There has been a flurry of recent commentary about the "battle" between the Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren wings of the Democratic Party -- a supposed contest for the party's soul.
But by and large, the battle for control for the ideological center of the Democratic Party has been settled -- and it is likely that Hilary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren were never the real protagonists.
There are still pro-Wall Street, corporatist -- and even socially conservative -- elements in the Democratic coalition. But the center of the Party has consolidated around progressive principles as never before with respect to economic, social and foreign policy.
There may be some differences in style and emphasis, but it's hard to tell the difference between a Clinton speech and a Warren speech when it comes to most economic questions -- and particularly when it comes to the overarching narrative.
There is increasing consensus in the Democratic Party leadership and rank and file with respect to the reasons why the incomes of ordinary Americans have flat-lined even though the economy has grown.
And there is increasing consensus in the Democratic Party with respect to the solutions.
Since the disastrous Great Recession, our economy has been going in the right direction under President Obama's leadership, but we need to make sure that average Americans benefit when it grows.
That means that we have to reform government so that it works for average Americans, not wealthy special interests.
Too many politicians have given in to the power of lobbyists for big business and the wealthy, and changed the rules to make it easier for companies to lay off workers, get rid of unions, raid pension funds, ship jobs overseas, and keep wages low.
Corporate CEOs and billionaires keep getting new tax breaks, while average Americans struggle to provide for their families. Ordinary people have seen their incomes flat-line because politicians have stacked the deck against middle class people in favor of the rich. As a result CEOs who used to make 20 times what they paid their workers and not make almost 300 times what they pay their workers. And the Wall Street bankers and speculators continue to get bigger and bigger bonuses -- even though the recklessness of the big Wall Street banks wrecked the economy and caused the Great Recession.
Instead, our government we should focus on improving the incomes of average Americans, not creating loopholes and subsidies for big corporations. If you work hard and play by the rules in this country, you should be paid enough to live on and support your family, and retire securely. A thriving middle class isn't just the result of a strong economy -- it builds a strong economy. When average people have money in their pockets, we are able to support local businesses and the economy grows.
We should use tax dollars to build roads and create jobs, instead of tax breaks for millionaires.
And we should get big money out of politics -- government should help level the playing field, not rig the system for the powerful.
That's a powerful narrative and it isn't just supported by most Democrats -- it is resonant with most Americans.
The same goes for social policy. Twenty years ago issues like immigration reform, reproductive choice, gay marriage -- even civil rights -- were wedge issues inside the Democratic Party. No longer.
Today banners supporting immigration reform, abortion rights, gay marriage and voting rights are proudly displayed at Democratic Conventions. Instead these issues are all wedge issues inside the Republican Party.
And the same can be said for foreign policy. No serious leader of the Democratic Party supports another ground war in the Middle East. There is virtual unanimity that the Iraq War was a horrible mistake that kicked over the sectarian hornets' nest and created the conditions leading to the problems we have today -- especially the rise of ISIL.
The only area of major policy division in the Democratic Party today is trade, and even there most of the Democratic Party has united around a consensus position that is very skeptical of trade deals that increase the power of large corporations and drag down the wages of American workers.
In fact, in the last 30 years, we have rarely seen such consensus on policy inside the Democratic Party -- and the progressive coalition at its core. One reason is that most Americans when asked agree with virtually all of these positions.
The Democratic economic narrative outpolls the Republican narrative almost two to one. The same is true for virtually every one of these positions.
But if that's true, why do Republicans control both Houses of Congress? Why is the Presidential race still a contest in 2016?
The answer is that while Democrats clearly reflect the positions of most of the American electorate, Republicans have three critical structural advantages.
To take back Congress, win the presidency and create the progressive future that is supported by most Americans, Democrats must first minimize or eliminate each of those structural advantages over the next two years -- and the next 10 years.
1). Turn Out. Republicans have a distinct structural advantage when it comes to turnout. Republican base voters are generally more upscale economically than base Democratic voters. That makes them more likely to turn out to the polls -- especially in Mid-Terms.
A portion of that advantage has been neutralized by far superior Democratic field operations - especially in Presidential years.
Part of the advantage will also be overcome by demographics. GOP base voters skew older, whiter and less urban. Younger millennial voters are substantially more prone to vote Democratic than older voters. The same is true of non-white and urban voters as a whole.
These groups -- and especially Hispanics and other recent immigrant groups -- are growing every year as a percentage of the population while GOP base voter cohorts are shrinking.
But in the end, Democrats must focus on energizing and motivating these base voters. There is no more important task for ensuring that the progressive consensus is actually converted into progressive policy.
2). Redistricting. From 2000 on, Republicans did a much better job than Democrats addressing the nuts and bolts of redistricting.
They focused in on winning key state legislative contests and the governor's mansions of important swing states. As a result, by 2012 in many states substantially more voters supported Democratic candidates for Congress, but the shape of the newly-drawn Congressional Districts gave many more seats to Republicans than Democrats.
Democrats can't afford to let this happen again. That's why former Congressman Mark Schauer has been appointed to what amounts to redistricting Czar of the Democratic Party to muster all of our resources and focus our energies on preparing for the next redistricting battle following the 2020 census.
In the meantime we must challenge unfair districts in court -- especially pursuing civil rights claims. And we must press for passage of an improved Voting Rights Act that can help undo some of the damage done by unfairly drawn Congressional and legislative maps.
3). Big Money. The Supreme Court's Citizens United Decision gives a huge structural advantage to the .001%'s attempts to prevent the enactment of progressive policies and move America back to the Gilded Age.
That in turn mightily benefits the GOP.
Appointment of new Supreme Court justices that will reverse Citizens United.
Until one of these two things occurs, Democrats must take action to ameliorate and offset this critical GOP structural advantage.
The continued development of robust on-line small donor fundraising operations is the most important means available. Almost three-fourths of the Obama Campaign's billion dollar budget came from small on-line donors.
Passage of a bill to amplify small donations with federal matching for candidates that eschew large donor fundraising would also massively change the playing field.
Finally, the cultivation of progressive large donor fundraising -- work that is going on through the Democracy Alliance and Committee on the States -- is crucial.
At the same time Democrats work to neutralize and limit the impact of the big three GOP structural advantages, our most powerful weapon is the fact that most Americans agree with Democratic values and policy priorities. And the last thing we need to do is back away from them, or "moderate" our positions.
Progressive Democratic priorities are the priorities of most ordinary Americans.
Standing up straight for those progressive principles -- and passionately advocating them -- is also the best way to mobilize our voters to go out and vote. And we have to remember that in discussing those principles we must always talk about our values -- not mainly policies and programs but right and wrong.
And of course we have to remember that voters ultimately cast their ballots for people -- real flesh and blood candidates, not policies and programs -- not even progressive principles.
Democrats need to support, cultivate and encourage great candidates for office at every level -- by developing and backing strong candidates for state and local office. And by recruiting great candidates at the Federal level.
In 2016 we are likely to be blessed with the opportunity to elect the first woman President of the United States. That will ignite women voters -- and young voters, the same way that the opportunity to elect the first African American President ignited African American and young voters in 2008 and 2012.
And in the end, when those candidates actually take office, we have to help themdeliver -- to get stuff done. Voters don't just want talk. They want action. And if they don't get it from Democrats many will try the other side.
That's why it is so important that even though many Progressives disagree with the President on his trade proposals, we work like crazy to support President Obama's Executive Actions on the many issues where we have consensus -- like overtime pay, sentencing reform, family and medical leave, immigration reform, policing, climate change, the minimum wage for Federal Contractors, and the Iran nuclear deal.
There are obstacles in the road. But fundamentally, we have arrived at a potentially progressive moment in America -- a moment when a true progressive consensus has begun to form in the Democratic Party and among the voters. If we take advantage of that moment, we could look back at 2016 not as some showdown between wings of the Democratic coalition, but as a progressive tipping point in American history.
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April Forward, Not April Fools
On April Fools Day, Loggerhead Marinelife Center encourages the public to skip the prank and pay it forward for environmental conservation.
On April 1st each year, individuals and brands globally participate in "April Fools" by engaging in a prank. Although the exact history remains unknown, the day has been celebrated for many centuries. Some brands choose to play a joke on their customers by offering new services others choose to "prank" their competitors. Often, individuals choose to play a prank on their roommate, significant other, or friend.
Over the years, the culture surrounding pranks has boomed past Aprils Fools. In the past few years, a rising trend of YouTube Channels dedicated to hosting pranks has flourished. The prank trend begins long before famous YouTubers with network television featuring shows dedicated to pranks and ridiculous feats.
One famous YouTuber played a prank by filling a backyard with 100 million gel beads.
However, the popularity of YouTube pranksters has escalated pranks to an entirely new level. Online pranks generating millions and billions of views, have inspired online trends of pranks. As TikTok has increased in popularity, its users have also adopted the prank culture – especially during quarantine. Users looked for new ways to gain followers and potentially go viral by pranking their quarantine-mates.
Unfortunately, popular pranks tend to use items that harm the planet, such as using hundreds of balloons to fill a room, placing 100 million gel beads in a backyard, or filling a house with slime. While these pranks may generate laughs, they often have negative environmental impacts. For example, not properly disposing of the gel beads or washing paints used in pranks down the drain.
A common April Fools prank is filling a room with balloons or another item, such as hundreds of plastic cups full of water.
Unintentionally, these pranksters promote pranks that are environmentally harmful. And unfortunately, some of these pranksters have more than 50 million YouTube subscribers. Since popular YouTubers can generate revenue from the platform, it's not likely that the prank trend will subside. Tus, it's important that these YouTubers understand the environmental impacts of their pranks.
Hopefully, with encouragement from environmental organizations and YouTube fans, these prank YouTubers will choose sustainable options. Instead, pranksters can choose pranks that do not contribute to our planet's waste problem by utilizing materials that are recyclable, environmentally-safe, and plastic-free.
Instead of participating in April Fools pranks, Loggerhead Marinelife Center asks the public to participate in April Forward and support environmental conservation during April.
As this trend continues, we ask you to celebrate today in a different way – April Forward, Not April Fools. Today, we encourage you to ditch the prank and instead support sea turtle and ocean conservation. While engaging in a prank may bring laughs, providing care for a threatened or endangered sea turtle can bring joy. With your help, we treated more than 100 sea turtles and 1,000 hatchlings last year. Additionally, we removed 4,517.18 lbs of marine debris from the environment. By paying it forward instead of playing a prank, you can help us improve the health of our sea turtle patients and the planet.
Join Loggerhead Marinelife Center (LMC) in spreading awareness about the potentially harmful impacts of pranks by posting on social media why you choose to support LMC with the hashtag #AprilForward.
Annual Fund. We kindly ask that you tap into the giving spirit and donate a tax-deductible donation to our Annual Fund. With every dollar, you are helping us improve ocean water quality, reduce global marine pollution, and rehabilitate sick and injured sea turtles. Thank you for helping us make a positive impact in 2021.
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Q: Creating a complex custom widget in PyQt5 and adding it to a QGridlayout I have to create a custom widget that looks like the following:
custom_widget_sketch

Each custom widget is a representation of one LIPO battery, and displays the battery volatge (V), status text (charging, discharging, etc), serial number of the battery (S/N) and three status LEDs (yellow, green and red)
After I have created the custom widget I need to add 30 of these in a grid of 6*5. My assumption here is that once I have created that custom widget it should be as simple as adding say a QPushButton in a QGridLayout like so:
custom_layput = QGridLayout()
custom_layout.addWidget(custom_widget, 0, 0)
custom_layout.addWidget(custom_widget, 0, 1)

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custom_layout.addWidget(custom_widget, 6, 5)

The final screen would look like this:
main_window_sketch

Considering all of these requirements I have the following questions:

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*Will I able able to create such a complex/rich custom widget using PyQt5? Is it doable?

*Is this the correct approach to create the custom widget: first draw a square using QPainter (this is the blue square in the custom_widget_sketch), then add QLineEdits to dispaly the voltage (V) text, serial number (S/N) text and the Status text, add a QLabel for displaying the "V", "S/N" and "STATUS" labels in the custom widget, then draw the three circles: one each for the yellow, green and red LEDs, then use a combination of QVBoxLayout and QHBoxLayout to arrange the QLineEdits, QLabels, the square and the circles (LED indicators)

*How do I package this custom widget such that I can simply add it to a layout like I would add a QPushButton or a QLineEdit?

PS: The custom_widget_sketch also contains a line and a square with three lines inside it in the top left corner. This is to depict the connector for the LIPO battery. It may be too complex to implement that right now. So I would be happy even if I am able to implement everything other than these two elements
I have been through a few SO questions but they all refer to one tutorial, which is not my end goal.
I would appreciate any code snippets, general outline of code/steps to follow or links to any articles/tutorials that create custom widgets similar to the one I wish to create.

A: Python code for the custom widget I ended up creating. The widget looks as follows:

from PyQt5.QtGui import QPainter, QPen,QBrush,QColor
from PyQt5.QtCore import Qt
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication, QMainWindow, QWidget, QHBoxLayout,QPushButton, QLineEdit, QLabel, QVBoxLayout, QHBoxLayout, QSizePolicy, QGroupBox
import sys

class BatteryStatusWidget(QWidget):
    def __init__(self):
        super(BatteryStatusWidget, self).__init__()
        #Voltage widgets
        self.voltage_text = QLineEdit()
        self.voltage_text.setReadOnly(True)
        self.voltage_label = QLabel("V")
        self.voltage_label.setStyleSheet("QLabel {color : white}")

        #Status widgets
        self.status_text = QLineEdit()
        self.status_text.setReadOnly(True)
        self.status_label = QLabel("STATUS")
        self.status_label_font = QtGui.QFont()
        self.status_label_font.setPointSize(12)
        self.status_label.setFont(self.status_label_font)
        self.status_label.setAlignment(QtCore.Qt.AlignCenter)
        self.status_label.setStyleSheet("QLabel {color : white}")

        #Serial number
        self.serial_number_text = QLineEdit()
        self.serial_number_label = QLabel("S/N")

        #LED widgets
        self.yellow_led_label = QLabel()
        self.yellow_led_label.setStyleSheet("QLabel {background-color : yellow; border-color : black; border-width : 1px; border-style : solid; border-radius : 10px; min-height: 20px; min-width: 20px}")
        self.green_led_label = QLabel()
        self.green_led_label.setStyleSheet("QLabel {background-color : green; border-color : black; border-width : 1px; border-style : solid; border-radius : 10px; min-height: 20px; min-width: 20px}")
        self.red_led_label = QLabel()
        self.red_led_label.setStyleSheet("QLabel {background-color : red; border-color : black; border-width : 1px; border-style : solid; border-radius : 10px; min-height: 20px; min-width: 20px}")

        #Number Identifier Label
        #This label is for tagging the widget with the same label as on the PCB
        self.number_label = QLabel("Test")
        self.number_label.setAlignment(QtCore.Qt.AlignCenter)
        self.number_label_font = QtGui.QFont()
        self.number_label_font.setPointSize(12)
        self.number_label_font.setBold(True)
        self.number_label.setFont(self.number_label_font)

        #Layouts
        #voltage layout
        self.voltage_layout = QHBoxLayout()
        self.voltage_layout.addWidget(self.voltage_text)
        self.voltage_layout.addWidget(self.voltage_label)

        #Serial number layout
        self.serial_num_layout = QHBoxLayout()
        self.serial_num_layout.addWidget(self.serial_number_label)
        self.serial_num_layout.addWidget(self.serial_number_text)

        #Voltage and status box layouts
        self.blue_container = QWidget()
        self.blue_container.setStyleSheet("background-color:rgb(77, 122, 194);")
        self.blue_box_layout = QVBoxLayout()
        self.blue_box_layout.addLayout(self.voltage_layout)
        self.blue_box_layout.addWidget(self.status_text)
        self.blue_box_layout.addWidget(self.status_label)
        self.blue_container.setLayout(self.blue_box_layout)

        #Blue box+ serial num layout
        self.non_led_layout = QVBoxLayout()
        #self.non_led_layout.addWidget(self.number_label)
        self.non_led_layout.addWidget(self.blue_container)
        self.non_led_layout.addLayout(self.serial_num_layout)

        #LED layout
        self.led_layout = QVBoxLayout()
        self.led_layout.addWidget(self.yellow_led_label)
        self.led_layout.addWidget(self.green_led_label)
        self.led_layout.addWidget(self.red_led_label)
        self.led_layout.addStretch(1)

        #Main Layout
        self.main_layout = QHBoxLayout()
        self.main_layout.addLayout(self.non_led_layout)
        self.main_layout.addLayout(self.led_layout)

        #Main group box
        self.main_group_box = QGroupBox()
        self.main_group_box.setStyleSheet("QGroupBox{font-size: 10px}")
        self.main_group_box.setTitle("Chan #")
        self.main_group_box.setLayout(self.main_layout)

        #Outer main layout to accomodate the group box
        self.outer_main_layout = QVBoxLayout()
        self.outer_main_layout.addWidget(self.main_group_box)

        #Set the main layout
        self.setLayout(self.outer_main_layout)
        self.setWindowTitle("Battery Widget")

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)
    main_window = BatteryStatusWidget()
    main_window.show()
    app.exec_()

I was able to easily create 30 instances of the custom widget and add it to a QGridLayout as I posted in my question. The final GUI screen looks as follows:

A: There's no need to use QPainter for the blue square, as you can use stylesheets for your whole widget, the trick is to use selectors.
I tried to create your widget and used this stylesheet:
    Battery {
        background-color: white;
    }
    QFrame#statusFrame {
        background-color: rgb(64, 112, 190);
    }
    QFrame#statusFrame QLabel {
        color: white;
        font-weight: bold;
        font-size: 24pt;
    }
    QLineEdit {
        border: 1px solid black;
        font-size: 24pt;
    }
    #serialLabel {
        font-weight: bold;
        font-size: 16pt;
    }

I created a "container" QWidget, the status rectangle is actually a QFrame with its own layout, which I named statusFrame (you can set it in designer, or by means of setObjectName(str)).
By using object names and child selectors, I was able to set specific fonts for its labels by using the QFrame#statusFrame QLabel selector (which means "apply to each QLabel that is a child of a QFrame"); I also set the serialLabel object name to the s/n label, allowing me to set a different font size.
You can do this from code or using designer, just remember to set the right object names and parent/children hierarchy.
I was able to draw the "connector" part too, which requires to set fixed margins to the main widget:
class Battery(QtWidgets.QWidget):
    connPath = QtGui.QPainterPath()
    connPath.addRect(30, 10, 40, 28)
    connPath.moveTo(30, 16)
    connPath.lineTo(45, 16)
    connPath.moveTo(30, 24)
    connPath.lineTo(45, 24)
    connPath.moveTo(30, 32)
    connPath.lineTo(45, 32)
    cablePen = QtGui.QColor(77, 122, 194)

    def __init__(self):
        QtWidgets.QWidget.__init__(self)
        # the following is only if you create the whole widget from code,
        # otherwise ensure to set both widget and layout contentsMargins
        # accordingly in designer
        self.setContentsMargins(25, 50, 10, 10)
        layout = QtWidgets.QGridLayout()
        self.setLayout(layout)
        layout.setContentsMargins(0, 0, 0, 0)
        # ...

    def paintEvent(self, event):
        qp = QtGui.QPainter(self)
        qp.setRenderHints(qp.Antialiasing)
        qp.translate(.5, .5)
        qp.drawPath(self.connPath)

        qp.setPen(self.cablePen)
        cablePath = QtGui.QPainterPath()
        cablePath.moveTo(30, 24)
        top = self.statusFrame.geometry().top()
        cablePath.quadTo(0, top + 20, 25, top + 40)
        qp.drawPath(cablePath)

As you can see, it's almost the same as yours.

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On the morning of February 11, 2017 private institution, Vithey Microfinance Plc. congratulated warmly received official microfinance operation license from the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), chaired by Orknha Dr. Bun Mony, chairman of borad director of Vithey Microfinance Plc.
Mr. LY Sopheak, chief executive officer (CEO) of Vithey Microfinance Plc. mentioned on the history of this instituion that it was born from a non-government organization named Cambodia Community Building (CCB) which was granted a license from Ministry of Interior No. 770 SCN dated 29 August 1996, in purpose to evaluate poverty and support the people living condition throughout the country. Until now, Vithey Microfinance Plc. has 3 major shareholder is CCB owns 60% and the other two private shareholders of 40% of total investment amounted to USD 4,500,000 and operate in Phnom Penh city and Kandal province that have 4 offices such as Phnom Penh branch, S'ang Branch, Kaoh Thom Branch, and Khsach Kandal Branch. By the end of 2016, Vithey Microfinace Plc. has loan outstanding of USD 3,500,000 and 3,000 customers. Since the microfinance sector still has a major role in the economic development contributions to the country's and the people's need and financial artery of the economy, Vithey, private institution initial plans to expand its market during the next five years, from 2017-2021 to expand operations of 55 additional offices across the provinces in the country along with the total number of employees up to 730 people and a portfolio of USD 68,000,000.
The strategy of private institution, Vithey Microfinance Plc. intended to fill the gaps that financial markets are experiencing poverty, customers who need small loans that big institutions do not fulfill this requirement and we see that the market share in this sector is huge to be reinforced. Vithey Microfinane Plc., private institutions are committed to economic development, the country has been successful with respect to state laws and regulations of the National Bank of the fine in order to ensure sustainable progress.
Orknha Dr. Bun Mony, chairman of board director of Vithey Microfinance Plc. said that microfinance services, plays a vital role in national economic development service, because this service to people in remote rural villages can say that microfinance is " the key to unlock poverty". Thus, through many years of experience he has seen the business of professional ethics will lead to success until now and Vithey Microfinance Plc. will adequate proficiency training to its employees in order to people, services ensure the sustainability of these institutions and their customers. In addition, he said, " can not be successful on the failure of the customer ".
The management team hopes that employees of private institution, Vithery Microfinance Plc. work together united as one on behalf of the same, overcoming all obstacles to reach success, according to the slogan of the institution determined that " Road to Success ".


The so-called "Muslim ban" has been compared to U.S. treatment of Jewish refugees during the Holocaust. It's actually even more draconian.
By Max Paul Friedman, February 17, 2017 .
The specter of desperate refugees gratefully touching American soil for the first time, only to be sent back to the countries they were escaping, has naturally evoked comparisons to Jewish refugees who were turned away from the United States in the Nazi era.
In particular, many critics of the Trump admiration's Muslim and refugee ban have invoked the German ocean liner the MS St. Louis, which was packed with more than 900 desperate Jews fleeing Hitler in 1939. After being denied entry to Cuba, it then tried unsuccessfully to enter a U.S. port, tailed by the Coast Guard. Entreaties to the highest levels of the Franklin Roosevelt administration were of no use. The St. Louis steamed back to Europe, where more than 250 of its passengers would perish in the Holocaust.
This comparison, however, is inexact, because those passengers didn't hold U.S. visas. In fact, what the Trump White House ordered is even harsher.
As my colleagues Richard Breitman and Allan Lichtman showed in FDR and the Jews, U.S. officials had leaned on Cuba to accept the St. Louis passengers, and expected them to find temporary asylum there. When Cuban officials canceled their landing permits and turned them away, Roosevelt didn't open U.S. ports to them because the passengers didn't have visas to enter the United States.
The moral failings of this approach now seem clear. But it's important to remember that there were no death camps in 1939. Though the level of persecution Jews faced in Germany and Austria was horrifying, it hadn't yet developed into mass murder. Nonetheless, Roosevelt had worked hard to get other countries to take in more Jewish refugees. Under his leadership the United States itself eventually accepted some 200,000 through a legal process he personally labored to expand.
Of course, it wasn't enough — there was a ten-year waiting list for U.S. visas — but Breitman and Lichtman argue that Roosevelt went as far as he thought the anti-immigrant Congress would permit without provoking it into shutting the gates entirely.
The refugees Trump has ordered turned away, on the other hand, do hold valid visas to enter the United States. The door to their salvation, opened after an extensive vetting process lasting more than a year, has been slammed in their faces. Some were detained or denied boarding at the airport. They face return to their countries of origin or degraded conditions in crowded camps.
It's as if the passengers on the St. Louis had been clutching U.S. entry visas as they sailed mournfully back to Europe, watching the lights of Miami disappear over the horizon. That would be unimaginable — and is why, as with so much else coming from the new administration, Trump's action is unprecedented.
A better historical comparison to Trump's order banning legitimate refugees would be the actions of the highest-ranking official dealing with European refugees during the war, Assistant Secretary of State Breckinridge Long. In 1940, Long personally authored an order making it nearly impossible for any more Jews to come to the United States — even if they were able to amass all the documents and sponsors necessary and persuade a consular officer of their bona fides. Long issued his order knowing it would cause a "drastic reduction" in refugees saved.
Long was wrong. Not a single Jewish refugee admitted to the United States ever spied for the Nazis. Like refugees fleeing the charnel house of Syria today, they were escaping persecution and violence, not spreading it. But Long ensured that even Jews legally eligible to immigrate to the United States were kept out, thereby becoming the chief villain of the U.S. response to the Holocaust.
From chief strategist Steve Bannon's crusader talk to ex-National Security Adviser Mike Flynn's blustery tweet that "fear of Muslims is RATIONAL," from calling for a "Muslim ban" to preferential treatment for Christians, Trump has made clear what motivates his order. He should think about how history has judged Breckinridge Long. Tragedy ensues when policy is based on prejudice.
Max Paul Friedman is a professor of history at American University and a visiting fellow at the U.S. Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. He's the author of Nazis and Good Neighbors (Cambridge University Press).


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RUN away from the subscriber, living in Harford county, Maryland, a Mulattoe Slave , named JACK, well set, is about 5 feet 6 inches high, very white for one of his kind, speaks good English; is a very great rogue. The said Slave was taken up and put in Lancaster goal on the first of July 1775, and made his escape from William Whiteford coming home. The said fellow said he had been in New York goal as a runaway , but, by reason of my advertisement not going there, was let out; and says he has been on board the kinghips of war, and that he was at the West Indies; it is thought he will endeavour to get to the ministerial army; he has changed his name to Jacob Kelly. Any person who takes up said Slave is requested to deal severely with him, and if he is taken up by this advertisement, is desired to put him in Dunlappaper. Whoever takes up said Slave shall have the above reward, paid by HUGH WHITEFORD.
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This weekend I managed to see two Steven Spielberg movies and that usually is a recipe for a great movie-going weekend. Sadly, that wasn't the reality.
First up was War Horse. This is a bit of a strange film in that the star of the film is the horse and in a way that's unlike most other movies. Animals in the title role are almost always not really the prime catalyst with respect to moving the plot along. Here the horse is the center of the universe and we get introduced to its various owners along most of its life. Those characters, while essential to the plot, come and go so quickly that it's pretty hard not to focus on the horse itself.
The film has been receiving fairly solid reviews and I can see why but for many viewers those comments simply won't result in an entertaining experience. The film looks absolutely beautiful. The cinematography was stunning. Spielberg certainly knows how to get the best look for any shot and that's evident here. The music is also well done and that's no surprise given that it's done by multi-Oscar-winning musical director John Williams (and frequent Spielberg movie partner).
However, that's about all there is to say that's really memorable about the film. It runs 2 hours and 26 minutes but it felt so much longer. The main problem is that given the quick changes of ownership and settings we can never really get to care about all but one or two other characters in the film. Since the main character is an actual horse and not some fictional animated animal it also is hard to really connect. We never really get the feeling that the horse is doing anything more than just simply experiencing everything around it in extremely basic horse-like fashion. A gun goes boom—the horse runs.
The biggest problem of all is in the final ending sequence. It's so ludicrously unbelievable that I felt like I'd wasted the entire 150 minutes. In the earliest parts of the film I was thinking this could be a tear-jerking classic but that fell away after the first 15 minutes or so. The end result is a film so dwarfed by countless other animal films that its hard to even suggest you catch it on cable. I can imagine someone who loves horses finding something somewhere in this film to enjoy but, for me, they'd have to be wearing blinders.


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Trees are being illegally cut at Aarey Colony: Activists
An activist from Aarey Conservation group has filed a complaint in BMC against Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) for cutting trees illegally.
For the construction of Metro 3 (Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ), Bombay High Court (HC) had earlier allowed 235 trees to be cut. However, in the recent hearing, taking under consideration public opinion on environmental concerns, the HC revised it to 57.
However, in spite of this, Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) has allegedly been cutting trees illegally by showing the previous permission letter. This matter came under the light when an activist reported about it.
Amrita Bhattacharya, an activist from Aarey COnservation Group has filed a complaint in Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) against MMRC for cutting the trees illegally by showing an old and invalid permission letter.
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There are further concerns over the depleting resources and green space after 207 trees are ordered to be removed for the construction of Metro 6 which will be connecting 5 stations between Lokhandwala, Jogeshwari, Vikhroli and Kanjurmarg.
Notably, Aarey Conservation Group along with Muse Foundation had formed a peaceful human chain at NCPA on March 30. This was to draw attention of the people and the concerned authorities that the various environmental groups, animal rights groups, citizen groups and other collectives in and around the city of Mumbai are finding the need to combine forces in order to combat the ever-rising assault on the city's greens.
They felt that given the rate at which Mumbai is losing its green cover and ecologically sensitive spaces, our country is in a state of ecological emergency and that everyone must do something about it urgently that too on a scale that will make a difference. Around 2000 people had participated in this to form a human chain.
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Cake time, and an interesting one too. Glen & Teena's wedding cake, moments before the couple made their way into the hall. I remember it being chocolate. I do not however, remember having the cake. I remember Benny Dayal with the mudskippers performing on stage, and all the dancing that followed. I have for sure forgotten all the we learnt at those ballroom dance classes we took. T'was a fun wedding. Missed the one that followed, and here's hoping to catch the next one. Can't wait to embarrass a lot of people with my stick-man-like moves. Definitely having the cake!


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The Mentalist Ehud On The Prowl With Cat Greenleaf
Ehud's On the Prowl
The Mentalizer, Mr. Ehud Segev the mentalist was recently interviewed by none other than Cat Greenleaf. Cat has been working as a reporter for WNBC, and also hosts programs with "The Travel Channel".
"On the Prowl", which is one of Cat's well-known shows, has Ehud under the glare of lens, with lots of questions being shot which he does answer to full satisfaction. I did search the word "Mentalizer", in the dictionary, only to be disappointed not to find it, and soon to bemused by Ehud's answer to Cat's question, "What is the mentalizer?". To which, Ehud says it's a combination of two words, "mental" and "analyzer", something which is well-thought off, and well created. Ehud's fascinating creativity and passion might add a new word to the dictionary, a new meaning to a world filled with stress and chaos, which might be an opening door for many who watch him perform, which could be an inspiration to derive some new ways to learn the hidden connection between the restless mind and happiness of the soul.
Ehud's Connection
Ehud further says he is trying to promote "connection" through everything he does. He wants to prove through his psychic abilities either by bending a spoon or flying credit cards or mind reading (which is what he says we would be seeing in his shows) and much more associated with the occult. But Ehud very strongly believes, and affirms that we all are connected very deeply. Cat inquisitively asks, "How are we connected?" and Ehud demonstrates an example by requesting her to close her eyes. Ehud touches his nose, and asks her where he touched her, to which her answer was the nose. Ehud tickles under his chin, as Cat feels sensation of the tickle on herself, and Ehud affirms he never touched her.
Mr. Ehud just touches and reaches out to the world with the magic of energy, only to prove what lies beneath the matter that we see is a feeling, a connection, and a vibration that we consciously or unconsciously share and spread out. And, how does this happen? Go and watch him for yourself!
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CACHE ( INSURANCE POLICY)
curated by Emanuele Guidi
Vernissage: 16/05/2019 7 pm
In her first solo exhibition in Italy, artist Jumana Manna continues her interest in systems of conservation and the politics of preservation practices, by tracing parallels between scientific and cultural environments.
Cache (Insurance Policy) (2018 – 2019) is an installation of existing and newly commissioned clay sculptures arranged throughout the space of ar/ge kunst. As the term 'cache' suggests, this work explores the acts of storing, hoarding and safeguarding both natural resources and cultural artefacts for survival, patrimony and economic benefit.
In the front room, cubic sculptures are positioned as museological fragments displaced from their architectural settings. These clay pieces are inspired by the 'khabya', a typical, though obsolete feature in rural Levantine houses. Before the advent of refrigeration, these storage chambers were used for the purpose of preserving grain for annual consumption. Exaggerating the protrusions and openings of these forms, Manna's pieces take on an anthropomorphic quality and a scale closer to the human body.
In the second part of the installation, metal shelves and grids clad the backroom, displaying the khabyas within an environment suggestive of institutional storages, be they seed banks, ethnographic collections or museum vaults. Seed banks (repositories for crop seed samples) are at the centre of Manna's recent work, including Wild Relatives (2018), a feature length film tracing the journey of a seed from the Norwegian island of Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean to the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. In this iteration of Cache, the film sits alongside the khabyas on loop, integrated within the installation.
Jumana Manna uses the exhibition as a site to muddle the taxonomic impulses of grain storages, seed banks and museums, pointing to the transformation of systems of sustenance and knowledge from practices of survival to centralized economies of capital growth. The playful gesture of storing storages points to the ideological difference between the histories of storage and the imbalanced futures that accompany the act of preservation today.
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San Francisco artist Tiffanie Turner shares her secrets for creating beautiful and lifelike botanicals using everyday materials in her debut book, The Fine Art of Paper Flowers. A licensed architect, Tiffanie's technical training combined with her love the natural world has helped her develop and refine a multitude of impressive techniques for creating unique paper flowers.
With The Fine Art of Paper Flowers, Tiffanie is sharing those techniques down to the very last detail, from basic materials and dyeing options to giant blossoms and festive flower crowns. Specific instructions and visual tutorials, complemented by gorgeous photographs by Aya Brackett, make for a comprehensive guide to Tiffanie's distinctive art form.
254 pages with color photos, templates, and illustrations
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Tiffanie Turner is a licensed California architect, author, fine artist and instructor in the art of paper flower making in the United States and beyond. Her work explores nature and botanical specimens in extremely large and sometimes very small scales, in paper. Her work has been exhibited in the San Francisco Bay Area's Bedford Gallery, Jack Fischer Gallery, the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, and at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. Raised in the woods of New Hampshire, Tiffanie now resides with her husband and two children in San Francisco, California, where she has lived for the past twenty years.
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Dave Grohl had claimed that Foo Fighters' worst ever gig actually turned into their best gig… and it resulted in a very nice gesture from Guns N'Roses frontman Axl Rose.
Speaking to Radio X's Gordon Smart backstage at Foo Fighters' show at Manchester's Etihad Stadium last summer, Grohl admitted that the moment he fell offstage at a show in Gothenburg, Sweden in June 2015 was the lowest point in his performing career… but that events quickly turned around.
To ease the bad memory, Grohl employed the services of a stuntman to prank the crowd by opening the show with another spectacular fall.
Because of Grohl's knackered limb, Foo Fighters had to call off a number of shows on their 2015, including a headline slot at Glastonbury festival a few weeks later. When Dave returned to live performance not long after, he appeared on stage with his leg in plaster and sat upon an impressive, guitar-strewn throne.
In fact, Guns N Roses frontman Axl Rose borrowed Grohl's impressive chair for an appearance at Coachella in 2016 when he broke his foot.
Grohl explained: "When Axl borrowed it, his management asked how much do you charge for the throne? You can't charge anybody for the throne, it's bad karma! So I let him have it."
"At the end of the tour, he gave me - as a thank you gift - the most incredible guitar, the best guitar I have ever had in my entire life.
So you have Axl Rose's bad foot to thank for the sound of the latest Foo Fighters album, Concrete And Gold. Cheers Axl!


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Die Deutsche Botschaft Luanda ist die offizielle diplomatische Vertretung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in der Republik Angola.

Lage
Die Botschaft liegt unweit der amerikanischen Vertretung im Stadtteil Cruzeiro der angolanischen Hauptstadt Luanda an der Ostecke des zentralen Friedhofs Alto das Cruzes ("Cemitério do Alto das Cruzes"). Die Entfernung zum Ufer der Baia de Luanda und dem dort befindlichen Regierungsviertel beträgt 2 km. Die Straßenanschrift der Botschaft lautet: Rua de Benguela 17, Cruzeiro, Luanda.

Der internationale Flughafen "Aeroporto Internacional Quatro de Fevereiro" der angolanischen Hauptstadt liegt 5 km südlich. Der auf dem Landweg nächstgelegene Grenzübergang in ein Nachbarland liegt im Norden: Die gut 500 km entfernte Stadt Matadi (Demokratische Republik Kongo) mit ihrem Seehafen ist im Prinzip in rund acht Stunden mit dem Pkw erreichbar.

Aufgaben und Organisation
Die Botschaft Luanda hat den Auftrag, die bilateralen Beziehungen zum Gastland Angola zu pflegen, die deutschen Interessen gegenüber der angolanischen Regierung zu vertreten und die Bundesregierung über Entwicklungen im Gastland zu unterrichten. In der Botschaft werden die Sachgebiete Politik, Wirtschaft, Kultur und Presse bearbeitet. Angola ist kein Kooperationsland der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit.

Es besteht an der Botschaft ein Militärattachéstab (Leitung im Rang eines Oberstleutnants) mit Nebenakkreditierung in Mosambik und Sambia.

Für deutsche Staatsangehörige in Angola werden alle konsularischen Dienstleistungen angeboten, ausgenommen eidesstattliche Versicherungen und Anträge auf Erlangung eines Erbscheins / Europäischen Nachlasszeugnisses / Testamentsvollstreckerzeugnisses / Zeugnisses über die Fortsetzung der Gütergemeinschaft. Die Botschaft stellt Visa für angolanische Staatsangehörige aus. Es besteht täglich bis 24.00 Uhr ein telefonischer Bereitschaftsdienst für konsularische Notfälle.

Geschichte
Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland eröffnete 1954 ein Konsulat in Luanda. Dieses wurde 1969 in ein Generalkonsulat umgewandelt. Nachdem Angola am 11. November 1975 von Portugal unabhängig wurde nahmen die Bundesrepublik Deutschland und Angola diplomatische Beziehungen auf und das Generalkonsulat wurde am 6. Dezember 1979 zur Botschaft aufgewertet.

Die DDR unterhielt bereits seit dem Tag der Unabhängigkeit diplomatische Beziehungen mit Angola auf Botschafterebene. Die Botschaft wurde 1990 mit dem Beitritt der DDR zur Bundesrepublik Deutschland geschlossen.

Siehe auch
 Liste der deutschen Botschafter in Angola
 Liste der Botschafter der DDR in Angola
 Liste deutscher Auslandsvertretungen

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 Deutsche Botschaft Luanda
 Verzeichnis der Vertretungen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Ausland

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Organisation (Luanda)
Angolanisch-deutsche Beziehungen
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There are two ingredients that I require in a book selection, a great story and engaging complex characters. Bead Bai meets both of these expectations and delivers so much more. Sultan Somjee is the consummate storyteller and he writes with the same artistic vision as his main character, Sakina. She exhibits incredible depth and strength in her journey to become the artist she is destined to be. Somjee's Bead Bai took me to an exciting colourful world and he taught me things about a culture I knew nothing about and all with the breathtaking canvas of Africa setting the stage. The writing is rich and textured and weaves like a tapestry taking his characters on a journey towards their respective destinies.
Although I enjoyed getting to know all of the characters in Bead Bai I especially connected with Sakina. I now feel that she is a friend of mine and I have been there to share in her fears, to lament her losses and to celebrate her triumphs. I have watched her grow from a young girl, to a wife, mother and ultimately into the artist every fiber of her being demands of her.
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Chris Brown Biography: Age, Profession, Training, Private Life, Web Price, Household and Extra
Christopher Maurice Brown, higher recognized by the stage title Chris Brown, is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor who was born on Might 5, 1989, in Tappahannock, Virginia. He first rose to fame within the mid-2000s along with his hit single "Run It!" which reached the highest of the Billboard Sizzling 100 chart, making him the primary male artist to have his debut single attain the highest of the chart since Montell Jordan at 1995. Brown has launched a number of profitable albums over time, together with "Unique" (2007), "F.A.M.E." (2011), and "Heartbreak on a Full Moon" (2017). He has additionally acted in a number of motion pictures and tv exhibits, together with the dance drama "Stomp the Yard" (2007) and the motion thriller "Takers" (2010). Brown has confronted controversy all through his profession, together with allegations of home violence and authorized points.
About Chris Brown
Full Title: Christopher Maurice Brown
Stage Title: Chris Brown
Born: 5 Might 1989 (age 33 years previous)
Place of Delivery: Tappahannock, Virginia, United States
Kids: Royalty Brown, Aeko Catori Brown
Mother and father: Joyce Hawkins, Clinton Brown
Peak: 1.85 m
Spouse • Partner: Not Married
Girlfriend • Companion: Gina Huynh (2020), Diamond Brown (2019), Agnez Mo (2017-2019), Vanessa Vargas (2017), Ammika Harris (2015), Amy Shehab (2015), Blair Pena (2013-2015), Karizma Ramir (2013), Karrueche Tran (2010-2015), Merely Jess (2010-2012), Draya Michele (2010), Rihanna (2007-2013), Nia Guzman, Krista Santiago (2016), Cydney Christine (2016), Montana Tucker (2016), Indyamarie (2015), Briona Mae (2015), Tinashe (2015), Brittany Renner (2015), Rhea Dummett (2014), Nia Amey (2013), Keisha Kimball (2013), Jasmine Sanders (2010), Joie Chavis, Lisa Ann (2010), Joanna Hernandez (2009), Natalie Nunn (2009), Natalie Mejia (2009), Karrine Steffans (2007)
Occupation: Singer • Actor
Web Price: $50 Million
Early Life and Training
Chris Brown was born on Might 5, 1989, in Tappahannock, Virginia. He was raised by his mom, Joyce Hawkins, and father, Clinton Brown, in a small city exterior of Richmond. He has two older sisters, Lytrell Bundy and Tanasia Brown.
Brown was a proficient singer and dancer from a younger age and started acting at native expertise exhibits and started singing in his church choir on the age of 11. He additionally took half in native expertise exhibits and ultimately caught the eye of native music producer, Tina Davis, who helped him get signed to Jive Information in 2004.
Brown attended Essex Excessive College in Virginia, the place he performed on the soccer crew and was a member of the monitor and area crew. He additionally took half within the college's choir and expertise present. Nonetheless, he ultimately dropped out of highschool to pursue his music profession full-time. Regardless of this, Brown has acknowledged that he regrets not ending highschool and has inspired different younger folks to remain in class and get an training.
After graduating from highschool, Brown pursued a profession in music and rapidly gained recognition along with his debut single, "Run It!" which reached primary on the Billboard Sizzling 100 chart. He has since launched a number of profitable albums and has grow to be recognized for his distinctive R&B and pop sound. Brown has additionally acted in a lot of movies and tv exhibits and has received a number of awards for his work within the leisure trade.
Chris Brown's music profession took off in 2004 when he was signed to Jive Information on the age of 15. He launched his self-titled debut album in 2005, which included the hit single "Run It!" and reached primary on the Billboard Sizzling 100 chart.
Brown's second album, "Unique," was launched in 2007 and included the hit single "Kiss Kiss." The album was a industrial success, reaching quantity 4 on the Billboard 200 chart.
In 2009, Brown launched his third album, "Graffiti," which included the hit single "I Can Rework Ya" and featured collaborations with artists corresponding to Lil Wayne and Swizz Beatz.
In 2012, Brown launched his fourth album, "Fortune," which included the hit singles "Flip Up the Music" and "Don't Wake Me Up." The album reached primary on the Billboard 200 chart.
All through his profession, Brown has additionally launched a lot of mixtapes, together with "In My Zone" (2010) and "Boy in Detention" (2011). He has additionally launched a number of collaborative albums, together with "Fan of a Fan" with Tyga (2010) and "X Recordsdata" with OHB (2016).
Along with his music profession, Brown has additionally ventured into appearing, showing in a number of movies and tv exhibits. He has additionally launched into a number of excursions, together with the "F.A.M.E. Tour" (2011) and the "One Hell of a Nite Tour" (2015).
Brown has been within the headlines for a lot of causes. In 2009, he was arrested and charged with assault after an altercation along with his then-girlfriend, singer Rihanna. He pleaded responsible to the cost and was sentenced to group service and probation. Brown has additionally confronted authorized troubles for different incidents, together with a hit-and-run accident and a confrontation with a person exterior a resort. Regardless of these incidents, Brown has continued to launch music and tour and has a devoted fanbase.
Lately, Brown has centered on his private relationships and household life. He has been in a number of high-profile relationships, together with with mannequin Karrueche Tran and singer Ammika Harris. Brown has two youngsters, a son named Royalty, who was born in 2014, and a daughter named Aeko, who was born in 2019. Brown is thought to be a devoted father and infrequently posts about his youngsters on social media.
General, Chris Brown's private life has been tumultuous, with a number of high-profile relationships and authorized incidents. Nonetheless, he has continued to launch music and has a devoted fanbase, in addition to a deal with his household life and kids.
Chris Brown is a extremely profitable singer, songwriter, and dancer. He has been nominated for quite a few awards all through his profession, together with Grammy Awards, American Music Awards, and BET Awards. He has additionally received a number of awards, together with three BET Awards, two Billboard Music Awards, and an MTV Video Music Award. A few of his most notable nominations and wins embrace:
2009: Gained the BET Award for Greatest Male R&B Artist
2011: Nominated for the Grammy Award for Greatest R&B Album (for "F.A.M.E.")
2012: Gained the Billboard Music Award for Prime R&B Track (for "Have a look at Me Now")
2013: Gained the American Music Award for Favourite Soul/R&B Male Artist
2016: Nominated for the Grammy Award for Greatest R&B Track (for "Again to Sleep")
2018: Nominated for the Grammy Award for Greatest R&B Album (for "Heartbreak on a Full Moon")
Chris Brown is a singer and songwriter who could be very energetic on social media. He has hundreds of thousands of followers on platforms corresponding to Instagram, Twitter, and Fb, the place he shares updates about his music, tour dates, and private life. Brown can also be recognized for his love of dance and infrequently posts movies of himself acting on social media. Along with his personal accounts, there are various fan pages and fan-run accounts devoted to Brown and his music on social media.
Instagram: @chrisbrown
Twitter: @chrisbrown
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Chris Brown's internet price is estimated to be round $50 million as of 2021. He has earned his wealth by means of his profitable profession as a singer, songwriter, and actor. Brown has launched a number of profitable albums and singles, and he has additionally appeared in a number of movies and tv exhibits.
Chris Brown (2005)
Unique (2007)
Graffiti (2009)
F.A.M.E. (2011)
Fortune (2012)
Royalty (2015)
Heartbreak on a Full Moon (2017)
Indigo (2019)
Breezy (2022)
2007 Stomp the Yard Duron Williams Supporting function
2007 This Christmas Michael "Child" Whitfield Lead function
2010 Takers Jesse Attica Supporting function, govt producer
2012 Suppose Like a Man Alex Supporting function
2013 Battle of the 12 months Rooster Supporting function
2017 Chris Brown: Welcome to My Life Himself Documentary
2020 She Ball T.A.Ok.O. Supporting function
2006 One on One Himself "Recipe for Catastrophe" (Season 5, Episode 17)
2006 Christmas in Washington Visitor Star
2007 Chris Brown: Journey to South Africa A documentary of Brown's first journey to Africa
2007 The O.C. Will Tutt "The My Two Dads" (Season 4, Episode 9)
"The French Connection" (Season 4, Episode 10)
"The Dream Lover" (Season 4, Episode 11)
2007 Sesame Avenue Himself Visitor Star
2008 The Suite Lifetime of Zack & Cody "Doin' Time in Suite 2330" (Season 3, Episode 20)
2011 Tosh.0 Season 3, Episode 10
2015 Actual Husbands of Hollywood Season 4, Episode 4
2017 Black-ish Wealthy Youngsta Visitor Star
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A large quantity of parts and sections of Fairey Battles were buried in the Port Pirie area at the end of the war. Port Pirie was the home of the RAAF No. 2 Bombing and Gunnery School (2 BAGS). Undercarriage units and wing sections could still be seen sticking out of the ground in the year 2000. Saltwater has ensured that most parts are corroded so much that they are useless for restoration projects. There is an ongoing search for other possible undamaged parts that may be buried on farms in the local area.
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Sunshine Coasters win three out of four divisions of the Woolworths QLD Grom Titles in near-perfect conditions at Duranbah Beach
GOLD COAST, QUEENSLAND (Sunday 6 June 2021) – Wow. What a day!
The winners of the 2021 Woolworths Queensland Grommet Titles – Event One – were decided in near-perfect surfing conditions at Duranbah Beach.
After an early start at the ever-reliable D-Bah, competitors were welcomed with a clean 2-3 foot swell, which continued throughout most of the day.
The Under 12 Girls Division was dominated by Sunshine Coasters, and eventually won by Pipi Taylor (PEREGIAN BEACH) with a combined two wave score of 11.67 (out of a possible 20.00). She beat Savannah Reilly (DICKY BEACH) (8.44), Ila Cooper (MOOLOOLABA) (6.33) and Evie Wilson (DOONAN) (4.96).
"It was a lot of fun out there," said Taylor. "We had to paddle right out the back to get some of the waves, and there was also some closeouts. Overall, I'm happy with my surfing."
The Under 12 Boys Division was taken out by Lucas Deffenti (MIAMI) (10.53), defeating Zac Johnston (CURRIMUNDI) (9.80), Jaxxon Sands (PALM BEACH) (4.94) and Monty Mergler (POINT LOOKOUT) (3.13).
"It was a tight finish in the final. I think I surfed well, but I didn't choose the best waves out there. It's a little bit hard to get the right waves," Deffenti said.
The Under 14 Girls Division was won by Stella Green (BUDDINA) (13.43), who also scored the highest single wave score earlier in the day. She beat Charli Hately (CURRUMBIN) (11.83), Laney Stokes (BUDDINA) (6.10) and Kauri Heuston-Connor (REEDY CREEK) (4.43).
"I didn't start the day well, but I improved with every heat I surfed," Green said. "I think I surfed pretty well in the final, even though the surf is now a little inconsistent."
In a very close fought final in the Under 14 Boys Division, Darcy Dwyer (SUNSHINE BEACH) took the honours with a 12.50. He overcame Zane Glore (ELANORA) (10.90), Mitchell Peterson (NOOSA VILLE) (10.73) and Hunter Andersson (MOFFAT BEACH) (10.03).
"I was pretty stressed at the end. I was hoping no more waves would come through so I could sneak in the win. I'm pretty happy with how I surfed all day," Dwyer said.
The Groms will now focus their sights on the second and final event of the series, to be held on the Sunshine Coast, 24-25 July.
Surfing Queensland would like to thank its partners Woolworths, QMS Media, The Point Coolum Beach, Major Events Gold Coast, and Tourism and Events Queensland.


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Tanesco announces restoration of connectivity charges
By Louis Kalumbia
Dar es Salaam. TheTanzania Electric Supply Company Limited (Tanesco) has on Wednesday, January 05, 2022, announced restoration of power connectivity charges for urban customers.
The new charges will involve customers for the single, double and triple phases as gazetted by the Energy and Water Utility Authority (Ewura) in the GN No 1020 of December 4, 2020.
In the GN Sh27,000 connectivity charges would remain for connectivity among rural customers.
Tanesco's announcement comes a day after President Samia Suluhu Hassan ordered Energy Minister January Makamba to restore connectivity charges to enable Tanesco to operate efficiently.
She was speaking during a meeting with cabinet ministers, regional commissioners, CCM regional chairpersons, senior government officials held at State House Dar es Salaam.
The meeting aimed at reviewing the implementation progress of development projects including those financed by the $567.25 million from the Covid-19 relief funding from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Ms Hassan said electricity connection cannot be efficient at the Sh27,000 charges, hinting that it was the reason most citizens who have completed payments remained unconnected.
"We were ruined by saying that citizens could be connected at the Sh27,000 costs. Power connectivity costs cannot be like that although there are places where the costs will remain unchanged. However, there are places where costs charges are inevitable. Minister (Makamba), you have not spoken about this, but I have helped you. Therefore, go and supervise the implementation," she said.
But, the public notice says electricity connectivity to single phase customers 30 metres away from power infrastructures would be Sh320,960.
"Connection charges for customers whose buildings are located at 70 and 120 metres from electricity infrastructures will stand at Sh515,618 and Sh696,670 respectively," reads Tanesco's public notice.
However, the costs for the three-phase connection at a distance of 30; 70 and 120 metres would be Sh912,014; Sh1,249,385 and Sh1,639,156 respectively.
The notice issued by Tanesco, says that all charges were Value Added Tax (VAT) inclusive.
However, the GN No 1020 shows that the costs with VAT exclusive to single phase clients residing at a distance of 30, 70, 120 metres from places with power infrastructures would be Sh272,000; Sh436,964 and Sh590,398 respectively.
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Foreigner release new 'unplugged' album of classic hits, Acoustique
Foreigner have released a new 11-track studio album, titled Acoustique, which features 'unplugged' versions of the band's classic songs.
The decision to record Acoustique followed the tremendous response the band received from fans during their recent series of live acoustic shows. They are now working on plans for a 'Foreigner Unplugged' tour.
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Former Foreigner frontman Lou Gramm records Christian rock album
Former Foreigner lead vocalist Lou Gramm is set to release his first Christian rock album later this year.
Gramm, who has been a Born Again Christian since the early 1990s, told US music industry magazine Billboard that the as-yet-untitled album "rocks from one end to the next – that kind of attitude but with a different subject matter."
The album features brothers Ben, Richard and Don Mancuso from Gramm's pre-Foreigner blues-rock band, Black Sheep.
Gramm – who left Foreigner for a second time in 2003 – said his recovery from a benign brain tumour in the late 1990s had given him the inspiration for many of the album's faith-based songs.
But Gramm admits that his change of direction is receiving a mixed reaction from Foreigner fans and fans of his previous solo work. However, he insists that his creative approach hasn't changed just because his new offering is a Christian rock album.
"It really just means that a lot of the subject matter changes," he told Billboard. "A lot more thought goes into the lyrics and not a ton of songs about popping that girl after the show."
Gramm and his band will be touring the US this summer, including selected dates with rock legends Boston. But they won't be playing any of the new songs until the Christian album is released. Fans will be pleased to hear that Gramm intends to keep performing many of Foreigner's hits "for the time being".
As powerhouse lead vocalist and songwriter with Foreigner, Lou Gramm exploded onto the international music scene with the chart topper 'Feels Like The First Time' in 1977.
Says Gramm: "I was the lead vocalist for Foreigner for 26 years. I'm enormously proud of this – and the music I have made with Foreigner is still a big part of my solo shows. However, with my new band I can also perform my own music and the hit records I have had as a solo artist. I even throw a few curve balls, such as my take on a Beatles classic like 'You Can't Do That'.
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Beginning with the end of the U.S. Civil War in 1865, African Americans toiled to reach equal status in the eyes of the law. Not only that, they also struggled against abuse – both physical and mental – by racist members of society. Starting with the right to vote, and then laboring to integrate schools and other aspects of everyday life, the Civil Rights Movement made huge strides over a century of work. While the crusade may never truly be over, many considered the election of the country's first African American President to be a turning point in the battle. In this video, http://www.WatchMojo.com explores the history of the United States' Civil Rights Movement.


At the turn of the 20th century, there were estimatedly 40,000 tigers in India. Today the figure stands at 1,706. Clearly, the big cats roaming the country's 81,881 sq km of tiger habitat are in need of urgent attention.


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Thekla Elvira Holmström, född 30 april 1850, död 25 februari 1899 i Stockholm, var en svensk konstnär.

Hon var dotter till bokbindaren Gustaf Ferdinand Björkman och Olivia Carolina Hasselquist och från 1878 gift med handlaren Oscar Holmström. Hon studerade vid Konstakademien i Stockholm 1872–1877. Hon medverkade i med ett antal tavlor vid Konstakademiens utställning 1875 och efter studierna ställde hon ut med Konstföreningen för södra Sverige. Holmström är representerad vid Malmö museum. Hon är begravd på Norra begravningsplatsen utanför Stockholm.

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When Stephanie Roe was growing up in a rural part of La Trinidad in the Philippines, she spent most of her time surrounded by nature, farmland and animals.
She dreamed of becoming a marine biologist who could protect wildlife.
But as she went through the school system, the advice to study something "practical" that young people the world over hear from adults led her to pursue a business degree.
"I went to work in New York for a mergers and acquisitions company and pursued that path," Roe, now the Global Climate Lead Scientist with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), told Global Citizen. "It became very clear that was not what I wanted to do, and that was not where my passion lay, so I actually tried to make the switch, but obviously having the background that I did, it was very difficult."
She applied to more than two dozen conservation organizations and received an interview for one position, which ultimately didn't lead to a job.
So she started volunteering at a local nonprofit called The Climate Group, which Roe said opened doors for her in terms of understanding how NGOs worked. A position opened up while she was volunteering, and she was hired to help companies adopt climate and sustainability policies.
"I was able to meld the two, my skill set as well as my interest," she said. "I worked for that organization for a few years and I was able to get mentors there, and the fact that it was in New York City, I was able to tap into a lot of the local resources. I went to free lectures at Columbia and NYU and from there I was able to understand that, 'OK, I am interested in this topic of nature and climate.'"
Over the years, Roe returned to her hometown and witnessed environmental degradation firsthand.
"I grew up in the mountains next to a river, a beautiful river, beautiful mountains," she said. "It's kind of a microcosm of how unsustainable development ruins all of that. Every year, I would visit family and you would see that the landscape changed and degraded, and now it's all gone."
Roe said that the forests were razed over time.
"Now they're almost all deforested," she said. "The traffic jams in that area are horrendous, and the valleys hold all the pollution … and it creates a really toxic air quality situation for the residents. Not to mention all the other issues related to traffic. Every year during the rainy season, you have massive amounts of landslides and flooding that kill people and put houses and infrastructure at risk.
"The river is basically filled with toxic sludge at this point and pollution has killed off the natural fauna and flora," she said. "I remember fishing and bathing there."
These scenes formed the backdrop of Roe's growing conviction that she wanted to help the planet. After working in the environmental space for a few years, she was accepted at Duke University for the master's degree program to study ecosystem conservation with a focus on global change.
That degree led to a job with the United Nations and Roe eventually traveled to Indonesia to work on forest conservation in Borneo, which is home to some of the greatest remaining, but endangered, rainforests.
"My role was to be one of the main liaisons in the pilot province itself," Roe said. "I traveled with a group of UN and local NGO scientists and other practitioners to various communities, basically trying to understand what their needs were and the underlying issues behind deforestation.
"If you look at studies, they say, 'Oh, palm oil is the key driver,' but you may not know the underlying issues," she said. "Is it because policies are making it easy to convert palm trees? Is it because local communities don't have other options? Basically we went to try to do these recon missions with local committees and do a lot of learning to develop the strategies for the REDD+ forest protection programs."
Roe was also able to visit conservation programs, and remembered a time she went on early morning hikes through peat forests with primate scientists from the Borneo Nature Foundation to track and study orangutans, gibbons, and red langurs.
The more field work like this that she did, the more she realized she wanted to bring together scientific insight from leading universities with community wisdom, fusing them together to create processes for long-term environmental monitoring. Projects often receive funding for only a few years, she said, but the status of an environment unfolds over many years, even decades.
So she went back to school — this time for a PhD in Environmental Sciences.
"My research combined terrestrial ecology with climate science," Roe said. "It investigated the dynamics of the biosphere and the climate system. So it's a very big topic.
"What I looked at is how land can contribute to reducing climate change and then also how climate change itself affects land, affects things like productivity, fires, extreme events, disturbances, CO2 storage, and how these two feedback into each other," she said. "That was what I focused on in my PhD, with the hope that the research I did could inform conservation outcomes."
After years of painstaking research, that's exactly what happened. Now Roe is working with WWF's Global Science and Climate teams on catalyzing the role of nature conservation and restoration in climate mitigation and resilience. One of the projects she is working on is mangrove restoration and conservation in Madagascar, Fiji, Mexico, and elsewhere. Her team's goal is to conserve and restore 1 million hectares of mangroves.
Why mangroves?
"Mangroves, as well as peatlands, are ecosystems that are the most carbon dense on the planet," she said. "They're able to accumulate carbon over millennia."
In other words, mangroves are key to fighting climate change. "Mangrove forests, however, have the highest rates of deforestation on the planet and a lot of that conversion is due to fisheries, infrastructure, and tourism," she said.
"Oftentimes, this leads to greater vulnerability to natural disasters. In the Philippines, for example, a lot of these mega typhoons are hitting and the signs show that the islands that have remaining mangroves fare much better and didn't have the level of storm surge and flooding that the other islands that eliminated their mangroves. Mangroves are also critical because they're estuaries and nurseries for fish, they provide a big service for communities that rely on fishing for food, and when you convert those forests, you create deserts and a lot of the fisheries go away."
Roe's come a long way from the concrete sidewalks and glass facades of Wall Street. She's now a co-author on the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, incorporating findings from her own research into the leading reports on the climate crisis.
But she's never lost her fascination with the sounds, sights, feels, and smells of a fecund ecosystem, how time slows when you're peering through the water at the roots of a tree, the sudden appearance of an animal absorbed in the act of living, and the ways in which fieldwork can yield the best insights.
"In forests, it's a lot easier to measure carbon in vegetation using things like drones, but with peatlands and mangroves, you need to actually go in and measure the soil," she said.
That means putting on some knee-high galoshes, tucking in your pants, and thumping through the wetlands.
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Career Switch: How One Scientist Went From Working on Wall Street to Protecting Mangroves
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It is common to say "I can't believe my eyes" when surprised by what we see. Recent scientific evidence suggests that we are right to be sceptical and that what we see depends in no small part on what we expect to see. In new work reported this week, researchers have made headway in understanding how signaling in the brain allows expectation to influence visual perception.
It is normal to think of vision as beginning with the formation of an image on the back of the eye, which in turn stimulates a cascade of nerve impulses that "feed forward" to send signals deep into the brain. It is in the brain's visual cortex that these signals are interpreted. Signals in the visual cortex also travel in the opposite, "feedback," direction, but much less is known about the function of these signals. A recent study by graduate students Tamara Watson and Joel Pearson and their supervisor Dr. Colin Clifford at the University of Sydney suggests that these feedback signals carry information about what we expect to see and that these signals act to constrain our interpretation of incoming visual information.
The separation between our eyes gives us two slightly different views of the world. Ordinarily, our brain will fuse these two views to add depth to our visual world. However, if the two eyes' images are so different that they cannot be fused, we experience "binocular rivalry" a process in which one eye's image is perceived and the other's is suppressed. Every few seconds, perception switches spontaneously between the two images. While binocular rivalry is rarely encountered in the normal visual environment, it provides a useful means of probing the workings of the visual parts of our brain: although an experimental visual stimulus is artificial, the brain is functioning in its usual way. Watson, Pearson, and Clifford used binocular rivalry to demonstrate the importance of feedback in our interpretation of the visual image.


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"I am doing something right and something positive now. It makes a big difference."
Ed was born and raised in New Orleans and experienced homelessness after losing his home in Hurricane Katrina. Having previously struggled with substance abuse, Ed takes pride in his sobriety.
"Art helps me stay sober. It's relaxing, fun, and good therapy. It makes me feel good. I have to be inspired to feel good."
Ed has been painting and drawing for 50 years. He wants to sell his art so he can "buy art supplies and save money." When asked about his unique style, Ed says, "I like to see what I create. I use my imagination to create something different from everyone else. I like to have my own style and technique to do things."
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