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Mayor Bloomberg blames Apple thefts for rise in New York City crime rate
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New York City's annual crime rate is about to increase for the first time in 20 years, with city officials (and Mayor Michael Bloomberg) squarely laying the blame on a sharp jump in Apple-related thefts. As of Monday, the city had logged 108,432 major crimes throughout the five boroughs — 3,484 more compared to where things stood at this point last year. In particular, police have seen a dramatic rise in thefts involving Apple hardware, which are up 3,890 year-over-year. If not for the allure iPhones and iPads present to thieves, officials maintain, the city would instead be enjoying a drop in overall crime including the lowest number of homicides on record. "If you just took away the jump in Apple, we'd be down for the year," Marc La Vorgna, the mayor's press secretary, told the New York Times.
The trend of Apple thefts outpacing the rate of general crime has been ongoing for some time now, despite the NYPD's efforts to raise public awareness of the growing threat. In remarks during his weekly radio program, Bloomberg confirmed that these numbers include Apple devices exclusively and that he wasn't lumping in products from other manufacturers. The sheer rise in popularity of Cupertino's gadgets has given thieves countless new targets. "The proliferation of people carrying expensive devices around is so great," La Vorgna said. "It's something that's never had to be dealt with before."
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Who Is Bridgerton Season 2 Episode 1 Dedicated To?
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In December 2020, Netflix and Shondaland captured the zeitgeist with "Bridgerton," a romantic drama series set in Regency-era England. Complete with grand sets, exquisite costumes, and orchestral covers of famous pop numbers, "Bridgerton" became an instant hit.
Created by Chris Van Dusen and based on the novel, "The Duke and I," by Julia Quinn, the first season of the period drama introduces London and its high-society families, who gather each year to find matrimonial matches for their young heirs. One among those families, and central to the show's narrative, is the Bridgerton family, who finds the perfect match in a Duke (Regé-Jean Page) for its eldest daughter Daphne (Phoebe Dynevor) in Season 1. This, however, is not the end of the "Bridgerton" saga.
Like Quinn's books, the creators always intended to return with stories of the other Bridgerton siblings — eight of them to be exact. Enter: "Bridgerton" Season 2, whichi finally premiered on Netflix after what seemed like an eternal wait. Fans who rushed to watch the first episode of the second season may be wondering about a brief dedication. For those curious about the person behind that dedication, we've got you covered.
The first episode of the season is dedicated to Marc Pilcher
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on the film and television industries. Beyond the production delays and financial losses, the pandemic claimed lives of the people who lent their creative talents to several shows and movies over the years. The first episode of "Bridgerton" Season 2 is dedicated to one such loss: Marc Pilcher, the show's hair stylist and makeup designer. Pilcher died in October 2021 from complications due to COVID-19, just weeks after bagging his first Emmy for Season 1 of "Bridgerton" (per CNN).
In its premiere season, the hairstyles of characters on the show certainly made a statement. From Queen Charlotte's (Golda Rosheuvel) larger than life wigs to Daphne's elegant hairstyles (which Pilcher, in an earlier interview with Glamour, revealed was based on Audrey Hepburn's look in the film "War and Peace"), each character's look was discussed in great detail.
Before working on "Bridgerton," Pilcher was an Academy Award-nominated hairstylist who worked on projects like "Mary Queen of Scots," "Downton Abbey," "My Week with Marilyn," "The Invisible Woman," and many more. With a legacy that defined so many memorable looks over the years, it was only fitting that the "Bridgerton" creators decided to honor Pilcher's legacy with the dedication.
"Bridgerton" Season 2 is currently streaming on Netflix.

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Lindsay Lohan and Bader Shammas Are Married
Surprise! Lindsay Lohan is a married woman.
On July 2, her 36th birthday, the Mean Girls actress shared an Instagram tribute to her longtime partner Bader Shammas, calling him her "husband." Her rep later confirmed to E! News that Lindsay is married.
In her post, with contained a selfie of the couple, the star wrote, "I am the luckiest woman in the world. You found me and knew that I wanted to find happiness and grace, all at the same time. I am stunned that you are my husband. My life and my everything. Every woman should feel like this everyday."
Lindsay had announced last November that she was engaged to Bader, with her rep adding that the two have been together for three years.
"My love. My life. My family. My future," the actress wrote on Instagram at the time, showing off her diamond engagement ring. "@bader.shammas #love."
Bader, the son of a Lebanese mom and Kuwaiti dad, resides in Dubai, where Lohan has lived for the past few years.
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Russian art critic, curator, head of the Department of Contemporary Art of the State Hermitage Museum, head of the Hermitage 20/21 Project (2007 — present), curator of French engravings of the 15th–18th centuries. State Hermitage Museum (1999– present).
Born in Leningrad. He studied at the Hermitage with D. A. Machinsky. He studied at St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg (1998, art history, supervisor I. D. Chechot). Trained in Berlin, Paris, London, New York, Jerusalem, Williamstown, Friborg.
Candidate of Philosophy (specialty "Aesthetics"), St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg (2003, supervisor Doctor of Philosophy, Professor E. N. Ustyugova).
Lecturer at European University in St. Petersburg (2005–2007), University of Culture (2003–2004), Pro Arte Institute. Curator of exhibitions of classical and contemporary art at the State Hermitage Museum, including "Raising the Cupid" (2006) and "Jake and Dinos Chapmeny: The End of Fun" (2012).
He oversaw the exhibition of the State Hermitage at the 54th Venice Biennale of Fine Arts "Dmitry Prigov: Dmitry Prigov" (2011). Commissioner of the Manifesto 10 exhibition (2014). Advocate of contemporary art. Author of numerous articles on aesthetics, art history, philosophy of art.
As a scientist, he wrote a number of key works on the history of the collection of engravings by the Hermitage. Found a catalog of the library of Catherine II
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Located in the heart of Gila County, Young, Arizona and the surrounding Pleasant Valley are two of Arizona's best-kept secrets. Young was first settled in the 1870s and still gives off that exciting wild-west feel. Electricity did not arrive until 1965 and there was no cellular service until 2009. Even today, there are no fast food restaurants or well-known chain stores. Progress in Pleasant Valley moves very slow, making it the ideal city for a more relaxed life away from the city.
Pleasant Valley is best known for playing a central part in the Pleasant Valley War between 1887 and 1892. The war was fought between two feuding families, the Grahams and Tewksburys. The feud was likely started over stolen cattle, though the true origin will never be known. The feud ended in 1892 when Tom Graham, Jr., the last surviving member of his family, was shot and killed in Tempe by the fugitive Ed Tewksbury, the last of his clan.
Pleasant Valley is accessible by State Route 260 from the north and State Route 188 to the south. Although several sections of these roads are unpaved, access to the town is available year-round. Young is also home to the airport affectionately known as "Young International." Although not truly an international airport, it does cater mostly to single-engine airplanes, although helicopters and gliders also frequent the airport.
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An Interview with Kenneth Zak, author of The Poet's Secret
Thursday, October 8, 2015 by Sabrina Ricci
Kenneth Zak is the author of The Poet's Secret:
In The Poet's Secret, Elia Aloundra, a young lit student, sees the reclusive poet Cameron Beck recite a poem at a campus pub before he vanishes—for a second time. Ten years earlier, Beck had dropped from the public eye, leaving only an acclaimed collection of odes to an anonymous muse and a decade of speculation over his disappearance.
Elia sets off in search of Beck, longing to know the man whose words have moved her so, hoping perhaps the ghost poet will unveil the secret to eternal love. What she doesn't know is that as her quest begins, Beck is perched atop a cliff on a remote Caribbean island and about to attempt suicide. As Elia faces off with Beck's protective circle on the exotic island hideaway, the same island where decades earlier a Spanish shipwreck entombing mystical Aztec relics was found, she finds herself swept up in the mystery of the muse. What Elia cannot fathom is that Beck's secret will change both their lives forever.
Read on for Kennth Zak's interview.
Q. What was the inspiration for The Poet's Secret?
A. At the time I wrote The Poet's Secret, I was on a personal pilgrimage. I essentially took a threeyear sabbatical, sort of an adult "time out," and embarked on a new path. I dedicated myself to explore the meaning of life and love and particularly the arc of passion. I became consumed by the idea of living in the present, honoring the "now" as the only real moment in time, the only authentic eternity, which allowed me to both disconnect and connect like never before and let go of the constructs of past and future as fictions created by the mind. I gained a new appreciation for relatively brief moments and encounters as having potentially profound effects. I was living abroad, reading, writing, surfing and slowing down my existence.
The tale that became The Poet's Secret was conceived in a hovel perched atop a onetable taverna in the hillside village of Avdou, just a scooter ride from the blue waters of the Aegean Sea on the island of Crete. I was sequestered alone, halfway around the world from my home, and recovering from a life, and a relationship, that had left me hollow, or at least I thought at the time. But it turned out words kept flowing out of me, first in raw, chunky verse that faintly resembled poetry and then in images and scenes that bore an even fainter resemblance to a novel. For months I wrote, swam in healing waters and disappeared into this remote, antiquated Greek village. I had never done anything like that before, but at the time it was the only existence that made any sense.
So many miracles happened during those months. I experienced a cleansing, a healing and an awakening, and I began to perceive light and water and imagery and words and the souls around me like never before. I eventually returned to California, and then traveled to Bali, Mexico, Costa Rica, Thailand, Cambodia and South America, following the sea and surf with laptop in hand and continuing to write. The backstory to writing The Poet's Secret is a story in itself.
Q. How did you select the locations for the novel?
A. It was tempting to set the bulk of the novel in Greece, a country I adore. However, as the story evolved the compass for the island setting spun toward the West Indies, and the story's life raft washed ashore on the fictional island of Mataki. I was fortunate to spend a good part of my sabbatical on tropical islands and coastal villages that certainly informed the setting. As for the early campus setting, I based it on a fictionalized version of my beloved alma mater, The Ohio State University.
Q. The novel is filled with excerpts of poetry, which came first, the poetry or the narrative arc?
A. Most of the poetry was written before any narrative took form. The poetry came in often painful and soulsearching flourishes, and then was revised over time. There is a line in The Poet's Secret where Dean Baltutis refers to the poet's inspiration being "survival." That is precisely how it felt at times. I also wanted to combine both poetry and prose into one novel and attempt to slow down the reader a bit at the beginning of each chapter to contemplate and absorb the poetry, to be in that moment so to speak, before continuing on the narrative journey.
Q. Water imagery is abundant throughout the novel, what is the particular connection for you with water and particularly with respect to this novel?
A. I was thrown onto a swim team at age 8 even before I passed beginners swim lessons (I was terrible at the back float). But water soon became my life and in many ways my salvation. Throughout my youth I swam, played water polo, lifeguarded and hung around Lake Erie in northeastern Ohio. Somehow, I didn't even see an ocean until I was 18. But I recall climbing out of the backseat of a Datsun 210 hatchback (or what they claimed to be a backseat) after driving for twentytwo hours to Ft. Lauderdale for spring break and telling my college buddies to just pick me up in a few hours. I was mesmerized. I sprinted into the Atlantic Ocean and swam and bodysurfed until dark. Today, I surf or swim almost every day. I feel like I am about eighty percent water, the remaining twenty percent made up mostly of curiosity and mischief.
Much of the water in the universe is said to be a byproduct of star formation. I'm no scientist, but I like the way that sounds. Because when I look up at the night stars it feels a lot like gazing west an hour before the sun dips into the sea, at least at my secret little spot by the water. Flickering diamonds scatter everywhere along the surface, and if I squint just right, I forget the sea is even there. Instead, it looks like a galaxy of stars shimmering right into me, washing across my heart, reflecting off my smile and filling me with the belief that I can just float away into the universe. So I often do.
Spiritually, water often represents purification and healing. To me, water represents so many things, perhaps most importantly love and life and the sacred feminine. I once nearly died underwater while surfing in Uluwatu, a place few have ever heard of and even fewer have visited. But I know on so many occasions water has saved me, water has healed me, and water has reset my compass when I have been spinning in some uncontrollable vortex. So for me, my life and my love seem to be tied to returning to the great aquatic source, again and again, maybe just to fill the chasm that still exists in me, and maybe to some degree still exists in all of us.
I have been fortunate to swim with sea turtles and dolphins in the wild on many occasions. When I stare into the eyes of a sea turtle or a dolphin I cannot help but believe that they understand this great aquatic connection, a connection beyond humanity, beyond species, beyond even the stars. So when I am writing about passion, heartbreak, healing, life and love, it is only natural for me to write in a particularly aquatic language and style.
Q. How did your professional career as an attorney influence your writing and how do you balance the two careers?
A. I think practicing law actually spurred my interest in creative writing. While I was in private practice, I felt constrained by the form restrictions requisite within the legal profession. I also felt a lot of legal writing often served more to obfuscate than illuminate and writing poetry and fiction allowed me the freedom to explore and express myself in a different medium. The Poet's Secret is not "another lawyer's courtroom thriller" in any respect, nor am I particularly drawn to that genre since I've lived it. Nonetheless, my legal career (now as General Counsel for a large private brokerage company) is both fascinating and challenging. I draw some inspiration from the poet Wallace Stevens who for years continued his vibrant writing career while an executive for an insurance company. As far as balance goes, my evenings and weekends are spent around the keyboard as much as possible.
Q. Talk about your involvement with 1% for the Planet and The Surfrider Foundation.
A. Perhaps only a poet would give away money before it is even earned, but that is what I felt compelled to do given my love of the ocean and conservation causes. In addition to ocean swimming, free diving and water polo, I have been an avid surfer for nearly two decades and have surfed around the world. Subtle conservation themes are laced through The Poet's Secret, but my love of the ocean and our planet is anything but subtle. I hope to leave this world and particularly our oceans better than I found them. Penju Publishing's membership with 1% For the Planet and my pledged donations to The Surfrider Foundation are an effort to spread awareness, give back and pay it forward.
Born in Parma, Ohio, Kenneth Zak is an aquatic nomad of Bohemian-Polish ancestry. As a lad, he dove into Lake Erie in search of a silver coin. Decades later, he surfaced off the island of Crete with a tale filled with mystical sea turtles, sunken treasure and a young woman's search for a reclusive poet, his muse and the myth of eternal love.
A summa cum laude graduate of The Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Science in Business and special interest in Art History, Zak went on to receive his Juris Doctor and follow the waves to California. He eventually shut down a successful law practice in quest of a deeper purpose, freeing his creative self in a mountaintop village in Crete where he began his debut novel, The Poet's Secret, continuing work on the manuscript and his poetry in Bali, Costa Rica, Thailand, Cambodia and South America.
An avid surfer and free diver, Ken's passions also include reading, music, ocean swimming, the Tibetan Rites and yoga. He currently serves as General Counsel for a large private brokerage company and resides in San Diego, California. Learn more at www.kennethzak.com.
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The 25 Movies We're Most Excited to See at Sundance
Lo & Behold: Reveries of the Connected World — The Internet loves Werner Herzog, to be sure—but how does the 73-year-old director of such humanist docs as Grizzly Man and My Best Fiend feel about the Internet age? Herzog's latest, which features interviews with first-to-the-party digital pioneers like Elon Musk and hacker Kevin Mitnick, is an interrogation of how mankind has been transformed by the web. Based on the trailer, we expect not only some probing questions about connectivity and community, but also some baud-y footage of what the wild web was like in the '90s. — Brian Raftery
Resilience — The latest from documentary filmmaker James Redford (The D Word: Understanding Dyslexia) looks at whether conditions like heart disease can be linked to childhood trauma (aka "adverse childhood experiences" or ACEs). You read that right. It sounds a little hard to believe, but Redford promises to look at all the latest research and lay out just how much "toxic stress" is affecting our health. — Angela Watercutter
Other People — None of the promotional materials indicate such, but if this movie gets its title from the phrase "hell is other people" then we're all in. Actually, considering it comes from Saturday Night Live writing supervisor Chris Kelly, stars Fargo's Jesse Plemons and SNL alum Molly Shannon, and is a comedy about a gay young man who goes home to Sacramento to help his dying mother, we're all in anyway. — Angela Watercutter
Tallulah — Think of the new movie from writer/director Sian Heder (Orange Is the New Black) as an alternate-universe Juno. In it, a van-dwelling free spirit named Lu (Ellen Page) "rescues" a baby from a negligent mother and finds herself turning to her ex-boyfriend's mother Margo (fellow Juno alum Allison Janney) for help. The cops are on Lu's tale and the laughs are just starting. — Angela Watercutter
We Are X — You may have never heard of rock legends X—that would be the Japanese glam-metal act, not the LA punk outfit—but in the group's home country, the hard-charging, tragedy-touched band has been legendary since the early '80s. This doc chronicles X's seesawing career, and follows its members as they prepare for a long-awaited headlining gig at Madison Square Garden. — Brian Raftery
United Shades of America — OK, so this one really isn't a movie, but the first episode of a new CNN series. But its premise—political comedian W. Kamau Bell goes to a small town in Arkansas to interview a local Ku Klux Klan chapter about the PR tactics they're using to keep minorities out—is just too compelling to miss. Will Bell figure out if this "new KKK" is really onto something? We can't wait to find out. — Angela Watercutter
The Lure — Two mermaid sisters who work at a nightclub. That's all you need to know. — Angela Watercutter
The Lovers and the Despot — The late Kim Jong-il had a lot of passions—basketball, nukes, human-rights violations—but he was also a huge movie nerd, one who dreamed of starting his own film empire. To that end, he kidnapped beloved South Korean director Shin Sang-k and his leading lady (and long-time love) Choi Eun-hee, forcing them to make movies at his pleasure. Lovers brings together archival clips and rare audio of the Supreme Leader to tell a story so crazy, not even Hollywood could have dreamt it up. — Brian Raftery
The Fits — This seems like a cute coming-of-age tale—an 11-year-old tomboy boxer becomes fascinated with joining the dance team—but it takes a turn when the members of the team start shaking uncontrollably. Filmmaker Anna Rose Holmer apparently used real-life tales of mass hysteria to craft her tale, which sounds like a nice twist on the dancing-teens trope. — Angela Watercutter
Richard Linklater — Dream Is Destiny — This doc—co-directed by one of the founders of alt-weekly The Austin Chronicle, Louis Black, and former PBS producer Karen Bernstein—looks at director Richard Linklater and his journey from Slacker to Boyhood. It also chronicles Austin's devoted film community and how it influenced Linklater's career. — Angela Watercutter
Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall — The latest Spike Lee Joint takes us back to a more innocent time: when Michael Jackson's solo career took a whole new direction with the seminal Off the Wall. (Millennials: It's kind of like what happened when Justin Timberlake left *NSYNC behind and released Justified, but a much bigger deal.) Built from archival footage and interviews with contemporary artists and family members, we're hoping this one helps us remember the time when we first met grown-up Michael Jackson — Angela Watercutter
Swiss Army Man — This movie is about a guy on a deserted island who befriends a corpse. (It's better than a volleyball, I guess?) It also has Paul Dano (probably the lonely guy), Daniel Radcliffe, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and it's written and directed by the music video duo known as DANIELS (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert), who you might remember from their batshit work on DJ Snake and Lil Jon's video for "Turn Down for What." Expect weirdness. — Angela Watercutter
Sleight — When a magic-loving high-schooler finds himself the sole caretaker of his young sister, he uses his powers of illusion to become a player in the drug game. Once he realizes he's in too deep, though, he turns to those same powers to make his escape—and rescue his family. Sounds like an intriguing mix of David Copperfield and David Copperfield. — Brian Raftery
O.J.: Made in America — It's been more than 20 years since Simpson took off in his white Bronco—the high-water mark of low-brow cable news, and the inadvertent beginning of the reality-TV era. This nearly eight-hour documentary, which will be broadcast by ESPN this summer, aims to be a panoramic, decades-spanning look at not only Simpson's career and downfall, but also the history of race relations in Los Angeles. With new interviews with the likes of Mark Furhman and Marcia Clark, Made in America promises to be both in-depth and appropriately juicy. — Brian Raftery
The Blackout Experiments — This movie claims it's a "narrative-driven documentary" about a popular horror experience called Blackout that "has become essential to an obsessive audience that hungers to test the very limits of the dark unknown." (Uh, OK!) But it's also playing in the Midnight section of the festival, not one of the documentary categories, so we're not sure what to believe here. We're quite certain, however, that it will be wonderfully weird. — Angela Watercutter
Operation Avalanche — In this 1967-set conspiracy thriller, two CIA operatives are sent undercover to expose a Russian mole they believe has infiltrated the US Apollo program. Posing as documentary filmmakers, they begin digging deep—only to find out their own government is harboring a terrible secret. Maybe it has something to do with Stanley Kubrick? — Brian Raftery
Dark Night — Dark Night follows six suburban-Florida strangers—nearly all of them played here by first-time actors—as they go about their day: Running errands, bullshitting with friends, and loping around their town's sun-baked parking lots. What they don't realize as they meander through their afternoon's mundane tasks is that they're headed for tragedy. Loosely inspired by the 2012 movie-theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, Dark Night promises to be a tense and troubling drama from Memphis writer-director Tim Sutton. — Brian Raftery
Certain Women — This one is riding high on its cast. Laura Dern, *Mad Men'*s Jared Harris, Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart—it's a murderer's row of talent. Beyond that, Certain Women presents itself as a relationship drama about "a handful of intersecting lives across America." But often, it's those slightly vague descriptions that are hiding much more interesting films. We're willing to take that gamble. — Angela Watercutter
Equity — *Breaking Bad'*s Anna Gunn, *Orange Is the New Black'*s Alysia Reiner, and it's about women breaking the glass ceiling on Wall Street? Count us in. There's been a lot of talk this year about the struggles of women in the tech world, and director Meera Menon's second feature promises to show just how cutthroat that world can be for the women trying to take those companies public. Equity also comes from Broad Street Pictures, a production company co-founded by Reiner and Sarah Megan Thomas (who also stars here) that aims to make more movies with female protagonists. Their latest, which stars Gunn as a senior investment banker caught up in a particularly tricky IPO, is can't-miss. — Angela Watercutter
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures — Few photographers in the late 20th century were as talented and controversial as Robert Mapplethorpe. Whether it was plants or S&M reconstructions of religious imagery, everything came to life in his chiaroscuro photos. The latest documentary from Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato (The Eyes of Tammy Faye) traces Mapplethorpe from his Queens, New York roots to his time as America's premiere genius/pornographer (depending on who you asked, he was either). This doc, which will premiere on HBO later this year, is sure to be—if nothing else—a crazy ride through the life of one of our most gifted visual artists. — Angela Watercutter
Hunt for the Wilderpeople — Truth time: What caught our eye with this film is that its directed by the guy who is lined up to helm Thor: Ragnarok. But considering that guy, Taika Waititi, also was behind 2014's wonderful vampire mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows and involved with the similarly wonderful Flight of the Conchords, there's a lot more going for Waititi than just his future with the god of thunder. Also, the story of a hip-hop-loving city kid named Ricky who starts over with a foster family in the New Zealand countryside sounds like a really nice time. — Angela Watercutter
Antibirth — Orange Is the New Black star Natasha Lyonne stars in this very weird movie about a pair of hard-partying young women, one of whom starts having psychosomatic visions. Apparently something "otherworldly" has infected her body—and we're ready to find out what, exactly, that is. — Angela Watercutter
Yoga Hosers — The latest movie from Sundance graduate Kevin Smith is, according to its write-up, "an intoxicatingly silly pop tale for the Instagram age." Whatever. It's Smith making a movie about two young clerks, so it shows promise. And it's about a secret evil that threatens to destroy everything good and polite about Canada. Sold. — Angela Watercutter
ForEveryone.Net — The various movements that have arisen online—Anonymous, Demand Progress, etc.—have gotten a bit of attention from documentary filmmakers over the last few years, but few have actually tackled the development of the web itself. Documentarian Jessica Yu tackles that very subject with ForEveryone.Net, which goes back to Tim Berners-Lee's building of the World Wide Web. But lest you think this doc is just here to party like it's 1989, it's not. Yu also spent time asking the man who insisted his creation be free and open to all what he sees as the biggest threats to freedom on the Internet right now. — Angela Watercutter
Kate Plays Christine — For the last few years, actress Kate Lyn Sheil has been an eye-drawing, always-morphing presence in everything from low-budget horror flicks (You're Next) to swampy neo-noirs (Sun Don't Shine). This documentary-biopic hybrid follows the actress as she prepares to star in a film Christine Chubbuck, a Florida newscaster who committed suicide on-air in 1974. The more Sheil looks into Chubbuck's life and death, the more she questions her ability to play a woman who's just as mysterious today as she was forty years ago. — Brian Raftery
Each year, the Sundance Film Festival feels like a race against time. There are dozens upon dozens of movies, and only so many days in which to see them all. You go in thinking you've picked the ones that'll be the best of the fest, but it's impossible not to miss something. But alas, it's worth trying. We combed through this year's line-up for all the coolest—or at least most weird/interesting sounding—films we could find. Here are the selections we're most looking forward to—from Lo & Behold to Yoga Hosers.
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Dodging Curve Balls and Bullets in the Year 2016
As much as we might talk about looking forward to the beginning of one year in order to forget about the atrocities accumulated during the previous 12 months, the truth is that all calendar years bring with them an arsenal of exploding curve balls. They are ready-made to fire off in our individual, or collective, directions at some point before the just-arrived year ends and totally demolish our carefully-designed plans and strategies.
I never expect anything less but am also inclined to hope for better. With all the awareness raised during the last several years to correct gun violence in American communities in general, and as a major cause of death among African Americans in particular, it was not unreasonable to think 2016 might show some significant improvements. It hasn't.
Mounting death tolls in cities like Chicago and Savannah are one part of the reason 2016 has not proven any more promising than 2015. Accumulating deaths from excessive force used by police, as in the cases of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, NC, and Terence Crutcher in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is another. Growing interest in Campaign Zero does offer a reason to believe in better possibilities but the best ideas are only as valuable as an individual's or community's willingness to commit real time and resources to its application.
At this point marking three-quarters of the way through the year 2016 and inching ever-closer to the election of a new president in the United States, I feel as if more than the usual number of curve balls have been blazing like meth-infused comets from corner to corner of the global community. From the refugee crisis and the never-ending heartbreak known as Syria to the political uncertainty presented by Brexit and the forthcoming presidential election in the United States, the word volatile seems a fairly good one to describe the current 2016 state of affairs.
The Job Facing Voters in 2016
The Job Facing Voters Postered Poetics quotation art by Aberjhani.
Any number of political pundits have offered theories on why and how Donald Trump was able to secure the Republican nomination for the presidency. Most Americans know it came down to one thing: money.
In the U.S. and elsewhere overflows of cash, stock, and real estate often equate to political clout and social influence. Yet even with that awareness I was among those who found it incomprehensible that millions of people were supporting his bid for the highest office in the land and could actually put him there. What were/are they thinking? That he would revive his Apprentice reality show and invite them on as contestants?
A particularly scary moment came when Mr. Trump's team received a suggestion that it adopt one of my quotes as a campaign slogan. How was that supposed to work? But whereas one political strategist proposed use of a certain quote to promote the Great Donald, cartoonist Vishavjit Singh adopted a different quote from my work to use in his #SendSikhNoteToTrump campaign. Funny how quotations lend themselves to different interpretations and applications.
And Then There's Madame Secretary Clinton
Is Hillary Rodham Clinton necessarily a better candidate for the U.S. presidency than Donald Trump? Polls indicate many Americans feel she is the better available option but also imply the best possible choices are currently not on the ballots. Maybe that's worth thinking about.
Maybe it is also worth considering that, at some point, history is bound to have its say regarding the matter of a woman president in America. How is that Germany, Great Britain (twice now), Australia, Brazil, Liberia, and any number of others all reached that point before the country so frequently proclaimed as the greatest democracy in the world?
Campaign Zero poster from Join Campaign Zero website. Shows where presidential candidates Donald Trump, Sec. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Gov. Gary Johnson, and Jill Stein stand on important issues.
Looking at her work as a first lady, senator, and secretary of state, it becomes hard to refute the proposal that Hillary Clinton truly is the better option. President Barack H. Obama spoke more than hyperbolically when he stated during the Democratic convention that her qualifications while running for the presidency surpassed those of both himself and former President Bill Clinton when they ran for the office.
In addition, I have long believed that in order for a democratic republic like the United Sates to have any true right to call itself a democracy, its leaders should reflect the diversity of the population. The glass ceiling blocking women's path to the White House has to break sometime and right now would probably be an especially good one.
© September 2016
Something More Dynamic than Tear-flooded Woe
"History & Erasure: Chronicling Legacies of Black Artists in Savannah (part 1 of 3)" 2016 essay series by Aberjhani. (Postered Poetics image of artist Luther E. Vann by Aberjhani)
It took a while for me to think about writing anything in reference to the death of my friend Luther E. Vann last month because when it occurred I was already working on a different kind of essay about his life and art. Slamming the breaks on that project, going into a tailspin of grief, and then finally regaining focus took some work.
These days a lot of people––maybe too many people––know that feeling of sanity-shattering loss. Surely, even as I type these words, the tens of thousands fleeing the inferno in Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, can feel the pain of it.
So can others around the globe who find their attention directed toward the news of a toddler killed while fleeing a war zone with siblings not yet in their teens, a mother or father lost to yet another mass shooting, or a pestilential outbreak that suddenly changed with no warning whatsoever the spiraling course of human history.
Psychic Interiors, Cityscapes, and Multiverses
It is because of examples parallel to the ones just given that I could not write a simple mournful remembrance of Luther. Like the psychic interiors, cityscapes, and multiverses painted in his work, he would have preferred words that reached beyond sorrow centered on him to communicate something beneficial to others.
Consequently, I had to wait. But soon enough it became apparent that, more than anything else, he would have wanted an article (or two or three or more) that extended our conversations on the pitfalls and triumphs of living lives immersed in pursuits of inspired creative visions.
Chronicling Legacies of Black Artists in Savannah-Georgia
Considered a classic of feminist literature, The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing significantly influenced aesthetic theories employed by artist Luther E. Vann.
The thought of extending previous conversations in the form of an essay was enough to stimulate the beginning of a paragraph. It soon developed into an outline for a new three-part series based on highly-accomplished creatives who, owing to one reason or another, are often excluded from official forms of recognition. The three installments currently scheduled, barring any technological issues forcing title edits, are as follows:
History and Erasure: Chronicling Legacies of Black Artists in Savannah (part 1)
Of Laureates and Visionaries: Chronicling Legacies of Black Artists in Savannah (part 2)
The Jazz Factor: Chronicling Legacies of Black Artists in Savannah (part 3)
The scope is expansive and inclusive because Luther's work was the same. In my attempt to communicate something more dynamic than tear-flooded woe, the essay presents a view of the artist's life and work through multiple lenses. They place in context issues like the erasure of history (a.k.a. erasures of history), and the cultivation of different creative influences.
Counted among the latter are the late novelist and Nobel Prize for Literature winner Doris Lessing, especially where the impact of her novel The Golden Notebook is concerned.
The essay also examines the role that the music of iconic masters of jazz like piano virtuoso Thelonious Monk played in Luther's creative processes.
Background Color Schemes
Finally: I did feel it important to at least try to incorporate within the three-part series a visual component other than the videos posted with each installment. Toward that end, I created a set of original images to employ as art graphic title panels. The series is called Savannah Silhouettes and the taller human figure within each panel is Luther E. Vann.
The different background color schemes of yellow-gold (seen in the art graphic for this blog post), purple (presented with the second installment), and black (the third) are not arbitrary. In addition to being important to his uniquely-applied craftsmanship, they were also important to what he called his "particular language of painting," the one that made it possible for him to say what he needed to say about humanity, about the mysteries of the cosmos, and, about himself.
© Bright Skylark Literary Productions
The Haunting Splendor of Marie Uchytilová's Memorial to the Children of Lidice
"If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelming, consider more deeply the observation that we are all much more alike than we are unalike." ©2015 quote and art by Aberjhani (from Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays) Art inspired by original sculpture by Marie Uchytilováe
After learning about the amazing works of the late sculptor Marie Uchytilová (1924-1989), especially her masterpiece "The Memorial to the Children of Lidice," it became easy to see why a growing number of people are inspired by her. Yet she should be much better known and more celebrated than she is at this time.
Is the lack of recognition of her powerful creative contributions to humanity because of her gender, or due to her national origin of Czechoslovakia? Or might it be because humanity is still committing in so many different ways the atrocity she documented through her great historical work? Whatever the reason may be, the overwhelming evidence of the artist's singular accomplishment speaks for itself. The minimal credit allotted her implies a case of guerrilla decontextualization by omission.
The "Memorial to the Children of Lidice" is also sometimes referred to as the "Memorial to Children Victims of War." On days such as the United Nations' Human Rights Day, or Day to End Racism, or World Peace Day, it can be difficult to think of such children. They're the ones who never lived long enough to fight for their rights. They never got to present humanity with whatever unique gifts of creative vision, persuasive leadership, social influence, or scientific aptitude they may have possessed.
What can be most difficult, when thinking of them, is that we have made such little progress since the horrendous massacre (part of an act of retaliation ordered by Adolph Hitler) that occurred on June 10, 1942, in the Czech Republic village of Lidice, not so very far northwest of Prague. That massacre which "The Memorial to the Children of Lidice" documents so hauntingly.
Intensified Brilliance
One of the great miracles of those who sacrifice everything––as Marie Uchytilová did––for the sake of creating an enduring masterwork of consciousness-raising art is that their voices always manage to reach hearts eager to hear what they have to say. What Uchytilová's voice had to say to this author's heart inspired the creation of the quotation artwork posted with this essay.
Someone might very well rummage through hidden details of her life and come up with reasons to challenge my assertion that the gifted sculptress deserves greater acknowledgement than has been granted. I would, then, still have to contend that while one might choose to dismiss her, it is hardly possible to imagine ignoring the intensified brilliance of the souls of 82 children emanating from the bronze splendor of her tribute to them.
© Human Rights Day 2015
For Love of Paris and a More Compassionate World (Part 2)
"This fire that we call loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls." Aberjhani (from ELEMENTAL, the Power of Illuminated Love. Poster art by FamilyShare.com)
You can enjoy part 1 of this article by clicking here. Part 2 begins now:
Impressive 21st-century technological advances notwithstanding, we have no reasons at present believe our modern global version of the Tower of Babel is about to crumble and then reconstruct itself any time soon. Terrorists, warlords, and state governments alike would do best to include within their strategic plans sufficient measures of sanity beyond the impulses to attempt to coerce each other into unlikely forms of submission.
Different values and worldviews do not have to mean inevitable violence or conflict. They can mean greater enrichment of each other's lives. Leadership theorist Max De Pree wrote as truthfully as anyone has when he stated:
"We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion" (Leadership is an Art).
That holds true in modern times whether you propose to be a leader of young malleable individuals eager to become catalysts for positive change or of more established groups dedicated to securing a specific legacy. What matters, above all else, is that everybody matters.
Diversity is an aspect of human existence that cannot be eradicated by terrorism or war or self-consuming hatred. It can only be conquered by recognizing and claiming the wealth of values it represents for all. The situation would be quite different if the violent extremism which has come to characterize anarchistic terrorism and government-sanctioned warfare actually resolved anything. The problem is they do not. Advances are claimed on one front and then annihilation––physical, mental, and spiritual–– witnessed on another. Global poverty, dis-empowering illiteracy, health crises, and human trafficking linger like the ultimate toxic nuclear radiation. The hearts of infants beat their last, blood dries on abandoned corpses, and souls take their leave of now useless broken bones.
Of Love and Bridges
The 13th-century Sufi mystic Jalal al-Din Rumi, whose poetry in Persian has been translated into superb English versions by the 21st-century American poet Coleman Barks, told us that "Love is the bridge between you and everything." Those are marvelous words to contemplate when struggling to make sense of the avoidable carnage in Paris, Syria, Nigeria, Mali, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. Equally marvelous to contemplate is the confluence of sensibilities that has bypassed time, space, and nationality to make Barks' name virtually synonymous with that of Rumi's.
Paris in particular is known in part for its many bridges and is legendary as a place that evokes mesmerizing creative expressions of love, in both the greatest of artists and the most ordinary men and women. However, if the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelming, consider more deeply the likelihood that we are all much more alike than we are unalike.
Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences common to all human beings. What civilization does not contain within its histories tales of sons, daughters, husbands, and wives who have been lost to conflict, and whose deaths left gaping voids that could be filled with nothing but grief? In what land do people not hope that the coming New Year will bring with it fewer reasons to bow before fear or despair and greater inspiration applied to an empowered sense of hope and dignity? The more healing options do not have to be dragged into a disposal bin designed for unrealistic dreams and desires.
A Messy and Complicated Concept
The four letters that spell out the word "love"––or five (amour) in French, seven (Кохання) in Ukrainian, or six (upendo) in Swahili–– can indeed add up to a messy and complicated concept. Nevertheless, whatever danger it (love, amour, Кохання, upendo) might pose to human existence is far less fatal than strapping bombs next to one's heart as if they were newly-earned wings. Nor is it more lethally addictive than the apparent rush that comes from investing billions in war machines and prisons instead of committing the same to much-needed medical research and education programs.
These children are eating in poverty-stricken Mali, Africa, where terrorists killed 19 people at a hotel just one week following attacks in Paris, France. (photo from UN Word Food Bank Organization and Daouda Guirou 06-2014)
Consider that pain and bewilderment at some point in the course of individual lives knocks people sobbing to their wretched knees no matter where those lives may have originated. Consider that universal agonies, common challenges, and simple human dignity make each of us worthy of some degree of compassion.
Imagine that the strength and resources which may be claimed through communication and reconciliation are far greater and much more sustainable than any likely to come from ignoring everything that binds the fate of one to that of another. The acknowledgement of a single possibility can change everything. It can heal a wounded city like Paris or restore humankind's faith in what is best within us all.
@ 20 November 20, 2015


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Africa celebrates Women in Transport Awards this Women's Month
SA's leading trade event honours female pioneers within the transport industry
In recent years, great strides have been made to close the gender gap through the development and implementation of empowerment programmes focused on building both soft business skills and hard technical skills.
Transport Evolution Africa Forum & Expo focuses on the industry's trailblazers who are achieving career success, shattering glass ceilings, and opening doors for other women. This Women's Month, they are calling for nominations for the Women in Transport Awards that will be held on the 29th September 2022. This will be the 5th annual Women in Transport Awards which aims to recognise and celebrate the success of women who are transforming the face and course of the transport sector.
"I would like to encourage women in the transport sector and say that it is possible. It's the positive attitude that you put forward daily and the little things that contribute to big things." says WITA Judge Sindiswa Mzama, Global President at Circle of Global Business Women.
Previous winners include 'Rising Star' Elizabeth Marami, the First Officer of cruise ship Celebrity Edge, and Lebogang Letsoalo, Chief Executive Officer at Sincpoint, a 100% female, black-owned organisation focused on supply chain consulting and advisory solutions. In 2021, Letsoalo was awarded a hattrick of accolades, including 'Mentor of the Year', 'Best Women's Skills Development of the Year', and the 'Excellence in Leadership Award'.
Letsoalo returns in 2022 as a judge, alongside an impressive panel comprising Sindiswa Mzamo, Global President of Global Women in Business and Mercy Mokgatle-Sediti, President of the South African Black Business Group (SABBG) Women Holdings, which is a proud association partner. Established to address the minimal quota of women in male dominated industries, SABBG Women Holdings empowers women in business through mentorship, skills development, corporate skills transfer, financial strategies, and collaborations.
Letsoalo says: "The transport industry has some way to go to close the existing gender gap, and I believe it is important that we as women in transport lead the way in opening doors for others. You can't be what you can't see, but by shining a light on the opportunities that exist and helping to upskill women with transport-centric abilities, we have the ability to change the face of the industry."
In addition to the Women in Transport Awards, the Transport Evolution Africa Forum & Expo will also co-locate with other leading industry events including KZN Construction Expo, Transport CEO Forum and Roads Evolution Forum & Showcase. Other highlights include the launch of the Export & Logistics Evolution Africa, powered by SAITEX, and the Transport Evolution Learning Academy.
"With over 50 port, rail and road authorities represented at this year's Transport Evolution Africa Forum & Expo, as well as 80 speakers and a range of free technical workshops, we look forward to welcoming transport professionals from all across Africa to what is bound to be a dynamic, in-person event, says Le-Ann Hare, Portfolio Director for Transport Evolution at dmg events.
Nominations for Women in Transport Awards are now open – if you would like to nominate an outstanding individual who is making an invaluable contribution to Africa's transport industry, please email Vanessa Leyka at vanessaleyka@dmgevents.com or go to www.transportevolution.com to fill in an online nomination form.
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Devers double in 7th breaks up Wojciechowski no-hit bid
Baltimore Orioles starting pitcher Asher Wojciechowski delivers to a Boston Red Sox batter during the first inning of a baseball game, Sunday, July 21, 2019, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
BALTIMORE (AP) — Boston's Rafael Devers led off the seventh inning with a double to end a no-hit bid by Baltimore Orioles right-hander Asher Wojciechowski.
Making his fourth start of the season, Wojciechowski was 0-3 with a 5.74 ERA going into Sunday's game against the Red Sox at Camden Yards.
Facing the highest-scoring team in the majors, Wojciechowski allowed only two baserunners and had a career-high nine strikeouts through six innings.
Although Devers broke up the no-hitter with a liner off the right-field wall, Wojciechowski completed the inning without giving up a run.
The Orioles lead 4-0 against Andrew Cashner, who was traded to Boston from Baltimore just eight days earlier.
by Clint Brakebill / Jan 20, 2021
Press Release from AISD:
January 20, 2021 - Wednesday evening, the Amarillo ISD's Board of Trustees unanimously approved the hiring of Eric Mims as the Head Football Coach and Athletic Coordinator for Palo Duro High School. Mims comes to Palo Duro after spending six seasons in Duncanville ISD, with the last three as the offensive coordinator. As the offensive coordinator, his offense has been a leader in many statistical categories while advancing to state championship games in 2018 and 2019. Duncanville High School advanced to the state semi-finals this past season.


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Bhutanese Women: Empowering and leading the way forward
Written by karma pem wangdi	on March 26, 2013 . Published in Women's work on Bhutan.
Bhutanese women have always enjoyed a privileged gender status unlike their counterparts in neighboring countries. Many of them are trailblazers in their work on issues of domestic violence, good governance and the environment and are truly an inspiration for the future generation.
Leading the way is the Queen Mother of Bhutan, Ashi Sangay Choden Wangchuck, with her work on domestic violence through the organization RENEW (Respect, Educate, Nurture and Empower Women) founded by Her Majesty in 2004. This organization is dedicated to the empowerment of women and girls in Bhutan, especially the victims and survivors of domestic violence. RENEW provides counselling, temporary shelter, legal assistance and vocational training to help change the lives of victims.
As in many other countries, domestic violence is treated as an "internal family matter" in Bhutan and its victims do not report it to the police. Such an accepting attitude towards domestic violence is a matter of growing concern. The primary cause of domestic violence is alcoholism, closely followed by gambling, financial anxieties and the lack of awareness of the victims' rights.
From this year onwards, domestic violence will be treated as a crime and women and children will be provided with protection. The National Council or the Upper House passed the Domestic Violence Prevention Bill 2013 last month under which all police stations in the country will have a Women and Child Protection Unit and at least one female police officer trained in handling cases of domestic violence.
Other examples of women in leadership positions are the numbers of aspiring women politicians from different backgrounds leading their constituencies in the second democratic general elections in Bhutan to be held this year.
For the first time in Bhutan, we now have two women presidents leading major political parties in the upcoming elections.
Dorji Choden, the president of the Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT), is the first woman engineer in Bhutan with an impressive record of twenty year's work in the civil service. Over the years she has presented technical and gender issues at national, regional and international forums. Dorji has also worked for the United Nations in Bhutan where she handled the Poverty portfolio, with special reference to youth employment and the empowerment of women. Since she first opened the way, many women have followed in her footsteps, and we now have many highly capable women engineers in all fields across the country.
Dorji Choden, President of Druk Nyamrup Tshopa party, Bhutan.Photo courtesy: Druk Nyamrup Tshopa party
Lily Wangchhuk is the woman president of the Druk Chirwang Tshogpa (DCT) party. A former diplomat, Lily looks up to her mother who raised her alone when she lost her father at a very early age. She says that she owes everything that she is today to her mother, and she also greatly admires Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese opposition leader.
Lily Wangchhuk, President of The Druk Chirwang Tshogpa (DCT) party, Bhutan. Photo courtesy: Lily Wangchhuk
Lily is one of the first women to break the political sound barrier by venturing into a field largely dominated by men and encouraging other women to enter politics and take up leadership positions. "I intend to put in all my best efforts into setting a good example for Bhutanese women and enhancing people's confidence in women's selfless nature and their leadership abilities", declares Lily.
Lily is also a cancer survivor who set up the Bhutan Cancer Society (BCS) with the aim of saving lives and supporting cancer patients in Bhutan. The group plans to educate and raise awareness amongst the people on how to fight cancer and demystify the disease. Surviving cancer made her realize that she had a purpose in life to make positive differences in the lives of other people through politics.
She believes she can make a valuable contribution to the empowerment of women as political leaders, and provide not only a female perspective in decision-making but also enrich it with gender sensitive decisions and policies. Encouraging greater participation of women in all spheres including governance and development with gender sensitive and family-friendly policy-making is one of the 12 critical areas of action for her political party.
Lily Wangchhuk, Dorji Choden and other women like them in top decision-making positions have already begun to set a positive trend for our younger generation of women to follow. Besides women's equality in wages, management, and governance, we need to realize that women and men have different needs and play different roles. Therefore their needs should be addressed in an equitable manner. And for this a woman's thoughts are crucial!
Tags: domestic violence, empowerment, equality, equity, gender, women leaders, women's rights
karma pem wangdi
Free lance Bhutanese journalist living in The Netherlands.


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Chiropractic care has been around in some form for a very long time, but the profession as an individual form of distinct and unique healthcare is over 100 years old. It has constantly evolved and improved in the past century-plus to ensure that patients get the very best care available to live a long and healthy life. Here's a look at the history of the holistic, non-invasive and whole body approach to wellness and health that we know as chiropractic care.
The Origins and History of Chiropractic Care
The very first spinal adjustment on record was performed in 1895 by Dr. D. D. Palmer. Dr. Palmer developed the techniques and philosophy of the discipline known as chiropractic care. He was the very first person to diagnose and define the problem of vertebral subluxation, or misalignments in the spinal column which place tension and pressure on the nervous system and negatively affect overall body function.
Dr. Palmer's daughter-in-law, Mabel Heath Palmer, carried the science forward and became the first female chiropractor in 1905, her son David later picking up the torch and carrying the legacy forward. The Palmer School of Chiropractic was later founded and helped to pave the way for many new chiropractors to learn their science and hone their skills. Today, dozens of chiropractic schools exist across the United States.
The Evolution of Chiropractic Care
Over the past 120-plus years, chiropractic care has continually evolved and grown as our knowledge of the human body has improved. The core concept, however, has always remained the same: the human body is an incredible machine capable of astounding self-healing. It just needs help on occasion to correct interferences of its natural systems.
Where once, chiropractic relied upon touch and feel to diagnose problems, we now have advanced diagnostic tools and assessment protocols that allow us to pinpoint the exact vector or direction of vertebral misalignment. We also have specialized equipment that allows for precise adjustment of spinal problems to augment the traditional manual hands-on approach.
The Benefits of Chiropractic Care
If you are injured during physical activity, through a car accident or a slip-and-fall, you may experience a misalignment of your spine that is responsible for a range of aches, pain, soreness, lack of mobility and function in the entire body. Likewise, poor posture can result in decreased strength, mobility and in soreness, stiffness and pain. Regular trips to a Victor chiropractor like Dr. Ryan Mulcahy can correct these underlying problems and get you feeling like new once more.
Everyone from newborns to the elderly can benefit from regular chiropractic care, including addressing symptoms like headaches, back and neck pain, stiffness, joint pain, mood swings and a range of other disorders, some of which you may not even realize come from a spinal subluxation. A chiropractor, through gentle, non-invasive, hands-on and instrument-based techniques can alleviate your pain and get you back to a lifetime of health and wellness.
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Chanteuse Country US née Robin Lee Irwin, le 7 Novembre 1963 à Nashville (Tennessee).
Singer/songwriter Robin Lee was born and raised in Nashville. She began her career in music while attending high school, performing at school dances and talent shows. She later made demo recordings for local publishing companies. In 1982, Lee debuted on the charts with the minor hit "Turning Back the Covers"; "Heart for a Heart" came the following year. In 1984, four songs became low-level hits, including "Angel in Your Arms"; "Paint the Town Blue" and "Safe in the Arms of Love" both hit the Top 50 the next year. In 1988 she had three Top 50 hits, including "This Old Flame." Lee did not appear on the charts again until 1990 with the title cut of Black Velvet, which made the Top 15 and became her biggest hit to date. The album hit the Top 25, and two other cuts from it reached the Top 70. She had one hit in 1991, "Nothin' but You." After her own recording career slowed, Lee signed as a songwriter for Big Tractor Music, the service owned by Virgin Records Nashville. She married songwriter Trey Bruce and saw her songs recorded by such country music luminaries as LeAnn Rimes and Jo Dee Messina.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Lee_(singer)
Talents : Vocals, Songwriter
Style musical : Contemporary Country, Urban Cowboy
https://youtu.be/oWRzjvzqgQg
01/1983 SP EVERGREEN EV 1003 (US) .
Turning Back The Covers / Angel In Your Arms
Heart For A Heart / Turning Back The Covers
Angel In Your Hearts / Turning Back The Covers
Want Ads / Breaking The Chains
Cold In July / Breaking The Chains
I Heard It On The Radio / Angel In Your Arms
Paint The Town Blue (with Lobo) / (Lobo:) Angel In Your Arms
Safe In The Arms Of Love / Between The Lies
I'll Take Your Love Anytime / Between The Lies
If You're Anything Like Your Eyes / Paint The Town Blue
03/1988 SP ATLANTIC 7-99353 (US) .
This Old Flame / Maybe I Will, Maybe I Won't
Shine A Light On A Lie / I'm Gettin' Good At Bein' Bad
Before You Cheat On Me / Serious Affection
Black Velvet / Stay With Me
Younger Love / How About Goodbye
Love Letter / Every Little Bit Hurts
Betrayed / Nothin' But You
When I Miss You / Back To Bein' Blue
03/1986 LP 12" EVERGREEN EV-1001 (US) ROBIN LEE - Safe In The Arms Of Love / What This Night Needs Is You / It Feels Like Magic / You Don't Even Know / If You're Anything Like Your Eyes / I'll Take Your Love Anytime / You Shouldn't Know Her That Well / Jilted / Win Or Lose / We're Not Gonna Hurt Each Other Are We
03/1988 CD ATLANTIC 90906-2 (US) THIS OLD FLAME - This Old Flame / Serious Affection / Reminiscing / Maybe I Will, Maybe I Won't / Before You Cheat On Me Once (You Better Think Twice) / Ride With The Gang, Jesse James / I'm Gettin' Good At Bein' Bad / Shine A Light On A Lie / Borrowed Time / Take Me Back / Take My Breath Away
03/1990 CD ATLANTIC 82085-2 (US) BLACK VELVET - Black Velvet / How About Goodbye / He's Helping Me Get Over You / When The Feeling Comes Around / Younger Love / Love Letter / Something I Known I'm Gonna Love / Every Little Bit Hurts / Till I Get It Right / Sad Eyes
06/1991 CD ATLANTIC 82259-2 (US) HEART ON A CHAIN - Back To Bein' Blue / When You Get A Little Lonely / The End Of The Line / When I Miss You / Johnny's Angel (Solo Sometime) / Heart On A Chain / Nothin' But You / Don't Let The Same Dog Bite You Twice / Betrayed / I'd Walk Through Fire
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UNSW Centre for Crime, Law and Justice intern, Rose Chubb, attended the 2021 Australian RebLaw Conference. We invited Rose to share some reflections on the event.
RebLaw, or the Rebellious Lawyering conference, took place over two days in late September 2021. Underpinning it was the concept of 'movement lawyering'. Movement lawyering refers to the practice of legal advice, representation, and advocacy in service of a broader social movement.
Speakers included international keynote, Vince Warren, CEO of the Centre for Constitutional Rights in the US; and Australian keynote speaker, Megan Davis, Pro-Vice Chancellor Indigenous at UNSW and a former member of United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Panel discussions involved speakers from a wide array of perspectives including Sophie McNeill, journalist and human rights researcher, and Alejandra Ancheita, lawyer and founder of Mexican non-government organisation ProDESC, activating for the rights of Mexico's marginalised.
Two ideas stood out at the RebLaw conference, both of them visible throughout the conference. The first is discomfort. Lawyers involved in social movements are often fighting the system that pays and sustains them, but hurts those they are working for or with. Australia's criminal justice system punishes individuals without thought for their community or the impact the past may have had. Indeed, it may be beyond their official remit to do so. Courts, prisons, etc. exist for their own purposes: to create justice, vengeance, rehabilitation. When viewing the accused who pass through them, they are focused on the individual. Social movements are not. Therefore, although a lawyer represents an individual, they are representing them in a system of oppression.
A key example of this is seen in Indigenous communities. In a system not made for them, in a land stolen from them, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are treated as 'lesser'. This is seen in higher rates of Indigenous imprisonment, greater infant mortality, overall poorer health. Indigenous people are far more likely to be arrested for relatively harmless crimes, such as swearing in a public place. While I and others like me may not actively seek to make lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people worse, the broader societal system that benefits us hurts them. When we take no action, or refuse to acknowledge this, we agree with it. Discomfort is acknowledging this; is speaking against it. As speaker Debbie Kilroy, founder of activist and fundraising group 'Sisters Inside' stated, I should 'put my whiteness on the line'.
This leads into the second theme, the idea of voices.
At the conference, recognition was given to Indigenous people – to their culture – with an understanding that their voices have been taken. This is only an Australian experience, however, with international speakers showing how these issues, while starting at grassroots, have capacity to cross borders. Not only this, but conference speakers all spoke of themselves as representatives. People speaking for other people, about their issues. Again, this represents a move away from the individual, finding power in the community.
I also want to touch on speaking 'for' other people. It is no doubt possible to do so in an ethical manner, however I believe there is, and saw represented at the conference, a fine line between speaking their words, or speaking your own. What are the intentions behind it? How do we choose to speak? Is it for glory, or is it out of genuine want to right injustices and wrongs? How to tell? Vince Warren spoke of building a community. The community remains in control, with the lawyer merely at their service. They may argue amongst themselves, but in the end, it must be the community's choice. Otherwise, as legal workers, we are simply perpetuating the colonial ideas that brought us here.
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Will Dutch startup Lightyear turn the game around?
Netherlands-based Lightyear expects to begin shipping its first One model next year. Even though this is a rather expensive electric car from a little-known brand, it looks like it has a chance to seriously affect the entire segment. The most attractive feature of the model is the power reserve, which according to the WLTP method is a solid 725 km.
But it is even more surprising that the "Light year" reaches such an impressive range with a battery of only 60 kW * h! How is this possible? It's simple: on the roof of the car is a huge solar panel that generates electricity. It is not for nothing that Western journalists often compare One with the famous Volkswagen XL1, which at one time also set records for efficiency and cruising range. At the same time, like XL1, Lightyear One is a rather slow electric car: the claimed acceleration time to 100 km / h is just under 10 seconds.
Unlike many other startups that struggle with serial production, Lightyear has a good production base. One will be produced at the plant of the famous Finnish company Valmet Automotive – in the same place where the Mercedes-Benz A-Class and the GLC crossover are now being made. The promising Lightyear Two should also be registered in this Scandinavian enterprise.
According to the company's plans, Two will debut in 2025 and will be an affordable alternative to the expensive One (which is estimated at about $ 175,000). The Two should be significantly cheaper than the older model – now we are talking about $ 30,500 – through the use of a much smaller battery. But at the same time, as the Dutch company promises, the power reserve of the "Two" will be twice as large, and the charging speed will be five times higher than that of competitors in the price segment! The secret of such energy efficiency lies again in the use of innovative solar panels, which will be equipped with a novelty.
In the meantime, Lightyear is preparing to release the beautiful One liftback, the production version of which will be shown in the first half of next year. At the same time, an exclusive series of 946 cars should go on sale. And the company expects to start full-fledged mass production in 2024.
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Draft Report: Amonkhet UW Tokens (6-11-2017) – The Setup
When I came up with the tagline "learning through failure," I really meant it.
I've played Magic: the Gathering in one way or another for most of the game's history. What started as a fascination with a small collection of cards (because they looked cool) quickly turned into an obsession. Like millions of others over the years, I played countless games around kitchen tables, on carpets and in dorm rooms.
This text needed to be broken up a bit, and Beebles are rad. That is all…
As with most players, my dedication to the game and availability followed the ebb and flow of time. In adulthood, of course, the realities of life kept me away from the game more often than I'd like to admit. I never stopped playing, but I did fall out of sync with the most recent sets at times.
After years of working an incredibly time-hungry job, I found myself in a new career with a more appropriate work-life balance. Most of my friends who played Magic regularly had moved on for various reasons, but I had the insatiable urge to play more regularly. I tiptoed into weekly drafts and other formats at a local shop – where I knew no one – and it wasn't long before I felt myself sliding back into the realm of obsession.
That's when I took a step back. This game is amazing, but my time is still limited. Asking myself what I want to get out of dumping time and money into the game, I came to the decision that if it's worth doing, it's worth doing right. For me, that means the following:
I should aim to have fun, and
I must actively work to improve my skill.
So when I talk about "learning through failure," my real goal is to get more out of the game by meeting both of the above goals. I am of the strong belief that we should all strive to be life-long learners, and failure is just another opportunity to grow and learn. By thinking about my specific failures in Magic: the Gathering, I'm working to become better at the game. At the same time, this allows me to better separate the strategic part of my brain from the part that used to get angry at losing.
Do I still get salty from time to time at a game loss, a bad draw, or mistakes I make? Of course. But I find it happens less often when I identify these situations as a chance to fill a gap in my knowledge, rather than make excuses to justify my frustration.
With all that said, let's take a look at this U/W Tokens deck I drafted earlier this month, and see what we can learn from it.
Amonkhet Draft List: U/W Tokens (6-11-2017)
Creatures (15)
1 Sacred Cat
1 Fan Bearer
2 Gust Walker
1 Binding Mummy
2 Anointer Priest
1 Trueheart Duelist
1 Tah-Crop Skirmisher
1 Rhet-Crop Spearmaster
1 Those Who Serve
1 Hekma Sentinels
2 Tah-Crop Elite
1 Aven Initiate
1 Essence Scatter
1 Mighty Leap
1 Start / Finish
1 Galestrike
Enchantments (3)
1 Cartouche of Knowledge
1 Trial of Solidarity
1 Anointed Procession
Artifacts (2)
2 Oketra's Monument
9 Plains
This deck had a lot of stuff you really want in a white go-wide deck. There's double Gust Walker, double Tah-Crop Elite, plus other aggressive cards like Binding Mummy and Trial of Solidarity. It also has a strong token theme with Anointed Procession, two Oketra's Monument, Start / Finish and Anointer Priests.
The games I won with this build happened very quickly, often with Tah-Crop Elite pumping on Turn 5 to close things out. Dropping Trial of Solidarity on the same turn giving everything a total +3/+2 was devastating.
That's not to say the game was all ground work. I was often able to generate enough tokens – with or without Anointed Procession doubling – to chump block turn after turn while sending in the birds. This was also a deck that I think actually benefited greatly from Anointer Priest's life gain.
As the title of this post implies, I think the main issue with the deck was setup cost. Look at the non-creature spells. Notice anything?
No, you can't have two.
Yes, that's six spells in the 4- and 5- drop slots, and virtually no removal. Essence Scatter and Galestrike aren't nothing, but going wide has a significant issue dealing with opponent's creatures through combat alone. The result is that if you do not kill your opponent very quickly, you have a significantly lower chance of finishing the game once they stabilize. Against green beatdown decks, for example, this build needs to expend a lot of resources to deal with a single Colossapede.
There's always a temptation to do something cool when playing Magic: the Gathering, but cool doesn't always win the game. Having two copies of Oketra's Monument certainly increases consistency, but being Legendary Artifacts means you will likely end up with a dead card in your hand at some point.
Let's take a look at one possible way to curve out with this deck…
Turn 1: Sacred Cat
Turn 2: Gust Walker
Turn 3: Oketra's Monument
Turn 4: Anointed Procession
What do you do on Turn 5 that can make up for the fact that you spent two turns playing permanents that do not immediately impact the board? Sure, you can play two creatures, creating four blockers (and gaining some life if one of the creatures was the Priest). But at this point, your opponent may have four or five creatures, one of which is likely bigger than any one card in the deck can deal with.
It's a big problem when you have a board full of powerful effects that just don't do anything. Without strong removal, it does not matter very much how many tokens enter the battlefield, sometimes.
What would I change?
Obviously, removal. If I could, I would replace Anointed Procession with Cast Out and at least one Oketra's Monument with Impeccable Timing or Compulsory Rest. The go-wide strategy would have had much more success if I could deal with creatures more reliably.
The lesson here is that I need to temper my expectations when trying to do "the cool thing." My judgment was clouded by that one time I was annihilated by an Anointed Procession deck in limited. My takeaway was that the Procession is a strong build-around card – when in reality, I could have just had a bad deck, poor draws or bad plays when I faced down against half a dozen Regal Caracal tokens.
Even with all that said, this deck wasn't a total dud. The creatures here took me most of the way to victory, even if the power was watered down a bit with a misguided token effort.
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Editorial – Enjoy Sound Art and Sound Studies at Home During Hard Times
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Marcel Cobussen - Editorial – Enjoy Sound Art and Sound Studies at Home During Hard Times - 2020
That most of us must have experienced a rather radical change in our sonic environments over the past few months is not a bold assumption. Not one country has been able to escape from the (negative) effects on health, health care, social life, economic developments, and cultural clear-cutting that COVID-19 has caused, and this has also heavily impacted everyday sounds: less cars on the roads, less planes in the air, less trains, less people on the streets, no yelling kids on their way to school. As a result, this reduction of activity, both inside and outside, opened our ears to the many sounds that are normally masked: animal sounds (mostly birds), rustling trees and plants, but of course also those human sounds that are usually masked by other, louder sounds. Judging by, for example, newspaper articles and radio broadcasts, the effect COVID-19 had on our ears seemed more notable than the visual changes our environment underwent. Many sound artists were asked to make field recordings in now almost empty, silent cities; many sound scholars were asked for their reflections on the effects of a quieter, more hi-fi sonic ambiance on the human body and mind. Perhaps we ourselves have become better listeners; at least many of us have experienced very directly how our ears and sonic environment fundamentally contribute to our orientation and being in the world. Perhaps it has made people more aware of the sonic ambiance they are inhabiting, more critically reflective, that is, more convinced that their sonic milieu is not a given but can be influenced, (re)designed, adapted, changed, improved. Considered from this vantage point, sound studies might even benefit from the current, unusual, and problematic situation.
This twentieth issue of the Journal of Sonic Studies contains expositions that were, for the most part, composed and submitted before the virus struck the world. Only one essay directly refers to and is based on the influence the pandemic has on our sonic habitat. However, while JSS20 is not a thematic issue, consisting instead of expositions submitted outside of any specific call for papers, it is still possible to trace a common thread that links all eight presentations. Namely, each author has been concentrating on the work of basically one or two persons. However divergent each of the expositions are in both content and form, the point of departure seems to have been particular individuals and their unique contributions.
In "Odontophones: An Empirical Approach to the Baschet Use of Clamped Oscillators for Sound Sculptures (and Beyond)," the Spanish sound artist and scholar Martí Ruiz i Carulla and India-based Sudhanshu Tewari introduce the work of the French sound artists and instrument builders François and Bernard Baschet, especially their treatment of clamped rods. Like the do-it-yourself sculptural works of the Baschets, Ruiz and Tewari's contribution forms a multi-layered instrument which you, as a reader and listener, can explore endlessly, discovering new sonic, visual, and tactile worlds.
In "The Timbre of Tone, the Texture of Space: An Embodied Approach to the Atmospheric Modulations of Éliane Radigue," the American music scholar and linguist Mark Saccomano focuses on the electronic music of this French composer, considering how her work reveals a certain interdependence of sound, space, and the active engagement of the listener. The listening subject and the musical object participate in an event that is mutually constitutive of these roles, whereas the space shared by both is more than simply a transparent medium through which the music flows.
Egyptian urban scholar and architect Noha Gamal Saïd has offered us the contribution entitled "Sonic Affordances of a Sacred Spring. The Urban Courtyard as a Figure of Rehabilitation of the Medina." Her essay investigates, from an in situ sonic experience, the architectural rehabilitation project of the Source Bleue in Tiznit, Morocco, realized in 2015 by the architect and anthropologist Salima Naji. Gamal Saïd presents three concepts – affordances, thresholds, and ambiances – to analyze her field recordings, interviews with users of the space, and her personal reflections.
The American ornithologist Roxy Laybourne is a key figure in "The Pteropoetics of Birdstrike," an audio documentary (+ curatorial essay) by the American radio, TV, and film scholar Jacob Smith. Laybourne developed forensic techniques for identifying species of birds involved in birdstrikes, the study of which led to aircraft safety improvements. Recordings of air traffic control conversions during birdstrike incidents, poetry recitations, and recordings of a skylark, layered with excerpts of recorded interviews with Laybourne, form the ingredients of Smith's audio paper.
The Canadian writer, educator, and curator Shauna Jean Doherty focuses our attention on yet another sound artist, the Israeli-Canadian Adam Basanta. In "Noise and Silence: The Contemporary Sound Sculptures of Adam Basanta," Doherty reflects on the radical and destabilizing sonic power that is generated by several of Basanta's sound sculptures. She especially addresses the connotative complexities present in noise and silence as tools for or against control and their ability to influence a listener's behavior in disruptive, compliant, or coercive ways.
Marcel Duchamp is the main character in the exposition of Krzysztof Fijalkowski, a visual culture scholar from the UK. In "Secret Noise: Marcel Duchamp and the (Un)sound Object," he specifically reflects on Duchamp's enigmatic sculpture With Hidden Noise from 1916. This sculpture contains a secret object whose presence and identity can only be registered by the noise it makes inside a ball of twine held between metal plates. However, this sonic aspect of the work remains mostly unavailable for contemporary audiences; as such, it joins the performances and objects of the "unsound," the latent aural registers of silence or suppressed noise.
While these six contributions concentrate on concrete individuals – the Baschet brothers, Radigue, Naji, Laybourne, Basanta, and Duchamp – one could say that the remaining two essays deal with a more abstract and general category of individuals: the neighbor and the listener. In "The Soundscape of Quarantine: The Role of Sound During a Public Health Crisis," the American music technology scholar Braxton Boren presents some suggestions to help mitigate the deleterious effects of a quarantine, namely, to reduce low frequency noise transmission in adjacent apartment units. The author hopes that this attempt to use his specific skillsets to make a positive contribution can indeed make a long quarantine more tolerable as we and our neighbors become better equipped to deal with the sounds and music made by people who are somehow forced to stay at home.
Finally, and also related to listening at home, in "Experiencing Recorded Geophony. Listening to Arctic Winter Winds at Home" the Norwegian sound designers and music scholars Svein Høier and Asbjørn Tiller discuss how YouTube users describe their experience of listening to long durations of recorded geophony, in this case the sounds of winter winds. User comments reveal that listening to these sounds can have profound mental as well as physical effects. For Høier and Tiller, such a listener-centered approach can generate new knowledge on everyday listening to recorded geophony, also focusing specifically on the comparison with listening to background music.
Whether you are at home or elsewhere, the JSS editors hope and expect that you will enjoy these expositions, a small cross-section of current research taking place in sound studies. We hope the pandemic is over by the time you have read, watched, and listened to these eight articles. But, if that is not the case … the next issue will be out soon!


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Peter Schmeichel urges David de Gea to stay at Manchester United
Former Manchester United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel has urged David de Gea to remain at Old Trafford this summer.
The former Denmark international, who won the Champions League with Man United in 1999, feels that de Gea could replicate his own success with the club if he decides to stay.
De Gea is widely expected to make a switch to Real Madrid during the summer transfer window, with the young Spaniard keen to move back to Spain to be closer to his girlfriend. However, reports of a potential transfer have quietened down in recent days.
In a recent interview, Schmeichel heaped praise on the 24-year-old and spoke of his desire for him to stay at United in order to continue his development.
"I would be upset if he [De Gea] left this summer because I'm certain he could go on to make multiple hundreds of appearances for United – and end up winning more medals than me," Schmeichel said.
"There is no reason I can see why he wouldn't be successful if he stayed for the rest of his career. Whatever David would want in a new contract, if I were Van Gaal, I would fight tooth and nail to keep him happy in Manchester.
"Let's face it, the number of games where David saved United three points or one point is the reason why they were fourth in the table. He has just been unbelievable."
Although most United fans still hold some hope that De Gea may yet stay, there is an acceptance amongst supporters that a transfer to Los Blancos is imminent.
Whatever happens, United boss Louis van Gaal must do everything in his power to persuade de Gea to stay at Old Trafford. If de Gea was to leave United, the club would face a near impossible challenge to replace a goalkeeper who will eventually go on to become the best in the world in his position.
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Sam is currently in his second year studying a Journalism degree at The University of Sheffield. He contributes to The Peoples Person with regular news articles as well as the occasional feature and opinion piece.
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