Remember the time less than two years ago that the mayors of Ketchum and Sun Valley and their city councils held hands, sang Kumbayah, created a new Sun Valley Marketing Alliance board and engaged it to promote tourism?
Remember when the cities dug deep, found money to increase their paltry expenditures on marketing and acknowledged that the cities, businesses and homeowners alike depend on tourism?
It was share and share alike. Each city kicked in nearly $400,000 to create an $800,000 marketing fund and gave a lot of lip to building the fund up closer to $1 million a year.
The warmth and good feeling didn't last long. The budget year that just began found the city of Sun Valley cutting its $390,000 contract with the Marketing Alliance by 10 percent or $40,000. The cut was imposed even though the city's local-option sales tax revenues are forecast to come in just under the previous year by $6,600.
The city of Ketchum responded with $450,000 for marketing, a 12.5 percent increase, to make up the difference.
Sun Valley Mayor Wayne Willich blamed the cuts on property tax increases by Blaine County—even though marketing is funded with local-option tourism sales taxes. Councilman Dewayne Briscoe said any tax increase was unpalatable.
In an August meeting, Councilman Bob Youngman said Ketchum should spend more on marketing, that businesses as a group should pay more and that Sun Valley should not have to play as big a role.
Ketchum officials aren't buying it and are criticizing Sun Valley officials for marketing cuts.
The city of Sun Valley is making the fledgling Sun Valley Marketing Alliance a political pawn.
To what end? So the city of Sun Valley may exert power over the budget decisions of Blaine County and the city of Ketchum? To put the squeeze on local retailers already pounded black and blue by the economy and stingy public spending on marketing even when times were good?
Cutting marketing is a fool's exercise that could boomerang.
If less investment in marketing leads to lower local-option tourism sales tax revenues, that won't help anyone. In fact, it's likely to result in a downward spiral of fewer visitors, less business, fewer tax receipts and even less spending on marketing. That could result in higher property taxes and lower property values on vacation homes—an awful combination.
Ketchum and Sun Valley officials need to convene a new marketing summit, look at real-world facts and work out their differences. The local economy's still on the rocks, and bad decisions about marketing could dash it to smithereens.


Fresh, clean clothes help us live our best lives—thanks to the 200,000 U.S. workers who keep local laundromats running. Although they deal with grueling shifts and sporadic tips, there are some perks to handling strangers' intimates all day: Laundromats often double as meaningful community spaces, and the steady demand keeps business stable. Mental Floss interviewed three workers in the industry to learn about what the job is really like, from the things you probably do that make them wince to the most bizarre items customers have left in pockets.
1. THEY WISH YOU'D TIP.
Laundry workers earn an average of $23,770 a year nationwide to wash your mismatched socks. But Pilar Flores, a laundry worker in Queens, New York, says "not a lot of people tip." At the laundromat where she works, a mason jar of dollar bills sits strategically next to the cash register, even though it doesn't see much action.
However, Jessica Steier, a laundry owner and operator in California, says she noticed a bump in tips when card payment and apps became an option for transactions, instead of just cash. (Her business uses the app Rinse, which works like Seamless, but for clothes.) Thanks to this technology, customers have fewer excuses to skip the gratuity. "I feel like they feel a little guilty if they don't," Steier says.
2. THEY MIGHT HAVE TO DO 300 POUNDS OF LAUNDRY IN ONE MORNING.
3. THEY'VE FOUND SURGICAL EQUIPMENT IN PEOPLE'S POCKETS.
Careless customers can create a real headache for the people doing their laundry. "Sometimes, especially women, they'll leave their lipstick and it will mess up all their laundry," Flores says. Kids are culprits, too, she adds—they leave crayons in their pockets, which can melt in the high heat and stick to fabric, not to mention the machine.
4. THE WORK CAN ENDANGER THEIR HEALTH.
Some surprises workers find in the laundry aren't just odd, but downright dangerous. "We have seen used preservatives, bloodied sanitary pads, dirty baby diapers and even vomit," laundry worker Daysi Raimundo from Astoria, Queens, told Voices of NY. Besides being gross, bodily fluids like blood can harbor bacteria such as E. coli and salmonella—especially problematic since many laundromat workers don't have health insurance, as Rosanna Rodríguez-Aran of the New York-based Laundry Workers Center told Voices of NY. The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has detailed information about how to handle contaminated laundry, but many workers just do the best they can. Based on complaints received at the LWC offices, many laundry workers suffer from problems such as back pain, rashes, skin problems, and respiratory problems, caused in part by repeated exposure to cleaning chemicals.
5. ECONOMIC SLUMPS DON'T STRESS THEM OUT.
"In the recession, a lot of people tried to cut back on expenses," Steier says. "But everyone has to have clean clothes. So it's recession-proof. You gotta do your laundry." In fact, the Coin Laundry Association has found that coin-operated laundries thrive in periods of both growth and recession. And as home ownership decreases nationwide, people depend more on outside laundry facilities, according to the association's website.
According to Steier, California's droughts have also helped bump up business: When water bills soar for homeowners, customers flock to laundromats instead.
6. THEY HAVE CRAZY WATER BILLS.
Joon Sohn, who's run a coin-operated laundromat for a decade in Lakewood, New Jersey, says his water bill comes to around $2000 per month, which he says is forcing him to think about selling his business. Ideally, utilities should only amount to about 20-25% of the gross self-service income from a laundromat, experts say—but older machines and changes in local water prices can make it hard to hit that target.
7. THEY'RE SCRUPULOUS ABOUT CLEANING THE LINT TRAY.
"We clean out lint trays every day," Steier says. "They can cause lint fires." That's not just a concern at commercial laundromats, either: The National Fire Protection Association found that municipal fire departments responded to home fires involving clothes dryers and washing machines nearly 16,000 times a year between 2010-2014 [PDF]. Dust, fiber, or lint were the leading causes of these flare-ups.
Frequent cleaning of the lint tray can also help keep utility costs low. That's because dryers don't work at maximum efficiency when lint trays are full, Steier explains.
8. THEY WINCE WHEN YOU ADD SOAP TOO EARLY.
Ever stared at the soap compartments atop a washing machine, wavering over when to add detergent? You're not alone. "The thing is that most people put their soap in as soon as the water starts running down. But actually the soap should be thrown in in the second wash," Flores says. Otherwise, you may have just wasted some soap—and some quarters.
The first wash—or prewash—really just soaks the clothes in preparation for the suds that occur when the second wash kicks in. So be patient, Flores tells folks who use self-service machines, and add detergent when the second wash starts, unless your clothes are really dirty. Chances are, they don't need that first wash, and most of your soap is going down the drain.
9. SOME LAUNDROMATS DOUBLE AS AN ART GALLERY—OR A LIBRARY.
In some areas, laundromats are a get-in-get-out situation. Others try to make customers comfortable with coffee, TVs, and vending machines. But some go above and beyond—Steier cultivates her laundromats as community spaces by offering free Wi-Fi, and at her Silver Lake location, adorning the walls with local artists' artwork. The nonprofit Laundromat Library League even stocks books in laundromats located in underserved communities across the country.
10. CUSTOMERS SOMETIMES CALL THE POLICE.
11. DISH SOAP IS THEIR SECRET WEAPON.
As you might imagine, people who do laundry all day long become an expert on stains—and most of them say you don't need anything fancy to get yours out.
The Cyclone Laundry and Internet Café in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, which offers a bevy of stain-busting tips online, says that alcohol stains can often be removed by blotting fabric with a mild detergent solution, or with a mixture of 1/3 cup of white vinegar and 2/3 cup of water. A mixture of boiling water and borax will take off many other stains, while shampoo is great for getting out makeup (sometimes spraying a makeup stain with hairspray will also do the trick).


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Dennis Edward Skinner (11 de febrero de 1932) es un expolítico británico que fue Miembro del Parlamento (MP) por Bolsover desde 1970 hasta 2019. Es miembro del Partido Laborista.

Conocido por sus opiniones de izquierdas y su agudo ingenio, perteneció al Grupo de Campaña Socialista de los diputados laboristas. Fue miembro del Comité Ejecutivo Nacional del Partido Laborista, con breves interrupciones, durante treinta años, y fue presidente del Comité en 1988-89. Fue uno de los miembros más antiguos de la Cámara de los Comunes y el diputado laborista que más tiempo ha estado en activo. Es euroescéptico de toda la vida.

Primeros años y carrera
Nacido en Clay Cross, Derbyshire, Skinner es el tercero de nueve hijos. Su padre, Edward Skinner, era un minero del carbón que fue despedido tras la huelga general de 1926, y su madre, Lucy, era limpiadora. En junio de 1942, a la edad de 10 años, Skinner obtuvo una beca para asistir a la Tupton Hall Grammar School tras aprobar el examen de once años antes. En 1949, empezó a trabajar como minero en la mina de carbón de Parkhouse, donde trabajó hasta su cierre en 1962. Después trabajó en la mina Glapwell, cerca de Bolsover. En 1956, Skinner participó en la Sheffield Star Walk, una carrera de aficionados a pie, y quedó en segundo lugar.

En 1964, con 32 años, se convirtió en el presidente más joven de la región de Derbyshire del Sindicato Nacional de Mineros. Después de trabajar durante 20 años como minero, fue miembro del Consejo del Condado de Derbyshire y concejal de Clay Cross en la década de 1960. En 1967, asistió al Ruskin College, tras completar un curso dirigido por el Sindicato Nacional de Mineros en la Universidad de Sheffield.

Carrera parlamentaria
En 1956, Skinner se afilió al Partido Laborista. El 5 de junio de 1969 fue elegido candidato a parlamentario por Bolsover. Skinner fue elegido diputado por el entonces seguro escaño laborista de Bolsover en las elecciones generales de 1970 y lo mantuvo hasta que lo perdió en las elecciones generales de 2019 frente a Mark Fletcher, del Partido Conservador.

Debido a su agresiva retórica, Skinner llegó a ser conocido como la "Bestia de Bolsover". Skinner recuerda que se ganó el apodo por su comportamiento en un debate de homenaje en los Comunes tras la muerte del ex primer ministro conservador Sir Anthony Eden en 1977: "Estaban haciendo discursos sobre la maravilla de Anthony Eden, así que me levanté y hablé de los mineros y de las personas gravemente heridas y muertas en los pozos y de las 200 libras dadas a la viuda. Hubo abucheos y luego todos los tories se marcharon y los periódicos se burlaron de mí, algunos muy serios".

Durante su mandato en los Comunes, Skinner solía sentarse en el primer escaño de la bancada delantera debajo de la pasarela en los Comunes (conocida como la "bancada incómoda" porque es donde tradicionalmente se han sentado los diputados rebeldes del Partido Laborista) con una chaqueta de tweed (mientras que la mayoría de los otros diputados llevan traje) y la corbata roja de la firma. En 2016, declaró que nunca había enviado un correo electrónico y que no tenía una cuenta de Twitter.

Skinner fue un firme partidario del Sindicato Nacional de Mineros y de su líder Arthur Scargill en la huelga de mineros de 1984-85. Skinner se negó a aceptar un salario parlamentario superior al de los mineros, y durante la huelga de éstos donó su sueldo al NUM.

Skinner ha votado a favor de la equiparación de la edad de consentimiento, de las uniones civiles, de los derechos de adopción para las parejas del mismo sexo, de la prohibición de la discriminación por motivos de orientación sexual y de que las parejas del mismo sexo se casen, y tiene una postura muy favorable al aborto. El 20 de enero de 1989, presentó una iniciativa para reducir el número de semanas en las que se puede practicar legalmente un aborto en Reino Unido, presentando el escrito para las elecciones parciales de Richmond. El 7 de junio de 1985, rechazó un proyecto de ley del diputado de la UUP, Enoch Powell, que habría prohibido la investigación con células madre, al presentar la moción para las elecciones parciales en Brecon y Radnor. Skinner describió más tarde este momento como su mayor orgullo político.

En 1979, Skinner desempeñó un papel en la exposición pública de Anthony Blunt como espía de la Unión Soviética. El jueves 15 de noviembre de 1979, la primera ministra Margaret Thatcher reveló el papel de Blunt en la guerra en la Cámara de los Comunes del Reino Unido en respuesta a las preguntas que le formularon Ted Leadbitter, diputado por Hartlepool, y Skinner:

Sr. Leadbitter y Sr. Skinner: Pregunta a la Primera Ministra si hará una declaración sobre las recientes pruebas relativas a las acciones de un individuo, cuyo nombre le ha sido facilitado, en relación con la seguridad del Reino Unido.

La Primera Ministra: "El nombre que me ha facilitado el diputado por Hartlepool (Sr. Leadbitter) es el de Sir Anthony Blunt".

En 2000, Skinner denunció a su antiguo aliado Ken Livingstone, que entonces era diputado laborista. Livingstone no había conseguido la nominación del partido para ser candidato a la Alcaldía de Londres, y entonces había decidido presentarse como candidato independiente en su lugar, instando a sus seguidores a ayudar a los candidatos del Partido Verde a ser elegidos. Skinner dijo que Livingstone había traicionado a los militantes del Partido Laborista en su circunscripción de Brent East, a los que describió como que habían luchado por él "como tigres" cuando su mayoría había sido escasa: "Les dice que va a ser el candidato laborista y luego les miente. Para mí eso es lo más bajo que se puede llegar". Comparó a Livingstone con el candidato laborista oficial, Frank Dobson, diciendo que Dobson era "un tipo y medio... no una prima donna... no alguien con un ego tan grande como una casa". Skinner dijo que Livingstone "ocupará los titulares, pero nunca podrás confiar en él porque ha roto su promesa y su lealtad a su partido". El culto a la personalidad del ego no funciona en una mina de carbón y no funciona en el Partido Laborista".

Por el contrario, a pesar de sus reconocidas opiniones izquierdistas, Skinner mantuvo durante mucho tiempo una relación positiva con el primer ministro Tony Blair, una figura destacada del ala derecha del partido, derivada de los consejos que Skinner le dio a Blair sobre la oratoria. En febrero de 2018, describió los ministerios de Blair y Brown como un "periodo dorado" para el NHS. Sin embargo, Skinner criticó fuertemente a Blair en mayo de 2019, después de que el ex primer ministro aconsejara a los partidarios laboristas pro-Remain, que consideraban que la línea del partido sobre el Brexit era demasiado ambigua, que votaran a partidos explícitamente pro-Remain en las Elecciones al Parlamento Europeo de 2019; en el Morning Star, Skinner describió a Blair como una "fuerza destructiva" que estaba "tratando de destruir el Partido Laborista para que la gente siga hablando de su reinado" y afirmando que "fue a Irak y se destruyó a sí mismo. Ayudó a David Cameron y a Theresa May a llegar al poder. Estás hablando de un hombre que hizo un desastre".

En 2003, Skinner formó parte de la cuarta parte de los diputados laboristas que votaron en contra de la Guerra de Irak; posteriormente se rebeló contra la línea del partido cuando votó en contra de la política del gobierno de permitir que los sospechosos de terrorismo fueran detenidos sin juicio hasta 90 días. En 2007, Skinner y otros 88 diputados laboristas votaron en contra de la política del Gobierno laborista de renovar el sistema de misiles nucleares Trident.

Skinner apoyó a David Miliband en las elecciones al liderazgo laborista de 2010, que ganó su hermano Ed Miliband. En marzo de 2011, fue uno de los 15 diputados que votaron en contra de la participación británica en la intervención de la OTAN en Libia.

Skinner fue uno de los 36 diputados laboristas que designaron a Jeremy Corbyn como candidato en las elecciones al liderazgo laborista de 2015. Poco después de que Corbyn fuera elegido líder, Skinner fue elegido miembro del Comité Ejecutivo Nacional del Partido Laborista, en el que permaneció hasta octubre de 2016. Skinner apoyó a Corbyn, junto a la mayoría de los diputados laboristas, al votar en contra de la ampliación de los ataques aéreos de la RAF contra el ISIS en Siria en diciembre de 2015. Skinner votó a favor de la Salida del Reino Unido de la Unión Europea en junio de 2016 y está a favor de la abolición total de la Cámara de los Lores.

Tras la jubilación de Peter Tapsell en 2015, Skinner fue uno de los cuatro diputados más longevos, pero no llegó a ser Padre de la Cámara, ya que otros dos diputados, que también fueron elegidos por primera vez en 1970, habían jurado su cargo antes, el mismo día, y ambos ocuparon consecutivamente ese puesto: Gerald Kaufman (2015-2017) y Kenneth Clarke (2017-2019). Skinner, el diputado en ejercicio de mayor edad desde 2017, declaró que en cualquier caso no aceptaría el título honorífico. En 2019, con la inminente jubilación de Clarke, resurgió la cuestión de que Skinner se convirtiera en Padre de la Cámara, pero quedó en suspenso, cuando Skinner perdió su escaño en las elecciones generales de 2019.

Suspensiones
Skinner fue suspendido del Parlamento en al menos diez ocasiones, generalmente por lenguaje antiparlamentario al atacar a sus oponentes. Entre las infracciones más destacadas se encuentran:

 En 1981, acusó al Presidente de la Cámara de los Comunes, George Thomas, de asistir a actos para recaudar fondos para el Partido Conservador.
 Dos veces en 1984, una por llamar a David Owen "pomposo" (y solo aceptando retirar "pomposo"), y la segunda por afirmar que Margaret Thatcher "sobornaría a los jueces".
 En 1992, refiriéndose al Ministro de Agricultura John Gummer como "un pequeño chorro de ministro" y "una verruga babosa en la nariz de Margaret Thatcher".
 En 1995, acusando al gobierno de Major de un "acuerdo fraudulento" para vender las minas de carbón de Reino Unido.
 En 2005, al referirse al historial económico de los conservadores en la década de 1980, hizo el comentario: "Lo único que crecía entonces eran las líneas de coca frente a 'Boy George' y el resto de los tories", una referencia a las acusaciones publicadas originalmente en el Sunday Mirror sobre el consumo de cocaína por parte del recién nombrado canciller en la sombra, George Osborne (aunque, en los Comunes, Skinner se refirió al News of the World).
 En 2006, acusó al portavoz adjunto Alan Haselhurst de ser indulgente con los comentarios de la primera línea de la oposición y futura primera ministra Theresa May "porque es tory".
 En 2016, por referirse al primer ministro David Cameron como "Dave el esquivo" en relación con los asuntos fiscales de Cameron.

Bromas del Discurso de la Reina
Conocido por sus sentimientos republicanos, Skinner solía abuchear durante la Ceremonia anual del Discurso de la Reina. Lo hacía a la llegada del Bastón Negro (símbolo de la autoridad real en la Cámara de los Lores) para convocar a los diputados a escuchar el discurso de la Reina en la cámara de los Lores. Los más conocidos, según el New Statesman y otras fuentes, son los siguientes:

1987: "¡Dile que venda!". Una referencia a la situación financiera del Reino Unido.
1988: "¡Oye, aquí viene el Gato con Botas!". A Black Rod, Sir John Gingell.
1989: "¡Oh, es un buen conjunto!". A Black Rod, Sir John Gingell.
1990: "Apuesto a que bebe Carling Etiqueta Negra". "Toca por ti, Maggie". Habló con Black Rod; referencia a una popular campaña publicitaria de la época. Más tarde hizo un segundo comentario que era una referencia a la inminente salida de Margaret Thatcher.
1992: "¡Dile que pague sus impuestos!". En referencia a las peticiones para que la Reina pague el impuesto sobre la renta.
1993: "Volver a lo básico con Black Rod". Una referencia a la campaña Back to Basics del entonces gobierno conservador de John Major.
1995 y 1996: "¡Nuevo trabajo, nueva barra negra!". Una referencia al eslogan de la campaña electoral laborista, "New Labour, New Britain" y al nuevo Black Rod, Sir Edward Jones.
1997: "¿Quieres que te preste un Discurso de la Reina?". Se lo dijo a Black Rod.
2000: "¡Dile que lea The Guardian!". The Guardian estaba haciendo campaña en ese momento para abolir la monarquía.
2001:"¡No eres más que un enano!". Se lo dijo al nuevo Vara Negra, Sir Michael Willcocks, entre risas en la cámara.
2003: "Bloquea las puertas". "¿Cerró la puerta detrás de ella?". Skinner sugirió que el presidente de la Cámara "cerrara las puertas" tras la llegada de Black Rod, una práctica que se utiliza para impedir que los diputados que llegan tarde emitan su voto después de que hayan sonado las campanas de división. Después de la orden, también dijo: "¿Cerró la puerta detrás de ella?", ante las risas de otros diputados. La sugerencia irónica de Skinner fue ridiculizada por el presidente de la Cámara, Michael Martin.
2004: "Sí, tienes un trabajo al que aspirar". Habla con Black Rod.
2005: "¿Ha traído a Camila con ella?". De la Reina haciendo referencia a la reciente boda de Carlos, Príncipe de Gales.
2006: "¿Tienes a Helen Mirren en espera?". Referencia a la interpretación de Isabel II por parte de Mirren en la película de 2006, The Queen.
2007: "¿Quién disparó a los aguiluchos?". Refiriéndose a un suceso reciente en Sandringham, en el que dos aguiluchos cenizos protegidos habían sido abatidos cerca de una propiedad real. El príncipe Harry y un amigo habían sido interrogados por la policía sobre el incidente.
2008: "¿Algún topo tory en el Palacio?". Refiriéndose a la reciente detención del diputado conservador Damian Green en relación con una investigación sobre la recepción de información confidencial por parte de un funcionario del Ministerio del Interior que había sido candidato del Partido Conservador; a lo que Black Rod bromeó: "Te echaré de menos, Dennis", recibiendo las risas de otros diputados. La apertura del Parlamento en 2008 fue la última de Michael Willcocks como Black Rod.
2009: "Los gastos reales están en camino". Referencia al escándalo de los gastos parlamentarios.
2010: "No hay comisiones reales esta semana". Referencia a la reciente historia del periódico News of the World que revelaba que la ex duquesa de York había aceptado pagos en efectivo por presentar hombres de negocios a la duquesa de York. Ya sea por error o a propósito, pronunció su frase en medio del discurso del Yeoman Usher Ted Lloyd-Jukes (que sustituía a un Black Rod enfermo). A lo que el Yeoman Usher respondió al final: "Gracias, Dennis".
2012: "Año Jubilar, doble recesión, ¡qué comienzo!". Refiriéndose al año del Jubileo de la Reina y a las afirmaciones de que el Reino Unido acababa de entrar en una segunda recesión. Esta ocurrencia fue respondida con una mezcla de risas y gritos de "vergüenza" y "absoluta desgracia".
2013: "Royal Mail en venta. La cabeza de la reina privatizada". Esto fue en referencia a la propuesta de privatización del Royal Mail por parte del gobierno de coalición, en contra de la promesa de la recientemente fallecida Margaret Thatcher de que "no estaba dispuesta a que se privatizara la cabeza de la Reina".
2014: "La última batalla de la coalición". Refiriéndose a los últimos 11 meses de la Coalición Conservadora-Liberal Demócrata (y su última sesión parlamentaria) antes de las elecciones de mayo de 2015.
2015: Ninguno. Skinner reveló posteriormente a la prensa que estaba muy preocupado por evitar que los miembros del SNP recién elegidos ocuparan su tradicional asiento en el primer banco de la oposición. Declaró a The Daily Telegraph: "Hoy me he dedicado a una actividad para asegurarme de que los Scot Nats no iban a ocupar el primer banco. Me levanté poco después de las 6 y tuve que hacerlo ayer".
2016: "¡Manos fuera de la BBC!". Refiriéndose al libro blanco del gobierno sobre la BBC.
2017: "¡Sí, ponte los patines, la primera carrera es a las dos y media!". Refiriéndose a la asistencia de la Reina a Royal Ascot ese mismo día.
2019: "No, no voy a ir". Skinner no asistió al discurso de la Reina.

Después del parlamento
En 2020, Skinner apoyó a Richard Burgon para el puesto de líder adjunto del Partido Laborista.

El 6 de mayo de 2020, fue nombrado presidente honorario del Socialist Campaign Group.

En septiembre de 2020, la canción de Robb Johnson sobre Skinner, Tony Skinner's Lad, encabezó la lista de descargas de Amazon.

Vida personal
En 1960 Skinner se casó con Mary Parker, de la que se separó en 1989. Desde 2017 su pareja es la exinvestigadora Lois Blasenheim.

En 1999 a Skinner se le diagnosticó un cáncer de vejiga en estado avanzado y posteriormente fue operado para extirparle un tumor maligno. En 2003 se sometió a una operación de doble baipás cardíaco. En 2019 se sometió a una operación de cadera. Estuvo demasiado enfermo para hacer campaña en las elecciones generales de 2019 después de ser hospitalizado por una peligrosa infección tras la operación de cadera. No estuvo presente en el recuento cuando perdió su escaño.

A la madre de Skinner se le diagnosticó la enfermedad de Alzheimer antes de su muerte en la década de 1980. Skinner cantó a su difunta madre cuando le diagnosticaron la enfermedad y se inspiró en su capacidad para recordar viejas canciones. Desde 2008, ha visitado residencias de ancianos en Derbyshire para cantar a los pacientes con demencia.

Skinner es seguidor del Derby County Football Club y del Derbyshire County Cricket Club.

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Enlaces externos

Políticos de Reino Unido del siglo XX
Políticos de Reino Unido del siglo XXI
Parlamentarios de Reino Unido
Sindicalistas del Reino Unido
Laboristas de Reino Unido
Mineros

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Full-Time Teacher
The Department of Applied Japanese Language at Chung Hua University was established in 2009, and its predecessor was the Japanese Language Section of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, which was established in 2003. Based on the diverse needs of students for further studies and employment after graduation, the department aims to "applied Japanese language education", and positions itself as a Japanese language department that develops "high-quality teaching and industry-academia linkages", and sets educational goals and core accordingly. The department currently has seven full-time faculty members, two of whom are Japanese. The teaching ratio of Japanese professors is very high, and it cooperates with various international exchange activities and corporate internships to create a high-quality Japanese learning environment.
♦Teaching Objective
To cultivate Japanese language personnel for manufacturing, commercial and service industries, and for other jobs using Japanese language.
♦Core Competence
1.Basic Japanese language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, translation, etc.
2.Japanese language skills: Japanese language studies, Japanese literature, Japanese culture, etc.
3.Professional Japanese language skills: professional business Japanese language skills, professional tourism Japanese language skills, professional third foreign language skills, etc.
4.Social Adaptation Skills: Teamwork, communication and coordination skills, problem-solving skills, etc.
♦Teaching Features
The Department's curriculum is designed to develop students' professional language skills and related knowledge. The first-year and second-year courses focus on training the basic Japanese skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. The third-year and fourth-year courses offer professional courses in three fields of "business", "language" and "tourism". Students can study across fields according to their career plans.
Business Field: To cultivate professional business Japanese language personnel for administrative and sales needs in the trade and technology industries.
Language Field: To cultivate professional Japanese language personnel for administrative and clerical work in educational institutions, publishing houses, translation agencies, etc.
Tourism Field: To cultivate Japanese language professionals for aviation, tour guides, hotels, catering etc.
The department's curriculum provides guest speakers from business fields, domestic and international internship opportunities, short-term exchanges with sister schools in Japan, long-term overseas study, and dual degrees in Taiwan and Japan. The department also offers credit for students with a certificate of N3 or higher.
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The department is designed with a major grouping of courses that can be taken in three areas: "Business," "Language," "Tourism,". This is complemented by the cross-faculty second majors such as the "Management and Practical Japanese Credit Course" and the "Tourism and Practical Japanese Credit Course," in order to meet the social needs of cultivating high-level personnel for Japanese studies and Japanese language personnel for business, tourism, and various industries. In the future, we will continue to promote international exchanges with our sister schools in Japan, as well as training for students to communicate directly with Japanese people and internships in companies, in order to enhance the cumulative teaching experiences. In that way, we try to provide the best Japanese learning environment, and to become the center of Japanese language teaching in Hsinchu area.
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Q: Handling screens of the Android devices having higher resolutions, like Samsung Tab I developed a mobile application with the min SDK version being 1.6. After referring to an article regarding supporting multiple screen resolutions, I found out that I can use the android:xlargeScreens="true" for higher resolution screens in mobile devices like Samsung Galaxy Tab.
Will the images kept in the drawable-xhdpi folder be automatically referenced if I have the entry android:xlargeScreens="true" in the Android Manifest file?
Samsung Galaxy Tab is having screen resolution 600 × 1024 pixels.
I can create images with respect to Samsung Tab's screen dimensions. Even larger screen resolution Android devices come to the market, how to handle that?
Is there any other way to handle supporting multiple screen resolutions in a generic manner?

A: Using the drawable- folders is the preferred way of handling multiple screen densities. The framework will automatically pull resources from the correct drawable- folder based on the screen density of the device. If you don't have drawables for that density, it will automatically scale them to match.
Check out Supporting Multiple Screens for more details.
As far as supporting multiple screen resolutions, which are unrelated to screen densities, you just have to be flexible with your graphics. I think that a device maker can come out with a 601 x 1025 resolution screen if they want to. Try testing them out with the AVD if you are unsure about how your code responds. In any case, there's no way to predict the precise resolution your app will be running at.

A: Actually, the default resources (those without any specification) will be loaded, on xhdpi devices, the Android will first search on res/*-xhdpi to load resources, but will rely on default if there's any,
Note: If the only resource you have is specified to xlarge screens but you are trying to display it on a large screen you are going to get a ResourceNotFoundException.

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Impacts of internships — Was it worth it?
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Internships are truly a mixed bag. Some have landed interns highly coveted jobs, while others have ended in infamous lawsuits. And the outbreak of the coronavirus in March of 2020 may have thrown an entirely new wrench in the situation. What will the long-term consequences be for the world of internships hereafter? And what does an internship really look like in the U.S. today?
We wanted to dive right in, so we surveyed 984 people across the country, most of whom had interned with at least one company before while earning their degree. Others had completed their degrees without interning, which enabled us to compare the success and outlook variances that were most heavily impacted by an internship. Whichever side of the internship fence you happen to stand on, you'll want to keep reading to see the exact influence they're having on the American workforce today.
Interning standard
Internships and education often went hand in hand school year after school year, and, on average, people were overall happy with the experience. More than half felt the internship had been incredibly valuable to their career, and 84.5% said they were satisfied with the experience when they looked back. Even though students were more likely to see the value once they had actually interned, the students who hadn't interned still seemed well aware of their "very" to "extremely" high value.
That said, the impact of an internship may not have been accessible to all respondents or all students. Unpaid internships, though often prestigious, are not always an option for a family who is financially obligated to work for money, as opposed to working for free. Though 3 out of 5 respondents were offered academic credit, only 2 out of every 5 internships were paid. And people with at least one paid internship were more likely to say it was valuable to their careers than those with unpaid internships.
Positive internship takeaways
If internships are, in fact, elitist, their regulations deserve a second look, as those who managed to make them work (paid or not) were certainly reporting some serious benefits. Doing much more than getting coffee and making copies, most respondents said their internships gave them hands-on work experience. This type of relevant experience greatly helps a person later obtain full-time work, as lack of experience is an incredibly common reason to turn away an applicant. Job experience that was specifically relevant for their resumes was also a benefit for 75.1% of the interns in our study. Soft skills and networking, benefits noted by 66.6% and 57.5%, respectively, were two other powerful resume boosters.
Insight into a potential career wasn't the most common benefit (61.9% experienced this perk), but it may have been one of the most helpful. Sixty-three percent of people who interned in a particular field had chosen to stick with that one for life. Health care professionals in particular were interning and subsequently sticking within the field, though becoming a doctor actually requires an internship.
Internships launching careers
The time that internships minimized between graduation and job attainment might have been the most compelling, clear-cut benefit revealed through this study. On average, it took a full two months longer for college graduate applicants lacking an internship to get a job. This may represent two more months of expenses or added debts, in addition to the lack of an office to go to. And once on the job, those who had interned felt the internship had actually better prepared them for the position than their education had.
From a manager's perspective, relevant internship experience was highly likely to influence a decision to hire. More than half of respondents who had interned before said a relevant internship would make them "very or extremely likely" to hire the candidate. Even after months and years have passed, some experts recommend leaving relevant internships on your resume for up to ten years.
Our study also took a look at the other angle: In hindsight, would those who interned have chosen to spend their time another way? A third said a full-time or part-time job would have been more worthwhile, while 20.9% said they regretted not using the time to devote to school. But ultimately, just over half of people agreed that their internship was the best possible use of their time. Considering some of the benefits interns reported to have received from their experience, it's not too hard to see why.
The data behind this study revealed some pretty compelling perks to internships: They caused hiring managers to take applicants more seriously, to help students feel more prepared on the job, and there's often payment and school credits involved for some.
From an employer's perspective, an internship is a relatively easy and potentially highly helpful opportunity to introduce into your company. Whether you're an intern or a seasoned employee, having the right collaboration tools will help you get ahead. Nulab gives businesses seamless access to modern communication, helping internships, employers, leaders, and teammates thrive together. Head to Nulab today to find out how.
Methodology and limitations
We conducted a survey of 618 people who had completed an internship while obtaining a college degree and 366 people who had not completed an internship while obtaining their degree. Respondents were asked to answer questions about their internship experience and the perceived benefits of completing an internship.
Fifty-one percent of our respondents identified as female, 49% identified as male, and less than 1% identified as a gender not listed on our survey. Respondents ranged in age from 18 to 78, with a mean of 35 and a standard deviation of 11.4.
Twenty-four percent of respondents were actively working in a career field related to business, 23% in science, math, and technology, 13% in arts and humanities, 12% in health and medicine, 9% in social sciences, 7% in public and social services, and 12% in other fields.
It is possible that with more respondents from each demographic, we may have been able to gain better insight. The findings on this page rely on self-reporting and, as such, are susceptible to exaggeration or selective memory.
The choice of interning or even gearing up for an already decided upon position can be made more clearly with the help of a little information. If you know someone who would benefit from the data behind this article, you're welcome to share its contents. Just be sure your purposes are noncommercial and that you link back to this page.
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… for daring to wonder why young men would carry out something as horrific as the Boston bombings. The Harperites feel that the only thoughts should be of vengeance. "Don't ask those mamby-pamby questions that need to be answered to mitigate against the possibility of future acts like these, boy!
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Saudi Arabia Cuts Spending, Slows Payments, Hits Spain Inc.
by Don Quijones • Oct 20, 2015 • Comments Off on Saudi Arabia Cuts Spending, Slows Payments, Hits Spain Inc.
Ugly for Spain's over-indebted, liquidity-challenged construction giants.
By Don Quijones, Spain & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET.
It's almost a whole year since the House of Saud shocked the world by announcing its scheme to let market forces determine oil prices. It then did the unthinkable: it cranked up oil production. What followed was arguably the biggest price war of this fledgling century, as the price of oil fell by more than 50% in six months.
Suicide Economics
For struggling energy consumer nations, the collapse of the oil price has been a godsend; for producer nations, it has been a source of incalculable economic pain and misery. When the Saudis had their all-in moment, it was widely assumed that Russia, as well as a host of other unsavory oil-dependent "regimes" (such as Venezuela), would be first to buckle.
Eleven months on, Venezuela's economic edifice is in tatters, Russia has lost billions of dollars in crude revenues, and the U.S. shale industry – broadly assumed to be the Saudis' second target – is being kept alive only by increasingly difficult-to-come-by and expensive infusions of debt.
Yet despite all the balance sheet carnage, the Saudis have not won their oil price war. Not yet. Indeed, as prices continue to bite, it is the Saudi economy that is beginning to feel the pain, especially with an aggregate deficit for 2015 to 2017 forecast to exceed $300 billion.
The effects are now ricocheting around the economy, hitting businesses in Saudi Arabia and beyond. Here's more from Bloomberg:
Saudi Arabia is delaying payments to government contractors as the slump in oil prices pushes the country into a deficit for the first time since 2009, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.
Companies working on infrastructure projects have been waiting for six months or more for payments as the government seeks to preserve cash, the people said, asking not to be identified because the information is private. Delays have increased this year and the government has also been seeking to cut prices on contracts, the people said.
The House of Saud is responding to the decline in crude, which accounts for about 80% of the country's revenue, by tapping foreign reserves, now at their lowest point since early 2013, as well as cutting spending, selling bonds and delaying projects. This could be bad news for many Western construction and infrastructure companies, for whom the oil-rich kingdom has been a prolific source of profits and revenues.
And now, according to Bloomberg, Saudi Arabia has slowed down disbursing money, and they find themselves waiting six months for invoices to be paid.
A Desert Nightmare for Spain, Inc
Particularly vulnerable are Spanish construction companies. They have carved out a bountiful niche market on the Arabian peninsula, thanks largely to the tireless diplomatic efforts of the former King of Spain Juan Carlos II, who abdicated last year [read: Spain's Musical Thrones: Desperate Move by a Desperate Regime].
For decades Juan Carlos served as an exemplary account manager for Spain Inc., enriching Spanish corporations, in particular arms manufacturers, by leveraging his close links to authoritarian rulers in the Middle East and North Africa. In the process he is alleged (by the New York Times, among other publications) to have amassed billions of dollars in commissions.
The King's relations with the House of Saud are especially strong. One week before announcing his intention to abdicate last year, he was in Saudi Arabia to promote "Spanish business interests" – in particular the involvement of Spanish firms in the construction of a high-speed rail line between Riyadh and Mecca worth over $9 billion.
That high-speed rail line could now be in danger. According to El Economista, it's still not clear whether Saudi cutbacks will affect the rail line. If they do, it will do serious harm to the accounts of two Spanish rail companies, RENFE and Adif, as well as the construction giant OHL, which is already drowning in debt and is mired in a massive legal case in Mexico [read: Spanish Construction Giant Reels From Mexican Hangover].
In a desperate bid to stem its liquidity problems, the company has just completed a €1-billion capital increase. Predictably, shares have not reacted kindly, having lost 40% of their value since Oct. 7. They are down 70% since their annual peak of €24 in February.
Already teetering
The Spanish company that is probably most exposed to Saudi cutbacks is Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (FCC), a company whose biggest shareholder is the world's fourth richest man, Carlos Slim — a man who is already having a torrid 2015. FCC is part of a consortium to build the Riyadh metro, a massive project estimated to be worth some $22 billion. That figure could drop precipitously as Saudi authorities try to tighten spending.
This could be a serious problem for a company that has already restructured the terms of its debt once in the past 18 months and recently tried (unsuccessfully) to convince its biggest lenders to restructure a further €4.5 billion. The company is also set to undergo another adjustment program, with yet more layoffs for its 55,000-strong global workforce. There are even rumors of a further capital increase. In other words, more pain for the company's shareholders who have already seen dividends disappear and shares plunge from €11.8 at the beginning of the year to just over €7 today.
Now Saudi Arabia, one of the company's biggest cash cows, just got sick. Not that Saudi Arabia is likely to have much difficulty paying its bills — not with a gross debt-to-GDP ratio of less than 2% in 2014 and net foreign reserves of over $650 billion. But market conditions are deteriorating fast as oil inventories build up and liquidity runs dry.
Now the Kingdom's rulers must do something they haven't had to do for a very long time — cut down on certain non-essentials. And with those unlikely to include the public handouts the government uses to maintain social order and the billions it spends on U.S. or British weapon systems, massive infrastructure projects are suddenly attracting the attention of zealous cost cutters. And that could be very bad news for some of Spain's over-indebted, liquidity-challenged construction giants. By Don Quijones, Raging Bull-Shit.
Spain's economy is back on track – that's the narrative peddled by the Rajoy government to win December's do-or-die elections. It will do "whatever it takes" to keep the narrative intact. But not everybody's buying it. Read… Six Nagging Facts about Spain's "Recovery"
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Today, even lavatories on the biggest wide-body jets can be tricky for the average passenger to access. And, for persons with reduced mobility (PRM), going to the bathroom can be daunting. A leading advocacy group for such passengers says that 52% of Americans older than 65 have some form of disability.2 These travellers must be accounted for.


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Radeburg – miasto w Niemczech, w kraju związkowym Saksonia, w okręgu administracyjnym Drezno, w powiecie Miśnia. W 2009 liczyło 7661 mieszkańców.

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Pocztowy słup dystansowy z 1728 r. ozdobiony herbami Polski i Saksonii, monogramem króla Augusta II Mocnego i polską koroną królewską
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Zamek w Berbisdorf
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Kościół Miejski (Stadtkirche)
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Młyn wodny w Bärnsdorf
Kościoły w Bärwalde, Bärnsdorf i Großdittmannsdorf

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Miejscowości partnerskie:
 Argenbühl, Badenia-Wirtembergia (kontakty utrzymuje dzielnica Berbisdorf)
 Edenkoben, Nadrenia-Palatynat
 Frydlant nad Ostrawicą, Czechy

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Bibliografia
 Statistisches Landesamt des Freistaates Sachsen, Kamenz, 2009.

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9 Latin Collaborations We Want to See in 2023: Manuel Turizo & Coldplay, Karol G & RBD and More
Here's a list of collabs Latin editors hope for this year.
Manuel Turizo and Coldplay
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There are endless opportunities for Latin artists to collaborate in the new year. Last year was packed with unprecedented collabs, such as Grupo Firme and Camilo — whose "Alaska" peaked at No. 1 on Billboard's Regional Mexican Airplay chart — and Christina Aguilera and Ozuna's "Santo," part of her Latin Grammy-winning album Aguilera.
While 2023 may have just started, we already have a few dream collabs in mind that we'd love to see happen over the year. For starters, ever since Karol G and RBD's Anahi took the stage together over the summer in Mexico City — where they performed the Mexican group's anthem "Salvame" — fans have hoped that there could be more to their team up. Is there a new version of "Salvame?" A brand new track about heartbreak featuring Karol Karol is a self-described RBD lover. And with news of RBD's recently teased comeback, this could be the perfect moment for Karol and RBD to collaborate.
Meanwhile, Manuel Turizo's "La Bachata" has taken the world by storm — and even Coldplay's Chris Martin has acknowledged the song's force, calling it "the best song at the moment in the world" during his concert in Bogota, Colombia in September. Martin gave the song its flowers and Turizo joined the band to sing an acoustic version. It peaked at No. 1 on the Latin Airplay chart in October. Given that Martin is a big fan of Turizo and vice versa, it wouldn't be totally wild if we saw the colombiano collaborating with Coldplay in the near future.
From Christian Nodal and Cazzu to Silvana Estrada and Angela Alvarez, here are our Latin editors' picks for dream collaborations in 2023:
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What was your inspiration for writing Pleasure & Grief?
Pleasure & Grief started life as a long short story. If anyone wants to see the story it is available on the Outsider Ink website. Many people assume it is autobiographical, but it isn't. It was sparked off by some images/ideas that popped into my head: a mysterious woman living on the edge of a village, walking on the seashore, things like that. After finishing the story I thought it would make a good play for radio. When I wrote the story I was primarily interested in contrasting two points of view of a relationship. The story alternates between the viewpoints of Simon and Polly. When I came to write the play version I was also concerned to explore the contrast between the present and the past in the form of the two voices of Simon, one the young self of the story and the other the older self of the present who reflects on the past. I like the way on radio there are no boundaries so the listener can be inside the head of the characters.
Thoreau said: 'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation'. I think there's a lot of truth in that. And there is a lot of heroism in everyday life, in just keeping on. And that is one of the things I like to explore in my writing.
Another thing I wanted to explore in this piece was how hurt is contagious. If someone has been hurt in the past (like Polly) there is a tendency for that damage to be carried through their life; and for them to inflict that hurt onto others, without even knowing they're doing it. That is the situation of the protagonists, Polly and Simon, in the play.
As Heidegger pointed out, the past is not behind us, as one commonly thinks, the past, our past, lies before us. It is something we must move through in order to move into the future. If one thinks of it in that way it is easy to see how the past can block one from moving forward.
Polly is damaged by her past. At the point at which she meets Simon she hasn't managed to overcome the hurt and so, mostly unintentionally, she passes on the hurt to the young Simon. The older Simon is in turn damaged by the hurt caused by Polly's sudden disappearance. He has not been able to overcome it and though his life seems okay on the surface there is a great well of pain underneath. He has become stuck, blocked by the past, and can't get through it. He leads a life of quiet desperation.
Has Pleasure and Grief been performed anywhere?
No. A part of the script had a rehearsed reading in London at the time I was writing it. But this is the first performance of the complete work.
What are your hopes and plans for Pleasure and Grief?
I'd like to get it produced as a radio play. I sent it to the BBC but they turned it down. At one point an independent producer was interested in it but they turned it down in the end because they thought the ending was too sad.
How long have you been writing plays? How did you get started as a playwright?
I started out writing prose fiction: stories and novels. However, I've always been interested in the theatre and my favourite writer is Samuel Beckett. I started writing plays in 1997 as light relief from the grinding work of writing a novel. My first play came to me late at night as one of those exhilarating moments when the characters just speak through you and the writing is like taking down dictation. I wrote that play in one night and it went on to win a writing prize. The judge was the playwright Paul Sirett who at the time was Literary Manager of the Soho Theatre in London. He invited me onto a theatre writing workshop at Soho Theatre. At the time I was getting all my stories and my novel rejected so I switched to just writing plays at that point since I was getting more encouragement about my scripts. Last year I returned to writing fiction and have just finished work on a new novel.
What kind of training have you had as a writer?
In the past I've taken part in theatre writing workshops at Soho Theatre in London, the Unity Theatre in Liverpool and Chelsea Theatre in London. That's the only training I've had. I think 'training' to be a writer is of limited value. The real training is to live a lot and write a lot. It is only by doing it that you learn about it. I think you only get better at writing through the experience of doing it again and again rather than being told about it by someone else. It is a question of personal growth rather than learning some 'thing'. You can tell someone everything they can be 'told' about writing in an afternoon and the rest is the long hard slog of actually doing it.
How did you get involved with Readers Theater Television?
Some years ago my short play 'Touch' was given a wonderful production at the Malibu International One Act Play Festival and Regina Mocey (of Readers Theater Television) acted in that play; and did a brilliant job. We have been friends since then and Regina spoke to me about Readers Theater Television and invited me to show her some scripts that might be appropriate for a reading. I'm very pleased that Regina chose to do 'Pleasure & Grief' and would like to thank everyone at Readers Theater Television for all their hard work on it.


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SpaceX has added another Starlink launch to its October manifest and plans to support the mission with a record-breaking Falcon 9 booster turnaround.
Several media outlets recently confirmed that SpaceX will attempt to launch Starlink-13 – the 13th launch of operational v1.0 satellites and 14th launch overall – no earlier than (NET) 8:25 am EDT (12:25 UTC) on October 18th. Two days later, NASASpaceflight.com reports that SpaceX intends to launch Starlink-14 as few as three days later, aiming to lift off NET 12:36 pm EDT (16:36 UTC) on Wednesday, October 21st.
Simultaneously, a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket's eighth attempt to launch the National Reconnaissance Office's NROL-44 spy satellite is scheduled NET 10 pm EDT (02:00 UTC), October 23rd. As a result, barring a (lately) rare instance of two back-to-back on-time launches, SpaceX and ULA appear to be destined to butt heads again on Florida's Cape Canaveral launch range.
SpaceX is planning two Starlink missions in the next week:
– 14th Starlink (Starlink V1.0 L13) 10/18 @ ~8:25 a.m. Eastern (~12:25 UTC) from LC-39A
– 15th Starlink (Starlink V1.0 L14) 10/21 @ ~12:36 p.m. Eastern (~16:36 UTC) from SLC-40https://t.co/aNOCZNoSdp
— Michael Baylor (@nextspaceflight) October 15, 2020
Originally scheduled to launch as early as June 2020, Delta IV Heavy's NROL-44 launch slipped to August, ultimately landing on August 26nd. Thus began a bizarre series of delays. Pad pressurization systems were to blame for the first delay on August 27th, followed by a rare post-ignition launch abort on August 29th. For Delta IV Heavy, such an abort necessitates at least several weeks of rework and the next NROL-44 launch attempt came on September 26th, only to be aborted by issues with the pad's umbilical "swing arm". Weather scrubbed another attempt on September 28th, while the subsequent September 29th backup was aborted by a leak in a pad hydraulic system. Last but certainly not least, Delta IV Heavy suffered yet another last-second abort at T-7 seconds on September 30th.
Retraction of the Mobile Service Tower has begun. An undercarriage transport system with drive trucks in all four corners of the MST is moving the 33-story building at a top speed of 0.25 miles per hour. https://t.co/GKgbdk3wMm pic.twitter.com/joSLINhbYO
— ULA (@ulalaunch) August 26, 2020
All the while, ULA's NROL-44 mission took range priority, meaning that the US Air Force wing responsible for enforcing range safety and providing weather forecasts would delay all other missions until the ULA launch was either completed or substantially delayed. Combined with temperamental weather, ULA's range priority contributed to several SpaceX Starlink and GPS III SV04 launch delays in September and early October. Now, unless SpaceX manages to launch Starlink-13 and Starlink-14 right on schedule on October 18th and 21st, anything more than a day or two of delays will likely snowball into further delays as Delta IV Heavy takes the stage.
In the last few years, ULA's Delta IV Heavy rocket – now on its fifth-to-last mission – has been exceedingly temperamental. (ULA)
Prior to a recent bout of a few technical launch delays, Falcon 9 Block 5 has been largely free of major rocket-caused delays. (Richard Angle)
Regardless of the schedule uncertainty and potential for delays, if SpaceX manages to successful launch Starlink-13 and Starlink-14 within the next two or so weeks, October will mark the first time the company has launched three Starlink missions in one month. If the missions weren't for Starlink, SpaceX would effectively be creating the second largest commercial satellite constellation in the world in less than 30 days.
Additionally, NextSpaceflight.com reports that SpaceX has assigned Falcon 9 booster B1060 to Starlink-14. If Starlink-14 lifts off on schedule on October 21st, B1060 will beat out B1058 for the crown of fastest booster turnaround, launching twice in just 48 days. Falcon 9 B1058 set the current world record when it beat NASA's Space Shuttle (54 days) with a 51-day turnaround earlier this year.
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If you have difficulty swallowing the tablet, there is a chewable tablet or oral suspension available.
Can be used by children 4 weeks and older.
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It might be hard to remember to take Isentress (raltegravir) two times a day. Other similar medicines are once a day.
The chewable tablets contain phenylalanine and should be avoided in people who have phenylketonuria.
Isentress (raltegravir) cannot be used alone to treat or prevent HIV. It must be used together with other medications.
Not available as part of a combination tablet, so you'll have to take more tablets daily compared to other combinations.
Isentress (raltegravir) is an integrase inhibitor. It treats or prevents HIV by stopping the virus from reproducing within cells in your immune system.
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This medication, in combination with other antiretroviral agents, treats HIV-1 infection in adults and children (2+).
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It didn't seem like much of a "rescue" when police found 31 sickly dogs tied to metal stakes scattered throughout an Ontario property. It was more like a seizure — the dogs were criminal evidence taken during a 2015 raid on a suspected fighting operation.
They were also deemed pit bulls, a type long banned in this Canadian province. And as such, they were immediately ushered to an undisclosed location while a court determined their fate.
It turned out to be a long wait.
In court, the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) pressed for all of them to be put down. The dogs had known only violence. They couldn't be redeemed.
Dog Tales Rescue and Sanctuary, on the other hand, asked the court to release the dogs to their care, where they could be rehabilitated and eventually find their way to real families.
But it turned out one of the dogs in custody already had family on her mind. She had arrived at the facilities pregnant. And just like that, the Ontario 21 became the Ontario 29.
The law, of course, doesn't stop to swoon over puppies. The new arrivals would also be subject to the court's final ruling. In the meantime, they grew up in that secret shelter.
Until July 2017, when, two years after slamming shut, the kennel door opened.
A judge ruled that the dogs — save for one deemed too dangerous and two others who died in custody — could be released for rehabilitation.
"We're very grateful to have the opportunity to save these lives," Dog Tales co-founder Robert Scheinberg told the Toronto Star at the time. "There's a long road ahead for these dogs. We're going to closely follow all of them."
One of those roads led to Jacksonville, Florida, where a rescue group called Pit Sisters, took in 14 of the Ontario dogs, several of them from that surprise litter.
"They only knew a shelter life," Jen Deane, founder of Pit Sisters, tells MNN.
In early assessments, one of those former pound puppies — a dog named Dallas — turned heads.
"The more we worked with him, the more we thought he should be a police dog," Deane says.
Someone connected Deane with the Throwaway Dogs Project, a Philadelphia organization that specializes in dogs often seen as beyond redemption — finding them jobs as police dogs.
Of course, Dallas had nothing to atone for. He was born into tragedy, his bloodline steeped in sorrow.
But, for all those dogs found on that Ontario property on that miserable day in 2015, Dallas sure had something to prove.
When Throwaway Dogs founder Carol Skaziak, along with a team of behaviorists, arrived in Jacksonville, they spent four rigorous days testing Dallas.
"The first thing I saw in Dallas was a very lovable dog that enjoyed being around humans," Skaziak tells MNN. "Then what I saw was a dog that had extreme play drive."
"Believe it or not, I feel that if we were on top of the Empire State Building, and we threw the ball over the edge, he would go after the ball."
That kind of relentless drive may not be the most coveted quality in a family pet, but for police dogs, it's crucial.
"I said to myself, 'This dog, even though he's kind-natured, doesn't really fit into a family atmosphere. He has ball drive. He's constantly on the go," Skaziak says.
Indeed, in test after test, Dallas strived to hit that ball ever farther.
"With every day that passed, I was becoming more and more in love with this dog," Skaziak recalls. "I thought, 'This is probably going to work out for us. This is a homerun.'"
But there was one crucial strike against Dallas: He was deathly afraid of cars — so much so that he couldn't bring himself to get inside one.
Days later, Deane — a trainer with a gift for bringing out the best in dogs — sent Throwaway Dogs a video of Dallas jumping in and out of cars with unflinching enthusiasm.
And all of a sudden, the dog who nearly never left that secret shelter in Ontario — a dog who was born a victim — would spend the rest of his life standing up for them.
In September, K9 Dallas officially reported for duty.
A puppy named Dallas who was almost euthanized without ever leaving the shelter just landed a dream job: As a police K9.


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Parliamentary procedures
Romania's Parliament voted in favor of a censure motion against the current government led by Traian Razvan Ungureanu on Friday. The vote of 231 MPs was needed for the government to pass. 235 voted in favor of the government of a total of 248 votes. The Ungureanu Government thus loses the confidence of the Parliament in a motion submitted by the opposition union of Social Democrats and Liberals (USL). Shortly after the vote, USL leader Victor Ponta declared that the formation was ready to form a new government.
UPDATE The leader of the Democratic Liberals, Emil Boc, who led the government until Ungureanu took over as PM, said his party would not support another candidate for prime minister. He said those who voted for the motion in the Parliament today had to govern the country. President Traian Basescu meets political leaders on Friday evening over the formation of a new government.
248 MPs were present for the procedure, of a total of 460. Most MPs of the governing coalition of Democratic Liberals and Hungarian Democrats did not attend the vote.
It was the closest vote over a censure motion in the Romanian Parliament ever. Over the past several days, several MPs of the governing coalition defected to join the opposition USL. Early on Friday, USL needed only 4 votes to reach the threshold for the motion to pass and for the government to fall. USL even managed to bring to the Parliament an MP with a medical condition who showed up in wheelchair and another who had left for the US to attend his daughter's wedding.
Scenes of an MP crying and of deputies changing sides in the last minute could be seen in the Parliament before the Friday vote.
The government led by Traian Razvan Ungureanu lasted for less than three months. It was named into office shortly after popular protests hit Bucharest and other Romanian city in January.
Shortly after the vote, Ungureanu said it was an exercise of democracy with all its facets and that "this is not my last word". He did not elaborate on the meaning of his statement.
Ungureanu, who prior to taking over the government was head of the foreign intelligence office, has hinted for the past month that he would not exclude a more active role in Romanian politics.
"USL is decided to assume the reigns of the government until elections. I, [Social Democratic Party, part of USL] PSD leader Victor Ponta, will pe the nomination of USL for the leadership of a new government", Victor Ponta said after the vote. He showed that should USL push for two governments which will not find the necessary support in the Parliament, early elections will take place.


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Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 delayed to 2022
Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines originally launched in 2004 exclusively for the PC platform and since its release, the game has become a rather massive cult following. However, it was a bit of a surprise to finally see a sequel announcement earlier in 2022. Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 is set in Seattle, where the city's vampire factions and clans are at civil war. Players take on the role of a new youngster, and while that normally results in immediate execution, you've managed to save your head during this mass mayhem.
It's still an RPG experience with players not only able to customize and tweak their characters' stats, but you'll also have a variety of options for how you complete missions, and even game options. dialogue. Fortunately, this game is not only a PC version like its predecessor, but you will also find platform versions for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One platforms. That said, while the game was originally slated to hit the market that year, it looks like we're going to see it pushed into 2022.
Announced by the official Vampire Bloodlines Twitter account, a statement was made to alert fans that the title has been pushed back to 2022. We expected a few matches to be delayed this year due to the coronavirus pandemic outbreak. that the world is still going through. However, according to the release, the reason for the delay was to give the team more time to ensure they can deliver a quality product. With all the ambitions set for this title, there is apparently a lot of work left for the developers that won't necessarily allow the title to enter the market until the end of 2022.
More information should be coming soon, but for now the title is pushed back to 2022. That's probably quite disappointing for fans who have been waiting years to see a new installment hit the market, but for now , it seems to get the game that the team intends to see released, we will have to wait a little longer. As a result, we could see the game launch on this generation of consoles and the next generation with the PC, on the same day.
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Hello everyone! Sophie here again. My new blog shows you how to create a gorgeous all-natural serum for dry & sensitive skins. Click to discover more.
Using a serum that is full of moisturising and calming essential oils can really help improve dry and sensitive skin conditions. Serums penetrate the skin a lot deeper than moisturisers and so offer increased benefits from the properties of the oils used.
Geranium - helps to reduce appearance of scars, regenerates new skin cells and helps boost circulation of the blood under the skin.
Rose - a great antioxidant that will help moisturise and heal skin.
Lavender - has great anti-inflammatory properties which help to calm and balance the skin and allow it to regenerate naturally.
Peach Kernel makes a great base oil for this serum. It's rich in vitamins and minerals, is a great emollient (moisturiser) in its own right and is light and easily absorbed into the skin.
Here's my recipe for a gorgeous serum for dry & sensitive skins.
Add the blend to a dark glass bottle and shake well before each use.
There are many other essential oils that are great for dry and sensitive skins. Chamomile is a very gentle, soothing oil and a great alternative to Lavender. Jasmin can help tone and soothe dry & sensitive skin and can be used instead of Rose.
These are just a couple of alternative oils you could try if you are not keen on the oils I've used in the above blend.
To ensure you do not waste any oils whilst trying out your serum blend for the first time start with a small amount like 30ml. If your skin works well with the blend and you are happy with the results you can go on to increasing the quantities proportionally to create larger amounts.
Once you have cleansed and toned your skin, apply a small amount of the serum to the tip of your fingertips and gently massage over the entire face. A great tip for dry skins is to apply the serum while your skin is a still a little wet after toning. This will help to lock in moisture.
Always carry out a patch test when trying new skincare and ingredients. Simply apply a small amount of the blend to the inside of your elbow and keep an eye on the area for the next 24 hours. If any irritation occurs, rinse the area well. You may need to test each ingredient individually to establish which is causing the reaction.
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Since I'm traveling right now, I thought I'd give everyone a little insight into my life at work. When I go on these trips, I have to meet and entertain very important people. These people are on the caliber of the Pope or the King of Russia. They are so important that if I told you their names, you wouldn't even know who they were. They're that important.
Here I am shaking hands with one of the top people of the world. Just think about it!
Because of the essential nature of my work, its often necessary that I go out with my important clients to play the back nine. As you can imagine from these shots, I have a very impressive handicap rating.
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Road of the Dead: Highway to Hell #1
Writer: Jonathan Maberry	Artist: Drew Moss Publisher: IDW Publishing Release Date: November 7, 2018 Cover Price: $4.99 Critic Reviews: 7
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An over-the-top wild ride prequel to ROAD OF THE DEAD! Written by Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author and creator of V-WARS. The dead rose and are feasting on the living. A young scientist may hold the secret to a cure. Zombies and biker gangs want her dead. A bunch of losers in muscle cars and a hijacked tank will risk everything to save her.
  Five-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author, Jonathan Maberry, is back for a new take on the world of the undead!
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Horror DNA - James Ferguson Nov 24, 2018
This makes Road of the Dead rather unpredictable. Just when you have an idea of where it's going to go next, the story takes a sharp turn. In a world with a glut of zombie stories, this one found something new and interesting. This is a stellar first issue and I can't wait to sink my teeth into more. Read Full Review
GWW - Lee Gough Nov 7, 2018
The issue has a mad max style biker gang that can be seen chasing the survivors later on and a bloody battle is beautifully drawn in detail. It uses the old questions that most zombie stories do in that in a world where the dead walk the earth: who are they ever real threats? It's always the humans over the zombies and by the close of the issue it is here too. I thoroughly enjoyed this issue and was a highly anticipating its release. It never dipped in its writing or artwork and I'm already loving the band of survivors. With the walking dead recently losing its main attraction on television, this is the watch to cure the undead blues. I highly recommend you pick up issue #1 of Road of the Dead: Higheay to hell. It's wild, it's mature and it'll leave you wanting more. Read Full Review
The Brazen Bull - Dave Robbins Nov 7, 2018
Road of the Dead: Highway to Hell #1 is chock full of zombies, outlaw bikers and savage civilian conspiracy theorists, as one would expect at the end of the world. An M1 Abrams tank adds to the fun in this less than subtle, but entertaining apocalypse tale. Read Full Review
Major Spoilers - Robert Mammone Dec 31, 1969
Zombie fiction is not dead, but it sure aint alive, either. There will always be a place for it within the horror canon, but as with anything, the wheel has begun to turn. It will come back, after the next iteration of the vampire, witch or Cthulhu-esque monster has had its turn on the stage. Until that moment, Road of the Dead: Highway to Hell #1 is a more than adequate placeholder. Read Full Review
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With the heavier bits of exposition out of the way, hopefully the next issue can offer readers something deserving of Romero's legacy. Read Full Review
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Fast paced action but a mediocre story makes this zombie tale drag along. Read Full Review
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An O.K. continuation of Romero's Dead universe that is a bit more over-the-top than the movies, but does not fully dig the franchise out of the rut the last few films left it in. Read Full Review
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Q: Prove that $\sqrt{x}+\sqrt{y}\neq \sqrt{x+y}$ where $x$ and $y$ are positive real numbers I should do it by contradiction. Would finding a counterexample work? For example:
Suppose $\sqrt{x}+\sqrt{y}=\sqrt{x+y}$. Then $\sqrt{4}+\sqrt{9}=\sqrt{4+9}$, which means $2+3=\sqrt{13}$ which is a contradiction.
Is this a correct (even though no beautiful) proof?

A: If $\sqrt x+\sqrt y=\sqrt{x+y}$,
then $x+2\sqrt{x}\sqrt{y}+y=x+y\Longrightarrow \sqrt x\sqrt y =0$
which is impossible since $x,y$ are positive reals. Contradiction.

A: Assume it is true. Square both sides. You'll get $x+y+2\sqrt{xy}= x+y$.
$\implies \sqrt{xy} = 0$
$\implies xy=0$
$ \implies x=y=0$
or $ x=0, y \neq 0$
or $ y=0, x \neq 0$
So this statement isn't true for all $x,y$, but only the above 3 cases.

A: Whether a single example counts as a complete, correct proof depends on the tacit quantifier behind the assertion "$\sqrt x+\sqrt y\not=\sqrt{x+y}$ where $x$ and $y$ are positive real numbers." If the careful formulation is
$$\exists x,y\in\mathbb{R}^+: \sqrt x+\sqrt y\not=\sqrt{x+y}$$
then yes, a single example suffices. But if the careful formulation is
$$\forall x,y\in\mathbb{R}^+: \sqrt x+\sqrt y\not=\sqrt{x+y}$$
then a single example is not enough (and a proof along the lines of the other answers here is required).
To move the negation around, the first formulation says that the equation $\sqrt x+\sqrt y=\sqrt{x+y}$ (with $x,y\in\mathbb{R}^+$) is not an identity, whereas the second formulation says the equation has no solutions.

A: Overkill?
Let $x,y \ge 0$, real.
Then set $a:=√x;$ $b:=√y;$
We have
LHS: $a+b;$
RHS: $\sqrt{a^2+b^2}=\sqrt{(a+b)^2-2ab}\le $
$\sqrt{(a+b)^2}=a+b.$
Equality: $\iff$ $ab=0,$ i.e. $a=0$ or $b=0.$
Used: $f(x)=√x$  is an increasing function.


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Oprah Winfrey Sets The Record Straight, Says She'll Never Run For President
Welp. Looks like Mother O won't be the one to save us in 2020.
Danielle Jennings
With the disgrace, incompetency and overall outrage at the current Trump administration, many are hoping for a sense of relief during the 2020 presidential election and Oprah Winfrey was rumored to be a top contender…but not anymore.
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Oprah Winfrey recently dashed any hopes of a possible 2020 presidential run when she revealed that it would never happen. As reported by The Root, while being interviewed by the Hollywood Reporter's podcast Awards Chatter she emphatically stated that there would be no future presidential plans for her.
"I will never run for public office," Winfrey said. "That's a pretty definitive thing." When pressed further and asked if she thought she could beat Donald Trump should he decide to run for a second term, she was even more adamant about not running. "I don't know. I don't know the answer to that," she said. "But I will never have to know the answer to that because I will never run for public office."
And with that, Mother O just shut down any possible hopes that she could save us from a possible repeat of #45 and his gang of fools. With both Michelle Obama and Winfrey out of the running, it appears that the democratic frontrunner could be former Vice President Joe Biden.
Meanwhile, Winfrey is gearing up for the season two premiere of the hit OWN network drama series Queen Sugar, which is slated for a two-night premiere on June 20 and June 21 at 10P.M.
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