#sean paul mexico

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Buenos días ! #spfam

[derwahnsinn]

31 Days Idol Challenge - Oliver Riedel

Day 29: At Award Ceremony

One thing I really like about photos of Rammstein from award ceremonies, is how they dress. I love how they just seem to all put on whatever they feel like, so that the more or less always have at least one 'odd man out'.

My photo of choice is this group shot from 1998 Echo Awards, because I really like how Oliver went with a choker. Photo by Axel Kirschof.

I feel like it's appropriate to add a passage from Flake's book Heute hat die Welt Geburtstag (It's the World's Birthday Today), where he wrote about when the band got nominated for their first Echo Award. It is such a good example of "six inexperienced East Germans entering the celebrity circus":

Beforehand we had long conversations about what we should wear. We definitely wanted to all wear the same thing so that people would see we were a single entity. Since this was the first time we'd been invited, we got there on time. On time meant two hours too early. When we walked down the red carpet, there was of course not the slightest reaction from the audience, which wasn't bad, however. The only person who recognized us was the security guard for Die Toten Hosen, who were also nominated and of course actually received an award. We attached ourselves to Nena's manager, whom we knew from the industry tour. We stood around in the lobby with him for hours and were horribly thirsty. Then the ceremony finally started and we thought it was all very exciting. Otto Waalkes was sitting in front of us. I stared at the back of his head the whole time. I thought back to how, when I was a kid, I would go over to our neighbor's place just to watch the Otto Show. Every single gag got rehashed all over school the next day, and I didn't want to be left out. And now I could practically touch him. I was so excited my palms were sweating. All the nominees were introduced with a short film. When they finally showed our film, there was absolutely no applause since of course no one knew who we were. There was only bored silence. I think Aerosmith got the prize. We realized that we'd gotten all dressed up for nothing and felt appropriately foolish. Thankfully though, there was a giant afterparty. We hadn't known about that either. There we could eat and drink as much as we wanted and didn't have to pay. We weren't the only ones who got exorbitantly drunk; those who were still there at four stayed till six. Moses Pelham broke Stefan Raab's nose. The next day, a bunch of zombies stood freezing on the train platform, waiting for the train with their Echos in their hands. Or not, in our case. Then two years later, we got the award. We stood there on stage like six bumps on a log and didn't know what to say. Under no circumstances did we want to toss out an embarrassing litany of thank yous. When it was my turn at the mic, I just talked about my vacation in Sri Lanka - I'd just gotten back two days earlier and was still overflowing with impressions. Plus, while the boring ceremony was going on, Ben Becker had been teaching us that drinking vodka mixed with tonic water was very refreshing. The trophy they handed us was I guess supposed to represent a sound wave - I mean, I don't know what an echo looks like, technically speaking - and it was pretty heavy. It was an unwieldy thing to have to hold onto at the party afterward, so I just left it sitting around somewhere.

Bonus material: 1) 1997, Rammstein getting gold for Herzeleid and Engel. Unknown photographer. Some of the band members, including Oliver, had interesting choices of shoes. 2) 1998 MTV Europe Music Awards. Another interesting choice of clothing for Oliver. 3) 2001 MTV Europe Music Awards. Can't go wrong when you're all wearing stage costumes! Photo by Anthony Harvey. 4) 2001 Mexico City. Very questionable positioning of Paul in this photo by Guillermo Ogam. 5) 2005 Echo Awards. I really love how they showed up and performed in fat suits. Photo by Sean Gallup. 6) 2005 Rammstein Music Awards, I love Oliver's outfit here, too. Unknown photographer. 7) 2009 Echo Awards. Oliver went fully casual, and Schneider showed his total lack of taste in shoes. Unknown photographer.

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Others doing this challenge:

Till: @endlich-allein Flake: @anwiel13 Paul: @instillennachten

[reasoningdaily]

The Associated Press: 22 attorneys general oppose 3M settlement over water systems contamination with 'forever chemicals'

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Twenty-two attorneys general urged a federal court Wednesday to reject a proposed $10.3 billion settlement over contamination of U.S. public drinking water systems with potentially dangerous chemicals, saying it lets manufacturer 3M Co. off too easily.

The deal announced in June doesn’t give individual water suppliers enough time to determine how much money they would get and whether it would cover their costs of removing the compounds known collectively as PFAS, said the officials with 19 states, Washington, D.C., and two territories. In some cases the agreement could shift liability from the company to providers, they said.

“While I appreciate the effort that went into it, the proposed settlement in its current form does not adequately account for the pernicious damage that 3M has done in so many of our communities,” said California Attorney General Rob Bonta, leader of the multistate coalition.

3M spokesman Sean Lynch said the agreement “will benefit U.S.-based public water systems nationwide that provide drinking water to a vast majority of Americans” without further litigation.

“It is not unusual for there to be objections regarding significant settlement agreements,” Lynch said. “We will continue to work cooperatively to address questions about the terms of the resolution.”

The company, based in St. Paul, Minnesota, manufactures per- and polyfluorinated substances — a broad class of chemicals used in nonstick, water- and grease-resistant products such as clothing and cookware, as well as some firefighting foams.

Described as “forever chemicals” because they don’t degrade naturally in the environment, PFAS have been linked to a variety of health problems, including liver and immune-system damage and some cancers.

3M has said it plans to stop making them by the end of 2025.

Some 300 communities have sued 3M and other companies over water pollution from the compounds. A number of states, airports, firefighter training facilities and private well owners also have pending cases.

They have been consolidated in U.S. District Court in Charleston, South Carolina, where the proposed settlement was filed last month.

Although the company put its value at $10.3 billion, an attorney for the water providers said it could reach as high as $12.5 billion, depending on how many detect PFAS during testing the Environmental Protection Agency has ordered over the next three years.

The law firm representing the water providers did not immediately respond Wednesday to messages seeking comment.

EPA in March proposed strict limits on two common types, PFOA and PFOS, and said it wanted to regulate four others.

In addition to California, states urging Judge Richard Gergel to reject the deal included Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont and Wisconsin. Also opposed were Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands.

In a court filing, the attorneys general said it would force nearly all public water providers nationwide to participate unless they withdraw individually — even those that haven’t filed suits or tested for PFAS.

“Troublingly, they would have to make their opt-out decisions without knowing how much they would actually receive and, in many cases, before knowing the extent of contamination in their water supplies and the cost of remediating it,” the officials said in a statement.

A provision in the proposed deal would shift liability from 3M to water suppliers that don’t opt out, the statement said. That could enable the company to seek compensation from providers if sued over cancer or other illnesses in PFAS-affected communities, it said.

“As such, the proposed settlement is worth far less than the advertised $10.5 billion to $12.5 billion,” the attorneys general said.

The attorneys general did not take a position on a separate $1.18 billion deal to resolve PFAS complaints against DuPont de Nemours Inc. and spinoffs Chemours Co. and Corteva Inc.

[goalhofer]

2024 Oakland Athletics Roster

Pitchers

#16 Sean Newcomb (Middleborough, Massachusetts)

#19 Mason Miller (Bethel Park, Pennsylvania)

#29 Austin Adams (Zephyrhills, Florida)*

#35 Joe Boyle (Goshen, Kentucky)

#36 Thomas Stripling (Southlake, Texas)*

#38 J.P. Sears (Sumter, South Carolina)

#39 Kyle Muller (Dallas, Texas)

#40 Mitch Spence (Cary, North Carolina)**

#46 Luis Medina (Nagua, Dominican Republic)

#47 Michael Kelly (Boca Raton, Florida)*

#48 T.J. McFarland (Palos Hills, Illinois)*

#54 Scott Alexander (Santa Rosa, California)*

#56 Dany Jiménez (San Cristobal, Dominican Republic)

#57 Robert Wood (Charlotte, North Carolina)

#58 Paul Blackburn (Brentwood, California)

#62 Freddy Tarnok (Hillsoborough County, Florida)

#64 Ken Waldichuk (San Diego, California)

#70 Lucas Erceg (Campbell, California)

Catchers

#23 Shea Langeliers (Keller, Texas)

#52 Kyle McCann (Suwanee, Georgia)**

Infielders

#2 Darell Hernáiz (El Paso, Texas)**

#5 J.G. Davis (Elk Grove, California)*

#6 Aledmys Díaz (Santa Clara, Cuba)

#10 Nick Allen (San Diego, California)

#20 Zach Gelof (Rehoboth Beach, Delaware)

#26 Tyler Nevin (Poway, California)*

#31 Abraham Toro (Montreal, Quebec)*

#49 Ryan Noda (Grant Township, Illinois)

Outfielders

#4 Lawrence Butler (Atlanta, Georgia)

#15 Seth Brown (Klamath Falls, Oregon)

#22 Miguel Andújar (San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic)*

#25 Terry Rooker; Jr. (Germantown, Tennessee)

#33 J.J. Bleday (Titusville, Pennsylvania)

Coaches

Manager Mark Kotsay (Santa Fe Springs, California)

Bench coach Darren Bush (Dunedin, Florida)

Hitting coach Mike Aldrete (Carmel-By-The-Sea, California)

Assistant hitting coach Chris Cron (Albuquerque, New Mexico)

Pitching coach Scott Emerson (Phoenix, Arizona)

Bullpen coach Dan Hubbs (Kent, Washington)

Bullpen catcher Dusty Hughes (Tupelo, Mississippi)

Bullpen catcher Wilkin Castillo (Baní, Dominican Republic)

1B coach Bobby Crosby (Westminster, California)

3B coach Anthony Martins (Whittier, California)

Quality control coach Marcus Jensen (Oakland, California)

Assistant coach Ramón Hernández (Santiago De León De Caracas)

[theultimatefan]

FAN EXPO Cleveland Returns to Huntington Convention Center April 12-14 With Four Hobbits Headlining

The Goonies, the title character of Rudy, and “Bob Newby” in "Stranger Things," roles that epitomize hope, determination and loyalty. Sean's recent feature films include the award-winning thriller Adverse (2020); the family comedy Hero Mode (2021); Charming the Hearts of Men (2021); and the 2022 comedy iMordecai.

The Scottish-born Boyd also had roles in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, On a Clear Day and The Flying Scotsman. He has appeared in popular television series like “Outlander,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “NCIS: Hawaii,” “Snowfall” and others, and in many iterations of the LOTR franchise, including video games. He has done voice work on numerous productions as well.

Monaghan has appeared in more than 50 productions and is known to many as “Charlie Pace” in the hit NBC series “Lost,” on which he appeared in 77 episodes. Some of his other featured roles have included spots on X-Men Origins: Wolverine in 2009 and ABC’s “Flash Forward” that year. He was recently the lead in the AMC+ series “Paul Sarno.”

Trejo has developed a prolific career in the entertainment industry with a hard-earned and atypical road to success. From years of imprisonment to helping troubled youth battle drug addictions, from acting to producing, and now on to restaurant ventures, Trejo’s name, face, and achievements are well recognized in Hollywood and beyond. He has starred in dozens of films including Desperado, Heat, the From Dusk Till Dawn series, Con Air, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, the Spy Kids movies, Machete and many more.

Cox, who has had more than 40 screen credits, with his role as “Matt Murdock” on “Daredevil” (reprised in “She-Hulk” and Spider-Man: No Way Home) the most prominent. He gained wide notice for his portrayal of “Owen Sleater” in the HBO period drama “Boardwalk Empire” and played the lead role of “Michael Kinsella” in the AMC+ crime drama series “Kin.”

Single-Day Tickets, Three-Day Passes, and Ultimate Fan Packages for FAN EXPO Cleveland are available now. Advance pricing is available until March 28. More guest news will be released in the following weeks, including line-up reveals for additional headline celebrities, comic creator guests, voice actors and cosplayers.

Cleveland is the sixth event on the 2024 FAN EXPO HQ calendar; the full schedule is available at fanexpohq.com/home/events/.

[theloniousbach]

BACK TO SMALL’S LIVE

GARY GIBBS’ THRASHER ALL-STARS (Chris Potter, Emmet Cohen, and Vicente Archer), SMALL’S JAZZ CLUB, 29 APRIL 2023, 10:30 pm set

MIGUEL ZENON/LUIS PERDROMO, MEZZROW’S, 15 MAY 2023, 9:00 pm set

It had been a whole fifteen days since I’d watched a recent set of music from a New York jazz club and ten days since an archival recording due to some travel, end of the semester, and other reasons why I really should have listened to some music.

What better way, thought I, than to get back to it with the stellar band GARY GIBBS put together. Indeed they were all stars, but their leader is indeed a thrasher who covered up Vicente Archer (admittedly basses do get lost at Small’s sometimes) and who gave Emmet Cohen too little to do and who just wasted Chris Potter. Potter has a nice earthy side and has done Eddie Harris’ Cold Duck Time—and there was an Eddie Harris tune, maybe that one. But a lengthy cover of the Average White Band’s Picking Up the Pieces was too simple a riff, though it’s true that he could thrash. I suppose they did play the theme of Well You Needn’t, but it got lost quickly.

Seriously too bad because a Potter/Cohen conversation would be interesting and Archer always adds to the mix. I can’t tell, but won’t spend too much energy trying to figure out, whether Gibbs’ weaknesses are as a drummer or as a leader or in some conversation.

Undaunted, I came back the next night for sublime music that was the exact opposite—subtle, conversational, intimate—as MIGUEL ZENON and his “musical brother” LUIS PERDROMO ran through tunes they would be recording the next day (today as I write) for a project based on tunes from Latin America. I watched them perform a set of Puerto Rican boleros from a shuttered Village Vanguard during lockdown. The bolero is a form, like the blues, that is so structured that is opens up into countless variations. I think they explained it by analogy to the blues but one could also mention fado from Portugal or Greek rebetik music. So this set of music they grew up listening to at home (Puerto Rico for Zenon; Venezuela for Perdromo). Yes, throughly Latin, but not distinctively rhythmic. Instead Zenon wove beautiful melodies around Perdromo’s chords and countermelodies. It was not quite how Giveton Gelin and Sean Mason interact, but it is a wonder. A chamber music in its own way. My Spanish is non-existent so I have no titles (not that that would matter much) but did take down that at least Mexico as well as their native Puerto Rico and Venezuela were represented.

Let me be clear that this was jazz and not folkloric or archival. Zenon in particular is a wonder, lithe and melodic, patient and expressive. I had just written in my notes “MZ does not play fast” to echo Paul Desmond’s ad in some industry publication, but then he actually did play fast. I’m not at all saying that he reminds me of Desmond, but he is an exemplar of a long line. Perdromo is a lot less clunky than Dave Brubeck.

I look forward to the album and will likely indulge in the first set when it gets archived. They are what I hope for when I put on a stream and sets like Gibbs’ are very rare. I’m back at it.

[metaleterno]

📢Anuncio de @idlentertainment Es con un enorme orgullo que IDL Entertainment anuncia esta gira... Por diversos factores, pero principalmente porque es la PRIMERA VEZ que esta banda referente y pionera del progressive death metal se presenta en Latinoamerica, pero ADEMAS tiene a un musico legendario como es Paul Masvidal (ex DEATH), ADEMAS se estaran celebrando los 30 años de su iconico disco FOCUS que ADEMAS lo estaran tocando ENTERO en esta gira, y por si todo esto fuera poco, principalmente porque es la primera vez en 8 AÑOS que esta banda referente hace una gira nada mas y nada menos que HOMENAJEANDO a los 2 eternos SEAN REINERT y SEAN MALONE. Realmente es un honor para nosotros traerles a la leyenda Cynic a Latinoamerica! Y por si todo esto fuera poco, Beyond Creation seran los invitados especiales para sumarle mas brutalidad lo que sera esta historica gira! Una gira realmente imperdible! Queremos saber, en donde los veras en vivo? 14 abr - Sao Paulo Metal Fest, BR 15 abr - Curitiba, BR 16 abr - Porto Alegre, BR 17 Abr - Montevideo, UY 18 abr - Buenos Aires, AR 20 abr - Santiago, CL 21 abr - Lima, PE 22 abr - Bogota, CO 24 abr - San Jose, CR 25 abr - Guatemala City, GT 26 abr - San Salvador, SV 27 abr - Ciudad de Mexico, MX #idlentertainment #cynic #beyondcreation #metal #deathmetal #death #progmetal #progressivemetal #heavymetal #metalmusic #reporteidl #idlreport #touring #tourlife #idllife (en Latinoamérica) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoWIZZAN47Q/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[blackfields98]

end deportation in the u.s. (song versions)

[scott-pilgrim22]

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I’m still in love, with you... 

Cuando había ‘reaggeton’ del bueno.

[fatehbaz]

“They never told us these things.”

[O]n 6 August 1998, 10 members of the small Sahtugot’ine Dene community of Deline (Fort Franklin) in the ‘Northwest Territories’ apologized in Hiroshima for the atomic destruction of that city – and the death of over 200,000 civilians – exactly 53 years earlier by a bomb made in part from uranium from their land.

The Dene didn’t even mine the stuff, a role reserved for the all-white below-ground workforce of Eldorado Gold Mines Ltd., placed under state control during World War Two. They were allowed only to help it on its long and winding way, 3,000 miles by river, lake, road and air, from Port Radium on Great Bear Lake to Port Hope on Lake Ontario, where, from 1942-45, the suddenly precious ore – the ‘new gold’ of the atomic age – was, together with ‘Belgian’ uranium from the Congo, refined and dispatched to Los Alamos, the desert lab in New Mexico secretly building the new, city-smashing Superweapon.

The existence of this epic road to hell was unsuspected by the Dene until long after Eldorado stopped mining for radium and uranium in 1960. Beginning in the 1970s, and spiking sharply in the 1980s, many of the men who had handled and carried the ore – and the men who had mined it – began to die from cancer, raising obvious questions about health and safety which soon led in shocking directions. In the 1990s, Gordon Edwards, co-founder of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility (CCNR), told a group of Deline Dene there was compelling evidence that the ore that had made so many of them sick had been used to kill vast numbers of innocent people. By the end of decade, Deline was better known as The Village of Widows [...].

The “Dene,” the CBC ‘revealed,’ “were never told of the health hazards they faced, even though the government knew … as early as 1932 that precautions should be taken in handling radioactive materials”. Instead of which, for example:

“Paul Baton, now aged 83, used to lift sacks of uranium ore onto boats. He said workers dressed in casual clothes and uranium dust ” — gold dust yellow — “covered the men like flour.” [...] ‘Paul’ Baton was actually Peter Baton, interviewed by scholar [...] Julie Salverson [...]. Peter’s wife, Theresa, told her: …that when they lived in Port Radium, the women would make tents for their families to sleep in from the sacks that carried the uranium.

The image harrowingly evokes the poverty of the workers, as detailed in a December 1998 article, ‘Deline Dene Mining Tragedy,’ in First Nations Drum:

During the beginning of the war efforts, the mine was kept running at a very high pace, utilizing non-Native miners brought in from all over the country. The Dene were employed as ‘coolies’ packing 45-kilogram sacks of radioactive ore for three dollars a day, working 12 hours a day, six days a week.

This at a time when the ore was worth over $70,000 a gram.

Cindy Kenney-Gilday, a member of the delegation to Hiroshima and Chair of the Déline Dene Band Uranium Committee, told First Nations Drum journalist Ronald B. Barbour that the toll taken on “my own home” is “the most vicious example of cultural genocide [...].” “Kenney-Gilday,” Barbour wrote, “who has suffered the loss of her father to colon cancer and brother to stomach cancer, stressed that” [...] because the grandfathers [...] transmit teachings and worldways to younger men and boys, “the loss of these men in the community” has left “too many men” without guides.

The guide to all Dene, of course, is the land itself, and the legacy of the Eldorado era has been to create “a radioactive heartland.” Wrote Barbour:

Over 1.7 million tons of radioactive waste and tailings was callously dumped into and around the lake, drastically contaminating food sources.

In 1998, the Déline Dene Band Uranium Committee released a 160-page, 14-recommendation report, “They Never Told Us These Things.”

In a 2011 article in Maisonneuve, Salverson recounts a community meeting in Deline to discuss the report, “where [non-Dene] lawyers delivered a year’s worth of uranium-impact research from the archives in Ottawa,” revealing that in “the mountain of papers we dug up … there is not one mention of the Dene, your people.”

“The hall,” Kenney-Gilday remembers, “went completely silent. The elders had incredulous looks on their faces, a combination of sadness and anger.”

Nor were they once mentioned in Eldorado: Canada’s National Uranium Company, the official company history commissioned [...] in the early 1980s as controversy grew over the criminal negligence of Eldorado as both as a private and Crown corporation. [...]

In 1999, the Ministry of Indian Affairs and Northern Development appointed a Canada-Deline Uranium Table (CDUT) to investigate ‘health and environmental issues relating to the Port Radium mine.’ In 2005, its final report, while acknowledging “the perceptual link between exposure to mining activities and illness and death,” found no evidence of abnormal cancer rates in the area; it also concluded that the numerous environmental “impacts” and examples of contamination it considered were “not a cause of concern from an ecological perspective.” [...] Most controversially, the “only statistics considered relevant in the determination of cancer were body counts,” with other easily-obtainable, highly-pertinent evidence (e.g. blood and urine samples) excluded [...]. As van Wyck notes, in a 2006 documentary on Deline – David Hennington’s Somba Ke: The Money Place – scientist [...] Dr. Rosalie Bertell argued that relying “on death records alone” effectively killed off the study:

“Yet again,” he writes, “the testimony of their dead has proven insufficient. Once again, the living are passed over in silence.”

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Photos, captions, and text published by: Sean Howard. “Canada’s Uranium Highway: Victims and Perpetrators.” Cape Breton Spectator. 7 August 2019.

[buffyfan145]

Cobra Kai Season 4 Finale and Season 5 Speculation

I finished season 4 and it was amazing!!! :D Those twists in the finale were nuts and sets up so much for season 5!!! Also maybe some of the prequels/spinoffs that are in development too. I’m including in this my speculation about what’s going to happen in season 5 as well, which I’m pretty sure is going to air this fall since they’ve finished filming and it’s now in post/editing.

That finale was just great!!! :D From having Eli winning the boys tournament, to Tory winning the girls but revealing Terry paid off the ref!!!, Johnny and Daniel both helping Sam, Robby realizing how Kenny’s become now and that Kenny’s now bullying Anthony, Robby and Johnny finally making amends, Miguel running off to Mexico to find his dad, the possibility that with Johnny going to find Miguel with Robby (those Puerto Rico pics confirmed that) and meeting Miguel’s father that he’ll finally look into his own dad with his boys’ help and even more certain it’s Terry, Chozen coming back to help Daniel, and Terry framing Kreese from hurting Stingray!!! :o It was just a lot but so awesome and I’m so excited for season 5!!! ;D

Now like I stated above we know from spoilers during filming that Miguel, Johnny, and Robby are in Puerto Rico (which they used to pretend to be Mexico) to find Miguel’s dad and I posted a couple weeks ago an extra posted a pic with Luis Roberto Guzman who was in “Narcos: Mexico” and likely is playing Miguel’s father. Will be interesting to see how this goes as this guy has no idea Miguel exists.  And of course that Robby is helping Johnny find Miguel but that questions if he’s still in Cobra Kai with Terry. 

Then Terry teased having friends come back and I know most think one is Mike Barnes but Sean’s been really busy filming “The Bold and the Beautiful” and is a main character on it again so I don’t know if he had the time (though one of his B&B castmates is also on “Roswell New Mexico” in a recurring role so it’s possible) but there is that theory he’s Tory’s dad so it’s possible. I posted last night about how there’s rumors about Col. Paul Dugan from “The Next Karate Kid” also being a friend of Terry & Kreese’s and finally be the way to bring back Julie, so that likely will happen too. This also explains now why Martin was able to do “DWTS” and film another TV show during season 5 filming as he’ll be in prison most of the season so he’s not going to be in that many episodes But they did cast a prison therapist so that’ll be interesting to see.

Then Chozen helping Daniel will be great and hopefully having him meet Johnny and Terry.  That scroll is likely going to come into play too. But other than that I’m not sure what is going to happen with them, most of the teens’ storylines, or the couples.

But am certain they will finally reveal Johnny’s father and that he is Terry. That line of him “taking care” of him to Kreese was creepy but also works for this. I’m certain Kreese doesn’t know they’re family but we’ll see. It’s pretty certain that Nick and Barrett likely filmed more flashbacks for season 5 as Nick’s hair is still long like Thomas’ and both were not attached to other projects while it filmed. Also there’s a comment from the mother of little Johnny Thomas Parobek she made on the Instagram she runs that Thomas filmed more scenes but it’s for season 5. All this does seem to be timing out to be the same storyline and my guess is they likely cast Terry’s father too as I’m certain he was involved as well especially if he didn’t approve of Laura (who again she and Terry likely were high school sweethearts) and my guess is they were going to marry after Terry got back from Vietnam but then he changed drastically after the war and couldn’t handle being a husband and father and left. This would also explain why Johnny doesn’t know how to find him since really Terry would’ve only been there for a year or two as he was in Vietnam for years and I know from my own grandpa being there they didn’t have them come home as often as they do now, and Johnny has his mother’s maiden name because she was unwed so he didn’t know his father’s last name. And if they write in Sid dying with Ed Asner having passed away that could be another reason Johnny finds this all out.

Either way I’m so excited to see how this all plays out with season 5 hopefully this fall!!! :D And hopefully they’re renewed for season 6 (which still might be the final season) soon.

[alerastafarisp]

Sean Paul Gifs - Back it up deh.

[brotheralyosha]

Every Republican national leader since 9/11 had backed the harshest possible prosecution of the War on Terror. Even Mitt Romney pledged to double Guantanamo. Those relatively few prominent Republicans who did object to the war, like senators Rand Paul and Mike Lee, did so on the respectable grounds that it was costing America freedom and wealth. They were openly disdained by the ascendant McCains of the party. Rand Paul’s father, Ron, sought the presidency on an antiwar platform, but he was even more marginal, despite an enthusiastic following on the far right.

Handling the party’s nativists was a more delicate proposition for GOP leaders. Romney and McCain, uncomfortable fits in nativist circles, compensated by advocating “self-deportation” for undocumented immigrants or releasing “complete the danged fence” ads, to say nothing of proposing that the nativist Sarah Palin should be a heartbeat from the presidency. No Republican since 9/11 had been able to combine nativism with antipathy to the futility of the War on Terror and seize control of the party. It occurred to few to try. Then, in June 2015, Donald Trump descended his escalator at Trump Tower.

In his infamous announcement speech, the one claiming Mexicans were rapists and criminals invading a supine America, Trump demonstrated just how effortlessly 9/11 politics amplified nativism. His great insight was that the jingoistic politics of the War on Terror did not have to be tied to the War on Terror itself. That enabled him to tell a tale of lost greatness: “We don’t win anymore.” Trump was able to safely voice the reality of the war by articulating what about it most offended right-wing exceptionalists: humiliation.

It was a heretical sentiment to hear from someone seeking the GOP nomination. Every major Republican figure had spent the past 15 years explaining away the failures of the war or insisting that it was a noble endeavor. Trump called it dumb. His America was suffering unacceptable civilizational insults. “We have nothing” to show for the war, he said, and certainly not the spoils of war that Trump believed were due America. “Islamic terrorism” had seized “the oil that, when we left Iraq, I said we should have taken.” The war was a glitch in the matrix of American exceptionalism, and Trump offered a reboot.

But except for the Afghanistan war, which he considered particularly stupid, Trump was no abolitionist. “I want to have the strongest military we’ve ever had, and we need it now more than ever,” he stated. He threatened to sink Iranian boat swarms, even as Iran was aligned with the United States against ISIS in Iraq, engaged in the ground combat Obama desperately sought to avoid. Then there was ISIS, at home as well as abroad. Trump pointed specifically to ISIS’s spoils: the 2,300 Humvees they drove out of Mosul. “The enemy took them,” he complained, pledging that “nobody would be tougher on ISIS than Donald Trump.” His latest position on Iraq was that it was dumb to get in, dumb to get out, and now the United States had to win, whatever that ultimately meant.

Trump’s incoherence was less important than what it revealed: a disgust at waging the war on its familiar terms, along with an enthusiasm for voicing its civilizational subtext. The same weakness that made the War on Terror a no-win situation had also yielded the current wave of Central American migration. Trump promised to crash the wave against a giant wall on the southern border for which he would make Mexico pay. The socialist writer and critic Daniel Denvir observed that Trump’s pledge to extort Mexico’s wealth for the wall was effectively a demand for imperial tribute. The analysis applies equally to his claim on Iraq’s oil.

. . .

Fifteen years of brutality as background noise made it easy for many to misinterpret Trump’s position on the War on Terror. Journalists listened to his invective against it and called him antiwar, as if he had not been promising to “bomb the shit” out of millions of people. “Donald the Dove,” Maureen Dowd of The New York Times wrote, “in most cases . . . would rather do the art of the deal than shock and awe.” Such attitudes revealed what elites chose to believe about Trump and what they opted to consider merely an act for the rubes. What they overlooked by focusing on Trump’s criticisms of the ground wars was that he wanted to expand the War on Terror to frontiers it had yet to reach. Most important, they heard Trump describe the enemy as Radical Islamic Terror. For 15 years, nativists, stoked by Fox News, had considered such a definition a prerequisite for winning the war. Elites had never understood why the right was so spun up about the phrase. Trump knew that “Radical Islamic Terror” extracted the precious nativist metal from the husk of the Forever War.

None of this was tolerable to the Security State and its allies. Sean MacFarland, a David Petraeus-favored officer during the Iraq occupation who now commanded the war against ISIS, rejected indiscriminate bombing as “what the Russians have been accused of doing in parts of northwest Syria.” Dozens of Republican-aligned security luminaries signed open letters refusing to serve in a Trump administration, birthing the Never Trump Beltway movement. But the architects, contractors, and validators of the War on Terror were placed in awkward positions. One of the letters decried Trump’s “expansive” embrace of torture, since their own embrace of “enhanced interrogation” foreclosed on a more categorical rejection. Former NSA and CIA Director Mike Hayden, who had lied so extensively about torture that the Senate compiled his falsehoods into a separate annex of the torture report, who secretly constructed a surveillance dragnet around the United States while imploring Congress to set the balance between liberty and security, characterized Trump as “unwilling or unable to separate truth from falsehood.” Nor was there any self-reflection from signatories like Iraq occupation chief Bob Blackwill, who took over as Bush’s personal envoy after Paul Bremer, and who had asserted against “the professional pessimists within parts of the U.S. intelligence community” that “2005 will be a good year in Iraq for President Bush.” None of them seemed to understand that they had created the context for Trump. He was about to show them.

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Great books where the Main character is a writer

The following books are great reads about different struggles and events a writer can face during his career

1. Less by Andrew Sean Green

Arthur is a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: his boyfriend of the past nine years now engaged to someone else. He can’t say yes--it would all be too awkward--and he can’t say no--it would look like defeat. Thus begins an around-the-world-in-eighty-days fantasia that will take Arthur Less to Mexico, Italy, Germany, Morocco, India and Japan and put thousands of miles between him and the problems he refuses to face. What could possibly go wrong?

2. Misery by Stephen King

Paul Sheldon, author of a bestselling series of historical romances, wakes up one winter day in a strange place, a secluded farmhouse in Colorado. He wakes up to unspeakable pain (a dislocated pelvis, a crushed knee, two shattered legs) and to a bizarre greeting from the woman who has saved his life: "I'm your number one fan!"

3. Wonder Boys by Michael Gabon

In his first novel since The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Chabon presents a hilarious and heartbreaking work—the story of the friendship between the "wonder boys"—Grady, an aging writer who has lost his way, and Crabtree, whose relentless debauchery is capsizing his career.

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2023 Oakland Athletics Roster

Pitchers

#16 Sean Newcomb (Middleborough, Massachusetts)*

#19 Spencer Patton (LaClede Township, Illinois)*

#29 Austin Pruitt (Montgomery County, Texas)

#31 Zach Neal (Flower Mound, Texas)*

#32 James Kaprielian (Irvine, California)

#38 J.P. Sears (Sumter, South Carolina)

#39 Kyle Muller (Dallas, Texas)*

#40 Yacksel Ríos (Ciudad Gurabo, Puerto Rico)*

#45 Richard Lovelady (Hinesville, Georgia)*

#46 Luis Medina (Nagua, Dominican Republic)**

#47 Drew Rucinski (Tulsa, Oklahoma)*

#53 Ángel Felipe (San Felipe De Villa Mella, Dominican Republic)**

#54 Kirby Snead (Alachua, Florida)

#55 Adrián Martínez (Mexicali, Mexico)

#56 Dany Jiménez (San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic)

#57 Mason Miller (Bethel Park, Pennsylvania)**

#58 Paul Blackburn (Brentwood, California)

#60 Francisco Pérez (Loma De Cabrera, Dominican Republic)*

#61 Zach Jackson (Tulsa, Oklahoma)

#62 Freddy Tarnok (Hillsborough County, Florida)*

#64 Ken Waldichuk (San Diego, California)

#65 Trevor May (Kelso, Washington)*

#70 Lucas Erceg (Campbell, California)**

Catchers

#23 Shea Langeliers (Keller, Texas)

#44 Carlos Pérez (Valencia, Venezuela)*

Infielders

#2 Nick Allen (San Diego, California)

#5 Tony Kemp (Franklin, Tennessee)

#12 Aledmys Díaz (Santa Clara, Cuba)*

#13 Jordan Díaz (Montería, Colombia)

#20 Zach Gelof (Rehoboth Beach, Delaware)**

#26 Jonah Bride (Owasso, Oklahoma)

#49 Ryan Noda (Grant Township, Illinois)**

Outfielders

#1 Esteury Ruiz (Azua De Compostella, Dominican Republic)*

#15 Seth Brown (Medford, Oregon)

#22 Lawrence Butler (Atlanta, Georgia)**

#25 Terry Rooker; Jr. (Memphis, Tennessee)*

#33 J.J. Bleday (Lynn Haven. Florida)*

Coaches

Manager Mark Kotsay (Santa Fe Springs, California)

Bench coach Darren Bush (Dunedin, Florida)

Hitting coach Tommy Everidge (Sonoma, California)

Assistant hitting coach Chris Cron (Albuquerque, New Mexico)

Pitching coach Scott Emerson (Phoenix, Arizona)

Bullpen coach Mike McCarthy (Brentwood, California)

Bullpen catcher Dustin Hughes (Walnut Creek, California)

Bullpen catcher Wilkin Castillo (Baní, Dominican Republic)

1B coach Mike Aldrete (Carmel-By-The-Sea, California)

3B coach Anthony Martins (Whittier, California)

Quality control coach Marcus Jensen (Oakland, California)

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2021 Cannes Film Festival — Lineup

COMPETITION “Ahed's Knee” OR “Ha’berech,” Nadav Lapid (Israel) “Annette,” Leos Carax (France) — OPENING NIGHT FILM “Benedetta,” Paul Verhoeven (Netherlands) “Bergman Island,” Mia Hansen-Løve (France) “Casablanca Beats,” Nabil Ayouch (Morocco) “Compartment No. 6” OR “Hytti Nro 6,” Juho Kuosmanen (Finland) “Drive My Car,” Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (France) “Everything Went Fine” OR “Tout s’est bien passé,” Francois Ozon (France) “Flag Day,” Sean Penn (U.S.) “France,” Bruno Dumont (France) “The French Dispatch,” Wes Anderson (U.S.) “A Hero,” Asghar Farhadi (Iran) “La fracture,” Catherine Corsini (France) “Lingui,” Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (Chad) “Memoria,” Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand) “Nitram,” Justin Kurzel (Australia) “Paris, 13th District” OR “Les Olympiades,” Jacques Audiard (France) “Petrov’s Flu,” Kirill Serebrennikov (Russia) “Red Rocket,” Sean Baker (U.S.) “The Restless” OR “Les Intranquilles,” Joachim Lafosse (Belgium) “The Story of My Wife,” Ildikó Enyedi (Hungary) “Three Floors” OR “Tre Piani,” Nanni Moretti (Italy) “Titane,” Julia Ducournau (France) “The Worst Person in the World,” Joachim Trier (Norway) UN CERTAIN REGARD “After Yang,” Kogonada (U.S.) “Blue Bayou,” Justin Chon (U.S.) “Bonne Mère,” Hafsia Herzi (France) “Commitment Hasan,” Hasan Semih Kaplanoglu (Turkey) “Freda,” Gessica Généus (Haiti) “Gaey Wa’r,” Na Jiazuo (China) “Great Freedom,” Sebastian Meise (Austria) “House Arrest” OR “Delo,” Alexey German Jr. (Russia) “The Innocents,” Eskil Vogt (Norway) “La Civil,” Teodora Ana Mihai (Romania-Belgium) “Lamb,” Valdimar Jóhansson (Iceland) “Let There Be Morning,” Eran Kolirin (Israel) “Moneyboys,“ C.B. Yi (Austria) “Noche de Fuego,” Tatiana Huezo (Mexico) “Rehana Maryam Noor,” Abdullah Mohammad Saad (Bangladesh) “Unclenching the Fists,” Kira Kovalenko (Russia) “Un Monde,” Laura Wandel (Belgium) “Women Do Cry,” Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova (Bulgaria) OUT OF COMPETITION “Aline, the Voice of Love,” Valerie Lemercier (France) “Bac Nord,” Cédric Jimenez (France) “Emergency Declaration,” Han Jae-Rim (S. Korea “Peaceful” OR “De son vivant,” Emmanuelle Bercot (France) “Stillwater,” Tom McCarthy (U.S.) “The Velvet Underground,” Todd Haynes (U.S.) MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS “Bloody Oranges,” Jean-Christophe Meurisse (France)

SPECIAL SCREENINGS “Babi Yar. Context,” Sergei Loznitsa (Ukraine) “Black Notebooks,” Shlomi Elkabetz (Israel) “H6,” Yé Yé (France) “Mariner of the mountains” OR “O Marinheiro das Montanhas,” Karim Aïnouz (Brazil) “The Year of the Everlasting Storm,” Jafar Panahi (Iran), Anthony Chen (Singapore), Malik Vitthal (U.S.), Laura Poitras (U.S.), Dominga Sotomayor (Chile), David Lowery (U.S.) and Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand) CANNES PREMIERE “Cow,” Andrea Arnold (U.K.) “Deception” OR “Tromperie,” Arnaud Desplechin (France) “Evolution,” Kornél Mundruczo (Hungary) “Hold Me Tight,” Mathieu Almaric (France) “In Front of Your Face,” Hong Sang-soo (S. Korea) “Jane by Charlotte,” Charlotte Gainsbourg (France) “JFK Revisted: Through the Looking Glass,” Oliver Stone (U.S.) “Love Songs for Tough Guys,” Samuel Benchetrit (France) “Mothering Sunday,” Eva Husson (France) “Val,” Ting Poo and Leo Scott (U.S.)

The Closing Night film and a major blockbuster will be added to the line-up. (Variety)

The 74th Cannes Film Festival is set to take place on July 6-17 in Cannes, France.