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By M.J. O'Shea
Insolita Luna | Book One
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Zack met his best friend, Noah, at Harper Lake when they were five years old. Summer after summer, his feelings grew, but he assumed Noah didn't feel the same. But one night when they were seventeen, Zack kissed Noah... and Noah kissed him back. Zack was sure he did. But the next morning, Noah put an end to their friendship and walked away, leaving Zack with a broken heart.
A year has passed, and Zack goes back to the lake—where every leaf, rock, and turn in the road remind him of the biggest mistake he ever made. He hates thinking about what he lost, and more than anything he wants his best friend back. He figures it'll be the longest summer ever. But then Noah shows up out of the blue, apologetic and more gorgeous than ever. Noah is sweet and attentive, and Zack can almost believe nothing had ever gone wrong. But there's something different about his old friend, something not quite right. Zack doesn't want to ruin the fragile new bond between them, but he has to know... What secret is Noah hiding?
By Eli Easton
It's not easy for a young gay artist like Jordan Carson to grow up in Jefferson, Wisconsin, where all anyone seems to care about in middle school and high school are the sports teams. But Jordan was lucky. He met Owen Nelson in the second grade, and they've been BFFs ever since. Owen is a big, beautiful blond and their school's champion wrestler. No one messes with Owen, or with anyone close to him, and he bucks popular opinion by keeping Jordan as his wingman even after Jordan comes out at school.
Their friendship survives, but Jordan's worst enemy may be himself: he can't seem to help the fact that he is head-over-heels in love with a hopeless case—his straight friend, Owen. Owen won't let anything take Jordan's friendship away, but he never counted on Jordan running off to find a life of his own. Owen will have to face the nature of their relationship if he's to win Jordan back.
By Linda Palund
Carmen is the most beautiful and desirable girl Lucy has ever known, and when Carmen is savagely murdered, Lucy's teenage life crumbles. She is devastated by the loss of her first love, and when it appears the killers might never be found, she vows to solve the murder herself.
Together with her best friend Seth, who is not only a master computer hacker but also the son of LA's new Chief of Homicide, they gain access to the gruesome autopsy reports. They learn the true extent of the horror inflicted on Carmen, and Lucy gets closer to understanding the secret behind Carmen's little black dress.
After another beautiful girl is murdered, they uncover the brutality lurking within the corridors of their privileged Los Angeles high school. They put their lives on the line to come face to face with the murderer himself.
By Russell J. Sanders
Graduating senior, theater lighting wunderkind, and closeted gay, Nick Fortunati volunteers with The Streetwise Players in the dark corners of The Laughton, a creepy old movie palace decorated in Grand Guignol style. But his father wishes Nick would use his intellect and his scholarship to become a biotech engineer and earn a prosperous living for his future family. Nick loves his dad and wants to please him, but he dreams of a career in theater. And he wants a male lover. Unfortunately, his homophobic father won't approve of either.
When Nick's at his loneliest, out of the corners of the theater and into his life comes trouble-laden Steve Stripling, a man with little memory of his past other than his name. Meanwhile, Nick's introduced to the dashing Wash Vitek and is torn between the two men. His situation is further complicated because he doesn't know if Wash is gay.
Nick resolves to solve the mystery surrounding Steve and help the young man recover his memories, even though by doing so, he risks losing the first love he's ever found.
If You Really Love Me
By Gene Gant
With time ticking until graduation, Ellis Carter doesn't have a plan for after high school. Since his best friend Cary dropped out, he has no one to talk to. All he knows is he doesn't want to continue being a burden to his mother. Adding to his daily torture is the school's new resident bad boy, Saul Brooks. So to say he's amazed when the mysterious Saul invites him to the gym for a workout is an understatement. Soon, they go from workout buddies to boyfriends, and Ellis couldn't be happier. But happiness is fleeting. His mother begins a new relationship he thinks will lead to pain, and Cary makes a decision that could take him out of Ellis's life for good. Just when he needs to lean on his boyfriend the most, Ellis discovers Saul has a secret that could break them apart.
By Winter Page
Raimi Carter is finally a girl, just like she always knew she was meant to be. At a new school where nobody knows she's had gender reassignment surgery, she hopes to finally live the normal life she's longed for, happy in her own skin.
Life is great until she discovers a dangerous bully is blackmailing head cheerleader, Clare Strickland, threatening to reveal her secret: she's gay. As Raimi fights to free Clare from his clutches, the two girls move beyond friendship. But secrets from their pasts and their own fears of coming out tear them apart—maybe forever. Baring their souls to each other could cost them everything. For two girls trapped and desperately in love, only strength, courage, and trust in each other will help them break free and claim their future.
Us Three
One Voice | Book One
One Voice: Book One
In his junior year at a public high school, sweet, bright Casey Minton's biggest worry isn't being gay. Keeping from being too badly bullied by his so-called friends, a group of girls called the Queen Bees, is more pressing. Nate De Marco has no friends, his tough home life having taken its toll on his reputation, but he's determined to get through high school. Zander Zane's story is different: he's popular, a jock. Zander knows he's gay, but fellow students don't, and he'd like to keep it that way.
No one expects much when these three are grouped together for a class project, yet in the process the boys discover each other's talents and traits, and a new bond forms. But what if Nate, Zander, and Casey fall in love—each with the other and all three together? Not only gay but also a threesome, for them high school becomes infinitely more complicated and maybe even dangerous. To survive and keep their love alive, they must find their individual strengths and courage and stand together, honest and united. If they can do that, they might prevail against the Queen Bees and a student body frightened into silence—and even against their own crippling fears.
Triane's Son Reigning
Bitter Moon Saga | Book Four
Sequel to Triane's Son Fighting
Bitter Moon Saga: Book Four
From the moment Torrant Shadow realized Consort Rath murdered his family, he's lived a dual identity: a healer and poet by nature, a predator out of necessity. It's not just exhausting, it's perilous.
In the deadly city of Dueance, Torrant must succeed in both lives, because while the predator may save the Goddess's folk from Rath's brutal policies, it is the poet who will sway the minds of the people to revolt against the oppressive government. As his cause falters, Torrant finds his worst nightmares come to pass as the people he loves most—his family from Eiran, his former lovers, and his moon-destined, Yarri—all come to his aid, despite the danger.
They must succeed—there is no other option. If they fail, Rath will eliminate joy from the heart of the lands of the three moons, and all that Torrant and his family cherish will be lost. But success could exact devastating cost, one Triane's Son was never prepared to pay.
1st Edition published as Bitter Moon II: Triane's Son Reigning by iUniverse, 2009
By John Goode
Tales from Foster High (Harmony Ink)
Sequel to End of the Innocence
Tales from Foster High: Book Three
With just 151 days left until the school year ends, Kyle Stilleno is running out of time to fulfill the promise he made and change Foster, Texas, for the better. But Kyle and his boyfriend, Brad Graymark, have more than just intolerance to deal with. Life, college, love, and sex have a way of distracting them, and they're realizing Foster is a bigger place than they thought. When someone from their past returns at the worst possible moment, graduation becomes the least of their worries.
Ghost Songs
By Andrew Demcak
It's not easy being Todd Williams, a fourteen-and-a-half-year-old gay musical prodigy. The bullies, Bob and Ari, at his fancy private school make his life a living hell. Todd's drunken, irresponsible mother, Eddie, constantly embarrasses him and puts his artistic future in jeopardy. And now, his best friend, Jennifer, who plays clarinet with him in the orchestra, isn't speaking to him. Maybe Leroy, Todd's friendly poltergeist, knows what's going on with her. To top it off, he can no longer rely on Jennifer's help in the race to solve a puzzle that could lead to a buried treasure. Todd must learn to stand alone. He's finding out that growing up is far scarier than he ever imagined.
If We Shadows
By D.E. Atwood
Born female, all Jordan wants is to slip under the radar and live the last year of high school as a boy. His parents and siblings support him, but he'd rather be recognized for his acting and musical talents than his gender issues.
When Shakespeare's Puck gives him three magical potions—true sight, true seeming, and true love—Jordan discovers being true to himself isn't as simple as he thought.
Jordan must navigate the confusion of first love, a controversial role in the fall musical, and his transgender identity, while fairy magic creates a net of complications over everything he does. In order to unweave the spells laid over his friends—his supportive older brother, James, his playwright friend, Pepper, and Maria, another transgender student—Jordan needs to understand exactly how far he'll go to reach his goals of finding true love, true sight, and true seeming.
The Red Sheet
By Mia Kerick and Mia Kerick
With a foreword by C. Kennedy
One October morning, high school junior Bryan Dennison wakes up a different person—helpful, generous, and chivalrous—a person whose new admirable qualities he doesn't recognize. Stranger still is the urge to tie a red sheet around his neck like a cape.
Bryan soon realizes this compulsion to wear a red cape is accompanied by more unusual behavior. He can't hold back from retrieving kittens from tall trees, helping little old ladies cross busy streets, and defending innocence anywhere he finds it.
Shockingly, at school, he realizes he used to be a bully. He's attracted to the former victim of his bullying, Scott Beckett, though he has no memory of Scott from before "the change." Where he'd been lazy in academics, overly aggressive in sports, and socially insecure, he's a new person. And although he can recall behaving egotistically, he cannot remember his motivations.
Everyone, from his mother to his teachers to his "superjock" former pals, is shocked by his dramatic transformation. However, Scott Beckett is not impressed by Bryan's newfound virtue. And convincing Scott he's genuinely changed and improved, hopefully gaining Scott's trust and maybe even his love, becomes Bryan's obsession.
By Ari Bach
Valhalla | Book One
Valhalla: Book One
Violet MacRae is one of the aimless millions crowding northern Scotland. In the year 2230, where war is obsolete and only brilliant minds are valued, she emerges into adulthood with more brawn than brains and a propensity for violence. People dismiss her as a relic, but world peace is more fragile than they know.
In Valhalla, a clandestine base hidden in an icy ravine, Violet connects with a group of outcasts just like her. There, she learns the skills she needs to keep the world safe from genetically enhanced criminals and traitors who threaten the first friends she's ever known. She also meets Wulfgar Kray, a genius gang leader who knows her better than she knows herself and who would conquer the world to capture her.
Branded from childhood as a useless barbarian, Violet is about to learn the world needs her exactly as she is.
First Edition published by Ari Bach: August 2010, March 2012.
Lessons on Destroying the World
Micah McGhee has struggled all his life against prejudice and abuse. Forced to drop out of school after the death of his mother, Micah works full time to support himself and his alcoholic father. One night, on his way home from a party, Micah's hard life ends when he's beaten to death by a street gang.
Three days later, Micah awakens with godlike abilities granted by the alien device that resurrected him. His work helping the downtrodden and performing miracles soon earns him worldwide attention—including the notice of conservative Reverend Vaughn Titus. Micah's friends, devout Christians Antonio and Monica, along with Reverend Titus, urge Micah to use the power of the artifact to impose Biblical rule on the world. But Micah is all too familiar with how Christian law treats LGBT people, and he opposes the idea. When Antonio, Monica, and Reverend Titus gain access to the device, Micah must risk everything to stop them from forcing their religion onto everyone on earth.
Triane's Son Fighting
Bitter Moon Saga | Book Three
Sequel to Triane's Son Learning
Bitter Moon Saga: Book Three
Outraged by the destruction of innocent lives and the threat to his family's safety, Torrant Shadow and Aylan Stealth-Moon ride to Dueance, the capital of Clough, with a desperate plan: Torrant will impersonate Yarri's dead brother, Ellyot Moon, and infiltrate the Regent's council to help change to the government's policy toward the Goddess's chosen from the inside.
But from the very first night, Torrant and Aylan are pressed into service in the shadows of the ghettoes, fighting for the lives of the brutalized people within. It's a bitter job, made more so by close scrutiny and mockery from Consort Rath, the ruler whose policies have created the discrimination and cruelty wreaking havoc in their country.
Torrant's only bright moments come from Aylan, whose love and loyalty never falter, and the hungry, compassionate minds of the younger regents. Believing that all they need is a worthy song to follow, Torrant sets about leading them to accomplish the salvation of their country. But not even Torrant can be everywhere at once. When faced with one disaster too many, he realizes one man alone cannot right the wrongs of an entire government—not even Triane's Son.
First Edition published as Bitter Moon II: Triane's Son Reigning by iUniverse, 2009
Beloved Pilgrim
By Christopher Hawthorne Moss
At the time of the earliest Crusades, young noblewoman Elisabeth longs to be the person she's always known is hidden inside. When her twin brother perishes from a fever, Elisabeth takes his identity to live as a man, a knight. As Elias, he travels to the Holy Land, to adventure, passion, death, and a lesson that honor is sometimes found in unexpected places.
Elias must pass among knights and soldiers, survive furious battle, deadly privations, moral uncertainty, and treachery if he'll have any chance of returning to his newfound love in the magnificent city of Constantinople.
1st edition by Nan Hawthorne published by Shieldwall Books, February 2011
By MB Mulhall
Secrets. Their weight can be crushing, but their release can change everything—and not necessarily for the better. Ian is no stranger to secrets. Being a gay teen in a backwater southern town, Ian must keep his orientation under wraps, especially since he spends a lot of time with his hands all over members of the same sex, pinning their sweaty, hard bodies to the wrestling mat.
When he's trying not to stare at teammates in the locker room, he's busy hiding another secret—that he starves himself so he doesn't get bumped to the next weight class.
Enter Julian Yang, an Adonis with mesmerizing looks and punk rocker style. Befriending the flirtatious artist not only raises suspicion among his classmates, but leaves Ian terrified he'll give in to the desires he's fought to ignore.
As secrets come to light, Ian's world crumbles. Disowned, defriended, and deserted by nearly everyone, Ian's one-way ticket out of town is revoked, leaving him trapped in a world he hates—and one that hates him back.
Pukawiss the Outcast
By Jay Jordan Hawke
The Two-spirit Chronicles | Book One
The Two-spirit Chronicles: Book One
When family complications take Joshua away from his fundamentalist Christian mother and leave him with his grandfather, he finds himself immersed in a mysterious and magical world. Joshua's grandfather is a Wisconsin Ojibwe Indian who, along with an array of quirky characters, runs a recreated sixteenth-century village for the tourists who visit the reservation. Joshua's mother kept him from his Ojibwe heritage, so living on the reservation is liberating for him. The more he learns about Ojibwe traditions, the more he feels at home.
One Ojibwe legend in particular captivates him. Pukawiss was a powerful manitou known for introducing dance to his people, and his nontraditional lifestyle inspires Joshua to embrace both his burgeoning sexuality and his status as an outcast. Ultimately, Joshua summons the courage necessary to reject his strict upbringing and to accept the mysterious path set before him.


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The Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān Online is an encyclopaedic dictionary of qur'ānic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur'ānic studies. The Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān Online is the first comprehensive, multivolume reference work on the Qur'ān to appear in a Western language.
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While there is no qurʾānic equivalent of the term, the Qurʾān refers to certain elements of this scriptural composite. The most prominent of these are: Torah (tawrāt), Gospel (injīl), Psalms (zabūr) and more ambiguously scrolls or leaves (ṣuḥuf). See torah; gospel; psalms; scripture and the qurʾān. Jane Dammen McAuliffe Bibliography
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Bilqīs
Author(s): Lassner, Jacob
The name most frequently given by Islamic commentators to the anonymous queen of the land of Sheba (q.v.). Bilqīs is the powerful and intelligent ruler whose celebrated visit to the court of the prophet Solomon (q.v.; see also art and architecture and the qurʾān ) is mentioned in q 27:20-44. The etymology of the name is unknown. The view that "Bilqīs" is derived from the Hebrew pilegesh (concubine) or from Naukalis, the Greek name given her by Flavius Josephus, is not at all convincing (see E. Ullendorff, Bilḳīs). Muslim religious scholars also refer to the queen as Balʿama (cf. Thaʿlabī, Qiṣa…
Biology as the Creation and Stages of Life
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Author(s): Ebrahim, Abul Fadl Mohsin
The Qurʾān depicts the creation of the universe and everything within it as a ¶ miracle (q.v.) of God and as proof of the existence of divine power (see power and impotence ). According to the Qurʾān, human life began with the creation of Adam and Eve (q.v.). The qurʾānic account of the creation (q.v.) narrative affirms that everything has been created in pairs for reproduction and perpetuation of its own species. Modern Muslim commentators, particularly those who are devoted to "scientific" exegesis ( tafsīr ʿilmī, see exegesis of the qurʾān ), have decided that since the Qurʾān make…
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Author(s): Bowen, Donna Lee
The act of bringing forth new life from the womb of a mother. The Qurʾān details the process leading to birth in the conception of the fetus (see biology as the creation and stages of life ). It emphasizes the sacrosanct nature of life (q.v.), God's knowledge of and willing of all new life, and it acknowledges the honorable role of mothers (see women and the qurʾān ). The topic of birth receives less specific attention in the Qurʾān than that of creation ( khalq, see creation ), a more inclusive term with a wider set of meanings. Life, granted by God ( q 29:27), is sacred ( q 17:31). When God wills th…
Avoiding pregnancy to space or to limit childbirth. The subject of birth control in this sense is not discussed in the Qurʾān. Rather, the major sources that both medieval and modern Muslim jurisprudence has used to assess practices of controlling birth are those of the prophetic tradition (sunna, q.v.) and its expression in ḥadīth, specifically those accounts that speak of coitus interruptus or withdrawal ( ʿazl). Yet verses of the Qurʾān have been used to support the practice of contraception and to argue the contrary despite the fact that no qurʾānic refer…
Author(s): Stewart, Devin J.
Speech that is derogatory to God. The qurʾānic terms that correspond most closely to blasphemy are takdhīb, "giving the lie, denial" and iftirāʾ, "invention" (cf. Izutsu, Concepts, 40, 99-101, 169-70). Inas-¶ much as God and his messages represent the ultimate truth (q.v.), blasphemy is denial of that truth or propagation of a falsehood in its place. Blasphemy by denial ( takdhīb) is the outright rejection of revealed religious truths, such as the revelations and warnings of God's messengers ( q 54; see messenger; revelation and inspiration; warning), and the announcements of the…
Prosperity or favor ( niʿma, baraka) bestowed ( anʿama, bāraka) by God; a wish, invocation or greeting asking for such a favor to be granted to someone else; or an expression of praise (q.v.) for God. Blessings in the Qurʾān, as in the HebrewBible, partake in an ongoing, reciprocal covenant (q.v.) between humans and God ( q 5:7). God bestows blessings on human-¶ kind, including the creation and ordering of life and the universe, sustenance, progeny, material wealth (q.v.), protection (q.v.), deliverance from enemies, and so on (R. Darnell, 50-4; q 16:66-83; 55; see creation; biology as t…
Blood and Blood Clot
Author(s): Waugh, E.H.
The fluid which circulates in the arteries and veins (see artery and vein ) of animals and a coagulated mass of such fluid. In the Qurʾān, the terms blood and blood clot do not refer primarily to concrete, physical, internal aspects of the body as they do in contemporary western cultures. Indeed, the two terms function quite differently than one might expect. Except for one verse ( q 16:66), blood (dam, pl. dimāʾ) is always laden with a significance beyond its identity as the essential ingredient of living creatures. Thus, blood is a metaphor for illicit killing ( q 2:30, 84; see blood money; mu…
Blood and Blood Clot [Supplement 2016]
Author(s): Earle H. Waugh
Blood refers to the fluid which circulates in the arteries and veins (see artery and vein) of animals and a blood clot is a coagulated mass of this fluid. In the Qurʾān, the terms blood and blood clot do not refer primarily to concrete, physical, internal aspects of the body as they do in contemporary western cultures; indeed, the two terms function quite differently than one might expect.Except for one verse (Q 16:66), blood (dam, pl. dimāʾ) is always laden with a significance beyond its identity as the essential ingredient of living creatures. Thus, blood is a …
Blood Kinship
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Author(s): Kimber, Richard
Money obtained in compensation for life. The qurʾānic term commonly translated as "blood money" is diya. It is practically a hapax legomenon, occurring only in the phrase "blood money is to be paid to his kin" (diyatun musallamatun ilā ahlihi), which occurs twice in a single piece of legislation in q 4:92. The verse lays down the law of accidental homicide for which the perpetrator must emancipate a slave or fast for two months (see atonement ) and deliver a diya to the victim's family if the victim was a believer or protected by treaty (see contracts and alliances ). Both the term and the in…
Author(s): Günther, Sebastian
Killing or injuring human life (q.v.). The Qurʾān bans bloodshed (safk al- dimāʾ), but it is specifically mentioned in the Qurʾān only twice ( q 2:30, 84). Nevertheless, there are numerous less-specific references to this concept, just as there are in its biblical antecedents (see the numerous and thematically diverse biblical references cited in A. Khoury, Der Koran, i, 223). Furthermore, the qurʾānic accounts of human creation use blood as a metaphor for life (see blood and blood clot; biology as the creation and stages of life). God is said to have created man of a clay of molded mud ( ṣalṣā…
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Europe's second new gay prime minister of the week … in Serbia. The country is set to get its first female and openly gay PM after President Aleksandar Vučić announced he had given Ana Brnabić, a 41-year-old local government minister, the mandate to form a new government.
BREXIT GETS REAL: On Thursday in Prague, European Commission First Vice President Frans Timmermans said the U.K. would be welcomed back into the EU fold if it changed its mind up until the moment of Brexit in 2019. An hour later, POLITICO learned the EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier and his British counterpart David Davis had agreed Brexit talks would start Monday, 362 days after Britons voted to leave the EU.
Negotiations will begin before the U.K. officially forms its new government or lays out its policy program, amid questions about what sort of mandate Prime Minister Theresa May has to pursue Brexit. In contrast, as Stefaan De Rynck, Barnier's close adviser, drily noted to the same Prague audience, the EU will enter the talks confidently and with a "mandated and accountable negotiator." (More on that below.)
Barnier and Davis' joint statement: "Michel Barnier, the European Commission's chief negotiator, and David Davis, secretary of state for exiting the European Union, agreed today to launch Article 50 negotiations on Monday, 19 June."
**A message from the EPP Group: Theresa May gambled and lost, while Europe stays united. This shows once again: it is better to reform the EU than to leave or destroy it. This was the message our Chairman Manfred Weber had for the British prime minister.**
EUROGROUP — GREECE WINS APPROVAL FOR NEXT €8.5 BILLION: It's what Greece wanted, but not all it wanted. Athens "will not get the more extensive debt relief that it was also seeking until the end of its €86-billion bailout program in mid-2018," Bjarke Smith-Meyer and Johanna Treeck report.
Though this agreement won't completely close the book on the seven-year-old Greek debt saga, it marks an important turning of the page — for both Greece and other eurozone countries. The IMF is back on board, for a start. And while there are no details yet of what debt relief would look like in practice, no one now pretends Greek debt is sustainable, meaning eventually a debt deal will also be reached.
COUNCIL — ECONOMY, HEALTH MINISTERS, MEET: Both in Luxembourg today.
COMMISSION — EU-WIDE PETITION TO BAN CHEMICAL SUBSTANCE HAS POPULAR MOMENTUM: The European citizens' initiative to ban glyphosate has surpassed 1 million signatures, meaning the European Commission is obliged to respond ahead of its decision on whether to renew the substance's license later this year.
PARLIAMENT: Axel Voss will replace Therese Comodini Cachia as copyright rapporteur. Comodini Cachia heads back to Malta to take up a seat in the national parliament. More for POLITICO Pro Technology subscribers.
ECJ — INSTEAD OF TENNIS, PLAY BRIDGE: According to the EU court's advocate-general, playing bridge can be considered a sport.
COUNCIL — LIBERALS POISED TO BECOME BIGGEST BLOC: With the Czech Social Democrat prime minister seemingly on the way out in favor of a Liberal alternative, and with the liberal in spirit (if not yet in affiliation) Emmanuel Macron now running France, the Liberal bloc in the European Council could be the biggest bloc (with nine votes) by the time the December leaders' summit rolls around. That would certainly set tongues wagging about the EPP stranglehold over the EU's top jobs.
EU DIGITAL ASSEMBLY IN MALTA …
Roaming gone, but not for all: Roaming charges went out with a bang in Malta Thursday evening, with delegates at the EU's annual digital assembly treated to a fireworks display. But some members of the European People's Party were not amused to discover the roaming fun had not yet started for them. It turns out European Parliament agreed with its mobile provide Proximus to keep paying roaming charges until August.
Ansip vs Parliament: European Commission Vice President Andrus Ansip sat down for an exclusive chat with POLITICO's Joanna Plucinska. In the interview (available for POLITICO Pro Technology subscribers here), Ansip slammed the European Parliament's position on the Copyright Directive and said the Commission has no immediate plans to review the enforcement of intellectual property rights in Europe.
Ansip's Digital Assembly speech.
Spotted: Commissioner Věra Jourová flying to Malta in cattle class for the event.
EU APPROVAL RATINGS BOUNCE BACK: Pew Research has found that even in the U.K., the EU is enjoying resurgent approval. There's also majority support in most countries for national governments to have more power over migration and trade. While most people said they would opt to stay in the EU if given a choice, most also wanted to vote on the issue in their country.
UK — SINN FEIN ACCUSE CONSERVATIVES OF BREAKING GOOD FRIDAY AGREEMENT: Northern Irish and Scottish political leaders voiced concerns about the unfinished and unpublished pact set to keep the Tories in power. Connor Murphy reports.
UK — MAY FAVORABILITY RATING TANKS: Theresa May's favorability rating is now lower than Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's was before the U.K. election, and lower than U.S. President Donald Trump's. In a YouGov survey conducted June 11-12, after the U.K snap election, 29 percent reported a favorable view of May (down 13 points from May 29-30), and 63 percent viewed her unfavorably. Forty-six percent of those polled viewed Corbyn favorably and 46 percent unfavorably. Meanwhile in the U.S., 38 percent approve of Trump and 56 percent disapprove, according to FiveThirtyEight.
Here's a clue why: Channel 4 News' Robert Hamilton asked May why she didn't visit survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire. She didn't answer. Meanwhile, Corbyn hugged and chatted with survivors.
UK — GRENFELL TOWER POLITICAL FALLOUT: Things will get worse today for both local and national government after the Times reported the type of cladding used on the Grenfell Tower is banned in the U.S. because of the fire safety danger it poses, and that the contractor who installed it chose that type of cladding over a fire-resistant option for cost reasons.
By the numbers: The Times reports the fire resistant panels cost about €30, the flammable ones €27. Making Grenfell Tower non-flammable would have cost about €6,000 more.
FRANCE — ELECTION SEASON SOON FINALLY OVER: The campaign for the runoff of the French parliamentary election ends tonight at midnight. Voting starts on Saturday for some French overseas voters and on Sunday for most of the 577 constituencies. Seat projections indicate Macron's La République en Marche could take up to 75 percent of the new French national assembly. Exit polls will be out Sunday at 8 p.m.
Fall of the (French) house of socialism: The once mighty Socialists, who ran every level of government in France just five years ago, are facing huge financial losses as a result of an election meltdown and may have to sell their iconic headquarters. Nicholas Vinocur and Quentin Aries.
Another Macron ethics investigation: Buzzfeed reports a French prosecutor has launched an investigation into Corinne Vignon, a La République en Marche candidate who is favored to win a seat near Toulouse in Southern France. Vignon allegedly didn't declare she had a side job as an astrologist to tax authorities.
PODCAST DU JOUR — Pierre Briançon and Nicholas Vinocur discuss the Macron era on the brink of its parliamentary majority and first significant problems.
FINLAND — OPEN DOOR RIPS UP FINLAND'S POLITICAL RULEBOOK: While in absolute terms, the number of migrants coming to Finland isn't striking, it has increased in recent years, fueling a divisive debate in the country, reports Marion Solletty. The extent to which the issue has fractured political stability was made clear earlier this week, when Prime Minister Juha Sipilä threatened to break up the government after The Finns, one of his coalition partner parties, chose an anti-immigrant MEP as its leader.
SPAIN — THE NEW CATALANS: As xenophobia rises across Europe, Catalonian nationalists have been remarkably welcoming toward migrants. That stance has the potential to pay off, reports Saim Saeed, as the region prepared to hold a planned referendum on independence on October 1. "For migrants, the case for independence … [involves] the promises of employment, papers and dignity … Under Spanish labor laws, many recent migrants are unable to secure proper contacts with paid holidays. That would be fixed in an independent Catalonia [activists claim]."
CYPRUS — HALLOUMI THE BIG CHEESE IN REUNIFICATION TALKS: The European Commission is currently considering whether to award special legal protection (a so-called geographical indication) to halloumi cheese, which originates from the divided Cyprus. With Cyprus reunification talks expected to resume later this month, that decision has turned into an unexpected point of EU leverage in bringing the Greek and Turkish communities together. Simon Marks and Sara Stefanini have this cheesy story.
BELGIUM — WHERE IS YVAN MAYEUR? Since he resigned as mayor of the city of Brussels over the Samu Social scandal, Brussels' outspoken ex-mayor Yvan Mayeur is nowhere to be seen.
PRAGUE POSTCARD … Czech politics took another dramatic turn during Playbook's visit. Bohuslav Sobotka, the Czech prime minister, stepped down from his second role as chairman of his Social Democratic Party. Foreign Minister Lubomír Zaorálek then rolled him to become the party's candidate for prime minister in October's election.
Growing awareness of colonial legacy fuels today's radicalization, says the Czech foreign minister.
Brexit thoughts from Barnier's long-time adviser: The most wanted man in Prague Thursday was Michel Barnier's adviser Stefaan De Rynck, who tried to take the heat out of Brexit frustration on both sides of the talks. Highlights:
— "If we can start with a positive spirit together we can make progress quickly."
— It is "important to take the drama out of the negotiations."
— "There's no guarantee" that current rights are legally enforceable after Brexit, unless the European Court of Justice provides that guarantee.
— "We want a deal."
— "We all want to avoid" a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Other Brexit insights …
"'Brexit means Brexit' is a bit like telling a toddler 'bedtime means bedtime.' Yes there will be a bedtime, but how, when, why?" Tim Oliver, LSE.
"We should stop talking about soft Brexit. There is no soft Brexit. It would be better to speak of a half-Brexit." Elvire Fabry, Jacques Delors Institute.
"If we can't agree on tariffs we're really screwed." Glenn Vaughan, British Chamber of Commerce.
THE EX-FILES: Pierre Vimont, the former French diplomat and secretary-general of the European External Action Service, on 'Bringing Brexit back to reality' in Carnegie Europe.
WEEKEND READS …
Kazakhstan's $5 billion expo with no guests: James Palmer reports on a truly odd World's Fair.
Nord Stream 2 can wait, says Bruegel.
Stop being so Cartesian: Timothy Morton in the Guardian argues mankind needs a paradigm shift, and should forget "the fantasy that we control the planet to the notion we are 'above' other beings."
The global inequality of blood supplies: Giving blood is more popular in rich countries but not in all parts of the world. More on the Economist.
America made me a feminist: Well-written piece by Paulina Porizkova.
EU BUDGET CLARIFICATION: When Playbook mentioned a looming clash over the next EU budget Thursday, that was a reference to the next multi-year EU budget, which is yet to be agreed, not the EU accounts for 2018.
CZECH BEER STREET PARTY TODAY: Starts 5 p.m. on Rue Caroly, outside the Czech permanent representation to the EU.
NEW BELGIAN POLITICAL MAGAZINE: Wilfried aims to "reinvent the frame of Belgian political journalism" by reporting on people and trends free of the noise of "micro-incidents." Think of it as slow journalism, published three times a year. The first issue is out now, and a video trailer here.
BRUXIT: Etienne Ranaivoson, who worked with Alexis Dutertre as the French "Mertens" (the right hand of each country's deputy permanent representative to the EU) will join French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe's cabinet, as technical adviser on European affairs.
APPOINTED: Patricia Reilly, the pride of Cavan, Ireland, is the new deputy chief of staff for Tibor Navracsics, the European commissioner for education, culture, youth and sport. Reilly is a veterinary surgeon and barrister, and used to work for Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn. She replaces Alicja Magda Herbowska.
Javier Echarri is the new CEO of EBN, an innovation network, after an 11-year stint running Invest Europe.
BIRTHDAYS: EU High Representative Federica Mogherini; MEPs Pilar Ayuso González and Michael Cramer; European Commission's Katarina Mathernova; former European Commission Secretary-General Catherine Day.
Belated wishes for Romain Seignovert, creator of the website "Europe is not dead."
Saturday: Hans van Baalen, the ALDE party president; Joaquín Almunia, the former European Commission vice president; Open Energi's Lucy Symons.
Sunday: MEPs Kaja Kallas, Godelieve Quisthoudt-Rowohl and Virginie Rozière, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, Reputation Squad's Valérie Pivan.
**A message from the EPP Group: Rewind to December 2015. Back then, in Paris, 195 countries agreed to put the world on a path towards avoiding dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius. They did so by signing up to the Paris Agreement on climate change. Fast forward to June this year when U.S. President Donald Trump shocked the world by announcing that the U.S. would be pulling out of the agreement. Our Chairman Manfred Weber was quick to state that the Paris Agreement was going to survive Donald Trump. He called for a factual debate on climate change and underlined that the EU is pressing on with its commitments under the Paris climate deal. Central to this is for the EU to work out how binding annual greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets can be met in different sectors of the economy. Watch a recap of this week's main topics.**


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The Lion Sleeps Tonight Lyrics & Video from The Lion King
King of all he surveys. Not bad, eh?
Innnn the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonigtttt…..A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh…
This classic song is well known, but most don't realize the name isn't In the Jungle. Even if you ask Alexa for In the Jungle, she knows what song you mean but corrects you first: it's called The Lion Sleeps Tonight. But I honestly think a lot of people just sing A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh a few times, and everyone gets the reference. Remind me to run that by Alexa later. 🙂
In the meantime, this 1961 tune, by whatever name, is a fun karaoke favorite. The lyrics fit perfectly into Disney's 1994 animated The Lion King.
The Lion King is among the top movies of the beloved Disney Renaissance Period, along with The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and a small second handful of Top Tier movies…many of which, including The Lion King, are undergoing a remake phase. (Dumbo got the same treatment, but it's thematically, deeply problematic.)
The upcoming "live action" Lion King technically isn't one. It's entirely CGI. (Duh.) But from the trailers it looks exciting enough, and will hopefully retain the best musical numbers, including The Circle of Life, Hakuna Matata, and The Lion Sleeps Tonight. Let's get excited and ready for the retelling of Simba, Nala, Timone, and Pumbaa (And James Earl Jones is back to reprise his seminal role!) by learning the words to The Lion Sleeps and singing along. Song clip is followed by the lyrics below!
Song to The Lion Sleeps Tonight, by The Tokens, 1961
Lyrics to The Lion Sleeps Tonight
(By The Tokens)
A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh
In the jungle, the mighty jungle
In the jungle the quiet jungle
Near the village the peaceful village
Near the village the quiet village
Hush my darling don't fear my darling
(Songwriters: George David Weiss / Hugo E. Peretti / Luigi Creatore
The Lion Sleeps Tonight lyrics © Concord Music Publishing LLC)
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Charles Barkley donates $1M to Clark Atlanta University
On Tuesday, Clark Atlanta University was surprised by an unexpected donation from basketball legend Charles Barkley to the tune of $1 million.
Barkley made the donation as part of a Giving Tuesday campaign and announced to WJOX-FM 94.5 in Birmingham that he had chosen the university as the recipient of his efforts for the campaign this holiday season.
–Charles Barkley donates $1 million to Morehouse College–
"We are delighted to receive this generous gift from Mr. Barkley," Clark Atlanta President Ronald A. Johnson said. "This gift reflects Barkley's tremendous heart and his desire to make a significant, positive and lasting difference in the lives of others. It is a testament to the importance of the transformative impact of CAU on its students, surrounding community, the nation and beyond."
–Can Diddy spark other black celebrities to donate to HBCUs?–
Giving Tuesday, a campaign sparked by Black Friday and Cyber Monday events, is supposed to be a time of giving after a weekend of shopping. As such, the university set a goal of $25,000 for the campaign, writing on its Facebook page, "It doesn't matter the amount or the area where you give to make an impact on the University that made an impact on you."
In addition to donating to Clark Atlanta University, Barkley donated $1 million to another HBCU, Alabama A&M University.