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2024 olympians representing non country of residence part 7

Nigeria: Adebola Adeyeye, basketball (Brampton, Ontario); Michelle Alozie, soccer (Apple Valley, California); Obiageri Amaechi, athletics (San Francisco, California); Dubem Amene, athletics (Farmington Hills, Michigan); Promise Amukamara, basketball (Glendale, Arizona); Ashley Anumba, athletics (Charlottesville, Virginia); Ayomide Bello, canoeing (Bowie, Maryland); Lauren Ebo, basketball (Upper Marlboro, Maryland); Jennifer Echegini, soccer (London, U.K.); Blessing Ejiofor, basketball (Paterson, New Jersey); Nicole Enabosi, basketball (Montgomery County, Maryland); Chukwuebuka Enekwechi, athletics (West Lafayette, Indiana); Edose Ibadin, athletics (Prince George's County, Maryland); Ezinne Kalu, basketball (Newark, New Jersey); Ashton Mutuwa, wrestling (Cedar Lake, Indiana); Dubem Nwachukwu, athletics (Katy, Texas); Adaku Nwandu, swimming (Singapore); Chidi Okezie, athletics (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Amy Okonkwo, basketball (Rancho Cucamonga, California); Ijeoma Okoronkwo, soccer (Richmond, Texas); Olaitan Olaore, boxing (Wallsend, U.K.); Sade Olatoye, athletics (Dublin, Ohio); Ifeoma Onumonu, soccer (Rancho Cucamonga, California); Udodi Onwuzurike, athletics (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan); Chioma Onyekwere, athletics (Detroit, Michigan); Antoinette Payne, soccer (Birmingham, Alabama); Nicole Payne, soccer (Birmingham, Alabama); Tobi Sajuade, swimming (Bath, U.K.) & Olaoluwatomi Taiwo, basketball (Carmel, Indiana) Norway: Isabel Freese, equestrian (Mühlen, Germany); Victoria Gulliksen, equestrian (Knokke, Belgium); Viktor Hovland, golf (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Jon-Hermann Hegg, shooting (Dingle, Ireland) & Kristoffer Ventura, golf (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida) Palestine: Yazan Al-Bawwab, swimming (Amsterdam, The Netherlands); Layla Almasri, athletics (Colorado Springs, Colorado); Fares Badawi, judo (Damascus, Syria); Omar Hantoli, taekwondo (Sharjah, U.A.E.); Jorge Sahle; Jr., shooting (Santiago, Chile) & Valerie Tarazi, swimming (Crystal Lake, Illinois) Panama: Bernhard Christianson, swimming (Easton, Maryland) & Gianna Woodruff, athletics (Santa Monica, California) Papua New Guinea: Georgia-Leigh Rotuisolia, swimming (Gold Coast, Australia) Paraguay: Javier Insfran, rowing (Rio De Janeiro, Brazil) Peru: McKenna De Bever, swimming (Denver, Colorado) The Philippines: John Cabang, athletics (San Sebastián, Spain); Aleah Finnegan, gymnastics (Lee's Summit, Missouri); Jarod Hatch, swimming (Morgan Hill, California); Lauren Hoffman, athletics (Haymarket, Virginia); Emma Malabuyo, gymnastics (Los Angeles, California); Bianca Pagdanganan, golf (Tucson, Arizona); Levi Ruivivar, gymnastics (Plano, Texas) & Kayla Sanchez, swimming (Toronto, Ontario) Poland: Magdalena Niemczyk, athletics (Versailles, France) & Mariya Zhodzik, athletics (Baranavichy, Belarus) Portugal: Tiago Apolónia, table tennis (Ochsenhausen, Germany); Thomas Augusto, skateboarding (San Marcos, California); Jorge Da Fonseca, judo (São Tomé, São Tomé and Príncipe); Agate Da Sousa, athletics (São Tomé, São Tomé & Príncipe); Fatoumata Diallo, athletics (Paris, France); António Do Vale, equestrian (Lastrup, Germany); Vanessa Farinha, breakdancing (London, U.K.); João Geraldo, table tennis (Ochsenhausen, Germany) & Rochele Nunes, judo (Pelotas, Brazil)

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[ad_1] VOLLEYBALL ALL-SCHOLASTICS Aaron Bennett (Haverhill) Callum Brown (St. John’s Prep) Nate Caldwell (North Quincy) Adam Christianson (Newton North) Mason Cleary (BC High) Matt Deeley (St. John’s Shrewsbury) Cody Fitzpatrick (Lowell) Arthur Gomes (Milford) Alex Guerra (Milford) Nick Heitman (Acton-Boxboro) Cam Jilek (Brookline) Cameron Johnston (North Quincy) Joe Kelly (Wayland) Harrison Landry (Natick) Luke Lorence (Needham) Tyrell Lout (Lowell) Matteo Luciani (Lexington) Ethan McCarron (Needham) Jonathan Narsjo (O’Bryant) Son Nguyen (O’Bryant) Tyler Randall (Newton North) Matt Salerno (Natick) Isaac Wedaman (Cambridge) Raymond Weng (Needham) Jamie Watt (Winchester) HONORABLE MENTION Branch Barnes (Natick) Finn Bell (Wayland) Christyan Berger (Revere) Henry Bonney (Cambridge) Justin Cheng (Lexington) Eddie Djatcha (Lowell) Dom Flores (Chelmsford) Alex Gundaker (Needham) Oscar Klappenbach (Lincoln-Sudbury) James Levesque (Methuen) Tighe Lusk (St. John’s Prep) Ben Saro (St. John’s Shrewsbury) Kyler Shea (North Andover) Lucas Tan (Acton-Boxboro) Simon Vardeh (Newton North)   AARON BENNETT HAVERHILL Bennett closed his high school career by setting a new single-season record for Haverhill, compiling 306 kills. The senior leaves as a two-time Merrimack Valley Conference First Team All-Conference selection. He plans to play volleyball at Endicott College while studying biology.   CALLUM BROWN ST. JOHN’S PREP The senior delivered another dominant hitting display, accruing 330 kills to finish with 720 through three seasons. Also a jumper in track, Brown heads to the University of Wisconsin at Madison next year.   NATE CALDWELL NORTH QUINCY With 198 kills and 169 digs, the two-time All-Scholastic played a critical role in pursuit of a Div. 2 state title. A three-year captain, Caldwell earned his third Southern Alliance All-Star selection after winning league MVP last year. He’s a three-sport All-Star, a National Honors Society member, and is set to play volleyball and study physical therapy at Eastern Nazarene College.   ADAM CHRISTIANSON NEWTON NORTH The 6-foot-4 outside hitter established himself as one of the best players in the state, burying 227 kills in just 16 games as the Tigers advanced to the Div. 1 state final. The junior’s versatility has shown in 505 kills, 333 digs and 78 aces in his career, something he boasted within a Bay State Conference All-Star season.   MASON CLEARY BC HIGH With 277 kills on a .280 hitting efficiency, the 6-foot-4 junior boasted a breakout season to bolster the Eagles in their best season in recent history. Cleary’s 411 digs and 51 aces rounded out his game, and his club play for Smash Volleyball should help him reach his goals of playing the sport in some capacity in college.   MATT DEELEY ST. JOHN’S SHREWSBURY As one of the go-to hitting options all season, Deeley proved reliable in helping St. John’s reach the Div. 1 state semifinals for the first time in program history. St. John’s went undefeated at home as he consistently accrued double-digit kills in a MAVCA All-State season. He heads to Baylor to study business in the fall.   CODY FITZPATRICK LOWELL Fitzpatrick emerged as one of the most dangerous hitters in a packed Merrimack Valley Conference, posting 212 kills, 161 digs and 22 blocks en route to a conference player of the year selection. The junior was vital for a Red Raiders’ team that lost just two games all year, and should only get better in the offseason by playing for the Mill City Volleyball club team.   ARTHUR GOMES MILFORD With 282 digs and 128 kills, Gomes was one of the leading figures for Milford in a return trip to the Div. 2 state semifinals. The 5-foot-11 junior proved versatile as a libero and outside hitter, complementing his success as a National Honors Society member and high honor roll student. Gomes also plays the saxophone and plays club for Smash Volleyball.   ALEX GUERRA MILFORD One of the top players in Div. 2, the junior outside hitter was unstoppable in large stretches en route to 500 kills despite a daunting schedule. Guerra was selected to the MAVCA All-State team, is an honor roll student, and plays football in the fall. He hopes to play volleyball in college.   NICK HEITMAN ACTON-BOXBORO The Revolution had a complete turnaround from their season two years ago, with Heitman leading a mere two-loss campaign. The 6-foot-2 senior opposite was called on often for 220 kills, earning Dual County League MVP honors. He’s an honor roll student and heads to UMass in the fall.   CAMERON JOHNSTON NORTH QUINCY A two-time All-Scholastic, Johnston built off a stellar sophomore season by leading the Raiders with 245 kills despite missing six games. The 6-foot-5 junior was selected to the MAVCA All-State team, won Southern Alliance League player of the year, and now has 600 career kills. Johnston is a member of the National Honors Society and is a two-sport athlete.   JOE KELLY WAYLAND Despite facing the toughest schedule in the state this season, Kelly starred for Wayland with a Dual County League All-League season while earning MAVCA Central All-Star honors. The junior belted 228 kills alongside 197 digs and 26 blocks, making him a two-time league all-star. The Smash Volleyball player is also a high honor roll student.   HARRISON LANDRY NATICK A vital figure in Natick’s 6-2 system, Landry showed off as a setter by accruing 400 assists this year. The junior’s 20 aces and 60 kills proved his versatility, helping him earn Bay State Conference and MAVCA Central All-Star selections. Landry is just 200 assists away from 1,000 and is an honor roll student. He plans on playing volleyball in college.   LUKE LORENCE NEEDHAM On the team through Needham’s undefeated three-peat, Lorence soared in his first chance for significant playing time. The junior touched down 262 kills on a .332 hitting percentage as a vital hitting option. An honor roll student, Lorence plans to study economics in college.   TYRELL LOUT LOWELL Just a first-year starting setter, Lout erupted for 500 assists, 28 blocks and 47 kills on the way to a Merrimack Valley Conference First Team All-Conference selection. The junior captain plays volleyball year-round, also competing for the Mill City Volleyball club team.   MATTEO LUCIANI LEXINGTON The two-time All-Scholastic smashed 306 kills to wrap his standout three-year career with 761, repeating as Middlesex League MVP and as a MAVCA All-State selection. Lexington’s leading man is an avid sports follower, an honor roll student, and heads to business school at Ohio State.   ETHAN MCCARRON NEEDHAM McCarron often took over sets with 281 kills for unbeaten Needham, playing a large role again in an undefeated state championship season by leading the team in hitting efficiency and kills/set. The two-time All-Scholastic is a Div. 1 state finalist in soccer to add onto his three Div. 1 state titles in volleyball, also serving as a National Honors Society member. He’ll start the pre-med track at UC Santa Barbara next year.   JONATHAN NARSJO O’BRYANT A signature cog in propelling O’Bryant to its first state semifinal appearance, the two-time All-Scholastic broke his own single-season program kills record with 367 in his senior campaign. His 899 career kills are the most in program history, helping lead a complete shift in its culture. He’s also serves as National Honor Society president, and heads to UCLA in the fall.   SON NGUYEN O’BRYANT Few matched the star setter statistically, as the senior dished out 816 assists to break his own O’Bryant single-season record. His 1,671 assists in three seasons helped revitalize the program to turn it into a Div. 2 title contender, earning MVP in the Boston City League championship each of the last two years. He heads to Northeastern.   TYLER RANDALL NEWTON NORTH Injuries limited the star setter’s court time each of the last two years, but his 291 assists, 51 kills and 14 aces this season helped the Tigers shake those off en route to a Div. 1 state final appearance. The two-time Bay State Conference All-Star put Newton North nearly over the top when healthy, adding to a conference all-star campaign in basketball. He’s set for Colby College in the fall.   MATTHEW SALERNO NATICK The junior stood out as a leading hitter for Natick, earning Bay State Conference and MAVCA All-Star nods with over 275 kills and 40 aces this year. Salerno, a two-year team captain, surpassed 500 career kills with a hitting percentage over 50%. He is an honor roll student and hopes to play volleyball in college while studying business or construction management.   ISAAC WEDAMAN CAMBRIDGE Cambridge enjoyed its best season in a decade, largely due to a breakout senior season from Wedaman. His 299 kills on a .332 hitting percentage gave teams fits all the way to the Div. 1 state quarterfinals, doubling his career mark. An avid reader, Wedaman will study computer science at the University of Vermont next year.   JAMIE WATT WINCHESTER The junior led a scrappy Winchester group this season with 234 kills, 37 aces and 156 digs, earning a Middlesex League All-Conference selection. He has the fourth most kills in program history, and qualified for the state meet in high jump for indoor track and field. Watt builds on his standout play at MVP Academy in the fall.   RAYMOND WENG NEEDHAM As the lone starter through all three state championships, Weng closed out an unbeaten career with his best season yet, posting 240 kills and 350 assists en route to earning MAVCA Player of the Year honors. The three-time All-Scholastic was selected as a Bay State Conference All-Star and a MAVCA All-State player all three years, finishing with 1,500 assists, 300 kills and a 3.8/4.0 GPA. He’ll try out for the club volleyball team at Purdue next year.       LEAGUE ALL-STARS   BAY STATE CONFERENCE James Kagoda (Framingham); Tyler Randle. Simon Vardeh, Adam Christianson (Newton North); Raymond Weng, Ethan McCarron, Luke Lorence, Alex Gundaker (Needham); Willson Lin (Braintree); Matt Salerno, Branch Barnes, Harrison Landry (Natick); Charlie Perdue, Cam Jilek (Brookline) MVP: Raymond Weng   BOSTON CITY LEAGUE Daniel Imasuen, Jeffery Nguyen, Kenneth Tran, Teddy Stylianopolous (Latin Academy); Javier Mariano, Duy Nguyen, Adrian Zapato (Madison Park); Ayman Blanco, Jonathan Narsjo, Son Nguyen, Desmond Ugoji, Ziyou Zhang (O’Bryant)   CATHOLIC CONFERENCE Matt Deeley, Ben Saro, Syraj Marla, Nolan Farrell, Eric Barcelos (St. John’s); Callum Brown, Ben Bailey, Matt Ciampa (St. John’s Prep); Mason Clearly, James Shriver (BC High); Jon Silva, Marcus Behn (Xaverian); Sam Cahill-Farella (Catholic Memorial)   DUAL COUNTY LEAGUE ALL-LEAGUE: Isaac Wedaman, Henry Bonney (Cambridge); Joe Kelly, Grayson Getz (Wayland); Kieran Fagan (Lincoln-Sudbury); Chen Lucas Tan, Sameer Vasudeo, Nick Heitman (Acton-Boxboro) ALL-STARS: Parth Pawar (Acton-Boxboro); Leo Rothenberg, Tashi Mulug-Labrang (Cambridge); Finn Bell (Wayland); Chris Escobar (Waltham); Peter Burdin, Abhisar Anand (Westford); Nick Tse, Johan Pineda (Boston Latin); Oscar Klappenbach, Timothy Kearney (Lincoln-Sudbury); Sam Welch, Russell Lee, Zach Weiss (Newton South) MVP: Nick Heitman   GREATER BOSTON LEAGUE Henrique Franca, Dimitar Dimitrov (Everett); Karim Chinchilla (Lynn Classical); Willy Soto (Lynn English); Brandon Rodriguez, Bryan Vicente (Chelsea); Elias Colley, Ozzy Marks (Somerville); Kyle Lee, Aiden Tham, Eric Mei (Malden); Danny Diskin, Hayson Shing (Medford); Christyan Berger, Ruben Rodriguez, Alexander Serrano Taborda, Brian Novoa (Revere) MVP: Christyan Berger   MERRIMACK VALLEY CONFERENCE FIRST TEAM: Marco Gomez Cabo, Alex McNally (Andover); Michael Nguyen (Central Catholic); Cole Dillon (Billerica); Dominick Flores, Victor Lam (Chelmsford); Aaron Bennett, Ryan DiFlores, Casey Connors (Haverhill); Eddie Djatcha, Tyrell Lout (Lowell); Drew Eason, James Levesque (Methuen); Kyle Shea, Gyan Mistry (North Andover) SECOND TEAM: Enzo Masters, Griffin Connel (Andover); Logan Mueller, Aiden Le, Ethan Cliff (Billerica); Jaithian Medina (Central Catholic); Zach Spengler, Liam Quinn (Chelmsford); Audom Mok (Dracut); Devon Buscema (Haverhill); David Castillo, Jey Santiago (Lawrence); Ceazar Joseph, Eric Nguyen, Ayden Ruom (Lowell); Josh Kiwanuka, Liam Doherty (Methuen); Yash Patel, Ben Metsch (North Andover) PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Cody Fitzpatrick   MIDDLESEX LEAGUE ALL-CONFERENCE: Seth Jackson (Arlington); Jack Fan, Justin Cheng, Matteo Luciani (Lexington); Ellix Sandhu, Jamie Watt (Winchester) ALL-STARS: Tanner Haddad, Nadav Vachtel (Lexington); John Qi, Kirk Levesque (Winchester); Zachary Aloisi (Burlington): Rubens DaSilva (Wakefield)   TRI-VALLEY LEAGUE Grant Wojcik, Zach Mantegani, Dan Rose (Bellingham); Ian Hoskins (Dighton-Rehoboth); Alexander Vanasse, Jacob Moffitt (Nipmuc); Darren Duplessey, Anthony Damore (Norton); Xavier Walkins (Norwood); Caiden Lynch, Benjamin Berry (King Philip); Caleb Garverich, Adam Madej, Jake Koterba (Medfield); Luke Bennett (Millis) MVP: Adam Madej, Grant Wojcik [ad_2]

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The Music Therapy Experiment presents: "Akhal Teke (Remix)”

The Music Therapy Experiment is more than plain old entertainment. This unique project was created by Dr. John Kline, first and foremost, as a way to combine music and psychology with a creative mindset.

As someone who relocated a lot, John had to experience the stress of constantly uprooting himself and adapting to new surroundings. Music was a way to cope with change, and find an emotional anchor to gain some stability, even when his life and work took him to explore so many different places.

The Music Therapy Experiment features John himself on guitar, keys, bass, percussion, and vocals, as well as production. However, he also collaborates with Mark Christianson on drums, percussion, and bass.

Find out more about The Music Therapy Experiment, and do not miss out on "Akhal Teke (Remix)." This song is actually not just a stand-alone single. It is featured on the full-length album "Art and Science," which was released in 2021. We also added the track to our playlist!

At the end of the day, this release shows that The Music Therapy Experiment is more than just a musical act. It is an insightful example of how music can help people make sense of life and find the strength they need to face the toughest situations. This project embodies this power in a unique way, using music as a powerful grounding tool, if you will, to help people.

Single link: https://open.spotify.com/track/3l8mu4QlCUQqUPgCfqXpLS?si=81e119bc022649c7

Album link: https://open.spotify.com/album/6rHrzS1BVKuikVu7cTQNDl?si=K2hzjsjJQJKk_X6PPRrxqg

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SEX AND THE CITY

Four female New Yorkers gossip about their sex lives (or lack thereof) and find new ways to deal with being a woman in the ’90s. Six seasons, and 94 episodes in total.

— Are you ready for more?

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Creation & Collision (A Six Part Story / Event / To Conclude The Storylines Of All My Original Characters / Superheroes) Part I

The Heroes Of Earth Prime

Tom Cruise As General Theodore “Theo” Exxon (A Nick Fury Type Of Character)

Colin Farrell As Mason Bamford / Universe Man (His Powers Are That He Can Travel To Other Earths/ This Character Plays An Important Role Because He’s The One That Warns Are Heroes About The Coming Collision)

Alexander Ludwig As Gunnar Christianson / The Titan (Leader Of The Superhero Team The Ultimate Squad Other Members Include)

John Boyega As Peter Static / Bolt (Close Friend To Gunnar)

Jessica Henwick As Chloe Johnson / Shock Wave (Girl Friend To Bolt and One Of The Most Powerful Heroes On The Team)

Dacre Montgomery As Bart Wilson / The Lightning (Speedster)

Ben Barnes As William “Bill” Frost / Frostbite

Jai Courtney As War (A Pale White Alien Who Has A Passion For Battles And Fighting, But Has A Big Soft Spot For Life)

Part II Will Be Released Immediately

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P.S. Krøyer -  Hans Gyde Petersen, 1907, oil on canvas

Hans Gyde-Petersen (1862–1943) was a Danish impressionist painter and sculpture. He is remembered for his plein air oil landscapes, village paintings and bronze sculptures.

Gyde-Petersen was born on a farm in Lindeballe parish, west of Vejle. He studied sculpture at the Royal Academy of Art in Copenhagen. He was talented sculpture and he won a grant to study in Italy from 1897 to 1899. During this time, he decided to pursue landscape painting rather than sculpture. In 1904, Gyde-Peterson ended his nine-year marriage to Ingeborg Balling and he visited friends at an artists' colony in Skagen.

Skagen is situated on the northern tip of Jutland. Painters, poets and musicians spent their summers in the tiny fishing village. The painters were drawn to the natural landscape and luminous sunlight. Skagen painter PS Krøyer was suffering from manic-depressive psychosis and was frequently committed to mental institutions. Krøyer invited Gyde live with him. Gyde helped Krøyer's with his personal affairs, health issues and divorce proceedings. During their time together, Krøyer gave Gyde painting lessons and Gyde instructed Krøyer in sculpting. In 1907, the two men even took a three-week trip through Germany, Italy and Spain. Krøyer's health deteriorated and in 1909, he died in his Skagen home.

Gyde continued open air landscape painting and sculpting in Copenhagen. In 1924, Gyde travelled to America to visit family members and to paint plein air landscapes. He spent time in Minnesota, Iowa and California. He returned to Denmark and settled in Klampenborg for the rest of his days. (Notes summarised from John Robert Christianson, 2006)

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So I was drinking some pop...

and I thought to myself 'why do we carbonize drinks? Carbon dioxide is bad for us, so wouldn't the water form of it be too?

The answer?

...yeah. Kind of.

'When and why were carbonated drinks invented?

12 Answers

📷 , An epicurian marketing major. Alyssa Christianson Answered 10 years ago · Author has 64 answers and 255.1K answer views Well...water can be found in a naturally carbonated state, like San Pellegrino water and other mineral waters. BUT we won't go into that since I'm pretty sure you want to focus on soda and things like that and not BORING OLD MINERAL WATER WHICH IS GOOD FOR YOU AND NATURAL.SO, in 1767 Joseph Priestley discovered a history-altering method to infuse water with carbon dioxide. It actually happened on accident after he left a bowl of water over a vat of fermenting beer at a distillery. He found that the water had acquired a nice taste (from the yeasty, beery air) an a fun bubbliness reminiscent of champagne, so he started selling it to his friends as a beverage. A series of scientists elaborated on Priestley's technique over the years, developing technologies and machines that could speed up and simplify the process. Between 1774 and 1807, several apparatuses were created by multiple chemists, most notably John Mervin Nooth. Soda fountains as we know them today weren't widely used or known until the 1830's and 40's when John Matthews and John Lippencott began producing them in the United States.So that's basically WHEN carbonated beverages were invented...now let's have a chat about WHY!Carbonated mineral water (which I mentioned and deviated from earlier) has pretty much throughout all of written history been a staple "health" food. Peoples of all races and walks of the Earth claim it has medicinal qualities and is exaggeratedly good for you. Mostly, I think this is because it comes out of the ground, has a slightly sour/acquired taste, and is mysteriously bubbly. Those are usually things that make people think something is really good for you. In reality, carbonated water is kind of bad for you. It is known to cause dental erosion from the carbonic acid levels, the phosphoric acid may reduce done density, and the fact that it's so gassy causes intestinal distress for many individuals. I mean...it's like swallowing tons of air. It doesn't really feel good and makes you burp. At the same time, the carbonic acid CAN work to equalize acid in the stomach, which can help ease nausea.But anyway, so naturally carbonated water was seen as a superhealthdrink and medicine for basically ever and people wanted to find a way to make it more commercially and readily available. It's kind of the same as why we have man-made versions of ANYTHING. People wanted to make a buck off something Earth had been giving us for free! And, bubbly seltzery effervescent water and eventually sodas/soft drinks are just FUN. It's like why would you rather drink flat, regular water anymore when now you could go down to the corner chemist and get some fizzy, mouth-tingly water?!?!'

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2024 olympians representing non-birth national by country part 7

Norway: Alexandre Christoffersen-Blonz, handball (France); Simen Guttormsen, athletics (U.S.A.); Sondre Guttormsen, athletics (U.S.A.);Jon-Hermann Hegg, shooting (Ireland); Amalie Iuel, athletics (Denmark); Grace Jacob-Bullen, wrestling (Eritrea); Solfrid Koanda, weightlifting (Finland); Zerei Mezngi, athletics (Eritrea); Marie-Therese Obst, athletics (Germany) & Kristoffer Ventura, golf (Mexico) Palestine: Yazon Al-Bawwab, swimming (Saudi Arabia); Layla Almastri, athletics (U.S.A.); Fares Badawi, judo (Syria); Omar Hantoli, taekwondo (U.A.E.); Jorge Sahle; Jr., shooting (Chile) & Valerie Tarazi, swimming (U.S.A.) Panama: Bernhard Christianson, swimming (U.S.A.) & Gianna Woodruff, athletics (U.S.A.) Papua New Guinea: Georgia-Leigh Rotuisolia, swimming (Australia) Peru: Inés Castillo, badminton (U.S.A.) & McKenna De Bever, swimming (U.S.A.) The Philippines: John Cabang, athletics (Spain); Aleah Finnegan, gymnastics (U.S.A.); Jarod Hatch, swimming (U.S.A.); Lauren Hoffman, athletics (U.S.A.); Emma Malabuyo, gymnastics (U.S.A.); Levi Ruivivar, gymnastics (U.S.A.) & Kayla Sanchez, swimming (Singapore) Poland: Maher Ben Hlima, athletics (Tunisia); Anastazja Kuś, athletics (Turkey); Wilfredo León, volleyball (Cuba); Anhelina Lysak, wrestling (Ukraine); Adrian Meronk, golf (Germany); Sandra Sysojeva, equestrian (Lithuania); Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, athletics (Belarus) & Mariya Zhodzik, athletics (Belarus) Portugal: Tsanko Arnaudov, athletics (Bulgaria); Thomas Augusto, skateboarding (U.S.A.); Eliana Bandeira, athletics (Brazil); Samuel Barata, athletics (Switzerland); Lorène Bazolo, athletics (Republic Of Congo); Jorge Da Fonseca, judo (São Tomé and Príncpe); Agate De Souza, athletics (São Tomé & Príncipe); Fatoumata Diallo, athletics (Guinea); Melanie Dos Santos, triathlon (Switzerland); Yu Fu, table tennis (China); Rochele Nunes, judo (Brazil); Pedro Pichardo, athletics (Cuba); Jieni Shao, table tennis (China) & Bárbara Timo, judo (Brazil) Puerto Rico: Jose Alvarado, basketball (U.S.A.); Jacqueline Benítez, basketball (U.S.A.); George Conditt IV, basketball (U.S.A.); Darian Cruz, wrestling (U.S.A.); Pedro Fernández, sailing (Cuba); Aleem Ford, basketball (U.S.A.); Alli Gibson, basketball (U.S.A.); Arella Guirantes, basketball (U.S.A.); Mya Hollingshed, basketball (U.S.A.); Jordan Howard, basketball (U.S.A.); Brianna Jones, basketball (U.S.A.); Chris Ortiz, basketball (U.S.A.); Ayden Owens-Delerme, athletics (U.S.A.); India Pagán, basketball (U.S.A.); Mariah Pérez, basketball (U.S.A.); Isaiah Piñeiro, basketball (U.S.A.); Steven Piñeiro, skateboarding (U.S.A.); Jasmine Quinn-Camacho, athletics (U.S.A.); Islays Quiñones, basketball (U.S.A.); Ethan Ramos, wrestling (U.S.A.); Davon Reed, basketball (U.S.A.); Sofía Roma, basketball (U.S.A.); Kristen Romano, swimming (U.S.A.); Ismael Romero, basketball (Cuba); Trinity San Antonio, basketball (U.S.A.); Gabby Scott, athletics (Germany); Jonovan Smith, wrestling (U.S.A.); Stevie Thompson; Jr., basketball (U.S.A.); Maycey Vieta, diving (U.S.A.) & Tremont Waters, basketball (U.S.A.) Qatar: Abubaker Abdalla, athletics (Sudan); Abderrahman Alsaleck, athletics (Saudi Arabia); Fares El-Bakh, weightlifting (Egypt); Bassem Hemeida, athletics (Egypt); Ahmed Tijan-Janko, volleyball (Gambia) & Cherif Younousse-Samba, volleyball (Senegal)

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Prisons of various kinds—including the ship’s hold, the tender boat, the hulk, the crimp house, the pressroom, the “cook-house” (London), the barracoon, the storehouse, the factory (Gold Coast), the trunk (Whydah), the cage (Barbados), or the city jail (almost anywhere)—were, as Scott Christianson has shown, indispensable to the various Atlantic slave trades, whether the prisoners were sailors, children, or felons, whether they were from Africa or from Europe. Many indentured servants, Thomas Verney explained in 1642, came from the “bridewells, and the prisons.” Sir Josiah Child claimed that “the major part” of the women servants were “taken from Bridewell, Turnball Street, and such like places of Education.” It was a time when “jayls [were] emptied, youth seduced, infamous women drilled in.” According to a pamphlet of 1632, the plantations they were destined for “were no better than common ‘sinkes,’ where the commonwealth dumped her most lawless inhabitants.” Virginia’s servants were said to “have no habitations, & can bring neither certificate of their conformity nor ability and are better out than within the kingdom,” while Maryland’s were “for the most part the scum of the people taken up promiscuously as vagrant and runaways from their English masters, debauched, idle, lazy, squanderers, jailbirds, and the like.” John Donne promised in a sermon of 1622 that the Virginia Company “shall sweep your streets, and wash your dores, from idle persons, and the children of idle persons, and imploy them: and truely, if the whole Countrey were such a Bridewell, to force idle persons to work, it had a good use.” He wanted America to function as a prison, and for many it did.

Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (Beacon, 2000), pp. 58–9.

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Reel Big Fish announce their 14th album Life Sucks... Let's Dance!

Reel Big Fish announce their 14th album Life Sucks… Let’s Dance!

21-Dec-2018: ‘Life Sucks… Let’s Dance!’, album by Reel Big Fish Record Label: Rock Ridge Music.

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The fourteenth album by Reel Big Fish is named ‘Life Sucks… Let’s Dance!’ and was just released on label Rock Ridge Music and is now available on Spotify. The album is not rated on Last.FM, indicating it’s not too popular or it is too close to its release date.

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Reel Big Fish's 'Life Sucks... Let's Dance!': This is we know so far

Reel Big Fish’s ‘Life Sucks… Let’s Dance!’: This is we know so far

21-Dec-2018: ‘Life Sucks… Let’s Dance!’, album by Reel Big Fish Record Label: Rock Ridge Music.

ska • ska punk • seen live • punk • rock

Reel Big Fish’s fourteenth album was just released on label Rock Ridge Music and can now be streamed on Spotify. The album is not yet on Last.FM, indicating it’s not too popular (or just to soon to tell).

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Hello. The Forgotten Carols is the best and most underrated Christmas play because it symbolizes the most important part of Christmas. In this essay I will

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Warts and All? That’s the Risk When a Founder Is the Face of a Company

If you were responsible for marketing a company, would you: (1) focus on the owner staring in commercials in hopes of winning customer trust or, (2) avoid owner prominence in ads due to potential ethical mistakes owner may make that could damage brand identity? Why? What are the ethics underlying your decision?

Commercials for Dollar Shave Club, the subscription toiletries company, are known for two things. There’s that zany, slightly frat-boy sense of humor — the latest ad features a few dozen people shaving, tweezing, clipping, trimming, waxing, bathing, powdering, spritzing, gelling, styling and moisturizing to the song “I’ve Gotta Be Me” as crooned by Steve Lawrence.

And then there’s the reliable presence of the company’s founder, Michael Dubin.

Mr. Dubin became familiar to viewers thanks to a 2012 YouTube video in which he extolled the quality and the price of his razor blades with the help of a toddler, someone in a bear suit, a wildly swung tennis racket — and a choice profanity. The ad went viral, and Dollar Shave Club racked up 12,000 orders within 48 hours.

“I knew we needed to cut through the clutter, and I decided who best to tell the company’s story than me,” said Mr. Dubin, who makes a cameo in the latest commercial. “The intent wasn’t that I’d become a spokesmanlike figure. I just wanted to make a fun advertisement for the business that communicated simply and memorably what we were all about.”

Founders and other top executives have long been enlisted, to very good effect, to star in commercials for their companies. Think Dave Thomas of Wendy’s, James Dyson and his vacuum cleaner business and Frank Perdue, the tough guy who knew just how to make a tender chicken.

Even so, using the head of the company as the face of the company can be a fraught strategy.

“The person may be fine in front of the camera but may blow it behind the camera,” said Allen Adamson, a partner at the marketing firm Metaforce. “If there’s an issue with the founder and he or she is a key part of the company’s ads, the brand damage will be far more severe.”

Consider John Schnatter, the founder of Papa John’s, who stepped down as the pizza chain’s chairman last month after using a racial slur on a conference call. Mr. Schnatter’s image had become inseparable from the brand — he appeared in numerous commercials, often reciting the chain’s slogan: “Better pizza. Better ingredients. Papa John’s.”

It wasn’t the first time Mr. Schnatter had created problems for the company. In November, he blamed slumping sales on the way the National Football League dealt with players who knelt during the national anthem to protest racism and police brutality. Those comments were praised by white supremacists; the N.F.L. later ended its nearly eight-year sponsorship deal with Papa John’s.

Mr. Schnatter notwithstanding, there’s a considerable upside in bringing the founder to the fore.

“Founders are revered more than ever, entrepreneur fever has increased, and the founder has such a compelling story,” said Kevin Lane Keller, the E. B. Osborn professor of marketing at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. “This is their passion, the passion fuels the company, and talking about it may be a way to differentiate themselves.

“James Dyson is a good example,” Mr. Keller continued. “Clearly, he’s obsessed, and he comes across in the ads as having expertise.”

And when you and your company have the same name, he added, “it’s awfully hard not to be part of the advertising equation.”

For the Perdues, it has become a family tradition. In September, Ryan Perdue, general manager of pet products for Perdue, and Chris Perdue, a director in the agribusiness division, were introduced in a series of commercials that also introduced a new product, Perdue Harvestland organic chicken. Also on hand: their father, Jim Perdue, the chief executive, who had appeared in commercials with his father, Frank. (Decades ago, even the company’s patriarch, Arthur Perdue, Frank’s father, starred in an ad.)

“Everything revolves around trust, and that’s even more important today because the millennial generation is very skeptical,” Jim Perdue said. “If you have the owner of the company in an ad saying, ‘Look, we’re transparent — we’re raising chickens without antibiotics,’ it’s a way of engendering trust.”

Bob Kaufman has been starring in commercials for his company, Bob’s Discount Furniture, since the 1990s, generally clad in jeans and a golf shirt. He has also appeared in some of those ads as a Claymation figure, a subtle nod to the fact that Mr. Kaufman will not be around forever.

“As a founder, there’s a level of honesty you bring that a talking head cannot,” Mr. Kaufman said. “When consumers hear from the decision maker, someone who has the power to do what he says he’s doing, there’s a level of believability.”

But no matter how credible and authentic their message, company leaders (and their descendants) are pitching their products in an era of heightened visibility thanks to social media.

“Chris and Ryan Perdue get the gravity of the situation,” said Eric Christianson, Perdue’s chief marketing officer. “We told them: ‘People are watching. This is a role you’ve taken voluntarily that’s important for the success of the company and for the brand.’”

Of course, some leaders want their company’s image to extend beyond their personality, and long beyond their life.

That’s partly why Mr. Dubin of Dollar Shave Club has chosen not to appear in every one of his company’s ads, though he has appeared in a dozen to date. (The company was sold to Unilever in 2016 for a reported $1 billion; Mr. Dubin has stayed on as chief executive.)

“There is some brand recognition that comes with putting me in the ads,” he said. “But at the same time it’s important to create a brand that exists outside the founder’s identity.

“I want D.S.C. to be a 100-year-old brand that will long outlive my usefulness as a spokesman.”

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Life under Covid in Scottish care homes – a photo essay

For relatives separated from loved ones in care homes, news that authorities may soon relax visiting rules could not come quickly enough. Prolonged isolation is taking its toll on many residents, particularly those with dementia and who rely on daily stimulation from visitors

By Libby Brooks. Photographs by Murdo MacLeod

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Social care assistant Audrey Halley runs a nail bar and manicure with resident Helen Ford at McClymont House

Residents and staff at McClymont House

Residents and staff do their daily exercise at McClymont House

Yvonne Young with resident Bett O’Brien plays skittles at McKillop Gardens, East Kilbride

Staff member Amber Lochridge follows safety guidelines at McKillop Gardens

John Christianson helps with the weeding at McKillop Gardens

Libby Brooks speaks to Heather Brown at Meldrum House

Gardening on a balcony at McKillop Gardens

Resident Betty Colligan, right, works on arts and crafts at Meldrum House

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