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There's some awesome LV2 plugins out there for Macs, like the X42 plugins. Not everyone uses an LV2 host on macOS, but many people do use VST hosts. Even though mac-compatible LV2s, especially with GUIs, are rare, it's likely that increased user interest will generate increased developer support.
If you end up using an LV2 and enjoy it, please contact the developer and let them know that you appreciate their work!
So here's a short tutorial on how to use lv2vst to wrap your LV2 plugins to VST!
First will be a run-down for moderately experienced users/developers. Then I'm going to assume that you are on 10.11+ and have a bare-bones installation and know basically nothing.
This is written in my typical style rather than in a documentation format. This is not documentation. This is a how-to. If you have any questions, please post them in the comments.
- For developers
- For newbies - Prerequisites
- Method one - Easy mode
- Method two - Hard mode
- Conclusion
- Support Me!
For developers
If you're a developer or familiar with building software yourself then simple go to lv2vst and clone.
Now you have 2 choices…
System wide
To have the lv2vst wrap all your lv2 plugins on your system already then simply run
make osxbundle then
mv lv2.vst /Library/Audio/Plug-ins/VST. or you can create a symbolic link with
ln -s lv2.vst /Library/Audio/Plug-ins/VST/lv2.vst
lv2.vst will wrap your plugins that are located in the following directories:
- ~/.lv2
- ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/LV2
- /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/LV2
If these directories change, the information is located in 'include/lilv_config.h' as
# define LILV_DEFAULT_LV2_PATH .
Bundling an lv2 allows you to create a single '.vst' that contains one or more lv2s as a single package. This is a slightly more involved process, but it's rather simple to do manually. Feel free to write a script if you wish.
There are 4 parts to the process:
Create the whitelist
Create a file named
plugin.lv2 will be a directory. Inside the directory will be a file called 'manifest.ttl`. Open this file.
Inside 'manifest.ttl' you need to search for the string "a lv2:Plugin". The string before that is your URI.
- If the URI is already in < > then that is the URI. Like this: <http://calf.sourceforge.net/plugins/VintageDelay>
- If it looks like plugin:word, then you need to search for "@prefix plugin:". Take the string in < >, then add the 'word' from before.
- So if I see:
fil4:monothen I search for "@prefix fil4:"
- I find the line
@prefix fil4: <http://gareus.org/oss/lv2/fil4#> .
- Take the URI and combine it with the word after the colon. This makes our URI as
- So if I see:
Create a new file named
Place your list of URIs, one per line, inside quotes and comma separated. The final line is "NULL". An example:
NOTE You may wish to simply investigate using lv2ls to get lv2 URIs more reliably. You can learn more in the lv2 documentation about the manifest format.
Create the bundles
Bundles are easy. Create a file named
bundles. Each line is the name of the lv2 with a relative directory, inside quotes, comma separated, and the final line is "NULL". Here is an example:
This is the directory relative to lv2.vst/Contents/MacOS/ where your .lv2 is located. In this example we are putting the .lv2 in lv2.vst/Contents/LV2
make osxbundle BUNDLES=bundles WHITELIST=whitelist
This will create an lv2.vst in the directory.
Copy the lv2s
Now you need to create a directory with
mkdir lv2.vst/Contents/LV2.
Copy your plugin.lv2 to 'lv2.vst/Contents/LV2'.
Now you may rename your lv2.vst and copy it to your VST folder with
cp lv2.vst /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST.
Open your VST host and it should work! If it doesn't then drop me a comment. I've tried this on 3 separate machines with a variety of lv2 plugins, and it's fairly foolproof.
For newbies - Prerequisites
There are 2 ways I'm going to explain how to use lv2vst. Both of these require some prerequisite software installed.
If you run in to any issues, please try to google first! Some things can be easily fixed by googling the error message.
Install Command Line Tools
Open Terminal.app (it's in /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app).
Type "gcc" then hit enter.
A prompt will show up asking you if you want to install the tools. Install it.
Confirm installation
make. You should receive an error:
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
If it says
-bash: make: command not found, then you need to install the command line tools. Perhaps google will help you out here, it's not not that difficult.
Update Ruby?
ruby -v in Terminal.app. If the result is 2.0.0 or anything lower than 2.3.0, then you need to update Ruby.
Type the following in Terminal.app
\curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
rvm install ruby-2.4.2
ruby -v again and make sure you are on version 2.4.2. If you are not, then get googling!
Install homebrew
Now we need to install homebrew, which is a program that lets us install programs easily.
Inside Terminal.app, type
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)".
Press enter and let it do its thing.
Install git
This is why we've installed homebrew. In Terminal.app simply type
brew install git.
When it's done, typing
git should give you a bunch of nonsense (that's all git ever does anyway).
Method one - Easy mode
This is the simplest way to get things working.
The homebrew method.
In your terminal.app type
brew tap david0/homebrew-audio. This allows homebrew to build the applications at https://github.com/david0/homebrew-audio.
Now you can build lv2vst with
brew install lv2vst.
When this has finished, type
brew list lv2vst. You should see something like this:
/usr/local/Cellar/lv2vst/HEAD-a9a0c3d/lib/vst/ (3 files)
Now take that directory and run the command
ln -s [directory]/lv2.vst /Library/Audio/Plug-ins/VST/lv2.vst. Replace the [directory] with the directory from your list command. So my command would look like
ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/lv2vst/HEAD-a9a0c3d/lib/vst/lv2.vst /Library/Audio/Plug-ins/VST/lv2.vst.
The previous command creates what is called a 'symbolic link'. This creates a link (that looks like a file or directory) that simply points to another location on your disk.
Now you're done! Any lv2 plugins that you install in the following directories should be scanned and wrapped:
- ~/.lv2
- ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/LV2
- /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/LV2
Installing LV2s with homebrew
Homebrew also allows you to install some mac LV2 plugins. Check out here for more lv2s that you can install.
An example would be to try
brew install mverb-lv2.
You may need to move, copy or symbolic link your lv2 to one of the following directories:
- ~/.lv2
- ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/LV2
- /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/LV2
To find out where brew installed the plugin you just built, you would type
brew list mverb-lv2. Follow the directions in the previous section for information on how to move, or symbolic link the file to the appropriate directory.
Moving mverb2-lv2 may look like this:
mkdir /Library/Audio/Plug-ins/LV2 followed by
mv /usr/local/Cellar/mverb-lv2/HEAD-98b3a5f/lib/lv2/jg_mverb.lv2 /Library/Audio/Plug-ins/LV2.
Take note! The plugin's name is
jg_mverb.lv2 in this case. First I typed
cd /usr/local/Cellar/mverb-lv2/HEAD-98b3a5f/lib/lv2/, then
ls to see what the name of the .lv2 file was before I tried to copy it.
Method two - Hard mode
This is pretty much just as foolproof, but different.
Create a new directory somewhere you want with
mkdir [directory] with location being the name of a directory. So for example I may do
mkdir ~/Programming/lv2vst. The ~ represents your home directory.
Now you need to get to that directory. Type
cd [directory] with [directory] being the directory you created. I would type
cd ~/Programming/lv2vst. Now anything that we do will occur in that directory.
We need to get the lv2vst source files on our computer. This is easily done by typing
git clone https://github.com/x42/lv2vst.
Time to build! Simply type
make osxbundle, and begin a prayer to your preferred god. If there's no errors (warnings are OK) then we can move on. If there is an error, then get googling or leave me a comment.
If you successfully created lv2.vst (type
ls to see), then all that's left is to move it to your plugins director. You can either type
mv lv2.vst /Library/Audio/Plug-ins/VST to move it, or you can create a symbolic link with
ln -s lv2.vst /Library/Audio/Plug-ins/VST/lv2.vst. A symbolic link creates a link (that looks like a file or directory) that simply points to another location on your disk.
I'm almost 100% certain I made an error or two here. If you have any trouble please let me know so that I can fix it.
Currently there aren't too many mac-compatible LV2 plugins. The awesome x42 plugins alone are worth the effort though! Currently not all of them work, but with more interested mac users the super helpful and patient developer may be inclined to further support the mac lv2 platform.
Support Me!
This post took 9 hours to research, test, write and edit. Robin Gareus was extremely helpful during this time in helping tracking down a bug in lv2vst as well as helping me understand how to operate it. If you appreciate the information presented then please donate or drop a line to Robin to let him know that you appreciate his work!


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United Nations Security Council Resolution 476
Adopted by the Security Council at its 2242th meeting, on 30 June 1980
The Security Council,
Having considered the letter of 28 May 1980 from the representative of Pakistan, the current Chairman of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, as contained in document S/13966 of 28 May 1980,
Reaffirming that acquisition of territory by force is inadmissible,
Bearing in mind the specific status of Jerusalem and, in particular, the need for protection and preservation of the unique spiritual and religious dimension of the Holy Places in the city,
Reaffirming its resolutions relevant to the character and status of the Holy City of Jerusalem, in particular resolutions 252 (1968) of 21 May 1968, 267 (1969) of 3 July 1969, 271 (1969) of 15 September 1969, 298 (1971) of 25 September 1971 and 465 (1980) of 1 March 1980,
Recalling the Fourth Geneva Convention of 12 August 1949 relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War,
Deploring the persistence of Israel, in changing the physical character, demographic composition, institutional structure and the status of the Holy City of Jerusalem,
Gravely concerned over the legislative steps initiated in the Israeli Knesset with the aim of changing the character and status of the Holy City of Jerusalem,
1. Reaffirms the overriding necessity to end the prolonged occupation of Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including Jerusalem;
2. Strongly deplores the continued refusal of Israel, the occupying Power, to comply with the relevant resolutions of the Security Council and the General Assembly;
3. Reconfirms that all legislative and administrative measures and actions taken by Israel, the occupying Power, which purport to alter the character and status of the Holy City of Jerusalem have no legal validity and constitute a flagrant violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War and also constitute a serious obstruction to achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East;
4. Reiterates that all such measures which have altered the geographic, demographic and historical character and status of the Holy City of Jerusalem are null and void and must be rescinded in compliance with the relevant resolutions of the Security Council;
5. Urgently calls on Israel, the occupying Power, to abide by this and previous Security Council resolutions and to desist forthwith from persisting in the policy and measures affecting the character and status of the Holy city of Jerusalem;
6. Reaffirms its determination in the event of non-compliance by Israel with this resolution, to examine practical ways and means in accordance with relevant provisions of the Charter of the United Nations to secure the full implementation of this resolution.
This work is excerpted from an official document of the United Nations. The policy of this organisation is to keep most of its documents in the public domain in order to disseminate "as widely as possible the ideas (contained) in the United Nations Publications".
Pursuant to UN Administrative Instruction ST/AI/189/Add.9/Rev.2 available in English only, these documents are in the public domain worldwide:
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- United Nations documents issued with a UN symbol
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North Yemen became independent of the Ottoman Empire in 1918. The British, who had set up a protectorate area around the southern port of Aden in the 19th century, withdrew in 1967 from what became South Yemen. Three years later, the southern government adopted a Marxist orientation. The massive exodus of hundreds of thousands of Yemenis from the south to the north contributed to two decades of hostility between the states. The two countries were formally unified as the Republic of Yemen in 1990. A southern secessionist movement in 1994 was quickly subdued. In 2000, Saudi Arabia and Yemen agreed to a delimitation of their border. Fighting in the northwest between the government and Huthi rebels, a group seeking a return to traditional Zaydi Islam, began in 2004 and has since resulted in six rounds of fighting -... See More
|Middle East, bordering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Red Sea, between Oman and Saudi Arabia
Geographic Coordinates:
|Total: 527,968 sq km
Land: 527,968 sq km
Water: 0 sq km
Note: includes Perim, Socotra, the former Yemen Arab Republic (YAR or North Yemen), and the former People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY or South Yemen)
Area - Comparative:
|Slightly larger than twice the size of Wyoming
Land Boundaries:
|Total: 1,746 km
Border countries: Oman 288 km, Saudi Arabia 1,458 km
|1,906 km (Rank: 60)
Maritime Claims:
|Territorial sea: 12 nm
Contiguous zone: 24 nm
Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
Continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
|Mostly desert; hot and humid along west coast; temperate in western mountains affected by seasonal monsoon; extraordinarily hot, dry, harsh desert in east
|Narrow coastal plain backed by flat-topped hills and rugged mountains; dissected upland desert plains in center slope into the desert interior of the Arabian Peninsula
Elevation Extremes:
|Lowest point: Arabian Sea 0 m
Highest point: Jabal an Nabi Shu'ayb 3,760 m
Natural Resources:
|Petroleum, fish, rock salt, marble; small deposits of coal, gold, lead, nickel, and copper; fertile soil in west
Land Use:
|Arable land: 2.91%
Permanent crops: 0.25%
Other: 96.84% (2005)
Irrigated Land:
|6,800 sq km (2008)
Total Renewable Water Resources:
|4.1 cu km (1997)
Freshwater Withdrawal:
|Total: 6.63 cu km/yr (4%/1%/95%)
Per capita: 316 cu m/yr (2000)
Natural Hazards:
|Sandstorms and dust storms in summer
Volcanism: Yemen experiences limited volcanic activity; Jebel at Tair (Jabal al-Tair, Jebel Teir, Jabal al-Tayr, Jazirat at-Tair) (elev. 244 m), which forms an island in the Red Sea, erupted in 2007 after awakening from dormancy; other historically active volcanoes include Harra of Arhab, Harras of Dhamar, Harra es-Sawad, and Jebel Zubair, although many of these have not erupted in over a century
Environment - Current Issues:
|Limited natural freshwater resources; inadequate supplies of potable water; overgrazing; soil erosion; desertification
Environment - International Agreements:
|Party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection
Signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography - Note:
|Strategic location on Bab el Mandeb, the strait linking the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, one of world's most active shipping lanes
|Noun: Yemeni(s)
Adjective: Yemeni
Ethnic Groups:
|Predominantly Arab; but also Afro-Arab, South Asians, Europeans
|Arabic (official)
|Muslim including Shaf'i (Sunni) and Zaydi (Shia), small numbers of Jewish, Christian, and Hindu
|24,133,492 (July 2011 est.)
Age Structure:
|0-14 years: 43% (male 5,285,218/female 5,094,736)
15-64 years: 54.4% (male 6,666,600/female 6,459,414)
65 years and over: 2.6% (male 298,175/female 329,349) (2011 est.)
Median Age:
|Total: 18.1 years
Male: 18 years
Female: 18.2 years (2011 est.)
Population Growth Rate:
|2.647% (2011 est.)
Birth Rate:
|33.49 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)
Death Rate:
|7.02 deaths/1,000 population (July 2011 est.)
Net Migration Rate:
|0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2011 est.)
|Urban population: 32% of total population (2010)
Rate of urbanization: 4.6% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
Major Cities - Population:
|SANAA (capital) 2.229 million (2009)
Sex Ratio:
|At birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
Under 15 years: 1.04 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.03 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.91 male(s)/female
Total population: 1.03 male(s)/female (2011 est.)
Maternal Mortality Rate:
|210 deaths/100,000 live births (2008)
Infant Mortality Rate:
|Total: 55.11 deaths/1,000 live births
Male: 59.7 deaths/1,000 live births
Female: 50.29 deaths/1,000 live births (2011 est.)
Life Expectancy At Birth:
|Total population: 63.74 years
Male: 61.7 years
Female: 65.87 years (2011 est.)
Total Fertility Rate:
|4.63 children born/woman (2011 est.)
Health Expenditures:
|5.6% of GDP (2009)
Physicians Density:
|0.3 physicians/1,000 population (2009)
Hospital Bed Density:
|0.7 beds/1,000 population (2009)
Drinking Water Source:
|Urban: 72% of population
Rural: 57% of population
Total: 62% of population
Urban: 28% of population
Rural: 43% of population
Total: 38% of population (2008)
Sanitation Facility Access:
|Urban: 94% of population
Rural: 33% of population
Total: 52% of population
Urban: 6% of population
Rural: 67% of population
Total: 48% of population (2008)
HIV/AIDS - Adult Prevalence Rate:
|0.1% (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - People Living With HIV/AIDS:
|12,000 (2001 est.)
Major Infectious Diseases:
|Degree of risk: high
Food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
Vectorborne diseases: dengue fever and malaria
Water contact disease: schistosomiasis (2009)
Children Under 5 - Underweight:
|43.1% (2003)
Education Expenditures:
|5.2% of GDP (2008)
|Definition: age 15 and over can read and write
Total population: 50.2%
Male: 70.5%
Female: 30% (2003 est.)
Average Years of Schooling:
|Total: 9 years
Male: 11 years
Female: 7 years (2005)
Country Name:
|Conventional long form: Republic of Yemen
Conventional short form: Yemen
Local long form: Al Jumhuriyah al Yamaniyah
Local short form: Al Yaman
Former: Yemen Arab Republic [Yemen (Sanaa) or North Yemen] and People's Democratic Republic of Yemen [Yemen (Aden) or South Yemen]
Government Type:
|Name: Sanaa
Geographic coordinates: 15 21 N, 44 12 E
Time difference: UTC+3 (8 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
Administrative Divisions:
|21 governorates (muhafazat, singular - muhafazah); Abyan, 'Adan (Aden), Ad Dali', Al Bayda', Al Hudaydah, Al Jawf, Al Mahrah, Al Mahwit, Amanat al 'Asimah (Sanaa City), 'Amran, Dhamar, Hadramawt, Hajjah, Ibb, Lahij, Ma'rib, Raymah, Sa'dah, San'a' (Sanaa), Shabwah, Ta'izz
|22 May 1990 (Republic of Yemen was established with the merger of the Yemen Arab Republic [Yemen (Sanaa) or North Yemen] and the Marxist-dominated People's Democratic Republic of Yemen [Yemen (Aden) or South Yemen]); note - previously North Yemen became independent in November 1918 (from the Ottoman Empire) and became a republic with the overthrow of the theocratic Imamate in 1962; South Yemen became independent on 30 November 1967 (from the UK)
National Holiday:
|Unification Day, 22 May (1990)
|16 May 1991; amended 29 September 1994 and February 2001
Legal System:
|Mixed legal system of Islamic law, English common law, and customary law
International Law Organization Participation:
|Has not submitted an ICJ jurisdiction declaration; non-party state to the ICCt
|18 years of age; universal
Executive Branch:
|Chief of state: President Ali Abdallah SALIH (since 22 May 1990); Vice President Abd al-Rabuh Mansur HADI (Maj. Gen.); note - on 24 November 2011 President SALIH signed a GCC-brokered agreement to step down
Head of government: Interim Prime Minister Muhammad Salim BA SINDWAH (since 27 November 2011)
Cabinet: on 27 November 2011, Vice President HADI requested Interim Prime Minister Muhammad BA SINDWAH to form a new government following the resignation of President SALIH on 24 November
Elections: president elected by popular vote for a seven-year term; election last held on 20 September 2006 (next to be held in February 2012); vice president appointed by the president; prime minister and deputy prime ministers appointed by the president
Election results: Ali Abdallah SALIH elected president; percent of vote - Ali Abdallah SALIH 77.2%, Faysal BIN SHAMLAN 21.8%, other 1%
Legislative Branch:
|Bicameral legislature consisting of a Shura Council (111 seats; members appointed by the president) and House of Representatives (301 seats; members elected by popular vote to serve eight-year terms)
Elections: last held on 27 April 2003 (scheduled April 2009 election postponed for two years)
Election results: percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - GPC 238, Islah 47, YSP 6, Nasserite Unionist Party 3, National Arab Socialist Ba'th Party 2, independents 5
Judicial Branch:
|Supreme Court
Political Parties and Leaders:
|General People's Congress or GPC [Abdul-Kader BAJAMMAL]; Islamic Reform Grouping or Islah [Muhammed Abdallah AL-YADUMI]; Nasserite Unionist Party [Abd al-Malik al-MAKHLAFI]; National Arab Socialist Ba'th Party [Dr. Qasim SALAM]; Yemeni Socialist Party or YSP [Yasin Said NU'MAN]; note - there are at least seven more active political parties
Political Pressure Groups and Leaders:
|Muslim Brotherhood; Women National Committee
Other: conservative tribal groups; Huthis, southern secessionist groups; al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)
International Organization Participation:
|AFESD, AMF, CAEU, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAS, MIGA, MINURSO, MONUSCO, NAM, OAS (observer), OIC, OPCW, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNISFA, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO (observer)
Diplomatic Representation in the US:
|Chief of mission: Ambassador Abd al-Wahab Abdallah al-HAJRI
Chancery: 2319 Wyoming Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008
Telephone: [1] (202) 965-4760
Diplomatic Representation From the US:
|Chief of mission: Ambassador Gerald M. FEIERSTEIN
Embassy: Sa'awan Street, Sanaa
Mailing address: P. O. Box 22347, Sanaa
Telephone: [967] (1) 755-2000 ext. 2153 or 2266
Flag Description:
|Three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and black; the band colors derive from the Arab Liberation flag and represent oppression (black), overcome through bloody struggle (red), to be replaced by a bright future (white)
Note: similar to the flag of Syria, which has two green stars in the white band, and of Iraq, which has an Arabic inscription centered in the white band; also similar to the flag of Egypt, which has a heraldic eagle centered in the white band
National Symbols:
|Golden eagle
National Anthem:
|Name: "al-qumhuriyatu l-muttahida" (United Republic)
Lyrics/music: Abdullah Abdulwahab NOA'MAN/Ayyoab Tarish ABSI
Note: adopted 1990; the music first served as the anthem for South Yemen before unification with North Yemen in 1990
Economy - Overview:
|Yemen is a low income country that is highly dependent on declining oil resources for revenue. Petroleum accounts for roughly 25% of GDP and 70% of government revenue. Yemen has tried to counter the effects of its declining oil resources by diversifying its economy through an economic reform program initiated in 2006 that is designed to bolster non-oil sectors of the economy and foreign investment. In October 2009, Yemen exported its first liquefied natural gas as part of this diversification effort. In January 2010, the international community established the Friends of Yemen group that aims to support Yemen's efforts towards economic and political reform, and in August 2010 the IMF approved a three-year $370 million program to further this effort. Despite these ambitious endeavors, Yemen continues to face difficult long term challenges, including declining water resources and a high population growth rate.
GDP (Purchasing Power Parity):
|$63.4 billion (2010 est.)
$58.69 billion (2009 est.)
$56.51 billion (2008 est.)
Note: data are in 2010 US dollars
GDP (Official Exchange Rate):
|$31.27 billion (2010 est.)
GDP - Real Growth Rate:
|8% (2010 est.)
3.9% (2009 est.)
3.6% (2008 est.)
GDP - Per Capita (PPP):
|$2,700 (2010 est.)
$2,600 (2009 est.)
$2,500 (2008 est.)
Note: data are in 2010 US dollars
GDP - Composition By Sector:
|Agriculture: 8.3%
Industry: 38.5%
Services: 53.3% (2010 est.)
Labor Force:
|6.832 million (2010 est.)
Labor Force - By Occupation:
|Note: most people are employed in agriculture and herding; services, construction, industry, and commerce account for less than one-fourth of the labor force
Unemployment Rate:
|35% (2003 est.)
Population Below Poverty Line:
|45.2% (2003)
Household Income / Consumption By Share:
|Lowest 10%: 2.9%
Highest 10%: 30.8% (2005)
Distribution of Family Income - Gini Index:
|37.7 (2005)
33.4 (1998)
Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons:
|Refugees (country of origin): 91,587 (Somalia) (2007)
Investment (Gross Fixed):
|19.1% of GDP (2010 est.)
|Revenues: $8.861 billion
Expenditures: $8.492 billion (2010 est.)
Taxes and Other Revenues:
|28.3% of GDP (2010 est.)
Budget Surplus / Deficit:
|1.2% of GDP (2010 est.)
Public Debt:
|30.8% of GDP (2010 est.)
35.4% of GDP (2009 est.)
Inflation Rate (Consumer Prices):
|11.2% (2010 est.)
5.4% (2009 est.)
Central Bank Discount Rate:
Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate:
|25% (31 December 2010 est.)
18% (31 December 2009 est.)
Stock of Money:
|$3.489 billion (31 October 2009)
$3.399 billion (31 December 2008)
Stock of Quasi Money:
|$6.077 billion (31 October 2009)
$5.985 billion (31 December 2008)
Stock of Narrow Money:
|$3.679 billion (31 December 2010 est.)
$3.659 billion (31 December 2009 est.)
Stock of Broad Money:
|$10.13 billion (31 December 2010 est.)
$9.346 billion (31 December 2009 est.)
Stock of Domestic Credit:
|$6.183 billion (31 December 2010 est.)
$4.988 billion (31 December 2009 est.)
Agriculture - Products:
|Grain, fruits, vegetables, pulses, qat, coffee, cotton; dairy products, livestock (sheep, goats, cattle, camels), poultry; fish
|Crude oil production and petroleum refining; small-scale production of cotton textiles and leather goods; food processing; handicrafts; small aluminum products factory; cement; commercial ship repair; natural gas production
Industrial Production Growth Rate:
|9% (2010 est.)
Electricity - Production:
|6.153 billion kWh (2008 est.)
Electricity - Production By Source:
|Fossil fuel: 100%
Hydro: 0%
Nuclear: 0%
Other: 0% (2001)
Electricity - Consumption:
|4.646 billion kWh (2008 est.)
Electricity - Exports:
|0 kWh (2009 est.)
Electricity - Imports:
|0 kWh (2009 est.)
Oil - Production:
|258,800 bbl/day (2010 est.)
Oil - Consumption:
|157,000 bbl/day (2010 est.)
Oil - Exports:
|207,700 bbl/day (2009 est.)
Oil - Imports:
|64,610 bbl/day (2009 est.)
Oil - Proven Reserves:
|3 billion bbl (1 January 2011 est.)
Natural Gas - Production:
|520 million cu m (2009 est.)
Natural Gas - Consumption:
|100 million cu m (2009 est.)
Natural Gas - Exports:
|420 million cu m (2009 est.)
Natural Gas - Imports:
|0 cu m (2009 est.)
Natural Gas - Proven Reserves:
|478.5 billion cu m (1 January 2011 est.)
Current Account Balance:
|-$1.944 billion (2010 est.)
-$2.565 billion (2009 est.)
|$7.718 billion (2010 est.)
$5.855 billion (2009 est.)
Exports - Commodities:
|Crude oil, coffee, dried and salted fish, liquefied natural gas
Exports - Partners:
|China 34.4%, India 23%, Thailand 6.6%, South Africa 5.7%, Japan 5.3%, UAE 4.8% (2010)
|$8.701 billion (2010 est.)
$7.868 billion (2009 est.)
Imports - Commodities:
|Food and live animals, machinery and equipment, chemicals
Imports - Partners:
|UAE 13.5%, China 12.2%, India 8.9%, Saudi Arabia 6.4%, Kuwait 4.7%, France 4.3%, Brazil 4.1% (2010)
Reserves of Foreign Exchange and Gold:
|$5.942 billion (31 December 2010 est.)
$6.993 billion (31 December 2009 est.)
Debt - External:
|$6.586 billion (31 December 2010 est.)
$6.356 billion (31 December 2009 est.)
Exchange Rates:
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Telephones - Main Lines In Use:
|1.046 million (2010)
Telephones - Cellular:
|11.085 million (2010)
Telephone System:
|General assessment: since unification in 1990, efforts have been made to create a national telecommunications network
Domestic: the national network consists of microwave radio relay, cable, tropospheric scatter, GSM and CDMA mobile-cellular telephone systems; fixed-line and mobile-cellular teledensity remains low by regional standards
International: country code - 967; landing point for the international submarine cable Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG); satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (2 Indian Ocean and 1 Atlantic Ocean), 1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region), and 2 Arabsat; microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia and Djibouti
Broadcast Media:
|State-run TV with 2 stations; state-run radio with 2 national radio stations and 5 local stations; stations from Oman and Saudi Arabia can be accessed (2007)
Radio Broadcast Stations:
|AM 6, FM 1, shortwave 2 (1998)
Television Broadcast Stations:
|3 (including one Egypt-based station that broadcasts in Yemen); plus several repeaters (2007)
Internet Country Code:
Internet Hosts:
|255 (2010)
Internet Users:
|2.349 million (2009)
|55 (2010)
Airports - With Paved Runways:
|Total: 17
Over 3,047 m: 4
2,438 to 3,047 m: 9
1,524 to 2,437 m: 3
914 to 1,523 m: 1 (2010)
Airports - With Unpaved Runways:
|Total: 38
Over 3,047 m: 3
2,438 to 3,047 m: 5
1,524 to 2,437 m: 6
914 to 1,523 m: 14
Under 914 m: 10 (2010)
|Gas 423 km; liquid petroleum gas 22 km; oil 1,367 km (2010)
|Total: 71,300 km
Paved: 6,200 km
Unpaved: 65,100 km (2005)
Merchant Marine:
|Total: 6
By type: cargo 1, chemical tanker 2, petroleum tanker 2, roll on/roll off 1
Registered in other countries: 14 (Moldova 1, Panama 4, Saint Kitts and Nevis 1, Sierra Leone 2, unknown 6) (2010)
Ports and Terminals:
|Aden, Al Hudaydah, Al Mukalla
Transportation - Note:
|The International Maritime Bureau reports offshore waters in the Gulf of Aden are high risk for piracy; numerous vessels, including commercial shipping and pleasure craft, have been attacked and hijacked both at anchor and while underway; crew, passengers, and cargo are held for ransom; the presence of several naval task forces in the Gulf of Aden and additional anti-piracy measures on the part of ship operators reduced the incidence of piracy in that body of water by more than half in 2010
Military Branches:
|Army, Navy (includes Marines), Yemen Air Force (Al Quwwat al Jawwiya al Jamahiriya al Yemeniya; includes Air Defense Force), Republican Guard Forces (2011)
Military Service Age and Obligation:
|Voluntary military service program authorized in 2001; 2-year service obligation (2006)
Manpower Available For Military Service:
|Males age 16-49: 5,652,256
Females age 16-49: 5,387,160 (2010 est.)
Manpower Fit For Military Service:
|Males age 16-49: 4,056,944
Females age 16-49: 4,116,895 (2010 est.)
Manpower Reaching Militarily Significant Age Annually:
|Male: 287,141
Female: 277,612 (2010 est.)
Military Expenditures:
|6.6% of GDP (2006)
Military - Note:
|A Coast Guard was established in 2002
Disputes - International:
|Saudi Arabia has reinforced its concrete-filled security barrier along sections of the fully demarcated border with Yemen to stem illegal cross-border activities
Trafficking in Persons:
|Current situation: Yemen is a country of origin and, to a much lesser extent, a transit and destination country for men, women and children subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking; Yemeni children, mostly boys, migrate to the Yemeni cities, Saudi Arabia or, to a lesser extent, to Oman and are forced to work in domestic service, small shops, or as beggars; some of these children are subjected to prostitution; to a lesser extent, Yemen is also a source country for girls subjected to sex trafficking within the country and in Saudi Arabia
Tier rating: Tier 3 - the Yemeni cabinet approved the country's accession to the 2000 UN Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Protocol and the government reportedly prosecuted and convicted traffickers; despite these efforts, the Yemeni Government did not take steps to address trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation or to institute formal procedures to identify and protect victims of trafficking (2011)
|Yemen Main Page
|World Factbook Main Page
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Chasing American Legends
Pursuing truth about historys heroes. Chasing American Legends follows the dynamic Green family and special guest stars (David Barton, Brad Stine, Alveda King, Brian Birdwell, & others) in their investigations of Americas heroes, legends, & legacies.
With sincere passion for America balanced by humor & curiosity, an entertaining cast brings a fresh approach to storytelling through their access to authentic worlds of timeless national treasures. Each episode is a fun journey through Americas most amazing moments, as Chasing American Legends redefines the history genre of reality television.
Includes discussion questions, essay questions, guest profiles, and more!
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As a Partner and alongside organizers LIN Center for Community Development and HCMC Association For Women Executives & Entrepreneurs (HAWEE), we are delighted to invite you to join us at Cross-Sector Partnerships workshop "Transformation of Community Development in Vietnam" asa participant or a partner, to learn more about the transformation stories in the Community development from both local nonprofits and companies; as well as listen and discuss with speakers and other guests on different partnership models between nonprofits and businesses.
At "Transformation of Community Development in Vietnam" you will:
- Learn real life and practical models and approaches for Community development in Vietnam.
- Ask questions and discuss with the speakers about the Community development approaches that you are interested in.
- Connect with other leaders from business and nonprofit organizations who are working to transform their own Community development activities towards sustainable and long-term approaches.
Please register today to join us!
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Community development is a process where community members come together to take collective action and generate solutions to common problems relating to the economy, society, culture and environment. The story of Community development cannot be written by any one sector alone. Lack of experience and expertise, as well as the scattered resources and a lack of collaboration remains to be challenges to produce sustainable and long-lasting impact.
Therefore, we would like to invite you to join us at Cross-Sector Partnerships Workshop "Transformation of Community Development in Vietnam" to be inspired; to engage; to develop; to connect; and to influence on corporate social responsibility (CSR), partnerships, community development, and impact to continue to build a resilient Vietnam.
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Finance chiefs from the Group of Seven industrial nations agreed on Friday that including China's renminbi in the International Monetary Fund's currency basket is desirable, but a technical review must be completed first.
The inclusion of the renminbi, also known as the yuan, as part of the IMF's unit of account would mark another stage in China's rise as a global economic player, requiring the United States to accept a dilution of its power in international finance.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, who hosted the G7 meeting in Dresden, said the finance chiefs discussed the possible inclusion of the renminbi in the basket of currencies that makes up the IMF's Special Drawing Rights (SDR).
The SDR is a virtual currency that defines the value of IMF reserves, used for lending to countries in financial difficulty.
"We were completely agreed that it is desirable in principle, that the technical conditions must be examined, but there are no politically divergent views on this," Schaeuble told a news conference at the end of the two-day meeting.
The renminbi is already the world's fifth most-used trade currency. Beijing has made strides this year in introducing the infrastructure needed to float it freely on global capital markets.
Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said he welcomed China's intention to reform its yuancurrency and that progress on liberalising China's capital market should pave the way for the yuan to satisfy the IMF's criteria as global currency.
Including the yuan in the IMF basket would increase China's influence at the Fund - an institution Washington was instrumental in designing and through which it has projected 'soft power' for the last 70 years.
China would be the first emerging market currency to join the basket that comprises the dollar, the euro, the yen, and the pound sterling. But Schaeuble played down the chances of China being given the green light this year.
"Whether the renminbi will be included in autumn already is a decision the IMF must make. It seems a bit optimistic to me," Schaeuble said.
"There is still a series of technical questions to be clarified and not just technical questions. It would be wrong, precisely because we have complete agreement on the aim, to make this process harder by putting inappropriate time pressure on."
If the yuan were to be included into the SDR, China would have to show the composition of its foreign exchange reserves. That implies also to furnish detailed information about its official gold holdings.
Read more: China's Gold: A "Black Swan"? / The SDR, Gold and China
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Vânia Pinto has a Degree in Psychological Sciences and a Master Degree in Clinical Psychology, from ISPA - University Institute, in Portugal. She has also completed Postgraduate programmes on "Protection of Minors", at the Faculty of Law - University of Coimbra, and on "Data Analysis in the Social Science", at ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon, both in Portugal. She is currently a DPhil Candidate in Education at the Rees Centre, Department of Education, University of Oxford, conducting research in the field of placement success.
She is also a Clinical Psychologist, as well as a research collaborator at the InEd-Center for Research and Innovation in Education, School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, and a Board member of various networks, such as: the EUSARF Academy, the Oxford Children's Rights Network , and the Centro de Estudos Comparados da Criança em Família. She has several publications in the field of child protection systems, decision-making processes, foster care, and indicators of placement success.


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It hasn't been that long now since the introduction of CF Express Type B cards have pushed storage performance to 1750MB/s in the media industry. Media professionals understand that storage speeds are everything; the key thought being that continuous video or photography can only be accomplished with high speed storage concurrent to their activity. Any DSLR owner knows EXACTLY what …Read More »
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Lexar 1TB Professional SDXC Review – Another First for Lexar
A few days back, we did a review on the first 1TB microSD card to make it outside of manufacturers test facilities and the only negative of that review was that we couldn't tell you when it would be available, or the cost. That was the Lexar 1TB High-Professional microSDXC which is the smallest 1TB storage drive in the industry …Read More »
Lexar High-Performance 633x MicroSDXC Review (1TB) – The First of Its Kind
Great relationships can lead to great things. In the past few months, there have been a few companies who have stated their intention to market the holy grail of portable storage; a 1TB microSDXC card. So far though… nada. Well…at least until earlier today when a totally unexpected package arrived via courier. It was a small package…very small in fact. …Read More »
Lexar Shows off 1 TB SDXC and 1.6GB/s CF Express Cards – CES 2019 Update
I have been a Lexar fan for too many years to remember so one might imagine that I became just a bit concerned when they were sold off to Longsys, a manufacturer having a great reputation abroad, but without a similar following by media professionals here in North America. We met with the new owners shortly after the purchase and …Read More »
Transcend Demos SuperMLC and New Products – Flash Memory Summit 2016 Update
Many vendors at FMS this year are introducing evolutionary products and Transcend is no different. While at their booth we spotted them demonstrating the performance of their SuperMLC NAND. SuperMLC was originally developed to deliver industrial customers the high performance and reliability that SLC offers, but at a lower, more cost effective price point. In order to do this Transcend …Read More »
Kingston 512GB SDXC Card Review (Class 10 UHS-1) – Size Matters
For those that shoot in RAW… The timing of this card could not be more perfect. Although I had been a camera enthusiast for years, admittedly I was lazy. I liked to stick to presets and typical JPG output in an environment where the quicker I can get the file from my camera to 'published' the better. All that changed …Read More »
Samsung EVO Plus microSDXC UHS-I Card Review (256GB) – So Much V-NAND!
Released earlier last year, the Samsung EVO Plus line of microSD cards has been quite a success. In light of this, Samsung has decided to continue the momentum and push boundaries by expanding the capacity availability. Today, Samsung has released the world's largest microSD card, and in order to do so, they have integrated their latest 48-layer TLC V-NAND into it! At 256GB, it is …Read More »
Lexar 633x microSDXC Card Review (200GB) – Smartphone Storage Savior
The ability to upgrade storage in today's smartphones seems to have become key once again. It is the dividing point between Samsung and Apple. A Samsung S7 smart phone allows the user to add up to 200GB of storage space whereas the Apple iPhone 6S tops out at 128GB, that storage increasing the iPhone price by several hundred dollars. This …Read More »
PNY Pro Elite SDXC Card Review (64GB) – A New Standard in 4K UltraHD
Without a doubt, the most common downfall of SD cards is the lack of understanding the consumer has with respect to class levels. Most buy cards for price only, not realizing how this might benefit them at times when they are really pushing their camera to its limits. The demands of today's newest cameras, and even today's smartphones capable of …Read More »
Samsung EVO SDHC UHS-1 U1 Card Review (32GB)
Segmented into three series are Samsung's newest line of SD cards; their naming scheme following their SSD offerings with the Pro and EVO designations. We recently reviewed the 64GB microSDXC version of their highest end Pro and were very impressed with its market leading performance. Following their Pro series, Samsung released the EVO series and Standard series cards. Today we …Read More »


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It was a long journey from Chapel Hill, NC to Melbourne, Australia, but it was definitely worth it to attend the 14th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC). The IDCC is always a great event for people involved in digital curation and preservation, especially when it is in a beautiful city like Melbourne. I was excited to attend this year and to take part in a 10-minute lightning talk on the Data Curation Network (DCN) entitled "The Data Curation Network: A Curator Perspective". (More on this later in this post.) I'd like to take this opportunity to share some highlights from the conference.
This theme of this year's IDCC, "Collaborations and Partnerships: addressing the big digital challenges together", fits perfectly with what the Data Curation Network is all about. The Data Curation Network puts into place a cross-institutional staffing model connecting a network of expert data curators to increase local curation capacity, strengthen collaboration and support the sharing of research data. (To read more about the DCN and Dryad's participation in the network, see Elizabeth Hull's previous blog post announcing Dryad's participation in the DCN launch.)
The main conference was kicked off with a "Welcome to Country Ceremony" conducted by a Wurundjeri Community Elder, along with a welcome to the University of Melbourne from Gwenda Thomas, Directory Scholarly Services and University Librarian. Kevin Ashley, Director, Digital Curation Centre, also gave a welcome to IDCC19 that included a challenge to conference participants: "listen, talk, interact and be inspired to do something".
The opening keynote, which was presented by independent journalist Christine Kenneally and was entitled "Data, the creation of history and its impact on real lives", related the compelling story of millions of orphans from around the world (including Australia and the US) searching for information about themselves. The orphans' story highlighted the importance and direct impact of data on both a societal and an individual level, a theme that would emerge throughout the conference.
After the keynote, the various presentations in the form of parallel sessions, posters and lightning talks began. Throughout the conference, these presentations were organized into broad topics such as:
- Grand curation challenges across disciplines
- Metadata
- Trust
- Data quality
- Digital humanities
- Examples and models / Models and tools
- Research disciplines & data services
- Research data management / Research data services
- Digital curation & preservation
- Building diverse and Inclusive Communities
- Curating indigenous data
- Skills
As a representative of the DCN, I took part in a lightning talk session with a presentation put together by Erin Clary (Dryad Senior Curator), Lisa Johnston (Principal Investigator for the DCN and Director of the Data Repository for the University of Minnesota) and myself. The presentation focused on the experiences Erin and I have had so far as curators with the DCN pilot. After Lisa gave a brief overview of the DCN, I described the training and preparation all participating curators undertook and what it was like for Erin and me to actually begin curating DCN submissions.
John Chodacki (Director, University of California Curation Center) gave a great presentation about the "Community Led Open Data Infrastructure: CDL & Dryad Partnership" in which he shared how and why the partnership came about and what it means going forward. John followed up immediately with another presentation about "The Research Organization Registry". As an added bonus after the conference, John led the workshop "Accelerating Data Publication: new models for research institutions". (For a summary of the workshop, see the blog post from the perspective of workshop attendee Dr. Richard Ferrers.)
The thought-provoking final keynote was presented remotely (in light of the recent US Government shutdown) by Dr. Patricia Brennan, Director, US National Library of Medicine. Her presentation, "Jumping into the stream of data curation", highlighted the enormous amount of data curated each day by the National Library of Medicine. Dr. Brennan spoke of an "information tsunami", the challenges inherent in curating all that data and what those challenges may mean for the future of data curation. Her presentation highlighted the shift in focus by data curation professionals over the years from pushing efforts to encourage data curation to figuring out how we move forward now that those efforts are paying off with a torrent of data given the limited resources available.
The conference came to an end all too soon with closing remarks by Kevin Ashley and Donna McRostie and an IDCC 2019 theme song that put a smile on everyone's face. Next year, curators will do it all again at the 15th International Digital Curation Conference in (drum roll, please) … Dublin, Ireland!


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Georgia's Republican primary for the U.S. Senate will end Tuesday amid accusations of sweetheart deals and donations from criminals. But the Peach State's runoff — unlike Mississippi's — doesn't feature a big ideological struggle; Rep. Jack Kingston and former Dollar General CEO David Perdue are both mainline conservatives.
The bigger story will probably be the general election candidate not on Tuesday's ballot: Democrat Michelle Nunn. Georgia has been solidly Republican in national elections for more than a decade, but Nunn has led Kingston in eight of 11 polls conducted over the past year. Perdue hasn't polled much better. Nunn seems to benefitting from a Georgia that has grown more diverse, a golden name (her father was Sam Nunn, the longtime senator), and the dragging out of the GOP primary.
Luckily for Republicans, Kingston and Perdue were seen as the more mainstream candidates in the primary's first round. They emerged from a field that included the outspoken Reps. Paul Broun and Phil Gingrey, as well Karen Handel, the Sarah Palin-endorsed former secretary of state. Kingston had the least conservative (though still conservative) congressional record of any of the three congressmen running, and he was endorsed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Emphasizing his business background, Perdue campaigned more on the economy than hot-button social issues.
Perdue finished first in the primary with 31 percent. Kingston came in second at 26 percent. But the tables appear to have turned in the runoff.
Kingston has been boosted by endorsements from Gingrey and Handel, as well as from RedState's Erick Erickson and the National Rifle Association, and he has consistently led in runoff polling. The latest averages from HuffPollster and RealClearPolitics show him with 47 percent. Perdue trails with 42 and 41 percent in those averages, respectively.
And Kingston's 5 to 6 percentage-point lead will probably stand up.
Past polling in Georgia' Republican primaries and runoffs has been reasonably accurate. In the 2010 gubernatorial runoff, the polling average was off by less than a percentage point. In the first round of this year's Senate primary, polling correctly showed Perdue ahead, Kingston in second and Handel in third. Only two candidates (with undecideds allocated proportionally) out of 16 in the past four major statewide GOP primaries have seen an error of more than 3 percentage points from their projected vote percentage and actual vote percentage. Perdue would need that type of error (and in his direction) to win.
For the polls to be wrong, Perdue will probably need to exceed expectations in the Atlanta area. Perdue led Kingston by 17 to 18 percentage points in Cobb (a traditional swing county in Republican primaries), Gwinnett and Fulton counties in the first round; Handel came in first or second in all of these counties. If Perdue is to win the runoff, he'll need to fight off Handel's influence and win these counties by potentially upward of 10 points. He'll be building on his base around Macon, in Bibb and Houston counties in the middle of the state.
Kingston, meanwhile, needs another strong performance in and around his congressional district (the 1st), which includes Savannah. Kingston regularly won 75 percent or more of the vote — and no less than 64 percent — in 30 southeastern counties. More than that, turnout was up in the southeast, while it was down in most of the state. In Chatham, for example, turnout was up 7 percent from the competitive gubernatorial primary four years ago. It was down 11 percent statewide.
If you're looking for a county to watch, Richmond, which includes Augusta and is in the central-eastern part of the state, could be telling. It's a buffer zone between Kingston's sphere of influence in the southeast and Perdue's core support in central Georgia. Both candidates finished within a point of their statewide vote shares in Richmond in the first round.
But as we said, winning the primary is just half the battle for Kingston and Perdue. We'll have to wait at least a few weeks to know whether Republican voters will coalesce around the victor. If they don't, Georgia could feature a very exciting Senate race in the fall.


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Doing Content Marketing The Marvel Way
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When marketing blogs refer to companies who have completely killed it at content marketing you see the same names popping up again and again: Red Bull, General Mills, Virgin, American Express are among the most cited. But as a huge comic book fan, I see Marvel creating some incredible marketing content that's seriously worth taking note of.
It's hard to believe that in 1996 Marvel found itself filing for bankruptcy protection as the once-lucrative comics bubble burst. Fast forward to 2014 and Marvel is stronger than its ever been, with amazing creators like Matt Fraction, Jonathan Hickman, Kelly Sue DeConnick and Warren Ellis making amazing comics and a huge movie universe that is constantly netting them record box office sales.
While there is a tonne of reasons why Marvel has managed to claw its way back to the top of the tree, their approach to content marketing has likely been a factor in this.
The Sound of Heroes
Marvel quite recently overhauled their website to create an attractive, streamlined place for fans to discover more about their universe. One of their great additions to the site is a podcast called This Week in Marvel, where Ryan "Agent M" Penagos and Ben Morse talk about new comics hitting the shelves, interviews with creators and, my favourite part, talking about the Marvel Unlimited Book Club. The book club is a stroke of genius in marketing. Marvel has something called Marvel Unlimited, a subscription service that allows readers to gorge themselves on thousands of comics digitally. The book club allows Marvel to provide readers with a structured way of using Unlimited and exposing them to classic storylines. It's engagement at its finest.
Behind the Pages
Marvel launched an app called Marvel AR, which is an augmented reality programme that essentially brings the physical comic page to life. Some pages containing the AR symbol can be used with the app to provide the reader with a behind the scenes look at how certain panels were made in the words of their creators. This free app brings a whole other dimension of content to the usual reading experience, allowing the reader to immerse themselves in the comic. Amazing stuff.
The Watcher Watches You
Last year Marvel decided to put more focus on video content and they have definitely done that. Their YouTube channel has almost one million subscribers, complete with deleted movie scenes, press conferences, con reports and the weekly show The Watcher (starring the lovely Lorraine Cink). Their constant flow of videos has made Marvel a hub of entertainment that people want to keep on coming back to.
These are just some of the ways that Marvel has conquered the art of content marketing. It definitely helps that they are a massive entertainment brand, which does certainly make it easier to market your products due to the fact that you have rabid fans that will eat up everything you do, but there are takeaways for all of us. Marvel made a concerted effort to focus on their digital offering, looking at where their fans were reading content and building around them. Video, audio and apps suddenly became valuable assets for Marvel and their attention to demographic has paid off.
Marvel didn't settle for a couple of platforms to execute their content, either. They have used every avenue they can to communicate with their fans and deliver astonishing, amazing, incredible content every day of the week.


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Saudis Use Photoshop to Hide Mariah Carey's Flesh
In Saudi Arabia, women are photoshopped not to attain inhuman perfection, but to become more modest.
More often than not, when we broach the topic of women getting photoshopped, the issue is that alterations make cover girls look absurdly thin or render them bizarrely absent of even the tiniest flaws (most of which should not be considered flaws in the first place). However, when Mariah Carey albums get sold in Saudi Arabia, photoshoppers opt not to make her thinner or more scantily clad, but to cover her up.
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Sunday, February 26, 2017
Over Time with Bill Maher, February 24, 2017
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Right Wing World: The Downfall of Milo Yiannopoulos
He went from the start of a book tour, on the heels of a career-boosting liberal protest/riot at Berkeley, to headline the most recent episode of Real Time with Bill Maher. He succeeded in getting liberals pissed at Maher, just for the appearance. He got a distinguished former spy Malcom Nance to tell him to fuck off! And Milo lives for that kind of thing. And since then, he's:
|To borrow a question from BoyCulture.com,
"Why the long face, Milo?"
- Been announced as keynote speaker of 2017 CPAC and then immediately have the offer withdrawn; and
- Resigned/been fired from Breitbart.com, both his claim-to-fame, and his Visa qualifying job
Conceivably, Milo could get a new publisher, could turn his misfortune into tour fodder, get a new job, and possibly get to stay in the country. Britain probably doesn't really want him back. But it is doubtful that he'll ever be on top of the heap as he surely felt he was. See, he has always been awful. And his awfulness has never been a secret, not even the thing--seemingly endorsing sex between men and boys--that brought him down. It's just that he became instantly more famous, the trashier parts of his escapades were more publicized, and it was conservatives leading the charge. The very ones he was catering to, and those who made him a "star."
Milo, ultimately, is irrelevant to anything that matters much in the world. He's an unfortunate symptom of how politics works right now. He's further evidence that conservatives will elevate anyone to star status in their charisma-starved ranks. And he would seemingly show that there are certain lines you can't cross, even in today's Right Wing World. But not so fast.
Remember the Duggar family? In this era of a reality TV "celebrity" somehow becoming president, even those who decry the genre have a thing for a particular kind of reality show. 19 Kids and Counting was right up there with Duck Dynasty in conservative "culture," such as it is. The "wholesome" Duggars had an absurd number of of kids, and a fuzzily odd religion, but conservatives loved 'em. And then older son Josh really got any particular treatment for his disturbing issue.
|Image from source, Washington Post
The public outcry eventually got the show canned. But the conservative wave of support was loud, public, and very disturbing. Clearly, even child sex abuse and incest can be glossed over if you swear that Jesus has cleansed your soul. Or something. So, don't be so quick to congratulate right wingers for any kind of moral aptness.
It was always a matter of time with Milo. No way an effeminate gay man gets to stay a right wing star after a while. His time ran out.
One more thing: I've said it before, and I'll say it again, conservatives, find better heroes!
Milo learns the First Amendment isn't a get-out-of-jail-free card for foolishness
Speech is free, but not consequence-free. Milo Yiannopoulos managed to skirt this reality for years, but eventually it comes for us all. A quick recap for those who have not been following this sordid tale: MILO, as he's best known (all-caps his own), is an Internet personality and now-former Breitbart News senior editor best known for his glibly offensive remarks about minority groups, his hatred of "political correctness" and his support of Donald Trump. . .
Read more at: Washington Post
Saturday, February 18, 2017
Milo Yiannopolous Inadvertently Proves a Point on Real Time with Bill Maher (and Over Time with Bill Maher), February 17, 2017
|My favorite picture of Milo. Video capture by me.
One of the guests on the program this week was Milo Yiannopoulos, a right-wing "star" of rather recent vintage. He's some sort of big-wig at Breitbart "News," and considers himself a (at best) provocateur, and (in reality) a troll, something he sort of owns as his "thing." He--like his (allegedly) female counterpart Ann Coulter--lives for controversy. He absolutely thrives on getting a rise out of people, pissing them off, and making news for saying or doing (or causing) something dreadful. He thinks of himself as clever, funny and cute. He has a fraction of the wattage on any of those attributes that he thinks he has.
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The fact that Milo is flamboyantly gay, and yet has a fan base (and preferred political alignment with) people who would otherwise hate him, is also likely an irony that delights him. This write-up of him, for instance wouldn't ruffle his feathers at all, in fact it's probably too kind to even rise to his attention if he saw it. And this week, he was a guest on Bill Maher's show, which led to the public disassociation of prospective guest, writer Jeremy Scahill. Milo digs that as well. And while I applaud Scahill's effort, it's also counter-productive. The way to go was how both Larry Wilmore and Malcom Nance responded to Milo on this clip. Though Milo himself said he'd be literally masturbating to the attention later. Seriously.
But Milo also kind of inadvertently proved a point. And it was backed up by Bill's final New Rule, which was basically that anything is OKIYAR (okay if you are Republican). ANYTHING. In Milo's case, it's fine to be, as Wilmore said, "a douchey little ass," if it's in the service of conservatism. He pisses off the right people. He makes the right people complain and cause a shitstorm. And though it may just be a side effect, it distracts people from the serious stuff. The exact same thing is happening with Donald Trump, and it may be equally inadvertent.
It may be by their very nature that both just crave any attention, and in many cases, negative attention is easier. And again, pisses off all the "right" people. But while left-wing ire is boiling over on their antics, serious shit is either happening, or being ignored. And, we're also "proving a point," at least to the skewed perspective of Trump, Yiannopolous, and their twisted fans. See, if you watched Milo on Bill's show, he actually said that Democrats/liberals are the "party of Lena Dunham." In reality, most liberals and Democrats have little or only tangential notions of who Dunham is. The right, per usual, takes their exaggerated imagery of what it means to be a liberal, paints all liberals as that, and then tailors their rhetoric around it. Ever wonder why conservatives often seem like they're operating from a completely different reality? It's because they've created one. One where we all bow in allegiance to some obscure HBO actress, where we all have "safe spaces," and "triggers," and are all delicate "snowflakes" and "buttercups."
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Reality is quite different. And if Malcolm Nance is right, and this whole Russia thing is the biggest scandal in American history? Trump may find himself a pariah, and Milo and his fans and ilk just about as bad. Here's hoping. Oh, and by the way, I concur with both Nance and Wilmore: Milo can go fuck himself. But I'm sure he'd both love the sentiment, and the literal act.
He's an asshole. And not in a good way.
Posted at Saturday, February 18, 2017 by James Greenlee
Labels: Bill Maher, Donald Trump, Larry Wilmore, Malcom Nance, Milo Yiannopolous, Over Time with Bill Maher, Political Humor, real time with bill maher, Russia, Treason, Troll, Trolling, Trolls
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
BREAKING: Trump Campaign's Repeated Contacts with Russian Intelligence Revealed
|Trump looking (not terribly) presidential, while everyone else
apparently colludes with Russia? Or is he part of it?
Image from source, New York Times
Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence
Phone records and intercepted calls show that members of Donald J. Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election, according to four current and former American officials.
American law enforcement and intelligence agencies intercepted the communications around the same time that they were discovering evidence that Russia was trying to disrupt the presidential election by hacking into the Democratic National Committee, three of the officials said. The intelligence agencies then sought to learn whether the Trump campaign was colluding with the Russians on the hacking or other efforts to influence the election. . .
Read more at: New York Times
Trump Gives Press Credentials to "Fake News" Purveyor, Gateway Pundit
|Image from source, Joe.My.God.
Erick Erickson Blasts Trump For Giving Press Credentials To Homocon "Fake News Cesspool" Blogger Jim Hoft
Right wing commentator Erick Erickson writes: I think the White House does the American people a great disservice by inviting Gateway Pundit in to the press briefings. . .
Read more at: Joe.My.God.
Posted at Tuesday, February 14, 2017 by James Greenlee
Labels: Donald Trump, Dumbest Man on the Internet, Fake News, Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft, Stupidest Man on the Internet, Trump Administration
Monday, February 13, 2017
Michael Flynn, Trump's National Security Advisor, Resigns Amid Russian Controversy
|Earlier today, we were told by Kellyanne Conway that
Michael Flynn had the complete confiedence of the Trump White House
Senior Trump adviser Flynn 'quits role'
White House national security adviser Michael Flynn has resigned over his contacts with Russia, US media are reporting. Mr Flynn is alleged to have discussed US sanctions with the Russian ambassador before Mr Trump took office. He is said to have misled officials about the conversation. . .
Read more at: BBC News
SNL Casts Kellyanne Conway in Glenn Close Fatal Attraction Role
Wonderfully inventive, weaving bits of Fatal Attraction and Death Becomes Her, maybe even a taste of The Thing. Appropriate for Trump flack, Kellyanne Conway.
Over Time with Bill Maher, February 10, 2017
Bill and his Real Time panelists – John Waters, Karine Jean-Pierre, Piers Morgan and Jim Jefferies – answer viewer questions after the show.
Posted at Monday, February 13, 2017 by James Greenlee
Labels: Bill Maher, Jim Jefferies, John Waters, Karine Jean-Pierre, Over Time with Bill Maher, Piers Morgan, Political Humor, real time with bill maher
Saturday, February 11, 2017
Donald Trump a Prisoner in the White House?
|My perfect dream casting (were she not dead): Rue McClanahan
for Donald J. Trump. Photo from source, Raw Story
But you can't guarantee a good legacy, and make good policy as a bull in a china shop. This is, I should note, what his followers wanted, partly. They claimed they wanted to shake things up, some went so far as "blow it up." And by his behavior, Trump certainly seems to be doing that. He is absolutely heedless of protocols, traditions, decorum, diplomacy. . .he is no different a sitting President than he was a brash candidate. He tweets and says things no other president (or upwardly mobile elected official) would say or do. He stomps all over regulations, policies and even laws, and that will probably be his undoing. Whether he quits, gets bounced, or croaks in office, it's going to be interesting (and horrifying) to see just how much damage he does on purpose versus how much he stumble-bums his way through, crashing like the Kool-Aid Man through every American institution.
And the worst part for him, is that he's apparently hating it bigly. Good. Stew, you ignorant man-baby, stew.
He doesn't like this sh*t': Trump reportedly hates his job and his staff after less than a month
After just three weeks on the job, President Donald Trump is reportedly frustrated with the realities of trying to run the U.S. government the way he manages his family-owned business.
Politico interviewed nearly two dozen people who have spent time with the former real estate developer and reality TV star since his inauguration — and they said Trump's "mood has careened between surprise and anger as he's faced the predictable realities of governing," according to the report. . .
Read more at: Raw Story
Posted at Saturday, February 11, 2017 by James Greenlee
Labels: Ass Clown, Asshat, Asshole, Dangerous, Dipshit, Donald Trump, Jackass, Man Baby, Presenting is Hard, White House
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
"Intolerant Liberals" and Other Alternate Realities
|Examples of anti-liberal conservative memes with little sting to actual liberals. Source: Medium
|Another strange meme in a world where the president
and his followers are hyper-sensitive to virtually
any criticism or slur.
I'm not trying to slander here, I'm talking about a group of people who look at something that happened, and either believe it to have happened differently, or even more bizarrely, have remembrance of it that is almost a complete invention. It happens with things big and small. An obvious example, is hearing and seeing Donald Trump say something completely untrue, easily disprovable, and then call him a "truth teller," a straight-shooter who "tells it like it is," and "says what I'm thinking." Further, they can look to Trump as "one of us," while seeing, say, Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren as "elites."
|Another common one, that starts with the non-"fact"
that liberals want to take away all guns.
Anyway, all of that is a convoluted way of me saying: the twain will never meet between right and left, until something unifies them enough to see the same basic thing as the same thing. So long as Trump looks like an absurd, buffoonish clown to one side, and a strong dynamic leader to the other, we're not going to understand each other. Frankly, seeing Trump the liberal way used to be fairly standard for him, even part of the way through 2016. Seeing him the conservative way is actually a fairly recent invention. Dare I say,
. . .I have some difficult news for everyone: Progressives aren't interested in diversity. We aren't interested in inclusion. We aren't interested in tolerance. The progressives I know give exactly zero shits about those things. We have no interest in everyone getting treated the same. We have no interest in giving all ideas equal airtime. We have no interest in "tolerating" all beliefs. I don't know where this fairy tale comes from, but it's completely disconnected from every experience I've had with progressive liberal folks in my lifetime. . .
Read more at: Medium
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Over Time with Bill Maher, February 3, 2017
Bill and his guests, Sam Harris, Jason Kander, Tomi Lahren, Rick Wilson and Michael Eric Dyson answer viewer questions after the show.
Posted at Tuesday, February 07, 2017 by James Greenlee
Labels: Donald Trump, Jason Kander, Michael Eric Dyson, Over Time with Bill Maher, Political Humor, real time with bill maher, Rick Wilson, Sam Harris, Tomi Lahren
In Case You Missed It: The Absolute Gold That Was Saturday Night Live This Weekend
|Emmy worthy.
It's nuts. Quite simply nuts. Evidence abounds, but this past weekend's Kristen Stewart-hosted Saturday Night Live stands as a testament to the treasure trove of material they have to work with. Top of the list, of course, is Melissa McCarthy's surprise turn as Press Secretary Sean Spicer. Enjoy.
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Convention Preparations
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I'm afraid there is no hope you'll disclose your Hesse-seewalder war balloon at the convention?ReplyDelete
When I saw the Minden casualty figure on Frank's blog, I said to myself . . ."I want!".ReplyDelete
I will be interested in your reactions to the Black Powder rules.
Have a grand time.
-- Jeff
I have ten more dead AustriansReplyDelete
Nooo!! we need Lots of dead Austrians!! preferably all of them, really.
Have fun at SYWA
Now you know thats just not right to publish about these models and not post at least a pic or two. Enquiring minds want to know:). I look forward to the day when I have a major event comming up in a week or two and only have a couple of models to paint.ReplyDelete
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I'm looking forward to your reactions to the Black Powder game; especially any SYW modifications.ReplyDelete
Have fun!
Looking forward to pics of the SYWA convention and your game. Wish I could be there.ReplyDelete


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Middle-aged joggers like Nicolas Sarkozy have longer, happier lives
Far from putting untold strain on the heart and joints, middle-aged joggers tend to live longer, happier lives than their sedentary peers.
Far from putting untold strain on the heart and joints, middle-aged joggers tend to live longer, happier lives than their sedentary peers.
Some older athletes are blessed with tremendous talent. But others didn't start until middle age. If there is a common thread in their lives, it's a belief that an athletic act, executed with old bones and muscle, can give meaning to life in ways that love and religion can not.
Discussions will centre around new developments in research, techniques, procedures and theoretical achievements in human kinetics and will comprise 10 Keynote Lectures, 9 Workshop Lectures, 90 Oral Presentations and 162 Poster Presentations.
World swimming governing body Fina has decided to ban controversial non-textile swimsuits, but not until 2010. The introduction of polyurethane suits in 2008 coincided with a marked improvement in swim times meaning world records have fallen dramatically. However, with the ban not being implemented until January polyurethane suits will still be used at the Fina World Championships in Rome. That is likely to see more records set which may not be broken for many years. The return to common textile suits, men in shorts and women in suits above the knee and to the shoulder strap, would mean world records would be almost impossible to better in the short term.
A quarter of people are spending more hours at work compared to this time last year and over half of those that are currently working admit that work affects the level of exercise they do.
ENSSEE is confident it will provide a programme loaded with interesting workshops and plenary sessions, chaired and hosted by a field of international experts.
Its aim is to advance the field of active ageing collectively across the globe and community members will have the opportunity to publish their own articles and research as well as join in discussion forums, access career development opportunities and generally keep abreast of the latest trends.
New research finds eating healthy, moderate activity and genes that don't predispose you to dementia is a recipe for preserving cognitive function as you age.


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Participants of this course will get a refresher on the key requirements of Food Safety & HACCP. Learners will understand and learn to recognise the key indicators for compiling and implementing Allergen safe workspaces, menu descriptions, standard recipes requirements and staff awareness. Participants will also refresh their knowledge of the good practices required in their food operations in line with legislative changes and requirements of the Irish and EU law and standards.
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The aim of this programme is to provide learners with adequate training in the basic principles of Food Hygiene, HACCP Allergen Awareness and Food Safety Authority of Ireland Level 2.
On completion of the programme, successful learners are awarded a certificate from the Environmental Health Association of Ireland (EHAI). This certificate is valid for 5 years.
Who should attend:
This programme is designed for all food handlers, chefs and supervisors preparing food for public consumption (i.e. Café, shops, hotels, healthcare)
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"Nobody ever tells you beforehand how ridiculously hard it's going to be."
That utilitarian line from the late Adriennne Shelly's screenplay, The Waitress (1:14:15), is so much bigger than the context from which it was delivered. It was the only line from a fed-up, disenchanted mother of a bratty toddler warning Keri Russell's character about the burden of motherhood. The scene was so small, the line so obscure (so obvious?) that Jessie Nelson didn't include it when she turned the film into a Broadway play.
In the case of parenthood, there's no doubt it's true. Until my two granddaughters were born, I'd forgotten how ridiculously hard it is to have a babies and raise them into good, healthy humans.
Beyond having a bottomless tank of love, it takes an off-the-charts work ethic, an abundance of patience and a deep reservoir of stamina. With two under-two's like these beauties, uninterrupted sleep is their mommy's fantasy.
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But the line is much broader than the exhausting effort raising kids requires. It explains the sorry state of the world.
For almost 600 pages in Enlightenment Now, Harvard professor Steven Pinker argues that life on Earth is better than it has ever been. He cites longer life spans, huge increases in literacy and startling decreases in extreme poverty.
Great. Except that if the world is at its best now, how chilling is it to consider how bad it has been? The bar for improvement barely clears the ground. Example: The Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics put out this memo proclaiming a "Historic Turnout and Performance by Young Voters" in the 2018 midterm elections. "Historic" because 31% of youth voters (ages 18-29) voted - a 36% increase over 2014 and "the highest rate of turnout in at least 25 years."
Whoop de doo.
Thirty-one percent? Is anyone impressed by that? What were the other sixty-nine percent doing? Vaping? Playing Fortnite? What planet do they live on where they hadn't heard about how important this election was going to be and how crucial it was for them to vote in it?
Oh yeah, Earth! The planet that looks beautiful from afar,
but, up-close, is full of ugly problems and flawed inhabitants.
"Nobody ever tells you beforehand how ridiculously hard it's going to be"
In the scene, "it" is having and raising a child. And if doing this, the most basic Homo sapien responsibilty, is ridiculously hard, it makes depressing sense why as a species we're defective. One of those defects is our inherent laziness. Most people are too lazy to properly raise a puppy, let alone put in the brutal, underrated, under-appreciated work required to be an A+ mom or dad.
The result? Indolent, apathetic kids who, like a lot of their parents, are too lazy to register to vote (takes five minutes) or fill out a ballot (takes ten). To increase the vote, there's a movement to make voting simpler and easier (on-line voting for example). Talk about efforting down! Unless you live in one of those corrupt precincts, voting is not that hard!
Mom's Lesson
During our hospice talks, my mom shared much of the wisdom she earned during her 97 years. My favorite slice of it was, "Living a good life is a full-time job." A demanding full-time job that starts from scratch each day. Even if we live perfectly today, new obstacles and challenges are waiting for us the moment we wake up tomorrow. If we stop working at it, our life deteriorates.
Want robust mental health?
Recognize and accept how ridiculously hard not just raising a child will be, but how doing pretty much anything worthwhile will be. Stop looking for easy. Accept and embrace the hard. Easy is fools gold - a temporary high that inevitably morphs into despair.


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Wheel of Fortune's Vanna White is an executive producer for a new movie set to film in Columbus and throughout Muscogee County.
White, along with other representatives for the film, joined Columbus Mayor Skip Henderson and Columbus Film Commission's President & CEO Peter Bowden to discuss "Electric Jesus," which is set to begin filming Aug. 20.
"I just got here yesterday and my brother showed me all around and it is absolutely beautiful here in Columbus," White said. "I want to come back. I (would like) to live here one day. It's just beautiful."
The film, a coming-of-age rock 'n' roll comedy, follows a young, Christian hair-metal band in 1986 as they chase their dreams. Chris White, no relation to Vanna, is the film's writer, director and producer. Emily Reach White, Chris' wife, is an executive producer. Vanna's brother, Chip White, is also a producer.
Columbus State University student Will Oliver serves as one of the film's stars. Brian Baumgartner, known for his role as Kevin Malone in NBC's "The Office," and Judd Nelson, known for his role in "The Breakfast Club," will also star in the film.
Filming is set to last four weeks, said Chris White.
"Electric Jesus will be in every corner of the county," he said.
The film is the second produced through the Columbus Film Fund, a public-private partnership which uses private funds to incentivize film and TV productions to come to Columbus. The first was "The Long Night" starring Bruce Willis.
More films could soon come to Columbus, said Bowden, of the city's film commission. The commission is in the midst of negotiations for nine films that expressed an interest in shooting in Columbus. Budgets for those films combined is $44 million. The estimated local spend is over $13 million. The film fund's estimated investment into those projects is $1.4 million.
"That's always been sort of our secret sauce here in Columbus," Henderson said of public-private partnerships. "It's incredible."
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Nominated by David Chaplin
By Sydney Gold
Q: What did it feel like when you first became a father?
A. I'm a pretty new father, as my son was born April 4, 2019. He is nearly 2 years old now. And it's been an interesting ride — very fun and challenging, especially during these times. It has been everything that I've ever asked for.
Q. How has the pandemic impacted your parenting?
A. It has been extremely challenging dealing with COVID and a child that really enjoys being around people. So I feel as if we're doing him a disservice because, when we first got him, we were going to different baby mommy and me courses, events and playdates. We had him in swimming lessons at the YMCA and would go to the park on a regular basis. All these things literally came to a complete halt about a week before his first birthday. Before he even got the ability to really understand what he was doing and really enjoy it, it stopped. We have been very, very, very careful when it comes to COVID. We try to follow pretty much every protocol that is out there. Washing hands and wearing masks, as well as social distancing and staying away from more family. Thankfully, his (grandparents) babysit him, so he gets that interaction with his grandmother and grandfather on my wife's side. But he doesn't get any real face to face time with my parents. I feel this does him a disservice because every interaction comes with new things to learn. At this age they absorb everything.
Q. What is your experience working as a team with your wife in parenthood?
A. We worked as a team before we had a child because we have a business together. This helped us iron out some wrinkles as far as who takes the lead in what situation and who takes a back seat. When it came to my son, we decided, essentially, we both had to agree. If we didn't, we were allowed to veto each other. So if it was something I really felt strongly about, or vice versa, we can veto each other and say, 'OK, this is something I really believe in. This is something that I really want to implement for Cayden. I think it would be good.' As an engineer, I use a lot of facts and research. So, I'll come up with the reasons why I think we should do X, Y or Z. We aim to come to an agreement on that matter.
Q. What was your relationship like with your father?
A. My father is very, very strict. He's a preacher. So I grew up with a Christian upbringing. Both my parents are from Jamaica, and it's a very different world that you live in there. They came here in their 20s with a certain idea of how to raise a child. Growing up I did butt heads with my dad quite a bit because times are different. But I learned from him that nothing is given to you. My dad is a very big advocate for working for everything that you get. He's also a very, very big advocate for schooling and doing things by the book — essentially, an overall good person. In anything that you do, he's taught me there's always a right and wrong. And at the end of the day, you want to look back and be able to say: 'OK, I didn't go against my moral code in what I've done today.' And he's always been there for me. Whenever I have any questions, he's always around to answer them. He's more of an old-school father figure where he isn't as hands-on as my mother. But if I need anything, I can go to him. Some lessons I will model and some things I will not. But I think that goes for pretty much any parent, to kind of give and take. They take some things that their parents did and change and other things that they think they can improve on. And hopefully, it works out for the next generation.
Q. Is there a moment as a father that stands out?
A. When he started saying 'dada.' Before this, of course he was my little guy and I loved him to death, but the first time that he said that was absolutely a game changer for me. Then, shortly after that, he dunked on his little tyke basketball hoop. Note, I'm a basketball head. So I completely lost my mind!
Q. Final thoughts?
A. Well, I will say that before being a father, I wasn't sure exactly what kind of father I would be. I've always wanted to have kids. Early on I'd say: 'I want to have 11 kids — a whole football team, you know?' When I was leaving college, it changed. I thought: 'maybe kids aren't for me.' I am very ambitious, and I have a lot of things in mind I would like to accomplish. At one point in my life, I saw it as having a child is slowing down that progress. But then as I matured as a man, I realized that, you know, there's obviously ways to do both. You can make the leap in your personal life while also being rewarded with helping your own child grow and see that their growth also is something that's an accomplishment as well.