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Our Father who are in heaven, you know and see the pain of our brothers and sisters in concentration camps just because they love you, I know your heart must be in pain everyday for your children and I know that you will soon somehow will free them.
May you give them a double portion of your Spirit and peace in their time of trouble, come to take your people home soon Lord Jesus. Amen.
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SSA Consultants' Christel Slaughter delivered the first of two study results assessing Ascension Parish's personnel allocation Tuesday before the Council Finance Committee in Gonzales. The Compensation Study, an organizational analysis report is scheduled for May's Finance meeting, resulted in seven recommendations which a unanimous committee adopted. Firstly, Slaughter recommended Ascension "adopt current market-based" pay ranges since 116 of the parish's 472 "incumbents" (it means employees) are paid more than the market's maximum range.
While 38 incumbents are paid below the range these employees tend to fall on the bottom of Ascension's pay ladder and infusing $55,000 into their yearly paychecks will bring those low level workers into the range. Ascension's top earners are the ones making out better than the free market would dictate.
"You have allowed people to go above range for a number of reasons," Slaughter told Finance citing 2-9% annual cost of living raises. "Merit raises are not tied to performance evaluation…You've got a lot of positions, titles if you will…"
Prairieville Councilman Aaron Lawler discussed the possibility of making up the $55,000 shortage on the low end from the "astronomical raises" on the upper end of the pay spectrum.
"If we took people who were given raises, really astronomical quite honestly, and use some of that money," he suggested. "I know in the past year we've had people get increases of 32%, 16%…"
"I'm not sure we saw any 32% raises. If somebody was promoted into a new position their pay might change," countered Christel Slaughter.
She could have been referring to former Executive Assistant to the last parish president who is now a General Manager, Thomas "Moose" Pearce whose salary jumped form approximately $80,000 to $101,900 within weeks of President Kenny Matassa assuming office.Another General Manager position was created for Don Hysell who received a similar increase. Questions with regard to their duties have been ignored by Matassa for a year now. He also hired nine project managers when his predecessor had one.
"Sometimes you make a position and put somebody in it and, all of a sudden, a massive raise," Lawler asserted. "We have a tight budget. The parish is not flush with cash. When we see these people getting astronomical raises, that's a concern."
Slaughter "would call that a promotion."
"We didn't look at whether people were qualified to be in the position they are in," she explained though such pedestrian matters could be included in next month's report.
She recommended freezing salaries at the top end until the market catches up because it is "not good policy to cut pay." A consolidation of similar jobs with different titles was recommended by Slaughter who added the current personnel manual "is good but is not followed."
None other than west bank Councilman Oliver Joseph seemed to agree with his Prairieville counterpart.
"I would want to work for Ascension Parish," Joseph concluded after hearing Slaughter out. "A 30% increase in salary, (lay persons) do not know all the story behind everything. Some of them get paid more than what I think they should get paid; that's me personally."
And a hefty salary translates into healthy retirement packages for all those positions created by the Matassa administration.
"What does the Chief of Staff do? What do nine project managers do? How does the head of Mosquito Control make more money than our Emergency Preparedness Director," Jeff Pettit, the only public speaker fired off a series of questions. "I'm not talking about the rank and file employees but the big boys whose inflated salaries will yield inflated retirement benefits that our kids and grand-kids will have to pay off, over $3 billion."
"No wonder there's no money for roads, or drainage, or recreation," he concluded.
At present those accrued retirement benefits are "virtually fully funded (98.4%)"…and "a significant percentage of your workforce is already eligible for retirement" according to SSA's findings.
"(Ascension's retirement) is a marvelous benefit to your employees," raved Christel Slaughter who also noted the parish's health plan and other benefits have served to attract and retain employees.
"Ascension Parish has the 3rd largest retirement system in the State of Louisiana."
180 different job titles, many with similar duties renders day to day operations more complex.
Now that SSA's report is in the Council is supposed to consider ratifying five Matassa appointments as required by Ascension's Home Rule Charter and corresponding ordinances. Ratification of CAO Ken Dawson, DPW Director Bill Roux, Finance Director/Treasurer Gwen LeBlanc, Planning Director Jerome Fournier, and Personnel Director Cheryl Kinchen were deferred from a late 2016 Council meeting to await SSA's findings.
Matassa had delayed presenting the appointments to the governing authority for ten months. When/if the Council finally takes up ratification it will have one less appointee to approve.
"Cheryl Kinchen has taken a new opportunity in parish government working with Chief Administrative Officer Ken Dawson working on project management," according to a statement by Public Information Officer Martin McConnell.
Word was that Kinchen was not going to be ratified when it was deferred from the November 3, 2016 agenda. Does that make 10 project managers? Kinchen's salary during former President Tommy Martinez's last term was $81,494. According to records produced to Pelican Post last month it was $99,216.
McConnell did not address the affect of Kinchen's new position on her salary.


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Shanrika Nelson, a nursing home worker with Somerton Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Philadelphia, spent time with Vice President Joe Biden as part of SEIU's Walk-A-Day program, which invites presidential candidates to shadow a working person and discuss the challenges we face.
In addition to giving Vice President Biden a virtual tour of her facility and an overview of her daily work at the nursing home—work she has done her entire adult life while raising her own family—Shanrika and a few of her fellow fellow essential workers sat down for a video call with Biden to discuss the solutions we need as our nation works to recover from the coronavirus pandemic.
They talked about how their nursing home work has been historically undermined and undervalued as "women's work" and how frontline workers in this health crisis, mostly Black and brown workers, need to be treated as the essential workers they are instead of sacrificial workers to be disregarded. They said unless we make caregiving jobs viable careers with family-sustaining wages, benefits and proper training, we won't be able to build back better from COVID-19 and the resulting recession.
Just one day before, Joe Biden announced a comprehensive plan to invest in family-sustaining caregiving jobs, to provide long-needed support for America's caregivers and the working families who rely on them. This is an important step in providing the essential infrastructure society needs to thrive. He made clear that when he is president, once and for all care jobs will be transformed into jobs that are not only valued by society, but into jobs they can live on.


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Sweet 60
Sweet 60 is a multimedia project consisting of a website and video feature documentaries. We would like to impart senior citizens the programs, privileges, and ideas that their life's a gift that's worth celebrating.
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UI Design, Creative Direction, Graphic Design
Our topic is about the opportunities for senior citizens. We made our research. We read related studies. We interviewed different senior citizens and also representatives from some offices. In our research, we found that the Philippines' population has a small ratio of seniors compared to the younger people. There are existing laws from in and outside our country to protect their rights. There are a also lot of groups and companies who give help. However, the problem is the implementation and system. Only the upper-class seniors receive the benefits. They are more aware of their privileges. To combat this, we created a project that informs the children of these seniors (who are now adults) to tell them about their benefits and privileges.
Our main idea revolved around a celebration for senior citizens. Teenagers have a big ceremony when they reach 16. We want to develop the concept. We should celebrate those who would reach their 60s. After the idea, we created our target audience then a user persona. To convey our message, we used three fun retro colors, each with their meaning. We used the cake as an inspiration for the logo. The logo forms the top of a cake. The word "Sweet" is the icing, while the number "60" is a candle. It brings a significant meaning.
Since most of the seniors we interviewed did not use computers, we directed our project to their adult children instead. We want them to inform seniors that there are programs and privileges that will help them. With the help of offices, we listed their "benefits" in one of the web pages including the process, requirements, and qualifications. They can also download and print a copy. Our website has six main pages: home, programs, video, news, benefits, and about. Most of our content came from organizations and offices. We asked for their programs and activities. We also went to events involving senior citizens to write it into a piece of news. The newspapers influenced the layout of our website. We would bring good news.
To encourage them, we also documented the lives of four senior citizens who continued doing great things after 60. From attending events, we were able to meet four distinctive seniors that we featured in our documentary. Their stories were fascinating. We produced six videos: one trailer, one main documentary, and four solo videos for each senior. Our "trailer" was placed on the homepage to hopefully lead users to the other four documentaries in the "video" page. Each feature of the senior tells about their life before and after reaching 60. The main video combines all of their stories. We hope that users who would watch these will be motivated.
Our four senior interviewees were very distinct. Ms. Chit shared her story on how she became a vice-president of their organization and helped her co-seniors make a livelihood. Her actions won her awards. Second, Ms. Joy has always been a career woman. She continued to be active by serving in the office for seniors in the government. She hosts events and gives useful advice to others. Third, we found Mr. Wilson playing piano in a "Grandparent's Day" celebration. He didn't graduate from college but he was able to learn physics, mathematics, and science using just the internet. He believes that knowledge is free and that people should keep on learning. He was able to publish a book to share his skills in music. Finally, Mr. Alan did acting when he was young. But, he left it for the academe. Now, he was able to return to his passion for theater.


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What you need to know about the forces reshaping our industry.
April 9, 2018
California law now requires that all acute-care hospitals and skilled nursing facilities in the state have comprehensive workplace violence prevention plans, making California the first state to require hospitals have these plans in place, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from California, Massachusetts, and Nebraska.
South Dakota is the best state to practice medicine, according to a new analysis from WalletHub—but other states might be better fits for doctors depending on their priorities.
Adam Boehler, the founder and former CEO of Landmark Health, beginning this week will serve as the new deputy administrator and director of CMS' Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon in an annual letter to stakeholders outlined six "critical problems and issues" that JPMorgan, Amazon, and Berkshire Hathaway will focus on under a joint venture to launch a health care company.
Several industry stakeholders expressed concern about the proposed payment cuts, with the American Hospital Association (AHA) saying the cuts could threaten Medicare beneficiaries' access to EDs in urban communities.
Veterans Affairs (VA) on Thursday issued a press release stating that the Trump administration is not working to privatize VA's health system.
Vitamin supplements are widely used in the United States, especially among adults ages 65 and older—but there's scant evidence that they work to prevent chronic diseases, Liz Szabo writes for Kaiser Health News.
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2020 Minor League Season Canceled
Minor League Baseball has officially announced there will be no 2020 season, in wake of the MLB season starting soon.
This is a sad day for the game because of the entertainment factor lost that is minor league baseball, along with the players losing gameplay for the 2020 season. It's understandable given the magnitude of a global pandemic. Unfortunately, since MLB teams pay minor leaguer salaries, some have not committed to paying these players for the entirety of the season, notably the Oakland A's. This article from Baseball America outlines where each team stands with minor league pay at the moment.
Every player in these systems should be paid, even with the announcement of the MLB cutting minor league teams. It is the right thing to do for athletes who already make below minimum wage.


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I'm not a mom yet but I read this for myself. I'm gearing more towards sewing as it is something I find doing most times. Thank you for sharingReplyDelete
Love your discussion of being a whole person, as a mother and partner - you can't forget about being the whole, interesting, hobby seeking person you are! Thanks for the lovely suggestions!ReplyDelete
These are great ideas and I am so interested to learn about other things like sewing, Photoshop and knitting.ReplyDelete
These are great ideas and I am so interested to learn about other things like sewing, Photoshop and knitting.ReplyDelete
I just joined a book club actually and I love it!!ReplyDelete
There are so many amazing things we could do! I love sewing and crafting very simple things that relax me and allow me to rest my mind. Awesome suggestions.ReplyDelete
I have never been a stay at home mom but I often wonder how and when they have time for themselves when their every minute seems to be focussed on their family's needs. These look like fun ways for moms to get out and practise self care and have fun.ReplyDelete
When I was with my daughter on maternity leave I took up arts and crafts. Thanks for the other suggestions.ReplyDelete
It is nice to have some hobbies and ways to do something for ourselves. It is so easy to lose yourself as a mom. Self care is so important too!ReplyDelete
Sending this to all my mom friends!ReplyDelete
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I'm doing about 5 on that list and will likely add more real soon.ReplyDelete
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The new vulnerability impacts Linux virtual machines on Azure. They end up with a little-known service called OMI installed as a byproduct of enabling any of several logging reporting and/or management options in Azure's UI.
At its worst, the vulnerability in OMI could be leveraged into remote root code execution—although thankfully, Azure's on-by-default, outside-the-VM firewall will limit it to most customers' internal networks only.
Opting in to any of several attractive Azure infrastructure services (such as distributed logging) automatically installs a little-known service inside the Azure virtual machine in question. That service, OMI—short for Open Management Interface—is intended to function much like Microsoft Windows' WMI service, enabling collection of logs and metrics as well as some remote management.
Part of the OMI specification requires authentication in order to bind commands and requests to a specific user ID (UID)—but unfortunately, a bug caused malformed requests that omit the authentication stanza entirely to be accepted as though given by the
root user itself.
When configured for remote management, OMI runs an HTTPS server on port 5986, which can be connected to with a standard HTTPS client like
curl and given reasonably human-readable commands in the XML-derived SOAP protocol. In other configurations, OMI only runs on a local Unix socket at
/var/opt/omi/run/omiserver.sock, which limits its exploitation to local users only.
As Wiz senior security researcher Nir Ohfeld walked me through a demonstration of the vulnerability, he described it mostly in terms of privilege escalation—an attacker who gets any toehold on an affected virtual machine can issue any arbitrary command as root using OMI syntax.
In larger environments where OMI listens on a network port, not just a local Unix socket, it's also a great way to laterally pivot—an attacker who gets a shell on one VM in a customer's Azure local network can typically use the buggy OMI to get control of any other virtual machine on the same network segment.
As it turns out, Azure isn't the only place you'll find OMI. Organizations that adopt Microsoft System Center (which gets advertised on every new install of Windows Server 2019 and up) and manage on- or off-premise Linux hosts with it also end up with the buggy version of OMI deployed on those managed hosts.
As Nir and I talked through the vulnerability's scope, I pointed out the likelihood of some Azure customers both enabling logging in the UI and adding a "default allow" rule to a Linux VM's Azure firewall—sure, it's incorrect practice, but it happens. "Oh my god," I exclaimed—and the Wiz team burst out laughing. As it turns out, that's exactly what they'd named the vulnerability—OMIGOD.
A difficult bounty to collect
Despite the obvious severity of OMIGOD—which includes four separate but related bugs Wiz discovered—the company had difficulty getting Microsoft to pay it a bounty for its discovery and responsible disclosure. In a series of emails Ars reviewed, Microsoft representatives initially dismissed the vulnerabilities as "out of scope" for Azure. According to Wiz, Microsoft representatives in a phone call further characterized bugs in OMI as an "open source" problem.
This claim is complicated by the fact that Microsoft authored OMI in the first place, which it donated to The Open Group in 2012. Since then, the vast majority of commits to OMI have continued to come from Redmond-based, Microsoft-employed contributors—open source or not, this is clearly a Microsoft project.
In addition to Microsoft's de facto ownership of the project, Azure's own management system automatically deploys OMI—admins are not asked to hit the command line and install the package for themselves. Instead, it's deployed automatically inside the virtual machine whenever an OMI-dependent option is clicked in the Azure GUI.
Even when Azure management deploys OMI, there's little obvious notice to the administrator who enabled it. We found that most Azure admins seem only to discover that OMI exists if their /var partition fills with its core dumps.
Eventually, Microsoft relented on its refusal to pay an Azure Management bug bounty for OMIGOD and awarded Wiz with a total of $70,000 for the four bugs comprising it.
A dusty corner of the supply chain
"OMI is like a Linux implementation of Windows Management Infrastructure," Ohfeld told Ars. "Our assumption is when they moved to the cloud and had to support Linux machines, they wanted to bridge the gap, to have the same interface available for both Windows and Linux machines."
OMI's inclusion in Azure Management—and in Microsoft System Center, advertised directly on every new Windows Server installation—means it gets installed as a low-level component on a staggering number of critically important Linux machines, virtual and otherwise. The fact that it listens for commands on an open network port in some configurations, using extremely well-known protocols (SOAP over HTTPS), makes it a very attractive target for attackers.
With the scope of both deployment and potential vulnerability, one might reasonably expect a lot of eyeballs would be on OMI—enough that a vulnerability summed up as "you forgot to make sure the user authenticated" would be rapidly discovered. Unfortunately, this is not the case—OMI has a disturbingly low total of 24 contributors, 90 forks, and 225 "stars" (a measurement of relatively casual developer interest) over the nine years it's had a home on Github.
By contrast, my own ZFS management project Sanoid—which listens on no ports and has been accurately if uncharitably described as "a couple thousand lines of Perl script"—has more than twice the contributors and forks and nearly 10 times the stars.
By any reasonable standard, an infrastructure component as critically important as OMI should be receiving far more attention—which raises questions about how many other dusty corners of the software supply chain are being equally under-inspected and under-maintained.
An unclear upgrade path
Microsoft employee Deepak Jain committed the necessary fixes to OMI's GitHub repository on August 11—but as Ars confirmed directly, those fixes had still not been deployed to Azure as of September 13. Microsoft told Wiz that it would announce a CVE on Patch Tuesday, but Wiz researchers expressed uncertainty as to how or when those fixes could be universally deployed.
"Microsoft has not shared their mitigation plan with us," Wiz CTO Ami Luttwak told Ars, "but based on our own customer telemetry, this could be a tricky one to patch properly. OMI is embedded across multiple Azure services and each may require a different upgrade path."
For arbitrary Linux systems remotely managed from Microsoft System Center, the upgrade path might be even more convoluted—because the Linux agents for System Center have been deprecated. Customers still using System Center with OMI-enabled Linux may need to manually update the OMI agent.
Mitigation for affected users
If you're a Linux system administrator worried that you might be running OMI, you can detect it easily by looking for listening ports on TCP 5985 and 5986 (TCP 1270, for OMI agents deployed by Microsoft System Center rather than Azure) or a Unix socket located beneath
If you have the Unix socket but not the ports, you're still vulnerable until Microsoft deploys a patch—but the scope is limited to local privilege escalation only.
In the cases where OMI listens on TCP ports, it binds to all interfaces, including public ones. We strongly recommend limiting access to these ports via Linux firewall, whether your OMI instance is repaired or not.
In particular, security-conscious administrators should be carefully limiting access to this and any other network services to only those network segments that actually need access. Machines running Microsoft System Center obviously need access to OMI on client systems, as does Azure's own infrastructure—but the clients themselves don't need OMI access from one to another.
The best practice for reduction of network attack surface—with this and any other potentially vulnerable service—is a global firewall
deny rule, with specific
allow rules in place only for machines that need to access a given service.
Where that's not practical—for example, in an Azure environment where the administrator isn't certain what Microsoft network segments need to access OMI in order for Azure Management to work properly—simply denying access from other VMs on the same network segment will at least prevent lateral movement of attackers from one machine to another.
For more technical information, Wiz's own blog post detailing its findings can be found here.


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How do you react when you see Hollywood celebrities grooving on Hindi songs? Well, for us it's kind of a big deal. Now, a video is going viral on social media where Timothée Chalamet is seen grooving on popular Punjabi song 'Mundian Tu Bach Ke' and it's the best thing you'll see on the internet today.
Reportedly, Chalamet was attending a party at Bagatelle Beach Club in Saint Tropez, France.
In the viral video, Timothée Chalamet can be seen wearing a white t-shirt and has paired it with grey slim fit shorts. He accessorised the look with a pair of sunglasses and a black cap. The Dune actor can be seen grooving as soon as the DJ played 'Mundian tu bach ke' and he looked cute beyond words.
Take a look at Timothée Chalamet's video here:
If that's not the mid-week motivation we needed to get through the day then we don't know what is.
Indian fans are going gaga over Timothée Chalamet's video grooving on a Punjabi song. A fan commented, "Oh my god I scream". Another fan commented, "I already love TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET bt now watching him vibe to one of my fav Punjabi song is making me love him more" A third fan commented, "The Indian in me screamed!!!!!!"
Here's another video of the Dune actor grooving on Shakira's 'Hips Don't Lie'. Take a look:
Isn't he a total cutie?
Well, this isn't the first time that a Hollywood celebrity is grooving on 'Mundian tu bach ke'. Last year, Kylie Jenner's video of grooving on the same song was going viral on the internet. Take a look at it here:
What are your thoughts on Timothée Chalamet grooving on a Punjabi song? Tell us in the comments below.
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Maker Humvee vehicles Sues Activision for Call of Duty games
The maker of Humvee military vehicles filed a lawsuit accusing Activision Blizzard Inc of reaping billions of dollars of revenue by incorporating its trademarks without permission in its flagship "Call of Duty" video game franchise.
In a complaint filed on Tuesday night in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, AM General LLC accused Activision of taking advantage of its goodwill and reputation in the "Humvee" and "HMMWV" marks by featuring them prominently in "Call of Duty," and licensing related content for use in toys and books, reports Reuters:
"Humvee" and "HMMWV" are short for High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles. AM General said it has made more than 278,000 Humvees.
Mary Osako, a spokeswoman for Activision, said on Wednesday that the company does not discuss pending litigation. Activision has said "Call of Duty" last year was the world's largest video game console franchise, and North America's largest for the eighth straight year.The franchise was launched in 2003, and sales had by 2016 topped 250 million units, with revenue exceeding $15 billion, according to the Santa Monica, California-based company.
But AM General said that success came "only at the expense of AM General and consumers who are deceived into believing that AM General licenses the games or is somehow connected with or involved in the creation of the games."
AM General is owned by MacAndrews & Forbes Inc and Renco Group Inc, which are holding companies for the billionaires Ronald Perelman and Ira Rennert, respectively. The South Bend, Indiana-based company said it wants compensatory, punitive and triple damages from Activision, after more than a year of communication failed to end the dispute. Humvee-branded vehicles have been used for more than three decades by the U.S. military and in more than 50 countries, AM General said. In recent months, they have been used in armed conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, and to provide relief to victims of Hurricane Harvey in Texas. AM General has also produced a civilian vehicle, the Hummer.
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Very easy from dilettante point of view : pay that company and/or remove emblems from all vehicles in game.
Do we ever give a f@ck to emblems on vehicle models in FPS game?
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All that free advertising for AM general and they still sue. And how many consumers do you think were "deceived" into believeing that AM Gen had anything to do with the creation of COD? What a crock. I say remove all Humvees from future installments of COD. I'm pretty sure some other manufacturer would love the free exposure COD would give them.
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That's what I'm thinking to^....never bite the hand that helps feed you.
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What about the other 9485039485 War Games using Humvees?
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So how many Humvees did the COD franchise actually help sell then?


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md. abu naser robii - bangladesh
The three
A public performance project, 3 part hat
I started my journey to join an international workshop in Jordan. It was my 33rd birthday. It took 3 days and 3 airports, through which there was a lot of struggle with visa and immigration matters, until I arrived in Jordan at 3 a.m. We were 3 in the car travelling to Shatana. There were 3 organizers waiting for me to say welcome at the early hour. We were 3 in the apartment in Shatana. And, I realized I was carrying 3 bags. The Program follows the international Triangle Arts model. Number 3 was everywhere on this trip, I shared it with the public through this performance.
History if an abundant village
The nature in Shatana village was very colorless, dry and hot, very different from my home. I found a small bush which was dry and dead. Through the environment where the workshop took place, I was trying to understand the situation and life in Jordan. Instead of work through a point of view of life and reality, I made an installation in an abandoned house in an abandoned village.
A collaborative performance project with Rafique Nasereddin
This work takes the poem Bidrohee, one of the master pieces of Bengali poetry written by the poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, and translates it into a performance. The final outcome was a video with text in Arabic, Bengali and English, alongside thematic drawings narrating Bidrohee.


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In the July issue we're checking in with local lifestyle expert Jasmine Brett Stringer as she teaches people to seize the day.
We all have that moment when we wish time could freeze, right then and there, so we can enjoy it for as long as we want. Thankfully, many photographers are masters of capturing those moments, whenever and wherever they happen.


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Start of Richmond Flying Squirrels, MiLB season delayed indefinitely
RICHMOND, Va. - Minor League Baseball announced on Thursday afternoon it will delay the start of the 2020 season, including the Richmond Flying Squirrels, due to the coronavirus outbreak. Further decisions about the start of the 2020 season will be made at a later date.
RICHMOND, Va. - Minor League Baseball announced on Thursday afternoon it will delay the start of the 2020 season, including the Richmond Flying Squirrels, due to the coronavirus outbreak. Further decisions about the start of the 2020 season will be made at a later date.
The Flying Squirrels and Minor League Baseball are continuing to monitor developments as they relate to the health and safety of fans and staff.
"We're all in this together," Flying Squirrels President & Managing General Partner Lou DiBella said. "The best things we can do right now are to remain as safe as we can, heed the advice of health officials, and be there to support each other in any ways possible. The Flying Squirrels staff will work remotely from home until further notice, but we will be right here in RVA with you. We'll be communicating with you through social media and in other allowable ways and we'll do our best to keep reminding you that baseball is coming when this is under control. Be well and keep the faith."
"This is about the safety of our fans, employees, players, media and everyone else in our community," Flying Squirrels VP & COO Todd "Parney" Parnell said. "That is the most important thing, period. Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone impacted. The world has been thrown a big curveball, and it is up to us all to work together to get through this safely, and when we do, the memories we make will be the sweetest of all time."
Minor League Baseball issued the following statement on Thursday afternoon:
"In light of the current coronavirus outbreak, and after consultation with medical professionals and our partners at Major League Baseball, Minor League Baseball will delay the start of the 2020 Championship Season. We will continue to monitor the developments and will announce additional information about the 2020 season at a later date. We will work with Major League Baseball and our community partners to resume play as soon as it is safe to do so. The health and safety of Minor League Baseball fans, players and executives is our top priority, and our thoughts are with those around the world who have been affected by this outbreak."
The Flying Squirrels will address information on tickets for postponed games at a later time once more information is available. Information on the status of other upcoming, non-game Flying Squirrels events will be shared on Flying Squirrels social media platforms, including Facebook and Twitter.


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Geneva, 5 May 2021 – The decision of the US administration to support a patent waiver for COVID-19 vaccines is disappointing. We are fully aligned with the goal to ensure COVID-19 vaccines are quickly and equitably shared around the world. But, as we have consistently stated, a waiver is the simple but the wrong answer to what is a complex problem. Waiving patents of COVID-19 vaccines will not increase production nor provide practical solutions needed to battle this global health crisis. On the contrary, it is likely to lead to disruption; while distracting from addressing the real challenges in scaling up production and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines globally: namely elimination of trade barriers, addressing bottlenecks in supply chains and scarcity of raw materials and ingredients in the supply chain, and a willingness by rich countries to start sharing doses with poor countries.
While the decision of the US administration does not address the real challenges in vaccinating the world, industry will not waver in its commitment to provide safe, effective and quality vaccines and therapeutics. We will continue to leave no stone unturned to further scale up manufacturing of COVID-19 vaccines, as no one is safe until everyone is safe. The international intellectual property system has given companies confidence to engage in more than 200 technology transfer agreements to expand delivery on COVID-19 vaccines based on unprecedented partnerships between vaccine industrialized and developing country vaccine manufacturers. The only way to ensure quick scaling up of and equitable vaccine access to all those in need remains pragmatic and constructive dialogue with the private sector.


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Interview: Filmmaker Benh Zeitlin on Growing Up, Working with "Wild" Kids and the Wait for His Next Film
Considering that filmmaker Benh Zeitlin's first feature film, Beasts of the Southern Wild, was one of the most celebrated indie discoveries of 2012 (the film also was also nominated for four Academy Awards), you'd think the writer/director would want to capitalize on his early success and jump into production on this next project. And in Zeitlin's mind, that's basically what he did. But his definition of "jumping into" something took about 6-7 years because he believes nothing about his process should be rushed if it means making the exact film he wants to make.
Even before Beasts was made, Zeitlin and his sister Eliza had ruminated on making a different, more realistic and, at times, sinister version of the Peter Pan story. The idea that his latest film, Wendy, is that tale told from the lead female character's perspective isn't exactly accurate, since the Peter Pan book is already told from Wendy's (Devin France) point of view. But what Wendy does is present a grimy, energetic, deeply magical story about children on a mysteriously island where aging and time have very little meaning, and Wendy is forced to fight to save her family, even if it means being cursed with growing up. In this version of the telling, Peter (Yashua Mack) isn't necessarily the hero, and the pirates and Captain Hook aren't necessarily the real danger.
In the interim between features, Zeitlin found time to act as executive producer on two films released in 2019—Give Me Liberty and Burning Cane—both of which were recognized at this year's Film Independent Spirit Awards. I sat down with Zeitlin shortly after Wendy had it's world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival to discuss the long gestation period to get his movie made, finding the perfect first-time actors to play these children, and his use of magical realism to tell a very down-to-earth version of this fairy tale.
I saw this film at Sundance, and you said that you and your sister had been haunted by the Peter Pan story since you were kids. What was it about the story that haunted you specifically?
A lot of it. The figure of Peter—this idea that there was a kid out there who could choose not to grow up and what a defiant and dangerous thing that could be. Our relationship to him changed over time. He was our hero when we were little kids—this is the ultimate dream to be this free and wild. And that changes as you get older, and our relationship to him changed over the years. What haunted me as I got older is this idea of heartlessness that's connected to him. There's a line in the book that the only children who can fly are the gay, the innocent, and the heartless, and that word "heartless" always stuck with me, because you feel, as you get older, that there's this trade off, that you have to choose between being Peter having ultimate freedom and caring about anyone or anything, or having a family, or love in connection to your fellow people.
The world tells you that you have to choose, and at some point, you're going to sacrifice your freedom for somebody else and give up what were your dreams, and that your dreams are going to change, and that idea is one I've never wanted to accept. So when we came back to the story through Wendy, it was this interest in finding a greater freedom in care and in love and in heart. She was the character that was going to guide me and our crew, and Peter was going to learn something through this character too. She was going to learn freedom and wildness from him, and she had this lesson to bring to him. So that brought us back to the story we started working on.
There's definitely a sense that she has to make a choice in the end, and that's it's not a disappointment to have to make the choice she does. Deciding to care about people is not a letdown to her.
And to grow up and learn to evolve and love, yeah.
As a filmmaker, how far back does this go with you. You were obsessed as a child, but for how long as a director were you realistically developing this as something you would shoot?
For as long as I've been making films. I've been collaborating with my sister on everything I've ever made my entire life, before I was making films. We were doing puppet shows. From when I started making movies, we always dreamed about reinterpreting this story—really destroying this story and rebuilding it from the ashes. But it was always the most difficult film. So many people have tried and fallen on their faces with it. The scale of this and the complications of this—we wanted to make a real Neverland, find Neverland, not just synthesize it. How long that would take, how expensive it would be, it always felt totally implausible that we'd ever have the chance to do this.
It was always a film on the list of films we wanted to make, but it was really in the aftermath of Beasts that we had a sense that there would be a miraculous success with that film and we would have this Get-Out-of-Jail-Free card to make anything, so we were like "Let's skip to the hardest one and use this opportunity to make the film we thought we'd never get to make."
Talk about the process of tearing down and building it back up. What were some of the elements you wanted to emphasize? Get ride of entirely? There's no Tinkerbell, for example.
There's a lot. I think the main one was Wendy herself. I think that especially for my sister, who has lived this story her whole life, having this incredibly sexist—for lack of a better word—not even subtext. The original story and almost every interpretation of it is about adventure being for little boys, and girls wait on the sidelines. And there's this equation with motherhood and non-participation—you take care of them when they come back home. And for that character to live inside of this story that meant so much to [my sister] was really painful. We wanted to take Wendy and not just give her a sword and have her fight Captain Hook; we wanted to take this idea of motherhood and give it the ultimate power in Neverland.
There's this idea in the original text that Wendy comes to Neverland to be the mother of the Lost Boys, but that means she doesn't get to be wild or be free, so we wanted to imbue motherhood with this incredible power and have it not in any way be a contradiction to wildness and freedom. And that led us down many, many paths to transforming the magic of Neverland to being sourced by Motherhood and not fairies, from Mother Nature and not fantasy rules. We wanted to bring a reality to all of those things and make it emotional.
Mother has a physical form—two actually—this volcano and this weird, shapeless undersea creature. Where did that idea come from?
It was such a journey. The thinking behind it was, to be a kid who's that free, you do that because of your mother. Your mother protects you in those early years of your life, and when you have a mother who is there to care for you and love you and take care of you, that gives you the freedom of childhood. So this idea that there would be this creature called "the Mother" that literally is the reason the kids don't grow up follows from that logic, and we wanted to connect that to this laughing heart of the universe. We imagine at the center of the earth there's children's laughter, and there was going to be this creature that lived deep at the center of the earth, breathing off of hydrothermal vents and that laughter that she gets, spat up to the surface in these eruptions, and she was going to find this one survivor, this boy, and protect him. That was our original story for how she came to be, and how she looks in this design is very inspired by microscopic creatures that live at the center of the earth.
In Beasts, you had this one central, first-time child actor, and now you've surrounded yourself with them, so you're either a sucker for punishment or you have a gift. Why jump in that direction?
[laughs] I don't know.
Was there ever a time where you wondered why you did it that way?
Every single day. I definitely thought I had a handle on how to direct children, but these were different types of kids. We wanted children who would run away with Peter Pan, and these kids had wildness in their eyes when we met them that made us know that they were the right people but it also meant that they were erratic, that they were kids who don't like to be told what to do, and they had to be really playing in order to come to set. If set wasn't fun, there was no way to direct these performances. We always had to strike this balance between the set being a playground and the set being a movie set. That was a cascading, exponential challenge.
How vast was the search that landed on Devin France, and how did you know she was the right Wendy?
It was very similar to Beasts, and Devin actually comes from a town maybe 10 minutes from where Quvenzhané [Wallis, stars of Beasts of the Southern Wild] comes from. We were very similarly canvassing. We were going into towns and school, trying to get kids to come out to audition, trying to find kids who weren't actor kids; we were looking for wild kids. It was so clear that it was her from the moment she came in, and she was only seven years old and just had this mischief and wildness about her, but it was so full of love and heart, and her imagination was so tender and sweet, but not cute. It almost goes back to what we were talking about, this question of freedom and caring, and when we met her, these two qualities met. It wasn't like sometimes she's sweet and sometimes she's wild. Her wildness and sweetness were totally one. And we knew this was the person to teach us who this character needed to be, and she very much did that.
I love that that in your version of things, growing old isn't just something that happens; it's a curse; it means you failed at being a kid. These pirates aren't pirates; they're just failed children. Where did that idea come from?
There are cliches that we wanted to "magical-ize" and make emotional. This idea that you're as old as you feel. Basically, that idea is what we brought into the rules of our universe. The minute you stop feeling young, the minute you stop believing you're young, the minute you start accepting limitations and the limits of what's possible and not having faith in yourself and the magic of the world, something breaks in you and you allow aging to come into your systems. And in our world, that happens incredibly quickly. But we felt that there's a reality to that, and a lot of it had to do with how people deal with tragedy or trauma. Something horrible can happen in your life that breaks your spirit and your faith, and it can cause you to get old, and you have to find a way to stay connected to joy and freedom in order to stay young at heart. So we wanted to take those ideas and make them the real stakes of our world.
I love that the journey to this magic place begins on a train. My dad grew up in a place in Pennsylvania where a rail line ran essentially through his backyard, and it impacted the rest of his life. How important was the train element of this story to you?
One of the most amazing parts of making this movie was our train guys. It's very complicated to shoot on a train in America at this point, and we found this group of guys who are a true pack of Lost Boys. I'm sure they grew up playing with train sets, and now they're 60 years old and playing with full-size trains that they keep alive—they're called the Louisiana Steam Train Association, and they have all of these antique trains, and they're out there driving back and forth.
To me, it connected with this sense of the unknown, especially in New Orleans. All the trains go to New Orleans; there are train line running through the city everywhere. You go to sleep at night hearing the horns and crossing bells; they're there and then they go somewhere unknown. There's also so much music about that too. If you want to escape form your life, you get on a train and go somewhere else—stories of boxcar children. It always connected to me this sense of, if you wanted to step out of your life and go into the unknown, you hop a box car, and that's your portal out of there.
Are we going to have to wait another seven years for your next film? Is this your pattern now?
I hope not. This took five-and-a-half years, but no one was watching. My process is unpredictable, that's the thing. But I want to make a lot of movies, so we'll see.
Best of luck, Benh. Thanks a lot.
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The Hardy Boyz defeated The Usos on Smackdown to become new tag team champions.
Matt and Jeff Hardy are now 8 time WWE tag team champions after they defeated The Usos on Smackdown. Here's how it happened:
Jey tags Jimmy into the ring. With Jeff down, the Usos go to the opposite sides of the ring. They both jump and Jeff moves out of the way. Jeff tags Matt into the ring. Matt with the Twist of Fate. He tags Jeff and Jeff with the Swanton Bomb. He goes for the cover and gets the pin.
Make sure to read our Smackdown Live recap.


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Bemoneyaware writes about money topics in simple terms such as filing income tax forms, about EPF, PPF, Credit debt, loans, Investing in Mutual Funds, Stocks etc. We have answered questions on Quora(5.4M content views), have written articles for magazines like Femina, Outlook Money. We have done money workshops for corporates like Flipkart, colleges like Amity Management College (Bangalore), and schools like NPS(HSR), Primus in Bangalore. We are not from a financial background so we write in a simple language, with pictures, videos. Thanks to our readers Our blog is among the top 10 personal finance blogs of India. We have also written a book for young adults or teens which is available on Amazon, workbook on teaching kids about money, and income tax.
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Our education system focuses on academics and professional courses, we get the job and work hard and get caught in the race – buy a car, get married, buy a house, go on foreign vacations, have kids, send them to a good school, get them married and then maybe retire peacefully. But Cost to Company(CTC), Emergency Funds, Insurance, Inflation, Loans & EMI, Credit Card, Fixed Deposits, Stocks, Mutual Funds, PPF, EPF, Return on Investment, sounds like Latin and Greek. How well do you understand these money concepts?
Some of the questions are
Who will have more money at 58 years? Alicia invests Rs 5,000/year beginning at age 18. At age 28, she stops.(Total 50,000) or Boman invests Rs 5,000/year starting at age of 28 and invests for 30 years(Total 150,000) or Chitra invests Rs 5,000 per year starting at age 18 and invests for 30 years. (Total 200,000)
If a person's CTC(Cost to Company) is 12 lakhs annually, How much salary will be credited to his bank account monthly? Less than 1 lakh, More than 1 lakh, or 1 lakh
Try it here
What should you know as an employee?
Companies on-campus talk about what is called cost to company (CTC), that is, the money they will spend on you. An employee needs to understand many things which are shown in the image below, the list of article you can find here
- Salary:
- What is CTC(cost to company), Net Salary, Gross Salary?
- Benefits and Allowances:
- What are the various allowances, like HRA, LTA, Transport Allowance, Medical Reimbursement? Variable payouts such as performance bonus, variable pay, and gratuity.
- How to claim the allowances
- What are the contributions towards long-term and retirement benefits such as Provident fund, superannuation fund, and, Gratuity?
- Stock Options: ESPPs, ESOPs, or, Employee Stock Options are the other incentives offered. Here, the company provides you with an option to purchase some company's stock at a fixed price (also called exercise price) on a future date.
- Tax: And then there is Form 16, Form 12BB and you have to pay tax, even though your company has deducted TDS?
Basics of Income Tax
Albert Einstein, the great physicist said: "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
Well, it is not that difficult! If you want to understand what is Income, Income Tax slabs, Types of Income, the tax on different types of Income when it is taxed, dates and year related to Income Tax, tax cut i.e TDS, how to see TDS, how and when to pay advance tax, how to pay tax due then go through our list of articles at Understand Income Tax: What is Income Tax, TDS, Form 16, Challan 280
How to file Income Tax Return (ITR)
Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.
Income tax filing and processing comprises of following stages. Our list of the article, How to file ITR Income Tax Return, Process, Income Tax Notices, covers the list of articles on filing ITR, EVerifying and what notices you can get Income Tax for FY 2019-20 or AY 2020-21
- Compute income (5 types: Income from Salary, Income from owning a house, Income from selling capital (Mutual Funds Stocks, Property/House, Gold), Income from Business/Profession, Income from other sources(Interest on Saving bank account, Interest on FD)
- Check Exempt Income if any (PPF interest, EPF withdrawal after 5 years, Life Insurance payment)
- Deduct valid deductions (under Chapter VI-A) 80C,80D etc.
- Claim TDS already deducted(Check Form 26AS)
- Determine tax payable. Your net tax due should be 0.
- Pay the Self Assessment tax using Challan 280 if any and update ITR.
- Submit ITR.
- E-verify ITR / Sending ITR-V
- Wait for ITR to be Processed: Either ITR will be Processed / or you would get Notice
- Get refund (if due)
- How to reply to Notice if any.
There are various kinds of investment products such as Real Estate, Equity, Mutual Funds, Fixed Deposits, Post Office etc. One should invest in different types of investment products based on one's financial goals, as each investment product has different features in terms of liquidity, time period, is associated with different types of risk gives, different types of returns. A portfolio must have an ideal mix of financial products. This lists articles about all Investing options to investors in India. The image below compares various investment classes in terms of Risks, Tenure, Liquidy, Returns and Taxation.
All About Investing in India:PPF,Fixed Deposits, Mutual Funds, NPS, Stocks
Direct Investing in Mutual Funds
Direct Investing in Mutual funds is becoming popular due to many Apps being available. Know more about Direct Investing here.
PaperWork, Will, Nomination
Most of us assume that our family will get access to our investments, bank accounts when we are no more but the law doesn't recognize things this way. It needs valid papers in the form of Survivorship mandate, Nominations, Will. What are the type of records to keep, what to keep, why and for how long? List of articles related to paper-work can be found here.
If there are no nominees then banks, Mutual funds, PPF account, Demat accounts, Insurance Policies require lots of additional documents such as a will, legal heir certificate, no-objection certificate from other legal heirs etc.
Note though a nominee is an important person, he or she has no rights over the money or assets unless that is specified under the will. (except for shares)
Maintain a Money Book
- It should be a one-stop for all your financial information. Your insurance,(life, health, motor), your bank details(Accounts, Lockers, Demat Account, Credit Card), Your Loans(Home loan, Auto loan), your investments(FD, Mutual Funds, PPF, EPF, Others..) It would help you to stay organised as it will have all your information in one place
- It would be your legacy book: So your family don't have to go through the inconvenience of searching for documents and whom to contact,
Debt: Credit Card and Loans
Urban Indian seems to be living a life of debt – Education loan, auto loan, multiple credit cards, a home loan. The word credit, loans, EMI is integrated with his life. Credit Information Report and Credit score play a critical part in the loan granting process these days. Based on your credit history, a bank will decide whether to give you a loan or how much interest to charge you on the loan
List of articles on Credit Card, Loans and Credit Report.
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The strip mall on the east side of Federal Boulevard between Mississippi and Tennessee avenues has been getting a new façade for the past few weeks...at least. Maybe the spring snowstorms slowed down progress, but it seems like construction came to a halt once the lumber was up, but before any siding, paint or other finishings could be added. At about the same time the work started, Golden Pho & Grill decided to open in the location previously occupied by Can Tho Pho. It's been operating under an undulating vinyl banner that, while clearly temporary, outclasses the signage of neighboring shops and restaurants, which have been forced to make do with whatever notices they already sported. These are not ideal circumstances for introducing a new restaurant, but the conditions highlight the new kid on the block in a way that may attract a little extra business purely out of novelty.
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The host/waiter/conversationalist who seated us and took our initial order was tidily dressed and professional in appearance, so I asked if he was the owner. With a wry smile, he responded that it was actually his wife's place and that he was "just helping out." We placed an order for banh xeo -- a tricky cross between a crepe and an omelet -- and then paged through the remainder of the menu. When our banh xeo arrived, we also ordered pho with rare steak and flank and a bowl of bun bo Hue, proof that Vietnam had mastered nose-to-tail cooking long before it became trendy in the modern porketerias dotting Denver's trendier neighborhoods.I say that banh xeo is a tricky dish because it's so easy for the chef to ruin. The combination of rice flour and eggs can be made too thick and eggy, resulting in what looks like an omelet but has the texture of a doormat. Or it can be too thin, resulting in a gritty, oily crepe that has more in common with parchment paper. A perfect banh xeo is thicker than a French crepe, thinner and crisper around the edges than an American omelet, and studded with tender shreds of pork and thin slices of shrimp. Golden Pho's version was delicate enough that I could tear off pieces with my clumsy chopstick technique, yet firm enough to hold together while I stuffed each torn-off piece into a lettuce wrap. The resulting bites encompassed a multitude of flavors and textures -- bittersweet basil leaves, crisp and tangy pickled carrot and daikon, earthy bean sprouts and savory meats -- all married by an addictively fishy nuoc cham dipping sauce that was light on the sugar and accentuated the other flavors like a dash of good sea salt.


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A cold wind was blowing at the Des Moines International Airport late Wednesday afternoon as people gathered in a spot on the tarmac typically used by cargo planes for a Trump campaign rally. But the crowd of almost 4,000 didn't seem discouraged by the wind.
The Trump campaign had announced it expected at least 10,000 people to attend, sparking concerns about the rally turning into a superspreader event in a state already experiencing substantial community spread of COVID-19.
But even if the rally attracted fewer than half the people the Trump campaign said it world, the potential for virus transmission remained high. The vast majority of attendees didn't wear face coverings. The chairs set out on the tarmac were right next to each other, as though there was no ongoing pandemic. There was no attempt at social distancing in the stands, or in the overflow area, where people crowded together in an attempt to see the president as he spoke.
According to the emergency public health declaration issued by Gov. Kim Reynolds, organizers of any public gatherings of more than 10 people in Iowa are supposed to ensure social distancing of at least six feet between attendees. Nothing of that sort happened on Wednesday, and Reynolds, one of the rally's featured speakers, didn't mention anything about the requirement or social distancing when she took the stage to speak before the arrival of Air Force One.
The governor did mention COVID-19 during her remarks, but only to tell the crowd she's proud of how she's handled the pandemic.
"I'm proud to be a governor that puts her trust in our people, because they are responsible, they are resilient and they will do the right thing," Reynolds told the thousands of mostly maskless people standing or sitting shoulder-to-shoulder. "And that is why we were able to keep over 80 percent of our workforce working and businesses open. It is why we are getting our kids, safely and responsibly, back in school."
Former governor Terry Branstad, who spoke before Reynolds, also praised her response to COVID-19.
Branstad said he'd just read a report from the Council of State Governments on how states have "handled the challenges of the COVID."
"And the state that has does the best of all 50, according to the Council of State Governments is the state of Iowa," Branstad said. "It's a tribute to Kim Reynolds and the Republicans in the state legislature."
The report issued in July only examined the fiscal impact of COVID-19 on the budgets of state governments, ranking states in various categories according to their fiscal resiliency during the pandemic. Although Iowa ranked high in each category, it finished in second place behind Utah.
The report did not look at how well states have done mitigating or controlling the spread of COVID-19, or protecting the lives of residents. In its report on Iowa issued on Oct. 4, the White House Coronavirus Task Force said that the state's failure to control community spread of the disease had led to "many preventable deaths."
On Thursday morning, the Iowa Department of Public Health reported the state had surpassed 1,500 COVID-19 deaths. According to IDPH, 1,505 Iowans had died from the virus as of 10 a.m., an increase of 13 deaths from the same time on Wednesday.
The department reported another 1,410 has tested positive for COVID-19 during that same 24-hour period, including 32 residents of Johnson County and 63 residents of Linn County.
The state also set another record high in the number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients — with IDPH reporting 482 at 10 a.m. — as well as a record number of COVID-19 outbreaks at long-term care facilities, with a total of 61 ongoing outbreaks.
But Branstad's inaccurate account of the Council of State Governments report wasn't the most lavish praise heaped on Reynolds at the rally. The afternoon's first featured speaker, Iowa Republican Party Chair Jeff Kaufmann, said Reynolds "has created a state that is heaven on earth."
Ridiculous as that claim might sound in any other setting, it's the sort of hyperbole that's a standard feature at Trump rallies.
In fact, all the standard features of a Trump rally were present on Wednesday — local politicians offering swooning praise of the president, MAGA hats, a loud soundtrack with music by performers who have clearly said they don't support Trump (Elton John, John Fogerty, Eric Burdon, among others), as well gay anthems of the 1970s (both "Macho Man" and "YMCA") — but one important element of past rallies was missing: the anger.
In rallies during the 2016 election and the first year of Trump's presidency, members of the crowd displayed genuine anger when Trump denounced his enemies. It wasn't unusual to have members of the crowd screaming threats against reporters when Trump bashed the media for being unfair to him.
On Wednesday, there was still the booing when the president and other speakers criticized what Trump called "the corrupt lamestream media," but it seemed perfunctory, as did much of the cheering. It was similar to the behavior of a crowd at a professional wrestling match, where the booing and whooping is an expected part of the performance.
There were only a few moments during the four-hour-long event when the crowd appear to be genuinely enthusiastic, and most of them came during the roughly 90 minutes Trump was on stage.
The crowd reacted passionately to mentions of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, promises to protect the Second Amendment and Trump's pledge to "stop the radical indoctrination of our students and restore patriotic education. We will teach our students to love our country and always respect our great American flag."
The crowd was also pleased when Air Force One touched down at 6:08 p.m. — and when it taxied back to the site of the rally seven minutes later, so it could serve as part of the backdrop for TV coverage of the event. And when Trump finally took the stage at 6:30 p.m.
According to the schedule for the event, Trump was supposed to begin his speech at 6 p.m. But even if that had happened, the crowd still would have been waiting an hour and 20-minutes between Reynolds, the final speaker before Trump, and the president.
There's typically an interval between other speakers and the president at Trump rallies held at airports, because Trump likes to make a dramatic entrance by arriving on Air Force One during the rally. But almost two hours, as the interval turned out to be on Wednesday, is a long time to wait between speakers, with little to do except listen to the same set of songs over and over, as a cold wind continues to blow.
Trump acknowledged the wind as soon as he got on stage, holding up a MAGA hat and explaining it had been given to him to wear in case the wind staring messing up his hair.
"I said, 'Well, my hair is very powerful. It's very strong. It can handle it,'" Trump recounted. "But I brought it just in case."
Approximately 20 minutes later, Trump put the hat on. Then he asked the audience if he should take his tie off. The crowd cheered, and Trump removed his tie.
Trump began his non-hair-related comments by talking about a poll he said "just came out."
"We're up six [in Iowa]," Trump said.
That poll by Monmouth University was published three weeks ago. It is an outlier among polls, most of which show either a tie in the presidential race in Iowa or Biden with a slight lead.
Trump immediately moved on to complaining that it was unfair for him to be only six points ahead in the state because of all he has done for Iowa.
"No one has ever done more for Iowa and the farm-belt and the farmers and all," the president said. "No more estate taxes, no more anything. I saved ethanol, ethanol is safe. To me to only be up six, I'm a little bit concerned, I'll tell you. 'Cause nobody's going to do for Iowa what I did for Iowa."
Trump's remarks never got much more coherent or accurate than that.
It was a rambling and repetitive speech. And it was repetitive because of the rambling.
Trump had teleprompters next to his podium which scrolled through the text of his speech, but he kept departing from the prepared remarks with long asides, many of which involved accomplishments he said he was not given enough credit for. One recent example Trump offered was a claim that TV news programs were more interested in covering natural disasters affecting people in Iowa and Florida instead of him being nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for the third time. (The people who have nominated Trump for the Nobel are a mixture of a few people in other countries with fringe political views and Republican members of Congress.)
Trump tells his story about he how and Melania recently watched the evening news expecting to see coverage of his Nobel nominations, but were dismayed that the news was covering a hurricane in Florida and flooding in Iowa instead. This is supposed to make the media look bad. pic.twitter.com/62gzutni0D
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 15, 2020
Other times, Trump indulged in long, discursive asides about a subject, only to have that subject later come up in the text of his speech. He then read the prepared text off the teleprompter, even though he was largely repeating something had said only a few minutes earlier.
All the aspects of Trump's speech would be familiar to viewers of Fox News. He claimed to have done more in his first term than any president. He complained about what he calls "the Russia hoax." He boasted about creating the Space Force. He complained he doesn't get enough credit for not starting a war with North Korea or Iran.
Trump attacked Joe Biden for being old, and attacked Biden and members of Biden's family as corrupt. He attacked the news media as corrupt. He used barely veiled racist language to try to make white people fearful of Democrats. He blamed China for America's struggling economy and called COVID-19 "the China virus." And, of course, he claimed electing Biden would essentially destroy America.
Trump wasn't the only one Wednesday claiming Democrats in power would destroy America. Reynolds did her best to stoke those fears when she spoke at the rally.
"This is one election we can't get wrong," Reynolds said. "Elections matter. And all you have to do is turn on the TV, and see the chaos, the intimidation and the dysfunction and the lawlessness that is taking place across this country."
"And I will tell you most of those states are ran [sic] by Democratic governors."
There was one new element in Trump's presentation on Wednesday, one calculated to appeal to Iowans. Earlier that day, the White House announced Trump would be awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Iowa wrestling great Dan Gable.
At the rally, Trump brought Gable on to the stage, and the two praised each other.
Trump introduces Dan Gable, an award-winning wrestler who wrestled at ISU and coached at UIowa, who will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Gable says Trump will be a "multi-time champion," prompting "four more years" chants from the crowd. pic.twitter.com/kWpGZJH0lN
— Anjali Huynh (@anjalihuynh) October 15, 2020
Trump participated in professional wrestling events before becoming president, but its unclear how interested he was in collegiate or Olympic wrestling before he needed to shore up support among Iowa voters. Still, Trump does have a history of awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to athletes. Of the 16 medals Trump has already awarded, eight went to current or former athletes. (Trump even awarded one to Babe Ruth, who died in 1948.)
Near the end of his speech, Trump told the audience, "Get your friends, get your family, get your neighbors, get your workers and coworkers and get the hell out to vote because if I don't get Iowa, I won't believe that one."
"I may never have to come back here again if I don't get Iowa. I'll never be back," Trump added, before turning to Gov. Reynolds. "You understand that, Kim?"
After two more minutes of reading his prepared text from the teleprompter, Trump was finished. He stood on stage for a few more minutes, waving and tossing MAGA hats to the crowd, as the sound system blasted the Village People's "YMCA," before returning to Air Force One.