John Legend's opinion of President Donald Trump hasn't changed a bit after 100 days.
"I can't say anything nice about the guy, I think he's one of the worst people I've ever encountered in public life," Legend added.
Legend has been one of Trump's most vocal celebrity opponents since well before the general election in November.
He has previously called the president "racist" and in June compared his supporters to people who allowed slavery to continue in the 19th century without realizing it was an evil practice.
Legend has kept up his criticism in the wake of Trump's election, saying in February that he hoped the president would be gone by the completion of his first term in office.
"Hopefully 'Trump's America' won't last very long and we get him out of here within the next four years," the singer told Fault magazine.
In his interview with TMZ this week, Legend also defended former president Barack Obama's upcoming speaking engagement at a conference run by investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald, for which he will reportedly be paid $400,000. When asked how Obama could justify accepting money to speak at a banking conference with his tough regulation of Wall Street, the singer said it was a "silly distinction" to make.


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Easter Suggestions: Uzbekistan and the Silk Road
Alexander Butcher 10 March 2019
Uzbekistan's centrality to world affairs is not at an all time high. What little you know of it is likely to coincide with that general amorphous mass of Sacha Baron Cohen tinged prejudice that we reserve for all of those nations unfortunate enough to incorporate '-stan' into their names. One of only two doubly landlocked countries in the world (the other being the heroically insubstantial Liechtenstein), Uzbekistan's location in the arid heart of central Asia makes it seem understandably remote and unforgiving. Add to this a long history of dictatorship and Uzbekistan hardly tops the list of first choice travel destinations in most people's minds.
And yet to pass up Uzbekistan is to pass up a very significant chunk of the world's history. Before Vasco De Gama and Ferdinand de Lesseps rendered Central Asia a backwater, Uzbekistan was at the heart of world trade and the cornerstone of many a great empire. Situated squarely between the Chinese silk farms and the Arab markets, Uzbekistan coincided with the main routes of the celebrated silk roads, a state of affairs that brought the region enormous wealth and significance. Understandably this wealth caught the eye of the steppe tribes that have plagued the history of Asian civilisations, and the presence of Genghis Khan and Tamerlane loom large in the region's history, often with destructive results.
For such a large country with a sprawling history, Uzbekistan can realistically be covered by visiting just four cities. The first will inevitably be Tashkent, the nation's capital and the location of its main airport. After a storied history that included the inevitable destruction by the forces of Genghis Khan, a period of immense opulence during the height of the silk roads and occupation by the rampant forces of Tsarist Russia in the 1860s, Tashkent unfortunately can now be best associated with the nation's time under communism, the legacy of which was to leave much of the city a brutalist wasteland. Add to this an equally unfortunate spate of building works in recent years, and the city is hardly an architect's paradise, and correspondingly the tourist will not want to stay too long. This notwithstanding, the city is not devoid of its attractions. The 16th century Kukeldesh Madrasa is an excellent foretaste of some of the fine madrasas to come, whilst the city's soviet underground, with its cavernous stations complete with enormous mosaics of communist luminaries is an unmissable portal into the lost world of the Soviet Union.
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To spend a night in Khiva is to intrude into a world that one feels ought to be occupied by silk traders, Arabshahid Khans and Russian explorers. Isolated in the city's far south, surrounded by imposing walls and built almost entirely out of mud brick, the city has changed little over the centuries
The labyrinthine Tosh-Hovli Palace was once the main residence of the Khan of Khiva and his considerable harem, and still contains some of the finest interior mosaics to be found alongside the silk road, spread out over more than 150 rooms. The palace was built as a more luxurious alternative to the nearby Kuhna Ark, a 12th Century edifice that also has its fair share of magnificent tiling and hosts an exceptional reception portico supported by carved columns that once served as an open-air throne room. Aside from its palaces, the city is dominated by a series of minarets, the most audacious of which was the Kalta minor minaret, an unfinished behemoth that unusually for a minaret was built to be completely covered in tiling.
Another high-point is the gleaming dome of Pahlavon Mahmud Mausoleum, the burial place of a respected 14th Century poet. A more literal high point is the 57-metre Islom Hoja minaret, the tallest in the city, which provides fine views of its surroundings, especially at dawn and dusk. Those seeking to walk in the footsteps of history can do little better than to visit the city's hypostyle hall, formerly a mosque, that supposedly was used as a stable by Genghis Khan himself.
Upon my visit I was lucky enough to witness the city's annual gargantuan watermelon festival (a celebrated produce of the region), truly a sight to behold even for those who usually find themselves unmoved by fruit and vegetable produce.
Uzbekistan's most famous son, Samarkand is dominated by the magnificent Registan Royal, with its three imposing madrasas. The earliest of these is the Ulugh Beg Madrasah, named after the scholarly Timurid sultan who ordered its construction in the 15th Century. The square's centrepiece is the Sher-Dor Madrasah, significant for its tiled depictions of animals that flout Islamic taboos on the depiction of animals, and represent earlier Zoroastrian traditions. The Tilya-Kori Madrasah rounds of the assemblage, as the newest and most abundantly gilded of the trio. Together they form one of the finest collections of Islamic architecture on the planet, and speak volumes for a time when Samarqand was the beating heart of the civilised world.
Almost as impressive, and in many ways more moving, is the Shakh-i-Zinda mausoleums, an alleyway of gilded tombs that house eight centuries worth of local royals, including some of the relatives of Tamerlane. Another legacy of that all conquering leader is the Bibi-Khanym Mosque, located to the north in the Registan. In its fifteenth century the mosque was one of the largest in the world, but earthquakes encouraged its gradual disrepair. Extensively restored by the soviets, it is once more a sight to behold (although perhaps a little too inauthentic for the purists): don't miss the huge Koran stand in the central courtyard that once hosted a Koran almost as well-proportioned as the mosque in which it sits.
Closer to the city's outskirts is the observatory of the aforementioned Ulugh Beg, once the most important in the Islamic world, and fortunately rediscovered by archaeologists in the 20th Century. Its centrepiece is an enormous meridian arc, once used by scholars to create extremely accurate calculations of the length of the year.
With its roots in the Persian empire, Bukhara has a strong claim to being the most interesting of the three great Uzbek cities. The finest sight in the city, and probably one of the finest in the world is the beautiful Kalyan minaret, worth the trip to Uzbekistan all by itself. With a slender figure and beautiful brickwork muqarnas, the minaret has been the centre of religious life in the city since it was built in 1127. The minaret's beauty also happened to be its salvation, with Genghis Khan so impressed by it that he knelt down before and doffed his cap, ordering that it should be spared the destruction his forces meted out to the rest of the city. It has not been so sparing to others however, with convicts often executed by being hurled to their deaths from its windows.
The minaret is surrounded by the Po-i-Kalyan complex, which contains a mosque and madrasah, and is centred around an enormous prayer courtyard, enclosed by over 200 small domes, that could fit up to 12,000 people at full capacity. Facing it is the equally sizeable mir-i-arab madrasa, one of the largest in the world. Together they form an enormously evocative site that one should seek to visit at dusk when it is almost deserted, and one can almost feel the presence of the countless generations that have inhabited it beforehand.
At the city's heart is the imposing ark of Bukhara, a raised fortress surrounded by billowing walls. Despite its considerable strength as a fortress it has fallen several times, most recently to the Soviets during the period of the Russian civil war. Somewhat out of the way on the edge of a dilapidated amusement park, but undoubtedly worth visiting, the 9th Century Samanid Mausoleum is one of the oldest attractions in the city, and is topped by an intricate dome that spent much of its life buried under the sand until its eventual rediscovery. A final must see is the Char Minar, the former gatehouse of a now destroyed madrasa, with its four decorated towers, which it is possible to climb for excellent views of the city.

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Bill Donohue and the Catholic League Once Again Rise to the Defense of Pedophile Priests
By Brian Tashman | September 7, 2012 12:45 pm
In another shameful episode of the Catholic League's Bill Donohue apologism of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, Donohue played down the crimes of a Catholic priest, who in August "pleaded guilty to four counts of producing child pornography and one count of attempting to produce child pornography using girls as young as 2 years old," and the Bishop who was convicted yesterday of shielding the priest. "The case did not involve child sexual abuse—no child was ever abused, or touched, in any way by Father Sean Ratigan," Donohue said. "Nor did this case involve child pornography." Following Bishop Robert Finn's conviction, Donohue claimed that the "chorus of condemnations targeting Bishop Finn" are "as unfair as they are contrived."
Let's get rid of some myths. Bishop Finn was not found guilty of a felony: he was found guilty of one misdemeanor, and innocent of another. The case did not involve child sexual abuse—no child was ever abused, or touched, in any way by Father Sean Ratigan. Nor did this case involve child pornography. Here's what happened.
On December 16, 2010, a computer technician found crotch-shot pictures of children, fully clothed, on Ratigan's computer; there was one that showed a girl's genitals exposed. The next day Ratigan attempted suicide. The Vicar General, Msgr. Robert Murphy, without seeing the photos, contacted a police officer about this matter. The officer, after consulting with another cop, said a single photo of a non-sexual nature would not constitute pornography. After a few more of the same types of photos were found, an attorney rendered the same judgment: they were not pornographic.
Finn then asked a psychiatrist to evaluate Ratigan. The bishop was given the judgment of a professional: the priest was not a risk to children (he was diagnosed as suffering from depression). Finn then placed restrictions on Ratigan, which he broke. When it was found that Ratigan was again using a computer, upon examination more disturbing photos were found. Murphy then called the cops (Finn was out of town) and a week later Ratigan was arrested. Yesterday, Finn was found guilty of one misdemeanor of failing to report suspected child sexual abuse.
The Catholic League supports harsh penalties for child sexual abusers, and for those who cover it up. But it also supports equal justice for all, and given what we know of what is going on in many other communities, religious as well as secular, we find the chorus of condemnations targeting Bishop Finn to be as unfair as they are contrived.
As the New York Times reported, Father Ratigan "had taken hundreds of pornographic pictures of young girls," including on the playground at the school which employed him and some of the photos even "show girls' genitalia through their clothing." The school's principal sent the Bishop a letter noting that Ratigan "put a girl on his lap on a bus ride and encouraged children to reach into his pockets for candy, and that parents discovered girl's underwear in a planter outside his house."
The case began when the Rev. Shawn Ratigan, a charismatic parish priest who had previously attracted attention for inappropriate behavior with children, took his laptop computer in for repairs in December 2010. A technician immediately told church officials that the laptop contained what appeared to be pornographic photographs of young girls' genitals, naked and clothed.
Father Ratigan attempted suicide, survived and was sent for treatment. Bishop Finn reassigned him to live in a convent and ordered him stay away from children. But Father Ratigan continued to attend church events and take lewd pictures of girls for five more months, until church officials reported him in May 2011, without Bishop Finn's approval. The bishop was found guilty on the charge relating only to that time period.
Father Ratigan pleaded guilty in August to federal child pornography charges, and is awaiting sentencing.
Ms. Peters Baker told the judge in opening arguments that Bishop Finn had been given ample warning that Father Ratigan was a danger to children. She said that the priest had even admitted to Bishop Finn that he had "a pornography problem."
The prosecutor said: "Defendant Finn is the ultimate authority. The buck does stop with him."
In May 2010, the principal of the Catholic elementary school where Father Ratigan was working sent a memo to the diocese raising alarm about the priest. The letter said that he had put a girl on his lap on a bus ride and encouraged children to reach into his pockets for candy, and that parents discovered girl's underwear in a planter outside his house. Bishop Finn has said he did not read the letter until a year later.
The prosecutor said the photographs discovered on Father Ratigan's laptop in December 2010 were "alarming photos," among them a series taken on a playground in which the photographer moves in closer until the final shots show girls' genitalia through their clothing. Confronted with the photographs, Father Ratigan tried to commit suicide, but survived and was briefly hospitalized.
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11 Jobseeker Personalities That Will Make You Cringe
Published: 22 Dec 2015 By Laura Chetcuti
Do any of these jobseeker personalities ring any ALARM bells with you? You've probably interviewed a few of these if you're a line manager yourself. If you're a recruiter, you've definitely come up against them. Check out our WORST 11 job-seeker personalities here:
Desperate Dan
Oh, Dan. Dan's flung his CV over to circa 49 different corporations in the last 2 ½ months of the 6 that he has been jobless. His name has been flagged as spam across 46 of those organisations and he's been blocked by over 12 separate job boards for bogus applications. Do you ever quit Dan? He would do absolutely ANYTHING for an imminent job offer. There's no question that he's living up to his reputation of being utterly desperate for a job and he evidently isn't handling it all that well. He attends every job show in existence, appears at every company open day and he's even gone as far as to gate-crash countless Christmas parties with the undeniable hope that his newfound pals will love him enough to offer him his next position.
Psychic Sally
Sally reckons she can foresee the future, mainly where her career is concerned. She believes everything happens for a reason and does some reasonably radical things to facilitate her philosophies. For example, she was sauntering to work one blustery morning, mid-October and a bird plummeted from the sky, as if out of nowhere, landing on the footpath ahead of her before plucking up its twig-like legs and hopping into the distance. She immediately handed in her resignation and progressed to a volunteering role at the local RSPB because, unfortunately, they didn't have any jobs available at Head Office. Needless to say, she didn't last long on no money, but she didn't care because, you know, psychic and that.
Arrogant Al
Al is just the wickedest brand of the jobseeker. He fundamentally considers himself remarkable and anyone who expresses any different gets threatened with legal action for bruising his perfectly coiffed ego. Al thinks he's so notable that he shuns the notion of the CV in favour of his dazzling character, particularly social events. He's that networker who is schmoozing so rigorously that his tongue is ascending so far skyward to locations it should not that he could doubtlessly catch a lick of Chad's lunch and potentially a drop of his most recent coffee. He believes he's a passive job-seeker but he's not, he's just a Class A prat.
Nervous Nita
Poor Nita. She's been made redundant from the only job she's ever known which she commenced 35 years prior to her current job-seeking state and she doesn't cope well. With no tangible awareness of what modern day job-seeking comprises, she turns up to interviews with a bunt cake and a personalised tin of homemade oat crumbles that she baked based on her interviewers star sign. She still wears a bonnet on the weekends and has a budding collection of approximately 27 petticoats which she rotates according to the season, day and occasion. Bless her, she's so anxious that she can't sip her coffee without a dribble down her chin and she stumbles over her words like a doe staggers over rogue branches in the woods at dusk.
Silent Sue
Sue doesn't say a lot. When I say a lot, I mean, we aren't sure she can speak but we know she isn't classified dumb. Sue has a wonderful CV, but she's so technologically advanced thanks to her Computer Science degree from HARVARD that she's failed to acquire any basic social skills, talking and interacting with other humans being the main issue in Sue's case. Interviews are uncomfortable to say the least but deliver her a coding task and she absolutely hammers it! Her rare and desirable skills land her every job role she's ever sought and she probably holds the world record for 'Most Successful Interviews Held In Total Silence'.
Moaning Morris
The cardinal sin of interviewing: relentless bitching. Moaning Morris moans about his old boss till the cows come home, has horrendous issues with the company's health insurance policy and seems to exhibit severe trauma surrounding the lack of snack selection in the old building's canteen. Morris is a total bore of an interview and doesn't realise that all the interviewer is thinking at any one time is, 'What will Morris say about me when he leaves?'. Morris. So naïve. He can't help himself. As if that's not enough, the interview sluggishly morphs into a counselling session where he reverts his attention to the ball and chain that is his married life. He rambles on for the last 25 minutes of the interview, on how his wife bans him from Thirsty Thursday's so that she can attend knitting school and that it's an unmitigated liberty that she doesn't pre-prepare dinner in her absence. No one likes Moaning Morris. He's a drain on emotional resources.
Happy Henry
We aren't sure we trust Henry. He's far too cheerful to be British and we, in turn, are cynical towards him (naturally). He breezes into the meeting room like a leprechaun on morphine and plants his pert little behind on the chair like a wasp to chips on a beer-garden Sunday. Henry is one of those people you witness on the tube with a perma-smile. Henry is the person that forces you to disembark the train at the next possible stop and wait 3 whole minutes for the following service. I feel bad. We need to give Henry a crumb of credit. He illuminates the day for those souls who have enough evidence to understand that he's not a total psychopath and regard him as a refreshing change from the misery of their friends and co-workers.
Clever Chloe
Chloe is so ruddy intelligent that it's problematic to communicate with her on a base human level. You will never have heard so many words with over 15 characters in the same sentence in your LIFE and she will leave you with the sensation of feeling wholly and completely worthless to mankind. Her CV looks like it's been written by the Citizens Advice Bureau and her vocabulary is so esteemed that you wouldn't doubt she spent a chunk of her childhood on the Sandringham estate with Liz and Phil. Whilst she may be a member of Mensa, Chloe's intelligence can occasionally serve as a disadvantage. Employers are so ludicrously intimidated by her that they don't dare hire her for dread of losing their own jobs.
Clueless Chris
Chris hasn't got a clue what's going on. Ever. You'd be lucky if he could tell you what day it was and don't even bother asking him for the time. Chris thinks job-seeking is simple. He reckons you just stride into any static building in Central London, beam at the reception on your way through the barriers and pull up a pew at the first free desk you unearth. He also thinks that salary is physically paid by flyer pigeon and that HR is a rare tropical disease. Chris was never going to get that far when the first thing he ever asked at interview was 'do you take cash or card'. Poor Clueless Chris.
Grumpy Grant
Grant drains the life and soul out of every party and is never gratified with any job he takes. He doesn't even get enthusiastic over an offer call and tells virtually no one apart from his Nan when it comes to career movements. Nan is about the only person that receives the tiny smidgen of good that Grant has to offer. He reduces interviewers to tears with stories of unfair dismissals and his childhood weight problem but despite all of this, Grumpy Grant is pretty decent at what he does. He gets offers because interviewers know that he's probably too miserable to mess around when the Directors are out, and he will definitely be one less head to pay for at the Christmas party. Winner.
Punctual Pete
Everyone has a punctual friend. That's Pete for you. He turns up, at least, half an hour early for everything just because he need to factor in contingency time and his reaction upon realising he's late verges on feral. Pete is sat in reception for approximately 45 minutes pre-interview. If that's not shocking enough, it gets worse. If the interview runs even 30 seconds over the specified time the recruiter quoted him, Pete lifts his little finger to silence said employer and scoots out of the room like a scuttling crab.
If you don't resemble any of these extreme personalities, why don't you browse some of our Marketing jobs for a new challenge? If you need any help at all, don't hesitate to check out our careers advice section too!


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Are there environmental limits to cost benefit analysis?
Nick Hanley
This paper considers the problem areas found in applying cost-benefit analysis (CBA) to projects involving environmental costs or benefits. This is particularly relevant given recent moves by the UK government to include environmental valuations in CBA exercises, and in other related appraisal activities, following the publication of the Pearce Report. The paper argues that a major problem lies in placing monetary values on non-market goods. The paper also addresses the problems of (i) differences between citizen and consumer values; (ii) complexity of ecosystems; (iii) irreversibility and uniqueness; and (iv) intergenerational equity and discounting. The extent to which CBA is an institution open to capture is also discussed. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1992
Nick Hanley, 1992. "Are there environmental limits to cost benefit analysis?," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 2(1), pages 33-59, January.
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Cost-benefit analysis; environmental valuation; discount rate; sustainable development;
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Is Strategic Partnership Possible Between the United States and Mexico?
Andrew Selee, Woodrow Wilson Center
Mauricio Font, The Graduate Center and The Bildner Center, CUNY
Mexico and the US face a series of shared challenges: drug trafficking organizations that have become increasingly violent, a global economic slowdown that is undermining the well-being of citizens on both sides of the border, significant migration without a corresponding regime for managing it, and a health epidemic that threatens citizens in both countries. Can the two countries find ways of working together to manage these issues and improve the livelihood of citizens on both sides of the border? A new Wilson Center study suggests that strategic partnership between the two countries is possible, but it will require considerable leadership from both governments. The recent visit by President Obama to Mexico has provided a good starting point for these efforts
Andrew Selee is Director of the Woodrow Wilson Center's Mexico Institute, which promotes dialogue and policy research on U.S.-Mexico relations, and is part of the Center's Latin American Program. He served as professional staff in the U.S. House of Representatives and worked for five years in Mexico.
Selee is editor or co-editor of several publications on US-Mexico relations, Mexican politics, immigration, and decentralization, including The United States and Mexico: More Than Neighbors, Invisible No More: Mexican Migrant Civic Participation in the United States (with Xochitl Bada and Jonathan Fox), and Mexico's Democratic Challenges (forthcoming, with Jacqueline Peschard). He recently edited the Wilson Center's report The United States and Mexico: Towards a Strategic Partnership.
Selee is an Adjunct Professor of Government at Johns Hopkins University and has been a Visiting Scholar at El Colegio de México. He is a Board member of the U.S.-Mexico Fulbright Commission (Comexus) and serves on the Council on Foreign Relations' Task Force on Immigration.


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Effects of timing and heat treatment of silanated porcelain on the bond strength
N. Barghi, T. Berry, K. Chung
Comprehensive Dentistry
This study examined the effects of post-silanization interval and heat treatment on shear bond strength of composite resin to porcelain. One hundred and eighty square-shaped specimens were fabricated and sanded flat sequentially. The specimens were then randomly placed into six groups and 18 subgroups of 10 specimens each. An experimental and three commercially available silane systems, including two one-mix and one two-mix systems, were tested in this study. No silane treatment specimen was used as control. Specimens from the experimental and one of the Mirage groups were selected for heat treatment for 60 min at 60°C. Three post-silanization intervals were scheduled. After incubation, a dual cure composite resin (Mirage FLC) was placed on the silanated surfaces and light-cured. All specimens were stored in 37°C, 2% saline solution for 1 week and subjected to shear test using an Instron machine with cross-head speed of 5 mm/min. ANOVA and Scheffe tests were used to analyse data with confidence level at 95%. The mean values of the shear bond strengths ranged from 2-8 to 23-3 MPa. All groups showed significantly higher bond strength than the control group at the 3 min, 24 h and 1 week post-silanization periods (P < 0.05). Heat treatment groups recorded an increase in the shear bond strength and maintained significantly higher bond strength values (P < 0.05). In conclusion, bond strength of composite resin to porcelain resulting from silanization of porcelain increased after heat treatment and during the post-silanization periods. The bond strength also varied for different silane coupling agents tested in this study especially in the one-mix system.
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A dramatic policy switch to eliminate exposure to Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) must be the main focus of the EU's EDC strategy (1) currently being reviewed in order to address the shocking levels of breast cancer caused by work. The Alliance for Cancer Prevention demands a refocus of the EDC strategy in the wake of new research which shows working in certain jobs can elevate women's breast cancer risk. The international case control study (2), led by the University of Stirling's Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety Research Group (OEHRG) found that women working for 10 years in jobs classified as highly exposed increased their breast cancer risk by 42 per cent.
Professor Andrew Watterson, head of the OEHRG at Stirling University and co-author of the study said: "Many workers face multiple exposures to chemicals, not only from their employment, but from their everyday environment. Many of the women included in the study were exposed to a virtual 'toxic soup' of chemicals. Untangling work and wider factors in the possible causes of breast cancer is an important global issue".
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Talking about the research Dr Keith reflected that study could also have wider implications for society as a whole. We may be exposed to many of these same cancer-causing and endocrine-disrupting chemicals on a daily basis, albeit likely at much lower levels. The study also points to the need to re-evaluate occupational and environmental exposure standards, keeping in mind that there may be no determinable safe levels to cancer-causing or hormone-disrupting chemicals.
The Alliance for Cancer Prevention believes a turning point has been reached with this study, and we must heed the warning. Lifestyle or genetic factors alone cannot be blamed for the increasing rise in breast cancer. Other factors are at play such as occupational and environmental exposures and we need to include these as risk factors when strategising ways to prevent this disease. No women should have to deal with ever present risk of breast cancer because of the work she does.
The Alliance for Cancer Prevention demands an urgent refocus of the EDC strategy to eliminate exposure to EDCs. We call on the UK government to support a hazard's based approach to identification and assessment of EDCs including mixtures of EDCs across all exposures in the workplace and for the public in general.
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Press Release: Dramatic shift from regulation to elimination called for in light of increased occupational breast cancer risk.
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NEW YORK–(COMMERCIAL THREAD) –WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit on behalf of buyers of securities of Alfi, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALF): (1) in accordance with and / or traceable to the Company's initial public announcement of the offer made on or around May 4, 2021 (the "IPO" or "the" Offer ") and / or (2) between May 4, 2021 and November 15 2021 inclusive (the "Recourse Period"). A class action has already been filed. If you wish to act as the principal applicant, you must apply to the Court by January 31, 2022 at the latest.
SO WHAT: If you have purchased securities of Alfi, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any fees or additional charges through a contingency fee agreement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Alfi class action lawsuit, go to http://www.rosenlegal.com/cases-register-2201.html or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll free at 866-767-3653 or by emailing [email protected] or [email protected] for information on the class action. A class action suit has already been filed. If you wish to act as the principal applicant, you must apply to the Court by January 31, 2022 at the latest. A principal plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of the other members of the class to direct the litigation.
WHY THE ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified advisors with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, companies providing reviews do not have comparable experience, resources or peer recognition. Be wise in choosing a lawyer. Rosen law firm represents investors around the world, focusing its practice on class actions in securities and derivative litigation between shareholders. Rosen law firm has secured the largest securities class action settlement against a Chinese company. Rosen law firm was ranked # 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for the number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 every year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone, the company raised more than $ 438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was appointed by law360 Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's lawyers have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
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Better Call Saul "Wexler v. Goodman" (S5E06)
March 30, 2020 From the Couch of Kevin	Leave a comment
"You never listen!" – Kim's mother
How does Kim go from a teenager who knows better than to get in the car with her intoxicated mom, to present day Kim proposing marriage to Saul after he betrays her by turning her into a sucker (once again) along with Mesa Verde? Nine times out of ten, Kim knows what's best. She knew she was better off upping Mr. Acker's settlement to $75,000 and pay the difference out of pocket from Mesa Verde's share. For her, it's better to take the financial hit and put this mess behind her rather than risk her career and reputation over a scam that entails dragging her most depended client through the mud. Best case scenario, the scam makes her feel good that Mr. Acker keeps his home and Jimmy feel good for working his magic as a con man.
From the beginning of the episode, Kim comes to the conclusion that the thrill is not worth it and musters up the courage to call it off, despite Jimmy's much expected disappointment. She has good reason, considering her boss Rich Schweikart has already declared his suspicions of what's truly going on. Jimmy argues that nobody will ever find out they're in cahoots but he knows he's at a loss. As much as he hates to see a walk-off homerun dribble foul, he agrees to call off the scam. He does this, guilting Kim in the process by stressing how deflated the student film crew will be after how hard they worked in preparation. Jimmy is a tad manipulative here, similar to Walter White making Skyler feel like the party pooper when she orders him to take Walt Jr.'s Dodge Challenger back to the dealership to avoid suspicions. Jimmy honors Kim's wishes, but only until he can turn her words of caution and reasoning into an invitation to go against them.
The question for Jimmy here is…why? What drives Jimmy's need to go forward with the scam to the point where he figures using Kim's genuine surprise and anger as a means to clear Rich of any suspicion is in any way excusable to the act of steamrolling her to begin with? Is he this desperate to mask his grief with Chuck by getting a rise out of screwing people over, even if it includes deceiving someone he cares about? By not going forward with defaming Mesa Verde and accusing them of every absurd, scandalous offense under the sun (including a claim of copyright infringement which would actually hold water), Jimmy's goal to turn the world upside-down would result in an anti-climax. Anti-climax is the exact thing Jimmy strives to avoid because under Chuck's watch, it's all Jimmy was ever advised to endure.
Jimmy is gun-ho to put his talents to use on his own terms. He doesn't want to hear reasons not to, no matter how valid or sound, because he's eager to prove that his way of doing things was always the way they should have been done long ago. Perhaps he feels an incessant need to go through with it because he's been held back for so long and needs to make up for the lost time of making choices for him and him alone. It's something Chuck never allowed him to do as it causes a fallout of damage at the expense of others. Problem is, Jimmy still cares for Kim and wants to be a couple, therefore his needs are going to clash and the consequences of his actions still need to be considered if he wants to maintain the relationship. But what does Kim actually want? Because one episode she's mocking the air of arrogance and greed Kevin Wachtell carries and the next she's come to her logical senses, arguing not to bat the beehive.
As I go on to explore Kim's mindset in this episode's review, I discover that I already hit most of the nail on the head back in last season's "Coushatta" write-up. The same analysis applies:
"If the proceedings for Mesa Verde weren't such a drag for Kim, she probably would never make this worrisome choice. I think back to the younger, eager version of herself in the cold open of "Pinata" where she's Jimmy's #1 buddy but her admiration for Chuck and aspiration for becoming the rockstar lawyer is her real draw. You have to consider what happened to her along the way where Howard locked her in doc review and Chuck proved to be more of a disappointing role model. Even though she never achieved Mesa Verde properly (because of Jimmy), she still owned it through her hard work, but even that pales in comparison to what Jimmy has always consistently offered her in which Howard, Chuck, and even Kevin Wachtell have failed to. And that's the rockstar, home run moment. Between her scamming 'Ken Wins' out of buying the most expensive tequila, fighting in Jimmy's corner in the case against Chuck, or pulling off a Hail Mary in getting Huell no jail time, Jimmy has always been the guy that granted her the rewarding satisfaction of winning.
There's always been a corruptible blot on Kim's x-ray and she's overcome that with the firm belief that working within the lines of legitimacy was her ticket for gratification. She wore this like a badge of honor to the point where she even warned Jimmy in season 2 that fabricating evidence in his cobbler scheme was not worth sacrificing the more lucrative, straight and narrow road he's built for himself. However, Jimmy has proved time and time again that through the same willpower in which Kim possesses, he can run each side of the law like a ski slalom in his favor. It's that exhilarating feeling of coming out on top that triumphs over the lawful standards Chuck reveled in, where currently for her it's all tunnel and no light. That said, I don't think Kim is stupid. By telling Jimmy "Let's do it again", it's not that she's willing to unnecessarily bend the law when there's no present hurdle giving them a reason to, but a message to Jimmy that she's willing to fight dirty in his corner when the next situation calls for it. It's too much of a stretch that she would join Jimmy as a criminal partner (she still has higher morals), but she certainly seems eager to be a disciplined asset to him."
Everything transpiring this season leading up to "Wexler v. Goodman" expands on this line of thinking with new information and developments. It's not so much that Kim is bored with helping Mesa Verde's campaign to expand their territories but the corporate evil to the process that's impeding on the lives of unsuspecting citizens is wearing on her. She's learned that the law isn't her neat and tidy road to salvation and in fact, by following it she'll continue to be the loser who's ordered around by Kevin and who's made to look like a chump by Jimmy. Jimmy called Kim out in last season's episode "Wiedersehen", addressing how she always has her feet in both camps when it comes to embracing and rejecting him as a partner. He's always been hurt by this even if he always kept it to himself. It's probably what drove him to reject Kim's wishes not to go forward with blackmailing Mesa Verde here. By doing it, he kills two birds with one stone. One stone sets to prove that his colorful way of doing things goes off without a hitch and therefore Kim should have trusted Jimmy, while the other punishes her as the added sucker for not listening.
Obviously there's a level of delusion at play there when it comes to justifying the act of sideswiping her and believing his original con with Rich's suspicions in tow, to be such a shoe-in, but this is essentially his way of putting his foot down. This is who Jimmy is and if Kim doesn't want to continue to be made the sucker picking up the pieces, then it's time for her to finally make the choice she's been dreading all season. She can either wash her hands of Jimmy and leave him (which is what she acknowledges in the episode's closing scene) or commit to him fully as a partner. Both feet in one camp. It sounds crazy when you consider how much sense Kim possesses, but this choice is derived from a much more complicated, existential dilemma than most logical reasoning can sway. It's about living. Not just surviving and playing it safe while the rest of the world gets the better of you, but living on the edge. I think Kim would rather live a riskier life that works in her and her partner's favor, as well as the moral favor of others (Mr. Acker being the prime example), than to tow the line, get pushed around, and lose someone she loves over reservations of the legal right and wrong. She put the law and the act of 'going about things the right way' on a pedestal all her life and it's been known to fail her.
Young Kim knew that the right decision to make when her mom showed up late and under the influence of alcohol, was that she shouldn't get in the car with her. She was put in a position to reject her mother's offer to drive her home, no matter how much context Kim may have (that we don't) as to why her mom drinks. We don't know how hard Kim's mom has it other than their family growing up poor to the point of dodging payments with multiple landlords. For all we know, Kim's mother means well and although struggles with certain vices, ultimately aims to give Kim the best upbringing she possibly can. You can see on her mom's face that she isn't proud of her problem or lying to her daughter to reassure her safety, but the last thing she wants is her kid walking three miles home by herself carrying a cello. That said, she drives off nearly insulted that Kim doesn't believe her despite Kim being in the right. It's a tough scene, but it brings up the notion of possible abandonment issues that Kim holds towards her mom. Not so much that Kim's mother might have abandoned her, but that Kim might have pushed her mother further and further away in favor of doing what's right.
It's possible that this became a pattern of choices Kim dedicated herself to which would have resulted in a wider divide between mother and daughter. There's no telling what may have resulted from that but perhaps whatever unfolded is the very thing Kim doesn't want to repeat at all cost when it comes to Jimmy. The difference between Jimmy's hang-ups and lies compared to Kim's mother's, is Kim has undergone deeper understanding and sympathy as to why Jimmy is the way he is. Being a kid, she may never have had a chance to give her mom the same consideration. "You never listen!" might be the guilty echo of her mother's words that still bounces in Kim's head. A haunting mantra she could redeem herself from in the case of her relationship with Jimmy.
By proposing that they get married, it's her way of saying "I'm going to listen, embrace you, and live life." If it means Kim can be on the same team with Jimmy going forward and not get caught off guard in the whirlwind of his actions, then that's a life decision she might find more important and valuable than anything else. Even if it's the more dangerous route that could result in a horrible wreck like getting in the car with her mom, a life with Saul promises something richer than the life she currently leads. Not just money or even winning, but maintaining the smaller things in life that she pushed away from her mom like splitting a box of McNuggets, seeing what's on TV, and embracing the warmth of two people who love each other. She'll take that at the risk of losing someone over walking alone again in the cold. Because what is Kim's life without Jimmy and what has it already become from estranging herself from her mom and family? This breaking point pushes her closer to her role as a criminal partner, rather than just a disciplined asset to Jimmy. Kim still has her morals but at what point do they become further compromised after fully committing to Saul Goodman? Will those morals deteriorate along with his or does she come to another breaking point?
Mike has also committed himself to a partner in Gus despite the moral conflict that may come from it. Gus apparently has sold Mike on an empathetic life pursuit of revenge made more preferable than the dead-end path Mike's grief was taking him. As one of Gus' right-hand men, Mike is now tasked with getting Lalo out of Gus' hair for good. According to Nacho, Lalo plans to do whatever it takes to hurt Gus, such as hitting their supply trucks, getting their customers sick, or cutting off power before eventually damaging Gus' operation enough where his connection down South is severed. Lalo already has Krazy 8 informing on Gus' men, in which Gus responds they get replaced with low-level dealers or new hires in order to protect their most essential members. The war has started and Mike is going along for the ride but it's Nacho who remains the moral compass who tries to persuade Mike of how evil the people he's getting involved with, are. Mike doesn't want to hear it until Nacho informs him of his father's life being on the line depending on whether Nacho follows Gus' orders or not. It's reassuring to see there's still a line Mike draws with what's okay and what's not, but he tells Nacho once they solve the Lalo issue, he'll get back to him on that topic.
This is the most hopeful moment for Nacho in a long time as he finally has someone on the inside of Gus' operation who could possibly help free him from his enslavement and save his father's life, but there's something off about the scene as well. For one, it's very glaring that Nacho was unaware or forgetful of Mike's initial warning to be careful of higher figures being at risk of being affected if Nacho is to go forward with swapping Hector's pills. This far in, it's the lack of reflection over the fact that he got into this mess with both eyes open that makes me, as part of the audience, worried of what else he can't see. When or if death comes for him, which is more likely than anything, will he be ready to avoid it? Nacho is in very deep right now and he's not without options just yet, but I at least hope he's ready for whatever happens in the end, regardless if it's death or not. When we first meet Lalo, he hands Nacho a meal he prepared, promising, "You're gonna die," and Nacho replies "No, thank you". His fate remains ambiguous, but Nacho is definitely closer to his than anyone in this show.
A close second would be Kim after the leap of faith she's prepared to take with Saul and the fact that we know she's not, to our knowledge, in the picture of Breaking Bad. We may be seeing the beginning of a possible explanation as to Kim's future absence when Mike (under the false identity Detective Dave Clark as used in the former show) speeds up the investigation of who's responsible to the arson and murder at TravelWire by convincing a witness to "remember" Lalo's car being at the scene. It's the same car that would match the hit and run that happened within the vicinity and timeline of the fateful events at TravelWire. Mike even goes through the trouble of blending in at the APD to ensure the developing information gets to the desk of Breaking Bad's Detective Tim Roberts. The final nail in the sabotage of Lalo is to masquerade as a police officer who has spotted the make and model of Lalo's Chevy Monte Carlo. Nacho informs Mike on Lalo's whereabouts and Mike relays this over the police squad radio. As four patrol cars surround Lalo and order him to take his keys from the ignition and drop them out the window, he begrudgingly surrenders.
We can fully expect what happens next (now that a violent shootout is off the table) is Lalo will be calling the guy with the mouth, Saul Goodman, to work any angle he can to save him. Knowing what Lalo is capable of, he's going to expect freedom at any cost and if that doesn't work out, what dangers await and for who? Everyone's connected now in this dangerous line of hellfire. If Lalo isn't the reason for Kim or Nacho's absence, it could be Gus or Mike or law enforcement or Saul. Anyone! There's no telling what tricks the writers have up their sleeve, but there's no denying we're entering the end times before the final season. There's no way the connection of both the show's parallel worlds can maintain itself safely now that it's merged. Not all characters will be coming out the other side by the time its over. Even the souls of the characters we know survive are at risk depending on what transpires. At a certain point, the plot was going to catch up to a show that is intriguingly based on character-driven choices, and that plot can only end badly. We can only hope that these characters stand by or understand the choices that lead them to the conclusions they face.
Lingering thoughts:
"Freedom. Freedom to ride. Freedom to explore. Freedom to bank the way you want to". The old commercial for Mesa Verde seems to be selling more than just a bank but the exact thing Kim desires in life. To live free of principle and explore new horizons without restriction or limitations. By proposing to Jimmy, she's banking on a life she can lead on her own terms, full of thrills. "Let our family help find your freedom at Mesa Verde!" (Mesa Verde being the catalyst to her decision to embrace Jimmy). On an unrelated note, Kevin's father, Don Wachtell is played by Mr. Show alum Jay Johnston. It's more than appropriate that the scene he gets involves a Mr. Show-esque edit as it's turned into a classic Saul Goodman commercial. It even features the old phone number used in Breaking Bad.
Kim apologizes to Rich and Rich reassures her it's okay to call him out on something but to never do it in front of the troops, as it affects morale and confidence. Rich inviting Kim to walk with him out to lunch so as to show the office that they're back on good terms was a sweet moment between them before everything goes to hell. It felt very Twin Peaks in regards to the show's ability to lighten itself up amidst all the doom and gloom that lies in wait. I admire how Rich, like Howard, was initially presented as an antagonist to the audience in season 1, but has proven to be one of the more gracious and endearing characters in the show.
Saul unleashes two prostitutes on Howard making them embarrass him publicly in front of Cliff Main, acting like Howard owes them for some dirty sex arrangement. This show doesn't do anything by accident which is why last week we saw Howard call Jimmy again regarding his offer to join HHM. The more Howard can't take a hint, the more Jimmy is willing to destroy him. It's funny but it's hard to watch and I can't imagine Howard isn't going to have suspicions as to what might be going on now. The vandalism against his car could have been chalked up to the workings of no-good punk teens, but prostitutes being sent to the hotspot restaurant the lawyer community is known to congregate at is way too specific for a second sabotage. Howard isn't that dumb. He'll narrow down the suspects to who's behind this.
Also it's important to note that Jimmy finally giving in to the prostitutes services was meant to lead us on to the possibility of Jimmy betraying Kim. He doesn't cheat on her, but he does indeed betray her when going ahead to call Olivia Bitsui (the owner of the photo that inspired the Mesa Verde logo) in the same scene where he's enjoying the sabotage of Howard.
Finally, I'm a sucker for the long Kubrick-esque zoom-in on Kevin fuming in silence as everyone tries to get a handle on the situation in the aftermath of Jimmy's blackmail. Wonderful directing by Michael Morris.
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Q: Is $P+(I-P)C$ positive definite? $P=\frac{1}{n}\mathbf{1}\mathbf{1}^T$($\mathbf{1}=[1,1,\dots,1]^T$), $I\in R^n$ is a indentity matrix, $C$ is a positive definite symmetric matrix. Is $P+(I-P)C$ positive definite? How to prove that?
With a random positive definite symmetric matrix $C$, I did 10 million experiments. All eigenvalues of $P+(I-P)C$ are with positive real parts.

A: Note that even if the eigenvalues of this matrix is nonnegative, it will only be positive definite if
$$
P + (I-P)C
$$
is also symmetric. However, this is only the case when $P$ and $C$ commute, i.e., $[P,C] = 0$.
Here's a $2 \times 2$ counterexample
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P = \begin{pmatrix} 1/2 & 1/2 \\ 1/2 & 1/2 \end{pmatrix} \qquad C = \begin{pmatrix} 2 & 1 \\ 1 & 1 \end{pmatrix}
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Then
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P + (I - P) C = \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 1/2 \\ 0 & 1/2 \end{pmatrix}.
$$
Note this is not symmetric and so cannot be positive definite, it does however have positive eigenvalues $\{1, 1/2\}$.

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Dirty Bomb
Splash Damage
Compete with other players to find out which team is the fastest and the most deadly across given maps.
About Dirty Bomb Game
There are a lot of games that try to reimagine the tactical first-person shooters. And Dirty Bomb developed by Splash Damage is no exception. Developers were inspired by the classic FPS titles where everything you need to do is shoot and run and added a teamwork feature. If your team is acting as one unit you have bigger chances to win. You're offered a selection of twenty playable characters. These characters possess unique capabilities that aren't upgradable by design. So, you'd better practice with several of them for starters to choose which one suits you the best. The game is multiplayer-only and your team would thrive on the inclusion of different teammates that will complement each other in action. There are two game modes: Objective and Stopwatch. The former will make you complete chained goals for a limited time. The latter allows your team to change the side in the middle of a match. Dirty Bomb servers are less populated on weekdays. But weekends may deliver around 100-200 players who will compete with you eagerly.
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System requirements for Dirty Bomb
OS: Windows 7 (64-bit)
Processor: 2.33 GHz Dual Core
Graphics: 512MB – GeForce 7800GTX
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Dirty Bomb was a unique team-oriented FPS developed by Splash Damage, the same studio as a similar game called Brink. Perhaps the best way to describe a "Dirty Bomb" is a combination of Team Fortress 2 and Call of Duty. Players can choose up to 3 mercenaries to join their squad at any given time, and players can switch between these mercenaries after dying during a match. Each mercenary has its own set of weapons and unique activated abilities and can be customized using download cards. Matches are usually focused on objectivity, and just getting kills will not lead to winning the game, at least in the objectivity and stopwatch mode.
GameSpot – 5/10
Still, if you're looking for a decent multiplayer shooter on the very cheap, Dirty Bomb is a fast-paced possibility.
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In 2015, Christopher Ingraham wrote a story for The Washington Post that changed his life.
As a data reporter for the paper, the story's topic — the USDA's "natural amenities index," which measures U.S. counties based on things like climate and topography – came with the territory. But it's what he calls a "throwaway line" he wrote that set him and his family on their new path — from daily East Coast grind to full-on "Minnesota nice" in the Midwest.
In that 2015 article, Ingraham mapped the USDA's dataset of all U.S. counties, and called Red Lake County, Minn., "the absolute worst place to live in America." This conclusion was based on the government's data.
But Minnesotans' – in Red Lake County and all over the state – made it (politely) personal.
"They were very upset," Ingraham tells Morning Edition host Rachel Martin. "They were sending me pictures of the county. The state's representatives and U.S. senators got in on the action, the media in the state. It was just crazy. It was a frenzy,"
A local extended an invitation to visit Red Lake, a rural county of about 4,000 residents five hours north of Minneapolis. He liked it, seeing in Red Lake the antidote to quality of life issues he and his family faced in the city.
Six months later, he announced that he and his wife, Briana, and their two small children were moving from their Maryland home to Red Lake County. (He is still a data reporter for the Post.) Their move is the subject of his book If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now.
On his first visit to Red Lake
To my surprise I ended up loving the place. The people were so great, and it was just so different from what I was living with my family in D.C. At the time I had 2-year-old twins. I was commuting three hours a day to get back and forth to work. So we're literally, felt stretched to the breaking point. And during this time in our lives I ended up taking this trip to this, what ended up being a very bucolic little community in the middle of nowhere.
On deciding to move there
I did what I think a lot of people who get back from trips [do]. You start daydreaming. ... Man, I'd love to be out in the country right now, just driving down the country roads, not another car in sight. You start maybe looking up home prices and looking up schools, looking up data, looking up numbers on the community. And finally we were just like, "You know what? It would be financially irresponsible of us to not move to Red Lake County, Minn. This is the solution to all of our problems. The housing is cheaper, I could work from home, eliminate the commute entirely, we can spend more time together. This is the exact thing that we need. This is what's missing from our lives."
On his wife's involvement in local politics
That was one of the things she absolutely wanted to do. As it turns out, Red Lake Falls, they were in need of a city council person, and she ran and she ended up getting elected. As the result of a throwaway line I wrote four years ago, she is now making decisions that guide the future of this community. I really feel that captures how enmeshed we are here. This is home now.
I think a big problem with a lot of coverage of rural and small-town places is we often just send reporters in and they go on these kind of safari expeditions and they come back a day or a week later with this "secret knowledge" of these long-lost rural tribes, and I think that kind of reporting and storytelling really enhances these supposed divisions between small-town America and everywhere else. I hope if this book does anything it demystifies small towns and rural America.
Bo Hamby and Eric McDaniel produced and edited the broadcast version of this story. Heidi Glenn adapted it for the Web.
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Five Kickass End-of-School-Year Parties in Metro Phoenix
Benjamin Leatherman May 7, 2013 1:00PM
It's time to cue up some Alice Cooper since, you know, school's out for summer as of Wednesday as Arizona State University and other institutions of higher learning in Metro Phoenix.
Once you sell back the armload of textbooks and say adieu to the profs, you might want to use your newfound cash and free time for drinking and celebrating.
Good thing that a few bars and nightlife establishments in Tempe, Scottsdale, and elsewhere have the same idea. Here are five of them:
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El Hefe The raison d'être of the "School of Ciroc" party taking place during this week's edition of El Hefe's White Girl Wasted Wednesdays on Wednesday, May 8, is direct and to the point: "One last rager before you go home for summer." Helping fuel the soiree will be such specials as $4 Yukon Jack Red Hot shots, $4 Pineminds, and $6 Ciroc cocktails all night. Bottles of Veuve Clicquot also will be $50 after midnight. The party starts at 8 p.m. and there's no cover.
Gringo Star Bar Arizona State students and grads are more than welcome to attend the grand opening of Gringo Star on Thursday, May 9, and get their first taste of its urban-art-meets-arcade setting, not to mention all the street eats and librations that will be served by its staff. Freddy "DJ Circle" Krems will be in the mix during the establishment's debut and all of its games will be ready to play. Doors open at 11 a.m. and the music starts at 9 p.m. No cover.
Brick Anyone who's done with classes at either Phoenix College or ASU's downtown campus and in a mood to celebrate (or just happen to be have been born between April 19 and May 20), should head for this pizzeria at the Arizona Center on Thursday, May 9. Inside, DJs like JonnY Rogers, Shawn Malisz, Luke Hansen, and 2ToneDisco (who will perform a special two-hour set) will be dropping dance tracks during the event entitled "Taurus: An Astrological Dance Party." There may not be any soothsayers about to predict your future, but if you partake of any happy hour specials from 9 to 11 p.m., as well as the shot specials all night, we're guessing that it will involve some sort of intoxicated antics. Doors open at 9 p.m. Admission is $10.
C.A.S.A. This recent arrival to Mill Avenue's nightlife milieu will bid farewell to the semester when it hosts a special "School's Out Party" on Thursday, May 9, starting at 9 p.m. Two-for-one specials on well drinks and domestic beers can be scored until the midnight hour and $3 Fireball shots will be poured from 9 to 11 p.m. Nytehype Entertainment's stable of mixers -- including Nuck 'n' Futz, Nathaniel Chase, and Wolfclub -- will select the songs that you'll be drinking to all evening. Admission is free.
Firehouse Scottsdale Two members of this Scottsdale hotspot's drink-slanging staff, Chelsea Nordstrom and Vince Driscoll, are donning cap and gown this week, so their employers decided to throw the "Firehouse Grad Bash" on Sunday, May 12, to help celebrate their achievement, as well as anyone else who might be getting their diploma. Selectors like Death to the Throne and Steel are scheduled to occupy the fire truck-like DJ booth all evening, the lovely ladies of the Firehouse Girls will be in attendance, and various drink specials are planned. The bash starts at 8 p.m. Admission is free.
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Benjamin Leatherman is a staff writer at Phoenix New Times. He covers local nightlife, music, culture, geekery, and fringe pursuits.
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