribution center is never again only one thing with one brand. It's not in any case only one place, except if you tally "Earth" as a place. It can be the result of numerous brands and numerous segments cooperating.
How does the warehouse function?
The modern data warehouse is to varying degrees depending on the organization, comprises the following elements.
A typical, organized information distribution center, made up of composed records in segments or tables, ordered and intended to be recovered by databases. I know it sounds repetitive to state a distribution center comprised of a stockroom. However, we don't generally have a term yet for the "meta-stockroom" that consolidates these things.
An unstructured information store, which is regularly dealt with nowadays by a "major information" motor toward the back called (for the absence of any extra words in the English Dictionary) Hadoop. With this new open source working framework only for information, worked on the HDFS document framework, information that presently can't seem to be parsed or even taken a gander at can gathered in a pool that traverses numerous volumes more than one stockpiling gadget or capacity organize.
Cloud-based capability, which contained space rented from administrations like Amazon and Rackspace. While distributed storage conveys with it a conspicuous cost, it might indeed be more affordable for organizations to rent distributed storage off-start than to keep up an information stockroom on-preface – which for the most part requires a full-time IT authority.
Data streams, which are caches of data collected from specific sources, with the intention of being kept only for a limited time. Some BA tools may look at temporary data, such as the flow rates of petroleum through pipelines, and render analytics based on that data. The analytics may be kept indefinitely, whereas the data may discard at some point.
The amalgam of these vastly different sources, all of which have separate modes of access and maintenance, is what BI vendors and experts refer to today as Scaled Agile, better known as SAFe.
Although Data warehousing is a product of business needs and technological advancement, and on the other hand customer relationship management and e-commerce initiatives are creating requirements for large, integrated data and advanced analytical capabilities. For this, they require a warehouse. However, the risk behind a warehouse is enormous as the warehousing project is costly. Additionally, estimated that during the startup, one-half to two-thirds of data warehousing efforts fail. The most common reasons for this failure include weak sponsorship and management support, insufficient funding, inadequate user involvement, and organizational politics.
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Ива́н Матве́евич Аля́пкин (29 июля 1921 — 3 августа 1951) — советский солдат, механик-водитель танка 181-й танковой бригады 18-го танкового корпуса 5-й гвардейской танковой армии 2-го Украинского фронта. Герой Советского Союза (), старшина.

Биография
Родился в семье крестьянина. Окончил начальную школу. Работал в совхозе.

Великая Отечественная война
С 1942 года — в рядах Красной Армии; с этого же времени — на фронте. С осени 1943 года Аляпкин становится механиком-водителем танка 181-й танковой бригады. В октябре этого же года в бою у населённого пункта Орлово экипаж Аляпкина уничтожил пять пулемётных точек и два противотанковых орудия неприятеля. В ходе сражения танк был подбит, и старшина, несмотря на ранение, вывел машину из боя и спас командира, также получившего ранение.

Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 10 марта 1944 года за образцовое выполнение боевых заданий командования на фронте борьбы с немецко-фашистскими захватчиками и проявленные при этом мужество и героизм старшине Аляпкину Ивану Матвеевичу присвоено звание Героя Советского Союза с вручением ордена Ленина и медали «Золотая Звезда».

Послевоенные годы
После войны демобилизовался. Проживал и работал в Беднодемьяновске. Умер 3 августа 1951 года.

Увековечение памяти

 Бюст Ивана Аляпкина установлен на Аллее Героев в парке города Спасска Пензенской области.
 На здании управления автотранспортного предприятия г. Спасска Пензенской области установлена мемориальная доска Ивану Аляпкину.
 Именем Аляпкина названа одна из улиц г. Спасска Пензенской области.

Награды
 Медаль «Золотая Звезда» Героя Советского Союза (, медаль № 3599)
 Орден Ленина ()
 Медаль «За отвагу» ()

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Golar LNG Limited (the "Company") has today successfully placed USD 300 million in senior unsecured bonds in the Nordic bond market. The bonds will mature in October 2025 and bear interest at 7.00% per annum. Net proceeds from the bond issue will be applied towards the refinancing of the Company's outstanding convertible bonds maturing in February 2022 and general corporate purposes. An application will be made for the bonds to be listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange.
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Q: Ubuntu 18.04 only boots in Recovery mode It's an iMac, but it's been running ubuntu for maybe 5 years without serious issue.  Not my computer, so I don't know how this problem started.  With some web searching and guesses at where I should look, I found this info:
$ uname -r
4.15.0-54-generic

$ lspci |grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV610/M74 [Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT]

$ dmesg | egrep 'drm|radeon'
[    4.932133] [drm] VGACON disable radeon kernel modesetting.
[    4.932180] [drm:radeon_init [radeon]] *ERROR* No UMS support in radeon module!

So I looked at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver
Do I need to enable kernel modesetting?  How do I do that?
I looked at https://wiki.debian.org/KernelModesetting but I don't have an /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf file.
I'm looking at combining https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/273471/how-to-solve-drmradeon-init-radeon-error-no-ums-support-in-radeon-module and https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1631395
No, I'm going to try this:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+question/660199
Currently editing /etc/default/grub to set GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="radeon.modeset=1"

A: The 4.15.0-54 kernel came out late last month:
$ ll /boot/*4.15.0-54*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   217286 Jun 24 08:45 /boot/config-4.15.0-54-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62979768 Jun 29 09:19 /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-54-generic
-rw------- 1 root root  4050903 Jun 24 08:45 /boot/System.map-4.15.0-54-generic
-rw------- 1 root root  8140856 Jun 25 06:23 /boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-54-generic

The easiest first step to try is rebooting and selecting the previous kernel version which hopefully still works:

In this facsimile of the grub menu on my system I would:

*

*first go into Advanced options for Ubuntu

*and then select Ubuntu, with Linux 4.15.0-52-generic

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Never prone to stewing in solitude, and taking more notes from Richard Donner than from Christopher Nolan, Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman provides a welcome respite from DC's house style of grim darkness—boisterous, earnest, sometimes sloppy, yet consistently entertaining—with star Gal Gadot proving an inspired choice for this avatar of truth, justice, and the Amazonian way.[211]
A few weeks later in September, Cameron reiterated his criticism in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. He compared Gal Gadot's representation of the character to Raquel Welch films of the 1960s,[263] and reinforced a comparison with Linda Hamilton's portrayal of Sarah Connor. He argued that Connor was "if not ahead of its time, at least a breakthrough in its time" because though she "looked great", she "wasn't treated as a sex object".[263] He also stated that he while he "applaud[s] Patty directing the film and Hollywood, uh, 'letting' a woman direct a major action franchise, I didn't think there was anything groundbreaking in Wonder Woman. I thought it was a good film. Period."[263] Former Wonder Woman actress Lynda Carter responded to Cameron's The Hollywood Reporter interview by asking him to "Stop dissing WW." Like Jenkins, she suggests that while Cameron does "not understand the character", she does. She also refers to Cameron's critiques as "thuggish jabs at a brilliant director" that are as "ill advised" as the "movie was spot on." Carter also states that she has the authority to make these observations because she has "embodied this character for more than 40 years".[264][265][266] A month later, Jenkins responded to Cameron's comments once again in an interview with Variety, stating that she "was not upset at all", as "everybody is entitled to their own opinion. But if you're going to debate something in a public way, I have to reply that I think it's incorrect."[267] Tricia Ennis was also critical of Cameron's statements, arguing that "while he may consider himself a feminist and an ally to women, [he] is not very good at it" as being an ally means using his position of privilege "without silencing the voices of those you're trying to help". She also states that it "is not enough to simply call yourself a feminist. It's not even enough to create a strong female character ... You have to bring women to the table. You have to let them speak. You cannot speak for them. But speaking for women is exactly what Cameron is doing through his comments ... Cameron is using his position of power as a respected producer and director to silence women."[268]
After an intensive talent search, Lynda Carter, who had had a handful of minor acting roles and had been the 1972 Miss World USA and a Bob Hope USO cast member, was chosen for the lead role. For the role of Steve Trevor, the producers chose Lyle Waggoner, despite his dark brown, almost-black, hair not matching the comic's blond Trevor, who at the time was better known as a comedic actor after several years co-starring in The Carol Burnett Show. He was also known to Ross as having been one of the leading candidates to play Batman a decade earlier, but instead Adam West was signed. Waggoner was also considered a sex symbol, having done a semi-nude pictorial in the first issue of Playgirl.[5]
Principal photography on the film began on November 21, 2015,[119][120] under the working title Nightingale.[121][122] Among the film sets were Lower Halstow, Kent,[123] and Australia House[124] in England and the Sassi di Matera,[125] Castel del Monte[125] and Camerota[126] in Southern Italy. Matthew Jensen was the director of photography,[127] filming in the United Kingdom, France and Italy.[128] Production in London concluded on March 13, 2016.[129] On March 20, 2016, filming was underway in Italy. In late April, filming took place at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, where a Wayne Enterprises truck was spotted alongside Gadot.[130] Principal photography finished on May 9, 2016.[131] Patty Jenkins and director of photography Matt Jensen said that the film's look was inspired by painter John Singer Sargent.[132] Reshoots took place in November 2016, while Gadot was five months pregnant. A green cloth was placed over her stomach to edit out her pregnancy during post-production.[133]
^ Garcia, Joe. "The Best & Worst of DC Comics' New 52, One Year Later". Front Towards Gamer. Archived from the original on September 10, 2012. Retrieved September 5, 2012. Despite being one part of the Justice League's "Holy Trinity", Wonder Woman never seems to get the recognition that she deserves. While she might not be invincible, her strength is second only to Superman and she's arguably a better fighter. Her solo outings, however, were rarely very interesting. The New 52 put an end to that injustice, with Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang spearheading one of the best books DC is putting out. Azzarello currently has Wonder Woman tearing through the ranks of Greek mythology, and Chiang's art manages to be intense despite his use of softer lines. If you're not reading Wonder Woman, go rectify that.
The most recent version of the character's origin (since the new 52) has not yet been told in totality, but certain things are known. It has been revealed how the Amazons replenish their numbers (they do so by kidnapping sailors and using them for procreation before killing them) as well as the fact of Wonder Woman's divine lineage. Despite the fact that Zeus is her father it does not necessarily remove other facts about her origin from canon (for instance the blessings of the gods) though it remains to be seen how or if this will be incorporated into the ongoing stories. In the Zero month of the new 52 in which DC was planning to tell the origins of the character from the new 52, the story for Diana focused on the fact that she had been trained by Ares when she was a teenager though she eventually rebelled against him. It is as of yet unclear how this factors into her new origin. When Diana first came to Man's World she encountered a group attacking the Pentagon. Because of this she befriended Barbara Minerva who was working there on ancient antiquities and Barbara helped her acclimatize to Man's World.
The character has been featured in direct-to-DVD animated films and CGI theatrical releases, such as The Lego Movie (2014). Within the live-action DC Extended Universe films, Wonder Woman debuted in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and was featured as the main character in Wonder Woman (2017). In November 2017, she appeared in the DCEU release Justice League.
Warner Bros. is now pushing back the release date of Wonder Woman 1984 by seven months. It was originally slated to drop Nov. 1, 2019, but it will now premiere June 5, 2020, which falls right in the middle of the summer blockbuster season and just over three years after the first film debuted in theaters. According to Warner Bros. president of domestic distribution Jeff Goldstein, it cited the first film's successful release during the summer as to why it was making the move. (Wonder Woman was the third highest-grossing film of 2017.)
As one of the longest continually published comic book characters, Wonder Woman's history has undergone some changes over the years, though a few elements remain consistent in all of her depictions. She is the princess of the Amazons, a race of women who live free of men on Paradise Island (later dubbed Themyscira). After growing up on this island, Wonder Woman (whom her mother named Diana) journeys to Man's World on a mission of diplomacy, peace, and love.
Despite good ratings for the series, ABC stalled on picking up the show for a second season. This was because Wonder Woman was a period piece, being set in the 1940s, which made the set, clothing, automobiles, etc. more expensive to produce. While ABC had not yet committed, the show's production company Warner Bros. listened to an offer from rival network CBS. While ABC continued to make up its mind, CBS agreed to pick up the series on condition that the setting be changed from World War II (the 1940s) to the modern day (the 1970s). Changing the title to The New Adventures of Wonder Woman, the series was moved away from international intrigue to a more conventional police/detective action-type show that was more common in the 1970s.
The iconic explosion overlay most associated with the TV show was introduced after the third episode to mask the cut point between the Diana and Wonder Woman clips, meaning they no longer needed to be perfectly aligned. This allowed them to be shot without a locked off camera at more convenient points in the production schedule, when Carter was already in the appropriate costume. The slow motion aspect of the sequence was dropped, and Wonder Woman was no longer left holding her Diana Prince clothes. A thunderclap sound effect accompanied the explosion effect; both the explosion flash and its sound are apparently non-diegetic (only heard by the audience, not within the narrative world), as demonstrated by Diana changing unnoticed in a dormitory of sleeping women, in adjoining office spaces, etc. Generally the audience never sees Wonder Woman change back to Diana Prince, although there is one occasion when it is almost shown: Wonder Woman reveals her secret identity to her little sister Drusilla by slowly turning on the spot, but the actual moment of transformation is masked by a cut-away reaction shot of Drusilla (no thunderclap was heard).
In March 2005, Warner Bros. and Silver Pictures announced that Joss Whedon would write and direct the film.[74] Early drafts of his screenplay included Steve Trevor as the narrator, a fierce battle between Diana and her mother over Trevor's welfare, and after leaving Themyscira, his need to frequently rescue a Diana rendered helpless by the modern world.[75] Whedon was not able to complete a final version of his screenplay, and left the project in 2007.[76][77]
Wonder Woman is suggested as being queer[250] or bisexual, as she and another Amazon, Io, had reciprocal feelings for each other.[251] Grant Morrison's 2016 comic Wonder Woman: Earth One, which exists parallel to the current DC comics Rebirth canon, Diana is depicted being kissed on her right cheek by a blonde woman who has put her left arm around Diana.[252]
On June 22, 2018, it was reported that Gal Gadot would be attending Warner Bros' DC presentation at San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) 2018, and some footage from the film would be shown to promote it.[68] Director Patty Jenkins and actors Gadot and Chris Pine attended the Wonder Woman 1984 panel at SDCC on July 21, 2018, where a short clip of the film was shown.[69] A teaser poster debuted on June 5, 2019, one year ahead of the film's release date.[70]
The premise of A League of One is simple: a menacing ancient dragon named Drakul Karfang is waking up, putting at risk the entire JLA team, and only Wonder Woman is aware of that prophecy. As she is urged to run for cover and leave the Justice League team altogether, Diana does the exact opposite – she locks her teammates into rocket-like capsules and launches them into space for protection.
"Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power. Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are. Women' s strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman."
The success of the superhero television series Supergirl informed the marketing and promotion strategy used for Wonder Woman.[155] According to Time Warner chief marketing officer Kristen O'Hara, they wanted to approach the Wonder Woman marketing campaign in a light manner, similar to how they did with Supergirl. O'Hara elaborated that the modest campaign route they took for Supergirl aided in establishing a large central fanbase among women well in advance of the series, which reportedly generated 5 million female superhero fans in one week.[155] They were then able to model over time, and grow that audience leading up to the 15-months-later release of Wonder Woman.[155] Though neither the film nor the series are aimed exclusively at women, the latter's campaign gave them their first opportunity to begin collecting data about female superhero fans.[155] In May 2017, a promo for Wonder Woman was released during the season finale of Supergirl, featuring a remix of the song "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" and Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) wearing Wonder Woman's boots.[156] The promo included an appearance by Lynda Carter, star of the 1970s Wonder Woman, who plays the American president on Supergirl.[156]
After, she encounters Apollo and Artemis. A fight ensues while lead to the capture of Zola. Using Hermes caduceus, they teleport to Olympus and the following events occur: Hermes gives Diana the ability of flight after poking her with a mystical feather, and two, Diana shows off her "God Mode" off to the goddess Artemis, revealing that taking off her bracelets augments her strength.
Voiced by Vanessa Marshall. This movie is based on the Flashpoint event which was meant to be the reboot of the DC Universe. After the Barry Allen travels back in time to save his mother, he changes the whole timestream making everything different. Her role in this movie is that she has a war against Aquaman because she killed Mera and it made Aquaman angry, Amazons against Atlanteans. The Amazons has made London ''New Themyscira''. She defeats Aquaman at the end of the movie, but the rest of the world gets destroyed by Captain Atom's energy, Captain Atom was held as a last resort by Aquaman, and Flash manages to revert everything as it was right before the world got consumed.
After the success of Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders, animated film based on the Batman TV series of the 1960s, Warner Bros. had stated that their executives are considering to make an animated film based on the classic Wonder Woman TV series, with Lynda Carter reprising her role by voicing the character;[19] along with an animated adaptation of the comic series Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Chris Pine was cast as Steve Trevor,[21][114] a character he described as a "rogue-ish, cynical realist who's seen the awful brutish nature of modern civilization" and added that he is a "worldly guy, a charming guy".[115] He signed a multi-picture deal.[21] Lucy Davis' performance as Etta Candy is the first live-action cinematic portrayal of the character.[116] As well, Elena Anaya's performance as Doctor Poison is the cinematic debut of that character. Nicole Kidman was in negotiations for the role of Queen Hippolyta, but was forced to drop out due to scheduling conflicts with Big Little Lies.[117][118]
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Voiced by Susan Eisenberg. Justice League Doomed is a animated movie based on the story ''Tower of Bable''. Mirror Master hacks into the computers of the Batcave by the order of Vandal Savage. Vandal Savage calls in one enemy of each of the JLA'ers, and he calls in Cheetah for Wonder Woman. Cheetah fights against Wonder Woman and injects her with a toxin which makes her see that everyone is Cheetah. It was later revealed that this toxin was a contingency for Wonder Woman made by Batman in case she goes rogue, as he did for the rest of the Justice League with different plans for each.
As early as the 1950s,[210] Wonder Woman's tiara has also been used as a razor-edged throwing weapon, returning to her like a boomerang.[183] The tiara allows Wonder Woman to be invulnerable from telepathic attacks, as well as allowing her to telepathically contact people such as the Amazons back on Themyscira using the power of the red star ruby in its center.[63]
Another major outfit change for Wonder Woman came about as part of DC Comics' 2011 relaunch of its entire line of publications, The New 52. The character's original one-piece outfit was restored, although the color combination of red and blue was changed to dark red and blue-black. Her chest-plate, belt and tiara were also changed from gold to a platinum or sterling silver color. Along with her sword, she now also utilizes a shield. She wears many accessories such as arm and neck jewelry styled as the "WW" motif. Her outfit is no longer made of fabric, as it now resembles a type of light, flexible body armor. Her boots are now a very dark blue rather than red. The design previously included black trousers, but they were removed and the one-piece look was restored during the time of publication.[196]
An American pilot and the love interest of Diana.[21][22] On his role for the film, Pine said, "I am an American pilot who's a spy. It's like a boy's dream: You're either a spy or a fighter pilot. The first thing I wanted to be was a fighter pilot a long time ago. I wanted to be Goose [from Top Gun]".[15] As to how his mortal character would interact with an Amazon, Pine stated, "When I first read the script, it had elements of Romancing the Stone, kind of a very classic fish out of water. Two people that don't really bond well at first and they're butting heads and just fun, witty banter".[15] When speaking about meeting the director and being cast, Pine said, "Patty is a pretty incredible human being. When we first met about the part of Steve, she sat across from me and essentially acted out the entire film over the course of a two-hour lunch. She was so specific, so articulate, and so ardent. I would've said yes just for Patty alone."[23] Pine went through a workout regimen for the film, commenting, "I got in incredible shape for this film" but also joking "I was also wearing about 75 pounds of clothing. What I realized is that I made a major mistake, I got in great shape and they just put clothes over all my hard work."[24]


OPERATORS of the Seabrook nuclear power plant Monday began low-power testing, with the first atomic chain reaction expected within seven to 10 days. Atomic operation will be the biggest milestone yet for a plant that is a decade behind schedule, billions of dollars over budget, and a focus of the nation's anti-nuclear movement.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on Friday granted Seabrook a low-power license.
Nearly three years after the reactor was completed, the $6 billion project finally won NRC approval for the tests on May 18. But the NRC granted a one-week stay of the license so a federal court could rule on requests to delay the tests.
Last Thursday, the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia declined to delay the tests.
The license permits Seabrook to conduct tests at up to 5 percent of full power. The plant must win final federal approval for evacuation plans for nearby communities before it can operate commercially. Massachusetts officials and anti-nuclear activists have vowed to continue their opposition to the plant.


Ok, maybe this really isn't THE Ron Swanson, but when I saw the commercial it was convincing enough for me to get off the couch, rewind my DVR, and take multiple pictures on my iPhone to share with my friends. What's even freakier is that this commercial came on while I was watching 'Parks & Recreation,' the NBC comedic television series that features the Ron Swanson character played by actor Nick Offerman.
Let me take it a step further into the Twilight Zone and point out that Parker Wood Works, the local Acadiana business that featured the Ron Swanson look-a-like, specializes in restoring furniture, which is such a Ron Swansonesque thing to do. As a matter of fact, if I EVER need furniture restored, I'm going to Parker Wood Works, and you should too.
Somehow, I will meet this man. One day.


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Brittney Griner has been released from Russia in a prisoner swap
Published December 8, 2022 at 8:38 AM EST
Evgenia Novozhenina
Brittney Griner inside a defendant's cage during a hearing in Moscow in August.
WNBA star Brittney Griner, who was held for months in Russian prisons on drug charges, has been released in a prisoner swap for international arms dealer Viktor Bout.
Here's what we know:
During a press conference, Biden said Griner was relieved to be released: "She is safe. She is on a plane. She is on her way home."
Former Marine Paul Whelan, another American detained in Russia, was not included in the swap, but Biden said his team is continuing to work for his release.
Bout, once known as the world's most notorious arms dealer, was swapped for Griner at the Abu Dhabi airport this morning following his release from an Illinois prison.
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