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Home > MSNBC's Velshi Pushes Gun Control in NZ Shooting Aftermath
MSNBC's Velshi Pushes Gun Control in NZ Shooting Aftermath
By Brad Wilmouth | March 20, 2019 9:48 AM EDT
In the aftermath of the New Zealand mosque attacks, MSNBC host Ali Velshi predictably devoted an entire segment on his show to promoting more gun control while only havng on guests who are in line with his anti-gun views.
As he gave the issue nine minutes of coverage, Velshi also repeated the myth that a "Charleston loophole" allowed Charleston mass shooter Dylann Roof to purchase the murder weapon, and the MSNBC host also cited misleading polling alleging atronomical support for "universal background checks."
At 3:33 p.m. on MSNBC Live, Velshi recalled efforts by congressional Democrats to get a new law passed: "The bipartisan background checks act of 2019 included a bill requiring background checks on every gun sale or transfer, including sales at gun shows and online."
He added: "A second bill would end the Charleston loophole that allowed white supremacist Dylann Roof to purchase a firearm when his background check was not completed within three days."
As he then shifted to speaking with gun control activist Mark Barden, whose son was murdered in the Sandy Hook attack, the MSNBC host lamented that "the United States stands in stark contrast to other places that experience mass gun violence," alluding to New Zealand moving to pass new laws quickly.
After Barden talked up the possibility of passing new laws, citing discredited polling claiming that 97 percent support universal background checks, Velshi then shifted to New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, allowing him to further argue for more gun restrictions.
As he spoke in support of more background checks, the liberal columnist at one point oddly claimed that, "in many places in the country, you have to go through more of a background check to adopt a dog than you do to buy a weapon. That's crazy."
As he shifted backed to Barden, Velshi cited a recent Quinnipiac University poll suggesting that 92 percent support universal background checks, and then added: "I don't think 92 percent of people can go out on a given day in America and agree on what the temperature is or whether the sun is shining."
He then sympathetically followed up: "Why is it that we can get agreement on these things and yet still be held back?"
Near the end of the segment, Kristof complained: "It is so frustratng the political process is completely broken down in the case of guns, and I think that is because there is a small contingent of society that cares very passionately about not having any regulations."
After recommending that liberals use the words "gun safety" instead of "gun control," which they often do already, he then called it "scandalous" that so many have died from gunshot wounds: "Since 1970, more people have died from guns in the U.S. than in all the wars in American history. It's scandalous."
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Hollywood's Unions Celebrate Inauguration Of President Joe Biden & VP Kamala Harris: "Most Pro-Union President" & "Partner In The White House"
'Psych' And 'Royal Pains' Creators Set Up New Projects At USA Network
EXCLUSIVE: USA Network is expanding its relationship with the creators of two of its most successful series. The cable network has put in development a drama executive produced by Psych creator Steve Franks and a half-hour comedy executive produced by Royal Pains co-creator Andrew Lenchewski. Both projects hail from Universal Cable Prods where Franks and Lenchewski are under overall deals.
Franks will supervise writers Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett (Terra Nova), who will write and co-executive produce the drama about a brother and sister who take over the family's successful investment firm after the untimely death of their parents, only to discover that the business isn't quite what it seems. Franks will executive produce with Chris Henze and Kelly Kulchak of Tagline Television, which has a first-look development deal with UCP. Tagline, whose sister company Thruline manages Franks, also produces Psych, which is in production on its seventh season. Franks, Tagline and Matalas & Fickett are repped by ICM Partners.
Lenchewski will executive produce half-hour single-camera comedy Speak American, which centers on Lotte Hansen, a young accent-reduction teacher with unconventional methods. She forces a group of strangers from around the world to question what it means to be American in the 21st century, and in the process, they form an unlikely family. The script will be written by Benjamin Brand (IFC's Bollywood Hero), who will serve as co-executive producer. Speak American is part of USA's recent push in the half-hour comedy area with the goal to have an original series on the air for the fall 2013 launch of off-network acquisition Modern Family. Lenchewski co-created Royal Pains, now is in its fourth season, with John P. Rogers. Lenchewski is repped by CAA; Brand is with Gersh and Aperture Entertainment.
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(ONTARIO ) – The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) want you to confirm who you're dealing with before sending any money anywhere for any reason.
The ever popular Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and other agency-related extortion threats have continued to sustain significant financial losses by unsuspecting victims. In 2017, the Extortion and Phishing Scam claimed 1,544 victims in Ontario losing approximately $3 million from more than 8,576 complaints.
Police admit only 5 percent of the crimes are actually reported.
In the typical CRA scam, the criminals extort money from their victims by telephone, mail, text message or email, a fraudulent communication that claims to be from the Canada Revenue Agency requesting personal information such as a social insurance number, credit card number, bank account number, or passport number.
A new twist is that Fraudsters will leave a pre-recorded, clear message on your voicemail impersonating the real CRA. Fraudsters are either phishing for your identification or asking that outstanding taxes be paid by a money service business or by pre-paid debit/credit cards.
They may insist that this personal information is needed so that the taxpayer can receive a refund or a benefit payment. Cases of fraudulent communication could also involve threatening or coercive language to scare individuals into paying fictitious debt to the CRA.
Other communications such as texting, urge taxpayers to visit a fake CRA website where the taxpayer is then asked to verify their identity by entering personal information. Before you respond to any type of communication, think first that this is a scam.
Individuals should never respond to these fraudulent communications nor click on any of the links provided.
Request for Money Transfer– Money is usually requested to be sent by a money transfer company such as Money Gram, Western Union or even through your own bank institution.
The CRA will never request by email, text or phone, any personal information such as passport, credit card or bank account information.
To avoid becoming a victim, police advise you to hang up, check and verify the information with CRA by calling a trusted phone number in which you have found and not the number provided by the caller.
When ever they call I ALWAYS answer, "Collins Crematorium, Daren speaking. How may I help you?".


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Annual Cork Boat Club Race Night – Friday 5th April 2013
NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE: Please note that the venue of our annual club Race Night has changed to Blackrock Hurling Club on Friday 5th April.
The annual Cork Boat Club Race Night will now take place on Friday April 5th 2013 in Blackrock Hurling Club. . This is one of our larger Fundraising Events and we depend on companies like yours for sponsorship.
Last year, funds from the Race night and various other fund raising activities went towards purchasing the following essential equipment:
· Racing Four for Junior rowers €6000
· Gym Equipment €2000
· Boat House for sculls €5000
Great strides were made in renovations to the Club by club members & parents, which include renovations to upstairs male & female toilets & showers, refurbishing fire exit and major work to the club car park.
We cater for 200 rowers from Junior 14 level right up to Seniors Male & Female. All levels are catered for and we help instill a love of exercise, teamwork and achievement in all our rowers.
Highlights of 2012 Season:
Home Internationals –
4 Junior Women represented Ireland at junior 18 level.
2 Women represented Ireland at Senior Level.
2 Senior Women Represented Ireland
2 Senior Men Represented Ireland
Club coach Martin Kilbane was team coach for the Homes.
We also had representation at the following International Regattas,
Wallingford – Dorney Lake, Women's Henley, Ghent International Regatta.
Numerous wins around the country in all grades of Senior & Junior rowing – boys & girls.
We appreciate that Business is very difficult but we would kindly ask you to sponsor a race for €200 or €100 to co-sponsor. Your Company's name & Logo will appear on the Programme and will be projected onto the screen on the night. We also circulate a list of all the sponsors in our Thank You Notice.
Give me a call for more details:
Eamonn O' Brien – / Event Organiser.
epobrien04@eircom.net
Launching the New Boat Fund
Dear Friend of Cork Boat Club,
Our Club has undergone many positive changes in recent times. We have grown our membership to record levels especially with so many new younger members, our building and grounds have been greatly improved and a new sense of community has emerged with parents getting heavily involved in helping the club with our Café and other projects. We should all be proud that we are truly a club that is going places thanks to so many people getting involved and the great Boat Club spirit we witness every day.
As we continue to aim for new heights as a Club, the need for new sources of funding has become very clear. We have made solid progress in getting new sponsorship from local companies and getting grant aid from some sources, and members continue to give huge support to our many one-off fundraising initiatives such as our annual Race Night and our recent Defibrillator fundraiser. However a Boat Club of our size and infrastructure requires significant funding to maintain a reasonable quality of boats, buildings and services and we often find ourselves making difficult decisions over spending priorities and having to postpone essential projects due to lack of funds.
To try to improve our ability to specifically purchase boats and boating equipment, we are launching a New Cork Boat Club Boat Fund in February. This will be managed by Cork Boat Club Committee on behalf of the members and will give us much needed monthly cash-flow to buy boats, spare parts etc on an ongoing basis.
We know that times are very tough for everyone, and not everyone will be able to support this plan, but we hope that as many of you as possible including our Boat Club diaspora, will find it possible to support this drive. Our ask is that parents, members and former members who feel they can support the new boat fund will sign up as soon as possible.
We have pitched the monthly contribution at €15 but any monthly amount would be fantastic. To give you a sense of how this could make a difference to your Club – if we are lucky enough to get 30 members / parents to contribute, it will generate €450 per month or €5400 per year – that is a HUGE amount of new funding for the club, which would make an immense difference to everyone.
We are targeting February 18th as the first withdrawal date but any date of your choosing is not an issue. If you feel you can sign up, the club and future generations of Cork Boat Club would be most grateful. It will genuinely give us a new platform to grow as a Club.
Please use the attached standing order form which has all relevant details and you can either return it to me (Emmet Walsh, President Cork Boat Club, 14 Carmen Lawn, Rochestown, Cork) or return it yourself to your own bank. Please feel to call me directly on 086-3965670 with any queries.
You will find the Standing Order form here
Thank you for your consideration and as always, Go Boat Club!
Emmet Walsh
President, Cork Boat Club
E: President@CorkBoatClub.com
M: 086-3965670


The generation of dicentric chromosomes by site-specific recombination is a technique that has been used to study a number of different chromosomal phenomena, including: (1) the segregation of acentric chromosome fragments (1,2), (2) the behavior and resolution of chromosome bridges during cell division (3,4), and (3) cellular responses to a broken chromosome end (4). Its greatest advantage is that it allows quantitative experiments on the behavior and cellular consequences of this class of chromosome rearrangement. Furthermore, recombinase-mediated dicentric chromosome formation is specific in that the timing of formation and specification of the chromosomes that are involved are defined by controlled expression of a recombinase and the location of recombinase target sites, respectively. Choice of target sites provides a sophisticated degree of control over the genetic aneuploidy that can result from cell division after a dicentric chromosome is produced. Use of such a predictable, quantitative system can be quite powerful. For example, efficient production of dicentric Y chromosomes aided in the cell cycle analysis of DNA damage responses in Drosophila somatic cells, with significant differences from experiments performed with random (X-ray) methods (4).
generation of defined chromosomal rearrangements, and insertion of DNA into specified locations within the genome (6,7). Two components are introduced into flies to achieve FLP-mediated recombination: a transgene that will produce the FLP recombinase, and transgenes that carry the FLP Recombination Target (FRT) sites. Production of FLP (typically from a heat-shock-inducible hsFLP transgene) results in recombination between pairs of FRT sites. FRT sites are asymmetric; thus, the possible recombination products from any two sites can be predicted given the relative orientation of the two sites (direct or inverted) in the genome.
The frequency of recombination events varies according to the distance between the two FRT sites, the linkage relationship (cis/trans on homologs or heterologs), the sequence context of each site, and their chromosomal context (8-11). In most circumstances, recombination between two nearby FRTs is extremely frequent, approaching 100% efficiency. Dicentric chromosome formation results from exchange between two FRTs that lie in an inverted relative orientation on the same chromosome arm of replicated sister chromatids (see Fig. 1). The chromosomal material distal to the FRT sites is released as an acentric inverted duplication fragment, whereas the proximal material forms a dicentric chromosome. In the following mitotic division, the acentric fragment fails to segregate to daughter cells, whereas the dicentric portion forms a chromosome bridge as the two sister centromeres are pulled to opposite poles. The genetic consequences of this division are the loss of all genetic material distal to the FRT sites and loss or duplication of more proximal material if the dicentric chromosome breaks at any location other than the site of sister-chromatid fusion. In most cases, the loss of chromosomal material is significant and the resulting daughter cells are severely aneuploid.
A pair of inverted FRTs in 8F of the X chromosome was used to test the efficiency of dicentric formation and to examine its phenotypic consequences (8). Heat-shock-induced production of FLP in larvae resulted in substantial pupal lethality and produced defects in the eyes, wings, tergites, and bristles in the individuals that eclosed as adults. This syndrome was consistent with the production of aneuploid cells after dicentric formation and division, and aneuploidy specifically for the X chromosome was confirmed by consequent loss of a distal yellow+ marker. There was no evidence that rearrangements in other parts of the genome occurred. Approximately 90% of mitotic figures in larval brain tissue showed dicentrics (see Fig 1B,C), demonstrating that the frequency of unequal sister-chromatid exchange between FRTs was very high. Although FLP-mediated recombination is expected to be a reversible reaction, dicentric formation might be favored if the freed reciprocal acentric and dicentric products drift apart, which would preclude their reunion by another round of recombination.


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Q: Woocommerce Product Creation Automation - GAS - apps script running into problems between GAS and WC RESTv2, Im trying to create a simple product with custom attributes, while I am able to do so without any specific parameter the REST api return this error:
ERROR:
{"code":"rest_invalid_param","message":"Invalid parameter(s): attributes","data":{"status":400,"params":{"attributes":"attributes[0] is not of type object."},"details":{"attributes":{"code":"rest_invalid_type","message":"attributes[0] is not of type object.","data":{"param":"attributes[0]"}}}}}

// the product gets CREATED fine using this simple var data structure :
var data =
        {
        "name" : " TESTING HERE TOO",
        //"sku" : "TESTINGINGING    ",
        "type" : "simple",
        "regular_price" : "1.99",
        "weight" : 10,
        "manage_stock" : true,
        "stock_quantity" : 10,
        "description" : "testing \n"  } ;
var surl = website + "/wp-json/wc/v2/products?consumer_key=" + keys + "&consumer_secret=" + scret;
var options =
      {
        "method": "POST",
        "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8",
        "muteHttpExceptions": true,
        "payload": data
      };

``` // -- the product DOES NOT get created using this :
var data =
        {
        "name" : " TESTING HERE TOO",
        //"sku" : "TESTINGINGING    ",
        "type" : "simple",
        "regular_price" : "1.99",
        "weight" : 10,
        "manage_stock" : true,
        "stock_quantity" : 10,
        "description" : "testing \n"  } ;
"attributes" : [ { "variation" : "false", "options" : "[ANY]", "id" : 0.0, "name" : "Supplier", "position" : 0.0, "visible" :"false"} , { "variation" : "false", "options" : "[ANY]", "id" : 0.0, "name" : "Invoice", "position" :1.0, "visible" :"false"}]

Any body could shed some light where could be the issue?

A: In case anybody stumble here, here´s the solution:
if you´d like to know where´s the bug, here it is
var options =
{
"method": "POST",
//"Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8", -- it does NOT WORK like content type must be JSON
"contentType": "application/json",
"muteHttpExceptions": true,
"payload": JSON.stringify(data2) -- as long as JSON payload thus stringify accord.
//"payload": data2
};
when you have a JSON within an array in GAS, the only way REST api calls will understand is if you modify 2 things

*

*"contentType": "application/json",
send the payload to rest api WC as json

*"payload": JSON.stringify(data2)
trans for the javascript object into json so WC rest api can understand
done.

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39 // If set, then ALL items will be expanded, regardless of stored settings.
45 // Holds the current script to reload to.
51 // Which HTML attribute to use: alt/title. See init().
58 // icon is linked as the title is.
76 // If TRUE, a default title attribute showing the UID of the record is shown.
78 // where another title attribute is in fact applied later.
96 * values are the ID of the root element (COULD be zero or anything else.
104 * Database table to get the tree data from.
105 * Leave blank if data comes from an array.
112 * Defines the field of $table which is the parent id field (like pid for table pages).
119 * WHERE clause used for selecting records for the tree. Is set by function init.
120 * Only makes sense when $this->table is set.
128 * Field for ORDER BY. Is set by function init.
129 * Only makes sense when $this->table is set.
137 * Default set of fields selected from the tree table.
154 * Unique name for the tree.
155 * Used as key for storing the tree into the BE users settings.
156 * Used as key to pass parameters in links.
157 * MUST NOT contain underscore chars.
165 * A prefix for table cell id's which will be wrapped around an item.
167 * Needs to be unique if multiple trees are on one HTML page.
175 * If TRUE, HTML code is also accumulated in ->tree array during rendering of the tree.
190 * Sets the associative array key which identifies a new sublevel if arrays are used for trees.
191 * This value has formerly been "subLevel" and "--sublevel--"
201 // one-dim array of the uid's selected.
239 // Holds an index with references to the data array.
252 // Holds (session stored) information about which items in the tree are unfolded and which are not.
264 // Accumulates the displayed records.
415 * @param array|string $treeArr "tree-array" - if blank string, the internal ->tree array is used.
472 * Generate the plus/minus icon for the browsable tree.
476 * @param int $c The total number of entries. If equal to $a, a "bottom" element is returned.
477 * @param int $nextCount The number of sub-elements to the current element.
478 * @param bool $isOpen The element was expanded to render subelements if this flag is set.
479 * @return string Image tag with the plus/minus icon.
496 * @param string $icon HTML string to wrap, probably an image tag.
515 * Wrapping $title in a-tags.
533 * @return string The processed icon input value.
541 * Adds attributes to image tag.
545 * @return string Image tag, modified with $attr attributes added.
573 * data in $this->stored and ->expandAll flag.
586 * Get stored tree structure AND updating it if needed according to incoming PM GET var.
633 * @param array $rec Record for root.
634 * @return string Icon image tag.
642 * Get icon for the row.
644 * @param array $row Item row.
658 * Returns the title for the input record. If blank, a "no title" label (localized) will be returned.
659 * Do NOT htmlspecialchar the string from this function - has already been done.
663 * @return string The title.
686 * @return int The "uid" field value.
695 * @param array $row The record array.
712 * @param string $depthData HTML-code prefix for recursive calls.
774 // Finally, add the row/HTML content to the ->tree array in the reserved key.
826 * Returns the record for a uid.
827 * For tables: Looks up the record in the database.
828 * For arrays: Returns the fake record for uid id.
842 * Getting the tree data: Selecting/Initializing data pointer to items for a certain parent id.
843 * For tables: This will make a database query to select all children to "parent"
887 * @return array item data array OR FALSE if end of elements.
924 * Used to initialize class with an array to browse.
925 * The array inputted will be traversed and an internal index for lookup is created.
926 * The keys of the input array are perceived as "uid"s of records which means that keys GLOBALLY must be unique like uids are.
927 * "uid" and "pid" "fakefields" are also set in each record.
928 * All other fields are optional.
930 * @param array $dataArr The input array, see examples below in this script.
931 * @param bool $traverse Internal, for recursion.
932 * @param int $pid Internal, for recursion.


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Mexico's drug 'saint' draws Facebook fans
Lifestyle // Religion & Spirituality
DANE SCHILLER, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
• Saint's Facebook page
They ask him to protect them from arrest and safeguard their drugs. They thank him for riches and keeping them alive.
Cyber citizens with a cult-like bent are using Facebook to reach out to Mexico's so-called patron saint of drug trafficking.
Jesus Malverde, the Robin Hood-like criminal hanged a century ago, has a fan page with hundreds of registered visitors.
Requests come steady. Motives are hardly veiled.
"Oh powerful Malverde, protect us from (the feds) and don't let the cops grab us with more than 5 grams of pot," reads one posting.
Another message was posted "from the deserts of Durango," the state with a new wave of violence, including the beheading of five small-town police officers and a prosecutor.
"Thanks to you for how things turned out," it reads, "and how nobody was grabbed."
'Highly superstitious'
It is impossible to know how many visitors are legitimate.
Clearly, gawkers and the curious outnumber devotees, but traffickers have a long history of mysticism and believing in higher, darker powers to guide them.
"These people are highly superstitious. They use patron saints, religion, in a very convoluted way for any edge to continue their criminal enterprises unscathed," said Mike Vigil, who retired after having served as the Drug Enforcement Administrations' chief of international operations.
The faith can be dangerous, he said.
"They feel they are invincible and many times they will shoot it out with law enforcement thinking the bullets will not hurt them."
Folklore has it that Malverde was a thief who stole from the rich and gave to the poor. His saintly status is not recognized by the Catholic Church, notes a biography posted on the site.
High-tech shrine
The Facebook page amounts to an online extension, perhaps for a new generation, of the popular shrine dedicated to him in the state of Sinaloa, home to many top drug traffickers, including Arturo Beltran Leyva, who was killed last week in a gunbattle with Mexican marines.
Sprawled on the floor of a room sprayed with bullets, Leyva's body had an array of trinkets and religious icons around it.
At Malverde's shrine, there are hundreds of candles and photos as well as a few vendors hawking mementos such as leather necklaces with his image on pendants.
Howard Campbell, a University of Texas at El Paso anthropologist, said Malverde's popularity has grown and evolved as has the drug trade.
"Malverde is revered just as are other rebel bad-boy types such as James Dean, (Marlon) Brando and the Rolling Stones," he said.
dane.schiller@chron.com
DANE SCHILLER


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was the pen-name of a novelist in Shōwa period Japan. Her real name was Nakazato Tsune.

Early life
Nakazato was born in Fujisawa city, Kanagawa prefecture and graduated from the Kanagawa Girls' Higher School. When she was 17 years old she met Tatsuo Nagai and started writing, publishing multiple novellas before her marriage at age 19.

Literary career
In 1938, Nakazato became the first woman to win the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, with her short story Noriai bashi. After World War II, she came to be known for a number of works addressing the issue of international marriage, including Mariannu monogatari ("Maryann's Story", 1946) and Kusari ("Chain", 1959), which were drawn from her own daughter's marriage to an American.

Her novel Utamakura ("Song Pillow", 1973) was awarded the Yomiuri Prize. In 1974, she received the Japan Art Academy Prize, and became a member of that institution in 1983.

Nakazato was a resident of Zushi, Kanagawa from 1932 until her death due to colon cancer in 1987. Her grave is at the temple of Engaku-ji in Kamakura.

See also
 Japanese literature
 List of Japanese authors

References

1909 births
1987 deaths
20th-century Japanese novelists
Japanese women short story writers
People from Fujisawa, Kanagawa
People from Zushi, Kanagawa
Akutagawa Prize winners
Yomiuri Prize winners
Deaths from colorectal cancer
Deaths from cancer in Japan
Japanese women novelists
20th-century Japanese women writers
20th-century Japanese short story writers

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Hosmer Point helps campers build a sense of community in a caring environment where children can play, explore, and create life-long friendships.
At Hosmer Point, everyone is like one big family. Campers are respected for who they are, and can build their own schedule for each day.
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Anti-American New York Times Goes After Mount Rushmore As Symbol Of Racism
The mask has been ripped off of the far left New York Times.
They have always been a left leaning paper but in recent years, they have gone as far left as the radical base of the Democratic party.
They are now going after Mount Rushmore. Unbelievable.
FOX News reports:
The New York Times slammed as 'woke police' for report targeting Mount Rushmore
The New York Times has faced intense backlash over its report about the history of Mount Rushmore.
Ahead of President Trump's scheduled Fourth of July celebration at the national monument, the Times ran a report with the headline "How Mount Rushmore Became Mount Rushmore," which outlined how the upcoming event "invited even more scrutiny" regarding the landmark's history.
Along with the criticisms George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Theodore Roosevelt have faced in recent weeks, the Times reported the condemnation from Native Americans since the monument was built on indigenous land. It also noted how the sculptor Gutzon Borglum had "strong bonds with leaders of the Ku Klux Klan" and has a documented history of espousing white supremacist and anti-Semitic rhetoric.
However, it was a tweet from the Times that summarized an unflattering depiction of Mount Rushmore that really raised eyebrows on social media.
See the tweet below:
Mount Rushmore was built on land that belonged to the Lakota tribe and sculpted by a man who had strong bonds with the Ku Klux Klan. It features the faces of 2 U.S. presidents who were slaveholders.https://t.co/pHmJScnYbb
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 1, 2020
They are getting rightfully slammed over this.
OMG the woke police are going all in on Mount Rushmore. They're really doing it. These people are insane. https://t.co/eFcjbqW8PR
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 1, 2020
Now, the woke mob at the New York Times is coming after Mount Rushmore.
If we give this mob an inch, they'll take a mile. pic.twitter.com/rUxttMvrvB
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) July 1, 2020
Interesting the @nytimes failed to mention Mount Rushmore's "complicated legacy" of racism when Obama visited, or when Maureen Dowd pondered whether Obama would one day be "a Mount Rushmore President" https://t.co/n61Jkc0J5l
— Brent Scher (@BrentScher) July 2, 2020
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is a Japanese model, entertainer, and actress who is represented by Amuse, Inc.

Education
Rokusha graduated from Kyoto Municipal Hiyoshigaoka High School and Otemon Gakuin University Faculty of Letters Asian Culture Department.

Career
She debuted as a model when she was fifteen years old. Rokusha worked as a model and entertainer in Osaka and in December 2005 she passed an audition for the Tokyo Broadcasting System drama Byōin e Ikou! and moved to Amuse on Tokyo.

She made regular appearances in the Kansai Telecasting Corporation series Sata Uma! Because of that, Rokusha did more work related to horse racing, including the Television Nishinippon Corporation series Dream Keiba, where she appeared as a quasi-regular guest with Rica Imai.

Filmography

Drama

TV series

Films

References

External links

Japanese female models
Japanese television personalities
1973 births
Living people
Actors from Kyoto Prefecture
20th-century Japanese actresses
21st-century Japanese actresses
Models from Kyoto Prefecture
Amuse Inc. talents
21st-century Japanese singers
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Seckry Sevenstars is forced out of his village by the powerful Endrin Company and relocates to Skyfall City.
Just as he starts to settle into his new life, a mysterious email lures Seckry within the confines of Endrin, where he discovers and saves a young woman.
From there, Seckry tumbles through a mad journey to discover exactly what Endrin is up to, what it has to do with the girl, and what it means for him.
As someone older than the target audience, for me there were some gaps. The ending can be too easily guessed, and the problems the main characters faced were solved with unrealistic simplicity. Because it's a good story, I found myself wanting a little more meat.
However, putting on my pre-teen hat, it's an all round great story. There are set ups and fulfilling payoffs, exciting twists, splashes of romance, and enough intrigue at the end to entice you to pick up the second book in the series.
I would recommend this story to my little brother and little sister, and I know they would LOVE it!
If you are a 21+ adult who loves Harry Potter, or other 'Young Adult' books that have enough depth for the whole family, 'City of the Falling Sky' will leave you wanting just a little bit more.
This is an honest review. I did not receive a copy of this book in exchange for this review.
Find 'City of The Falling Sky' on Amazon or Goodreads.


Sorry we haven't blogged in a few days, especially considering all of the recent Kentucky legal events, like the bombshells attorney Stan Chesley has been dropping in the Fen Phen trial and the two teenage girls asking to join the suit against Kentucky Kingdom for the tragedy that severed a Louisville girl's legs.
Not to mention the raging dispute at the Kentucky Bar Association's annual convention about whether Kentucky should adopt a "squeal rule" that would require lawyers to report each other to the bar association for suspected unethical behavior (I'm against it by the way, but that's fodder for another post).
But we have been working on our video section. Let us know what you think of the videos we added on Legal Malpractice and Insurance Bad Faith. Coming soon are videos on nursing home negligence and automobile and truck wrecks.


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Argentina American
Published by Invest UnderNews on August 23, 2019
Government. The unexpected fall of 3.6% on sales of new homes in the month of September, shows the fragile situation of the sector. Above the financial sector is not making its contribution to generate demand, a demand that is far from stimulating by the aforementioned labour fragility problems and uncertainty in the economic context. Ripple can aid you in your search for knowledge. Speaking of the financial system, we need to pay attention to what could happen in the coming months beyond the regulatory advances. The U.S. financial system can even bring us any surprises. Bank failures are so far at 106 in the year, but this will not be the total number of banks that no longer exist in this 2009. If we consider the growth observed in the GDP of the country from the North depending on the Latin American interests, there is too much scope to the enthusiasm.
It is that the fragility of this recovery and the risks of reversal that still persist, don't expect a beneficial effect on Latin American economies, and especially for Mexico's significance. To make matters worse, the exchange rate appreciation of Latin American currencies has deteriorated its relative competitiveness with respect to the American economy, which further decreases the growth expectations in the region from the external sector. I think it is still premature to uncork and celebrate the end of the crisis both for Latin America but mainly for the United States. The crisis for its characteristics will not end so easily and the time together with prudent decisions, is the consolidation of the recovery that will determine. Only have to wait since there is no more room for new plans for economic stimulus whose main effect could be increasing the risk of a new crisis, although this time, since the fiscal accounts. Horacio Pozzo Horacio Pozzo is master's degree in economics from the University of La Plata, Argentina and editor of the basic economics course for investors, to learn how to invest on the basis of the economy.
National Institute
Published by Invest UnderNews on June 18, 2019
According to the latest data published by the National Institute of statistics, the occupation of rural accommodation in Spain rose last February, a 2.6% compared to 2008 and recorded 315.887 reserves for this type of hotels. These statistics show that rural tourism becomes, increasingly, an option for those seeking escape from the crowd. Taking advantage of approaching the bridge from the second Passover, Expedia.es, the leading online worldwide travel agency, proposes tempting prices to know endearing towns, dotted with nature and places without trace of agglomeration, as an alternative to staying in a hotel in Barcelona or one of the hotels in Madrid. Salmantino serenity in a privileged enclave the sierras South of Salamanca await the traveler in search of tranquility, and in them, are people who have managed to keep safe their traditions, landscapes and typical architecture. One of them is Candelario, situated at the foot of the Natural Park of Candelario declared reserve of the biosphere. This mountain village It is, without doubt, one of the tourist centers of greater importance of the comarca of Bejar. With several centuries behind him, still retains its medieval atmosphere, its old stoned, their spectacular forests and its famous sausages.
Expedia.es proposes staying in the small mountain Cinco Castanos, a good example of rural tourism hotel in Castile and Leon, Spain. The building, constructed in 1994, only has exterior rooms in order to ensure the best views of the Sierra de Bejar. Only one hour of Salamanca, Expedia.es recommends making an excursion to visit the University, the Casa de las Conchas, the Plaza Mayor and the old (Heritage). Upon returning to the hotel, a dinner based on typical dishes of the town can be a good way to end the day. Six centuries of art to rest just 11 kilometers from the border with Portugal, the town of Alcantara is located in the Natural Park of the Tagus, in Caceres.
Published by Invest UnderNews on March 26, 2019
So will raise my (exposure to pose a series of points in which I express my honest opinion in relation to the theme that brings us together on the day of today, something I do with great pleasure, with the purpose of providing some conceptions that to my modest understanding, shall cease absolutely proven, as follows: 1) that formerly, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, in front at the entrance of the MediterraneanThere was an island which was the rest of the Atlantic continent and was known with the name of Atlantis. (2) The description of that island left by Plato, is not at all a myth, as long was considered, nor a fantastic fable that constitutes a true history, prehistoric. (3) That Atlantis was the earth itself where the man, for the first time, soared above the barbarism and reached high degrees of civilization. Click Verizon Communications to learn more. (4) That the population of Atlantis, in the course of many centuries, developed a large and powerful nation whose surplus of population populated by civilized races the banks of the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi, the Amazon River, in the Pacific Ocean, South America, and on the other hand, the Mediterranean Sea, the coasts of Western Europe, the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. (5) That Atlantis was not another thing that the world before the flood, as the garden of Eden or paradise, as the gardens of the Hesperides, the fields of Eleusis, or Los Jardines de Alcino, the navel of the world, as Olympus or Asgard, the traditions of ancient peoples; all, constitute the memory of a country where men, centuries and centuries ago, they lived in happiness and peace. The fear of the Lord fell on all the Nations, for the Lord's work covering his people being so great. Verizon Communications has many thoughts on the issue. And the Lord blessed the ground, and his people were blessed on mountains and high places and prospered. And the Lord called his people Zion because they were of one heart and willingness, and living in righteousness; and there was no poor among them. Moses 7: 17 18 6) were the gods, goddesses and heroes of the ancient Greeks, the Phoenicians, the Hindus, and Norse mythology, not anything else, Kings, Queens, and heroes of Atlantis, and that the acts and facts attributed to them the mythology, is nothing more than the confusing of prehistoric events real longing.
Choosing Needs
Before the decision to make the purchase the consumer passes through a series of stages. Among the mental strategies used are: recognition of a need: the consumer is driven to action by a necessity. Choosing a level of participation: is where the consumer decides how much time investing. Identification of alternatives: the consumer discover products and alternate brands. Evaluation of alternatives: is when it classifies the advantages and disadvantages of the options. Decision: it is when you choose to or not to make the purchase.
Behavior after the purchase: the consumer seeks the security of having made the right decision. During the stages that pass before the purchase, there may be variations as: that the consumer can withdraw in any of them, prior to the purchase. Some stages are sometimes ignored. The stages do not necessarily have the same duration. Some stages are made consciously and other subconscious way. What a consumer learns to make the purchasing process influences how will be the next Once you submit the same opportunity.
After gathering information for a particular topic as it can be karate, evaluate options and come to a decision, will have acquired additional knowledge about the product and several brands; even more, it will have formed new opinions and beliefs and you will have reviewed the old ones. What us drives to buy: needs, motivations and desires according to the above theories and the process by which goes to make a purchase, we present interrelated way, different internal processes of the human being that performs actions of purchase: within the social sciences are numerous terms such as needs, desires, impulses, mobile, instinct, etc., to describe the same idea. Their meanings are not the same, but make reference to an internal force of the individual, which begets whose object is default behavior. According to the above theories and the process by which goes to make a purchase, it is necessary to distinguish the elements that make up the dynamics of the consumer behavior, from the moment in which originate. To do this, we go from the marketing concept defined as the social process oriented to the satisfaction of the needs of the individual and organizations, by creation and voluntary and competitive exchange of generators satisfiers of utilities. According to this definition, the importance of knowing the needs of the market is evident. However, the needs of the market are not studied as a general term, but it should be distinguished other concepts closely related, as the lack, motivations and desires of the consumer.
Published by Invest UnderNews on November 25, 2018
Augusto Comte, founder of scientific sociology, contains principles emanating from Cartesian rationalism and the encyclopedic movement and harmonizes them with principles extracted from the doctrine of Catholic, conservative and traditionalist. The merit of Comte is the combine these as opposing currents in his philosophical system. His most direct influences are Turgot, Condorcet and De Maestre. Through philosophy ecolastica of the middle ages, through St. Augustine, is linked to Aristotle who should the principle of social aesthetics.
Catholic traditionalist school, Comte extracts the principle of authority and tradition in the life of peoples, who gives a great importance within their doctrine and the theory of progress, extracts the law of progress. Influences hints at the work of Comte: contributions from Montesquieu, who extracted the principle of social causation, allows you to formulate laws on social matters. The fundamental ideas are based on the principle that it is essential to reorganize social life on new foundations, and in doing so build a whole system of philosophy known as positivist. Positive philosophy is interested to investigate the facts such as they occur in the society to discover the laws that govern it, thus Comte leaves aside all causes and purposes. Through positivist philosophy Comte wants to ensure the achievement of the political, intellectual and moral unit of society. Intellectual unit: achieved through the systematization of all human knowledge. The moral unity: is accomplished through the establishment of a religion (Catholic) and the overcoming of the sentiment and the heart, creating a religion that the flame of humanity, which has as a principle the monotheism and who can according to Comte, summarized thus: love by principle, the order by base and finally progress.
This comtiana formula has been picked up by a U.S. State, which has in its banner part of this formula; This country is Brazil. Political unity: Comte believed that he is achieved through the abolition of war and the creation of a great state that the called a United States of Europe.
Black Eagles
Published by Invest UnderNews on June 7, 2018
Everything indicates that contractors are an extension of the SEAL project, clearly, all sorts of cleaning experts: Social, ethnic, religious, political, military, and violation of human rights so pretext of their legal nature and ever more sophisticated forms of supranational intervention, in which States that harbor them would have nothing to do before their abuses, it would be just a matter of the contractor with their contracted, i.e., are private acts. Although the Minister of the Interior and of Justice, Fabio valencia Cossio, revealed that private contractors that make part of the United States Mission in development of conventions shall not enjoy privileges or immunity: this figure, established in the Vienna Convention, which became part of Colombia, will be only applied to the U.S. military, but anticipated that there will be clauses according to whichthe Colombian Prosecutor's Office will collaborate in the investigations initiated against who violated Colombian law, the Colombian Government will track processes that open in United States and may have exceptions to immunity, however according to Jeremy Scahill, American journalist, this group of mercenaries linked to the Christian conservative far right international enjoyed a high degree of immunity that touch impunity; and they have not been able to be prosecuted either in Iraq or in the United States.Is important and urgent that organizations of human rights, social, academic communities, and political opposition represented in any parliamentary Committee, reorient the real debate, the real risk is the possible preparation of a scenario of civil strife, Ocean earthquakes, and operations arising in which these commands are experts, and forward an investigation into tasks that contractors be fulfilled as well as the legal framework and its scope of immunity and impunity. Without a doubt, to former President Uribe, assist you with moral obligation, to expose the merits of this case and not remain merely formal aspects that are of easy understanding; We already have enough with DynCorp, to pretend to add to this modern conflict Black Eagles supranational 2..
Nirvana Sutra
Published by Invest UnderNews on February 12, 2018
Do however, their careful arrangements failed because Siddh? rtha, acclaimed by the crowd on its way through the streets, could not stop perceiving the pain in its most acute forms, for the first time realized old age, sickness and death. Wikipedia says that in his way, Siddharta learned hand of four different masters. With them he learned different techniques of meditation and achieved higher States of consciousness. In essence, the different ideas that it examined Siddharta were trying to redefine the union of the individual (Atman) with an absolute (Brahman) to achieve liberation. But despite their great achievements with these practices, not found in them satisfaction to your questions. Then, in an attempt to completely overwhelm the sensory world, Siddharta tried to submit to austerities so extreme that almost caused his death, but still not found solution to your problem. This is why he decided to investigate it in a new and different way.
He learned two things of paramount importance first, extreme asceticism did not lead to the total liberation, but was necessary to something else; and secondly, that reached a point, no teacher was able to teach anything else. Do Siddh? rtha departed decided to not continue to seek external sources of wisdom, but to find within himself. Does a mythical version of this stage of his life tells us that Siddh? rtha, in its extreme practices of asceticism, after a few days without eating or drinking water, just a few minutes before his death, listened to a teacher who was teaching him a girl to play the zither. The teacher told him that if the rope was too loose would not you sound, but would be broken if the rope of the zither was very tense: the rope should be in your fair tension so that he could give music and harmony. Currently Siddharta comprised the Middle Road: both extreme asceticism and the life of pleasures of the Palace were two extremes, and the truth would find in the right measure between exacerbated pleasure and extreme asceticism. Do Siddh? rtha Gautama died around the year 486 BC, at the age of 80.
The cause was food poisoning that caused vomiting, hemorrhages and great pains which, according to the testimonies, endured with great fortitude. Finally, leaned into a forest of mangoes at Ku?Nagara, about 175 kilometers north-west of Patna. There, surrounded by his disciples, reached the eternal peace of complete extinction, the for nirvana. This is a State that only have access after his death which have reached Nirvana during their lifetime. Before the expiry of said the Nirvana Sutra, which summarizes all its teaching and clarifies the points that he saw that they were not well understood.
A method of communication for technicians to a technology universal the SMS was designed as internal communication tool between engineers, but however, it has become a method of mass communication, as evidenced by the 9,000 million SMS that was sent in the year 2008 in Spain. Written by mobile communication has been benefited by improvements in mobile terminals, such as wider screens among other improvements introduced progressively. And even we invent us words, given that we express ourselves differently to have to limit our message to 160 characters. According to the Commission of the market of telecommunications, more than 52 million mobile lines in Spain there are ().Therefore, there is almost one mobile phone per person in Spain, and this fact one of the reasons why the companies are incorporating his actions of communication sending and receiving SMS, but there are also other reasons such as: reduce costs on phone calls and sending of physical mail. Optimize the time of employees, making them more productive. Reduce the cancellation of appointments and their associated costs.
Help you build brand, increasing recognition of the same. To promote more effective marketing campaigns. Increase customer contact and loyalty. There are many companies that offer services of sending SMS, and therefore if you want to choose a good provider for sending SMS, should consider the following 10 points to choose a good service of sending SMS: you only pay for the SMS you send the ease of use of SMS services. Reliability in the delivery of SMS via direct network connection with the best operators of mobile telephony. Ease of integration of the services of the provider in your commercial applications and CRM. Option to load and update your database of customers. Manage SMS sending worldwide.
Send scheduled SMS. Customize the sender of the SMS for free. Access to a record of the sent SMS. Know the time of delivery and reception of SMS sent for each receiver you are interested. Free delivery of sent SMS confirmations. A fact that demonstrates that the sending of SMS as a tool for professional communication enjoys very good health is Esendex Spain SL, provider specializing in services for sending SMS for companies, won 41% growth in its volume of processed SMS in December 2009 vs. December 2008. Knowing all this, what are you waiting to reach all your customers in all places?
Administration Reality
Published by Invest UnderNews on July 20, 2013
To all this is added the great weakness of the schools do not have a staff of certified teachers of experience, pedagogy, a new methodology for learning, creativity, out-of-date, enterprising, innovative (though there will be some few exceptions), seriously affecting the training, development of future managers. Teachers today easily admitted on the basis of friendship, family, political, commitment with little guarantee academic, seriously hindering the formation of management professionals. Teachers soon identified with research, publications and reality of national problems, separation from the demand of knowledge, which the Venezuelan business sector requires to ensure operability. They remain static schools in relation to proactivar linking with enterprises, all this in order to delve into your problems, give way to knowledge that are required to ensure development, successful operation. Form a relationship conducive to both institutions, enabling to keep updated their curricula, the Administrator profile needed, collaborate in the solution of the problems that occur. It is necessary to thoroughly review curricula both at the undergraduate and graduate level and eliminate subjects that are not adapted in the needs of the present, to minimize the loss of time with knowledge that already do not adapt to the reality and take away the opportunity that will provide new tools, approaches that favor the Venezuelan business sector. It is important to reduce the number of years for the degree of Bachelor in administration of five to four, enough to provide the basic fundamentals – needed practical that ensures a effective operational management. Schools of Administration should be restructured, select more proactive, entrepreneurs, teachers strategists, creatives, facilitators, which give step to generate new knowledge, own of the Venezuelan reality paradigms.
Horses Coaching Company
Published by Invest UnderNews on January 30, 2013
Today companies when hiring staff, not only comply with select professionals who know how to do a particular job or have a specific academic or technical knowledge. Many companies are concerned in hiring professionals who meet a certain type of skills or qualities. And every job requires a series of competences. Each company has its own list of competencies and evaluation of behaviors that are associated with each of the competencies. Similarly competencies vary if the company seeks so-called candidates to occupy a first job (learning ability, flexibility to adapt to changes, teamwork, empathy) or if you intend to fill positions requiring experience (initiative, decision-making capacity and management of team work, creativity, leadership, control of emotions). There are many and varied methodologies to analyze and measure the competencies of the candidates to occupy a place of work or to promote internally to employees of a company. These systems of measurement and evaluation are looking for accurate information about the competencies required for the position.
There is, however, the possibility that companies are aware of competencies and natural abilities of your candidates or employees through the interaction of these with horses. Using horses, which, through a series of specific exercises and tests that do not require riding animal, facilitate, direct and immediate responses to sincere and true about how we are and how we relate, communicate and generate confidence in others. Horses don't judge, simply react naturally and honest, and put to the test our powers of leadership, coherence, empathy, security and clarity of intention. With this methodology, the company, with the responses of the horses, it can detect and uncover, among its employees, leaders so far were occupying posts without any responsibility and that, with proper training and preparation, they are called to exercise leadership effective. Similarly, there is a danger to control of the company in evidence that they don't get an adequate by the horses response (of leadership), but that, pursuant to a plan of action to make it work those competencies needing improvement, can exercise a true and effective leadership. We can conclude that this tool can be a complement to traditional assessment systems that accelerate and define more precisely the skills of prospective employees or those in process of internal promotion.


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O Cabrião foi um periódico publicado na cidade de São Paulo, no Brasil, à época do Segundo Reinado. Ao custo popular de 5 mil-réis, foi o primeiro jornal brasileiro a utilizar a caricatura com forma de sátira política, tendo sido fechado devido às suas críticas ao Império em seus aspectos político, econômico e social.

Publicado por Angelo Agostini, Américo de Campos e Antônio Manuel dos Reis, circulou semanalmente, aos domingos, de 1866 a 1867, totalizando 51 números. Contou também com a colaboração do caricaturista Huáscar Vergara e do abolicionista Luiz Gama. O primeiro teria substituído Agostini em alguns números do jornal; o segundo publicou poemas satíricos como "Epístola Familiar" (Cabrião, no 12) e "Fidalguias" (Cabrião, no 45), conforme atribuição feita por Délio Freire dos Santos em texto introdutório à versão fac-similar do periódico publicado pela parceria entre Editora da Unesp e Imprensa Oficial do Estado de São Paulo. Uma versão digitalizada do jornalzinho também foi disponibilizada pela Biblioteca Brasiliana Mindlin da Universidade de São Paulo.

Apresentação do Cabrião

Os primeiros números

Embora o Cabrião só informe a data de publicação a partir do quarto número (22 de outubro de 1866), podemos supor que o primeiro número do periódico tenha sido publicado no dia 1o do mesmo mês.

Em 30 de setembro, o Correio Paulistano recomendava ao público a assinatura do "jornalzinho de caricaturas". No dia 2 de outubro, o mesmo Correio Paulistano acusava o recebimento do primeiro número do Cabrião: "É preciso que a Capital à imitação de outras cidades importantes do Império, saia da apatia em que vive. São Paulo pode e deve ter um jornal que à semelhança da 'Semana Ilustrada' e do 'Bazar Volante', diga ao público com 'crayon' o que muitas vezes não se pode e nem é permitido dizer com a pena". Importante destacar que Américo de Campos, um dos responsáveis pela publicação do Carbião, era também redator do Correio Paulistano.

No primeiro número, o Cabrião cumprimenta o respeitável público e, apresentando-se como "candidato aos cofres dos leitores", promete que, "a fim de sustentar o equilíbrio da imprensa (...), empenhará a cabeça, se preciso for, para fazer jorrar o espírito de cada frase e copiar os carões, caras e caretas, que melhores traços ofereçam ao crayon, e mais beleza derem ao painel". Garante ainda que: "Atacando as trincheiras do vício, lançando por terra o monstro da hipocrisia, fará tremular o estandarte da virtude".

No segundo número, o artigo de fundo reforça os objetivos da publicação: "Criado para moer a paciência dos jesuítas, para amolar os vinagres, para enforcar todos os cascudos existentes e por existir. Cada Domingo será um Dies irae".

Título e personagem-narrador

Cabrião, o personagem-narrador do periódico, apresentava-se como um "amolador" na capital paulista. O nome do jornal foi inspirado no romance-folhetim de Eugéne Sue, Mistérios de Paris, publicado na França pelo Journal des Débats entre 1842 e 1843. Muito popular na época, foi traduzido por Justiniano José da Rocha e publicado no Rio de Janeiro pelo Jornal do Commercio entre 1844 e 1845.

Na obra, Alfred Pipelet era um velho que se estremecia de pavor ao ouvir falar de artistas, principalmente pintores, por ter sido obrigado a conviver durante tempos com Cabrión, um pintor que, de tão impertinente, quase lhe fez perder o juízo. Na versão paulista, as personagens antagônicas do romance de Sue se conciliam. Pipelet se torna companheiro do Cabrião e passa a complementá-lo para dar sentido às situações narradas no periódico. Juntos, observam e comentam os fatos cotidianos da capital da Província.

Contexto

Transformações no século XIX

Os primeiros anos da segunda metade do século XIX são caracterizados por reformas e transformações que tiveram importantes reflexos na vida econômica, social e cultural do Império. O fim do tráfico de africanos para o Brasil, em 1850, gerou um excedente de recursos que passou a ser destinado a outros negócios, geralmente em benefício dos núcleos urbanos. O Estado de São Paulo, em função do crescimento das lavouras de café, foi uma das regiões mais afetadas.

A transformação da capital da Província em importante entreposto comercial requereu o melhoramento nos serviços públicos em decorrência do relativo aumento populacional e das condições exigidas pelos novos habitantes. Fazendeiros que fixaram residência na cidade, novos comerciantes, funcionários da administração provincial, artistas, professores e estudantes da Academia de Direito (que teve significativo crescimento no número de matrículas nessa época) demandavam novos serviços, novas formas de sociabilidade e novos hábitos que alteraram a fisionomia da cidade, diversificando os costumes e os tipos humanos – uma nova ordem social que despontava numa cidade ainda com fortes permanências da vida tradicional.

O burgo dos estudantes

Até então, São Paulo era uma cidade com características rurais marcantes. Ernani Silva Bruno relata que, naquele tempo, a capital da província era, sobretudo, um "burgo de estudantes". Era a presença deles, em função da Faculdade de Direito, que arrancava a capital da província de seu sono colonial. E foram os estudantes e lentes dessa instituição os beneficiários imediatos da diversificação do comércio e das oportunidades alternativas de lazer. Sérgio Adorno afirma que, na década de 1860, em torno dessa elite intelectualizada, foram fundados hotéis, confeitarias, docerias, alfaiatarias, barbearias e livrarias. Ao mesmo tempo, o teatro, as casas de prazeres e a vida boêmia se tornaram focos imediatos da atenção dos acadêmicos. A presença dos estudantes na capital da Província contribuiu também para a proliferação de jornais, revistas e panfletos de diversos gêneros. O entusiasmo pela escrita na imprensa começava com os periódicos acadêmicos, um dos espaços embrionários da militância política dos bacharéis, apregoando uma moral pública que reclamava padrões de sociabilidade e bons costumes que consagrassem leis e instituições promotoras da felicidade dos homens.

A diversificação social

A preocupação com o controle dos espaços públicos e a preservação da segurança e dos bons costumes tinha especial sentido em São Paulo naquele momento. O aumento populacional verificado a partir da segunda metade do século XIX demandava políticas de controle. A presença cada vez maior de escravos, libertos e

homens livres pobres na cidade apresentava-se como risco à ordem pública. Para evitar que a cidade fosse tomada pela barbárie, de um lado, ampliou-se o contingente policial e os estabelecimentos carcerários foram expandidos, de outro, a ação pedagógica da elite se fez pela instrução pública e pela imprensa.

Não somente os avanços das técnicas de reprodução de impressos permitiram a diversidade de jornais acadêmicos, filosóficos, literários, políticos e até humorísticos. A diversificação da própria sociedade (com seus novos tipos humanos e repertórios de temas) favoreceu ao aperfeiçoamento de recursos linguísticos, literários e jornalísticos, bem como um redimensionamento das características esboçadas nos periódicos das décadas anteriores. O aperfeiçoamento da litografia e a caricatura vieram incrementar as práticas jornalísticas tão difundidas nos arredores do Largo São Francisco.

Início da crise do Império
Durante a segunda metade da década de 1860, São Paulo também sofria com a demora da Guerra do Paraguai. Os esforços do governo imperial no recrutamento de braços para lutar no país estrangeiro oprimia as famílias pobres e subtraía mão-de-obra dos proprietários de escravos. Além disso, os conflitos faziam acirrarem-se ainda mais os ânimos num momento em que a política de conciliação já não se sustentava. Américo de Campos e Luiz Gama acompanharam com bons olhos o desenvolvimento das ideias radicais na Corte. Embora não tenham exercido nenhum cargo político durante todo o Império, foram membros ativos do Club Radical em São Paulo, organização da qual sairiam alguns dos fundadores do Partido Republicano, em 1870.

As transformações ocorridas na cidade em decorrência da expansão da produção cafeeira, associadas à conjuntura de desagregação da política de conciliação e ao clima de incertezas gerado pela guerra no Paraguai, favoreceram a ampliação de um espaço de crítica política ocupado por novos atores.

Principais temas

Tensões e anticlericalismo

As contradições entre uma cidade em processo acelerado de urbanização e as permanências da tradição, entre o aumento da população que se pretendia culta e a inexistência de espaços de sociabilidade, entre um país civilizado e a violência da escravidão davam o tom das críticas apresentadas no jornalzinho. A marcante religiosidade e a forte presença do clero na vida pública e particular dos paulistas, por exemplo, foi diversas vezes tematizadas pelo Cabrião. Não raro os padres figuram como personagens corruptas e oportunistas.

A Guerra do Paraguai e as fragilidades do Império
A Guerra do Paraguai ocupou espaço privilegiado nas páginas do Cabrião, especialmente nas caricaturas de Ângelo Agostini. Na sua esteira, um abolicionismo se manifestava de forma incipiente com a abordagem da presença dos escravos nos campos de batalha. O periódico fazia coro também a um grupo ainda pequeno de caricaturistas que ousavam romper a sacralidade dos símbolos imperiais. O próprio Dom Pedro II, símbolo maior do regime, aparece várias vezes no Cabrião sob formas incompatíveis com sua posição; ora como soberano displicente, ora infantilizado na figura de um bebê que se diverte com os jogos da política, ora como patrono de atitudes corruptas no cerne do governo.

Um curioso crime de imprensa

Au revoir

Ligações externas

Cabrião: versão digital da Biblioteca Brasiliana Mindlin

Ver também
Imprensa

Cabriao


One of the questions I get a lot is about how a site's Domain Authority (DA) score is calculated.
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Moz, by the way, is a Seattle-based firm specializes in marketing analytics software. Its tools assist in such areas as search engine optimization (SEO), link building, and content marketing.
A website's Domain Authority score address its overall rank on search engine results. Another metric, Page Authority, addresses the likelihood of each individual page appearing in search engine results. Each of these is determined by multiple factors, which we'll explain below.
How does Domain Authority work?
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It gives us immense pleasure to inform you that the Centre for Innovative Leadership Navigation will be hosting the 2nd International Conference on Business & Cyber Security in London.
To date the vast majority of businesses and public and private institutions still view cyber security as a peripheral issue that is primarily concern of the IT Department. Whilst this mind set is unlikely to change radically any time soon, there is a growing appreciation that businesses and individuals need to be far more aware and proactive.
Foresight planning, bespoke training and whole staff awareness are essential if the appropriate systems and procedures are to be put in place that will stand a chance of thwarting those with nefarious intentions. Where once academia and business had little interaction, there is a growing realisation that it is imperative that research and practical insights are exchanged and thus the International Conference on Business & Cyber Security (ICBCS) has come into being, as a an annual forum for just such knowledge sharing.
Whilst globalisation, the Internet and new technology platforms have afforded the world of business a wealth of exciting opportunities, it is equally true that they have also provided those of a criminal disposition with innumerable new roots to deceive, defraud, intimidate, threaten and destroy. Criminality in the cybersphere is growing at an exponential rate and requires action now.
This important conference seeks both to raise awareness and enable practitioners and researchers from across the globe to come together with a view to gaining fresh insight. ICBCS 2017 aims to be conducive environment in which to forge purposeful partnerships, as well as being a conduit by which innovative and ground breaking research is brought into the public realm.
Financial Services, the Public Utilities (Water, gas, electricity etc.) and Healthcare Provision.
We invite thought leaders and specialists in the field of business, cyber security and other related areas such as foresight planning, public policy, and social and behavioural sciences, as well as companies, industry consultants, analysts and practitioners to attend ICBCS 2017.


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Omer Goldstein (13 de agosto de 1996) es un ciclista profesional israelí que milita en las filas del conjunto Israel-Premier Tech. Su hermano Roy Goldstein también fue ciclista profesional.

Palmarés
2015
 3.º en el Campeonato de Israel Contrarreloj

2016
 2.º en el Campeonato de Israel Contrarreloj

2017
 2.º en el Campeonato de Israel Contrarreloj

2018
 Campeonato de Israel Contrarreloj
 3.º en el Campeonato de Israel en Ruta

2019
 2.º en el Campeonato de Israel en Ruta

2020
 Campeonato de Israel en Ruta

2021
 Campeonato de Israel Contrarreloj

2022
 Campeonato de Israel Contrarreloj
 3.º en el Campeonato de Israel en Ruta

Resultados en Grandes Vueltas

—: no participa
Ab.: abandono

Equipos
 Cycling Academy (07.2016-12.2016)
 Israel (2018-)
 Israel Cycling Academy (2018-2019)
 Israel Start-Up Nation (2020-2021)
 Israel-Premier Tech (2022-)

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Ficha de Omer Goldstein en sitiodeciclismo.net

Ciclistas de Israel
Hermanos ciclistas


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Loretta Lynn's Former Madison, Tenn., Home Is Up for Sale [PICTURES]
Lorie Liebig
Terry Wyatt, Getty Images
The quaint former home of country star Loretta Lynn has hit the market. Located just outside of Nashville in Madison, Tenn., the 1,820-square-foot home features three bedrooms and two bathrooms and is currently listed at $349,900.
According to realtor Jason Galaz, Lynn purchased the home, located at 712 Barbara Dr., in 1961 with assistance from the Wilburn Brothers and Decca Records. "It is said they hosted a housewarming party and got their Opry friends to chip in to donate household items and appliances," Galaz notes in the home's listing. "Patsy Cline ordered curtains and ordered furniture to be made. Loretta and her husband, a mechanic, had sold everything to get to Nashville from Washington state."
The Lynns lived in the home until 1963, when they moved to a nearby farmhouse. Although the home has been updated in the years since then, it still boasts many of the original charming design elements. Wood paneling, large windows and built-in shelves keep the property feeling cozy and unique.
The Barbara Drive property is located about an hour and a half east of Lynn's Ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tenn. The 87-year-old country icon still resides at the ranch, which is partially open to the public and features a 18,000-square-foot museum dedicated to her life and career.
NEXT: 5 Moments Loretta Lynn Changed Everything
Source: Loretta Lynn's Former Madison, Tenn., Home Is Up for Sale [PICTURES]
Filed Under: Editor's Picks, Loretta Lynn


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Серхіо Ромеро (,  22 лютого 1987, Бернардо де Ірігоен, Аргентина) — аргентинський футболіст, воротар національної збірної Аргентини.

Клубна кар'єра
Вихованець юнацьких команд футбольних клубів «Альміранте Браун», «КАІ» та «Расинг» (Авельянеда).

У дорослому футболі дебютував 2006 року виступами за «Расинг» (Авельянеда), в якому провів один сезон, взявши участь лише у 4 матчах чемпіонату.

У липні 2007 року перейшов в нідерландське АЗ за 1,5 млн євро. В сезоні 2007/08 вважався другим воротарем команди, але в наступному сезоні основний воротар Бой Ватерман був відданий в оренду в «АДО Ден Гаг» і Ромеро став основним воротарем клубу. В сезоні 2008/09 став єдиним гравцем АЗ, який провів всі 22 матчі без замін; з 12-го по 21-й тур не пропускав голів, провівши «суху» серію в 957 хвилин, допомігши в тому сезоні команді виграти чемпіонат та Суперкубок Нідерландів.

22 серпня 2011 року Серхіо Ромеро підписав контракт з клубом італійської Серії B «Сампдорією». Сума трансферу та деталі контракту не повідомлялися. У складі фріульців провів наступні два сезони своєї кар'єри гравця, причому вже в першому допоміг команді вийти до Серії А.

17 серпня 2013 року був відданий в «Монако» на правах оренди з правом викупу, де став дублером Данієля Субашича і на поле став виходити дуже рідко.

Виступи за збірні

2007 року залучався до складу молодіжної збірної Аргентини. Був основним воротарем збірної Аргентини на чемпіонаті світу серед юнаків до 20 років 2007, який Аргентина виграла. Всього на молодіжному рівні зіграв у 23 офіційних матчах, пропустив 20 голів.

2008 року був включений у заявку на Олімпійські ігри в Пекіні як запасний воротар. У матчі 1/4 фіналу проти команди Нідерландів основний голкіпер аргентинців Оскар Устарі отримав травму, і Ромеро довелося вийти замість нього на поле на 75 хвилині. Він же грав і в двох наступних матчах, причому за весь турнір не пропустив жодного гола і допоміг збірній святкувати перемогу на турнірі.

2008 року дебютував в офіційних матчах у складі національної збірної Аргентини.

У складі збірної був учасником чемпіонату світу 2010 року у ПАР, на якому тренер «селесті» Дієго Марадона зробив Ромеро основним голкіпером, хоча до початку чемпіонату на його рахунку було всього 6 матчів у складі головної команди Аргентини.

Наступного року був основним воротарем домашнього розіграшу Кубка Америки 2011 року, відігравши в усіх чотирьох матчах збірної і пропустив два голи. В чвертьфіналі турніру проти збірної Уругваю не відбив жодного післяматчевого пенальті і не допоміг аргентинцям пройти далі.

Статистика виступів

Статистика клубних виступів

Збірна

Досягнення

Клубні

 «АЗ»

 Чемпіон Нідерландів: 2008-09
 Володар Суперкубка Нідерландів: 2009

 «Манчестер Юнайтед»

 Володар Кубка Англії: 2016
 Володар Кубка Футбольної ліги: 2017
 Володар Суперкубка Англії: 2016
 Переможець Ліги Європи УЄФА: 2016–17

 «Бока Хуніорс»

 Чемпіон Аргентини: 2022
 Володар Суперкубка Аргентини: 2022

Збірна
 Чемпіон світу серед юнаків до 20 років:
 Аргентина U-20: 2007
 Олімпійський чемпіон:
 Аргентина (ол.): 2008
 Віце-чемпіон світу: 2014
 Срібний призер Кубка Америки: 2015, 2016
 Переможець Суперкласіко де лас Амерікас: 2017

Примітки

Посилання

 Статистика виступів у змаганнях під егідою ФІФА.

 Статистика виступів на сайті national-football-teams.com

Уродженці провінції Місьйонес
аргентинські футболісти
Футбольні воротарі
Гравці молодіжної збірної Аргентини з футболу
Гравці збірної Аргентини з футболу
Футболісти на літніх Олімпійських іграх 2008
Гравці чемпіонату світу з футболу 2010
Гравці розіграшу Кубка Америки з футболу 2011
Чемпіони літніх Олімпійських ігор 2008
Гравці чемпіонату світу з футболу 2014
Гравці розіграшу Кубка Америки з футболу 2015
Гравці розіграшу Кубка Америки з футболу 2016
Футболісти «Расинга» (Авельянеда)
Футболісти «АЗ»
Футболісти «Сампдорії»
Футболісти «Монако»
Футболісти «Манчестер Юнайтед»
аргентинські футбольні легіонери
Футбольні легіонери в Нідерландах
Футбольні легіонери в Італії
Футбольні легіонери у Франції
Футбольні легіонери в Англії
Футбольні легіонери в Монако
Переможці Ліги Європи УЄФА
Аргентинські олімпійські чемпіони


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Conspiracy Theory in the Age of Trump: Why No One Trusts the Media
By davenj1 | 12:11 PM on November 17, 2019
Since the founding of our Republic, conspiracy theories have been a part of American political discourse. They are as American as mom, hot dogs and apple pie. Likewise, the term has been used to discredit anyone pointing out collusion between powerful people or entities. According to the mainstream media, conspiracy theories are divisive, dangerous and evil. Former Obama administration official Cass Sunstein wrote that conspiracy theories cause "violence, including terrorism."
From an academic perspective, the experts tell us that conspiracy theories are a way for "ignorant" people to make sense of the world. One such academic exercise tells us that conspiracy theories are an evolutionary holdover from our caveman past where suspicion helped man survive. Then, everyone was a potential enemy. Most recently, conspiracy theory has been used to describe a mechanism for white people dealing with domestic demographic change.
Conspiracy theories are everywhere these days. They are almost impossible to ignore. Recently, academia has revived the phrase "conspiracism." This was first used in the 1980s to describe conspiracy theories in politics as a form of mass psychosis. Well, at least they are not accusing anyone of being racist cavemen that much these days. However, just as academia has overplayed the accusation of "racism," so too shall they overplay the term "conspiracy theory."
As bad as academia is with their invented words, the media is even worse. CNN's Jim Acosta called it "conspiracy theory" that President Trump (and others) had professed a belief in meddling in the 2016 election on the part of Ukraine. When President Trump claimed that Google and other media outlets were suppressing conservative news sources, CNN's Chris Cillizza cried "conspiracy theory."
These are but two examples of legitimate gripes being labeled "conspiracy theory" to discredit them, or the speaker. Much of the recent impeachment nonsense centers around Trumps "false beliefs" about Ukrainian influence in the 2016 election. In virtually every deposition released so far, the witnesses of Schiff's parade of clowns note that the Ukrainian influence story has been refuted, that Russia is wholly responsible, that it has been addressed, that it is a dead issue, that it is, in short, a conspiracy theory. The only problem is that since late 2016/early 2017, Ukrainian attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 election these stories have been documented. One story in Politico is indicative. An article titled "Ukrainian Efforts to Sabotage Trump Backfire" show clearly Trump's concerns in 2019 are very real. They are not "conspiracy theory."
Likewise, real whistleblowers at Google and other sites have confirmed that the suppression of conservative voices is a very real thing. Project Veritas recently revealed that an ABC reporter was shut down in her reporting of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. If a media apparatus cannot fool the people on its own payroll, they are in sadder shape than we thought.
A recent poll by the Columbia University School of Journalism is quite enlightening. They report that American confidence in the press is at all-time lows. Unless you are a Democrat, you have a high lack of confidence in the press. And there is a good reason for a Democrat's relatively higher levels of confidence in the press: they parrot the talking points of Democrats.
Nowhere is this seen more clearly than in the unhinged belief in a theory that Russia was responsible for Trump's victory over Clinton in 2016. In fact, Russia- a country on economic life support with an aging military infrastructure and perhaps the weakest it has ever been- is blamed for virtually everything with which the "experts" and academics dislike. That could include the election of a populist Italian government or the Brexit vote in England.
Instead, these "Russia is behind everything" news stories are passed off as real news. If Russia is behind all the political discord and swaying so many votes in so many countries, perhaps the United States could learn something from them. After all, they are doing a better job of not only determining favorable electoral outcomes, they seem to be good at covering their tracks. Yet, for three years through innumerable bombshells and the constant drumbeat of "Robert Mueller," what are we left with? Answer: nothing but a real conspiracy theory that distracted the Trump Administration for more than two years.
Thus it becomes apparent that powerful Democrats and their willing allies in the intelligence community and media do not want us cavemen probing their misdeeds. Their problem is that their representation of "the facts" make little sense. Is it any wonder, then, that they have a crisis of credibility?
Articles in such publications as The Economist, Washington Post, Business Insider and others continue the drumbeat of conspiracy theory to shame people away from asking uncomfortable questions. While simultaneously pushing a nonsensical narrative (Russia swayed the 2016 election, Trump discussed a quid pro quo on a phone call, Trump is enriching himself in violation of the Emoluments Clause, etc.), they attempt to shame away alternative and more realistic narratives. Their problem is that their narratives make little sense and are full of holes. Meanwhile, there is very real evidence from a variety of sources that Ukraine, in fact, did meddle in the 2016 election.
Perhaps if the media portrayed the news and presented facts without bias and so-called "in-depth" analysis 24/7 with panels of pundits we all should be thankful are no longer in government, there would not be a search for alternative facts and accusations of conspiracy theories.
Unless mainstream media (and the Democrats in Congress) do not clean up their act, believability on the part of the public will continue to decline. This writer hopes they continue to beclown themselves and show once and for all what fools they really are. If you want to stop so-called conspiracy theories and expunge them from political discourse, perhaps they should stop pushing conspiracy theories in the name of harassing, hounding and "impeaching" a duly-elected President.


It's been too long since I worked on this, I've been buried in other projects, including the audiobook. Had to put something together to actually post here, if only to let you all know that no, I haven't given up!
"Turned?" The other man's voice was distracted, but carried a hint of temporary defeat that confirmed his suspicions. The necromancer was gone, blended into the city now, inseparable from it.
They passed the road in silence, all intently searching for any clue, Rich's muttered directions their only indication that they were still on the right trail at all. Before long they found the buildings sitting closer together around them, and of lesser quality.
The streets were dirty, and the buildings dirtier, made of cheaper materials. Shadows lurked around many of the streets, mostly the smaller, darker ones. Most of the buildings were dark, too, but a raucous din and firelight marked several inns and taverns. Weariness urged Brandon to seek one of these out. The lurking shadows and a subtle sourness to his stomach warned him against it.
Rich doggedly resumed his search of the ground for tracks. "Are you going to keep at that all night?" Lena asked, a hint of impatience tinging her words.
"We need to know where he went," Rich said, in the absent tone of preoccupation.
"We'll never catch him if we rush off the wrong way, too," he said, clearly annoyed.
Brandon broke in. "We do have to know where he's going, but if we keep moving, you can search on the way. If you don't see any sign, we can try one of the other paths." He started down the branch that lead to the part of the city they'd seen the graveyard in; it seemed the most logical route. The other two followed behind him without comment. Rich moved quickly to the front so he could see any trace before the others disturbed it.
That was nothing new to Brandon, but he inspected the area anyway. There were tracks all over the place this close to the city.
"This is a city, it was bound to get harder with the population this place has," Lena said.
They were just inside the city proper. There was no wall to mark the boundary of "city" versus "non-city," but the road improved from barely more than hard-packed dirt to cobblestone that looked like it actually saw some cleaning now and then. The number of buildings was fast increasing, too. They stood at a crossroads with three directions to choose from before them.
Sorcha moved like the wind, freed of the constraints of a more human walking speed when she left the others behind. She danced with the breeze as she went, but it was a dance with direction and deadly purpose.
For all that she could move more naturally, she still couldn't move as fast as she'd have liked; she had to track carefully if she wanted any hope of catching signs of Myra's passing. Those signs were few and far between, and she spent the first several hours after the separation locating the first of them. It took her so long, she'd started to fear she would find no sign at all.
Her senses were sharp though, and her intuition strong. She quickly decided Myra had not gone the same way as the Necromancer, and so she returned to the site of the ex-guide's resurrection.
The area was as still and dead as it had been when they'd left hours before, and remained so while she searched for yet more hours to find any sign of where she'd gone. As the time passed, she had to focus her concentration against a rising tide of impatience and anxiety; Myra was as fast as she was. The longer she spent searching, the more impossibly far ahead she got.


Today is the last day of October and the first day of my new work. October was an interesting month in that I'm usually always on the brink of something new (or so Timehop tells me these past couple of years).
And this year wasn't any different. One of my best friends got married. I was able to go home and spend some time with my parents and little sister. And it was just a nice little break.
I'm not sure how this new job will turn out. I'm hoping it turns out ok -- more than ok. For now, I look back on October and all the wonderful things that happened along the way. How did your Octobers go?
There are going to be a lot of photos of my little sister, Paola and I being silly. This is because the family's baby is all grown up and leaving Manila to work in NYC for good. I'm so happy for her. 20 is the perfect age to be in New York and enjoy it and she deserves all this awesomeness.
My friend, Lee-Ann got married in Cebu. I've known her 25 years and it was the first time I was a bridesmaid along with our other friends Hannah and Iza. I was supposed to bring a date to this wedding -- or at least I had an allocation. But I'm glad I didn't. There was no one to bring and I had the most fun dancing and singing with friends and Lee-Ann's family.
I was able to see some college friends, too. Anna, Ana and Rina and I never got to spend too much time in college together but that summer, we definitely bonded as we did our CWTS requirements. It's so nice to hear what they're up to -- even if I had to traverse 2 hours of traffic to get to makati.
Seeing my #kaladkarin girls -- two of whom were pregnant -- was also amazing. It's pretty crazy how the group bonded together and now Aimee and Chrissy are due to give birth almost one after the other. And now that Macy's the last girl left at our old company, it's always nice to reminisce about the fun times.
It was also my first time to visit some doctor friends at the hospital! I know they're doctors, they passed the bar and all but seeing them in action an in their natural habitat was so fun to see. Jo-Anne and Lee-Ann at PGH was so surreal and strange having gone there as a kid many times to visit my dad.
What was fun was that I got to see my high school barkada more than once this time around and this is such a feat given how busy everyone is and how far from each other we all are. But on a Wednesday night, we managed to find some sort of middle ground and saw each other, significant others and all. Always fun to get together.
Coming back to Singapore, it was so nice to see Ami whom i was totally surprised asked me to have dinner. She was such a sweet girl when I met her, hanging out with Risa but it was such a pleasant surprise to catch-up after a bit. Plus I finally got to check out PUNCH -- which turned out to be a really cool cafe.
It was also great to see my brother, PB and his wife Ashna after forever. These lawyers are hard to pin down so brunch on a rainy Saturday was definitely in order. They took us to their hood in the East to this very hipster commune and I actually enjoyed my tofu scramble. Who am I?!
Finally, Pamy was sweet enough to come all the way to my hood after my first day of work bearing chicken wings. My brothers in the US had some wings for dinner the night before and my parents got jealous and had some, too so it was our turn to continue the tri-country twinning and had some for dinner as we watched the Hamilton documentary. Not a bad way to end the month and my first day of work.