Plague in the United States and International Responses
Two cases of plague contracted in a Yosemite campground have made headlines nationally and internationally. In part, the shock value of the story is due to the assumption that plague has been subdued by civilization. But the truth of the matter is, that the United States experiences numerous cases of plague each year, most ocurring in the southwest, where plague remains endemic in rodent populations. About half of the cases of plague in the United States occur in New Mexico, where it has caused ten human fatailities since 2010. In 2014, Colorado reported eight cases and earlier this summer reported its first two fatalities due to plague since 1999. And it isn't just human cases. The 2014 cases in Colorado were tied to a dog, which died of plague like symptoms As the students in my Politics of Global Health class know, rodent populations are key to forcasting incidences of plague. Prairie dogs, squirrel and chipmunk populations have been hard hit during the latest plague season --- and entire colony of prairie dogs was wiped out in Utah in July.
While there is debate about the scientific explanation for recent increases in plague, the real novelty of the story is the non-response to plague in the United States. Because plague is viewed as controlled and subdued, there is little domestic concern and no international response. In contrast, outbreaks of plague in developing countries often result in severe international response.
For example, in 1994 seven patients with pneumonic plague-like symptoms in Surat, India led to local panic. Under the International Health Regulations (IHR) countries are required to notify the WHO of cases of epidemic-prone diseases of special concern. In the midst of public panic, India notified the WHO of a potential outbreak and implemented all recommended regulations, prior to confirmation that the outbreak was plague. Before a single case of plague was confirmed, several countries had stopped importing Indian foodstuffs and Italy placed an immediate embargo on all goods from India. Likewise, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the UK and the USA all issued travel warning to their citizens. Not only was travel to India discouraged, Indians traveling abroad were subjected to unwarranted measures that are prohibited by the IHR. The result was a loss of at least 2.2 million tourists and quantifiable losses of over US$2 billion. (See Deodhar, Yemul and Banerjee's "Plague that never was" in Journal of Public Health Policy, 1998 for more). Only after the Indian Ministry of Health reported the outbreak under control, did the WHO issue a statement that there was evidence of a limited outbreak in Surat, but not of person-to-person. Morevoer, a follow-up report indicated that no case of plague was confirmed on the basis of WHO bacteriological standards.
The difference in responses to US outbreaks and those in India or other developing countries are part of a larger pattern. Countries have long struggled with the dilemma of reporting outbreaks or not. While reporting outbreaks ensures international action to prevent disease spread, it may also results in severe economic losses. Early treaties intended to prevent the spread of disease were frequently discarded because of disparities in their application. While richer countries implemented quarantines and embargoes in response to reported outbreaks in their poorer trade partners, poorer countries were unwilling to implement such measures against their richer trade partners for fear of economic losses. The IHR is intended to overcome this dilemma. In addition to required reportingof specific health threats, the IHR identify and limit acceptable measures that other states can implement to prevent the spread of disease in order to minimize disruptions to trade and travel.
In the Indian case, the swift and severe international response caused additional and unnecessary harm. That response was in part due to panic among the local population. While the lack of ability to confirm cases as plague may have contributed to panic, the lack of confirmation should have resulted in calls for calm and restraint by other countries. Ultimately, the primary cause of the exaggerated response was the continued power dfiferential between developing and developed countries --- behaviors the IHR was created to prevent. However, the usefulness of the IHR rests upon three key factors: 1) maintanence of public calm; 2) accurate and timely scientific information and; 3) the willingness of other countries to wait for scientific information --- all of which were lacking the the case of India's outbreak.
Similar responses have been seen throughout the recent Ebola outbreak. Authorities at various levels in numerous countries opted to implement a variety of measures and restrictions ranging from temperature readings to mandatory quarantines and full travel bans. While some travel restrictions were important for disease control efforts, the effectiveness of the most drastic of these measures and their impact on the general disease control effort has been widely debated. Without a stronger deterent to hasty reactions, disproportionate responses will likely continue. However, a question remains: how do the harms associated with disproportionate responses affect future health and disease control in the country of origin?


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Compare and contrast essay on World War I and World War II.
Created: August 6th, 2014 at 12:52pm
Modified: August 6th, 2014 at 12:52pm
Genres: Drama, Death, War
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Louis Seales
Prof. Darius Frasure
English 1302-66002
Chaos vs. Madness
WWI and WWII are two of the biggest wars and the most impactful outcomes that resulted. The First World War took place between 1914 and 1918 and The Second World War took place between 1939 and 1945 ("World"). The two world wars started from the wars that preceded them. Hall said "Balkan Wars virtually set the stage of warfare, tactics and beginning of the First World War". The instability that WWI caused mixed with the political instability in Germany created an inevitable Second World War ("World"). Both wars were brutal as the death toll was quickly piling up while the wars raged on. In the First World War the Bulgarians and Ottomans lined up alongside the Central Powers, though by the end of the war, the former enemies were close to renewing hostilities between themselves ("World"). The trench warfare made the First World War an all-out dog fight. Guns, tanks, and poisonous gas were used in WWI and were very effective. In WWII Guns, tanks, and poisonous gas were replaced by larger aircrafts and atomic bombs. WWI and WWII had similarities and differences in the way they began, the tactics used, and the outcomes.
Hall said, "The outbreak of the Balkan Wars of 1912-13 initiated a period of conflict in Europe that has endured off and on for almost a century". Hall also pointed out the Balkan Wars involvement in conscripted armies that opened with large flanking movements that featured the use of massed artillery, concentrated machine guns, assaults on entrenched positions and airplanes. According to Hall, "this resulted in huge military losses numbering over 150,000 dead". Hall continues to say that "the effects and unresolved conflicts of the Balkan Wars lead to WWI and the effects and unresolved issues of WWI lead to WWII". Civilian dead from disease, displacement and deliberate atrocity were numbered in the tens of thousands ("World"). Balkan War battlefields at Doiran, Gallipoli and Kosovo again saw fighting during the First World War ("World"). The issues at the end of the Balkan wars stirred up a conflict that led to WWI. By the end of the Second Balkan War, Serbia was isolated militarily against its rival Austria-Hungary, a development that eventually doomed Serbia in the coming war a year later ("World"). When a Serbian nationalist assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand Austria-Hungary determined that the proper response was to prepare for a possible military invasion of Serbia, which was the outbreak of the First World War ("World"). The instability created in Europe at the end of the First World War set the stage for another worldwide clash. World War II broke out two decades later and would prove even more devastating ("World").
Different political issues in countries initiated both World Wars. According to Hall, the consequence of the Balkan Wars was the erosion of the Russian position in the region. Hall also says "that due to the collapse of the Balkan League and Russia's failure to save Bulgaria during the Second Balkan War caused the government in Sofia to turn to Berlin and Vienna for redress". Hall spoke about Bulgaria being more important for Russia strategically than Serbia. Hall said "after the loss of Bulgaria only Serbia remained as a viable Russian ally in southeastern Europe". Hall also says "when the Austro-Hungarians declared war on Serbia the war in the Balkans entered the First World War". Tensions had been brewing in Europe and the Balkan region for years before conflict actually broke out ("World"). The spark that ignited World War I was struck in Sarajevo, Bosnia, where Archduke Franz Ferdinand, nephew of Emperor Franz Josef and heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was shot to death along with his wife by the Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914 ("World"). Austria-Hungary and other countries blamed the Serbian government for the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his wife and hoped to use the incident as justification for settling the question of Slavic nationalism once and for all ("World"). As Russia supported Serbia, Austria-Hungary waited to declare war until its leaders received assurances from German leader Kaiser Wilhelm II that Germany would support their cause in the event of a Russian intervention, which would likely involve Russia's ally, France, and possibly Great Britain as well ("World"). This conflict pitted the Central Powers, Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, against the Allied Powers, Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy and Japan ("World").
The Second World War was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945 ("World"). It involved the massive majority of the world's nations including all of the great powers eventually formed two opposing military alliances, with more than 100 million people serving in military units from over 30 different countries . Bloom says "in a state of total war, the major participants placed their entire economic, industrial... [And] scientific capabilities at the service of the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources".
Due to the economically and politically instability in Germany, Adolf Hitler and his National socialist rose to power and rearmed the nation and signed strategic treaties with Italy and Japan to further his ambitions of world domination ("World"). Hitler had long planned an invasion of Poland, a nation to which Great Britain and France had guaranteed military support if it was attacked by Germany ("World"). The pact with Stalin meant that Hitler would not face a war on two fronts once he invaded Poland, and would have Soviet assistance in conquering and dividing the nation itself ("World"). On September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland from the west two days later, France and Britain declared war on Germany, Beginning World War II ("World"). Hui says "leaders received assurances from German leader Kaiser Wilhelm II that Germany would support their cause in the event of which would likely involve Russia's alternate protocol appended to the Nonaggression Pact". During the six months following the invasion of Poland, the lack of action on the part of Germany and the Allies in the west led to talk in the news media of a "phony war ("World"). At sea however, Hui says "the British and German navies faced off in heated battle, and lethal German U-boat submarines struck at merchant shipping bound for Britain, sinking more than 100 vessels in the first four months of World War II ("World").
The massive counts of deaths in the World Wars were both recording ("World"). This was a result of the military weaponry and the alliances that formed during the brutal battles of the wars (Hui). WWI and WWII used little similar weaponry like airplanes, tanks, and machine guns ("World"). The biggest comparison of the two wars was the involvement of military alliances between different groups of countries ("World"). In the First World War, the Allied Powers, which were Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy and Japan, fought the Central Powers, Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. Thomas Hone wrote in his article that "the Central Powers renamed their group as the Axis Powers and fought the Allied Powers again in the Second World War".
The First World War was fought from lines of trenches and battleships at sea and was supported by artillery and machine guns, infantry assault, tanks, early airplanes and poisonous gas ("World"). Neither side proved able to deliver a decisive blow for the next two years. Around 1.1 to 1.2 million soldiers from the British and Dominion armies were on the Western Front at any one time ("World"). A thousand battalions, occupying sectors of the line from the North Sea to the Orne River, operated on a month-long four-stage rotation system, unless an offensive was underway ("World"). Each battalion held its sector for about a week before moving back to support lines and then further back to the reserve lines before a week out of line, often in the Poperinge or Amiens areas. Naval Warfare in the First World War was mainly characterized by the efforts of the Allied Powers ("World"). The Allied Powers used larger fleets and surrounding position to blockade the Central Powers by sea, and the efforts of the Central Powers to break that blockade or to establish an effective blockade of the United Kingdom and France with submarines and raiders ("World"). Trench warfare made WWI a brutal and gory war. Less an offensive was underway ("World"). The front contained over 9,600 kilometers of trenches ("World"). In the first battle of World War I, the Germans assaulted the heavily fortified city of Liege, used enormous siege cannons to capture the city in a short time ("World"). German trenches snaked for hundreds of miles through the countryside near the Somme River ("World").
After the First World War, WWII moved into effect with upgraded weapons and aircraft. WWII used nuclear power, missiles, modern concepts of covert and special operations, submarines and tanks were also more heavily used ("World"). WWII replacing battleships with aircrafts brought the ability to strike enemy ships and bases from sea, with the ability to gain information about the enemy while preventing enemy from doing the same with regard for friendly forces ("World"). Hone stated that "WWII used raids and ambushes to win battles and take control of war territories".
WWI was a war between countries for acquiring colonies or territory or resources. The nature of the First World War caused for trench warfare. The countries armies dug into the territory of the colonies to use the resources to help fight ("World"). The nature of WWII was more political. The instability in the politics of Germany made WWII was a war of ideologies, such as Fascism and Communism ("World"). The weaponry and warfare WWII brought made the war more deadly and fast-paced. Blitzkrieg, aerial bombardment, and the use of aircraft carriers made World War II a war of movement ("World").
At the end of WWI, the German, Russian, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires were all defeated. Both Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires had ceased to exist ("World"). World War I resulted in peace treaties radically changing the face of Europe and precipitated political, social, and economic changes ("World"). By the Treaty of Versailles Germany was forced to acknowledge guilt for the war ("World"). Later, prompted by the Bolshevik publication of the secret diplomacy of the czarist Russian government, the warring powers gradually released their own state papers, and the long historical debate on war guilt began ("World"). It has with some justice been claimed that the conditions of the peace treaties were partially responsible for World War II ("World"). The front contained over 9,600 kilometers of trenches ("World"). A large part of mankind placed its hopes in the newly created League of Nations ("World"). The League of Nations was formed in the hope of preventing another worldwide conflict. The rise of the Nazi Party in Germany and its aggression can be dated directly back to World War I ("World"). Following that war, Germany was economically devastated because, the Treaty of Versailles unfairly placed the full blame for the war on Germany and demanded heavy reparations payments in return ("World"). Germany never paid the main part of these reparations, the treaty humiliated the German people and obstructed the nation's efforts to rebuild and move forward economically and technologically ("World"). The resentment with the onerous terms of the Treaty of Versailles fueled the rise of Adolf Hitler's party in Germany ("World). This would lead to the Second World War broke two decades later.
The Second World War ended with the Allies winning again, reigning victorious over Germany and Japan in 1945. The Soviet Union and the United States emerged as rival superpowers ("World"). Greece gained Bulgaria's Aegean coastline, but by being driven by the same nationalist ardors that marked its participation in the Balkan Wars and the First World War, suffered a catastrophic defeat in Anatolia ("World"). Bloom stated "Bulgaria occupied Macedonia but failed to maintain it and lost the Thracian coast and small territories to the new Yugoslav state". Similar to the League of Nations, the United Nations was formed to prevent further international conflicts. WWI estimated to have 10 million military dead, 7 million civilian deaths, 21 million wounded, and 7.7 million missing or imprisoned ("World"). While the Second World War had over 60 million people deaths, with 38 to 55 million civilians dead from war-related disease and famine ("World").
World War I and World War II were both devastating and destructive to Europe and America. Millions of lives were lost and the severe economic consequences for all nations involved, and the public grew war weary as both went on for extended periods of time. Events of the Balkan war lead to WWI and the result of WWI lead to WWII ("Progonati"). WWII was fought for six years, while WWI was fought for four years ("World"). WWII had the highest death toll of the two World Wars. WWI and WWII were the largest wars fought in human history ("World"). The wars started differently but they were both part of a war-related domino effect that the Balkan wars started. WWI and WWII had similarities and differences in the way they began, the tactics used, and the outcomes.
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WATCH: Evan Felker of Turnpike Troubadours BACK on Stage with Teague Brothers Band
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Evan Felker is back. Well, he was back for one night at least, as he joined The Teague Brothes Band at a fundraiser for Eric Neal, who was diagnosed Sclerosing Epitheloid Fibrosarcoma in 2018.
While we still don't know the full story behind the sighting, and perhaps we never will, it was just great to see Felker back on stage again. Texas-based radio promoter, Jennifer Redding, was quick to get pictures up on Facebook, oh, and she recorded the best video we've seen in a couple of years. The former Turnpike Troubadours front man and his new mustache didn't miss a beat as he sang "7&7," "Gin, Smoke, Lies," "Good Lord, Lorrie," and "Every Girl," with the Teague Brothers Band
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Large folio [55.0 x 39.2 cm]. (1) f. etched/engraved Latin title page, (1) f. etched Italian title page, (4) ff. letterpress dedication with (2) large etched headpieces, 69 pp. letterpress text with (2) large etched initials and (2) large etched tailpieces, (1) p. blank verso, XII pp. letterpress Latin and Italian 'indexes' (keys) to plates III and IV, xvii pp. letterpress Latin and Italian 'catalogues' to the folding plan, and with (52) etched/engraved coppers on XLVIII consecutively numbered plates (2 folding, 1 double page), mainly by Piranesi, including the 6 sheet map (joined) comprising plates numbered V-X. Bound in contemporary calf, spine elaborately gilt, morocco lettering piece laid to spine, gold-tooled borders and edges to upper and lower covers, block-printed endpapers. Minor rubbing and edge wear to spine and boards, head- and tail-bands renewed. Occasional minor toning, the occasional minor stain, a few short separations at the folds of the large plan.
First edition – and fine copy – of Piranesi's incomparable reconstruction of Rome's Campus Martius, a work famed for its archaeological ambition, its graphic inventiveness, and as a sourcebook for the architectural imagination which continues to influence architectural theorists and practitioners today. "An exceptional personality, Piranesi transfigured his personal failure as an architect by re-creating ancient Roman architecture and urbanism through a richly complex representation" (Millard, Italian, p. 297). In the Campus Martius Piranesi illustrates the region's topography, discusses its archeology, and provides theatrical views of surviving monuments (e.g., Tiber Island, Porticus Octaviae, Mausoleum of Augustus, the Pantheon, Theater of Marcellus, Mausoleum of Hadrian, etc.), but the most arresting feature of the work is Piranesi's most ambitious cartographic effort, the Ichnographia, a 6-sheet fantastic reconstruction of the Campus Martius in plan, measuring 1.35 x 1.17 meters.
In the Ichnographia and in the work's other ideal imaginings of Rome's ancient urban environment (e.g., plate LXVIII and the Italian title page), Piranesi overcomes the limitations of practical architecture, building his visions on paper instead of in stone: "The map is the quintessential product of an architect, and it privileges buildings above all else" (J. Maier, p. 13). The Campus Martius, in fact, marked the culmination of the friendship between Piranesi and the great Scottish architect Robert Adam (1754-98), the work's dedicatee (see below), making it of Grand Tour and British interest and an important source for the active architectural interpretation of ancient Rome far from the Eternal City itself.
The contents of the work are well described by M. Pollak (in Millard, Italian), from which we may excerpt as follows: "The publication borrows from the two main interests of the author, the archaeological research and the polemical battles of the early 1760s. His historical inquiry is here committed to supporting his view of the primacy of Roman builders … [The] plan is one of Piranesi's most feverish fantasies, marshalling a huge range of imaginary constructs for the celebration of ancient Rome. Within this plan he proposes an urban and architectural landscape of the utmost complexity. Piranesi achieves this tour de force through a great variety of illustrations and employs every means of representation at his disposal.
"In this work, Piranesi refined his method of graphic juxtaposition. The Campo Marzio opens with a great plan of Rome with stone fragments illusionistically 'placed' on it; subsequently sheets of details are 'pinned' onto larger plans and views. Thus Piranesi uses trompe l'oeil to juxtapose differently scaled drawings … He practices, throughout, an X-ray vision that enables him to locate the extant fragments of ancient ruins within existing buildings, such as the church of Santa Maria in Via Lata. He is no longer merely illustrating but re-creating a lost world … His innovation, then, as Wilton-Ely has summarized, is to show the ruins as a view rather than merely offering a dry archaeological reconstruction" (Pollak, Millard Italian, pp. 312-13).
Piranesi's earlier works on the antiquities of ancient Rome (Antichita romane, 1756-7) ran into difficulties with its dedicatee, Lord Charlemont. For his new volume, Piranesi required a new patron. "The Campus Martius owes its existence as a separate volume of the Antichita romane to the vanity of the young Scots architect Robert Adam," notes Joseph Connors in his recent monograph on the work (p. 36). Adam had come to admire Piranesi during his stay in Rome (1755-57) and accepted the latter's offer knowing it would entail the purchase of some 100 copies for resale in England and Scotland. However, in exchange Adam insisted that Piranesi publish the Campus Martius as a stand-alone study, divorced from the Antichita romane which had borne the name of Charlemont. Adam's name thus features prominently on the title page of the present work, where Piranesi also proudly flaunts his own membership in the Royal Society of London. A medallion on the right of the large folding plate also shows the two friends in profile, in the fashion of duumviri. (Adam's name also appears in the dedication of the 6-sheet map.)
Piranesi never abandoned his architectural ambitions, and in 1764-66 the Chiesa di Santa Maria del Priorato on the Aventine in Rome was remodeled according to his designs. He also designed the fanciful square in front of the church, the Piazza dei Cavaliere di Malta. These constituted Piranesi's only built works.
Piranesi broke the boundaries of etching and engraving through his acts of improvisation during the printing process, especially in the variable applications of ink in different areas of the copperplate. This results in a perhaps unprecedented amount of creative variation among copies, in which the exigencies of the printing process enter into the creative act as never before in the graphic arts. The present example of the Campus Martius is distinguished by its excellent preservation and fine strikes throughout.
* Millard, Italian, no. 91; J. Connors, Piranesi and the Campus Martius: The Missing Corso: Topography and Archaeology in Eighteenth-Century Rome; M. Bevilacqua, Roma nel secolo dei lumi. Architettura, erudizione, scienza nella pianta di G. B. Nolli 'celebre geometra'; M. Bevilacqua, ed., Nolli, Vasi, Piranesi: immagine di Roma antica e moderna Rappresentare e conoscere la metropoli dei lumi; M. Tafuri, The Sphere and the Labyrinth: Avant-Gardes and Architecture from Piranesi to the 1970s; J. Wilton-Ely, "Utopia or Megalopolis? The 'Ichnographia' of Piranesi's Campus Martius Reconsidered," in A. Bettagno, ed., Piranesi tra Venezia e l'Europa, pp. 293-304; J. Maier, "Rome Lost and Found: A Review of Piranesi and the Campus Martius: The Missing Corso – Topography and Archaeology in Eighteenth-Century Rome," Architectural Histories, 1(1) (2013), p. 13.
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Students question UW's pandemic compensation strategy
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On Feb. 4, undergraduate students from the University of Waterloo received a memo stating that students would be partially compensated for pandemic-induced costs.
The message from the president and vice-president informed undergraduates that full-time students would see $125 of credit added to their accounts, $37.50 for part-time students. Students will be eligible for the credit if their registered status is "Fees Arranged" on Quest by Feb. 7, or if they are on a co-op term for winter 2022.
The amount is expected to appear in Quest on March 3.
Due to the additional stress the pandemic has caused students, several students expressed concerns that the university was not doing all that they could to alleviate the strain.
"What could help is reducing our tuition instead of making us pay full price because at the end of the day we're teaching ourselves when we're online. We're not in the university buildings, it's not the same experience. They just post something, we read it or watch it and do whatever assignment or quiz we have that week," first-year honours arts student Leyla Koc said.
Tuition for many Canadian universities has increased in recent years even before the impacts of the pandemic. According to a research paper by Statistics Canada, universities have increasingly relied on tuition as a source of revenue as provincial grants to postsecondary institutions have steadily declined — the 2009/2010 academic year was the last year that grants were UW's primary source of income, making up 45.1 per cent of operating revenue. In the 2020/2021 academic year, academic fees made up 63.6 per cent of the university's operating revenue, whereas grants amounted to only 29 per cent of its income.
As a result, tuition fees have been steadily increasing, with Canadian students' tuition rising by an average of 1.6 per cent and international students' tuition rising by an average of 4.3 per cent from the 2020/2021 academic year to the 2021/2022 academic year. The increased financial strain is aggravated by the overall increase in the cost of living in Canada, which in 2021 experienced its fastest growth since 1991.
The long-term benefits of postsecondary education, particularly higher earnings and increased financial stability, have often been used to justify the financial stress of acquiring one. However, with the additional financial and mental strain placed on students by the pandemic, some have begun to ask whether or not universities could be doing more to help students now.
First-year AFM student Xander Chong initially appreciated the thought behind the $125 credit gesture. "Especially cause of the pandemic, for a lot of students money has been kinda tight, so it's nice even though it can only cover the cost of one textbook," he said. However, Chong pointed out that due to the relatively small amount, "they could give compensation as often as they could to show their support for students in these times cause especially for students only just returning to campus after a few months or years, knowing that the school cares even a little bit is nice."
With the number of undergraduates at UW in the fall 2021 term totalling 34,609, a credit compensation of $125 to each full-time student and $37.50 to every part-time student would amount to over $4M CAD. UW's total operating revenue for the 2020/2021 academic year amounted to approximately $595M CAD.
Lukas Salib, a first-year honours arts student, was similarly hesitant to give the move his full approval. "It's a step in the right direction, but it still doesn't compensate for the entirety of the two terms because a lot of students have taken a hit from their grades since they had to basically teach [the content] to themselves, so it doesn't feel like a lot… there's still such a really big number we gotta pay."
These frustrations are compounded by the fact that this is not the first time UW has given students small amounts of credit in order to resolve underlying issues. Koc explained to Imprint a previous situation where she received credit from UW in response to a mistake the university had made regarding her residence contract.
In August 2021, Koc received an email from Campus Housing stating her contract had been cancelled due to missing signatures, despite her having evidence to the contrary. When she contacted campus housing, she was told that she had to fill out a vacancy form and wait for a confirmation email — information that she later learned was inaccurate.
"I waited a couple of days and I heard nothing, so I emailed them back because obviously I'm anxious, and a completely different person got back to me and told me something completely different on top of that. They told me I had to resign the contract again, repay the $500 deposit, and then I'd be good," Koc said. "The deadline was literally the day after I emailed them, so if I hadn't gone out of my way to email them I wouldn't have had a place to sleep. I paid another $500 deposit, but there was just so much misinformation."
Koc received a $50 credit compensation for her troubles. "What is that gonna do for all the anxiety and stress they put me through? I was in a different country at the time too, so getting that email that I didn't sign something even though I did was terrifying."
Regarding situations like Koc's, as well as increasing concerns about the ever-rising cost of tuition, the question of whether or not compensation has been "enough" weighs on many Canadian students' minds.
"We're already paying so much to be here, but they make you feel good by giving you money when really, it's nothing," said first-year chemical engineering student Melissa Ramdial.
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Weare is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States The population was 8,785 at the 2010 census1 It is close to two important New Hampshire cities, Manchester and Concord
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Piscataquog River in 1912
It was granted to veterans of the Canadian wars in 1735 by Governor Jonathan Belcher, who named it Beverly-Canada after their hometown, Beverly, Massachusetts But the charter was ruled invalid because of a prior claim by the Masonian proprietors, who granted six square miles as Hale's Town to Ichabod Robie in 17492 It was also known as Robie's Town or Weare's Town before being incorporated by Governor Benning Wentworth in 1764 as Weare, after Meshech Weare, who served as the town's first clerk and later went on to become New Hampshire's first governor3
In 1834, Moses Cartland founded Clinton Grove Academy, the first Quaker seminary in the state A cousin of John Greenleaf Whittier, Cartland named the village where the school was located Clinton Grove, in honor of Dewitt Clinton, chief sponsor of the Erie Canal The original academy served as a private high school The complex, which included a classroom building, boarding house, barn and sheds, burned in 1872 Classes were then held in the Quaker meetinghouse across the common until 1874, when a new building was completed4 It would serve as the Weare school district from 1877 to 1938
On September 21, 1938, following several days of heavy rain, the New England Hurricane of 1938 passed through the center of New England The additional rains from the storm caused the Deering Reservoir dam to breach, releasing a wall of water that rushed down to the Weare Reservoir dam Although the dam held, the flash flood broke through the land at the side of the dam, releasing millions of gallons of reservoir water The raging river, completely out of control, washed away everything in its path, leaving parts of Weare devastated Many active mills were destroyed in the disaster
In response to the disaster and seasonal flooding, the US Army Corps of Engineers built the 2,000-foot 610 m long Everett Dam, as part of the Hopkinton-Everett Flood Control Project, which had been authorized by Congress to prevent a recurrence of the devastating floods The overall project was completed in 1963 at a total cost of $21,400,000 The dam required the village of East Weare to be permanently abandoned, and formed Everett Lake
In 2005, the town was proposed as the site of the Lost Liberty Hotel, a farmhouse owned at the time by US Supreme Court Associate Justice David Souter The effort to seize Souter's property for the project, in retaliation for a June 2005 court ruling he supported concerning eminent domain, received international media coverage However, at the February 4, 2006, deliberative session of the town meeting, a warrant article that would have empowered town officials to take the property was amended by residents in a way that made the March 14, 2006, ballot measure moot
Old bridge c 1905
Baptist Church c 1910
Boston & Maine Railroad station in 1910
East Weare c 1910
Geographyedit
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 599 square miles 1551 km2, of which 588 sq mi 1523 km2 is land and 10 sq mi 26 km2 is water, comprising 174% of the town Weare is drained by the Piscataquog River, which is impounded by Lake Horace in the northwest and by Everett Lake in the northeast The three highest summits in Weare form a cluster near the center of town From south to north, they are Mount Dearborn, at 1,211 feet 369 m above sea level, Mine Hill 1,211 feet 369 m, and Mount Wallingford, approximately 1,210 feet 370 m
The town is crossed by New Hampshire Route 77, New Hampshire Route 114 and New Hampshire Route 149
Demographicsedit
1800 2,517 308%
1810 2,634 46%
1830 2,430 −126%
1840 2,375 −23%
Est 2015 8,913 15%
US Decennial Census6
As of the census7 of 2000, there were 7,776 people, 2,618 households, and 2,117 families residing in the town The population density was 1321 people per square mile 510/km² There were 2,828 housing units at an average density of 481 per square mile 186/km² The racial makeup of the town was 9825% White, 017% African American, 022% Native American, 042% Asian, 022% from other races, and 072% from two or more races Hispanic or Latino of any race were 069% of the population
There were 2,618 households out of which 482% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 710% were married couples living together, 56% had a female householder with no husband present, and 191% were non-families 134% of all households were made up of individuals and 26% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older The average household size was 297 and the average family size was 328
In the town, the population was spread out with 320% under the age of 18, 57% from 18 to 24, 368% from 25 to 44, 207% from 45 to 64, and 47% who were 65 years of age or older The median age was 34 years For every 100 females there were 1011 males For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 995 males
The median income for a household in the town was $59,924, and the median income for a family was $62,661 Males had a median income of $38,986 versus $27,643 for females The per capita income for the town was $22,217 About 15% of families and 25% of the population were below the poverty line, including 11% of those under age 18 and 82% of those age 65 or over
Educationedit
Weare has one elementary school, Center Woods Elementary School, serving children in kindergarten through fourth grade
Weare Middle School serves children from fifth through eighth grade Construction on a new middle school facility began in late 2005
High school students in Weare attend John Stark Regional High School
Notable peopleedit
Elma Gove, painter
Gene Robinson, ninth Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshirecitation needed
David Souter, former associate justice of the US Supreme Court
^ United States Census Bureau, American FactFinder, 2010 Census figures Retrieved March 23, 2011
^ Warren Brown, Volume 1 of History of Hampton Falls, NH Rumford Press, 1900
^ Austin J Coolidge & John B Mansfield, A History and Description of New England; Boston, Massachusetts 1859
^ History of Weare, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire; JW Lewis & Company, Philadelphia 1885
^ "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015" Retrieved July 2, 2016
^ "Census of Population and Housing" Censusgov Retrieved June 4, 2016
^ "American FactFinder" United States Census Bureau Retrieved 2008-01-31
Town of Weare, official website
Weare profile, New Hampshire Economic and Labor Market Information Bureau
Clough State Park
Hopkinton-Everett Lake
Weare Police Department
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Adjacent places of Weare, New Hampshire
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Deering Dunbarton
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Municipalities and communities of Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States
County seats: Manchester and Nashua
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Mont Vernon
East Merrimack
Pinardville
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Reeds Ferry
West Peterborough
Merrimack River watershed
Artichoke River
Assabet River
Baboosic Brook
Back River
Baker River
Bear Brook
Beards Brook
Beaver Brook
Beebe River
Blackwater River
Cochichewick River
Cockermouth River
Cohas Brook
Concord River
East Branch Baker River
East Branch Pemigewasset River
Fowler River
Frazier Brook
Gridley River
Gunstock River
Lane River
Little Massabesic Brook-Sucker Brook
Little River Barnstead
Little River Haverhill
Little Suncook River
Melvin River
Merrymeeting River
Middle Branch Piscataquog River
Nashua River
Newfound River
Nissitissit River
North Branch Contoocook River
North Fork East Branch Pemigewasset River
North Nashua River
Nubanusit Brook
Pemigewasset River
Phillips Brook
Piscataquog River
Powwow River
Purgatory Brook
Quinapoxet River
Red Hill River
Salmon Brook
Shawsheen River
Shedd Brook
Soucook River
South Branch Baker River
South Branch Piscataquog River
South Branch Souhegan River
South Nashua River
Spicket River
Squam River
Squannacook River
Stillwater River
Sudbury River
Suncook River
Tioga River
Turkey River
Vine Brook
Warner River
West Branch Mad River
West Branch Souhegan River
West Branch Warner River
Whitman River
Winnipesaukee River
Arlington Mill Reservoir
Lake Attitash
Ayers Island Reservoir
Baboosic Lake
Lake Boon
Canobie Lake
Cobbetts Pond
Lake Cochichewick
Lake Cochituate
Contoocook Lake
Country Pond
Crystal Lake Gilmanton
Crystal Lake Manchester
Deering Reservoir
Franklin Pierce Lake
Great Pond
Haggetts Pond
Halfmoon Lake
Harrisville Pond
Hopkins Pond Adder Pond
Island Pond Derry
Island Pond Stoddard
Jenness Pond
Lake Kanasatka
Little Squam Lake
Locke Lake
Lonesome Lake
Massabesic Lake
Lake Massasecum
Merrymeeting Lake
Newfound Lake
Northwood Lake
Nubanusit Lake
Opechee Bay
Paugus Bay
Pemigewasset Lake
Penacook Lake
Pleasant Lake Deerfield
Pleasant Lake New London
Potanipo Pond
Powder Mill Pond
Powwow Pond
Profile Lake
Lake Saltonstall
Sebbins Pond
Silver Lake Hollis
Skatutakee Lake
Lake Solitude
Squam Lake
Stinson Lake
Suncook Lakes
Thorndike Pond
Turkey Ponds
Tuxbury Pond
Wachusett Reservoir
Lake Waukewan
Weare Reservoir
Webster Lake
White Oak Pond
Wickwas Lake
Willard Pond
Winnisquam Lake
Allenstown
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Boscawen
Hopkinton NH
Penacook
Suncook
Tyngsborough
Amoskeag Falls
Bear Brook State Park
Belknap Mountains
Blackwater Dam
Egg Rock
Franconia Notch State Park
Franklin Falls Dam
Gunstock Mountain
Hannah Duston Memorial
Hobo Railroad
Lost River Reservation
Middlesex Canal
Minute Man National Historical Park
Mount Major
Mount Monadnock
Mount Rowe
Pawtucket Falls
Pemigewasset Wilderness
Sculptured Rocks Natural Area
Wellington State Park
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Qatar Eyeing More German Investments: Minister - ASHARQ AL-AWSAT English Archive
Qatar Eyeing More German Investments: Minister
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 17, 2010 | Business |
BERLIN, (AFP) – Gas-rich Qatar, already heavily involved in car giant Volkswagen and construction group Hochtief, is eyeing further investments in Germany, Economy and Finance Minister Yussef Hussein Kamal said on Friday.
"We've only just begun in Germany," Kamal told the Financial Times Deutschland in an interview, adding the emirate has its eye on the IT sector and the small- and medium-sized firms that form the backbone of Europe's top economy.
Sovereign wealth fund Qatar Holding has an estimated 100 billion dollars under management.
"We have already begun negotiations with some small and medium firms," the minister said without citing individual companies.
"We have to import everything, including construction expertise … This is an opportunity for German firms," he said.
Earlier this month, Qatar bought a 9.1-percent stake in Hochtief, a company which is the subject of a takeover bid from Spanish rival ACS.
Hochtief is now eyeing some juicy contracts as Qatar prepares to host the 2022 Soccer World Cup.
Qatar holds some 17 percent of Volkswagen. Outside of Germany, Qatar owns 26 percent of British supermarket chain Sainsbury and 100 percent of Luxury department store Harrods.
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The Epitome of German Horology: A. Lange & Sohne
By Roberta Naas / September 4, 2014
By Gordon Henderson With the collapse of the Berlin Wall in November of 1989 and the official reunification of East and West Germany in January of 1990, the reestablishment of East German business was paramount. For Walter Lange, the great grandson of Ferdinand Adolf Lange, the demise of the wall was a great opportunity to revive…
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By Gordon Henderson A. Lange & Sohne watches are all about precision and ultimate craftsmanship – especially with the new A. Lange & Sohne 1815 tourbillon. A tourbillon watch movement is more a feat of human engineering than an actual watch complication. The development of the movement was done to counteract the most basic of…
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Experience the Moon's Influence on Man: The Must-Have A. Lange & Söhne Richard Lange Perpetual Calendar Terraluna
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As promised yesterday, we focus on astronomy this week- with some of the most scintillating timepieces coming out of SIHH 2014 in Geneva recently. Among them—the absolute must-have A. Lange &Sohne Richard Lange Perpetual Calendar Terraluna. Intriguing, alluring and complex, this watch demonstrates better than most how influential the moon's lure is over man –…
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When it comes to building trust and loyalty with potential customers, design is king. Subtle cues such as color can signal safety and security online which promotes product trustworthiness in a way that's less invasive than other tactics like heavy-handed sales copy or lengthy legal policies.
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The trustworthiness of a website or app can be improved with design. By implementing subtle cues that signal safety and security, companies are able to establish product trust and loyalty online. For instance, the color green is traditionally associated with nature which creates feelings of calmness while red is connected to danger so it should never be used on an e-commerce site for anything other than error messages because its negative connotations will discourage conversion rates by making users feel anxious about transacting business when they see these colors together in one place.
Trust is important when making a decision on what to buy, and it can be difficult knowing which things are safe. A study by Edelman found that more than 80% of customers said their concern over privacy impacted how much they trusted brands online.
It's hard because trust isn't something you get without spending some time researching the company or product first, but we all know buying anything these days relies heavily in being able to connect with people who share similar values as us through social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc., so if your friends have bought products from them before then this would help build up trust for future purchases too!
How do I decide whom or what should I put my faith in? Why is trusting others an integral part of society? One thing is clear: Consumers will not stick around for long if they don't have full confidence in the digital product they are using.
Why should I trust a company with my personal information? You might be asking yourself this question, especially when everything we do online is tracked by companies.
Companies track everything you do online for different reasons, and when they know what your interests are, it helps them show ads that will be more relevant to you.
This is all part of the User Experience Design process which can help build trust with potential customers who may not have any prior experience working with this company.
Design consistency is the foundation of trust because it reassures people that they are interacting with a site that they intended to. A consistent look and feel suggests an organized company, competent workers, and efficient systems which all contribute to trust in your brand or product as well!
People's brains are hardwired to be attracted to things that do not stand out. With this in mind, it is important for designers and developers alike to stay consistent with their design choices so as not distract users from the content they want them viewing. Sometimes these discrepancies happen unintentionally or due time constraints but when caught early enough can easily be fixed by implementing a set of guidelines within your team such as colors used on call-to-action buttons across all pages, making sure calendar forms look similar throughout the site etcetera.
If you want to make your site more user-friendly, design with their expectations in mind. Will they expect the shopping cart on top? Or will it be underlined?
Every detail must be cohesive and consistent for a user to feel at home on your site or app. This extends from the color palette, logo, navigation mechanics - all of it. A reliable experience means that users will always know how they can navigate through screens without having to learn each time they visit what happens when you click this button instead of that one!
Designers must step back and think about how their work fits in with the company's broader vision of what customer journey should look like. To create a consistent, trustworthy design experience, there are some critical questions that need to be answered from the outset: Does my UX align with these expectations for this point in time? Is it aligned at all within an overarching strategy or plan? These high-level considerations will help designers make decisions on more granular elements as they go down into detail - such as who needs input when creating new features or functionality; whether research is needed before proceeding forward.
BE AWARE OF DARK PATTERNS!
Design can be deployed to trick a user into doing something unintentionally, usually taking advantage of the fact that people tend to skim and not read carefully. This is what's known as dark patterns in UX research—a term coined more than a decade ago by British researcher Harry Brignull.
There are many ways that companies trick their customers to keep them there, the most common of which is making it nearly impossible for a customer to unsubscribe from an email service.
For example, they might have some hidden button or link on every page that's meant only for use by employees and makes it very difficult for customers who want out. Another way companies try this tactic is with x's; since everyone knows what these symbols mean in regards to closing windows, company websites will often place one at the bottom of each screen so when you think you're about done surfing through products online and ready leave - bam! You've accidentally downloaded software onto your computer without realizing what happened.
The dark patterns that are used now may earn you some clicks and even generate extra revenue in the short term. However, if your goal is designing a product intended to foster trust; they should be left out of the design equation.
DON'T LIE ABOUT IN-APP PERMISSIONS
The UI for in-app permissions is as important to the experience of using an app, and can be used to encourage users. One study found that people were more likely to give their permission if they're told why it's necessary!
When a user initiates an action, they should be prompted to grant permission for the app's use of that specific information. This prompt would appear directly after initiating such actions (such as searching nearby places on Google Maps). For example: first time you search "places near me" or open Facebook Messenger.
BE ACCOUNTABLE
After an outage or data breach, companies need to have a communications plan in place with updates for customers. Designers can collaborate with them by designing templates and posts about the situation so that users are well informed of what is happening.
If a company doesn't have an emergency communications plan in place, the consequences can be severe. For example, following 2017's Equifax data breach that affected over 145 million consumers' personal information; after discovering their systems had been compromised and then failing to immediately notify users of this issue with sensitive detailed financial records such as social security numbers. They instead sent out two notices via email more than six weeks apart while millions of Americans were unaware whether or not they'd become victims themselves until it was too late for them to take preventative measures against identity theft...
Social media sites and apps are notorious for spying on their users, so it's no surprise that they don't always keep your best interests in mind. But you can hold the company accountable if something goes wrong with a service by forcing them to be transparent about what happened through an online environment such as a dedicated web page.
THIRD-PARTY FEATURES MUST FOLLOW BRAND GUIDELINES
Developers who are working on an app or website often need to embed features of other apps into their product. This way, they can say that the chat and payment feature is already included and not have to design them from scratch in addition with perfecting whatever it was originally intended for. But when developers integrate these pages or apps, it's important to make sure the navigation system stays consistent throughout all parts of your site so that people don't get too lost while using this individual part you just added onto your main project.
A customer might not want to chat with a bot, but they will be reassured when their favorite brand is advertised.
This means the user can spend more time on in-app features and less on another app for assistance. Brands need to make sure customers know that this is an authentic experience or else it could backfire by making them feel like they are being tricked into interacting only with bots rather than humans at all times of day.
REMIND USERS TO SECURE THEIR ACCOUNTS (DISCREETLY)
The creators of a website can use creative ways to nudge people into more secure behavior. For example, they could offer reminders or security strength meters on sign-up pages when it is apparent that the password was weak and reused multiple times before. Or remind them to enable dual-factor authentication for their accounts which provides one of the best means of protection against data breaches in this day and age where 80% are traced back as being due from poor passwords or using an old ones repeatedly!
Binance, a cryptocurrency trader that offers two-factor authentication for its customers to keep their data safe and secure, has implemented clever design so as not let users pass without setting up the protection. They have taken steps to protect customer privacy with an unobtrusive banner which can't be dismissed until the option is enabled on one's account page.
SEND TRUSTWORTHY SIGNALS
Companies should use this to their advantage and work on building up customer trust in order to keep them coming back. It is a shame that nowadays there are more reasons for customers than ever before not to take risks online, but it's also an opportunity! Companies need only build up the level of trust between themselves and their clients/customers by focusing on transparency so they can continue running successful businesses despite these threats from hackers. Other studies show that people base their decisions about where to place trust based on intuition. It only takes a split second for customers to have this instinct, so incorporating principles of trustworthy design can go a long way in instilling confidence with your users.
While it's important for companies to have a website that is aesthetically pleasing and easy to navigate, the design of your site can also positively affect how trustworthy you seem. Subtle cues like color or font choice are powerful tools when used strategically. For example, if you want customers to feel calm while browsing your products then use green because this color traditionally reminds people of nature and peace which will encourage them to stay longer on your site; but don't forget about red! This color should never be incorporated into any marketing material for e-commerce sites as its negative connotations discourage conversion rates by making users anxious about transacting business when they see these colors together in one place. Companies who implement these subtle changes may find themselves with a more successful, and trustworthy site.
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BFG Podcast #086: 'White Noise,' 'M3GAN,' and 'Jack Ryan'
Our editor and writers cut through the culture
January 10, 2023 January 10, 2023 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments Don DeLillo, Jack Ryan, John Krasinski, M3GAN, Noah Baumbach, White Noise
In this week's audio-enhanced edition of the BFG Podcast, editor Neal Pollack, an AI-assisted lifeform, welcomes contributors JonPaul Guinn and Pablo Gallaga. JP proves his versatility and then some, starting off by talking about the Noah Baumbach adaptation of Don DeLillo's 'White Noise.' JP prefers the middle part of the movie, when the "Airborne Toxic Event" means there's actually some action, and also the closing credits, a dance sequence in a 1980s grocery store set to an LCD Soundsystem song. The rest of the movie, not so much. He doesn't find statements like "men are killers. They kill" to be very profound. And both he and Neal agree that DeLillo's jokes about "Hitler Studies", made in a novel nearly 40 years ago, have aged quite poorly. An arthouse rendition of a book we previously thought was unfilmable, this is definitely not family fun.
Later, JP pops back to talk about season 3 of 'Jack Ryan.' This is an odd show, he says, because there's no actual spy intrigue, and not a lot of fun chase scenes. It's just kind of boring, and no one will ever be as good a Jack Ryan as Alec Baldwin was in The Hunt For Red October. He and Neal find the Jack Ryan universe so unengaging that they actually end up talking about better pulp-fiction characters who have become TV heroes, like 'Reacher' and 'Bosch." And then they make fun of the CIA for a bit.
Pablo Gallaga had the fun job of reviewing 'M3GAN' for us, and he and Neal both really appreciate the spot-on satire of artificial intelligence, as well as the many memorable and meme-able creepy doll movements sprinkled throughout the Blumhouse pulp hit. Pablo's thesis is that horror movies have moved out of their brutal dissection-of-personal trauma phase, and have now just transitioned into bonkers fun.
Just like BFG itself. Enjoy the show!
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Bad Bunny Shows Us His Version Of Old-School
By Isabella Gomez Sarmiento • Mar 2, 2020
Bad Bunny, photographed at the 2018 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on Oct. 09, 2018 in Los Angeles.
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Originally published on March 2, 2020 12:28 pm
What can't Bad Bunny do?
Challenging traditional gender norms and aesthetics in the male-dominated world of urbano? Check. Revealing, via the heartfelt closing track of his new album, that he might be retiring at the end of this year? Check.
The 25-year-old Puerto Rican artist, born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, joyfully skews convention — in his music, his style, his outspoken politics. It's this anti-conformist attitude that has helped make him an international star, rising from a college student working at a grocery store to one of the biggest names in Latin trap in just a few years.
Bunny's sophomore album, a 20-song set aptly titled YHLQMDLG — Yo Hago Lo Que Me Da La Gana, "I do what I want" — and released on Feb. 29 is, thankfully, more of the same.
YHLQMDLG comes less than a year after Oasis, his dual EP with Colombian superstar J Balvin, and opens with a synthesized sample of bossa nova staple "The Girl from Ipanema." But make it Sad Bunny: In typical Conejo Malo fashion, he declares from the get-go that he's still missing an ex, and imagines all the things he'd say to her mom if he ran into her. But unlike most of the darker, psychedelic beats on his debut, X 100PRE, or the tropical, genre-bending jokes of Oasis, this lovesick rundown of all the things going wrong in Bad Bunny's life cruises along over a breezy backdrop that perfectly sets up the party anthems to come across the rest of the album.
YHLQMDLG is full of reggaeton throwbacks, finding Bad Bunny re-grounding himself in the roots of the heavy perreo he grew up listening to, in the Puerto Rican tradition of marquesinas (garage parties), including features from genre veterans like Daddy Yankee, Ñengo Flow, Yaviah and Jowell & Randy. On standout track "Safaera," produced by Tainy and DJ Orma, a quivering beat switches gears multiple times, while Bunny describes just how much he's planning to drink and smoke tonight, as a woman moans "Papi, sigue" in the background — a straight-up urbano formula. Ñengo Flow, who tweeted that the song is an ode to the marquesina sound, perfectly sums it up with his line:
Real G, orientando la' generacione' nueva', con la verdadera
Bellaqueo a lo galactic
He's showing the younger generations just how far the genre has come, and his game is astronomical. The old-school feel of the album is underscored in the video for "La Dificil," released on the same day as the album, which follows the story of a backup dancer in an early-aughts reggaeton music video.
The trademark cosmopolitanism of the renegade rapper maintains throughout, with lyrics representing bad girls who like to get down by themselves at the club ("Yo Perreo Sola") and elevating bisexual visibility in several lines about how both guys and girls are into it ("Los nene' y las nena' quieren con ella"). The statements are effortless for a figure like Bad Bunny, who's made waves for defying toxic masculinity in his own self-presentation and in his music videos, which have addressed issues like gender fluidity and domestic violence. On Feb. 27, during an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, he performed the YHLQMDLG single "Ignorantes" with Panamanian singer Sech, wearing a shirt calling out the recent murder of a trans woman in Puerto Rico. "They killed Alexa, not a man in a skirt," it read.
Bad Bunny's woke politics have made him an outlier in a genre deeply rooted in sexist and homophobic language, proving that perreo with a clean conscience is, in fact, possible. (However, "Yo Perreo Sola" lacks complete follow-through on its message of empowerment — Genesis Rios, a.k.a. Nesi, who sings the opening hook, is credited only as a writer and not a performer on the song.)
Bad Bunny, photographed while taking part in a demonstration demanding Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rossello's resignation in San Juan on July 17, 2019.
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YHLQMDLG is an expansive celebration of Bad Bunny's inability to be confined within one theme — it dynamically weaves its way through heartbreak, yearning, a good time at the club and, of course, his pride for Puerto Rico. The outro, "<3", finds an earnest Conejo thanking everybody who's supported him through his career, and also mic-dropping quite the big news:
Este disco está cabrón, lo hice pa' vosotros, ey
Y en nueve mese' vuelvo y saco otro
Pa' retirarme tranquilo como Miguel Cotto
He confesses that he'll put out another album in nine months, but will probably retire after that due to the toll this lifestyle is taking on him. Between spitting bars at the Super Bowl halftime show, selling out world tours, protesting for former Gov. Ricardo Rossello's resignation in San Juan last year and cranking out A-list collabs left and right, it makes sense Bad Bunny's in need of a break. YHLQMDLG delivers 20 solid songs for the summer, a full-fledged pop album that fully leans into its Caribbean roots. But, as Bunny says in his closing remarks, he knows his best songs are still ahead of him — hinting that he's still saving some surprises for December. For now, he's just doing what he wants.
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