The International Boxing Association (AIBA) says it no longer faces the fear of going bankrupt after having restored a "healthy and sustainable financial situation", which was among the tasks mandated by the IOC to secure the sport's Olympic future.
Bengaluru FC fans at the Kanteerava Stadium are known to be one of the most energetic in the Indian Super League. But their over enthusiasm has proved costly for the club.
Having started well, India’s real test will come in the game against Belgium on Sunday. The Belgians, the Olympic silver medallists, displayed fast-paced attacking hockey during their 2-1 win over Canada.
Liverpool face a derby clash against Everton as they lick their Champions League wounds while Tottenham travel to Arsenal with a spring in their step on a weekend of big-city derbies.
Rickie Fowler doesn’t ‘have anything bad to say about The Bahamas', who does, really? The American and his fiancé visit this divine archipelago, a true jewel of the Atlantic Ocean, ‘three to four times a year.'
Londoners Chelsea and Arsenal both enjoyed high-scoring Europa League wins on Thursday as Glasgow giants Celtic and Rangers were left with work to do on the final matchday to qualify for the next stage.
Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting said Usman Khawaja will outscore Virat Kohli and will also be the player of the series."As much of a threat Indian fast bowlers might pose, I think he's got a game that can cope with it here in Australia," said Ponting. He added, "Our batsmen will play better against their quick bowlers than their batters will play against ours."
Four-time World chess champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway accepted that playing rapid/blitz tiebreaks before the classical games will stir things but he refused to speak negatively about shorter time controls and existing tiebreak rule.
Ace shuttler Saina Nehwal said, "It is definitely a tough year. Throughout there were so many big tournaments and we did not even have time to rest and think about the next event." While she said that she was proud of winning medals at Asian and Commonwealth Games, she stressed that players needed a break in order to make corrections in their game.
Telangana's Esha Singh aced women's 10m air pistol event on the sixth medal round of the 62nd National Shooting Championships on Saturday. The 13-year-old bested former world champions with a score of 241.0 to pick her first ever individual gold medal. Esha was third after five shot with a score of 48.9 and maintained it with a score of 119.7 after 12 rounds.
Of the 34 provinces in China, Inner Mongolia is the hotbed of hockey. The tribe called 'Daur' have historically played the traditional form of hockey called 'Beikou'. All the players in China's World Cup team are from this province and from the same club. China is in Pool B alongside world No. 1 and defending champions Australia, England and Ireland.
Here are the big sports events lined up for Friday (November 30) that comprise the action from Men's Hockey World Cup and the second Test between Bangladesh and the West Indies.
India captain Virat Kohli was on Thursday slammed by fans for wearing shorts at the toss for the warm-up game against Cricket Australia XI. The photograph of Kohli in shorts attending the toss with CA XI captain Sam Whiteman was posted on BCCI's Twitter handle. Fans soon took to social media and criticised Kohli, calling it a "disrespectful act".
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said overseas players would, from Jan. 1, become eligible to play for England after living in the country for three years rather than a previous seven. It means that Barbados-born all-rounder Jofra Archer will be eligible to play for England at next year's Cricket World Cup. |
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Hindu groups have cheered him for turning up the heat on RBI Governor Urjit Patel but investors worry the central bank's independence is being compromised in the process.
Padmasree Warrior, former chief technology officer (CTO) of Cisco; Komal Mangtani, senior director at app-based cab aggregator Uber; Neha Narkhede, chief technology officer and co-founder of streaming platform Confluent; and Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan, CEO and founder of identity-management company Drawbrige; are in the list.
The captives have taken to Twitter and tagged Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying the company was refusing to send money to defuse the crisis.
Rupee's rally to a three-month high also supported the upward move in the domestic stock market. The domestic unit gained 21 paise to 69.64 against the US dollar.
Forex traders said increased selling of the American currency by exporters and banks and sustained foreign fund inflows supported the domestic currency.
The German bank is suspected of helping clients to set up offshore companies in tax havens, prosecutors said in a statement. Investigators are also looking at whether Deutsche Bank failed to report suspicious transactions.
The two companies and Nissan-controlled Mitsubishi Motors "emphatically reiterated" their commitment to the alliance, as executives met in Amsterdam for the first time since Ghosn's Nov 19 arrest over misconduct allegations.
Telecom Watchdog, in a letter to TRAI, claimed that forcing users to cough-up a minimum monthly amounts was like demanding a monthly rent "which is not the practise for pre-paid users".
However, 42 per cent of 300 Indian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) — which participated in the survey, said that getting access to finance to grow the business is difficult, compared to 33 per cent respondents globally.
As per the Supreme Court order, firecrackers can be burst only from 8 PM to 10 PM on festivals and only the sale of ‘green crackers' with a low emission of light, sound and harmful chemicals is allowed.
Defending the revision in GDP growth rates for most of the 10-year UPA rule, Sanjeev Sanyal, Principal Economic Adviser in the Ministry of Finance, said the basis for the revision was use of internationally accepted standards.
Power Minister RK Singh asserted that the target of 100 per cent electrification would be achieved by December 31.
Traders said the positive global cues after dovish comments from US Fed Chairman Jerome Powell also boosted investor sentiment.
Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale said Prime Minister Narendra Modi will raise the issue of volatility in global oil prices at the G20 Summit in Argentina. |
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Spa is in Maryland. A friend would like to know if this is a discrimination case because his spa does not allow minors to be massaged by male therapists even with parents in the room but it’s ok for female therapists to give massages to minors. He is losing out on an income when parents specifically request him for their athletic children but company policy states male therapist cannot treat minors. He has not spoken with management yet. He just found out because a friend requested him but was told her child had to see a female and the parent told him. Any suggestions on how to approach management would be appreciated.
Edit: policy states that parent must be in the room while minor is being treated by female therapist but they will not even allow a minor to be treated by a male therapist even with the parent present.
Minor update: I advised him of his many options after reading the comments. He went to management (it’s a very large salon/spa) and they told him is was an error/misunderstanding on the receptionists part and that they would call the client/mom and schedule an appointment for her son with him. Mom is a client of the therapist and will be present during massage.
I’m guessing that they know they set themselves up for a lawsuit and covered it up by saying it was an error. The mom was specifically told that boys or girls can only be seen by female therapists with a parent in the room.
Thank you everyone for the comments. If this issue comes up again he will be going over their heads to handle this legally.
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Hey everyone. I’m Dave Kender, editor in chief of Reviewed, a website that tests and reviews everyday products. Reviewed is part of the USA TODAY Network. I’m based in smarty-pants Cambridge, Massachusetts and have been with Reviewed since it was a tiny start-up over a decade ago.
These days I oversee a team of 40 writers, editors, and lab techs who review thousands of products. Want to know what to buy this holiday season? I’ll help you out.
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EDIT: This has been a fantastic experience. Great questions. I appreciate the insight and the challenges. I'll check back in tomorrow to address any questions I missed. Thank you, Reddit.
After rewatching most of the show and many analysis videos I’ve come up with a two-pronged theory, one about how the families of Game of Thrones represent The Seven Deadly Sins and also about the White Walkers and how the show is going to end, but I’ll get to that later.
Part of what makes GoT so entertaining is that there really are no good guys or bad guys in this show. Everybody is oftentimes a flawed selfish asshole in their own way. There are some biblical undertones to the story as well, which isn’t surprising. George R.R. Martin has said he draws a lot of inspiration from Tolkien in fantasy and writing, and Tolkien’s work in LOTR/The Hobbit had many biblical themes and undertones, & A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones is no different. My theory on the TV show stems from this, I believe that each of the major houses in the show represents one of the Seven Deadly Sins, and on a greater scale shows just how corrupt people in this world have become, which plays into the end of the show.
Greed: House Tyrell. The Tyrells are a compelling family, especially because they seem to be the only matriarchal family in Westeros, and the alpha women of this family play the Game of Thrones with great cunning. However, their greatest flaw throughout the show is greed for power, and ultimately it led to their downfall. They showed a complete lack of loyalty to anybody in The War of Five Kings, siding first with Renly Baratheon, later switching sides to secure a partnership with the Lannisters in a military alliance, then through Margaery marrying Joffrey/Tommen before finally siding with Daenerys, partly for revenge but largely because they knew nothing would be gained by staying allied with the Lannisters. They switch sides consistently and manipulate people with ease, and they don’t do it for an ideology, they do it purely for the sake of what they think will put them on the highest spot on the totem pole. Even their banner is embroidered with the color associated with Greed, an all green Sigil surrounding the rose.
Rage: House Baratheon. The Baratheon house motto is the first indication, “Ours is the Fury” that rage is what they represent. Robert Baratheon has the hottest temper of any character in the show, verbally lashing out at those around him or slapping Cersei when she pisses him off. His bastard son Gendry is shown to be hot-headed at times as well. Even their house animal: The Stag, though a majestic animal is known for having a fiery temper when threatened. The background color for the house sigil as well is an orangish/yellow hue, and orange is a color often associated with the deadly sin of rage. Symbolically as well this house encompasses rage in the sense that of all the deadly sins, rage in many ways most encompasses masculinity. Uncoincidentally this house lacks any female members besides the sickly child of Stannis.
Envy: House Targaryen. Envy by definition is “a feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else's possessions, qualities, or luck.” Obviously, the longing that’s aroused through the Targaryens is the Iron Throne, which is owned by the Baratheons/Lannisters who overthrew their father. The envy for the crown displayed by the family is shown first through Viserys, who seems to have dedicated his entire existence to trying to retake the throne even though Westeros is glad to see his families rule come to an end after his father. After Viserys is killed, the envy for the throne continues through Daenerys and the great lengths we see her go through to go retake a throne she doesn’t have a claim to anymore. I can guarantee the envy she has for the throne will carry over into the final season and create some fatal conflict when it’s revealed Jon Snow is really a Targaryen, and the rightful heir to the throne over her if the Targaryens take it. For a symbolic connection, I looked at some historical depictions of the seven deadly sins being represented by animals, and one that commonly came up depicting envy is the snake. The only lizard depicting a deadly sin, and the only lizard on the sigil of any house in Westeros.
Gluttony: The Martells. This one may be the biggest stretch for people to believe but I wholeheartedly believe they’re an embodiment of gluttony from what we’ve seen in the show. Their plotline after Oberyn's arc is often criticized as the worst in the show but their demeanor in many ways encompasses gluttony to me. Gluttony is all about overindulgence of some base instinct like eating, fighting or sex. The first scene we’re shown of the Martell family, it’s Oberyn and Ellaria taking their pick from several prostitutes in Littlefinger’s whorehouse, drinking and getting down with some freaky group sex stuff before Oberyn goes and starts a fight with some Lannister soldiers. overindulgence of sex is commonplace with the Martells, they sleep around with anybody who catches their eye, they overindulge in violence whether it be Oberyn talking about taking part in the fighting pits for fun, the Sand Snake girls indulging in violence for revenge, and of course they love to overindulge in terrible one-liners as well.
Sloth: House Frey. Walder Frey without question is one of the most unlikable S.O.B.s in the series, but the arc of this house shows the underlying deadly sin this house encompasses, through their sheer incompetence and laziness, the premier signs of sloth. From the getgo they’re shown as an all-around uninspired and uninteresting house, relying on their lucky location at the twins for their power. The house as a whole is lazy and it shows in their conduct when doing anything at all on screen. Jaime verbally berates their lazy military conduct in season six episode seven. The obvious laziness of this house is part of the reason why it’s so easy to hate them (besides Walder being an old creepy pervert). Going back to the symbolism aspect, blue is considered the color of the Deadly Sin Sloth and at the base of the Frey Sigil blue water is shown, same as how at the base of their depiction in the show it is their lazy demeanor that makes them so despised, and represent sloth in such a manner.
Pride: House Stark. It’s hard to throw any hate at the Stark family. They are after all the most beloved family in the show and the protagonist family, but if there was any deadly sin they would encompass it’s pride more than anything, primarily through two traits. The first is their incredible stubbornness. It’s widely known they’re a stubborn family, “our way is the old way” Ned’s stubbornness kept him in a dungeon for weeks, Jon’s refuses to bend the knee to Daenerys at first and is called out for his pigheaded nature several times by other characters, their stubbornness is a pinnacle part of their conduct. Along with stubbornness, another trait commonly associated with Pride is disobedience, a trait seen through the Stark children. Whether it’s Robb’s disobedience to promises he made to Walder Frey, Arya’s disobedience after pledging herself to the faceless men, it’s these two staples for me that convince me they’re representative of pride. To add icing on the cake their house sigil is mostly grey, a color commonly associated with pride (but the internet is particularly split between that and purple as the color of pride).
Lust: House Lannister. At first glance this one may seem obvious through Tyrion and his man-whore tendencies, known for his many brothel visits early in the series. Their banner is embroidered in red as well, one of the colors commonly associated with lust (or blue depending on the part of the internet you ask). Looking at the personality traits of the members of the Lannister family, they encapsulate lust in many ways, with their incredibly selfish and inconsiderate behavior towards anybody outside of the family, two traits strongly associated with lust the deadly sin. Of course what lust is most associated with is extreme sexual desire, and this is demonstrated through the twincest relationship between Cersei and Jaime. We know incest is a fairly common thing in the Game of Thrones universe, but same as real life, it comes with bad side effects in the children the more closely related you are. Madness especially is a common side effect in children of incest in the show (The mad king had incest genes) and oh boy is Joffrey one rotten little shit, likely as a result of his parents being near genetic clones of each other. Both Jaime and Cersei know what they’re doing and the dangers that come with it but they encompass lust, and as such their lust controls their arc and almost every bad thing that’s happened to them in the show.
The seven deadly sins are covered but where does this all play into the end of the show? Well, this is where The White Walkers come in. The most powerful families in the world all encompass the deadliest sins imaginable according to many forms of classic literature. Analyzing more Biblical symbolism I think the White Walkers could best be described as the flood in the story of Noah’s ark. If you’re not familiar with it, the story in the Bible book of Genesis goes that God saw that human beings were far too corrupt and beyond saving, so he sent a flood to wipe out everything on earth (except of course for Noah, his family and the animals they brought with them on their big ass boat). Perhaps the White Walkers are building up their army now because they have a mission from higher powers to wipe out mankind.
This is where fellow fans go sour on me and say I’m too cynical, but I believe that the White Walkers aren’t the overarching bad guys, they’re a force sent by the old gods in Westeros who see that people have become too corrupt and they need to start anew. Even GoT Showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss describe The Night King, saying that he’s not really a force for good or evil, “He’s just a force of destruction” much like the biblical flood. This show is known more than any other for subverting expectations and what a subversion it would be if the beings we believed to be the bad guys through the show up to this point were actually sent on a mission by the old gods who don’t like what men have become?
TL;DR: The families represent the seven deadly sins in Westeros and the White Walkers represent a destructive force from the gods like the flood in Noah’s Ark because people in this world have become too corrupt.
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My ex husband and I bought our home from his parents. They had the house built in the 50's.
For years, father in law wanted to install a shutoff valve in the utility room to, you know, shut off the water to the whole house to do some repairs. Plumber told him it would cost a large amount of money because they could not find the shut off from the city water main at the street, the "buffalo box", a/k/a water main shut off valve. Since the buffalo box was MIA, they would have to freeze the pipes to stop the water before installing the shutoff valve. It was an expensive process to freeze the pipes so it never got done.
When we bought the house, we decided to get the shut off valve installed. We called the water department and they sent 2 workers to shut off the water.
When they arrived, I explained the problem. They went out to the front yard, walked around a bit and told me there was nothing they could do for me. According to the 2 workers, it was my problem that they could not find the buffalo box and that I should call a plumber to dig up my front yard, sidewalk, and city easement to find MY buffalo box.
Well, I have a background in residential real estate construction and I was familiar with how water mains and buffalo boxes are installed and I told them it was the city's issue, as they were responsible for the buffalo box, not the homeowners.
According to these guys, as a woman, I did not know what I was talking about and they left. They were incredibly rude about it, but peons like these think they can get away with being rude to an ignorant woman like me.
Fast forward to a year or so later. I get a call from the city manager asking why I hadn't paid my water bill for over a year. I told him that I wanted to pay my water bill, but I wanted them to first turn off my water. He was a bit taken aback that I WANTED them to turn off the water.
So, I explained what the city workers told me about locating the buffalo box and their attitude about women not understanding those type of things. I also told him that if the city could not turn off my water, I would be happy to have free water forever, cuz I would never pay another bill. We had a nice long chat about the situation and he said that he would resolve my concerns.
The next day, these same 2 guys show up at my house with some digging equipment and spend the whole day digging up the easement and the sidewalk. Their attitudes were rather somber, cuz the city manager told me he was going to give them a talking to about how they mishandled the situation. I even got an apology!!!
They found the buffalo box, under the city owned sidewalk!! They fixed the buffalo box so it would be accessible and came the next day to fix the sidewalk. They asked if I wanted the water turned off, declined, and I told them I would have my plumber take care of it when we had him install the interior shutoff valve.
And then I paid the water bill.
I posted previously about this here.
Allow me to add some detail. In Mormonism, you are taught that if you sin, you have to repent and never do commit that sin again if you are going to be saved. If you do sin again, you are "unforgiven" of all the previous sins, and you are condemned for the current infraction in addition to every prior instance.
But none of that matters if you die before you are 8, because little children cannot sin and are therefore saved, according to the Book of Mormon.
So that night when I sat on my bed, twirling my pocket knife in my fingers, here are the wieghty thoughts that went through my 7.9 year old mind.
"Would my parents be sad if I committed suicide? Of course they would. I wonder who else would mourn for me. Would God forgive me if committed suicide? But I'm not eight yet, so it's not a sin. But does it matter that I'm so close to 8? What if the sinning kicks in a few days before I'm eight. Oh, how I wish I had died a year ago so I wouldn't have to think about this! I wonder if my knife is even sharp enough to push into my chest. I checked the point of the blade with my fingertip. This seems doubtful. Am I even able to do this? Could I really even kill myself? Would it hurt? Am I able to push the blade through my bones (the sternum)? Where is my heart? Would it go deep enough to kill me? What would my parents think if they found my body dead with a knife in it? Would they be sad and miss me? Of course they would. If I commit suicide they would be very sad. They would probably be sad for the rest of their lives. Would they blame God? Would God blame me? What if I commit suicide and I meet God and he looks at me and says 'sorry, but you know suicide is a sin, and now you can't live with me forever.' What does the 'age of accountability' mean? Does that age start exactly at 8, or can it be sooner or later? What if I already missed my chance? If I get baptized, I know I'm going to fail. What if I sin so much that God won't forgive me for my sins after I'm baptized? I don't want to be unclean. Would it be worse to be unclean after I'm baptized or commit suicide before I'm baptized. Does it matter that I already know that suicide is a sin? Does that mean I'm accountable already?"
In my original post, I said this was the night before I was baptized, but in reality this was a couple of different nights. And I thought this way for hours. Fortunately for me, most eight-year-olds are not mentally capable of suicide. Fortunately for me, I ultimately decided it was worth risking everything for a chance at life.
Some will say that I misunderstood the doctrine. I didn't. But even if I had, the spiritual environment of the church is what drove me to these thoughts in the first place. It is the same environment that leads our gay youth to suicide when they realize that the only thing for them in this life is a lifetime of narrowly escaping the sins that will condemn them to hell forever, if they make it through to the other side without sinning.
But any religion that puts so much shame and fear on a young child that it drives them to analyze the risk of sinning throughout life versus the risk of sinning by committing suicide... is a cult. Any religion that places such sober thoughts in the mind of a 7-year old, is a cult. I was deeply ashamed of this event and never told anyone about it until I left. And perhaps most frightening of all, I never once considered it might have had something to do with how the church teaches little children about worthiness and sin until I left. I thought it was something wrong with me.
Mormonism is a cult in transition. It is slowly becoming mainstream and the worst aspects of the cult are fading. This is true for any cult that survives long enough. But make no mistake, it is still a cult. And even more so for my ancestors.
Edit: Thank you for the gold! And just as much, thank you for all of you who have shared your own stories. It is important that we share these stories because these highlight the harms of Mormonism more than anything else. And more importantly, we need to get them out so we can heal and move on.
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So these ads are floating around in which Payless sets up this "luxury" shoe store and hosts a grand opening for people in the fashion industry. They sit them down and ask how much they would pay for certain pairs of the shoes there (which are all actual payless shoes). The answers range from $200-$500+. It's great insight into so many aspects of consumerism but mainly about how our perception of a brand influences how much we're willing to pay.
This ad was an eye-opener for me. Lately, I've been wanting to replace a perfectly functional old navy bag with a designer bag. I have no idea why! I don't even follow bloggers anymore because I was sick of feeling like I was being sold to or that I had to keep up with them. I just have this nagging thought that I NEED the bag and that a $1200 one will outshine my $15 one. Same thing with heels. I used to actually turn to payless for work flats because of how comfortable they were but now find myself scoffing at the brand. Really interesting wake up call.
I saw something about a nylon bag.
But then I saw stuff like this: https://imgur.com/31SSlj6
What's the overall story? Are they getting Reddit EA'd? What else did they do wrong apart from the bag thing?
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/bogle-sounds-a-warning-on-index-funds-1543504551?mod=mhp
https://outline.com/DGK9Td (if paywall)
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