Cited for: PHOSPHORYLATION AT THR-325; THR-331; SER-362 AND SER-374, FUNCTION, MUTAGENESIS OF THR-325; THR-331; PHE-343; TYR-345; SER-362 AND SER-374.
"Phosphorylation of the carboxyl-terminal transactivation domain of c-Fos by extracellular signal-regulated kinase mediates the transcriptional activation of AP-1 and cellular transformation induced by platelet-derived growth factor."
Monje P., Marinissen M.J., Gutkind J.S.
Cited for: PHOSPHORYLATION AT THR-232; THR-325; THR-331; SER-362 AND SER-374, FUNCTION, MUTAGENESIS OF THR-232; THR-325; THR-331 AND SER-374.
"Essential role of RSK2 in c-Fos-dependent osteosarcoma development."
David J.-P., Mehic D., Bakiri L., Schilling A.F., Mandic V., Priemel M., Idarraga M.H., Reschke M.O., Hoffmann O., Amling M., Wagner E.F.
Cited for: PHOSPHORYLATION AT SER-362, FUNCTION.
"c-Fos activates and physically interacts with specific enzymes of the pathway of synthesis of polyphosphoinositides."
Alfonso Pecchio A.R., Cardozo Gizzi A.M., Renner M.L., Molina-Calavita M., Caputto B.L.
Cited for: FUNCTION, INTERACTION WITH CDS1 AND PI4K2A, TYROSINE PHOSPHORYLATION BY SRC, MUTAGENESIS OF LYS-139; ARG-144 AND ARG-146.
"Anisotropic regulation of Ankrd2 gene expression in skeletal muscle by mechanical stretch."
Mohamed J.S., Lopez M.A., Cox G.A., Boriek A.M.
"c-fos regulates neuronal excitability and survival."
Zhang J., Zhang D., McQuade J.S., Behbehani M., Tsien J.Z., Xu M.
"Multiple basic-leucine zipper proteins regulate induction of the mouse heme oxygenase-1 gene by arsenite."
Gong P., Stewart D., Hu B., Vinson C., Alam J.
"Cytoplasmic Prep1 interacts with 4EHP inhibiting Hoxb4 translation."
Villaescusa J.C., Buratti C., Penkov D., Mathiasen L., Planaguma J., Ferretti E., Blasi F.
"Structure and chromosomal assignment of the mouse fra-1 gene, and its exclusion as a candidate gene for oc (osteosclerosis)."
Schreiber M., Poirier C., Franchi A., Kurzbauer R., Guenet J.-L., Carle G.F., Wagner E.F.
"Tmem64 modulates calcium signaling during RANKL-mediated osteoclast differentiation."
Kim H., Kim T., Jeong B.C., Cho I.T., Han D., Takegahara N., Negishi-Koga T., Takayanagi H., Lee J.H., Sul J.Y., Prasad V., Lee S.H., Choi Y.
"Autoimmunity initiates in nonhematopoietic cells and progresses via lymphocytes in an interferon-dependent autoimmune disease."
Gall A., Treuting P., Elkon K.B., Loo Y.M., Gale M. Jr., Barber G.N., Stetson D.B.
"Valproic acid-induced changes in gene expression during neurulation in a mouse model."
Wlodarczyk B.C., Craig J.C., Bennett G.D., Calvin J.A., Finnell R.H.
"GH-deficient dw/dw rats and lit/lit mice show increased Fos expression in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus following systemic injection of GH-releasing peptide-6."
Dickson S.L., Doutrelant-Viltart O., Leng G.
"The gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) receptor activating sequence (GRAS) is a composite regulatory element that interacts with multiple classes of transcription factors including Smads, AP-1 and a forkhead DNA binding protein."
Ellsworth B.S., Burns A.T., Escudero K.W., Duval D.L., Nelson S.E., Clay C.M.
"Inhibition of AP-1 by the glucocorticoid-inducible protein GILZ."
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Visiting China? You may find a new app digging into your phone
By Raymond Zhong
July 3, 2019 — 3.43pm
Beijing: China has turned its western region of Xinjiang into a police state with few modern parallels, employing a combination of high-tech surveillance and enormous manpower to monitor and subdue the area's predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities.
Now, the digital dragnet is expanding beyond Xinjiang's residents, ensnaring tourists, traders and other visitors — and digging deep into their smartphones.
A large image of Chinese President Xi Jinping is beamed in a square in Kashgar, an ancient city in Xinjiang, north-west China. Credit:The New York Times
A team of journalists from The New York Times and other publications examined a policing app used in the region, getting a rare look inside the intrusive technologies that China is deploying in the name of quelling Islamic radicalism and strengthening Communist Party rule in its far west. The use of the app has not been previously reported.
China's border authorities routinely install the app on smartphones belonging to travellers who enter Xinjiang by land from Central Asia, according to several people interviewed by the journalists who crossed the border recently and requested anonymity to avoid government retaliation. Chinese officials also installed the app on the phone of one of the journalists during a recent border crossing. Visitors were required to turn over their devices to be allowed into Xinjiang.
The app gathers personal data from phones, including text messages and contacts. It also checks whether devices are carrying pictures, videos, documents and audio files that match any of more than 73,000 items included on a list stored within the app's code.
An internment camp in the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux in China's Xinjiang region. Credit:AP
Those items include Islamic State publications, recordings of jihadi anthems and images of executions. But they also include material without any connection to Islamic terrorism, an indication of China's heavy-handed approach to stopping extremist violence. There are scanned pages from an Arabic dictionary, recorded recitations of Koran verses, a photo of the Dalai Lama and even a song by a Japanese band of the earsplitting heavy-metal style known as grindcore.
"The Chinese government, both in law and practice, often conflates peaceful religious activities with terrorism," Maya Wang, a China researcher for Human Rights Watch, said. "You can see in Xinjiang, privacy is a gateway right: Once you lose your right to privacy, you're going to be afraid of practising your religion, speaking what's on your mind or even thinking your thoughts."
A Uighur woman in Kashgar, Xianjing. China watches every step Muslims take in the region.
The United States has condemned Beijing for the crackdown in Xinjiang, which Chinese officials defend as a non-lethal way of fighting terrorism. The region is home to many of the country's Uighurs, a Turkic ethnic group, and the Chinese government has blamed Islamic extremism and Uighur separatism for deadly attacks on Chinese targets.
In the past few years, China has placed hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other Muslims in reeducation camps in Xinjiang. For the region's residents, police checkpoints and surveillance cameras equipped with facial recognition technology have imbued life with a corrosive fear of acting out of turn.
Police officers in Kashgar, Xinjiang. Credit:Bloomberg
With the scanning of phones at the border, the Chinese government is applying similarly invasive monitoring techniques to people who do not even live in Xinjiang or China. Beijing has said that terrorist groups use Central Asian countries as staging grounds for attacks in China.
Three people who crossed the Xinjiang land border from Kyrgyzstan in the past year said that as part of a lengthy inspection, Chinese border officials had demanded that visitors unlock and hand over their handsets and computers. On Android devices, officers installed an app called Fengcai (pronounced "FUNG-tsai"), a name that evokes bees collecting pollen.
A copy of Fengcai was examined by journalists from The New York Times; the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung; the German broadcaster NDR; The Guardian; and Motherboard, the Vice Media technology site.
The icon for the Fengcai app found on phones belonging to visitors to China. Credit:Screengrab
One of the journalists undertook the border crossing in recent months. Holders of Chinese passports, including members of the majority Han ethnic group, had their phones checked as well, the journalist said.
Apple devices were not spared scrutiny. Visitors' iPhones were unlocked and connected via a USB cable to a hand-held device, the journalist said. What the device did could not be determined.
The journalists also asked researchers at the Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany and the Open Technology Fund, an initiative funded by the U.S. government under Radio Free Asia, to analyse the code of the Android app, Fengcai. The Open Technology Fund then requested and funded an assessment of the app by Cure53, a cyber security company in Berlin.
The app's simple design makes the inspection process easy for border officers to carry out. After Fengcai is installed on a phone, the researchers found, it gathers all stored text messages, call records, contacts and calendar entries, as well as information about the device itself. The app also checks the files on the phone against the list of more than 73,000 items.
This list contains only the size of each file and a code that serves as a unique signature. It does not include the files' names or other information that would indicate what they are.
But at the journalists' request, researchers at the Citizen Lab, an internet watchdog group based at the University of Toronto, obtained information about roughly 1400 of the files by comparing their signatures with ones stored by VirusTotal, a malware-scanning service owned by Google sibling company Chronicle. Additional files were identified by Vinny Troia, founder of cyber security firm NightLion Security; and York Yannikos of the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology in Darmstadt, Germany.
Most of the files that the journalists could identify were related to Islamic terrorism: Islamic State recruitment materials in several languages, books written by jihadi figures, information about how to derail trains and build homemade weapons.
Many of the files were more benign. There were audio recordings of Koran verses recited by well-known clerics, the sort of material that many practicing Muslims might have on their phones. There were books about Arabic language and grammar, and a copy of The Syrian Jihad, a book about the country's civil war by researcher Charles Lister.
China's monitoring means rail passengers are scanned by face recognition software and are warned over the railway station's PA system to behave or their behaviour will be recorded on their social credit file. Credit:Sanghee Liu
Lister said he did not know why the Chinese authorities might consider him or his book suspicious. He speculated that it might only be because the word "jihad" was in the title.
Other files the app scans for have no link to Islam or Islamic extremism. There are writings by the Dalai Lama, whom China considers a dangerous separatist, and a photograph of him. There is a summary of The 33 Strategies of War, a book by author Robert Greene on applying strategic thinking to everyday life.
"It's a bit of a mystery to me," Greene said, when told that his book had been flagged.
There is also, puzzlingly, an audio file of a metal song: Cause and Effect, by Japanese band Unholy Grave. The reason for the song's inclusion was not clear, and an email sent to an address on Unholy Grave's website was not answered.
After Fengcai scans a phone, the app generates a report containing all contacts, text messages and call records, as well as lists of calendar entries and of other apps installed on the device. It sends this information to a server.
Two of the people who recently crossed the Xinjiang border said that before officials returned phones to their owners, they took photos of each owner's passport next to his or her device, making sure that the app was visible on the screen.
This suggests that authorities have been told to be thorough in scanning visitors' phones, although it was not clear how they were using the information they acquired as a result. It also could not be determined whether anyone had been detained or monitored because of information generated by the app. If Fengcai remains on a person's phone after it is installed, it does not continue scanning the device in the background, the app's code indicates.
Officials in Xinjiang are now gathering oceans of personal information, including DNA and data about people's movements. It would not be surprising for the Chinese authorities to want this harvesting of data to begin at the region's borders.
China's Ministry of Public Security and the Xinjiang regional government did not respond to requests for comment.
Names that appear in Fengcai's source code suggest that the app was made by a unit of FiberHome, a producer of optical cable and telecom equipment that is partly owned by the Chinese state. The unit, Nanjing FiberHome StarrySky Communication Development Company, says on its website that it offers products to help police collect and analyse data and that it has signed agreements with security authorities across China.
FiberHome and StarrySky did not respond to requests for comment.
According to StarrySky's website, the company offers "cellphone forensic equipment", which it says can extract, analyse and recover data from mobile phones.
On another page, StarrySky says the purpose of its "smart policing" products is "to let there be not a bad guy in the world who is hard to catch."

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Pasadena & Environs
Back to the Rose Bowl's Future
By Adrian Glick Kudler Jan 4, 2010, 3:53pm PST
The New York Times checked in on the planned Rose Bowl renovations last week and reported that Pasadena is prepping to apply for bonds on the $164 million project, which is scheduled to start construction in January 2011 and finish it four years later, in time for the one hundredth Rose Bowl game. The plans are pretty nostalgic: "The scoreboard at the south end of the stadium will be replaced by a 1940s replica, and at the north end, much of the signage will be stripped away and replaced by a high-definition video board. The bottom 10 rows, with notoriously poor views, will be ripped out along the sidelines and replaced by the hedges that once enveloped the field...And the concessions, which ring the building, will be reconfigured to be more efficient and redesigned to reflect the Craftsman-style of the neighborhood." [NYT]
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New research says that women who delivered their first child at 37 or 38 weeks are at a much higher risk of giving birth prematurely in the future.
According to new research, women who give birth to their first child early (at 37 or 38 weeks, in the context of this study) are two to three times more likely to deliver their next baby prematurely (before 37 weeks). Researchers at the University of California San Francisco analyzed data of over 160,000 women who gave birth in California between 2005 and 2011 to reach a finding that surprised even the researchers themselves.
"The magnitude of the increased risk surprised us—it really is a potent factor," the study's senior author, Laura Jelliffe-Pawlowsk, said.
It might seem as though certain women are simply at higher risk for delivering preterm—after all, plenty of lifestyle factors (like illegal drug use during pregnancy) and health conditions (high blood pressure, diabetes or a history of urinary tract infections) put women at risk for preterm delivery. However, even when researchers took these factors into account, a previous early term birth was still a huge risk factor for a subsequent premature birth.
Researchers hope that their findings will pave the way for new policies that could reduce rates of premature birth. This is a huge deal: Preterm birth is the leading cause of infant death and can lead to lifelong neurological issues like cerebral palsy, developmental delays and vision/hearing loss.
"There are so few avenues to lower preterm birth rates, so I'm always thrilled when our work suggests an additional one," Jelliffe-Pawlowski said.


Nice, Dana. Yep, lots of scientific partial validations of the multi-dimensional energy thing going on. I recommend Morgan Freeman's show on the Science Channel called Through the Wormhole. Some nice, as clear as you can get, explanations of how the physicists are thinking about these things.
Dana, I just saw your 'part two' post on Facebook and wanted to read part one first.
I can remember attending church many years with a childhood friend, and each time I went to her church, I 'got saved' (many times!). I always came away feeling changed. Life has directed my path to some very interesting experiences. I do feel blessed…and more 'attuned' with each experience.
Lady Joanne, I intend to watch Through the Wormhole. I would also recommend What the Bleep Do We Know.
Yes, it's my experience that we can keep being "fine tuned" in spiritual or therapy settings. I thought "What The Bleep" was terrific. It put many of these concepts in fun visual formats. I need to watch it again!


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Last Friday to hit stores on November, 14th
After a long wait, the survival horror game Last Friday arrived in Ares Games' warehouse right on October 31st, and is now shipping to distributors. The game will begin to hit stores in the US on November, 14th, and in the following weeks the English edition will become also available in other regions.
Last Friday, the survival horror game.
On Friday the 18th (until Sunday the 20th), this November, Ares Games is organizing demo events of the game in many game stores in US - the complete list and addresses will be posted next week. Stay tuned!
Last Friday is a hidden movement, hunt, and deduction horror game for 2 to 6 players, set in a summer camp on which hangs a curse. It's a story of a maniac who died and rose again. In the role of young campers, players are challenged to survive a long weekend of terror or may take the role of the undying psychopath hiding in the shadows of the forest. The game is divided into 4 chapters full of horror and suspense - each chapter plays out very differently, as the hunter becomes the prey, and then comes back from the dead looking for revenge.
Tags: Last Friday, Thematic Games
Frozen Steel: new expansion for Last Aurora starts to hit the stores
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The first half of being a pastor-prayer-warrior is your personal prayer life.
The second half is leading your church to pray. Let me walk you through how it can happen for you, and your church.
Here are seven prayers that Paul prayed for the churches he knew.
Together they'll give you a week's worth of biblical prayers you can pray for your church.
If you're in the Kingdom, you're in a battle. And maybe the best place to start in resolving whatever is coming against you is with a warfare prayer.
Few of us pray as long or as fervently as we wish we did.
Here's how you can be a church leader who prays enough.
Jesus intends to build his church, and we want to play a significant part in that.
Here are 12 ways to pray for your church.
These three prayer practices shape my life and ministry and I recommend them to you, my friend.


New to market this spring at The Preserve at the Woodlands in Oak Bluffs is a newly constructed colonial on Lot #11.
Featuring 4 BRS/3.5 BAs, deck, front porch, fireplace and more than 3,400 square feet, this elegant wood-shingled home will be finished this summer.
Price at completion this summer of this newly constructed home will be $1.995M. However, while the residence is still being built, it is available for $1.9M.
Additional features include forced hot-air heat (gas), hardwood floors and nearly two acres of wooded privacy. Send Me More Information about this Home at The Preserve!
The new home is located on Lot #11, top right.
The Preserve offers convenient access to the bicycle path, Farm Neck Golf Club which is less than a mile away, and all three down-Island towns and beaches.
Designed as a neighborhood for upscale homes with up to six bedrooms, carefully crafted association covenants have been developed to preserve the character, integrity and value of this distinctive property. Send Me More Information about this Home at The Preserve!
Editor's Note: Map of the lots at The Preserve at The Woodlands provided by Point B Realty.


Marxist cultural theory underlies much teaching and research in university departments of literature and has played a crucial role in the development of recent theoretical work. Feminism, New Historicism, cultural materialism, postcolonial theory, and queer theory all draw upon ideas about cultural production which can be traced to Marx, and significantly each also has a special relation with Renaissance literary studies. This book explores the past and continuing influence of Marx's ideas in work on Shakespeare. Marx's ideas about cultural production and its relation to economic production are clearly explained, together with the standard terminology and concepts such as base/superstructure, ideology, commodity fetishism, alienation, and reification. The influence of Marx's ideas on the theory and practice of Shakespeare criticism and performance is traced from the Victorian age to the present day. The continuing importance of these ideas is illustrated via new Marxist readings of King Lear, hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, Timon of Athens, The Comedy of Errors, All's Well that Ends Well, and The Winter's Tale.


Read's Cavern, Mendip, past Survey Salon winning entry, courtesy of Andrew Atkinson.
Hidden Earth are holding a survey salon and competition. The purpose is to promote cave surveying and provide the opportunity for clubs or individuals to display their surveys. In addition to drawn surveys, other surveying-related material can be displayed as part of the salon and competition and could, for example, include 3D models of caves.
The entry deadline is 11pm on Thursday 28 September 2017, so you'll need to get your skates on!
Entries should be registered using the online system on this page in advance of the conference (by the above deadline). Entries after this date are not guaranteed space on the display boards.
Take a look at the competition categories and guidelines and get your entries in!
Correspondent: Andrew Atkinson, Survey Salon Co-ordinator.


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16th Century history, 17th Century history, Early modern history, House of Lords 1558-1603, Local History, social history, The First Elizabethan Age
Henry Clinton, earl of Lincoln: a peer governed by the underworld?
What's your image of an Elizabethan nobleman? A grave elder statesmen with a long beard, perhaps, or a dashing young courtier in a large ruff. How about a pantomime villain? Dr Paul Hunneyball of our Lords 1558-1603 section considers a peer whose bad behaviour shocked even his contemporaries… According to the conventional narrative of English history, medieval peers lived in castles, employed private armies, oppressed … Continue reading Henry Clinton, earl of Lincoln: a peer governed by the underworld?
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The good, the bad and the visually memorable: characterising the Commons 1640-1660
With Westminster once more ringing with allegations of corruption, it is as well to recall that MPs have rarely been elected on account of their unimpeachable conduct. And, as Dr Vivienne Larminie of our Commons 1640-60 section explains, while modern politics is sometimes dubbed a 'beauty contest', quite a few mid-seventeenth-century Members were eye-catching for the wrong reasons… The make-up of the House of Commons … Continue reading The good, the bad and the visually memorable: characterising the Commons 1640-1660
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16th Century history, 17th Century history, Early modern history, economic history, James I to Restoration, Migration, religious history
Immigrants and refugees at Westminster: the foreign ancestry of mid-17th century MPs
With refugee crises and immigration back in the news, Dr Vivienne Larminie, assistant editor of our Commons 1640-1660 section, considers how these issues impacted on the character of the House of Commons nearly 400 years ago… Business involving immigrants and refugees was not uncommon in mid-seventeenth century Parliaments. Petitions for naturalization, the trading rights of 'stranger' merchants, provision for destitute fugitives arriving in England and … Continue reading Immigrants and refugees at Westminster: the foreign ancestry of mid-17th century MPs
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17th Century history, Early modern history, Elections, Health and Medicine, James I to Restoration, Politics
Exploring the roots of a regicide: Sir John Danvers, the University of Oxford and gardens
As we look forward to warmer weather and fewer Covid-related restrictions, Dr Vivienne Larminie, assistant editor of our Commons 1640-1660 section, considers the complex and contradictory career of a noted seventeenth-century horticulturalist… This week the Bodleian Library in Oxford launched an exhibition marking the quatercentenary of the foundation in 1621 of the city's Botanic Garden. 'Roots to Seeds' explores the development of the physic garden, … Continue reading Exploring the roots of a regicide: Sir John Danvers, the University of Oxford and gardens
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17th Century history, Early modern history, Health and Medicine, James I to Restoration, Women and Parliament
'Death-bed disinherison by so foul a practice': Parliament, the Vanlore heiresses and an early modern whodunnit
In Women's History month, Dr Vivienne Larminie, assistant editor of our Commons 1640-1660 section, looks at how petitions to Parliament can lift the lid on the private lives of privileged women and, in the struggle to secure property rights, reveal a dark underside of manipulation, prejudice, violence, the desperation of the childless and even murder … Throughout the turmoil of the civil wars and interregnum, … Continue reading 'Death-bed disinherison by so foul a practice': Parliament, the Vanlore heiresses and an early modern whodunnit
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14th Century history, Conferences/seminars, legal history, medieval history
Parliament and the trial of the 'peers of the land' in Henry of Lancaster's revolt, 1328-29
Ahead of next Tuesday's Virtual IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Dr Matt Raven, of the University of Nottingham. On 16 February 2021, between 5.15 p.m. and 6.30 p.m., Matt will be responding to your questions about his pre-circulated paper on the development of parliamentary privilege in fourteenth-century England. Details of how to join the discussion are available here, or by contacting … Continue reading Parliament and the trial of the 'peers of the land' in Henry of Lancaster's revolt, 1328-29
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An English baron in early 17th century America: Thomas West (1577-1618), 3rd Baron De La Warr
To mark Joe Biden's inauguration as the 46th president of the United States, Dr Ben Coates of our Lords 1558-1603 section explains the surprising connection between the state of Delaware and the English peerage… The new American president, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., was born in Pennsylvania, but moved as a child to Delaware, which he subsequently represented in Congress as a senator for over 30 … Continue reading An English baron in early 17th century America: Thomas West (1577-1618), 3rd Baron De La Warr
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17th Century history, Early modern history, James I to Restoration, religious history, social history
Cancelling Christmas? William Prynne, kill-joy and martyr, and the onslaught on 'pagan Saturnalia'
With the government currently recommending scaled-back Christmas celebrations, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr Vivienne Larminie, assistant editor of our Commons 1640-60 project, considers a man who advocated scrapping Yuletide festivities for a quite different reason… The idea that 'the puritans cancelled Christmas' has widespread acceptance. Indeed it surfaced in the House of Commons recently in debate over what kind of celebration might be prudent … Continue reading Cancelling Christmas? William Prynne, kill-joy and martyr, and the onslaught on 'pagan Saturnalia'
17th Century history, Early modern history, Health and Medicine, James I to Restoration
Gap years and study abroad: 17th century MPs and the legacy of a foreign education
As international travel continues to be unpredictable and as universities and colleges start a new academic year in uncertain times, Dr Vivienne Larminie, Assistant Editor of the Commons 1640-1660, considers MPs who went abroad to complete their education and the effect of that on their parliamentary service… As Dr Paul Hunneyball observed in a previous post from James I to Restoration, more than a quarter … Continue reading Gap years and study abroad: 17th century MPs and the legacy of a foreign education
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17th Century history, Early modern history, Health and Medicine, James I to Restoration, Politics, social history
'Going into the country': leave, holidays and political intrigue in the 1640s
As the easing of lockdown encourages many of us to seize opportunities to go on holiday, and especially take 'staycations', Dr Vivienne Larminie, assistant editor of the Commons 1640-1660 section, looks at the positive and (arguably) negative uses to which civil war MPs put their leave… The widespread perception that the Parliaments of the mid-seventeenth century cut down on holidays is not inaccurate. As has … Continue reading 'Going into the country': leave, holidays and political intrigue in the 1640s
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package org.apache.drill.exec.record.metadata.schema.parser;

import org.antlr.v4.runtime.BaseErrorListener;
import org.antlr.v4.runtime.CharStreams;
import org.antlr.v4.runtime.CodePointCharStream;
import org.antlr.v4.runtime.CommonTokenStream;
import org.antlr.v4.runtime.RecognitionException;
import org.antlr.v4.runtime.Recognizer;
import org.apache.drill.common.types.TypeProtos;
import org.apache.drill.exec.record.metadata.ColumnMetadata;
import org.apache.drill.exec.record.metadata.TupleMetadata;

import java.io.IOException;

public class SchemaExprParser {

  /**
   * Parses string definition of the schema and converts it
   * into {@link TupleMetadata} instance.
   *
   * @param schema schema definition
   * @return metadata description of the schema
   * @throws IOException when unable to parse the schema
   */
  public static TupleMetadata parseSchema(String schema) throws IOException {
    SchemaVisitor visitor = new SchemaVisitor();
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Harlem Globetrotters Legend – And Hall Of Famer – Marques Haynes Passes Away At 89
Haynes was the first player ever enshrined in the Hall of Fame as a Globetrotter
(PHOENIX, May 22, 2015) – Legendary Harlem Globetrotter Marques Haynes – considered by many to be the greatest basketball dribbler of all-time – died of natural causes at 4:35 this morning in Plano, Texas, at the age of 89. He passed away peacefully with family and friends in his presence. Services are pending.
In a four-decade career, Haynes played in more than 12,000 games, traveled more than four million miles and entertained fans in nearly 100 countries during two stints with the Globetrotters (1947-53, 1972-79). His dribbling style would confuse and confound opponents and became one of the Globetrotters' most potent offensive weapons.
"The game of basketball has lost one of its most iconic figures," said Globetrotters CEO Kurt Schneider. "Marques was a pioneer, helping pave the way for people of all races to have opportunities to play basketball and for the sport to explode on a global scale. His unique and groundbreaking style of play set the tone for modern basketball as we know it; anyone involved with basketball worldwide is indebted to Marques. He was the consummate Globetrotter. "We will be dedicating our upcoming 90th anniversary tour in 2016 to Marques, and the team will wear a commemorative patch on our uniforms to salute the significant contributions he made to basketball and the Globetrotters," said Schneider.
T he acrobatic Haynes caught the attention of Harlem Globetrotters owner Abe Saperstein in 1946, during a game in which Langston defeated the Globetrotters, 74-70. Following graduation, Haynes joined the Globetrotters and starred for the team when it defeated the George Mikan-led Minneapolis Lakers in 1948 (61-59) and in 1949 (49-45).
In 1998, Haynes became the first player ever to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a Globetrotter. He has been enshrined into a total of six Halls of Fame, including NAIA (1985), Jim Thorpe (1993) and Langston University (1995). On Dec. 8, 2007, Langston University honored Haynes by dedicating its basketball court as "Marques Haynes Court."
Haynes received a Globetrotters "Legends" Ring and had his jersey (#20) retired as part of a 75th Anniversary black tie charity fund-raiser on Jan. 5, 2001, at Chicago's Fairmont Hotel. Only five Globetrotters jersey numbers have been retired in the team's storied history.
Haynes' basketball career began at Booker T. Washington High School in his hometown of Sand Springs, Okla., where he led the school to a high school national championship in 1941 and was named a Second Team Scholastic All-America that season. Haynes then starred collegiately at Langston University in Langston, Okla. (1942-46), where he was a four-time All-Conference selection and team MVP. Haynes led Langston in scoring all four years and guided the team to a 112-3 record, a mark that included a 59-game winning streak. Sponsored by World Vision, Greyhound Lines and Baden Sports, The Harlem Globetrotters® are celebrating their 89th consecutive year, continuing a world famous tradition of ball handling wizardry, basketball artistry, and one-of-a-kind family entertainment that continues to thrill fans of all ages. Harlem Globetrotters International, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Herschend Family Entertainment Corporation, the largest family-owned themed entertainment company in the U.S. Throughout their history, the Original Harlem Globetrotters have showcased their iconic talents in 122 countries and territories on six continents, often breaking down cultural and societal barriers while providing fans with their first-ever basketball experience. Proud inductees of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, the Globetrotters have entertained hundreds of millions of fans-among them popes, kings, queens, and presidents-over more than eight thrilling decades. For the latest news and information about the Harlem Globetrotters, and to purchase tickets and team merchandise, visit the Globetrotters' official Web site: www.harlemglobetrotters.com.


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Home/News/Inside Iran/Threatening a Hostage With Lashes, 40 Years in Prison, Mullahs' Dirty, Inhumane Blackmail To Force Belgium to Release Regime's Terrorist Diplomat
Threatening a Hostage With Lashes, 40 Years in Prison, Mullahs' Dirty, Inhumane Blackmail To Force Belgium to Release Regime's Terrorist Diplomat
Amir2018Taghati3 weeks ago
On Thursday, January 26, on the eve of the anniversary of the 1979 anti-monarchy revolution in Iran,
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· The Belgian government must neutralize mullahs' ploy and secure the well-being and safety of Olivier Vandecasteele by announcing that it will try Khamenei in absentia if the hostage is lashed
· Mrs. Maryam Rajavi once again expressed her sympathy to the Vandecasteele family and noted that firmness is the only language understood by the bloodthirsty rulers of Iran who have killed more than 750 people in the recent uprising, 77 of them are children and teenagers
To blackmail the Belgian government into releasing the imprisoned terrorist diplomat Assadollah Assadi and help him escape his punishment, the regime's supreme leader Ali Khamenei, ordered the Judiciary to sentence the Belgian hostage, Olivier Vandecasteele, to 40 years in prison, 74 lashes, and a million dollar fine on bogus charges.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), who was the primary target of the plot to blow the Free Iran World Summit in Paris in June 2018, strongly condemned this dirty and inhuman blackmail.
Mrs. Rajavi once again expressed her sympathy with the Vandecasteele family and noted that firmness is the only language understood by the bloodthirsty rulers of Iran who have killed more than 750 people in the recent uprising, 77 of whom were children and teenagers. Therefore, to neutralize the mullahs' ploy and secure the well-being and safety of Vandecasteele, the Belgian government must immediately announce that it will prosecute Khamenei in absentia if the hostage is subjected to lashes.
Mrs. Rajavi reiterated: I wish the religious fascism ruling Iran would stop taking hostages, but in the past 43 years, for every hostage that has been freed by exchanges or incentives, the regime has taken or killed at least two other hostages. If this is not the case, the regime ruling Iran must immediately provide a written commitment to the United Nations that it will release Vandecasteele and all other hostages and will no longer take any more hostages.


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Корія () — муніципалітет в Іспанії, у складі автономної спільноти Естремадура, у провінції Касерес. Населення —  особи (2010).

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Муніципалітет розташований на відстані близько 250 км на захід від Мадрида, 60 км на північ від Касереса.

На території муніципалітету розташовані такі населені пункти: (дані про населення за 2010 рік)
 Корія: 11889 осіб
 Пуебла-де-Археме: 715 осіб
 Рінкон-дель-Обіспо: 358 осіб

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Q: Openvpn: no response from server in tcp handshake I am attempting to connect to an openVPN server that I created on pfSense 2.2.3 by using tunnelblick on my Macbook. Whenever I attempt to connect using either OpenVPN version 2.3.6 or 2.3.7 (all that is available on this version of tunnelblick), the openVPN server receives the packet that starts the TCP handshake to establish a connection, but never responds to it. I have pasted the log of what happens whenever a connection is attempted below. I am unsure of what the problem could be at this point, please let me know if any more information is required to help resolve this issue.
> 2015-07-07 16:28:28 OpenVPN 2.3.6 x86_64-apple-darwin [SSL (OpenSSL)]
> [LZO] [PKCS11] [MH] [IPv6] built on Jun 12 2015 2015-07-07 16:28:28
> library versions: OpenSSL 1.0.2c 12 Jun 2015, LZO 2.09 2015-07-07
> 16:28:28 MANAGEMENT: TCP Socket listening on [AF_INET]127.0.0.1:1337
> 2015-07-07 16:28:28 Need hold release from management interface,
> waiting... 2015-07-07 16:28:26 *Tunnelblick: OS X 10.7.5; Tunnelblick
> 3.6beta06 (build 4346) 2015-07-07 16:28:27 *Tunnelblick: Attempting connection with config using shadow copy; Set nameserver = 1;
> monitoring connection 2015-07-07 16:28:27 *Tunnelblick: openvpnstart
> start config.tblk 1337 1 0 1 0 16688 -ptADGNWradsgnw 2.3.6 2015-07-07
> 16:28:30 *Tunnelblick: openvpnstart log:
>      OpenVPN started successfully. Command used to start OpenVPN (one argument per displayed line):
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>           /Applications/Tunnelblick.app/Contents/Resources/openvpn/openvpn-2.3.6/openvpn
>           --daemon
>           --log
>           /Library/Application Support/Tunnelblick/Logs/-SUsers-Scw-SLibrary-SApplication
> Support-STunnelblick-SConfigurations-Sconfig.tblk-SContents-SResources-Sconfig.ovpn.1_0_1_0_16688.1337.openvpn.log
>           --cd
>           /Library/Application Support/Tunnelblick/Users/cw/config.tblk/Contents/Resources
>           --verb
>           3
>           --config
>           /Library/Application Support/Tunnelblick/Users/cw/config.tblk/Contents/Resources/config.ovpn
>           --cd
>           /Library/Application Support/Tunnelblick/Users/cw/config.tblk/Contents/Resources
>           --management
>           127.0.0.1
>           1337
>           --management-query-passwords
>           --management-hold
>           --script-security
>           2
>           --up
>           /Applications/Tunnelblick.app/Contents/Resources/client.up.tunnelblick.sh
> -d -f -m -w -ptADGNWradsgnw
>           --down
>           /Applications/Tunnelblick.app/Contents/Resources/client.down.tunnelblick.sh
> -d -f -m -w -ptADGNWradsgnw
>
> 2015-07-07 16:28:27 *Tunnelblick: openvpnstart starting OpenVPN
> 2015-07-07 16:28:30 MANAGEMENT: Client connected from
> [AF_INET]127.0.0.1:1337 2015-07-07 16:28:30 *Tunnelblick: Established
> communication with OpenVPN 2015-07-07 16:28:30 MANAGEMENT: CMD 'pid'
> 2015-07-07 16:28:30 MANAGEMENT: CMD 'state on' 2015-07-07 16:28:30
> MANAGEMENT: CMD 'state' 2015-07-07 16:28:30 MANAGEMENT: CMD 'bytecount
> 1' 2015-07-07 16:28:30 MANAGEMENT: CMD 'hold release' 2015-07-07
> 16:28:30 NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this
> configuration to call user-defined scripts 2015-07-07 16:28:30 Socket
> Buffers: R=[262140->65536] S=[131070->65536] 2015-07-07 16:28:30
> Attempting to establish TCP connection with
> [AF_INET]128.151.18.205:443 [nonblock] 2015-07-07 16:28:30 MANAGEMENT:
> >STATE:1436300910,TCP_CONNECT,,, 2015-07-07 16:28:40 TCP: connect to [AF_INET]128.151.18.205:443 failed, will try again in 5 seconds:
> Operation timed out 2015-07-07 16:28:45 MANAGEMENT:
> >STATE:1436300925,TCP_CONNECT,,, 2015-07-07 16:28:55 TCP: connect to [AF_INET]128.151.18.205:443 failed, will try again in 5 seconds:
> Operation timed out 2015-07-07 16:29:00 MANAGEMENT:
> >STATE:1436300940,TCP_CONNECT,,, 2015-07-07 16:29:10 TCP: connect to [AF_INET]128.151.18.205:443 failed, will try again in 5 seconds:
> Operation timed out 2015-07-07 16:29:15 MANAGEMENT:
> >STATE:1436300955,TCP_CONNECT,,, 2015-07-07 16:29:25 TCP: connect to [AF_INET]128.151.18.205:443 failed, will try again in 5 seconds:
> Operation timed out 2015-07-07 16:29:30 MANAGEMENT:
> >STATE:1436300970,TCP_CONNECT,,, 2015-07-07 16:29:40 TCP: connect to [AF_INET]128.151.18.205:443 failed, will try again in 5 seconds:
> Operation timed out 2015-07-07 16:29:41 *Tunnelblick: Disconnecting;
> VPN Details… window disconnect button pressed 2015-07-07 16:29:41
> *Tunnelblick: Disconnecting using 'kill' 2015-07-07 16:29:42 SIGTERM[hard,init_instance] received, process exiting 2015-07-07
> 16:29:42 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1436300982,EXITING,init_instance,,
> 2015-07-07 16:29:43 *Tunnelblick: No 'post-disconnect.sh' script to
> execute 2015-07-07 16:29:43 *Tunnelblick: Expected disconnection
> occurred.

A: What are you seeing re: "receives the packet"? It doesn't appear it's responding at all. Try to telnet to the port where you're running OpenVPN.
Guessing maybe you didn't add a firewall rule on WAN allowing traffic to reach the OpenVPN server instance and it's getting blocked. You'll see that in the firewall log if that's the case.
You're best off using UDP, not TCP, unless you're in a situation where TCP is a requirement for some reason. But that's unrelated to the issue at hand.

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Tobacco industry accused of 'intimidation and interference' in Kenya
Public Health, Tobacco Control
By ilakenya| 2018-03-16T16:03:29+00:00	July 21st, 2015|Public Health, Tobacco Control|
By Rachel Rose Jackson Researchers suggest British American Tobacco has undue influence over the Kenyan government and is in breach of WHO tobacco convention More than 50 years after Kenya gained independence from British colonial rule, one company is steadfastly refusing to loosen its grip on power in the country: British American Tobacco (BAT). The tobacco giant still [...]
MNAZI Bill sails through
Bills, Notices
By ilakenya| 2015-07-17T15:24:36+00:00	July 17th, 2015|Bills, Notices|
In a bid to salvage palm wine, commonly known as mnazi, from the ongoing war against illicit brew, the county assembly yesterday passed a bill that legalised the traditional wine. Members of the assembly put aside all the house business to discuss the coconut bill, which they later passed, unanimously. The sitting, which was extended [...]
South Africa tightens seatbelt laws to protect children
By ilakenya| 2018-03-16T16:03:29+00:00	July 16th, 2015|Road Safety|
24 November 2014 By Lorraine Kearney From April 2015, South African motorists are going to have to take a more serious approach to road safety. The country has among the highest numbers of road deaths and trauma, particularly of children. Until now, wearing seatbelts has been compulsory for older children and adults, yet not for [...]
Women in Tobacco Farming
Notices, Public Health, Tobacco Control, Uncategorized
By ilakenya| 2015-08-25T16:05:31+00:00	July 16th, 2015|Notices, Public Health, Tobacco Control, Uncategorized|
International Institute for Legislative Affairs (IILA) in collaboration with Public Health Institute (PHI) is conducting research dubbed "Women in Tobacco farming". The ongoing research is focusing on health, equality, and empowerment of women involved in tobacco farming. The study targets the following counties: Migori and Kuria in South Nyanza and, Embu and Meru in Eastern [...]
ADVOCACY CAMPAIGN FOR THE EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF TOBACCO CONTROL POLICIES AND LEGISLATION IN KENYA
Notices, Public Health, Tobacco Control
By ilakenya| 2015-07-16T12:46:10+00:00	July 16th, 2015|Notices, Public Health, Tobacco Control|
International institute for legislative in partnership with Africa Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) has embarked on a two-year project aimed at advocating for effective implementation of Tobacco policies and Legislations in Kenya. The project targets 5 counties in Kenya. The first reference group has been held with representatives from the Ministry of Health (MOH), Nairobi City [...]
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THE ECONOMIC AND HEALTH BENEFITS OF TOBACCO TAXATION
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Understanding the devolution architecture
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Introduction Devolved systems and governance in the context of many countries including Kenya essentially means devolution. Devolution is a form of decentralization. However, devolution is a more substantial and solid transfer of both political and economic powers from the national to lower levels of governance. According to ICJ (2013, 5) devolution is the process of [...]
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Die Wildhau ist ein zusammenhängendes Waldgebiet im mittelfränkischen Landkreis Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen.

Es befindet sich im äußersten Osten des Landkreises Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen auf den Gebieten der Gemeinden Burgsalach und Raitenbuch. Die Wildhau liegt auf einer Hochfläche inmitten der Weißenburger Alb, einem Höhenzug der Fränkischen Alb. Im Süden geht der Wald in den Raitenbucher Forst, im Westen in den Weißenburger Stadtwald über. Unweit nördlich liegt der Ort Burgsalach, östlich liegt Raitenbuch, westlich Oberhochstatt. Im Westen verläuft das Laubental.

Die Wildhau wird von einigen Flurwegen durchzogen. Durch die Wildhau verläuft der Wanderweg Limesweg und der Fahrradweg Deutscher Limes-Radweg. Durch den Wald führten eine Römerstraße und der Obergermanisch-Raetische Limes. Der Wald liegt inmitten des Naturparks Altmühltal in einem Landschaftsschutzgebiet. Am westlichen Rand des Waldgebiets liegt das Kleinkastell "In der Harlach". Im Wald finden sich etliche Grabhügel.

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 Lage der Wildhau auf:
 Burgsalacher Wildhau und Reittenbucher Wildhau auf der historischen Flurkarte im BayernAtlas

Waldgebiet im Landkreis Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen
Geographie (Raitenbuch)
Geographie (Burgsalach)


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OSHA launches webpage on radiation emergency preparedness and response
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Washington — OSHA has created a webpage intended to educate workers about how to protect themselves in radiation-related situations ranging from a small, isolated spill in a laboratory to a potentially catastrophic release at a nuclear facility.
The Radiation Emergency Preparedness and Response webpage provides resources on health and safety planning, medical monitoring and dosimetry, and other relevant topics for workers "who may be impacted by radiation emergencies" or "who may be involved in emergency response operations or related activities."
The webpage is broken into six sections:
Background provides definitions of "radiation" and "radiation emergencies" and shares examples of scenarios workers may encounter.
General Businesses covers preparing employers and workers who do not have emergency response duties.
Preparedness shares information on planning, training and equipping workplace emergency responders.
Response includes information on personal protective equipment, exposure monitoring and limits, treatment and management, and other considerations.
OSHA Resources offers links to the agency's standards, standard interpretations and other resources.
Additional Resources provides links on radiation emergencies, including types of hazards, exposure assessments, training, sheltering and evacuation, and decontamination.
'Plan ahead': OSHA spotlights resources for emergency preparedness, response
OSHA launches webpage on using leading indicators


The Jaguars' struggles continue this season, and to be fair, that's nothing new concerning the perennial basement dwellers of the NFL standings. They currently hold the NFL's third worst record at 2-11 and have lost eight straight games. As if things couldn't have gotten any worse for the Jaguars, they went a step beyond to go from bad to really, really bad when their kicker cost their team a rare penalty at the start of the game, which hasn't been called since 1998 when the Bengals played the Broncos.
Jacksonville kicker Jason Myers was hit with a delay of game on the kickoff. Yes, that's an actual violation in the NFL rulebook. It's rarely called because teams have from the time after they score until the official blows their whistle for a kickoff to occur to get the play-call in, and then there is an additional 25 seconds for the receiving team to start their series. No play action after that 25-second limit is a delay of game penalty.
But for the Jaguars to once again pulled off the unthinkable by digging deep for violations that no one besides the refs knew even existed is pretty sad.
First time I ever saw this in a football game.
Of course the @Jaguars score a td then get a delay of game penalty on the kickoff?!?! How does a pro team do that?!?!?!
They lost to the Vikings 25-16, and let's just say it's a rebuilding decade year for the Jaguars.


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Stephen Sambu (born July 7, 1988, in Kenya) is a Kenyan long distance runner who specialises in road running competitions.

College career
Stephen Sambu ran for the University of Arizona, where he was coached by James Li, who is also Bernard Lagat's long-term coach. For the Arizona Wildcats he was runner-up in the 10,000 meters at the 2012 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, runner-up at the 2012 NCAA Men's Division I Cross Country Championship, and a 9-time All-American. At Rend Lake College in Ina, Illinois, he captured 10 individual national championships, including two National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) national cross country titles.

2013 season
He won the 2013 B.A.A. 10K.

2014 season
Sambu won the 2014 editions of the Falmouth Road Race, Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run, B.A.A. 10K, and UAE Healthy Kidney 10K.

2015 season
He won the 2015 editions of the Great Manchester Run, Falmouth Road Race, Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run.

2016 season
Sambu won the 2016 New York City Half Marathon.
He also won the Bank of America Shamrock Shuffle 8k in Chicago.

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1988 births
Living people
Kenyan male long-distance runners
Arizona Wildcats men's track and field athletes
Arizona Wildcats men's cross country runners


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Posts Tagged 'Rachel Dodson'
July is a month with five Wednesdays, which usually means more comics from DC. Typically, we get annuals and other one-shot specials in that last week, since most of their ongoing books are released on a regular schedule (Wonder Woman is out on the second and fourth Wednesday of every month, for example), and there's a bit of that here. But we've also got a lot of new books throughout the entire month, both ongoing and mini-series. DC trimmed back their line earlier this year, and now it seems to be growing again. Does that mean we'll see more female and non-binary creators moving forward? Well, so far, no. Let's take a look at who is doing what at DC this July:
Adriana Melo: Female Furies #6 (interior art)
Amanda Conner: Wonder Woman: Come Back To Me #1 (co-writer, cover)
Bilquis Evely: The Dreaming #11 (interior art)
Cecil Castellucci: Batgirl #37 (writer), Female Furies #6 (writer)
Emanuela Lupacchino: Wonder Twins #6 (variant cover)
G. Willow Wilson: Wonder Woman #74 (writer), Wonder Woman #75 (writer)
Jenny Frison: Lois Lane #1 (variant cover), Wonder Woman #74 (variant cover), Wonder Woman #75 (variant cover)
Joelle Jones: Catwoman #13 (writer, interior art, cover), Female Furies #6 (cover)
Kat Howard: The Books of Magic #10 (writer)
Kelly Sue DeConnick: Aquaman #50 (writer)
Lea H. Seidman: Teen Titans Go! #35 (cover)
Mairghread Scott: Batman Secret Files #2 (co-writer)
Nalo Hopkinson: House of Whispers #11 (co-writer)
Rachel Dodson: Justice League #28 (variant cover), Wonder Woman #75 (cover)
Sandra Hope: Superman: Up In The Sky #1 (inker)
Taki Soma: Pearl #11 (variant cover)
Tiffany Turrill: Lucifer #10 (cover)
Yasmine Putri: DCeased #3 (variant cover), Red Hood: Outlaw #36 (variant cover)
All together, there are 18 different female creators set to work on 20 different comic books at DC this July, the same number of creators as in June across three more books. As best I can tell, there are no non-binary creators listed in this round of solicits. Given that DC is putting out 11 more books in July than in June, the fact that the number of creators stayed the same is disappointing. As we've talked about over the past few months while DC's output decreased, it's reasonable to see a commensurate drop in the number of female and non-binary creators as the line dwindles. But you'd expect to see the numbers go up when it grows, which hasn't happened here.
However, DC's jumped up to 62 new books after putting out only 51 in June, and with female creators on 20 of those books, that means women will work on 32% of the publisher's comics in July. This percentage is very comparable to what we've seen over the past few months. The overall representation across the line is steady, but there aren't more women or non-binary creators doing the work. It's a small number of people doing more work, which is a bit of a mixed bag. Talented creators should get lots of work, for sure! But it's good to grow the ranks as well.
And DC didn't do a lot of that this month. Lea H. Seidman looks new but she's actually Lea Hernandez, who we've seen a bunch on Teen Titans Go!, now using her married name. And while I feel like we haven't seen Taki Soma in a little bit, she's nonetheless a familiar face at DC now that her pal and occasional collaborator Brian Michael Bendis is there. Everyone else are our wonderfully talented usuals.
In terms of female characters, we've got a couple new books to look forward to. DC's repackaging their original Walmart comic stories for the direct market, which means new mini-series for Batman, Superman, and, most important of all, Wonder Woman with Wonder Woman: Come Back to Me. And the Superman line is expanding with a Lois Lane series, FINALLY. It's long overdue and I really wish there were more female creators working on it, but I'm happy it's going to exist nonetheless. Doom Patrol is coming back as well, with a few female characters in the mix there.
So, another ho-hum month at DC, really. Their numbers for female and non-binary creators have been consistently underwhelming all year long, and it looks like that's going to continue into the summer. Representation just doesn't seem to be a big priority at DC right now.
Tags:Adriana Melo, Amanda Conner, Bilquis Evely, Cecil Castellucci, DC Comics, Emanuela Lupacchino, G. Willow Wilson, Jenny Frison, Joelle Jones, Kat Howard, Kelly Sue Deconnick, Lea H. Seidman, Mairghread Scott, Nalo Hopkinson, Rachel Dodson, Sandra Hope, Solicits, Taki Soma, Tiffany Turrill, Women at DC Comics, Women In Comics, Women In Comics Statistics, Yasmine Putri
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Wonder Woman #71 Review: A Colossal Discovery
We've had a bit of a talky go of it lately with Wonder Woman. Atlantiades is not the sort of villain you stop with fisticuffs, or even a villain at all, really. More an interesting conundrum, a deity in a strange place doing what only comes natural to them, seeking worship. And toying with mortals, of course. The gods are always toying with mortals. It's brought us an interesting glimpse into Wonder Woman's love life, along with some cool discussions on free will and happiness, and it's all been quite excellent. That plot is largely resolved this week, but with little in the way of awesome punching and action fun.
That's why it's handy that Maggie and Aphrodite went off exploring and found a new foe. One that's definitely going to need some punching. There'll be no thoughtful, introspective discussions with this adversary. Just a classic beat 'em up. I love that Wonder Woman is a book that can give us both. G. Willow Wilson's dug into some heavy subject matter since she took over the series, but she's also made time to have Diana bust up some rock giants and now what appears to be a massive living statue of some sort. That's just quality comic booking all around. We'll dig into it all, but first:
We're going to discuss everything that happened in this issue!
Turn away if you haven't read it yet!
Also, as always, you should be reading this book!
Before we get into all the fun, I don't know who keeps telling Terry and Rachel Dodson that Steve Trevor is in the book, but he is not. And yet, he keeps showing up on the covers. He actually popped in for a scene or two a couple weeks back, but wasn't on the cover then. And now he's back on the cover once more, with nary a mention of the man inside the book. It's such a nitpicky thing, I know, but I wonder about the disconnect. Was Steve supposed to be in the book at one point and plans got changed? Are the Dodsons just drawing what they think will look cool? I mean, their covers are always amazing. I'm not even annoyed. Just curious and confused.
Anyway, onto the story. We get a resolution of sorts with Atlantiades, as they realized what they'd hoped to achieve in the town had failed. They thought that letting people be free of the expectations of their ordinary lives and indulge in their desires would bring the town happiness, but it most definitely did not. Actions have consequences, and the weight of these consequences snapped the townsfolk out of Atlantiades' spell. They got them back momentarily with a display of divine power, but Diana talked them out of continuing the experiment. Atlantiades is clearly dealing with a lot, including a strained relationship with their mother, and hopefully we can see some growth on that front moving forward. They're a selfish character, but I think they have a good heart. They're just a bit lost and hurt, and likely have been that way for centuries. I'm excited to see what they make of the opportunities in this new world, having learned from this experience, and I hope Wilson checks in on them from time to time if this town escapade is indeed wrapped up for now.
The only thing I didn't like about the resolution was that Xermanico didn't draw the last few pages of it. This is understandable. Bi-weekly comics are an insane grind and you're going to get some fill-in pages. Tom Derenick and Scott Hanna stepped in to finish the scene, and while the artwork was serviceable, it failed to capture the characters well, especially Atlantiades. Xermanico brought a compelling androgyny to Atlantiades that befit their mythological background. Derenick and Hanna failed to replicate that, leaning much more into the feminine aspects of the character. Atlantiades ended up looking like a twin of Diana rather than the unique take Xermanico had obviously carefully developed.
Xermanico's work on this arc has been exceptional, from character design to panel layout and beyond, and I'm sad that the strictures of the schedule prevented him from being able to close it out himself. As much as I love getting Wonder Woman twice a month, I deeply hate the onerous demands that bi-weekly books put on artists. This is a run that should be collected for years, even decades to come, and putting out subpar artwork now to fit this unreasonable schedule is a short term compromise that will lead to disappointment long term. I know nobody likes late books, but I feel like editorial could do a better job of planning out the artwork.
But I digress. There was a whole other story to this issue, with a dang colossus in it! At first I thought it was just a giant minotaur, but Aphrodite called it a colossus and the golden head confirms her words. This appears to be a massive statue brought to life somehow, perhaps with the same power that got us stone giants in the Rockies. As far as I can tell, this is an original invention by Wilson and not based on an existing statue or anything. There have been various colossal statues throughout history, most famously the Colossus of Rhodes, which was a statue of Helios, but none of them were a minotaur, I don't think.
So yeah, we've got a fight on our hands now! I love that the sword has emboldened Maggie, and that she was prepared to take on the colossus by herself. She's been a great addition to the cast, and I've enjoyed watching her trepidation give way to courage over the past few issues. Not even Aphrodite dared face off against the colossus, and she's a dang god! Luckily Wonder Woman arrived just in the nick of time and now they can make a good fight of it. I'm excited to see them throw down in June, and to see what mysteries these underground pathways hold. Well, "underground." I'm guessing there's some dimensional travel at play or an underworld sort of situation. Either way, adventure awaits!
Tags:Aphrodite, Atlantiades, G. Willow Wilson, Rachel Dodson, Review, Romulo Fajardo Jr., Scott Hanna, Terry Dodson, Tom Derenick, Wonder Woman, Xermanico
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Women & NB Creators at DC Comics Watch, June 2019 Solicits: 18 Creators on 17 Books
DC is really committed to putting out fewer books now. When they announced that they were cutting back, I was curious to see how long it would last, but they're sticking with it. We saw a slight uptick in the May solicits, on account of it being a month with five Wednesdays, and now with the June solicits we're back down again. Down so low, in fact, that it might be the fewest books DC has released since we started tracking these numbers several years back. And fewer books has meant a commensurate drop in female and non-binary creators, which continues this month. Let's take a look at who is doing what at DC this June:
Amanda Conner: Supergirl #31 (variant cover)
Cecil Castellucci: Female Furies #5 (writer)
Elena Casagrande: Young Justice #6 (interior art)
Emanuela Lupacchino: Justice League #26 (variant cover)
G. Willow Wilson: Wonder Woman #72 (writer)
Jenny Frison: The Batman Who Laughs #6 (variant cover), Wonder Woman #72 (variant cover), Wonder Woman #73 (variant cover)
Joelle Jones: Catwoman #12 (writer, cover)
Kat Howard: The Books of Magic #9 (writer)
Mairghread Scott: Batgirl #36 (writer)
Rachel Dodson: Wonder Woman #72 (cover)
Sandra Hope: The Silencer #18 (cover)
Stacey Lee: Wonder Twins #5 (variant cover)
Tiffany Turrill: Lucifer #9 (cover)
Yasmine Putri: Red Hood: Outlaw #35 (variant cover)
All together, there are 18 different female creators scheduled to work on 17 different comics in June, three fewer creators than in May and one fewer book. As best I can tell, there are no non-binary creators listed in this round of solicits. Given that DC's dropped from 62 books in May to 51 in June, falling from 21 female creators to 18 seems like a reasonable result. Growth would be preferred, of course, but the publisher is maintaining the same level here.
With the new reductions to the line, we've been keeping track of representation on a per book basis, in part due to the fluctuations and in part to have a more accurate comparison with Marvel's more robust line. With women working on 17 of DC's 51 titles this month, we've got female creators on 33% of the line, which is a slight step up from May's 29% and very near their 31% level from April. If nothing else, DC is consistent.
In terms of new names at the publisher in this round of solicits, we've got one. Stacey Lee is doing a variant cover, and she's been a mainstay at Marvel for a little while now. Everyone else listed above is someone we've seen recently at DC. I think this is an unintended consequence of reducing the line so much. With fewer books, editors are likely to stick with the creators they know and rely on established talent to make sure the limited selection sells well. This means fewer opportunities for new and emerging creators, and doubly so for new and emerging female and non-binary creators, who already have a more difficult road making it into a major superhero publisher. It's a shame that the limited number of entry points into creating superhero comic books have been reduced even further. That's really going to hurt the development of new talent, and make it more difficult for this list to grow.
June is a quiet month for female characters as well. The blockbuster Event Leviathan is set to launch, and I understand that Lois Lane is going to be a big part of that, which is cool. The first solicit mentions Talia al Ghul as well. Apart from that, the only other new series is the prestige format Superman Year One, which looks very terrible. Frank Miller's never written Superman well, and John Romita Jr. was an odd fit for the Man of Steel back when he was on the regular series. Lois will probably show up in that book eventually, too, though with Miller writing it all I'd honestly rather she didn't.
So overall we've got another steady if underwhelming month from DC Comics. Female and non-binary creators don't seem to be a priority for the publisher, and they've certainly made no moves with their June plans to expand the ranks. It looks like they're good with the limited (albeit excellent) assortment they have now, and while the steadiness is better than losses, it's still rather disappointing. Perhaps the summer will bring some changes? You never know.
Tags:Adriana Melo, Amanda Conner, Bilquis Evely, Cecil Castellucci, DC Comics, Elena Casagrande, Emanuela Lupacchino, G. Willow Wilson, Jenny Frison, Joelle Jones, Kat Howard, Kelly Sue Deconnick, Mairghread Scott, Nalo Hopkinson, Rachel Dodson, Sandra Hope, Solicits, Stacey Lee, Tiffany Turrill, Women at DC Comics, Women In Comics, Women In Comics Statistics, Yasmine Putri
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Women & NB Creators at DC Comics Watch, May 2019 Solicits: 21 Creators on 18 Books
DC trimming back their comic line has resulted in some shifting of the numbers for female and non-binary creators over the past few months. Representation has declined more or less in line with the drop in the number of books, and we see this trend holding with the May numbers, just in the other direction. DC had 54 comics in their April solicits but that's jumped to 62 in May, and the numbers have gone up accordingly. Let's take a look at who is doing what at DC this May:
Bilquis Evely: The Dreaming #9 (interior art)
Elena Casagrande: Catwoman Annual #1 (interior art)
Emanuela Lupacchino: The Green Lantern #7 (variant cover)
G. Willow Wilson: Dog Days of Summer #1 (co-writer), Wonder Woman #70 (writer), Wonder Woman #71 (writer)
Jenny Frison: Wonder Woman #70 (variant cover), Wonder Woman #71 (variant cover)
Joelle Jones: Catwoman #11 (writer, cover), Catwoman Annual #1 (writer, cover)
Kamome Shirahama: Shazam! #6 (variant cover)
Kat Howard: Books of Magic #8 (writer)
Lea Hernandez: Teen Titans Go! #34 (cover)
Mariko Tamaki: Dog Days of Summer #1 (co-writer)
Nalo Hopkinson: House of Whispers #9 (co-writer)
Rachel Dodson: Wonder Woman #70 (cover), Wonder Woman #71 (cover)
Sarah Leuver: Teen Titans Go! #34 (interior art)
Zoe Quinn: Goddess Mode #6 (writer)
All together, there are 21 different female creators scheduled to work on 19 different books at DC this May, four more creators than in April and one more book. As best I can tell, there are no non-binary creators listed in this round of solicits. So a gain of four is a solid jump, but one that's generally in line with the increase in the number of books DC is releasing. The publisher still seems to be trying to figure out what's a good level for them, and I anticipate that the numbers will continue to fluctuate with their scheduling experimentation.
Last month, in an effort to come up with a more comparable metric, we figured out what percentage of the line had female and non-binary creators. They were on 17 of DC's 54 books in April, resulting in a total of 31%. This month, female creators appear in 18 of DC's 62 books, landing us at 29%, so we've got a slight drop there. Nothing too big, but certainly not an improvement. While one would hope that more books would lead to more opportunities, that doesn't seem to be the case.
In terms of new names, it's a pretty quiet month. I think we've seen everyone before. There are some returning favourites, though! First and foremost, Jenny Frison is back doing variant covers for Wonder Woman and I am delighted about that. She's so dang good. Mariko Tamaki is back as well, on the Dog Days of Summer special, and I'm hoping her sporadic but still somewhat consistent appearances at DC mean that a more permanent gig is in her future.
For new books, a few have some female characters in the mix. Batman and the Outsiders has been re-solicited, and that brings us Katana and Orphan. Wonder Woman's going to be in the Dog Days of Summer special, while Lois Lane will be part of the Superman: Leviathan Rising Special. That latter one is an exciting bit of news, because it sounds like a Lois Lane series will be happening soon, finally. Albeit one that doesn't seem to have any female creators in the mix if this special is any indication
Overall, DC's female and non-binary creator representation remains underwhelming. It's been steadily subpar for some time, rising and falling with the amount of books but otherwise holding firm. It's been a story of missed opportunities so far this year, really. The Wonder Comics imprint and the upcoming Event Leviathan have been ridiculously dude-centric, and there haven't been many big creative changes elsewhere. Most of the creators listed above are holdovers from changes in the fall, which is great, but not many have been added since. DC's just not stepping up when it comes to representation right now.
Tags:Adriana Melo, Amanda Conner, Bilquis Evely, Cecil Castellucci, DC Comics, Elena Casagrande, Emanuela Lupacchino, G. Willow Wilson, Jenny Frison, Joelle Jones, Kamome Shirahama, Kat Howard, Kelly Sue Deconnick, Lea Hernandez, Mairghread Scott, Mariko Tamaki, Nalo Hopkinson, Rachel Dodson, Sarah Leuver, Solicits, Tiffany Turrill, Women at DC Comics, Women In Comics, Women In Comics Statistics, Yasmine Putri, Zoe Quinn
Women & NB Creators at Marvel Comics Watch, April 2019: 32 Creators on 31 Books
Thus far, 2019 has been a strong year for female and non-binary creators at Marvel Comics. And the streak goes back further than that, too. Marvel came out of the summer with some solid gains and by November they were pretty near the level they remain at today. That's six months of decent representation now. Are there still WAY more dudes? Of course. It's superhero comics. Change is slow. But this kind of consistency is rare, and encouraging to see. Let's take a look at who's doing what at Marvel this April:
Alti Firmansyah: The Unstoppable Wasp #6 (interior art)
Amanda Conner: Captain Marvel #4 (cover), War of the Realms #1 (variant cover)
Ashley Witter: Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #1 (cover), X-23 #11 (cover)
Gail Simone: Hotshots #2 (writer)
Jen Bartel: Star Wars: Age of Rebellion Special #1 (variant cover)
Kamome Shirahama: Hotshots #2 (variant cover)
Kate Niemczyk: Age of Conan: Belit, Queen of the Black Coast #2 (interior art)
Kelly Thompson: Captain Marvel #4 (writer), Mr. and Mrs. X #10 (writer), West Coast Avengers #10 (writer)
Leah Williams: Age of X-Man: X-Tremists #3 (writer)
Rachel Dodson: Star Wars: Age of Rebellion – Grand Moff Tarkin #1 (cover), Star Wars: Age of Rebellion – Princess Leia #1 (cover)
Rebekah Isaacs: Age of Conan: Belit, Queen of the Black Coast #2 (variant cover)
Sana Takeda: Age of Conan: Belit, Queen of the Black Coast #2 (cover), War of the Realms #1 (variant cover)
Savanna Ganucheau: Marvel Rising #2 (varaint cover)
Tini Howard: Age of Conan: Belit, Queen of the Black Coast #2 (writer), Thanos #1 (writer)
Vita Ayala: Age of X-Man: Prisoner X #2 (writer), Shuri #7 (writer)
Yasmime Putri: Avengers: No Road Home #8 (cover), Avengers: No Road Home #9 (cover), Avengers: No Road Home #10 (cover), Star Wars: Vader – Dark Visions #2 (variant cover), Uncanny X-Men #16 (variant cover)
That is a lot of names to spell correctly and books to italicize! All together there are 32 different female and non-binary creators set to work on 31 different books this April, the same number of creators as in March across four more titles. I'm not used to seeing steady numbers from Marvel in any form, much less at a relatively high level. This year has been solid for the publisher so far.
Also, we're introducing a new element to these posts, where we look at the number of titles being released. DC's trimmed back their line noticeably, and so an apples to apples comparison doesn't really work so well anymore. This April, Marvel has 79 new books on their schedule, which means there are female and/or non-binary creators working on 39% of their titles. We'll use that as a baseline for comparisons moving forward.
In terms of new names, April looks to be pretty quiet. For as far back as I've been keeping track, we've not seen Rebekah Isaacs at Marvel before. She's got a variant cover on the new Age of Conan: Belit, Queen of the Black Coast spinoff. Savanna Ganucheau looks to be new as well, with another variant, this time on Marvel Rising. The rest of the list are regulars, I think.
It's also a low key month for new female-led titles at the publisher, which is unfortunate because there certainly are a lot of new books. War of the Realms is kicking off, with all sorts of tie-in mini-series and the like. Few have any female or non-binary creators in the mix, and while there are a handful of female characters in a couple of the team books, it all looks a bit dude forward. I miss Lady Thor. Unbeatable Squirrel Girl is going to tie into the event, so there's that, I suppose. And Ms. Marvel is starring alongside Spider-Man in a new Marvel Team-Up.
Overall, the numbers are steady at Marvel and female and non-binary creator representation is holding relatively strong. There remains, as always, a lot of room to grow, but this has been a decent streak for Marvel. I'm curious to see if they can keep it up or even hit higher levels in the months to come.
Tags:Alti Firmansyah, Amanda Conner, Amy Reeder, Ashley Witter, Audrey Mok, Carmen Carnero, Erica Henderson, Eve L. Ewing, Gail Simone, Jen Bartel, Jen Soska, Jody Houser, Kamome Shirahama, Kate Niemczyk, Kelly Thompson, Kirbi Fagan, Leah Williams, Mariko Tamaki, Marvel Comics, Michelle Delecki, Natacha Bustos, Nilah Magruder, Rachel Dodson, Rainbow Rowell, Rebekah Isaacs, Sana Takeda, Savanna Ganucheau, Seanan McGuire, Solicits, Stacey Lee, Sylvia Soska, Tini Howard, Vita Ayala, Women at Marvel Comics, Women In Comics, Women In Comics Statistics, Yasmine Putri


DIGDEEP began working in South Sudan in 2011. At first we focused on community-led water projects in South Sudan and Cameroon.
We began working in the United States in 2013, where millions of Americans still don't have access to clean, running water at home. We became the only global WASH organization working domestically, and attention to US projects began to grow. In 2017 we shifted our focus exclusively to the United States.


The Collection "Story Op.1" is the second album by Jonghyun. It was released on September 17, 2015 and consisted mostly of songs he previously wrote for his radio show.
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