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A Uni Watch Look at the 2022 MLB All-Star Game
Well, that looked pretty awful. At least the players seemed to be enjoying themselves, so there's that. Here are some notes and observations from last night's game:
None of the jerseys had front numbers, which looked ridiculously rinky-dink for the teams that usually have them.
Just like last year, the players wore "AL" and "NL" batting helmets, instead of logos that matched their caps.
Most players wore those awful mesh-backed trucker's caps, but two National Leaguers — Albert Pujols and Clayton Kershaw — wore conventional cloth caps. Why? Because they wear the "21" patch for past Roberto Clemente Award winners, and I guess the patch would've been tougher to adhere to the mesh. (There are several other players wearing the "21" this season, but Pujols and Kershaw are the only ones who made the All-Star roster.)
Two American League pitchers — the Guardians' Emmanuel Clase and the Yankees' Nestor Cortes — wore gloves patterned after their native national flags (the Dominican Republic for Clase and Cuba for Cortes).
I'd been wondering if the Yankees' All-Star representatives would wear NOBs (it wasn't immediately clear from the jersey unveiling last week). Yup, they did. They also wore NOBs last year, of course, but last year's All-Star unis weren't based on the team unis like this year's were, so it seemed more egregious to see the Yanks wearing NOBs this time around.
Astros coach Omar López, who was coaching first base for the American League, wore his regular Astros coaching helmet, rather than a custom-made AL helmet. (This may also have been the case for the game's other coaches, but I didn't notice.) I could only find a rear-view photo of it, but it also had the 'Stros logo on the front.
Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera's jewelry matched his uniform pretty nicely.
Prior to the game, Dodgers outfielder Mookie Betts wore a T-shirt calling for more attendance by Black fans.
Ben Platt, who sang the national anthem, wore a "Choice" button, presumably referring to abortion.
Finally, in the unlikely event that you weren't already convinced of Rob Manfred being unfit to serve as MLB commish, there's this:
If you're bummed about the All-Stars not wearing their actual uniforms again, I asked Rob Manfred about it today. He praised Nike and added: "I never thought that a baseball team wearing different jerseys in a game was a particularly appealing look for us."
— Tyler Kepner (@TylerKepner) July 19, 2022
My god, what a clown he is. He's almost too easy to make fun of. I may have to add that quote to my running list of his uni-related sins.
(My thanks to Joshua Exline, Amy Lively, and Trevor Williams for their contributions.)
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Jake UW+ STAFF says:
Regarding base coaches, I did notice that the NL's first base coach was Eric Young Sr and he was wearing his usual Atlanta helmet instead of the NL helmet. I didn't think to snap a picture of it though. It probably means that they didn't make any AL/NL helmets without ear flaps. It looked especially wonky on Young Sr because he wore the Atlanta home helmet. The blue helmet with a red brim looked considerably worse with the uniform.
As uniform aesthetics decline, I find myself losing interest. This all-star game is a fine example of why I'm becoming apathetic.
Mark Phippard says:
Maybe because last year was so bad, I was OK with them this year. I did not love the away uniforms but the general concept was OK. That said, for me the single best part of the All Star game was always the players wearing their normal uniforms. This was especially true back in the 70's where you did not get to see a lot of the teams except in the All Star game. I do not think I ever saw a National League game until the 80's when TBS came on cable so baseball cards and the all star game, along with the occasional magazine were the only times you saw those uniforms.
Robbie says:
I guess I'm crazy. I really liked them! Thought they looked clean and fresh – the gold seemed appropriate, and I loved the AL/NL batting helmets. It all made sense to me, plus not garish at all.
Growing up, I always wondered why they didn't just wear the batting practice uniforms they wore for the HR Derby. I kind of like the novelty of special uniforms for the All Star game. Now I did not like these that much, but I just don't like baseball pants that are not white or normal grey. Stick with normal pants and make a unique design for the National and American league.
AJ Kane UW+ STAFF says:
That Manfred quote is a real bummer.
dchis says:
Manfred is a real bummer.
Oh yeah, he bums me out every time he says or does anything.
Edward L says:
The one thing he said that didn't completely bum me out was that he was "hoping" to get rid of tv blackouts.
Eltee of DC UW+ STAFF says:
Manfred is a hired hand whose job is to promote the official party line of the owners. If you are an owner, your goal is to maximize each and every revenue stream. Nothing more.
To do that they have colluded to keep diversity out of ownership (1 black owner in all of pro ball), management, unequal pay for women, and to this day still promote a non living wage for minor leaguers. Major changes in baseball only come from the outside, pressure by congress in removing the antitrust exemption is a start. IMHO
This comment makes no sense. None of the things you mentioned have anything to do with revenue, and only one has anything to do with money at all. How would the race of the other owners or management at all affect their bottom line? Unequal pay for women has no affect on top line revenue and if it affected their bottom line, it just doesn't make sense. If anything, they would prefer to pay men less because so many more of them are employed. It makes no sense for them from a bottom line perspective to pay the smallest group of their employees less. The only thing that somewhat makes sense is the minor leaguer pay thing, but you seem to be forgetting the 7 month vacation they get every year.
How does " keep diversity out of ownership" promote more revenue for owners? Curious how you measure that. One would think having a more diverse ownership group would increase revenues for owners by helping them tap into new markets. Or are you suggesting that diverse ownership would for some reason be more egalitarian and fight against the greed motives of the existing owners?
I'd also suggest the wage issue for minor leaguers is a responsibility that falls on the collective bargaining of the major leaguers far more than the owners. It is a market system, minor leaguers show a willingness to play for peanuts and sacrifice for the opportunity to one day play in the majors, cash the big checks, and get paid big money to play a game they love. I'd suggest the pay issue for minor leaguers is no different than for any actor or small band that is trying to make it big. They also are getting paid peanuts and willing decide to continue in that line of work to reach their dreams. If the minor league pay issue is such a problem then the major leaguers (some of whom should have gone through it) would be advocating strongly to direct revenue into minor league salaries.
triumph UW+ STAFF says:
I thought it was interesting that despite the team logos on the front, all the NOBs and numbers were rendered in the same standard block font.
GH says:
And the Toronto wordmark without the division through the letters just looked wrong, making their uni even worse (if that's possible).
Shayne M says:
I actually loved the Uniforms. I know it isn't a popular opinion but I think any gimmick that can help people discover the love of baseball that I have I think is great.
Sure — but I think having the players wear their regular uniforms is a better gimmick to help people discover that!
John H. says:
Do you really think that the all-star game uniforms are going to help someone discover a love for baseball? All MLB has done in the Selig and Manfred eras is turn fans off of the game.
The only thing I like about the special All-Star uniforms is the thought that "I can do better."
A few counterpoints to Paul's analysis:
I think the lack of front numbers actually showed how cluttered they make most uniforms look. Aside from maybe the Reds numbers which sort of balance out their logo on the other side of the chest, most front numbers detract from the symmetry and balance of the wordmarks across the chest.
And while I loathe Manfred as much as the next baseball fan, and did enjoy the players wearing their own team uniforms in the all star game, I'd say it is really a personal preference thing. I'm not against all star game specific uniforms per say, especially as the nature of the game has changed with interleague play and national coverage making baseball uniform watching less regionally specific for fans. Perhaps because the uniforms thus far have been so bad it is easy to say all star game specific uniforms are a bad idea, but I don't think the concept itself is automatically awful. The uni watch concept showed there are various ways you can make enjoyable and good looking all star uniforms.
Jeff Stark says:
I understand that the Angels don't wear "Los Angeles" or "Anaheim" on their away jerseys. But, it just didn't seem right that the other 14 teams had their "city" names and the Angels did not. Surely Nike could have come up with something…….
Actually, the Rays didn't have their city name either.
The Maskless Goalie says:
The league logos on the helmets would have been more appealing if they used the old logos from the umpire caps, the versions with the intersecting letters.
What's up with the weird film on the batting helmets? It's more visible on the AL one. Excess adhesive? Looks pretty shoddy.
Pretty cool infinite recursion on the Cabrera pic. You can't really see it, but it's there.
Jason Reed says:
Nice catch! Totally missed that.
BvK UW+ STAFF says:
I did not watch a second of the All-Star Game. My first look at the uniforms on the field is from the photos here at Uni Watch. Based on those, I do not regret my decision.
I noticed the film/adhesive on the batting helmets early on in the game and couldn't stop seeing it for every batter. Some helmets were OK, some were terrible, almost looking like the equipment team realized that morning that they forgot to put the stickers on. At first I thought it was supposed to look like celluloid as a retro Hollywood gimmick, but as the game wore on, it looked more and more like shoddy workmanship.
On balance, trying to look at it as dispassionately as I can, the charcoal unis worked better than the whites, only because there is better contrast between gold and dark gray. But, as the uni design contest showed, we all know the AL is red and the NL is blue-are those colors not in the Swoosh's fairy tale book?
It's obvious Manfred is trying to get more fans into the game, but he is pissing off traditionalists, which I guess in his mind is "short term loss, long term gain."
The thing is, the loss is definite, while the gain is speculative at best. Did these uniforms really convert any non-fans into baseball fans? I have my doubts.
I never accused him of being a genius, unless we are counting Wile E. Coyote as a Mensa member.
"The thing is, the loss is definite, while the gain is speculative at best."
Oh this is great Paul. I am going to have to cite that in my grumpy old man discussions about various changes to sports. As usual your skill as a writer shows in being able to articulate things so simply.
Jon over at mbtn says:
I'm going to push back on you a little on this one, Paul, and not because I take Rob Manfred's side, but because I'm facsinated by the question: Is the loss permanent? And if so, what does "permanent loss" look like?
I think you are going to say that team identity as the gateway drug to baseball has been damaged by all this, but we know baseball is a cartel, so teams must know and agree that that idea is not as relevant to them anymore. So are they wrong about this?
It occurred to me this may have been the 50th all-star game in my fan lifetime. And back then, seeing the ballplayers playing ball in their own unis on television was a revelation and a fascinating thing, because happened so infrequently and was a once-a-year thing. For me personally, it joined with, and amplified, another origin of my fascination: it brought baseball cards to life, and often the guys on them with round-numbers in the series and for 1 night they were teammates, but I was still rooting most for the one wearing blue and orange.
Today, any kid with an interest in baseball can discover every detail of every uni, and see them in action on a field, and know what look is worn when, and understand why they do it any time they want. Everything is more transparent. Also why baseball cards are less relevant, i think. The only thing kids *don't* already see in the All-Star Game that were among the many revelations for me, is "what would it be like, if Ohtani and Stanton were teammates," (and I think they actually can in video games but whatever). Special unis can amplify that. MLB seems convinced –and its clubs are therefore behind– that Ohtani or Stanton are what young fans come to see, over signaling "what we want to show you is the Angels and the Yankees."
If that one day leads to a break up of the cartel, bring it on, otherwise what?
Ps– Super website redesign btw, often I found I had had much to say, but couldn't say it.
I enjoyed the clean look without front numbers (Cardinals). No head spoons, especially the Giants but why was the Blue Jay missing from the Toronto jerseys?
More importantly, why didn't they use the Blue Jays' distinctive split lettering?
The AL players looked awful when high cuffed. Gold socks would have been amazing.
Greg Gleine says:
I knew going in that I would not like what I was going to see…growing up and before inter-league play , All-Star Games always gave me a glimpse of potential World Series match-ups (a kid could only dream of seeing what – Dodgers vs Indians or Pirates vs Angels WS might look like). But yesterday's abomination was even worse than I could imagine. The clincher: seeing the players who play for teams with truly timeless, classic unis wearing that garbage yesterday. BOOOOOOOOO, MLB!!!
Anyone else think the single star on the caps and helmets looked like an asterisk? I kept looking at the bottom of my TV screen for the footnote.
If you do it next year, put one star on each side of the logo; it's not that hard!
Trey Gorman says:
Looking at Manfred's uni sins, why have you not added that he's allowed ads on the batting helmets/jerseys? Or have you and I just missed it.
The uni ads for non-USA games are included. Haven't yet added the ads that will start appearing this fall and next year because, you know, they won't start appearing until this fall and next year! I'll add them to the list then.
I noticed that the star patch on one sleeve had the number of all star nominations inside for each player, for instance Albert Pujols had the number 11. one of the few pros of the uniform
Dustin says:
One ASG thing I found interesting is the Cubs uni logo. On their pinstriped uniforms, the logo incorporates the logo registration (circled R) on the images I saw, but it wasn't present on the batter's uniform I saw for them last night.
Fran Fried says:
I watched some of the game from the gym last night, and I kept having to squint and say "Who the hell is that?" because, unlike All-Star games in the old days, I couldn't tell who was up by looking at the unis. (And yes — trucker hats???)
Every time Manfred opens his mouth, it becomes even more apparent that he's no fan of the sport. He's simply the corporate efficiency expert from a B-movie — say, oddly enough, Paul Giamatti in "Fred Claus" — trying to stamp cookie-cutter "innovations" onto a cherished tradition. But forget the All-Star uni fiascos or the butchering of the minor leagues; two words already have cemented his legacy: ghost runner.
Kevin Spacey was the efficiency expert. Giamatti was Santa.
And, yes, I like the movie.
Grant Maurer says:
Of course Manfred's uni comments are idiotic but in his infinite stupidity he managed to overshadow it by saying that Minor Leaguers are paid a livable wage when they average like $15k annual salary and are not paid for mandatory off-season activities.
RJM says:
One of my favorite parts of the All-Game Game was the player introductions and seeing everyone lined up together in their respective uniforms, representing their teams and cities. No more. After seeing the players in those softball-league clown suits last nights, I didn't even watch the game.
Marcus from Baltimore UW+ STAFF says:
I don't think I would have minded the ASG unis if they had the numbers on front for the teams that have them. I would have also preferred powder blues with gold for the American League teams to remind us of the satin blues of the 1940s.
James B. UW+ STAFF says:
I had this thought yesterday watching the game. I wonder what the players think of wearing special uniforms for the ASG? When I was in Little League, making the All-Star team was awesome because we were on the team, but also because we got special All-Star uniforms. Obviously, I was a kid and not an adult, but I wonder if wearing special All-Star uniforms is more fun for the players in the same way it was more fun when we were kids.
Another thought I had is, if you make the All-Star team it could be cool to have different jerseys to hold onto as a keepsake or a sort of trophy to look back on after your career. I still think the uniforms the last two years have been pretty awful and any of the unis submitted in the re-design contest would have been a major upgrade, but that thought made me slightly more sympathetic to having special All-Star uniforms, that is, if the players do actually care.
I'm sure a lot of it is supporting the cause (the cause of course being $$$), but it does seem as if players actually like the outrageous costumes they are required to wear.
Or at least the ones that don't keep their mouths shut about it (except Chris Sale of course).
Ted M says:
Manfred has contractually tied MLB to Nike. Nike is in charge and their target demographic is 13-30. I suspect that group loves the uniforms. I suspect the only ways to get MLB to return to the old ASG uniform format is to A) stop watching the game and B) stop buying the crappy merchandise. Hurt them in their pocketbooks.
Surly Duff says:
AL third base coach Gary Pettis also wore his normal Astros helmet on field.
Guess they didn't want to spring for custom AL/NL flap-less helmets.
As an umpire, I was disappointed that the Third Team didn't get special costumes to wear, also.
Brett Alan says:
It's just ludicrous that there was an All-Star Game in Dodger Stadium for the first time in over 40 years, and the Dodger players didn't have the red front numbers.
If they're going do special All-Star uniforms, it just makes so much more sense to use more of the regular uniform elements, just customized to the "All-Star" idea. In this case, fine, make it all gold, but keep the distinct elements: the Dodgers' red front numbers, the Jays' split lettering, pinstripes, sleeve striping, and so on. I understand that merchandising is driving this, but, what, do they think a Dodger fan is thinking "Maybe I'll get the Kershaw All-Star jersey…no, wait, it's got the 22 on the front, can't have that!"? Because I think it would sell better with the number there. Seems like a compromise that would work for everyone. (I mean, for traditionalists, it would be better than what they had, and for those who want the uniforms to be "special", it still works.)
Brice Wallace says:
Even though it's in the lead photo, there was no mention of the tiger-striped glove used by the Detroit pitcher. Straight from a Cincinnati Bengals helmet. Not sure if I like it or not, but it certainly was distinctive.
At least those who showed socks all wore the same socks.
Jasper says:
It's all subjective, of course, but it seems to me that if you're going to review a game like this and start with the opinion that there was no way you were going to like the uniforms before they were even unveiled, it sort of taints the entire review.
It would be like somebody for a music publication saying "I knew before I even listened to this album that I wasn't going to like it…"
Actually, it's not like that at all.
They released the uniform designs last week. I didn't like them and explained why. If I had said last week, "I knew I'd hate these before I saw them," *then* you'd be making a proper analogy. But going into last night's game, I had indeed "listened to the album," so to speak — I'd seen the uniforms when they were released the week before. I didn't like them last week and still didn't like them last night.
But if you prefer to think my work is "taint[ed]," be my guest. That's up to you.
Mark S says:
Paul has never made any secret of the fact that he's at the knee-jerk traditionalist end of the spectrum. You don't have to agree with him, but nobody who's read his work could possibly imagine he would ever like these uniforms. Personally I prefer a critic who's upfront about their preferences.
Actually, I am neither kneejerk nor a traditionalist. As I have always said, I am a *classicist.*
A traditionalist says, "Don't change anything because I hate change."
A classicist says, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it. But if it *is* broke, let's try to improve it."
Big difference.
Jimbo Baldwin says:
The tradition of each team's uniform being represented at the ASG is *truly* a visual treat that no other sport can offer. It means something to a player's fans, city, state, etc to see their uniform out there, representing them….Manfred's comment is out of pure ignorance "out-of-touchness' and greed. F#^K him.
The NL unis weren't bad, but the AL unis were awful. They're WAY too dark. Why couldn't they have just made it the standard grey that most teams wear? Would've looked much better.
NL? AL? I thought this was a Vanderbilt intersquad scrimmage.
Steve Tilders UW+ STAFF says:
One thing I noticed and maybe someone has already commented that in the commercials promoting the game, the players were in their regular uniforms with regular hats WITH the little star on it. If so, I wonder if the ASG team gets to wear that badge of honor for the rest of the year? Like when I was an All Star in 1966 in little league- they gave us iron on stars to wear for the rest of the season on our caps.
Zac Neubauer says:
Even as someone who is a pretty big baseball fan, I found myself a few times wondering what team a player was representing, especially while they were at bat. Considering how much MLB has pushed to end the NL and AL distinction you'd think they'd want to celebrate the teams the players are representing rather than what league they are part of. And even as someone who didn't think the uniforms were that bad (much better than last year) the uniform-ity of the game takes away from having multiple players representing the same team. I think at one point the announcers mentioned that the left side of the NL infield were Braves, but you couldn't tell just by looking at the player on the infield.
Matt La Fon says:
Absolutely brutal comment by Rob Manfred. I grew up in the 70s and 80s and seeing the different colors on the uniforms was really cool to look at. Especially when those colors being brighter than in later years. The colors with those uniforms went on to be darker, starting in the 90s. Maybe teams need to stop adding black or dark colors to their primary or alternate uniforms? Maybe it would make it more appealing to look at?
Rydell says:
I watched most of the game last night, it was a good different kind of game to watch. A few of the players from my team were part of the wired for sound that the network was providing, very cool.
What wasn't cool (actually looked very hot) were the dark uniforms, my goodness you'd think that the players were roasting out there in the southern heat.
Rick UW+ STAFF says:
Didn't like the All-Star game unis. Do like the new website.
Ingmar says:
The Mookie Betts t-shirt tells us a lot about the declining appeal of the game, not only to Black audiences. This sport is struggling to stay relevant and the addition of uniform ads, the rise in admission prices, the slashing of funding youth baseball programs, a commish who clearly loathes the game and its fans on behalf of greedy and disinterested owners who exploit minor league players with fewer opportunities because of terminating teams across the country plus the demands from TV networks and advertisers to make the game faster and more appealing to (young) people with a very short attention span will eventually doom the Beautiful Game. Baseball is on a selfdestructive course right now. People will lose interest in it very quickly in the years to come. A solution? Might be too late for that.
Chris Diamond UW+ STAFF says:
I really hated last year's unis, but this year's are better in my view. They did at least have the elements of a baseball uniform and a design concept, even if it was inconsistently executed – Miami had "Marlins" on their home jersey, but the LA Angels did have "Los Angeles" on their road jersey. I suspect because the former just involved copying what the Marlins have on their Alt jersey and the Angels one would have required someone to actually design an appropriate style "Los Angeles" – heaven forbid that!
I think this whole thing stems from the problem of thinking you need to change things to appeal to kids who haven't formed adult tastes yet so are attracted to brash, bright and shiny. Instead of letting kids get in to baseball because it's traditional with all the design styles and quirks that go with that.
The problem with changing things to appeal to kids is that it also puts off adults and once those kids have grown up and developed adult tastes too are they going to stick with the kids-stuff MLB look? Hmmm….
How do you really feel about the commish? Don't hold back now.
Greggo says:
I think there's some middle ground to be had between unifying the team look and also still being unique to each player's team.
Suggestion (using this year's gold them as example)-
Keep the gold, but each player's team color as the accent.
So Dodger players in blue and gold, Cardinals in red and gold, Rockies in purple and gold, maybe some secondary accents for some teams like the Rays (sky blue) and Orioles (orange) and Mariners (teal).

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'Revolutionary Patience', however, reveals yet another facet of Soelle as both person and writer. With disarming simplicity, the prayer-poems in this book reflect the author's own deep Christianity as she attempts to make sense, in the light of the Gospel, of a world brutally scarred by oppression, filled with cries of the hungry and the hunted.
These poems are also prayers, of a kind rarely heard in our churches, but disturbingly evocative of Amos, Isaiah, and Jesus. These pages offer stones, not bread, for any who might open them looking for "spiritual" comfort or consolation. Yet, for those with ears to hear, 'Revolutionary Patience' will also be a treasured experience as Dorothee Soelle's lines sing and sting their way into the reader's mind and heart.
Dorothee Soelle is one of the most widely read theologians of our time. She was Professor of Theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York City from 1975 to 1987. Among her numerous publications are 'Suffering' (1975), and her magnum opus, 'The Silent Cry', which joins deep religious knowledge and wisdom with passion for social justice in a work destined to be a classic of religious literature.


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Q: Bad credentials from Astra DB connect Currently I am learning about Astra DB from this youtube link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyDT3KkscSk&t=2439s
I manage to download the connection.zip file from Astra DB and generated admin token keys. But when I try to do connection such as:
   from app.crud import create_entry

I will get this error:
raise NoHostAvailable("Unable to connect to any servers", errors)
cassandra.cluster.NoHostAvailable: ('Unable to connect to any servers', {'98db9cb2-907a-4f9d-a935-69b69fb2157f-asia-south1.db.astra.datastax.com:29042:611a8370-f129-4099-84e2-c3b2f426ebdc': AuthenticationFailed('Failed to authenticate to 98db9cb2-907a-4f9d-a935-69b69fb2157f-asia-south1.db.astra.datastax.com:29042:611a8370-f129-4099-84e2-c3b2f426ebdc: Error from server: code=0100 [Bad credentials] message="We recently improved your database security. To find out more and reconnect, see https://docs.datastax.com/en/astra/docs/manage-application-tokens.html"'), '98db9cb2-907a-4f9d-a935-69b69fb2157f-asia-south1.db.astra.datastax.com:29042:040ab116-8c77-4eb4-a357-c9bdcbb637d4': AuthenticationFailed('Failed to authenticate to 98db9cb2-907a-4f9d-a935-69b69fb2157f-asia-south1.db.astra.datastax.com:29042:040ab116-8c77-4eb4-a357-c9bdcbb637d4: Error from server: code=0100 [Bad credentials] message="We recently improved your database security. To find out more and reconnect, see https://docs.datastax.com/en/astra/docs/manage-application-tokens.html"'), '98db9cb2-907a-4f9d-a935-69b69fb2157f-asia-south1.db.astra.datastax.com:29042:536e6e99-ef4e-47d0-9308-b0c6cdf4aa37': AuthenticationFailed('Failed to authenticate to 98db9cb2-907a-4f9d-a935-69b69fb2157f-asia-south1.db.astra.datastax.com:29042:536e6e99-ef4e-47d0-9308-b0c6cdf4aa37: Error from server: code=0100 [Bad credentials] message="We recently improved your database security. To find out more and reconnect, see https://docs.datastax.com/en/astra/docs/manage-application-tokens.html"')})

Here is my db.py:
import os
import pathlib
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from cassandra.cluster import Cluster
from cassandra.auth import PlainTextAuthProvider
from cassandra.cqlengine.connection import register_connection, set_default_connection

BASE_DIR = pathlib.Path(__file__).parent
CLUSTER_BUNDLE = BASE_DIR / 'ignored'/ 'connect.zip'

load_dotenv()

astra_db_client_id = os.environ.get('ASTRA_DB_CLIENT_ID')
astra_db_client_secret = os.environ.get('ASTRA_DB_CLIENT_SECRET')

def get_cluster():
    cloud_config= {
            'secure_connect_bundle': CLUSTER_BUNDLE
    }
    auth_provider = PlainTextAuthProvider(astra_db_client_id, astra_db_client_secret)
    cluster = Cluster(cloud=cloud_config, auth_provider=auth_provider, control_connection_timeout=30,
connect_timeout=30)
    return cluster

def get_session():
    cluster = get_cluster()
    session = cluster.connect()
    register_connection(str(session), session=session)
    set_default_connection(str(session))
    return session

# session = get_session()
# row = session.execute("select release_version from system.local").one()
# if row:
#     print(row[0])
# else:
#     print("An error occurred.")

I tried to recreate the token key many times and re download the drivers as well but I still have no luck in passing the bad credential errors here:
my crud.py
from .db import get_session
from .models import Product
from cassandra.cqlengine.management import sync_table

session = get_session()
sync_table(Product)

def create_entry(data:dict):
    return Product.create(**data)

models.py
from cassandra.cqlengine import columns
from cassandra.cqlengine.models import Model

class Product(Model): # -> table
    __keyspace__ = "testing" #
    asin = columns.Text(primary_key=True, required=True)
    title = columns.Text()

A: You might want to take a look at this
https://docs.datastax.com/en/astra/docs/docs/using-the-datastax-python-driver-to-connect-to-your-database.html
Specifically the section here:
from cassandra.cluster import Cluster
from cassandra.auth import PlainTextAuthProvider

cloud_config= {
        'secure_connect_bundle': '/path/to/secure-connect-database_name.zip'
}
auth_provider = PlainTextAuthProvider('username', 'password')
cluster = Cluster(cloud=cloud_config, auth_provider=auth_provider)
session = cluster.connect()

When creating the connection you'll want to pass the secure connect bundle zip. You'll then provide the clientId and clientSecret as the username and password from the connections file you downloaded.

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After This Weird NBA Season, We Have A Better Idea Of How Much Fans Matter
Jul. 6, 2021 , at 6:00 AM
By Scott Ganz
Filed under NBA
Phoenix Suns fans have filled the stands during their playoff run.
Christian Petersen / Getty Images
When NBA teams began reopening their stadiums to fans this winter and spring, players and coaches identified the crowd's energy as the missing ingredient from empty arenas. From December to May, every team except for the Oklahoma City Thunder gradually permitted fans to return at limited capacity, but each team's timing differed. As a result, some teams continued to play at home to an empty arena, while on the road they faced rivals with fans in the stands.
Players felt it. According to All-NBA guard Damian Lillard, an empty home arena was the reason for the Portland Trail Blazers' mediocre performance at home:
"We come in these other buildings and just having that fan energy, that real energy in the building, it feels like a competitive NBA game when the crowd is there. It's fun. It feels normal. It's how the game is supposed to be played. Then we come home and it's an empty, dead building. It's a noticeable difference. You can feel it."
Lillard's Portland Trail Blazers were among the last teams to permit fans to return when they welcomed 1,939 fans back into the Moda Center on May 7 for their game against the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers. The two teams were tied for sixth in the Western Conference with six games to play. The game's winner would take the season series and own the tiebreaker if the teams finished the season with the same record. Up until that game, the Trail Blazers were just 16-16 at home compared with 21-13 on the road.
The Trail Blazers beat the Lakers 106-101 and went on to win four of their five remaining games, including all three games in their home arena. And it turned out that they needed every single win, because the Lakers finished the regular season with a five-game winning streak. As a result of that May 7 home win, the Trail Blazers finished with the sixth seed, forcing the Lakers into the play-in tournament. "When they told us it was going to be 10 percent (capacity) I was like, I don't know how much of a difference it's going to make [in] such a huge building," Lillard reflected after playing his first game in front of a home crowd. "But … as soon as we came out to warm up and the fans, you could feel how excited they were to be there. … It was a major, major difference."
The Trail Blazers were representative of a leaguewide trend in which fans in the stands created a stronger home-court advantage. In 440 games played in empty arenas during the regular season, the home team won by 0.39 points on average — an advantage that is not statistically distinguishable from no home-court advantage at all. In 507 games with fans present, the average home-court advantage increased to 2.13 points, which is both significantly different from zero and very much in line with the 2.55-point home-court advantage observed in the prior six seasons.
For social scientists interested in explaining why home teams tend to outperform away teams, the 2020-21 regular season was an ideal setting to explore how the presence of home fans affects professional athletes. Social psychologists refer to this phenomenon as emotional contagion: the tendency to catch the feelings of others. When our peers become joyful, angry or anxious, our emotional state changes in response. Stronger emotions in our environment tend to elicit stronger emotional responses. Professional athletes are in this respect just like the rest of us. When surrounded by a sea of excited supporters, NBA players respond with greater energy on the court, leading to better results for the home team.
While this might seem like an obvious explanation for why teams tend to perform better at home, the mechanism is tricky to study empirically. Because better teams tend to attract more fans, it is nearly impossible to measure the impact of fan attendance on performance except in settings where attendance is artificially restricted. This is a statistical problem called endogeneity. In a model that uses fan attendance to predict home-court advantage, the analyst must always be concerned that teams that are more likely to win also draw more fans.
But the 2020-21 NBA regular season was a rare case when this statistical problem could be circumvented. And because arenas reopened at different times and at different capacities, we can make apples-to-apples statistical comparisons between teams playing in arenas with fans versus teams playing in empty arenas.
In order to test the hypothesis that fans produce home-court advantage, my co-author Kieran Allsop and I collected data from Basketball-Reference.com for all of the games played during the 2020-21 regular season. Our measure of home-court advantage is the difference between the number of points scored by the home team and number of points scored by the away team.1 We compiled data on game attendance from a number of sources in order to account for potential discrepancies in reporting. Specifically, we cross-checked figures from Basketball-Reference.com with attendance reported in the NBA official game summaries and local news reports. This led us to exclude all home games for the Indiana Pacers, Miami Heat and Sacramento Kings, which continued to report zero attendance even after their arenas reopened. We also found 25 games for which the game summaries reported zero fans despite photographic, video or other documentary evidence that fans were present. These games were taken into account in the season's overall average margin, but not in either fan-dependent calculation.
In addition to comparing the average point margin for the home team with and without fans, we estimated a linear regression model to predict the marginal impact of the number of fans on home-court advantage. The model includes controls for the home team, the away team, the home team's point margin in their most recent home game and the month in which the game took place. The model also takes into account the potential for endogeneity by using the maximum allowable attendance in the home arena as an instrument for the actual attendance at each game.2
The results of the instrumental variables regression model support the claim that the fans in the stands have a large impact on home-court advantage. According to the model, every additional 1,000 fans above zero predicts a 1.4-point increase in the home team's margin of victory, an effect that is statistically significant.3
The setting also makes it hard to come up with alternative explanations for the observed effect. An away team had to travel just as far with and without fans in the arenas. And it's hard to imagine that arenas with a few thousand cheering fans are interfering with a visiting team's on-court strategy and communication as much as an arena packed with 20,000 screaming fans might. Justifications for home-court advantage that emphasize how home fans bias the judgment of referees in favor of the home team similarly seem more credible in games with full stands and deafening noise than in games in which attendance is limited to a small percentage of total capacity. Further, when we examine the same instrumental variables regression models described above, but replace the point margin with the difference in the number of fouls called, each additional thousand fans has a minuscule and statistically insignificant effect.
Just how important are the fans to home-court advantage? A thought experiment can help put the impact into context. On average, a home team with fans beat its opponent by 1.74 more points than a home team without fans during the 2020-21 regular season. According to FiveThirtyEight's RAPTOR plus-minus rating, New York Knicks guard RJ Barrett was more-or-less an average NBA player this season.4 Imagine that the following offer was made to the Knicks front office before their last home game of the season against Boston, a game they needed to win to secure home-court advantage in the first round of the playoffs: You can replace Barrett with All-Star guard Zach LaVine of the Chicago Bulls, but in exchange, you must play in an empty Madison Square Garden. Given that the Knicks had played 40 percent of their home games to that point without fans, they might be tempted to add the All-Star. But according to the data, the Knicks would be better off rejecting the deal.
What if, instead, the Knicks could choose to play in Boston's TD Garden in front of Celtics fans and, in exchange, play All-NBA guard Luka Dončić of the Dallas Mavericks instead of Barrett? Same answer. Rather than giving their 2.13-point home-court advantage to the Celtics, the Knicks should stick with Barrett and their home fans.
Does the effect of fans on home-court advantage carry over into the playoffs? It is hard to say. Conclusions drawn from empty and near-empty arenas during the 2020-21 regular season may not apply to sold-out arenas in pressure-packed playoff series. However, despite home teams winning just 16 of their first 32 games in this year's playoffs, they have gone 27-21 since. Through the first 80 games of the postseason, the average home margin has been 2.93 points, which is within 2 points of the average home margins in eight of the past 10 non-bubble playoffs.
In short, the 2020-21 regular season proved what any passionate fan already knows: The fans matter. A lot. Players on the court feed off the energy of the crowd. If Game 7 of the NBA Finals ends up being won by the home team by just a point or two, we cannot definitively conclude that the fans in the stands made the difference. But we can say with confidence that they did their part in bringing their hometown team the 2020-21 NBA championship.
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For the purposes of this analysis, we treated the Toronto Raptors' games at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida, as home games since, due to Canadian COVID-19 restrictions, the team elected to relocate its 2020-21 "home" games to that stadium.
The logic behind instrumental variables regression is as follows: If a researcher is concerned that there is an unobservable omitted variable — for example, the expected performance of the home team — that could generate a spurious correlation between an endogenous independent variable (home game attendance) and a dependent variable (the home team's point margin), the researcher must identify a different exogenous variable that is correlated with the endogenous independent variable and uncorrelated with the omitted variable. This variable is called an instrument. The instrumental variables regression model uses the fact that the exogenous variable is uncorrelated with the omitted variable to produce an unbiased estimate of the impact of the endogenous independent variable on the dependent variable. In our case, the fact that the maximum allowable capacity at arenas during the 2020-21 season was strongly correlated with the actual number of fans in attendance, but attendance caps were unrelated to the expected performance of the home team in any individual game, makes it a good instrument to use in our model.
At the 0.05 level.
His regular-season RAPTOR was -0.02, while his full-season mark was a league-average 0.0.
Scott Ganz is a research fellow in economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and a visiting assistant professor at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. @scganz
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Dinghies Racing Race Reports
Race Report for Late Trophy 3 & 4
(Published in the Chichester Observer on Thursday 20th August 2015)
For the third race in the Dell Quay SC Late Trophy series the wind was light and very variable. Race Officer Chris West set a course around Crouchers, Bowling, Marina and Quay marks to make the best of the conditions.
In the Solo class race Richard Ede made a good start but was soon overtaken by Malcolm Buchanan to leeward and John Purdy to Windward. Purdy was first to Crouchers, followed by Buchanan.
The fleet spread over a wide area on the way to Bowling, trying to find where the wind pockets were hiding. During that period, which seemed to take forever, Richard Bridgmont moved up to third place, whilst Ede drifted back to last place. A sea breeze was trying to come in, but failed to do so, resulting in a very variable wind direction. By this time Purdy had established a very long lead over the rest of the fleet.
When Marina was eventually reached, Buchanan was still in second place, with Ede now third, having found some wind, and Bridgmont fourth. There was much place changing throughout the fleet, as one boat could pick up a little breeze that others did not.
At the finish Purdy came in first with a huge lead of many minutes, Buchanan second and Ede close behind in third, leaving Bridgmont fourth. The rest of the boats straggled in over a long period, with one boat failing to finish at all. For all classes the second race was abandoned due to the lack of wind.
The 2000 class race was the first and so far only race of the series. First place was taken by Mike Fitzgerald and Tim Dormer with Anne and Jim Norfolk coming in second.
In the Handicap class race the fleet struggled to make any headway in the light wind, forcing three boats to abandon the race. Andrew Buchanan (Finn) came in first on handicap, with Peter King and Jamie Prescott (RS400) second and Mike Dicker/Dom White (Fireball) third.
Races 5 and 6 in the series start at 10:15 am on Sunday 27th September.
Solo Report by Richard Ede
Report compiled by Andrew Horne


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Review: An Iron Rose, by Peter Temple
Hard-boiled thriller with an Australian accent
An Iron Rose, by Peter Temple
Review published in the Sunday Business Post, May 27, 2007 – Reviewed by Alex Meehan
It's not often you come across a detective novel set in Melbourne, and rarer still that it's quite so good as Peter Temple's An Iron Rose. When MacArthur John Faraday's best friend Ned is found hanged, the police and surrounding community make the reasonable assumption he committed suicide. But ex-cop turned blacksmith Faraday is far from convinced, and nagging doubts make him think all is not as it seems, and if it wasn't suicide, then it must have been murder.
Faraday has thrown in his big city ways, moved to the country and opened a forge. He sinks pints in the local pub, chats to the locals and even togs out for the local footie team, but leaving behind his dark and violent past as a detective senior sergeant in the Australian Federal Police is not as easy as all that.
Clearing out Ned's house after the funeral, Faraday discovers press clippings from the 1980s about the skeleton of a girl found down an abandoned mine shaft. Why is Ned concerned and what drew him to repeatedly visit the Kinross Hall detention centre for juvenile girls?
Is it possible that Ned himself may have been responsible for string of killings of teenage girls? As Faraday progresses through his investigation, more murders occur, this time to people he's interviewed. The story heats up as Faraday sets out to find the truth and draws sinister forces down on himself in the process.
An Iron Rose is a stylish thriller written in the first person and chock full of local Australian colour. The characters speak in gruff, truncated sentences and are fond of black humour – they play out their roles in a harsh environment with a worldly sense of irreverence. This is an accomplished novel from a writer who is a name to be reckoned with in his home country.
A heavyweight crime writer, Peter Temple is an ex-journalist who occupies an Ian Rankinesque position in the Australian fiction charts. He is best known for his series of detective novels featuring disgraced lawyer and gambling addict Jack Irish and has won a record five Ned Kelly awards for excellence in Australian crime writing.
An Iron Rose is a time-out for him, a standalone crime thriller separate from the franchise that has made him a household name down under. Temple's success is based on the simple premise that Australia has its own people, vernacular language, culture and personality, so why shouldn't that be reflected in its fiction? Iron Rose features well drawn characters in atypical settings that challenge the genre well.
Interestingly, this book was first published in 1998, but is only now available in this part of the world. Despite the size of the Australian market, it has been historically difficult for successful authors to break out and find audiences in Europe and the US.
Publishers have apparently felt that Australian slang and culture would be too difficult for audiences used to US and British-based detectives to take to heart. Based on An Iron Rose, that may soon be a myth exploded. Just in time for the summer season, this is an ideal beach or poolside read – it's engaging, entertaining and interesting without requiring too much from the reader.
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Iraq says suicide bomber kills 7 in northern Baghdad park
By , MURTADA FARAJ
Iraqi security officials say a suicide bomber has blown himself up at a Baghdad park packed with families, killing at least seven people, including a policeman.
They say police and emergency workers intercepted the bomber as he entered the park in Shoala, a mainly Shiite district in northern Baghdad, but he managed to set off his bomb before being caught.
At least 16 people were wounded in the attack late Wednesday. It was the first attack in Baghdad since the May 17 start of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing, which bore the hallmarks of the Islamic State extremist group.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/iraq-says-suicide-bomber-kills-7-in-northern-baghdad-park


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Bob Dylan performing onstage in 1980 during his US Gospel Tour
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Whip together all ingredients until creamy (about 10 minutes with an electric mixer). How's that for easy!
Makes almost a cup and a half.
I recommend using an electric mixer. It takes a lot longer if you do it by hand. This is the recipe most donut shops use because it's so inexpensive.
Mr Breakfast would like to thank Jazzbo for this recipe.
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Posted by Branimir on 26. May 2016 in Blog / Journal, Conservation | Comments Off on Grasslands on Canada's top 10 endangered places list
The National Trust for Canada (NTC) has released today its latest Top 10 Endangered Places at Risk. NTC is a national charity that leads action to save historic places of cultural and natural significance. The organization's goal is to inspire Canadians to identify and celebrate their heritage landmarks, cultural landscapes and communities, and conserve them for present and future generations.
Two prairie landmarks made the top 10 list: Saskatchewan's grasslands and wooden grain elevators. These places that define identity, community spirit and a sense of belonging are slowly eroding due to neglect, shift in economics priorities, inappropriate development and weak legislation. First published in 2005, the NTC Top 10 Endangered Places List has raised awareness and supported efforts by local groups working to save them. Incidentally, I have extensively photographed these disappearing natural and cultural icons over 18 years of my travels throughout Western Canada. I shared images and stories with wide audiences about the importance of maintaining these historic places and what they mean to our cultural identity and quality of life.
Stallion running through prairie with sage brush on Val Marie PFRA community pasture, Saskatchewan
Temperate grasslands are one of the major biomes on the planet. Because grasslands provide a very important source of food for human populations, they are one of the most altered ecosystems we inhabit. The majority of native grasslands in North America have been converted to grow crops for food and fuel and have lost their ability to stabilize the planetary systems. In the 1930s, a combination of unsustainable farming practices and extremely dry climate conditions caused extensive degradation of topsoil. You are probably familiar with the negative consequences of Dust Bowl and the impact on thousands of prairie farmers who abandoned their homesteads during the height of Great Depression.
Native prairie at Caledonia-Elmsthorpe PFRA community pasture near Avonlea, Sask.
In 1935, Canadian Parliament established the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration with a goal to reclaim badly eroded agricultural lands and manage fragile grasslands through the Community Pasture Program. With a careful, conservation-based management, the CPP was successful in stabilizing and restoring grasslands throughout the Prairie Provinces. Today, 1.8 million acres of grasslands in the Community Pasture Program network represent the last remaining large tracts of prairie habitat, home to many species at risk as well as aboriginal and homestead heritage sites. In 2012, the federal government discontinued the CPP and initiated the transfer of federally managed community pastures to the provinces. Provincial interest in managing the land varies; the government in Manitoba expressed interest in supporting the unified management of pastures with conservation as a strong priority. In contrast, the Saskatchewan government is not interested in supporting conservation-based management and decided to relinquish control to small user groups and market forces.
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Warehouses that are piled high with degraded rice will soon be alleviated of their stockpiles as the government intends to accelerate sales, in a bid to ease the financial burden of storage.
The Commerce Ministry will sell the rice at a loss rather than store the rice, which is said to be costing 17 million baht per day!
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This is the second occurrence of the "cheap rice" sales following a 1.6 million tonnes auction recently. The degraded rice from that sale went for animal feed.
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My roommate is the most entitled millennial in America. Do I tell her?
Published: Dec. 31, 2016 at 6:17 a.m. ET
Quentin Fottrell
This roommate vacations in Hawaii, but expects others to buy her food
Dear Moneyist,
My best friend from college and I are both recent graduates. She moved in with me a couple months ago, and ever since then, I've realized she's a financial idiot.
She constantly complains about how she doesn't have enough money to buy food, go out for drinks or participate in group outings, but she travels at least once a month to places like New York and Hawaii. Not to mention, she spent three months in Europe after graduation.
Even worse, she complains about not being included in group events and says she feels like she has no friends because of it. The thing is, I frequently invite her to group outings, but she is always out of town or won't go because it's too expensive.
She was never like this before. She was the person who brought me cookie dough when my boyfriend and I broke up, who dropped everything to pick me up during a rainstorm, and who came to yoga at the crack of dawn with me before calculus class just so we could spend time together. She used to be such a giver. She doesn't straight up take food, but she guilts me into taking my leftovers. Also, our other roommate works at Square and she takes advantage of her free startup meals.
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Now my friend is so stingy with money that she can no longer be generous with her friendship. Instead, she guilt trips me for having a life outside of our friendship. She's turned into a total freeloader — and her constant fixation on how much things cost is a downer.
Since I helped her negotiate her salary, I know what she makes, and it's a fair amount — but certainly not enough to fund monthly flights to tropical locales. I'm also cognizant of planning happy hours at places with $3 drink specials, or organizing hikes where the only cost is chipping in for gas money to get there.
I've broached the topic of FOMO (fear of missing out) with her multiple times and suggested that the simple solution to building better friendships with people here is to be more present in our own city. But her actions still haven't changed. I am more hesitant to bring up money issues because I'm worried I'll just come off as holier-than-thou. Her entitled attitude and uncompromising need for attention makes me feel like I want her out of my life. But she is my roommate and my former BFF!
What do I do? Do I just ghost her? Do I tell her she's a financial idiot? Help!
P.S. She is on a flight to Cancun as I write this — paid for in large part by another friend's frequent flier miles.
Anonymous in San Francisco
You know how it feels when you go home for the holidays and you revert into a teenager, because it feels good or maybe because your parents continue to treat you like one? It's like "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and it appears to have happened here. Your former best friend and current roommate has experienced some kind of time travel. And it has played havoc with her moral compass. She is home again. Except, in this case, her friends have taken on the role of her family.
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She moved in with you and has turned into a petulant teenager and seems to think the world owes her a favor. This kind of behavior gives millennials a bad name. I have never heard of this happening with roommates before. It usually only happens with one's parents. I can relate. When I'm back in the Auld Sod, and smell Irish corned beef and cabbage, I could easily put my feet up and perhaps forget to wash the dishes (or load the dishwasher) and grumble like I did when it was 1989.
In Ireland, we call this malady An Béal Bocht, which means "The Poor Mouth." It comes from a 1941 novel of the same name by Flann O'Brien, an Irish language satire of what is known in modern times as the misery memoir. We Irish have had it hard over the last, say, 400 or so years — and we can't blame others for all of them — but we rarely hesitate to tell you about it. It's hard to compare 400 years of Irish oppression to a millennial pilfering other people's Diet Snapple. But I'll try.
" It's hard to compare 400 years of Irish oppression to a millennial pilfering other people's Diet Snapple. But I'll try. "
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Millennials are widely regarded as entitled, and your roommate fits squarely into that rather unflattering stereotype. Some 65% of American adults say millennials say those aged 18 to 29 are entitled, while 71% said they were selfish, according to a 2014 survey of 1,000 Americans by the online magazine Reason.com. (For the record, the Moneyist doesn't agree with this conclusion, and 55% in that survey also said they were responsible and hard-working.)
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But your roommate's financial priorities are inside-out: Mooching off others so she can afford to go on lavish vacations, which are sometimes on other people's air miles, is not OK. But she's not alone: Nearly half of millennials say they couldn't afford to come up with $2,000 in an emergency, a recent survey of 5,500 millennials by consultants PwC and the George Washington Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center found. (It makes you wonder where they learned it from.)
Your story about your roommate fuels bias against young Americans. But here's the line in your story that worries me: "She doesn't straight up take food, but she guilts me into taking my leftovers." Stop bending over backwards to please her. Don't ghost her, but don't offer her free food either. Ghosting is passive-aggressive when you're living with someone. Go about your life, instead. You are not responsible for her and the more you act like her mother, the more she will take advantage of it.
Tell her, "You have a great life. We all do. But your nickel and diming is getting me down." Ask her if she wants help making a monthly budget. Show her how you manage your money. And the next time she asks for leftovers or takes something from the refrigerator that doesn't belong to her, use that as an opportunity to talk. Try something like, "We all work hard and buy food and have money pressures, but we all need to be responsible for our own food budgets."
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It's hard to transition from college to real life, and it's not easy to lose friends at any age, but it happens when people get married, have children or, in this case, simply start their first job and mature at a different rate. Sometimes, it is personal. You don't have to tell her you're no longer friends. Not yet, anyway. But you do need to take a break from mollycoddling (that is, overindulging and spoiling) her. The gravy train has run out of, well, gravy. It's time for her to pay her way.
Sometimes, we experience the most stress by not speaking up and standing up for ourselves. She doesn't have to change her lifestyle, but at least you can mark her card and, if your friendship fades away, you know that you have been honest and upfront with her as to why.
Do you want to find out what happened? Read here in Moneyist Revisited.
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Counseling as a concept is picking up momentum in Indian university campuses due to the huge demand for psychological assistance. However, even as the presence of counselors in universities create the emotional and psychological support system for students, we cannot underestimate the crucial role that university teachers play in the mental health and well-being of their students. Teachers can often be the key link between vulnerable students and the professional treatment the students receive to address their mental health problems.
Vishwas - Jain (Deemed-to-be University) Student Guidance and Counseling Center, and the White Swan Foundation (not-for-profit organization) is jointly organizing a Faculty Development Program to create awareness among the teaching community about the role that they have to play in enhancing the mental health of their students. This FDP will be invaluable to the teaching community, academicians, and practicing campus counselors, as it throws open the different perspectives of campus counseling to them.
Note: Registration fee excludes accommodation. However, for outstation participants, organizers are happy to provide basic accommodation for a nominal fee on request. DD drawn in favor of Jain (Deemed-to-be University) payable at Bangalore.


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I was born in Belarus (USSR at the time) but moved to the US when I was 10, so by this point I can safely say that I am American although I can still read, write and speak in Russian. At the moment I am taking Danish language classes at IA Sprog in Nørrebro, and would like to get more opportunities to practice Danish with native speakers.
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Britain is still tightly in the grip of winter, but on Relocation: Phil Down Under this week things are decidedly warmer in the sunshine state of Queensland.
Australian property expert Phil Spencer meets up with Mark and Amanda Daniels, who are house-hunting on the Sunshine Coast with a cool one million dollar budget.
The ample budget doesn't mean Phil will find this search easy, as the Sunshine Coast is undisputedly one of fastest growing regions in Australia and the local property market has seen tremendous capital growth over the last decade.
Less touristy than the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast is still only around an hour or two from the capital Brisbane, with gorgeous beaches, expansive coastal views, a beautiful hinterland, and a growing economy.
Lifestyle on the Sunshine Coast is a major pull, but as well as the idyllic beachside living it also has excellent local schools, universities, roads, and other infrastructure.
The Mark and Amanda left behind their successful recruitment business in Devon to emigrate to Australia with their two children. They are keen get the most of their money and want a modern, open-plan home that is close to the beach, with a minimum of three bedrooms, an office, and a pool for the active children.
Luckily, Phil has a few modern homes along the coast that might appeal to the family.
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Mr. Speaker, tomorrow we think that we will be looking at clause-by-clause study on Bill C-71. I have an amendment that would add in a check to make sure that before any gun could go to an owner, we would look to see if they have convictions for violence or threats to an intimate partner. I wonder if I will have support from the New Democrats tomorrow in committee to strengthen the bill in this way.
Mr. Speaker, my colleague is absolutely right. We have heard and talked a lot about gang violence, and I do not want to downplay the importance of that at all, since it is very troubling, but we also heard a lot about domestic violence and suicide and the issues that are at play there, and they are really important.
On the spirit of the amendment that the member is proposing, absolutely, I am prepared to support that type of amendment. One of the things that came forward is that anything that can be done to bring further clarity and a robust process around background checks in the name of public safety is something all parties support. Hopefully we will continue to see that support, despite the vigorous debate we can have over some of the other elements of the bill.


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A Bellshill woman has been named Scotland's National Youth Worker of the Year 2017 at an awards ceremony in Glasgow, for her work in reducing offending and raising the attainment of young people in North Lanarkshire.
Laura of Bellshill YMCA manages three youth work projects, all with a focus on getting young people back learning and achieving, including: Plusone Mentoring, which supports young people to get involved in positive activities; the Befriending Project which works with youngsters experiencing social isolation and the Early and Effective Intervention project with Police Scotland and North Lanarkshire Social Work department.
The 10th National Youth Worker of the Year Awards, run by YouthLink Scotland, has been an outstanding showcase of the remarkable work that is being done right across the nation. The ceremony was held on Thursday, March 16 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Glasgow.
Jim Sweeney, chief executive of YouthLink Scotland, said: "Youth work is critical to the success of many young people in Scotland. In every area of the country there are countless examples of people, paid and unpaid who do great work with young people that quite literally changes lives.