"The second Winter Guest of 2021 is performance artist Marina Abramović (1946). Marina Abramović had a difficult childhood in Serbia. Her mother's home regime was aggressive and stifling, and her parents had a bad marriage.
In 1965 she entered the art school in Belgrade. From the mid-seventies she made a name for herself with her fierce and shocking performances. Self-harm and exhaustion are common in her work, sometimes with fights breaking out or the artist being injured by the audience.
She worked with the German artist Ulay for over ten years. Enduring prolonged pain was an important part of their job. Her most famous work took place during the retrospective exhibition The Artist is Present in New York in 2010.
For three months, the artist sat in silence on a chair in the museum. Visitors could sit on a chair opposite Abramović and look her straight in the eye for as long as they wanted.
On the opening day, Ulay joined Abramović, which resulted in an emotional moment followed by applause. With more than 850,000 visitors, it was one of the most successful exhibitions in the history of the museum.
Her latest work, the opera Seven Deaths of Maria Callas – about the opera diva with whom Abramović has been obsessed for sixty years – will play in Berlin in the spring of 2022.
Janine Abbring speaks to Marina Abramović at her home in Malden Bridge, New York."
https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/wintergasten/gasten/marina-abramovic.html (in Dutch)
Draft only. If approved in September 2021, this emoji will arrive on most platforms by the middle of 2022.
The guy who made those drone videos of Epstein Island, now after a year he posted some vids on YT.
No dronevids, just some random vids, Trump related.
Twenty-nine men have been charged in connection with the child sexual exploitation of one victim in West Yorkshire.
The men are accused of committing offences, including rape, attempted rape, indecent assault and conspiracy to rape, in Calderdale and Bradford between 2003 and 2010.
In total, 28 of the arrested were charged with rape.
The female victim was aged between 13 and 20 years old at the time of the alleged offences, West Yorkshire Police said.
A force spokesman said: "The vast majority of offending occurred in Calderdale, but some offences occurred in the Bradford District.
"The men have been charged with a variety of sexual offences following an investigation into non-recent child sexual exploitation."
The men, who are now aged between 35 and 64 and from addresses in West Yorkshire and Sheffield, will appear at Bradford Magistrates' Court on July 7 and 9.
Those charged are:
Asad Ali, 37, of Brighouse, is charged with two counts of rape.
Ajmal Aziz, 39 of Halifax, is charged with three counts of rape and attempted rape.
Mohammed Jangier, 44, of Halifax, is charged with rape.
Mohammed Asif, 36, of Halifax, is charged with two counts of rape.
Harris Ahmed Butt, 37, of Halifax, is charged with two counts of rape and two counts of indecent assault.
Taukeer Butt, 36, of Halifax, is charged with three counts of rape.
Muitasim Khan, 40, of Halifax, is charged with rape.
Mohammed Hamza, 47, of Halifax, is charged with rape.
Mohsin Mir, 40, of Halifax, is charged with three counts of rape.
Javid Mir, 38, of Halifax, is charged with rape.
Haroon Saddique, 37, of Bradford, is charged with two counts of rape.
Zahir Iqbal, 41, of Halifax, is charged with two counts of rape.
Sarfraz Rabnawaz, 35, of Bradford, is charged with two counts of rape.
Wajid Addalat, 43, of Halifax, is charged with rape.
Sajid Addalat, 45, of Halifax, is charged with two counts of rape.
Nazim Hussain, 43, of Bradford, is charged with conspiracy to rape.
Nadeem Saddiqque, 43, of Sheffield, is charged with rape.
Saquab Hussain, 43, of Halifax, is charged with two counts of rape.
Sadakat Ali, 48, of Bradford, is charged with rape.
Ziarab Mohammed, 48, of Halifax, is charged with two counts of rape.
Imran Raja Yasin, 41, of Halifax, is charged with two counts of rape.
Zulfiqar Ali, 40, of Bradford, is charged with two counts of rape.
Malik Abid Qadeer, 64, of Halifax, is charged with five counts of rape.
Kamran Amin, 45, of Halifax, is charged with two counts of rape.
Mohammed Akhtar, 51, of Halifax, is charged with two counts of rape.
Ali Zulfiqar, 38, of Halifax, is charged with two counts of rape.
Shafiq Ali Rafiq, 40, of Dewsbury, is charged with two counts of rape.
Amir Shaban, 45, of Halifax, is charged with rape.
Sakeb Nazir, 36, of Halifax, is charged with two counts of rape.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BeauRTL/status/1392841330234118147
Guess who's talking about his book deal, guy on the left is Michiel Vos, he is an Dutch "America expert" btw he's Nancy Pelosi son in law.
Not a single question about his "other" stuff.
Dont worry, those Twitter reactions are all in Dutch, but they are all based af.
Not a single positive case of influenza was diagnosed in the Netherlands this winter.
This became apparent in the data collected by general practitioners, which structurally analyze samples for the presence of viruses based on figures from the Nivel knowledge institute, which monitors the spread of respiratory viruses in the Netherlands together with the national health institute RIVM. This was reported in the national newspaper AD.
“We are not tracking the influenza virus as well as the coronavirus, but everything indicates that the circulation of influenza has stopped. We do not find it in the samples from GPs, and the virus is not found in hospitals either”, says Mariëtte Hooiveld of the Nivel institute.
The Nivel figures show that people with flu-like symptoms visited the doctor, but it was not once confirmed that it actually involved the current flu viruses. Instead, it often turns out to be Covid-19, rhino, or the enterovirus.
In the rest of Western and Northern Europe, almost no cases of flu were diagnosed this winter. “Although flu has been continuously tested, the number of cases is smaller than expected everywhere. In February and March 2020, influenza was on the rise in the Northern Hemisphere, which is normal for the time. But from mid-March, when corona really took off, the number of flu cases suddenly showed a sharp drop. Since then, the influenza virus has been at a low level,” a spokesman for the World Health Organization WHO told AD.
Air traffic comes to a standstill
Experts say that the major decline in international air travel may have had a major impact on the number of flu cases, as well as the increase in the number of people vaccinated against the flu this season.
However, the flu virus will never disappear completely. “There is always influenza, as there will always be corona,” predicts virologist Ab Osterhaus in the newspaper. He even expects the virus to potentially resurface next winter once the corona measures are released. “Compare it to an enemy army losing a battle, then retreating from the battlefield to find a new strategy hidden in the bushes. After such a period, a virus can strike harder,” says Osterhaus.
https://nltimes.nl/2021/03/06/zero-cases-influenza-diagnosed-netherlands-winter
I just made this my new notification sound on my phone,
https://files.catbox.moe/8w23ju.mp3
Its from the movie White Squall Q posted in post 1621