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GQ MEXICO - PEDRO PASCAL 2021

It seems that Pedro Pascal is in all possible universes. Here and there. In the past, in the present, and in galaxies far, far away. Today, the actor is considered the great entertainment reference and one of those in charge of saving a franchise that seemed lost. Enough reasons to talk exclusively about discipline, gastronomy, creeds and how he traumatized his father in 30 seconds.

The RAE defines 'creed' as the set of ideas, principles or convictions of a person or a group. For example, by creed, one can leave his country and be in exile. It happens that one can leave the loved one behind. Or simply live in another reality. And also one can put on a helmet to pretend never to take it off again. If that is the path to follow, the creed says that it must be done with the profession of faith and without stopping to look. Turning the pages of the script for The Mandalorian , the Disney + series that revived passion and nostalgia for the Star Wars franchise , Pedro Pascal came across this definition in every dialogue and moment, and reflection carved his way.

More than two decades have passed since the Chilean-American, Pedro Pascal, began his acting career and today, named as the great reference of 2020 , he misses the theater and it still hurts him not to have the discipline to exercise and maintain a diet sana while acknowledging the irony of having the best year of her career in the midst of one of the worst in recent history. But even in physical solitude, the man who carried the best-selling Christmas baby rescues many positive things and shares his vision of the universes he has traveled through, his passion for distant galaxies and how to traumatize your family with a simple scene of TV. In an interview, the Mandalorian of Latinamerica.

IMDB named you the 2020 benchmark in entertainment, a year in which the world took refuge in fiction. How was living your best time locked up and what do you rescue on a human level from it?

The strength of family relationships and friendship. For them, we endure this physical loneliness. I do find it ironic that in 2020 I received projects so well received by the public, although they were carried out before the pandemic and their impact was during it, and that year I was isolated and alone. But I must emphasize that this loneliness is a privilege when many people had to continue working, surviving and maintaining the functioning of the world. We only had to be alone, but they more than that and you must value it too.

Among the activities you have missed, how much do you miss the theater?

Much indeed. It's something that I miss the most and being with people without being afraid. See a play and return to those experiences of being with people doing and living things in common. That is what I need most, in addition to my loved ones.

Disney fully entered streaming and its strong letter has your face, what do you think of the discussion of platforms against movie theaters?

There are incredible things in streaming and many people develop great projects that they did not have access to before. The diversity of voices is gaining ground and it is important to recognize that opportunities grow exponentially and boundaries change. It is incredible the availability that we have to very well made content and how creative people can share their work in different ways. But I also want to be honest: limiting the experience of watching content only on our gadgets or at home is a mistake that affects the stories we can tell. You have to achieve a mix of opportunities and challenges.

You jump between the fictional universes that mark the last decades until you reach the universe of universes. What is your first Star Wars memory and how do you summarize the essence of this legendary story?

For me, Star Wars is nostalgia itself. It is one of the primary things in my memory, of my childhood. I came to the United States with my Chilean family when I was less than two years old and one of my first memories is going to the movies with my dad to see the saga ; it becomes one of those romantic childhood things that opens your mind, so imagine how special it is to participate in this project. I think the creators of The Mandalorian perfectly understand this nostalgia and that power, and they managed to count on that element as a great ally for the world of Star Wars and I couldn't be happier to be part of it. (From which we expect the third season The Mandalorian)

The Mandalorian exploits the power and nuances of your voice, did you have that letter on your resume?

I didn't know I could do it, but I resorted to my theater preparation, which was very physical on all levels and feelings. There are elements that have to do with and that are essential to create a role, and they teach you that the voice is something primary, something you have to start with and you cannot hide. Now I have learned much more about the importance of that, and how to use it economically. The body also has to do with that, because something very subtle communicates something. In The Mandalorian , I had a great time figuring out how to do it, they gave me the opportunity to develop it in different ways. The opportunity to be very intense at it.

What happens to the ego when someone works under a suit and a mask?

In the conversations about the project, before doing it, we were communicated the idea and the concept of the entire season , so I clearly understood what it was. I wanted it to be the most powerful version of what they were trying to accomplish, so there was no point in involving my ego, you know? It was already very clear what the project meant, so I knew about the character , the piece that it represented for him and the opportunity that it was for me, so I was only focused on executing in a better way the part that touched me in everything this. In the theater, I worked several times under a mask and it helped me develop the experience.

It seems that The Mandalorian has a very theatrical base ...

Exactly, and thanks to the physical experience of working in theater, doing a play a few times a week, discovering how your body and your voice communicate , being part of a whole image, and how you will tell that story visually, I achieved this character. I never imagined that it would be something I would have to use on such an important Star Wars project .

On the list of entertainment greats, there are names like Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, do you think John Favreau should be added to the list?

I think your name is already included. Without a doubt, it is in that category and it is incredible. His vision fascinates me. I remember an episode in the second season , and I had some boots and I walked so much in the snow, it stuck to them. He figured it out, so he talked to the art department about the kind of boots you need when you're out in the snow. They approached me and gave me new ones that fulfilled the idea I was looking for. He noticed it in an instant. It is such a wonderful detail and it is repeated to scale in every session with him. He thinks of absolutely everything and his vision of the use of technology is admirable. He is someone who makes you feel motivated and always sees how to achieve the goal.

One of the reflections in the series is on how and under what circumstances a man can break his creed and way of life. What makes you break with your beliefs?

I think that you must follow your heart so as not to regret anything; Although sometimes it brings pain or conflict, deep down when you look back, everything is worth it because it was what you heard in your heart. I am very afraid to deny that feeling or not to attend to it. I am 45 years old now and I cannot believe I have a finer philosophy. Make it more disciplined. It's ridiculous, but I'm trying to accept that I am and it's all I can say, "follow your heart." Although, you know, I'm not on a good diet yet, I still have trouble sleeping or exercising.

Still good at Chilean empanadas?

Yes, I couldn't stop. And also how good that I do not live in Mexico City because I would only spend it eating. I could move my whole life to defe just to eat.

I want to deviate and ask you, with whom did you see the chapter of your death in Game of Thrones and what traumas did you cause in your family?

For me, no trauma. I separate myself well from the characters , although I fully understand that if I were a Game of Thrones audience and loved that character, it would make an incredible impression on me. Thank you that it was not. I had to interpret it and there was a model of my head to be crushed that way with the tubes and the fake blood, you know? Me lying there, with pieces of my meat, it was funny in the end. But not for my family. For them there is nothing funny but traumatic. My dad's voice changed completely when we saw the episode, he turned around and said: “I didn't like it, Pedro . No, Pedro , not this ”.

The media found similarities between your villain in Wonder Woman: 1984 and Donald Trump. When playing a character with characteristics like this, do you humanize him or do you understand him?

The project had nothing to do with the former president. They always told me that my character in Wonder Woman: 1984 was emotionally messy, and I took that and took that as far as possible. Instead of creating it with images or certain inspirations from life, it was more to work with what was on the page. Personally, what made sense to me is the size of the story that is being told and there is always more, and we all want more. Creatively, if this makes sense, that meant "blowing her out of the park." Connect a hit with the character and be committed to telling his story faithfully, in a way that was true to me. So all the exterior elements found their way.

What a way to start 2021 with the theme of the Capitol ... How do you perceive that moment?

I am not a politician and it is not that I do not have an opinion about this type of event; however, it is not necessary to state the obvious. My opinion would be very simple compared to that of a person who studied this, who knows how to act in these kinds of scenarios; I believe that I am next to the majority who experienced this, which is the logical result of what we have experienced during these years and we are all horrified . It was distressing to see this violence.

If you had the monolith in your hands, what would your wish be?

My wish would be… it's impossible, really (laughs). I think it is to be together again, with less fear and that people have the opportunity to connect.

What is your position on the reality that Chile has experienced in recent years and how has the relationship with your country been since exile?

It is something that I am developing and I continue to do in my life, trying to understand that it is my home. To be in Chile is to be at home, but my life has been very nomadic, living different things and having many influences; so it is strange, I do not feel with the title of a complete Chilean identity nor with an American one.

Neither here nor there?

In a sense, but I'm also completely both. My parents are Chilean , my brothers were born there before my parents traveled, and I came back sometimes because my family is very large; in fact, my parents came back. It has always been there, it continues to develop, and it will be a part of me. I don't know if it answers your question, but it has a lot to do with who I am.

What is your relationship with Latin American cinema? Are you interested?

Much, it has invaded me in life like American cinema. The movies that I carry in my heart, seeing something like Y tu mama was also something that changed me; I also love the work that comes out of Chile , and the only thing I can say is that it is a cinema that needs more access and projects.

Today you have a comedy with Nicolas Cage on the door, can you tell us something?

It's my first shot at comedy , as a complete story within the genre. Speaking of American influences , in the 80s I saw all the films where Nicolas Cage appeared , he came into my life and it's great to be his partner after seeing all his performances.

How is the relationship you have with the comedy genre?

I love it, I have done a lot of comedy in the theater, what happens is that in film and television issues , I was always part of drama castings . And in the cinema, you go where the doors open; Although I identify with one or the other, I think that being an actor , one goes and does what one has to do. Comedy is something unique, it is very challenging because it must be very real to be funny, you cannot hide or use normal tricks. I was very excited to have this challenge in front of a camera.

Finally, Pedro, after going through so many fictional worlds, literally, what do you dream about when you sleep?

I dream that my bathroom is dirty, that I haven't done my math homework, that the oven is on and all that stuff. Sure, there are times when I close my eyes and see myself in all these projects , although my conscience is with the anxieties of the day that you can imagine.

Without a doubt, Pedro Pascal is a particular type .

English Tranlation: Google Translate

SOURCE: GQ MEXICO

#pedro pascal #jose pedro balmaceda pascal #gq mexico #Articles

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sweetbrokenthoughts · 5 years ago

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in case you wonder why Chile is fighting, it is not for subway tickets only

one of the worst and most unequal educations in South America and one of the most expensive in the world.

Poor condition of the Chilea healthcare system.

Pension system crisis (US$200 monthly)

Miserable minimum wage (US$421,98 minimum)

Precarious jobs (45 weekly hours)

Police gate (US$46 million stolen by the official chilean police)

Salaries of political elite 33 times higher than the minimum wage.

Lots of collusions (toilet paper, chickens, shipping companies, industry pharmacy)

the ONLY country in the world where water is private, water rights are delivered in perpetuity and for free

that the families of the disappeared detainees still do not know where the bodies of their families are after the dictatorship (1973 - 1990)

the drought in Petorca

Chile is the most unequal country in the OECD

those over 80 have the highest suicide rate in the country.

Quintero youth must close the school year due to health problems after episodes of contamination

the sexual abuse of the church and the protection that the policy has given to the cases

The crisis of the National Service for Minors (Sename), a Chilean state agency responsible for the protection of the rights of minors and adolescents, in which children have been killed and others have been abused.

Evasion of contributions (Piñera and more)

To avoid the same amount of contributions as Piñera (the current president of Chile), the subway ticket must be evaded for 909 years.

University debt

Soquimich case

Increase of benzine/gas/petrol

Crisis of Quintero, Petorca and Puchuncaví

Mining, 61.4% is held by foreign capital. The rest is mostly concentrated in the Luksic group and CODELCO (private-state company)

Pesqueras, in Chile from the fishing law, 7 families became owners of the sea and its resources

Forestry, for the year 2017 exports amounted to $ 5.376 million dollars, among the Angelini and Matte groups collect 73.6%

Salmon farms, in Chile 800 tons of salmon are generated, of which 98% is for export and 50% belongs to the Norwegian company Marina Harvest

Minera Biolantanidos, the mining company of Gran Concepción intends to use 35,000 liters of water per hour, with this resource about 5,000 people would be supplied

Agroindustry, by 2017 the agricultural sector reached $ 10.697 million dollars, practically the entire industry is private

The President of the Senate of Chile has income (diet + allowances = 30 million pesos) higher than what the KING JUAN CARLOS of Spain receives.

The senators self-allocated 2 million pesos for "diffusion of activities in the field" indefinitely, and already had revenues of 15 million per month.

The AFPs pocket 3% of the remuneration for the mere fact of receiving the money. In investments when you win, they win and when you lose, you lose. The old system gives better pay. The military are not in the AFPs.

In Chile the economy has grown systematically and by paradox increases poverty, who gets the money?

The former Chilean presidents receive about 30 thousand dollars a month, they are earning more than the former US PRESIDENTS.

The Internal Revenue Service condoned more than 77 billion pesos (144 million dollars) to the Johnson's chain of stores, this is more than it cost to build the Costanera Center building and what does the SII do when they do not give a ticket in a neighborhood warehouse?

Private health in Chile is 3 times more expensive than in GERMANY.

and any Chilean can give you 20 more reasons because they are even more and that is what we are fighting for, to change everything. You should not believe what you see on television or what the government says, they are covering up deaths and missing people, seek the truth, because they are killing people and putting together scenes for television.

#chile #news #update #world #Chile is fighting

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tigpooh67 · 4 years ago

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New interview from Pedro. Did my best to translate to English.

Enjoy!!

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Looks like Pedro Pascal is in every possible universe. Here and there. In the past, in the present and in galaxies far, far away. Today, the actor is considered the great benchmark of entertainment and one of those in charge of saving a franchise that seemed lost. Sufficient reasons to talk exclusively about discipline, gastronomy, creeds and how he swallowed his dad in 30 seconds.

The SAR defines 'creed' as the set of ideas, principles or convictions of a person or group. For example, by creed, one can leave his country and be in exile. It just so happens that one can leave the loved one behind. Or simply live in another reality. And you can also put on a helmet to pretend never to take it off again. If that is the way to go, the creed says that it must be done with the profession of faith and without stopping to look. As he turned the pages of the script for The Mandalorian, the Disney+ series that revived passion and nostalgia for the Star Wars franchise, Pedro Pascal came across this definition in every dialogue and moment, and reflection worked his way.

It has been more than two decades since the Chilean-American Pedro Pascal began his acting career and today, named as the great benchmark of 2020, misses the theater and still hurts him not to have the discipline to exercise and maintain a healthy diet while recognizing the ironic of having the best year of his career in the midst of one of the worst in recent history. But even in physical solitude, the man who carried Christmas's best-selling baby rescues many positive things and shares the vision of the universes he has traveled through, his passion for distant galaxies, and how to traumatify your family with a simple TV scene. In interview, the Mandalorian of Latin America.

IMDB named you the 2020 benchmark in entertainment, a year in which the world took refuge in fiction. What was it like to live your best time locked up and what do you rescue on a human level from him?

The strength of family relationships and friendship. For them, we endure this physical loneliness. I find it ironic that in 2020 I received projects so well received by the public, although they were carried out before the pandemic and their impact was during this one, and that year I was isolated and alone. But I must stress that loneliness is a privilege when many people had to keep working, surviving and maintaining the functioning of the world. We just had to be alone, but they had more than that and you have to value it too.

Among the activities you've lost, how much do you miss the theater?

A lot, really. It's something I miss most and being with people without feeling afraid. See a play and return to those experiences of being with people doing and living things in common. That's what I need most, besides my loved ones.

Disney went into streaming and its strong card has your face, what do you think of the discussion of platforms against movie theaters?

In streaming there are amazing things and many people develop great projects that they didn't access before. The diversity of voices is taking its way and it is important to recognize that opportunities grow exponentially and limits change. It's amazing how much availability we have to very well-made content and how creative people can share their work in different ways. But I also want to be honest: limiting the experience of viewing content only on our gadgets or at home is a mistake that affects the stories we can tell. A mix of opportunities and challenges must be achieved.

Leaps between the fictional universes that mark the last decades until they reach the universe of universes. What is your first Star Wars memory and how do you sum up the essence of this legendary story?

For me, Star Wars is nostalgia itself. It's one of the primary things in my memory, of my childhood. I came to the United States with my Chilean family when I was under two years old and one of my first memories is going to the movies with my dad to see the saga; it becomes one of those romantic things about childhood, that open your mind, so imagine how special it is to participate in this project. I think the creators of The Mandalorian fully understand this nostalgia and power, and they managed to count on that element as a great ally for the Star Wars world and I can't be happier to be a part of it. (Of which we look forward to the third season The Mandalorian)

The Mandalorian exploits the power and nuances of your voice, did you have that letter on your resume?

I didn't know I could do it, but I resorted to my theatrical preparation, which was very physical at all levels and feelings. There are elements that have to do with creating a role, and they teach you that voice is a primary thing, something you have to start with and can't hide. Now I've learned a lot more about the importance of that, and how to use it with economics. The body also has to do with it, because something very subtle communicates something. At The Mandalorian, I had a great time figuring out how to do it, they gave me the opportunity to develop it in different ways. The opportunity to be very intense in it.

What about the ego when someone works under a suit and mask?

In the conversations about the project, before doing so, we were informed of the idea and concept of the whole season, so I clearly understood what it was. I wanted it to be the most powerful version of what they were trying to accomplish, so it didn't make sense for me to involve my ego, you know? It was already very clear what the project meant, so I knew about the character, the piece he represented for himself and the opportunity it was for me, so I was just focused on better executing the part that touched me in all this. In the theater, I worked several times under a mask and it helped me develop the experience.

It seems that The Mandalorian has a very theatrical base...

Exactly, and thanks to the physical experience of working in theater, making a play a few times a week, discovering how your body and your voice communicate, being part of an entire image, and how you will tell that story visually, I achieved this character. I never imagined it would be something I would have to use in such an important Star Wars project.

On the list of entertainment greats, there are names like Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, do you think John Favreau's should be added to the list?

I think his name is already included. Without a doubt, it's in that category and it's amazing. I'm fascinated by his vision. I remember a chapter in the second season, and I had some boots and I walked so much in the snow, that it stuck to them. He noticed, so he talked to the art department about the kind of boots you need when you're in the snow. They came up to me and gave me some new ones that fulfilled the idea I was looking for. He noticed it in an instant. It is such a wonderful detail and is repeated at scale in every session with it. Think of absolutely everything and your vision of using technology is admirable. He's someone who makes you feel motivated and always sees how to achieve the goal.

One of the reflections of the series is on how and under what circumstances a man can break his creed and the way he lives. What makes you break up with your beliefs?

I think you must follow your heart so as not to repent of anything; even if it sometimes brings pain or conflict, deep down when you go back, it's all worth it because it's what you heard in your heart. I'm very afraid to deny that feeling or not to take care of it. Now I'm 45 years old and I can't believe I have a finer philosophy. Make him more disciplined. It's ridiculous, but I'm trying to accept that I am and that's all I can say, "Follow your heart." Although, you know, I still don't follow a good diet, I still have trouble sleeping or exercising.

Are you still good at Chilean empanadas?

Yes, I couldn't stop. And also how good that I don't live in Mexico City because I would only spend it eating. I could move my whole life to the defe just to eat.

I want to deviate and ask you, who did you see the chapter of your death in Game of Thrones and what trauma did you cause to your family?

For me, no trauma. I separate myself well from the characters, although I fully understand that if I were a Game of Thrones audience and loved that character, it would make an incredible impression on me. Thank you, it wasn't. I had to interpret it and there was a model of my head to be crushed that way with the tubes and the fake blood, you know? I lay there, with pieces of my flesh, it was funny in the end. But not for my family. There's nothing funny about them and it's traumatic. My dad totally changed his voice when we saw the episode, turned around and said, "I didn't like it, Pedro. No, Pedro, not this."

The media found similarities between your villain in Wonder Woman: 1984 and Donald Trump. When you play a character with characteristics like that, do you humanize or understand it?

The project had nothing to do with the former president. I was always told that my character in Wonder Woman:1984 was emotionally messy, and I took that and took it as far away as possible. Instead of creating it with images or certain inspirations from life, it was more working with what was on the page. Personally, what made sense to me is the size of the story being told and there's always more, and we all want more. Creatively, if this makes sense, that meant "flying it out of the park." Connect a hit with the character and be committed to telling their story faithfully, in a way that was true to me. So all the exterior elements found their way.

What way to start 2021 with the theme of the Capitol... how do you perceive that moment?

I am not a politician and it is not that I have no opinion on such events; However, there is no need to express the obvious. My opinion would be very simple compared to that of a person who studied this, who knows how to act in these kinds of scenarios; I think I'm next to the majority who lived this, which is the logical result of what we've been through over the years and we're all horrified. It was distressing to see this violence.

If you had the monolith in your hands, what would be your wish?

My wish would be... it's impossible, the truth (laughs). I think it's being together again, with less fear and people having a chance to connect.

What is your position of the reality that Chile has experienced in recent years and how has the relationship with your country been since exile?

It's something I'm developing and I keep doing it in my life, trying to understand that it's my home. Being in Chile is being at home, but my life has been very nomadic, living different things and having many influences; so it's strange, I don't feel the title of a full Chilean identity or an American.

Neither from here nor there?

In a sense, but I'm also completely both. My parents are Chileans, my brothers were born there before my parents traveled, and I returned sometimes because my family is so big; in fact, my parents came back. It's always been there, it's still developing, and it's going to be a part of me. I don't know if I answer your question, but it has a lot to do with who I am.

What is your relationship with Latin American cinema? Interested in you?

A lot, it's invaded me in life like American cinema. The movies I have in my heart, seeing something like And your mom was also something that changed me; I also love the work that comes out of Chile, and all I can say is that it is a cinema that needs more access and projects.

You got a comedy with Nicolas Cage on your doorstep today, can you tell me something?

It's my first chance at comedy, as a complete story within the genre. Speaking of American influences, in the 1980s I saw all the films where Nicolas Cage was coming out, he came into my life and it's great to be his partner after seeing all his performances.

What's your relationship with the comedy genre like?

I love it, I've done a lot of comedy in the theater, what happens is that in film and television themes, I was always part of drama castings. And in the cinema, you go where the doors open; although I identify with one or the other, I think being an actor, you go and do what you have to do. Comedy is something unique, it's very challenging because it has to be very real to make it funny, you can't hide or use normal tricks. I was very excited to have this challenge in front of a camera.

Finally, Pedro, after going through so many fictional worlds, literally, what do you dream of when you sleep?

I dream that my bathroom is dirty, that I haven't done my math homework, that the oven and all that stuff are on. Of course, there are times when I close my eyes and see myself in all these projects, although my conscience is with the anxieties of the day you can imagine.

#pedropascal #the mandalorian #games of thrones #the mentalist #dave york #the good wife #Equalizer 2

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[TASK 113: ECUADOR]

In celebration of September 15th to October 15th being Latinx Heritage Month, here’s a masterlist below compiled of over 300+ Ecuadorian faceclaims categorised by gender with their occupation and ethnicity denoted if there was a reliable source. If you want an extra challenge use random.org to pick a random number! Of course everything listed below are just suggestions and you can pick whichever faceclaim or whichever project you desire.

Any questions can be sent here and all tutorials have been linked below the cut for ease of access! REMEMBER to tag your resources with #TASKSWEEKLY and we will reblog them onto the main! This task can be tagged with whatever you want but if you want us to see it please be sure that our tag is the first five tags, @ mention us or send us a messaging linking us to your post!

THE TASK - scroll down for FC’s!

STEP 1: Decide on a FC you wish to create resources for! You can always do more than one but who are you starting with? There are links to masterlists you can use in order to find them and if you want help, just send us a message and we can pick one for you at random!

STEP 2: Pick what you want to create! You can obviously do more than one thing, but what do you want to start off with? Screencaps, RP icons, GIF packs, masterlists, PNG’s, fancasts, alternative FC’s - LITERALLY anything you desire!

STEP 3: Look back on tasks that we have created previously for tutorials on the thing you are creating unless you have whatever it is you are doing mastered - then of course feel free to just get on and do it. :)

STEP 4: Upload and tag with #TASKSWEEKLY! If you didn’t use your own screencaps/images make sure to credit where you got them from as we will not reblog packs which do not credit caps or original gifs from the original maker.

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Stumped for ideas? Maybe make a masterlist or graphic of your favourite faceclaims. A masterlist of names. Plot ideas or screencaps from a music video preformed by an artist. Masterlist of quotes and lyrics that can be used for starters, thread titles or tags. Guides on culture and customs.

Screencaps

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Graphic Templates - can be chara header, promo, border or background PSD’s!

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FC Help - could be related, family templates, alternatives.

Written Guides.

and whatever else you can think of / make!

MASTERLIST!

Fresia Saavedr (1933) Ecuadorian - singer.

Ángel Oyola García (1938) Ecuadorian - singer.

Beatriz Parra Durango (1939) Ecuadorian - classical soprano.

Toty Rodríguez (1942) Ecuadorian - singer and actress.

Azucena Mora (1945) Ecuadorian - actress.

Hilda Murillo (1951) Ecuadorian - singer.

Astrid Achi (1961) Ecuadorian - singer.

Miriam Murillo (1962) Ecuadorian - actress.

Margarita Laso (1963) Ecuadorian - singer, writer and producer.

Juana Guarderas (1964) Ecuadorian - actress.

Paulina Tamayo (1965) Ecuadorian - singer.

Gladys del Pilar (1967) Afro Ecuadorian - singer and dancer.

Carla Sala (1968) Ecuadorian - dancer,.

Mariela Viteri (1968) Ecuadorian - tv personality.

Tábata Gálvez (1969) Ecuadorian - actress, conductor, and cheerleader.

Marisol Romero (1970) Ecuadorian - actress, television presenter, and businesswoman.

Tia Texada (1971) Ecuadorian - actress.

Paola Farías (1974) Ecuadorian - model, actress, and singer.

Gabriela Pazmino (1975) Ecuadorian

Fatty D / Fatty Delicious / April Flores (1976) Ecuadorian / Mexican - porn actress, plus-size model, director, writer, and photographer.

Karla Kanora (1976) Ecuadorian - singer.

Carolina Lizarazo (1977) Ecuadorian - actress.

Wendy Vera (1977) Ecuadorian - composer , singer-songwriter and producer.

Carolina Hoyos (1978) Peruvian [Quechua, Spanish] / Ecuadorian [Italian, British] - actress.

Maria Guerrero (1978) Ecuadorian - actress.

Leovanna Orlandini (1978) Ecuadorian - former Miss Ecuador contestant, international model, architect, and actress.

Susana Rivadeneira (1979) Ecuadorian [Portuguese] - model, painter and Miss Ecuador 2004.

Liliana Castro (1979) Ecuadorian [Brazilian] - actress.

Flor María Palomeque (1979) Ecuadorian - actress, dancer, and model.

Sofía Caiche (1980) Ecuadorian - actress , model and television presenter.

Jordana Doylet (1980) Ecuadorian - singer.

Lucie Vondráčková (1980) 1/4 Ecuadorian, 3/4 Czech - singer.

Any Hurtado (1981) Ecuadorian - Instagrammer (any_m_hurtado_)

Pamela Cortes (1981) Ecuadorian - singer, actress and dancer.

Érika Monserrate Vélez Zambrano (1982) Ecuadorian - actress, model and presenter.

María Fernanda Ríos (1982) Ecuadorian - actress, singer, model and fashion designer.

Érika Vélez (1982) Ecuadorian - actress and presenter.

Mariuxi Dominguez (1983) Ecuadorian - Instagrammer (mariuxidominguez)

Adrienne Bailon (1983) Ecuadorian / Puerto Rican - actress, singer, and tv personality.

Catalina López (1983) Ecuadorian - make-up artist and Miss Ecuador 2006.

Mirella Cesa (1984) Ecuadorian - singer-songwriter and guitarist.

Zully Guillen (1984) Ecuadorian - dancer.

Priscilla Negron (1984) Ecuadorian - actress.

Ximena Zamora (1984) Ecuadorian - model and Miss Ecuador 2005.

Cinthya Coppiano (1984) Ecuadorian - actress, entertainer and tv personality.

Gabriela Villalba (1984) Ecuadorian - singer and actress.

Giovanna Andrade (1985) Ecuadorian - TV presenter and actress.

Natalia Velez (1985) Ecuadorian - model.

María Elisa Camargo (1985) Ecuadorian [Colombian] - actress, singer, model, and dancer.

Giovanna Franco Andrade (1985) Ecuadorian - actress.

Carolina Jaume (1985) Ecuadorian - actress and presenter.

Angela Peñaherrera (1985) Ecuadorian - actress, television producer, and guitarist.

Norka / Norka Cevallos (1986) Ecuadorian - singer.

Viviana Muñoz (1986) Ecuadorian - dancer.

Andrea Hurtado (1986) Ecuadorian - Instagrammer.

Janneth Vera (1986) Ecuadorian - model.

Alejandra Coral Mantilla (1986) Ecuadorian - actress.

Lugina Cabezas (1987) Ecuadorian - Miss Ecuador 2007.

Kristina Carrillo-Bucaram (1987) Ecuadorian - writer, speaker, and raw vegan activist.

Gaby Spartz (1987) Ecuadorian - Twitch (GabySpartz)

Katty García (1988) Ecuadorian - actress.

Marcela Ruete (1988) Ecuadorian - actress.

Domenica Saporiti (1988) Ecuadorian - model.

Alexandra Cabanilla (1988) Ecuadorian - singer.

Olga Álava (1988) Ecuadorian - model, social, lifestyle entrepreneur, environmentalist, Miss Earth Ecuador 2011 and Miss Earth 2011.

Clarisa Abreu (1989) Ecuadorian - model, DJ and Instagrammer (clariabreuok)

Fernanda Cornejo / Maria Fernanda Cornejo Alfaro (1989) Ecuadorian - model and Miss International 2011.

Maria Cornejo (1989) Ecuadorian - Miss International 2011.

Alexis Knapp (1989) Ecuadorian, Cuban / German, English, Scottish, Irish, Dutch - actress and singer.

Maricruz Ramirez (1990) Ecuadorian - actress.

Paola Jaramillo (1990) Ecuadorian - Instagrammer (paolajaramilloz)

China Munoz (1990) Ecuadorian - Instagrammer (dinamunozzec)

Ingrid Hansen-Vik (1990) Ecuadorian - reality star.

María José Maza (1990) Ecuadorian [Spanish] - model and Miss Bikini Ecuador 2011. Miss Panamerican Ecuador 2013. Miss Caraibes Hibicus Ecuador 2013. and Miss Earth Ecuador 2014.

Carmyn Xoluv (1991) Ecuadorian, Mexican, Chinese, Filipina, Italian, French - actress and model.

Joselyn Gallardo (1991) Ecuadorian - actress.

Constanza Baez (1991) Ecuadorian - model and Miss Ecuador 2013.

Raisa Andrade (1991) Ecuadorian - dancer.

Carolina Aguirre (1992) Ecuadorian - Miss Ecuador 2012 and Miss Continents 2013.

Alejandra Argudo (1992) Ecuadorian - model and Miss Ecuador 2014.

Katherine Espín (1992) Ecuadorian [Spanish, possibly other] - model and Miss Earth 2016.

Alejandra Jaramillo (1992) Ecuadorian - tv presenter.

Mare Cevallos (1993) Ecuadorian - actress, model, singer, Miss Grand International Ecuador 2015, and tv personality.

Silvana Torres (1993) Ecuadorian - tv host.

Yoselin Noroña (1993) Ecuadorian - model.

Melanie Araya (1993) Ecuadorian / Chilean - actress.

Yuribeth Cornejo Pincay (1993) Ecuadorian - Instagrammer (yuribethcornejo)

Courtney Baxter (1993) Ecuadorian, Possibly Other - actress and producer.

Michela Pincay (1993) Ecuadorian - tv personality.

Irini Meza (1993) Ecuadorian - YouTuber.

Geraldine Meitzner (1993) Ecuadorian - Queen of Guayaquil 2016.

Paola Matute (1994) Ecuadorian - Instagrammer (paox33)

Samantha Boscarino (1994) Ecuadorian, Italian, Scottish - actress and singer.

Mirka Cabrera (1994) Ecuadorian - model and Miss World Ecuador 2016.

Valentina López (1994) Ecuadorian - composer and singer.

Yesenia Mendoza (1994) Ecuadorian - dancer.

Ana Chavarría Pin (1994) Ecuadorian - YouTuber.

Jamila Velazquez (1995) Ecuadorian, Puerto Rican, Dominican - actress and singer-songwriter.

Zinahyd Rincones (1995) Ecuadorian - YouTuber.

Sara Toscano (1995) Ecuadorian - dancer.

Connie Maily Jiménez (1995) Ecuadorian - Miss Ecuador 2016.

Samantha Gray (1995) Ecuadorian - actress, singer and dancer.

Daniela Cepeda (1995) Ecuadorian - model and Miss Ecuador 2017.

Nadia Mejia (1995) Ecuadorian / German - model and Miss California USA 2016.

Nikki Mackliff (1996) Ecuadorian - singer.

Rahab Villacres (1996) Ecuadorian - reality star.

Gabriela Matamoros (1996) Ecuadorian - Instagrammer (gabrielamatamoros)

Dayanara Peralta (1996) Ecuadorian - singer, model, and Miss Teen Universe 2015.

Cisne Rivera (1996) Ecuadorian - model, Miss Teen Earth Ecuador, and Miss Teen Earth International 2012.

Grace Castro (1996) Ecuadorian - model.

Sofia Velez (1996) Ecuadorian - model, weightlifter and Instagrammer (sofiavelezoficial)

Fiorella Bruno (1997) Ecuadorian - Instagrammer.

Lynn Kate Molina (1997) Ecuadorian - YouTuber and Instagrammer (lynnkatee)

Janan Nahid (1997) Ecuadorian - singer.

Fabiana Noboa (1998) Ecuadorian - model.

Maylin Rodríguez (1998) Ecuadorian - YouTuber.

Dani3lah (1998) Ecuadorian - Instagrammer.

Sary Omg (1999) Ecuadorian - YouTuber.

Melanie Garces (1999) Ecuadorian - Instagrammer (melanniegarces)

Gianella Bacchelli (1999) Ecuadorian, Spanish - Instagrammer (gianibacchelli)

Ayeisemi (1999) Ecuadorian - Live.me broadcaster.

Talita von Fürstenberg (1999) Ecuadoran, French, English, Scottish / Italian, German, Greek Jewish, Moldovan Jewish, Belgian Jewish - model.

Fátima Ptacek (2000) Ecuadorian / Colombian, Czech, Norwegian, Irish - actress and model.

Kira Powell (?) Ecuadorian / African-American - actress.

Tamara Almeida (?) Ecuadorian, Chilean - actress.

Domenica Feraud (?) Ecuadorian - actress.

Tara Crespo (?) Ecuadorian, Russian, Irish - actress.

C.C. DeNeira / Cecilia DeNeira (?) Ecuadorian - actress.

Shany Nadan / Shany Nadan Zarlenga (?) Ecuadorian - actress.

Audrey Luna (?) Ecuadorian / Unspecified - singer.

Denise Santos (?) Ecuadorian / Colombian - actress.

Cristina del Carmen (?) Ecuadorian [Inca, Spanish, Catalan] / Catalan - actress.

Alex Aspiazu (?) Ecuadorian - actress.

Martha Ontaneda (?) Ecuadorian - actress, producer, and director.

Ruth Coello (?) Ecuadorian - actress and director.

Paulina Aguirre (?) Ecuadorian - singer.

Carmen González (?) Ecuadorian - lead singer of Koral y Esmeralda.

Daniela Guzmán (?) Ecuadorian - singer and composer.

Carmen Angulo (?) Afro-Ecuadorian - actress.

Elena Gui (?) Ecuadorian - actress.

Amparo Guillén (?) Ecuadorian - actress.

María Mercedes Pacheco (?) Ecuadorian - actress.

Sandra Pareja (?) Ecuadorian - actress.

Mercedes Payne (?) Ecuadorian - actress.

Martha de Salas (?) Ecuadorian - actress.

Daniela Vallejo (?) Ecuadorian - actress.

Christina Bustos (?) Ecuadorian - musician (Instagram: christinabustos).

Susy Sacoto (?) Ecuadorian - Miss Panamerican Ecuador 2018 (Instagram: susysacoto29).

Rosy Vega (?) Ecuadorian - model (Instagram: rosyvega877).

Alejandra Guevara (?) Ecuadorian - model (Instagram: alejandraaguevara) .

Saywa Chuji Lligalo (?) Ecuadorian [Kichwa Chibuleo, Sacha Warmi] - singer, actress, artist, model. (Instagram: saywa_chuji) .

Miriam Herrera (?) Ecuadorian - model (Instagram: mimisartist).

Suggeidy Castillo Santillán (?) Ecuadorian - model (Instagram: sugge_).

Alejandra Corman (?) Ecuadorian - actress and screenwriter (Instagram: alejandracorman).

Julio César Villafuerte (1928) Ecuadorian - musician, composer, singer, arranger, director, performer, broadcaster and pedagogue.

Papá Roncón / Guillermo Ayoví Erazo (1930) Afro-Ecuadorian - musician, singer, and marimba player.

Gerardo Guevara (1930) Ecuadorian - composer.

Héctor Jaramillo (1931) Ecuadorian - singer.

Messiah Maiguashca (1938) Ecuadorian - composer.

Mesías Maiguashca (1938) Ecuadorian - composer.

Polibio Mayorga (1944) Ecuadorian - singer and composer.

Jesús Fichamba (1947) Ecuadorian [Unspecified Indigenous] - singer.

Henry Layana (1950) Ecuadorian - actor, theater director, storyteller and Ecuadorian cultural activist.

Carlos Michelena (1954) Ecuadorian - comedic actor.

Arturo Rodas (1954) Ecuadorian - composer.

Jaime Guevara (1954) Ecuadorian - singer.

Christoph Baumann (1954) Ecuadorian [German] - actor.

Héctor Napolitano (1955) Ecuadorian - singer.

Xavier Coronel (1957) Ecuadorian - actor.

Hugo Idrovo (1957) Ecuadorian - singer, composer, great exponent of Ecuadorian literature.

Lucho Mueckay (1957) Ecuadorian - actor, choreographer, stage director, comedian and cultural promoter, as well as being considered the forerunner of Contemporary Dance and the Theater of Movement.

Virgilio Valero (1958) Ecuadorian - actor, writer, designer, professor, theater director and artist.

Luis Aguirre Ford (1958) Ecuadorian - actor and director.

Oswaldo Segura (1959) Ecuadorian - actor, histrión and television presenter.

Hugo Avilés (1962) Ecuadorian - theater actor , playwright , director , producer and teacher.

Marcelo Gálvez (1962) Ecuadorian [Chilean / Unknown] - actor, director and theater writer.

Peky Andino (1962) Ecuadorian - playwright, screenwriter, television director and actor.

Byron Nemeth (1963) Ecuadorian - guitarist and producer.

Héctor Garzón (1964) Ecuadorian - actor.

Gerardo / Gerardo Mejia (1965) Ecuadorian - rapper, singer, and actor.

Carlos Valencia (1965) Ecuadorian - actor.

Renato Albornoz (1966) Ecuadorian - singer, guitarist and music producer.

Mario Polit (1968) Ecuadorian - actor.

AU-D / José Martín Galarza Arce (1968) Ecuadorian - musician.

Gerardo Morán (1968) Ecuadorian - singer.

Leonardo C��rdenas (1968) Ecuadorian - composer, pianist and orchestra director.

Jaime Enrique Aymara (1968) Ecuadorian - singer and actor.

Andrés Crespo (1970) Ecuadorian - actor, director, writer and broadcaster.

Richard Barker (1971) Afro-Ecuadorian - actor and presenter.

Fernando Villarroel (1971) Ecuadorian - director, producer and comic actor.

Xavier Pimentel (1971) Ecuadorian - actor , animator, television director and producer.

Emanuel Xavier (1971) Ecuadorian, Puerto Rican - poet, spoken word artist, novelist, editor, and activist.

Juan Fernando Velasco (1972) Ecuadorian [Spanish] - singer, musician and composer.

David Reinoso (1972) Ecuadorian - actor, voice actor and comedian.

Alejandro Fajardo (1972) Ecuadorian - optometrist and actor.

Igor Icaza (1972) Ecuadorian - musician.

Frank Bonilla (1973) Ecuadorian - actor.

Alberto Cajamarca (1973) Ecuadorian - actor.

Diego Serrano (1973) Ecuadorian - actor.

Andrés Pellacini (1973) Ecuadorian - actor and presenter.

Luis Rueda (1973) Ecuadorian - musician and guitarist.

Francisco Pinoargotti (1974) Ecuadorian - musician, comedian, actor and television presenter .

Keram Malicki-Sánchez (1974) Ecuadorian / Polish - actor, musician, composer, producer, and writer.

Charles Castronovo (1975) Ecuadorian / Sicilian - singer.

Diego Spotorno (1975) Ecuadorian [Lebanese, Argentinian] - actor and TV host.

Christian Maquilón (1975) Ecuadorian - actor.

Martín Calle (1976) Ecuadorian - actor.

Henry Bustamante (1976) Ecuadorian - tv personality.

Danilo Esteves (1977) Ecuadorian - comic actor.

Delfin Hasta El Fin / Delfín Quishpe (1977) Quechua Ecuadorian - singer-songwriter.

Ricardo González (1978) Afro-Ecuadorian - actor.

David Andrade (1978) Ecuadorian - actor.

Carlo Alban (1979) Ecuadorian - actor.

Roberto Manrique (1979) Ecuadorian - model and actor.

Fausto Miño (1980) Ecuadorian - singer and actor.

Daniel Betancourt (1980) Ecuadorian - singer.

Jorge Luis del Hierro (1981) Ecuadorian - singer, composer and actor.

Javier López Narváez (1983) Ecuadorian / Colombian - singer, composer, arranger, writer and journalist.

Rodrigo Moreira (1983) Ecuadorian - actor, model, TV host, Mr. America Latina 2009, CEO of Miss Teen Ecuador, Miss Teen Earth, and Miss Teenager Universal.

Jorge Alejandro Fegan (1983) Ecuadorian - actor, presenter, producer, and director.

Renier Murillo (1984) Ecuadorian, Costa Rican - actor.

Leo Rojas (1984) Ecuadorian [Unspecified Indigenous] - pan flute musician.

Efraín Ruales (1984) Ecuadorian - actor, model and musician.

Víctor Aráuz (1984) Ecuadorian - actor, director, screenwriter and acting teacher.

Jhonny Obando (1985) Ecuadorian / Colombian - actor and filmmaker.

Sebastian Soul (1985) Ecuadorian - singer.

Josue Alcivar Chusan (1985) Ecuadorian - Instagrammer (josuealcivarchusan).

Bratt Murgueitio (1985) Ecuadorian - social media and reality star.

George Salazar (1986) Ecuadorian / Filipino - actor, singer, and musician.

Ricardo Velasteguí (1986) Ecuadorian - playwright, producer and actor.

Julian Gavilanes (1986) Jonathan Estrada Becerra/ Irish - actor.

Jonathan Estrada Becerra (1986) Ecuadorian - actor and presenter.

Juan Jose Jaramillo (1987) Ecuadorian - actor.

Gero Arias Madero (1987) Ecuadorian - YouTuber (Imparable.TV)

Danilo Carrera (1989) Ecuadorian - actor, model, and presenter.

Carlos Flores Guzman (1989) Ecuadorian - reality star.

Raúl Santana (1989) Ecuadorian - YouTuber.

Maddison Varas (1990) Ecuadorian / Brazilian [Palestinian, Lebanese] - actor and producer.

Wallas Da Silva (1990) Ecuadorian - Youtuber.

Alex Fabricio (1991) Ecuadorian - YouTuber.

Jorge Ulloa (1990) Ecuadorian - creative director and co-founder of the Touché Films-produced web series Enchufe.tv.

Carlos Mena (1990) Ecuadorian - actor.

Martin Dominguez (1990) Ecuadorian - filmmaker who co-created Enchufe.tv.

Mario Fernando Perez (1990) Ecuadorian - reality star.

Daniel Paez (1990) Ecuadorian - singer.

Jota Rias (1990) Ecuadorian - Instagrammer and blogger (iamjotarias.com)

Luis Jiméne (1990) Ecuadorian - musician, singer, rapper and composer.

Gabriel González (1991) Ecuadorian - singer and composer.

Parcevas / Juan Sebastian Lopez (1993) Ecuadorian - singer.

Sebastian Cevallos (1994) Ecuadorian - YouTuber.

Anthony Lencina (1994) Ecuadorian - YouTuber.

Alexis Abreu (1994) Ecuadorian - YouTuber (Arabezolano)

Ricardo Hoyos (1995) Peruvian [Quechua, Spanish], Ecuadorian [Italian, British] / Irish, Scottish, French - actor.

Cristhian Criollo (1995) Ecuadorian - TikTok and Live.me broadcaster.

Johann Vera (1995) Ecuadorian - singer and actor.

Christopher Vélez (1995) Ecuadorian - singer and member of CNCO.

Arturo Leon (1995) Ecuadorian - Instagrammer.

Francisco Pérez / Francisco Pérez Uscocovich (1996) Ecuadorian - actor.

Guillermo Toscano (1996) Ecuadorian - dancer.

Richard Salazar (1996) Ecuadorian - YouTuber.

George Padilla (1997) Ecuadorian - TikTok..

Stalyn Riera (1998) Ecuadorian - actor.

Anthony Gentleman (1998) Ecuadorian - YouTuber.

Smith Benavides (1998) Ecuadorian - YouTuber.

Maykel Campozano (1998) Ecuadorian - singer.

Maykel (1998) Ecuadorian - singer.

Chrisx Trejo (1999) Ecuadorian - TikTok.

Kike Jav (1990) Ecuadorian - YouTuber.

Diego Jairala (1999) Ecuadorian - Instagrammer (diegojairala)

RaptorGamer (2000) Ecuadorian - YouTuber.

Kevlex Pazmiño (2000) Ecuadorian - TikTok and YouTuber.

Axel Ortiz Moran (2001) Ecuadorian - TikTok.

Josh FantasyTune (2001) Ecuadorian - TikTok.

Xolo Maridueña (2001) Ecuadorian, Mexican, Cuban - actor.

Lucius Hoyos (2001) Peruvian [Quechua, Spanish], Ecuadorian [Italian, British] / Irish, Scottish, French - actor.

Goya Robles (?) Ecuadorian, Puerto Rican - actor.

Carl Montoya (?) Ecuadorian - actor.

Holger Moncada Jr. (?) Ecuadorian - actor.

Christopher Capito (?) Ecuadorian - actor.

Galo Recalde (?) Ecuadorian - actor, producer, director, and screenwriter.

Mike Montgomerie (?) Ecuadorian - actor, model, and presenter.

Santos Daniel (?) Ecuadorian - actor and director.

Mike Elizondo (?) Ecuadorian - guitarist, bassist, drummer, keyboardist, sitarist, saxophone player, songwriter, and producer.

Patrick Jara / Byron Patrick Jara Jr. (?) Ecuadorian, Mexican - actor and producer.

Masato Di Santo (?) Ecuadorian, Argentinian - actor.

Angelo Bash / Luis Angel Del Valle Jr (?) Ecuadorian, Puerto Rican, Cuban - actor.

J. Charles Rivera (?) Ecuadorian / Puerto Rican - actor.

Danilo Parra (?) Ecuadorian [Colombian, Italian, Spanish] - singer.

Julio Bueno / Bueno Arévalo Julio Fernando (?) Ecuadorian - director, musical composer and musicologist.

Jorge Saade (?) Ecuadorian [Lebanese] - violinist.

Juan Pablo Asanza (?) Ecuadorian - actor.

Andrés Garzón (?) Ecuadorian - actor.

Alberto Pablo Rivera (?) Ecuadorian - actor and filmmaker.

Marlon Valverde (?) Ecuadorian - artist, musician, composer and singer.

Álex Vizuete (?) Ecuadorian - actor.

Mosquito Mosquera (?) Ecuadorian - actor.

Santiago Carpio (?) Ecuadorian - actor.

Mike Albornoz (?) Ecuadorian - singer.

Jorge Herrera (?) Ecuadorian - singer.

Sebastian J / Sebastian Jacome (?) Ecuadorian - producer, composer and writer.

Larry Salgado (?) Ecuadorian - a director, arranger, saxophonist, pianist and producer.

Jorge Luis Valverde (?) Ecuadorian - composer.

Nando Cabrera (?) Ecuadorian - dancer and choreographer (Instagram: nando_cabrera_).

Daniel Vallejo (?) Ecuadorian - Mister World Ecuador 2018.

Violet Chachki / Jason Dardo (1992) Ecuadorian - Genderfluid - drag queen, model, musician, songwriter, and dancer.

Problematic

Christina Aguilera (1980) Ecuadorian [Spanish (Andalusian, Castilian, Extremaduran, Leónese, Galician), remote Quechua] / English, German, Irish, Scottish, French, Welsh, Dutch - singer-songwriter, actress, tv personality, and producer - Appropriated cornrows, appropriated afro, appropriated and sexualized the Japanese kimono, appropriated and sexualized traditional Indian wear, and played in a transphobic skit on Saturday Night Live.

Michael Steger (1980) Ecuadorian / Austrian, Norwegian - actor - Played an Iranian character on 90210 when he is not.

#ecuadorian fc #poc fc #latinx fc #fc list #rph #task: 113 #task: ecuador

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Events 5.22

192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu. 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. 853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt. 1176 – The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to assassinate Saladin near Aleppo. 1200 – King John of England and King Philip II of France sign the Treaty of Le Goulet. 1246 – Henry Raspe is elected anti-king of the Kingdom of Germany in opposition to Conrad IV. 1254 – Serbian King Stefan Uroš I and the Republic of Venice sign a peace treaty. 1370 – Brussels massacre: Hundreds of Jews are murdered and the rest of the Jewish community is banished from Brussels, Belgium, for allegedly desecrating consecrated Host. 1377 – Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe. 1455 – Start of the Wars of the Roses: At the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England. 1520 – The massacre at the festival of Tóxcatl takes place during the Fall of Tenochtitlan, resulting in turning the Aztecs against the Spanish. 1629 – Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II and Danish King Christian IV sign the Treaty of Lübeck ending Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' War. 1762 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg. 1762 – Trevi Fountain is officially completed and inaugurated in Rome. 1766 – A large earthquake causes heavy damage and loss of life in Istanbul and the Marmara region. 1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially begins as the Corps of Discovery departs from St. Charles, Missouri. 1807 – A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason. 1809 – On the second and last day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling (near Vienna, Austria), Napoleon I is repelled by an enemy army for the first time. 1816 – A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs, and the riots spread to Ely the next day. 1819 – SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. 1826 – HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage. 1840 – The penal transportation of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished. 1848 – Slavery is abolished in Martinique. 1849 – Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats, making him the only U.S. president to ever hold a patent. 1856 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina severely beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made regarding Southerners and slavery. 1863 – American Civil War: Union forces begin the Siege of Port Hudson which lasts 48 days, the longest siege in U.S. military history. 1864 – American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army's Red River Campaign ends in failure. 1866 – Oliver Winchester founded the Winchester Repeating Arms 1872 – Reconstruction Era: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law, restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers. 1900 – The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative. 1906 – The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine". 1915 – Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano besides Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century. 1915 – Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246. 1926 – Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists in Kuomintang China. 1927 – Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes. 1939 – World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel. 1941 – During the Anglo-Iraqi War, British troops take Fallujah. 1942 – Mexico enters the Second World War on the side of the Allies. 1943 – Joseph Stalin disbands the Comintern. 1947 – Cold War: The Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece. 1948 – Finnish President J. K. Paasikivi released Yrjö Leino from his duties as interior minister in 1948 after the Finnish parliament had adopted a motion of censure of Leino with connection to his illegal handing over of nineteen people to the Soviet Union in 1945. 1957 – South Africa's government approves of racial separation in universities. 1958 – The 1958 riots in Ceylon become a watershed in the race relations of various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total deaths is estimated at 300, mostly Tamils. 1960 – The Great Chilean earthquake, measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, hits southern Chile, becoming the most powerful earthquake ever recorded. 1962 – Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes in Unionville, Missouri after bombs explode on board, killing 45. 1963 – Greek left-wing politician Grigoris Lambrakis is shot in an assassination attempt, and dies five days later. 1964 – Lyndon B. Johnson launches the Great Society. 1967 – Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping. 1967 – L'Innovation department store in Brussels, Belgium, burns down, resulting in 323 dead or missing and 150 injured, the most devastating fire in Belgian history. 1968 – The nuclear-powered submarine USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of the Azores. 1969 – Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface. 1972 – Ceylon adopts a new constitution, becoming a republic and changing its name to Sri Lanka, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations. 1972 – Over 400 women in Derry, Northern Ireland attack the offices of Sinn Féin following the shooting by the Irish Republican Army of a young British soldier on leave. 1987 – Hashimpura massacre occurs in Meerut, India. 1987 – First ever Rugby World Cup kicks off with New Zealand playing Italy at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand. 1990 – North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen. 1992 – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia join the United Nations. 1994 – A worldwide trade embargo against Haiti goes into effect to punish its military rulers for not reinstating the country's ousted elected leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. 1996 – The Burmese military regime jails 71 supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi in a bid to block a pro-democracy meeting. 1998 – A U.S. federal judge rules that U.S. Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the Lewinsky scandal involving President Bill Clinton. 2000 – In Sri Lanka, over 150 Tamil rebels are killed over two days of fighting for control in Jaffna. 2002 – Civil rights movement: A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murder of four girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. 2010 – Air India Express Boeing 737 crashes over a cliff upon landing at Mangalore, India, killing 158 of 166 people on board, becoming the deadliest crash involving a Boeing 737 until the crash of Lion Air Flight 610. 2010 – Inter Milan beat Bayern Munich 2–0 in the Uefa Champions League final in Madrid, Spain to become the first, and so far only, Italian team to win the historic treble (Serie A, Coppa Italia, Champions League). 2011 – An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 people and wreaking $2.8 billion in damages, the costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history. 2012 – Tokyo Skytree opens to the public. It is the tallest tower in the world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth after Burj Khalifa (829.8 m). 2014 – General Prayut Chan-o-cha becomes interim leader of Thailand in a military coup d'état, following six months of political turmoil. 2014 – An explosion occurs in Ürümqi, capital of China's far-western Xinjiang region, resulting in at least 43 deaths and 91 injuries. 2015 – The Republic of Ireland becomes the first nation in the world to legalize gay marriage in a public referendum. 2017 – Twenty-two people are killed at an Ariana Grande concert in the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing. 2017 – United States President Donald Trump visits the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and becomes the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Western Wall. 2020 – Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303 crashes in Model Colony near Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 98 people.

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Knowledge About Room Air Conditioner

1. Heritage listing of room air conditioner The court house was listed on the former Register of the National Estate. Innisfail Court House was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 13 January 1995 having satisfied the following criteria.

The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history. Completed in 1939 as the third court house in Innisfail, this building survives as an example of the development of Innisfail as a commercial and official centre for the surrounding district from the late nineteenth century, and of the prosperity accompanying the expansion of settlement and the sugar industry in the Johnstone area during the early twentieth century. The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places.

The Innisfail Court House is a good example of a substantial brick court house which reflects the high standard of Government buildings in Queensland designed by the Department of Public Works during the early-mid 20th century. The place is important because of its aesthetic significance. The form of the building in relation to its prominent corner location, scale and materials, contribute to the Edith and Rankin Street streetscapes and Innisfail townscape.

The place has a strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons. Designed and constructed as part of a Government initiated Works scheme created to generate employment throughout Queensland during the 1930s, the Innisfail Court House is also a fine example of the work completed under this scheme. ------ 2.

Production of room air conditioner On September 26, 1956, the production was broadcast live on CBS as part of the United States Steel Hour. It was produced by the Theater Guild and was based on the 1956 novel, Bang the Drum Slowly by Mark Harris. Arthur Schulman adapted the novel for television.

Daniel Petrie was the director. The story was remade into a 1973 film starring Robert DeNiro and Michael Moriarty. The original 1956 version was not shown again for 25 years.

In 1982, the kinescope was replayed on public television as part of a series called "The Golden Age of Television." The 1982 broadcast was accompanied by interviews of Albert Salmi, Rudy Bond, George Peppard, director Daniel Petrie, and writer Arnold Schulman. The Criterion Collection selected the 1956 production as one of eight teleplays in its DVD collection titled, "The Golden Age of Television.

" ------ 3. Station house of room air conditioner Aberdeen Station was built in a Queen Anne style of architecture. It is located on the west side of the single tracked (formerly double tracked) CSX Philadelphia Subdivision, and south of Bel Air Avenue (Maryland Route 132).

The building is one-and-a-half stories tall, and was described as the type of station where the agent would live above the waiting room. The building is also the last wooden station remaining on the BaltimorePhiladelphia line, and one of the only stations Frank Furness designed that is still standing. ------ 4.

Plot of room air conditioner The play begins with narration by Henry Wiggen on a dark set telling the audience that he wrote play based on a book he also wrote. Henry is a pitcher for the fictional New York Mammoths; he was voted Most Valuable Player in 1952. He explains that the play is about his roommate on the road Bruce Pearson who is the team's third-string catcher.

In their shared room, Pearson, a country boy, irritates Wiggen talking about how the wind affects the path when he spits out the window. Pearson complains about taxes. In the locker room, players ridicule Pearson.

The team's surly manager, Dutch, chastises Pearson for calling the wrong pitch and tells him he has no brains. Eight months later, Wiggen gets a call from Pearson who says he is in the hospital in Rochester, Minnesota. He asks Wiggen to visit him.

Wiggen visits Pearson in the hospital. Pearson he has a disease that's "kinda fatal." He has six months or a year "or maybe tomorrow.

" They agree that nobody else can no, or else Dutch will get rid of Pearson. Spring training arrives, and Wiggen is holding out due to a contract dispute. A new catcher, Piney Woods, is competing for Pearson's spot on the roster.

Wiggen meets with the team's management. He agrees to sign but insists that he's tied together in a package with Pearson. Four month pass.

Pearson's condition is deteriorating, and he struggles to make it look like nothing's happening. Wiggen tries to persuade a teammate to stop giving Pearson a hard time and tells him Pearson is dying. Word of Pearson's illness reaches, the manager, and Dutch tells Wiggen that Pearson is through.

The players hold a surprise party for Pearson, who doesn't understand the reason for the party. Piney Woods shows up at the party and says the team sent for him. Wiggen learns that his wife has had a baby and shares the news with the party-goers.

Six beautiful women (in real life, Miss America contests for 1956) show up; they are a present for Pearson from his teammates. Dutch enters. He has had a change of heart and agrees Pearson can stay with the team.

Pearson is choked up by the kindness of his teammates. He isn't feeling well and asks Wiggen to call the doctor. In closing narration, Wiggen stands in a spotlight on a dark set and says they took Pearson to the hospital.

After the season, he died. Wiggen was a pall bearer. The team didn't send a representative.

Breaking down in tears, and in the play's final line, he says, "From here on in I rag nobody." ------ 5. Jos Toh of room air conditioner Jos Toh Gonzlez (February 6, 1927 March 15, 1974) was a Chilean journalist, lawyer, political figure, and Socialist politician.

He was born in Chilln, the son of Spanish immigrant Jos Toh Soldavilla and of Brunilda Gonzlez Monteagudo. After completing his secondary studies in his natal city, he studied law at the Universidad de Chile. While there he was president of the student federation between 1950-51.

In 1958 he joined the staff of the ltima Hora newspaper, and in 1960 he became its editor and majority owner, a position he held until 1970. He married Raquel Victoria Morales Etchevers (known as Moy de Toh) in 1963, with whom he had two children: Carolina and Jos. In 1942 Toh joined the Chilean Socialist Party (PS), while still in high school.

He rose to member of its central committee. As the first democratically elected socialist president, President Salvador Allende named him his first Minister of the Interior and vice president, a position he held until he was cited by Congress accused of tolerating the creation of left-wing paramilitary organizations. Allende responded by naming him Minister of Defense, a deliberate challenge to his right wing detractors.

As such, he had to deal with the Tanquetazo putsch, the first attempt at a military led coup d'tat. During the coup d'tat of September 11, 1973, he was seized and arrested at La Moneda, where he had gone to support the defense of the democratic administration. He was held in different concentration camps suffering severe torture: first at the Military Academy; later he was sent for 8 months to a political prison in Dawson Island and from there he was transferred to the basement of the Air Force War Academy.

On February 1, 1974, Toh was moved to room 303 at the Military Hospital in Santiago in a precarious state of health, suffering from acute attack of gastric ulcers. He recovered slightly and was able to share a few minutes with his wife and children on his 47th birthday on February 6. Despite his poor health, the military officers continued harassing him with endless torture and interrogation sessions.

His physical state deteriorated, his weight dropped precipitously and he lost his eyesight. He could no longer walk nor take care of himself. The further interrogations in the Air Forces War Academy only worsened his condition.

On March 15, at 12.55, he was found hanged inside the clothes closet of his hospital room. The official explanation was that he had committed suicide in the grip of a very strong nervous depression, with psycho-somatic effects.

The family has never accepted that version and still claims he was murdered. After Chile regained democracy, it was determined that he died as a result of torture. After his death, his wife and children lived in exile in Mexico City for several years.

His family returned to Chile in the early 80's where his wife worked in the resistance to the Pinochet dictatorship. After Democracy was regained in 1990; his wife, Moy de Toh, served as Cultural Attach in Mexico and as an Ambassador to Honduras and El Salvador. His daughter, Carolina, studied law in The University of Chile and went on to obtain a Ph.

D. in Political Science in Milan, Italy. She is currently serving her second term as a Congresswoman representing Santiago and was elected mayor of Santiago Centro October 28, 2012.

His son, Jos Toh obtained undergraduate and graduate degrees in architecture in the United States, where he founded an architecture office. ------ 6. Reception of room air conditioner In The New York Times, Jack Gould wrote that production failed to fully convey the story to the television screen.

He criticized the "extremely contrived staging" and "wretchedly drawn characterizations." He did find that Albert Salmi had some "effective moments." Critic Grem Ocotpada praised Salmi's "sensitive performance as the dumb and dying baseball catcher.

" While not completely satisfied with Newman's performance, he found Newman's closing speech to be moving. Upon its 1982 revival, the production received more positive reviews. Michael Hill of The Baltimore Sun called it "daring television of rare quality" with a "powerful and touching" story.

He also praised the narrative technique of having Paul Newman step in and out of the production to provide explanations to move the story along, saying it bordered on "experimental drama." John J. O'Connor of The New York Times wrote: "The audience can have no doubt that something special just passed in the night.

" ------ 7. Alfred E. Smith Career and Technical Education High School of room air conditioner Alfred E.

Smith Career and Technical Education High School is a vocational public high school in the South Melrose neighborhood of The Bronx, New York. It was originally built in the early 20th century as the "Bronx Continuation School" for students who left the school system. The school eventually became a vocational high school in the 1920s.

The school was named after the former New York governor and Democratic nominee for president, Alfred E. Smith in 1965. Its address is 333 E.

151 Street. The school is near the Third Avenue and E. 149th Street station of the 2 and 5 IRT trains.

The principal is Evan Schwartz. As of the 201415 school year, the school had an enrollment of 377 students and 33.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a studentteacher ratio of 11.

4:1. There were 315 students (83.6% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 23 (6.

1% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch." The school offers automotive, home construction, plumbing, and heating/air-conditioning ventilation programs. There are plenty of shops where students work on real cars brought in by people in the community.

The school also has a room large enough for those studying carpentry to construct a full size wooden frame house. The New York City Department of Education planned in 2010 to close the school but the plan was cancelled after strong protests from the community.

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katherineschileanlitblog · 4 years ago

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10 Interesting Fiction Books

Curfew by Jose Donoso

“Donoso’s engrossing novel spans 24 hours in the stifling and oppressive political atmosphere of 1985 Santiago under General Augusto Pinochet’s military regime.

A leftwing singer returns after 13 years of exile in Paris. His fame now faded and his politics softened, Mañungo Vera is no longer the revolutionary he once was. His visit coincides with the death of Matilde Neruda, widow of the Nobel prize-winning poet and icon of the Chilean left, Pablo Neruda.

Vera is reacquainted with old friends and comrades as they prepare for the funeral. But, caught out by the curfew, he is forced to spend an eventful night on the streets with his former lover, during which they have a dangerous run-in with her suspected torturer.

Donoso paints a harrowing picture of life under the repressive regime, and shows how negotiating its daily horrors damages both individuals and society. He also shines a harsh light on the left, as factions squabble and jockey for advantage from the funeral.

This intense, introspective tale reflects the political and spiritual decay of the nation, after more than a decade of dictatorship.” (Khaneka, P. 2015, April 9. The best books on Chile: start your reading here. 2020, September 27.)

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

“Allende’s classic, hugely successful family saga is a masterwork of magic-realism. Fusing the personal with the political and fact with fantasy, it tells Chile’s recent history through several generations of the Trueba family, ending with a savage military coup that leads to the death of a president.

The principal protagonist, Esteban Trueba, is used to getting his own way – in his family (as an irascible patriarch), on his farm (as a wealthy landowner), and in the country (as a rightwing senator): “The day we can’t get our hands on the ballot boxes before the vote is counted, we’re done for.”

When a socialist candidate finally wins the presidential election, Trueba backs a coup. But in the ferocious denouement that follows, he finds himself sidelined as brutality and terror spiral under the newly installed military regime.

The novel celebrates the spirit and resilience of the Trueba women, which shine through the political tumult and family turbulence in this clever, witty and stunningly assured debut.

Allende’s father was a cousin of President Salvador Allende, who was overthrown and died during a military coup in 1973. In 1975, the author fled to Venezuela, and later moved to the US. She has said the book is an “attempt to recreate the country I had lost, the family I had lost”. (Khaneka, P. 2015, April 9. The best books on Chile: start your reading here. 2020, September 27.)

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

“Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquín Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy, gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. By 1849, Chileans of every stripe have fallen prey to feverish dreams of wealth. Joaquín takes off for San Francisco to seek his fortune, and Eliza, pregnant with his child, decides to follow him.

As Eliza embarks on her perilous journey north in the hold of a ship and arrives in the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco, she must navigate a society dominated by greedy men. But Eliza soon catches on with the help of her natural spirit and a good friend, the Chinese doctor Tao Chi’en. What began as a search for love ends up as the conquest of personal freedom.

A marvel of storytelling, Daughter of Fortune confirms once again Isabel Allende's extraordinary gift for fiction and her place as one of the world's leading writers” (Amazon)

The Savage Detective by Roberto Bolano

“In this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Roberto Bolaño tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes--the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself--on a tragicomic quest through a darkening, entropic universe: our own. The Savage Detectives is an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age.” (Amazon)

By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano

“As through a crack in the wall, By Night in Chile's single night-long rant provides a terrifying, clandestine view of the strange bedfellows of Church and State in Chile. This wild, eerily compact novel―Roberto Bolano's first work available in English―recounts the tale of a poor boy who wanted to be a poet, but ends up a half-hearted Jesuit priest and a conservative literary critic, a sort of lap dog to the rich and powerful cultural elite, in whose villas he encounters Pablo Neruda and Ernst Junger. Father Urrutia is offered a tour of Europe by agents of Opus Dei (to study "the disintegration of the churches," a journey into realms of the surreal); and ensnared by this plum, he is next assigned―after the destruction of Allende―the secret, never-to-be-disclosed job of teaching Pinochet, at night, all about Marxism, so the junta generals can know their enemy. Soon, searingly, his memories go from bad to worse. Heart-stopping and hypnotic, By Night in Chile marks the American debut of an astonishing writer.” (Amazon)

Distant Star by Roberto Bolano

“The narrator saw that man for the first time in 1971 or 1972, when Allende was still President of Chile. He wrote distant and cautious poems, seduced women, and aroused indefinable mistrust in men. He saw him again after the coup, but at the time he was unaware that this aviator, who wrote Bible verses with the smoke of a WWII plane, and the poet were one, and the same. And so we are told the story of an impostor, of a man of many names, with no other moral than aesthetics, dandy of horror, murderer and photographer of fear, a barbarian artist who took his creations to their last and lethal consequences.” (Amazon)

Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra

“Alejandro Zambra's Ways of Going Home begins with an earthquake, seen through the eyes of an unnamed nine-year-old boy who lives in an undistinguished middle-class housing development in a suburb of Santiago, Chile. When the neighbors camp out overnight, the protagonist gets his first glimpse of Claudia, an older girl who asks him to spy on her uncle Raúl. In the second section, the protagonist is the writer of the story begun in the first section. His father is a man of few words who claims to be apolitical but who quietly sympathized―to what degree, the author isn't sure―with the Pinochet regime. His reflections on the progress of the novel and on his own life―which is strikingly similar to the life of his novel's protagonist―expose the raw suture of fiction and reality.” (Amazon)

The Shadow of What We Were by Luis Sepulveda

“Sepulveda packs more than three decades of Chilean history into this lean and darkly humorous novel. Three aging revolutionaries-Cacho Salinas, Lolo Garmendia, and Lucho Arancibia-reunite to pull off one final, spectacular heist, gathering in a hideout to await the arrival of the Shadow, a legendary Robin Hood-type anarchist. As the comrades with their graying beards, thinning hair, and chubby physiques wait, they revisit the past and ruminate on losses: after Pinochet's coup, Cacho and Lolo fled to Europe, while Lucho, whose brothers were murdered by the regime, stayed and endured torture that has left him brain damaged. Meanwhile, and unbeknownst to the trio, the Shadow lies dead on the sidewalk, struck down by a freak accident. Although the narrator frequently runs away with the story, trailing off into history lessons, Sepulveda maintains a high level of suspense as the police investigate the Shadow's death, and Cacho, Lolo, and Lucho decide whether to go through with their plan, turning their collective sorrows into a celebration of the resilience of the human spirit. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved." (Amazon)

Tengo Miedo Torero by Pedro Lemebel

“This is a love story in Santiago de Chile in 86, the year of the Pinochet attack. A boy from the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front, who is going to participate in the action, lives a sentimental relationship with a gay man who supports him, without knowing-knowing it, in his political plans. But they fail and their relationship ends as well. I am afraid of a bullfighter is the verse of a song that Sara Montiel used to perform. His words suggest, beyond theatricality and melancholy, the recondite interiority of a country that, as defined by the author, sounds very little, it sounds like credit, it does not sound the impossible.” (Amazon)

Frozen in Time: Murder at the Bottom of the World by Theodore Jerome Cohen

“The trail from a major theft at the Banco Central de Chile in Talcahuano following the Great Chilean Earthquake of May 22, 1960 leads to Base Bernardo O'Higgins, a wind- and snow-swept Chilean Army outpost on the North Antarctic Peninsula. When Chilean Army 1SGT Leonardo Rodríguez fails to return from a seal hunt in the waters around the base, two Chilean Navy non-commissioned officers, CWO Raul Lucero and CPO Eduardo Osorio, become LCDR Cristian Barbudo's prime theft and murder suspects. Fearing he will die, Barbudo reveals the identity of his two suspects to visiting scientist Ted Stone, thereby placing Stone's life in jeopardy. But who can Stone trust with this information, if it comes to that, to see justice done? This story is a work of fiction based on real events that took place between 1958 and 1965. It is a tale of greed, betrayal, and murder-one in which the reader is given a window into the frozen world at the bottom of the Earth that few people ever will read about, much less experience. Among other things, it explores why, though seemingly unfair, bad things happen to good people; how the battle between good and evil can change forever even the most innocent person; and most of all, the role deception plays in Nature, Man, and Life.” (Amazon)

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lodelcar · 6 years ago

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LIVING IN A DECENTRALISED WORLD AS NEW PERSPECTIVE FOR THE 21st CENTURY

Picture: Swamps created by imported beavers in Chilean Patagonia

I have just returned from an interesting journey through Chile and Argentina, two developed South-American countries. Except for the capitals Santiago and Buenos Aires, my wife and I also visited Patagonia by boat. We saw beautiful nature, with interesting animals and abundant vegetation and had to discover this on zodiacs, since there are not ports and nobody lives there. But we also were confronted with the errors human beings committed in the past, hundred year ago, that still influence the conditions of nature drastically. Settlers alongside the Strait of Magellan considered the land as prosperous for setting out beavers and to hunt them afterwards for their fur. It would be a lucrative business, with a nice profit and not too much work. They start to set out 1 beaver family, consisting of 3 beavers. Nowadays, hundred years later, the area, abandoned by humans because of its harsh climate, counts 300.000 beavers that deviate rivers and create swamps everywhere. They have no natural enemies that are large enough to keep them in balance. Except for the beavers the alien fauna was also composed of bewildered swine and minks. They cause less damage but influence though the natural growth of berries and flowers.

Although an intelligent creature, the human being is often a threat to its environment, be it other humans, animals, plants or nature in general. The motives that drive human beings are different from the rest of nature, driven by the survival of the fittest, and focus on profit and power. In many circumstances a call for power, selfishness and greed lead to ruthlessness, at a level that is unknown by the rest of the living beings. And is moreover accepted and even applauded by the rest of the human beings.

We started this article with this metaphor because we want to consider and describe a trend that shows up and that pleads for a life and an economy with smaller and more decentralised players. And consequently with states and nations that consider a more decentralised way of decision making as a model for the future.

The symptoms and the diagnosis

In Europe we assist for the moment to a lot of social and political trends that are disruptive and scare off people as well as politicians. We are confronted with the phenomenon of the yellow vests movement. Although they originally opposed an increase in fuel taxes, this civil movement has become a forum for a protest of the lower incomes and the rural population against a world that does not take their concerns into account: finding work in their own environment, not constantly to be threatened with new taxes, and especially: being able to identify with the world around them.

On the other hand, we observe the movement of schoolchildren and students who are called climate truants. For the first time in history, school-age youth is taking the lead in a fight to convince politicians to pay more attention to climate change and to develop a strategy that is compelling for all sections of a country: citizens, businesses, institutions, even if this requires a shift in income distribution. In the U.K. this same movement is driven by intellectuals and called “Extinction Rebellion”. Their actions are more violent blockading the city, engaging in civil disobedience, taking direct action. But their aim is the same: to demand decisive action from governments on the environmental crisis.[1]

We also are confronted with the Brexit, through which the oldest democracy on earth shows that its democratic model has reached its limits and that it is unable to solve the problem it has caused because of its inadequate communication. It is a lengthy process that absorbs so much energy that companies can no longer concentrate on their core business: producing and doing business. It is a seemingly bottomless pit in which citizens see their tax money disappear without producing results for themselves.

Politicians have no direct answer to these movements that have emerged from the bottom up and become nervous. Until now, they were accustomed to impose the marching direction of the voters and their pace of the march. In the last years, the politicians arguments more looked for culprits outside their own decision field: the EU is guilty and must therefore be undermined, foreigners are the reason and must therefore be expelled. After all, the attack is the best defence.

Everyone who criticized the major economic paradigms was ridiculed: the market is always right. Globalisation is good for humanity. When companies leave because they can get more margin elsewhere, we can't help it and we just have to become more creative. Industry is something of the twentieth century and is now being concentrated in China. Of course, traditional industrial plants moved away from the expensive Western-European and North-American salaries. For several decades, sectors like financial services, consulting, the entertainment industry, training and tourism have created far more jobs than the traditional industrial sectors. In 2018, the service sector created six times more jobs in the private sector than the industrial sectors. [2] Yet many countries have understood that countries without a real manufacturing industry do not have sufficient independent economic power to grow and create jobs. Hence, movements to re-industrialize are encouraged by the EU,[3] because “finance, research and employment depend largely on the industry sector, which accounts for 80 per cent of Europe’s exports and private innovations, and provides high-skilled jobs for citizens” [4] And: a country is only successful if it can attract large international companies that create a lot of jobs. As compensation, they will receive a tax exemption.

Europe is going through turbulent times in which many are missing a hold. But Europe is based on common values: civil and political freedom, equality before the law, democracy, human truth and a rational world view. Those values are admired by the rest of the world, not by their leaders but by the population. These values must provide guidance for the next steps to be taken.

Last but not least: there is the unavoidable present American president, considered as disruptive, undermining all former certainties in the world. The other inevitable commentator, Nobel Prize winner Economy Joseph Stiglitz, recently warned in one of his remarkable columns that the actual presidency is trying to demolish every pillar of American society. This endangers the prosperity of this society and its ability to function as a democracy. “Americans owe much of their economic success to a wealth of truth-telling, truth-discovering, and truth-verifying institutions. Central to this are freedom of expression and independent media. Like all people, journalists are fallible, but they form a particularly valuable part of a robust system of checks and balances for those in positions of power. Since the days of Smith, it has been demonstrated that the prosperity of a nation depends on the creativity and productivity of the people, which can only flourish by embracing scientific discoveries and technological innovation. And that prosperity also depends on steady improvements to the social, political and economic organization that result from a continuous and open public debate”.[5]

The appreciation for global and big put in question

The collapse of the USSR, in the 80s-90s, globalization, the challenge of state interventionism, etc., accredited the idea of a triumph of the market economy. In his famous article on "The End of History," published in 1989, the American Francis Fukuyama announced the triumph of liberal democracy and the market economy[6]. True or false, this idea did not prevent the development of thought processes aimed at going beyond the classical alternative between spontaneous coordination by the market and coordination by the State. Liberal democracy sought universal recognition of citizenship with inalienable rights. Nowadays Fukuyama takes distance from his optimism of the beginning of the century: more specific forms of identity determination based on religion, cult, race, ethnicity or gender are becoming increasingly popular. These trends are ultimately incompatible with democracy - but the need for identity cannot simply be put aside.[7]

Several new economists criticize freely the existing capitalist macro-economic way of thinking. In her book “Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist’, prof. Kate Raworth of Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute points out that economics in the 20th century “lost the desire to articulate its goals”. It aspired to be a science of human behaviour: a science based on a deeply flawed portrait of humanity. The dominant model – “rational economic man”, self-interested, isolated, calculating – says more about the nature of economists than it does about other humans. The loss of an explicit objective allowed the discipline to be captured by a proxy goal: endless growth.

The aim of economic activity, she argues, should be “meeting the needs of all within the means of the planet”. Instead of economies that need to grow, whether or not they make us thrive, we need economies that “make us thrive, whether or not they grow”. This means changing our picture of what the economy is and how it works. So Raworth begins by redrawing the economy. She embeds it in the Earth’s systems and in society, showing how it depends on the flow of materials and energy, and reminding us that we are more than just workers, consumers and owners of capital. The diagram she proposes consists of two rings. The inner ring of the doughnut represents a sufficiency of the resources we need to lead a good life: food, clean water, housing, sanitation, energy, education, healthcare, democracy. Anyone living within that ring, in the hole in the middle of the doughnut, is in a state of deprivation. The outer ring of the doughnut consists of the Earth’s environmental limits, beyond which we inflict dangerous levels of climate change, ozone depletion, water pollution, loss of species and other assaults on the living world. The area between the two rings – the doughnut itself – is the “ecologically safe and socially just space” in which humanity should strive to live. The purpose of economics should be to help us enter that space and stay there. [8]

Recently a second important book appeared, in Dutch: “Gigantism “of Geert Noels.[9] It is a well-founded plea against the desire for economic growth. Companies become so large that they impose their rules to nation states. Gigantic companies pay less and less taxes, are willingly financed by banks at ridiculously low interest rates, “eat” competitors in order to eliminate them as well as smaller companies who invent better solutions or competitors. The gigantism of companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple and Uber becomes a threat to society and to democracy. The gigantism of the Pharmaceutical companies becomes a threat to healthcare for everyone and to innovation. The gigantism of Food companies becomes a threat to health in general causing obesity and diabetes. The gigantism is the cause of the raise of the yellow jackets in France and Belgium. [10]

Gigantism is not only a threat to the Western world. The Chinese gigantism with the Road and Belt initiative and the new silk routes[11] also raises questions. China generously generates billions of dollars to install new infrastructures by land (belt) or by sea (road) for all countries that request it. These are more specifically loans, which must be paid back rigorously, but which often absorb such a large part of the country's BIP that they end up in financial difficulties. The solution is then to give China a hundred-year lease on the occupied land. [12] This is the historic agreement between the UK and China of 1898 for a ninety-nine-year lease reversed.[13]

Gigantism and its disadvantages are symbolically highlighted by Noels through his example of the Champions League in football. In addition, the developments have led to the fact that in the last ten years the semi-finals and finals have always been played between the same teams, from the same five major countries: Spain, Italy, England and Germany, whereby the prize pool is such that the winning teams become increasingly richer and denying the other teams the opportunity to play a semi-final nor final ever.[14]

Noels wants to reduce gas and return to a smaller economy tailored to people and the planet.[15] He pleads especially for decentralisation, because that keeps politicians and the decision making closer to the citizen. But it also gives opportunities to companies with a decentralised structure to tackle competition and to remain creative. Smaller nations and city-states create the conditions of a globalisation 2.0.

The same gigantism has crept into the high-tech world and is now experiencing considerable headwinds. The usefulness of the race to 5G networks is questioned as superfluous luxury and the added value of which is very debatable.[16] The race for Artificial Intelligence (AI) is also played differently on both sides of the ocean. The European Commission recently published a report in which the developments of AI on the American side are plainly presented as frightening. They list conditions on making “trustworthy” the AI to be developed. The decisions made by an AI system should not favor or disadvantage groups. And if an AI system is going to make an important decision about you, you have the right to know. A person must always remain responsible and liable. And you must be able to explain the decision afterwards. The latter is actually not possible with the current deep learning systems - they work like a black box. Specialized European journalists therefore call for a ban on Deep Learning Systems in Europe for applications that have a major impact on the population, such as in the banking world or with the police, unless that black box problem is first solved. Because Facebook, Google, Alibaba and Tencent have taken over the development of AI, and they think differently about AI than we do in Europe.[17]

Finally, there is the important topic of the climate change. It is not by coincidence that half of the Nobel Prize for Economics 2018 has been attributed to William Nordhaus. His pioneering work integrating climate change into models of economic growth has provided a roadmap for a future where the world’s economic health is directly linked to its environmental one. Nordhaus was an early advocate of policies that require climate polluters to pay the cost that they impose on all of us. A carbon tax with an appropriate mechanism to ensure pollution reductions can achieve that; so can an emission trading system like the ones underway in Europe and California. When there are no economic downsides to polluting, we all end up paying a higher cost in the form of a warming planet. But when there’s money to be had from cutting carbon, capital will flow into developing and deploying the technologies that will do it cheaper and faster.[18]

Decentralisation in order to reach globalisation 2.0

Globalisation does not have to be written off. Very many countries have left poverty and have been able to build up a middle class. But there are too many people who have been sidelined by this form of globalization and there are too few individuals who have benefited from it. A globalization 2.0 must therefore be pursued. And that goes together with decentralisation and localisation.[19] And with reduction of size of the economic players. [20]

The call for a decentralised coherent approach, including concertation and co-operation is found back in the Recommendations in the framework of the National Elections of the Chamber of Commerce of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg.[21] Although they argue for super ministries, the motivation for this is to find coherent solutions to complex problems. They call for the creation of a "front office" for citizens, companies and investors and for avoiding too many admission conditions. Since Luxembourg is a small country with fewer than 600,000 inhabitants on an surface of 2,586 km², this method can actually be equated with the promotion of regional and urban competences.

The call for concertation requires creativity from politicians, who have hid behind the pleasures of parliamentary democracy. Concertation requires to take into account all players on the regional scenery and involve them in regional policy development.

Finally, they argue for cooperation between all members of the population and the authorities. An entrepreneurial (regional or urban) authority places SMEs at the centre. A sustainable authority secures energy supplies at competitive prices, promotes energy efficiency and the promotion of economically viable renewable energies, and promotes the approaches related to urban design, of environment, water, building permits. The open authority advocates openness and defends European fundamental freedoms, supports and promotes foreign trade based on the principles of multilateralism. The social authority restores intergenerational equity by adapting pensions and long-term care insurance to the challenges of the future. The educational authority is the partner of the professional organizations. It supports their offers, conveys the values of entrepreneurship in schools, promotes vocational training at all levels and creates a framework conducive to the acquisition of knowledge and skills. The governmental authority introduces a general evaluation of public policies to increase the efficiency of spending, shows the example by pushing the digitalization of public services.

In many cases, local communities are going to rely on decentralization when national governments are stuck in endless disputes and cannot find short-term solutions to the modern and urgent problems that arise. A decentralised approach is also often cheaper than an national one.

In a recent interview with the Belgian newspaper De Standaard, the CEO of Engie, Isabelle Kocher, refers to Africa, which can skip steps to meet the needs of the 21st century.” As many regions (in Africa) immediately went to mobile telephony, local energy systems are now being developed in areas where large distribution networks have never been installed. On the scale of a village for example. That is the future. It costs much less and it goes faster. 300,000 euros is sufficient to provide everyone with energy. That is nothing compared to the colossal investments in high-voltage lines and power stations. "[22]

In Romania the regionalisation does not go further than the creation of 8 statistical Implementation Units. These can take additional initiatives, but do not receive funds for it from Bucharest. But in Statistical Implementation Unit Nord-East Romania several initiatives have been taken. They created a Regional innovation board in which commodities such as water and energy and waste have been discussed and initiatives taken. A Water cluster has been created, integrating all players for waste, sewages, water and energy. In Iasi Veolia started to treat the waste. They started to take initiatives on circular economy. The region is involved in many European projects, among others on energy autonomous municipalities together with places in Extremadura (E), Andalucía (E) and the Marche (I). Although there is no central policy in Romania, and neither there is a regional nor local policy, there is now a covenant of Mayors trying to reduce CO2 emission per city. They want to turn municipalities in carbon neutral entities. Town mayors are looking for examples of renewable energy. They do not care in this term on the classic electric grid, creating stand-alone alternatives for their city. Projects for public illumination based upon hydro power or solar energy are very popular. Also in terms of circular economy and short value chains (localization) initiatives have taken, e.g. cultivation of henp as biodegradable basic material. [23]

We referred to the Extinction Rebellion movement, started May 2018 and launched end of October 2018. In their Manifesto, [24] they refer to Stated Principles. Their 10th and last principles is: “We are based on autonomy and decentralisation – we collectively create the structures we need to challenge power. “[25] Although the UK has a very centralized administration, this movement is aware that themes such as climate change can only succeed if municipalities, cities and counties draw up an approach that is close to what citizens can and can accept. They can create much better support than parties at the national level who are bogged down in endless ideological discussions. In the US, States, cities and businesses have been significantly decarbonizing the U.S. economy—even in the absence of federal climate action. A new report, Fulfilling America’s Pledge, with analysis from WRI, University of Maryland, Rocky Mountain Institute and others showed that policies already adopted by states, cities and businesses will reduce U.S. emissions 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2025, approximately two-thirds of the way to the country’s pledge of cutting emissions 26-28 percent by 2025. And they could get even further—by scaling up existing technology and expanding programs and policies, states, businesses and cities could reduce emissions by more than 24 percent from 2005 levels by 2025.[26]

In 2014 Ukraine launched a series of reforms to merge local governments and strengthen decentralization by giving additional power and resources to sub-national authorities. This process, intended to advance regional development and border reform, has seen successful steps taken, but was implemented only in several pilot communities. Certain cities in Ukraine have been given much more autonomy to provide certain economic incentives. We visited companies in the oblasts of Kiev and Lviv that had succeeded in combining cheap EU loans and city grants to renew their machinery and be ready to confront the challenge of newcomers to the Ukrainian market.

However, the principle of decentralisation being only beneficial to a country is not universally correct: the abuses that have taken place in the past in the Spanish regions, where, thanks to the cheap interest rates, many useless investments have been made, which still have to be paid off, are a striking example of how it has not to be done. [27]

The Swiss example

Let us look at the example of a decentralised country admired by the world population: Switzerland. Switzerland has 2,914 municipalities. In addition to its municipalities, the Swiss have 26 cantons, with their own constitution and parliament. And above the cantons there is a federal government, which only has seven ministers and a federal president. Switzerland is a federal republic in which the sovereignty of the constituent states (the cantons) is limited by the enumerated powers delegated to the federal state (the Confederation) through the federal constitution. The greatest power lies therefore with the cantons. the original authority to levy taxes is vested in the individual cantons of Switzerland through their constitutions. Within the bounds of the authority delegated to them by cantonal law, the municipalities may also levy taxes. The extent of that authority varies from canton to canton. While the formal framework of the most important cantonal direct taxes has been harmonised through the 1990 Federal Tax Harmonisation Law, the cantons (and, as the case may be, the municipalities) remain free to set their tax rates or establish new taxes, except on tax objects already taxed under federal law.[28] The cantons arrange their education and justice, and conduct their own socio-economic policy. If one canton wants to place more social accents, then that is possible. There is financial solidarity between the cantons, but the bill of the chosen policy has to be paid for itself. Despite its complex state structure, Switzerland does not spend much.[29] The Swiss Federal budget had a size of 73.6 billion Swiss francs in 2018, which is an equivalent 11.01% of the country's GDP in that year. The expenditure budget shows a surplus of 1.3 bn. CHF; however, the regional (canton) budgets and the budgets of the municipalities are not counted as part of the federal budget and the total rate of government spending is closer to 33.8% of GDP.

Regional achievements in the Low Countries

We also wish to discuss our own region, Flanders, which is one of the regional approach vehicles in Belgium and the numerous examples that can be given of the advantage of a regional approach. Seven years ago, the Belgian professional organization of the industries[30] Agoria decided to set up a project in order to re-industrialise Belgium with the support of the Flemish Government. Since then more and more extremely flexible and high-tech companies are recovering their production from low-wage countries and taking a new approach in our region. The fact that the Belgian manufacturing industry is gradually moving in the right direction can also be seen from the decision of the European Commission to launch the Belgian “Factories of the Future” project now in the rest of Europe. [31] [32]

The Flanders region has also played a pioneering role in the circular economy. Circular economy tries to make raw materials serve as long as possible, and to generate as little waste as possible. The public waste company OVAM encouraged various initiatives by supporting them with know-how and by making them known.[33] The figures of the Socio-economic Council of Flanders show that by 2030 a sustainable economy can create more than 30,000 new jobs in Flanders. If you also know that today 55 to 65% of the global CO2 emission is material related (from the extraction of raw materials, the processing of materials and the making of objects to the possible destruction thereof), it is clear that a circular economy offers quite a bit of opportunities.[34]

The regional approach for the Netherlands lies on the level of the Provinces. The authority of the Dutch provinces covers: regional economics, spatial planning, security, education (municipalities), culture and health (hospitals with municipalities). Additional decentralisation levels are the Dutch municipalities (VNG), the Association for Science Centers and the Association of 4 largest cities (G4: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, The Hague). The Association of Dutch Provinces started in 2000 as an issue of the Dutch interprovincial concertation. They represent the 12 Dutch provinces and defend their interests. In addition, there are representatives of 4 cities from the north of the Netherlands (Emmen, Assen, Groningen and Leeuwarden), representatives of the Food Valley (Wageningen), representatives of the circular economy around Venlo-Venray (insect economy) and representatives of 2 knowledge centers (Maastricht University and Leeuwarden knowledge centre). The aim of the Dutch provinces is to stimulate the financing of projects to promote regional economy, with own budgets and if it can with European money. [35] One of the typical examples of the regional development approach in the Netherlands is the Brainport Region Eindhoven in the South of the country. At the end of the nineteenth century manufacturing began to flourish, with Philips and DAF the most influential players. Eindhoven became a real ‘company town’ that shone throughout the region. The character of industrial Eindhoven has changed since 1970. The tobacco and textile industries have disappeared. DAF sold its car division to Volvo but remained successful in the production and development of trucks and coach undercarriages. The bankruptcy of DAF and reorganisation of Philips in the 1990s costed the region 36,000 jobs. The city was on the verge of a disaster. So the governors of the Eindhoven region opted for a new style of cooperation. This initiative taken by the chairman of the local chamber of commerce and the executive chairman of Eindhoven Technical University saw intensive co-operation between government, industry and research in a Triple Helix that attracted investment and brought organisations like TNO[36] to Eindhoven. Out of this Triple Helix co-operation emerged the ‘Brainport’ foundation, with its own ambition and strategy, in 2005.[37] In the past 20 years the Brainport region has gone through a tremendous transition, from a region of shrinking industry and major unemployment to an international high-tech hotspot in a global network. This transition, from manufacturing to a chain of knowledge and trust, characterises the strategic manoeuvrability and mentality of the region. It is a style of working that forms the basis for open innovation and teaches us that sharing knowledge leads to the multiplication of knowledge.[38] Since 2014, Eindhoven has become the Netherlands’ strongest economic region.

An era of change or a change of era?

More and more academics are finding that we are in a thorough transition period that will lead to more stability in a few years but will herald a new era. Jan Rotmans is a professor at the Rotterdam University and an international authority in the field of sustainability and transition. He sees more and more a new social order, a different economic foundation and a change of power appearing with 3 three characteristics: 1. Society tilts from a vertically arranged, centrally controlled top-down society to a horizontal, decentralized, bottom-up society with connections, such as communities, cooperatives and virtual and physical networks, 2. The structure of the economy is tilted and the new economy is decentralized and digital, 3. The power tilts. A change of power is taking shape: the new order from below is slowly but surely forming a new power.[39]

This adjustment of the rules of the game will also have a beneficial effect in other areas. There are fundamental problems such as obesity, bullying, suicide, crime, burn-out, air pollution, greenhouse gases, alienation and the de-humanization of our economy that can have a possible positive evolution. And these are problems that await the young generation and that you want to see solved.[40]

Louis Delcart, board member European Academy of the Regions, www.ear-aer.eu

[1]

https://rebellion.earth/event/uk-rebellion-shut-down-london/

: UK Rebellion – Shut Down London!, from 15-4 till 29-4-2019, retrieved on 23/4/2019

[2] Neil Irwin, Most Americans Produce Services, Not Stuff. Trump Ignores That in Talking About Trade, in The New York Times, 16 March 2018

[3] Patrizia Toia, Reindustrialisation is essential to relaunching EU economy, in The Parliament Magazine, 24 October 2017

[4] Patrizia Toia, Reindustrialisation is essential to relaunching EU economy, in The Parliament Magazine, 24 October 2017. Patrizia Toia (S&D, IT) is a Vice- Chair of EU Parliament’s industry, research and energy committee

[5] Joseph Stiglitz: De waarheid devalueren is gevaarlijk, in De Standaard, 13-14/4/2019 en Joseph Stiglitz, Trump’s Most Worrisome Legacy, on Project Syndicate, The World’s Opinion Page, Apr 9, 2019 in https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-dangerous-anti-enlightenment-legacy-by-joseph-e-stiglitz-2019-04

[6] Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man. Free Press, 1992. ISBN 0-02-910975-2

[7] Bert De Vroey, Amerikaanse denker Francis Fukuyama: "Het nieuwe identiteitsdenken begon op links" (American thinker Francis Fukuyama: "The new identity thinking started on the left"), in Villa Politica, VRT, 11-3-2019

[8] George Monbiot, Finally, a breakthrough alternative to growth economics – the doughnut, in The Guardian, 12/4/2017

[9] Geert Noels, Gigantisme, Van too big to fail naar trager, kleiner en menselijker, Lannoo-Spectrum, 2019

[10] Louis Delcart: GEORGIAN HIGHSCHOOL PUPILS WORRY ABOUT BULLYING, YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT, AND LEAD POISONING AS HIDDEN KILLER on https://www.tumblr.com/edit/184055911875/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Flodelcar.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F184055911875%2Fgeorgian-highschool-pupils-worry-about-bullying

[11] “Xi's ambitious initiative for a "New Silk Road" created a project worth 1,000 billion dollars in investments in ports and roads in more than 64 countries throughout Southeast and Central Asia and even to Europe and North Africa new relationships.” In Ivo H. Daalder & James M. Lindsay, The Empty Throne: America's Abdication of Global Leadership, 2018, chapter 10: Win again

[12] « Loans, grants and long-term leases have ensured that a range of ports are directly under Chinese control or heavily owed to government-controlled companies in the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, and Djibouti.” In Peter Frankopan, The New Silk Roads. The present and future of the World, Bloomsbury, London, 2018, Chapter: The routes to Beijing.

[13] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handover_of_Hong_Kong

[14] Geert Noels, Gigantism, Lannoo-Spectrum, 2019, pp.84-109

[15] Koen Bauters: Geert Noels en Gigantisme: de groei die we nastreven is onrealistische en onmenselijk, (Geert Noels and Gigantism: the growth we strive for is unrealistic and inhuman) in Humo, 11/3/2019

[16] Dominique Deckmyn, Wie heeft 5G nodig? Ik niet!( Who needs 5G? Not me!) In De Standaard, 9/2/2019

[17] Dominique Deckmyn, Of had u liever onbetrouwbare AI? (Or would you prefer an unreliable AI?), in De Standaard, 13/4/2019

[18] Nathaniel Keohane: The 2018 economics Nobel shows we can’t discuss economics without considering climate change in Quartz 15-10-2018 In https://qz.com/1424769/the-2018-economics-nobel-highlights-the-importance-of-climate-change/

[19] Louis Delcart, LOCALISATION IN A GLOBALISING WORLD, 22-2-2016, in https://lodelcar.tumblr.com/post/139787275600/localisation-in-a-globalising-world?is_related_post=1

[20] Louis Delcart, THE FUTURE ECONOMIC PLAYERS: SMALL AGAINST ALL COMMON SENSE, 24-10-2017, in https://lodelcar.tumblr.com/post/166754110755/the-future-economic-players-small-against-all

[21] Chamber of Commerce of Luxembourg : Entreprise Luxembourg 4.0 - Pour une gouvernance publique innovante. Recommandations de la Chambre de Commerce au Gouvernement issu des élections législatives du 14 octobre 2018, Actualité et tendances n°20, 24-10-2018 in http://www.cc.lu/en/news/detail/entreprise-luxembourg-40-pour-une-gouvernance-publique-innovante/

[22] Ine Renson & Pascal Sertyn, Een nieuwe industriële revolutie, Aflevering 5: Isabelle Kocher, topvrouw van energiereus Engie (A new industrial revolution, Episode 5: Isabelle Kocher, top lady of energy giant Engie), in De Standaard, 27/4/2019

[23] Louis Delcart, MEETING REPORTS REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES IN BRUSSELS JUNE – JULY 2017, Meeting Bogdan Chelariu, Brussels representative of Statistical Implementation Unit Nord-East Romania, internal EAR-AER document

[24] "About Us". Extinction Rebellion. Retrieved 13 April 2019.

[25] "Who We Are | Extinction Rebellion". rebellion.earth. Retrieved 26 November 2018.

[26] Tom Cyrs, James DeWeese and Kevin Kennedy, U.S. States, Cities and Businesses Are Cutting Emissions, and Poised to Do Even More. New Report Does the Math, World resource Institute, September 12, 2018, retrieved 23-4-2019, https://www.wri.org/blog/2018/09/us-states-cities-and-businesses-are-cutting-emissions-and-poised-do-even-more

[27] The Astonishing Abandoned Airports In Spain in https://www.rfae.org/the-astonishing-abandoned-airports-in-spain/

[28] Louis Delcart, Abandon Europe and back to Nation States, 13/11/2015 in https://lodelcar.tumblr.com/post/133126672445/abandon-europe-and-back-to-nation-states

[29] Pieter Blomme en Jasper D'hoore: Buitenlandse oplossingen voor Belgische problemen (Foreign solutions for Belgian problems), in De Tijd, 27-4-2019, retrieved on 27/4/2019 https://www.tijd.be/dossiers/verkiezingen-2019/Stand-van-het-Land-Buitenlandse-oplossingen-voor-Belgische-problemen/10121379?utm_campaign=WEEKEND&utm_medium=email&utm_source=SIM

[30] Aeronautics, Space, Security & Defence Industries, Building, Contracting & Technical Services Industries, Digital Industries, Manufacturing Industries, Materials Industries, Telecom Industries, in https://www.agoria.be/en/What-is-Agoria

[31] Filip Michiels: Hoogtechnologisch, ultraflexibel én Belgisch, De opmars van de nieuwe maakindustrie (High technology, ultra flexible and Belgian, The advance of the new manufacturing industry), in: De Standaard, 19 May 2018

[32] https://www.effra.eu/factories-future

[33] Louis Delcart, WASTE MANAGEMENT AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY IN FLANDERS – BELGIUM, 9-12-2018 in https://lodelcar.tumblr.com/post/180955829970/waste-management-and-circular-economy-in-flanders?is_related_post=1

[34] Wim Troch, Zij tonen hoe je grondstoffen hergebruikt (They show how to reuse materials) in Visie, April 2019

[35] Louis Delcart, MEETING REPORTS REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES IN BRUSSELS JUNE – JULY 2017, Meeting Rob Van Eijken, Brussels representative of Dutch Provinces, internal EAR-AER document

[36] Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek = Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research

[37] http://www.brainport.nl/en/about-brainport

[38] http://www.brainport.nl/en/about-brainport

[39] Micha Rotmans, "Het verbaast me dat slechts enkelen vatten dat er een grote maatschappelijke verschuiving aankomt" ("I am surprised that only a few grasp that a major social shift is coming") in Innoveren, 10/1/2017 in https://www.bloovi.be/nieuws/detail/jan-rotmans-we-leven-niet-in-een-tijdperk-van-verandering-maar-in-een-verandering-van-tijdperk

[40] Louis Delcart, GEORGIAN HIGHSCHOOL PUPILS WORRY ABOUT BULLYING, YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT, AND LEAD POISONING AS HIDDEN KILLER, 6-4-2019, in https://lodelcar.tumblr.com/post/184055911875/georgian-highschool-pupils-worry-about-bullying

#regional development #decentralisation #gigantism #circulareconomy

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reginaschmidtriovalle-blog · 7 years ago

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Media Switch Up - Week 5 GOOOOOOOAAAAAL!!

Following soccer matches through a live blog

For the past two weeks I have been following the FIFA Confederations Cup. I realize that soccer, or football as we call it in Europe, is considered a sport for little girls in the US. But for millions of people in Europe and Latin America, soccer is the king of sports.

Here is why:

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TV vs. radio broadcast

I have been following club matches and international competitions for many years and I have my own special routine. I always watch the matches on TV while listening to a radio broadcast.

Often TV channels hire former soccer players or coaches as experts to comment on the match, while radio stations normally use professional commentators who, I think, do a much better job. Former soccer stars often make irrelevant comments and care more about sharing their personal experience than about evaluation what is going on on the pitch. Professional radio commentators are colorful and engaging and give their best to share the excitement of a match with their listeners.

According to Jürgen Trouvain, a researcher at the Saarland University, Germany, “TV commentators talk less than their radio colleagues and they produce fewer utterances and fewer but longer pauses”.

This makes sense, TV commentators know that a vast majority of spectators will be seeing the match. While radio commentators must describe every action if they want their audience to remain engaged.

Live Blogs

Live sports blogging is a relatively new form of journalism.

In an article for the Journal of Journalism Practice, Simon McEnnis, writes that “live bloggers have retained core journalistic values and beliefs of balancing objectivity and subjectivity, immediacy, providing a public service and editorial autonomy.”

The findings of a recent study also suggest that “live bloggers have shown a greater willingness to adapt than previous research into the migration of sports journalists to digital.”

For professional reasons, this past week I have started following a live blog to get information during FIFA Confederation Cup matches. After checking a couple of them I picked The Guardian’s blog.

And while it is a little strange to read “GOOOOOOAAAAAAL!!!!” instead of hearing it, sports blogs can be quite interesting.

One of the advantages of following a live blog is that experts analyze important plays in detail and link them to previous games. It has also allowed me to listen to radio commentary in Spanish, while reading the blog in English. This is useful for two main reasons: I learn new terms and find out what local journalists and experts are talking about in different regions.

And it seems I am not the only one who is enjoying live blogging. A new survey has found out that live blogs are getting 300% more views and 233% more visitors than conventional online articles on the same subject.

Live blogs provide commentary and analysis during events rather than summarising them once they are over. Also, this format allows writers to update and amend their commentaries in digestible paragraphs.

According to the researchers who worked on the survey mentioned above, what readers enjoy is that the format is transparent and almost conversational, making them feel that the information they are getting is more objective.

Dr Neil Thurman, from the journalism school of City University London, puts it simply: "We believe live blogs are so popular because they meet readers' changing news consumption preferences. They provide regular follow-up information in 'bite-sized nuggets'," making information more digestible.

The community

During the match, followers can keep in contact with the blogger, either on Twitter or via email. They send comments and reactions to the posts, as well as to what is happening on the pitch.

Here are some examples from last night’s game Portugal vs. Chile, the first semi-final played in Kazan, Russia.

103 min: Some more predictions:

“I will back Chile if the game were to head to penalties,” emails Jonah Lowoyan. “Alexis Sanchez deciding the final outcome of the shootout with a cheeky panenka will most certainly give me great satisfaction and pleasure.”

“I took Chile in regular time and have now jumped ship and bet Portugal to advance. If Chile wins in PK I will lose all bets so rooting for Portugal,” says Josh Furrow. “I’m at work so I can’t watch and have missed an hour of work straight refreshing your posts.”

“Why have the Portuguese not been able to take advantage their height?” asks Paul Cox. “Are the Chileans jumping higher? Good at winning the second balls? If it goes to penalties, Portugal wins. Not the result I want, but there’s a dull inevitability about Ronaldo winning everything.”

Followers seem to be knowledgeable and deeply involved with the game. They obviously care enough to read the posts and share their opinions.

Advertising

Live blogs are a good platform to place targeted advertising. During the game several ads pop up. Some of them are football related, while others seemed to be based on my own profile, probably courtesy of Google Chrome.

Sports in general, and football in particular, are great platforms for companies. Associating their products with the heroes of our time is a smart move and seems to be working well for them.

According to Andrew Cave and Alex Miller, who write for Business Insider, "companies in all fields are turning to sport to drive awareness of their own products – with increasingly impressive results. Sports sponsorship wields transformative power that is capable of driving exponential growth in brand awareness and affinity.”

Some brands are doing an excellent job, as this Coca Cola ad shows:

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Live blogs offer one more platform for brands to build meaningful relationships with their target audiences.

#footballliveblog #theguardian #fcc

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The Adventures of Super Nathan 3 - Chap 7

Chapter 7

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23301076/chapters/56906929

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13531960/7/The-Adventures-of-Super-Nathan-3

https://www.wattpad.com/868086855-the-adventures-of-super-nathan-3-a-regular-day

Next week Adrien was back at the university sitting on the outside on the stairs along with Kagami and four other university students chatting with each other.

“You two really won?” Asked a raven-haired man with a green sweatshirt.

“Yes,” Adrien answered. “The sports magazine has some images of the tournament and the prize-giving,”

“Cool, I check it out, if I got the time for it”

“No hurry, I’ve got a sample at home, if you’re interested,” The blonde mentioned watching the raven-haired man nod.

“Did anyone of you watch yesterday night the Troods family? The raven-haired man asked, who sat between Kagami and a blonde girl, which showed Kagami on the smartphone a text.

“No my little sister begged me to show her the first part of the movie Rainbow gnomes” Adrien explained. “I promised her before we go to the movie see the sequel she could see the first part”

“I watched half of the movie but ended up falling asleep on the couch” A Chinese descendant man answered.

“What about you, Ettore?”

“No Rory, I was watching Formula one yesterday”

“I don’t know, what you guys find so interesting about this. It’s just a bunch of cars producing Carbon Dioxide while driving on the same track” The brunette man complained, making Ettore roll his eyes.

“So what, everyone in Paris drives a car. You can’t ask everyone to arrange an electric car like your family” Ettore protested.

Adrien noticed along with the Chinese guy the two friends arguing with each other and moved a few steps up to be away from them, then looked at each other again.

“Hey what do you think about meeting up in the library, so we could study together?” The Frenchman offered the man.

“I’m okay with it” The man answered. “What topic should we study?”

“I was thinking about Anatomy” Suggested Adrien. “You’re okay with it?”

The friend nodded, then picked out his smartphone to see a picture of a raven-haired woman smiling at the camera and holding a baby in her arms, which seemed to be gazing up at the top of the camera instead.

“Is that her sibling?” Adrien asked watching the friend nod.

“No, that’s my son”

“You’re a father?” Adrien asked surprised earning a nod from the friend. “For real?”

“You and Kagami weren’t here when Jin ran out of the university to the hospital last month” The blonde girl, that sat next to Kagami mentioned. “His reaction was adorable”

“If we weren’t friends I would have thought he was nuts at that time” Ettore confessed earning a glare from Jin, then Jin showed the group the image.

“Aww, he’s got the face of the…..father?” Rory said a little unsure at looking at the image. “It’s hard if both of you have the same eye color and hair”

“I think he got your nose, Jin,” The blonde girl said looking at the image Jin showed him.

“Sure, that’s notable. We got celestial noses” Jin explained the woman, then typed down on the message bar a heart followed by han characters.

“I don’t know, what you’re all planning to eat, but I’m going to eat Turkish today,” Ettore said making Adrien wide his eyes curious.

“What exactly?”

“I don’t know” Responded the black-haired man. “Probably kebab, but there are more dishes, if you want you can come check it out with me”

“I’d like to” Adrien answered, then fist -bumped the friend.

Lila sat together with Myléne in the wardrobe both dressed as witches looking at the magazine Myléne had in her arms.

“I didn’t know your cousin had Emirati ancestors,” Mylene noticed looking at Lila, which nodded.

“His grandfather was from the UAE. Otherwise everyone else is Italian”

“Okay,” Mylene said passing to the next page to see a few images with talented fencers under them she saw their friends Adrien and Kagami listed. “Hey look Adrien and Kagami are here”

“Oh cool,” Lila raved checking the small text placed on the image of Kagami, where she had her mask off pointing her saber forward. “The successor of the Tsurugi’s, a family full of prestigious fencers. Won 3 times the Asian championship in a team, one in solo, 1 European championship and 2 international championships. This year she’s going to participate along with Adrien Agreste, former model of the Gabriel brand and her actual boyfriend. At the female category she’s the second favorite fencer, followed by Liliana Rodriguez”

“And that might be this girl here” Mylene pointed up to another woman with the Chilean national flag.

“Yes” Lila said, then checked on the other side the men category and spotted Adrien. “And here’s Adrien” Lila tapped at the image, where Adrien held his saber in front of him, posing as if he was about to start a match. “Former teeny model and son of the fashion designer Gabriel Agreste was raised half of his childhood by his father or his assistant during the time his mother was missing. He didn’t have the best childhood, but this didn’t stop him from spreading happiness and kindness to everyone”

“I liked it, that he was open with the others about it, when he wasn’t feeling good” Mylene added. “Mostly with our old class”

“Sometimes it’s easier to talk with your classmates or friends, then keep it inside you for too long”

“Any other class before Miss Bustier’s I would only trust Rose or Marinette, otherwise I could trust everyone in the class…..except Chloé, but now I’m good with her. She changed a lot in the past years in high school. It’s astonishing when you think back about everything and how it is now”

“Yeah, it is” Lila confirmed. “Most of the bullies from other classes have changed too. Some take longer than the others, but it’s possible for all people to change” “Sure it is. I think not everyone can, but a very big part of it can”

“Yeah”

At the entrance of the wardrobe, a woman around the forties entered with a clipboard on her right arm to look at all the women in the wardrobe.

“Ladies, get ready for act 3. Don’t forget to see, if your outfit is complete and take a bit water to you” The woman with ginger hair said watching the woman nod and a few made their way to the outside and Lila went to store her magazine into her locker

“Let’s get in, Lila” Myléne mentioned and the brunette went together with the blonde woman and left the wardrobe along with their manager.

Kagami sat in front of the desk in Adrien’s bedroom studying and taking down notes from it with her kwami floating over her watching her.

“You seem more focused on it, when you’re alone” Longg mentioned watching Kagami drop the pen and lean back on the seat.

“It’s easier for me to do it alone” Kagami mentioned. “I still enjoy it, when I’m with someone else, but sometimes we get distracted with each other and end up talking about something that isn’t related, with what we’re studying. It still has a good part in having someone who can explain to you something you haven’t understood or time seems less long”

“Indeed” The dragon kwami agreed. “What about you take a little break and go fetch you something to eat? Have a cold drink?” The kwami suggested the blue-haired woman.

“Yeah, I really should,” Kagami said getting up. “Eventually I need to drink a tea, I’m feeling nauseous” Kagami mentioned placing her hands on her stomach.

“Maybe you should get some fresh air?” Longg suggested flying across the room, landing on the window handle to open it. The kwami looked back to see Kagami cover her mouth and race into the bathroom and he heard her owner regurgitate. “Oh boy” Longg replied flying across the room to catch Kagami on her knees with her head over the toilet bowl. Kagami coughed into the bowl, followed by the kwami land on the counter near the Japanese woman.

“Are you alright?” Longg asked watching Kagami get up and pull the toilet flush.

“I’m okay” Kagami responded a little languid about it. “Probably the sushi I bought at the supermarket wasn’t good conserved”

“I think I wouldn’t trust raw eatable food from the supermarket as you never know, where and who has processed it”

“I already ate more than once Sushi from the supermarket, but it never hit me this way” “Maybe it just hit you this time?” Longg mentioned. “It doesn’t mean it can happen always”

“I know what you mean” The Japanese woman informed. “It could be my menstruation, that could be coming this week. I had at least two times this case”

“Well, that makes sense too”

“I’m going to make myself a tea, eventually eat a toasted toast without anything. Just in case”

“Okay and you can always tell Maria or the Agreste’s that you’re not feeling well”

“I know, I’m not going to bother them with it unless it’s necessary”

“I know or there’s always Adrien” Longg added earning a nod from his owner.

“Yeah, I’ll see how I’m going to feel for the rest of the day, before I say anything” Kagami told. “First I’m going to take my tea” Kagami mentioned earning a nod from the kwami.

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A Traveler’s Guide to the Best Bets in Las Vegas

I have spent a lot of money in Las Vegas, and I don’t gamble much. I’ve paid $250 for a Cirque du Soleil ticket, taken a gondola down the faux canals of Venice for $60 and, on occasion, vastly exceeded my wine budget.

Las Vegas thrives on convincing visitors to splurge, which I considered when Lady Gaga opened her concert residency at the Park Theater. Recently, tickets for the back-row center balcony were selling for $466 (fans in the front row were paying $2,500).

Value, of course, is subjective. But price creep on the Strip, as the casino-lined stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard is known, is objective, as resort fees at several high-end casinos rose $6 to $45 a night this year. Rooms, food, drinks and entertainment are increasingly important money makers for casinos, where gaming revenue has fallen from nearly 62 percent in 1984 to a little under 43 percent in 2018, according to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

On a quest to find value, I spent three days riding buses, hunting for cheap and tasty eats, and sampling bargain entertainment. Here’s what I found.

Take the bus

There is one certain money-saver in Las Vegas: the bus. The city of endless traffic lights and taxi fleets is a tangle to transit. Even ride shares are expensive; I took an Uber less than one mile one evening and it cost $8.

But the bus system is affordable and reasonably efficient, especially if you stick to the Strip. A double-decker bus called the Deuce runs 24 hours between downtown and Mandalay Bay resort. A two-hour pass costs $6; an all-day pass costs $8.

I bought a $20 three-day pass and got access to the entire transit system, including a clean, spacious and uncrowded bus from the airport to the Strip, which paid off on that first ride.

Everything about taking the bus, of course, takes a little longer. I waited for 10 minutes at the airport terminal, rather than just hopping in a cab. After a few stops, I connected to a Strip-bound bus at the South Strip Transfer Terminal, a mass transit hub, which was easy to navigate.

The payoff to this relatively slow form of travel was a scenic ride past the Welcome to Las Vegas sign and other landmarks. Other than the Deuce, which can be dominated by tourists, most of the buses I rode were used by local workers and students, with a rare sprinkling of visitors.

Eat off the beaten path

On the suggestion of a friend, I bussed from the airport directly to Tacos El Gordo — a 60-minute trip (I missed the 108 bus, which gets there in about half the time). With roots in Tijuana, Mexico, the cheerfully crowded taco stand in a nondescript strip mall between downtown and the Strip features a row of meat carvers behind the counter, ready to shave spit-marinating pork into pliant corn tortillas ($2.60). Two tacos topped with chopped onions and cilantro made a bargain meal. I was lucky to get a table.

It’s not that you can’t eat cheaply on the Strip. Donald Contursi, the owner of Lip Smacking Foodie Tours, introduced me to several specials, including the $29 three-course lunch, which includes creamy Greek spreads such as tzatziki and grilled fish at Estiatorio Milos, and $5 happy hour appetizers at Mr. Chow. At Eataly, a bustling new food hall that anchors the Park MGM hotel in a space that could double as a train station, focaccia slices sold from $2.90.

But by wandering farther afield, I found intriguing and affordable food. Downtown, I wandered from the dimly lit Downtown Cocktail Room, lively with locals during “halfy hour,” when my $12 Paloma was $6 (Monday through Saturday 4 to 7 p.m.), to the new robata bar Hatsumi at Fergusons Downtown, a former motel now housing restaurants, shops and co-working spaces. Decorated in cartoon monsters, Hatsumi served skewered meats ($2 to $6 each) to the mostly under-40 urbanites who are repopulating downtown Las Vegas.

A friend who lives in another gentrifying neighborhood, the Arts District, guided me to Able Baker Brewing Company, an industrial spot with the brew kettles in the back named for the first two atomic bombs, Able and Baker, detonated at the Nevada Test Site north of town in 1951. Here we had juicy I.P.A.s (most pints, $5 to $8) and generous pork banh mi sandwiches ($9). On the cusp of the Arts District, I paid $6.50 for a chicken-stuffed arepa, or corn cake folded taco-style, at the Venezuelan Viva Las Arepas, a low-key quick service spot where I watched Latin American telenovelas with the office lunch crowd.

Through Eater, which has a thorough guide on cheap eating in town, I discovered Takopa, a tiny and friendly Japanese spot where I sat at the bar and watched the cooks prepare their specialty fried octopus fritters (four for $4.95) in Chinatown, a neighborhood filled with pan-Asian dining deals that required two buses to reach, but worth every bite.

Beware resort fees

Cheap hotels aren’t hard to come by in Las Vegas, though rates vary with business and event traffic. My spacious $40 room at the El Cortez Hotel & Casino downtown was $100 the previous week when several conventions were in town.

Wherever you stay in Las Vegas, you’re bound to have sticker shock because enticing offers — $19 a night! — don’t include resort fees, which run about $25 to $45 a night. The $25 fee at El Cortez brought my nightly rate to $65, still a good deal for an updated room — with lime green walls and Art-Deco-style, black-and-white décor — in-room coffee and a ground-floor gym.

For a real retro stay, downtown’s 1906-vintage Golden Gate Hotel & Casino has 10 original rooms — small but updated for those who just need a bed — that often sell for $25, plus a $25 resort fee.

Attractions worth the admission

When it comes to cultural attractions in Las Vegas, expect to pay. The Mob Museum charges $29.95 admission, but if you’re interested in history, you’ll get your money’s worth learning about the role of Prohibition in establishing organized crime at the former post office and courtroom where hearings were held on the subject in 1950.

Also uniquely Las Vegas, the Neon Museum preserves the city’s castoff signage. I paid $24 for the 25-minute night show “Brilliant,” which syncs light and sound to reanimate the otherwise dark signs. The separate tour of the regular collection, called the Boneyard, costs $30.

During my stay, the lowest ticket available for “Run,” the new Cirque du Soleil show, was $79, or $105 with fees. Instead, I spent $37 ($52 with fees) to take in “The Mac King Comedy Magic Show” at Harrah’s Las Vegas, a daytime-only delight starring the Kentucky-born star who manages to entertain all ages with surprising tricks, sly humor and hilarious interactions with audience volunteers.

“Being the affordable show has been good for me,” said Mr. King, who started out in 2000 with tickets at $10. “Now it’s like buying an airplane ticket with all the fees.”

Freebies by the mile

In three days, I walked 22 miles and didn’t really notice given the entertaining hustlers en route. On my walks I saw costumed showgirls posing for pictures, listened to a classical violinist and passed up one gentleman who offered, according to his sign, “to do something weird” for $1.

When I needed a break, I went to the wildlife habitat at the Flamingo hotel and casino. At 2 p.m. daily, a keeper feeds two rescued California brown pelicans, Bugsy and Virginia — named for Benjamin (Bugsy) Siegel, who built the original Flamingo in 1946, and his girlfriend Virginia Hill — and calls out to the other exotic waterfowl, including Chilean flamingos. The rare smoke-free haven provided benches (also rare) and complimentary Wi-Fi.

Among free tours, I attended an “open house” at “Ka,” the high-tech Cirque du Soleil show at the MGM Grand. It essentially functions as a 30-minute sales pitch for the show, but offers a fascinating look at the 80,000-pound rotating stage and other wizardry.

Another morning, I signed up with the concierge at the Park MGM for a free art tour of the garden-themed resort and was introduced to contemporary works by Guy Yanai and David Hockney. Similarly, the nearby Aria resort offers tours and a self-guided map to sculptures by Maya Lin and Henry Moore.

Downtown’s free attraction, the Viva Vision light show at the Freemont Street Experience, projected on a 1,500-foot-long overhead video screen, attracted more buskers. But the real payoff was at Gold Spike, a former casino billed as an “adult playground” (free admission). Instead of gambling, there’s a bar, co-working spaces and indoor games like cornhole, and a vast outdoor yard where I caught a soulful set from Cimirriar Deniece, a local singer.

On my return to the airport, I stopped at the nearby Pinball Hall of Fame (free admission) and spent $5, one quarter at a time, playing games that went back as far as 1964, the kind of slot machines that pay off in joy.

Bottom line: The cost of my trip was about $350 for a three-day stay in Las Vegas.

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New top story from Time: Here Are the Best New Movies Coming Out in 2019

Heading into a new year at the movies, there are a few things we can be sure about. We can be sure that Avengers: Endgame is going to earn a box-office haul worth more than all six Infinity Stones combined. We can be sure that Disneyphiles are going to swim in a sea of nostalgia with remakes of three Mouse House classics: Dumbo, Aladdin and The Lion King, all due before the height of summer.

But while those films aren’t entirely known quantities, what really makes the new movie releases due in 2019 exciting are the deeper unknowns: how will Jordan Peele and Greta Gerwig follow up the sensations that were Get Out and Lady Bird ? What can we expect from directorial debuts like Queen & Slim from Emmy winner Lena Waithe? And how will gripping reads like The Goldfinch and The Woman in the Window play out onscreen?

There’s much to look forward to at the movies in 2019. Here is TIME’s list of the best new movies coming out in 2019.

Glass (Jan. 18)

M. Night Shyamalan creates the beginnings of his own cinematic universe, weaving together the threads of two of his previous hits — Unbreakable (2000) and Split (2017) — into a shared sequel. Glass finds Bruce Willis, James McAvoy and Samuel L. Jackson entangled in a superhuman game of cat and mouse.

NetflixRene Russo and Jake Gyllenhaal in ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’

Velvet Buzzsaw (Feb. 1)

Writer-director Dan Gilroy reunites with Jake Gyllenhaal, who starred in his eerie 2014 thriller Nightcrawler, for another thriller. Where that movie was set in the underbelly of local TV news, this one, which hits Netflix a few days after its Sundance premiere and costars Rene Russo, John Malkovich and Toni Collette, explores the L.A. art scene.

Miss Bala (Feb. 1)

This action thriller inspired by a 2011 Mexican film finds Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin) in a dire situation: kidnapped in Tijuana and beholden to the whims of a dangerous cartel.

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (Feb. 8)

The little plastic bricks continue to provide fodder for sequels: so far we’ve had a Lego Batman and a Lego Ninjago, and the possibilities are as limitless as the toy itself. This one takes its “everything is awesome” mentality into outer space, after a not-so-awesome space invasion leaves Bricksburg in shambles.

Fighting With My Family (Feb. 14)

This is the first of several Dwayne Johnson movie appearances in 2019, but at least in this one he’s not the main event. The Rock, who also produced the movie, plays a supporting role in this adaptation of a 2012 documentary about WWE star Paige’s ascent in the wrestling world. Florence Pugh stars, in a movie that could hardly be more different from the period films (Lady Macbeth, Outlaw King, the forthcoming Little Women) that have thus far dominated her career.

The Rhythm Section (Feb. 22)

This adaptation of Mark Burnell’s thriller — the first in a quartet of novels — sees Blake Lively morph into a bona fide action star. Reed Morano, who came up as a cinematographer and won an Emmy for her work as a director on The Handmaid‘s Tale, directs this story of a vengeful woman seeking to take out the terrorists who killed her family.

Captain Marvel (March 8)

In a brisk five years, Brie Larson has reinvented herself repeatedly, from indie darling (Short Term 12) to Oscar-certified Serious Actress (Room) to director (Unicorn Store). Now, she adds superhero to her growing resume. Set in the mid-1990s, the movie follows Captain Marvel (street name: Carol Danvers) on her journey from fighter pilot to intergalactic hero.

Gloria Bell (March 8)

Julianne Moore may not look like a Plain Jane even in goofy glasses, but we can suspend our disbelief in Sebastián Lelio’s English-language adaptation of his own 2013 Chilean drama Gloria. In it, Moore plays a divorced mother of adult children and an office drone looking for someone to dance with (and locating him, possibly, in John Turturro) and finding the joy in dancing alone.

Us (March 15)

The plot details of Jordan Peele’s follow-up to Get Out have been kept under wraps, though Slashfilm reports that the horror/thriller has something to do with a couple (Lupita Nyong’o and Winston Duke) relaxing at a beach house with their kids until some visitors make their stay…not relaxing, if we are to judge from the movie poster.

Watch yourself. pic.twitter.com/6Wg859TK0r

— Jordan Peele (@JordanPeele) December 13, 2018

Dumbo (March 29)

Nearly 80 years after Disney debuted the high-flying, big-eared elephant, Tim Burton directs a live-action remake starring Colin Farrell, Eva Green and not a real elephant.

Avengers: Endgame (April 26)

The 22nd film — yes, as in two times ten plus another two — in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which features a truly staggering roster of superheroes, effectively ends the current Marvel narrative. Judging by the box office returns of Infinity War ($2 billion) and the trailer’s record-breaking first 24 hours (289 million views), it’s not an exaggeration to predict that this could be the biggest movie of all time.

Detective Pikachu (May 10)

Ryan Reynolds makes a deft transition from Deadpool‘s potty-mouthed hero to…cutie-mouthed Pokémon cutie? He provides the voice and face (for facial motion capture purposes) of the adorably brilliant Pikachu, a detective working to solve the disappearance of his former partner with the help of his partner’s son (Justice Smith).

LionsgateStill from ‘John Wick: Chapter 3’

John Wick: Chapter 3 (May 17)

The third, but reportedly not final, film in the John Wick franchise sees Keanu Reeves’ vengeful hitman on the run after he kills a member of the international assassins’ guild. Halle Berry and Laurence Fishburne costar.

Aladdin (May 24)

The stakes are high for Disney’s live-action remake of its 1992 animated classic loosely based on Arabian folktales. Casting was closely scrutinized, and when Entertainment Weekly released a first look, many on social media offered thoughts about Jafar (dreamier than Aladdin?) and Will Smith’s genie (not blue! At least not yet). Whatever the outcome of Guy Ritchie’s effort, it’s guaranteed to generate a Twitterstorm of opinions once the film finally drops.

Ad Astra (May 24)

In recent years, filmmaker James Gray has made beautiful movies set in 1920s New York (The Immigrant) and the depths of the Amazon rainforest (The Lost City of Z). Here, he turns to outer space, where Brad Pitt plays an astronaut searching for his lost father and, while he’s at it, contemplating the role of humankind in the cosmos.

Rocketman (May 24)

It’s relatively unusual that a megastar gets a biopic while they’re still walking the earth. Distributor Paramount has described this Elton John movie as an “epic musical fantasy” focused on the early years of the singer-songwriter’s career. Taron Edgerton stars as Sir Elton.

An epic musical fantasy. An uncensored human story. Take a first look at @TaronEgerton as Sir @eltonofficial in #Rocketman, coming soon. pic.twitter.com/B3BRCnLZs8

— Paramount Pictures (@ParamountUK) September 28, 2018

X-Men: Dark Phoenix (June 7)

The 12th installment in the X-Men film series focuses on Jean Grey (Sophie Turner), as the mercurial mutant grapples with newfound power. The film comes out just a couple of months before The New Mutants introduces a new crop of specially gifted students. It remains to be seen whether this is the last we’ll see of the crew (Jennifer Lawrence, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, et al.) that has comprised the universe for years.

Men In Black: International (June 14)

The fourth movie in the franchise based on the early-’90s comic book series swaps out Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones for Thor: Ragnarok costars Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth. Their mission? As Hemsworth put it in an Instagram post: “ripping aliens a new one.”

Toy Story 4 (June 21)

The kids who fell in love with Buzz and Woody in 1995 are old enough now to have kids of their own. But the fourth outing for the duo that built Pixar looks like more than just a nostalgia play. Styled as a road trip adventure, Toy Story 4 welcomes to the franchise new toys voiced by Tony Hale, Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele and Keanu Reeves.

Spider-Man: Far From Home (July 5)

It’s been a busy year for Spider-Man, who showed up in Avengers: Infinity War and in a new PlayStation video game. His nemesis, Venom, got his own movie, and his other alter ego, Miles Morales, featured in the well-reviewed animated Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Tom Holland’s Peter Parker is set to return next summer, which finds him leaving Queens, where 2017’s Homecoming was set, and venturing overseas to Europe.

The Lion King (July 19)

Perhaps the most hotly anticipated of Disney’s reboots of its animated classics — though this one, like director Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book, is more CGI than live-action, technically speaking — The Lion King brings together an A-list cast of voice actors. Donald Glover and Beyoncé voice Simba and Nala; Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen are Timon and Pumba; Chiwetel Ejiofor voices the villainous Scar and James Earl Jones reprises his role as the wise patriarch Mufasa.

Sony PicturesBrad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio in ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (July 26)

Once upon a time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino said he would retire after he made his tenth film, 2015’s The Hateful Eight. Four years later, audiences will watch his eleventh, a crime drama about the Manson Family murders starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate.

Hobbs and Shaw (Aug. 2)

Eight movies into the franchise, the Fast and Furious universe is getting a spin-off featuring once rivals, now buddies, Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) and Shaw (Jason Statham). Idris Elba joins the cast as a new villain, with Deadpool 2 director David Leitch steering the ship…err, the Navistar MXT?

It: Chapter 2 (Sept. 6)

The 2017 adaptation of Stephen King’s classic horror novel broke all sorts of box-office records and ended with a teaser for a sequel. That next installment, due almost exactly two years after the first movie, will jump forward 27 years — exactly one cycle in the town of Derry’s recurring dance with an evil visitor — when the kids from the first film are all grown up.

Warner Bros.Elisabeth Moss, Melissa McCarthy and Tiffany Haddish in ‘The Kitchen.’

The Kitchen (Sept. 20)

With a plot reminiscent of this year’s Widows, The Kitchen, based on a comic of the same name, stars Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elisabeth Moss as 1970s mob wives who get into the family business when their husbands go to prison.

Downton Abbey (Sept. 20)

Great TV series don’t end; they just set up the movie spin-off. This extension of the British period drama, which aired for six seasons before wrapping up (or so we thought) in 2015, sees the main cast returning for a story whose setting is familiar but whose plot is still the subject of secrecy.

The Woman in the Window (Oct. 4)

Tracy Letts (August Osage County) writes and Joe Wright (Darkest Hour) directs this adaptation of A.J. Finn’s bestselling debut novel about a reclusive New York City woman who watches as the lives of the family across the street unravel. Amy Adams, Julianne Moore and Gary Oldman star.

Gemini Man (Oct. 4)

The concept for Brokeback Mountain director Ang Lee’s upcoming sci-fi action thriller — a hitman faces off against a clone of his younger self — first surfaced in the late 1990s. Now that the technology needed to produce such a spectacle exists, the movie is finally on, starring Will Smith as the assassin and Mary Elizabeth Winstead as the operative keeping an eye on him.

Warner Bros. Joaquin Phoenix in ‘Joker.’

Joker (Oct. 4)

It takes a courageous performer to embody a character who’s become almost so thoroughly intertwined with the vision of Heath Ledger’s bug-eyed, maniacally grinning mug. But Joaquin Phoenix will do just that, in this standalone character study of the Batman villain, helmed by The Hangover director Todd Phillips.

The Goldfinch (Oct. 11)

Donna Tartt’s 2013 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, about a boy whose mother is killed when a bomb explodes inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, hits the screen this fall, starring Ansel Elgort, Jeffrey Wright and Nicole Kidman.

Zombieland 2 (Oct. 11)

Timed to the 10th anniversary of the original horror-comedy, which has since become a cult hit, the sequel to Zombieland reconvenes the stars (Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Jesse Eisenberg and Abigail Breslin), director (Ruben Fleischer) and writers (Deadpool‘s Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick) that made the first a hit. Like any family reunion, there will be spats and eye-rolling and infighting. (Oh, and zombies.)

Charlie’s Angels (Nov. 1)

More than 40 years after the feathery-haired trio debuted on television and nearly 20 since they were revived by Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore, Elizabeth Banks directs a reboot starring Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott (the new Aladdin‘s Jasmine) and British actor Ella Balinska. Banks has said she hopes to honor the original series’ celebration of female empowerment while “introducing a new era of modern and global Angels.”

Last Christmas (Nov. 15)

Emma Thompson co-writes and Bridesmaids’ Paul Feig directs this holiday rom-com about a young woman (Emilia Clarke) who works as an elf in a Christmas shop and a handsome fellow (Henry Golding) who enters into her orbit.

Frozen 2 (Nov. 22)

If you’re Disney and you make an animated movie that rakes in more than a billion dollars worldwide — not to mention the toys, the merch, the Broadway musical — you don’t just let it go. You don’t hold it back anymore. You make a sequel. Not much is known about the plot, but co-director Chris Buck has hinted at an Elsa who’s a little more fun and open.

Queen & Slim (Nov. 27)

It’s been a banner year-and-then-some for Lena Waithe, who last year became the first African-American woman to win an Emmy for comedy writing (for Master of None), and this year debuted her own semi-autobiographical Showtime series, The Chi. Now, she’s directing her first feature, about a black man (Daniel Kaluuya) and a black woman (still to be cast), who go on the run after a traffic stop goes awry.

Cats (Dec. 10)

The next smash Broadway musical to appear on the big screen (aside from The Lion King, which has made its way from film to stage and back to film again) is Andrew Lloyd Webber’s furry, early-’80s tale. Tom Hooper, who directed a movie adaptation of Les Misérables in 2012, has assembled a crew of felines that includes Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson and James Corden.

Star Wars: Episode XI (Dec. 20)

The final film in the sequel trilogy has J.J. Abrams jumping from producer to director after Lucasfilm parted ways with Colin Trevorrow. In addition to the central cast of characters (Rey, Finn, Kylo Ren, Poe Dameron and others), the crew will be joined by friends old (Billy Dee Williams reprising the role of Lando Calrissian and the late Carrie Fisher in unused footage from The Force Awakens) and new (Keri Russell, Matt Smith and Richard E. Grant, among others). According to Lucasfilm, Episode IX will close out the Skywalker era before the next trilogy, to be helmed by The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson, kicks off with new characters.

Little Women (Dec. 25)

Greta Gerwig follows up her Oscar-nominated debut feature, Lady Bird, with a new adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved 19th-century classic. The all-star cast includes Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Sharp Objects‘ Eliza Scanlon, Meryl Streep and Timothée Chalamet.

How to Build a Girl (TBA)

Caitlin Moran adapted (alongside screenwriter John Niven) her own semi-autobiographical novel for this movie starring Lady Bird breakout Beanie Feldstein. The story follows a working class teen who, in early 1990s London, attempts to reinvent her boring life into something a little more rock-and-roll.

The Irishman (TBA)

Netflix has made a lot of big bets in recent years, and The Irishman is among the biggest. The movie has a budget reported to be in the mid-$100 million range, and sees Martin Scorsese directing Robert de Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci in a story about the killing of union leader Jimmy Hoffa.

Late Night (TBA)

Mindy Kaling writes and produces her first feature film, a comedy in which she stars alongside Emma Thompson, who plays a late-night TV host at risk of losing her post. According to the movie’s synopsis, Thompson’s host hires Kaling’s character as the first female writer on her show to appease diversity concerns only to find her worldview challenged.

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192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu. 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. 853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt. 1176 – The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to assassinate Saladin near Aleppo. 1200 �� King John of England and King Philip II of France sign the Treaty of Le Goulet. 1246 – Henry Raspe is elected anti-king of the Kingdom of Germany in opposition to Conrad IV. 1254 – Serbian King Stefan Uroš I and the Republic of Venice sign a peace treaty. 1370 – Brussels massacre: Hundreds of Jews are murdered and the rest of the Jewish community is banished from Brussels, Belgium, for allegedly descrating consecrated Host. 1377 – Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe. 1455 – Start of the Wars of the Roses: At the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England. 1520 – The massacre at the festival of Tóxcatl takes place during the Fall of Tenochtitlan, resulting in turning the Aztecs against the Spanish. 1629 – Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II and Danish King Christian IV sign the Treaty of Lübeck ending Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' War. 1762 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg. 1762 – Trevi Fountain is officially completed and inaugurated in Rome. 1766 – A large earthquake causes heavy damage and loss of life in Istanbul and the Marmara region.[6] 1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially begins as the Corps of Discovery departs from St. Charles, Missouri. 1807 – A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason. 1809 – On the second and last day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling (near Vienna, Austria), Napoleon I is repelled by an enemy army for the first time. 1816 – A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs, and the riots spread to Ely the next day. 1819 – SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. 1826 – HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage. 1840 – The penal transportation of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished. 1848 – Slavery is abolished in Martinique. 1849 – Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats, making him the only U.S. president to ever hold a patent. 1856 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina severely beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made regarding Southerners and slavery. 1863 – American Civil War: Union forces begin the Siege of Port Hudson which lasts 48 days, the longest siege in U.S. military history. 1864 – American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army's Red River Campaign ends in failure. 1872 – Reconstruction Era: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law, restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers. 1900 – The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative. 1906 – The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine". 1915 – Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano besides Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century. 1915 – Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246. 1926 – Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists in Kuomintang China. 1927 – Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes. 1939 – World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel. 1941 – During the Anglo-Iraqi War, British troops take Fallujah. 1942 – Mexico enters the Second World War on the side of the Allies. 1943 – Joseph Stalin disbands the Comintern. 1947 – Cold War: The Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece. 1957 – South Africa's government approves of racial separation in universities. 1958 – The 1958 riots in Ceylon become a watershed in the race relations of various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total deaths is estimated at 300, mostly Tamils. 1960 – The Great Chilean earthquake, measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, hits southern Chile, becoming the most powerful earthquake ever recorded. 1962 – Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board. 1963 – Greek left-wing politician Grigoris Lambrakis is shot in an assassination attempt, and dies five days later. 1964 – Lyndon B. Johnson launches the Great Society. 1967 – Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping. 1967 – L'Innovation department store in Brussels, Belgium, burns down, resulting in 323 dead or missing and 150 injured, the most devastating fire in Belgian history. 1968 – The nuclear-powered submarine USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of the Azores. 1969 – Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface. 1972 – Ceylon adopts a new constitution, becoming a republic and changing its name to Sri Lanka, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations. 1972 – Over 400 women in Derry, Northern Ireland attack the offices of Sinn Féin following the shooting by the Irish Republican Army of a young British soldier on leave. 1987 – Hashimpura massacre occurs in Meerut, India. 1987 – First ever Rugby World Cup kicks off with New Zealand playing Italy at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand. 1990 – North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen. 1992 – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia join the United Nations. 1994 – A worldwide trade embargo against Haiti goes into effect to punish its military rulers for not reinstating the country's ousted elected leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. 1996 – The Burmese military regime jails 71 supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi in a bid to block a pro-democracy meeting. 1998 – A U.S. federal judge rules that U.S. Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the Lewinsky scandal involving President Bill Clinton. 2000 – In Sri Lanka, over 150 Tamil rebels are killed over two days of fighting for control in Jaffna. 2002 – Civil rights movement: A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murder of four girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. 2010 – Air India Express Boeing 737 crashes over a cliff upon landing at Mangalore, India, killing 158 of 166 people on board, becoming the deadliest crash involving a Boeing 737. 2010 – Inter Milan beat Bayern Munich 2–0 in the Uefa Champions League final in Madrid, Spain to become the first, and so far only, Italian team to win the historic treble (Serie A, Coppa Italia, Champions League). 2011 – An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 people and wreaking $2.8 billion in damages, the costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history. 2012 – Tokyo Skytree opens to the public. It is the tallest tower in the world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth after Burj Khalifa (829.8 m). 2014 – General Prayut Chan-o-cha becomes interim leader of Thailand in a military coup d'état, following six months of political turmoil. 2014 – An explosion occurs in Ürümqi, capital of China's far-western Xinjiang region, resulting in at least 43 deaths and 91 injuries. 2015 – The Republic of Ireland becomes the first nation in the world to legalize gay marriage in a public referendum. 2017 – Twenty-two people are killed at an Ariana Grande concert in the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing. 2017 – United States President Donald Trump visits the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and becomes the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Western Wall.

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