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tDAR and its parent organization, Digital Antiquity, are dedicated to ensuring the long-term preservation of digital archaeological data. These data document the archaeological record, the efforts of the archaeological and scientific community, and the material and social characteristics of the cultures studied.
Digital data are fragile. Both the file formats and the media on which they are stored are in danger of becoming obsolete, and the archaeological data they contain irretreivable. Records archived in tDAR are preserved for access and use today and will be maintained into the distant future by:
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Ugandans protest after lawmakers detained at airport
FILE PHOTO: Uganda incumbent and President elect Yoweri Museveni addresses the nation at his country home in Rwakitura, Kirihura district in western Uganda, February 21, 2016. REUTERS/James Akena/File Photo
By Elias Biryabarema
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Protests erupted in the Ugandan capital on Friday after police detained two lawmakers at the international airport as they prepared to travel abroad for medical care, witnesses said.
People demonstrated in different parts of Kampala, burning tyres and piling rocks and other barricades in the middle of the roads. Police said the protests were limited and had been contained.
The lawmakers, Robert Kyagulanyi and Francis Zaake, say they were tortured by security forces while in detention in August. The case led to protests against President Yoweri Museveni.
Museveni has won praise in the West for his support against militant Islam in the region, but many Ugandans regard the 73-year-old as out of touch with his people, nearly 80 percent of whom are under the age of 30.
Kyagulanyi has been charged with treason over his alleged role in the stoning of Museveni’s convoy this month, but a court had granted him access to private doctors, citing his health.
Kyagulanyi's lawyer Robert Amsterdam told Reuters last week that his client had been left unable to stand after being beaten while in detention. When he appeared in court a day after his lawyer spoke, he was unable to walk without help.
Government spokesman Ofwono Opondo dismissed the lawyer's comments last week as rubbish.
Kyagulanyi, 35, is a musician who entered politics after winning a parliamentary by-election last year. He goes by the stage name "Bobi Wine" and has emerged as a formidable threat to Museveni's 32-year rule, winning popular support through his music and strong criticism of the government.
Amsterdam told Reuters on Friday that Kyagulanyi had said he had been tortured again while being transported from the airport to a hospital in Kampala. "He was beaten...he was groaning in pain, they kept telling him to shut up," Amsterdam said, quoting what his client had told him.
Police spokesman Emilian Kayima called the allegations "fake news".
In a statement late on Friday, Kayima said that the Director of Public Prosecutions instructed the police to investigate allegations of torture of Kyagulanyi, a move that required that he be examined by government medical experts.
"Before this medical examination was done, the Uganda Police Force learnt of his departure yesterday August 30th," Kayima said. "As a result, Hon. Kyagulanyi was halted from departure."
Now that Kyagulanyi has been examined by government doctors, the police have allowed him to leave the hospital, Kayima said, paving the way for him to potentially travel abroad.
Calls to his Ugandan lawyer for a comment on whether he would depart the country immediately were not answered.
Friday's demonstrations were most intense in Kamwokya, a suburb of Kampala where Kyagulanyi has a recording studio, according to Dick Nvule, a local radio reporter.
"Protesters blocked the roads using garbage cans and burning tyres. Motorists have to get alternative routes to the city centre. Soldiers and riot police are still clearing the roads," Nvule told Reuters.
The two parliamentarians were among a group of five lawmakers who were detained on Aug. 13 in the northwestern town of Arua and accused of throwing stones at the presidential convoy during campaigning for a parliamentary seat.
Zaake, the other lawmaker, has not been charged but has been in hospital in Kampala. Images posted on social media show him lying on a bed, eyes closed, with multiple bruises on his hand and other body areas.
In July, the constitution was amended to remove the presidential age limit of 75 years, meaning Museveni can run again for president in 2021 -- the year the country hopes to begin oil production.
(Reporting by Elias Biryabarema; Writing by by George Obulutsa; Editing by Angus MacSwan, David Stamp and Omar Mohammed)
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Facebook Testing Greetings Feature, buttons are like Pokes on steroids
December 12, 2017 7:53 pm 507 viewsby admin Follow @technogotweb 0
Facebook constantly keeps trying to give users new features. Recently, Facebook announced the introduction of some new features in the messenger for gaming fans. Now in the same episode, the Facebook ‘Greetings’ feature is being tested by the company. With this, Facebook users will soon be able to send a number of ‘Greetings’ to interact with their Facebook friends in a unique way.
According to the news from IANS, this new feature will have many options like Wink and High-Five besides Pok. According to the report of ‘The Nation’, these options are being tested in the UK, Thailand, Australia, Canada, Colombia and France and have been released on the anniversary of Pok.
If you press the ‘Hello’ button by going to your friend’s profile, pressing that button will open up new options. At the same time, pressing only the ‘Hello’ button on the desktop will show options. This will work exactly as there are ‘reactions’ during the detection of a photo or status.
Facebook launched ‘Hello’ button in June and it appears on top of people’s profile. If you accidentally clicked on a new option, you can withdraw it by undoing it. Apart from this, Facebook announced a year after launching a new platform ‘Instant Games’ to play games with friends in the Messaging Chat app, announced live streaming and video chatting facility for gamers through Facebook Live.
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Pass on glass? Moto Z will offer some unusual options
By James Rogerson 2016-06-06T10:25:00.157Z Mobile phones
Have it your way
When you buy a smartphone you don't usually have much say in what material it's made from, and the options on the shelves are generally limited to plastic or metal - or perhaps a more glass-heavy model if you're feeling really adventurous.
Wooden, leather and ballistic nylon-backed handsets are rarer beasts, but that's exactly what the Moto Z seems to be offering if some leaked shots from MotClub HK are to be believed.
Which they probably are, as Motorola has long been an exception to the metal or plastic rule, offering a range of Moto Maker customization options for its phones.
The options shown seem to include black or brown leather, a red ballistic nylon cover and a couple of different wooden options, one of which is likely bamboo.
They give you the chance to turn what's already shaping up to be a fairly stylish metal phone into something a bit more unique.
While it's great to see StyleMods making a return they're actually not the most exciting part of the Moto Z's customization options.
The phone is also rumored to support 'MotoMods', which clip to the back in a similar way but add extra functionality, like an optical zoom lens or a projector.
So whatever you want from your phone it looks like there's a good chance the Moto Z will offer it, just as long as it gets the basic specs right. We'll know soon enough, as the Moto Z is pegged for a June 9 launch.
Project Ara promises even more customization.
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Hendersonville, Gallatin in top 10 safest cities in TN
Five Sumner County cities were ranked among the top 15 safest cities in Tennessee.
Hendersonville, Gallatin in top 10 safest cities in TN Five Sumner County cities were ranked among the top 15 safest cities in Tennessee. Check out this story on Tennessean.com: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/sumner/2018/02/21/hendersonville-gallatin-sumner-county-safest-cities-tn/359347002/
Jen Todd, USA TODAY NETWORK – Tennessee Published 12:52 p.m. CT Feb. 21, 2018 | Updated 11:25 a.m. CT March 5, 2018
Gallatin, Tennessee is one of 10 finalists nationwide for the title of Nicest Place in America. Wochit
Hendersonville police have helped keep the city among the top 10 safest cities in Tennessee.(Photo: Pranaav Jadhav/ USA TODAY NETWORK- Tennessee)
Hendersonville is the sixth safest city in Tennessee, according to a study by the National Council for Home Safety and Security.
Gallatin is close behind as the ninth.
The rankings come from a calculation of violent crimes — aggravated assault, murder, rape, and robbery — and property crimes — burglary, arson, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft — per 1,000 people. Violent crimes were then weighted 1.5 times property crimes.
Hendersonville has seen an influx in youths committing crime, partially attributed for its close proximity to Nashville. In December, the Hendersonville Police Department spoke at a press conference about the city's priority to stop crime.
►More: Hendersonville Police: We hold criminals accountable
►More: Gallatin celebrates new title: Nicest Place in America
In October, Gallatin was named the Nicest Place in America by Reader's Digest. The editors were impressed when Mayor Paige Brown wrote about the community's effort to come together after an officer-involved shooting.
Other Sumner County cities made the top 20, with White House at No. 11, Goodlettsville at No. 12 and Portland at No. 15.
Brentwood was named the safest city in Tennessee.
The council used the most recent FBI Uniform Crime Report statistics plus its own population data and internal research to create the list. Cities with less than 10,000 residents and those which did not submit completed crime reports to the FBI were eliminated.
Reach Jen Todd at 615-575-7143, jtodd1@tennessean.com or on Twitter @jentoddwrites.
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Bill Hagerty to run for US Senate in 2020, Trump announces
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Apprentice stuart baggs show
The Apprentice: The Stuart Baggs show
By: Rachel Miller
Missed the seventh episode? Catch up here:
The cars are coming to take the candidates to Pinewood Studios. Joanna has vaguely heard of the world-famous film studios where Harry Potter and the James Bond movies are made and hazards a guess, “I’m sure it’s a furniture store.” Standing in front of the biggest blue screen in Europe, Lord Sugar explains that the two teams have to create and sell virtual experience DVDs to shoppers at Westfield Shopping centre. This involves making a background action movie, buying props, filming people in front of a screen and flogging the DVDs.
The best bits
It was the Stuart Baggs show last night. Project leader for Apollo, Stuart was so bad, he was good. There were definite shades of David Brent. The team selected motor-racing for the backdrop which allowed Stuart to race around Brands Hatch and utter the immortal line, “I have to rein in my own extreme masculinity in this task.” Stuart’s leadership style was horrendous. He talked over everyone, made quick bad decisions, took a dramatic u-turn when he realized his mistake and then took the credit for the new strategy. At one point he says, “I think we made good decisions under quite a lot of pressure.” Guess who provided the pressure? Best of all, he kept trying to score points against Stella in a game of “how many different ways are there to say, ‘I’m brilliant and you’re useless.’” Stella simply batted him away like an annoying fly.
The worst bits
Synergy, meanwhile, was lead by Sandeesh, who was trying to assert herself and shake off Lord Sugar’s accusation that she does “naff all”. She did try, bless her, but was undermined by Jamie, who was unhappy with his role as errand boy.
Both teams displayed a very cavalier attitude to pricing. Apollo started selling the DVDs for £10 but as sales took off they decided to up the price to £15, leaving customers distinctly unamused. Over on Synergy, the team dropped the price early on and sold the DVDs too cheaply.
The winners and losers
Neither team did brilliantly but Apollo scraped a win. It’s worth watching Stuart Baggs’ hilarious reaction to winning, puffing himself up and only just stopping himself from punching the air and shouting “come on”. Ooh the masculinity! And so Synergy lost and it was left to Sandeesh to bring two team members back into the boardroom. To say she doesn’t have the killer instinct is putting it mildly. She has been the sacrificial lamb enough times, but for some reason she lets Jamie off the hook and selects the two strongest members of her team, Chris and Liz. Why, Sandeesh, why? It doesn’t take Lord Sugar long to point the finger. Sandeesh, you’re fired.
The ones to watch
Stella continues to shine like the star that she is. I’m ready to put money on her to win. But let’s hope Stuart Baggs hangs on for a few more weeks to keep us entertained and to make the saner contestants look good.
“Stuart’s leadership style leaves me trembling with irritation. Who does he think he is.” Nick Hewer.
Missed this episode? Watch it on BBC iPlayer.
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Industry revenue of »manufacture of other fabricated metal products« in Cyprus 2011-2023
Industry revenue of »manufacture of other fabricated metal products« in Cyprus from 2011 to 2023 (in million U.S. Dollars)
This statistic shows the revenue of the industry »manufacture of other fabricated metal products« in Cyprus from 2011 to 2017, with a forecast to 2023. It is projected that the revenue of manufacture of other fabricated metal products in Cyprus will amount to approximately 44,5 million U.S. Dollars by 2023.
The industry classification is based on the NACE Rev.2 - system in Cyprus. The industry “manufacture of other fabricated metal products“ has the code “C259“.
Major countries based on cobalt reserves 2018
Cobalt - mine production by major countries 2014-2018
Cobalt mine production in the Democratic Republic of Congo 2008-2018
Cobalt's average spot price in the U.S. 2008-2018
Statistics on "Cobalt"
Global mine production
Global refinery production
U.S. production and trade
Demand, consumption, and price
Cobalt reserves worldwide as of 2018, by country (in metric tons)Major countries based on cobalt reserves 2018
Worldwide mine production of cobalt from 2008 to 2018 (in metric tons)Cobalt mine production worldwide 2008-2018
Major countries in worldwide cobalt mine production from 2014 to 2018 (in metric tons)Cobalt - mine production by major countries 2014-2018
Distribution of cobalt production worldwide in 2018 by country*Distribution of global cobalt production by country 2018
Distribution of cobalt production worldwide in 2016, by companyDistribution of cobalt production worldwide by producer 2016
Distribution of cobalt production worldwide as of 2017, by mine sourceGlobal cobalt production distributed by mine source 2017
Mine production of cobalt in DR Congo from 2008 to 2018 (in metric tons)Cobalt mine production in the Democratic Republic of Congo 2008-2018
Worldwide refinery production of cobalt from 2008 to 2016 (in metric tons)Cobalt refinery production worldwide 2008-2016
Leading producers of cobalt worldwide in 2017 and 2018 based on output (in metric tons)Leading cobalt producers worldwide 2017 & 2018
Leading countries based on annual cobalt refinery capacity as of 2016 (in metric tons)*Global annual refinery capacity of cobalt by top countries 2016
Refinery production of cobalt in China from 2008 to 2015 (in metric tons)*Cobalt refinery production in China 2008-2015
Selected cobalt production projects scheduled between 2016 and 2020, by capacity (in metric tons)Annual production capacity of top cobalt projects 2016-2020
Cobalt secondary production in the United States from 2014 to 2018 (in metric tons)Secondary production of cobalt in the U.S. 2014-2018
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Value of cobalt imports to the United States from 2012 to 2016, by form (in 1,000 U.S. dollars)U.S. cobalt import value by form 2012-2016
Distribution of U.S. cobalt imports between 2014 and 2017, by country of originCountry sources of U.S. cobalt imports 2014-2017
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Cobalt demand worldwide from 2010 to 2025 (in 1,000 tons)Global cobalt demand 2010-2015
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Cobalt demand annual growth rate worldwide from 2008 to 2018Global cobalt demand annual growth rate 2008-2018
Reported and apparent cobalt consumption in the United States from 2014 to 2018 (in metric tons)Comparison of cobalt consumption in the U.S. 2014-2018
Consumption of cobalt in the United States from 2012 to 2016, by end use (in metric tons)Cobalt consumption in the U.S. by end use 2012-2016
Average cobalt spot price in the United States from 2008 to 2018 (in U.S. dollars per pound)*Cobalt's average spot price in the U.S. 2008-2018
Industry revenue of »manufacture of other fabricated metal products« in Finland 2011-2023
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Industry revenue of »manufacture of other fabricated metal products« in Slovakia 2011-2023
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Manufacture of other fabricated metal products revenue in Turkey 2013-2022
Industry revenue of »manufacture of other fabricated metal products« in Poland 2011-2023
Manufacture of other fabricated metal products revenue in France 2011-2023
Industry revenue of »manufacture of other fabricated metal products« in Romania 2011-2023
Industry revenue of »manufacture of other fabricated metal products« in Czechia 2011-2023
Industry revenue of »manufacture of other fabricated metal products« in Greece 2011-2023
Industry revenue of »manufacture of other fabricated metal products« in Denmark 2011-2023
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Industry revenue of “manufacture of other fabricated metal products“ in Germany 2011-2023
Industry revenue of »manufacture of other fabricated metal products« in Austria 2011-2023
Cobalt reserves worldwide as of 2018, by country (in metric tons)
Worldwide mine production of cobalt from 2008 to 2018 (in metric tons)
Major countries in worldwide cobalt mine production from 2014 to 2018 (in metric tons)
Distribution of cobalt production worldwide in 2018 by country*
Distribution of cobalt production worldwide in 2016, by company
Distribution of cobalt production worldwide as of 2017, by mine source
Mine production of cobalt in DR Congo from 2008 to 2018 (in metric tons)
Worldwide refinery production of cobalt from 2008 to 2016 (in metric tons)
Leading producers of cobalt worldwide in 2017 and 2018 based on output (in metric tons)
Leading countries based on annual cobalt refinery capacity as of 2016 (in metric tons)*
Refinery production of cobalt in China from 2008 to 2015 (in metric tons)*
Selected cobalt production projects scheduled between 2016 and 2020, by capacity (in metric tons)
Cobalt secondary production in the United States from 2014 to 2018 (in metric tons)
Cobalt imports of the United States from 2014 to 2018 (in metric tons)*
Value of cobalt imports to the United States from 2012 to 2016, by form (in 1,000 U.S. dollars)
Distribution of U.S. cobalt imports between 2014 and 2017, by country of origin
Cobalt exports of the United States from 2010 to 2018 (in metric tons)
Cobalt demand worldwide from 2010 to 2025 (in 1,000 tons)
Cobalt demand worldwide from 2010 to 2025, by end use (in 1,000 tons)
Cobalt demand annual growth rate worldwide from 2008 to 2018
Reported and apparent cobalt consumption in the United States from 2014 to 2018 (in metric tons)
Consumption of cobalt in the United States from 2012 to 2016, by end use (in metric tons)
Average cobalt spot price in the United States from 2008 to 2018 (in U.S. dollars per pound)*
Industry revenue of »manufacture of other fabricated metal products« in Finland from 2011 to 2023 (in million U.S. Dollars)
Industry revenue of »manufacture of other fabricated metal products« in Luxembourg from 2011 to 2023 (in million U.S. Dollars)
Industry revenue of »manufacture of other fabricated metal products« in Switzerland from 2011 to 2023 (in million U.S. Dollars)
Industry revenue of »manufacture of other fabricated metal products« in Slovakia from 2011 to 2023 (in million U.S. Dollars)
Industry revenue of “manufacture of other fabricated metal products“ in Portugal from 2011 to 2023 (in million U.S. Dollars)
Industry revenue of »manufacture of other fabricated metal products« in Italy from 2011 to 2023 (in billion U.S. Dollars)
Industry revenue of »manufacture of other fabricated metal products« in Hungary from 2011 to 2023 (in million U.S. Dollars)
Manufacture of other fabricated metal products revenue in Turkey from 2013 to 2022 (in million U.S. dollars)
Industry revenue of »manufacture of other fabricated metal products« in Poland from 2011 to 2023 (in million U.S. Dollars)
Manufacture of other fabricated metal products revenue in France from 2011 to 2023 (in million U.S. Dollars)
Industry revenue of »manufacture of other fabricated metal products« in Romania from 2011 to 2023 (in million U.S. Dollars)
Industry revenue of »manufacture of other fabricated metal products« in Czechia from 2011 to 2023 (in million U.S. Dollars)
Industry revenue of »manufacture of other fabricated metal products« in Greece from 2011 to 2023 (in million U.S. Dollars)
Industry revenue of »manufacture of other fabricated metal products« in Denmark from 2011 to 2023 (in million U.S. Dollars)
Industry revenue of »manufacture of other fabricated metal products« in Bulgaria from 2011 to 2023 (in million U.S. Dollars)
Industry revenue of »manufacture of other fabricated metal products« in Belgium from 2011 to 2023 (in million U.S. Dollars)
Industry revenue of »manufacture of other fabricated metal products« in the Netherlands from 2011 to 2023 (in million U.S. Dollars)
Industry revenue of “manufacture of other fabricated metal products“ in Germany from 2011 to 2023 (in billion U.S. Dollars)
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Global outlook on electricity generation by energy source 2015-2050
Projected electricity generation worldwide from 2015 to 2050, by energy source (in trillion kilowatt hours)*
by T. Wang, last edited May 15, 2019
It is projected that electricity generated by most energy sources worldwide, with the exception of liquids, will increase in the coming years. Electricity from renewable sources is expected to experience the largest growth of up to 12.41 trillion kilowatt hours in 2050, from 5.39 trillion kilowatt hours in 2015. This projection sees increased consumption from all fuel sources, except for coal, where demand seems to have plateaued. Conventional sources like coal are increasingly being replaced by natural gas, renewables, and nuclear power.
What is the fastest growing resource?
Renewable electricity generation has steadily increased over the past years and is expected to continue along this trend. Using the currently available renewable sources for electricity generation could supply a large majority of U.S. electricity generation in the near future. This supply would require increased electric system flexibility which could be provided through a variety of supply and demand options like flexible electricity generation from conventional sources, grid storage, and more responsible grids.
Renewables (incl. hydroelectric)
2050 0.5 11.07 11.08 3.8 12.41
2045 0.51 9.97 10.72 3.74 11.55
2040 0.53 8.77 10.39 3.66 10.7
2035 0.55 7.69 10.16 3.41 9.81
2030 0.57 6.66 9.95 3.23 8.95
2025 0.74 5.91 10.1 2.98 7.68
* The figures for 2020 through 2040 are projections. According to the source, the projections were made based on a business-as-usual trend estimate, given known technology and technological and demographic trends.
Figures were aggregated from several tables.
Figures were rounded.
Number of operable nuclear reactor plants by country 2019
Nuclear power plants - number of planned reactors 2019
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Nuclear energy consumption in the EU from 1998 to 2018 (in million metric tons of oil equivalent)Nuclear energy consumption in the EU 1998-2018
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Capacity of nuclear power plants in operation worldwide from 1954 to 2018 (in megawatts)Nuclear power plants around the world: Capacity 1954-2018
Number of permanent nuclear reactor shutdowns worldwide as of February 2019, by countryGlobal permanent shutdowns of nuclear reactors by country 2019
Nuclear Materials Security Index for countries with weapon-usable nuclear materials worldwide in 2018Nuclear Materials Security Index 2018
Average number of safety system failures at U.S. nuclear reactors from 2000 to 2015Safety system failures at U.S. nuclear reactors 2000-2015
Average length of refueling outages for U.S. nuclear plants from 1996 to 2018 (in days)U.S. nuclear refueling outage days 1996-2018
Industry safety accident rate of the nuclear sector in the United States from 1997 to 2017*U.S. safety accident rate of the nuclear power industry 1997-2017
Global uranium mine production from 2002 to 2017 (in metric tons)Uranium mine production worldwide 2002-2017
Uranium production worldwide from 2011 to 2017, by mining method (in metric tons)Global uranium mine production by method 2011-2017
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Leading countries based on uranium production in 2017 (in 1,000 metric tons)*Leading uranium producing countries in 2017
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Projected electricity generation worldwide from 2015 to 2050, by energy source (in trillion kilowatt hours)*Global outlook on electricity generation by energy source 2015-2050
Projected installed nuclear power generation capacity worldwide from 2015 to 2050 (in gigawatts)Global installed nuclear generation capacity outlook 2015-2050
Number of under construction nuclear reactors worldwide as of February 2019, by countryGlobal number of nuclear reactors under construction by country 2019
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Global electricity generation by source 1998-2011
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U.S. electric power plants by energy source 2016
Global power generation from nuclear and renewables by region 2015
Japan - Electricity production by energy source
Total electricity generated in the United Kingdom (UK) 2005-2017
Global electricity generation outlook scenarios by source 2040
Use of oil to generate electricity in the United Kingdom (UK) 2005-2017
U.S. renewable electricity generation levelized cost 2010-2017
Electricity output in China from 1990 to 2016
Uranium power generation in Canada
U.S. electricity generation - independent power producers 1998-2015
Solar energy generation in California 2006-2015
Global average equivalent operating hours of renewable energy by source 2004-2014
Ontario's electricity production share by energy source 2014
Power generating machinery LPI in Japan 2010-2017
Electricity output from hydropower China 1970-2014
Global fuel production: power mix by 2030
Global Solar Photovoltaics
U.S. Fossil Fuel Consumption
U.S. Wind Power Market
Power sector in Indonesia
Geothermal energy industry in the United States
IRENA - Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2018
Cost and Performance Data for Power Generation Technologies
Wind power in the United States
Global solar photovoltaic industry
China's Power Sector
Global primary energy
Electricity in Brazil
Wind energy industry in Europe
Global nuclear power generation from 1985 to 2018 (in terawatt hours)
Percentage of world nuclear power consumption in 2018, by country
Leading countries in nuclear energy consumption in 2018 (in million metric tons of oil equivalent)
Nuclear energy consumption in the U.S. from 1998 to 2018 (in million metric tons of oil equivalent)
Nuclear energy consumption in Japan from 1998 to 2017 (in million metric tons of oil equivalent)
Nuclear energy consumption in the EU from 1998 to 2018 (in million metric tons of oil equivalent)
Number of operable nuclear reactors as of June 2019, by country
Number of planned nuclear reactors globally as of May 2019, by country*
The largest nuclear power plants worldwide in 2018, by gross capacity (in megawatts)
Number of atomic reactors in operation worldwide in 2018, by age
Global number of permanent nuclear reactor shutdowns as of August 8, 2018
Number of operational nuclear power plants worldwide between 1954 and 2018
Largest nuclear power plants globally in 2017, by gross electricity generation (in billion kilowatt hours)
Number of operable nuclear reactors worldwide as of February 2019, by reactor type
Capacity of nuclear power plants in operation worldwide from 1954 to 2018 (in megawatts)
Number of permanent nuclear reactor shutdowns worldwide as of February 2019, by country
Nuclear Materials Security Index for countries with weapon-usable nuclear materials worldwide in 2018
Average number of safety system failures at U.S. nuclear reactors from 2000 to 2015
Average length of refueling outages for U.S. nuclear plants from 1996 to 2018 (in days)
Industry safety accident rate of the nuclear sector in the United States from 1997 to 2017*
Global uranium mine production from 2002 to 2017 (in metric tons)
Uranium production worldwide from 2011 to 2017, by mining method (in metric tons)
Production of the leading uranium mines worldwide in 2017 (in metric tons)
Leading countries based on uranium production in 2017 (in 1,000 metric tons)*
Leading countries worldwide based on uranium resources in 2017 (in 1,000 metric tons)
Projected installed nuclear power generation capacity worldwide from 2015 to 2050 (in gigawatts)
Number of under construction nuclear reactors worldwide as of February 2019, by country
Electric capacity of nuclear reactors under construction worldwide as of February 2019, by country (in megawatts)
Projected electricity generation capacity worldwide from 2014 to 2050, by energy source (in gigawatts)
Generation of electricity worldwide from 1998 to 2018, by energy source (in terawatt hours)
Amounts of fuel used to generate electricity in the United Kingdom (UK) from 1998 to 2018, by fuel type (in million metric tons of oil equivalent)
Electricity generated in the United Kingdom from 2009 to 2015, by energy source (in terawatt hours)*
Number of power plants in the United States in 2016, by energy source
Electricity generation from renewable and nuclear power in selected regions worldwide in 2015, by region (in billion kilowatt hours)
Distribution of energy sources used for electricity production in Japan in March 2011 (in million megawatt hours)
Total amount of electricity generated in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2005 to 2017 (in terawatt-hours)
Outlook scenarios for electricity generation worldwide in 2040, by energy source (in terawatt hours)*
Amount of oil used to generate electricity in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2005 to 2017 (in million metric tons of oil equivalent)
Levelized electricity cost from renewable power generation in the United States in 2010 and 2017, by energy source (in U.S. cents per kilowatt hour)*
Electricity generation in China from 1990 to 2016 (in terawatt hours)
Uranium power generation in Canada from 2005 to 2035 (in gigawatt hours)
Electricity net generation through independent power producers in the U.S. from 1998 to 2015 (in million kilowatt hours)
Solar power generation in California between 2006 and 2015 (in 1,000 megawatt hours)
Average equivalent operating hours of renewable energies globally between 2004 and 2014, by source
Distribution of grid-connected electricity production in Ontario in 2014, by energy source
Labor productivity index (LPI) of power generating and distributing electrical machinery in Japan from 2010 to 2017
Electricity generation from hydropower in China from 1970 to 2014 (in terawatt hours)
Global power mix of fuels outlook between 2010 and 2030, by scenario*
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Leading Hellmann products in the United Kingdom (UK) 2013-2017, by number of users
Hellmann products ranked by number of users in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2013 to 2017 (in 1,000)
by Statista Research Department, last edited Jun 6, 2018
This statistic shows a ranking of the leading Hellmann products in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2013 to 2017. In 2017, an estimated 7.3 million people used Hellmann's Real in the United Kingdom (UK), whilst 1.4 million used Hellmann's Lighter than Light.
Any Hellmann's
Hellmann's Real (salad cream & mayonnaise)
Hellmann's Light (salad cream & mayonnaise)
Hellmann's Dressing (salad dressings)
Hellmann’s Lighter than Light (salad cream & mayonnaise)
Hellmann's Tomato Ketchup
* Number of respondents: n (2013) = 24,423; n (2014) = 24,506; n (2015) = 24,282; n (2016) = 24,507; n (2017) = 24,845
Condiments and seasoning market in Europe
Leading brands of cooking oils in Great Britain 2016-17 by number of users
Leading salad cream & mayo brands in Great Britain 2018, by number of users
Leading sweeteners brands in Great Britain 2014-2018, by number of users
Leading mayonnaise brands in Great Britain 2013-2018, by number of users
Condiments and seasoning consumption in the UK (Kantar Media TGI)
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Condiments and seasoning habits
Condiments and seasoning brands ranking
Condiments and seasoning brand products
Number of people using tomato ketchup in Great Britain between 2013 and 2018, by user type (in 1,000s)Tomato ketchup usage in Great Britain 2013-2018, by user type
Number of people using tomato ketchup in Great Britain from 2013 to 2018, by frequency of use (in 1,000)Frequency of tomato ketchup usage in Great Britain 2013-2018
Number of people using salad cream in Great Britain from 2017 to 2018, by frequency of use (in 1,000 people)Frequency of salad cream usage in Great Britain 2017-2018
Number of people using salad cream in Great Britain from 2013 to 2018, by user type (in 1,000s)Salad cream usage in Great Britain 2013-2018, by user type
Number of people using salad dressing* in Great Britain between 2013 and 2018, by user type (in 1,000s)Salad dressing usage in Great Britain 2013-2018, by user type
Number of people using salad dressing (not home made) in Great Britain between 2013 and 2018, by frequency of use (in 1,000 people)Frequency of salad dressing usage in Great Britain 2013-2018
Number of people using mayonnaise in Great Britain between 2013 and 2018, by user type (in 1,000s)Mayonnaise usage in Great Britain 2013-2018, by user type
Number of people using mayonnaise in Great Britain from 2016 to 2018, by frequency of use (in 1,000 people)Frequency of mayonnaise usage in Great Britain 2016-2018
Salad cream & mayonnaise brands ranked by number of users in Great Britain in 2018 (in 1,000)Leading salad cream & mayo brands in Great Britain 2018, by number of users
Mayonnaise brands ranked by number of users in Great Britain between 2013 and 2018 (in 1,000s)Leading mayonnaise brands in Great Britain 2013-2018, by number of users
Salad cream brands ranked by number of users in Great Britain from 2013 to 2018 (in 1,000)Leading salad cream brands in Great Britain 2013-2018, by number of users
Brands of stock cubes, ready prepared stocks & gravy makers ranked by number of users in Great Britain from 2016 to 2018 (in 1,000s)Leading brands of stock cubes in Great Britain 2016-17, by number of users
Brands of oils for cooking and salad ranked by number of users in Great Britain from 2016 to 2018 (in 1,000s)Leading brands of cooking oils in Great Britain 2016-17 by number of users
Brands of artificial sweeteners ranked by number of users in Great Britain from 2014 to 2018 (in 1,000s)Leading sweeteners brands in Great Britain 2014-2018, by number of users
Salad cream & mayonnaise brands of Heinz ranked by number of users in Great Britain between 2013 and 2018 (in 1,000)Heinz: leading salad cream & mayonnaise brands in GB 2013-17, by number of users
Salad cream & mayonnaise brands of Hellman ranked by number of users in Great Britain between 2013 and 2018 (in 1,000)Salad cream & mayonnaise brands of Hellman in GB 2013-2018, by number of users
Table sauces brands of HP ranked by number of users in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2013 to 2017 (in 1,000s)Leading table sauces brands of HP in the UK 2013-2017, by number of users
Hellmann products ranked by number of users in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2013 to 2017 (in 1,000)Leading Hellmann products in the United Kingdom (UK) 2013-2017, by number of users
Leading Weight Watchers products in the UK 2013-2016, by number of users
Leading Kraft products in the United Kingdom (UK) 2013 to 2017, by number of users
Leading Heinz products in the United Kingdom (UK) 2013-2017, by number of users
Most used types of mayonnaise or mayonnaise-type salad dressing in the U.S. 2018
Most used forms of mayonnaise or mayo-type salad dressing in the U.S. 2018
Amount of mayonnaise or mayo-type salad dressing used in the U.S. 2018
Leading Birds Eye products in the United Kingdom (UK) 2013-2017, by number of users
Usage of mayonnaise or mayonnaise-type salad dressing in the U.S. 2018
Most used forms of mayonnaise / mayonnaise-type salad dressing in the U.S. 2011-2018
Most used types of mayonnaise / mayonnaise-type salad dressing in the U.S. 2011-2018
Usage of mayonnaise / mayonnaise-type salad dressing in the U.S. 2011-2020
Leading Danone products in the United Kingdom (UK) 2017, by number of users
Amount of mayonnaise / mayonnaise-type dressing used in the U.S. 2011-2018
Leading McCains products in the UK 2013-2017, by number of users
U.S. per capita consumption of oils 2000-2010
Fruits and vegetables consumed daily by income at Reunion 2014
Jars of Kraft Miracle Whip salad dressing used in the last 90 days in the U.S. 2018
Mayonnaise recent consumption South Korea 2018
Mayonnaise dressing production volume in Japan 2006-2015
Amount of jars of Kraft salad dressing used in the last 90 days in the U.S. 2018
Spice Market in India
Dessert consumption in the UK (Kantar Media TGI)
Frozen food consumption in Spain (Kantar Media TGI)
Frozen food consumption in the UK (Kantar Media TGI)
Bakery product industry in Europe
Ice cream and frozen desserts in the United Kingdom (UK)
Pizza retail market in the U.S.
Frozen desserts in Canada
Frozen food in the United Kingdom (UK)
Number of people using tomato ketchup in Great Britain between 2013 and 2018, by user type (in 1,000s)
Number of people using tomato ketchup in Great Britain from 2013 to 2018, by frequency of use (in 1,000)
Number of people using salad cream in Great Britain from 2017 to 2018, by frequency of use (in 1,000 people)
Number of people using salad cream in Great Britain from 2013 to 2018, by user type (in 1,000s)
Number of people using salad dressing* in Great Britain between 2013 and 2018, by user type (in 1,000s)
Number of people using salad dressing (not home made) in Great Britain between 2013 and 2018, by frequency of use (in 1,000 people)
Number of people using mayonnaise in Great Britain between 2013 and 2018, by user type (in 1,000s)
Number of people using mayonnaise in Great Britain from 2016 to 2018, by frequency of use (in 1,000 people)
Number of people using oils for cooking and salads in Great Britain from 2013 to 2018, by user type (in 1,000s)
Number of people using oils for cooking and salad in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2013 to 2018, by product type (in 1,000s)
Number of people using oils for cooking and salad in Great Britain from 2014 to 2018, by frequency of use (in 1,000)
Number of people using stock cubes, ready prepared stocks and gravy makers in Great Britain in 2014 and 2018, by user type (in 1,000)
Number of people using stock cubes, ready prepared stocks & gravy makers in Great Britain from 2014 to 2018, by type (in 1,000s)
Number of people using stock cubes, ready prepared stocks and gravy makers in Great Britain in 2014 and 2018, by frequency of use (in 1,000s)
Number of people using stock cubes, ready prepared stocks & gravy makers in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2013 to 2017, by kind (in 1,000)
Number of people using artificial sweetener in Great Britain from 2013 to 2018, by user type (in 1,000)
Number of people using artificial sweetener in Great Britain from 2014 to 2018, by frequency of use (in 1,000)
Salad cream & mayonnaise brands ranked by number of users in Great Britain in 2018 (in 1,000)
Mayonnaise brands ranked by number of users in Great Britain between 2013 and 2018 (in 1,000s)
Salad cream brands ranked by number of users in Great Britain from 2013 to 2018 (in 1,000)
Brands of stock cubes, ready prepared stocks & gravy makers ranked by number of users in Great Britain from 2016 to 2018 (in 1,000s)
Brands of oils for cooking and salad ranked by number of users in Great Britain from 2016 to 2018 (in 1,000s)
Brands of artificial sweeteners ranked by number of users in Great Britain from 2014 to 2018 (in 1,000s)
Salad cream & mayonnaise brands of Heinz ranked by number of users in Great Britain between 2013 and 2018 (in 1,000)
Salad cream & mayonnaise brands of Hellman ranked by number of users in Great Britain between 2013 and 2018 (in 1,000)
Table sauces brands of HP ranked by number of users in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2013 to 2017 (in 1,000s)
Weight Watchers products ranked by number of users in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2013 to 2017 (in 1,000s)
Kraft products ranked by number of users in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2013 to 2017 (in 1,000)
Heinz products ranked by number of users in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2013 to 2017 (in 1,000)
U.S. population: Which types of mayonnaise or mayonnaise-type salad dressing do you use most often?
U.S. population: Which forms of mayonnaise or mayonnaise-type salad dressing do you use most often?
U.S. population: How many jars / bottles of mayonnaise or mayonnaise-type salad dressing have you used in the last 90 days?
Birds Eye products ranked by number of users in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2013 to 2017 (in 1,000s)
U.S. population: Do you use mayonnaise or mayonnaise-type salad dressing?
U.S. population: Most used forms of mayonnaise or mayonnaise-type salad dressing from 2011 to 2018
U.S. population: Most used types of mayonnaise or mayonnaise-type salad dressing from 2011 to 2018
U.S. population: Usage of mayonnaise or mayonnaise-type salad dressing from 2011 to 2020
Danone products ranked by number of users in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017 (in 1,000s)
U.S. population: Amount of mayonnaise or mayonnaise-type salad dressing used within 90 days from 2011 to 2018
McCains products ranked by number of users in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2013 to 2017 (in 1,000)
Per capita consumption of salad and cooking oils in the United States from 2000 to 2010 (in pounds)*
Daily consumption of fruits and vegetables of the Reunionese in 2014, according to the monthly income per unit of consumption (CU)
U.S. population: How many jars of Kraft Miracle Whip mayo / mayo-type salad dressing have you used in the last 90 days?
Consumption of mayonnaise over the past three months in South Korea as of March 2018
Production volume of mayonnaise dressing in Japan from 2006 to 2015 (in 1,000 metric tons)
U.S. population: How many jars of Kraft mayo / mayo-type salad dressing have you used in the last 90 days?
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Confirmed Ebola cases in West African countries by age 2015
Number of confirmed Ebola cases in West African countries by age group (as of November 4, 2015)*
by Statista Research Department, last edited Nov 4, 2015
This statistic displays the number of Ebola cases in West African countries as of November 4, 2015, by age group. Over the course of the outbreak, there have been 1,904 confirmed cases among persons aged between 15 and 44 years in Guinea. The Ebola virus causes extremely severe hemorrhagic fever and is considered a Risk Group 4 Pathogen by the World Health Organization (WHO). As of March 2016, there were approximately 10,675 cases and 4,809 deaths from Ebola in Liberia.
as of November 4, 2015
* Only the three most affected countries are included. Includes the cumulative number of confirmed cases; excludes cases for which data on age are not available.
** Until 09 May, 2015.
Ebola virus disease (EVD)
Ebola cases and deaths in West African outbreak by country 2016
Ebola deaths from West Africa outbreak by country 2016
Deaths per day in West African countries with 2014 Ebola outbreak by disease
Ebola cases/deaths among health care workers in West Africa outbreak by country 2015
Ebola outbreak in West Africa
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History, facts, preconditions
West African outbreak 2013-2016
Public opinion: Guinea
Number of cases and deaths from Ebola virus outbreaks between 1976 and 2018, by countryChronology of Ebola virus disease outbreaks 1976-2018
Death rates of the 5 known Ebola virus species in the period 1976-2012*Death rates from the five Ebola virus species 2012
Key epidemiological information on the Ebola virus disease as of 2014 (in days)Transmission parameters associated with Ebola 2014
Key health and economic facts on countries most affected by the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak*Key facts on West African countries most affected by 2014 Ebola outbreak
Physician density in West African countries suffering from the 2014 Ebola outbreak (per 100,000 population)Doctors density in West African countries with Ebola outbreak 2014
Daily number of deaths in West African countries suffering from Ebola in 2014, by selected diseasesDeaths per day in West African countries with 2014 Ebola outbreak by disease
Number of USAID Ebola recovery projects as of September 2017, by status and locationNumber of USAID Ebola recovery projects as of 2017, by status and location
Distribution of USAID Ebola recovery project dollars worldwide as of 2017, by obligation USAID Ebola recovery fund distribution worldwide as of 2017, by obligation
Fatality rate of West African Ebola compared to global major infectious diseases as of 2016Death rates of West African Ebola and major infectious diseases 2016
Ebola cases and deaths related to outbreaks in West African countries as of March 30, 2016*Ebola cases and deaths in West African outbreak by country 2016
Number of Ebola cases from the West African outbreak as of March 30, 2016Ebola cases from West Africa outbreak by country 2016
Number of Ebola deaths from the West African outbreak as of March 30, 2016Ebola deaths from West Africa outbreak by country 2016
Number of Ebola cases related to the West African outbreak from July 2014 to March 2016, by country*Number of Ebola cases from West Africa outbreak by country July 2014-March 2016
Number of Ebola deaths related to the West African outbreak from July 2014 to March 2016, by country*Number of Ebola deaths from West Africa outbreak by country July 2014-March 2016
Ebola cases and deaths among health care workers due to the outbreaks in West African countries as of November 4, 2015Ebola cases/deaths among health care workers in West Africa outbreak by country 2015
Number of confirmed Ebola cases in West African countries by gender (as of November 4, 2015)*Confirmed Ebola cases in West African countries by gender 2015
Number of learning hours lost due to Ebola virus disease school closures in West Africa as of February 2015, by countrySchool learning hours lost due to Ebola in West African countries 2015, by country
Macro-economic impacts of the Ebola virus disease in West Africa from 2014 to 2017 (in million U.S. dollars)Economic impact of the Ebola in West Africa 2014 to 2017
Macro-economic impacts of the Ebola virus disease in Guinea from 2014 to 2017 (in million U.S. dollars)Economic impact of the Ebola outbreak in Guinea 2014 to 2017
Macro-economic impacts of the Ebola virus disease in Liberia from 2014 to 2017 (in million U.S. dollars)Economic impact of the Ebola outbreak in Liberia 2014 to 2017
Macro-economic impacts of the Ebola virus disease in Sierra Leone from 2014 to 2017 (in million U.S. dollars)Economic impact of the Ebola in Sierra Leone 2014 to 2017
Percentage of Guinea residents that believed they were at risk for Ebola as of 2015Risk perceptions for Ebola virus infection among Guinea residents as of 2015
Percentage of Guinea residents that took select Ebola prevention measures as of August 2015Ebola prevention practices among Guinea residents as of August 2015
Percentage of Guinea residents that knew select Ebola prevention and transmission guidelines as of 2015Knowledge of Ebola prevention among Guinea residents as of 2015
Percentage of Guinea residents that believed select misconceptions about Ebola transmission, prevention and treatment as of 2015Misconceptions about Ebola transmission and prevention in Guinea as of 2015
Percentage of Guinea residents that had select attitudes towards Ebola survivors as of 2015Attitudes towards Ebola survivors in Guinea as of 2015
Ebola cases and deaths in South Sudan 1976 outbreak, by location
Number of Ebola cases in the DRC during the 2018-2019 outbreak, by province
Estimated economic impact of Ebola in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone 2015
Brazil: deaths due to Dengue fever 2017-2018
Brazil: confirmed Dengue fever cases 2018, by region & severity
Brazil: confirmed Dengue fever cases 2017-2018, by severity level
Brazil: confirmed Dengue fever cases 2017-2018
Brazil: number of cases of Chikungunya 2017-2018, by region
Brazil: number of deaths due to Chikungunya virus 2018, by region
Brazil: number of cases of Chikungunya 2016-2017, by state
Number of whooping cough cases in Sweden 2018, by age group
Peru: reported AIDS cases 2006-2017
Peru: reported AIDS cases 2006-2017, by gender
Peru: AIDS cases 2017, by age & gender
Incidence rate AIDS Japan 2007-2016
Annual costs for emergency rabies responses among humans in the U.S. as of 2017-2018
Environmentally caused disease in DALYs in MENA by type 2016
Number of malaria cases across Meghalaya in India 2014-2018
Number of HIV infection cases in Sweden 2018, by gender
Sales volume of vehicle brake parts in the United Kingdom (UK) 2010-2016
Global Pharmaceutical Industry
HIV/AIDS worldwide
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)
Disease in Canada
Communicable diseases in the United Kingdom (UK)
Cardiovascular disease in the U.S.
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in the U.S.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in the U.S.
Kidney disease in the U.S.
Cerebrovascular disease in the U.S.
Bleeding disorders in the U.S.
Liver disease in the U.S.
Hepatitis in the U.S.
Mosquito-borne diseases in the U.S.
Lyme disease in the U.S.
Foodborne illness in the U.S.
Number of cases and deaths from Ebola virus outbreaks between 1976 and 2018, by country
Death rates of the 5 known Ebola virus species in the period 1976-2012*
Key epidemiological information on the Ebola virus disease as of 2014 (in days)
Key health and economic facts on countries most affected by the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak*
Physician density in West African countries suffering from the 2014 Ebola outbreak (per 100,000 population)
Daily number of deaths in West African countries suffering from Ebola in 2014, by selected diseases
Number of USAID Ebola recovery projects as of September 2017, by status and location
Distribution of USAID Ebola recovery project dollars worldwide as of 2017, by obligation
Amount of USAID Ebola recovery project dollars that were dedicated to select obligations worldwide as of 2017 (in million U.S. dollars)
Fatality rate of West African Ebola compared to global major infectious diseases as of 2016
Ebola cases and deaths related to outbreaks in West African countries as of March 30, 2016*
Number of Ebola cases from the West African outbreak as of March 30, 2016
Number of Ebola deaths from the West African outbreak as of March 30, 2016
Number of Ebola cases related to the West African outbreak from July 2014 to March 2016, by country*
Number of Ebola deaths related to the West African outbreak from July 2014 to March 2016, by country*
Ebola cases and deaths among health care workers due to the outbreaks in West African countries as of November 4, 2015
Number of confirmed Ebola cases in West African countries by gender (as of November 4, 2015)*
Number of Ebola survivors from the 2014-2016 outbreak in West Africa as of 2016, by country
Status of Ebola outbreak response by key performance indicators in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone (as of January 21, 2015)
Leading donors to the World Health Organization's (WHO) West African Ebola response worldwide 2015-2016 (in U.S. dollars)
Number of learning hours lost due to Ebola virus disease school closures in West Africa as of February 2015, by country
Macro-economic impacts of the Ebola virus disease in West Africa from 2014 to 2017 (in million U.S. dollars)
Macro-economic impacts of the Ebola virus disease in Guinea from 2014 to 2017 (in million U.S. dollars)
Macro-economic impacts of the Ebola virus disease in Liberia from 2014 to 2017 (in million U.S. dollars)
Macro-economic impacts of the Ebola virus disease in Sierra Leone from 2014 to 2017 (in million U.S. dollars)
Percentage of Guinea residents that believed they were at risk for Ebola as of 2015
Percentage of Guinea residents that took select Ebola prevention measures as of August 2015
Percentage of Guinea residents that knew select Ebola prevention and transmission guidelines as of 2015
Percentage of Guinea residents that believed select misconceptions about Ebola transmission, prevention and treatment as of 2015
Percentage of Guinea residents that had select attitudes towards Ebola survivors as of 2015
Ebola cases and deaths related to the 1976 outbreak in South Sudan, by location
Number of Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) during the 2018-2019 outbreak, by province
Estimated economic impact of Ebola in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone during 2015 (in million U.S. dollars)
Number of deaths due to confirmed Dengue virus infections in Brazil in 2017 and 2018
Number of confirmed Dengue virus infections in Brazil in 2018, by region and degree of severity
Number of confirmed Dengue virus infections in Brazil in 2017 and 2018, by degree of severity
Number of confirmed Dengue virus infections in Brazil in 2017 and 2018
Number of probable cases of Chikungunya virus infections reported in Brazil in 2017 and 2018, by region (in 1,000s)
Number of confirmed and suspected deaths due to Chikungunya virus in Brazil in 2018, by region
Number of probable cases of Chikungunya virus infections reported in Brazil in 2016 and 2017, by state
Number of whooping cough cases in Sweden in 2018, by age group
Number of reported acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) cases in Peru from 2006 to 2017
Number of reported acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) cases in Peru from 2006 to 2017, by gender
Number of reported cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in Peru in 2017, by age group and gender
Incidence rate for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in Japan from 2007 to 2016 (per 100,000 population)
Annual costs associated with emergency rabies responses among humans in the U.S. as of 2017-2018*
Environmental fraction of total burden of disease in disability-adjusted life years in the Middle East and North Africa in 2016, by type
Number of malaria cases across Meghalaya in India between 2014 and 2018
Number of HIV infection cases in Sweden in 2018, by gender
Vehicle brake parts sales volume in the United Kingdom (UK) between 2010 and 2016 (in kilograms sold)
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Apple iPhone unit sales worldwide 2007-2018, by quarter
Global market share held by smartphone operating systems 2009-2018, by quarter
Smartphone users in India 2015-2022
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Software›
Commercial value of unlicensed PC software installation in Romania 2009-2017
Commercial value of unlicensed computer software installations in Romania from 2009 to 2017 (in million U.S. dollars)
by S. O'Dea, last edited Nov 21, 2018
This statistic shows the commercial value of unlicensed computer software installations in Romania from 2009 to 2017. In 2017, the commercial value of unlicensed PC software installations amounted to roughly 151 million U.S. dollars.
Commercial value in million U.S. dollars
Telephone interviews and online survey
The survey was conducted globally among 20,000 home and enterprise PC users as well as 2,200 IT managers. The source does not specify the individual number of respondents for Romania.
Number of media piracy site visits worldwide 2018, by country
Illegal digital film consumption in the UK 2012-2018
Illegal digital music consumption in the United Kingdom (UK) 2012-2018
Digital content behavior in the UK as of 2018
Statistics on "Illegal media consumption in the United Kingdom (UK)"
Online services and software usage
Consumption behavior
Consumer demographics and attitudes
Number of visits to media piracy sites worldwide in 2018, by country (in billions)Number of media piracy site visits worldwide 2018, by country
Distribution of paid and free digital content consumed in the United Kingdom (UK) as of March 2018, by typeDistribution of paid and free digital content consumed in the UK in 2018, by type
Legal and illegal distribution of digital media content consumed in the United Kingdom (UK) as of May 2018, by typeLegal and illegal split of digital content consumed in the UK 2018, by type
Have you consumed any type of digital media illegally in the past three months?*Illegal digital media content consumption in the UK 2012-2018
Which sites or services have you used in the past three months stream/access, or share films through the internet?Leading digital film services used by copyright infringers in the UK 2018
Leading services used for digital television consumption among copyright infringers in the United Kingdom (UK) as of May 2018Leading online television services used among copyright infringers in the UK 2018
Which sites or services have you used in the past three months to stream/access, or share music tracks or albums through the internet?Online music services used among copyright infringers in the United Kingdom (UK) 2018
Use of uTorrent to consume or share digital content in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2012 to 2018, by legality groupuTorrent use to consume digital content in the UK 2012-2018, by legality group
Use of cyberblocker services to consume or share digital content in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2012 to 2017, by legality group*Cyberblocker services use to consume or share digital content in the UK 2012-2017
Have you ever done the following with any type of digital content?Digital content behavior in the UK as of 2018
Have you consumed the following type of digital content legally or illegally?Legality of digital content consumption in the United Kingdom (UK) as of May 2018
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Coming to terms with six years in science: obsession, isolation, and moments of wonder
By Justin Chen
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There’s a vision people have of graduate students, particularly those from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that conjures quirky expertise — someone with enthusiasm, confidence, ingenuity. I was not one of those students.
The night after my thesis defense, falling asleep in bed, I reviewed the past six years of my life. I thought of the first time that I saw fish and frog embryos, and the gleaming, wooden table where my adviser and I had hourslong conversations about biology. I thought about the experiments and obsession and isolation. I saw my 20s passing by in a flash and wondered: Was it worth it?
I had come to MIT to study developmental biology. I wanted to understand how an embryo grows — how an eye, brain, or tail emerges from a formless lump of cells. Under the microscope, I watched cells crawling over and under each other, forming hollow tubes and staggered sheets of tissue as the soft architecture of the body took shape.
In the laboratory, I felt like I understood life. It wasn’t just the brutal desire to survive — the panic and hunger of prey and predator — but also the logic of cells and their compulsion for order.
The scientists I worked alongside had their compulsions as well. Obsessed with our projects, we worked 60 to 90 hours a week. Together, we normalized our monomania. At times it was beautiful — a force building upon itself to generate new ideas and discoveries. But academia also enabled our worst workaholic impulses.
I usually went into the lab over the weekend. Without a break, the days and even weeks blurred together. Was it Wednesday or Thursday? What time was lab meeting? Occasionally, I would leave the Whitehead Institute, where I was conducting my research, to attend a seminar in another building. Arriving 10 minutes early, I sat in an empty auditorium congratulating myself for being on time. As the minutes passed I wondered where the speaker and audience were. Only when I reread my email to check the room number did I realize that the talk had been scheduled for the following Thursday.
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For me, the best timekeepers were the cars in the parking garage, which I watched from my window on the fourth floor of the Whitehead. Late in the afternoon, just as I was vowing to go home, I would begin labeling test tubes. I was fooling myself into believing that I was on the cusp of a breakthrough or that I would only do the first step of an experiment, after which I would do the second and third and so on. My compulsion was only stopped by headlights — a thin, quavering line that swept clockwise through the room and flared into my eyes: My whole world was lit up by a flying car about to crash through the window. Then the vehicle turned down the ramp, continuing its descent out of the garage. I was left in the dark, my heart thumping, startled back into time.
My girlfriend, Samantha (a pseudonym I’ll use with her understanding), and I argued over my work habits. I was rarely on time to dinner or anywhere else; if I was, I made a grand proclamation and fished for compliments. Sticking to a schedule was difficult because each experiment was different and some of them could only start once the laboratory frogs had laid their eggs. If I was in a rush, inevitably some never-before-seen issue would arise and ruin my plans. As graduate students we joked: However long you think an experiment will take, double it and add 15 minutes.
But many times the issue wasn’t the experiment, it was me. I couldn’t bear to tell Samantha how long my work would actually take, so I offered an estimate that was unrealistically ambitious, half-convincing myself in the process. Then, at the last minute, I would call to say that I would be late.
When I arrived home, I often found Samantha reading on the couch in the middle of our studio apartment.
“Do you know how stupid I feel waiting for you?” she asked.
“Well, I’m here so let’s do something,” I said. Why were we spending the few hours we had arguing about how little time we spent together?
“I’m lonely,” she said.
Sometimes I stood behind her and rubbed her shoulders. Other times I suggested that she pick up a hobby or spend more time with friends.
Years later, after our relationship had ended, Samantha recalled solitary evenings and nights. “I just so badly wanted to spend that time with you,” she said, “that I didn’t reach out to other people in case our plans fell through.”
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The underside of a zebrafish embryo larvae with its cartilage stained blue. Justin Chen
When I entered graduate school, I was prepared for long hours, but I was surprised by how bleak the job market was. For the other graduate students and myself, the reality of academia’s open secret gradually sunk in: A large majority of us would not fulfill the main goal of our education — to become independent research scientists and open our own labs. There were too many of us and too few tenure-track positions.
At a panel on finding academic jobs, a postdoctoral researcher I admired stood up on stage. He was an expert in protein biology and had published a few high-profile papers. “To be honest, I’m not sure why I’m on this panel,” he said. “I’ve spent the past year applying to jobs without hearing back from anyone. But, hey, maybe I can teach you what not to do.”
The biology department also hosted panels on “alternative careers” in industry, patent law, science writing, and science policy. We attended, but kept our plans secret from our advisers out of fear that they would take us less seriously. Better to make it seem like we weren’t interested in networking or volunteering on the side. We also knew that our advisers might see our choices as a reflection on themselves — that they had, in some way, failed to train or inspire us properly. There was the feeling of not wanting to disappoint a parent.
Halfway through graduate school, I realized that I preferred writing to performing experiments.
I had studied creative writing as an undergraduate and missed the empathy that writing and reading required. Biomedical research, by its nature, asks how but not why. How do nerve cells store memories? How do plants use sunlight to make sugar? The why of all this, which requires understanding the motivations of cells and interpreting billions of years of evolution, is difficult to answer. Novels and short stories asked why, and the answers were the contradictory hopes and desires of their characters. When I read, I lost myself in the protagonists: Vietnamese refugees in the 1970s, poets plotting a kidnapping, teenagers struggling with addiction at a fictional tennis academy. No matter how alien their lives were, I saw pieces of myself in them, and their experiences became as vivid as my actual memories.
Looking through hundreds of pictures of embryos that I had painstakingly taken or spreadsheets of measurements, I felt a quantitative grandeur but nothing that struck me in the heart.
Once, while snacking in the fourth floor lunchroom, I retrieved a crumpled piece of paper from the floor. Someone had written “The Future Was Here.” It could have been a playful paradox — the future as something that could never be caught except for this instance. Or time wrapping back on itself so that the future brushed by like a ghost, unnoticed by the present. But there was also a melancholy interpretation — some place, a lab or institute or country, once full of cutting-edge research sinking into obscurity.
Samantha and I played a game where we turned everyday phrases into titles of books. In the evening, during dinner or just before bed, we announced our findings.
“A manageable walking distance,” I said, “a surprisingly readable debut novel.”
“More of the same,” she replied, “the long-awaited short story collection.”
“The future was here,” I said. “A collection of personal essays by Justin Chen.”
A view of the author’s notes on embryonic development. Courtesy Justin Chen
My adviser had a saying: You have to believe that Sisyphus was happy. It was a reference to the grind of research — weeks of preparation, building anticipation, and careful execution — that often ended in failure. Most of the time, the researcher had erred and would puzzle over which of the dozens of steps could have gone wrong. Perhaps the embryos hadn’t been preserved in formaldehyde properly or the stocks of DNA had degraded. Other times the mistake was obvious. Across the hall from me, a woman had spent several months coaxing stem cells to grow into neurons. Her efforts were wasted when a nocturnal power outage shut down the machinery keeping the cells alive.
After the worst failures we vowed to quit. Why do we do this to ourselves? we asked. But usually, by the next day, we were back, ready to begin pushing our boulder up the hill again.
During the second half of my Ph.D., I began experiencing weeklong bouts of fatigue. I had been spending more and more of my time alone, mostly in windowless rooms performing
The author in New York City, winter 2013. Courtesy Justin Chen
experiments and listening to the negative voices in my head. Slowly, I was losing the will to socialize or even come into work. Waking in the morning, my limbs felt extremely dense but floppy. It took all my concentration to stand and dress myself.
The lab, due to a lack of funding, had shrunk down to two scientists. The postdocs I relied on for advice and encouragement were moving on — some of them uprooting their families to different states and countries in search for jobs. It seemed as if they were here one day before vanishing instantaneously and leaving their detritus behind: old test tubes still clanking against each other on the shaker machine, cans of Coke hidden in the bottom drawer of their desk, to-do lists and cartoons taped to the wall.
I spent days at home in bed with Samantha’s cat, Moe Howard, curled beside me or purring on my chest. I trained him to respond to his name and discovered that he liked to play fetch with an earplug. Mostly we slept.
The week between Christmas and New Year’s, I slept 12 to 16 hours a day. When I awoke my head was buzzing and heavy, the same numb weight of a hand that has lost its circulation. I had the dazed conviction that I was forgetting something important. By chance, I discovered a partial cure: eating grapefruit or lemons. Their sourness puckered my tongue, tensed my body, and built to a flashing pressure in my mind. When the sensation ended, I had been yanked back into the alertness. A few days later, I biked to lab, still not quite myself, but ready to start the uphill push once again.
After defending my thesis, I spent several more months in the laboratory. During that time Samantha, for reasons other than my life as a scientist, ended our four-year relationship. “There was nothing more you could have done,” she said. But I saw, with a doomed clarity, all the times that I had left her alone and how I would not have the chance to make up for it.
In her absence, experiments took on a new importance — not as a way to learn but to carry out rituals.
I was soothed by the mundane and the meticulous: the puff of chilled vapor when opening the freezer or the snap of a test tube’s lid. Hunched over a microscope, I spent an entire day performing surgery on frog embryos. They were beige and shaped like kidney beans — mostly formless except for a groove, the premonition of a spine, running down their backs. With a pair of fine glass needles in either hand and minuscule movements, I turned the embryos from side to side. What strange lives, not yet marked by thought or memory, contained between my fingertips.
What I remember most about my final weeks as a scientist are the runs from the laboratory back to my apartment. It seemed like I was emerging from a prison, a sanctuary, a home, someone else’s life.
My first few strides take me out of the Whitehead’s sterile air into a summer evening of wind and moisture. The small park on my way home is dotted with families and young couples enjoying the fading light. A father hands water balloons to his daughter. She wears goggles that are too big for her head and throws the balloons at her feet laughing uncontrollably.
What I like most of all is to catch glimpses of people in restaurants. At Bukowski’s the windows are open. The air is thick with the smell of grease and meat. I haven’t seen a human face in hours and each smile shared by friends across a table seems to explode out of their face with a mystical import. I can feel that people are happy. It’s a small vision — a couple leaning in closer together or a large bald man laughing with his head back and accidentally hitting the woman behind him or people turning in amazement when the food arrives. A great tenderness washes over me. They all seem like children, their lives uncomplicated and ephemeral.
When I think back on my life as a graduate student, I see myself from a distance like one of the diners in the restaurant.
In my mind, I am floating outside the fourth floor of the Whitehead Institute seconds before a car’s headlights pierce the darkness. Through the window, I see my younger self poring over a stack of notes. He is mumbling under his breath while reviewing the growth of an embryo: the grinding of cells dividing against each other, the first exploratory sloshing of blood through veins, the somnolent somatic dream of a fluid life. He still thinks that he will be on time to dinner with his girlfriend. He is on the verge of a breakthrough. My heart fills with compassion for him. Of the future, I would tell him nothing.
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Justin Chen is an external affairs associate at OpenBiome and a former AAAS mass media fellow at STAT.
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Kristen Veggeberg says:
I’m starting to feel like Neo in ‘The Matrix’ after finishing my doctorate in Education while working for a massive nonprofit organization. The vast majority of people in my field know that academia is a long shot, so they are already setting their sights on non-tenure track positions in which the Ph.D behind their names will still hold sway. Jobs like school principals (which, if you’re part of a union, pay better then most professor gigs!), nonprofit directors, superintendents, and researchers are all on the table for us as careers. Having this security in our future has helped a lot of us emotionally and psychologically as we devote long nights and days away from our friends and family.
I wish more academic programs were like this, where younger academics know that there are possibilities for work and life outside of the lab.
Thomas F Hilton, PhD says:
I find this story to be a sad tale. I hope it does not discourage too many budding scientists. Clearly, the author chose the wrong vocational path and pursued it far too long before realizing the mistake. My personal feeling is that if your work is not your passion, you need to change course. I see too many students who are getting PhDs who have no idea what they want to be when they grow up. Then they are shocked when passed over for a tenure-track job and clueless about why. If you have no career development plan by your masters (2nd year), you will likely wind up living life on food stamps as an adjunct or a lab assistant until you quit and find your passion.
My career, including grad school, was a 44-year adventure. I would likely still be working had my work not been disrupted by eldercare responsibilities on two continents. Even retired 6 years, I still consult, mentor, and publish. I attribute all the joy of my career to pursuing my scientific passion. Yes, I started out as a lab-gofer (slave?) for subsistence wages. That goes with the apprenticeship model of science. However, my spouse and I retired to a dream house on the beach where we are currently studying happilyeverafter.
Daniel PhD student says:
I hope your comment doesn’t discourage too many humans from pursuing happiness and a productive life. Your comment seems like a toxic case of survivor bias. There are not enough TT positions for all the people with great science passion.
Anyhow, academia enables you to really hurt yourself in pursuit of your great passion, and once you start it’s hard to get out without feeling like crap. Science is only 4th best to health, family and love. Striking the balance is very hard, and it is great that this conversation is getting more spotlight. I’m still pursuing my PhD and academic career, I have a great passion for science, but I also learned the hard way what academia allows you to do to yourself and your loved ones.
Daniel, you must be reading Larry Shermer. I never viewed my career as a battle for survival, and all of my classmates made out just fine, although none wound up teaching at Harvard or Stanford. I always viewed my career as just a series of positions with increasing influence because somebody thought I would make a good boss. If you see your future in terms of a battle for survival, it will likely become self-fulfilling toxicity. Change course while you can.
There have never been enough TT jobs, and it is likely that the number will continue to shrink as new modes of education develop. Keep in mind that you likely view TT jobs as the career ultimate because all your role models are tenured professors. I fell into that trap myself until two years later when I was recruited to lead an applied lab.
I have several friends who had scant interest in an academic career, but who later became endowed chairs. They never even applied for an academic job after graduating. Once they established their leadership in their field, they were invited to apply for an academic position. That is the coolest way to get into academics—instant tenure. In every case, the move to teaching looked like an interesting opportunity to pursue new ideas, spend more time thinking and writing. I never heard any of them speak in terms of competition. So, even if you do not get that TT job. Find a position in the public or private sector, demonstrate leadership in your field, and see what happens next. Life is an adventure – really.
Gary DeBacher Ph.D. says:
I did my Ph.D. research in the University of Pennsylvania psychology department in the latter 60’s. It was, and remains, an excellent department where graduate students are not exploited as laborers. The faculty warned us that job opportunities were becoming hard to obtain due to the cost of the Vietnam War. I shifted into clinical psychology, and became a sort of “medical” psychologist by virtue of working in hospital settings throughout my career. Both clinical and research psychology are overcrowded at present. One may do better to put off the Ph.D. and enter in an assistant role for an innovative and supportive mentor. I feel I was always better as an innovative lab assistant than as one who conducted set-piece grant-funded studies.
dipthroat says:
The science career market has been broken for quite sometime. PhD students are just cheap labor, and academic institutions have the interest to keep creating those positions, even though both the academic and industry market can adsorb just a fraction of the PhDs created every year.
On the other hand, these days, it seems that PhD titles are a given just because the students spent a number of years working on them. As well as, there is a tide of PhDs, and PhD students from underdeveloped countries whose level of preparation is, at least, questionable. And yet, there is a title equivalency without any kind of filtering or threshold.
The fix, would be pretty simple though. A Drastic reduction of PhD student positions that can be created, and a more stringent assessment of the PhD students achievements and their worth as scientists.
But, of course, it is not in the interests of whom is in charge to decide.
PS: and don’t get me started on those huge labs in famous institutions, with a plethora of slaves that end up saturating the job market, thank also to inflated publication records.
Roger Good says:
I did a PhD in the 1990s. I had worked after getting my Masters and knew that I wanted to go back to industry. The PhD industry is mostly a racket that supplies researchers with slave labor. In addition most of these researchers are doing not very original work. Many of the students don’t realize that they don’t have a chance of getting an academic position. I am now happily working as a medical writer/consultant (self-employed). The title Dr. opened many doors for me, but people should be aware of what they are getting in to. My personal feeling is that 80% of the researchers in the field of Biology could retire tomorrow and it would make absolutely no difference to the advance of science.
Larry R. says:
My son just finished his PhD at another school in a field similar to yours but more in chemistry. He now works for a pharmaceutical company and still has 16 hour days. His stories do match yours with a significant exception. He and his girlfriend have stayed together. They will be getting married!
I’m forwarding your story to him and encourage him to share his metamorphosis from a fascinated Lego and orogomy enthusiast to developing medication delivery systems.
Thank you for sharing, Larry
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Michigan University Allegedly Revokes Christian Group’s Status Because Its Leaders Must Affirm Christianity
Source: The Daily Wire, By HANK BERRIEN, March 7, 2018
A Christian student group at a Michigan university allegedly had its constitution revoked and its Bible meetings canceled by the university because the group requires its leaders to affirm their faith.
The InterVarsity Christian Fellowship student group at Wayne State University, which has been on the campus for 75 years, is filing suit against the university. A statement from Becket, a non-profit religious liberty law firm representing the plaintiffs, asserted:
School officials stripped them of official recognition just because the group requires its leaders to affirm their faith. Wayne State has over 400 student groups that contribute to its intellectual and cultural diversity, all of which are free to select leaders who embrace their missions—except, suddenly, one Christian student group. InterVarsity welcomes all students to its meetings and to join as members. It requires only that its leaders believe in and live out its faith. Yet in 2017, Wayne State rejected the group’s constitution, derecognized InterVarsity, and cancelled all of InterVarsity reserved meetings.
As Nikita Vladimirov writes at Campus Reform, “According to the law firm, the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship chapter at Wayne State has held weekly meetings, including Bible studies and prayer vigils, and organized various community service opportunities on campus for over seven decades.”
Lori Windham, Senior Legal Counsel at Becket, argued, “Asking religious leaders to practice what they preach isn’t discrimination, it’s integrity. Targeting one Christian group that’s served the campus for over 75 years, while giving itself and dozens of larger groups a pass is truly discriminatory.”
The lawsuit charges, “As an arm of the state of Michigan, Wayne State is subject to Michigan anti-discrimination law, which prohibits religious discrimination in educational institutions. Michigan state officials have a duty and an obligation to follow state and federal law, but those laws are being violated with impunity by Wayne State and its officials, and higher Michigan state officials in Lansing have a duty to stop them. “
Becket noted that Intervarsity was being held to a different standard than other groups: “For example, the Secular Student Alliance can require its leaders to profess secular beliefs, the Students for Life group can require leaders to be pro-life, and Students for a Democratic Society can require its leaders to support its political view.”
Wayne State responded with this statement to Campus Reform:
Wayne State University took action to decertify the student organization InterVarsity because it is in violation of the university’s non-discrimination policy, which is consistent with the United States Constitution. Every student organization that applies for organizational status must agree to this policy before being certified. Leaders of this group read and agreed to the policy during the application process.
The university is obliged and committed to protecting the constitutional and religious rights of everyone on our campus. Attaining official student organization status is a privilege rather than a right, and is conditional on compliance with our policy of nondiscrimination and equal opportunity.
We have taken every step possible to minimize the impact of the decertification on the group, and we approached InterVarsity last December with an offer to work on a resolution to this matter. Our offer still stands. Any such solution will be guided by our desire to reinstate the group’s organization status while adhering to our nondiscrimination policy.
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The Wailers at The Jefferson Theater
By Jason RedFebruary 22, 2018The Wailers
Arriving at the tail end of a typical Virginia wintry mix of sleet, freezing rain and fog, The Wailers’ bus rolled into Charlottesville, Virginia, for An Evening with the Wailers at The Jefferson Theater. With some delays in band members’ arrival due to weather, an unplanned but most enjoyable opening acoustic segment was performed by Junior Jazz (Wendel Ferraro), the band’s rhythm guitar player. Bob Marley’s portfolio is extensive, and Jazz pulled out a few lesser-known tunes that were a delight to the audience.
Junior Jazz lit the fuse, and when the full band hit the stage the audience was ready for fireworks. Charlottesville loves its reggae music, and despite the weather the house was near capacity. Josh David Barrett, freshly engaged, was particularly full of energy and led the band through our favorite Bob Marley hits with his enthusiastic delivery. Donald Kinsey tore it up on lead guitar with several solos; of particular note was a spine-tingling cover of “Johnny B. Goode.” Aston Barrett, Jr., on drums, Owen “Dreadie” Reid laying down bass and the talented Ann Marie Thompson on backup vocals rounded out the band.
This group is special in that members include musicians from the original Wailers band, and their pride and commitment are evident in their performances. If interested, you can read more about them here. It’s a thrill to even be in a room with these legends and a treat to experience them live.
Just two days before on February 5th would have been Bob Marley’s 73rd birthday. Bob wanted his music to continue; it’s a sure thing he’s smiling on his Original Wailers and proud of their commitment to his legacy. We fans certainly are.
Photos: Jody Carbone
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Unlike his other films, Good News is not about a social cause, says Akshay Kumar
Updated Aug 02, 2018 | 08:46 IST | IANS
Akshay Kumar will pair up with Kareena Kapoor Khan for Dharma Production's Good News. The movie also stars Diljit Dosanjh and Kiara Advani and will be a directorial debut of Raj Mehta.
Akshay Kumar to star in Good News (Courtesy: @akshaykumar) | Photo Credit: Twitter
Mumbai: Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar, who has signed Dharma Productions Good News, on Wednesday said that the coming film has nothing to do with any social cause.
Akshay was interacting with the media at his film Gold's IMAX format trailer and poster launch along with co-actors Mouni Roy, Vineet Kumar Singh, Amit Sadh, Kunal Kapoor, Sunny Kaushal and producer Ritesh Sidhwani in Mumbai.
Akshay was replying to question whether it was his conscious decision to do content- driven films late in his career. "No... I am doing all kinds of movies. Now, I am shooting for Housefull 4 and that film is not going to deliver any social message.
"The only message it's going to give is that you should laugh more often. Similarly, I am doing Good News and there are many other things which I am doing which does not have anything to do with social cause..."
Asked whether he will ever feature in a movie or a web series broadcasted by online streaming giants like Amazon or Netflix, he said: "At the moment, I am just seeing myself on the Imax format, which is huge. But you never know... I may say if I get something good to do, I may, but I don't know as of now."
On what drives him to do patriotic movies as people called him "modern-day Bharat Kumar", he said: "There are so many things which I do... they all are very close to my heart. That is why I am doing so. There is no one particular genre or reason why I am doing a certain kind of film. They are very close... whether it's Toilet - Ek Prem Katha, Pad Man or Airlift or Gold..."
Good News is laugh riot, family drama in which Akshay and Kareena Kapoor Khan are playing a married couple and trying for a baby.
The Raj Mehta directorial also stars Diljit Dosanjh and Kiara Advani, playing a Punjabi married couple trying for a baby as well.
Producer Karan Johar is yet to make an official announcement about the film. It is expected to go on the floor by the end of this year.
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The Quiet Cruelty of When Harry Met Sally
Megan Garber
The classic rom-com invented the “high-maintenance” woman. Thirty years later, its reductive diagnosis lives on.
There’s a scene midway through When Harry Met Sally that finds the rom-com’s title couple, one evening, in bed—separate beds, each in their respective apartments, shown on a split screen. The will-they-or-won’t-they best friends, currently in the won’t-they stage of things, are talking on the phone as they watch Casablanca on TV. “Ingrid Bergman,” Harry muses. “Now she’s low-maintenance.”
“Low-maintenance?” Sally asks.
“There are two kinds of women,” Harry explains, anticipating her question: “high-maintenance and low-maintenance.”
“And Ingrid Bergman is low-maintenance?”
“An L-M, definitely,” Harry replies.
“Which one am I?”
Harry has anticipated this question, too—of course Sally would wonder. “You’re the worst kind,” he says, coolly. “You’re high-maintenance, but you think you’re low-maintenance.”
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What Americans Do Now Will Define Us Forever
If multiracial democracy cannot be defended in America, it will not be defended elsewhere.
The conservative intelligentsia flocked to the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C., this week for the National Conservatism Conference, an opportunity for people who may never have punched a time clock to declare their eternal enmity toward elites and to attempt to offer contemporary conservative nationalism the intellectual framework that has so far proved elusive.
Yoram Hazony, the Israeli scholar who organized the conference, explicitly rejected white nationalism, barring several well-known adherents from attending, my colleague Emma Green reported. But despite Hazony’s efforts, the insistence that “nationalism” is, at its core, about defending borders, eschewing military interventions, and promoting a shared American identity did not prevent attendees from explicitly declaring that American laws should favor white immigrants.
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What Is the Apollo 11 Landing Site Like Now?
Marina Koren
The American flag is bleached white. But some of the boot prints could remain undisturbed for tens of thousands of years.
About 4.5 billion years ago, according to the most popular theory of the moon’s formation, a mysterious rocky world the size of Mars slammed into Earth. From the fiery impact, shards swirled and fused into a new, airless world, itself bombarded with rocky objects. In the absence of the smoothing touch of weather and tectonic activity, every dent remained. And then, one day, among craters both microscopic and miles-wide, two guys came along and stepped on the surface, carving new hollows with their boots.
Buzz Aldrin, seeing the moon from the surface for the first time, described it as “magnificent desolation.”
It was not so desolate when they departed. The Apollo 11 astronauts discarded gadgets, tools, and the clothesline contraption that moved boxes of lunar samples, one by one, from the surface into the module. They left behind commemorative objects—that resplendent American flag, mission patches and medals honoring fallen astronauts and cosmonauts, a coin-size silicon disk bearing goodwill messages from the world leaders of planet Earth. And they dumped things that weren’t really advertised to the public, for understandable reasons, such as defecation-collection devices. (Some scientists, curious to examine how gut microbes fare in low gravity, even proposed going back for these.)
Rachel Jessen
Trump’s Base Isn’t Enough
The president needs the voters who approve of his record on the economy but disapprove of him overall. His racist attacks this week only hurt that cause.
Buried beneath the blustery bravado of Donald Trump’s openly racist attacks on four Democratic congresswomen of color were clear signs of electoral anxiety.
Trump insists he is producing great results for the country, especially on the economy. And yet, at the price of provoking great backlash, he moved in an unprecedented manner this week to portray four nonwhite Democratic representatives as fundamentally un-American, not only ideologically, but also racially and ethnically.
In so doing, Trump has telegraphed that, ahead of 2020, he hopes to focus at least as much on the jagged divide of “Who is a real American?” as on the traditional question incumbent presidents seeking reelection highlight during generally good economic times: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?”
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The Future of the City Is Childless
Derek Thompson
America’s urban rebirth is missing something key—actual births.
A few years ago, I lived in a walkup apartment in the East Village of New York. Every so often descending the stairway, I would catch a glimpse of a particular family with young children in its Sisyphean attempts to reach the fourth floor. The mom would fold the stroller to the size of a boogie board, then drag it behind her with her right hand, while cradling the younger and typically crying child in the crook of her left arm. Meanwhile, she would shout hygiene instructions in the direction of the older child, who would slap both hands against every other grimy step to use her little arms as leverage, like an adult negotiating the boulder steps of Machu Picchu. It looked like hell—or, as I once suggested to a roommate, a carefully staged public service announcement against family formation.
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An Epidemic of Disbelief
Barbara Bradley Hagerty
What new research reveals about sexual predators, and why police fail to catch them
Robert Spada walked into the decrepit warehouse in Detroit and surveyed the chaos: Thousands of cardboard boxes and large plastic bags were piled haphazardly throughout the cavernous space. The air inside was hot and musty. Spada, an assistant prosecutor, saw that some of the windows were open, others broken, exposing the room to the summer heat. Above the boxes, birds glided in slow, swooping circles.
It was August 17, 2009, and this brick fortress of a building housed evidence that had been collected by the Detroit Police Department. Spada’s visit had been prompted by a question: Why were police sometimes unable to locate crucial evidence? The answer lay in the disarray before him.
‘It Makes Us Want to Support Him More’
Peter Nicholas
Amid a convulsive week in American politics, at one of the darkest rallies Donald Trump has ever held, his base showed up in force to tell the president he’s done nothing wrong.
GREENVILLE, N.C.—Before the rally began, I wanted to know why they’d come.
In the heavy, humid hours, I walked up and down the line winding through a parking lot at East Carolina University to interview some two dozen people who wanted to see the president. Many didn’t make it inside. About 90 minutes before Donald Trump took the stage, police announced that the 8,000-person basketball arena was full and those still waiting would have to watch on an oversize TV monitor set up outside. Rather than head home, they stuck around for a tailgate party of sorts.
Some cracked open beers and lit cigars, sitting on folding chairs in front of the TV. People walked by in shirts that read In Trump We Trust and Fuck Off, We’re Full. Earlier, in the 100-degree heat, a four-member family band called the Terry Train entertained the crowd with a song mocking CNN. Lying Wolf Blitzer and Lying John King. Don Lemon lies about everything … Erin Burnett, can you hear us yet? We’ll give you a story you can never forget. It built to this refrain: CNN sucks!
The Blind Spot of Beyoncé’s Lion King Soundtrack
Hannah Giorgis
The singer’s musical accompaniment for the new CGI remake neglects to include any artists from the region that inspired the film—a curious lapse in narrative fidelity.
On Tuesday night, Beyoncé made a bold, sentimental dedication. Speaking with ABC News’s Robin Roberts during a special program that aired ahead of the new Lion King’s release, the singer explained the motivations behind the compilation album she executive-produced as an accompaniment to the film. “This soundtrack is a love letter to Africa, and I wanted to make sure we found the best talent from Africa, and not just use some of the sounds and did my interpretation of it,” she said, of The Lion King: The Gift. “I wanted it to be authentic to what is beautiful about the music in Africa. ”
During the Roberts special, Beyoncé also premiered the video for her new song “Spirit,” which plays during the movie and is included on the album. “Spirit” begins with a Swahili chant that translates to “Long live the king.” (The song also appears on the film’s official soundtrack, which is otherwise rather similar to the 1994 version.) The music video is an unsurprisingly impressive production: Beyoncé belts the inspirational lyrics with gospel-like intensity as she stands flanked by impeccably styled dancers. Everything, in classic Knowles fashion, is precise. The background is by turns lush and arid; Beyoncé is pictured both near a waterfall and in the desert. The latter landscape is, of course, a familiar visual cue for works produced in (or inspired by) the continent. It’s hard to watch “Spirit” and not immediately recall, for example, Janet Jackson’s 1997 music video for “Together Again.”
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By Republican Standards, Almost Nothing Is Racist
When Democrats are accused of anti-Semitism, Republicans understand that coded language can be hurtful. But Trump’s racist comments get a pass.
Most of the time, conservatives and Republicans want the bar for what constitutes bigotry to be set extremely high. When President Donald Trump tweeted last weekend that four nonwhite Democrats in Congress should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” he offered a textbook example of racism. Trump’s own Equal Employment Opportunity Commission uses the phrase Go back to where you came from as one of its examples of discrimination based on national origin. Yet Trump insisted that “those Tweets were NOT Racist”—even as he doubled down on them by launching an attack on Representative Ilhan Omar that prompted rally-goers in North Carolina on Wednesday night to chant “Send her back!”
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The Economist Who Would Fix the American Dream
Gareth Cook
No one has done more to dispel the myth of social mobility than Raj Chetty. But he has a plan to make equality of opportunity a reality.
Raj Chetty got his biggest break before his life began. His mother, Anbu, grew up in Tamil Nadu, a tropical state at the southern tip of the Indian subcontinent. Anbu showed the greatest academic potential of her five siblings, but her future was constrained by custom. Although Anbu’s father encouraged her scholarly inclinations, there were no colleges in the area, and sending his daughter away for an education would have been unseemly.
But as Anbu approached the end of high school, a minor miracle redirected her life. A local tycoon, himself the father of a bright daughter, decided to open a women’s college, housed in his elegant residence. Anbu was admitted to the inaugural class of 30 young women, learning English in the spacious courtyard under a thatched roof and traveling in the early mornings by bus to a nearby college to run chemistry experiments or dissect frogs’ hearts before the men arrived.
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By Adam Luckwaldt
Most enlisted recruiting efforts focus on an occupational model and other benefits, but recruiting material for would-be officers tends to be more ambiguous, focusing on intangibles benefits like pride, sense of duty, and prestige. A banner on GoArmy.com’s front page asks, “Can you rise to the challenge?”
The work can’t get done without outstanding enlisted men and women, but the gap in responsibility between entry-level enlisted and a newly-commissioned lieutenant is pretty wide. It just wouldn’t do to have junior officers endangering the lives and welfare of their troops because they joined under the pretenses of a “me” culture.
Even the most selfless professional needs to look out for his or her own welfare, as well. If you’re torn between enlisting in the military or becoming a commissioned officer and want the scoop on “what’s in it for me,” here are a few of the tangible benefits officers enjoy.
The Post-9/11 GI Bill’s expanded benefits are very attractive if you’re not sure how to pay for higher education. Officers need a college degree just to start the job, so there’s no edge for them when it comes to educational benefits, right?
There are officer commissioning programs that can help pay for a bachelor’s degree in return for a service commitment. The service academies are tough to get into but offer a tuition-free education. Flunk out or get the boot for an honor violation, though, and you may be on the hook for enlisted service to pay back the tuition they wasted on you.
Current college students can also apply for Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) scholarships. You don’t necessarily need a scholarship to participate in ROTC and compete for a commission, but those who can secure the financial award will find it much easier on their wallets. There are even some schools that are entirely dominated by ROTC, like the Virginia Military Institute or Norwich University.
Last but not least, officers that got their commission outside a service academy or ROTC scholarship remain eligible for the Post-9/11 GI Bill, which can still be used to get a second bachelor’s, a graduate degree, or even transferred to a spouse or children.
Pay Differences
The manager makes more than the worker, plain and simple. An enlisted career accrues significant financial benefits with time, but commissioned officers come right out of the gate with more earning power.
Consider a brand new private (E-1) and a second lieutenant (O-1.) According to 2012 military pay charts, the lieutenant will start day one with nearly twice the private’s base pay per month, or an annual salary (excluding benefits) of $33,940.80 to the private’s $17,892.
Based on average time to promotion for enlisted and officers, assume the best-case scenario four years later: Our private is a sergeant and our lieutenant is a captain (O-3). The captain’s still making about twice as much money, but by now that means an annual salary of $60,372 versus just shy of $30,000.
Just remember:
Never make a military career decision based solely on pay. Military service isn’t just a job, it’s a calling. If you’re not down with the calling, you’re going to end up disgruntled no matter how much money they throw at you.
These figures completely ignore other benefits like healthcare, life insurance, and housing. All of that comes out-of-pocket in the civilian world, which means every penny of your base pay is inherently more valuable in the service.
As executive leaders, officers typically pay more out-of-pocket expenses than their enlisted counterparts, such as the initial cost of uniforms and living expenses at early professional training.
Career Flexibility & Diverse Experiences
A successful officer typically progresses from small unit management to larger and higher commands posts that, while more administrative and political in nature, also afford greater challenge, prestige, and influence.
Officers also find themselves taking on more diverse duties and roles instead of just specializing in their Military Occupational Specialty (MOS), which could offer refreshing new challenges and changes of scenery throughout a career. A pilot in the Marine Corps, for example, may pull time on the ground as a Forward Air Controller, where he’ll specialize in coordinating airstrikes and other support for the infantry.
Officers may also serve as attaches to top brass or civilian officials, or at the top of their careers even become Pentagon officials themselves. If you want to specialize in a certain occupation, a commission might not be for you. With a few exceptions, MOS assignments are often made after you’ve earned your commission and graduated initial training, with more emphasis on the needs of the service than your personal preference.
Job Prospects After Service
Veteran officers have two big advantages in the job market: a college degree and proven management experience. Though enlisted veterans may also earn degrees, and many are outstanding leaders, it seems a number of major companies are being “vet friendly” by ignoring the enlisted and targeting junior military officers –- lieutenants and captains.
Michael Dakduk covered the issue in 2010 for the Veteran Journal. This CNN Money article by Brian O’Keefe also explores a similar phenomenon at Walmart and offers some justification from the former commander of US forces in Afghanistan General David Petraeus.
While good ol’ Sergeant Luckwaldt here agrees with Dakduk’s reservations about underestimating the enlisted, it doesn’t change the fact that former military officers often have an edge with employers.
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Kenyan MP charged for slapping female colleague
Saturday June 15 2019
Wajir Woman representative, Ms Fatuma Gedi left bloodied after assault in Parliament
A Kenyan lawmaker was charged Friday with assault after allegedly slapping a female colleague shortly before the reading of the national budget, police said.
Fatuma Gedi -- who is on the budget committee -- accused fellow MP Rashid Kassim Amin of slapping her twice on Thursday for failing to allocate certain funds to his constituency.
"He said... 'you are stupid', and then he hit me. I was shocked, I could not believe it," Gedo told Citizen TV.
An image of her crying with her mouth bloodied was shared on social media.
Both lawmakers hail from the northeastern region of Wajir.
According to the charge sheet, Amin was charged with having "wilfully and unlawfully" assaulted Gedi.
Amin denied the charges against him, and was freed on bail until his next appearance on August 6.
House Speaker Justin Muturi said: "I have received the complaint from (Gedi), and I want to say that that is not acceptable, the matter has been referred to the police. Parliament has no room for criminals."Soon after the incident, female MPs waiting inside the house for the reading of the annual budget staged a walkout.
Another female MP Gladys Wanga described witnessing Amin "hurling insults ... which were followed by blows".
"I am shocked that women leaders can be attacked by none other than their male colleagues in this parliament. If we leaders are not safe, then how about our women and girls in the counties?" she told journalists outside the court Thursday.
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City keeps July 3 date for fireworks
by Promise Yee October 25, 2013 July 22, 2015 2 31
OCEANSIDE — City Council was clear that July 3 would be the date for its annual fireworks show and voted unanimously to approve the date Oct. 16.
City Council members referenced the spectacular July 3 show it held for its 125th anniversary last year.
“We started a new tradition for Oceanside and have outgrown the old one,” Councilwoman Esther Sanchez said.
Prior to last year’s fireworks show Oceanside had not had a fireworks display since 2008.
Former July 4 fireworks displays were launched from the waters off Oceanside Pier. Environmental concerns and a tight city budget did not allow for fireworks for the past three years.
In 2012 a healthier city budget enabled July 3 fireworks to return to a new location. They were set off at El Corazon Park and a section of Rancho Del Oro Road adjacent to the park was closed to provide a viewing area.
Due to the fireworks relocation police Chief Frank McCoy said July 3 would be “more manageable” for police security patrol.
“July 4th is a beach day,” McCoy said. “It’s a heavy staffing day for us. I would not recommend adding fireworks to that particular day.”
Council members shared some concerns about large crowds showing up for the July 3 city event and the sentiment of having fireworks on July 4th.
They also said business owners were supportive of the July 3 date for fireworks.
The El Corazon Park launch area is at a high elevation and allows residents in many areas of the city to see the fireworks from their neighborhoods.
No spectators were allowed on the 465-acre park that is still under development. A senior center is on site with 500 parking spaces, but it was closed during the fireworks display due to its close proximity to the fireworks launch area.
The closed section of Rancho Del Oro Road provided a viewing area for thousands of spectators. It also allowed space for food trucks to park and an entertainment stage.
Oceanside High School and El Camino High School bands provided entertainment. Sanchez said the bands were excellent and she would like to see them again at the next event.
“It was a great family event on a shoestring budget,” Sanchez said.
The anticipation is that when park development is completed park grounds would provide a great viewing area.
Currently temporary soccer fields are being developed at the park. City Manager Peter Weiss said they would not be completed by next July and part of Rancho Del Oro Road would be closed off again for viewing.
City Council suggestions were to add more traffic control and more food service.
Last year food trucks at the event and restaurants in the area ran out of food due to the larger than expected crowd.
“They didn’t anticipate so many people,” Sanchez said. “There were four food trucks and they all ran out of food.”
Councilman Jack Feller recommended additional traffic control to monitor traffic snarling illegal u-turns after the event.
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Lame!I can’t believe that you’re changing the tradition of Independence Day. Oceanside is a big military city and we should make the 4th of July a day to remember……with fireworks at the beach!
Vic July 3, 2014 at 10:41 pm
Lame they take them away from the beach. They move it from the 4 to 3. What’s next take the fireworks for good while at it take are freedom lol.
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Television Sara MacIntyre: Canadian TV's newest villain
John Doyle: Television
Sara MacIntyre: Canadian TV's newest villain
John Doyle Television critic
Published March 20, 2012 Updated May 3, 2018
It is often said that we don't have a star system in Canada. This is hooey.
All you have to is be really, really irritating, and you're a star in this neck of the woods. Last week a new star emerged, a deeply aggravating woman. It led me to think about vexatious women on TV.
When this TV season started, all the talk was about strong women characters emerging on shows by, for and about women. This is, in general, thought to be a good thing. Many of the shows fizzled and the lingering memory of this phase of network TV development is bound to be the number of exasperating characters. Like Whitney Cummings on Whitney.
But while Whitney is merely silly, the truly interesting women characters are either villains or victims. It's the victimhood-addicted who are forgettable. So let's start with the new star, the villain.
Sara MacIntyre, B.C. Premier Christy Clark's new director of communications, is one such star who emerged last week. A set-to with local media went from testy to hostile to absurd, and the footage went viral. If you haven't seen it, you must. At an event in Vancouver attended by Clarke, MacIntyre pushed her face in front of the cameras and said, "Guys, the Premier is not taking questions today." The ensuing argument was toxic.
It's tremendous television. MacIntyre, all gum-chewing, hair-swinging, finger-wagging, mall-rat malice and attitude, expressed her utter contempt for the reporters and TV crews with aplomb. She was so sharp it looked like she'd even cut herself if she happened to look at herself. The idea that a reporter might want to ask the Premier a question was, to her, so patently outlandish that one imagined her cackling with derision in her dark lair after the event.
Reaction to the infamous incident was fascinating. Local reporters in B.C. bemoaned the fact that Ottawa-style media-handling was being imported to B.C. (MacIntyre previously worked as press secretary to Our Glorious Leader, as if you couldn't guess.) CTV Ottawa bureau chief Robert Fife went on the air to report, with sadness, that in Ottawa the MacIntyre attitude is the Harper's government's tactic with the press, day in and day out. No respect. A media expert was interviewed about MacIntyre's attitude and pronounced it a disaster. A CTV reporter in Vancouver condemned the hostility to the press as undemocratic, a rebuke to voters who want to see politicians questioned.
This is all very well and good, but what really matters is that we have a new female, grade-A villain. Someone so utterly obnoxious and real that one hopes MacIntyre sticks around for years, aiming her gum-chewing, screw-you disposition at the TV cameras all over the country. British Columbia should not have this phenomenon to itself.
By the way, I'm astounded that Christy Clark feels the need for an absurdly badass media handler. Like many who have written a thing or two for the country's newspapers, I've met Clark several times. For years, all my visits to Vancouver included an appearance on her radio show. Clark was a great interviewer – shrewd, smooth, knowledgeable and charming. The brief post-interview chats were always informative and entertaining. So the idea that as Premier she needs an attack dog for media matters seems crazy.
And yet I hope she doesn't ditch this new rogue termagant. Sara MacIntyre is a villain, and much more gripping on TV than anyone in her position who takes the bland approach.
Like most things to do with politics, it's best to think of the situation as an ongoing TV drama. Most things that matter in politics happen in front of the TV cameras.
On TV, female villains are captivating. On Smash, a drama about the drama of creating a Broadway musical, the expected star was Katharine McPhee, playing the nice, talented Mid-Westerner Karen Cartwright. But as the series has progressed, it's her nemesis, the buxom, scheming Ivy Lynn (Megan Hilty) who is the one worth watching. Because she's as nasty as all get-out. On GCB, it's not the alleged heroine, Amanda (Leslie Bibb), all reformed mean girl and victim, who makes the show worthwhile. It's all those vicious women who are out to destroy her.
In fact, it's those female characters adducted to victimhood who are boring. On I Hate My Teenage Daughter, the two moms, victims of their nasty daughters, are way less interesting than their kids.
In the case of Sara MacIntyre, the fact that she acts like a cartoon villain, but is authentic and not a TV character, makes her antics all the more delicious. I can't wait for the next episode of her venom-filled adventures on TV. At last, a new Canadian star has emerged.
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Whistleblowers formally sue P.E.I. government for $1.8M after private information leaked
Three former P.E.I. civil servants - from left, Cora Plourd Nicholson, Susan Holmes and Svetlana Tenetko - who came forward with allegations of fraud and bribery in P.E.I.’s business immigration program have formally filed a lawsuit against the provincial government. - SaltWire file photo
Three former civil servants who came forward with allegations of fraud and bribery in P.E.I.’s business immigration program have formally filed a lawsuit against the provincial government.
The three plaintiffs - Susan Holmes, Cora Plourd Nicholson, and Svetlana Tenetko – say the P.E.I. government, former premier Robert Ghiz, Allan Campbell and Michael Mayne breached their privacy rights by leaking private information after they came forward publicly with their allegations.
The three plaintiffs are seeking damages in excess of $1.8 million.
The three women say that after they came forward at a 2011 news conference with allegations of bribery and fraud in the business immigration program, personal information designed to damage their claims was deliberately given out to the media, including The Guardian, by top Liberals.
A report by the province's privacy commissioner, completed in 2017, found the province had breached the women's privacy rights, though it couldn't specifically say how the leak occurred.
The statement of claim said personal information was printed out on Sept. 15, 2011, in the innovation minister's office as the province was just weeks away from an Oct. 3 provincial election.
The claim filed Monday is related to a previously filed claim that was issued in February 2019. Rather than attempting to resolve the case at the time or proceed with litigation, the defendants demanded notice under provincial legislation, which made this new filing necessary.
The law firm, Waddell Phillips Professional Corporation, representing the plaintiffs, said this new lawsuit was filed Monday in the Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island.
"We were very disappointed that the government did not hold itself immediately accountable, particularly given the commissioner's findings and the damage that was done to our lives and careers,” said Holmes.
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Take a chance on PTC - ‘Mamma Mia!’
(photo courtesy PTC/© magnus stark, 2019)
BANGOR – There’s a whole lot of fun in the sun happening at the Bangor Opera House these days, a wealth of dreams and dancing queens.
Penobscot Theatre Company’s latest production – the final one of their 46th season – is the musical “Mamma Mia!” It’s a jukebox musical built on the tremendous catalog of 1970s Swedish pop supergroup ABBA, with book by Catherine Johnson. This production – directed and choreographed by Amiee Turner, with music direction by Phil Burns – runs through July 14 at the Bangor Opera House.
It’s the story of a young woman on the verge of getting married who is hoping to get a better sense of who she herself is by learning more about her history – specifically, who her father is, something her free-spirited and hard-working mother never told her. It’s about how powerful love can be … and what it means to allow yourself to feel it, no matter how much time may have passed.
It’s a lovely (albeit a tough thin) story, but the real highlights are the singing and the dancing – and as far as those are concerned, PTC’s production is pure dynamite. It is one of the biggest, brightest shows to grace this stage in some time, shiny and sweet and downright spectacular.
Sophie Sheridan (Stephanie Colavito) has returned to her childhood home on the small Greek island of Kalokairi to get married to her fiancé Sky (Tyler Ivey). Her mother Donna (Heather Astbury-Libby) has built an inn on the island and is playing host to the festivities. Sophie has invited her best friends Ali (Kate Fogg) and Lisa (Marianne Grossman) to be her bridesmaids, while Donna’s oldest friends (and former bandmates in the legendary girl group Donna and the Dynamos) have also made their way to the island – cynical multi-divorcee Tanya (Brianne Beck) and carefree cookbook author Rosie (Christie Robinson).
What Sophie really wants, however, is for her father to be at her wedding. The only problem? She doesn’t know who he is, and her mother has never told her. But when Sophie stumbles upon an old diary, she makes an unexpected discovery – there are three potential fathers out there.
So she invites all three … and all three turn up. There’s architect Sam Carmichael (Michael Padgett), banker Harry Bright (Frank Bachman) and travel writer Bill Austin (Dominick Varney). The men arrive, unsure of why they are there, only to have Donna shocked and appalled at their surprise arrival. Meanwhile, Sophie, who believed she’d know her father on sight, is only confused by the trio – each of them offers a degree of paternity potential.
As the wedding rapidly approaches, Sophie and Sky go through the various traditions – stag/hen parties and the like – while Donna attempts to prepare for the wedding while also sorting through unresolved feelings with regards to the three dads. Connections and reconnections begin to take place, as all the people involved are left to determine how they feel about one another and what that might mean going forward.
And through it all, love is very much in the air.
This production is an absolute delight, crackling with a relentlessly positive energy that is engaging and utterly infectious. Every member of the cast (a massive 23 strong) is practically glowing with a spirited joy; they could not more effectively convey the good time that they appear to be having. It is a show that simply refuses to accept that the audience might have anything other than a fantastic time.
Amiee Turner is the creative steward of this project, serving as both the director and choreographer of “Mamma Mia!” and excelling in both capacities. Jukebox musicals can be tricky in that they exist as song vehicles first; character often receives short shrift. This one is no different, but Turner does fine work in guiding her cast toward three-dimensionality, helping the cast find their own way to the depth necessary for us to truly empathize and connect.
As for the choreography, well … this is one of the grandest shows in terms of movement that we’ve seen on that stage in some time; heck, they put the band in the balcony to make room for them. The big dance numbers (of which there are a few) are all wonderful to watch, smooth and exciting and surprisingly complex, but the smaller, more intimate movements are impressive in their own right.
As are the individual performances.
First things first: Heather Astbury-Libby gives arguably the best performance in a PTC career filled with great ones. Her Donna is sweet and sharp in all the right ways, and the songs … oh, good God, the songs. From killer turns on “Dancing Queen” and “Super Trouper” to the beautiful back-to-back heartpunch of “Slipping Through My Fingers” and “The Winner Takes It All,” she is phenomenal. Meanwhile, Stephanie Colavito’s turn as Sophie holds strong alongside the Astbury-Libby powerhouse. There’s a lovely optimism to her performance that feels very genuine. Vocally, she shines brightest with “I Have a Dream,” which opens and closes the show, though she’s killer on “Lay All Your Love On Me” (which might be my favorite ABBA song).
Finding the right collection of dads for this show is probably tough; you need a group that functions well both individually and as a unit. Happily, this trio accomplishes just that. Padgett’s Sam exudes confidence and moves with an easy sensuality. Bachman’s Harry practically glows with goodness and good-natured charm. And Varney endows Bill with just the right amount of awkwardness. As for the Dynamos, Beck and Robinson both bring their A-game. Tanya’s sophisticated floozy vibe works perfectly in Beck’s hands, while Robinson’s gift for goofball physicality comes through to great effect in her turn as Rosie.
(Note: This is probably where I should note that the Robinson/Varney duet on “Take a Chance on Me” was one of my favorite moments in the entire show.)
But they’re hardly alone. It’s rare to say for an ensemble this big, but there don’t appear to be any weak links. Sky is a tough character to play – there’s not much there on the page – but Ivey does great work bringing him to life. Fogg and Grossman are clearly having fun as Sophie’s giggling besties. Robert Brangwynne’s Pepper nearly steals a couple of scenes with a surfeit of dork-bro energy.
The rest of the cast – Danielle Barrett, Eric Byers, Aidan Close, Brianna Demaso, Stephanie Erb, Ien Misler, Noam Osher, Zivi Osher, Bob Potts, Alex Ross, Birdie Sawyer and Michelle Weatherbee – serve as the production’s backbone, really bringing forward the living, breathing world of the play.
The band is – surprise, surprise – tight as hell. Led by music director Burns on keys, the group features Suz Eggert (also on keys), Phil Kell on guitar, Tom Libby on drums and Gaylen Smith on bass. Most of those names are familiar to regular attendees of PTC musicals and with good reason – they’re REALLY talented.
Oh, and in addition to great performances, the production values are sky high as well. Scenic designer Sean McClelland has transformed the stage, creating a set that is both aesthetically attractive and functionally flexible, brimming with bright colors and doors galore. Scout Hough’s lighting design alternately softens and emphasizes the visual palette. And Jimmy Johansmeyer’s costume design is simply spectacular; from island-casual looks to over-the-top sequin-and-spandex explosions, he nails it all. Sound designer Sean McGinley has once again tamed the notoriously finicky Opera House acoustics, while John Siedenberg’s prop design lends another welcome layer to the proceedings.
“Mamma Mia!” is everything you want a summer production to be. It is light and breezy, jammed with fantastic songs sung by fantastic performers. It has quiet intimacy and huge production numbers. It’s a show that will leave you humming and smiling long after the curtain call has come and gone (and it’s one outstanding curtain call, as far as that goes).
Thank you for the music, PTC.
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Vocal Aerobics: Essentials for Today's Singers with Julie Lyonn Lieberman
Running Time and Format: 60-minute instructional DVD
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Description: World-renowned music educator, Julie Lyonn Lieberman, has created an instructional DVD for singers. Her practice system focuses on cognitive illumination and muscular facility. This system can help develop a vibrating palette that communicates spirit, emotion, and viewpoint all riding effortlessly on the breath. It is supported by science yet connected to individuality. By first guiding the exercises in silence, her intent is to prevent the tension and misuse that often occur when the main impetus for the creation of musical sound is fueled by a brew of yearning and fear mixed with a fixation on the end product.
Section I Introduction, Creating a Cathedral, Breath Anatomy
Section II Aerobicizing the Tongue, Mobilizing the Lips
Section III Balancing the non-dominant side of the mouth, Posture, The Power of Imagery, Warming Up and Warming Down, Vocal Health
Ms. Lieberman trusts the innate intelligence of the client by making sure that they understand how and why each region of their vocal anatomy works the way it does. Through extensive experience teaching, she has developed ergonomically based exercises that are fulcrum triggers: they get the job done more efficiently and faster. Lieberman has discovered that when the lights are turned on and the equipment is illuminated, epiphanies abound and can continue to be generated by the singer, long after the teacher leaves the room.
In-depth studies while writing her critically acclaimed book. You Are Your Instrument, followed by her three spin-off DVDs (The Vocalist's Guide to Fitness, Health and Musicianship, The Instrumentalist's Guide to Fitness, Health and Musicianship, and The Violin in Motion) place a unique spin on this body of work.
Most voice teachers use exercises that are effective in the long run or they would be put out of business, but the older model for mentorship entailed I do and do as I say approach. It was a faith-based relationship; the student was expected to blindly follow the teacher's directions without specifics, context, or adequate rapport with the musculature required to do the job smoothly and consciously. The belief behind that style of work was that if you repeated each exercise enough times (often while inadvertently thinking about something else), that it would help you sing better. This is the long, slow train to success. Julie believes that it's time to replace unconscious repetition with less activity, more awareness, and targeted control. She will help you convert the butcher's knife into a laser beam!
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AUSSIE RULES: Rockhampton AFL have had a significant boost, after receiving a $300,000 State Government investment yesterday.
Member for Rockhampton Barry O'Rourke said the investment would go towards building a new clubhouse for Rockhampton Panthers and an upgrade of the club's change rooms.
O'Rourke said that it was important to encourage regional participation in sport.
"The great thing about Rockhampton is you never know what sporting legend will be created next,” he said.
"It's my hope that through investment like this, we will find more star athletes that can fly the flag for our region.”
Panthers president Shannon Roati and committee member Sam Gudgeon highlighted the impact flooding has had on the grounds and facilities.
"Panthers have made a number of funding applications over the years to source additional financial support to upgrade amenities for its players and visitors to the club and we are elated to hear of this success,” Roati said.
"We are extremely excited to receive this funding which will mean that we can build a new clubhouse to cater for the needs of our members as our current premises was built in 1980s.
"The construction of a new clubhouse will see our club continue to grow from its current membership of 255 members and the design of the new facilities will lessen the burden of clean up on our volunteers after any lower level flooding from the Fitzroy River during a flood event.”
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‘Suck it up’: wife’s brutal advice for hobbled Day
Jason Day lines up a putt on the 18th during his second round of the Masters. Picture: Andrew Redington/Getty Images)
by Michael Warner, in Augusta
13th Apr 2019 11:07 AM
ELLIE Day had a simple message for her moping husband: "It's the Masters - suck it up".
After shooting a five-under par 67 to claim a share of the lead at Augusta, injured Australian Jason Day revealed the morning spur from his wife that clicked him into gear.
"I can't complain about it too much," Day said of his ongoing back pain.
"She's birthed three children and I haven't, so she's a lot stronger as a person than me with regards to pain and I just hit a little white golf ball around a course.
"I've got to listen to that … she's in my corner."
Day admitted he had considered withdrawing after his first round because of inflammation in his lower spine.
He said he had been having regular epidurals, including a jab last week, and iced through the night.
"I said to my caddie, Luke, 'If this stays the same pain … I'll probably end up withdrawing,'" he said.
"Pain is a funny thing … everybody's pain threshold is different.
"Every day I feel like I wake up with aches.
"I'm trying to do everything I can to make sure I have longevity in the game, and that's something I need to focus on now than ever before."
Jason Day is 14 shots off the pace. Picture: Kevin C Cox/Getty
Day said he was blowing up balloons in the morning to help overcome his pain.
"This is going to sound weird - I have to get my rib cage back in position," he said.
"So my rib cage - when my back was sore last week, my rib cage was out … you look at the back line of where my pants are on the back, you could see my hips were kind of shifted and tilted.
"I blow into balloons in certain positions to try and get my rib cage down."
He said he first suffered back pain at age 13.
Asked if he had considered surgery, Day said: "No, no, no … I want to stay away from that as much as possible.
"Once you've cut yourself, you can't undo what you've done in there."
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Military Housing Shortage to Be Resolved in 2013
The Defense Ministry has been one of the largest residential real estate customers over the past few years. Igor Tabakov
The Defense Ministry will fully resolve a shortage of housing for military personnel by the end of the year, an official promised.
Deputy Defense Minister Ruslan Tsalikov made the promise in a meeting with members of Officers of Russia, an NGO that represents servicemen's rights.
"In our plans we are working from the starting point that the problem of housing for servicemen should be resolved in 2013," Tsalikov said. "In 2013 everyone who joined the line before Jan.1, 2012 should [receive an apartment]," he said.
About 49,000 servicemen out of a waiting list of 82,400 signed leases for accommodation last year. But 24,000 more personnel joined the line in 2012.
The failure of the government to meet its obligation to house servicemen is a long-running grievance amongst serving and retired officers and one of the priorities identified by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
Serving officers cannot be transferred to the reserve without having received permanent accommodation.
The Defense Ministry will switch from providing accommodation to offering cash payments so that officers can rent or buy their own accommodation from January 2014, Tsalikov said.
He also promised to crack down on a lack of transparency at the ministry's housing department.
About 200 officers who were awarded apartments in Moscow by court order at the end of 2012 will be offered an apartment in the first quarter of the year, he said.
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HRC: Goes All-In For Gun Control After Anti-LGBTQ Orlando Hate Attack
TOPICS:antilgbt lawsbigotrydiscriminationgun controlgun violencehate crimehuman rights campaignlgbtq people of colorprejudice by gopreligious freedomsvilification of minorities
Posted By: TRT Editor June 20, 2016
Gun control is at the forefront of LGBTQ organizations after the targeted hated massacre at Pulse Orlando
Late last week, HRC made a significant policy announcement in the aftermath of last Sunday’s (June 12th) hate-fueled attack in Orlando targeting the LGBTQ community at Pulse nightclub’s Latin night.
During a special meeting of the Human Rights Campaign’s Board of Directors Thursday evening, the board adopted a resolution recommended by HRC President Chad Griffin that addresses both the epidemic of hate that has fueled anti-LGBTQ-motivated murder, assault and discrimination as well as common-sense gun violence prevention policies that would help keep the LGBTQ community safe. For decades, LGBTQ people have been a target for bias-motivated violence, and easy access to deadly weapons has compounded this threat. The resolution adopted in Thursday’s special meeting establishes HRC’s organizational position that the safety of LGBTQ people in the United States requires the adoption of common-sense gun violence prevention measures, including limiting access to assault-style rifles, expanding background checks, and limiting the ability for suspected terrorists, and those with a history of domestic abuse to access guns.
HRC President Chad Griffin issued the following statement on the resolution: “Forty-nine members of our community were murdered on Sunday morning because of a toxic combination of two things: a deranged, unstable individual who had been conditioned to hate LGBTQ people, and easy access to military-style guns. It is imperative that we address both issues in order to mitigate safety risk to our community.
“As a society, we must hold accountable lawmakers, religious leaders and other public officials who put a target on the backs of LGBTQ people through hateful rhetoric and legislation, because they are complicit in the violence fueled by their words and actions. The safety of the LGBTQ community depends on our ability to end both the hatred toward our community and the epidemic of gun violence that has spiraled out of control.”
More than 20 percent of hate crimes reported nationally in 2014 targeted people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity, according to the most recent FBI statistics available. Hate crimes reporting is not mandatory, and dramatically undercounts the number of hate crimes for all categories, particularly those based on gender identity. A recent investigation by The Associated Press found that more than 2,700 city police and county sheriff’s departments across the country had not reported a single hate crime to the FBI for the past six years, representing about 17 percent of these law enforcement agencies nationwide.
HRC has observed alarming violence from coast to coast against the backdrop of more than 200 anti-LGBTQ bills that have been introduced in 34 states in 2016 alone. In the wake of last year’s marriage equality ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States, anti-LGBTQ activists have introduced a wide range of legislation targeting LGBTQ people. These bills have mainly fallen into three categories: bills targeting transgender adults and youth, including blocking their access to appropriate restrooms and other public facilities; bills creating broad “religious” loopholes enabling virtually any individual or organization to discriminate; and bills aimed overriding local LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections offered by municipal governments. The onslaught of these bills, combined with the dangerous rhetoric that lawmakers employ in soliciting support for them, has given license to the view that LGBTQ people are second class citizens deserving of not only discrimination, but harassment, intimidation, and violence.
This wave of anti-LGBTQ state legislation is made possible by a lack of comprehensive federal LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections. Last year, HRC helped introduce the Equality Act to ensure that LGBTQ people are protected by our nation’s civil rights laws. Today, only 18 states and just over 100 cities have comprehensive, statewide nondiscrimination protections inclusive of both sexual orientation and gender identity. While Orlando has established local nondiscrimination protections, Florida does not guarantee statewide protections and LGBTQ people remain at risk of being fired, evicted or denied services because of who they are.
As The New York Times editorialized this week, “Hate crimes don’t happen in a vacuum. They occur where bigotry is allowed to fester, where minorities are vilified and where people are scapegoated for political gain. Tragically, this is the state of American politics, driven too often by Republican politicians who see prejudice as something to exploit, not extinguish.” Sunday’s attack at Pulse nightclub has underscored, in the most tragic way imaginable, how deadly hate can be when it is compounded by access to military-style weapons.
HRC has occasionally adopted positions on broader policy issues which deeply impact the LGBTQ community, but this is the first time in the organization’s 36-year history that a special session has been called in order to do so. Moving forward, the Human Rights Campaign—which will remain focused achieving full federal equality, ending anti-LGBTQ hate, and ensuring the safety, health, well-being and legal protections of LGBTQ people—will work in coalition with gun safety advocates and other allies in the LGBTQ movement and beyond to realize its goals for stemming the epidemic of gun violence.
[From a News Release]
Full text of the resolution adopted by HRC follows below:
JOINT RESOLUTION OF
THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN AND
HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION
In an emergency joint meeting held by the Boards of Directors of the Human Rights Campaign, Inc. (“HRC”) and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Inc. (“HRCF”) held by teleconference on June 16, 2016, upon motion, duly made and seconded, both the Board of Directors of HRC and the Board of Directors of HRCF adopted the following resolution:
Whereas, HRC and HRCF Boards grieve the loss of 49 LGBTQ people and allies who were targeted and assassinated — as well as 53 others who were injured — in a premeditated and senseless assault that took place on Sunday, June 12th at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida:
Stanley Almodovar III, 23; Amanda Alvear, 25; Oscar A Aracena-Montero, 26; Rodolfo Ayala-Ayala, 33; Antonio Davon Brown, 29; Darryl Roman Burt II, 29; Angel L. Candelario-Padro, 28; Juan Chevez-Martinez, 25; Luis Daniel Conde, 39; Cory James Connell, 21; Tevin Eugene Crosby, 25; Deonka Deidra Drayton, 32; Simon Adrian Carrillo Fernandez, 31; Leroy Valentin Fernandez, 25; Mercedez Marisol Flores, 26; Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz, 22; Juan Ramon Guerrero, 22; Paul Terrell Henry, 41; Frank Hernandez, 27; Miguel Angel Honorato, 30; Javier Jorge-Reyes, 40; Jason Benjamin Josaphat, 19; Eddie Jamoldroy Justice, 30; Anthony Luis Laureanodisla, 25; Christopher Andrew Leinonen, 32; Alejandro Barrios Martinez, 21; Brenda Lee Marquez McCool, 49; Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez, 25; Kimberly Morris, 37; Akyra Monet Murray, 18; Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo, 20; Geraldo A. Ortiz-Jimenez, 25; Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera, 36; Joel Rayon Paniagua, 32; Jean Carlos Mendez Perez, 35; Enrique L. Rios, Jr., 25; Jean C. Nives Rodriguez, 27; Xavier Emmanuel Serrano Rosado, 35; Christopher Joseph Sanfeliz, 24; Yilmary Rodriguez Solivan, 24; Edward Sotomayor Jr., 34; Shane Evan Tomlinson, 33; Martin Benitez Torres, 33; Jonathan Antonio Camuy Vega, 24; Juan P. Rivera Velazquez, 37; Luis S. Vielma, 22; Franky Jimmy Dejesus Velazquez, 50; Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, 37; Jerald Arthur Wright, 31;
Whereas, since 1980, the Human Rights Campaign has worked to advance the civil rights of LGBTQ people wherever they have been denied or threatened; recognizing the strength and power of bipartisan coalitions across civil rights movements;
Whereas, we have battled more than 200 anti-LGBTQ bills that have been introduced in 34 states this year and we believe that lawmakers behind these bills — with their hateful and dangerous words and actions — eliminate critical protections and give license to others to harass, threaten and terrorize LGBTQ people;
Whereas, we recognize that the tragedy in Orlando that struck at the LGBTQ community, the Latinx community and the nation on an unprecedented scale may have been prevented in several ways: in our mission to realize LGBTQ equality by ensuring full legal equality at the city, state and federal level, including passing the Equality Act; ending the stigma that exists today against LGBTQ people; ensuring the health, safety and well-being of LGBTQ people in their everyday lives; and by ending the ability of dangerous, hate-filled killers to have easy access to deadly, military-style guns;
Whereas, the LGBTQ community has historically been the target of brutal hate crimes, violence and discrimination;
Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, the Human Rights Campaign and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation will continue to challenge leaders and individuals who target our LGBTQ community with hateful speech, and with policies that threaten and undermine the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness of our community in ways that can lead to violence; and
Resolved, that we will continue our tireless efforts to achieve full federal equality, end the stigma existing against LGBTQ people today, and ensure the safety, health well-being and legal protections of LGBTQ people in their everyday lives;
Resolved, the Human Rights Campaign and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation support common-sense gun safety reform within the United States, including limiting access to assault-style rifles, expanding background checks, and limiting the ability for suspected terrorists and those with a history of domestic abuse to access guns;
Resolved, that the Human Rights Campaign and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation will continue its primary focus of working for equality for LGBTQ people, and understand that given the reality of violence today, common-sense gun safety protections are vital to ensure LGBTQ people’s safety;
Resolved, that we stand with organizations and leaders who have committed a lifetime to this work, affirmatively supporting their efforts; and that we recognize our members and supporters, like many of their fellow Americans, are responsible gun owners, who, as survey after survey shows, also support sensible gun safety measures and restrictions on firearms without impacting the rights of responsible gun owners; and that we believe strongly in protecting the Constitutional rights of every American — believing we can protect those rights and innocent people from violence and recognizing that today, there are 49 fewer Americans who can access those rights.
Resolved, that staff is empowered to develop positions for the Human Rights Campaign and Human Rights Campaign Foundation and to make further recommendations to the Boards for action consistent with this resolution.
The undersigned hereby certifies that the foregoing is a true record of a resolution duly adopted at a meeting of the Boards of Directors of the Human Rights Campaign and Human Rights Campaign Foundation, and that said meeting was held in accordance with District of Columbia law and the By-Laws of the Human Rights Campaign and Human Rights Campaign Foundation by telephone on June 16, 2016, and that said resolution is now in full force and effect without modifications or rescission.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have executed my name as Secretary of the Human Rights Campaign, Inc. and of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Inc.,
the 16th day of June, 2016.
A True Record.
Attest.
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Thanks you guys. Thanks Chad.
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Home Sport Football Maurizio Sarri slams Chelsea’s complacency in defeat at Wolves
Maurizio Sarri slams Chelsea’s complacency in defeat at Wolves
Maurizio Sarri accused his Chelsea players of over-confidence after throwing away a lead to lose 2-1 at Wolverhampton Wanderers on Wednesday.
Chelsea looked to be on course for victory thanks to Ruben Loftus-Cheek’s early opener as the visitors dominated the first-half, but two goals in four second-half minutes saw Wolves secure their first win in seven games and inflict just Sarri’s second defeat since taking charge in the summer.
Next up Chelsea face the daunting task of halting Manchester City at Stamford Bridge on Saturday and Sarri suggested a jolt to their confidence could be a blessing, but declared himself “worried” by the manner of their defeat at Molineux.
“After this match we are less confident but maybe it’s better because sometimes my players show me that they have too much confidence,” said the Italian.
“We played well for 55 minutes. After the goal for 1-1, which was an accident because we were in full control of the match, we were suddenly another team without the right distances and without our football.
“I don’t know why. I am really very worried, not for the result but the fact that after the first goal we conceded we did not react very well. I am really very worried for this, not for the result.”
Chelsea missed several chances to extend their lead and were denied a possible penalty early in the second half when Alvaro Morata tangled with Wolves defender Willy Boly.
Yet Sarri refused to discuss the penalty appeal and insisted his decision to make five changes also wasn’t the cause of his side’s defeat.
“In the first 10 minutes of the second-half we could have scored four or five goals. We had four goal opportunities but I don’t want to discuss those or the referee,” he added.
“I don’t think it depended on the changes, it depended on the mentality of the team. I saw a team without a reaction. You can lose a match but not without a reaction.”
Chelsea are now 10 points off City at the top of the table, but of more immediate concern are now only in the top four above Arsenal thanks to their superior goal difference.
“Manchester City are in another category, said Sarri. “We have to play and fight for the top four. It is a very difficult result for the top four.
“For me, City at this moment are the best team in Europe or maybe the best in the world.”
Chelsea took an 18th-minute lead when Loftus-Cheek cut in from the left and hit a curling shot that struck the head of the unlucky Conor Coady to wrongfoot goalkeeper Rui Patricio and creep inside the near post.
However, on his first Premier League start, 18-year-old Morgan Gibbs-White lead the fightback as he fed Raul Jimenez, who drilled a low shot under goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga.
Moments later Molineux erupted when Matt Doherty crossed and Diogo Jota side-footed home for the winner.
“He is one of the best generations of English players for a long time,” claimed Wolves boss Nuno Espirito Santo of his midfield starlet.
“He is a reality of the fantastic job that national teams are doing, so well done to them.”
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The Library at Goodison
By Alex Mather : 26/10/2009 : Comments (6) :
With regards to recent comments on ToffeeWeb and other sites about the current atmosphere in and around Goodison Park on match days, I thought I would write a few words as to why maybe the ground resembles a library rather than a football stadium.
I feel at the moment that the us Evertonians are caught between a rock and hard place on the one hand over the last 7 years of Moyes's reign in charge, we have looked up the table (with the odd exception) and have had European football to look forward to on a regular basis, which is a vast improvement on the 1990s that, to say the least, were dire.
But with 3 top six finishes in the last 3 seasons, two of them fifth place, where do we go from there? Without investment, it's not the top four — we all know this — so it looks like we just have to concentrate on keeping up with the top four as much as we can and finishing the best of the rest; I think this is were the malaise of the supporters kicks in. The expectation level has now levelled out amongst Evertonians — we don’t expect Champions League football anytime soon but we do expect Europa League football now, and rightly so; a club the size of Everton should expect this.
The debacle of the last two pre-seasons has been enough for many Evertonians... two fine chances missed by the club to really kick on and catch up after good solid seasons in the league. Expectations were high but, once the transfer window opened, on both occasions, that expectation began to recede faster than Alan Shearer's hair line. I know of at least a couple of season ticket holders who didn’t bother to re-new as they were just fed up with no signings and the glass ceiling we keep hitting our heads on.
What do we have to look forward to now? Another season of playing catch-up and not on the top four anymore... it's the top 6 or 7 now other clubs have pushed on and we have stood still again. The supporters see this and the excitement and expectation has gone. We rock up at Goodison waiting for the team to get us going and on most occasions, especially this season, it hasn't happened. This can be blamed on injuries and other outside forces but in general, the type of football we play (apart from the odd passage of play) is dire.
Ok we need a full-strength side back with Arteta and Pienaar pulling the strings. I think we have the strongest squad we have had at Everton since we were collecting silverware on a regular basis 25 years ago... but we have yet to see this in action. Our strongest 11 I feel would give anyone a game but we aren’t likely to see this until at least January or February of next year and even then, this isn’t guaranteed. Also, it will be too late to rescue a season that is badly going downhill.
We have Europe, which — after the thrashing on Thursday — just makes me feel depressed; opinions are divided about the Europa League... the fact you have to play 17 games to win it puts people off. I would love us to win it but I don’t think we will and I expect the majority of blues feel the same way.
Then there's the league... at the moment, I would be happy to finish mid table the way we are going. Another late defeat by Bolton gave them their first home win — anyone surprised it was against us, the 'crisis breakers' — which is what we should be known as! We haven’t even played any of the big sides yet, barring Arsenal,and we all know what happened there... we have Villa on Saturday and I am not looking forward to it.
The League Cup, at the moment it looks like Moyes and Round will get a game even with a full squad to choose from! It would be a tough game but with the kids I can't see us getting a kick, and maybe going out will be a good thing. I hate us getting beat but sometimes maybe we need to look at the bigger picture.
I have just re-read the above and it does sound doom and gloom and I have gone off the original point about the atmosphere at Goodison... it's hard to take being out-shouted by Stoke and Wolves supporters but to be honest this happens at most Premier League grounds. I just think us blues have more than most to be quiet about at the moment:– we cant go any higher in the league; Europe a help or hindrance?; poor quality of football; no investment; and the old chestnut, Kirkby about to be dragged back up to divide everyone again.
At this moment in time, I personally feel depressed about Everton but a win on Saturday could change all that... Here’s to our reserves sticking it to Villa!!!
Ian Mackenzie
It’s almost as if both the crowd and the team are waiting for each other to get going. Granted, there’s almost an acceptance at the moment that we’re going to struggle against whoever is put in front of us at Goodison, but once the whistle goes to start the game the silence is deafening, apart from the away fans in the Bullens Road.
Coming up in the next 4 home games are Villa, Benfica, Liverpool and Tottenham during which we’re likely to be chasing shadows at times. If the results in these games are poor, we’ll no doubt have good reason to criticise the players, management etc, but for Christ’s sake we should at least do what supporters are supposed to do and get behind the team from the start and make the atmosphere as intimidating for the opposition as possible (a la Fiorentina) — something that Stoke City fans seem to have turned into an art form.
Ste Traverse
It’s no wonder Goodison resembles a library as most of the crowd have fallen asleep due to DM’s dull tactics.
That wasn't the case at Bolton where the many faithful did us proud.
My view is there is too much tension now at GP and we need a breakthrough to get us going. A Phil Neville tackle on Ronaldo or the like would rouse us from the slumbers.
Alas there isnt a player who could currently get us off our seats.
Perhaps if the Chairman did a comedy act... but there again he already is!!!
Apparently, everything will be fine when we get our best players back. In the second half of the season Everton will zoom up the table & win the Cup - Oh & they’ll be playing some pretty neat footer whilst doing so!
Derek Turnbull
Here’s a petition to resolve the atmospheric problems at Goodison. An approach to Everton should hopefully come shortly.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/standupifyoulovetheblues
It’s very quiet at Goodison at the minute, but do you think it would be noisier if Jose Baxter played? I think if we reflected the synergies of Spain and England we would get the best out of the team. Jose’s mum knew this, I think if we are all honest, we know this also. Let’s get Jose involved and see what happens eh?
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Humboldt County Extends Marijuana Dispensary Moratorium
By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on December 5, 2012 Dispensaries, News
Eureka Times-Standard
The one-year moratorium extension includes an exemption designed to allow Hummingbird Healing Center, a Eureka dispensary closed in September under federal pressure, to reopen
The Board of Supervisors in Humboldt County, California — famed worldwide for the quality of its cannabis — on Tuesday, for the second time, unanimously extended a moratorium in new medical marijuana dispensaries.
The one-year extension included an exemption designed to allow Hummingbird Healing Center, a Eureka dispensary closed in September, to reopen, reports Grant Scott-Goforth at the Eureka Times-Standard.
Humboldt County first enacted the medical marijuana dispensary moratorium in December 2011, after the Obama Administration started threatening local governments, including the cities of Eureka and Arcata, with legal action for having ordinances which allow dispensaries.
Federal prosecutors hinted that government officials and employees could face legal action, or even arrest, and the county decided to suspend its ordinance under which dispensary permits were issued.
“They’re not idle threats,” Deputy Counsel Davina Smith told the supervisors on Monday, explaining the legal counsel’s recommendation to extend the moratorium.
According to Smith, a “vague legal landscape” continues to cloud the dispensary issue.
A number of marijuana and dispensary court cases are currently underway in the state, with most awaiting precedent from two cases under review by the California Supreme Court. Much of the legal wrangling involves whether state laws preempt local laws in regulating dispensaries.
“That doesn’t mean the issue of federal preemption is gone,” Smith warned. But she said, so far, no local government officials or employees have been prosecuted by the feds.
“But the possibility remains,” she said, “and I’d hate for Humboldt County to be the first.”
Local governments aren’t the only ones being threatened under the federal crackdown. Banks have also been threatened with legal action for providing services to marijuana dispensaries, and owners of commercial properties have been threatened with seizure for renting to the shops.
Hummingbird Healing Center was forced to close in September under federal pressure. Owner Nathan Johns told the Times-Standard in September that after his landlord’s bank got a letter from the federal government, the bank threatened his landlord with foreclosure unless the dispensary was evicted from the property.
Under the moratorium, Hummingbird Healing Center would not have been able to apply for a permit at a new facility, even though it had been allowed to remain open in the original exception. The exception added by the supervisors on Tuesday allows existing permitted dispensaries to reapply “if the location of the facility becomes unavailable for continued use.”
Hummingbird co-founder Carla Ritter thanked the board for including the exemption. “Continue your efforts and let compassion guide those efforts,” she told the supervisors. Ritter said working with the county has been rewarding, but securing a new location could take four to six months.
Shaye Harty spoke against the moratorium at Tuesday’s meeting, arguing that it limited access to needed medicine, and that Humboldt County shouldn’t bow to federal pressure.
“When the American government is wrong about something it’s up to the locals to take them on,” Harty said. “For us to be scared because the federal government is wrong — that’s just un-American.”
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About Tuymans Prints
The Arena - 2016 [cat. 74]
Size 76.00 x 56.00 cm
Edition of: 30 + V + II
Published by: Talbot Rice Gallery - Edinburgh
Available: For sale
Price: € 5500
‘The Arena’ is a set of three monochrome prints on handmade paper, based on three paintings from 2014 entitled The Arena I, II, III. Published by Talbot Rice Gallery in Scotland.
Tuymans made a total of six paintings in 2016 on the occasion of the retrospective of his work in Doha, Qatar. They are based on 8mm movie images that Tuymans made in early 80ies of his 1978 work ‘The Arena’. It represents a collage with a number of cut figures at different heights and mounted on a blurry painted background, on tracing paper. In this early work, the artist portrayed a shadowed voyeur viewing an indistinct, theatrical scene composed of collaged fragments raise to various heights sandwiched between a blurred painted ground and a translucent screen. This image is partly inspired by the ‘black paintings’ and ‘Atropos’ of the Spanish painter Goya.
Luc Tuymans (born 1958) is a Belgian artist who lives and works in Antwerp. Tuymans is considered one of the most influential painters working today.
Related works (artist)
The very first graphical work by Luc Tuymans: a dry needle etching dating back to 1975
lnkjetprint on paper, laminated on white cardboard
This series marks the beginning of the long standing relationship of Luc Tuymans and Antwerp master-printmaker Roger Vandaele.
Related works (technique)
Orchid - 2013
Orchid is based on a painting by Luc Tuymans from 1998. Apparently, Frank Demaegd called it his favourite Tuymans painting.
The Valley - 2012
The painting on which the silk-screen print The Valley is based upon, is one of a series about the Jesuits that he made in 2007.
Screenprint edited by "de Vrienden van het S.M.A.K." in Ghent. From the portfolio 'Hommage aan Jan Hoet'.
Art Partout is an originally online initiative of collectors Bart Van Acker and Gert Junes that has resulted in a gallery in Antwerp. Our focus is on graphic works by Luc Tuymans.
Keep me informed about new acquisitions and send me invitations for events at Art Partout.
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US proposes merit based H1B visas
Washington, Dec 1:
The Trump administration on Friday proposed major changes to the H-1B application process with the aim of awarding the visa to the most skilled and highest paid foreign workers.
Under a new proposed merit-based rule, a notice for which was issued Friday, companies employing foreign workers on the H-1B visa under the Congressional mandated annual caps — would have to electronically register with the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) during a designated registration period.
The H1-B visa has an annual numerical limit cap of 65,000 visas each fiscal year as mandated by the Congress. The first 20,000 petitions filed on behalf of beneficiaries with a US master’s degree or higher are exempt from the cap.
The USCIS would also reverse the order allowing it to select H-1B petitions under the H-1B cap and the advanced degree exemption.
This is likely to increase the number of foreign workers with a master’s or higher degree from a US institution of higher education to be selected for an H-1B cap number. As such the proposed rule will introducing a more meritorious selection of beneficiaries, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement.
The DHS said public comments on the proposed rule can be submitted from December 3 to January 2.
“Currently, in years when the H-1B cap and the advanced degree exemption are both reached within the first five days that H-1B cap petitions may be filed, the advanced degree exemption is selected prior to the H-1B cap.
“The proposed rule would reverse the selection order and count all registrations or petitions towards the number projected as needed to reach the H-1B cap first,” the DHS said.
Once a sufficient number of registrations or petitions have been selected for the H-1B cap, the USCIS would then select registrations or petitions towards the advanced degree exemption.
This proposed change would increase the chances that beneficiaries with a master’s or higher degree from a US institution of higher education would be selected under the H-1B cap and that H-1B visas would be awarded to the most-skilled and highest-paid beneficiaries, it said.
The proposed process would result in an estimated increase of up to 16 per cent (or 5,340 workers) in the number of selected H-1B beneficiaries with a master’s degree or higher from a US institution of higher education, the DHS said.
The USCIS said it expects that shifting to electronic registration would reduce overall costs for petitioners and create a more efficient and cost-effective H-1B cap petition process for the agency.
The proposed rule would help alleviate massive administrative burdens on USCIS since the agency would no longer need to physically receive and handle hundreds of thousands of H-1B petitions and supporting documentation before conducting the cap selection process, it said.
This would help reduce wait times for cap selection notifications. The proposed rule also limits the filing of H-1B cap-subject petitions to the beneficiary named on the original selected registration, which would protect the integrity of this registration system, USCIS said.
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8 student confessions that make me think differently about money — and merit.
Hard work does not equal financial security.
Andrea Garcia-Vargas
In March 2015, a group of Columbia University students created a Facebook page named Columbia University Class Confessions.
The group behind the Facebook page is known as First-Generation Low-Income Partnership, otherwise known as FLIP.
Their goal? To provide lower-income students at Columbia a space to voice their realities.
Their realities are pretty darn harrowing.
Before Columbia, Stanford had already launched a class confessions program a few years back:
After Columbia and Stanford launched their Facebook class confession pages in early 2015, other colleges followed suit.
There's a lot we can take away from these stories. They're intense; they're saddening. But here's one thing we should definitely note.
Hard work does not equal financial security. Social mobility isn't as easy as some might think.
When the Fight for 15 protests happened across the nation in favor of raising the minimum wage, one of the most common counterarguments was: "Why don't they just go get a college degree?"
Well, look at these college students working hard — to feed themselves, to get a roof over their heads, to get the medical assistance they need for depression or other health conditions, to support their struggling families back home. They went to go get that college degree that is supposed to help people out of poverty. They even worked hard enough to apply and get accepted into incredibly prestigious colleges, colleges that one would think would be the golden ticket to success.
And still, they're struggling. "Hard work" doesn't always give lower-income folks what they need to survive and fit into a world that's not made for them.
And the sad reality is that many lower-income people will still be struggling after graduation thanks to a weak economy — and a lot of debt.
From the Institute of College Access and Success: 69% of the Class of 2013 graduated college with an average of $28,400 in student debt.
Lower-income students clearly have more difficulty navigating things that others might take for granted — simply because they never had access to the resources some have always had — and don't know how to use them.
Check out more stories being read by students in this video below:
We all deserve the right to survive without struggle. These students show that hard work doesn't cancel out the obstacles that many lower-income folks face when trying to move up the socio-economic ladder.
Maybe their stories will help stop the unfair judgement of lower-income people and help others be more aware and understanding at the same time.
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'SNL' takes Trump's 'SEE YOU IN COURT' tweet to 'The People's Court,' where it belongs.
Claire Biggs
Last night's "Saturday Night Live" took the president's "SEE YOU IN COURT" tweet and put the promise just where it belongs: on "The People's Court."
Knowing that Trump usually tunes in to watch "SNL" each week, using some airtime to explain to a "TV president" how checks and balances really work is actually a smart, gutsy move.
The sketch pitted Baldwin's Trump against the three Ninth Circuit judges (played by Kyle Mooney, Vanessa Bayer, and Pete Davidson) who refused to reinstate the Muslim travel ban on Trump's familiar home turf of reality TV shows. The president was there to request "broad, unchecked power" and was mad the judges were "mean to him."
"You know, earlier a woman asked me to award her joint custody of a snake, and she had more of a case than you," Cecily Strong's Judge Marilyn Milian told him.
Watch the sketch below:
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Reality vs. Heroism
By Kate Garsombke
| January 25, 2002 Issue
Reality vs. Heroism, Alexander Cockburn, WorkingforChange.com
A massacre of unarmed civilians in Somalia by U.S. troops has been twisted into a story of heroism in the new movie Black Hawk Down, writes Alexander Cockburn in WorkingforChange.com. In 1993, between 500 and 1,000 unarmed Somalis were killed when so-called "elite troops" were surrounded by an angry crowd after a failed attempt to catch a local warlord. That story has now been turned into a Hollywood epic. But the movie, reports Cockburn, ignores the unpleasant details of excessive violence -- not to mention a U.S. Army investigation that found organized racism occurring among white troops in Somalia. After the massacre, Canada, Italy, and Belgium held inquiries into troop behavior, and even placed some of its soldiers on trial for torture and murder. The U.S. Army did not hold any public investigation or reprimand its troops after the incident.
--Kate Garsombke
Go there>>
For an in-depth look at the history of U.S.-Somalia relations, check out Stephen Zunes' article, The Long and Hidden History of the U.S. in Somalia on Alternet.
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What’s Left of Pride?
By Emily K. Hobson, author of Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left
Commemorations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer resistance have not always held up the banner of “Pride.” Before the early 1990s, anniversaries of the Stonewall Riots were typically marked as rallies for “liberation” or as “Lesbian and Gay FreedomDay.” These earlier events were both celebrations and acts of protest — “marches” rather than “parades,” with advertisements nowhere to be seen.
When gay liberation emerged in the late 1960s, it sought to redefine sexuality through revolution, and vice versa. Gay liberationists and lesbian feminists claimed common cause with the anti-war movement and Black Power, and they insisted that straight radicals recognize sexual freedom as central to a just society. Across the 1970s and 1980s, a vibrant gay and lesbian left forged anti-capitalist, anti-militarist, and anti-imperialist sexual politics, demanding self-determination and organizing solidarity. Gay and lesbian leftists defended the radical underground, mobilized against the New Right, advanced anti-racism in queer communities, and helped build the Central America movement, among many other causes.
The gay and lesbian left holds strong echoes in current queer radicalism. Yet this politics met a downturn in the early 1990s, when many longtime activists died of AIDS and neoliberal agendas cohered. The language of “Pride” ascended, reflecting broader shifts in LGBTQ politics away from radical transformation and towards inclusion in the existing economy and state.
“Pride” aligned with these shifts because it expresses satisfaction with the present, rather than demands for change. Its closest analogues are patriotism and family — pride in one’s country, pride in one’s children. Like those analogues, LGBTQ “Pride” too often makes sameness and respectability the conditions for acceptance. It risks sending the message: be proud of who you are, as long as you make us proud. The language of Pride helps obscure the complexity of LGBTQ history by privileging heroism over critique. It celebrates gay military veterans but ignores queer opposition to militarism; reclaims figures such as Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson but brushes aside opposition to the presence of police. Small wonder that some queer radicals today mobilize Gay Shame, a network that calls out corporate sponsorship of Pride events and that seeks to prevent gentrification from hiding behind “inclusive values.”
We need joy, pleasure, and humor; we need rage, solidarity, and resistance. Do we need pride? The history of the gay and lesbian left calls on us to reconsider the sentiments we attach to our queer pasts and futures as well as our present. What happens after liberation? How will we live when we get free? This June, let’s use queer radical history to reimagine a future in which we don’t have to settle for less.
Emily K. Hobson is the a uthor of Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left. She serves as Assistant Professor of History and of Gender, Race, and Identity at the University of Nevada, Reno.
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Is this cthulhu?
By acdrnx, December 28, 2018 in Cryptozoology, Myths and Legends
acdrnx 9
Alien Embryo
I found it with Google Earth at the antarctic mountains. Seems like an big octupus.
Ares_Zeusson 147
Nah I think that's Hastur.
Carnoferox 4,760
Master Paleomancer
Location:In flux
"That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die."
- H.P. Lovecraft
No, R'yleh is in the South Pacific. If it's in Antarctica then it's gotta be an Elder Thing.
Timothy 4,490
Location:Melbourne, Aust.
8 hours ago, acdrnx said:
Welcome to UM,
You don’t say anything in the YouTube video about a big octopus, so why here?
Feels like you’re just fishing for hits?
It looks just like a natural formation. Why you would think it is anything else is beyond me.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/82°32'48.0"S+42°35'47.0"W/@-82.5499031,-42.6004496,11z/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en-au&gl=au
(you may have to zoom out and back in for the images to load)
Hammerclaw 20,835
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Location:East Tennessee, Somewhere East of Hedon.
"It's only when there's a storm in one's life that one finds out who one's friends really are."
Kadath in the Cold Waste.
"Leng and the cold waste north of Inganok must be close to the Other Gods, and there the passes to Kadath are well guarded. The slant-eyed man was small, but the great hippocephalic bird was there to see he was obeyed; so Carter followed where he led, and passed within the circle of standing rocks and into the low arched doorway of that windowless stone monastery."
Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath H.P. Lovecraft
Edited December 29, 2018 by Hammerclaw
I paint a 3d Picture of this Location. It Looks on the satellite photo that is an entrance behind the Pyramide.
and here is a second Video with the Evolution Theory of this creature:
Maybe smaller exemplares are liable for the paulides cases: People who suddenly disappear. It fits that the dogs whichs search stops and turning in circles. I mean this "missing 411" cases in Yellowstone und canada.
You serious OP? Are you not aware that Lovecraft's works are fiction and that pareidolia is a thing?
Edited February 19 by Carnoferox
Resume 139
OP: No, it isn't.
travelnjones 953
Cthulhu prefers a tropical environment
I only watch this movie from lovecraft in which the peoples are seamonster. I remember it this is why i call it cthulhu. Maybe is only pareidolia but there are more then one abnormalities. I read this articel https://de.sott.net/article/25679-Missing-411-Ratselhafte-Vermisstenfalle-in-den-Nationalparks-der-USA-und-Kanada About Missing 411 cases. I think all phomenas fit to squids that attack from the air.
That sounds like its based off "The shadow over Innsmouth" story. Dagon and several other films are based off that one. There is even a video game called dark corners of the earth that use that story.
15 minutes ago, acdrnx said:
That is hands down the dumbest thing I've heard all day. Do you even understand what a squid is?
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1 minute ago, Carnoferox said:
And with that, acdrnx fled the forum.
Nice one folks. Hope you're all happy.
rashore 12,430
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Forget being a believer or skeptic- being a skeptical believer or believing skeptic provides for much more interesting discussion.
First off... Welcome to UM acdrnx
Now... are you suggesting that flying squid-like creatures are causing disappearances in the parks of the U.S? And from the images so far in this thread, you think you have spotted these creatures on the Antarctic ice shield. I don't think I've ever heard of this particular cryptid theory before. Is this something you have come up with yourself, or are you pulling things from other sources for this theory, or what?
I can tell you for sure that it isn't Cthulhu. That is indeed a fictional character.
this is from the articel: https://de.sott.net/article/25679-Missing-411-Ratselhafte-Vermisstenfalle-in-den-Nationalparks-der-USA-und-Kanada
Particularly creepy: The disappearance of Henry McCabe (32) in September 2015; After being dropped off at a gas station by a friend at 2:00 at 2:00 after a visit to the pub together. At 2:30, a call was made to his wife on your smartphone's voicebox while she was already asleep. There, strange screams can be heard, bizarre noises such as growls and hisses. It wasn't until 2 months later that a kayak driver found his remains in Rush Lake, 7 miles away. The call is officially available on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBjdwb1zafs). Cause of death: Death by drowning, no further injuries
The Sound Video is Unfortunately offline. But i think it was a child or something from this big creature in antarctic. In Deep sea the squids can take the ambient Color to hide. Maybe this creature in antarctic is a related animal and can Camouflage too. In These articel is more. That the weather is chaning if the Police searching for missed People. Maybe they can manipulate the weather and hiding in Clouds.
Without reading the article, its in german, I saw it was showing Yosemite here in California. We have had several killer that preyed on people in State parks. The trail side killer, the golden state killer, even The Zodiac Man kill folks at a park near Lake Berryesa. Not to mention Mountain Lions and just dangerous terrain.
Freudian slip there, I no longer live in CA but WA instead
Edited February 19 by travelnjones
Squids and other cephalopods are entirely marine and not adapted for terrestrial or aerial life. Your pet hypothesis is completely ridiculous.
yes but in the articel is written that paulides works on a pattern to exclude normal crime like murderers.
Translation (Google):
Paulides has come up with a pattern by which unexplained missing persons cases have accumulated in a wide variety of parks over the decades and examines only those that correspond to this enigmatic pattern. It usually uses the following criteria:
-There is no evidence of suicide, accident, violent crime, human tragedies or animal attacks (even from an obduction point of view)-
-people disappear from one moment to the next and when At all, only found after months (often only their remains)-children between the ages of 2-6 who suddenly disappear from one moment to the next and are partially found up to 10-15 miles dead or alive from the site of disappearance.
-The sites of the corpses (rarely living persons-sometimes children) are located where the authorities had usually even searched several times before. Even if hundreds of investigators had already passed the most promising job.
-The causes of death often cannot be determined
Edited February 19 by acdrnx
3 minutes ago, acdrnx said:
None of which suggest aerial attack squids. Come on.
@acdrnx, Paulides makes wild claims and connections between cases which are unsupported. There’s nothing really strange about the cases when you look into them.
Is there a specific case you find most compelling which we can discuss in this thread?
I’d suggest having a read through these previous threads on the subject too, I fear that discussion will be a re-hash, unless there’s some new and compelling information?
Simbi Laveau 4,699
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~So what's all this then ?!
I have a cat named Cthulhu, so he's at my house. 24/7
Sir Wearer of Hats 28,417
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1 hour ago, acdrnx said:
A hunter saw a Camouflage creature:
https://de.sott.net/article/26038-Paulides-neues-Buch-Ratselhaftes-Verschwinden-von-Jagern-in-amerikanischen-und-kanadischen-Nationalparks
Left: First (of two) selfies against 18:21 (1,024 x 768 px) on the high stand Suddenly it became muck-smell-still in the forest-she then simmer a friend: "Something is wrong. There is a silence in death in the forest. No squirrel, no birds, no crickets. Is weird. "
She initially expected a panther, bear or other robber to take the stage.
Instead, she didn't believe her eyes when she saw in the trees a being almost transparent and merely schematic (it reminded her of moving cling film or an air reflection over a hot road) and practically moved on towards her Eye level moved. The moment she didn't know what to say or think. The object jumped from one tree to the other. While she watched the being, Jan continued to hold the Blackberry in her hand. The distance from each other was about 5-7 meters. The apparition was about 8 feet above the ground.
As being removed, but the woman did not know how to behave and lingered motionless with a bow and arrow in the high seat. She waited there for another 90 minutes and then rushed back to her car as quickly as she could.
When she arrived at home, she received a Facebook message from her nephew from the high school 1 mile away, where the boy was playing in a marching band. He reported an unknown flying object above the high-school field-a bright white light-that turned a few circles there and then shrank to a small point. The same object subsequently reappeared. The whole thing played out between 1919:50 and 20am 00. There were several witnesses-including some who recalled a similar sighting almost exactly a year earlier.
Again, what suggests a flying Cthulhu-spawn here?
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rFpro creates realistic-looking driving scenarios, such as this highly accurate digital model of a wet road
By Adam Gavine on July 1, 2019 Industry news, Simulation
AB Dynamics (ABDP), a supplier of advanced automotive test systems, has acquired simulation software specialist, rFpro. This acquisition is intended to strengthen ABDP’s position in the simulation-based verification market for vehicle dynamics, ADAS (advanced driver assistance systems) and autonomous vehicles. rFpro’s simulation tools complement AB Dynamics’ portfolio of test equipment, such as driving robots and test rigs, which means customers will be able to use equipment from a single supplier to test and develop vehicles in a virtual environment before real-world validation.
rFpro, which was established in 2007, also supplies software which is used as standard on the three main driving simulation platforms on the market, as well as by customers in the motorsport market. Indeed AB Dynamics recently sold its aVDS (advanced vehicle driving simulator), running the rFpro simulation environment, to the Sauber Group’s F1 team, Alfa Romeo Racing.
A detailed virtual model of Millbrook’s Belgian Pavé, used for vehicle, system and sensor development
“The acquisition fits squarely in our stated strategy to develop the Group through organic and acquisitive growth,” said Dr James Routh, CEO at AB Dynamics. “Importantly, it provides the Group with direct access to the potentially high-growth simulation-based verification market for ADAS and autonomous vehicles, which complements our existing track testing business. It also enables the Group to develop and grow our existing aVDS simulator product line more rapidly. We’re really excited about the way the two companies’ products, from both the real and the virtual sides of the testing market, can combine and create a seamless test platform, from data centre through to proving ground.”
rFpro will remain an independent company, with its own brand and will continue to supply other driving simulator and test equipment manufacturers in the automotive industry. Chris Hoyle, rFpro’s founder, is staying with the company, focusing on the technical and creative side of the business.
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Marvel Superheroes Thor by Toy Biz!
With no less than three Thor movies starring Chris Hemsworth appearing at the rate of one of year - last year's Thor, directed by Kenneth Brannagh, and the imaginatively titled sequel Thor 2 still to come in 2013, and of course, Joss Whedon's The Avengers presently smashing box office records all over the world - Thor, the Norse God of Thunder, has never been so popular. A veteran character from the Silver Age of Comic Books, Thor was created by the comics dream team Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, together with Lee's younger brother Larry Lieber, first appearing in Journey into Mystery #83 in 1962, looking rather like this 1991 action figure by Toy Biz.
When in the late 1980s fledgling toy company Toy Biz (now known as Marvel Toys) attempted to enter into the super hero action figure retail war, their DC Comics inspired “Super Heroes” 4 ¾ inch line was seen by many – then and now – as a shoddier-made version of the immensely superior Kenner Super Powers figures from earlier that decade. Regardless of the quality of figures, however, the company thrived having clinched deals for both the DC Comics and Marvel toy licenses, and by the early 1990s Marvel Superheroes hit toy shop shelves.
Our vintage Thor here was released as part of a second wave of figures which included Venom, Green Goblin, Iron Man, the Punisher and a couple of Spider-Man figures, and is actually rather good, bar a few errors that typify the hit-or-miss nature of the early Toy Biz releases: mysteriously Thor was issued minus his trademark red cape, and the torso should have been a darker blue. Standing slightly taller than his counterparts at exactly 5 inches tall from the toes of his yellow boots to the tips of his winged helmet, he is a pleasingly chunky figure, who stands well, albeit in somewhat limited poses given the seven points of articulation. This loose figure has lost both his lightning bolt and hammer, but collectors should look out for the version with “long” hammer and lightning accessories, which is slightly harder to find.
A variation was also released with a lever in his back to operate a “Smashing Hammer Action” in his right arm – Toy Biz never really mastered the hidden power action that made the Kenner figures so special – although my Thor is without a lever and his limbs seem to move normally.
Probably the most successful aspect of this figure is, rather surprisingly, the facial sculpt – it may be crude, but there's been a real attempt here to create an individual and expressive face that actually looks like the comic book Thor, making this a must-have for Thor fans!
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Mario! says
Another point in this Thor’s favor: he is wearing his helmet, unlike some more recent versions I could point my finger at.
It’s only a matter of time before i dive head first into these MARVEL TOY BIZ figures.I need to pick up a couple more 80’s Secret Wars figs before i do so though 😉
superdupertoybox says
Interesting they didn’t give him a cape… but gave him a lightning bolt! I’ve seen some of these ToyBiz Marvel Superheroes figures on card recently for pretty good prices
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Wasteful packaging is going out of fashion
By Rachel Cernansky 2 July 2019
As landfills run full, retailers are investing in plastic alternatives and encouraging customers to reuse packaging.
E-commerce and the growing number of middle-class shoppers are leading to a glut of packaging waste even as landfills run full.
Creating packaging that customers can reuse is superior to breaking items down for recycling, but reusable items tend to consume more resources in their initial production.
Compostable packaging is an alternative, but it isn’t yet commercially viable on a mass scale.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte recently threatened war with Canada — over rubbish. Shipping containers full of waste that had been mislabelled as recyclable plastic were sitting in a port in Manila and Duterte wanted it gone. In a sign of how poorly the world is managing its ever-growing waste stream, it took the prospect of conflict before Canada agreed to take the rubbish back.
A big part of the waste crisis is the result of packaging, which the fashion industry is using ever more of in the age of online retail. In the EU, total packaging waste in 2016 amounted to nearly 87 million tonnes or about 170 kg per person. Much of it is plastic, which is often not recyclable and can take a significant toll on the environment. An estimated 42 per cent of all plastics produced, outside of those used as fibres, are used for packaging.
Reusing packaging
A growing number of fashion brands are pushing customers to reuse packaging. In the hierarchy of ways to tread more lightly on the planet, reusing materials is far superior to breaking them down for recycling.
Last year, clothing brand Toad&Co partnered with LimeLoop, a US startup that replaces cardboard boxes and disposable mailers with recycled vinyl packages. Customers can request this as a shipping option during checkout, and once the shipment arrives, they drop the empty container in the mail for return and reuse.
Toad&Co has shipped over 3,500 reusable mailers to date, at a cost that it says isn’t material to its bottom line. LimeLoop, which also counts Wearwell and Maika travel bags among its clients, claims that for every 100 shippers used, a brand saves 1,300 trees and nearly 2 million gallons of water.
“Consumers are demanding it from the brands they shop with. They can’t believe how much trash [they] get from ordering some small insignificant item,” says Charity Lund of RePack, a Finland-based company that offers Europeans a similar service to LimeLoop. RePack currently has a pilot programme in the US, although Lund says it’s slow to get off the ground, partly due to a lack of support from the US Postal Service, which has charged the company as much as $17 for a return. The USPS didn’t immediately return a request for comment.
Finnish brand Aalto added leather handles and stickers to a signature RePack reusable bag for their collection.
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Of course, asking time-strapped consumers to do more is a tough sell. RePack works with partners to create incentives, which include discounts on a customer’s next purchase. Cities across the US and Europe have also implemented laws, with varying degrees of success, to tax or ban single-use packaging.
Reuse extends beyond packaging. Braiform, one of Britain’s largest manufacturers of clothes hangers, has developed a reuse system that it says kept 1 billion plastic hangers and accessories out of the landfill in 2017.
However, if brands don’t educate consumers in compliance, reusable items can backfire because they are thicker and require more material. “You may as well use the more disposable option,” says Helen Bird, strategic engagement manager for WRAP, a UK non-profit that campaigns against waste.
Plastic alternatives
For all its environmental flaws, retailers still prize plastic’s utility. In 2014, Patagonia experimented with removing plastic from its packaging, but it wasn’t feasible — 30 per cent of the garments tested ended up damaged beyond the point of being sellable. Five years on, the company is still working on eliminating plastic.
Since then, material innovation has made some compostable alternatives viable. New Zealand womenswear designer Maggie Marilyn packages garments in ComPlast’s cassava-based compostable bags. Marilyn has also begun using courier bags, which are made from recycled limestone quarry waste and provide more protection than the compostable polybags. The Better Packaging Co. works with brands ranging from Maybelline to Billabong to Toms Shoes New Zealand, and is growing sales by 15 to 20 per cent a month.
“I think packaging helps tell that story of authenticity. [Brands] might have a really great story, but then if they put it in a plastic bag, it kind of weakens their argument,” says Rich Cohen, owner of compostable packaging manufacturer Elevate. “In the last year or two years, we’ve seen a major change in that conventional brands are reaching out to us.”
Compostable packaging like Maggie Marilyn's is an alternative, but it isn’t yet commercially viable on a mass scale.
For now, compostable products tend to be pricier than traditional alternatives. Sensi Graves, an Oregon-based bikini line, raised its prices by between $1 to $2 after it switched over — and even that didn’t cover the additional costs. The per-bag cost went from 4 cents to 9 cents and the hygienic liners from 5 to 45 cents.
“We’ve simply chalked it up as the environmental cost of doing business on an increasingly stressed planet,” says Sensi Graves, the brand’s owner. “We're also working harder on communicating that sustainability story to our customers and hoping they'll buy into and appreciate that.”
The hope is that prices will drop as economies of scale kick in. “Costs are slightly higher than plastics, but not overtly, considering how new it is,” says Michael Colovos, co-founder of Colovos, a New York-based women’s apparel brand. “I think the costs will drop as more businesses start using it.”
While smaller brands face the perennial challenge of order minimums on all their supplies, it’s especially acute for compostable alternatives. These alternatives are made of organic materials that will eventually break down, making them hard to keep in storage for long. Just how long varies, but is generally measured in months rather than years.
Creating new packing and shipping processes are also obstacles. “It is slightly more labour-intensive in the short-term because accessories that are used to speed up the packing process are geared to plastics that have been the same shapes and sizes for a very long time,” says Colovos.
The big caveat to compostable packaging is that it needs to be composted at the end of its life — and the infrastructure, for now, is lacking. When organic material is sent to a landfill, it doesn’t have a chance to decompose. Instead, in the anaerobic conditions of a landfill, it ends up producing methane, a potent greenhouse gas. In the EU, less than 20 per cent of municipal waste is composted.
Better Packaging is educating consumers by emblazoning disposable instructions on its bags. It is also building a network of drop-off points for people who don’t have access to industrial compost.
“I really think in the next five years, we’ll see enormous change. Businesses won’t be able to operate the way they are now,” says Marilyn. “Everyone’s going to have to look holistically at the effects they have on the environment.”
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There's one thing about the new Wales rugby kit that's annoyed fans and this is what the WRU say about it
The kit received a hugely positive reaction when it was launched on Saturday but there was a sticking point
Matthew Southcombe
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Wales' new rugby kits were launched on Saturday and for the most part, they went down really well with the fans.
The traditional red jersey , with a slick new white collar, backed up by a bold but smart green alternate kit had most Welsh supporters applauding.
But there was one sticking point and it has caused a bit of a stir. The price.
Modern-day sports kits across the board seem to be getting more expensive every time they come out and there has been an increase in price of the Wales shirts.
Adult replica shirts will cost you £70, which is a £5 increase on the shirt that was released two years ago.
And you'll have to pay £75 to get the World Cup replica version - with no title sponsor and the World Cup logo.
However, youth replica shirts are the same as they were when the last one came out at £50.
The authentic jerseys, identical to the ones the players will wear, start at £90.
How Wales compare to other nations on kit price
Here's how Wales compare to other nations when it comes to the price of their kits.
All kits below are the Rugby World Cup versions...
New Zealand - £109.99 (Authentic) and £69.99 (Replica)
South Africa - £109.99 and £74.99
Australia - £89.99 (Replica)
England - £99.99 and £74.99
Wales - £90 and £75
This annoyed many fans and there has been no shortage of them taking to social media to say they will refuse to purchase one of the new tops because of the price.
However, the Welsh Rugby Union say they endeavour to do their best to protect fans, suggesting it is the manufacturers who set the market.
“There is the authentic and the replica which are both going up a little bit in price," WRU Partnership Manager Lee Bailey told WalesOnline before the launch.
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“We look out for the consumer and we all know, in collaboration with Under Armour, that if you price people out of the market, they’re not going to buy it.
“We have the same conversation around tickets and beer pricing in the stadium. People accept that things have to go up but if they go up disproportionately, we hear about it.
“The last thing anyone wants to do is make things too expensive for your customers.
“We always have a conversation on price, it’s something we take great care to get right and it's a very important part of our collective thinking.
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“We’ve worked with Under Armour for 10 years now and they get that if you stick the price of a shirt up by £20, people aren’t going to buy it.
“It’s tough because everyone wants to keep their margins.”
Wales' authentic kit, which won't be to all fans' taste because it will be tighter fitting, is the cheapest when compared to other top nations that have released their Rugby World Cup kits. The authentic All Blacks jersey, for example, is priced at £109.99.
The replica Welsh jerseys are not the cheapest but remain competitively-priced when it comes to their nearest rivals. The All Blacks World Cup replica jersey is, however, actually cheaper at £69.99.
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The Union would point out that their kit will last for around 18 months as opposed to just one year, like most other tier one nations.
Wales are due to get their next new kit before the 2021 Six Nations.
Wales' new Rugby World Cup kit goes on sale on July 20, and is available to pre-order via the WRU.
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By Bill Owens • Jun 10, 2019
Mr. Trump announced before traveling to the United Kingdom for a state visit that Meghan Markle was nasty, although he subsequently denied having said it, unfortunately for POTUS there were tapes of it. It must be that fake news again. He also suggested to Mrs. May that Britain not pay the $50 billion fee to exit Brexit, and offered support for Boris Johnson. If Mrs. May had made the same incursions into our affairs the tweets would have been viral and nasty.
Last World War II Mohawk Code Talker Has Died
By Pat Bradley • May 30, 2019
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The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe has announced that the last surviving World War II Mohawk code talker has died. Levi Oakes was one of 17 Mohawks from the Akwesasne tribe in northern New York that the Department of Defense confirmed used their native language as an unbreakable code to transmit messages during WWII. In September 2016, Oakes and his daughter Diane Swamp traveled to Plattsburgh to participate in an Honor Flight. They spoke to WAMC's North Country Bureau Chief Pat Bradley about his experience as a codetalker.
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On Wednesday, Alexis Conell will mark seven years since she received the kidney transplant that saved her life, but the 53-year-old Chicago woman isn't exactly celebrating.
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Justin Krebs, a campaign director with MoveOn, isn't interested in hearing pundits debate which 2020 Democratic candidate is the most "electable."
"Because exactly four years ago right now there was a messy, crowded primary, with too many candidates, people who were totally unelectable, and Donald Trump was one of them and ended up winning," he pointed out.
And in the same vein, many Democrats thought Barack Obama was unelectable until he started winning primaries in 2008.
Opinion: Report On Racism, But Ditch The Labels
By Keith Woods • Jul 17, 2019
Editor's note: NPR made the decision, this week, to call President Trump's tweets about a group of Democratic congresswomen, "racist."
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Retired Justice John Paul Stevens, A Maverick On The Bench, Dies At 99
By Nina Totenberg • Jul 16, 2019
Retired Justice John Paul Stevens, whose Supreme Court opinions transformed many areas of American law during his 34 year tenure, died at the age of 99 in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., of complications following a stroke he suffered Monday.
Chief Justice John Roberts confirmed Stevens' death in a statement from the Supreme Court.
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Gas crisis in Mexico could cause guacamole shortage
by: Hector Ramirez II
Posted: Jan 10, 2019 / 11:30 PM EST / Updated: Jan 10, 2019 / 11:30 PM EST
A crisis going on now in Mexico could spell trouble for a popular snack at Super Bowl parties – guacamole.
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Gas stations in at least six Mexican states and the country’s capital have been running dry for days.
There are concerns exports like avocados could be impacted.
100,000 tons of Mexican avocados are consumed in the U.S. during Super Bowl week alone.
Former West Virginia bishop disciplined by pope
WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston in West Virginia says Pope Francis has issued disciplinary action against its former bishop.
The diocese posted the pope's decision on its website, saying former bishop Michael Bransfield can't live within the diocese, can't participate in any public celebration of the liturgy and must make amends "for some of the harm he caused."
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HONOLULU (AP) — Hundreds of protesters trying to stop the construction of a giant telescope on land some consider sacred continue to gather at the base of Hawaii's tallest mountain on Friday, as Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders expressed his support for the demonstration.
Protest leader Kaho'okahi Kanuha said protesters have been bracing for law enforcement to show up in force ever since Gov. David Ige signed an emergency proclamation Wednesday giving authorities more control over access to the Big Island mountain. That was the day officers arrested 34 protesters.
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Marion County Sheriff’s Office Contract For Additional Traffic Enforcement
By Emily Long
April 24, 2019 Law and public safety, Untold Florida: Your Neighborhood, Your Story
The Florida Department of Transportation is partnering with the University of North Florida to improve pedestrian and bicycle safety in Marion County.
The Marion County Sheriff’s Office signed an $18,388.56 contract with FDOT and UNF September 6, 2018, as part of FDOT’s Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow campaign. This increases the number of patrol deputies in two major accident areas, Maricamp Road from SE 25th Avenue to County Road 25 and Highway 200 from Interstate 75 to County Road 484.
FDOT Alert Today Florida team documents said the contract pays overtime for officers to educate through enforcement while warnings and citations are used as a last resort.
The Ocala Police Department’s High Visibility Enforcement areas. A map of the pedestrian and bicyclist-involved crashes in Marion County with the designated education/enforcement corridor identified. This is the corridor that the Marion County Sheriff’s Office is focusing on under their contract with UNF/the Institute of Police Technology and Management. (Courtesy of Al Roop)
The campaign is part of a larger initiative to improve the safety of pedestrians and bicyclists on Florida’s roads; the program also includes engineering such as the reconstruction of streets, enforcement and emergency services.
In May 2018, Marion County was identified by UNF’s Institute of Police Technology and Management as having higher-than-average pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities and serious injuries. Marion County ranks in the top 25 counties in the state for traffic crashes resulting in serious and fatal injuries to pedestrians and bicyclists. For that reason, Marion is a focus county for the State’s pedestrian and bicycle safety program, said Al Roop, assistant director of UNF’s Institute of Police Technology and Management,
Through the grant, sheriff’s deputies on the traffic unit are conducting “high visibility enforcement details” in the danger zones, which ensures the public can see the higher levels of law enforcement activity and as a result drive safer.
The sheriff’s office’s goal is to educate the public on traffic laws to help them be safer drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists.
FDOT’s Alert Today Florida team documents said many people are involved in traffic crashes because they are not familiar with traffic laws put in place to protect their safety, such as motorists stopping behind the crosswalk at a red light before making a right turn. However, it is the expectation that seeing the more police on the roads will more than likely encourage everyone to follow the laws.
John Sullivan, 53, a Marion County resident, said economic growth is attracting more people to the targeted areas, which creates more congestion.
“The area on Maricamp Road is showing tremendous growth, and there is a lot going on there,” Sullivan said. “Growing population, larger gas stations and the additional traffic probably require more enforcement due to accidents because more people are not used to the amount of traffic.”
Commuter traffic has also become an issue on Highway 200, said Jimmy Heflin, 38, a Marion County resident.
“In the next three years, they are adding so many apartments and additional businesses off 200, they are going to need to change traffic patterns or there will be an increased backup,” Heflin said. “People (will be) in a rush to work or from work, in addition, which requires more enforcement or growth in infrastructure.”
The map of Florida’s priority counties. (Courtesy of the Florida Department of Transportation)
UNF is collaborating with law enforcement agencies in the 25 Florida counties that are experiencing the highest numbers of accidents. They are currently working with about 55 agencies within those counties through similar contracts to conduct safety operations in the high crash areas.
Roop said the institute maps out where the crashes occur. UNF researchers then collaborate with law enforcement agencies to determine which areas are most problematic. Over time, they fund enforcement and education in those locations.
Roop said the goal is zero deaths and zero collisions with serious injuries.
“That’s a long haul,” Roop said. “We’ve got a lot of work to get there, but you’re never going to reach it if you don’t try and you don’t start somewhere.”
Roop said everyone has a role to play, and if everyone does things right, we won’t have these kinds of problems.
The contract began September 6, 2018, and ends May 17, 2019. The High Visibility Enforcement Program will continue, and the contracts are renewable annually so long as the agencies have enough people to carry out enforcement details and apply for funding. So long as Marion County continues to have high numbers of serious or fatal pedestrian and bike crashes, FDOT will continue to provide funding for the county, FDOT Alert Today Florida Team documents said.
The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles traffic crash facts show that the total pedestrian traffic fatalities and total bicyclist traffic fatalities decreased slightly between 2017 and 2018 in Marion County.
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To implement a text-messaging service (WelTel) for HIV medication adherence in addition to other healthcare conditions at clinical sites in the Northern Arid Lands of Kenya. 2000 patients enrolled in the original pilot are still receiving SMS support.
WelTel Retain
To determine whether the WelTel intervention can improve retention in care among HIV-infected individuals who are not yet taking antiretroviral medication.
WelTel Oak Tree
HIV/AIDS in British Columbia. The goal of this study is to assess clinical outcomes (e.g. CD4 counts, HIV viral loads, clinic appointment attendance, HIV medication adherence) in a group of 100 high-risk individuals, using the WelTel text messaging intervention.
LTBI mHealth Study
A Randomized Controlled Trial to Examine the Effectiveness of the Use of Mobile Phones and Text Messaging to Improve Adherence to Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection
WelTel Kenya1
A multisite randomized controlled trial of HIV-positive adults initiating antiretroviral therapy in Kenya. This trial assessed whether mobile phone communication between health-care workers and patients improved drug adherence and viral load suppression.
Grand Challenges Canada Phase I
To implement the text-messaging service (WelTel) at a demonstration site in Kenya and develop a sustainable business model that can be used to scale up the intervention in resource-limited settings.
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Kenya’s Startup Boom
Local programmers and homegrown business models are helping to realize the vast promise of using phones to improve health care and save lives.
Phones like Hussein’s hold great potential to improve the way health services are delivered. One major study demonstrating as much was started five years ago by Richard Lester, a Canadian infectious-disease specialist. After arriving in Kenya for a research fellowship,… Read More
Cellphones Fighting AIDS
M-powered
The convergence of mobile telephony and health care is under way
BILL GATES seems to relish being the skunk at the garden party. The former boss of Microsoft, now a global-health philanthropist, was invited to address a big “m-health” conference in Washington, DC, this week. Some 2,400 proponents of delivering health… Read More
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DIY Upgrading Your Anchor Rode >
Do-It-Yourself: Upgrading Your Anchor Rode
By Tom Burden, Last updated: 11/30/2018
Are you feeling insecure about your anchor rode?
Has the line been piled in a saltwater-saturated heap in the chain locker for a long time, with chain that is so rusted that it leaves stains on the foredeck of your boat? Perhaps you're beginning to distrust the integrity of the shackle, thimble and the whole works. If this sounds a little too familiar, then it's time for a replacement and/or upgrade.
We're discussing this topic because secure anchoring is very important for safe boating; a reliable anchoring system can save you, your boat and your family in an emergency. If you are like many boaters, you may have experienced an engine malfunction—probably at the worst possible time in the most inconvenient location—and been thankful that your anchor was ready for rapid deployment to keep you, your crew and your boat out of danger.
We've been there and could share some embarrassing tales. Once—after changing the engine oil and making an adjustment to the transmission—our 30-foot boat died mid-channel in our local harbor entrance. So much for the planned fifteen-minute test run. Our Claw anchor became our best friend as we drifted closer to the rock breakwater, a mere 100 yards from the security of our slip. We hailed our harbormaster and meekly sat in the cockpit waiting for a tow.
Skill Level Required (1=Easiest, 10=Most difficult)
Assembling an anchor line and chain: 2
Splicing a rope-to-chain splice: 6
Assembling an anchor line and chain, tools required:
Pliers or shackle tool
Rope to chain splice, tools required:
Hollow fid
Rigging or electrical tape
Hot knife or soldering iron
Rigging knife
The Anchor Rode
The general term "rode" describes the line and/or chain that connects the anchor to the boat, since it may not be a line at all (many cruising boats use all-chain rodes). The rode should meet the following four criteria. First, it must be chafe-resistant to stand up to abrasion from the seabed and the boat's anchor roller, deck pipe and chocks. Second, an anchor rode should keep the pull on the anchor shank horizontal to maximize the anchor's holding power. Third, the rode should be lightweight so you are not carrying a lot of extra pounds in the bow of your boat. Finally, it must be strong enough to resist the pull of wind, waves and current.
Since boats come in so many configurations, floating in a wide variety of waters, no single type of rode meets these requirements for every boating style. We will describe four basic rode combinations, and help you find an anchor rode that works great for your boat and how you use it. All of the rodes discussed here rely on one or two main components: quality three-strand line from a company like New England Ropes; and quality hot-dip galvanized chain from ACCO. Three-strand nylon line has excellent abrasion resistance, shock-absorbing elasticity and strength. And galvanized chain is flexible, heavy, abrasion resistant, and extremely strong.
The Right Line Diameter
In general the load on an anchor line varies with the square of the Length Overall (LOA) of the boat. To size three-strand line correctly to balance shock-absorbing stretch with ample strength, we use the general rule of 1/8" of line diameter for every 9' of overall boat length. This yields the proper line diameter for the "average" boat. If you own a heavy sportfishing boat with a lot of windage from a high bow, flybridge and tuna tower, for example, you would want 1/8" of diameter for every 8' of boat length. Lightweight or low windage boats, like an ultra-light racing sailboat, can use 1/8" of diameter for every 10' of length.
Types of Anchoring Chain
The least expensive chain is called proof coil chain, or Grade 30, with G3 stamped on the links. It's what most boaters use, but will not work for windlasses since it has longer links than other types, and a short link length works best for gypsies. Proof coil also does not have a uniform pitch (the length of the opening in each link). Use Proof Coil chain for non-windlass boats.
The second type of chain is called BBB or Triple B chain. Identified by the 3B stamp on the chain link. Its links are uniform in pitch and shorter by 10 to 15 percent compared to proof coil. While it is the same in strength, the short link makes it good for windlasses.
High Test chain-Grade 40-called HT or G4, is the preferred chain for most modern windlass applications, according to Lewmar's windlass expert, Kevin Donohue. With G4 stamped on the links, High Test has twice the working load of BBB chain.
The strongest chain that West Marine carries is called Transport Chain, since it is used by trucks and the transportation industry. It is another 20 percent stronger than high test, resists wear because of its exceptional hardness properties, and can be identified by the G7 stamp on the links. Mainly used for all-chain rodes on large boats, G7 is almost too light for its strength rating to provide the required horizontal pull on the anchor and absorb wind, current and wave loads for small/medium sized boats.
Compatibility With a Windlass
Every windlass for chain includes a drum or wheel called a gypsy. Whatever chain you select, it must fit the gypsy on your windlass perfectly, or the windlass won't perform properly and the gypsy may be damaged by the poor chain alignment. Each gypsy fits one or more diameters of line (of three-strand, twelve-strand or eight-strand construction) and specific types and diameters of chain (like 1/2" Grade 40, 5/16" BBB or 3/8" Grade 70, for example). Most windlasses can be purchased with different gypsies to fit different chain types. Most older windlasses were made for Triple B chain. The majority of windlasses sold today come with gypsies fitting G4, and very few windlasses use G7 Transport Chain.
The Right Rode Diameter
For BBB and proof coil chain, the chain size should be half the line diameter. 5/8" nylon line should be matched with 5/16" galvanized chain. Use shackles one size larger than the chain (1/4" chain would use 5/16" shackles). As a general guide, for winds up to 30 knots, we recommend the following line and chain diameters for light, average or heavy boats, using three-strand, high quality line. This table assumes an 8:1 safety factor.
3-Strand Nylon
26'–30' 23'–27' 21'–24' 3/8" 3/16" PC
31'–35' 28'–32' 25'–28' 7/16" 1/4" PC
36'–40' 32'–36' 29'–32' 1/2" 1/4" PC
41'–45' 37'–40' 33'–36' 9/16" 5/16" PC/BBB or 1/4" HT
46'–50' 41'–45' 37'–40' 5/8" 5/16" PC/BBB/HT
51'–60' 46'–54' 41'–48' 3/4" 3/8" PC/BBB or 5/16" HT
61'–70' 55'–63' 49'–56' 7/8" 1/2" PC or 3/8" HT
71'–80' 64'–72' 57'–64' 1" 5/8" PC or 1/2" HT
Anchor Rode Length
The classic rule is to use seven times the sum of the water depth plus the boat's freeboard. Many boaters will use a scope of more like five times, and will compensate with more chain or more vigilance!
Small Boat Anchor Rodes
The simplest anchor rode involves connecting the anchor directly to a spliced nylon anchor line. An example uses a West Marine 8lb. Traditional Anchor, a 1/4" shackle, and a 3/8" x 150' New England Ropes anchor line. This is great for day use with a small boat. It's lightweight, inexpensive, and will hold well as long as the scope is sufficient.
To make this anchor package even more effective, you can add a short length of chain between the anchor and the line. The classic rule is to add a boat length of chain, which does two things: it protects the nylon line from chafe caused by seabed rocks and debris, and the chain's weight keeps the angle of pull on the anchor parallel to the bottom. But even a short length, like coated Acco chain, will make a big improvement in anchor performance and the longevity of the system.
Small galvanized shackles connect the anchor to the length of chain, and attach the chain to the thimble on the anchor line. Remember to use the "next size up" in shackles; a length of 1/4" chain would be matched to a 5/16" shackle. This system, with a long length of three-strand nylon line, a moderate length of chain and a properly sized anchor will satisfy the needs of the majority of boaters, with boats up to the 30' feet.
Anchor Rodes for Use with a Windlass
Things get a bit trickier if you want to use a windlass because windlasses do not allow passage of the thimble and shackle joining the line to the chain. About 25 years ago, a windlass manufacturer came up with a combination rope-chain gypsy that allows you to pull anchor rode in one continuous operation, a feature that is now standard equipment on virtually every windlass in the 500lb. to 1,500lb. capacity range.
The Rope-to-Chain Splice
Rope-chain gypsies operate using a rode with a splice connecting the three-strand line to the chain. Folks were skeptical about the strength and reliability of this new rode technology at first, so in 1995, West Marine, New England Ropes and Practical Sailor magazine destruction-tested samples of rope/chain splices using the rope manufacturer's computerized testing lab. Chuck Hawley's Practical Sailor report documented that the splices retained 80 to 87 percent of the line's strength before they failed. Today, because of these and other tests, rope/chain splices are the accepted standard for rodes used with a windlass.
You can use a rope/chain spliced rode with or without a windlass. It's secure, with no mechanical parts to fail or shackle pins to unscrew, plus it passes over anchor rollers and through chain pipes with less hassle. We recommend it for anyone using a combination rode. There are three choices for obtaining a rope/chain spliced rode: you can buy a pre-spliced rode from West Marine; you can order a custom rode from West Marine Rigging that combines virtually any line with any chain, or you can make it yourself. Chuck and Kevin show the basics of making this splice in our companion Video Advisor.
Big Boat Anchor Rodes
If you own a boat over 40' of length and cruise to lots of different anchorages with a variety of seabed types, you should consider an all-chain anchor rode. There's nothing like the feeling of security provided by the strength and abrasion resistance of chain for open-water and heavy-weather anchorages.
The negative side of chain is its weight. Since boats require 200' or more of chain for an all-chain rode, and since chain is very heavy, all that chain adds up to a bunch of weight in the bow of a boat. That's why many boaters (and especially sailboat owners with big and lightweight boats) choose higher strength Grade 40 or Grade 70 chain. These reduce the weight of the chain by 30 percent, yet achieve the same working load and ultimate strength.
Matching anchor chain to a specific vessel can be challenging since the windage of the vessel is probably the key selection factor, and windage is hard to determine. You might want to consult a naval architect or marine surveyor for advice on how to size ground tackle on boats over 60 feet. See our West Advisor articles online at westmarine.com for suggestions on how to size this gear on boats up to about 60 or 70 feet.
Proper Scope With All-Chain Rodes
Determining the length of anchor chain is based on the maximum water depth and the freeboard of the vessel, but since chain is so heavy, generally you can plan on using 4:1 scope. And, due to the weight of the chain, you actually need less scope as the water depth increases. All-chain rodes are often around 200-300 feet long. For deep anchorages, the chain can be spliced to a length of nylon rope. Beware that rope-to-chain splices can wear due to the load encountered when anchoring—so the splice should be checked frequently. If there is any evidence of chafe or wear, the splice can easily be redone. Regardless of whether you use nylon rode, it's extremely important that boats with chain rode have some nylon at the bitter end so that the rode can be cut in an emergency.
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Relevant Tones
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A weekly exploration of the most fascinating time in classical music history: right now.
With composers from nearly every country in the world creating music in diverse styles, there has simply never been a more exciting time for classical music. Relevant Tones creator and host Seth Boustead dives into this treasure trove of music accompanied by first-person interviews, in the field segments that take him to festivals and concert halls around the world, with stellar performances by talented ensembles and soloists.
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It’s quite common in academia, journalism and literature for two authors to team up to write an article or book but significantly less so in music. Still, it does happen and the results are often fascinating. Where does one idea start and the other continue? How do two composers work together to write a seamless piece?
Not surprisingly, the natural world is a never-ending source of fascination and inspiration for composers. From the datura plant in southern China to a rare bird in the wilds of Australia to strange animals that exist only in the composer’s imagination, we’ll feature music inspired by the boundless creativity of nature.
Drum Kit: Problem Child
It’s essentially just a conveniently placed grouping of popular percussion instruments and yet, the drum kit is often cited as the dividing line between popular music and classical. We’ll examine how composers are using the drum kit today and what impact it’s having on genre boundaries.
In the Field: Warsaw Autumn Part II
The second part in our two-part feature of the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music includes interviews with composers, performers and organizers of the event and more audio performances recorded live in the concert halls of Warsaw.
In the Field: Warsaw Autumn Part I
Since its beginning in 1956 the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music, for many years the only festival of its kind in Eastern Europe, has presented new music by leading Polish composers and composers from around the world. Today it is one of the most prestigious contemporary music festivals in the world and we are honored to have the ...
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Polish composer, concert pianist and educator Zygmunt Krauze is a hugely respected figure on the international contemporary music scene and the recipient of numerous honors including the French National Order of the Legion of Honour among many others. We’ll play selections from his music and talk with him about his storied career.
Musical Delights
After discovering Sebastian Huydts’s newest album, Delicias de Blancanieves, Seth is sharing his newest ‘delights’. We’ll share selected works of Huydt, Caroline Eyck, and Johann Johannson and more with you.
The Art of Spoken Word
It takes fine craftsmanship to achieve a perfect partnership between text and music in which neither element overshadows the other. This week, we’ll listen to a fascinating array of spoken word and music by composers like Aaron Jay Kernis, Joseph Schwantner, David Lang, and more who are striving to achieve this symmetry.
Crossover between classical and rock musicians was common in the 1970’s but has taken a bit of a break until recently. Now instead of composers influencing rock musicians like Brian Eno, a rock band is having a huge influence on a diverse array of composers around the globe. The music of Radiohead has been arranged by countless composers and has ...
Extra Tones: Setting Records
If you enjoyed our episode “Contemporary Vinyl,” here is something extra! Why is releasing music on vinyl an upward trend currently? Just what is it that makes vinyl so incredible? In this podcast we explore these questions and dive into how exactly vinyl is made. Special thanks to Peter McDowell and Eighth Blackbird, Julia Nicols-Corry from Cedille Records, Bob Weston ...
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Composers like Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Bartók and have sought to musically depict their environs for centuries. How are landscapes, both urban and pastoral, being represented musically today? We’ll hear composer’s portrayals of locations like David Sampson’s Grant Park in Chicago, the surrounding islands of Australia from Peter Sculthorpe, Michael Daughterty’s George Washington from Mount Rushmore and more.
Extra Tones: Computing to Composing
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Claire Ridley discovers Zanzibar and the Serengeti National Park for a beach and safari honeymoon of a lifetime.
Located 40 kilometres off the coast of Tanzania, the Spice Island, as it's known, has a thriving spice trade from the locally-grown produce including cinnamon, nutmeg and clove. The five-star Meliá Zanzibar, an all-inclusive luxury beach resort built on a 40-acre estate, sits forty-five minutes from the airport by private transfer on the north east coast.
The resort offers 137 rooms and suites including Ocean View Bungalows that are the hotel's best offering for honeymooners. They feature a private balcony with sea views and a tropical semi-outdoor shower under the typical Makuti roof. There's also five restaurants and bars and The Spa, a tranquil beachfront spot.
A walk down the jetty ends at The Jetty Lounge, a honeymooner's paradise. It's open for lunch (the fresh lobster is a must-try), dinner (serving international tapas) and cocktails at sunset. Back on the beach, Aqua restaurant offers an al fresco dinner option where reservations are required. A candlelit supper with uninterrupted sea views isn't to be missed and neither is the coconut crab soup.
For something more relaxed, The Spice Market boasts open cooking stations serving a mix of international dishes with the Swahili Buffet being a highlight. These themed nights are very entertaining with live African music and dancing on the adjoining sheltered terrace. Those wanting to feel the sand between their toes can jump in a golf buggy to the Gabi Beach Club, a short distance from the main hotel, to feast on the grilled seafood. There's also the Pool Bar & Restaurant for sandwiches and snacks, while The Library Bar is perfect for a relaxing drink (the light Kilimanjaro beer is highly recommended.)
Romantic must-dos
- Relaxing on the idyllic 300-metre stretch of powder white sand and swimming in the crystal clear water is top priority, with Gabi Beach home to Balinese beds, a beach volley ball court, kayaks and kite surfing lessons, available at an extra charge.
- There's tennis and table tennis available, PADI diving, snorkeling (the resort is ringed by a natural coral reef), and an air-conditioned fitness centre.
- Enjoy a refreshing dip in the infinity pool with sun beds in the water – ideal for that poolside selfie!
- Those in need of some post-vow pampering should head to The Spa and enjoy a personalised treatment using a choice of the island blended massage oils made using natural spices. Pure Bliss (a combination of a body polish, wrap, massage and facial) and The Spa Signature Massage are not to be missed.
Exploring Zanzibar
- Visit the capital city of Stone Town with Fisherman Tours and wander through the spice market – be prepared for some hustle and bustle! (www.fishermantours.com)
- Book a boat trip with The Safari Blue on board a traditional Dhow. Snorkel with a guide and swim ashore a powdery sandbank before feasting on a Swahili seafood barbecue. If you're lucky, you'll spot dolphins at play (www.safariblue.net).
Prices at Meliá Zanzibar start from £350 per night for a double Melia Garden Room in low season, www.melia.com
In the heart of the Serengeti National Park on the southern slopes of Nyamuma (which is the wildebeest and zebra migration route) sits the recently opened, eco-friendly Meliá Serengeti Lodge. Accessed from the Seronera Airstrip, (prepare for a very small aircraft from Zanzibar via Arusha), it's a five-star resort complete with 50 rooms and suites designed with a nod to the traditional Maasai culture. The two Serengeti Suites are best suited to honeymooners, decorated in soft, earthy tones with a terrace ideally placed for animal spotting. This can be screened off at night to allow in the sounds of the Serengeti. There's also an infinity pool, an outdoor fitness centre, spa, three restaurants and two bars at the property with everything designed to support the local environment.
The Savannah Restaurant has been built with open-air views of the park. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served from the buffet with a large selection of dishes made using fresh ingredients including meat, fish, salad and fresh fruit with the watermelon smoothie a must-try!
Dine under the stars at Boma, a circular-shaped restaurant centered around an open firepit with a menu serving authentic African cuisine and the Maasai providing live music and dancing. A light menu of tapas is available at The Terrace and traditional Tanzanian coffee (served with a stick of cinnamon) and homemade ginger tea (that's delicious) are available at The Bar along with a selection of African liquor.
- Sip on a cocktail at the infinity pool while taking in views of the stunning Serengeti.
- Learn how to bead a piece of jewellery.
- Take a walk around the property escorted by the Maasai, who also guard your room 24-hours a day. For those wanting to venture further afield, a guided walking safari can be arranged with the hotel.
- The stylish spa houses couples treatment rooms with a variety of massages, facials and body treatments on offer using blended oils including lemongrass, ginger and vanilla.
Exploring the Serengeti
- The park is famous for its abundance of wildlife and the only way to see it is during a game drive on board one of the hotel's fully equipped Jeeps with windows and a roof that opens. Our very experienced guide was Joel, and it was cameras at the ready as he guided us across the desert-like terrain to introduce us to this magical animal kingdom. Prepare to see lions, antelopes, zebras, giraffes and hyenas among others. There's up to 28 species of hoofed animals in the Serengeti with more than 530 different bird species.
- A picnic stop at the Hippo Pool provides a scenic lunch area to safely admire these larger than life creatures. The food is prepared by the chef at the lodge who will make up any picnic basket requests. There's plenty of refreshments on board as well as complimentary hand sanitizer, chilled face towels and sunscreen.
- An early morning start for an hour-long balloon safari at sunrise is a highlight not to be missed. Arranged through Serengeti Balloon Safaris (www.balloonsafaris.com), the flight is launched at dawn and floats over the plains, spotting plentiful wildlife in areas out of bounds to vehicles (off road driving is not permitted in most of the Serengeti). After a champagne toast on landing, you're seated and served a freshly prepared African breakfast in the bush before being presented with your flight certificate. It's worth noting here to make use of the 'loo with a view' as there may not be one available for a while.
Prices for Meliá Serengeti Lodge start from £415 per night for the Game Drive all-inclusive package, www.melia.com
What to know before you go
- All UK visitors to Tanzania must have a visa for entry that cost £40, visit www.tzhc.uk
- Seek your doctor's advice for recommended vaccines and anti-malarial medication.
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BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition review: Desktop-mobile convergence, up to a point
By Terry Relph-Knight | May 9, 2016 -- 12:02 GMT (05:02 PDT) | Topic: Tablets
Editors' rating
✓The first Ubuntu tablet, and the first to offer desktop-mobile convergence
✓Rear camera shoots surprisingly good stills, particularly in HDR mode
✓Available in Full HD or lower-cost HD models
✕Room for improvement as a 'converged' device
✕Slightly washed-out, green-tinged display
✕Micro-HDMI and Micro-USB ports are hard to tell apart
✕Connectivity for keyboard and mouse is somewhat constrained
✕Included charger has a two-pin continental mains plug
✕No mobile broadband support
Late in 2015 Canonical announced that it would be working with the Spanish company BQ to produce the long-awaited 'converged smartphone' that would support Ubuntu desktop-like operation when connected to a suitable display, keyboard and mouse. So it came as something of a surprise when the first BQ-manufactured converged device, unveiled at Mobile World Congress in February, turned out to be a tablet -- and not only that, but a tablet without mobile broadband support.
The BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet. The folding protective case is available from BQ as an option. The Bluetooth keyboard shown is from a third party.
Image: BQ
Price and purchasing
The BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet is available either as Full HD model at €279.90 (~£220) or, with a lower-resolution screen and cameras, and a less powerful chipset, as the HD model at €229.90 (~£180). Like BQ's Ubuntu phones, both models of the M10 Ubuntu Edition are available through the BQ online store -- only this time without 'flash' (or by invitation only) sales.
BQ provides a 5-year warranty and 365 days of technical support by phone per year. Along with the tablet, you get a Quick Start guide, a 1m USB-to-MicroUSB cable and a charger (with a 2-pin continental plug) in the box. A full user guide is available for download in PDF form via the support tab on BQ's website.
As its name suggests, the Aquaris M10 has a 10.1-inch diagonal screen, which is protected by Asahi Dragontrail X toughened glass with a fingerprint-resistant coating. The screen's 10-point capacitive touch response has three modes: tap, double tap or long press. Double tap and long press are editable and can be user-assigned to different functions. For Ubuntu, these are augmented by various swipe gestures.
The HD and the FHD models have different display resolutions -- 1,280 by 800 (149ppi) and 1,920 by 1,200 (224ppi) respectively. There are also differences in the chipsets and cameras for the two models (see below). Our review unit was a top-end FHD unit.
BQ says that the M10 uses AHVA display panels with a 170-degree viewing angle for both models. Advanced Hyper-Viewing Angle (not to be confused with VA displays) is an IPS-like technology, developed and manufactured by the Taiwanese company AU Optronics.
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Compared to a calibrated display, the M10 screen's image quality is slightly washed out, with a little too much green. There are no user controls for the display, so you can't adjust this.
Internal technology and other specs
The M10 is powered by a quad-core, 64-bit MediaTek MT8163 SoC clocked at 1.3GHz in the HD model and 1.5GHz in the FHD model reviewed here. The GPU is a Mali-T720 MP2, clocked up to 520MHz (HD) and 600MHz (FHD). Both models have 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage, which can be expanded by up to 64GB by plugging a card into the external MicroSD slot.
BQ says that the Aquaris M10 is the first tablet in Europe equipped with Dolby Atmos sound, which delivers 3D sound from the two front-mounted speakers.
Power for both models, which weigh 470g and measure 246mm by 171mm by 8.2mm, is supplied by a 7,280mAh LiPo battery.
Connectivity and controls
With the M10 in landscape orientation, the left edge, near the upper corner, has a stereo 3.5mm TRRS jack plus Micro-USB OTG and Micro-HDMI ports. Annoyingly, the USB and HDMI connectors are both close together and not labelled in any way; this makes them hard to tell apart, so you can find yourself trying to jam a connector into the wrong socket. Opposite these, on the right edge, are an on/off button and a volume rocker. Offset to the right of centre, on the top edge, you'll a microphone and a slot for a MicroSD memory card that allows storage expansion up to 64GB, formatted as FAT32.
For wireless connectivity there's Bluetooth 4.0 and 802.11a/b/g/n (2.4 GHz/5GHz) wi-fi.
There's an ambient light sensor and a multi-colour power status LED mounted in the upper bezel, next to the front camera.
The M10 has two cameras, one at the front in the middle of the upper bezel and one behind it at the rear. Again, the HD and FHD models differ. The FHD model, reviewed here, has an 8MP rear camera (at 4:3 or 6.2MP set to 16:9) with a focal length of 3.5mm, while the front camera is 5MP (at 5:3 or 3.7MP set to 16:9) and 3.5mm focal length. BQ does not specify the f numbers for the lenses. The HD model's camera specifications are reduced to 5MP rear and 2MP front. Both models can shoot video at 1080p and both cameras have autofocus.
Contrary to some media reports, there is no flash on either model, dual or otherwise. As with many mobile devices, the display is almost impossible to see in bright sunlight, so operating the tablet as a camera under these conditions isn't easy. A further complication is that it's difficult to maintain a firm grasp on the tablet without inadvertently placing a finger on the touchscreen and blocking the operation of the shutter button.
The camera app needs some work because, when the tablet is oriented in landscape mode and connected to an external display, the image from either camera appears as portrait, but with the actual image rotated 90 degrees, so it appears sideways. With the tablet screen in portrait orientation, the video and camera switch toggles and the shutter button appear at the bottom of the display and swiping up reveals the further camera controls. When rotated to landscape, although an arrow appears in the centre of the lower edge of the display, only a swipe up, directly below the visible camera buttons, will reveal the other camera controls.
In strong light the M10's 8MP (FHD model) rear camera is capable of sharp images with convincing colour reproduction. These images were shot in 4:3 aspect ratio, which offers the highest resolution and in High Dynamic Range mode where three shots are taken at different exposures and then combined. (For publication these images have been reduced in size from their original resolution.)
Images: Terry Relph-Knight/ZDNet
Using the M10
If the version of Ubuntu currently available for the M10 -- 15.04 (OTA-10.1) when reviewed -- were fully convergent you would expect its operation to be instantly familiar and fluid for anyone who has experience of Ubuntu on the desktop, and perhaps on a smartphone. Right now, though, that's not the case.
There is a problem in trying to design user interfaces for mobile devices that try to be smart: the input/output surface is small. Using touch input saves on space for a keyboard, but at the same time point accuracy is limited to the size of a fingertip. Small screens therefore require relatively large icons and text. Tablets occupy the space between relatively large laptops and highly portable and convenient smartphones. Unfortunately, like phones, without app interface scaling, tablets aren't generally big enough for the icons and menus of typical desktop applications -- the type of software most of us still use to get useful work done -- to be easily selectable (or even, in some cases, readable). The M10, running the first version of Ubuntu to offer a glimpse of convergence, brings this inherent problem into sharp focus.
On initial power up the M10 runs a setup wizard to configure the tablet for individual use, allowing you to select language, configure lock security, connect to a wi-fi network and activate location services.
The M10 can operate in Tablet and Desktop modes, and in both the familiar Launcher bar appears on the left edge of the display with the system status and control menu along the top. In tablet mode, the Ubuntu icon appears at the bottom corner of the display, with the pinned apps above it, which is similar to Ubuntu running on a smartphone. Switching to desktop mode (by pulling down the System menu from the top menu bar and flipping the Desktop mode switch) reverses the order of the pinned apps and shifts them up, so that the Ubuntu icon appears at the top corner of the display. However, the orange Ubuntu icon always acts as it does on a phone, and opens Scopes -- there is no desktop Dash.
Right now, therefore, Ubuntu on the M10 is more like Ubuntu for Phones than Ubuntu Desktop. This raises concerns that a unified, fully converged Ubuntu may end up 'dumbed down', having been compromised in an attempt to fit into the simpler, touch-centric, mass-market world of phones and tablets.
The M10 Launcher bar in tablet mode (background) and desktop mode (foreground). The Launcher is shown with the current default pinned apps.
Starting from the Scopes button, the apps pinned by default to the Launcher bar are: Contacts, System, Camera, Gallery, Browser, Xchat-GNOME and LibreOffice. Icons for open apps also appear in the Launcher and can be pinned there by touching and holding until a pop-up label/menu appears and then selecting 'Pin shortcut' from that pop-up. Unpinned apps can be opened from the Apps Scope, which also provides the link to the Ubuntu Store. Desktop users might expect to see a File manager as a pinned app: instead, a File manager app is available for download from the Ubuntu Store.
A screenshot of the Apps Scope showing the apps installed by default.
Image: Terry Relph-Knight/ZDNet
Like the Ubuntu phones, the M10 tablet comes with apps for two Spanish newspapers -- Cinco Dias and El Pais -- installed by default, which most English-speaking UK residents won't want.
LibreOffice as a default pinned app is an interesting choice because although it's is an excellent FOSS office suite and very usable with a large external display, it's decidedly not small-screen-friendly. LibreOffice may only be included to demonstrate the M10's ability to run an office suite when connected to an external display and keyboard. However, when opened on the tablet display, the menus and icons are ridiculously small.
LibreOffice running full-screen on the M10 tablet. Imagine this screenshot scaled to a 10-inch diagonal to get an idea of how small the icons and menus are.
In desktop mode, apps can be windowed, minimised and closed, while in tablet mode apps occupy the entire screen with the option to display a second app in a side stage on the right of the display.
The M10 in desktop mode with three app windows open on the desktop. The Launcher is hidden until accessed by a swipe from the left edge, and when it's displayed the rest of the desktop is dimmed.
The M10 in tablet mode with LibreOffice Write displayed on the left and the Events scope displayed on the right as a Side Stage.
With two apps open, one app can be displayed on the left two-thirds of the display, while the second can be displayed on the right in Side Stage, by using three-finger side-swipe gestures to pull the apps into place on the display. Side Stage can be closed by placing one finger on its left border and swiping to the right to stretch the app on the left two-thirds of the display into full screen.
In tablet mode, multiple open apps can be selected (by a tap) or closed (by a swipe up or down) by opening a cascade of open apps with a single-finger long swipe from the right edge of the display.
When there's another display connected to the tablet's Micro-HDMI output, switching desktop mode off from the System menu does not return the display to the tablet screen. If an external display is connected to the tablet, the video signal routes to it, even if it's turned off.
Only one Bluetooth device can be connected at a time, so to use the M10 with an external keyboard and mouse either requires connecting one through the Micro-USB port and the other via Bluetooth, or connecting both indirectly via an external USB hub or a dual-function Bluetooth device.
A mouse click, or downward finger swipe, on any of the system status and control icons in the top menu bar results in the related control panel being displayed as a Side Stage, rather than a drop-down box as it currently does in Ubuntu Desktop. System Settings maximises to full screen and is the Ubuntu Phone version rather than the GNOME version familiar to desktop users.
When an external display is plugged into the M10's Micro-HDMI output, the tablet's own screen blanks and displays this message: "Your device is now connected to an external display. Use this screen as a touch pad to interact with the pointer". If a Bluetooth mouse is connected, that also remains active as a pointing device.
Canonical has been promising desktop-mobile convergence for a long time -- Mark Shuttleworth announced that Ubuntu would be moving in this direction with the Edge superphone project in July 2013. BQ's Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition still seems like a work in progress, and doesn't always respond as expected -- either due to bugs in the software, or to inconsistencies in the user interface. As a result, interest in this tablet is likely to be restricted to Ubuntu fans and determined early adopters.
Fortunately Ubuntu updates are frequent and easy to apply, so many of the current problems with Ubuntu as a tablet OS should be solved in the coming months -- hopefully before this particular device becomes obsolete.
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Palestinians 'Rage' over Trump's Jerusalem Move, 1 Killed in Clashes
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JERUSALEM, Israel – With threats of terror attacks and calls for rage in the wake of President Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, Israeli security services prepared for the worst.
Palestinians clashed with security forces for the second day on Friday, and a 30-year-old Gazan was reportedly killed in skirmishes with Israeli troops along the Gaza border.
The Israeli military issued a statement saying soldiers had "fired selectively at two main instigators" as the violence escalated and confirmed hitting them.
Over in Jerusalem, the holy city was relatively quiet at midday following Muslim prayers on the Temple Mount.
"Our units are located and can respond if necessary," Israel Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told CBN News. "We're hoping that this afternoon will continue to be relatively calm and quiet and that Israeli police won't have to respond to any illegal or violent demonstrations."
The Damascus Gate just outside the walls of Jerusalem's Old City has been the scene of major disturbances, but on Friday there were only minor skirmishes and a small crowd shouting slogans.
One slogan called for martyrs and suicide attacks. One Muslim man expressed his view of Jerusalem's future.
"Jerusalem will be the capital of the world for Islamic empire. We will right the justice for everybody all over the world," a man named AbdulKarim Mohammed As'ad said.
Rioting broke out in the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) and the Gaza Strip on Thursday, with protesters chanting "Trump, you will see, Palestine will be free." And clashes continued on Friday in the P.A.-controlled city of Bethlehem and other parts of the West Bank.
Palestinians consider all of Jerusalem theirs and want at least the eastern sector of the city, which includes the Old City's Temple Mount, Western Wall and historic churches, to be the capital of a future state.
Following President Trump's speech, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called for three days of rage.
Abbas traveled to Jordan on Thursday to rally Arab support against Trump. He said that Trump had effectively withdrawn the U.S. from its role as a fair mediator between Israel and the Palestinians.
"We believe America, with this position, has distanced itself greatly as a political actor in the Middle East because it will not get back its previous role here," Abbas told reporters.
In Jordan, where more than 60 percent of the population is Palestinian, Jordanians protested outside the U.S. Embassy.
And in Iran, demonstrators condemned Trump's decision and Iranian leaders called for a third intifada (armed Palestinian uprising.)
Another senior P.A. official, Jabril Rajoub, said that Vice President Mike Pence is not welcome in the Palestinian areas when he visits later this month.
Pence was due to meet with Abbas in Bethlehem, but Rajoub said the meeting would not take place.
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Chapter 447- Returning to the Kings’ Mainland
Su Meiyao and Bai Youyou had witnessed Chen Xiang’s growth, step by step. Since his youth, the pains and labors he had suffered didn’t go unnoticed to them. Their heart ached when they saw Chen Xiang go through all sorts of hardships just to speed up his growth. And the main reason behind all this was them, all in order to fulfill the contract he had signed with them at the Immortal and Devil Cliff.
However, Chen Xiang had never complained or anything. Which moved them very much. Over time, they came to have peculiar feelings for Chen Xiang, and even they could hardly describe it clearly.
After having rested for two days, he sought Yun Xiaodao and the others to have a meal together before leaving the Extreme Martial Province!
At present, he still had one last reward he had yet to obtain. And that was the very herb garden which Wu Canghong had told him about. He didn’t want to go alone at all, so, he went to the Divine Weapon Heavenly Empire to look for Liu Menger.
Having arrived at the Divine Weapon Heavenly Empire, Chen Xiang didn’t find Liu Menger. An elder told him that Liu Menger had gone to the Icewind Valley, where she would be staying for some time. Apparently, there was a secret place there, where she was helping Leng Youlan and Xue Xianxian in cultivation.
In the beginning, Chen Xiang came for Leng Youlan because Leng Youlan had always wanted to take an adventure trip with him. He was also planning to take Xue Xianxian. With their strength, it would not have been a problem to look for the herb garden in the Kings’ Mainland.
Regretfully, he could not find anyone.
Having left the Divine Weapon Heavenly Empire, Chen Xiang came to Fragrance City in the Taoyuan Province. He came here to look for the seductive Hua Xiangyue.
When Hua Xiangyue came to know Chen Xiang came looking for her, she arrived immediately.
“For what do I owe the pleasure? How about I take you to the Danxiang Taoyuan? You can directly come to me there in the future.” Hua Xiangyue was wearing a simple dress, a set of black tights and a ponytail for her hairstyle. Be that as it may, it could not cover that charming and captivating figure of hers.
“For now, let’s not. Rather, I want you to come with me!” said Chen Xiang. To ensure safety, he was planning on taking Hua Xiangyue with him.
Hua Xiangyue was an alchemist and the head of Danxiang Taoyuan. The tycoons of various mainlands would give a face to her. Most importantly, she was extremely strong as well.
Now, Chen Xiang was ordering Hua Xiangyue as if she was his maid.
“You finally came to realize how good I am!” Hua Xiangyue said, laughing charmingly. After the revelation of her identity, the tycoons of all mainlands treated her with great respect, as if they were afraid to offend her. This gave her a superiority complex, especially in front of Chen Xiang, this little man.
All the more reason for Chen Xiang to wonder as to why a woman of her stature would be willing to be his maid? There didn’t seem to be anything wrong with her head. More importantly, she was the empress in the alchemists’ community.
If it was some mediocre woman throwing herself into his arm, it would be rather normal. At present, there were many tycoons who were willing to offer their daughter’s’ hand in marriage to Chen Xiang. Some famous beauties of other mainlands even came to Extreme Martial Sect after having come to know Chen Xiang’s deeds, to get closer to him.
And Chen Xiang was pretty well aware of their aim. All they wanted to get was his Tai Chi Subduing Dragon Exercise, as well as to climb up the ladder using a young alchemist like him, allowing them to enjoy various precious dans.
On the other hand, Hua Xiangyue had been trying to get closer to him since the time when he was just a nameless figure!
“If my guess is right, you first went to your Sister Menger, and when you couldn’t find her, only then, you came looking for me!” Hua Xiangyue rebuked, pretending to be angry.
Pinching Chen Xiang, she continued, “Little Rascal, hurry up and tell me, where are you taking this elder sister! My hands are full, you know!”
Chen Xiang cried in pain as he grabbed those slender hands of Hua Xiangyue. “I want to go to the Kings’ Mainland to look for a herb garden! That herb garden is quite far away from the King’s Capital. More importantly, the route is a bit dangerous as well. If I want, I can ask my two martial nephews to accompany me, but Elder Sister, you are more important to me, so, I came to you!”
If Wu Kaiming and Gu Dongchen came to know this, Chen Xiang would definitely be swore at for “paying more attention to a lover over friends”.
Chen Xiang felt that taking a long trip with Gu Dongchen and Wu Kaiming would be too boring. However, if a beauty was accompanying him, especially a captivating beauty like Hua Xiangyue, it would be a different matter altogether. He could also take liberties with her, while at it.
How could Hua Xiangyue, after having lived for such a long while, not see what was going on in Chen Xiang’s mind. However, she was still very happy to accompany Chen Xiang.
“Wait a bit for me, let me dress up!” Having dropped this sentence, Hua Xiangyue left hurriedly.
Only after waiting for an hour did Chen Xiang saw Hua Xiangyue with a mask over her face. Half of her captivating face was veiled by the mask. Even her voluptuous bosom was flattened quite a bit. She must have tied a cloth over them tightly.
Hua Xiangyue, holding a sword of very poor quality, nudged Chen Xiang in his abdomen and said with a charming smile, “If we encounter any danger, just stay and watch from the sidelines, let this lady do everything.”
Chen Xiang, aiming at her chest, said with a perverted laugh, “Your rabbits are tied up too tightly and wrongfully. Quickly let them out and let me massage them, what if they are ruined?”
Hua Xiangyue knocked on Chen Xiang’s head with her scabbard; she wasn’t angry at all. She countered with a charming laugh, “You, Little Rascal, are perverted to the core. Believe it or not, I will tell your Sister Menger!”
“What am I afraid of? I have massaged hers, Xianxian’s had also been massaged by me. Both of them enjoyed it very much!” Chen Xiang said, laughing mischievously. Nothing of that sort had happened with Liu Menger, he was just lying to Hua Xiangyue. He wanted to see her response.
“Hmph!” Hua Xiangyue harrumphed in jealousy. She hadn’t thought that Chen Xiang and Liu Menger’s relationship had arrived at this step.
Hua Xiangyue threw a mask at Chen Xiang. The mask was just enough to cover half of the face. Chen Xiang had often seen many people wearing them. With this, they could avoid some unnecessary troubles.
“How did you come to know about that herb garden?” asked Hua Xiangyue as she pulled Chen Xiang and took a leap. They flew out of the window at a breakneck speed, before landing next to a teleportation array. The current Chen Xiang could bear that kind of speed already.
“Don’t ask anymore, let’s just go!” said Chen Xiang. He had been exhorted by that middle-aged man of King’s Palace to keep the matters of King’s Palace secret.
Activating the transmission array, Chen Xiang and Hua Xiangyue arrived at the King’s Capital. Hua Xiangyue right away brought Chen Xiang to her place of residence.
“Xiangyue, is this yours?” Chen Xiang, sitting on the topmost floor of a four-storied building, asked. A unique fragrance belonging to Hua Xiangyue was lingering in the air. It was quite evident that Hua Xiangyue came here often.
Hua Xiangyue, pouring a cup of tea to Chen Xiang, said, “I came to the Kings’ Mainland a long time ago. Quickly tell me the position of that herb garden, so that I can determining the route.”
Chen Xiang had no idea about the Kings’ Mainland. Whereas Hua Xiangyue had traveled to many mainlands to look for the herbs. Naturally, the Kings’ Mainland had not been spared by her. Therefore, she had quite a bit understanding of Kings’ Mainland. This is also why Chen Xiang didn’t look for Gu Dongchen and the others and came to her.
Chen Xiang took out a sheet of paper and drew a simple map out of his memories. It only had some lines.
Seeing Chen Xiang’s map, Hua Xiangyue frowned and said, “That place sure is extremely dangerous. If you have gone alone, coming out of alive would have been difficult for you!”
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3 thoughts on “Chapter 447- Returning to the Kings’ Mainland”
natsu52 says:
heyyy thanx for they chap !!!!
Thanks for the chapter. 😎
istinkalot says:
the next link need to be updated to the next chapter, currently links back to itself
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Meatless Impossible Burger is the real deal at…
Meatless Impossible Burger is the real deal at Umami Burger
It’s not really meat on the Impossible Burgers at Umami Burger, but given the looks and the taste, it’s hard to tell the difference. (Photo by Merrill Shindler)
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Back in the day, there was a margarine called Chiffon, that vanished from the shelves long ago.
The product is little remembered. But its commercial is one of those memes that, those of a certain age, remember fondly. It featured Mother Nature referring to Chiffon as “my delicious butter.” When a voiceover informs Mother Nature that it’s margarine, not butter, the skies darken, lightning flashes, thunder crashes — and she intones the immortal words, “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.”
I thought about that when I tasted the Impossible Burger at Umami Burger — a meatless burger that looks so much like beef, it actually oozes what appears to be juices. It tastes so much like beef that it’s hard to believe what you’re eating is wheat, soy, potato protein and coconut oil. Along with an iron-bearing molecule called heme — which is what makes red meat taste like red meat.
In this case, rather than being an animal product, the heme is from yeast — an apparently identical substance to the one found in meat, which seems impossible — but then, that’s the name of the burger, isn’t it?
It’s on the menu at Umami Burger, where it costs the same as the beef burgers, and seems to have a fair number of followers — the burgers emerge from the kitchen with little flags on them that read “Impossible.”
And when your burger hits the table, if you’re like me, you may gaze in something akin to wonder at a meatless burger that looks and smells like meat. A lot. It tastes like meat. A lot. It may or may not fool Mother Nature. But it sure did fool me. And since it’s cooked medium rare, the juiciness inside, is very juicy. It puts on a show for us — pretending to be what it’s not.
I should also note that, from what I’ve read, it’s not actually healthier for you than a real beef burger. In fact, it may be less so. That’s because though it’s lower in total fat, it’s higher in artery-clogging saturated fat. Coconut oil is a sat fat villain, and it’s the fat in the Impossible Burger. There are also arguments that heme iron — whether from beef or from yeast — can lead to cell damage. So, if you’re eating the Impossible Burger for health reasons, it may not be the answer. If you’re eating because you love animals, and want to save the planet — dig in. I think.
Why, exactly, a vegetarian or a vegan would want to eat something that pretends, impressively, to be meat is a mysterious to me. I’m not a vegetarian. But I rather do like vegetables, have my entire life. When I’m eating a vegetable, I want it to look like a vegetable. When I’m eating a steak, I’d like it to come from off the hoof, as they say. That Modern Science can create meat that isn’t meat, is a tribute to white coated wonks in labs. But, once past the novelty of the creation, I have to ask — so? How about finding a cure for cancer? Now, that would beat faux meat any day.
And, having tasted the Impossible Burger, and having been duly impressed, I was only too glad to head back to the world of Real Food. The burgers at Umami continue to be among the best of the “sit-down” burgers in town.
Unlike, say, Shake Shack, this is not a fast-food burger, ordered from a counter. You sit at a table, a server brings you a menu, the burger and numerous other dishes are brought by a server.
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And it’s not just beer and wine served with the burgers — Umami has a full bar.
You want a Maple Macon Old Fashioned, or a Blackberry Swizzle with your Manly Burger (with housemade beer-cheddar cheese, bacon lardons and smoked-salt onion rings) or your Throwback Burger (a double with white cheddar cheese), and here it comes.
The burgers are fine — the real beef tasting like real beef, and glad I am for it. The housemade pickle plate, and the truffled beet salad are fine sides. Ditto the maple bacon fries, and cheesy tots. if you want, you can add braised short ribs to the burgers. Real beef that.
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The Impossible Burger is a fine parlor trick. I’ve tried it once. I don’t need to try it again. I’m not sure if it’s better living through science. But it is a triumph of what science can do.
Now, if they can only make a cheeseburger with fries that cause you to lose weight, I’ll really be impressed. As long as it doesn’t taste like quinoa and kale.
Merrill Shindler is a Los Angeles-based freelance dining critic. Send him email at mreats@aol.com.
The Impossible Burger at Umami Burger
Address: 49 E. Colorado Blvd., Old Pasadena (Other locations include Anaheim, Costa Mesa, Hollywood, Irvine, Los Angeles, Santa Monica and Thousand Oaks.)
Information: 626-799-8626, www.umamiburger.com
Cuisine: Hamburgers
When: Lunch and dinner, every day.
Details: Full bar. Reservations accepted
Atmosphere: Lively Colorado Boulevard storefront, always busy with those who worship the namesake Umami Burger, but also with those curious about the vegetarian Impossible Burger — which really does seem to be impossible. It’s a meatless burger that you’d swear was made with meat.
Prices: About $20 per person.
Suggested dishes: The Impossible Classic ($13), The Impossible VBQ ($13), The Impossible Trufflemaker ($14), The Impossible Double ($16), 9 Beef Burgers ($12-$15.50), Umami Caesar ($8.50), Seared Ahi Salad ($12), Truffled Beet Salad ($7.50), 10 Bites and Sides ($4-$9)
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Photo Gallery: Nebulas Are the Cat’s Meow
Does it seem like a giant fuzzy astrocat is about to step on your face? Whoever first gazed at this object sure felt that way. This is the Cat’s Paw nebula, captured by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope—a large star-forming region in our Milky Way, about 4,800 light years away from Earth. Stars are born as gas and dust collapse within the nebula, pressurizing the material around them and pushing out gas, seen in the red bubbles, into space.
Stellar nurseries aren’t always warm and fuzzy: Right in time for Halloween, here’s the pirate of the cosmos, technically called NGC 2467 but known as the Skull and Crossbones nebula. The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope captured this spooktacular image in unprecedented detail. The brightest regions are where stars are born, with gas and dust curling upward into a smile on the lower half of the picture. (Can’t quite make out the crossbones? Neither do we, just squint.)
Let’s zoom out and look at the Skull and Crossbones nebula again; now it sports greater resemblance to a face that no one can hear scream. This photo, from the Digitized Sky Survey 2, shows the surrounding area speckled with stars. Active star-forming regions like this are rather large, but from this vantage point appear so lonely.
If you think that this rocket’s flame looks hot, wait till you hear where it’s headed: Mercury. This shot is from the launch, earlier this week, that carried up BepiColombo—the joint European Space Agency and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency mission, from the ESA’s space center in French Guiana. It’s an epic voyage to the inner solar system, with Mercury being the least explored planet in our solar system.
This may not be the view of a Martian landscape you’re used to, but we’re looking at a region on Mars called Arcadia Planitia. This photo was taken by the Mars Odyssey orbiter using a special Thermal Emission Imaging System camera. NASA can process the data in the image in false color to highlight hills and impact craters, a common feature in Arcadia Planitia.
See that little red circle? Well, it’s easy to get sucked in. That’s the black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, called Sagittarius A, some 26,000 light years away from Earth. No, you can’t spot anything in there, but look around the circle. It’s a chaos of colorful gas and clouds called molecular cloudlets, which have a mass of about 60 times the size of our Sun. These cloudlets swirl around the black hole at incredible speeds and contain molecular hydrogen (two H atoms that share electrons, crucial to the early development of the universe) and carbon monoxide, among other components.
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Rigel Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:RIGL) was upgraded by Zacks Investment Research from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a note issued to investors on Friday, Zacks.com reports. The firm presently has a $3.00 target price on the biotechnology company’s stock. Zacks Investment Research‘s price target indicates a potential upside of 19.05% from the stock’s previous close.
According to Zacks, “Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a clinical-stage drug development company that discovers and develops novel, small-molecule drugs for the treatment of inflammatory diseases, cancer and viral diseases. Its goal is to file one new investigative new drug application in a significant indication each year. The Company’s pioneering research focuses on intracellular signaling pathways and related targets that are critical to disease mechanisms. Rigel’s productivity has resulted in strategic collaborations with large pharmaceutical partners to develop and market our product candidates. We have product development programs in inflammatory/autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, thrombocytopenia, and asthma and allergy, as well as in cancer. “
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A number of other research analysts also recently issued reports on RIGL. Cantor Fitzgerald restated a “buy” rating and set a $15.00 price target on shares of Foamix Pharmaceuticals in a research note on Tuesday, May 7th. BidaskClub upgraded Zai Lab from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Friday, June 28th. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, one has given a hold rating and five have assigned a buy rating to the company. The company presently has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $6.70.
NASDAQ:RIGL opened at $2.52 on Friday. The stock’s 50 day moving average price is $2.28. The stock has a market cap of $423.00 million, a P/E ratio of -5.73 and a beta of 1.26. The company has a quick ratio of 5.29, a current ratio of 5.33 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.26. Rigel Pharmaceuticals has a 52-week low of $1.96 and a 52-week high of $3.65.
Rigel Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:RIGL) last released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, May 7th. The biotechnology company reported ($0.11) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.13) by $0.02. The firm had revenue of $12.62 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $12.00 million. Rigel Pharmaceuticals had a negative return on equity of 58.94% and a negative net margin of 111.48%. During the same quarter last year, the business posted ($0.17) EPS. Equities research analysts predict that Rigel Pharmaceuticals will post -0.31 EPS for the current fiscal year.
In related news, CFO Dean L. Schorno acquired 50,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, May 22nd. The stock was bought at an average cost of $2.13 per share, with a total value of $106,500.00. Following the transaction, the chief financial officer now owns 46,726 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $99,526.38. The acquisition was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. 4.96% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.
Institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of the business. HRT Financial LLC acquired a new stake in Rigel Pharmaceuticals during the 4th quarter worth approximately $28,000. Quantitative Systematic Strategies LLC acquired a new stake in Rigel Pharmaceuticals during the 1st quarter worth approximately $45,000. SG Americas Securities LLC acquired a new stake in Rigel Pharmaceuticals during the 1st quarter worth approximately $55,000. Amalgamated Bank lifted its position in Rigel Pharmaceuticals by 128.4% during the 4th quarter. Amalgamated Bank now owns 24,692 shares of the biotechnology company’s stock worth $57,000 after acquiring an additional 13,883 shares during the period. Finally, Marshall Wace North America L.P. acquired a new stake in Rigel Pharmaceuticals during the 1st quarter worth approximately $89,000. 93.04% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.
About Rigel Pharmaceuticals
Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc, a biotechnology company, engages in the discovery and development of small molecule drugs for the treatment of immune and hematologic disorders, cancer, and rare diseases. The company's clinical programs include Tavalisse, an oral spleen tyrosine kinase inhibitor for the treatment of adult patients with chronic immune thrombocytopenia; and Phase III clinical study for autoimmune hemolytic anemia.
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Dead whale found with 40 kilograms of plastic bags in its stomach
A young whale whose carcass washed up in the Philippines died of "dehydration and starvation" after consuming 40 kilograms (88 pounds) of plastic bags, scien...
Posted: Mar 18, 2019 1:24 PM
A young whale whose carcass washed up in the Philippines died of "dehydration and starvation" after consuming 40 kilograms (88 pounds) of plastic bags, scientists have found.
Marine biologist and environmentalist Darrell Blatchley told CNN that the juvenile male Cuvier's beaked whale was found "showing signs of being emaciated and dehydration" and had been "vomiting blood before it died."
Blatchley, who is president and founder of D' Bone Collector Museum, a natural history museum in the Philippine city of Davao, said his team received notification on Friday that the carcass of the whale had been found in Mabini, Compostela Valley.
The team subsequently took the carcass to its facility and performed a necropsy, which found that it had died from ingesting plastic.
"I was not prepared for the amount of plastic," Blatchley said. "Roughly 40 kilos of rice sacks, grocery bags, banana plantation bags and general plastic bags. Sixteen rice sacks in total."
He noted that there were so many plastic bags in the animal's stomach that some had begun to calcify.
He added that cetaceans -- a family of aquatic mammals that includes whales and dolphins -- don't drink water from the ocean but obtain their water from the food they eat. As the whale was no longer able to consume large amounts of food due to the ingested plastic, it died of "dehydration and starvation," Blatchley said.
The D' Bone Collector Museum said in a statement that this was the most plastic its team had ever seen in the stomach of a whale, and described the discovery as "disgusting."
The museum called on governments to take action against those who "continue to treat waterways and oceans as dumpsters."
Peter Kemple Hardy, a campaigner at World Animal Protection -- an animal welfare charity -- described the incident as a "tragic reminder" of the need to "work together towards global solutions" in order to prevent plastic pollution being left in our oceans.
"Hundreds of thousands of whales, dolphins, seals and turtles are killed by ocean plastic pollution every year, including single-use plastics and abandoned plastic gear from the fishing industry," he told CNN.
Mark Simmonds, senior marine scientist at Humane Society International, told CNN that the latest incident once again highlights the "cruel global crisis that marine debris is presenting to wildlife." He warned that the crisis often remains "out of sight and mind" except when animals such as this are recovered and examined.
"Efforts must be stepped up worldwide to reduce plastics pollution in our oceans or this kind of tragedy may become far more common in the future," he concluded.
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Trump supporter Sheriff Joe Arpaio charged for contempt of court
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<p>FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2013, file photo, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks to reporters in Phoenix, Ariz. A judge will hold a hearing in Phoenix, Ariz., Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016, to discuss legal issues raised by a recommendation that prosecutors file a criminal contempt-of-court case against Arpaio. The hearing falls the day before early voting starts in Arpaio's bid for a seventh term as metro Phoenix's top law enforcer. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)</p>
Federal prosecutors say they will file criminal contempt-of-court charges against Sheriff Joe Arpaio for disobeying orders to stop his immigration patrols.
The announcement in federal court Tuesday sets in motion criminal proceedings against the sheriff just as he seeks a seventh term in office.
A judge previously recommended criminal contempt charges against Arpaio but left it up to federal prosecutors to actually bring the case. Prosecutor John Keller said in court that the government will bring charges, with the next step being a court filing that's akin to a criminal complaint.
Arpaio could face up to six months in jail if convicted of misdemeanor contempt.
Arpaio was told by federal judge Murray Snow to stop his immigration patrols amid allegations of racial profiling by Latinos.
Arpaio has acknowledged violating the order but insists his disobedience wasn't intentional.
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Mumbai shocker: Class 5 student misses her bus, raped by cleaner in school campus
In yet another incident of crime against children, a nine-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a cleaner in campus of a Dadar school in Mumbai.
Dadar: In yet another incident of crime against children, a nine-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a cleaner in campus of a Dadar school in Mumbai.
According to a TOI report, the class 5 girl student had missed her school bus after annual programme and was waiting for relatives to take her home. Reportedly, she was waiting with her class teacher, who left her with the peon. The girl went to the second floor of the school to use the toilet, where the accused followed her and raped her.
The accused Somnath Yadav (18) was produced before a court after arrest. He has been sent to police remand.
The principal has said that the cleaner was not a school staffer, but was employed by the caterer who is caretaker of the school's hall.
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Glenn Maxwell's clarification: In awe of Virat Kohli, don't think anyone is hitting the ball better
Kohli became the fastest batsman to score 25th ODI ton when he blasted 106 in only his 162nd innings
New Delhi: Glenn Maxwell on Friday was quick to state that his comments regarding Virat Kohli's mindset-driven mentality were taken out of context by the media.
The explosive batsman dismissed reports that he had criticised India's ODI vice-captain, saying it was 'completely untrue' and the Australian team was actually "in awe" of the star batsman
Taken out of context... I also complimented him on how well he had played and got his team into a winning position https://t.co/wxIG1eJlD6
— Glenn Maxwell (@Gmaxi_32) January 22, 2016
"I was asked to give a bit of an assessment of who was dominating with the bat in this series, and I said 'I don't think anyone in the world is hitting the ball better than Virat at the moment'," Maxwell told cricket.com.au.
EXCLUSIVE: @Gmaxi_32 sat down with @ARamseyCricket to clarify comments about @imVkohli: https://t.co/D8kPHE2H01 pic.twitter.com/ZBUarlSneM
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"A lot of us are still in awe of what he can do on the field, and the way that he all but took the game away from us the other night in Canberra was something that we were pretty much powerless to stop," he further added.
Kohli became the fastest batsman to score 25th ODI ton when he blasted 106 in only his 162nd innings while India were chasing a mammoth 349 for a win in the fourth one-dayer. He surpassed the feat of Sachin Tendulkar who achieved it in 1998 in 234 innings.
Further clarifying his comments, the 27-year-old Maxwell said: "The point that I was making, and it related more to when India were setting totals and had plenty of wickets in hand, is that the scoring rate seemed to slow as milestones got close, which can sometimes be the case, especially when teams are batting first.
"Maintaining a constant scoring rate can be less straightforward batting first than when you're chasing and you know what the required rate has to be, and there have been times when batters just seem to have slowed a bit to make sure they reach those milestones."
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Stormy Daniels, like millions of other Americans, wishes Donald Trump had never been elected president.
However, her reasons are much more personal, according to a new interview with the New York magazine blog The Cut.
“It was funnier when he wasn’t the president,” Daniels said, adding that her brief encounter comes “with this undeserved prestige”:
“I actually have Trump supporters come out and get pictures and autographs and just be like, ‘I just want to meet the lady that he picked to have sex with him.’ I’m like, ‘What’s wrong with you?’”
Daniels, a former porn actress, has become a household name because of her association with Trump. She acknowledged she’s gained new fans, but said she’s lost many others.
“My old fans were gone, because middle-aged white guys are usually Trump fans,” she said. “And now if you go to one of my shows, it’s large groups of women, oftentimes in homemade matching Stormy shirts. They are loud, and they’re angry. They’re like, ‘Fuck Trump.’ Or they’re crying. I’m like, ‘Jesus Christ.’”
Daniels admitted the crying is a bit disconcerting, and she has become a sounding board for other women.
“There’s no crying in tittie bars. What’s happening? People are grabbing me and giving me money, and then later they’re sharing their personal stories — women are saying, ‘I was molested or I was raped, and you’ve given me the inspiration to file charges against my boss.’ Just heavy, heavy shit every night,” she said.
Daniels said she never expected that reaction when she filed a lawsuit against the president to reverse a nondisclosure agreement she said was to silence her about the affair before the 2016 election.
“That was the crazy part, because I started this just because I wanted to set the record straight and not be bullied,” she said. “I really just wanted to save my own ass. Now I’m in charge of saving the world. What the fuck? No pressure, Stormy.”
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, has sued both Trump and his former attorney Michael Cohen to dissolve the agreement. She’s also suing Cohen and Trump alleging they defamed her.
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The Great and Powerful 24 Hour Show
By: Elana Luban | Features | November 5, 2018
As the pre-play hecticness reached a crescendo — people finding their seats, the lights only minutes from dimming — a figure wearing all black rushed out from backstage into my aisle. Being the obnoxious reporter that I am, I smiled, introduced myself and asked David Levene (YC ‘20) — who I discovered, about three quarters into the production, was none other than Oz himself — if he had any pre-play words to offer. “What can I say … The last 24 hours have been extremely, extremely hectic,” he said smiling. “But this has been an amazing chance to do something with a lot of my friends, be a part of something — something different.”
The production, presented by Stern College Dramatics Society (SCDS) and Yeshiva College Dramatics Society (YCDS) on the night of Sunday, October 28, truly proved unique, one of the reasons being that it allowed the participation of both Stern’s and YC’s dramatic societies.
As someone who grew up participating in and attending Bais Yaakov plays, I was sorely disappointed to find that YU still splits the sexes when it comes to theater. In the community from which I hail, and many others similar to it, each production involves women trying to lower their voices and donning loose trousers in an effort to depict male characters. Meanwhile, male dramatics societies must search for scripts that have little to no female roles. I assumed all of YU’s productions were destined to follow a similar pattern, but it turns out that, although major productions cannot be co-ed, staged readings can be. This is why the announcement of “The Wizard of Oz” piqued my curiosity. I knew this show was going to be different, and I was eager to see how it would balance YU’s strict rules with its own flavor and creativity.
Instead of avoiding the awkward halakhic limitations that come with a YU production, the dramatic societies embraced them to their advantage. One of the aspects of the show that made it so humorous (there were many) was its self-awareness. Not only were there several shomer negiah jokes scattered throughout, but arguably the most iconic moment of the play was when Dorothy, played by Brielle Broder (SC ‘20), mouthed the lyrics to the iconic “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” while Matthew Shilat (YC ‘21), a YCDS board member and one of the directors of the show, stood behind her in black, singing the song while echoing her movements like a shadow.
“I really enjoyed bringing ‘Jewish’ comedic aspects into our performance,” said Broder. “Where but at Yeshiva University would we be able to use these kinds of jokes? It’s worth having co-ed plays just for that alone.”
What else sets this play apart from other shows put on by YCDS and SDSC? Well, nearly everything. While most staged readings, also co-ed, usually take place in regular rooms and incorporate minimal props and sets, “The Wizard of Oz” went all the way. It almost had the feel of a major, once-per-semester show: all the necessary props, intricate, albeit whimsical scenery, incredibly imaginative and colorful costumes (the kind you’d never get a chance to use unless your script incorporates munchkins) — and it filled nearly every seat in the Schottenstein Theater, a phenomenon typical of full-fledged productions.
The most obvious difference, however, remains the short amount of time allotted for casting and rehearsal: 24 hours.
When asked about the beginning of the process and how the production came together, nearly everyone used the word “hectic.” Yaacov Siev (YC ‘20), the show’s lighting technician, said, “As the hours wore on throughout Sunday, things slowed down a bit and the caffeine started wearing off. But as the performance grew closer, and people replenished their coffee cups, that energy and excitement came back in force.” Describing the process, he mentioned that while the Schottenstein Theater remains largely unused for most of the year, “during the 24 Hour Show, every single floor was abuzz with people working. Making the backdrops for the set on one floor, gathering props and costumes on others, rehearsing downstairs in the basement; there was life and energy on every single level.”
“It was like magic watching the whole thing come together,” said Chana Weiss (SC ‘21), an SCDS board member. “At the first read-through and then again at the costume-fitting, it was so incredible to see how perfectly everyone was cast and how perfectly things fell into place.”
For the first show of its kind put together by the boards of both dramatics societies, the “semi-professional product of 24 hours of preparation” — as the promotional flyer described it — was more than a success; it was unique, self-aware and proof that YCDS’s and SCDS’s creative capabilities far exceed our expectations.
Photo Caption: The Wizard of Oz bestows gifts upon Dorothy and her fellow Oz-seekers.
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