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I Gave My Ears to Rock and Roll
Wearing earplugs could have saved the author's hearing, but at the cost of his soul.
By Jon Fine
Above: The author playing guitar in New York City, in the late '80s, his hearing more or less intact
What do you hear when there's nothing to hear? Seriously. I want to know. A quarter century of playing rock music—all variations on an aggressive, highly amplified strain found in the post-hardcore American underground of the '80s and '90s—is permanently inscribed in my inner ear. For me, it stays loud when things are quiet. When I wake up and shut down the white-noise machine, I hear one everlasting tone, which generally hovers around A. One recent morning, a different note—fainter than the root note, but easily discernible—pealed distinctly in the middle of my right ear, a lone stalactite hanging in a cave.
Music is forever, especially if you turn it up enough, and many 30- and 40-something indie-rock grads have long subjected their ears to truly astonishing stress. I liked to lean my forehead on my amp's speaker enclosure when I played guitar. I liked the vibrations it sent into my skull. Sometimes, mid-song in my first band's practice space, I'd stick my head in the bass drum. On tour in Europe in 1990, I ended one song each night by getting within inches of my (very loud) amp to produce some feedback. At times I'd get sudden spikes of treble that would turn my stomach and make me stumble, as if they'd briefly deranged whatever whorls of plumbing in my ears govern balance.
Extreme volume is nerd-macho. I couldn't bench-press 250 pounds—actually, I couldn't bench-press half of 250 pounds—but my band was much louder than yours. I sneered at those who wore earplugs at their shows. Earplugs turned the picture to black-and-white. Why would you do that? Onstage, your eyesight whiting out from the stage lights and your ears roasting from the decibels, the air seemed suffused with pure adrenaline. It lit you up like a city at night.
I finally started wearing earplugs onstage in 2002, after playing a particularly deafening show. When I went to bed that night, I heard not one but two distinct tones ringing in my right ear. Others have worse stories.
"I had a really weird experience playing our penultimate show," says Pat Mahoney, the drummer for the just-disbanded LCD Soundsystem. "We started playing a song we hadn't played in a long time. And it was so loud and my ears were so fatigued, it was like being snow-blind. I could tell there was tremendous noise, but I couldn't identify any of it … It was fucking terrifying." (Mahoney, as you may have guessed, wasn't wearing earplugs.)
I haven't experienced anything that dramatic, aside from that feedback-induced near-emesis. But I have to lean in, far in, to hear people in noisy rooms. A meal or a drink somewhere loud means I lose my voice, especially if my wife isn't there to remind me that I'm shouting in order to hear myself.
When I visit an audiologist, Dr. Andrew Resnick, a guitarist who treats many New York musicians, he asks if I have trouble hearing: Left ear, right ear, both ears? (With background noise, both.) Ears ring? (Yes. But that doesn't bother me too much.) How many hours a week on an iPod? (Maybe four.) Do I have a history of loud-noise exposure? (Heh. Yes. Lots.)
Over to the soundproof booth, where Dr. Resnick has me strap on some form-fitting headphones. The room is still and quiet. The ongoing symphony in my ears isn't. This won't work, I think nervously. I won't hear anything over this ringing. The doctor plays a bunch of tones, low to high, quiet and quieter. He turns on background noise, like you'd hear at a bar or a party, and runs voices against it. He plays with the volume until the conversation I am supposed to decipher disappears in the clatter.
Here is where I'm supposed to say I'm sorry. Here is where I say we must respect the delicate membranes within our ears. Here is where I beg, in cloying tones, that we teach the children to learn from these mistakes.
Screw it. I don't regret a thing. Sound transported us to places most people never get to see. When my old band got asked to reunite this year at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival in the U.K., our concerns centered on practice logistics and plane schedules, not on our battered eardrums. The old basketball star walks gingerly on aching knees. Me? My ears ring. I can't hear a thing you're saying in this noisy bar. And it turns out that my left ear's hearing is noticeably weaker in certain frequencies—it has what ear docs call the "noise notch" that afflicts those exposed to serious sound. But I'm okay enough. If not, well, I accept the physical penalty without complaint. For now, at least.
"I think I sacrificed some of my hearing to do this right," LCD's Mahoney tells me. "I have absolutely no regrets about that. But talk to me when I'm 60. It may be a huge bummer."
After I visited Dr. Resnick, I called to interview him for this article, and at the end I asked if he'd worn earplugs onstage. "More often than not, no," he admitted. "I found it a little difficult to wear them while performing, especially if you're doing any singing."
Maybe he'll sort of understand, then, if we crank the volume all the way up, just a few more times, hoping nothing too bad will happen.


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Posted on October 8, 2018 by Sarah Hawley
Meigs Heritage Festival rescheduled for Oct. 20
By Lorna Hart - Special to the Sentinel
The Meigs Heritage Festival will be held Oct. 20 after being rescheduled.
CHESTER — The Meigs Heritage Festival, originally scheduled for July 21 has been rescheduled for Oct. 20, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on "The Commons" on State Route 248 in Chester, Ohio.
The outdoor Festival was postponed due to a forecast of extremely unfavorable conditions for both set up on Friday and the Festival on Saturday. Although the inclement weather did not materialize, organizers said it was best to "err on the side of caution".
Most activities planned for July will take place on the 20th; absent will be the traditional Ohio State Harmonica Contest and the Family Photos in the Courthouse.
The focus of the Heritage Festival will be exhibits and demonstrations of things of by-gone days, with featured activities that include: Classic Car Show and Swap Meet, 7th OVC Civil War Re-enactment Group camp and demonstrations, music, and a stringed instrument display by Roger and Mary Gilmore of Sweet Mountain Sound, "Meigs Finest", a recognition of oldest Meigs male and female residents in attendance, pie baking contest and auction, exhibits of rural "old-time" activities such as honey and maple syrup production, corn shelling and grinding, apple butter making, blacksmithing, cider making, soap making, Old Coins and Pictures exhibit by Bob Graham and John Bentley, and informational booths by both the Chester Shade Historical Association and the Meigs County Historical Society, with the latter providing a craft-making opportunity for kids.
Festival guests will have an opportunity to meet and view an exhibit by Meigs County native Ron McDole, a retired NFL who spent his 18 year professional football career with the Houston Oilers, Buffalo Bills, and Washington Redskins in the 60's and 70's.
Tours of the Courthouse are also on the schedule, with, shuttle service provided between the Courthouse and Commons.
Guests will find a variety of foods, including bean soup being cooked over an open fire, along with cornbread, chicken and noodles, hot dogs and sauce, homemade pie, ice cream and beverages.
Thanks to generous community donations, raffles and door prizes will be given through the day.
Just a few hundred feet down from the Commons is an added attraction, a craft show at the former Chester Elementary School, sponsored by Bethel Worship Center.
The Festival is one of two major annual events sponsored by the Chester Shade Historical Association; the second is the CSHA Auction. Proceeds and donations assist in maintaining and operating the restored Courthouse and Academy Buildings.
This event is free and open to other non-profit organizations, crafters, artisans, and non-food vendors (no flea-markets), newly formed businesses wanting to promote their presence in the area, as well as anyone willing to display and or demonstrate an old-time rural activity that has not yet been registered with the CSHA. There is no charge for the space; however, if you do not have your own table and/or tent, that service will be available for $10.
For more information or to reserve a place on the Commons, contact Rachael Schultz at (740) 440-0127 or Dan Will (740) 416-8304. There is no admission to the festival and parking is free. Check us out on Facebook or at www.chestercourthouse.com.
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Lorna Hart is a freelance writer for The Daily Sentinel.
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Is The Awakening by Kate Chopin a true story?
No, The Awakening by Kate Chopin is not a true story.
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Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening is fiction rather than a true story. Set in 1890s Louisiana, the narrative revolves around Edna Pontellier, a mother and a wife who tries to uncover her own identity and her true purpose as a woman in a predominantly patriarchal society.
The novel may not be a true story, but it was inspired by the sociopolitical climate in the nineteenth century—specifically gender roles and the role of women in society, which were very much real social issues. Chopin was raised by her widowed mother, her grandmother, and her great-grandmother, all of whom were smart, independent, and strong-willed women. She grew up witnessing female power and dominance rather than female submission, which was quite rare in the nineteenth century, especially in Louisiana, where wives were still considered property of their husbands.
Chopin created Edna with the purpose of showcasing how women should be allowed to freely explore their identity and their sexuality, and to find themselves in other roles aside from mothers and wives. She believed they should be able to decide freely who they were and who they wanted to become, without anyone forcing them to conform to society's norms and standards. This was problematic for many readers, who believed that Edna's behavior in the book was immoral, unladylike, and unconventional, which is why the book was heavily criticized and even censored and banned.
Today, The Awakening is considered a foundational work of feminist literature.
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Canada's core inflation rate edged back down to 2.2% in May after hitting a four-year high of 2.5% in April. The monthly core rate increase of 0.3% was below the rapid 0.5% increase recorded last May, but faster than April's 0.2% rise and almost double the average monthly pace in the core rate in the past two years, indicating that upward price pressures are not abating.
Even if the CPIX goes up by the average rate that it increased during the past seven Junes, the year-over-year core inflation rate would be 2.6% — the fastest pace of increase since March 2003 and reaching toward the 3% upper limit of the Bank of Canada's 1% to 3% control target band.
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• The risk that inflation will remain in the upper end of the Bank of Canada's target band will put policymakers back into rate hike mode in July.
• We expect the Bank to boost the policy rate to 5.25% to ensure that growth slows enough to curtail upward inflation pressures.
• Although core inflation has moderated, strong wage growth along with elevated input prices will keep the Fed on the sidelines this year.
•A stronger U.S. economy and persistent upward inflation pressures will likely see the Fed hike rates early next year.
1 • Once inflation moves back above zero, the Bank of Japan is likely to start hiking rates again.
1 • The ECB is expected to continue to raise rates as inflation risks are skewed to the upside and monetary policy remains stimulative.
• We expect that policymakers will raise the policy rate to 5% by mid- 2008 to nip upward inflationary pressures in the bud.
• The Bank of England has adopted a more aggressive tone and we now expect a 25 basis-point rate hike in July with another boost likely in November.
• Inflation is expected to settle at 2% in 2008 with the policy rate holding at 6%.
I've recently added a New Power of Sale section to my website that will show you the pitfalls to avoid and the clauses to put into your offer when you buy a Power of Sale property in Ontario. This new section will also explain Power of Sale and Foreclosure in detail. Read more here.
You will become educated about Power of Sales, Foreclosures and Quit Claim Deeds in this section.
You will learn the pitfalls to avoid, the clauses you could expect to see in an offer and read about the special clauses you can insert into your offer when you buy a Power of Sale Property. I will also explain the remedies open to sellers of these types of properties and how this affects you.
Power of Sales, Foreclosures and Quit Claim Deeds in this section.
Now in its fourth year of publication, the Observer is a flagship CMHC publication that presents a detailed annual review of housing conditions and trends in Canada and the key factors behind them.
What is David Dodge trying to do? Bank Rate Increases - Again!
The Bank of Canada announced a rate increase this morning. The Bank increased the prime overnight rate to 4.50% (a .25% increase). This is the highest Bank rate in the last 6 years.
David Dodge (Governor of the Bank of Canada) gave strong signals the rate may go up to 4.75% with the Bank's next review on September 5th, 2007.
Today's rate increase is not expected to have a major impact on the market since the increase was anticipated and priced accordingly in recent months.
My lenders have not issued rate changes yet - the following rates are HLC's best rates currently available. If you are a potential home buyer, it's time to contact your mortgage person and get a rate lock in place.
Photo courtesy of www.metrocreativegraphics.com(NC)-The next time your mortgage is coming up for renewal, get yourself to the nearest computer. When it comes to researching mortgage options there's no better way to go than the convenience and speed of the Internet. While many customers still prefer to complete their loan transaction in a face-to-face environment, the inception and success of the "virtual bank" in Canada has quickly started to change consumer perception about how and where to get a mortgage.
1. Online prices are up-to-date and easy-to-find. Mortgage rates are relatively easy to find, and easy to compare to the quotes on other sites. Rates are usually updated just as soon as they change so there's little fear of receiving out-of-date information.
2. The best rates are often posted online. Because online vendors don't have to carry the costs of maintaining retail lending facilities (branches), including the commissions paid to loan officers, the cost savings are generally passed on to borrowers.
3. 24/7 access. You can make inquiries or do mortgage research online anytime, day or night. So if you work full time, you can do your mortgage homework in the evening (when an actual mortgage office or bank branch would be closed). For an up-to-date, reliable mortgage quote go to myCTFS.com or call 1-866-606-2837.


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LSBU launches new certificate in leadership with focus on homelessness and housing
First cohort of LSBU School of Business' new PgCert in Leadership and Management specialising in Homelessness and Housing to start this month
London South Bank University (LSBU) and the London Housing Foundation (LHF) worked together to develop a new part-time postgraduate certificate for senior managers working in the homelessness and housing sector. LHF granted the School of Business £97,500 to run three cohorts of the course over three years, with the first cohort starting this month.
The course aims to provide senior managers and CEOs in the voluntary housing sector with vital organisational and leadership skills in a third sector context. It was designed in consultation with a board of delegates from a number of leading housing charities and counts towards staff's continuing professional development (CPD).
"LHF's Board was keen to investigate developing a leadership and management programme for committed aspiring leaders in the homelessness and housing sector, especially in these times of austerity, when homelessness and housing can be relegated to a non-priority issue in the face of the economic troubles facing the country and homeless people could face a bleak future," said Margaret Malcolm, acting Director for LHF.
The first cohort of students is comprised of leaders from a number of top housing organisations including St Mungo's Broadway, Thames Reach, Crisis, South London YMCA, Depaul and New Horizon Youth Centre.
"The chance to learn from well-respected figures in the sector and to develop a greater understanding of how to lead and manage in what will be undoubtedly challenging times in our sector was a huge draw," commented Iver Morgan, Head of Volunteering at St Mungo's Broadway.
"By working alongside others in the sector, I will get the chance to expand my knowledge and understanding of homelessness and housing at a time when the organisation I work for is ambitiously driving forward the development of new services for single homeless people, in particular around housing," said Ciara Devlin, Head of New Developments at Crisis.
The course is made up of two brand new modules in Governance and Leadership, and Management for Civil Society, as well as recently-tailored existing modules, like Third Sector Organisational Development.
"All countries are in the midst of an economic crisis and homelessness is a very visible sign of the impact of that. How we respond will be dictated by how well we learn from each other just as much as the resources that are available," said Steve McKinlay, Northern Area Director at Depaul UK.
"The programme at LSBU offers me great professional insight, challenge to accepted practice as well as some much needed modules on accountancy," he commented.


Scientists from Boeing Phantom Works, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and AFRL are testing a new aircraft with the potential to realize up to 30% better fuel efficiency because of its unique "flying-wing" shape. The prototype blended wing body, or BWB, aircraft is a modified, triangular-shaped aircraft configuration with 20 control surfaces along its trailing edge. Researchers believe the BWB configuration will produce better fuel efficiency because a greater portion of the aircraft is involved in producing lift. The additional lift stems from the replacement of the conventional tube-shaped aircraft fuselage with the more aerodynamically efficient wing centerbody.
Understanding how air flows over the surfaces of an air vehicle can help AFRL designers maximize the vehicle's performance and minimize its cost. AFRL scientists recently developed a tool that improves the accuracy of airflow simulations that result from computational fluid dynamics (CFD) calculations. As part of a Small Business Innovation Research effort, AFRL collaborated with Combustion Research and Flow Technology (CRAFT), Inc., to develop the tool for use with unstructured CFD programs. The new tool uses the solver's initial solution to determine where grid points should be added or removed within the CFD mesh, a process which then improves the solver's solution in a second—and any subsequent—iteration. This enhanced accuracy improves AFRL's ability to support the warfighter with lower-cost, higher-value designs.
AFRL demonstrated its Remotely Controlled Aerial Vehicle for Application of Pesticides (RCAVAP) at the Force Protection Equipment Demonstration (FPED) conducted at Quantico Marine Corps Base, Virginia. During times of war, disease has historically caused more deaths than bullets, far outnumbering any other cause. Consider, for example, the Mexican-American war. Over 1,000 soldiers were killed in action, 529 died of wounds sustained on the battlefield, 362 suffered accidental death, and 11,155 perished from disease— mostly yellow fever, a viral illness transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. During World War II, malaria ravaged the troops. Spread by the female anopheline mosquito, the disease affected thousands of American soldiers. More recently, a single 2-week period in Baqubah, Iraq, saw 250 cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis, a disfiguring parasitic disease spread by the female sandfly.
AFRL is laying the groundwork for the development of revolutionary hypersonic aerospace vehicles (see Figure 1). Accordingly, AFRL engineers are examining the feasibility of replacing an air vehicle's traditional, mechanically or electrically actuated flight control surfaces (e.g., wing flaps) with plasma actuators that require no moving parts and are therefore potentially less expensive and more reliable. As part of the laboratory's Boundary Layers and Hypersonics program, the engineers conducted a wind tunnel test to evaluate the feasibility of using plasma actuators for airframe flight control.
AFRL scientists are working on SkyTote, a novel unmanned air vehicle (UAV) that will take off and land vertically like a helicopter (see figure) but also transition into horizontal flight like a conventional aircraft. SkyTote's primary mission is to deliver a payload to a specific point within a tactically relevant range and time. AeroVironment, Inc., of Monrovia, California, developed the vehicle under a Small Business Innovation Research effort for AFRL.
Propulsion - Safety, Affordability, and Readiness (P-SAR) is a new and unique program effort intended to achieve common engine sustainment goals across the Army, Navy, and Air Force aircraft fleets (see figure). Originally conceived as a follow-on to the highly successful High-Cycle Fatigue (HCF) program, P-SAR is evolving into a benchmark collaboration initiative that includes all Department of Defense (DoD) propulsion organizations, as well as National Aeronautics and Space Administration representatives and turbine engine original equipment manufacturers.
Turbine engine designers routinely use film cooling to cool engine components in the hot-gas flowpath. Film cooling is the process of injecting coolant fluid at one or more discrete locations along a surface exposed to a harsh, high-temperature environment. The film cools and thus protects turbine engine components, enabling the engine's operation at higher turbine inlet temperatures and increasing its thermal efficiency. Current turbine engine designs employ a continuous coolant flow, typically diverting 20%- 25% of the compressor's high-pressure air to cool turbine airfoils. By reducing the volume of high-pressure air needed for turbine blade cooling, designers can proportionately increase the flow available for combustion and thus increase thrust. Therefore, coolant flow reduction is an important design goal in the development of advanced turbine engines.
In support of the Aeronautical Systems Center's (ASC) Global Hawk Systems Group, AFRL has undertaken a program to study manufacturing tolerances for laminar flow on aircraft wings. On the drawing board, air vehicle designs have perfectly smooth aerodynamic surfaces, yet it is nearly impossible for manufacturers to fabricate those surfaces without some imperfections. Any surface imperfection, no matter how slight, can affect the properties of the boundary layer— the air flowing nearest an air vehicle's body during flight. In turn, this airflow dramatically impacts the amount of drag an air vehicle experiences. When the boundary layer is smooth, or laminar, drag is minimal; as the boundary layer becomes more turbulent, drag increases. Nonetheless, decreasing the amount of surface imperfection is not always a practical solution, because as the manufacturing processes become more stringent, they also become increasingly expensive and time-consuming endeavors. It is therefore vitally important to determine the relationship between the height, shape, and location of surface imperfections and the resulting performance degradation.
AFRL and Boeing engineers conducted successful flight tests of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) inertial measurement units (IMU) on the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM). They collected flight data and validated the MEMS IMU technology's capability to provide stable navigation performance and accurate weapon guidance, both with and without Global Positioning System (GPS) updates. Researchers will use this flight data to further refine MEMS IMU technology to enhance future capabilities of air-launched munitions.


The Silver Sword is a realistic novel about war that depends heavily on description for its literary effect. Because the setting of war-torn Europe shapes the children's experiences, Serraillier gives detailed and vivid descriptions of the ravaged countries and of the hardships the children endure. The role these problems play in building the children's characters is revealed several times by biblical parallels. Ruth tells Bible stories to the children in her school, and their favorite is the one which most inspires her as well: Daniel in the lions' den. She sees the hardships she faces every day as the lions, and she believes that if she is patient arid trusting like Daniel, she too will be delivered.
Switzerland, as the children's destination, becomes the promised land that they reach after long wandering in the desert of the war.


The Improvisor is a rogue heavy mix of classes that specializes making use of everyday objects as deadly weapons. I somewhat expanded on the concept as the improvisor can also improvise traps on the fly and thanks to Bluff and Disguise skills turn most situations around.
Pretty standard skill array but pay special attention to Wisdom based skills, Stealth, and Craft (traps).
alchemical throws or melee with improvised blunt object and flurry away.
melee and are never disarmed.
Sneak attack damage on one attack most rounds does not justify this PC's spot in the adventuring party.
I missed the once a combat on the end of Adaptive strike which is horrid, that gimps this significantly though most combats only go one or two rounds. I might rework some disarm into this then.


Introduction: The operating room internship is associated with stress and anxiety and using simulations may reduce this anxiety. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of operating room simulation on students' hidden anxiety during operating room internship.
Methods: This study was a quasi-experimental research. All students of a class (n=17) were simple randomly assigned to a simulation and a control group. The students in the simulation group were trained by simulation method prior to the internship program. The control group received routine and traditional training. The students' anxiety level was measured before the intervention, the first and the last day of the internship using Spielberger's hidden anxiety questionnaire. Data were analyzed by Mann-Whitney U and Friedman tests at a significance level of 0.05.
Results: Mean anxiety scores (total=80) before the intervention, the first and the last day of internship were 43.7±75.64, 41.5±00.12, and 37.62±2.32 in the simulation group and 42.11±6.23, 40.88±6.8 and 42.55±5.07 in the control group, respectively. There was no significant difference between the two groups (P=0.321) in the anxiety scores before the intervention and the first day of internship, while a significant difference was found between the two groups in the anxiety scores on the last day of the internship program (P=0.021, t=-2/078).
Conclusion: Exposing the operating room students to a simulated environment before the internship cannot reduce their anxiety on the first day of internship, but it can lower their anxiety during the internship period and significantly reduce anxiety at the end of this period.


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Quentin Tarantino Responds to Uma Thurman's "Times" Article, Christie Brinkley Says Trump Hit on Her While He Was Married
written by Charles Manning February 6, 2018
Quentin Tarantino Responds In-Depth to Uma Thurman Times Article (Deadline)
"I am guilty, for putting her in that car, but not the way that people are saying I am guilty of it," Tarantino told Deadspin's Mike Flemming Jr. "It's the biggest regret of my life, getting her to do that stunt."
Christie Brinkley Says Trump Hit on Her While He Was Married to Ivana (Porter Magazine via The Cut)
"It was the 1980s. Brinkley was in a high-profile relationship with Billy Joel. Trump was married to Ivana and had three kids. But Trump heard Brinkley was headed to Aspen, Colorado, and insisted she travel with him on his private jet."
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Swarovski and KiraKira+ Launch Fashion Week #Brilliance Filter to Make Your Pics Sparkle (WWD)
"The partnership marks the first between KiraKira+ and any brand. In a statement, the app's founder and developer Kentaro Yama said: 'I am very excited to be partnering with Swarovski for the first time on KiraKira. Kirakira means 'sparkly' in Japanese, so I think it is only fitting to have Swarovski, which is known for its everyday sparkle, create a special filter for everyone to shine during the busiest time of the year at international fashion shows.'"
Alicia Vikander Talked to Prince William About "The Crown" at State Dinner in Stockholm (Vanity Fair)
"Vikander—who was seated between William and Swedish prime minister Stefan Löfven at the dinner—told Norwegian talk show host Fredrik Skavlan that the popular Netflix show about the royal family was a source of common ground for the two of them."
Former Law & Order: SVU Star is Running for Congress (The Cut)
"Diane Neal, a registered Democrat and New York resident, announced on Tuesday that she is running for the 19th Congressional District seat as an independent. She will need 3,500 signatures to secure a spot on the November ballot."
Diane Neal (Getty Images)
Meghan Markle Talked in Code to TV Dad Wendall Pierce About Prince Harry on the Set of Suits (Entertainment Weekly)
"Pierce also admitted that he knew about Markle's relationship as it was developing. 'She met this nice guy and we always talked about him in code really. You know, 'How you doing?' 'Oh, I'm going to London, coming from London, whatever.""
Kate Winslet And Leonardo DiCaprio Funded New Mother's Cancer Treatment (Vogue UK)
"The GoFundMe campaign – which was created to help British mother Gemma Nuttall pay for ovarian cancer treatment after being diagnosed with the illness following the birth of her daughter – caught the attention of Winslet, whose own mother suffered from ovarian cancer. When Nuttall was given just six-to-12 months to live, Winslet intervened to help her raise the funds needed for the treatment."
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32 Chicago Public Schools To Get $32 Million For New Programs
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Tuesday that $32 million will be spent to infuse 32 schools with a variety of specialty programs, from performing arts to International Baccalaureate to dual language.
He called this the "largest one-time investment in the academic growth of the city of Chicago." Over six years, the money will be used to add staff, train teachers and buy "learning resources," according to the school district.
Emanuel said the school district can afford these programs because of additional state funding this year. Emanuel, who is in his last two months as mayor, noted he fought hard to win extra revenue for CPS.
Expanding specialty programs in Chicago Public Schools also will be part of Emanuel's legacy. Under him, dozens of schools now host new STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) and International Baccalaureate programs.
One initiative started last year lined up the specialties of elementary schools and high schools in the same neighborhood. On Tuesday, he announced an additional five neighborhoods will have an IB focus and five will have a STEM focus.
"So when a family moves in, they can be on a singular educational program," Emanuel said.
But this expansion goes beyond STEM and IB. There are six new fine and performing arts programs, four new dual language programs and two new world language schools. Also, two schools will specialize in "personalized learning," in which students move at their own pace, often using technology, while teachers facilitate the learning.
Chosen for these programs were 32 mostly high performing schools. Seventy-five percent have one of the district's highest ratings of Level 1 or Level 1-plus. Also, 19 of the 32 schools have majority Latino student populations.
But many of these schools are struggling to hold onto and attract students. All but two of the schools chosen have seen their student populations dwindle in recent years, according to a WBEZ analysis of CPS enrollment data.
The Chicago Teachers Union jumped on the announcement, chiding Emanuel what they called "token" funding. In a press release, they said instead he should have invested in school libraries, bilingual programs, nurses and other clinicians.
Chief Education Officer LaTanya McDade touted a new equitable process for awarding these specialty programs. In the past, schools were often given specialties without requesting them and sometimes they didn't know until the mayor or district leaders announced them.
As a result, some neighborhoods had lots of programs, while others had few, and no one really knew how one was chosen over the other.
Last year, the school district put out reams of information about the schools in each neighborhood and held meetings to gauge what staff, parents and community members wanted. The school district then invited schools to apply for programs if they wanted them.
About 100 schools applied.
McDade said school district officials looked at need, as well as desire, when they chose which schools would receive the programs.
She said the same process will be used next year. And on Tuesday, the school district posted updated data about schools in neighborhoods. Some new elements were added, including how many children attend preschool and how long students are traveling to school.
Sarah Karp covers education for WBEZ. Follow her on Twitter at @WBEZeducation and @sskedreporter.
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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy has been around, in some form or another, for decades. Today, patients typically lie in a body-sized chamber for an hour or two. But things were much different in 1928, when the largest hyperbaric chamber ever built opened to patients along the shores of Lake Erie in Cleveland.
The Cunningham Sanitarium was built to look as cutting-edge as it promised to be. Made of steel, the giant sphere weighed 900 tons and was 65 feet in diameter. It was designed to house up to 40 patients at a time and was said to have cost a million dollars to build.
There was only one problem with the giant structure, which was dismantled and sold for scrap in 1942. It used only compressed air, not the compressed oxygen that is used today. It also claimed to alleviate diabetes and cancer. Even today's advanced chambers can't do that.
So how does modern hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) work?
HBOT allows your lungs to gather up to three times more oxygen than would be possible breathing at normal air pressure. Your blood then carries this oxygen throughout your body, where it can help fight bacteria and stimulate the release of growth factors and stem cells.
The short version: Injured body tissue heals more quickly when more oxygen is available.
That makes HBOT useful in the treatment of diabetic wounds, burns, skin grafts, radiation tissue damage, soft tissue infection and some brain and sinus infections. It's also used to treat decompression sickness, severe anemia, carbon monoxide poisoning and bubbles of air in the blood vessels.
The increased air pressure might make you feel like you do in an airplane or at a high elevation. Just like when you're on a plane, it can help to yawn or swallow. The number of treatments you'll need depends on what you're being treated for. Carbon monoxide poisoning, for example, might take only a few sessions, while a non-healing wound could require up to 40 sessions.
Complications are rare, but include temporary nearsightedness, middle ear injuries, lung collapse and seizures. Because of the oxygen-rich environment, fire can also be a hazard, which is why you'll be asked to make sure you leave behind any lighters or battery-operated devices. You may also have to remove any hair or skin care products that are petroleum based—just to be on the safe side. You will be monitored the entire time you are being treated.
Although it's been decades since the Cunningham Sanitarium came down, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns that some facilities are still making false claims about the power of HBOT. The FDA makes it very clear that HBOT has only been approved for the treatment of the conditions we outlined earlier--not, as some claim, for the treatment of depression, autism, HIV, Alzheimer's disease, heart disease, stroke, sports injuries, migraines, spinal cord injuries, hepatitis or asthma.
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Music Retailing in India
Promoting the Outlets Introduction The music industry or music business consists of the companies and individuals that make money by creating and selling music.
Among the many individuals and organizations that operate within the industry are: the musicians who compose and perform the music; the companies and professionals who create and sell recorded music (e. . Music publishers, producers, recording studios, engineers, record labels, retail and online music stores, performance rights organizational; those that present live music performances (booking agents, promoters, music venues. Road crew); professionals who assist musicians with their music careers (talent managers, business managers, entertainment lawyers); those who broadcast music (satellite, internet and broadcast radio); journalists; educators; musical instrument manufacturers; as well as many others.Organized retailing, In India, refers to trading activities undertaken by licensed tillers, that Is, those who are registered for sales tax, Income tax, etc. These Include the publicly traded supermarkets, corporate-backed hypermarkets and retail chains, and also the privately owned large retail businesses. Organized retailing was absent in most rural and small towns of India in 2010.
Supermarkets and similar organized retail accounted for Just 4% of the market Unrecognized retailing, on the other hand, refers to the traditional formats of low- cost retailing, for example, the local corner shops, owner manned general stores, pan/ebbed shops, convenience stores, hand cart and pavement vendors, etc. Companies Controlling Market A large majority of this market for recorded music is controlled by three major corporate labels: the French-owned Universal Music Group, the Japanese-owned Sony Music Entertainment, and the us-owned Warner Music Group.The largest portion of the live music market Is controlled by Live Nation, the largest promoter and music venue owner. Live Nation Is a former subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications, Agency is a large a management and booking company. The music industry has been undergoing drastic changes since the advent of Madders digital distribution of music. A conspicuous indicator of this is total music sales: since 2000, sales of recorded music have dropped off substantially while live music has increased in importance. The largest music retailer in the world is now digital: Apple Inc.
S tunes Store. The 2 largest companies in the industry are Universal Music Group (recording) and Sony/TV Music Publishing (publisher). Indian's Largest Music Retail Chain Music World, part of the RPG group of enterprises, is Indian's largest music retail chain. The group has over 79 outlets across India. It provides consumers with an unparalleled range of music and movies, across International, Hindi and Regional repertoires. Music World started its operations in November 1997 with its first store in Achaean. A year later it opened its second store in Cochin.
Today, Music World has presence in 45 cities in India, commanding a market share of 20- 25% in most markets where it is present. Its presence ranges from metros to tier II towns to rural markets like Vidalia & Shore. More than 5 million consumers walk through Music World stores annually. A majority of the trade in the RSI 15 billion (1999-2000) Indian music market took place through the small outlets. Promoting The Outlets Celebrity visits were made an integral part of Musicology's promotional activities. Not long after Archon's visit, Musicology's Kola outlet had another celebrity visitor the popular pop singer Shaman.This attracted a lot of attention towards the outlet as Nell as towards Shaman's recently released album.
.. Issues such as piracy of cassettes and CDC were a major problem, which prevented the industry from reaching its full growth potential. Given these circumstances, the establishment of outfits such as Musically seemed to have come as a welcome development in the industry. There are three types of property that are created and sold by the recording industry: compositions, recordings and media (such as CDC or Amps).There may be many recordings of a single composition and a single recording will typically be distributed into many media. Compositions are created by songwriters or composers and are originally owned by the composer, although they may be sold.
For example, in the case of work for hire, the composition is owned immediately by another party. Traditionally, the copyright owner licenses or "assigns" some of their rights (e. G. Distribution and sales) o publishing companies, by means of a publishing contract. The publishing company collects fees (known as "publishing royalties") when the composition is used.A portion of the royalties are paid by the publishing company to the copyright owner, depending on the terms of the contract. Sheet music provides an income stream that IS paid exclusively to the composers and their publishing company.
Typically the publishing company will provide the owner with an advance against future earnings "hen the publishing contract is signed. A publishing company will also promote the impositions, such as by acquiring song "placements" on television or in films. Recordings are (traditionally) owned by record companies.A recording contract specifies the business relationship between a recording artist and the record company. In a traditional contract, the company provides an advance to the artist department of a record company is responsible for finding new talent and overseeing the recording process. The company pays for the recording costs and the cost of promoting and marketing the record. For physical media (such as CDC), the company also pays to manufacture and distribute the physical recordings.
Smaller record companies will form business relationships with other companies to handle many of these tasks.The record company pays the recording artist a portion of the income from the sale of the recordings, generally known as a mechanical royalty. This portion is similar to a percentage, but may be limited or expanded by a number of factors such as free goods, recordable expenses, bonuses, etc. ) that are specified by the record contract. Session musicians and orchestra members are under contract to provide work for hire; they're typically only paid one-time fees or regular wages for heir services, rather than royalties.Physical media (such as CDC) are sold by music retailers and are owned by the consumer. A music distributor delivers the physical media from the manufacturer to the retailer and maintains relationships with retailers and record companies.
The music retailer pays the distributor, who in turn pays the record company for the recordings. The record company pays mechanical royalties to the publisher, composer, and songwriter via a collection society. The record company then pays royalties, if contractually obligated, to the recording artist.
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Q: Generate CERT.RSA for an APK without jarsigner / apksigner or any java tool I'm currently trying to package APK on the fly using this process :

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*When the enduser asks for the download, I add a file in the APK

*I sign the APK (it's the same key that is used all along)

*I deliver the APK

The issue is that signing the APK with common tools (apksigner, jarsigner) can be time consuming for big APK (500M +)
My goal is to update the META-INF data and only generate the new CERT.RSA file (which is an encoding of CERT.SF if I'm not mistaken)
I have successfully found how to generate MANIFEST.MF and CERT.SF in the META-INF directory. I just can't find the algorithm, or any openssl command to generate the CERT.RSA from the CERT.SF.
Any clue ?

A: First off, make sure that your minSdkVersion < 24. If you have 24 or above, then these files are not necessary and you can sign only with APK Signature v2 scheme using apksig, which is going to be an order of magnitude faster to sign.
Now, assuming that you do need v1 signing and want to generate it manually, I would recommend that you look at the OpenJDK implementation of JarSigner. See in particular the Block class: https://github.com/openjdk-mirror/jdk7u-jdk/blob/master/src/share/classes/sun/security/tools/JarSigner.java#L2221-L2344
This is the content of the *.RSA file. As you can see, it's the signature of a combination of a few things. If you're only using an RSA key, you can probably simplify this code quite a bit and adapt it for your tool.

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France launches 'anti-jihadist' website after Charlie Hebdo attack
The online platform aims to dissuade those who are seeking to join militant groups in Iraq and Syria. (Screenshot of the website)
By Staff writer Al Arabiya News Thursday 29 January 2015
The French government launched on Wednesday an "anti-jihadist" website to deter people from joining extremist groups, three weeks after a deadly terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper.
The website raises the slogan "Act against terrorism" and states that its objective is to "demystify the process of sectarian indoctrination," Deutsche Welle reported.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the website is a way to dissuade those who are seeking to join militant groups in Iraq and Syria.
"We must educate young people about this. It's a way to protect the youth and others," he said, in statements quoted by Deutsche Welle.
The online platform also features videos that explain why militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are seeking recruiters.
The French government estimates that some 1,300 French citizens are believed to be fighting among the ranks of ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
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Stern O, Al-Shabaab's Gendered Economy, Rehabilitation Support Team, 2021.
Jeni Klugman, Robet Nagel, Mara Redlich Revkin, Orly Stern, Can the Women, Peace and Security Agenda and International Humanitarian Law Join Forces? Emerging Findings and Promising Directions, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, 2020.
Stern O, Married in the Shadows: The Wives of al-Shabaab, Rehabilitation Support Team, Adam Smith International, 2020.
A Dangerous Cocktail: Coronavirus and War, Medium, 2020.
Stern O, The Invisible Women of al-Shabaab, Rehabilitation Support Team, Adam Smith International, 2019.
Stern O, Gender, Conflict and International Humanitarian Law: A Critique of the Principle of Distinction, Routledge, 2018.
Stern O, Sutton R, International Humanitarian Law, in Humanitarianism: A Dictionary of Concepts, Routledge, 2018.
Two Nearly Identical Cases of Sex Abuse: Two Very Different Responses, The New Humanitarian, 2018.
Shades of Grey in 'Sexual Exploitation and Abuse', Blog post for London School of Economics, Centre for Women, Peace and Security, 2018.
War is Not The only Violence Shaping Women's Experiences in Iraq, Blog posting for London School of Economics, Centre for Women, Peace and Security, 2017.
Borovecki A, Einarsdottir J, O'Mathúna D, Pospieszna P, Stern O, 20 Years of the Code of Conduct of ICRC – What do we Need to Improve? The Lancet Correspondence, Vol 385, 2015.
Stern O, Community Policing Forums and Neighbourhood Watches in the Context of Gang Violence: The Case of Lavender Hill. Produced for the Safety and Violence Initiative, University of Cape Town, 2015.
South Sudan Gender Country Profile, Produced for SIDA (the Swedish Embassy in Juba), 2015. http://www.orlystern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/SIDA-Gender-Profile-South-Sudan_Final-Draft-report.pdf
Guidance Note on Safety and Security of Survivors of Gender Based Violence in Humanitarian Settings in South Sudan, Produced for United Nations Population Fund, 2015.
Stern O, Stone L, Report on the Assessment of the Special Protection Units of the South Sudan National Police Service, Produced for DfID, 2014.
Stern O, Improving Local Justice Processes and Outcomes for Women and Girls Affected by Violence and Discrimination: A Review of Promising Interventions, Produced for the World Bank, 2014.
Women's Security and the Law in South Sudan, Human Security Baseline Assessment, Small Arms Survey, 2012.
Stern O, Reyskens M, Information Communication Technology and Peacebuilding in Northern Uganda, Produced for the World Bank and Institute for Security Studies, 2012.
Stern O, Reyskens M, Information Communication Technology and Peacebuilding in South Sudan, Produced for the World Bank and Institute for Security Studies, 2012.
Bubenzer F, Stern O (editors) Hope, Pain and Patience, The Lives of Women in South Sudan, Fanele, Jacana Media, 2011.
Stern O, 'This is How Marriage Happens Sometimes': Women and Marriage in South Sudan, in Bubenzer F, Stern O (editors) Hope, Pain and Patience, The Lives of Women in South Sudan, Fanele, Jacana Media, 2011.
Stern O, 'I was Once Lost': South Sudanese Women in the Diaspora, in Bubenzer F, Stern O (editors) Hope, Pain and Patience, The Lives of Women in South Sudan, Fanele, Jacana Media, 2011.
Stern O, Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration and the Informal Economic Sector: The Central African Republic, Produced for Institute for Security Studies and the World Bank, 2011.
Hodes R, Stern O, Thorpe J, The Making of the South African Sexual Offences Act (2007): A study of Structure and Agency in the Politics of a Women's Rights Coalition in a Young Democracy, Developmental Leadership Programme, 2011.
HIV in Emergencies: A Review of the Literature, Produced for the United Nations Development Programme, 2011.
Integrating HIV into Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration: South Sudan Desk Review, Produced for the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Populations Fund, 2010.
Barker G, Weiss E, Stern O, Engaging Men to Prevent and Mitigate Gender-Based Violence in Post-Conflict Settings in Sub-Saharan Africa, Produced for the World Bank, 2010.
Flood M, Peacock D, Stern O, Barker G, Greig A, Policy Approaches to Involving Men and Boys in Achieving Gender Equality and Health Equity, World Health Organisation, 2010. South Africa Report for the 54th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, Sonke Gender Justice, 2010.
Working with Men and Boys: Emerging Strategies from Across Africa to Address Gender-based Violence and HIV/AIDS, Sonke Gender Justice and the MenEngage Network, Editors: Orly Stern, Dean Peacock, Helen Alexander, 2009.
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How much for the elections?
By Messenger Staff
President Saakashvili stated some days ago that he is totally against snap elections, and they will not be held in Georgia, because they would cost USD 1-1.5 billion. The opposition immediately labelled the President's statement as a confession of electoral wrongdoing on his part whereas the authorities interpret it in a different way.
At a press conference held by New Rights and Republicans on December 18 the two parties suggested that the Prosecutor's Office and international and local NGOs should want to investigate the President's words. New Rights representative Mamuka Katsitadze said that officially the budgetary expenditure on elections, even during a Parliamentary election year, does not exceed GEL 25 million.
During 2008 Parliamentary elections, according to CEC data, all the participating parties put together spent around GEL 44 million. Of this, the National Movement spent GEL 11.367 million. The exaggerated figure quoted by the President is more than three times the amount Barack Obama spent on his campaign. "It looks like Saakashvili has information on how strongly business was squeezed, how much money was accumulated in the National Movement treasury and how much was spent to bribe the population. This is a confession that the elections were rigged," comments Republican Davit Zurabishvili.
The opposition accusations were answered by Parliament Chairman Davit Bakradze. He tried to explain that the President meant not direct expenditures but the inflow of investments which would stop coming to the country until the elections were over. Bakradze tries to assure the public that every year Georgia received approximately USD 2 billion in foreign direct investments. When election campaigns are underway these investments cease, and the country loses potential funds.
It would have been much better if President Saakashvili himself had explained what he meant. As he has not done so, the defence of his position seems unconvincing.


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Several decades ago, I attended the first Edinburgh Fringe Festival recital by a very young Scottish-born guitarist who was brought up in Spain, one David Russell. He made a huge impression on my guitar-loving friends and myself, and it seemed to me then that he could be a serious challenge to the classical guitar kings of the world at that time, such as Bream, Williams, Yepes and even Segovia. Well, here he is on his first SA-CD for Telarc, a company for whom he has been recording CDs for some time. He is indeed now internationally regarded as one of the present-day masters of the Spanish guitar, having won many prizes, been given special awards by Spanish towns, had streets and new recital halls in Spain named after him, and receiving a Grammy Award in 2005.
Listening to The Art of the Guitar has been unalloyed joy. The technique is flawless and the artistry and musicianship breath-taking. The listener is hardly concious of the technical problems, except to wonder how on earth he produces the magic without four or more hands. All the virtuoso effects seem entirely natural and are completely at the service of the music, which just seems to flow from his fingers. There are hardly any of the left-hand string squeaks and whistles which many other guitarists produce and which some find distracting. Even these few extraneous sounds are so soft that they can hardly be heard. He has the ability to see each piece as a whole, so placing colour and dynamics to reveal the overall structure, while colouring phrases subtly to extract the essence in the melodic lines. This secure technical base means that even when a melody is accompanied by complex polyphonic accompaniments or tremolos, its overall shape and flow still emerges without hindrance. Runs and scales are so even and beautifully articulated that they can take your breath away. Inner voices rise and fall, adding colour and interest. Not a moment of this recital allows your attention to wander.
According to Mr Russell on the Telarc website "This collection of pieces has been a part of my repertoire for many years. I am happy to finally find a home for them on this recording." This is not a conventional disc of the familiar Spanish guitar war-horses but has many transcriptions which range from Grieg Lyric pieces, through Debussy to Stanley Myers, with several Latin-American and Spanish contributions which I have not heard before. Julián Arcas' Fantasia on Themes from Verdi's La Traviata is a real find, and other finds are Uruguayan composer Abel Carlevaro's "Campo" from Preludios Americanos, and Hungarian Johann Kaspar Mertz' "Fantasie Hongroise". Russell's rendering of the haunting theme from The Deerhunter is miraculous, a rendering of such purity and tonal beauty which I found most moving.
The 5.1 recording is exemplary. Quite close, but with air around the guitar and every nuance caught. A photograph from the Russell website of the small recording team suggests it was made in the wooden panel-damped space of the Peggy and Yale Gordon Centre of Performing Arts in Maryland, without any distracting LF rumble apparent. "Presence" is the word that comes to mind, the presence of a superb musician engrossed in performing The Art of the Guitar.
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42% of American adults have at least one step relative in their family
– either a stepparent, a step/half sibling or a stepchild.1
According to the Pew Research Center, remarriage is on the rise. 2
42 Million adults in the U.S. have been married more than once (up 22 million from 1980)
40% of new marriages (in 2013) included at least one partner who had been married before
20% of new marriages (in 2013) were between people who had both previously been married
23% of adults who are presently married have been married before
Men are more likely than women to remarry.
64% of divorced or widowed men have remarried
52% of divorced or widowed women have remarried
Some believe the third time is a charm.
8% of newly married adults have been married three times or more
It's not uncommon for men to repartner with younger women.
57% of newly remarried men have a partner who is within 5 years of their own age
(compared to 80% of newlywed men in their first marriage)
20% of newly remarried men have a wife who is at least 10 years their junior
(compared to 5% of newlywed men in their first marriage)
18% of newly remarried men have a wife who is 6-9 years their junior
According to the National Stepfamily Resource Center:3
The U.S. Census Bureau recently decided to discontinue providing estimates of marriage, divorce and remarriage except for those that are available from our current census. Thus, many of our current estimates and statistics were derived from the 1990 census and earlier data sources. Census estimates from 1988-1990 suggest:
92% of all men and women marry by age 50
43% of first marriages will end in divorce within 15 years
75% will remarry (65% bring children from a previous union)
60% of those who get remarried divorce again and of those:
15% will end within 3 years
39% will end within 10 years
8 years is the average length of first and remarriages that end in divorce
3.5 years is the average time between first divorce and remarriage
54% of women will remarry within 5 years of first divorce and 75% remarry within 10 years
50% of men who remarry after first divorce do so within 3-4 years
These statistics underestimate the number of U.S. stepfamilies because, to date, government reporting of population figures indicates families in which the child resides. So if the child lives with a divorced, single parent and the other nonresident parent has remarried, the child is not included in the calculations as being a member of a stepfamily. Children who are 18 and older or no longer living at home are not included in estimations.
Source List:
1. http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2011/01/13/a-portrait-of-stepfamilies/
2. http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/files/2014/11/2014-11-14_remarriage-final.pdf, http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/12/04/tying-the-knot-again-chances-are-theres-a-bigger-age-gap-than-the-first-time-around/
3. http://www.stepfamilies.info/stepfamily-fact-sheet.php
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