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Fewer people faced death penalty executions worldwide in 2018 than at any point in the past decade, according to a new report by advocacy group Amnesty International.
Across 20 countries, at least 690 executions were known to have taken place last year, a 31% decrease from the 993 recorded in 2017, the annual report released Wednesday said. The drop is mainly due to an amendment of Iran’s drug laws, which saw executions reduced by 50%, from 507 in 2017 to 253 in 2018.
Iraq, Pakistan and Somalia also carried out fewer executions.
“This is a hopeful indication that it’s only a matter of time before this cruel punishment is consigned to history, where it belongs,” Kumi Naidoo, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, said in a statement.
Even factoring in the decrease however, Iran is still one of the world’s leading executioners. According to Amnesty, more than half of the known executions were carried out in Iran and Saudi Arabia. China, where the numbers are classified but estimates suggest thousands of people are put to death each year, is believed to be the world’s top executioner.
Despite the overall decline, several countries increased their use of capital punishment in 2018, including Belarus, Japan, Singapore, South Sudan and the United States. Japan and Singapore both reported their highest number of executions in a decade. In the U.S., the number grew marginally for the second consecutive year, to 25 in 2018.
“The positive news of 2018 has been marred by a small number of states who are shamefully determined to buck the trend,” Naidoo said.
Thailand re-introduced executions after not putting anyone to death since 2009, and Sri Lanka threatened to emulate the Philippines by using capital punishment to fight drug use and narcotics trafficking.
Vietnam, for which figures are normally not obtainable, was found in 2018 to be one of the world’s top executioners, with 85 death penalties implemented.
But globally, abolition of the death penalty appears to be gaining traction. Burkina Faso eliminated the death penalty, while Gambia and Malaysia both declared moratoriums.
In December last year, the U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution with the support of 121 member states supporting a global moratorium on the punishment.
“The increased support for the 2018 resolution constitutes a further indication that a global consensus is building to consign the death penalty to the history books,” Amnesty’s report reads.
(UNITED NATIONS) — The U.N. refugee chief said Tuesday he has never seen “such toxicity, such poison” in politics, the media, social media and every day conversation focused on refugees, migrants and foreigners.
U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said the March 15 attack on a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand that killed 50 Muslim worshippers was the result “of that toxic language of politics.”
Grandi urged countries everywhere to take “a leaf from the exemplary response of the people and the leadership of New Zealand” in responding to the “toxic trends” by restating the values that underpin global solidarity and “reaffirm that our societies will not be really prosperous, stable and peaceful if they do not include all.”
An Australian white supremacist, Brenton Harrison Tarrant, who has been charged with the mosque killings which included many immigrants, livestreamed the shootings and sent out a lengthy manifesto. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said the world has been stuck in a vicious cycle of extremism which must end, and she will never utter his name and give his views the oxygen he wanted.
Grandi told the Security Council “there is unprecedented stigmatization of refugees and migrants,” and responses are increasingly inadequate.
He said he has worked with refugees for over three decades and has seen “much solidarity, even heroism in some of the responses that are provided on the ground” to help them.
And “that solidarity is still very strong” in many parts of the world, from African villages to the border between Bangladesh and Myanmar, to communities in Latin American helping Venezuelans, Grandi said.
“But also in these 3 1/2 decades I have never seen such toxicity, such poison in the language of politics, in media, in social media, even in everyday discussions and conversations around this issue — toxicity that focuses sadly, tragically, often, on refugees, on migrants, on foreigners,” he said. “That should be of concern to us all.”
Grandi added that “many politicians believe that — and I think they are proven right — that doing this expands their consensus.”
But he said this is wrong and unfair to people “that are fleeing because they seek safety from war, from persecution.”
He said the mosque attacks in New Zealand showed this has become an issue of security and stability for all countries — and governments need to address the issue of language on social media and in politics.
“It is an issue if left unchecked may have very grave consequences, not only for our work but for the world in general,” Grandi warned.
Airbnb has backpedaled on its plan to delist rentals in Israeli settlements in the West Bank, announcing Tuesday that it will instead donate proceeds from such bookings to humanitarian organizations, according to Reuters.
Last November, the vacations rentals giant courted controversy with a decision to remove about 200 properties in the contested territory as critics questioned the ethics of doing business in an area at the heart of the Israel-Palestine conflict. But the company’s delisting move prompted legal action and backlash from hosts and potential hosts in the U.S. and Israel.
Airbnb says that it has settled all lawsuits related to the issue, and under the settlement terms, will not be moving forward with the delisting of properties.
“We understand the complexity of the issue that was addressed in our previous policy announcement, and we will continue to allow listings throughout all of the West Bank,” the company said in a statement.
“Airbnb will take no profits from this activity in the region,” it added, saying that money from the listings will be donated to non-profit organizations that help people across the world.
Israeli and Palestinian officials did not offer an immediate reaction to the announcement, but Airbnb’s shift comes just days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to extend Israeli control over parts of the occupied West Bank if re-elected.
There are approximately 600,000 Israelis living in the West Bank, but settlement activities have intensified in recent months. The U.N., which calls the settlements a “flagrant violation” of international law and “a presumptive war crime,” released a statement recently laying out fears that the increased activity is paving the way for Israeli annexation of the West Bank.
Airbnb and other tourism companies like Booking.com, Expedia and TripAdvisor have faced harsh criticism from rights groups for operating in the region.
“They are doing so despite knowing that Israel’s settlements are illegal under international law, and a war crime,” Amnesty International said in a statement.
The West Bank is the subject of a decades long conflict between Israel and Palestine, with both sides making historical claims to the territory. Israel took control the area from Jordan in 1967, and has returned only parts of it to direct Palestinian administration.
(JERUSALEM) — Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to be headed toward a historic fifth term as Israel’s prime minister on Wednesday, with close-to-complete unofficial election results giving his right-wing Likud and other nationalist and religious parties a solid majority in parliament.
The outcome affirmed Israel’s continued tilt to the right and further dimmed hopes of a negotiated solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Re-election will also give Netanyahu an important boost as he braces for the likelihood of criminal charges in a series of corruption scandals.
With 97.4% of the vote counted, Likud and its traditional political allies were in command of a 65-55 majority in parliament. A couple of small parties were still teetering along the electoral threshold and fighting for their survival, so the final makeup of the next parliament has yet to be decided. Final results were expected Thursday.
Two of his potential allies, hawkish former Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman and economic-centric Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, have yet to formally confirm they would sit with Netanyahu and could emerge as wildcards. In any case, the country now faces what could be weeks of political negotiations over the composition of a ruling coalition.
But under nearly every scenario, Netanyahu was the big winner.
The long-time Israeli leader had fought a tight, ugly race against centrist ex-military chief Benny Gantz, whose nascent Blue and White party emerged as a viable alternative to Netanyahu’s decade in power. The near-final results showed it deadlocked with Likud at 35 seats. But most of its support seems to have come at the expense of the venerable Labor and leftist Meretz parties, who both earned historic lows in Tuesday’s election.
Together with his current Jewish ultra-Orthodox and nationalist partners, Netanyahu seemed to have a clear path toward building a coalition government that has a majority in the 120-seat parliament.
With a victory, Netanyahu would capture a fourth consecutive term and fifth overall, which this summer will make him Israel’s longest-ever serving leader, surpassing founding father David Ben-Gurion.
“It’s a night of tremendous victory,” Netanyahu told supporters early Wednesday. “I was very moved that the nation of Israel once again entrusted me for the fifth time, and with an even greater trust.”
He said he had already begun talking to fellow right wing and religious parties about forming a new coalition.
“I want to make it clear, it will be a right-wing government, but I intend to be the prime minister of all Israeli citizens, right or left, Jews and non-Jews alike,” he said.
Netanyahu’s message of unity was a sharp contrast from his campaign theme in which he accused Gantz of conspiring with Arab parties to topple him. Arab leaders accused Netanyahu of demonizing the country’s Arab community, which is about 20 percent of the population.
His attacks on the Arab sector fueled calls for a boycott and appeared to result in relatively low turnout by Arab voters.
Overnight, with fewer of the votes counted, Blue and White still appeared to be ahead by one seat and Gantz projected optimism that he would be tasked with building a coalition. But by morning, he seemed to have realized his dream of becoming prime minister was lost, even if he didn’t formally concede defeat.
“Though the skies appear gloomy, nothing is final. There could be changes and some political options could open up,” he wrote to his supporters. “Our voters asked for hope and we gave it to them. They wanted a different way and we outlined it.”
Though the Palestinian issue was rarely mentioned in the raucous campaign, Netanyahu had in the final stretch pledged for the first time to annex parts of the occupied West Bank in a desperate bid to rally his right-wing base. Netanyahu has welched on election eve promises before, but should he follow through on this one, it would mark a dramatic development and potentially wipe out the already diminishing hope for Palestinian statehood.
An aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said the outcome of the election raised Palestinian fears about an Israeli annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank. Ahmed Majdalani said Palestinians will seek the help of the international community to try to block any such plans. He said that the outcome of the election means a boost for what he called the “extreme right-wing camp” in Israeli politics.
Hanan Ashrawi, a senior Palestinian official, said Israel chose to entrench “the status quo of oppression, occupation, annexation and dispossession.”
The 69-year-old Netanyahu has been the dominant force in Israeli politics for the past two decades and its face to the world. His campaign has focused heavily on his friendship with President Donald Trump and his success in cultivating new allies, such as China, India and Brazil.
But his corruption scandals created some voter fatigue. Along with two other former military chiefs on his ticket, Gantz was able to challenge Netanyahu on security issues, normally the prime minister’s strong suit, while also taking aim at the prime minister’s alleged ethical lapses.
Israel’s attorney general has recommended charging Netanyahu with bribery, breach of trust and fraud in three cases and a potential fourth case emerged during the campaign. He will only decide on indicting Netanyahu after a legally mandated hearing. Legal experts expect at least some charges to be filed, which could set the stage for a short term in office for Netanyahu and another round of elections soon.
“This is a clear beginning of Netanyahu’s fifth term, but his fifth term might end up being his shortest one”, says Reuven Hazan, a political scientist from Jerusalem’s Hebrew University. “In another year, we might be in a battle for either leadership of the Likud or another election.”
Pieces from the wreckage a Japanese fighter jet that crashed into the Pacific Ocean Tuesday have been found, Japan’s Self-Defense Force confirmed a day after the incident.
Officials said the relatively new F-35A was on a training mission with three other jets of the same model when contact was lost, according to Japan’s national broadcaster NHK.
Japanese Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya said the jet, which flew from the Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture, lost radar contact just before 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. The plane was around 85 miles east of the coast. Just before the crash, the pilot contacted the other jets in an attempt to cancel the mission, according to officials.
Patrol aircrafts and ships were deployed to search for the missing F-35A after the disappearance. On Wednesday, search teams recovered debris from the jet, including parts of the tail, but Japanese and U.S. forces are continuing to look for the missing pilot.
The F-35 was developed by the U.S. and eight other countries. According to NHK, the jet’s stealth capabilities make it particularly difficult to detect.
Officials said there was no known problem with the aircraft before contact was lost, but the 12 other F-35As have been grounded at the Misawa Air Base in the wake of the crash.
The incident is not the first time an F-35 has crashed. Last September, a F-35B, the Marine Corps version of the aircraft, downed near Beaufort, South Carolina, forcing the pilot to eject from the cockpit. In 2014, the U.S. Department of Defense grounded the entire fleet of F-35 jets after a fire broke out at a Florida air base.
With a price tag of $90 to $115 million per aircraft, the single-seater F-35 fighter jet has been dubbed the single most expensive weapons system ever built.
NEW DELHI (AP) — The Dalai Lama has been hospitalized in the Indian capital with a chest infection and is feeling better, his spokesman said Wednesday.
The 83-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader is under medication and likely to spend a day or two in the hospital, spokesman Tenzin Taklha said.
The Dalai Lama flew from Dharmsala for consultations with doctors in the capital and was hospitalized on Tuesday. The north Indian hill town has been his headquarters since he fled Tibet in 1959 following a failed uprising against Chinese rule.
Takhla said the Dalai Lama was feeling much better now but has already cut down on travel in the past year as he has to take care of his health.
He usually spends several months a year traveling the world to teach Buddhism and highlight the Tibetans’ struggle for greater freedom in China.
“Long-distance travelling is tiresome. Generally, he is in very good health. But he is taking precautions,” he told The Associated Press.
The Dalai Lama addressed a conference of educators and students in New Delhi last week.
Answering a question related to Tibet’s future with China, he reiterated that he is not seeking independence for Tibet, but would prefer a “reunion” with China under mutually acceptable terms.
(TOKYO) — Japan partially lifted an evacuation order in one of the two hometowns of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant on Wednesday for the first time since the 2011 disaster.
Decontamination efforts have lowered radiation levels significantly in the area about 7 kilometers (4 miles) southwest of the plant where three reactors had meltdowns due to the damage caused by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
The action allows people to return to about 40 percent of Okuma. The other hometown, Futaba, remains off-limits, as are several other towns nearby.
Many former residents are reluctant to return as the complicated process to safely decommission the plant continues. Opponents of lifting the evacuation orders in long-abandoned communities say the government is promoting residents’ return to showcase safety ahead of the Tokyo Olympics next summer.
The government has pushed for an aggressive decontamination program by removing topsoil, chopping trees and washing down houses and roads in contaminated areas, though experts say the effort only caused the contamination to move from one place to another, creating massive amounts of radioactive waste and the need for its long-term storage.
The meltdowns at three of Fukushima Dai-ichi’s six reactors caused massive radiation leaks that contaminated the plant’s surroundings, forcing at its peak some 160,000 people to evacuate their homes for areas elsewhere in Fukushima or outside the prefecture.
Evacuation orders in most of the initial no-go zones have been lifted, but restrictions are still in place in several towns closest to the plant and to its northwest, which were contaminated by radioactive plumes from the plant soon after its meltdowns. More than 40,000 people were still unable to return home as of March, including Okuma’s population of 10,000.
Town officials say the lifting of the evacuation order in the two districts would encourage the area’s recovery.
Many people are reluctant to return home because of lingering concerns about radiation, and they have adapted to new jobs and homes after more than eight years away.
Only 367 people, or less than 4 percent of Okuma’s population, registered as residents in the two districts where the order was lifted. A survey last year found only 12.5 percent of former residents wanted to return to their hometown. The government hopes to allow some of Futaba’s 5,980 residents to return next year.
Okuma is also home to a temporary storage facility for the radioactive waste that came out of the decontamination efforts across Fukushima. A much delayed facility is still underway.
Fukushima plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., and government officials plan to start removing the melted fuel in 2021 from one of the three melted reactors, but still know little about its condition inside and have not finalized waste management plans.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to be headed toward re-election early Wednesday, as exit polls and partial results showed him surging ahead of his main competitor in a tight race that was seen as a referendum on the long-serving leader.
Both Netanyahu and former military chief Benny Gantz, leader of the rival Blue and White party, declared victory in speeches to boisterous gatherings of supporters. But as the night went on, there were growing signs that Netanyahu’s Likud was pulling ahead.
With a victory, Netanyahu would capture a fourth consecutive term and fifth overall, which this summer will make him Israel’s longest-ever serving leader. Perhaps more crucially, re-election will give him an important boost as he braces for the likelihood of criminal charges in a series of corruption scandals.
The 69-year-old prime minister has been the dominant force in Israeli politics for the past two decades and its face to the world. His campaign has focused heavily on his friendship with President Donald Trump and his success in cultivating new allies, such as China, India and Brazil.
But the corruption scandals created some voter fatigue. Along with two other former military chiefs on his ticket, Gantz was able to challenge Netanyahu on security issues, normally the prime minister’s strong suit, while also taking aim at the prime minister’s alleged ethical lapses.
Israel’s attorney general has recommended charging Netanyahu with bribery, breach of trust and fraud. The telegenic Gantz, who has been vague on key policy fronts, has presented himself as a clean, scandal-free alternative to Netanyahu.
Initial exit poll results by Israel’s main TV stations showed the two parties far ahead of all of the other competitors in the race and indicated that Blue and White would emerge as the largest party.
“Elections have losers and elections have winners. And we are the winners,” Gantz told a victory rally shortly after midnight.
He vowed to change the tone of Israel’s divisive political system and “be the prime minister of everyone, not just the ones who voted for me.”
But as results trickled in throughout the night, the Likud appeared to be gaining strength. Two stations projected Likud to win 35 seats in parliament, compared to 34 for Blue and White. With about 60 percent of the votes counted, Likud held a narrow lead.
Though both parties were well short of a majority in the 120-seat parliament, the polls showed Likud and its religious and nationalist allies controlling a solid majority.
“It’s a night of tremendous victory,” Netanyahu told his own victory rally. “I was very moved that the nation of Israel once again entrusted me for the fifth time, and with an even greater trust.”
He said he had already begun talking to fellow right wing and religious parties about forming a new coalition.
“I want to make it clear, it will be a right-wing government, but I intend to be the prime minister of all Israeli citizens, right or left, Jews and non-Jews alike,” he said.
The message was a sharp contrast from his campaign theme in which he accused Gantz of conspiring with Arab parties to topple him. Arab leaders accused Netanyahu of demonizing the country’s Arab community, which makes up about 20 percent of the population.
His attacks on the Arab sector fueled calls for a boycott, and appeared to result in relatively low turnout by Arab voters. Israel’s central elections commission banned parties from bringing cameras into polling stations after Likud party activists were caught with hidden cameras in Arab towns.
The final results were still subject to change. Some 40 parties took part in the election, and only those that receive at least 3.25% of the votes make it into parliament.
The final results will depend on the performance of several small parties, including the Arab Balad party and the ultranationalist “New Right,” that were on the cusp of entering parliament. If any of them fail to cross the threshold, the makeup of the next coalition could be dramatically affected.
Yohanan Plesner, a former lawmaker and head of the nonpartisan Israel Democracy Institute, called the close and conflicting exit polls “an unprecedented situation.”
“We’ve had elections before where he didn’t know the results but here it is even messier,” he said.
Once the final results come in, attention will turn to President Reuven Rivlin. The president, whose responsibilities are mostly ceremonial, is charged with choosing a prime minister after consulting with party leaders and determining who has the best chance of putting together a majority coalition. That responsibility is usually given to the head of the largest party.
The election included several other surprises. Exit polls all projected the iconic Labor party, which ruled the country for its first 30 years, tumbling to single digits in the parliament.
Zehut, an iconoclastic party that combined an ultranationalist ideology with libertarian economic positions and calls for the legalization of marijuana, had appeared poised to emerge as the Cinderella story of the election. But the exit polls showed it falling short and not entering parliament.
If Netanyahu is re-elected, attention will quickly focus on his legal woes. The attorney general has recommended a series of criminal charges against the prime minister, but will only make a decision on indicting him after a legally mandated hearing. Legal experts expect at least some charges to be filed.
Netanyahu will likely focus his efforts on getting guarantees from his coalition partners to continue to back him if he is indicted, and perhaps find a way to grant him immunity from prosecution.
Netanyahu has denied any wrongdoing and claimed he is the victim of a witch hunt.
In order to appeal to his religious and ultranationalist parties, Netanyahu veered sharply right on the campaign trail with attacks on Arab politicians, the media and the judiciary. He also pledged to annex West Bank settlements, a step that could snuff out any remaining hopes for a two-state solution with the Palestinians.
Palestinian official Saeb Erekat lamented that the Israelis voted to maintain “the status quo.”
“They want their occupation to be endless,” he said.
A 24-year-old cyber criminal, who blackmailed computer users worldwide has been jailed for six years for his role with what U.K. investigators described as one of most sophisticated cyber crime groups they have ever investigated.
An investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA), the UK’s agency to stop serious organized crime, found that Zain Qaiser, was member of an international, Russian-speaking crime group that made huge profits from victims in more than 20 countries. Qaiser, a computer science student from London, received at least $900,00 from the group for his role.
The crime agency worked with its partners in the US, Canada and Europe in this “extremely long-running, complex cyber-crime investigation.” The F.B.I. and the U.S. Secret Service also arrested people in relation to the campaign. Nigel Leary, NCA Senior Investigating Officer, said: “This was one of the most sophisticated, serious and organized cyber crime groups the National Crime Agency has ever investigated.”
Under the guise of fake identities and made-up companies, Qaiser managed to buy huge amounts of advertising traffic from pornographic websites. Users who clicked on his ads became targets for the malware. They were redirected to another website, containing highly-sophisticated malware strains including the infamous Angler Exploit Kit (AEK) – thought to have been created by one of Qaiser’s Russian-speaking associates.
One type of malware used, called ‘reveton’ would lock a user’s browser. Once locked, the infected device would display a message pretending to be from law enforcement or a government agency, which claimed an offense had been committed and the victim had to pay a fine of between $300-$1,000 to unlock their device. The message hit millions of computers worldwide.
Qaiser also blackmailed users through virtual and crypto-currency money laundering. Some online ad agencies that sold Qaiser the advertising traffic realized what he was doing and tried to stop him. But Qaiser then blackmailed them, telling one company director: “I’ll first kill your server, then send child porn spam abuses.” The companies lost at least £500,000 in revenue losses and mitigation costs.
Browser locking software displaying a message telling users criminal proceedings would begin unless they paid a fee
The student’s work is believed to have started in September 2012 when he was 17 years-old and lasted until he was put in custody in December 2018. The NCA found that he spent the money on gambling, luxury hotels and a Rolex watch.
Leary said this investigation shows that cyber-criminals can’t “operate from behind a veil of anonymity.” The NCA has the “tenacity and specialist skills to catch them and bring them to justice.”
(KABUL, Afghanistan) — U.S. forces in Afghanistan revised on Tuesday the death toll from a Taliban attack the previous day near the main American base in the country, saying three service members were killed but not a contractor who was initially reported among the fatalities.
The U.S. and NATO Resolute Support mission issued a statement “to clarify initial reporting” about Monday’s roadside bombing of an American convoy near the main U.S. base. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
The Pentagon said later that all three service members killed were Marines.
The mission said a roadside bomb hit the convoy near the Bagram Airfield, killing three American service members, and said “the contractor who was reported as killed, is alive.”
The statement said “the contractor, an Afghan citizen, was initially treated along with other injured civilians, later identified as a contractor and treated at Bagram Airfield.”
Three other U.S. service members were also wounded in the attack. The base in Bagram district is located in northern Parwan province and serves as the main U.S. air facility in the country.
The wounded were evacuated and are receiving medical care, the statement said.
Christopher Slutman, a 15-year New York City fire department member, was among the three Marines killed. He leaves behind his wife, Shannon, and three daughters.
“Firefighter Slutman bravely wore two uniforms and committed his life to public service both as a New York City firefighter and as a member of the United States Marine Corps,” Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said in a written statement.
The Pentagon identified the two other Marines killed as Cpl. Robert A. Hendriks, 25, of Locust Valley, New York, and Sgt. Benjamin S. Hines, 31, of York, Pennsylvania.
In their claim of responsibility, the Taliban said they launched the attack and that one of their suicide bombers detonated his explosives-laden vehicle near the NATO base. The conflicting accounts could not be immediately reconciled.
On Tuesday, local Afghan officials said at least five Afghan civilians were wounded in the commotion after the attack on the American convoy.
Four were passersby and the fifth was a driver of a car going down the road, said Abdul Raqib Kohistani, the Bagram district police chief. Abdul Shakor Qudosi, the district administrative chief in Bagram, said American soldiers opened fire immediately after their convoy was bombed.
Monday’s U.S. fatalities bring to seven the number of U.S. soldiers killed so far this year in Afghanistan, underscoring the difficulties in bringing peace to the war-wrecked country even as Washington has stepped up efforts to find a way to end the 17-year war, America’s longest.
There are about 14,000 U.S. forces in Afghanistan, supporting embattled Afghan forces as they struggle on two fronts — facing a resurgent Taliban who now hold sway over almost half the country and also the Islamic State affiliate, which has sought to expand its footprint in Afghanistan even as its self-proclaimed “caliphate” has crumbled in Syria and Iraq.
Last year, 13 U.S. service members were killed in Afghanistan.
The Taliban have continued to carry out daily attacks on Afghan security forces despite holding several rounds of peace talks with the United States in recent months. The Taliban have refused to meet with the Afghan government, which they view as a U.S. puppet.
Meanwhile, the Taliban have agreed to take part in an all-Afghan gathering later this month in Qatar, where the insurgents maintain a political office. But the Taliban say they will not recognize any government official attending the gathering as a representative of the Kabul government, only as an individual Afghan participant.
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* Congress will need an updated cost estimate of program costs * Navy officials likely to be grilled this week on new report
The U.S. Navy may have to ask Congress to boost funding in fiscal 2021 to buy the first in its new 12-ship fleet of nuclear-armed submarines because of unreliable cost estimates, according to congressional auditors.
The service's current procurement cost estimate and design goal are suspect and require updates before those dollars are approved, the Government Accountability Office said in a report issued Monday. The submarine also continues to have problems first identified in 2017 with the vessel's power system.
The Columbia-class program is estimated at $128 billion including research and development, with $115 billion for procurement. That makes it the Pentagon's third-costliest system. But the cost estimate "is not accurate because it relies on overly optimistic" reductions in labor costs, the audit found.
* Japan's military reported on Tuesday that it lost an F-35 stealth jet some 84 miles off the east coast of Aomori prefecture, Japan, in the Pacific. * Experts say Russia and China will do anything to get a look at the crashed jet, and if they do find it or can salvage it, they could seriously undermine the next several decades of US airpower. * Russia and China probably couldn't perfectly reconstruct the F-35, but any of its technology that ends up in the countries' hands would be a blow to the heart of the US military.
Japan's military reported on Tuesday that it lost contact with an F-35 stealth jet some 84 miles off the east coast of Aomori prefecture, Japan, in the Pacific and that the hunt was on for the pilot and the downed plane.
But if Russia or China — which both maintain a heavy naval presence in the region — find the plane first, the future of US airpower could be over before it started.
"Bottom line is that it would not be good" for the future of US airpower if Japan or the US don't quickly recover the jet, retired US Air Force Lt. Gen. David Deptula told Business Insider.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Search and rescue teams found wreckage from a Japanese F-35 stealth fighter that crashed over the Pacific Ocean close to northern Japan, but the pilot remains missing, authorities said on Wednesday.
The aircraft, less than one-year-old, was the first F-35 to be assembled in Japan and was only in the air for 28 minutes on Tuesday, a defense official said.
It is only the second F-35 to crash in the two-decades it has been flying.
The advanced, single-seat jet was flying about 135 km (84 miles) east of the Misawa air base in Aomori Prefecture at about 7:27 p.m. (1027 GMT) on Tuesday when it disappeared from radar, the Air Self Defense Force said.
Dozens of Afghan forces and Taliban fighters were killed in overnight fighting across Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday, as violence intensified ahead of another round of peace efforts to end the 18-year-old war https://t.co/X9lu8dJxFU
"The White House has tapped the Air Force general in charge of the Pentagon's nuclear enterprise and other strategic assets to become the military's No. 2 general later this year." https://t.co/zkedLZ6W50
Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Richard E. Cole, the last surviving Doolittle Raider, tours a U.S. Navy B-25 Mitchell similar to the aircraft he co-piloted. Cole has died at age 103. (Staff Sgt. Vernon Young Jr./Air Force)
* Richard 'Dick' Cole, the last of the Second World War's infamous Doolittle Raiders, passed away early Monday * The retired Air Force Lt. Col.took part in daring raids on Japanese mainland following the Pearl Harbor attack * Led by the legendary James 'Jimmy' Doolittle, the aviators flew 16 stripped-down B-25s 650 miles to Japan * They took off from aircraft carriers in the middle of the Pacific and bombed key Japanese positions in Tokyo * After the audacious Tokyo raid the brave men all bailed out of their planes safely onto friendly Chinese fields * When asked his clearest memory of the raid, he joked: 'The thing I remember most... is my parachute opening' * While the attack caused only minor damage, it played a huge role in boosting morale on the US home-front * Cole remained a hero within the Air Force after retiring and in 2016, announced that a new series of bombers - the B-21 stealth bombers would be named the 'Raider' in honor of Doolittle, Cole and their band of brothers
A retired Air Force Lt. Col. who took part in the daring Doolittle Raids on Japan in the wake of the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor has died, aged 103.
Richard 'Dick' Cole, the last of the Second World War's infamous Doolittle Raiders, passed away early Monday morning in San Antonio, Texas, surrounded by his family.
Cole was part of a volunteer group of 80 Army Air Force aviators who took part in a series of bombing raids in retaliation for the attack on a United States naval base in Hawaii, which killed 2,403 American citizens.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards fire missiles during a war game in a desert near the holy city of Qom, southeast of Tehran, November 2006. REUTERS/Fars News
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said China is the No. 1 threat to U.S. security. He also spoke about America's immigration situation, saying that sending troops to the southern border is not an unprecedented mission.
In an exclusive interview with Fox News' Bret Baier on Tuesday, Shanahan seemed to echo President Trump's sentiment that the biggest threat America faces is the modernization of China.
"China is a threat economically and diplomatically. I think it's time we address some of these issues -- militarization of the South China Sea, the Communist Chinese Party launching cyberattacks against the U.S., theft of intellectual property, and a significant expansion of military capability."
* Inquiry comes as House GOP pushes claims of anti-Trump bias * Issue pursued as Democrats emphasize getting Mueller's report
Attorney General William Barr has assembled a team to review controversial counterintelligence decisions made by Justice Department and FBI officials, including actions taken during the probe of the Trump campaign in the summer of 2016, according to a person familiar with the matter.
This indicates that Barr is looking into allegations that Republican lawmakers have been pursuing for more than a year -- that the investigation into President Donald Trump and possible collusion with Russia was tainted at the start by anti-Trump bias in the FBI and Justice Department.
"I am reviewing the conduct of the investigation and trying to get my arms around all the aspects of the counterintelligence investigation that was conducted during the summer of 2016," Barr told a House panel on Tuesday.
Barr's inquiry is separate from a long-running investigation by the Justice Department's inspector general, said the person, who asked not to be identified discussing sensitive matters. The FBI declined to comment. Barr said he expected the inspector general's work to be completed by May or June.
WNU Editor: If the above report is accurate, the Justice Department inspector general's report on how the department handled this entire Russian collusion investigation will be completed by May or June. I am willing to bet that this report will lay the groundwork for Attorney General Barr to justify a more comprehensive review on how controversial counterintelligence decisions were made by Justice Department and FBI officials, and to hold people accountable for making them. This has the potential to shake the Washington establishment .... especially those within the intelligence community .... to a level that we have not seen in years.
The probe is "total nonsense aimed mainly at the domestic audience", Vladimir Putin stressed
ST.PETERSBURG, April 9. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has called predictable the outcome of an investigation conducted by US Special Counsel Robert Mueller, which found that the Trump campaign did not collude with Russia to influence the 2016 election.
"From the very beginning we said that this notorious commission led by Mr. Mueller won't find anything because no one knows better than us: Russia has not meddled in any US election, there was no collusion between Trump and Russia, which Mr. Mueller had looked for," Putin told the International Arctic Forum.
A combination picture shows Benny Gantz (left), leader of Blue and White party voting at a polling station in Rosh Ha'ayin and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voting at a polling station in Jerusalem during Israel's parliamentary election April 9, 2019. REUTERS/Nir Elias, Ariel Schalit/Pool via REUTERS
A day after Washington added the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps to the terror list, an elite force's top officer cautioned the US Navy against ordering its warships to sail close to their speed boats.
"Mr. Trump, tell your warships not to pass near the Revolutionary Guards boats," Mohsen Rezaei, a senior officer of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was quoted by the semi-official news agency ISNA.
The U.S. designation of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) marks the first time Washington has officially used that label on a foreign state institution.
"It underscores the fact that Iran's actions are fundamentally different from those of other governments," U.S. President Donald Trump said in an April 8 statement.
His secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, said the move was aimed at increasing pressure on Iran and diverting some of the financial resources it allegedly uses to fund terrorism and militant activities.
Exit polls in Israel suggest there will be no clear winner in the closely fought general election.
The centrist Blue and White alliance of former military chief Benny Gantz was projected to win 36 or 37 seats, with the Likud party of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu taking 33 to 36.
Both men have claimed victory.
Two exit polls predicted that right-wing parties allied to Mr Netanyahu were more likely to be able to form a governing coalition.
But a third exit poll predicted that the bloc would be tied with centre-left parties allied to Mr Gantz.
Tehran responds fiercely to US's reclassification of its military wing as a terrorist organisation
Politicians in Iran wore uniforms of the Revolutionary Guards in parliament on Tuesday in protest at the US decision to classify the nation's military wing as a foreign terrorist organisation.
There were chants of "Death to America" as the president, Hassan Rouhani, declared the force was "dearer than ever in the hearts of the Iranian nation" and announced countermeasures against the US.
Donald Trump's move on Monday marked the first time Washington has declared another nation's military wing a terrorist organisation – in the same category as non-state groups such as Isis or al-Qaida.
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, April 9, 2019. REUTERS/Chris Wattie
OTTAWA (Reuters) - When Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took office in late 2015, he was a political golden boy who seemed destined to build on the legend of his father, who led the country for more than 15 years.
But six months ahead of an October election, polls suggest the 47-year-old politician with the broad smile and a penchant for colorful socks could become the first prime minister to lose power after a single majority mandate since the 1930s.
Trudeau is mired in a relentless scandal over alleged interference in a corporate corruption case that has led to the resignations of two Cabinet members, his top advisor and the head of the federal civil service.
The ruling Liberals have lost 6 percentage points since the start of the year, ceding the lead to the rival Conservatives, according to a Nanos Research poll published on Tuesday.
If an election were held now, the Conservatives would win 34.9 percent of the vote, the Liberals 32.8 percent and the left-leaning New Democratic Party 16.6 percent. The poll suggests the result would be deadlock or a fragile minority government. Read more ....
WNU Editor: I live in Canada and I follow these things very closely. The polling company that is quoted above has IMHO always given results that favour the Liberals. I think the spread is a few points more. This does not mean that Prime Minister Trudeau is going to lose in the next election. The election is still 6 months away, and anything can happen. But being accused of interfering in a criminal case to help a company with ties to his political party, and the expulsion of two key cabinet ministers because they have lost confidence in his leadership, has hurt him. But what my really hurt him is the economy. It is starting to slow down, and that may in the end be his biggest Achilles Heel.
The Afghan man was later determined to have fallen in with a group of civilians in the chaos after the explosion, a U.S. military official told NBC News.
A civilian working for the U.S. military was found alive after he was reported to have been killed by a car bomb in Afghanistan, an American military official told NBC News on Tuesday.
The unidentified Afghan man was wounded in an attack that killed three U.S. service members outside the Bagram Airfield 25 miles north of Kabul.
The victim was riding in the military vehicle with at least four American servicemembers when the roadside bomb detonated, the official said. Coalition forces released a statement on Monday saying the man was killed in the attack.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's party finished second with 33 seats, according to Channel 12. Blue and White takes 37.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz each declared that they won Tuesday's election after inconclusive exit polls were broadcast on the three Israeli networks.
Netanyahu claimed victory, because his Right-Center bloc won handily over Gantz's Center-Left bloc in polls broadcast on Channel 13 and KAN, 66 to 54 and 64 to 56, respectively. In Channel 12's poll, the blocs were even at 60 seats.
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela removed eight tonnes of gold from the central bank's vaults last week, and the cash-strapped socialist state is expected to sell the bullion abroad as it seeks to raise hard currency in the face of U.S. sanctions, a lawmaker and one government source said.
With sanctions imposed by Washington choking off revenues from exports by state oil company PDVSA, President Nicolas Maduro's increasingly isolated administration has turned to sales of Venezuela's substantial gold reserves as one of the only sources of foreign currency.
The government source said the Central Bank's reserves had fallen by 30 tonnes since the start of the year before U.S. President Donald Trump tightened sanctions, leaving the bank with around 100 tonnes in its vaults, worth more than $4 billion.
WNU Editor: I am willing to bet that this gold is either going to Russia or China, and it is to pay off debts and the support that both countries have given to the Maduro regime.
Eastern-based warlord Khalifa Haftar struck Tripoli's only functioning international airport on Monday, drawing a rebuke from the United Nations and escalating an advance on the capital that threatens to spark civil war and convulse oil markets.
Mitiga International Airport, Libya's largest, temporarily suspended flights after the airstrike, which the UN's secretary-general, Antonio Gutteres, condemned. In a statement, Gutteres urged an immediate halt to hostilities ``to prevent an all-out conflict.'' Ahmed al-Mismari, spokesman for Haftar's self-styled Libyan National Army, said his forces were targeting two military aircraft and were not intending to disrupt passenger traffic.
British Prime Minister Theresa May met the leaders of Germany and France on Tuesday in a last-gasp bid to keep her country from crashing out of the European Union later this week without a deal.
May's huddles with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin and French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris come on the eve of another tension-packed summit in Brussels focused on the fate of the 46-year-old partnership.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to galvanize supporters into voting in Israel's parliamentary election by playing up the prospects of his strongest rival, an ex-general who has pledged clean government, to deny him a fifth term.
Netanyahu, in power consecutively since 2009 after a first term from 1996 to 1999, is fighting for his political survival. He faces possible indictment in three corruption cases in which the right-wing leader has denied any wrongdoing.
Final opinion polls on Friday showed Netanyahu, who heads the Likud party, falling behind his main rival, former military chief Benny Gantz of the Blue and White faction, but with an easier path to form a government.
* Roughly 6.3 million Israeli voters are expected to cast their ballots today in an election that will have major implications for both Israelis and Palestinians. * Incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces his toughest challenge yet after months of being dogged by corruption and bribery allegations. * Top opposition candidate Benny Gantz, a former army general, leads a center-left coalition but is currently trailing in close polls.
Roughly 6.3 million Israelis are expected to cast their ballots today in an election that will have serious implications for the legacy of incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for Palestinians, and for Israel's relationship with the rest of the Middle East.
Netanyahu faces his toughest challenge yet after months of being dogged by corruption and bribery allegations. His top competitor Benny Gantz, a former army general, who leads a center-left coalition. If Netanyahu wins — and polls are currently giving him a lead, though it remains close — the 69-year-old will become the longest-serving prime minister in the country's history.
Russia and Turkey have closely coordinated moves on Syria, where they struck a deal last year to create a security zone in the northern province of Idlib.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has welcomed his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Moscow. The two leaders discussed the sale of advanced Russian missiles to Turkey that has riled the United States.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip on Monday arrived in Russia for his third visit this year, highlighting the increasingly close cooperation between the two countries and Turkey's willingness to defy the United States.
Senior leaders from Japan's Ministry of Defense, US Forces Japan, Pacific Air Forces, and Lockheed Martin at a Japan Air Self-Defense Force hangar to welcome the first operational F-35A Lightning II to JASDF's 3rd Air Wing, at Misawa Air Base, Japan, February 24, 2018. US Air Force/Tech. Sgt. Benjamin W. Stratton
Japan's first operational F-35 squadron was stood up just days ago at Misawa Air Base, the same base the F-35 in question supposedly launched from.
Details remain extremely limited at this time, but there are reports from Japanese media outlets stating that one of the Japan Air Self Defense Force's F-35As has gone missing during an evening training mission off Northern Japan. A search effort is supposedly now underway.
Reports state that the F-35 went missing at around 7:30pm local time on the 9th of April, 2019. The aircraft had taken off from Misawa Air Base and was around 85 miles east of that location, over the Pacific Ocean, when it disappeared from Japan's tracking systems.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday he is working with the U.S. government to sow dissent within the Venezuelan Army.
Bolsonaro, during an interview with Jovem Pan radio, said that if there is a military invasion in Venezuela, he would ask seek the counsel of Brazil's National Defense Council and Congress on what, if any, action his country should take.
"We cannot allow Venezuela to become a new Cuba or North Korea," the right-wing president said.
In a world so uncertain, it’s eerie how prophetic some writers can be when it comes to forecasting the future.
Fiction Predictions is a new Mashable podcast hosted by Nikolay Nikolov and Sam Haysom. Each week we go down the rabbit hole of fiction writing, exploring authors and past works dealing with curious landscapes that, with time, have come to resemble the world we live in now.
The first episode of Fiction Predictions drops April 19, 2019.
Visiting an Apple Store to purchase a new Mac got $99 cheaper this month if part of that purchase required store staff perform a data migration for you. That's because Apple has quietly dropped the charge.
As TidBits reports, it used to be the case that if you took an old Mac in for repair, or purchased a new Mac and wanted the files from your old one transferring over, Apple would charge $99 to do it for you. However, tech consultant David Price discovered this month that the charge he expected to pay had been removed.
On contacting an Apple Store Operations Specialist, TidBits confirmed the charge has been dropped, with the official line being, "Beginning April 2, there will be no cost for Data Migrations with the purchase of a new Mac or Data Transfers with a repair." Read more...
It turns out one of the riskiest things you can do for your personal data is book a hotel room. That's the conclusion of Symantec after reviewing more than 1,500 hotel websites spread across 54 different countries.
As Reuters reports, the review carried out by Symantec discovered that two out of every three hotels will leak the booking details of guests. Those details include full names, email address, postal address, mobile number, credit card details (last four digits, card type, expiration), and passport numbers. The information is accessible to third-party websites, advertisers, and analytics companies. Read more...
Sounds odd? It actually might be pretty clever. In this way — and unlike some other slide-out phones we've seen recently — the phone's primary camera is also the phone's selfie camera. And given that the camera is a 48-megapixel, f/2.0 sensor coupled with an ultra-wide, 8-megapixel, F2.2 sensor and a 3D depth module, it should actually be better than most selfie cameras out there, while allowing Samsung to save some component money. Read more...
The PlayStation 4 is a favorite among a large swath of gamers — not only can you play some of the industry’s biggest exclusive titles, you can also play Blu-ray discs, use your streaming service of choice, and so much more. What could make it even better? An awesome controller to match.
The PlayStation DualShock 4 Controller is on sale on Amazon in a bunch of different colorways — save up to $18 depending on which design speaks to you.
The DualShock 4 Controller provides a great sense of control and a comfortable, ergonomic grip (which you’re going to need if you’re taking on more difficult games like Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice). Its patented clickable touch pad in the center of the device makes gameplay mechanics possible that you couldn’t experience otherwise, and the built-in speaker and headphone jack open the door to a lot of unique audio options (you can also chat with your friends online). No matter what you’re playing, you’ll be happy to have a DualShock 4 in your hands. Read more...
Robot vacuums do the dirty work of cleaning for you, but they’re not always equipped to get the really tough stains out of your carpet. Yeah, you could get a steam cleaner, but then you'd have to do actual labor, and who wants to do that when we live in such an automatic world?
The Bissell SpotBot cleaner deep cleans your floors with just the push of a button, and right now you can save $50 on the SpotBot at Walmart— you'll pay $109.99.
Like a robot vacuum, this Bissell portable spot cleaner has automatic cleaning cycles, only these remove stains — just push a button and walk away while the SpotBot scrubs your home. It knows how to measure and distribute the right amount of water and cleaning formula, then uses brushing and vacuum technology to remove tough stains. Read more...
On Wednesday morning, the National Science Foundation and the Event Horizon Telescope group revealed the first recorded image of a black hole, and it only took seconds for the memes to follow.
Scientists have obtained the first image of a black hole, using Event Horizon Telescope observations of the center of the galaxy M87. The image shows a bright ring formed as light bends in the intense gravity around a black hole that is 6.5 billion times more massive than the Sun pic.twitter.com/AymXilKhKe
If your neighbor is playing loud music, there's no need to call the cops on them.
Just consider adopting Mr. Magoo, a bird who recently told Alexa to "stop," presumably in reference to music being played.
In Mr. Magoo's defense, the song in question was Frank Sinatra's "New York, New York," hands down one of the most annoying songs of all time. Read more...
The revamped app design is coming to mobile and desktop in 16 cities around the world, including Miami, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., in the U.S.
Now, a five-section tracking bar and animated images show how your order's progressing. You'll kick things off with a confirmation, then watch the app move through the preparation phase. Then, the app tracks your delivery person's route to the restaurant, confirms pickup there, and then shows the delivery route to your door. Read more...
Entertainment royalty and literal British royalty have come together to make television for Apple.
That's right, Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry teamed up to create a multi-part documentary series focused on mental health for Apple TV+, the company's new streaming service.
According to a post from Harry's Duke of Sussex Instagram account, the project "will focus on both mental illness and mental wellness" and aims to inspire viewers "to have an honest conversation about the challenges each of us faces, and how to equip ourselves with the tools to not simply survive, but to thrive."
We have had to be very patient, but the final season of Game of Thrones is finally here.
Yes, after what seemed like an eternity, everything kicks off in the early hours of April 15 in the UK, and we cannot wait.
So gather your friends, clear your schedules, and prepare your favourite snacks, because it's going to be a wild ride. The only thing that could make the experience any better would be a bottle of Johnnie Walker's White Walker whisky.
The limited-edition scotch whisky is inspired by the enigmatic and feared White Walkers, with flavour notes of caramelized sugar, vanilla, fresh berries, and a touch of orchard fruit. You can enjoy this blended whisky in any number of classic cocktails, but it's best drunk directly from the freezer. The choice is yours obviously, but the White Walker develops in complexity as it slowly warms to room temperature, apparently. Read more...
On Wednesday morning, the National Science Foundation and the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration released what they say is the first recorded image of a massive black hole. And it is stunning.
Scientists have obtained the first image of a black hole, using Event Horizon Telescope observations of the center of the galaxy M87. The image shows a bright ring formed as light bends in the intense gravity around a black hole that is 6.5 billion times more massive than the Sun pic.twitter.com/AymXilKhKe
The image is a composite of images taken from five petabytes worth of data that was captured by a series of radio dishes laid out around Earth that allowed the project to capture continuous data from the black hole even while Earth rotated. Read more...
You can have all the smart home devices in the world, but if your WiFi connection sucks, you might as well have none.
You don't need to start throwing everything away just yet though, because you can now get an amazing deal on a WiFi system that delivers strong coverage throughout your entire home. That means no dead zones, so you can actually go back into those rooms that were once boarded up. They have probably started to get a little dusty, but we're sure they can be recovered.
The Orbi Whole Home WiFi System by NETGEAR is now available for £299.99 in the Amazon Spring Sale. The price has been reduced from the usual list price of £469.99 until midnight on April 10. So if your WiFi situation needs some help, now is the perfect time to maximise your speeds. Read more...
When you consider the wide selection of available robot vacuum cleaners, the first thing you realise is that we must really hate doing the vacuuming manually. The second thing you realise is that each model from each brand has a slightly different set of features, and therefore a different speciality.
Take the iRobot Roomba 895 for example. This robot vacuum cleaner has a set of impressive features that cover all of the essential components that make an effective device. What sets it apart from the competition is the tangle-free Airforce cleaning system that's ideal for pet hair. So if you have a pet, or pets, in the house, the the Roomba 895 might be the model for you. Read more...
No, you teared up when you heard James Earl Jones do his Mustafa thing in this new trailer for Disney's CGified remake of The Lion King.
With 100 days to go before the movie hits theaters, Disney has delivered a new, revealing trailer that gives Mustafa and Scar (voiced by Chiwetel Ejiofor) more of a centerstage treatment. Fans familiar with the original animated film from 1994 won't exactly be taken by surprise, though; while there are surely some differences, this trailer continues to pitch the movie as a fairly shot-for-shot recreation.
That's not necessarily a bad thing for such a beloved Disney movie. Make sure you watch this one until the end for the most revealing tease yet of Simba's best pals, Timon and Pumbaa (voiced by Donald Glover, Billy Eichner, and Seth Rogen, respectively). Read more...
Easter holidays are approaching. We know you want to host garden parties, but you are embarrassed with the state of your yard. Today is the day to do something about itAmazon is offering a variety of Greenworks mowers, trimmers, leaf blowers, and more tools to help you keep your yard clean and tidy. Don't let a messy garden stop you from enjoying your Easter break with your friends and family.
If you don't own a Nintendo Switch yet, Walmart has a great deal on a bundle, which includes the Nintendo Switch console, choice of game, plus Mario pins, and a backpack for only $329.99, saving you $67.87 than buying it separately. Read more...
Want to hear a sentence that'll make you feel old? It's been 10 years since Parks and Recreation first graced our TV screens.
And what a lovely decade it's been. To mark the occasion, our favourite Pawnee residents Leslie Knope and Ron Swanson posted a very sweet video message thanking fans for their support.
"Citizens of Pawnee, thank you for spending 10 years of your life with us, sharing your laughter, your tears, and even your waffles," said Amy Poehler in the video.
"We love you and we can't thank you enough for your support," added Nick Offerman. Read more...
Trawling through the hundreds of deals in the Amazon Spring Sale doesn't sound like best way to spend your hump day, does it? Thankfully, we have done the trawling for you, and highlighted the very best deals for the home, kitchen, and you.
Save on top brands like Apple, De'Longhi, Morphy Richards, and Sony, with deals on everything from coffee machines to sewing machines. You can even pick up heavily discounted iPhones in this deals round-up. Keep your eyes peeled for those.
These are the best deals from across the internet for April 10.
Best of the best
Your chance to pick up an Apple iPhone, Samsonite suitcase, Seagate external hard drive, and more, all in one place. Read more...
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is not about to be caught out. Appearing Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday, the Game of Thrones star was confronted with fan theories about how the show might end.
He remained tight-lipped when confronted with the suggestions that 1) Jaime will kill Cersei, and 2) that Arya will kill Cersei using Jaime's face, but his response to Jon Snow becoming the Night King seemed to suggest that one, at least, probably isn't going to happen.
So has Coster-Waldau ever read any fan theories that were correct?
"Some," he replies. "But I've never read anyone who got the whole thing."
"And when I read it the first time I was blown away. I wrote Dan and David, the two creators, and I was like, 'I really don't know how you did it, but I can't imagine a better way of ending the show.'" Read more...
Spoiler warning: If you're not caught up on Game of Thrones and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, you should avoid this article for now.
It's the end of an era — but can our favorite franchises stick the landing?
After seven seasons of HBO's Game of Thrones and 21 Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, the two unprecedentedly successful franchises are coming to a close this springGame of Thrones: Season 8 and Avengers: Endgame are all but guaranteed to draw millions of viewers and their studios are alreadyreaping the benefits.
Unfortunately, the satisfying finales their loyal fans deserve could be be bungled, as both Thrones and Endgame appear primed to rely on time travel to drive home their conclusions. Read more...
A Mariah stan who goes by the Twitter handle @mariahlegend tweeted out that he's "not even being dramatic" but hearing the words "I don't like Mariah Carey" is "literally the biggest turn off ever."
In the clip he can be seen going between the posters of his cast-mates in a corridor, gleefully scrawling glasses on Chris Evans' face before writing "I heart Thor" on the cheek of Robert Downey Jr.
One day, you might be telling your grandson that the great satellite broadband race of the 21st century began with a cat emoji.
On Wednesday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk called Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos a "copycat" (with the "cat" bit supplanted with a cat emoji) on Twitter, pointing to news of Amazon planning to launch a satellite-powered broadband service.
SpaceX announced plans for a similar project back in 2015, and other companies, including Facebook, are planning something of the sort as well. Read more...
Warning: The following review for Netflix's The Silence contains some very light spoilers.
In storytelling, originality means a lot. In scary storytelling, it means even more.
Whether it's creating a never-before-seen monster like The Babadook or making the commonplace seem menacing à la Jaws, terrifying in unexpected ways is a critical component of effective horror. So when a trailer aims to frighten and instead gets met with relentless comparisons to already releasedmovies, it can indicate trouble.
Fortunately, The Silence — regularly compared to A Quiet Place and Bird Box —is far more than a rip-off of someone else's good idea. Read more...
Weighted blankets seem to be everywhere these days, finding an online cult following in the past year or so. The secret is in the thousands of microbeads that are stitched into each blanket to give it a certain heft — usually between 10 and 20 lbs. Although there hasn't been a whole lot of real science done to study the effects, the added weight can produce a therapeutic effect for some people. Draping yourself in a weighted blanket is essentially like getting a nice, comforting hug.
Any hot tool aficionado will tell you that the right hair dryer can make or break your look. So you want to make sure that you find one that can handle all of your specific hair styling needs.
And while you've probably already found the perfect hair dryer for your home (if not, read our guide here), this task becomes trickier when you’re looking for a travel hair dryer. Go without and you'll be doomed to use the dreaded hotel hair dryer. We shiver to think of the frizzy outcome.
Sure, you’re still going to want to look for a lot of the same things that you would in a regular hair dryer, like powerful wattage, ceramic tourmaline coating, ionic technology, a variety of heat settings, and most importantly the blessed cool shot button. Read more...
Music has the unique (and some might even argue magical) ability to make you feel good, no matter how bogged down you might be. Tinder date stood you up? Fire up your Bruno Mars playlist. Totally botched a presentation at work? Carly Rae Jepsen's E•MO•TION album would temporarily make you feel like you aced it. Bombed a job interview? Let Ariana Grande lift your sour mood ASAP.
This isn't a surprise, though. Studies have repeatedly shown that music is capable of activating areas in your brain that are responsible for boosting your mood. It could even aid in improving your memory and cognitive ability, ease physical pain, and help you sleep better. Now we understand why Rihanna wrote a song about not stopping the music. Read more...
Prom night is supposed to be a magical milestone of high school. You're dressed to the nines, you dance the night away, and make memories that will surely last a lifetime. Right?
Prom is often as much of a sweat-filled, hormonal nightmare as any other school dance, just with more expensive clothing and the massive anxiety spike that comes with expectations to have thebest night of your life.
Nobody's prom was perfect for everyone. Maybe someone spiked the punch at your prom and you didn't even catch a buzz. Maybe your prom dress caught on fire, or your date ended up making out in the bathroom with someone else. Read more...
Today, at 9 a.m. ET, we might see the first-ever actual image of a black hole.
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project is an international collaboration aimed to capture the first image of a black hole. And now, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is holding a press conference to announce that project's "groundbreaking result."
UPDATE: April 10, 2019, 3:21 p.m. CEST The Event Horizon Telescope has posted the first-ever image of a black hole, located at the center of the galaxy Messier 87. Check it out below.
Scientists have obtained the first image of a black hole, using Event Horizon Telescope observations of the center of the galaxy M87. The image shows a bright ring formed as light bends in the intense gravity around a black hole that is 6.5 billion times more massive than the Sun pic.twitter.com/AymXilKhKe
Twitter has taken down a video posted by Donald Trump following a copyright complaint.
The apparent 2020 campaign video was posted on Trump's Twitter account on Tuesday, and featured the soundtrack to The Dark Knight Rises, which was the last film in Christopher Nolan’s Batman series.
In a matter of hours, the video had amassed more than 2.5 million views, but later that day, the video was removed from Twitter, displaying a message that it had been taken down due to a copyright complaint.
Warner Bros. had earlier filed the complaint, a spokesperson for the company confirmed to Mashable. Read more...
The Event Horizon Telescope, an international array of observatories teaming up to form a virtual, Earth-sized telescope in the hopes of capturing the first real image of a black hole, held six simultaneous press conferences across the globe today — and what those conferences announced did not disappoint.
Looks like there's some choice Concorde jet memorabilia on eBay right now, including a few coffee cups and plates from the galley. Also: a Rolls-Royce Olympus Turbo-Jet 593-610 engine, for about a million bucks.
In light of the latest tax policy news out of Washington (and, y'know, the fast-approaching 2018 filing deadline), let's revisit this annual topic with an easy-to-follow chart.
According to this year's Airline Quality Report, a study comparing nine of the largest US airlines, you now have good reason to re-think your travel plans when booking a flight through certain airlines.
Scientists just released the history-making image and it's a... blurry ring? Here's a quick primer to give you a sense of what you're looking at and why it's a big goddamn deal.
After discovering a collection of Walmart employee headshots taken in 1986, photographer Daniel Kraus embarked on a project exploring small-town life in America – through the prism of one of its most recognisable institutions.
Get relaxed and inspired with this lifetime subscription to Humm.ly. It uses music backed by science to improve your wellness each time you open the app, whether you need to unwind after a long day or get inspired.
To date, 21 disembodied feet have washed up on the shores of Seattle's Salish Sea. What at first looked like the work of a serial killer turned out to be something even more unsettling: A message from the ocean about who we are.
New Zealand's Parliament on Wednesday passed sweeping gun laws that outlaw military style weapons, less than a month after mass shootings at two mosques in the city of Christchurch left 50 people dead and dozens wounded.
Fresnel lenses were initially developed for use in lighthouses, having a large aperture and short focal lengths while using less material than conventional lenses. They're also really good at burning things.
Military training shoes have become iconic silhouettes the world over, and Reproduction of Found digs up the very best ones to give their handcrafted treatment to create a versatile, premium sneaker steeped in military heritage.
Known locally as gopher wood, local legend has it that the torreya tree with its supple yellow wood was used to build Noah's ark. Now, thousands of years later, the tree faces a new era of ecological violence.
Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to be on the cusp of securing a record fifth term as Israeli Prime Minister Wednesday after a dramatic finish to a closely fought election race.
Handbooks distributed in some Jewish communities in New York, as well as messages on hotlines, contradict the scientific consensus that vaccines are safe and highly effective.
Lost-children stories, a staple of Australia's mythology, have been obsessively retold since the nineteenth century. But are they also a way the country avoids acknowledging its violent colonial past?
Recently, the screenwriter Ed Solomon ("Men in Black," "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure") received a Facebook message from the account of a friend. He quickly realized that the friend's account had been hacked by a scammer, but he decided, out of curiosity, to keep the exchange with the scammer going.
The bloated and confusingly arcane piece of software has been updated and repurposed and jerry-rigged to handle new tasks for the past 18 years, and one developer says it won't live to see its 19th birthday.
After this clip of musician Adam Foote playing handpan in a forest in North Idaho went viral, he was able to quit his day job and pursue his dream of being a musician full-time.
Skin slippage, rigid limbs and rotting flesh are fine if they're making shock appearances in horror films, but when they're being confronted as part of our own personal future, it all starts to feel a bit too real. For morticians, though, these grisly truths are barely worth a second thought.
How do you talk about an emergency when it seems as if no one is listening? For years, journalists, scientists and activists concerned with the ongoing horror of climate catastrophe have faced this problem.
Today's Democratic Party is increasingly perceived as dominated by its "woke" left wing. But the views of Democrats on social media often bear little resemblance to those of the wider Democratic electorate.
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Of the many technologies reshaping the world economy, distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) are among the most hyped. DLTs are most often associated with cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, but such coverage sidelines the broader use cases of DLTs, even though they stand to make a far bigger impact on the broader the financial services (FS) industry.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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Founded in 2010, Spier & Mackay is a Canadian startup that specializes in made-to-measure menswear.
Starting at $79, you can fully customize dress shirts, with options for materials, collars, cuffs, pockets, monograms, sizing, and more.
I went through the design process and I got the best-fitting dress shirt I've ever worn. Here's how it works.
Custom clothing is often thought to be reserved for those who have the luxury of time and money to spend at an artisan tailor. For that reason, most guys go straight for off-the-shelf options. But the reality is that no matter how much you spend on a standard dress shirt, you'll never achieve a fit as good as a made-to-measure garment.
Fortunately, there are a few ways to get around those time-consuming and wallet-burning trips to a tailor, and one of the best options is a startup called Spier & Mackay.
Founded in 2010, Spier & Mackay is an emerging menswear brand from Canada that touts itself as a maker and purveyor of fine handmade dress shirts and suits. After realizing how hard and expensive it was for the average guy to get his hands on custom clothes, the company created an easy-to-use online portal for bespoke dress shirts.
Starting at $79 each, Spier & Mackay allows you to choose every element that goes into a dress shirt from the comfort of your home — or where ever you might be when you want to order shirts. There are hundreds of fabrics to choose from and dozens of customization options available, including materials, collars, cuffs, pockets, monograms, sizing, and more.
The company gave me an opportunity to customize my own shirt and it's easily the best fitting made-to-measure garment I have in my closet.
1. Pick out your fabric. There are hundreds of choices available.
Spier & Mackay
The first step is to pick out the fabric you want to use on the shirt. With hundreds of choices, you'll find a variety of prints, colors, and materials. Whether you want a classic white oxford, a fun pineapple print shirt for the summer, or a heavier plaid flannel for the winter, you've got plenty of options.
Although most options are available for $79, I opted for a more premium wrinkle-resistant, sky blue fine twill for $129.
2. Create your style: Choose collars, cuffs, pockets, and more.
Spier & Mackay
Next, you get to choose all of the key elements that make up your shirt: the collar, cuffs, plackets, back pleat, pocket, and cover stitch. This step of the customization process is where you'll really begin to make a shirt that's perfect for you, whether you're designing it for a specific occasion or everday wear.
For example, if you're creating a shirt to wear with a tuxedo, you might want to go with a more elegant spread collar, French cuffs for cufflinks, and no pockets. Alternatively, if you're creating a casual flannel, a buttoned collar, buttoned cuffs, and chest pocket would be more suitable. And if you just want to pick your favorite style for each category, that's perfectly fine, too.
3. Each drop-down menu includes visual representations of each style
Spier & Mackay
What I like best about this step of the customization process is that Spier & Mackay guides you through each category with details on every style and advice on what it goes well with. For collars, they'll tell you if the style works with bigger tie knots like a Windsor, suits with wider or thinner lapels, and even the shape of your face.
While you won't have a tailor to guide you through, this is just as helpful. Even if you don't have a great sense of style, it'd be hard to end up creating a bad-looking shirt.
James Baker, the FBI's former general counsel, testified to Congress that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told him two members of President Donald Trump's cabinet were open to invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from office.
The conversation took place in the spring of 2017, shortly after Trump fired then-FBI Director James Comey, Baker told lawmakers.
The New York Times reported last year that after Comey was fired, Rosenstein discussed invoking the 25th Amendment and wearing a wire to record his conversations with Trump.
Rosenstein has denied the story, and subsequent media reports have painted conflicting accounts of whether the conversation took place and what was discussed.
James Baker, the former general counsel of the FBI, testified to Congress last year that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told him two members of President Donald Trump's cabinet were open to invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from office after he fired FBI Director James Comey.
On Tuesday, Georgia Rep. Doug Collins, the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, released a transcript of Baker's testimony to the public.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
Steve Jobs once told employees that he believed in a 'no excuses' form of leadership.
Successful people, he believed, don't totally rely on others; they put contingencies in place, set clear expectations, and communicate — but they always accept final responsibility.
The peerless cast of "Parks and Recreation," most often referred to as "Parks and Rec," managed to give viewers the unthinkable: A respect for public service and an undying love for the unremarkable, aggressively unhealthy, fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana.
Following a critically acclaimed seven-season run on NBC, the show wrapped in 2015.
Each member of the cast has gone on to use their talents for acting, comedy, and improvisation elsewhere.
Here's what everyone has been up to.
Amy Poehler starred as Leslie Knope: Parks enthusiast, aspiring politician, and eternal optimist.
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Amy Poehler was a star in the comedy world before landing her own primetime network series, largely thanks to roles in movies like "Wet Hot American Summer," "Mean Girls," and "Baby Mama" — not to mention her eight-year run on NBC's "Saturday Night Live."
Poehler received six consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations for portraying Leslie Knope, the heart and soul of "Parks and Rec."
Poehler says she's still "thirsty" for more "Parks and Rec."
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Since wrapping "Parks and Rec" in 2015, she lent her voice to the lead character of Pixar's "Inside Out" and starred with her comedic partner, Tina Fey, in "Sisters." In 2016, after 17 unsuccessful nominations, she finally won an Emmy for co-hosting the Christmas episode of "SNL" with Fey.
Schur added that he thought the saddest day on the show was when Jones left the regular cast in the middle of season six, when Ann moved to Michigan with her partner.
Tech-driven disruption in the insurance industry continues at pace, and we're now entering a new phase — the adaptation of underlying business models.
That's leading to ongoing changes in the distribution segment of the industry, but more excitingly, we are starting to see movement in the fundamentals of insurance — policy creation, underwriting, and claims management.
This report from Business Insider Intelligence, Business Insider's premium research service, will briefly review major changes in the insurtech segment over the past year. It will then examine how startups and legacy players across the insurance value chain are using technology to develop new business models that cut costs or boost revenue, and, in some cases, both. Additionally, we will provide our take on the future of insurance as insurtech continues to proliferate. See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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We've compiled a list of basic kitchen essentials to add to your checklist that won't break the bank and will prepare you for your first night of cooking in your first apartment.
Plus, all products on the list are Amazon's Choice products, so they're highly rated, well priced, and ready ship immediately.
Moving into your first apartment is exciting until you realize all of the items you need to buy. It may seem like your first-apartment checklist never ends. Despite what you thought growing up, your new apartment doesn't come furnished with couches, helpful kitchen appliances, and that little junk draw that contains knickknacks capable of solving all your problems.
It's the same with the kitchen. Most kitchens only come equipped with a refrigerator, stove/oven, and microwave, if you're lucky. Everything else is on you. You'll quickly learn that you'll need more spoons than you can count and one frying pan won't suffice. These kitchen essentials can quickly clog your credit card bill, and money is tight as it is.
Don't worry. Your first-apartment checklist — kitchen edition — is just a scroll away.
From plates, to cups, to baking sheets, we've got you covered with every basic kitchen essential you'll need to move in and have the ability to cook for yourself the first night in your new place. Plus, every item on this list is an Amazon's Choice pick, so you'll be at ease knowing it's a frequently bought, highly rated item that's ready to ship immediately.
Here are 17 basic kitchen essentials for your first apartment:
Whether you bake or not, you'll find use for this versatile six-piece baking set. Make cupcakes or egg cups in the muffin pan, bake cookies or roasted potatoes on the baking sheet, and make bread or a meatloaf in the loaf pan. All pans are made with heavy-duty carbon steel and a non-stick coating for easy cleanup. It's recommended that you hand wash only.
Protect your hands and wrists from getting burned with these silicone oven mitts that can handle temperatures up to 450 degrees Fahrenheit. The silicone grips allow you to safely transport hot items from your stove top and oven appliance. To clean, just throw them in the dish washer or washing machine, or simply wipe them down with a damp cloth.
T-fal's heat-mastery system is high quality yet easy to use. The heat indicator in the middle let's you know when your pan is perfectly heated and ready for cooking. Each pan is also coated with a non-stick interior and dishwasher safe. With this set, you'll be able to cook an omelette, fry some chicken, and even make a vegetable stir fry medley.
On Tuesday, IT unicorn PagerDuty raised the price range for its upcoming IPO to $21 to $23 per share, up $2 from the figures it gave previously.
This throws some cold water on concerns that Lyft's unstable tenure as a public company might bring the whole market down.
At the high end of this new range, the company would have a market cap of $1.69 billion at its IPO.
PagerDuty is expected to start trading Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker PD.
IT unicorn PagerDuty raised its IPO price range Tuesday to $21 to $23 per share, up $2 from the figures it had originally reported when it filed to go public.
Billions of dollars are invested in startups every year.
Whether a startup seeks to raise money from angel investors, venture capital firms or other backers, the presentation, or "pitch," about the business is critical.
The most effective pitch decks deftly weave data, imagination and storytelling into a captivating slide presentation.
A lawsuit filed in March alleges that Sharp Grossmont Hospital in Southern California secretly recorded around 1,800 women between July 2012 and June 2013 as they underwent a range of gynecological procedures, including Caesarean births, D&Cs after miscarriages, hysterectomies, and sterilizations.
Sharp HealthCare, the company that oversees Sharp Grossmont Hospital, said in a statement provided to INSIDER that a computer monitor with a motion-activated camera was installed in the three Women's Center operating rooms to uncover what happened to drugs missing from anesthesia carts.
INSIDER reviewed almost 400 pages of legal files related to this story. While Sharp claims that the cameras were installed solely to find the culprit of the missing drugs — a sedative called Propofol — there are discrepancies in the hospital's version of events. The recent complaint also alleges that the hospital was "grossly negligent in maintaining the recordings" of these women.
"This can never happen again. What they did significantly impacted the lives of many, many women," Eileen Brandt, one of the woman secretly recorded, told INSIDER. "The hospital needs to be accountable for what they’ve done and take responsibility."
When Eileen Brandt first woke up from the anesthesia in early 2013, she immediately started to cry.
Up until that point, it hadn't fully hit her: she just had her third miscarriage. And under the bright lights of the operating room at the Women's Center at Sharp Grossmont in La Mesa, California, a Southern California city less than 10 miles from downtown San Diego, doctors meticulously performed a dilation and curettage procedure to remove any lingering tissue from her pregnancy.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
Facebook's new group-video-watching feature, Watch Party, is proving wildly popular with pirates. It's designed to let Facebook users watch a video on the platform all at the same time, letting them comment and react as it plays.
But Business Insider found that pirates were also using it to host movie marathons and binge-watch classic TV series on the social network, in an apparent circumvention of copyright law.
Everything from Oscar nominees like "Her" to reruns of Gordon Ramsay cooking shows and "Mean Girls" are being shared using the feature, we found.
It adds a social aspect to piracy, letting users chat, joke, and connect with one another as they improperly consume copyrighted content on Facebook.
After Business Insider reached out for comment, Facebook took down several of the Watch Party groups we looked into for this story.
Facebook's new video-streaming feature, Watch Party, is a big hit, bringing together users from across the globe. There's just one problem: Some are using it in ways that Facebook didn't intend, and that are almost certainly illegal.
Shouldering your way to the front of the bar and catching the bartender's attention can be hard, so making sure you're prepared to order your drink of choice — and pronounce it correctly — is crucial to a night out.
Drinks like Curaçao, Rioja, St. Germain, and more are not spelled the way they sound. So, we came up with a handy guide to popular alcoholic beverages that may be difficult to pronounce and have provided pronounciations for each one.
Find out how to pronounce your bar order correctly below.
President Donald Trump has enacted a sweeping purge of his top officials at the Department of Homeland Security as the number of migrants crossing the border has surged.
The staffing shakeup comes amid news reports that Trump had urged his officials to implement policies that would violate US law or run afoul of court orders, such as making migrants request asylum in their home countries or separating families again.
Experts say whoever replaces DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen will likely face pressure to enact those policies, and that the court system will ultimately strike them down. Here's what they think will happen next.
President Donald Trump has purged multiple top officials from the Department of Homeland Security in recent days, enraged over the skyrocketing number of migrant families seeking asylum in the United States.
But his frustration with the border situation can't easily be solved by simply replacing top officials. Legal experts who spoke to INSIDER are mixed over whether a new crop of officials will make a difference in enacting Trump's agenda, but they agreed that Trump will face the same hurdle no matter who he nominates: the law.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
WWE has dominated the wrestling world for nearly two decades, but it may soon have some legitimate competition.
Shahid Khan, the billionaire owner of the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars football franchise, is backing his 36-year-old son Tony's new promotion, All Elite Wrestling, or AEW.
After nearly two decades of dominance, WWE might finally have some legitimate competition.
Shahid Khan, the billionaire owner of the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars football franchise, is backing his 36-year-old son Tony's new promotion, All Elite Wrestling, or AEW.
Shares of JetBlue rose as much as 4% in after-hours trading following the report, which said the airline has scheduled an all-hands meeting for Wednesday at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. According to CNBC, the meeting invites featured design elements resembling London's subway system and depictions of British landmarks such as Big Ben.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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The Event Horizon Telescope, which endeavors to photograph black holes, is making a "ground-breaking" announcement on Wednesday.
Scientists expect the announcement will unveil the first-ever pictures of a black hole's "shadow" caused by its event horizon, or point-of-no-return for light.
The images could be of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, called Sagittarius A*, or an even larger black hole at the center of galaxy M87.
Computer-simulated images offer a clue as to what to expect.
The first-ever pictures of a black hole will likely be unveiled on Wednesday morning. If you're anxious to know what those pictures might look like, astrophysicists say computer simulations offer a reasonable preview.
Since 2006, radio telescopes around the globe have worked together to resolve dark, hulking, and important beasts that lurk at the centers of two different galaxies.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
Democratic voters largely do not think the accusations of inappropriate touching disqualify Vice President Joe Biden from running for president in 2020.
A new poll from INSIDER shows that very few voters characterized Biden's accusations as a deal breaker for a potential 2020 White House bid.
Biden has yet to announce a run, which could come very soon.
Former Vice President Joe Biden has not suffered among Democratic primary voters after a week of multiple women coming forward accusing him of inappropriately touching them and invading their personal space.
According to a new INSIDER poll conducted over the weekend on SurveyMonkey Audience, most Democratic primary voters would not characterize the accusations as disqualifying, suggesting the longtime Delaware senator is poised to maintain his strong standing in the large field of Democratic presidential candidates, which he has yet to formally join.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
For many small businesses and aspiring web entrepreneurs, it often proves challenging in the beginning to generate regular web traffic, establish credibility and acquire clients. One way I’ve found to be effective in speeding things up is guest blogging on other more established websites.
Sounds simple, doesn’t it? It’s not. There are 3 very common mistakes that often lay waste to all the hard work you have put into your guest blogging efforts. Here’s how you won’t fall victim to them.
The phenomenon of aimless guest blogging has been especially apparent since Google algorithms started becoming more quality-oriented. Don’t jump on the guest blogging bandwagon just because you see everyone else doing it. For any marketing effort to succeed in the long run, you must first have a clear objective in mind.
Picking the right limelight
Let’s say you’re looking to introduce your products or services to a particular market segment. You should then cast your attention to some of the top blogs in the industry that most of your prospective clients are likely to visit. This would help with building a credible image for your brand and generating qualified traffic.
The same goes for client acquisition. Submit guest posts to some renowned blogs that your prospective clients will likely visit.
Now, if your objective is to get backlinks, then your selection of target blogs will obviously change. A freelance writer myself, I made the mistake of guest blogging frequently on freelance writing blogs in the hope of getting clients. I did get traffic and backlinks from those guest posts, but not customers.
The reason? My potential clients are small businesses, tech startups, and web design companies, and not one of them visits freelance writing blogs. In short, you should develop strategic focus and be clear about your objectives because otherwise, your guest blogging efforts won’t give you much return.
2. Pitching low-quality & spun content
There’s probably nothing more detrimental to your brand image than pitching low-quality content – it’s a real brand killer! You should spend as much time on creating guest posts, if not more, as you would for your own blog as a poor guest post can actually do more damage to your brand image than a low-quality post on your own blog.
Unfortunately, an increasing number of guest bloggers are pitching used or spun content in their writing. First of all, spun content is not that hard to detect these days, and secondly, even if it doesn’t get identified, it still usually looks bad enough to be rejected.
Go for quality, instead of quantity
In my view, this tendency stems from the belief that you need to write a lot of guest posts to achieve any significant results – this is just plain wrong. Ask any content marketing expert and he would probably tell you to focus on the 80/20 rule, i.e. 80% of your results should come from 20% of your most focused efforts.
One high-quality guest post on a credible blog is indeed much better than 10 low-quality guest posts on substandard blogs.
By credible blogs, I’m in no way suggesting that you should target only the top blogs. Look for the mid-range blogs in your target niche with loyal readers and an active social media following. Unlike the top blogs, these blogs wouldn’t ask you for epic guest posts, but of course, they would also not accept any substandard work.
3. Wasting the exposure
The moment your guest post goes live, you’ll start getting referral traffic to your website from the links in your author bio. However, don’t make that common beginner’s mistake of letting your guard down at this stage. You need to have a clear plan for capitalizing on the traffic and exposure you get from your guest post.
One great way of doing that is routing the traffic to a particular landing page where you can make the visitors take action. For example, if your objective is to get subscribers for your new eBook, then all your referral traffic should be routed to your eBook subscription page. Similarly, if your objective is to acquire clients, then the traffic should be routed to either a dedicated sales landing page or your own services page.
In any case, just bear in mind that getting your guest post published is not the end of your guest blogging cycle – it’s just the first step.
Conclusion
As Google places more emphasis on high-quality content with each update to its search algorithm, guest blogging is bound to become more prominent in the near future. But in order to take full advantage of this highly effective marketing channel, you need to set your sights on the big picture instead of merely looking for short-term benefits.
Be clear about your objective(s) and avoid the mistakes we have looked at in this post, and you will increase your chances of success considerably.
One of the effective ways to make a presentation of numerical information more interesting is by adding a transition animation. Creating a transition animation can be done with javascript, but the coding will take you a long time. For a quicker alternative, try Odometer.
Odometer is a javascript plugin that can help you make your numerical information more attractive with smooth transitions and cool themes. It’s easy to set up and is supported on many current browsers.
You’re done! Now any element that you wrap with the odometer class will be transformed into an odometer.
In this example, I’m using a car-like odometer theme. Odometer comes with six other different themes, namely the default theme, digital, minimal, plaza, slot machine and train station themes. You can head over to the demo page to see them in action.
To update the value, you can use either native javascript or a jQuery code. First, call the setTimeout function, then define the updated value like in the following snippet:
The value of 1000 in the code means the update process will be executed one second after the page has fully loaded.
Then, add an odometer class to any element you want, for example:
<p class="odometer">3252</p>
And the value of 3252 will then be changed to 5555 (as defined earlier) with a cool transition.
Options
For more advanced features, Odometer provides you with some options to customize. This is useful when the default setting doesn’t suit you. To be able to set options, first create an odometerOptions object like so:
The format option will affect the number formatting rule, like showing a decimal point before certain digits. (ddd) means there is no decimal point in the number. And for other options, check out the following list:
window.odometerOptions = { auto: false, // Don't automatically initialize everything with class 'odometer' selector: '.my-numbers', // Change the selector used to automatically find things to be animated format: '(,ddd).dd', // Change how digit groups are formatted, and how many digits are shown after the decimal point duration: 3000, // Change how long the javascript expects the CSS animation to take theme: 'car', // Specify the theme (if you have more than one theme css file on the page) animation: 'count' // Count is a simpler animation method which just increments the value, // use it when you're looking for something more subtle. };
Conclusion
For those who often present numerical information and would like to make it more eye-catching, Odometer is a good choice. Just take note that if you input anything other than a number, the plugin won’t work. Anyway, do give it a try and let us know what you think!
ಹೆರಿಗೆ ನಂತ್ರ ಮಹಿಳೆಯರಲ್ಲಿ ಸಾಕಷ್ಟು ಬದಲಾವಣೆಗಳು ಕಾಣಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತವೆ. ಹೆರಿಗೆ ನಂತ್ರ ಮಹಿಳೆ ಮಾನಸಿಕವಾಗಿ ಬದಲಾಗ್ತಾಳೆ. ಶಾರೀರಿಕವಾಗಿ ಆಕೆ ಫಿಟ್ ಆಗಲು ಸಮಯ ಹಿಡಿಯುತ್ತದೆ. ನಾರ್ಮಲ್ ಹೆರಿಗೆಯಾದ ಮಹಿಳೆ ಒಂದು ತಿಂಗಳೊಳಗೆ ಸುಧಾರಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ತಾಳೆ. ಸಿಜೇರಿಯನ್ ಆದ ಮಹಿಳೆಗೆ 3 ತಿಂಗಳು ಸಮಯ ಬೇಕೇಬೇಕು. ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯವಾಗಿ ಹೆರಿಗೆ ನಂತ್ರ ಶಾರೀರಿಕ ಸಂಬಂಧ ಬೆಳೆಸಲು ಯಾವುದು ಬೆಸ್ಟ್ ಟೈಂ ಎಂಬುದು ಅನೇಕ ದಂಪತಿಗೆ ತಿಳಿದಿಲ್ಲ.
ಯಾವ ಸಮಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಶಾರೀರಿಕ ಸಂಬಂಧ ಬೆಳೆಸಿದ್ರೆ ಉತ್ತಮ ಎಂಬ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆ ಮೂಡುವುದುಂಟು.
ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯವಾಗಿ ಹೆರಿಗೆ ನಂತ್ರ ಹೊಲಿಗೆ ಹಾಕಲಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಸಿಜೇರಿಯನ್ ಆದ ಮಹಿಳೆಗೆ ಹೊಲಿಗೆ ಸರಿಯಾಗಲು ಸಮಯ ಹಿಡಿಯುತ್ತದೆ. ಒಂದು ವೇಳೆ ಹಾಕಿದ ಹೊಲಿಗೆ ಕೂಡಿಲ್ಲದ ಸಮಯದಲ್ಲಿಯೇ ಶಾರೀರಿಕ ಸಂಬಂಧ ಬೆಳೆಸಿದ್ರೆ ಅದು ಅಪಾಯವನ್ನು ಆಹ್ವಾನಿಸಿದಂತೆ.
ಹೆರಿಗೆ ನಂತ್ರ ಮಹಿಳೆಯರು ನಿತ್ರಾಣರಾಗ್ತಾರೆ. ವಿಶ್ರಾಂತಿಯ ಅಗತ್ಯವಿರುತ್ತದೆ. ಮಕ್ಕಳನ್ನು ಸಂಭಾಳಿಸುವ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ದೇಹದ ಕೆಲ ಭಾಗಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ನೋವು ಕಾಣಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತದೆ. ಹಾಗಾಗಿ ಶಾರೀರಿಕ ಸಂಬಂಧ ಬೆಳೆಸಲು ಆತುರ ಬೇಡ.
ಬ್ಲೀಡಿಂಗ್ ಆಗ್ತಾ ಇರುವ ವೇಳೆ ಎಂದೂ ಶಾರೀರಿಕ ಸಂಬಂಧ ಬೆಳೆಸಬಾರದು. ಇದು ಇನ್ಫೆಕ್ಷನ್ ಗೆ ಕಾರಣವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಜೊತೆಗೆ ನೋವು ಹೆಚ್ಚಾಗಿ ಬ್ಲೀಡಿಂಗ್ ಜಾಸ್ತಿಯಾಗುವ ಸಾಧ್ಯತೆ ಇರುತ್ತದೆ.
ಗರ್ಭ ಧರಿಸಿದ 9 ತಿಂಗಳು ಹಾಗೂ ಹೆರಿಗೆಯ ನೋವು. ಒಂದೇ ಬಾರಿ ಹೆಚ್ಚಾಗುವ ಜವಾಬ್ದಾರಿ. ಸದಾ ಮಕ್ಕಳನ್ನು ನೋಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವ ಹೊಣೆ ಇದೆಲ್ಲವೂ ಮಹಿಳೆ ಮೇಲೆ ಪ್ರಭಾವ ಬೀರುತ್ತದೆ. ಕೆಲವರಿಗೆ ಮಾನಸಿಕ ಕಿರಿಕಿರಿಯಾಗುವ ಸಾಧ್ಯತೆ ಇದೆ. ಖಿನ್ನತೆಗೊಳಗಾಗುವವರೂ ಇದ್ದಾರೆ. ಬಾಣಂತಿ ಸನ್ನೆ ಎಂದೇ ಇದನ್ನು ಕರೆಯಲಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಹಾಗಾಗಿ ಪತಿಯಾದವನು ಪತ್ನಿಗೆ ಮಾರಲ್ ಸಪೋರ್ಟ್ ನೀಡಬೇಕೆ ಹೊರತು ಶಾರೀರಿಕ ಸಂಬಂಧಕ್ಕೆ ಒತ್ತಾಯ ಮಾಡಬಾರದು.
ಪ್ರತಿಯೊಬ್ಬ ಮಹಿಳೆಯ ದೇಹ ಬೇರೆ ಬೇರೆಯಾಗಿರುತ್ತದೆ. ಹಾಗಾಗಿ ಶಾರೀರಿಕ ಸಂಬಂಧ ಬೆಳೆಸುವ ಮೊದಲು ವೈದ್ಯರ ಸಲಹೆ ಪಡೆಯುವುದು ಸೂಕ್ತ. ಮಹಿಳೆ ಶಾರೀರಿಕ ಸಂಬಂಧ ಬೆಳೆಸಲು ಶಕ್ತಳಾ ಎಂಬುದನ್ನು ತಿಳಿದುಕೊಂಡ ನಂತ್ರ ಸಂಬಂಧ ಬೆಳೆಸಿದ್ರೆ ಮುಂದಾಗುವ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಯಿಂದ ತಪ್ಪಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಬಹುದು.
ಮುಟ್ಟು ಪ್ರತಿಯೊಬ್ಬ ಮಹಿಳೆಗೆ ಪ್ರತಿ ತಿಂಗಳು ಕಾಡುವ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆ. ಕೆಲವರು ತೀವ್ರ ನೋವು ಅನುಭವಿಸ್ತಾರೆ. ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ ದಿನಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಈ ನೋವನ್ನು ಹೇಗೋ ಸಹಿಸಬಹುದು. ಆದ್ರೆ ಮದುವೆ ದಿನ ಮುಟ್ಟು ಬಂದ್ರೆ ಏನಾಗಬೇಡ? ನೆನಪು ಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡ್ರೆ ಭಯವಾಗುತ್ತೆ.
ಈ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಭಯಪಡುವ ಅಗತ್ಯವಿಲ್ಲ. ಮದುವೆ ದಿನ ಮುಟ್ಟಿನ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆ ಕಾಡಿದ್ರೆ ಚಿಂತೆ ಬೇಡ. ಒಂದೇ ಕಡೆ ಬಹಳ ಹೊತ್ತು ಕುಳಿತುಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದ್ರಿಂದ ಕಿರಿಕಿರಿಯುಂಟಾಗುತ್ತೆ. ಪ್ಯಾಡ್ ಒದ್ದೆಯಾಗಿ ಬದಲಾಯಿಸಲೂ ಸಮಯ ಸಿಗುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ಹಾಗಾಗಿ ಇಂಥ ಸಂದರ್ಭದಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ಯಾಡ್ ಗಿಂತ ಟ್ಯಾಂಪನ್ ಒಳ್ಳೆಯದು.
ಬಹುತೇಕರಿಗೆ ಟ್ಯಾಂಪನ್ ಬಳಕೆ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ತಿಳಿದಿಲ್ಲ. ಕೆಲವರಿಗೆ ಇದು ಕಿರಿಕಿರಿ ಎನ್ನಿಸುತ್ತದೆ. ಅಂತವರು ಟ್ಯಾಂಪನ್ ಬದಲು ಬಹಳ ಹೊತ್ತು ಬರುವ ಪ್ಯಾಡ್ ಆಯ್ಕೆ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳಿ. ಒಂದೇ ಬಾರಿ ಎರಡು ಪ್ಯಾಡ್ ಕೂಡ ಬಳಸಬಹುದು. ಇದು ಸುರಕ್ಷಿತ. ಹಾಗೆ ಒಳ ಬಟ್ಟೆ ಒದ್ದೆಯಾಗುತ್ತದೆ ಎಂಬ ಭಯವಿರುವುದಿಲ್ಲ.
ಮುಟ್ಟಿನ ಸಮಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಅನೇಕ ಹುಡುಗಿಯರಿಗೆ ಕಾಲು, ಸೊಂಟ, ಬೆನ್ನು ನೋವು ಕಾಡುತ್ತದೆ. ನೋವು ಕಡಿಮೆ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಕಡಿಮೆ ಹೀಲ್ಡ್ ಚಪ್ಪಲಿಗೆ ಆದ್ಯತೆ ನೀಡಿ.
ಮುಟ್ಟಿನ ಸಮಯದಲ್ಲಿ ತುಂಬಾ ನೋವುಣ್ಣುವವರು ನೀವಾಗಿದ್ದರೆ ವೈದ್ಯರ ಸಲಹೆ ಪಡೆದು ನೋವಿನ ಮಾತ್ರೆಯನ್ನು ಸೇವಿಸಿ. ಮದುವೆಯ ಸುಂದರ ಕ್ಷಣದಲ್ಲಿ ನೋವು ನಿಮ್ಮನ್ನು ಕಾಡದಿರುವಂತೆ ನೋಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳಿ.
ಮದುವೆ ದಿನ ನೋವಿನ ಮಾತ್ರೆಯನ್ನು ನಿಮ್ಮ ಸಹೋದರಿಗೆ ನೀಡಿ. ಆಕೆ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಆಸುಪಾಸು ಸುತ್ತಾಡುತ್ತಿರುತ್ತಾಳೆ. ನೋವಾದಲ್ಲಿ ತಕ್ಷಣ ಮಾತ್ರೆ ತೆಗೆದುಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ನಿಮಗೆ ಸುಲಭವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಹಾಗೆ ಒಂದಲ್ಲ ಒಂದು ಕಾರಣ ಹೇಳಿ ಆಗಾಗ ನಿಮ್ಮನ್ನು ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕರಿಂದ ಬೇರೆ ಕಡೆ ಕರೆದುಕೊಂಡು ಹೋಗುವಂತೆ ಹೇಳಿ. ಈ ನೆಪದಲ್ಲಿ ನೀವು ಶೌಚಾಲಯಕ್ಕೆ ಹೋಗಿ ಬರಬಹುದು.
ಮುಟ್ಟಿನ ದಿನಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಮೊಡವೆ ಮಾಮೂಲಿ. ಮೊಡವೆ ಶುರುವಾಗ್ತಿದ್ದರೆ ಅದ್ರ ಮೇಲೆ ಟೂತ್ಪೇಸ್ಟ್ ಹಚ್ಚಿ. ಇದು ಮೊಡವೆ ದೊಡ್ಡದಾಗಲು ಬಿಡುವುದಿಲ್ಲ.
ಲೋಕಸಭಾ ಚುನಾವಣೆಗೆ ದಿನಗಣನೆ ಆರಂಭವಾಗಿದ್ದು, ಮತ್ತೊಮ್ಮೆ ಅಧಿಕಾರಕ್ಕೇರಲು ಪ್ರಧಾನಿ ನರೇಂದ್ರ ಮೋದಿ ದೇಶದಾದ್ಯಂತ ಭರ್ಜರಿ ಪ್ರಚಾರ ಕಾರ್ಯ ನಡೆಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಇದರ ಮಧ್ಯೆ ಅವರಿಗೆ ಇಂದು ದೊಡ್ಡ ಶಾಕ್ ಸಿಕ್ಕಿದೆ.
ರಫೇಲ್ ಖರೀದಿ ಪ್ರಕರಣ ಕುರಿತಂತೆ ಸುಪ್ರೀಂ ಕೋರ್ಟ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಸರ್ಕಾರ ಸಲ್ಲಿಸಿದ್ದ ಅರ್ಜಿಯನ್ನು ತಳ್ಳಿ ಹಾಕಲಾಗಿದ್ದು, ಇದರ ವಿಚಾರಣೆ ಕುರಿತಂತೆ ಮುಂದಿನ ದಿನಾಂಕವನ್ನು ಪ್ರಕಟಿಸುವುದಾಗಿ ನ್ಯಾಯಮೂರ್ತಿಗಳು ತಿಳಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಇದು ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಸರ್ಕಾರಕ್ಕೆ ಆದ ದೊಡ್ಡ ಮುಖಭಂಗವೆಂದು ಹೇಳಲಾಗುತ್ತಿದೆ.
ಇದರ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಇತ್ತೀಚೆಗೆ ಆರಂಭಗೊಂಡಿರುವ ‘ನಮೋ ಟಿವಿ’ ಸ್ಥಗಿತಗೊಳಿಸಲು ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಚುನಾವಣಾ ಆಯೋಗ ಸೂಚಿಸಿದೆ. ಅಷ್ಟೇ ಅಲ್ಲ ಏಪ್ರಿಲ್ 11ರಂದು ಬಿಡುಗಡೆಗೊಳ್ಳಲು ಸಿದ್ಧವಾಗಿದ್ದ ಪ್ರಧಾನಿ ನರೇಂದ್ರ ಮೋದಿ ಜೀವನಾಧಾರಿತ ಚಿತ್ರ ‘ಪಿಎಂ ನರೇಂದ್ರ ಮೋದಿ’ ಪ್ರದರ್ಶನಕ್ಕೂ ಚುನಾವಣಾ ಆಯೋಗ ತಡೆ ಒಡ್ಡಿದೆ.
ಲೋಕಸಭಾ ಚುನಾವಣೆಯ ಮತದಾನಕ್ಕೆ ದಿನಗಣನೆ ಸಮೀಪಿಸುತ್ತಿರುವಂತೆಯೇ ಮತದಾರರನ್ನು ಸೆಳೆಯಲು ರಾಜಕೀಯ ಪಕ್ಷಗಳ ನಾಯಕರು ವಿವಿಧ ತಂತ್ರಗಾರಿಕೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಮೊರೆ ಹೋಗಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ಇದಕ್ಕೆ ಉದಾಹರಣೆ ಎಂಬಂತೆ ವಸತಿ ಸಚಿವ ಎಂಟಿಬಿ ನಾಗರಾಜ್ ಚಿಕ್ಕಬಳ್ಳಾಪುರ ಲೋಕಸಭಾ ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರದ ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ ಅಭ್ಯರ್ಥಿ ವೀರಪ್ಪ ಮೊಯ್ಲಿ ಅವರ ಪರವಾಗಿ ಪ್ರಚಾರ ಮಾಡುವ ವೇಳೆ ಕೈ ಕಾರ್ಯಕರ್ತರೊಂದಿಗೆ ಭರ್ಜರಿ ಡಾನ್ಸ್ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
1954 ರಲ್ಲಿ ತೆರೆಕಂಡಿದ್ದ ಬಾಲಿವುಡ್ ನ ‘ನಾಗಿನ್’ ಚಿತ್ರದ ಹಾಡಿಗೆ 67 ವರ್ಷದ ಎಂಟಿಬಿ ನಾಗರಾಜ್ ಹಾವಿನ ಹೆಡೆಯಂತೆ ಕೈ ಮೇಲೆತ್ತಿ ಸ್ಟೆಪ್ ಹಾಕಿದ್ದು, ಅವರಿಗೆ ಪಕ್ಷದ ಕಾರ್ಯಕರ್ತರು ಸಾಥ್ ನೀಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಈ ವಿಡಿಯೋ ಈಗ ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕ ಜಾಲತಾಣಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ವೈರಲ್ ಆಗಿದೆ.
ಬೆಳಗಾವಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದ ಚಳಿಗಾಲದ ಅಧಿವೇಶನದ ಸಂದರ್ಭದಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರತಿಭಟನೆಯ ಕಾರಣಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ರಾಜ್ಯ ಸರ್ಕಾರಕ್ಕೆ ಮುಜುಗರ ತಂದೊಡ್ಡಿದ್ದ ರೈತ ಸಂಘದ ಮಹಿಳಾ ನಾಯಕಿ ಜಯಶ್ರೀ, ಈಗ ಮಂಡ್ಯ ಲೋಕಸಭಾ ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರದ ಪಕ್ಷೇತರ ಅಭ್ಯರ್ಥಿ ಸುಮಲತಾ ಅಂಬರೀಶ್ ಪರ ಪ್ರಚಾರಕ್ಕಿಳಿದಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ಇಂದು ಮಂಡ್ಯ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ ಪಾಂಡವಪುರ ತಾಲೂಕಿನ ವಿವಿಧ ಗ್ರಾಮಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಸುಮಲತಾ ಪರ ಮತ ಯಾಚಿಸಿದ ಜಯಶ್ರೀ, ಕುಮಾರಸ್ವಾಮಿ, ರೈತರಿಗೆ ನೀಡಿರುವ ಯಾವುದೇ ಭರವಸೆಯನ್ನೂ ಈಡೇರಿಸಿಲ್ಲ ಹೀಗಾಗಿ ಅವರ ಗಿಮಿಕ್ ಮಾತುಗಳಿಗೆ ಮರುಳಾಗಬೇಡಿ ಎಂದು ಹೇಳಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ರಾಜ್ಯ ಸರ್ಕಾರ ಈ ಹಿಂದೆ ಘೋಷಿಸಿದಂತೆ ರೈತರ ಸಾಲ ಮನ್ನಾ ಆಗಿಲ್ಲ. ಅಲ್ಲದೆ ಬ್ಯಾಂಕುಗಳಿಂದ ನೋಟಿಸ್ ಬರುವುದೂ ನಿಂತಿಲ್ಲ ಎಂದು ಜಯಶ್ರೀ ಹೇಳಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಇದೇ ಸಂದರ್ಭದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾತನಾಡಿದ ಸುಮಲತಾ ಅಂಬರೀಶ್, ಜಯಶ್ರೀ ಅವರನ್ನು ಈ ಹಿಂದೆ ಮುಖ್ಯಮಂತ್ರಿಗಳು 4 ವರ್ಷ ಎಲ್ಲಿ ಮಲಗಿದ್ದೆಯಮ್ಮ ಎಂದು ಕೇಳಿದ್ದರು. ಇದನ್ನು ನೋಡಿದರೆ ಜೆಡಿಎಸ್ ನವರಿಗೆ ಹೆಣ್ಣು ಮಕ್ಕಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಗೌರವವಿಲ್ಲವೆಂದು ಕಾಣಿಸುತ್ತದೆ ಎಂದು ಅಭಿಪ್ರಾಯಪಟ್ಟಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ತುಮಕೂರು:ಪ್ರಧಾನಿ ನರೇಂದ್ರ ಮೋದಿ ರೈತರ ಸಾಲ ಮನ್ನಾ ಮಾಡಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಹಲವು ಬಾರಿ ಮನವಿ ಮಾಡಿದರೂ ಅವರು ರೈತರ ಸಾಲ ಮನ್ನಾ ಮಾಡಿಲ್ಲ ಎಂದು ಮಾಜಿ ಸಿಎಂ ಸಿದ್ದರಾಮಯ್ಯ ಆರೋಪಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ತುಮಕೂರು ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಜೆಡಿಎಸ್ – ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ ಮೈತ್ರಿಕೂಟದ ಅಭ್ಯರ್ಥಿ ಹೆಚ್.ಡಿ. ದೇವೇಗೌಡರ ಪರವಾಗಿ ಪ್ರಚಾರ ನಡೆಸಿದ ಸಿದ್ದರಾಮಯ್ಯ, ಪ್ರಧಾನಿಯಾಗಲು ಮೋದಿ ನಾಲಾಯಕ್. ಮೋದಿ ಮೋದಿ ಎಂದವರಿಗೆ ಅವರು ಟೋಪಿ ಹಾಕಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಎಂದು ಟೀಕಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ರಾಜ್ಯದ ನೀರಾವರಿ ಯೋಜನೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಹಣ ಕೊಡುತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ. ಕರ್ನಾಟಕಕ್ಕೆ ಬಂದು ರಾಜ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ನೀಡಿದ ಕೊಡುಗೆಯ ಬಗ್ಗೆ, 5 ವರ್ಷದ ಆಡಳಿತದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾಡಿದ ಸಾಧನೆಯ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಹೇಳಿಕೊಳ್ಳದೆ, ಬಾಲಾಕೋಟ್, ಪುಲ್ವಾಮ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಮಾತ್ರ ಮಾತನಾಡುತ್ತಾರೆ. ರಾಜ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಬರಗಾಲ ಬಂದಾಗ ಮೋದಿ ಸ್ಪಂದಿಸಲಿಲ್ಲ ಎಂದು ದೂರಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ರಾಜ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ಬಂದ ಮೋದಿ ಎಂದಾದರೂ ಹಿಂದುಳಿದ ವರ್ಗಗಳು, ದಲಿತರು, ಮಹಿಳೆಯರು, ಪರಿಶಿಷ್ಟ ಜಾತಿಯವರ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಮಾತನಾಡಿದ್ದಾರೆಯೇ? ಅವರಿಗೆ ನಾಚಿಕೆಯಾಗಬೇಕು. ಮೋದಿ ಗೆದ್ದರೆ ಸಂವಿಧಾನ ಉಳಿಯುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ಸುಳ್ಳನ್ನೇ ಸತ್ಯವೆಂದು ಅವರು ಬಿಂಬಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ದೇವೇಗೌಡರನ್ನು ಗೆಲ್ಲಿಸಿ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಯ ಘನತೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ನಾಯಕನಿಗೆ 56 ಇಂಚಿನ ಎದೆ ಇದ್ದರೆ ಸಾಲದು, ಎದೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಬಡವರ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಕಾಳಜಿ ಇರಬೇಕು ಎಂದು ಸಿದ್ದರಾಮಯ್ಯ ಹೇಳಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ಮಹಿಳೆಯರು ಪುರುಷರಿಗಿಂತ ಉತ್ತಮವಾಗಿ ಮಾತನಾಡ್ತಾರೆ. ತಮ್ಮ ಭಾವನೆಗಳನ್ನು ಯಾರ ಬಳಿಯಾದ್ರೂ ಅವ್ರು ಹಂಚಿಕೊಳ್ಳಬಲ್ಲರು. ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಪತಿಯ ಜೊತೆ ಭಾವನೆಗಳನ್ನು ಹಂಚಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಸಾಧ್ಯವಾಗದ ಸಂದರ್ಭದಲ್ಲಿ ಬೇರೆಯವರ ಜೊತೆ ಮಾತನಾಡಲು ಶುರು ಮಾಡ್ತಾರೆ. ಪರ ಪುರುಷನ ಜೊತೆ ಮಾತನಾಡ್ತಾ ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಪತಿಯಿಂದ ಸಿಗದ ನೆಮ್ಮದಿ, ಆತ್ಮವಿಶ್ವಾಸ, ಪ್ರೀತಿಯನ್ನು ಈತನಲ್ಲಿ ಪಡೆದುಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತಾರೆ.
ಮದುವೆಯಾದ ಆರಂಭದ ದಿನಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಸೆಕ್ಸ್ ಜೊತೆ ಪ್ರೀತಿ, ರೋಮ್ಯಾನ್ಸ್ ಇರುತ್ತದೆ. ಆದ್ರೆ ವರ್ಷಗಳು ಕಳೆದಂತೆ ಸೆಕ್ಸ್ ದೈನಂದಿನ ಜೀವನದಲ್ಲಿ ಬೆರೆತು ಹೋಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಅದ್ರಲ್ಲಿ ವಿಶೇಷ ಸುಖ, ನೆಮ್ಮದಿ ಮಹಿಳೆಯರಿಗೆ ಸಿಗುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ಇದು ಅವ್ರ ಬೇಸರಕ್ಕೆ ಕಾರಣವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಭಾವನೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಬೆಲೆ ನೀಡುವ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಗಳ ಹುಡುಕಾಟವನ್ನು ಮಹಿಳೆಯರು ಮಾಡಲು ಶುರುಮಾಡ್ತಾರೆ.
ಇತ್ತೀಚಿನ ಜೀವನದಲ್ಲಿ ಪತಿ, ಪತ್ನಿ ಇಬ್ಬರು ಸಮಾನಾಂತರ ಜೀವನ ನಡೆಸ್ತಾರೆ. ಇಬ್ಬರ ಮಧ್ಯೆ ಮಾತನಾಡಲು ಸಮಯ ಸಿಗುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ವಾರಾಂತ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಕೂಡ ಪರಸ್ಪರ ಸಮಯ ನೀಡಲು ಸಾಧ್ಯವಾಗುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ಮಗುವಿಗೆ ಜನ್ಮ ನೀಡಿದ ಮೇಲೆ ಪತಿ, ಪತ್ನಿಯನ್ನು ನೋಡುವ ಪರಿ ಬದಲಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಪ್ರೇಮಿ, ಪತ್ನಿಯ ರೂಪಕ್ಕಿಂತ ಮಗುವಿನ ತಾಯಿ ಎನ್ನುವಂತೆ ನೋಡಲು ಶುರುಮಾಡ್ತಾರೆ.
ಇದು ಮಹಿಳೆಯರ ಮನಸ್ಸಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಖಿನ್ನತೆ ಹಾಗೂ ನಿರಾಶೆ ಮೂಡಿಸುತ್ತದೆ. ಪತಿಯಿಂದ ಪ್ರೀತಿ ಹಾಗೂ ಆಕರ್ಷಕ ಮಾತುಗಳನ್ನು ಕೇಳಲು ಪತ್ನಿಯರು ಬಯಸ್ತಾರೆ. ಆದ್ರೆ ಪತಿ ಈವೆರಡನ್ನೂ ನೀಡದ ಸಂದರ್ಭದಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರೀತಿ ಹುಡುಕಾಟವನ್ನು ಮಹಿಳೆಯರು ಶುರುಮಾಡ್ತಾರೆ. ಪತಿಗಿಂತ ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಪ್ರೀತಿ ತೋರಿಸುವ, ಆತ್ಮವಿಶ್ವಾಸ ತುಂಬುವ, ಆಕೆ ಸೌಂದರ್ಯವನ್ನು ಹೊಗಳುವ ಪುರುಷನಿಗೆ ಆಕೆ ಗೊತ್ತಿಲ್ಲದೆ ಮನ ಸೋಲುತ್ತಾಳೆ.
ಚಾಟ್ ಅಂದ್ರೆ ಯಾರಿಗೆ ಇಷ್ಟವಿಲ್ಲ ಹೇಳಿ. ಕೆಲವರಿಗೆ ಸಂಜೆ ಹೊತ್ತು ಚಾಟ್ ಸವಿಯದೇ ಹೋದರೆ ಸಮಾಧಾನವೇ ಇರುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ಈಗ ಬೇಸಿಗೆ, ಕಲ್ಲಂಗಡಿ ಹಣ್ಣಿನ ಸೀಸನ್ ಆಗಿರುವುದರಿಂದ ಕಲ್ಲಂಗಡಿ ಹಣ್ಣಿನಿಂದ ಸುಲಭವಾಗಿ ಚಾಟ್ ಮಾಡುವುದು ಹೇಗೆ ಅಂತ ತಿಳಿಯೋಣ.
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ಕಲ್ಲಂಗಡಿ ಹಣ್ಣು 1 ಬೌಲ್ (ಸಣ್ಣಗೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿದ್ದು)
ದ್ರಾಕ್ಷಿ 1 ಚಿಕ್ಕ ಬೌಲ್
ಕೊತ್ತಂಬರಿ ಸೊಪ್ಪು ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ
ಕಾಳುಮೆಣಸಿನಪುಡಿ 1/2 ಟೀ ಸ್ಪೂನ್
ಜೀರಿಗೆ ಪುಡಿ 1/2 ಟೀ ಸ್ಪೂನ್
ಉಪ್ಪು ಚಿಟಿಕೆಯಷ್ಟು
ಮಾಡುವ ವಿಧಾನ
ಮೊದಲು ಬೌಲ್ ಗೆ ಸಣ್ಣಗೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿದ ಕಲ್ಲಂಗಡಿ ಹಣ್ಣನ್ನು ಹಾಕಿಕೊಳ್ಳಬೇಕು. ಅದಕ್ಕೆ ಜೀರಿಗೆ ಪುಡಿ, ಕಾಳು ಮೆಣಸಿನ ಪುಡಿ, ದ್ರಾಕ್ಷಿ, ಕೊತ್ತಂಬರಿ ಸೊಪ್ಪು, ಉಪ್ಪು ಹಾಕಿ ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿ ಮಿಕ್ಸ್ ಮಾಡಬೇಕು. ನಂತರ ಸರ್ವಿಂಗ್ ಬೌಲ್ ಗೆ ಹಾಕಿ ಫಟಾಫಟ್ ಕಲ್ಲಂಗಡಿ ಹಣ್ಣಿನ ಚಾಟ್ ರುಚಿಯನ್ನು ನೋಡಿ.
ಬೇಕಿದ್ದರೆ ಕಾಳು ಮೆಣಸಿನ ಪುಡಿ ಬದಲಾಗಿ ಅಚ್ಚ ಖಾರದ ಪುಡಿ ಬಳಸಬಹುದು. ಹಾಗೇ ದ್ರಾಕ್ಷಿ ಬೇಡ ಎನ್ನುವವರು ನಿಂಬೆ ಹಣ್ಣಿನ ರಸವನ್ನು ಹಿಂಡಬಹುದು.
ನವದೆಹಲಿ:ಲೋಕಸಭೆ ಚುನಾವಣೆ ಹೊತ್ತಲ್ಲಿ ಐಟಿ ದಾಳಿ ನಡೆದಿದ್ದು, ಬಿಜೆಪಿ ಹೊರತಾದ ಪಕ್ಷಗಳನ್ನು ಗುರಿಯಾಗಿಸಿಕೊಂಡು ಐಟಿ ದಾಳಿ ನಡೆಸಲಾಗಿದೆ ಎಂದು ಪ್ರತಿಪಕ್ಷಗಳ ನಾಯಕರು ಆರೋಪಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ, ಮಧ್ಯಪ್ರದೇಶ, ಆಂಧ್ರ ಪ್ರದೇಶ, ತಮಿಳುನಾಡು ಸೇರಿದಂತೆ ವಿವಿಧ ರಾಜ್ಯಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರತಿಪಕ್ಷಗಳ ನಾಯಕರ ಮನೆ ಮೇಲೆ ಸೇಡಿನಿಂದ ಐಟಿ ದಾಳಿ ನಡೆಸಲಾಗಿದೆ. ಆದರೆ, ಬಿಜೆಪಿ ನಾಯಕರ ಮನೆ ಮೇಲೆ ಐಟಿ ದಾಳಿ ನಡೆಸಿಲ್ಲ. ಪ್ರತಿಪಕ್ಷಗಳ ನಾಯಕರನ್ನು ಗುರಿಯಾಗಿಸಿಕೊಂಡು ಐಟಿ ದಾಳಿ ನಡೆಸಲಾಗಿದೆ ಎಂಬ ಆರೋಪ ಕೇಳಿ ಬಂದಿದೆ.
ಬಿಜೆಪಿಯವರು ಸ್ವಾಯತ್ತ ತನಿಖಾ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಗಳನ್ನು ದುರ್ಬಳಕೆ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡು ವಿರೋಧಿಗಳನ್ನು ಗುರಿಯಾಗಿಸಿ ದಾಳಿ ನಡೆಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಎಂದು ಆರೋಪಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ. ಈ ಆರೋಪಗಳಿಗೆ ಪ್ರತಿಕ್ರಿಯಿಸಿರುವ ಹಣಕಾಸು ಸಚಿವ ಅರುಣ್ ಜೇಟ್ಲಿ, ಆದಾಯ ತೆರಿಗೆ ಇಲಾಖೆ ವಸ್ತುನಿಷ್ಠವಾಗಿ ಕಾರ್ಯನಿರ್ವಹಿಸುತ್ತಿದೆ. ಸ್ಪಷ್ಟವಾದ ಸಾಕ್ಷ್ಯಾಧಾರಗಳ ಆಧಾರದ ಮೇಲೆಯೇ ಐಟಿ ಅಧಿಕಾರಿಗಳು ಶೋಧಕಾರ್ಯ ನಡೆಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಅವರ ಕಾರ್ಯಾಚರಣೆ ಚುನಾವಣೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾತ್ರವಲ್ಲ, ನಿರಂತರವಾಗಿರುತ್ತದೆ ಎಂದು ಹೇಳಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ತೆರಿಗೆ ವಂಚನೆ ಹವಾಲಾ ಹಣ ಬಳಕೆ ಮೊದಲಾದ ಮಾಹಿತಿ ಆಧರಿಸಿ ಐಟಿ ಅಧಿಕಾರಿಗಳು ದಾಳಿ ನಡೆಸುತ್ತಾರೆ ಎಂದು ಹೇಳಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ತನಿಖಾ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಗಳು ಚುನಾವಣೆ ವೇಳೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರತಿಪಕ್ಷಗಳನ್ನು ಗುರಿಯಾಗಿಸಿಕೊಂಡು ದಾಳಿ ನಡೆಸುತ್ತಿರುವ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ತೀವ್ರ ಆಕ್ರೋಶ ವ್ಯಕ್ತವಾಗಿದೆ. ಚುನಾವಣಾ ಆಯೋಗ ಕೂಡ ತಾರತಮ್ಯದ ಕ್ರಮ ತೆಗೆದುಕೊಳ್ಳದಿರಲು ಸಲಹೆ ನೀಡಿದೆ ಎನ್ನಲಾಗಿದೆ.
ತುಮಕೂರು ಜಿಲ್ಲಾ ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ ಇದ್ದ ಬಂಡಾಯ ಶಮನವಾಗಿದ್ದು, ಮಧುಗಿರಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದಿರುವ ಮೈತ್ರಿಕೂಟ ಸಮಾವೇಶಕ್ಕೆ ಹಾಲಿ ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ ಸಂಸದ ಮುದ್ದಹನುಮೇಗೌಡ ಮತ್ತು ಮಾಜಿ ಶಾಸಕ ಕೆ.ಎನ್. ರಾಜಣ್ಣ ಆಗಮಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ಮಧುಗಿರಿಯ ರಾಜೀವ್ ಗಾಂಧಿ ಸ್ಟೇಡಿಯಂನಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದ ಸಮಾವೇಶದಲ್ಲಿ ಇಬ್ಬರೂ ನಾಯಕರು ಭಾಗಿಯಾಗಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಈ ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರವನ್ನು ಜೆಡಿಎಸ್ ಗೆ ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಕೊಟ್ಟಿದ್ದರಿಂದ ಅಸಮಾಧಾನಗೊಂಡಿದ್ದ ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ ಸಂಸದ ಮುದ್ದಹನುಮೇಗೌಡ ಬಂಡಾಯ ಅಭ್ಯರ್ಥಿಯಾಗಿ ಸ್ಪರ್ಧಿಸಿದ್ದರು. ಬಳಿಕ ನಾಮಪತ್ರ ವಾಪಸ್ ಪಡೆದುಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದರು. ಮಾಜಿ ಶಾಸಕ ಕೆ.ಎನ್. ರಾಜಣ್ಣ ಕೂಡ ನಾಮಪತ್ರ ಸಲ್ಲಿಸಿ ವಾಪಸ್ ಪಡೆದುಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದರು.
ಆದರೆ, ಮೈತ್ರಿಕೂಟದ ಅಭ್ಯರ್ಥಿ ಹೆಚ್.ಡಿ. ದೇವೇಗೌಡರ ಪರವಾಗಿ ಪ್ರಚಾರಕ್ಕೆ ಬಾರದೇ ದೂರವೇ ಉಳಿದಿದ್ದರು. ಇದು ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ ಮತ್ತು ಜೆಡಿಎಸ್ ನಾಯಕರನ್ನು ಚಿಂತೆಗೀಡು ಮಾಡಿತ್ತು.
ಪ್ರಚಾರದಿಂದ ದೂರವೇ ಉಳಿದಿದ್ದ, ಮುದ್ದಹನುಮೇಗೌಡ, ಮತ್ತು ಕೆ.ಎನ್. ರಾಜಣ್ಣ ಇಂದು ನಡೆದ ಬೆಳವಣಿಗೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮೈತ್ರಿಕೂಟದ ಪ್ರಚಾರ ಸಭೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಭಾಗಿಯಾಗಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ಅನೇಕ ಜನರು ಶಕುನ-ಅಪಶಕುನವನ್ನು ನಂಬ್ತಾರೆ. ಒಂದು ಸೀನ್ ಸೀನಿದ್ರೆ, ಹಿಂದಿನಿಂದ ಕೂಗಿದ್ರೆ ಅಪಶಕುನ ಎನ್ನಲಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಹಾಗೆ ಬೆಕ್ಕು ಅಡ್ಡ ಹೋದ್ರೆ ಅನೇಕರು ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಹೊತ್ತು ನಿಂತು ಹೋಗ್ತಾರೆ. ಮುಂದೆ ನಡೆಯುವ ಘಟನೆಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಪ್ರಾಣಿಗಳಿಗೆ ಮೊದಲೇ ಸೂಚನೆ ಸಿಕ್ಕಿರುತ್ತದೆ. ಆಗಬಹುದಾದ ಅನಾಹುತಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಅವು ಮುನ್ಸೂಚನೆ ನೀಡುತ್ತವೆ ಎಂದು ನಂಬಲಾಗಿದೆ.
ರಾಹು ಗ್ರಹದ ವಾಹನ ಬೆಕ್ಕು. ಜಾತಕದಲ್ಲಿ ರಾಹು ಬಂದು ಕುಳಿತಾಗ ಅಪಘಾತ, ಪೆಟ್ಟಾಗುವ ಸಾಧ್ಯತೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿರುತ್ತದೆ. ಬೆಕ್ಕು ಅಡ್ಡ ಹೋಗಿ ಈ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಮುನ್ಸೂಚನೆ ನೀಡುತ್ತದೆ.
ಬೆಕ್ಕು ಎಡ ಭಾಗದಿಂದ ಬಲ ಭಾಗಕ್ಕೆ ಹೋದ್ರೆ ಇದನ್ನು ಅಶುಭವೆಂದು ಪರಿಗಣಿಸಲಾಗುತ್ತದೆ.
ಮನೆಗೆ ಬಂದು ಬೆಕ್ಕು ಅಳುತ್ತಿದ್ದರೆ ಇದು ಅಹಿತಕರ ಘಟನೆಯ ಸಂಕೇತ. ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಎರಡು ಬೆಕ್ಕುಗಳು ಜಗಳವಾಡಿದಲ್ಲಿ ಆರ್ಥಿಕ ನಷ್ಟದ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಜಗಳವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ ಎಂದರ್ಥ.
ದೀಪಾವಳಿಯಂದು ಬೆಕ್ಕು ಮನೆಗೆ ಬಂದ್ರೆ ಅದು ಶುಭ. ವರ್ಷವಿಡಿ ಲಕ್ಷ್ಮಿ ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ನೆಲೆಸಿರುತ್ತಾಳೆ.
ಮಲಗಿರುವ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಯ ತಲೆಗೆ ಬೆಕ್ಕಿನ ದೇಹ ತಾಕಿದ್ರೆ ಸರ್ಕಾರಿ ಗಲಾಟೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸಿಲುಕಬೇಕಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಕಾಲಿಗೆ ತಾಕಿದ್ರೆ ರೋಗ ಬರಲಿದೆ. ಮಲಗಿರುವ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಯನ್ನು ಜಿಗಿದು ಹೋದ್ರೆ ಭವಿಷ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ತೊಂದರೆಯಾಗಲಿದೆ.
ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಹಾಲನ್ನು ಬೆಕ್ಕು ಕದ್ದು ಕುಡಿದ್ರೆ ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲಿಟ್ಟಿರುವ ಹಣ ನೀರಿನಂತೆ ಹರಿದು ಹೋಗಲಿದೆ ಎಂದರ್ಥ.
ಮಂಡ್ಯ ಲೋಕಸಭೆ ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರದಲ್ಲಿ ಮೈತ್ರಿಕೂಟದ ಅಭ್ಯರ್ಥಿ ನಿಖಿಲ್ ಕುಮಾರ್ ಪರವಾಗಿ ಸಿಎಂ ಹೆಚ್.ಡಿ. ಕುಮಾರಸ್ವಾಮಿ ಬಿರುಸಿನ ಪ್ರಚಾರ ನಡೆಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ಇದೇ ಮೊದಲ ಬಾರಿಗೆ 'ನಿಖಿಲ್ ಎಲ್ಲಿದ್ದೀಯಪ್ಪಾ' ಟ್ರೋಲ್ ಗೆ ಸಿಎಂ ತಿರುಗೇಟು ನೀಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಮಂಡ್ಯ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ ಬಾಬುರಾಯನಕೊಪ್ಪಲುನಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾತನಾಡಿದ ಸಿಎಂ, 'ನಿಖಿಲ್ ಎಲ್ಲಿದ್ದೀಯಪ್ಪಾ', 'ಗೋ ಬ್ಯಾಕ್ ನಿಖಿಲ್' ಎಂದೆಲ್ಲ ಟ್ರೋಲ್ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಇಂತಹ ಕೀಳು ಅಭಿರುಚಿಯ ಪ್ರಚಾರಕ್ಕೆ ತಲೆ ಕೆಡಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದಿಲ್ಲ ಎಂದು ಹೇಳಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ಮಂಡ್ಯ ರೈತರ ಹೃದಯ ತಟ್ಟಿ ನೋಡಿ ಅಲ್ಲಿ ನಿಖಿಲ್ ಕುಮಾರ್ ಇದ್ದಾನೆ. ನಿಖಿಲ್ ಜನರ ಹೃದಯದಲ್ಲಿದ್ದಾನೆ. ಕೀಳು ಅಭಿರುಚಿಯ ಪ್ರಚಾರಕ್ಕೆ ನಾವು ತಲೆ ಕೆಡಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ನನಗೆ ಹಿಂದಿ ಮಾತನಾಡಲು ಬರಲ್ಲ, ನಿಖಿಲ್ ಹಿಂದಿಯಲ್ಲಿಯೂ ಒಂದು ಗಂಟೆ ಭಾಷಣ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಮಂಡ್ಯ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಯ ಗೌರವ ಉಳಿಸುವ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಾನೆ. ನಿಮ್ಮ ಮನೆ ಬಾಗಿಲಲ್ಲಿ ಇರುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಆತನನ್ನು ಗೆಲ್ಲಿಸಿ ಎಂದು ಸಿಎಂ ಹೇಳಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ಮಂಡ್ಯ:ಮಂಡ್ಯ ಲೋಕಸಭೆ ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರದಲ್ಲಿ ಪಕ್ಷೇತರ ಅಭ್ಯರ್ಥಿ ಸುಮಲತಾ ಅಂಬರೀಶ್ ಅವರ ಪರವಾಗಿ ನಟ ದರ್ಶನ್ ವಿವಿಧೆಡೆ ಪ್ರಚಾರ ನಡೆಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ಕೆಆರ್ ನಗರದ ಗಾಯನಹಳ್ಳಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಅಭಿಮಾನಿಗಳ ಒತ್ತಾಯಕ್ಕೆ ಮಣಿದ ದರ್ಶನ್, 'ಯಜಮಾನ' ಸಿನಿಮಾದ ಡೈಲಾಗ್ ಹೇಳಿದ್ದಾರೆ. 'ಹೇಯ್ ಕ್ಯಾಡ್ಬರಿ, ಆನೆ ನಡೆದಿದ್ದೇ ದಾರಿ. ಬರ್ತಾ ಇದ್ದಾರೆ…' ಎಂದು ಅರ್ಧಕ್ಕೆ ಡೈಲಾಗ್ ನಿಲ್ಲಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ಪ್ರಚಾರದ ವೇಳೆ ಅವರು 'ಹೇಯ್ ಕ್ಯಾಡ್ಬರಿ, ಆನೆ ನಡೆದಿದ್ದೇ ದಾರಿ. ಬರ್ತಾ ಇದ್ದಾರೆ…' ಇನ್ಮುಂದೆ ಡೈಲಾಗ್ ಹೇಳಿದರೆ ಕಾಂಟ್ರವರ್ಸಿ ಆಗುತ್ತೆ ಎಂದು ಅರ್ಧಕ್ಕೆ ಡೈಲಾಗ್ ನಿಲ್ಲಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಸುಮಲತಾ ಅವರ ಕ್ರಮ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ ಮತ್ತು ಚಿಹ್ನೆ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ತಿಳಿಸಿದ ಅವರು, ಯುವಕರು ಸುಮಲತಾ ಅವರ ಗುರುತಿನ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ತಿಳಿ ಹೇಳಬೇಕೆಂದು ಮನವಿ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ಮಂಡ್ಯ:ಮಂಡ್ಯ ಲೋಕಸಭೆ ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾತಿನ ಸಮರ ತಾರಕಕ್ಕೇರಿದೆ. ನನ್ನ ತೇಜೋವಧೆಗೆ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಇದು ಹೀಗೆ ಮುಂದುವರೆದರೆ ನನ್ನ ಮತ್ತೊಂದು ಮುಖ ತೋರಿಸಬೇಕಾಗುತ್ತದೆ ಎಂದು ಸುಮಲತಾ ವಾರ್ನಿಂಗ್ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ನನಗೂ ಅವರ ರೀತಿ ಮಾತನಾಡಲು ಬರುತ್ತೆ. ಮಾತನಾಡಿದರೆ ಅಷ್ಟು ವಿಷಯ ಇದೆ. ಆದರೆ ನಾನು ಆ ರೀತಿ ಮಾತನಾಡಬಾರದು ಎಂದುಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದೇನೆ ಎಂದು ಸಮುಲತಾ ಹೇಳಿದ್ದು, ಇದಕ್ಕೆ ಸಿಎಂ ಕುಮಾರಸ್ವಾಮಿ ಪ್ರತಿಕ್ರಿಯೆ ನೀಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ಶ್ರೀರಂಗಪಟ್ಟಣ ತಾಲ್ಲೂಕಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಚಾರದ ವೇಳೆ ಮಾತನಾಡಿದ ಸಿಎಂ, ನಿಮ್ಮ ಇನ್ನೊಂದು ಮುಖ ತೋರಿಸಿ ತಾಯಿ. ಜನ ನೋಡಬೇಕಿದೆ ಎಂದು ಹೇಳಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ಸುಮಲತಾ ಅವರ ಇನ್ನೊಂದು ಮುಖ ಹೇಳಿಕೆಗೆ ಸಿಎಂ ಟಾಂಗ್ ಕೊಟ್ಟಿದ್ದು, ಇನ್ನೊಂದು ಮುಖ ತೋರಿಸು ತಾಯಿ. ಅದು ಯಾರು ಓಡಿ ಹೋಗುತ್ತಾರೆ ನೋಡೋಣ. ನಿಮ್ಮ ಮುಖ ತೋರಿಸಿ ಎಂದಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ವಿಕಲಚೇತನ ಡಿಸಿಯನ್ನು ಸುಮ್ಮನೆ ವರ್ಗಾವಣೆ ಮಾಡಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಸುಳ್ಳು ಆಪಾದನೆ ಮಾಡಿ ಡಿಸಿ ವರ್ಗಾವಣೆ ಮಾಡಿಸಿದ್ದೇ ಅವರ ಸಾಧನೆಯಾಗಿದೆ. ನನಗೆ ಯಾವ ಡಿಸಿ ಇದ್ದರೆ ಏನು? ಅಧಿಕಾರಿ ಮತ ಹಾಕುತ್ತಾರೆಯೇ ಎಂದು ಸಿಎಂ ಪ್ರಶ್ನಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ಬೇಸಿಗೆ ಮೈ ಸುಡ್ತಿದೆ. ಕೆಲಸದ ಜೊತೆ ಸೂರ್ಯನ ಶಾಖ ಸುಸ್ತು ಮಾಡ್ತಿದೆ. ವಾರಾಂತ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಕೂಲ್ ಆಗಲು ಜನ ಪ್ರವಾಸದ ಪ್ಲಾನ್ ಮಾಡ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಮೈ ಸುಡುವ ಬೇಸಿಗೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಹಿಮಾಚಲ ಪ್ರದೇಶ ಹಾಗೂ ಉತ್ತರಾಖಂಡಕ್ಕೆ ಪ್ರವಾಸಿಗರ ದಂಡೇ ಹರಿದು ಬರ್ತಿದೆ. ಲೇಹ್ ಹಾಗೂ ಲಡಾಖ್ ಪ್ರವಾಸಕ್ಕೆ ಹೇಳಿ ಮಾಡಿಸಿದ ಸ್ಥಳ.
ಲಡಾಖನ್ನು ಭಾರತದ ಶೀತಲ ಮರುಭೂಮಿ ಎಂದೇ ಕರೆಯಲಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಸಮುದ್ರದಿಂದ 3 ಸಾವಿರ 500 ಮೀಟರ್ ಎತ್ತರದಲ್ಲಿದೆ ಈ ಪ್ರದೇಶ. ಉತ್ತರದಲ್ಲಿ ಕುನ್ಲುನ್ ಪರ್ವತ ಹಾಗೂ ದಕ್ಷಿಣದಲ್ಲಿ ಹಿಮಾಚಲದ ಮಧ್ಯೆ ಇರುವ ಲೇಹ್ ಲಡಾಖ್ ನ ದೊಡ್ಡ ಪಟ್ಟಣ. ಪ್ರವಾಸಿಗರನ್ನು ಆಕರ್ಷಿಸುವ ಸ್ಥಳವಿದು.
ರಸ್ತೆ ಮಾರ್ಗ ಅಥವಾ ವಿಮಾನದ ಮೂಲಕ ಮಾತ್ರ ಇಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ಬರಬಹುದು. ಶ್ರೀನಗರ ಹಾಗೂ ಮನಾಲಿ ಎರಡು ಮಾರ್ಗಗಳ ಮೂಲಕ ಪ್ರವಾಸಿಗರು ಲೇಹ್ ತಲುಪಬಹುದು. ಲಡಾಖ್ ಗೆ ಹೋಗುವ ಪ್ಲಾನ್ ನೀವೂ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದರೆ ನುಬ್ರಾ ಕಣಿವೆ ಮತ್ತು ಪಾಂಗೊಂಗ್ ಸರೋವರ ನೋಡದೆ ಬರಬೇಡಿ.
ಮೇ ತಿಂಗಳ ಕೊನೆಯಿಂದ ಸೆಪ್ಟೆಂಬರ್ ವರೆಗೆ ಲಡಾಖ್ ಪ್ರವಾಸಕ್ಕೆ ಪ್ಲಾನ್ ಮಾಡಬಹುದು. ಬೇಸಿಗೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಇಲ್ಲಿನ ತಾಪಮಾನ 3 ಡಿಗ್ರಿಯಿಂದ 30 ಡಿಗ್ರಿಯವರೆಗಿರುತ್ತದೆ.
ಟೀಂ ಇಂಡಿಯಾ ನಾಯಕರಾಗಿದ್ದ ಮಹೇಂದ್ರ ಸಿಂಗ್ ಧೋನಿ ಕೂಲ್ ಕ್ಯಾಪ್ಟನ್ ಎಂದೇ ಹೆಸರಾಗಿದ್ದರು. ತಮ್ಮ ಸರಳ ಸೀದಾ ಸಾದಾ ನಡವಳಿಕೆಗಳಿಂದ ಜನಪ್ರಿಯರಾಗಿರುವ ಧೋನಿ ಪ್ರಸಕ್ತ ಐಪಿಎಲ್ ಟೂರ್ನಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಚೆನ್ನೈ ಸೂಪರ್ ಕಿಂಗ್ಸ್ ತಂಡವನ್ನು ನಡೆಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ಮುಂಬೈನಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದ ಪಂದ್ಯದ ಸಂದರ್ಭದಲ್ಲಿ ಧೋನಿಯನ್ನು ನೋಡಲೆಂದೇ ನಾನಿಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ಬಂದಿದ್ದೇನೆ ಎಂಬ ಪ್ಲೇ ಕಾರ್ಡ್ ಹಿಡಿದಿದ್ದ ವೃದ್ಧ ಮಹಿಳೆಯನ್ನು ನೋಡಿದ ಧೋನಿ ಪಂದ್ಯದ ಬಳಿಕ ಅವರನ್ನು ಭೇಟಿ ಮಾಡಿ ಸೆಲ್ಫಿ ತೆಗೆಸಿಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದರು. ಧೋನಿಯವರ ಈ ನಡೆ ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ಇಷ್ಟವಾಗಿದ್ದು, ಈಗ ಮತ್ತೊಮ್ಮೆ ತಮ್ಮ ಸರಳತೆ ಮೆರೆಯುವ ಮೂಲಕ ಧೋನಿ ಸುದ್ದಿಯಾಗಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ಮಂಗಳವಾರದಂದು ಕೊಲ್ಕತ್ತಾ ನೈಟ್ ರೈಡರ್ಸ್ ತಂಡದ ವಿರುದ್ಧ ನಡೆದ ಪಂದ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಚೆನ್ನೈ ಸೂಪರ್ ಕಿಂಗ್ಸ್ ಜಯ ಗಳಿಸಿದ್ದು, ಇಂದು ತಂಡ ಜೈಪುರಕ್ಕೆ ತೆರಳಬೇಕಿತ್ತು. ಹೀಗಾಗಿ ಚೆನ್ನೈ ವಿಮಾನ ನಿಲ್ದಾಣಕ್ಕೆ ಧೋನಿ ಸೇರಿದಂತೆ ತಂಡದ ಸದಸ್ಯರು ಆಗಮಿಸಿದ್ದು, ಇವರ ಜೊತೆ ಧೋನಿ ಪತ್ನಿ ಸಾಕ್ಷಿ ಕೂಡಾ ಇದ್ದರು. ಈ ಸಂದರ್ಭದಲ್ಲಿ ಪತಿ-ಪತ್ನಿ ಇಬ್ಬರೂ ತಮ್ಮ ಬ್ಯಾಗನ್ನೇ ತಲೆದಿಂಬಾಗಿಸಿಕೊಂಡು ವಿಮಾನ ನಿಲ್ದಾಣದ ನೆಲದ ಮೇಲೆ ನಿದ್ರೆ ಹೋಗಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಇದರ ಫೋಟೋ ಈಗ ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕ ಜಾಲತಾಣಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ವೈರಲ್ ಆಗಿದೆ.
ಮಾಜಿ ಮುಖ್ಯಮಂತ್ರಿ, ಬಿಜೆಪಿ ರಾಜ್ಯಾಧ್ಯಕ್ಷ ಬಿ.ಎಸ್. ಯಡಿಯೂರಪ್ಪ ಜೆಡಿಎಸ್ ವರಿಷ್ಠ ಹೆಚ್.ಡಿ. ದೇವೇಗೌಡರ ಕುಟುಂಬ ರಾಜಕಾರಣದ ಕುರಿತು ವಾಗ್ದಾಳಿ ನಡೆಸಿದ್ದು, ಇವರ ವಂಶಾಡಳಿತವನ್ನು ಕೊನೆಗಾಣಿಸುವ ಕಾಲ ಬಂದಿದೆ ಎಂದು ಹೇಳಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ಹಾಸನ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ ಬೇಲೂರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಬಿಜೆಪಿ ಅಭ್ಯರ್ಥಿ ಎ. ಮಂಜು ಪರ ಪ್ರಚಾರ ನಡೆಸಿದ ಯಡಿಯೂರಪ್ಪನವರು, ಇದುವರೆಗೂ ಅಪ್ಪ, ಮಕ್ಕಳು, ಸೊಸೆಯಂದಿರ ಕಾಟ ಸಾಕಾಗಿತ್ತು. ಈಗ ಮೊಮ್ಮಕ್ಕಳೂ ಬಂದಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಎಂದು ವ್ಯಂಗ್ಯವಾಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ಹಾಸನ ಲೋಕಸಭಾ ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರದ ಅಭ್ಯರ್ಥಿ ಎ. ಮಂಜು ಮಾತನಾಡಿ, ಈ ಹಿಂದೆ ದೇವೇಗೌಡರು ನೀವು ಓಟು ಹಾಕದಿದ್ದರೆ ನಾನು ಸತ್ತು ಹೋಗಿ ಬಿಡುತ್ತೇನೆ ಎಂದು ಹೇಳಿ ಮತ ಹಾಕಿಸಿಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದರು. ಈಗ ಮೊಮ್ಮಗನನ್ನು ಹಾಸನದ ಚುನಾವಣೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ನಿಲ್ಲಿಸಿ ತುಮಕೂರಿಗೆ ದೇವೇಗೌಡರು ತೆರಳಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಎಂದು ಹೇಳಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ಮೆಣಸಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಹಲವು ವಿಧಗಳನ್ನು ನೋಡಿರುತ್ತೀರಿ. ಕೆಲವು ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಖಾರವಿದ್ದರೆ ಇನ್ನೂ ಕೆಲವು ಸಹಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲಾರದಷ್ಟು ಖಾರವಿರುತ್ತದೆ. ಉತ್ತರ ಪೆರುವಿನ ಕಾಡಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಬೆಳೆಯುವ ಈ ಮೆಣಸು ಎಷ್ಟು ಖಾರವಿದೆಯೋ ಅಷ್ಟೇ ಬೆಲೆಬಾಳುತ್ತೆ ಕೂಡಾ.
ಉತ್ತರ ಪೆರುವಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಬೆಳೆಯುವ 'ಚರಾಪಿಟಾ' ಎಂಬ ಮೆಣಸು ಉಳಿದ ಎಲ್ಲ ಮಸಾಲೆ ಪದಾರ್ಥಗಳಿಗಿಂತ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿನ ಖಾರ ಹೊಂದಿದೆ. ಹಳದಿ ಬಣ್ಣದ ಗೋಲಾಕಾರದ ಈ ಮೆಣಸು ಹಾಗೆಯೇ ತಿನ್ನಲು ಸೂಕ್ತವಲ್ಲ. ಅಲ್ಲಿನ ಜನರು ‘ಚರಾಪಿಟಾ’ವನ್ನು ಒಣಗಿಸಿ ಅದರ ಪುಡಿಯೊಂದಿಗೆ ಕೇಸರಿ ಮತ್ತು ವೆನಿಲಾವನ್ನು ಸೇರಿಸಿ ಅದನ್ನು ಒಂದು ಮಸಾಲೆ ಪದಾರ್ಥವಾಗಿ ಬಳಸುತ್ತಾರೆ.
ಯುರೋಪಿಯನ್ ಮಾರುಕಟ್ಟೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಇದು ಹೊಸತಾಗಿ ಸೇರ್ಪಡೆಯಾಗಿದ್ದರೂ ಇದು ತನ್ನ ವಿಶಿಷ್ಟ ಪರಿಮಳದಿಂದ ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ಜನಪ್ರಿಯತೆ ಗಳಿಸಿದೆ. 'ಮದರ್ ಆಫ್ ಆಲ್ ಚಿಲ್ಲೀಸ್' ಎಂಬ ಹೆಸರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಖ್ಯಾತವಾಗಿರುವ ಈ ಮೆಣಸಿನ ಬೆಲೆ ಒಂದು ಕೆಜಿಗೆ ಬರೋಬ್ಬರಿ 25 ಸಾವಿರ್ ಡಾಲರ್ ಗಳಾಗಿದೆ.
ಏಪ್ರಿಲ್ ತಿಂಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಹುಟ್ಟಿದ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾಣುವಂತಹ ಗುಣಗಳು ಯಾವುದು. ಹಾಗೇ ಅವರು ಯಾವ ಗುಣಗಳಿಂದಾಗಿ ಬೇರೆಯವರಿಗಿಂತ ತುಂಬಾ ಭಿನ್ನವಾಗಿ ನಿಲ್ಲುವರು ಅಂತ ತಿಳಿಯೋಣ.
* ಈ ತಿಂಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಹುಟ್ಟಿರುವ ಜನರು ತುಂಬಾ ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರರಾಗಿರುವರು. ಈ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಗಳು ಯಾವುದಾದರೂ ಉದ್ಯಮವನ್ನು ಆರಂಭಿಸುವರು ಮತ್ತು ಅದರಲ್ಲಿ ಇವರು ಉನ್ನತಿ ಪಡೆಯುವರು.
* ಇವರು ತಮ್ಮದೇ ಆದ ದಾರಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸಾಗುವರು. ಇವರಲ್ಲಿ ಇರುವಂತಹ ಆಕರ್ಷಣೀಯ ಗುಣವು ಬೇರೆಯವರನ್ನು ಆಕರ್ಷಣೆ ಮಾಡುವುದು.
* ಹಣ ಸಂಪಾದನೆ ಮಾಡಬೇಕು ಎಂದು ಬಯಸುವಂತಹ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಗಳು ತಮ್ಮ ಜೀವನದಲ್ಲಿ ಸಾಧಿಸಲು ತುಂಬಾ ಕಠಿಣವಾಗಿ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡುವರು.
* ಇವರು ತುಂಬಾ ಹಠವಾದಿಗಳು. ಬಲಶಾಲಿ ಮನಸ್ಸನ್ನು ಹೊಂದಿರುವ ಕಾರಣದಿಂದಾಗಿ ತಮ್ಮ ಮಾತಿನ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ದೃಢವಾದ ನಂಬಿಕೆ ಹೊಂದಿರುವರು. ಆದರೆ ಚರ್ಚೆ ಮಾಡುವಂತಹ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಯಲ್ಲ. ತಮ್ಮ ನಿಲುವನ್ನು ಇವರು ಯಾವತ್ತೂ ಬದಲಾವಣೆ ಮಾಡುವುದಿಲ್ಲ.
* ಇವರು ತುಂಬಾ ಪ್ರಬಲ ಎದುರಾಳಿಗಳಾಗಿರುವರು ಮತ್ತು ಇವರಿಗೆ ಸರಿಹೊಂದುವ ಹೋರಾಟ ನೀಡುವುದು ತುಂಬಾ ಕಠಿಣವಾಗಿರುವುದು.
* ಇವರು ಪ್ರಕೃತಿ ಸ್ನೇಹಿ.
* ಇವರು ಹಲವಾರು ಮಂದಿ ಸ್ನೇಹಿತರನ್ನು ಸಂಪಾದಿಸುವರು. ಈ ಸ್ನೇಹಿತರು ಇವರ ಅತ್ಯುತ್ಸಾಹವನ್ನು ಸ್ವಾಗತಿಸುವರು ಮತ್ತು ಜೊತೆಯಾಗಿ ಪ್ರಯಾಣಿಸಲು ಇಷ್ಟಪಡುವರು.
* ಇವರು ಜನ್ಮತಃ ಪ್ರವಾಸಿಗರು ಆಗಿರುವರು. ಇವರಿಗೆ ನೈಸರ್ಗಿಕವಾಗಿ ಸಾಹಸ ಮತ್ತು ಪ್ರಯಾಣಿಸುವ ಗುಣವು ಬಂದಿರುವ ಕಾರಣದಿಂದಾಗಿ ಇವರು ಹೊಸ ಹೊಸ ಪ್ರದೇಶಗಳಿಗೆ ಹೋಗಲು ಇಷ್ಟಪಡುವರು.
* ಇವರು ತುಂಬಾ ಕುತೂಹಲಿಗರು. ಈ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಗಳು ಯಾವಾಗಲೂ ಏನಾದರೂ ಮಾಹಿತಿ ಪಡೆಯಲು ಬಯಸುವರು. ಹೊಸ ಹೊಸ ವಿಚಾರಗಳನ್ನು ಕಲಿಯಲು ತುಂಬಾ ಉತ್ಸುಕರಾಗಿರುವರು.
* ಯಾರಾದರೂ ಇವರನ್ನು ಕಾಯಿಸಿದರೆ ಆಗ ತಾಳ್ಮೆ ಕಳೆದುಕೊಳ್ಳುವರು ಮತ್ತು ಇದರಿಂದ ತುಂಬಾ ಸುಲಭವಾಗಿ ನಿರಾಶೆಗೆ ಒಳಗಾಗುವರು.
* ಇವರದ್ದು ವಿಶ್ರಾಂತಿಯಿಲ್ಲದೆ ಇರುವ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿತ್ವ ಆಗಿರುವ ಕಾರಣದಿಂದಾಗಿ ಯಾವಾಗಲೂ ಏನಾದರೂ ಕೆಲಸವನ್ನು ಬೇಗನೆ ಮುಗಿಸಲು ಬಯಸುವರು. ಆದರೆ ಈ ಒಂದು ಗುಣದಿಂದಾಗಿ ಇವರು ಕೆಲವೊಂದು ಸಲ ಸಂಕಷ್ಟಕ್ಕೆ ಸಿಲುಕುವುದು ಇದೆ.
ಮುಖ್ಯಮಂತ್ರಿ ಕುಮಾರಸ್ವಾಮಿ, ಇಂದು ತಮ್ಮ ಪುತ್ರ ನಿಖಿಲ್ ಕುಮಾರಸ್ವಾಮಿ ಅವರ ಪರ ಮಂಡ್ಯ ಲೋಕಸಭಾ ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರದಲ್ಲಿ ಭರ್ಜರಿ ಪ್ರಚಾರ ಕಾರ್ಯ ನಡೆಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಈ ಸಂದರ್ಭದಲ್ಲಿ ಕುಮಾರಸ್ವಾಮಿ ಮಂಡ್ಯ ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ ನಾಯಕರ ವಿರುದ್ಧ ಪರೋಕ್ಷವಾಗಿ ಕಿಡಿಕಾರಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ಪಾಲಹಳ್ಳಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದ ಚುನಾವಣಾ ಪ್ರಚಾರ ಸಭೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾತನಾಡಿದ ಕುಮಾರಸ್ವಾಮಿ, ಮಂಡ್ಯ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ನಿಖಿಲ್ ಕುಮಾರಸ್ವಾಮಿಯವರನ್ನು ಸೋಲಿಸುವ ಮೂಲಕ ಸರ್ಕಾರವನ್ನು ಮುಗಿಸಲು ಕೆಲವರು ಹೊರಟಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಇದರಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ ನ ಕೆಲ ನಾಯಕರು, ಬಿಜೆಪಿ ಹಾಗೂ ರೈತ ಸಂಘದವರಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಎಂದು ಹೇಳಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ಈ ಹಿಂದೆ ನಮ್ಮ ಜೊತೆ ಇದ್ದವರು, ನಮ್ಮಿಂದಲೇ ರಾಜಕೀಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಬೆಳೆದವರು ಈಗ ನಮ್ಮ ವಿರುದ್ಧ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಎಂದು ಹೇಳುವ ಮೂಲಕ ಮಾಜಿ ಸಚಿವ ಚೆಲುವರಾಯಸ್ವಾಮಿ, ನರೇಂದ್ರಸ್ವಾಮಿ ಮೊದಲಾದವರ ಹೆಸರನ್ನು ಹೇಳಿದೆ ಕುಮಾರಸ್ವಾಮಿ ಪರೋಕ್ಷ ವಾಗ್ದಾಳಿ ನಡೆಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ಸದ್ಯ ಉರಿ ಉರಿ ಬೇಸಿಗೆ. ಈ ಧಗೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ತಣ್ಣನೆಯ ಕಬ್ಬಿನ ಹಾಲು ಕುಡಿದರೆ ಮನಸ್ಸಿಗೂ ಖುಷಿ, ದೇಹಕ್ಕೂ ಒಳ್ಳೆಯದು. ಕಬ್ಬಿನ ಹಾಲಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಸಾಕಷ್ಟು ಔಷಧೀಯ ಗುಣಗಳಿವೆ.
ಕಿಡ್ನಿ ಆರೋಗ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ಇದು ತುಂಬಾನೇ ಒಳ್ಳೆಯದು. ಜೊತೆಗೂ ಲಿವರ್ ಗೆ ಕೂಡ. ಅಲ್ಲದೇ ಜಾಂಡೀಸ್ ಗೆ ಇದು ರಾಮಬಾಣ. ಹಾಗಿದ್ರೆ ಕಬ್ಬಿನ ಜ್ಯೂನ್ ಅನ್ನು ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲೇ ಹೇಗೆ ತಯಾರಿಸೋದು ಅನ್ನೋದನ್ನು ನೋಡೋಣ.
ಬೇಕಾಗುವ ಸಾಮಗ್ರಿ :
ಮಧ್ಯಮ ಗಾತ್ರದ ಕಬ್ಬು
ನೀರು
ಜಾಳಿಗೆ ಅಥವಾ ಸೋಸುವ ಬಟ್ಟೆ
ಶುಂಠಿ (ಬೇಕಾದಲ್ಲಿ)
ಲಿಂಬು (ಬೇಕಾದಲ್ಲಿ)
ಪುದೀನಾ ಸೊಪ್ಪು
ಕಾಳುಮೆಣಸು
ಐಸ್ ಕ್ಯೂಬ್
ಮಾಡುವ ವಿಧಾನ :
ಮೊದಲು ಕಬ್ಬನ್ನು ಸ್ವಚ್ಛಮಾಡಿ, ಚಿಕ್ಕ ಚಿಕ್ಕ ಚೂರುಗಳನ್ನಾಗಿ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳಿ. ಅದನ್ನು ನುಣ್ಣಗೆ ಗ್ರೈಂಡ್ ಮಾಡಿ. ಬಳಿಕ ಅದನ್ನು ಸೋಸಿ ಜ್ಯೂಸ್ ತೆಗೆಯಿರಿ. ಇದಾದ ಬಳಿಕ ಬೇಕಾದಲ್ಲಿ ಶುಂಠಿ, ಲಿಂಬು, ಪುದೀನಾ ಅಥವಾ ಕಾಳುಮೆಣಸಿನ ಪುಡಿ ಹಾಕಿ. ಹಾಗೆಯೇ ಕುಡಿದರೂ ಇದು ಬಹಳ ರುಚಿ. ಕೊನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಐಸ್ ಕ್ಯೂಬ್ ನೊಂದಿಗೆ ತಣ್ಣನೆಯ ಜ್ಯೂಸ್ ಅನ್ನು ಸರ್ವ್ ಮಾಡಿ.
ಬೇಸಿಗೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸುಂದರ ತ್ವಚೆಯನ್ನು ಸಂರಕ್ಷಿಸುವುದು ಹೇಗೆ ಎಂಬ ಚಿಂತೆ ಬಹುತೇಕ ಎಲ್ಲರನ್ನೂ ಕಾಡುತ್ತದೆ. ಅದರಲ್ಲಿಯೂ ಬಿರು ಬಿಸಿಲಿಗೆ ಚರ್ಮ ಕಪ್ಪಾಗುವುದನ್ನು ತಪ್ಪಿಸಲು ನಾನಾ ಬಗೆಯ ಪ್ರಯೋಗವನ್ನು ಮಾಡುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಹೀಗಾಗಿ ಸುಡುವ ಬಿಸಿಲಿನಲ್ಲಿಯೂ ಚರ್ಮದ ಕಾಂತಿ ಕಾಪಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವ ಟಿಪ್ಸ್ ಇಲ್ಲಿದೆ.
ಯಾವಾಗಲೂ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಸಮಯದಲ್ಲಿಯೂ ತ್ವಚೆಯ ಬಗೆಗೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿನ ಲಕ್ಷ್ಯ ವಹಿಸಬೇಕು. ಅದರಲ್ಲಿಯೂ ಬಿಸಿಲಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಸೂರ್ಯನಿಗೆ ಮೈಯೊಡ್ಡಿ ಬಂದ ಮೇಲೆ ತಣ್ಣನೆಯ ನೀರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಸ್ನಾನ ಮಾಡಿದಲ್ಲಿ, ತ್ವಚೆಯ ತಾಪಮಾನ ಕುಗ್ಗುವುದರಿಂದ ತ್ವಚೆ ಕಪ್ಪಾಗುವುದನ್ನು ತಪ್ಪಿಸಬಹುದಾಗಿದೆ.
ಇನ್ನು ಹೆಚ್ಚಾಗಿ ಬಿಸಿಲಿನ ಸಂಪರ್ಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಇರುವವರು ಲೂಫಾ ಅಥವಾ ಬಾಡಿ ಸ್ಕ್ರಬರ್ ಬಳಸಿ ತ್ವಚೆಯ ಸತ್ತ ಜೀವಕೋಶಗಳನ್ನು ತೊಳೆದು ಹಾಕಿ ಮಾಯಿಶ್ಚರೈಸರ್ ನ ತೆಳು ಲೇಪನ ಮಾಡಬೇಕು. ಇದರಿಂದ ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಮಟ್ಟಿಗೆ ಚರ್ಮ ಕಪ್ಪಾಗುವುದನ್ನು ತಪ್ಪಿಸಬಹುದಾಗಿದೆ.
ಅಲ್ಲದೇ ಸೂರ್ಯನ ನೇರ ಕಿರಣಗಳಿಂದ ರಕ್ಷಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದರಿಂದ ತ್ವಚೆಗೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿನ ರಕ್ಷಣೆ ದೊರಕುತ್ತದೆ. ಸೂರ್ಯನ ಬೆಳಕಿಗೆ ಹೋಗುವ ಹದಿನೈದು ನಿಮಿಷಗಳ ಮುನ್ನ ಸನ್ ಸ್ಕ್ರೀನ್ ಮುಲಾಮು ಹಚ್ಚಿಕೊಂಡರೆ ಇದು ಅತಿ ನೇರಳೆ ಕಿರಣಗಳಿಂದ ರಕ್ಷಿಸಲಿದೆ.
ಬಿಸಿಲಿನಿಂದ ರಕ್ಷಿಸುವ ತರಹೇವಾರಿ ಮುಲಾಮುಗಳು ಮಾರುಕಟ್ಟೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸಾಕಷ್ಟು ಲಭ್ಯವಿದ್ದು, ಟ್ಯಾನಿಂಗ್ ಮೂಸ್ ನಿಂದ ಹಿಡಿದು ಸ್ಪ್ರೇ ಬಾಟಲಿಯವರೆಗೆ ಬಗೆ ಬಗೆಯ ಸೌಂದರ್ಯವರ್ಧಕಗಳು ಇವೆ. ಆದರೆ ಅದನ್ನು ಬಳಸುವ ಮುಂಚೆ ವೈದ್ಯರ ಸಲಹೆ ಪಡೆಯುವುದು ಅತ್ಯಂತ ಸೂಕ್ತ. ಇನ್ನು ವಿಶೇಷವಾಗಿ ಬೇಸಿಗೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ವಿಟಮಿನ್ ಗಳನ್ನು ಹೊಂದಿರುವ ಹಣ್ಣು ಹಂಪಲುಗಳನ್ನು, ಹಣ್ಣಿನ ರಸವನ್ನು ಸೇವಿಸಿ ದೇಹವನ್ನು ತಂಪಾಗಿರಿಸುವ ಮೂಲಕವೂ ಚರ್ಮದ ಕಾಂತಿಯನ್ನು ಕಾಪಾಡಬಹುದಾಗಿದೆ.
ಗರ್ಭಧಾರಣೆ ತಡೆಯಲು ಹಾಗೂ ಲೈಂಗಿಕ ರೋಗಗಳನ್ನು ತಡೆಗಟ್ಟಲು ಕಾಂಡೋಮ್ ಬಳಕೆ ಮಾಡಲಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಸುರಕ್ಷಿತ ಸೆಕ್ಸ್ ಗೆ ಇದು ಬೆಸ್ಟ್ ಎನ್ನಲಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಇದೇ ಕಾರಣಕ್ಕೆ ಪ್ರತಿಯೊಬ್ಬರೂ ಕಾಂಡೋಮ್ ಬಳಕೆ ಮಾಡ್ತಾರೆ.
ಫ್ಯಾಮಿಲಿ ಪ್ಲಾನ್ ನಲ್ಲಿರುವವರು ಕಾಂಡೋಮ್ ಸುರಕ್ಷಿತವೆಂದು ಬಳಕೆ ಮಾಡ್ತಿದ್ದರೆ ನೀವು ಮಾಡುವ ಕೆಲ ತಪ್ಪುಗಳು ಸಮಸ್ಯೆ ತರಬಹುದು. ಗರ್ಭಧಾರಣೆಗೆ ಕಾರಣವಾಗಬಹುದು. ಹಾಗಾಗಿ ಕಾಂಡೋಮ್ ಬಳಕೆ ಮುನ್ನ ಕೆಲವೊಂದು ಸಂಗತಿಗಳನ್ನು ತಿಳಿದಿರಿ.
ಕಾಂಡೋಮ್, ಗರ್ಭಧಾರಣೆ ತಡೆಯಲು ಶೇಕಡಾ 100ರಷ್ಟು ಬೆಸ್ಟ್ ಅಲ್ಲ. ಕಾಂಡೋಮ್ ಪ್ಯಾಕ್ ನಲ್ಲಿಯೂ ಇದನ್ನು ಬರೆದಿರಲಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಕಾಂಡೋಮ್ ಸರಿಯಾಗಿ ಬಳಸದೆ ಹೋದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಹಿಳಾ ಸಂಗಾತಿ ಗುಡ್ ನ್ಯೂಸ್ ನೀಡುವ ಸಾಧ್ಯತೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿರುತ್ತದೆ.
ಕಾಂಡೋಮ್ ತಪ್ಪು ಬಳಕೆಯೇ ಗರ್ಭಧಾರಣೆಗೆ ಕಾರಣವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಕಾಂಡೋಮ್ ಧರಿಸುವುದ್ರಿಂದ ಹಿಡಿದು ಕೊನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ತೆಗೆಯುವವರೆಗೂ ಅದ್ರ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿನ ಜಾಗೃತಿ ವಹಿಸಬೇಕಾಗುತ್ತದೆ.
ಕೆಲವರು ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಮುಂಜಾಗ್ರತೆ ವಹಿಸಿ 2 ಕಾಂಡೋಮ್ ಬಳಸ್ತಾರೆ. ಕೆಲವರು ಮಹಿಳಾ ಕಾಂಡೋಮ್ ಹಾಗೂ ಪುರುಷ ಕಾಂಡೋಮ್ ಎರಡನ್ನೂ ಬಳಸ್ತಾರೆ. ಇದು ಸರಿಯಾದ ಮಾರ್ಗವಲ್ಲ. ವೀರ್ಯ ಮಹಿಳೆಯನ್ನು ಪ್ರವೇಶ ಮಾಡುವ ಸಾಧ್ಯತೆ ಇದ್ರಲ್ಲಿ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿರುತ್ತದೆ.
ಕಾಂಡೋಮ್ ಬಳಕೆ ಮುನ್ನ ಅದನ್ನು ಸರಿಯಾಗಿ ಪರೀಕ್ಷೆ ಮಾಡಿ. ರಂಧ್ರಗಳಿವೆಯೇ ಎಂಬುದನ್ನು ನೋಡಿ. ರಂಧ್ರಗಳಿದ್ರೆ ಕಾಂಡೋಮ್ ಬಳಸಿ ಪ್ರಯೋಜನವಿಲ್ಲ.
ಈ ಕಾರಿನ ಬೆಲೆ ಕೇಳಿದ್ರೇ ನಿಜಕ್ಕೂ ದಂಗಾಗುತ್ತೀರಿ. ಅಷ್ಟಕ್ಕೂ ಇದರ ಬೆಲೆ ಎಷ್ಟಿರಬಹುದೆಂದು ಊಹಿಸಿದ್ದೀರಿ.
5 -10 ಕೋಟಿ ರೂ. ಇರಬಹುದೆಂದು ನಿಮ್ಮ ಊಹೆಯಾಗಿದ್ದರೆ ಇಲ್ನೋಡಿ. ಈ ಕಾರಿನ ಬೆಲೆ ಬರೋಬ್ಬರಿ 84 ಕೋಟಿ ರೂ. ಐಷಾರಾಮಿ ಕಾರ್ ತಯಾರಿಕಾ ಕಂಪನಿಯಾಗಿರುವ ರೋಲ್ಸ್ ರಾಯ್ಸ್ ವಿಶ್ವದಲ್ಲಿಯೇ ಅತ್ಯಂತ ದುಬಾರಿ ವೆಚ್ಚದ ಕಾರನ್ನು ತಯಾರಿಸಿದೆ.
ಶ್ರೀಮಂತರೊಬ್ಬರು ತಮಗೆ ಇಷ್ಟವಾಗುವಂತೆ ಕಾರ್ ಸಿದ್ಧಪಡಿಸಿಕೊಡುವಂತೆ ಮಾಡಿದ ಮನವಿ ಮೇರೆಗೆ ರೋಲ್ಸ್ ರಾಯ್ಸ್ ಸ್ವೈಪ್ ಟೇಲ್ ಕಾರನ್ನು ತಯಾರಿಸಿದ್ದು, ಇದರ ಬೆಲೆ 84 ಕೋಟಿ ರೂ. ಆಗಿದೆ.
ಈ ಕಾರನ್ನು ತಯಾರಿಸಲು 4 ವರ್ಷ ತಗುಲಿದೆ. ಇದರಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಬಟನ್ ಹಾಗೂ ಸ್ವಿಚ್ ಗಳಿಗೆ ಮಕಾಸರ್ ಎಬೊನಿ ಮರ ಬಳಸಲಾಗಿದೆ. 1920 ರ ದಶಕದ ರೀತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಇದ್ದ ಕಾರುಗಳನ್ನು ಹೋಲುವಂತೆ ಇದನ್ನು ತಯಾರಿಸಿದ್ದು, 2 ಆಸನಗಳಿವೆ. ಟಾಪ್ ಗಾಜಿನಿಂದ ಆವೃತವಾಗಿದೆ.
ವಿರಾಟ್ ಕೊಹ್ಲಿ ನೇತೃತ್ವದ ರಾಯಲ್ ಚಾಲೆಂಜರ್ಸ್ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ತಂಡ ಈವರೆಗೆ ಆಡಿದ ಆರೂ ಪಂದ್ಯಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಪರಾಭವಗೊಳ್ಳುವ ಮೂಲಕ ಪ್ರಸಕ್ತ ಐಪಿಎಲ್ ಟೂರ್ನಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕಳಪೆ ಪ್ರದರ್ಶನ ನೀಡಿದೆ. ಈ ಬಾರಿಯಾದರೂ ಆರ್.ಸಿ.ಬಿ. ತಂಡ ಟ್ರೋಫಿ ಗೆಲ್ಲಬಹುದೆಂಬ ವಿಶ್ವಾಸದಲ್ಲಿದ್ದ ಅಭಿಮಾನಿಗಳು ಈಗ ನಿರಾಸೆಗೊಂಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ಈ ಮಧ್ಯೆ ರಾಯಲ್ ಚಾಲೆಂಜರ್ಸ್ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ತಂಡದ ವಿಕೆಟ್ ಕೀಪರ್ ಪಾರ್ಥಿವ್ ಪಟೇಲ್ ತೀವ್ರ ಒತ್ತಡದ ನಡುವೆಯೂ ಪಂದ್ಯಗಳನ್ನಾಡುತ್ತಿರುವುದು ಬಹಿರಂಗವಾಗಿದೆ. ಪಾರ್ಥಿವ್ ಪಟೇಲ್ ಅವರ ತಂದೆ ಬ್ರೈನ್ ಹೆಮರೇಜ್ ನಿಂದಾಗಿ ಆಸ್ಪತ್ರೆಯ ತೀವ್ರ ನಿಗಾ ಘಟಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಚಿಕಿತ್ಸೆ ಪಡೆಯುತ್ತಿದ್ದು, ಹೀಗಾಗಿ ಪಂದ್ಯ ಮುಗಿದ ತಕ್ಷಣವೇ ಮನೆಗೆ ಕರೆ ಮಾಡಿ ತಂದೆಯ ಆರೋಗ್ಯ ವಿಚಾರಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ಈ ಕುರಿತು ಮಾಧ್ಯಮ ಪ್ರತಿನಿಧಿ ಜೊತೆ ಮಾತನಾಡಿರುವ ಪಾರ್ಥಿವ್ ಪಟೇಲ್, ನಾನು ಮೈದಾನದಲ್ಲಿದ್ದಾಗ ಆಟದ ಮೇಲೆ ಗಮನ ಕೇಂದ್ರೀಕರಿಸಿರುತ್ತೇನೆ. ಡ್ರೆಸ್ಸಿಂಗ್ ರೂಂಗೆ ಬಂದ ತಕ್ಷಣವೇ ಮೊಬೈಲ್ ಚೆಕ್ ಮಾಡುವ ಮೂಲಕ ಯಾವುದೇ ಕಹಿ ಸುದ್ದಿ ಬಾರದಿರಲಿ ಎಂದು ಪ್ರಾರ್ಥಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ ಎಂದು ತಿಳಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ತಮ್ಮ ತಾಯಿ ಹಾಗೂ ಪತ್ನಿ ಆಸ್ಪತ್ರೆಯಲ್ಲೇ ಇದ್ದು, ಯಾವುದಾದರೂ ಪ್ರಮುಖ ನಿರ್ಧಾರ ಕೈಗೊಳ್ಳುವ ಸಂದರ್ಭದಲ್ಲಿ ನನ್ನೊಂದಿಗೆ ಚರ್ಚಿಸುವ ಅವಶ್ಯಕತೆ ಇರುತ್ತದೆ. ಹೀಗಾಗಿ ನಾನು ಒತ್ತಡದ ಮಧ್ಯೆಯೂ ಪಂದ್ಯಗಳನ್ನು ಆಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದೇನೆ ಎಂದಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ನಮ್ಮನ್ನು ಕಾಡುವ ಬಹುತೇಕ ರೋಗಗಳಿಗೆ ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲಿಯೇ ಮದ್ದಿದೆ. ಅಡುಗೆ ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಪದಾರ್ಥಗಳಿಗೆ ನಮ್ಮ ಆರೋಗ್ಯ ಕಾಪಾಡುವ ಶಕ್ತಿ ಇದೆ. ಅದ್ರಲ್ಲಿ ಬೆಲ್ಲ ಕೂಡ ಒಂದು. ಬೆಲ್ಲ ತಿನ್ನಲ್ಲೊಂದೇ ಸಿಹಿಯಲ್ಲ. ಆರೋಗ್ಯಕ್ಕೂ ಒಳ್ಳೆಯದು.
ಪ್ರತಿದಿನ 20 ಗ್ರಾಂ ಬೆಲ್ಲವನ್ನು ಸೇವನೆ ಮಾಡಬೇಕು ಎಂದು ಆಯುರ್ವೇದದಲ್ಲಿ ಹೇಳಲಾಗಿದೆ.ಬೆಲ್ಲ ತಿನ್ನುವುದು ಜೀರ್ಣಕ್ರಿಯೆಗೆ ಒಳ್ಳೆಯದು ಎಂದು ಆಯುರ್ವೇದದಲ್ಲಿ ಹೇಳಲಾಗಿದೆ.
ಬೆಲ್ಲ ಹೊಟ್ಟೆ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಯನ್ನು ಕಡಿಮೆ ಮಾಡುತ್ತದೆ. ಆಹಾರ ಸೇವನೆ ನಂತ್ರ ಬೆಲ್ಲ ತಿನ್ನುವುದ್ರಿಂದ ಜೀರ್ಣಕ್ರಿಯೆ ಸರಿಯಾಗುವ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಗ್ಯಾಸ್ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆ ದೂರವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. 7 ದಿನ ರಾತ್ರಿ ಮಲಗುವಾಗ ಬೆಲ್ಲ ತಿಂದು ಮಲಗಿದ್ರೆ ನಿದ್ರೆ ಸರಿಯಾಗಿ ಬರುವ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಗ್ಯಾಸ್ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆ ಕಡಿಮೆಯಾಗುತ್ತದೆ.
ಚಳಿಗಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಬೆಲ್ಲ ತಿನ್ನುವುದು ಬಹಳ ಒಳ್ಳೆಯದು. ಚಳಿಗಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾಡುವ ನೆಗಡಿ, ಕೆಮ್ಮ, ಶೀತವನ್ನು ಗುಣಪಡಿಸುವ ಶಕ್ತಿ ಬೆಲ್ಲಕ್ಕಿದೆ. ಬೆಲ್ಲವನ್ನು ಹಾಲು ಅಥವಾ ಟೀ ಜೊತೆ ಸೇವನೆ ಮಾಡಬಹುದು.
ಶುಂಠಿಯನ್ನು ಬೆಲ್ಲದ ಜೊತೆ ಬಿಸಿ ಮಾಡಿ ಬೆಚ್ಚಗಿರುವಾಗಲೇ ತಿನ್ನುವುದ್ರಿಂದ ಗಂಟಲು ನೋವು ಕಡಿಮೆಯಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಧ್ವನಿ ಕೂಡ ಮಧುರವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಕೀಲು ನೋವಿನ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಯಿರುವವರು ಪ್ರತಿದಿನ ಬೆಲ್ಲದ ಜೊತೆ ಶುಂಠಿಯನ್ನು ತಿನ್ನಬೇಕು.
ಚರ್ಮದ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಗೂ ಬೆಲ್ಲ ಉತ್ತಮ. ಪ್ರತಿದಿನ ಬೆಲ್ಲ ತಿನ್ನುವುದ್ರಿಂದ ಚರ್ಮ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆ ದೂರವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ರಕ್ತದಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಹಾನಿಕಾರಕ ಅಂಶವನ್ನು ಹೊರ ಹಾಕಿ ರಕ್ತ ಪರಿಚಲನೆ ಸುಧಾರಿಸುತ್ತದೆ.
ಪ್ರತಿದಿನ ಬೆಲ್ಲ ತಿಂದ ನಂತ್ರ ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ನೀರು ಕುಡಿಯಬೇಕು. ಬೆಲ್ಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಕ್ಯಾಲ್ಸಿಯಂ ಅಂಶ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿರುವುದ್ರಿಂದ ಇದು ಆರೋಗ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ಬಹಳ ಒಳ್ಳೆಯದು. ಸುಸ್ತಾಗುತ್ತಿದ್ದ ವೇಳೆ ಬೆಲ್ಲ ತಿಂದು ನೀರು ಕುಡಿಯಬೇಕು. ಕೆಲವೇ ಕ್ಷಣಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಸುಸ್ತು ಕಡಿಮೆ ಮಾಡಿ ದೇಹಕ್ಕೆ ಹೊಸ ಉತ್ಸಾಹ ತುಂಬುವ ಕೆಲಸವನ್ನು ಬೆಲ್ಲ ಮಾಡುತ್ತದೆ.
ಥಾಯ್ಲೆಂಡ್ ನ ಚಿಯಾಂಗ್ ಮೈ ಎಂಬ ಸ್ಥಳೀಯ ಸೂಪರ್ ಮಾರ್ಕೆಟ್ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆ ಪರಿಸರ ಕಾಳಜಿ ಮೆರೆಯುವ ವಿಶೇಷ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನ ಮಾಡಲೆತ್ನಿಸಿದೆ. ಬಾಳೆ ಎಲೆಯಿಂದ ತರಕಾರಿಗಳನ್ನ ಪ್ಯಾಕ್ ಮಾಡಲಾಗುತ್ತಿದೆ. ಈ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನದ ಹಿಂದೆ ಪ್ಲಾಸ್ಟಿಕ್ ಬಳಸಬಾರದು ಎಂಬುದು ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯ ಒಂದು ಪ್ರಯತ್ನವಾಗಿದೆ.
ಶುಂಠಿ ಹಾಗೂ ಇನ್ನೆರಡು ತರಕಾರಿಗಳನ್ನ ಹೊರತುಪಡಿಸಿ ಇನ್ನೆಲ್ಲಾ ತರಕಾರಿಗಳಿಗೆ ಬಾಳೆ ಎಲೆಯನ್ನ ಬಳಸಲಾಗಿದೆ. ನೀಟಾಗಿ ಬಾಳೆ ಎಲೆಯನ್ನ ಕತ್ತರಿಸಿ ಬೀನ್ಸ್, ಸೀಮೆಬದನೆಕಾಯಿ, ನುಗ್ಗೆಕಾಯಿ ಮೊದಲಾದ ತರಕಾರಿ ಮೇಲೆ ಕಟ್ಟಲಾಗಿದೆ.
ಇದರಿಂದ ತರಕಾರಿಯ ಅಂದಚೆಂದವೂ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿಸುವ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಅದರ ತಾಜಾತನವನ್ನ ಕಾಪಾಡುವ ಯತ್ನ ಇದಾಗಿದೆ. ಪರ್ಫೆಕ್ಟ್ ಹೋಮ್ಸ್ ಎಂಬುವರು ಈ ಸೂಪರ್ ಮಾರ್ಕೆಟ್ ನ ಗೋಗ್ರೀನ್ ಕಾನ್ಸೆಪ್ಟ್ ನ್ನ ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕ ಜಾಲತಾಣವಾದ ಫೇಸ್ ಬುಕ್ ಗೆ ಪೋಸ್ಟ್ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಪೋಸ್ಟ್ 17 ಸಾವಿರಕ್ಕೂ ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಶೇರ್ ಆಗಿದೆ.
ಮಂಡ್ಯ ಲೋಕಸಭಾ ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರದಲ್ಲಿ ಪಕ್ಷೇತರ ಅಭ್ಯರ್ಥಿಯಾಗಿ ಸ್ಪರ್ಧಿಸಿರುವ ಸುಮಲತಾ ಅಂಬರೀಶ್ ಒಂದು ವೇಳೆ ಚುನಾವಣೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಗೆದ್ದರೆ ಬಿಜೆಪಿ ಸೇರ್ಪಡೆಗೊಳ್ಳಲಿದ್ದಾರೆಂದು ಹರಿದಾಡುತ್ತಿರುವ ವದಂತಿಗಳ ಕುರಿತು ಸ್ವತಃ ಸುಮಲತಾ ಅಂಬರೀಶ್ ಸ್ಪಷ್ಟನೆ ನೀಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ಇಂದು ಮಾಧ್ಯಮ ಪ್ರತಿನಿಧಿಗಳೊಂದಿಗೆ ಮಾತನಾಡಿರುವ ಅವರು, ಅಂಬರೀಶ್ ಅವರು ಪಕ್ಷಾತೀತ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಯಾಗಿದ್ದರು. ನಾನೂ ಕೂಡಾ ಅದೇ ರೀತಿ ಇರುತ್ತೇನೆ ಹೊರತು ಬಿಜೆಪಿ ಸೇರ್ಪಡೆಗೊಳ್ಳುವುದಿಲ್ಲವೆಂದಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ಪಕ್ಷೇತರ ಅಭ್ಯರ್ಥಿಯಾಗಿ ಗೆದ್ದವರು ಯಾವುದೇ ಪಕ್ಷ ಸೇರ್ಪಡೆಯಾಗುವ ಅವಕಾಶಗಳಿಲ್ಲ. ಬೇರೆ ಪಕ್ಷಕ್ಕೆ ಹೊರಗಿನಿಂದ ಬೆಂಬಲ ನೀಡಬಹುದಾಗಿದ್ದು, ಅಂತಹ ಸಂದರ್ಭದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಂಡ್ಯ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಯ ಮತದಾರರ ಅಭಿಪ್ರಾಯ ಪಡೆದು ತೀರ್ಮಾನ ಕೈಗೊಳ್ಳುವುದಾಗಿ ತಿಳಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ತಮಗೆ ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ ಕಾರ್ಯಕರ್ತರು, ರೈತ ಸಂಘ ಬೆಂಬಲ ನೀಡಿರುವಂತೆ ಬಿಜೆಪಿಯೂ ಬೆಂಬಲಿಸಿದೆ. ಈ ಕುರಿತು ಮುಸ್ಲಿಂ ಮತದಾರರಲ್ಲಿ ಗೊಂದಲಗಳಿದ್ದರೆ ಅದನ್ನು ಮಾತುಕತೆ ಮಾಡುವ ಮೂಲಕ ಬಗೆಹರಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದಾಗಿ ಹೇಳಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ಕತ್ತಲಲ್ಲಿ ಕರಡಿಗೆ ಜಾಮೂನು ತಿನಿಸೋಕೆ ಯಾವತ್ತೂ ಹೋಗಬಾರದು ರೀ… ಹಾಗೆ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಮದುವೆಗೆ ಮಾಜಿ ಪ್ರೇಮಿಯನ್ನ ಕರೆಯಬಾರದುರೀ ಅಂತಾರೆ ತಿಳಿದವರು. ಅದನ್ನ ಪಾಲಿಸಬೇಕು. ಇಲ್ಲ ಅಂದರೆ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಮದುವೆಯೂ ಸಹ ನರಕವಾಗೋದರಲ್ಲಿ ಸಂಶಯವಿಲ್ಲ.
ಇಂತಹದ್ದೊಂದು ಉದಾಹರಣೆ ಚೀನಾದೇಶದಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದಿದೆ. ಓರ್ವ ಯುವತಿ ತನ್ನ ಮಾಜಿ ಪ್ರಿಯಕರನ ಮದುವೆಗೆ ದಿಢೀರನೆ ಪ್ರತ್ಯಕ್ಷವಾಗಿ ಬಿಡುತ್ತಾಳೆ. ಆಕೆ ವಧುವಿನ ಹಾಗೆ ಶೃಂಗರಿಸಿಕೊಂಡು ಮದುವೆ ಮಂಟಪದಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರತ್ಯಕ್ಷಳಾಗಿದ್ದಾಳೆ. ಮದುವೆ ಗಂಡಿನ ಪಕ್ಕಕ್ಕೆ ಬಂದು ಮಾಜಿ ಪ್ರಿಯತಮೆಯ ಕೈ ಎಳೆದು ನನ್ನನ್ನ ಸ್ವೀಕರಿಸು ಎಂದು ದಯನೀಯವಾಗಿ ಬೇಡಿಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದಾಳೆ.
ಆತ ಆಕೆಯನ್ನ ನಿರಾಕರಿಸಿದ್ದಾನೆ. ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಪಕ್ಕದಲ್ಲಿಯೇ ಇದ್ದ ವಧುವಿಗೆ ಸಮಾಧಾನ ಹೇಳಲು ಯತ್ನಿಸಿದ್ದಾನೆ. ಆದರೆ ಆತನ ಮಾಜಿ ಲವರ್ ಆತನ ಕಾಲಿಗೆ ಬಿದ್ದು ನನ್ನನ್ನ ಸ್ವೀಕರಿಸು ಎಂದು ಗೋಗರೆದಿದ್ದಾಳೆ. ಇದನ್ನ ಕಂಡ ವಧು ಮದುವೆ ಮಂಟಪವನ್ನ ತೊರೆದು ಹೋಗಿದ್ದಾಳೆ. ಆಕೆಯ ಹಿಂದೆ ವರನೂ ಓಡಿದ್ದಾನೆ.
ಈ ವಿಡಿಯೋ ಈಗ ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕ ಜಾಲತಾಣದಲ್ಲಿ ವೈರಲ್ ಆಗಿದೆ. ಸಾಕಷ್ಟು ಪ್ರತಿಕ್ರಿಯೆಯೂ ಹರಿದುಬಂದಿದೆ. ಮದುವೆ ಮಂಟಪದ ಕಾರ್ಯಕಾರಿ ನಿರ್ವಾಹಕ ಮಾಧ್ಯಮಗಳಿಗೆ ಮಾತನಾಡಿ, ಉಲ್ಲಾಸದಲ್ಲಿರುವ ನಮಗೆ ಇದೊಂದು ಆಘಾತಕರ ಸಂಗತಿ, ಇದೇ ನೈಜ ಪ್ರೀತಿ ಎಂದು ಬಣ್ಣಿಸಿದ್ದಾನೆ.
ಪ್ರಧಾನಿ ನರೇಂದ್ರ ಮೋದಿಯವರು ಮಂಗಳವಾರದಂದು ರಾಜ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ಭೇಟಿ ನೀಡಿದ್ದು ಚಿತ್ರದುರ್ಗ ಹಾಗೂ ಮೈಸೂರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಚುನಾವಣಾ ಪ್ರಚಾರ ಸಭೆ ನಡೆಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಈ ಸಂದರ್ಭದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಂಡ್ಯ ಲೋಕಸಭಾ ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರದ ಪಕ್ಷೇತರ ಅಭ್ಯರ್ಥಿ ಸುಮಲತಾ ಅಂಬರೀಶ್ ಕುರಿತು ಹೇಳಿರುವ ಮಾತು ಅವರ ಹಿನ್ನಡೆಗೆ ಕಾರಣವಾಗುವ ಸಾಧ್ಯತೆ ಕಂಡುಬರುತ್ತಿದೆ.
ಮೈಸೂರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಬೃಹತ್ ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ಸಮಾವೇಶವನ್ನುದ್ದೇಶಿಸಿ ಮಾತನಾಡಿದ್ದ ನರೇಂದ್ರ ಮೋದಿ ಅವರು ಬಿಜೆಪಿ ಬೆಂಬಲಿತ ಪಕ್ಷೇತರ ಅಭ್ಯರ್ಥಿ ಸುಮಲತಾ ಅಂಬರೀಶ್ ಅವರನ್ನು ಬೆಂಬಲಿಸುವಂತೆ ಮಂಡ್ಯ ಮತದಾರರಲ್ಲಿ ಮನವಿ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದರು. ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಸುಮಲತಾ ಅಂಬರೀಶ್ ಅವರ ಕಾರಣಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಬಿಜೆಪಿ ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಅಭ್ಯರ್ಥಿಯನ್ನು ಹಾಕಿಲ್ಲವೆಂದು ತಿಳಿಸಿದ್ದರು.
ಈ ವಿಚಾರ ಈಗ ಸುಮಲತಾ ಅಂಬರೀಶ್ ಅವರಿಗೆ ವ್ಯತಿರಿಕ್ತ ಪರಿಣಾಮ ಬೀರುವ ಸಾಧ್ಯತೆ ಕಂಡು ಬರುತ್ತಿದ್ದು, ಮಂಡ್ಯ ಲೋಕಸಭಾ ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರದ ಮುಸ್ಲಿಂ ಮತದಾರರು ಸುಮಲತಾ ಅಂಬರೀಶ್ ಬಿಜೆಪಿ ಬೆಂಬಲಿತ ಅಭ್ಯರ್ಥಿ ಎನ್ನುವ ಕಾರಣಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಜೆಡಿಎಸ್ ಬೆಂಬಲಿಸಲು ಮುಂದಾಗಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಎಂದು ಹೇಳಲಾಗಿದೆ.
MahaRERA's bench begins hearing plaints via video conferencing The trial was on for a quite some time now, and finally, it was brought into effect and on Wednesday close to a dozen of such cases were heard by MahaRERA member, Vijay Satbir Singh via video conferencing.
ಮೆಣಸಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಹಲವು ವಿಧಗಳನ್ನು ನೋಡಿರುತ್ತೀರಿ. ಕೆಲವು ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಖಾರವಿದ್ದರೆ ಇನ್ನೂ ಕೆಲವು ಸಹಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲಾರದಷ್ಟು ಖಾರವಿರುತ್ತದೆ. ಉತ್ತರ ಪೆರುವಿನ ಕಾಡಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಬೆಳೆಯುವ ಈ ಮೆಣಸು ಎಷ್ಟು ಖಾರವಿದೆಯೋ ಅಷ್ಟೇ ಬೆಲೆಬಾಳುತ್ತೆ ಕೂಡಾ.
