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Even briefer than usual reactions to comics read - if not always produced - recently.
Captain Britain and MI13 #15 - The vampire war story ends a little too quickly and cleanly, but at least it gets a proper ending at all. This book was something special, and I'll miss it lots.
Wednesday Comics #s 1-4 - Everyone has analyzed this to death already, so I'll just say it's a mixed bag, to be sure, but a great and largely successful experiment thus far. Kamandi, Adam Strange, Deadman, Metamorpho, Flash, and Batman are my favorites, whereas Wonder Woman is just a muddled, torturous slog to read (if beautiful to look at), and Teen Titans and Demon/Catwoman are just really boring.
Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam! #6 - I'll be happy to see more Mike Kunkel issues down the road, but it's in terrific hands with Art Baltazar and Franco's writing right now. Stephen DeStafano's art took a little getting used to (why does Captain Marvel have Alfred E. Neuman ears?), but it grew on me by the end, thanks in no small part to the hefty doses of Kirby Krackle.
100 Bullets #1 Special Edition / Vertigo Crime Sampler - Never read any 100 Bullets before, and I do have to say that the first issue was enough to make me want to check it out from the library sometime, probably because the Wednesday Comics Batman strip has me primed for more Azzarello & Risso. Curious to scope out the Vertigo Crime stuff now, too... Filthy Rich at the very least. Dark Entries, also known as "that one with John Constantine," didn't grab me, but then again, I'm not much a Hellblazer fan, either. Your mileage etc. etc.
The Unknown #3 - Still holding my interest, I guess, but given the whole "science vs. mysticism" bent of this, I'm doubting the larger mystery at hand (Kat's quest for proof of an afterlife) will be given the sort of satisfying conclusion, especially considering they've already announced the second mini. I'm going to have to really like the end of this to continue on, though.
Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest #133 - Picked this up on a whim in the line at the market last week, and it's been a breezy, fun read, due in large part to the reprints of Reggie's first appearance and the first full issue of his solo book. Funny how I enjoy Archie books so much more now than I ever did when I was in the target demographic.
Runaways #11 - After enjoying Kathryn Immonen's Patsy Walker: Hellcat mini, it was recommended I check out what she's doing as the new writer over on Runaways. I was certainly drawn in by the story she's setting up, especially the cover blurb stating that an old character will be returning (please be Gert!), but I've been reading the series in digests all along and am conditioned to reading larger chunks of the characters' story as a result, so I'll be waiting for that. Anxiously, granted, but still waiting.
Uncanny X-Men #s 500-503 - This sets up the whole "the X-Men move to San Francisco" thing pretty well, but it is indeed mostly set-up, so I can see why they padded out the Manifest Destiny collection with all those extra tie-in issues. Makes me want to keep reading, though.
Mighty Avengers #21 - Not following the various Avengers books, nor Dark Reign except for where it tangentially passes through the Marvel series I do read, but this caught my attention for the fact that it stars Hank Pym acting more or less like a superhero Doctor Who, right down to having a dimensionally transcendental HQ and useful handheld multi-tool. If Dan Slott's gonna pitch it right down the middle to me, I'm gonna go for it. The story was good, if all set-up, and that Khoi Pham can sure draw, so I'm curious. I'd probably look for it at the library rather than buy it, but I still wanna read it.
Kick Drum Comics #1 - Despite not having much of an ear for hip-hop, nor an eye for graffiti-style artwork, I still love Jim Mahfood's comics. Two stories here, one the bizarre tale of a reclusive genius musician and the gangwar that erupts with his most unexpected adversary, and the other a more down-to-earth piece about a slacker skater who expects great things to happen when he receives one of John Coltrane's sax reeds. In other words, it's all classic Mahfood, and it's fun to watch his style evolve over time.
Countdown Specials: Jimmy Olsen and Kamandi - I'm not made of stone here. If you present me fat reprints of 70s Kirby for cheap, I'm going to take them. The art is Jack at his best. The stories... less so, but they're great in their way. The ideas are amazing even if the dialog isn't and the character names are god-awful. But if you're a fan, that's part of the charm.


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In the following video, you'll learn that George Soros has started another far-left political organization named Demos, and Demos is intended to work in coordination with other Soros far-left groups like moveon.org, Democracy Spring, and Black Lives Matter. The difference between Demos and the other groups, according to the article below from Breitbart, is that Demos is intended to operate in a much more "stealthy & politically correct mode" than its Soros counterparts.
Make no mistake however, as a Soros backed operation, Demos will be the beneficiary of all the typical overindulgence normally afforded to Soros run organizations, and the group is expected to closely follow Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals," as you'll find out below. In the video below, I break down how recent developments by Soros and Co., could spell the end of national sovereignty for the United States. The information that follows is devastating.
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The left-wing think tank that released a controversial report about Islamophobia on Twitter was directly funded by George Soros' Open Society Foundation.
Left-wing think tank Demos released a new report that conflates Islamophobia with any criticism of Islam Friday claiming that Islamophobic tweets had become so frequent that Twitter should actively engage in censorship to stop the comments. Leaked documents from the Open Society Foundation (OSF) show that George Soros' organization funded Demos to be able to conduct research over social media platforms like Twitter.
According to the document, "List of European Elections 2014 Projects," Demos received 129,484 dollars from Open Society Initiative for Europe (OSIFE), the European arm of the international foundation. The description of the money claims the funds are to be used to create software to scour data on Twitter. It reads:
"Demos will produce tools and techniques, like open source software, that could be used to analyze real time Twitter data, in order to allow campaigners to increase turnout of target groups. These tools will be made available online free of charge."
Chief Executive Claudia Wood claims that the method developed by Demos could identify "hateful, derogatory, and anti-Islamic" tweets in real time, exactly the features described by the leaked Soros document. The leak also specifies that Demos received the grant from OSIFE in order that they share the software with other groups across Europe. "Demos will also train advocates and civil society groups interested in civic and political participation through a series of two-day face-to-face workshops in France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, and the UK," the document reads.
The Demos study was criticized by National Secular Society communications officer Benjamin Jones who remarked that the methodology of the study was unsound and claiming a link between violent passages in the Koran and racism,"creates a false moral equivalence between racism and criticizing a set of ideas."
While there is no mention of Islamophobia in the Demos grant, there are several other grants listed that specifically tackle criticism of Islam. In the Netherlands OSIFE directly funded groups that claimed to be tackling Islamophobia including Spior and umbrella organization for Islamic groups in Rotterdam.
OSIFE gave the group 24,970 dollars over a period of five months in 2012 to "realize a preliminary research into the nature and principal features of islamophobia in the Netherlands, preceding the development and executing of a (periodical) monitor on islamophobia," showing that the foundation was, at the time, keen on developing a means to monitor Islam-critical speech online. Spior received a further 100,000 dollars in 2013 to, "promote participation in the political process amongst underrepresented groups, particularly migrants, women and Muslims."
Censorship of Muslim and migrant critical speech online has become a major issue in European countries like Germany and the UK. In Germany dozens of people have had their homes raided by police for anti-migrant comments and in the UK Muslim critical comments have led to arrests and fines. London's first Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan has also vowed to create an "Online Hate Crime Hub" to monitor so-called hate crimes.
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In essence, "Demos," as with most beneficiaries of Soros' largesses, operates under Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" except in a more stealthy & politically correct mode.
At a minimum, Demos, at the direction of Soros, appears to be utilizing Alinksy's* RULE 10: "If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive" which points to Demos' efforts at trying to camouflage the brutality of most Islamic-oriented cultures, by characterizing Muslims as cultural victims rather than cultural invaders seeking conquest & territory.
However, with the emergence of the Soros leaked emails & his funding intended to bankroll software designed to target both free speech, and those with opposing viewpoints, we can now observe that Demos, at the behest of Soros and his Open Society Foundation, is growing decidedly more aggressive by the day.
In fact, it appears that Demos has gone straight to rule 12, of the Alinsky playbook,in defense of Islam, which states the following;
RULE 12: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.
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Demos, in contrast to their more shadowy if not hidden face, touts itself as being all about democracy and promoting America's melting pot as being that which makes America exceptional, effectively stealing a page from the conservative playbook and re-languaging American exceptionalism into an agenda approaching maximum deception.
While espousing flowery sounding goals, Demos, in effect, significantly revisions its entire reason for being under these auspicious milestones, from their website:
1. "Achieving true democracy by reducing the role of money in politics and guaranteeing the freedom to vote."
True democracies always fail, says none other than America's founding fathers.
A true democracy results in rule by a mob rather than the rule of law and eventually leads to anarchy ( see the group "Black Lives Matter" for a presaging example.)
In addition, the freedom to vote, in this case, is double-speak for the freedom of non-citizens to take part in US elections and enabling operatives to vote early and often, in the same election.
2. "Creating pathways to ensure a diverse expanded middle class in a new, sustainable economy"
Obama's mixed-market Socialism impetus in conjunction with crony-capitalism, in the US, has actually caused a maximum contraction of America's middle class, the first time this has happened since the Carter presidency; with home ownership at lows not seen in over 51 years, and black poverty reaching historical highs.
Further, sustainability is left-wing parlance for the inception of both UN Agendas-21 and-30, which seeks to eradicate National sovereignty to the United Nations in favor of a globally controlled centralized government, which includes the diaphanous agenda of climate change.
3. "Transforming the public narrative to elevate the values of community and racial equity."
Transforming the public narrative is merely a gentler way of alluding to the elimination of US free speech and America's individual 1st amendment rights, a thing that has already been augmented in Europe, where critics of Islam are actually charged and incarcerated.
Ideological opposites of the radical left celebrate America's exceptionalism as a Constitutional function of cultural absorption and the celebration of the individual rather than the segmentation of cultures into a multi-cultural society. In effect, both Soros and Demos are empowering the complete globalization of America's culture in order to balkanize and effectively destroy the very nature of what American culture is, as they are now also doing, throughout Europe, in deleting European culture.
Indeed, most political opinionists have failed to recognize the bizarre fact that both Europe and America are being invaded from their southern borders, simultaneously, as if it were all the result of mere happenstance, when in fact, all indicators point to the engineering of the refugee crisis in order to defeat the cultural precepts of the west, otherwise known as Christendom.
While all indicators of this agenda had previously been hardened theory prior to 2016, this story has now evolved into the realm of cold hard fact, pointing to a generalized planetary agenda that has become undeniable.
The west is at war with the global elites and their brownshirts, the Islamists, which is a pinnacle reason for Donald Trump's ascendancy as America's sole anti-Globalist leader.
In effect, it's not that the New World Order is coming, but rather it's arrived in America, and is putrifying in Europe, as buttressed by the stealthy infiltration of Globalism into leftist & Centrists parties all across the West and certainly in the Republican establishment of America.
This, in large part, is why we see so many inside that same incorrigibly corrupt political establishment pushing an open borders agenda, while also insisting upon a mass Islamic refugee incursion into the West, unabated.
The political elite, while remaining apart from the cultures within which they operate, have a grander goal in mind, and it has nothing to do with individual national sovereignty.
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who do you read into these goals?
so instead of ""Achieving true democracy by reducing the role of money in politics and guaranteeing the freedom to vote."
you want a democracy where politicians are bought by corporations, lobbyist and the elite
and instead "Creating pathways to ensure a diverse expanded middle class in a new, sustainable economy"
want another BP oilspill with a bigger gap between rich and poor?
and ARE WE READING THE SAME SENTENCE? ""Transforming the public narrative to elevate the values of community and racial equity." does not translate into removing the first amendment right
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It's ironic that Sam Rockwell is showing up this week playing a real-life KKK leader who changed his mind about Black people, given that a few years ago he was taking heat for playing a fictional racist who didn't.
People who had problems with Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri usually listed the brutal racist hick deputy Rockwell played, whose character arc was one of redemption, though he still didn't loudly denounce racism by the story's end.
I suppose real-life is harder to film, because the much lesser film, The Best of Enemies, is an inspiring story told uninspiringly (almost like a TV movie), and with a prosaic grasp on the dynamics of how people change. It's the story of Ann Atwater (an awkwardly padded Taraji P. Henson), a single mom and civil rights activist in Durham, N.C. in the '70s, and C.P. Ellis (Rockwell), Grand Cyclops of the Durham chapter of the KKK. Thrown together reluctantly and indignantly onto a committee to reconcile desegregating the district's schools, they somehow ended up lifelong friends.
How you get a Klan leader's heart to grow three sizes is a pretty tall order that The Best of Enemies does in the most expedient and predictable ways possible. Making it mostly C.P.'s story also gives short shrift to the actual African-American victims of his hate, who are asked to accept his conversion without hard feelings. He even gets to make a heart-warming speech about how we're all the same as the city's Black citizens look on in admiration.
The movie opens with a hate crime, a young White woman's house pelted with rifle bullets for the offence of dating a Black man. Meanwhile, the activist named "Roughhouse Annie" is getting nowhere at City Hall with her litany of complaints of code violations and gouging by the landlord of a predominantly Black public housing project. Small wonder, as we discover that the town council, and the police, are either actual Klan members or in its pocket.
Following C.P. around, we discover that as lowbrow and vulgar as he is, his followers are an even bigger bunch of dimwits who feed on their own organization's high-toned talk of brotherhood and hang out in bars or at the gun range. Still, C.P.'s right hand man, Floyd (Wes Bentley stands out for pure mean-spiritedness, and owns the baleful eye that will stand watch over his change of heart.
The straw that stirs this drink is a fire at the only Black public school in town, one that leaves the students looking for new classroom space and the constitutional right to it. City Hall says no, of course, but the courts say yes. The fact is, Durham schools would have segregated anyway by decree in this circumstance, but undoubtedly there'd be violence involved.
Instead, a Black community organizer and negotiator (Babou Ceesay) is brought in from outside to reconcile the two sides.
His solution: a series of community meetings aimed at finding common ground, and resulting in a "Senate" of 12 locals, six White and six Black, to consider testimony. The idea is that close contact will change minds, an idea out of step with where many people are today (but which lives on in Hollywood in movies like The Green Book). Still, it worked then. And it's not like anybody's offering any other solutions these days.
It helps that C.P. is apparently, under all those N-bombs, the only man in the Klan with a heart. He has a wife (Anne Heche) who loves him despite his hate, two kids at home, and a third, with Down Syndrome, in an institution, where he visits nearly every day.
When Ann pulls strings with the "colored" staff to get C.P.'s son better care, it enrages him, but not really. Whereas the other Klan executives originally see C.P.'s civil involvement as a chance to get to "know your enemy," they quickly become concerned that he's being compromised.
The "beats" in the story where hearts are supposed to swell are so telegraphed as to render The Best of Enemies emotionally flat. There are no surprises, no change-ups, no setbacks in this collision of sensibilities. And there's a baffling soundtrack of supposed period songs including Hurdy Gurdy Man by Donovan, Blue Bayou by Roy Orbison and a cover of Tony Orlando's Knock Three Times that add nothing to the story or mood.


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Q: How do I change the keyboard map for Backspace? My keyboard doesn't have a delete key. I want to be able to use "delete" when I press Shift+Backspace.
How would I go about doing this?
And then how would I then use this edited layout?
Thanks.

A: Here is how you can do that:

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*Install xbindkeys and xautomation:
sudo apt-get install xbindkeys xautomation

*Find the binding of your Shift+Backspace shortcut. Run:
xbindkeys -mk

A blank window will open, press your Shift+Backspace shortcut. That will output in the terminal something like this :
m:0x11 + c:22
Shift+Mod2 + BackSpace

*Create your configuration file :
xbindkeys --defaults > $HOME/.xbindkeysrc

*Open this file with a text editor (gedit .xbindkeysrc) and add at the bottom of the file:
"xte 'key Delete'"
m:0x11 + c:22
Shift+Mod2 + BackSpace

And save.
Log out and re-login and your Shift+Backspace shortcut should now work properly.

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The health benefits of seaweed
July 15, 2020 | Environment
Seaweed is a sea vegetable that is able to extract the minerals from the seawater and pull them into its nutritional structure.
Unlike its name might suggest, it is not weed. And is it healthy and good for you? Absolutely.
But what is seaweed? It's an ocean vegetable that grows in nutrient-dense sea waters along rocky shorelines all over the world.
Seaweed, also known as marine algae, is one of the most nutritionally-dense foods of Kingdom Plantae and offers abundant minerals and beneficial polysaccharides.
In order to develop and mature, these saltwater vegetables attach to rocky formations along coastlines and float close to the water surface to harness adequate sunlight for photosynthesis.
Seaweed can be included in a broad range of recipes, such as sushi, salads, soups, and sandwiches.
Roasted seaweed sheets, for example, can be a great snack and provide a good amount of nutrition in between meals.
The Ocean's Superfood
By ingesting small portions of these dehydrated seaweed wafers, your body will be fueled with over 80 minerals.
Minerals are essential nutrients for proper brain function, metabolism, and maintaining healthy bones.
Seaweed captures minerals and converts them into easy-to-assimilate nutrients that we need in our diet, especially iodine, selenium, zinc, and iron.
Iodine supports and promotes thyroid function because it helps produce hormones and repair damaged cells.
But it's also good to help buffer excessive amounts of estrogen.
Pesticides, insecticides, herbicides, and heavy metals can mimic estrogen, so they're called estrogen or endocrine disruptors.
For estrogen-dominant people, iodine in seaweed is particularly helpful because it can help counter that effect.
Selenium is a superb weapon against complications associated with autoimmune conditions like Hashimoto's disease.
It's a powerful antioxidant (carotenoids and flavonoids) that helps counter heavy metals, especially mercury.
It's also involved in over 2,000 enzymes, making it a really important mineral in brain function supporting testosterone.
Since it has high levels of fiber, seaweed is great for increasing good bacteria growth in the gut.
Iron fortifies red blood cells and helps in many vital functions, including the gastrointestinal process, body temperature regulation, the immune system, and it preserves energy and focus.
But the plant's compounds are also rich in potassium, calcium, thiamin, magnesium, manganese, folate, chromium, riboflavin, copper, and other healthy minerals, as well and vitamin A, B, C, and E.
The marine plant also features omega-3 fatty acids - docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA).
Seaweed is a good source of dietary fiber; it contains proteins and is extremely low in calories.
Consuming seaweed regularly can help stabilize weight and even contribute to weight loss.
Types of Edible Seaweed
There are several types of edible seaweed.
The most common varieties are nori, kombu, wakame, ogonori, umibudo, hijiki, Irish moss, dulse, bladderwrack, and sea palm.
There are several recipes in which you can add marine algae into the mix.
Try adding a sheet of nori to a wrap, stir fry or a light salad. Throw kelp into a noodles dish or introduce it to your favorite homemade seasoning.
Share a few seaweed chips as an appetizer, or add the sea vegetable to a bowl of tasty and hot miso soup - experiment adding it to your keto diet.
There's obviously one relevant concern associated with edible seaweed - ocean pollution and the intake of heavy metals.
However, you can always find on the market seaweed that comes from a clean, organic environment.
As we've seen, seaweed is an important source of trace minerals.
But it is also important to underline that we only need small amounts of these micro minerals in our daily food and water consumption.
And because seaweed has concentrated amounts of trace minerals, especially iodine, you should only give a child a small portion of the edible plant.
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Wife Questions Husband's Motive for Wanting to Adopt Adult Woman
Donny Meacham Published: January 27, 2022
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Adoption is a big part of our world. Many people adopt kids to give them a nurturing, loving home. But did you know that adults can also adopt other adults?
A&E's newest reality series, Adults Adopting Adults, explores this very different type of family arrangement.
"The new 10-episode series follows six incredible stories of adults seeking legal adoption for either a sincere desire for a true family experience or perhaps more questionable motives," a press release for the series states.
One of the couples featured in the show, Danny and Christy, are looking to adopt a young pregnant woman from Austria.
The pair tried to adopt an adult in the past, but Danny became wrapped up in an inappropriate relationship with the individual, so they stopped the process.
In a preview for the series, Christy truly worries about her husband's motives for wanting to adopt an adult as he's been unfaithful in the past.
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Things seem to go smoothly until it's time for their adoptee, Ileana, to land in the U.S. and she suddenly goes silent.
In a sneak peek obtained by People, Danny and Christy start to worry that she's gone MIA. Danny immediately jumps on the phone to obtain information regarding Ileana's flight but can't get in touch with anyone.
"I'm stressed, I'm anxious. Because I booked the ticket I was hoping they would tell me yeah, there's a butt in the seat, but I couldn't get through," Danny tells the camera.
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Danny then decides to go to the airport in Columbus, Ohio to meet their adoptee in person.
He also acknowledges his wife's hesitations on whether Ileana is legit: "Christy has a lot of concerns about, 'Was Ileana legit? Is she catfishing us? Is there a money angle here?' But Ileana, she never mentions coming to the United States, I actually asked her, 'Did you ever consider moving to the States?' and she never thought of it."
Laws regarding adult adoption vary by state. The new series will also explore "a woman who wants to leave her mother behind to be adopted by another couple that she found online; to a German prince seeking an adult son to care for him and carry on his title," according to A&E's press release.
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Over the Rainbow in Kansas, pt.2: Gov. Brownback Signs Bill Aimed at Blocking Sharia
Posted in Loon Politics with tags Anti-Muslim, anti-Sharia, Brownback, Constitution, Gov. Brownback, Islam, Islamic Law, Islamophobia, Kansas, Legislation, Muslims, Sharia on May 26, 2012 by loonwatch
Gov. Brownback has signed the bill passed by the Kansas legislature aimed at blocking "foreign law" (i.e. the non-existent "sharia threat") in Kansas.
It will likely be challenged in Kansas courts:
Kan. gov. signs measure blocking Islamic law
BY JOHN HANNA (Kansas City Star)
TOPEKA, KAN. – Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a law aimed at keeping the state's courts or government agencies from basing decisions on Islamic or other foreign legal codes, and a national Muslim group's spokesman said Friday that a court challenge is likely.
The new law, taking effect July 1, doesn't specifically mention Shariah law, which broadly refers to codes within the Islamic legal system. Instead, it says courts, administrative agencies or state tribunals can't base rulings on any foreign law or legal system that would not grant the parties the same rights guaranteed by state and U.S. constitutions.
"This bill should provide protection for Kansas citizens from the application of foreign laws," said Stephen Gele, spokesman for the American Public Policy Alliance, a Michigan group promoting model legislation similar to the new Kansas law. "The bill does not read, in any way, to be discriminatory against any religion."
But supporters have worried specifically about Shariah law being applied in Kansas court cases, and the alliance says on its website that it wants to protect Americans' freedoms from "infiltration" by foreign laws and legal doctrines, "especially Islamic Shariah Law."
Brownback's office notified the state Senate of his decision Friday, but he actually signed the measure Monday. The governor's spokeswoman, Sherriene Jones-Sontag, said in a statement that the bill "makes it clear that Kansas courts will rely exclusively on the laws of our state and our nation when deciding cases and will not consider the laws of foreign jurisdictions."
Muslim groups had urged Brownback to veto the measure, arguing that it promotes discrimination. Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, said a court challenge is likely because supporters of the measure frequently expressed concern about Shariah law.
Hooper said of Brownback, "If he claims it has nothing to do with Shariah or Islamic law or Muslims, then he wasn't paying attention."
Both the Washington-based council and the National Conference of State Legislatures say such proposals have been considered in 20 states, including Kansas. Gele said laws similar to Kansas' new statute have been enacted in Arizona, Louisiana and Tennessee.
Oklahoma voters approved a ballot initiative in 2010 that specifically mentioned Shariah law, but both a federal judge and a federal appeals court blocked it.
There are no known cases in which a Kansas judge has based a ruling on Islamic law. However, supporters of the bill have cited a pending case in Sedgwick County in which a man seeking to divorce his wife has asked for property to be divided under a marriage contract in line with Shariah law.
Supporters argue the measure simply ensures that legal decisions will protect long-cherished liberties, such as freedom of speech and religion and the right to equal treatment under the law. Gele said the measure would come into play if someone wanted to enforce a libel judgment against an American from a foreign nation without the same free speech protections.
"It is perfectly constitutional," he said.
The House approved the bill unanimously and the Senate, with broad, bipartisan support. Even some legislators who were skeptical of it believed it was broad and bland enough that it didn't represent a specific political attack on Muslims.
"This disturbing recent trend of activist judges relying upon the laws of other nations has been rejected by overwhelming bipartisan majorities in both the Kansas House and Senate," Jones-Sontag said.
The measure's chief sponsor, Rep. Peggy Mast, an Emporia Republican, also has said all Kansans, including Muslims, should be comfortable with the new law, but she did not immediately respond Friday to telephone and email messages seeking comment.
Rep. Scott Schwab, an Olathe Republican, acknowledged that the measure merely "made some people happy" and that a vote against it could be cast politically as a vote in favor of Shariah law.
"Am I really concerned that Shariah law is going to take over the Kansas courts? No," he said. "I'm more concerned about getting jobs to Kansas."
The Michigan-based alliance advocates model "American Law for American Courts" legislation. Its website says, "America has unique values of liberty which do not exist in foreign legal systems, particularly Shariah Law."
During the Kansas Senate's debate on the bill earlier this month, Sen. Susan Wagle, a Wichita Republican described a vote for the measure as a vote for women's rights, adding, "They stone women to death in countries that have Shariah law."
Hooper said supporters of such proposals have made it clear they are targeting Islamic law.
"Underlying all of this is demonizing Islam and marginalizing American Muslims," he said.
Updates on Anti-Sharia' Legislation: South Dakota Signs, Florida Drops, New Jersey Withdraws
Posted in Loon Politics with tags Anti-Muslim, anti-Sharia, Florida, Islam, Islamophobia, Legislation, New Jersey, South Dakota on March 16, 2012 by loonwatch
South Dakota's governor signs a law that says it targets "religious law" but which in fact was drafted to target Muslims:
South Dakota Governor Signs Unconstitutional Anti-Muslim Bill
By Ian Millhiser
Yesterday, South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard (R) signed an unconstitutional law that purports to target courts applying religious law, but which is almost certainly part of a broader push by Islamophobic advocates to fight the imaginary problem of courts substituting Islamic law for American law. The brief bill Daugaard signed provides simply that "[n]o court, administrative agency, or other governmental agency may enforce any provisions of any religious code."
Although this bill does not specifically call out any particular religion for ill treatment, it violates the Free Exercise Clause of the Constitution. As the Supreme Court explained in Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. Hialeah, "the protections of the Free Exercise Clause pertain if the law at issue discriminates against some or all religious beliefs or regulates or prohibits conduct because it is undertaken for religious reasons."
While it is uncommon for American courts to apply religious law, it is not unheard of. Private parties sometimes enter into contracts where they agree to resolve their disputes under something other than U.S. law, and individuals sometimes write wills devising their property according to the tenets of their faith. Under the bill Daugaard signed, however, courts will be allowed to enforce contracts requiring disputes to be resolved under French law or ancient Roman law or under the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons second edition rules, but they won't be allowed to enforce contracts requiring disputes to be resolved under the requirements of someone's religious beliefs. This is discrimination "against some or all religious beliefs," and is therefore unconstitutional.
Some good news from New Jersey:
NJ Becomes Latest State To Drop Anti-Shariah Bill
by Yusuf Khan
Among a series of setbacks for the McCarthyist-style anti-Shariah movement, New Jersey became the newest state to drop its ridiculous A-919 bill penned to prohibit the application of "foreign laws".
Fabricating an imaginary threat of an impending Shariah law that would somehow take over each US state, leading Islamophobes met with initial success as they attempted to influence various lawmakers into considering such a bill for implementation.
As of late however, anti-Muslim hate tactics appear to be falling flat on their face as NJ becomes the latest state – after GA, FL & MN – to withdraw its so-called foreign law bill drafted to protect it from the non-existent Shariah threat.
"New Jersey need not follow other states that have either passed or attempted to pass similar legislation that has the principal objective of demonizing the faith of millions of American Muslims," said Dr. Aref Assaf, president of the American Arab Forum.
CAIR-NJ Chair Nadia Kahf had the following to add, "Rather than strengthening constitutional protections, these bills undoubtedly violate religious freedom and weaken the independence of our courts."
"We thank Assemblywoman Holly Schepisi for her decision in support of religious freedom and constitutional rights."
And some surprising and even more good news from Flordia:
Anti-Shariah bill died when session ended
A critic of the unsuccessful Florida bill to ban Shariah law and other foreign legal codes says its failure to pass is evidence of turning public tides on such measures, though a sponsor is promising to try bringing it back.
Though the bill easily passed the House, it was never called for a vote by the full Senate before the Legislature closed its session, effectively killing the legislation for the year.
"I think we may be seeing the tide turn on this wave of anti-Shariah bills around the country," said Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which opposes such legislation.
A wave of anti-Shariah bills have been introduced in statehouses across the country. Several have stalled or failed, but dozens more await a verdict.
South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard signed a foreign law measure Monday, the first victory among advocates for such laws this session.
Three other states — Louisiana, Arizona and Tennessee — previously approved legislation curtailing the use of foreign laws.
Florida's bill made no mention of Shariah law or any other specific foreign system. It said the use of foreign law would be banned in state courtrooms when it violates rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, and in certain domestic situations, such as divorces and child custody cases. It would not have applied to businesses.
Opponents called the law unnecessary and anti-Muslim. Muslim groups were joined by the Anti-Defamation League, a defender of Jewish causes, in their opposition.
"You might as well pass legislation to ban unicorns," Hooper said. "If it wasn't so destructive to interfaith relations, to our image around the world, to our commitment to religious and constitutional rights, it would be laughable."
The most fervently outspoken supporters of such bills caution Shariah law could begin to spread outside of Muslim countries in a slow-speed Islamic takeover of the world. Others say not outlawing Shariah jeopardizes the rights of American women.
Sen. Alan Hays, R-Umatilla, who sponsored the Senate bill, said though "wild accusations" have been made about what the legislation would do, its purpose was to ensure only American laws are heard in Florida courtrooms.
"I expect to file the bill again next year if I'm fortunate enough to be blessed by the people of Florida with another term, and I expect it to pass next year," Hays said.
Frank Gaffney: Muslims Practicing Sharia Should Be Prosecuted for Sedition
Posted in Loon People, Loon Politics with tags Act! for America, Anti-Muslim, Brigitte Gabriel, Frank Gaffney, Islamophobia, Legislation, Sedition, Sharia on March 22, 2011 by loonwatch
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Gaffney appears with Brigitte Gabriel of ACT, I mean Hate! for America and calls for Muslims to be prosecuted for sedition if they practice Sharia'. This is even more quixotic when considering today's feature on the man who chose to stone his gay friend after reading the Bible. Robert Spencer and other anti-Muslims also support this sort of legislation.
(Little Green Footballs)
Here's Frank Gaffney of the anti-Muslim Center for Security Policy, calling for Muslims who practice any version of sharia law to be arrested and prosecuted for "sedition."
Gabriel: But a lot of people say that Sharia law is a religious practice, and maybe it should be protected by the First Amendment. Can you please tell us, is it compatible with the Constitution? Should it be protected by the First Amendment as a religious practice?
Gaffney: It is the law of the land in Saudi Arabia and Iran, and anyone who thinks that what life is like in either of those two countries is the same as life in America obviously doesn't know anything about either Saudi Arabia or Iran. In fact, it is absolutely antithetical, Sharia is, to our Constitution, and the pursuit of it as you said in your comment, Brigitte, is incompatible with the Constitution's Article VI, and therefore, far from being a protected religious practice, it is an impermissible act of sedition, which has to be prosecuted under our Constitution.
Ugandan Legislation Calls for Execution of Gays; What if they were Muslim?
Posted in Loon Pastors, Loon TV with tags American Evangelicals, Anti-Gay, Democracy, Execution, Homophobia, Legislation, Martin Ssempa, Murder, Pastor, Uganda, What if they were Muslim, Young Turks on December 7, 2009 by loonwatch
Martin Ssempa
A prominent evangelical pastor in Uganda, Martin Ssempa has proposed and received wide backing for a law which would jail homosexuals and murder "flagrant" homosexuals. He has received support for this from the president of Uganda and a large number of politicians. Ssempa, is connected to a number of American Evangelical organizations and politicians. What would happen if it were an Imam or a Muslim country proposing this legislation, you could be sure Spencer and company would be howling to the wind about it, but on this news story we hear not a peep from them.
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From Advocates to Outlaws
KAMPALA – If Uganda?s recently tabled Anti-Homosexuality Bill becomes law, Frank Mugisha and other individuals found campaigning for gay rights will face the choice of going to jail or leaving the country.
Mugisha heads Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), a leading sexual rights advocacy group that could soon be classed a criminal organization.
"I have never really considered moving out of Uganda. But if I cannot work within the country, then I will have to leave," said Mugisha.
The bill has baffled legal experts who read it as the product of an over-zealous Evangelical community that is clueless about both Uganda?s constitution and international law.
But for the bill?s proponents, chief among them Ethics and Integrity Minister James Nsaba Buturo, who has repeatedly alleged that there exists an organized, western-backed plot to recruit people into homosexuality, the law is necessary to confront a national emergency.
Homosexuality is spreading, Buturo argues, and if people like Mugisha aren?t stopped they will continue to lure impressionable youths into their sinful lifestyle and thereby threaten the perpetuation of the Ugandan people.
"Who is going to occupy Uganda in 20 years if we all become homosexuals? We know that homosexuals don?t reproduce," Buturo said last year when announcing plans to table the bill.
In one of its most curious provisions, the draft law calls on Uganda to nullify any international treaty or convention that is inconsistent with the spirit of anti-homosexuality.
"You cannot as a country say we will nullify all the treaties we have ratified in the past," Sylvia Tamale of Kampala?s Makerere University Law School told AFP.
For Tamale, the bill?s composition reveals an absence of qualified legal input and an unhealthy amount of input from people like Martin Ssempa, a prominent Evangelical pastor and internationally known anti-gay crusader who has confirmed having contributed to the bill.
"It would be political suicide for any Ugandan politician to vote against this. Leaders will have to ask themselves, do I listen to my own people, or … to top down orders coming from New York and the UN," he added.
Ssempa seems to relish the criticism hurled at him by western rights groups, but he is concerned the proposal will create a fissure within the Evangelical Church.
"The western church is going to find itself increasingly at odds with the African church and find itself in a situation where there is a split like in the Anglican Church," he said.
Ssempa told AFP he was disappointed by a recent statement by American mega-Pastor Rick Warren, who delivered the convocation at US president Barack Obama?s Inauguration.
Warren did not mention the Anti-Homosexuality Bill specifically, but said he and his wife ended their relationship with Ssempa, "when we learned that his views and actions were in serious conflict with our own".
Mugisha is an unlikely candidate to be at the centre of such politically charged debate.
From SMUG?s humble three-room office in a Kampala suburb he explained he never wanted to become a political advocate.
While in university, he volunteered as an undercover health researcher, finding out which clinics could treat certain conditions and where gay men could access the things necessary for safe sex.
He distributed the information on-line and through a small support group he founded.
When SMUG?s leadership learned about his work, they lobbied him to get involved.
At first reluctant, he eventually gave in, and was appointed chairperson of the group in 2007.
He smiled when recounting his earlier health work.
"These young boys, they didn?t know anything about being protected," he said, half-laughing.
If the new bill had been in place at the time, Mugisha?s attempts to promote safe sex could have qualified as a crime. "Aiding and abetting homosexuality" attracts seven years in prison.
Copyright © 2009 AFP. All rights reserved.


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Dec. 23, 2014 / 4:20 PM
'Fast and Furious' director Justin Lin to helm 'Star Trek 3,' release date announced
Lin will also direct the first two epsisdoes of the upcoming season of HBO's "True Detective."
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Director Justin Lin. UPI/Jim Ruymen | License Photo
Actress Sarah Li and director Justin Lin. UPI/Jim Ruymen | License Photo
Director Justin Lin, recipient of the Director of the Year Award, arrives at the CinemaCon awards ceremony at the Pure Nightclub at Caesars Palace during CinemaCon, the official convention of the National Association of Theatre Owners. UPI/David Becker | License Photo
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- With J.J. Abrams firmly embedded in a galaxy far far away, and would-be replacement Star Trek director Roberto Orci stepping aside to serve only as a screenwriter and producer, Paramount Pictures has turned to Fast and Furious director Justin Lin to return moviegoers to the final frontier.
With its new director in place, Paramount has also announced a release date for the third of the rebooted Trek films: July 8, 2016.
Lin was originally slated direct the sequel to The Bourne Legacy, the Jeremy Renner-starring spinoff of the Bourne Identity trilogy. That project, however, was put on hold after Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass agreed revisit the original Jason Bourne franchise with a fourth movie, which producers want to come out before Renner and Lin's sequel.
Lin is best known for taking over the Fast and Furious franchise with 2006's poorly-received The Fast & the Furious: Tokyo Drift. Hardly a marquee achievement with fans, critics or the box office, Lin went on to make his name as one of Holywood's post-millennium rising stars by sticking with Dominic Toretto and Brian O'Conner's high-octane star-crossed bromance, relaunching the Fast and Furious films as a series of combination prequels and sequels to the orginals, with fleshed-out tertiary characters, gleeful dismissal of basic physics and huge returns at the box office.
After departing the Fast and Furious films following Fast & Furious 6, Lin signed on to direct the first two episodes of HBO's second run of True Detective, the cable network's highly-praised seasonal-anthology cop drama. Those epsidoes are slated to air in March 2015.
Lin's hiring has inspired mixed reaction among Star Trek fans. On Twitter, many are lamenting the addition of Lin, complaining or joking that he will dumb down the philosophically complex ideas of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry.
justin lin + #startrek = pic.twitter.com/xYf4Ir25Rq
— ricardo rivadeneira (@criticardo) December 23, 2014
REALLY @ParamountPics Justin Lin??? Are you now going out of your way to ruin Star Trek??? @jonathansfrakes IS the way to go...
— Josh Dougherty (@jdo619) December 23, 2014
Justin Lin is perfect for Star Trek 3 because he already has experience working with Klingons pic.twitter.com/RMQnePn61W
— Benjamin H Bailey (@BenHBailey) December 23, 2014
Writing for Forbes, Hollywood news blogger Scott Mendelson praised Paramount's decision, describing Lin as the "perfect fit" for Star Trek fans because of his experience providing large groups of characters with equally meaningful screen time.
"If you're someone who thinks the last two Star Trek films have been somewhat dominated by Kirk and Spock (beyond the extent that Star Trek has often been the Kick/Spock show), then this hire should be welcome news," Mendelson wrote.
"... Fast Five was not just a terrific action picture but a pretty great movie, period, and this is coming from someone who didn't care much for the previous four films. It was a fifth sequel that used its complex continuity to its emotional advantage, and I might on a given day argue that it's an even better "franchise all-stars to the rescue" movie than the Avengers ... The surrogate family themes of the last three Fast & Furious films actually fit the Star Trek universe like a glove."
Roberto Orci


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Q: Does LINQ do short-circuit evaluation in VB.NET? We had a Nullable object must have a value error today on this line of code:
list = From x In Me Where x.FooDate.HasValue AndAlso x.FooDate.Value.Date >= barDate

Funny thing is that I feel sure this used to work fine (and there has always been a sprinkling of null values in the underlying data). And logically it looks fine to me. The check for HasValue and the AndAlso look as if they're going to shield us from any Null danger.
But it seems suddenly they're not. Am I missing something?
OK, we can correct it to this, which eliminates the error:
list = From x In Me Where If(x.FooDate.HasValue, x.FooDate.Value.Date >= barDate,False)

But this looks to me less readable. Any thoughts?
Update ... and Confession:
In simplifying the above code to shorten the line I left out a crucial chunk of the code. The original problem should have read something like:
list = From x In Me Where x.FooDate.HasValue AndAlso x.FooDate.Value.Date >= fromDate And x.FooDate.Value.Date <= toDate

Because of the rules of shortcircuiting and operator precedence (as outlined in an answer to a long ago question of my own) I needed to add brackets round the second part of the instruction in order to stop LINQ evaluating the second x.FooDate.Value.Date:
list = From x In Me Where x.FooDate.HasValue AndAlso (x.FooDate.Value.Date >= fromDate and x.FooDate.Value.Date <= toDate)

Thanks to both answers for throwing up quick test code to verify that LINQ really does obey AndAlso and force me to look more closely at the original problem.

A: I'm pretty sure that your query is safe, at least following sample code is:
Dim dateList As New List(Of Nullable(Of Date))
For i As Int32 = 0 To 12
    If (i Mod 3 = 0) Then
        dateList.Add(Nothing)
    Else
        dateList.Add(New Date(2012, i, 1))
    End If
Next
Dim july = New Date(2012, 7, 1)
Dim fromJuly = (From m In dateList
      Where m.HasValue AndAlso m.Value.Date >= july).ToList

 Note: If i would replace AndAlso with And i would get your exception.
So the problem must be somewhere else. Show us more of your class please.

A: It should work. I wrote this code, and it works for me fine, even with barDate set to Nothing.
Sub Main()

    Dim barDate As Nullable(Of DateTime) = Nothing

    Dim List = From x In GetDates() Where x.FooDate.HasValue AndAlso x.FooDate.Value.Date > barDate

    Console.WriteLine(List.Count())

End Sub

Function GetDates() As List(Of Foo)
    Dim l = New List(Of Foo)
    l.Add(New Foo With {.FooDate = DateTime.Now})
    l.Add(New Foo)
    Return l
End Function

Class Foo
    Private m_fooDate As DateTime?
    Public Property FooDate() As DateTime?
        Get
            Return m_fooDate
        End Get
        Set(ByVal value As DateTime?)
            m_fooDate = value
        End Set
    End Property

End Class


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Q: How do I import espresso withID on android studio? I am trying to write a unit test with espresso for my application, but whenever I try to use withId, it cannot be found. How do I fix this?
onView works fine, but when I try onView(withId) it doesn't work.
Here is my code:
package com.example.webowner.authenticate;

import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.support.test.InstrumentationRegistry;
import android.support.test.espresso.Espresso;
import android.support.test.rule.ActivityTestRule;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.ProgressBar;

import static android.support.test.espresso.Espresso.onView;
import static android.support.test.espresso.Espresso.;

import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;

public class MainActivityTest {

    @Rule
    public ActivityTestRule<MainActivity> mainActivityActivityTestRule = new ActivityTestRule<MainActivity>(MainActivity.class);

    @Test
    public void testLoginButton_shouldBeDisplayed()
    {
        //
    }

    @Before
    public void setUp() throws Exception {
    }

    @After
    public void tearDown() throws Exception {
    }
}

A: You should import following:
import static android.support.test.espresso.matcher.ViewMatchers.withId;

Hope this works!

A: For AndroidX, checkout out the package ViewMatchers:
import androidx.test.espresso.matcher.ViewMatchers.withId
https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/test/espresso/matcher/ViewMatchers


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July 28, 2014 July 28, 2014 by khorhmin, posted in Article, Historical, Travel
The capital of Perak State, Ipoh, is the third largest city in Malaysia, with an estimated population of 710,000. Ipoh is known for many things, but historically, it was instrumental in the tin mining industry, which led to an economic boom in the region around the turn of the 19th century. Some people remembered the city fondly as the town built on tin, and even the city of millionaires – which alludes to the riches excavated from the mines of Kinta Valley. Ipoh is also known as Paloh, which refers to the gigantic mining pumps used in the process of tin ore extraction in the early days. On 27 May 1988, Ipoh town was granted city status by the much-loved Sultan of Perak, Sultan Azlan Shah.
At the pinnacle of production, 75% of the world's supply of tin came from Malaya where the mines were open cast and excavated by monitor pumps. However, as with most finite resources extracted from the earth, the mines eventually ran out of the precious metal everybody wanted. The machines and implements used for tin mining were slowly but surely reduced to relics of the good old days.
Tin ore on display at the Heritage House, Gopeng Museum, Perak.
It is quite hard these days to find an actual tin mining dredge in good condition, as most had been in disuse and eventually fell into disrepair. However, there is one such dredge in Chendrong, which can be seen along the Batu Gajah-Tanjung Tualang Road. The dredge has now been hailed as a heritage icon and proposed to be turned into a museum. It is managed by Osborne & Chapel, and visitors may enter the place to view the dredge during opening hours.
The last tin mine dredge in Chendrong, Perak (side view)
It is undeniable that the mining dredge is a very impressive and gigantic structure, easily visible to the casual onlooker from the main road. The first thought that came to my mind when I saw it from afar was that it reminded me of a huge steam ship. But that's just me. 🙂
The last tin mine dredge in Chendrong, Perak (front view)
Some people have found creative ways to utilise the mining equipment. For example, in 1997, the artist Yeoh Jin Leng built a sculpture called 'Goodbye Tin-Mining' that stands over 30 feet high. She used dredge steel buckets, a drive wheel and steel girds to depict the closure of the tin-mining industry in the Kinta Valley.
Sculpture entitled 'Goodbye Tin-Mining'. The sculpture is located inside Clearwater Sanctuary, Perak.
Here's the side view of the sculpture:
Side view of the sculpture entitled 'Goodbye Tin-Mining'.
The plaque in front of the sculpture:
Plaque in front of the sculpture.
Dredge steel buckets have also been converted into decorative objects. They weigh over a ton each, so the decorators probably needed a crane of some sort to move them around.
Dredge steel buckets used as decorations at a small roundabout in Clearwater Sanctuary, Perak.
A dredge steel bucket on display next to the main entrance of the Tourism Centre in Ipoh Old Town.
When I looked at this raincoat in the Heritage House @ Gopeng Museum (see below), I envisioned the workers in the tin mine wearing this type of raincoat when they worked in the rain.
Old fashioned raincoat from the olden days.
To see old black and white photos from the days of the tin mines, visit the Kinta Tin Mining page.
To read more about the last dredge in Chendrong, Perak, see the Ipoh Echo article on 'Saving the Last of the Giant Tin Dredges'.
To find out more about Ipoh, visit the Ipoh Tourism Board page and the Ipoh page on Wikipedia.
Tagged Chendrong, Gopeng Museum, Heritage House, history, Ipoh, Kinta Valley, Perak, the last dredge, tin, tin mining
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Getting Creative in County Donegal!
This year, government initiative Creative Ireland is highlighting some of the best projects, events, and initiatives that are bringing culture and the arts to the forefront in every Irish county and Co. Donegal is no different.
Co. Donegal has long boasted an extensive involvement in music, contemporary visual arts, and crafts, producing the likes of Enya, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Altan, Moya Brennan and Clannad.
An attractive destination for artists and makers, with the landscape itself often serving as inspiration, Donegal has a world-renowned traditional music heritage.
This extraordinary reading program is taking place at libraries around Donegal throughout the summer/ Each child is invited to register for the adventure at their local library and enjoy reading many books during the summer holidays. All participants are given a Summer Stars Reading Card to record and track their own progress and a library reward stamp will be added to their reading card at the library after each book read. At the end of the adventure, all children who participate are invited to attend an award event at which they will be presented with their own Summer Stars certificate. Children and families will also have access to fun reading activities on the Summer Stars website, www.summerstars.ie. 9,000 books have been borrowed this summer already – that's a lot of reading!
The Culture Night program is led by the Arts Office with events hosted by the Central Library, the county Museum, the Heritage Office, and the Regional Cultural Centre as well as by a wide range of local organizations and venues with an interest in culture, history and heritage. September 22, 2017.
Both the minutes of meetings and papers relating to the Fanad Health Club, a 1930s District Nursing association; and a thesis in two volumes by Patrick O'Neill, 1940, entitled 'A Social and Cultural Study of Crofter Life on the West Donegal Seaboard', will be digitized from Donegal County Archives this year, invaluable collections that will add greatly to the understanding of life in Donegal.
A festival of arts for Donegal's south and southwest, Blue Stacks presents a rich and varied program of contemporary, classical and traditional music, theater, opera, carnival, visual arts, street arts, literary events, events for children – both within and outside of school – in a host of towns and villages including Ballyshannon, Bundoran, Ballybofey, Donegal, Mountcharles, Dunkineely, Killybegs, Cill Chartha, An Carraig, Gleann Choilm Cille, Ardara and Glenties. The Children's Theater component, which gives kids the chance to enjoy performances in both English and Gaeilge, was an important element in the festival but had to be scaled back in recent years. However, this year with Creative Ireland support they are re-introducing the program. Venues in South and South West Donegal, September 28 - October 8.
It is proposed to conserve professionally two leather-bound Gweedore hotel visitors' registers dating from 1842 – 1874 that are held at the County Archive. The registers contain vivid handwritten comments by visitors. There are stories, poems, treatises, sketches and drawings relating to the hotel itself and life in rural Gweedore, then the centre of controversial land improvements carried out by Lord George Hill.
Visitors include the rich and famous of the time, such as Robert William Wilde, Sir James Dombrain, Thomas Carlyle, John Mitchel, Thomas Emerson Headlam and the Marchioness of Londonderry.
Curated by Donegal County Council's Museum and Archives Service in association with the Heritage Office, the free exhibition explores the world of the landed gentry in Donegal in the decades before the foundation of the state. The event will uncover stories of those who lived and worked in the vanished world of Donegal's big houses. Donegal County Museum, September 16 -December 31, 2017.
The Local Enterprise Office (LEO) will facilitate creative sector networks in a) film and digital media, b) fashion design and textiles and c) craft and design in 2017. The LEO is organizing a creative festival and workshops in the performing arts in Malin over a weekend in December with a focus on how to integrate business and creativity. The event is also meant to raise awareness for the potential to increase commercial sustainability.
Donegal's premier summer festival! A celebration of multidisciplinary arts taking place each July in the North West of Ireland along the Wild Atlantic Way. Look out for it July 2018.
Check out Co. Donegal's full culture and creativity plans here.
Is there an upcoming event in Co. Donegal you think people should know about? Tell us in the comment section.


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Anti-human immunodeficiency virus agent 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine inhibits replication of Epstein-Barr virus.
J C Lin, Z X Zhang, M C Smith, K Biron, J S Pagano
J C Lin
Lineberger Cancer Research Center, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27514.
Z X Zhang
M C Smith
K Biron
J S Pagano
We show that the anti-human immunodeficiency virus agent, 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine (AZT), which suppresses infectivity and cytopathic effects of human immunodeficiency virus, also effectively inhibits Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA replication. However, AZT has no effect on four other human herpesviruses: cytomegalovirus, varicella-zoster virus, and herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2. The combination of acyclovir and AZT, while it is not synergistic, has an additive effect against EBV replication. AZT may prove to be a useful drug for treatment of coinfections with human immunodeficiency virus and EBV.
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy Feb 1988, 32 (2) 265-267; DOI: 10.1128/AAC.32.2.265
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Fashion necklace created from upcycled hand cut fabric and plastic cubes.
PENELOPE is funky, is punk, is wild! It's a colorful, full of life collection and a tribute to a special person who was the main inspiration behind it and for that naming it after them. Hand-cut fringes from a unique selection of repurposed cotton fabric, embellished with plastic elements give life to a beautiful line of upcycled, one-off jewellery.