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Regenerative Agriculture practices improve the land by regenerating, revitalizing and improving the soil. Healthy soil is capable of producing high quality, nutrient dense food while providing a long-term storage sink for carbon. A vibrant and living soil food web supports clean water, guards against droughts, and restores ecosystems. A paradigm shift from conventional farming to regenerative agriculture is the solution to solving the CO2 emissions, increasing demand on our food supply, and even climate change.


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Enkelo Wabe (ou Inkolo Wabe) est un woreda du centre-est de l'Éthiopie situé dans la zone Arsi de la région Oromia. Avec  en 2007, il reprend la partie orientale de l'ancien woreda Bekoji. Son centre administratif est Siltana.

Limitrophe des zones Bale et Mirab Arsi à l'est, Enkelo Wabe est entouré dans la zone Arsi par les woredas Sherka au nord et Limuna Bilbilo à l'ouest.

Siltana se situe dans l'ouest du woreda autour de  d'altitude. La seconde agglomération du woreda, Mechitu, est plus à l'est  vers  d'altitude et à une dizaine de kilomètres de Siltana.

Au recensement national de 2007, le woreda compte  et 12 % de la population est urbaine. La majorité (62 %) des habitants du woreda sont orthodoxes, 37 % sont musulmans et moins de 1 % sont protestants. Siltana et Mechitu comptent respectivement  et .

En 2022, la population du woreda est estimée à  avec une densité de population de 272 personnes par  et  de superficie.

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Woreda dans la région Oromia

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The first film of 52 from my new blog project: An Experimental Film A Week For A Year! See here for more details.
This is a test/experiment to see how I can use visual feedback between a big HD TV and my camera to create interesting live effects with no editing or post production. This system shows a lot of potential but I need to practice the "juggling" patterns more to make the performance side more engaging.
I struggled to get it in this 50 second shot, but there was a sweet spot on the screen where the ball rolling over that point changed the screen from black to blue or back again.
The black rectangle at the bottom is actually my coat sleeve covering the red "REC" icon which annoyingly wouldn't go away. Next time i try this sort of effect (cos i am planning to come back to this at some point) I'll try to find a more elegant solution.
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Gammon Leads Soccer to 9-0 Rout over Newbury
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1st - 4:53 - Rachel Gilbert (Simmons)
1st - 15:25 - Ciara Forde (Simmons)
1st - 18:18 - Mikayla Elliott (Simmons)
2nd - 46:21 - Kashka Gammon (Simmons)
2nd - 51:50 - Ciara Forde (Simmons)
2nd - 61:36 - Isabelle Gutheinz (Simmons)
2nd - 77:08 - Darschelle Desronvil (Simmons)
2nd - 78:49 - Nell Spencer (Simmons)
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A: Kashka Gammon - 2
Sh: Kashka Gammon - 6
Sv: 2 Players (#00, #1) - 1
BOSTON, Mass. - Senior midfielder Kashka Gammon (Nashua, N.H.) matched her career high with six points, scoring two goals and added a pair of assists to lead the Simmons College women's soccer team to a 9-0 victory over visiting Newbury College today at Daly Field in Brighton, Mass. The Sharks even their record 1-1-0, while the Nighthawks fall to 0-1-0 following their season opener.
The Simmons goal total was its highest scoring output since a 16-0 triumph over Anna Maria College on October 6, 2012. Gammon is the first player to register six points in a game since she did it with a hat trick at Norwich University on October 7, 2015. Junior midfielder Cíara Forde (Quincy, Mass.) also netted a pair of goals for the third multi-goal effort of her career.
The Sharks took control of the pace from the opening whistle with scoring chances coming within the third and fourth minute. The Simmons' pressure led to Gammon finding sophomore Rachel Gilbert (Falmouth, Mass.) on a through ball that split the defense and onto Gilbert's foot for the team's first marker of the year at 4:53. The Sharks maintained their dominance in the offensive half as they added a goal each from Forde and junior forward Mikayla Elliott (Lowell, Mass.) in a three-minute span. Simmons owned multiple scoring opportunities prior to the half, but settled for a 3-0 margin at the intermission.
The Sharks' defense limited Newbury to just two shots in the match, while the Simmons offense unleashed 47, including 21 on frame. The Nighthawks were unable to capitalize on a corner kick in the 11th minute and senior forward Shannon Walsh's (Massapequa, N.Y.) shot was stopped in the 13th minute of the opening half. Newbury received another opportunity when junior midfielder Jennifer McDonald (Magnolia, Texas) was turned back in the 84th minute of play.
Simmons turned up its attack in the second half with 26 shots, including six goals. Gammon scored twice, to give her multiple goals for the fifth time in her tenure, and Forde once in the first ten minutes of the period.
The Sharks newcomers provided the firepower in the final 30 minutes with first years Isabelle Guntheinz (Camden, Maine), Darschelle Desronvil (Brockton, Mass.) and Nell Spencer (Buxton, Maine) each finding the back of the net for their first respective collegiate goals.
Senior keeper Casey Halle (Watertown, Mass.) made one save in the first half of play, before deferring to junior Lauren Williams (Bowdoinham, Maine), who also stopped a shot in the second stanza. Junior goalie Noelle Sass (Randolph, Mass.) made 12 saves for the visitors.
Simmons is in action again when it travels to Cambridge, Mass. to take on Lesley University on Wednesday, September 6 for an 8:00 p.m. match, while Newbury heads to Worcester, Mass. to play Clark University on September 5 at 7:00 p.m.

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Universities to Grad Students: Drop Dead
"Academic workers worldwide perform the labor that makes our institutions run. We deserve basic labor protections, especially during this pandemic."
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Union protesters marching at Harvard University on May 1, 2019. (Michael Dwyer / AP Photo)
On May 1, graduate students at more than 75 public and private universities across the United States and Canada mobilized under the name "X Campus" to protest conditions for student workers.
United under hashtags such as #HighEdWorksBecauseWeDo and #MayDay2020, students at Yale University, the University of Chicago, the University of California–Santa Barbara and many other schools used their platforms to draw attention to unfair working conditions as a result of growing austerity in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.
While the choice to mobilize on May Day—a day historically used to celebrate and advocate worker's rights across the world—was strategic, many of these students have been protesting working conditions for years.
Graduate student workers, who often run labs, assist professors, and even teach their own courses on campus, often receive very low pay, are not guaranteed housing, and do not have benefits such as paid sick leave. As universities enact austerity measures such as increased furloughs and pay decreases as a result of the pandemic, many student workers are nervous that their already tenuous living conditions will be put under even more stress.
This story was produced for Student Nation, a section devoted to highlighting campus activism and student movements from students in their own words. For more Student Nation, check out our archive. Are you a student with a campus activism story? Send questions and pitches to Samantha Schuyler at [email protected]. The Student Nation program is made possible through generous funding from The Puffin Foundation.
Students across the board used social media as a means to alert the public and the press of the conditions they are protesting. At the University of Indiana, Bloomington, student workers used the hashtag #wheresthemoneyIU on Twitter and Facebook to both communicate with the university itself and alert the public to how the school is treating its labor force in this moment of crisis. "As student workers, we are required to pay about $1,300 every year in mandatory fees to the university to cover things like technology and building maintenance," Valentina Luketa, a graduate student at Bloomington, told The Nation. "Right now while we're working from home and can't even use university resources, we are still expected to pay that fee. Our paychecks are already so low, and the portion we have to pay back to the school is about 10 percent of our wages. We are demanding that these fees be removed."
According to the university's website, room and board plus indirect cost and other fees is more than $21,000, far more than most student worker's stipends. As an international student, Luketa is responsible for paying an additional fee of $700 to the university. She's worried that if she loses her job due to the college's austerity plans, she might suddenly lose her student visa and have to leave the country.
"We've noticed a pattern where schools are quick to furlough or get rid of labor on campus to make sure their revenue is not affected," Luketa said. "But a lot of these schools have huge endowments, about as big as the GDP of my home country of Croatia in some cases. We're just asking them to use that money to protect workers and protect the educational experiences of students."
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Many student workers have been meeting to discuss their shared grievances for months. Uday Jain, a sixth-year PhD candidate at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, said that he has been attending Zoom calls with graduate students at several other universities since March to discuss possible actions, structural challenges, and possibilities for new coalition-building. Weeks of meetings and Slack discussions allowed students to gather knowledge about shared working conditions and challenges in order to properly advocate for their collective rights.
"We are anticipating that the cuts to higher education in the wake of the coronavirus will be worse than the cuts after the financial crisis of 2008," Jain said. "We are fighting collectively for private and public institutions to take this moment to invest deeply in their workers and the communities that they anchor. We are resisting a higher education model that guarantees the reproduction of a tiny class of elite at the expense of the large majority of precarious professional and working-class teachers and researchers who are constantly struggling to make ends meet."
The University of Chicago is the eighth-largest employer in the city and the largest employer on the city's South Side, a region that is home to majority low-income and black and brown people. In many ways, the fight to ensure living wages for university workers affects not only its students but also the thousands of people employed at schools across the country.
"Our institutions operate large medical centers, do cutting-edge research in science and technology, develop real estate, train lawmakers, and employ large numbers of people in our communities," said Jain. "The institution has an endowment of $8.5 billion, supplemented by an additional $5.4 billion in recent fundraising efforts. This superbly wealthy institution has the money and the responsibility to support the South Side and the city of Chicago in this moment of grave crisis."
Student workers at the University of Chicago are demanding a relief grant for graduate students, more transparency about university funding, protection for local union workers, and a 50 percent reduction in tuition for both undergraduate and graduate students. The school has refused to bargain with student demands, according to Jain.
Student workers in Canada have also been organizing for better working conditions amid the pandemic. At least 13 open letters and petitions are circulating in Canadian universities to ask for a better response to graduate students' needs across the country. At the University of Quebec in Montreal, student workers are protesting the exclusion of foreign students from the Canadian Emergency Student Benefit and asking the school to remove several months of tuition fees.
"At the University of Montreal, we know that our salaries only account for 1 percent of the university budget, but we also know that without our work almost no research would get done and the cost of teaching would be much higher," Luc Chicoine, a PhD student at the University of Quebec, told The Nation. "So not only is our essential work underpaid, we don't get much recognition for it either. With the pandemic and the explosion of public spending and deficits, we are afraid that we will enter a new cycle of austerity that will lead to more budget cuts."
Canadian higher education is structured very differently fro, universities in America. Canada has very few private colleges, and the cost of tuition is usually much lower. Despite this, Canadian students like Chicoine found they had many similar grievances to student workers in the United States. "What we all have in common is the burden of the double status as student and worker," Chicoine said. "Student workers are so often patronized because of the student status, as if this gave less value to the work we do. This shared understanding of who we are and what we fight for makes it very easy for all of us to connect, and the current crisis makes this even more obvious."
One of the most common demands from student workers is a universal one-year extension of studies and research. Students at Northwestern University, Stanford University, New York University, and Princeton University have all asked for this. At Yale University, which has a $30 billion endowment, students are demanding a fully funded one-year extension for all graduate students. As a result, the university is allowing departments to individually dole out one-year extensions on a case by case basis, a measure that has many students concerned.
"The policy pits lower-year cohorts versus upper-year cohorts, current graduate student employees versus future ones, and faculty against graduate student employees," Alexander Kolokotronis, a fourth-year graduate student employee at Yale University and a member of its campus's Concerned and Organized Graduate Students, told The Nation. "It will disproportionately be slanted against women, people of color, first-generation graduate student employees, and those with families. This movement is not just about universal extension for graduate student employees. This is about a stance against austerity."
As student workers organize for better working conditions on campus, many have attempted to reason directly with their respective universities' administrations. At the University of California in Santa Barbara, where graduate students have been on strike since the winter quarter of 2020 to protest low wages and insufficient housing, the administration has yet to formally acknowledge that any protests have taken place. Instead, the dean of the Graduate Division wrote a letter encouraging upset students to seek support at the campus's counseling services.
"We have been met with a ruthless cold shoulder," said Matt Harris, a sixth-year PhD candidate. "The administration at UC Santa Barbara has not responded to us or acknowledged that there was even a strike."
Though they did not communicate with student activists, the administration was closely following what they did. According to recent reporting from Vice, the California National Guard provided military surveillance equipment to the University of California at Santa Cruz's Police Department in order to surveil striking students at UC Santa Cruz, UC Santa Barbara, and other schools in the UC system during the Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) strike in February. As a result of the protest, many of the students involved were fired from their teaching positions.
According to Harris, student workers at UC Santa Barbara have been fighting for a COLA so that they can afford housing, food, and health care security. While these conditions were already precarious in 2019, Covid-19 and the move to online teaching via Zoom has only furthered these economic and housing crises. "To make ends meet, many graduate students picked up side hustles like tutoring or working at the public library or a coffee shop, but now those extra gigs have diminished or disappeared," Harris said. "We simply cannot afford to continue to live here and work here and pretend that everything is good."
Students at Rutgers University in New Jersey have been more successful in getting face-time with their school's administrators, though student organizers say the meetings have not been successful. "I've met with several different levels of university administration since the start of our shutdown," said Alexandra Adams, a fifth-year PhD candidate in the department of biological sciences at Rutgers University–Newark. "It's been unsurprising; they are shamelessly unwilling to be helpful in any capacity. The deans have been sympathetic but are seemingly unwilling to push back against those above them that actually have the money to effectively address the problem."
At Rutgers, students are demanding an extension of contracts for all graduate workers, a freeze of funding caps for graduate students, the creation of an internal emergency fund, and the reinstatement of part-time lecturers who were recently subjected to a hiring freeze by the university. While the school has argued that measures were instituted in order to save funds, Adams argues that certain decisions, such as the hiring freeze for part-time lecturers, do not make sense financially, as these workers are generally the lowest paid and receive the fewest benefits from the school.
"Rutgers has a pretty transparently massive budget of liquid reserves that they don't feel is meant to be used for student and worker relief, and instead they have taken to austerity measures such as the mass firing of contractually insecure workers," Adams said. "This saves them a few million dollars, rather than the hundreds of millions they would save if they did as little as furlough the pay of a handful of their top administrators making $200k a year or more.
"This makes it seem pretty clear that this is not really about the money for them," she said. "It's common knowledge that funding for students and schools comes directly from our central administration, but the university is going so far as to try and declare financial hardship. They disgust me."
At New York University, student workers delivered demands to the administration in March and have yet to receive a meaningful response from the school. To protest unfair working conditions, several teaching assistants at the school organized a "sick out" on the last week of classes wherein student workers all used their sick days at the same time to force three days of paid time off and effectively bring an early end to the semester for NYU students.
"I'm taking part in the sick out because I am convinced it is the only way to make the NYU administration listen to our demands," Sarah Sklaw, a 5th year PhD candidate in history, told The Nation. "I've seen that the burden of Covid is falling disproportionately on low-income students and students of color. They don't have the technology they need or space to study at home, and they have more responsibilities to care for siblings and parents. NYU pays lip service to diversity without actually providing resources to support them. So I'm sicking out for myself and also for my students."
Protesting student workers at New York University also compiled a document titled "NYU Can Afford It." In it, they break down the school's finances and argue that the university has more than enough to provide aid to employees. The document reveals that in addition to the school's $4.3 billion endowment, the university also holds over $2 million in cash and several of its top administrators such as the university's president and chief investment officer make over $1 million a year in salary, which has not been reduced in any efforts to preserve the school's budget. Faculty at New York University are also protesting poor housing conditions provided by the school.
Campus organizing amid the coronavirus has been fraught with difficulties on a number of fronts: Because of social distancing measures, students cannot gather on campus in person to discuss demands or next steps. As the virus continues to spread, many students are still unsure if they will be able to return to campus in the fall, which also upsets their ability to negotiate with their respective universities in the upcoming semester.
"We will continue to fight next semester no matter what, especially because conditions are worsening by the minute," said Luketa. "For example right now, student workers at IU do not have paid sick leave, so if a student falls ill with the coronavirus, they do not have any income, and it's up to another overworked and overwhelmed graduate student to pick up their classes for no extra pay. This is not a sustainable way to work or live. We plan on using the summer to congregate in bigger numbers, share resources, and enter the fall semester ready to pressure our universities to make real changes that will protect us."
Student workers are pressuring their universities to provide them with measures that protect them financially. But more than anything, these students are demanding respect.
"Academic workers worldwide perform the labor that makes our institutions run," said Jain. "We teach the classes and we do the research. We deserve basic labor protections and a seat at the table when decisions are made that affect our lives. This is especially the case during this pandemic when the most vulnerable are the most harmed by top-down measures of higher-education austerity."
Mary RettaTwitterMary Retta is a freelance writer covering culture, identity, sexual politics, and wellness.


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Andra Whiteside (born 6 December 1989) is a Fijian squash and badminton player. She has represented Fiji in badminton at the 2006, 2018 Commonwealth Games and at the 2007, 2011, and 2019 Pacific Games. She also represented Fiji in squash at the 2015 Pacific Games. She plays as the third singles against Tahiti, helps the team to clinched the bronze medal.

On 3 September 2014, Whiteside won the National Squash Championships as her first major squash appearance, defeating Sharon Wild three to nothing. In September 2016, she won three National Badminton Championships titles in Suva's Yat Sen Hall for women's singles, women's doubles with her sister, Karen Whiteside, against Chloe Kumar and Shannon Quai Hoi, and the mixed doubles A-grade with Jason Low against Martin Feussner and Sina Quai Hoi. Some time in that year, she began to train newer badminton players and coach them, and played against Danielle Whiteside, her cousin, on 25 June 2016 in the Woman's A Singles for that year, defeating her.

In 2009, Whiteside was nominated by the Fiji Badminton Association and selected by FASANOC to join Peter Taylor as representatives of Fiji for the 2008 Olympic Youth Camp, held from 5–19 August 2008.

Achievements

Pacific Games
Women's singles

Women's doubles

Mixed doubles

BWF International Challenge/Series
Women's singles

'Women's doubles''

  BWF International Challenge tournament
  BWF International Series tournament
  BWF Future Series tournament

References

External links
 Andra Whiteside at melbourne2006.com.au

Living people
1989 births
Sportspeople from Suva
Fijian female badminton players
Badminton players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Badminton players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games competitors for Fiji
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Seeing as we are on week two of using the Laundromat in leu of the not one, but two, broken washing machines in the basement, I am so grateful for super wash yarn. I normally stray away from the over processed (yet squishy and useful) stuff, as I listened to an episode of Woolful about a year ago that made me think twice. But, alas, with baby number four coming into the scene and the clear and obvious knowledge of how intensely messy they all get, I thought better of it. I got the pattern from the book Sweet Pickles, a book chock full of crazy adorable knits for kids and babies. The sizes range from newborn to 12, which I love! I am actually about to cast on a sweater sized 10 for Miles, which puts me into a state of shock. Of course, it will be far too big for him, but for an almost seven year old, I couldn't fathom making a size 8 (the next size down). So 10 it is.
Jasper ended up being my model for the little onesie, and a quick modeling opportunity it was. His twirls were so dramatic and intense, pictures were only an afterthought to the production. I still need to add buttons, but I am happy with the results. It will fit a little winter baby next year just fine. And did you notice the little mitts and booties that flip over to make cuffs? My favorite detail for sure.
As for the strawberry rhubarb pie, it was demolished in a day. And the little sweet face in the bottom with yet another "arrangement" for mama, he melts my heart. This one seems to be turning a corner, one that indicates five with his every fiber.
Off to strawberry picking! Both wild and cultivated! Should be delicious indeed.


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Today, August 3rd at a press conference held in Italy, MSC Cruises' CEO Gianni Onorato revealed the full details of the Company's comprehensive health and safety protocol that has been developed to support the restart of operations in the Mediterranean, designed to protect the health and safety of guests, crew as well as the local communities that the Company's ships will visit.
Geneva, Switzerland, August 3, 2020 - Speaking today at a press conference held in Italy, MSC Cruises' CEO Gianni Onorato revealed the full details of the Company's comprehensive health and safety protocol that has been developed to support the restart of operations in the Mediterranean, designed to protect the health and safety of guests and crew as well as the local communities that the Company's ships will visit.
MSC Cruises has been working closely with the different authorities in the countries where the Company's ships will call, to develop a comprehensive protocol. A dedicated task force, with the input and support of leading external medical experts, developed a robust protocol with new MSC Cruises' specific operating procedures that go beyond the actual regional and national guidelines and effectively set a new standard. Additionally, RINA, the independent maritime certification corporation, has verified that the protocol meets the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) Guidance, which incorporates additional health standards including those from the EU Healthy Gateways Joint Action.
MSC Cruises has developed comprehensive operating procedures that build upon already stringent health and safety measures that have long been in place on board the Company's ships. The new procedures include universal COVID-19 testing for all guests and crew prior to embarkation, protected ashore visits at each destination only with an MSC Cruises excursion as an added level of protection for guests and the introduction of a COVID Protection Plan for further peace of mind for guests. With all of these measures in place, MSC Cruises aims to offer guests the safest possible vacation.
MSC Cruises has worked to encompass every aspect of the guest's journey from the moment of booking, embarkation and life on board through to disembarkation and the return home, while preserving the uniqueness of the guest experience.
Restart with Mediterranean Itineraries
MSC Cruises is preparing for a potential restart this summer in the Mediterranean which — in terms of the current development of the pandemic and its tourist attractions — is where the Company's guests would want ships to be deployed. While awaiting the necessary final approvals, two MSC Cruises' ships are making preparations – flagship MSC Grandiosa and popular ship MSC Magnifica. MSC Grandiosa will offer 7-night cruises in the Western Mediterranean and MSC Magnifica will serve the East Mediterranean. Their actual departure dates will be determined in accordance with the guidelines received by the relevant authorities. The itineraries that are planned include Greece and Malta where the authorities have not only re-opened their ports to cruising but also have approved the health and safety protocol to support MSC Cruises' restart of operations.
For this initial phase of the restart of operations, the two MSC Cruises' ships operating in the Mediterranean for the current summer season will initially only welcome guests who are residents in Schengen countries[1]. Additionally, their itineraries have been designed according to the accessibility of the ports, reducing — where possible — the need for guests to make use of public transport or flights, and have been planned in conjunction with the authorities.
Guests residing in countries who are unable to sail on the summer Mediterranean cruises will be contacted by MSC Cruises with options for their vacation plans.
In the U.S., MSC Cruises' ships will only return to service once the necessary approvals have been received from the relevant local and national authorities, including the CDC, as well as across the regions where the ships will operate.
MSC Cruises' Comprehensive Health and Safety Operating Protocol Aims to Set a New Standard
Having set up a cross-functional task force comprised of in-house experts in the areas of Medical Services, Public Health and Sanitation, Hotel Services, HVAC and other Shipboard Engineering Systems, Information Technology and Logistics, MSC Cruises engaged leading global healthcare provider Aspen Medical to further assist with the development of the protocol and operating procedures. In addition, MSC Cruises has established a blue-ribbon COVID Expert Group – a panel of highly qualified and internationally respected experts to inform and review our initiatives and ensure that the actions taken are appropriate, effective and informed by the best available science and health practices.
Combining new data and research into COVID-19, an improved understanding of the virus and how it behaves with the latest technology in screening and protecting people from possible contagion, the new operating protocol is designed to prevent and mitigate the risk of transmission during an MSC Cruises' vacation. It includes the following pillars in terms of precautionary measures and response planning:
Universal health screening of guests prior to embarkation that comprises three comprehensive steps: a temperature check, a health questionnaire and a COVID-19 swab test. Depending on the screening results and according to the guest's medical or travel history, a secondary health screening or testing will take place. Any guest who tests positive, displays symptoms or a temperature will be denied boarding. Following guidelines from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, guests traveling from countries categorized as high risk will be required to take a molecular RT-PCR test, to be done within 72 hours prior to joining the ship. All crew members will be tested for COVID-19 prior to embarkation as well as regularly during their contract.
Elevated sanitation and cleaning measures supported by the introduction of new cleaning methods, the use of hospital-grade disinfectant products and the sanitation of the air on board with UV-C light technology that kills 99.97% of microbes.
Social distancing will be enabled through the reduction of the overall capacity of guests on board, allowing for more space for guests, approximately 10 m² (about 108 sq. ft) per person based on 70% overall capacity. Venue capacity will be reduced, activities will be modified to allow for smaller groups and guests will be able to pre-book services and activities to manage guest numbers. When social distancing is not possible, guests will be asked to wear a face mask, for instance in the elevators. Face masks will be provided daily to guests in their staterooms and will be available around the ship.
Enhanced medical facilities and services with highly qualified staff trained, the necessary equipment to test, evaluate and treat suspected COVID-19 patients and the availability of free treatment at the onboard Medical Center for any guest with symptoms. Dedicated isolation staterooms will be available to enable isolation of any suspected cases and close contacts.
Ongoing health monitoring will be conducted throughout the cruise. Guests and crew will have their temperature checked daily either when they return from ashore or at dedicated stations around the ship to monitor the health status of every guest and crew member. During this initial phase of operations, as a further enhanced measure of protection and to avoid risks to the health of guests and their fellow cruisers, guests will only go ashore as part of an organized MSC Cruises' excursion. This means that MSC Cruises can protect their health while ashore with excursions that will be delivered with the same high standards of health and safety as on board. We will ensure that transfers are properly sanitized and that there is adequate space. Tour guides and drivers will also undergo health screening and will wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE).
A contingency response plan will be activated if a suspected case is identified, in close cooperation with the national health authorities. The suspected case and close contacts will follow isolation measures and may be disembarked according to local and national regulations.
From the moment a guest starts to plan and book to the moment they return home, MSC Cruises has assessed every touchpoint of their vacation to put in place the appropriate health and safety measures. Guests will be supported every step of the way with simple and practical information, clear booking conditions and supporting technology to make the process smooth and seamless.
MSC Cruises has introduced a new MSC COVID-19 Protection Plan to provide guests with additional peace of mind for the summer cruises. This will cover the guest if they become infected prior to their departure if they are not able to travel, during the cruise for medical expenses and after the cruise if the guest falls sick. The MSC COVID-19 Protection Plan is currently available only to guests from Schengen countries. In addition to this, guests should also choose their usual travel and health insurance coverage.
A redesigned embarkation procedure with digital check-in processes has been implemented to make the process more seamless and contactless with arrival timeslots to manage guest flow. The health and safety measures in the cruise terminal will meet the same high standards as those on board. Guests will undergo a COVID-19 swab test, a temperature check and an in-person check of the health questionnaire to ensure that they are healthy and eligible to cruise. If further checks are needed, these will be carried out by medical staff and, if needed, a further COVID-19 test could be carried out.
Ashore, guests will be able to enjoy the different destinations the ships visit, but this will be only as part of an organized MSC Cruises excursion that will be delivered with the same high standards as the health and safety measures on board. By taking this decision the Company is able to ensure that every aspect of the guest's time ashore meets the appropriate standards of health and hygiene — from ensuring that transfers are properly sanitized, tour guides and drivers are wearing PPE and venues and sites to be visited are pre-screened through to ensuring there are reserved areas for MSC Cruises' guests at attractions.
Guest-centric Technology Underpins the Health and Safety Measures
MSC Cruises' health and safety measures are supported by industry-leading guest technology to facilitate a contactless experience and provide guests with important and relevant information as and when they need it.
For guests on board both ships, the MSC for Me app will support and facilitate the new health and safety measures. The app can be used to book services as well as to manage their daily activities on board and source information.
Additionally, on board MSC Grandiosa every guest and crew member will be provided with a complimentary MSC for Me wristband, which facilitates contactless transactions around the ship as well as providing contact and proximity tracing.
A new Information Center, accessible by telephone, will allow guests to call Guest Services for information, rather than having to go to the desk in person.
A Rich and Enjoyable Onboard Experience
Guests will continue to enjoy the rich experiences that have been central to an MSC Cruises' vacation including award-winning shows in the theater, world-class dining, family activities, boutique shopping, engaging events and much more, but with some changes and adaptations to ensure that their health and safety is protected.
Onboard activities and entertainment have been redesigned to enable smaller group sizes and guests should book in advance. A rich program of activities will be available throughout the cruise including themed events, fun games, talent shows, fitness, dance and more.
Award-winning children activities and family live game shows will be available each day. New spaces on board will be reserved for children and teenagers as the youth areas will operate at a reduced capacity. Parents taking an excursion can still leave children with the youth staff by making a reservation one day in advance. Lunch and dinner with the youth staff will still take place along with the most popular kids' activities such as MSC Dance Crew, Cabin 12006 family game show & web series and the LEGO experience.
Wide choice of live entertainment will continued to be offered around the ship. As the capacity of the theater will be reduced to ensure responsible social distancing, the entertainment schedule will be adapted so all our guests can still enjoy a great variety of award-winning shows.
Restaurants, bars and lounges, will allow for social distancing and all meals and drinks will be served to guests at their table. The buffet restaurant will offer a new service concept and a new guest flow to ensure social distancing. Instead of self-service, the guests will select what they want and the food will be plated and handed to them to take back to their table to ensure the highest level of health and hygiene measures are followed. For a contactless experience, guests will be able to access restaurant and bar menus from their personal mobile device by scanning a QR code.
For more information on MSC Cruises' health and safety measures as well as the guest experience visit here.
MSC Cruises' blue-ribbon COVID Expert Group
MSC Cruises' blue-ribbon COVID Expert Group brings together the following highly qualified and internationally respected experts in the fields of medicine, public health, and/or related scientific disciplines:
Professor Christakis Hadjichristodoulou, Professor of Hygiene and Epidemiology at the Faculty of Medicine as well as its Vice President, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Greece;
Professor Stephan J. Harbarth, Hospital Epidemiologist, Infectious Diseases Specialist and Head of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG) and Faculty of Medicine; and
Doctor Ian Norton, a Specialist Emergency Physician with post graduate qualifications in Surgery, International Health and Tropical Medicine, currently managing director of Respond Global, formerly the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Emergency Medical Team Initiative program until January 2020.
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"Martha Graham's creativity crossed artistic boundaries and embraced every artistic genre. She collaborated with and commissioned work from the leading visual artists, musicians, and designers of her day, including sculptor Isamu Noguchi and fashion designers Halston, Donna Karan, and Calvin Klein, as well as composers Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, William Schuman, Norman Dello Joio, and Gian Carlo Menotti.
During her long and illustrious career, Graham created 181 masterpiece dance compositions, which continue to challenge and inspire generations of performers and audiences. In 1986, she was given the Local One Centennial Award for dance by her theater colleagues, awarded only once every 100 years, and during the Bicentennial she was granted the United States' highest civilian honor, The Medal of Freedom. In 1998, TIME Magazine named her the "Dancer of the Century." The first dancer to perform at the White House and to act as a cultural ambassador abroad, she captured the spirit of a nation and expanded the boundaries of contemporary dance. "I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer," she said. "It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.""


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Beech Grove Walmart will improve security
Walmart representatives have informed Beech Grove Mayor Dennis Buckley that they will increase security at their store on Emerson Avenue in the wake of the June 4 fight between two women that went viral on YouTube.
Buckley announced the store's steps to improve its relationship with the city during a public safety meeting with residents at City Hall on June 18. Walmart representatives informed Buckley that they would have a security officer on duty at the store, improve fencing on the property, disallow overnight semitrailer parking and have Beech Grove police remove panhandlers from parking areas.
Walmart security will not call the police on shoplifting incidents involving less than $50 of merchandise. Security and managers will deal with first-time shoplifters.
"I left the meeting feeling very good about it," Buckley said. "Our goal is for them to be a better partner, to contribute to the city and to quit draining our (police) resources."
The June 18 meeting with a regional manager, corporate attorney, media director and security director had a higher profile than a meeting one year ago that left Buckley disappointed.
Beech Grove police made 789 calls last year between February and December and nearly 500 calls to the store already this year.
Buckley, however, cautioned, "I will give them their due and be patient and see what they do in the next two weeks."
He also reported on the status of the vacated St. Francis Hospital and noted that a veterans organization has expressed interest in buying the property. The mayor, who is not optimistic about the proposal, said the enclosed walkway that links the hospital with two vacated buildings over Sherman Drive will be torn down within two weeks.
To improve public safety, Buckley expects the city to hire a new patrolman and firefighter and buy five new police cars by the end of this year; another patrolman and two firefighters should be added in 2017. Buckley also said steps will be taken to improve security at police headquarters by adding a receptionist from 4 p.m.-midnight.
A compliance report revealed that 1,201 cases have been handled since April 2014, with 49 tickets issued, including 23 for tall grass and 12 for trash or junk. Residents can make reports of unkempt property or other potential violations by calling 803-9099 or emailing compliance@beechgrove.com.
Buckley also reviewed a police shooting on South Fourth Street and a police chase that was called off after a theft at Walmart.
He said the city has declared Motel 6 on Churchman Avenue a public nuisance and explained the steps that management must take to avoid fines.


Gov.-elect Tony Evers indicated Thursday he would follow new laws curbing his powers, a day after saying he would not do so.
MADISON - Gov.-elect Tony Evers indicated Thursday he would follow new laws curbing his powers, a day after saying he would not do so.
"I have no intent of breaking the law," Evers told reporters at a news conference Thursday.
"I personally have reviewed (the new laws) and reviewed them with attorneys and other legal staff," Evers said. "We haven't decided what to do personally. It's just that in my experience that when this happens, it likely will happen from the outside."
His comments Thursday did not go as far as those he made Wednesday that prompted criticism from Republican lawmakers.
He demurred when asked what parts of the lame-duck legislation he might not follow.
"I can't be specific because the entire thing was a hot mess," he said Wednesday, adding he was "not sure yet" whether he would take steps related to economic development that would prompt opponents to sue him.
But on Thursday, he said he would not break the law but believed he would be sued over the issue after he takes office Monday.
"It's very likely that I will be the person that is sued because I will be governor at that time," Evers said. "It doesn't have anything to do with me not following the law. I followed it very carefully when I was state superintendent. I was sued because people thought the law was unconstitutional."
"It wasn't about whether I was implementing it or not. I was implementing it as state superintendent because it was a law. My comment is this: It's likely most of that (legal) activity is likely to happen from the outside and I will likely be the defendant of those lawsuits."
Evers was sued by supporters over a 2011 law approved by Republicans that limited his powers to write rules affecting schools. His backers won the case before the state Supreme Court.
After the Legislature placed new, similar restrictions on him, Evers ignored the restrictions because of the court's finding in the previous lawsuit that he had broad powers over schools as the state's elected superintendent. A new lawsuit — this one filed by opponents — is pending before the state Supreme Court.
Last month, GOP lawmakers approved the legislation limiting the governor's power in response to Evers defeating Republican Gov. Scott Walker. Republicans will continue to hold large majorities in both houses for the next two years.
Evers' initial statement Wednesday that he would not go along with provisions of the lame-duck laws sparked outrage from Republican leaders.
"I hope this is more bluster than it is an indication of how Evers plans on governing," Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke of Kaukauna tweeted. "It wld violate his oath of office b4 he even takes it. Exec branch can't choose which laws to enforce."
He reacted positively after Evers made his additional comments Thursday.
"Good to hear! Positive step in moving forward together," Steineke tweeted.
Also Thursday, Evers said he would meet with Assembly Republicans, as is typical at the start of a new legislative session. Speaker Robin Vos sent Evers a letter Thursday inviting him to stop by his caucus and Evers said he would work out a time to do so.
On a separate front, Vos, R- Rochester, on Thursday said he would create a special task force on water quality, one day after a new report showed 42 percent of 301 wells tested in southwestern Wisconsin did not meet standards for bacteria or nitrates.
Vos called the report "disturbing," and said the task force would examine water problems taking place across the state.


What's the best way to save on heating costs?
Winter is here, but it is not too late to cut your heating bill. There are many tips homeowners can do to lower their energy use. Some are going to be more effective than others, but when performed in combination with one another, you can be sure that your monthly bill will start going down. This is one job that should be done right the first time; make a list of materials you will need as well as to draw up a schedule for performing the jobs.
Depending on the size of your home and the scope of work involved, some of these projects may be an all day endeavor. It may seem time-consuming and pointless, but there is no easier way to save money. To protect your investment and give yourself some breathing room, here are some of the best ways to cut your heating costs this winter.
Insulating your home is the best thing you can do to keep your heating costs down. This not only means installing the correct amount, but also doing so the right way. Improper technique can leave gaps and open areas where heat can escape through; be sure to address your attic first, as this is the key trouble zone in most homes.
The next thing on the list is your home's doors and windows. These energy culprits can often be cured with a healthy dose of caulking and weather-stripping. Take the time to fill every nook and cranny, as you don't want to leave any areas exposed here either. A cheap way to increase the insulation value of your windows is to install bubble wrap on them. It goes on easy and comes off without any sticky residue; it is a solid alternative to shrink-wrap and other window covering ideas.
Other helpful tips include lowering the temperature in your home while dressing warmer, as well as setting your fans to "winter" mode and placing rugs on cold floors to keep your feet warm. Many of these tips will not cost you anything, but they could save you a ton!


When 'voice' is there on the page, there's no mistaking it. It comes from the roots of our physical and emotional being.
What does it mean to be looking for, or indeed to find 'your voice' as writer?
'Finding your voice' is bandied about as the gold at the end of the rainbow for emerging writers and storytellers. This is a rather intangible aspect of the craft that allows the reader to recognise the difference between, say, Dickens and Kerouac or Mary Oliver and Jane Austen. It's a unique sensibility, a distinctive way of looking at the world, an authentic expression of who the storyteller is. Part of 'voice' involves how the wordsmith uses style and technique, but it is much, much more than that.
The storyteller experiences an emotion> the emotional is transferred into the character or narrator> it is experienced by the reader. In order to find our voice, what we seek is the most direct line of communication from storyteller, to character, to reader or listener. When, as the storyteller, we can stand steady in the face of a wide breadth of embodied experience, some pleasant and some unpleasant, and communicate that unashamedly to character, and then to reader- then we've found our voice.
In 'non-fiction' writing 'voice' may seem relatively easy to identify, as there will be a voice of narration identified as the storyteller. But because we can only, in the end, write what we know about, 'voice' manifests as strongly in fiction. There's an experiment for you to try this week that looks at those connections.
When we truly function from our holistic, instinctual, wild self, our voice will emerge naturally. The natural storyteller will express what needs to be expressed, using words that do the job, and are not in any way forced. In a nutshell, the job can be said to be to bring the listener or reader into the lead character's experience as fully as possible, to take them on a journey, and to allow them to complete the journey.
Author Nina Stibbe spoke at Penzance Literature Festival about the importance of being yourself when you write. As she rightly said, it is much less effort, and it makes you more successful. Like many of us, it took her quite some time to get close.
I spent years trying to sound like someone else.
Speaking in your own voice gives you a direct and profound connection to those you are speaking to. It is that direct line. It is flow.
Many wordsmiths come to me having written several drafts of a story, but still being unsure how well it is working. Sometimes this is because they haven't found their voice. Another way of saying that is that they haven't found what the heart of their story is. They've often located the central struggle and tension as between two characters in the story, without seeing how that is a reflection of a struggle going on within themselves.
In finding the heart of the story, the storyteller comes from a more authentic place, and finds their voice. In understanding their personal central struggle, they ease internal tensions which allow them to engage more fully and compassionately with the world. Storytelling can often lead to the completion of a process we need to complete in other aspects of our life, for example in relationships.
Storytellers writing autobiography, sometimes find family members or friends aren't accepting or appreciative of the content of their writing. Often, if they re-own the journey of their narrator in a more authentic manner, they are received more warmly. If subtle levels of conflict underlie communications, and we write from a place of unprocessed emotions, and lack of awareness around motivations, that is felt by the reader. The bottom line is that when you come from a caged place, you are not heard. That is hugely frustrating, distressing and dispiriting to the storyteller needing to tell their story. When you can say 'Ah, I see now that it wasn't you I was angry with, it was that other part of me that behaves a lot like you!' you are freed, you are wild.
In Wild Words work, we look at the fears that underlie the limitations we choose (either consciously or unconsciously) for ourselves. There are so many ways in which we decide not to see all of ourselves and our experience- because it is too frightening, overwhelming, or does not tally with who we, or how others want us to be. We deceive ourselves, and in that deceit a gap opens up.
People leave out secrets. They protect themselves from showing weakness, arrogance, foolishness, and all the other damning characteristics of an authentic report.
-Erving Polster, Every Person's Life is Worth a Novel.
And there is a high price to be paid. Again, in Polster's words.
Self- deception is the basis of inauthenticity: living that is not based on the truth of oneself in the world leads to feelings of dread, guilt, and anxiety.
The following questions can help to bring into awareness issues around 'voice'.
1. What emotions frighten you because you think you will be overwhelmed, lose control, or go mad?
2. What parts of yourselves have you suppressed or disowned because they are not acceptable in your family or wider community? What aspects of yourself are you embarrassed or ashamed of?
3. Where are all those parts of yourself now?
-Projected on to other people or the environment?
-Somatised in numb or unwell parts of your body?
-Leaking out, despite your best efforts, in, for example, uncontainable emotion?
4. Which parts of yourself are not really you? Can you separate out the voices of caregivers and peers that you have absorbed over time?
'I am afraid to write because I am afraid to tell the truth'.
There's often a feeling that, in order to be 'authentic' we have to reveal everything about ourselves, to open ourselves up completely. That is not true. You can be absolutely authentic in your communication without revealing very personal information. To be authentic is to be wild. To be wild is to survive and thrive in the environment. If we're going to survive and thrive, we have to take care of ourselves, and make a clear distinction between what is shared and what remains private.
One way to do that is to write fiction.
It is also possible to write an autobiography without revealing everything. A good example of this is 'H is for Hawk'. Helen Macdonald writes eloquently and powerfully about the death of her father and how that affects her life, and yet says very little about the family dynamics and tensions. She maintains her privacy whilst being open and authentic in those things she does choose to share.
It is very natural and appropriate that we pause before writing about issues that we fear may hurt those we love. It's also completely valid to choose not to write about them for that reason. There are many truths in our lives. Not being able, or not wishing to write about some of them, does not preclude us from fully sharing other aspects of our lives. And it does not mean we are being untruthful. Having our secrets and mysteries is important. In its way it is also a form of truth telling, as we're being true to our own need for privacy. We take care of our emotional selves when we withhold information.
The difficulty can come when we have powerful emotions around a sensitive subject that need expressing. They do then need to be processed. The expression must be contained, so as not to damage our self or another, and so that we feel safe. A piece of paper is a brilliant container for emotion. Others need never see the words. We can set fire to them after we have written them, and watch the ash of the sentiments be taken by the wind. Or, we can make a paper boat of them, and watch them float away. Other options are: to tell difficult truths to a small group of people, for example on a Wild Words course, or, to create fictionalised characters, so that the companions on your life journey are anonymised.
Protecting others is fine and good, but be open to this idea too. Even if a family secret has been guarded for decades, it may come as a relief to everyone concerned when the cat's out the bag. How can you shed light on the misunderstandings and miscommunications that go on between people? How can you name the elephant in the room?
Find a balance. Be sensitive to what others care about, but know that it is not your job to protect others. Allow them the dignity of looking after themselves.
How do we recognise our 'voice' when it arrives?
Almost all poetry written, past and present, is a failure because the intent, the slant and accent, is not a carving like stone or eating a good sandwich or drinking a good drink, but more like somebody saying, "Look, I have written a poem … see my POEM!... It's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.
Writing the poem, novel, screenplay or short story is only one half of the job description if you want to write or tell stories for a living. The second half is getting it out into the world. The alternative to sending out all those hopeful letters to agents and publishers, is to self-publish. The advantage of self-publishing is that you have more control over the process. The disadvantage is that you will need to invest money upfront, and that you will have to roll out the publicity machine alone.
Whichever route you take, you'll almost certainly need to have a website for your book, as well as to take on the social media aspect of the marketing. Publishers now also strongly advise authors to engage with Facebook, Twitter and other social media forums. For reasons you'll come to appreciate in a minute, it's very difficult for someone else to do that effectively on your behalf.
Us storytellers often bemoan the need to market our own work. We'd much rather be sealed away in a dark room practicing our craft. Certainly, the shift from the immersive writing space into 'hard-sell' mode can be rather discombobulating (yes, that is a real word).
The reason it shocks us sensitive types so much, is that we believe that the publicity bit requires us to develop a tough shell, and to present a rehearsed facade to the world. That belief is misguided.
You may be delighted to know that the 'hard-sell' approach no longer bears fruit, if it ever did. Successful publicity, nowadays done mostly via the web, requires something else. It requires us to use the authentic 'voice' that we've been cultivating with such care when we write. Successful marketing needs us to be ourselves.
The value of information is in decline. As long as we have access to the internet, we can, fairly instantaneously, get hold of as much information, if not more, than we can handle. We are increasingly overwhelmed when confronted by the sheer volume of it. As a result, many of us are beginning to stop being interested, and switch off.
Now, what people crave is relationships, authentic communications, real conversations in the non-real world.
I love the website Humans Of New York, so do 14,946,300 other people. The reason it's so popular is that it shares the honest, heartfelt stories of real people. It allows us to connect with our own emotion and humanity, and with that in others.
If you want to people to become interested in what you're doing, share your heartfelt stories. Start talking about your creative process. Cultivate friendships online, just as you would in the real world. When people are interested enough, they'll ask you what you can give them to read.
If you'd like some examples of writer's sharing their hopes, fear and vulnerabilities around the writing process, you'll find them on the Wild Words Facebook page.
Trust that there's a reason that your body and mind need to tell this story at this time. You may not be consciously aware of it, but there's something to be processed. It may be something you've been working with for a long time, and which holds many fears. If so, no wonder it's not easy to face! Forgive yourself the resistance.
The closer you get to your authentic voice, and the more you're saying what needs to be said, the more it will write itself. The authenticity will create the appropriate form and dissolve the block. So keep searching for your authentic voice. PASSION is a good indication of where you need to go.
Absence of concentration, whilst lambasted at school, is not always a bad thing. Where does you body and mind need to go to find the real you?
Then we've found our voice.
Speaking from a place of truth. What an utter relief that would be. Ironically, it's in finding what we have in common with all other animals, -that it's enough just to be as we are- that we find our unique voice as storytellers.


With the advancement of automotive technology, your next car might be as vulnerable to security attacks as your current computer or smartphone.
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Red Dead Redemption 2 Special Editions, Pre-Order Bonuses Officially Revealed
Orville Steele
The "Red Dead Redemption 2: Collector's Box" is available for pre-order at the Rockstar Warehouse and select retailers.
Free Access to Additional Weapons: Get access to the Volcanic Pistol, Pump Action Shotgun and Lancaster Varmint Rifle, free of charge from Gunsmiths in online.
As one of the most anticipated games of the fall, Red Dead Redemption 2 is easily on track to be a top seller in the later half of the year, and now Rockstar Games has officially pulled back the curtain on several editions of the game that will arrive with its launch and what to expect when pre-ordering the game. Firstly, what the heck is a war horse?
The Ultimate Edition has all of the story mode content from the Special Edition and extra bonuses for online.
The special edition of Red Dead Redemption 2 comes with the core game, plus the following items. Expect the Ultimate Edition to run for $99.99.
Bonus GTA$ for GTA Online will also be included and credited to your Maze Bank account, with GTA$500,000 with the digital standard edition (priced $59.99/£54.99), GTA$1m with the Special Edition ($79.99/£74.99), and $GTA2m with the Ultimate Edition ($99.99/£89.99). The online benefits include "Bonus Outfits", "Black Chestnut Thoroughbred Horse", "Free Access to the Survivor Camp Theme", "Free Access to Additional Weapons", and "Rank Bonuses".
The Kremlin Has Invited North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un to Russian Federation
The president also showed unusual politeness, seeing Kim Yong-chol, a former spy chief, off as he departed in a vehicle . Kim Yong-chol delivered a letter from Kim Jong-un to Donald Trump in the White House on June 1.
Apple, Samsung, Microsoft and others given 'deep access' to Facebook user data
In April, multiple committees on Capitol Hill had peppered him with questions about Facebook's dealings with Cambridge Analytica. Facebook's already spotty data sharing policy is apparently more problematic than observers had believed.
Israeli strikes Hamas in Gaza after 'projectiles' fired
He said he was anxious and asked her not to go to the border area Friday but she refused. Over 260 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in that time .
Thanks to a digital faux pas on Microsoft's part, the pre-order details for Rockstar's upcoming open world western have gone live on the Xbox Store, revealing exactly what you'll get if you purchase the sequel in advance of its October 28 release date, later this year. Are you interested in the game?
If you need even more digital goodies, the Red Dead Redemption 2 Ultimate Edition is for you. This in-game cash bonus will give Arthur Morgan enough to buy a weapon, some food, a handful of useful items and ammunition. The retail version also includes a physical world map and slipcover.
The bonuses contain the War Horse, half a million dollars in GTA Online, something known as "The Outlaw Survival Kit", cash for Red Dead Redemption 2's story, and for those that pre-order by July 31st, a treasure map in Red Dead Redemption 2's story. Today, Microsoft accidentally jumped the gun and updated the store page for Red Dead Redemption 2 with pre-order bonuses.
The leak details quite a lot of information regarding pre-order bonuses.
It is also interesting that the single-player campaign here for Red Dead Redemption 2 is being referred to as a "story mode" - a nomenclature that is new for a Rockstar title. In fact, the pre-order page for the game on the Windows Store actually went up publicly.
Here's When Melania Trump Is Making Her First Public Appearance Since Surgery
Mueller's team accuses Manafort of witness tampering
US Supreme Court backs baker in gay wedding cake case
Philippines Duterte tells United Nations human rights expert - 'Go to hell'
Germany releases 23-man squad, drops Leroy Sane, others [Full squad]
Troubled Sterling booked for diving as England down Nigeria
Melania Mystery Continues: First Lady Won't Accompany President To G7 Or Singapore
Preet Bharara says Trump pardoning himself would be 'almost self-executing impeachment'
Telegram app not GDPR complaint as Apple blocks updates following Russian Federation ban
Injured Kompany retained in Belgium World Cup squad
Google reported to stop working on Maven, its government-licensed AI tech
United States military killed nearly 500 civilians in 2017 - Pentagon report
Trump takes aim at Canada as nations protest his tariffs
England show World Cup promise in home victory over Nigeria
Jun 05, 2018 - 05:14
Everton ace Pickford was in goal for England's 2-1 win over Nigeria in Saturday's friendly at Wembley. However, star striker Kane insisted Gareth Southgate's men can cause problems at the tournament.
Microsoft is acquiring GitHub
Many fear that Microsoft will use its ownership of GitHub to see what projects are popular, and then launch rivals of its own. Over on The Register , results of a poll suggest that people are less than keen on the idea of Microsoft snapping up GitHub.
Samuel Umtiti's new Barca deal ends Liverpool hopes of pulling off deal
Umtiti joined Barca for €25m from Lyon in 2016 and he quickly established himself alongside Pique in the middle of the back four. The France centre-back fuelled the speculation in March when he refused to comment on reports he could sign for United.
Wonder Woman 2: 1980s setting teased for sequel
The first movie was released a year ago, surpassing records at the box office for a woman-directed live-action film. He's teased the idea of "WW84", and Jenkins too also posted the same logo on her social media accounts.
Thousands expected for Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose
Lastly, the Near Field Communications ( NFC ) feature in iPhones might be slightly expanded to include unlocking of hotel rooms. There are going to be major improvements and users can expect up to 40% improvements on devices like the iPhone 6 Plus.
Germany's Merkel talks European Union reforms, immigration
Merkel's proposals appeared to be somewhat more cautious, but with many points of agreement with her closest European ally. But Andrea Nahles, leader of the center-left Social Democrats in the ruling coalition, told the ARD public broadcaster Ms.
Dollar falls, euro recovers as Italy tries to end turmoil
Di Maio also backed down on threats to seek Mattarella's impeachment over the first failure. "That means more work, less corruption".
Trump says Mueller leaking documents to press on goal
The letter lists 16 subject areas Mueller's team meant to question Trump about, including his firing of FBI Director James Comey . As the nation's chief law enforcement officer, Trump could "even exercise his power to pardon if so desired", they argued.
Three Lions beat Super Eagles in global friendly
Ian Wright admitted England's performance against Nigeria was "worrying" despite the fact the Three Lions came away with a win. Sterling laid on the second goal for captain Harry Kane after Cahill had headed England in front inside seven minutes.
Alexander Zverev comes back to reach French Open 4th round
A tense fourth set unfolded, with Dzumhur- who at one stage collided with a ball boy - breaking for a 3-2 lead. Why not? Just because you said it so nicely, I'm going to believe that now'.
China reserves right to retaliate for United States investment curbs
With about $20 billion in agricultural exports to China past year , US farmers and ranchers are closely following the bout. Navarro's comments reinforce the growing sense of divide between members of the White House team on how to tackle China.
Pushing the envelope: Why was Kim's letter for Trump so big?
But Trump said some very odd things, in fact, about the letter from Kim during his interaction with the reporters. When asked if he could offer a "flavor of what the letter said", Trump said: "It was a very interesting letter".
Putin's meeting with North Korean leader may be held
Trump told reporters he hadn't read the letter yet and added with a smile, "I may be in for a big surprise, folks". Trump said the lengthy conversation Friday "went very well" and called it "a get to know you kind of a situation".
Nicki Minaj Influenced A Lyric On Kanye West's 'Ye' Album
On " Yikes ", Kanye raps: " Russell Simmons wanna pray for me too / I'ma pray for him "cause he got #MeToo'd". If he'd hewn closely to the 4:44-esque model of reconciling with his fans, he might have had something.
Italy heads for populist government after months of…
Both Mr Di Maio and Mr Salvini vowed not to support Mr Cottarelli and called for elections straight away. Lorne Cook and Raf Casert contributed from Brussels, and Angela Charlton from Paris.
Watch Dogs Legion will contain fan-created songs
Samsung Galaxy Note10 5G To Arrive In 256GB, 512GB & 1TB Options
Nintendo Announces the Switch Lite, Coming This Fall
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