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An internally displaced Afghan woman stands with her daughters in front a makeshift tent in a camp on a rocky patch of land, after fleeing fighting between the Taliban and Afghan security personnel. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul). AS a tragedy unfolds the West looks the other way. There is something almost obscene about the disregard shown by the international community right now over the fate of Afghanistan and its people, not least because we in great part are responsible for its making. Monitoring events closely and with many Afghan friends there whose lives face an uncertain future at the mercy of a relentless Taliban advance, I have a near dread of what the latest reports bring from the country.
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Brood X is upon us. Across the US billions, if not trillions of cicadas have emerged from below the ground, a biblical plague that occurs every 17 years. Gene Kritsky wouldn’t miss it. “This is special,” he says. An entomologist at Mount St Joseph University in Cincinnati, Kritsky has studied periodical cicadas for nearly 40 years. Brood X, the subject of three of his books, holds a particular place in his heart. In the middle of back-to-back interviews during his busiest professional period since 2004 (“It happens, every 17 years”), he found time to share his favourite facts with us.
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Cincinnati Fringe Festival Announces 2021 Lineup
This year’s Cincy Fringe will bring you: 8 outdoor productions from local artists, 11 livestreamed productions and more.by BWW News Desk
The Cincinnati Fringe Festival is one of the city s first beloved summer traditions to return to form. This year, you can choose from a wide variety of outdoor in-person events and online streaming entertainment for your Fringe experience!
Last year, their necessary pivot to an all-online Fringe Festival turned their popular hometown event into a success across the nation and internationally: Fringe shows were viewed in 36 states, plus Washington DC, and by audiences in sixteen other countries across five continents. This year, they are keeping that global community alive with a lineup of video-on-demand and live-streamed performances, connecting their core Cincinnati audience with a community of Fringe fans across the world.
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Tracking the cicadas is as easy as snapping a photo. Anyone with a smartphone can download the free Cicada Safari app to help with data collection. Once the media is uploaded the app automatically captures the time, date and geographical coordinates. Once the images are verified, the information is mapped.
The app was developed by Gene Kritsky, the dean of Behavioral and Natural Sciences at Mount St Joseph University in Cincinnati and the author of Periodical Cicadas: The Brood X Edition.” The app is available for both iOS and Android operating systems.
The last such Brood X event for 15 states including New York, Ohio, Illinois and Georgia occurred in 2004. They are expected to surface mid-May when temperatures rise.
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