Coffee talks are brief presentations by Stanford doctors or specialists, followed by a Q&A session. Events are held in a member's home and are typically limited in attendees to ensure an intimate atmosphere. To sign up, use the SignUp Genius link found in the coffee talk invitations, which are emailed to all members one month prior to each event.
Dr. Kurahashi is a board certified child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist. She has expertise in psychotherapy and psychopharmacology. At Stanford University School of Medicine, she is a clinical psychiatrist in the General Clinic and the Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Clinic and serves as Director of the ADHD/Disruptive Behavior Clinic.
Dr. Derek H. Chu joined the Stanford faculty in October 2016 as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Dermatology. Dr. Chu's clinical and professional interests encompass a wide array of topics within pediatric dermatology, including vascular tumors and malformations, inflammatory skin diseases, dermato-oncology, neonatal dermatology, and procedural dermatology.
Dr. Kari Nadeau is one of the nation's foremost experts in adult and pediatric allergy and asthma. She is the Director of the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University and is an endowed professor under the Naddisy Family Foundation. Her medical research and clinical practice, in addition to her accomplishments in drug development in the biotech industry, have given her the tools to manage the complex web of asthma and allergy research.
Dr. Erica Sonnenburg, PhD: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 We are excited to kick off our Educational Coffee Talks on Tuesday, October 24th with Dr. Erica Sonnenburg, PhD. Dr. Sonnenburg is currently a top research scientist at the Stanford University School of Medicine in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, where she studies the role of diet on the human intestinal microbiota. She coauthored The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-term Health with her husband, Dr. Justin Sonnenburg, PhD. Please refer to the following link for an interesting article on the Sonnenburgs: http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/04/sonnenburg-family-stomach-bacteria.html.
Matthew Porteus, MD, PhD, is an associate professor at Stanford University School of Medicine in the department of Stem Cell Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine and a practicing clinician at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. Dr. Porteus is renowned in his field for being one of the first to demonstrate that human cells can be corrected through gene therapies. Additionally, Dr. Porteus manages Lucile Packard's Cord Blood Bank. He discussed his research in gene therapies and resulting implications for curing childhood diseases as well as his work with cord blood banking.
Sumit Bhargava, MD is a clinical associate professor of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital who specializes in understanding sleep disorders effecting children. Dr. Bhargave is a key part of the team at Lucile Packard's Pediatric Sleep Center, a clinic leading the way in sleep studies in children. Dr. Bhargava gave an overview on pediatric sleep research and will highlight the services available at the Pediatric Sleep Center.
This topic focused on anxieties that can accompany life transitions and current events. The speaker highlighted tips for how to effectively help your child and family with these sensitive issues. Our speaker also touched on ways to translate and explain current events to our children.
Desiree LaBeaud, MD, MS is an expert in her field of infectious disease focusing her efforts on understanding the risk factors and long-term health consequences of arboviral infections, including Zika. Dr. LaBeaud addressed parenting concerns surrounding pediatric infectious diseases and her current research at Stanford University.
Members enjoyed a presentation and discussion led by Dr. Yun. Dr Yun is President of Palo Alto Investors, a $1.6 billion hedge fund where he has been investing in healthcare since 1998. He received his B.A. from Harvard and his M.D. from Duke. He is bard certified in radiology and completed his residency and fellowship at Stanford, where he served on the clinical staff from 2000 to 2006. Dr. Yun is a contributor to various magazines on topics such as investing, evolution, and healthcare. Recently, he donated the $1 million Palo Alto Prize to nurture revolutionary science aimed at ending aging (www.paloaltoprize.org).
Members participated in a discussion with Dr. Maldonado. After graduation from Stanford School of Medicine, Dr. Maldonado also completed training as an Epidemiologic Intelligence Surveillance Officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She has led a number of NIH, CDC, Gates Foundation and WHO funded domestic and international pediatric vaccine studies, as well as studies in prevention and treatment of perinatal HIV infection in the US, India, Mexico and Africa. She is Vice Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases, and as a member of the Infectious Diseases of America, the Society for Pediatric Research, the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, and the American Public Health Association.
Members participated in a discussion with Dr. Yuan. Dr. Yuan has practiced at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford in the field of Pediatric Pulmonology and Cystic Fibrosis, as well as Pediatric Sleep Disorders, since 2003. Her research interests are focused on sleep disorders in the pediatric population and pulmonology complications. She graduated from Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia.
Dr. Paul Graham Fisher led a discussion on sports-related head-injuries in children. Dr. Fisher received his B.S. from Stanford University, M.D. from UCSF School of Medicine, and completed residences in pediatrics and neurology and a fellowship in neuro-oncology at Johns Hopkins University. In 1997, he was recruited back to Stanford, where he started and now directs the pediatric neuro-oncology program at Stanford University. He is an editorial board member of Journal of Neuro-Oncology and Frontiers in Pediatric Oncology, and is a member of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium, Children's Oncology Group, American Society of Clinical Oncology, Society for Neuro-Oncology, and Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium.
Speakers bio: Claire Fitzgerald and Pat Rice are both licensed Marriage and Family Therapists. Claire had a private practice in Silicon Valley where she started a Family Institute. She had the opportunity to teach abroad and gain experience with people in diverse cultures. Pat earned his PhD working with Dr. Carl Rogers, the founder of Person Centered Counseling. For the past 17 years Pat and Claire have been hired by Stanford to provide pre-marriage counseling to couples being married at Memorial Church. Their special passion has been volunteering at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford for 17 years cuddling babies in the Intensive Care nurseries. They were recently featured on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer in a piece about the hospital's Cuddling program.
A discussion led by Dr. Victor Carrion.
Dr. Cornelia Dekker, Medical Director of the Stanford-LPCH Vaccine Program, led this discussion.
A conversation with Dr. Gretchen Flanagan, RD.
Professor Victoria Cosgrove, Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, led our discussion.


Lola is one of the jewels in new network MullenLowe's crown. Former Lowe & Partners boss Michael Wall (now at Mother) had the knack of picking Spanish-speaking plums.
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Akeir was the heart of the Imperium of Man and the permanent residence of the line of Al'Eld (the rulers of the Imperium). It was also the home world of House Cormac and the Church. Aekir was temperate and mild and best known for its vast mega city of the same name. Since the announced death of Empress Gheverie Al'Eld in the year 161 AGW, Akeir saw much strife as the Houses erupted into civil disputes before calming in the face of the machine war.
Atira was known for its beautiful mountains and fjords. It was a cold planet, but not unpleasant, and the home world of House Kree, the foremost scholars in the Empire. Many of the House evacuated to destinations unknown in light of the civil conflicts (to which they remained neutral), as well as the machine invasion. It was later discovered they went to Eclipse to establish the Kree Archive.
Jord was once the home to House Juntach's renowned swordsmen. It was primarily an arid planet, but did have many lush river valleys as well. In the year 162 AGW, Jord was destroyed by one of the Thinking Machines aptly named World Destroyers; a weapon of impossible magnitude which reduced the surface of the planet to rubble and uninhabitable rock.
Kala was a cold and uninviting planet, though starkly beautiful. House Fi'grim made their home here, finding their warrior nature a suitable fit to its frigid severity. Many of the former residents of the planets Jord and Ottar began living there in refugee camps when the invasion of the Thinking Machines began. In the civil conflicts of 161 AGW, House Fi'Grim joined Huron and Weilok to form the entity known as Cerberus.
House Vinro's former home world is mild and temperate. Their massive city was matched only by the great city of Akeir. Ottar came under much scrutiny in light of the Verus Al'Eld scandal in which an acolyte of the church on Ottar was proclaimed the blood of Al'Eld under false pretenses. The matter was resolved with the unexpected death of Verus. In the year 163 AGW, Ottar was made uninhabitable by one of the Thinking Machines flying battleships.
Temperate and mild, Spentha was the home world of House Weilok. It was the origin of the most innovative of cybernetic and technological developments. In the civil conflicts of 161 AGW, House Weilok sided with Huron and Fi'Grim to form the entity known as Cerberus. Many of Tokpela's refugees chose to go to Spentha in light of House Weilok's aptitude in the fields of medical science.
The home world of House Huron was a tropical paradise primarily made up of water. It was commonly called the "Island Planet" for its many small and beautiful isles. In the civil conflicts of 161 AGW, House Huron sided with Weilok and Fi'Grim to form the entity known as Cerberus. In 163 AGW, Taiowa began evacuations to Spentha, Kala, and Eclipse in an effort to minimize machine war casualties.
Once known for its vast, dark forests and jungles, Tokpa was home to House Svarog. The planet's largest export was in mechanical engineering with a strong focus on munitions at the start of the machine conflict. As it was the home of the Imperium's best engineers, the cities there had no comparison as they nestled among the boughs. The whirr of central air was its own birdsong on this advanced planet.
House Eioph, renowned surgeons of the Empire, once made their home in the underground cities of Tokpela. The surface of the planet was comprised of dry and unforgiving deserts. In the year 162 AGW, Tokpela was evacuated in the face of impending robot invasion. Many of the refugees went to Spentha to join with House Weilok in preparing medical supplies for the war.


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Tamara Gonzales is like a shaman, a female spiritual leader in North Brooklyn. With the most economic means, her ecstatic paintings effuse with kaleidoscopic patterns of color and light. She employs antique lace as a template through which she creates polychromatic washes of spray paint. Lace isn't girly in Gonzales's images. Multiple patterns and styles are collaged together in clashing arrangements of vibrant hues stained onto a white ground.
Tamara Gonzales, L to R: "spectral process," 2013. Spray paint on canvas, 66 x 57″. "dawn bringer," 2013. Spray paint on canvas, 66 x 54″. "magnetic knight," 2013. 66 x 54″. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Brian Buckley.
The lengths of the delicately patterned fabric become stiff and heavy with paint, and lay in tall stacks on wide tables in Gonzales's studio. Favorites are used multiple times throughout bodies of work, and garner a studio history of their own as the paint cakes into their tiny holes and crevices.
Pseudo-figurative totems appear and reappear in spectrums of variegated color, stacked together in multiples, or stand isolated in an ocean of dappled light. Gonzales has created a lexicon of stencils, which she has cut by hand from cardboard. They are used and reused throughout bodies of work, operating like beloved characters in an extended non-narrative story. They are not exactly figurative, but neither are they wholly abstract.
These stencils become icons of power and energy, and taken as a body, Gonzales's oeuvre creates a complex iconography through the repeated characters. The dancing man—who has three legs, perhaps connoting movement, a nose, and sometimes a phallus—is encased within the painting itself, pushing against its edges, or is framed in a cave-like womb, which borders the painting. The "little guy," with two eyes peers out blankly, like a gnome. Never, however, do they overtly reference any specific religious, tribal, or spiritual symbols. Neither are they entirely serious: some are adorable, others comical, still others, terrifying.
These stencils become icons of power and energy, and taken as a body, Gonzales's oeuvre creates a complex iconography through the repeated characters.
Gonzales's work is deeply informed by independent international travel. She has lived and worked abroad extensively in India, Peru, and Mexico, and her imagery draws deeply on mythological histories from these first-hand experiences. She has a particular spiritual affinity with Durga, the supreme Hindu mother goddess, depicted astride a tiger, simultaneously stabbing a demon with a scimitar, and stamping upon ignorance. Gonzales's artist lectures include images from her trip to Calcutta for Durga Puja, one of the most important spiritual festivals in India, where provisional temples of cloth are erected throughout the city to house hundreds of enormous hand-made sculptures depicting Durga, her enemies, and her entourage.
Gonzales's work develops in explosive spurts of productivity. They are made rapidly in quick succession, lending to all her canvases a feeling of incredible freshness. Gonzales returns from her annual retreat to upstate New York with upwards of 30 large format canvases. The images explode from her production in every conceivable direction in both subject matter and style. Oftentimes, the lace patterns and prismatic colors stray from her canvases to cover entire walls as backdrops of brilliant yellow, mottled blue and vermilion in her solo exhibitions.
Her colors aren't neon, they're Manic Panic. Her paintings aren't pretty, they're punk rock. Her imagery is not fictional; it's more like the Rasta-colored tribal knife tattooed on her forearm. For her January 2013 solo exhibition at Shoot the Lobster in New York, Gonzales made a ten-foot-tall neon line drawing of a fist with pinky and index finger extended. Rock on.


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Using jOOQ's ExecuteListener to Prevent Write Operations on a Connection – Java, SQL and jOOQ.
With this fine-grained access control, write operations on certain database objects can be prevented directly in the database.
What if that's not possible?
Not all databases ship with sophisticated access privilege implementations, or perhaps, your application cannot profit from those features for operational reasons. In that case, you should at least be able to implement security on the client, e.g. by using jOOQ's ExecuteListener (for coarse grained access control), or by using jOOQ's VisitListener (for fine grained access control).
If you hook this listener into your jOOQ Configuration, you will no longer be able to execute any write operations on that Configuration. It's that easy!
Essentially, this check prevents a client session from running insert statements into the AUTHOR table. A future version of jOOQ will ship with this kind of ACL VisitListener out of the box, when https://github.com/jOOQ/jOOQ/issues/5197 is implemented.
This can also be done by setting the read-only attribute at the [JDBC Connection-level](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/sql/Connection.html#setReadOnly(boolean)).


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Корделія Файн (;  1975, Торонто, Канада) — британська науковиця, психолог. Доктор філософії (2001), професор історії та філософії науки Мельбурнського університету.

Файн написала три науково-популярні книги на теми соціального пізнання, нейронаук і популярних міфів про статеві відмінності. Її остання книга «Тестостерон Рекс» отримала Королівську наукову книжкову премію 2017 року. Вона є авторкою численних академічних публікацій, зокрема, важливих для гендерних досліджень (як-от Delusions of Gender). Авторка терміну «нейросексизм».

Відзначена  (2018),  (2018) і  (2017).

Дочка британської письменниці Енн Файн та .

Закінчила з відзнакою Оксфордський університет (бакалавр психології, 1995). У 1996 році здобула магістерський ступінь з кримінології в Кембриджському університеті. У 2001 році здобула ступінь доктора філософії із психології в Університетському коледжі Лондона. З 2002 по 2011 рік обіймала дослідницькі позиції в Університеті Монаша, Австралійському національному університеті, Університеті Маккуорі. У 2012—2016 роках фелло Мельбурнської школи психологічних наук (Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences) Мельбурнського університету. Також до 2016 року була асоційованим професором Мельбурнської бізнес-школи університету Мельбурна.

Авторка чотирьох книг, зокрема: A Mind of its Own; Delusions of Gender; Тестостерон Рекс (Testosterone Rex, відзнака ). Авторка статей у Lancet, Scientist, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Psychologist. Також публікується у ЗМІ, в New York Times, Financial Times, Guardian, Wall Street Journal.

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Посилання
 Офіційний сайт Корделії Файн
 Мельбурнський університет
 Centre for Ethical Leadership
 https://events.unimelb.edu.au/presenters/5970-professor-cordelia-fine

Американські науковиці
Письменниці-феміністки
Феміністки США
Жінки-психологи
Британські емігранти до Австралії

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Q: Global variable is not defined - Python and PyGame i try to create a Flappy Bird clone. When i try to define some Global variables visual studio said me that this variables aren't defined in global scope.
Some could help me??
I tried to move the variables in the global scope and it works, but i don't understand why this solution doesn 't work.
This is my code
Thanks in advance
import pygame
import random

pygame.init()

background = pygame.image.load('img/background.png')
base = pygame.image.load('img/base.png')
bird = pygame.image.load('img/bird.png')
gameover = pygame.image.load('img/gameover.png')
pipe_down = pygame.image.load('img/pipe.png')
pipe_up = pygame.transform.flip(pipe_down, False, True)

windowX = 288
winwowY = 512
frame_rate = 50

display_surface = pygame.display.set_mode((windowX, winwowY))
FPS = frame_rate

pygame.display.set_caption('Flappy Bird')

def drawObject():
    display_surface.blit(background, (0, 0))
    display_surface.blit(bird, (birdX, birdY))

def update():
    pygame.display.update()
    pygame.time.Clock().tick(FPS)

# Here is where define my global vars
def initializes():
    global birdX, birdY, birdSpeedY
    birdX = 60
    birdY = 150
    birdSpeedY = 0

initializes()

while True:
    birdSpeedY += 1
    birdY += birdSpeedY

    drawObject()
    update()

A: The message is telling you exactly what the issue is. The global variables aren't defined in global scope.
That means that for these variables that you are telling it you want to use from the global namespace global birdX, birdY, birdSpeedY, it expects to find a definition of those in that uppermost namespace. The global keyword does NOT create them in the global namespace just because you use it. They must exist there independent of that.
For them to be defined in the global scope there needs to be an assignment to them in the global namespace, not inside a function or a class. That cannot be something a += either since that is a reference and an assignment and so it assumes that the definition must be elsewhere (or  it would be being referenced before a value was assigned).
So somewhere in the global namespace you need an assignment. If you want to handle the initialization in a function (as you are doing) it must still be defined/assigned outside that function, but it can be any value, like None. So you could add this near the top of you program:
birdX = None
birdY = None
birdSpeedY = None

Then still use your initializes() as you are.
Or in your case you would probably just take the stuff inside initializes() and put it at the top /global level.

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:I just got my Nikon Coolpix 4500 last week and went out herping over the weekend. This is the best pic that I took (I'm still learning to use this camera, my old one was just a very simple point and click). This shot was taken with the macro mode (man can this camera focus well in macro mode).
:I just really like this pic.


Carlos Ballinas-Moreno has more than five years of experience in civil and geotechnical engineering. At Barr, his work focuses on civil design for mining projects in northern Minnesota and in Saskatchewan, Canada. He has also assisted with dam, flood control, and wind farm projects and prepares civil design and contract documents for clients throughout the Midwest and Canada. In addition, Carlos has provided construction observation and design for tailings management and levee projects. Prior to joining Barr, he gained experience as an engineer/engineering technician for a forensic and geotechnical engineering firm in North Dakota.


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Q: How to print the next value in the line that contains the maximum of a column? How to print the next value in the line that contains the maximum of a column?
for f in a*; do
    awk 'BEGIN{a=   0}{if ($2>0+a) a=$2}{if($2 = a) b=$1} END{print FILENAME, b}' "$f"
done

a*
4 5
6 6
5 5.5
7 55

desired result
a45 7

A: The right way to do this depending on whether you'd want the first or last value printed for duplicate key fields is this to print the last one:
awk 'NR==1{max=$2} $2>=max{max=$2; val=$1} END{print FILENAME, val}' "$f"

or this to print the first one:
awk 'NR==1{max=$2; val=$1} $2>max{max=$2; val=$1} END{print FILENAME, val}' "$f"


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Q: Customize ListItem contains colorful label, colorful label background not show? I customize QListView and ListItem, the ListItem contain colorful label,but the colorful label not working?I can't find why the QLabel not show it's color.
Demo code
from qtpy.QtWidgets import *
from qtpy.QtCore import *
from qtpy.QtGui import *

class ListItem(QWidget):
    def __init__(self, color, info):
        super().__init__()
        lay = QHBoxLayout()
        self._colorLabel = QLabel()
        self._info = QLabel(info)

        lay.addWidget(self._colorLabel)
        lay.addWidget(self._info)
        self.setLayout(lay)

        self._colorLabel.setAutoFillBackground(True)
        self.setLabelColor(color)

    def setLabelColor(self, color):
        pal = self._colorLabel.palette()
        pal.setColor(QPalette.Window, color)
        self._colorLabel.setPalette(pal)

class ListWiget(QListWidget):
    def _addItem(self, item):
        tmpItem = QListWidgetItem()
        tmpItem.setSizeHint(item.sizeHint())
        self.addItem(tmpItem)
        self.setItemWidget(tmpItem, item)

app = QApplication([])

listW = ListWiget()
item = ListItem(Qt.red, "red")
item2 = ListItem(Qt.blue, "blue")
listW._addItem((item2))
listW._addItem(item)
listW.show()

app.exec()

The Picture
It always show white background?

A: You have to use Base instead of Window:
def setLabelColor(self, color):
    pal = self._colorLabel.palette()
    pal.setColor(QPalette.Base, color)
    self._colorLabel.setPalette(pal)


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Our Russia
Russia's "Innoprom 2016" to unite the world's economic giants
July 8, 2016 10:00 AM by Olga Malik
Russia's main industrial trade fair, Innoprom held in Yekaterinburg is about to break yet another record. With participants from more than 95 countries the 7th annual industrial fair will host 150 business events for more than 600 companies around the world. According to Anton Atrashkin, the head of Innoprom Business Program, a unique format of the fair allows to know everything about Russia's industrial policy within 4 days.
Located in the Russia's Ural region, the city of Yekaterinburg is traditionally known as a host for major industrial and economic events. Among them are the SCO summit in 2009, the 31st Russia-EU Summit 2013 and Russia-Germany negotiations in 2010. Fair enough: the Urals is traditionally known as Russia's industrial center with biggest machine-building, electrical engineering and metallurgy companies located on its territory. The city's modern infrastructure and fast-growing economic development explains the choice of the platform for Innoprom. Traditionally engaging one of the countries as a partner, Innoprom 2016 is going off the beat and is about to unite two major economic giants this year: India and China. Our Russia's Olga Malik has found out who is ahead of the world's industry today and what the role of Russia in this race is.
China and India are the two biggest emerging economies today. China started its economic development in the 1980s reaching 9% of the world's GDP ratio by 2003. The reason of such incredible economic growth was enormous budget smartly invested by the Chinese government to the country's development. In the 2000s China was largely buying the world's innovative technologies which were later implemented in Chinese industrial companies. For instance, the automobile concern Volkswagen that lodged its production process in China was a perfect example for Chinese industrialists who learned how a successful car industry should be organized. As a result, in 2012 China launched production of its own Chery Automotive и Geely Automotive with much lesser costs compared to foreign producers.
Meanwhile India, China's major competitor, overcame China by its GDP ratio at the end of 2015 reaching the point of 7,6 % against China's 6,9%. The debate of whether India would take over China in 2016 would lead some of the Innoprom plenary sessions. According to some economists, as oil becomes cheaper India has all the resources to shortly overcome Brazil and South Africa. However, India's unlikely to become the "next China" since the China's contribution to the world's economy is still much bigger.
Russia's role: more than a host
Russia, the best partner of both India and China, continues going East. Being a major raw materials supplier for India and a top strategic partner for the country's military technical sector, Russia has amazing business opportunities in India today. The new industrial project "Make in India", launched by the Modi's government has already been supported by the world's and Russia's biggest companies.
China, for its part, is planning major investments in its partners' economies in 2016-2017 rating Russia as a number one priority for investments in transportation corridors (due to Russia's geographical location and strong economic ties with China). The freight traffic from Chinese province Heilongjiang to the Russia's seaport Nahodka reduced the costs of Chinese companies located in the North-East by 10-12% in 2015.

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Il Vogelkop (noto anche come penisola del Vogelkop o di Doberai; in indonesiano: Semenanjung Kepala Burung o Semenanjung Doberai; in inglese: Bird's Head Peninsula) è una penisola situata nella parte nord-occidentale della Nuova Guinea, nella provincia indonesiana di Papua Barat. In passato faceva parte della Nuova Guinea olandese e pertanto prese il nome olandese di Vogelkop o Vogelkopf, cioè «testa di uccello»; il nome si deve al fatto che la forma della Nuova Guinea ricorda un po' quella di un uccello appollaiato: in tale prospettiva, il Vogelkop indica proprio la testa dell'animale.

Geografia

L'angolo sud-orientale della penisola, che si affaccia sulla baia di Cenderawasih (nota in passato come baia di Geelvink), fa parte del parco nazionale di Teluk Cenderawasih. Mentre le regioni costiere della parte sud-occidentale sono pianeggianti e ricoperte da paludi umide, l'intera parte settentrionale è montuosa. I monti Tamrau, a nord-ovest, sono separati dai monti Arfak, a nord-est, dalla valle di Kebar. Questi ultimi culminano con il Gunung Mebo (noto in passato come Vogelkop), una montagna di 2939 m, il punto più alto della penisola. Al centro della penisola del Vogelkop vi è una formazione carsica, l'altopiano di Ayamaru, con i laghi omonimi.

Le località più importanti sono Manokwari a nord, Sorong a ovest, Bintuni e Ransiki. Vicino a Sorong e Bintuni vi sono giacimenti di petrolio.

La baia di Bintuni, che delimita a sud la penisola, ospita la palude di mangrovie più vasta del mondo, con una superficie di 4352 km². Dal 2005 al 2009, sotto la direzione della BP, venne portato avanti il progetto Tangguh per produrre 7,6 milioni di tonnellate di gas naturale liquefatto con un investimento di 3 miliardi di dollari. La baia di Bintuni si allarga verso il mare di Ceram nel golfo di Berau. A sud di essa si trova la penisola di Bomberai.

Flora e fauna
La penisola del Vogelkop è ricoperta, al di sopra dei 1000 m, da foreste pluviali di montagna, che ricoprono in tutto una superficie di oltre 22.000 km². Sono molte le specie animali endemiche delle montagne della regione, come la farfalla Ornithoptera rothschildi, il coda ad anello di Schlegel, un marsupiale, e una specie di ratto lanoso del genere Mallomys non ancora descritta ufficialmente.

Sono più di 300 le specie di uccelli che abitano la penisola, di cui almeno 20 endemiche di queste foreste, come il cappuccino dell'Arfak, il giardiniere del Vogelkop e la paradisea reale.

Nella penisola del Vogelkop (compresa la penisola di Bomberai e le isole al largo) vivono 24 specie endemiche di pesci arcobaleno (Melanotaenia), molte delle quali diffuse nelle aree carsiche, come il pesce arcobaleno arlecchino.

Lingue

Nella penisola del Vogelkop vengono parlate tradizionalmente sia lingue austronesiane che papuane, ma la stragrande maggioranza degli abitanti parla lingue appartenenti a quest'ultimo gruppo. Se contiamo anche il gruppo insulare di Raja Ampat (in italiano «Quattro Re») e l'isola al largo di Meoswar (o Waar), nel Vogelkop si parlano oltre 30 lingue diverse. La distribuzione geografica delle lingue (come altrove in Nuova Guinea) riflette le diverse ondate di insediamento sull'isola: quando i navigatori austronesiani raggiunsero la Nuova Guinea 3000-4000 anni fa, l'entroterra dell'isola era già abitato da popolazioni di lingua papuasica. I nuovi arrivati, invece, si stabilirono principalmente sulle coste e sulle isole al largo.

Tra le lingue austronesiane della penisola del Vogelkop vi sono quelle parlate sulle isole Raja Ampat (compresa la lingua as, diffusa sulla costa nord-occidentale, a est di Sorong), il wandamen, parlato a sud-est sul «collo» della Testa di Uccello nella regione di Bintuni e il meoswar parlato su un'isola montuosa a sud-est. L'ex lingua franca regionale, il biak, è parlata nell'area di Manokwari. Esistono anche varianti orientali dell'indonesiano (in inglese Papuan Malay), attualmente parlate in tutti gli insediamenti e nelle città più grandi, così come altre lingue regionali introdotte da migranti provenienti da diverse regioni della Nuova Guinea occidentale.

Le lingue papuane parlate nella penisola del Vogelkop possono essere riassunte sotto il termine lingue papuasiche occidentali, che non indica alcuna relazione genetica tra esse, ma serve piuttosto come termine collettivo per indicare una specifica area linguistica (all'interno della quale vengono incluse di solito anche le Molucche con Halmahera e il gruppo di lingue timor-alor-pantar). La classificazione filogenetica delle lingue papuasiche non è stata ancora chiarita in modo definitivo. Generalmente, in base alle ricerche di Wurm, McElhanon e Voorhoeve, le lingue del Vogelkop meridionale, parlate nella parte sud-occidentale della penisola, vengono attribuite al gruppo delle lingue trans-Nuova Guinea, di gran lunga la più grande famiglia linguistica non austronesiana della Nuova Guinea. Altre famiglie linguistiche postulate sono le lingue del Vogelkop occidentale a ovest, le lingue del Vogelkop orientale, come il meyah e il sougb e la famiglia hatam-mansim a est, e alcune lingue non classificabili come il maybrat, l'abun e lo mpur nell'interno della penisola.

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Geografia dell'Indonesia
Penisole dell'Oceania


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We have one major fund raiser each year. The bulk of the money we collect to support the club and our many charitable causes comes from our annual "Peanut Days" campaign.
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Because of the Covid19 pandemic, the Elgin Golden K Kiwanis Club has had to cancel the annual Peanut Drive. Because this is an important fund raiser for us, we will continue to sell peanuts by the box to anyone interested in supporting our club. We will not be selling the peanuts outside local businesses like we have in the past. If you want to buy Kiwanis Peanuts and support a local service club, you can order the peanuts by sending an e-mail to our club Secretary Ron Blake at blake2208@msn.com. You get 100 packs of delicious peanuts in every box, priced at $36.00 a box. We appreciate your help in these challenging times.
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Drones, Privacy and Harassment
14th January 2016 discussion, law, safety
Recently there was a statistic published and repeated on Twitter stating that complaints about drone use to the police had risen 2000 percent "Calls To Police Over Drone Privacy Up By 2,000%" via Sky News.
The article and the statistic authored by Adele Robinson, Sky's Midlands Correspondent is well researched but the debate moved into whether the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 would be available to reduce the complaints about drones invading your privacy. Well yes, in England and Wales this Act could be considered but it is probably not the first legislation the authorities might look to.
This is because Section One of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 states that a persons actions (with or without a drone) must amount to a course of conduct and that they know or ought to know that [their action] amounts to harassment. Some point out that CPS guidelines "to amount to harassment one must show a 'course of conduct' on 2 occasions within a year." So the Harassment Act is not going to provide a swift solution notwithstanding the police could issue a warning to the offender. This being the case what other common or civil law might apply?
Well while using a drone could 'invade your privacy' there is no specific law to protect your privacy, which point was reaffirmed when the House of Lords ruled in Home Office v Wainwright (a case involving a strip search undertaken on the plaintiff Alan Wainwright while visiting Armley prison).
However there are many pro-social uses for drones including their use by Search and Rescue teams. Such teams are civilian volunteers who work closely with police, fire and rescue, other charities and the Ambulance services of the UK. Their primary role is to find vulnerable missing people. This often requires them to search open areas of rough land. You can see that drone use perhaps using an heat source recognising camera by Search and Rescue teams could reduce the area to be searched. My point here is that there are quasi-official uses for drones that might impinge on someones property or privacy but that most folk would accept this was a lawful or social purpose. The use of a drone in this case would be a mere fraction of the cost of powering up, let alone flying a police helicopter. And of course such use is strictly guided by policy, procedures and insurance.
Fortunately there is legislation and guidance for all drone pilots not just the responsible ones which state you just need to have some common sense and safety rules. "Don't fly near people, don't fly over buildings, certainly don't go near roads. Don't fly over roads it's just not sensible. At any moment your drone could drop out the sky, and no matter how much you prepare you need to be ready for that". You need to fly responsibly.
The CAA provide a "dronecode" telling users not to fly higher than 400ft, or near aircraft or airfields, and always keep eyes on the drone.
The law also stipulates that drones fitted with cameras must not be flown within 50 metres of people, vehicles, buildings or structures, or over large gatherings.
However there is a problem with antisocial drone use – that of the potential remote user. If something goes wrong they may merely walk away. but just how big is the problem Sky New has highlighted? A two thousand percent increase? Well Adele's Freedom of Information figures show in 2013 officers recorded 19 calls compared to at least 461 in 2015 and in the last year the number rose by over 160%. Just half of police forces in England that Sky News contacted responded to the request. Considering the number of drones in use and the hours flown and number of complaints in the low thousands suggests this remains a generally small problem but one that should be monitored and brought back before the courts as drone use evolves.
The Protection from Harassment Act 1997 is always available but I do not think it will feature often in cases of complaints about drone use.
Mobility Scooters – do you see them?
8th December 2015 ability, mobility, risk assessment, safety, traffic
Mobility Scooters or Invalid carriages are a common sight on our roads, pavements and in our shopping centres. But are they safe? There are around 400,000 currently on our streets a growth of 33% since the early 2000's. We have got over the hysteria of 2003 and 2012 where motorised scooters or invalid carriages, as the law knows them, were demonised through a few high profile events. These were generally where older folk made serious errors such as driving them onto a motorway. But at present the danger to others by invalid carriage users has been assimilated into our daily lives. In fact recent work by the Department for Economy, Science and Transport and the National Assembly for Wales confirms that they of significant benefit to disabled people and goes even further suggesting amendments to the regulations to make them more available to younger folk.
The currently problem of invalid carriages is one of visibility – do you see them? The question is particularly appropriate as we approach the end of British Summer Time on Sunday 25th October 2015. Whether on the pavement, on the road or merely crossing the street at low speed (0-8mph) there are significant dangers to the users because they do not have to show front and rear position indicators (side lights) and there is no MOT required.
From our own recent field study of invalid carriages used in London and the South of England very few users are aware of the dangers and what simple steps can be taken to make the user safer. However whilst 84% of users complain that motorists and cyclists ignore them, drive too close and "bully" them. (89% complain that pedestrians get in the way and that many shopping isles are too narrow) only some 10% of carriage users wear a high visibility clothing item when they use their vehicles. This one change to wearing a high-vis vest would, we argue, ensure that scooter users feel safer because other road users would see them earlier and be able to react sooner. This would be a useful step forward and we would ask the DoT to consider making this move mandatory following a wider survey.
It is also the case that of the 10% of users who wear high visibility clothing when on their mobility scooter over 70% of these do so because they have been involved in an accident or near miss with a vehicle. It would be an interesting subject for further research to examine the times, dates and weather conditions of such events.
Other useful safety changes would be for current invalid carriages to be fitted, like bicycles with reflectors and with reflected chevrons on the rear surface of the vehicle.
The study of mobility scooter safety will become simpler as from 2015 the police service will record incidents including invalid carriages.
Meanwhile if you know a mobility scooter user don't wait for wider research to prove our study you can buy a high visibility safety vest from around £5 and help them be safer in our community.


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Man narrowly escapes death from falling glass pane
A SON who had returned to England to visit his terminally ill father escaped death by just seconds when a large pane of glass came smashing down.
Chris Caulfield
A SON who had returned to England to visit his terminally ill father escaped death by seconds when a large pane of glass came smashing down inches from where he was standing.
Graham Stratford, 55, was leaving the Thomas Cook travel agent in Elmsleigh Shopping Centre, Staines, and was about to go to the bus station to check the timetable to Heathrow when he noticed the sale sign in the window and paused for a moment.
Those few seconds, he said, saved his life, as when he left the store a large glass panel, nearly the size of a door, came crashing down, hitting his shoulder, before smashing into pieces on the floor, leaving him in a state of shock with cuts and bruises.
Mr Stratford now lives in Ibiza, Spain, but grew up in Sunbury and had been staying with his wife's parents in Hengrove Crescent.
He said: "It came crashing down. There was an almighty explosion. It was like the sound of 100 light bulbs exploding at the same time.
"I've got bad bruising on my shoulder, back and ankle.
"I'm not sure I was hit when the glass came down or when it shattered. It broke in large pieces.
"I recall it hit me on the shoulder and then exploded and that did the damage to my ankle.
"I am just so grateful to the women in the Thomas Cook, they were absolutely brilliant.
"It wasn't until much later, when the shock wore off, that I could really feel the bruising."
He had been in the UK to visit his father Dennis Stratford, 83, who has terminal stomach cancer. It was Dennis's birthday on May 1 and, having to care for Graham's mother who suffers from dementia, he wanted a simple home cooked family meal to mark the occasion.
The Herald & News has been told CCTV footage from the shopping centre shows just how lucky Graham Stratford was and how narrowly he missed being killed by the falling pane.
The following day, Friday May 3, Mr Stratford returned to Ibiza so he did not see a doctor at the time. The shock, he said, kept the affected areas numb and meant he was not aware of the extent of his injuries. He has been in contact with the shopping centre's management who have said they would investigate the accident to find out who is responsible.
He added: "Since the incident I've been in shock and have had some flashbacks.
"I know how lucky I was. Another foot, three seconds later, and it would have hit me on the head and killed me.
"It really does bring it home."
Three days later Mr Stratford was examined by osteopath Robert Hale, who noted the extensive bruising, swelling and reduced movement.
In his medical report Dr Hale concluded: "My preliminary assessment is that this incident has caused Mr Stratford significant shock, bruising and a (probably temporary) aggravation of his long-standing lower back problem."
Mr Stratford has arranged for friend Ray Blowers to deliver chocolates to the staff of Thomas Cook as a mark of thanks for the care they gave him following his experience.
A spokesman for Thomas Cook was not available for comment.
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TORONTO/OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Muslims traveling to the Hajj pilgrimage face delays coming back due to a diplomatic dispute with Saudi Arabia that is also prompting thousands of students from the kingdom to scramble to sell their assets and return home to meet a month-end deadline.
As the stalemate continues, Canada is reaching out to its allies, including the United States and European Union, to rally support, and talking to Saudi Arabia to resolve the dispute.
Riyadh abruptly severed diplomatic and trade ties earlier this month in response to Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland's tweet demanding the release of civil society activists in the kingdom. Riyadh also ended state-backed educational and medical programs in Canada, resulting Saudi students here hustling to return home.
In Halifax, the Ummah Masjid organized yard sales to help students sell their furniture, electronics and even cars.
As of the end of June, there were more than 5,100 Saudi students with valid study permits for post-secondary institutions in Canada.
Many Canadian Muslims had booked flights with Saudia, the Kingdom's official airline, to perform the Hajj pilgrimages in the Saudi city of Mecca, which takes place from August 19 to 24 this year.
While Saudia trips to Mecca before August 13 were not affected, returns home prove to be a concern for many.
"We're nervous as a family because we don't want her to be stranded in an airport," Jawad Chaudhry, a real estate broker in Hamilton, said of his mother, who is traveling via Saudia for Hajj.
Freeland has spoken with officials of the European Union, Germany, Sweden and the United Arab Emirates in an effort to find support, a spokesman for the foreign minister told Reuters.
"We have a dialogue that is continuing with the Saudis, that's encouraging, we know that we need to maintain an open dialogue with them to resolve this issue," he added.
But silence from Canada's traditional backers has sparked some soul-searching in Ottawa.
The big issue is the future of foreign relationships in a world where Canada can no longer count on support from its major allies, said Roland Paris, a former foreign affairs adviser to Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
"We're getting a glimpse of what the world looks like when the United States isn't a strong advocate of human rights, one in which liberal democracies are keeping their heads down," Paris said.
Bob Rae, former leader of the federal Liberal party, said Canada has to be more strategic about how to push its human rights agenda.
"There needs to be a clearer sense of strategy about why we are intervening in some situations and not in others, and how one would ever expect countries to take criticism without responding," Rae told Reuters.


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The directing debut of Sebastiano Mauri, based on the stage play by Italian actor Filippo TImi who also stars in the titular role, FAIRYTALE is a tribute to 50s era America, winner of the Golden Ciak Award for Best Production Design, More Love Award at Festival Mix 2018, and Flaiano Prize for Best first work to Sebastiano Mauri.
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I work for a luxury retailer in Chicago. I thought these would be a great addition to my black wardrobe. I keep my dress shoes in my locker at work and they never touch pavement. Only the marble floors of the store.
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RG said, "unfortunately we cannot issue an exchange since the item was purchased from a third party retailer. Merchandise purchased from other retailers, department stores or specialty stores must be returned or exchanged to the store from which it was originally purchased, and is subject to the return policy of the originating retailer." And RG offered me a $25 gift card! Nothing on their site is $25!
Basically RG does not stand behind the items they manufacture. Why wouldn't they take it back? It has nothing to do with the store – the item is defective!
I see on some websites, (Neiman Marcus Last Call, Nordstrom, etc) the shoes are listed as Printed Leather "Driver". Also sometimes listed as Print Moccasins. To my eye, it is not really "printed leather". As I said, it appears to be a film stretched over or onto the leather. The leather is not cracking – just the image/film.
I do not have my original box – I am not sure how the shoes were described. But, – definition of driving shoes – Though driving shoes can be worn for an evening out on the town, but if that evening consists an extended walk around the city, consider an alternative. This shoe is ultimately made for hanging out, short walks, and of course, driving. They can wear down more quickly since they're not made for strenuous use. – I wish I had known that. I am on my feet 8 hours a day, on marble. Looking at them, the rubber pieces on the sole make them look durable. So I assumed I could wear them at work. Indoors.
Driving shoes are basically like slippers. Light wear.
Either way, I wore my shoes 80-90 hours and the damage started. You might wear them a few hours here or there, but you can not stop the damage. Driving shoes or not. The movement of your foot will eventually crack the image.
So buyer beware.
I bought some permanent felt tip markers this week and may just color them!
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5 Ways to Get Over Hair Loss for Good!
When men lose their hair, many also lose their confidence. Whether you are in the early, or latter, stages of hair loss it can take some time to adjust to your changing looks. But that doesn't mean you are no longer in control of your appearance. Losing your hair also presents the perfect chance to try something new. In some ways you are wiping the slate clean and starring again, which is an opportunity most people never have.
Whether you want to buy some new clothes, grow your beard or receive SMP treatment, it's entirely up to you. Read through our 5 ways to get over hair loss for good for some helpful tips.
You may not have control over your hair, but there is nothing stopping you taking care of your skin. Make it your mantra to keep your skin in great condition and you'll soon see the benefits. A facial will leave you looking and feeling refreshed. Rejuvenate how you feel by adding a glow to your skin. Moisturizing daily works wonders by allowing the skin to breathe and relax. When you look more vibrant, everyone around you soon takes more notice.
Grow a beard
The hair on your face can define you just as easily as the hair on your head. The resurgence of beards doesn't look like it will be stopping anytime soon. There has never been a better time to grow out a beard or facial hair. If you lose your hair and grow a beard you are instantly reinventing your appearance. It creates a new focal point and diverts attention away from your hair loss.
Update Your Wardrobe
What you wear says more about you than the hair growing out of your head. Your clothes present your personality to the world, allowing you to define who you are. Investing in new clothing is the perfect way to get over hair loss. There are few things better than buying something new and showing it off to everyone else. It makes you feel good about yourself and enables you to be whoever you want to be, any day of the week.
Make the Cut
Turn yourself into one of those handsome bald guys and shave your hair off completely. You'd be surprised how attractive you become to others when you take the plunge and shave your head. It refocuses how people see you, with your eyes standing out more. Your jawline and facial hair also become more prominent. The great thing is, if you're not happy with it, the hair will always grow back in the end.
Get SMP
Have you ever asked yourself "What would I look like with a shaved head?" Hairline micropigmentation gives you the chance to find out. It allows you to restore your full hairline to exactly match your hair color. We'll even show you a virtual hairline so you can see what it looks like before committing. Hair SMP is best way to regain your confidence without spending a fortune. Our Skalp® hair loss clinics are home to the most experienced practitioners in the world. It's safe, fast and the most effective hair loss solution on the market today.
The best way to find out more is to arrange a free consultation with one of our helpful head tattoo practitioners at Skalp USA hair clinic here.
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Andrew Christian Model Contest SIR JET
He made the first cut, now he is in the video round! PLEASE VOTE ASAP.
Sir JET #Singer, #vlogger, #model, and #gender-nonconformist Sir JET aka Joel Evan Tye!
The mysterious and alluring gender-bending Sir JET aka Joel Evan Tye is a popstar like no other. With his super-hero body and love for skin tight costumes and anime, he is what has been referred to as "Nick Lachey meets Ziggy Stardust." The online article "The Boy Who Talked Like a Girl," is the story of JET's childhood struggle with gender anxiety that lead him to become an agoraphobic mute for almost a decade to only rediscover his voice again at age 20 and become the man you see today.
Stop by the "Submissions" page and cast a vote for our friend. Singer, model "Sir Jet" Joel Evan Tye.
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Grace Jones Documentary
"Listen to me! I'm human, man! I'm human," Grace Jones says in the trailer for Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, a documentary that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
We'll just see about that, won't we? Shot over the course of a decade, Bloodlight and Bami was directed by Sophie Fiennes and documents the extraordinary Jones's life onstage and off.
"You get all different sides with this documentary – totally natural, no makeup, just improv, no rehearsals and no special lighting until we did the performances, which I was totally involved with," Jones recently told Now Toronto. "It's really the first time that I unmask, I guess you could say."
Jones also said she gave Fiennes complete creative control, aside from "a couple of ideas in the editing."
"I never watched any of the footage," said Jones. "I just had total trust in her, which is how I usually work when I collaborate."
"Grace had fiercely controlled her public image, but made the bold decision to unmask," Fiennes says. "She never sought to control my shooting process, and I didn't second-guess the narrative of the film as I was shooting. I just gathered evidence. The film is a deliberately present-tense experience; for me this is the thrill-ride of verité cinema."
Bloodlight And Bami juxtaposes Jones' avant-garde stage persona with the true off-screen identity we seldom see. "The performer out there takes the risk—it's a lonely place," Jones says in the trailer. "But it's a fascinating lonely place."
"She is gypsy, artist and partying hedonist, warm and funny but also a fierce and tenacious businesswoman," the film's press notes promise of its subject. "This is a Grace we have not seen before." GET A PEAK!
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Calvin Klein Boyfriend Kevin Baker
Calvin Klein + Kevin Baker
ahhhhh to be young and beautiful!
Calvin Klein is known to surround himself with pretty young things. His latest is no different and perhaps his hottest.
The 74-year-old legendary designer recently brought his new boy toy, 29-year-old model Kevin Baker, to the American Ballet Theatre. It's not their first outing. They've been spotted at several events together, but haven't publicly confirmed their relationship.
Find Kevin Baker on Instagram.
Kevin Baker has done porn too, of course, but we can not share those links here – but they are out there!
Baker also has a hot twin bro!
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Magnus Hastings WHY DRAG Book
WHAT A GORGEOUS BOOK! And for a coffee table art book, its very affordable at about $35! Why Drag?
224 pages of the biggest and most diverse queens across America and beyond, all answering the question, Why drag?
Everyone loves to gag over photographs of their favorite queens, and chances are, some of the photographs have been taken by talented drag queen photographer, Magnus Hastings. His popular Facebook page, Dragged Around the World, archives some of his best work.
This celebrated artist has been photographing drag queens for the past 10 years- and his artwork showcasing queens is taking the world by storm! LAST YEAR, Hastings' first photo exhibition in New York, Why Drag?, ran during Pride, at the OUT HOTEL. The best part about this unique exhibition is that each queen he photographs explains why it is that they do drag (but you'll have to the exhibit to see that!) – Now, you can get the book!
Magnus Hastings came up through the London Gay scene and quickly gained recognition as one of the forerunners of his type of the pop art photography. playing with campy ideas when it was not fashionable to do so and embracing drag queens as a subject and study. He says, a "child of drag," prone to putting on his sister's clothes and dancing around his childhood home. But he didn't truly discover the drag world until much later, long after he himself had stopped dressing across gender lines.
He completely revamped the Gaydar franchise in 2009 and has been published worldwide in magazines such as Glamour (uk), GQ (uk), Cosmopolitan (Italy),People (usa) , US weekly (use), Attitude (uk) ,AXM (uk), Bent (uk), QX international (uk), Blue (australia), Boyz (uk), Nois (spain) to name a few.
In 2003, on a visit to Sydney, Hastings walked into the Arq nightclub and saw the drag queen Vanity Faire lip-syncing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz in a flawless Dorothy outfit. The experience changed his life.
"I started shooting drag because it's my home and my world and it feels like my family," Hastings said.
Watching that performance connected Hastings to a part of himself that he'd abandoned due to social pressures as a child but that he still longed to explore.
With Vanity's guidance, Hastings began photographing the city's vibrant drag scene and developing a polished, dynamic style of portraiture reflecting his subjects' creativity and humor.
As he traveled the world, he continued capturing local queens with a focus on those who best represented the art's diversity and daring, from the bearded to the "fishy," or ultrafeminine.
His images attracted a larger audience when he started posting his photos to his Facebook group, "Dragged Around the World."
Magnus now lives in Los Angeles with his Jack Russell named George and is heavily involved in photographing the drag scene.
'Why Drag?' with photographs by Magnus Hastings and a foreword by Boy George, was published in May by Chronicle Books. BUY THE BOOK!
Why Drag?
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Converse Sneakers Gay Pride 2016
Converse has just debuted its new 2016 Pride Collection in honor of LGBT pride, – the 2nd annual!
Your favorite Chuck Taylor All Star sneakers are getting a colorful makeover thanks to Converse's new Pride Collection. The brand debuted three new rainbow-inspired sneakers today to celebrate the LGBT pride events happening around the world.
This year's collection includes a pair of rainbow Chuck Taylor All Star hi-tops in Converse's premium woven design and another pair of hi-tops in black canvas that have been "splattered" in multicolored paint. There's also a pair of the classic low-tops in white canvas with a similar paint splatter design. – from RACKED.
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Andrew Christian's Guys – on Coming Out
IMPORTANT POSITIVE MESSAGES ON COMING OUT!
Those of us who are out, sometimes forget, the struggles, the anxiety, the questioning, that goes on in your mind BEFORE you are out….
Come out! Come Out! Where ever you are!
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Adidas Gay pride Shoe
WOW – this is pretty cool! Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Gay Pride!
Inspired by the unjust treatment of the gay and lesbian community in the 1960's, adidas shows support for the community at-large with an admirable new release.
Outsole Independence Hall in Philadelphia on July 4, 1965 was the first ever LGBT picket.
The same year, adidas named its flagship tennis shoe the "Robert Haillet" after the French tennis pro. That shoe, of course, went on to become the Stan Smith following Haillet's retirement from the game. It's now the best selling adidas sneaker of all-time.
Crafted in a bold paint splatter aesthetic, a rainbow undertone is noted through the pack in honor of those affected years ago, and those still struggling for acceptance today. The inspired adidas "Pride" Pack drops on June 6 at select Three Stripes retailers.
I could not find the price yet…lets hope there are lot less than Kanye's Yeezy's which are $350!
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@Jarlos 420 Gay Male Models
John Tuite and Carlos Santolalla are a gay couple and working models AS A COUPLE. They are known by JARLOS420 on Instagram and love their pot!
Both guys have backgrounds in modeling individually, but they've made it clear that Jarlos, their gestalt presence, is the unit that they're presenting themselves as for Fusion. Fusion is a boutique-style agency that is quickly making a name for itself in the New York market as well as abroad.
The decision to work together rather than separately, say the pair, came from pressures within their old agencies to remain in the closet about their sexualities.
"It's so fucked up. After coming out, I didn't want to be weird about it again and act straight at castings," Tuite recounted in an interview with The Cut. "I met with this one agency and they said, "We'd like to sign you, but you have to delete your Instagram account with your boyfriend and you guys can't go out to parties together anymore." What the fuck?
Read more of their story at OUT.
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#TheGaySweater Project
You've probably heard it, if not said it yourself, but you'll be certain to think twice about using a phrase like "that sweater is so gay" after hearing this story. A one-of-a-kind, first-ever, truly 'gay sweater' will be unveiled today during Toronto Fashion Week. What makes it gay? It is custom knit from the donated hair of more than 100 LGBT people committed to changing the way the word "gay" is used in society today.
Debuting just in time, ahead of this summer's upcoming Pride Week celebrations in Toronto, New York, San Francisco and London, The Gay Sweater was created by the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity (CCGSD) to spark a rich dialogue on what makes something 'gay'. Through #TheGaySweater project, they hope people will understand that it is incorrect and offensive to use language like 'that's so gay' to negatively describe something.
A short film showcasing the inspiration behind this #TheGaySweater and the making of this unusual piece can be viewed here: thegaysweater.ccgsd-ccdgs.org
This is pretty cool!
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More Supporters #BoycottDolceGabbana
They say any publicity is good publicity…but in the case of Dolce and Gabbana, they must be regretting their comments right about now! The public backlash has been huge!
Bravo host Andy Cohen, who just announced the launch of his own SiriusXM channel, had a special message on the Monday, March 16 episode of Watch What Happens Live! in regards to the comments.
"As a gay man, I've seen my friends given an incredible opportunity to create very real families," Cohen, 46, said. "There's nothing 'synthetic' about any of the kids that call me Uncle Andy. So in the interest of making things a little better, I brought this from my own closet."
Cohen then pulled out a 2014 black wool Dolce & Gabbana suit, declaring his intention to auction it off and donate all of the proceeds to the Family Equality Council.
"Even though I love this suit, it wouldn't be fun for me to wear it again," he said. "But it will be so much fun for me to have you wear it, knowing we were able to support an amazing cause while also screwing Dolce & Gabbana out of at least one sale."
The suit, which retails for between $1,100 and $2,000, is being auctioned on eBay with a current bid of around $3,500.
Madonna said on Instagram:All babies contain a soul however they come to this earth and their families. There is nothing synthetic about a soul!! So how can we dismiss IVF and surrogacy? Every soul comes to us to teach us a lesson. God has his hand in everything even technology! We are arrogant to think Man does anything on his own. As above so below! Think before you speak.,,,,,,,,,,,❤#livingforlove
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Cory Wade Host & Walk Queer Fashion Week
America's Next Top Model finalist Cory Wade will be taking Queer Fashion Week's runway as one of the celebrity models.
Wade, who dropped his last name Hindorff recently, will be joined by a top celebrity model, who also recently signed on to walk the QFW catwalk.
On the 20th edition of ANTM, Wade took the show's host Tyra Banks and crew by storm as one of the first openly gay models. He caused such a stir they asked him back as a guest on the 21 edition.
Now the 24-year old biracial model will be dazzling audiences at the first-ever Queer Fashion Week, April 16 – 19 in Oakland, California.
To see the hottest designers, celebrities and models you have to get your tickets now, http://qfw.eventbrite.com
QFW producer Christine De La Rosa said "Featuring celebrity models alongside seasoned and newly minted models is at the core of Queer Fashion Week. I wanted to have every level of experience showcased not only in the models but also in the designers. I believe we are at our best when we are able to break the glass ceiling and bring everyone else with us. Cory is one of those ceiling breakers and a role model to many in the LGBTQ community. I am thrilled and honored that he is participating in the inaugural year of QFW."
The biracial openly gay model from Philadelphia is excited, proud, and a little bit "pissed off" that there hasn't been a fashion week highlighting LGBT designers and models before now, he said.
At the same time, he believes Queer Fashion Week is a part of a revolution and might even push the boundaries toward change in the fashion industry as Banks wanted him to do on the show. As Wade learned on the show fashion isn't as all-inclusive and queer-friendly as it is assumed to be, but it showed him "where we actually are as far as fashion is concerned and some of the hurdles that we still have to overcome," he said.
That's changing though. He feels that Queer Fashion Week could shake up the fashion world as a part of revolutionary change that's on the verge of reshaping fashion.
"It's important that we emphasize that it isn't important how we classify ourselves sexually, [but by] just showing everyone that we are just as good and just as qualified to be those household names," said Wade, who is excited to be "on the forefront of the fashion industry really breaking boundaries … starting a movement that is all-inclusive."
"This could potentially change the fashion industry in a very, very positive way," he added.
Reflecting on Banks and his experience on the show, "It seemed like she was always in my corner and really wanted me to push the envelope and always wanted me to be that model to like break that boundary in the industry," said Wade, noting that "a few of the other judges couldn't stop harping on my femininity."
Currently, Wade's experience flipping through the pages of magazines all he sees is the hunky all-American men and the fashions they model don't exactly fit his style sensibility.
"As a gay man, when I flip through magazines and I see that all-American muscle bound male over and over the first thing I think is, 'Oh, I can never wear that,'" he said.
Wade believes he's not alone in wanting to see models who reflect back to him or themselves rather than "the same carbon copy guy just over and over again," he said.
Sure there are a few transgender models making a name for themselves on the runways and appearing in mainstream fashion magazines, even taking a few covers away from the usual celebrities and supermodels, but he challenged, does anyone know these model's names?
"You know that they are there, but you can't name names because they aren't famous," said Wade.
Part of the problem is that LGBT people in the fashion industry have made names for themselves behind the scenes as designers, makeup artists, and stylists, but not on the catwalk.
Not to say that designers have it easy. Wade pointed out that he was aware that there were designers designing for the people rather than the runways and fashion magazines, but there is also a huge fear to go all out to create androgynous styles or designs for different body types. It wasn't clear if there was a market.
"I think that we are at a place now where there are so many people who want to explore different facets of themselves [that] now that there is a market for designers who want to go that route," said Wade, who hopes the fear to create different lines of clothing fades as people buy and start seeing them in the pages of magazines.
It starts with Queer Fashion Week.
"Something like this, it just makes it I feel like it's going to give a lot of people hope. Like they are going to see that there are so many different walks of life and they are all beautiful," said Wade. "It could really change this whole experience. It could really change the whole fashion industry in a very positive way."
For more information, visit www.queerfashionweek.com. To get tickets, visit www.qfw.eventbrite.com.
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Dolce Gabbana Backtrack after Backlash
Fashion designer Stefano Gabbana has vigorously defended his criticism of gay adoptions, using social media to create a range of hashtags and slogans – but none have really taken off.
They say, BOYCOTT ELTON JOHN! In a post Monday Gabbana shouted "Fascist!" and took direct aim at the singer: "#boycotteltonjohn". On his Instagram account, as you might expect, there was quite a lot of support for his criticism of Elton John among the hundreds of comments.
#SupportDolceGabbana, has around 2,700 tweets. But both are up against #BoycottDolceGabbana which has been used more than 30,000 times.
Singer Ricky Martin, the father of twins born by a surrogate mother, called on the pair to "wake up" in a message on Twitter, admonishing the designers that their voices were too powerful to spread hate.
NOW, Gabbana said in a statement that "it was never our intention to judge other people's choices. We do believe in freedom and love."
Dolce says he was expressing his view about family based on his experience growing up in a traditional Sicilian family "made up of a mother, a father and children. I am very well aware of the fact that there are other types of families and they are as legitimate as the one I've known."
Dolce said he was expressing his personal views "without judging other people's choices."
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Dolce Gabbana Against Gay Adoption
In a 2006 interview with an Italian newspaper, Dolce (of Dolce & Gabbana) expressed views against gays adopting, saying:
"I am opposed to the idea of a child growing up with two gay parents. A child needs a mother and a father. I could not imagine my childhood without my mother. I also believe that it is cruel to take a baby away from its mother."
Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana say: 'The only family is the traditional one' – in an interview with Italy's Panorama magazine.
Sir Elton John has called for a boycott of fashion label Dolce & Gabbana after the legendary designers criticised same-sex families.
In a scathing post on picture sharing site Instagram, the furious singer branded Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana "judgmental" and "archaic".
It followed an interview with the designers in Italy's Panorama magazine in which the pair said: "We oppose gay adoptions. The only family is the traditional one.
"No chemical offsprings and rented uterus: life has a natural flow, there are things that should not be changed."
Dolce added that procreation "must be an act of love", saying: "You are born to a mother and a father – or at least that's how it should be.
"I call children of chemistry, synthetic children. Rented uterus, semen chosen from a catalog."
Gabbana added: "The family is not a fad. In it there is a supernatural sense of belonging."
How can gay people say this???? You are in the public eye and gay people buy your clothes! LIE if you disagree.
An estimated 37% of LGBT adults have had a child and there are an estimated 6 million children with LGBT parents.
source: Telegraph UK ….. read more
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Lisa Vanderpump and Proposition Love Jewelry
Proposition Love, a fine jewelry company that caters to LGBT couples will be featured on episode #18 of Bravo's "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills," Tuesday, March 17th on at 9pm EDT/PDT.
Newly ordained minister and "housewife" Lisa Vanderpump officiates her first-ever wedding ceremony in the garden of her new restaurant/lounge PUMP in West Hollywood with Bravo camera's capturing every exciting moment of partners Magno Salva and Dominic Pierson's memorable moment.
As the national LGBT marriage debate goes before the U.S. Supreme Court for a final decision this June, Proposition Love designed and donated rings and had the honor of presenting them to the couple on their wedding day. Sam Street and Jonathan Tack, founders of Proposition Love Jewelry, collaborated with Lisa Vanderpump to create the wedding rings for the first ceremony she was to officiate.
"Today I had the honour of officiating my first wedding at PUMP, beautiful couple entitled to equal rights. An emotional exquisite day! #LGBT" – Lisa Vanderpump @LisaVanderpump
Vanderpump worked with Street and Tack for weeks on the design of the rings, an interlocking motif crafted in white gold, symbolizing the love between newlyweds Dominic and Magno and the joining of their lives together.
Street commented "It was such an honor to design rings for Dominic and Magno's special day as well as attending their beautiful ceremony. Lisa Vanderpump was the icing on the "wedding" cake. She is such a great advocate for our community."
Prior to the wave of marriage equality sweeping the country, Street and Tack were married in California in 2008, as they couldn't marry in their home state of New York. They are one of the 18,000 couples married during the short window of time before Prop 8 went into effect ending marriage equality in California.
Added Tack, "It's encouraging to see support for marriage equality spreading nationwide and now finally before the Supreme Court; unlike when we were married six years ago in San Francisco's City Hall."
In preparation for the Supreme Court ruling, Proposition Love Jewelry created a video celebrating LOVE is LOVE with newlyweds Dominic and Magno, along with models Murray Swanby and Noah Wright and directed by Brad Hammer. The video can be viewed at: PropositionLove.com.
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Twerking 101 by Andrew Christian NSFW
SEXY Pablo Hernandez teaches Andrew Christian Twerk 101 to some fellow models in a new video put out by the company. NSFW
The class is small enough for each student to receive individualized attention. The students: Cheddy O, Rocky Santos, Steven Andrade, and Jonny Manzanares. We won't tell you which guy's back end does which twerk, or who gets an A+.


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Mumper just made quite a few posts regarding upcoming changes to the Pet Battle System. You can find them here and here.
By far the biggest most welcome change is the one about getting PvP flagged.
Players are vulnerable to PVP while in a pet battle on PVP servers. We have added a buff that will reduce the amount of damage taken once you are broken out of battle by 50% for 3 seconds. PVE players are only affected if they are flagged or in an area that forces flagging. In addition, the exact pet you were fighting will respawn.
Increased the quantity dropped and the drop rate of pet bandages from daily quests.
Cooldown on Revive Battle Pets reduced to 8 min.
It's getting close to release. I can't wait!!!


The body breathes by a photosphere of the environment. I am sure why were made to only grow greater by living outside or sleeping outside.. It is a reflection of the creators plans.
Sleeping on air or water.... This also regrows your body's height and tissues..
This will fascinate you, my gums turned white and my cells started to rejuvenate, this falls into the category of how you are treating your body. My energy increased and I am 5x calmer. I would suggest you try this. Detox is also immensely started as I hav odors still exhausting. The creators pointed to my stomach and showed me this is where demons looking creatures come from as our body holds them to defend us as this is how we sound(deeply). I can actually see them there. They do fight for the betterment they said.
This means no showering.... Wonder why become stronger and have better skin and hair, the ladies over at 30bananasaday,com are having great results. I have found the City water even filtered would leave a stain of purification on my shower curtain.. This leads to the smell of our body. The creators showed me this as a path to extreme purity. The smells I am told are from the body cleansing and detox.
Thank you for sharing, Zachary. I have wondered why I get cold being inside versus outside, even when it's "cold" out. And also why I feel not to get in water. But what about sea water or natural springs/rivers?
Also I was wondering if you work in and/or live in a city and how you feel about being breatharian in a city?
I think none of the outside things anymore matter, for this lifestyle seems to be to return to nature and source and you would want to go live in a pristine environment, but this is only my opinion/experience.
It's inserting to see how people deny animal meat and then eat meat from tree flesh that has blood and causes acidity but probly 75% safer. I am being shown to just take herbs without seeds as the trees are seed beings.
I am shown from the stand point of non-water related worlds (land beings)are keen on keeping our sorcery separate from water material worlds. Creators don't like exchanging how the properties of there mechanics work. And the water searches and open up these channels. Hence the opened and inflamed skin of water contacters over a period of time.
They increased my strength and stamina by skipping the simple shower.
This may be why dry fasting is so opening for the land beings...water inside or out.
But I do suggest distilled water for drinking, I distill twice... For the transition..
You can always visit and find out if your psychic channels are open.
Get a lot of natural caffeine inside your body and these channels will open hence the reason our hair turns brown from a blonde starting point..
With more air bed sleeping I am finding we are suppose to eat although what given for us to eat is very sedentary... Try herbs!!!!!!