The numbers: Mortgage rates continue to fall, providing relief for future homeowners.
30-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 6.31% as of Dec. 15, according to data released Thursday by Freddie Mac.
That's 2 basis points lower than the previous week, with one basis point equal to one-hundredth of a percentage point.
The 30-year-old was at 6.33% last week. Last year, the 30-year average was 3.12%.
Rates are lower than a month ago, when the 30-year average was above 7%.
The average 15-year mortgage rate fell to 5.54%.
"Mortgage rates continued to fall this week as weaker inflation data and modest changes in Federal Reserve monetary policy weighed on the economy," said Sam Cutter, chief economist at Freddie Mac.
The central bank raised its key interest rate by 50 basis points on Wednesday to address continued inflation in the US economy. The Fed has raised interest rates by 75 basis points four times since June.
(The Fed's actions do not directly affect mortgage rates. Instead, 10-year Treasury yields are more closely tied to mortgage rates.)
"The good news for the housing market is that the recent decline in interest rates has led to a stabilization in consumer demand," Hater added. "The bad news is that demand is still very low, despite barriers to accessibility still quite high."
what do they say? Expect rates to continue falling, the industry group said.
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said in a statement that it expects "the recent downward trend in mortgage rates to continue."
The MBA also expects the rate on the 30-year fixed rate mortgage to decrease next year and end in 2023 at 5.2%.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 3.45% in Thursday afternoon's trading session.
Do you have any ideas about the real estate market? Email MarketWatch correspondentArti Swaminathan at [email protected].
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Tunisia will elect a new parliament on December 17, for the third time since the regime of Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was overthrown nearly 12 years ago. But these elections are not like the last two, which took place in 2014 and 2019. Let's start with the fact that the Tunisian parliament has been suspended for the past year and a half. Then, in September, President Qais Said issued a decree on a new electoral law that limits the ability of political parties to campaign for parliamentary seats and gives him the power to ban candidates at his discretion. In response, the opposition announced a boycott of the elections.
Saturday's vote will change little in the distribution of power in Tunisia. On the contrary, it will further solidify Said's personal dominance behind the façade of democratic politics. Just 12 years after the ouster of a longtime dictator, Tunisia is back on the brink of authoritarianism.
Tunisia is not alone. Authoritarianism is on the rise around the world, a trend often associated by political scientists with polarization. In this narrative, polarization leads to a dangerous erosion of democratic norms as competing parties seek to defeat each other. But this is only one side of the matter. Democracy in Tunisia collapsed not because there was too much polarization, but because there was too little of it.
Tunisia will elect a new parliament on December 17, for the third time since the regime of Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was overthrown nearly 12 years ago. But these elections are not like the last two, which took place in 2014 and 2019. Let's start with the fact that the Tunisian parliament has been suspended for the past year and a half. Then, in September, President Qais Said issued a decree on a new electoral law that limits the ability of political parties to campaign for parliamentary seats and gives him the power to ban candidates at his discretion. In response, the opposition announced a boycott of the elections.
Saturday's vote will change little in the distribution of power in Tunisia. On the contrary, it will further solidify Said's personal dominance behind the façade of democratic politics. Just 12 years after the ouster of a longtime dictator, Tunisia is back on the brink of authoritarianism.
Tunisia is not alone. Authoritarianism is on the rise around the world, a trend often associated by political scientists with polarization. In this narrative, polarization leads to a dangerous erosion of democratic norms as competing parties seek to defeat each other. But this is only one side of the matter. Democracy in Tunisia collapsed not because there was too much polarization, but because there was too little of it.
The populist backlash that brought Said to power in 2019 was a reaction to years of stagnation in consensus politics. Tunisia's largest political party, the Islamist Ennahda, has long been locked in a fragmented grand coalition and has failed to pass landmark legislation, let alone pass the reforms a new democracy needs to protect its institutions from dictatorship. Said campaigned on a populist party platform, vowing to defend the will of the people against the corrupt machine of established party politics.
Political scientist (and founder of foreign policy ) Samuel P. Huntington argued in 1991 that Tunisia, then a dictatorship, was a prime candidate for democratization. He gave some important advice to future Democrats during the political transition. avoid conflict at all costs. Rachad Ghannoushi, the leader of Ennahda, would have been the top student in Huntington's class. When democracy was born in Tunisia two decades later, Ghannouchi returned to Tunisia from exile in London, determined to help his country strengthen democracy.
Under Ghannouchi, a generation of opposition activists, Islamists and secularists returned, who sought to determine the fate of the new democracy in the country. In 2011, Tunisians elected a National Constituent Assembly tasked with drafting a new constitution. A coalition of parties called the Troika, led by Ennahda; the secular Congress of the Republic; and Social Democrat Ettakatol led the country's government for the next three years, before the creation of parliament in 2014.
Many Ennahda leaders personally experienced decades of imprisonment, torture or exile under Ben Ali. Among Tunisian dissidents, the Islamists were the most persecuted. However, these victims of repression quickly made peace with the representatives of the old regime. “After I got out of prison, I forgot everything that happened,” former Ennahda Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali told me in 2020.
In the government, Ennahda did her best to promote compromise and reconciliation. In 2011, the Islamists won a landslide victory in the elections to the National Constituent Assembly. However, fearing that he would be perceived as a monopoly force, Ganushi decided to form the Troika coalition, which had almost a two-thirds majority in power. Two years later, faced with a protest movement against Islamist political influence, An Nahda Prime Minister Ali Larayed voluntarily agreed to step down in January 2014. That same month, Al-Nahda's leadership dropped calls to include references to Islamic law in the country's new constitution and instead adopted what is the most progressive constitution in the Arab world.
In late 2013, Ghanushi personally intervened to veto a transitional justice bill that would limit the old elites' influence in the National Constituent Assembly. A year later, Ennahda desperately forged a coalition with secularist Nida Tounes, led by a figure linked to the Ben Ali regime. Despite finishing second in the 2014 elections, Ennada accepted one ministerial position out of 26.
The Tunisian government of national unity, while looking stable, has failed miserably on some of its promises. At times, the governing coalition, which accounted for 82 percent of parliamentary seats, seemed literally unable to function. Between 2014 and 2019, more than 80 draft laws were under consideration by parliamentarians. Ennahda and Nida Townes, fearful of ruffled feathers, refused to advance legislative priorities. For example, Ennahda and Nidaa Townes created a constitutional court in 2015. But four years later, its 12 members were still not elected, trying to avoid infighting.
As a result, the confidence of the Tunisian public in their country's new political system rapidly declined. In 2019, Ennahda voters, angry at their leaders for making concessions to the old establishment, left the party en masse and defected to the Karama separatist coalition, a hardline Islamist party opposed to engagement with the country's secular forces. Ennahda's share of the vote fell from 37% in the 2011 National Constituent Assembly elections to 28% and 20% in the 2014 and 2019 legislative elections, respectively. And with a ruling coalition made up of all the country's major parties, Tunisians viewed the government's failures as a symptom not of one party's decisions, but of the failure of the political system as a whole. In 2018, according to an Afrobarometer poll, 81% of Tunisians said they had broken with all political parties. Support for democracy has fallen from 71% in 2013 to 46% in just five years.
When it came time to elect a new president in 2019, Tunisians had enough support to win overwhelmingly with Said, who is not affiliated with any political party. That year's parliamentary elections failed to produce a majority for either party, leaving the legislature divided and powerless to resist the ambitions of the new president.
Over the next three years, many Tunisians enjoyed moving closer to the political system that the president despised. In July 2021, 10 years after the Tunisian revolution, angry protesters once again gathered in the capital's Kasbah, only this time the crowds demanded an end to democracy. Said was forced to dismiss the prime minister and suspend parliament. Two months after the self-government coup, Said transferred to himself all the powers that he had before, and in February he dismissed all members of the Supreme Judicial Body, which contributed to the independence of the judiciary. The president promised that his government would "save the country" from crisis and chaos.
Ennada, still obsessed with finding a compromise, found herself powerless to respond to the president, who was anything but him. Without a functioning constitutional court, nothing could have prevented Said's coup. Its new constitution, approved by plebiscite in July, gives the president the power to appoint ministers and judges by decree without the approval of the legislature or judiciary. Meanwhile, over the past year, the Tunisian police and intelligence agencies have arrested many journalists and politicians on charges of corruption or terrorism. The insistence of the Tunisian parties on compromise and reconciliation has led to the defeat of the leader, who does not accept anyone.
Even after Said's coup in July 2021, Ennahda's leadership has gradually moved away from its accommodating stance. At first, in a silent statement, he called Said's adoption "an opportunity for reform." Subsequently, more than 100 top party officials resigned in protest at the party's inability to fight authoritarianism. Ennada is still torn apart by internal divisions, with more people calling for Ghannouchi to be replaced by a new generation of leaders.
A growing group at Ennahda seems to understand that consensus politics is no longer the order of the day. Along with other opposition parties, Ghannouchi's Ennahda party boycotted Saturday's legislative elections and refused to recognize the results of the July constitutional referendum. Ennada joined the National Salvation Front, a motley collection of about 20 groups and parties led by left-wing leader Ahmed Najib Chebi. The National Salvation Front is trying to put pressure on the government to start a dialogue with the opposition.
Tunisian history is common. Populism thrives when major political parties unite, making authoritarianism the only viable alternative to a corrupt political system. The neoliberal turn of social democratic parties in Europe in the 1990s eventually led to the rise of populists from the French National Assembly to the Austrian Freedom Party. And before the Venezuelan populist magician Hugo Chavez seized power in 1999 on a platform of sweeping change, the so-called "partiality" in Caracas had long suffered from the ineffectiveness and corruption of consensus politics.
It's time to update Huntington's old book on democratization. Instead of avoiding conflict, politicians should be clear and respectful about their differences. Tunisia's recent slide into authoritarianism is a warning. Extreme polarization can subvert democracy, but the same can be said for excessive consensus.
Deal with the crisis in Tunisia in 10 minutes. Author: Arezki Daoud
Madison Square Garden Entertainment ( NYSE:MSGE ) shares edged up Thursday in premarket trading as Morgan Stanley updated the media and entertainment company ahead of a possible spin-off of its live entertainment business.
Analyst Benjamin Swinburne upgraded his equilibrium rating on Madison Square Garden Entertainment (MSGE) from underweight, noting that its stock in MSG has fluctuated since its New York office was announced on Aug. 18 and a possible spin-off into a new company, nightclub operator TAO . and its networks, shares fell 33% compared to a 7% decline in the S&P 500. And while the details of the spin-off have changed since that initial announcement, a transaction is still likely to unlock shareholder value, Swinburne said.
“Due to the top-line and underperformance, we see a more balanced risk/reward tradeoff and an improvement in [balance],” the analyst wrote in a note to clients.
In an updated sum-of-the-parts analysis, Swinburne found that both companies would be worth $75 in a bull case but $25 in a bear case due to leverage and lower EBITDA potential.
However, Swinburne noted that in the coming year there will be greater insight into the revenue potential of the $2.2 billion MSG Sphere project, as well as a better understanding of the profitability of its New York sites. including Madison Square Garden. . And while regional sports networks, like namesake MSG, continue to come under pressure, Swinburne noted that it’s likely “already leaking through to stock prices.”
Last month, Jefferies downgraded shares of Madison Square Garden Entertainment (MSGE) citing “dirty” real estate values.
Analysts are mostly cautious on Madison Square Garden Entertainment (MSGE). It has a stable rating from the authors of Seeking Alpha, while Wall Street analysts have given it a stable rating. Additionally, Searching Alpha’s Quantum Systems, which has consistently outperformed the market, rates MSGE as a SELL .
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In one of the most poignant scenes in 84-year-old Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski's "Eo," a donkey gets lost in the woods. Night fell, but the pools of the moon lit up this dark, silent world in all its brilliant splendor. A small frog quickly jumped to the surface of the stream. A pretty spider is weaving its web. An owl observes the donkey from its tree, as if registering the presence of the intruder. There are also a few howling wolves, a sentient red fox, and a few green lasers over time, which announce the presence of nearby hunters, whose shots disturb the tranquility of this forest.
The entire sequence tells much of the film's story in miniature. From time to time, this donkey called Eo (an approximation of the sound it makes) will experience a moment of freedom to approach certain people and put them in danger. Whether that's likely to make "EO" sound like a whole lot of brutality isn't certain, though Skolimowski can talk about his decades-old fondness for films like "The Departure" (1967) and "Essential Murder." (2010). . He knows that people can be nice, but they can also be abusive, often with no regard for the rights and welfare of other animals. The beauty that Kolimowski and cinematographer Michel Daem show us in "EO" – and it is perhaps the most beautifully photographed film of the year – is not a denial of this brutality, but rather a answer to this one.
The screen opens to flooded red lights and a resounding passage from Paul Mikitin's orchestral score. In this opening moment, EO is part of a circus performance with a young performer, Cassandra (Sandra Drozymalska), who hugs him, pats his coat, and feeds him carrot cake. Cassandra becomes the love of her life when the man of her dreams and desires breaks up and sends her to the next house. But in addition to the basic compulsions to eat, rest, and walk, Skolimowski attributes the drive, or desire, to it. As the director suggests with frequent close-ups of Eo's big eyes – in an unmistakable and emotional way – there's a limit to what we can get into the donkey's inner life, or even what that we can suggest.
Others, however, are more than happy to speak for him: “Can't you see the animal is in pain? A worker screams in protest that will shatter the circus and send Yu and his four performers running in all directions. The rest of this fast-paced, relentless 86-minute film (Skolimowski wrote it with his wife, Ewa Piaskowska) follows the donkey on its winding journey from Poland to Italy, across mountains and man-made bridges. . Past tunnels and wind turbines and into this haunted forest. At one point, in a brutal shot that seems almost supernatural, a troop of horses are shown galloping alongside Eo's car, their thrilling freedom making his imprisonment agonizingly easy.
Along the way, there are brief stops at a newly opened stable where Yo is gently (but terrified) enthralled by the majestic horses, and a grueling sporting event where he becomes the winning team's humbling mascot. From there, they are taken to a large facility where they are put to bed out of human pity rather than cared for. (Some of his neighbors aren't so lucky.) From there, he wanders off and finds himself in an Italian villa, where the Countess, played by Isabelle Huppert, breaks dishes and gazes seductively at a priest (Lorenzo Zurzolo) . Huppert, I think, has also become something of an icon of great European cinema, the central shadow of which lies in that great film and its preoccupations with the small and the animal (as opposed to the human and the superior).
That's not to say "EO," which won third place from the jury at this year's Cannes Film Festival, has gone unnoticed or unrecognized, though it could easily get lost in the few US theaters where it will screen. . It should be on the big screen. When I first saw "EO" in Cannes, it was somewhat dismissive of life, death and the extraordinary beauty of donkeys, like "Au Hasard Balthazar", the masterpiece by Robert Bresson from 1966. by man, and both are forced to become beasts of burden. , and both testify to all sorts of human horrors and absurdities.
Skolimowski, for his part, recognizes "O. Hussard Balthazar" as an inspiration and a starting point. While the two films share clear sympathies for their respective heroes, the visual and pacing differences are less obvious. Bresson's elegant black-and-white compositions and subtle crossfades are a far cry from Agnieszka Glinska's precise editing, exuberant Dymek photography and vibrant colors, especially the raging strokes of red. (The audacity of the image says a lot for Skolimowski as a painter.) And while Bresson bends complex human drama into the context of “Balthazar,” the people of “Eyo” are interesting characters, but somewhat moving. Their troubles and sufferings – one cries, the other dies – concern us only insofar as they affect EO.
Io plays six donkeys – Hola, Taco, Marita, Ittore, Rocco and Mela – who are brought together through filming and editing into a character we know and love. The intimacy with the camera – the loving attention given to Yeo with a sometimes sad, sometimes excited gaze, raised ears, his soft gray fur and neat roots adorning his neck at one point – feels like a statement. This Love Skolimowski doesn't really try to convey an EO perspective, except for a few shots that suggest a donkey's view, with low angles to the ground and blurry edges. He's more interested in explaining what it's like to be in the presence of an EO, to get close enough to feel you can talk to him, smell his scent, and run your fingers through his fur.
In "EO", the camera doesn't just follow the story or record the action. Its restless, exploratory movements represent a kind of shared awareness, a sense of community between different members of the animal kingdom, working together in the field or sharing the same closed enclosure. The blessing of this film is the expansion of this community to those who pass before the camera whose fates are intertwined with EOs, whether they realize it or not. Finally, this connection extends to the public, especially those of us who go to the movies to shake, move, rock or gently recreate the feel of the universe. The world we share with the OE is cold and cruel, and that doesn't mean we have to be.
PARIS – French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Qatar for the second time in a week, despite widespread concerns about human rights and the environment in the emirate. Why? Because France is in the finals of the FIFA World Cup and because Macron is a huge soccer fan, as well as an important defender of the long-standing partnership between the two countries.
Footage of France's semi-final win over Morocco showed an elated Macron mingling with French players in the dressing room at the Doha Stadium on Wednesday night, cheering on the success of the Free from Desire team. anthem
The FIFA World Cup in Qatar has sparked many debates, from the living conditions of migrant workers to the air-conditioned stadium environment and the plight of LGBTQ people, as well as women and minorities. Many activists, especially in Europe, have called for a boycott of the tournament.
They also highlighted on social media that the six-hour flight from Paris to Doha was energy-intensive and climate-insensitive, contradicting Macron's previous pledges.
At the European summit held in Brussels on Thursday, Macron said that he fully supports his decision. "I'm a fan of the French team, and I think France is too," he said.
He cited the example of more than 20 million viewers watching the semi-final on French channel TF1, a record number for a World Cup game since 2006. "There are numbers. We love our team, we are proud, we want it to win," Macron said.
A sports enthusiast, the 44-year-old Macron played football at the elite French administrative school of HEC in the 2000s. He is a fan of Marseille in the south of France and last year played in a charity soccer match, the first for a sitting French president, in which he awarded a penalty.
Macron was also seen boxing during a campaign rally in the northern suburbs of Paris in April this year ahead of his re-election bid for a second term, a sport he reportedly enjoyed with some of his security agents.
The French president had previously announced that they would advance to the semi-finals and final if France qualified, as they did at the previous World Cup in 2018 when France won in Russia.
In response to criticism last month, he said that "sports should not be politicized."
Paris and several other major French cities have decided not to broadcast World Cup matches on giant screens in public spaces for fans to watch because of human rights concerns in Qatar.
Macron, who said he would meet with Qatari officials on Sunday, appeared to stick to his usual diplomatic approach, which includes talking to other world leaders about tough issues "when the need arises," according to the French president.
He is one of the few world leaders who has maintained open relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin since the beginning of the Ukrainian war.
Franco-Qatari relations, which date back to the emirate's independence in the 1970s, include political, economic and security arrangements that include oil contracts, arms sales and cultural exchanges. The leading French football club "Paris Saint-Germain" belongs to Qatar Sports Investments for more than 11 years.
When Macron visited Qatar a year ago, he issued a joint statement with the Emir of that country, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. The two leaders pledged to strengthen economic cooperation and "jointly address global challenges, including regional security, terrorism, climate change and energy transition."
On Wednesday, the organizer of the Avaaz civic campaign published a statement in two French newspapers condemning Macron's visit to Qatar, saying: "The players don't need you in the World Cup. The planet needs you."
"We thought it was a stunning failure of leadership that Emmanuel Macron went to watch soccer in Canada instead of the UN Biodiversity Conference," Avaaz CEO Oscar Soria tweeted.
Several left-wing French politicians also criticized Macron's visit to the emirate.
Greens MEP Yannick Jadot said this week that the visit to Qatar was a "political mistake", especially in the context of a corruption scandal that led to the European Parliament suspending work on all documents. Qatar: . .
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Sport is doing its best to get back to normal in 2022 after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The risk of a positive test remains, but the biggest impact on this year's calendar will be the need to host the World Cup in winter.
Here's a look at 10 things we learned from a year of sports.
England had to wait for the right moment
The World Cup again brought more disappointment for England, as Harry Kane missed a penalty in their 2-1 quarter-final loss to France.
But despite the disappointment after the loss, Britain is hopeful that a new golden generation is on the way. Ten members of this squad are under the age of 25, and a few of them have passed the age of 32 for the next World Cup in four years.
Meanwhile, a host of talent including Reece James, Ben Chilwell, Jadon Sancho, Emile Smith Rowe and Harvey Elliott will be looking to take the next step.
Sport remains linked to politics
History has shown that the idea that politics has no place in sports is always wrong, but the relationship remains complex.
For a minute, the Board of Directors hastened to adopt a certain message by proudly flying the Ukrainian flag at major sporting events, as evidenced by the official adoption of the call for peace after Russia's aggression against Ukraine.
Then, you can write to FIFA, asking all participating nations to "focus on football", threatening penalties for promoting the message of inclusion and Gianni Infantino's publicly aggressive rhetoric the day before. kick.
Sport remains a powerful force in world affairs, if not for usually its leaders.
"major league"
Chelsea's forced sale resulted in a whopping £4.25 billion fine against former Russian owner Roman Abramovich.
The Premier League's owners quickly reassessed the value of their assets, and by the end of the year, the league's two most respected brands, Manchester United and Liverpool, were up for sale.
Football financier Kieran Maguire has described it as "the last of the Premier League", suggesting that the owners believe the club won't be worth more than it is now after the failure of the Europa League project and the big picture has more power at the top.
English cricket is heading towards danger
Duo Ben Stokes and Brendon McCollum have revived the fortunes of a struggling Test team and pushed the boundaries of what the format can create.
Both are natural gamblers and forwards and have taken the team's philosophy in fearless new directions.
New women's coach Joanne Lewis will follow suit, which means next year's Summer Ashes pairing should be a good showing.
Rugby is in crisis
Shock waves were sent through the rugby club in October as Wasps and Worcester went into administration within 13 days, relegated from the top flight in England and relegated to the Championship.
Both clubs cited the pandemic as a factor in the financial loss, but the RFU rejected claims that "the bankruptcy is not their fault", saying other factors also played a role. The Football Association's chief executive Bill Sweeney said it showed England's current rugby model was "broken".
Ronaldo's embarrassing departure
Cristiano Ronaldo has built an extraordinary career thanks to his talent and determination. His big ego and fuel results are an essential part of the formula that made him one of the greatest athletes of all time.
But now he is about to leave first Manchester United, and now Portugal. His shocking interview with Piers Morgan was a letter of resignation to United after being left out of Erik ten Hag's plans.
Goncalo found himself on the bench for Ramos amid rumors of a World Cup blowout, and Ramos' hat-trick certainly made the situation permanent.
Champions League-seeking free agent Ronaldo has found suitors and intends to make his career in the Middle East.
Good things have come to those who wait
When Eve Muirhead led Great Britain to gold at the Winter Olympics in Beijing in February, it was the end of a long streak.
Since becoming the youngest jumper to win the world curling title in 2013, Muirhead has struggled with the disappointment of her previous three Olympics, including only a bronze medal in 2014.
His fortunes appear not to have changed: first his team failed to qualify for the Olympics at last year's World Cup in Calgary, then tested positive for Covid before the final round of qualifying.
After going to Beijing, they got stuck in the round robin but somehow made it to the finals. They made no mistakes when they were there and led Japan to a 10-3 victory.
Long football ban
In May, 17-year-old Blackpool striker Jake Daniels came out as gay, making him England's only active player. The teenager has been widely praised for telling his story, but his fame shows how far football still has to go.
Many wondered if other players would follow suit, especially with focus ahead of the World Cup in Qatar.
But two years later, the Justin Fashanu Foundation published a letter from an anonymous Premier League player who said he was too afraid to quit because the game didn't reach out to the community, and no one else did.
Poor title?
Formula 1 fans, never satisfied with Max Verstappen winning the 2021 championship from Lewis Hamilton at the end of last season, had yet another reason to add an asterisk to the October results, when Red Bull was found guilty of breaching the payment cap. last year.
Ross Brawn had previously claimed such an offense would cost the team the title, but with the offense considered minor, Red Bull lowered its fine-tunnel and wind test.
This wasn't enough to prevent the tensions in the ring from becoming more toxic in the final weeks of the season, as the bad feelings are unlikely to pass before the next season.
The Birmingham Commonwealth Games present the future
When the 22nd Commonwealth Games began in Birmingham at the end of July, the future of the event was in question. Games seen as historical anachronisms must prove that they can be relevant to the modern world.
And for 11 days, Birmingham showed what it was all about, hosting the Olympic Games like no other city had seen before, as fans filled the stands and created an atmosphere of joy that could celebrate both the event and the victory. Cost mentality elsewhere.
Birmingham by no means solves all problems, but it does point the way forward.
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Robert De Niro is the lead actor and executive producer of Mr. Experience,” says Variety of the detective series being developed by Entertainment One.
This project follows Mr. A "born" Baron (De Niro) who arrives in federal prison in Palm Springs after 30 years, fueled by dreams of reuniting with his kidnapped family and a dastardly plot to siphon billions of lithium from the Salton Sea. to enter a potential row. There will be blood in the sand, bones in the desert. Palm Springs will never be the same again.
Created by Mitch Glaser (On the Rocks), the project is structured as a multi-season series executive produced by Glaser and De Niro, alongside art by Yellowstone and John Linson.
eOne doesn't have a platform related to "Mr. Alami" yet, but it should be launched soon.
"Mr. Natural" is De Niro's second casting for a TV series role in recent months. In November, Variety reported that he would be starring in the Netflix limited series Zero Day. This project, also in development, is by Eric Newman and Noah Oppenheim;
If either project gets a series commission, it will be De Niro's first regular role on television.
One of Hollywood's most celebrated movie stars, De Niro won the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for Raging Bull and The Godfather Part II. He was nominated for a total of seven Academy Awards for his performances and also shared the Best Picture nomination for Irish, in which he starred and produced.
On the small screen, De Niro received several Emmy Award nominations, including Outstanding Lead Actor in a Movie or Limited Series for HBO's The Wizard of Lies, in which he played Bernie Madoff.
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Not surprisingly, the Biden administration fired a senior Energy Department official. Sam Brinton, a (former) member of the government's top duo, has been accused of stealing several bags worth thousands of dollars.
The real question is why Brinton was hired in the first place.
Brinton made headlines after being appointed deputy assistant secretary of the Department of Energy for fossil fuels and waste management for being "gender biased" and publicly courting inappropriate and exotic groups. For example, last month Brinton attended a leather conference and taught a seminar on fists and the science of Cold Red, dubbed NuclearNerd.
In fact, Brinton's highly visible participation in such sexual displays should have been reason enough to refuse him a job with the US government. It may not be government's job to control what people do behind closed doors, but they can at least try to appoint people to represent that government with dignity and respect.
Now Brinton seems to be responsible for something worse than chaining his sex partners like dogs. The suspect, who was arrested in Minneapolis-St. While serving as a member of management at Paul Airport and Las Vegas Airport. The Las Vegas incident reportedly happened in July, 18 days after Biden was hired by the team while the Minneapolis robbery was reported in September.
This is embarrassing for the Biden administration and could have been avoided had officials decided to use common sense in their hiring decisions. The reason they didn't join Brinton's case is clear. they were more concerned with presenting the administration professionally than with which box it ticked on their list of identity politics. .
This is the pattern of the Biden administration. You have promoted many officials whose strongest qualification for office is race or sex. Vice President Kamala Harris, for example, is terrible at her job and was only hired because Biden publicly promised to run with a black woman.
Similarly, Health Minister Xavier Becerra had no training or experience in public health (other than harassing religious health institutions in court), but was appointed head of the Health Board a century later. Because Pandemic ticks two boxes. Of course, the only reason Becerra was considered for the job was because by that time Biden was known to be under pressure from Hispanic activists. Several leading medical groups, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, have called on Biden to appoint a "qualified physician" to the post given the unprecedented public health situation.
Instead, the Biden administration installed a health secretary who knows nothing about public health. Ruthless Vice President; And the energy CEO who allegedly stole women's luggage for fun when he wasn't at a crazy conference. If management stopped focusing on looks, maybe they could focus on sending the best instead of apologizing for a lame team.
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Phyllis Meshulam's two-year tenure as Sonoma County Poet Laureate ended in March. However, he did not contribute to the local literary scene.
A tireless teacher and advocate, she has worked with young writers on programs such as Meshulam Calpoets, Poem Out and Petaluma Poetry Walk and has published four collections of poetry.
Meshulam is currently editing several unique poetry collections by local poets, some of whom will read their works at events in the West.
Earlier this year, The Freedom of New Beginnings, Poems of Testimony, and Visual Poems from Sonoma County were published, edited by Meshulam with Gail King, Gwynn O'Gara, and Terry Ehret.
On Sunday, December 18, from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm, selected poets from this collection will read their works at the Western Arts Center. The reading will be followed by a question and answer session, a book sale and a signing ceremony.
On Wednesday morning, Santa Rosa Copperfield had three copies, and in Sevastopol Copperfield ordered several more copies later in the week.
Meshulam notes in the preface to his book that "Today our world faces many challenges."
For this dictionary, he invited poets to solve these problems. Seventy-two people supported the cause, including Meshulam. Most are local, but at least two—former American Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera and Joey Harjo—are not.
Meshulam planned to give more individual performances during his tenure as Poet Laureate, but the Covid-19 pandemic put those plans on hold. The seminar was held online.
But, as he writes in the introduction, the authors "came together" and contributed many "brilliant" poems to the anthology.
To organize them, Meshulam quotes from a book by activist and author Joanna Massey. Meshulam explains that the volume, titled "Joining Forces," begins with a theme of gratitude, moves on to "respect our pain in the world," and then "sees it with new eyes."
They became "the three themes of this anthology".
While all the verses in the anthology are strong, Katherine B. Krause's "Crushing Green" stands out for its angry and insistent verses:
"My heart is angry
greed for nothing
Deprive God of his will.
Meshulam was moved by William Greenwood's Pistol Shots. Referring to the italicized text of the Second Amendment to the US Constitution, he proceeds to a catalog of the massacre committed by firearms in this country, and then asks:
"How can it be? Money
In the pockets of puppets of Congress?
Who sanctifies empty or heartless judges?
The right to keep and bear personal weapons?
The collection includes the poem "Ez zaiz isilduko" written by high school student Maria Carrillo Desiree Prater. His complaints are:
“I woke up this morning and turned on the news to see this.
My brothers and sisters are still dying", and;
“I woke up this morning with tears of sadness.
Whole families died because of this hatred.
People are here for my skin" and;
“I woke up this morning, I tried to shave.
Because my hair didn't meet society's beauty standards.
But the poem ends with a test of hope.
The anthology takes its title from the last poem in the collection. Sonoma County Poet Laureate Katherine Hastings, who moved to upstate New York after the 2017 wildfires, wrote of the bird in "Herons Like Smoke":
"Pleasant flight
They charged it with new daylight
It makes us remember more than fire
On the threshold of the slogan
ashes out of danger
glass injection
abandoned dreams
Light follows you, cuts a path
This is tantamount to destroying an abandoned nest.
This is tantamount to the freedom that comes with a fresh start.
The cover of the book features a majestic blue heron in flight. This arrest photo was taken by Phyllis Meshulam's husband, Jerry. “I became a bird photographer by accident,” he said.
Secretary of State Austin Murphy can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter @ausmurph88.
Patterson Literary Review #50 Readings – Part 1, Merited Poets Series, May 11, 2022
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