#muriel donnelly

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Dame Maggie Smith as Muriel Donnelly The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)

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Dame Maggie Smith, R.I.P.

Never again will we get to see the greatest withering look in screen history ... it's a great loss and another heartbreaking sad day.

Rest well, Professor McGonagall, Dowager Countess Cora Crawley, Reverand Mother, Miss Jean Brodie, Aunt Augusta, Wendy Darling, Muriel Donnelly and Miss Mary Shepard. You will be missed.

Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, 28th September 1934 - 27th December 2024. Rest in peace.

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[ad_1] Following the mid-air collision between an American Airlines plane and a US Army helicopter in which all 67 are feared dead, US President Donald Trump on Thursday blamed former Democratic Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama for lowering air safety standards. Trump blamed Obama and Biden for ‘putting’ policy first instead of the safety of the citizens. He emphasised that the job requires people with “superior intelligence.” “Democrats put policy first, and they put politics at a level that nobody’s ever seen,” Trump said during the press briefing. “They actually came out with a directive too white, and we want the people that are competent,” he added. Trump blamed Obama and Biden for the “mediocre” air safety standards, saying, “I changed the Obama standards from mediocre at best to extraordinary. You remember that only the highest intellect and psychologically superior people were allowed to qualify for air traffic controllers, which was not so before I arrived in 2016. I made that change very early on because I always felt this was a job that and other jobs too, but this was a job that had to be superior intelligence, and we didn’t really have that. When I left office and Biden took over he changed them back to lower than ever before.” Acknowledging the impact on families across the United States and abroad, including Russian nationals on board, he assured that efforts would be made to determine the cause of the disaster and prevent such incidents in the future. “Sadly, there are no survivors. This was a dark and excruciating night in our nation’s capital and our nation’s history and a tragedy of terrible proportions as we grieve for every precious soul that has been taken from us so suddenly. This is really shaking a lot of people, including people from other nations,” Trump said. “We had a Russian contingent (on plane), some very talented people. Unfortunately, they were on that plane and we are very sorry about that. We do not know what led to this crash, but we have some very strong opinions and ideas. We will find out how this disaster occurred and we will ensure that nothing like this ever happens again,” Trump added. Earlier in the day, US authorities confirmed that they no longer expect to find any survivors, and efforts have shifted to a recovery mission, according to DC Fire and EMS Chief John Donnelly, according to a CNN report. A press briefing was held at Reagan National Airport, where Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser addressed the deadly collision involving an American Airlines passenger plane carrying 64 people and a US Army Black Hawk helicopter with three soldiers on board. “We are now at a point where we’re switching from a rescue operation to a recovery operation. At this point, we don’t believe there are any survivors from this accident,” Donnelly said in a news conference on Thursday. A mid-air collision occurred between an American Airlines plane and a US Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport outside Washington DC on Wednesday night. The collision resulted in both aircraft crashing into the Potomac River. [ad_2] Source link

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[ad_1] Following the mid-air collision between an American Airlines plane and a US Army helicopter in which all 67 are feared dead, US President Donald Trump on Thursday blamed former Democratic Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama for lowering air safety standards. Trump blamed Obama and Biden for ‘putting’ policy first instead of the safety of the citizens. He emphasised that the job requires people with “superior intelligence.” “Democrats put policy first, and they put politics at a level that nobody’s ever seen,” Trump said during the press briefing. “They actually came out with a directive too white, and we want the people that are competent,” he added. Trump blamed Obama and Biden for the “mediocre” air safety standards, saying, “I changed the Obama standards from mediocre at best to extraordinary. You remember that only the highest intellect and psychologically superior people were allowed to qualify for air traffic controllers, which was not so before I arrived in 2016. I made that change very early on because I always felt this was a job that and other jobs too, but this was a job that had to be superior intelligence, and we didn’t really have that. When I left office and Biden took over he changed them back to lower than ever before.” Acknowledging the impact on families across the United States and abroad, including Russian nationals on board, he assured that efforts would be made to determine the cause of the disaster and prevent such incidents in the future. “Sadly, there are no survivors. This was a dark and excruciating night in our nation’s capital and our nation’s history and a tragedy of terrible proportions as we grieve for every precious soul that has been taken from us so suddenly. This is really shaking a lot of people, including people from other nations,” Trump said. “We had a Russian contingent (on plane), some very talented people. Unfortunately, they were on that plane and we are very sorry about that. We do not know what led to this crash, but we have some very strong opinions and ideas. We will find out how this disaster occurred and we will ensure that nothing like this ever happens again,” Trump added. Earlier in the day, US authorities confirmed that they no longer expect to find any survivors, and efforts have shifted to a recovery mission, according to DC Fire and EMS Chief John Donnelly, according to a CNN report. A press briefing was held at Reagan National Airport, where Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser addressed the deadly collision involving an American Airlines passenger plane carrying 64 people and a US Army Black Hawk helicopter with three soldiers on board. “We are now at a point where we’re switching from a rescue operation to a recovery operation. At this point, we don’t believe there are any survivors from this accident,” Donnelly said in a news conference on Thursday. A mid-air collision occurred between an American Airlines plane and a US Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport outside Washington DC on Wednesday night. The collision resulted in both aircraft crashing into the Potomac River. [ad_2] Source link

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Maggie Smith as Muriel Donnelly is a whole ass mood

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Which 2011 film follows seven British retirees who travel to Jaipur in India?

'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' is a 2011 British comedy-drama movie starring an ensemble cast consisting of Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Dev Patel, Celia Imrie, Bill Nighy, Ronald Pickup, Tom Wilkinson and Penelope Wilton. It is based on the novel 'These Foolish Things' (2004) by Deborah Moggach.

Seven elderly Brits travel to Jaipur, India, after reading about a newly restored hotel. When they arrive, they find a run-down hotel instead, headed by a young, optimistic host (Patel). Each character has different reasons for travelling to Jaipur. Evelyn Greenslade (Dench) is newly widowed and hopes for a low-cost experience, Graham Dashwood (Wilkinson) seeks a lost love, Douglas Ainslie (Nighy) and Jean Ainslie (Wilton) both lost their pension in a family investment, Muriel Donnelly (Smith) needs cheap hip surgery, Madge Hardcastle (Imrie) seeks a rich husband, and Norman Cousins (Pickup) wants a woman. Whilst India may not be what they expected, each character is affected in different ways, and their individual stories frequently cross.

The film received 22 award nominations, with Smith winning 'Best Comedic Actress' at the Women Film Critics Circle Awards. At the same ceremony, Smith, Dench, Wilton and Imrie won for 'Women's Work: Best Ensemble'.

A sequel to the film, 'The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel', was released in 2015. It saw the return of most of the original cast, plus the addition of American actor Richard Gere.

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Maggie Smith as Muriel Donnelly - The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)

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National team matches - results

Germany - Spain 1:1 (Muller 35′ - Rodrigo 6′)

Toni Kroos - played the whole match.

Sergio Ramos - played the whole match.

Daniel Carvajal - played the whole match.

Isco - played 59 minutes.

Nacho Fernandez - played 39 minutes.

Marco Asensio - played 31 minutes.

Lucas Vazquez - played 18 minutes.

Spain - Argentine 6:1 (Costa 12′, Isco 27′, 52′, 74′, Thiago 55′, Aspas 73′ - Otamendi 39′)

Sergio Ramos - played the whole match.

Daniel Carvajal - played the whole match. 

Isco - played 76 minutes and scored a hattrick.

Marco Asensio - played the whole match and assisted Costa’s and Isco’s 1st goal.

Lucas Vazquez - played 14 minutes.

Nacho Fernandez - didn’t play.

Northern Ireland U21 - Spain U21 3:5 (Donnelly (p) 30′, 47′, Lavery 68′ - Oyarzabal 15′, 44′, Mayoral 47′, 75′, 84′)

Daniel Ceballos - played the whole match and assisted Oyarzabal’s 1st goal.

Borja Mayoral - played 87 minutes and scored a hattrick.

Jesus Vallejo - didn’t play.

Spain U21 - Estonia U21 3:1 (Fabian Ruiz 8′, Mayoral 37′, 51′ - Sinyavskiy 59′)

Jesus Vallejo - played the whole match.

Daniel Ceballos - played the whole match.

Borja Mayoral - played the whole match and scored 2 goals.

Peru - Croatia 2:0 (Carillo 12′, Flores 48′)

Luka Modric - played the whole match.

Mateo Kovacic - played 34 minutes.

Mexico - Croatia 0:1 (Rakitic (p) 62′)

Mateo Kovacic - played the whole match.

Luka Modric - got released from the match and came back to Madrid.

Russia - Brazil 0:3 (Miranda 53′, Coutinho (p) 62′, Paulinho 66′)

Marcelo - played the whole match.

Casemiro - played the whole match.

Germany - Brazil 0:1 (Gabriel Jesus 37′)

Toni Kroos - played the whole match.

Marcelo - played the whole match.

Casemiro - played the whole match.

Portugal - Egipt 2:1 (Cristiano Ronaldo 92′, 94′ - Salah 56′)

Cristiano Ronaldo - played the whole match and scored 2 goals.

Portugal - Netherlands 0:3 (Depay 11′, Babel 32′, van Dijk 47′)

Cristiano Ronaldo - played 68 minutes.

France - Colombia 2:3 (Giroud 11′, Lemar 26′ - Muriel 28′, Falcao 62′, Quintero (p) 85′)

Raphael Varane - played the whole match.

Russia - France 1:3 (Smolov 76′ - Mbappe 40′, 83′, Pogba 49′)

Raphael Varane - didn’t play.

China - Wales 0:6 (Bale 2′, 21′, 62′, Vokes 38′, 58′, Wilson 45′)

Gareth Bale - played 63 minutes, scored a hattrick and assisted Wilson’s goal.

Wales - Uruguay 0:1 (Cavani 49′)

Gareth Bale - played the whole match.

Scotland - Costa Rica 0:1 (Urena 14′)

Keylor Navas - played the whole match.

Tunisia - Costa Rica 1:0 (Khazri 36′)

Keylor Navas - played the whole match.

Serbia - Morocco 1:2 (Tadic 37′ - Ziyech (p) 29′, Boutaib 40′)

Achraf Hakimi - didn’t play. He got injured in the training.

Morocco - Uzbekistan 2:0 (El Kaabi 4′, da Costa 43′)

Achraf Hakimi - played the whole match.

France U20 - USA U20 2:0 (Tell 35′, 50′)

Luca Zidane - didn’t play.

France U20 - USA U20 0:1 (Amaya 89′)

Luca Zidane - played the whole match.

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A souvenir program from the Original Broadway production of the Eighth Annual Edition of the musical revue "GEORGE WHITE'S SCANDALS" at the Apollo Theatre in New York City. (The Eighth Edition opened June 14th, 1926 at the Apollo Theatre and ran for 432 performances.) This series of revues, produced by White from 1919 through 1939, were given to elaborate show numbers much like the "Ziegfeld Follies", but were less ornate and cumbersome. Their comedy tended to be far more topical and, because White had been a dancer, the productions were fast paced and featured better choreography and music than similar revues. The scenery and curtains for this, the eighth edition of the "Scandals" were designed by ERTE and the musical score included GEORGE GERSHWIN's "Rhapsody in Blue". The All-Star Cast included ANN PENNINGTON, WILLIE and EUGENE HOWARD, TOM PATRICOLA, HARRY RICHMAN, BUSTER WEST, FRANCES WILLIAMS, the McCARTHY SISTERS, the FAIRBANKS TWINS, FOWLER & TAMARA, LLOYD GARRETT, ROSE PERFECT, JOHN WELLS, JANE SELS, JAMES CARTY, PEGGY GALLIMORE, JEAN KENIN, the SCOTT SISTERS, the HASTINGS SISTERS, FLO BROOKS, MURIEL LeCOUNT, LAVERTA McCORMACK, FRED LYON, MARGARET MANNERS, HARRY MORRISSEY, CATHERINE CHAPMAN, PATRICIA PURSLEY, ARTHUR CARDINAL, PEGGY MOSELY, NORMA CLOOS, JAMES MILLER, PEGGY PENN, MAY SLATTERY, CLAIRE DOUGLASS, DOLLY DONNELLY, JANET FLYNN, GEORGIA LERCH, ALICE WILKIE, ALICE WHITE and GEORGE WHITE'S BALLET CREDITS: Book by WILLIAM K. WELLS and GEORGE WHITE; Music by RAY HENDERSON; Lyrics by B. G. DeSYLVA and LEW BROWN; "Rhapsody in Blue" composed by GEORGE GERSHWIN ("Girl Crazy", "Lady, Be Good!", "Oh, Kay!", "Funny Face", "Rosalie", "Of Thee I Sing", "Porgy and Bess", "George White's Scandals"); Costumes and Curtains designed by ERTE; Conceived, Produced and Directed by GEORGE WHITE .....

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november reading

so with lockdown #2, my master’s thesis done & handed in etc, i just had absolutely nothing going on so this month so... lots of books. featuring Houses full of statues and birds, an AU of weimar berlin, and... the plague?

someone who will love you in all your damaged glory, raphael bob-waksberg (audio) actually listened to this last month! anyway even tho i forgot about it, i actually really liked it! it’s a collection of short stories, all about love in some way, most with a strange twist - a couple wants a small wedding but the MIL insists they have to at least sacrifice 5 goats to the stone god and have a shrieking chorus, or it’s hardly a real wedding, right? that kind of thing. i really liked these stories; they were fun, hopeful without being cheesy (mostly), and the audio production, with lots of actors reading the different stories was fun. 4/5

the driver’s seat, muriel spark man this novella is nasty, but in a good way - sharp, vicious, mean but so well executed. it’s also pretty hard to discuss without spoiling it & i do think one should go into this unspoiled. but it’s certainly a classic of the unhinged women genre, showing lise seemingly making herself as noticeable, irritating and off-putting as she can on a trip to an unnamed (probably italian) city. 3.5/5

the empress of salt and fortune, nghi vo (singing hills cycle #1) a lovely novella set in an asian-inspired fantasy empire, which shows young cleric chih and their speaking hoopoe almost brilliant learn the story of a previous empress, a northerner who rose from exile as an cast-aside wife to power and of her servant, a peasant girl called rabbit. enjoyed the setting and the way this story unfolded through objects and rabbit’s retelling, and will definitely read the sequel novella which comes out in december. 3.5/5

pine, francine toon (audio) this is a crime/thriller type book with some horror elements about a young girl whose mother has disappeared mysteriously when she was very small. she lives with her dad in the scottish highlands close to a giant forest. the beginning is pretty cool & creepy, but then like 80% of it is just the girl being sad & wanting to know what happened to her mother & the dad being an alcoholic mess. and then most of the plot happens in the last 10% & isn’t great. disappointing. 2/5

where the wild ladies are, aoko matsuda (tr. from japanese by polly barton) a collection of short stories retelling japanese folklore stories about female ghosts/monsters with a feminist twist. on the whole, i liked these stories, but also found them a lot more light in tone than i expected; i guess i thought this would be more on the wild & raw side, so i ended up finding them a bit underwhelming. might also be a problem with lacking cultural context. will say tho that tilted axis press is great & i will seek out more of their books. 2.5/5

piranesi, susanna clarke (audio) god this was so good! so delightful! the House with its many rooms full of tides and clouds and birds and statues is a wonderful, magical yet melancholy setting, the narrator is kind & gentle & earnest, full of wonder and curiosity at the House and its mysteries (the contrast between the narrator’s and the Other’s attitude to the House... yes), the slow building up to the numerous reveals are just. very well done. the writing is lovely (did i almost cry about the albatross? yes) and chiwetel ejiofor is a great audio narrator. just all around lovely & the ending hits just right. 4.5/5

doomsday book, connie willis reading this book during lockdown #2.... a galaxy brain move i wouldn’t necessarily recommend. anyway this is set in a near future where time travel is used for historical research; oxford university is sending the young historian kivrin on the first mission to the middle ages (1320, which is perfectly safe, as far as medieval years go), but things go wrong and soon modern day oxford is under quarantine (ha. how wild. can you imagine.) and kivrin notices that some things are a bit off about where she is (spoiler it’s actually 1348 and y’all know what that means right... PLAGUE TIME). lots of people on goodreads found this slow and boring and while it is pretty damn slow (and for a world with time travel way too many plot points hinge on being unable to contact people by telephone), i found it riveting and uh dread-inducing throughout, but also really warm and immersive. adored this, was devastated at the end. even almost a month later i’m still in my feelings about it. 4.5/5

too loud a solitude, bohumil hrabal (tr. from czech by michael henry heim) a novella i intellectually appreciated but didn’t really love - the narrator works as a paper compactor in a nightmarish basement full of mice (that also get crushed by the hundreds) from where he imagines rat wars in the sewers but from where he also saves hundreds of books. it’s fascinating & well-written but as soon as it gets away from the nightmare paper-crushing basement, it just loses its appeal, especially when the narrator reminisces about his relationships to women (how to simultaneously put women on a pedestal and smear shit on them!!!). 3/5

i’m thinking of ending things, iain reid literary horror/thriller type book with a really intriguing first half, as a young woman is visiting her boyfriend’s parents for the first time while thinking of ending the relationship and things increasingly feel off (the parents are weird, there’s a picture on the wall that the boyfriend claims is him as a child, but is actually her, she gets weird voicemails from her own number). great sense of vague unease, very scary. then the second half kind of blows up the whole story in a way that i should theoretically find interesting but just found kind of underwhelming and not scary, especially since the ending then feels the need to spell it all out for you. 2/5

passing, nella larsen (reread) ugh this is brilliant and i almost don’t have anything to say about it so i’ll just summarise it i guess. it’s a novella about two black women in 1920s america, who knew each other as teenagers and who run into each other in a rooftop bar, where both of them are passing as white. irene finds out that clare is passing full-time, married to a white man who does not know that she is black, and although she strongly disapproves, she can’t help but be seduced (the queer subtext is strong here) into renewing their friendship, which begins to threaten her sense of stability and control. this book is pretty much pitch-perfect, has a lot of things to say about race, loyalty, what happens when categories we live by are threatened or destabilised, and is also just tight and elegantly written and. ugh. brilliant. 5/5

ring shout, p. djèlí clark an alternative history/fantasy book where the ku klux klan gets possessed by demons from another dimension and a group of black (and other marginalised) women (some men too) who are able to see these demons have to fight them from gaining more power through a showing of birth of a nation. note: the klan is still already evil without the demons, but their evil makes it easier for the demons to possess them. very cool concept, very cool setting, but i found the main character and some of the plot progression a little boring. 3/5

amberlough, lara elena donnelly (amberlough dossier #1) this is really just the nazi takeover of weimar berlin in an alternate world (literally... the denizens of the city of amberlough are amberlinians... the two epigraphs are from le carre and cabaret...), told thru an amberlinian spy (cyril) forced to work for the nazi-equivalent (the ospies), his secret cabaret mc/smuggling kingpin boyfriend (aristide), and rough-and-tumble sally bowles (cordelia). as such, it’s extremely my shit, although i will say that donnelly makes it a bit easy on herself by making the nazi parallel so very overt; the ospies’ ideology is not particularly detailed beyond ‘real fashy’ and wanting to unite four loosely federated states. it’s just.... a bit weaksauce, and while she does include an ethnic minority for the ospies to hate, this also doesn’t feel as fundamental to their ideology as it should. also cyril sucks. but these issues may be solved in the sequels & it was a lot of fun. also.... amazing cover. 3/5

the vanishing half, brit bennett very much in conversation with larsen’s passing, this is a 2020 historical novel about passing, colorism, and identity, in which desiree and stella, very light-skinned african american twins who grow up in a black town that values lightness very much, become separated when stella chooses to pass for white and marry a white man. the book is very immersive and engaging, and stella and desiree are interesting characters, but (i felt unfortunately) much of the book is focused on their daughters, whose chance meeting might expose stella/reunite the sisters/etc etc, but who weren’t as interesting. the plot also relies on coincidences a lot which is a bit annoying. still an interesting and entertaining read. 3/5

die stadt der anderen, anthology printed version of an art project where three pairs of authors were sent on trips through berlin, which each person writing about what the other person showed them and how they experienced the city through the other. there was nothing earth-shaking in this, but reading it during lockdown was lovely. in conclusion i love berlin... would love to experience it again some time. 3/5

the fire this time, edited by jesmyn ward collection of essays on anti-black racism in america, many in response to the beginning of the black lives matter movement. i don’t have much to say about it, but it is very good and i would recommend. as is often the case with essay anthologies about serious topics i don’t really think i can rate it.

intimations, zadie smith a very short collection of essays written during early lockdown. smith is always smart and fun but i wish these had been a little more focused on politics and less on personal experience, but like, you can’t really criticise a book for not being what you wanted it to be. ‘contempt as a virus’ was very good. 

superior: the return of race science, angela saini really solid, engaging and accessible discussion of race science and why... it’s bad & dangerous, both looking at race science in the past and the invention of race, and how it is returning and regaining influence (not to say that race science ever completely disappeared, but as saini explains, it moved into a more marginal space in the sciences after ww2). 3.5/5

the hive, camilo josé cela (tr. from spanish by j.m. cohen & arturo barea) spanish modern classic set in madrid during the last few years of ww2. told thru short fragmentary snippets with a huge rotating cast of characters, mostly lower and middle class, going about their days, with the theme tying them together being “the city, that tomb, that greased pole, that hive”, which is a very sexy line, but unfortunately it didn’t work for me. the tone is v dispassionate and in combination with the huge cast it just made me profoundly unengaged. it also has the weird habit of changing scene in the middle of a paragraph, which i found rather confusing. 2.5/5 slave old man, patrick chamoiseau (tr. from french by linda coverdale) absolutely amazing short novel from the creolité movement aabout an old slave, seemingly resigned to his position, suddenly escaping and being pursued by the slavemaster’s terrifying monstrous mastiff through the forests of martinique, but really also about selfhood, relearning humanity, trauma and nature. the language is at turns sparse and lush and always gorgeous and the translation from french/creole uses endnotes (we love an endnote) and a strategy of doubling to retain some of the original language, which was really cool to read. so yeah this is brilliant. 4/5

mexican gothic, silvia moreno-garcia gothic horror novel about young mexican socialite noemí visiting her recently-married cousin in her new (english) family’s isolated, creepy and dilapidated mansion after said cousin sent a disturbing and strange letter calling for help. gothic horror shenanigans involving vivid dreams, family secrets and eugenics ensue. after a slow start, i absolutely devoured the second half in one afternoon bc once it gets going it REALLY gets going. not super-scary, but a nice creepy atmosphere & reveal. also loved how it combines the clear yellow wallpaper inspo (the cousin’s letter involves people in the wallpaper) and the focus on the english family’s eugenic ideology (not a fun fact but charlotte perkins gilman was a eugenicist), and the vain & flighty but also smart & stubborn protagonist. had a lot of fun with this. 3.5/5

i’m also still reading a tale of love and darkness by amos oz which is really good but which is taking me forfuckingever. 

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"There's no such thing as an ending, just a place where you leave the story." - Muriel Donnelly

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[ad_1] A large-scale search operation is underway after a tragic mid-air collision between an American Airlines plane and a US Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport outside Washington, DC. On Wednesday night, the collision resulted in both aircraft crashing into the Potomac River. Authorities confirmed fatalities, and as of early Thursday morning, no survivors had been recovered from the river, according to law enforcement sources. The aircraft involved in the collision included American Airlines Flight 5342, a regional jet with 60 passengers and four crew members on board. The flight had departed from Wichita, Kansas, and was approaching the airport when it collided with a Black Hawk helicopter on a training mission. The three soldiers aboard the helicopter were also confirmed dead. As of the latest reports, the wreckage from both the plane and the helicopter was found submerged in the icy waters of the Potomac River. “The plane is in pieces in the water, and the helicopter is in the water nearby,” said one law enforcement source. The collision occurred when the airport was busy, with 858 flights scheduled to take off and land at Reagan National Airport on Wednesday, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium. In the wake of the incident, approximately 19 aircraft that were in the air at the time were diverted to nearby Dulles International Airport, about 20 miles away from Reagan National. The airport was closed, and all flights were grounded for the night, a decision expected to remain in effect until at least 11 am ET Thursday, airport officials confirmed. The crash sent shockwaves through the local community and beyond, with President Donald Trump offering condolences to the families of the victims. “This is a bad situation that looks like it should have been prevented,” Trump posted on Truth Social. Meanwhile, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser confirmed early Thursday that the focus of search efforts remains on recovering the victims, with all personnel concentrating on the water search. She added that the National Transportation Safety Board would lead the investigation into the cause of the crash, but the details remain scarce at this time. DC’s Fire and EMS Chief John A Donnelly Sr described the conditions as “dangerous” for rescue teams. “The water is about 8 feet deep, with ice and murky visibility, making it very difficult to conduct rescue operations,” Donnelly said. He also warned that recovery efforts could take several days due to the challenging environment. “The river is a large black spot at night with no lights, except for a few buoy lights,” Donnelly explained, emphasising the difficulty of navigating the cold, dark waters. Meanwhile, the FBI’s Washington Field Office dive team, part of the Underwater Search and Evidence Response Team (US), has been assisting in efforts to locate the victims. This team is specially trained in recovering submerged evidence and is providing critical support in the ongoing recovery operations, CNN reported. A citywide prayer vigil is planned for Thursday in Wichita, Kansas, where the American Airlines flight originated. The Kansas Aviation Museum announced the event to support the victims and their families, with prayers for the 64 people on the plane and the three soldiers aboard the helicopter. The vigil will be held at the Wichita City Council Chambers. “Our thoughts and prayers are with all affected by this tragedy as well as the aviation community,” the museum said in a Facebook post. The crash and subsequent search efforts have deeply affected the Washington, DC, community, with officials and emergency responders working tirelessly under difficult conditions. As the search continues, the investigation will hopefully provide answers to what led to this devastating collision. [ad_2] Source link

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[ad_1] A large-scale search operation is underway after a tragic mid-air collision between an American Airlines plane and a US Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport outside Washington, DC. On Wednesday night, the collision resulted in both aircraft crashing into the Potomac River. Authorities confirmed fatalities, and as of early Thursday morning, no survivors had been recovered from the river, according to law enforcement sources. The aircraft involved in the collision included American Airlines Flight 5342, a regional jet with 60 passengers and four crew members on board. The flight had departed from Wichita, Kansas, and was approaching the airport when it collided with a Black Hawk helicopter on a training mission. The three soldiers aboard the helicopter were also confirmed dead. As of the latest reports, the wreckage from both the plane and the helicopter was found submerged in the icy waters of the Potomac River. “The plane is in pieces in the water, and the helicopter is in the water nearby,” said one law enforcement source. The collision occurred when the airport was busy, with 858 flights scheduled to take off and land at Reagan National Airport on Wednesday, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium. In the wake of the incident, approximately 19 aircraft that were in the air at the time were diverted to nearby Dulles International Airport, about 20 miles away from Reagan National. The airport was closed, and all flights were grounded for the night, a decision expected to remain in effect until at least 11 am ET Thursday, airport officials confirmed. The crash sent shockwaves through the local community and beyond, with President Donald Trump offering condolences to the families of the victims. “This is a bad situation that looks like it should have been prevented,” Trump posted on Truth Social. Meanwhile, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser confirmed early Thursday that the focus of search efforts remains on recovering the victims, with all personnel concentrating on the water search. She added that the National Transportation Safety Board would lead the investigation into the cause of the crash, but the details remain scarce at this time. DC’s Fire and EMS Chief John A Donnelly Sr described the conditions as “dangerous” for rescue teams. “The water is about 8 feet deep, with ice and murky visibility, making it very difficult to conduct rescue operations,” Donnelly said. He also warned that recovery efforts could take several days due to the challenging environment. “The river is a large black spot at night with no lights, except for a few buoy lights,” Donnelly explained, emphasising the difficulty of navigating the cold, dark waters. Meanwhile, the FBI’s Washington Field Office dive team, part of the Underwater Search and Evidence Response Team (US), has been assisting in efforts to locate the victims. This team is specially trained in recovering submerged evidence and is providing critical support in the ongoing recovery operations, CNN reported. A citywide prayer vigil is planned for Thursday in Wichita, Kansas, where the American Airlines flight originated. The Kansas Aviation Museum announced the event to support the victims and their families, with prayers for the 64 people on the plane and the three soldiers aboard the helicopter. The vigil will be held at the Wichita City Council Chambers. “Our thoughts and prayers are with all affected by this tragedy as well as the aviation community,” the museum said in a Facebook post. The crash and subsequent search efforts have deeply affected the Washington, DC, community, with officials and emergency responders working tirelessly under difficult conditions. As the search continues, the investigation will hopefully provide answers to what led to this devastating collision. [ad_2] Source link

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Maggie Smith as Muriel Donnelly in The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015) 

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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)

Muriel Donnelly: There is no such thing as an ending, just a place where you leave the story. And it is your story now.

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Muriel Donnelly: You have no idea now what you will become, don't try and control it. Let go. That's when the fun starts. Because as I once heard someone say "There's no present like the time".