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Да́ниел Клаудиу «Диди» Прода́н (; 23 марта 1972, Сату-Маре — 16 ноября 2016, Волунтари) — румынский футболист, игравший на позиции центрального защитника, участник финальных турниров чемпионата мира и чемпионата Европы в составе сборной Румынии.

Биография

Клубная карьера
Начал заниматься футболом в юношеской команде своего родного города. В 1988 году перешёл в молодёжный состав бухарестской «Виктории», но после её расформирования в январе 1990 года вернулся в Сату-Маре. С осени 1990 до осени 1992 выступал за местную «Олимпию» во втором дивизионе.

Летом 1992 года перешёл в сильнейший клуб Румынии — бухарестский «Стяуа». Дебютный матч в чемпионате страны сыграл 8 ноября 1992 года в Констанце против местного «Фарула». В течение пяти сезонов подряд защитник вместе со своей командой завоёвывал золотые медали чемпионата, а в сезоне 1995/96 также стал обладателем Кубка страны.

В начале 1997 года Продан впервые уехал играть за границу, перейдя в мадридский «Атлетико», и за половину сезона сыграл 17 матчей и забил 4 гола в чемпионате Испании. В следующем сезоне футболист также сыграл 17 матчей, но голов не забивал.

Летом 1998 года румын присоединился к шотландскому «Рейнджерс» за сумму 2,2 млн фунтов стерлингов, и уже в новом клубе у него обнаружилась серьёзная травма колена. Высказывались предположения, что футболист получил травму ещё выступая за «Атлетико», но скрыл этот факт при медосмотре во время перехода в шотландский клуб. В составе «Рейнджерс» Продан не сыграл ни одного официального матча, весной 2000 года восстанавливался от травмы в расположении своего прежнего клуба «Стяуа», а осенью того же года играл на правах аренды за бухарестский «Рокар». В январе 2001 года «Рейнджерс» расторг контракт с игроком.

В последние годы своей карьеры Продан выступал за бухарестский «Национал», а в 2002 году недолгое время провёл в составе итальянской «Мессины», выступавшей в Серии B. Из-за последствий травмы защитник так и не смог выйти на прежний уровень и в начале 2003 года, в возрасте 31 год принял решение завершить карьеру.

Карьера в сборной
В 1992—1993 годах выступал за молодёжную сборную Румынии, провёл 10 матчей.

В национальной команде дебютировал 2 июня 1993 года в матче против Чехословакии в Кошице (2:5). Принимал участие в чемпионате мира 1994 в США, где сыграл 5 матчей и чемпионате Европы 1996 в Англии, где принял участие в двух играх. С апреля 1998 года по осень 2000 года не призывался в сборную из-за травмы. Всего в составе национальной команды в 1993—2001 годах сыграл 54 матча и забил 1 гол — 12 ноября 1994 года в ворота сборной Словакии.

Тренерская карьера
В ноябре 2005 года назначен спортивным директором юношеских сборных в Федерации футбола Румынии. В течение недолгого периода исполнял обязанности главного тренера молодёжной сборной (2006). В начале 2014 года тренировал юношескую (U17) сборную страны, но был уволен президентом федерации Рэзваном Бурляну и по этому поводу судился с ним.

В феврале-марте 2016 года работал спортивным директором клуба «Конкордия Кьяжна».

Личная жизнь
Младший брат Даниела, Чиприан (род. 1979), также был профессиональным футболистом.

В 2008 году президент Румынии Траян Бэсеску наградил Даниела Продана орденом «Meritul sportiv» третьей степени.

Футболист умер 16 ноября 2016 года на 45-м году жизни в своем доме в бухарестском пригороде Волунтари от сердечного приступа. У него осталась супруга Лициния и 16-летний сын Рэзван.

Достижения
 чемпион Румынии: 1992/93, 1993/94, 1994/95, 1995/96, 1996/97
 Обладатель Кубка Румынии: 1995/96

Примечания

Ссылки
 Mihai Ionescu/Răzvan Toma/Mircea Tudoran: Fotbal de la A la Z. Mondocart Pres, Bukarest 2001, ISBN 973-8332-00-1, S. 301.
 Daniel Claudiu PRODAN. statisticsfootball.com
 weltfussball.de

Футболисты Румынии
Игроки сборной Румынии по футболу
Игроки ФК «Стяуа»
Игроки ФК «Атлетико Мадрид»
Игроки ФК «Рокар»
Игроки ФК «Прогресул»
Игроки ФК «Мессина»
Футбольные тренеры Румынии

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About WayForward
WayForward was founded in 1990 by Voldi Way. Over a quarter century we've become one of the biggest independent developers out there, and house some of the finest talent in the video game industry. We got our start in the PC, Super Nintendo and Genesis era of gaming, rode the educational CD-ROM wave through the 90's, and eventually found our way back onto handhelds and consoles. We've built our reputation on solid gaming fundamentals, feature-quality character animation, and flexibility and know-how when it comes to bringing entertainment brands into the world of gaming – both original characters of our own design, or comic book and tinsel town favorites. Over the last few years we've become mainstays in the area of rebooting classic game series.
The list of titles that WayForward has developed is an extensive one, at over 200 released titles. Recent products include DuckTales: Remastered, Double Dragon Neon, Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?!!, Batman: The Brave & the Bold, Contra 4… the list goes on and on.
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U.S. Code > Title 5 > Part I > Chapter 5 > Subchapter II > § 551
5 USC 551 – Definitions
For the purpose of this subchapter—
(1) "agency" means each authority of the Government of the United States, whether or not it is within or subject to review by another agency, but does not include—
(A) the Congress;
(B) the courts of the United States;
(C) the governments of the territories or possessions of the United States;
(D) the government of the District of Columbia;
or except as to the requirements of section 552 of this title—
(E) agencies composed of representatives of the parties or of representatives of organizations of the parties to the disputes determined by them;
(F) courts martial and military commissions;
(G) military authority exercised in the field in time of war or in occupied territory; or
(H) functions conferred by sections 1738, 1739, 1743, and 1744 of title 12; subchapter II of chapter 471 of title 49; or sections 1884, 1891-1902, and former section 1641(b)(2), of title 50, appendix; 1
(2) "person" includes an individual, partnership, corporation, association, or public or private organization other than an agency;
(3) "party" includes a person or agency named or admitted as a party, or properly seeking and entitled as of right to be admitted as a party, in an agency proceeding, and a person or agency admitted by an agency as a party for limited purposes;
(4) "rule" means the whole or a part of an agency statement of general or particular applicability and future effect designed to implement, interpret, or prescribe law or policy or describing the organization, procedure, or practice requirements of an agency and includes the approval or prescription for the future of rates, wages, corporate or financial structures or reorganizations thereof, prices, facilities, appliances, services or allowances therefor or of valuations, costs, or accounting, or practices bearing on any of the foregoing;
(5) "rule making" means agency process for formulating, amending, or repealing a rule;
(6) "order" means the whole or a part of a final disposition, whether affirmative, negative, injunctive, or declaratory in form, of an agency in a matter other than rule making but including licensing;
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(10) "sanction" includes the whole or a part of an agency—
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(B) withholding of relief;
(C) imposition of penalty or fine;
(D) destruction, taking, seizure, or withholding of property;
(E) assessment of damages, reimbursement, restitution, compensation, costs, charges, or fees;
(F) requirement, revocation, or suspension of a license; or
(G) taking other compulsory or restrictive action;
(11) "relief" includes the whole or a part of an agency—
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(B) recognition of a claim, right, immunity, privilege, exemption, or exception; or
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(12) "agency proceeding" means an agency process as defined by paragraphs (5), (7), and (9) of this section;
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(14) "ex parte communication" means an oral or written communication not on the public record with respect to which reasonable prior notice to all parties is not given, but it shall not include requests for status reports on any matter or proceeding covered by this subchapter.
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Study: Brick-and-Click Alliances Working
Three out of every four partnerships linking a brick-and-mortar retailer with an e-commerce player in the past four years has been successful, according to a study released Thursday by McKinsey & Company.
In fact, McKinsey, which looked closely at 700 deals announced since 1997, found that so-called e-alliances involving online firms are more likely to succeed strategically and financially than deals between traditional companies.
Overall, 55 percent of the e-commerce-related deals that McKinsey looked at were deemed a success, compared to 51 percent of all offline deals.
"Speed and scale remain important in the Internet economy," said David Ernst, the study's lead author. "Alliances are often a faster and less capital-intensive way to gain access to products, customers and business capabilities than building them from scratch."
Deals Keep Coming
While McKinsey indicated that the pace of such deals may have slowed somewhat in recent months — after 13,000 deals were announced in 1999 and more than 20,000 in 2000 — so-called e-alliances are "more important than ever," Ernst said.
"Partnerships between bricks and clicks have turned out to be the most successful of the combinations," Ernst said.
In fact, while McKinsey's survey did not include 2001, several recent deals, including the alliance between Amazon.com and Borders, seem to follow the recipe for long-term success.
McKinsey noted that the majority of profitable business-to-consumer (B2C) companies have all embraced a brick-and-click approach to some degree.
Just One Side
While brick-and-click deals have proven to be winners for both parties, deals linking Internet portals with e-commerce firms are often more one-sided, McKinsey found. Fewer than 30 percent of the content or commerce partners involved in the deals met their goals for profits or revenue.
"Portals have generally come out as long-term winners in these deals," Ernst said.
Portal deals were based largely on the belief that Internet traffic would drive long-term success. But many of the deals have been "structurally flawed," McKinsey said, with many partnerships matching companies that did not fit together and many lacking solid basis for measuring success.
The scenario is similar among business-to-business (B2B) companies. Many saw initial run-ups in their stock prices after announcing e-alliances, only to fall back to earth. Fewer than 30 percent of B2B deals tracked by McKinsey had created value or met goals.
Often, e-commerce deals fail because they are not backed by the necessary resources. In fact, McKinsey advises companies considering deals in today's market to be far more selective and choose only deals that it can support fully.
It also advises that alliances be short-term deals at first, with constant re-evaluation of their effectiveness before longer terms are locked into place.
Will the Tech Shopping Spree Hit E-Commerce?
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-I think it's Sir Richard Attenborough, Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
-I think it's the Glee Christmas special from season three: "Extraordinary Merry Christmas."
-I love watching it throughout the year; I watch something festive each Rudolph Day and kick off Christmas on November 15th each year with regular viewings of holiday classics. I like the anticipation that off-season viewing brings.
I watch through a combination of these media: classics on DVD (purchased), annual cable broadcasts on TV (and PVR), purchases through AppleTV, and Netflix
3.) It's a Wonderful Life
2.) A Charlie Brown Christmas
1.) White Christmas
(And I'd sure miss/think a lot about A Christmas Story and Yogi's First Christmas)
Jakki July 20, 2017 at 10:19 AM
Even though I didn't enjoy the 1994 version of Miracle on 34th Street as well as the original, it did have some positive attributes and certainly Sir Richard Attenborough was a fantastic Santa!
Caffeinated Joe July 23, 2017 at 10:25 AM
I think we all wish we could bring more than three to the island. Joanna is strict! LOL
I'm not strict--the power supply on the deserted island is limited. More than three and you'll blow a fuse.
That's may favorite Christmas episode of Glee too--so much happening in that story, it's fun to watch over and over. And, I LOVE the tributes to Christmas TV history as well (Judy Garland's 1964 Christmas Show and the Star Wars Holiday Special). There's so much to love about it. Thanks for the reminder :)


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Stoke City are aiming to start promotion to the Premier League next season as the Potters plan to overhaul their attack at Bet 365.
The Potters had threatened to fight for the top six at one stage of the campaign, though injuries undermined their campaign.
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Left winger
Robbie Brady (Burnley)
Played 20 games for the Clarets in the Premier League last season but was deemed redundant at the end of the season.
His only goal of the campaign came in a 1-1 draw against Everton in December.
Christian Atsu (Newcastle United)
Only played once for the Toon this season and was previously associated with Forest.
He is now a free agent and includes Porto, Everton and Chelsea as some of his former clubs.
Yannick Bolasie (Everton)
It is unlikely that there will be a shortage of applicants following his release by Everton and that time has been loaned to Middlesbrough at the start of the season.
He has scored three goals and made four assists in his 15 appearances and has certainly caught the eye.
Was a fan favorite too.
Nick Clayton-Phillips (West Brom)
Spent time on loan at Solihull Moors but struggled to influence, playing his only game in a 4-1 loss to Sutton United.
The U23 winger is now looking for a new club.
Kamil Grosicki (West Brom)
Needs no introduction to Nottingham Forest fans as they have been linked with a move to the club last year.
Was linked with a return to Poland but can imagine his chances of staying in England and is now available for a free transfer.
Helped West Brom win promotion to the Premier League but was a minor sideline when the Baggies were relegated from the top division.
Jose Izquierdo (Brighton)
Brighton cost £ 16m to sign from Club Brugge in 2017 and has made a total of 48 league games during his time on the coast.
During that time he scored five goals but only played once that season, resulting in a defeat at Sheffield United.
And even then, it was only an eight-minute cameo from the bench.
Layton Ndukwu (City of Leicester)
The 22-year-old did not appear in the first team for the Foxes and his only taste of Football League action came on loan to Southend in the 19-20 season.
Played seven games for the Shrimpers but they were all on the bench.
Right winger
Josh Bowler (Everton)
Released by the Toffees and has been linked with a move to Blackpool.
Didn't get the mark at Goodison Park but was impressed while on loan at Hull City in the 19-20 campaign.
Charlie Farr (Aston Villa)
Farr has been touted as a promising broad player making his way through the youth ranks.
The teenager is able to play on both sides.
Harlem Hale (crystal palace)
Signed from Southampton in the summer of 2020 and is considered a talented winger who impressed in court.
However, is now a free agent.
Josh Sims (Southampton)
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Andros Townsend (Crystal Palace)
As a seasoned Premier League player, Townsend has shown some impressive performances in the top division.
Had 36 gigs and already had offers from overseas.
"I had a few offers and I will hopefully now – after the end of the season – wait for the Premier League offers," he said.
"Then I just sit down with my agent and see what is the best offer for me at this point in my career."
Shilow Tracey (Tottenham)
Spent most of his time on loan in the minor leagues and had a stint at Shrewsbury where he scored four goals in three games in the EFL Trophy.
Finished the remainder of the season at Cambridge United, scoring a goal in a 4-2 loss to Leyton Orient.
But the 23-year-old has no future at Spurs.
Theo Walcott (Everton)
Needs no introduction as I really played for Arsenal, Southampton and Everton.
Is 32 and still has the opportunity to play in the Premier League.
Played 25 times for the Saints last season and scored three goals.
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Curtis Stone's kitchen sync
Leadership In High Places 01 Aug 2014
By Lynda Dugdale
Running a food empire takes leadership skills and business smarts.
This article is from the August 2014 issue of INTHEBLACK.
Curtis Stone knows how to cook, but running a food empire also takes leadership skills and business smarts. Stone absorbed some of what was needed from his CPA dad. And he learned about Michelin-starred cuisine from one of the biggest names in the culinary world. But he also learned a lot from his grandmother.
International chef Curtis Stone trained under one of the best – the UK's Marco Pierre White. He walked through the back door into one of White's London restaurants asking for a job and walked out eight years later as head chef. He was sought after by publicists, developers and broadcasters, but the laconic Aussie was still surprised his name was being uttered in the same breath as those of his culinary idols.
Today he has surrounded himself with school mates who now run various arms of his business and credits his grandmother, Maude, with sparking his interest in food and inspiring him to be the best he could be.
He took the old-fashioned route in his career – starting at the bottom, being prepared to do anything, and working as hard as necessary to make his mark. He now lives in Los Angeles, where he fell in love with a local – actress and documentary maker Lindsay Price – and started a family.
Stone is an ambassador for one of Australia's biggest supermarket chains, Coles, has written five cookbooks, developed a kitchenware and cookware range called Kitchen Solutions, and has spent the last several years making numerous TV appearances and fronting cooking shows including the popular Top Chef Masters. He's also a regular contributor to Oprah Winfrey's O magazine.
But perhaps most significantly for Stone, in February this year he opened his first restaurant – the intimate and intensely personal Maude in Beverly Hills, named after that beloved grandmother.
He told his story to former CPA Australia chief executive Alex Malley.
Alex Malley: I'm really interested in this wonderful figure called Granny Maude and, particularly, her Yorkshire fudge. Tell me about that.
Curtis Stone: My granny was a beautiful woman. My earliest food memory is going to her apartment, pushing straight past and running to her fridge – if the fudge was there I would be a happy man. If not she'd say: "That's alright darling, let's make it together."
Malley: Those early emotional connections to taste or smell become life-long and clearly they have with you.
Stone learned a lot about cooking from his grandmother Maude, who married his grandfather, Keith, on New Year's Day in 1944.
Stone: To me food's always been the most special thing in my life. It sounds silly to say that but I think the food is what creates the special time.
My mum used to play this game with us: best and worst. We had to say the best that had happened to you and why, and then the worst thing that happened to you and why. We'd go around the table and you'd get a real connection with everyone at it, and you'd understand where everyone's at in their life, what's upsetting them and what's making them happy.
It's those special moments, those special conversations, that make food so important.
Malley: I suspect, given your personality, your school reports would have said "challenging".
Stone: Yes, I was a pretty rambunctious young kid. Lots of energy and not the most focused from an academic perspective. I enjoyed my school days but I enjoyed being outside probably more than in the classroom, truthfully.
Malley: So was your mum or dad the one saying "No, you've got to buckle down more and you've got to go to university."
Stone: Mum was by far in charge of the discipline in my life. She was a strict mum, and my dad, he's an accountant.
Malley: He's a CPA more to the point.
Stone: He is a CPA, you're right. He's a financial controller actually. And he's a businessman, so of course he was very driven for me to end up in university, with a degree and probably working for a law firm, truthfully.
Malley: So you moved into restaurants. How did you deal with what seems to me to be a pretty ugly discipline in a kitchen? What goes on behind the kitchen door is not flexible, it's not relaxing. It's tough.
Stone: I was a little torn when I was 16, 17. I was playing footy and I was half decent. I was a decent leader but never had the skills to actually make it on the footy field. And then I found myself in a kitchen and, bizarrely, they require really similar skills.
So to be a good leader on the footy field is exactly how you have to be in the kitchen: loud voice, lead from the front, put your body on the line, get in early, train hard – all that sort of stuff. Somehow Aussie Rules made me a good chef.
I did my apprenticeship here in Melbourne and I loved it. I love the craziness of a kitchen and footy is the exact same thing. You try to explain to someone what it's like to play AFL [Australian Football League] and it's like, "You go out and you beat each other up, literally, and then you go for a beer together afterwards."
It's bizarre but it's the exact same thing in a kitchen – you scream and yell at each other and throw things around. Then as soon as it's all over the dust settles, you take your brigade out and have a beer with them, which is a lot of fun.
Malley: You had an interest in a fellow called Marco Pierre White. How did you pursue that?
Stone: Marco's book White Heat was the first book I ever read and if you flick through it, it's about this crazy man. It's about this drive to be the best at something and I can remember reading it and being turned on by it.
So, like many Aussies, I packed a backpack and went with my best mate – I think we saved A$10,000 through the course of our apprenticeship – we spent most of that in the first couple of months and London was a stop on that journey.
I had already dreamt of going to work for Marco so I literally got there, I had no money, I was staying on a mate's sofa (he was managing a pub). I just went one day, found Marco's restaurant and walked in the back door and asked for a job. It worked. He gave me a job that day.
"To be a good leader on the footy field is exactly how you have to be in the kitchen: loud voice, lead from the front, put your body on the line, get in early, train hard." – Curtis Stone
Malley: What did you say to him? You've walked in, there he is…
Stone: I literally walked in and asked if he was there. Suddenly the fridge door closed and there he was. He said "Who are you?" I told him who I was, that I wanted to work for him, that I was prepared to do it for nothing until I proved myself. I started work that afternoon.
You know there's that old saying, "if you don't ask, you don't get", and if you don't put yourself in the running for something then you have no chance of getting what you dream of.
[But] just because you ask doesn't mean you will get. You've got to be prepared for that door to be shut in your face. It's been shut in mine plenty of times, but that day it worked out for me.
You've got to be prepared to have a crack at it and that's what I did. I started as the guy in the corner picking the salad leaves and sweeping up the floor. It was a pretty tough kitchen to walk into. Not pretty tough, bloody tough. But I'd spent eight years with Marco and ended up the head chef of some of his different restaurants.
And there were many amazing experiences. We had a lorry and we'd drive the lorry to Paris. I'd go shopping at Rungis wholesale market [the world's largest fresh produce market, in greater Paris] and buy the foie gras and vegetables for the entire business.
I baked bread for different restaurants and created a few initiatives within Marco's little empire that he responded to, so I was lucky.
Malley: You now have a stellar career that you seem comfortable with these days, but it started by chance. It was all about a book.
Stone: Yes, I got a call from a publisher saying they were putting together a book called London on a Plate and the subtitle was "Recipes From London's Finest Chefs". I couldn't believe they were actually ringing to speak to me and when I found out the other chefs they were using, they were all guys I'd idolised and one day hoped to work for. So to be put in a book with them was pretty special.
When the book came out I did some press to promote it and a couple of things on the BBC. One was called Saturday Kitchen, it was around Australia Day and it was with [Australian chef] Ben O'Donoghue. They got the two of us doing hangover cures. I met Ben for the first time and we started a great friendship.
Somebody saw the segment and came up with the idea for [the television series] Surfing the Menu, which went on to be an incredible opportunity. As a guy who'd worked his life in the basement, when someone rings up and says, "We've got an idea for a show where you'd surf and eat and drink and see your country, and we'd pay you quite handsomely for it" – you don't have to think too long [about it].
Malley: You've started a restaurant in Los Angeles called Maude, after your grandmother. But the boutique nature of it, the 20-odd seats, no menus, it's counter to every business principle known to man isn't it?
Stone with his wife, Lindsay Price, and their son Hudson.
Stone: I always think there's an inch between someone that's a genius and someone that's insane. If this restaurant works then I'm a genius; if it doesn't, I'm insane. You're only ever an inch from it going one way or another.
Like everything we do, we're having fun with it and it comes from a place of doing something I want to do. If I told you how many times Las Vegas or Atlantic City or Singapore have called to say, "Come and do a restaurant, big licensing deal, put your name on it, you've only got to show up for four days a month" … [but] it's never interested me. I'm not saying one day it won't interest me but right now it doesn't.
Before I do any of that I want to open a beautiful little restaurant that I can cook at and cook at a really high level and do what I love. So that's why we're doing it.
But there's a second reason to calling the restaurant "Maude", and it is because she inspired me. She's this beautiful woman who I wanted to honour. She was also the only really religious one in our family and ever since she died we all got very lucky. We're sure she's up there so I know that she is going to look after me.
Malley: So what does the future hold? Where would you like to be in the next five to 10 years?
Stone: I want to be exactly where I am, which is having fun, enjoying what I'm doing. The person who runs my business, Jodie, she and I went to primary school together. Harry and I, my business partner in the products, we went to the same high school and been mates for years. Tiffany who runs my publicity, we've been mates for 10 years.
I like having great people around me. I feel really special and blessed to have been able to do that and we literally have fun together. So I want to continue doing that.
I'm also passionate about helping people. Whether that means helping them have a nice dinner or whether that means working a little more philanthropically, I want to do that, too. I think there are all sorts of interesting ways you get enjoyment and fulfilment out of your life.
Having the courage to fail
Alex Malley: I talk to a lot of colleagues and young people about having the courage to fail. If you've got the courage to fail, you're most unlikely to fail.
Curtis Stone: You've got to be OK with the rejection and be, 'Oh well, I had a crack at it, it didn't work out.' If you're OK with it, you're not scared to ask for it because you'll just keep on going back and back.
I also think putting a lot of irons in the fire, so to speak, means that even if you only get 50 per cent of them, there's still plenty. So I think you've just got to have a go at it.
I've always got out of bed excited to get to work, whether that's in the kitchen or going into a business meeting with a bunch of investors. If you really care about it then you love it, you don't work a day in your life and you're also not embarrassed of it. So whether you're standing up on a stage or addressing important folk, if you really believe in it then it's actually quite easy I think.
And this is what his dad says...
"His main trait is hard work. And his success hasn't changed him. When Curtis comes back to Melbourne he still catches up with his mates in the same way. I'm very proud of all my kids," says Stone's father, Bryan, a CPA who works as a CFO in Melbourne.
"And he's a good dad. He has him [Hudson] cooking with him in the kitchen and picking vegetables in the garden."
His favourite Curtis dish? "I'm a very plain eater, not as plain as I was! We went to Maude when it first opened and the food's just beautiful there."
And Curtis the accountant? "He's not bad, he's very astute. Much more astute than just being a chef."
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Well Hello there! No, I'm quite a 'Mrs' yet. (What's the feminist equivalent of a 'Mrs' to call the husband?) But the Bridezilla sewing is finally done. The final mile was excruciatingly slow even though it was simplest part of the Choli Blouse making. I must have left my Sewing Mojo with the relatives when I visited in July. Yes, I took my sewing on 'holiday' with me & promptly ignored all the relations who I meant to visit. The embroidery was finished at the eleventh hour just before we flew back to the UK. But making up the blouse took forever! Serves me right I guess for being rude to my hosts.
As for Blogging Mojo, that was lost long ago in the flurries of ideas & activities – too many & too fast to capture in words. So I will just outline the major incidents. Let's start with Bra-Gate.
I picked the outfit which was a copy. But while the skirt & shawl look exactly like the original, the blouse material doesn't. I wanted a blouse more like the original. So I decided to make it from scratch.
After searching all of London for supplies to little avail, & considering the amount of embroidery required, I had little faith I could manage this Plan A blouse in time. So I decided I need a Plan B.
Plan B was to make up the pre-embroidered blouse fabric from one of the other two outfits. But there was a snag.
This pre-embroidered blouse design has an very open back. I just could not find a bra that would stay hidden while still give me the gravity-defying lift I had hope to achieve. Let's look at the typical open back bra options shall we?
The standard choli solution. But with typical wearing ease built in, I don't see how this will add any bust enhancement support. At best it just preserves modesty…Unless the top is made skin-tight from stretchy material. But mine is normal woven silk with no stretch.
Again, doesn't seem like it'll give enough bust enhancement support. Plus I'd be worried about it coming unstuck. One too many things to worry about on one's big day!
This is the long add-on elastic that pulls down the back closure by extending your band so that it wraps around your front below the bust. Unfortunately these all seem to extend too far down (to the waist in the front at least) to work with cropped Choli Blouses.
Add below bust elastic band to help keep bra cups close to the body.
Unlike hip young Asians, I'm never going to wear totally backless or stringy back-closure cholis. I just need a band & straps that accommodate a low & open back cropped top.
Add boned side panels to help keep bra straps from slipping off the shoulder.
Not entirely sure this would actually work. But I think it looks more stable than having the elastic shoulder straps going around the arm joint & rejoining the cups at the side bottoms.
I lost my mind & set about implementing my wholly untested custom open-back bra idea. Keep in mind that I have not even learn to make a bog-standard bra & I have only a few weeks left (to make Plan A blouse + Plan B blouse + this untested bra solution). I went as far as ordering bra material from Canadian Bra-maker Supply (and paid dearly for it – thank you UK customs & postal system).
These choli blouse + lehenga skirt + dupatta shawl designs frequently come as unstitched blouse fabric + partially stitched skirt (with one seam left to do so that it can be sewn up to your size) + fully stitched shawl. Some shops offer stitching services for the blouse and the skirt. But of course I prefer to do the sewing myself to ensure a good fit & stitching quality that I'd be happy with. Even for those who don't sew, I'd recommend have them made up locally so the tailor can ensure a better fit. Us sewers know how the same measurements alone don't guarantee a good fit as the body shape may be different – eg wide all around at the bust or a big bust on a small frame with narrower than expected back! Plus if you're employing a local tailor you might be able to see example of their work before committing to their service, so you can be more confident the stitch quality is satisfactory.
The other reason to order unstitched version is that the items may arrive faster. If the shop have to stitch them up for you, not only do you have to factor in stitching time, at busy time of the year there may also be a queue. The seller will of course try to keep you sweet pre-sale, but after your order has been placed, you might have to chase them for status updates if your items is in the queue to be made up.
Having said that, not all designs lend themselves to this option. Sometimes the embellishment is very specific to the shape, size & fit of the garment. The pattern pieces need to be determined before the embellishment can be customised to fit. These probably will be the more expensive designs, like a few hundreds pounds to over £1000. All three that I ordered were just over £100 each.
As for fabric quality, it can be hard to be sure you're getting real natural fiber like silk. Sometimes the shops will label something as "Art", short for "artificial" or "faux". But in general there doesn't seem to be a clear distinction between type of fabric vs type of fibre used in the fabric. This applies not just to online shops. When I checked out a few brick-n-mortars in London, they also didn't know there are "silk georgette" vs "polyester georgette". The ones that make a point of sourcing natural fibre will probably shout about it & reflect that in their site menu categories. But in general, I think it's best to assume man-made fibre. Then you may be pleasantly surprised if it turns out to be natural fibre if that is important to you! I haven't done burn tests on the one I got. So I'm assuming man-made, especially with all the affordable bling!
I fell in love with these two Nakkashi designs and found Haya Creations which seems to sell the originals. Some shops show you photos of the original designs, but don't mention the designers. So there's no way to tell if they are selling the originals or copies, and more importantly, if copies whether they'll look anything like the originals. Haya Creations does mention the brand name & the brand style number. Thankfully what I received also has the brand's packaging.
Haya Creations doesn't seem to offer stitching service, which of course is fine by me.
I choose PayPal as payment option, but it isn't entirely integrated into the checkout process. I received an email after placing the order with a link to PayPal to complete the payment. So don't panic if this happen to you. Just wait for the email.
I ordered on a Friday (London time) & package was sent the following Tuesday. I would have received the package on the Thursday, but there was miscommunication about the delivery address. Haya called me long-distance (via WhatsAapp) the following Monday & gave me the tracking number & contact number for the courier (UK Mail). The package was delivered the following day. All in all it took just over a week from India to UK.
I was also expecting to have to pay import taxes, but I wasn't charged any for my total purchase of just over £200.
Now the Nakkashi designs themselves…I originally wanted to buy directly from Nakkashi's online shop. But their PayPal payment option wasn't set up properly. So I couldn't complete the purchase on their eshop.
I think both lehengas may be relatively "mass-produced" rather than made to order or made as an one-off as some Indian/Asian outfits can be. Maybe that's why both came with all three elements – blouse material, skirt, shawl – stitched / tacked together (see photos below). Perhaps this ensures each package has all the bits that its suppose to have. It is a bit of a hassle though to have to unpick these temporary seams before I can start sewing. I'd much rather the bits come as a loose kit – like bra kits do. But the designs are fabulous. For me to have to source all the bits & do the embellishment myself would be just as much hassle if not more.
In terms of quality, I'm assuming these are man-made fibers. Thankfully most of the fabrics don't feel very plasticky. And while the skirt & shawl stitchings are not perfect, they don't affect how the outfits look. So I'd say the marketing photos are fairly accurate. And given the affordable price I think they're good value for money.
The colour for this one turned out darker than in the photos, a brownish flesh tone rather than antique gold. But it's still nice. The only complaint I have is that the panel skirt doesn't have an extra lining to protect the sequin stitching, so one might snag on the sequin threads. The skirt has a layer of soft netting on top of the sequined chiffon fabric. So I'm assuming the top is meant to have the same order of layering. The shaped trims for the front & back neckline is basted to the soft netting, and the straight trims for the hems also basted to the edges of the blouse fabric. The marketing photo doesn't show the back, but the top has a deep U back that's not too open. So this one should be OK to wear with normal bras. The shawl is shimmery chiffon. The floral trims on the skirt & shawl are velvet with metallic embroidery. The stitching on this one is OK.
The colour on this one is spot on. The panel skirt embellishment is on the top layer soft netting. So the threads in the back is protected by the orange lining / underlay. The shawl is chiffon with sewn on sequins. Both again have velvet trims with floral metallic embroidery. The stitching on this one is slightly twisted in places, but isn't bad enough to show up in photos. So only perfectionist need to have these fixed! The blouse is dupion with sequin & metallic thread embroidery. Again, the marketing photos didn't show the back. I scratched my head a bit when I first saw the shape of the embroidery, trying to figure out how it's suppose to look. I think it's meant to have a triangular cutout with neckline & below bust centre back closure. The cutout looks fairly large. So it'll be hard to find a bra to wear with this if one needs proper bust support. Even the normal low-back bra extender won't help as the top is cropped, so the extender looping at waist level will peep out.
I fell in love with a Gajiwara design and found Samyakk which sells something similar. Again, unlike other shops which show you designer photos then sell you a copy that may or may not look like the original, Samyakk shows you exactly what you'll be getting. But you do have to look through all the photos on the product detail page, because sometimes the blouse fabric is not the same as the generic one shown on the mannequin. Where it's different they do include a photo of the actual blouse fabric. But because the image menu only shows 3 thumbnails at a time, you have to use the arrow links to browse through all the product photos.
Samyakk does offer blouse stitching service, but of course I didn't opt for this, so can't really comment on how this work or quality of this service.
I choose PayPal as payment option & this went through during check-out as expected.
I ordered on a Friday (London time) & package arrived the following Tuesday via DHL. All in all it took less than a week from India to UK. If you requested stitching service it'll take longer. Presumably how long will depend on how busy it gets – there may be a queue in addition to time required for stitching. So plan ahead!
I was again expecting to have to pay import taxes, but I wasn't charged any for my total purchase of just over £100.
This is similar to Gajiwara GS7384 lehenga choli (the first photo above), but with blouse fabric that's the same as the skirt rather than a different but coordinating design. Also the Samyakk skirt is a panel skirt that's fitted through the hip, whereas the Gajiwara skirt looks like it may be variations of the circle skirt, or at least panels that flares out higher up. I had wanted to get the Gajiwara version, but I couldn't find a shop that can confirm they sell the original. And when I asked Gajiwara on Facebook, their response came too late – after I've already placed an order with Samyakk. Also they wanted me to call them long-distance & I felt uncomfortable with that, especially since I'm not sure if they would speak fluent English.
So the Samyakk version…This seems to be an one-off design. It's no longer available on their eshop. The 3 elements are not stitched / tacked to each other. The stitching is better than the Nakkashi ones. But there are still stray threads, which is understandable on these easily snagged embroidered fabrics. Again I'm assuming man-made fibres. The blouse material is just a piece of metallic embroidered net + two-sided metallic fabric + metallic ribbon trim. The shawl is soft net with glued rhinestones with metallic ribbon & leave pattern trims. Now the skirt, this one is more elaborate than the Nakkashi skirts. At the hem it actually has 4 layers – metallic embroidered net + two-sided metallic fabric + stiff netting + lining. The netting is stitched to the lining which also has wide stiff fused interfacing. The whole thing is quite bulky & heavy! No wonder this outfit came in a big box and a clear zipper storage bag. The skirt also has the metallic ribbon & leave pattern trims. The hem on this & the shawl also have mini metallic ball edgings…which I've already stepped on & broke a few! I guess they must be gold painted plastic. Oops. The skirt comes with a waist tie in a lovely loosely knitted metallic cord with gold coloured (possibly plastic) latkan tassles.
I love all three garments / fabrics, despite the possibly man-made fibre content & less than perfect stitching. They're lovely designs. I did try sourcing material from scratch. But it was so much effort, time, cost, & I couldn't even find anything that looked similar never mind better quality fabric.
None of them when you break them down into their component fabrics & trims are too fancy to repurpose for less-than-special wear. So for a bit over £300, I'll definitely get more value out of these than from a white poofy number. And they all feel more special than just a "nice dress" for such a special occasion!
Half-circle lehenga skirt to preserve as large a piece as possible for future refashioning into a Michael Kor style gold lace skirt. Most lehenga seems to be umbrella/panel/gore skirts, but there were some mention of circle skirt variations as well.
Skirt hem border built up from skinner trims to help distribute the inevitable easing required to attach straight trims to curved hem. The home-sewn lehenga YouTube videos I saw seem to just pleat in the ease as they sew. If the trim is wide then the difference between top & bottom circumferences needed would be great & the pleating would be more visible. If the trim is narrower, then the difference between top & bottom would be smaller, so it might even be possible to ease the difference rather than pleat it.
Sewn on stones/sequins on dupatta shawl made from red silk geogette from the Stash rather than glued on stones. Again, YouTube videos seem to show a lot of gluing. Don't know if it's just the DIY crowd who rely on glue or if RTW also rely on glue, but I'd be worried about stones/sequins falling off.
Silk shantung or dupioni for skirt lining & as blouse base fabric.
Zardozi and stone/sequin embroidery to mimick the original blouse embellishment.
But fabric & trim sourcing tripped me up…because I was too stuck on that one particular design I showed you in the previous post. I found an online shop (Samyakk) that has a very similar design at a reasonable price. They also showed close-up photos of the fabrics & trims they used. I was in love.
I tried Google image search to help me source similar fabric. Google thought the fabric pictures were of dirt! LOL. Anyway, I couldn't find anything similar online. I've even checked Mood and B&J Fabrics. I also took the pictures with me to various London fabric shop areas – Walthamstow, Goldhawk, Wentworth/Bricklane, Green St, even Southall! No one has anything like it. (OK, I didn't bother with the Berwick Street fancy fabric shops because I knew their prices would be astronomical.) Funny thing is when I asked shop keepers if they have something similar, several said yes then proceeded to show me something that looked nothing like the photos I showed them. I didn't know whether to be mad or to laugh! Were they simply trying to shift whatever they had in the shop & lying through their teeth? Or did they have a different pair of cultural glasses on & really thought what they showed me is like what I'm looking for?
So MR & I have decided to finally tie the knot. Which means an opportunity to make or buy a preeeetty dress.
Traditional white wedding dresses was ruled out because I really would like something I can wear again. Or at least refashion into something more wearable afterward. And as white isn't my favourite colour, I don't think I'll get much mileage out of a white wedding dress. Instead I have fallen for fancy sarees from the Indian subcontinent. Originally I thought I'd just treat the saree I get as fabric & make a more western dress out of it. But the more bridal wear photos I looked at the more I'm tempted to stick to their original designs.
What I didn't realize was that their bridal wear differs depending on the region, with South India favouring the saree (draped fabric skirt/shawl + top + maybe petticoat), and West & East (North?) favouring a top (choli) + skirt (lehenga) + shawl (dupatta) combo. The latter seems to have the more intricate embroidery, but obviously would be harder to refashion. So I'm a bit torn.
The other problem is you set foot in those shops and your eyes glaze over, overwhelmed by the bling & variety. Where to even begin! I'm tempted to shop online, but am worried because most online shops are based in India, and not of that extraction I'm nervous whether cultural barriers might prevent a smooth online purchase. Things like whether what you see on the website will really be what you get – especially since I've been told that many items are hand-embellished, so difficult to reproduce exactly. Or how long it'll take – is it off the shelf or do someone have to make them to order. (I only have about 3 months to sort out my outfit.) And my preference would of course be to just get the fabric & sew up myself to ensure better fit. But of course some of the nicer embellishment has to follow the pattern shape – eg neckline. So I don't see how that would be possible if I get only the fabric.
Both of these – if the fabric quality is good enough – should be easily refashionable into casual luxe. They don't look too OTT for the minuscule registry wedding ceremony we're going to have.
I'm still debating on what my Plan B should be. One options is to try to get something from a brick & mortar shop, maybe from one of the shops on Green Street near Upton Park East London (- a must see if you like Indian/Asian Bling – apology to other nationals from the region for lumping you all under the "Indian" label for brevity – being another type of Asian myself I still can't get use to calling you guys "Asians" because that's what I'm used to calling Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, etc.). It's an intimidating options due to the sheer number of choices & possibly higher prices or possibly less reliable fit.
Another alternative is to pick a similarly simpler design online & try to source the material to make it myself. Judging by the proliferation of the same photos online + complaints against stores, seems like maybe many shop are selling imitations & not the originals anyway. I think this one might be doable if I can source similar fabric & borders.
There were a couple of fabric / trim shops on Green Street carrying bling fabrics /trims presumably for exactly such purpose. Barbara, a London-based sewing friend, also found some in Walthamstow.
Amazing! And nerve-wrecking to watch how the embellisher maneuver the cord back & forth under the high-speed couching machine. Hope no fingers were hurt in its making. It's easy to criticize poor quality end products. But given the work pressure many of these workers are under, I think they've done pretty well. Certainly much better than I could have done under the same pressure.
Well hello there! Long time no see. Hope you are all well.
I disappeared for a while because my Mom was diagnosed with aggressive late stage stomach cancer 🙁 Her whole stomach is now removed & she will need chemo going forward. I've been & will be on filial duty for a while. Unfortunately she's on the other side of the world. So not much sewing is going to get done rest of this year. But here is one last project I managed to finish while my siblings take over for a couple of weeks.
This project was part of my Fix/Finish It June-July sewing plan. I had already finished all the machine work by the time I learnt about my Mom's illness. I did consider taking the hand sewing with me. But it was just as well I didn't, since trying to understand & speak Chinese all day long left me unfit to do anything else.
To recap, this started out as the muslin for my self-drafted Tunic Block, which is essentially an experiment in going dartless with my Top Block.
Now the Tunic is another classic that deserves a place in almost everyone's wardrobe. I like the vaguely ethnic variety. My starting inspiration for turning this muslin into a tunic was Burda 2013-02-121 Flared Tunic. What would you call this – Moroccan?
I also collected a bunch of other examples – both what I don't like & what I do like. Sometimes it's useful to compare the two to figure out what makes or breaks a design.
Mine ends up being a mishmash of the Burda original and the swirly soutache designs. The design details were made up as I went along, testing different ribbons & soutache/Russia Braid arrangements.
Enlarged neckline: CB 0″ lower – Sides 1″ wider – CF 2″ lower.
Lengths used: Bodice bum length, Sleeves wrist length.
Widen sleeve hems by 7″ total, tapering to nothing at mid upper arm.
Added CF slit: Measured same 2-1/2″ up from my Block's waistline as on Burda 2013-02-121 for bottom of slit.
Added side seam slits: Measured same 7″ up from hem as on Burda 2013-02-121 for top of slits.
Woven interfacing for front slit facing, self-fabric for neckline bias binding/facing.
Berisford Polyester Grosgrain Ribbon 16mm & 6mm in Cream (9627) from eBay styler70.
Viscose Russia Braid/Soutache Cord 3mm in Light Beige from eBay aggaeggart.
My fabric was too heavy to make spaghetti button loops. So I used the soutache cord for the loops & hand-sewn this along with the flat buttons to the inside of the CF slits after rest of the tunic was done.
CF ribbon trims were stitched before the neckline seam so that the ends of the ribbons would be hidden in the neckline seam.
Sleeve & bodice hem trims were stitched before the hems were turn inside, again for a tidier inside finish.
I'm fairly happy with the result though. Now I just need some bottoms to go with the tunic. Maybe it's time to venture into trousers/pants making? OK, maybe next year. Mom comes first.


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Why the unemployment rate will fall
By Tami Luhby @CNNMoney June 1, 2012: 4:26 PM ET
The unemployment rate is likely to fall as people lose their jobless benefits.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The unemployment rate could fall in coming months, but don't get too excited.
It won't necessarily be a sign the job market is improving.
More than a half million long-term unemployed people are losing their federal extended unemployment benefits. And when the checks stop coming, one of two things are likely to occur: They'll take any job they can get to stay afloat financially or they'll drop out of the labor force completely.
Either way, they won't be counted as unemployed anymore.
The federal extended benefits program has provided the jobless with up to 20 weeks of unemployment checks after they've run through their state and their federal emergency benefits, which together last up to 79 weeks.
But the extended benefits program is expiring throughout the country as the economy improves. To be eligible for these payments, a state must show that its unemployment rate is at least 10% higher than it was in at least one of the past three years. And state unemployment rates have been dropping as the jobless find new positions or exit the workforce.
Class of 2012: How we got our jobs after college!
More than 400,000 people have already lost these extended benefits, while more than 115,000 more will see their payments disappear over the summer. These folks join many others who simply exhaust their unemployment insurance.
Some of those who lose benefits will continue to look for jobs and be included in the unemployment rate.
But others won't have the luxury of being choosy. They'll take whatever they can get, which will put them in the "employed" category.
"It will encourage more people to take jobs that may not pay as much," said Lynn Reaser, chief economist with the Fermanian Business & Economic Institute at Point Loma Nazarene University. "They won't wait as long to accept a job."
On the flip side, others will just drop out of workforce entirely. Some may go back to school, while some will retire earlier than planned.
And still others may just stop looking for work, so they won't be included in the unemployment rate. To be eligible for jobless insurance, you must be actively searching for a job, a task they won't have to continue if their benefits expire.
The unemployment rate could drop by as much as half a percent over the next year due to the loss of these benefits, said Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics.
He thinks the cessation will force more younger workers to take available jobs, which is a good thing.
"It would be nice if the unemployment rate were falling because of straight-up job creation," he said. "But at this point, it will be more of a plus than a negative."
0:00 /2:02Class of 2012: The easy part is over
The unemployment rate has already lost some of its usefulness as a measure of job market health. It held steady at around 9% for most of 2011, before dropping to 8.1% in April. It notched up to 8.2% last month.
But some of that improvement is due to a shrinking labor force. In April, only 63.6% of Americans over age 16 participated in the labor force, the lowest rate since 1981.
First Published: June 1, 2012: 3:56 PM ET
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Consumer confidence Aug 28
GDP Aug 29
Manufacturing (ISM) Sept 4
Jobs Sept 7
Inflation (CPI) Sept 14
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo Won't Attend Inauguration; "My Place Is In New York" Given Protest Risk At State Capitol
Roku Hits 51.2 Million Active Accounts, With Streaming Hours Surging 55% In 2020
Roku reached 51.2 million active accounts by the end of a streaming-besotted 2020, rising from 36.9 million by the end of 2019 and 13.4 million in 2016.
Describing the global numbers as "preliminary estimated data," the tech firm said it facilitated 17 billion streaming hours in the fourth quarter and 58.7 billion hours in 2020. Those levels represent a 55% year-over-year surge for both the quarter and the full year.
Last November, Roku reported having 46 million active accounts at the end of the third quarter. The company has risen to become, along with Amazon, the major gatekeeper of streaming in the U.S. Amazon said last month it had reached 50 million active users on its Fire TV streaming platform.
The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated an already pronounced consumer shift toward streaming. Several major new services also hit the market in 2020, including HBO Max and Peacock, with Disney+ and Apple TV+ also expanding after launching late in 2019. In addition to its line of connected-device hardware, Roku has also integrated its interface into smart TVs, gaining a presence in more than one in three sets in the U.S.
"I'm excited that more than 50 million households now turn to Roku for their TV viewing," CEO Anthony Wood said. "The world is moving to streaming and we look forward to continuing to help viewers, advertisers, content publishers, and TV manufacturers succeed in the Streaming Decade."
Roku also released some insights about how its platform was used in 2020. Adam Sandler was the most searched person of the year, with the holiday movie staple Elf the No. 1 search term for both November and December.
The Roku Channel, the company's collection of free and subscription services, reached households with an estimated 61.8 million people, double the level of a year ago. In December, Ernest Saves Christmas was the most-viewed free title and The Spanish Princess came out on top among subscription titles.
A Nationwide Mask Mandate Could Add $1 Trillion To The US GDP, According To UCLA Analysis
Disneyland Paris Reopening Delayed Until April, Possibly Longer


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WORLD Latin America braces for outbreak peak
Latin America braces for outbreak peak
13:34, May 14, 2020
Brazilian nurses honor health workers who have died of the COVID-19, during a demonstration in Brasilia, on May 12, 2020. (Photo: Agencies)
SAO PAULO-Latin America is bracing for the peak of the coronavirus pandemic expected this month with stricter social distancing rules and beefed-up healthcare systems.
Brazil, the Latin American country hit hardest in the outbreak, appears to be quickly becoming a new global flashpoint as it registered its most COVID-19 deaths for a single day on Tuesday.
The 881 new deaths took the toll to 12,400 in the country, with 177,589 confirmed cases.
Experts say under-testing means the real numbers in Brazil are probably far higher, as the country only tested people who end up in hospital, said Domingo Alves, one of the authors of a study published last week that estimated the real number of infections in the country was 15 times higher than the official figure.
In Chile, the health ministry on Tuesday reported 1,658 new cases and 12 more deaths, taking the total counts to 31,721 and 335, respectively.
The Chilean government has expanded its lockdown measures to 30 more communities, mainly in the capital Santiago and the metropolitan area, to combat the upcoming peak of the pandemic.
The defense ministry also warned that the mandatory social distancing measures will be enforced by the police and military, and harsher penalties will be handed out to those who violate the regulations.
Cuba on Tuesday reported 21 new cases, taking its total to 1,804 with 78 deaths, placing the island's mortality rate at 4.3 percent.
With the mosquito-borne disease dengue expected in the coming months, the island country may have to grapple with "two potentially very powerful enemies", state media Granma has said.
In Mexico, the top advisory body on the pandemic says it has issued guidelines that would allow for the reopening of construction, mining, and car and truck manufacturing, despite seeing 353 deaths in its most lethal day yet in the outbreak.
Essential activities
Mexico's General Health Council said that following a Tuesday meeting it had decided to classify those industries as "essential activities" that are allowed to continue working during a lockdown aimed at fighting the spread of the virus.
The council did not set a timeline for when the reopening would begin. But it said that by June 1, a stoplight system should be in place to tell communities what activities are allowed.
The council also said that restrictions on schools and businesses should be lifted in townships that have no cases of COVID-19 and whose neighboring townships also have no cases. As of Tuesday, Mexico had 38,324 confirmed coronavirus cases and 3,926 deaths.


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It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.
Walt Kelly, cartoonist
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.
Penelope Lively, author
Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
Tennessee Williams, dramatist
If we take as given that critical infrastructures are vulnerable to a cyber terrorist attack, then the question becomes whether there are actors with the capability and motivation to carry out such an operation.
Dorothy Denning, public servant
Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?
Chester W. Nimitz, soldier
The president said that this is not removing a mole. You know, removing a mole, that's an outpatient sort of an operation. This was removing a cancer, removing a cancer takes more time.
Gordon England, businessman
No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.
Walter Lang, director
I think Operation Smile is in more than 22 countries, mostly Third World. It just happened that my schedule opened up at the time they were heading to Vietnam.
Roma Downey, actress
There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact they're not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the child's family and often the village.
Jessica Simpson is the youth ambassador for Operation Smile, and an episode of The Apprentice featured a team managing a charity concert she put on. Donald Trump came on stage and pledged a donation.
You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.
John Abizaid, soldier
My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.
Alvin Adams, businessman
We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.
David Hackworth, soldier
Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.
William Kirby, scientist
On December 18, 1940, Hitler signed Directive Number 21, better known as Operation Barbarossa.
Leopold Trepper, celebrity
Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air.
Brit Hume, journalist
The month of January, we were number one. Now, this is something we're proud of, because we recognize we're up against a formidable operation there at CNN.
We are also assisting the refugees who have fled across the border to Chad. As many of them have been subject to attacks by militia crossing from Sudan, UNHCR is mounting a major logistical operation to establish camps and transfer refugees away from the border zone.
Jan Egeland, public servant
I went in for an operation to remove a brain tumor.
Lou Gramm, musician
Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
Bob Woodward, journalist
Able Danger was a top-secret military planning operation, established in '99 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to identify cells of al-Qaida worldwide and to take out al Qaida terrorists. They identified five cells worldwide, one of them in Brooklyn.
Curt Weldon, politician
You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers.
John H. Reagan, politician
You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation.
Andy Taylor, musician
One of the commitments that I personally have now is to a diverse approach to buying businesses, and the operation of those businesses.
Julius Erving, athlete
I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the Internet address space, domain names and Internet protocol conventions essential to the use and operation of the Internet.
Jon Postel, scientist
Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests.
Richard Ben-Veniste, lawyer
The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.
John Cage, composer
As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.
Allen West, politician
Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation.
Delta Goodrem, actress
Love is co-operation rather than competition.
Wayne Dyer, psychologist
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
Dag Hammarskjold, diplomat
Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.
William Godwin, writer
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation.
Billy West, actor
Operation Northern Star with Canada has made significant progress in battling meth from the north, and we are engaged in numerous training opportunities in Mexico to help curb the problem from the south.
Greg Walden, politician
I said that America's role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.
Barack Obama, president
We've protected thousands of people in Libya; we have not seen a single U.S. casualty; there's no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope.
The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrorists come at us and strike us here on our home territory. And it's a global operation. It doesn't know national boundaries or national borders.
Dick Cheney, vice president
Google's thing is not advertising because it's not a romanticizing operation. It doesn't involve expression. It's a link. What they're doing is selling access.
Jaron Lanier, artist
I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
Walter Isaacson, writer
When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.
Henny Youngman, comedian
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.
David Mamet, dramatist
My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn't afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays.
Joey Bishop, entertainer
We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over.
Jay Alan Sekulow, lawyer
I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.
Syd Barrett, musician
The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.
Hans-Georg Gadamer, philosopher
Most of these experiments required the reduction of the cosmic ray muon flux in order to be successful, and the group necessarily became expert in the operation of deep underground laboratories.
Frederick Reines, physicist
It was not the president's responsibility to run a law enforcement operation. It was ours.
Janet Reno, public servant
Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator.
Leonard Woodcock, activist
Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all.
Rube Goldberg, cartoonist
The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there was no more a peacekeeping operation because there was no peace.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, public servant
My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.
David Bohm, scientist
Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.
New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.
Sarah Palin, politician
We are now after 7 months operation making money here.
Henry Wells, businessman
The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular.
More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation... and we can't waste time and resources if there is a chance the caretakers aren't up for an awesome responsibility.
Leonard Bailey, inventor
Let me be clear, Mr. President, mistakes have been made in Iraq. And this operation has been far from perfect as evidenced by the fact that Zarqawi and other terrorists continue to wreak havoc throughout Iraq.
Elizabeth Dole, politician
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