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1.1January
1.2February
1.3March
1.4April
1.5May
1.6June
1.7July
1.8August
1.9September
1.10October
1.11November
1.12December
2Births
3Deaths
3.1January–February
3.2March–April
3.3May–June
3.4July–August
3.5September–October
3.6November–December
4Nobel Prizes
5New English words and terms
From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in January 2005 by a Palomar Observatory–based team; Saddam Hussein sits before an Iraqi judge at a courthouse in Baghdad and is executed the next year; the shrine and resting place for Rafic Hariri in September; the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is launched from Kennedy Space Center, designed to explore Mars; The Live 8 concert in the Tiergarten, Berlin.
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Chinese calendar 甲申年 (Wood Monkey)
乙酉年 (Wood Rooster)
Tibetan calendar 阳木猴年
(male Wood-Monkey)
阴木鸡年
(female Wood-Rooster)
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2005th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 5th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 6th year of the 2000s decade.
2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995–2005).
January 1 – Jeanna Giese from Wisconsin, United States, comes home from hospital, and officially becomes the first person to ever survive rabies without a vaccination.
January 5 – Eris, the most massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System, is discovered by a team led by Michael E. Brown using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.
January 12 – Deep Impact is launched from Cape Canaveral with the purpose of studying the comet Tempel 1.
January 13 — Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex photographed wearing Nazi German Afrika Korps uniform at costume party
January 14 – The Huygens spacecraft lands on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.
George W. Bush is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.
The most intense solar particle event in recorded history is observed.
February 10 – North Korea announces that it possesses nuclear weapons as a protection against the hostility it says it perceives from the United States.
Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri is assassinated, along with 21 others, by a suicide bomber in Beirut.
YouTube, an American online video sharing and social media platform was launched by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim headquartered in San Bruno, California.
February 16 – The Kyoto Protocol officially goes into effect.
February 21 – Avatar: The Last Airbender premiers on Nickelodeon.
February 22 — blink-182 announces "indefinite hiatus"
March 14 – China ratifies an anti-secession law, aimed at preventing Taiwan from declaring independence.
March 24 – The President of Kyrgyzstan, Askar Akayev, is deposed following mass anti-government demonstrations and flees the country.
March 28 – The 8.6 Mw Nias–Simeulue earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong), leaving 915–1,314 people dead and 340–1,146 injured.
April 2 – Pope John Paul II dies; over four million people travel to the Vatican to mourn him. Pope Benedict XVI succeeds him on April 19, becoming the 265th pope.
April 8 – The first solar eclipse of the year was a rare hybrid event, occurring at ascending node in Aries. This was 4.4 days after the Moon reached perigee. Gamma had a value of -0.34733. A hybrid solar eclipse was visible from south Pacific, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela, and was the 51st solar eclipse of Solar Saros 129.
April 9 – Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony at Windsor's Guildhall. Camilla receives the title Duchess of Cornwall.
April 23 – The first ever YouTube video is uploaded, titled Me at the zoo.
April 24 – The first lunar eclipse of the year was a penumbral event, occurring at descending node in Virgo. This was 5 days before the Moon reached perigee. Gamma had a value of -1.08851. A penumbral lunar eclipse was visible in eastern Asia, Australia, Pacific and Americas, and was the 23rd lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 141.
April 26 – Syria withdraws the last of its military garrison from Lebanon, ending its 29-year military occupation of the country.
April 27 – The Superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse.
May 13 – Uzbek Interior Ministry and National Security Service troops massacre at least 200 protesters in the city of Andijan.
May 15 – Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith premiers in Cinemas.
May 19–21 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2005 takes place in Kyiv, Ukraine, and is won by Greek entrant Helena Paparizou with the song "My Number One".
May 21 – Kingda Ka is opened for the first time to the public at Six Flags: Great Adventure, becoming the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster at the time.
June 4 – The Civic Forum of the Romanians of Covasna, Harghita and Mureș is founded.
July 2 – Live 8, a set of 10 simultaneous concerts, takes place throughout the world, raising interest in the Make Poverty History campaign.
The European Parliament rejects the proposed directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions in its second reading.
The International Olympic Committee awards London the right to host the 2012 Summer Olympics.
July 7 – Four coordinated suicide bombings hit central London, killing 52 people and injuring over 700.
July 23 – A series of bombings hit the resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing over 80 people.
July 28 – As a result of the Good Friday Agreement signed in 1998, the Provisional Irish Republican Army ends its armed campaign and decommissions their weapons, by ordering all its units to drop their arms under the supervision of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning.
August 12 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is launched from Cape Canaveral, designed to explore Mars.
August 14 – Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew.
August 16 – West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes into a mountain in Venezuela, killing 160 passengers and crew.
August 18 – Peace Mission 2005, the first joint China–Russia military exercise, begins its eight-day training on the Shandong Peninsula.
August 26 – The Constitution of Chile is heavily amended, eliminating senators for life, reducing the presidential terms from six to four years, giving the president exclusive rights to summon the National Security Council, and removes legal obstacles for the creation of new regions.
August 29 – Hurricane Katrina makes landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast, causing severe damage, killing over a thousand people and dealing an estimated $108 billion in damage.
August 31 – A stampede at the Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 953 Shia Muslim pilgrims who were celebrating a religious festival.
September 7 – Egypt holds its first ever multi-party presidential election, which is marred with allegations of fraud.
September 12 – Israel demolishes multiple settlements and withdraws its army from the Gaza Strip.
September 19 – North Korea agrees to stop building nuclear weapons in exchange for aid and cooperation.
September 30 – Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, sparking outrage and violent riots by Muslims around the world.
October 3 – The second solar eclipse of 2005 was an annular event, occurring at descending node in Virgo. This was 4.8 days after the Moon reached apogee. Gamma had a value of 0.33058. An annular solar eclipse was visible in Portugal, Spain, Libya, Sudan and Kenya, and was the 43rd solar eclipse of Solar Saros 134.
October 8 – The 7.6 Mw Kashmir earthquake strikes Azad Kashmir, Pakistan and nearby areas with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing more than 86,000 people and displacing several million more.
October 12 – The second crewed Chinese spacecraft, Shenzhou 6, is launched.
October 17 – The final eclipse of 2005 was a partial lunar eclipse event, occurring at ascending node in Aries. This was 2.9 days after the Moon reached perigee. Gamma had a value of 0.97960. A partial lunar eclipse was visible in Asia, Australia, Pacific and North America, and was the 10th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 146.
October 19 – The trial of Saddam Hussein begins.
October 24 – Hurricane Wilma makes landfall near Cape Romano.
November 9 – At least 60 people are killed and 115 more are wounded in a series of coordinated suicide bombings in Amman, Jordan.
November 11 – In Kazakhstan, Zamanbek Nurkadilov, former mayor of Almaty, government minister and a political opponent of Nursultan Nazarbayev is found dead at his family compound.
November 13 – Andrew Stimpson, a 25-year-old Scottish man, is reported as the first person proven to have been 'cured' of HIV.
Angela Merkel assumes office as the first female Chancellor of Germany.
Microsoft releases the Xbox 360.
November 23 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf wins the Liberian general election, making her the first democratically elected female head of state in Africa.
November 28 – The United Nations Climate Change conference is held in Montreal.
November 30 – Surgeons in France carry out the first human face transplant with Isabelle Dinoire becoming the first person to undergo it.
December 12 – Scientists announce that they have created mice with small numbers of human neurons in an effort to make realistic models of neurological disorders.
December 16 – Find-a-drug medical distributed computing project is concluded.
December 18 – Chad descends into civil war after various rebel forces, with support from Sudan, attack the capital, N'Djamena.
December 25 – An express train bound for the city of Niigata, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, is derailed by strong winds in Shonai, Yamagata Prefecture. Five people are killed and at least 33 injured.
December 31 – Another second is added, 23:59:60, to end the year 2005, the first time since 1998.
Further information: Category:2005 births
January 4 – Dafne Keen, British and Spanish actress
January 11 – Roksana Węgiel, Polish singer, winner of Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018
January 13 - Eva Brezalieva, Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast
April 29 – Prince Dipangkorn Rasmijoti of Thailand, grandson of Bhumibol Adulyadej, son of King Maha Vajiralongkorn, Rama X of Thailand and his wife Srirasmi Suwadee
June 17 – Funa Nakayama, Japanese skateboarder
June 26 – Princess Alexia of the Netherlands, daughter of Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and his wife Queen Maxima of the Netherlands
July 25 – Pierce Gagnon, American actor
October 4 — Prince Emmanuel of Belgium, younger son and third child of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium
October 15 – Prince Christian of Denmark, son of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark and his wife Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
October 31 – Leonor, Princess of Asturias, daughter of Felipe VI of Spain and his wife Queen Letizia of Spain
November 16 – Mariam Mamadashvili, Georgian singer, winner of Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016
December 3 – Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway, son of Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway and his wife Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway, grandson of King Harald V of Norway
December 27 — Kristina Pimenova, Russian model
January–February
January 1 – Shirley Chisholm, American politician, educator, and author (b. 1924)
Arnold Denker, American chess player (b. 1914)
Maclyn McCarty, American geneticist (b. 1911)
January 3 – Will Eisner, American cartoonist, writer, and entrepreneur (b. 1917)
January 7 – Rosemary Kennedy, American socialite (b. 1918)
January 10 – Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1927)
January 11 – Jerzy Pawłowski, Polish fencer and spy (b. 1932)
January 12 – Amrish Puri, Indian actor (b. 1932)
January 15 – Victoria de los Ángeles, Spanish Catalan soprano (b. 1923)
Virginia Mayo, American actress (b. 1920)
Zhao Ziyang, 3rd Premier of China (b. 1919)
January 19 – Anita Kulcsár, Hungarian handball player (b. 1976)
Parveen Babi, Indian actress and model (b. 1954; probable death date)
Per Borten, 14th Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1913)
January 23 – Johnny Carson, American television host (b. 1925)
January 25 – Philip Johnson, American architect (b. 1906)
January 28 – Jacques Villeret, French actor (b. 1951)
January 29 – Ephraim Kishon, Israeli author, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director (b. 1924)
February 2 – Max Schmeling, German boxer (b. 1905)
Ernst Mayr, German-American biologist (b. 1904)
Zurab Zhvania, 4th Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1963)
February 4 – Ossie Davis, American actor, poet, playwright, author and civil rights activist (b. 1917)
February 5 – Gnassingbé Eyadéma, 3rd President of Togo (b. 1935)
February 7 – Atli Dam, 3-Time Prime Minister of Faroe Islands (b. 1932)
Ben Jones, 7th Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1924)
Arthur Miller, American playwright (b. 1915)
February 11 – Mary Jackson, American mathematician and engineer (b. 1921
February 13 – Lúcia Santos, Portuguese nun, visionary (b. 1907)
February 14 – Rafic Hariri, 2-Time Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1944)
February 16 – Narriman Sadek, last Queen of Egypt (b. 1933)
February 17 – Dan O'Herlihy, Irish actor (b. 1919)
Sandra Dee, American actress (b. 1942)
Josef Holeček, Czechoslovakian canoeist (b. 1921)
Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist (b. 1937)
Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish painter, photographer and sculptor (b. 1929)
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban novelist, essayist, translator, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
February 22 – Simone Simon, French actress (b. 1910)
Peter Benenson, British lawyer and founder of Amnesty International (b. 1921)
Atef Sedky, 45th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1930)
March–April
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco
March 3 – Rinus Michels, Dutch football player and national coach (b. 1928)
Hans Bethe, German-American physicist (b. 1906)
Teresa Wright, American actress (b. 1918)
March 8 – Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen separatist leader, 3rd President of Ichkeria (b. 1951)
March 14 – Akira Yoshizawa, Japanese artist (b. 1911)
March 15 – Otar Korkia, Georgian professional basketball player and coach (b. 1923)
March 17 – George F. Kennan, American diplomat and political advisor (b. 1904)
March 19 – John DeLorean, American engineer, inventor, and executive (b. 1925)
March 21 – Gemini Ganesan, Indian actor (b. 1919)
Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, Spanish spiritual leader (b. 1946)
Kenzō Tange, Japanese architect (b. 1913)
March 26 – James Callaghan, 70th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1912)
March 29 – Mitch Hedberg, American stand-up comedian (b. 1968)
April 2 – Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)
April 5 – Saul Bellow, Canadian-American writer (b. 1915)
April 6 – Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1923)
April 9 – Andrea Dworkin, American writer (b. 1946)
April 11 – Lucien Laurent, French footballer (b. 1907)
April 13 – Nikola Ljubičić, Serbian general and politician, 10th President of Serbia (b. 1916)[citation needed]
April 19 – Ruth Hussey, American actress (b. 1911)
April 21 – Zhang Chunqiao, Chinese political theorist, writer, and politician (b. 1917)
April 22 – Eduardo Paolozzi, Scottish sculptor and artist (b. 1924)
April 23 – John Mills, English actor (b. 1908)
April 24 – Ezer Weizman, 7th President of Israel (b. 1924)
April 25 – Andre Gunder Frank, German-American sociologist and historian (b. 1929)
Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan novelist (b. 1917)
Maria Schell, Austrian actress (b. 1926)
May–June
Jaime Sin
May 2 – Wee Kim Wee, 4th President of Singapore (b. 1915)
May 12 – Monica Zetterlund, Swedish singer and actress (b. 1937)
May 13 – George Dantzig, American mathematician (b. 1914)
May 17 – Frank Gorshin, American actor, impressionist, and comedian (b. 1933)
May 20 – Paul Ricœur, French philosopher (b. 1913)
May 21 – Howard Morris, American actor (b. 1919)
Sunil Dutt, Indian actor, producer, director and politician (b. 1929)
Ismail Merchant, Indian film producer (b. 1936)
Eddie Albert, American actor and activist (b. 1906)
Sangoulé Lamizana, 2nd President and 2nd Prime Minister of Burkina Faso (b. 1916)
June 1 – George Mikan, American basketball player (b. 1924)
Anne Bancroft, American actress (b. 1931)
Bolívar Urrutia Parrilla, 21st President of Panama (b. 1918)[citation needed]
June 11 – Vasco Gonçalves, 103rd Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1921)
June 13 – Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician (b. 1913)
June 13 – Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian conductor (b. 1914)
June 20 – Jack Kilby, American engineer and Nobel laureate (b. 1923)
June 21 – Jaime Sin, 30th Archbishop of Manila (b. 1928)
July–August
Edward Heath
James Doohan
King Fahd of Saudi Arabia
July 1 – Luther Vandross, American singer (b. 1951)
July 4 – June Haver, American actress and singer (b. 1926)
Ed McBain, American writer (b. 1926)
Claude Simon, Malagasy-French novelist and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
July 11 – Frances Langford, American actress and singer (b. 1913)
Edward Heath, 68th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish actress (b. 1913)
July 18 – William Westmoreland, American army general (b. 1914)
July 20 – James Doohan, Canadian actor, voice actor, author and soldier (b. 1920)
July 21 – Long John Baldry, English-Canadian musician and voice actor (b. 1941)
July 31 – Wim Duisenberg, Dutch politician (b. 1935)
August 1 – King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1921)
August 6 – Vizma Belševica, Latvian poet, writer and translator (b. 1931)
August 7 – Peter Jennings, Canadian-American news anchor (b. 1938)
August 8 – Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress, artist, and children's author (b. 1922)
August 9 – Colette Besson, French Olympic athlete (b. 1946)
August 13 – David Lange, 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1942)
August 16 – Brother Roger (Roger Schütz), Swiss monastic brother and founder of the Taizé Community (b. 1915)
Faimalaga Luka, 6th Prime Minister of Tuvalu (b. 1940)
Mo Mowlam, British politician and peace campaigner (b. 1949)
August 31 – Joseph Rotblat, Polish-born physicist (b. 1908)
September–October
Simon Wiesenthal
Eugenia Charles
September 6 – Eugenia Charles, 3rd Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1919)
September 13 – Hermann Bondi, Austrian mathematician and cosmologist (b. 1919)
September 13 – Julio César Turbay Ayala, 25th President of Colombia (b. 1916)
September 14 – Robert Wise, American film director (b. 1914)
September 20 – Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter (b. 1908)
September 25 – Don Adams, American actor, comedian and director (b. 1923)
September 29 – Gennady Sarafanov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1942)
Nipsey Russell, American comedian, poet, and dancer (b. 1918)
August Wilson, American playwright (b. 1945)
October 3 – Ronnie Barker, English actor, comedian and writer (b. 1929)
October 4 – Mike Gibbins, Welsh drummer (b. 1949)
October 7 – Charles Rocket, American actor and comedian (b. 1949)
Attilâ İlhan, Turkish poet (b. 1925)
Milton Obote, 2nd President of Uganda (b. 1925)
October 17 – Ba Jin, Chinese writer (b. 1904)
October 22 – Arman, French-American artist (b. 1928)
October 25 – Nirmal Verma, Indian Hindi novelist, activist and translator (b. 1929)
José Azcona del Hoyo, 61st President of Honduras (b. 1926)
Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (b. 1913)
October 28 – Richard Smalley, American chemist and physicist and Nobel laureate (b. 1943)
October 31 – Amrita Pritam, Indian novelist, essayist and poet (b. 1919)
November–December
Pat Morita
John Fowles, English novelist (b. 1926)
Link Wray, American rock and roll guitarist (b. 1929)
November 7 – Nobuhiko Hasegawa, Japanese table tennis player (b. 1947)
November 9 – K. R. Narayanan, 10th President of India (b. 1921)
November 11 – Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American film producer (b. 1930)
November 13 – Eddie Guerrero, Mexican-American professional wrestler (b. 1967)
November 16 – Henry Taube, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
November 24 – Pat Morita, American actor (b. 1932)
November 25 – George Best, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1946)
December 2 – Mohammed Hamza Zubeidi, 59th Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1938)
Devan Nair, 3rd President of Singapore (b. 1923)
Paul Halla, Austrian footballer (b. 1931)
Eugene McCarthy, American politician and writer (b. 1916)
Richard Pryor, American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer (b. 1940)
December 13 – Stanley Williams, American gang leader (b. 1953)
December 15 – Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Italian playwright, screenwriter, director, and author (b. 1921)
December 16 – John Spencer, American actor (b. 1946)
December 17 – Sverre Stenersen, Norwegian Olympic skier (b. 1926)
December 22 – Aurora Miranda, Brazilian singer and actress (b. 1915)
December 23 – Yao Wenyuan, Chinese politician, member of the Gang of Four (b. 1931)
December 25 – Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano (b. 1918)
Chemistry – Robert Grubbs, Richard Schrock, and Yves Chauvin
Economics – Robert J. Aumann, and Thomas Schelling
Literature – Harold Pinter
Peace – Mohamed ElBaradei
Physics – Roy J. Glauber, John L. Hall, and Theodor W. Hänsch
Physiology or Medicine – Robin Warren, and Barry Marshall
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functional calculus
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Influencers in LA are taking a 'hygiene ice cream truck' to Skid Row's homeless to prevent coronavirus spread
Kat Tenbarge
Elijah Daniel is leading 'Cult for Good' with his Twitter platform of more than 600,000 followers to collect supplies for the homeless.
Elijah Daniel
Internet comedian and rapper Elijah Daniel, stage name Lil Phag, is rallying his "Cult" fandom of more than 600,000 Twitter followers to raise money to buy supplies for the homeless in cities around the US, starting with LA, where most top influencers live.
The "Cult for Good" initiative represents a shift toward direct action, in which influencers and those with large social media followings are filling in the gaps where elected officials haven't provided support as the coronavirus pandemic spreads.
With nearly 60,000 homeless individuals in LA alone, organizers like Daniel are bringing "a hygiene ice cream truck the government should be running" filled with supplies like soap, water, and hand sanitizer.
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On Sunday, a white van with the word "Cult" written on its side in pink chalk pulled up to a trash-covered embankment in Skid Row, a neighborhood in downtown Los Angeles known for its condensed population of the county's nearly 60,000 homeless individuals.
Underneath the word "Cult" was a pink smiley face and the passenger-side door read "Supplies." A lithe 26-year-old with neon orange gloves and a white bandana tied around his face hopped out and began handing out purple plastic bags with basic hygiene products inside: individually-wrapped soaps, water, toothbrushes, tampons.
Elijah Daniel was the distributor and his roommate Kellen Schneider was driving the van. Inside of it were a few thousand of about 400,000 supplies Daniel has fundraised for and started to order over the past week. He and Schneider are both well-known on Twitter for their comedy, and Daniel in particular for his viral pro-LGBTQ stunts — branding himself as a gay rapper who goes by Lil Phag, and once briefly purchasing the town Hell, Michigan and proclaiming it's new name Gay Hell.
His "Cult for Good" initiative has followed a lot of the same viral formulas he's used to establish his career over the past few years as an online comedian, a gay rapper, a political provocative, and a comedy sketch YouTuber. Daniel calls his fans his "cult," and he's relied on them to boost hashtags like "#ProtectEveryone" to raise money to buy supplies that he's planning to distribute to the homeless in LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Portland, and beyond.
Daniel is planning to return to the streets of LA each weekend to distribute more supplies, and as long as donations keep rolling in, he'll continue to expand the "Cult for Good" project.
As quarantined communities around the country begin to reel from income loss and lack of resources, influencers and online personalities have started to pivot to direct action to help their fans – and really just anybody who needs immediate support that state and federal governments have yet to provide.
The day before Daniel's first "#CULTRelief" truck drove through LA, beauty YouTuber and cosmetics CEO Jeffree Star began sending $250 payments to fans through Cash App . YouTube's self-described "human ATM" and frequent charitable giver MrBeast is planning his "biggest project" ever, which will involve "lots of trucks full of stuff."
Even if they're quarantined to their LA homes – from Daniel's Calabasas apartment to Star's $14.6 million mansion – many of the biggest names on YouTube, Twitter, and beyond are finding ways to bring life-changing money and resources to those in need. It doesn't escape them that they're doing what, in Daniel's words, "FEMA should be."
—elijah daniel (@elijahdaniel) March 22, 2020
"I'm in bed, I'm not leading a f---ing revolution," he told Insider. "It snowballed into the most f---ing insane thing and I want to show how the Cult did it. Like, how the f--- were we able to do this and the government has done nothing?"
By going viral, influencers and online personalities can raise staggering funds and bring life-saving necessities to the homeless
"Cult for Good" started in Daniel's bedroom, where he's been self-quarantining. On day one, he started tweeting, looking for homeless outreach programs in LA he could support, and he couldn't find any programs set up for basic hygiene products during the coronavirus pandemic.
So Daniel started reaching out to brands he's worked with in the past to see who would be willing to start sponsoring supplies. One executive who recently launched a social media app that lets users own their own data and plans to share revenue with its users, texted him back immediately.
"He texted me saying 'Hey, I want to do something for the homeless in LA, what do you think? Would you want to donate 30,000 bars of soap?' I just said 'Sure, no problem,'" Alexander Draghici, the CEO of Forcer, told Insider. "[The soap] is getting delivered to my home in Newbury Park, so I'm pretty hands-on with it."
The first 30,000 bars of soap were doubled by Jordan Worona, the CEO of We Are Verified, a company that manages talent like Tana Mongeau. On day two, Daniel built out the project's website, and within 48 hours he says he raised enough money from fans to buy 150,000 pieces of supply, expanding the list from soap and water to include toothbrushes, toothpaste, snacks, hand sanitizing wipes, first aid supplies, menstrual products, baby diapers, and pet food.
—lil pee-hag (@phagcult) March 23, 2020
"I don't think I've ever bought a tampon in my godd--- life, I have 20 f---ing thousand of them coming tomorrow," Daniel told Insider on Friday. "I couldn't even tell you the amount of fruit snacks in my f---ing living room right now."
Each day, with his signature crude style, Daniel has rallied his fanbase to use hashtags and tweet about buying his merchandise (proceeds are going toward "Cult for Good") and donating to the cause, getting support from major influencers like Mongeau and "Vlog Squad" member Heath Hussar in the process.
—future stripper (@tanamongeau) March 23, 2020
—Heath Hussar (@HeathHussar) March 19, 2020
One anonymous donor signed his "very large sum of money" with "Seattle Smith," writing that he wanted his donation to be for the city of Seattle – and Daniel thinks it will cover enough supplies to expand there, too. He's up to an estimated 350,000 pieces of supply and keeps ordering "entire pallets" to his apartment, along with those of donors.
"We're hoping to do every f---ing state now, with little white vans that say 'Cult,' 'cause it's me," Daniel said. "It had to be weird enough that people were like 'What the f--- is that?'"
He, Worona, and Draghici have also been working to find more corporate sponsors and recruit more influencers. Dude Products Inc., the company behind Dude Wipes, what their site calls "flushable wet wipes for men," has been sending products directly to Daniel's fans.
Draghici also connected Daniel with Vivera Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical and medical devices company that's working to obtain an Emergency Use Authorization for a point-of-care rapid COVID-19 test that would be administered by a healthcare provider. Vivera plans to work with Daniel to administer tests to California's homeless population as soon as possible.
As cities order their citizens to self-quarantine, the normal influx of charity support for the homeless disappears, too
Once Los Angeles County announced orders to stay at home, community organizers who normally provide for the homeless population on a regular, at least weekly, basis began to feel pressure at home and online.
Shirley Raines, an organizer who started "Beauty 2 The Streetz" – a non-profit that provides showers, hair and makeup, food, and clothing to Skid Row – told Insider she received backlash from family and commenters on social media after a video of her distributing hand sanitizer and vitamins to the homeless through her car window received nearly 10 million views on Twitter alone.
Many commentators, she said, criticized her for allowing crowds to form without people standing six feet apart from one another. But Raines says social distancing is a privilege the homeless aren't privy to in places like Skid Row.
—Shirley Raines (@beauty2streetz) March 21, 2020
"The mayor asked us not to go out," Raines said. "But I got so many DMs from the homeless saying 'Shirley, no one's feeding us.' I was like 'Oh my God, this is terrible, they're asking us for help.' For three years we've said you can count on us. During this crisis we cannot back off."
Raines said her sister begged her not to return to Skid Row, and she skipped her usual Sunday trip for one week, to self-quarantine. But as she says, "there's no way to social distance when you sleep on the streets."
"The best I can do is give out hand sanitizers and try and educate my family I've been taking care of for three years," she told Insider. "I'm saying 'Don't touch your face,' 'Wash your hands.' They'll take that chance because they need to eat. This is what social media needs to get out there. They'd rather die of the corona than die of hunger."
In addition to some supplies that have been donated by companies, including the 200 hand sanitizers she passed out in the viral video, Raines said she raises all of her funding through social media support. Her experience crowd-sourcing reflects Daniel's, who estimates that 70 percent of the money he's raised for supplies has been from fans.
"As long as everyone keeps supporting and donating, I'll have 'Cult' trucks in every city," he said. "This is not gonna be a one-time 'drop it off and go' kind of thing. We're probably going to be doing them each weekend, and more often if that's possible. It's basically like a hygiene ice cream truck the government should be running."
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This week, the United States and Brunei kicked off the latest iteration of an exercise between them. Though the drills themselves were just the latest interaction between the two sides, it nonetheless put the focus on some of the ongoing activity within the broader defense relationship between them.
As I have observed previously in these pages, the United States and Brunei have a defense aspect to their overall bilateral relationship, which includes various bilateral components such as ship visits and exchanges, along with other wider multilateral components as well such as the Southeast Asian state's involvement in the Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) exercise. Both sides have continued to try to develop the defense relationship still further over the past few years.
That has continued on over the past year or so. Just last August, we witnessed a new development in the bilateral relationship with the holding of Exercise Pahlawan Warrior under the segment of Pacific Pathways, which constituted the first bilateral training exercise of its kind between the armies of the United States and Brunei. And visits have continued on into 2019 as well, with a recent notable case in point being the introductory trip to Brunei by INDOPACOM chief Philip Davidson back in September since he assumed his post in May 2018.
This week, the defense aspect of the relationship was in the spotlight again with the holding of this year's iteration of the CARAT exercise between the United States and Brunei. The exercise between the Royal Brunei Armed Forces (RBAF) and the United States Navy (USN) and United States Marine Corps (USMC) kicked off in Brunei on October 22 following planning conferences that the two sides had held earlier this year.
The exercise, which lasts until October 31, consisted of several components. Per Brunei's defense ministry (MINDEF), this included a legal symposium, a women's interaction program, senior enlisted engagement, a harbor phase, and a sea phase. A number of activities were also held before the opening ceremony, including a land phase, a medical symposium, and force protection training.
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According to MINDEF, participating forces this year included the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps on the U.S. side as well as various units from Brunei, including the Royal Brunei Land Force, Royal Brunei Navy, Royal Brunei Airforce, the Military Police, Judge Advocate General's Office, RBAF Medical Services, the RBAF Band, and Public Relations Unit. On the Brunei side, other government agencies such as the Royal Brunei Police Force, Maritime Port Authority Brunei Darussalam, Fisheries Department, Narcotics Control Bureau, Attorney General's Chambers, Emergency Medical Ambulance Services (EMAS) and University Brunei Darussalam are also participating as well.
This year's CARAT held additional significance since it marks 25 years that the two sides have been holding the exercise. And both sides highlighted aspects of the exercise that were of particular note, with the U.S. Navy noting in a statement that for the second time in a row, the commander of Task Force 73, Joey Tynch, had flown a Sikorsky S-70i Black Hawk helicopter at Rimba Air Base on October 22 alongside Royal Brunei Air Force chief Muhammad Walee Bin Haji Rosli. The U.S. Navy said that the flight, which consisted of simulated tactical maneuvers and combat landing practice in a remote jungle environment, was a tangible demonstration of efforts to strengthen the close defense partnership and mutual commitment to the CARAT exercise series.
Apart from the exercise, both sides also had other interactions that were tied to the defense relationship as well. For instance, according to MINDEF, Tynch paid a courtesy call to the commander of the RBAF in conjunction with the exercises. During their meeting, both sides discussed the close military ties between their two forces and also explored more interactions in the future, in an engagement that further reinforced the state of their security relationship.
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Governments chase economic development and growth in order to improve their citizens' income and quality of life. To do this, states often rely on private enterprise to fund and fuel the process. Governments stand to gain by improving their standing with the electorate, while businesses invest with the hope of growing their profitability. In some cases, this happens without there being an over-arching plan in place. In others, a vision and complementary policies are needed to kick-start progress.
Kenya has been working on its grand plan for the future, dubbed Vision 2030, since 2008. The scheme is based around the three pillars of economic, social and political progress, enabled by facilitating projects and macro factors. It is hoped that the reforms and developments in these areas will bring greater prosperity to the country. Flagship projects drive each of these pillars, and it is hoped that these will enable and encourage further investment and development.
The economic pillar's flagship projects are divided by sector, covering agriculture, trade, tourism, financial services and manufacturing. Tourism is a core focus of this pillar, with Kenya aiming to capitalize on its tropical scenery and coastline with new resort cities. There are also cultural tourism initiatives based on the region's history as the cradle of humankind. Consequently, there are opportunities for hospitality businesses, construction companies and tour operators to invest with government support.
Konza Technology City, which launched in January 2013, was created as a hub for business process outsourcing and IT services. The project hopes to generate 100,000 jobs by 2030 by using the population's English skills and relatively low labour costs to compete for IT support contracts. The development is also attractive for other back-office services that can be performed remotely using technology.
Industrial parks for SMEs are another project being piloted by the Kenyan government. The first five are located in Nairobi, Eldoret, Mombasa, Kisumu and Nakuru. Each of the parks focuses on a different industry, ranging from metals in the Nairobi park to the processing of fruit juices and vegetable oils in Mombasa. Some of these piggyback on Kenya's agricultural sector, which is also being developed as part of Vision 2030 with an irrigation scheme.
Kenya's capital markets are currently being liberalized, with the Nairobi Stock Exchange already demutualized and the bond market having been simplified. Real estate investment trusts have now been legislated for, meaning that there is a better way to make collective investments in the Kenyan property market. By strengthening the domestic investment markets, it is hoped that Kenyans will begin to save and invest at a greater rate than they do currently.
Vision 2030 should give both direct and indirect benefits to foreigners making investments in Kenya. The direct opportunities include expanding existing businesses into Kenya to make use of the new infrastructure being created. An example of this would be hiring Kenyan IT support staff as part of an outsourced or offshored service offering. Opening a food processing plant at the Mombasa industrial park is another option. Should the scheme succeed on a macro level, foreign investors will benefit across the board from an increase in Kenyans' disposable income and therefore be able to take advantage of their greater spending power.
Kenya is a great starting point for businesses that have not yet entered the east African market due to the nation's receptiveness to new concepts as exemplified by the rapid adoption of mobile money through M-Pesa. The country is also relatively well-developed for the region, meaning that there is a sufficiently strong market to support well-thought out entries and experiments.


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E.J. Nolan is practical, down to earth with strong ideas about right and wrong. He is orderly, organized, systematic and controlled, and once committed - he employs decisive and methodical steps to problems solving, without giving up easily.
E.J. seeks to establish a solid foundation, and would rather use hard work and long hours to build a business or career than search for "get rich quick" schemes. He has great potential for success, but only after putting out effort and overcoming the limitations he so often encounters. Courageous and a true survivor, he is a builder and the foundation of any enterprise, and his hard work and practical values pay off to provide E.J. Nolan with the rewards he seeks and deserves.
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E.J. Nolan works well with others, but it is important that he would have his own responsibility and well-defined task, because he performs better when his responsibilities are not overlapping with those of others.
Due to the rare discipline and perseverance that Nolan possesses, not everyone can keep up with him, and he has to be careful not to be bossy and rude. He can be also rigid in his ideas and get stuck in convention or too quick in judging his fellow man.
E.J. Nolan is a person of thinking and planning.
It is natural for E.J. to think before he acts, to constantly plan the short- and long-term future, and to keep elaborate notes and diary with everything well planned and written down.
If E.J. is over-organized, he should practice finding his way in disarrayed environment, or otherwise feel confused and in disarray himself.
But if he ignores the details in favor of the bigger picture, others might view Nolan as undisciplined with details, and not appreciate his great planning skills.
Entrepreneurial and progressive, E.J. Nolan is ever-striving, heading for the top, and enjoying an enterprising, ambitious and determined personality to do things well, and an unyielding dedication to his plan until the goals are achieved.
There is danger, however that his trait of determination and dedication will shift to stubbornness, making E.J. cling to ideas and projects well past their fruitious season. It is a good idea for him to keep fresh pipeline of ideas to make it easier to replace outdated plans by new and better ones.
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E.J. is a visionary today, with fresh ideas regarding both business and domestic matters. Yet, faulty outcome might be produced where Nolan is lacking generosity and honesty in his communication.
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A Trinidadian-born English recording artist who was the most popular British R&B singer-songwriter of the early to mid-1980s, and won the Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for his worldwide hit, "Caribbean Queen"


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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) Texas Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor has been put on the 10-day injured list with a sprained right knee.
Texas announced the move Saturday, a day after Odor was a last-minute scratch from the starting lineup for the series opener against Oakland. Odor is expected to be re-evaluated in about two weeks.
The Rangers selected the contract of infielder/outfielder Danny Santana from Triple-A Nashville. Right-handed pitcher Edinson Volquez was transferred from the 10-day injured list to the 60-day injured list to create a spot on their 40-man roster.
Odor batted .167 with no homers and two RBIs in his 12 games this season.
Santana has appeared in the big leagues each of the past five seasons, hitting .256 with 13 home runs and 100 RBIs over 364 games with Minnesota and Atlanta.


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The Mineralogy of Objects examines the power of objects and the body through the lens of Variétés de Minéralogie Object (1939), a shadow box by artist Joseph Cornell, translated into a collective, kinetic exercise.
Funding Credits: The Creation of The Mineralogy of Objects was made possible, in part, by the Danspace Project 2014-15 Commissioning Initiative, with support from the Jerome Foundation and the Mertz Gilmore Foundation's Late-Stage Production Stipend AND a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. Additional support was received through a creative residency in South Haven, MI with generous donations of rehearsal and living space from Dianne and Steve Wagner, The Saugatuck Center for the Arts, and Foundry Hall.


These mics offer the right trade-off between vocal quality and vocal audibility when singing in a loud environment -says Chris Kennedy.
In the case of live vocals in rock or metal bands, you will need a microphone that is capable of coping with the loud stage levels as well as being able to withstand potentially rougher treatment than you would expect from, for example, a jazz singer's mic.
One of the most important aspects of for a mic for a rock singer is its ability to cut through the mix so that the singer can compete with a loud backline of guitar amps and drums. This is often achieved by having microphones that have a forward upper mid-range to allow vocals to sound more present as well as maximizing the amount of gain before feedback by using a tight pickup pattern.
Here's our list of some of top mics for live rock vocals. These microphones may not necessarily produce the most natural and "hi-fi" vocal sound, however there often needs to be a trade-off between vocal quality and vocal audibility when singing in a loud environment.
Shure's SM58 has probably been the most popular choice for rock singers for decades – especially among male rock vocalists. Its forward, but not overly bright sound helps vocals compete with the pronounced mid frequencies of electric guitars. It is also one of the most robust mics ever made and its cardioid polar pattern offers good amount of isolation and gain before feedback.
Audix's OM7 microphone is designed for concert level and touring PA systems and features a low output gain stage which provides excellent gain before feedback in monitors. It has been used by bands such as Blink 182, Red Hot Chili Peppers, P.O.D, and Crosby, Stills & Nash, and is best suited for use with high quality mixing consoles which have plenty of head room to compensate for its low output gain.
The N/D967 is designed to be the highest gain-before-feedback performance vocal microphone on the market, making it a perfect choice for louder stage environments. It does this by having a particularly tight super-cardioid polar pattern and a grill design that allows singers to get even closer to the microphone element than on more traditional microphone designs. The N/D967 also features a presence boost switch to help cut through the mix and reduce the proximity effect of the microphone.
Shure's updated version of their SM58 features many of the same traits that made it such a popular choice for rock singers, however it produces a more 'modern' sound with increased high-frequency presence. It also uses a super-cardioid pattern, which helps reduce the amount of spill on stage from sound coming from the side of it – although it does make it fussier about monitor placement than the SM58.
The e 935 is a cardioid vocal stage microphone especially designed to perform in louder environments while cutting through the mix with its high output. Although it is not as commonly used as some of the other microphones on the list for male rock singers, it has found favor amongst female singers such as Avril Lavigne and Flo from Florence & The Machine.
Sometimes you just want a mic that looks cool! With its glowing LEDs and retro styling; the Heil Fin is certainly a mic that will get you noticed on stage. It might not have quite as tight a polar pattern as some of the other mics on this list, but its cardioid capsule and upper midrange boost should help singers cut through on all but the loudest of stages without causing excessive feedback problems.
The Audix OM-11 has been specifically designed for rock and metal voices – and loud stage volumes. It produces a sharp, crisp vocal sound, with great resistance to feedback and ability to handle high SPLs without distortion. The mic is designed with a tight, uniformly controlled hyper-cardioid polar pattern which helps isolate the vocals on stage, and has extremely low handling noise.
Very cool article. I have some crazy love affair with microphones, but I have focused more on mics for studio instrument recording. This article was very interesting to me… I particularly like how you mentioned the strengths and weakness of the various models. More articles like this are certainly welcomed!
Sm58 wasn't doing it for me. Beta 58 was a great choice instead.
picked up a Neumann I05, a VL3, and a Perform VK…and there is nothing out there that sounds as good on stage and as professional, regardless of genre, as these guys together…nada, zippo, Move on over Mick Jagger.


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A Happy Marriage of Growth and Stability
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I recently learned that my great-grandfather Taylor Malone started a company with my husband's great-great uncle, Joe Hyde, in Memphis, Tenn., my hometown. Oddly, it took us 11 years of marriage to learn this. We just found out thanks to a visit to a cemetery in Connecticut, but we're happy to know now. It's a great story about how we all need a balance of growth and stability to build great teams, to have successful careers, and to live the lives we imagine.
The whole story nicely illustrates something I learned about building cohesive teams from an executive at Apple. If I'd just been listening around the dinner table, maybe I could have learned it much sooner.
For much of my career, I tended to focus on hiring only the most hyper-ambitious people. I assumed that was the only way to succeed. Then a leader at Apple pointed out to me that all teams need stability as well as growth to function properly; nothing works well if everyone is gunning for the next promotion.
She called the people on her team who got exceptional results but who were on a more gradual growth trajectory "rock stars" because they were like the Rock of Gibraltar of her team.
These people loved their work and were world-class at it, but they didn't want her job or her boss's job or to be Steve Jobs. They were happy where they were.
The people who were on a steeper growth trajectory—the ones who'd go crazy if they were still doing the same job in a year—she called "superstars." They were the source of growth on any team. She was explicit about needing a balance of both.
This was a revelation. Apple was big but still growing like crazy. And yet Apple made room for people with all sorts of different ambitions. You had to be great at what you did and you had to love your work, but you did not have to be promotion-obsessed to have a fulfilling career at Apple.
For most of my career I'd systematically undervalued the so-called "rock stars." This mistake had caused a lot of unhappiness for people who contributed significantly. (To learn more about balancing superstar mode and rock star mode, read chapters three and seven of Radical Candor.)
Taylor Malone was the ultimate rock star, a man focused on stability. He started Malone and Hyde to support his family, not because he had a passion for business. His passion was fishing. He worked hard, and the company did well. He fished on the weekends.
Joe Hyde was the ultimate superstar, an ambitious man focused on growth. His passion was to build a big business. The company did well, and he wanted to take on debt to grow faster.
Taylor Malone was worried about what the stress of debt and growth would do to his fishing weekends. He decided he'd rather give control to Joe Hyde, let him build on the foundation they'd dug together, forego much of the financial upside, and spend the time taking his grandkids, including my father, fishing.
Lest we leave our female forebears out of the story: My great-grandmother was so loved by her children and grandchildren that nobody could talk about her after she died without bursting into tears. So all I know about her is that she was much loved. But that's enough to know…
Both Joe Hyde and Taylor Malone got what they wanted. My great-grandfather now fished three times a week, and Andy's great-great uncle built their little store into Malone and Hyde, one of the largest food distributors in the country.
Both Joe Hyde and Taylor Malone's decisions have contributed to our family's psychological freedom to do what we want. They also remind us of the courage and clarity it takes to figure out what we really want.
Joe Hyde reminds us we can take risks and build something big when that's what we want. Taylor Malone reminds us that may not be what we want, and we can live life at a slower pace and still be productive .
If you can build a team that balances growth and stability, that allows everyone to take a step in direction of their dreams, the benefits to you, your business can be surprising and delightful for generations to come.
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By Tsvetana Paraskova - Apr 03, 2018, 4:00 PM CDT
Until recently, oil industry analysts and executives were lamenting the slump in global investment in upstream oil, and many continue to predict a looming oil supply shortage in the early 2020s, when the sector will feel the pinch of the plunge in major project investment during the downturn.
But higher oil prices and lowered development and project costs have lately led to cautious optimism and measured risk-taking within the industry that is set to see an uptick in global oil investment this year, energy consultants Wood Mackenzie say.
While much of the investment increase is happening in U.S. onshore—with shale companies lifting 2018 budgets by 15-20 percent in response to higher prices—conventional oil project investment around the world is also coming back, especially in top offshore areas where project economics are competitive with U.S. tight oil, says Simon Flowers, Wood Mackenzie's Chairman and Chief Analyst.
As early as in December last year, Wood Mackenzie said that it expected global capex to grow slightly in 2018 to US$400 billion, as the sector had already made the big cost cuts and repositioned itself for profit in the lower-oil-price world. During the downturn, close to US$1 trillion was taken out of company spending from 2015 to 2020, Angus Rodger, Upstream Research Director, said back then.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) predicted last month a modest rise in 2018 investment, after a flat 2017 following a slump by 25 percent in each of 2015 and 2016. Investment is currently focused on U.S. shale, and investment in large conventional projects "may be inadequate to avoid a significant squeezing of the global spare capacity cushion by 2023, even as costs have fallen and project efficiency has improved," the IEA said.
WoodMac now predicts that operators will lift their budgets by an average 5 percent this year, but the recovery is uneven across areas, projects, and operators, as companies are still cautious. Nevertheless, the high number of project sanctions at the end of 2017—especially if compared to the two previous years—points to a broader recovery in global upstream investment.
Last year, 32 projects were sanctioned, with reserves totaling 12 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe), with oil/gas reserves split evenly. This compares to just 14 projects approved in 2016 and only 9 in 2015. Related: An Oil Price Rally Is Likely
However, both the spending and reserves per project were the lowest in a decade—with average spend at US$2.7 billion and reserves average at 376 million boe. Companies are now overcoming the cost hurdles in the low oil prices with phased developments and projects close to existing infrastructure.
Although this trend for smaller projects may cause one to wonder if this industry is spending enough for the future, last year's projects showed that operators targeted a much wider range of geographies compared to 2016, when the focus was primarily on onshore projects and big gas developments that had very stable cash flow profiles and low sensitivity to oil prices. In 2017, companies returned to deepwater projects and lifted the share of oil projects in the mix of projects approved, WoodMac says.
"The halving of global deepwater development costs in three years to an average of just US$8/boe is a key factor," the consultancy noted.
Another factor for the return of deepwater is world-class offshore discoveries such as Brazil's Libra and Guyana's Liza whose phased developments have some of the lowest breakevens among new projects and are competitive with U.S. shale.
The projects likely to receive final investment decisions (FIDs) this year have average breakeven costs of US$44/barrel, which is 15 percent lower than the average breakevens of the projects approved in 2017. WoodMac expects the lowered breakeven costs to lead to another year of more than 30 FIDs this year that would further diversify project types and resources. Company budgets globally vary widely, but Wood Mackenzie expects this year more firms to show a "measured approach to risk".
The vast resources offshore Brazil and Guyana are largely seen as the top-quality top-economics offshore projects capable of competing with U.S. shale breakevens. But the industry has cut costs across all areas, and even in European offshore, the number of sanctioned projects is bouncing back from the 2015-2016 lows. Related: Will Gazprom Leave Ukraine Forever?
Offshore developments are making a comeback, with Norway leading the pack, Rystad Energy analysts said earlier this year. Norway was the largest contributor to offshore developments in 2017 with US$18 billion worth of projects, followed by the United States and Mozambique, the analysts noted.
In the UK offshore, Rystad expects operators to reach a FID on 13 UK fields this year, compared to just four UK fields sanctioned in the past two years.
The trade association Oil & Gas UK expects 12 to 16 oil and gas developments to receive approval in 2018—more than the FIDs over the last three years combined—and unlocking investments of around US$7 billion (5 billion pounds).
Globally, upstream investment is making a comeback as operators have become more optimistic now that the cost cuts are paying off in the form of significantly lowered breakeven costs.
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James on April 03 2018 said:
You do realize that a lot of these projects coming online are still a good 4-5 years out right? Shale will plateau in the early 2020s as the majority of core acreage is exhausted, majority of global conventional oil production is still in decline (and some of it is terminal mind you), new deep water projects while they take the longest to start production are the best bet at new supply in the next few years. While it is a guarantee that we are headed for a supply crunch, what matters though is how intense the supply crunch is. Either way 100$ oil is on the horizon


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How to Schedule Sending Emails on Mac with Automator
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UK denies dropping Paris climate goals from text to secure Australia trade deal
By Euronews with AFP, AP • Updated: 08/09/2021
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, in the garden of 10 Downing Street after agreeing a trade deal, London, June 15, 2021.
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The British government has denied allegations that it gave short shrift to its climate commitments in order to help conclude a post-Brexit trade deal with Australia.
According to a leaked email from a government official cited by broadcaster Sky News and Greenpeace, three senior ministers — international trade secretary Liz Truss, business minister Kwasi Kwarteng and Brexit minister David Frost — agreed not to mention explicitly in the text temperature targets set out in the 2015 Paris Agreement.
But any suggestion that the trade deal would not adhere to essential climate commitments was "totally false," a UK government spokesperson told AFP.
The "ambitious" trade deal with Australia would include an important clause on climate change which reaffirms the commitment of both parties towards the Paris Accord and to reaching its objectives, including limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the official insisted.
The Sky News report claims that the UK government gave in to pressure from Australia and dropped references to specific temperature targets from the deal, including only a general reference to the Paris accord.
According to Greenpeace, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wrote to NGOs in August to assure them that the trade agreement with Australia would not come at the expense of the environment and would mention "multilateral environmental accords, including the Paris Agreement".
It now accuses the government of lying, and of totally undermining confidence in Johnson's administration as host of the next UN climate conference, COP26, in Glasgow in November.
John Sauven, the executive director of Greenpeace UK, said the negotiations should have been an opportunity for the UK to take the lead and press Australia into accepting the need to commit to climate change targets.
"It's an absolute disaster that the UK government has caved in in this way," he added, explaining that it was "absolutely critical" for Australia to commit to measures to curb the climate emergency because otherwise China and developing nations would be less inclined to act.
The United Kingdom and Australia agreed in June on the broad outline of a post-Brexit trade deal, following free trade agreements struck with the European Union and Japan. The fine detail is still to be announced.
Greenpeace castigated the agreement at the time as being below its stated ambitions over the climate, for aligning itself with a country "very late" on climate measures and which had done "nothing" to avoid chaos resulting from its deforestation and regular use of hormones and pesticides.


The Las Vegas tech scene has an impressive list of Meetups to learn anything from how to 3D print to how to learn to code.
"While getting to know many of the local techies Downtown and throughout the Valley, one thing I hear often is how inclusive this community is compared to other tech cities. Many newcomers and visitors say they are surprised when they're meeting with other entrepreneurs and hear, "How can I help you?" promptly following their company pitch," wrote Nicole Ely, Interactive Producer for Vegas Seven wrote in this piece.
Check out our calender here on VegasTech.com to see additional Meetups happening in the #VegasTech community!


This Brunswick Billiards table located in San Juan Capistrano, CA is installed in this room which I suspect gets a lot of sunlight throughout the day. Now mind you, this eight foot Brunswick table is only 12 years old. This might sound old but the rubber cushions typically last somewhere in the neighborhood of 20-25 years. I think if this table were covered and the room's temperature didn't fluctuate so radically, the cushions would have lasted longer. The original cushion rubber was Brunswick's Superspeed K-55 profile. We only stock the more common K-66 profile. I called my good friend Brian, at West State and had him ship me a set for my customer's rails. We glued them up yesterday and we'll most likely cut the angles on Saturday, then glue the cushion facings on and then trim and shape them. After these steps are done we'll install new Mali 10820-f Cadet Blue billiard cloth. Our customer has asked us to return to his home to finish up the job by the end of the week.


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The expression red belt () is used to designate in the Community of Madrid, since the return to democracy in the last decades of the 20th century, the set of cities located in the southern part of the metropolitan area of the city of Madrid, characterized by their high population of workers or working class and because of their long history with mayors of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party or other left parties and coalitions such as the Communist Party of Spain or the United Left, representing a total of 21% of the population residing in the Community of Madrid, with six out of the ten most populated municipalities of the region belonging to the red belt. The name is also used to talk about the southern districts of the city of Madrid.

As of the 2010s, there was also talk in this country of a "purple belt" in reference to the emergence, with a notable implantation in the red belt, of the new Podemos party, whose color is purple instead of the traditional red of the left-wing parties.

Municipalities of the Madrilenian «red belt»

Notes and references

Community of Madrid
Politics of Madrid
Belt regions
Left-wing politics in Spain

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I just spent a week in Dallas and ate at two restaurants worth checking out. The first restaurant, Hattie's, is located in the Bishop Arts District of Dallas. Open for 10 years, this restaurant consistently delivers delicious food in a warm and inviting ambience.
If you go here, the fried green tomatoes are a must for an appetizer.
I ordered the pecan crusted catfish served over a bed of mashed potatoes with seasonal vegetables. The catfish came with a lemon butter sauce that I got on the side and did not even use.
My dad ordered the meatloaf which you can't go wrong with here!
The salmon served with sticky black rice was good but nothing special. However, if you are looking for a lighter dish at this restaurant, I would suggest this as most of the dishes are very filling and heavy.
Just a tip when ordering...I recommend you get the sauce on the side for whatever entree you choose because every dish tends to be drenched in sauce. If you do not believe me, checkout the picture of the meatloaf above. Also, most of the entrees are so flavorful that you do not even need the sauce!
Be sure to walk around the Bishop Arts District after dinner as there are a lot of neat art galleries and shops in the area which are open late too. Ten years ago you would not dare come to this area by yourself but now this area is booming and full of life!
Dallas is a food lover's dream with a vast amount of Dallas dining options, offering a wide range of dining experiences for Dallas residents and visitors. For a truly memorable Dallas dining, the Y.O. Steakhouse can stood out above the rest by presenting unique food prepared to perfection, served by a top notch dining staff in a warm, inviting atmosphere. Thanks a lot.


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SCREEN-L June 1994
B & W Films
Donald Larsson <[log in to unmask]>
Thu, 9 Jun 1994 09:11:37 -0600
Re: Inquiry on recent black and white films:
An independent b&W African American film that has little or no dialogue
in order to replicate "silent" comedy came out a year or two ago.  I believe
the title is "Street Stories" or something like that.
Also, note that SCHINDLER'S LIST contains 4 uses of color: 1 and 2) the
opening and closing scenes in "modern" settings that frame the story;
3) the (muted) red coat of the little girl during the liquidation of the
ghetto; and 4) the lighting of the Sabbath candles after Schindler moves
his workers to Czechoslovakia.
By the way, NIGHTLINE featured interviews with the writer, cinematographer
and editor of SCHINDLER'S LIST after the Oscars.  It's probably still avail-
able from ABC.


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Sri Dharma Mittra (Minas Gerais - Brazilië, 1939) is een yogaleraar die bekendheid verwierf binnen de yogawereld met het verzamelen van een zeer groot aantal asana's en vervolgens het opstellen van de "Master Yoga Chart of 908 Postures", een wandkaart met 908 yogahoudingen waarvan er wereldwijd bijna 50.000 stuks zijn verkocht. Mittra is yogaleraar sinds 1965 en eigenaar van het Dharma Yoga Center in New York.

Dharma Mittra begon yoga te studeren in 1958. In 1964 verliet hij de Braziliaanse luchtmacht, vertrok naar New York en studeerde yoga bij Sri Swami Kailashananda Maharaj.

Hij begon zijn "Master Yoga Chart of 908 Postures" in 1975 en voltooide hem in 1984, nadat hij zichzelf nauwgezet in 1300 yogahoudingen had gefotografeerd en een selectie ervan op de wandkaart aanbracht.

Bibliografie

 Mittra, Dharma, Master Yoga Chart of 908 Postures (1984)
 Mittra, Dharma, 608 Yoga Poses, New World Library (2003) ISBN 1-57731-402-6
 Mittra, Dharma, Maha Sadhana: The Great Practice (2006) video

Mittra, Dharma
Braziliaans persoon


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Who Might Buy Millicom's African Assets?
Mobile and cable network operator Millicom is no stranger to M&A activity, having acquired and sold numerous operations in emerging markets around the world during the past few years. Now the company is the subject of takeover interest itself -- Liberty Latin America is in talks to acquire Millicom in what would be a multi-billion-dollar deal that would create a communications networking and services giant in Latin America. (See Liberty Latin America in Talks to Buy Millicom.)
This development begs the question: What will happen to Millicom's few remaining African operations?
Millicom (known also by its Tigo brand) decided a few years ago that it would focus on Latin America and began the process of divesting its African assets: Now it only has operations in Chad and Tanzania (and a joint venture in Ghana with Bharti Airtel). But those assets are growing, have a combined customer base of more than 15 million and generated revenues of US$131 million in the third quarter of 2018. (See Millicom's Mobile Ops Still Growing.)
If the takeover talks result in a deal, it's hard to imagine that Liberty Latin America is going to want to retain a relatively small African operation that would not fit strategically in a company focused on a powerhouse in a continent on the other side of the south Atlantic.
So if Liberty Latin America does swallow Millicom, expect the sale of Millicom's African operations to follow. Might Orange be interested in an attractively priced deal? It is already active in 18 countries across Africa, has no presence in either Chad or Tanzania, and sees Africa as a region of growth. It is also keen on the development of value-added services, especially mobile money, and Millicom already boasts 6.8 million mobile financial service users, and that number is growing fast.
Orange has ambitious plans for Africa, including the launch of 5G services in the coming years, and if additional operations become available at a reasonable price that can add scale and fuel revenues and operating profits, it might just be interested. (See Orange Eyes 5G Launches in Africa, Middle East.)


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Interview: Why there aren't any big Indian names in the Panama-Paradise Papers corruption leaks
Gerard Ryle, head of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, explains how 96 media outlets around the world worked together on the projects.
Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava
Dec 31, 2017 · 12:30 pm
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India ranks 19th among 180 countries in terms of the number of names appearing in the Paradise Papers, a global media exposé of offshore tax evasions published last month. Seven hundred and fourteen Indian individuals and entities are named in documents leaked from two financial companies – Bermuda's Appleby and Singapore's Asiaciti. The Indian government has announced an investigation by a multi-agency group. It had taken a similar step after the publication of the Panama Papers, a set of 11.5 million files leaked from the database of the world's fourth-largest offshore law firm Mossack Fonseca, 19 months ago. Though the leaks did not feature many big Indian names, globally they have changed the debate on hidden wealth, offshore money and taxation. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which investigated the leaks in partnership with 96 news organisations worldwide, won the Pulitzer Prize this year for its work making sense of these two leaks.
In an interview to Scroll.in at the Global Investigative Journalists Conference in Johannesburg in November, Gerard Ryle, director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, explained how they pulled off the world's most ambitious cross-border investigative journalism projects and what the leaks mean for India.
Edited excerpts from the interview:
What according to you is the biggest discovery from the Panama and Paradise leaks?
It is going to be a very strange answer for you. But the biggest discovery is the fact that a lot of this is legal. And the fact that it is legal, for me, did not stop it from being a story. In the beginning, there were a lot of things we had to think about. And one of them was, what happens when people come back and say this is all a legal system?
In India, a lot of people who have been named in the leaks have said they were doing all this within the legal framework. So, where are they wrong? Are we just questioning them on moral grounds?
Well, no. The stories show that this whole thing is fake. I mean, there is nothing there when you go to these islands. They are basically setting up false entities for one purpose only, to avoid tax. And I think it resonates with every person. Because if they are not paying taxes or if they are getting away with not playing by the rules, then this kind of breaks a social code we all live under. When we live in a country, we agree to the rules of that country. And yet this world, which is a fake world, does nothing there. The money never leaves India. It is just that on paper, it leaves India. So that you do not have to worry about paying taxes. Sometimes it is money laundering, sometimes it is arms dealing, it is tied in globalised crime, it is all sorts of things. But it is fake. And so, just because it is legal does not mean that it should happen.
You are saying there is no physical transfer of money. It is just on paper?
It is all only on paper. The money stays in the banks, in the major banks and financial institutions. And here is the thing that we learned: it is the major accountancy firms and banks that are behind this. You know you have law firms like Appleby or Mossack Fonseca but they are just the conduits, just the servants. All the schemes that are being drawn up are by the bigger people. So, it really just shows the farce of the whole thing.
There weren't many big Indian names in these leaks.
You can only report on what you see. You have to work on the documents. Whatever the documents are, what story comes, rather than your preconceived notions of what you wish for. Why are there no big Indian politicians? Because we do not have the right law firm. I guarantee you that there is another firm. There are 800 of these firms out there in the world that we know of and we have only reported on three, four or five of them.
What is the scale of offshore money transactions that these leaks point at?
These are just a couple of law firms. Just a couple of organisations that specialise in setting up accounts for offshore tax havens. They work for their clients, which are the major banks and accountancy firms and rich people around the world. They advise them that this is the best way to structure your finances or to hide your money from your wife or whatever it is they want to do. A lot of it is money laundering.
When the money does not even get physically transferred, how do the companies come back and say everything is legal? What is the loophole they use?
Well, what the big companies do is that they make sure the tax ends up in a jurisdiction where they are not taxed. So, say the corporate tax in India is 35%. What they [the companies] do is that they put intellectual property into a company in Bermuda where there is no tax. And then, basically, the requirement on the Indian firm is to pay for the rights to that intellectual property. They will charge the Indian firm a lot of money so that the profits from India certainly go to Bermuda where there is zero tax. Then you are basically able to avoid tax in India.
This is a very simple example. But these structures are a lot more complicated. Sometimes, the money launderers and politicians might have a company in Bermuda, which they would link to another offshore firm in the British Virgin Islands, which is linked to something in Jersey. They go from one offshore jurisdiction to the other and there are secrecy laws in each of these places where they cannot tell anyone anything. So, if you are chasing the money, even if you are a government, you start to give up after a while. It could take you three months to go to Jersey and then you have to go to the British Virgin Islands. And even if you get there, you are likely to be sent over to Bermuda, where you have to start all over again. In which case, the money has disappeared and no one knows where it has gone. It is all very difficult to trace. It is all about secrecy.
How did the idea of collaborating globally with journalists come about?
In American non-profit journalism tradition, what happened is that you got the money, you found a story, you then hired reporters and did the story. And at the end, when you had the story, you tried to get it published. They [the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists] were doing it this way. But when I took over six years ago, I decided, because we did not have much money, that it was not going to work for me. What I thought is that if I can find a good story, we would need the resources to go to the reporters, get them interested in the story, get their media organisations involved and then they would give us all the reporters we needed. And so, what we really needed to do then was to find a really great international story. And then the network would go from there. So we did some little stories to start with. And then we did our first big offshore story, which was based on a set of leaks that I had taken with me when I joined. I remember looking at the information and seeing names in Canada and in India and all these other countries and I thought, wouldn't it be great if we knew a reporter in each of those countries? So, the idea of reversing the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists started from there.
Gerard Ryle (left) and Marina Walker (right) of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. (Credit: icij.org)
How did you pull off global investigations of the scale of the Paradise Papers and the Panama Papers?
We had no money. So, we decided very early on that we were going to use technology a lot. Half of our team are technologists, they are computer programmers. We knew we needed to get all the journalists working together. So, the best way to do that was to build an online newsroom. The clever guys who worked with us decided to use software that was designed for dating websites. So, they just changed it and built it into kind of a Facebook for journalists. You can see who is online and who is not, you can talk to each other, you can share information, you can share findings. And one of the rules we had from the beginning was that if you are going to work together, you can have no secrets. So, if you find your prime minister or find the queen of England, you have to tell everybody, no matter who you know.
The other big breakthrough we had was when we learned during the process that we have to have the documents available for all the journalists. So again, the solution we found was an open source software designed for librarians. All the documents were up on cloud and they were searchable and readable by all the journalists. Over the years, we got better at it. And as we evolved, we found this French software called Neo4J that allows us to put names and addresses and auction companies into nodes. So, you see that is a node and that is a node and that is a node and then you are able to see these amazing connections between those nodes. For example, in the Panama Papers, as we were researching stories, the Federal Bureau of Investigation began to indict officials of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association or FIFA. And we realised that a lot of the people they were arresting or accusing were named in the Panama Papers and they all went back to this one node. So, we looked at that node and we found that it was in fact a law firm linked to a person who was sitting on the FIFA Ethics Committee. I mean, you cannot make it up. And we would have never found out about it without the technology.
How do you build trust among journalists coming from such diverse backgrounds and working with such sensitive information?
We started with smaller investigations. Marina Walker, who is the deputy director [of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists], says it is like building a dinner party. You are only going to invite people you know are going to be good guests. You invite people who abide by the rules, people you have worked with before, and the ones you like. Anyone you do not like, you do not invite back, and they know that. No one wants to be that person who ruined it for everybody. So, there is a lot of peer pressure. I mean, if we had the Paradise Papers, Panama Papers and the Germans had decided to do it by themselves, you know, they would have had a good story for Germany but they would not have half of the worldwide fame they have now.
What kind of ethical issues have you faced when dealing with such leaks?
The information has obviously been taken without the permission of the companies. So, we start with that. And we are also dealing here with anonymous sources because we do not know where the information is coming from. So, the obligation on the journalists is to really go outside the documents. You have to make sure the documents are real first. You see, a lot of context we are putting around each story and it is all based on the documents. And very few of the stories are just like oh here is a document and this is what it says.
A good example would be the Iceland prime minister who lost his job. We knew he was there probably from day one, because we found him. And we thought this is interesting, but then we realised he had set up the offshore company before he became a politician. So, there was no story. But then the Icelandic reporter went on to check whether he had declared it, and he had not. That became interesting and then we did some more research and found that he had sold the company to his wife for a dollar a day before he was due to tell people. But that still was not enough. So then the reporter went to the bankruptcy court of all of the Icelandic banks and, lo and behold, among all these offshore companies and anonymous outlets that owed money was the prime minister's offshore company. And that became a story because he had been elected to solve the financial crisis in Iceland. So now we had a story but you can see it took an awful lot to make it there. I mean, if we had published a story on day one with what we knew, he could have easily come back and said, look I wasn't even a politician then.
Iceland Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson was the first major casualty of the Panama Papers investigation. (Credit: AFP)
Where do we go from here, especially in a country like India where we are yet to see these leaks make a big impact?
Well, I think there will be leaks. There will be more information that will come out, whether it is the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists who gets it or Süddeutsche Zeitung or The Indian Express. You know journalists will get the information if it is out there. I think you will see more information like this come out because we are kind of in an era where people can gather information on a scale never thought possible before. Because technology basically allows you to put a thumb drive in and scrape up millions of records in seconds. We could never do that before. And so, we are kind of in an era of leaks.
Where do you see the Indian media in the world of global investigative journalism?
I would like to see it get more involved in collaboration because I think once you get involved in collaboration, you know the techniques that other reporters use and you also teach them in return. I mean, everyone has something to teach the other. One of our big things is to have people from each country work on the story rather than have the Americans or the British fly to India to do a story in India. I would rather have someone from India do a story there and tell me what is important for India. It is a much better way of working than having foreign correspondents come in and do the story from a different perspective. We have published in 67 countries for the Paradise Papers. And we will have more reporters coming to us and saying we put up the public data. They will come back and say, hey I am interested in this company, and then we help them with it.
Gerard Ryle


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Home » Crime » Shaun Hardy killed his visiting ex-wife at his home in Texas to 'put her out of her misery', he stashed the body in his garage then lit candles to hide the smell
Shaun Hardy killed his visiting ex-wife at his home in Texas to 'put her out of her misery', he stashed the body in his garage then lit candles to hide the smell
Posted on January 3, 2017 by konniemoments in Crime, News // 0 Comments
Anne-Christine Johnson, 30, vanished after visiting ex-husband Shaun Hardy at his home in League City, Texas on Dec, 8
Hardy, 32, confessed stabbing and suffocating Johnson on Dec, 30 because 'I wanted to watch her die'
He told cops he killed Johnson to 'put her out of her misery' then lit candles to hide the smell
Johnson and Shaun Hardy who divorced in 2015 were in the middle of a custody battle over their five-year-old son
Hardy has been charged with murder and felony tampering with evidence, held in the Galveston County Jail on $500,000 bond
The body of Anne-Christine Johnson who went missing on December 8 after visiting her ex-husband Hardy at his home in Texas, was found inthe garage in Hardy's home on Friday
Anne-Christine Johnson, 30, went missing on December 8 after visiting her ex-husband Shaun Hardy at his home in League City in Galveston County, Texas, sparking a huge missing person's search.
On Friday Shaun Hardy, 32, admitted the killing his ex-wife after breaking down in sobs when officers arrived to search his suburban Galveston County home.
He was arrested after officers found a body, who the medical examiner later confirmed was Anne-Christine Johnson, stashed in his garage.
Shaun Hardy confessed to her murdering his ex-wife Anne-Christine Johnson because he wanted to watch her die
Hardy who had been questioned three weeks earlier by police when Johnson did not return home, but claimed she he last saw her on Dec. 8 leave his house in a white car of unknown make with an unidentified man. He confessed to her murder on December 30, according to report in the Houston Chronicle.
In his sworn affidavit, Hardy told police "I threw her on the ground, as hard as I could."
Adding that once she was already bleeding on the ground, he kicked a knife into her chest.Then finished her off by pulling a Kroger bag over her head to put her "out of her misery," according to a sworn affidavit.
The search for the missing woman came to an end on Friday just after 2 p.m., when League City police showed up at Hardy's home with a search warrant to retrieve cell phones. When a detective drew near the garage, he noticed a "strong odor of decaying flesh" that only grew stronger as he opened the garage door.
Police found the remains of the mother-of two wrapped in plastic sheath and duct tape in the garage with scented candles splayed around it to mask the smell.
There was evidence that he also used ammonia to wipe her blood off the floor
Although the couple had divorced in 2015 and were in the middle of a custody battle over their five-year-old son, police say Anne-Christine Johnson sometimes stayed with her ex-husband in his home
Hardy initially refused to talk to police without his lawyer present, then changed his mind and gave a recorded interview. The suspect told officers that he threw his ex-wife on the ground and left her there bleeding. When Johnson held a knife to her chest as if to stab herself, Hardy kicked the hilt so hard he dented his shoe, according to the affidavit.
He said as the victim coughed and gargled, he threw a Kroger [plastic] shopping bag over her head. The body still wearing Christmas pajamas and had a Kroger bag over her head, when it was recovered.
The medical examiner determined that she had two puncture wounds in the neck and a chest and "a wound that could have been caused by a knife in her chest," and concluded that she was probably killed on or about Dec. 8 – the day she went missing.
Hardy reportedly told officers how he 'wanted to watch her die' when she came to his house. Ms Johnson allegedly held a knife to her own chest as if to kill herself when he kicked it into body.
He eventually suffocated her with a plastic bag to 'put her out of her misery'.
Hardy has been charged with murder and felony tampering with evidence.He is currently being held in the Galveston County Jail on a $500,000 bond.
The victim's mother, Stephanie Johnson said her daughter was a poet and a photographer who had an 8-year-old son who living with her first ex-husband, but she lived with a 5-year-old son with autism from her second marriage.
According to police the victim sometimes stayed with her ex-husband, in his home.