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Rio 2016: Who will be the stars of the Games?
By James Masters, CNN
Updated 11:07 PM EDT, Sun July 31, 2016
He's the face of the Games and already has six gold medals -- so could Usain Bolt do the "Triple-Triple" in Rio? Few would bet against the most successful sprint star in Olympic history as he goes in the 100 meters, 200m, and 4x100m relay. He is also aiming to become the first man to win three successive 100m Olympic titles.
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He's the reigning Olympic champion who simply does not know how to lose -- and Ashton Eaton is looking good for a repeat of his London heroics of four years ago. The world's leader in decathlon, who holds the world record, will be one of the leading medal hopes for the U.S. in Brazil.
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Genzebe Dibaba was named as the Laureus female athlete of the year in 2015 after breaking three world records in two weeks, setting new marks in the 1,500m indoor, 3,000m and two mile indoor events. The Ethiopian, 25, will be going for gold in the 1,500m.
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Dutch sprinter Dafne Schippers will be aiming for double gold in Rio with the 100m and 200m on her radar. Schippers, who clocked a world record time to win the 200m at the 2015 world championships, won silver in the shorter distance.
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Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is aiming to become the first athlete to win three straight 100m golds at the Olympics -- and she could do it before Usain Bolt. This time around she's dropped the 200m and will be putting all her focus and energy into the 100m. Her opponents have been warned.
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She was the face of the London 2012 Games and one of the big winners on a historic "Super Saturday" -- but there could be even more success to come for Jessica Ennis-Hill. The Olympic and world heptathlon champion, is in great shape going into Rio and is one of the favorites for gold.
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South Africa's Caster Semanya is one of the big names chasing success in the 800m in Rio. Semenya has been in fine form this year and could even double up in the 400m. She was forced to undergo gender testing after becoming the world 800m champion in 2009 before going on to win silver in the event at the London 2012 Olympics.
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Katie Ledecky stunned the world at London 2012 by clocking the second fastest 800m time in history and winning the gold at the age of just 15. Since then, the U.S. star has set 11 world records and won every major international race she has competed in.
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Having won four gold medals and a bronze in London, Missy Franklin will be leading the charge for Team USA in the pool once again. Now 21, and the holder of six world championship gold medals, she'll be the one to beat rather than the surprise package as she was four years ago.
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Michael Phelps will compete at a fifth Olympic Games with an eye on adding to his haul off 22 medals -- 18 of which are gold. The 31-year-old retired from the pool after the 2012 Games but made his comeback two years later.
Golf makes its return to the Games after a 112-year absence and Lydia Ko is hoping to play a starring role. At 19, the Korean-born New Zealander is already the world No.1 and is hoping to add a gold medal to her already extensive trophy haul.
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Two years ago the tears flowed as Brazil's World Cup adventure came to a shuddering halt. Now Neymar is hoping to bring a smile back to his homeland with success in the football tournament. He skipped the Copa America to play at his home Games and the Barcelona star will be the main man in Rio.
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Uzbekistan's Oksana Chusovitina will be competing at her seventh Olympics -- a record which no other gymnast can match. Her first Games was back in 1992 where she won a gold medal there as a member of the Unified Team (made up of athletes from former Soviet countries). She won bronze for Uzbekistan on the vault at Beijing in 2008 and will be hoping for more success this time around at the age of 40.
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Japan's Kohei Uchimura is aiming to defend his all-around title at Rio after his success in London. With the next Olympics in his home country of Japan, the 27-year-old is hoping to head into Tokyo as a double Olympic champion.
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She's only 19 but Simone Biles is already the most decorated American female gymnast in World Championships history with a total of 14 medals -- including a record 10 golds. She's the first woman in 42 years to win four straight national title and the first African-American to be world all-around champion and first woman to win three consecutive world all-around titles.
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New Zealand's Lisa Carrington has ruled the waves in the canoe world since winning gold in the K-1 200m at the 2012 Games -- just a year after she had become world champion. The 27-year-old is going for gold in both the K1 200m and K1 500m and is unbeaten in the shorter distance over the past five years. She won her fourth consecutive world title over the K1 200m distance last year, after securing the K1 500m world championship crown for the first time.
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Kim Woojin of South Korea has already won two world championship titles but this will be the archer's first Olympics. The 24-year-old missed the cut in 2012 but will be one of the favorites this time around.
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Italy's Rossella Fiamingo will be looking to add the Olympic épée title to her two world championship crowns. The 25-year-old, who hails from Catania, is her country's big hope for gold in Rio.
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Brazil's beach volleyball duo Talita Antunes and Larissa Franca are big favorites to win gold in their home Games. The pair are seeded No.1 in the draw and were winners the 2015 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour.
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Britain's Nicola Adams will arrive in Rio as the reigning Olympic, world, Commonwealth and European Games champion. The 33-year-old flyweight is aiming to become first British boxer since Harry Mallin in 1924 to successfully defend an Olympic gold medal.
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Rio 2016: Top athletes to watch
Rio Olympics start on August 5
4,924 medals across 42 sports up for grabs
First time Games have been held in South America
Over 10,000 athletes expected to compete
On your marks, set, go – the Rio Games are here and the next chapter in Olympic history is about to be written.
Over 10,000 athletes from 206 countries will compete for 4,924 medals across 42 sports over the next fortnight.
From the track to the taekwondo arena – new champions will be crowned and new legends will be made.
CNN has taken a look into the Olympic crystal ball and offered some bold predictions where the stories might be made – and where you might want to take a look.
Sprint sensations
It's the question they're all asking – can Usain Bolt do the "Triple-Triple" in Rio?
For the third Olympic Games in a row, the world's fastest man is hoping to win the 100 meters, 200m and 4x100m relay and become the first athlete to ever achieve the feat.
Bolt, now 29, has had his share of injuries this season and was forced to pull out of the Jamaican trials with a minor hamstring tear.
Puma release a 'Boltmoji' app that fans can use during the Olympics
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Usain Bolt: World's fastest man gets his own emoji for Rio
He will face stern competition in the 100m from Justin Gatlin – the man who Bolt defeated by one-hundredth of a second at the World Championships in Beijing last year.
Gatlin, who was banned for doping earlier in his career, posted the fastest time of the year during the U.S. trials after running 9.80.
Bolt, though remains confident as ever.
"This is where history is going to be made," he said before running in London earlier this month where he cruised to victory in the 200m.
"I'm looking forward to going down there and doing my best and putting on a show for the whole world to see."
BEIJING, CHINA - AUGUST 24: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica celebrates after winning gold in the Women's 100 metres final during day three of the 15th IAAF World Athletics Championships Beijing 2015 at Beijing National Stadium on August 24, 2015 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)
Rio 2016: Can Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce beat Usain Bolt to Olympic history?
History may be made – but Bolt might be beaten to it by another Jamaican.
That would be Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce who is aiming to become the first athlete to win three successive 100m titles at the Games.
Victorious in Beijing in 2008 and in London four years ago, she will have to produce something special to win a third.
Fellow Jamaican Elaine Thompson ran the fastest time this year in July, while Dutch star Dafne Schippers is the favorite.
The U.S. will be hoping to dominate the pool and with Katie Ledecky in such sensational form it's difficult to see others getting a look in.
The 19-year-old Ledecky, who won Olympic gold in the 800m in London four years ago, has set 11 world records and won every major international race she has competed in.
She holds world records in the 400m, 800m, and 1,500m freestyle and is going for gold in the 200m, 400m and 800m freestyles in Rio.
OMAHA, NE - JULY 02: Katie Ledecky of the United States celebrates after finishing first in the final heat for the Women's 800 Meter Freestyle during Day Seven of the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Swimming Trials at CenturyLink Center on July 2, 2016 in Omaha, Nebraska. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)
Katie Ledecky: Extraordinary standards for an ordinary teen
Ledecky will face competition from teammate Missy Franklin who won four golds and a bronze in London at the age of 17.
Franklin is competing in the 200m backstroke and 200m freestyle and will be right in the mix.
While Ledecky and Franklin are heading to their second Games, Michael Phelps will compete in his fifth.
U.S. swimmer Katie Ledecky not feeling Rio 2016 pressure
The 22-time medalist, who has won 18 golds, had quit the sport after London 2012 before returning two years later.
He'll be up against Ryan Lochte who has won five Olympic golds and 11 medals in all.
The pair will go head-to-head in the 200m individual medley.
Michael Phelps reacts after booking his place on the U.S. swimming team for the 2016 Olympic Games.
Michael Phelps qualifies for record fifth Olympic Games
And make sure you keep an eye out for Adam Peaty who is aiming to become the first British man to win Olympic gold in the pool in 28 years.
The 21-year-old is hot favorite and could be one of the stories of the Games.
Leading man
Two years ago it all ended in tears for Neymar and Brazil's footballers as it crashed out of its home World Cup at the semifinal stage.
Thrashed 7-1 by eventual champion Germany, a nation went into meltdown over its biggest football failure since 1950.
Neymar in action for Brazil against Peru in a 2018 World Cup qualifier on November 17, 2015.
Olympic boost for Brazil with Neymar set for Rio
This time around Neymar is back to help lead his country to Olympic gold – a feat it has yet to achieve.
The five-time World Cup winner was beaten in the final by Mexico at London 2012 but is fancied to go one better this time around.
Barcelona star Neymar is joined by Bayern Munich's Douglas Costa and Paris Saint-Germain defender Marquinhos.
All-around stars
His fans call him "Superman" and the London 2012 all-around champion will be aiming to fly to a second consecutive gold medal.
After claiming silver in Beijing four years earlier, Kohei Uchimura held his nerve to underline his credentials as one of the best gymnasts on the planet.
He's won four silvers in all, while he has 10 world championship golds to his name.
By the time the Olympics heads to his home country of Japan he will be 31 – but don't bet against him going into those Games as reigning champion.
2015 World Gymnastics Championships: Japan's 'Superman' Kohei Uchimura targets 2020 homecoming
While Uchimura has seen it all before, U.S. sensation Simone Biles is preparing to make her debut at the Games – but with the extra pressure of being huge favorite for gold.
The 19-year-old became the first woman to win three consecutive all-around world titles when she won gold in Glasgow last year.
She has won 14 medals at the world championships in all – 10 of those gold – and will also spearhead the team event.
Biles will challenge defending champion Gabby Douglas who won the all-around event four years ago and was part of the U.S. team which won gold in London.
Simone Biles amazes teammates
Vintage performers
While Biles is making her debut at 19, Uzbekistan's Oksana Chusovitina is set to become the first female gymnast to compete at seven Olympic Games
The 40-year-old, who won gold at Barcelona in 1992 with the Unified Team, won silver in the vault while representing Germany at Beijing.
But there will be no room for 75-year-old equestrian star Hiroshi Hoketsu after he failed to make the Japan team.
Hoketsu made his Olympic debut in Tokyo in 1964 and was the oldest athlete to compete in the 2012 London Games at the Japanese record of 71.
He failed to qualify this time around after his horse became ill.
Keep any eye out
While the Olympics plays host to all the usual sports, there are a number of new events or returning events in Rio this year.
Lydia Ko is hoping to become the first woman to win a gold medal in golf with the sport returning to the Games for the first time since 1904 – an event in which only men competed.
Rugby Sevens makes its bow at the Olympics with New Zealand and Fiji expected to do battle for the title in the men's competition, while Australia is favorite in the women's.
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U.S. rugby's 'incredible speed threat'
Elsewhere, British trio Jessica Ennis-Hill, Greg Rutherford and Mo Farah are all hoping for a repeat of 2012's "Super Saturday" where they all won gold.
Ethiopia's Genzeze Dibaba. the 2015 Laureus female athlete of the year, broke three world records in two weeks, setting new marks in the 1500m indoor, 3000m and two mile indoor events last year.
The 25-year-old will be going for gold in the 1500m.
In fencing, Italy's Rossella Fiamingo will be looking to add the Olympic épée title to her two world championship crowns.
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In archery, look out for Kim Woojin of South Korea, who has already won two world championship titles.
The 24-year-old missed the cut in 2012 but will be one of the favorites this time around.
Brazil's beach volleyball duo Talita Antunes and Larissa Franca are big favorites to win gold in their home Games.
Read: 'Russia's doping culture will not change'
The duo are seeded No.1 in the draw and were winners of the 2015 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour.
In boxing, check out Britain's Nicola Adams – the reigning Olympic, world, Commonwealth and European Games champion.
The 33-year-old flyweight is aiming to become the first British boxer since Harry Mallin in 1924 to successfully defend an Olympic gold medal.


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Her agency lists her eyes as Blue/Yellow, lol. Tell me if you've ever seen "yellow" eyes before—like this (usemycomputer.com).
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i think/speculate that she is with Jared Followill from Kings of Leon - i don't know if they are dating or anything but she is one of the 6 people he follows on Twitter and only female (except of his brothers wife) - i mean they would make sense, wouldnt they?
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Orchard Park, N.Y., December 15, 2020 – Curbell Plastics, Inc., one of the nation's top suppliers of plastic sheet, rod, tube, tapes, and fabricated parts, recently had two senior management team members participate as panelists in the Plastics News Women Breaking the Mold Virtual Networking Forum. Plastics News held the event in November 2020 to help support and nurture the growth of female professionals in the plastics industry. Curbell's Senior Director of Sales & Customer Service, Peter DelGado, and Associate Director of Training & Development, Jinny Kcehowski, shared their experience working together in the panel session "Working with Mentors and Mentees."
The "Working with Mentors and Mentees" panel consisted of teams of mentors and mentees to provide viewpoints from both sides of the discussion. Mentoring women has been an increasingly popular topic in recent years and organizations have made efforts to be more inclusive and diversify their workforce and leadership teams in what is primarily a male-dominated industry. The teams were able to take this opportunity to reflect on how their relationships came to be and how the process not only helped promote women to more prominent roles, but contributed to the professional growth of everyone involved. Peter and Jinny shared the virtual table with Linda Campbell, Kristina Corona, and Tammy Straw from ENTEK Extruders, and the discussion was moderated by Rhoda Miel of Plastics News.
As a mentor, Peter said he looks to take individuals under his wing who show initiative and demonstrate a desire to help accomplish the company goals. He differentiated between the roles of a mentor and a sponsor, and acknowledged he's likely done more for women as a sponsor, acting as a champion and recommending them for opportunities where they could benefit from the challenge. "We've promoted more women to our leadership teams at Curbell, whether its management positions or our senior management team, like Jinny," he shared, "the diversity women bring to the leadership team is just so critical to decision making and to rounding out the thoughts of the team."
Jinny remembered the support she received from Peter when she began reporting to him in 2010 – still relatively new to training and just three years out of college. "He always listened to my ideas, he carved out time to have discussions with me, or to make sense of things for me," Jinny recalled. "As we got to know each other better, he started to see what I am best suited for, what my strengths are, and what I bring to the table in terms of projects. He was on the senior management team, so when projects came up where he thought I was a fit and–as he mentioned–do a service to the company, he would raise his hand and say 'I think Jinny would be great for that project.'"
From her original role as Inside Sales Representative to now leading a team of talented individuals as the Associate Director of Training & Development, Jinny has moved vertically through Curbell Plastics at an impressive pace. But she also had a passion to personally support the advancement of women in business leadership roles outside the company, and her mentor/mentee relationship with Peter led to a unique opportunity through the International Association of Plastics Distribution (IAPD).
"A few years ago, IAPD's Women in Plastics was looking to get off the ground. It was Peter's knowledge and connections that led the founders to talk to him about their desire to create this event series, and he connected me to these women." Jinny's responsibilities with the initiative grew, and she now sits as Chair of the Women in Plastics Committee. During IAPD's 2020 member recognition ceremony, Jinny was presented with the Pacesetter Award, an honor that recognizes one outstanding IAPD volunteer's achievements in improving and advancing the performance plastics industry. "Had he not been that sponsor for me, I would have never tackled that," Jinny shared, "it's the opportunity piece of sponsorship that I would say is most key to what it's done for my career, and how he's helped me over the years." Fun fact: Peter was the 2018 recipient of the Pacesetter Award for his exceptional contributions as IAPD's Chair of the Member Committee. Like mentor, like mentee!
The "Working with Mentors and Mentees" session revealed insight as to how mentors find mentees, the process of taking them on, and how they effectively communicate when not in the same office every day. The mentees shared best advice received from their mentor, and the mentors shared favorite lessons learned from their mentees. To watch the full panel discussion, Plastics News has shared the "Special Panel: Working with Mentors and Mentees" session on their YouTube Channel.
About Curbell Plastics, Inc.
Curbell Plastics grew into one of the nation's top plastic materials suppliers by investing for the long term and focusing foremost on the needs of its customers — a strategy that has set the company apart since its founding in 1942.
Curbell supplies performance plastics — durable and lightweight materials that minimize energy consumption and add value to countless commercial and industrial applications — to thousands of businesses, entrepreneurs, Fortune 500 companies, and government agencies. The company also offers plastic film, adhesives, sealants, tapes, prototyping and tooling materials, and fabricated plastic parts. Its innovative services include a nationwide team of material experts to help customers solve engineering and application challenges.
Curbell Plastics, a privately held subsidiary of Curbell, Inc., has 21 locations nationwide and is based in Orchard Park, New York. It has ISO 9001 certification for eight of its locations and its corporate headquarters, and it maintains ITAR and EAR compliance company-wide.

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How does God reveal His love to us? The Incarnation helps us see God in Christ. God became man so that we can feel, see and touch Him. God in all His majesty and divinity came to share in our humanity so that we too might be called sons and daughters of the Lord (Gal 3:23). The Word became flesh so that we might know God's love.
We are human with a body and not pure spirit. Hence, there is a real need to sense Him by touching and listening. Our God is not a God from the past but also one who is here and present with us.
How do we sense Him? We sense Him by spending time in front of the Blessed Sacrament. We touch Him through receiving the Eucharist in daily Mass. We hear Him through spending time in His word, and letting His word speak to us.
As we begin to see and feel Him, we are also called to share and pass on this faith through testifying and proclaiming Him in the communities that we are in (1 John 1:1-4). Most of all, we are called to translate our faith into action through a special concern for the poor and lonely, for we remember that Christ was born poor, in a stable, so that we might be rich in Him.
In Lumen Fidei, Pope Francis calls us to strengthen each other in this "priceless treasure of faith which God has given as a light for humanity's path" (LF 7). Faith is thus intrinsically bound with hope. A hope that illuminates our path to God. And to others.
Our faith, though personal, also points us to a greater communion with our fellow brothers and sisters in this journey. Only then, by sharing our faith actively, can our joy be complete.
In this season of Advent, though it is good to buy gifts to spread the love of Christ to others, we also need to welcome Him first in our hearts through prayer and meditation on the Word of God.
Mary conceived Jesus in her heart before she conceived Him in the flesh. May we too, prepare our hearts first and foremost through confession and prayerful contemplation so that we are able to receive the full measure of His love at the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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Any visitor of the ancient ruins of Rome sees that many of our contemporary understanding of the buildings are ancient: they built stadiums, public spaces, courts of judges, public facilities such aqueducts, sewerages, public baths and even seven story malls. We invented less, but we consider ourselves more sophisticated than ever. I felt humble under the 2000 years old Pantheon's dome or understanding both the human and monumental scale of forums.
Beside that, the incredible short promenade trough the Roman Forum is a walk-through the built environment of the most modern and democratic western society base: the Senate (the germ of parliamentary system), the basilicas (courts of judges), the forum itself being the place of public debate and constructions of spiritual conscience of the people (temples). At one of the ends is the incredible Coliseum and the entire path is seeded with triumphal arcs that mark victories of a proud and powerful society and its members.
The ancient Rome was a triumph of the human society. Despite some of the practices and cruelties that such a young society developed with an apparent lack of morality, it is the cast in stone evidence of where the human endeavor and innovation can lead us. The same ages when many of our ancestors did not well-passed the stone age, an amazing sophisticated society blossomed and established, giving us, more than 2000 years later, concepts that allow us to have a real civilization.
This old city is also the base of the humanist renaissance, centuries later. This old city is the inner core of democratic systems. This old established incredible democratic situations: millenniums before the French Revolutions, both plebeians and aristocrats bathed in the same public baths.
Don't understand me wrong: the same time, this was one of the most cruel, corrupted and inequitable society. But they constituted rules that would terrify our politicians running for public positions now. Even the most humble citizen elected his own representative to different levels of public positions. No office could be held more than one or two years and almost every high ranked person had to prove his abilities during tough military campaigns.
Writing those words allow me to better understand Rome's legacy. Despite a first impression that it is the result of ancient architects, it is not. Not the architects built this city, but the public order that asked for forums, baths, temples, courts, block of flats, and triumphal arks. The Roman engineers didn't build the sewerage and aqueducts, they answered to the public demand.
The open-minded, the pragmatism, the solidarity and the innovation built this city. The large domes are not just a use of concrete, but the will that built them.
We want beautiful, efficient and healthy cities. It is not the architects and planners that can provide us such places, but the will of the community.
It is our role to determine where our habitat will be like. But we need good will, open minds and common sense. The architects? They will be glad to follow the rest!


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Democrat Senator Wants IRS to Investigate Conservative Student Group Over Large Gathering
"In light of these actions, the IRS should review whether Turning Point USA should continue to enjoy its tax-exempt nonprofit status"
Posted by Mike LaChance Saturday, January 23, 2021 at 09:30am 19 Comments
Do you think a single Democrat would ever say this about Black Lives Matter? Not a chance.
The College Fix reports:
Democratic senator wants IRS to investigate conservative student group for holding large event
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island, wants the IRS to investigate Turning Point USA and potentially revoke its nonprofit status because it held a large event that other people said might turn into a "superspreader" event.
Turning Point hosted a student activist summit before Christmas with thousands of attendees.
"According to press reports and social media posts, many participants gathered and mingled indoors without wearing masks, in violation of Palm Beach County's COVID-19 regulations," Whitehouse wrote in a letter to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig on Tuesday.
Whitehouse is a member of the Senate Finance Committee, which has oversight of the IRS.
"In holding these 'superspreader' events, Turning Point USA knowingly exposed
hundreds of young people and staff working at the events to serious risk of infection," Whitehouse said. He also referenced a fundraising event at Donald Trump's Mar-A-Lago Club hosted by Turning Point.
"In light of these actions, the IRS should review whether Turning Point USA should continue to enjoy its tax-exempt nonprofit status," the Democratic senator.
An article by The College Fix noted that zero coronavirus cases had been reported three weeks after the event. Palm Beach County officials and the convention center that hosted the student activist conference still have not responded to our requests for information on if the event turned out to be a superspreader event.
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The Friendly Grizzly | January 23, 2021 at 9:48 am
Just further proof that the IRS, regardless which party is in charge, is nothing more than a weapon against any opposition. .
Anonamom in reply to The Friendly Grizzly. | January 23, 2021 at 11:04 am
I agree that it certainly has that power. Did the Trump Administration launch any tax investigations of leftist organizations, though? I don't recall any.
The Friendly Grizzly in reply to Anonamom. | January 23, 2021 at 3:30 pm
It doesn't matter whether he did or didn't; he had that option. He was enough of the gentleman not to do so. Nixon, Clinton, and others not so much.
artichoke in reply to The Friendly Grizzly. | January 23, 2021 at 6:15 pm
Yep, he was a gentleman, he didn't take down his enemies, and now he's lost even though we reelected him overwhelmingly.
Milhouse in reply to The Friendly Grizzly. | January 23, 2021 at 8:29 pm
No, he did not have that option. It's illegal, and the IRS would have refused to obey any order to do it. Just like it disobeyed Nixon's illegal orders. Nixon did not do it; he tried, but the IRS refused and reported him.
henrybowman in reply to Milhouse. | January 24, 2021 at 5:05 pm
Just like they refused orders to leak Trump's taxes to the NYT.
Real profiles in courage there at the IRS. We should canonize them.
Anonamom in reply to The Friendly Grizzly. | January 24, 2021 at 9:54 am
"It doesn't matter whether he did or didn't; he had that option."
Ah. So your statement was intended broadly. With that, I agree.
Ohio Historian | January 23, 2021 at 10:16 am
What did they do that Whitehouse is so frazzled? It is not the size of the demonstration, but the damage they do. But Whitehouse hasn't said "boo" about Kamala Harris supporting bail money for those that unpeaceably destroyed property during their BLM support.
Let's get some real morality from the CongressCritters, not this faux outrage over peaceful assembly which is in the First Amendment.
Milhouse in reply to Ohio Historian. | January 23, 2021 at 8:30 pm
Morality?! Sheldon Whitehouse?! Surely you jest.
henrybowman in reply to Ohio Historian. | January 24, 2021 at 5:06 pm
Whitehouse was born frazzled. He's triggered by finding a seed in his Del's Frozen Lemonade.
NotKennedy | January 23, 2021 at 11:01 am
Sheldon is such a damned pussy, surely the most effeminate "male" in that body of moral turpitude and cumulative dishonor.
As to imploring the IRS? Why would an "august" or distinguished citizen want to misuse governmental authority, just to retaliate against anyone disconsonant with his own socio-nazi whims and fantasies.
Wonder if he and NancyBoy ever share a room.
healthguyfsu | January 23, 2021 at 12:07 pm
Even if this were true, can someone explain to me how being a superspreader disqualifies an organization for non-profit status?
Was this guy just born this stupid as to out the plans for weaponizing the government against opposition so vocally?
henrybowman in reply to healthguyfsu. | January 24, 2021 at 5:10 pm
Aren't most ambitious Democrats, these days? "Hell yes, we'll take your AR-15s"? "Second articles of impeachment for Donald Trump"? "Make up a blacklist of all Trump appointees/supporters/voters"? "The government has nuclear weapons that are even more amazing than cute Chinese cooch"?
OldProf2 | January 23, 2021 at 12:12 pm
Several presidents have weaponized the IRS, but no one has done it more effectively than Richard Nixon ("screw our enemies") and Barack Obama, whose IRS went after conservative tax-exempt organizations. Senator "Fart" Whitehouse is just picking up where Obama left off.
Milhouse in reply to OldProf2. | January 23, 2021 at 8:31 pm
No, Nixon did not weaponize the IRS. All he asked it to do was continue to be the weapon it had been for the previous two presidents, but it refused and reported him.
Ah! So when you say, "It's illegal, and the IRS would have refused to obey any order to do it," you mean that they would refuse any REPUBLICAN, and while they could happily do it for a Democrat. If that's how you define "illegal," then we're on the same page.
randian | January 23, 2021 at 4:21 pm
I wasn't aware that violation of health regulations, if in fact that happened, was within IRS purview.
Milhouse in reply to randian. | January 23, 2021 at 9:07 pm
The IRS has a certain amount of discretion about what counts as a public service that deserves to have donations to it be tax deductible, but it certainly can't discriminate on the basis of viewpoint.
henrybowman in reply to randian. | January 24, 2021 at 5:16 pm
Sheldon is just playing "cum ulla sella in pugno taverna." If it had been Eric Swalwell instead, he would have called on NORAD to lob a missile at the kids. You write what you know.


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GHS host cemetery walk at Fairview
By Charla Wurm - [email protected]
The Galion Historical Society hosts its annual cemetery walk at Fairview Cemetery on June 12. Groups walked about a half mile in the beautiful weather to eight different stations throughout Fairview Cemetery.
Charla Wurm | Galion Inquirer
The Galion Historical Society and Fairview Cemetery Association worked together to conduct a live production of cemetery walk Sunday afternoon.
Groups walked about a half mile in the beautiful weather to eight different stations throughout Fairview Cemetery. The first stop was Ida Howard Barr portrayed by Nancy Green. Barr was born in 1888 and died in 1969. She was born on the corner of South Boston at Atwood streets, in a house known as the Howard house to Adam and Sarah Howard. Her father had a successful buggy company that went through 10 years of legal matters that destroyed his business. Her parents would travel to Germany and bring back items for the house and they only wanted the finest craftsmanship on their home. She graduated from Galion high school and Miss Mason's School for Girls on the Hudson, before marrying Frederick Barr, a local pharmacist. They they never had children, but Barr's life was spent taking care of her sick family members.
The second stop was Galion Historical Societies President, Andee Wildenthaler. He was happy to welcome everyone to the cemetery walk. The third stop was a veteran, Walter F. Williams, Jr., portrayed by Rick Elwell. Williams graduated from the GHS in 1940 and served in World War II with the US Army air Corps, 91st 325 bomb group. He took his training in Texas with the Iron Fortress then sailed on the Queen Mary spending four days on the ocean to Scotland and then to England where he was shot down January 11, 1945. The Germans captured him and he became a Prisoner of War for 16 months then was liberated with the 4,620 other Prisoners of War by General Patton. Williams returned to Galion to become an International Plished Magician with Ring 189, The Knights of Magic. His six books can be found in the Galion Public Library today.
The third stop was Walter Goshorn portrayed by Rich Henry. Goshorn also graduated from Galion high school in 1928 and then he went to Wooster College where he played football. He came home and took a job at the Galion Inquirer with his father who owned the business. He started as a reporter and in 1935 he became the editor and sports editor. In 1952 he became the General Manager of the Galion Inquirer until he died in 1978. The paper was his life and he loved it.
"I love Galion, I love history and I like to study all the people here. My ancestors have been here for many generations. They came here shortly after Galion was founded. My mom's side my dad side, I've got a whole cemetery full of ancestors here and I'll never run out of people to do," Henry's Goshorn said.
The fifth stop was Floyd Steffee, born in 1909 to 1983 and was portrayed by Sean Woerlein. Steffee had the Tuxedo feed store and was also service director for the City of Galion. He was an outdoorsman who loved to fish. Some grandchildren of Steffee were on the cemetery walk, their names where Rick, Tim and Debbie.
"A generation skipped is a generation lost," Woerlein's Steffee said.
It was an emotional moment for them as they watched the skit of their late grandfather. The sixth stop was Elizabeth "Betty" Bloomer Cox born in 1904 and died in 1991. She was portrayed by Cathy Moneysmith. Bloomer was the daughter of Will Bloomer and Grace Lundy Bloomer.
Bloomer went to Kent State and in 1925 married attorney Albert Cox. After teaching for three years at Galion Public Schools, she spent a lot of time working in her husband's office. Later on down the road, they had a set of twins, but her husband Albert died when they four years old.
The seventh stop was Dr. Bernard P. Mansfield born in 1892 and died in 1976. He was one of four doctors in the family. Mansfield came to Galion in 1904 and graduated from the high school in 1912. Mansfield then went to the Chicago College of Osteopathy in 1918, entered the army in World War I as an infantry soldier and then joined the Galion Police Department in 1958 serving in the disaster unit. Later on in his life he became the Crawford County Coroner and passed away approximately one month after he retired. "Doc" Mansfield was proud to serve his community of Galion, Ohio as well as his Country.
Finally, the Union Green Cemetery with Shane Shipley, Manager of operations for Fairview Cemetery, gave a presentation on the cemetery. In 1882, the cemetery applied for their license and in January 16, 1883, the first burial at Fairview Cemetery took place. The cost of an open and closed grave is now $800 where as a long time ago it was $4 for an unlined grave and $6 for a brick lined grave. There are 76 acres with 42 developed now. Some of the gravestones are printed in German because Galion was a German settlement. Shipley said it is a non-profit organization and will accept donations to keep the grounds and sites up.
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BEIJING (AP) — China allowed its yuan to fall below the politically sensitive level of seven to the U.S. dollar on Monday for the first time in 11 years, prompting concern Beijing might use devaluation as a weapon in a tariff war with Washington.
The central bank blamed the exchange rate's decline on "trade protectionism." That followed President Donald Trump's threat last week of more tariff hikes on Chinese goods in a bruising fight over Beijing's trade surplus and technology policies.
The currency weakened to 7.0391 to the dollar by late afternoon, making one yuan worth 14.2 cents, its lowest level since February 2008.
"The thought of a currency war is crossing more than a few traders' minds," Stephen Innes of VM Markets said in a report.
The weakness of the yuan, also known as the renminbi, or "people's money," is among U.S. grievances against Beijing. American officials complain it makes Chinese export prices unfairly low, hurting foreign competitors and swelling Beijing's trade surplus.
China's central bank sets the exchange rate each morning and allows the yuan to fluctuate by 2% against the dollar during the day. The central bank can buy or sell currency — or order commercial banks to do so — to dampen price movements.
It appears "the currency is now also considered part of the arsenal to be drawn upon," Robert Carnell of ING said in a report. He said Monday's move might be part of "a concerted series of steps aimed at pushing back at the latest U.S. tariffs."
The level of seven yuan to the dollar has no economic significance, but could revive U.S. attention to the exchange rate.
Until now, economists said the potential jolt to financial markets of falling beyond that level was big enough that the People's Bank of China would step in to put a floor under the currency.
A central bank statement Monday blamed "unilateralism and trade protectionism measures," a reference to Trump's tariff hikes. But it tried to play down the significance of "breaking seven."
"It is normal to rise and fall," the statement said. It promised to "maintain stable operation of the foreign exchange market."
Chinese leaders have promised to avoid "competitive devaluation" to boost exports by making them less expensive abroad — a pledge the central bank governor, Yi Gang, affirmed in March. But regulators are trying to make the state-controlled exchange rate more responsive to market forces, which are pushing the yuan lower.
Trump's tariff hikes have put downward pressure on the yuan by fueling fears economic growth might weaken.
The U.S. Treasury Department declined in May to label China a currency manipulator but said it was closely watching Beijing.
The yuan has lost 5% since hitting a high in February of 6.6862 to the dollar.
That helps exporters cope with tariffs of up to 25% imposed by Trump on billions of dollars of Chinese goods. But it raises the risk of inflaming American complaints.
Trump rattled financial markets Thursday by announcing plans for 10% tariffs on an additional $300 billion of Chinese goods, effective Sept. 1. That would extend penalty duties to almost all U.S. imports from China.
The Treasury report in May urged Beijing to take steps "to avoid a persistently weak currency."
A weaker yuan also might disrupt Chinese efforts to shore up cooling economic growth. It would raise borrowing costs by encouraging an outflow of capital from the world's second-largest economy.
Globally, a weaker yuan might lead to more volatility in currency markets and pressure for the dollar to strengthen, Louis Kuijs of Oxford Economics said in a report. That would be "unwelcome in Washington," where Trump has threatened to weaken the dollar to boost exports.
A weaker dollar "would be bad news" for Europe and Japan, hurting demand for their exports at a time of cooling economic growth, Kuijs said.
The Chinese central bank tried to discourage speculation last August by imposing a requirement that traders post deposits for contracts to buy or sell yuan. That allows trading to continue but raises the cost.
Beijing imposed similar controls in October 2015 after a change in the exchange rate mechanism prompted markets to bet the yuan would fall. The currency temporarily steadied but fell the following year.
AP researcher Yu Bing contributed to this report.


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Zephyranthes versicolor es una especie de planta bulbosa geófita perteneciente a la familia de las amarilidáceas. Es originaria de Uruguay.

Descripción
Es una planta bulbosa que crece en Uruguay, en los pastizales cerca de la costa este. Es muy similar a Habranthus martinezii pero tiene las hojas más cortas y más amplias y las flores comienzan con una espectacular capullo rojo rubí, que se abre tornando a una rosa pálido con una base de color marrón rojizo.

Taxonomía

Zephyranthes versicolor fue descrita por (Herb.) G.Nicholson y publicado en The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening,... 2: 107, en el año 1885.
Etimología
Zephyranthes: nombre genérico que proviene de (Zephyrus, Dios del viento del oeste en la mitología griega y Anthos, flor) puede traducirse como "flor del viento del oeste", siendo el "viento del oeste" el que trae la lluvia que desencadena la floración de estas especies.

versicolor: epíteto latino que significa "con varios colores".
Sinonimia

 Habranthus versicolor Herb., Bot. Mag. 51: t. 2485. 1824. basónimo
 Amaryllis versicolor (Herb.) Spreng., Syst. Veg. 4(2): 133. 1827.
 Hippeastrum versicolor (Herb.) Baker, J. Bot. 16: 82. 1878.
 Zephyranthes pluricolor Herter, Estud. Bot. Reg. Uruguay 24: 223. 1956.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

  & al. 2006. World Checklist of selected plant families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens. 2010 Jan 07
 The International Plant Names Index (2009). Published on the Internet. 2010 Jan 07 .
 : Z. versicolor.

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Q: Prove that a matrix equals to its transpose Let $A$ be a $(n\times n)$ matrix that satisfies: $AA^t=A^tA$
Let $B$ be a matrix such that: $B=2AA^t(A^t-A)$
Prove/disprove that: $B^t=B$
I started with:
$$\begin{align}
B &=2AA^t(A^t-A) \\
B^t &=(2AA^t(A^t-A))^t
\\
B^t &=((A^t-A)^t(A^t)^tA^t2)
\\
B^t &=((A-A^t)AA^t2)
\\
B^t &=(AAA^t2-A^tAA^t2) \end{align}
$$
At this point I see no clue how to turn it into this form: $2AA^t(A^t-A)$, I thought it might be not true got no idea how to disprove that either.
Suggestions?
Thanks.

A: This is not true in general. Consider for example the family of real skew-symmetric matrices i.e. $A=-A^T$. Clearly skew-symmetric matrices satisfy $AA^T=A^TA$.
The given matrix $B$ for this family is:
$$B=2AA^T(A^T-A)=-2A^2(-2A)=4A^3.$$
While the matrix $B^T$ for this family is:
$$B^T=2(A-A^T)AA^T=2(2A)(-A^2)=-4A^3.$$

A: Compute the transpose of $B$:
$$ B^T = (2AA^T(A^T-A))^T = (A^T-A)^T(2AA^T)^T = (A-A^T)2A^TA = 2(AA^TA - A^TA^T A) = 2(AA^TA - AA^TA^T) = 2AA^T(A-A^T).$$
Then
$$B-B^T = 4AA^T(A^T-A).$$
So the claim is true if and only if $A^T=A$, i.e. $A$ is symmetric.

A: Continuing from where you left off:
$B^t = AAA^t2 - A^tAA^t2$
$B^t = 2AAA^t - 2A^tAA^t$ ($2$ is a scalar, so it commutes with any matrix)
$B^t = 2AA^tA - 2AA^tA^t$ (Use the fact that $AA^t = A^tA$)
$B^t = 2AA^t(A - A^t)$ (Factor the expression)
$B^t = -2AA^t(A^t - A) = -B$
So we get $B^t = -B$. Thus, the claim $B^t = B$ is true if and only if $B = 2AA^t(A^t-A) = 0$.
This holds true in some cases, such as if $A$ is symmetric, but it does not hold in general.
For instance, $A = \begin{bmatrix}0&-1\\1&0\end{bmatrix}$ satisfies $AA^t = A^tA$ but $B = 2AA^t(A^t-A) = \begin{bmatrix}0&4\\-4&0\end{bmatrix}$.

A: Let $A$ be a $(n\times n)$ matrix that satisfies: $AA^t=A^tA$
Let $B$ be a matrix such that: $B=2AA^t(A^t-A)$
Prove/disprove that: $B^t=B$
HINT:
$$\begin{align}
B &=2AA^t(A^t-A) \\
B^t &=((2AA^t)(A^t-A))^t
\\
B^t &= (A^t - A)^t(2AA^t)^t
\\
B^t &= 2(A - A^t)A^tA
\\
B^t &= 2(A - A^t)AA^t
\\
B^t + B &= 2((AAA^t - A^tAA^t - AA^tA^t-AA^tA) = 0
\\ \end{align}
$$

A: $$
\begin{eqnarray*}
B^T&{}={}&2\left(A-A^T\right)AA^T\newline
&{}={}&2\left(AAA^T-A^TAA^T\right)\newline
&{}={}&2A\left(AA^T-A^TA^T\right)\newline
&{}={}&2AA^T\left(A-A^T\right)\newline
&{}\neq{}& B\,.
\end{eqnarray*}
$$
Almost, but not quite, in general.

A: Let's write it out fully:
$B=2AA^tA^t-2AA^tA$.
At this point use $AA^t=A^tA$ to get:
$B=2A(A^t)^2-2(A^2)A^t$.
So, $B^t=2A^2A^t-2A(A^t)^2=-B$.

A: Hint. Consider any $2\times2$ rotation matrix $A=\pmatrix{\cos t&-\sin t\\ \sin t&\cos t}$ for an angle $t$ such that $\sin t\ne0$.

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Retirement ceremony held for Helena police chief
HELENA — The Helena Police Department celebrated the career of its chief Thursday afternoon.
At around 1:30 p.m., Chief Steve Hagen made his final "10-10" call – the radio call officers make every day to dispatchers to let them know they're safely off duty.
"Enjoy your retirement, Chief," the dispatcher responded. "You deserve it."
Hagen is stepping down after 30 years with HPD, including three years as its leader. The department and the city held a retirement ceremony for him at the Law and Justice Center.
Newly appointed Assistant Chief Brett Petty, who will serve as interim chief, announced Hagen's badge number will be retired. He and City Manager Rachel Harlow-Schalk presented Hagen with a framed display, showing a uniform shirt and some of the decorations he earned during his career.
Hagen said the uniform was special to him because he made his career in the patrol division and wore it every day. He thanked his wife for her support and said he was grateful for everyone else who helped him along the way.
"The support that I've felt over the last few years has been great, and then having them show up and be here today for me, it was really nice," he told MTN. "This is the one day I'm okay with being the center of attention."
Helena Police Chief Steve Hagen (left) stands with Assistant Chief Brett Petty during a retirement ceremony Dec. 30, 2021. Petty will serve as interim chief after Hagen retires.
City leaders praised Hagen for his expertise and his years of dedicated service.
"The community is better with you," said Mayor Wilmot Collins. "Because of you and what you've instilled in your officers, we are a team."
Hagen initially planned to retire at the end of October, but he stayed on two months longer to help the city with the transition.
"I think that extra two months, just to help everybody catch their breath, not only helped me, but helped others at the department," he said.
Harlow-Schalk said at a city commission meeting last week that she plans to open the chief position of applications after the first of the year. She hopes to have a new chief in place this spring.
Hagen says, now that he's retired, he's looking forward to spending more with his family, and hunting and fishing.


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Anton Ivanovich Is Angry () is a 1941 Soviet comedy film directed by Aleksandr Ivanovsky.

Plot
The film tells about the musician Anton Ivanovich, who performs exclusively works by J.S.Bach, and his daughter, who studies music at conservatory. She falls in love with a young composer, creating operettas, which Anton Ivanovich dislikes. The plot hinges on whether the professor can accept his daughter's devotion to 'light genre' and her  relationship with the composer.

Starring
 Nikolai Konovalov as Anton Ivanovich Voronov (as N. Konovalov)
 Lyudmila Tselikovskaya as Serafima "Sima" Antonovna Voronova
 Pavel Kadochnikov as Aleksei Petrovich Mukhin
  as Jakov Grigoryevich Kirbik (as A. Orlov)
 Tamara Pavlotskaya as Yadviga Valentinovna Kholodetskaya (as T. Pavlotskaya)
 Tamara Glebova as Natalya Mikhailovna Voronva (as T. Glebova)
 Tatyana Kondrakova as Dina Antonovna Voronova
 Sergey Martinson as Kerosinov (as Sergei Martinson)
 Anatoly Korolkevich as Stephan Stepanovich Skvoreshnikov
 Vladimir Gardin as Johann Sebastian Bach
 Vitaliy Kilchevskiy as Unidentified Player [Cast Name: Rollandov] (as V. Kilchevskii)
 Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova

References

External links

1941 films
1940s Russian-language films
Soviet comedy films
1941 comedy films
Soviet black-and-white films


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Gonzalo Álvarez Chillida (born 1958) is a Spanish historian. He has been referred to as the leading Spanish expert in the study of antisemitism in Spain.

Biography
Born in 1958 in San Sebastián. He earned a PhD at the  Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). —his dissertation was titled José María Pemán: un contrarrevolucionario en la crisis española del siglo XX. He is tenured professor of the history of Thought and Social and Political Movements at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).

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Scholars of antisemitism
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SIA to honour sale of business-class tickets at economy-class fares: Other companies which made similar mistakes
The Business Class cabin aboard the A380 Singapore Airlines (SIA). -- PHOTO: SINGAPORE AIRLINES
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SINGAPORE - Singapore Airlines said on Monday that it would honour the business-class tickets that were sold at economy-class prices as a result of a ticketing bungle.
The carrier initially tried to recover the cost of the tickets sold online accidentally at the cheaper price. The fares were for flights between Australia and Asia, as well as Europe.
Tickets were sold as much as $5,555 cheaper than what they should have been. About 400 passengers got lucky when they puchased their tickets in Australia between Nov 29 and Dec 1 when the wrong fares were used.
Here are six other companies who made similar mistakes:
1. United Airlines
In September last year, passengers managed to buy tickets from United Airlines for free. Someone working at the airline accidentally entered "0" as a price, and the carrier decided to honour the tickets. The passengers had to pay only US$5 (S$6.60) or US$10 for a security fee. It is not known how many tickets were bought in the few hours that the website offered its free tickets.
2. Delta Airlines
In December last year, a glitch by Delta Airlines made it possible for passengers to get cheap domestic flights in America. For about two hours, ticket prices shown on the carrier's site and on other booking sites were much lower than their original, with a round-trip flight to Hawaii going for just US$6.90.
A round-trip flight between Cincinnati in Ohio and Minneapolis was sold for US$25.05, while a round-trip between Cincinnati and Salt Lake City cost US$48.41. The correct price for both fares was more than US$400.
The carrier had to honour the wrong fares due to new regulations by the Department of Transportation to clamp down on misleading advertising. The regulations require airlines to honour any wrong fares offered.
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Mr Robert Quinn, 22, started receiving packages addressed to him in late November this year. A computer glitch caused the goods, marked with return labels, to be sent to him, instead of a return depot.
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Assassin's Creed Origins review – The ultimate in Ancient World wish fulfilment
By Noelle Adams
Climbing to the very top of the Great Pyramid of Giza, at the peak of its limestone-clad, gold-tipped Wonders of the World glory. Strolling around the Library of Alexandria while the Lighthouse (another World Wonder) looms in the background. Resorting to sneaky tactics during a high stakes chariot race at the hippodrome. Making breathtaking discoveries in the bowels of a booby-trapped pharaoh's tomb. Taking charge of a war galley and issuing ramming orders during a battle at sea. Entering the gladiatorial arena. Simply taking part in a temple festival to celebrate one of Egypt's many many gods…
If you can fantasise it, you can find it in Assassin's Creed Origins – and experience it for yourself. The game is a dream come true for history buffs, and/or sword-and-sandal fans. When you stumble into these scenarios, you realise Origins' greatest strength: the excitement and sense of wonder it continually stirs up as it unveils yet another part of its attentively and gorgeously realised world. Whether you're playing on a standard PS4 or Xbox One, or have gone full 4K, Assassin's Creed Origins is relentlessly bee-yoo-tee-full. Few games have been more deserving of a built-in Photo Mode (which Origins has, of course).
And yes, the game – a prequel which shows how the Brotherhood of Assassins came into being – is a decent jumping-on point for newcomers to the Assassin's Creed franchise. There is a present-day story wrapped around the 48 BCE exploits of Bayek, Egypt's last medjay, but you don't really need to be familiar with series events. The information is there for lore fanatics (embedded in assorted digital journals and documents), but all players need to know is that multinational corporation Abstergo Industries has invented a machine called the Animus, which allows users to tap into genetic memories through the use of DNA.
But honestly, nobody really cares about the sci-fi side of things, or the series' insistence there was a technically advanced First Civilisation prior to the rise of Mankind, and that they left certain powerful artefacts. People love Assassin's Creed for the chance to play around in a historical setting. In this regard, Origins delivers, and then some. With story arcs and events lifted straight from ancient texts and Archaeology journals, you might find yourself embroiled in a controversy over fake cat mummies. Alternatively, you could choose to defend a dissident playwright in Alexandria, a city so unlike the rest of Egypt it feels like it's been transplanted straight from Greece across the Mediterranean, Greek population and all.
One of the best surprises about Assassin's Creed Origins, though, is how well it handles the "modernisation" of the franchise's gameplay systems. As an Action Adventure fan, I was worried that Origins was going to go full RPG, forcing an overwhelming number of customisation and crafting options on the player – which grind gameplay to a frequent, frustrating halt. Thankfully it doesn't. You can buy, find and be awarded better weapons. You can use the five or so types of looted resources to improve the stats of your armour and other adventuring gear. And there's the requisite skill tree. But that's about it.
Origins is very flexible with how you go about things. If you consider looting a painful time sink, you can even spend real money at the game's store (in the form of Helix credits) to buy thousands of drachma, different costumes, fancy weapons and a highly tempting unicorn mount. You're not forced to, though, nor do you need to – unless you really want that unicorn. In no mood to hunt for animal skins? Simply disassemble that useless found shield into its base components. Or make some quick bucks by selling it intact, along with all your other junk, to your bff in the game: the blacksmith. For a price, he'll even keep upgrading your beloved legendary sword so it keeps pace with your level.
The combat has been reworked and given more depth for the tenth Assassin's Creed title. No longer about timing your attack and defence around paired animations as per the older games, now the player has considerably more options to experiment with – and worry about when facing opponents. There's weapon reach, speed, light attacks, heavy attacks, parries, dodges, combos and a special Overpower attack (or Frenzy) you can unleash when your adrenaline is fully charged.
Outside of combat situations, though, there's the usual guidance players have come to expect of contemporary third-person action-adventures. Just like Batman with his Detective Vision in the Arkham games, and Lara Croft's Survival Instincts in the Tomb Raider reboots, Bayek in Origins has an Animus Pulse ability that highlights nearby points of interest. He also has literal Eagle Vision in the form of his bird companion Senu who flies overhead, and will, among other things, pinpoint the location of quest objectives. The use of Bayek's Animus Pulse is optional, but Senu's pointer is active by default, and that feels like hand-holding gone a little too far in a game that stresses exploration and discovery.
No Unity, Assassin's Creed Origins is well-thought-out and runs smoothly, barring a tiny bit of juddering and a couple of non-playing dialogue files. It's also excellent value for money. The prologue alone is over two hours long. For the record, this review was written after dozens of hours of gameplay, and 20 levels of character advancement – and there's still more to do. How you cope with the game's challenging combat (enemy AI is crafty!) will also affect your playtime, although you can change Origins' difficulty setting at any point.
The only major drawback of Assassin's Creed Origins is that the side quests in each area can feel a bit samey – and you must complete some to keep up with the main storyline's level requirements. Origins promised a move away from the repeated missions of the older games to a quest system instead, but for the most part these quests are so formulaic they may as well be missions: Infiltrate a bandit or military camp, rescue and/or escort someone, assassinate a bully, investigate an incident, help with an everyday household task, go swimming to retrieve something from the bottom of the Nile. And repeat.
This said, there are some gems among the pebbles. Origins looks like it will be one of those games where you ask your friends if they discovered the same random thing you did during your wanderings. A ship in the middle of the desert, for example. That secret passageway behind an iconic structure. Papyrus riddles left all over the place as cryptic treasure maps. Or a murder mystery that will have you visiting shrines across Egypt to search for evidence of black magic.
My personal favourite side quest though is only available at night, and involves the matching of constellations. It's a different type of activity for one thing, but it's also poignant as it ties in to Bayek's past. The dialogue in these scenes is especially good as it reflects existential philosophising that so often accompanies star-gazing.
As inconsistent as the side quests can be, the main storyline in Assassin's Creed Origins is very strong. It's interesting, it's diverse with its tasks and locations, and, most importantly, it's full of heart. Bayek is essentially on a revenge quest, but he is never treated as a grim, textbook loner as a result of the tragedy he's experienced. He can laugh and smile; get drunk with frenemies; make very passionate love to his wife; bond with children. He's never presented as the Punisher. It's refreshing to play a character who is very much a valued, familiar member of the community instead of being a poster child for self-destructive masculinity. Bayek feels like a character who's been treated with as much care as the credible and dynamic universe he occupies.
Assassin's Creed Origins is a prime example of why single-player games exist. They function as our own little Animus, allowing us to be someone else for a while, walking in their shoes (or sandals) through a world that we cannot otherwise access. It's satisfying, mentally challenging escapism that comes with a side serving of education about the past. And in Origins' case, you'll happily lose yourself in its sumptuous setting for hours. Now, if you don't mind, I have a chariot race to win.
Assassin's Creed Origins is a pharaoh's tomb chock-full of shiny treasures for gamers, especially those fascinated with Ancient Egypt. The side quests may feel a little repetitive, but the credible, nuanced characters and diversity of the main plot make up for it. And with so much to explore and do in its jaw-dropping setting, Origins is exceptional.
Assassin's Creed Origins was reviewed on PlayStation 4
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Q: "He" or "him" in these kind of sentences While pointing at someone

That's him swimming.

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That' he swimming.

A: "That's him swimming" is the only form I've heard in my life in any of the varieties of English I've heard.
I've never heard "that's he swimming" in any situation.

A: "That is him swimming." can be thought of as an abbreviated form of:
"That is whom you can observe swimming." where 'whom' is the object of 'observe'.
The participle 'swimming' cannot take a subject, e.g.
I see he swimming. (incorrect)
I see him swimming. (correct)

A: According to Geoffrey Pullum, co-author of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language:

The forms with nominative pronouns sound ridiculously stuffy today. In present-day English, the copular verb takes accusative pronoun complements and so does "than." My advice would be this: If someone knocks at your door, and you say "Who's there?" and what you hear in response is "It is I," don't let them in. It's no one you want to know. [Link to Source]

As this implies, there do remain people who use the predicate nominative in English, since Professor Pullum's inverse snobbery is fortunately not lethal.


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Q: Can a google spreadsheet that was created by a google script contain custom menu items? I know with google scripts I can do both of the following:

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*Create a new spreadsheet

*Create a custom menu in an existing spreadsheet

What I don't know if I can do or not is both at the same time.  Here is the use case:
I have a form that will create a new spreadsheet upon submission.  I need each of those programmatically created spreadsheets to also have a custom menu object created as well upon the creation of the spreadsheet.  I can't find any documentation on this.

A: Not sure this is what you are looking for but to programmatically create menu items, you would use code that looks something like this:
where data_range is a range, walkrow and walkcol are effectively counters, etc.

 // Adding a menu through UI
 var ui = SpreadsheetApp.getUi();
 var custommenu = ui.createMenu('My Shortcut Menu')

 var menuitem = data_range.getCell(walkrow, walkcol).getValue();
 var menufunction = data_range.getCell(walkrow, 2).getValue();

 for ( ; walkrow <= rowcount;  walkrow++ ) {
   menuitem = data_range.getCell(walkrow, walkcol).getValue();
   menufunction = data_range.getCell(walkrow, 2).getValue();
      custommenu.addItem(menuitem, menufunction);
      custommenu.addSeparator();
      Logger.log("menu item name is " + menuitem + " and function name is " +menufunction);
 }

 Logger.log("*******");
 custommenu.addToUi();