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She tweeted from Sweden about the plight of her Uyghur cousin. In Xinjiang, the authorities were watching
by JewishNews-Malki
Friday, September 4 was one of the happiest days in recent memory for Mayila Yakufu and her family.
That day, Yakufu, a 43-year-old ethnic Uyghur, had been freed from a Chinese detention camp and allowed to return home to her three teenage children and aunt and uncle in Xinjiang, western China. It was the first time she'd seen her family in nearly 16 months.
The same night, Yakufu was even able to video call her cousin, Nyrola Elima, who lives in Sweden.
"I didn't recognize her at the very beginning, because she looked so pale.
She looked so weak and she had short hair," Elima said. "She was terrified, she didn't dare to speak too much with me."
Elima quickly passed on the news to Yakufu's parents and sister who live in Australia.
"I can't describe my feelings, how happy I was when I heard my sister had been released," said Marhaba Yakub Salay, Yakufu's sister. "At the time, I still remember my heart was going to explode."
Nyrola Elima, who lives in Sweden.
Yakufu had spent more than a year in Yining Detention Center — her second stint in Xinjiang's shadowy network of internment camps. Before that, she'd been held in a different camp for 10 months. Yakufu's apparent crime was transferring savings to her parents in Australia, to help them buy a house.
The US State Department estimates that since 2017, up to two million Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other ethnic minorities could have passed through the camp system, which China calls vocational training centers designed to fight extremism. Leaked documents seen by CNN show the extent of the mass surveillance apparatus that China uses to monitor Uyghurs, who could be sent to a camp for perceived infractions such as wearing a long beard or headscarf, or owning a passport.
For the family, having Yakufu back home was all that mattered. But her freedom was shortlived.
A day later, Chinese authorities took her away again, this time to Yining People's Hospital in western Xinjiang, her family said.
They said the authorities didn't give them a medical reason for her admission to hospital, but they did pass a message to her aunt and uncle: stop your daughter, Nyrola, from tweeting.
"I told the entire world"
For months, Nyrola Elima had been campaigning to secure her cousin's release from her home in Sweden, more than 3,000 miles (4,900 kilometers) away from Xinjiang, by lobbying parliamentarians, speaking with NGOs, and tweeting.
Elima left Xinjiang nearly a decade ago to study and to get a better job.
She now works as a data analyst and has a Swedish passport and husband.
She says that since she began speaking publicly — she gave her first print interview to the Washington Post in September 2019 — the Chinese authorities have been tracking her closely; in Xinjiang, police officers have approached her parents about her activities multiple times. But she says she feels she had "no options left" other than to speak out, as silence didn't help her family.
After the short video call with her cousin, Elima posted a Twitter thread about her release, saying she was "overwhelmed" with relief, but worried because she felt her cousin was "not fully free."
Update dear friends: I'm so overwhelmed now, please forgive me if I could not express myself properly. Today, September 04, 2020, I got a message from my mom that after 2 years and 3 months of arbitrary detention, the Chinese government just released my cousin, Mahire Yakub
— Nyrola (@nyrola) September 4, 2020
"I put it on Twitter, I told the entire world," Elima says. "They took her immediately to the hospital. This is the way they want me to stop, they want to censor me."
Elima's mother in Xinjiang asked her to stop tweeting about the case.
But after Yakufu was taken to hospital, the family didn't hear anything about her for weeks, and no visits or phone calls were allowed. Elima became increasingly anxious.
On September 19, she tweeted again about her cousin's mysterious detention in hospital, posting: "I put up with it for fourteen days, kept my mouth shut for fourteen days, listened to my parents educate me for fourteen days, and tried to persuade my sister as a peacemaker for fourteen days.
In those fourteen days, my sister's children cried at me, begging me to stop speaking up, twice. So if you have something to say, just come directly to me, I'm willing to talk to you. Just stop pushing my parents and the children. My parents are really going to be sick, and the kids are really going to have a breakdown."
Within 30 minutes, Elima said police officers arrived at her mother's house in Xinjiang with printed copies of the tweets. Again, they demanded that they stop their daughter from speaking out.
"(They) said, Look, your daughter is talking about the Chinese Communist Party," Elima said. "'She's making (the) Chinese government look very, very bad. You need to tell your daughter, stop it.'"
Rian Thum, a Uyghur historian at the University of Nottingham in the UK, said it was the first time he's heard of police directly confronting family members with social media posts by Uyghurs abroad. "It shows that the Chinese authorities are very concerned about international opinion, that they're monitoring Twitter, which is of course banned in China," he said.
Elima says the Chinese authorities confronted her family about her tweets three times. The first time was in August, when Elima reposted a Chinese state media article: she was highlighting that the piece used a picture of her mother apparently happily celebrating International Women's Day in March — in reality, during that period her cousin was in her first detention camp in 2018.
Nyrola Elima's mother (second in line on the right) pictured in a "propaganda" photograph.
"It is propaganda," Elima said. If her happiness, and that other Uyghurs portrayed in state media, is real, "then why (are) there so many Uyghurs outside looking for their family members?" she asked. "Open the region.
Let everyone travel there freely or let the Uyghur people go abroad."
Elima's social media is not the only thing under surveillance. In 2017, she says Chinese authorities demanded a photograph of her Swedish passport, and her Swedish address, via her mother over WeChat. She provided the details and moved house straight after.
"I am terrified every day," Elima said.
"What we see in this case is intimidation by the Chinese police through family members (to) other family members abroad," said Thum. "It's also a case that shows how the Chinese government thinks about Uyghurs as threats, and how they think about international connections."
Faced with the increasing threats to her family, Elima has again decided to speak publicly, giving her first interview on-camera to CNN. "I feel there's a gun behind my head, and I feel that I'm playing Russian (roulette) with the Chinese government," Elima said. "Every time when I move, I may well face very serious consequences, and my family members will pay for that."
Many Uyghurs abroad are faced with the same gut-wrenching decision: do as instructed and stay silent, or risk speaking out to try to offer some protection to relatives, in the hope that if their names become well-known it will be more conspicuous if they disappear.
A day after Elima's interview with CNN in December, the family got more bad news.
They were told via a phone call from the authorities that Mayila Yakufu had been taken from the hospital to the detention center in late November.
Proving her innocence
Yakufu's sister and parents live in Adelaide, South Australia.
Her sister, Marhaba Yakub Salay, 32, said Yakufu had been a model citizen in Xinjiang, working multiple jobs as a successful insurance saleswoman and a Mandarin teacher. She is fluent in Chinese and Uyghur and understands English.
"She worked really hard, because she's (a) single mother of three," Salay said. The children's father had left when they were very young, "so she knows she has to be very strong."
The Chinese government says the "vocational training centers" in Xinjiang are part of a "poverty alleviation" scheme to help train poor rural workers to learn Chinese and find employment. In a Xinjiang government press conference in Urumqi on November 27, videos were shown of seven Uyghurs who had "graduated" from the camps. They all praised the system, saying it had helped them to turn away from extremism and find good jobs.
"I'm now a workshop manager in a garment factory in Hotan County," said Tusongnisha Aili, a woman in one of the videos. "I received a good education at the training center. I learned fashion design, sewing techniques related to making clothing."
But multiple Uyghurs who have spoken to CNN after they left the camp system have dismissed these claims from officials. They say many of the people taken to the camps already spoke fluent Chinese, had a good education and salary, or weren't even living in China at the time.
Mayila Yakufu with her aunt.
The first time Yakufu was taken into a camp, on March 2, 2018, she was not accused of any specific offense. But the second time she was detained, in April 2019, she was accused of "financing terrorist activities" — a charge experts say has been leveled against multiple Uyghurs who sent money outside of China. She also had a sum of nearly 500,000 RMB ($76,000) confiscated by the authorities, and her aunt and uncle were put under house arrest, the family says.
In July 2013, Mayila Yakufu and her aunt and uncle sent nearly $135,000 Australian dollars ($100,000) to the family in Australia to buy a house, in three separate transfers from the Bank of China to the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
To prove Yakufu's innocence, the family has meticulously documented the bank transfers and house purchase records and sent the evidence to the Australian and Chinese governments.
Australian Federal Police have confirmed to the family in writing that they are not under criminal investigation in Australia, although they would not comment on the case to CNN.
Mayila Yafuku's family have sent bank transfers and house purchase records to the Chinese and Australian governments to prove her innocence.
"It really shows you the extent that the Chinese government will go to, and the very innocuous activities that can result in imprisonment," Rian Thum said.
When asked about Yakufu's case, the Chinese Mission to the EU told CNN that her family were believed to be members of the "Eastern Turkistan Liberation Organization," which the Chinese government labels a terrorist organization.
A spokesperson said Yakufu had been informed in writing that financial transactions with her family would be illegal. "In spite of that, she still provided funds to them. By so doing, she was suspected of violating article 120 of China's Criminal Law for abetting terrorist activities," the spokesperson added. "She was arrested by the public security authority in May 2019 and the case is currently under trial."
In a statement, Yakufu's family denied any links to terror groups and said the mission's allegations were "demonstrably false." If they had links to terror groups, Chinese authorities wouldn't have let them travel freely in and out of China in the years after the transaction was made in 2013, they said.
In July, the family asked Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAT) for help, and the department sent back the response they received from the Chinese Embassy in Canberra, which read: "Ms Yakefu Mayila was prosecuted in July 2019 for allegedly financing terrorist activities and is currently in good health."
In an email to CNN, DFAT said it cannot comment on individual cases, but added that Australia has "serious concerns" about China's treatment of the Uyghurs, and has "consistently urged China to cease the arbitrary detention" of Uyghurs and other Muslim groups in Xinjiang.
In the recent Xinjiang press conference, CNN asked for an official response to comments from US President-elect Joe Biden, who said that China's policy against the Uyghurs amounted to "genocide."
"As for the claim that Xinjiang is implementing a genocide policy, it is completely a false proposition and a vicious attack on Xinjiang by overseas anti-China forces," said Elijan Anayit, the spokesperson of the Information Office of the People's Government of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
"My daughter is suffering"
In Adelaide, Yakufu's father, Yakefu Shabier, and mother, Bahaer Maimitiming, live with the burden of knowing the house they reside in may have caused their daughter to be imprisoned.
Marhaba Yakub Salay's parents' home in Adelaide.
"I feel pain every day, as if I am stepping on nails, because the cost of this house is my daughter's suffering," said Shabier, 73. "My dream and hope is that my daughter be freed from oppression as soon as possible and reunited with us."
The couple first came to Australia in 2007, to visit their son who had emigrated there several years earlier. After their son died in a drowning accident on New Year's Eve in 2008, they decided to stay in Australia permanently. Their daughter, Marhaba Yakub Salay, then moved there in 2011. But Yakufu, who had children, chose to stay in Xinjiang.
The family now runs a Uyghur restaurant in central Adelaide called Tangritah.
"Ever since we came to Australia, we worked extremely hard, we opened a restaurant, and we are trying our best to be good citizens and contribute to Australia," said Maimitiming, 64. "We are not terrorists."
Salay said working is the only way her parents know how to deal with the pain caused by her sister's detention. "They want to rescue their daughter, but can't do much here," Salay said. "They don't know what to do. So, they just push themselves to work hard."
The family's goal is to keep the pressure on the Chinese government by highlighting what is going on in Xinjiang.
"What happened to my family, it's also happening to other Uyghur families," Elima said. "Our family's case is just (the tip of the) iceberg."
"It's very difficult to know whether their loved ones are still alive in some cases, or whether they're interned in these camps, some of which have really horrific conditions," Rian Thum said. "So there's a major wave of depression and trauma that Uyghurs outside of China are suffering."
"China threatens Uyghurs overseas, and it works," Salay said. "China uses my sister as a hostage strategy."
This strategy is one which kept their own family quiet for a long time, she adds. "Many Uyghurs censor themselves," Salay said. "We were one of them."
Now Yakufu is back in detention, Salay only hopes they can try to keep her from harm. "The situation gets worse and worse when I keep silent," Salay said. "Now I have no choice. If I don't speak up, she (might) end up in one of the dark corners in the prison."
Going public is not a decision that comes lightly for the family. Elima is battling what she calls "survivor's guilt." At night she lies awake in her "comfortable bed" and worries about the kind of conditions her cousin is sleeping in.
She remembers the last snatched conversation she had with her cousin in September.
That day, Yakufu had told her: "Please tell my parents I miss them so much … I dream about them every night.
"That is the only one way I can meet my parents, my children, my sister, your parents and you."


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AP controls a Dragonlord Silumgar which took control of NAP's Archangel Avacyn. NAP casts a removal spell on Silumgar, which dies. What happens?
For Avacyn's ability to trigger, another creature needs to die. This means that at the moment Silumgar dies, its control-changing effect is still happening. Therefore Avacyn sees Silumgar dying, which has two consequences: Avacyn's control is given back to NAP and her triggered ability's condition is met.
Even if AP controls the triggered ability and Avacyn is now under NAP's control, it is still possible for Avacyn to transform. Unlike sacrificing, there is no rule preventing you from transforming a permanent you do not control.
Warning: To better appreciate this situation, you need to keep in mind that AP and NAP do not share a common language and they therefore do not communicate verbally.
AP controls five lands and casts Archangel Avacyn in Main Phase 1, then declares Lambholt Pacifist and Sylvan Advocate as attackers.
NAP looks confused and points at the Pacifist. AP looks at his Pacifist, realizes it hasn't been transformed, apologizes and untaps it.
That's a tough call. Because of the non-verbal communication, the judge first needs to make assumptions as to what NAP meant: Does he imply that Pacifist is an illegal attacker? Does he imply something else (which would need to be determined)?
Then, another question arises: Should the judge intervene?
The answer to the second question derives from the first conclusion: If NAP points out that the creature can't attack, this is a wrong statement. NAP cannot state this since he'd be misrepresenting a derived information incorrectly, which falls under Communication Procedure Violation.
Therefore, if a player makes a wrong statement, unless it is about hidden information or a future game state, you need to step in to correct it. Be careful to not intervene if the statement is true but incomplete, since this is legal.
There has been little investigation for Cheating since, when we reminded NAP of the presence of Avacyn, which had been put slightly aside of the other creatures, NAP's body language let us feel about an honest mistake.
AP is at 10. NAP is at 18.
AP casts a Thraben Inspector, sacrifices the clue to draw a card, thinks for a while, simulating attacks and blocks since both players respectively control nine and seven creatures. After some time, he declares his nine humans attacking, including the newly cast Inspector.
NAP thinks for a bit and casts Archangel Avacyn before blockers. AP casts Ojutai's Command, countering Avacyn and bringing back Thalia's Lieutenant.
While AP is putting one +1/+1 counter on all his creatures, NAP realizes the Investigator was cast this turn and could not attack.
There is definitely a Game Rule Violation. But the interesting part is: Would you backup?
Looking at the IPG, this situation is not covered in the list of allowed partial fixes. Therefore, you either need to leave the situation as it is, namely allowing that summoning sick Investigator to keep attacking, or to backup to declaring attackers.
The default solution being to leave the situation as it is, let's evaluate how safe backing up the situation is.
All +1/+1 counters are removed.
Thalia's Lieutenant goes back to the graveyard.
Ojutai's Command and Archangel Avacyn go back to their owners' hand.
AP needs to declare a new legal set of attackers.
As I state regularly in this blog, a good backup leaves the game very close to what you would have achieved by partial fixing it. Here, this is not the case at all.
NAP has revealed he has Archangel Avacyn, which AP did not know. AP has revealed he has Ojutai's Command and the full extent of what it implies.
By backing up here, it's not unreasonable to see NAP not casting Avacyn Archangel so that AP would need to cast Ojutai's Command first if he wants to pump his creatures. Knowledge of the Command/Lieutenant interaction is also a strong hint for NAP to declare blockers in a way that takes it into account.
It is true that AP is the one committing the infraction here and leaving the situation as is can indeed be perceived as giving AP an undue advantage. However, NAP also had plenty of time to realize.
Backing is really unsafe here. Two contextually game-decisive spells have been revealed and putting them back to their owner's hand can radically modify the game.
Backups should never radically modify game states. If you feel that a backup would do so, then you should leave the situation as it is.
AP casts Declaration in Stone targeting a token. NAP claims he put a die on the battlefield, then taps two mana and removes the die immediately to draw a card and untaps, at which point AP calls the judge.
Whether this is HCE or GRV depends on whether there has been an infraction happening prior to the draw or permission from the opponent.
First, both players agreed that the card was drawn without permission from AP, which eliminated one of the scenarios.
Then, a player doesn't investigate with Declaration in Stone if a token is exiled. It is clear that NAP did not realize that. Since AP controls the spell and NAP executes the instruction, if NAP puts a clue on the battlefield, both players committed GRV, and this would exclude HCE in this case.
However, there is a disagreement as to whether the token was represented. If it wasn't, then there is no way for the opponent to realize a GRV has been committed, and therefore this would be HCE.
NAP claims he placed a die on the battlefield, which AP can't confirm. Since Declaration in stone doesn't allow NAP to investigate, AP can't realize anything unless NAP actively represent the token.
Obviously, AP not knowing whether a die was placed or not is convenient.
However, while it might be possible that AP lies about this, we have no evidence of it and this doesn't seem illogical since NAP indicates he sacrificed the clue right away to draw a card.
Let's say that NAP actually put the die. How clear is it that it represents a clue? A die in the middle of the table could be many things. It can be a forgotten item from a past permanent, but it's not uncommon that players use one to remember which creature got -2/-0 from Jace.
All these considerations led me to conclude that there wasn't any point where we could legitimately believe the clue was put on the battlefield, in a way that AP had a real chance to understand that was it.
The whole situation having been hasty, I concluded that NAP had committed HCE, and I made him reveal his hand to AP so AP removes a card for NAP to reshuffle in his deck.
Had I concluded that it was GRV, I'd have taken a card at random and put it back on the top of the library.
It is interesting to note that since NAP untapped immediately, he had no spell to cast, therefore it is tempting to think "well, he just shortcut his draw". Very tempting but plain wrong. Rulings can't be different whether the player cast an instant or a creature with flash or not. That's why determining HCE or GRV is utterly relevant here.
The most important thing is to assess the correct infraction, not guess the best/easiest/insertyourfavoriteadjective solution based on context.


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`Eid Al-Fitr on Monday, May 2: Fiqh Council of North America
`Eid Al-Fitr will be on Monday, May 2, according to the Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA), citing astronomical calculations.
"The Islamic calendar adopted by Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA) is based on calculations with Ittihadul-Mataali' concept for the sake of global unity," said FCNA in a statement.
"FCNA decided to follow The European Council for Fatwa and Research (ECFR), which states that the sighting is not a requirement but just the means of ascertaining the beginning for a new month, and that is now attained by exact calculations."
"The criteria are that after conjunction somewhere on the globe, at local sunset, the angle between sun and moon should be at least 8° and the moon should be at least 5° above the horizon. If these conditions are met, the month starts the next day, otherwise the month starts on the day following next day."
Newly appointed Special Representative on Islamophobia defends her position amid outrage in Quebec
The Trudeau government fulfilled its promise of naming a special representative to combat Islamophobia after 18 months. However, the appointment of Amira Elghawaby turned controversial in just 24 hours. The government announced her appointment last Thursday, days before the anniversary of the Quebec City mosque massacre. It took 18 months
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Today marks an occasion that forever changed our community and our country. Today marks the "National Day of Remembrance of the Quebec City Mosque Attack and Action against Islamophobia" and the sixth anniversary of the attack on Janurary 29th, 2017, that took the lives of six worshippers. As we reflect


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Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum's Madeleine is Sleeping reads like some kind of amalgamation of Angela Carter and Steven Millhauser, cross-bred with a little garden-variety surrealism. The problem is that the novel bears these influences or commonalities too obviously, in my opinion failing to assimilate them into a fresh or distinctive work of literary art.
Too much of Madeleine is Sleeping seems perfunctory and predictable, making whole sections of the novel rough going, as their importance to the narrative is difficult to perceive. Finally the reader must conclude that this a novel in which mood and atmosphere are more important than the narrative particulars, its initial conceit more central than what could be discerned as its structural unity. There's nothing per se wrong with such an approach, but the execution in this novel unfortunately remains uninspired, taking the reader's interest in its admittedly strange characters and events too much for granted.
It is the story of Madeline, a little girl meandering between two worlds separated by the soap-bubble of her sleep. On one side is her family, living in a verdant French countryside and keeping vigil over the sleeping Madeline; on the other side Madeline roams, living with a troupe of gypsies which includes a woman who plays herself like a viol and a flatulent man who can imitate an amazing array of sounds. . .
The curtains open onto a darkened hallway, so dark that she must run her fingertips along the walls, and at the end of it, there are more curtains, as dense and velvety as the first, Then there is a warm room, with walls the color pomegranates, where she is given toast with raisins, told to take off her shoes, placed before the fire on a footstool. And above her, on the mantelpiece, is a miniature circus made all of tin, with its stiff pennants flying and its elephants parading.
There is a certain energy to the prose in Madeleine is Sleeping, but it is all expended on simply reciting the weirdness of Madeleine's dream, of her situation more generally. In the work of Carter or Millhauser, the fairy tales and fables these writers bend and distort are only half the story; language itself it often the real subject of their fiction, as it is used to transform these fables into meditations on the possibilities of fiction, on the nature of art and imagination. Bynum's writing does not rise to this level, as if she is too intent on merely recording the bizarre events in her narrative vision to attend to the more wide-ranging implications such a vision might carry.
I admire Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum's ambition, her apparent desire to write something other than the usual coming-of-age story. I'd even be willing to read her next book, to see where her instincts for the unconventional take her. But Madeleine is Sleeping strikes me as apprentice work, evidence of a talent not yet ready to transcend its own audacity into something more artful.


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O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended You. I detest all my sins because I dread the loss of Heaven and the pains of hell. But most of all because they offend You, my God, Who are all good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Your grace to confess my sins, do penance, and amend my life.
O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended You. I detest all my sins because I dread the loss of Heaven and the pains of hell. But most of all because they offend You, my God, Who are all good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Your grace to sin no more and to avoid the near occasions of sin.


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SLO: The Simple Joy of Flying
Lakshmi Vempati None
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My first glimpse was from the observation lounge of the Pacific superliner as it winded around the curve past the California Men's Colony into the city of San Luis Obispo. Nestled in the valley approximately midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, away from the maddening crowd yet within easy distance, San Luis Obispo or SLO as the locals fondly call it, is a small campus town of 40000 plus inhabitants mostly students, and staff of the nearby CalPoly (California Polytechnical State University) and retirees. Founded in 1772 it is one of California's oldest colonies famous for its Mission San Luis and Thursday night Farmer's Market. Where Jamba Juice was icorporated as the Juice Club and aviation legend Burt Rutan went to college. Home of the eccentric Madonna Inn established by Alex Madonna, I Madonnari Italian street painting festival (usually hosted in September) and Bubble Gum Alley.
San Luis Obispo airport (SBP) offers convenient access to residents and visitors to/from the central coast to Los Angeles, San Francisco and Phoenix. It is also a full service general aviation airport with several FBO on the field. If flying in from northern or southern California the coastal route is the most scenic. Flying south from the Monterey coast affords spectacular views of the Big Sur coast, Hearst Castle and Morro Rock. Approaching from the south along the Santa Barbara coastline be aware of the restricted areas surrounding the Vandenberg Air Force Base and the flight restrictions over the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant.
The Spirit of San Luis on the field offers sumptuous cuisine options for that $100 hamburger. General aviation pilots can park right outside the restaurant near the base of the control tower. Outside seating provides excellent views of arriving and departing aircraft. For the more adventurous, ride into town for an array of dining choices in downtown SLO. Drive 40 miles north along the pacific coast freeway to tour the famous Hearst Castle in San Simeon, designed by architect Julia Morgan for the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. Morro Bay, just 12 miles north of SLO provides spectacular views of the setting sun. Take a tour of the Morro Bay Aquarium and dine at one of the many seafood places. Or drive south to Avila Bay or Pismo Beach for an afternoon on the beach. The multitude of activities listed in my previous blog on Oceano Airport, are all possible from SLO.
"We're going to stall the and not recover" said my instructor Kurt.
"Okay" said I. Is this for real? I wondered but didn't say.
"Instead we are going to stop it from tipping over by applying opposite rudder, are you ready?"
I must confess, I was never comfortable with learning stalls, is one ever? But I was willing to try. We were up in the air in a Citabria for my first tail wheel lesson over the gorgeous California coastline, a few miles southwest of SBP. Down below, I could see scores of people enjoying another beautiful day in the central coast: sun bathing, surfing, wind surfing, boating, ATV riding, horseback riding, running or simply sitting back with their favorite book.
Soon with throttle eased back, and nose pitched high we were poised for a stall. No stall warning in this aircraft... hope I can recognize when it stalls! Before long, I could feel the mushiness and impending stall. Stalls in a Citabria compared to a Cessna 172 are feather-like, gentle, and almost non-existent. "Right rudder" shouted my instructor. And we were off dancing with the rudder pedals. First right, then left, preventing the aircraft from tipping over. This was way too much fun! I could really start to like this stuff.
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Visualizing Cultures weds images and scholarly commentary in innovative ways to illuminate social and cultural history. Founded in 2002 by MIT Professors John Dower and Shigeru Miyagawa, Visualizing Cultures exploits the unique qualities of the Web as a publishing platform to enable scholars, teachers, and others to: (1) examine large bodies of previously inaccessible images; (2) compose original texts with unlimited numbers of full-color, high-resolution images; and (3) use new technology to explore unprecedented ways of analyzing and presenting images that open windows on modern history.
Visualizing Cultures has positioned itself as a nexus between the institutions that house image collections and the scholars who would like to use them for research purposes. Publishing on MIT's revolutionary OpenCourseWare—making MIT courses freely available on the Web—Visualizing Cultures has worked with many institutions to negotiate online publication of images for educational purposes using a Creative Commons license.
This website offers a growing number of titles referred to as "units." Choose from the list of current titles on the VC Units Menu.
A topical essay written by a Visualizing Cultures scholar and driven by the visuals themselves, often enlarged to reveal telling details. Images are isolated and juxtaposed to highlight diverse perspectives and points. Reading images involves asking who the artists are, when they worked, what mediums they used, and how the audiences of the times responded to them.
Graphics dominate the Visual Narratives. Themes from the essay as well as pathways and details within the image collection are explored visually in many different ways—series, close ups, recurring visual motifs, juxtapositions, changing media, and so forth—with a minimum of text.
Each unit has an Image Gallery that features every image in the essay. Users easily scroll through the collection of source images. Some Galleries include image metadata and supplemental material.
Visualizing Cultures has many short clips that include author commentaries, interviews, tours, animation, and archival source footage. Video is also available for the iPod and other devices on iTunes U.
Visualizing Cultures is a gateway to seeing history through images that once had wide circulation among peoples of different times and places. We do historical research this way as scholars to better understand how people saw themselves, how they saw others including foreigners and enemies, and how in turn others saw them. Visualizing Cultures presents images from the historical record uncensored. It is not an art-history or art-appreciation site. Displaying images from the historical record does not represent an endorsement of their content.
The founders and directors of Visualizing Cultures are MIT professors John W. Dower, a Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian whose scholarship includes close attention to visual materials, and Shigeru Miyagawa, who holds a joint appointment in linguistics and Japanese language and culture, and is a pioneer in the production and use of digital media for education.
Multimedia specialists Ellen Sebring (MIT '86) and Scott Shunk have conceived and designed the project's structure and "look and feel" from its inception in 2002. Sebring, Creative Director, designs the Essays, develops the Visual Narratives and adjunct video, and works with authors embarking on a Visualizing Cultures unit. Shunk, Program Director, is the liaison with the partner institutions, authors, and teachers, and develops outreach for the project. Andrew Burstein creates graphic, multimedia, and animation elements.
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An extensive secondary school curriculum was authored for Visualizing Cultures by Lynn Parisi, Meredith Melzer, Kathy Krauth, Karen Johnson, & Patty Koller and is available here. Workshops and teaching training is actively carried out and the materials are being taught in many schools and used in universities. The units have become widely-used educational resources for secondary school educators, drawing on the site's curricula, and higher education academics alike. The curricula for VC units "China in the World" and "Yokohama Boomtown" won, respectively, the 2011 and 2009 Franklin R. Buchanan prize from the Association of Asian Studies for best curricular materials concerning Asia.
MIT Visualizing Cultures received generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Henry Luce Foundation, the Getty Foundation, the Japan Foundation's Council for Global Partnership, the National Endowment for the Humanities, MIT's d'Arbeloff Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education, and MIT's Microsoft-funded iCampus project.
Visualizing Cultures represents a substantive offshoot of MIT's OpenCourseWare initiative to make pedagogical and scholarly content freely and widely available. Professor Miyagawa was a member of the committee that first developed this groundbreaking project, which has inspired counterpart initiatives on the Web worldwide.
A website developed by Visualizing Cultures for the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, Visualizing Portugal explores the visual record of the Estado Novo (New State) period, the longest-running European dictatorship. António de Oliveira Salazar rose to power in 1926 and was Portugal's prime minister from 1932 to 1968. The visual media of the time included photographs, albums, maps, official propaganda, tourism posters, illustrated magazines, ephemera from special expositions, and schoolbooks that promoted an official ideology for Portugal. The topical units mix visual narratives, texts, and videos. Original essays also appear on the site. Executive Director, Ellen Sebring.


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List of best-selling albums in the United States
This is a list of the best-selling albums in the United States based on RIAA certification and Nielsen SoundScan sales tracking. The criteria are that the album must have been published (including self-publishing by the artist), and the album must have shipped at least 10 million units in the United States, achieving, in RIAA terminology, a diamond certification.
Groupings are based on different benchmarks; the highest being for sales of at least 20 million copies, and the lowest being for multi-disc albums certified at least 10 times platinum and single-disc albums that have been certified at least 10 times platinum but with sales figures lower than 10,000,000. Albums are listed in order of shipments, or sales figures when available, by greatest to least.
As a result of the RIAA's methodology of counting each disc in a multi-disc set as one unit toward certification, most double albums on the list—such as Pink Floyd's The Wall and Outkast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below—have been certified with a number double the number of copies sold. Such albums have the shipments of copies, not discs, indicated. Conversely, the certification level for double albums that fit onto one compact disc such as the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack reflect the actual number of copies sold. Some notable double LPs that would appear on this list if counted as two units are Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (8× Platinum) and Peter Frampton's Frampton Comes Alive! (8× Platinum).
The albums in this list are ordered first by number of copies shipped or sold, then by platinum awards received, and finally by artist name and album title.
Albums with two references for their estimated actual sales include sales through BMG Music Club. Albums with three references for their estimated actual sales include sales through BMG Music Club and Columbia House.
Over 20 million copies
Shipments (Sales)
Certification[1][2]
1982 Jackson, MichaelMichael Jackson Thriller Epic (27,700,000‡)[3] 32× Platinum
1971 Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV Atlantic 23,000,000 23× Platinum
1973 Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon Harvest/Capitol (20,502,000‡)[4] 15× Platinum
Certification[1]
1976 Eagles Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) Asylum (18,593,000‡)[5][6] 29× Platinum
1980 AC/DC Back in Black Atlantic (18,430,000‡)[6][7] 22× Platinum
1997 Twain, ShaniaShania Twain Come On Over Mercury Nashville (17,590,000)[6][8] 20× Platinum
1977 Fleetwood Mac Rumours Warner Bros. (17,258,464‡)[6][9] 20× Platinum
1976 Boston Boston Epic Records 17,000,000 17× Platinum
1974 John, EltonElton John Greatest Hits Polydor 17,000,000 17× Platinum
1991 Metallica Metallica Elektra (16,200,000)[10] 16× Platinum
1976 Eagles Hotel California Asylum 16,000,000 16× Platinum
1995 Morissette, AlanisAlanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill Maverick (15,350,000)[6][8] 16× Platinum
1977 Soundtrack / Bee Gees Saturday Night Fever RSO 15,000,000 15× Platinum
1994 Hootie & the Blowfish Cracked Rear View Atlantic (14,580,000)[6][11][12] 16× Platinum
1978 Soundtrack / John Travolta / Olivia Newton-John / Various artists Grease RSO (14,000,000‡)[13] 8× Platinum
1969 Beatles, TheThe Beatles Abbey Road Apple (14,000,000‡)[14] 12× Platinum
1972 Simon & Garfunkel Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits Columbia 14,000,000 14× Platinum
1987 Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction Geffen (13,898,000‡)[6][15] 18× Platinum
1999 Backstreet Boys Millennium Jive (13,890,000)[6][16] 13× Platinum
1984 Marley & The Wailers, BobBob Marley & The Wailers Legend Island (13,660,000‡)[17] 15× Platinum
1984 Springsteen, BruceBruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A. Columbia (13,463,000‡)[18] 15× Platinum
1992 Soundtrack / Whitney Houston The Bodyguard Arista (13,450,000)[6][19] 17× Platinum
1979 Pink Floyd The Wall Columbia/Harvest/EMI (13,381,000‡)[20] 23× Platinum
1987 Soundtrack Dirty Dancing RCA (13,232,000‡)[6][21] 11× Platinum
1999 Santana Supernatural Arista (13,110,000)[6][19] 15× Platinum
1984 Prince and the Revolution Purple Rain Warner Bros. (13,107,000‡)[22] 13× Platinum
2000 NSYNC No Strings Attached Jive (12,680,000)[6][19] 11× Platinum
2000 Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP Aftermath (12,540,000)[6][16] 10× Platinum
2000 Beatles, TheThe Beatles 1 Apple/EMI/Capitol (12,410,000)[19] 11× Platinum
1999 Britney Spears ...Baby One More Time Jive (12,200,000)[6][16] 14× Platinum
1986 Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet Mercury Records (12,106,000‡)[23] 12× Platinum
1990 Garth Brooks No Fences Capitol Nashville (12,001,000‡)[24] 17× Platinum
1987 Def Leppard Hysteria Mercury Records 12,000,000 12× Platinum
1992 Kenny G Breathless Arista 12,000,000 12× Platinum
1980 Rogers, KennyKenny Rogers Greatest Hits Liberty 12,000,000 12× Platinum
1969 Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II Atlantic 12,000,000 12× Platinum
1985 Collins, PhilPhil Collins No Jacket Required Atlantic 12,000,000 12× Platinum
1997 Backstreet Boys Backstreet Boys Jive (11,920,000)[6][16] 14× Platinum
1996 Dion, CelineCeline Dion Falling into You Epic Records (11,799,000)[6][25] 11× Platinum
2011 Adele 21 Columbia/XL (11,700,000)[16] 14× Platinum
1999 Creed Human Clay Wind-up Records (11,690,000)[19] 11× Platinum
1988 Journey Greatest Hits Columbia (11,600,000‡)[26] 15× Platinum
1967 Beatles, TheThe Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Capitol (11,500,000‡)[27] 11× Platinum
1985 Joel, BillyBilly Joel Greatest Hits Volume I & Volume II Columbia 11,500,000 23× Platinum
1976 Taylor, JamesJames Taylor Greatest Hits Warner Bros. (11,200,000‡)[28] 11× Platinum
1997 Soundtrack Titanic Epic Records (11,146,000)[6][29] 11× Platinum
2002 Jones, NorahNorah Jones Come Away with Me Blue Note (11,100,000)[30] 10× Platinum
2000 Linkin Park Hybrid Theory Warner Bros. (11,048,000)[6][31] 10× Platinum
1982 Eagles Eagles Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 Asylum 11,000,000 11× Platinum
1973 Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy Atlantic 11,000,000 11× Platinum
1997 Dion, CelineCeline Dion Let's Talk About Love Epic Records (10,711,000)[6][25] 10× Platinum
2002 Eminem The Eminem Show Aftermath (10,700,000)[16] 10× Platinum
1991 Nirvana Nevermind DGC Records (10,640,000)[6][32] 10× Platinum
1986 Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill Def Jam (10,630,000‡)[6][33] 10× Platinum
1998 Kid Rock Devil Without a Cause Atlantic Records (10,610,000)[6][34] 11× Platinum
1977 Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell Epic Records (10,500,000‡)[35] 14× Platinum
2000 Spears, BritneyBritney Spears Oops!... I Did It Again Jive (10,410,000)[6][16] 10× Platinum
1980 Aerosmith Greatest Hits Columbia (10,331,000‡)[36] 11× Platinum
1998 NSYNC *NSYNC RCA (10,300,000)[6][37] 10× Platinum
2004 Usher Confessions Arista (10,300,000)[30] 10× Platinum
1998 Dixie Chicks Wide Open Spaces Monument (10,121,000)[6][38] 12× Platinum
1985 Houston, WhitneyWhitney Houston Whitney Houston Arista (10,038,000‡)[39] 13× Platinum
1991 Pearl Jam Ten Epic Records (10,001,000)[40] 13× Platinum
1968 Beatles, TheThe Beatles The Beatles Capitol (10,000,000‡)[41] 19× Platinum
1977 Joel, BillyBilly Joel The Stranger Columbia 10,000,000 10× Platinum
1971 King, CaroleCarole King Tapestry ODE 10,000,000 10× Platinum
1983 Def Leppard Pyromania Mercury Records 10,000,000 10× Platinum
1976 Doobie Brothers Best of The Doobies Warner Bros. 10,000,000 10× Platinum
1985 Doors, TheThe Doors The Best of The Doors Elektra 10,000,000 10× Platinum
1970 Elvis Presley Elvis' Christmas Album
(budget reissue of 1957 LP with altered track listing) RCA Camden/Pickwick 10,000,000 10× Platinum
1989 Brooks, GarthGarth Brooks Garth Brooks Capitol 10,000,000 10× Platinum
1987 Michael, GeorgeGeorge Michael Faith Columbia 10,000,000 10× Platinum
1983 Richie, LionelLionel Richie Can't Slow Down Motown 10,000,000 10× Platinum
1990 MC Hammer Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em Capitol 10,000,000 10× Platinum
1967 Cline, PatsyPatsy Cline Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits Decca 10,000,000 10× Platinum
1984 Van Halen 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) Warner Bros. 10,000,000 10× Platinum
1978 Van Halen Van Halen Warner Bros. 10,000,000 10× Platinum
1983 ZZ Top Eliminator Warner Bros. 10,000,000 10× Platinum
Fewer than 10 million copies
1994 Boyz II Men II Motown (9,890,000)[6][42] 12× Platinum
1991 Brooks, GarthGarth Brooks Ropin' the Wind Capitol Nashville (9,600,000)[16] 14× Platinum
1995 No Doubt Tragic Kingdom Trauma/Interscope Records (9,520,000)[6][43] 10× Platinum
1996 Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You Atlantic (9,358,000)[6][44] 12× Platinum
1994 Green Day Dookie Reprise Records (9,342,000)[6][45] 10× Platinum
1990 Madonna The Immaculate Collection Sire (9,305,000‡)[6][46] 10× Platinum
2015 Adele 25 Columbia/XL (9,010,000)[16] 10× Platinum
1987 U2 The Joshua Tree Island (8,979,000‡)[6][47] 10× Platinum
1995 Twain, ShaniaShania Twain The Woman in Me Mercury Nashville (8,894,000)[6][48] 12× Platinum
1995 Jewel Pieces of You Atlantic (8,800,000)[6][49] 12× Platinum
1994 TLC CrazySexyCool LaFace (8,765,000)[6][38] 11× Platinum
2000 Nelly Country Grammar Universal (8,581,000)[50] 10× Platinum
1995 Carey, MariahMariah Carey Daydream Columbia (8,505,000)[6][51] 10× Platinum
1973 Beatles, TheThe Beatles 1967-1970 Capitol 8,500,000 17× Platinum
1984 Madonna Like a Virgin Sire (8,456,000‡)[52] 10× Platinum
1978 Steve Miller Band Greatest Hits 1974–78 Capitol (8,443,000‡)[53] 13× Platinum
1999 Dixie Chicks Fly Monument Records (8,396,000)[38] 10× Platinum
1976 Creedence Clearwater Revival Chronicle, Vol. 1 Fantasy (8,357,000‡)[54] 10× Platinum
1993 Petty and the Heartbreakers, TomTom Petty and the Heartbreakers Greatest Hits MCA (8,200,000)[7] 12× Platinum
1993 Carey, MariahMariah Carey Music Box Columbia (8,012,000)[6][51] 10× Platinum
1975 Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti Swan Song 8,000,000 16× Platinum
1994 Soundtrack The Lion King Walt Disney Records (7,879,000)[55] 10× Platinum
1994 Brooks, GarthGarth Brooks The Hits Liberty Records (7,821,000)[56] 10× Platinum
1992 Clapton, EricEric Clapton Unplugged Reprise Records (7,617,000)[57] 10× Platinum
1973 Beatles, TheThe Beatles 1962–1966 Capitol 7,500,000 15× Platinum
1997 The Notorious B.I.G. Life After Death Bad Boy Records/Arista (6,320,000)[6][58] 10× Platinum
1998 Brooks, GarthGarth Brooks Double Live Capitol Nashville (6,017,000)[59] 21× Platinum
1971 The Rolling Stones Hot Rocks 1964-1971 London 6,000,000 12× Platinum
2003 Outkast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below LaFace, Arista (5,702,000)[60] 11× Platinum
1997 Brooks, GarthGarth Brooks Sevens Capitol Records (5,700,000)[61] 10× Platinum
2002 Twain, ShaniaShania Twain Up! Mercury Nashville (5,409,000)[60] 11× Platinum
1998 2Pac Greatest Hits Interscope (5,100,000)[62] 10× Platinum
1996 2Pac All Eyez On Me Death Row Records 5,000,000 10× Platinum
2007 Brooks, GarthGarth Brooks The Ultimate Hits Pearl Records 5,000,000 10× Platinum
1976 Wonder, StevieStevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life Motown 5,000,000 10× Platinum
1995 The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Virgin (4,900,000)[63] 10× Platinum
1994 Soundtrack Forrest Gump Epic Records (4,400,000)[64] 12× Platinum
1986 Springsteen, BruceBruce Springsteen Live/1975–85 Columbia 4,333,333 13× Platinum
1990 Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin Boxed Set Atlantic Records (1,800,000‡)[65] 10× Platinum
†Only includes sales tracked by Nielsen SoundScan since March 1, 1991 and BMG Music Club sales, where available.[66]
When tracking began, Nielsen SoundScan only had about 40% coverage of album sales.[67] SoundScan initially did not track albums sold in supermarkets, and never tracked those sold through mail-order music clubs such as Columbia House or BMG Music Club.[68][69]
‡As calculated by adding highest RIAA certification up to 1991 and sales tracked by Nielsen SoundScan since 1991.
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↑ "RIAA Diamond Awards". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved October 28, 2009.
↑ Caulfield, Keith (2016-07-29). "Billboard 200 Chart Moves: Twenty One Pilots' 'Blurryface' Surpasses 1 Million U.S. Sales". Billboard. "6.7 million mark in Nielsen SoundScan era sales" + 21× Platinum in 1990 = 27,700,000 copies. Retrieved 2016-09-06.
↑ Grein, Paul (2013-05-01). "Week Ending April 28, 2013. Albums: Snoop Lamb Is More Like It". Nielsen SoundScan. Yahoo! Music. "9,502,000 total copies since 1991" + 11× Platinum in 1990 = 20,502,000 copies. Retrieved 2013-05-02.
↑ Grein, Paul (2011-09-14). "Chart Watch Extra: All The Greatest Hits". Yahoo! Music. "5,453,000 in Nielsen SoundScan era sales" + 1.52 million sold through BMG Music Club + 12× Platinum in 1990 = 18,593,000 copies. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 David, Barry (2003-02-18). "Shania, Backstreet, Britney, Eminem And Janet Top All Time Sellers". Bertelsmann Music Group. New York: Music Industry News Network. Archived from the original on July 3, 2003. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
1 2 Caulfield, Keith (2014-02-28). "Chart Moves: Metallica's Best-Selling Black Album Approaches 16 Million in Sales". Billboard. "7.1 million mark in Nielsen SoundScan era sales" + 1.33 million sold through BMG Music Club + 10× Platinum in 1990 = 18,430,000 copies. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
1 2 Caulfield, Keith (2015-06-26). "Billboard 200 Chart Moves: Alanis Morissette's 'Jagged Little Pill' Hits 15 million in U.S. Sales". Billboard. Retrieved 2015-06-30.
↑ "Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" Re-enters Billboard's Top 200 Albums Chart". 2012-04-20. "2,948,464 in Nielsen SoundScan era sales" + 1.31 million sold through BMG Music Club + 13× Platinum in 1989 = 17,258,464 copies. Retrieved 2015-04-30.
↑ Trust, Gary (2015-08-31). "This Week in Billboard Chart History: 20 Years Ago, Michael Jackson Was 'Alone' at the Top". Billboard. Retrieved 2015-08-31.
↑ Caulfield, Keith (2012-11-29). "Best Selling Albums Since 1991 (Soundscan Era): Adele Joins Elite Club". Billboard. Retrieved 2015-05-06.
↑ "The rise and fall of the Columbia House record club — and how we learned to steal music". Boston Phoenix. 2011-11-18. Retrieved 2015-06-10.
↑ Paul Grein (November 21, 2012). "Week Ending Nov. 18, 2012. Albums: Xtina Slips Despite "The Voice"". Chart Watch. Yahoo Music. "6 million mark in Nielsen SoundScan era sales" + 8× Platinum in 1984 = 14,000,000 copies. Retrieved November 21, 2012.
↑ Grein, Paul (2014-02-19). "Chart Watch: Taylor Swift Is 4 For 4 (Million)". Yahoo! Music. "5.0 million mark in Nielsen SoundScan era sales" + 9× Platinum in 1991 = 14,000,000 copies. Retrieved 2014-06-28.
↑ Trust, Gary (2010-03-19). "Ask Billboard: Battle Of The Rock Bands, Part 2". Billboard. "5.008 million mark in Nielsen SoundScan era sales" + 890K sold through BMG Music Club + 8× Platinum in 1989 = 13,898,000 copies. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Caulfield, Keith (2016-09-29). "Billboard 200 Chart Moves: The Weeknd's Back in the Top 40, George Carlin Returns to Chart After Nearly 32 Years". Billboard. Retrieved 2016-10-10.
↑ Caulfield, Keith (2014-10-10). "Adele's '21' Surpasses 11 Million In U.S. Sales". Billboard. "11.66 million mark in Nielsen SoundScan era sales" + 2× Platinum in 1990 = 13,660,000 copies. Retrieved 2014-10-18.
↑ Trust, Gary (2009-03-27). "Ask Billboard: Basia, Bon Jovi and The Boss". Billboard. "1.463 million mark in Nielsen SoundScan era sales" + 12× Platinum in 1989 = 13,463,000 copies. Retrieved 2014-07-10.
1 2 3 4 5 Caulfield, Keith (2014-10-10). "Adele's '21' Surpasses 11 Million In U.S. Sales". Billboard. Retrieved 2014-10-18.
↑ Grein, Paul (August 29, 2008). "Chart Watch Extra: Vintage Albums That Just Keep On Selling". Nielsen SoundScan. Yahoo! Music. "5.381 million mark in Nielsen SoundScan era sales" + 8× Platinum in 1991 = 13,381,000 copies. Retrieved January 16, 2014.
↑ Caulfield, Keith (2007-07-13). "Ask Billboard". Billboard. "2.328 million mark in Nielsen SoundScan era sales" + 904,000 sold through BMG Music Club + 10× Platinum in 1988 = 13,232,000 copies. Retrieved 2014-07-04.
↑ Beech, Mark (2016-04-21). "Measuring Prince's Musical Impact: A Look At The Sales Numbers". Forbes. "3,107,000 in Nielsen SoundScan era sales" + 10× Platinum in 1990 = 13,107,000 copies. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
↑ Trust, Gary (2009-03-27). "Ask Billboard: Basia, Bon Jovi and The Boss". Billboard. "3.106 million mark in Nielsen SoundScan era sales" + 9× Platinum in 1989 = 12,106,000 copies. Retrieved 2014-07-10.
↑ Caulfield, Keith (2016-09-29). "Billboard 200 Chart Moves: The Weeknd's Back in the Top 40, George Carlin Returns to Chart After Nearly 32 Years". Billboard. "9.01 million mark in Nielsen SoundScan era sales" + 3× Platinum in 1991 = 12,001,000 copies. Retrieved 2016-10-10.
1 2 Grein, Paul (2013-02-20). "Week Ending Feb. 17, 2013. Albums: Mumford's Grammy Surge". Yahoo! Music. Retrieved 2013-02-21.
↑ "Best of Best-sellers", Billboard, vol. 126 no. 24, p. 74, August 2, 2014, "8.6 million mark in Nielsen SoundScan era sales" + 3× Platinum in 1991 = 11,600,000 copies
↑ Caulfield, Keith (2006-06-21). "Ask Billboard". Billboard. "3.5 million mark in Nielsen SoundScan era sales" + 8× Platinum in 1992 = 11,500,000 copies. Retrieved 2014-07-04.
↑ Trust, Gary (2014-06-25). "Ask Billboard: With Nico & Vinz, Norway Continues U.S. Chart Invasion". Billboard. Retrieved 2014-06-26.
1 2 Caulfield, Keith (February 7, 2016). "Adele's '25' Sales Surpass 8 Million in the U.S.". Billboard.
↑ Grein, Paul (2014-06-23). "Top New Acts Since 2000". Yahoo! Music. Retrieved 2014-07-04.
↑ Rutherford, Kevin (2016-09-23). "Nirvana's 'Nevermind': 9 Chart Facts About the Iconic Album". Billboard. Retrieved 2016-09-23.
↑ Caulfield, Keith (2012-05-04). "Beastie Boys Blazed Billboard Chart History". Billboard. "5.5 million mark in Nielsen SoundScan era sales" + 1.13 million sold through BMG Music Club + 4× Platinum in 1987 = 10,630,000 copies. Retrieved 2015-03-18.
↑ Grein, Paul (2013-12-11). "A Britney Spears Bummer: New Album Fizzles". Yahoo! Music. Retrieved 2014-07-05.
↑ Grein, Paul (2006-10-23). "Answers to readers' questions about Janet Jackson, Robbie Williams and Meat Loaf". Billboard. "4,500,000 total copies since 1991" + 6× Platinum in 1990 = 10,500,000 copies. Retrieved 2014-06-27.
↑ Grein, Paul (2011-09-14). "Chart Watch Extra: All The Greatest Hits". Yahoo! Music. "5.331 million mark in Nielsen SoundScan era sales" + 5× Platinum in 1991 = 10,331,000 copies. Retrieved 2014-06-29.
↑ Ellis, Bill (2004-08-15). "Heir apparent -- Memphis's Justin Timberlake goes from a boy in the band to being the man". Go Memphis. Retrieved 2014-06-13.
1 2 3 Grein, Paul (2013-10-30). "Katy Perry Knocks Miley Cyrus Down a Couple Pegs". Yahoo! Music. Retrieved 2014-06-13.
↑ Trust, Gary (2009-08-14). "Ask Billboard: Madonna vs. Whitney: Who's Sold More?". Billboard. "1,038,000 in Nielsen SoundScan era sales" + 9× Platinum in 1991 = 10,038,000 copies. Retrieved 2014-06-28.
↑ Caulfield, Keith (2013-02-20). "Pearl Jam's 'Ten' Hits 10 Million in U.S. Sales". Billboard. Retrieved 2014-03-05.
↑ Lipshutz, Jason (2014-09-30). "Boyz II Men Talk Incredible 1994 Run: 'A Lot Of It Was a Blur'". Billboard. Retrieved 2015-04-30.
↑ Hampp, Andrew (2012-08-13). "No Doubt: The Billboard Cover Story". Billboard. Retrieved 2014-06-13.
↑ Grein, Paul (2012-09-12). "Week Ending Sept. 9, 2012. Albums: Matchbox Twenty's Long Wait". Yahoo! Music. Retrieved 2014-06-13.
↑ Grein, Paul (2012-01-18). "Week Ending Jan. 15, 2012. Albums: Good News and Bad News". Yahoo! Music. Retrieved 2014-03-05.
↑ Grein, Paul (2013-02-20). "Week Ending Feb. 17, 2013. Albums: Mumford's Grammy Surge". Yahoo! Music. "5,845,000 in Nielsen SoundScan era sales" + 1.46 million sold through BMG Music Club + 2× Platinum in 1991 = 9,305,000 copies. Retrieved 2015-05-06.
↑ Tourtellotte, Bob (2009-03-12). "FACTBOX - New U2 album is No. 1 in 30 countries". Reuters France. "3,200,000 in Nielsen SoundScan era sales" + 779,000 sold through BMG Music Club + 5× Platinum in 1991 = 8,979,000 copies. Retrieved 2014-06-28.
↑ Grein, Paul (2011-04-19). "Week Ending April 17, 2011. Albums: Grohl Times Two". Yahoo! Music. Retrieved 2014-06-29.
↑ Lewis, Randy (2010-07-29). "Ben Keith, Neil Young's steel guitarist: 1937-2010". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2014-06-13.
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↑ Grein, Paul (2010-08-12). "Week Ending Aug. 8, 2008: Taylor Swift Returns". Yahoo! Music. "574K mark in Nielsen SoundScan era sales" + 882K sold through BMG Music Club + 7× Platinum in 1987 = 8,456,000 copies. Retrieved 2010-08-12.
↑ Grein, Paul (2011-09-14). "Chart Watch Extra: All The Greatest Hits". Yahoo! Music. "5.443 million mark in Nielsen SoundScan era sales" + 3× Platinum in 1991 = 8,443,000 copies. Retrieved 2014-06-29.
↑ Grein, Paul (2013-06-05). "Week Ending June 2, 2013. Albums: The Return Of John Fogerty". Yahoo! Music. "6.357 million mark in Nielsen SoundScan era sales" + 2× Platinum in 1990 = 8,357,000 copies. Retrieved 2016-07-04.
↑ Grein, Paul (2014-07-02). "Chart Watch: Ed Sheeran's Transatlantic #1". Yahoo! Music. Retrieved 2014-07-04.
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↑ Ryan, Patrick (2014-06-25). "Michael Jackson joins posthumous hit parade". USA Today. Retrieved 2014-07-04.
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With William Katt, George Wendt, Richard Moll, Kay Lenz, Mary Stavin, Susan French.
Friday the 13th Part 2 director Miner tries his hand at the haunted house genre with mixed results.
Roger Cobb (Katt) is a horror novelist who moves into his recently deceased aunt's home in hopes of finding some solitude for writing his next book. Being a Vietnam vet, Cobb has decided his new book will be about his experiences in the war.
Only, it seems the house has plans of its own. It doesn't like Roger, and it wants him gone. Playing all manner of tricks and gimmicks on the unlucky guy, Roger might not finish his book - if the house finishes him first!
Some mildly interesting effects here. Katt is likable, yet this hinges too much upon humor and clever gags.
Memorable horror comedies are an extremely rare breed indeed and this one unfortunately can't claim the title.
Still, followed by three sequels, if you can imagine, so you watch it and be the judge.


JONESBORO – Dr. Lynita Cooksey today announced the upcoming academic year will be her last one as vice chancellor and provost at Arkansas State University.
Cooksey told her staff she will retire from A-State at the end of the 2018-19 academic year, and informed Dr. Kelly Damphousse, Arkansas State's chancellor, today.
By announcing her plans well in advance, she is providing the university plenty of time to conduct a search and make a smooth transition to new academic leadership.
Cooksey was appointed vice chancellor and interim provost in mid-2012, followed by a permanent appointment a few months later.
"There are few administrators who have been as devoted to Arkansas State as Lynita Cooksey," Damphousse said. "She worked tirelessly over the past year on our successful accreditation process with the Higher Learning Commission, and was instrumental to implementing several important changes in our academic procedures that have placed us in good standing with HLC. I look forward to working with her during the upcoming year as we begin the transition to a new provost, and I greatly appreciate that she will be here to lend her knowledge of the institution to me and our faculty during the upcoming selection process."
The selection process for the new provost will include involvement from key academic constituencies and organizations across campus, including faculty and administrative leadership.
After joining the A-State faculty in 1993, Cooksey taught for several years in the Department of Biological Sciences before serving as chair and associate chair. Later she was appointed associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, then she was promoted to associate vice chancellor of Academic Services in 2000.
Her other appointments include dean of University College, now Undergraduate Studies, where she was highly involved in starting the First-Year Experience program.
Among her most significant achievements, she has coordinated and provided direction for the institutional self-studies and responses in the ongoing accreditation review process with The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.
Cooksey earned her doctoral degree in entomology at Oklahoma State University and bachelor's and master's degrees from Arkansas State University. She is a graduate of Jonesboro High School and is married to Dr. Larry Hilburn.


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Miley Cyrus Cast As Hillary In Upcoming Clinton Biopic
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She "came in like a wrecking ball," says veteran casting agent Katherine Shear about Cyrus' spot on rendition of the former first lady and ex-Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Cyrus will play a major role in the untitled Clinton biographical film which will touch on the Clintons' time at the White House, but primarily focus on Hillary's bid for presidency in 2008 and on. The former "Hannah Montana" and current teddy bear eroticizing pop-star was "just the seasoned player that they are looking for," according to Shear.
Think "Primary Colors" meets "Tank Girl"
Not many people realize how much of a headline grabber and political trendsetter Hillary really is. From her "misspoke" debacle to her recently uncovered use of personal email accounts for governmental business, Mrs. Clinton has seen her fair share of controversy. To Shear, this makes it a no brainer to bring on the young and equally controversial Cyrus, who made headlines with her more than adult MTV Music Award performance where she twerked on Robin Thicke.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Hillary is a warrior in the political arena just like Cyrus has been in the entertainment business. Moreover, both Hillary and Miley are beacons for strong and independent women within their own respective industries. According to Shear, Cyrus also has the look. Cyrus will be playing over three decades of Hillary's life, so audiences can expect to see Cyrus age by way of make-up and CGI. When interviewed on the matter earlier this month, Cyrus claims to be ready to fully immerse herself into the challenging role of a lifetime.
Like, I think it's important to like get it right and stuff. I want people to think like 'wow' she is like just like her. – Miley Cyrus
As for Cyrus's penchant for pushing the envelope with provocative publicity stunts, Shear doesn't think that Miley's bad girl image will further tarnish the not so sterling appeal of the semi-oxidized Clinton brand.
Cyrus was confirmed for the role earlier this week after months of competing against the likes of Anne Hathaway and Reese Witherspoon. When asked to comment, neither Hathaway or Witherspoon made a statement in response.
Tom Hardy rumored as Bill Clinton
Although the part of Bill Clinton has yet to be cast, the major contender at the moment is Tom Hardy, who is most recently known for his role as the villain Bane in the third installment of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy. Shear says Hardy's performance as Bane is what caught their eye when considering their options. "He has such a commanding sense of control and power," perfect for portraying the smooth talking and silver haired former head of state.
Khloe Kardashian rumored to play Monica Lewinsky
There have also been whispers that Khloe Kardashian will be taking on the role of Monica Lewinsky, but Shear was unable to confirm at the moment. Shear did however hint at the potential saying,
Khloe looks great in blue!
The question still remains as to who will be assuming the role of Chelsea Clinton. A few months back Emma Watson ("Harry Potter") was in discussion with the studio and attached to the role of Chelsea, but recent reports from people close to the situation have confirmed that Watson is no longer being considered.
Filming is slated to start early 2016 in the state of your imagination.
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Since his wee lad-dom, Pooya has been a sommelier of cinema. It was likely some acting bug, fallen from the dust riddled ruby curtains of an enchanted old stage that did it. Those cinematic scarabs must have burrowed deep into his brain, irreversibly altering his mind, turning the poor boy down a dismal path. From his earliest years the strange boy would aimlessly wander the aisles of countless video rental stores, amassing his trivial knowledge with vigor. These actions befuddled the boy's parents, who still would lovingly oblige his unusual attraction to the motion picture. Often seeking refuge in the cushioned seating of his local movie theater, the odd adolescent would immerse himself in the scripted and effects riddled realities unfolding on the screen before him. During his collegiate years, he was twice spotted on stage performing bizarre theatrical rituals before awe-struck audiences. When he departed from academia, he left behind his youth in exchange for a labor routine, but the strange young man never lost his long-cultivated love of film. Recently, Pooya was approached by FilmFad.com to join their budding team of entertainment bloggers. After hours of coaxing and an undisclosed number of honey jars, he accepted their offer. Finally he had come full circle. Finally, at FilmFad.com, he was home.
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The Career and Community Studies Program vocational development consists of course based instruction (freshman year), on-campus field experiences (sophomore/junior year) and a community based internship (senior year). During this four year experience, CCS students explore their career interests, gain a richer understanding of their strengths, increase their development of work place protocols and sharpen their work related skills, preparing them to be productive members of the workforce.
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You Don't Love Me - The Kooks. Лента с персональными рекомендациями и музыкальными новинками, радио, подборки на любой вкус, удобное управление своей коллекцией. Music video by The Kooks performing You Don't Love Me. You Don't Love Me. The Kooks. Milky Chance - Stolen Dance Album Version - Продолжительность: 5:14 Milky Chance Official Recommended. You Don't Love Me is a song by British indie rock band The Kooks and is featured on their debut album, Inside InInside Out. It was released 9 January 2006 as the lead single from that album, charting at number 12 in the UK Singles Chart see 2006 in British music. CD VSCDT1910. You Don't Love Me 2:35. Slave to the Game 3:00. 7 VS1910. Lonely Cat 3:00. Maxi-CD VSCDX1910. You Don't Love Me live at the Garage 2:50. Watch the video for You Don't Love Me from The Kooks's Inside In Inside Out for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. But you don't love me the way that I, I love you 'Cos if you did girl you would not, do those things you do You killed my heart just to see if, I View full lyrics. Similar Tracks. Your Rating. Overview . We've emailed you instructions on how to reset your password. If you don't see it, don't forget to check your spam folder. Still didnt get it Go here. You Dont Love Me - Single. Released 2006. You Dont Love Me - Single Tracklist. You Don't Love Me Lyrics. Show all albums by The Kooks. On this page you can download song The Kooks - You Don't Love Me Live in mp3 and listen online. Indie Rock. B-sides and Demo. Similar songs. The Kooks - You Don't Love Me Live At Abbey Road Acoustic. The Kooks - Ask Me Live & Acoustic. Poobah - You Don't Love Me Live. The Kooks - Do You Love Her Junko Ohashi ft. Minoya Central Station - STILL I LOVE YOU. The Rose Garden - You Don't Love Me Live. The Kooks - Belly Love. The Kooks - Luby Loo Live. Matthew Sweet - You Don't Love Me Live. Morrissey - You Say You Don't Love Me The Busscocks Cover Live. Am F G Oh you don't love me the way that, I love you Am F G Cause if you did girl you would not, do those things you do Am F G You kill my heart just to see if, I will rise Am F G Above your. by The Kooks. Difficulty: intermediate. Author jameshammond 102. View interactive tab. Download Pdf. This song is by The Kooks and appears on the album Inside InInside Out 2006 and on the album Inside InInside Out Acoustic 2006. Oh you don't love me the way that I love you'Cause if you did girl you would not do those things you doYou kill my heart just to see if I will riseAbove your anger and above your lies. And all I see of youIs when you're not so busyOh you're not so busy
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Ecological Tourism
Wildlife rescue and rehabilitation center.
The wild animals of Costa Rica are not to be used as pets. In short, NATUWA treats wildlife with technical knowledge and respect. NATUWA as animal rescue center, rehabilitates, rescues and guarantees welfare to the Costa Rica's fauna. Altogether, with the support of the communities and volunteers from around the world.
NATUWA place of Refuge and protection
Since 1994, NATUWA has been dedicated to creating a Wildlife Sanctuary to provide refuge and protection to rescued animals. Costa Rican animals such as ocelots, tapirs, monkeys, jaguars and some exotic animals find relief, tranquility and a home in absolute harmony.
Strategically, the Wildlife Rescue Center is located remotely, quietly and away from highways. The Sanctuary has a 15-hectare property, exclusively for activities that provide welfare to both the confiscated wild animals and the local biodiversity.
The NATUWA Wildlife Rescue Center, has the largest enclosures in Costa Rica, works with a modern infrastructure for each species of rescued animal that inhabits the animal refuge center, either temporarily or permanently, these facilities go beyond the requirements demanded by Costa Rica's wildlife laws.
Wildlife Sanctuary.
Wildlife sanctuaries are facilities where animals are brought to live the rest of their lives free from hunger, fear, pain and disease.
Is a place of refuge and protection where animals are given the opportunity to live in a protected environment that is as close to their natural habitat as possible.
All the animals in the sanctuary are of equal importance, that is the notion of the caretakers on each species that they protect. A wildlife sanctuary is not open to free will like a zoo. A true sanctuary does not allow any activity that unnecessarily stresses the creatures it protects. Another function of the Sanctuary is environmental education to the public; thus, generate awareness in the way that humans see and treat animals.
Animals rescued by the Fire Department of Costa Rica.
Confiscated animals
Due to Costa Rica's wildlife law, the law is violated if captive wildlife is kept in houses for domestic use. In essence, the Wildlife Rescue Center, receives from the National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC), National Police or Fire, and civil society, confiscated animals. The Volunteer program, these organizations and individuals support the rescue, rehabilitation and, at due time, the liberation.
Rehabilitation of wild animals
NATUWA's wild animal management program focus on the execution of the rehabilitation processes the confiscated animals need to return again into their natural ecosystems.
Modern Infrastructure
At the Sanctuary, the Enclosures generate the space to promote physical and mental health of non-releasable animals rescued. In addition, we manage infrastructure and the largest in Costa Rica, which facilitates the release of the wild animals.
The enclosures of our Wildlife Rescue Center are donut shaped, this allows a continuous flow of flight of the macaws. Up to the present time, these enclosures with a length of 200 meters, allow the macaws fly up to 10 laps continuously (1 kilometer). Eventually, the benefits provided by the enclosure allow the macaws to return to the forest; since they must be self-sufficient to survive on their own in the ecosystem.
Currently the Wildlife Rescue Center has:
1. Area for keeping animals
2. Neonatal care
3. Veterinary clinic
4. Quarantine zone
5. Food preparation area
6. Residential area
7. Large enclosures that allow uninterrupted flight (200m circumference)
Entrance fee:
Visit guided:
$34.
Children:(3-5 years old): $17.
Monday to Sunday, from 8:00am to 4:00pm.
Fallow us:
Macaw Sanctuary NATUWA
From RECOPE in Puntarenas, 12km highway to Guanacaste, in the entrance to Aranjuez, 5km south.
Wildlife Volunteer


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Deccan College of Medical Sciences, Kanchanbagh Hyderabad
The Deccan College of Medical Sciences (DCMS) is one of the oldest medical colleges in Telangana. DCMS is recognised by the Medical Council of India and Affiliated with Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences, Warangal. The college is governed by the Darus-Salam Educational Trust.
DCMS is attached to two hospitals – the Owaisi Hospital and the Princess Esra Hospital. Both hospitals are well-equipped to cater to the needs of a vast number of patients at highly subsidised rates.
Other associated institutes:
Deccan College of Medical Sciences
Owaisi Hospital & Research Centre
Princess Esra Hospital
Deccan School of Hospital Management
Owaisi School of Nursing
Owaisi College of Nursing
Deccan School of Pharmacy
DCMS College of Physiotherapy
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Quick Highlights about Deccan College of Medical Sciences, Kanchanbagh Hyderabad
College Name Deccan College of Medical Sciences
Affiliated Hospital Owaisi Hospital and Princess Esra Hospital
Courses Offered MBBS, MD, MS, M.Ch., DM, and Diploma courses
College location Deccan College Of Medical Sciences, P.O. Kanchanbagh, Dmrl 'X' Road, Santhosh Nagar, Hyderabad – 500058
MBBS course duration 4 ½ years + 1 year of internship
Estimated MBBS Course fee from Deccan College of Medical Sciences, Kanchanbagh Hyderabad INR 14,50,000 per academic year
D. (Radiology)
S. (Orthopedics )
D. (Dermatology)
D. (Microbiology )
D.(Psychiatry )
D.(Pediatrics)
D.(Biochemistry)
S. (Gynecology & Obstetrics)
D. (Anesthesiology)
S.(General Surgery)
D.(General Medicine)
D. (Pathology )
D.(Anatomy)
D.(Pharmacology)
S.(Ophthalmology)
D.(Physiology)
S. ENT
D.(Respiratory Medicine)
D.(SPM)
Diploma in Dermatology
Diploma in D.G.O
Diploma in Psychiatry
Diploma in Ortho
Diploma in D.C.H
Diploma in ENT
Diploma in Anaesthesiology
Diploma in Radiology
Super Speciality Courses
Urology (M.Ch.)
Plastic Surgery (M.Ch.)
Cardiology (D.M)
Neurology (D.M)
MBBS from Deccan College of Medical Sciences, Kanchanbagh Hyderabad
MBBS course at the Deccan College of Medical Sciences includes a period of study extending over 4½ (Four & a half) academic years followed by 1 (one) year compulsory rotating Internship.
Deccan College of Medical Sciences annual Intake is 150, and the seat matrix is as follows:
Convener Quota (A-Category) – 50 %
Management Quota (B-Category)- 35 %
NRI Quota (C-Category) – 15 %
The seats will be allotted on Merit Basis, i.e., based on NEET Marks/NEET Ranks.
The candidate should have passed Intermediate (10+2 pattern) or its equivalent examination with Physics, Chemistry, Biology (Botany, Zoology)/Biotechnology and English. General Category (O.C.) candidates should obtain at least 50% (for BC/ST/SC 40%) marks in science subjects.
The candidate should have completed 17 years of age as of December for admission into MBBS Course.
The candidate should qualify for NEET Examinations with a 50 percentile for the General category, 40 percentile for BC/SC/ST and 45 percentile for persons with Disability (OC-PH).
Kamineni Academy of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Hyderabad
Dr. V.R.K. Women's Medical College, Aziz Nagar, Moinabad, Hyderabad
Bhaskar Medical College and General Hospital, Moinabad
Apollo Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Hyderabad
Ayaan Institute of Medical Sciences, KanakaMamidi Village, R.R. District
Rank Card and Hall Ticket of NEET
SSC or any equivalent examination certificate showing the date of birth
Intermediate (10+2 pattern) certificates and Memorandum of Marks
Study & Conduct certificate
Migration Certificate (if applicable)
Equivalence Certificate (if applicable)
Passport of the financial supporter
NRI Bank Account Pass Book of the Financial supporter
Nativity certificate of the Financial supporter
Step 1: Eligible and National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) qualified candidates should submit the admission application (available on the college website).
Step 2: The candidates whose names appear in the NEET merit list are only eligible to appear before the Selection / Counselling Board for the interview at the college.
Step 3: Shortlisted and selection of candidates in all the categories shall be subject to the verification of all the relevant certificates.
Step 4: The final list of candidates selected for admission will be displayed on the college website.
Government Fees (Category A) Rs. 60,000 per annum
Management Fees (Category B) Rs. 14,50,000 per annum
NRI Fees (Category C) Rs. 29,00,000 per annum (upto 2 times of category "B")
Deccan College of Medical Sciences doesn't provide scholarships.
1. Does the college provide hostels?
The college has two visiting lounges, having hostels for Boys & Girls respectively. Other facilities include internet, Television for Entertainment, and adequate furniture.
2. How to get admission at the Deccan College of Medical Sciences?
The candidates whose names appear in the NEET merit list are only eligible to appear before the Selection / Counselling Board for the interview at the college.
3. What is the Deccan College of Medical Sciences fee structure?
The estimated MBBS course fee at the Deccan College of Medical Sciences is INR 14,50,000 per annum for the management category.
4.Is Deccan College of Medical Sciences college recognized?
Deccan College of Medical Sciences is recognized by the Medical Council of India (known as NMC) and affiliated with Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences, Warangal.