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Defenders Under the Microscope – Gameweek 8 (Wildcard Edition)
Hello and welcome to another edition of Defenders Under the Microscope, FPL Connect's weekly deep dive into the the best defensive options ahead of the upcoming gameweek. This week we preview gameweek 8 and with the added twist that I have already pushed go on the Wildcard button.
We're only just over half way through the International Break but given my Wildcard is active there have been some fairly regular tinkerings which will no doubt continue this week. Gameweek 8 was always my Wildcard plan and whilst there was a temptation to go in gameweek 7 I managed to hold off. Given the carnage that was gameweek 7, I'm glad I did.
I briefly thought about holding the Wildcard longer. My team isn't in bad shape and sitting at around 235k it could be argued that I don't need to Wildcard. Having said that, I want to attack the fixture swing we are right at the start of and use this Wildcard as an aggressive play to try and push my rank on, rather than use it later in the season as a protective measure if and when my team gets bent out of shape.
As ever, in this article, we'll visit our usual talking points, using statistics and data analysis to assess their potential impact going forward. In my conclusions, I'll also reveal my likely Wildcard back 5, which will hopefully see me through the next 15 or so gameweeks. We're also slightly hampered by Clean Sheet Odds not being available for the Premier League matches yet. The article will take the following format:
The International break really couldn't have come at a better time. Gameweek 7 really was carnage. Cristiano Ronaldo (£12.5m) was benched, coming on for a 30 minute 1 point blank (2 points if like me you'd captained him). Michail Antonio (£8.0m) also blanked and it was left to Mohammed Salah (£12.7m) to rescue many managers' gameweeks.
Thomas Tuchel trolled Marcos Alonso (£6.0m) owners benching him for the first time this season with Ben Chilwell (£5.6m) obliging with a goal to rub salt into the wounds. That coupled with James Ward Prowse (£6.4m) netting from the penalty spot for Southampton meant most people who transferred in Antonio Rudiger (£5.8m) wasted a transfer.
On the flip side, those that opted for Cesar Azpilicueta (£6.1m) were rewarded with 2 assists and 2 bonus points with Trevoh Chalobah (£4.8m) also notching a goal and bagging all 3 bonus points. Elsewhere Leeds' Diego Llorente (£4.5m) was star of the week, getting the only goal in Leeds first win of the season as they also shut out Watford 1-0 culminating in Xisco Munoz being replaced by Claudio Ranieri.
There were clean sheets elsewhere as Burnley and Norwich and Brighton and Arsenal played out 0-0 stalemates. The latter effectively saved my gameweek as a clean sheet for both Robert Sanchez (£4.6m) and Lewis Dunk (£5.0m) got me up to 42 points for a roughly 5% red arrow. My defence contributing 8 of that 42 with Dunk, Sanchez and Salah my only players to register.
The fixture schedule for gameweek 8 is as follows:
Manchester City are currently the joint meanest defence in the league having conceded only 3 goals in 7 games. They host Burnley who share the joint 2nd worst attacking record so far this season with only 5 goals in 7 games. The upshot of this is we are likely to see a big move for City defenders this gameweek.
There are still International fixtures going on this week and the next round of Champions League fixtures is straight after gameweek 8 so predicting City's lineup is as difficult as ever, however Ruben Dias (£6.1m) and Joao Cancelo (£6.2m) are the best options given their minutes so far this season.
Chelsea share the top meanest defence with Manchester City and visit Brentford this gameweek. Brentford rank joint 7th for goals scored so far this season but Chelsea present their toughest challenge yet. Like City, predicting Chelsea's lineup is challenging with Azpilicueta and Rudiger seemingly the most nailed but news of a potential back issue for Rudiger makes me lean toward the former over the latter.
Brighton rank 3rd for goals conceded having been breached 5 times in 7 games and travel to Norwich, the least potent team in the league at present, with only 2 goals scored so far. I'd be backing Brighton to add to their clean sheets with Dunk and Shane Duffy (£4.3m) both excellent assets.
Liverpool have conceded 6 in 7, which sees them ranked joint 4th for goals conceded with Manchester United, Wolves and Brentford. They travel to Watford who are under a new management but only 6 teams have score fewer goals than Watford this season.
The main talking point will be if Trent Alexander-Arnold (£7.5m) can recover from a groin injury in time or if James Milner (£4.9m), classified as a Midfielder, will continue to deputise for him. Andrew Robertson (£7.0m) hasn't hit the ground running after suffering with injuries but Virgil Van Dijk (£6.6m) now has as many points as Trent, granted he has played 2 games more.
Villa have conceded 9 in 7 but have been better recently with only 3 conceded in their last 4 games. They host a Wolves side struggling in front of goal this season with only 5 goals in 7 games (joint second lowest). Matty Cash (£5.1m) and Tyrone Mings (£5.0m) have both registered FPL points at both ends of the pitch this season and represent good value this gameweek, in what could be a tight game.
Manchester United and Everton defenders are the pick of the rest but given United's propensity for conceding single goals this season (6 out of 7 games) and Everton taking on a West Ham team who are joint 3rd for goals scored so far this season, I think there are better options this gameweek.
Below are the next 10 gameweeks, for all 20 Premier League teams, ranked by difficulty:
We've already identified Man City and Chelsea defenders as great options for this week and with their fixture outlook it is hard to justify not having at least one defender from each side. Many Managers will be considering having more than one defender from each team, however, with the cost of their defensive assets and the continual risk of rotation, this will depend on budget and how much of a hit you are prepared to take.
My priority order for defenders from these 2 sides are as follows:
Cesar Azpilicueta – Chelsea's most nailed defender and also getting gametime at right wing back.
Joao Cancelo – Has been been used at right back, left back and often makes up the extra man in midfield for City and Pep seems to have full faith in him this year.
Antonio Rudiger – Has a slight doubt over him for gameweek 8 but otherwise has played every minute for Chelsea so far this season picking up a goal already.
Ruben Dias – Not as attractive going forward as the first 3 options but like Azpilicueta, you know rests are going to be few and far between.
Brentford and Arsenal provide excellent complimentary options to City and Chelsea defensive assets. Brentford have been very good defensively already this season keeping 3 clean sheets in 7 and Arsenal have 3 clean sheets in their last 4, after a shaky start. Brentford face Norwich in gameweek 11 when City take on Man United and Arsenal host Newcastle in gameweek 13 when Chelsea take on United.
Ethan Pinnock (£4.6m) is my preffered defensive option from Brentford as he has popped up in the box picking up a goal and an assist already this season. Ben White (£4.4m) looks to be the pick of the Arsenal defenders, given their is little between their points so far this season and he is the cheapest option.
Southampton also have particularly attractive fixtures over the next 10 gameweeks and with the emergence of Tino Livramento (£4.2m) as a regular this season he looks likely to be a great 5th defender and squad enabler. He also picked up an assist in his last outing against Chelsea.
Despite a relative turn in fixtures, Liverpool's run over the next 10 games isn't too bad though they do face Man United in gameweek 9, travel to West Ham in 11 and Everton in 14. A lot will depend on if Alexander-Arnold regain fitness in time for Watford in gameweek 8 and if Managers can find a spot for such a premium defender alongside other expensive options from Chelsea and Manchester City.
Below we have the top 10 defenders for creativity, ranked by Expected Assists (xA) and goal threat, ranked by Expected Goals (xG). Stats provided by Fantasy Football Scout.
Top 10 Defenders by Expected Assists (xA)
Trent Alexander-Arnold is still clearly the most creative defender head and shoulders above the rest having played 2 games less than everyone else. Whether he can be fit in time for gameweek 8 and if he can maintain those numbers over a tougher fixture period remains to be seen. Given his price tag, the doubts over his fitness and the Chelsea and City options, there is definitely value elsewhere.
Given the highlight we have placed on Chelsea and City options, it is great to see 5 defenders from these 2 sides appearing in these lists and Dias's numbers were a real surprise to me here, given his xA is only slightly less than that of Azpilicueta and Cancelo. That definitely moves him up the list of my considerations for gameweek 8 and beyond.
Reece James (£5.5m) and Marcos Alonso also both appear in these lists. However, James is carrying an ankle injury and is only rated at 50/50 for gameweek 8. I still maintain that Alonso is the most exciting defensive asset in the game but with the re-emergence of Ben Chilwell we can expect rotation in line with last season now. He burned me at the backend of last season and I didn't learn my lesson ahead of gameweek 7.
My personal approach to defensive selection is to always try and pick the most optimal defensive lineup for a long period of time. I don't like using transfers on defenders and prefer to use them to maximise my attacking potential.
Given the gameweek 8 fixtures and the upcoming fixture runs, there isn't anybody else from the above lists that I am currently considering. However, they at least give you the insight to go for a maverick differential pick, should you chose to.
Based on all of the above, here is the current list of my defenders under consideration for my gameweek 8 Wildcard, that I hope will see me through to when our next Wildcard becomes available:
Cesar Azpilicueta (£6.1m)
He'll be the first name on the Wildcard for me. He provides the most consistent chance of minutes coupled with some attacking threat in one of the best defences in the League, who have great fixtures.
Antonio Rudiger (£5.8m)
I'm still not 100% sure here but I am leaning towards (75 sure) not having Rudiger. I want to be able to cover possible rotation and I am if I am sacrificing a Chelsea or City defender, he's top of my list to be cut.
Joao Cancelo (£6.2m)
Second name guaranteed to be in my defence. Slightly less nailed than Azpilicueta is for Chelsea but has more attacking threat for me and I want the excitement of an attacking player as talented as him in my squad.
Ruben Dias (£6.1m)
Another I am not sure on but probably the opposite of Rudiger I am 75% sure I want Dias. I may yet only take 1 City defender in order to best cover rotation and to enable my squad elsewhere but I think the xA stats are convincing me here.
Trent Alexander-Arnold (£7.5m)
Too many reasons not too for me, but in the end, it really does come down to cost. His premium price tag means I'd have to make too many comprimises elsewhere to fit him into my new setup. He'll be missed and I'm sure he'll punish me some gameweeks over the next 10.
Marcos Alonso (£6.0m)
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I just can't do it. As much as I'd like to have him, and like Trent, I expect him to burn me at times, I'm just not prepared to go there a third time.
Ben White (£4.4m)
If I decide to opt against Dias, White is my likely replacement. I am intending on having Ramsdale in goal so it would mean an Arsenal double up, which I am not overly keen on but it would certainly enable a much stronger midfield.
Matty Cash (£5.1m)
I've not seen enough from Villa to convince me to opt for one of their defenders, yet. It feels like they are still based on last years defensive numbers which they aren't matching yet and my defence will be made up of premium or budget options for the next 10 gameweeks at least.
Ethan Pinnock (£4.6m)
My likely choice instead of Rudiger. Brentford have started well, their fixtures rotate nicely with City and Chelsea and he looks a threat going forward. If any of my premium defence get rotated, I'd have no problem fielding him.
Shane Duffy (£4.3m)
I really like the idea of having Duffy in my team. Brighton are really solid and he has the propensity to get goals from set pieces. Unfortunately, Brighton's fictures are bested by others over the next 10 and I have somebody else in mind for my budget defender slot.
Tino Livramento (£4.2m)
Will fill the last slot in my defence. Southampton's fixtures in rotation with some of the other teams fixtures and his price tag make him impossible to ignore for me.
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Followup to the Camera-Comment Controversy
Here's an update to yesterday's item on the Idaho legislator who asked whether a swallowed camera could be used for a gynecological exam.
This clip from a local news report (thanks, J) includes some video from the hearing in question, although sadly the camera stays on Rep. Barbieri during the awkward silence:
So, here's what happened.
This was a hearing on Idaho HB 154, which would make it illegal for doctors to prescribe chemical-abortion/day-after pills (choose your label) unless they do so in person. Apparently this is sometimes done after counseling and diagnosis via Skype/telemedicine technology (choose your label) instead. The bill would also provide a broad civil cause of action against doctors who violate it.
The bill's conservative sponsors argue that in-person medicine is just safer for women, and that no, making it more difficult for women to get an abortion is not at all what they have in mind. (The fact that the witness testifying in support of the bill is a man, and one from the Idaho Right-to-Life coalition at that, is simply two unfortunate coincidences.)
The bill's liberal opponents seem to think the real motive is to restrict access to abortion, and based on that cynical view they sent a female emergency-care doctor to testify against the bill. She was in the process of testifying that the procedure is not only safe, it is much safer than, for example, a colonoscopy (an example presumably calculated to resonate with the committee members who lack lady parts, on the theory that they do have colons).
This is the point at which Rep. Barbieri (who supports the bill, remember) pounced, although that is the correct term only in the sense that Wile E. Coyote used to "pounce" on the Roadrunner.
"You mentioned the risk of colonoscopy," Barbieri said. "Can that be done by drugs?"
"It cannot," Dr. Madsen said, but then went on to make the point that it can be done remotely if the patient swallows a camera, the images of which can then be reviewed by a doctor anywhere. She of course was trying to make the point that "telemedicine" can be safe and effective.
"But this is a very different medical procedure we're talking about here, isn't it, doctor?" Barbieri said. "A colonoscopy is just observation and you're not chemically inducing anything from thousands of miles away, isn't that right?"
No, wait, that's what he should have said.
What he actually said was, "Can this same procedure then be done in a pregnancy? Swallowing a camera and helping the doctor determine what the situation is?"
Which left him wide open for <long pause, then> "It cannot be done in pregnancy, simply because when you swallow a pill, it would not end up in the vagina." <Hoots of laughter>
As Barbieri pointed out today, he wasn't asking the question in order to learn something. (I mean, it was a legislative hearing.) Rather, he was "asking a rhetorical question that was designed to make her say that [colonoscopies and abortions] weren't the same thing, and she did so. It was the response I wanted." Well, that last part certainly isn't true.
As Rep. Barbieri knows (he has a law degree, at least), the process he's describing there is called "cross-examination." You never ask a question during cross-examination to which you don't already know the answer, and we can probably assume he does at least know the general layout in there and what all connects to what. His mistake was to ask an open-ended question, not one that calls for the answer you want (and that you know is right). As this demonstrated, fail to do so and the Roadrunner will zip right through the tunnel you painted and you'll get hit by a truck coming the other way. Or something like that.
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On Set With Director / Producer / Writer Michael Feifer
By Kurtis Bright
Whether it's AD-ing for Al Pacino, directing Val Kilmer, or working on low-budget Lifetime Channel movies, Michael Feifer always brings his A-game on set.
If there's one thing you learn working with actors and other creatives in the film industry it's that we all must carve our own paths. For every person you run into who was acting or directing their siblings in home movies from the age of six and never stopped, there are ten people who circled around their eventual destiny and came at it from another angle.
Enter director/producer/screenwriter Michael Feifer. For a guy who just wrapped production on his 59th film and is going into production on his 60th, Feifer sure took the long way to get where he was going. Despite moving to California at 4 years old and having extensive exposure to the business throughout his early life, Feifer says he was far more interested in sketching and architecture at an early age even though his father jumped in to the entertainment business with both feet.
"My dad came up with this idea to take Carol Burnett's show and break it up into syndicated 22-minute segments, and so he ended up working with Carol Burnett when I was a kid," Feifer said from his Los Angeles home on one of just two days he has off between film shoots. "And after that dissolved, he started making low-budget movies when I was probably in 9th or 10th grade. Now, all that time it never dawned on me that I might be interested in making movies too. I went to elementary school with Peter Guber's daughter, and with J.J. Abrams, and with Ed Asner's kids, and still had no interest in making movies.
"What was wrong with me?" he adds, laughing.
Feifer's father went on to have a solid career in low-budget films, but even living under the same roof with a producer, Feifer still didn't see himself going into the business. However, after graduating architecture school in Boulder, Colorado, and with the summer to kill before going back for his master's in the fall, Feifer and his brother decided to work on the low-budget film their father was then in the process of shooting, Fraternity Demon. And the rest, as they say, is history.
"I got the bug," Feifer says with a verbal shrug that betrays zero regret.
After production wrapped on Fraternity Demon, Feifer continued to work with his dad instead of getting his master's, helping him to "normalize" the business – in other words, to be a producer.
"He would send people out to go make movies, and it was a mess," Feifer says. "Money was being spent improperly, locations were dropping out, actors weren't showing up – whatever it might be. And I started producing all his movies, running his video label, and going with him to foreign markets to help him sell movies. And then other companies started asking me to produce, and I started AD-ing movies so I could control the pace as to what was going on, and to sort of hone my skills as director, because I thought, why can't I do this?"
Why not indeed, as he quickly found out when he signed on to direct his first movie, 2005's Lethal Eviction.
"Now, I know its a corny name, but what's interesting about that film is that the actor it was originally going to star got really really sick just two days before shooting," Feifer says. "We didn't even have time to go to casting."
Instead they turned to the actress who was originally scheduled to play the lead, asking for any ideas of other women who might be right for the part. She brought up a friend from New York who went to Julliard, had recently been in a stage production of The Crucible with Liam Neeson and who had just moved to L.A.
"And it was Jennifer Carpenter (Dexter, The Exorcism of Emily Rose)," Feifer says. "And she came in over the weekend, and it was just my executive producer and I, and we were just in a conference room, but it was shocking. It was one of the best auditions I've ever seen in my life. Just so good, so textured."
Not only did Feifer – via a backdoor, random connection – land a lead actress who would go on to star in one of the biggest breakout shows of the 2000s for his directorial debut, he also booked Judd Neslon (The Breakfast Club) Michael Learned (The Waltons) and James Avery (Fresh Prince of Bel-Air), lending the film not only cachet but real talent as well. But while there are many freshman directors out there who might falter at such a task, for Feifer it was just another day at the office, as he had already put in the work as a producer and AD to learn the nuts and bolts about how movies are made – a concept that translates well to acting too.
"I really try to express to people to put in the time and the effort to work in your craft and learn the business," he says. "And if you're a director, there's really nothing worse than walking on set and being the person who knows the least out of anybody, who really doesn't understand the craft of directing, and who doesn't understand how to work with actors.
"The problem with the movie business," he adds, "is you don't need a degree, you don't need a certificate, you don't need to pass a test – you can literally get a business card that says you're a director, and now you're a director. That can also be a great thing."
Feifer had much more than a business card and a dream when he first donned his director's hat, having already produced some 30 films prior, and having assistant directed on nearly a dozen – including Al Pacino's unreleased documentary Wilde Salomé, a follow-up to Looking for Richard that performs a similar, equally fascinating in-depth vivisection of directing and acting in Oscar Wilde's play Salomé. Feifer not only had the skills to run a set and get down to the technical specifics with his crew regarding shot angles and camera lenses, he also had the valuable people skills that come from working with professional actors at the top of their field.
"Al Pacino is the sweetest guy," he says. "It should teach a lot of actors about humility that one of the biggest guys in the business is also one of the kindest. It was a really great experience. I've had my bad experiences, but I've worked with a lot of well-known actors who are just really great to work with. Usually it's the ones who never really made it who are the difficult ones."
And the ability to work with others is high up on Feifer's list of attributes he looks for in actors. He has an acronym for the type of people he wants on his set: FCWTP. That stands for Flexible, Compromising, and With The Program.
But that's not to say he's a dictatorial director – quite the opposite, actually. In fact, Feifer confesses that watching actors in auditions, he often learns a great deal about his own scripts and characters he's created – that is, from the actors who can imagine and create their own take on the material.
"An actor needs to pick a direction and take a chance." he says. "Who cares if you get the part in this sort of generic way that you thought the casting director wanted? Even then, you probably wouldn't get the part. What you should do is read it, and pick an angle. It might not match what the director thought, but when I'm auditioning actors, I'm actually using the actors to see my script and my dialogue done in different sorts of ways. I really get off on an actor coming in with a totally different angle than I ever expected. That's what's going to cause me to hire an actor, is when they come in there with something that textured and different."
Feifer had another great piece of advice for actors just getting acclimated to working on set: don't limit your research to learning your lines and working on your character. What's more, he suggests you turn your natural actor's affinity for studying the human condition to creating the relationship with your director that will be most beneficial to your acting, and consequently, the film. While we as foot soldiers in the battle of creating films often look to the director as an infallible and perfect general, according to Feifer, insecurity abounds behind the lens as well as in front of it.
"Actors have to understand too that unfortunately on a movie set there's a lot of ego and there's a lot of insecurity," Feifer said. "Evaluate and really understand where your director is coming from. Do a little research. If that director hasn't directed a movie before, they might be a little insecure about the process. So come at them at a certain angle, and make sure you're treating them in a certain way, helping them to be comfortable while still getting what you need.
"It's amazing how often I work with actors who know nothing about me, who don't do any research at all," he adds. "They'll agree to do a film for three weeks in the trenches and they won't actually get on IMDb."
Circling back to auditions, Feifer says that the real challenge for the actor is to overcome the weirdness and nervousness of the audition process and find a way to really light up the room with a different take on the material.
"If I'm seeing 50 other people today, I'm looking to see something in you that's going to make me remember you. How do you be memorable? Not memorable because you were insane, or over-the-top, but because you brought something to that moment that just hit. Bring some human quality to the moment that they weren't expecting. Something…where the director doesn't even have to write your name down."
And there are certain emotions that are bound to have a bigger impact in the audition room than others.
"When an actor brings the tears, I love it. Man, there's nothing better," Feifer says. "If you can bring that emotion to an audition, it really rocks everyone in the room. It really shows them that you're really able to get to that place and that you care, and that you can focus on your performance."
But, dear God, actors, when it comes to accessing your emotional tool chest in an audition, use some common sense too. Feifer tells a story about auditioning actors for horror films when he was still just producing, and having the director tell the actresses to "act like you're about to be killed."
"I wish I still had that tape – actresses just looking and screaming and running and hiding behind things. It was just insane," he says. "You're in an office and there's other offices around and these actresses are just screaming their lungs out. I remember this one time there was a file cabinet in the space where we were filming, and this girl grabbed the file cabinet with all her strength and pulled it around and just buried herself behind it…that is a little too much."
Another audition key that actors can take to heart is to understand that you're being evaluated the entire time you're at the casting. From the moment you walk in and sign in at the front desk to after you've done your read and you're heading out the door. According to Feifer, you never know who might be watching if you act unapproachable or snotty while you're waiting to step in front of the camera.
"I think a big mistake is to not be personable," he says. "To walk in and not be pleasant and thank everybody, and make a little small talk if there's time. A lot of times I like to watch the actors between the performances. I like to see what kind of person they are. You want to have somebody that you feel you can have a relationship with that's what I call a '12-hour person,' who are going to be the same person in the morning as they are after a 12-hour day of work when you have one more scene to shoot."
When all is said and done, for Feifer, the most important thing for aspiring actors to do is to learn the craft of acting. Get on set any way you can, whether it be in student films or in thankless tiny roles, and learn how movies are made. And, Feifer points out, don't forget that you can create your own set in this day and age, since everyone is walking around with a 4k camera in their pocket.
"There's no reason why you can't write a scene and have your friend direct it," he says, "and shoot the scene using film language. The same film language we use in indie films is the same film language we use in studio films: it's over-the-shoulder shots, POV, tracking shots, medium shots, low-angle, high-angle – whatever. Its the same film language. So there's no reason an actor can't be learning the craft of acting on film even in their apartment."
Ultimately though, for Feifer it was the act of declaring himself a director that finally made people perceive him as one – and that perception is what finally transformed him into the man who just started filming his 60th movie this week. He suggests we as actors have the same opportunity to perform this kind of alchemy.
And while Feifer won't promise the exact same results he got, he says self-perception leads to how the world perceives you. And how we are perceived makes a huge difference in what doors open up for us.
"I think the first thing you do is you start saying, 'I am an actor.' I didn't start directing movies until I said, 'I'm a director.' It's a weird thing but it's going to go a long way. If you tell people you're an actor and you say it confidently, people are going to look at you and say, 'Okay, I know this person. I know who this person is,'" he says.
"'This person's an actor.'"
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Kurtis Bright
Kurt is an award-winning stage and film actor, playwright, and theater critic from Colorado who is traveling long-term in South America. Currently he is working on his Spanish, acting, writing and playing gringo music for Latin American audiences.
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Лагу́на Колора́да ( «кольорова лагуна») — мілководне солоне озеро на південному заході пустелі Альтіплано в Болівії, в межах Національного резерву андійської фауни Едуардо Абароа неподалік від кордону з Чилі. Озеро містить кілька островів складених з бури, білий колір яких приємно контрастує із червонуватим кольором води озера.

Лагуна-Колорадо є одним з об'єктів міжнародного значення, включеним до Конвенції про водно-болотні угіддя, підписаної в 1971 році. У 2007 році лагуна була серед номінантів у конкурсі на вибір нових семи чудес природи, проте за кількістю голосів не потрапила до фіналу.

Флора і фауна
У районі лагуни мешкає велика кількість Фламінго Джеймса. Також тут можна зустріти андського і чилійського фламінго, але в невеликих кількостях.

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 Салар-де-Чалвірі
 Салар-де-Уюні
 Лагуна-Верде
 Пустеля Сальвадора Далі

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>> exotic Quendian languages beyond Quenya, Sindarin, Telerin etc.?
In PE18, there is only a discussion about what the language branches are. PE19 more specifically has the 'Comparative Tables' with sound-correspondences among a dozen Elvish languages. Other pieces of information are scattered all over the various sources published in Parma Eldalamberon and Vinyar Tengwar.


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FuZZrd's fourth single "Out On A Limb" now available
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From the band with slight edits:
"Minneapolis, MN – FuZZrd has presented a fourth composition "Out On a Limb", from the band's debut studio album planned for global release on November 19.
Guitarist and singer Brett Petrusek offers, "'Out On a Limb' is notably heavier, and much darker than our previous singles. If you've ever felt true despair, you'll relate to this song. But, at its core, there's still a hopeful message: Soldier through the darkness, knowing deep down you'll emerge from the ordeal stronger than you were before."
FuZZrd has been making appearances across the band's home state of Minnesota. On November 6th, the band is confirmed to play in Fridley, MN at Route 47, and then on November 20th in Turtle Lake, WI at St. Croix Casino. Petrusek reflects, "I feel so fortunate to have FuZZrd come together as band in the past year. It's been a great ride crafting the songs and recording our upcoming album. Now we're totally fired up to take the songs to other people, in person."
FuZZrd is Brett Petrusek (lead vocals / guitars), Robert Berg (bass / background vocals), Eric Fairchild (background vocals / guitars) and Scott Savage (drums)."
FuZZrd's "Out On A Limb" video:
Fuzzrd: Out On A Limb [Official Music Video]
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Greek Public Hospitals Overcome with COVID-19 Cases, ICU's Fill
By The National Herald
A cleaning worker mops the floor next to the bed of a COVID-19 patient in an ICU of the Sotiria Thoracic Diseases Hospital in Athens, Monday, Jan. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
ATHENS – With many private hospitals still unused, Greece's public hospitals are swelling with COVID-19 cases and seeing so many patients on ventilators that Intensive Care Units (ICU's) have hit capacity.
That led the New Democracy government to conscript 206 private doctors to work in the hospitals after only 61 answered a call for volunteers and with no report how many private hospital ICU beds are empty.
There were 681 critically ill patients in ICU's across the country as of March 22, near 100 percent, and 60 in rooms waiting for beds to open more than a year into the pandemic even though the number of beds had been doubled.
That showed how dangerous the situation had become during a third wave of the Coronavirus that has become worse because of an especially contagious variant from the United Kingdom and many people not wearing masks or staying safe social distances from each other.
Half of the new patients had COVID-19 but there are many with other illnesses also adding to hospitals being overwhelmed and Kathimerini said there's not enough beds for all even if private hospitals are used.
"The lack of staff leaves no room for optimism," a doctor from a reference hospital told the paper. "Even if we had space to treat the patients, and a stadium with beds and equipment, we do not have the staff to take care of so many patients," the doctor added.
About 200 patients with Coronavirus are being admitted to Attica hospitals for treatment on a daily basis, a slow-rolling vaccination program not slowing the pandemic and as the government will provide self-testing kits, likely in April.
Speaking on SKAI TV, Digital Governance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis said a platform is already ready on which people can declare any positive self-testing results and those are positive will have to have a molecular test that will confirm the result so, for example, they can take leave from work.
The government has pushed back plans to let retail stores reopen on March 29 after they've been shut down since Nov. 7, 2020 although hairdressers and nail salons as well as open-air archaeological sites were allowed to open for now.
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How Irina Shayk Stays True to Herself While Raising Daughter Lea
Nothing new! Irina Shayk revealed how she has stayed the same since welcoming her daughter with ex Bradley Cooper, Lea De Seine.
"You have to be really truly yourself for your kids, otherwise you're living in a lie," the supermodel, 33, said in Harper Bazaar's Summer Digital Issue cover story, published on Thursday, July 11. "Tell me one reason why, just because you're a mother, that you need to wear a longer skirt. No! I don't believe in that. I really don't. Why should you have to change who you are and how you feel just because you become a mother? … Tell me why. Tell me one reason!"
She added, "I don't believe in that. I really believe if you love something, you can prioritize your time. [Motherhood] is just an addition to your life."
The Victoria's Secret model and the actor, 44, welcomed their daughter, now 2, in March 2017. This June, news broke of their split after more than four years of dating.
When it comes to coparenting the toddler, "they both want to keep it civil for [Lea's] sake," a source told Us Weekly exclusively in June. "They both work and have a nanny. They'll coordinate to make sure their daughter is always with one parent. When Lea has important events in her life, both Bradley and Irina will be there."
The insider went on to say that the pair had been acting single for awhile. "It was obvious their romantic relationship was over," the source told Us at the time. "They've been coparenting and doing things the way they intended to continue after splitting up."
In September 2018, the Grammy winner gushed to NPR about fatherhood. "Having a child and having a family of my own — which is a miracle and something I've always dreamt of — has opened me up even more, I guess, to the day, and to be present," Cooper said.
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Bellan-Santini, D.; Costello, M.J. (2001). Amphipoda. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels 50: pp. 295-308.
Costello, M.J.; Emblow, C.; White, R. (Ed.). (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50. Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle: Paris, France. ISBN 2-85653-538-0. 463 pp.
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 1133 Suppression under the Plenary Powers of names for genera and species of Amphipoda proposed by Rafinesque Between 1814 and 1820.Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 36(2), 91-101 (1979)
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Martin, J.W., & Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles, CA (USA). 124 pp.
Martin, Joel W., and George E. Davis, 2001: An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, Science Series 39. 124.
Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes.
Vinogradov M.E., Volkov A.F. & Semenova T.N. (1996). Hyperiid amphipods (Amphipoda, Hyperiidea) of the world oceans. Science Publishers, Inc., Lebanon, NH, 632 pp.
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Zeidler, W. (2004). A review of the families and genera of the hyperiidean amphipod superfamily Phronimoidea Bowman & Gruner, 1973 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea). Zootaxa. 567: 1-66.
Zeidler, Wolfgang, 2004: A review of the families and genera of the hyperiidean amphipod superfamily Phronimoidea Bowman & Gruner, 1973 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea). Zootaxa, no. 567. 66.


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A new bug has been reported by several people, the latest spam message which starts with a 'black dot' and ends with 'Don't Touch Here' has a virus which can hand the WhatsApp application.
The trendy message which is getting forwarded these days, reads, "I can hang your WhatsApp for a while just touch below message" and is followed by the message, "don't-touch-here".


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Unchaining Ceremony — Philadelphia, PA
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Thank you to all who attended the unchaining of the Women's Liberty Bell live and virtually on Independence Square on September 25, 2020. A big shout out to Girl Scout troops 5336, 1179, 61095, 60252, 60956, 60976, 83615, 2187, 60195, 5299, 61096, 254, 61179, 569, 60569, 195, 82537, 61010, 60565, 61035. Patches will be mailed out soon!
We weren't able to address your comments live, but here a few answers to some of your questions:
– It's the real Women's Liberty Bell (also known as the Justice Bell®)
– It's currently on Independence Square. It will be here through October.
– It weighs 2000 pounds (without the wooden yoke)
– It has 13 stars, one for each original state
– It's made of bronze
– It traveled across Pennsylvania in 1915 on the back of a flatbed truck
Justice Bell Unchaining Ceremony at Independence National Historical Park on September 25, 2020.
Grab a noisemaker – a bell, pots and spoons, or your favorite audio app – and join us on Facebook Live for the special event, "Ringing In 100 Years of Votes for Women." The event will include an opportunity to see the Women's Liberty Bell, also known as the Justice Bell. Park rangers will share stories of how the Justice Bell traveled with it's clapper chained silent until women got the vote, and its unchaining on Independence Square 100 year ago on this day. Costumed actresses portraying Frances Harper, Alice Paul, and Dora Lewis will speak about their participation in the suffrage movement.
At the conclusion of the event, we'll symbolically "ring" the Justice Bell and invite you – in the virtual world and on-site – to join us in ringing out and lifting up the voices of all women today.
Visitors may also participate in the ceremony in-person on Independence Square on Friday, September 25 at 1pm. Entrance is through security screening at 5th and Chestnut Streets. #findyourpark
See video of ceremony by clicking on the link below:
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The Justice Bell® was cast in Troy, NY in 1915. It was used by Pennsylvania women as they toured the state campaigning for the right to vote. In every village that it entered, it drew large crowds of people. The Justice Bell embarked on a 5,000-mile journey to tour all 67 counties in Pennsylvania and a special truck was designed to carry the bell, along with the suffragists. The referendum did not pass, but the tour was not a failure. On September 25, 1920, the Justice Bell rang for the first time on Independence Square, to celebrate the ratification of the 19th amendment. On September 13, 2015, the 100th anniversary celebration of the Justice Bell was held at the Washington Memorial Chapel. During the event, the clapper of the bell was rechained in symbolic memory of the bell's origins.
On August 25, 2020, the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment which gave women the right to vote, will kick off at Freedoms Foundation. Following a special jump performed by nationally acclaimed female skydivers of The Highlight Pro Team, the bell will be christened with a champagne bottle for its journey to Philadelphia. The all-female team will then lead a caravan down the road to the National Patriots Bell Tower at the Washington Memorial Chapel in Valley Forge National Historical Park where an old-fashioned suffrage program will take place. The Centennial Commemoration will ensue the next day on August 26 in front of Independence National Historic Park where the bell will be unchained and rung ceremoniously with music, dignitaries, and speakers. The Justice Bell will remain on display in close proximity to the Liberty Bell until after Constitution Day (September 17, 2020).


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About Neal Fox	nealfox@wireduck.com	2016-11-08T17:51:50-05:00
Neal Fox had his first band at age 14. Instead of being a "garage band" they were a "finished basement" band, rehearsing downstairs in his parent's Brooklyn home. One night his accordion was stolen (insert loud cheers). He replaced it with a Farfisa organ. (He would get introduced as, "Neal Fox and his 90 pound organ.") He played Manhattan clubs to Catskill Mountain resorts, surviving the wedding and bar mitzvah circuit and more than a few mob nightclubs —though his tux did not. He hasn't owned a suit since.
In the 70s, Fox's career took off. Signed to Polydor, RCA and Columbia Records he had a charted single and Top Ten Dance Club Hit. But due to staff turnovers he didn't get very far. He went into the jingle biz, writing music for tons of commercials, all the major networks (including CBS Evening News with Dan Rather), and co-scored a couple of Killer Tomatoes movies.
After being offered a lot of money for a three minute song pitching cigarettes to kids—by that company with the famous cartoon mascot—it was the straw that broke the Camel's back. He left the music production business—and the money—to do something that mattered.
Since then, he's written and performed two one-man shows, self-released several CDs, co-created a series of multi-cultural children's books, and got into filmmaking. He's won awards in all areas of his career and is known for, "saying the things that need to be said."
Seeing the world in bad shape, and the country he grew up in a mockery of what it once represented, Fox wanted to help. Using all of his resources, he spent three years (voluntarily) locked in his studio, researching and creating. The result is the film that makes an impact. An unconventional documentary known as, The CONSPIRACY Project.
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Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds, The Final Arena Tour at The LG Arena, Birmingham, UK – 5th December 2014
For the last time, Jeff Wayne has brought his alien extravaganza, "Musical Version of The War of the Worlds, Alive on Stage" to Birmingham as part of the Final Arena Tour. Since 2006, Wayne has been taking the musical adaptation of H.G.Wells' 1898 classic text around the globe to sell out audiences.
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Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds, The New Generation @ The NIA, Birmingham, UK – 7th December 2012
The sci-fi novel "The War of the Worlds" was first published by Herbert George Wells (H.G. Wells) in 1898, and was the forerunner for every alien invasion story since. Wells was the Grandfather of Science Fiction and a true visionary, with his prophecies for many of mankind's developments in the hundred years since coming to fruition.
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They would ask me what actors I saw in the roles. I would tell them, and they'd say "Oh that's interesting." And that would be the end of it. --Elmore Leonard, in 2000, on the extent of his input for Hollywood's adaptation of his novels
William Boyle's "City of Margins"
William Boyle is from Brooklyn, New York. His books include: Gravesend, which was nominated for the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in France and shortlisted for the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger in the UK; The Lonely Witness, which was nominated for the Hammett Prize and is nominated for the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière; and A Friend Is a Gift You Give Yourself. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi.
Here Boyle dreamcasts an adaptation of his new novel, City of Margins:
Heavily inspired by films with big ensemble casts by directors like Robert Altman, Alan Rudolph, and John Sayles, City of Margins has that same double VHS sprawl, with nine key players and lots of bit parts. If it was to get made into a film, here's who I'd like to play the lead roles:
Ava Bifulco: Marisa Tomei
Donna Rotante: Elisabeth Moss
Donnie Parascandolo: Vince Vaughn
Mikey Baldini: Alex Wolff
Antonina Divino: Florence Pugh
Nick Bifulco: Jesse Plemons
Rosemarie Baldini: Amy Ryan
Ralph Sottile: Robert Longstreet
Pags: Kevin Corrigan
This was tough. I'm a big film lover, and I often think about certain actors as I write. Edie Falco, John Turturro, and Steve Buscemi are just a few saints of my imagination. I also write a lot with James Gandolfini in mind, and I'm sad I'll never get to write something he could actually star in—that would've been the greatest. City of Margins presented other challenges, as it was probably the first book I've written where I didn't picture actors in at least a few of the main roles. This is a dream cast, unattainable by any measure, but it feels very right. The younger roles (Antonina and Mikey) were the hardest to come up with actors for. I'm thinking the Safdie Brothers to direct—this could be their Magnolia. And I'd need to strong-arm my way into being music coordinator, so I could control the soundtrack, which needs plenty of Garland Jeffreys and Lou Reed.
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Gli uccelli tessitori (Ploceidae ) sono una famiglia di piccoli uccelli passeriformi tipici soprattutto dell'Africa subsahariana, caratterizzati da colori vivaci e dall'abitudine di costruire nidi di grandi dimensioni e struttura complessa.

Descrizione
Sono uccelli passeriformi di dimensioni medio-piccole (11–24 cm di lunghezza), dotati di un becco corto e robusto. Nella maggior parte delle specie è presente un marcato dimorfismo sessuale: i maschi hanno livree a colori molto vivaci mentre le femmine hanno un aspetto piuttosto dimesso.

Biologia

Alimentazione
Sono uccelli prevalentemente granivori e  insettivori, la cui dieta si adatta alla disponibilità stagionale di risorse; alcune specie sono anche frugivore.

Riproduzione
Sono animali gregari e non di rado i loro nidi sono coloniali, spesso sospesi o dotati di estensioni tubolari, che in alcune specie possono raggiungere il diametro di 3 o 4 m. In molte specie è il maschio a costruire il nido, attraendovi la femmina con rituali di corteggiamento anche molto complessi. Dopo l'accoppiamento, la femmina depone da 2 a 8 uova, il cui colore va dal bianco, all'azzurro o verde chiaro, a seconda della specie. In alcune specie entrambi i sessi si occupano della cova, in altre è compito solo della femmina.

Distribuzione e habitat
Sono diffusi soprattutto nell'Africa subsahariana ma alcune specie si trovano anche in Asia e in Australia.

Tassonomia
Secondo il Congresso Ornitologico Internazionale (2018) la famiglia Ploceidae comprende i seguenti generi e specie:

 Genere Bubalornis
 Bubalornis albirostris () - tessitore dei bufali beccobianco
 Bubalornis niger  - tessitore dei bufali beccorosso
 Genere Dinemellia
 Dinemellia dinemelli () - tessitore dei bufali testabianca
 Genere Plocepasser
 Plocepasser mahali
 Plocepasser donaldsoni
 Plocepasser superciliosus ()
 Plocepasser rufoscapulatus
 Genere Histurgops
 Histurgops ruficauda
 Genere Pseudonigrita
 Pseudonigrita arnaudi ()
 Pseudonigrita cabanisi ()
 Genere Philetairus
 Philetairus socius ()
 Genere Sporopipes
 Sporopipes frontalis () - tessitore frontesquamosa
 Sporopipes squamifrons () - tessitore squamoso
 Genere Amblyospiza
 Amblyospiza albifrons () - tessitore beccogrosso
 Genere Ploceus
 Ploceus baglafecht () - tessitore di Baglafecht
 Ploceus bannermani  - tessitore di Bannerman
 Ploceus batesi () - tessitore di Bates
 Ploceus nigrimentus  - tessitore mentonero
 Ploceus bertrandi () - tessitore di Bertrand
 Ploceus pelzelni () - tessitore di Pelzeln
 Ploceus subpersonatus () - tessitore di Loanga
 Ploceus luteolus () - tessitore piccolo mascherato
 Ploceus ocularis  - tessitore dagli occhiali
 Ploceus nigricollis () - tessitore giallo e nero
 Ploceus alienus () - tessitore straniero
 Ploceus melanogaster  - tessitore nero facciagialla
 Ploceus capensis () - tessitore del Capo
 Ploceus temporalis () - tessitore di Bocage
 Ploceus subaureus  - tessitore dorato
 Ploceus xanthops () - tessitore dorato di Holub
 Ploceus aurantius () - tessitore arancio
 Ploceus heuglini  - tessitore mascherato di Heuglin
 Ploceus bojeri () - tessitore dorato delle palme
 Ploceus castaneiceps () - tessitore dorato di Taveta
 Ploceus princeps () - tessitore dorato dell'Isola Principe
 Ploceus castanops  - tessitore golabruna settentrionale
 Ploceus xanthopterus () - tessitore dorato golabruna
 Ploceus burnieri  - tessitore di Kilombero
 Ploceus galbula  - tessitore di Rueppell
 Ploceus taeniopterus () - tessitore mascherato settentrionale
 Ploceus intermedius  - tessitore mascherato minore
 Ploceus velatus  - tessitore mascherato africano
 Ploceus katangae () - tessitore mascherato del Katanga
 Ploceus ruweti  - tessitore mascherato di Lufira
 Ploceus reichardi  - tessitore mascherato della Tanzania
 Ploceus vitellinus () - tessitore mascherato vitellino
 Ploceus spekei () - tessitore di Speke
 Ploceus spekeoides  - tessitore di Fox
 Ploceus cucullatus () - tessitore testanera dei villaggi
 Ploceus grandis () - tessitore gigante
 Ploceus nigerrimus  - tessitore nero di Vieillot
 Ploceus weynsi () - tessitore di Weyns
 Ploceus golandi () - tessitore di Clarke
 Ploceus dichrocephalus () - tessitore di Salvadori
 Ploceus melanocephalus () - tessitore testanera
 Ploceus jacksoni  - tessitore di Jackson
 Ploceus badius () - tessitore color cannella
 Ploceus rubiginosus  - tessitore castano
 Ploceus aureonucha  - tessitore nucadorata
 Ploceus tricolor () - tessitore tricolore
 Ploceus albinucha () - tessitore nero di Maxwell
 Ploceus nelicourvi () - tessitore di Nelicourvi
 Ploceus sakalava  - tessitore di Sakalava
 Ploceus hypoxanthus () - tessitore dorato asiatico
 Ploceus superciliosus () - tessitore compatto
 Ploceus benghalensis () - tessitore del Bengala
 Ploceus manyar () - tessitore striato
 Ploceus philippinus () - tessitore di Baya
 Ploceus megarhynchus  - tessitore di Finn
 Ploceus bicolor  - tessitore di foresta
 Ploceus preussi () - tessitore dorsodorato occidentale
 Ploceus dorsomaculatus () - tessitore dorsogiallo
 Ploceus olivaceiceps () - tessitore dorato testaoliva
 Ploceus nicolli  - tessitore di Usambara
 Ploceus insignis () - tessitore capobruno
 Ploceus angolensis () - tessitore alibarrate
 Ploceus sanctithomae () - tessitore di São Tomé
 Ploceus flavipes () - malimbo piedigialli
 Genere Malimbus  -
 Malimbus coronatus   - malimbo corona rossa
 Malimbus cassini  () - malimbo golanera
 Malimbus racheliae  () - malimbo di Rachel
 Malimbus ballmanni    - malimbo di Tai
 Malimbus scutatus  () - malimbo sottocoda rosso
 Malimbus ibadanensis   - malimbo di Ibadan
 Malimbus nitens  () - malimbo di Gray
 Malimbus rubricollis  () - malimbo testarossa
 Malimbus erythrogaster   - malimbo ventrerosso
 Malimbus malimbicus () - malimbo dalla cresta
 Genere Anaplectes
 Anaplectes rubriceps () - tessitore testarossa
 Genere Quelea
 Quelea cardinalis () - quelea cardinale
 Quelea erythrops () - quelea testarossa
 Quelea quelea () - quelea beccorosso
 Genere Foudia
 Foudia madagascariensis  () - tessitore fiammante
 Foudia eminentissima   - tessitore rosso delle Mascarene
 Foudia flavicans   - tessitore di Rodrigues
 Foudia aldabrana   - tessitore di Aldabra
 Foudia omissa   - tessitore rosso di foresta
 Foudia rubra  () - tessitore di Mauritius
 Foudia sechellarum   - tessitore delle Seychelles
 Genere Brachycope
 Brachycope anomala   () - tessitore codabreve
 Genere Euplectes
 Euplectes afer () - vescovo dorato
 Euplectes diadematus  - vescovo fronterossa
 Euplectes gierowii  - vescovo di Gierow
 Euplectes nigroventris  - vescovo rosso di Zanzibar
 Euplectes hordeaceus () - vescovo corona rossa
 Euplectes orix () - vescovo rosso
 Euplectes franciscanus () - vescovo arancio
 Euplectes aureus () - vescovo dorsodorato
 Euplectes capensis () - vescovo dal groppone giallo
 Euplectes axillaris () - vedova coda a ventaglio
 Euplectes macroura () - vedova dorsodorato
 Euplectes hartlaubi () - vedova di Hartlaub
 Euplectes psammacromius () - vedova di palude
 Euplectes albonotatus () - vedova alibianche
 Euplectes ardens () - vedova dal collare rosso
 Euplectes progne () - vedova codalunga
 Euplectes jacksoni () - vedova di Jackson

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Taxa classificati da Carl Jacob Sundevall


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Home » Palm Canyon Theatre Presents 'There's Nothing Like a Dame' Broadway Concert Featuring the Divas of Palm Springs
Palm Canyon Theatre Presents 'There's Nothing Like a Dame' Broadway Concert Featuring the Divas of Palm Springs
Palm Canyon Theatre (PCT) will present a special all female, Broadway, concert, There's Nothing Like a Dame, on Wednesday, February 9th 2022. PCT has gathered together some of the most talented female singers and entertainers on its stage for one-night-only. All this in celebration of the many talents of these special Diva's performing in our Valley.
Palm Canyon Theatre is delighted to announce that the evening will be hosted by Judith Chapman. Some of the favorite PCT, Divas scheduled to perform (as of Jan 12th) are Pamela Vale Abramson, Francesca Amari, Morgana Corelli, Keisha D, Jaci Davis, Mary Ewing, Jana Giboney, Se Layne, Virginia Sulick, and many others.
There's Nothing Like a Dame Broadway Concert is one-night-only, Wednesday, February 9 starting 7:00 p.m. All tickets are $30. For tickets, or more information, call the Palm Canyon Theatre Box Office at 760-323-5123 or order online: PalmCanyonTheatre.org.
The Palm Canyon Theatre is located at 538 North Palm Canyon Drive, at the corner of Alejo Road and Palm Canyon Drive. Box Office hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
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Paul Nahi, the CEO of solar microinverter maker Enphase, announced that the firm boasted a 53.5 percent market share in the U.S. residential market in 2012, according to IHS. In an anticipated $500 million market, Lazard Capital sees Enphase "as a potential take-out candidate."
Nahi said, "We dominate and designed this category."
Nahi was speaking at Intersolar 2013 in San Francisco last week at an event to introduce the company's fourth generation microinverter. The new DC-AC converter is sized for 250 watts peak power, has a 96.5 percent CEC efficiency, with an integrated ground and status as an ungrounded array as per NEC 690.35.
Nahi suggested that no other company in solar has had this kind of market dominance. (The only company that comes to mind is SMA, which held a roughly 40 percent market share of the global market a few years ago.) The CEO reminded the assembled of Enphase's accomplishments: $217 million in revenue in 2012 and over 3 million units shipped to-date. Nahi saw the inverter landscape in "a rapid and significant migration to microinverters."
He said that he "expected to have formidable or great competition" -- but that it hasn't happened yet.
Which brings us to the question -- where is the microinverter competition in the U.S.? How is it that Enphase luxuriates with its 53.5 percent market share in the U.S. residential market?
Based on the sheer number of entrants, it would appear that a team of competent power electronics and system engineers can design and build a microinverter. Certainly, building a high-performance, high-reliability microinverter is a lot more challenging. But, despite the protestations of CTOs at distributed electronics firms, it's not really the technology or type of capacitor that differentiates these companies in today's market.
It's the channel and relationship with the customer.
Enphase gets the lion's share of its business in the U.S., with 40 salespeople on the ground calling on and training installers in every state with a friendly solar subsidy environment.
There is a long list of other microinverter market entrants -- and most of them will have to contend with Enphase as the 800-pound gorilla in the channel to the U.S. residential customer.
SMA is still the dominant inverter company in a volatile, consolidating $7 billion market. SMA America's spokesperson notes that SMA "is now shipping the [SMA microinverter] to the U.S. market," adding that its "initial launch was limited and we expect those units to be sold out very quickly. Our first manufacturing run was completed in Germany and those lines are now being moved to Denver. Because we are also setting up lines in Denver for our new...string inverters, as well as making some adjustments to handle increased central inverter business, we won't see volume production on the microinverter until about October."
SMA has its own strong channel and will certainly be able to reach the customer. The question, based on the firm's extremely deliberate microinverter rollout, is whether SMA views microinverter sales as cannibalizing its own business and as such continues to ride the brakes on its marketing efforts.
SolarBridge avoids Enphase to some extent as a microinverter maker in the business of AC modules, getting to market in partnership with module makers and subsuming its own brand. SolarBridge has not disclosed its sales and has recently replaced its CEO. The startup has been shipping into the U.S. market since 2011 (as well as Canada, Mexico, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Australia, its fastest-growing region), according to SolarBridge's VP of Marketing, Craig Lawrence. Lawrence lists the startup's module partners and customers as including SunPower, AUO/BenQ, ET Solar, Mage Solar, Talesun Solar, Hareon Solar, Blueline Solar, Tindo Solar, and Solarland.
Lawrence contends, "We are the only microinverter company successfully executing on an AC module strategy. We exclusively sell microinverters and monitoring solutions to global and regional module manufacturers that factory-integrate, certify, test, and warranty a complete solution. All the other companies are trying to do this, but we win every head-to-head battle because of our superior reliability, our design (which is specifically built for module integration with today's highest power modules), and our exclusive AC module business model which avoids the channel conflicts that companies like Enphase, SMA, and Power-One that sell a detached microinverter have."
Another contact at SolarBridge asserts that the firm is gaining strong sales traction with SunPower.
Renesola's microinverter "goes toe to toe with Enphase at a 15 to 20 percent lower price," according to Brian Armentrout, Marketing Director at Renesola (NYSE: SOL) America. "We're delivering 10,000 units per month in the U.S. alone and about to ink a deal that will add 5,000 to 7,000 more units per month on top of that," he added.
Enecsys VP of Sales and Marketing Kevin Bushby claims that the 60-employee firm has sold 160,000 microinverters worldwide through distributors and in cooperation with module makers. We have learned that one of those module makers is Canadian Solar. Distributors for Enecsys include U.S. Solar Distributing, which also carries Enphase, and SolarEdge.
Enecsys' Gen 2 microinverter is software programmable for 240-watt, 260-watt, or 280-watt operation. Bushby spoke of using his resources efficiently and going after the U.S. market by targeting specific regions such as Hawaii and leveraging the power of distributors. Enecsys and others assume the role as second-source to Enphase.
Power-One was acquired by ABB for $1 billion in April (a few weeks after Advanced Energy acquired REFUsol to become the number-three player in the PV inverter market). ABB already plays in the inverter industry, with more than $100 million expected in 2013 sales. The acquisition of Power-One makes ABB the number-two global supplier of inverters and a credible threat to longtime inverter market leader SMA (which recently became a majority owner of Chinese supplier Zeversolar).
Power-One, selling through strong existing channels, also has a microinverter and is offering installers a $20 per unit rebate for its 250-watt and 300-watt units. Chavonne Yee, Director, Product Management at Power-One notes that its inverter "is addressing the growing market for 300 watt and higher PV panels which are a growing market and allow residential homeowners to increase the PV system sizes installed on residential rooftops." She adds that "Power-One began U.S. installations in August 2012 and volume delivery in March 2013."
Petra Solar has installed over 170,000 AC modules, according to Mary Grikas, VP of Product Marketing at Petra. She also claims that Petra has installed over 22,000 units in the MENA region, with more projects in the pipeline. The founder of Petra, Shihab Kuran, left Petra last year to join SunEdison. It would appear that most of Petra's senior staff has left to form systems integrator Eden Energy.
Altenergy Power Systems (APS), a Chinese-American microinverter firm, has shipped a few megawatts of microinverters for commercial and residential applications -- mostly in China.
Chilicon Power has just started building microinverters for its first large design win of 170 kilowatts (680 modules) in Simi Valley, California, according to a release. Alexandre Kral, the co-founder of Chilicon Power, told GTM he expects to ship approximately 5,000 units in 2013. He claims his firm's microinverter has the "highest peak efficiency in the market" at 96.6 percent, adding, "Our company has been self-funded from day one and has always operated profitably, unlike all the other tier-one microinverter companies in the market."
SPARQ Systems, a Canadian microinverter builder, is partnering with Solartec Mexico, a solar panel manufacturer. Solartec has pledged to deploy solar on 1,000 "small homes" with PV modules using SPARQ's microinverters.
CyboEnergy builds a "mini-inverter" with per-module-MPPT for four modules. Allyson Lin, iEnergy's Marketing Manager, claims that iEnergy has been shipping into the U.S. market since late last year. Involar, LeadSolar, and Samil Power also displayed microinverters at last week's Intersolar.
Falling under the dormant or dead heading are Direct Grid, Azuray, GreenRay, EiQ, ArrayPower -- all VC-funded. As of the end of 2012, over $550 million in private venture capital had been raised by companies seeking microinverter and distributed optimization solutions.
He adds, "While the field has not been completely set, the microinverter and DC optimization landscape will play out and likely begin to look like the conventional inverter landscape, where the top five companies dominate market share."


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Emmaus claims 13 Freddy nominations for "Les Misérables: School Edition"
May 11, 2019 Rylan Bassett
The cast and crew of the spring musical gathered in the Black Box May 9 to watch the live announcement of Freddy award nominations. Nominations granted to Emmaus include Outstanding Use of Scenery, Outstanding Performance by a Male Ensemble Member (Lorenzo Antigua as Enjolras), Outstanding Use of Lighting, Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Alena Slak as Cosette), Outstanding Performance By an Actor in a Supporting Role (Ryan Murphy as Marius), Outstanding Chorus, Outstanding Featured Performance by an Actor (Thomas Murgitroyde as Thernardiér and Trevor Warren as Javert), Outstanding Featured Performance by an Actress (Analise Edwards as Fantine), Outstanding Production Number ("One Day More"), Outstanding Stage Crew, Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Sebastian Mora as Jean Valjean), and Outstanding Overall Production of a Musical.
Download the official nomination list here. 2019 FREDDY Awards Nominees List
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Sarah Wairimu may kill us if released – Cohen's siblings
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By Diaspora Messenger	 Last updated Sep 28, 2019
Sarah Wairimu may kill us if released – Cohen's siblings: Relatives of murdered Dutchman Tob Cohen want his widow Sarah Wairimu denied bail "because we could be targets for elimination should she be free".
Benard Cohen and his sister Gabrielle Cohen, both blood siblings of the slain tycoon, have told the court in sworn affidavits that releasing Wairimu will pose a threat to their lives given the gravity of the crime she is accused of.
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Wairimu, 52, is suspected to have killed her 71-year-old husband. She is yet to take a plea.
The police found Cohen's body in an empty water tank in his Kitisuru home compound, Nairobi, on September 13. He had been missing since July 19.
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Cohen was buried on Tuesday according to Jewish rites.
According to the affidavits filed last Wednesday, Bernard and Gabrielle claim the nature of the offence committed and the ghastly manner in which it was executed, make them apprehensive that they could be marked as easy targets in reprisal, putting their lives in danger.
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"As family members of the deceased, whom the applicant is suspected to have murdered, I'm apprehensive about my safety as a witness in the trial, should the applicant be released on bail.
Cohen gave Sarah nothing, according to his will
Cohen also willed a huge sum of money said to be in hundreds of millions to his brother.
"I have a reasonable apprehension that given the gruesome manner in which the deceased person in this matter met his death, family members of the deceased could be targets for elimination," Benard and Gabriele say.
They also told the court that being direct family members of Tob as well as trial witnesses against Wairimu, they run the risk of being zeroed in on for possible elimination in the gruesome manner in which their brother Tob was tortured and executed should she be released.
Moreover, Cohen's siblings allege that Wairimu has the potential of interfering with witnesses as well as contaminating the evidence should she be released, citing the ruling by Kiambu Chief Magistrate Priscilla Gichohi who found her to have coached witnesses before.
"That in a ruling on September 2, 2019, by Kiambu chief magistrate P. Gichohi … the court established that the suspect herein had interfered with witnesses and evidence, that having interfered with the said witnesses once before, there was no guarantee that she cannot do it again, and as such that alone was a compelling reason to warrant her detention and denial of the bail," the affidavit reads.
While ordering her 12 days detention at Muthaiga police station on September 2, Gichohi found Wairimu to have coached some witnesses to give false testimony on Cohen's movement.
The witnesses, however, recanted their statements and gave the true account of events.
This was at the height of investigation on the whereabouts of Cohen who had been reported missing since July 19.
She cannot be trusted not to do it again, Cohen's siblings argue.
The ruling by the Kiambu chief magistrate also suggested that Wairimu may have had a direct role in the disappearance of her husband and his eventual grisly murder.
"It is highly probable that Cohen was kidnapped from his residence and taken by the suspect and her associates to an unknown place; the kidnapping probably turned out to be murder," the ruling by the magistrate read in part.
Dutch Tycoon's sister accompanied by the husband with chief head of security Peter Kang'ara arrives at the Chiromo mortuary./DOUGLAS OKIDDY
Bernard and Gabrielle also argue that instead of being released, Wairimu should ask her advocates to push for earlier hearing dates for expeditious conclusion of the matter so that if innocent, she can proceed with her normal life.
Wairimu's lawyers dismissed the allegations by the widow that an investigator by the name Clement Mwangi had sexually harassed her while in detention at Muthaiga Police station, saying no such report nor OB was recorded at any known police station.
They also took issues with the continued assertion by Wairimu's lawyer Philip Murgor that there was no evidence to warrant her being charged with murder.
They argue this does not just trivialise the enormity of the charge but also injuring the role of the court in weighing the probity of the evidence to be adduced.
"….the applicant is trespassing on this court's jurisdiction by alleging or rather making an assumption that there is no evidence to warrant the accused person to face a charge of murder as the court is yet to hear and make a determination in this case," they said.
Cohen's killers are here at grave — says widow Sarah Wairimu
Tense atmosphere and sharp barbs at the Jewish Cemetery for the funeral of Tob Cohen.
Wairimu's defence
In a replying affidavit, Wairimu dismissed the grounds of opposition by her in-laws for her to be released as falsehoods that are withdrawn from the realities on the ground.
She argues there is no evidence produced in court to depict the risk to life that her release on bail portends to her in-laws, holding that if anything, both Bernard and Gabrielle live outside the country and have no interaction with her whatsoever, hence no chances of harming them.
Further, Wairimu says that there is "absolutely no tension between myself, Gabrielle Hanna Cohen-van Straten and Bernard Cohen, except that which is fueled by certain investigating officers, prosecutors and interested parties like [former Gatundu North MP] Peter Muiruri."
She asserts that the cordiality between her and her in-laws is depicted by the fact they were able to amicably agree, devoid of any tension, to have her attend the postmortem analysis at Chiromo morgue as well as agreeing on the date, place and manner of the burial of her husband.
Further, she says, the conduct of the burial ceremony "was mutual and I paid tribute to my husband as did his brother Bernard Cohen" and that the occasion was peaceful, dignified and respectful save for outburst of hostility displayed by Muiruri.
Wairimu also holds that her being held in custody has limited her ability to pursue her allegations of sexual harassment against the named investigator. She believes this argument will whittle down the attempts by the two siblings to discredit her claim of being sexually harassed.
It is also disabling her to fight for her matrimonial property which she believes is being taken away from her.
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Executive Branch Officials and the 'Revolving Door' Limitation
There is also a ban on influencing prospective employers
By Chris Micheli, January 3, 2022 12:27 pm
Similar to the "revolving door" limitation on state legislators found in Article IV, Section 5(e) of the California Constitution, executive branch officials of state government are also subject to this limitation when these officials leave government service. It is often referred to as the "revolving door" between the public and private sectors.
Article V, Section 14(e) provides that "the Legislature shall enact laws that prohibit a state officer, or a secretary of an agency or director of a department appointed by the Governor, who has not resigned or retired from state service prior to January 7, 1991, from lobbying, for compensation, as governed by the Political Reform Act of 1974, before the executive branch of state government for 12 months after leaving office."
This provision of the state Constitution applies to the elected constitutional officers as well as agency secretaries (i.e., members of the Governor's cabinet) and department directors, who are appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the State Senate. Article V, Section 14(f) defines "state officer" as the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Controller, Insurance Commissioner, Secretary of State, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Treasurer, and the members of the State Board of Equalization.
In addition, there are statutory provisions that provide further guidance on the revolving door limitation. Government Code Title 9, Chapter 7, Article 4 concerns the disqualification of former officers and employees. It begins with Section 87406(a), which is known as the "the Milton Marks Postgovernment Employment Restrictions Act of 1990."
Similar to the provisions of the Milton Marks Act related to legislators, Government Code Section 87406(c) – applicable to the nine elected state officers – specifies that:
An elected state officer, other than a Member of the Legislature, for a period of one year after leaving office, shall not, for compensation, act as agent or attorney for, or otherwise represent, any other person by making any formal or informal appearance, or by making any oral or written communication, before any state administrative agency, or any officer or employee thereof, if the appearance or communication is for the purpose of influencing administrative action, or influencing any action or proceeding involving the issuance, amendment, awarding, or revocation of a permit, license, grant, or contract, or the sale or purchase of goods or property. For purposes of this subdivision, an appearance before a "state administrative agency" does not include an appearance in a court of law, before an administrative law judge, or before the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board.
In addition, a similar prohibition applies to certain employees of state agencies. Government Code Section 87406(d)(1) provides:
A designated employee of a state administrative agency, any officer, employee, or consultant of a state administrative agency who holds a position that entails the making, or participation in the making, of decisions that may foreseeably have a material effect on any financial interest, and a member of a state administrative agency, for a period of one year after leaving office or employment, shall not, for compensation, act as agent or attorney for, or otherwise represent, any other person, by making any formal or informal appearance, or by making any oral or written communication, before any state administrative agency, or officer or employee thereof, for which the individual worked or represented during the 12 months before leaving office or employment, if the appearance or communication is made for the purpose of influencing administrative or legislative action, or influencing any action or proceeding involving the issuance, amendment, awarding, or revocation of a permit, license, grant, or contract, or the sale or purchase of goods or property. For purposes of this paragraph, an appearance before a state administrative agency does not include an appearance in a court of law, before an administrative law judge, or before the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board. The prohibition of this paragraph only applies to designated employees employed by a state administrative agency on or after January 7, 1991.
Finally, elsewhere in the Political Reform Act, and similar to provisions applicable to state legislators, there is also a ban on influencing prospective employers. In other words, a state executive branch officer or official is prohibited from making, participating in making, or influencing a governmental decision that directly relates to a prospective employer of that officer or official.
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