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A Native American tribe whose land extends along parts of the U.S.-Mexico border says President Trump's proposed border wall would devastate its community. The Tohono O'odham Nation says it has 34,000 enrolled members. Some live on tribal lands in southwestern Arizona. Some live in Mexico. While they already have to contend with some barriers that tear apart their nation, they say a wall would be different.
VERLON JOSE: It would be as I, say, if I walked into your home and felt that your home was not safe, but I want to build a wall right smack in the middle of your home. And let me divide your family. And in order for go from one end of your house to the other, you would have to go through me.
GREENE: That's Verlon Jose. He's the vice chairman of the Tohono O'odham Nation. Now, there's this. He opposes building a wall, but Jose says he also understands firsthand why it's important to deter migrants from crossing that border illegally.
JOSE: We have a ranch a few miles just north of the international border, and they come by the ranch way too often. There's been a decrease over the years, but they still come by. And if we're not there - my cousin, who takes care of the ranch - they'll break in and help themselves to food and water. Or if we're there, they get water, they go on their way.
GREENE: And how do you feel about that?
JOSE: Well, Tohono O'odham, we've always been hospitable people, even with the first European contact. So that's just our thing. Nowadays, a lot of drugs are being involved and so forth. They seem to just want to go in and destroy your homes. And that's where we feel that we're being disrespected and that we're being violated by these migrant crossers. But at the same time, there are two probably different groups of people that come through the border. You got the migrants that are coming, that looking for the American dream, and then you got those who are hauling drugs.
GREENE: So when we hear President Trump talking about the need to increase security and to stop migrants from crossing the border illegally because, the president argues, some of them are dangerous, some of them are bringing drugs into the United States - I mean, you share that concern?
JOSE: We share that concern, but a wall is not the answer.
JOSE: Facts will tell you that the majority of those things are coming through ports of entry. So that's why we believe that a border wall in or on the Tohono O'odham Nation is not the answer.
GREENE: We had a Republican congressman from Alabama, Gary Palmer, on our show recently. And he said, you know, even if this is not a route we're talking about that is used often by people who are dangerous, it only takes one person getting through to carry out a terrorist attack that could kill hundreds, even thousands, of people in the United States. I mean, can your tribal police, working with border agents, really do as much as a wall could do?
JOSE: I believe that working together, we can do more. Technology is a key. Right now, they're proposing the Integrated Fixed Towers. That's a virtual wall that's going to be out there that will be the eyes out there that a human eye can't see. And so that's why we believe that a wall would not work. Yes, one terrorist could come through there. But look at all the tragedies that happen in America. And I have not done any research on this in myself. But if you look at it, how many of those devastations that America has faced, with the shootings and so forth, are caused by people coming across the border? It's America killing America.
GREENE: Mr. Vice Chairman, thank you so much for your time.
GREENE: Verlon Jose is vice chair of the Tohono O'odham Nation. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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This is a great question because it is so important to playing the game well. A grip size that is too small will cause your hand to slip on your racquet a little and a grip size that is too big will restrict your wrist movement and make it hard to adjust your grip as you play.To measure your grip you need to take out a measuring tape. Place your fingers on your hand extended out and together and then turn your palm up. With the measuring tape take a measurement from the very end of your ring finger down to the bottom crease in your palm (usually adjacent to where your thumb attaches to your palm). That will be the size grip you need to look for. It usually will fall between 4 inches and 4 ¾ inches on most people.Keep in mind that you may want to add a layer of grip tape to your new racquet like many people do. If you are one of those people then it is best to get a grip size that is one size smaller than what you measured your hand to be. This will allow for the extra grip tape without making the grip too big for your hand.
"Tennis Court" was played during the 2013 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Final by British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).[88] "Tennis Court" was remixed by Australian musician Flume in 2014.[89] In July 2014 American producer Diplo released his version, titled the Diplo's Andre Agassi Reebok Pump Mix.[90] In 2014, "Tennis Court" was featured in the soundtrack of the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Microsoft Windows versions of Grand Theft Auto V.[91]
Weights of a racket also vary between 7 ounces (200 g) unstrung and 12.6 ounces (360 g) strung. Until the 1980s, rackets weighted at "medium" were produced. "Heavy" rackets were produced during the height of the wood era (e.g. the 1960s), very sparingly. The "medium" weight is heavier than any of the rackets produced since it was discontinued by companies. Many professionals added weight to their rackets to improve stability. Many continue to do so. Pete Sampras added lead tape to make his racket have a 14 ounces (400 g) weight and Venus Williams is known for using a frame modified to be quite heavy, in terms of the recent times average. By contrast, Andy Roddick surprised many when he said he used a stock Pro Drive series model, series of racket which was light when compared with the rackets used by most top professionals. In both recreational and professional tennis, the trend has been away from heavy rackets and toward lighter rackets, despite the drawbacks from light rackets, such as increased twisting. Lawn tennis rackets originally flared outward at the bottom of the handle to prevent slippage. The rounded bottom was called a bark bottom after its inventor Matthew Barker. But by 1947, this style became superfluous.[clarification needed] More mass gives rackets "plow through", momentum that continues once the player has managed to get the racket into motion and which is more resistant to stoppage from the ball's momentum. This can give the perception that the racket produces shots with more power, although this is complicated by the typically slower stroke production. Higher mass typically involves a slower swing but more energy to execute the swing. More mass also provides more cushioning against ball impact shock, a source of injuries such as tennis elbow. However, high racket mass can cause fatigue in the shoulder area. Typically, it is safer for the body to have higher mass. More mass, additionally, provides more stability. It makes the racket more resistant to twisting forces and pushback. The drawbacks are that heavier rackets have lower maneuverability (reducing reaction time) and require more energy to move. As a racket gets heavier, the player finds it increasingly difficult to do fast reaction shots such as quick volleys and returns of serve. However, the additional mass can help with return of serve, in particular, by making the racket much more resistant to twist from a high-powered service. Light rackets have the additional drawback of making it easier for beginning players to use inappropriate wrist-dominant strokes, which often leads to injury. This is because poor stroke mechanics can be much easier to produce with a lightweight racket, such as in using one's wrist to mostly swing the racket. An extremely typical mistake beginning players make is to choke up heavily on the racket (to try to compensate for twist from a light racket, as well as too high racket angle upon impact) and use the wrist too much. The only professional well-known player to have had success with a strongly choked-up grip is Zina Garrison.
The components of a tennis racket include a handle, known as the grip, connected to a neck which joins a roughly elliptical frame that holds a matrix of tightly pulled strings. For the first 100 years of the modern game, rackets were made of wood and of standard size, and strings were of animal gut. Laminated wood construction yielded more strength in rackets used through most of the 20th century until first metal and then composites of carbon graphite, ceramics, and lighter metals such as titanium were introduced. These stronger materials enabled the production of oversized rackets that yielded yet more power. Meanwhile, technology led to the use of synthetic strings that match the feel of gut yet with added durability.
The frame of rackets for all sports was traditionally made of solid wood (later laminated wood) and the strings of animal intestine known as catgut. The traditional racket size was limited by the strength and weight of the wooden frame which had to be strong enough to hold the strings and stiff enough to hit the ball or shuttle. Manufacturers started adding non-wood laminates to wood rackets to improve stiffness. Non-wood rackets were made first of steel, then of aluminum, and then carbon fiber composites. Wood is still used for real tennis, rackets, and xare. Most rackets are now made of composite materials including carbon fiber or fiberglass, metals such as titanium alloys, or ceramics.
This is the very big Turning point of my life. Now there is no Head coach in my academy so effect of no head coach is my Game is not building up any more days, weeks, Months even year passed but there is no improvement of My game I wanted to change the academy but Unfortunately it is not possible for me because the fees of My nearby academy is too high as compared to my current academy.
"Tennis Court" debuted atop the New Zealand Singles Chart dated 17 June 2013, becoming Lorde's second number-one single on the chart following "Royals", which reached the top position in March 2013.[55][56] It spent 21 weeks on the chart, six of which in the top ten.[56] The single received double platinum certification from Recorded Music NZ for exceeding sales of 30,000 copies in the country.[57] "Tennis Court" was the 19th best-selling single of 2013 in New Zealand.[58] In neighbouring Australia, the single peaked at number 20 on the ARIA Singles Chart and remained on the chart for 22 weeks.[59] It was certified triple platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association for shipments of 210,000 units.[60]
In some tournaments, line judges who would be calling the serve, were assisted by electronic sensors that beeped to indicate the serve was out. This system was called "Cyclops".[60] Cyclops has since largely been replaced by the Hawk-Eye system.[61][62] In professional tournaments using this system, players are allowed three unsuccessful appeals per set, plus one additional appeal in the tie-break to challenge close line calls by means of an electronic review. The US Open, Miami Masters, US Open Series, and World Team Tennis started using this challenge system in 2006 and the Australian Open and Wimbledon introduced the system in 2007.[63] In clay-court matches, such as at the French Open, a call may be questioned by reference to the mark left by the ball's impact on the court surface.
The White House tennis court has been a favorite outdoor recreation area for many presidents and their families. Tennis courts were first installed in the Theodore Roosevelt years on the near south side of the West Wing. The court was moved further south around 1910, to where the swimming pool is today, and were enjoyed by the Wilson daughters and Coolidge sons, among others. Florence Harding hosted the first women's tennis exhibition at the White House. And it was on the old White House tennis court that Calvin Coolidge, Jr. got a blister after playing without socks, which led to his death by blood-poisoning at the age of 16.
By the 1960s, Budge and others had added Pancho Gonzales and Lew Hoad to the list of contenders. Budge reportedly believed that Gonzales was the greatest player ever.[99] Gonzales said about Hoad, "When Lew's game was at its peak nobody could touch him. ... I think his game was the best game ever. Better than mine. He was capable of making more shots than anybody. His two volleys were great. His overhead was enormous. He had the most natural tennis mind with the most natural tennis physique."[100]
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Before hiring a local contractor to build your play court, ask plenty of questions and do your research. Tennis court construction is a highly specialized field, so it's important to find a contractor with extensive experience. Kolkmann recommends using someone who is an active member of ASBA, with at least 15% to 20% of annual business devoted to designing and constructing sport surfaces. (ASBA has a searchable database of certified builder members.)
Kolkmann says that asphalt courts can also develop low areas over time due to settling of the soil or base under the asphalt surface. "With a post-tensioned slab, this area can be bridged and no settling will occur. In addition, concrete courts can often be installed on unstable soils where it would be cost-prohibitive to do extensive excavating and base work to support an asphalt court," he says.
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It happened again the other afternoon. The thermometer on the side of the tennis house had reached 91 degrees, and there were just a few members playing on the club's main upper courts. Down on the practice courts, where we were, there may have been a light breeze coming off the nearby westernmost reaches of Long Island Sound, but I couldn't feel it, and the gray-green Har-Tru clay my sneakers grabbed for was powdery and uncooperative. Kirill was across the net from me, at the T between the service boxes, a wire cart at his side filled with hundreds of tennis balls. I was at the T on my side, already a little winded, trying not to fail.
Tie-break sets are now nearly universal in all levels of play, for all sets in a match; however, the tie-break is not a compulsory element in any set, and the actual formatting of sets and tie-breaks depends on the tournament director in tournaments, and, in private matches, on the players' agreement before play begins. Tie-breaks are not used in the final set in the Australian Open for singles before 2019, the French Open for singles, Wimbledon before 2019, or the Fed Cup, nor were they used for final sets in Davis Cup play or the Olympics before 2016. The US Open now uses a tiebreak in the final set, both in singles and in doubles, and was the only major tournament to use a tiebreak in the final set for singles before 2019, but the Australian Open and French Open do use a final set tiebreak in both men's and women's doubles.
The ATP World Tour Masters 1000 is a group of nine tournaments that form the second-highest echelon in men's tennis. Each event is held annually, and a win at one of these events is worth 1000 ranking points. When the ATP, led by Hamilton Jordan, began running the men's tour in 1990, the directors designated the top nine tournaments, outside of the Grand Slam events, as "Super 9" events.[87] In 2000 this became the Tennis Masters Series and in 2004 the ATP Masters Series. In November at the end of the tennis year, the world's top eight players compete in the ATP World Tour Finals, a tournament with a rotating locale. It is currently held in London, England.[88]
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Most large tournaments seed players, but players may also be matched by their skill level. According to how well a person does in sanctioned play, a player is given a rating that is adjusted periodically to maintain competitive matches. For example, the United States Tennis Association administers the National Tennis Rating Program (NTRP), which rates players between 1.0 and 7.0 in 1/2 point increments. Average club players under this system would rate 3.0–4.5 while world class players would be 7.0 on this scale.
Wilson Jack Kramer Autograph Midsize Wood Racquet 4 1/2. Vintage graphite/wood mix frame. The frame and head are absolutely straight. It was strung briefly before. There is a very slight scuff on the head (see photo) which may have come from years of storage/handling or someone swinging the racquet, but that's it. The grip and the rest of the racquet show the like-new condition of this collectable racquet.
"Gerry," he began, "you yourself have said you want to get better, and you are getting better." There followed a series of rhetorical questions involving whether the Utah coach was getting better, anyone else my age was getting better — whether he himself was getting better. He swept his arm up toward the main courts and noted that some of the players in the midst of matches up there, men in their 40s or early 50s, had been on high school teams and college teams. Wasn't I holding my own in playing doubles with them?
Most people I come across with want to achieve that level and you can too with just little bit of hard work. Setup a weekly routine in which you play tennis at least 3-4 times a week, give one day to doing some cardio or some light weight lifting to strengthen your core. Having a strong core is vital to your shots. If you have a dedicated hitting partner then its but if not then try joining a club that is not too heavy on the wallet. You will find like minded people who have the same objective as you and are looking for hitting partners. This has the added benefit of increasing your social circle.
What gives concrete the competitive edge? According to Fred Kolkmann, tennis and track division manager for Munson Inc., Glendale, Wis., concrete play courts are more durable, low maintenance, and crack resistant. Munson specializes in post-tensioned concrete and other types of play courts, and has won national and state awards for its concrete tennis court installations.
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Vibration dampeners (also sometimes known as "gummies") may be interlaced in the proximal part of the string array, to reduce the percussive sound of the ball hitting the strings and/or to reduce perceived vibration. They do not, however, reduce impact shock significantly, so they are of no safety value.[13] Some professionals, such as Andrei Agassi, used rubber bands instead of specialized dampeners. Dampeners come in two main types. The first uses the two central main strings to hold it in place. The second is sometimes called a "worm" and it is woven between many of the main strings. Dampeners are nearly always placed very near the bottom of the racket string bed.
Why is your tennis racquet so important? It gives you an edge when playing if you use a tennis racquet that caters to your skillset. That is why it is so important to know what to look for when you are shopping for a new one. Such things as tennis racquet size should not be overlooked. There simply is no doubt that with the right tennis racquet in your hands it can really help you elevate your game to a much higher level.
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During the 19th century the Royal Tennis Court played a variety of different roles. It served as a theatre storeroom, a workshop and storage space, and a studio for the painters Antoine-Jean Gros and then Horace Vernet. It was listed as a national monument in 1848, then became a games room again under the Second Empire. Approaching the centenary of the oath, under the Third Republic, architect Edmond Guillaume was invited to restore it and convert it into a museum of the French Revolution. The architect used original engravings to reconstitute the spirit of the room, which had been modified and had deteriorated over the course of the century. The museum housed the statue of Bailly, busts of the most important signatories of the oath, and a monumental canvas by Luc-Olivier Merson, based on Jacques-Louis David's preparatory drawing. The museum was inaugurated on 20 June 1883 in the presence of Jules Ferry.
For length, 21 to 26 inches (53 to 66 cm) is normally the junior racket range, while 27 inches (69 cm) is for stronger more physically-mature players. Some are also available at lengths of 27.5 to 29 inches (70 to 74 cm). The Gamma Big Bubba was produced with a 32 inches (81 cm) length but it is no longer legal in that length. Gamma responded by changing the length of the grip portion of the racket, to continue sales. The length restriction was based on the concern that such long rackets would make the serve too dominant, but that concern has never been objectively supported with testing. Moreover, some players, such as John Isner, are much taller and have longer arms than average professionals (and especially low stature ones), giving them a much larger advantage in terms of height for the service than is possible with several inches of racket length. This makes the length restriction more questionable. Finally, the professionals who nearly always choose to use the longest rackets typically choose them because they use two-handed groundstrokes for both forehand and backhand, using the extra length to improve their reach. An example is Marion Bartoli. As this type of player is not dominant in the sport, or even close to being average in terms of per capita representation, the length restriction seems even more unnecessary. Despite Prince's attempt to market longer length "longbody" rackets in the 1990s, standard length remains the overwhelming choice of players, further negating the argument in favor of the length restriction. When most players who choose to use a longer racket than 27 inches (69 cm) choose one, they typically only use a 27.5 inches (70 cm) model, rather than one approaching 30 inches (76 cm). Longer rackets were introduced by Dunlop[10]
The players (or teams) start on opposite sides of the net. One player is designated the server, and the opposing player is the receiver. The choice to be server or receiver in the first game and the choice of ends is decided by a coin toss before the warm-up starts. Service alternates game by game between the two players (or teams). For each point, the server starts behind the baseline, between the center mark and the sideline. The receiver may start anywhere on their side of the net. When the receiver is ready, the server will serve, although the receiver must play to the pace of the server.

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In 'Beautiful Brain,' the secrets of neurons emerge in Nobel-winning scientist's ink and pencil drawings
In this 1934 drawing of a region of the auditory system in the brain stem, Cajal depicted axons in thick black lines, emphasizing their splendid isolation from the neurons they connect to — a key plank of his "neuron doctrine." Courtesy Instituto Cajal
Asking scientists what career they would have pursued if they hadn't gone into science is a crapshoot: It can either stop the conversation cold or uncork misty-eyed reminiscences about the road not taken. If you'd tried it with Nobel-winning neuroanatomist Santiago Ramón y Cajal (who lived from 1852-1934), you would likely have been treated to the latter.
As an exhibit opening at the MIT Museum on Thursday shows, if his father had not insisted he go to medical school, setting Cajal on a path toward world-changing discoveries about the brain, he might well have achieved his dream of becoming an artist.
As it was, Cajal's depictions of the nerve cells he scrutinized under his microscope were key components of his science. Look what I saw, his intricate pencil and ink drawings told the world; this is how your brain is put together. The neurons that allow you to think and feel and move are discrete, individual cells, not the continuous skein that anatomy textbooks taught in the 19th century.
This was Cajal's "neuron doctrine," explained neurobiologist Eric Newman of the University of Minnesota, whose Weisman Art Museum created the traveling exhibit "The Beautiful Brain: Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal," which Newman and two colleagues curated. Look, Cajal's Miró-esque drawings call out: Nerve cells conduct signals down their axon, into dendrites on the receiving cell, through the body of the receiving cell, and out its axons to the next cell in the circuit.
The neuron-to-neuron handoff occurs at gaps between cells. That is, the events that animate the most sophisticated structure in the known universe — the transmission of signals from one neuron to the next — occur in … empty space.
"What looked like continuous connections were actually spaces" between neurons, Newman said, "and by the 1890s he had convinced most scientists that his neuron doctrine was right" — in part through his drawings.
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Like artists of cliché, Cajal worked in scientific isolation (Germany, not Spain, was the center of biology in the late 19th century), even publishing his papers in a journal he founded and supported. That might have "insulated him from the prevailing views in the rest of Europe and enabled him to look at the same appearances as everybody else — but with an unbiased eye," wrote one neurologist.
Cajal made some 2,900 scientific drawings. From the evidence of the 80 in "Beautiful Brain," his eye was more than unbiased. It saw the brain's deepest secrets with a clarity it would take technology years to catch up to.
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What is probably Cajal's most famous drawing stands out not only for its stark arboreal beauty but also for encapsulating his neuron doctrine. It shows a single pyramidal cell, the largest kind in the brain. Its lone axon, pointing straight down, and whiskery dendritic spines, which receive signals from neighboring neurons, alone in an empty landscape: the canonical depiction of Cajal's discovery that neurons are distinct entities.
Virtually everyone who sees this 1890 drawing of tumor cells in the brain's covering (meninges) thinks, Van Gogh's "Starry Night." The whorl-like structure is typical of such cells.
No single brain sample would display this great a variety of injured Purkinje neurons in the cerebellum (a cat's), but Cajal showed it this way in his 1914 drawing to convey the sequence of cellular degeneration. The central empty spaces are vacuoles, which get larger and larger as injured cells approach death. No brain cells are penguin-shaped, but Cajal's imaginative eye saw a hint of the bird in the dying cells, and impishly let his inner artist trump the serious scientist he had become.
Cajal drew the inner world of the brain because he felt it captured more accurate and complete information than the photographic techniques of the day were able to. But he was a master photographer, as shown by this 1876 self portrait.
This cross section of a mouse spinal cord, from 1899, shows radial glia cells, the Rodney Dangerfields of brain cells. Cajal guessed, rightly, that glial cells are not mere support cells, as was widely assumed, but give rise to neurons, regulate blood flow in the brain, and influence the electrical properties of neurons. Later neuroscientists completely dismissed glial cells, whose importance was rediscovered in the 1960s, when researchers discovered that Cajal was correct in virtually all his speculations about their role.
Cajal would never have seen such wildly different forms of astrocytes, a type of glial cell, in his microscope. But he intended his 1904 drawing of cells in the cerebral cortex of a child to catalogue the pyrotechnic menagerie that brains contain.
Jeff Lichtman, Joshua Sanes and Jean Livet
Compare these pyramidal cells, photographed through a confocal microscope, to Cajal's drawing of a single one. This "Brainbow," from 2007, shows cells that were genetically engineered by Harvard's Jeff Lichtman, Joshua Sanes, and Jean Livet to express genes encoding green, yellow, orange, and red fluorescent proteins.
Paula Klimiuk says:
I love the article above about Santiago Ramón y Cajal. I wish there was a photo of pyramidal cells from a drug addicted brain. Thank you for the article.
JOSEPH MARKS says:
So even ignorant people who are "difficult" to work with have complex brains???!!
Stefan Smagula says:
Fantastic story. I really look forward to seeing this exhibit this summer.
Harold Bursztajn says:
Wonderful story on vital work, thank you


The latest SuperEnalotto draw on Thursday 16th August saw 34 players match five of the main numbers. While 31 of these winners snapped up €4,313 each, the other three ticket holders also matched the Jolly number to increase their individual payout to an impressive €137,956. But what is the Jolly number, how does it work and why isn't it included on a ticket?
Why Is There No Jolly On A SuperEnalotto Ticket?
The Jolly only comes into play if you match five of the six main balls, and it is intended to give you another chance to win a big prize. There is no need to select a seventh main number on your ticket as the Jolly is drawn from the 84 balls left in the machine after the six main numbers have come out.
Any of the numbers on your ticket can be used to match the Jolly if the other five match the main numbers. In the latest draw, for example, the three big winners matched five of the six main numbers - 2, 10, 12, 21, 22 and 50. The only number left on their ticket was 3, and when that was drawn as the Jolly their prize increased considerably.
How Is The Jolly Different To the SuperStar?
The SuperStar is drawn from a different set of 90 numbers. You have to opt in to play SuperStar, pay a small additional fee and then choose an extra number. The same number can appear as the SuperStar and one of the main numbers, just like on Tuesday when 83 was drawn from both machines. This cannot happen with the Jolly number.
The Jolly only applies if you have matched five main numbers. There is no prize for 'Match 4 + Jolly', 'Match 3 + Jolly', and so on, unlike the SuperStar which provides extra ways to win, right down to just matching the SuperStar on its own.
The odds of matching five main numbers plus the Jolly are 1 in 1,250,230, far longer than the chances of winning in the 'Match 5' tier at 1 in 102,769,105. However, 14% of the prize fund is reserved for the 'Match 5 + Jolly' division, whereas just 4.2% is allocated to players who match five main numbers. There are usually far fewer who match the Jolly along with their five numbers so the average prize amount per draw is far greater.
If you match five main numbers, the Jolly and the SuperStar, you win an extra €1 milion. Go to the Jolly page for more information about how this number works.
Where Did The Latest Big Jolly Winners Come From?
The big winners on Thursday bought their tickets in Foggia, Naples and Bergamo. Nobody was able to claim the SuperEnalotto jackpot, which will now grow to €27.6 million for the next draw on Saturday. You can play by visiting any authorised retailer or taking part online.


PC Gamer recently revealed their latest magazine cover, which features gorgeous never-before-seen Control artwork created by Remedy's in-house art team. The issue (number 323) is also packed with more information about the game and features interviews with Remedy's Creative Director, Sam Lake, and Game Director, Mikael Kasurinen.
A special issue with an alternative Control cover is being sent to subscribers, featuring an impressive piece of concept artwork.
In addition to focusing on Control, it's also PC Gamer's Gamescom Special with highlights from Anno 1800, Sekiro, Mount & Blade II, Devil May Cry 5, and more. The writers also cover QuakeCon, World of Warcraft, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Two Point Hospital, Donut County, and gaming hardware.


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Q: Reducing mySQL queries and time I am currently working on speeding up a website, that is returning 300,000+ rows from a query. While I don't think this is too much of a load on the DB server, this query is happening in a while loop depending on the number of 'galleries' a user has.
For example Joe has 10 galleries in his account. Each of those galleries has x number of images, which have x number of comments on those images. So the query that is currently being run...
SELECT count(*) as total
FROM galleryimage a
INNER JOIN imagecomments b ON a.id=b.imgId
WHERE a.galleryId='".$row['id']."'
AND b.note <> ''

...is looking through all the galleryimage table 334,000 rows and the imagecomments table 76,000 rows and returning the result on each gallery. The query run on a single gallery returns a result in about 578ms, but with many galleries, say 30-40 you could be looking at a page load time of 17+ secs. Any suggestions on how to deal with this issue?
I cannot change the DB architecture....
Query for gallery id
SELECT a.id,
       a.created,
       a.name,
       b.clientName,
       a.isFeatured,
       a.views,
       a.clientId
FROM gallery a
INNER JOIN client b
ON a.clientId = b.id
WHERE a.isTemp = 0
AND a.clientRef = '{$clientRef}'
AND a.finish='1'
AND a.isArchive='0'
ORDER BY created
DESC

A: You can consolidate the queries and eliminate the need for looping:
SELECT
    a.id,
    a.created,
    a.name,
    b.clientName,
    a.isFeatured,
    a.views,
    a.clientId,
    COALESCE(c.img_cnt, 0) AS gallery_image_count,
    COALESCE(c.comment_cnt, 0) AS gallery_comment_count
FROM
    gallery a
INNER JOIN
    client b ON a.clientId = b.id
LEFT JOIN
(
    SELECT aa.galleryId,
           COUNT(DISTINCT aa.id) AS img_cnt,
           COUNT(1) AS comment_cnt
    FROM galleryimage aa
    INNER JOIN imagecomments bb ON aa.id = bb.imgId
    WHERE bb.note <> ''
    GROUP BY aa.galleryId
) c ON a.id = c.galleryId
WHERE
    a.isTemp = 0 AND
    a.clientRef = '{$clientRef}' AND
    a.finish = 1 AND
    a.isArchive = 0
ORDER BY
    a.created DESC

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Many of you are expecting to play in National league next year and as such you will need 1 or more ref's for your team. This is the last opportunity to get qualified before the season starts.
The weekend is 5/6th of september and Tees Tigers will be sending a group down.
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I haven't been blogging because I have been spending my writing time on my NaNoWriMo novel. I am technically behind on the word count but I've written more this time than any of the others. So I consider that a success. I expect that if I do write the entire story it will end up being less than the 50k words called for. Why is that? I am not actually writing the whole thing. I am working out the basic plot elements. How they get form here to there, etc. I am not writing much in way of description or fleshing out every scene. I have a fear that even if I do get this draft worked out, I won't have the will to go back and do all the hard work to rewrite/flesh out he rest. Means I should probably just give up. I kid. I kid.
This is my fourth year trying to do NaNoWriMo and my fourth year trying to write this novel. That means I have three other versions of the start. It fascinated me to look over these other versions and see many differences: not really only in style or plot, but differences in tone. The first one was a little dark with a lot of introspection and internal dialogue. After I realized the first attempt was long and rambling, I tried in the next two to use a flashforward to show that there would be action after the boring bit. These versions also tried to be a little more lighthearted. In the latest version I've removed a lot of the early stuff where I gave the background on the main character. This background is very important to justify his actions. I will try and find some way to organically include this info in the story.


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Angry Birds 2: A great follow up to the first part
Since Angry Birds came into the picture, it was always thought of what all could be done with this story. The new film, right from the first scene, established that this sequel of 'The Angry Birds' is strictly a kiddie flick and thankfully, it never tries to be anything other than that.
The makers throw in a lot of slapstick comedy by a battery of old and new characters of all shapes, sizes, and colours. Leading the pack Red (Jason Sudeikis), who has pretty much become symbolic of the franchise, along with his winged buddies, Chuck (Josh Gad) and Bomb (Danny McBride) must work with their ace nemesis, the king pig Leonard Mudbeard (Bill Hader), to save the Bird Island.
Together all three of them bring a great amount of with their weird goofy acts. While Red's character gets a definite arc, Chuck, Bomb, and Leonard have to play on their special powers and unbridled cuteness, to impress the audience. New additions – Chuck's sister Silver (Rachel Bloom) – a tech-savvy Brainiac and the film's main villain Zeta (Leslie Jones), a purple eagle are quite impressive. Zeta's villainy is more entertaining than threatening, but that doesn't blunt the terror she wields.
There are references from the real world like a film poster called 'Crazy Rich Avians', and 'Piggific' ocean. Jokes and punches of varying degrees come in consistently and abundantly. Many of them land successfully.
Along with a lot of goofing around, there are also some unwanted detours like a parallel track of the hatchlings that never really matures into anything meaningful.
Compared to many successful franchises from Hollywood's animation hall of fame, 'The Angry Birds' sequel comes off as way too fluffy and juvenile. While it doesn't soar to greater cinematic heights, it surely improves on the original. The film's feather-light approach will leave you with quite a few chuckles without trying to be preachy or tug at your heartstrings.
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Newcastle boss Alan Pardew says his side "struggled to find rhythm" in their 2-2 draw against Premier League newcomers Reading.
Jimmy Kebe put the home side ahead before Newcastle's Demba Ba equalised just a minute later. Noel Hunt put Reading ahead again, only for Ba to find another equaliser, amid suspicions of handball.
Pardew admits Newcastle made a "catalogue of errors and mistakes" in the second half.


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Clash of Clans To Receive The Biggest Update This November
If you are Clash of Clans fan, then you've probably became more excited after the ClashCon 2015 event that was held on October 24, 2015 by Supercell, the developer of this game.
It seems that a new update is getting ready for this great game, which will include a new defensive structure, a new hero and a new town hall. Currently, the developer of Clash of Clans hasn't confirmed an exact release date of this update, but according to rumors, this update will be released sometime in November 2015.
In concordance with Supercell, the new Clash of Clans update that will be released soon will be one of the biggest updates that the fans will ever see. We remind you that Clash of Clans game was released in August 2012 and it took the developers three years to finally release a major update to this game. This new update will be nothing near the small updates that the Clash of Clans game has received this summer or in September.
Clash of Clans: Features that the upcoming major update will bring
First of all, you should know that there will be a New Town Hall level. The Town Hall level 11 will feature a white in color and it will have an open top. The defensive structure, which will most likely be a tower, looks like an eagle and it has a size of 4×4 square meters. The map size will also be increased to 44×44 square meters, which will give the players more maneuvering space.
However, when it comes to the new hero, nobody knows anything yet. The game developer showed only a silhouette of the 3rd hero that will be released for Clash of Clans. It seems that new hero will be a mage, as it holds a staff in his hand and according to Supercell it will cost 6.000.000 elixir.
Clash of Clans will also receive a new defensive troop, which will cost 1250 elixir to train, there are also rumors which say that a 4th spell from the Dark Spell Factory is in the works and that some new quests and new maps will be added to the single player mode.
According to the latest rumors, the new Clash of Clans update will be released on November 11 or November 12, 2015.
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There are 6 comments	6 comments
Paul maarti	 November 1, 2015 at 18:26
i'm first motherfuckers! ./.
salfar	 November 2, 2015 at 10:27
Based on rumors! Please mention that in the title!
Paul	 November 2, 2015 at 14:55
Clash of Clans only went to TH8 when it launched. There were no heros when it launched. It has not taken Supercell 3 years to release a major update; there have been several major updates already!
Hayden	 November 3, 2015 at 14:29
BS this is fake everyone that doesn't even exist-_-
Paşa Önder Çavdar	 November 3, 2015 at 14:46
th11 is confirmed new def unit is confirmed and new hero is confirmed! so it is logical that there will be a new def troop because of the def unit, a 4th potion is a possibillity but i doubt that and a bigger map is also confirmed when showing us the def unit. just preparing and waiting for the beast update!!!
Rustan	 November 4, 2015 at 14:51
For me , I heard that loot-sharing would be one of the new updates. I totally disagree and if it did updated, ama uninstall this game.


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Communications at good Shepherd
With this Communication Policy, we intend to:
Provide guidance to facilitate clear, consistent and effective communications that advance the Mission and Vision of Good Shepherd Parish
between the Good Shepherd faith community and the community at large.
with Good Shepherd parishioners and stakeholders.
between groups that exist at Good Shepherd.
in support of the groups, gatherings and events that constitute the ongoing life of the Good Shepherd faith community.
Offer effective tools for communication that resonate with the intended audience and message.
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To this end, the following principles will guide communication efforts:
Communication on behalf of the parish (parish to the world)
Communicates who we are and what we do.
Message is clearly aligned with the parish mission.
Is grounded in the teachings, traditions and theology of the Catholic Church.
Must be approved at the parish level by the designated gatekeeper.
In addition to the above,
Communication to the parish Community
Is targeted in its messaging and demographic. (e.g. messages about finance)
Applies to the entire community. (e.g. Liturgy and Worship Trivia Night/Lolla/Fall Festival)
Is in aid of promoting parish wide events.
Communication between parish groups (e.g. Knights of Columbus and Scouts)
Is built on a relationship of trust and support.
Respects the mission and goals of individual group.
Builds collegiality and partnership.
Helps and details for communications
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require 'yaml'
require 'shoulda/private_helpers'
require 'shoulda/general'
require 'shoulda/context'
require 'shoulda/active_record_helpers'
require 'shoulda/controller_tests/controller_tests.rb'

shoulda_options = {}

possible_config_paths = []
possible_config_paths << File.join(ENV["HOME"], ".shoulda.conf")       if ENV["HOME"]
possible_config_paths << "shoulda.conf"
possible_config_paths << File.join("test", "shoulda.conf")
possible_config_paths << File.join(RAILS_ROOT, "test", "shoulda.conf") if defined?(RAILS_ROOT)

possible_config_paths.each do |config_file|
  if File.exists? config_file
    shoulda_options = YAML.load_file(config_file).symbolize_keys
    break
  end
end

require 'shoulda/color' if shoulda_options[:color]

module Test # :nodoc: all
  module Unit
    class TestCase

      include ThoughtBot::Shoulda::Controller
      include ThoughtBot::Shoulda::General

      class << self
        include ThoughtBot::Shoulda::Context
        include ThoughtBot::Shoulda::ActiveRecord
        # include ThoughtBot::Shoulda::General::ClassMethods
      end
    end
  end
end

module ActionController #:nodoc: all
  module Integration
    class Session
      include ThoughtBot::Shoulda::General
    end
  end
end


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Q: Making line plot with discrete x-axis in ggplot2 I am building a ggplot2 figure with a facet grid. On my Y-axis are percentages, and my X-axis is the concentration (in numbers). Each facet has 3 groups (0, 24 and 48 hours)
ggplot(data=MasterTable, aes(x=Concentration, y=Percentage, group=Time)) +
  geom_point() +
  geom_line() +
  facet_grid(Chemicals ~ Treatments)

This generates a continuous x-axis. Since the values are not evenly spread out, I would prefer a discrete axis to better visualize my data. I followed the following tutorial with no luck. The first figure is exactly what I am trying to do.
I also tried formatting the axis:
scale_x_discrete(labels("0", "0.1", "2", "50"))

and formatting the line:
geom_line(aes(Time))

and following this tutorial.
I think this problem is that the values on the x-axis are integers rather than strings. This makes the default axis continuous. How can I change this?? I am sure the solution is simple, I just can't figure it out.
Thanks in advance!

A: On this page they make the following modification df2$dose<-as.factor(df2$dose). You can try to modify your x-axis as df2$Concentration<-as.factor(df2$Concentration)
or like this:
ggplot(data=MasterTable, aes(x=factor(Concentration), y=Percentage, group=Time)) +
  geom_point() +
  geom_line() +
  facet_grid(Chemicals ~ Treatments)


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Billy Porter (entertainer)
American actor and singer
Billy Porter
Porter in 2017
(1969-09-21) September 21, 1969 (age 49)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Reizenstein Middle School
Taylor Allderdice High School
Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts School
Carnegie Mellon University (BFA)
University of California, Los Angeles (GrDip)
Pop singer, actor, performer, vocal coach
Adam Smith (m. 2017)
2013 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical
2013 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical
Billy Porter (born September 21, 1969) is an American Broadway theatre performer, pop singer, and actor. He attended the Musical Theater program at Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts School's[1] School of Drama, graduated from Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama, and achieved fame performing on Broadway before starting a solo career as a singer.
Porter won the 2013 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his role as Lola in Kinky Boots at the 67th Tony Awards. For the role, Porter also won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical and Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical. Porter also won the 2014 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album for Kinky Boots. He currently stars in the television series Pose for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination.
5.3 Other songs
5.4 Appears in
7.3 Theatre
Porter was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to William E. Porter and Cloerinda Jean Johnson Porter Ford.[2][3] His sister is MaryMartha Ford-Dieng.[4][5][6] After attending Reizenstein Middle School, Porter attended Taylor Allderdice High School and then the Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts School, where he graduated in 1987.[7] He graduated from the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University with a B.F.A. in Drama and earned a certification from the graduate-level Professional Program In Screenwriting[8] at UCLA.
During the summers of 1985-1987, Porter was a member of an entertainment group called "Flash" which performed daily at Kennywood Park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania.[9]
Porter played Teen Angel in the 1994 Broadway revival of Grease!. Other shows he has been in include Topdog/Underdog at City Theatre (2004),[10] Jesus Christ Superstar and Dreamgirls at Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera (2004),[11] and the song cycles Myths and Hymns and Songs for a New World (Off-Broadway, 1995).[12]
Porter wrote and performed in his one-man autobiographical show, Ghetto Superstar (The Man That I Am) at Joe's Pub in New York City in February and March 2005.[12][13][14] He was nominated for "Outstanding New York Theater: Broadway & Off Broadway Award" at the 17th GLAAD Media Awards.[15]
In September 2010, Porter appeared as Belize in Signature Theatre Company's 20th Anniversary production of Tony Kushner's Angels in America.[12][16]
Porter originated the role of "Lola" in Kinky Boots on Broadway in 2013, with songs by Cyndi Lauper, book by Harvey Fierstein and directed/choreographed by Jerry Mitchell. Porter won both the 2013 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical and Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for this role.[17][18]
Porter has also appeared in a number of films. He played a major role as Shiniqua, a drag queen who befriends Angel (David Norona) and Lee (Keivyn McNeill Graves) in Seth Michael Donsky's Twisted (1997), an adaptation of Oliver Twist.[19] He has also appeared on The RuPaul Show.
He has had a musical career with three solo albums released, Billy Porter on DV8/A&M Records in 1997, At the Corner of Broadway + Soul in 2005 on Sh-K-Boom Records and Billy's Back on Broadway (Concord Music Group) in 2014. He featured in a number of songs in the tribute album It's Only Life: The Songs of John Bucchino in 2006 released on PS Classics.[20] He sings on Adam Guettel's 1999 album Myths and Hymns studio cast album on Nonesuch Records.[21] He also covered "Only One Road" that was included on the Human Rights Campaign compilation album Love Rocks.
Porter wrote the play While I Yet Live, which premiered Off-Broadway at Primary Stages in September, 2014 in previews, officially on October 12. In addition to Porter, the cast included Lillias White and S. Epatha Merkerson.[12][22]
Porter released Billy Porter Presents the Soul of Richard Rodgers in April, 2017. The album, which features new, soulful takes on classic Richard Rodgers songs, includes solos and duets from the following artists (in addition to Porter himself): Tony and Grammy Award winners Cynthia Erivo (The Color Purple), Renée Elise Goldsberry (Hamilton) and Leslie Odom Jr. (Hamilton), Tony Award-winner Patina Miller (Pippin), Grammy Award winners Pentatonix and India Arie, Tony Award nominees Brandon Victor Dixon (Shuffle Along), Joshua Henry (Violet), and Christopher Jackson (Hamilton), alongside YouTube sensation and Kinky Boots star Todrick Hall and multiple Grammy Award nominees Deborah Cox and Ledisi.[23]
Porter reprised the role of Lola in Kinky Boots in September 2017 on Broadway, where he did a 15-week run.[24]
In 2018, Porter starred in the FX show, Pose in the role of Pray Tell. In 2019, Pose earned its renewal for a third season after airing just one episode from the second season. In August 2018, Porter confirmed via Instagram that he was joining the cast of American Horror Story for its eighth season, subtitled Apocalypse.[25][26] Porter duetted with Pose co-star Dyllón Burnside and sang from his album in a benefit concert emceed by Burnside on July 23, 2018, to celebrate the season 1 finale and raising money for GLSEN.[27][28][29] In June 2019, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, sparking the start of the modern LGBTQ rights movement, Queerty named him one of the Pride50 "trailblazing individuals who actively ensure society remains moving towards equality, acceptance and dignity for all queer people".[30] Also in June 2019 he presented the Excellence in Theatre Education Award at the 73rd Tonys at Radio City Music Hall, but he earned media coverage for his haute couture red and pink gown, upcycled from Kinky Boots' stage curtains, in a uterine shape,[31] and his impromptu performance of "Everything's Coming Up Roses" from Gypsy, for host James Corden's "Broadway karaoke".[32]
In 2019, Porter had a cameo appearance in Taylor Swift's "You Need to Calm Down" music video that featured twenty LGBTQ icons.[33]
Fashion[edit]
At the 2019 Golden Globes, Porter gained attention for wearing an embroidered suit and pink cape designed by Randi Rahm.[34] He continued to make fashion waves that year when he wore a fitted tuxedo jacket and a velvet gown by Christian Siriano with 6" Rick Owens boots to the 91st Academy Awards.[35]
Porter attended the 2019 Met Gala, and embraced the Camp: Notes on Fashion theme by being carried on a litter by six shirtless men while donning a "Sun God" ensemble. The outfit was designed by The Blonds, and it included a bejeweled catsuit outfitted with 10-foot wings, a 24-karat gold headpiece, as well as custom gold-leaf Giuseppe Zanotti shoes and fine jewels by Andreoli, John Hardy, and Oscar Heyman.[36]
Porter is openly gay. Porter and Adam Smith were married on January 14, 2017.[37]
1997: Billy Porter (DV8/A&M Records)[38]
2005: At the Corner of Broadway + Soul (Sh-K-Boom Records)[38][39]
2014: Billy's Back on Broadway (Concord Music Group)[38]
2017: Billy Porter Presents the Soul of Richard Rodgers[23]
Singles[edit]
1997: "Show Me"/"What Iz Time"
2005: "Awaiting You"/"Time" (Live) (Sh-K-Boom Records)
2017: "Edelweiss"
Other songs[edit]
"Only One Road" on Love Rocks compilation album
"Love Is on the Way" on The First Wives Club album
"Destiny" with Jordan Hill on Jim Brickman's Greatest Hits album
"Where Is Love?" with Liz Callaway
Appears in[edit]
Featured on a number of songs on tribute album It's Only Life: The Songs of John Bucchino[20]
Adam Guettel's album Myths and Hymns in 1999[40]
He is featured with Alan Cumming, David Raleigh and Ari Gold in a cover of "That's What Friends Are For", of 'The Friends Project' in support of the Ali Forney Center, a NYC shelter for homeless LGBT youth. The song was arranged and produced by Nathan Leigh Jones and directed by Michael Akers.[41]
Porter has performed at various venues in New York City, including Lincoln Center, which was broadcast on PBS in 2015 [42] and Joe's Pub in New York City.[43]
1996 Twisted Siniqua [44]
1996 The First Wives Club Singer
1997 Anastasia Ensemble and character voices Voice role
2000 Intern Sebastian Niederfarb [45]
2000 The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy Taylor [46]
2004 Noel Randy [47]
2014 The Humbling Prince [48]
2020 Limited Partners N/A Post-production
1998 Another World Billy Rush Unknown episodes
1999 Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story Little Richard Television movie
2004 Law & Order Greg Ellison Episode: "Cry Wolf"
2007–12 So You Think You Can Dance Performer 4 episodes
2012 The Big C Eric Episode: "Thin Ice"
2013 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Jackie Walker Episode: "Dissonant Voices"
2013 Land of Lola: Backstage at Kinky Boots Host 8 episodes
2014 Christmas at Rockefeller Plaza Performer Television special
2015 Billy Porter: Broad & Soul Performer Television special
2016 The Get Down DJ Malibu Episode: "Where There Is Ruin, There Is Hope for a Treasure"
2018–present Pose Pray Tell 12 episodes
Nominated—Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama
Pending—Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama
2018 American Horror Story: Apocalypse Behold Chablis 5 episodes
Theatre[edit]
Sources:Playbill Vault;[49] Off-Broadway Database[50]
Miss Saigon, Ensemble/John (u/s), Broadway (1991)
Grease, Teen Angel, Broadway (1994)
The Merchant of Venice, Solanio, Off-Broadway (1995)
Songs for a New World, Performer, Off-Broadway (1995)
Smokey Joe's Cafe, Performer, Broadway (1995–97)
Miss Saigon, John (replacement), Broadway (1998–99)
Jesus Christ Superstar, Jesus of Nazareth, Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center, Nyack, NY (1998)[51]
Dreamgirls, James Thunder Early, New York Actors Fund concert (September 2001)[52]
Radiant Baby, Various, Off-Broadway (2003)
Topdog/Underdog, City Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA (2004)[53]
Little Shop of Horrors, Audrey ll (replacement), Broadway (2004)
Chef's Theater: A Musical Feast, Performer, Off-Broadway (2004)
Ghetto Superstar, Performer, Off-Broadway (2005) - also playwright
Birdie Blue, Bam/Little Pimp/Sook/Minerva, Off-Broadway (2005)
Putting It Together, Performer, New York (2009)
Angels in America, Belize, Off-Broadway (2010)
Kinky Boots, Lola, Broadway (2013-2015)
Kinky Boots, Lola (replacement), Tour (2014)
HAM: A Musical Memoir, Off-Broadway (2015) - director
Shuffle Along, or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed, Aubrey Lyles, Broadway (2016)
White Rabbit Red Rabbit, Off-Broadway (2016)[54]
Kinky Boots, Lola (replacement), Broadway (2017)
Recipient(s) and nominee(s)
Broadway.com Audience Awards
2013 Favorite Actor in a Musical Kinky Boots Won
Critics' Choice Television Awards
2019 Best Actor in a Drama Series Pose Nominated
Dorian Awards
2019 TV Performance of the Year – Actor Won
TV Musical Performance of the Year "Home" (with Mj Rodriguez and Our Lady J) Won
Drama League Award
2013 Distinguished Performance Kinky Boots Nominated
Outstanding Actor in a Musical Won
Fred and Adele Astaire Awards
Outstanding Male Dancer in a Broadway Show Nominated
GLAAD Media Awards
2017 Vito Russo Award Billy Porter Won
2019 Best Actor – Television Series Drama Pose Nominated
2014 Best Musical Theater Album Kinky Boots Won
Outer Critics Circle Award
2013 Outstanding Actor in a Musical Kinky Boots Won
2013 Best Actor in a Musical Won
LGBT culture in New York City
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^ "'Pose' Star Billy Porter Reveals Past Sexual Abuse in Searing Op-Ed". www.out.com. 2018-10-31. Retrieved 2019-05-01.
^ https://archive.triblive.com/news/billy-porters-one-man-show-traces-his-life-onstage-and-off-2/
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^ Gordon, David. "My First Tony Award Nomination" theatermania.com, May 27, 2013
^ Rawson, Christopher (March 5, 2004). "Rooting for the Underdog: Homewood native Billy Porter finds his focus in a career with many facets". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
^ Jones, Kenneth (August 4, 2004). "Norm Lewis and Billy Porter Woo Dreamgirls, Including Frenchie Davis, in Pittsburgh Aug. 10–22". Playbill.
^ a b c d Billy Porter at the Internet Off-Broadway Database. Retrieved August 7, 2015.
^ Sandman, Jenny (March 15, 2005). "Review. Ghetto Superstar (The Man That I Am)". curtainup.com.
^ Murray, Matthew (March 6, 2005). "Off-Broadway Review. Ghetto Superstar (The Man That I Am)". talkinbroadway.com.
^ Gans, Andrew (January 24, 2006). "GLAAD Media Awards Nominees Include I Am My Own Wife, Color Purple and Ghetto Superstar". Playbill.
^ "Announcing the Cast of Angels in America". Signature Theatre Company. June 22, 2010. Retrieved December 4, 2013.
^ Purcell, Carey (June 10, 2013). "Kinky Boots, Vanya and Sonia, Pippin and Virginia Woolf? Are Big Winners at 67th Annual Tony Awards". Playbill.
^ Hetrick, Adam; Gans, Andrew (May 20, 2013). "Billy Porter, Andrea Martin, Pippin, Matilda, Vanya and Sonia Win Drama Desk Awards". Playbill.
^ Thomas, Kevin (December 12, 1997). "A Twisted Tale of Souls Rising Above Corruption". Los Angeles Times.
^ a b Jones, Kenneth (January 19, 2006). "John Bucchino's Revue It's Only Life Will Be Preserved on CD". Playbill.
^ "Myths and Hymns Studio Cast". CastAlbums.org. Retrieved August 7, 2015.
^ Hetrick, Adam (September 24, 2014). "Billy Porter's While I Yet Live, with Lillias White and S. Epatha Merkerson, Premieres Off-Broadway". Playbill.
^ a b "Billy Porter Presents the Soul of Richard Rodgers". The Official Masterworks Broadway Site. Retrieved July 24, 2017.
^ "Everybody Say Yeah! Original Kinky Boots Stars Billy Porter & Stark Sands Will Return to Hit Musical". Broadway.com. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
^ King, Eric (August 2, 2018). "Tony Winner Billy Porter Will Appear in Season Eight of American Horror Story". Broadway.com. Retrieved November 19, 2018.
^ Shoemaker, Allison (August 3, 2018). "Pose's Billy Porter joins the cast of American Horror Story: Apocalypse". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved November 19, 2018.
^ Feldman, Adam (July 17, 2018). "Dyllón Burnside: Up Close and Personal". Time Out New York. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
^ Hetrick, Adam (July 14, 2018). "FX's Pose Stars, Dyllón Burnside, Mj Rodriguez, and Ryan Jamaal Swain, Will Perform NYC Concert". Playbill. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
^ "To Be Real: The Cast Of Pose Gives Back — Already! — At NYC GLSEN Benefit". Boy Culture. July 24, 2018. Retrieved November 19, 2018.
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^ "Billy Porter Wore a Uterus Motif to the Tonys to Make a Statement". Time. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
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^ Rhodes, Malcolm (2019-06-17). "Taylor Swift's new Pride music video is jam-packed with over 20 cameos from LGBTQ icons". www.queerty.com. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
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^ "Billy Porter Just Made the Most Fabulous Entrance in Met Gala History". Vogue. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
^ Fierberg, Ruthie. The two have been a sight for the naked eye. Their love filled with happiness."Billy Porter Is a Married Man!" Playbill, January 17, 2017
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Billy Porter at AllMovie
Billy Porter at AllMusic
Billy Porter on IMDb
Billy Porter on LastFM
Awards for Billy Porter
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical
John Cullum (1975)
Ian Richardson (1976)
Lenny Baker (1977)
Ken Page (1978)
Len Cariou (1979)
Jim Dale (1980)
Kevin Kline (1981)
George Hearn (1984)
Ron Richardson (1985)
George Rose (1986)
Robert Lindsay (1987)
Michael Crawford (1988)
Jason Alexander (1989)
James Naughton (1990)
Jonathan Pryce (1991)
Gregory Hines / Nathan Lane (1992)
Brent Carver (1993)
Boyd Gaines (1994)
Vernel Bagneris (1995)
Nathan Lane (1996)
Robert Cuccioli (1997)
Alan Cumming (1998)
Brian Stokes Mitchell (2000)
John Lithgow (2002)
Antonio Banderas / Harvey Fierstein (2003)
Hugh Jackman (2004)
Norbert Leo Butz (2005)
John Lloyd Young (2006)
Raúl Esparza (2007)
Paulo Szot (2008)
Brian d'Arcy James (2009)
Douglas Hodge (2010)
Danny Burstein (2012)
Billy Porter (2013)
Neil Patrick Harris / Jefferson Mays (2014)
Robert Fairchild (2015)
Andy Karl (2017)
Ethan Slater (2018)
Santino Fontana (2019)
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
Paul Hartman (1948)
Ray Bolger (1949)
Ezio Pinza (1950)
Robert Alda (1951)
Phil Silvers (1952)
Thomas Mitchell (1953)
Alfred Drake (1954)
Walter Slezak (1955)
Ray Walston (1956)
Rex Harrison (1957)
Robert Preston (1958)
Richard Kiley (1959)
Jackie Gleason (1960)
Richard Burton (1961)
Robert Morse (1962)
Zero Mostel (1963)
Bert Lahr (1964)
Robert Goulet (1968)
Jerry Orbach (1969)
Cleavon Little (1970)
Hal Linden (1971)
Ben Vereen (1973)
Christopher Plummer (1974)
Barry Bostwick (1977)
Ben Harney (1982)
Tommy Tune (1983)
No Award (1985)
Gregory Hines (1992)
Matthew Broderick (1995)
Martin Short (1999)
Harvey Fierstein (2003)
David Hyde Pierce (2007)
David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik and Kiril Kulish (2009)
Steve Kazee (2012)
Neil Patrick Harris (2014)
Michael Cerveris (2015)
Leslie Odom Jr. (2016)
Ben Platt (2017)
Tony Shalhoub (2018)
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LGBT people from Pennsylvania
LGBT African Americans
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Male actors from Pittsburgh
Carnegie Mellon University College of Fine Arts alumni
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A Broadway original cast album for the musical Kinky Boots was released on May 28, 2013, less than two months after the show opened on Broadway. It was produced by Cyndi Lauper, who wrote the songs, Stephen Oremus, the orchestrator and conductor, and William Wittman. On release it premiered at number one on the Billboard Cast Albums Chart and number fifty-one on the Billboard 200 chart, making it the highest charting Broadway cast recording since The Book of Mormon's album was released two years earlier.
73rd Tony Awards
The 73rd Annual Tony Awards were held on June 9, 2019, to recognize achievement in Broadway productions during the 2018–19 season. The ceremony was held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City and was broadcast live by CBS. James Corden served as host.