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Ignored by Family, Dana Adamcova US Friends Start GoFundMe Campaign
September 25, 2021 - With no memory, money or family willing to help, friends in California have set up a Dana Adamcova GoFundMe campaign to help the 'mystery woman on Krk.'
It is certainly one of the most curious stories we have covered in the six years of Total Croatia News, and few stories in Croatia have attracted such global attention.
But now that the identity of the mystery woman of Krk has been solved, some 10 days after she was rescued bloody, dehydrated and disorientated from a remote part of the island of Krk - with no memory of who she was or how she got there - most of the world has moved on from the story, with curiousity satisfied.
The fact remains, however, that there is a 57-year-old woman from Slovakia in a hospital in Rijeka, with no memory of who she is, and with no money to her name. Croatian media managed to speak to her family who have said that they will not come for her. According to an interview on TCN yesterday with the journalist (Laura Siprak from 24Sata) who spoke to one of her sisters, they were not on good terms, and they last spoke over 3 months ago, when Dana said she was moving to Spain.
But there are friends from her past life who do care, and who have been very helpful in both identifying Dana, and providing photos and information about her.
Nina Smidt in Los Angeles is one such person, and she contacted TCN a few days ago with lots of information which indicated that Dana was the missing woman. Coupled with other information we received in the TCN inbox, it allowed us to identify her with certainty 10 days after she was rescued. Several hours later, the Croatian police confirmed that the identity was that of a 57-year-old woman from Slovakia. They had received the same information but from a different source.
Nina has been fielding lots of calls from journalists, as well as many people who want to help. Hearing that there is little to no help from Dana's family, she has decided to set up a GoFundMe campaign to raise some money for Dana to get herself back on her feet. Nina and her friend Tyler Madsen knew Daniela back in 2015 in Los Angeles, where they worked together, with Tyler helping Dana with accommodation as she was going through a tough time. Later in 2015, they took Dana to the airport to start a new life in Ireland. And that was the last she heard of her until she saw her photo as the mystery woman in Croatia with no memory.
Nina and Tyler explained to TCN why they had decided to set up a GoFundMe campaign for Dana:
"We felt a moral responsibility to support Daniela during this difficult time and to provide a call to action for the next part of this mission, which is getting Daniella the financial assistance she so desperately needs. She is facing unfathomable challenges ahead and is in need of a helping hand.
"The concern from compassionate individuals across the globe, the incredible efforts of the media to tell her story, and the understanding that after the rescue comes the recovery is what inspired us to mobilize this fundraiser."
The campaign has just gone live, and you can read the whole story - and/or donate - on this link. The target set is US$15,000.
You can follow TCN updates to this story here.


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The play begins with an invocation to lord Ganesha. Then the Brahmins of Pune introduce themselves and we can see the morally corrupt state of affairs in Pune. Nana Phadnavis who is the Diwan (Chief Secretary) of Pune is also corrupt and visits the lavani dancer. Ghashiram is working with the lavani dancer. Ghashiram being a Brahmin goes to collect alms at the Peshwa's festival the next day. However he is ill-treated there and is charged with pick-pocketing and imprisoned for the offence. He then decides to take revenge. Ghashiram barters his own daughter to get the post of Kotwal (police chief) of Pune from Nana. Having got the post he begins to enforce strict rules in the city. He starts asking for permits for everything and starts throwing people in jail for the smallest offences. In the mean time, Ghashiram's daughter is impregnated by Nana, and dies during childbirth. The situation goes out of hand when a few people in the jail die out of suffocation. The Brahmins then complain to the Peshwa. The Peshwa summons Nana who orders Ghashiram to be killed in the most derogatory way possible.


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Pieni's highlights of 2019
Posted in Editorial/Opinionated with tags 2019 best of, Crashdïet, D.A.D., Equaleft, highlights, Hills Have Eyes, Hollywood Undead, In Flames, Infraktor, KISS, Overkill, Ozzy, Rammstein, Samael, Sister, Soilwork, The 69 Eyes, top choices, W.A.S.P. on 31st December 2019 by Pieni
2019 was a bumpy ride and despite attending fewer shows and writing less for Valkyrian Music, this past year still had plenty of memorable moments. Here's my favorite live ones:
Samael at Laurus Nobilis Music Famalicão (Louro)
Infraktor at Vagos Metal Fest (Vagos)
Equaleft at Hard Club (Porto)
D.A.D. at Hard Club (Porto)
Overkill at Hard Club (Porto)
"Rust" by CrashDïet
"We Defy" by Equaleft
"Verkligheten" by Soilwork
"West End" by The 69 Eyes
"I, The Mask" by In Flames
Thank you Ozzy for filming the kind of music video I like the most – with an actual story to it. In the absence of that, something amusing and/or featuring visual impact will do:
"Under The Graveyard" by Ozzy Osbourne
"Idiots" by CrashDïet
"Deutschland" by Rammstein
"Trve As Fvck" by Hills Have Eyes
"Already Dead" by Hollywood Undead
I have a handful of expectations for 2020 but, at the moment, I believe these are the ones I'm most eager about:
The Hills Have Eyes new album and its release show (no date announced yet but hopefully it won't be postponed much longer).
The Hollywood Undead new album, "New Empire, Vol. 1", and their gig in Madrid which I'll be attending in a couple of months.
W.A.S.P. will embark on a tour where they'll only play songs out of their first four albums. Already got my ticket for the Barcelona show.
Sister posted something on their Facebook page which included a #newalbum, so I'm looking forward to that as well.
Seems like Kiss are saying goodbye to the stages. Whether this is indeed their last tour or not, I won't miss it.
Renata "Pieni" Lino
Posted in Editorial/Opinionated, Uncategorized with tags 2016 best of, Betraying the Martyrs, Dark Tranquillity, Equaleft, Five Finger Death Punch, Guns N' Roses, highlights, Hills Have Eyes, Infraktor, Moonspell, More Than A Thousand, Pain, Ricky Warwick, Satan Takes A Holiday, Sister, Sonic Syndicate, Testament on 31st December 2016 by Pieni
This year it was really REALLY tough to choose just 5 shows (Sam Alone, The Mission and Heavenwood should also be there somewhere):
Hills Have Eyes at Canecas Bar (Paços de Ferreira)
Sonic Syndicate at Göta Källare (Stockholm)
Moonspell at Pavilhão Multiusos (Guimarães)
More Than A Thousand at Time Out Market (Lisboa)
Testament at Coliseu (Porto)
The albums were easier:
"Stand Up, Forward, March!" by Sister
"Confessions" by Sonic Syndicate
"Atoma" by Dark Tranquillity
"When Patsy Cline Was Crazy…" by Ricky Warwick
"Brotherhood Of The Snake" by Testament
My video top-5 is "lighter" than last year's: two emotional, one a kind of tribute, and two funny as hell:
"The Beat" by Satan Takes A Holiday
"Make It Right" by Hills Have Eyes
"I Apologize" by Five Finger Death Punch
"The Great Disillusion" by Betraying The Martyrs
"Call Me" by Pain
Anticipations/expectations for 2017:
Infraktor – a "gourmet thrash metal" all-star project who I'm proud of being close to, hence keeping tabs on. Let's see how others will receive them.
Hills Have Eyes – saw some new pictures of the boys in the studio. Needless to say I'm thrilled.
Equaleft – yep, something's still brewing…
Five Finger Death Punch – "Got Your Six" isn't my favorite 5FDP album but it's still good enough. Let's see if what they're up to now pleases me more.
Guns N' Roses – this is a live expectation. I'm having totally mixed feelings about this reunion. Not even sure if I'll go to the Portugal show, so I'm also expectant on what my final decision will be…
Happy New Year peeps!
Sister – Stand Up, Forward, March!
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Metal, Metal Blade Records, Rock, Sister, sleaze, Stand Up Forward March on 26th December 2016 by Pieni
"Stand Up, Forward, March!"
Via Metal Blade Records
Sister's debut "Hated" is a sleaze punk treat. Then for their sophomore "Disguised Vultures" they went heavier and wilder. And now with "Stand Up, Forward, March!", they stood somewhere in-between, glamming up the sleaze and the wild.
I don't think it's a coincidence that this happened after Martin Sweet joined the ranks – after all, he's responsible for all those juicy guitars in Crashdïet. But I don't want to give him all the credit as the rest of the band has proven their writing skills aren't raw. Still, once you hear the guitar solos in songs such as "Trail Of Destruction", "Carry On" or "Endangered Species", you sense a refinement which you can't help but associate with Sweet's work.
The album kicks off with the fiery "Destination Dust" and wraps it up with the joyful "Piece Of Shame" ("I'm too perfect to die" is a hell of a chorus to be sung at any party) – pretty much Sister style. But they also took a few new things and used them in their own way, like the hints of blues they've twisted for "Unbeliever", the ritualistic chants and melancholy that "Let It Bleed" features, or the somewhat old school goth outline melody – as in The Sisters Of Mercy and such – upon which "Liberation Song" was built. And in the end, it all sounded like Sister just the same.
Sister's best album so far? Probably. Best album of 2016 on my personal list? Definitely!
Sister w/ Killus – Barcelona, Spain
Posted in Gig, Live with tags Barcelona, disguised vultures european tour, killus, kivents, rocksound, Sister on 10th March 2015 by Pieni
Killus, Sister
Sala Rocksound, Barcelona (ES)
Promoted by Kivents
After releasing "Disguised Vultures" early last year, Sister toured around in support of other bands. Now the vultures decided it was time to fly as headliners and I caught up with them in Barcelona.
Killus were their special guests, a Spanish industrial metal band that I had never heard of before. Damn, what I'd been missing! Those guys are freaking good! They've been around as long as Sister have (since 2005) but have a bigger discography (four albums already). Their latest effort, "Feel The Monster", was released in May 2013, and Killus' choice to focus on it was only natural. Still they showed us a little bit of all previous albums. "Dead Revolution", from the debut "God Bless Us", was even given that special task of ending the show. And what a show that was. Rocksound's stage is small but they made it look huge with their restless stage attitude – which included synched jumps from guitarist Ruk and bass player Premutoxx. And yes, the photographer in me just fell in love with the crazed faces soaked in makeup, the poses in such typical industrial garments… but the music lover in me was also having a blast. It's really a shame that they only supported Sister on the Spanish dates, as they deserved the full pack of dates. (5/5)
https://www.facebook.com/Killusband
It was precisely in Spain, although in Madrid, that I've heard/seen Sister for the first time. They blew me away then, and they still blow me away now, with their mix of dark punk and dirty sleaze.
With only two albums out (and a couple of Eps, although only "Deadboys Making Noise" seems to count, given the way-too-glam nature of the very first one, "Shock Rock Party Pop" ), the setlist was more balanced than Killus' when it comes to new and old stuff. Well, less new – "Hated" was released in the Summer of 2011, so it's not exactly old.
One by one, the boys got on stage. Singer Jamie was the last, wearing a mask like I saw him do in London last year – meaning that "My Enemy" would kick off the show. "Disguised Vultures" would follow suit, then "Bullshit & Backstabbing"… killer song after killer song! But a good rock'n'roll band always has its ballads and I was more than happy when Sister played both of theirs – "Would You Love A Creature" and "Naked". With only Tim on an acoustic guitar and Jamie on vocals, "Would You Love A Creature" sounded better somehow. Nothing to do with the lack of the piano keys from the studio version, as I actually find those lovely. It was really Jamie's voice that sounded steadier and cleaner.
At some point, Jamie left the stage and bass player Rikki approached the mike, asking us if we liked Sepultura. They would then start playing "Refuse/Resist" and for a moment I thought Rikki would sing it too. But we weren't that lucky – it was just a brief instrumental moment.
After going back to the aforementioned "Deadboys Making Noise" EP through "Crash Boom Bang" (no, not a Roxette cover, even though that would be cool som fan), they finished the gig with "Please Kill Me". I was a bit sad that they only played for an hour, but I assure you every minute was worth it. And given the fiery reaction of the crowd, I believe I speak for everyone who was there.
The tour resumes tomorrow, in the UK, and goes on until the 21st, in Germany. If you have the opportunity to see them, don't waste it. You won't be sorry. (5/5)
https://www.facebook.com/sisterband
Text & photos by Renata "Pieni" Lino
Sister added more dates to European headlining tour
Posted in News with tags Disguised Vultures, European tour, Metal, rock'n'roll, Sister, sleaze punk, Vultures Across Europe on 8th January 2015 by Pieni
Having recently toured through Europe as a support act for Skid Row, Swedish Sister announced recently a second round, this time as headliners. Today were added four other shows and there's the promise of more to come. Here are the dates of Vultures Across Europe so far (click image for larger resolution):
"This is the first European headline tour we do in a while after heavily touring Europe as a support to a lot of great bands the last 3-4 years. We're really looking forward to playing whole sets every night and going through all the material we have on our three releases from the EP "Deadboys Making Noise" to the latest album "Disguised Vultures". Will be killer nights for sure! See you out there!"
On their facebook page, the band has asked what songs the fans would like to hear on this tour, so if you're one of them, make sure to make your opinion heard!
http://www.sisterofficial.com/
Last October, in London, was like this:
Check out also their latest official video, for the track "Slay Yourself":
Skid Row to tour the UK once again
Posted in News with tags Rock, Sister, Skid Row, The Last Vegas, UK Tour on 1st July 2014 by Pieni
Rock legends Skid Row will tour the UK again, after the successful visit last year, co-headlining with Ugly Kid Joe (read our report on the sold-out gig in London HERE). This time they're single-headlining, but bring along The Last Vegas and Sister. Dates and locations as follows:
Fri 17 Oct – Bristol, Bierkeller
Sat 18 Oct – Cambridge, The Junction
Sun 19 Oct – Hull, The Well
Mon 20 Oct – Edinburgh, Liquid Room
Wed 22 Oct – Bournemouth, Old Fire Station
Thu 23 Oct – Stourbridge, River Rooms
Fri 24 Oct – Wakefield, Warehouse 23
Sat 25 Oct – Buckley, Tivoli
Sun 26 Oct – Nuneaton, Queens Hall
Tue 28 Oct – London, Underworld
The Last Vegas
Sister stream new track Naked
Posted in News with tags 27th January, Disguised Vultures, Martin Sweet, Metal Blade Records, revolver magazine, Sick, Sister on 9th January 2014 by Nico Davidson
Swedish sleaze punks Sister have begun streaming their new single Naked via Revolver Magazine. The song is taken from the band's upcoming album Disgusted Vultures, which will be released through Metal Blade Records on 27th January.
Disguised Vultures was recorded with Martin Sweet and Linus Nirbrant. Fans can listen to the first single, Sick, watch videos, and pre-order Disguised Vultures at the band's Metal Blade landing page. The album will be available on CD, LP (Europe only), and digitally worldwide. The band comments:
Naked is a slow and powerful song that was written during some dark times. It reflects the feeling of being exposed and how life sometimes can be cruel to you. Naked is kind of different from all the other singles we've released and it feels like the right time for doing something like that. This album will give you even more suprises further on!
Sister online:
http://sisterofficial.com
http://facebook.com/sisterband
http://twitter.com/sister_official
http://youtube.com/sisterofficial
Sister to release new 7″ single "Sick"
Posted in News with tags For Those About To Rot, Metal Blade Records, Punk, Sick, Sister, sleaze, The Defiled, Wednesday 13 on 19th October 2013 by Pieni
In anticipation of their long awaited second album – scheduled for release in early 2014 – sleaze/punk/metal act Sister will release a new single on October 28th. "Sick" will be available digitally, but also in a 7″ vinyl version, limited to 500 copies, with an exclusive cover of Roky Erickson's "Two Headed Dog" as B-side.
This single comes out just before the band goes on tour across Europe, once again supporting Wednesday 13. Also The Defiled has been recently added to this For Those About To Rot tour:
In addition to the dates on the flyer above, Sister will play a headlining show in London, at The Garage, on November 30th.
http://www.sisteronline.net
http://www.facebook.com/sisterband
http://www.youtube.com/sisterofficial
http://www.twitter.com/sister_official
Sister annoucned additional UK shows, plus appearance at Hard Rock Hell VII
Posted in News with tags Airbourne, Black Star Riders, Butlin's Pwllheli, Hard Rock Hell, hated (album), London, Michael Monroe, November, Punk Rock, Sister, Wednesday 13 on 12th July 2013 by Nico Davidson
Swedish sleaze punks Sister have announced two additional shows at the end of their European tour with Wednesday 13 in November. The Swedish outfit will play an intimate London headline show at Upstairs at The Garage on 30th November. Tickets are available from this location.
After the amount of success the band had in March, Sister are more than eager to return. The band stated:
In November it's time for the UK again. The tour last March with our new friends in Wednesday 13 was a truly great time and the crowds really made a big impact on us. It was two memorable weeks for sure so it's awesome that we got the opportunity to return once again this year!
See ya in November! /SISTER
Sister will also make an appearance at Hard Rock Hell VII which takes place at Hafan Y Mor in Pwllheli between 28th November and 1st December. They'll join Black Star Riders, Airbourne, Nazarath, Michael Monroe and a host of others. More info and tickets here at this location.
BONAFIDE – Messin' In Wales: Live At Hard Rock Hell 2012 DVD Coming In July; To Tour With THE QUIREBOYS (bravewords.com)
Airbourne Announce Headline Shows This Winter (wyrdwaysnews.wordpress.com)
Hard Rock Hell presents AOR 2 (wyrdwaysnews.wordpress.com)
GOLD announce first UK show (wyrdwaysnews.wordpress.com)
Airbourne announce UK winter tour (cvfmrock.wordpress.com)
GWAR Set To Rock York
Posted in News with tags Duchess, GWAR, Sister, Uriah Heep, Viking Skull, York, Yorkshire on 22nd October 2011 by Nico Davidson
The city of York is certainly one of the most cultural and historic cities within Yorkshire, as well as the north of England. Being home to several different invaders and a long legacy of history, York is slowly becoming a hot spot for the British metal scene with bands such as Sylosis, Soulfly and Uriah Heep already having played gigs there.
Now thrash metal outfit GWAR are set to play The Duchess in York as part of their UK tour. Joining them will be British metallers Viking Skull and Swedish punk rockers Sister! Several residents of York and the surrounding areas have already expressed their excitement about this. Tickets are only a mere £13 in advance or £15 on the door. The event is due to take place 19th January 2012.
More info on the event (and other shows happening at The Duchess) can be found on The Duchess' website: http://theduchessyork.co.uk/
Sister – Hated [2011]
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Album, Anti-Nowhere League, Hated, Metal Blade Records, Music, Punk Rock, Rock, Sister, Sweden, UK Subs on 13th June 2011 by Nico Davidson
Band: Sister
Album: Hated
Genre: Punk Rock
Sweden is known, musically, for two things: Pop and death metal. However, there is a strong punk rock scene growing in the depths of Sweden and "Sister" are one of the pioneers, with their recent release "Hated".
The short-lived "Radioactive Misery" is the first track of the album, composed of a distorted guitar section and various sound effects. "Body Blow" comes next, beginning with a violent riff. The vocals are strong and bloodthirsty, adding that hint of raw energy to the track. The drum work is acute and the riffs are sheer brilliance. The third track "Bullshit & Backstabbing", begins in a similar to the previous track with a rough and raw riff, though the intro riff is more heavier and aggressive – The way punk rock should be. The vocals keep the track interesting, whilst the riffs are most impressive.
The title track, "Hated", blasts its way next with a ferocious intro. The track seems lighter compared to the previous tracks, which is a little bit disappointing, though the drums are well-played and in time. The guitar solo, however, makes up for the lightness of the track. "Motherfuckers (Like You)" begins with a merciless riff, which increases in tempo and aggression with the introduction of the drums. The vocals sound like a rough form of pop-punk vocals, which takes away the rough energy of the track slightly. Next is "Werewolves On Blackstreet", beginning with an in-your-face, take no prisoners styled riff. The vocals have improved since the previous track and the drums seem more acute. This is certainly one of the best tracks on the album.
"Spit On Me" has a brilliant slow-paced riff to start with which transforms into something more technical and fast paced. The vocals have more of a hardcore sound to them which gives the track extra edge. "The Unlucky Minority" seems to have more an old-skool punk feel, especially in terms of the vocals and drums. The guitar sections aren't as aggressive as they could be. The last three tracks, "Would You Love A Creature", "Too Bad For You" and "Drag Me To The Grave" are brilliant tracks, showing the full abilities and skills of the band, though "Would You Love A Creature" would have to be the best of the last three tracks due to its emotional atmosphere and use of acoustic guitar and piano.
"Hated" is one of the best albums to be released in the punk rock scene since the glory days of bands like UK Subs and Anti-Nowhere League. The vast majority of the album contains the raw, aggressive, middle finger in the air kind of energy one expects to find in punk music. Great things are clearly on the horizon for "Sister".
Nico Davidson
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Patrick Cybulski (born April 19, 1997), known by his stage name K?d (pronounced "kid"), is an American electronic musician and DJ. He is known for his single "Lose Myself" (featuring Phil Good), which charted on the US Billboard Dance/Mix Show Airplay at #40, as well as his single "Distance" (featuring Blair), which peaked at #16 on the aforementioned chart. He is also known for his remixes of popular electronic songs, most significantly "Doin' It Right" by Daft Punk and "Renaissance" (featuring Clairity) by Steve James.

Career

2015: Early releases

On May 18, 2015, Cybulski released the single "Gold Blood" on record label Only Delusions. A month later, on June 25, Cybulski released a second single "Space Cowboy" on the same record label.

On July 9, 2015, Cybulski released the single "Bits & Pieces" as a collaboration with Kuiters on the record label Trillers. On July 20, 2015, Cybulski released two singles on two different record labels: "Zero Zero" on Onstreet, and "Keepo" on Icon.

On August 1, 2015, Cybulski released the track "Paperplane" on record label Too Lush, as a part of the label's compilation album Too Lush Vol. 4, which released that day. On August 24, 2015, Cybulski self-released the single "Cardinal" with Kuiters, with whom he had previously collaborated on "Bits & Pieces".

On November 11, 2015, Cybulski self-released a remix of "The Touch" by Kolaj.

2016: Popular remixes

On January 6, 2016, Cybulski released his remix of "Renaissance" by Steve James (featuring Clairity). EDMTunes described the remix as "akin to the likes of Zedd or Madeon". Months later, on April 8, the remix would be featured on Steve James' remix package for Renaissance, released through Ultra Music, alongside other remixes of the song from ARMNHMR, Myles Travitz, and Paxel.

On January 29, 2016, Cybulski released a remix of "This Ain't Over" by Alex Newell on Big Beat Records. The remix was featured on Newell's This Ain't Over (Remixes) EP, alongside remixes from Odd Mob, TKDJS, Autolaser, and PVC.

On March 25, 2016, Cybulski released a remix of "Cliffs Edge" by Hayley Kiyoko.

Cybulski released a remix of "Fallen" (feat. Desirée Dawson) by ARMNHMR on April 5, 2016, on Far East Movement's record label, brednbutter. Later, on April 13, Cybulski released a remix of "Red Lips" (featuring Sam Bruno) by GTA. Less than two weeks after "Red Lips," Cybulski released a remix of "What You Need" by The Weeknd on April 26. On May 3, 2016, Cybulski released a remix of "Doin' It Right" by Daft Punk.

On May 23, 2016, Cybulski released his first self-released solo single "Somewhere Far Away from Here," featuring singer Lolaby. The track was praised for its reminiscence to the style of Porter Robinson's Worlds. Following "Somewhere Far Away," Cybulski released another solo single, "Show Me," featuring vocalist/rapper Rahn Harper, on June 14.

On June 28, 2016, Cybulski released the single "Amaretto" as a collaboration with Luca Lush. Two weeks later, on July 11, Cybulski released a remix of "Elevated" by RKCB. On July 20, Cybulski released a remix of "Youth" by Manila Killa, featuring Satica. The remix was featured on Manila Killa's Youth (Remixes) alongside a remix from Qrion. A week after "Youth," Cybulski released yet another remix, this one of "Happy" by Annabel Jones.

On August 8, 2016, Cybulski released the single "Discover", featuring RKCB, on record label PRMD Records. The track was premiered by Billboard on release. The song's lyric video was released on August 16, 2016

Cybulski released a remix of "4AM" by Huntar on August 22, 2016. On September 15, he released the single "Birth of the Universe". He released another single, "Forgotten" on October 6, 2016.

On October 26, 2016, Cybulski released the single "Mortem". Later, on November 7, Cybulski released a remix of "Sad Machine" by Porter Robinson. Two months later, on December 13, Cybulski released a remix of "It's All On U" by Illenium.

2018: Find Paradise EP
On October 5, 2018, Cybulski released his six-track debut extended play, Find Paradise. The EP comprises many genres, including dubstep, future bass, drum & bass, hardstyle and industrial techno. Through an emailed statement to Billboard, Cybulski stated that he "did not want to stick to a specific theme for [his] first project" to ensure listeners will not label a specific genre to his name. He continued: "I guess my main goal is to push music to new boundaries, even if it means getting backlash for it."

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Luxury buses scooping up more passengers
Jill Pack popped her seat back, took a handful of potato chips out of her box of snacks, cast a languid gaze at Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton singing and dancing up on the TV screen, and pronounced her verdict: In all her years of traveling to see her relatives in Port St. Lucie, driving had never been like this before.
"I never thought I'd say this, but the bus is a really nice option," she said. Pack, a 46-year-old flight attendant from Chicago taking advantage of a South Florida layover to visit her family, is the latest convert to Miami-based RedCoach, a luxury bus service that?s on the cutting edge of what transportation experts say is a renaissance in bus travel.
"This is a new generation of bus service," says Robert Poole, director of transportation policy at the Reason Foundation think tank. "The growth in the past four to seven years has been phenomenal." Spurred on by passengers weary of the security hassles at airports in the post-9/11 world and anxious to stay wired to their cellphones and laptop computers while in transit, bus travel is growing four times as fast as airlines and nearly eight times as fast as railroads.
From cut-rate, nameless lines serving ethnic niches (known in the industry as "Chinatown buses" because that's their most popular market) to streamlined commuter companies offering express service between cities on the upper East Coast, buses are taking back a big chunk of a travel market that they once dominated.
"The stigma that was long associated with bus travel has finally lifted, completely," says Joseph Schwieterman, who studies transportation at DePaul Univeristy's Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development.
"You're seeing passengers riding buses now who would never have set foot in a Greyhound coach 20 years ago."
Bus Travel Is Not What It Seems
Not so long ago, the industry's dominant image was that of Dustin Hoffman as the seedy, tubercular pimp Ratso Rizzo, dying in the back of an overcrowded bus from New York to Miami at the end of Midnight Cowboy.
That's a sharp contrast with RedCoach's first-class buses, which feature roomy leather seats (just 27 in a coach built to hold 56) that recline into beds, on-board movies and free wi-fi service. "To get somebody out of a car, which offers so much freedom of scheduling, you have to give them a good reason, and I think we do," RedCoach vice president Florencia Cirigliano says.
About Red Coach Luxury Bus Service
RedCoach, which stops at the Miami airport, has been in the luxury-bus business in Argentina for 20 years. It launched in Florida in 2010 after Cirigliano and her parents, vacationing in Miami, discovered that a side trip to Orlando would force them to either spend exorbitantly on airline tickets or rent a car and negotiate Florida's unfamiliar and crowded freeways for several hours.
"We were surprised at how few options there were," the 29-year-old Cirigliano says. "In Argentina, we have 40 million people and 20,000 buses. The business for buses is huge. Every town has a big bus station the size of Union Station in Washington, D.C. We didn't see why that couldn't work here.
"It wasn't easy—many RedCoach buses in those early days carried just one or two passengers. (And even earlier this month, a Herald reporter traveling mid-week from Fort Pierce to Miami was the only one aboard.) "We lost a lot of money at first, a lot," Cirigliano says.
But an aggressive combination of cut-rate fares (at one point, as little as $20 for a round trip between Miami and Orlando) and visits to county fairs and other events where crowds were invited to climb aboard and inspect the luxuriant seats expanded RedCoach's business at a rapid pace. Originally less than an asterisk in Florida's transportation system, operating a single bus between Miami and Orlando, RedCoach now operates a fleet of 15 vehicles linking 11 Florida cities, from Naples to Jacksonville. Though the days of dirt-cheap fares are gone (a first-class round trip between Miami and Orlando now costs $80 to $100, about double the fare on conventional bus lines), the company expects to carry 100,000 passengers this year, a 35 percent increase from last.
Convenience of Bus Travel
Nearly half of RedCoach's passengers are college students, traveling home on weekends from the big college campuses in Gainesville, Tallahassee and Orlando. Another quarter are businessmen. Those are the same two groups spurring the growth in bus travel around the rest of the country. Both are attracted by the same thing: the opportunity for almost unlimited use of cellphones, computers and other electronic gadgets, which are restricted on airlines and often don't work very well on trains because they often travel through remote areas far from phone towers. Even the most bar -bones bus these days is likely to have wi-fi service and power outlets.
"Bus travelers use technology much more intensively than those on trains and planes," DePaul's Schwieterman says. "The bus seat becomes an extension of their office. … Time in a bus has suddenly become a billable hour." Polina Raygorodskaya started traveling by bus while commuting between Boston, where she was attending college, and New York, where she had founded a fashion-industry public relations company. "It wasn't that I couldn't afford other forms of travel, I was making money," she says.
"It was buses worked better with my schedule—I could always get a bus ticket at the last minute if something changed—and I wasn't losing a day of work every time I traveled because I could get so much done on the bus." Her fondness for bus travel eventually turned into a business itself. Five years ago with a friend, she created the Boston-based wanderu.com, a one-stop shopping site that allows customers to collect schedules and prices from 28 different bus companies, then purchase tickets with a single click.
"We're up to nearly a million searches a month," the 28-year- old Raygorodskaya says, "and the vast majority of our customers are millennials. When you talk about an older generation of people who grew up with bus travel as it used to be, it's not considered cool. This generation, which is what's moving bus travel forward, thinks it's really cool." Bus travel may never have been cool, exactly, but it was once the most popular long-distance travel option in America.
"Between 1930 and 1965, you could go literally anywhere on a bus," Schwieterman says. "Every little town in America had a bus stop." But the 1970s brought big changes in the way Americans traveled. Auto registrations doubled every year of the decade, while the 1978 deregulation of airlines sent plane fares plummeting. "By 1980, bus travel had acquired a real stigma," Schwieterman says.
Most observers think the bus revival began in 2008 with the American arrival of the British company Megabus, which launched discount express service in the Midwest. (It has since expanded into California, the upper Northeast and, five months ago, Florida.) Megabus was soon followed by Boltbus, a competitor with similar service and routes, owned by Greyhound. Around the same time, Greyhound —the only remaining national bus company in America, with 3,800 stops across the continental United States and Canada—began a major upgrade of its vehicles, adding legroom, wi-fi and electric sockets like the other companies.
"We've done a great deal to transform our brand, from new mobile websites to onboard amenities," Greyhound spokeswoman Lanesha Gipson says. "We've improved an onboard experience that's still safe, reliable and affordable." But instead of carving up ever-smaller pieces of the same passenger pie, all the new competitors have expanded the bus-service market. Precise numbers are hard to come by because no federal agency collects statistics on bus travel, but Schwieterman estimates interstate buses carry about 70 million passengers a year.
"That's way fewer than the airlines, but way more than the trains," he says. "It's a force to be reckoned with."
RedCoach's traffic doesn't count toward that total, because none of its routes stretch across Florida's borders—yet. Now that RedCoach has added bus routes in Texas, those numbers are going to change dramatically. "We want to add a few more cities within the state, but for sure we plan to go outside Florida," Cirigliano says. "The business has expanded much faster than we expected."
So fast, in fact, that it triggered a domestic crisis. Her parents liked their 2010 visit to Florida so much that they bought a vacation condo here. Cirigliano used it when she came for the RedCoach launch, expecting to stay a few weeks. Four years later, she's still there, along with a husband and, any day now, a baby.
"My mother was furious," she recalls. "She told my father, "You promised me a condo for vacations, not to move my daughter out of the country. But so far, they're still married."
Source: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article3386889.html


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My NAMI peer-to-peer class is almost over and I have learned a lot, but it was probably last week's class that has meant the most to me. In it, we heard from a loving husband and how he lives with his wife, who has paranoid schizophrenia. The man is also very involved in NAMI. He talked about listening to her and about how much he admires how hard she works for her recovery. For me, it was very inspirational to hear someone talk about having a loving relationship with a person that has a mental illness, because to be honest, I have wondered a lot whether there is anyone that can handle me. Yes, I am much better, but I may always need to be taken care of to an extent-I will at least need to be more careful than most about stressful situations. Stress causes me to hallucinate and to want to restrict, therefore I have to be extra careful about my workload. I also have arithritis at only 28, so I simply cannot do as much as most. I need someone who can help me and respect me at the same time. I need someone who is good for my recovery. I told the man about my worries about finding that "someone special" and he asked me a question.
Are you actively looking for someone?
I answered, "yes" and what he said next shocked me and reassured me.
Stop it! Live your life. The universe will find the person for you.
In other words, Let Go and Let God. Life is a lot better when I just live it and not worry too much about if I am doing everything the way I am supposed to. What he said was also a lot more reassuring than when other people have told me "to put myself out there" with the implication that I am not doing enough. My recovery comes first! I simply cannot spend all my time looking and searching for a significant other, but I must trust that everything that I need will happen in its own time.
Tomorrow will be different than today.
This is actually a quote from his father who lived into his nineties. His father was born in 1914 and think of all the changes that have happened in technology in his lifetime! And then think of the changes in his personal life-he said this particular saying in the last year of his life, when he went from being independent to living with his children. The point is, no matter how bad or how good life is, one thing is for certain-it will change! When I was younger, my philosophy could be summed up as, "I hate change," but now I almost love it, because I know that change is often wonderful. I keep on thinking and thinking about how different my life is from a year ago today. A year ago, I was still miserable in Milledgeville, with a horrible job at a major department store. Today, even though I am living with my parents, I am much happier and am about to start a job that should be much more suited for my personality. Change is good and I am glad that I finally am accepting this, because you know, it is inevitable.


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SCOTUS Awakens to Hear Challenge to NYC Gun Restriction
January 22, 2019 By Dave Workman
The Supreme Court has agreed to take a gun rights case challenging a New York City regulation. (Dave Workman)
The Supreme Court of the United States, with two Donald Trump-appointed justices now on board has evidently awakened from a ten-year slumber, agreeing to review a challenge to a handgun transport restriction in New York City.
According to NBC News, "Lower courts upheld the restriction, and the city urged the Supreme Court not to take the cases and instead to let those rulings stand."
But there's a new conservative majority on the high court with the additions of Associate Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. And if the court nullifies New York's restriction, it could signal that the doors are open to other Second Amendment cases.
"This is a great gun rights case," said Alan Gottlieb, founder and executive vice president of the Second Amendment Foundation. "The fact that the Supreme Court decided to hear it is really good news for Second Amendment supporters. I think it now shows that the high court will now start to hear many challenges to anti-gun rights laws."
SAF brought the last gun rights case to the Supreme Court in 2010. That was McDonald v. City of Chicago, which nullified Chicago's handgun ban and incorporated the Second Amendment to the states via the 14th Amendment.
The prospect of another Second Amendment case before what many believe is a more rights-friendly court may cause shudders in the gun prohibition movement. It might send a signal to anti-gunners in government to cool their jets, many activists believe.
The ripples could reach all the way to Washington State, where anti-gun state Attorney General Bob Ferguson, a Democrat who reportedly has his eye on running for governor in 2020, appeared before a legislative committee Monday to support a ban on full-capacity magazines. He has also supported a proposed ban on so-called "assault weapons."
Under the New York regulation, handgun owners cannot legally transport their city-licensed sidearms outside the city limits, even if the gun is not loaded, according to NPR. The city maintains that there are enough gun ranges in the city (seven, according to published reports) to accommodate the target shooting and practice needs of handgun owners in the Big Apple.
But NBC News quoted the legal brief submitted by the plaintiffs that stated, "The city has presented precisely zero empirical evidence that transporting an unloaded handgun locked up in a container separate from its ammunition (an actively that federal law affirmatively protests) poses any material safety risk."
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To give you an idea about rich composition, we can create an autocompletion service which takes the user input from a text input and then query a service, making sure not to flood the service with calls for every key stroke, but instead allow to go at a more natural pace.
Next, we'll get the user input from an input, listening to the keyup event by using the Rx.Observable.fromEvent method. This will either use the event binding from jQuery, Zepto, AngularJS and Ember.js if available, and if not, falls back to the native event binding. This gives you consistent ways of thinking of events depending on your framework, so there are no surprises.
Now, let's query Wikipedia! In RxJS, we can instantly bind to any Promises A+ implementation through the Rx.Observable.fromPromise method or by just directly returning it, and we wrap it for you.
Once that is created, now we can tie together the distinct throttled input and then query the service. In this case, we'll call flatMapLatest to get the value and ensure that we're not introducing any out of order sequence calls.


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The Inland Empire (locally known as the I.E.) is a region in Southern California; an urban and metropolitan area centered around the cities of Riverside and San Bernardino. The Inland Empire is located east of Los Angeles County.
The Inland Empire is sometimes considered co-extensive with the federally-defined Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario metropolitan area, which covers more than 27,000 square miles (70,000 km2) and is part of the Greater Los Angeles area. Home to over 4 million people, the metropolitan area consists of Riverside County and San Bernardino County, is the 13th most populous metropolitan area in the United States, and the third largest in the State of California.
At the end of the 19th century, the region was a major center of agriculture, including citrus, dairy, and wine-making. Agriculture declined through the 20th century, and since the 1970s a rapidly growing population, fed by families migrating in search of affordable housing, has led to more residential, commercial, and industrial development.
What You Should Know About the Inland Empire
Southern California's Inland Empire (IE), comprised of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, is one of the fastest-growing population centers in the United States, located about 40 miles east of Los Angeles. The IE is seen as accessible and affordable with a young, diverse, and growing population. We are a region of opportunity, natural beauty and a favorable quality of life, with an expanding economic base. Our population is projected to reach 7 million in the next thirty years. The IE is over 27,000 square miles with nearly five million residents. San Bernardino County is the largest geographic county in the U.S. We are proud of our many strengths and achievements:
Ontario International Airport is the fastest-growing airport in the U.S., and the No. 1 airport for outgoing cargo.
Our San Bernardino County Transportation Authority will introduce North America's first zero-emission, hydrogen-powered train as part of the Redlands passenger rail line in 2024.
California State University, San Bernardino, has established one of the top two cyber security programs in the U.S.
The California Air Resources Board is building a state-of-the-art vehicle emissions testing and research facility at the University of California, Riverside.
Loma Linda University, a global leader in healthcare, will open its $1 billion expansion in 2021.
From 2000-2015, 6,061 patents were issued to entities in the IE, more than one per day.
The I.E. is home to more than 25 colleges and universities, the second largest high school district in the State at Chaffey Joint Union, and some of the most innovative career pathway programs.
The IE is headquarters for corporations of national significance grown by San Bernardino County native entrepreneurs:
Esri, the international supplier of geographic information system software with 49 offices worldwide and employees from 73 countries.
Garner Holt Productions, the world's largest manufacturer of animatronic figures for entertainment, military training, and prosthetics, with installations in 32 countries.
Stater Bros. Markets, a privately held supermarket chain operating 169 markets in California. Its IE distribution center is the largest under-one-roof facility in America.
While we have much to be proud of, the IE also faces challenges:
Only 20% of adults in the IE have a four-year college degree or higher, versus 32% for California and 30% for the nation.
San Bernardino County ranks 50 out of 57 California counties for clinical care, which includes ratios of population-to-care providers, preventive screening practices, and insurance coverage.
In San Bernardino County, 18.2% of the population lives below the poverty line, primarily females, a number that is higher than the national average of 13.1%.
About 41% of IE households have a language other than English spoken in the home.
The IE lags significantly behind, receiving only $25.55 per capita philanthropic investment, compared to $262.99 per capita average investment in California.
The IE can embody a new California Dream – one where the opportunity for a better life is very much within reach. That is why more than 120 people a day are moving to the IE. Inland Action works with State and federal leaders to provide support that will help California's most robustly growing population center fulfill its extraordinary promise and potential.
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We all know, not everything on the internet is true. Hello, fake news! But when it comes to beauty, we tend to let our guards down. Ever more so, when an influencer is involved. The halo effect – which psychologists explain makes us judge a person's opinion based on what we think of them overall – has something to do with this. Hence, an extremely popular and gorgeous Instagram star's thoughts are often perceived as gospel truth. Not so fast! Here are just some of the popular DIY hacks that are throwing up red flags and making dermatologists everywhere cringe.
We get it, big lips are in. But raiding your spice rack for that extra volume is not the answer. Even if you don't have sensitive skin, spices like cinnamon and cayenne pepper cause an inflammatory effect. Translation, it will burn and your lips will be swollen (Not the good kind).
Will running the minty thread across your skin remove some natural face oil and minuscule layers of dead skin? Sure. But, so could any good facial cleanser. What makes this a hack fail is the purpura stripes you could get while pressing the thread down, in an attempt to dig and scrape the blackhead out. Also known as small bleeding blood vessels, these marks would be like hickies / love bites all over your face. Pass!
The aluminium salts and strong fragrances found in deodorant may make your armpits matte dry. Just don't expect the same results on your face. The same ingredients will wreak havoc by causing excessive dryness, inflamed acne and bumps as well as some flaky patches. That's not a beauty struggle you need in your life.
The deep cleansing black mask hit the beauty IG pages with a bang. But, so were the DIY tutorials that claimed mixing glue with activated charcoal, or using glue alone, would have the same deep cleaning effect. Not only will glue rip your tiny face hair off (this hurts), it can rip your skin off too. Not to mention it will expose you to acne, hyperpigmentation, scarring, inflammation and infection just for trying this viral trend.
Cold sores are one of the most frustrating things to conceal, so we understand why anyone would want this to be true. Cold sores are caused by herpes, which is a transmissible virus that takes its time to leave your lip. If you add nail polish on top of it, you'll have the added stress of dealing with an allergic reaction. Yup, your nail polish is one of the most common allergens around and will probably delay your cold sore's healing time. If this isn't bad enough, the trend calls you to cover the nail polish with lipstick. You'd have transferred the virus into your lipstick tube ready to re-infect yourself another day.


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There are facts need to be considered such as the protection of workers in relationships of worker-conductor in order not to cause economical damage or consequently, not to hurt society. Considering these facts, we call the branch of law in which there are the rules that arrange the labor relations as Labour Law
With the yields of Industrial Revolution, the arising of conductors who intend to make conditions of workers worse as a solution to the competition have caused big problems especially for the workers and a need for correcting this situation has come up with. In accordance with mentality of the liberal state that is demanded much in this time, the state has not taken care of economy and has aimed to make open competition environment. However, this situation has made big disadvantages for workers. As a result of all of these, social state mentality has come up. According to this mentality, the state should not have been an institution which do not care anything or watch the frustration of people who are in difficult situation against the mercilessness of competition environment but should have been an institution which aims to make every individual to have a minimum living standard. Here, the idea of protecting workers arising with that mentality has come to evolve to the present day and since the party who has the power in the worker-conductor relations is conductor, Labour Law that arrange the protected rights of workers has arisen.
The principle of protection of workers based in the field of Labour Law brings out the necessity of arrangements in this issue to be made in separate law. Also in our country, there is a special law in this kind named Labour Law. The facts such as explanations about labor relations, rights of workers, work conditions and trade unions have been arranged in this law. It should be noted that regulated rights of worker are minimum conditions. More conditions can be dominated by conductor but fewer cannot be dominated. Moreover, even if Labour Law is a branch of law which has arisen by the idea of protection of workers, it has been tried to avoid the arisen of unfair situations against conductors with this law.
How Severance Pay is taken ?
Severance pay is a compensation which refers to the reward of labor of workers at the end of their job in the workplace where they have been working in a certain period of time. In this practice, brought in accordance with the principle of protection of workers based in the field of Labour Law, labor of workers to the workplace where they have been working in a certain times should not turn out to be nothing because of unintentional situations. For this reason, the reward of this labor wanted to be presented concretely and so, Severance Pay Institution has been put into practice. That being able to require the severance pay necessitates running out of a certain period. This period has been determined as one year in our law. Another point is that it is need to work in a statue which is suitable to the regulations stated in Labour Law in order to have the right of severance pay. Also, severance pay can be taken in certain conditions. We can put in order as death of worker, quitting of workwoman in a year after her marriage, quitting in order to get retire, quitting for military service, quitting with regard to a rightful reason and being fired by conductor without a rightful reason. In the presence of these situations, the worker entitles to take the severance pay. An important point except from that is the calculation of severance pay. This calculation is depend on wage scale (whether worker get the wage in accordance with time or per piece, lump sum) and this has been arranged elaborately in law. In the case of the conductor does not pay the worker who has entitled to severance pay, the worker can file a legal action in labour court against the workplace he/she worked or the workplace of center of company he/she worked.
The Importance of Periods in Labour Law Cases
Even if Labour Law is not an exact field in which the worker is protected, it is a general field for that. That holding down a work as livelihood activity of worker is one of the basic reasons of this situation. When considered this point of view, any of damage worker will get may causes an irreversible effect to both his/her life and his/her family's life. Victimizations of people, experienced because of these reasons, may also harm the life of society. Besides that, the impairment of employers being at conductor position because of that situations related to the workers remain uncertain is a fact that needs to be considered in terms of economic stabilization. Some periods are foreseen in Labour Law Cases by considering these situations. These periods are lapse of time and missing of these periods results in loss of right. We can split Labour Law cases into three as compensation, debt and declaratory cases. With stating that situations in which the lapse of time started and stopped have been arranged separately for each type of cases in Labour Law, we can say that 10 years prescription in compensation cases, 5 years prescription in debt cases and different prescription in declaratory cases are foreseen.
The protection of rights of workers is a subject that is suffered from, especially in our country, because of both the attitude that promotes the interest of employers and that workers do not have enough legal information about their rights. In Topo Law Firm Office, we do our best with our Lawyers who have the current legal knowledge in the field of Labour Law in order to resolve your problems on this issue.
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Q: Restore database .bak file to azure elastic pool database from VM Restore database .bak file to azure elastic pool database from VM
How to restore database .bak file to azure elastic pool databases directly, I used the option "Deploy Database to Microsoft Azure SQL Database"  but every time creates a new database outside of the elastic pool.
We are looking for a solution to create a new database in an elastic pool only, any alternative methods we can achieve.

A: Azure SQL Database does not currently support that customers use bak file as a restore to generate a new database on Azure SQL Database. The only method used to restore in Azure SQL Database is to import from BACPAC files by following this document :  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/database-import?tabs=azure-powershell.
So according to the situation, you use  the option "Deploy Database to Microsoft Azure SQL Database" then migrate the database to  azure elastic pool. Regarding how to migrate it, please refer to  https://www.fmsinc.com/microsoft-azure/sql-server/pooled/index.htm

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Carol Cheng Yu Ling (Traditional Chinese: 鄭裕玲; born 9 September 1957), is a Hong Kong film/television actress and host. Arguably one of the most famous celebrities to have emerged during the British colonial period, Cheng made her break in TVB Cantonese TV series, Man in the Net. In the 1980s, she was commonly referred to by her nickname Do Do. She is one of the richest TV actresses in Hong Kong who turned her career to films. Cheng is regarded as a "living Hong Kong Cinema legend" who has brought to fame previous unknowns such as Jackie Chan, Jackie Cheung and Andy Lau. She also has won numerous acting awards in both film and television genres, as well as hosting awards. In October 2022, Cheng announced she would not be renewing her contract with TVB after 44 years with the company.

Biography
Cheng was born in Hong Kong. She is of Sichuanese heritage and her native language is Northern Mandarin. Cheng's family taught her Cantonese at a young age, in which she is equally fluent as a native speaker. Cheng began her career with Commercial Television Limited after secondary school in 1975. After the collapse of the TV station in 1978, she moved to Television Broadcasts Limited and has been a superstar at the channel since. She starred in various drama series. She also hosted shows like Miss Hong Kong Beauty Pageant and the Hong Kong version of the game show The Weakest Link between 2001–2002.

In 1984, Cheng won the 3rd Hong Kong Film Awards Best New Performer. In 1988 and 1991, Cheng won the Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actress. In 2000, Cheng won the TVB Anniversary Awards: My Favourite TV Role and Best Actress.

In recent years, Cheng retired from acting but is still involved in hosting.  She is frequently the host of TVB Awards Presentation.

Cheng is also a radio host who has interviewed celebrities and music bands such as Jackson Wang, Mirror and much more. Cheng is also frequently associated with FAMA, another famous hip hop duo. The trio have been on multiple entertainment media forms, such as interacting with local celebrities in variety shows and travel reality television shows have since surged in the last decade. Due to their humor presented on screen, Cheng and FAMA have resonated greatly with Hong Kong audiences alike.

Selected filmography
 Frugal Game (2002)
 War of the Genders [TVB series] (2000)
 My Rice Noodle Shop (1998)
 Her Fatal Ways 4 (1994)
 It's a Wonderful Life (1994)
 Holy Weapon (1993)
 Murder (1993)
 Once Upon a Time a Hero in China II (1993)
 Her Fatal Ways 3 (1993)
 She Starts the Fire (1992)
 Heart Against Hearts (1992)
 Now You See Love... Now You Don't (1992)
 Neverending Summer (1992)
 Second to None (1992)
 Once a Black Sheep (1992)
 The Banquet (1991)
 Her Fatal Ways 2 (1991)
 Armour of God II: Operation Condor (1991)
 Her Fatal Ways (1991)
 Queen of Gamble (1991)
 Slickers vs. Killers (1991)
 The Top Bet (1991)
 To Catch a Thief (1991)
 BB 30 (1990)
 Tiger Cage 2 (1990)
 Promising Miss Bowie (1990)
 Brief Encounter in Shinjuku (1990)
 Heart into Hearts (1990)
 Perfect Match (1989)
 The Yuppie Fantasia (1989)
 The Nobles (1989)
 Doubles Cause Troubles (1989)
 Tiger Cage (1988)
 The Eighth Happiness (1988)
 The Crazy Companies II (1988)
 Women Prison (1988)
 Sister Cupid (1987)
 The Return of the Condor Heroes (1976)

Music Video
 Denis Kwok - "越州公路 193 (Cross-Continent Road 193)" (2022)

Variety show hosting
 Beautiful Cooking (2006)
 Do Do Goes Shopping (2015–2017)
 Do Did Eat (2016, 2018, 2019)
 Miss Hong Kong Pageant

Awards and nominations
Cheng has been the recipient of several awards and nominations from the Hong Kong Film Awards:

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1957 births
Living people
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21st-century Hong Kong actresses
Hong Kong Buddhists
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An experienced team of leaders working to improve brain health and patient care
Susan Hertzberg
Chairwoman & CEO
Leslie S. Prichep, Ph.D.
Laurie Silver
Kent Butler
VP Sales, North America
Kim Bracuti
Kim Bracuti – Chief Financial Officer
Kim has 30 years of experience in accounting and finance, including 25 years in the field of healthcare diagnostic products and services. She is an operations and commercially focused leader who brings a wealth of experience in scaling organizations that bring new technology and services to market.
Prior to joining BrainScope, Kim served as the Chief Financial Officer of private equity-backed Prelude Fertility, a comprehensive fertility services company. During her time there, she led the successful integration of finance and billing operations for multiple acquisitions, establishing Prelude as the fastest growing and largest network of fertility clinics in the country.
Before Prelude, Kim spent five years as the Chief Financial Officer of Boston Heart Diagnostics, a venture-backed CVD diagnostic services start-up. At Boston Heart, Kim was responsible for establishing and scaling all aspects of the company's financial operations, revenue cycle, commercial support, and HR functions through the successful sale of the company to Eurofins Scientific SE.
Prior to Boston Heart, Kim was the VP Finance at Ipsogen Inc., the US commercial division of French Biotech, Ipsogen S.A., a blood and breast cancer molecular diagnostic product and services company. During her time at Ipsogen, Kim established the Finance function and was responsible for all aspects of Finance and HR operations, and supported the M&A that resulted in the successful sale of the company to Qiagen.
Earlier in her career, Kim was a senior auditor at Ernst & Young LLP, held both accounting and analyst roles at American Cyanamid Company, an international agricultural, chemical, and pharmaceutical conglomerate, and had a 14-year tenure with Quest Diagnostics, a laboratory services company, where she held various roles of increasing responsibility in both Finance and Marketing.
Susan Hertzberg – Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer
Susan is an innovative and successful healthcare executive with over 30 years of diagnostics, products, and services experience. She joined BrainScope in June of 2019.
Most recently, Susan was Chief Executive Officer of private equity-backed Prelude Fertility, a comprehensive fertility services company. In just two years, Susan drove the commercial strategy, built the team, and created the largest and fastest-growing fertility services company in the country with over 28 locations in 14 states. She also completed a first of its kind deal with NYU Langone. Prelude completed a merger with Inception Fertility in April of 2019.
Prior to joining Prelude, Susan spent more than six years as President and Chief Executive Officer of Boston Heart Diagnostics, a diagnostics services start-up backed Bain Capital Ventures. During her tenure at Boston Heart, the company grew organically from $4M to just under $95M in 5 years, went from 30 to 550 employees, and tested over one million patients. Susan led the successful exit of Boston Heart in January 2015, in a deal valued at just under $200M.
Prior to Boston Heart, Susan was Chief Executive Officer at Ipsogen Inc, a molecular diagnostics company with products focused on blood and breast cancers. In less than 3 years, she built the US into the largest market within Ipsogen and along with the Founder CEO co-led the M&A that resulted in the sale of the company to Qiagen. Susan spent the earlier part of her career at Quest Diagnostics where she held various executive positions including head of marketing, corporate identity, payer contracting, and supply chain and materials management. She also spent time at Abbott Diagnostics and Oxford Health Plans (now part of United Healthcare).
Susan's deep experience in a variety of diagnostics, provider services, and payer contracting companies have given her a unique perspective on the market. She has successfully anticipated shifting healthcare trends throughout her career and has used this to innovate and drive growth under a variety of conditions.
Susan received an MBA from Columbia University and is an EY "Entrepreneur of the Year." (2014). She serves on the board of directors of BreastCancer.Org and is a strategic advisor to the Founders Affiliate Board of Directors of the American Heart Association.
Leslie S. Prichep, Ph.D. – Chief Scientific Officer
Leslie S. Prichep, Ph.D. is the Chief Scientific Officer of BrainScope, where she directs the Company's scientific research and algorithm development efforts using machine learning and artificial intelligence to identify scientifically-validated biomarkers of traumatic brain injury and concussion. She is also responsible for the scientific integrity of the product.
Dr. Prichep came to BrainScope from a significant academic tenure as a neuroscientist at NYU School of Medicine where she was the Director of the Brain Research Laboratories (BRL) and Professor of Psychiatry. The BrainScope platform has at its core, the technology she co-developed while at BRL and which they licensed from NYU.
Dr. Prichep is highly respected and known as a pioneering innovator in quantitative electrophysiology and clinically applied translational research in a number of brain-related disease states including traumatic brain injury, dementia, addiction, depression, and schizophrenia. Dr. Prichep has over 150 peer-reviewed publications, with another 55 book chapters, books, published proceedings, and monographs, holds a number of patents, and is considered one of the preeminent research scientists in the field of computerized electrophysiological. In recognition of her contribution to neurotechnology development, Dr. Prichep was elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2019.
Dr. Prichep has been working with BrainScope since its inception in 2006.
Laurie Silver – Chief Administrative Officer
Laurie Silver has over 20 years' experience with a financial, accounting, strategic planning, and operations background. Prior to BrainScope, she served as Director of Mergers and Acquisitions for the Services group at Symantec, where she led the integration of the Services organizations upon the $13 billion merger of Symantec and Veritas, which was the largest software company merger in history. Prior to Symantec, Ms. Silver was the Vice President of Finance and Administration of TrueCareers, a subsidiary of Sallie Mae; Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis across all business units of ABC/Disney; and a Senior Auditor at Ernst & Young LLP in New York. Ms. Silver graduated from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and earned a CPA license from the State of New York. She has been with BrainScope since 2009.
Kent Butler – VP Sales, North America
Kent Butler leads the company's commercial operations for North America. He is driven by a passion to introduce disruptive and new technologies that help advance the standard of care for patients and providers. He joined BrainScope in 2019 with over 15 years of sales and marketing experience and a focus on medical devices. Kent has held a variety of sales management positions most recently as Area Vice President at Vapotherm, where he successfully led a team of sales directors and sales managers from a distributor model to a fully direct team that helped drive company revenue from $7MM annually to over $40MM annually before going public. Prior to Vapotherm, Kent was an Area Sales Director at ConMed Electrosurgery where he and his team were consistently among the company's top performers. Kent graduated with a Bachelor's in Business Administration and earned his MBA from Walsh College.
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Miles R. Gilburne – Board Member
Miles Gilburne has been active for more than 25 years as a venture capitalist, corporate strategist, and technology lawyer. He is currently a managing member of ZG Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on media, information technology, and health sciences.
Prior to forming ZG Ventures in 2000, Gilburne served for five years as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development for America Online, where he was responsible for strategic planning, corporate acquisitions, joint ventures, and alliances. He was elected to the board of directors of AOL in 1999 and, after the merger of AOL with Time Warner, continued to serve on the board of the combined company until stepping down in May 2006.
Gilburne has been an early investor in or served on the board of a wide variety of public and private companies, including media companies such as AOL, Time Warner, and Cricket Media, technology and government service companies such as Macromedia and SRA, drug development companies such as Pharmacyclics and GlycoFi, and medical device companies such as BrainScope.
Gilburne has also served as a board member of numerous non-profit organizations, including the Board of Trustees of The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C., and the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health. He received a B.A. from Princeton University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
James B. Peake, M.D. LTG (Ret) - Board Member
James Peake was United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs from 2007 to 2009. In 2004, he retired from a 42-year United States Army career. He also served as the 40th Surgeon General of the United States Army. Peake received his Bachelor of Science degree from U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1966 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Infantry. He served in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division where he was awarded the Silver Star, a Bronze Star with "V" device, and the Purple Heart with oak leaf cluster. Following his service in Vietnam, he attended Cornell University's Weill Cornell Medical College and was awarded a medical doctorate in 1972. He is also a graduate of the United States Army War College, in 1988. He retired from the Army in 2004, as a Lieutenant General.
Dr. Peake served for four years as the United States Army Surgeon General. He also served as commander of several Army medical units. Previous key assignments include Commander, U.S. Army Medical Department Center and School and Installation Commander, Fort Sam Houston, Texas; Deputy Commander, U.S. Army Medical Command, Fort Sam Houston, Texas; Commanding General, Madigan Army Medical Center/Northwest Health Service Support Activity, Tacoma, Washington; Commanding General, 44th Medical Brigade/Corps Surgeon, XVIII Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Deputy Director, Professional Services/Chief, Consultant, Office of the Surgeon General, Falls Church, Virginia; Commander, 18th Medical Command and 121st Evacuation Hospital/Command Surgeon, Seoul, Korea; Deputy Commander for Clinical Services, Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii; Assistant Chief, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas; Staff General Surgeon/Chief, General Surgery Clinic, DeWitt Army Hospital, Fort Belvoir, Va.; and General Surgery Resident, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
After retiring from the Army, Dr. Peake served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Project Hope, a non-profit international health foundation operating in more than 30 countries. While at Project HOPE he helped to orchestrate the use of civilian volunteers aboard the Navy Hospital Ship Mercy as it responded to the Tsunami disaster in Indonesia and also as part of the Hurricane Katrina response aboard the Hospital Ship Comfort.
Cynthia Ringo - Board Member
Cynthia Ringo is a Senior Partner of DBL Partners and a Managing Partner of a prior fund managed under DBL Investors. Cynthia Ringo currently sits on the board of directors of The RealReal, Urbansitter, Maiyet, RubyRibbon, Siva Power, and the Bay Area BUILD and is a member of WomenCorporateDirectors (WCD) Foundation. She also served on the board of the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs from 2000 to 2004, and as Chair of the Board from 2001 through 2003. Ms. Ringo was formerly a Managing Director of VantagePoint Venture Partners from 2002 to 2008. Prior to VantagePoint Venture Partners, she served as the CEO of Coppercom, a next-generation network switching company, from 1998 to 2001 and was the Chairman of the Board from 2001 to 2002.
Gail R. Wilensky, Ph.D. - Board Member
Gail Wilensky is an economist and a senior fellow at Project HOPE, an international health education foundation. She serves as a trustee of the Combined Benefits Fund of the United Mineworkers of America and the National Opinion Research Center, is on the Board of Regents of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), and the Visiting Committee of Harvard Medical and Dental Schools. She recently served as president of the Defense Health Board and chaired their Health care Subcommittee, was a commissioner on the World Health Organization's Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, and co-chaired the Dept. of Defense Task Force on the Future of Military Health Care.
She is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and has served two terms on its governing council. She is a former chair of the board of directors of Academy Health, a former trustee of the American Heart Association, and a current or former director of numerous other non-profit organizations. She is also a director on several corporate boards. From 1990-1992, she was Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration (now known as CMS), directing the Medicare and Medicaid programs. She also served as Deputy Assistant to President (GHW) Bush for Policy Development, advising him on health and welfare issues from 1992-1993.
From 1997-2001, she chaired the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, which advises Congress on payment and other issues relating to Medicare, and previously chaired one of its predecessor commissions, the Physician Payment Review Commission. From 2001 to 2003, she co-chaired the President's Task Force to Improve Health Care Delivery for Our Nation's Veterans and in 2007, served as a Commissioner on the President's Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors (Dole/Shalala Commission).
Dr. Wilensky testifies frequently before Congressional committees, serves as an advisor to members of Congress and other elected officials, speaks nationally and internationally before professional, business, and consumer groups. She received a bachelor's degree in psychology and a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Michigan and has received several honorary degrees.
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010 11:29 PM Ensign Front Page Volume 12, No. 150
1500 Monday - Ceiling and visibility unlimited, 21ºC, wind 8 knots at 150º, altimeter 29.86
Tisdale - starts April 23rd
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April 23rd
Date Nite
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How to Train Your Dragon (PG)***
Porcupine Plain starts April 23rd
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Ken Jones' ladybug on a crocus
Images by: Ken Jones
Near Craven: Trying to capture the delicate beauty of this year's crocuses Ken Jones had to deal with a persistent ladybug. He solved the problem by making the ladybug the subject of some of his pictures but despite a good deal of "shooowing" the bug stayed put in its investigation of the crocus flowers. The seven pictures are on the second page of the story.
Ensign Web cam
Ken Jones - LadyBug
Michael Townsend - A terrible beauty
Eugene Parks - Will Harper yield to parliament?
years past
2009 - Welcomed spring
2008 - More details and pictures of the Nipawin explosion
2007 - Ensuring the future and Senate a fraction of itself
2006 - Detachment
2004 - Young Eagles take to the sky, Electoral reform proposals, we must do lunch more often, Paul Martin's new plan for healthcare and Bush the Armageddon fundamentalist
2003 - Greenwater report and the Iron Triangle
2002 - Western Development Museum Moose Jaw and Moose Jaw snowplanes
2001 - Jessie the driver dog, Ken Magnus goes to Regina and conflicts at the summit of the Americas in Quebec City
2000 - Easter 2000, Dr. Cassidy's study on no-fault insurance and dig this
1999 - Elementary at 3:30 and safety at school
Were this aircraft a person it would be eligible for old age pension in 2012. It just goes to show that quality products can be made that last and remain serviceable for more than half a century. (Click on thumb nail to see full size.)
Find of the day
Sarkozy orders Muslim veil ban in public
The president of France has decided to bring for laws to prevent Muslim women from going out in public all covered up. There are 8 million muslims in France but only a small minority wear various forms of face covers.
Happenings In Tisdale:
A terrible beauty
by: Michael Townsend
Belfast, Northern Ireland: Trying to make sense of the horrors of the secterian violence of Northern Ireland is a formidable task. Michael Townsend tackles the problem and shows us the scenes and the way the protestants and catholics have commemorated that period in their recent history. His description of the place and sixty pictures are both moving and shocking.
Will Harper yield to parliament?
by: Eugene Parks
Victoria, British Columbia: There is a war of sorts going on in Ottawa between the House of Commons and the Prime Minister's office. The PMO has been increasing its power for decades but now it has reached almost regal proportions and it stems very much from the impotence of the House and its lack of backbone.
Schapansky auction April 20th
Tisdale: To kick off the 2010 sale season Schapansky Auction holds its first big sale of the year and it is looking like a really big event. If it can be part of a farm operation this sale has it and in many cases several examples to choose from. Heavy equipment right through to hand tools and just about everything in between. This story includes twelve pictures of some interesting items in the sale.
Saskatoon: After an absence of two weeks Gerald is back with a report to catch us up on the weather and how he fancies the nice weather. A visit with everyone's friend Mike, a trip gambling in North Dakota and a trip out to Tisdale and back.
Technological crystal ball
Tisdale: The future may seem like a scary place but like it or not we are going there. Today we peer into the possibilities and in some cases the certainties of what the people on this planet must come to expect in the next fifty years. To know the future we only have to look at the immediate past and today to realise that the trends are almost predetermined and we better get used to what is to come. Cell phones and personal portable computing devices are not a fad.
St. Patrick's Day Parade in Dublin
Dublin, Ireland: Almost a full month after the event we are able to bring you Michael's amazing pictures of what it is like to attend the St. Patrick's Day Parade in the very capital of Ireland.
Cornerstone Credit Union rises from a hole in the ground
Tisdale: Last summer the large building that once was a car dealership and had housed several businesses, situated just north of the Credit Union was demolished and the area cleared but nothing happened until December when a very deep hole in the ground was dug to provide the base for a new expansion of the Credit Union. This story shows 70 pictures of what happened between December 17 and today as the project has come up from a hole in the ground.
QuAppelle Valley crocuses are up
by: Ken Jones
Regina: Usually we have pictures of crocuses blooming in early May but this year, Regina photographer, Ken Jones has pictures for us of blooms in the Craven area that were taken Monday.
Spring overhead
Tisdale: Though often take the sky and the scenes it presents for granted, each season has its own special sky signature and spring is by far the most spectacular. Here are night pictures of the spring sky over the last three days. Interestingly enough despite the foreboding nature of the images no rain fell on me from these skies seen in these picture
How to pour the perfect Guinness
Dublin, Ireland: There is no question that Mike is enjoying his visit to the Emerald Isle. In today's story he takes us to a stockhouse for Ireland's famous Guinness and learns how to pour the perfect glass.
The Doghide runneth over
Tisdale: Yesterday it was a peaceful river flowing along nicely for the first time this year. Today it is a flood stage pouring out of its banks and swamping the low lying areas but not threatening any houses or property as these are the places it usually floods.
The Book of Kells and Trinity
Dublin, Ireland: The Irish quite rightly consider The Book of Kells as one of the most remarkable works in the world. The first four gospels of the New Testament created by three master craftsmen more than a thousand years ago is housed in the Dublin Trinity College Library. Michael went there to see it and this is his story.
The Doghide starts to flow
Tisdale: Though the melting has been proceeding for a month the water has just been gradually moving along and the Doghide itself has up until today just been a wandering pond. That warm temperature last night and the fields and streams are now moving and the little Doghide river ceased being a pond and is a nice, well behaved river conducting the water through and beyond town staying within its banks.
Surprises of Ireland
Ireland: Palm trees in Killarney, Bikers in Belfast and a Belfast hockey rink. Ireland's charm is very much in the way it has continued to adapt to the world in which it finds itself. Ireland is one of the leading technological countries in Europe with computer technology, IT and aviation all melded into the complexities of a very modern society.
Chuck and Al-bear
Tisdale: Tisdale Arts Council brought the show "Chuck & Albert" to Tisdale Saturday, March 27th. Here is something about the show just in case you were unable to attend.
Saskatoon: The Crawfords have some furniture shopping to do. The made a visit to the Casino, the Western Development Museum and the home and garden show.
A'Less sells out
Tisdale: One of Tisdale's automotive repair shops closed up last year and this past week sold off it's assets.
Parkland Photography Club March meeting
by: Darlene McCullough
Tisdale: This month the photo club was dealing with shadows in their photo shoot competition. Club activities continue with participation in provincial events and plans were made for future meetings.
Ireland: So you have a rented car, driving on the other side of the road and trying to see the country. So, what do you do? Simple you adapt. Mike dug back through his experiences and realised by using skills from decades ago the fearful could be turned around to become fun and adventure.
Saskatoon: Garage sale season has returned and the Crawfords are on the hunt for the perfect bargain once again. Last weekend they were even out to Clavet. Looks like Gerald is over his spring fever and enjoying coffee and going out to the theatre.
Do you need to win the lottery?
Weekes: So what is that you need, what is that you want out of life and are you unhappy because you don't have what you need or what you want.? These are questions you need to think about.
Weekes: March in Saskatchewan can be one of the most harsh months of the year. Just consider last year when the temperature in the middle of the month was below -30ºC for days. Today we go back to 1974 when it was cold, windy and there was much more snow than needed.
Dublin Ireland: Mike is in Dublin and watching the St. Patrick's Day parade. But, in the picture notice that his camera is around his neck. This picture and one other were taken with his Apple iPhone camera and sent to us here in Tisdale at 10:15 local time this morning.
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Repentance is een compositie van Sofia Goebaidoelina.

Goebaidoelina had in 2008 het werk Ravvedimento geschreven voor de combinatie cello en gitaarkwartet. Ze kreeg daarna het verzoek van leden van de San Francisco Symphony voor een nieuw werk. Ze had daar echter geen tijd voor. Ze bewerkte Ravvedimento om tot een werk voor cello, gitaartrio en contrabas. In plaats van de oorspronkelijke titel aan te houden, gaf ze het de nieuwe titel (spijt, berouw) verwijzend naar haar gebrek aan tijd. Alhoewel er puur gespeeld wordt op akoestische instrumenten laat Goebaidoelina de instrumenten zodanig bespelen zodat het idee van elektroakoestische muziek opdoemt. In een van de gitaarpartijen wordt een bottleneckgitaar vereist. Ook schreef ze voor de gitaar "ricochet" voor, bij strijkinstrumenten het laten veren van de strijkstok op de snaren, bij de gitaar verwijst het naar het laten stuiteren van rubber balletjes op de snaren.

Het werk kreeg haar wereldpremière in San Francisco op 22 februari 2009 en werd vervolgens een viertal keren uitgevoerd. Een uitvoering daarvan vond plaats in Groningen tijdens het Peter de Grote-festival in augustus 2010.

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By S.E. Cupp
The childish idiocy of Trump Republicans is an embarrassment
S.E. Cupp, Tribune Content Agency on Jan 6, 2021
It's fitting that the Trump era will reach its nadiral finale this week when more than 100 Republican House members and at least 12 senators protest the Electoral College vote on Wednesday, having absolutely no actual effect on the election results. That ill-fated protest, like Trump's presidency itself, will end with an embarrassing, desperate, impotent whimper.
The dumb and damaging stunt has even rightward voices decrying its awful unseriousness.
National Review calls it a "dead end." Republican Sen. Ben Sasse has called his colleagues "institutional arsonists" for the effort.
In an interview with Fox News, the architect of the little-coup-that-couldn't, Sen. Josh Hawley, was asked if he believed Trump would be president on Jan. 20. Hawley said, "That depends on what happens on Wednesday," to which Bret Baier blithely replied, "No, it doesn't."
A Wall Street Journal editorial suggests, "Republicans should be embarrassed by Mr. Trump's Electoral College hustle," but most assuredly they are not. After all, it's just the latest — "and hopefully the last?" she asked with trepidation — stupid stunt we've seen plenty of over the past four-plus years, ranging from the dumb to the dangerous.
It's, in fact, an embarrassment of riches — or perhaps richly embarrassing — to look back at just a few.
Trump's 2016 campaign was full of them, setting the tone for a new era of puerility, beginning with this long descent down a golden escalator to his effort to seat four sexual abuse accusers of former president Bill Clinton in the family area of his debate against Hillary Clinton.
Things devolved considerably from there. In 2017, Vice President Mike Pence cost American taxpayers $325,000 to briefly attend an Indianapolis Colts game and then abruptly leave when Colts players knelt for the national anthem, in what was reportedly a planned stunt of Trump's creation.
In 2018, Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidate Michael Williams brought a "deportation bus" to campaign stops, saying he hoped to fill it "with illegals and send them back to where they came from." He finished last in the five-man primary.
In March of 2019, Rep. Devin Nunes — once a co-sponsor of the "Discouraging Frivolous Lawsuits Act" — sued Twitter over critical posts by parody accounts, one pretending to be a cow and another, his mother. Answering the age-old question, can you sue fake cows, it was eventually thrown out by a judge.
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