All of my fellow indecisive ladies, please stand up. Every time an outing requiring a swimsuit pops up, I spend far too much time ruminating over one decision: bikini or maillot? If you would have asked me this question five years ago, that answer would be simple: bikini. But one-pieces are back, and they're much chicer than the swim meet-style options of the past.
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Welcome to the latest edition of Missed Fists where we shine a light on fights from across the globe that may have been overlooked in these hectic times where it seems like there’s an MMA show every other day.
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“Wait, they only die twice?” said all the literal title interpreters in the Steam community upon seeing Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice’s name. They’ve since been shocked—shocked, I say—to find themselves dying many more times than twice.
On Tuesday, two sex workers spoke before a Florida subcommittee considering a pair of bills that would ostensibly target sex trafficking. They spoke out about how the bills could harm them and urged lawmakers to listen to sex workers, only to then be promptly dismissed as criminals by one of the bill’s sponsors.
Sources- Turkish Treasury Ministry official- Turkish Interior Ministry official- American intelligence contractor based in London- British former diplomat in Saudi Arabia ISIS may be on the run, but financially, it’s extremely adaptable. Its money is just as mobile, too. True, it may not be able to capitalize on Syria oilfields any longer, or tax Syrians unlucky enough to have lived on ISIS terrain, but holding that territory also cost ISIS a lot. It’s money lost and money gained at the same time. Читать дальше...
Oil markets are enjoying a modestly bullish March on the back of coordinated OPEC+ production cuts and unplanned production outages in Venezuela. Peripheral bullish narratives have included dovish central bank action and progress towards a US/China trade deal which could be signed as early as April. On the other hand, global economic health fears, a persistently strong USD and elevated US production have held rallies in check. Last week’s key headline that the US Fed plans to delay further rate hikes touched on two of these themes. Читать дальше...
What a difference just a few years can make. After more than a decade of uncertainty for Egypt’s natural gas sector, leading even to importing LNG for years, Cairo is heading to a much brighter gas future. Two weeks ago, Egypt re-joined the ranks of global LNG exporters when its state gas company EGAS tendered to sell four cargoes of LNG for loading in April from the Idku liquefaction plant on the Mediterranean coast. Bloomberg said the tender marked a revitalizing of its gas industry, where sagging... Читать дальше...
The global crude oil benchmark Dated Brent is set to change once again this November as S&P Global Platts, the benchmark’s custodian, introduces trade in North Sea grades delivered on a CIF Rotterdam basis. Change is by no means new to the benchmark; it has evolved constantly over the last two decades, essentially reflecting the decline of North Sea oil production. The basic problem is ensuring liquidity i.e. that there are enough physical, tradeable cargoes of oil. If volumes fall too far, the... Читать дальше...
Amid oil prices reaching some sort of temporary equilibrium and trading volatility being significantly lower than in the previous weeks, the oil market now expects new impulses that would indicate future direction. Even though the impact of the blackout in Venezuela, second this month, as well as a cooling down of US-China trade talks is more substantial than that of the Deer Park fire in Houston, the oil community was actively speculating about how tough would be the safety regulations that either... Читать дальше...
For an ordinary layman Chad might not come across as an important oil producer. Landlocked, susceptible to political infighting and one of the poorest nations on earth, Chad’s oil sector developments might even be unknown for people in the commodity business even though crude makes up 96 percent of the African nation’s exports. Chad’s flagship crude, the heavy sweet Doba, has been making history lately – for the first time in history, Doba traded above Dated Brent on 19 March, making it the first... Читать дальше...
by Shel-Hwa Yeo, Victoria Kyle, Clemence Blouet, Susan Jones, William Henry Colledge
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by Valentina Cavedon, Marco Sandri, Mariola Pirlo, Nicola Petrone, Carlo Zancanaro, Chiara Milanese
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by Kacie J. Hoyt, Sonali Sarkar, Laura White, Noyal Mariya Joseph, Padmini Salgame, Subitha Lakshminarayanan, Muthuraj Muthaiah, Saka Vinod Kumar, Jerrold J. Ellner, Gautam Roy, C. Robert Horsburgh Jr, Natasha S. Hochberg
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by Mohsen Joshanloo, Dan Weijers
The complex nature of mental well-being is reflected in the great diversity of variables thought to represent aspects of mental flourishing. Discovering the underlying structure of mental well-being is important for a full understanding of this complex construct. Using data from 3 countries (the United States, Japan, and Iran), we performed multi-dimensional scaling to analyze the representation of 9 hedonic and eudaimonic well-being variables in a 2-dimensional psychological space. Читать дальше...
by Michael M. Mutua, Thomas N. O. Achia, Lenore Manderson, Eustasius Musenge
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by Daiane De Bortoli, Newton da Costa Jr., Marco Goulart, Jéssica Campara
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by Tomoaki Higashiyama, Takayuki Minamikawa, Masashi Kakinoki, Osamu Sawada, Masahito Ohji
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by Hu Zhang, Ryan Gordon, Wenqi Li, Ximing Yang, Abhinandan Pattanayak, Graham Fowler, Limin Zhang, William J. Catalona, Yongzeng Ding, Li Xu, Xiaoke Huang, Borko Jovanovic, David L. Kelly, Haowen Jiang, Raymond Bergan
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by Deborah Ruth Amulen, Marijke D’Haese, Eline D'Haene, James Okwee Acai, Jacob Godfrey Agea, Guy Smagghe, Paul Cross
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by Clemencia Ovalle-Bracho, Diana Londoño-Barbosa, Jussep Salgado-Almario, Camila González
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by Susmita Chatterjee, Nupur Biswas, Alokmay Datta, Prasanta Kumar Maiti
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by Genasan Krishnamurithy, Saktiswaren Mohan, Noor Azlin Yahya, Azura Mansor, Malliga Raman Murali, Hanumantha Rao Balaji Raghavendran, Rajan Choudhary, Swamiappan Sasikumar, Tunku Kamarul
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by Nicholas Carnes, John Holbein
Are public officials more responsive to requests from affluent or poor constituents? A growing body of evidence suggests that lawmakers are more responsive to the rich when they craft policy. However, some scholars theorize that officials also exhibit a corresponding bias in favor of the poor when they handle casework, essentially giving policy to the rich and services to the poor. In this paper, we test this casework prediction using four experiments in which... Читать дальше...
by Jan Jakubík, Alena Randáková, Esam E. El-Fakahany, Vladimír Doležal
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