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Ms. (magazine)
Title: Ms. (magazine)
Subject: Gloria Steinem, Nine Parts of Desire, Michele Wallace, WikiProject Academic Journals/Journals cited by Wikipedia/M30, Mary Thom
Collection: Advertising-Free Magazines, Alternative Magazines, American Lifestyle Magazines, American Political Magazines, American Quarterly Magazines, American Women's Magazines, Feminism in the United States, Feminist Magazines, Feminist Media, Liberal Feminism, Magazines Established in 1971, Publications Established in 1972, Quarterly Magazines, Second-Wave Feminism, Women's Magazines
Sandra Fluke on the cover of the Spring/Summer 2012 issue of Ms.
Katherine Spillar
110,000[1][2]
Liberty Media for Women, LLC
December 1971[3]
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Ms. is an American liberal feminist magazine co-founded by second-wave feminists and sociopolitical activists Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes.[4] Founding editors were Letty Cottin Pogrebin,[5] Mary Thom, Patricia Carbine, Joanne Edgar, Nina Finkelstein, and Mary Peacock. Ms. first appeared in 1971 as an insert in New York magazine.[6] The first stand-alone issue appeared in January 1972 with funding from New York editor Clay Felker.[6] From July 1972 to 1987, it appeared on a monthly basis.
During its heyday in the 1970s, it enjoyed great popularity but was not always able to reconcile its ideological concerns with commercial considerations. Since 2001, the magazine has been published by the Feminist Majority Foundation, based in Los Angeles and Arlington, Virginia.
Origins 1
Historic milestones 2
Recent ownership 3
Advertising policy 4
Co-founder Gloria Steinem has explained the motivation for starting Ms. magazine, stating, "I realized as a journalist that there really was nothing for women to read that was controlled by women, and this caused me along with a number of other women to start Ms. magazine."[7] As to the origin of the name chosen for the magazine, she has stated, "We were going to call it 'Sojourner', after Sojourner Truth, but that was perceived as a travel magazine. Then we were going to call it 'Sisters', but that was seen as a religious magazine. We settled on 'Ms.' because it was symbolic and also it was short, which is good for a logo."[7]
The title of Ms. magazine was suggested by a friend of Gloria Steinem who had heard the term in an interview on WBAI radio and suggested it as a title for the new magazine. Modern use of Ms. as an honorific was promoted by Sheila Michaels. Michaels, whose parents were not married to each other, and who was not adopted by her stepfather, had long grappled with finding a title that reflected her situation: not being "owned" by a father and not wishing to be "owned" by a husband. Her efforts to promote its use were ignored in the nascent Women's Movement. Around 1971, during a lull in an interview with "The Feminists" group, Michaels suggested the use of the title "Ms." (having chosen a pronunciation current for both in Missouri, her home).[8]
Controversy raged in the early 1970s over the "correct" title for women. Men had Mr. which gave no indication of their marital status since the formal address term "master" for an unmarried man had fallen largely into disuse; etiquette and business practices demanded that women use either Miss or Mrs. Many women did not want to be defined by their marital status and, for a growing number of women who kept their last name after marriage, neither Miss nor Mrs. was a correct title in front of that name.
From 1972 until 1988 Suzanne Braun Levine was the first editor of Ms. [9]
Ms. made history in 1972 when it published the names of women admitting to having had abortions when the procedure was still illegal in most of the United States.[10] A year later, Roe v. Wade would legalize abortion throughout the country. Ironically, also in 1972, science-fiction author Samuel R. Delany had a planned story arc for the Wonder Woman comic book that was to culminate in Wonder Woman protecting an abortion clinic. This story arc was cancelled because of Steinem's intervention - her disapproval of Wonder Woman being out of costume was used as a publicity stunt and excuse to remove Delany from the comic book and cancel the controversial storyline.[11]
A 1976 cover story on battered women made Ms. the first national magazine to address the issue of domestic violence. The cover photo featured a woman with a bruised face.
Ms. magazine's credibility was damaged in the 1980s and 1990s when it became swept up in the day care sexual abuse frenzy and moral panic about Satanic ritual abuse.[12]
The "We Had Abortions" petition appears in the October 2006 issue as part of the issue's cover story. The petition contains signatures of over 5,000 women declaring that they had an abortion and were "unashamed of (the) decision", including actresses Amy Brenneman and Kathy Najimy, comedian Carol Leifer, and Steinem herself.[13]
Recent ownership
In 1987, it was bought by Fairfax, an Australian media company, which installed the head of its US arm, Sandra Yates, to oversee the magazine's editorial and financial turnaround.[14] In 1989, concerned about a perceived 'Cher cover'-centered editorial direction under Anne Summers, American Feminists bought it back and began publishing the magazine without ads.
Marcia Ann Gillespie served respective terms as Editors in Chief of the magazine. Gillespie was the first African American woman to lead Ms. For a period, the magazine was published by MacDonald Communications Corp., which also published Working Woman and Working Mother magazines. Known since its inception for unique feminist analysis of current events, its 1991 change to an ad-free format also made it known for exposing the control that many advertisers assert over content in women's magazines.
Ms. Magazine offices in Los Angeles, California
In 1998, Gloria Steinem and other investors created Liberty Media (not the cable/satellite conglomerate of the same name) and brought the magazine under independent ownership. It remained ad-free and won several awards, including an Utne award for social commentary. With Liberty Media facing bankruptcy in November 2001, the Feminist Majority Foundation purchased the magazine, dismissed Gillespie and staff, and moved editorial headquarters from New York to Los Angeles. Formerly bimonthly, the magazine has since published quarterly.
In the Spring 2002 issue commemorating the magazine's 30th year, Gloria Steinem and Feminist Majority president Eleanor Smeal noted the magazine's increased ability to "share research and resources, expand investigative journalism, and bring its readers the personal experience that has always been the source of the women's health movement."
In 2005, under editor-in-chief Elaine Lafferty, Ms. was nominated for National Magazine Award for Martha Mendoza's article "Between a Woman and Her Doctor". Despite this success, Lafferty left the magazine after only two years following various disagreements including the editorial direction on a cover story on Desperate Housewives,[15] and a perceived generation gap towards third-wave feminists and grunge, a genre that Lafferty had trashed as being oppositional to feminism.
Over the years the magazine has featured articles written by and about many women and men at the forefront of business, politics, activism, and journalism. Writers have included Alice Walker, Angela Davis, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Susan Faludi. The cover has featured comedian Wanda Sykes, performance artist Sarah Jones, Jane Fonda, actress Charlize Theron, Queen Noor of Jordan and former First Lady and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. The magazine's investigative journalism broke several landmark stories on topics including overseas sweatshops, sex trafficking, the wage gap, the glass ceiling, date rape, and domestic violence.
On January 10, 2008, the American Jewish Congress released an official statement[16] critical of Ms. magazine's refusal to accept from them a full page advertisement[17] honoring three prominent Israeli women: Dorit Beinisch (president of the Supreme Court of Israel), Tzipi Livni (Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel), and Dalia Itzik (speaker of the Knesset).
The New York Jewish Week reported that a number of Jewish feminists, including Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance founder Blu Greenberg, were mostly disappointed with Ms.'s decision to reject the ad.[18][19]
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Magazine"Ms.: "Wake Up and Smell the Estrogen -- The Return of Alternet
Maud Newton blog discussing the disagreement over the editorial direction for the 'Desperate Housewives' story
Monica Lewinsky coverage on sexual misbehavior and feminism
magazine blogs never being updated as not effectively trying to reach out to young feministsMs.Feminism and the digital divide includes a critique of the
Magazine Letters.Ms. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
^ Lefkowitz, Jay (2008-01-25). "Truth in Advertising".
^ "Ms. Magazine Names Editor".
^ "Ms. Magazine - HerStory". Ms. Magazine. Retrieved 2009-10-06.
^ http://www.coloredreflections.com/decades/Decade.cfm?Dec=4&Typ=2&Sty=1&SID=152
^ "Ms. Magazine Online | Winter 2009". Msmagazine.com. 2001-12-31. Retrieved 2012-07-20.
^ a b Mclellan, Dennis (July 2, 2008). "Clay Felker, 82; editor of New York magazine led New Journalism charge".
^ a b Gloria: In Her Own Words (2011 documentary, directed by Peter Kunhardt)
^ "Fishko Files: Ms.". WNYC. 2012-06-28. Retrieved 2012-07-20.
^ http://gender.stanford.edu/people/suzanne-braun-levine
^ Willis, Jim (2010). 100 media moments that changed America. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Press. pp. 121–122.
^ , Feminism and the 1972 "Women's Lib" IssueWonder WomanWonder Woman Wears Pants: , by Ann Matsuuchi, in Colloquy: text theory critique, no.24 (2012); archived at Monash University
^ Siano, Brian. "All the babies you can eat: Ms. magazine's reporting of unsubstantiated satanic rituals", Humanist, March–April 1993.
^ David Crary (October 3, 2006). "Women Sign "We Had Abortions" Petition". Associated Press. Retrieved 2007-04-12.
^ Deutsch, Claudia H. (1988-04-03). "Sassy Publisher: Sandra Yates; The Ms. on the Masthead Wants the Magazine". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-09-08.
^ Sheelah Kolhatkar (April 14, 2005). Desperate Housewives' Causes Another Breakup"'". New York Observer. Retrieved 2007-04-12.
^ Stewart Ain,
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^ a b Katherine Spillar, Ms. magazine (January 14, 2008). "Statement of Katherine Spillar, executive editor Ms. magazine concerning the AJC ad". Retrieved 2008-01-18.
Joy Picus, Los Angeles City Council member, 1977–93, a Ms. Woman of the Year in 1985
[20] Spillar stated that the magazine had 'covered the Israeli feminist movement and women leaders in Israel ... eleven times' in its last four years of issues.[20]
Michele Wallace
City College of New York, Harlem, Black feminism, The Village Voice, New York University
Mary Thom
United States, New York City, Akron, Ohio, Yonkers, New York, Bryn Mawr College


Politicians are increasingly targeting the independence and legitimacy of the judicial branch. Read selected Brennan Center research and commentary on political assaults on state and federal courts.
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Man dies after worksite explosion..
UPDATE: Authorities are working to recover the body of a construction worker who was killed in an explosion in Melbourne's south east.
The man was working on a housing development site in Harkaway about 11am on Monday when an underground explosion rocked the site.
The victim was trapped in a three-metre trench before police confirmed he had died about 12.30pm.
It is understood workers had been drilling holes and planting explosives to prepare the ground for pipe work.
Experts are working to declare the site safe so the man's body can be recovered.
Worksafe is on the scene and investigating.


I have, a sister, a sister-in-law, lot's of my cousins are girls, AND 2 DAUGHTERS – GOOD GRIEF!!! I wanted to find out the BEST question for the women in my life to ask, about the men they are, will, or have ceased a relationship with. WHAT is that question? And, WHY would I want them to ask that question. Here's the story, I guess this is how it usually goes…….
You started as strangers. Now you've become friendly. You now talk to each other more than just a few times a week. Often you two go out on "dates", this is expected on your part and his. As time ticks by you begin to wonder, more frequently, who he's with or what he's doing when he's not with you. The bond between you, is growing everyday.
How to find Mr. Right. Here's the question.
There is no right or wrong answer to this question. How you FEEL about he answer to the question is what matters.There are obvious questions you should have a decent idea about before you ask THE question.
Will this man I'm talking to cheat on me? That should be NO.
Will he hit you? That better be NO.
Will he tear you down emotionally and mentally? NO and NO!
Will he live under your roof and eat food you provide without pitching in at all? What – he'd better not!
Will he ask you for gas money, and never pay it back? HOPEFULLY NO!
Then I think you can move on to THE question.
If you haven't asked yourself those OBVIOUS RED FLAG questions, you should. If you answered any of those questions as YES or NOT SURE, we may need a blog post devoted to you on another topic. You don't deserve any of that. But, I digress…..
DO NOT ASK YOUR BOYFRIEND THIS QUESTION. You must ask YOURSELF this question. You ALONE must answer this question.
Will this man kill for me? Maybe another way. Will this man die for me?
Don't go find yourself a cold-blooded killer to marry. That's not what I mean. I'll try to be a bit more clear.
Will this man kill for me?
He's not a killer. He hasn't killed anyone. You just have to ask yourself, IF he ever was in a position, where he had no other choice, and there was no other way out, would this man do whatever was necessary to ensure your safety? Even if that means taking a life.
There is no right or wrong answer to this question. It is only your duty to have the ANSWER, and know what you FEEL about the answer.
You may be mortified, to think that the man you are with could be able to take another persons life. In your mind, you see no reasons where a person should ever take a life. Fair enough. Maybe he's not the guy for you.
You might not like the idea of your future husband doing something so awful, but you would understand if he was a man who did what needed to be done.
Lastly, you could be elated at the fact that you have a man who would protect you at all costs. Your safety and well-being are at the forefront for him and you find that comforting.
Will this man die for me?
It's a question that's larger than death, in it's most simple form. This question is more about self-sacrifice, selflessness, and knowing that he cares more for you than he does for himself.. Would he jump in front of a bullet, a train, or an angry sumo wrestler, if he knew you were in harm's way? Do you feel his decisions are based in selfishness or selflessness? Knowing and accepting that he will die for you is his reality. How would you feel about being with a man like that?
Does it upset you, that he'd die for you?
Do you feel like he's worked hard, has a lot to offer the world and should go and live on?
Do you feel comfort knowing that your future husband would risk his life, in the attempt of saving yours?
Based on your answer to this question, you'll have your answer on if you should move forward in your almost relationship. Maybe you have decided to take that "good friend relationship", and grow it to something more. Maybe that acquaintance with some romantic interests, should remain in the friend zone.
Reasonably speaking, Men are "generally" more protective in a relationship. We typically want to see our women safe, protected, and defended. There are a lot of men that would without hesitation, attempt eliminate any threat, to the woman they are with. He ultimately knows, in his heart, that he is responsible for her safety. She may be a bit bigger than he is, a better athlete, possibly a trained fighter, but men and women are wired differently. Generally speaking.
I know a lot of women end up with a guy that does not fit what she pictured. I think this is more about women making the right read in the earliest stages of a budding relationship. Understanding what their men ARE, and not what they WANT them to be, are the most important sanity checks a woman can do.
When you find out what the man truly IS, based on your answer to THE question above. You can then evaluate your values, against what HE IS and what you want in a man. Women are incredibly smart and perceptive. Taking your time, in the beginning, is key to recognizing what will be successful for you.
Ask yourself these questions, whether you are in a budding relationship, or one that's been going on for a time. You'll learn some things about yourself. Hopefully, you'll look back and pat yourself on the back, for the decisions you made.
This is by no means the only way to gauge your man's worthiness, but it's a big one.
I do not think the desire to protect his woman, to the end (whatever that means) makes that man a chauvinist, trapped in the past, old-school or too traditional. That's an unreasonable charge. I think it makes him a man. An Admirable one at that.
If you are fortunate enough to have a standup guy that would protect you, to the end, maybe you should count that as a blessing. It's no different from being a fire fighter, police officer, or a member of the President's secret service detail. You know what you may have to do, you don't ever want to be faced with making that choice, but in the end, you know exactly what you'd do if you ever found yourself in that horrible situation.
What do you think Team Reason? I think this is a good place for women to start when finding Mr. Right. Please let me know what you think in the comments below.
People are Givers or Takers – There is Nothing in between…..
Series 1 : Post 9 : Why do women take so long to get ready?
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Abia PDP Governorship Candidate, Uche Ikonne Is Dead
Uche Ikonne, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abia, is dead.
A party chieftain confirmed the development to newsmen on Wednesday.
Uche Ikonne, the deceased's son, also announced the development in a statement on Wednesday.
He said his father died on Wednesday morning at the National Hospital, Abuja, after a brief illness.
"He was recovering after taking proper treatment in the United Kingdom but relapsed a few days ago, leading to multiple cardiac arrests from which he didn't recover from," the statement reads.
"Further details and arrangements would be made known to the public after deliberations and meetings are made within the family."
The late PDP gubernatorial candidate was the former vice-chancellor of the Abia State University (ABSU).
He polled 468 votes in the Abia governorship primary held in May 2022, to defeat five other contestants.
Lucky Igbokwe came a distant second with 45 votes, while the only female contestant, Ngozi Merenge, scored five votes.
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We are happy to have cabbage for you all today. In addition to coleslaw, these sweet summer cabbages are great in this recipe.
In a small bowl, combine the chicken with ½ tsp. of the fish sauce. In another bowl, combine the tofu (if using) with another ½ tsp. of the fish sauce. In a medium bowl, combine the remaining 5 Tbsp. fish sauce with the water, 1 ½ Tbsp. lime juice, the vinegar, sugar, salt and cayenne. In a pot of boiling, salted water, cook the pasta until done. Drain. Meanwhile, in a wok or large frying pan, heat 1 Tbsp. of the oil over moderately high heat. Add the chicken and cook, stirring, until just done, 3-4 minutes. Remove. If using the tofu, put another Tbsp. of oil into the pan, add the tofu and cook, stirring, for 2 minutes. Remove. Put remaining Tbsp. of oil in pan, add garlic and cook, stirring, for 30 seconds. Add the pasta and the fish-sauce mixture. Cook, stirring, until nearly all the liquid is absorbed, about 3 minutes. Stir in chicken, tofu (if using), and 1/3 c. peanuts. Remove from heat. Stir in remaining ½ Tbsp. lime juice, cabbage, scallions and half of cilantro. Top with remaining peanuts and cilantro. Serves 4. Adapted from Food and Wine Magazine's Quick From Scratch Chicken Cookbook.
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Kro (Earth-616)
Kro (possibly not his original name)
Warlord Kro;[1] Brother Kro;[1] Agent 6;[1] Rudolph Hendler;[2] "Pluto";[2] "Satan";[1] "the Devil";[1] Prince of Darkness;[3] Paul Sayden;[4] Mr. S. Devile;[5] Adolf Hitler[citation needed]
Ruling elite of the Deviants; Delta Force, Prussland
Deborah Ritter (daughter);
Donald Ritter (son)
Physical Characteristics[26]
6′5″ (1.96 m)
320 lbs (145.15 kg)
Irises:
Bald,
Black facial hair
Unusual Features
Pointed ears
Deviant Lemuria
Deviant Lemuria, Pre-Cataclysmic Lemuria
Former warlord and general of Deviant armies, later monarch of the Deviants
formerly Lemuria
Martin A. Burnstein, Jack Kirby
Red Raven Comics #1
(May, 1940)
(As Rudolph Hendler/Pluto)
Eternals #1
(April, 1976)
(As Kro)
Kro[6] is a warlord, dictator,[2] and general to the Deviants;[1] Deviants being an offshoot of the evolutionary process that created human life on Earth instigated by the Celestials. They were created to wage war against their counterparts, the Eternals.[7] He is more than 100,000 years old[8] and secretly an immortal-shapeshifter closer to the Eternals then his own kind, forcing him to hide his powers from his people.[9] Over the centuries he has been mistaken to be the Olympian Pluto,[2] the Devil,[1] and many other mythological figures. He is the secret lover of Thena and because of this the sometimes became a reluctant ally of the Eternals.[10]
1.1 Early History
1.2 Second Host
1.3 Across the Ages
1.4 5th century B.C.
1.5 Third Host
1.6.1 1940's
1.7 Modern Age
1.7.1 Fourth Host
1.7.2 Invasion on Olympia
1.7.3 Rivalry with Ghaur
1.7.4 Quasar
1.7.5 The Herod Factor
1.7.6 Delta Force
1.7.7 Deviants Saga
2.3 Physical Strength
3.2 Weapons
Kro was born in Lemuria to the race of Deviants, an evolutionary offshoot of humanity, cursed with an unstable genetic code causing random physical characteristics to crop up in each newborn child in the race. Kro was born with a number of traits which appeared to be unique among the Deviant race and which were beneficial in nature. Chief among these mutations were those granting Kro his longevity and near-indestructibility, both similar to those of another evolutionary offshoot of humanity, the Eternals.[citation needed]
Second Host
Kro was alive around 20,000 years ago at the time that the Second Host of the extraterrestrial Celestials destroyed the Deviant Empire in the Great Cataclysm.
Across the Ages
Kro carefully guarded the secret of his longevity by assuming a series of different identities among the Deviants over the course of his extraordinarily long life, using his powers to alter his facial features to complete his disguises. Kro feared that if he allowed the other Deviants to know that he was virtually immortal, they would subject him to genetic experimentation in order to learn how to duplicate the mutations that gave him his near-immortality in themselves. Kro studied the arts of warfare throughout his life and often led Deviant armies in his various guises.[citation needed] Across the centuries he was confused for various mythological figures such as the Olympian "Pluto",[2] the Devil, and Satan, occasionally growing horns to match these roles.[1]
5th century B.C.
In Babylon 2,500 years ago, Kro met and fell in love with Thena, daughter of Zuras, ruler of the Eternals of Earth. Thena returned Kro's love, but their relationship, perhaps the only such liaison between the two divergent races of humanity, which had long been enemies, ended badly. Kro and Thena parted, although they retained strong feelings for each other.[10] Thena assumed that Kro eventually died, and was surprised when she encountered him again in recent years. Kro attempted to renew their relationship, but failed.[citation needed]
Third Host
A millennia ago, Kro stole the Power Gems from the Celestials and hid it on an island in the Pacific Ocean.[11]
As Pluto in 1940's
Kro had many interactions with normal humans, usually sowing chaos wherever he went. Adopting a devilish appearance, he was believed to be Pluto, Satan, and other underworld rulers - Kro did not dissuade these cases of mistaken identities. He was constantly thwarted by the Eternal known as Makkari, first mistaken as the god Mercury then in his assumed identity as Hurricane.
The first such clash, Kro assumed the guise of Prussland dictator Rudolph Hendler, sparking war across Europe. However, Makkari (as Mercury) thwarted this plan by preventing the warring armies from continuing their conflict, eventually lulling them into peace, and forcing Kro to flee.[2] Fleeing to America, and continuing to use his Pluto guise, Kro attempted to destabilize whatever human society whenever possible.
Assuming the alias Paul Sayden, Kro set up operations in Coast City, facilitating the criminal activities of Piggy Perroni. This operation was foiled by Makkari (operating in his Hurricane identity), and Pluto ultimately fled after losing a battle against Hurricane at a costumed party.[4] Relocating to the Mato Grosso region of Brazil, Kro unleashed the deadly "Green Plague" in the region. He then allied himself with Jivaro headhunters, convincing them to kill anyone who attempted to cure the disease. This plot was also foiled by Hurricane, although Kro was long gone by the time a cure for the disease was discovered.[12]
In his last recorded appearance while operating as Pluto, Kro returned to America, setting up in Groton City under the alias "Mr. S Devile". There he hired mobster Scarface Rispoli and had him place "Death Boxes" in subways to cause fatal accidents that would slaughter all passengers aboard. This plot was once again foiled by Hurricane who captured Rispoli and prevented Kro from planting yet another Death Box. Overpowering Kro in battle, Hurricane sent him fleeing into the sky.[5]
In the 1950's, he oversaw the unleashing of Deviant mutates such as Tricephalous, Giganto, Gigantus, and others from Monster Island, near Japan.[13]
In the 1960's, Kro and Thena met again during the Vietnam War. Their reunion resulted in Thena becoming pregnant with twins. She placed them inside of Ms. Ritter, an infertile woman, who raised them as her own twin children, Donald and Deborah.[10]
Fourth Host
When the fourth Host of the Celestials was approaching Earth, Kro was ordered by Brother Tode, the monarch of the Deviants, to find and disable the Celestials' cosmic beacon.[7] After he failed, he was tortured by Tode. To save himself, Kro proposed taking the form of the humans' devil and attacking New York City in order to trick the humans into attacking the Celestials.[14] He managed to capture Ikaris, who was defending the city, and entombed him in a capsule at the bottom of the ocean,[15] along with Sersi and Margo Damian.[16] Convinced that humanity would be driven to aggression against the Celestials, he agreed to a truce with Thena and allowed the existence of the two races to be revealed to Professor Samuel Holden and his students.[17]
Invasion on Olympia
After the demise of Zuras, Brother Tode led an assault on Olympia, the principal city of the Eternals, where the Deviants captured and imprisoned all the Eternals. Almost the entire Deviant ruling elite, including Warlord Kro, accompanied Tode and Deviant troops on this venture. Thanks to the intervention of James Rhodes as Iron Man, the Eternals regained their freedom and captured the Deviants that were on Olympia. The Eternals decided to transform all of the captured Deviants into a large block of atoms and send the block into outer space. Before the Eternals carried out this plan, Thena secretly released Kro from his cell, and Kro escaped. Shortly thereafter, most of Earth's Eternals left for outer space. Thena became the ruler of the Eternals left on Earth.[18]
Rivalry with Ghaur
Kro made his way back to the Deviants' city in undersea Lemuria, intent on making himself their monarch now that virtually the entire Deviant ruling class was no more. To his astonishment Kro discovered that the Deviant priesthood, headed by the priest lord Ghaur, was manoeuvring to become the true ruling power in Deviant Lemuria. Since one of the priesthood's roles was to designate the new monarch, Kro confronted Ghaur and made his wish to become king clear. Ghaur allowed Kro to become monarch, but continued to pursue his plans. He had Kro lead an expedition to the Pyramid of the Winds, an Eternal structure in the Arctic, to retrieve a mysterious vial. Ghaur apparently hoped that Kro would be killed by the Eternals in the course of this venture. Once Kro found the vial, a Deviant priest and his guards demanded he give it to them, but Kro, determined to maintain his authority as ruler, refused. A party of Eternals led by Ikaris arrived, and Ikaris fought Kro for the vial. Thena, still in love with Kro, prevented Ikaris from killing him, and, on Kro's request, teleported Kro away. The Deviant priest's guards had managed to get hold of the vial for their masters. Kro and Thena traveled together as renegades, each hunted by his or her own race. They were finally found by Ikaris, who let them go after he replaced Thena as Prime Eternal. However, Ghaur still sought to capture Kro. [19]
Kro watched Quasar battle Tutinax when trying to save Ransak the Reject. Tutinax quickly took the upper hand as images of Quasar's father took the place of Tutinax, distracting Quasar, but was later beaten by Ransak.[20]
The Herod Factor
Kro learned Thena revealed the Donald and Deborah's true origin when a mutated Ajak began murdering twins across the US. He was searching for the "Chosen Ones", knowing their origin as Eternal-Deviant hybrid. After Thena brought them to Olympia, mutated Ajak pursued them and captured them, bringing them Dr. Daniel Damian in Peru where they learned their origins and then were saved by Kro and Thena.[10]
Kro later formed the Delta Force Deviants to help fellow deviants. When the injured Eternal Sersi fell into the subterranean hideout of the Deviants and asked for assistance in rescuing the Avengers, Kro facilitated his Delta Network to gather the right Deviants for the rescue operation.[21] When Maelstrom began attacking the Eternals, Kro took his human children away into hiding to protect them from the threat.[22] ...[23] While away with Delta Force, Kro and Ghaur divide grew causing factions the external world became concerned about and Wakanda came to the city to intervene. Kro continued on as the formal monarch.[24]
Deviants Saga
Sometime later, the Deviant males were rendered sterile causing a power struggle between Ghaur and Ereshkigal. Ghaur usurped the position and promised his people he would fix their fertility problem with the help of the kidnapped Eternal; Phastos. Thor came to his rescue and took down Ghaur. Kro came to Ereshkigal with the activated the Unbinding Stone of Oshemar, but the power was to much to control and grew out of hand threatening reality itself. Thor was able to destroy the weapon but not before Ereshkigal and Ghaur disappeared. Kro used this opportunity to take control of the Deviants.[25]
Power Grid[27]
Despite his Deviant heritage, Kro possesses a number of superhuman traits characteristic of an Eternal:
Regenerative Durability/Immortality/Toxic Immunity: Kro maintains a virtually unbreakable mental control over the processes and structure of his body even when he is asleep or unconscious. As a result, Kro has a lifespan that has already lasted over 20,000 years and is immune to disease and aging. His mental control over his body enables him to maintain a youthful, vigorous physical condition. Kro is not as nearly indestructible as the Eternals. (For example, Ikaris nearly killed Kro once by strangulation.) But while sufficient force can kill Kro, he can use his mental control over his body to heal himself after being injured.
Malleability: Kro also possesses the power of physical malleability, which is atypical for a Deviant. At will he can cause most of the tissue of his body to become pliant, enabling him to shape it mentally like putty into different configurations. Once the tissue is set in an altered form, Kro has only to stop concentrating and his body will retain that shape until such time as he concentrates upon changing it again. This ability enables him to disguise himself and take the appearance of others (with cosmetic help for skin color, body hair, and so forth). One of Kro's favorite ploys is to pass himself off among ordinary humanity as a demon by fashioning horns on his head.
However, Kro's shape-changing powers are limited. He cannot alter the shape of his skeleton in more than minor ways. Moreover, he cannot eliminate any of his mass while transforming; he can only redistribute his 320 pounds of weight. Hence, he usually only uses his shape-changing power to alter his facial features. He can mentally mold the shape of his skull somewhat.
Kro has about three times the physical endurance of an ordinary human athlete. His heart is not located in the same place as an ordinary human being's; its true location is unrevealed.
Kro is a master military strategist, a superb military commander, a good hand-to-hand combatant, and an expert in the use of Deviant weaponry.
Physical Strength
Kro can lift (press) around 800 lbs. (Most Deviants are not physically stronger than ordinary human beings, although there are indeed many superhumanly strong Deviants.)
Kro frequently wears special glasses designed to extend his vision into the infrared and ultraviolet ranges. Hence, if Kro is wearing these glasses in a room where there is no visible light, he can still detect objects by perceiving the heat (infrared radiation) they give off.
Kro has employed a number of weapons developed by Deviant technology. Among his favourites are flame-guns, vibro-whips, and shroud-guns. Once while battling Ikaris, Kro wore gloves from whose fingertips he could project vastly powerful force blasts which could not injure his virtually invulnerable Eternal foe but instead caused Ikaris intense pain.
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↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z: Update #3
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On August 20, in Missouri, Tenia Williams, a Black transgender woman, was stabbed and choked by a man she met online. Tenia, who wrote about the attack on...
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Trans struggles 2018
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I was recently watching the documentary She's Beautiful When She's Angry, about the second wave of feminism in the U.S. In it, one woman said one of the...
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Scoring success with women's sport: A lesson to brands from The Euros
Justin Pearse
By Molly Towers Mode, Account Planning Director, MediaCom
This summer, after 56 years of hurt, football finally came home. Audiences up and down the land were on the edge of their seats as the Lionesses beat the best of Europe to win The UEFA Women's Euro 2022. The final itself drew a live TV audience of 17.4 million, with a further 5.9 million streaming the action online. To put this into perspective, this was more than the finals of I'm A Celebrity, Britain's Got Talent and Love Island combined.
Within the stadiums themselves, records continued to be broken. A total of 87,192 spectators witnessed the Lionesses triumph over Germany at Wembley Stadium, breaking the record for the highest attendance at an international men's or women's match in Europe, and bringing the total aggregate attendance over the tournament to more than half a million.
The Euros & Brands: A Brief History
Despite the unbridled success of the Women's Euros – which played out to sell-out crowds from Brighton to Manchester – the sponsorship revenue from the mainline brand partners such as Heineken, Visa, and Volkswagen, was a relatively meagre £2m. This is thought to be around a fifth of that enjoyed by ITV for Love Island through the partnerships it signed, with the likes of eBay, Just Eat, and WKD.
There is no doubt that women's sport presents a tremendous opportunity for brands. Interest in the women's game has never been greater, and as broadcaster Gabby Logan said, 'this is just the beginning'. The Lionesses' recent friendly with the USA sold out in under 24 hours and broadcasters BBC, ITV, and Sky have all been falling over themselves to secure broadcast rights to matches. Whilst the price of aligning a brand with women's sport will inevitably rise, brands who get in early and show genuine support will see dividends paid in the long-term as the status of women's sport continues to grow.
A Strong Community
Not only are the Lionesses sporting heroes, but they are heroes born in the era of social media. Captain Leah Williamson boasts 688,000 followers on Instagram, and player of the tournament Beth Mead 333,000. Whilst these are far less than the men's team captain Harry Kane's 13 million, the engagement rate of the Lionesses is far higher. Williamson has a 7% engagement rate with her followers. Ten times that of Kane, and around three times the accepted Instagram engagement benchmark rate of 2.5%.
The engagement level of the players has been instrumental in building a sense of community among fans of women's sport. Whilst sport has historically attracted tribal passion among fans, research suggests that fans of women's sport are 21% more likely to believe they have a strong connection with other fans of the same sport than men's sports fans. This indicates a genuinely differentiated sense of community within women's sport fanbases that can be explored by brands.
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The difference between brand recall between men's and women's sport fans is eye-opening. Only 35% of men's sport fans admit that they are more likely to recall brands they've seen, versus two thirds (65%) of women's sport fans. Encouragingly, the greater receptivity of women's sport fans to brands also extends to the propensity to act. So much so, that a quarter (25%) more women's sport fans than men's say they are likely to purchase from a brand that sponsors their favourite sport.
The Road to Glory is Long-Term
There is no doubt that brands can win big right now by aligning themselves with women's sport. The success of the UEFA Women's Euro is expected to become a springboard for success for the female side of the sports industry in 2023 and beyond.
However, a word of caution. Whilst many brands are striving to get in on the action in an attempt to reach these super-engaged brand-loyal sports fans, to do so effectively they need to go all in. Consumers are adept at spotting brands that are simply applying lip service to an emerging trend. Supporting the long-term growth of women's sports and role models will be how brands win in this space.
The following members of MediaCom's UK Inclusive Planning team members contributed to this article:
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Interactive Map Pinpoints Pittsburgh's Gas Leaks
Over the past year, a Google Street View car carrying a methane-sniffing sensor drove around half a dozen Pittsburgh neighborhoods and picked up 200 indications of gas leaking from old Peoples Natural Gas pipelines.
by Anya Litvak, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette / November 16, 2016
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(TNS) -- Within a block of Arsenal Park in Lawrenceville, there are three natural gas leaks that each day do as much damage to the atmosphere as driving a car between 2,100 miles and 19,000 miles.
Those leaks don't pose a danger to the kids at Arsenal's playground or to the homes appreciating in value in Pittsburgh's hottest neighborhood. The damage is unseen and, until recently, unnoticed.
When a Google Street View car carrying a methane-sniffing sensor drove around half a dozen Pittsburgh neighborhoods over the past year, it picked up 200 indications of gas leaking from old Peoples Natural Gas pipelines.
Why Utilities Have Little Incentive to Plug Leaking Natural Gas
Today, those spots are represented as yellow, orange and red dots on an interactive map of the city — the culmination of a partnership between Peoples, Google, and the New York-based nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund which has already mapped gas leaks in 10 other cities.
In Pittsburgh, as in several other cities with older infrastructure, there is a leak for every two miles surveyed.
The leaks aren't considered a safety hazard because they aren't causing gas to accumulate in an enclosed space, where it could cause an explosion. And while it might be possible to smell some of them, methane is not toxic and it isn't hazardous to breathe at these concentrations.
The hazard here is methane's contribution to climate change.
As with so many things, the first step is admitting you have a problem. Peoples took that step when the utility called the Environmental Defense Fund last year and asked the organization to help map its leaky pipes — pipes that the company is replacing to the tune of $3 billion over the next 20 years.
Peoples' pipeline replacement plan is front-loaded in the City of Pittsburgh, where all bare metal pipes will be replaced within the next five to seven years. Peoples has already done a lot of work in Lawrenceville, putting plastic pipelines in areas just above Arsenal Park. The blocks around the park are on the schedule for next year.
Until recently, Peoples — like other utilities — approached leaks almost exclusively from a safety perspective and ranked its pipeline repair efforts accordingly. It didn't try to calculate how much environmental damage is caused by methane, a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide, escaping into the atmosphere.
"To be honest, we never thought about it that way," Morgan O'Brien, Peoples' CEO said on Tuesday. "So we became enlightened."
The utility's tools for detecting leaks and its expertise aren't necessarily well suited for environmental impact analysis, the company said.
So in addition to working with EDF, Peoples has also engaged Carnegie Mellon University engineers in a parallel effort. That team — led by Allen Robinson, head of mechanical engineering and director of the newly-formed Center for Air, Climate, and Energy Solutions at CMU — has been helping Peoples quantify methane leaks before and after pipeline replacements projects. It's also working with the utility to adjust how Peoples prioritizes infrastructure efforts by making environmental considerations a part of the formula.
The CMU team has mapped areas of Homewood, Point Breeze, Shadyside, South Side and Riverview Park. Mr. Robinson said that information should be public within months.
That would add to the EDF map now available of the Golden Triangle, the Hill District, Lawrenceville, Oakland and Highland Park.
EDF's map represents a snapshot in time. Peoples estimates that about half of the leaks confirmed from the data have already been repaired. Still, new ones could have appeared in the interim, cautioned Fred Krupp, EDF's president who was in Pittsburgh on Tuesday to unveil the results.
Mr. Krupp praised Peoples for being a good corporate citizen and the state of Pennsylvania for moving forward with regulations that aim to quantify and restrict methane emissions from the oil and gas industry.
"Of the global warming we're experiencing today, methane causes a quarter of that," Mr. Krupp said. "Look at what is possible when we turn away from the pointless debates and constructively work together."
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Dr. Saud Yaseen Bin Saleem, has been Graduated from Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University as Medical Doctor, with MBBS degree in 2016 ,and now is working as medical intern in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Title: Knowledge and attitudes towards organ donation among adults population in Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia.
Introduction. Organ transplantation is a life saving treatment for patients with end-stage organ failure. Despite the advanced medical science and technology, shortage of organs had led to a growing gap between the demand for organs and the number of donors. With a limited number of studies on the subject and based on those findings , the public knowledge and attitudes must be assessed to understand more clearly that why many people are opposing donating their organs in Saudi Arabia.
Objectives. To assess the knowledge and attitude of the adult population towards organ donation in Saudi Arabia.
Methodology. The is a hospital -based cross-sectional study where the information would be collected using a self-administered questionnaire in Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia. The questionnaire has been distributed in both King Khaled Hospital and Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University Hospital (PSAUH) and data gathered analyzed by Social Sciences (SPSS).
Results. Total of 403 respondents. (35.6%) did not have the knowledge that organ donation is legal in KSA. 97% did not know where to go if they want to become donors .All of who were willing to donate, the most common reason was to save someone's life (92.7%).Body distortion (39%) and fear of health complications (35%) were the most common causes people opposed donation.
Conclusion. Public lectures should be held on regular basis. To increase the awareness for organ donation, the important role of health workers and hospital displays should be immediately addressed. Information regarding organ donation should be incorporated with clear messages in various mass media.


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On the morning of the St. Jude's Day storm, Mawgan Porth was calm enough for Brian to plough on with the start of The Project. The golf hut has been part of Mawgan Porth for as long as most of us can remember - in the 70s, I used to peer over the counter with a typewritten note from my grandfather, Phil Wailes, that promised the bearer a free game for each day of the summer holidays. So we're sad to see the hut go, but we hope that the new building will echo the old one, and will come to be viewed as fondly. And there will always be crazy golf.


On Sunday evening, March 12, Gary Hardin stepped out of his vehicle to pick up his grandson's sippy cup from the ground. A truck hit him head on. Linda was with him when it happened.
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Please continue to pray for Gary, his wife Linda, their daughter and son-in-law Tiffany and Kyle Willey, their son and daughter-in-law Garrison and Brittany Hardin, and their two grandsons, Cotton and Grayson.


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Q: How to subclass ABCMeta Normally, to subclass a class I do something like
class Subby(Parenty):
    def __init__(self):
        Parenty.__init__(self)

But now I'm trying to subclass a metaclass, specifically ABCMeta, so I'm doing
import ABCMeta

class Subby(ABCMeta):
    def __init__(self):
       ABCMeta.__init__(self) #this never seems to run

    def __new__(mcls, name, bases, namespace):
        cls = ABCMeta.__new__(mcls, name, bases, namespace)
        return cls

But, when I then try to subclass Subby as a metaclass like
class newClass(metaclass=Subby):
    pass

I get the error TypeError: __init__() takes 1 positional argument but 4 were given.
Why is this, and how do I subclass ABCMeta correctly?

A: From the datamodel:

If __new__() returns an instance of cls, then the new instance's __init__() method will be invoked like __init__(self[, ...]), where self is the new instance and the remaining arguments are the same as were passed to __new__().

So, as @user2357112 said, the signatures must match.
Despite this, there's really no reason to define __init__ and __new__ if you simply want to create an ABC. Just create it and use .register to register the conforming classes. Optionally, create a number of abstract methods and a __subclasshook__ that checks for conformance. A good example already exists in the abc module documentation.

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