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How to Play n64 Rom Games on PC
The Nintendo 64 console was the childhood companion of many across households in the 90s as the endearing console gave us the first taste of raw 3D technology intertwined with simple games that were just as enthralling as they were witty. If you look back on those days with nostalgia and are wondering if there is a way to play those old endearing games on your computer, then you've come to the right place for answers. What follows is a detailed guide on how to play n64 Rom games on PC so read on to find out just how you can relive the good old days.
Step 1: Download the emulator
An emulator is a piece of software whose underlying technology is made to mimic that of a specific console allowing you to play a compatible game on your PC as if you were using the said console itself. So first, you'll need to download n64 emulator which you can find at this website right here: (https://romsmode.com/emulators ). This link will take you directly to the emulator list and you can scroll down and click on the title "Nintendo64" then to the subcategory "Project64" which is the emulator will be using for this example.
Click on the "Download Now" button which will prompt a simple 4 digit verification which, upon completion, will directly begin the download of the file. It's just about 2 MB in size so this should take a second or two.
Step 2: Installation
Go to your download location or directly click on the program titled "Project641.6.exe" from your browser to run the setup which will prompt a directory query with the default location being "C:\programfiles (x86)\Project64 1.6\". You can change this directory to wherever you please, however, to keep things organized, it would be prudent to create a separate folder on the desktop that you can name say "Nintendo64" where you can keep a shortcut of the executable application after installation. {NB: the executable file after installation is called "Project 64" if you run into problems finding the .exe app.) In the same folder, you should also create another subfolder and call it "ROM". The purpose of this folder will be explained shortly.
Step 3: Installing an extractor
If you don't have an extracting program such as WinRAR or 7-zip then head on over here (https://www.win-rar.com/start.html?&L=0) to download the former which is actually the more popular of the pair.
Step 4: Downloading ROMs
A Rom is an image that contains a game file and in simple terms, it is the software version of the physical cartridges we had back in the day that you plugged into your console. These files will be those of the games you'd like to play and you can choose whichever ones you'd like from RomsMode.com which avails a big collection of n64 roms from recognized titles like "Legend of Zelda" to the Super Mario series among many others. You are sure to find whatever tickles your fancy from the wide collection and in this example, we'll use the"Super Mario 64" game which we downloaded from the same website.
Step 5: Configuring your emulator console
Locate the downloaded rom from your download or browser directory and the file should be a compressed file bearing the name of the rom downloaded in step 4 above which in this case is "Super Mario 64". Copy this file into the "Nintendo64" folder we talked about in step 2 then extract this file therein. A sheet-like copy of the rom will appear and you can place it in the file named "ROM" discussed in step 2. Now click on the executable file for the emulator (i.e. Project 64 application) which will conjure a white blank screen with 4 buttons below the topmost bar indicating the title of the console. In this section, click on "File" then "Open ROM" and input the game you'd like to play from the location where the game file is located which, in this case, you'll go to "Desktop" then "Nintendo64" then "ROM". You'll find the game in the latter folder.
Step 6: Play!
After step 5, your game should be up and running and there's nothing left to do but play. To familiarize with the controls, click on the "Options" tab then "Configure Controller Plugin…" to see how the emulator has mapped the keys onto your keyboard. If you'd like to map the controllers to a PC controller, you can also do the same via the aforementioned settings.
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    __block UPPConnectionManagerService *service;
    __block id sessionManager;
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        });

        it(@"should return an error if call fails", ^{
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            [service protocolInfoWithCompletion:^(NSDictionary *protocolInfo, NSError *error) {
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            [sessionManager verify];
        });
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        __block NSDictionary *expectedParams;
        __block NSString *remoteProtocolInfo;
        __block NSString *peerConnectionManager;
        __block NSString *peerConnectionId;
        __block NSString *direction;

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            expectedParams = @{ UPPSOAPActionKey: @"PrepareForConnection",
                                UPPNameSpaceKey: service.serviceType,
                                UPPParametersKey: params };
        });

        it(@"should send required parameters", ^{
            ExpectGetWithParams(sessionManager, expectedParams, url);
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            [service prepareForConnectionWithProtocolInfo:remoteProtocolInfo peerConnectionManager:peerConnectionManager peerConnectionID:peerConnectionId direction:direction completion:^(NSDictionary *connectionInfo, NSError *error) {
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            [sessionManager verify];
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    describe(@"when setting connection complete", ^{

        __block NSDictionary *expectedParams;
        __block NSString *peerConnectionId;

        beforeEach(^{
            peerConnectionId = @"peerConnectionId";

            UPPParameters *params = [UPPParameters paramsWithKey:@"ConnectionID"
                                                           value:peerConnectionId];

            expectedParams = @{ UPPSOAPActionKey: @"ConnectionComplete",
                                UPPNameSpaceKey: service.serviceType,
                                UPPParametersKey: params };
        });

        it(@"should send required parameters", ^{
            ExpectGetWithParams(sessionManager, expectedParams, url);
            [service connectionCompleteWithConnectionID:peerConnectionId success:^(BOOL success, NSError * _Nullable error) { }];
            [sessionManager verify];
        });

        it(@"should return an error if call fails", ^{
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            [service connectionCompleteWithConnectionID:peerConnectionId success:^(BOOL success, NSError *error) {
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        __block NSDictionary *expectedParams;

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        __block NSDictionary *expectedParams;
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                                UPPParametersKey: params };
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        it(@"should send required parameters", ^{
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            [sessionManager verify];
        });
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LONDON, UK — All eyes were turned to London on July 27, for the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics. With 16,000 athletes from 204 countries and over 11 million visitors, the audience watched in awe as they walked through the history and culture of the United Kingdom in a three-hour showcase.
Taking advantage of being in the host city of the Olympics, the Korean Cultural Centre UK (KCCUK) has set out to grab the attention of Londoners and Olympic travelers by launching a 100-day summer festival entitled All Eyes on Korea. From June 1 to September 9, 2012, the cultural campaign will present an extensive series of cultural and entertainment programs throughout London to showcase modern and traditional Korean culture. To date, Korean culture has mostly garnered international recognition for its pop music (K-pop) and television dramas (K-drama). To introduce and spread interest in diverse aspects of Korean culture and arts, the Korean Culture and Information Service (KOCIS) and KCCUK have organized programs under the categories of K-Arts, K-Music, K-Classics, K-Literature, K-Film, K-Fashion, K-Lecture, K-Food, and K-Culture.
On June 1, Korean installation artist Choi Jeong-hwa kicked off the All Eyes on Korea festival with the exhibition Time after Time. With the help of local supporters and volunteers, Choi covered 16 concrete columns of the Hayward Gallery balcony with over 5,000 green plastic baskets instilling life and fun in the gray building. Time after Time will run until September 9, along with Life Life, Choi's other exhibition that places 20,000 colored balloons in the trees around the Hungerford Bridge.
Another Korean artist, Kim Beom, is holding an exhibition entitled The School of Inversion at the same gallery. Kim uses a variety of media including drawings, video, and sculptural installations to turn the conventional norms of a classroom upside down, making visitors reflect on their perceptions of a classroom. The display will continue until September 2 as part of the Southbank Centre's Festival of the World.
Korean artist Lee Bul also gave a lecture at the Hayward Gallery by participating as a teacher at Southbank Center's Wide Open School, which is an unusual experiment in learning. From June 11 to July 22, the gallery became a temporary summer school in which 100 artists from 40 different countries facilitated workshops, collaborative projects, lectures, and performances about subjects they were passionate about. On June 15, Lee gave a 90-minute lecture about her work processes and major projects displayed at her recent exhibition at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. The lecture was very well received by art lovers and professionals alike. The KCCUK is also running its own exhibition, Korean Funerary Figures: Companions for the Journey to the Other World. The exhibition showcases a traditional funeral bier along with wooden figures of a variety of people, including clowns, noblemen, and mythological creatures, each of which serve as decorations for a funeral bier. At the exhibition, visitors will be able to explore the unique aspects of Korean folklore. The exhibition will continue until September 9.
The traditional music group Be-Being presented a concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in the Southbank Center on July 23. Entitled Yi-myun-gong-jak , Be-Being's mask music project was inspired by the long history of Korean masks and their cultural aspects. The concert consisted of traditional Korean music of both original compositions and reinterpretations of various traditional Korean mask plays. The title of the concert, Yi-myun-gong-jak, is a Korean expression that originally refers to an activity or action behind the scenes or wire-pulling in the background, which in this concert alludes to the symbolism of masks and the masquerades they offer in the context of traditional Korean mask plays.
There was also a pansori concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on July 30. Pansori is a genre of traditional Korean music (gugak) that features a vocalist who sings and chants a story accompanied by a percussionist and is officially recognized by UNESCO as an important piece of world culture. A group of performers, Pansori Project ZA, staged Pansori Brecht Sacheon-Ga, a work of modern pansori imbued with romantic love and satire. Its narrative style incorporates modern dramatic elements.
On July 28, the K-Music festival featured another work of traditional Korean music with a contemporary twist through the concert Walkabout rendered by fusion gugak group GongMyoung at the Purcell Room of the Queen Elizabeth Hall. The quartet played 30 types of instruments in this performance. Creating their own instruments specific to each desired sound, the group blends melody and rhythms with the power of Korean drums and the delicacy of their percussion.
On 12th July, passionate volunteers gathered at the Korean Cultural Centre UK to promote our 100 Days Festival. They sang and danced the most recent K-pop songs and shouted Dae-han-min-guk along the streets of central London (photo courtesy of KCCUK).
From June 26 to July 1, Kim Hyesoon shared Korean literature with the public at the United Kingdom's largest ever poetry festival Poetry Parnassus. With poets from each competing Olympic nation participating, Kim recited poems including "All the Garbage of the World, Unite!" and "Seoul, Korea" in Korean followed by English translation. Kim is said to be one of the most important contemporary poets of Korea and was one of the first women to be published in a literary journal in Korea.
The festival also promotes Korean films by screening movies at the KCCUK. and inviting film directors to attend the screenings and have a Q&A session. The Korean filmmakers featured first included Lee Jun-Ik of Battlefield Heroes and Lee Hyun-seung of Hindsight. Director Lee Yoon-ki of Come Rain, Come Shine and Jeon Kyu-hwang of Varanasi will visit London on August 30 and September 27 respectively to attend each movie's screening and answer audience questions. On August 2, the KCCUK will screen Crossroads of Youth, South Korea's oldest surviving black-and-white silent movie, which will be accompanied by a narrator and live orchestra. The audience will be able to experience the film just as Korean audiences did when it was premiered in 1934.
On July 30, the gala reception Korean Shining Bright showcased the latest collections of Korean fashion designer Lie Sang Bong on the special runway of the Victoria and Albert Museum. The 300 invitees were mesmerized by the colorful prints and intricate construction designs, which were inspired by a classic Korean architectural element called dancheong (the traditional multicolored paint of Korean royal palaces). Korean culture supporters who attended a 12-week K-pop academy course at the KCCUK were dressed in T-shirts designed by Lie Sang Bong while visiting major tourist attractions in London to promote the All Eyes on Korea events.
The KCCUK also hosted a series of lectures on topics ranging from Korean cuisine to Korean literature to Korean music. On July 18, Ralph Rugoff, the director of the Hayward Gallery, shared his experiences in curating contemporary art and Korean artists. On July 18, an introduction to easy Korean dishes such as rice cakes and drinks was demonstrated by Master Chef Tony Yoo. On July 20, Professors Keith Howard from SOAS, the University of London, and Professor Nathan Hasselink from the University of British Columbia lectured on the traditions, innovation, and identity of Korean music.
The All Eyes on Korea festival will draw to a close with an outdoor event at the 2012 Mayor's Thames Festival on September 8-9. The event will stage comedy shows and display pieces of contemporary arts and crafts, a wide selection of food tasting stands, and live artist workshops in front of the Tate Modern, an art gallery in London. It will also showcase a traditional Korean wedding ceremony.
To browse the list of All Eyes on Korea events and to find out which ones to get involved in, please visit the official website of the KCCUK.


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Christina Aguilera Opened The Floodgates For Curious Twitter Fans And Her Answers Were Honest And Real
BY danielli | August 2, 2018 AT 7:36 pm
By danielli August 2, 2018 at 7:36 pm
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Just six weeks after Christina Aguilera released her first album in six years, "Liberation," she's opened the floodgates to curious Twitter fans to ask her any question they want. Clearly Latino fans and internet users couldn't resist answering the call for questions.
Here are all the answers to all the questions you never thought to ask the infamous Xtina.
First things first, Aguilera put her heart and soul into "Liberation."
CREDIT: @xtina / Twitter
She actually started recording the album in late 2014. While Pharrell Williams and Linda Perry were in the studio in the early days, they didn't end up on the album.
Some fans threw it all the way back.
We wish there was video footage, but sadly the closest thing to live social media at the time would have been a point and shoot digital camera video posted on MySpace.
And @xtina became a human before our very eyes.
If I could not express myself anything less of a hoarse hyena when I sing, it would feel like people could hear the real me.
There were zero product placements to be seen.
It's a rarity, and Aguilera has shied away from those kinds of collabs. In June 2016, she released the song "Change," dedicated to the victims of the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting.
She owned the ways that she failed her authentic self in the past and validated her truth today.
Maybe it's because we're living in a #MeToo age where women in entertainment (and hopefully, everywhere else) feel more empowered to say no and be heard. She wrote "Fall in Line" years before the #MeToo movement picked up steam.
When asked, she said, "It was the song that needed to be heard. Because of what I witnessed when I was growing up I always felt really driven to have a voice that my mom kind of never had in my childhood. So I've always wanted to be that advocate for women and anybody that was struggling to have their own voice."
She didn't confirm nor deny a possible world tour.
We have no idea what that means, but she is a master at skirting the real questions. She made this album in her own way and nothing is going to change how she performs it.
Aguilera stood her ground when some fans asked questions she didn't want to answer.
First, Xtina was polite, but firm. Translation: "Bish, I don't need to prove sh*t to noone."
She laid out the new path for her career. All about artistry, less about numbers.
Literally, people only had respect for her. That thread is just a bunch of Meryl Streep gifs applauding her.
Some threw plenty of shade though: "That's nice and all but we don't care about numbers or chart positions. We care about seeing our fave artist perform LIVE for us," @XAHuGo85 wrote. "Not just for private events for Billionaires. You've abandoned your last 2 albums and we finally thought this would be different. Guess we were wrong."
She explained why the album took so long to be released.
Like, yeah, becoming a mother and judging in a reality competition show takes actual time away from your life. The world needed her music to cook for six years in order to get the layered masterpiece that is "María."
Xtina took a moment to name drop her son, Max, as the future Aguilera to watch.
"Maria" is her personal favorite on the track, which is both a tribute to her middle name and to Julie Andrews' character in "The Sound of Music."
She also gave a shoutout to the perks of motherhood: child's play.
If Christina Aguilera was my mom, life would be cozy af. I was team Aguilera all the way in the Aguilera-Spears showdown of the 2000's, and it is truly crazy that my teen idol is now a mom idol.
Pop stars like horror? Que horror.
I won't do horror, but I will do the fact that Xtina's love for horror is tied to the score. Halloween mash-up coming out soon? Por favor?
Over six years, she wrote a lot of songs that we may never hear.
All we know is that she started writing the album while she was pregnant, so it's kind of a testament to her motherhood.
There were moments when her Latinidad truly shined.
How can you limit something so deep to only three words? Describing one self is a journey to the truth and a testament to your self-worth.
We do know that a tour is in the works.
The whole world started begging her to come to their corner del mundo to perform. And some fans even got upset that she might not make it there.
Aguilera, while being super open, did stay vague and mysterious.
Hmmm…how long until the fans find the vocal warm up and spam it all over social media?
Some of the questions did bring out a fun side fo the pop star.
"Genie in the Butthole." #DEAD That was the first song I ever recorded on my boom box karaoke cassette tape. We're not in Kansas anymore, María.
Her answer left all of her fans shook up af.
Note the fan that immediately changed their handle name to 'genie in the butthole.' Mad respect.
Aguilera ended the debate with #Lubrication.
May #Lubrication spread to all corners of the world, to every fan whose begged for some live #Lubrication, and may Christina María Aguilera forever show us how to harness our stardom until we're all viejos.
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Bad Bunny Talks Depression And Says Sometimes He Still Feels Like The Boy Who Bagged Groceries Back Home
By Justin Lessner January 8, 2021 at 12:54 pm
BY Justin Lessner | January 8, 2021 AT 12:54 pm
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Bad Bunny is on top of the world. Or, at least, that's how it appears to all of us on the outside enjoying his record-breaking year. Not only did he release three albums in 2020 but he also landed his debut acting role in the Netflix series Narcos: Mexico and from his Instagram stories, he seems to be in a happy, contentful relationship.
But like so many others, Bad Bunny has his experience with mental health issues, of which he recently opened up about in an interview with El País.
Bad Bunny recently spoke up about his struggle with depression.
Bad Bunny reveló lo que vivió cuando sufrió de depresión ►https://t.co/NbTMjPXf1V pic.twitter.com/FozjPivqgu
— América Espectáculos (@AEspectaculos) January 8, 2021
Despite his immense success that's catapulted him to, arguably, the world's biggest superstar, Bad Bunny admits that sometimes he still feels like the young man who bagged groceries in a supermarket.
The reggaetonero revealed in an interview with El País that right as his career really started to take off, he was not happy. "You asked me before how I hadn't gone crazy. Well, I think that was the moment that was going to determine if I was going to go crazy or not. From 2016 to 2018 I disappeared, I was stuck in a capsule, without knowing anything. The world saw me, but I was missing," he said.
Although no doctor diagnosed him, he is sure of what was happening. it only did he feel lost and empty but he had stopped doing many of the things that brought him joy, like watching movies and boxing. Without realizing it, he had also fallen out of contact with much of his family, with whom he was typically very close.
"And that's when I said: who am I? What's going on?" he told El País. When he returned home to Puerto Rico from spending time in Argentina, he was able to get back into the right state of mind and remember who he was.
Despite his success, Bad Bunny still worries he's in financial trouble.
Although today, he is the number one Latin artist on Spotify and the awards for his music keep coming, there are times when Bad Bunny still thinks that he has financial problems.
"Not long ago, I was 100% clear in my head what I have achieved, maybe a year or six months ago; but until then, many times I forgot, I felt that I was the kid from the supermarket. He would happen something and say: "Hell!" And then: "Ah, no, wait, if I have here," he said, touching his pocket.
Much like Bad Bunny, J Balvin has also been candid about his own mental health struggles.
.@JBALVIN understands the impact that being open about mental health can have. The reggaeton star speaks to us from his home about being open, Colores, the Super Bowl, and life in self-isolation in this FADER Interview.
Watch J Balvin's colorful takeover:https://t.co/0xFG1egiic pic.twitter.com/B5ELCXYMau
— The FADER (@thefader) April 30, 2020
Bad Bunny is just the most recent to speak to the emotional havoc he experiences despite being a global superstar. And, thankfully, like many other celebrities, he's been able to find refuge in a reality that allows him to keep his feet on the ground so that he too can enjoy the achievements of his career.
Much like El Conejo, J Balvin is known for the brightness of his style and mentality. But he's long addressed the importance of caring for one's mental health. During his Arcoíris Tour, he encouraged people to not be ashamed of seeking professional help, and let the audience know they are not alone.
"Las enfermedades de salud mental son una realidad. Yo he sufrido de depresión y he sufrido de ansiedad, así que tengo que aceptarlo. Y eso me hace más humano, me hace entender que la vida tiene pruebas," Balvin said. "Pero si alguien está pasando una situación difícil, no están solos, siempre llega la luz. Tarde o temprano llega la luz."
"Mental health illnesses are a reality. I have suffered from depression and anxiety, so I have to accept it. And this makes me more human. It makes me understand that life has challenges," Balvin said in Spanish. "But if someone is going through a difficult time, they are not alone, light always comes. Sooner or later, the light comes."
We need more men like Benito and J Balvin to speak up about their mental health struggles, to help destroy the stigma that exists within our community.
And in the same interview, he also spoke about why he works to elevate the Spanish language.
'EL ÚLTIMO TOUR DEL MUNDO' by #BadBunny (@sanbenito) returns to the Top 10 on the Billboard 200 at #9, with a further 34K units moved.
It previously became the first all-Spanish-language album to hit #1. pic.twitter.com/YSyFVZEQHj
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) January 4, 2021
As for the possibility of singing in English, the answer remains the same: a resounding no.
"You have to break this view that the gringos are Gods…No, papi," he told El País. And, although he's collaborated with artists like Drake, Cardi B and Jennifer Lopez, he has always sang in Spanish and with his famous accent.
"I am very proud to reach the level where we are speaking in Spanish, and not only in Spanish, but in the Spanish that we speak in Puerto Rico. Without changing the accent," he said.
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Selena Gomez Is Holding Tech And Social Media Accountable After Trump Mob Shuts Down Congress
By Jorge Rodriguez-Jimenez January 7, 2021 at 2:15 pm
BY Jorge Rodriguez-Jimenez | January 7, 2021 AT 2:15 pm
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A pro-Trump mob stormed Capitol Hill Jan. 6 following months of President Donald Trump and his allies attacking the 2020 elections. Selena Gomez, like most Americans horrified by the attack, spoke out on social media about what happened. She made it clear that part of this falls on tech companies and social media companies.
Selena Gomez called out social media and tech companies for enabling hateful rhetoric.
. @Facebook, @Instagram, @Twitter, @Google, Mark Zuckerberg, @SherylSandberg, @jack, @Sundarpichai, @SusanWojcicki pic.twitter.com/df3ZLR5Ruk
— Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) January 7, 2021
President Donald Trump and his supporters have used social media to spread misinformation since he was elected in 2016. Americans have watched as President Trump used Twitter to spread falsehoods and conspiracy theories. There have been so many debunked claims that President Trump and his allies have spread with no consequence.
Recently, Twitter started to flag some of President Trump's tweets as disputed or misleading. It was the first time a social media platform did something that checked President Trump and his rhetoric.
People quickly came to Gomez's side to uplift her statement.
Selena Gomez gets it! https://t.co/nzHN8HDVqi
— Bridget Todd 💁🏿 (@BridgetMarie) January 7, 2021
President Trump has a long history of hateful and dangerous rhetoric on social media. He has misled her supporters with false statements and has incited violence. The president has defended white supremacists on multiple occasions and even retweeted a video of a man shouting white power.
Social media platforms are finally muzzling President Trump with bans and suspensions.
THANK YOU SELENA GOMEZ pic.twitter.com/0KRBaOco90
— IVAN (@ivanmoratroya) January 7, 2021
Twitter has put the president on a temporary suspension after he incited the crowd that breached Capitol Hill. Meanwhile, Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg enhanced the original 24-hour ban to a indefinite ban that will last at least until President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration. However, people think it is a little too late for these actions.
"Disinformation and extremism researchers have for years pointed to broader network-based exploitation of these platforms," Sen. Mark R. Warner, D-Va., said in a statement. "As I have continually said, these platforms have served as core organizing infrastructure for violent, far right groups and militia movements for several years now – helping them to recruit, organize, coordinate and in many cases (particularly with respect to YouTube) generate profits from their violent, extremist content."
What happened Jan. 6 at the nation's Capitol was avoidable, but it's clear who incited this violence.
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— Holly Lee (@LeeHolly81) January 7, 2021
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This is the sixth album from Truth Corroded, an Australian death/thrash metal band.
Truth Corroded serve up over 40 minutes worth of extreme metal on Bloodlands. The band's style mixes skull-cracking brutality with razor-sharp thrash metal. This is music to simultaneously get smashed up and lacerated by.
The songs are both well-written and very pleasing. The band's sense of songwriting and thrash metal underpinning means that the brutality here is tempered by a strong sense of the needs of the song, and a firm belief in the need for affecting melody and graceful aggression. Although Bloodlands features its fair share of bludgeonings, it's a more well-rounded album than just this, one that is powered by melodic aggression and well-structured extremity.
If you imagine a mix of bands such as Kataklysm, Malevolent Creation, and Face Down, you'll be on the right track. I can even detect touches of a band like Skinlab here and there.
The clipped growls of the singer hit the spot nicely, and the album has a powerful, punchy production. There are riffs and solos aplenty to get your teeth into, and overall Bloodlands is a very strong package. The album also features some impressive guests from current and former members of bands such as Deftones, Suffocation, The Black Dahlia Murder, Misery Index, and Dying Fetus. The Storm and 10-minute album closer I Once Breathed also feature some understated, yet very effective female clean backing vocals.
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Sentencing hearing begins for man in Texas church bus crash
UVALDE, Texas (AP) – The sentencing hearing has begun for a Texas man in a fatal church bus crash that killed 13 people.
Testimony began Wednesday in Uvalde in the hearing for 21-year-old Jack Dillon Young of Leakey, who faces up to 270 years in prison after pleading no contest in June to 13 counts of intoxication manslaughter and one count of intoxication assault.
Prosecutors say Young was driving under the influence of a prescription antidepressant and had smoked marijuana before the March 2017 collision on U.S Highway 83 near Uvalde, about 75 miles (120 kilometers) west of San Antonio.
Defense attorney Rogelio Muñoz asked for mercy and said doctors had failed to monitor Young's prescription drug use.
Attorneys say the hearing is expected to last at least through the end of the week.


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> Follow Artmox : - Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/artmoxofficial - Website : https://www.artmox-music.com - Bookings E-Mail : booking@plusquam-agency.net - Bookings Hotline : +49 (0) 1573 83 89 153 - Plusquam Records : http://www.plusquam-records.net - Manager : Thomas Vitali - E-Mail : contact@plusquam-records.net Artmox is an progressive psytrance act from germany and was founded in 2004 by Timo Müller. He discovered goa- and psytrance parties in his area in the year 2000, when he was 20 years old, and was instantly infected by its unique sounds and experiences. During the last years was he experimenting a lot with digital and analogue instruments to realize his own interpretation of music within psytrance. He visited audio-engineering school back in 2001 with the intention to start producing after that. His music can be described as pure psychedelic trance with driving bass-lines, screaming leads and atmospheric textures. In 2014 he releases his debut EP called "Cosmic Dash" and in july 2016 his full lengh album "Gentry of the Dusk". He is also presented on nine compilations with other artists such as : "Sonic Entity", "Ital", "Liquid Soul", "Allaby", "Day.Din", "DJ Fabio", "Synsun", "Hardy Veles", "Safi Connection", "Simply Wave", "Klacid", "Space Buddha", "Earthling", "Hamelin", "I.M.D.", "Monu", "Cyklones", "Dark Nebula", "Tikal", "Pakman", "Silent Sphere", "Paste", "Johann Bley", "Nexus", "Cryptexmarble", "Liftshift", "Human Blue", "Erotic Dream", "Jiser", "Ski Fi", "Eleusyn", "Liquid Sound".... on labels like : "Midijum Records", "Goa Crops Records", "Plusquam Digital", "Sin Records", "PsyTropic Records", "Icarus Creations", "Planet B.E.N Records", "Plusquam Believed", "Zombster Records" and he is currently working on his new album. For the mastering and the final fine tune of his productions, Timo intends in the near future to work in collaboration with Hector Stuardo and Shahar Shtrikman. He has already been live on stage with world-famous acts like : "Antix", "Ritmo", "DJ Fabio", "Benni Moon", "Ticon", "Helber Gun", "Materia", "Solaris Vibe", "Kularis" .... > Follow Trancentral : - Youtube : http://bit.ly/TrancentralSubscribe - Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/TrancentralTV - Blog : http://trancentral.tv - GlideBros : http://www.glidebros.com
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The Sokoto State Police Command on Tuesday said it arrested 40 alleged political thugs across the state with dangerous weapons.
The state Police Commissioner, Alhaji Shaiubu Gambo, said at a news conference in Sokoto that the suspects belonged to various political parties.
He said that 10 of the suspects were arrested for allegedly attacking Gov. Aliyu Wamakko's convoy on March 29.
According to him, the command would charge the suspects to court after the conclusion of investigation on their individual roles and their motive.
Gambo said that the command had taken proactive security measures to ensure the arrest and prosecution of criminals in the state.
"We will not tolerate any act of political violence, as a special unit with effective communication gadgets, charged with the responsibilities of apprehending thugs, is always on red alert," he said.
He urged political parties in the state to sensitise their supporters to the need to adhere to the rule of the game or have themselves to blame.
"Any act of violence that will tamper with the peaceful nature of the state will not be condoned.
"Dedicated officers have been stationed in strategic parts of our state to arrest and prosecute offenders," he said.
Gambo also called on parents in the state not to allow their children to be used as political thugs by desperate politicians.
"They will use and dump them after archiving their set objectives," he said.
Meanwhile, the command has also impounded a vehicle loaded with dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp.


A good share of the nation's solid waste consists of fall leaves, which uses up tremendous amounts of landfill space and wastes a precious source of organic matter and natural nutrients from the environment. Fall leaf management can be a pain, but it isn't necessary to send this precious resource to the dump. There are several alternatives for autumn leaf disposal; here are a few of the most "do-able" options.
Mulch: Use a mulching mower to chop leaves into small pieces. They will fall back onto the lawn where the organic material will benefit the soil. You can also spread 3 to 6 inches (8-15 cm.) of the chopped leaves as mulch in beds and around trees and shrubs. If you don't have a mulching mower, make a couple of extra passes over the lawn with a regular mower to chop the leaves, without benefit of a mower bag. This task should be done frequently, before the leaves become too deep to manage.
Compost: If you've never created a compost pile, you're missing out on one of the best of all autumn leaf uses. Simply toss them in the compost bin. You can also compost weeds, grass clippings, and spent plants at the end of the growing season, as well as fruit and vegetable scraps, coffee grounds, used paper towels and eggshells.
Enriching the vegetable garden: If you have a vegetable garden, plow autumn leaves into the soil in autumn. The leaves will decompose by spring planting time. If you want, you can mix a little granular fertilizer into the soil to speed decomposition of the leaves.
Leaf mold: If you have an abundance of autumn leaves, pack them, either shredded or whole, into large plastic yard bags. Moisten the leaves, seal the bag securely, and store them in a cool, dark place. In a couple of years (or less if the leaves are chopped or shredded), you'll have rich leaf mold that will do wonders for your flowers beds and vegetable garden.
If you don't have a shredder, small chipper/shredders are relatively inexpensive. Alternatively, most garden centers have chipper/shredders for rent.


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The close coupling and low-riding bolsters really make a difference. Bravo!
The only changes were Accumate Proto:HO couplers and Tahoe archbars with HO 28" wheels.
Was amazed with such a simple change would look so good.
The loco just received a 1/8x1/4 styrene strip under the cab footboard and a electrical tape "temp" for a cab side.
I guess my only critique...if one were necessary...is that the drivers on the loco still look a little high for a D&RGW-type C-class. However, I know the D&RGW wasn't the only show in town, so I'm guessing there are lots of examples of larger drivers on narrow gauge consolidations.
That cab looks great even if temporary!
Smaller drivers are available from the UK.
The MDC drivers are the size of the original wagontop D&RG 2-8-0s.
Just used the Roundhouse D&RG boxcars because the lettering looked "narrow gaugey".


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The Olympic movement want this to be the Gender Games, but they're struggling to sell it
By Adam Pengilly
If John Coates had the baton, then what chance of him ever loosening his grip ever so slightly, let alone handing it over to Annastacia Palaszczuk?
Because for all the fallout from that press conference - the mansplaining, the staging, the what-the-hell-just-happened? - there is one sermon Australia's sporting kingmaker is supposed to be preaching: men and women have never been more equal at an Olympic Games.
Coates is said to be a better politician than the like of the one he goaded on a world stage, and he would know the International Olympic Committee has bent over backwards to present the most gender-equal event in its often archaic history.
Almost 49 per cent of all athletes ducking COVID in Tokyo will be women, up from 45 per cent in Rio. For the first time, men and women will compete alongside each other on the track and in the pool in the Gender Games.
There will be a 4x400 metres relay in athletics and a 4x100m medley in swimming. It conjures spectacular notions of what could have been in yesteryear and yesterday; Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce passing the baton to Usain Bolt, Susie O'Neill diving into the wall and Ian Thorpe launching from the blocks, Coates and Palaszczuk walking back stage and hugging it out after winning the right for "The Together Games".
Yet now it could be looked at it two ways: the IOC is paving the way for its future, or has been dragged into it in spite of itself.
Mixed gender sports in Tokyo
The Tokyo Olympic Games 2020 will be the most gender equal in its history. The International Olympic Committee has added nine more events across seven sports where men and women will compete alongside each other, including on the track and in the pool.
Only four sports (badminton, equestrian, sailing and tennis) had such medals available in Rio.
These are the new events where both sexes will team up in Japan:
Athletics: Two men and two women from competing countries will be chosen to run in a 4x400m relay, which will be one of the highlights of the track competition.
Swimming: The US are red-hot favourites to win the inaugural event, which will see two males and two females combine in a 4x100m medley relay.
Archery: Two athletes of different genders will combine in a teams event for the first time, separate to gender-only and individual competition.
Judo: Three male judokas and three female judokas in different weight divisions will compete in a repechage format.
Shooting: There are three new mixed events in Tokyo: mixed team trap, mixed team air rifle and mixed team air pistol. One man and one woman will compete for a combined score.
Table tennis: A long-overdue addition to the Olympic program, mixed teams events have been part of the world championships for almost 100 years and will now get a chance to shine at the Games.
Triathlon: Two men and two women from each country will take part in a short-course format days after they finish their individual events.
Apart from the athletics and swimming, a mixed table tennis event and triathlon relay have been added to the Tokyo program among others. There's even a multi-gender judo format. In Rio, mixed competition was restricted to just badminton, equestrian, sailing and tennis.
So, what next for Paris?
Archery and shooting, sports that require a sleight of hand rather than outrageous strength, are obvious candidates for more mixed medal events, even more than they have now. Why can't beach volleyball feature one man and one woman on either side of the net?
Golf, controversially reinstated to the Olympics in 2016, is crying out for a diversion from the traditional individual strokeplay that is anchoring it down. How about an alternate shot competition with a man and woman representing each country? Imagine Steph Gilmore and Julian Wilson in a team surfing contest.
Australians Jake Birtwhistle and Ashleigh Gentle change over during the triathlon mixed team relay at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in 2018. The pair will both represent Australia in Tokyo. Credit:Getty
Maybe it's all too much. Maybe triathlon has the right format, with men and women competing against their own sex for individual medals and then combining in a rapid mixed relay a few days later, an Olympic first.
"Triathlon has been predominantly an individual sport for many years and getting some success in the 2017 world champs where we won gold and then in the Commonwealth Games as well, they were a couple of proud moments," said YoPRO-sponsored Australian Matt Hauser, who will be favoured to be on the country's mixed relay team next Saturday.
"To be able to share that with three others and ultimately your whole team is something quite special. We don't get to experience that often as triathletes.
"I think triathlon being such a young sport, it's still evolving and trying to find its way in the world. It's very exciting for spectators and viewers to look at this short, sharp format of racing where anything and everything can go wrong.
With almost 49 per cent of athletes competing in Tokyo being female, the IOC wants to continue to pitch itself to a younger and greater female audience. Here's a look at some other sports which could have a mixed component vying for a medal.
Beach volleyball: Men and women will compete in different divisions in Tokyo, but what about a mixed event where one male and female team up on the sand?
Golf: Since its return to the Olympic format in Rio, the world's best players have flagged the prospect of a diversion from the individual strokeplay. Each country's top male and female could be part of an alternate shot format.
Surfing: The sport will make its Olympics debut in Tokyo with men's and women's competition, but what about the chance for an extra medal where four surfers - two from each gender - combine scores?
Sailing: The sport is already adding another mixed class to the program for Paris, which will split up Australia's ultra-successful men's 470 duo of Mathew Belcher and Will Ryan.
"If it does, it can cost you the race. Mixed team relay definitely holds a big part in how the sport will evolve."
But for every door that opens, there are a few that are closing.
Matt Hauser will be one of three men to compete in the individual format in Japan.
One of Australia's best gold medal hopes in Japan will be the sailing duo of Mathew Belcher and Will Ryan, who will compete in the men's 470 class. Belcher won gold with Malcolm Page in London in 2012, and then silver four years later with Ryan at Rio.
Whether they would have had the desire to push on for another Olympic cycle after Tokyo would have been questionable, but it's a moot point. Their category has been reclassified as a mixed event in Paris, and thus one of Australia's most successful Games partnerships will be over - simply because they're both men.
Fair or not? It's not really for them to say, at least not now.
"It's nice to be able to do a last dance together and to put our skills on the line and be in this pressure environment, which is why we do it," Belcher said. "We're just going to enjoy these days and hopefully our experience and our skills will come to the forefront."
As hard as they might try, the IOC is struggling to sell its Gender Games because of, well, itself. Japan's Olympics chief resigned earlier this year because he said "women talk too much". Palaszczuk couldn't talk, because Coates was speaking for her.
Earlier this week, IOC president Thomas Bach amended the movement's motto, he said, to reflect the COVID-19 times.
Faster, Higher, Stronger, Together?
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Women's rights in Qatar are restricted by the country's male guardianship law - currently the only remaining country in the Gulf region with such laws - and influenced by the Wahhabi interpretation of Islam. Both women and men were enfranchised in the country at the same time, in 1999. Labour force participation rates of Qatari women are above the world average and among the highest in the Arab World, which comes mainly as a result of an increasing number of Qatari women who are attaining academic degrees.

There is limited mixing between the sexes and Qatari women in public are largely expected to wear traditional clothing which typically consists of an abaya and shayla, both of which partially conceal their appearance. Mouza Al Malki, a psychologist, claims that gender separation is influenced more so by cultural factors than religious factors. Women in Qatar must obtain permission from their male guardians to marry, study abroad on government scholarships, work in many government jobs, travel abroad until certain ages, receive some forms of reproductive health care and to act as a child's primary guardian, even when they are divorced.

History
Prior to the establishment of an urban society, Qatar was used as rangeland for nomadic tribes from the Najd and al-Hasa regions of Saudi Arabia. In Bedouin society, women were responsible for buying and selling goods on behalf of their tribe. Women often had to assume positions of decision-making within their tribe when men left their families for long stretches of time to participate in pearl hunting trips or to act as merchants.

They were separated from men within their own quarters in the tent or house. Education was regarded as unimportant and scarcely available for the majority of women in Bedouin tradition. On the other hand, children in urban areas were taught the Quran until the age of ten, after which the family would celebrate al khatma, the end of memorizing the Quran.

Industrial era
After the country began reaping the financial benefits of oil drilling operations in the 1950s and 1960s, an increasing number of women began receiving formal education. Kuwaiti journalist Hidayat Sultan Al Salem wrote of Qatari women's role in 1968:

There was a marked increase of women in the workforce during the early seventies.

Education

When the Qatari government established the Khalid Bin El Walid Boys School in 1951, a woman named Amna Mahmoud Al-Jaidah requested that the government open another school for girls. Her request was denied due to Qatari society heavily opposing the idea of girls learning to read and write. Despite the backlash, Amna Mahmoud created her own impromptu school within her house to educate the girls who would attend. In 1953 the Qatari government formally recognized Amna Mahmoud's school, making her the first female Qatari teacher in the first Qatari school for girls.

In 1957 after many changes, Amna Mahmoud's school became known as the Banat Al Doha Primary School and more than 100 female students were attending. Prior to the school's establishment, the only form of education that existed for women was religious education. A 1980–81 report by the Ministry of Education reported that there were 70 girls' schools, with 19,356 students, an increase from 50 female students in 1955.

The first university in Qatar was opened in 1973. It provided separate faculties for both men and women. Out of the 157 initial students, 103 of them were female. The ratio of female-to-male students remained steady over the proceeding years. Sheikha Abdulla Al-Misnad became the first female president of the university in 2003. Females accounted for more than 50% of the university's personnel in 2008. By 2012, there were almost twice as many female students enrolled in the university as there were males.

More than half of the Ministry of Education's employees are female. In 2008 it was reported that the growth rate in the number of female students had surpassed that of males in public schools. Rates of women attending private universities are also growing rapidly. At the Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, for instance, 57% of students are female. Previously male-dominated career paths such as engineering and information technology have been attracting more female participants in recent years. Roughly 40% of students of the Texas A&M University at Qatar, a university geared towards engineering, are women.

Most Qatari women view female education as important for a variety of reasons. Among the forefront of these is to protect themselves from divorce: many young Qatari women are concerned by the country's rising divorce rate, which has been increasing significantly for numerous years, and by about 70% since 2007. The earning of a degree is often perceived by women to be a method of ensuring that, in the event of a divorce, they'll be able to achieve financial self-reliance. Another reason is the growing female Qatari perception of education as a form of women's empowerment — it's viewed as an opportunity to prove their worth to society and to gain true independence for themselves.

Employment
In 2001, Qatar passed the Civil Service Act and Order No. 13 of the Council of Ministers, thereby creating a legal framework protecting of women's rights in the workforce. Another law was passed in 2002 which allowed women retirement benefits as well as granting monetary benefits to widows.==
According to 2014 statistics, there are upwards of 32,000 Qatari women who are employed. This was an increase of over 7,000 from three years earlier in 2011. One quarter of employed Qatari women work in the construction industry, 27% work in the information and technology industry and 45% are employed in social and natural sciences. Most Qatari women work in the public sector. Despite Qatar's female labor force participation rate being the highest in the Gulf Cooperation Council and higher than the world average (as of 2013), the proportion of Qatari women in the workforce still lags slightly behind that of developed countries. In report published by The Wall Street Journal, it was found out that "In the last couple of decades, there has been a quiet transformation in Qatar as women have demonstrated their capacity to be leaders in all fields, including healthcare and medical research." told Her Excellency Sheikha Hind bint Hamad Al Thani, the Vice Chairperson and CEO of Qatar Foundation. At the moment, 72% of teachers and employees are female in Qatar. In the nation's universities, women make up the majority of both the teaching staff and the students enrolled in higher education.

Additionally, due to the increasing number of Qatari women attaining university degrees, Qatar's government predicts that employment rates for women will continue an upward trend.

While Qatari women has caught up with men in the public sector, they still lag behind in the private sector. In business, the higher paying jobs typically go to men and Qatar's finance industry is still male dominated. Qatari women do not yet participate in decision-making in fields such as politics, economics and, legislature. They do have decision-making power in certain civil service fields such as education and social affairs.

On 4 July 2022, MENAFN reported that Qatar adopted specific initiatives directed at promoting women's direct involvement in the labor market, in political participation and in decision-making positions. These policies came in the statement delivered by second secretary for the Human Rights Department at the Ministry of Foreign affairs Hissa Al Sulaiti at the 50th session of the Human Rights Council. Al Sulaiti added that Qatar has adopted relevant legislation in the field of protecting women from all manifestations of violence, and has also established specialized institutions such as the Aman center, which operates under Qatar Foundation.

Among the largest obstacles to employment are family obligations, a low number of job openings and inadequate proficiency in English. Societal views also negatively influenced the job opportunities for women, as certain conservative segments of the population consider it improper for women to work in the hospitality industry, as hotel workers and as actresses. Nonetheless, the majority of Qataris view female participation in the labor force as being positive.

Clothing and attire

Women and men are expected to dress in a manner that is modest, but the dress code is generally driven by social customs and is more relaxed in comparison to other nations in the region. Qatari women generally wear customary dresses that include "long black robes" and black head cover "hijab", locally called bo'shiya. However, the more traditional Sunni Muslim clothing for women are the black colored body covering known as the abayah together with the black scarf used for covering their heads known as the shayla.

It is believed that Qatari women began using face masks in the 19th century amid substantial immigration. As they had no practical ways of concealing their faces from foreigners, they began wearing the same type of face mask as their Persian counterparts.

Music
Traditional Qatari folk music is primarily centered on pearling. However, as pearling was an activity exclusive to men, women were not included in this form of singing except for when returning pearl ships were sighted. In this case, they would gather around the seashore where they would clap and sing songs on the hardships of pearl diving.

Women mainly sang songs relating to work activities, such as wheat grinding or embroidery. Some songs were of general themes, while others were of specific processes. Public performances by women were practiced only on two annual occasions. The first was al-moradah, which involved women and girls of all social classes gathering in a secluded area in the desert where they would sing and dance in embroidered clothes. This was usually done in the weeks preceding Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. The practice was abandoned in the 1950s. The second occasion of collective public singing is known as al-ashori, which refers to performances during weddings. It is still practiced by some classes of Qatari society.

Theatre
Although it is considered taboo to publicly discuss social issues regarding women's rights and their role in Qatari society, theatrical performances have proved to be popular outlets for such discussions. One well-known play commenting on social issues is the 1985 play Ibtisam in the Dock, written by Saleh Al-Mannai and Adil Saqar, which addresses arranged marriage. The story concerns a young girl who, after entering in a secret relationship, professes to her father her disillusionment for past traditions and the suitor her family has arranged for her to marry. Another play, Girls Market by Abdullah Ahmed and Asim Tawfiq, also provides social commentary on arranged marriages. It likens the act of offering women to paying suitors to trading goods on the market, hence associating arranged marriage with materialism.

Crafts
Crafting activities were popular forms of artistic expression in Bedouin society. They also served functional purposes.

Weaving and dyeing

Weaving and dyeing by women played a substantial role in Bedouin culture. The process of spinning sheep's and camel's wool to produce cloths was laborious. The wool was first disentangled and tied to a bobbin, which would serve as a core and keep the fibers rigid. This was followed by spinning the wool by hand on a spindle known as noul. They were then placed on a vertical loom constructed from wood whereupon women would use a stick to beat the weft into place.

The resulting cloths were used in rugs, carpets and tents. Tents were usually made up of naturally colored cloths, whereas rugs and carpets used dyed cloths; mainly red and yellow. The dyes were fashioned from desert herbs, with simple geometrical designs being employed. The art lost popularity in the 19th century as dyes and cloths were increasingly imported from other regions in Asia.

Embroidery

A simple form of embroidery practiced by Qatari women was known as kurar. It involved four women, each carrying four threads, who would braid the threads on articles of clothing - mainly thawbs or abayas. The braids, varying in color, were sewn vertically. It was similar to heavy chain stitch embroidery. Gold threads, known as zari, were commonly used. They were usually imported from India.

Another type of embroidery involved the designing of caps called gohfiahs. They were made from cotton and were pierced with thorns from palm-trees to allow the women to sew between the holes. This form of embroidery declined in popularity after the country began importing the caps.

Khiyat al madrasa, translated as 'school embroidery', involved the stitching of furnishings by satin stitching. Prior to the stitching process, a shape was drawn onto the fabric by a skilled artist. The most common designs were birds and flowers.

Sports

Sports were rarely participated in by women until the 21st century. In 1998, a competition featuring women's athletic events was hosted for the first time in the country by the Qatar Athletics Federation. The competition was sanctioned by the IAAF and was also one of the first major sporting events in Qatar to allow women spectators.

To better integrate women into sports, the Qatar Women's Sport Committee (QWSC) was formed in 2000 as an initiative of Sheikha Moza bint Nasser. The Qatar Olympic Committee accredited the QWSC in 2001. It has the primary aim of achieving gender equality in sport by launching grassroots initiatives.

Until the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Qatar was one of three countries that had never had a female competitor at the Olympic games.  Qatar eventually sent four women, in swimming (Nada Arkaji), athletics (Noor Hussain Al-Malki), table tennis (Aya Majdi) and shooting (Bahiya Al-Hamad). Bahiya al-Hamad was also set to carry the Qatari flag at the opening ceremony, in what she described as a "truly historic moment".

Social life

Qatar is an Islamic country with the Salafi version of Sunni Islam as the state-sponsored brand of Islam in the country, making Qatar one of the two Salafi states in the Muslim world, along with Saudi Arabia. Societal values of women in Qatar tend to be more liberal than those in Saudi Arabia, and there is less sex segregation.

For social gatherings, women are generally never brought to social events except for western-style gatherings or when the attendees are composed of close relatives. Public schools for girls are separate from public schools for boys. In terms of employment opportunities, women are generally employed in government positions, although women are underrepresented in high-level government positions, with only four women being appointed ministers throughout Qatar's history.

Politics
Women in Qatar vote and may run for public office. Qatar enfranchised women at the same time as men in connection with the 1999 elections for a Central Municipal Council. These elections—the first ever in Qatar—were deliberately held on 8 March 1999, International Women's Day. It was the first GCC country to enfranchise its population.

Government ministers

Qatar appointed its first female cabinet minister in 2003, when Sheikha Ahmed al-Mahmoud was named as Minister of Education. In 2008, Ghalia bint Mohammed bin Hamad Al Thani was made Minister of Public Health. The third woman government minister was Hessa Al Jaber, who was designated as head of the Ministry of Communication and Technology. Hanan Al Kuwari became the fourth female cabinet member in 2016 when she was made Minister of Public Health.

Consultative Assembly
Members of the Consultative Assembly of Qatar (Majlis ash-Shura) are designated by the Emir of Qatar. In November 2017, Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani appointed four women to the 45-member council, marking the first time women have taken part in the council.

Municipal elections
The Central Municipal Council elections, inaugurated in 1999, are the only free elections to be held in the country. Twenty-nine constituencies are contested. Both sexes are allowed to vote. In the inaugural 1999 edition, candidate Mouza Al Malki became the first female candidate in the GCC to contest a municipal election. Sheikha Yousuf Hasan Al Jufairi became the first female to hold a municipal position when she won the Central Municipal Council (CMC) elections for the Old Airport constituency in 2003. Two women were simultaneously elected to the CMC for the first time in 2015. Only 5 female candidates ran in the election. This invigorated discussion on the possible establishment of a quota for female candidates.

Diplomacy

Alya bint Ahmed Al Thani became the first female ambassador in 2013 when she was appointed as the Permanent Representative to the UN.
Lolwah Al-Khater is the Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar since 2017.

Gender equality
Qatari women have made significant legal and social advancements since the 1990s.  Sheikha Mozah has been a vocal advocate for women's issues, supporting women's conferences, higher education opportunities and the creation of a cabinet-level position in the government dedicated to women's concerns. As a result of these advancements, Qatari women have many career opportunities, including leadership positions, in education, banking, charitable projects, health and human services, tourism, law, civil service and even diplomacy.

In 1998, the Women's Affairs Committee was founded as a branch of the Supreme Council for Family Affairs in order to manage the welfare of Qatari women. As well as seeking to uphold women's rights, the committee aims to integrate women into society by providing economic assistance and employment opportunities. Qatar appointed its first female cabinet minister in 2003, and in the same year, a female candidate won the Central Municipal Council (CMC) election for the first time in history. Qatar sent women athletes to the 2012 Summer Olympics that began on 27 July in London.

Labor force participation for women in Qatar is roughly 51%, which is higher than the world average, and is the highest rate in the Arab world. However, both Qatari and non-Qatar women are affected by a wage gap, in which they are paid 25 to 50 percent less than men. In addition, Qatar greatly partakes in social allowances for men which include amenities such as housing, and travel allotments, that female employees are less likely to receive. Experts say women are moving forward with more rights.

See also
Women in Islam
Women in Arab societies

References

Bibliography

External links

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The Europeans have staged quite an invasion on the PGA tour in recent years. Not too long ago, Irishman Graeme McDowell won the U.S. Open. His good buddy and fellow countryman, Rory Mcllroy, won for the first time on the PGA Tour at Quail Hollow and then battled down to the wire at the Masters. And Englishman Ian Poulter won last year's World Golf Championship Match Play.
In addition to winning, these guys have brought some new styles to the Tour. These Snake Eye Plaid Pants looks like something Ian Poulter would wear. On second thought, the color would probably be too dull for him. He seems to like the brighter colors.
Him and John Daly are having a secret competition to see who can get the most attention. Neither of their styles appeals to me, but if I had to pick, I'd go with Poulter. He usually dawns bright pastel colors that are color coded right down to the sunglasses and shoes. The pants are usually plaid, either pink, green, orange, peach, etc. but he usually tones it down (a smidge) with a sweater or jacket. In contrast, John Daly's outfits look like those ugly 80s pants that the NFL players used to wear on the sideline. I would compare the styles to pajamas, but that would be insulting pajamas. Whereas Poulter's clothes look more classy (albeit loud), Daly looks plain stupid – and again, that is an insult to stupid.
Needless to say, I'm not ready to dive in to the hot pink or teal-colored plaid, but I really like these grey plaid pants. They are stylish without being too flashy. Although, I still will take some ripping from the guys in my foursome. I really are flat front. (Pleats have gone the way of the sweater vest and the black and white shoes.) And I enjoy making fun of my golf buddies when they show up in their old pleated pants. Those are soooo 2002! You have to go with the flat front now and if your shoes are multicolored than they should be more modern.
And don't thing I'm going form over function on you.. In addition to being stylish, these trousers are made with a little spandex to allow them to stretch with you as you play the links. This is something you may not pay attention to, but it really makes a different especially if you are walking 18 holes. The pants move with you and stretch with your golf swing. But don't worry -- it's only 5% spandex; they won't fit like your yoga instructor's skin-tight exercise pants. I would never do that to you!
Pink Nike Dry Polo to go with the pants. Or, to really creep out your golf buddies, get this Ian Poulter head cover. And finally, if these pants are not for you, see our other Men's Pants reviews here.


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Rubbish auditing: What your household waste says about you
By Daisy Dumas
October 22, 2014 — 12.15am
If you thought the odd greasy pizza box snuck into your recycling went unnoticed, think again. Your household waste habits, from the weight of your babies' nappies to the cleanliness of your yoghurt pots, are being closely monitored.
Councils across Sydney engage auditors who sift through general and recycling bins, weighing and assorting their contents into 71 categories to build a detailed, if malodorous, picture of our waste habits. While some may see the work as an assault on privacy, experts argue the data collection is simply a tool to help combat the problem of growing landfill pressures.
Blacktown City Council has audited its bins since 1997. Every two years, 700 red and recycling bins are chosen at random from 104,000 households in the western Sydney area. Letters are sent to households, giving the choice to opt out of the study, and the notice period is kept as short as possible so as not to give residents time to change their habits, mayor Stephen Bali said.
"We need to have a good idea of how people are getting more motivated with their recycling," said Mr Bali, who gave his assurance that the data collection followed environmental protection agency guidelines and did not identify individuals or households.
It's a jungle out there: garbage waits for collection and auditing. Credit:Louise Kennerley
The council does not fine any of its 325,000 residents for their bin performance, but uses the data to "fine tune literature" and target recycling initiatives to certain areas.
But while the environmental and social costs of low recycling rates are perhaps the scheme's public front, money, too, drives the mucky analysis.
Rubbish clearing companies such as Cleanaway charge for separating non-recyclables from recyclables. Add to this the increasingly prohibitive costs of landfill – it costs Sydney councils about $230 to send a tonne of rubbish to landfill – and it is essential for councils to limit how much recycling enters rubbish bins and vice-versa, Anne Prince, head of waste management consultancy APC, says.
"Their incentive is landfill costs," she said of councils who use the data to target and educate what she sees as a generally unaware public.
"They just put it in the bin and it disappears. If it's not collected, they call the council. That's about all they know," she said of the average Sydney resident.
Rohan Miller, a specialist in marketing and a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney Business School, said the approach was constructive.
"They're trying to do some good by attacking rubbish," Dr Miller said. "If you don't know what the problem is, you can't manage it. We're really heavy polluters and there's real scope to better manage households."
He said while we should all take care to shred personal documents, never discarding bank statements or bills, there were far more benefits to surrendering our rubbish to scrutiny than to consign it to the rubbish heap.
Ms Prince said trends had emerged across the city, showing hot spots of recycling activity and areas that were dragging their heels.
"There's a correlation between socio demographics and household recycling performances, and single houses tend to be better recyclers."
And for those still grappling with four bins, prepare for a fifth, dedicated solely to our kitchen habits.
"This decade will be about food waste," Ms Prince said.
Five biggest recycling mistakes
Fabric (any)
Disposable coffee cups
Blacktown by bin bags
104,000 rubbish bins
154,000 pick-ups a week
24,140 tonnes of recycling per annum
97,555 tonnes general rubbish per annum
7132 tonnes of additional clean-up rubbish
15,000 mattresses collected last year
Diversion rate from landfill is 64.9 per cent
95,000 households have a 240L bin at a cost of $400 a year
8000 households opt for a smaller bin, costing $272 a year
Daisy Dumas
Daisy Dumas is a writer for The Sydney Morning Herald