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Michael Moore, "Sicko" and the Right Wing Attack Machine
On Wednesday, MSNBC talking-head (and man, what a big head it is) Joe Scarborough was discussing Michael Moore's new documentary "Sicko" on his morning program. After viewing the film, Scarborough's only socially-redeeming take-away was that Moore is fat, and as a fat person he therefore should not have the right to call attention to the glaring inefficiencies, amoral behavior and illegal activity of the health care industry. And why, according to Scarborough? Because obesity is rampant in the U.S. and it's a drain on the system. If Moore cares so much about the health care industry, Scarborough ignorantly railed, then he should lose weight. Am I missing something here? Is this the best the right-wing has to offer as it desperately attempts to defend itself against the shameful cronyism that's made its pals in the hospital, insurance and pharmaceutical industries disgustingly filthy rich?
But wait, that same day CNN health correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta split hairs with Moore on the Larry King show over their differing claims of how much Cuba spends for health care on each of its citizens. The difference, according to the good Republican doctor, was a whopping $20, the fact of which now proves, of course, that everything in "Sicko" according to the truth-averse right wing, is false. So much so that Gupta had dedicated an entire CNN segment this week to fact-checking the documentary's overall claims. I guess he felt investigating the health care industry itself was not worth his time.
The reality is, "Sicko" was not presented in any partisan manner. It is unbiased and objective in its indictment of Congress—including both Republicans and Democrats (Hillary Clinton is #2 on the list of Senate recipients of health care industry payoffs)—over its inability to provide universal health coverage and a socialized medicine program like those that exist in every other Western nation. The state of health care in this country is a huge embarrassment, and Moore's film shines a spotlight on the problem.
As Moore told CNN's Wolf Blitzer this week, history has proven that he was right about the claims he made in his previous film, "Fahrenheit 911," which was a scathing expose of the Bushevik lies, deception and corruption. And he says he's right about those made in "Sicko" as well. We should all believe him.
Moore is a true American hero. A modern-day Tom Paine. Our country needs independent watchdogs like him, especially when our elected leaders have shamefully neglected to carry out their responsibilities to protect and provide for our citizens. Of course ring-wingers hate Moore and his new film. They know he's right about how they've allowed their insurance and pharmaceutical cronies to screw Americans out of their health coverage. They know they are guilty of putting the terrorism-fear-of-God into our citizens to keep them down and controlled. They know they are guilty of diverting their attention away with non-issue distractions such as gay-marriage. And they know Americans are much smarter today, and angrier with Washington, than ever before…and that scares the bejesus out of them as the '08 election rapidly approaches.
Hopefully, "Sicko" will do for health care what "Fahrenheit-911" did to expose the Bush crimes and start the GOP house of cards falling. I suspect 3-4 years from now we'll look back on "Sicko" and credit it, at least in part, with finally forcing politicians to improve our nation's ailing health care system.
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Posted by The Ostroy Report at 5:53 PM
It was a good movie.
I don't quite recall leaving FRIDAY THE 13TH with such a chill going down my spine.
The movie may not have been partisan, but it really was tilted in one direction. Not that I blame Mike. It's about time the Left went forward no-holds-barred style.
You know, Andy... If you're reading this... You should make it a point to meet up with him. He's a NYC local. And, incidentally, he's supposedly an avid AIM user.
Oh, and since you're a blog-writer...
I think you're going to LOOOVE how Mike was able to make the webmaster of WWWdotMOOREWATCHdotCOM eat crow to the tune of $11,000.
--VJ Jetley
BALLS AND MY WORD™ said...
Joe will never come close to Michael Moore destroying Wolf (Real name ?) Blitzer.
Way to go Michael.
Fuck these right wing douchebags/traitors.
It will be interesting to see what the average American does when the next 9-11 happens. Will they blindly wave their flags again and want to nuke the boogeyman or will they root out the real menace destroying their country from within.
either way a shitsandwich is about to get force fed to all of us
Fuck these cunts.
Good job andy love the blog
Andy, your articles are great and I agree with most of them, but one problem with people like you, Bill Maher and Michael Moore is, you run the race 90% of the way, but dont finish it, or strive to. You said people should expose these bastards and America should know the truth-----just as long as we dont say 9-11 was an inside job huh? If we say that, we are nutjobs right?
Colin Stewart said...
Have you seen Malcolm Gladwell's criticism of "Sicko"? A description is on my "Arts of Innovation" blog (artsofinnovation.wordpress.com) Also there: my critique of Gladwell's flawed argument.
-- Colin Stewart
47 million in the US without basic health care. Immoral. There by the grace of God, go I.
Please google "1934 Inherent Contempt". It is a tool that the Dems can use to bypass the DOJ and hold those refusing to appear before congress per subpoena accountable. Write your senators and congress person today. They need to know that all is not lost.
Another great posting, Andy! An intellectually shabby argument is the ad hominem argument, where one attacks the man instead of the points he makes. Mr. Scarborough should be ashamed of using these cheap, intellectually bankupt tactics instead of addressing the points Mr. Moore makes in "Sicko."
I agree with you that this is most definitely a non-partisan issue, and that Mr. Moore was evenhanded in his condemnation of both Republicans and Democrats in their acceptance of drug companies' money and their desire to do the companies' bidding. The saddest scenes I found in the movie were those of the Congress, congratulating themselves after passing the mediocre, poorly-conceived, and even more poorly-executed Medicare Prescription Drug Plan, an execrable piece of legislation if ever one existed.
Here is a tool open to the Dems as discussed on progressive talk radio. I have written both my senators and rep on this issue.
"A few astute commenters observed that Congress has another weapon in its arsenal for backing up the subpoena power: the long-dormant "inherent contempt" process, described below in the Congressional Research Service's "Congressional Oversight Manual" (PDF):
Under the inherent contempt power, the individual is brought before the House or Senate by the Sergeant-at-Arms, tried at the bar of the body, and can be imprisoned. The purpose of the imprisonment or other sanction may be either punitive or coercive. Thus, the witness can be imprisoned for a specified period of time as punishment, or for an indefinite period (but not, at least in the case of the House, beyond the adjournment of a session of the Congress) until he agrees to comply. The inherent contempt power has been recognized by the Supreme Court as inextricably related to Congress's constitutionally-based power to investigate.
The most obvious benefit of inherent contempt is that it's conducted entirely "in-house," that is, entirely on the authority of the legislative branch. The most obvious drawback? Spending time on a trial. Well, that and the scene of having the Sergeant at Arms and the Capitol Police physically barred from entering the White House to arrest those who've defied subpoenas.
But is there another choice? What other power, besides impeachment, does the Congress have in its arsenal to enforce the "subpoena power" we were all told this election was about? There are no other direct options, only oblique approaches to using indirect leverage.
The next question, then, is whether or not anybody in Congress has bothered to think things through to this point, and begin preparing for this possibility".
Go Andy! Someone should pay for my healthcare. I'm 100 lbs overweight because I don't exercise. I never eat good food. I smoke a pack of Marlboro a day, and I drink like a fish.
It's a crime I have to pay for my health care, when some evil rich bastard could be paying for my health.
9:35 God bless you, I know you won't understand this. But, yes, you who are retarded would be given the same right to live as anyone else in this country and what is now getting to be true for all in the civilized world.
10:34 AM,
Right on! We need to take all the profit out of medical science and practices.
Doctors should study hard, then work at sub-prime rates. They are bastards for expecting money for working 80 hour weeks.
Companies should invest in medical research for good will, not for money!
People who eat right, exercise, and make wise business decisions should pay for all the slackers who are victims of the successful people in this country.
The wonders of universal health care
In March 2006, Mary Lou Frye had a seizure and drove off the Fraser Highway into a ditch.
A CAT scan revealed a golf ball-sized tumour behind her left eye. She had surgery in May 2006, but bleeding cut the operation short, leaving part of the tumour.
She now has two tumours in her brain, but since January Frye has had her surgery postponed six times, the latest last Friday when four other neurosurgery cases were also postponed.
The previous day, four neurosurgery cases were postponed due to a lack of beds.
Meanwhile, Frye, 64, who raised three kids as a single mom, is failing. Doctors have declared her urgent because of headaches, loss of balance and walking difficulty. She's slated for surgery this Friday.
She must stop her medication a week in advance each time surgery is set, which means pain and discomfort. Then comes fear and a major mental letdown after another postponement.
"We've talked to hospital administrators, but it [being passed from one official to another] just gets ridiculous," said son Joe Frye.
Health Minister George Abbott said he regrets elective-surgery postponements, but said there are more urgent cases.
"There are periodically occasions when there will be a rash of serious injuries or illnesses that have to be given precedence within the surgical slate," he said.
But Frye, noting the power that Abbott and health bureaucrats wield, said: "Should I be able to sit behind a desk and decide who lives or dies?"
Last week, the chief of surgery at Royal Columbian said he had cancelled more than 70 elective surgeries this month.
A capacity crisis was predicted in 2004 by such diverse groups as health unions, the New West Chamber of Commerce and the St. Peter's Catholic Women's League after the Liberals closed nearby St. Mary's Hospital.
Dr. Irwin Stewart, the former chief of surgical staff at St. Mary's and a recipient of the Order of Canada, said the hospital had "the most efficient operating theatre in B.C. We should be cloning it, not shutting it down."
Colin Hansen, who was health minister at the time, said the decision to kill St. Mary's, with its 200-acute-bed capacity and emergency ward, was to "protect patients' interests."
donharrison@png.canwest.com
Don Harrison, with a file from John Bermingham, The Province
Published: Tuesday, May 29, 2007
© The Vancouver Province 2007
The doctor in London who was interviewed by Michael Morre proved that doctors there are not at a financial disadvantage because of the universal healthcare program. In fact, the doctor here in my small town has nowhere near the 500,000 dollar house the London doctor has nor a car so grand.
However, the doctors in American do have an advantage unknown to doctors in countries with univerasl healthcare. The doctors here each receive at least 30,000 dollars a year in payment by drug companies for prescribing their drugs.
Hi everyone. In the interest of full disclosure, I'd like to state that I am not rich, pay a lot of taxes, and am against universal healthcare because I believe it gives people with make a habit of poor decision making access to more of my money when taxes go up due to universal healthcare. I'd like to have an open discussion without getting called names, if that is possible.
Should a person who does not pay taxes, but receives universal healthcare have the ability to purchase cigarettes?
The purchase of cigarettes by this person in this situation is going to cost an innocent tax payer more money due to increased health problems that are directly related to cigarette smoking.
Do proponents of universal healthcare consider this or even have an opinion on this ?
"...because I believe it gives people with make a habit of poor decision making access to more of my money..."
should read
"...because I believe it gives people with a history of poor decision making abilities access to more of my money..."
sorry! :-)
4:20 is right. He should not have to pay for the consequences of cigarettes. All tobacco companies should be shut down and also any other industries that harm the health of Americans who so harmed, would then use the money 4:20 pays in his taxes for universal healthcare. That would of course include alcohol, fast food companies (thank God Bloomberg has banned transfats), companies which pollute the air through their manufacturing procedures as well as the toxic products some produce like insect sprays. It would also be wise if children and adults weren't allowed to indulge in dangerous sports that often require bones to be reset and the like. And just to cover those who do not make poor decisions but get sick anyway, we should protect 4:20's money by not alloiwng people with genes that carry diseases to reproduce.
To Anon @2:13. There is nothing inherent in Universal Health Care that causes these problems.
Waiting time stories from Canada, or anywhere else that spends 1/2 of what we do, are just an irrelevant distraction. As are horror stories about Castro, Chavez, etc. UHC does not make you jail dissedents.
We have a vastly larger medical infrastructure than either Canada or the U.K. We also spend almost twice as much per person as Canada. We have far more resources to put towards this problem than any other country. And we can spend more than they do, while still spending less than we do now under our parasite infested system.
Most of the problems with Canada's system (and BTW, our own VA), is due to the active efforts to sabotage it by underfunding.
Canada and the U.K. are under assault by the conservative technique to restore feudalism to the world. It works like this:
1- Elect cons that hate govt. for anything but waging wars.
2- Staff gov.t departments with former corporate lobbyists and other cronies and incompetents in order to destroy these gov't. agencies from the inside by making them ineffective, expensive, intrusive, corrupt and politicized. The public will notice this and attribute it to "government can't do anything right".
3-Crank up the right wing think tanks and noise machine and bitch about all these inefficiencies and underperformance until privatization starts looking like a viable solution.
4-Lobby for legislation to underfund, shrink and then outsource said gov't. function.
5-Get big contract.
6-Now, you can provide crappy service too, but charge more for it. Then, when people forget what competency looks like, you can lobby to increase the size of your contract, eliminate oversight and regulation, lower the level of service, or anything else it takes to achieve increasing corporate share prices; which, after all, are your first priority by law.
This will work because there will be no one left in gov't. with the experience and competency to regulate or otherwise make sure that the corporations contracted to provide said public services are not robbing us blind.
And the sweet part is; the public has no say so about any of it. The public cannot vote the CEO out of office. Up to a point, the worse job the corp. does, the more money it makes, which again is it's legally binding first obligation.
This is the fate that conservatives have in mind for everything from FEMA to the schools system, to the highway system, to NASA, to NOAA, to the Parks System, libraries, police, fire depts., infrastructure security. Right down to the military.
Welcome to US, Inc.
You probably are a kid who is covered under daddy's ins. policy.
Or maybe you are a 20 something who never knew anyone destroyed by MS or cancer, through no fault of their own, when they were no more than your age. Maybe you don't know anyone who lost their home and their kid's college fund and went bankrupt due to medical costs.
I can't imagine you are someone who has any real life experience yet. You can parrot rightwing bloviators pretty good though.
You probably think you are some kind of self-reliant individualist, or a responsible paragon of virtue and moderation.
But in fact, your post is a perfect textbook example of the thought processes of a sociopath.
Please ask you daddy if his insurance covers mental health treatment for this problem.
Hey 4:20. If you don't want to be called names don't post stupid things.
How do you like the history of bad decision making of GW Bush? How much money has his bad decisions cost us?
Whether you know it or not, that's the nature of insurance regardless of whether it's private or socialized. Everyone pays a little bit toward the expenses caused by each others "bad habits". In the grand scheme of things, the extra costs are usually negligible.
If you want to see bad habits that cost us a lot money for medical care, try looking at the habits of health care CEO's. Habits like driving exotic cars, yachting, flying personal jets, collecting mansions, etc.
These are the habits that REALLY cost us our healthcare dollars.
7:21 I think your clear presentation of the the six-point technique being used by the conservatives to restore feudalism should be required reading for every American in this country.
Would you consider running for president?
There are many words that can be used to describe Michael Moore. Those who seek to ve viewed as credible commentators will NEVER use the words "fair and unbiased".
Moore is a polemic. His movies are propaganda in the service of his extreme left wing liberal views.
What's interesting in his films are what he leaves out. For example, no mention is made of the extreme rationing of health care in many European and the Canadian government run systems. That much of the border state medical systems have a heavy burden of Canadians denied timely care under their national system.
Nor does he spend much if any time on why health care is so expensive in this system - the high costs added due to the cost of litigation against doctors and drug companies by the trial attorneys that are amongs the most loyal contributors to candidates in his liberal base. Just look at the silly channeling that Edwards did of dead babies in law suits later shown to be won based upon junk science.
Or the high cost of medical care arising from the waste that comes when Americans spend "other people's money" whether it be the traditional insurance coverage or Medicare/caid. When you spend other people's money, the patient is not as concerned about cost and the provider is not as careful about billing.
None of these crucial contributors are included in Moore's screed.
And those who consider themselves smart bloggers with above average intelligence who defend Moore's work as honest, fair and balanced need to do an integrity check.
The end doesn't always justify the means.
MM is under no obligation to be "fair and balanced". He is not a journalist and doesn't pretend to be one.
Again, rationing in Europe or Canada is an irrelevant red herring. We also ration, but not for medical reasons.
The U.S. has plenty of resources to avoid things like long wait times and "rationing". We have more hospitals and doctors than anyone. And if we could stop the AMA from imposing limits on the number of docs, we'd have even more of them. Same goes for hospitals and clinics.
Any National health plan will require cost containment measures and policies regarding provider compensation. What's so daunting about that? Now, the HMO's are doing exactly that.
Re. lawsuits. Many lawsuits involve denial of care by ins. companies. A NHP will eliminate that problem. And the rise in malpractice premiums is due more to bad investment and predatory pricing policies by the ins. companies than it is to "frivolous lawsuits". And most frivolous lawsuits can be avoided by proper pre-trial screening and other administrative measures.
None of the problems the free-market fundamentalists continually bring up with National health care are worse than what we have now, and none of them are insurmountable.
We spend more money than anywhere else and we have hundreds of cumulative years of their experiences to draw on.
Are you afraid we are not smart enough to design the best NHP in the world? You must be anti-American!! :-)
And it's funny that in all these horror stories about nationalized health care, you always hear about Canada and the U.K. Let's hear about the German, Italian, Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, Swiss, etc.
No one say's this will be cheap. But we cannot allow people to go uninsured until they have an emergency and are forced onto the public dole.
Add up the amounts of co-pays, premiums, deductibles, public financed emergency care, lost industry, lost productivity, bankruptcies, job paralysis, etc., etc. that are an unavoidable side effect of our present system.
Compare that amount to the potential tax bite a decent NHP would take. I predict a NHP would, in effect, be cheaper for everyone except those that choose to go uninsured. And like I said, you have no more right to "choose" to go without health ins. as you do to "choose" to drive without auto ins.
9:59 The blogger 11:01 said it all. However to the point you make about "other people's money", when you drive on a highway do you believe that your taxes alone built it? And of course there is truly nothing you benefit from that you paid for without the money from "others." All the benefits you have in this country were povided by taxes paid by "other people's money" since you could not possible afford it with your tax payments alone. You are so dependent on "other people's money" for your very life, as are we all.
Sharing Salamanca! said...
Gupta wrongfully asserted many times that he was quoting the BBC on those statistics.
No journalist worth his salt would quote another journalist organization. It's simply not done. Plus, the numbers he had were wrong. All economists cite the Michael Moore figure.
Gupta got the statistics wrong; his guest was a representative of the pharmaceutical companies; and Gupta openly declared on Larry King that he was against universal healthcare. Not only that, Gupta's hour long "documentary" on food safety and the e-coli deaths did not mention at all the contamination from China and other countries; the failure of the FDA and the disastrous results for us and our pets our trade arrangements have caused. Is he another paid source of propaganda a la Armstrong Williams?
And where does CNN's point of view fit in in all of this? Is a Murdock mole on the board of CNN?
KEEP YOUR LAWS OFF MY BODY
The big, fat, bloated, imperial federal government will have total control of YOU once they obtain control of your health.
SAY NO TO UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE
11:16 I'm sure all would be happy not to touch your body.
However, it's not the government that is at fault, as Michael Moore pointed out on "Larry King,' It is the "would be king" and his knaves running this government that have made it so ineffective . But even so, the government does well enough that even they have not been able to totally disrupt the well-run Medicare program. Our government did gloriously well under some of our good Presidents and Legislatures and Supreme Court members. Or are you a mole here in our country to undermine our magnificent history?
3:15 pm,
Are you delirious enough to actually believe that the government under Bill Clinton would have efficiently run Universal Healthcare ? I guess you don't remember the Hillary Care proposal.
The overstretching imperial federal government will destroy America even more than it currently is once they have control of your healthcare.
KEEP YOUR LAWS OFF MY BODY, SAY "NO" TO UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE
Universal Healthcare is a scam to take control from the people and to give it to the most corrupt political parties to ever run America - the Democrats and Republicans.
Once you give politicians control over your health plan, you have given them decision making abilities about your lifestyle.
Politicians will decide if your health issues are urgent, required, electable, or optional.
Politicans will decide which doctor you will have access to, and which doctors you cannot go to.
Politicians will make it illegal to use your own money to go to a doctor of your choice, even if you defer coverage.
Politicians will manager your health and tell you what foods you can have access to, and which foods you cannot have.
Politicians will make new legislation to prevent you from doing activities that may risk unnecessary doctor visits.
Now the Repubican "man on the street" is using the same "scare 'em and defeat 'em" tactics that his King George and his Court used to scare us into invading Iraq and are now using it to keep us there. None of the horrible things 4:37 lists happens in the civilized countires in the world that have universal healthcare. It doesn't happen under the Medicare program either. And as for regulating food -- the Republican Bloomberg has already stopped trans fats from being served and stopped smoking in buildings. Republicans don't need the excuse of universal healthcare to
suppress us.
And Hillary's plan was fair, pragmatic and affordable. The Repubicans killed the plan then as they're trying to do now.
10:48 PM,
If the government controls your health care, and politicians make up the government, how can you deduce that politicians will not manager your health and thus your lifestyle ?
The government uses taxpayer money for everything it does. If taxpayers must pay more because some people eat too many fried foods, and others drink too much alcohol, and others smoke or do not exercise; how can you claim that politicians won't want to change your lifestyle for the benefit of taxpayers and the Healthcare system?
It does not matter if Republicans banning trans fats in New York or if Democrats are banning candy machines in San Francisco. They are both encroaching on the individual.
KEEP YOUR BIG, FAT, BLOATED, IMPERIAL, INEFFICIENT, BUREAUCRATIC GOVERNMENT OFF MY BODY!!
Here's a peak into the future of where Democrats want to take America. How else will they pay for 'universal healthcare' ??
Irritation grows over taxes
Norwegians have long accepted high taxes to finance their social welfare state, but a new survey indicates rising dissatisfaction and, in some cases, outright hatred of some taxes that are viewed as way too high and unfair.
Norwegians are among the most heavily taxed people in the world, and that in turn has made Norway one of the most expensive countries in which to live. Most accept the taxes they're ordered to pay on income and even net worth and property, but growing numbers are publicly complaining about sky-high taxes on everything from cars to fuel to consumer goods.
Norwegians differentiate between skatter (taxes) and avgifter (duties, fees or user taxes) and the latter is the most hated. They're what causes a glass of house wine at an Oslo restaurant to cost the equivalent of nearly USD 16, or a gallon of gas to cost nearly USD 9 at current exchange rates.
"It's clear that taxes are much too high in oil-rich Norway," Oslo resident Gro Pettersen told newspaper Aftenposten. "It's sick!"
The taxes placed on new cars, which can more than double the price of the car itself, are another bone of contention, even though most Norwegians support measures to protect the environment. "The car tax is much too high, but so are most all the other avgifter also," said Ernst Bendiksen of the northern city of Vadsø, where Norwegians are far more dependent on their cars than those living in cities with good public transit systems. "We certainly don't get anything in return for them."
A study conducted by research firm MMI for the Norwegian Tax Payers Association (Skattebetalerforeningen) showed that the most hated taxes are those on new cars and a transfer tax levied when real estate changes hands. The so-called dokumentavgift on real estate transactions, which implies that it's meant to cover the costs of property registration, costs homebuyers around 2.5 percent of the purchase price.
Three of four Norwegians believe that's too high, according to the MMI study, and absolutely no one believed it was too low. With even a modest flat in Oslo costing a few million kroner these days, the tax amounts to a fair bit of change.
Regressive inequality
The study also showed that 67 percent of the population think Norway's inheritance taxes are too high, while 63 percent think fuel taxes are too high. Norway's hefty 25 percent VAT (like a sales tax) on nearly all consumer items is considered too high by 53 percent of the population.
Only 32 percent, meanwhile, believed tobacco taxes are too high, while 44 percent believed liquor taxes are too high.
The user taxes, or avgifter, are also unpopular because they're largely regressive taxes that hit people with low incomes much harder than those with high incomes. Filling the car's gas tank, and paying the taxes that requires, is much more expensive for someone earning NOK 300,000 than it is for a car owner earning NOK 900,000.
The head of the tax payers' association, Jon Stordrange, said he thinks user taxes should be adjusted to reflect actual costs inflicted on society. "Then I think people would have more respect for the system," he said.
Another reason to SAY NO TO UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE
75 percent of Americans overweight by 2015
Two-thirds considered heavy or obese now; rate still increasing, study finds
7:11 a.m. CT July 19, 2007
WASHINGTON - If people keep gaining weight at the current rate, fat will be the norm by 2015, with 75 percent of U.S. adults overweight and 41 percent obese, U.S. researchers predicted on Wednesday.
A team at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore examined 20 studies published in journals and looked at national surveys of weight and behavior for their analysis, published in the journal Epidemiologic Reviews.
"Obesity is a public health crisis. If the rate of obesity and overweight continues at this pace, by 2015, 75 percent of adults and nearly 24 percent of U.S. children and adolescents will be overweight or obese," Dr. Youfa Wang, who led the study, said in a statement.
Thanks 9:41 for sharing that bit of insight into the human psyche. People don't like to pay taxes. What a break thorugh in knowledge. Of course Americans will never get to that point, however, since the rich here like to reflect their Christian devotion by helping the poor as Jesus taught Christians to do. In fact, most religions teach helping those less fortunate. The Republicans fervently point out that we are a Chrisitan country and they want Christian symbols everywhere to remind us all. So, there is not doubt they are willing to pay more taxes to help the poor.
As for obesity, 11:42. These growing number of people who are getting fatter and fatter are getting fatter because they are poor. They can't afford restaurants that serve healthful food so they must eat at fast food places. They usually do that often because they work two jobs and have no time to go home and cook or feed the children who also eat in fast food places, many times alone. They are poor because because their jobs have been sent overseas; the corporations have destroyed the unions and there are no wage increases to keep up with inflation; or, they have been washed out financially because of a medical emergency in the family or they have no car to travel to the sites where illegal immigrants are getting the jobs; or -- any number of other reasons why they are poor. Remember: "Feed the poor. If you do it to the least of them you do it unto me."
Now I wonder who among you will say if they can't afford meat "let them eat cake." Bush was reminiscent of Marie Antionette when he said if the poor needed a doctor to attend to an illness, they could go to the emergency room.
A response to your Christian bashing is simple: separation of church and state. American's give more to charity than anyone. Conservatives give more to charity than liberals. Liberals prefer using other people's money for their charitable causes. Universal Healthcare is a political attempt to take control from American citizens and give it to the political elite.
Your insight to the obesity problem is typical class warfare conducted by Democrats. You not only have a flawed illusion of America's fat people, but you are not living in reality. You are trying to link obesity to the outsourcing of jobs. More typical liberal attempts to point blame at anyone but yourself.
Obesity and the lack of job skills are the result of the person having poor decision making abilities, possibly as a result of a public school education system that cares more about protecting the teacher and teacher union, than it cares about teaching the children.
I'm sure you will attack me with some fringe case scenario of the person who can't help being fat because of a health issue, but this does not represent the scenario for most of the 2/3 of Americans who are obese today.
2:12 Neal -- And if you're not he, you are his double. You never change your party's tired old talking points. This is the stuff you spew out time and time again.
What's new is the separation of church and state. Just how do you think that could be arranged with the hold the Republican religious hypocrits have in three bodies of government. The Liberals pray yes pray for separation of church and state. What's really tiresome is your old song about how much the Republicans give to charity - not mentioning the tax write-offs and the credit they get from on-lookers. And you forget that the tax money collected IS OUR money - not somebody elses.
And, if you thugs are so worried about the schools, put some money and intelligence into solving that problem. No Child Left Behind is a tragedy.
The political elite are Republicans who are trying to take away the right of women to determine what they will do with their bodies. How can you possibly suggest that it's the Democratic party trying to get the power to tell us what to do or not do. You even try to decide who can get married. Everytime you mention our wanting big government to interfere with our personal lives a huge laugh roars from the Democratic Party.
2:12 How can you call it bashing to ask declared Chrisitians to act like Christians and follow the teachings of Jesus. As the blogger said Jesus said" Feed the poor." and He also said "if ye do it unto the least of them ye do it unto me." Don't you get that?
You would take the right of all American citizens to determine what they will do with their bodies with Universal Healthcare, so what's your complaint?
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Q: colorbox not loading in  I can not get colorbox fully loaded.
I am trying to add color box to use in my plugin admin.
I do not need it for the front end.
I can get the css but can not get jquery.colorbox-min.js or the inline script to load in the <head>.
Here is what I have:
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/*    admin Stylesheet
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add_action( 'admin_enqueue_scripts', 'add_wlmm_admin_stylesheets' );

function add_wlmm_admin_stylesheets() {
    if (is_admin()) {

        /*
         * Includes css for:
         *
         *  - plugin optins framework
         *  - colorbox
        */
      wp_enqueue_style( 'wlmm-admin-style', WLMM_URL . 'admin/css/wlmm-admin-styles.css' );
  }
}

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/*      load colorbox for admin help images
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add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'wlmm_do_colorbox_js' );
add_action( 'wp_head', 'wlmm_do_colorbox_script' );

function wlmm_do_colorbox_js() {

    if (is_admin()) {
      wp_enqueue_script( 'colorbox', WLMM_URL . 'admin/scripts/colorbox/jquery.colorbox-min.js', array( 'jquery' ) );
  }
}

function wlmm_do_colorbox_script() {

if ( ! defined( 'COLORBOX_WIDTH' ) ) define( 'COLORBOX_WIDTH', '95' );
if ( ! defined( 'COLORBOX_HEIGHT' ) ) define( 'COLORBOX_HEIGHT', '95' );
if ( ! defined( 'COLORBOX_OPACITY' ) ) define( 'COLORBOX_OPACITY', '0.6' );

// Colorbox settings
echo '
<script>
  jQuery(document).ready(function () {
      jQuery("a.admin").colorbox({ width:'.COLORBOX_WIDTH.', height:'.COLORBOX_HEIGHT.', opacity:'.COLORBOX_OPACITY.' });
  });
</script>
';
}

A: For the admin side, the two actions you want are admin_enqueue_scripts and admin_head-(plugin_page).
wp_enqueue_scripts and wp_head are only for the front end.

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Southampton Was Packed at 3 a.m. Thanks to "The Dark Knight Rises"
By David Rattiner Posted on July 20, 2012
At midnight, I awoke from a deep nap that I'd started at 11 p.m. and headed to the Southampton movie theater to see the premiere of The Dark Knight Rises.
When I arrived at the theater, it was already packed—and I was a half-hour early for the movie. I ran into frequent Dan's Papers cover artists Mickey Paraskevas, who said he had been at the theater all day, as it had been showing the first two movies of the Dark Knight trilogy. But that is an aside. Let me just get straight to how I feel about this film.
The Dark Knight Rises is fantastic. I'm still not really over it. I can't remember the last time I've had that much fun at the movies. Christopher Nolan is one of the greatest storytellers of our time. The movie is dark, it is cerebral and it has that quietness that Nolan is known for. Once again, Nolan brings a philosophy into Batman, asking questions in his storytelling about humanity, right and wrong, justice and politics. The character Bane is portrayed beautifully, with his voice rumbling through the theater when he speaks, and the intensity of his presence throughout the film is magnificent.
There were scenes during which I literally said to my girlfriend, "I think this is the best scene I've ever seen in a theater."
The Dark Knight Rises has that edge-of-your-seat action that forces you to become completely captivated by the film. I simply refuse to give spoilers in writing this review, and I urge you to do what I did and avoid reading anything that gives details about the movie. But I will say this: If you don't see this movie in the theater with a big tub of popcorn, a Coke and a good friend or significant other, you are missing out on a life experience.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney took aim at President Barack Obama's economic leadership Wednesday, saying the Democrat's policies were hurting, not helping, the U.S. economy.
"The president's policies almost without question have caused this recession to be deeper and longer than it would have been and have made this recovery more anemic than it should have been," Romney said at a campaign stop in a run-down North Hollywood community.
The former Massachusetts governor assailed Obama's handling of the economy, speaking against the backdrop of a foreclosed strip mall with mostly empty buildings and boarded-up windows.
Saying the mall had been "scrapped in part because of challenges of the economy," Romney accused Obama of being too distracted by other matters to focus on reviving the struggling economy and vowed that would be his highest priority if he is elected president.
Last month, the Republican White House hopeful took his campaign to a shuttered plant in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where he accused Obama of failing to understand how to fix the economy and create jobs.
The early front-runner in the field of candidates competing for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, Romney has zeroed in on the two issues seen as key vulnerabilities in Obama's effort to win a second-term -- the sluggish economy and the 9.2 percent jobless rate.
"Some years ago just weeks after he (Obama) was inaugurated he went on the 'Today Show' and he said 'look if I can't turn this economy around in three years, I'm looking at a one-term proposition,' and I'm here to collect," Romney said, drawing cheers from about 40 supporters.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a Democrat, pre-empted Romney's campaign event with a dim assessment of the former governor's economic record.
In a conference call with reporters, Villaraigosa said Massachusetts ranked 47th out of the 50 states in job creation under Romney's governorship and had skyrocketing home foreclosures.
"Romney using LA - and I emphasis using LA - to blast Obama's economic policies is appalling," Villaraigosa said.
Tim Pawlenty, the former Minnesota governor who is behind most of his Republican rivals in polls, has also criticized Romney's jobs record as Massachusetts governor and his support for a state healthcare overhaul that was a model for Obama's federal law.


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"Peace Village" / Kijong-dong, North Korea
Posted on January 16, 2018 August 16, 2019
South of the North Korean border lies an odd village that locals call Kijŏng-dong, or 'the Peace Village'. Its inhabitants must be leading quiet and peaceful lives, since an overall feeling of tranquility seems to be hovering over their homes' roofs. From a distance, one can just notice lights going on and off in apartment buildings, or attentive caretakers sweeping the not-very-busy sidewalks.
The "Peace Village", general view. (Photo: U.S. Army Garrison Red Cloud via Flickr)
This village, said to house about 200 people, was erected at the heart of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (or DMZ) in the early 1950s. The latter is a buffer zone dividing both Koreas which serves as a point of contact, meeting, or diplomatic negotiation between the countries. Running through 250 kilometers (155 miles) across the peninsula, the border is spiked with barbed wire and hundreds of soldiers are posted on both sides to guarantee its inviolability.
One must travel back as far as 1945 to understand the crucial role this very area played in the course of the history of Korea. At the time, the country was a Japanese colony, which ended up in the US' and the USSR's hands by the last months of WW2. Fearing that Korea would soon be occupied by the Soviets, two American soldiers were handled a weighty task: to mark out the limits between the U.S. and the Soviet occupation zones. They managed to complete it quickly, using a map featured in a recent issue of the National Geographic, and decided to delimit the border along the 38th parallel. Then, in August 1945, Korea was cut in two halves.
The Korean peninsula parted along the 38th parallel. (Map via VOA News)
Although the threat of permanent partition did not yet worry the Koreans, two opposite doctrines were gradually implemented in both countries. In the south, Syngman Rhee, winning the favor of U.S. authorities, put a strong anticommunist and repressive policy into practice. Numerous political opponents were jailed, for the luckiest ones. In the north ruled Kim Il-Sung, building on the Soviet 'traditional package': farm collectivization, resources dealt equally, hammer and sickle were all involved in the process to turn North Korea into a Soviet satellite state.
Soon enough, both dictators' opposition – with Western and Eastern ideologies pulling the strings – escalated into the Korean War. The bloody conflict, which lasted from 1950 to 1953, caused millions of deaths, especially among civilians. Permanent partition, as feared by many Koreans at the dawn of the war, became a reality.
"The tragedy of Korea is further heightened by the fact that its military action is confined to its territorial limits. It condemns that nation, which it is our purpose to save, to suffer the devastating impact of full naval and air bombardment while the enemy's sanctuaries are fully protected from such attack and devastation." – U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur, 1951
Thereafter, weapons were dropped to favor cold warfare tactics, mostly propaganda, as both sides began bragging about their respective political doctrines. However, the conflict did not end following the armistice, signed on July 27, 1953: numerous incidents would occur on both sides of the border from that point on. A memorable one, known as 'the poplar tree incident' happened when two U.S. soldiers, asked to chop down a tree in the DMZ, were shot by North Korean soldiers who considered the tree to be sacred in 1976.
The poplar tree responsible for the 1976 incident. (Photo: Wayne Johnson via Wikipedia)
Through this tense context of mutual defiance, the foundations of the 'Peace Village' were laid out in the still-steaming buffer zone. Brightly-colored apartment buildings were erected and then 'embellished' with a proud-looking North Korean flag. The government still claims that as many as 200 people live there – apparently, this happy community is also home to schools, a hospital, and a kindergarten… Is this the long-awaited symbol of peaceful coexistence between Koreas?
Not really: on a closer look, it appears that this pretty picture is no more than a smokescreen, without any sign of life within. The apartments have no windows or, for those who feature one, come out on empty rooms lacking furniture; plus, lights going on and off inside do so on a synchronized schedule, a routine that repeats daily. It actually seems that the sidewalks' caretakers (as well as the soldiers posted at the border) are the only people residing in the area. The 'Peace Village' would in fact be a fake inhabited town solely built for political purposes (which reminds the ghost capital of Burma, Naypyidaw). But the quiet city does not keep silent all the time: speakers are also set up there, spitting out nationalist songs and denouncing Western policies, a deception tactic aimed at persuading South Koreans to cross the border and join their Northern 'comrades'.
Close up shot of the Peace Village. At that distance, just drop your camera and run. (Photo: Deserted Places)
A 160-meter high flagpole is also towering over the village, with a fluttering North Korean flag atop: it was erected after a similar flagpole settled in the neighboring South Korean village of Daeseong-dong (which, shamefully, was only 98 meter high). Some people nicknamed it 'the flagpole war' when it occurred, back in the 1980s: that's right, this diplomatic struggle sometimes escalates to a pissing contest between the countries sitting on both sides of the 38th parallel.
The village of Kijŏng-dong was fabricated in the North Korean propaganda factory, and then sold to whoever would buy it as a peaceful, safe haven. And from a distance, on this harshly-contested, controversial frontier, one will just make up two flags which have been defying one another for decades… This should keep us reminded that such a result was obtained through the loss of three and a half millions of lives, civilians for the most part (67%), in the course of the Korean War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Village_(North_Korea)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_of_Korea
http://www.history.com/topics/korean-war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualty_ratio#Korean_War
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12 Child Actors Who Stole the Show at the Oscars
By Raisa Bruner
Jodie Foster. Jacob Tremblay. Haley Joel Osment. And now, Best Picture nominated-Lion's Sunny Pawar. Every year, it seems, breakout child stars find themselves in the mix at the Academy Awards—often foreshadowing the start of interesting careers in showbiz, but mostly just making audience hearts melt everywhere as they cement their status as Oscars pros.
To get you ready for the ceremony, here's a rundown of the adorable—and recognizable—young actors who started out at the top before they'd even reached their teens.
Write to Raisa Bruner at raisa.bruner@time.com.
Tatum O'Neal (1974)
The 1974 Oscars breakout star was a ten-year-old Tatum O'Neal, who starred in Paper Moon alongside her father Ryan—and managed to win the Best Supporting Actress prize for her turn as the sidekick of the con-man Bible salesman in the Depression-era story. Forty years later (and counting), she remains the youngest actor to ever win an Academy Award. She still acts in movies and television, but hasn't made it back to the Oscars spotlight.
Jodie Foster (1977)
Foster was nominated for her supporting actress role in Martin Scorcese's 1976 film Taxi Driver at the tender age of 14, where she controversially played the child prostitute Iris; child actors in Oscar-quality movies have often dealt with mature adult themes, despite their youth. Foster's nomination foreshadowed a blockbuster career for the young veteran actor, who ultimately won Best Actress in 1988 for The Accused, and again in 1991 for The Silence of the Lambs.
Angelina Jolie (1986)
Angelina Jolie was born into a Hollywood family, and hit her first Oscars red carpet when she was just ten years old as the guest of her thrice-nominated actor dad, Jon Voight. Even then she stood out in the crowd, thanks to a bold lace dress. In 2000, she'd return to the awards show to take home the prize for Best Actress for her turn in Girl, Interrupted.
Anna Paquin (1994)
Rookie actor Paquin snagged a supporting role win for her debut performance in The Piano in 1993 at the age of 11. She has gone on to act in a number of movies and TV shows, including X-Men and HBO's popular series True Blood—although she hasn't repeated her early Oscar success yet.
Haley Joel Osment (2000)
An 11-year-old Osment was a Best Actor nominee for his breakout role in the unforgettable The Sixth Sense, the M. Night Shyamalan vehicle that quickly became a supernatural horror classic. Although Osment has continued to act since then, his youthful part remains his sole Oscar nomination.
Keisha Castle-Hughes (2004)
Keisha Castle-Hughes was just 12 years old when she was plucked from her New Zealand classroom to play the lead in Whale Rider, the 2003 movie about Maori heritage. She was ultimately nominated for Best Actress at the year's Academy Awards. Most recently, Castle-Hughes appeared in TV hit Game of Thrones as fierce Dornish fighter Obara Sand.
Jaden Smith (2007)
The 2007 Oscars were a family outing for Will Smith, Jada Pinkett-Smith, and their then-7-year-old son Jaden. Father and son co-starred in that year's critically-acclaimed movie The Pursuit of Happyness, and while Jaden wasn't nominated, he did get the chance to present an award onstage alongside fellow child star Abigail Breslin. These days, the younger Smith is more often found in the fields of music, art, and activism than acting, though.
Abigail Breslin (2007)
Everyone fell for the quirky charms of Little Miss Sunshine in 2007—and especially for a ten-year-old Abigail Breslin, whose mix of youthful confidence and insecurity as a wannabe child beauty pageant queen garnered her a Best Supporting Actress nod at the big awards show. Ten years later, Breslin is once again to set to star in a dancing role, this time in the Dirty Dancing remake.
Saoirse Ronan (2008)
Long before Ireland's Saoirse Ronan nabbed an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in her role in the film adaptation of Brooklyn, the poised young star was noticed—and nominated—for carrying the early acts of Atonement, the sprawling war epic also starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy. She was just 13 for her first go on the famous red carpet in 2008.
Quvenzhané Wallis (2013)
At nine, Quvenzhané Wallis was the youngest contender ever for the Best Actress prize, nominated for her performance as Hushpuppy in the magical-realist Hurricane Katrina tale Beasts of the Southern Wild. She was six when she made her movie debut in the indie that landed on favorite lists of everyone from President Obama to film critics. She followed it up with 2014's Annie.
Jacob Tremblay (2016)
Room—the affecting movie about an imprisoned mother and her son, co-starring breakout duo Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay—produced plenty of Oscar buzz. It also brought into the spotlight the irrepressibly charming Tremblay, who lit up red carpets left and right at just nine years old.
Sunny Pawar (2017)
And this year, all eyes are on Best Picture nominee Lion's littlest star, Indian actor Sunny Pawar. At just 8 years of age, Pawar can count the heavy-hitter movie starring Nicole Kidman and Slumdog Millionaire's Dev Patel as his first. But if his red carpet charisma is any indicator, it won't be his last.


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OSN joins ACE's global battle against content piracy
16th January 2023 @ 12:57
Dubai-based media group OSN has joined anti-piracy coalition the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment. OSN is one of 11 companies to have joined ACE in the last month, expanding its ability to combat illegal piracy operations around the world.
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OSN Group CEO Joe Kawkabani said: "At OSN, we believe in the value of creative content and the hard work of the talented individuals who produce it. We also recognise the growing threat of piracy, which not only hurts the bottom line of our industry, but also undermines the efforts of artists and creators in the MENA region."
By linking up with ACE, said Kawkabani, "we are joining forces with like-minded organisations to combat this serious problem and protect the interests of our industry. We look forward to working with the other members of ACE to develop effective strategies and solutions to address the challenges of piracy."
Jan van Voorn, EVP and global content protection Chief of the Motion Picture Association and head of ACE, applauded OSN for its commitment to fight piracy. "Working with OSN, I'm confident we will make significant progress fighting these illegal piracy operations that pose serious threats to the creative economy."
OSN is active across 22 countries in the MENA region with a combination of linear channels, streaming and b2b offerings. Like many parts of the world, MENA has long had a problem with piracy – a problem that seems to be gathering pace.
In November 2022, Tim Pearson, VP solution marketing at content security specialist NAGRA said: "Piracy in the MENA region is growing, fast. Regional streaming services need content, and this has driven demand for original Arabic content which in turn has increased the amount of content produced in the region. The appetite for local content is matched by challenges seen elsewhere. These are a fragmented content offering, overwhelming customer choice and an increased demand for safeguards. The sum of all these parts makes for a larger attack area for pirates who create new offers where full catalogues of content can be accessed in one place for an unbelievably low price."
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Suspected Mail Thieves in Custody After Wild Pursuit
By Jane Yamamoto and Willian Avila	• Published December 18, 2015 • Updated on December 21, 2015 at 12:22 pm
A family of three accused of mail theft led authorities on a pursuit in Southern California, driving in opposite lanes and narrowly missing other drivers in rush hour traffic, before being taken into custody at a gas station on Friday.
Neighbors reported seeing two men taking mail, including packages, in the Nellie Gail Ranch neighborhood before taking off in a vehicle in Laguna Hills, said Jeff Hallock, spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff's Department.
A wild pursuit that made its way from Orange County to Los Angeles County ended in a Downey gas station. Watch raw video from Friday, Dec. 18, 2015.
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Sheriff's deputies were dispatched to the 25000 block of Buckboard Lane after neighbors reported seeing the men taking mail from their mailboxes, according to a news release from the Orange County Sheriff's Department.
The chase made its way through surface streets in several Orange County cities including Santa Ana and Anaheim, before the driver took the northbound 5 Freeway into Downey, where he and his wife and son were taken into custody after pulling into an Arco gas station.
#OCSDPIO: PURSUIT UPDATE - Pursuit terminated in Downey. Thanks for the assist @DowneyPolice & @NorwalkLASD
— OC Sheriff, CA (@OCSD) December 19, 2015
The California Highway Patrol was also involved in the pursuit.
Authorities arrested 45-year-old David Brown, his 55-year-old wife Jessie Brown and their 22-year-old son Corey Richardson. All three suspects were from Anaheim, according to the sheriff's department.
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Anaheim residents David Brown, his wife Jessie Brown and their son Corey Richardson in a booking photo provided by the Orange County Sheriff's Department following their arrest for alleged mail theft. The family led authorities on a pursuit on Friday, Dec. 18, 2015.
Items believed to have been stolen were found inside the car, deputies said.


Why aren't investors coming to Sri Lanka?
Colombo (News1st) – It is no secret that Sri Lanka is badly in need of Foreign Direct Investments. FDI's play a key role in improving the Sri Lankan economy.
So who is hampering investments coming into the country?
The leader of the National Unity Alliance, Azath Salley believes that the actions of certain ministers have resulted in investors turning away from the country. Addressing a media briefing on Tuesday (Oct 2), Salley noted that Minister of Development Strategies and International Trade, Malik Samarawickrama had given an assurance to everyone who cut deals during former president Mahinda Rajapaksa's tenure, they would be looked after.
He states that investors who came to the country during the Rajapaksa tenure turned away because certain individuals asked for 40% stakes in these companies. A similar situation is present today as well according to the leader of the National Unity Alliance who accused the Chairman of the UNP, Minister Malik Samarawickrama of playing this role.


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JESSE OFSOWITZ
He or She
No topic in English usage has received more attention in modern practice than the lack of a singular personal pronoun for common-sex nouns. For most of the language's history, he dealt with all such matters: He who is anyone knows me, The student must complete his test, Let no one leave without his pay. These phrases use obvious masculinity that, whether we want to admit it or not, ignores female involvement.
Unfortunately, English does not offer a clean common-sex pronoun. Our language offers only three third-person singular pronouns: he, she, and it. Writers have suggested adding a common-sex pronoun like thon, heesh, hse, hu (human), per (person), himorher, ha, and shiz, but none of those have ever caught on (I've never seen any of these outside articles like this one). I have occasionally seen the abhorrent s/he, which has the sole effect of forcing readers to pause and choose their preferred pronoun. Do not impose upon the reader the task of your expression.
Many writers want to use the colloquial they for the singular pronoun. Henry Fowler calls it horrible and Garner resigns to its popularity, but, as many a copyeditor and usage expert agrees, the use of they for he or she is just plain wrong. At the expense of number, they risks confusion. The child went to the zoo and watched the penguins, and they clapped with great joy. To whom, if we accept they as singular, does they clapped refer? And if we accept they as singular, should verbs agree with the singular subject or the plural pronoun? The person must decide if they wants to listen is correct if they is a singular pronoun, but sure doesn't sound it. They does not solve the problem; it only introduces new ones.
The most popular alternative, he or she, may work in most situations, though overuse of he or she creates bloat, slows the reader, and can suggest there are two people involved rather than one. The astute reader may also ask why we say he or she and not she or he, which reminds us of the original issue.
So where does that leave us? We could accept he and man to mean also the general human being—one of the definitions for man in the Oxford English Dictionary. But while he falls invisible to readers like myself, there are plenty for whom it causes great offense. Thus, my first suggestion when encountering the need for a single third-person common-sex pronoun, which echos most style guides, is to rewrite your prose to avoid relying on a pronoun. Sometimes the singular can become plural, though plural feels less intimate: If the reader disagrees, he or she can shove off or If the readers disagree, they can shove off. Where the plural doesn't work, consider rephrasing to avoid the situation altogether; the lazy writer may complain, but, as an example, I have removed singular third-person pronouns throughout my website's articles, and no reader will be the lesser for it.
But, alas, there are situations were we do need a lovely common-sex singular third-person pronoun. With the wrong choice (s/he, any of the thons or heeshes), you call attention to the word itself and the politics behind it rather than the content you wish to discuss. Some writers switch he and she within a piece, but that also calls attention to the politics and, at worst, confuses the reader. But that shouldn't stop you from switching up the pronouns between works: one essay, she, the next, he, and so on. It's kind, gentle, and shows a conscientiousness to both sides of modern English's most hotly debated topic.


About a month ago I was sent these cool brow shadows from Anastasia Beverly Hills Cosmetics and I apologize profusely for how long it has taken me to get this out to you guys. I have been crazy busy with school and what little social life I have. I have been trying so hard to get back into blogging but I am finding it hard to get motivated. Anyways, on to the review.
Here are the instructions for this product, and it is surprisingly really simple and really effective, just a little messy.
I think this product is super fun, great for a night out. I don't think it is worth purchasing though. Sure it has great colors for short term hair color but it is also really messy and runs out quickly.
This is the green after only one use, you can already see the bottom of the pan.
Also, despite hairspraying, but color only lasted a few hours tops, by the end of the day my hair was back to brown.
I would be using these on my brows instead of my hair.
You're the first blogger I've seen actually using these in thier hair! They look cool but I totally agree not worth the cash!


At ClicksCrazy.com, we adapt the WordPress CMS to give our Orlando Web Design clients website a custom look with all the great WordPress functionality.
This even means the client may use the different user levels available in WordPress for employees to login to, so they can access certain pages, and change their profiles, etc.
WordPress likes to tell you when a new version is out. So it displays this annoying message to ALL users when they login, telling them to contact their administrator to update WordPress.
The website administrator than gets slammed with people thinking something is wrong.
1. Open the functions.php file in the theme directory.
2. Add the below code into the functions.php file.
This code says that if the user logged in is not an administrator, than hide the nagging WordPress update message.


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The Staffordshire Hoard Gallery - showcasing items from the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found.
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Soft Measures
Soft Measures is a group exhibition curated by André Tehrani and Anthea Buys for the project space at WIELS Art Centre in Brussels. The project is a conclusion of Tehrani's residency at WIELS and features a diverse group of young artists from Italy, Norway, South Africa and the United States.
Installation view of 'Soft Measures' at WIELS, Brussels. Photo © 2014 André Tehrani
Tehrani and Buys set out to make a group exhibition by employing the intuitive, often inexplicable processes of material and visual decision-making involved in producing works of art. The exhibition foregrounds the obscure but nevertheless central impulses that inform artistic production: the gut-feeling discriminations which gives preference to this over that, often as a result of a haptic, fetishistic or visual attraction to a specific quality or surface. This sensual intelligence plays an instrumental role in the processes of artistic production, but is curiously excluded from curatorial and mediative work in contemporary art. Soft Measures explores the possibility of curating as inhabiting and working through a sensual logic, rather than corralling works into a discursive structure. The purpose of this approach is to stage a shift in the dominance of discourse over visual and sensory properties in both artistic production and exhibition-making. Not only because discourse seems to have exhausted itself in contemporary art, but also because the subordination of the sensory to the discursive reflects an ideological bias that privileges reason, order, and inflexibility over provisionality and responsiveness. In so many fields of cultural history - in the histories of art, colonial education, Western philosophy, the written mediation of scientific discovery - this ideological bias is taken as a natural hierarchy. The only fitting way to challenge this notion is to work contrary to it (as opposed merely to writing contrary to it), creating space for the sensory, non-conceptual qualities that distinguish artistic practice to guide the formation of ideas and knowledge.
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Q: How to properly add a percentage change box inside a Japanese Candlestick chart using MatPlotLibFinance on Python3? Context
I'm trying to figure out a good way to add percentage price change boxes inside a custom Japanese Candlestick chart that I have made using the MatPlotLibFinance library on Python3, these percentage price change boxes will help to visually appreciate how much the price increased or decreased from the open price of a particular candlestick.
Data
The following information is stored in a variable called df, it will be used to plot the candlestick chart

Index
Start Date
Open Price
High Price
Low Price
Close Price
Volume
End Date
Abs((CP-OP)/CP)*100
Low SMA 9
Close SMA 25
High SMA 99

12
2022-10-23 12:24:00
27.87
27.88
27.72
27.83
40623.0
2022-10-23 12:26:59.999
0.14
27.89888888888889
28.007600000000004
28.294343434343432

13
2022-10-23 12:27:00
27.83
27.91
27.83
27.91
17337.0
2022-10-23 12:29:59.999
0.29
27.887777777777778
27.997600000000002
28.289898989898994

14
2022-10-23 12:30:00
27.91
27.98
27.91
27.94
8235.0
2022-10-23 12:32:59.999
0.11
27.88222222222222
27.9908
28.286262626262626

15
2022-10-23 12:33:00
27.94
27.94
27.89
27.89
6809.0
2022-10-23 12:35:59.999
0.18
27.87333333333333
27.983599999999996
28.282121212121215

16
2022-10-23 12:36:00
27.89
27.9
27.85
27.88
4209.0
2022-10-23 12:38:59.999
0.04
27.863333333333333
27.973999999999997
28.277373737373736

17
2022-10-23 12:39:00
27.89
27.89
27.86
27.88
10082.0
2022-10-23 12:41:59.999
0.04
27.85666666666667
27.966400000000004
28.272121212121213

18
2022-10-23 12:42:00
27.88
27.89
27.83
27.88
13257.0
2022-10-23 12:44:59.999
0.0
27.846666666666668
27.957600000000003
28.26666666666667

19
2022-10-23 12:45:00
27.88
27.94
27.88
27.94
5462.0
2022-10-23 12:47:59.999
0.22
27.85
27.951999999999998
28.26131313131313

20
2022-10-23 12:48:00
27.93
28.03
27.93
28.03
10597.0
2022-10-23 12:50:59.999
0.36
27.855555555555554
27.9512
28.257070707070707

21
2022-10-23 12:51:00
28.03
28.06
27.98
28.05
10238.0
2022-10-23 12:53:59.999
0.07
27.884444444444444
27.951200000000004
28.253333333333334

22
2022-10-23 12:54:00
28.05
28.05
27.99
28.03
6352.0
2022-10-23 12:56:59.999
0.07
27.90222222222222
27.952800000000003
28.24959595959596

23
2022-10-23 12:57:00
28.02
28.04
28.0
28.04
3905.0
2022-10-23 12:59:59.999
0.07
27.91222222222222
27.9556
28.245656565656564

24
2022-10-23 13:00:00
28.03
28.05
28.02
28.03
4607.0
2022-10-23 13:02:59.999
0.0
27.926666666666666
27.9548
28.24222222222222

25
2022-10-23 13:03:00
28.04
28.04
28.0
28.03
4291.0
2022-10-23 13:05:59.999
0.04
27.94333333333333
27.956
28.23868686868687

26
2022-10-23 13:06:00
28.02
28.02
27.99
28.0
4856.0
2022-10-23 13:08:59.999
0.07
27.95777777777778
27.9568
28.234747474747476

27
2022-10-23 13:09:00
28.01
28.03
28.01
28.02
1343.0
2022-10-23 13:11:59.999
0.04
27.977777777777774
27.9584
28.230505050505048

28
2022-10-23 13:12:00
28.02
28.06
28.01
28.06
5932.0
2022-10-23 13:14:59.999
0.14
27.992222222222225
27.9624
28.226565656565658

29
2022-10-23 13:15:00
28.06
28.1
28.04
28.06
8292.0
2022-10-23 13:17:59.999
0.0
28.004444444444445
27.9656
28.223030303030303

When running df.dtypes, the following output is thrown:
Start Date             datetime64[ns]
Open Price                    float64
High Price                    float64
Low Price                     float64
Close Price                   float64
Volume                        float64
End Date               datetime64[ns]
Abs((CP-OP)/CP)*100           float64
Low SMA 9                     float64
Close SMA 25                  float64
High SMA 99                   float64
dtype: object

Also, another variable called df_trading_pair_date_time_index contains the same information as the previous variable with slight modifications, since it can only be used in this way in the script below:
import pandas as pd
import mplfinance as mpf
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.dates as mdates

def set_DateTimeIndex(df_trading_pair):
    df_trading_pair = df_trading_pair.set_index('Start Date', inplace=False)
    # Rename the column names for best practices
    df_trading_pair.rename(columns = { "Open Price" : 'Open',
                                       "High Price" : 'High',
                                       "Low Price" : 'Low',
                                       "Close Price" :'Close',
                              }, inplace = True)

    return df_trading_pair

 # Create another df just to properly plot the data
 df_trading_pair_date_time_index = set_DateTimeIndex(df)

Script
The following script will execute a function called mpl_plotting which takes as input the variables df, df_trading_pair_date_time_index will be used to plot Japanese Candlestick chart, while the last parameter of int type will be used to plot the price change boxes which will then be added to the Japanese candlestick Chart:
def mplf_plotting(df_trading_pair, df_trading_pair_date_time_index, entry_candlestick_index):

    entry_price = df_trading_pair['Open Price'].iat[entry_candlestick_index]

    maximum_price_reached = df_trading_pair['High Price'][entry_candlestick_index+1:].max()
    maximum_price_index = df_trading_pair['Low Price'][entry_candlestick_index+1:].idxmax()
    where_values_up = [entry_candlestick_index, maximum_price_index]

    minimum_price_reached = df_trading_pair['Low Price'][entry_candlestick_index+1:].min()
    minimum_price_index = df_trading_pair['Low Price'][entry_candlestick_index+1:].idxmin()
    where_values_down = [entry_candlestick_index, df_trading_pair['Start Date'][minimum_price_index]]

    # Plotting
    # Create my own `marketcolors` style:
    mc = mpf.make_marketcolors(up='#2fc71e',down='#ed2f1a',inherit=True)
    # Create my own `MatPlotFinance` style:
    s  = mpf.make_mpf_style(base_mpl_style=['bmh', 'dark_background'],marketcolors=mc, y_on_right=True)

    # Plot it
    # First create a dictionary to store the plots to add
    subplots = {'Low SMA 9': mpf.make_addplot(df_trading_pair['Low SMA 9'], width=1, color='#F0FF42'),
                'Close SMA 25': mpf.make_addplot(df_trading_pair['Close SMA 25'], width=1.5, color='#EA047E'),
                'High SMA 99': mpf.make_addplot(df_trading_pair['High SMA 99'], width=2, color='#00FFD1')}

    pct_change_boxes ={'Percentage Change Up': mpf.make_addplot(df_trading_pair, fill_between=dict(y1=entry_price,y2=maximum_price_reached,where=where_values_up),alpha=0.5,color='g'),
                       'Percentage Change Down': mpf.make_addplot(df_trading_pair, fill_between=dict(y1=entry_price,y2=minimum_price_reached,where=where_values_down),alpha=0.5,color='g')}

    list_of_plots = list(subplots.values())
    #for i in list(pct_change_boxes.values()):
        #list_of_plots.append(i)

    trading_plot, axlist = mpf.plot(df_trading_pair_date_time_index,
                        figratio=(10, 6),
                        type="candle",
                        style=s,
                        tight_layout=True,
                        datetime_format = '%H:%M',
                        ylabel = "Precio ($)",
                        returnfig=True,
                        show_nontrading=True,
                        addplot=list_of_plots
                        )
    # Plotting

    # Add Title
    trading_pair = "SOLBUSD"
    symbol = trading_pair.replace("BUSD","")+"/"+"BUSD"
    axlist[0].set_title(f"{symbol} - 3m", fontsize=25, style='italic', fontfamily='fantasy')

    # Find which times should be shown every 6 minutes starting at the last row of the df
    x_axis_minutes = []
    for i in range (1,len(df_trading_pair_date_time_index),2):
        x_axis_minutes.append(df_trading_pair_date_time_index.index[-i].minute)

    # Set the main "ticks" to show at the x axis
    axlist[0].xaxis.set_major_locator(mdates.MinuteLocator(byminute=x_axis_minutes))

    # Set the x axis label
    axlist[0].set_xlabel('Zona Horaria UTC')
    # Set the y axis range
    ymin_value = df_trading_pair[['Low Price','Low SMA 9','Close SMA 25', 'High SMA 99']].min(axis=1).min()
    ymax_value = df_trading_pair[['High Price','Low SMA 9','Close SMA 25', 'High SMA 99']].max(axis=1).max()
    axlist[0].set_ylim([ymin_value,ymax_value])

    # Set the SMA legends
    # First set the amount of legends to add to the legend box
    axlist[0].legend([None]*(len(subplots)+2))
    # Then Store the legend objects in a variable called "handles", based on this script, your objects to legend will appear from the third element in this list
    handles = axlist[0].get_legend().legendHandles

    # Finally set the corresponding names for the plotted SMA trends and place the legend box to the upper left corner in the bigger plot
    axlist[0].legend(handles=handles[2:],labels=list(subplots.keys()), loc = 'upper left', fontsize = 15)

# Execute the function to plot
mplf_plotting(df, df_trading_pair_date_time_index, 14)

The Problem
After running the script above, the following output is thrown:
Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "C:\Users\ResetStoreX\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\spyder_kernels\py3compat.py", line 356, in compat_exec
    exec(code, globals, locals)

  File "c:\users\resetstorex\downloads\binance futures data\binance api key + binance wrapper\bollinger bands\timeframe - 30 minutes\binance_futures_busd-backtesting-of-moving-averages.py", line 224, in <module>
    mplf_plotting(df_trading_pair[dict_index[i]:dict_index[i]+20], df_trading_pair_date_time_index, dict_index[i]+2)

  File "c:\users\resetstorex\downloads\binance futures data\binance api key + binance wrapper\bollinger bands\timeframe - 30 minutes\binance_futures_busd-backtesting-of-moving-averages.py", line 136, in mplf_plotting
    trading_plot, axlist = mpf.plot(df_trading_pair_date_time_index,

  File "C:\Users\ResetStoreX\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\mplfinance\plotting.py", line 720, in plot
    ax = _addplot_columns(panid,panels,ydata,apdict,xdates,config)

  File "C:\Users\ResetStoreX\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\mplfinance\plotting.py", line 1014, in _addplot_columns
    yd = [y for y in ydata if not math.isnan(y)]

  File "C:\Users\ResetStoreX\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\mplfinance\plotting.py", line 1014, in <listcomp>
    yd = [y for y in ydata if not math.isnan(y)]

TypeError: must be real number, not Timestamp

If I decided to remove the following lines from the function:
for i in list(pct_change_boxes.values()):
    list_of_plots.append(i)

The following output is thrown:

Desired output
I was expecting my script to print a image like the one down below, it essentially shows how much the price increased or decreased in percentage values based on the 3rd parameter passed to the mplf_plotting function:

The Question
How could I fix my function to throw an output like the desired one?

A: The closest thing I have come up with was to make use of the following original MatPlotLib functions: matplotlib.pyplot.text, matplotlib.axes.Axes.vlines, matplotlib.axes.Axes.hlines and also fixed some minor issues in the mplf_plotting function in order to avoid SettingWithCopyWarning from Pandas as well as other errors I can't remember atm.
The following improvements were implemented:

*

*The mplf_plotting will now take just a deepcopy of the df variable, and the regular df_trading_pair_date_time_index

*The first thing this function will do is to reset the index of the information passed to the temporal df_trading_pair variable for then deleting the old index column left.

*The value assigned to the entry_candlestick_index will now be the the first valid index of the df_trading_pair plus the necessary amount of candlesticks to get the actual location of the desired candlestick (as it was previously set as 14, the amount to add must be 2).

*The values stored in the lists of where_values_up and where_values_down will now be actual Timestamp dates rather than its corresponding index values.

*The percentage change values to show in the final output will be calculated in the pct_change_up and pct_change_down variables

Note: The following solution doesn't end up adding an actual
percentage change box to the japanese candlestick chart, but hey, it works for me atm ¯\(ツ)/¯.

Alternative Script
from datetime import timedelta

def mplf_plotting(df_trading_pair, df_trading_pair_date_time_index):

    # Reset the index
    df_trading_pair.reset_index(inplace=True)
    df_trading_pair.drop('index', inplace=True, axis=1)

    entry_candlestick_index = df_trading_pair.first_valid_index()+2

    entry_price = df_trading_pair['Open Price'].iat[entry_candlestick_index]

    maximum_price_reached = df_trading_pair['High Price'][entry_candlestick_index+1:].max()
    maximum_price_index = df_trading_pair['Low Price'][entry_candlestick_index+1:].idxmax()
    where_values_up = [df_trading_pair['Start Date'].iat[entry_candlestick_index], df_trading_pair['Start Date'].iat[maximum_price_index]]
    pct_change_up = round((maximum_price_reached-entry_price)/entry_price*100,2)

    minimum_price_reached = df_trading_pair['Low Price'][entry_candlestick_index+1:].min()
    minimum_price_index = df_trading_pair['Low Price'][entry_candlestick_index+1:].idxmin()
    where_values_down = [df_trading_pair['Start Date'].iat[entry_candlestick_index], df_trading_pair['Start Date'][minimum_price_index]]
    pct_change_down = round((minimum_price_reached-entry_price)/entry_price*100,2)

    # Plotting
    # Create my own `marketcolors` style:
    mc = mpf.make_marketcolors(up='#2fc71e',down='#ed2f1a',inherit=True)
    # Create my own `MatPlotFinance` style:
    s  = mpf.make_mpf_style(base_mpl_style=['bmh', 'dark_background'],marketcolors=mc, y_on_right=True)

    # Plot it
    # First create a dictionary to store the plots to add
    subplots = {'Low SMA 9': mpf.make_addplot(df_trading_pair['Low SMA 9'], width=1, color='#F0FF42'),
                'Close SMA 25': mpf.make_addplot(df_trading_pair['Close SMA 25'], width=1.5, color='#EA047E'),
                'High SMA 99': mpf.make_addplot(df_trading_pair['High SMA 99'], width=2, color='#00FFD1')}

    list_of_plots = list(subplots.values())

    trading_plot, axlist = mpf.plot(df_trading_pair_date_time_index,
                        figratio=(10, 6),
                        type="candle",
                        style=s,
                        tight_layout=True,
                        datetime_format = '%H:%M',
                        ylabel = "Precio ($)",
                        returnfig=True,
                        show_nontrading=True,
                        addplot=list_of_plots
                        )
    # Add Title
    symbol = trading_pair.replace("BUSD","")+"/"+"BUSD"
    axlist[0].set_title(f"{symbol} - 3m", fontsize=25, style='italic', fontfamily='fantasy')

    # Find which times should be shown every 6 minutes starting at the last row of the df
    x_axis_minutes = []
    for i in range (1,len(df_trading_pair_date_time_index),2):
        x_axis_minutes.append(df_trading_pair_date_time_index.index[-i].minute)

    # Plot and label the Maximum Positive ROI
    axlist[0].hlines(maximum_price_reached, xmin=where_values_up[0], xmax=where_values_up[1],
                     color="#06FF44", linestyle="solid", linewidth=1.5, alpha=0.7)
    axlist[0].vlines(where_values_up[0], ymin=entry_price, ymax=maximum_price_reached,
                     color="#06FF44", linestyle="solid", linewidth=1.5, alpha=0.7)
    axlist[0].text(x=where_values_up[0]+timedelta(minutes=1), y=maximum_price_reached-0.009, s=f"ROI: +{pct_change_up}%",
                   ha="left", va="top", fontsize="14", color="#06FF44", backgroundcolor='#000000')

    # Plot and label the Maximum Negative ROI
    axlist[0].hlines(minimum_price_reached, xmin=where_values_down[0], xmax=where_values_down[1],
                     color="#F51912", linestyle="solid", linewidth=1.5, alpha=0.7)
    axlist[0].vlines(where_values_down[0], ymin=entry_price, ymax=minimum_price_reached,
                     color="#F51912", linestyle="solid", linewidth=1.5, alpha=0.7)
    axlist[0].text(x=where_values_up[0]+timedelta(minutes=1), y=minimum_price_reached+0.009, s=f"ROI: {pct_change_down}%",
                   ha="left", va="bottom", fontsize="14", color="#F51912", backgroundcolor='#000000')

    # Set the main "ticks" to show at the x axis
    axlist[0].xaxis.set_major_locator(mdates.MinuteLocator(byminute=x_axis_minutes))

    # Set the x axis label
    axlist[0].set_xlabel('Zona Horaria UTC')
    # Set the y axis range
    ymin_value = df_trading_pair[['Low Price','Low SMA 9','Close SMA 25', 'High SMA 99']].min(axis=1).min()
    ymax_value = df_trading_pair[['High Price','Low SMA 9','Close SMA 25', 'High SMA 99']].max(axis=1).max()
    axlist[0].set_ylim([ymin_value,ymax_value])

    # Set the SMA legends
    # First set the amount of legends to add to the legend box
    axlist[0].legend([None]*(len(subplots)+2))
    # Then Store the legend objects in a variable called "handles", based on this script, your objects to legend will appear from the third element in this list
    handles = axlist[0].get_legend().legendHandles

    # Finally set the corresponding names for the plotted SMA trends and place the legend box to the upper left corner in the bigger plot
    axlist[0].legend(handles=handles[2:],labels=list(subplots.keys()), loc = 'upper left', fontsize = 15)

# Execute the function to plot
mplf_plotting(df.copy(deep=True), df_trading_pair_date_time_index)

Output


text:
require 'rubygems'
require 'bundler'
begin
  Bundler.setup(:default, :development)
rescue Bundler::BundlerError => e
  $stderr.puts e.message
  $stderr.puts "Run `bundle install` to install missing gems"
  exit e.status_code
end
require 'minitest/autorun'
require 'minitest/spec'

$LOAD_PATH.unshift(File.dirname(__FILE__))
$LOAD_PATH.unshift(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..', 'lib'))
require 'police-dataflow'

class MiniTest::Unit::TestCase
end

Dir[File.expand_path('helpers/**/*.rb', File.dirname(__FILE__))].
    each { |h| require h }

MiniTest.autorun

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
5 Beautiful Mosques In England, Muslim Friendly Travel Recommendations!
By Islam Religion Guardian On Jun 29, 2021
The building is unique, making your holiday more colourful.
Travel Advice from Indonesia.
Shah Jahan Mosque, Woking
The British state is not only famous for its stunning churches or cathedrals. Because this country also has several mosques with unique and interesting architecture.
These mosques are not only scattered in London which is the capital of the country, but spread throughout the country. Here are five of the most beautiful mosques in the UK that can be muslim-friendly travel recommendations!
Masjid Brick Lane, London
Brick Lane Jamme Mosque, London
5 Beautiful Mosques In England, Muslim Friendly Travel Recommendations! Brick Lane Jamme Mosque, London (Instagram.com/loren_mcw)
Jamme's Brick Lane Mosque is the building that embodies east London's rich history of migration. This building was not originally a mosque, but a chapel for worship.
After that, the building was converted into a place to house the London Society for Propagating Christian among jews. Even after that the building became a synagogue.
. In 1976, after the local Jewish community moved out of the area. The building was opened as a mosque. The building has also undergone many changes. One of the most recent is the construction of a 29-meter tower on Brick Lane itself.
Masjid Fazl London
Fazl Mosque is a mosque located on the outskirts of leafy London. The mosque was created by the foundation of the first missionary outpost outside India of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community. The mosque, which was completed in 1925, was designed by Mawson and his children.
They were inspired by mughals for domes, but adopted a modernist approach.
Masjid Shah Jahan Woking
Shah Jahan Mosque was the first purpose-built mosque in England. This mosque is a masterpiece of Victorian Orientalism found in Woking.
Designed by l William Chambers in 1889, the mosque is the centrepiece of the Oriental Institute created by Dr Leitner. He was a Hungarian-Jewish linguist who converted to Islam after working in British India.
Masjid Regent Park, London
Regent's Park Mosque is a mosque that has many religious events, such as online khutbahs and religious courses. In addition, the mosque also provides religious advice facilities, prayer time guides, and religious articles.
Masjid Central Birmingham
Birmingham Central Mosque is one of the largest mosques in Western Europe. It is also the second mosque to be built in the country. The mosque, which was founded in 1969, was opened to the community in the early 1970s.
This mosque is also one of the recognized religious buildings in the city.
Well, on holiday to England, make sure you visit mosques with interesting architecture above yes!
source Masjid Indah Menawan di Inggris (idntimes.com)
should have been included:
Baitul Futuh Mosque, London.
The largest mosque in Western Europe, with its own TV station, sports hall and reception halls.
Inside the UK's biggest mosque with its own sports hall and TV station : Islamreligionguardian