On Tuesday of this week, the world fell apart for Jews 1,941 years ago. In 72 CE the Jerusalem Temple was destroyed by the mighty Roman Empire on 9 Av, which this year corresponds to Tuesday July 16. The tragedy was as great in its time as the Shoah (called in English the Holocaust) is in ours. On this Shabbat ever since, Jews have gathered together, as we do each Shabbat, but on this particular Shabbat we have come together with the sense that we are in need of consolation.
Nakhamu, nakhamu ami, "be comforted, be comforted O My people"; these opening words from the haftarah for this week (Isaiah 40.1) give this Shabbat its name. The pain of that first disaster has lessened with time, yet the Shabbat retains its relevance, for who has not known the need for consolation, for healing, for peace?
The Jewish understanding of these opening words is found in their repetition. The Biblical commentator Ibn Ezra interpreted: the repetition means that comfort will come "swiftly or repeatedly". Since the Jewish people entered an exile that lasted for nearly two millennia on that day, we are left to conclude that the latter of the two possibilities is more likely. It has not been swift. But repeatedly, and on this Shabbat, it is needed, for some among us personally, for all of us communally.
Communally – as a community. Our Jewish response to the repeated for need for consolation among our people – and in our own individual lives, after all – is found in an even closer reading of the first word: nakhamu is said in the plural. We Jews do not find consolation by isolating ourselves, but in the intimacy of human contact. Sometimes our closeness causes friction and frustration, and even pain, but we are a community, and we will find consolation, and redemption, only through, and with, and because of our kehillah, our Jewish community.
This evening, when Shabbat begins, seek out your community. If you are in need of consolation yourself, you will find it with us. If you are not, come and help us offer it to someone who needs an outstretched hand and an open heart.
"Each blade of grass sings its own song to G-d's glory". We may come and go like grass, but we do know how to find consolation in song, in Shabbat, and in each other.
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VERSE I wander through this life watching people as I go. Ah some they seem so different from me, some I think I know. Oh, and there's a man he's praying, prayers I don't recall. No, we don't have to pray the same, God listens to us all.
CHORUS And though I can't imagine what life would be like Oh, living in his shoes and seeing through his eyes, But I'm trying to understand him, though different he may seem, But I know we both share the same dreams.
VERSE Oh, and when it comes to love no two people are the same, And when two women find each other some may call it strange. Oh, and who can tell another whom their heart should love? No nothing' starts between us, no it's sent from up above.
CHORUS And though I can't imagine what life would be like While living in her shoes and seeing through her eyes, But I'm trying to understand her, though different she may seem, 'Cause I know we both share the same dreams.
VERSE Oh, and people seem so strange yet I'll keep an open mind. Those strange ones paved the way for these freedoms that I find. Oh, if I did what I'm doing now two hundred years ago, Well they'd burn me at the stake and say a woman should stay home.
CHORUS And though I can't imagine what life would be like While living in their shoes and seeing through their eyes, But I'm trying to understand them, though different they may seem, 'Cause I know we both share the same dreams.
CHORUS No, you can't imagine what life would be like While living in my shoes and seeing through my eyes, Please try to understand me, though different I may seem, 'Cause I know we both share the same dreams.


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Forums › English Language Forums › General › General Discussion
How come the forum's activity is a bit lacking lately?
I'm not that too concerned about the forum's present state, despite the game's state many people are still concerned about as of late. It's the activity I'm a bit more concerned about today.
I sometimes check here to see the activity and I find hardly any people posting new topics like how many have been in the past. Even the Gremlin Chatter had some activity, but that's gotten slowed down to a recent crawl.
I know there are many people that have other things to do, but they should at least come on by sometime soon.
The game's forums are our place to discuss what we enjoy about the game, what could be improved in many aspects, even let out some steam time to time for those who have concerns about anything else.
Knights, if any of you are around reading this, I ask of you to at least give the forums a bit more activity today. We could use it.
Fallen-Feces
I was under the impression
I was under the impression the forums were down. I wasn't able to even create a new thread this past week. I'm still not sure if that was isolated just to me though.
You weren't alone.
I experienced that, too, but I quickly presumed that was more of a maintenance routine again, as before, so, I, too, couldn't post new threads or posts until that was over. Guess we can do so again.
two reasons I can see
Presumably the number of active players is decreasing over time. There are still new players, but not many. The veterans have discussed almost every aspect of the game thoroughly.
There are multiple Discords for Spiral Knights. People talk there and hence not here?
Midnight-Dj
I mean SK has reached its final deathroe, there is no update in sight, just endless promotions. GH doesn't seem all that inclined (ie. not at all) in giving away the IP in spite of SK's untapped potential in the hands of fans who actually wants to improve the game. So there really isn't much to talk about.
Thats-Rough-Buddy
The forums were disabled for
The forums were disabled for the past few weeks, this is why no one posted.
Also, this game is better in GH's warm yet slightly crusty hands, trust me.
Community has no singular vision, too many cooks. Game would turn into a shallow mess.
We should communicate here quite more.
@Bopp
I can understand the active players are decreasing, but I feel that should be increasing, even if we have a few more new adventures, which are still overdue.
@Thats-Rough-Buddy
OK. I understand that. What I would like to see more frequently is more new additions to return the kind of activity the game still needs.
I have done a few posts on the Gremlin Chatter, but hardly anyone visits to discuss lately. Not that I'm saddened or anything like it. I just sometimes feel that should be visited a bit more. I could place another post there maybe sometime soon, and people would come by and chat sometime. Sure, its not that important, but visiting time to time should be encouraged.
Moreover, we have been, but still need to, keep doing our best to bring back the constant activity SK deserves. Yes, the devs of GH have been busy, but more communication from them should be a bit more frequent to strengthen our friendly bonds with them.
What the game needs right now is a more coherent plan to reinvigorate the game through frequent small additions of new content, besides promotions, new events, & new activities to regain its growth it once had.
What plans would anyone recommend to bring the game better vitality? Mine would be more new Expansion Missions.
Gotta love that classic "Citation: just trust me" statement, can you tell me anything good, other than keeping the game alive, has GH done in the past year?
Community has no singular vision, too many cooks.
At least there will be cooks, GH is just milking SK at this point until they shut it down once the cost of developing the game is recuperated. So unless they are willing to come out and state otherwise, this is the theory I am sticking to unless you have a better explanation about the silence.
@Bernstern
Yes, the devs of GH have been busy,
In what exactly? Making new costumes to sell?
Mine would be more new Expansion Missions.
Creating new missions is idiotic, OCH is the only piece of DLC in the game and GH has never made one since, I am not sure why it takes GH this ludicrously long to create new levels, but making a few new levels/mission a year won't make a splash in the active player count, the content will be stale in a few months and people will once again quit.
My suggestion would be game rebalance and overhaul on the fire crystal system, allowing people to make rads from shinings will be a start (there is no reason why it shouldn't). Making useless armor lines like the jelly/plate/owlite and the joke rewards you get in any SL other than UGW more useful would also be nice, giving an actual way to build a 'tank' class into the game. Bombers will need some much needed love as well, variety is what will bring back old players in the end.
@Midnight-Dj
OK, so I have hardly any idea of how busy they are right now. I mean, hardly lately, any plans about the game and the development pipeline have been discussed. I'm not one who's good at guessing any game development timeline estimates. I just have thoughts on what they could do to keep the game thriving with more original content. Trying to come up with new ways can be a bit tough, sometimes.
I also have no idea if more players are busy trying to up the game's advertising lately, but I was in thought that they were.
If anything, I would still hope, and I still am hoping, that the devs at GH have any new hints to what's really coming to SK, besides more new costumes.
ideas are easy
I just have thoughts on what they could do to keep the game thriving with more original content. Trying to come up with new ways can be a bit tough, sometimes.
Ideas are the easy part. The Suggestions forum (and every other forum here) is filled with them. The hard part is implementing them. An idea, that takes you one minute to invent, might require thousands of hours of design, development, testing, and balancing.
Yeah, that's true, Bopp, but the necessary labor into making those ideas a reality are worth it... long as there's active working people on a team committed to it in a project, with enough focus, of course. Otherwise, doing it all by your lonesome is taxing on oneself, even with the necessary tools needed.
Take, for instance, having a world with an amount of levels in a platformer. One themed world would have a small amount of levels any player would complete before going into the next, but the level amount may differ, that is to say, 4 levels in one world, 6 in certain or some worlds. Nevertheless, the world still needs an end-world boss before finishing it.
That would be one choice, if needed, but, there's also another choice; have a mid-boss in a world for the player to face before going to the major boss. The mid-boss would have to go into the midpoint of a world, say, 1-2, and the mid-boss would need to be fought in the end of said level, but the key difference is, the mid-boss needs to have slightly less amounts of health/hits to defeat than the major boss, who has more than said mid-boss, and still have attack patterns still unique to the enemies', but more than the former. Have a mid-boss in, still have the major boss to overcome, and move on to the next, et cetera.
There's, of course the choice to make said existing mid-boss recurring, but, say, you don't want to make that choice, because it takes away the brevity in any platformer that has many bosses to defeat, even with people that have been getting used to that are still expecting that to occur. Having each world at least one unique mid-boss in, that's also a fine choice to take, but having more than one, in certain worlds/stages, that'd take a bit more work to do, but some find it worth it to up the variety and originality of boss designing. Not counting games that are mostly boss fights, so you know.
The thing about making mid-bosses, to me, is I'm not sure there's available guides to doing so thus far. I've not seen one yet. Sure, there's already guides to what people could do, even making games, but this small tidbit that kinda annoys me is that although we see more new platformers that have mid-bosses lately, what goes into making mid-bosses? Does it have to do with putting them into design documents, like before? Are there exemplary ones people could reference to give the steps needed to make them? I know there are already existing tools to make them, but does the artwork that goes into making them count as normal/major bosses do?
My perspective is that its not that hard to make mid-bosses in any game. The matter is getting comfortable with it to people that make games with the proper steps, guidance, and examples needed to give such motivations to make them.
Also, size constraints in game media, even though that's what, I believe, held people back in making more unique mid-bosses in games, I don't think its a problem now, long as compression processes are still used, that is.
If anyone's up to it, should they feel like it, have new guides up or available guides updated so people can get comfortable with it. If no one's up, maybe I might end up making one... not that I have a problem with it or anything like it.
Sorry if I veered a bit off from the topic.
Cinoa
@Bernston
I don't think the issue is "new content". Most of the time, doing what players want is the smart thing to do (otherwise they'll leave). We all want new stuff.
Problem is, there's no reason to add anything new if it won't profit. I know there are whales, but that's not a sustainable economy, not comparable to bringing in new players.
I may be wrong, but from all I can see, updating the game won't benefit them in any way.
Nothing about SK is seeing in a noticeable amount of new players. The biggest update won't bring back people who have tried the game and dropped it from boredom, or people who left after it lost popularity. Maybe they'd log in to have a look, but in the end it will always be the same game as when it started.
No MMO lasts forever, and at this point SK is just waiting to shut down. Grey Havens has stated their only purpose is to preserve Three Rings IPs, which is exactly what they're doing. I agree new content would be refreshing, but at this point letting this version go and creating a whole new game would be the better choice.
The issue is that interest from new players is low, retention is low, and the chance of bringing back old players is probably non-existent. I don't know of any MMO that has resurged from death. If you can think of one, let me know. I'd love to read about it.
I understand all of the frustration, though. I love SK! It's still is one of my favorite games, I have a lot of good memories and always dream, like a little kid, of better things for it (even when said dreams are silly and unrealistic). anyway, glad to see people who still care about SK!
@Cinoa
I know that kind of feeling when waiting too long for anything highly anticipated that sometimes gets shoved to the wayside from no interest nor progress on it, let alone being honest about any game/DLC project's progress to any fan eager to see it finished for playability.
I mean, yeah, there are times where we need something more than what people propose, in terms of bringing SK's popularity back to the amount the game had in its early years, but, even today, we know people still care about the game and still play it no matter what.
What'd be good in letting something go that meant so much to people if it only ends up leaving voids in our hearts that way?
This kind of feeling heavily reflects on many people wanting to play whatever anticipated games they want to play since announcement, but wouldn't or won't get the chance to, delayed or otherwise.
Unrelatedly, in that manner, this reminded me of many people still wanting to see the highly-anticipated, but constantly delayed, treasure finding game, Treasurenauts. When I heard it would be going to the 3DS, at the time, it brought me excitement to see another brilliant 2D game for me, and anyone else who enjoyed many 2D games, past & present, brought up to be played. Originally, as recalled by memory, Renegade Kid, whose 2D games went to Atooi upon closing, had looked forward to launching it, but some hindrances kept that game from launching, aside from occasional progress reports on its state, and made it miss the 3DS game lineup and moved to Switch as consolation. Even still, today, nothing else has been said about Treasurenauts yet. I really still want to play it, even with my hopes for its launch still up, but I still worry about such games, like that aforementioned game, may end up getting the axe, so to speak.
Atooi, while being a fine company that gave good games, may need to bring in a few more people to accelerate whatever game projects in the works to completion real sooner than later.
My view on any game development, regular, indie, or otherwise, making a game for anyone to play is amazing, but doing so on big scales that take even one person too long to make alone, underestimating the games' scope, size, and content to make upon finishing design docs, even the DLC, even with announcements on any one game, not doing any progress reports on the game, and having a very understaffed company that makes games, could lead to whatever games that were highly-anticipated, no matter what department the games are built on, to losing great popularity, constant budget cutting to the company, in and out employee and management mistreatment, untimely life needing commitments that pulls people away from development or quitting there to focus more on said commitments, not that there's problems with said commitments, they're important, too, and losing great interest to the customers & workers that planned to work on game developing companies.
Too much waiting on anything will surely age us. We don't want that. Got to keep doing constant activity to get boredom out.
Sure wish such problems in that industry could be nonexistent. We'd have more great games & kept ongoing favorite MMOs that way.
Thijminecraft
Not many people still use forums.
Not many people still use forums. People use discord etc now instead of traditional forums like this one. Steam Login is also not working for the forum alot of the time.
Aytimothy
I'm just lurking, that's all.
With the drama happening, I'm just going to onlook more, that's all.

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Q: Compiler flags which make reverse engineering harder Recently I read that using specific compiler flags can prevent or make reverse engineering much more complicated. I'm using those flags
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from Queue import Queue, Empty
from threading import Thread
from time import clock

import pygame
from pygame.locals import *

import gui
from common import SubclassShouldImplement, FPS

class StateDriver:
    def __init__(self,screen):
        self._states = []
        self._screen = screen

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    def done(self):
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The United States of Anger
The Haves and Have-Nots of the COVID World Are Going to Collide
Nearly two years ago, the nation realized that a VERY nasty virus was about to overtake our country, so politicians shutdown all but the most vital services and built portable hospitals in Manhattan. Workers went home, downloaded Zoom, and rearranged their bookshelves. Kids got a permanent snow day. To keep people amused while sequestered in their homes, The New York Times produced chipper little pieces about making sour dough bread and learning how to knit. People got checks from the government and were told to stay at home. It was a scary time, because people were dying, but — let's be honest — a lot of people enjoyed it, too.
But not everybody was happy in those hazy days of spring 2020. With my roots in the disability community, I knew how much that group would suffer without schools, therapy, and community support. Mothers had to sooth crying babies and pass Cheerios to toddlers during their morning team Zoom meeting. Seniors, like my parents, went for months without hugging their grandchildren.
Two years into the pandemic, the battle lines have grown stark. Those who have carried the biggest loads this past two years are exhausted and angry, while others continue to do their jobs remotely from vacation cabins in Vermont. The haves and have-nots are not just economic or racial; the new divisions are between people who are doing okay in this new COVID world and those who are not okay. The anger between these two groups is real and could have lasting political implications.
Because education is my specialty, let me focus for a bit on what I'm seeing going on in schools and with parents and teachers. Schools might be open here in the suburbs, but things are far from normal. Kids aren't learning, socializing, or existing as they should. With the 2 year anniversary of COVID coming soon, I'm not seeing a way out of this mess.
Schools are struggling to function without low wage workers to substitute their classes and drive their busses. In special education, which has been hit especially hard by staffing issues, classes are more warehouses than places of learning. Students are shell shocked from neglect and isolation. They are behind academically and behaviorally. Rather than additional supports for students to make up for lost time, there are actually fewer supports, because so much budget money has gone to masks, filters, plastic shields, and bonuses for substitute teachers.
Teachers are angry. Reddit's chatroom for teachers — r/teachers — has 304,000 members most of whom use the forum to rant about everything from substitute teachers to special education students to low wages. (More about r/teachers in this Yahoo article.) And they hate parents. One post begins, "I love how you become an education expert and a public health expert once you've shat out a kid." Some want to return to remote education and hate being back in the physical classroom. (A reporter recently waded into that angry forum and was trashed by participants.)
Parents are angry. They are organizing locally and nationally through social media. Two years without schools is killing the middle class. Their kids are a mess. (Check out this super sad high school girl in England talking about how her life has been derailed.) Mask mandates have been super hard for younger kids, who are developing speech disabilities and reading issues without the ability to see people's mouths. There's an army of angry moms who are going to be a serious force in the next election. Pay attention to them.
But not everyone is unhappy. Some people are still living their best lives. If you don't have a kid whose life is being destroyed, or a job that has become harder in the past two years, then there are other things to think about, other policies to promote. La-la-la, let's do this forever. I am particularly fond of childless pundits at national newspapers, who pen long opinion pieces that finger-wag at parents and accuse them of having wrong and slightly racist attitudes. I practice self-care and do not read those screeds.
The anger is real. And I feel it, too. My kids have not thrived in the past two years, and nobody seems to care. There are no remedies. No rescue plans. No bailouts. Just a kick in the ass and a good luck. I have friendships that have grown more wobbly in the past year, because I have trouble drinking beers with people who don't care about kids like mine. I fantasize about selling our house and building a family compound in rural Vermont, where the four of us will make our own artisanal goat cheese. Rather than paying crazy taxes here in Jersey, I'll pay for private therapists for my son; the boys can work at the farm, rather than doing some horrible entry-level remote job from their bedrooms. Or maybe I'll stay here and get more involved in advocacy, as I see many other mothers doing.
What happens when a group of people are angry for a very long time? Then change happens, but it often happens explosively and suddenly; results might not be neat and fair. I would rather we worked through these issues calmly as a nation. The angry side needs to talk openly, not just on twitter and reddit, and the not-angry side better make some concessions soon.
Hi guys. My writing mojo got derailed a couple of weeks ago. We've been dealing with some unbloggable kid drama, which fried my brain. The situations are slowly getting sorted out, so I'm starting to feel normal again. Whew. Picked a bad year to try Dry January. (Here's our version of Dry January.)
So, what's going on? I mean beyond Wordle.
Well, the royal family has been doing lots of drama. That's about the only news that I could handle this week. I'll write about it, but in the mean time read this piece.
Story from our plumber. He said that he saw a young guy driving a brand new Ferrari. He asked him where he got it. The young guy said, "my dad owns a Covid testing facility." Plumber said, "Covid is never going to end, because it's making some people rich."
Education Links: "I'm a Public School Teacher. The Kids Aren't Alright." "There's no Big Quit in K-12 Education" "Variants Fuel Decline in Student Mental Health"
Watching: Belfast (loved it), Encanto (one good song, mostly bad), Station 11 (meh), Yellowjackets (watched one episode, wow)
Cooking: Roasted, Crunchy Broccolli. Tonight, shepherd's pie, because I have leftover mashed potatoes and a snowball of ground beef in the freezer that I want to use up.
Doing: Staying close to home to save money: visiting local pubs, cleaning out the basement, eating up random freezer food with goal of Net Freezer Zero by the end of the month, organizing photographs from 2021 to make albums.
Working: Kids sucked the life out of me, so just getting head back to normal. Writing pitch for two year anniversary of covid. Filling out application for substitute teacher license. Filling out a grant application.


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Владислав II Плоцький (; близько 1448 — 27 лютого 1462) — князь Мазовецький в Плоцьку, Белзі, Раві, Сохачеві, Гостиніну, Плонську та Візні в 1455–1462 роках.

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Владислав II був молодшим сином князя Владислава I Плоцького та Анни Олесницької.

Не відомо точно, коли він народився. На момент смерті батька в 1455 році залишився малолітнім і залишався під опікою регентів — єпископа Плоцького Павла Гижицького та Анни Олесницької. Регентство формально закінчилося в 1459 році, коли старший брат Владислава Земовит VI досяг віку, який згідно із законом вважали достатнім для взяття влади (в Мазовії тоді це було 14 років). У тому ж році до князівства молодих Владиславичів приєдналася гостинінська земля, успадкована після смерті тітки Маргарити Ратиборської (вдови Земовита V).

Правління Земовита VI тривало лише до новорічної ночі з 1461 на 1462 рік, коли старший син Владислава I несподівано помер. Смерть брата зробила Владислав II єдиним спадкоємцем Мазовії Плоцької і Белзької землі. Через його малоліття влада знову перейшла до регентства під головуванням єпископа. Менше ніж через два місяці після смерті свого брата, смерть також спіткала Владислава. Раптова смерть молодих князів (які мали 16 і 14 років на момент смерті) викликала численні чутки, мовляв П'ястів було отруєно. Звинувачення у вбивстві були спрямовані особливо до каштеляна сохачевського Готтарда з Рибно, який нібито мав претензії до князів за те, що вони позбавили його якогось села. Наразі існує думка, що смерть двох князів була природною, про що свідчить непідняття цієї теми, як правило, добре проінформованим про відносини, які склалися між мазовецькими П'ястами, Яном Длугошем. Швидше за все причиною смерті в такому юному віці Земовита та Владислава було спадкове захворювання цієї лінії П'ястів — туберкульоз.

Смерть Владислав II Плоцького і закінчення на ньому лінії мазовецьких князів, що походять від Земовита IV сприяло тому, що Казимир IV Ягеллончик відповідно до феодального законодавства хотів би приєднатися усі його володіння до польської корони. Енергійні дії тітка останніх князів Катерини, а також небажання мазовецьких магнатів до зміни суверена остаточно схилило в кінцевому Ягеллона до інкорпорації тільки Белзької землі та Галицької Русі, а також равську і гостинінську землі в Мазовії Плоцькій. У 1476 році до Корони додатково інкорпоровано сохачевську землю. Інші території ще протягом деякого часу залишались у руках мазовецьких князів з варшавської лінії, незважаючи на той факт, що король взяв фортецю Плоцьк і прийняв там присягу від плоцької шляхти. Однак, він не міг мирно подолати опору можновладців прив'язаних до місцевої династії П'ястів, а військового примусу Казимир IV Ягеллончик використовувати не мав наміру.

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The Family Sowell to Behind The Mic
Posted on June 4, 2018 by John Lawless
The Family Sowell, known previously as the Sowell Family Pickers, is a family band based in Knoxville, TN. Like so many similar groups, they began when the oldest children were much younger in Texas, and they have now grown into mature young musicians.
Things have been going quite well for the Sowells of late. Last year they won the KSMU Youth in Bluegrass Band contest at Silver Dollar City, and were signed to Poor Mountain Records. Their entertaining stage show, which features a mix of bluegrass and Gospel music, is winning them new fans wherever they go.
And now the band has signed with Behind The Mic Entertainment, who will henceforth represent the group for live appearances and handle their publicity. Principal agent Dawn Mac says of the Sowells,
"When I first met The Family Sowell, it didn't take long for me to realize they were well on their way to becoming one of bluegrass music's most beloved family bands who is as equally as fine a group of people you'd ever want to meet as they are talented. I am so honored to be working with these amazing folks."
These talented siblings range from 21 to 11 years of age, starting with eldest brother Jacob on banjo, followed by Joshua on guitar, Naomi on bass, Abigail on mandolin, John-Mark on fiddle, and Justus on reso-guitar. Jason, Joshua, and Abigail share vocal duties, along with Mom, Cindy, who often takes the stage with her brood. Dad (Guynn) drives the bus and handles the family's business transactions.
The family takes their faith seriously, living the band motto of "Bluegrass with a Mission."
They now have three albums of their music available for sale.
For more information on The Family Sowell, visit them online, or contact Dawn at Behind The Mic Entertainment.
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Partnership is a healthy choice for two agencies Th h t r oanks to the rising cost of ealthcare in the U.S. and he proliferation of highly egarded medical facilities verseas, medicine has become the purpose of trips for many agency clients.
In fact, global medical tourism is expected to be a $40 billion-a-year industry by 2010, according to David Hancock, author of "The Complete Medical Tourist." In 2006, as many as half a million Americans are expected to travel overseas for medical care.
With that in mind, Solimar Travel in Washington is one of two agencies that inked partnerships with GlobalChoice Healthcare, an Albuquerque, N.M.-based provider of medical procedure packages throughout the world.
"Our business is nontraditional anyway, and we are always looking for up-and-coming trends," said Ben Isenberg, owner of Solimar Travel, who knew he needed to partner with a company that has expertise in the field rather than try to go it alone.
"We knew about GlobalChoice through word of mouth, by doing research and from the information they presented to us about the different countries they work in and the partners they have in those countries," he said.
A breath of fresh air for luxury travel
Mollie Fitzgerald is co-owner of Frontiers Travel and also heads up the Alexandria, Va., firm's Elegant Journeys division.
'Technically, you're sleeping under a canvas tent, but it has a marble sink and a power shower.'
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The other agency that has signed on to work with GlobalChoice is Rio Grande Travel, an Albuquerque-based agency with 11 offices in the Southwest and three in Illinois.
"Understandably, individuals considering medical travel often inquire first with a travel agency," said Kenneth Erickson, CEO of GlobalChoice Healthcare. "But traveling overseas for medical care should be coordinated by a company focused on medicine. By joining forces with these leading travel agencies, we can assist in streamlining their search for affordable, high-quality health care."
The way the agreement will work is that clients interested in medical travel will be referred to GlobalChoice to provide such services as scheduling procedures, transferring medical records and providing local assistance for the duration of clients' stay.
By Felicity Long
The term "adventure travel" is so broad that nowadays it can include everything from high adrenaline sports such as ice climbing and white-water rafting to a serene walk in the woods. In addition, the market is increasingly cross-pollinating with other niches: family, romance and luxury travel.
Mollie Fitzgerald, co-owner of Frontiers Travel in Alexandria, Va., sees no conflict in the latter combination. In fact, she heads the Elegant Journeys division of an agency that has made its name in the adventure travel business.
"Our core business was always the field sporting side [of adventure travel], such as fishing and hunting," said Fitzgerald, whose parents, Mike and Susie Fitzgerald, founded the company more than 26 years ago.
"Then people started asking us to handle other sorts of travel for them, and we wanted to brand that," she said. "That's how the Elegant
Journeys department was formed, driven by clients who were happy with how we organized their fishing trip in the Seychelles and wanted us to help them take their family on a photo safari to Africa."
But while Fitzgerald, who was one of Conde Nast
Traveler's Top Travel Specialists five years in a row, has an affinity for fine wines, gourmet cuisine and the glamour of Europe's capital cities, she also is no stranger to the outdoors. In fact, she is so expert at fishing that she also heads up Frontier's Atlantic Salmon Fishing division and serves as a director of the Atlantic Salmon Federation, a conservation group.
"It used to be that you'd have to sacrifice comfort for the outdoors, and that the person you'd travel with [if he or she didn't share a love of the sport] would be bored," she said.
Nowadays, however, the options for travelers who like their adventure with more than just a touch of comfort have a whole menu of options from which to choose.
"The Explora lodges in Chile, for example, have as their core philosophy that guests are active during the day and supremely comfortable at night, with Jacuzzis in their guest rooms, great meals and wonderful local wines."
Fitzgerald also touted the upscale camping facilities available in Bot-
swana, which she compared to her experiences there 28 years ago.
"I thought it was posh then, but now the camps are unbelievable," she said. "You can join an elephant safari or canoe by day, dine by candlelight and while you're technically sleeping under a canvas tent, it has a marble sink and a power shower."
But while some of her clients love upscale amenities, Fitzgerald stressed that the real draw for sports travel enthusiasts is the quality of the outdoor experience.
"One of attractions of fishing is that it takes you to pristine places where you can recharge your batteries and be inspired by the awe of it all."
Especially in the post-9/11 era, Fitzgerald said she is seeing more multigenerational groups looking for active vacations that may not be sports-related per se but that include an outdoor component.
"The Galapagos, for example, appeals to many generational levels and has become so successful that I've had to add a second person just for our Galapagos desk," she said.
Fitzgerald, whose company sells only leisure travel, is a big believer in creating specialties for her agents who may not already have one.
"I had a relatively new person with a general travel background, so we sent her to China on a three-week trip," she said, noting that she bypassed the standard $600 fam trip in favor of first-class travel and upscale hotels. "I wanted her to see the country through the eyes of a client."
Acknowledging that it takes more than one trip to become an expert, Fitzgerald will send the agent out again, perhaps to Japan or Southeast Asia to help her solidify her expertise.
"We don't have a black-and-white policy for traveling, but our frontline salespeople travel a minimum of once a year, while the department people will be in the field three
times a year on average."
Fitzgerald prides herself on her staff, none of whom works on commission.
"Our focus is on building destination credibility through firsthand experience. If we have a South Pacific inquiry, it's not my baby, so I'm going to refer my client to the person in my office who goes there three times a year and has personal contacts."
Fitzgerald also encourages continuing education by contributing financially to classes, depending on the applicability.
As to whether that philosophy is working, the proof is in the pudding — or in this case, the enthusiasm of the staff.
This year alone, Frontiers has several agents who are working toward their university degrees, some who are taking language courses and someone who works on the company's Web design who is taking a creative-design course.
"Our philosophy is simple," she said. "We're a team."
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On this episode of Destination Linux we sit down with Richard Brown, of openSUSE, for an interview about his journey into Linux and becoming the Chairman of openSUSE.
Major Distro Upgrade In The Public Cloud Made Easy
Well, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 has been released for a while and SLES 15 SP1 is on the horizon. While there will be another service pack in the SLES 12 series, SLES 12 SP5, many people have expressed interest to move to SLES 15 from SLES 12. After providing a "Follow this long tedious manual process" procedure for the SLES 11 to SLES 12 migration that was certainly not for the faint of heart we wanted to provide a better easier way to migrate an instance while at the same time avoiding some of the pitfalls that are inherent in a running system migration. This gave birth to the suse-migration-services project. We are happy to announce the availability of the migration in the SLES 12 Public Cloud module.
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The openSUSE Project welcomes our followers to participate in two planned meetups to discuss results from the End of the Year Community Survey on Jan. 23 and Jan. 30. Both sessions will start at 13:00 UTC on openSUSE's Jitsi instance and go for 1:30 hours. Members of the "let's improve the openSUSE learning experience" initiative will share results and analysis from the survey.
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LF Edge has announced the addition of four new general members (FII, HCL, OpenNebula, and Robin.io) and one new Associate member (Shanghai Open Source Information Technology Association). Additionally, Home Edge has released its third platform update with new Data Storage and Mult-NAT Edge Device Communications (MNDEC) features.
Text Encoding Menu in 2021
In mid-January 2021, the Text Encoding menu in Firefox looks like this: Automatic Unicode Western Arabic (Windows) Arabic (ISO) Baltic (Windows) Baltic (ISO) Central European (Windows) Central European (ISO) Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Cyrillic (Windows) Cyrillic (KOI8-U) Cyrillic (KOI8-R) Cyrillic (ISO) Cyrillic (DOS) Greek (Windows) Greek (ISO) Hebrew, Visual Hebrew Japanese Korean Thai Turkish Vietnamese [...] For users who have telemetry enabled, we collect data about whether the item "Automatic" was used at least once in given Firefox subsession, whether an item other than "Automatic" was used at least once in a given Firefox subsession, and a characterization of how the encoding that is being overridden was determined (from HTTP, from meta, from chardetng running without the user triggering it, from chardetng as triggered by the user by having chosen "Automatic" previously, etc.). If things go well, the telemetry can be analyzed when Firefox 87 is released (i.e. when 86 has spent its time on the release channel). The current expectation for this is 2021-03-23.
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Jimmy Wales: "Wikipedia is from a different era"
As the online encyclopedia turns 20-years-old, its founder reflects on the internet's halcyon days.
Fact check: As Wikipedia turns 20, how credible is it?
Wikipedia, which has been referred to as a world treasure, turns 20 on Friday. According to research conducted over the years — including a scientific study published by the journal Nature in 2005 and a report commissioned by the site's Wikimedia Foundation in 2012 — Wikipedia's entries are comparable in quality to those in prestigious encyclopedias such as Britannica. However, it is difficult to measure the consistency of information that can be altered at any time.
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In fact, in the Hollywood film industry, a film's income composition, derivatives income of more than Qi Cheng, and derivatives income, nearly Bacheng from derivative toys. In this sense, the Hollywood blockbuster seems to be a long derivative film of derivative toys. So, how does Hollywood play the derivative toy?
Recently, Shanghai Disneyland opened, with the opening of Disney and Disney-derived toy manufacturer Hot Toys, the toy manufacturer will be a 1: 6 Skywalker (Star Wars) doll sold to four digits, and often also And so on more than half a year, which still attract a large number of fans obsessed with these toys. In fact, in the Hollywood film industry, a film's income composition, derivatives income of more than Qi Cheng, and derivatives income, nearly Bacheng from derivative toys. In this sense, the Hollywood blockbuster seems to be a long derivative film of derivative toys. So, how does Hollywood play the derivative toy?
Hollywood Qicheng income comes from derivatives
China's film market total box office in 2012 more than 44 billion yuan, up 48.7% over 2014; the first quarter of this year, the Chinese film market total box office reached 15 billion yuan, up 50% over the same period last year. China has become the world's second largest film market after North America. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers forecasts that the total number of Chinese film box office will occupy the top 2017, box office revenue is expected to reach 10.3 billion US dollars, more than the US market (its 2017 annual box office revenue of 10.14 billion US dollars.In addition, from 2015 to 2020, The number of viewers will also be 16.6% annual compound annual growth rate from 1.16 billion soared to 2.5 billion.
It seems that the Chinese film box office is about to surpass the United States, but in fact China's film industry is far worse from the United States. Although the recent one to show a large number of "World of Warcraft" global box office is less than market expectations, but its derivatives are sold, income has long been beyond the film box office revenue itself. "In the release before the" World of Warcraft "derivatives in China's sales have more than 1 billion." Wanda Cinema CEO Zeng Maojun said. According to the current data estimates, "World of Warcraft" related derivatives may exceed 500 million.
In fact, not only "World of Warcraft", in the United States, derivatives income score was coveted: "Ice and Snow" Elsa Princess skirt, sold 3 million, income 450 million; "Star Wars" three The book price of $ 1.8 billion, the derivatives accounted for more than 4.5 billion US dollars; "Lion King" pre-investment of only 45 million US dollars, the harvest box office 780 million US dollars, derivatives income of up to 20 billion US dollars.
"We work with Disney to produce high-end derivative toys, usually in the film released three months ago began to prepare for the production of related derivative toys, to be the first derivative of the toy," said Mr. Huang Liyan, senior manager of the Hot Toys marketing department, Spend six to nine months to complete the process from design to production, behind a large number of designers design product appearance, especially on the face of the carved, trying to restore the details of each movie in the characters, the design is completed Need Disney and even Hollywood Hollywood individual recognition in order to put into mass production. Generally in Hong Kong, China and abroad, derivative toy enthusiasts also need to book in advance, until nearly half a year to get these derivative toys, which still attract a large number of derivative toys fans to buy products.
Global toy giant LEGO is also the development of film around the derivative of the "master". Around the popular film project, Lego launched the "Lord of the Rings", "Harry Potter" and a series of peripheral toys, and even launched the Disney family of Lego toys.
In the US film industry system, the film has become a derivative of long toys.
In the previous two years, LEGO also joined Warner Pictures produced a film featuring LEGO Toys, in addition to starring LEGO Amit, also gathered Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Little Mermaid, President Lincoln, Liberty, Artist Michelang Kero, NBA star group and other guest. American toy company Hasbro in order to sell Transformers toys, specially produced three episodes of simple TV animation ads, but a great success. Hasbro simply will this ad to animation series, while the cable TV to collect huge royalties, while relying on animation hot sales of toy products.
Local derivatives are shoddy and lack of property rights protection
And the other hand, the status of domestic derivatives, derivatives accounted for a proportion of film revenue less than one percent, mobile phone shell, charge treasure, key chain into the domestic film around the development of the three magic weapon. Rough work, piracy, the sale of immature channels and other factors have been plagued by the development of domestic film derivatives. In 2015, "catch the demon mind", "holy return" and other films hot, but did not succeed in driving derivatives sales. In most of the time, domestic derivatives have become a supporting tool for film promotion.
Lack of film IP, property rights protection is not considered to be restricting the development of China's film derivatives market, the most important factor.
Film as an industrial system, the core is to have their own IP. Huayi Brothers CEO Ye Ning said: "We will confuse the concept of IP, a lot of said that the network is a large IP or a novel IP, but did not become a movie IP. Movie IP first is the film to be successful, the second , The image is able to repeatedly serial development will become the film IP. "Catch the demon mind" to meet the conditions, so there are several Chinese film IP?
Not all movies are suitable for derivatives. In Ye Ning's view, only some very full of artistic characters of the film is suitable for the story to the scene into a theme park, into a theme park show, into a product hidden by the representative of the cultural image behind the Bring things, will continue to run down.
Another problem is the copyright protection of derivatives. Cottage piracy problems in the Chinese market for a long time, and easy to imitate the film derivatives, coupled with the Chinese cottage factory rapid production capacity, the entire film industry constitutes a fatal injury. It can be said that the derivative industry is the first in the rule of law environment.
Huang Liyan told reporters that the current mainland China's toy market is still relatively small scale, one can compare the example is, Hot Toys in the US social networking site 脸书 has 450,000 fans, and in China's social media microblogging only fifty thousand fans, This detail can reflect the gap between China and the United States film and television products market. However, Huang Liyan also said that with the rapid development of China's film market, derivatives will gradually develop. It is precisely because of this, including Hot Toys and other derivatives manufacturers have begun to layout the Chinese market.


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NEW YORK, Nov. 30, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Kura Oncology, Inc. ("Kura" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: KURA). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Kura and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
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On November 24, 2021, Kura "announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has placed the KOMET-001 Phase 1b study of KO-539 in patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML) on a partial clinical hold." The Company advised that "[t]he partial clinical hold was initiated following the Company's recent report to the FDA of a Grade 5 serious adverse event (patient death) potentially associated with differentiation syndrome, a known adverse event related to differentiating agents in the treatment of AML[,]" and that "[u]ntil the partial clinical hold is resolved, and the Company has more clarity regarding the impact on timing, Kura is suspending guidance on the completion of enrollment in the KOMET-001 Phase 1b study and determination of the recommended Phase 2 dose of KO-539."
On this news, Kura's stock price fell $2.58 per share, or 15.54%, to close at $14.02 on November 24, 2021.
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Mercedes-Benz Vans: Victorious stars at Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles 2016
Stuttgart/Essaouira
Stuttgart/Essaouira – 2500 kilometres through Morocco: about two weeks ago four teams from Mercedes-Benz Vans started at the women's Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles in Erfoud. Now the teams crossed the finishing line in their all-wheel-drive vans. In the port city of Essaouira they celebrated their leading positions in the "Crossover" category – as can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuPHkoC4Q-I.
Mercedes-Benz Vans teams victorious
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The other placings in the "Crossover" category are as follows:
Position 3 for Bianca Manz (31-year-old, engineer, from Esslingen)
and Alexandra Jansen (29-year-old, engineer, from Cologne).
Position 4 for Dr Eva Holzhäuser (31-year-old, graduated radio-oncologist, from Bad Kreuznach) and Nicole Marquardt
(32-year-old, sales expert, from Böblingen).
Position 6 for Madeleine Oster (27-year-old, master carpenter/roofer, from Bernkastel-Kues) and Catrin Peest (50-year-old, master joiner, from Heidelberg).
Mercedes-Benz vans with plenty of traction in the Moroccan desert
The teams from Mercedes-Benz Vans were at the wheel of standard-production vans that had undergone only minor modifications: Hermann/Wagner and Holzhäuser/Marquardt in a Vito 119 BlueTEC 4x4, Manz/Jansen and Oster/Peest in a Sprinter 316 BlueTEC 4x4. The vans – all featuring 4x4 all-wheel drive – fared superbly in the extreme conditions on the mostly loose surfaces along the route and demonstrated excellent traction.
Vehicle data at a glance:
Vito 119 BlueTEC 4x4
Sprinter 316 BlueTEC 4x4
4x4 all-wheel drive
No. of cylinders
4 in-line
440 Nm at 3800 rpm
360 Nm at 1400 – 2400 rpm
Eighth participation, fifth victory for Mercedes-Benz Vans
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Albrecht Eckl
Manager Global Product Communications Sprinter
albrecht.eckl@daimler.com
Andrea Eberhardt
Head of Global Communications Mercedes-Benz Vans
andrea.eberhardt@daimler.com
Mercedes-Benz Vito 4x4 demonstrates excellent traction at the Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles 2016.


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Bethesda's Starfield Not Guaranteed for Current Gen Platforms
However, that doesn't necessarily mean it's exclusively next generation.
Posted By Ravi Sinha | On 18th, Jun. 2018
Bethesda Game Studios' Starfield was finally announced at the publisher's E3 2018 presser. Of course, a number of questions arose from what was shown. Is Bethesda finally using a new engine? What changes have been made to its traditional open world design? Will it be coming to current gen platforms or is it exclusively next gen like The Elder Scrolls 6?
Creative director Todd Howard was asked by GameSpot if there's a possibility of Starfield skipping this generation of consoles. While Howard didn't confirm that it would be happening, he also said that it's "not out of the question."
"I'm gonna be honest, I don't know the answer to that yet. I can't absolutely say yes to [leaving current generation console behind]. We're not going to limit the game that way yet. I'm willing to [leave current generation consoles behind] but it's not a priority right now. I'd put it that way.
"When you're making a game, you want to get the best stuff on the screen, and then you optimize and you do things and if it lands here, we can cast a wider net, great. But if we can't…we've done that before."
Suffice to say, it sounds like Starfield is still a ways off in its development cycle to really land on either side of the console fence. Given that Microsoft has started work on the next Xbox and Sony has stated that the PS4 is starting to wind down, it doesn't seem completely unreasonable to expect Starfield on the next generation.
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Almost exactly a year after the United States' first case of the novel coronavirus was detected in my home state, that is today's big question. What group of people should be prioritized to receive COVID-19 vaccines after health care workers and residents of long-term care facilities? It is remarkable that we are even having this discussion now. We should all be tremendously grateful to the scientists and researchers who drew on decades of study and worked around the clock to develop these vaccines in record time, and those who volunteered to take part in vaccine trials.
By Rep. Kim Schrier (D-Wash.) January 11, 2021
Almost exactly a year after the United States' first case of the novel coronavirus was detected in my home state, that is today's big question. What group of people should be prioritized to receive COVID-19 vaccines after health care workers and residents of long-term care facilities?It is remarkable that we are even having this discussion now. We should all be tremendously grateful to the scientists and researchers who drew on decades of study and worked around the clock to develop these vaccines in record time, and those who volunteered to take part in vaccine trials.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that people over age 75 and frontline essential workers be next in line. But that is a group of 49 million people. And supplies of the vaccine are limited. As a pediatrician, a mother and member of Congress, I would suggest that we prioritize one particular group of frontline workers: teachers.
Here's why. Children need to be back in school safely as soon as possible. They learn better in school, and they develop socially and emotionally there. Many rely on school for nutrition and safety. And the divide has grown between students who were already thriving and have continued to thrive, and those who were already struggling and have fallen further behind. Resuming in-person instruction will help at-risk children catch up.
Working parents need schools to open as well. Think about all of the parents – disproportionately women – who left the workplace when schools shuttered last spring. Those families depend on the largest childcare provider in the nation – our public schools – for before and after-school care.
A large part of the reason our schools are closed is that right now, schools are a dangerous place for teachers. A quarter of teachers are at high risk because of age or pre-existing conditions. Many more live with a person at high risk for severe disease. Keeping them safe allows them to return to work. Children, fortunately, tend to have mild or no symptoms.
Children are at greater risk out of school than in school. We can keep them and their families safe through regular at-home testing to ensure that infected children stay home from school and don't spread the disease to others who could then take it home to their own families. There are 3.7 million teachers in this country, a small slice of the 49 million currently slated to be in Phase 1B, making this feasible to do fairly quickly.
It is difficult to make these decisions. I know most of us, including my parents who already celebrated their 75th birthdays, are eager for our turn to get the vaccine, for the people we love to be protected and for a return to normalcy. Asking anyone to wait a little longer is hard. But the way we can help the most people right now is by prioritizing teachers and school staff for vaccines in January, and by continuing to distance, mask, and avoid indoor gatherings to protect ourselves and our communities in the meantime.
Rep. Kim Schrier (D-Wash.)
Rep. Kim Schrier represents Washington's 8th Congressional District, which includes much of King, Pierce, Kittitas, and Chelan Counties, and portions of Douglas County. Prior to being elected to Congress on November 6, 2018, Kim spent her career as a pediatrician in Issaquah, working with children across the Puget Sound region and helping families navigate the health care system. In Congress, Kim uses this expertise to inform her work on issues that improve the lives, health, and well-being of children.
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I like this idea, I am 64 and am ready to go back with students, but would feel safer if I had the vaccine.
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As the country enters into the 2012 presidential election cycle, the electorate's partisan affiliations have shifted significantly since Barack Obama won office nearly three years ago. In particular, the Democrats hold a much narrower edge than they did in 2008, particularly when the partisan leanings of independents are taken into account.
Analysis of the overall balance of partisan identification in all Pew Research Center polling conducted in each year – updated with data from the first six months of 2011 –finds that as the number of Democrats has fallen from a quarter-century high in 2008, the number of self-proclaimed independents has continued to grow. As a result, there are now as many independent voters as Democrats (34% each) – the first time this has occurred in more than two decades of Pew Research Center surveys, and, by all indications, the highest percent independent since party identification was first measured in the late 1930s.
While the number identifying as Republicans has remained relatively flat (28% in both 2008 and 2011), more independent voters lean to the GOP than did so in 2008 (16% now, 11% then). When leaners are combined with partisans, Democrats only have a four-point advantage among registered voters – 47% of voters are Democrats or lean to the Democratic Party while 43% are Republicans or lean to the GOP. In 2008, Democrats held a 12 point advantage over Republicans (51% to 39%).
Republicans have made sizable gains among white voters since 2008. Currently, 52% of white voters either identify as Republicans or lean to the GOP, compared with 39% who affiliate with the Democratic Party or lean Democratic. In 2008, Republicans held only a two-point lead among white voters (46% to 44%).
There has been no change in party identification among African American or Hispanic voters. Large majorities of African American (86%) and Hispanic voters (64%) continue to identify as Democrats or lean Democratic.
The Democratic Party's advantage among young voters has declined from 28 points in 2008 to 13 in the first half of 2011. The Democrats' edge among voters ages 30 to 64 also has narrowed (from 10 points to three points). And Republicans now hold a two-point lead among voters 65 and older (47% to 45%); Democrats held an eight-point lead among seniors in 2008 (49% to 41%).
Republican gains have been substantial among voters with family incomes under $75,000. Notably, Democrats held a 12-point advantage among middle income voters ($30,000-$74,999) in 2008, but now as many identify with the Republican Party as with the Democratic Party. Democrats continue to maintain their advantage among lower income voters, but it is smaller now than in 2008.
The Republican Party's wide lead among white voters is not unprecedented. The current 12-point advantage in leaned party affiliation among whites is on par with the GOPs lead among whites from 2002-2004 and in 1994. And as with the national trend, there has been virtually no shift in partisanship among whites from 2010 to the first half of 2011.
Unlike 2008, Republicans now have the advantage across virtually all groups of white voters. Most notably, Republicans now have an 11-point lead over Democrats (52% to 41%) among whites under the age of 30. In 2008, Democrats held a seven-point edge among this group (49% to 42%).
While the GOP's gains have been particularly evident among young whites, they have picked up support across all age groups as well. Among white voters ages 30 to 49, the Republican lead over Democrats has grown from seven points to 19 points. Among voters ages 50 to 64, who were evenly split in 2008, Republicans now have a nine-point advantage. The GOP' had a slight 2-point edge among white voters 65 and older three years ago; that has increased to 12 points in the first half of 2011.
Republicans also have widened their advantage among white men from 11 points in 2008 to 21 points now. Republicans now have a five-point lead among white women; in 2008 Democrats had a seven-point lead over Republicans among white women voters.
Democrats have lost their edge among lower income white voters. In 2008, Democrats had a 15 point lead among white voters with family incomes less than $30,000. Republicans now have a four-point edge among this group. The GOP's lead among middle income white voters also has grown since 2008, and Republicans maintain a substantial advantage with higher income white voters.
Republicans have made gains among whites with a high school education or less. The GOP's advantage over Democrats has grown from one point in 2008 to 17 points in 2011 among less educated whites. Republicans have made smaller gains among whites voters who have college degrees.
The Millennial generation – those born after 1980 – were a topic of much discussion in the 2008 election. These young voters – the oldest turned 27 that year, and are turning 30 now – leaned Democratic by roughly two-to-one in the 2008 election, and their commitment to Barack Obama, and relatively high voter turnout, was a substantial factor in the election's outcome.
While these voters remain the most Democratically oriented generation today, the advantage has narrowed substantially since 2008. Currently, 52% of Millennial voters are Democrats or lean to the Democratic Party while 39% are Republicans or lean to the GOP. This 13-point edge is less than half the size of the 32-point edge Democrats held three years ago.
Among voters in other generations, Democrats have lost adherents while Republicans have gained. But these changes have not been as large as those among Millennials.