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The Holy See and the Nordic Countries
Episcopal Conference of Nordic Countries
Republic of Finland
Republic of Iceland
Kingdom of Norway
The Nunciature
Apostolic Delegates
Apostolic Pro-Nuncios
Apostolic Nuncios
The visit of John Paul II to the Nordic Countries
The visit of Francis to the Nordic Countries
Function and Role of the Apostolic Nuncio
An Apostolic Nuncio is the personal representative of the Pope in a particular part of the Catholic Church, a particular country or more particular countries. Thus the Nuncio has two main functions: one relating within the Church, the other relating with States.
Relations within the Church
The ecclesial role of an Apostolic Nuncio is to make firm and effective the bonds of unity which exist between the Pope and the Church throughout the world.
To inform the Apostolic See about the conditions in which the particular Churches find themselves, and matters which affect the life of the Church and the good of souls.
To assist the Bishops by action and advice, leaving intact the exercise of their lawful power.
To foster close relations with the Bishops Conference, offering it every assistance.
In connection with the appointment of Bishops, to send or propose names of candidates to the Apostolic See, as well as to prepare the informative process about those who may be promoted, in accordance with the norms issued by the Apostolic See.
To promote whatever may contribute to peace, progress, and the united efforts of peoples.
To work with the Bishops to foster appropriate exchanges between the Catholic Church and other Churches or ecclesial communities, and indeed with non-Christian religions.
To work with the Bishops to safeguard, so far as the rules of the state are concerned, those things which relate to the mission of the Church and of the Apostolic See.
Relations with States
The diplomatic role of an Apostolic Nuncio is to establish and maintain a relationship of mutual understanding between Church and State, for the peace and progress of each nation, and peace between different peoples.
To promote and foster relationships between the Apostolic See and State authorities.
To address questions concerning relations between Church and State, drawing up concordats and other similar agreements, and giving effect to them.
(cf. Canons 361-365 of the Code of Canon Law)
Apostolic Nunciature to the Nordic Countries
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182 63 Djursholm
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Join us as we hear from Trace Ballard, Central Intelligence Agency's LGBT Community Outreach Program Manager and founder of their employee resource group ANGLE, for a discussion on LGBT inclusion at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Trace Ballard been with the CIA for 33 years and was the first openly gay officer at the CIA, coming out in 1988 at a time when federal law precluded openly gay Americans from receiving or holding security clearances. She is the founder of our Agency Resource group - Agency Network of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Officers and Allies (ANGLE); and has been an advocate for workplace equity and inclusion for most of her career.


Writing to your MP and keeping them informed on issues that are important to you are effective ways to ensure your views and wishes are represented.
If you are unsure who your MP is, TheyWorkForYou.com can search by postcode and is an excellent resource for monitoring how they vote, on which issues they are active and reading their speeches.
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Mission Chinese Food, 171 East Broadway.
The awning is now up and the test kitchen is cranking at Mission Chinese Food's new East Broadway location. Eater reports that "San Francisco super baker" Chad Robertson has been on hand to help refine chef Danny Bowien's pizza-making technique. The space features a wood-burning oven, left behind by Rosette, the former restaurant in the space at 171 East Broadway. Here's a shot of one of their creations.
Bedford & Bowery checks out the new food at El Sombrero, which is under new management after three decades on Ludlow Street.
The Observer gets a sake education from Jamie Graves of SakaMai.
And then there's this. The new Comfort Diner on Grand Street posted the following item on Facebook: "Introducing the JEWBANO sandwich… Over 200 years of LES tradition in one sandwich! This is our twist on a Cubano – Katz's Delicatessen pastrami, our hand carved roast turkey, Swiss cheese, deli mustard and pickles from The Pickle Guys, all grilled on a Bulka from Kossar's Bialys!" Yes, that's someone who looks just like Jake Dell of Katz's Deli chowing down.
That is a very exciting "super baker" to have around. Wow.


Airline pitchers Kyle Backofen and Matt Brown limited North DeSoto to one hit in a 1-0 Dixie Majors baseball victory Monday night.
Backofen got the win, pitching three innings of no-hit ball with six strikeouts. Brown allowed one hit in four innings and struck out five.
Daniel Gould drove in Airline's run. Levi Holder had a double. Peyton Davis had a single.
Airline improved to 7-2 on the season, which ends Monday. The Vikings host Northwood Tuesday night at 8.


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The Perpetual Tragedy of New York's Rent Control
Last week (June 21), in its biannual circus, New York City housing regulators once again decided how much landlords will be able to raise rents. Despite inflation raging at a 40-year high of 8.6%, they decided on an increase of 3.25%. In real terms, this is a rent *reduction* of 5.35% (3.25% minus 8.6%), assuming the costs of maintaining the building rise in line with inflation.
This is a tragedy on multiple levels. Owners of New York rental property must face the challenge of operating a building as costs such as labor, supplies and taxes (yes, taxes are never capped) rise at a much faster rate than the rents the landlord can legally charge. We have gone down this path before. The last time inflation was this high was in the 1970s, when annual inflation averaged 7%. The costs of operating buildings rose much faster than legal rents, and the result was disastrous.
Take a look at these two photos. One of these is Warsaw in 1945, the most severely destroyed city in Europe from World War II. The other shows a neighborhood in the South Bronx of New York City in 1977. Which one is which? Read to the end for the answer.*
Source: John Fekner, CC BY-SA 4.0 Source: Public Domain
In a quote often repeated by Milton Friedman, Swedish economist Assar Lindbeck said, "In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city — except for bombing." Judging from the photographic evidence, he is right.
The tragedy of rent control goes far beyond just the palpable destruction brought on by high inflation and lagging rent increases, although we may be headed there again.
A quiet tragedy plays out every day in the lives of everyone who suffers from the stunting of the New York housing market caused by rent control. There is the suffering of the landlords, who unjustly have their properties reduced in value and even destroyed economically, when their legal rents can no longer support maintenance of their buildings. This tragedy is exemplified in an anecdote I read years ago at one of the biannual rent increase hearings. At a raucous hearing where dozens of "pro-tenant" activists demanded rent freezes and rent rollbacks, the owner of a small building approached one of the czars who would determine his fate. He said, "You are killing me. I may have to abandon my building and, with it, the savings of my family that bought it to provide retirement income." The rent regulator-czar turned to him and said, "Look around. For each of you [landlords] there are twenty of them [tenants]."
The hearing ended with a 2% permitted rent increase. The fate of that landlord and his building is not known, but the fate of thousands of similarly positioned landlords whose property was destroyed completely by rent control is known.
Source: flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0
Tenants also suffer, although many tenants only perceive their immediate situation and clamor for lower rents. They suffer when landlords cannot afford to properly maintain their buildings. For hundreds of thousands of tenants in the 1970s, they suffered when their landlords were forced to abandon their buildings. They lost their homes completely. They also suffer in another way, by being "locked into" their shabby, poorly maintained rent-regulated apartments because they cannot afford to move. In Manhattan, more than a third of rent-regulated tenants stay in their homes for 20 years or more, compared with less than 3% of tenants living in market-rate housing. Those extra years are years spent in shabby, soul-destroying fear, often alone as regulated tenants cling to their below-market apartments, living alone after spouses pass away and children leave.
The other group that suffers are all newcomers to the city. Rent control pits future New Yorkers against existing ones, as the much higher "market" rents paid by newcomers partially subsidizes the below-market regulated rents. It is not uncommon for two tenants living across the hall from each other in identical apartments to be paying wildly differing rents, say $5,000/month for a two bedroom in Apartment A and $700/month for the multi-decade-long rent controlled tenant in Apartment B. This government-mandated wealth transfer is unjust and absurd.
The Upshot of the Rent Control Fiasco
Because of rent control and its violations of the rights of landlords and tenants, New York has suffered from a severe paucity of new rental construction. In many years in the 1970s and into the 1980s, more units were *abandoned* each year by landlords than were built. This coincided with a decline in New York City's population of nearly 1 million people, from 8 million to 7 million. There were other causes of this decline, too, such as sky-high and novel taxes, which typically makes New Yorkers pay the highest combined city/state/federal income taxes in the country. But rent control had a particularly destructive effect on the city. It effectively "bombed" vast areas of New York into Mad Max-style wastelands.
The other result of rent control has been the government's rapid encroachment and takeover of the housing market, as the city in costly and coercive fashion tries to make up for the shortfall in private construction. This includes:
city, state, and federal construction of public housing and subsidized housing,
mandates that builders set aside percentages as high as 50% of new units for indigent tenants (thereby imposing a further cost on new construction), and
government-mandated housing "lotteries" for below-market units.
New Yorkers face a disaster which will only get worse, unless the government reverses these policies. It will especially get worse as inflation picks up. If the city keeps reducing real rents by capping increases below the inflation rate (as it is doing now), and if inflation continues for more than a few years, we will see building abandonments once again. But even if things don't get dire enough for a repeat of the 1970s rent control "bombing" of the city, the quiet desperation of landlords and tenants will remain. Landlords will watch their investments tank in value and tenants will continue languishing in crumbling, awful apartments as they experience the "benefits" of rent control.
This New Yorker offers some advice to all those localities who recently imposed rent control or are thinking about doing it: repeal it while you can, before the issue becomes more politicized. And if you are thinking about imposing it: DON'T.
*The left (top) photo shows the South Bronx in 1977. The right (bottom) photo is Warsaw in 1945 after the destruction of World War II.
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Kampala, 8 October 2007 – The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, Mr. Donald Kaberuka, has emphasized the importance of hydro-energy for Africa's sustainable development. Mr. Kaberuka made the statement when he led a delegation of senior AfDB staff on an inspection tour of the Bujagali hydropower project construction site near Jinja, 87 km north-east of Kampala during his 3-7 October visit to Uganda.
He said that the Bujagali project was a signal to the Bank's commitment to assist the development of Africa's power generating infrastructure. "It is time for Africa to harness its hydro power potential," he added. He further explained that it was not possible for every country to develop its own energy supplies and called for the development of cost-effective regional power pools that can be accessed by member countries in a mutually beneficial manner.
The AfDB President emphasized that energy generation and environmental protection concerns were equally important and needed to be jointly assessed and addressed in a coordinated manner.
He expressed appreciation to the Japanese Government for working together with the Bank to develop the Bujagali Interconnection Project (BIP) and congratulated the promoters for the good work done so far and urged the contractors to complete the project on schedule.
Welcoming the AfDB delegation earlier, the Chairman of the Bujagali Energy Limited (BEL) - project promoters, Mr. Nizar Juma Salini expressed appreciation for ADB's support to the Bujagali Hydropower and Interconnection projects. He disclosed that the government had established an Energy Fund that would be used to develop key power generating projects in the country and appealed for the Bank Group's continued support in the sector.
The Bujagali project is estimated to cost US$ 770 million. It is expected to generate 250 MW on completion, making it the biggest private investment in East Africa and the largest independent power project in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Bank will provide US$ 110 million to the hydropower plant project and US$ 28 million to interconnection project making it the second largest funding agency in the project after the World Bank. Other financiers include development agencies, the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), the private sector and the government. The project is being financed on build-own-operate-transfer (BOOT) basis.
The Japanese government last year joined the Bank Group in launching a new initiative for Enhanced Private Sector Assistance (EPSA), under which additional resources provided by Japan, would enable the Bank Group to increase its provision of technical assistance and capacity building both directly to the private sector and to key supporting institutions. Bujagali is expected to benefit from this initiative.
The Minister of Energy and Mineral Development, Daudi Migereko; Minister of State for Investment in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, Prof. Semakula Kiwanuka, the project's construction manager Mr. Marco Fagiani; and local political leaders received the AfDB delegation at the Bujagali site.


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"John Pilger's documentary, Utopia, was broadcast on ITV in Britain on 19 December at 10.35pm, and will be launched in Australia in January. For details, see http://www.utopiajohnpilger.co.uk/ "
"The public response to the broadcast of Utopia on the ITV Network has been widespread across the UK. Many people have asked what they can do to support Aboriginal people in their struggle for justice. I recommend that people write to Prime Minister Tony Abbott, calling on him to start, without delay, negotiations for a fully constituted Treaty between the Commonwealth of Australia and all the First Nations of Australia. This would included long overdue restitution and universal land rights. ... I suggest you copy your message to the Australian press. John Pilger"
"Introduced by John Pilger and special guests"
"Screening to take place in the Kim Beazley Theatre, Murdoch University"
"Trevor Stockley: Trevor is a Gumatj speaker and worked for 14 years at Yirrkala and Laynhapuy Homeland schools (NT), focusing on Yolngu control, the inclusion of Yolngu knowledge in a balanced curriculum, implementing Yolngu ways of working and community-based teacher training. He currently works in North Queensland as a specialist Aboriginal languages teacher and program writer for the Warrgamay and Gudjal language revival programs."
4 Dec 13: "'I think every First Nations person should be concerned when we've fought so hard for land rights and now they're going to be taken back.' - Alyewarre Elder Rosalie Kunoth-Monks"
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Disc couplings are a popular coupling design that continues to pick up steam within the power transmission industry in large part because they can transmit a significant amount of torque, while also being minimal maintenance. Unlike lubricated gear and grid couplings, disc pack couplings require no lubrication and periodic re-lubrication. This makes them ideal for applications that are hard to reach or get to... which, given increased maintenance department budget constraints... is broadly appealing across countless high torque applications and industries.
Disc packs can be visually inspected without taking apart the coupling (a major time savings not true with gear or grid couplings) and have "theoretical infinite life" in that they have no wearing metal-on-metal misalignment handling flex points (as is the case with lubricated gear and grid couplings). Rather, misalignment handling occurs through the flexing of unitized disc packs connecting two flanges together. Should a disc pack wear out (generally due to fatigue brought on by excessive misalignment), bolts and the unitized disc pack can be generally removed and replaced without having to move the installed coupling hubs.
Furthermore (yes.. there are a lot of positives with this coupling type), generally being all metal (with no seals or gaskets) gives disc couplings the ability to withstand harsh environments.. And, lastly, to give one more potential major benefit (based on the application) over their lubricated brethren, disc couplings have torsional rigidity with no backlash.
Limitations of disc couplings include no vibration dampening capability (a strength of elastomeric & grid couplings), and limited misalignment handling capability... particularly in regards to parrallel misalignment. (For a disc coupling to handle parallel misalignment, two disc packs must be used.) Additional considerations include speed limitations if not balanced (though these can be overcome as evidence by widespread disc coupling usage in API 610 and API 671 applications), and possible anti-flail concerns (though, again, anti-flail safety features can be added to many designs).
Disc couplings and their disc packs are generally referred to by the number of bolts they have. Common bolt configurations include 4 bolt, 6 bolt, & 8 bolt. The reason bolt configurations are even is that torque is only carried in tension across every other leg of a disc pack (while the remaining legs will be in compression). In a 4 bolt design, 2 legs will be carrying the torque. In a 6 bolt, 3 legs... and, in an 8 bolt, 4 legs.
The trade-off between the number of bolts is torque versus misalignment handling capability. More bolts (and more legs sharing the load) can carry higher torque loads, but this increase also decreases the flexibility of the disc pack and ability of the pack to handle increased misalignment.
As illustrated in the diagram of the 6 bolt disc pack below, fasteners are then used to connect the disc pack bushings to the coupling flanges. For each bushing location, the disc pack will be connected to only one of the two coupling flanges and the flange it is connected to will switch back and forth as you circle around the disc pack in either direction.
To learn more about disc couplings, please go to Part 2 of this blog series... or check out Lovejoy's disc coupling product pages & catalogs, the non-lubricated section of The Coupling Handbook, and/or subscribe to this blog as there will be several more blog posts on disc couplings in the immediate future.
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Q: How do reimplement this Python XML-parsing function in Haskell? I recently wrote the following Python function which will take a Google Picasa contacts.xml file and output a dictionary with ID and Name.
def read_contacts_file(fn):
    import xml.etree.ElementTree
    x = xml.etree.ElementTree.ElementTree(file=fn)
    q = [(u.attrib["id"], u.attrib["name"]) for u in x.iter("contact")]
    return dict(q)

What this function does is return a dictionary (hashtable, map) with the ID being the key and the Name being the value.
The file itself has the form:
<contacts>
 <contact id="f5fdaaee2e80fa01" name="Person A" display="A"/>
 <contact id="8d5256298fd43877" name="Person B" display="B"/>
</contacts>

What's the simplest way I can implement this in Haskell?

Just wanted to let you know that with everyone's help, I've managed to come up with the following which makes sense to me. Thanks.
parseContactsData = M.fromList . runLA (xread >>> f)
    where f =
        getChildren
        >>> hasName "contact"
        >>> getAttrValue "id" &&& getAttrValue "name"

A: Here's a minimal example doing the same thing with tagsoup:
import Text.HTML.TagSoup

assocLookup k dict = [v | (k', v) <- dict, k == k']
readContactsFile fn = fmap parse (readFile fn)

parse contents = do
    TagOpen "contact" attrs <- parseTags contents
    id <- assocLookup "id" attrs
    name <- assocLookup "name" attrs
    return (id, name)

A: Here's an example doing it with HXT
import Text.XML.HXT.Core
import Data.Map

idAssocs = hasName "contact" >>> getAttrValue "id" &&& getAttrValue "name"
dict = fromList `fmap` runX (readDocument [] "contacts.xml" >>> deep idAssocs)

A: One alternative would be to use the HXT library. Here are some useful information which will get you started: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/HXT/Conversion_of_Haskell_data_from/to_XML
Particularly useful for you would probably be looking at 3.5 A simple application

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Doctor Who - Series 7: The Daleks are Back!
Doctor Who - Episode One, Series 7 - The Asylum of the Daleks
Matt Smith will return to our screens tomorrow night (1st September) in the new series of Doctor Who.
In the opening episode, of this the seventh series, we see the Doctor once again pitting his wits against one of his oldest and most deadly foe's - Yes, the Daleks are back!
The Time Lord and the Ponds
The Doctor, Amy and Rory are kidnapped and forced to go on what appears to be an impossible mission. They must enter the Asylum - a planetary prison that houses some of the most insanely terrifying aliens around. With the Daleks closing in, and the Ponds relation falling apart, it's up to the universes oldest Time Lord to save their lives and his friends marriage.
This episode, entitled "The Asylum of the Daleks", is set to be an explosive start to the series which will also see the final days of Amy and Rory - The Ponds. Karen Gillian and Arthur Darvill returning for what will sadly be their final roller-coaster of an adventure with the Doctor.
New Companion - Clara Oswin
The series also introduces new companion, Clara Oswin played by Jenna-Louise Coleman, who makes her first appearance in the Christmas Special called - "The Snowman" which also features special guest Richard E Grant.
So, there's a lot to look forward to over the coming weeks with six episodes and the Christmas Specials being screened over the final quarter of 2012 and a further eight during the early part of 2013 - the year that just happens to mark the shows 50th anniversary.
For a taste of what's coming watch the trailer below...
Posted by Andy Kirk at 10:54 pm
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Conservation impact on 1.8 million acres; improved outcomes for four priority bird species.
Alaska's Tongass National Forest, nearly 17 million acres, includes a significant portion of the world's last remaining temperate rainforest. This spectacular region supports abundant wildlife, including such priority bird species as the Marbled Murrelet. Audubon's goal is to conserve intact, ecologically significant watersheds in the Tongass and support the transition of forest management from the harvest of old-growth trees to more diversified uses. Audubon Alaska's collaborative approach includes all key stakeholders: conservation groups, the timber industry, commercial fishing groups, tourism officials, Alaska's Native people, southeastern Alaska communities, the U.S. Forest Service, and Alaska Fish and Game. In partnership with The Nature Conservancy, the state program has used input from dozens of scientists to take a watershed-based approach to conservation. Audubon has analyzed, mapped, and described the Tongass's coastal forests to identify areas of greatest ecological value. This will help mitigate threats from legislation, including the recently passed omnibus defense bill, that will make a substantial portion of the last remaining large-tree old-growth forest vulnerable to timber cutting. Audubon's approach protects biodiversity while supporting sustainable economic development.
Theory of Victory: Audubon will work to conserve intact, ecologically significant watersheds in the Tongass National Forest and to support transitioning forest management from the harvest of old-growth trees to a more diversified use of the forest, including managing the Tongass for salmon.
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Watch Picard, Data, and Seven of Nine Return in the First Full Trailer for "Star Trek: Picard"
To Air on CBS All Access Streaming Service in Early 2020
Jul 20, 2019 By Christopher Roberts
Patrick Stewart is returning to his iconic Star Trek role as Jean Luc Picard in the upcoming TV series, the fittingly titled Star Trek: Picard, and now the first full trailer has been shared, fresh from its premiere at Comic-Con. It promises some familiar faces from Star Trek, including Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine and Brent Spiner as either Data or his brother B-4. More
Watch Patrick Stewart Return in the First Teaser Trailer for the New "Star Trek: Picard" TV Series
To Air on CBS All Access Streaming Service Later This Year
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Patrick Stewart is returning to his iconic Star Trek role as Jean Luc Picard in the upcoming TV series, the fittingly titled Star Trek: Picard, and now the first teaser trailer has been shown. More
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A new Star Trek TV series, Star Trek: Discovery, is coming this fall. The first episode will air on CBS and all subsequent episodes will air exclusively on CBS All Access, CBS' streaming service. Now the first trailer has been shared. Watch it below. More
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REVIEW: Hustlers (2019) dir. Lorene Scafaria
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For all of the things that strips clubs are assumed to be, the one about being "strictly business" feels a bit undercut. Given that all parties are respectful and aren't being weird about it, the experience double-plays as a good time and an honest transaction. This article won't be a detailed report of all the monetary transactions that occur at a strip club (I will say that an employee once called me a Cabbage Patch Kid while on stage — that's neither here nor there), but dancing is a straightforward hustle. And hustling is putting in more elbow grease than is adequately required to produce a financially better output, which is more or less what a great visionary had meant.
The general synopsis of Hustlers may have pulsated under the glossy celebrity guests, sleek bodies, and sensual (and, eventually, coerced pharmacological) manipulation during its pre-release marketing, but the skeletal breakdown is that a top-earning stripper, Ramona Vega (Jennifer Lopez), steals from Wall Street businessmen to upkeep her lavish lifestyle. She enlists Destiny (Constance Wu), Mercedes (Keke Palmer), and Annabelle (Lili Reinhart) to pull off her plan, which makes sense in broad strokes. In the wrong hands, the movie could have suffered and we'd have to wait for A24's Zola for the next great stripper saga. But director/screenwriter Lorene Scafaria took the original New York article in one hand and a DVD copy of The Wolf of Wall Street in the other, and shook both items at the sky and said, "For women!"
The story is told by Destiny, who is recounting the story to a journalist (Julia Stiles — fun party trick: if you mention that Stiles is in the movie without elaborating, around 60% of people's eyes will go wide) a year before the article is published. One of the more treasured aspects about the movie, especially in today's trigger-happy remakes and rehashing, is that the story was allowed to sit for years, living through the Obama administration and aging long enough to be in seventh grade. Once in fruition, Scafaria had scented the narrative with nostalgia to saturate some of the script's contemporary beliefs (as we now should know that shouting "Lucy Liu!" at an Asian person is racist and not a compliment) and cameos (such as Cardi B, Lizzo, and G-Eazy), giving a trail mix of excitement in the frontal landscape of pop culture and in the back burner relics (including bebe-branded wear, that taser incident, Kim Kardashian's prototypical face, and "Ursher, baby").
Cardi B after one of her Cardi B-isms in a movie that can also apply to Cardi B's life
Disappointed by the severe cuts from management and burdened by the continuous chase of making ends meet, one could assume that dollar signs spring out of Destiny's eyes when she first sees Ramona, believing that she could learn some tricks for her own financially better output. But similar to most characters in her filmography, whenever a character or an audience sees Lopez on screen, it marks the first sight of someone mesmerized. Ramona's introductory performance in the movie is quite literally heart-stopping: she swings around in an outfit perhaps made of three silver ribbons and a dignity not unlike her actual dancing prowess. Everything about J. Lo — the down-to-earth Jenny from the Block, the reason for Google Images' existence, an unopposed dance legend, legitimate career hustler — boils down to this magnetic performance (and to clarify, I for sure am talking about a strip dance) that spells out Ramona's charm, Lopez's hardworking ethic, and then back to Ramona again as the HBIC of the club. With Scafaria's musicality (she is responsible for suggesting "Criminal" for Ramona's dance and "Royals" for the team's eventual downfall) and emphasis to portray Ramona's authentic camaraderie through the team's ups and downs, it had been about time that a good script and Lopez's talent found each other.
While the end of the ride is inevitable, Hustlers lets us cheer when it's all fun and fur coats and lets us ponder the what-ifs when the plan starts to deteriorate and the police hound at their heels. The supporting cast is surprisingly strong and endearing, to the point where I would have preferred seeing more of their over-excitability to Wu's occasional flatness. There are a lot of moments to laugh at (and thank God you laugh with the girls every time), and it takes Stiles's role (eg. her shocked expression when Destiny reveals the drugging) to reel you back in from the gambling high. It's early in the fishing season to see how the Oscar nominations will play out, but Lopez, who hasn't been afraid to admit when she's worthy of awards, probably won't be sitting at home come February whatever the dice may roll. High-risk, high-reward.
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Sonu Nigam Net Worth 2019
Sonu Nigam Net Worth, Earning and Salary 2019
Sonu Nigam, a soulful singer and ranked among the highest paid playback singers of B'town as for each song he will get Rs 6 lakhs. Sonu Nigam sung numerous songs and gets so many awards for the best songs. He has a melodious voice and sung many hit songs for Bollywood. The annual net worth of Sonu Nigam is around 50 Crore rupees that's why he cam ein a category of richest singers.
How Much Total Net worth of Sonu Nigam 2019 – $ 8 Million or Rs 50 Crore
Biography of Sonu Nigam
Sonu Nigam was born on June 30, 1973 in Haryana and get all the singing knowledge from his father, Agam Kumar Nigam who is not only a professional singer but also a stage performer. Sonu Nigam starts singing from very small age and his father took him to his performances on main occasions so that he can learn so many basic things of singing from him. During the occasion, Sonu sang his first song on stage with his father that is Kya Hua Tera Wada and people love the way he sings.
So to become a singer Sonu come to Mumbai with a dream of Playback Singer in the industry and for to fulfill this dream he struggled a lot. After a long time he get a chance to take training from the renowned artist, Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan and through him he entered in a film industry and spread his melodious voice. Later, Sonu get an opportunity by T Series who was releasing an album Rafi Ki Yaadein in which Sonu sang all the songs sung by The Legend Mohammad Rafi.
Sonu also hosted a show called Sa Re Ga Ma Pa which is a singing talent hunt contest and from that show he become a very popular face in the country and gets so many offers for playback singing. He done his singing debut in 1992 from the movie called Janam for which he receives so much appreciation. Sonu is not only a playback singer but also a music composer and has release 23 music albums in 5 regional languages up till now as well as host and judge so many musical shows. Sonu Nigam is now the favourite singer of many people and wins so many awards for best music, singing and composing the songs.
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Cabeça de Nêgo é um filme de drama brasileiro de 2021 dirigido e escrito por Déo Cardoso. O filme aborda uma discussão sobre o racismo e precariedade do sistema educacional público brasileiro. Produzido e distribuído pela Corte Seco Filmes, fez sua estreia mundial na Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes em 2020, onde foi ovacionado de pé ao final da sessão. É protagonizado por Lucas Limeira e conta ainda com as partipações de Jéssica Ellen, Nicoly Mota, Carri Costa, Mateus Honori e Val Perré.

Sinopse
Inspirado por um livro dos Panteras Negras, o introvertido Saulo Chuvisco tenta impor mudanças em sua escola e acaba entrando em conflito com alguns colegas e professores. Após reagir a um insulto em sala de aula, Saulo é expulso, mas recusa-se a deixar as dependências da escola por tempo indeterminado.

Ao ocupar a escola ele usa a internet, através das redes sociais, para expressar as contradições da direção da escola, que a deixa em abandono. No entanto, o gesto solitário de Saulo não se resume ao encapsulamento do mundo virtual. Esse é só um gatilho para o verdadeiro movimento dos estudantes que, mobilizados a partir do exemplo de Saulo, se insurgem contra o sistema escolar – contra as maracutaias do diretor da escola, aliado dos políticos de alto escalão. Os estudantes se organizam e pressionam a direção.

Produção
Produzido no estado do Ceará, a companhia produtora responsável pelo filme é a Corte Seco Filmes. O filme é composto majoritariamente por atores negros, que dialoga com a discussão do filme sobre o racismo e desigualdade racial.

O cineasta Déo Cardoso, resumiu em entrevista ao canal Curta! a sua obra como:

Elenco
O elenco do filme é composto quase que integralmente por atores negros, fato esse que conversa com uma das falas do filme e do diretor ao falar com a imprensa sore o longa. "O protagonismo é deles da juventude negra, periférica negra."

Lançamento
A première do filme ocorreu na Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes em 2020. Em seguida, o filme foi selecionado por vários outros festivais, como: Olhar de Cinema – Festival Internacional de Curitiba; Encontro de Cinema Negro Zózimo Bulbul – Brasil, África e Caribe; Mostra Retroexpectativa 2020/2021 do Cinema do Dragão; Festival de Cinema de Mar Del Plata (Argentina); San Francisco (EUA), Santa Barbara International Film Festival (EUA), entre outros. O filme foi lançado nos cinemas a partir 21 de outubro de 2021.

Recepção
No Papo de Cinema, Bruno Carmelo avaliou com nota 8/10 dizendo que "ainda há deficiências, especialmente de captação e edição de som. No entanto, para um primeiro filme, Cardoso conquista o mérito raríssimo de propor um discurso potente entre o hermético e o popularesco, respeitando os jovens sem condescendência dentro de uma fábula de convite à luta."

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Forward: Bob Santos—Hero of the International District
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Hum Bows, Not Hot Dogs is an autobiography by "Uncle" Bob Santos published in 2002 by the International Examiner.
The following is a forward written by Ron Chew from "Uncle" Bob Santos' book, 'Hum Bows, Not Hot Dogs—Memoirs of a Savvy Asian Asian American Activist.' The book was published by the International Examiner in 2002.
Every neighborhood has its roster of local heroes. The mention of a hero's name prompts a cocked ear and summons a round of stories, some true, some half-true and some wholly legend. More often than not, it's nice to hear from the heroes themselves—for what they remember and what they choose to reveal. Heroes—especially those tested in the fires of social activism—can inspire us to believe in the possibility of changing things for the better.
Bob Santos is a hero in an urban hamlet called the International District, an Asian neighborhood along the southern edge of downtown Seattle. For reasons unknown, the District is the only location in the continental United States where the various Asian settlers—Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, and Vietnamese—settled together and built one community. Perhaps it's because the Asian Pacific population in Washington state is relatively small—less than six percent of the total population—that we've found ways to cohabit peacefully for generations. Whatever the reason, Seattle is a model for "pan-Asian cooperation" in the United States.
Bob Santos. • Photo by Joe Mabel
In the 1970s and 80s, as executive director of the International District Improvement Association (Inter*Im), Bob Santos provided the vision and inspiration to move this neighborhood—the "I.D."—from the brink of physical decay and neglect to rebirth, galvanizing a multi-ethnic coalition of elderly residents, small shopkeepers and idealistic students to restore vacant buildings, construct new housing, develop social service agencies, and create a dynamic new sense of community. Later, in the early 1990s, he helped conceive the International District Village Square project—a remarkable public-private partnership combining apartment units, offices, social services, and retail businesses.
In his book, Hum Bows, Not Hot Dogs, he describes what happened, from his choice vantage point, as leader of a powerful grassroots movement, folding wonderful little stories around a vibrant cast of local characters and events. For those who lived through this eventful era, this book replays fond memories: moments of humor, merry-making, trouble-making confrontation, negotiation, anger, surprise, elation, sadness, fear, and pride. This book illuminates pieces of the unexplained past for outsiders who may look with curiosity or puzzlement at how the community came to acquire its distinctive complexion and personality.
Santos also tells about his childhood days in the modest Chinatown hotel room with his father, a famous local boxer; his participation in the drive for racial equality in Seattle in the 1960s; and his rise to political worlds beyond Seattle as a congressional aide and, later, as an official for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
For those who don't know "Uncle Bob" Santos—and it's rare to find anyone in Seattle who hasn't made his acquaintance—a brief description is in order. Uncle Bob is insatiably social—as likely to be spotted in a local karaoke bar as at a political rally or a Seattle City Council hearing. He's an irrepressible ham—clowning and joking if you give him even a sliver of an opening. He'll put forth an incredibly corny word pun—"Get it?"—followed with an impish grin, a chuckle, then "Just kidding." Over the years, Bob's ability to poke fun has allowed him to build legions of allies, melt down barriers and develop the credibility to bargain with those in seats of power.
I first met Bob in 1973, shortly after he became director of Inter*Im. I was a reporter for the University of Washington Daily, gathering information for a story about the potential impact of a stadium on the International District. I remember entering a non-descript building on South Jackson Street—one of the main thoroughfares running through the heart of the I.D.—and climbing a flight of stairs to meet him. As I came up, he was seated in an office chair at a desk, dressed in a pullover sweater and khaki work slacks. I caught him in mid-sentence, cussing loudly into a phone receiver, "What kind of bullshit is that?" He punctuated the rest of his conversation with other even more pungent phrases and hung up. Then, in one easy motion, he swiveled in my direction, stood up—changing his demeanor almost instantly from ornery to sweet and inviting. "Hey guy!" he said to me, extending his hand. "What's up? Are you from the U-Dub? Have a seat, guy." I was, needless to say, somewhat startled. That was my introduction to Bob Santos.
I never did learn the source of his anger—whether it was, perhaps, an insensitive public official or a former ally with whom he had just had a testy spat—but over the years I've had other opportunities to see the fiery side of his personality. Uncle Bob has never been one to hold his tongue or kiss up to someone he didn't like, despite his congeniality and patience at building political coalitions.
Through the late 1980s, working as editor and reporter for the International Examiner, I saw Uncle Bob in action, usually in front of a gathering of elderly residents at the cramped International Drop-In Center on Weller Street or at the scruffy cannery union hall on South Main Street. He would exhort the residents to sign petitions and stand up for their rights: "No one can force you out of your homes," he would say in a firm voice. "But we need all of you and your friends to pack the City Council hearing and let the officials know that they've got to act on behalf of your interests." Uncle Bob's words, delivered with fire and a down-home touch, would rouse the irrepressible seniors—like Al Masigat, Leo Lorenzo, Sam Figueros or Mrs. Chin—to come to the microphone to share a personal story about their struggle to retain an affordable apartment and stay in the place they cherished as home.
In times of great stress, heroes are steadying influences, too. After the shocking murders of young cannery union leaders Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes in 1981, Uncle Bob calmed the grieving community and hastened the justice efforts by the simple—yet courageous—act of stepping up to the media microphones and onto the witness stand in court. His visibility, in a time of great paralyzing fear, made others more confident about coming forward and testifying about what they knew. Over the past four decades, in situation after situation, he's stepped forward to speak out, helping bring credibility to credible causes and giving voice to the disenfranchised.
For the record, Hum Bows, Not Hot Dogs had its sputtering beginnings about 15 years ago, during a time when both Uncle Bob and I were International District neighbors, living in separate "market-rate" hotels restored with City support. Gary Iwamoto—a long-time I.D. activist and writer—and I met several times at Uncle Bob's modest apartment, trying to steer Uncle Bob to create his autobiography. This first effort didn't get beyond a couple of chapters, a quick victim of our inability to make time.
The project—"The Book" we sheepishly called it—sat on the shelf and was resuscitated in the past year, as Uncle Bob—in between jobs—carved out blocks of time at the computer to writer, aided by Gary Iwamoto, serving as researcher, fact-checker, editor and general co-collaborator. Iwamoto and Uncle Bob are kindred spirits, sharing their great passion for I.D. and social justice causes, not to mention a shameless penchant for corny humor.
A word of explanation about the title of this book. Hum bow is a Chinese term for a barbecue pork bun. It's a term used by Chinese Americans in Seattle who speak Toisanese, the dialect of the early settlers, and by others who know and appreciate down-home Chinese lunch cuisine. "Hum Bows, Not Hot Dogs" was a slogan coined in the early 1970s—appearing often on protest signs, expressing opposition to the development of a large sports stadium on the western fringe of the International District. It was adopted as a rallying cry by Uncle Bob and others who feared that large-scale projects would threaten the beloved mom-and-pop restaurants in the area.
"Things are a lot easier now," Uncle Bob said to me recently, commenting on the difference between today and the 1970s, when Inter*Im was first making its mark as an advocate of neighborhood improvement. By a twist of fate, as we were talking, Uncle Bob had been coaxed to return as director of Inter*Im, working out of the same storefront space in the N.P. Hotel where he got started, his desk in the exact same spot it occupied 30 years ago, downstairs from his dad's old apartment, now remodeled. "A lot of people didn't really care for the activists back in the old days. But we learned how to work the system. Some of us moved into positions where we could make a difference. And we got a lot of things done and built. That's a legacy that we can look back on with pride, something for the next generation to build on."
Here, within these pages, is Uncle Bob's legacy—a story that belongs to all of us, given back to us in his own words. As we read from Hum Bows, Not Hot Dogs, we laugh, marvel and revisit a triumphant era—not so long ago—when our community was reborn under a shared vision made possible by great leadership.
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SNSC's full statement on designating US 'State Sponsor of Terrorism'
MNA – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has published the full statement of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran on designating the US regime a "State Sponsor of Terrorism" and its Central Command (CENTCOM) a "terrorist organization".
What follows is the full text of the statement released on Monday:
In the Name of God
The Supreme National Security Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran strongly condemns the unlawful and dangerous move by the US regime to include the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in the list of "Foreign Terrorist Organizations", and considers the groundless measure as a major threat to the regional and international peace and security, and a clear violation of peremptory norms of international law and of the UN Charter.
Unlike the US and its regional allies which have always supported extremist groups and terrorists in the West Asia region, the IRGC has constantly been at the forefront of fight against terrorism and extremism in the region. The role of this selfless and revolutionary force in fight against Al-Qaeda, ISIS, al-Nusra Front, and other terrorist groups in the region has always been praised by the affected people and governments.
In a reciprocal response to the unlawful and unwise move made by the US today, the Islamic Republic of Iran announces that it designates the US regime a "State Sponsor of Terrorism" and "the US Central Command or CENTCOM" and all its affiliated forces a "terrorist group".
The CENTCOM is responsible for implementing the terrorist policies of the US administration against the West Asia region, and has endangered the national security of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the lives of innocent Iranians and non-Iranians in order to impose the hostile policies of the US, including the brutal and intentional attack on the Iranian passenger plane in 1988, its complicity in the slaughter of Yemeni people and other civilians in the West Asia.
Undoubtedly, the US regime will bear all the responsibilities for the dangerous consequences of its adventurist move.
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No New Cases Of Covid 19 In Co. Wexford – Latest Figures
June 11, 2020 Michael Sinnott News
There's been no change in the number of confirmed cases of Covid 19 in Co. Wexford. The total of 216 has remained static over the past twenty four hours.
The number of cases of Covid 19 being diagnosed in Co. Wexford continues to slow. Three cases have been identified in the county over the past week.
No new cases were recorded over the past twenty four hours.
Wexford General Hospital currently has no confirmed cases of the virus on site. However, the latest figures from the HSE published at 8pm last night show one patient is currently being treated as a suspected case at the hospital. That figure decreased by two over the past twenty four hours.
Wicklow has 670 cases, Kilkenny 345, Carlow 168, and Waterford has 154 cases – all three counties recorded no new cases.
Carlow now has 168 cases an increase of one since yesterday.
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