#ordonez extras

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Meet Ava Ordonez (she/her)

Ava is the Manager and Co-owner of the Wiskerman's Wharf Market & Cafe.

cheerful \ family-oriented \ loyal

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also didn't Sanchez get traded to/go to Houston for basically nothing from the courage due to family stuff? because her team was extra considerate last time to her needs did she think she could just up and leave whenever?

no that was ordonez

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Minnesota Twins Clinch Dates

9/15/02- The 2002 Minnesota Twins ran away with the American League Central all season long. They had a favorable lead all year and had a chance to clinch the division on September 15th. Kyle Lohse and Cliff Lee squared off in a good one at Jacobs Field on that Sunday afternoon. A Mathew LeCroy sac fly put the Twins up 1-0 in the sixth. Kyle Lohse tossed six shutout innings and the Twins offense continued to add runs. Denny Hocking drove in a pair with single in the seventh and the Twins added more in the ninth. Tom Prince hit a sac fly and Michael Cuddyer scored on a Jerrod Riggan wild pitch. Eddie Guardado threw a scoreless ninth as the Twins secured at-least a tie for the American League Central crown. Later that day, the Yankees game was called after six innings due to rain. The Yankees beat the White Sox as the Twins celebrated in the clubhouse in Cleveland. 

9/23/03- The 2003 Minnesota Twins started slow in April, but picked things up as the season had went on. The Shannon Stewart trade sparked the whole season. They used a big August to pull ahead in the American League Central. Johan Santana took a step forward as a fantastic starter in the rotation and the rest was history. The Twins faced off with the Indians again in this game. The offense got going in the third as Shannon Stewart and Luis Rivas doubled in runs. Shannon Stewart plated another run with a sac fly and Cristian Guzman drilled a homer off Jake Westbrook. The Twins had a 4-0 lead and Kenny Rogers did the rest. He threw 8 2/3 innings and hit a wall in the ninth. The Indians had a couple guys on base when Josh Bard hit an RBI single to center. Eddie Guardado struck out Greg LaRocca and the Twins had to wait for the Royals and White Sox to lose. The Yankees thumped the Sox 7-0 and the Tigers somehow thumped the Royals 15-6 that night. The wait was worth it as the Twins clinched the Central for the second straight year. 

9/20/04- The 2004 Minnesota Twins got off to a great start and didn’t stop the whole season. They rolled for a good portion of the year. A solid second half run put the Twins in good position to win the division. The Twins went to Chicago in mid-September with a chance to clinch on this Monday night. Torii Hunter and Corey Koskie homered off Mark Buehrle in the first inning and the Twins had an early 4-0 lead. Henry Blanco homered off Buehrle in the fourth and the Twins added a run in the fifth. Jose Valentin countered with two-run shot for the Sox in the seventh. Luis Rivas hit a solo homer in the ninth and the Twins added one more on a bases loaded walk. Meanwhile, Carlos Silva threw seven solid innings and Juan Rincon tossed two scoreless innings as the Twins won their third straight American League Central Division Championship. 

10/1/06- The 2006 Minnesota Twins had a rough April, but rode Johan Santana, Francisco Liriano, and Brad Radke to a nice season. They won fifteen or more games in each month since April and battled with the Detroit Tigers all year long. The division crown came down to the last game of the season in a fun one at the Metrodome. The White Sox got an early run off Carlos Silva in the first inning. The Twins finally figured out Javier Vazquez in the fourth. Justin Morneau drove in a run with a double and Torii Hunter took Javier Vazquez deep. The Twins had a 3-1 lead and added a run in the fifth. The Twins added one more in the sixth and had a 5-1 advantage. Meanwhile, Carlos Silva threw 5 1/3 innings and the bullpen did the rest. Dennys Reyes got out of the sixth on an Alex Cintron double play ball. Juan Rincon threw a clean seventh, Jesse Crain had a scoreless eighth, and Joe Nathan threw up a zero in the ninth. The Twins won, but needed to wait for the Royals-Tigers game to finish up. The two teams were tied at eight and in the twelfth inning. Kenny Rogers came on in relief for the Tigers and allowed an Esteban German RBI single. He later walked Emil Brown with the bases loaded to put the royals up 10-8. Jimmy Gobble had a scoreless twelfth as Twins fans looked on at the Metrodome. The Twins won the Central Division on one of the most dramatic days in team history. 

10/6/09- The 2009 Minnesota Twins season started rough. They were below .500 after May and still trailed the Tigers by 6.5 games on Labor Day. The Twins got hot in September and saw the deficit go down to two games with a huge four-game series in the last week of the season. The two teams split the four games and the Twins swept the Royals on the last weekend of the season. The two teams were tied and a tiebreaker game was needed. One of the best games in Major League history ensued. Magglio Ordonez delivered a run-scoring single in the third. Miguel Cabrera then belted a Scott Baker pitch out to center for a two-run blast. The Tigers had a 3-0 lead and the air in the Metrodome went out. The Twins got a run on a throwing error by Rick Porcello in the bottom of the third. Jason Kubel added a run in the sixth with a solo blast off Rick Porcello. The Twins were within a run and continued to inch closer in the seventh. Orlando Cabrera drilled a Zach Miner offering out to left to put the Twins up 4-3. That was one of the best moments of the season up to that poitn. Magglio Ordonez answered with a solo homer off Matt Guerrier to start the eighth. That tied the game and we headed to extra innings. The Tigers got a run in the tenth on a Brandon Inge double. Fernando Rodney remained in the game after getting out of the ninth. Matt Tolbert delivered a run-scoring single to tie the game. The next batter, Nick Punto then hit a flyball to left field and Alexi Casilla was thrown out at the plate to extend the game. The eleventh innings was fairly clean and we headed into the twelfth. Bobby Keppel got in and out of trouble in the 12th and the Twins had a chance in the bottom of the inning. Carlos Gomez led-off with a single to left. He went to second on a groundball and Delmon Young walked. Alexi Casilla hit a single to right and Carlos Gomez raced around third. Gomez got in ahead of the Magglio Ordonez throw as the Twins took Game 163 in a thriller at the Metrodome.  

9/21/10- The 2010 Minnesota Twins had everything. They had a solid lineup, a good rotation, and a great bullpen. They were awesome the whole year and the Jim Thome walk-off homer against the White Sox in August essentially clinched the division. The White Sox stuck around for September though. Scott Baker allowed a first inning run that night on a Travis Hafner double. Jim Thome countered with a solo blast off Roberto Hernandez in the second. The Indians used a Drew Sutton RBI single to put the Tribe up 2-1 in the fifth. The Indians added two more runs on run-scoring singles by Trevor Crowe and Luis Valbuena. Danny Valencia inched the Twins closer with an RBI single of his own in the sixth. The Twins offense finally got to work in the eighth. Jim Thome singled and was pinch-ran for by Trevor Plouffe. Delmon Young doubled home a run and Danny Valencia singled. Jose Morales hit a sac fly to right and the Twins were within a run. Denard Span kept the chain moving with a run-scoring single to left and the game was tied at four. Orlando Hudson put the Twins up with a double to center and the Twins led 5-4. Matt Capps had a scoreless ninth as the Twins clinched a share of the American League Central Division. I remember staying up late watching the White Sox-A’s game that night. The Sox were down 7-2 in the ninth when they got a couple guys on base. Former Twin Craig Breslow helped the team out by retiring the last two batters and the Twins clinched the Central that night. 

9/27/17- The 2017 Minnesota Twins had such a weird season. They would win a few games then looked terrible for a couple. The cycle went on for the first four months of the season. Brandon Kintzler and Jaime Garcia were traded as the Twins slid down in the American League Wild-Card standings. The Twins reeled off 20 wins in August and held sole possession of the second Wild-Card spot. The Twins had a chance to clinch the division that night and lost to the Indians. The Indians were shutting out the Twins until a later Jorge Polanco home run pulled them within two runs. Cody Allen got out of the jam and the Twins waited for the Angels-White Sox game to finish. With one out in the tenth, Nicky Delmonnico drilled a Blake Parker pitch out to right for a walk-off solo home run. The Sox helped the Twins clinched the Wild-Card spot that night. I remember waiting to celebrate until that game ended. It was 10:30 or so at night and I watched the Twins celebration in Cleveland. 

Overall, this was a fun trip down memory lane for me. I started following baseball in the 2002 season as a kid. The Twins got some help for the Yankees as they clinched that year. That next year, the Twins clinched at the Dome after waiting for the White Sox and Royals to lose. The Twins didn’t have to worry about scoreboard watching in 2004. They beat the White Sox and trashed the US Cellular Field clubhouse. The 2006 clinch was memorable due to the Twins winning and waiting for the Tigers to lose, so they could clinch the division. Game 163 in 2009 was the best baseball game that I have ever seen. That year was so much fun. The Twins needed to wait again in 2010 with a win and a White Sox loss in Oakland. The 2017 year was fun because they needed the Angels to lose after failing to beat the Indians. I’m expecting the Twins to clinch in Detroit this week. 

-Chris Kreibich-

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Basque-ing in the European Sun Transcript

Carrie Gillon  Hi and welcome to the Vocal Fries Podcast, the podcast about linguistic discrimination.

Megan Figueroa   I'm Megan Figueroa.

Carrie Gillon   And I'm Carrie Gillon. And we have a little bit of housekeeping to do, so, once again, we have a Patreon now, and last month, our new patrons?

Megan Figueroa   Yeah.

Carrie Gillon   We'd like to thank you individually, so I'm not sure if people want me to use their last names, but I think... so in December, when I first picked it up. I didn't say originally that we were going to thank people individually and so I wasn't sure, but this time I said it, so hopefully okay if I use full names. Please let me know if that's not the case.

Megan Figueroa   Yeah,

Carrie Gillon   I apologize, but so Alyssa Crowley thank you. Talk the Talk another podcast about linguistics.

Megan Figueroa   Aw.

Carrie Gillon   I know. So if you guys are interested in lingpods, that's what I like to call them. That's another one that you should check out.

Megan Figueroa   Hashtag lingpod. Is that a hashtag?

Carrie Gillon   It should be. You know what? Let's start it.

Megan Figueroa   Okay.

Carrie Gillon   I'm just assuming it doesn't

Megan Figueroa   it seems like it would be some sort of creature that would be under the sea.

Carrie Gillon   then Ben Whedon Thank you also, and Chris Hengler, all the way from Hamburg

Megan Figueroa   Oh!

Carrie Gillon   Yes, and also, a former professor of mine from Toronto: Elizabeth Cowper. So thank you very much.

Megan Figueroa   Oh, that's so nice. I don't see any any professors of mine. I'm just kidding.

Carrie Gillon   Hmmm.

Megan Figueroa   That's funny.

Carrie Gillon   Oh, and related to the Patreon we have a new bonus episode. Where Tito Rios, my former colleague read one of his poems. So you get an extra poem.

Megan Figueroa   from the poet laureate of Arizona. And it's awesome because it's a poem that is actually at the port of entry at Nogales Sonara and Nogales Arizona so it's very cool. Y'all should really get on the Patreon if you want to hear all these cool bonus epis.

Carrie Gillon   Oh, dear. Think that makes you the Shoshana of this podcast. So before we really begin. I also want to apologize for my voice right now. I don't know if you can tell. But I it sounds much deeper to me. Because yesterday we went to a housewarming party, which was lovely, but it was very loud. So to talk over the music, means I'm a little a little hoarse,

Megan Figueroa   a little introverted voice got a little tired

Carrie Gillon   I'm not as introverted as I used to be.

Megan Figueroa   Wait, did you see Hamilton yesterday?

Carrie Gillon   Yeah, we saw that in the afternoon. By the way, it does live up to the hype. Yeah, I was a little worried because, I mean, there's a lot of times where things don't live up to the hype to me. So like Wonder Woman, I was like, eh. But this definitely I was like, no deserves every accolade it's ever gotten.

Megan Figueroa   Well, another one that you actually agree lived up to the hype. was Black Panther.

Carrie Gillon   also amazing.

Megan Figueroa   Yeah, I am still thinking about it. I love princess Shuri and I love everything that I'm seeing on Twitter. All the fan art and the STEM the science technology. And what is the STEM sound for?

Carrie Gillon   you're almost there. Science, technology, engineering and math.

Megan Figueroa   Yeah, that's like I always say that I'm like really into STEM, but do I know what ie means? Yeah,.

Carrie Gillon   Well, now there's also STEAM, which adds the arts, which.

Megan Figueroa   Yes, I love the arts. It should always be in there. Do we really have math without art? I don't think so.

Carrie Gillon   I mean, there's math that- Yeah, I guess it always is kind of art already at some level, but you don't know until you see it visualized some way I guess. Or like unless you're a really good mathematician. You can't see but yeah, so I really and also Black Panther involves the arts as well. Like, oh my god, that costuming.

Megan Figueroa   Oh my god. I know.

Carrie Gillon   One of the outfits was like this onesie, sort of or a jumpsuit. And I was like, I wish I could wear that

Megan Figueroa   right?

Carrie Gillon   I'm too practical, though. You can't pee in it.

Megan Figueroa   I mean, you you could.

Carrie Gillon   Yeah, exactly.

Megan Figueroa   So also related to Black Panther. But it's no fault of Black Panther, Nyle DiMarco, the very handsome deaf model that is an advocate for the deaf community. And for ASL I would say right, he was tweeting about how he went to see Black Panther. But the captioning was just so horrible. It was skipping lines, like he had to leave. So it's one of those things where I realized that I have a privilege that I wasn't thinking about.

Carrie Gillon   Yeah, and I think to be clear, it was a technological issue. So it wasn't on the main screen. He had like some kind of technical some piece of tech.

Megan Figueroa   Right.

Carrie Gillon   He's stuck into the chair in front of him, I guess. I don't know.

Megan Figueroa   Yeah.

Carrie Gillon   And that was not functioning very well. So I mean, the captioning still could have been missing lines if it had been on the screen. But it was the piece of technology was not working fully. I think that was part of the problem. But you're right, we have of course, we have this privilege of being able to hear lines and I one of the times that I really noticed that actually it wasn't about being deaf or hard of hearing, but something that's related. So me having a privilege was watching movies with someone who was a second language learner of English. And he really strongly preferred having the captions on the subtitles on because he could get more of the English that way. And it hadn't occurred to me that, of course, that would be helpful, for someone like that. So it was a similar kind of thing. So he's advocating, I think, for, like, actual captions on the main screen. Yeah, and I think, you know, bare minimum Why don't have just have some special screenings with that like once a day, at least? I don't know.

Megan Figueroa   Yeah, he wrote something for Teen Vogue. So let's, let's, let's link to that when we have the link for this is episode.

Carrie Gillon   Yeah. Gotta make sure we have that.

Megan Figueroa   So let's, let's all examine our privilege. And also go see Black Panther. And enjoy that. Everyone's beautiful in it. Just, it's eye candy, the entire movie. And I don't mean if I just the people. I mean, like it's such a beautiful movie.

Carrie Gillon   Mm hmm. It really is. Oh, yeah. And there's also a one one language thing one language related thing to talk about with Black Panther and that's the use of Xhosa, I dunno, that's not how you pronounce it. But it's a language that's actually spoken in South Africa so some people some people don't like that because it's Wakanda is in the central part of Africa. And so people some people were complaining about that but I'm like, well, it's a fictional country so they can have whatever language they want and it's kind of nice to hear that language being spoken

Megan Figueroa   yeah alright so today we are talking to Itxaso RODRÍGUEZ-ORDÓÑEZ about Basque, which again, another week where Megan learns everything that she does not know. It's getting kind of embarrassing Carrie.

Carrie Gillon   Well, I mean, you had a lot less to learn about Chicano English than I did.

Megan Figueroa   I really appreciate that bone you just threw me. Alright, should we get into it?

Carrie Gillon   Yes, let's get into it.

Megan Figueroa   We're very excited to welcome Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordonez. She is an assistant professor of Spanish and linguistics at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She received her PhD in Hispanic linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 2016. Her research focuses on context situations, she incorporates linguistic attitudes and ideologies to explain contact and language change. Most of her work pertains to the best Spanish context situation. Spain more recently, she has also focused on contact effects, and the linguistic landscapes of Spanish and English in Pilsen, Chicago. Welcome, Itxaso.

Itxaso   thank you so much. It's so nice to be here.

Carrie Gillon   Hi. So I guess we'll just begin with Basque because I'm assuming many of our listeners do not know what Basque even is.

Megan Figueroa   Yeah.

Itxaso   Yeah. So first of all, I would like to say that I'm very excited to be here, especially to talk about one of my mother tongues with which I identify very, very closely. So talking about Basque for me is always excitement and pleasure. So what is Basque? Well, bus is an isolate language, it is spoken in the north of Spain and south of France. And the reason why it's considered an isolate is because we still don't know whether it belong to any other families. Meaning that we don't have evidence that there is any genetic relationship with other languages in the world. So they've done lots of research about, oh, why is Basque so different from other languages in Europe, is it actually connected to Hungarian, which is also different in many ways? And the answer is no. So for now, we actually doesn't know necessarily where we come from. Well, that's what people seem to say, others suggest were actually one of the first settlers of Europe, obviously, this kind of hypothesis has had a huge impact on how people identify as well, whether they claim themselves to be from there, how authentic we are, how old we are, how much we belong there, and stuff like that. So that's what Basque is, and Basque is spoken by about 700,000 people. And this is spoken both on the Spanish side and on the French side, although there are more speakers on the Spanish side, because it's, it's a little bit bigger, the territory is a little bit bigger, but Basque was spoken a bigger territory that was spoken right now. So it has been shrinking and shrinking throughout the centuries. So one of the interesting characteristics about Basque that make it different, maybe per se, with other European languages has to do with the word order. So we tend to say, if I want to say that I saw somebody right when I say I, somebody saw, so we'll put the verb at the very end. And this has been something that Basque people try to over-exoticize as something unique about languages. But then when we look at different languages in the world, we notice that this word order pattern is actually more common than we think, so the Basque people said, Oh, so we are not as unique as we thought. Okay,

Megan Figueroa   so I'm hearing that there's like a lot of pride with speaking Basque.

Itxaso   Absolutely. So it's actually so I grew up speaking Basque at home, and also Spanish. It's actually  a way of identifying yourself as an authentic member of the community. So and obviously, this is something that was going on, the fact that we need to maintain the language, one of the oldest languages in Europe, this is a big belief within the Basque community, that we have been able to maintain our language and our culture, even if we have been invaded by many, many people. And oftentimes, we talk about this invasion, that also speaks to the current political situation. And obviously, this is my side of the story. This is not the only side of the Basque story but there is a huge pride especially in terms of wanting to maintain the language, wanting to continue. This is a big part of our culture, this idea continuation, of generation to generation transmission is something that definitely takes a big load on on our identity as authentic members of the community and also wanting to maintain that history. We don't want to be defied, we want to be there and one of the stereotypes and obviously it's a stereotype that the Basque people are stubborn. So and this is something that in first works about descriptions that we have about Basque people, one of the main descriptions is that they are so stubborn that they're not willing to give up their language. My question is Who, who would want to give up their language, right?

Megan Figueroa   Right.

Itxaso   So it's not a matter of stubborn, it's a matter of wanting to keep yourself alive. And Basque people do take pride in that aspect, in the fact that we're still we're still there, and we're still wanting to be there.

Carrie Gillon   So what is the political background of let's say, Spain, like how how is Basque situated within the Spanish speaking country of Spain.

Itxaso   Right. So the context between Basque and Spanish is as long as the Spanish ever existed because Basque was already there, even before the Latin Julius Caesar, his friends came into the Basque territory. So going back into a little bit of more recent political situation. So I will start a little bit with, I would say, ever since the border between Spain and France was created along the Pyrenees, that it is not necessarily the first diversification of the Basque country. But he was actually one of the most important ones, the fact that Spain and France became two different countries, the Basque became politically very divided in that respect, there was this the boundary in terms of nation states. So going look at looking at it more from a more recent perspective, so Basque has been spoken there for a long time. And obviously, the contact with French and Spanish has also influenced the way those varieties have evolved. Right? So we do have a lot of Spanish words we do makes a lot the sounds even the sound so if you are in the Spanish side of the Basque country, you know, that you're in the Spanish size uh Spanish side, because some of the sounds of very similar to Spanish and when you're in the French area it is the same, there is a lot of French sounding sounds. But there's still some of the sounds are unique to the Basque language as well, so then we can just Spanish side so we had the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936. And this had a huge impact on on the Basque population. Because the town of Guernica, the very famous town of Guernica, that was a cultural center for for Basque, the Basque parliament was there and was bombed in 1937. And then after the dictatorship, sorry, after the civil war, the dictatorship lasted for 40 years up to 1975 until the dictator Franco died. So the language was prohibited. So you couldn't speak the language otherwise you could be taken to jail or you could be killed. And that's what happened to many Basque poets writers that still wrote in Basque. Obviously there was a huge loss of Basque speakers during that time because just started to be not spoken or transmitted, although is in some areas of the Basque country right now, the dialects also died out before then but in this respect the dictatorship did have a huge impact on but on maintaining the language. And this is where I was born. And this is where my sister was born. And we spoke Basque at home. My parents would only speak to us in Basque. But they were to speak to us the standard variety. So supposedly, I am a native speaker of the standard Basque. But right now I have to admit that I don't speak standard Basque fluidly. I can read and write in standard Basque, but I cannot fluently speak it. There is always some influence of my regional dialect, because Guernica did have a variety there before the standardization of Basque. So this is just a little bit of the background. I mean, I think I could go on or on, but yeah,

Megan Figueroa   That was perfect. Thank you. Is anyone here monolingual in Basque.

Itxaso   Actually not that we know of. So maybe there are a couple or a handful of speakers in very isolated areas. But it's very, very, very hard to find a monolingual speaker of Basque. And even if they say that they're monolingual, they probably understand some Spanish or French so I do have friends that have told me that Oh, my goodness, my grandma. She doesn't speak a word of Spanish. This is in the Navarre mountains in a very isolated area. And I say, are you sure she doesn't know any Spanish? I will. She doesn't speak a word she would never respond to do the Spanish. And I asked her Do you think she understands? And she says, Well, I don't know. Maybe she pretends to understand it, right. So it could be that there are a handful of speakers, but he would not be possible to navigate the area if you've done the other language as well. Although there are areas in which past is spoken almost by everybody. And he has a huge impact right there some zones in which are considered more my bilingual than others. And this has to do with the regions where boss was already spoken. Before this summarization those areas maintain quite high degree of bilingualism with the Spanish or with French, but in a more urban area, even if bad has the presence of us has increased compared to other regions is other regions is spoken by less less people. Absolutely. So I never met one only one speaker best I love to eat there any but I doubt that if there is any, there will be a remote area. I wonder if this hypothetical grandma who says she doesn't speak any Spanish? Is it because of pride?

Megan Figueroa   Is there a tension between Basque and Spanish.

Itxaso   Yes? Oh, absolutely. There is there is tension between the Spanish and Basque or at least, historically, there has been some tension between the Spanish and the Basque. Also, there's tension within different varieties of Basque or different types of speakers of Basque. So it could be that this hypothetical grandma  is hostile for all the war that she probably had to endure the fact that she probably had family members killed, she probably had to fight for her survival. So this is also a way to show that she's not ready to submit herself to such a horrendous cultural genocide, right? So it could be contributing to her pride. It could be contributing to who she is now because of the historical events in her life. Right? Yeah,

Carrie Gillon   Yeah. Can I ask a question about so the situation of Basque in France versus the situation of Basque in Spain? Is there a difference? Is this the same?

Itxaso   Right. Yes, there's some similarities and some differences. The major difference is that Basque is not official with French. So the French constitution only takes French as the official language of the state, French is the language of France, right. And that has had an impact because in the French Basque Country, language shift has been more has gone more rapidly, meaning that more and more speakers have shifted to the dominant language in French a lot faster than they did in the Spanish area. However, recently, or relatively recently at least in the last decade, France has allowed, or has given permission to be able to, to teach these regional languages. And not only the Basque country, but in other areas, as long as their French is not been affected meaning that they need to show that they're also fluent French speakers. So there is also a consortium of ikastola. So ikastola is the Basque word for Basque school, it means the place of learning. And there are lots of ikastolas in the French Basque country as well as the Spanish Basque country in which kids these immersion programs in which kids can go and can speak and learn Basque if they don't learn it at home, or to be able to be literate in Basque and then there is also something that they call Seaska, which is also a high school in the in the French Basque country. And this is located in the Baiona area, which is the capital of the French Basque country and the biggest city there is about 40,000 people, right. And there are lots of kids that go there and learn fast. But like in the United States, the immersion program, in which everything is being taught in Basque, and also they do have French as a subject so that they're also literate in French is starts to die out. Meaning that later on French is more dominant, even in the studies, right. But today, they're highly bilingual there are lots of people that are highly bilingual, but you can still see that French is the dominant language as well in the French Basque Country. Interestingly enough, I have, I have also done research on identity issues, language maintenance, language contact in both sides of the border. So one of the things that I noticed when I was there in the French Basque country in the Baiona area is that john people, there is a huge movement of young people wanting to maintain their language, right, they speak it, they celebrate it, there are lots of activism, there are radio stations, right, it's a way to put consciousness to the speakers. And obviously, there's also a mixture between French and Basque. And one of the things that I did notice there, as opposed to the Spanish side, is that everybody was able to speak Basque. Not everybody, but a large body of the speakers who can speak Basque fluently, or semi-fluently or whatever that means, they actually make a huge effort, right? This is different from other urban areas in the Spanish side of the Basque country, in the sense that in Bilbao young people, especially if you're younger than 25, or even 30, it's very likely that you learned Basque in school through immersion programs. But then that language is not been transmitted to the streets. So this is something that we call reversal language shift. Whereas before this standardization Basque was the language of the home, now for many urban areas in the Spanish Basque Country, Basque is the language of the schooling and then they would go home and there would speak Spanish, maybe because their parents don't speak Spanish. So there is alternative change in how Basque can be used and how it's been submitted. That has an impact on the transmission, and as I said, the vitality of the language. so I even interviewed a young Basque French speakers and who actually wanted to go study abroad in the Basque country. this is actually hilarious, because they're, they're going to study abroad in their own Basque-speaking territory. But it's  broad because the countries the borders divide us, right? And he was telling me how disappointed he was when he was studying in Bilbao for a year. That one of the reasons why he wanted to go there is because he wanted to have education in Basque, he studied engineering, and he wanted to be able to study engineering in Basque. And when he was there, he said, Yes, all classes were in Basque. But he was surprised to find out that there are lots of young people of his age that they actually use more Spanish in their daily life interactions. And he was very disappointed and sad to see that. So one of the questions is, why do we see these divergent patterns? Right. And I would say that one of the reasons that I have in mind is that I feel that in the French Basque country, they probably feel more oppressed because their language, the Basque language doesn't have at least any it's recognized as existing, but it's not necessarily being guaranteed by the government, meaning that they have to work really hard to be able to have it in the schools. Whereas in the Spanish side of the Basque country is is given to us, the government has worked really hard for us to be able to have access, so we kind of assume that we're going to have that access too, right. Obviously, there are other factors the country, but I would say that, that that is probably a big issue or a big potential explanation for that. Yeah.

Carrie Gillon   That's fascinating.

Megan Figueroa   Yeah. And then the the French situation sounds very similar to the situation in Spanish in the US to me.

Itxaso   Yes. Yeah. So yeah, it has some similarities and some differences, too, right? So in terms of the similarities is that the French Basque country, so the government does not necessarily support the schools, right? So they have to work hard for it. It's the same in the United States too, in the sense that these all these languages are not English, if they want to maintain them, then they have the families have to work really hard. The school system has to, there is a bottom up approach in the sense that this society gets involved with how they could provide these linguistic resources for the kids like literacy so that they can maintain the language. So in that respect, is very, very similar, right?

Megan Figueroa   Yes.

Itxaso   Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.

Carrie Gillon   So are Basque speakers discriminated against in either Spain or France?

Itxaso   oh, yeah, well, we can start even with the Constitution itself, right? And obviously, I don't think everybody would agree with me with what I'm saying right now. But so one of the beliefs is that Oh, yes, Basque now, it's been acknowledged by the Spanish government because Article 2 of the Constitution says that Basque is also co-official with Spanish, so Article 2 says that every Spaniard has the duty to know Spanish. But then Article 2.1 says that other is Spanish languages. So for instance, Galician in Galicia, Catalan in Catalonia, or Basque in the Basque country have the right to be able to use it, right. So in that respect, these these regional languages are considered lower in our state me that you also need to know Spanish, but not the other way around. So when you go to Madrid, and if I want to, I want to have kids and I moved to Madrid with my partner, I can't ensure that my kids are going to maintain the language, right. So in that respect, the Spanish constitution does not protect me as a Basque speaker or as a citizen of Spain. So in that respect, I do feel that there is a huge gap there. Yes, we have come a long way, but we still have a long way to go. So also in terms of nationalism. So there is there is some oftentimes a belief that they only nationalist regions are the ones that speak another language other than in Spanish, but there is also Spanish nationalism, right? And this also has to do with power issues in the sense that nobody questions that knowledge of Spanish, but everybody keeps asking us about why do you speak Basque? And they said, Well, why do you speak Spanish? Right? So then other types of discrimination also have to do with politics. So language and politics has been very entrenched in the Basque country and in Spain. So when terrorism in the Basque country and in Spain was at its peak by ETA terrorist group, or yeah, so oftentimes, when these people were being convicted, they had the right to have a hearing or a trial that was in Basque but that right was not given to them, right. So there is stuff we do have some issues of language discrimination. And obviously, acts of terrorism, one of the most punishable crimes in Spain. And language has had an impact in how those people are also being treated. There was also a law passed in the 90s, and this is when the peak of terrorism was there, in which Basque so some members of ETA would be taken to jail farther away from their families in the Basque country. And when families would go and visit them. Many were Spanish speakers only but many also were Basque speakers. And the language of the home was always Basque. So many Basque families would go and visit their relatives for prison. And the Spanish policeman would not allow them to speak Basque so that they could I know what they're talking about. So I do have Yeah, it was. So my dad is a schoolteacher, and he's about to retire in, actually, next week.

Carrie Gillon   Yay! Congratulations to your dad.

Itxaso   And so he taught Basque, even if he was not a native speaker of Basque he was a Basque teacher in a small school where Basque is spoken by 95% of the population there. And he had a student as a kid, because he taught primary school and he had a student that she was born in jail, because both of her parents were taken to jail prison for certain acts that they have they committed or whatever. And so she grew up with a grandma, and oftentimes she would go visit her parents. And there were moments in which she said, I'd rather go back home, than speak in Spanish to my parents.

Carrie Gillon   Wow.

Itxaso   So a sentence, they would go visit them to the other side of Spain in Andalusia and say, well, and that's a 12 hour drive. So let's go back because I can't communicate in a language. It's a foreign language to us, right? Doesn't mean that we hated Spanish, but it's the language of law, and we are being not allowed to use it. So there has been issues of discrimination at that level. Absolutely.

Carrie Gillon   That reminds me just very recently, there was a man who speaks Hawaiian and English because, of course, everyone else speaks English in Hawaii. But he spoke, he speaks both Hawaiian and English. And he is one of the official languages of Hawaii is Hawaiian, and he tried to use Hawaiian in the courtroom, and the judge just refused to, like, let him use this language. And anyway, the whole situation was very upsetting, because if it's an official language, you should be able to have a trial in your own language. That's how I feel it's a Canadian, where that is the law.

Itxaso   Absolutely. The way I this Spanish law would respond to that would say, oh, but Basque is not an official languages of Madrid, and these, these acts were being convicted in Audiencia Nacional or with the Supreme Court in Madrid, right. But still, you do have the right to have a translator, right. If that is the case. Right. You should have the right to express yourself in any language that you feel comfortable with. Because you're being convicted, right?

Megan Figueroa   Yeah. Yeah. I mean,

Carrie Gillon   Yeah, if there's any time when you should have your right to your language is definitely in a trial because the heavy hammer of the of the law, right, you need to be protected.

Itxaso   Absolutely. And I have examples myself, I mean, oftentimes, I have to admit that I take a lot of pride in my Basque language. And as a sociolinguist, I also played with power dynamics a lot. So when I go to Madrid, maybe for you know, a layover, but I fly back to Chicago or something like that. Sometimes, they look at my passport, and they're like, obviously, they look at my last name, I'm just like, Oh, Rodriguez. You know, she's Spanish, Spanish passport. But then they look at my name. And my name is written with a 'tx' which is also very symbolic of the Basque language and they're like, Oh, so do you are Basque, and then make comments and sometimes I'm like, yeah, that should not be a surprise, right? Why is it that I have to know more about you than you know about me. So now, every time I have a layover in Madrid, I speak in English to everybody and you know, they think I'm American because my accent they cannot notice my foreign right I speak more fluent English they they think that I am American and then when I show my password they say, "but you're a Spaniard! Why do you speak to us in English?" And I said, "why not? I feel more comfortable in English than speaking in Spanish." "But you're a Spaniard!" I said, "I'm not a Spaniard right? I didn't pick my citizenship." And, you know, well, I use English because this is an international airport. So at the same time, I'm trying to give a lesson. And here I'm too idealistic of what it means to speak an imperial language. So yeah, I am using another imperial language to show what it feels like to be posed a language. I don't think my sociolinguistic lessons in the airport work that well.

Carrie Gillon   Probably not. But it's worth a shot.

Itxaso   But hopefully they go home and think about this weird girl. I mean, I don't know, but it makes me feel better about myself, though.

Megan Figueroa   Would you actually say, is it true that your English is better you feel your English is better than your Spanish?

Itxaso   Absolutely not.

Megan Figueroa   No? Okay. Okay. That's a lie. Alright alright.

Itxaso   Well, I would say I would say that I mean, in order to talk about certain topics I feel better speaking in English. So if I have to talk about linguistic issues, I think my English is the stronger in that respect. I had to think harder to find vocabulary, the Spanish and so it's better in that respect, I do think.

Megan Figueroa   Yeah.

Itxaso   And I also have sometimes I forget words in Spanish as well. And then I'm thinking "Am I losing my Spanish" or but then it activates very quickly, but it is not uncommon to have to forget certain words.

Megan Figueroa   Yeah, so that's definitely something multilingual people worry about. Right? Is Am I losing x? Or am I losing? Yeah, it's part of your identity, right?

Itxaso   Yes.

Megan Figueroa   It's so I wonder how do you identify when you when you think of all the languages you speak.

I feel Basque. I feel very Basque. However, I feel very conflicted, because I don't use Basque very often because I don't have anybody around me to speak it with. So at the same time, I have to admit that I have developed an identity of an English speaker too, right. Also because my most immediate loving person is an English speaker right. So I speak English with my partner and but at the same time I feel very Basque and the more farther away and the longer I remain in this country in the United States I feel more Basque actually and I'm just starting to realize that I'm becoming part of our diaspora myself, which is something that it's it's very common after you leave home for a long time, right. Although I still have strong ties with my homeland, right, but and then those issues of discrimination also transcend into the host country. So interestingly enough so my father My father still feels very discriminated against in the hometown that I grew up in. For instance, he he is the result of big migration of monolingual Spanish speaker from Spain into the Basque country that happened in the 60s so my grandfather moved to the Basque country to Bilbao to the big city of Bilbao for work and my my my dad was 10 years old so when he moved there and then he learned Basque. He learned standard Basque and then he mored with my mom to this small town Guernica that has a large population of Spanish migrants but at the same time very very Basque-rooted culture and a regional dialect so oftentimes they will comment on his Basque that people would say "oh it's interesting to see a Spaniard speak Basque, right, but at the same time your Basque is different for us, you didn't learn at home you are not one of us" right

Carrie Gillon   Yeah.

Megan Figueroa   So I remember interviewing my father and asking him "you lived in the Basque century for longer that you have lived in Spain or monolingual Spain" and say "do you feel bad?" and he would respond to me he said "it doesn't matter how I feel because everybody has made me feel as an outsider."

Carrie Gillon   Yeah

Itxaso   And that was very tough to hear because my parents did everything they could. First they have been big proponents of revitalization of the Basque  language they have played a huge role people like them and there are lots of people that praise them for that and by my dad he still doesn't feel like he belongs there mainly because of his ethnicity or because the variety he speaks and then I asked him "how do you how do you compensate for that or what have you done Have you hard Have you tried hard" and he said "oh absolutely" so for him being Basque is what we in sociolinguists call doing Basque because identity is a constant process of working forwardness. We are constantly practicing our identities, whether they're conscious or unconscious, I my dad has had a huge has been very conscious about it he always wanted to construct his Basqueness through different practices. So for instance, he, he goes to lots of Basque ritualistic events, he engages, he volunteers for teaching Basque to immigrants, other immigrants he also engages in there is a cycling club and cycling also has a strong connection with the Basque entity. So he's invested in capturing kids to sports, to the sports that are connected with the Basque country and mountains and those kinds of things.

Megan Figueroa   It's It's so hard to hear, just because I mean, it's all the same, right? So linguistic discrimination across the world, I'm like, oh, what's happening in the Basque country is what's happening in the US for for people that don't speak English. Or who want to keep their mother tongue?

Itxaso   Their mother? Yeah, absolutely. And we see that these patterns of discrimination, there's a lot of similarities. And in fact, it has to do with issues of power. But how those power relations are being established, obviously, has the consequences come from the historical events as well. Right. So how is it that Basque speakers are being discriminated against within the Basque country? Because that also happens, right? So in my own research, I'm able to show so one of the questions that I seek to ask is, so the revitalization of the Basque language has been considered one of the most successful ones in Europe. Why, because we went from only speaking, only few speakers would speak it. But after the standardization of Basque and the co-officiality with Spanish and the implementation of Basque in school, would you say that young people 90% of the young population and by young with mean 30 or 35 years old or younger, can actually speak Basque. They're competent speakers of Basque and Spanish. Obviously, there are varying degrees, but they have gone to school immersion programs in Basque and the government has done huge work on being able for Basque people to have those resources, but they use of Basque has remained quite stable, there has been some gains, meaning that maybe we had an increase of 5% or 10%. And obviously, these vary in terms of region. So one of the questions that I seek to ask in my research is that why is that the use of Basque remains low compared to the case so there are many bilinguals or all the gains in in bilingual speakers that we have been able to obtain. And one of the answers that we have, it has to do with identity. So many business, many speakers who learn Basque from early on they speak they learned the Basque the standard Basque variety in school, they start as early as three years old. So, but they don't consider themselves native speakers of the language, even if they are very, very fluent they still consider themselves non-native speakers, and, because of the ideologies or the mother tongue ideology, they also believe that they're not authentic enough, because they haven't learned it at home. So that's one of the issues that that is happening right now. And also, how is it that contact with Spanish and the contact features of grammatical aspects they incorporate in the Spanish contributes to their lack of authenticity, or actual authenticity, and here, it's very interesting because we see a pattern in which if you spoke if you learned a regional variety of Basque, and you use Spanish words, it's okay, because you are considered an authentic member of society of the Basque speaking community, because it's implied that you have learned the language at home, although it's not necessarily the case, right? But it implies that oftentimes, but what happens when somebody who speaks the standard Basque actually uses a Spanish word in it, or code-switches, meaning that they change, they say, a sentence in Spanish, and then another one in Basque, it actually contributes to their lack of authenticity. So many of the people that I interview they asked me, "Why is it that I'm not allowed to mix languages, when all those people who are very authentic are able to do it", and they're very aware that if they want to mix the language, which is common when you're learning a language, you should do it with the regional variety. So actually, one of the things that it's been suggested by other sociolinguists in the Basque country, is that, we should promote varieties in the classroom as well. So that these speakers have access to data authenticity. Yeah, so hopefully, that will pan out. But but we will see,

Carrie Gillon   I mean that makes total sense to me.

Megan Figueroa   Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Is there anything that you want our listeners to take away from this about Basque? Let me tell you what I took away I am I just had no idea that people would refer to themselves as Basque like, I knew the Basque language existed, I didn't think about it as an ethnicity I just didn't think didn't think!

Itxaso   Yes. And if they just did that, because one one last thing I would like to say is that we have different labels for different types of Basque. So for instance, we called euskalu zaharra, which means old speaker of Basque, but that has nothing to do with age. That means that you, you, you probably learned the language at home, you probably speak a variety, a regional variety, old speaker of Basque means pre-standardization, right whereas euskalu berriaren, which means, euskalu means Basque, berriaren means new, which means that you are a new Basque, right? And you probably speak the standard, right? So you are from a different era, and now we're starting sociolinguists are starting to say, should we use this term? How racial is it, even if it's about language, it also brings into question issues of ethnicity and linguistic properties, right? And authenticity. So that this also happens in in in the United States and everywhere, right? with Spanish, what does it mean to be Spanish? What does it mean to be Latino, what it means to be Chicano, what does it mean to be other/American, right, and these kinds of diversifications that are obviously socially constructed, we do have that in the Basque country too. Yeah, I do feel very Basque. And I have to admit that I I wouldn't say that I take pride in it? Maybe some people will say, "Oh, my God, you're so stubborn." And I say "well, when your identity is being questioned all the time, you could be stubborn."

Carrie Gillon   There's the pull quote.

Megan Figueroa   Yeah, exactly. That's true. I'm sure there are a lot of people I feel exactly as you do about that.

Itxaso   Yeah. Why do I have to explain myself ALL the time?

Megan Figueroa   Exactly. Yeah, yeah. Well, thank you so much for coming on and speaking with us. It was great.

Carrie Gillon   Thank you so much.

Itxaso   This was super exciting.

Carrie Gillon   And as we always say, don't be an asshole.

Megan Figueroa   Don't be an asshole. Bye!

Carrie Gillon   Bye!

Itxaso   Agur! Agur! That's the word for goodbye in Basque: agur!

CARRIE: The Vocal Fries Podcast is produced by Chris Ayers for Halftone Audio. Music by Nick Granum. You can find us on Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @vocalfriespod. You can email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com.  

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   It just would not be an  Addams Household  sequence with out the true family. That’s why Wednesday also capabilities Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams, Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams, Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley Addams, George Burcea as Lurch, and Victor Dorobantu as Factor.

 Other solid users contain Riki Lindhome as Dr. Valerie Kinbott, Jamie McShane as Sheriff Donovan Galpin, Hunter Doohan as Tyler Galpin, Georgie Farmer as Ajax Petropolus, Moosa Mostafa as Eugene Otinger, Emma Myers as Enid Sinclair, Naomi J. Ogawa as Yoko Tanaka, Pleasure Sunday as Bianca Barclay, Percy Hynes White as Xavier Thorpe, and Gwendoline Christie as Larissa Weems.

  Wednesday  will premiere this fall on Netflix.

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Vacation spending by Financial institution of America clients was 2.5 p.c greater than final 12 months, and account holders even have extra in financial savings than they did earlier than the pandemic. “There’s a bunch of sectors which can be doing very nicely when it comes to earnings,” Mr. Moynihan added. Even so, these stay occasions of limbo for a lot of executives and enterprise house owners, when the previous guidelines now not apply however the post-pandemic actuality has but to materialize. Up to date  Jan. 12, 2021, 3:19 p.m. ET “The times of getting a everlasting funds or a everlasting plan are gone for some time,” stated Mercedes Abramo, chief government for North America on the luxury-goods purveyor Cartier. “You’ve acquired to handle by means of this ambiguity.” Adaptation is a method that Ivan Kane, proprietor of a restaurant and nightclub in Columbus, Ohio, is aware of by coronary heart. To adjust to social-distancing necessities, he diminished the venue’s capability from 320 to 117, filling what was previously a dance ground with tables to offer ample area between friends. To draw clients, he purchased 15 hospital-grade ultraviolet disinfecting lamps, and he not too long ago acquired an igloo to permit friends to dine exterior whereas protected against the weather. Within the coming months, Mr. Kane hopes he’ll have the ability to break even, however he predicts that will probably be a 12 months earlier than he is ready to usher within the crowds essential to make his enterprise worthwhile. “The margins are razor-thin,” he stated. “It’s nearly conserving the lights on.” However for different enterprise house owners, the vaccine has arrived too late. In September, Camilla Marcus closed West-bourne, her restaurant within the SoHo neighborhood of New York, after she was unable to renegotiate her lease to scale back lease prices. Ms. Marcus has stored a trickle of cash coming in by promoting packaged meals on her firm’s web site in addition to holding digital occasions. However she has no plans to open one other restaurant. “It’s going to get so much worse earlier than it will get higher,” she stated. “It’s going to be a protracted haul.” Others, like Roy Paulson, a manufacturing facility proprietor in Temecula, Calif., are feeling safer. Like many producers, he has had robust demand throughout the pandemic for the commercial face shields and goggles his firm makes for the likes of welders and electricians. The Second Stimulus Solutions to Your Questions In regards to the Stimulus Invoice Up to date Dec 30, 2020 The financial reduction package deal will difficulty funds of $600 and distribute a federal unemployment good thing about $300 for a minimum of 10 weeks. Discover extra in regards to the measure and what’s in it for you. For particulars on how one can get help, try our Hub for Assist. Will I obtain one other stimulus cost? Particular person adults with adjusted gross revenue on their 2019 tax returns of as much as $75,000 a 12 months will obtain a $600 cost, and a pair (or somebody whose partner died in 2020) incomes as much as $150,000 a 12 months will get twice that quantity. There’s additionally a $600 cost for every youngster for households who meet these revenue necessities. Individuals who file taxes utilizing the pinnacle of family standing and make as much as $112,500 additionally get $600, plus the extra quantity for kids. Individuals with incomes simply above these ranges will obtain a partial cost that declines by $5 for each $100 in revenue. When would possibly my cost arrive? The Treasury Division stated on Dec. 29 that it had began making direct deposit funds, and would start to mail checks the following day. However will probably be some time earlier than all eligible folks obtain their cash. Does the settlement have an effect on unemployment insurance coverage? Lawmakers agreed to increase the period of time that folks can acquire unemployment advantages and restart an additional federal profit that’s supplied on prime of the same old state profit. However as an alternative of $600 every week, it could be $300. That can final by means of March 14. I’m behind on my lease or count on to be quickly. Will I obtain any reduction? The settlement will present $25 billion to be distributed by means of state and native governments to assist renters who’ve fallen behind. To obtain help, households will have to fulfill a number of circumstances: Family revenue (for 2020) can not exceed greater than 80 p.c of the realm median revenue; a minimum of one family member have to be prone to homelessness or housing instability; and people should qualify for unemployment advantages or have skilled monetary hardship — immediately or not directly — due to the pandemic. The settlement stated help will be prioritized for households with decrease incomes and which have been unemployed for 3 months or extra. New fashions of shields, initially set to be launched final 12 months, will probably be popping out quickly, which Mr. Paulson hopes will additional increase gross sales. Final week, the Institute for Provide Administration reported that its manufacturing index jumped in December to its highest studying since August 2018. “Manufacturing is alive and nicely in Southern California and the U.S.,” Mr. Paulson stated. “I’m anticipating a superb 12 months.” Whereas the scenario could be very totally different for eating places, some are assured that the business will rebound. “We predict issues will flip the nook within the not-too-distant future,” stated Brian Niccol, chief government of Chipotle Mexican Grill. He’s eyeing summer time or early fall for a return to regular, including that “folks will wish to eat and socialize and eating places will probably be nicely positioned.” Mr. Niccol has some main benefits over small entrepreneurs — his firm is debt-free with a powerful money place and a inventory market capitalization of practically $40 billion. However some small enterprise house owners share his optimism. Andy Rodriguez, co-founder and chief government of the Salty Donut, an artisan doughnut store and low bar with areas in Texas and Florida, believes that the pandemic will strengthen his enterprise in the long term. After the virus struck, Mr. Rodriguez needed to quickly rework his firm’s enterprise mannequin, which used to rely closely on in-store site visitors and company catering. He made the doughnut store’s full menu out there on Uber Eats, and beefed up its social media presence to encourage clients to position on-line orders. Mr. Rodriguez hopes that the work the enterprise has completed to construct its digital gross sales platform will enable the enterprise not simply to recuperate, however flourish, because the pandemic subsides. “We’re going to be in a much better place than ever earlier than,” he stated. “We’re going to be firing on all cylinders.” Audrey Hoyt, who owns the Seattle-based co-working enterprise the Pioneer Collective along with her husband, can also be assured that within the coming 12 months there will probably be extra demand for his or her firm’s companies than ever earlier than. She believes that co-working preparations will probably be engaging to many companies in search of versatile workplace area throughout the transition to a post-pandemic world. Ms. Hoyt stated she hoped that Democratic management of the Senate would clear the way in which for extra stimulus efforts. “The implementation of extra loans and help to get small companies by means of this era is crucial,” she stated. “Now that the Democrats have extra energy, I’m extra hopeful we’ll have the ability to get the assistance we want.” Ms. Hoyt has been working to develop the corporate’s actual property holdings, whilst enterprise income has been lower in half due to the pandemic. As a result of business landlords are keen to draw tenants, the enterprise has had extra leverage in negotiating favorable lease phrases, Ms. Hoyt stated. She plans to open a brand new constructing in downtown Seattle in April. “It was a deliberate determination: Both we shut totally or we dig deeper and discover a option to stick this out,” she stated. “Hopefully we are going to come out stronger on the opposite aspect.” Ben Casselman contributed reporting. 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Apparently, I am opening a new restaurant in Brindleton Bay. Got any name suggestions?

They sell fresh po boys at the walk up window, the catch of the day is available at the attached market, or one can sit down and opt to enjoy a fresh cup of salmon chowder with a mug of steamy earl grey.

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News Four died in a shootout with police after a UPS truck was hijacked. Could it have been avoided? - The Washington Post

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The violent scene unfolded on stay tv. Dozens of police officers, weapons drawn, swarmed a hijacked UPS truck hemmed in by flee-hour traffic at a busy intersection. Internal the auto, two men suspected of armed robbery had taken the driver hostage. Out of doorways, the officers took pictures with harmless bystanders trapped within the vehicles in between.

It used to be, consultants later stated, a nightmare scenario.

The Thursday shootout in South Florida left four ineffective — the 2 hijackers, the 27-year-feeble kidnapped UPS driver and a 70-year-feeble man who took intention to be idling at the light on his manner home from work. It moreover left a mountain of unanswered questions.

As video of the violence circulated on nationwide news and social media, some, together with the united statesdriver’s household, criticized police tactics, asserting it used to be irresponsible for officers to change fire on a crowded toll road. Others stated the foremost responders had no preference but to confront a deadly risk.

In the weeks to come motivate, investigators will must address some thorny and complex issues referring to police use of power, researchers and regulation enforcement officers stated. Who fired the pictures that killed UPS driver Frank Ordonez and motorist Richard Cutshaw? How many bullets were fired and from where? Did the officers’ actions achieve harmless lives in hazard?

“Correct about the full lot that can whisk injurious did whisk injurious,” stated David Klinger, a criminal justice professor at the University of Missouri in St. Louis. The incident “used to be truly, truly misguided.”

Nonetheless as chaotic and calamitous because the episode used to be, it used to be moreover “a ultimate instance” of why police are allowed to utilize deadly power against unhealthy criminals, Klinger stated. Authorities stated Lamar Alexander and Ronnie Jerome Hill had left a path of violence within the motivate of them that evening. Stopping them by any contrivance — even with bullets — used to be “totally the nonetheless thing to achieve,” Klinger stated.

“In a downside like this, the police are reactive,” Klinger added. “Here's no longer a downside they must be in. Their hand used to be forced.”

The dramatic change of gunfire adopted a high-flee lumber via two counties that thwarted residents’ commutes at flee hour. The boys had tried to please in Regent Jewelers in Coral Gables, triggering a nonetheless apprehension about 4: 15 p.m., police stated.

They stated a female employee of the shop used to be injured because the robbers and the shop owner shot at every other. The gunmen fled north in a truck, then commandeered a UPS truck whereas the driver used to be making a supply, police stated. Several police vehicles pursued the united statestruck, with the united statesdriver trapped internal, until the auto used to be boxed in by traffic in Miramar and officers surrounded it.

When Heather Taylor, a homicide sergeant in St. Louis, watched the photos, she saw police who refused to retreat and who achieve harmless lives in jeopardy due to it. In preference to opening fire within the crowded intersection, she stated, officers may perhaps perhaps perhaps delight in engaged the robbers after they'd a clearer shot.

“We don’t repeatedly must be the warrior,” stated Taylor, who is moreover president of the Ethical Society of Police in St. Louis. “As soon as in a whereas now we must realize that taking flight is okay. You don’t repeatedly must accumulate the misguided guy.”

She acknowledged that the officers were in a aggravating downside but stated the video used to be “one in all primarily the most tragic” she has seen.

“Certain, the suspects are in charge, totally, but we are moreover in charge for every single spherical that went in direction of harmless bystanders,” Taylor stated. “Every of them had the skill to smash any individual.”

On a GoFundMe page that had raised bigger than $100,000 by Friday evening, Roy Ordonez wrote that his brother, the united statesdriver, had been gunned “down like a criminal by the Florida police.” He requested folks to portion the fundraising page to “trace folks attentive to living off-cosy police officers.”

“They'll also delight in killed many extra folks, may perhaps perhaps perhaps delight in been one in all your household,” Roy Ordonez wrote. “Please don’t let my brother’s death be for nothing. Police must be held in charge.”

Joe Merino, who told the South Florida Solar-Sentinel that he used to be Frank Ordonez’s stepfather, stated his stepson used to be “murdered.”

“The police are here to serve and supply protection to,” Merino stated, “but where used to be the safety for my son?”

Autopsies can also decide who fired the pictures that killed Ordonez and Cutshaw. Tania Rues, a spokeswoman for the Miramar Police Division, referred a quiz in regards to the timeline for the autopsies to the Broward County clinical examiner’s place of industrial, which did no longer straight away acknowledge to a request for comment. The Florida Division of Regulation Enforcement is investigating the shootout, Rues stated.

“The armed suspects engaged regulation enforcement in originate fire,” FBI agent George Piro stated on Thursday. He stated the foremost shot used to be fired at some point of the lumber but declined to present extra vital parts. Piro stated it may perhaps perhaps perhaps be “totally fallacious” to debate whether or no longer the united statesdriver or the bystander can also delight in been hit by officers’ gunfire.

David Harris, a policing expert and a regulation professor at the University of Pittsburgh, stated the police officers’ actions must be judged against their departments’ insurance policies about pursuits and deadly power.

Most expert police associations bustle officers to prefer in a lumber finest in very excessive scenarios, to retain far from unnecessarily endanger officers, criminals or bystanders, Harris stated. He stated most police forces, nonetheless, would allow officers to lumber the auto of folks connected to a violent criminal, just like the firing of pictures at some point of a jewelry store robbery.

“A downside like this with a hijacked truck, a kidnapping and presumably a total bunch of civilians in hazard is amazingly uncommon,” Harris stated. “And you won’t fetch but a handful of police officers within the US who’ve had an journey like this."

Geoff Alpert, a criminology professor at the University of South Carolina, stated that rather then having a SWAT truck with heavily armed tactical police officers, he did no longer know of more than a few routes that police may perhaps perhaps perhaps delight in safely ended the pursuit. The gunmen had proved that they were willing to resort to violence to drag and must please in endangered other folks within the condo, corresponding to by hijacking other vehicles, Alpert stated.

“Here's why the police are educated to achieve what they attain,” he stated.

Every shot that police fired has to be accounted for, Alpert added. He stated investigators must count on every officer on the scene, whereas their recollections are fresh, why they shot and what their target used to be.

“Every one of them may perhaps perhaps perhaps even be justified,” Alpert stated, “or there may perhaps perhaps perhaps even be some that aren’t.”

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Guatemala’s Fuego volcano eruption forces 4,000 to evacuate | News

Guatemala Metropolis – Greater than four,000 individuals dwelling in communities across the Fuego volcano within the Guatemalan division of Escuintla had been pressured to evacuate their houses late on Sunday because the volcano erupted as soon as once more this 12 months.

“It was large, we couldn’t sleep,” stated Victor Hernandez, a 38-year-old farmer and ranch employee from the village of El Rancho, El Rodeo, Escuintla.

“We had spent the day watching and listening to the volcano,” Hernandez advised Al Jazeera.

“We had been horrified due to what had occurred the final time. We had been fearful what might occur,” he added, referring to a June eruption that killed almost 200 individuals.

The Nationwide Coordination for Catastrophe Discount of Guatemala, generally often known as CONRED, arrived together with the Guatemalan armed forces in El Rancho round 1:00am native time to evacuate Hernandez, his spouse and three youngsters, and the opposite roughly 62 households from the village.

CONRED started advising residents of the pending eruption hours earlier than the volcano, often known as the Volcano of Hearth, started spewing ash throughout the highlands of Guatemala. That they had warned residents of the opportunity of evacuation.

These evacuated had been taken to the soccer stadium and to public faculty buildings within the municipality of Escuintla.

Residents of a number of communities close by the erupting Fuego volcano, keep at a short lived shelter in Escuintla division, 35 km south of Guatemala Metropolis [Johan Ordonez/AFP]

Raul Gonzalez, a 31-year-old espresso farmer from the group of La Trinidad, Escuintla, and member of the La Union Huistla Espresso Cooperative, which sits on the base of the volcano, was within the fields when representatives from arrived to warn the group. 

“At first a number of individuals didn’t wish to evacuate,” Gonzalez advised Al Jazeera. “However all of them ended up leaving all through the evening.”

In accordance with Gonzalez, residents largely organised the evacuations.

“After we noticed that the state of affairs was getting extra harmful, we evacuated by our personal means,” Gonzalez advised Al Jazeera. “CONRED stated that buses would arrive to evacuate the individuals, however once I left at 10pm, there weren’t any buses from them.”

‘We do not wish to return’

The final main eruption was on June three, producing ash and lahars that buried the villages of El Rodeo and San Miguel Los Lotes.

That eruption killed a minimum of 194 individuals, injured tons of and brought about the evacuation of three,100 individuals from the encompassing space. Extra then 230 stay lacking. The eruption additionally destroyed almost eight,500 hectares of crops, together with these of La Trinidad.

A view of the Fuego Volcano erupting, as seen from Escuintla, Guatemala on November 19, 2018 [Carlos Alonzo/AFP] 

Hernandez’s home was amongst these broken by the eruption. He additionally misplaced the crops he needed to maintain the household.

CONRED and the Guatemalan authorities confronted widespread criticism in June for failing to advise residents shortly sufficient.  

“Earlier than we weren’t warned of the eruption and given time to depart,” Gonzalez advised Al Jazeera. “Now we all know. At the very least we now have a spot to return and sleep.”

After the newest eruption, Hernandez advised Al Jazeera that he and his household now not wished to return dwelling.

“We stay in an space that’s at excessive threat,” Hernandez advised Al Jazeera. “We don’t wish to return, however the authorities obliging us to return to El Rodeo as a result of they don’t seem to be giving us another place to stay.”

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Clean It Up, Pittsburgh Pirates

My Dearest Pittsburgh Pirates,

That’s a bizarre way to start the season. You had a rain-out, a snow storm, and two extra innings games. It was actually an ugly week. You escaped going 3-2 with one of the games being postponed until next week. You lost the first two games of the season to the Red Sox in Boston. You bounced back to sweep a sloppy Atlanta Braves team in the first home series of the year. I’d feel better about a sweep if it didn’t feel like they handed it to you. Yesterday you basically won because the Braves’ catcher, Kurt Suzuki, couldn’t catch R.A. Dickey’s knuckleball. He was charged with 3 passed balls plus Dickey threw a wild pitch. Today you did everything in your power to lose the game from being picked off twice, calling for bunts when maybe you shouldn’t, not getting the bunts down, letting Antonio Bastardo pitch, not fielding a grounder that allows the lead run to score in the top of the 10th. Like I said, ugly. I want to feel more positive after a sweep, especially after Starling Marte hit that beautiful walk-off 2 run homer today down a run in the 10th. I just think that if you would’ve played this way against a better team you might have lost 2 out of 3.

People really don’t like Josh Harrison anymore and I honestly don’t understand it. I realize that his OPS the last two seasons were .717 and .699. Certainly below average. I also understand that the 4 year 27 million dollar contract you signed him to makes it seem like he’s overpaid making 7.75 million this year and over 10 million next year. That is a little much but I bet if he hit the free agent market he could get 5 million a year. The fact is JHay is a pretty solid second baseman. I’m glad they are batting him 7th instead of leadoff but I have no issues starting him everyday. Last year, he was 4th in the majors and 1st in the NL in defensive runs saved at second base. His skills were particularly on display on Friday when he made a game saving diving stop on a ball up the middle to start an inning ending double play. The way people talk about JHay you would think he bats .210 a la Rey Ordonez for the Mets back in the day. The reality is he batted .283 last year and .287 the year before. He also added 19 steals while only getting caught four times. I know he doesn’t walk a lot. I know he doesn’t take a lot of pitches. I know he has a putrid slugging percentage. He’s a second baseman. There aren’t many terrific offensive ones in the league. I know Adam Frazier is a “hit machine” who takes more pitches and walks more. He had 3 hits Sunday and started the rally in the 10th that Marte capped off. He also played 2B a total of 23 games before last year and made the error at 3rd base that gave the Braves the lead today. With Josh Bell playing first most of the time, a position he’s barely ever played before, you can’t have the whole right side of your infield be monitored by two guys who don’t play their positions well especially when inducing ground balls is a significant part of your strategy. Is JHay the best 2B in baseball? Obviously not. But is he a solid option and easily the best one of your team? Absolutely.

The biggest concern going into the season was the rotation especially after last year’s Locke/Nicasio/Vogelsong/Niese disaster. This year’s rotation is younger with the average age of the pitchers at 25. Your three top guys were supposed to be the reliable ones. Jameson Taillon and Ivan Nova have held up their end of the bargain. In particular Taillon who looked like the true ace of the staff going seven shutout innings against the Red Sox lineup, one of the best in baseball. Gerrit Cole, who is supposed to be the actual ace of staff, looks like 2016 Cole instead of 2015 Cole and that’s not good. In two starts, Cole is 0-1 with a 6.55 ERA with a 1.64 WHIP. I know it’s only two starts and he fought through 6 innings to earn a Quality Start today.. He did lack control, movement on his fastball, and poise. I’m not sending Cole down the river or anything. It was very telling to watch his two starts compared to Taillon or Nova. Both of them kept calm and worked out of jams while you see Cole seem to lose his cool any time the slightest thing goes wrong. Someone gets a hit because of shift? He’s angry and pouting. You don’t see him celebrating every time it works though. I’m not saying he has to be Bumgarner like stoic or but he needs to control himself. He lets too much affect him. Cole very well might go out and dominate from here on out. I’m just nervous because what I’ve seen so far reminds me of the same Cole that struggled last season with a flat fastball that he leaves up in the zone. I’d be happy for him to turn it around but I’m starting to have my doubts. 

Our other “best player”, Andrew McCutchen, spoke all off season about he has a chip on his shoulder due to the trade rumors that circulated this off-season. Since then, he keeps claiming that he would have a “monster season” to prove the doubters wrong. Now he’s historically a slow starter so it’s not too shocking that his splits are currently .150/.227/.150 for a whopping .377 OPS. He struck out 7 times this week. He only has 3 hits so far and they all came in one game. An exclamation point was put on Cutch’s rough opening week when he came up with 1st and 3rd and one out trailing by a run in the bottom of the 8th. In the least surprising moment of the week, Cutch grounded into an inning ending double play. He’s swinging at bad pitches. He’s moving his back foot way too much on his swing. He almost never takes an outside pitch to the opposite field anymore. It’s not out of the question that we may look back on not trading him this off-season as a huge mistake. If he has a season similar to last season, his trade value is completely gone. Hell, you might not even pick up his 15 million dollar team option next year. That might be a stretch but, much like Cole, I’m seeing the tendencies that were very similar to 2016 Cutch. I’m getting wayyyyy ahead of myself. It’s one bad week. I’m sure he’ll be fine. At least I hope he will be. 

I don’t mean to come off so negative. There’s definitely positives to take away from this week. I mentioned how well Taillon and Nova pitched. Marte and Polanco both look like they could have even bigger seasons. Polanco had 4 hits Saturday and Marte had 4 on Sunday including that walk-off homer. Marte’s splits are an impressive .381/.417/.524 for a .941 OPS. Josh Bell looks like he could have an OBP near .400. Frazier is a really nice bat off the bench and good to start 3-4 times a week. He’s just going to be a liability in the field but if he keeps hitting like this you will have to find him at bats. It shouldn’t be too hard with Jung-ho Kang currently out of the picture. The back of the bullpen looked dominant other than Bastardo who gave up a homer today and a walk-off 3 run homer in Boston on Wednesday. Nicasio, Rivero, Hudson, and Watson all pitched impressively. You will need to make less mistakes if you want to succeed because April is filled with quality teams. You get the Reds at home for 3 games starting tomorrow. That’s a very winnable series. Then it gets rough. You go to Boston on Thursday to make up the rain-out from this week. You follow that by going to Chicago to play the World Champion Cubs for 3 games. The rest of the series this month are against the Cardinals, Yankees, Cubs again, and the Marlins. You could easily fall far behind if you don’t play better. I’m not trying to be mean. I’m trying to be honest. I will say that it’s so nice to have you back. It’s so nice to be able to see you everyday. 3-2 is a solid start. Build off it. It’s a full seven game week so pace yourself. Take it one game at a time. Good luck and I’ll talk to you next week.

                                                                                 Your Tough But Fair Fellow,

                                                                                                   Brad

P.S. Tyler Glasnow will make his first start of the season tomorrow. If he can somehow harness that talent and be productive, it could change the whole outlook on this season. He will certainly have a lot of ups and downs but this rotation could be a lot more interesting than anticipated. Kuhl needs to pitch better than last night but he won’t walk 6 batters too often. Cole has to wake up too but you are in a much better position than you were last year. Glasnow could take it to the next level or he could deplete our bullpen each start if he struggles. Should be fun...

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Jordan Olerud, daughter of John Olerud, dead at 19 after battling rare disorder

The daughter of former Mets and Yankees infielder John Olerud has died following a lifelong battle with a rare chromosome disorder, according to Mets vice president of alumni relations Jay Horwitz.

Jordan Olerud was 19 years old.

A fund was created in Jordan’s name by her parents in 2003, and The Jordan Fund’s mission is to “provide support to special needs children and their families,” according to its website. ​

Jordan had an extra second chromosome and was missing part of her fifth chromosome. Both the Mets and Yankees sent their condolences Sunday to the Olerud family.

John spent three seasons with the Mets (1997-99) and one with the Yankees (2004) as part of a 17-year career that saw the two-time All-Star first baseman win two World Series with the Blue Jays.

With the Mets, John was part of the famous 1999 Sports Illustrated cover featuring “The Best Infield Ever,” alongside Edgardo Alfonzo, Robin Ventura, and Rey Ordonez.

Jordan is survived by her parents, sister Jessica and brother Garrett.

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Tim Burton on Why Jenna Ortega Is the Perfect Wednesday Addams

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     On Wednesdays we dress in black and look at the most recent at the rear of the scenes featurette for   Tim Burton’s Netflix series   centering on   Wednesday Addams  . In it, the master of cinematic oddities like  Beetlejuice  and  Edward Scissorhands  discusses   Wednesday  star   Jenna Ortega  ’s acquire on  the classic Charles Addams character. 

 “Wednesday is the vintage outsider, definitely. She sees things quite black and white, generally black, ” Burton says in the online video, which you can watch under.  “In the past incarnations it is been incredibly cartoony. So in this lengthier sort we just tried using to give it a actuality,  which I loved.”

       Wednesday Addams | Inside of the Character | Netflix 

 Ortega, who is  currently on the rise as a scream queen in films like Ti West’s  X  and   the most recent  Scream   , realized she needed to stand aside from earlier versions. “It was seriously essential to me that I did one thing distinctive, even even though she’s been finished so flawlessly in the past, ” she shares . ( Christina Ricci —the actor most folks associate with the section —also has a job in  Wednesday  as “  an exciting  new character  .”)

 “She’s a bit a lot more socially uncomfortable. There is a self-assurance there but it’s more concealed, ” Ortega continues .  “Wednesday is technically a Latina character and that’s never ever been represented. So for me, any time that I have an option to characterize my community, I want that to be observed. Wednesday’s anyone that I generally was as opposed to my total lifetime.” ( A acquire for underepresented g oth g irls and their people!)  Luis Guzmán also stars as Gomez Addams with Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams. Puglsey is performed by newcomer Isaac Ordonez.

 Combining what can make Wednesday the most  sardonic,  grimly loyal member of the Addams household with some Gen Z realness is genuinely fascinating and Ortega has what it can take, as Burton describes.  “She’s like a silent film actress in the feeling where she’s in a position to express issues without the need of phrases.  And to see that internal everyday living and the subtleties  was interesting. I simply cannot envision any other Wednesday.”

  Wednesday  comes this slide on Netflix.

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Jamie Foxx and Katie Holmes Break up: Look Again at Their Non-public Romance

Kevin Tachman/MG19/Getty Photographs for The Met Museum/Vogue This superstar love chapter has come to an in depth. Jamie Foxx and Katie Holmes have decided to part ways. E! Information can verify the pair has referred to as it quits. In reality, a supply tells us the 2 have not been collectively since Could. And whereas the Dawson’s Creek alum and 51-year-old actor made a grand entrance at the 2019 Met Gala, it seems issues have been already headed south for the duo. The 2 first sparked romance rumors within the fall of 2013, and at first, the superstar couple denied their relationship. The Oscar winner described the speculation as “hilarious.” Since they started relationship, the 2 have been notoriously non-public about their relationship. Nonetheless, the information of their cut up comes days after the Robin Hood star was spotted holding hands with up-and-coming singer, Sela Vave. On Friday evening, they have been seen leaving a nightclub in West Hollywood after celebrating Lil Pump‘s 19th birthday bash at Bootsy Bellows. With practically six years of historical past collectively, it is unclear what the longer term holds for Holmes and Foxx presently. However for those who’re unhappy about this superstar breakup (like many popular culture followers are), have a look again at their relationship and relive a few of their cutest moments.  Kevin Tachman/MG19/Getty Photographs for The Met Museum/Vogue 2019 Met Gala A grand entrance! The pair makes the 2019 Met Gala their date evening. If something, they shock followers with their uncommon public look as they arrive to the style fête collectively. TheImageDirect.com Informal Cuteness All smiles! The pair maintain arms in New York whereas sporting paint-covered sweats and ripped denims.  BACKGRID Night time Out With the Fam Strolling hand-in-hand. The couple takes a late-night stroll in L.A. with the actor’s daughter, Corinne Foxx. Article continues beneath Felipe Ramales / SplashNews.com Romantic Stroll Staying heat and comfortable! The 2 seem collectively in New York Metropolis in March 2019. P&P/MEGA Whoa The celebrities cannot maintain their arms, or lips, off one another in Malibu in 2018. Jackson Lee / SplashNews.com It is a Celebration! In December 2018, Katie celebrates her 40th birthday with Jamie in New York. Article continues beneath Elder Ordonez / SplashNews.com Ending the Summer time With a Candy Go to Homesick! Foxx ends the summer time by visiting Holmes in New York. MEGA Displaying Some Playful PDA In August 2018, the pair exhibits off their playful PDA throughout a enjoyable day on the seaside. SplashNews.com New 12 months’s Trip Earlier than ringing within the New 12 months, the pair is seen on a yacht off the coast of Miami simply earlier than New 12 months’s Eve 2018. Article continues beneath BACKGRID Being a True Gentleman In July 2018, Foxx helps Holmes out of her car earlier than dinning at Tao restaurant in New York. SplashNews.com Eating Out In Could 2018, the couple is photographed leaving the New York restaurant Carbone.  BACKGRID Having fun with a Dinner Date In April 2018, the 2 celebs are photographed leaving the restaurant Nobu in New York. Article continues beneath Kevin Mazur/Getty Photographs for NARAS Getting Cozy Earlier than the Grammys The duo appears to solely have eyes for one another whereas attending a pre-Grammys gala in January 2018. Gary Gershoff/WireImage Stepping Out in Model Eyes for you! In December 2017, each Foxx and Holmes attend Prive Revaux Eyewear’s New York Flagship launch occasion.  MIAN / BACKGRID Celebrating Foxx’s Birthday The duo tries to dodge the paparazzi after attending Foxx’s 50th birthday celebration in December 2017. Article continues beneath DOBN / RMBI / BACKGRID Strolling Hand in Hand In September 2017, the celebrities are noticed holding arms whereas taking a stroll in Malibu. BAHE/BACKGRID Spending Valentine’s Day Collectively The 2 spend Valentine’s Day collectively in 2017 and revel in a couple of sporty actions. SplashNews.com Holding Arms In 2015, the 2 reignite romance rumors after they’re photographed holding arms in Los Angeles Article continues beneath Shahar Azran/WireImage Sparking Romance Rumors The 2 spark romance rumors in August 2013 after they are noticed attending the fourth annual Apollo within the Hamptons profit. Win McNamee/Getty Photographs Smiling on the Soccer Discipline Holmes and Foxx’s historical past goes years again—even earlier than they have been romantically linked. In 2006, the 2 took the sphere forward of a sport between the Minnesota Vikings and the Washington Redskins with Tom Cruise. Proceed checking again to E! Information for extra updates on Katie and Jamie’s breakup. https://www.eonline.com/information/1066176/jamie-foxx-and-katie-holmes-split-look-back-at-their-private-romance?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories The post Jamie Foxx and Katie Holmes Break up: Look Again at Their Non-public Romance appeared first on Kartia Velino. https://kartiavelino.com/jamie-foxx-and-katie-holmes-split-look-back-at-their-private-romance/

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HyperBounce sneakers use a series of balloons on the outsole to give you a spring in your step

Quite similar to what Nike did with the Joyride sneakers, which used a beanbag-inspired outsole filled with tiny squishy beans, the HYPERBOUNCE sneakers concept by Alexander Ordonez explores using the inherent ‘bounciness’ of spheres by adding a series of balloons to the outsole. Not only do the balloons help activate your foot’s pressure points, but they also add an extra spring in your step as you walk, giving credence to the name, HYPERBOUNCE. Ordonez, a New Jersey-based footwear designer, created the HYPERBOUNCE sneakers as an experiment to push the boundaries of performance footwear by integrating new technology with vivid design aesthetics and product stories. “I strive to create futuristic aesthetics while keeping each design rooted in feasible functionality”, mentioned Ortonez. The shoes come with what I like to call a Black Panther aesthetic, sporting a dark gray exterior with purple accents that glow on the inside, much like the Vibranium nanites in the Black Panther suit that glow when they absorb kinetic energy. Although the HYPERBOUNCE sneakers are purely conceptual at this point, it would be extremely cool to see the purple accents and balloons on the outsole glow as you run or walk in them! Read the full article