한채윤: ‘동성애 반대’ 민원폭탄을 해결하는 방법
돌이켜보면 계속 그랬다. 정부 단체들은 성적소수자 단체에서 낸 대관 또는 집회를 허가했다가 보수 개신교를 중심으로 한 동성애 반대자들이 항의하면 바로 취소했다. 조직적인 민원을 없애는 최선의 방법은 그런 공격에 흔들리지 않는 것이다. 폭탄 문자나 전화로 안 된다는 걸 알면 당연히 다른 방법을 모색할 테니까.

기사 보기: Voice, 혐오, 동성애, 민원, 퀴어퍼레이드, Korea News

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This Is How Much Coffee You Should Drink Daily To Reap Its Health Benefits
People who guzzle three to four cups of coffee a day benefit most from the hot drink’s health benefits, according to a new study.

While there’s been conflicting evidence around the health benefits of coffee in the past, researchers wrote in the BMJ that a cup of Joe is “more likely to benefit health than to harm it”.

That said, they warned that pregnant women and those at risk of fracture (such as postmenopausal women) are excluded from the findings. Among these groups, they said coffee could be harmful.

For the study, researchers analysed evidence from over 200 studies and found that drinking three to four cups of coffee a day was associated with a lower risk of early death and getting heart disease compared with drinking none at all.

Coffee was also associated with a lower risk of several cancers, including prostate, endometrial, skin and liver cancer, as well as type 2 diabetes, gallstones and gout.

The greatest benefit was seen for liver conditions, such as cirrhosis of the liver.

There also seemed to be beneficial associations between coffee consumption and Parkinson’s disease, depression and Alzheimer’s disease.

Researchers warned that drinking coffee could be bad for pregnant women and added that it was also linked to a very small increased risk of fracture in women.

The studies used mainly observational data, providing lower quality evidence, so no firm conclusions could be drawn about cause and effect, but the findings do back up other recent reviews and studies of coffee intake.

As such, researchers said that, excluding pregnancy and women at risk of fracture, “coffee drinking appears safe within usual patterns of consumption”.

There was less evidence for the effects of drinking decaffeinated coffee but it had similar benefits for a number of outcomes.

In a linked editorial, Eliseo Guallar at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said although we can be reassured that coffee intake is generally safe, doctors should not recommend drinking coffee to prevent disease – and people should not start drinking coffee for health reasons.

As this study shows, some people may be at higher risk of adverse effects, he said, and there is “substantial uncertainty” about the effects of higher levels of intake.

Finally, coffee is often consumed with products rich in refined sugars and unhealthy fats, “and these may independently contribute to adverse health outcomes,” he added.

However he concluded that even with these caveats, “moderate coffee consumption seems remarkably safe, and it can be incorporated as part of a healthy diet by most of the adult population”.

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The GOP is so afraid of calling a trans politician a woman they’re willing to abolish gender

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‘The Apprentice’: 13 Things We Learnt From Speaking To This Week’s Boardroom Casualties
Every week, HuffPost UK speak to the ‘Apprentice’ candidate whose time on the show has come to an end, finding out everything from whether they think Lord Sugar was fair to why they messed up in the first place.

This week though, Lord Sugar indulged himself with a rarely-seen triple firing, dispatching Andrew Brady, Anisa Topan and Charles Burn from the series in one go, meaning there were three people ready to tell us where it all went wrong.

Unsurprisingly, they did not hold back, making plenty of eyebrow statements, bold claims and (occasional) swipes at each other.

Here are 13 things we learnt from speaking to the trio…

1. They all have different feelings about the triple-firing

While Anisa was delighted to have left the boardroom alongside two other candidates, telling us, ‘If it was me on my own, I’d have died’, Andrew didn’t share her sentiments.

“From a personal point of view, I think I deserved to go further than Charles and Anisa so it’s bittersweet,” he said. “Both of them should have gone beforehand, then I would have got my own show on ‘You’re Fired!’. But it is what it is.”

“I thought I might be ok, but obviously, wasn’t,” Charles said of being fired last.

2. Andrew also wishes he’d quit before he was fired

“I probably should have gone out in a blaze of glory and maybe quit before he fired me, maybe that would have been more interesting,” he joked.

3. After becoming the first one out, Andrew was in earshot as Charles and Anisa were dispatched

“I was being babysat by someone on the production team to make sure I didn’t make any noise but I was sat just outside,” he told us.

4. Charles didn’t think the other team’s win was very impressive

Claiming they “won by accident”, rather than with strong business tactics, he said: “It was a dubious win. It wasn’t very emphatic. No-one stood out as being exceptional.”

5. One of them thought it was their time to go

“I’d have loved to have gone further but I think it was my time,” she admitted. “What an amazing achievement to get to week eight.”

“I think Sarah should have been brought in, instead of Anisa, based on the task,” he conceded. |” didn’t think Anisa did a huge amount wrong if I’m honest with you… but she flaps an awful lot and she can’t deal with the pressure.

“If Andrew had been more to the point and said ‘Sarah was responsible for xyz’ rather than try to blame me, maybe I’d have made a different decision.”

7. Andrew isn’t planning to stop his ‘laddish’ behaviour

“I don’t see it as a criticism,” he said of Lord Sugar’s comments. “I think it’s based on the industries that he’s in and how he expects people to behave in them, and they’re not my industries. They’re boardroom, lawyer-esque, professional ones.

“I’m more fun, day-to-day. Maybe I need to apply myself in a professional way in some areas. Who would you rather work for, me or Lord Sugar? If you had to work with one and go to the pub, who would you rather go with?”

We declined to answer his question.

8. Charles claims he did more work than it seemed

“They didn’t show me getting involved with the dogs because it didn’t fit with the story,” he said. “I was helping out as and when, and doing different things. They made me look like I wasn’t doing a lot, which isn’t necessarily the case. “

9. The girls’ bickering was as bad as it looked

“It was not easy,” Anisa said of the early weeks. “I’m a peacemaker, I’m not the arguer so I would be there in the house trying to make everyone get on with each other again. It was very difficult.

“It was hard enough, being there in the process without all of that. That pressure magnifies all of our worst or most irritating characteristics.”

10. There’s no love lost between Charles and Andrew

After suggesting team leader Charles put him in charge of the sub-team so he’d someone to blame, Andrew said of his former fellow candidate: “He should have gone in the first week. I didn’t make any secret of the fact we didn’t get on.

“I’ve got respect for him in some ways but yeah, we’re chalk and cheese.”

“He’s quick to point out what everyone didn’t do, but not what he did do,” Charles hit back. “That, to me, shows weakness. I thought he would be a good man for the [sub-team leader] job.”

11. One of them compared leaving the show to euthanising a pet

Yes, it was Andrew. “Maybe you’ve got a sick dog and it’s dying, but you don’t know when it’s going to happen,” he mused. “But when it happens or it gets put down, there’s relief in a bittersweet kind of way. It’s like that, I’d say.”

12. The boys didn’t expect James and Harrison to make it this far

“I think I was better than most of them, I’m not going to lie. Not in an arrogant way either, I think I just brought more to the table,” Andrew said. “Harrison is two pears short of a fruit bowl. Some of the stuff he comes out with… But he’s a nice guy.”

“I definitely thought I’d be in there. I applied to win, I wasn’t there to make up the numbers,” Charles added.

13. Anisa post-’Apprentice’ plan wins

“Oh my god, babe. I’m taking a holiday,” she said. “I’ll have a lovely Christmas and recalibrate to get my thoughts together.”

Amen to that.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/the-apprentice-fired-interviews-andrew-anisa-charles_uk_5a15ad0ee4b025f8e9330897

Gay Former Spokesman for Jeb Bush Endorses Roy Moore Opponent

Tim Miller, a prominent Republican player and former communications director for the presidential candidate, asks his followers to donate to Doug Jones.

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Labour MPs Reveal Alleged Budget Jibe By Tory Whip Who Said Jeremy Corbyn ‘Should Be In Care’
A Tory whip is facing a furious backlash after he allegedly said Jeremy Corbyn ‘should be in care’ during a debate on the budget.

Labour MPs lodged formal complaints and branded the jibe – which they say was made by Andrew Griffiths as Corbyn criticised the government’s failure to mention social care in its economic plans – ‘disgraceful’.

Sources said the heckler made an “ageist” joke along the lines of “you should be in a care home”, to which a visibly angry Corbyn responded: “I hope the honourable member begins to understand what it’s like to wait for social care, stuck in a hospital bed, while other people have to give up their work to care for them.

“The uncaring, uncouth attitude of certain members opposite should be called out.”

Laura Smith, who represents Crewe and Nantwich, told HuffPost UK: “This was absolutely disgraceful, none of us could believe what we were hearing.

“The fact he’s a government whip shows that hurling abuse is now a deliberate and calculated Tory ploy.”

Smith said she had reported the comments to Deputy Speaker Lindsay Hoyle.

Her Labour colleague, Ian Mearns, could be seen shouting and gesturing for Griffiths to “get out” of the Commons chamber after allegedly making the remark.

Corbyn described Philip Hammond’s budget as “a record of failure with a forecast of more”.

“Economic growth has been revised down. Productivity growth has been revised down. Business investment revised down,” the Labour leader said.

“People’s wages and living standards revised down. What sort of ‘strong economy, fit for the future’ is that?”

HuffPost UK has contacted Andrew Griffiths for a comment.

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Reasons to celebrate trans resilience during the era of Trump

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