Rod Beck, who left the Giants as a free agent this winter, earned the save last night, but it wasn't easy.
With a three-run lead, he walked two hitters and, with runners at first and third and two out, had to face Barry Bonds, who had hit a three-run homer in the third inning.
"I was a little more excited than I thought I was going to be," said Beck, who was making his first appearance at 3Com Park in a uniform other than the Giants'. "I don't think I've walked two guys in an inning my whole career.
"But maybe that's the way it had to be, to come down to me and Barry."
Bonds hit the ball well, but Sammy Sosa caught it with his back to the right-field fence to end the game.
The crowd of 28,886 gave Beck an enthusiastic, if slightly mixed, welcome. "There definitely were a lot of cheers," he said. "I felt good about that. There were some boos, but if you are getting booed in an opposing ballpark, I guess you can take it as a compliment."
Giants manager Dusty Baker downplayed Beck's return. "It wasn't really strange facing him," he said. "We saw him in spring training and we saw him in Chicago."
MISCELLANY: Baker had a pregame conversation with struggling reliever Jose Mesa. "You've got to keep communicating," said Baker. "I wanted to make sure his confidence was still OK." . . . Bonds' homer in the third inning was the 398th of his career, tying him with Dale Murphy for 28th best all-time. . . . When Jeff Kent followed Bonds' blast with one of his own, it marked the fifth time this year the Giants have homered back to back. . . . The fifth inning was the sixth time in Cubs history they have hit three straight home runs. . . . Sosa had his eighth multi-home run game of the year. . . . This is the Cubs' only visit to San Francisco. The Giants split a four-game series in Wrigley Field in April and make a return trip there for two games next week.


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Listeria concerns prompts ramen recall
NEW YORK (AP) — Veggie Noodle Co. said this weekend it was voluntarily recalling its Cece's brand Fresh Veggie Ramen with Chicken Broth due to concerns the egg contained in the package may be contaminated with listeria.
Veggie Noodle gets its hard-boiled eggs from Georgia-based Almark Foods, which recalled its hard-boiled eggs earlier this month. Almark has expanded its recall twice to involve even more products.
The recall impacts all expiration dates of the Fresh Veggie Ramen, but no other products, the company said.
Listeria is a bacteria that can serious and potentially fatal infections in children and the elderly. Healthy individuals may suffer high fever, headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, and pregnant woman could miscarry or have stillbirths due to listeria.
The current listeria outbreak has resulted in one death, and illnesses in five states.
More Product Recalls Stories
Chocolate recalled after plastic found in products
by Nexstar Media Wire / Jan 17, 2021
Lake Champlain Chocolates (LCC) issued a voluntary recall on select milk chocolate products after a consumer reported finding plastic pieces in the product, according to the FDA.
No consumers have reported adverse health effects from the contamination thus far.
by Sarah Doiron, Nexstar Media Wire / Jan 15, 2021
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Nestlé Prepared Foods is recalling more than 700,000 pounds of Hot Pockets because they may be contaminated with pieces of glass or hard plastic, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service.
The company said they've received four complaints of consumers finding glass and plastic pieces in their frozen, not-ready-to-eat pepperoni Hot Pockets. One of those complaints involved a "minor oral injury," according to the USDA.
by Michael Geheren / Jan 1, 2021
SILVER SPRING, Md. (NewsNation Now) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recalled pet food products which led to at least 28 deaths and eight illnesses in dogs that ate the recalled product.
The recalled lots of food contain "potentially fatal levels of aflatoxin." It's a toxin produced by mold grown on corn and other grains.

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from .equipment import equipmentslot, weapon
from . import dice

class Inventory(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self.equipment = {slot: None for slot in equipmentslot.EquipmentSlot}
        self.equipment[equipmentslot.EquipmentSlot.HANDS] = weapon.Weapon("Unarmed", [dice.Dice(6)])

    def add_equipment(self, equipment):
        self.equipment[equipment.equipment_slot] = equipment

    def remove_equipment(self, slot):
        self.equipment[slot] = None

    def weapon_damage(self):
        weapon_slot = equipmentslot.EquipmentSlot.HANDS
        return self.equipment[weapon_slot].damage()

    def compute_normal_armor_class(self):
        armor_slot = equipmentslot.EquipmentSlot.CHEST
        return self.equipment[armor_slot].compute_normal_armor_class()

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Photo: Still image from The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Winner of the Sundance Best Director and Special Jury Awards
Directed by Joe Talbot | In English
Starring Jimmie Fails, Jonathan Majors, Rob Morgan, Tichina Arnold, and Danny Glover
121 min | Drama | 2019
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THU 2:00
Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind. As he struggles to reconnect with his family and reconstruct the community he longs for, his hopes blind him to the reality of his situation.
A wistful odyssey populated by skaters, squatters, street preachers, playwrights, and other locals on the margins, The Last Black Man in San Francisco is a poignant and sweeping story of hometowns and how they're made—and kept alive—by the people who love them.
—A24 Films
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The lawsuit the Motion Picture Association of America filed against Sony to ban the first consumer VCR may help Napster's defence of a suit from the music industry.
"There's a period of instability with the introduction of any new technology, (when) no one really knows how the market is going to go and no one knows if the market will be restructured," said Patricia Zimmermann, author and professor at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, discussing the impact of new media technologies.
She's talking about the VCR (video cassette recorder) and the lawsuit the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) filed against Sony to ban its predecessor, the Sony Betamax, in the early 1980s, but she might as well be talking about the Internet age. Take, for example, the trial of Napster Inc., which will begin in a US District Court courtroom today, with the MP3-sharing company defending itself against the Recording Industry Association of America's charge that it is infringing RIAA members' copyrights.
The similarities between the two cases are not lost on Napster, according to Eric Scheirer, a media and entertainment industry analyst with Forrester Research Inc. in Boston, Massachusetts.
"The similarity in the court of public opinion that Napster is going for is that the film industry hated the VCR, hated Betamax, they wanted to wipe it out but it turned out to make them a lot of money," Scheirer said. "That's an analogy they're trying to make."
It's not a widely accepted analogy, however. First, Hollywood was only briefly opposed to the VCR, according to Zimmermann.
"There is a mythology about Hollywood: that it is technophobic and sees any technological innovation or convergence as a market threat," she said. Rather, Hollywood "has been an industry characterised by an interest and economic incentive for technological innovation."
Steve Fabrizio, a representative of the RIAA, asserted that Napster is not the same, legally, as the VCR, due to its status as a service, rather than an "article of commerce," a product.
It is the legal issues, more so than the analogies, which complicate this case. Both Napster and the RIAA intend to rely on the same Supreme Court decision, that of 1984's Sony vs. Universal, which legalized the Betamax.
According to Napster, in that case the court held that a technology must be "merely... capable of substantial noninfringing uses" in order to be protected by law. Napster argues that its service is capable of such uses, and thus should be protected.
The RIAA's Fabrizio sees things differently, however. "There are no substantial noninfringing uses of Napster. Napster has not even proffered to the court a hypothetical, future capability that would be noninfringing," he said.
Copyright infringement, particularly two subsets of it, contributory and vicarious infringement, form the basis of the RIAA's complaint. According to the RIAA's preliminary injunction motion, a party is guilty of contributory infringement when they, "with the knowledge on the infringing activity, (induce), (cause), or materially (contribute) to the infringing conduct of another."
Vicarious infringement, on the other hand, is determined when the party in question "has the right and ability to supervise the infringing activity and also has a direct financial interest in such activities."
It is in answering these charges that Napster must rely on the Sony decision. If a technology can be found to have "substantial noninfringing uses," said Peter Jaszi, a law professor at the Washington College of Law at American University in Washington, D.C., then the company cannot be held liable as a contributory infringer.
The fulcrum upon which this defense rests, according to Jaszi, is the definition of "substantial," noting that there is no clear precedent that can be applied here. The doctrine of substantial similarity in product appearance has a very low standard for determining infringement, but courts may be hesitant to extend that ruling into a distinctly different area of copyright law, he said.
Further, the Sony case offers no guidance on this point, he said, because once it had been established that home recording for the purpose of time-shifting -- the recording of programs to simply watch at a later date; the use found to be most prevalent at the time -- was a fair use, the issue of contributory infringement was settled.
Therefore, "after all of the technical issues are stripped away, this is a fair use case," Jaszi said.
Fair use -- the legal doctrine which allows private, noncommercial recording, as well as limited quotations of written works and the like -- is a particularly controversial issue in the Napster case, with both sides claiming it allows vastly different uses. However, this is not a sign of misunderstanding or poorly worded laws, says Mark Fischer, a new media attorney with the Boston, Massachusetts firm, Palmer, Dodge LLP.
"Fair use law in the United States is a set of flexible standards," he said. "There is no rule book... where you can plug in the parameters. The law does not provide certainty, but the good part is that when (new technologies) come along the law can try to apply flexible standards."
Jaszi agreed, adding that fair use is "not a legal doctrine which lends itself to hard precedents" and is designed to be both fact and context sensitive. As such, "sometimes activities that would be technically regarded as infringing copyright are treated as privileged, because overall, they are more socially or economically desirable," Jaszi said.
Napster Interim Chief Executive Officer Hank Barry said his company offers just such a service which should be protected under the Sony doctrine.
snuff out that technology," Barry said.
But the MP3-trading that Napster facilitates transgresses the bounds of such fair use protections, according to Fischer.
"Fair use should not apply to Napster because of the worldwide distribution to so many users. That goes beyond a fair use," he said. "Fair use here is a question of scalability. If you make a tape of your favorite songs for yourself or your friends, that's very small. The problem is, with Napster, people think the same way but they're making copies available to the whole world."
However, under the Audio Home Recording Act, the 1992 law in which U.S. Congress specifically authorized private, noncommercial sharing, Barry argued that "Congress meant to immunize both analog and digital noncommercial, one-to-one sharing."
Napster users "have an absolute right to make noncommercial copies on one-to-one basis," Barry said.
Even when it was just a single, physical tape that might go to a single, physical friend -- in the case of the VCR, for instance, industry trade groups took a hard stance. "The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler (a serial killer of the time) is to the woman alone," said Jack Valenti, president of the MPAA, the group which sued Sony over the Betamax.
And the rhetoric hasn't been much toned down since. In a recent speech, Edgar Bronfman, Jr., chairman of Seagram, the parent company of Universal Studios Inc., likened Napster to the former Soviet Union and said that it "(takes) advantage of each person's least admirable qualities," and "(holds) fairness in contempt, (and devalues) and (demeans) the labor and genius of others."
Napster's Barry takes issue with Bronfman.
"There's absolutely a deep respect for copyright within every person in the Napster community," he said. "The idea that Napster doesn't respect copyright is just flat-out wrong."
Be that as it may, even if Judge Marilyn Patel decides in Napster's favor, problems will still await the company.
Forrester's Scheirer believes that a court victory for Napster would "mean nothing" for the company.
Napster "doesn't have much of a chance at succeeding as a company," he said. "They don't have much opportunity to construct a viable business model around their business as it's presently constituted... there's no opportunity to monetize what they're doing."
The case, "is almost irrelevant," he said. "Even if they win, they're not going to be a successful business and, even if they lose, the technology is going to stay around."
While not as negative about Napster's prospects, Fischer too believes that the RIAA will achieve its ends no matter what the decision.
"If products like Napster are supported by law, the RIAA and MPAA will be successful in amending the copyright law," he said.
However, neither Scheirer nor Fischer think that a recording industry victory will mean an end to Napster.
"This kind of technology is such a fundamental part of the Internet that to try to have a blanket ban against all technology like this is essentially saying people on the Internet can't exchange files with each other," Scheirer said. "You just can't do that."
No matter what the outcome of the trial, Fischer feels that copyright laws will have to amended to incorporate new, Napster-like technologies while still compensating copyright holders.
"We're training generations of (people) to love getting music and content over the Internet and training to think of it as a public utility, like water: free or virtually free," he said. "I don't think we're going to change basic behavior."
Napster, and other peer-to-peer file-sharing technologies, will eventually become central components of the music business, most of the interviewees for this piece agreed.
Record companies "will seek... some system in which the operators of the technologies voluntarily seek licensing arrangements with respect to the music transmitted," American University's Jaszi said.
Analysts believe that technologies such as digital rights management or subscription-based download services await future digital music consumers. However, not everyone is so sure whether central bodies, such as record companies or the RIAA, will continue to play as a major role in future as they do at present.
"Ultimately, the big question from the industry's perspective will be when the artists have total control and the ability to distribute their music and don't need the record companies any more," said Jonathan Tankel, an associate professor of communication at Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne in Indiana.
As the artists become more savvy, there is the possibility of a democratization of the industry where the recording companies could become obsolete.
As such, the record companies "have bigger problems than Napster, but this is the one that's in front of them," Tankel said.
Napster, based in San Mateo, California, can be reached at +1-650-570-5382 or via the Web at http://www.napster.com/.


Works by the world-famous Azerbaijani artist were presented in Paris, the romantic capital of France.
Nigar Narimanbekova's five paintings including "The Puppet", "Kiss of a Nymph", "Magic of the Night", "Broken Wings" and "Confession of a Mermaid" were displayed at the largest international exhibition of contemporary art Salon Business Art Fair 2017, Trend Life reported.
The paintings are included in the latest series of works entitled "Love Toys."
The Salon Business Art Fair 2017 took place in France on October 19-22. Among the numerous guests was the famous French academician and art critic, Jean Charles Ashe. He said many warm words about the artist's works, stressing that Narimanbekova's paintings are extravaganza emotions and feelings.
At the exhibition Narimanbekova was represented by the French Association Stella Art International.
Paris magazine La Gazette Des Arts published an article about the national artist and her creative path. This issue of the art magazine is timed to coincide with the international exhibition Salon Business Art Fair 2017.
"Salon Business Art Fair 2017 presented me with an honorary diploma signed by the commissioner of the salon Georges Levy and art magazine La Gazette Des Arts, with inscription "For the creation of a magical unique world filled with fairy tales and magic". This is an incredible success and honor to receive such a high rating on such a prestigious art project, " said the artist.
Famous for her brilliant works, Nigar Narimanbekova lives and works in Baku and Paris. She graduated from Azerbaijan State Art school named. A. Azimzade and All-Union state Institute of cinematography. S. A. Gerasimov in Moscow.
Nigar Narimanbekova was awarded the Grand Prix "For High Achievements in Contemporary Fine Arts" at the exhibition "Salon business-art-2015" in the Pierre Cardin Center in Paris.
Her famous painting "Marionette , which enters the artist's series of paintings "Love Toys", won the main prize of the Salon of independent artists - TOILE D'OR 2016.
The painting "Adagio" received the prize of the Salon of independent artists - TOILE D'OR 2016.
She is a member of the Union of Artists of Azerbaijan and the International Association of Art. Her paintings are displayed in the exhibition halls of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Culture and Tourism, National Museum of Art of Azerbaijan as well as in private collections.


This week the Managing Director from our Australian Office, Lee Evans, has been busy keeping fit with Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ). He had the honour of attending a BJJ seminar with Jose Mario "The Zen Machine" Sperry.
Mario Sperry, a Jiu-Jitsu, ADCC and MMA legend shared some of the techniques he used at the seminar to conquer 03 IFBJJ World Championships and 05 ADCC Titles.
Lee took up the sport 7 months ago and now trains 3 times a week at the Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Smeaton Grange gym. He is currently working towards his blue belt under his instructors Alex Prates and Hugo Nunes.
We won't be messing with him anytime soon!


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The Golden Age Wonder Woman had strength that was comparable to the Golden Age Superman. Wonder Woman was capable of bench pressing 15,000 pounds even before she had received her bracelets, and later hoisted a 50,000 pound boulder above her head to inspire Amazons facing the test.[169] Even when her super strength was temporarily nullified, she still had enough mortal strength of an Amazon to break down a prison door to save Steve Trevor.[170] In one of her earliest appearances, she is shown running easily at 60 mph (97 km/h), and later jumps from a building[clarification needed] and lands on the balls of her feet.[171]
^ Callahan, Timothy (November 28, 2011). "When Words Collide: The New 52 First Quarter Review". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on September 16, 2012. Retrieved September 16, 2012. What is worth reading? "Wonder Woman," definitely. It's the best of the new 52. Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang are telling a clean, poetic story with a strong mythological pull and a fierce warrior of a Wonder Woman.
After Darkseid and Grail's retreat, they returned to a base in the Amazon Rainforest, where Darkseid was setting his mysterious plans into motion. He tasked his loyal Female Furies with tracking down a godly relic he needed, but they were unable to do so thanks to the intervention of Steve Trevor and his A.R.G.U.S. forces. Meanwhile, Wonder Woman fought a number of villains that had been recruited by Veronica Cale: Zara of the Crimson Flame, Blue Snowman and Anglette. As Diana caught up with Steve at A.R.G.U.S. HQ, Jason returned wearing a suit of armor gifted to him by the gods, but with no knowledge of its purpose.[96] As news came in of an attack by Grail, Wonder Woman and Jason immediately responded just in time to prevent Grail from killing another demigod. Wonder Woman bound Grail in the Lasso of Truth and forced her to reveal Darkseid's plans. Grail explained that Darkseid was looking to build himself an army of Amazons. Due to her half-Amazon blood, Grail was able to break free from the Lasso's grip and retreated.[97]
Wonder Woman, Hermes and Zola is at a café where a guy called Lennox, who knew that Zola is pregnant with Zeus and who Wonder Woman and Hermes really is arrived there, and tells to Wonder Woman that he is Diana's brother. He tells to Diana that she has to be at the London Bridge at six, or she'd regret it. She's there at six, and Poseidon arrives, and tells Diana that he wants to be the new god of the gods, whereas Lennox goes into a cave shown to him by Hermes, and there he meets Hades who also wants to claim the throne of the Heavens. After Hera arrives, Wonder Woman tricks all of them, and Hades goes back into his cave, and tricks Zola to come to him and kidnap her, he told Diana that they struck a bargain, and when she has fulfilled her's, she shall get Zola back.
Hermes, the messenger god of speed, granted Diana superhuman speed and the ability to fly.[183] She is capable of flying at speeds approaching half the speed of light.[181] She can react quickly enough to deflect bullets, lasers, and other projectiles with her virtually impenetrable bracelets. After the 2011 relaunch of the character, Wonder Woman does not naturally possess the power of flight. She gains it once she is hit by a feather thrown by Hermes.[184][185][better source needed]
Later, Diana, Zola and Hera had lunch while they were watched by Hermes. Orion, believing Hermes had bad intentions, attacked him before being stopped by Wonder Woman, and at the same time Strife appeared. Back at the apartment, Strife gave War's helmet to Diana, even though Diana still felt uncomfortable at becoming the new Goddess of War. In that moment, Siracca entered the apartment and told Diana that Milan had been captured by Cassandra. Wonder Woman asked Hermes to take her to Chernobyl, and he accepted to help.[38]
Born among the legendary Amazons of Greek myth Princess Diana has a fierce warrior's heart while being an emissary of peace. On a hidden island paradise she was trained in the arts of combat as well as justice and equality. Diana ventured into the 'world of men' armed with magical gifts from the Gods and a message for all men and women - that all the world can be united through compassion strength and understanding.
The relaunch was beset by scheduling problems as described by Grady Hendrix in his article, "Out for Justice" in The New York Sun. "By 2007 [Heinberg had] only delivered four issues ... Ms. Picoult's five issues hemorrhaged readers ... and Amazons Attack!, a miniseries commissioned to fill a hole in the book's publishing schedule caused by Mr. Heinberg's delays, was reviled by fans who decried it as an abomination."[47] Picoult's interpretation received acclaim from critics, who would have liked to have seen the novelist given more time to work. Min Jin Lee of The Times stated, "By furnishing a 21st-century emotional characterization for a 20th-century creation, Picoult reveals the novelist's dextrous hand."[48]
Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained to be an unconquerable warrior. Raised on a sheltered island paradise, when a pilot crashes on their shores and tells of a massive conflict raging in the outside world, Diana leaves her home, convinced she can stop the threat. Fighting alongside man in a war to end all wars, Diana will discover her full powers and her true destiny. Written by ahmetkozan
Hermes attacked Wonder Woman there, refusing to simply give up the child, but during their battle, War ripped the baby from Demeter's womb and disappeared. Unable to let a grave wound such as that go unattended, Diana saw to Demeter first, and the goddess warned that War could not be trusted. Worriedly, Diana and Orion returned to Manhattan to find that War had returned the baby to Zola. At last, the baby and his mother were reunited - and Orion would not have to look any further for the child he needed to kill.[31]
In 1972, just months after the groundbreaking US Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, science fiction author Samuel R. Delany had planned a story for Ms. that culminated in a plainsclothes Wonder Woman protecting an abortion clinic. However, Steinem disapproved of Wonder Woman being out of costume, and the controversial story line never happened.[222]


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CAREY, Henry Charles, and Isaac LEA (publishers)
A Complete Historical, Chronological, and Geographical American Atlas, being a guide to the history of North and South America, and the West Indies: exhibiting an accurate account of the discovery, settlement, and progress, of their various kingdoms, states, provinces, &c. Together with the wars, celebrated battles, and remarkable events, to the year 1822
Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1823. Folio. (17 1/2 x 11 7/8 inches). Mounted on guards throughout, letterpress title (copyright notice on verso), 1p. Advertisement (verso blank), 1p. Contents (verso blank), 46 double-page hand-coloured engraved maps of the United States, all but one with borders of letterpress descriptive text, 1 uncoloured double-page engraved view showing the comparative heights of mountains throughout the world, 1 hand-coloured double-page engraved table showing the comparative lengths of the principal rivers worldwide, 5 letterpress tables (4 double-page [3 of these hand-coloured]), 18pp. of letterpress text.
Expertly bound to style in half calf over contemporary marbled paper covered boards, flat spine in six compartments divided by gilt roll tools, red morocco label in the second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt.
One of the most important early atlases printed in the United States: a handsome atlas of the Americas, with individual colour maps of each state in the Union, including a seminal map of the West by Stephen H. Long.
At the time of publication this was the best and most detailed atlas to be produced in the United States. Fielding Lucas, the major Baltimore printer, was the principal engraver and substantial historical background text accompanies each map. Among the most noted maps in the atlas is Major Stephen H. Long's "Map of Arkansa and other Territories of the United States." That map, which depicts the Missouri basin between Nashville in the east, the Mandan villages in the north and the Rocky Mountains in the west, was based on the surveys conducted by Long on his expeditions of 1819 and 1820. The map published in Carey & Lea's atlas preceded the official account of that expedition by expedition botanist Edwin James, which included a smaller map with similar detail (titled "Country drained by the Mississippi Western Section"). Carey and Lea's 1823 publication of James Account perhaps explains the prior inclusion of this map with Long expedition information in their atlas. On this famous map is the printed legend, which would perpetuate a myth for many years to come, identifying the high plains as the "Great American Desert." Carey and Lea's atlas was first issued in 1822; this is the 1823 second issue, substantially the same as the first but with a new title and revised states of several maps and text leaves (generally minor revisions, including additional shading to maps and improved resetting of several text leaves, though this copy with first state settings of the Maryland and Virginia text leaves).
Howes C133 ("aa"); Phillips 1373a; Sabin 15055; Wheat, Transmississippi West 348 and 352.
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So you have your new Samsung Galaxy S7/S7 edge and want to start receiving email on it. Set up is a cinch. Here's how to get things rolling: Setting up your personal email account... I upgraded to the Samsung Galaxy S7 from the Galaxy S5 and everything is just better. The screen looks and feels much nicer. The camera is very good. The fingerprint scanner is much better. Overall, it is an amazing phone.
You can get you Telstra emails on mobiles and tablets, the set up between each device can vary slightly. Find out here how to get the instructions for your device. …... For those that own a Samsung Galaxy S7 or Galaxy S7 Edge, you may want to know how to use the Alarm clock feature. The Galaxy S7 Alarm clock does a great job to wake you up or remind you of important events.
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The Uncertain Process of Dying
'I had become aware of how uncertain the process of dying is'
The Age. 10 March. 2018
By Liz Low
10 March 2018 — 11:00pm
My 96-year-old mother had a couple of full rehearsals for dying.
The last one was staged about four months before her actual death. I was woken by a phone call from her nursing home to be told that Mum had had a fall in her bathroom, vomited, lacerated her face, possibly broken her arm and had just left in an ambulance for hospital.
Nick and I tracked her down to cubicle 3 in the emergency department. Mum's body lay flat and small underneath an inflated nylon warming blanket and all I could see was her gaunt face dominated by a large dark red gash on her forehead. Blood had trickled and dried down the side of her face. She had oxygen tubes in her nostrils and was attached to blipping and flashing machines behind her.
"Mum. We're here."
Her eyes flicked open. They were huge, staring and unfocused. I realised that over the years she had lost all her eyelashes.
She came back into herself.
"Oh, Lizzie," she croaked in an unrecognisable deep voice. She spoke slowly of what had happened to her in the night.
By mid-afternoon, she had been diagnosed with pneumonia and cleared of worse possibilities. The doctor liaised with the nursing home and organised for her to be nursed there. She suggested that we take her back in our car. We drove through endless suburbs in peak-hour traffic with my tiny mother slumped in the front seat in her pink fluffy dressing gown.
Back at the nursing home, she was settled in the recliner in her familiar room. The last of the afternoon sun shone on her lap, and if it weren't for the abrasion on her forehead, it would have been hard to believe that she had not been there all day. We all sighed with relief and exhaustion.
The following morning I had a phone call from the visiting doctor, who described Mum's pneumonia as serious. He discussed the possibility of palliative care should she not respond to antibiotics, and how that process would work. The words "palliative care" struck a blow to my heart. However, my sister visited Mum later that day and reported that she was much improved.
By now, I didn't know what to think. It was a repeat of an earlier dress rehearsal almost exactly a year before. Then, she had been taken to hospital with a complication of an ongoing condition. I received a night-time call from another careful and courteous doctor saying that Mum had confirmed her Advanced Care Directive that she wanted no interventions or investigations and was therefore content to be sent back to the nursing home.
That had felt like the beginning of the process of actually dying. She had already told me that since about her 90th birthday, she had thought that she was just filling in time. She was mentally bright but her body was crumbling about her.
Next day, I entered her room preparing for an ill, weak mother, but there she was, sitting in her chair, feeling much better and eating a banana.
My reactions to each of these dress rehearsals were similar: relief that she was recovering, sadness at her diminished degree of wellbeing, resignation that this was going to go on and on, frustration at the lack of conclusiveness, and weariness of having to endure the emotional stress of thinking that this might be the end, yet again.
About four months after the fall and pneumonia, I had a call from the nursing home saying that Mum was quite unwell with a temperature and a cough. We went to see her that afternoon and this was clearly different from the other illnesses. Firstly, she was actually in bed. She was very croaky and weak but amused by her hallucinations of my husband and my father building a cupboard in the corner of her room.
I was deeply disturbed. This was very different and shocking. The moorings were slipping. I sat beside her and felt my entire body sinking.
My sister visited next day, and reported that Mum was mostly unconscious. Over the next few days she sank deeper and deeper. We said our goodbyes and she died quietly, a week after that hallucinatory visit. I was content and grateful that after all the drama and pain of her dress rehearsals, the final act of her life had passed quietly and with dignity.
I had become aware of how uncertain the process of dying is. We control so much in our lives and we try to control dying, but ultimately it is the readiness of our own bodies and minds which makes possible that final, unpredictable moment of surrender. I was merely the onlooker as Mum navigated the waters of her last voyage.
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April 30 Update: Amendments to Policy Statement 5 and Policy Statement 6- Extension of the Early Marketing Period in Response to COVID-19
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April 30, 2021 Real Estate Law Bulletin 2 minute read
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, on April 17, 2020, the Office of the Superintendent of Real Estate (the "OSRE") announced the issuance of Policy Statement 17, which was in effect up to and including April 30, 2021. This bulletin is an update to our previous bulletins on this topic dated April 24, 2020 and July 21, 2020, and details the recently announced amendment to Policy Statement 5 and Policy Statement 6 (the "Amendment") made by the OSRE.
The Amendment provides for a further temporary extension of the early marketing period for developments marketed prior to obtaining a building permit and/or a satisfactory financing commitment from 9 to 12 months as of May 1, 2021.
The conditions under which a developer can market a development governed by the Real Estate Development Marketing Act prior to obtaining a building permit and/or a satisfactory financing commitment are set out in Policy Statement 5 and Policy Statement 6, respectively. Prior to the issuance of Policy Statement 17, a developer could market such a development for a period of 9 months prior to obtaining a building permit and/or a satisfactory financing commitment, as applicable. This 9-month timeline commences on the filing date of the initial disclosure statement. If a developer does not obtain and disclose the details of a building permit and/or a satisfactory financing commitment, as applicable, prior to the expiry of the 9-month timeline, the developer must cease marketing the development. To accommodate the unforeseen circumstances that have arisen due to COVID-19, the OSRE issued Policy Statement 17, which has been in effect up until April 30, 2021. To further support the developers meeting the OCSRE's Policy Statements, on April 27, 2021 OSRE has issued the Amendment, which further extends the early marketing 9-month period to 12 months.
The Amendment provides for the extended early marketing period to continue after April 30, 2021. This means that a development marketed under a disclosure statement filed from May 1, 2021 onward can be marketed for a 12-month period, provided that the disclosure statement contains the applicable extended dates, pursuant to the Amendment.
It is important to note all other provisions of Policy Statement 5 and Policy Statement 6 remain unchanged. Accordingly, the rescission right that arises for a purchaser if a building permit and/or a satisfactory financing commitment, as applicable, is not obtained and disclosed within 12 months from the date of filing of the disclosure statement remains unchanged.
If you wish to obtain further particulars regarding early marketing periods or the Amendment and their proposed implications, we recommend seeking legal advice.
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Heathfield Academy will reopen as primary school
Successful campaign to bring back facility
Karen HambridgeReporter
Heathfield Academy in Earl Shilton.
Earl Shilton's Heathfield Academy building is to reopen as a primary school two years after it closed due to the merger with William Bradford Academy.
The continuation of the Art Deco complex as an educational establishment is a victory for local campaigners who had called for its future to be safeguarded.
Leicestershire County and Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Councillors Janice Richards and Ruth Camamile supported its retention as a school and are delighted with the decision.
The building will be back in use from autumn 2018 when Newlands Primary staff and pupils will transfer over.
However, one element will not reopen.
The swimming pool on the Belle Vue Road site is not compliant with current health and safety standards and so cannot be used.
A successful outcome for Councillor Janice Richards with the news the former Heathfield Academy in Earl Shilton will reopen as a primary school.
Councillor Richards said: "I have met with Leicestershire County Council officers on a number of occasions over the last 12 months to discuss the issues and I am now pleased to report that, if all goes to plan, the site will reopen autumn 2018 and Newlands Primary School will be moving there.
"Initially there will be 420 places but the school will have the capacity to expand longer term by a further 210 places to provide 630 places overall, this would make it the largest primary school in Leicestershire."
She said the loss of the pool was a blow, not only for the pupils but the wider community as it used to cater for the general public out of school hours.
An alternative was being considered but obstacles such as finding a suitable site and obtaining the funding would have to be surmounted.
Cllr Richards added: "I and my ward councillors have been looking into the possibility of a swimming pool, but first we have to identify a site.
"We will be looking at working with both the Barwell Parish Council and Earl Shilton Town Council to try and find funding or grants to see if a favourable outcome could be achieved.
"I have had people contact me very disappointed when they heard that the swimming pool would be closing, one group that used it were left with nowhere to go, and there are schools now in our area with no swimming facilities.
"It would be beneficial for a wide range of people who would like to learn to swim or even to keep fit."
Heathfield Academy joined with William Bradford Academy last year to provide all-through teaching for 11 to 19 year-olds.
The Heathfield building, which had served the community since 1938, was closed and the merged school based at the William Bradford site on Heath Lane was renamed Heath Lane Academy.
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Lower earners benefit most from global reductions in income taxes over the past two decades « UHY UZMAN Yeminli Mali Müşavirlik ve Bağımsız Denetim A.Ş.
Workers on lower incomes have benefitted more than higher earners from global reductions in income taxes over the past two decades, according to a new study by UHY, the international accounting and consultancy network.
The research reveals that the average global effective income tax rate for workers earning USD30,000 has fallen at a faster rate (down 11% – from 27% in 1996 to just 16% today) than income taxes for individuals earning USD1 million (down 5.6% from 41.4% to 35.8%) in the last twenty years.
The study found that on average, BRIC economies (Brazil, Russia, India, China) are cutting tax at a faster pace than G7 economies for both lower and higher earners.
For those earning USD30,000 in BRIC economies, the average effective income tax rate fell by 15% (from 34% to 19%) over twenty years, compared to just 7% in the G7 (from 20% to 13%). For workers earning USD1 million, average income taxes decreased by 11% in BRICs (from 36% to 25%) and 5% in the G7 (from 41% to 36%).
UHY studied tax data in 26 countries across its international network, capturing the effective income tax rate for lower and higher income workers*.
India has seen the biggest cuts of any major economy for lower earners, who have seen their income tax rate fall by 28% (from 50% to 22%). Higher earners have also seen some of the most significant reductions (falling 17% from 51% to 34%). In the last ten years, the Indian taxation system has undergone significant reforms, with a number of tax rates rationalized and tax laws simplified.
Lower earners in the US saw their income tax bills fall by 4% (from 18% to 14%), and just 2% in Japan (from 9% to 7%), which cut income taxes for higher earners by far more (9% – from 50% to 41%). However, President-elect Donald Trump's tax plan looks to reduce taxes across the board, but before any proposed changes can be made, they must be approved by Congress.
UHY's data also reveals the extent of global economies' GDP growth in the last thirty years, since the UHY network was founded in 1986.
Their figures show that emerging and developing countries have grown significantly in the past thirty years – China by 1421% – far outstripping more established economies and well above the global average of 135% GDP growth (see third table below).
India (577%), Malaysia (479%), Bangladesh (350%) and Nigeria (333%) were also in the top five for GDP growth over the last three decades.
Overall, BRIC economies grew by 348% over the period, while the G7 grew 87%. While the BRIC figure includes Russia, which had the lowest level of growth in the study (15%), their growth rate reflects the difficulties arising from the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991. Since 1996, the Russian economy has grown 88%.
The US GDP grew by 115% while the UK saw 95% growth over the three decades.
*In this study, lower earners are defined as those earning USD30,000. Higher earners are defined as those with incomes of USD1million. The calculations are based on a single, unmarried taxpayer with no children.
****For the United Kingdom, these figures exclude UK National Insurance Contributions (NIC). NIC is payable by individuals on their income earned from employments, self-employments and partnerships in addition to Income Tax. The highest rate of NIC in 2016 is 12%.
GDP data from the United States Department of Agriculture.
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Is Teofimo Lopez poised to Takeover at 140?
by The Scope Network on August 15, 2022
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Operation Takeback was successful, and The Takeover is back.
Teofimo Lopez (17-1, 13 KO's), the former lightweight unified champion and who many considered king of the division, is now at junior welterweight and aims to be a force to be reckoned with.
Making his return since last suffering defeat last November, Lopez knocked out Pedro Campa (34-2-1, 23 KO's) in the seventh round Saturday evening in front of a sold-out crowd of 3,553 at Resorts World Las Vegas.
Footage courtesy of Top Rank Boxing.
"We've been at 135 for about nine years. It was killing my body since I was a teenage kid," Lopez said post-fight.
"I just turned 25. I am grateful for the return. I told you all, don't call this a comeback. This is the Takeover's takeover."
Scope of Analysis
How should we grade this performance – given the context of the caliber of fighter Campa is?
It's safe to safe Lopez looked really good considering his long layoff. He looks mentally recharged and the time-off, along with moving up in weight may be just what he needed to refocus and regroup.
But it's also fair to pose the question, how good is Champa? Who did Campa defeat, how does he measure via the eye test?
Champa's last two opponents prior to facing Lopez were Carlos Sanchez (22-1, 18 KO's) and Abimael Cruz
Bautista (8-1, 7 KO's). They were undefeated at the time, but not considered elite or threatening contenders (with all due respect).
Eye test wise, Campa looked strong, sturdy and showcased a more refined skill set under his new trainer, but he and Lopez looked like they were in different leagues.
Part of that is a testament to the skills of Lopez, part of that is the lack of talent and ability of Campa. To his credit, Campa fought well and hard, but he could not close the gap.
Lopez (pictured right) lands left up-jab on Campa (pictured left).
For more on The Take Back and The Takeover please read: Teofimo Lopez's: Takeover the Sequel? – The Scope Network
Lopez appears healthy physically, his bravado may suggest to some mentally he is in a good place.
Of course, the boxing ring is known as a revealer of truths and the public will get a greater glance at Lopez's mental state and possible additional displays of mental fortitude, granted he graces the ring with some of the sharks at junior welterweight.
Who would we like to see Lopez fight next?
Who are these "sharks" we speak of at junior welterweight?
"We want Josh Taylor. We want these guys. We want {Regis} Prograis. We want {Jose} Zepeda," said Lopez during his post-fight interview.
"We want all the belts. We want to become two-time undisputed champion."
"If Josh Taylor is too busy with his wedding and there's nobody else around because the WBA belt is taken and the WBC is going to be fought with Zepeda and Prograis, then so fucking be it," Lopez continued.
Those sharks being the aforementioned Prograis, Zepeda, Taylor – all high-quality fighters at junior welterweight. Another name not mentioned verbally by Lopez, but was in attendance is Barboza Jr. (27-0, 10 KO's).
"I always said that Teofimo Lopez is a great athlete. I always said he has great talent and is a great fighter," Barboza told ESPN's Bernardo Osuna while being interviewed post-fight, on air and in the ring.
"But I just feel like at 140 it still hasn't transitioned. He looked a little slow. I pictured myself in the ring. Pedro Campa isn't me. I just think if it was me, it would have been a whole different fight."
"I saw a lot of flaws that I would expose. I'm happy I came here to experience it right in front row. We're hoping to fight him next."
Barboza was previously mentioned by Lopez's team as a possible opponent, though the fight never materialized. But perhaps, the time is now.
Another "shark" craving action is former Olympian, undefeated professional, Gary Antuanne Russell (16-0, 16 KO's).
The skilled southpaw is a menace thus far during his professional stint and should be challenging for a world title in the near future. His last two fights were against former world champions, Viktor Postol and Rances Barthelemy.
The likelihood of these two powers colliding at this point is slim to none, due to the political landscape of boxing and the old adage of not going out of your way to face the toughest opposition without securing significant incentives.
The risk versus reward factor.
Incentives you say?
Those incentives varying between the financial repercussions and if there would be world titles or positioning at stake. These variables tend to weigh heavily for top fighters (or their managers and promoters) in the sport when it comes to opponent selection.
It's high risk, low reward for making the match with Russell, in addition to the political strife between Top Rank and Premier Boxing Champions (promotional company Russell is largely tied to).
The same political issues that could prevent Lopez from eventually fighting Gervonta "Tank" Davis (27-0, 25 KO's).
There was another interested observer ringside to witness "The Takeover" in action this past weekend, he being Oscar De La Hoya, who promotes Ryan Garcia.
"Coincidentally, Ryan Garcia is in his weight class and looking for a dance partner. Obviously, there's talk about Tank [Gervonta Davis], and Ryan fighting Tank. I want to explore options. Why not? We want to fight the very best."
Garcia (23-0, 19 KO's) is coming off a sixth-round knockout of Javier Fortuna this past July 16 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.
There could be significant financial incentives for both fighters if they make this fight. They're young, exciting, engaging with the audience and they both have something to prove in their division. They're both new to the division and aiming to make a large splash.
Who will Lopez likely fight next?
Barboza Jr. and Jose Ramirez 26–1 (17 KO's) stand out as possible opponents for Lopez when he returns in December. It's an easy fight to make from the promotional aspect and each party would likely appear willing to make the fight happen.
It's fair to suggest, Lopez may need a little more time to acclimate into the division, and while Ramirez is not a soft touch, he's a former world champion, coming off a long layoff and that could be an advantage for Lopez – from a matchmaker's standpoint.
But also, for Ramirez, this could incentivize to perform at a higher level and show he wants to reclaim his top position within the division.
The initial stages of Operation Takeback were successful for former unified champion from Brooklyn. For there to be a complete takeover, it doesn't stop here.
The same waves made at lightweight and must again commence in this new division. Rivals must be challenged, and statements must be made.
How poised Teofimo Lopez is, will be revealed in time, but for now he is definitely in position.
Bob Arum, Boxing, Brooklyn, Devin Haney, ESPN, George Kambosos Jr., Honduras, Junior Welterweight, Mexico, Oscar De La Hoya, Regis Prograis, Ryan Garcia, Super Lightweight, Teofimo Lopez, The Takeover, Top Rank, Vasiliy Lomachenko
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All virtual donations will be managed by the Fundraising Team, who will distribute the gifts to our patients safely and in line with COVID guidance. The Trust manages Royal Blackburn and Burnley General Teaching Hospitals, as well as Accrington, Clitheroe and Pendle Community Hospitals, and donations will be shared across Trust sites, throughout the festive period.
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This year, we are unable to accept donations of gifts, purchased and donated by members of the public, due to infection control guidelines. If you do attend the hospital site with gifts to donate, you will be turned away.
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Fall's premier food and cooking festival is returning to Vancouver from November 5 to 10, 2018.
Patio season may be drawing to a close, but there's plenty to get excited about when it comes to this year's EAT! Vancouver, which is offering an exciting array of programming featuring celebrity chefs and top-notch food and wine.
Now in its sixteenth incarnation, EAT! Vancouver has evolved considerably since its early days, currently focusing on specialized gourmet experiences that are sure to get any foodie salivating.
This event is the grand tasting and mingling soirée of the festival, bringing together 24 chefs, such as Robert Belcham from Campagnolo Restaurant and Neal Fraser from Redbird in Los Angeles, who will craft delicious canapés for guests. Wine pairings and desserts will also be available.
Connoisseurs of cognac or aspiring ones will delight in tasting over 35 exclusive pours of the spirit.
Those with a sweet tooth will adore this celebration of all things dessert related, with thirteen top pastry chefs in attendance, including Betty Hung from Beacoup Bakery, Bretty Roy from Sweet Lollapalooza in Edmonton, and Adam Chandler from Beta5.
If you've ever wanted to make your own sausage, this is the class to sign up for. Pasqual Stufano will teach you how to make a top quality product. A beverage is also included in the ticket price.
Trevor Kallies (Director of Bar & Beverage) and chef Sarah Stewart of the Donnelly Group will lead guests through the lore and culinary realm of Bourbon and Southern culinary traditions.
Anyone who is wanting to incorporate turducken in their holiday dinner will want to take this class in which chef Nicolas Schneiter will teach you the ins-and-outs of this specialty product, from deboning to roasting. The course will end with a belly-filling turducken meal with sides and bevvies.
The festival will once again be donating its net proceeds to Project CHEF, a very worthy charitable organization that instructs elementary school kids about cooking and healthy eating.
Further information and tickets can be found on-line.


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In addition, the number of jobs generated by the sector increased by 26.63 percent, representing 13,327 direct jobs against 10,524 in 2017.
However, if the base metals production was on the rise, that of gold was slightly declining.
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The double-edged sword of safari tourism
Elephants were more likely to be aggressive towards other elephants in months when tourist numbers in the park were high, but tourism is a potentially powerful conservation tool.
Journalist Isabelle Szott and Nicola F. Koyama, The Conversation | Monday, 25 March 2019, 10:56
Save The Elephants suggests that 100,000 elephants were killed for their tusks in the past three years. Photo: EPA/Daniel Irungu
NATIONAL NEWS - Going on safari in Africa offers tourists the opportunity to see some of the most spectacular wildlife on Earth – including African elephants (Loxodonta africana). Known for their complex social systems, long memory and high intelligence, this species is also threatened by poaching and shrinking habitats, so further disturbance to their precarious existence could have serious consequences.
Wildlife tourism can help protect these animals and their habitat by generating income for conservation and providing stable work in local economies. Countries such as South Africa and Kenya receive two to five million visitors to protected areas each year, generating receipts of up to USD$90m. But as it becomes more popular worldwide, it's worth remembering that we often don't know how tourism affects the animals we observe.
The tourist in the room
In Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa, tourists stay in lodges within the park and go on safari twice a day in large, open vehicles driven by professional field guides.
Over 15 months in Madikwe, we recorded how often elephants performed stress-related, vigilant or aggressive behaviours to find out whether they increased during months when there were more tourists. Vigilant behaviour could be an elephant extending its trunk into the air to smell. Stress-related behaviour included elephants bunching together or fleetingly touching their faces with their trunks – a response akin to a nervous tic in humans. Aggression was noted, for example, if an elephant charged at another, spread its ears to appear larger or hit another elephant with its tusk. We also watched the movements of elephant herds to see if they stuck around or moved away from tourist vehicles.
We found that elephants were more likely to be aggressive towards other elephants in months when tourist numbers in the park were high. Elephant herds were also more likely to move away from tourist vehicles when there were more vehicles present.
So, it appears that tourism does have some impact on elephant welfare – but this may not be entirely bad news. We didn't observe an increase in stressed or vigilant behaviour in response to higher numbers of tourists, and the effect of increased aggression was small. Hunting can have much greater effects on elephants, even among those who aren't attacked by humans.
Studies which measured levels of stress hormones in elephants after they witnessed hunts or were nearby have found they increase significantly. Humans riding on the backs of elephants is also much worse for elephant welfare than observation tours. Wildlife watching, without physical contact, seems to be the better mode of tourism for elephant welfare, but it's not without its concerns.
Is tourism the ultimate answer?
Although these results were interesting, they are only from a single population in South Africa where driving regulations were enforced. We don't know how elephants are affected in areas where tourists drive their private vehicles on safari unaccompanied by professional guides. We also don't know what exactly was causing the changes in behaviour.
More tourists per month meant there were more vehicles on the roads, but also more air traffic, more diverse smells and sounds and who knows what else.
Parks could create refuge areas where safari tours are restricted and contact with wildlife minimised, perhaps in areas where there are fewer roads already. Tour companies could strictly enforce a no off-roading rule here and prohibit guided walks by tourists. Such refuge areas have previously been shown to have great potential in reducing pressure on elephants during times of increased stress, such as following large wildfires.
Tourism can be a great conservation tool as long as it is monitored closely, and measures are taken to alleviate the potential pressures it can put on animals. If you're ever lucky enough to find yourself on a safari, think twice about getting up close and personal with that iconic species. Instead, keep your distance and the welfare of the animals in mind.
Article: Caxton publication, The Citizen
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After her interaction with spiritual leader Sadhguru in Mumbai earlier this week, Kangana Ranaut has become the hot topic on Twitter.
She also revealed that, there is a scene in her upcoming movie Manikarnika where her character can be seen saving a calf was changed because the crew of the film 'didn't want to look like cow saviours.
Kangana's comments made people think, and many used Twitter for expressing their emotions, while many people were agreeing with the Queen actress, there were some who opposed her comment.
A tweet from YouTuber Dhruv Rathee called out both Kangana Ranaut and Sadhguru for the comments they made in the event.
I supported Jaggi in Rally for Rivers & appreciate Kangna's movies but what they're talking here is ridiculous!
Others tweeted in the same vein.
Always admired Kangana, always. Never expected that she would normalise lynchings. Her feminism is all about herself. Disappointed as a Fan.
and @SadhguruJV normalises Lynchings and says people who criticise Lynchings don't know real India.
Right wing icons Kangana & Sadhguruji criticize liberals and sort of justify people getting violent to protect cows in India.
Kangana Ranaut can understand the nuances of privilege and the dangers of terms like 'eugenics' but does not understand systemic majoritarian violence. Is she stupid or does she think we are?
The world is filled with people like Kangana Ranaut.
Despite of Kangana's opinions couple of tweets proved once again why Twitter is no friend to free speech, branding Kangana the 'right-wing Swara Bhasker' she can be seen regularly trolled for expressing opinions on everything from films to politics.
@ReallySwara Kangana Ranaut is the Swara Bhaskar of Right wings.
Here is the conversation happened between Kangana Ranaut and Sadhguru at the event. "I'm working on a martyr's biopic Manikarnika where there is a scene where my protagonist, Laxmi Bai, goes and saves a calf. My crew had a discussion, we halted the shoot. They said 'we can't save a calf' because we don't want to look like cow savers," she said at the event, news agency PTI reported.
"When such a prejudice thrives, as a person you feel very protective of who you are and what your values are, and you want to save all animals and you definitely want to save the cows because the prejudice is really agonising. But (then) lynching for cows takes place and you look like an idiot. You feel conflicted. You want to save the animals but when the lynching happens, you feel heartbroken at what's going on. You feel this is wrong," Kangana said.
Kangana Ranaut will be seen in Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi which is a biopic Rani Laxmibai.


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Summer Spotlight
BV students share unique summer experiences
Hope Brown and Sheila Gregory, Features Editor, Co-Editor
Karla Prats: Cuba
On June 4, junior Karla Prats embarked on a two week trip to Cuba with her family to visit relatives.
This was Prats' second visit to Cuba.
"I went the same exact time for the same exact length of time last year with my dad," Prats said. "I went with my entire family [this year]."
Prats was previously able to travel to communist-controlled Cuba because her mother and grandparents were born there.
"Americans aren't really allowed to go to Cuba unless you're of Cuban descent, like [my family and me]," Prats said. "That's why last year we were able to go because if we weren't Cuban, we wouldn't have been able to."
Prats said she and her family stayed with relatives in a poor town called Los Arabos.
"Our whole family – all 6 of us – were staying in one tiny room with two mattresses on the floor," Prats said.
Prats said a typical day in Cuba began with an early wakeup call followed by road-tripping for an hour or two to meet family or explore the country.
"[My favorite part of the trip] was when we went to this naturous town called Las Terrazas and we ziplined through mountains and over rivers," Prats said. "Then, we went to another place called Soroa and we climbed a waterfall."
Ziplining was an adventure Prats has always wanted to try, and she said it was her favorite part of the trip.
"We did 6 different sets," Prats said. "We were going right through the mountains and there were trees everywhere. There were two times where we almost hit a tree because it's hard to steer the zipline."
Prats said Cubans eat a lot of meat, rice and beans, avocados and tomatoes. However, certain meat is restricted in the country.
"The only meat they eat is pork and chicken," Prats said. "If you're not in a tourist-populated town, you're not allowed to eat steak. If you get caught eating cow, you get thrown in jail."
Prats said she would return to Cuba in a split second if she could.
"I definitely miss my family and the friends that I made there because no one here is that outgoing and weird as they were," Prats said. "I also miss being around nature because here there's always telephone poles or lights and stores everywhere. Over there, it's like going back in time because there's not all of this technology."
Prats said her experience in Cuba was eye-opening and she admired the simplicity of the Cuban's lives and happiness.
"I knew [Cuba] was going to be really poor, and they don't have phones or TVs," Prats said. "But the most surprising thing for me was how happy and content they are. They knew that they didn't have a lot. We went there with our iPhones and iPads and big cameras, and they didn't care. They were still so happy with their lives."
Zaynab Jamil: Pakistan
While most Blue Valley students adjusted to a summer schedule of working or watching Netflix, senior Zaynab Jamil and her family boarded a plane to Karachi, Pakistan for a five-week trip.
"We went to visit family because a lot of them live there," she said. "The last time we were able to go was 2010, so it had been a while."
Jamil said although this was her sixth trip to Pakistan, she was still apprehensive about traveling to the country.
"I was scared of how Pakistan is portrayed in the media because the news is always reporting things about kidnapping and robbers," Jamil said. "I was also nervous to see all of my family after so long [and] wondering if they would still be the same."
She said her worries were calmed when she arrived at her grandpa's house and realized she was not in dange r.
"Thankfully, it was nothing like it seemed in the news," she said. "We would go out late at night and it would be perfectly fine. We never heard or saw anything dangerous."
According to Jamil, typical day in Pakistan consisted of hanging out with cousins and family in addition to different activities.
"We loved going on the roof in the evening because the weather would be really nice," Jamil said. "We went out for ice cream a lot because it was very hot. We had a lot of family to visit, so when we weren't doing that, we were making plans to go out to eat, shop or [visit] the beach."
Jamil said she loved spending time with her family and partaking in activities that are both typical and atypical to vacations in the United States.
"[Pakistan has] lots of small stores right next to each other similar to things you would see in California," she said. "They also had camels at the beach, and I loved riding them."
One of the most rewarding parts of the trip was experiencing Ramadan in Pakistan, Jamil said.
"It was touching to see people putting out tons of food at the mosques and in the middle of the streets for people to break their fast with," she said. "They would also hand out boxes to people in their cars if they were late going home so they could break their fast."
In Pakistan, there are always people out, and Jamil said she misses the energy that encompassed the country.
"I miss the loud environment over there," she said. "I really miss being able to go on the roof because it's not something that we get to do over here. I also miss having the house full with all of our cousins."
Lance Jewett: Theatre in the Park
Pursuing his love of performing this summer, senior Lance Jewett auditioned for Theatre in the Park's "West Side Story" production and landed the role of Action, which he said came with new challenges.
"I played Action, the hot-headed Jet of the gang," he said. "For those who know me, I am in no way hot-headed or violent, so getting into that character was difficult. But once I got a hold of it, it was almost therapeutic to perform with, as I was able to express a side of myself I'd never tapped into before."
Jewett said an audience comprised mostly of strangers adds a new level that isn't found in Blue Valley's theater.
"The energy is so much better than at high school shows, and it's easier to perform all out when you don't know 98% of the people watching you perform," he said. "You lose the stress of judgement and give it your all, which almost always makes your performance better."
Jewett said the best part of this summer's performance came from both his performance and the audience's involvement.
"My favorite moment was the feeling of pure joy when we'd finished singing my character's big, vaudeville song 'Gee, Officer Krupke' on the night when we had over 2,000 audience members," Jewett said. "The energy from that crowd was palpable and electric, and it brought everyone's performance to entirely different and better level than it had been previously. Believe it or not, the more you invest yourself as an audience member for shows, the better the actors will perform and more enjoyment you will get out of the performance."
While there were adults performing alongside him, Jewett said "West Side Story"was similar to BV's shows.
"A lot more high school-aged kids are in the productions than you'd think, so the actors are similar in age, just like in high school shows," he said. "Also, we rehearse for fairly long periods of time, just like high school shows."
The time commitment was something Jewett said took up not as much of his summer as he thought.
"They actually were pretty flexible up until tech week at the Park," he said. "Rehearsals were usually four hours Sunday through Thursday. We rehearsed and performed for a little over a month and a half, which — for a large production show like that — isn't much of a time commitment at all."
Having the shows over the summer gives the performers an edge, Jewett said.
"Every actor in the show is committed to the show and to performing with this group of people," he said. "They audition because they love performance, not the people they perform with. Also, since the productions occur over the summer, everyone is much more focused because the students don't have school work to worry about. Finally, the performances are just bigger and better. With opportunity to acquire talent from all over the area to perform for crowds upwards of 2,000 sometimes, the production qualities are high."


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