Sia's 'Music' - starring Kate Hudson and Maddie Ziegler - was awarded worst actress for Kate, worst supporting actress for Maddie and worst director for Sia at the Razzies, which picks out the lowlights of the Hollywood year.
The movie had been blasted by audiences and critics on its release and Sia had issued an apology for casting a neurotypical actress as a person with autism and for scenes depicting the use of restraints on characters with autism.
Sia previously tweeted: "I plan to remove the restraint scenes from all future printings. I listened to the wrong people and that is my responsibility, my research was clearly not thorough enough, not wide enough."
Mike Lindell from 'Absolute Proof' won worst actor, while the movie also picked up the worst picture award.
The documentary from American pillow magnate Lindell alleged that the 2020 presidential election was marred by widespread fraud.
Rudy Giuliani won worst supporting actor for his appearance in 'Borat Subsequent Moviefilm' and Robert Downey Jr's 'Dolittle' was named worst rip-off or sequel.
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SIA, Toyota Tsusho idle production in Lafayette; some workers furloughed
Subaru of Indiana Automotive and Toyota Tsusho in Lafayette are pointing to global supply chain issues as the reason for the pause.
LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) — Two automotive manufacturers are idling production until May 3, resulting in some employees being furloughed.
Subaru of Indiana Automotive and Toyota Tsusho in Lafayette are pointing to global supply chain issues as the reason for the pause. The disruption has shut down automotive plants far beyond Lafayette and has affected international automakers like Ford, Daimler and Jaguar Land Rover.
SIA blamed "an interruption in the supply of certain parts that use semiconductors," while Toyota Tsusho says "supply chain disruptions have led to a temporary pause in some production," according to statements from both companies.
SIA confirmed some employees are furloughed during the halt in production, although it's unclear how many people are affected. Toyota Tsusho did not confirm any layoffs but noted more than 70 people work at the facility.
SIA spokesperson Craig Koven says most furloughed employees will net 90 percent of their usual pay through a combination of benefits.
Ananth Iyer, a professor of supply chain management at Purdue University , says computer chip manufacturers transitioned to supplying the consumer electronic industry after the the auto industry took a big hit during the pandemic.
"Well, lo and behold, the auto industry saw a very quick rebound and so they went back to the same people, and now they said, 'Hey, we've already started manufacturing for these guys,'" Iyer says.
The supply of semiconductors could take months to rebound, resulting in higher prices for consumers and fewer fully loaded vehicles with lots of electronic options, Iyer says.
SIA-India for unleashing full potential of all satellite bands for IoT
SIA: CHIPS for America Act Would Strengthen U.S.
SiA-India: Include low bitrate satellite services in licensing framework: SIA-India to Trai,
In view of increasing incidents of unauthorized use of one's details by others for taking mobile SIM cards and misusing them for illegal or unlawful purposes, the department has come up with this online tool to help people get rid of numbers which they are not actually using.
SIA 777 stopped climb at 500ft after crew's waypoint entry error | News | Flight Global
Pilots of a Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-300ER inadvertently entered an incorrect waypoint altitude constraint prior to departure, resulting in several alerts from the ground-proximity warning system as the aircraft climbed out of Shanghai Pudong.
The take-off runway assigned had been changed from 34L to 35R which meant the aircraft's standard departure route switched from HSN 22X to HSN 12X.
This required updating the flight-management computer with the new departure route. The first waypoint on this route, identified as PD062, did not have any speed or altitude crossing constraint which meant the field on the computer's route display was blank.
Although this was not abnormal, the captain "preferred to have the speed constraint explicitly displayed", says the Singaporean Transport Safety Investigation Bureau, in its inquiry into the 2 September 2019 incident.
He decided to enter the speed constraint of 250kt, as shown on the departure charts. The 777's flight-management computer required speed constraints to have a corresponding altitude constraint, so the captain chose to enter '500A' – meaning that the PD062 waypoint should be crossed at 500ft or above.
But the captain inadvertently miskeyed, typing '500' rather than '500A', which neither crew member noticed. This error meant the aircraft's autopilot would limit the aircraft to 500ft ahead of the waypoint crossing.
"The first officer observed the [captain's] inputs, as part of the cross-checking process, and accepted the inputs as correct," the inquiry says, adding that "time pressure" resulted in the first officer's not carrying out a habitual scan of the entries.
As the aircraft took off from runway 35R, in darkness, the captain called for autopilot engagement at 360ft – an early selection because he wanted to reduce workload, given the need for the crew to spend time converting Chinese metric altitude clearances to feet.
Tiffany Sia: Slippery When Wet – The Brooklyn Rail
“Just what is it that makes the term ‘global-local’ so widely cited, yet so annoying?” Lee Weng Choy asks in the title of his 2000 essay. Problematizing the use of the trendy moniker “global-local” (glocal?) to describe Singapore, Choy wrote at a moment when biennials of contemporary art were prized cultural currency and proliferated in cities across the world. The problem with the term, according to Choy, is that the tensions it implies are not new but instead “signify the further penetration of global capitalism into the ‘local’ as authentic. ” 1 Much like “New Asia” (popularized with the formation of APEC in the late 1980s), the term, he argues, coalesces arts and cultural discourse with national and regional economic performativity.
The Bastard Scroll (2020) is a text printed on dot-matrix paper—that rolled, perforated stuff with holes for feeding through printer cogs. Paper culled from the recent past; there is something uncanny when new technology becomes visibly old. A child of the ’90s, I remember a large box of it in my basement. Disposed from its initial purpose (hello inkjet printers), it became wonderful material for room-length crayon drawings and maps. Sia utilizes the continuous quality of the paper and drapes a long length of it over a dining room table positioned in the center of the gallery. She suspends another portion down Artists Space’s two-floor stairwell.
Printed on this are sections of Too Salty Too Wet 更咸更 , the artist’s 2021 book-length text, which is also bound in thin, Mylar-covered volumes shelved in a bright, mirroring, monochrome row ( Barriers Buy Time , 2021). Sia is a writer, so it isn’t surprising that original texts populate the show. In an accompanying brochure, she discloses her intent to “leak” the texts and videos online. Everything is accessible via Artists Space’s website, where scrolling with a finger or cursor mirrors following the continuously printed The Bastard Scroll text IRL.
The work in the show is discursive, with certain videos only available online, or only during particular times. I found most compelling the stack of three cube monitors of A Wet Finger in the Air (2021), each playing a newscaster giving a weather report tinged with jingles and animated flourishes (a sun, a rain cloud, etc.). From the image quality and the hairstyles, the videos are noticeably dated. I sat on the installation’s sofa, which volubly crinkled when I lowered, and was transfixed for at least 20 minutes by the women’s evenly toned voices.
Weather in Hong Kong is the central throughline of the show, appearing in the exhibition’s title but also in the fogged film covering the windows ( Too Wet , 2021). Sia writes about how images and reporting on the protests rarely captured the stifling heat and humidity, which feels like a metaphor for the condition of feeling politically trapped and disenfranchised. But I also saw this as acknowledgment of the ultimate timeline, one that can’t be characterized by the “glocal”: the natural, unwieldy one that, maybe in a comforting way, makes its power and presence known when forces in the human world call for systemic change.
SIA Supports Tech Innovation-Focused "Endless Frontier Act"
The Endless Frontier Act significantly increases investment in research and development, education and training, supply chain security and the broader U.S. innovation ecosystem. In doing so, this legislation authorizes $100 billion to the National Science Foundation (NSF) to:
Collaborate with U.S. allies and partners to concentrate research in key technology areas that impact U.S. national and economic security
Fund new scholarship opportunities with universities, community colleges and technical programs that help develop a diverse STEM workforce
Leverage existing NSF authorities and programs to accelerate the deployment of thoroughly researched technologies – from lab to marketplace
The legislation positively impacts SIA members and the security industry since it explicitly lists key technology focus areas that could benefit from NSF research and investment, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, advanced communication technology, cybersecurity, robotics and automation and advanced manufacturing.
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Wellcome Trust, one of the largest charitable organizations in the world, reduced positions in Apple, DoorDash, and Bank of America stock, and bought Visa shares.
The Internal Revenue Service is holding 29 million returns for manual processing, contributing to longer refund delays for many Americans.
"A huge collapse is coming," warns longtime market prognosticator Harry Dent. Dent's forecast seems to have struck some kind of chord. Just this week I got a note from Jonathan Ruffer, an eminent money manager in London, with this dire warning: "I take it pretty much for granted that the 40 year bull market is ending, and that it will be replaced by hard investment times."
Chip Shortage: Subaru Shutting Down SIA Through April
Today’s update on the global semiconductor shortage involves Subaru, which recently announced that it would be suspending production at its plant in Indiana. Lafayette’s Subaru of Indiana Automotive (SIA) will be idled through the end of April while the automaker waits for suppliers to catch up. It’s a situation we’ve seen numerous manufacturers forced into this year, with Ford arguably being the most relevant for the North American market.
Those wishing for relief are in for a disappointment, too. Despite earlier assurances that the semiconductor shortage would ease over the summer, the likelihood of the industry’s chip-related hardships now looms larger than ever. Numerous industry groups are speculating that chips will be difficult to come by (especially in Western countries) through the end of the year, with the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) recently predicted that the shortage would actually worsen through 2021 before gradually returning to normal. Obviously, nobody can predict the future, but the present supply chains are in such a sorry state that it would be irresponsible to think they were on the cusp of a much-needed rebound.
Semiconductor chips have seen a massive uptick in demand over the last few years as increasingly more products require them and often in greater numbers than before. Cars use more of them than ever before but so do a lot of other devices that we’ve decided need to be perpetually connected to the internet. Smart devices are becoming all the rage in people’s homes and the pandemic resulted in a huge buy-up of computers, tablets, and other forms of digital entertainment while everyone has been locked indoors during the pandemic. Meanwhile, lockdowns handicapped just about every supply chain on the planet and setback component manufacturers dramatically.
We can’t even begin to assume when things will return to normal. But we do know that other shortages are about to become a serious problem, with rubber waiting on deck to become the next issue .
I am in Phoenix atm, there is a rental car shortage which no one has a good explanation for… I was fortunate to find a car on Turo not far from my hotel. Ironically dude offering the car is a big gearhead with a Viper in his garage, we BS’d for 45 minutes before I left. His thoughts were Hertz/Avis sold off their fleet last year in bankruptcy and now none of those companies can order enough cars because of the chip shortage.
Additional: I predict this lasts through Q4 at the earliest as demand outstrips supply post plandemic.
The gearhead you talked to is right. Rental car agencies sold off most of their inventory when travel was curtailed, and now don’t have enough cars to service the increased travel levels, let alone normal levels. This is going to heavily impact travel throughout the year.
The lockdowns initially devastated small businesses, but now the effect is trickling UP to large corporations. The lack of rental cars is now going to curtail airline travel, among other effects.
Enterprise quoted me 6 something for some garbage wheels for a week on Sun, then screwed me twice (“call back at 2 we may have something”). This guy put out an MY20 Mustang convertible for $99/day and I got the cheap insurance @ 12/day. I’m grateful just to have wheels to leave this hotel. Oh and Uber wanted 70 dollars from the airport and 130 for an Uber black car (took a reg taxi for $60). Locals tell me Uber has been raping the city for a few weeks now.
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