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Interesting facts about Richard Gere
Richard Gere is an American actor.
His full name is Richard Tiffany Gere.
He was born on August 31, 1949, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
His father, Homer George Gere, was an insurance agent while his mother, Doris Ann (née Tiffany), was a housewife while.
He is the second child in the family, in which he has three sisters and one younger brother.
Gere has English, and small amounts (to varying degrees) of Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), Welsh, Dutch, Scottish, and French, ancestry. He has deep roots in the state of Pennsylvania, and is also a Mayflower descendant, with American roots going back to Massachusetts of the 1600s.
He spent his childhood in upstate New York.
In 1967, Gere graduated from North Syracuse Central High School, where he excelled at gymnastics and music, playing the trumpet.
He enrolled at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst on a gymnastics scholarship, majoring in philosophy, but left college after two years to work as a musician.
He performed in numerous bands and began acting in summer programs throughout New England.
His first major acting role was in the original London stage version of Grease in 1973.
He had a small role in his first film, Report to the Commissioner (1975), but he gained recognition for his performance alongside Diane Keaton in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), a dark character study of a troubled young woman.
Than he starred in director Terrence Malick's well-reviewed drama Days of Heaven (1978).
Gere was one of the first notable Hollywood actors to play a homosexual character, starring as a gay Holocaust victim in the 1979 Broadway production of Bent; Gere's performance earned him a Theatre World Award.
Than he played the title role in American Gigolo (1980), which significantly boosted his profile.
In 1982 Gere starred as the young navy officer candidate Zack Mayo in An Officer and a Gentleman. The film was a box office success, and it established Gere as a major star.
After several poorly received films, he scored another hit with Pretty Woman (1990), portraying a wealthy businessman who employs and later falls in love with a prostitute (played by Julia Roberts).
Also in 1990 he starred in crime thriller Internal Affairs, portraying a cop who has managed to maintain a spotless reputation despite being involved in a web of corruption.
In 1993, he starred in the romantic drama Sommersby directed by Jon Amiel and co-starring Jodie Foster.
Gere earned critical praise for Primal Fear (1996), a courtroom drama in which he starred as an attorney who defends an altar boy (played by Edward Norton) accused of murdering a prominent priest.
In 1997, he took a leading role in the action thriller The Jackal, playing former IRA militant Declan
Mulqueen; Gere affected an Irish accent for the role.
In 1999, he reteamed with Roberts in the romantic comedy Runaway Bride which was a runaway success (Richard got $12 million, Julia made $17 million, the box office was $152 million)
In 2002 Gere starred as defense attorney Billy Flynn in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Chicago and won a Golden Globe for his performance.
Also in 2002 he starred in the supernatural horror mystery The Mothman Prophecies, and in the thriller drama Unfaithful.
In 2004, he once again stunned audiences with his versatility in Shall We Dance opposite Jennifer Lopez. The movie went on to become a huge success at the box-office, grossing $170 million.
His next film, the book-to-screen adaptation Bee Season (2005), was a commercial failure.
In The Hoax (2006), which was based on a true story, he portrayed Clifford Irving, a writer who pens a false biography of Howard Hughes.
Gere went on to co-star with Jesse Eisenberg and Terrence Howard in The Hunting Party (2007), a thriller in which he played a journalist in Bosnia.
He than appeared as Billy the Kid, one of six pseudo-biographical embodiments of Bob Dylan, in the critically acclaimed I'm Not There (2007).
Gere co-starred with Diane Lane in the romantic drama Nights in Rodanthe (2008). The film was widely panned by critics, but grossed over $84 million worldwide.
In 2009, he appeared in the drama film Hachi: A Dog's Tale. Based on the true story of a faithful Akita Inu, the titular Hachikō, it is directed by Lasse Hallström, is written by Stephen P. Lindsey and Kaneto Shindo and also stars Joan Allen and Sarah Roemer. The subject is a remake of the 1987 Japanese film, Hachikō Monogatari (ハチ公物語), literally "The Tale of Hachiko".
Also in 2009, he appeared in crime film Brooklyn's Finest co-starring Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke and Wesley Snipes.
Gere than appeared in Amelia (2009), a biopic about the American aviator Amelia Earhart (played by Hilary Swank).
In 2011 he starred in The Double a spy film, directed by Michael Brandt and co-starring Topher Grace.
Gere appeared in the thriller Arbitrage (2012), in which he starred as a scandal-plagued venture capitalist, earning his fourth Golden Globe Award nomination.
He starred in the unsettling drama The Benefactor (2015), in which he played a wealthy drug addict who wheedles and bribes his way into the lives of a young couple.
Gere made a notable departure from his traditional screen persona with Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (2016). The political drama saw him portray Norman Oppenheimer, a "small time Jewish 'fixer'".
In 2017, Gere starred in the drama film Three Christs, based on the book The Three Christs of Ypsilanti by Milton Rokeach.
Richard Gere has an estimated net worth of $100 million.
Gere was married to supermodel Cindy Crawford from 1991 to 1995.
In November 2002, he married model and actress Carey Lowell. They have a son, Homer James Jigme Gere, who was born in February 2000 and is named after Gere's and Lowell's fathers, as well as the Tibetan name Jigme. "Jigme" means "fearless" in Tibetan. In September 2013, the two separated after 11 years of marriage.
Gere was raised attending a Methodist church. His interest in Buddhism began when he was in his twenties.
He spent 1978 meeting Tibetans when he traveled to Nepal, where he spoke to many monks and lamas.
He met the 14th Dalai Lama in India and became a practicing Tibetan Buddhist of the Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism and an active supporter of the Dalai Lama.
Gere regularly visits Dharamshala, the headquarters of the Tibetan government-in-exile.
A Buddhist for over a decade, Gere was banned from the Oscars once after making anti-China comments on the air at the 1993 ceremony.
When the Chinese Government asked Gere to one of their film festivals, Gere would go attend two conditions: 1. That he was allowed to bring his own interpreter and 2. That he would stay in Taipei, Taiwan during his visit. The government agreed and Gere went to the festival.
In the early 1980s, Richard went to Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador (amidst ongoing wars and political violence); he traveled with a doctor and visited refugee camps.
Gere is an accomplished pianist and music writer; in fact, he composed and performed the piano solo featured in Pretty Woman (1990).
He trained for five months for the tap dance scene in Chicago (2002).
For his role as Clifford Irving in The Hoax (2006), Gere shaved back his hairline, got a perm, and even altered the appearance of his nose to fit the part.
Gere's name is on some lists of famous vegetarians. However, he is not a vegetarian.
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New research by a professor at Western University shows that the Common Sense Revolution espoused by former Ontario premier Mike Harris, seen here in a portrait from 1994, was unsuccessful in reducing the size of municipal government.
Amalgamation brought fewer Ontario cities, but more city workers, report finds
New analysis finds local governments actually grew bigger, faster, after Mike Harris's so-called Common Sense Revolution, which massively restructured Toronto and other cities with the aim of reducing costs.
By Wendy GillisStaff Reporter
Mon., Jan. 13, 2014timer6 min. read
It was dubbed the Common Sense Revolution — Progressive Conservative premier Mike Harris's 1995 campaign to slash the province's bloated public sector through massive municipal government restructuring, to the tune of $250 million in taxpayer savings.
But new analysis has found that while amalgamation technically decreased the number of municipalities in Ontario — down from 850 to 445 — and 23 per cent of elected official positions were axed, more people than ever are working in Ontario's municipal governments.
"The conclusion is very strong: amalgamation didn't reduce the size of municipal government," said Timothy Cobban, political science professor at Western University and lead researcher.
Cobban and his team crunched government data, including Statistics Canada numbers for 15 years before and after the provincial amalgamation, to determine just how much sense Harris's plan made in the long run.
The results show the municipal public sector grew, both in employment and cost, and expanded at a faster rate than it had in the decade before amalgamation.
From 1981 to 1996, Ontario's municipal governments grew by 23.9 per cent overall, adding 39,191 jobs. During the 15 years post-amalgamation, from 1996 to 2011, they grew by 38.8 per cent, adding 104,200 jobs. In total, about 270,000 people work in the municipal public sector in Ontario today, compared with 160,000 people in 1995.
That has translated into a sizeable spending spike: in 1981, Ontario spent just under $200 million on local government salaries and wages. By 2011, that number had increased to $750 million.
The rising number of government workers is not explained by population growth, Cobban says: The statistics show that in 1990, there were 15.8 municipal workers per thousand residents, while in 2010 there were 20.9 workers per thousand.
Cobban attributes this expansion to several other factors.
First, when municipalities merge, there will inevitably be jobs created in some fields. For instance, if suburban and urban areas merge, new firefighters will probably need to be hired, because the suburb may have previously had a part-time or volunteer department.
"Typically, as they get merged into a city, you end up with a full-time fire department and various other services," said Cobban. "There's upward pressure on services as people in one area of a city will understandably demand comparable services as people on other sides of the city."
Amalgamation also tends to hike wages for public-sector employees, since merging of collective bargaining units usually means compensation is harmonized upwards, Cobban said.
Growth can also be partly explained by the so-called "downloading" of provincial responsibilities onto municipalities that occurred under the Harris government, including social assistance, public housing and public health.
For instance, in 1991, just 3.4 per cent of Ontario's municipal government workers were employed in social services. By 2011, that number had more than doubled, to 7.8 per cent.
But numbers also increased in areas unaffected by downloading, including administrative roles such as clerks and treasurers, Cobban found.
"This is a significant finding because the ( Common Sense Revolution ) platform sought to reduce the number of administration roles . . . by reducing the number of municipalities, but this did not occur," Cobban wrote in a preliminary report on the research, prepared for a recent presentation to Hamilton's city council.
The findings don't necessarily mean amalgamation as a whole was a failure, Cobban said. Though it's clear it didn't achieve its stated goal, it may have produced municipalities that are stronger and better run, he said.
"We're agnostic about the conclusion, about whether it's good or bad on its own," he said.
Andrew Sancton, Western University professor and author of Merger Mania: The Assault on Local Government , said he was not surprised by the findings.
Sancton was hired by the pre-amalgamation city of Toronto to prepare a rebuttal to the province's report, prepared by KPMG, which said the changes suggested in the Common Sense Revolution would save money.
Based on academic research and real-world examples of other amalgamated cities, Sancton's report found that there wasn't a strong argument to be made for economies of scale — that is, that costs decrease when operations grow. Sancton found that there weren't many economies of scale in services that were not already amalgamated in Toronto and other cities.
It also foreshadowed Cobban's findings, saying wage and service levels were likely to increase.
"All the evidence was that there was little or no prospect of saving money," he said.
Chris Stockwell , a member of the Harris government during amalgamation, said he was opposed to it from the beginning. He claims there was little discussion about its implications before the idea was launched into the public realm during the 1995 election.
"Listen, I'm a big fan of the Harris government; we made some good decisions, but this one . . . it just came out of the air," Stockwell said.
A politician who worked in local, regional and then provincial government, Stockwell felt government grew less connected to constituents the bigger it got, and that small governments are the most efficient.
Doug Holyday , former Toronto deputy mayor and now the MPP for Etobicoke-Lakeshore, was Etobicoke's mayor during the push for amalgamation, and was in the minority among GTA mayors when he did not oppose it.
At the time, it seemed there was logic in fusing the numerous clerical offices, fire departments and more, and he was seeing similar moves in the corporate world.
"There were companies amalgamating throughout the world that were doing it, for good reason, and I thought those good reasons should apply here," he said. But he's not surprised to learn the size and cost of municipal governments in Ontario is larger than ever. "I watched it happen," he said.
A major problem was the lack of political will on the part of municipal leaders, who did not strongly enforce cuts in the number of jobs in their offices by getting rid of redundant positions, he said.
"Bureaucracy just by its nature grows, unless it's fought with," Holyday said.
Cobban's team also found that Ontario has more municipal government workers than any other province. Forty-three per cent of all municipal employees in Canada work in Ontario — a disproportionately large share, says Cobban, since Ontario has only 38 per cent of the country's population.
Researchers also found a shift in government employment in Canada in general. In 1981, the largest portion of government workers were federal, followed by provincial workers, then municipal. By 2000, that structure had become bottom heavy, with 43 per cent of public-sector employees in Canada working for municipal governments, followed by the federal then provincial governments.
Amalgamation, by the numbers
Number of municipal workers in Canada in 1981: 270,000
Percentage of Canadian municipal workers employed in Ontario: 43
Percentage of Canadian population living in Ontario: 38
Local government employees per 1,000 people in 1990, in Ontario: 15.8

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LeBron, Curry, Durant say NBA champ won't go to White House
LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers drives against Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors in Game 2 of the 2018 NBA Finals at ORACLE Arena on June 3, 2018 in Oakland, California. (AFP pic)
CLEVELAND: Cleveland star LeBron James and Golden State's Stephen Curry said Tuesday the NBA Finals champions will not be visiting US President Donald Trump in the White House no matter whether the Cavaliers or Warriors win the crown.
A day after Trump revoked an invitation to the NFL champion Philadelphia Eagles to visit the White House amid reports fewer than 10 players would take part, the NBA's elite closed ranks to condemn the president.
"It's typical of him," James said. "I'm not suprised. Typical of him.
"I know no matter who wins this series, no one wants the invite anyway. It won't be Cleveland or Golden State going."
When asked for his remarks later, Curry added: "I agree with 'Bron."
Team-mate Kevin Durant also concurred. "I'm sure whoever wins this series won't be going," Durant said.
Last September, Trump withdrew an invitation to the Warriors after they beat Cleveland in last year's final following remarks from Curry saying he didn't want to attend.
"You've got to do what's in the best interest of your team," Curry said. "It's unfortunate but we all have to do what we have to do and the Eagles fall right into that."
The Eagles no-go might signal an end to what has been a decades-old tradition, Warriors forward Draymond Green said.
"Maybe it's just a tradition that needs to stop if everybody is going to be disinvited," Green said.
The Warriors, who lead Cleveland 2-0 in the best-of-seven series entering game three Wednesday, would likely follow the lead of what they did last year when they went to Washington and spent the day with children instead of what would have been a White House trip.
"I hope to be in that situation," Curry said. "The way we handled things last year, we'd stay consistent with that."
Normal in three years?
Warriors coach Steve Kerr, a frequent critic of Trump, said teams look forward to returning to the White House under a new leader.
"It's not surprising," Kerr said. "The President has made it pretty clear he's going to try and divide us all in the country for political gain. We're all looking forward to the day when we can go back to just having a celebration and celebrate Americans for their achievement.
"It will be nice when we can just get back to normal, in three years."
James also supported NFL players who choose to kneel during the pre-game playing of the US national anthem, an issue Trump has stirred for nine months.
"There are a lot of things we believe in as Americans we don't believe he's for," James said. "A lot of people that believe he's not for the people or doing things that's right by the people."
Kerr said it's important to be clear upon the players reasons for kneeling.
"You have to understand that what players have protested is not the military," Kerr said. "They're protesting police brutality and racial inequality."
Curry said he was not shocked to see how the White House appearance issue has escalated since last September.
"You can't control what other people try and do to control the narrative," Curry said.
James said people should not forget the championship season the Eagles had because of the situation with Trump.
"Let's not have someone disinviting them from his house take away from that moment," James said. "A championsahip is way bigger than getting invited to the White House, especially with him in there."
Laugh to stop from crying
James also shook his head at the Women's NBA champions not being invited last year.
"It's laughable at this point," James said. "You laugh to stop from crying."
Trump tweeted the Eagles didn't want to appear because he "insists they properly stand for the National Anthem" but no Eagles player ever took part in the anthem kneeling protest.
Trump, who has equated the protest with disrespect of flag and nation, said last September that any protesting "son of a bitch" should be fired and added recently "maybe you shouldn't be in the country."
When Curry snubbed Trump last September, he noted golfing with former President Barack Obama and said, "I'm pretty sure I won't get a tee-time invite during this regime."
James defended Curry after Trump blamed him for the disinvitation, tweeting: "U bum. @StephenCurry30 already said he ain't going! So therefore ain't no invite. Going to White House was a great honor until you showed up."
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Soccer king Cristiano Ronaldo is not one for subtlety. On the field he's known for outrageous moves and free kicks that arc like meteors. Off the field, Ronaldo rocks fashion-forward looks that few others could pull off, like the blue python-skin jacket he brought to his Men's Health cover photo shoot in Madrid.
But there's a method to his brashness. His bold play intimidates opponents, and his bold style exudes assertiveness. "The most important thing is wearing what helps you feel confident," says Ronaldo, whose favorite designers include Dsquared2 and Dolce & Gabbana. "Wear what you like, not what fashion dictates. I try to be true to myself. Of course, your style changes and evolves. It becomes more refined as you get older, but your taste remains the same.
"One thing that is very important to me now is quality," he adds. "I like clothes that have been well made and use top-quality materials. I have always liked colors and still do." That approach extends to his new underwear line, CR7, which uses a blend of 95 percent cotton and 5 percent Lycra; some styles feature 100 percent microfiber. "When I get dressed, I like to feel good from the first thing I put on to the last," says Ronaldo. "Foundations are very important."
To launch the line, Ronaldo teamed up with New York City designer Richard Chai and Danish boutique brand JBS, which has 75 years of experience making underwear. Chai, who founded his own label and has also collaborated with Filson and Original Penguin, wanted to create something uniquely Ronaldo—sporty, bold, creative. So he traveled to Spain and watched Ronaldo's club team, Real Madrid, play a match against Seville. "Cris scored a hat trick in a wild 7-3 win. That's the energy and athleticism I want the brand to explore," says Chai.
"The average guy wants more than just basics now," says Chai. Some of it is practical: You should wear trunks or briefs with skinny jeans or Euro-cut chinos. But underwear is also another way to express your style, says Chai. "You could be wearing a conservative suit with a bold pair of trunks underneath." Steal these other tips to score still more accessory points.
Ronaldo has often been spotted wearing a rosary-bead necklace. Donning jewelry that holds spiritual or personal meaning, whether it's religious or nostalgic—like a memento from a trip—is one way to express your personality, says Megan Collins of the men's fashion website Style Girlfriend. "Women wear baubles that hold no sentimental attachment at all; they simply add interest to an outfit. But men wearing accessories for accessories' sake is still taboo. Accessories with a backstory always score extra style points."
Apple's head honcho wore a daily uniform of jeans and a black mock turtle-neck, an example of finding your look and sticking with it. But an upgrade to that approach is to find a look you like and then purchase it in every available color. This approach works for jeans, chinos, jackets, shoes, and sneakers alike. Ronaldo extends it to aviator-style sunglasses; he sports classic metal frames as well as white and red plastic versions. "Whatever makes getting dressed well in the morning easier," Collins says.
Wabi sabi is a Japanese expression that refers to the beauty in imperfections. Ronaldo, a brand partner with TAG Heuer, has a big-time watch collection. To balance the perfect movements, precise numbering, and shiny metal, he often wears a simple leather bracelet. "If you're rocking a chunky watch, then you need to contrast it on your other wrist," says Collins. "You don't want your jingling jewelry to make an entrance before you do."
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The Fall-Winter 2016/2017 yarns evoke climatic variations, and trace the fluctuations in naturally occurring phenomena. Materials are transformed, suggesting rain, mist, snow, frost and cold lights. Fibres are blended, growing airy or tighter, to warm, envelope and embellish in any weather.
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Now That We're All Over The Shock Of Antoine Fuqua Cheating, Let's Leave Lela Rochon And Her Body Alone
By MadameNoire
Source: Paul Archuleta / Getty
By Nicole Gilley
Eniko Hart, Torrei Hart, Gabrielle Union, Halle Berry, Cardi B, and the queen herself Beyoncé all have one thing in common: their partners cheated on them. Never once did we shame or blame these women for their partners' transgressions. In fact, the response was quite the opposite; we empathized with them. We understood that being cheated on is something most, if not all women, have experienced at least once in their lifetime. Yet, when Antoine Fuqua was caught on a romantic Italian rendezvous with Nicole Murphy last week, few pointed a dismissive finger at the director. Suddenly Lela Rochon and her size were to blame for her husband's infidelity.
See something else Hart, Union, Berry, and Bey have in common is they're the beauty standard. These women are both thick and thin in all of the right places. So being that they're considered perfect, or as close to it as possible, it couldn't possibly be their fault that they got played. Lela Rochon, on the other hand, has gained weight since her "Waiting to Exhale" days. And because the "men are visual" and "it's a woman's job to keep her man pleased" rhetoric has been fed down our throats so long, the Internet has taken it upon themselves to chastise Lela for her husband's wrongdoings. The logic being that Antoine had no choice but to cheat with Nicole considering Lela didn't keep her body right and tight for his viewing pleasure over the years.
As you can see from these posts, it's not typical fatphobic sexism at the crux of these arguments. Women are taking part in the blame game as well. Sadly, memes of a similar ilk were already floating around the Internet before last week's incident. Memes that featured side-by-side images of Lela in her 20s versus the the 55-year-old woman she is now, "joking" that this is a replication of your high school crush when you wanted her and your high school crush now that she wants you. The actress's husband's infidelity has only added more fuel to the fat-shaming fire.
Lela and Antoine married in April of 1999 and have two children together, 17-year-old daughter Asia and 15-year-old son Brando. Lela has been out of the public eye for quite some time to reportedly focus on being a wife and mother. In 2013, she detailed how she was forced to slow down professionally in order to have healthy babies after miscarrying during her first pregnancy.
"Five months into my first pregnancy, my water broke while at work," she told Mocha Manual. " It was 4:00 p.m. I had to deliver a little boy, but he was too young to survive. It never occurred to me that something so terrible would happen to me. I was healthy physically. I was athletic. But I was working too much and I was stressed. A week before I lost the baby, I was at the Golden Globes smiling and grinning on the red carpet. I didn't realize how stressed I was….
"As Black women, it's not always easy for us to say, 'No,' or 'I can't.' But if I could give up the so-called success – the TV shows, the movies or whatever – to have that baby back, I would do so in a second."
Antoine, on the other hand, went on to direct movies such as the award-winning film "Training Day," starring Denzel Washington — and to father more children. According to court documents, in 2010 Antoine was behind in child support to the tune of $86,000.00, asking the court to reduce his child support payments from $10,000 per month to $3,134.00 per month for his son, Roman Jimenez, whom he admitted to fathering with a woman named Ruth Jimenez. Additional rumors have continued to circulate in the years since, with claims of the 53-year-old fathering a second child during his marriage, though there are no court documents to substantiate the claim. Regardless, it's clear Antoine has a past of not only cheating on his wife but having unprotected sex while doing so. In case you haven't already come to the conclusion that we place sole blame on Antoine for his philandering ways, allow us to also suggest the stress he's placed on Lela over the years may have also contributed to her weight gain which people are so quick to call out. In 2015, "Researchers from Ohio State University and the University of Delaware found that an unhappy marriage affects each spouse's body's ability to regulate appetite and to make healthy diet choices-essentially confirming what you already knew about emotional eating," Shape magazine reported. So, unhappy wife, unhealthy waistline.
It's sad we live in a world where we teach our girls they're responsible for a man's inability to keep it in his pants. It's even sadder to know more blame has been placed on Lela than Nicole in this situation. Interestingly enough, despite her failed attempts at spinning this messy situation, this isn't the first time Nicole's been rumored to be with someone else's husband. After the picture of her and Antoine went viral, actress LisaRaye McCoy was quick to accuse the 51-year-old former model of doing the same thing to her years ago with her then-husband Michael Misick.
If you've ever been cheated on you know it's hard enough to deal with the emotional pain of discovering your spouse has broken their vows. Let's keep in mind Lela not only has to wrestle with those feelings, and the natural question we tend to ask ourselves when we discover our partner's mistress — what does she have that I don't — she has to deal with this publicly. By sharing memes like the ones above and engaging in conversations like this, we're adding insult to injury by shaming Lela due to her body size. How about we assign blame to the parties who actually deserve it and leave Lela alone.


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El Abierto de Tenis Mifel 2022 fue un torneo de tenis perteneciente al ATP Tour 2022 en la categoría ATP Tour 250. El torneo tuvo lugar en la ciudad de Los Cabos (México), desde el 1 hasta el 6 de agosto de 2022 sobre pistas rápidas.

Distribución de puntos

Cabezas de serie

Individuales masculino

 Ranking del 25 de julio de 2022.

Dobles masculino

Campeones

Individual masculino

 Daniil Medvédev venció a  Cameron Norrie por 7-5, 6-0

Dobles masculino

 William Blumberg /  Miomir Kecmanović vencieron a  Raven Klaasen /  Marcelo Melo por 6-0, 6-1

Véase también
 Torneos ATP en 2022
 Abierto de Tenis Mifel

Referencias

Enlaces externos
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Torneo de Los Cabos 2022

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This is a 7 nights and 8 day cycle holiday in the Turku Archipelago in Finland. The tour starts and ends in Turku and has stop overs on the island of Kustavi and in Nauvo and Naantali.
The 7 nights accommodation includes breakfast and 2 dinners. And stop overs are spent in either small selected hotels or guesthouses. The Hotels offer excellent local cuisine, and the guesthouses provide traditional Finnish home country cooking.
The cycling is graded as Easy - Moderate, as the terrain is generally easy, with occasional rolling sections. Dates and route are subject to change depending on ferry schedule, which is not available until the new year. The maximum distance on any stage is 65km.


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Sen. Tim Gragert
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Legislative Update – April 26, 2019
The public hearing on the amendment to LB 289 that contained the Revenue Committee's proposal for property tax relief was held April 24th before the Revenue, Education, and Retirement Committees. The public hearing started at approximately 4:00 p.m., after the Legislature adjourned early, and finished at 11:00 p.m. More than sixty people spoke at the hearing, with only four testifying in support of the measure.
Senator Lou Ann Linehan, the chair of the Revenue Committee, explained the amendment, which was introduced in an effort to provide long-term property tax relief for all Nebraskans. Nebraska places well among states in per pupil K-12 school spending. However, in terms of state funding as a percentage of overall funding, we rank 46th. Unsurprisingly, Nebraska ranks 3rd from the highest for local funding of our schools. With the proposed amendment, Nebraska would increase from 46th to 20th, when comparing state support for K-12 schools with other states. The proposed amendment would establish a foundation aid factor, amounting to a per student state revenue contribution of $3,474 per student for the 2019/2020 school year. The proposal would also lower the local effort rate in the school state aid formula and reduce the valuation of property by ten percent. It guarantees that every school district will receive at least one-third of its formula needs from state aid. School spending would be limited to the CPI inflation rate.
Most of the testifiers commended the committee for their work on property tax relief, but proceeded to criticize the portion of the plan that affected them or the people that they represent. The largest school districts warned that it would reduce their funding, realtors fought the increase in the documentary stamp fee, veterinarians feared the imposition of sales tax on services for pets, farmers resisted the loss of the Property Tax Credit program, cities lamented the reduction of property tax revenue, grocery store owners rejected the collection of sales tax on candy, pop and bottled water, and convenience store owners opposed the increase in the cigarette tax.
From studies I've seen, Nebraska ranks high in property tax burden among the states, about average in income tax burden, and somewhat low in sales tax burden. The proposed amendment to LB 289 seeks to increase the state's sales tax rate from 5.5% to 6.25%, eliminate a couple of sales tax exemptions, and tax a limited number of services, in order to fund the property tax relief measure. I would rather see further broadening of the sales tax base than an increase in the sales tax rate.
In light of the opposing testimony, the Revenue Committee is meeting in executive session in an attempt to alter the funding sources for the property tax relief plan. Discussions have included retaining the current Property Tax Credit program (that gives $224 million worth of relief to taxpayers and is reflected on their property tax statements), eliminating more sales tax exemptions, and lowering the proposed sales tax increase.
The Legislature debated Senator Ernie Chambers' annual bill to repeal the death penalty this past week. After approximately three hours of debate, LB 44 failed to advance to the second stage of debate on a 17-25 vote. In 2016, voters overturned the Legislature's repeal of the death penalty. Most senators felt it was too soon to attempt to change this, as it would ignore the will of the people.
I am continuing to work with local officials, NEMA and the Department of Transportation on the bridge projects and water issues, due to the recent flooding. I can assure you that state officials have prioritized these projects.
The Legislature will start meeting into the evening in order to get our work accomplished by the early part of June. I still encourage you to contact me with your thoughts and opinions on legislation before us. I can be reached at District #40, P.O. Box 94604, State Capitol, Lincoln, NE 68509. My telephone number is (402) 471-2801 and my email address is tgragert@leg.ne.gov.
Tags: death penalty, Department of Transportation, LB 289, LB 44, NEMA, Property Tax Credit program, property tax relief, Revenue Committee, sales tax rate, Senator Ernie Chambers, Senator Lou Ann Linehan
Legislative Update – April 5, 2019
My priority bill, LB 243, received second-round approval this past week on a 46-1 vote, after a lengthy debate that had nothing to do with the legislation. It is now ready for Final Reading. Under LB 243, a Healthy Soils Task Force would be created, whose purpose is to develop a comprehensive plan to promote more widespread use of healthy soil practices among farm and ranch landowners and operators in Nebraska in order to improve the health, yield and profitability of the soil, increase its carbon sequestration capacity, and improve water quality. I have already received letters from several people across the state, expressing their desire to serve on the task force. If the bill passes, I will pass their information on to the governor, who will appoint the task force members.
LB 15, which creates the Children of Nebraska Hearing Aid Act, received first-round approval on a 39-0 vote. The bill requires individual or group health insurance policies to provide coverage for children under the age of nineteen that includes hearing aids and associated services. The bill caps the benefits paid for hearing aids and services during the prior two-year period at $3,000. The bill would not apply to small employer group plans or policies providing limited-benefit coverage. Furthermore, health insurance plans are exempt if the cost of coverage exceeds 1% of all premiums collected under the plan. Thirty-one senators, including myself, signed on as co-sponsors to the bill, introduced by Bellevue Senator Carol Blood. LB 15 was designated as a speaker priority bill.
The Legislature began debating LB 483, which changes the way agricultural land is valued for property tax purposes. Currently, ag land is valued based on market sales. LB 483 proposes to value such land at its agricultural productivity value, which considers how much income can be earned off the land. Some of our surrounding states use a similar method of valuing ag land. The intent is not to reduce property valuations, but to provide for a fairer system. Governor Ricketts has expressed his support for the measure. However, some concern was expressed as to the constitutionality of the proposal. Our constitution allows ag land to be valued differently, but it has to be uniform and proportionate within the class of agricultural and horticultural land. Since the proposal caps valuation at the 2019 values, there was also concern that this is not a good year to serve as the base, with valuations that have just started to drop and with low commodity prices. The Legislature debated LB 483 for three hours. The sponsor of the bill, Senator Steve Erdman, will now have to show the Speaker that he has thirty-three votes in order for the bill to be placed on the agenda again.
The Legislature discussed at length an amendment to a Department of Revenue clean-up bill, LB 512, introduced by Elkhorn Senator Lou Ann Linehan. The amendment contains the provisions of LB 482, which would prorate property values for property tax purposes if a property becomes destroyed by a natural disaster. The current system unfairly taxes property owners for property which has been destroyed. This proposal became far more significant after the March flooding and is one way the Legislature can help Nebraskans who have experienced the devastating effects from the flood. I spoke in support of the amendment on the floor of the Legislature. I realize that counties and cities could experience reduced revenue for a short period of time, which will be difficult, but local governments have access to more federal public assistance than do individual homeowners. The sponsor of LB 512 will also have to show the speaker that there are thirty-three senators in support to continue the debate on this bill.
The Revenue Committee continues their work on a tax relief package that they hope to have completed by mid-April. Some ideas being discussed are more than doubling the state dollars allocated for property tax relief (currently $224 million), lowering the top corporate income tax rate, increasing the state sales tax rate, eliminating the sales tax exemption on pop, candy and bottled water, and raising taxes on tobacco, to bring them more in line with surrounding states.
The Nebraska Department of Transportation has developed a website, allowing Nebraskans to view updates on the progress of repairs to state highways and bridges. The website can be found at https://dot.nebraska.gov/news-media/nebraska-flood-2019.
Since my last newsletter, residents and business owners in six additional counties and one tribal area have been included in the disaster declaration making federal funding available to those eligible. The additional counties included Knox County and the Santee Sioux Nation. Boyd County is one of twelve counties still pending. Hopefully, by the time you read this, the decision will have been announced. To apply for individual disaster assistance, call FEMA at 1-800-621-3362 or register online at www.DisasterAssistance.gov. If you have been affected by the flooding and don't know who to contact in regards to your specific needs, call 2-1-1. They will be able to point you in the right direction. Furthermore, you can contact my office at (402) 471-2801. My email address is tgragert@leg.ne.gov and my mailing address is District #40, P.O. Box 94604, State Capitol, Lincoln, NE 68509.
Tags: Children of Nebraska Hearing Aid Act, Department of Revenue, Department of Transportation, FEMA, Governor, Healthy Soils Task Force, LB 15, LB 243, LB 482, LB 483, LB 512, Revenue Committee, Senator Carol Blood, Senator Lou Ann Linehan, Senator Steve Erdman
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A prose writer, a poet, a musician, a composer, born in 1973, a native of Eskişehir. He began with poetry and received the Yunus Nabi Award for the collection of poems Ayabakanlar [Moon Watchers]. He studied filmmaking at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul, made several short films, his first feature film, Adını Sen Koy [Name Him Yourself], appeared in cinemas in 2009. He played and sang in the rock band Kumdan Kaleler [Sand Castles], released a solo album Kendi Halinde [Laid-Back Guy], founded a rock band named Atlas. Among his 10 novels are Git Kendini Çok Sevdirmeden [Leave Before I Fall In], Bu İste Bir Yalnızlık Var [Way Of Loneliness] – made into a film five years ago, A.Ş.K. Neyin Kısaltması? [What Does the Abbreviation L.O.V.E. Mean?], Selanik'te Sonbahar [Autumn in Thessaloniki], or Uçan Halıların Ayrodinamik Sorunları [Aerodynamic Problems of Flying Carpets].


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Dozens of evacuees at Charlotte Motor Speedway brace for Florence issues
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By David Whisenant | September 14, 2018 at 4:18 PM EDT - Updated September 14 at 6:35 PM
CONCORD, NC (WBTV) - Dozens of evacuees from eastern North Carolina are sheltering in two campgrounds at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, but with conditions in our area starting to deteriorate, how safe are they?
The Clark family of Holly Ridge is waiting out Hurricane Florence at the Camping World campground.
They're learning new songs on a ukulele, playing board games, getting tours of Charlotte Motor Speedway, and enjoying the close confinement of family in three campers.
There are 16 in all, ranging in age from 8 to 66.
"The things that we left behind," said Doug Clark. "Hopefully they'll make it through the storm, but we've got the things that are important here with us."
Logistically, getting everyone to Concord safely was quite an accomplishment.
"It wasn't really an option to stay home, right now the eye is moving right over where our home is," said Kristy Leanes.
In Concord for most of the day it's been very windy, but mostly dry. The Clarks know that conditions here will be getting worse and that heavy rain is expected, but they say they feel safe.
"We know we're going to get a lot of rain, lot of water, hopefully the wind will die down substantially by the time it gets up here," Clark added. "Obviously, as far inland as we are we feel much safer here than we did right on the coast."
They lived through Hurricane Matthew where one of their campers and a large trailer were both submerged in muddy water.
They say that with so much to look out for, coming to Concord was the best decision they could have made.
Still, there are challenges.
"Not knowing," said Kristy Leanes. "It was so hard to walk out the door and say it's okay if something happens to the house because we have the important things with us. But it's still hard to sit here and think I could have a tree on my house right now, it could be raining on all of those things we left at home that are important to us because we couldn't bring everything, obviously, but the things that are most important we have with us."
The speedway does have a safety and emergency plan for the campers in the campground, according to spokesman Scott Cooper.


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Those Aren?t Aliens, Those are Stereotypes
by Stan on January 29, 2010
Hotel Giant 2
Fighting the Unbalance
The shoot 'em up genre (Shmup) hasn't received a ton of love over the last several years besides a few cult favorites like Geometry Wars. Aside from repackaging some old products and a handful of compilations there really hasn't been anything hitting American shores worth mentioning. While Square Enix might have the pedigree of bringing great Shmups out (namely Einhander) they sadly don't change anything with the release of 0 Day: Attack on Earth.
The most notable thing about 0 Day is the games graphics. It looks absolutely amazing for both a downloadable game and a Shmup, something that has been a rarity for the last couple of years. The three areas in the game do a good enough job of putting memorable landmarks from the cities that they are supposed to represent. It is unfortunate that the same can't be said with how the enemies interact with the environment, as when the background is damaged it instantly manages to repair itself. It can also be difficult to judge the height of some buildings in the background; sometimes you fly right over them, other times you hit them and take damage.
The game controls like a party based Geometry Wars, and sadly that is pretty much the only positive thing that can be said about it. There are four player controlled ships on the map at all times, regardless if other people are playing. This wouldn't be a massive issue if the game's friendly AI had anything that resembled a will to survive. Calling them worthless would deflate the value of the word. They are so terrible that they constantly ignore enemies, refuse to use their weapons, and fly straight into death's waiting hands. This commonly results in bouncing the player into death as well.
In most Shmups, death is a guarantee mainly through blinding difficulty and harsh learning curve. 0 Day manages to keep the death rate up, but through cheap enemy tactics, bad screen positioning, and bullet sponge enemies. The game commonly throws an enemy at the player in the midst of a rather large explosion only to have it latch onto the ship, causing an inevitable death. Many enemies also have a reach that extends through the entire screen, offering little to no place to hide or avoid.
The enemies in the game change depending on what city they are in: the ones in New York monsters look inspired by Cloverfield, the ones in Tokyo are largely mecha based, and Paris has things that seem to be mainly amphibian like. The designs are rather interesting and pretty detailed on the first encounter. Strangely, the game shows all of the enemies in new areas in the first level, meaning that besides the boss for that section the game has shown everything it has for about the next hour.
The boss battles themselves are probably the best part. All three of them seem to change up the flow, from a giant floating tower thing to the classic giant snake that flies around the level, all of them are interesting and fun to fight. Sadly there are only three of them, and are dispatched rather quickly. The fights themselves are so good that the entire game might have been worth a purchase if it had only been boss fights, and there were more of them (say 10).
As a game that is designed to be co-op it isn't even able to pull that off without issue. Trying to find a random match online never works, because no one else is playing it, which soon after release doesn't bode well. When I was able to get into a game with a friend it seemed to be riddled with lag for the player not hosting. The moment that the session ended it dumped both players back to the start of that city, in single player, making it entirely impossible to keep a game going.
The cost of the game is another massive strike against it. At 15 dollars (1200 Microsoft points) the game is a rather hefty investment. 21 levels with 3 rather interesting boss fights might seem like a large chunk of content, but it isn't. Most of the levels are simply repeats of previous ones that do little to distinguish themselves.
0 Day had a lot of really good things going for it, great graphics, enjoyable boss fights, and interesting enemy design. Sadly all of that falls apart pretty quickly when the game isn't even fun to play. While the concept of the game seems to be sound, a Geometry Wars inspired co-op shooter; everything seems to work against it, especially the price.
Not As Good As: Raiden Fighters Aces
Also Try: Smash TV
Wait For It: Geometry Wars III
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This Combat Knife Has a Built-In .22-Caliber Pistol
It's the badass revolver/bayonet hybrid you never knew you needed.
Brandon Friederich
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An old adage warns that you should never bring a knife to a gun fight…unless you're packing this killer pistol/knife hybrid.
The Global Research And Development (G.R.A.D.) MB16F is a 6.5-inch bayonet with a .22-caliber, six-shot revolver hidden in its handle.
The wild-looking weapon, which had a very limited production run in Las Vegas throughout the early 2000s, works much like any other handgun. Squeeze the low-profile trigger, and a .22 Long Rifle round fires through a 3.5-inch barrel located above the flat edge of the blade.
Push a button located in the hilt to open the G.R.A.D.) MB16F's cover and access the action.
To reload, simply push a button located in the hilt to open the cover and access the action. If you really want to go overkill in the firepower department, this thing can be attached as a bayonet to any M16/AR15 platform with a military-spec, 21.5-inch barrel.
At a Morphy Auctions event in 2019, a G.R.A.D. MB16F in un-fired, mint condition fetched $1,920, which was right at the top end of its estimated $1,500-$2,000 pre-sale range. Less than 1,000 examples were produced, but they've popped on lots from Rock Island Auction and other vintage weapons dealers before.
What is a knife gun?
In the 1950s, U.S. Small Arms Co. manufactured a similar knife-pistol chambered for a rim-fired .22 cartridge that was marketed as the Huntsman Knife Pistol, according to Guns.com. An example listed on a Guns International classified recently sold for $3,405.
Be sure you're eligible for Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms approval before bidding on any knife-pistol, and consult and an expert to ensure any historic firearms are safe to shoot before loading them with live ammunition.
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American-born figure skater Alexia Paganini just competed in her first Olympics – for Switzerland. Although her sport and her dual nationality have taken her all over the world, she calls the Alpine nation her "home country".
The 16-year-old, who lives in New York, placed 21st at the recent Winter Olympics in PyeongChang and competed at the World Figure Skating Championships held in Milan this past week. She spoke with swissinfo.ch about her life as an athlete and a raclette-loving Swiss living abroad.
swissinfo.ch: When and why did your parents leave Switzerland?
Alexia Paganini: My parents left Switzerland in 2000 because my dad wanted to do an executive MBA programme at Columbia University. Before they left, they were living in St. Moritz [in canton Graubünden] with my older brother Kevin who was born in [nearby] Samedan.
swissinfo.ch: Why are you Swiss?
A.P.: I am Swiss because both of my parents are Swiss and when I was born I automatically got my Swiss citizenship.
My dad is originally from Brusio in the Valle di Poschiavo [in canton Graubünden], and my mom lived in St. Moritz for ten years. She is originally from the Netherlands.
[Now], my parents are expats and live in the US [with] a visa status, so we are a Swiss family living abroad. My father is a lieutenant colonel in the Swiss Army, retired for four years.
swissinfo.ch: How did you find your way to figure skating?
A.P.: Figure skating has been in my life for as long as I can remember. My mother took me and my brothers Kevin and Mario to a local ice rink when I was just two years old, my brothers are hockey players and I am figure skater. We're all very passionate about our sports.
swissinfo.ch: Why did you decide to represent Switzerland in your sport instead of the US?
A.P.: My parents, being Swiss, always wanted me to skate for Switzerland, so when I was nine years old my mom contacted the Swiss Ice Skating Federation. Back then it didn't work out. Last year, in January, I switched coaches and my new coach Igor Krokavec wanted to give it another try.
At the World Championships, he met with the president of the Swiss Federation and after tests and paperwork they gave me a chance to try out last summer. I did and it all worked out.
swissinfo.ch: What was it like to represent Switzerland at the Olympics? What are your strongest memories from the experience?
A.P.: It was an amazing experience to represent Switzerland at the Olympic Games; I feel blessed and very thankful.
My strongest memory is that first moment when I stepped on the official Olympic rink, it all sank in then and I realised this is real, it's happening, I'm here competing at the Olympics representing my home country Switzerland. That was a very intense moment that I will cherish the rest of my life.
swissinfo.ch: What were your conversations with other Swiss athletes like?
A.P.: The Swiss athletes were great, I'm not the only one who lives abroad.
We all were sharing our daily experiences with each other and cheered each other on at our events; it was great to feel their support.
We laughed together, we celebrated together and we cried together. And we even had haircuts together in the PyeongChang village.
It was very special and I have found many new great friendships!
swissinfo.ch: What are your professional goals for the future?
A.P.: My goals for the future are to train hard to take my capabilities to the maximum.
swissinfo.ch: Where do you live at the moment, and what's a typical day like for you?
A.P.: At the moment when I'm not travelling, I live in New York. Every morning, my mom drives one hour to the rink in New Jersey to start my training day at 8am.
My training day is from 8am until 5pm. I have two on-ice sessions, I do off-ice and I go to the gym. I have an hour and a half off for lunch where I do part of my school work, and I do the rest of my homework in the evening at home.
swissinfo.ch: What kind of relationship do you have with Switzerland?
A.P.: I have always felt Swiss, and I'm very proud to be Swiss. Almost all of my family lives there. We have family in Weesen, Solothurn, Zurich and Poschiavo, and Nonna (my grandmother) lives in Brusio. I love being in Switzerland; it's my home country.
swissinfo.ch: Do you speak a Swiss national language?
A.P.: I speak "high German" because I went for many years to the German school in [nearby] White Plains [New York].
swissinfo.ch: How do people in the US react when they hear you are Swiss?
A.P.: The rink where I train had 11 people who went to the Olympics, all from different nationalities. They have always known I am Swiss; we all train together and support each other.
A.P.: My impression of Switzerland is that it's a great country, safe and with many opportunities for everyone. It's beautiful and Swiss people are wonderful, it's special that there are different cultures all with different heritage but all united!
swissinfo.ch: Are you planning to return to Switzerland one day?
A.P.: I can't look into the future, but I could see myself living in Switzerland at some point.
A.P.: I'm often in Switzerland, and the first thing I always do is to look for a great raclette "Stübli" [restaurant]. I love a delicious raclette!
Representing Switzerland on skating's biggest stages Christian Raaflaub and Veronica DeVore Mar 25, 2018 - 11:00 American-born figure skater Alexia Paganini just competed in her first Olympics – for Switzerland. Although her sport and her dual nationality have taken her all over the world, she calls the Alpine nation her "home country". The 16-year-old, who lives in New York, placed 21st at the recent Winter Olympics in PyeongChang and competed at the World Figure Skating Championships held in Milan this past week. She spoke with swissinfo.ch about her life as an athlete and a raclette-loving Swiss living abroad. swissinfo.ch: When and why did your parents leave Switzerland? Alexia Paganini: My parents left Switzerland in 2000 because my dad wanted to do an executive MBA programme at Columbia University. Before they left, they were living in St. Moritz [in canton Graubünden] with my older brother Kevin who was born in [nearby] Samedan. swissinfo.ch: Why are you Swiss? A.P.: I am Swiss because both of my parents are Swiss and when I was born I automatically got my Swiss citizenship. My dad is originally from Brusio in the Valle di Poschiavo [in canton Graubünden], and my mom lived in St. Moritz for ten years. She is originally from the Netherlands. [Now], my parents are expats and live in the US [with] a visa status, so we are a Swiss family living abroad. My father is a lieutenant colonel in the Swiss Army, retired for four years. swissinfo.ch: How did you find your way to figure skating? A.P.: Figure skating has been in my life for as long as I can remember. My mother took me and my brothers Kevin and Mario to a local ice rink when I was just two years old, my brothers are hockey players and I am figure skater. We're all very passionate about our sports. swissinfo.ch: Why did you decide to represent Switzerland in your sport instead of the US? A.P.: My parents, being Swiss, always wanted me to skate for Switzerland, so when I was nine years old my mom contacted the Swiss Ice Skating Federation. Back then it didn't work out. Last year, in January, I switched coaches and my new coach Igor Krokavec wanted to give it another try. At the World Championships, he met with the president of the Swiss Federation and after tests and paperwork they gave me a chance to try out last summer. I did and it all worked out. swissinfo.ch: What was it like to represent Switzerland at the Olympics? What are your strongest memories from the experience? A.P.: It was an amazing experience to represent Switzerland at the Olympic Games; I feel blessed and very thankful. My strongest memory is that first moment when I stepped on the official Olympic rink, it all sank in then and I realised this is real, it's happening, I'm here competing at the Olympics representing my home country Switzerland. That was a very intense moment that I will cherish the rest of my life. swissinfo.ch: What were your conversations with other Swiss athletes like? A.P.: The Swiss athletes were great, I'm not the only one who lives abroad. We all were sharing our daily experiences with each other and cheered each other on at our events; it was great to feel their support. We laughed together, we celebrated together and we cried together. And we even had haircuts together in the PyeongChang village. It was very special and I have found many new great friendships! swissinfo.ch: What are your professional goals for the future? A.P.: My goals for the future are to train hard to take my capabilities to the maximum. swissinfo.ch: Where do you live at the moment, and what's a typical day like for you? A.P.: At the moment when I'm not travelling, I live in New York. Every morning, my mom drives one hour to the rink in New Jersey to start my training day at 8am. My training day is from 8am until 5pm. I have two on-ice sessions, I do off-ice and I go to the gym. I have an hour and a half off for lunch where I do part of my school work, and I do the rest of my homework in the evening at home. swissinfo.ch: What kind of relationship do you have with Switzerland? A.P.: I have always felt Swiss, and I'm very proud to be Swiss. Almost all of my family lives there. We have family in Weesen, Solothurn, Zurich and Poschiavo, and Nonna (my grandmother) lives in Brusio. I love being in Switzerland; it's my home country. swissinfo.ch: Do you speak a Swiss national language? A.P.: I speak "high German" because I went for many years to the German school in [nearby] White Plains [New York]. swissinfo.ch: How do people in the US react when they hear you are Swiss? A.P.: The rink where I train had 11 people who went to the Olympics, all from different nationalities. They have always known I am Swiss; we all train together and support each other. swissinfo.ch: What's your impression of Switzerland from abroad? A.P.: My impression of Switzerland is that it's a great country, safe and with many opportunities for everyone. It's beautiful and Swiss people are wonderful, it's special that there are different cultures all with different heritage but all united! swissinfo.ch: Are you planning to return to Switzerland one day? A.P.: I can't look into the future, but I could see myself living in Switzerland at some point. swissinfo.ch: What do you miss most about Switzerland? A.P.: I'm often in Switzerland, and the first thing I always do is to look for a great raclette "Stübli" [restaurant]. I love a delicious raclette!


I can see one tiny white tooth.. Just to make sure I wasn't dreaming, I stuck my finger in her mouth and I could feel something hard along her gums.
No wonder she has been a little whiny of late, especially at bedtime.. More than a little whiny actually.. She has been crying loudly before bedtime, complete with large drops of tears like pomelo sacs.. For a while I'd just say "Good night" to her during bedtime, leave her room and she'd fall asleep after a while.. These few days though, she'd be really upset and cry loudly for me.
Oh well, I supposed teething is a phase all babies go through. Must be a difficult and uncomfortable time for her..
I'm not sure if it is a coincidence.. but according to the Wonder Weeks theory, Little N is in the midst of a "Wonder Week" (The terminology is somewhat confusing.. a wonder week actually last more than a week.. sometimes up to 4 weeks! More like Wonder Months actually).
2 Dutch doctors came up with the term 'Wonder Week' to describe the mental developmental leaps babies experience in their first 20 months of life. These leaps occur at 10 specific times and can also be referred to as a baby's 10 Great Fussy Phases. After each phase, the baby will have developed in some new way and gain some new skills.
It's a pretty interesting theory and I guess it makes me feel better to know that Little N is supposedly in the midst of a "Wonder Week".. at least it helps me try to understand that all these fussiness is due to development and new skills!
:) you are an observant mommy to know why N is fussing. You are doing a great job!


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Chase Mattson
TikTok Star | Youtuber
Facts of Chase Mattson
Birth Date : July 3, 1994
Birth Place : California, United States
Horoscope : Cancer
Net Worth : $5 million
Height : 5.10 ft
Mother Name : Laurie Galal
Chase Mattson is an American model, TikTok Star, YouTuber, and social media Influencer. He is well known for making Comedy, Dance, Prank, and Lip-sync videos.
Mattson is also represented by agencies such as LA Models Runway, Models Direct Management, Mega Miami, Independent Men Milan, and his main agency, Next Models LA/London.
Chase Mattson was born on June 3, 1994, in California, United States. He grew up with his five siblings. He moved to Orange County with his family when he was 16 years old. His father is a businessman and his mother, Laurie Galal is a homemaker.
The names of his siblings are Kyle, Cameron, Brandon, and Teddy. He was interested in acting since his youth age. He is very close to his younger sister named Payton. Chase holds American citizenship but his ethnicity is unknown.
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After graduating high school at the age of 18, Mattson started pursuing his career in modeling and acting. He got his first job at Hollister when he turned 17. It was there that he was scouted to model by his agent Mark Mendez. He was 20 years old when he signed with his first acting agency, Luber Rocklin Acting. Additionally, he and Dylan Albino both worked at Hollister before becoming models.
Currently, he is working for LA Model Management and Next Models LALondons.
He likes to travel to different countries with his friends and he likes to get his photoshoot done. In addition, he promotes some fashion products through his social media handles.
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His net worth is estimated to have a net worth of about $5 million USD while his salary is under review.
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As of 2020, Chase is currently dating gymnast Kellianne Stankus. They met for the first time in LA in May 2020. She posts breathtaking photos of herself and her boyfriend, Chase Mattson, all the time on Instagram, where she has close to 600,000 followers. Stankus and Mattson clearly have an adventurous side and are often exploring different locations and documenting them on camera.
Previously, he was married to Devyn Jackson and has two daughters: Hazel Mattson and Nora Mattson. The reason behind their separation is still unknown.
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He has a height of 5 ft. 10 inches and weighs 75 kg. Also, he has light brown eyes and dark brown hair.
He has around 5k followers on Facebook, around 5k followers on Twitter, and around 367k followers on Instagram.
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Broken Arrow man accused of assaulting officer near Main Street Tavern bar
Posted: 1:43 PM, Mar 18, 2019
BROKEN ARROW, Okla. — A 46-year-old man was arrested in Broken Arrow on Saturday night after he was accused of assaulting a police officer who was working the "Shamrock the Rose" event downtown.
The officer said on Saturday at about 10:35 pm., he was working bicycle patrol at the event on Main Street in Broken Arrow. The officer said he and other officers had just broken up a bar fight between two men at Stogies bar, but determined that no charges would be filed.
Shortly after, one of the men involved in the fight, John Gale, approached several officers, and asked which officer had threw him to the ground. Officers told the man that no one threw him to the ground, and that he had been directed to sit on a bench during an investigation of the fight.
Officers said Gale wouldn't follow instructions to leave, and reached through the window of an officer's vehicle, while pointing at the officer.
One officer grabbed the man's arm, which started a fight. Officers said Gale continued to struggle and tackled one of the officers.
As the fight continued, an officer struck Gale in the face with his knee. Another officer tased the man, and placed him in handcuffs.
Gale was arrested on counts of assault and battery on a police officer, obstructing justice, resisting arrest and pubic intoxication.


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Epidemiology and national trends in prevalence and surgical management of metastatic spinal disease
Samantha R. Horn, Ekamjeet S. Dhillon, Gregory W. Poorman, Jared C. Tishelman, Frank A. Segreto, Cole A. Bortz, John Y. Moon, Omar Behery, Nicholas Shepard, Bassel G. Diebo, Shaleen Vira, Peter G. Passias
Surgical treatment for spinal metastasis has benefited from improvements in surgical techniques. However, the trends in treatment and outcomes for spinal metastasis surgery have not been well-established in a pediatric population. Patients <20 years old with metastatic spinal tumors undergoing spinal surgery were identified in the KID database. Trends for spinal metastases treatment and patient outcomes were analyzed using weight-adjusted ANOVAs. 333 patients were identified in the KID database. The top five primary diagnoses were metastatic brain/spinal cord tumor (19.8%), metastatic nervous system tumor (15.9%), metastatic bone cancer (13.2%), spinal cord tumor (4.2%), and tumor of ventricles (3.0%). There was an increased incidence of spinal metastasis diagnoses from 2003 to 2012 (88.5–117.9 per 100,000; p < 0.001) and an increased trend in the incidence of surgical treatment for spinal metastasis from 2003 to 2012 (p = 0.014). The average age was 10.19 ± 6.33 years old and 38.4% were female. The average length of stay was 17.34 ± 24.36 days. Average CCI increased over time (2003: 7.87 ± 1.40, 2012: 8.44 ± 1.39; p = 0.006). The most common surgeries were excision of spinal cord/meninges lesions (69.1%) and decompression of spinal canal (38.1%). Length of hospital stay and in-hospital mortality did not change over time (17.34–18.04 days, p = 0.337; 1.6%–2.9%, p = 0.801). 10.5% of patients underwent a posterior fusion and 22.2% had at least one complication (nervous system, respiratory, dysphagia, infection). The overall complication rate remained stable over time (23.4%–21.8%, p = 0.952). Surgical treatment for spinal metastasis in the last decade has increased, though the complication rates, in-hospital mortality, and length of stay have remained stable.
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Spinal Diseases Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
Epidemiology Medicine & Life Sciences 55%
Spinal Cord Neoplasms Medicine & Life Sciences 33%
Hospital Mortality Medicine & Life Sciences 22%
Nervous System Neoplasms Medicine & Life Sciences 16%
Meninges Medicine & Life Sciences 15%
Horn, S. R., Dhillon, E. S., Poorman, G. W., Tishelman, J. C., Segreto, F. A., Bortz, C. A., Moon, J. Y., Behery, O., Shepard, N., Diebo, B. G., Vira, S., & Passias, P. G. (2018). Epidemiology and national trends in prevalence and surgical management of metastatic spinal disease. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 53, 183-187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocn.2018.04.022
Epidemiology and national trends in prevalence and surgical management of metastatic spinal disease. / Horn, Samantha R.; Dhillon, Ekamjeet S.; Poorman, Gregory W. et al.
In: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, Vol. 53, 07.2018, p. 183-187.
Horn, SR, Dhillon, ES, Poorman, GW, Tishelman, JC, Segreto, FA, Bortz, CA, Moon, JY, Behery, O, Shepard, N, Diebo, BG, Vira, S & Passias, PG 2018, 'Epidemiology and national trends in prevalence and surgical management of metastatic spinal disease', Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, vol. 53, pp. 183-187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocn.2018.04.022
Horn SR, Dhillon ES, Poorman GW, Tishelman JC, Segreto FA, Bortz CA et al. Epidemiology and national trends in prevalence and surgical management of metastatic spinal disease. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience. 2018 Jul;53:183-187. doi: 10.1016/j.jocn.2018.04.022
Horn, Samantha R. ; Dhillon, Ekamjeet S. ; Poorman, Gregory W. et al. / Epidemiology and national trends in prevalence and surgical management of metastatic spinal disease. In: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience. 2018 ; Vol. 53. pp. 183-187.
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Bear Mountain State Park is sprawled over 5,067 acres including lots of magnificent mountains. There are activities there for all ages. My favorite is to hike down from the Perkins Memorial Tower to Hessian Lake. The Perkins Memorial Tower atop Bear Mountain affords spectacular views of the park, the Hudson Highlands, and Harriman State Park. The Manhattan skyline can be seen from the top of the mountain when the weather is clear.
The best way to do that is if someone drops you off at the Perkins Memorial Tower and meets you at the bottom. I love this option, not only because you don't have to hike up the hill, but because there's still lots to enjoy down at Lake Hessian, near the inn. In the fall the mountains take on a palette of colors and are a sight to behold. The path around the lake is enjoyable for a nice stroll.
There's a free mini zoo with real bears on-site, as well as a merry-go-round, if you want to be helpful and take your little sibs out for the day ;).
If you end up visiting in the winter, Bear Mountains has excellent hills for sledding and an outdoor ice-skating rink too.
The Walkway over the Hudson is a unique experience. The Walkway is a bridge formerly used for trains going from Poughkeepsie, New York, to Highland, New York. The bridge was restored and redone to be used by pedestrians as a walkway. The total length of the bridge is 6,768 feet at a height of 212 feet. It is the longest pedestrian bridge in the world! Many people cross the bridge on bikes or roller blades. The Walkway is open year-round unless the weather is really awful.
The highlight of the Walkway is the 21-story glass elevator that takes you down to the Upper Landing Park, located near the river below. Not for the faint of heart!
This is a beautiful hiking spot off the Palisades Parkway, set between the highway and the Hudson River.
The information center is adjacent to the parking lot. To get to the hiking path you follow the path alongside the water and the building, until you see the markings on the right side. They lead between the trees to the teal blue hiking trail that takes you down to a splendid waterfall at the foot of the Hudson River. Wow!
The path snakes through wooded areas with bubbling streams running alongside. At some spots there are beautiful open areas with stunning views of the Hudson River. The reward is at the bottom of the hike when you reach a large waterfall on one side and the base of the Hudson River on the other.


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