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How Old Are You, 90 and No Love? Jonathan The Gay Tortoise Found Love at 186
Joe Morgan Published this story (with Pictures) at Gay Star News Friday
The world's oldest tortoise is in a relationship with a younger reptile, and it turns out that tortoise is a male.
Jonathan, who is 186 years old, has been in a relationship with a fellow tortoise Frederic for the past 26 years.
Jonathan, the tortoise icon
A resident of St Helena, a British Overseas Territory 1,200 miles off the coast of southern Africa, Jonathan is an icon of the island.
Given as a gift to the governor in the 30s, he features on the Saint Helena five pence coin.
Vets decided Jonathan needed a mate in 1991.
And it worked, 'Frederica' and Jonathan had enjoyed regular mating sessions every Sunday morning.
After three decades, vets now know why the couple never had young.
Vets find out Jonathan's mate is a male
Vets repaired a lesion on a shell of 'Frederica', and it turned out the tortoise was a male.
So he's been renamed Frederic, according to The Times.
Catherine Man, the island vet, said the pair were 'creatures of habit', eating and sleeping at the same times. They live off a healthy diet of vegetable titbits and vitamins.
Jonathan is blind from cataracts and has lost his ability to smell. However, the tortoise has retained excellent hearing.
St Helena's fight for same-sex marriage
St Helena, which has a population of 4,255, is currently deciding on whether to legislate for same-sex marriage.
Earlier this year, a gay couple applied to get married as the law is unclear on the issue.
The Legislative Council asked the public for their opinions on marriage equality, with comments needing to be submitted by 27 October.
A Supreme Court hearing on marriage equality in St Helena is expected in January 2018.
Over 5Million Reads Adam Gonzalez at October 21, 2017 No comments: Links to this post
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Dutch Gay Vultures Become Parents
A pair of gay Dutch vultures in a long-term relationship
have become parents.
Job van Tol, a keeper at the Artis Royal Zoo in Amsterdam,
told the BBC that the griffon vultures are "a very tight couple"
and are doing a good job raising their hatchling.
He said: "We have had them for some years. They always build a nest together,
bond and mate together... But, as two males, the one thing they
could not do was lay an egg."
When staff found an abandoned egg that none of the other vultures would adopt,
they placed it in the male couple's nest.
"It was a bit of risk as we had no guarantees of success, but we thought,
finally, this is their chance," Van Tol said.
It is not unusual for animals, particularly birds, to form same-sex couples,
but according to the zoo this is the first time gay vultures have hatched an egg.
In any case, it's a happier ending than the story of the gay Teutonic vultures,
Guido and Detlef, whose forcible separation prompted protests by Germans.
Guido was transported to the Czech Republic, where he apparently showed
little interest in the opposite sex.
According to researchers, the variety and ubiquity of same-sex hanky-panky
in animals is impressive.
Nathan Bailey and Marlene Zuk of the University of California found thousands
of instances of same-sex courtship, pair bonding and copulation in a wide range
of species including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, insects, molluscs and nematodes.
BY Kat Hall
The Register UK
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Sex in the Bushes
"Park Sex is a Good Thing"
Why some like sex among the ferns or the beach
While some straights and gays like to make out in the perfumed rainforests or under the open sky, some others wonder why. With Surrey police now harassing gay cruisers at Bear Creek Park, the question hangs unspoken in many media reports.
Below is a wee peek at the culture of park sex, in a question-and-answer format. The questions reflect a few of the comments I've heard from people who don't get why it is that some prefer bushes to mattresses.
Q: Can't we stay out of the parks?
A: Why should we? Sex is fun. Some people like sex in a bed; others prefer it in more adventurous locations. Gays often make and meet friends in parks; there's a major social component to park cruising. All consensual sex is good sex, and we all have our kink. Straights do park sex, too-there are loads of heteros making out in cars at Prospect Point and Ferguson Point and, in summer months, on the beach along English Bay and False Creek. This is good, too. Straights even write songs about it, like "I Found My Thrill on Blueberry Hill." They also invented the 'Mile High Club' for coupling in airplane washrooms. Straights call this 'making out'. When gays do it, society calls it 'public sex' and sometimes treats it as abnormal. What's up with that?
Q: Isn't park sex, like bathhouse sex, mainly about self-loathing closeted men and older out gay guys?
A: Not by a long shot. Sure, many straight-identified married men begin to deal with their same-sex desire at the parks and tubs and in washrooms-and what's wrong with that? But many out, proud and happy gay men like parks and tubs, too. My recent informal survey found that the parks this summer have a profound cross-section of ages-from 20 to 80. In the last couple of years, the number of younger users has increased. Clearly, park cruising is not on the decline. Probably because park sex can be fun and can enrich your life.
Many people go to parks because they're free: other ways of meeting friends or sex partners cost money-for example, restaurants, cafés, bars, bathhouses, phone-sex lines.
Q: Now that we have our rights recognized, won't we see people giving up this stuff? I thought it was a sign of internalized homophobia.
A: No, it's a sign that some people find it fun. Parks all around the world, in liberal countries and oppressive countries, are meeting places for gay men. I doubt if that will ever change-it's been happening for centuries. In countries where they clamp down on park sex, including places where police or death squads arrest and sometimes kill men for having sex in a park, men still go. It's a fact. We all need to deal with it.
Q: But I don't see why the cops should be expected to keep people safe when they're engaged in an illegal act.
A: We in the gay community get used to being second-class citizens; we accept a standard that others wouldn't-such as looking over our shoulders all the time before holding our lover's hand. If a straight couple was murdered by a fiend with a chainsaw at Prospect Point-or Bear Creek Park-do you think the straight community would suggest that they shouldn't have been making out at that location? Not a chance! They'd be calling for the arrest of the killer before others are killed. We have the right to feel safe wherever we are and we don't even feel safe at Davie and Burrard at night.
Police can keep us safe, while not interfering with our making out. We should stay off the roadway and other high-traffic areas while making out-that's just stupidity. Park staff should leave thick vegetative cover in gay cruising areas, instead of thinning them out and then inviting police to arrest people who have now been made visible. If the making out is kept off the trails, police should leave us alone. What's out of sight should be out of mind. We all know cops don't enforce all the laws they see violated on any one day. The anti-sex laws date back to a time when the whole Criminal Code reflected biblical principles; we've come a long way. Violence should be policed; consensual sex not.
Q: But these guys don't represent me. They embarrass me. They're not a part of the 'normal' gay community, are they?
A: Well, you don't represent them either and some of them might be embarrassed by 'Respect Queens.' Let's remember that all gays were considered abnormal just a few years ago. So, we should be the last to judge each other. Hey, it was the drag queens, leather men, public sex aficionados, hustlers and SM dykes who were the first out of the closet, building community, and fighting for our rights for a couple of decades. Our rights, by the way, to have sex our way. They won some of those rights and created the geography where other, more mainstream, gays and lesbians could feel comfortable coming out. We owe it all to these folks, not to the 'respect queens' who try to distance themselves from anything other than vanilla sex practiced by longterm couples in their own bed. We're a diverse community, and we should be supporting each other's choices about where to make love and how and with how many, rather than dividing into "good gays" and "bad gays." For that matter, a recent study found that only two percent of Vancouver's gay males are in longterm relationships of over seven years' duration. I think park sex is probably as 'normal' as any other way of relating in our community. Let's stop being mean to each other over how we make love.
Q: Doesn't anything bother you about park-sex lovers?
A: Actually, I think it's important to stay off trails. And I think gays, including park sex aficionados, need to be nicer to each other in public. We need to use condoms. We need to clean up after ourselves, not littering. We need to smile at each other more. And we need to look out for each other out there. If you hear someone yelling, grab a couple more gay people near you and run to help.
There's safety in numbers. We need lots of people using parks so that each individual cruiser is safer. If you're a park lover, I say be careful out there, watch out for each other out there, but don't let this stop you from living your life fully in the way you desire.
Eternity Martis, Gareth Kirkby
Read Gareth Kirkby's original piece here.
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Over 5Million Reads Adam Gonzalez at November 16, 2016 1 comment: Links to this post
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These Two Gay Lions Do More than Kiss
Two Male Lions Madly in Love with Each Other
Cambré said that despite the presence of lionesses, the two males appeared to be engaging in homosexual behavior. She recounted the experience in a statement to the Huffington Post.
"According to our guide they had only started their behaviour that same week. These intruder males had pushed out the resident males earlier in the year and the other female lions had headed into the Mopani woodlands, an area difficult to access with a safari vehicle. Only one lioness was seen in the centre of the concession where the male lions were and the lions showed no interest in the lioness leading to the assumption that she may have been pregnant. One of the lions was wearing a collar and our guide thought that they may have crossed from Namibia. It is the first time I have seen homosexual behaviour in lions but when reading about it upon my return, it is not that uncommon. With the light just around sunset, it gave some spectacular images."
Homosexuality among lions has been observed before, and it's thought that the behavior reinforces bonds and allegiances between lions. But similar behavior has cropped up in many more species.
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There's research to suggest that homosexual behavior in animals is perhaps more common than previously believed, as one 2012 Yale Scientific article posited. And in 2004, National Geographic filmmakers observed female Japanese macaques engaged in intimate activity.
"The team caught female Japanese macaques engaged in intimate acts which, if observed in humans, would be in the X-rated category," the report noted at the time.
The report also speculated that the homosexual behavior observed in the macaques may have been motivated by a more complex social impulse. "Taking something that's nonreproductive, like mounting another female — if it leads to control of a resource or acquisition of a resource or a good alliance partner, that could directly impact your reproductive success," Amy Parish, a primatologist, suggested at the time.
Whether it's to control a resource and get a leg up on reproductive success, or purely for pleasure, homosexuality in the animal kingdom is apparently far from unnatural.
Over 5Million Reads Adam Gonzalez at April 18, 2016 No comments: Links to this post
Can A Stroke turned him gay?
Rugby jock says
Ryan Jaslow .cbsnews.com
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(CBS) Strokes can have strange consequences. Some stroke victims wind up with different accents, others with different personalities. Chris Birch said he discovered he was gay when he woke up after a stroke.
The 26-year-old Welshman suffered a stroke after breaking his neck while attempting a back flip at a gym,The Daily Mail reported. His then-fiancée and family stayed by his side, but when he woke, something had changed.
"It sounds strange, but when I came round I immediately felt different," Birch told the paper. "I wasn't interested in women any more. I was definitely gay. I had never been attracted to a man before - I'd never even had any gay friends."
Before the stroke, Birch was a banker who loved playing rugby, watching sports, and drinking beer with his buds. After the stroke, he found he had little in common with his blokes, quit his job to train as a hairdresser, and started dating a man.
"I went back to my job in the bank and tried hard to fit back into things but it didn't seem right anymore," Birch told The Mirror last month. "Suddenly, I hated everything about my old life. I didn't get on with my friends, hated sport, and found my job boring."
He also focused more on his appearance, lost a lot of weight - and became more confident.
Birch's neurologist told him the changes in his personality could be from the stroke "opening up" a different part of his brain, according to the Daily Mail.
What do experts have to say - can a stroke really turn you gay?
Dr. Ira G. Rashbaum, professor of rehabilitation medicine and chief of stroke rehab at NYU Langone Medical Center, wouldn't speculate on this specific case since he wasn't involved in Birch's care, but he told CBS News that it's quite common to see personality changes in patients following a stroke.
Rashbaum said some recovering stroke patients might experience anxiety, depression, or difficulties paying attention. In some cases if a stroke affects the brain's frontal lobe - which controls inhibition - a previously quiet person might become angrier, suddenly telling others off.
But a full-blown personality change?
"This is a more rare circumstance, certainly not a common thing" he told CBS News. He added that profound personality changes usually aren't permanent following rehabilitation with a team that might include psychologists and social workers.
Joe Korner, director of communications for The Stroke Association in the U.K., told CBS News in an email that he's never personally heard of a stroke changing someone's sexuality, but he doesn't doubt the stroke had some impact on Birch's life.
"Strokes are traumatic, life-changing experiences, which can make you reassess life and your feelings so perhaps that's the reason behind it," Korner said. "Whether or not the stroke turned Chris gay, or whether he was gay anyway but unaware of it, his experience seems to be a positive one, which is great."
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After breaking his neck attempting a backflip and then suffering a stroke, Welshman Chris Birch went from a sports-loving heterosexual to an out and proud homosexual, or so he says.
Birch made headlines last month in the United Kingdom when he told The Mirror about his accident and subsequent reversal of orientation.
"It sounds strange, but when I came round I immediately felt different," the 26-year-old told the paper. "I wasn't interested in women any more. I was definitely gay. I had never been attracted to a man before — I'd never even had any gay friends."
Birch then became more obsessed with his appearance, which he believes is a gay trait. He also started training to be a hairdresser. CBS News asked Britain's Stroke Association if the organization was familiar with someone "becoming gay" after a stroke — not really, officials with the group responded, but they did say people often reassess their lives after such an ordeal. Read more here.
The Gay Gene
Faye Flam
www.philly.com/evolution.
Most scientists who study human sexuality agree that gay people are born that way. But that consensus raises an evolutionary puzzle: How do genes associated with homosexuality avoid being weeded out by Darwinian evolution?
Some gays and lesbians do reproduce, said Pennsylvania State University anthropologist and geneticist Mark Shriver, but not as much as straight people do. Even if a gene decreases people's fertility by 1 percent, it's going to be eliminated.
Scientists offered some possible answers to this mystery earlier this month at a Penn State symposium on the biological basis of sexual orientation. The seminar was planned weeks before the child sex-abuse scandal broke, and organizers said they never considered scrapping the program. How, they asked, could anyone fault them for talking about sex amid a scandal that centered on the failure to talk?
Not that the day lacked controversy and even anger. Several audience members said they were upset, or even "horrified" after Penn State's Shriver suggested that unraveling the biology of sexual orientation could lead to ways for parents to increase or decrease their odds of having a gay child.
Shriver made that forecast in response to a talk by University of Toronto psychiatry professor Ray Blanchard, who presented survey data showing that men with older brothers were more likely to be gay.
Blanchard, who treated patients at the university's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, said he didn't think it was likely that parents would be rushing to alter a fetus' sexuality.
But antigay prejudice is still common in America. That was made clear last week in the responses to President Obama's promise to use foreign aid to discourage countries such as Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and Uganda from executing gays.
"Just when you thought Barack Obama couldn't get any more out of touch with America's values . . . this administration's war on traditional American values must stop," responded Republican presidential contender Rick Perry.
At the meeting, researchers assumed that science would encourage tolerance. That has been the long-term trend, said Blanchard.
For most of the 20th century, he said, the medical community wrongly said homosexuality was rooted in childhood experience. That came from Freud and also from the school of psychology known as behaviorism, pioneered by that famed rat researcher B.F. Skinner. The behaviorists thought homosexuality was a mental illness that could be cured, usually by giving electric shocks and other painful stimuli to try to create an aversion to homosexual thoughts.
The psychotherapists used a different technique and told patients it would work only if they really wanted to change, Blanchard said. "I'm sure it didn't change anybody." Nevertheless, both types of therapy were common practice into the 1970s.
Gradually, Freud and Skinner fell from prominence and people started thinking that DNA could influence sexual orientation. In the 1980s, a geneticist named Dean Hamer studied 40 pairs of brothers in which one or both were gay. He found a particular stretch of DNA on the X chromosome that was shared more often when both brothers were gay. When he published the results in 1991, it became known as "the gay gene," though Hamer has objected to this as an oversimplification.
Still, it immediately raised questions about natural selection, said Blanchard. "If there was a gene, then why isn't it flushed out of the population?" he said. "People still wrestle with it."
Studies that attempted to replicate Hamer's finding came up with conflicting results. Today, scientists suspect there are many genes with a small influence on sexual orientation.
The scientists said they had tended to focus more on men because they're easier to study. One of the other speakers, J. Michael Bailey, explained this in a provocatively titled talk: "What Is Sexual Orientation and Do Women Have One?"
Bailey, a psychologist at Northwestern University, started by explaining that you have to be very specific about the way you define sexual orientation because there are big differences between what people want, what they do, and what they will admit to doing.
Attempting to get at sexual orientation with a scientific approach, researchers have brought men and women into their labs, hooked their genitalia up to various devices, and tried to measure how aroused they got in response to films with a sexual content.
They learned that the majority of men respond strongly to images of either men or women and not to the other. Lesbians respond more strongly to seeing women, but straight women respond about the same to either sex.
It's not that scientists don't care about female sexuality, Blanchard said, but it's easier to classify men as gay or straight.
He was intrigued by the fact that some large surveys have shown that men who have older brothers were more likely to be gay, and that likelihood went up with the number of older brothers. It was as if male fetuses but not female ones left the uterus in a different state than they found it.
There are other conditions that follow this pattern, he said. In some cases, when a mother's blood type is incompatible with that of her fetus, she produces antibodies that can cause illness to a subsequent fetus.
In the case of male homosexuality, he said, the mother might build up antibodies to proteins that are coded in the Y chromosome, and therefore only expressed in male fetuses. Several of these are suspected to be active in the development of the male brain.
So in theory, antibodies remaining from a previous pregnancy could disable these male proteins in a fetus, thereby shaping the brain more along female lines.
The immune idea doesn't change the assumption that genes play a role. Many gay men have no older brothers, after all. And twin studies show that if one member of a pair of identical twins is gay, there's a 50 percent chance the other will be, too. For fraternal twins, that falls to 20 percent, a strong indication there's a genetic component to homosexuality.
Penn State's Shriver pointed out several ways that genes predisposing men to homosexuality could continue to thrive in the human pool. One possibility is that they made women more fecund, perhaps by increasing their sex drive. Another possibility, he said, is group selection - a form of natural selection that acts on the level of groups of organisms.
Scientists disagree on the importance of group selection in shaping humanity, but the basic idea is that if different tribes of humans are competing, some groups will thrive while others go extinct.
Perhaps diversity was good for group survival: Tribes of people that contained all breeders might have been less successful over prehistory than tribes that had almost all breeders except for a Leonardo da Vinci and a Michelangelo.
Or more generally, groups with greater genetic diversity might thrive and grow faster than more uniform groups, especially in variable environments.
Blanchard said he was not particularly worried that parents could someday abort their fetal Leonardos or rearrange their brains with immune therapy.
For one thing, he said, the most avidly homophobic people deny any link to biology. And speculative fears of nefarious technology shouldn't turn people against science. "What scientists do is to discover the truth,"
Over 5Million Reads Adam Gonzalez at December 13, 2011 No comments:
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Gay Birds as Faithful as Straight Human Counterparts
Scientists have found same-sex pairs of zebra finches sing to and preen each other as much as
heterosexual 'couples'.
The study of finches, whose singing is thought to strengthen bonds between mates, is reported in the journal Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology.
Lead researcher Julie Elie, from the University of California Berkeley, said: "The research showed relationships in animals can be more complicated than just a male and a female who meet and reproduce, even in birds.
"I'm interested in how animals establish relationships and how they use acoustic communication in their social interactions.
"My observations of them led me to this surprising result: same-sex individuals would also interact in affiliative manners, like male-female pairs."
Julie also found when young male finches were raised in same-sex groups, more than half of them paired up with another male.
When females were introduced to their group the males ignored them in favour of their current partner.
Julie said the findings show that the birds' drive to find a mate is more complicated than just the need to reproduce.
She added: "A pair-bond in socially monogamous species represents a cooperative partnership that may give advantages for survival.
"Finding a social partner, whatever its sex, could be a priority."
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I had a long walk with only son the other day. It was a good antidote to work. He gave me a very detailed description of life in Boudicca's time. "Do you think Boudicca was a good leader?" I asked him. "She was good, but she had one fault. She was very loud. When she went into battle she used to shout Aaaaaarg," he said with some gusto. Well, as leadership flaws go, and we have a lot to draw on these days, that seems a mild one. I have to admit I don't know very much about Boudicca so I'm thinking being loud might not have been her only flaw.
It is interesting to see how children try to make sense of all the bits of information they hear in a day, whether at home or at school or from the guy with the purple hair on Youtube. Only son is still at the stage where he listens to what his parents say and reflects on it. I told him the other day that he had a new cousin called Fred. We have a friend called Fred. "It's not that Fred," I said. "because it would be hard to give birth to a 45-year-old man." Only son considered this concept for a moment. "Yes, mum. Fred is 45 and that is seven years younger than you, but it is still very old," proclaimed only son to all assorted passers-by. Only son proceeded: "You are 52 [he lingered over this bit] which is a lot older than Fred and dad who is only 51." Only son is brutally honest. He told my mum the other day that she had one thing she was really good at, but she might not like it when he said what it was. "It's swearing," said only son after a short pause. His sisters dissolved into fits of giggles.
While younger children may be more forthright in their views and may still be interested in what adults have to say, teenagers tend more towards challenging their parents' views, if the parents are lucky, or indeed ridiculing them. I keep making the mistake of saying that daughter one could email her friends to ask their opinions about things or check who is picking up whom on evenings out. "Email?" she says, her eyebrows rising and her phone in her hand. "We live in the 21st century, mum."
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Órzola is een vissersdorp dat is gelegen aan de noordkant van het eiland Lanzarote (Canarische Eilanden, Spanje), dat deel uitmaakt van de gemeente Haría. De stad staat bekend als de plaats waar men de boot neemt naar het eiland Graciosa.

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Most of the world's famous cities have their own symbols. New York is usually called "the big apple", Paris cannot be imagined without Eiffel Tower, London is associated with the red buses and Buenos Aires with a dance of tango. One of the most romantic cities in the world - Venice - cannot be imagined without the gondola. It is a long wooden boat used as a transportation mean in the canals of a city.
The history of gondola began in the Renaissance epoch in Venice. It has been used as a main public transport for more than 900 years. Due to the frequent use of gondola during the winter months it used to be even equipped with a small open cabin to provide the shelter. The nobles of the city used to have more than one gondola at disposal. They were used not only as the mean of transportation, but also for business and recreational purposes.
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In addition, the walking tour of the city is a must. Everyone should visit Saint Mark's Basilica (Byzantine character and great mosaics), Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari church (one of the main churches in Venice) and Carlo Goldoni's House (spectacular, theatrical place). There is no way that Venice can turn down your expectation. Its a little miracle just waiting to be experienced.


Warner Archive gives a solid Blu-ray upgrade to Michael Cimino's edgy crime thriller.
Michael Cimino may have never had another critical and/or commercial success after The Deer Hunter, but that doesn't mean he, at least, made some films that are still worthy of a conversation piece. Heaven's Gate was a giant bomb in 1980, but it is still talked about and gets new restored versions of it every so often - with the most recent being a 2012 release from The Criterion Collection of the film in all its three hours-plus glory.
Year of the Dragon may not have the same reputation as Heaven's Gate does of being a costly, box office failure that led to the shuttering of one studio and to less creative control for a director with a big budget. But, like Heaven's Gate and The Deer Hunter before it, Cimino's neo-noir thriller was met with controversy. Its depiction of the Asian culture was criticized as being stereotypical and xenophobic, and it wound up being another dud for Cimino. But the film soon began developing a cult following, and rightfully so. Year of the Dragon may not rank with some of the greatest films ever made, but for a cop drama, it works quite well.
Mickey Rourke plays Captain Stanley White, a Vietnam War veteran whose made it his mission to dismantle the organized crime in New York City's Chinatown. His confrontation with Joey Tai (John Lone), the head of the Chinese triads, leads to White having a high price on his head and a truce between the police precinct and mafia coming to an end. Thus begins an all-out war between the mafia and the police force, leading to a lot of violence in the streets.
Year of the Dragon deals with a lot of issues, including corruption and racism. Rourke's character is not the most likable human being on the planet, and he and a lot of other characters throw out derogatory language like it's nothing. It's easy to see why people found it offensive, but, at the same time, a lot of what the movie deals with is realistic and doesn't hold itself back in its portrayals.
Rourke is the standout here, giving a terrific performance as the hard-edged White. His relationship with people may not be great, especially women, but White is a determined man of the law and will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Lone is also superb as the head of the triads, willing to go to ruthless extremes to prevent White from getting to him.
There is a subplot that involves White being married to Connie (Caroline Kava), who comes off as a bit of a nag due to Stanley's lack of commitment. He doesn't understand it, and she's on the verge of leaving him. Meanwhile, Stanley is falling for an Asian reporter named Tracy Tzu (Ariane), who claims to have a boyfriend. It's rather generic and kind of weighs the film down in some segments. Ariane, a model who made her acting debut here, showed she can't really get the lines out effectively, and her performance suffers from it. This could explain why she only did one other movie (King of New York) after this role.
Warner Archive gives Cimino's film a good Blu-ray upgrade, but not great. The picture quality is 1080p with a 16x9 widescreen presentation and a 2.4:1 aspect ratio. It looks really clean, but there are some spots that make it seem like the picture skips a little. It doesn't happen a whole lot, but it is noticeable. The audio track is 5.1 surround sound and has no issues. The special features are somewhat lacking, featuring an old commentary track by Cimino that came from a previous release, as well as the film's trailer.
Cimino may have had a short-lived career, but most of his films proved that he could craft some effective efforts. With Oliver Stone helping pen the screenplay, Year of the Dragon turns out to be a bloody and tense cop drama. Cimino also gives viewers a lot of great tracking shots, making some of the shootouts look incredible. It's not a great film, but it is certainly better than what people initially thought.


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It was another day of study and reviews. Slowly but surely, most of the cadets are finishing off their last assignments, and getting on with a bit of packing.
We also had another doctrine rehearsal. As part of the commissioning and ordination, we declare the eleven doctrines of the Salvation Army, from memory. In order to aid or memorisation, we have rehearsals, so that we can memorise them, and get our timing together so we all say them together at the same time. I'll go through the doctrines at a later date, but I just wanted to say a little bit about memorisation.
It's important, I think, to memorise the doctrines, because these are the central elements of our faith that we hold to be true. In eleven relatively short statements, we declare what we believe, and why we believe them. Memorising them helps us make them central to our Christian practice, to shape everything we do in our ministry.
What have you had to memorise? What's helped you in memorising it?
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Q: Brightcove exoplayer in SDK 4.6.1 is not getiing imported I have tried maven/ compiled it as per the documentation . But the exo player in the android SDK isn't getting imported. This I have to use since I want to stream a HLS video.
import com.brightcove.player.view.BrightcoveExoPlayerVideoView;
 This isn't getting imported.

A: In order to use the BrightcoveExoPlayerVideoView from gradle, you need to add the Brightcove public maven repo to your repositories.  Something like this:
repositories {
  jcenter()

  maven {
    url 'http://repo.brightcove.com/releases'
  }
}

and then you need to add the dependency to your dependencies:
dependencies {
  compile "com.brightcove.player:exoplayer:4.7.2"
}

A: The same here in Android Studio, even version 4.7.2
My guess is Gradle version incompatibility.
But manually importing the jar library should do the trick for now:
Download the SDK from https://docs.brightcove.com/en/perform/mobile-sdks/brightcove-player-sdk-for-android/index.html
In Android Studio Click on Project Structure
Select the Dependencies tab
Click on the small + sign on the left to add
Select Import Jar/.aar Package
Browse to where you downloaded the above SDK and import it
Now it's imported and ready

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I love spider webs. Growing up in semi-rural Kentucky and later in suburban Indiana, I always enjoyed the time of year where I could count on the spiders of the region being out and about, building these amazing works of art that turned out to be so very functional. I loved their intricacy and their ingenuity. I loved knowing how strong a spider's silk actually was, and that it was self-made. I especially love the sight of a web with only a faint glisten of dew on it, first thing in the morning, right as the sun hits it at a particular angle. It amazed me how close you had to get to actually see it, how, from a distance, it was invisible yet, up close, it was stunning and awe-inspiring. Far away: can't be seen. Up close: can't be fathomed.
Having just finished the first of my three units of CPE residency, I found out something interesting: I'm actually pretty good at being quiet. I told one of my colleagues, a staff chaplain with whom I have a surprising amount in common, "I tend to talk a lot. I don't always tend to say a lot." As I wrote my final self-evaluation and as I write my weekly reflections, I've discovered my soul's desire to, well, for lack of a better way of saying it, shut up. When I'm with patients, I'm learning to really listen. When I'm with friends, I'm finding out what it means to just be.
Early this unit, we realized how much my tendency to talk is a cloaking device, a smoke screen of sorts. It's a tool I use to be looked at while keeping myself hidden, invulnerable, safe. If I keep talking, maybe [they] won't really see me. Growing up, I spent a lot of time alone in my bedroom. Reading. Listening to music. Watching TV and movies. And whether or not it was actually the case, I often felt left to my own devices. Realistically, my parents, my mother, always knew where I was. But for whatever reason, I didn't realize this. In my mind, I became invisible. My silence, my solitude, became my prison, the mechanism of my isolation. And so I learned how to yell, how to act out, because the last thing I wanted to be was invisible. I may not have wanted to be seen, but I sure as hell wanted people to at least know I was there, to know I existed.
This weekend, Frankie was in town for Thanksgiving. It would seem that the interpersonal and intrapersonal work I've been doing in CPE has started to drastically change how I engage him, perhaps more than anyone else. Truth be told, in a partnership, one hopes that one can be silent and feel at home. For me, for as long as we've been together, I've struggled with this. However, as we sat on the couch this weekend, each of us with our respective books in hand, with only the sound of the relaxation fountain in the background, I started to settle, to drop into myself and feel at home, comfortable, welcomed. We didn't talk much, but in our silence I felt much was said, much that my spirit needed to hear.


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Піч-Лейк () — переписна місцевість (CDP) в США, в округах Патнем і Вестчестер штату Нью-Йорк. Населення —  осіб (2010).

Географія
Піч-Лейк розташований за координатами  (41.366952, -73.576503).  За даними Бюро перепису населення США в 2010 році переписна місцевість мала площу 7,88 км², з яких 6,90 км² — суходіл та 0,98 км² — водойми.

Демографія
Згідно з переписом 2010 року, у переписній місцевості мешкало  осіб у 620 домогосподарствах у складі 445 родин. Густота населення становила 207 осіб/км².  Було 741 помешкання (94/км²).

Расовий склад населення:

До двох чи більше рас належало 0,7 %. Частка іспаномовних становила 4,5 % від усіх жителів.

За віковим діапазоном населення розподілялося таким чином: 24,4 % — особи молодші 18 років, 62,2 % — особи у віці 18—64 років, 13,4 % — особи у віці 65 років та старші. Медіана віку мешканця становила 45,4 року. На 100 осіб жіночої статі у переписній місцевості припадало 95,8 чоловіків;  на 100 жінок у віці від 18 років та старших — 90,3 чоловіків також старших 18 років.

Середній дохід на одне домашнє господарство  становив  долари США (медіана — ), а середній дохід на одну сім'ю —  доларів (медіана — ). За межею бідності перебувало 6,1 % осіб, у тому числі 17,1 % дітей у віці до 18 років та 0,0 % осіб у віці 65 років та старших.

Цивільне працевлаштоване населення становило 783 особи. Основні галузі зайнятості: освіта, охорона здоров'я та соціальна допомога — 28,9 %, науковці, спеціалісти, менеджери — 10,1 %, будівництво — 9,5 %.

Джерела

Переписні місцевості Нью-Йорку
Населені пункти округу Вестчестер (Нью-Йорк)
Населені пункти округу Патнем (Нью-Йорк)


Have you heard? Ducks are the new chickens!
For Preppers keeping chickens has always been the norm. As a prepper, we have a goal of being duel-sustainable. Our desire is like many in the preparedness community, to be more self-sufficient and I dream of getting back to the basics. As a result, chicken coops are popping up in suburban backyards of families all across the country. We have raised chickens and decided to give Pekin Ducks a try.
Because they spend so much of their time in the water, ducks are less apt to get mites, lice and other external parasites. Ducks also have hardier immune systems, tend to stay in better general health and are less likely to contract illnesses than chickens.
Here in Tennessee, we have been experiencing average temperatures of 31 degrees from November through February the last three years. Our Pekin ducks don't mind one bit. Ducks have an added layer of fat and a thick down 'undercoat' that chickens don't have. They also have waterproofing on their feathers to protect against the elements and keep them warm and dry in the rain and snow.
Ducks handle heat quite well by floating around in their pool all day. During the hot southern summers we endure, while our chickens stand around panting, crowded in front of the fans we have set up in our run, the ducks paddle about quite contentedly in their pool. Our barnyard provides more than ample shade in the summer.
We have two barnyards on our property. We keep the chickens with the "regular" livestock (cows, brush goats, etc.) because chickens actually make more noise than our ducks. Chickens cackle and carry on after they lay an egg, before they lay an egg, when there's another hen in the nesting box they want, and for no apparent reason at all. Our Pekin ducks on the other hand, although can quack loudly when agitated or excited, normally just quietly chitter-chatter. Very adorable.
Ducks welcome newcomers far more quickly than chickens do. Whether the newcomers are chickens or ducks, our ducks seem unperturbed and seldom bother new additions to the flock. Chickens, however, take any new additions to the flock as an affront to their rigid pecking order. The result is squabbling and confrontations that can get quite serious until the new order is established and tranquility returns.
While it's true that ducks can, and will, eat anything green within their reach, as long as you plant bushes and trees that are tall enough so they can't reach the tops, you can successfully landscape your run or backyard, even with ducks inhabiting it. As you can see from the pictures of the barnyard near our house, we believe in landscaping. Chickens, on the other hand, within days of being introduced to a new lawn will have it scratched down to bare dirt. Chickens will continue to not only eat every bit of green that tries to grow, but also dig deep depressions in the earth in which to take their dust baths or cool off in the summer. Ducks may trample your lawn a bit, but they won't create a barren wasteland of your backyard like chickens will.
Okay, this is my personal preference, but baby ducklings are irresistible.
On the whole, ducks are far more easy-going and less likely to get their feathers ruffled than chickens. They are generally calm, smart, alert and downright funny at times. Ducks win out as my top choice for a backyard flock and they will always be an important part of ours.
The majority of domestic ducks can't fly. They were intentionally bred to be heavier than their wild counterparts mainly so they wouldn't be able to fly away from the farms where they were being raised and also so they would dress out better as table birds. This leaves them extremely vulnerable to predators such as foxes, raccoons and dogs. Ungainly and cumbersome on dry land, ducks aren't able to escape these predators, so as backyard duck keepers it is our responsibility to provide them with a safe, secure place to live.
Your duck housing needs to be secure from predators, but other than that, ducks are extremely cold-hardy so any structure you provide for them doesn't need to be completely enclosed (as long as it is inside a secure run/pen) and won't need any type of heat in the winter. Four square feet of floor space per duck should be adequate inside the house as long as they are not confined to it for extended periods of time. Since ducks love both rain and snow, they don't spend many waking hours indoors.
A duck nesting box should be approximately 16" square, although in my experience ducks won't necessarily use it. In fact, our ducks prefer large wooden boxes filled with straw, but they aren't very concerned about privacy or a dedicated nesting area and seem just as happy making a nest in a corner of their house in the straw. I put a 16″ peel and stick linoleum tile on the wood floor for easy cleaning.
Special waterfowl pellets are available in some areas, but regular chicken layer feed is fine for laying ducks. However, ducks (especially growing ducklings) need more niacin than chickens do, so adding brewer's yeast to their feed in a 5% ratio is recommended. Ducklings grow extremely fast and the niacin helps their bones develop correctly.
Feed should be set out in wide tubs or containers that can't be tipped over. We use metal pans and stoneware bowls, setting out several at a time so all the ducks can eat at once. A grown duck will eat 4-6 ounces of feed per day so I try to measure out the correct amount, but that amount varies by time of year (they eat more in the winter, less in the summer when weeds and bugs are more readily available). Water should always be provided near the feed. Leftover feed at the end of day should be discarded if it has gotten wet.
Leafy greens are an important part of a duck's diet. Ducks won't eat wilted greens, so I put the 'salad' in their water tub. It stays nice and fresh that way and keeps them occupied dabbling for the leafy treats. Ducks also enjoy fresh peas or corn kernels, cucumber pieces, watermelon and cut tomatoes. Grit (coarse sand or dirt) should always be provided to ducks to assist in grinding the food in their gizzard.
Once your ducks reach laying age (generally around 6 months), crushed oyster shell or eggshell should be provided in a separate container free-choice so each duck can eat what she needs for strong eggshells.
We found Storey's Guide to Raising Ducks useful.
Naturally, your local co-op will always be an excellent source of information. Enjoy your ducks not only for the prolific egg layers that they are, but because they are very entertaining.
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And duckies are very sweet pets as well, nice and mellow.
Hi Carrie and thank you for reading our article. Those of us who have raised both ducks and chickens can relate to your experience. We love our ducks not only for their prolific egg laying, but their entertainment value. Pekin Ducks have a TON of personality. You can't put a price on the smiles they put on our faces!
Thanks again. I'm glad you enjoyed it!


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It seems like the minified css file keeps the same filename.
Is there a feature in Autoptimise to rename, or suffix CSS filenames, so that the previous visitors coming back to a website load the fresh CSS file?
it does (should) not TM; the filename is based on an (md5) hash of the aggregated code (CSS), if the content changes, the hash changes along.
Looking deeper in what was going on, it seems that our problem wasn't related to Autoptimize.
We had problems with an SVG sprite (called through CSS) we've been modifying.
People having visited our website before the update had the new CSS, but the old svg.
We solved the problem by renaming the SVG file.
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