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6 in 10 Americans credit celebrity role models for getting them through tough times
by Chris Melore
NEW YORK — Six in 10 (59%) Americans credit a celebrity with helping them push through some sort of "limit" in their lives, new research reveals. A recent poll of 2,000 U.S. adults over the age of 30 finds people have overcome a tough time personally (44%), taken on a challenge they didn't think they could do (44%), and improved their physical health and nutrition (41%) thanks to a celebrity role model.
Sixty-nine percent say they're more likely to respond positively to celebrities if they know they're struggling with a similar issue.
Oprah Winfrey, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Bear Grylls, Rebel Wilson, and Tyler Perry are among the role models who have inspired people to push past limitations such as fear and self-doubt.
Conducted by OnePoll on behalf of cell health brand MitoQ, the survey also finds people's biggest barriers to success are lack of energy (44%), time (39%), and willpower (38%). Nearly six in 10 (59%) say they "always" or "often" experience low energy and 49 percent lack stamina with the same frequency.
If there were no limits in their lives, 43 percent believe they would become an entrepreneur, more so than a visual or performing artist (28%) or a lawyer (27%). Other goals included being "a drug counselor," "animal rescuer," "crime scene investigator," "veterinarian," or simply "a good mom."
People also shared life goals inspired by public figures, such as "being a chef like Gordon Ramsay," "painting like Georgia O'Keeffe," "acting like Leonardo DiCaprio, "inventing and building like Nikola Tesla," and "being helpful like Mother Teresa." However, respondents' most relatable role models aren't far from home — 52 percent pointed to parents and immediate family, more so than a close friend (44%) or favorite celebrity (41%).
Americans love heroes and celebrities they can relate to
Over half of respondents (51%) say that their role model communicating in a conversational, easy-to-understand manner is key to relatability, while less than a third think it's necessary for a role model to be the same age or gender (34% each) as them.
Regardless of their role model of choice, people's heroes have inspired them to stay optimistic in challenging times (35%) and do things to help others (34%).
Celebrity fitness trainer and MitoQ ambassador Gunnar Peterson knows a lot about inspiring people to push through, has worked with Hollywood A-listers and was a strength coach with a championship-winning NBA franchise. "No one can do it alone, having good support is important. I get mine from my family, but also from the inside as well," Peterson says in a statement. "I can't afford to be limited by low energy or slowing down, and once I knew that most of the body's energy comes from deep inside cells, I looked for ways to improve that."
To push past limits and achieve their goals, many respondents wish they had more support, particularly in the form of health products (37%), advice from their close circles (36%), and a fitness or nutrition coach (36%). More than half (55%) admit they're not familiar with cell health.
"I think they're missing an easy fix," Peterson says. "If you can find a cell health product that's been bioengineered to get deep into cells and boost your body's daily energy, focus and endurance levels, then that's taking away some significant limits on what you can achieve with your life, and why wouldn't you do that?"
Tags: celebrities, limitations, motivation, role model
Chris Melore
Chris Melore has been a writer, researcher, editor, and producer in the New York-area since 2006. He won a local Emmy award for his work in sports television in 2011.
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NIS reports
New Report – Trouble Ahead
This report looks at the problems arising in the UK nuclear weapons programme, the overall total cost of the programme and the need for policy changes to address a situation that is becoming increasingly unsustainable.
NIS briefing: Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
How would the ban treaty affect the UK's nuclear weapons programme?
Factsheet: Financing the Atomic Weapons Establishment
A look at the finances of AWE Management Limited
Playing With Fire: Nuclear Weapons Incidents and Accidents in the United Kingdom
NIS has released a report examining the accident record of the UK's nuclear weapons programme over its 65 year history, looking across the full scope of the programme and describing the most significant incidents in detail.
The report describes 110 accidents, near misses, and dangerous occurrences
Top scientist sets out new vision for nuclear bomb factory after Trident work ends
Costs and purpose of Trident questioned among UK military community
A ground-breaking study into how the UK's military community views nuclear weapons and disarmament has highlighted significant concerns about the costs and role of Trident. The funding crisis facing the Ministry of Defence means that spending on nuclear weapons is increasingly seen as unjustifiable when conventional equipment is needed and many in the armed forces […]
US – UK nuclear co-operation agreement undermines global non-proliferation efforts
A controversial agreement which allows nuclear weapons technology to be shared between the United States of America and the United Kingdom undermines global non-proliferation efforts and should be reformed to make it relevant to work aimed at preventing the spread of nuclear weapons.
Standards of accountability and openness at Atomic Weapons Establishment rated "poor" in annual review
Nukewatch: UK warhead reductions continuing, according to convoy monitoring data
Credit crunch cash shortage raises doubts over new nuclear weapons
Cash shortages caused by the credit crunch will force the next government to choose between replacing the Trident nuclear weapons system and meeting flagship goals to halve child poverty, raise the state pension in line with earnings, and keep education spending growing, according to a report on the affordability of Britain's nuclear weapons published today by the Nuclear Information Service (NIS).
Swamped!
Swamped! The devastating impact of the July 2007 floods on Britain's nuclear weapon's factories.
Download the full report below. You can also read the redacted version of AWE's 'Review Learn and Improve' assessment of the floods here.
NIS technical briefing note: JSP 538 – Regulation of the Nuclear Weapons Programme
'Joint Services Publication 538: Regulation of the Nuclear Weapon Programme' (JSP 538) is the definitive Ministry of Defence guidance document on nuclear and radiological safety requirements within the UK nuclear weapons programme. A redacted copy of the full 522 page document was placed in the House of Commons Library in May 2008 in response to a Parliamentary Question1. This NIS technical briefing provides a brief summary of its contents and a commentary on some salient points.
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Shelby and his men, or, the war in the west
THE WAR IN THE WEST.                   359
several hours before we realized that a great fight was impending
-a fight not for victory on our part, but for life itself, for escape,
for the pleasure of seeing once more the homes and the loved
ones awaiting our return in the far-off Dixie.
"We first heard the thunder of Shelby's cannon at Westport,
and then the roar of small arms. The battle became terrific, but
the enemy advancing from Independence on the front of our right
wing soon engaged Marmaduke's division.  For hours the fight
continued. After prodigies of valor, Shelby's heroes were grad-
ually borne back. But in the meantime the train had crossed the
mountain, and Cabbell's brigade, about one thousand strong, was
guarding it while crossing. A large party of Federals-seem-
ingly larger than Price's entire command, had been sent around
to the right, flanking the mountain, and intended to seize the
pass by which alone we could retreat. Just as Cabbell's brigade
ascended the brow of the mountain, a long line of blue-coats
could be seen across the prairie, marching up to forestall us.
Seeing the defile guarded, they paused, and, strange to say, made
no attack on the train, which was stretched out for two miles,
and only guarded by a handful of men. Had they moved up
boldly, all would have been lost. They fell back and disappeared
over the hill, and soon Marmaduke and then Fagan and Shelby
came sweeping by-the defile was passed and the train saved.
We all breathed easier. We had fought a hard fight, and the
result was a victory to us. But we had left many a brave soldier
in the fields about Westport. Shelby was the hero of the fight.
Never did nature form a grander battle-field, and never were the
principles of military science so sadly abused and ignored as by
General Price in the first place, and the commander (whoever he
was) of the Federal flanking party in the second place. General
Price could have passed the defile the night before, and saved the
lives of eight hundred of the bravest soldiers who ever swung
around their shoulders a Sharpe's rifle. The Federals could have
secured the pass. Both blundered in generalship, but the battle-
field still lies there in its natural grandeur and loveliness, for the
study of the future strategist."
In the morning of this day's fight, General Fagan and a por-
tion of his division were engaged. The intrepid Dobbins held his
brave regiment well in hand, and McGhee's battalion made a
fierce charge down a narrow lane in front of Westport. Twenty-
seven of his gallant Arkansans fell before the deadly fire, and
those inevitably wounded in the melee were horribly mutilated by
the Kansans.  In this hot charge Colonel McGhee and Major
Title Shelby and his men, or, the war in the west
Author Edwards, John N. (John Newman), 1839-1889
Subject.LCSH Shelby, Joseph Orville, 1830-1897
Arkansas -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Source Digital reproduction based on reprint edition republished by his wife Jennie Edwards, Kansas City, Mo. : Hudson-Kimberly Pub. Co., 1897
Originally published: Cincinnati, Ohio : Miami printing and publishing, 1867.
Date.Original 1897
Description THE WAR IN THE WEST. 359 several hours before we realized that a great fight was impending -a fight not for victory on our part, but for life itself, for escape, for the pleasure of seeing once more the homes and the loved ones awaiting our return in the far-off Dixie. "We first heard the thunder of Shelby's cannon at Westport, and then the roar of small arms. The battle became terrific, but the enemy advancing from Independence on the front of our right wing soon engaged Marmaduke's division. For hours the fight continued. After prodigies of valor, Shelby's heroes were grad- ually borne back. But in the meantime the train had crossed the mountain, and Cabbell's brigade, about one thousand strong, was guarding it while crossing. A large party of Federals-seem- ingly larger than Price's entire command, had been sent around to the right, flanking the mountain, and intended to seize the pass by which alone we could retreat. Just as Cabbell's brigade ascended the brow of the mountain, a long line of blue-coats could be seen across the prairie, marching up to forestall us. Seeing the defile guarded, they paused, and, strange to say, made no attack on the train, which was stretched out for two miles, and only guarded by a handful of men. Had they moved up boldly, all would have been lost. They fell back and disappeared over the hill, and soon Marmaduke and then Fagan and Shelby came sweeping by-the defile was passed and the train saved. We all breathed easier. We had fought a hard fight, and the result was a victory to us. But we had left many a brave soldier in the fields about Westport. Shelby was the hero of the fight. Never did nature form a grander battle-field, and never were the principles of military science so sadly abused and ignored as by General Price in the first place, and the commander (whoever he was) of the Federal flanking party in the second place. General Price could have passed the defile the night before, and saved the lives of eight hundred of the bravest soldiers who ever swung around their shoulders a Sharpe's rifle. The Federals could have secured the pass. Both blundered in generalship, but the battle- field still lies there in its natural grandeur and loveliness, for the study of the future strategist." In the morning of this day's fight, General Fagan and a por- tion of his division were engaged. The intrepid Dobbins held his brave regiment well in hand, and McGhee's battalion made a fierce charge down a narrow lane in front of Westport. Twenty- seven of his gallant Arkansans fell before the deadly fire, and those inevitably wounded in the melee were horribly mutilated by the Kansans. In this hot charge Colonel McGhee and Major
Source Shelby and His Men
Chapter XXII
Chapter XXIII
Chapter XXIV
Chapter XXV
Chapter XXVI
Chapter XXVII
Chapter XXIX


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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Insists It's Super Normal That People Are Dying to Leave the White House
Katherine Krueger
As yet another senior Trump administration staffer heads for the door—this time, top economic adviser Gary Cohn—White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders insisted on Wednesday that everything is super normal in the White House.
This British Politician Yelling BE A GOOD BOY Officially Broke My Brain
Elizabeth Warren Blows Ridiculous CNN Climate Change Question Out of the Water
Asked by ABC News' Cecilia Vega during the daily press briefing why so many staffers are leaving—nearly half of the top-level staff has turned over since the Trump presidency began—Sanders said: "Look, this administration has had a historic first year, we're going to continue doing great things. This is an intense place...It's not abnormal that you would have people come and go."
When Vega pushed back on Sanders' claim that it's actually very normal to have a record number of senior staff jumping ship in just the first year—with a total of 35 departures so far, according to CNN—the White House spokeswoman quickly corrected her: "I said it's not abnormal to have turnover." Oh, OK then.
Vega pushed Sanders again, asking, "If this is not the definition of chaotic, how would you describe what's happening?"
Sanders responded in her characteristically clipped way:
If it was, then I don't think we'd be able to accomplish everything we've done. The economy is stronger than it's been in ages, ISIS is on the run, the remaking of the judiciary, jobs are coming in at record numbers, there are historic things that have taken place in the first year. Sounds like a very functioning place of business to me.
There you have it. This White House is OPEN for business, which means it's also open for hirings—by the boatload, according to the president!—and lots of resignations under murky circumstances. You know, normal small-time business things.


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Charles Campion speaks at Council of Europe
In November Charles Campion attended the Council of Europe Intercultural Cities 2017 Milestone Event in Lisbon to speak about Collaborative Placemaking and Community Land Trusts (CLTs).
Focusing on the award-winning project, St Clement's in Bow, East London he explained the effectiveness of collaborative planning processes in engaging people from all backgrounds and cultures, and discussed how CLTs can deliver truly affordable homes for local communities.
The Council of Europe Intercultural Cities programme supports cities in reviewing their policies to help them manage diversity positively and realise the diversity advantage. Interculturalism is a term which is gaining wider usage partly in credit to scholars Ted Cantle and Ricard Zapata-Barrero, who see socio-economically mixed communities as an inclusive approach to placemaking, an alternative to multiculturalist policies that have often resulted in socio-economic isolation.
Participants at the conference included Mayors, European, regional and national officials in the field of inclusion/integration and other stakeholders active in the intercultural integration field. The programme offered talks and workshops on innovative models of governance, social inclusion policies and the provision of social services.
You can read about the Council of Europe Milestone event here
Learn more about St. Clement's here
20/20 Visions In blogs
Corridors of Freedom
On the 17 January, UCL Bartlett hosted a second event in London as part of its Large Scale Urban Development series. This time it was a unique opportunity to compare one of London's opportunity area developments (Old Oak & Park Royal) with international projects of a similar scale.
Of particular interest, was the work of the Johannesburg City Council to radically address inequality through transport oriented interventions.
"It is officially recognised that apartheid spatial planning has left the City with sprawling low-density areas without viable public transport systems. The majority of working class and poor citizens are still living on the fringes of the city and have to commute over long distances to access work and economic opportunities."
– Johannesburg City Council
The City Council used a wide range of participatory planning and consultation methods and employed non-technical drawing techniques to communicate ideas and themes to the public and encourage involvement.
Herman Pienaar (Director, City Transformation and Spatial Planning for the City of Johannesburg) presented a fascinating walkthrough of their public consultation processes. He described the complexities of Johannesburg and how government funding was crucial to land acquisition along key roadways into the centre of the city. These "corridors", as they see it, are a means to get people from poor communities in the suburbs to their jobs in the core. This is also a way to encourage social mixing, getting black and white people to use the same transportation systems and the same services within the city.
"There will be a clean break with apartheid spatial distribution and people living on the periphery will be able to move closer to economic opportunities. The shape of the future City will consist of well-planned transport arteries – the "Corridors of Freedom"
More on the Corridors of Freedom project can be found here
The Liberties – 10 years on
20/20 Visions author Charles Campion appointed to Glasgow Place Commission: considering how design can make a better Glasgow
Glasgow Place Commission Launched
Ian Harvey from Civic Voice announces 'Community Planning Forum' as part of campaign for a greater voice for communities in planning
National Charrette Institute discussed collaboration strategies at CNU 27.Louisville Conference
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LANY (/ˈleɪni/, acrónimo de "Los Angeles New York") es una banda estadounidense de pop rock de Los Ángeles. Formada en Nashville en 2014, la banda está formada por Paul Jason Klein y Jake Clifford Goss.

Firmado con Polydor e Interscope Records, la banda ha lanzado cuatro álbumes: LANY (2017), Malibu Nights (2018), Mama's Boy (2020) y gg bb xx (2021). Además, han lanzado una gran cantidad de sencillos, siendo los más exitosos ILYSB (2015) certificado por la RIAA, Malibu Nights (2018), la colaboración con Julia Michaels Okay (2019) y Mean It (2019) con Lauv.

Carrera musical

2014–2017: Inicios musicales y LANY
LANY se formó en marzo de 2014 cuando Paul Jason Klein, que tenía una pequeña carrera en solitario, voló a Nashville para reunirse con sus amigos Jake Goss y Les Priest. Anteriormente, Goss y Priest tenían un proyecto separado con el nombre de WRLDS, pero este se suspendió después de la formación de LANY. Al mes siguiente, subieron de forma anónima dos canciones, "Hot Lights" y "Walk Away", a SoundCloud para diferenciar entre sus proyectos antiguos y nuevos. Su EP debut, Acronyms, siguió más tarde ese mismo año, con la canción "ILYSB" generando un gran interés en internet. Pronto siguieron los sencillos "Made in Hollywood" y "Bad, Bad, Bad", junto con la revelación de sus identidades.

LANY es un acrónimo de "Los Ángeles Nueva York". Klein explicó el nombre en una entrevista:"Sabíamos que queríamos una palabra de cuatro letras por motivos estéticos y de diseño, pero como pueden imaginar, todas las palabras de cuatro letras del mundo entero están tomadas. Pasamos a las siglas y por un tiempo pensamos que seríamos TTYL , pero luego decidimos que no queríamos tener 13 años por el resto de nuestras vidas. Eventualmente pensé en el tramo a lo largo del país desde Los Ángeles hasta Nueva York, y al principio pensé que sería LANY, pero la gente seguía confundido sobre cómo pronunciarlo cuando les dije, diciendo cosas como '¿LA-and-Y?' Entonces, olvídalo, llamémonos LANY, pronunciado como Lay-Nee".

En 2015, LANY se embarcó en giras estadounidenses apoyando a Twin Shadow, Tove Styrke, X Ambassadors, Troye Sivan y Halsey. Un segundo EP titulado I Loved You fue publicado. Seguido, por las apariciones en festivales, incluido Lollapalooza.

En diciembre de 2015, después de firmar con Polydor Records, se lanzó un EP de relanzamiento titulado Make Out; que consta de todas las canciones (sin incluir "Hot Lights" y "OMG") lanzadas antes de I Loved You. Poco después de esto, se anunció una gira de apoyo por el Reino Unido con Ellie Goulding para marzo de 2016 y se lanzó en YouTube una versión simplificada en vivo de "ILYSB". También, una gira de apoyo por Estados Unidos con Troye Sivan que duró hasta febrero, seguida por el anuncio de su primera gira como cartel principal por Estados Unidos, The Make Out Tour, en mayo. El 11 de marzo de 2016, LANY lanzó un sencillo titulado "Where the Hell Are My Friends". La pista debutó en Beats 1 con Zane Lowe. Un mes después, lanzaron el primer video musical de la canción.

Después de su gira principal en mayo, LANY tocó en una serie de festivales en el verano de 2016, incluidos Bonnaroo, Firefly y Outside Lands. LANY comenzó su segunda gira principal en el otoño de 2016 llamada Kinda Tour en apoyo de su EP del mismo nombre. Incluyó 14 fechas europeas y 37 fechas estadounidenses. El 15 de febrero de 2017, LANY anunció que abrirían para 7 espectáculos del The Search for Everything Tour de John Mayer. Incluía 5 fechas en Estados Unidos y 2 fechas en Canadá.

A través de su cuenta oficial de Instagram y Twitter, la banda anunció que lanzaría su álbum debut, LANY, el 30 de junio de 2017, precedido por los sencillos "Good Girls" el 3 de marzo, así como "It Was Love", "The Breakup" y "13".

El 30 de junio de 2017, LANY lanzó su álbum debut homónimo. El sencillo "Super Far" debutó en Beats 1 de Zane Lowe en Apple Music antes del lanzamiento del álbum. La banda realizó tiendas temporales en Los Ángeles y Nueva York para promocionar el álbum. Han lanzado videos musicales para "Good Girls", "ILYSB" y "Super Far". La banda anunció una gira principal por Estados Unidos que se llevó a cabo de septiembre a noviembre de 2017. LANY pasó el verano de 2017 tocando en festivales y recorriendo Australia y Asia. Hicieron una gira por Europa en el invierno de 2017.

2018–2019: Malibu Nights
LANY anunció su segundo álbum, Malibu Nights, el 8 de marzo de 2018 a través de una publicación de Instagram. Klein declaró que el álbum fue escrito del 4 de enero al 14 de febrero de 2018.

El mes siguiente, el 5 de abril de 2018, LANY tuvo su primer concierto en el Coliseo Smart Araneta en Filipinas. Las entradas para el espectáculo se agotaron en 24 horas, lo que llevó a un segundo espectáculo la noche siguiente.

El primer sencillo, "Thru These Tears", se lanzó el 17 de julio. El segundo sencillo del álbum, "I Don't Wanna Love You Anymore", se lanzó el 22 de agosto de 2018. Su muy esperado segundo álbum de estudio "Malibu Nights" fue lanzado el 5 de octubre de 2018 y consta de 9 canciones. En 2018, LANY se embarcó en su gira mundial Malibu Nights World Tour que comenzó en octubre y duró hasta octubre de 2019. La banda lanzó "Okay", un sencillo con la cantante Julia Michaels, el 23 de abril de 2019. Esta fue su primera canción en incluir un artista invitado. El 14 de noviembre de 2019, LANY colaboró con el cantautor estadounidense Lauv para la canción "Mean It", que finalmente se incluyó en el álbum debut de Lauv, How I'm Feeling. El 17 de diciembre de 2019, se lanzó el video musical con ambos artistas en los desiertos de Los Ángeles.

2020: Mama's Boy
El 30 de abril de 2020, LANY anunció el título de su tercer álbum, Mama's Boy, a través de las redes sociales. El álbum fue lanzado el 2 de octubre de 2020.  El 13 de mayo, lanzaron el sencillo principal del álbum, "Good Guys". El 1 de julio, se lanzó su segundo sencillo "If This Is the Last Time". El tercer sencillo del álbum, "You!", fue lanzado el 13 de agosto de 2020. Dos meses después, el 2 de octubre de 2020, lanzaron su tercer álbum de estudio titulado Mama's Boy. Para promocionar el álbum, la banda ha anunciado 5 fechas en el Reino Unido e Irlanda para 2021. La preventa comenzó el 30 de septiembre, mientras que la venta general comenzó el 2 de octubre. La banda ha anunciado más fechas en una fecha posterior.

2021: gg bb xx
El 4 de febrero de 2021, LANY lanzó la edición de lujo de Mama's Boy. Esto incluyó el lanzamiento de tres nuevas versiones de las canciones: "Heart Won't Let Me" (stripped), "Sad" (stripped) y "I Still Talk to Jesus" (en vivo). "Quería que el exterior sonara y sintiera que estaba tocando esta canción solo en una sala de escuela dominical con la puerta ligeramente entreabierta, y tú estabas escuchando al final del pasillo", dijo Klein sobre la grabación original. La interpretación en vivo de la pista atrae a los oyentes aún más cerca y dentro de la sala junto a LANY. El 12 de julio, LANY anunció que su cuarto álbum, gg bb xx, se lanzaría el 3 de septiembre. El lanzamiento comenzó con el sencillo "dancing in the kitchen" el 25 de junio.

La versión de lujo de "gg bb xx" se lanzó el 5 de noviembre, agregando 5 canciones adicionales al disco, junto con la versión de demostración de "dna" que se lanzó como sencillo simultáneamente con "up to me". También se incluyeron colaboraciones anteriores, "I Quit Drinking" con Kelsea Ballerini y "Stupid Feelings" con 220 Kid.

Miembros
Miembros actuales
 Paul Jason Klein – voz principal, piano, teclados, guitarra (2014-presente)
 Jake Clifford Goss – batería, percusión, pad de muestreo (2014-presente)
 Charles Leslie Priest – teclados, sintetizadores, guitarra, coros (2014-2022)

Miembros de gira
 Giuliano Pizzulo – teclados, guitarras, coros (2018-2020)
 Eric "Puff" Scarborough – teclados, guitarras, coros (2021-presente)
 Kim Vi – teclados, guitarras, coros (2021-presente)

Discografía

Álbumes de estudio
 LANY (2017)
 Malibu Nights (2018)
 Mama's Boy (2020)
 Gg bb xx (2021)

EPs
 Acronyms (2014)
 I Loved You (2015)
 Make Out (2015)
 Kinda (2016)

Sencillos

Giras musicales
Como artistas principales
The Make Out Tour (2016)
Kinda Tour (2016)
LANY World Tour (2017–2018)
Malibu Nights World Tour (2018–2019)
UK/IRE Tour (2021)
gg bb xx Tour (2021–2022)

Como artistas invitados
Zella Day – Zella Day On Tour (2015)
Halsey – Badlands Tour (2015–2016)
Ellie Goulding – Delirium World Tour (2016)
Troye Sivan – Blue Neighbourhood Tour (2016)
John Mayer – The Search for Everything World Tour (2017)

Referencias

Grupos de música de Los Ángeles
Grupos de synthpop de Estados Unidos
Grupos de dream pop
Grupos de rock alternativo de Estados Unidos
Grupos de indie pop de Estados Unidos
Artistas de Interscope Records
Artistas de Polydor Records
Grupos de música formados en 2014
Tríos de música de Estados Unidos

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NHS consultant dies after testing positive for coronavirus
Consultant Amged El-Hawrani, 55, who had tested positive for coronavirus, has died at Leicester Royal Infirmary, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton have said.
Colleagues have paid tribute to Amged El-Hawrani, who died at Leicester Royal Infirmary on Saturday evening after testing positive for Covid-19.
Gavin Boyle, chief executive at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton (UHDB), said: "Mr El-Hawrani, known to his colleagues as Amged, was an extremely hard working consultant and Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) trainer who was well liked at the Trust and particularly at Queen's Hospital Burton where he worked.
"Amged played a leading role in the merger between the hospitals in Burton and Derby and helped bring the two clinical teams together. He was keen to support colleagues outside of ENT and was well known across a wide number of departments.
"He was known for his dedication and commitment to his patients. He had also raised funds for the hospitals, including climbing in the Himalayas with a group of friends some years ago. The whole UHDB family are desperately saddened at losing Amged who was such a valued and much loved colleague.
"On behalf of everyone here at UHDB, including our patients and the communities we serve, I would like to offer our sincere condolences to his family.
"We would also like to thank our colleagues at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust for their professionalism and the compassionate care they have shown for Amged and his family."
It comes as All parts of the country are now on an "emergency footing", the Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick has said.
Speaking at the government's daily press briefing he said: "This is an unprecedented step in peace time, we haven't done anything like this since the Second World War.
"This means that we are establishing strategic coordination centres across the whole country."
Mr Jenrick said each centre would be led by gold commanders.
The Government was bringing together senior members of the emergency services, with local authorities and the NHS to "lead communities through this challenging period, from Cornwall to Cumbria", he added.
Members of the armed forces will be embedded in each of these groups, Mr Jenrick said.
Mr Jenrick told the Downing Street briefing that millions of items of personal protective equipment (PPE) were being delivered to NHS staff.
"We simply cannot and should not ask people to be on the frontline without the right protective equipment," he said.
He said the Government had established a "national supply distribution response team" to deliver PPE to those in need, supported by the Armed Forces and other emergency services.
Some 170 million masks and almost 10 million items of cleaning equipment are among the items being delivered to NHS trusts and healthcare settings, he said.
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Damn dude, it hits them younger and younger....
We're gonna party during the COVID-19 commotion, like it's 1999! Do do, do do do.
Coronavirus: Derby police 'in absolute shock over massive party'
More than 20 adults and children defied social distancing rules with karaoke in Derby, police say.
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How insensitive of these people.
Wow I mean I can kinda see what they are doing. If they feel the end of the world is coming may as well live it up.
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Police station cells ain't able to offer very comfortable living arrangements, though.
True haha. Being loud when nobody can leave IS super annoying probably.
I feel that the importance and the value of the NHS is constantly overlooked, in terms of receiving respect and funding. It is an invaluable service that does an excellent job all year round. To show respect it should be of upmost importance to test those working there for coronavirus, especially since they are working tirelessly in a high risk environment.
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) Commonwealth vs. Hunt-In 1842 in Massachusetts a court decision for industrial workers was won in which the supreme court of the state declared that unions were lawful organizations and that a strike was a lawful weapon.
2) "cult of domesticity"-brought both benefits and costs to middle-class women. It allowed them to live lives of greater material comfort than in the past, it placed higher value on their "female virtues" and on their roles as wife and mother.
3) Cyrus McCormick-invented the automatic reaper. The reaper enabled one worker to harvest as much wheat in a day as five could harvest using older methods. He patented this device in 1834, established a factory in Chicago in the heartland of the greenbelt in 1847. By 1860 more than 1000,000 reapers were in use on western farms.
4) Erie Canal-was the greatest construction project the United States had ever undertaken. It was a ditch forty feet wide and four feet deep with tow paths along the banks. It had difficult cuts and fills which were required to enable the canal to pass through hills and over valleys, stone aqueducts were necessary to carry it across streams and eighty-eight locks of heavy masonry with great wooden gates were needed to permit ascents and descents. It became an immediate financial success.
5) Factory System—most of the manufacturing occurred in households with people making things by hand or simple machines, technology improved.
Entrepreneurs begin to make use of new and larger machines driven by water power that allowed them to bring textile operations together under one roof. The factory system spread rapidly in the 1820's.
6) Know-Nothings-a strict code of secrecy, which included the secret password, used in lodges across the country, "I know nothing". Members of this movement became know as the Know Nothings. They turned their attention to party politics and after the election of 1852 they created a political organization they called American Party.
7) Lowell System -a system that was common in Massachusetts. It relied heavily, on young unmarried women. They worked several years in the factories, saved their money, and returned home to marry and raise children. Some married men in the factories and or town. They lived in clean boardinghouses and dormitories which the factory owners maintained for them. They were fed and carefully supervised. The factory owners placed great emphasis on maintaining a proper environment for their employees. They had strict curfews, required regular church attendance. The wages were generous. The workers were dismissed if there was a suspicion of immoral conduct
8) Samuel Morse- The telegraph burst into American life in 1844, Samuel successfully transmitted from Baltimore to Washington the news of James K. Polk's nomination for the presidency. The wire system was low cost and made the Morse telegraph system seem the ideal answer to problems of long-distance communication. In 1860 more than 50,000 miles of wire connected most parts of the country and a year later 3,595 miles of wire, opened between new York and San Francisco. By then, nearly all the independent lines had joined in one organization, the Western Union Telegraph Company.
9) P.T. Barnum-He was a famous showman who opened the American Museum in New York in 1842-not a showcase for art or nature, but a great freak show populated by midgets, (Tom Thumb, the most famous) Siamese twins, magicians and ventriloquist. He was a genius in publicizing his ventures with garish posters and elaborate newspaper announcements. Later in 1870's he opened a famous circus which he is best known for.
10) Sarah Bagley-she was a militant who created the Female Labor Reform Association and began demanding a ten-hour day (some women worked twelve-hour shifts) and for improvements in conditions in the mills. The association also made demands of management and turned to state government and asked for legislative investigation of conditions in the mills.
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If there was a perfect word to describe Akeem it would be Perseverance.
Born in Savlamar, Jamaica, Akeem didn't have much of an advantage from the beginning. With limited options and tragic events happening early in life, he moved to Canada with his mother seeking a better life. However, they fell into tough times, and struggled to find stability. In a span of five months they moved seven different times and eventually found themselves homeless in the middle of winter when Akeem was 13.
Down but not out, with the help of some friends, they were able to get back on their feet. Akeem became involved in sports, mainly football and track and field. Akeem excelled both on the field and on the track and won many different awards. In the 11th grade, he started to gain offers from Division I schools in the United States.
Nevertheless, Akeem's path to becoming a NCAA Division I student-athlete was not smooth. After taking the S.A.T three times and the A.C.T. once, Akeem failed to get the scores he needed. In hindsight, though, none of this mattered. Akeem was ruled automatically ineligible due to a NCAA violation with his ninth-grade math class.
Akeem eventually went on to become the first in his immediate family to graduate from college on top of becoming a Division I Track and Field All-American.
Through perseverance, a resilient mindset and a stubborn attitude to succeed, Akeem has become a 2x Olympian (2012 & 2016), helping Canada bring home an Olympic Bronze Medal at the Rio Olympic Games.
With his smooth tone, calm demeanor, and ability to paint a transparent picture with his words, there isn't a room Akeem has walked into and not left a lasting impact on the audience by resonating with their hearts.
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I've been fortunate enough to attend two Olympics in 2012 & 2016 with 2016 being the year that I helped team Canada win a Bronze medal and breaking the previous 4x100m record in the process. Being an Olympian takes more than just blood, sweat and tears. It takes discipline, sacrifices and pure heart.
Gratitude is one thing we often over-look. We often forget about the small things we have going for us in our lives. I've learned that if you want to bring in something new in your life, you first have to be grateful for all that you have. If you can find something to be thankful for you will see a positive change in your attitude and your everyday life.
If you have a strong enough why behind anything, you'll find a way to push through and persevere through what comes your way. What is your why? How strong is your why? In this topic you will figure out the true magic of tapping into your why.
There are moments that should break us. Moments that should leave us down and out. Moments that we relive and have us stuck in the past. I decided when I became homeless at thirteen that I would use that as fuel to push me through the tough times that I face in the future. It was a reminder for me that as long as you have breath in your body you must continue to push forward. As long as there is light in the tunnel no matter the size, there is always hope to make it out.
To have the opportunity to hear Akeem speak always is a highlight to any day. His ability to connect motivation, and hard work to attaining goals is truly inspirational. His connection with his audience is so organic, he evolves as he starts to reach his clientele. If you have the opportunity to listen, have this man speak to your work team or sports team it is an investment of time that is well spent. His ability to help people understand what it means to overcome adversity, face challenges head on and still achieve at the highest level is beyond inspirational.
Mr Haynes, I would like to applaud you on the impressive speech that you gave regarding "Mental Health". I was encouraged to attend your speaking engagement last minute by a friend who was also in attendance. I am extremely glad that i was able to attend, as you exceeded our expectations! From the moment you made your entrance and began speaking, you captivated our attention and connected with your audience so very well. I was delighted at the fact that you felt comfortable enough t share some of your personal experiences with us. You captivated your audience beautifully, and many of us left feeling empowered. your state about "being patient" really impressed me. Thank you for reminding us that even when progress is slow, if we remain patient a breakthrough will come.
Akeem is so young and yet so talented. As a University graduate, olympic medal winning athlete and now a novelist, he has experienced highs through the dedication and determination needed to achieve, success, while his life story is one that will truly inspire. Hearing Akeem speak is what I imagine Anthony Robbins to have been like when he first started motivating people. I have been so moved by Akeem's presentations I therefore give him the highest of recommendations. Look no further for an exceptional motivational speaker.


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Q: JPanel Preferred Size Not Being Set When is the preferred size of a JPanel set if you don't set it explicitly?
I have the following code:
private static class ScrollableJPanel extends JPanel implements Scrollable {
    @Override
    public Dimension getPreferredScrollableViewportSize() {
                 return getPreferredSize();
    }
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}

and this code:
    myPanel = new ScrollableJPanel();
            // Add a bunch of controls to the panel.
    final JScrollPane scroll = new JScrollPane(myPanel);
    scroll.setAutoscrolls(true);
    scroll.setHorizontalScrollBarPolicy(
        ScrollPaneConstants.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER);

However, the preferred size of myPanel at the time getPreferredScrollableViewportSize() is being called seems to be an arbitrary value, (4225, 34), and prefSizeSet = false.
According to the Java documentation, this is a reasonable way to define this method.  However, the actual size of myPanel is much higher than 34 pixels, so the view port is way too small.
What am I doing wrong here?  Should I set the preferred size of myPanel explicitly?  I tried that, but I want to use the actual size determined by the layout manager, not just make a guess that will be overridden later.
Note that my question isn't how to set an exact size for the JPanel.  I want the layout manager to do that.  Nor do I want to have to explicitly set the preferred size.  I thought that was also handled by the layout manager.  What I want to know is why the layout manager is not setting a reasonable value for the preferred size itself so that I can return a reasonable PreferredScrollableViewportSize.

A: In AWT (and then Swing), Container.getPreferredSize() either:

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*returns the size explicitly set by setPreferredSize(),

*or the size calculated by the LayoutManager if setPreferredSize() has not been called explicitly

Hence, what getPreferredSize() returns highly depends on which LayoutManager you use for your ScrollableJPanel.
Be aware that most LayoutManagers will use getPreferredSize() on all direct children of the Container upon which getPreferredSize() was called. This is a recursive process (if children have children themselves) and may involve several different LayoutManagers.

A: The Preferred size of a JPanel is based on the components in the panel. The Layout manager calculates a preferred size of the panel, based on the preferred size of the items in the panel, and if some of those things are panels, then it is a recursive calculation. If there are no sub components in the panel, then the preferred size will have to be set explicitly.

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The Guide Guide cookie sellers are in full swing in Lake Country.
Mayor James Baker made a stop Saturday at the Save-On-Foods to purchase a box as the Lake Country girl guides made their first round in the district selling boxes.
Find cookies in your area by visiting the Cookie Finder Map online at www.girlguides.ca.
Cookies sales will go directly to the Girl Guides of Canada. The first cookies sold were in Regina in 1927.


Far more people have registered interest in the Government's new energy efficiency scheme than has been reported, ministers have claimed.
The Green Deal loan scheme goes live on Monday with the aim of helping Brits to install energy saving technologies without any upfront costs.
Initial reports suggested that only five assessments had been carried out in the run-up to today's launch.
However, officials at the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) said anecdotal information from suppliers suggested hundreds of household have signed up for assessments.
Older people interested in heating their homes more efficiently can have their property reviewed by an accredited assessor, who will lay out their upgrade options and provide a clear idea of over the length of time in which the work would begin to 'pay for itself'.
Homeowners can then seek a quote for the work from Green Deal Providers, with work carried out by an approved list of Green Deal Installers.
The cost of the work is covered by a loan from the Green Deal Finance Company, with repayments added to the cost of the household electricity bill.
Problems created for those selling their house?
A central plank of the Green Deal dictates that borrowers should not pay back more in loan repayments than they are saving on their energy bill.
However, with repayments attached to properties rather than individuals, industry analysts have raised concerns that it could make life harder for homeowners wishing to sell their house.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said: 'The Green Deal will help thousands of homes stay warm for less.
Ed Matthews, head of fuel poverty campaign group Energy Bill Revolution, said the scheme was insufficient in the face of soaring heating bills.
'The Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation, will not stop fuel poverty rocketing in the face of high gas prices,' he said.


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Last week Cord Cutters News broke the news that Viacom planned to add more content to Pluto TV from Viacom networks. Now it is being reported that Viacom will be adding 15 new channels to Pluto TV including content from MTV including shows like "The Hills" and content from Comedy Central, BET and Nickelodeon according to DigiDay.com. Sadly no date has been announced for when this new content will be added.
Last week at NAB Glenn Goldstein from Viacom talked about the future of Pluto TV. Goldstein once again announced plans to bring Viacom-branded content to Pluto TV. This news comes as Pluto TV announces a new deal to bring BBC content to Pluto TV. This was first hinted at when Viacom purchased Pluto TV. Now it is reconfirmed that Pluto TV will be slowly adding Viacom content from places like MTV, Paramount, Comedy Central, and VH1.


India's healthcare sector is expanding at a marvellous pace. There are immense learning opportunities, inter and intra sector collaboration possibilities and yet unexplored growth avenues. We recognized the need to bring together marketing stakeholders from all verticals of the healthcare sector to promote and support its exponential growth. Thus, the idea of HealthMex was born.
This is India's first ever platform which brings together all verticals of India's healthcare sector to recognize, discuss and honour excellence in marketing.
The Summit aims to discuss and showcase outstanding work done through innovations and collaborations in their marketing initiatives across all segments of India's healthcare sector. An opportunity to see leaders and marketing experts of leading healthcare organisations share their insights and vision with a niche audience of 250+ healthcare marketing professionals.
The Summit will culminate in Healthcare Marketing Excellence Awards which will felicitate brands, services and professionals who have designed and executed extraordinary innovations in healthcare marketing. These awards will felicitate all the companies, brands, products and services active for their outstanding contributions made in calendar year 2018.


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Memorandum of Understanding signed between CReLIC and IWM
On 17 February 2021, Climate Resilient Local Infrastructure Centre (CReLIC) under the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Institute of Water Modeling (IWM) in a signing ceremony held at LGED Bhaban at Agargaon, Dhaka. Through the signing of this MoU, CReLIC and IWM agreed to exchange data, knowledge and experience on climate change as well as to develop and implement joint researches related to climate change adaptation and resilience. As a result, the two sides will work together to develop climate change resilient local infrastructure throughout the country with the aim to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 (BDP 2100).
AMBERO is leading the Institutional Development Consultant (IDC) joint venture (JV) who is responsible for the establishment of Climate Resilient Local Infrastructure Centre (CReLIC) under the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED), Bangladesh. Germany-based Como Consult GmbH and New Zealand-based Training and Technology Transfer (TTT) are the JV partners in this initiative.
Additional Chief Engineer LGED and Director for CReLIC, A.K.M. Luthfur Rahman and Deputy Executive Director (P&D) IWM, S.M. Mahbubur Rahman signed the MoU on behalf of CReLIC and IWM. The Executive Engineer CReLIC Md. Safiqul Islam, IDC Team Leader Bert van Ommen, IDC Deputy Team Leader Golam Kibria, and IDC Management Specialist Mahmood Reaz represented from CReLIC, whereas IWM were represented by Head of Climate Change Cell Md. Tariqul Islam, Head of Research and Development Abdulla Hel Kafi, and Manager Business Development Samiun Nabi.
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It is more beneficial to opt for prevention when suffering from a particular disease. The money and time spent in treating a medical condition could have been avoided if some precautionary measures were taken. Acne is an example of such ailments that can be prevented by following some precautionary measures.
When acne appears on your skin, getting rid of it can be a nightmare. Therefore, preventing acne is a better option. There are several ways of preventing acne. So, follow these 8 simple tips on how to prevent acne and say goodbye to acne forever.
Preventing your skin from acne is better than curing once you get them. It does not require much, just a balance in your diet. One thing the right acne prevention diet can do is to supply your body and immune system with nutrients to fight acne. There are also foods that can make your acne worse, so naturally you want to avoid these. Try to avoid refined sugars and fatty foods which have are not good for you or your skin.
Ridding the body of acne-causing substances such as fat and sugar would be the first step. But the most important thing is take healthy foods and supplying the body with the vitamins and minerals. Papaya fruit is great natural acne cure.
Lettuce, Artichokes, Spinach, and other similar green vegetables are known to aid in the prevention of acne. These foods contain Vitamin A which is necessary in a balanced diet and should be incorporated each day.
Also drinking plenty of water would prevent acne. People who drink inadequate water are exposing themselves to the risks of acne. Adequate water consumption helps eliminate toxins, the major causes of acne breakouts. Moreover, it keeps your skin moisturized and promotes detoxification. Therefore, if you want to prevent acne naturally and keep the skin healthy and soft, drink at least 6-8 glasses of water every day to flush your system of toxins.
You also need to exercise regularly which will make you sweat and open your pores. This will not only solve your skin problems but will also save you from other diseases. Exercise keeps you healthy and strong. It builds your immune system and helps eliminate toxins from the body. This is a very effective to prevent acne, as the main cause of acne is the blocking of pores.
Avoid tanning, it is bad for acne. If you are trying to prevent acne from developing, the last thing you need is to develop a tan. Even if you think it looks good, remember that a tanned skin is more likely to develop acne, so be careful not to be in the sun for too long, or you will have more problems to deal with than just the acne you had in the beginning.
Hormones can play a role in acne flare ups. You may have tried numerous anti-acne products but they are not working at all because your hormones are not balanced. When there is imbalance in your hormones, this will show up in your face in the form of acne.
Signs of hormonal imbalance such as sudden weight gain, hair loss should not be taken lightly. This may be symptoms of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome which occurs when the female body starts to produce male hormones resulting in unwanted hair growth on certain parts of your body and sudden weight gain. Your doctor may decide to use HRT to eliminate or reduce your acne outbreaks.
Choose cosmetics that are water based and hypo-allergenic. Avoid oil based products, coal tar derivatives, and heavy creams which can block skin pores, thereby leading to acne. Avoid cosmetics and hair products that carry ingredients such as Acetylated Lanolin, Alcohol, Algae Extract, Algin, Butyl Stearate, Carrageenan, Cetearyl Alcohol + Ceteareth 20 and Cocoa Butter. Doctors usually recommend non comedogenic skin care products, which will not block the skin pores and trigger acne breakouts.
Make sure you wash your skin thoroughly every night to remove makeup residue. Also clean your make-up brush regularly. Always wash your body after rinsing out your hair rinse to make sure there is no residue hair rinse left on your body.
One of the most common myths concerning acne prevention is that you can head off a breakout by washing your face more often. While it is important to keep your skin clean to prevent acne, washing your face too often will lead to dry, irritated skin that can cause your breakouts to be even more uncomfortable that what they normally are.
Use a mild cleaning regime every night. Once or twice in a week you need to use an exfoliator to gently remove damaged skin and unplug pores.
Shaving IS actually a great exfoliating treatment to remove dead skin. However you should never shave an area that is infected or inflamed. Always use a shaving cream if your skin is sensitive.
Stress CAN be a contributing factor to acne so try to relax and unwind. Emotions trigger chemical reactions and fluctuation in the levels of hormones in the body which can cause an outbreak. Some of the best way to relax and unwind are joining yoga classes, meditation or dance classes.
You can help to prevent acne by following these simple steps. What are you waiting for?


Hannah Mouncey's local coach, Chris Rourke, admits he is shocked at the AFL's decision to reject her bid to enter today's AFLW draft.
The AFL cited the "available data on transgender strength, stamina, physique along with the specific nature of the AFLW competition" as the reasons behind their call on Mouncey's eligibility.
However, Rourke, who has had a first hand look at Mouncey's football abilities at Canberra club Ainslie Tricolours, wonders if anyone on the AFL's subcommittee that decided on her bid took the time out to observe her play.
"One of the things I'm surprised about is I don't know how many of these people have seen her play," he told SEN Breakfast.
"She certainly didn't tear the competition apart. I watched her a couple of times, yes she is very big and strong, but she didn't bash anybody up or crash into anybody. When I first saw her run out, I thought jeez, she's big, but the opposition wasn't frightened of her.
"She went about her business and nobody seemed too afraid of her. She's not Daisy Pearce by any stretch of the imagination. She is big and strong, sometimes she can read the ball well and can catch it. She is an ok kick, so she has a bit of talent for sure.
The current cohort of AFLW players were taken into consideration throughout the decision making process, but Rourke says none of the opponents Mouncey faced in Canberra made an issue of it.
"After some games, a couple of people have mentioned it, but not the women," he said.
Mouncey can nominate for the AFLW draft again next year.
At 190 centimeters and 100 kilograms, she has spent the past season playing in the ruck for Ainslie, having been given approval to play in the women's league.
The 27-year-old was part of the national handball side that competed to qualify for the Rio Olympics as a man, before undergoing hormone treatment to transition to become a woman.


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Smoot Tapped to Run DSCC's IE Operation
By John McArdle and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted March 18, 2010 at 12:03pm
Veteran party strategist Brian Smoot will manage the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee's independent expenditure arm for the 2010 cycle, officials confirmed Thursday.
Smoot served as political director at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee during the 2008 cycle. He has most recently worked at the Democratic firm 4C Partners and as executive director of the National Democratic Redistricting Trust, a new group formed to tackle the legal side of the party's redistricting effort.
Before working at the DCCC, Smoot served as campaign manager and later as chief of staff for Rep. Ron Klein (D-Fla.). He also worked as campaign manager on Pennsylvania Democrat Ginny Schrader's 2004 campaign in the 8th district and was chief of staff for then-Democratic Rep. Rodney Alexander (La.) from 2003 until Alexander switched parties to become a Republican in August 2004.
"The DSCC will use every available resource to make sure that voters face a choice in the fall between Republicans standing with Washington special interests and Democrats who stand with them," DSCC Executive Director J.B. Poersch said Thursday. "Brian Smoot is someone who oversaw dozens of competitive races last cycle and will bring that expertise and leadership in his new role."
Officials at the other three Congressional committees said this week they have not yet decided who will handle their independent expenditure work this cycle.
Selecting an operative to run their independent expenditure operations is a particularly important decision for the campaign committees because these individuals must operate behind a firewall in deciding where and how to spend precious resources, and staffers at the committees are prohibited by law from being involved in those decisions.


As seen in the video above the yellow jacket (Rocky, the mascot of the University of Rochester) appears to be expanding. But he is not. He is staying still. We simply think he is growing because our brains have adapted to the inward motion of the background and that has become our new status quo. Similar situations arise constantly in our day-to-day lives — jump off a moving treadmill and everything around you seems to be in motion for a moment.
Davis Glasser, a doctoral student in the University of Rochester's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences thinks he has found the answer. In their paper, the scientists show that humans experience the Motion Aftereffect even if the motion that they see in the background is so brief that they can't even tell whether it is heading to the right or the left.
Find more here Neuroscientists find famous optical illusion surprisingly potent.
New research by psychologists at Queen Mary, University of London has revealed that the way we see the world might depend on reflexes in the brain. Writing in the Journal of Vision, Dr Michael Proulx from Queen Mary's School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, and former student Monique Green, explain how an optical illusion known as the Müller-Lyer Illusion captures our attention more strongly than other visual tests, suggesting that the brain calculates size as a reflex fast enough to guide where the eyes look.
In this study, Dr Proulx and Green asked participants to search for a vertical line among distracting lines tilted to the left and right. All of the lines had arrow heads at either end that randomly pointed in or out, making some lines appear to be longer or shorter than others due to the illusion. They found that the line that appeared to be the longest captured the participants' attention the most. Dr Proulx explains: "The surprising difference here is that the perceived longer line not only captured their attention, but was even more distracting than the sudden appearance of something new as shown in prior research.
"This suggests that many visual illusions might be so effective because they tap into how the human brain reflexively processes information."
Optical Spy note - The illusions shown here have nothing to do with this latest research, but we thought you might enjoy an example of the famous Muller-Lyer illusion.
As a result of the optical illusion, a person standing in one corner appears to the observer to be a giant, while a person standing in the other corner appears to be a dwarf. The illusion is so convincing that a person walking back and forth from the left corner to the right corner appears to grow or shrink.


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Text review of radio broadcast: THE FOURSOME and PIG
by Lynn on September 20, 2013
The following reviews were broadcast on Friday, September 20, 2013. CIUT FRIDAY MORNING, 89.5 fm. THE FOURSOME at the Sterling Studio Theatre until September 28, and PIG at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, until Oct. 6.
Phil Taylor was the guest host.
(PHIL)
Good Friday morning. It's theatre fix time with Lynn Slotkin. Hi Lynn
(LYNN)
1) What's up this week?
As usual two plays and they couldn't be more different. The Foursome written by Jane Ford, is billed as a 'dark, satirical comedy,' about three upscale women friends who need a fourth for tennis, after their tennis partner of 15 years dies in a car accident.
They are Tanda: a high-powered lawyer with low self-esteem when it comes to dealing with her critical mother and her negative psychiatrist; Kris who owns a tony shop in Rosedale that sells jam and crabcakes. And Jaz, a television news anchor.
They all have secrets which they hide from each other. They think they've lucked out when they get a fourth player to join their group. Young, rich Dylan Vanstone, the heiress to a fortune. They are all charmed by her. They all want to spend time with her, lunch, a drink, shopping.
Dylan is watchful, cunning, manipulative and she slowly breaks through their defences and learns their secrets. She's masterful when it comes to learning their weaknesses. Dylan has a secret of her own and it's a doozy.
2) It sounds dark. How is it funny?
We seem to like to listen to women being bitchy. They talk about each other behind their backs. They comment on how Kris seems to spend a lot of time with women friends even though she is married to a handsome man. Or how Tanda is very prim and proper and coy about her clients etc. Or how they run down other members of the tennis club.
And when Dylan comes on the scene, the stakes are ramped up because she begins to play one against the other in the group. For example, she convinces Tanda to buy expensive scarves which Tanda wears all the time—unlike her usual buttoned up self—and the others make fun of her, which plays on her low self-esteem. Dylan challenges Kris about her sexuality, and so on.
3) How is it as a play?
That's tricky. Playwright Jane Ford has made a career either acting in or writing for television. The Foursome seems to be her first play and it looks more like a television show than a theatre play. Scenes are short and blocked off with upscale type cheesy music. The characters seems slight and not developed. They all don't have a clue about each other—and they certainly didn't know how troubled the woman who died in the accident was. Their dialogue is glib and slick.
I did think of VideoCabaret of all things—a wonderful theatre company that does produce terrific plays but with a focus on the audience that was brought up on tv—their whole presentation is like a tv show but with depth.
The Foursome then seems to change tone in Act II when it becomes almost a thriller. There are slight hints of something in Act I that are connected to a surprising revelation in Act II that is a bit too pat. And the ending suggests something deeper than the play supports. I think there is a lost opportunity to get the audience to question a connection of Dylan to one of the members of the group.
4) How so?
Dylan reveals something about herself that one of the characters should twig to. But because the moment is not focused upon or drawn out by director Kyle Labine, it passes by. He does move scenes very efficiently around the various areas of the theatre—the whole space is used with the audience sitting around the action. And there are good performances from the cast a celebrated group of women in the comedy/tv/film/world.
As Kris, Jane Ford (doing double duty as the playwright and actor), is sophisticate but with an edge. This is a character who tries to smile off her defensiveness about her sexuality. As Jaz, Kathryn Greenwood has that hauteur of a person in the public eye; a confidence and thencrumbles when her secret is revealed. Caitlin Driscoll plays Dylan with a perky, subtle pushiness. And she's frightening and that's good. And as Tanda and various others, Kirsten Johnson is both formidable as a lawyer and a dissolved mess when ever she has to speak to her demanding mother, or her snide psychiatrist. Terrific performance.
On the whole, I think they bring this off, although I think the piece might make better tv than a play.
5) And tell us about PIG. Intriguing title.
Intriguing indeed. It's written by Tim Luscombe, a British playwright. And as we learned last week when I interviewed Brendan Healy, both the Artistic Director of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre and the director of Pig, he received the script about four years ago. This is the world premier of this play.
As he says in his program note, he read it immediately because the title intrigued him and was shaken by the presentation of gay male sexuality. Tim Luscombe presents the darker side of gay male sexuality. Some might call it deviant, harmful, brutal. Luscombe is painting this as a form of love among willing participants.
At the beginning two men meeting on line for sex. One is Joe who is 16 (Joe is one of the few names he uses that I can mention on the radio.) Later he will be called PIG. The other is Steve who is older. Another name for him is Knife. They are rough both in accent and behaviour. The sex and behaviour is sadistic if it's Steve and masochistic if it's Joe. They both need each other for that reason among others.
Years pass and we see them again only this time the accent is 'posh'. Both are now writers, Joe is a successful novelist and Steve is struggling to write plays. The attraction is still dangerous and even violent. But as the play progresses you realize you may be watching a play within a play.You may be watching the play that Steve is trying to write or has written. The lines of what is real and imagined are blurred. It's still a world that is hidden but real—the world of deviant, brutal sex by willing participants. And it's the world of our headlines.
There is also another character or characters named variously as Harry, Barry, Larry and Garry. He is in love with Joe and is fearful about Steve because of what he can do to Joe.
6) It might be the world of our headlines but it seems like hard theatre to sit through.
It is, but theatre reflects the world we live in. And in some quarters that world is brutal, violent, sordid and people live there. Tennessee Williams had one of his characters in Suddenly Last Summer say: "Nothing that's human disgusts me."
This play reminded me of the plays of Sarah Kane. She was a playwright whose plays dealt with a bleak, violent, unforgiving world. Kane committed suicide at 28 and I find that just soul crushing because her writing was both brutal and poetic.
Tim Luscombe in Pig is Sarah Kane x 2. Again, the language is hard hitting, grotesque and breathtakingly poetic and elegant all at the same time. I think it could have been cut a bit—the ending is a bit fuzzy and seems to come from nowhere, but on the whole the play certainly is formidable.
This is the world premier of Pig. On line there are all sorts of glowing comments about the quality of the writing and the structure etc. many of these come from British/London artistic directors, none of whom produced it.
I think Brendan Healey and Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is probably the only place with the guts to do it. And it takes guts both from the artistic point of view and from the audience's point of view. It's a play and a production that doesn't let you look away.
7) Does the production realize the play?
Definitely. Brendan Healy takes these difficult plays—be it Blasted by Sarah Kane, or The Maids by Jean Genet or Arigato Tokyo by Daniel MacIvor—and creates productions that are so visually spare and stunning that you are drawn into that world—you can go home at the end, but for the duration of the performance you are compelled.
Healy creates that world of intoxicating danger, attraction, and foreboding but without blood and guts on the wall, or bombarding us with violence. The imagination does all that work.
In the first scene a character comes out from behind the curtain. He is played by Bruce Dow and in this speech alone he is both mesmerizing and shattering. He quietly, elegantly tells us what he believes in—ordinary things at first and then it gets more unsettling as the speech goes on. He says, "I believe in the finesse of a knife."A line that leaves you gasping, it is so elegant, unexpected, beautiful.
Bruce Dow in his focused, understated way is terrifying as a man who thinks the ultimate thrill would be to kill someone.
As Joe, Paul Dunn has that kinetic energy of a young man who is daring, later the poise of man who is older but still seeking the thrill of this dark world.
And as Steve, Knife etc. Blair Williams has that dark, dangerous demeanour that can charm and frighten. He has charmed Joe into that world and keeps him willingly captive until the terrifying ending.
Pig is certainly not for everybody. It's for an audience that likes to be challenged, pushed, unsettled. You will not come out of that play uninvolved. It will divide audiences—those who love it or hate it. But you will be shaken, perhaps even stirred. I thought it was stunning.
Thanks Lynn. That's Lynn Slotkin, our theatre critic and passionate playgoer. You can read Lynn's blog at www.slotkinletter.com
The Foursome plays at the Sterling Studio Theatre, 163 Sterling Road, unit 5 until September 28.
www.sterlingstudiotheatre.com
Pig plays at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre until Oct. 6.
www.buddiesinbadtimes.com


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Poland. First Large 2020 ASF Outbreak Hits Commercial Farm Near German Border
31.03.2020 14:40 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) — Following are selected highlights from a report issued by a U. S. Department of Agriculture attache in The Warsaw (Poland), on March 23, 2020, Poland's CVO announced that the National Veterinary Research Institute in Puławy confirmed a case of ASF on a hog farm with 23,746 pigs. The farm is located in the village Niedoradz, in the Nowa Sol County, in the Lubuskie Province in western Poland. The farm specializes in raising breeding sows and producing piglets. At the time of the ASF outbreak, there were 6,904 sows, 16,037 piglets, 776 weaners, and 29 boars on the farm. Veterinary authorities implemented all procedures to contain and control the outbreak by establishing protected and surveillance zones around the farm and in the immediate area. This marks Poland's first commercial ASF outbreak in 2020. The farm is located in an area already listed in a restricted zone in Poland's regionalization plan, as per Part II of the Annex of the Commission Implementing Decision 2014/709/EU. The Lubuskie Province, which borders Germany, has been restricted under Poland's ASF regionalization plan since November 2019 following ASF detections in wild boars. From November 2019 to date, 146 ASF cases have been confirmed in Nowa Sol County in the Lubuskie Province. Earlier wild boar ASF cases were confirmed at distances of 1.5 to 2.0 kilometers from the affected pig farm. The General Veterinary Inspectorate (GVI) is working to determine to whom and where they were sold. According to the map available on the GVI's website, 1,436 ASF cases in wild boars have been confirmed in Poland since the beginning of 2020. For comparison, in the same period of 2019 there were only 650 cases of the disease. In Germany, Saxon authorities have completed the construction of a 128-kilometer electric fence along the Polish border to protect against ASF, which reportedly cost ˆ250,000. The electric fence is about 30 inches high and also emits odors that wild boars avoid. German and Polish vet authorities maintain close contact to protect against the introduction of ASF into Germany.
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What if the only thing on your bucket list was to literally fill a bucket before you kicked it. Eighty-two year old Etta Vogel is determined to see the water and once again begin dreaming her own dreams before she dies. Through fire and brimstone she of the elder demographic will travel by foot to get there or die knowing she gave it her best effort. Her husband Otto is awakened mid-slumber at the realization of an odd dip in the bed, a vacancy, a coldness on the other side and a Dear Otto note on the kitchen table. After years and years of correspondence he knows the penmanship, he knows it's for him, he knows it's from Etta. He comes to grips, understands and doesn't ask questions. For his own sanity and putting his mind at ease, he knows that she is either headed west to Vancouver or east to Halifax, but he will not go out to find her, she obviously has something important to do and he won't stand in the way of her desires.
Lifetime native of the gently rolling plains and fertile soils of Gopherlands, Saskatchewan, Otto Vogel was born into a large farming family to father Rupert and mother Grace and way too many brothers and sisters to name. Otto is the middle child of seven brothers and six sisters. I say approximately because it seemed that a Vogel child was being delivered or adopted at every turn of the page, but given that during the time of their births the mortality rate of newborns was extremely high, it really wasn't much of a laughing matter. The Vogel matriarch was always round with child and was regarded as some sort of marvel to have been blessed with as many children as she had and not to have her babies visited by the grim reaper like so many of her peers. Unfortunately for Grace as well as other families during the time of this book, the majority of children were forced to enlist in military service and after a brief training period they made their way across the Atlantic. Otto was one of the few young men willing to go.
Russell Palmer was born in Saskatoon and it wasn't until after his father's death that he ended up in Gopherlands. His mother was hired by a firm in Regina and midway through her one-way trip she left Russell with his aunt and uncle. Sick of being alone and being the sole provider of his own entertainment he spent most of his time with the contemporaries that he finds in the Vogel family and specifically Otto. After a tractor accident leaves him lame in one leg he tries his best to keep up with Otto whether it was in scholarly ambitions, enlisting in the military, or winning the hearts of women.
Etta Gloria Kinnick grew up on Deerdale Farm and had one sister Alma. Etta was very close to her sister and when Alma became pregnant at a less than ideal age given the time-period, she made the decision to live in a convent on Prince Edward Island. It was during her time in PEI where Alma experienced the numbers of young men making the cross over the pond to fight in WW2. Alma was alarmed at the age of the boys going over and the condition of the men coming back. During the delivery Alma died of toxemia killing her as well as her child. Etta was heartbroken, and a month later she decided to become a teacher where she would form relationships that would last a lifetime.
While Etta is away Otto is at a loss of what to do with himself. He fills his time writing letters to Etta that he has no address for delivery, baking various recipes that were compassionately left by Etta before she departed, tracking her progress on a globe given to him by her sister Winnie, making a special flax paste concoction to help him sleep better at night as well as making papier-mâché animals that garner some heavy praise from the locals. He was a lot like the guy below.
This book travels through different narratives and different periods of time that makes it a very interesting read by allowing the reader into the hearts and minds of its main characters and their meaning of love. The author reveals a lot about the characters through their acquired wisdom along the way while still maintaining an air of mystery as to their past experiences, current motivations, and how they became connected. Each character is given their time throughout the story which made the execution fully-developed and much appreciated on my end. Some may find it difficult to read with its concise dialogue that is interchangeable between characters and is written without punctuation, but with focus and concentration I am sure you will get accustomed to it. What caused me problems throughout the novel were the blurring of lines between illusions, reflections, projections, dreamscapes and realities. I would recommend this novel to people that enjoy this type of style, and those that have enough patience for the literary prose that you will experience within these pages.
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OVER $14 MILLION LOST TO RWANDA CORRUPTION DEALS IN 12 MONTHS
The perceived graft in Rwanda's public procurement system currently stands at 63.3 percent with 79 percent of state tender bidders revealing they came across corruption requests. About 18 per cent agreed to pay.
A study commissioned by Transparency International Rwanda, released early this September indicates that at least $14.2 million (equal to Rwf14.2 billion) was spent in corruption deals in the last one year in the infrastructure sector alone.
Respondents of the study disclosed that government ministries are the biggest receivers of bribes and the going rate lies between $10,000 (Rwf10 million) and $120,000 (Rwf120 million), depending on the value of the contract.
The study which was carried out in March was looking into the integrity and transparency of the public procurement system in the nation's infrastructure sector.
According to the researchers, public procurement in the infrastructure sector was the most susceptible to corruption, over a lack of transparency and integrity.
"Corruption in procuring infrastructure is unique and numb to anti-corruption laws because it is a win-win situation, nobody reports nor complains," Enock Byiringiro, a researcher at Transparency International Rwanda said.
In the study, some 473 bidders from across Rwanda were surveyed and questioned about integrity, competition, efficiency, and accountability in public procurement.
Some 98 per cent of the respondents said they have offered their bids to the local government and other public entities.
The respondents further revealed that inefficiencies by procuring firms including the changing of contracts after they have already been signed, shortlisting fictitious firms and inaccessible bidding documents risk chances of one giving a bribe to ease the process.
"In most circumstances, the bidders will pay a bribe to ease complex procedures in the procurement systems or to bribe procurement committees in the local government to compromise contacts and competition processes," Papias Kazawadi, a member of the Federation of Engineers in Rwanda said.
Graft in the public procurement system was pointed out by President Paul Kagame in his remarks at a ceremony to commission the 2021/2022 judicial year held at the legislature on September 6.
President Kagame referred to the Transparency International Rwanda report and said there has been pervasive corruption in public tenders, particularly with infrastructure projects. He affirmed that such officers are tainting Rwanda's image.
The most recent Auditor-General's report that was launched in March showed multiple infrastructure projects that were either recalled or overpriced due to procurement flaws.
CORRUPTION IN EAST AFRICA
A 2020 report by Transparency International ranked South Sudan the second most corrupt nation globally, followed by Somalia. Syria was ranked the most corrupt globally.
South Sudan also doubled as the most corrupt country in the East African region, where Rwanda is a member.
The Corruption Perception Index (CPI), ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, drawing on 13 expert assessments and surveys of business executives.
It often uses a scale of 0 to 100, zero being the score for the most corrupt. A score below 50 indicates serious levels of corruption in the public sector.
In the latest global report, Rwanda was ranked the least corrupt in East Africa with 54 points and was followed by Tanzania with 38, Kenya with 31, Uganda 27 and Burundi 19.
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UNITED NATIONS CONCERNED ABOUT U.S. DEPORTATIONS OF HAITIANS
I really thought Rwanda, after the genocide was very stable. This is shocking. Corruption cuts a country by it's limbs. Just as a weed it should be uprooted and burnt