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DAY 1 - MON. MAY 6 - LISBON, PORTUGAL
EMBARK MID-DAY, SET SAIL AT 4PM
The rhythm of Lisbon invites you to join its captivating dance. This splendid capital city on the banks of the Rio Teja offers a warm welcome and an unparalleled blend of architectural styles. Elegant outdoor cafés line the cobbled sidewalks.
Turn-of-the-century funiculars climb the scenic hills. Find the UNESCO sites of the Tower of Belem and the Monastery of the Hieronymites. And, everywhere, the city engages you with its easy style and remarkable charm.
DAY 2 - TUES. MAY 7 - PORTO, PORTUGAL
ARRIVE AT 9AM, DEPART AT 3PM
Built into the granite cliffs at the mouth of the Rio Douro, the hilly city of Porto presents a heady juxtaposition of eras and styles. Here, medieval alleyways, orderly neighborhood squares, and ornate Baroque churches readily intermingle. Porto's historic heart is a UNESCO site of winding lanes, zigzagging staircases and tiled churches. The highlight, though, is a taste of port wine at its best – a happy accident dating from the 17th century when brandy was discovered to preserve wine for transit. After your choice of palate-pleasing shore excursions, return for an onboard fado folk music performance.
DAY 3 - WED. MAY 8 - EL FERROL, SPAIN
ARRIVE AT 10AM, DEPART AT 6PM
After entering the estuary mouth, pass through a narrow canal where the twin castles of San Felipe and La Palma welcome you to what was the main base for the Spanish Navy in the 17th century. Spend a pleasant day rumbling around the old Magdalena neighborhood, or make your own pilgrimage to the nearby UNESCO site of Santiago de Compostela or head to Lugo to see the Roman Walls – another UNESCO site.
DAY 4 - THURS. MAY 9 - AT SEA
DAY 5 - FRI MAY 10 - ST-MALO, FRANCE
ARRIVE AT 10AM, DEPART AT 9:30PM
Once notorious as the home of pirates, St.-Malo today is better known for the UNESCO site monastery and town of Mont St. Michel and the famous oysters of nearby Cancale. Walk the city's ramparts, or pass the time at a seaside boulangerie sampling a fresh and buttery croissant.
DAY 6 - FRI. MAY 11 - CHERBOURG, FRANCE
ARRIVE AT 8AM, DEPART AT 10PM
From the time you disembark at the Art Deco cruise terminal (notice the signs for Ellis Island are still there), Cherbourg will charm you. Travel through Norman villages to lofty views at Cap de la Hague, or to Bayeux for a look at the famous Bayeux Tapestry, embroidered in the 11th century and listed as a "Memory of the World" by UNESCO. The D-Day beaches of Normandy are an easy drive.
DAY 7 - SAT. MAY 12 - ST. HELIER, CHANNEL ISLANDS
ARRIVE AT 7AM, DEPART AT 12 NOON
Home of the iconic Jersey cows and located in the English Channel, St. Helier is only 9 miles by 5 miles. Don't miss Liberation Square, with its sculpture erected In 1995, as part of their celebration of 50 years since their liberation from Nazi occupation and stroll the elegant halls of Elizabeth Castle, built in 1651.
DAY 8 - SUN MAY 13 - OOSTENDE (BRUGES), BELGIUM
ARRIVE AT 12 NOON, DEPART AT 7PM
This popular beach resort draws thousands of Belgians and British daytrippers for its sun, sailing, surfing, and casino. As a busy ferry port for more than 150 years, Oostende also provides quick access to Bruges and Ghent, two of Belgium's most attractive destinations.
DAY 9 - MON. MAY 14 - AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
ARRIVE AT 9AM
From the time you enter the whale-shaped cruise terminal, you'll know you've arrived at someplace special. The intimate 17th century atmosphere of Amsterdam makes the city feel almost like a movie set for a period drama. More than 7,000 historic buildings remain, particularly in the canal district, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The city also has the highest museum density in the world, and a day here makes for difficult choices from the Van Gogh Museum (sunflowers, anyone?) to Anne Frank House.
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Leanne Kiernan: 'Sometimes you have to take to a step back to take two steps forward'
After taking time out because of shin splints the Liverpool number nine is back in the goals
Leanne Kiernan in action for Ireland against the Ukraine. Photograph: Laszlo Geczo/Inpho
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Wed Oct 20 2021 - 06:00
Ideally, there is not a headline above this Leanne Kiernan interview that refers to the Liverpool striker being raised in a house of Red Devils.
"I have a lot of people who can't even watch me play with Liverpool," Kiernan mock whispers in the Castleknock hotel last Monday afternoon. "They are all big United fans at home. Even myself, I am a low-key United fan, which I don't really put out there that often."
Much like Wayne Rooney remained a low-key Toffee despite becoming an instant darling of the Stretford End or perhaps Figo low-key carried the pig's head home for dinner after changing hues in El Clasico.
Liverpool fans will not care about her childhood allegiance if she bags the goals – three in six appearances so far – that drives them out of the Championship.
"Listen, I have had a bad time with injuries and thankfully that is in the past. I went into pre-season, getting back to myself, my personality is coming back and I'm just enjoying it. And when you are quite happy, it just works out for the best, doesn't it?"
No truer a word has been uttered but, all the same, what was said on the farm in Killinkere, Co Cavan when you informed the clan of Liverpool's interest?
"'Ah, Leanne, we are very happy for you but don't dare come home with a jersey for us. You are with the wrong type of Reds.'"
Leanne Kiernan celebrates scoring for Liverpool Women during the FA Women's Continental Tyres League Cup match against Aston Villa Women at Prenton Park in Birkenhead. Photograph: Andrew Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images
That jersey just happens to carry the same number stamped on the back of Ian Rush, Fernando Torres and currently Roberto Firmino.
"[Liverpool manager Matt Beard] rang me up and says 'Leanne, I want to give you number nine.' And I told him I am not sure I want it, 'do you not have a bigger number, a 33 or something?' I am quite a laid-back person, and like to be in the background and show what I am about on the pitch.
"I mentioned it to my dad, and he said 'Are you silly? You got offered the number nine and you are not taking it? Take it, will you!'
"It was a nice treat getting the number nine, great that the coach believes in me like that, giving me that shirt, shows he has faith in me."
Beard certainly has faith, having signed her as a teenager from Shelbourne in 2018 before this summer's approach.
Shin splints grinded the former cross-country runner's career to a halt last season. Also, Lucy Quinn's arrival into the Ireland set-up kept Kiernan to a brief cameo in the now famous 3-2 defeat of Australia.
"It is not something that just goes away overnight. So, I played for maybe three or four months in absolute agony, and then I just put the hat in and said I couldn't do it anymore. I took six months off completely, went home for a few weeks."
Calling a timeout in the last year of her West Ham contract shows how risky life as a female professional footballer can be. Released in May, Beard snapped her up in June.
"I had to, I couldn't walk. There were tears coming down from my eyes one day doing the warm-ups in training and I just thought that this is not right. And I was showing maybe 40 per cent of my ability compared to what I can show, it is not good for me, it is not good for the coach. Nobody is benefitting out of this."
Again, John Kiernan intervened.
"I had a few more options on the side but my dad said straightaway, 'Listen Leanne, I have a really good feeling about this and I think it's a really good move for you'.
"I felt it myself but sometimes it's quite handy when I have an opinion that I really respect, and that's the case with dad and I took it."
Liverpool, if they are serious about their women's team, will not be outside the Super League for much longer.
"It was the best choice for me at the time and sometimes you have to take to a step back to maybe take two steps forward."
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Oakland County Prosecutor to speak on Oxford High School shooting
December 3, 2021 at 11:42 a.m.
Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald will speak at noon Friday, Dec. 3, about the Oxford High School shooting incident.
Tens of thousands lose power in metro Detroit
Many students are getting a day off from school as widespread power outages are scattered across the region.
Summer ends and autumn arrives with fall weather, heavy rains
A flood watch went into effect for much of southeastern Michigan Tuesday afternoon as the summer season ended.
Tuesday's storms could be more severe; power outages scattered
Power was out for about 18,000 DTE Energy customers on Monday afternoon, after thunderstorms darkened skies and brought heavy rains along with thunder and lightning.
39k power outages remain after Tuesday night storms
September 8, 2021 at 8:04 a.m.
The series of storms that moved over the area on Tuesday evening and night knocked out power to thousands of residents throughout the southeast Michigan region.
Severe thunderstorms expected this evening
A severe thunderstorm watch is in effect for southeast Michigan until 11 p.m. Tuesday, as a storms have moved across the state.
More storms bring more power outages to metro Detroit
Not again. DTE Energy repair crews are out again, working to repair outages scattered around the region.
Michigan State Police start impaired driving enforcement campaigns
August 17, 2021 at 2:22 p.m.
While Michiganders are enjoying summer vacation, the end is of the season is near and Labor Day is not that far away.
Nearly 600k without power in southeast Michigan
More than 597,000 DTE Energy customers are without power Thursday morning, a day with highs expected to reach 90 degrees, after the second and third waves of thunderstorms crossed the...
Feds to test national emergency alerts on cell phones today
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Unlimited Power Source to the Gimbal A 5V input port on the bottom of the handgrip is compatible with all phone chargers and power banks for powering the gimbal, without taking out batteries. It supports shooting while charging.
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It's a new year which means it's time to set new goals for ourselves. If you're like most people your new years goals are either to get healthy or make more money. If you said make more money, then you've come to the right article. Want somewhere to start? I suggest trying to make money online. If you can run a business from your couch, what's the excuse, right?
If you're willing to really put in the time and effort launching an online store can be immensely profitable. Now before you say no because you don't know how to code listen to this: Thanks to ecommerce platforms like Shopify and WooCommerce, you can easily build beautiful online stores with little to no technical experience.
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This is a controversial yet highly lucrative one. Cryptocurrencies seem to be hot right now and it's for a good reason. So called "unsophisticated" investors are making millions trading digital currencies. The most popular coins now are Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin however there are new coins coming out every day.
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During the course of the year, there was rarely a moment when I didn't have a camera by my side. Now that I have been home for several months my pictures have become windows to an experience that seems far away. I find myself struggling to remember everything that has happened during my seemingly short time in Ecuador, but when I look at my photos I am given a glimpse of a specific moment. Allowing me to relive the experience as if it had only just happened, making me feel once again so close to all that I was a part of. Within the contents of this blog, you develop an understanding of each moment and the meaning that a single photo can possess.
The first and largest photo on this blog is myself surrounded by the people that I became so close to, my host family. It was during the celebration of my 14 year old host sister's birthday. We all enjoyed a slice of cake, and sang feliz cumplea̱os as a form of congratulations. What truly makes this such a special moment is during this part of the year I was beginning to strengthen connection with my host family. We were forming bonds and it was about this time that I was becoming accepted into their lives. I will remember this moment as something very special, and heartwarming. This photo is a special reminder to how welcoming and warming my host family is, and a recognition that they have truly found a place in my heart even though we are so far from each other.
The next photo is of myself holding two fully grown ducks in my arms. These ducks became my pride and joy while I was living in Ecuador. They were my sense of belonging when times were tough, and an outlet for when my emotions seemed to get the better part of me. I stumbled across them while working in the market, I took them home and began creating a space for these ducks to live and grow peacefully. I stated small only filling a paint tray with water but as time moved on I became more obsessed with their living situation, and ended up building a small pool for the ducks to enjoy. I owned the ducks for months, and they slowly began to grow a place in my heart, but just as my experience had an expiration date, so did my time with these ducks. The photo you see is the last time I was able to hold my ducks and only moments before I was sent off back to the United States. Although saying goodbye was difficult, I can rest assure that these animals have been thoroughly enjoyed by every member of my host family, but not without the compliment of a cool drink.
Before living in Ecuador I had the impression that all food south of the American border was spicy, fried, and going to be delicious. I imagined that the food was going to be similar to my favorite Mexican restaurant, with tacos, salsa, beans, and peppers. I soon came to find that my prior expectations were completely wrong. The Ecuadorean culture is to eat a small breakfast, a huge lunch, and a moderate sized dinner. Each of these meals consist of the Ecuadorean food trifecta consisting of salt, sugar, and rice. These three ingredients had to be present in the food, and were never substituted. I am not going to say the food was bad, because there are many dishes that I truly enjoyed, but the quantity, and consistency of those three ingredients sometimes had me wishing I could skip the meal all together. The photo you see here is heaping plate of guinea pig, rice, and potatoes served with a side of either soda, or juice. Guinea pig is the most traditional Ecuadorean dish, and only eaten during a special occasions. Although it's a meal that is not served often, it possesses a strange quality to linger in the back of your throat once you had cleaned you plate, ensuring that you savor the flavors for hours to come afterwards. Food is a part of every culture, and during my time in Ecuador food was my biggest challenge. Although I am now away from Ecuador I am able to cherish the memories of every meal and every moment held at the dinner table, grateful for the uniqueness that each day presented.
My photos are my last connection that I have with Ecuador. They are my capsule that takes me back to the experience that seemed to have gone all too quickly, and allow me to pinpoint a memory that I otherwise would have forgotten about. I have been home for quite a while, and the more time moves on the more I am going to forget. When I look at my photos my mind takes me back to that specific moment, I am given a sense of clarity that reassures that my experience was not just a dream, but that it is now another chapter in my ever evolving series of experiences that I may call life. With my photos I am able to hold on to all that I was a part of, and allowed to feel connected even though I am physically so far away.


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The new town square which could spruce up New Malden
It could be finished by the summer
Sian BayleyLocal Democracy Reporter
A CGI of the proposed scheme for a new town square in New Malden
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New Malden could see a new town square built by the summer as part of Kingston Council's plans for the Cocks Crescent site .
The new square would be situated on the former Adult Resource Centre and also include a pocket park next to a bus stop on Burlington Road. There would also be a new pedestrian link which leads directly towards the Malden centre.
If planning permission is approved, work is expected to begin around April or May and be completed by August.
The new town square is designed to be a temporary first phase of the Cocks Crescent development site and is expected to last for up to five years.
The council's design and access statement says the works are "temporary to set out the principle of the square and connecting route in advance of the main development and flexibility is required for the later Cocks Crescent development to make changes to the quality or location of the site as required."
The main development is expected in a few years' time.
Kingston's New Malden is set to be transformed with the next stage of the massive Cocks Crescent project
'Remarkable and strong' woman commemorated with Surbiton mosaic
Cocks Crescent is one of the council's strategic sites due to its proximity to New Malden Rail Station.
The wider site also includes Blagdon Road multi storey car park, the Malden Centre, the Malden Centre car park, and Blagdon Road open space.
The planned redevelopment of the Malden Centre and wider Cocks Crescent development will include new homes and commercial and community spaces.
It is hoped that the new town square will be hired out for events for the community, such as outdoor classes, markets, festivals and performances.
Currently a coronavirus test centre slightly overlaps with the proposed site.
The council says the centre is likely to vacate the site before these works start but if the test centre is required to stay for longer, the council will construct the works in two phases.
The majority of the site works will be constructed in spring/summer this year and the remainder of the site works will happen once the test centre leaves the site.
Residents are invited to submit their comments on the planning proposal here :
Questions about the application can be emailed to regeneration@kingston.gov.uk.
If you have a story or information for us from this part of London, please email sian.bayley@reachplc.com
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Amanda Holden's picture with Alan Carr shocks fans as they say he's 'flashing'
Amanda HoldenThe Britain's Got Talent judge sent her fans into a frenzy after posting the raunchy video with pal Alan Carr
EastEnders stars who've also starred in Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Hollyoaks
EastEndersYou may recognise them from their time on Albert Square, but it seems this familiar faces are no stranger to other soaps


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New 2018 Hyundai Santro Bookings Crossed more than15000 Units, Price in India Starts at 3.87 Lakhs
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2020 Mercedes S-Class Coming With Almost Self Driving Like Tesla Cars
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Mahindra To Come Up With Some New Toys In Upcoming Days.
News, Scoops
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Ssangyong recently revealed their 2017 Ssangyong Rexton 7 seater which now seems to be the flagship model of the company. We know that Mahindra has declared that Ssangyong vehicles will not be coming to the Indian market. But let us make you aware of the fact, that the new Ssangyong Rexton and Mahindra are using a peculiarly same code name for Mahindra's new 7 seater SUV. Thus we may now assume that Mahindra's upcoming flagship model is based on the all new Ssangyong Rexton, but will be available in India under Mahindra's name.
2017 Ssangyong Rexton
The Y400 Project:
The Y400 is the code name which is being used by both the companies for the 7 Seater SUV. Considering the facts, we might expect the upcoming SUV to be massive in every sense. Although there will be certain technical changes in the Indian version, we can't be sure of all the specifications.
The Y400 being massive in structure and being the flagship model of the Indian carmaker, can be named as the XUV 700.
The XUV 700 / Y400 project is expected to be revealed at the 2018 Delhi AutoExpo. The vehicle will be placed against the Tata's Q501/Q502 Luxury SUVs.
The Mahindra S201 Project:
Ssangyong Tivoli / S201(Source)
Apart from Rexton, Mahindra is also up with the S201 project which is based on the Ssangyong Tivoli X100 platform. The vehicle has been reported, spied and spotted being tested in the camouflage for a couple of times. The spied vehicle seems to be Ssangyong Tivoli wrapped in black and white and nothing else. Reports suggest and promise that the S201 will differ from the Ssangyong Tivoli in design, thus we might expect some rework done on the vehicle by Pininfarina and Mahindra.
Mahindra S201/The Ssangyong Tivoli(Source)
According to the previous feeds, Dr Pawan Goenka, Managing Director of Mahindra and Mahindra group had confirmed that the company is up with some work of the upcoming compact SUV. He also said that this vehicle will be positioned against the subcompact SUV softroaders. Vehicles such as the Maruti Suzuki Vitara Brezza, Ford Ecosport and the Hyundai Carlino.
The S201 is more likely to get a petrol engine for its launch. As Mahindra and Ssangyong Motors seem to been working on a 1.5 litre 4 cylinder mill, this vehicle seems perfect to be mated with the 1.5-litre petrol engine.
With all that said, we can expect some new stuff in the market by the Indian Carmaker in upcoming times.
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Le comté de Bruce est un comté situé dans le Sud-ouest de la province canadienne de l'Ontario et qui inclut la péninsule Bruce. Le centre administratif est à Walkerton.

Histoire
Le nom du comté est lié à la route Bruce et à la péninsule de Bruce qui font référence à James Bruce,  d'Elgin et  de Kincardine, sixième gouverneur général de la province du Canada.

Géographie
Le comté comprend le parc national de la Péninsule-Bruce, le parc provincial MacGregor Point ainsi que les villes de Tobermory et Wiarton.

Démographie
En tant que division de recensement dans le recensement de 2011, le comté de Bruce a une population de  dans  de ses  logements, soit une variation de 1,2 % par rapport à la population de 2006. Avec une superficie de , ce comté possède une densité de population de  en 2011.

Concernant le recensement de 2006, le comté de Bruce abritait  dans  de ses  logements. Avec une superficie de , ce comté possédait une densité de population de  en 2006.

Personnalité liée au Comté de Bruce
 William Howard Hearst (ancien premier ministre de l'Ontario)

Communautés

 Villes
 Saugeen Shores
 South Bruce Peninsula

 Canton
 Huron-Kinloss

 Municipalités
 Arran-Elderslie
 Brockton
 Kincardine
 Northern Bruce Peninsula
 South Bruce

 Réserves indiennes
 Neyaashiinigmiing
 Saugeen 29

Références

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Liste des municipalités de l'Ontario
 Divisions de recensement de l'Ontario
 Liste des lieux patrimoniaux du comté de Bruce

Liens externes

Comté de Bruce

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Das Hansa-Theater in Berlin-Moabit, heutige Adresse: Alt-Moabit 48, war ein Volkstheater. Aufgrund seiner namhaft besetzten Komödienaufführungen galt es, bis in die 1980er Jahre, als das bekannteste Boulevardtheater West-Berlins. Der Spielbetrieb endete 2009, Zuschauerraum (mit Rang und Plüschsessel-Parkett) und Guckkastenbühne wurden im Mai 2020 abgerissen, um einem Wohnungsneubau Platz zu machen.

Als Theater genutzt wurde der Bau zwischen 1888 und 1912 sowie von 1963 bis 2009. Von 1923 bis 1961 beherbergte das Haus ein Kino. Auf der Bühne standen Stars wie Axel von Ambesser, Eddi Arent, Dagmar Biener, die junge Marlene Dietrich, Heinz Erhardt, Paul Esser, Herbert Fritsch, Brigitte Grothum, Maria Mallé, Herbert Köfer, Waltraut Haas, Boleslaw Barlog, Harald Juhnke, Winnie Markus, Brigitte Mira, Ilja Richter, Angelika Milster und Hansi Jochmann.

Geschichte
1888 baute die Kronenbrauerei Berlin einen Festsaal mit 424 Sitzplätzen und 1.364 Stehplätzen. Ein Jahr später avancierte der Saal zum Stadttheater Moabit. Auf dem Spielplan standen volkstümliche und Operetten.

Der Umbau zu einem Kino (Filmpalast Hansa, später Filmbühne Hansa), mit rund 1.000 Sitzplätzen, geschah 1923. Nach Einstellung des Kinobetriebs 1961 und abermaligem Umbau wurden die Räumlichkeiten ab 1963 erneut als Theaterspielstätte genutzt.

In genanntem Jahr eröffnete Paul Esser das Privattheater Schauspielhaus Hansa, mit 500 Sitzplätzen. Ab 1974 firmierte das Theater unter der Bezeichnung Hansa-Theater. Unter Beibehaltung des humoristischen Schwerpunkts, konnte Horst Niendorf, seit 1981 als neuer Intendant, die Bühne erfolgreich weiterführen. Die Bühne galt jahrzehntelang als erste Adresse unter den Boulevard-Theatren West-Berlins und stand bis in die 1980er Jahre hoch in der Zuschauergunst.

Ein sich wandelnder Publikumsgeschmack führte seit den 1990er Jahren zum langsamen Abstieg des Hauses. Niendorfs 1995 angetretener Nachfolger, Klaus Rumpf, reagierte darauf, indem er das bisherige Volkstheater- und Possenrepertoire um Bühnenadaptionen erfolgreicher Kinofilme, wie Misery, ergänzte. Die Bemühungen, damit auch jüngere Gäste neben dem gealterten Stammpublikum zu gewinnen, blieben letztlich aber erfolglos. Darum übergab Niendorf, nach vier Jahren an der Theaterspitze, die Leitung an die Brüder Pietro und Claudio Maniscalco. Diese ließen die Spielstätte nochmals aufwändig renovieren und benannten das Haus dann in Berlins Volkstheater Hansa um. Nachdem das Comeback, auch dank der starbesetzten Revue Heinz Rühmann – Der Clown anfangs zu gelingen schien, legte Claudio Maniscalco im Sommer 2001 unerwartet die künstlerische Leitung nieder. Grund war ein anhaltender Streit, über die inhaltliche Ausrichtung des Bühnenbetriebs, mit seinem Bruder, der die kaufmännische Leitung des Hauses innehatte. Seine Nachfolge trat der Schauspieler Fred Yorgk an, der mit musikalisch unterlegtem Volkstheater das Publikum gewinnen wollte.

Einen entscheidenden Schlag erhielt das Haus im Februar 2002 versetzt, als der Berliner Senat unter Klaus Wowereit und Finanzsenator Thilo Sarrazin, im Rahmen seines neuen strikten Sparkurses, dem Theater die finanzielle Unterstützung strich. Ein Senatsgutachten hatte die künstlerische Leitung als "zäh, müde, verstaubt und platt" kritisiert und damit dem Ensemble die Subventions- und Erhaltungswürdigkeit abgesprochen. Daraufhin meldete Pietro Maniscalco für die Berlin Volkstheater Hansa GmbH Insolvenz an. In der Berliner Kulturszene hatte das Hansa-Theater schon seit Ende der 1990er Jahre als "verschlafene Rentnerbude" gegolten. Zurückblickend betrachtet, war die Spielstätte spätestens ab diesem Zeitpunkt einem langsamen Untergang geweiht. In den Folgejahren vermochten es mehrere, in rascher Folge wechselnde künstlerische Leiter nicht, den Theaterbetrieb ohne die bisherigen Senatsgelder wirtschaftlich zu gestalten.

Mit einer Abkehr vom traditionellen Volkstheater versuchte André Freyni, zwischen August 2002 und Herbst 2003 neuer Theaterleiter, das Ruder herumzureißen. Angelsächsische Komödien, wie Peter Shaffers Komödie im Dunklen und Sean O'Caseys Das Ende vom Anfang, sollten das erlahmte Zuschauerinteresse wiederbeleben. Zuletzt stand dann aber wieder, in Gestalt einer "Posse mit Gesang" (Ein Eisbär in Berlin), ein typisches Boulevardstück auf dem Spielplan. Wegen mehrere Monate nicht gezahlter Mieten ließ der seinerzeitige Hauseigentümer, der Filmproduzent Artur Brauner, das Theater im November 2003 schließen.

Im Juni 2004 übernahm Christian Alexander Schnell die Intendanz. Sein Versuch, mit Musical-Premieren, Film-Adaptionen und modernen Komödien dem Haus einen neuen Charakter zu verleihen, scheiterte nach nur einem Jahr.

Einen letzten Anlauf unternahm 2007 der Regisseur HP Vannoni alias Trauschke. Unter dem Label Engelbrot & Spiele bzw. Engelbrot sollte sich das ehemalige Hansa-Theater mit einer Kombination aus wechselnden Gastspiel-Aufführungen, Vermietung und Party-Events selbst finanzieren. Der Versuch endete 2009 in der Insolvenz.

Seitdem war das Theater geschlossen. Ein 2011 gemachter Vorstoß des Regisseurs Horst Ruprecht, dem Theater mit einem jungen festen Ensemble neues Leben einzuhauchen, kam über Planungen nicht hinaus.

Nach elf Jahren Leerstand wurde der im Hinterhof gelegene Theatersaal schließlich im Mai 2020 abgerissen, um einem Wohnungsneubau Platz zu machen.

Intendanten seit Wiedereröffnung 1963
 1963–1981 Paul Esser
 1981–1995 Horst Niendorf
 1995–1999 Klaus Rumpf
 1999–2001 Claudio Maniscalco
 2001–2002 Fred Yorgk
 2002–2003 André Freyni (Direktor)
 2004–2005 Christian Alexander Schnell
 2007–2009 HP Vannoni

Programme
 1966: Gerhart Hauptmann: Der Biberpelz – (Inszenierung: Herbert Ballmann, mit Edith Schultze-Westrum, Paul Esser, Ellen Esser, Dagmar Biener, Peter Wesp, Martin Rosen, Adriane Rimscha u. a.)
 2007–2009 Galaabende mit "Theater Engelbrot und Spiele", betrieben von Friedrich Liechtenstein, Knut Hetzer, Ludo Vici und HP Trauschke

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Berlin-Moabit


Tim Talley has over 20 years of experience in Marketing, Brand Strategy and Product Innovation. Currently the CEO & Chief Marketing Officer of U-Lace Customizing Lacing Systems - a mass-customization, sneaker customizing accessory sold in 28 countries around world. Tim trend-spotted the concept for the product and then developed and then singlehandedly launched the brand. U-Lace was named the #1 hot new trend product in Japan for 2010 and is carried in such prestigious trend shops as Collette in Paris.
Prior to starting U-Lace, Tim was Sr. Director of Urban & Fashion Headwear at New Era Cap Company, where among his accomplishments was: 1) sole development of the high-tech headwear systems currently worn by all players in Major League Baseball; 2) creation and design of the EK by New Era fashion line of headwear; 3) Growing his business unit from $85MM in sales to $187 MM in 2.5 years, and beating revenue goals by over $60 Million in the process. In addition to running the company's largest business unit Tim also served as the company's Global Trend Spotter and Product Trouble-Shooter.
Tim was also the founder and CEO of Ballgirl Athletic - a leading sports apparel brand dedicated solely to women's sports apparel - from 1995 until 2000. Under Tim's direction Ballgirl Athletic grew from a Start-up to distribution in well over 2000 doors in the USA. Ballgirl also had partnerships with high profile WNBA players and the NBA store.
Tim's career spans over 2 decades and he has worked in marketing, strategy and product innovation roles at Revlon, Nestle, Eastman Kodak & New Era Cap Co. Tim also holds 4 sole-inventor U.S. Patents for product he has developed.


Today I want to write about something a little less positive.
I know it's "best" to only show your good side online and I'm lucky in that I actually am a naturally positive person (though I also try to work at being one).
But today I want to write about something I think we all experience sometimes: comparison.
Comparing ourselves to others is one of the blocks that stop us from listening to our own joys and passions.
It's often what makes us create bad because we think we have to be/do something we're just not.
And the result often shows.
This is where I find myself at the moment. And it's not a nice place to be.
It's a killer and it stops my creativity flat.
I am comparing myself to other creatives on the interwebs. Their blogs, their design, their writing, their paintings, their graphics, their .....arhg!! I should be doing what they're doing, I should be further along, I should ........argh!!
It happens mostly when I'm in a creative dry spell.
When I am confused, and my negative self-talk is talking louder to me than my true inner voice.
Luckily my coaching training has taught me that this too shall pass. That it's really about my ego.
The first step for me is being aware, that this is what I'm doing.
If you too sometimes find yourself comparing yourself to others, know that it's completely NORMAL.
Being aware that comparison is just a state of mind you're in, not who you are, is the first step to getting back to your own strengths and uniqueness.


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This blog will be used to keep track of my journey of learning to make VR games/applications with the following areas in focus:

1.) Blender modelling/rigging/animation
2.) UE 4
3.) General analysis/review of existing VR titles

This will also serve as a devlog for my project: Apples & Butterflies. Which will involve basic animated characters, controller interactions and particle effects.

Here's something I made in blender a while ago.

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Stay tuned.

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Kay Nielsen (1886-1957) was a Danish illustrator who was popular in the early 20th century, the "golden age of illustration". One of his most famous work are the illustrations for "East of the sun and west of the moon", a Norwegian fairy tale published in 1914.
The Nielsen's illustrations are wonderful, refined, with balanced compositions and elegant patterns, textures and decorations. Here you can find some pictures.
Nielsen is also known for his collaborations with Disney for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations.


Far from civilisation, close to liberty!
Not a conference hall, but a modest lunchroom in a distant village in Southern Poland was a venue of the latest meeting of liberty leaders from all around the world. People from all continents joined together during the Liberty English Camp, organized by the Language of Liberty Institute (LLI) and its local partner, the Freedom and Entrepreneurship Foundation (F&EF).
It took over 2 hours of mundane commute with several transfers to reach the 1,000-people village of Ponikiew – where the camp took place – from Cracow. The travel might have been especially challenging for those from abroad, since drivers don't speak English, card payments are not accepted and GSM connection is acting up frequently. Ponikiew, located far from main routes and even further from the nearest supermarket, has probably not seen so many foreigners since five years ago – when one of the previous editions of Liberty Camp was organized there!
When Jacek Spendel – the CEO of F&EF and organizer of the camp – is asked what on Earth made him invite people from all around the world to such place, he answers confidently: – We simply wanted to offer people something different than another conference. Formal events like conferences are important indeed, but I, as well as many of my friends, strongly felt that there is also a demand for more casual ventures.
And Liberty English Camps, organized internationally since over a decade by LLI and its partners, are satisfying this demand. Despite difficult logistics, over 40 people from places such as Japan, Iraqi Kurdistan, Australia, USA or Luxembourg came to Ponikiew to discuss liberty, listen to lectures, and network – all in the informal setting of barbeques, beach volleyball and charming hills of the Polonia Minor region in Poland.
The recruitment efforts might have been much harder if not the support of Mr. Lawrence Reed of the Foundation for Economic Education, who has funded a special scholarship for Ukrainian citizens to attend to the camp. He also happened to be the keynote speaker at the event, explaining the importance of character in work, personal life and liberty-related activities.
The location of the camp, however unorthodox, was not chosen at random. The nearest large city – Cracow – was the place the annual conference of Liberty International – an established umbrella organisation which – over the scope of nearly 50 years – has funded, supported and inspired thousands of smaller liberty-oriented NGOs and individuals. The conference was also organized by the F&EF, and it was its biggest event up to date. Almost half of the Liberty English Camp attendees joined true VIPs of the liberty movement – such as Ken Schooland, Lawrence Reed, Mary Ruwart, Jim Lark	and many more – in celebrating the impact that Liberty International had on the ever-growing society of freedom advocates.
← Where freedom and nature meet: Liberty English Camp 2018!


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Murkowski's Mineral Bill Included in Recovery Legislation
American Mineral Security Act Will Help Rebuild Domestic Supply Chains
U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today announced that her bipartisan American Mineral Security Act is included in new legislation to help the U.S. recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Murkowski's bill, which focuses on rebuilding domestic supply chains, addresses systemic weaknesses exposed by the pandemic and is critical to the future of U.S. manufacturing and competitiveness.
"The COVID-19 pandemic has brought renewed attention to the fact that our nation is heavily dependent on imports for a wide array of goods and technologies that are essential to our health, economy, and security," Murkowski said. "We need to reverse our damaging dependence on China and other nations and rebuild domestic supply chains for everything from personal protective equipment to clean energy technologies."
The American Mineral Security Act would identify critical minerals, ensure timely surveying of domestic deposits, cut down on unnecessary permitting delays for projects to produce them, promote workforce development, and invest in research and development to increase recycling and the development of alternatives. It is incorporated into Senator Lindsey Graham's (R-SC) Restoring Critical Supply Chains and Intellectual Property Act, which is in turn part of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) Health, Economic Assistance, Liability Protection, and Schools (HEALS) Act.
Last month, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing focused on the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on supply chains and the fundamental role that minerals play in them. During the hearing, expert witnesses called attention to how the United States is "getting lapped" by China and even the European Union when it comes to mining, refining, and recycling critical minerals. The witnesses urged Congress to enact a variety of policy improvements, many of which are reflected in Murkowski's bill.
The Energy and Natural Resources Committee reported the American Mineral Security Act to the full Senate last year with bipartisan support. It is cosponsored by Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), John Barrasso (R-WY), Jim Risch (R-ID), Steve Daines (R-MT), Martha McSally (R-AZ), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Doug Jones (D-AL), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), and Mike Crapo (R-ID).
Murkowski is Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.


In conservative Texas, it has long been said, Democrats tend to sound like Republicans. And here in relatively liberal Connecticut, Republicans, perhaps reacting to their losses in last month's election, are starting to talk decidedly more like Democrats.
Standing behind a table covered with a red-checkered cloth, paper place mats and drawn-in silverware, Republicans in the state's House of Representatives today unveiled their ''Kitchen Table Agenda'' for 2001.
The decorations were intended to reinforce the notion that, come Jan. 3, when the General Assembly's six-month session begins, the Republicans -- who are in the minority in both chambers -- will fight to solve the problems average people discuss at the dinner table every day.
''We will represent the needs of working families in Connecticut,'' said Robert M. Ward, the House minority leader, sounding more like the Democrat who lost the presidential election than the Republican who won it. On the kitchen table next to him, a cereal box labeled ''House Republicans'' was plastered with a picture of a smiling elephant.
The meat-and-potatoes agenda included Republican staples like a proposed $500 tax cut for every family in the state and a voucher program for students in the worst public schools. But it also included initiatives that resembled traditionally Democratic goals, like creating flexible work hours and job-sharing programs to ease work-related burdens on families; cleaning the environment by tightening auto emissions standards; buying more open space and financing mass transportation programs; and giving patients more control of their corporate-managed health plans.
All of this was meant, House Republicans said, to demonstrate their intention to focus less on politics next year and more on voter concerns. They even encouraged House Democrats to join them.
''We should be less concerned about the conference tables in this building than the kitchen tables across the state of Connecticut,'' said Brian J. Flaherty, one of Mr. Ward's deputies.
The new Republican focus on ''kitchen table'' politics may have as much to do with Nov. 7 as with a meeting of Democratic and Republican minds.
Now, as before Election Day, Democrats control both chambers of the General Assembly. But Democrats picked up four House seats last month, increasing their majority to 100 to 51, now only one vote shy of becoming veto-proof. In the Senate, Democrats picked up two seats, giving them a 21-to-15 edge.
''I applaud them joining us,'' said Moira K. Lyons, the Democratic speaker of the House, of her Republican colleagues. ''I think what you saw today was an endorsement'' of several Democrat-led policies, she said, including a proposal to increase a state property tax credit.
Mr. Sullivan said Democrats would probably find many of the Republicans' agenda items indistinguishable from their own. ''I don't think we would find much disagreement,'' Mr. Sullivan said.
Democrats in the House and Senate are expected to unveil their agendas in the next two weeks.


The Fourth Day PR group has opened its sixth office. Fourth Day Australia will offer PR and content services to clients operating in the Australasia region. The group works with companies in the B2B tech, industrial, arts and not-for-profit sectors and also has offices in London, Manchester, Paris, Berlin and Casablanca.
Based in Sydney, the Australia office will be led by Olivia Dodd who has spent nine years working in PR, both in-house and in agencies in the UK and Australia. A trained journalist, Olivia has spent the past four years specialising in B2B technology PR. Fourth Day is already working with taxi software firm, Autocab in Australia, Germany and the UK. The agency has also been working in Australia for its UK client Semafone, which specialises in call centre security software.


If you're mortified about having this common pregnancy condition, deep breaths. We know you don't live on cookies! Ditch the guilt and focus on managing your gestational diabetes to have a healthy baby.
Pregnancy is marked by milestones at your ob-gyn appointments. You get to hear the baby's heartbeat around 8 weeks, and count fingers and toes around 10 weeks. And then there's the 28-week appointment—memorable not only because it's the start of the third trimester, but also because it's when most women have to take the dreaded glucose challenge test. I remember my first test well. I was 30 years old, and given the choice of chugging a sickly-sweet orange or cola-flavored drink (I went with cola). An hour later, I had my blood drawn and was sent on my way. But a few days later, I got the call: I'd failed the screening and had to come back for a three-hour glucose tolerance test.
While I ate a pretty balanced diet and was relatively fit and at a healthy weight, the previous 20 weeks of pregnancy had rendered me numb with unrelenting nausea that could only be quelled with carbs. There were nights when I'd eaten a whole frozen pizza or scarfed down a bagel with cream cheese, only to reach for a bag of pretzels an hour later. One of my first thoughts after I failed the screening was that I'd probably done this to myself.
The glucose tolerance test, during which blood is taken before you've eaten anything and hourly after you have a supersweet drink, measures how well your body responds to that sugar, or glucose, over time. In my case, the answer was not well, and I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM).
Although 5 to 10 percent of all pregnant women have GDM, making it one of the most common complications in pregnancy, it seems to come with a mixed bag of negative emotions, as well as a laundry list of misconceptions. The first feeling I had when I heard the news was shock, which quickly turned into shame. When I told a few friends, I couldn't help but wonder if they were judging me.
Marina Chaparro, R.D., a certified diabetes educator in Miami who has type 1 diabetes and a baby daughter, sees the same type of reaction I had all the time. "It's helpful to remember that you can still have a healthy pregnancy and a healthy, beautiful baby," she says.
With that in mind, here are the most important things you should know about gestational diabetes.
1. You don't have to be overweight to get it.
So, what do abnormal results mean? The body uses glucose, or sugar, to fuel muscles and cells. Some of that glucose comes directly from food, and the rest is stored and then released by the liver. After a meal, glucose hangs around in the bloodstream until the pancreas, a large gland behind the stomach, secretes a hormone called insulin, which pushes that glucose into your cells to be used as energy.
2. Nothing you ate before the test caused it.
Just as I worried that all the pizza and bagels I ate led to my GDM, Rebecca Swanson, a mom of two in Denver, says that her mind went to the Reese's Puffs cereal she'd been eating before she failed her glucose screening. So she went cold turkey, hoping that she might be able to fool the three-hour test.
Once you're diagnosed with gestational diabetes, it's all about taking steps to keep your blood sugar in a normal range. Although glucose passes through the placenta, insulin doesn't. So if your blood sugar is too high, your baby has to make more of his own insulin to keep his blood-sugar level under control. If his insulin production is still in overdrive after birth, he can end up with a low blood-glucose level, known as hypoglycemia.
3. Managing gestational diabetes with diet is possible, but you may need insulin.
To manage GDM, the focus is on carbs. The more carbs you eat, the more insulin is needed to move the resulting glucose into cells. To do that, it's key to follow an eating plan with the right number of calories, mix of carbohydrates, fat, and protein, and the right timing of meals, says Thomas A. Buchanan, M.D., codirector of the Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
No one is expected to figure this out on her own, though. I was referred to an endocrinologist, and she showed me how to monitor my blood-glucose levels with a fingerprick test four times per day and track those levels on a worksheet I'd send to her once a week. Then she introduced me to a dietitian, who gave me carbohydrate (rather than calorie) goals and suggested meals and snacks to keep my blood sugar controlled and my appetite satisfied.
The finger pricks were painful the first few times, but I quickly got used to them. Counting carbs also felt pretty cumbersome, but within a week or two, I found some good substitute dishes for the ones that made my blood sugar spike.
I spoke to my endocrinologist every week. Knowing I had to send her my worksheets kept me on track and made the process less scary. When she saw my glucose numbers were too high first thing in the morning and an hour after breakfast, she suggested dietary changes. But when those didn't help, I had to take insulin, like 15 to 20 percent of women with GDM do. "This is just a way to give your body what it's missing," Dr. Freeby says. In my case, the twice-daily shots hurt less than the finger pricks and immediately brought my glucose numbers within a healthy range.
4. You won't be stuck with a joy-free pregnancy.
When Lydia Moore, a mom of two from San Jose, California, was diagnosed with GDM in her first pregnancy, "It felt like my last indulgences were going to be snatched away," she says.
Chaparro reminds people that dietitians are not the food police. "If you hate broccoli, I'll never force you to eat it," she says. "I want women to know that they can have pasta or a cheeseburger. It just comes down to watching their portions and making substitutions." For instance, if you want to have Italian for dinner, skip the bread and butter and go with a salad. Then have a main course with a higher-fiber, lower-carb style of pasta.
In my pregnancy, my half cup of ice cream before bed (which my dietitian recommended to keep my blood sugar stable overnight) was something I looked forward to all day. Megan Lewis, of Edgewater, Maryland, felt that way about her beloved Baltimore "Bergers cookie." Because the treat was within the carbohydrate limits of her diet, she didn't have to give it up—she just couldn't have a second cookie.
Exercise also helps move glucose into muscles—albeit in a less efficient way than insulin—and most women are advised to take a 20-minute walk after meals. For Kristen Spina, of Floral Park, New York, GDM was a wake-up call that taught her how food and exercise affect her body. "It turned out to be a blessing in disguise," she says.
5. Your next pregnancy isn't doomed.
There are two things that moms say they're worried about when looking ahead: having gestational diabetes in a subsequent pregnancy or developing type 2 diabetes. While women who have had GDM are at an increased risk for both, experts say neither is inevitable.
"About two thirds of women who have gestational diabetes in one pregnancy will get it again," Dr. Buchanan says. The women who don't usually have mild diabetes in their first GDM pregnancy or lose weight in between pregnancies. That's what happened to me. When I got pregnant with twins a few years later, I started out the pregnancy 10 pounds lighter and watched my diet from Day 1. While I was close to the cutoff point on the three-hour test, I was never diagnosed with GDM.
When it comes to type 2 diabetes, women who've had GDM have up to a 50 percent chance of developing it within 10 years after delivery and a 60 percent chance of developing it in their lifetime.
How long does gestational diabetes last?
Blood sugar levels usually return to normal shortly after delivery, but women who've had gestational diabetes have up to a 50 percent chance of developing type 2 diabetes within 10 years after delivery and a 60 percent chance of developing it in their lifetime. To stay on top of that risk, doctors recommend that women who've had GDM get a follow-up two-hour glucose tolerance test when they're four to 12 weeks postpartum, plus annual tests to measure their fasting blood glucose and glycated hemoglobin (also known as A1C), which reflects average blood glucose over the prior three months. "Watching your glucose levels, exercising regularly, and eating a healthy diet should be your new normal," Dr. Buchanan explains. And for all the women I talked to, it is.


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The Most Masked European Countries Have the Biggest Coronavirus Surges
Daniel Greenfield November 11, 2020
"If we just wore these masks," Joe Biden said, at the final presidential debate, holding up a mask like a totem, "we can save 100,000 lives."
The Democrat nominee's plan for fighting the coronavirus was all about wearing masks. And indeed the only notable element of Biden's plan has been a national mask mandate.
But would that actually work? Would it even save one life, never mind 100,000?
Few European countries have been more mask-obsessed than France.
In July, France issued a national mask mandate compelling everyone to wear masks indoors in public spaces. Anyone caught not wearing a mask would face a fine of around $150. In August, Paris and a number of other regions imposed mask rules for anyone leaving the house.
Forget the stereotype of the Parisian nonchalantly dangling a gauloise between two yellowing fingers. "You're not allowed to smoke on the street without a mask; you can't take it off, so you must find another way," Deputy Mayor Anne Souyris snapped.
How were Parisians to smoke without taking off their masks, cutting holes in them, or setting them on fire?
In a nod to another French obsession, cyclists were temporarily exempted, but AI was deployed on the metro to automatically detect which passengers weren't covering their faces.
Some cynics suspected that this had something to do with France's mask surplus. After buying a billion masks from China, the worldwide hub of the fashion industry ramped up its own mask production, but the demand wasn't there leaving manufacturers with a 40 million mask surplus.
The initial drive to produce 5 million masks a day had left a lot of masks, many of them fashionable fabric masks, useless but pretty, sitting in warehouses with nowhere to go.
As the summer heat wore on, inspectors marched through French workplaces to check that everyone was masked. In a nod to class privileges, bosses were allowed to unmask in their private offices, but workers were forced to keep masks on unless they had 13 feet of space.
Still, 78% of French people polled claimed that they studiously wore their masks.
How well did that work out?
France recently passed 1.1 million confirmed cases and hit a record of over 52,000 cases in one day. While the media has been warning that the numbers are spinning out of control in the United States after this country passed 80,000 cases in a day, France's numbers are far worse.
America, after all, has a much larger population than France.
Despite its strenuous mask regime, France became the country with the fifth largest number of cases, falling behind larger countries like America and Russia.
And it's not alone.
In Spain, where 86% of people wear masks, the government has declared a six month state of emergency with nightly curfews and gatherings limited to 6 people. The only legal reason to leave your house after 11 PM or before 6 AM is to go to work or deal with an emergency.
Spain hit the 1 million mark even before France did.
And that's despite a nationwide mask mandate back in May, along with a ban on public smoking, making it one of the first European countries to go all in on masks.
Even though masks became more widespread in Spain than most of the rest of the continent, and the country whose totalitarian past lies close to the surface, has unleashed some of the toughest lockdown measures, this is now Spain's third coronavirus resurgence.
Italy, where 81% wear masks, responded to yet another spike with a fourth set of lockdown restrictions, shutting down gyms and theaters, while forcing restaurants and bars to close by 6 PM. No one is allowed to watch soccer games in person or go to wedding receptions.
Despite all the masks, Italy still holds the record for the second-highest death toll in Europe.
Meanwhile in Sweden, only 5% wear masks. The authorities have never recommended them believing that they are a waste of time. Sweden has used a soft lockdown that avoided fines and mandates. And the media in lockdown countries has spent the months lambasting Sweden and warning the rest of the world not to use it as a model.
But Sweden isn't alone. In Denmark hardly anyone wears masks. And in Norway, less than a sixth do.
In the UK, where less than a third of Britons wear masks, the death rate is only a little higher than Italy, and it still hasn't hit the 1 million mark despite a larger population.
In Europe, as in America, masks are a cultural, not medical, practice. The people likeliest and unlikeliest to wear them have cultural similarities. And they wear them for the same reason that the Biden campaign embraced wearing masks, not as a plan, but as a cultural symbol.
Wearing masks is not a plan to stop the virus, but it is a fetish of conformity. That is why so many politicians use the language of "respect" rather than medicine to encourage the practice.
Medical practices don't need to be respected. Cultural beliefs, especially irrational ones, do.
The discomfort of wearing masks, especially in the hot southern countries like France, Spain, and Italy, perversely seem to affirm their effectiveness in the same way that some mouthwash manufacturers make their brands taste astringent to seem more medicinal.
People are trained to think that what is medically effective is also physically uncomfortable.
When the Black Death arrived, medieval Europeans resorted to a variety of practices and cures, some useful and many useless, some that had roots in a legitimate concept of illness, others that were little more than voodoo, to deal with a pandemic that had no easy answers.
The obsession with masks, an actual useful medical tool transformed into a cargo cult fetish, has echoes of the medieval misuse of legitimate medical practices during the Black Death.
In some medical environments masks may offer potential benefits, but mandating that entire populations wear them accomplishes nothing except keeping the French textile industry employed. That and the assorted unhealthy consequences of constantly wearing a mask.
But whether it's using a severed snake to try and draw out the Black Death or wearing a mask, people in an outbreak feel the need to grasp at some means of controlling the threat. And they become angry at anyone who doesn't appear to respect their chosen control mechanism.
Wearing a mask is meant to prevent the spread of the virus, not to protect the wearer. A CDC study showed that 88% of those infected wore masks. But the medieval logic of masks falsely assumes that wearing a mask protects you from the virus and that the virus only spreads due to those who don't wear masks. And that creates natural scapegoats for the pandemic.
The Biden campaign and the Democrats are cynically cashing in on these pandemic fears.
"We're in a circumstance where the president thus far and still has no plan, no comprehensive plan," Biden ranted at the debate. "What I would do is make sure we have everyone encouraged to wear a mask all the time."
France, Italy, and Spain tried that. It didn't work.
The European countries most obsessed with masks are doing the worst. Nearly universal mask wearing in those countries has done little to prevent a surge. Democrats have a weakness for wanting to be like the Europeans. But the only thing the Biden mask mandate would do is turn us into France. The French wore masks through the summer heat only to have three times the cases per capita and per day as the Americans who never adopted a mask mandate.
Maybe, instead of Americans adopting the Biden mask mandate and becoming more like France, it's time the French tried a little bit of freedom and being more like Americans.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
Tags: Biden, Coronavirus, Europe, recent
Posted by: Daniel Greenfield at November 11, 2020
Anonymous 12/11/20
How do you avoid the virus? Stay 6 feet or more from others. Don't let co-workers come to work sick. That's it.
Daniel Greenfield 12/11/20
ah yes, simple sensible solutions
too crazy for our crazy era
hmmm 13/11/20
Covid has NEVER even been isolated. PCR is a process, not a test. run enough cycles, a strand of RNA, and it is being called positive covid diagnosis. oh, and check out the flu map. it's green. what happened to the flu? the world has been driven crazy, lives destroyed over propaganda from China.
Nan 12/11/20
Daniel, thank you. I wore a mask before I caught the virus. I cannot honestly tell you exactly how I caught it. The only places I was going to were grocery stores and doctor offices. It was probably in the air conditioning system in the grocery stores. If people don't start standing up against the mask tyranny, things will never change. Biden and his stupidity must not run this Country. I'm still praying that President Trump will be our President.
I caught it. I can only guess how. Bottom line is no country is going to beat viruses with masks.
We catch viruses every year. i had pneumonia as a child, was hospitalized, put on oxygen & given antibiotics & finally got well. No masks. No school or business closures. people came & went to visit, shared hugs, etc. Even during 'Spanish flu', deaths were from bacteria, not virus. We even have great antivirals now. We are being driven crazy at the behest of China & leftists around the world.
Delta 12/11/20
What we should also be producing at "warped speed" and yet no one has mentioned it is the N95 respirators and make them available to everyone for free. Any other face coverings are, just as you said, a fetish of conformity.
N95 respirator is the only mask that actually protects the wearer which should really be the desired goal.
From CDC:"N95 respirators reduce the wearer's exposure to airborne particles, from small particle aerosols to large droplets. N95 respirators are tight-fitting respirators that filter out at least 95% of particles in the air, including large and small particles."
How insane is it to rely on others to wear a mask in order to protect YOU and not on yourself? It's contrary to everything we've heard about taking charge of your own health, life, you-name-it. That's what we do here. Supposed to, anyway.
True. Instead we're dependent on junk KN95 masks from China and people wearing stylish pieces of silk on their faces and acting like they're better than everyone else.
Power wielded by arrogant, unscrupulous ignoramuses is positively terrifying.
The East Coast adulation of all things European is
sickening enough. Mask fashion craze: match one's
mask, purse, eye shadow, shoes is tres chicque!!
The mask talisman virtue signals; distancing
alienates and dehumanizes us, breeds fear.
Anybody had a casual chat with a stranger lately?
Approaching walkers veer away, avert eyes.
We are already denounced as "racist, sexist, etc"
for slight verbal oopsies, and now hide behind
masks. A country of isolated, silent, terrified,
sheep.
It strikes me that one good way of judging the effectiveness of all our efforts at reducing the transmission of COVID 19 is to compare the rates of seasonal flu infections from the 2018-2019 flu season to the infections that have occurred and will occur in the 2020-2021 season. Why seasonal flu? Because all these strategies - social distancing, masks, etc. - should be just as effective at reducing the transmission of other diseases like seasonal flu. If we look at the data and don't see a significant decline in seasonal flu cases, it's fair to conclude that they must not be particularly effective.
Craig C 13/11/20
Seriously are we supposed to believe that mask designed to stop particles measured in microns is going to stop viruses measured in nanometers? Are we told to believe that the virus can travel 10,000 kms (10,000,000 meters) or morearound the world but the final 2 meters is too far.
I think the idea behind the virus traveling around the world is that it is hitching a ride inside a person as opposed to flying solo. That's why all travel from China was banned early on.
Quarantine is a public health procedure which isolates the infectious from the vulnerable and allows the concentration of resources where they are most helpful,lockdown is a prison tactic that is used to control or prevent bad behavior in a controlled population, it has no public health function. If lockdowns and masks work, wouldn't prisons be the ideal testing grounds? Instead they released prisoners.
Good point about prisons.
But then logical thinking seems to evade those in power to make decisions that affect all our lives.
Handy Handsome 15/11/20
Once a virus is released into the population, it stays there forever.
The population deals with it, life goes on.
14 days to lower the curve, I'll go along with.
Any thing else is pure tyranny.
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