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"I think it's a big mistake," Joe Russo says of Sony moving forward with Spider-Man without the involvement of Marvel Studios' Kevin Feige.
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"Avengers: Endgame" directors Joe and Anthony Russo have already gone on record saying they're "not surprised" by Spider-Man's exit from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but the two were a bit more critical on the Disney-Sony drama in a recent interview with the Toronto Sun. The two studios failed to negotiate new terms for sharing the Spider-Man character. The Russo brothers got to introduce Tom Holland's Spider-Man into the MCU in "Captain America: Civil War." but the Disney-Marvel split means Holland will no longer appear in the MCU.
The Russo brothers originally said they were not surprised by the Disney-Marvel split because of how intense of a process it was to get the two companies to agree on sharing Spider-Man in the first place. Anthony reiterated this point to the Toronto Sun by saying, "It was so difficult to get him into 'Civil War.' It was an extremely long and hard process. But we were driven to help make it happen. But [Marvel Studios President] Kevin Feige pulled it off, somehow. Disney and all the good people at Sony found a way to make it work, and it lasted a few films."
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Joe Russo continued by hinting that it's not in the character's best interest to move forward solely with Disney and without the guidance of Marvel's Kevin Feige. "It was a tenuous, fraught union throughout the whole process," Joe said. "But, I will say, stepping back and trying to be objective as possible, that I think it's a tragic mistake on Sony's part to think that they can replicate Kevin's penchant for telling incredible stories and the amazing success he has had over the years. I think it's a big mistake."
Sony Pictures chairman and CEO Tony Vinciquerra would disagree with Joe. During an appearance at Variety's Entertainment & Technology summit earlier this month, Vinciquerra said Spider-Man will be just fine under Sony's watch. The executive pointed to Sony's success with "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" and the Amazon series "The Boys" as proof the company can pull off superhero films to critical and box office success.
"Spider-Man was fine before the event movies, did better with the event movies, and now that we have our own universe, he will play off the other characters as well," Vinciquerra said. "I think we're pretty capable of doing what we have to do here."
Now that Holland's Spider-Man is out of the MCU, Sony will most likely have the character crossover with Tom Hardy's "Venom." Holland has said the superhero is in "good hands" with Sony, although many comic book fans disagree given the misfire that was the Andrew Garfield-starring "Amazing Spider-Man 2."
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Sir Mango is a new band out of the gritty DIY Chicago scene, keen on taking elements of rock and grunge music and molding it with modern sounds. A band of creatives and songwriters, the goal is to create beautiful and revolutionary art, all within the alt rock/pop arena. Now the band return with their second single this year, 'Dry Spell'. With a 90s-grunge appeal and a surf-rock vocal line, the new track has an infectious and propulsive energy.
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Sir Mango demonstrate their versatility as a band with this lively new release which contrasts in sound to their latest more somber single 'A True Headcase'. The intention of Sir Mango's music is to combine the feeling of a huge rock band with catchy melodies, poetic lyricism, and boundary pushing production.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger He was involved in a car accident that occurred on Friday, January 21, at the intersection of two streets in California. In addition to the actor, several other vehicles took part in the event. According to "People", A woman was injured in the collision that was of particular concern to the former California governor. A Terminator representative took a stand on the issue, in a statement saying:
It is known that the victim was to be taken to the nearest hospital. The details of the car crash were also revealed.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger was driving his GMC Yukon, which he was about to crash into a red Toyota Prius, causing the airbags inside the car to explode. TMZ portal reports that The Terminator hit the roof of the second car, flipped over and crashed into a Porsche Cayenne. Pictures from the event appeared on social media.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's friend was also supposed to be present during the collision, Jack Stansfieldwho served as chair of the Board of Governors for Fitness during the star's office. ABC 7 reported that it was the result of an accident No one was arrested, and none of those involved in the accident were under the influence of alcohol.
"People" notes that The incident came 10 years after the divorce of former California Governor Maria Shriver. The divorce hearing was held in Los Angeles Superior Court. The actor separated from his ex-wife after 25 years of marriage. We remember that two months before Shriver filed for divorce, the artist was supposed to acknowledge the paternity of their housewife's 24-year-old son, Mildred Penny. Let's add that Schwarzenegger and his wife had four children: daughters Catherine, Christina, Patrick I Christopher.
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First, $9.99 is way too much for a DRM crippled book. Second, book piracy is starting to take off. Last, the customer is just getting screwed during a recession.
The $15 prices will come across as being greedy. Piracy will increase as customers will look for cheaper alternatives (free). And Macmillan will look like the bad guy.
This is the music industry all over again. Watch publisher's profits dip in the upcoming quarters. Macmillan jumped the shark this time. I expect more insanity to follow.
There's plenty of debate about whether the music industry is a valid example for publishing. As I've said in earlier posts, piracy is happening already and may well increase. But two surveys presented at Digital Book World (by Verso and the Book Industry Study Group) suggest that a) piracy is confined to a relatively small percentage of e-book readers and b) consumers are more flexible about prices than you suggest.
Piracy was certainly a big problem for the music industry--but many people also think that letting Apple set the price of all songs at $.99 was also a big problem.
The demographic of people who are willing to pirate music is larger than those readers willing to pirate e-books. I keep a close eye on the pirating community. In my experience, those willing to pirate loads of music are the same people who would rather be tortured than read on their free time.
I have faith that my fellow book worms are of a higher caliber. I hope I'm not wrong.
Thanks for the post, Peter. I just want to chime in here and say that I agree that the music industry and the book industry are not entirely (if at all) analogous. The pirating of e-books will inevitably increase, but not, I believe, to the point of destroying publishers.
As an avid reader and buyer of books, (and one who hates to wait for soft covers) I will pay $15 for a new release, as opposed to $25. And I think there are many more like me.
D.Antone, I hope you are right about pirating, although if you read my post from a couple of days ago you'll see a link to an interview with an avid reader who's also an avid free-file uploader.
But I tend to agree with Gary that piracy is more likely to be a persistent nuisance than a crisis. One big reason is that in music, file-sharing was already well under way as iTunes was just getting started--i.e. listeners were helping themselves to files partly because they didn't have a convenient way of downloading music they liked. In the e-book world, we're going to have several well-stocked and very convenient legal ways of buying digital books. Whatever you think of Amazon, they have done publishing a huge service by creating a first-rate e-book buying experience that's widely available. That in itself is the greatest single deterrent to piracy any party has contributed.
I will use anime pirates as example since it's pretty pervasive on the Internet.
Now, take those same measures and apply them to publishing.
3) publishers want to charge $15 for an eBook; if a paperback costs $8 and is discounted 30%, the book really costs about $6. The new pricing for the eBook is all most 3x that price. This is what I call insane pricing.
4) the pirate version contains no DRM and can be used on any device; the publisher version can only be used on the device it is downloaded to and cannot be shared.
The PRO's versus the CON's with the new pricing, I think, will push people to pirate more.
But this will not be as bad as the music industry. What really hurt the music industry was people buying separate tracks, rather than whole albums. If there are twenty good songs a year by 20 artists, than that's $20 for mp3's versus $240 (assuming an average $12 cd cost) for the albums containing those songs. That's where the money loss is coming from.
I can't argue with your analogy to anime since I don't know that market at all. BUT there's one key point that you are misunderstanding--not surprisingly since coverage of this issue usually buries it.
Publishers are not going to charge $15 for ebooks where the printed book's price is less. They're not crazy. If a book costs $8 in paperback, the ebook price will be less than that. And even for new releases where the hardcovers are $20 plus, many ebooks will be priced at less than $15. Macmillan et al don't want to price ebooks where no one will buy them--they want to narrow the gap between the printed book price and the ebook price.
Also, note that the idea of putting ebooks out later than hardcover, at least in Macmillan's model, was *when the ebook was $9.99.* In other words, you could have a cheap e-book later or a more expensive e-book now. Macmillan CEO John Sargent has said on record they want to experiment with dynamic pricing--i.e prices that change over the life of the book, and aren't carved in stone at publication time. I believe all publishers need to experiment in this area.
It is interesting to me that Jobs may have been right (in your previous post) when he projected that e-book pricing was going to change because publishers weren't happy. Publishers haven't been happy for a long time, but that hasn't changed anything until now.
I don't think that Amazon handled this situation well at all. Inconveniencing their customers was not a good way to prove their customer service or products superior to Apple's.
Great points. But I struggle with dynamic pricing for eBooks. I have never been a timely buyer for books. I usually buy them when they are paperbacks or used. I think readers would value a deep dive into dynamic pricing for eBooks. The more educated customers are to what is happening the better they can react.
Curious about eBook pricing, I went out and picked up an add-on for my browser called Camelizer. It provides pricing trends for amazon.com and newegg.com.
It's a great tool for tracking book prices over time. I'm hoping to get a better handle on Kindle pricing. It's interesting that some eBooks have actually increased in price over time.
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My name is Jim Dooley and I have had the privilege of being part of NCCL since 2015. Prior to joining our school community, I spent 27 years in the Delaware public school system as a middle school and high school mathematics teacher, a high school assistant principal, a Mathematics Specialist at the University of Delaware, and as a building and district-level mathematics specialist. I have served on various state-level task forces involving curriculum review, assessment review, and the revamping of the certification of new teachers all while providing hundreds of hours of professional development programs on a school, district, state and national level. I have also taught a Math Methods course for potential middle school mathematics teachers at Wilmington College.
I hold a Bachelors of Science in Elementary Education with a middle grade mathematics concentration and a Master of Instruction degree from the University of Delaware. I am a National Board Certified Teacher in Adolescent Mathematics and a three time State Finalist for the Presidential Award for Mathematics and Science Instruction. Through the process of self-reflection and analysis of my classroom work involved in my Masters and National Board certification, my work with state and national leaders in math education, and the hours spent in classrooms with teachers across the K-12 band, I have gained insight into the pedagogical strategies that connect students to the field of mathematics while preparing them to be flexible thinkers for the 21st century.
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Kate has a B.A. in Elementary Education with a minor in Women's Studies from the University of Delaware. She was a social worker for an agency called Independent Living Inc. before returning to school to get her education degree. She taught at NCCL from 1991-1997 and returned in 2006.
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Claire attended the University of Maine and is proud of her Downeast roots and French heritage. From 1989-1998 she was an early education teacher at St. Joseph's Child Academy. Relocating to Delaware with her husband and two children in 1998, she continued teaching and was program director at Nathalie B. Hammond Preschool. Believing in advocacy for children, she developed and instituted Personal Safety and Health and Nutrition programs. Additionally, she organized the school's donation program to benefit local children charities. Upon closure of the school in 2015 Claire was introduced to NCCL. She fell in love with the children and supports the school's philosophy and approach to teaching life long learners.
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Kelly graduated with a BS in Human Resources, Early Childhood Education, from the University of Delaware in 1992. She received the honor "Student Teacher of the Year," graduated Magna Cum Laude and successfully completed the PPST and NTE to earn her teachers' certification the same year. Kelly taught at NCCL from 1992-1997, when she had her first child. During this hiatus she had her second child and became the Director and Head Teacher of The Eyman Children Center where both of her children attended Pre-school. Kelly felt fortunate to be able to return to NCCL in 2004 to continue her teaching career. Both of Kelly's children are NCCL graduates and are currently attending college.
Kelly has always had a passion for local wildlife and because of this, she went on to get certified as a Delaware State Naturalist. Inspired by her love for nature and by children's intrinsic curiosity about the world around them, Kelly strives to include as much natural science as possible into her teaching. Kelly is a member of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, National Science Teachers Association and Delaware Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Kelly enjoys bird watching, traveling, spending time with family, and relaxing at the beach.
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My name is Janice Toomey. I have taught at NCCL for twenty years as a teacher in Group 2. I trained to be an artist and earned an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and then studied to be a research psychologist going to Grad School at California State University and the University of Chicago. While my educational background is broad (I could not seem to stop going to college), it has also given me many sources to help with my teaching. I would say that teaching has become a passion for me. Once I started at NCCL I never looked back. I am still interested in all that I have studied and much more. Clearly music, theater, plays, literature as well as science are ongoing interests. But for me, I am most interested when I can work in all these genres and NCCL allows me to do that. I love teaching, I love running the Drama Club and I love working with the young individuals that attend our school. My own children attended NCCL and it shaped their lives in the most positive ways. As we always say, when we head into school for one more play or activity, "Well, back home again."
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Today "was a fair good day + pritty warm," * accommodating weather for the carpenters working on the shovel shops. According to modern town historian, Ed Hands, the repair would be rapid enough to allow a resumption of manufacturing "in less than three weeks." But what happened to the shovel makers during the hiatus? Were they kept on payroll? Or were they given unpaid furlough?
What happened to Patric Quinn? An Irish immigrant with a young wife and two small children, he was the watchman who had dropped his lantern into the varnish on the night of March 2d. He started the fire. Was he injured? Was he held accountable? Did he stay on payroll? He and his wife Elisa, who sometimes did sewing for Evelina, remained in North Easton. They lived on Elm Street in one of the workers's houses.
At the Ames compound, Evelina put the sitting room and parlor back in order. She and her sister-in-law, Amelia Gilmore sat and sewed. They were joined for a time by Sarah Ames Witherell who was followed by young Abbey Torry and Augusta Pool Gilmore. Hannah Lincoln Gilmore was too sick to attend.
Old Oliver always tended to find other work for his hands when business was slow, so I would guess that the Ames had the workers help out the carpenters, reassemble machinery etc.
Dwight – That's helpful, thanks! It would make sense that most people would be kept busy. There was a great deal to do in the rebuilding.
I believe that Dwight is correct. I have always understood that "anyone who could swing a hammer" was utilized to rebuild as quickly as possible. This may have included shipwrights, who often came inland during the winter looking for carpentry work when the shipyards were basically closed. The homes on Oliver Street, temporary shops which were later split into housing, are excellent examples of the replacement buildings and the skillfulness of the carpenters.
Thanks, Frank. Input from people like you "on the ground" in Easton is essential to telling Evelina's story correctly. I'm going to look around for a photograph of those homes on Oliver Street to post on the blog, so other readers can see for themselves "the skillfulness of the carpenters." Hope the snow is beginning to melt, by the way!


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In what will no doubt come as a shock to many, there are people on Twitter who comment on policy matters, legal opinions, and news events without reading relevant materials or knowing much about the law. Such was the case in response to my assertion on Twitter that the President should, following the recent Supreme Court opinion in Department of Commerce v. New York regarding the census, continue with plans to print the census documents with a citizenship question and state publicly his simple explanation for doing so. Some on Twitter exploded with claims of my breaking my oath, ignoring the Constitution, and being a Trump "sycophant." These claims are absurd, but the norm for Twitter, of course.
To be clear, I believe the President asking the citizenship question is not only correct, but it is the only thing to do if one believes in the Constitution and the rule of law. The Constitution requires that we conduct a census. We conduct the census every 10 years. It requires counting "persons," but we have throughout our history counted persons and also asked other important questions, including citizenship. It is my belief we should ask that question, and according to reliable polling, 88% of Republicans, 67% of all Americans support the question being asked. Importantly, is the belief of the President and his administration that we should include a question asking about citizenship.
Doing so is important for numerous reasons. Getting an accurate counting of persons, and citizens, is important for re-districting, for allocation of federal dollars, for setting up voting locations, for making decisions about the impact of illegal immigration on American communities, and for, yes, administering the laws in accordance with the Voting Rights Act, among other reasons. It is also, arguably, constitutionally required to ask for citizenship. Yes, required.
If one only reads the census portion of the Constitution, it references counting "persons." Fair enough, but there is no restriction on counting citizens, too. Importantly, though, if one reads section 2 of the 14th Amendment, you find that it, combined with the later passed 19th and 26th Amendments, creates a requirement that we know the total number of voting-age "citizens" in each state. This provision was to ensure enforcement of voting rights, and if you do not have citizenship data by state, you cannot enforce that section of the Constitution.
Now, regardless of the merits of the argument that it is required, in light of all of these things, it is important that the President defend the prerogative of the Executive branch, in accordance with the Constitution and the laws enacted by the Legislative Branch, and proceed to ask a common sense question on the census that the vast majority of Americans believe ought to be asked.
What did the Supreme Court hold? The Supreme Court expressly held that "[t]he evidence before the Secretary supported that decision" to include the citizenship question on the Census. As Chief Justice Roberts explained, there were "tradeoffs between accuracy and completeness" with each option the Secretary could choose. So the Secretary's decision to include the citizenship question, the Court ruled, "was reasonable and reasonably explained, particularly in light of the long history of the citizenship question on the census." Importantly, in doing so, the Chief Justice joined to reverse the District Court very plainly on the issue of whether the question can be asked
But Chief Justice Roberts, nevertheless, sent the case back for the Commerce Department to provide "something better than the explanation offered for the action taken in this case." The Court importantly noted that "no particular step in the process [used by the federal government] stands out as inappropriate or defective." But it held there was a "mismatch" between the Secretary's decision "and the rationale he provided," based on "DOJ's request for improved citizenship data to better enforce the VRA." So if the Secretary gives a proper explanation, it would be completely lawful for the federal government to include a citizenship question on the Census.
The Chief Justice – and thus the Court – essentially said, "it ain't what you said, it's how you said it." In essence, the Court invited the President to ask the Secretary to proceed, to ask the question according to his belief it is in the best interest of the nation, and simply to provide a better explanation. It is not evident that this explanation needs to be complex, but that it needs to be clear and not "pretext." This is why the explanation should be closer to "because it's in the interest of the nation" than it should be an over-lawyered rationale.
That is what the Secretary, on behalf of the President and the American people, should do. And then we should get busy counting.
Chip Roy represents the 21st Congressional District of Texas. He is a former Special Assistant United States Attorney, First Assistant Attorney General of Texas, and Counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
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La descomunización en Ucrania comenzó después de la disolución de la Unión Soviética. Se formalizó en abril de 2015, cuando el gobierno de Ucrania aprobó las leyes de descomunización de Ucrania que proscribieron los símbolos comunistas.

El 15 de mayo de 2015, el presidente de Ucrania Petró Poroshenko firmó un conjunto de leyes que iniciaron un período de seis meses para la eliminación de monumentos comunistas (excluidos los monumentos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial) y el cambio de nombre de lugares públicos con nombres de temas relacionados con el comunismo. En ese momento, esto significaba que se establecieron 22 ciudades y 44 aldeas para obtener un nuevo nombre. Hasta el 21 de noviembre de 2015, los gobiernos municipales tenían la autoridad para implementar esto; si no lo hacían, las autoridades provinciales de Ucrania tenían hasta el 21 de mayo de 2016 para cambiar los nombres. Si después de esa fecha el asentamiento hubiera conservado su antiguo nombre, el Gabinete de Ministros de Ucrania ejercería la autoridad para asignar un nuevo nombre al lugar. En 2016, se cambiaron de nombre 51 493 calles y 987 ciudades y pueblos, y se eliminaron 1320 monumentos de Lenin y 1069 monumentos a otras figuras comunistas.

La violación de la ley conlleva una pena de una posible prohibición en los medios de comunicación y penas de prisión de cinco años.

El 24 de julio de 2015, el Ministerio del Interior de Ucrania despojó al Partido Comunista de Ucrania, al Partido Comunista de Ucrania nuevo y al Partido Comunista de Trabajadores y Campesinos de su derecho a participar en las elecciones y afirmó que continuaba con las acciones judiciales que comenzaron en julio de 2014 para poner fin al registro de  Partidos comunistas de Ucrania. El 16 de diciembre de 2015, estos tres partidos estaban prohibidos en Ucrania; sin embargo, el Partido Comunista de Ucrania apeló la prohibición; esto significó que la decisión del tribunal de prohibir el partido no entró en vigor. Sin embargo, la ley de descomunización de abril de 2015 contiene una norma que permite al  Ministerio de Justicia prohibir al Partido Comunista participar en las elecciones.

Historia

Un proceso de descomunización no oficial comenzó en Ucrania después del colapso de 1991 de la Unión Soviética y la siguiente independencia de Ucrania. La descomunización se llevó a cabo de manera mucho más despiadada y visible en los Repúblicas bálticas (de la antigua Unión Soviética) y los países del Pacto de Varsovia fuera de la Unión Soviética. El primer presidente de Ucrania después de la independencia de 1991, Leonid Kravchuk, también había emitido órdenes destinadas a "desovietización" a principios de la década de 1990. Los años siguientes, aunque a un ritmo lento, se eliminaron en Ucrania los monumentos históricos a los líderes soviéticos. Pero este proceso avanzó mucho más en el Ucrania occidental que en las regiones no industrializadas, principalmente  de habla rusa. Las leyes de descomunización se redactaron en el parlamento de Ucrania en 2002, 2005, 2009, 2011 y 2013, pero no todas se materializaron.

Durante y después del Euromaidán, comenzando con la caída del monumento a Lenin en Kiev el 8 de diciembre de 2013, varios monumentos y estatuas de Lenin fueron retirados o destruidos por manifestantes.

En abril de 2014, un año antes del proceso formal de descomunización nacional en Ucrania, las autoridades locales eliminaron y alteraron los símbolos comunistas y los nombres de lugares, como en Dnipropetrovsk.

El 9 de abril de 2015, el parlamento de Ucrania aprobó una ley sobre descomunización. Fue presentado por el segundo gobierno de Yatseniuk, prohibiendo la promoción de símbolos comunistas y nacionalsocialistas". Una de las principales disposiciones del proyecto de ley fue el reconocimiento de que la Unión Soviética era "criminal" y que "perseguía una política estatal de terrorismo". La legislación prohíbe el uso de símbolos y propaganda comunistas y también prohíbe todos los símbolos y propaganda del nacionalsocialismo y sus valores y cualquier actividad de grupos nazis o fascistas en Ucrania. La prohibición se aplica a monumentos, lugares y nombres de calles. La prohibición no se aplica a los monumentos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y cuando los símbolos se encuentran en un cementerio. Expresar opiniones procomunistas no fue ilegal. La prohibición de los símbolos comunistas resultó en la eliminación de cientos de estatuas, el reemplazo de millones de letreros en las calles y el cambio de nombre de lugares poblados, incluidas algunas de las ciudades más grandes de Ucrania como Dnipró. La administración de la ciudad de Dnipró estimó en junio de 2015 que habría que cambiar el nombre de 80 calles, terraplenes, plazas y bulevares. Maxim Eristavi de Hromadske.TV estimó a finales de abril de 2015 que la tarea de renombrar a lo largo del país costaría unos 1.500 millones de dólares. La legislación también otorgó un estatus legal especial a los veteranos de la "lucha por la independencia de Ucrania" desde 1917 hasta 1991 (integración en la Unión Soviética). El mismo día, el parlamento también aprobó una ley que reemplazó el término "Gran Guerra Patria" en el léxico nacional por "Segunda Guerra Mundial" de 1939 hasta 1945, un cambio de gran trascendencia.

El 15 de mayo de 2015, el presidente de Ucrania Petró Poroshenko firmó las Leyes de descomunización de Ucrania. Esto inició un período de seis meses para la eliminación de monumentos comunistas y el cambio de nombre de lugares públicos con nombres de temas relacionados con el comunismo.

La ley de descomunización de Ucrania se aplica, pero no se limita a:
 la bandera de la Unión Soviética
 la bandera de la República Socialista Soviética de Ucrania y sus banderas de las otras 14 repúblicas
 el emblema estatal de la Unión Soviética y sus repúblicas constituyentes, así como los países socialistas de Europa del Este
 el himno nacional de la Unión Soviética y las repúblicas de la Unión Soviética, mientras que esto no afecta a los himnos de Rusia, Bielorrusia, Uzbekistán, Tayikistán y anteriormente, Kazajistán y Turkmenistán. Todos conservaron su melodía de la era soviética con nuevas letras escritas en su lugar.
 la estrella roja
 la hoz y el martillo
 imágenes de Lenin y Stalin
 uniformes militares

Las leyes se publicaron en Holos Ukrayiny el 20 de mayo de 2015; esto hizo que entraran en vigor oficialmente al día siguiente.

El 3 de junio de 2015, el Instituto Ucraniano de Memoria Nacional publicó una lista de 22 ciudades y 44 pueblos sujetos a cambio de nombre. Con mucho, la mayoría de estos lugares estaban en la región del Donbás en Ucrania oriental; los otros estaban situados en Ucrania central y Ucrania meridional. Según las "Leyes de Descomunización", los gobiernos municipales tenían hasta el 21 de noviembre de 2015 para cambiar el nombre del asentamiento que gobiernan. Para los asentamientos que no cambiaron el nombre, las autoridades provinciales de Ucrania tenían hasta el 21 de mayo de 2016 para cambiar el nombre. Si después de esa fecha el asentamiento aún conservaba su antiguo nombre, el Consejo de Ministros de Ucrania cambiaría el nombre del asentamiento.

En un decreto de 24 de julio de 2015 basado en las leyes de descomunización, el Ministerio del Interior de Ucrania despojó al Partido Comunista Ucrania, al Partido Comunista de Ucrania (renovado) y al Partido Comunista de Trabajadores y Campesinos de su derecho a participar en las elecciones y afirmó que continuaba con las acciones judiciales (que comenzaron en julio de 2014) para poner fin al registro de los partidos comunistas de Ucrania.

El 30 de septiembre de 2015, el Tribunal Administrativo de Distrito de Kiev prohibió el Partido Comunista de Trabajadores y Campesinos y el Partido Comunista de Ucrania (renovado); ninguno de ellos apelaron.

En octubre de 2015, una estatua de Lenin en Odessa se convirtió en una estatua de Darth Vader, el villano de la saga cinematográfica Star Wars.

El 16 de diciembre de 2015, el Tribunal Administrativo del Distrito de Kiev validó la reclamación del Ministerio de Justicia en su totalidad, prohibiendo las actividades del Partido Comunista de Ucrania. El partido apeló esta prohibición en el Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos.

En marzo de 2016, las estatuas de Lenin, Félix Dzerzhinski, Serguéi Kírov y un monumento al Komsomol, fueron retirados o derribados en la ciudad oriental de Zaporizhia. La estatua que dominaba la Estación Hidroeléctrica Dniéper (anteriormente llamada Presa de Lenin) era la estatua de Lenin más grande que quedaba en Ucrania.

El 19 de mayo de 2016, el parlamento ucraniano votó para cambiar el nombre de la cuarta ciudad más grande de Ucrania Dnipropetrovsk a Dnipró. El gobierno aprobó el renombramiento del resto de localidades el 20 de mayo de 2016.

El parlamento ucraniano declaró en julio de 2016 que los nuevos nombres de lugares en la península de Crimea y de la ciudad de Sebastopol forman parte de Ucrania, y la mayoría de la comunidad internacional considera Crimea y Sebastopol una parte integral de Ucrania, mientras que Rusia, por otro lado, considera Crimea y Sebastopol una parte integral de Rusia, con Sebastopol funcionando como una ciudad federal dentro del Distrito Federal de Crimea., bajo pleno control ruso desde la anexión rusa de Crimea en 2014, "entrará en vigor con la devolución del territorio ocupado temporalmente de la República Autónoma de Crimea y Sebastopol bajo la jurisdicción general de Ucrania ".

En mayo de 2017, 46 parlamentarios ucranianos, principalmente de la facción de oposición, apelaron ante el Tribunal Constitucional de Ucrania para declarar inconstitucionales las leyes de descomunización de 2015.

El director del Instituto Ucraniano de Memoria Nacional Volodýmyr Viatróvych declaró en febrero de 2018 que "el descomunismo en el contexto de privar a los símbolos del régimen totalitario se ha completado realmente". Aunque, según él, la ciudad de Kiev se estaba quedando atrás.

En febrero de 2019, la Comisión Electoral Central de Ucrania se negó a registrar la candidatura del líder del Partido Comunista Petró Simonenko para las elecciones presidenciales ucranianas de 2019, debido al hecho de que en el estatuto, el nombre y el simbolismo del Partido Comunista de Ucrania no cumplió con las leyes de descomunización de 2015. Simonenko apeló la decisión, pero el tribunal de apelación confirmó la decisión de la Comisión Electoral Central de Ucrania. Durante el mismo mes de febrero, se anunció que el óblast de Dnipropetrovsk sería rebautizado en el futuro como "Sicheslav".

El 16 de julio de 2019, el Tribunal Constitucional de Ucrania confirmó las leyes de descomunización de Ucrania de 2015.

El 7 de noviembre de 2020, en el pueblo se desmanteló un escudo de armas de la URSS de la fachada de una escuela.

Crítica
El 18 de mayo de 2015, la OSCE expresó su preocupación de que las leyes pudieran afectar negativamente a la libertad de prensa en Ucrania. La OSCE también lamentó lo que percibió como una falta de oportunidades de la sociedad civil para participar en los debates públicos sobre las leyes.

El Grupo de Protección de los Derechos Humanos de Járkov declaró (en mayo de 2015) las leyes "(una de las cuales) tipifica como delito la expresión pública de las opiniones de muchos ucranianos".

Los legisladores rusos han afirmado (en abril de 2015) que era "cínico" poner a la par los símbolos comunistas y nazis, y los rebeldes prorrusos de la Guerra del Donbás (una región en Ucrania oriental) condenó la nueva ley. El jefe de los rebeldes de la autoproclamada República Popular de Donetsk Aleksandr Zajárchenko declaró a fines de febrero de 2016 que cuando las ciudades renombradas "volverán a estar bajo nuestra jurisdicción", se cambiarán el nombre a su nombre predescomunizado.

En mayo de 2015, el presidente de Polonia Bronisław Komorowski declaró que el castigo por discutir el papel de las organizaciones nacionalistas ucranianas sería perjudicial para las relaciones polaco-ucranianas.

El 18 de diciembre de 2015, la Comisión de Venecia declaró que las leyes de descomunización de Ucrania no cumplían las normas legislativas europeas. Fue particularmente crítico sobre la prohibición de partidos comunistas.

Resultados

Desde el 16 de diciembre de 2015, tres partidos comunistas están prohibidos en Ucrania (el Partido Comunista de Ucrania, Partido Comunista de Ucrania (renovado) y Partido Comunista de Trabajadores y Campesinos). El único partido que apeló esta prohibición fue el Partido Comunista de Ucrania; esto dio lugar a que la decisión del tribunal de prohibir el Partido Comunista de Ucrania no entrara en vigor. Sin embargo, la ley de descomunización de abril de 2015 contiene una norma que permite al  Ministerio de Justicia prohibir al Partido Comunista participar en las elecciones.

Ucrania tenía 5.500 monumentos de Lenin en 1991, disminuyendo a 1.300 en diciembre de 2015. Más de 700 monumentos de Lenin fueron retirados y/o destruidos desde febrero de 2014 (cuando se derrumbaron 376) hasta diciembre de 2015. El 16 de enero de 2017, el Instituto Ucraniano de Memoria Nacional anunció que 1.320 monumentos de Lenin fueron desmantelados durante la descomunión.

El 16 de enero de 2017, el Instituto Ucraniano de Memoria Nacional declaró que 51 493 calles, plazas y "otras instalaciones" habían cambiado de nombre debido a la descomunización. En junio de 2016 se cambió el nombre a 19 raiones, 27 distritos urbanos, 29 ciudades, 48 asentamientos de tipo urbano, 119 asentamientos rurales y 711 aldeas. La cuarta ciudad más grande fue renombrada de Dnipropetrovsk a Dnipró. En la segunda ciudad más grande de Ucrania, Járkov, más de 200 calles, 5 raions administrativas, 4 parques y  1 estación de metro habían cambiado de nombre a principios de febrero de 2016. En todo 2016, se cambiaron el nombre de 51 493 calles y 987 ciudades y pueblos, se renombró 25 raiones y se eliminaron 1320 monumentos de Lenin y 1069 monumentos a otras figuras comunistas. En algunos pueblos, algunas estatuas de Lenin se reconvirtieron en estatuas "de figuras históricas no comunistas" para ahorrar dinero. Uno de los ejemplos más destacados fue el monumento a Lenin en Odessa, que se convirtió en el monumento a Darth Vader.

En febrero de 2019, The Guardian informó que las dos estatuas de Lenin en la zona de exclusión de Chernóbil eran las únicas dos estatuas de Lenin que quedaban en Ucrania, sin tener en cuenta los territorios ocupados de Ucrania. En enero de 2021 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty localizó tres estatuas de Lenin restantes en tres pequeñas aldeas controladas por Ucrania.

En enero de 2021, 24 calles ucranianas todavía llevaban el nombre de la ex cosmonauta Valentina Tereshkova, seis de ellas en partes de Ucrania que no están bajo control del gobierno. También había calles Tereshkova en las localidades de Busk (óblast de Lviv), Radyvyliv y Sarny (óblast de Rivne), Dunáivtsi (óblast de Jmelnitski), Smila (óblast de Cherkasy) y en algunas otras ciudades y pueblos, de acuerdo con las leyes de descomunización de 2015, deberían haber sido renombradas.

Ver además
Prohibición de símbolos comunistas
Descomunización

Referencias

Euromaidán
Ucrania en 2015
Ucrania en 2016
Descomunización
Purgas políticas y culturales
Historia política de Ucrania
Política de Ucrania
Nacionalismo ucraniano
Anticomunismo en Ucrania

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Kensington Close Hotel in London, an elegant property situated in one of the most sought after areas in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, selected MCOM HOTstream Smart TV, VOD and IPTV solutions.
Kensington Close Hotel guests already enjoy the latest IPTV and VOD technology offered by MCOM HOTstream and a vast variety of video on demand movies covering an equally vast variety of genres. In parallel, guests can access all interactive hotel services through their in-room Smart Hotel TVs, enhancing the great experience of staying at the Kensington Close Hotel.
A challenge for the installation team was to perform the upgrade without affecting the day-to-day operation of the hotel as Kensington Close hotel experience high occupancy rates throughout the year. With the great help and support we received from all hotel departments involved the team installed HOTsteam Smart TV solution without getting noticed by the guests.
As Mr. Phil Gregg, COO of Cola Holdings Ltd, notes "Following the successful installation and collaboration we had in The Westbury Hotel, we've selected HOTstream once more for the largest property in our portfolio. MCOM's team managed once more to make a smooth transition from our previous system to HOTstream while the hotel was fully booked without any disturbance for our guests".
Kensington Close Hotel in London blends chic and efficiency in perfect harmony. History has it that this building was commissioned reputedly as a small property on land co-owned by Sir Isaac Newton almost 300 years ago; the Hotel itself was built in 1960, having been originally opened as a Residential Club in 1937.
MCOM Media Communications proudly announces a record number of new HOTstream projects in Europe, Middle East, Africa and North America just before the end of 2014.
In Alphabetical order, MCOM's HOTstream solution was selected by City Seasons Burjuman – Dubai , Ghaya Grand Hotel – Dubai, Kempinski Mall of the Emirates – Dubai, Kensington Close – London, Palazzo Versace Dubai Hotel, Pullman Deira City Center – Dubai, Rayan Hotel – Sharjah, Rosewood Corniche – Jeddah, Royal Rose by City Seasons – Abu Dhabi, Russian Seasons – Sochi, Serena Nairobi Hotel – Kenya, Soho House Chicago, Soho Beach House – Miami, Soho House New York and Swissotel Kamelia – Sochi.
In parallel, HOTstream is installed in a number of VVIP villas and yachts in Middle East while our digital signage solution was the solution of preference for one of the largest oil refineries in Middle East.
The full range of HOTstream solutions, including the latest Mobile application for iOS and Android devices, our content sharing technology and our latest Interactive TV, Smart TV, IPTV, VOD and Digital Signage applications will be available for live demos during the forthcoming HTNG Middle East Conference, Dubai from September 23rd to 25th and at The Hotel Show from September 28th to 30th in Hall 8, Stand No D220 in Dubai World Trade Center.
As Mr. Sakellariou, CEO of MCOM Media Communications noted "We are very excited to see in 2014 MCOM HOTstream being selected by major international and regional hotel brands in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Our excitement is even bigger as we also experience fast growth in North America from our recently established regional office".


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UK to Integrate Climate Change Into Military Planning
UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Edward Davey, announced at a Green Growth Summit at the European Parliament in Brussels that the UK would be integrating climate risks into its military planning, stating that:
The expected impacts of climate change will be integrated into the UK's next strategic defence and security review, expected next summer, just before the Paris conference.
Davey's speech was part of an effort to encourage the successful passage of the EU 2030 Climate and Energy Package, which is up for approval next week. Davey drew on the fact that as a trading block, the EU is also vulnerable to climate impacts globally:
The EU is a trading bloc – open within, but outward looking to.
Our prosperity is inextricably linked to world markets.
More extreme climate change impacts in other parts of the world – from food and water shortages – to the mass migration of people fleeing the worst effects – these are our problem too.
It was also reported that Dr. Jamie Shea, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges at NATO, spoke about the alliance's considerations of climate risks noting that, "climate change is a contributory factor" to a wide variety of future security threats.
For more on existing UK, EU and NATO climate and security documents, see our Climate and Security Resource Hub.
Tags: Edward Davey, EU, EU 2030 Climate and Energy Package, NATO, UK
By Caitlin Werrell and Francesco Femia in climate and security, climate change, national security on October 15, 2014 .
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Vlad Fomin says:
Thank you! Very interesting, informative and useful information that is the subject of chronology. Clear enough and the current trend in the awareness of emerging threats. Little pessimistic remark: Dr. Jamie Shea … spoke about the alliance's considerations of climate risks noting that, "climate change is a contributory factor" to a wide variety of future security threats. IMHO, he is – a very big optimist. Risks from climate change – not only future security challenges, as there were quite a long time.
The Security Threat of Extreme Heat
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8 hours ago, Jeezla said:
Simply not true and this article was before the season was over (Nov).
https://247sports.com/nfl/philadelphia-eagles/Article/Brandon-Graham-Eagles-still-productive-125632318/
In Graham's case, sacks have always been hard to come by...but the defensive end does get to the quarterback. He has 37 quarterback hurries and five quarterback hits on the season, not to mention he leads the team with 21 run stops.
Graham only has three sacks this season, but has the second most pressures on the Eagles with 46. He is second in the NFL in hurries and eighth in pressures amongst edge defenders.
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On 3/1/2019 at 8:44 PM, Nabbs4u said:
Call me crazy, but I want sacks. They're field position altering, game changing plays. Sure he's getting 'hurries' but show me stats on what actually happened with those throws. They could have all been completed for all we know (obvious exaggeration) . The way we rotate the d-line, I've loved having Graham part of it for the last few years, but if his inevitable decline continues he'll just be taking away snaps from players better suited to get to the QB.
Edited March 6 by ianlewis16
3 hours ago, ianlewis16 said:
I think stuff like this helps illustrate just how inept DL stats are. They don't allow you to get a clear picture at all.
We'd have to go back and watch the games to truly decide.
From watching him, he had a down year. Was obviously not a 100% for the 1st half.
But it wasn't quite that he fell off the face of the earth.
He had the 4th most pressures of an edge guy. with 70 pressures.
In a defense that is built to channel guys back into the monster in the middle (Cox), did a lot of what was asked of him.
Cox doesn't have a career year like this year without Graham and Co bringing it on the outside.
I think it matters where you place the blame for why of those 70, 9 were hits and 5 were sacks.
Was it age like you are saying?
Was it his injury holding him back?
Was it the awfulness of the secondary for large parts of the season? after all the difference between a hurry and a sack can be less than a second sometimes.
After the injury, I personally think this had more to do with the shrinking numbers than anything.
I think the truth lies somewhere in between all of them. He's always been more strength and technique, so I don't think slowing down will be a dramatic effect on him.
Especially here were he gets rotated to stay effective.
I don't think it was a feel good charity to keep him around, he's still a very effective player. The got him lower than other comparable guys and get to keep the consistency.
Our DE situation could've gotten real scary, real quick. At the very least we know we got Graham there to solidify the spot for these two seasons while the rehab and develop Barnett, Sweat and hopefully another young guy.
Contract details released.
Edited March 12 by Jroc04
You watched all of our games, right?
What did the eyeball test tell you? Without reading that article, would you have said Graham was getting tons of pressure all season? Because he seemed invisible out there to me for large portions, aside from getting consistent run stops. "Pressure" is a pretty vague term.
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1 hour ago, Jeezla said:
This in my opinion and general concerns pre and post contract. He just doesn't seem to appear on tape disrupting the game. and our run defence wasn't anywhere near as good this year as it was last year. and now we've added a pass rushing specialist next to him on the line...
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On 2019-03-01 at 9:57 AM, EaglesPeteC said:
agree, and your clip shows why. I was hoping a while back he would be UFA and the steelers would sign him, but of course that never happened. He's better for a 4-3 end anyways, glad he got his career to where I thought it would. He never let injuries or chip kelly ruin his career .
Sacks are the single most overrated stat in the history of sports.
It's a stat that has Fletcher Cox not even a Top 3 DT in the NFL over the past 5 years, which he clearly is. Has DE's like Beasley, Babin, Burgess, Boulware deemed a Stud in the making when they got 15+ one year and a scrub the next.
Its the equivalent of a 80yd splash play by DeSean only to watch him disappear the other 98% of the game as decoy. But hey he was 3 for 105 TD!!!! No one remembers the players who "Hurried" the QB into making a bad decision, forced a throw, missed a converted 3rd down and or into a INT. That goes unnoticed or seen by the masses as suggested above.
Give me the player who is more disruptive throughout the game all day long. Glad he remained a Eagle!


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Home » Stryker plans to lay off 5% of its workforce ahead of the med-tech tax
Stryker plans to lay off 5% of its workforce ahead of the med-tech tax
November 11, 2011 By MassDevice staff
Stryker Corp. (NYSE:SYK) officials said the company plans to cut 5 percent of its workforce over concerns about the impending 2.3 percent medical device tax prescribed by President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
The Kalamazoo, Mich.-based orthopedic device giant expects layoffs and restructuring efforts to reduce costs by more than $100 million before the tax takes effect in 2013.
Officials said the reductions should free up capital for strategic investments and growth "despite the ongoing challenging economic environment and market slowdown in elective procedures." according to a press release. Restructuring efforts will cost the company an estimated $150 million to $175 million, much of which will be recorded in Q4 2011 earnings.
Stryker CEO Stephen MacMillan has long been a vocal critic of the device tax, telling an industry lobby conference in September, "There is no doubt that we're already starting to think about actions that offset that additional tax."
"Here we are, one of the greatest industries in the country, and we're staring down on January 1st, 2013 and the addition of a 2.3 percent excise tax, while meanwhile on the other side all the discussion in Washington is about creating jobs," he said.
MacMillan, who's on tap to take over as AdvaMed chairman next year, estimated the tab on the medical device tax at $150 million for Stryker.
"One-hundred-fifty million means nothing to people in Washington. That's a rounding error," he said during the conference. "They look at a tax on our industry like, 'What's the big deal?' We have to make those numbers real, because they've become numb to a government that is spending $3 billion in deficits every day."
Stryker revealed double-digit top-line growth and a 3 percent dip in earnings in its third quarter earning report yesterday.
Company officials were optimistic enough in their performance that Stryker boosted its full-year forecast to $3.70 to $3.74 per share, up from its prior view of $3.65 to $3.73.
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Apple Cheddar Muffins with Cinnamon Glaze
These Apple Cheddar Muffins have been a family favorite for years. Fresh apples paired with cheese are always a winning combo! These are the most tender, flavorful muffins – they'll melt in your mouth!
Muffins are hands down my favorite thing to bake. So easy, but so rewarding! These Apple Cheddar Muffins are an old favorite, but they're new to my kitchen. My mom adapted these from a Cook's Illustrated magazine years ago and she's been making them for family breakfasts ever since. I think they are her most requested recipe.
As much as I love them, I've always left them to mom. But after the crazy few weeks we've had around here, I needed a tried and true muffin recipe for comfort food. When my Stemilt delivery showed up on my doorstep with some gorgeous Pinata Apples, it was time!
Last month, my two year old started acting a little sick. I thought maybe an ear infection? But within less than 24 hours he was really sick and we were in the hospital trying to figure it all out. They suspected meningitis, but a spinal (gahh!) ruled that out. In the end, after so very many tests/x-rays/CAT scans/ultrasounds and a long hospital stay, they said things like Bacteremia and Pharyngeal Abscess. I'm still trying to make sense of it all!
I kept asking, "How did he get this?" but it's a question with no answer. Wrong germ, wrong time, wrong place. The doctors and nurses were incredible though and they eventually sent me home with a sweet traumatized boy who was on the road to recovery. But just when I thought we were almost going to get back to normal around here, we found ourselves back in the hospital. Meanwhile, the girls were all hit with the flu. It was fun.
It's been another week now and I think it's finally safe to say that he's fine once again, I'm still crossing my fingers.
Honestly, I'm still feeling a little shell shocked. It wasn't until it was all over that it really hit me just how scary it was. When I took Rory into our regular pediatrician's office for a follow-up after our hospital stay, our favorite CNP said, "You know, he could have died!" I knew that, I guess, but I hadn't let myself think it until she said those words.
I knew it was serious, even before I took him to the hospital, and I knew I'd never had a child act so sick ever before. Still, it wasn't until he was home and safe once again that I could have even allowed myself to process the real terror of it all. In the thick of it I had to cope, so I didn't go there. He's finally in the clear now, and I'm feeling all the emotions. Or rather, ALL THE EMOTIONS, because it's been intense.
Apple Cheddar Muffins
This little story, however, has a very happy ending. It ends with muffins. Not just any muffins either. These Apple Cheddar Muffins really are the best of the best.
The cheese in these muffins makes them so tender, so rich. They will melt in your mouth! The apples on top are my favorite part, but I also included chunks of apple in the muffins as well for those warm, juicy bursts of flavor. These taste like cinnamon and sweet apples, but the glaze also gives them a hint of lemon too. They really are a gorgeous addition to the breakfast/brunch table, but they're not a lot work.
When picking apples for this recipe, look for apples that crisp, with a sweet-tart flavor. Apples like Jonagold, Gala, Cortland, and Pink Lady work well. I am, however, partial to Stemilt's Pinata apples. They are seriously good with a tropical twist! You can also use Stemilt's "There's An Apple for That" website which will calculate the best apple for whatever you're making. It's fun!
As with most muffin recipes, you can make them as healthy as you like. If you're looking for a treat, or a surefire way to impress, just follow the recipe as is. If you're feeling a little more health conscious, use half or all whole grain flour (I like to use spelt, but whole wheat works too) and skip the glaze. Either way, they are muffins to fall in love with.
I've been enjoying these muffins for years now, but this week, they're comfort food. Getting in the kitchen to mix them up is also a good distraction from the obsessive scrubbing and cleaning I've been doing. I may or may not be a little, or a lot, scared of germs now.
But, back to those muffins. Enjoy!
Serves: approximately 18 muffins
8 tablespoons cold, unsalted butter cut into pieces
8 ounces cheddar cheese cut into small chunks
1 pound apples (crisp, sweet-tart apples work best), this was 2 large pinata apples for me
Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Grease muffin tins well and set aside.
Take ½ pound of apple and core, peel and dice into bite size pieces. Take the other half pound of apple and core without peeling. Slice the apples crosswise into thin half moons. Set aside.
In a food processor, pulse together the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, butter and cheese until the mixture resembles a coarse meal. Pour mixture into a large mixing bowl.
Whisk the egg and milk together. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture and pour in the egg and milk mixture. Stir gently until just combined, being careful not to over mix. Gently fold in the half pound of peeled, diced apples.
Spoon batter, about ¼ cup, into each prepared muffin tin. Take the half moon sliced apples and place them cut side down on top of each muffin (as pictured above) pressing them in gently. Bake until edges of muffin are just beginning to turn golden, about 15 minutes.
While the muffins are baking, combine all of the glaze ingredients in small sauce pan and heat over medium heat until butter is melted and sugar is dissolved - about 5 minutes.
When the muffins have cooked for about 15 minutes (or when the edges are beginning to turn golden) remove them from oven and brush the glaze evenly over the top. Return to oven and bake until done, about 10 more minutes, or until muffins spring back when gently pressed on top. Cool in muffin tin for about 10 minutes before removing. If you have additional glaze left, you can serve them with extra glaze.
I received a complimentary box of Stemilt Fruit for review purposes. All opinions are entirely my own and I have not been compensated for this post.
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Glad your son is doing better. That sounds terrifying.
I'm so glad Rory is ok now – and you too now that you're no longer in survival mode 🙂
I think I might have to try these muffins, they really do sound yummy.