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New UK train station could connect 2 cities with 5 trains per hour | UK | News

New UK train station could connect 2 cities with 5 trains per hour | UK | News

Published by Sam Flores

A new trainline has been announced (Image: tagphoto via Getty Images) East West Railway Company (EWR Co) has unveiled a revised proposal for a new railway line in Cambridgeshire. The new route could connect Oxford, Milton Keynes, Bedford, and Cambridge and will deliver up to five trains an hour. The updated plans now factor in the new Universal Resort near Bedford and the anticipated heightened passenger demand resulting from the development. A station at Stewartby has been planned to serve the theme park. Gidon Freeman, Vice-President, External Affairs, Universal Destinations and Experiences, said: “One of the reasons we selected our site for a new entertainment resort complex featuring a world-class theme park is its central location and excellent transport links. Read more: Airline with the smallest seats named — and it’s not easyJet Read more: Gorgeous destination with £2 beers and ‘one of the best beaches in Europe’ “East West Rail can further improve that connectivity – its proposed station by Universal would enhance guest and team member arrival with a new link to our …

It’s Time to Kill the MLB City Connect Jerseys

It’s Time to Kill the MLB City Connect Jerseys

Published by Jenni Sidey

The business of sports is bigger than ever, which means there’s plenty of room for some cuts. We can scale back on all things gambling, for starters. It’d be great for sports broadcasters to scale back the provocative hot takes and keep their focus on the gameplay. And then there’s the aesthetic issue: Pretty much every sports team has way too many jerseys now, and an overwhelming number of them are hideous. The NBA keeps pumping out City Editions every single year, spawning the obvious and inevitable problem of running out of ideas. The NFL, meanwhile, conjured up their Rivalries uniforms last season, with some stunning entries and a few brutal flops. Now, it’s MLB’s turn, as the 2026 City Connect harvest has bloomed. According to MLB, the purpose of the City Connect uniforms—aside from giving fans one more thing to blow cash on—is to reflect “the energy and pride of each club’s community, offering bold and expressive interpretations that celebrate both team history and what’s ahead for the game.” Since their launch in 2021, …

Science Confirms How to Connect to Something Greater at Work

Science Confirms How to Connect to Something Greater at Work

Published by Jenni Sidey

Spirituality in the workplace is still an off-limit topic. The concept tends to cross an invisible line of what’s not acceptable to discuss at work. The problem is not spirituality itself. The problem is that we have an incomplete view of spirituality. As a positive organizational psychologist and coach to public company CEOs, I’ve found that bringing the concept of spirituality into the workplace takes a great deal of explanation. Some don’t believe spirituality applies to them or to the workplace because they don’t believe in religion or in something unknown by science. Yet, overall, we live in a time when people crave depth and a connection to something greater than themselves in work and in life. The growing sense of disconnection and burnout workers today are experiencing stems from a deeper crisis: the loss of fulfillment. The key to being fulfilled at work is rebuilding connection to self, others, and something greater. Connecting to something greater at work is an important though underutilized access point to workplace fulfillment. Two Evidence-Based Ways to Understand Connecting …

Why You Struggle With Trust (Even When You Want to Connect)

Why You Struggle With Trust (Even When You Want to Connect)

Published by Jenni Sidey

When I began working with Rachel, she shared that she had recently started dating someone she really liked. Instead of feeling excited, or even cautiously optimistic, she was terrified that she was going to mess it up. Rachel had been in a number of relationships over the past several years, and they all seemed to follow a similar trajectory. She had no trouble meeting and attracting dates; Rachel was charismatic, and it was easy for her to start conversations and keep them going. But a few months into dating, things would shift. As her partner began trying to deepen the relationship, Rachel would pull back. She avoided sharing more personal details and sometimes picked fights to sidestep vulnerable conversations. What looked like losing interest was actually fear. Rachel worried that if she let her guard down, she would end up getting hurt. Rachel’s personality profile helps explain this pattern. Her high extraversion made it easy for her to connect with others. She was engaging in conversations and energized by social interaction, helping her form relationships …

‘It was an exorcism’: how heartbreak, queer rebirth and finding love over Only Connect shaped Wendy Eisenberg’s stunning new album | Music

‘It was an exorcism’: how heartbreak, queer rebirth and finding love over Only Connect shaped Wendy Eisenberg’s stunning new album | Music

Published by Sam Flores

It’s 30 December 2023. Wendy Eisenberg is walking and cannot stop. At an all-night rave in Bushwick featuring Detroit house legend Theo Parrish the previous night, they became paralysed by anxiety, returned home, “threw up a lot” and then set off with no destination in mind. “I walked for that entire day,” Eisenberg says by video call from their Brooklyn home. “I couldn’t stop moving my legs. I felt like I needed to reauthor myself, and this was how I was going to do it.” While out on their fevered walk, Eisenberg ran into an old friend. “She told me: ‘You seem like you’re having a kind of exorcism.’ Then she added: ‘Maybe just play some guitar?’” Thus diagnosed, Eisenberg went home immediately and began writing the music that became their sublime new self-titled album. “I remember reading how Cat Power wrote Moon Pix in 10 hours, in a dream state,” says Eisenberg. Many of these songs were written in a similar state, across three or four months after that “strange, mystical moment”. In the …

Wi-Fi is good enough for most things, but I always connect these 3 devices with Ethernet anyway

Wi-Fi is good enough for most things, but I always connect these 3 devices with Ethernet anyway

Published by skeptic

I’m not afraid to say that Wi-Fi is one of the greatest technological advancements I think we’ll ever see in our lifetimes. The ability to connect nearly any device to an invisible network and access the internet is something that my brain can’t even comprehend. Whether it’s your computer or your fridge, you can connect to it, monitor it, and see what is going on behind the scenes. But even though Wi-Fi is as good as it is, there are a few things that I just can’t cut the cord for. There are a few reasons for that — it could be that I need a consistent connection, or I don’t want to deal with the latency. Some things I have will always be hardwired, no matter how good Wi-Fi gets. My game consoles are hardwired all the time Faster downloads, less latency, and consistent performance across the board Credit: Shaun Cichacki/MUO I’m an avid fan of video games, and I’ve got plenty of consoles in my home. On my entertainment center in my office, I …

During all-night vigil, Muslim students pray, connect and unite in solidarity for Palestinians

During all-night vigil, Muslim students pray, connect and unite in solidarity for Palestinians

Published by Sam Flores

(Fort Worth Report) — In the early morning hours of March 7, the sky above the Dar El-Quran mosque was pitch black. Most of North Texas was asleep. But in a grassy field behind the building, a few dozen students from the University of Texas at Arlington gathered under the gleam of floodlights. Young men in the group sat together on the ground, singing a floating melody in Arabic — a nasheed, or Muslim worship hymn. It was not long past midnight, and the students were just over halfway through their vigil. They were pulling an all-nighter, not to cram for a college exam but to observe Ramadan, Islam’s holiest month. The practice of praying between the obligatory sunset and sunrise prayers is referred to as Qiyam al-Layl — Arabic for “standing in the night.” “I feel very connected to Allah when I’m with a community of people who are focused on ibadah, or worship,” nursing student Zahara Mohamedou said. The qiyam was her first. Although she enjoys the community of a mosque, she lives …

Order, explore, and connect like a local with Babbel

Order, explore, and connect like a local with Babbel

Published by skeptic

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Strangers Connect in Mexican Charmer

Strangers Connect in Mexican Charmer

Published by Daniella Wilson

Fernando Eimbcke’s fifth feature, Moscas (Flies), opens with a loose string of vignettes. Teresita Sánchez —  a 2022 Sundance Special Jury Prize winner for Dos Estaciones, also known for her roles in Lila Avilés’ The Chambermaid and Tótem — plays Olga, a weary-looking middle-aged woman who wakes up to the insistent buzzing of one of the insects that provide the title, gets out of bed with an indignant sense of purpose and sets about trying to shoo the pest out a window, or better yet, kill it. When her initial efforts fail she resorts to insecticide, nearly asphyxiating in a toxic cloud of her own making. No sooner has the buzzing stopped than her ears tune into a different irritant, the upstairs neighbors, in the middle of what sounds like vigorous sex. Which interferes with her usual pastime of playing Sudoku on her boxy old desktop. Olga turns up her television to drown out the noise and soon falls back to sleep, this time on the sofa. Moscas (Flies) The Bottom Line Small is beautiful. …

Incredible new £130bn train line would connect nine cities in UK and Ireland | UK | News

Incredible new £130bn train line would connect nine cities in UK and Ireland | UK | News

Published by Sam Flores

The train line would pass by beautiful landscapes (Image: Cover Images) Ambitious plans have been unveiled for a 740-mile high-speed rail network linking nine cities across the UK and Ireland in what its backer calls a bold vision for national renewal. Dubbed “The Loop”, the proposed line would connect Dublin, Belfast, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool and Bangor. At an estimated cost of £130 billion, the scheme would cross roughly 100 miles of the Irish Sea, tying together Wales, Scotland, England and Ireland in a single circular network. The project is the brainchild of Derbyshire-born architect and Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) president Chris Williamson. He has argued that Britain needs large-scale infrastructure projects to compete with countries such as China and Saudi Arabia, where vast developments are reshaping cities and transport links. READ MORE: China builds new high speed train line in 9 hours READ MORE: World’s oldest railway line is in the UK and still used today Each of the nine cities would be within a mere 90 minutes of each other (Image: …