" The rioters were angered by the assassination of Sharif Osman Hadi,"
This a mistake or misinformation.
The rioters weren’t angered by the death of Hadi. They (in probability, engineered by the scum Interim Government) took the opportunity of his death to create a situation which would have made the upcoming election uncertain.
I hope you and your family are safe Ifti 
@Iftikhar
Stay safe Ifti. I have seen some videos of the funeral of this poor guy. Massive turnour
Yes, we are safe my friend. Thanks a lot. Hope you are doing well too.
Oh yes, nearly a million attended.
We saw another massive gathering today as the leader of the main political party returned after 17-year exile.
I saw this story come up on the news. It looks like we have weeded out another dickhead:
Always worth cleaning up the fanbase.
Just hope it works the other way too and any opposition fans signing about, for instance, Hillsborough are banned - not to mention the man city players who joked about Sean Cox. Not holding my breath.
I always liked him, but not the smartest idea 
Wtf @legalalien?
Not really sure where to put this as it is a bit of whine on my part.
Just making common drugs, to medical standard, is pretty expensive. At the low end you have the following (below) which, have been around for decades or for more than a century in the case of aspirin. At the higher end, it can go into the millions / kg. This cost is just to physically synthesize a compound. To get to that stage for a new drug however, a whole slew of costs (and time) will have been incurred - clinical-trials, development, pre-clinical studies and the very base, (decades of) basic research.
I cannot emphasis enough how important basic research is. Basic research offers a myriad of possibilities that multiply and synergize as the understand grows. To get to those compounds you have to have an understand of the biology, a way to get to a compound that can impact the biology, a way to determine the compound safety profile, make the compound in bulk and to clinical standard, safely trial it in humans and have the assays in place to understand it the drug is doing what you think it is doing. You have basic chemistry, mathematical modeling, biology, microscopy/imaging, nursing, animal husbandry and many other aspects, that go into getting to a drug. All these diverse disciplines have their roots in centuries of quite separate basic research that has to come together within a standard and regulatory framework.
Funding basic research is a key enabler for humans. I despair when funding in basic research is whittled away or overly monetized. Ultimately, there is literally value in watching paint dry.
Right, whine over.
@tesh of course you could just make a soda with sugar and vegetable extracts in it then sell it as a miracle cure/tonic. 
Don’t blame me. She may be popular but I wonder if calling a general election in February was really a bright idea. Polling day is Sunday and the weather forecast is for the heaviest snowfall of the winter. Let’s see if young people can get the arses out of bed on a frigid, snowy morning to go and vote.
Even so, I’m sure the LDP will win regardless.
Yeah, bring back Team Bear!
Only the best people.
BC has gone ahead and ended Daylight Saving Time. Much appreciated!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-adopting-year-round-daylight-time-9.7111657
Fascinating:
It sounds like a modern day Dead Sea Scrolls.
However, it would be nice if Nigerian and other African cultures were better known about today.
I was reading an article on Afrofuturism (Sci Fi based around African culture and history) and it struck me how little I know of ancient African mythology, particularly when compared to Hellenic, Celtic or Norse mythology.
One of the major drawbacks is that most of it is oral tradition and written history is sparse. Zulu culture, for example, was oral until British colonisation. I’ll use this as my example as it is the one I know best;
Bear in mind this is an over simplification; Nguni tribes migrated from Central Africa in waves roughly 13th century onwards roughly south eastwards, the great barriers being the Congo River northwards, the Kalahari to the direct south and the great rivers such as the Zambezi and Limpopo. Anyways, over centuries South Eastern Africa saw many of these tribes displace the San and settle in tribes which bear familial names with their own chiefdoms, kingdoms etc with names that are now familiar as surnames; Khumalo, Nxumalo, Mkhize, Ndwandwe, Hlubi, Mthethwa and of course, the little known and peripheral Zulu all with an oral history and tradition passed down through the elders creating a rich tapestry of the ages where elders would pass to become the ‘ancestors’. Shaka would revolutionise warfare in the region and the Zulu assimilated each tribe either by force or negotiation often killing the ruling elite en masse thus a branch of oral history, small or otherwise, became lost to time and became part of the ‘Zulu’. This type of assimilation, while often brutal, served a purpose into creating a functioning nation of tribes with a now ‘shared’ history where just a generation before there were a network of feuding or allied tribes going back centuries. Some resisted and fled, such as the Basotho in their high mountain peaks which is now a country of its own, Lesotho, the Shangaan who founded an empire of their own under the general Soshangane and Mzilikazi of the Khumalo, once a general of Shaka who fled north and founded a people in Southern Zimbabwe, the Ndebele or Matabele.
Sorry, bit of a ramble but case in point being why Sub Saharan African mythology or history is so hard to pin down pre Colonial times.
