U.S EQUIPMENT, EXPERTS ARRIVE AT KENYA EBOLA FACILITY DESPITE COURT ORDER, PROTESTS. (PHOTO).

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 U.S equipment, experts arrive at Kenya Ebola facility despite court order, protests Around 20 flights carrying medical equipment and specialist staff have landed at a base in Kenya where the U.S. ​government is continuing to build an Ebola quarantine facility despite protests and Kenyan court orders blocking it, according to flight data and officials. At least two ‌people have been killed in protests in the central Kenyan town of Nanyuki, home to the Kenyan air force base where the U.S. military is building a 50-bed unit for Americans who might be exposed to the virus, which has infected hundreds in Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. A Kenyan court first ordered work on the Ebola facility to be suspended on May ​28, yet U.S. military flights into Nanyuki continued in the days that followed, according to data from flight-tracking service Flightradar24. The planes have brought in technical ​equipment as well as dozens of physicians, engineers, lab experts and construction work...
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I’M NICK CAGE NOW - NICOLAS CAGE EXPLAINS WHY HE FINALLY MADE HIS STAGE NAME OFFICIAL. (PHOTO).

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 I’m Nick Cage Now - Nicolas Cage Explains Why He Finally Made His Stage Name Official


Nicolas Cage has officially made the name the world knows him by his legal identity too.


The Oscar-winning actor recently revealed that he legally changed his name to Nicolas Cage last year, fully stepping away from his birth name, Nicolas Kim Coppola. 


Speaking in a new interview with Variety, the 62-year-old said the decision came from wanting to create his own path instead of being tied to one of Hollywood’s most famous families.


“I am Nick Cage,” he said. “I changed my name legally last year.”


Cage explained that he wanted to stand on his own rather than constantly be viewed through the lens of the Coppola dynasty.


“‘Tis better to be the patriarch of my own little family than the clown cousin on the margins of someone else’s,” he said. “So I decided I’m going to bring it on and be ‘Cage.’”


The actor’s famous relatives include legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, actress Talia Shire, director Sofia Coppola and actor Jason Schwartzman.


Cage said the surname “Cage” was inspired partly by Marvel character Luke Cage and also by avant-garde composer John Cage. He wanted something simple and memorable, similar to classic stars like James Dean.


At the same time, he kept “Nicolas” because it was the name his father gave him, even though he joked that people constantly spell it wrong.


“My father named me Nicolas with French spelling,” he said. “Everybody adds an ‘h.’ I don’t know why he gave me the French spelling, but he did.”


The actor added that he doesn’t mind whether people call him Nick or Nicolas.


“I’m both,” he said. “I think people know me as both.”


Although audiences have known him professionally as Nicolas Cage for decades, he admitted the attention around the Coppola name became frustrating early in his career.


While filming Fast Times at Ridgemont High, he recalled strangers constantly making references to his uncle’s famous movie Apocalypse Now.


People would repeat lines from the film to him on set, and eventually he decided he wanted distance from the family connection.


“I decided I don’t need this,” he said in an earlier interview with Wired. “And I changed it to Cage.”

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