Day: June 15, 2020

Academy Delays 2021 Oscars Ceremony Because of Coronavirus

For the fourth time in its history, the Oscars are being postponed. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the ABC Television Network said Monday that the 93rd Academy Awards will now be held April 25, 2021, eight weeks later than originally planned because of the pandemic’s effects on the movie industry.  The Academy’s Board of Governors also decided to extend the eligibility window beyond the calendar year to Feb. 28, 2021, for feature films, and delay the opening of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures from December until April 30, 2021. “Our hope, in extending the eligibility period and our Awards date, is to provide the flexibility filmmakers need to finish and release their films without being penalized for something beyond anyone’s control,” said Academy President David Rubin and Academy CEO Dawn Hudson in a joint statement.  Karey Burke, the president of ABC Entertainment, added: “We find ourselves in uncharted territory this year and will continue to work with our partners at the Academy to ensure next year’s show is a safe and celebratory event.”  The 12th annual Governors Awards has also been canceled. The event, in which honorary Oscars are bestowed to previously announced recipients, is generally held in Los Angeles during the second week of November. The untelevised event is a major gathering for many of the year’s awards hopefuls.  The film academy has been grappling with how to handle the pandemic’s near shutdown of the theatrical exhibition and film production and festival business since mid-March. With theaters shuttered, release dates pushed and major festivals like Cannes canceled, the academy in April made the unprecedented decision to allow films that did not have a theatrical run to be eligible for the awards — but only for one year.  The Oscars ceremony date was the big lingering unknown, however. The organization’s leadership has acknowledged all along that the situation was fluid and that everything was on the table. Now, Oscars nominations will be announced on March 15 and the nominees luncheon will be on April 15. Still, many decisions need to be made. Academy leadership has not yet addressed the format of the show and whether it will be virtual or in-person. Further, the future eligibility of films for the 94th Oscars and that show date will be announced later. The Oscars have been postponed before, but never this far in advance. The ceremony was pushed back a week because of disastrous flooding in Los Angeles in 1938. In 1968, it was delayed two days following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And in 1981, it was put off for 24 hours after President Ronald Reagan was shot in Washington D.C. The 1981 decision was made four hours before the broadcast was scheduled to begin.  The eligibility window was extended beyond 12 months once before — in advance of the 6th Academy Awards in 1934.  Other entertainment industry awards shows are also in flux. The 74th Tony Awards, originally set for June 7, has been postponed indefinitely. But the 72nd Emmy Awards is still holding onto Sept. 20. The 78th Golden Globes does not yet have a date.  Even as the country begins to “open up,” studios are still making decisions to delay releases. Just Friday, Warner Bros. announced that it was pushing back what was supposed to be the first major movie in theaters, Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet,” by two weeks.  

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Drake Tops BET Awards Nods; Show to Air on CBS for 1st Time

Drake is the leading nominee at the 2020 BET Awards, which will celebrate its 20th anniversary later this month.BET announced Monday that Drake is nominated for six honors, including video of the year and best male hip-hop artist. For both best collaboration and the viewer’s choice award, Drake is nominated twice thanks to the hits “No Guidance” with Chris Brown and “Life Is Good” with Future.
The 2020 BET Awards will air live on June 28 across ViacomCBS networks, including CBS for the first time. The show, which will be a virtual celebration because of the coronavirus pandemic, will also air on BET and BET HER.FILE – This Nov. 20, 2019, file photo shows Megan Thee Stallion during a portrait session in New York. The singer says she works extremely hard in the studio when it comes to writing music.Breakthrough rappers Megan Thee Stallion and Roddy Ricch follow Drake with five nominations each. Megan Thee Stallion, who recently topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart with her Beyoncé-assisted “Savage” remix, is nominated for video of the year, best female hip-hop artist, best collaboration, the viewer’s choice award and album of the year for “Fever.”
Ricch, who won his first Grammy Award earlier this year, also topped the pop charts with his upbeat hit “The Box.” The video for that song is nominated for video of the year alongside DaBaby’s “Bop,” DJ Khaled, Nipsey Hussle and John Legend’s “Higher,” Doja Cat’s “Say So,” Megan The Stallion’s “Hot Girl Summer” and Chris Brown and Drake’s “No Guidance.”
Beyoncé, Minaj, Brown, Lizzo and DaBaby earned four nominations each.
Kanye West, who released a gospel album last year, is nominated for the Dr. Bobby Jones best gospel/inspirational award. He will compete with Kirk Franklin, the Clark Sisters, Fred Hammond, John P. Kee and PJ Morton. 

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Turkey Communications Director Blasts Twitter for Removing 7,340 Accounts 

Turkey criticized Twitter on Friday for suspending more than 7,000 accounts the social media company said were promoting narratives favorable to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and the AK Parti (AKP). The suspended 7,340 accounts were detected earlier this year “employing coordinated inauthentic activity,” Twitter said in a blog post uploaded on Friday. Republic of Turkey communications director Fahrettin Altun said the social media company was attempting to smear the government and trying to redesign Turkish politics. “This arbitrary act … has demonstrated yet again that Twitter is no mere social media company, but a propaganda machine with certain political and ideological inclinations,” Altun said in a written statement on Twitter.Statement regarding Twitter’s decision to suspend accounts in Turkey and the company’s allegations: pic.twitter.com/mi9abYDWEE
— Fahrettin Altun (@fahrettinaltun) June 12, 2020The communications director closed with a warning to Twitter. “We would like to remind this company of the eventual fate of a number of organizations, which attempted to take similar steps in the past,” Altun said. In its Friday blog post, Twitter revealed it had shared data from the account takedowns related to Turkey, as well as China and Russia, with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute  (ASPI) and Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO). In what the SIO dubbed “The Turkey Operation,”  it found batches of fabricated personalities, all created on the same day. The suspended accounts were used for AKP “cheerleading,” to increase domestic support for Turkish intervention in Syria and compromised other Twitter accounts linked to organizations critical of the government, the SIO found.Twitter’s handling of the “Turkey Operation” has come to light as it removed 23,750 accounts posting pro-Beijing narratives, and 1,152 accounts engaging in state-backed political propaganda within Russia. 

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US Revokes Emergency Use of Malaria Drugs Vs. Coronavirus

U.S. regulators on Monday revoked emergency authorization for malaria drugs promoted by President Donald Trump for treating COVID-19 amid growing evidence they don’t work and could cause deadly side effects.
The Food and Drug Administration said the drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are unlikely to be effective in treating the coronavirus. Citing reports of heart complications, the FDA said the drugs’ unproven benefits “do not outweigh the known and potential risks.”
The decades-old drugs, also prescribed for lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, can cause heart rhythm problems, severely low blood pressure and muscle or nerve damage.
The move means that shipments of the drugs obtained by the federal government will no longer be distributed to state and local health authorities for use against the coronavirus. The drugs are still available for alternate uses, so U.S. doctors could still prescribe them for COVID-19 — a practice known as off-label prescribing.
Dr. Steven Nissen, a Cleveland Clinic researcher who has been a frequent FDA adviser, agreed with the decision and said he would not have granted emergency access in the first place.  
“There has never been any high-quality evidence suggesting that hyrdoxychloroquine is effective” for treating or preventing coronavirus infection, he said, but there is evidence of serious side effects.
On Thursday, a National Institutes of Health panel of experts revised its recommendations to specifically recommend against the drug’s use except in formal studies, and “that, I’m sure, had influence on the FDA,” Nissen said.
The actions by FDA and NIH send a clear signal to health professionals against prescribing the drugs for coronavirus.
Trump aggressively pushed the drug beginning in the first weeks of the outbreak and stunned medical professionals when he revealed he took the drug preemptively against infection.
Tens of thousands of people tried the drug after Trump touted it in briefings and interviews, saying, “What have you got to lose?” The nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, warned, “I like to prove things first.” Weak studies further polarized views of hydroxychloroquine.
No large, rigorous studies have found the drugs safe or effective for preventing or treating COVID-19. And a string of recent studies made clear they could do more harm than good.  
The FDA granted emergency use of the drugs for coronavirus patients in late March at the same time the U.S. government accepted 30 million doses of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine that had been donated by two foreign drug manufacturers. Millions of those doses were shipped to U.S. hospitals to treat patient who weren’t enrolled in clinical trials.
But the FDA previously warned doctors that it had seen reports of dangerous side effects and heart problems reported to poison control centers and other health systems.
The agency said Monday it revoked the authorization in consultation with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, or BARDA, which had requested the emergency use. 

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Senegalese Artists Take a Stand for Black Lives Matter Movement

Senegalese artists are taking a stand against racism and police brutality after George Floyd died in police custody in the United States. One street art crew is creating a fresco in the capital, Dakar, where Senegalese have held demonstrations this month in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.Camera: Estelle Ndjandjo Produced by: Rod James 

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Solar Rules Weaken Vietnam’s Love-Hate Relationship to Coal

Near the southern Vietnam beaches filled with kite surfers and mud baths, there sits a hydropower plant called Da Mi. It is no longer just generating power from dams and falling water, however. Crews added solar panels to the reservoir last year, creating what the Asian Development Bank called the first large floating solar project in Southeast Asia. With the project and others like it, sunny Vietnam has the region’s largest installed capacity of solar power. Its ambitions to move to solar and away from coal was stymied by one issue for years, though. After companies installed panels to suck up power from the sun, they sold the energy to the state utility, without a way to push it directly to customers like other companies. That is about to change. Hanoi has enacted legislation to allow these direct sales by removing the state monopoly, Vietnam Electricity, as the middleman. Supporters hope the rules will expand the market for renewable energy, particularly as Vietnam considers itself among the five nations most at threat from climate change. However it still has a love-hate relationship to coal, which is cheap but is also a major source of greenhouse gases that make the air unhealthy.  “Vietnam Electricity (‘EVN’), and its authorized member companies,  no longer the sole purchaser of electricity from solar power projects in Vietnam, as the definition of ‘electricity purchasers’ includes private organizations and individuals,” DFDL, a law firm, said in a note to clients explaining the significance of the new legislation, Prime Ministerial Decision No. 13.  Biggest solar farm Vietnam says it has the biggest solar farm in Southeast Asia, though neighbors are catching up. Nearby Indonesia included solar incentives in its COVID-19 recovery plan, while Myanmar called for bids to build solar power projects. Malaysia and Thailand had the largest solar capacity in the region until being overtaken by Vietnam by 2019, according to Wood Mackenzie, a consulting firm.Vietnamese live on the island of Phu Quoc. Vietnam aims to build more floating solar power farms offshore. (VOA News)Next door China spent years ramping up solar panel production, making them more affordable to the world. However President Donald  Trump’s trade war with China included tariffs on panels, pushing companies to buy from Vietnam instead. Now, the World Bank said in a press release, “Vietnam has also become a world leader in solar module manufacturing.” Many of the panels weren’t being used in Vietnam itself, though, as the nation debated whether and how much to wean itself off cheap coal. The communist government is trying to strike a balance. On one hand, it aims to keep electricity stable and affordable for citizens. During the COVID-19 lockdown, for instance, authorities cut power prices to ease the burden on consumers who were working less. On the other hand, Vietnam worries climate change threatens its coasts, farms, lives and livelihood.  “Climate change is imposing great challenges on us,” said Phung Quoc Hien, vice chair of the National Assembly, last month. “We’ve gone through the worst crisis with saline intrusion and drought.” US interest While Trump dismisses the threat of climate change, his State Department promotes a climate-friendly agenda. For instance the U.S. embassy in Hanoi lobbied for policies to support renewable energy, including Vietnam’s legislation to allow companies to sell solar power directly to consumers.  Beyond the direct purchases, Vietnam is weighing other ways to meet electricity demand, which has increased 12% a year, according to the Asian Development Bank. For instance it is considering moving away from setting feed-in tariff (FIT) prices for power and letting investors place bids instead. “In particular, the World Bank’s support to the government’s effort in shifting from FIT to a competitive bidding mechanism for solar PV [photovoltaics] could be applied for other types of renewable energy in the future,” said Hoang Tien Dung, general director of the Electricity and Renewable Energy Authority of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, in a press release earlier this year. “It contributes to the sustainable and transparent development of renewable energy in Vietnam by harmonizing the interests of private investors, the government and customers.” 

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Twitter Removes China-linked Accounts Spreading False News

Twitter has removed a vast network of accounts that it says is linked to the Chinese government and were pushing false information favorable to the country’s communist rulers. Beijing denied involvement Friday and said the company should instead take down accounts smearing China.
The U.S. social media company suspended 23,750 accounts that were posting pro-Beijing narratives, and another 150,000 accounts dedicated to retweeting and amplifying those messages.
 
The network was engaged “in a range of coordinated and manipulated activities” in predominantly Chinese languages, including praise for China’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and “deceptive narratives” about Hong Kong pro-democracy protests, the company said.  
The accounts also tweeted about two other topics: Taiwan and Guo Wengui, an exiled billionaire waging a campaign from New York against China’s president and party leader Xi Jinping and his administration. Most had little to no followers and failed to get much attention. The accounts were suspended under Twitter’s manipulation policies, which ban artificial amplification and suppression of information.  
Twitter and other social media services like Facebook and YouTube are blocked in China.
 
“While the Chinese Communist Party won’t allow the Chinese people to use Twitter, our analysis shows it is happy to use it to sow propaganda and disinformation internationally,” said Fergus Hanson, director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s International Cyber Policy Centre, which worked with the company on the takedown.  China denied involvement.  
“It holds no water at all to equate China’s response to the epidemic with disinformation,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a daily news briefing on Friday.  
“If Twitter wants to make a difference, it should shut down those accounts that have been organized and coordinated to attack and discredit China,” she added.
Twitter also removed more than 1,000 accounts linked to a Russian media website engaging in state-backed political propaganda in Russian, and a network of 7,340 fake or compromised accounts used for “cheerleading” the ruling party in Turkey.

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Служка бєні олександр дубінський подавав документи на отримання громадянства Румунії


 
Нинішній так званий народний депутат від “слуги народу” олександр дубінський понад два роки тому подав документи на отримання громадянства Румунії — скориставшись спрощеною процедурою, яка передбачає наявність румунського коріння.

Журналісти-розслідувачі отримали документи, які підтверджують, що у грудні 2017 року олександр дубінський подав заявку на отримання громадянства Румунії. Зокрема, надав копії закордонних та українського паспортів, свідоцтво про народження. У відповідь Національне агентство з питань громадянства Румунії присвоїло йому персональний номер (дивіться фото).

Про те, що Дубінський подавався на отримання румунського паспорта, нам підтвердило й джерело, яке має зв’язки у Міністерстві юстиції цієї країни.

За даними нашого джерела, для оформлення документів на громадянство народний депутат скористався послугами компанії з Чернівців, яка гроші знаходить у вас необхідне румунське коріння.

Її представник у телефонній розмові розповів, що румунський паспорт може нам обійтись у 5-6 тисяч євро. При цьому навіть наявність румунських предків — необов’язкова.

Також джерело повідомило, що отриманням частини документів для оформлення Дубінському громадянства займалась румунська адвокатка Єлєна Замфір. У телефонній розмові жінка підтвердила, що прізвище дубінського їй знайоме (запис розмови є в редакції).

Наразі невідомо, чи завершив народний депутат процедуру з отримання громадянства.

Але в українському законодавстві чітко прописано, що добровільне набуття паспорта іншої держави є підставою для позбавлення українського громадянства. Для народного депутата ж втрата громадянства може стати причиною позбавлення мандату.

Нагадаємо, раніше Міністерство юстиції України 23 березня 2020 року отримало від Окружного суду США Південного округу міста Нью-Йорк два доручення про вручення повістки та копії позову народному депутату олександру дубінському та представнику ТОВ “Телерадіокомпанії “Студія 1+1″”.
 
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Брехло рабінович пропустив найбільше засідань Верховної Ради


 
Комітет виборців України опублікував дані, які свідчать, що за три місяці роботи Верховної Ради скликання відбулося 1158 голосувань, в середньому один депутат взяв участь у 69% з них.

У Верховній Раді ще досі залишається проблемою неучасть у голосуваннях значної кількості нардепів.

Слід зазначити, що за три місяці роботи 96 народних депутатів взяли участь у менш ніж 50% голосувань парламенту.

З них дев’ять нардепів пропустили 90% голосувань.

Зокрема, у вадима рабіновича з ОПЗЖ найнижчий показник серед 423 депутатів: він взяв участь у 6% голосувань. Юлія льовочкіна з ОПЗЖ відвідала 6%, ігор абрамович з ОПЗЖ – 7%; юрій солод з ОПЗЖ – 7%, позафракційний андрій деркач – 7%, вадим столар з ОПЗЖ – 8%, олександр фельдман з ОПЗЖ – 8%, антон яценко з групи “За майбутнє” – 9%, юрій бойко з ОПЗЖ – 10%.

При цьому рабінович був зареєстрований на 23 з 39 засідань Ради, льовочкіна – на 31, абрамович – 27, солод – 26, деркач – 26, столар – 22, фельдман – 36, яценко – 30, бойко – 37. Однак участі в голосуваннях депутати майже не брали.
 
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Український борець і патріот готовий принизити усика, який закоханий в пукіна


 
Український борець викликає боксера олександра усика на бій без правил.

Таким чином Богдан Грицай відреагував на відео усика, в якому він нібито нокаутував так званого “диванного експерта”. Грицай додав, він, як частина українського суспільства, дасть гідну відсіч.

Раніше олександр усик виклав на своїй сторінці в мережі відео. Заявив, що начебто нокаутував так званого “диванного експерта”, який критикував спортсмена. Наприкінці ролику Усик російською сказав, що вихід є завжди, “Але стежте за тим, які двері ви відкриваєте і куди заходите”.

Нещодавно довкола боксера спалахнув ще один скандал. Він разом з, таким же фанатом ображеного карлика пукіна, василем ломаченко знявся у мокшандській пропогандистській агітці
 

 
ГЕРОЯМ СЛАВА!
 
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В.о. міністра енергетики ольга буславець працює на бандюка ахметова


 
В.о. міністра енергетики ольга буславець працює на бандюка ахметова!

В.о міністра енергетики Ольга Буславець доручила зменшити закупівлі ядерного палива для АЕС та опрацювати питання проекту з майнінгу криптовалют з метою забезпечення додаткових ринків збуту.

“Опрацювати …нормативні та технічні питання можливої реалізації проєктів з майнінгу криптовалют з метою з метою забезпечення додаткових ринків сбуту електроенергії, виробленої атомними електростанціями”, – йдеться у листі.

Також у документі йдеться, про те, що “Енергоатому” доручають актуалізувати плани закупівель ядерного палива з урахуванням зменшення обсягів виробницта енергоблоками АЕС.

Усе це марення спрямоване на збільшення споживання електроенергії, яке продукує бандюк ахметов, спалюючи мазут і забруднюючи атмосферу. Також це дало можливість дтек підняти ціну на свою електроенергію на 40%!!!
 
МАДАМ БУСЛАВЕЦЬ, ІДІТЬ ВИ …. У ВІДСТАВКУ І ТЮРМУ!!!
 
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Голова СБУ баканов заблокував вручення підозри крадуну коломойському


 
Голова СБУ баканов заблокував вручення підозри крадуну коломойському.

Вже кілька тижнів детективи НАБУ готові вручати підозри бандюку коломойському і іншим у справі “Привату”. Проте призначений зеленським голова СБУ іван баканов заблокував цей процес. Експертна установа СБУ відмовляється затвердити необхідну експертизу.

Без неї детективи не мають право вручати підозру, права на свою експертизу НАБУ не мають. Як тільки СБУ затвердить її, коломойський і ко отримають підозри. Саме через це “підгодовані” олігархом депутати пробують якнайшвидше звільнити директора НАБУ.
 
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Уникальный рецепт паштета из куринной грудки. The unique recipe! Chicken pate from boneless breast

Уникальный рецепт паштета из куринной грудки. The unique recipe! Chicken pate from boneless breast.

Это блюдо необыкновенное! Это быстрый американский рецепт. Берем куринную грудку. У меня в этот раз 2 грудки. Режем на несколько частей и кладем в духовку. Добавляем туда же сыр Филадельфия оригинальный (у меня 250гр) и приправу. У меня это 1 пачка сухой. И все. Просто ставим на режим готовки или быстрый (3 часа) или долгий (6 часов). Достаем, измельчаем в комбайне и готово! Можете подавать с чем угодно. Завернуть в лаваши, блины, намазать на хлеб, печенье. Просто к рису, макаронным изделиям подать.

Приятного аппетита!
 

 
This dish is an extraordinary! This is a quick American recipe. Take the chicken boneless breast. I took 2 boneless breasts. We cut into several parts and put in Sloe Cooker (Crock Pot). Add the Original Philadelphia cream cheese there (I have 250g) and seasoning. I have it 1 pack dry of Ranch, the Original (Hidden Valley). And that’s all. We simply set up the cooking mode to either fast (3 hours) or long (6 hours). We take out, chop in the procesor (I use the Ciusinart) and that’s ready! You can serve with anything. Wrap in pita bread, crepes. It goes perfectly with fresh bread and cookies. Just serve with rice, pasta and etc.

Enjoy!
 
 
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Зеленський негайно припини переслідування Героїв України!


 
Зеленський негайно припини переслідування Героїв України!

Так званий печерський районний суд Києва продовжив до 1 червня запобіжний захід у вигляді тримання під вартою підозрюваному в убивстві журналіста Павла Шеремета музиканту й ветерану АТО Андрію Антоненку (Riffmaster).

“Суд продовжив запобіжний захід – тримання під вартою – до 1 червня”, – сказав адвокат Антоненка Станіслав Кулик.

За словами адвоката, суд об’єднав розгляд клопотань захисту про зміну запобіжного заходу та прокуратури про продовження терміну тримання під вартою, але фактично розглянув лише прохання слідства про продовження арешту й задовольнив його.
 
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Тыквенный суп. Идеальный суп для идеальной фигуры! Pumpkin soup. Healthy soup for the nice shape!

Тыквенный суп. Идеальный суп для идеальной фигуры! Pumpkin soup. Healthy soup for the nice shape!

Это очень полезный вегетарианский суп для тех кто хочет быть здоровым и красивым. Вам понадобится:
– 0,5 кг нарезанной квадратиками тыквы
– 1 мелко порезанная луковица
– 1 большой зубчие чеснока
– пучок зелени (укроп, петрушка)
– соль, перец по вкусу.
И немного сливок.

Подавайте с рубленной зеленью и различными семечками.

Приятного аппетита!
 

 
This is a very healthy vegetarian soup for people who want to be healthy and get a nice shape. You need:
– 0.5 kg diced pumpkin
– 1 chopped onion
– 1 large garlic cloves
– a bunch of greens (dill, parsley)
– salt, pepper to taste.
And a some cream.

Serve with chopped greens and various seeds.

Enjoy!
 
 
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