Melbourne spearhead Jesse Hogan's season is over, with the star suffering an injury to a navicular bone.
The Demons confirmed the news this morning, with Hogan to miss the side's critical last two matches against West Coast and GWS as they look to secure a finals berth.
"He had an MRI scan and a CT scan and what it showed was a partial stress fracture to the navicular bone," Melbourne high performance manager Dave Misson said.
"What that means for Jesse is that essentially his season is over. It can develop into a serious injury and we feel we've got it quite early.
"It's not going to require surgery and we're looking at a positive outcome for his preparation going into 2019.
Hogan leads Melbourne's goal kicking this season with a career-high 47 majors from 20 matches.
Defender Jayden Hunt (ankle) is also under a cloud ahead of the Eagles clash, while star ruckman Max Gawn is battling a calf complaint.
But Jake Melksham (hamstring) and Michael Hibberd (quad) are in line to return.
Reliable defender Neville Jetta has been given the green light to play against West Coast after undergoing a concussion test on Sunday.
The loss to Sydney led to further questions over Melbourne's legitimacy.
The Demons are yet to beat another top-eight side in 2018, a disturbing trend which must change over the final fortnight of the home-and-away season if they are to qualify for the finals.
They tackle the Eagles before hosting top-four hopefuls Greater Western Sydney at the MCG in round 23.
to grabbing some of these opportunities, no question, but we'll cross that (finals) hurdle when we get to it.
"But our next opportunity is an exciting one. We travel to Perth, playing against a quality opposition sitting second on the ladder.
"We're not sitting here and wallowing.
"We want to get on with it, move forward and be really positive with our group.
Meanwhile, popular Melbourne veteran Bernie Vince is unlikely to play again this season after hurting a shoulder in the VFL on Saturday.
The 32-year-old is out of contract at the end of the season.


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Insight into West Bengal's mysterious "left" vote transfer to the BJP
28/05/2019 28/05/2019 Tanmoy Ibrahim Politics
A major brouhaha is created over the erosion in the vote share of the CPI(M)-led parliamentary left block in West Bengal and its transfer to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which helped the latter win 18 seats, a jump from two seats that it had won in 2014. The CPI(M)-led Left Front, which ruled West Bengal for 34 years, ended up with zero seats, the worst performance of the party in the last five decades.
This sudden swindling of left votes to extreme right proved the prediction of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee correct, when she warned of a larger secret unity between these two parties, who are ironically fighting a war in Kerala where the CPI(M) is ruling but uniting in West Bengal to dislodge Banerjee's Trinamool Congress's (TMC) government. The Congress party, which managed to win two seats this election, albeit with the left's support, is also rendered as a non-factor in West Bengal's politics.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, amid a so-called Modi-wave, the BJP managed to win only two seats from West Bengal — Asansol and Darjeeling — while the party got 18% of total votes, which was a significant 10.90 percentage points rise from 7.1% votes in the 2009 Lok Sabha election. Earlier, in the late 1990s, when Banerjee's TMC was a constituent of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), then the BJP managed to get two MPs with TMC's support and garnered 11.13% votes.
This Lok Sabha election, the BJP managed to capture 40.25% votes in West Bengal, while the TMC stayed ahead of it by only 3.03 percentage points at 43.28%. The TMC won 34 seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha election, its score fell to 22 seats, mere four seats more than the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha election. The CPI(M)-led Left Front managed to secure two seats in the 2014 election, however, it still managed to garner 23% votes then, which was 10.01 percentage points less than its 2009 performance, when it managed to win 15 seats.
However, in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, the Left Front could secure only 7.46% votes, with the CPI(M) securing 6.28% votes. It clearly showed that the votes of the left have transferred en masse to the BJP as the saffron camp sounded promising in toppling the reign of Banerjee, who is considered a principal threat vis-a-vis the BJP by a majority of CPI(M) leaders and supporters.
This drop in the parliamentary left's vote share didn't sound surprising to any political observer who has seen the transformation in the West Bengal politics during the last 10 years when the left's bastion eroded and it was thrown out of the power first and then even from the opposition bench.
Actually, the Left Front never owned the voters. The mainstream media built the myth about the presence of a large left vote bank in West Bengal. However, the fact is that the Left Front received huge mandates in its favour only because it was the omnipotent ruling block in the state for three decades, and its vote bank was sustained with an omnipresent organisational outreach of the CPI(M). It was a pure "give and take" relationship, where the left used its clout over the administration to lure or intimidate voters to choose it over the opponents.
As the left's grip over the state started wilting from 2009, the vote bank disintegrated and gradually switched to the TMC, while the anti-TMC section went to the BJP from 2014 onwards. The CPI(M) is now left with a minuscule vote bank, which is most of its activists, supporters and hardcore opponents of the BJP and the TMC, who still harp their hope of defeating fascism on the ailing organisation.
The votes that the BJP is gaining at present, through communal polarisation and by leading the bandwagon of anti-TMC resistance in West Bengal must be known as what it's — the anti-TMC votes — and, moreover, a large portion of these votes are even not from the hardcore anti-TMC voters, but from those who wanted to have Modi at the centre, even though they are okay with Banerjee's rule in West Bengal.
In any case, there is no captive left vote bank, and even though the CPI(M) still has an organisational presence in West Bengal, its supporters are voting for the BJP to bring down the TMC regime as they know their leaders will be unable to do it on their own. If we talk about the voters, then they are not a homogenous block but divided along antagonistic class and caste lines, voting for the same party with different expectations. The reason each class or caste votes for a party is always different, and at times, like in the case of Modi, is often contradictory.
An ideologically bankrupt and vacuum CPI(M) is shamelessly trying to revive its organisational presence and parliamentary fortune by using the BJP as a vessel and at the same time, it's trying to dupe the voters in believing that it will fight against the policies of the Modi regime. Such hypocrisy is even driving away its loyal supporters either to the TMC or to the BJP, as the CPI(M) has no material condition right now to defeat the TMC, and the political careerists, who one enriched themselves waving the faded crimson banner, are now quite comfortable to carry the saffron banner, provided that they get access to the spoils of loot and extortion after seizing power from the TMC.
For the real left, the revolutionary and anti-fascist left, politics is never about developing or nurturing a loyal vote bank but about creating an alternative narrative, arousing the masses with in-depth political education, tempering and uniting the people through class struggle, and defeating the class enemies through a protracted struggle. Real communists are not supposed to struggle merely for parliamentary seats in a bourgeoisie democracy, rather, they are supposed to make struggle within the parliament an appendage of the greater non-parliamentary struggle for political power fought outside.
The CPI(M) and its allies have already vanquished from West Bengal's arena for the better, as it would provide a greater opportunity to the revolutionary communist forces to fill the vacuum and play a lead role, through a united approach, in defending the people's interest and in destroying the Hindutva fascist juggernaut. The more fiercely the non-parliamentary, the anti-fascist left can fight against the Hindutva fascists at present, the more are its chances to rewrite history.
If the revolutionary communists start taking affirmative actions in West Bengal to defeat the Hindutva fascism on their own terms, then they will be able to turn the struggle into a binary between saffron and the red, between the rich and the poor, thereby puncturing Modi's edifice and his hysteric populism. It's through fierce class struggle, through an uncompromising battle of ideas, driven with the larger goal of seizing power and establishing the reign of the productive classes, the real left can certainly invigorate itself and thwart the menace of Hindutva fascism in West Bengal. The more the revolutionary left will grow, the more the phoney left will disintegrate into the oblivion, cast into the trash of history for their nefarious role.
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High-Deductible Health Plans Fall From Grace In Employer-Based Coverage
By Jay Hancock	 October 3, 2018
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With workers harder to find and Obamacare's tax on generous coverage postponed, employers are hitting pause on a feature of job-based medical insurance much hated by employees: the high-deductible health plan.
Companies have slowed enrollment in such coverage and, in some cases, reinstated more traditional plans as a strong job market gives workers bargaining power over pay and benefits, according to research from three organizations.
This year, 39 percent of large, corporate employers surveyed by the National Business Group on Health (NBGH) offer high-deductible plans, also called "consumer-directed" coverage, as workers' only choice. For next year, that figure is set to drop to 30 percent.
"That was a surprise, that we saw that big of a retraction," said Brian Marcotte, the group's CEO. "We had a lot of companies add choice back in."
Few if any employers will return to the much more generous coverage of a decade or more ago, benefits experts said. But they're reassessing how much pain workers can take and whether high-deductible plans control costs as advertised.
"It got to the point where employers were worried about the affordability of health care for their employees, especially their lower-paid people," said Beth Umland, director of research for health and benefits at Mercer, a benefits consultancy that also conducted a survey.
The portion of workers in high-deductible, job-based plans peaked at 29 percent two years ago and was unchanged this year, according to new data from the Kaiser Family Foundation. (Kaiser Health News is an editorially independent program of the foundation.)
Deductibles — what consumers pay for health care before insurance kicks in — have increased far faster than wages, even as paycheck deductions for premiums have also soared.
One in 4 covered employees now have a single-person deductible of $2,000 or more, KFF found.
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Employers and consultants once claimed patients would become smarter medical consumers if they bore greater expense at the point of care. Those arguments aren't heard much anymore.
Because lots of medical treatment is unplanned, hospitals and doctors proved to be much less "shoppable" than experts predicted. Workers found price-comparison tools hard to use.
High-deductible plans "didn't really do what employers hoped they would do, which is create more sophisticated consumers of health care," Marcotte said. "The health care system is just way too complex."
At the same time, companies have less incentive to pare coverage as Congress has repeatedly postponed the Affordable Care Act's "Cadillac tax" on higher-value plans.
Although deductibles are treading water, total spending on job-based health plans continues to rise much faster than the overall cost of living. That eats into workers' pay in other ways by boosting what they contribute in premiums.
Employer-sponsored group health plans, which insure 150 million Americans — nearly half the country — tend to get less attention than politically charged coverage created by the ACA.
For these employer plans, the cost of family coverage went up 5 percent this year and is expected to rise by a similar amount next year, the research shows.
Insuring one family in a job-based plan now costs on average $19,616 in total premiums, the KFF data show. The American worker pays $5,547 of that in a country where the median household income is more than $61,000.
The KFF survey was published Tuesday; the NBGH data, in August. Mercer has released preliminary results showing similar trends.
The recent cost upticks, driven by specialty drug costs and expensive treatment for diseases such as cancer and kidney failure, are an improvement over the early 2000s, when family-coverage costs were rising by an average 7 percent a year. But they're still nearly double recent rates of inflation and increases in worker pay.
Such growth "is unsustainable for the companies I have been working with," said Brian Ford, a benefits consultant with Lockton Companies, echoing comments made over the decades by experts as health spending has vacuumed up more and more economic resources.
For now at least, many large employers can well afford rising health costs. Earnings for corporations in the S&P 500 have increased by double-digit percentages, driven by federal tax cuts and economic growth. Profit margins are near all-time highs.
But for workers and many smaller businesses, health costs are a heavier burden.
Premiums for family plans have gone up 55 percent in the past decade, twice as fast as worker pay, according to KFF.
Employers' latest cost-control efforts include managing expenses for the most expensive diseases; getting workers to use nurse video-chat services and other types of "telemedicine"; and paying for primary care clinics at work or nearby.
At the "top of the list" for many companies are attempts to manage the most expensive medical claims — cases of hemophilia, terrible accidents, prematurely born infants and other diseases — that increasingly cost as much as $1 million each, Umland said.
Employers point such patients to the highest-quality doctors and hospitals and furnish guides to steer them through the system. Such steps promise to improve results, reduce complications and save money, she said.
On-site clinics cut absenteeism by eliminating the need for employees to drive across town and sit in a waiting room for two hours to get a rash or a sniffle checked or get a vaccine, consultants say.
Almost all large employers offer telemedicine, but hardly any workers use it. Thirty-nine percent of the larger companies covering telemedicine now make it comparatively less expensive for workers to consult doctors and nurses virtually, the KFF survey shows.
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Game Preview #36: San Antonio Spurs Vs Los Angeles Lakers
By Tim C. Jan 12, 2010, 1:15am CST
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It's that time of the season again, and some say it's pretty late for this to be the first game between these two teams all season. But I dread this game. The Spurs haven't exactly wowed against the good teams, and the best team in the league just rolled into town.
Preview completed by a tag team of Latin D and Tim C.
Los Angeles Lakers @ San Antonio Spurs
Where: AT&T Center - San Antonio, TX
When: January 12, 2010; 7:30 PM Spurs time
Watch: My35(San Antonio); KCAL(Los Angeles)
How They Stack Up
16-6 Home 21-3
6-7 Road 8-5
Offense 103.6
95.6 Defense 96.6
48.7 FG% 45.8
3-pt% 34.6
FT% 77.1
Rebounds 45.5
TOs 14.0
7-3 Last 10 6-4
Won 1
Streak Won 4
2nd, Southwest Position 1st, Pacific
Country/Time Zone Game Time
Argentina 10:30 PM
Philippines 9:30 AM
Central Europe 2:30 AM
Palestine/Egypt 3:30 AM
East Coast 8:30 PM
Hell Frozen Over
Perth, AUS 9:30 AM
Tokyo, JP 10:30 AM
Sydney, AUS 11:30 AM
"Unbelievable."
This is by far our most favorable match-up. Derek Fisher is a shadow of his former self this season, and has failed to impress me in every single Lakers game I've watched. That's not to say that he can't be dangerous: we still need to put a man on him when he's standing beyond the 3-point arc, and he's pretty much automatic from the FT line.
However, if the Spurs want to win tonight, Tony needs to dominate Fisher.
Advantage: Spurs
"FANGIO!"
I'm the biggest Manu fan you're likely to find outside of the Ginobili home. That said, Kobe's simply the best SG in the game right now, and one of the best players of all time. Kobe comes from a decidedly mortal game against Milwaukee, where he shot only 4-21, so he will probably want to wash the bad taste off his mouth. He hasn't been particularly efficient this season from deep, so whoever is assigned as our would-be Kobe-stopper needs to try to stop his penetration and hope his fadeaways are not falling.
Despite all that, Manu's playing some great basketball lately, scoring, being pesky on defense and creating offense with the usual Manu flair. His dunks prove he's feeling healthy, too. If there's a SG in the league outside Miami that can match Kobe on a good night, that's Manu. Let's hope for the best.
NOTE: Kobe is listed as "day to day". I fully expect him to play, because he's tougher-than-though (right?), but in case he actually sits this one out, prepare yourselves for a devastating loss against a suddenly unrecognizable Lakers team that lacks its two best players.
Advantage: Lakers
NBA's best SG
Richard Jefferson
"Let's be friends."
As always, the old adage has proven true: "More talent is better than less talent." People can expound on chemistry and craziness all they want, but having someone as talented as Artest in your team is always a good thing. To his usual rabid defense, Artest has added a reliable outside shot. In fact, he's currently the Lakers' best three point shooter. And that's just scary.
If RJ can use his strength and athleticism to penetrate and get some fouls from Artest early on, I'll be happy.
Less crazy than usual
Power Forward
It's fortunate that Pau Gasol is (probably) not playing today, because the Spurs would be in really deep sh*t if he was. However, Odom isn't exactly a bad option. He even does a couple of thing better than Timmy, and one of them is even one of Timmy's strengths: finding the open man. You're looking at the only big man in the league who is a better distributor than Duncan, so that's something to keep an eye on. The other thing he does better than Duncan is shooting from outside. In every other way, Timmy is better.
Expect Odom to start the game guarding Blair, and vice versa. It'll be interesting to see how both teams try to exploit that matchup.
Isn't Pau Gasol
"Lol!!!1!"
Bynum is really a strange case - he seems(like the Spurs' own Ian Mahinmi) to not play full-tilt all the time, but when he's at his best it's overwhelming. But when he's not getting enough touches, he seems to lose interest. One thing that is mystifying about him is his rebounding: he spends nearly all of his time near the rim, but still averages less rebounds than Gasol, and even Odom. With his size, strength and speed, he should be able to dominate the boards, but he (again) seems to not have much interest in doing so. As scary as this is, he's definitely not playing to his potential thus far. Let's just hope he doesn't find a reason to be engaged tonight.
Still an Enigma
George Hill.
"Ian is the future."
Bench & Role Players
The Lakers' bench usually has one major advantage: Odom. If he's starting tonight, the bench will be considerably weaker. Brown is a guy that reminds me a lot of George Hill, but he's taller and will play any position from 1-3. Versatility is a big key to the Lakers' success, and Brown probably embodies that trait more than anyone else on their roster.
Beyond Brown and Jordan Farmar, there's not much there for the Lakers. And by now, we're all familiar with the firepower that the Spurs' bench possesses. It's time to show what the best bench in the league is capable of.
Multi-position threat
Gregg Popovich
Sorry, guys. This is the one opponent all year that gets the white box over Pop. I hate his guts, but I respect the hell out of him.
10 rings*
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This is the first game in a dreaded FOGAFINI. Expect some crazy lineups as Pop tries to limit everybody's minutes.
The Lakers are involved with Dracula. 'Nuff said.
Yeah, we aren't ready for this. Until we get some wins against good teams, I can't even allow optimism to creep in.
Keys To The Game
Interior Defense - Limiting the the effectiveness of the Lakers' frontcourt is the key to beating them. They thrive off of second chance opportunities, so the Spurs would be wise to actually box out in this game.
Team Passing - Despite their recent struggles, the Lakers still bring the stingiest defense in the league to SA tonight. The way to beat a great defense is with smart, crisp ball movement to find the open man. This is especially important considering that the Lakers give up the lowest 3-point percentage in the league. We can't depend on our outside shooting to save us tonight, so getting better looks inside is important to our success.
Both teams have had a day off, and have a tough SEGABABA tomorrow night. The Spurs will be in Oklahoma City facing a team that has their number, and the Lakers are headed to Dallas to face a team that's probably still angry over their last meeting.
Last Time They Met
This is our first game against the Lakers this year, but last season, the Spurs suffered a 102-95 loss at home on March 12th.
Some Other Reading
Silver Screen and Roll - The SBNation blog for the Lakers. Good writing, good people - yeah, I know, I'm shocked too.
Forum Blue and Gold - The best Lakers blog on the web, period.
48 Minutes of Hell: The best TrueHoop team blog is now even better, after adding two new writers. Congrats to Jesse and Andrew, who are already doing good work.
Project Spurs: Check out their regular podcasts. I think they love Manu as much as we do, if that's possible.
Twitter Musings
Opposing Viewpoint
This isn't a regular feature, but since we have a PtR regular who also happens to be a Spurs Lakers fan, I thought it would be nice to get some input from him. So, olf had this to say:
1. If the Spurs can't beat the Lakers in SA when they are without Gasol and Kobe is shooting with his feet (OK, left handed) then they will never be able to beat them.
2. This Laker fan's biggest fear: If the Spurs can only get wins against sucky teams and if they beat the Lakers then that makes the Lakers . . .? Uggh!
3. The Lakers' record is pretty good and every team is banged up this time of the year but I can't point to a single Laker who is really playing great right now. They also seem surprised when opposing teams play with energy and execute well.
4. Obviously if the Lakers don't play better they will not repeat as champs. But it is a long season and they have enough succulent pieces to make some pretty tasty stew.
5. Only guarantee for Tuesday's game:
Winning team's fans will say: "See I told you we would kick your ass."
Losing team's fans will say: "It was regular season man, regular season doesn't mean anything."
Oh yeah, here's a YouTube from last year of Bynum talking on Tim Duncan. (At about 1:30 it'll make you realize what a {. . .} Bynum is.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIJdufOLD78#t=1m32s
Where to Tune In
This game will be aired on My35 in SA, and KCAL in the Los Angeles area. For some odd reason, the national networks didn't deem a battle between two of the top Western Conference teams important enough to broadcast. If you have cable or satellite, you'll have to look up your individual channel. And of course, there's always League Pass for the haves. For the have nots, read on.
As always, NBA League Pass is recommended for those who are willing to pony up the cash. Most Spurs games will be broadcast there, which is especially helpful for those of us who aren't in the San Antonio area.
Please don't post links to illegal game feeds in the game thread. Links to illegal feeds are not permitted on SBNation, but you can probably find them out there on the internets if you're resourceful and desperate. In fact, nobody can stop you from googling "atdhe". You can also shoot an email to dmenendez@gmail.com for more assistance.
NBA League Pass audio is still free this year, so check it out.
If you're in the San Antonio area and aren't near a TV, tune in to WOAI (1200 AM).


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Decisions in earlier cases regarding Statutes of Limitations provide helpful background in understanding the time requirement.
In 2015, the Ninth Circuit held that the statute of limitations period for Title II of the ADA in California is three years. (see Sharkey v. O'Neal, 778 F.3d 767 (9th Cir., 2015)). Specifically, the Court found that not all ADA claims have the same statute of limitations and that Title II does not have an express statute of limitations. As a result, it borrowed the statute of limitations period "applicable to the most analogous state-law claim," which in California it found to be a law prohibiting discrimination (California Government Code § 11135), as opposed to the state's personal injury statute of limitations, which other courts have applied.
In Bledsoe v. Palm Beach County Soil & Water Conservation District, 133 F.3d 816, 825, 11 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. C 953 (11th Cir. 1998), the defendant sought to dismiss Plaintiff's Title II ADA claim arguing that she failed to timely file her lawsuit pursuant to an exhausted right to sue letter. However, the court concluded that she was not required to exhaust administrative remedies. It also ruled that the EEOC right to sue letter was inapplicable and did not bar her suit since she had 4 years to file suit, following Ethridge v. State of Alabama, 647 F. Supp. 903, 907 (MD Ala 1993).
"[T]he Ethridge court noted the difference in the application of the exhaustion requirement which is mandatory in Title I but not in Title II of the ADA. The court found that although Title I requires exhaustion, Title II does not because it 'incorporates the enforcement procedures of the Rehabilitation Act, . . . which do not require exhaustion of administrative remedies for non-federal [*22] employees.'[Ethridge v. State of Alabama,] 847 F.Supp. [903,] 907 [(M.D. Ala. 1993)].
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"Confessional" doesn't even begin to describe Sun Kil Moon frontman Mark Kozelek's style of stream-of-consciousness songwriting. In the past, he's managed to sing about the inability to endure during sex; the number of calls he received from his hometown's area code when he found out his cousin died in a fire; his nagging prostate gland; back pain. On This Is My Dinner, his second album of 2018 (with another on the way in early 2019), he continues to mine perspective (and humor) from the banality of his day-to-day over jazz-informed alt-folk/rock instrumentals. But what were once short tableaus about wandering San Francisco's streets to buy lampshades are now observations and reflections, originating from his travels through the colder part of Europe, eclipsing 10 minutes in length. A flight to Poland yields "Linda Blair," on which Kozelek imitates a coughing child, gargling like Regan in The Exorcist. You can't help but chuckle when he delivers, plainspokenly, "I hope it's just a common cold/And nothing too serious," before he switches tone and confides, "If it's a serious medical condition/I hope the Lord blesses her." In the same song, when he paints a complex portrait of boxer Andrew Golota, he finds real sadness in the fighter's punchline of a career, but it's Kozelek's stunning gift for detail—"He put his left jab out like a kitten/Trying to paw a bedsheet/Hanging out to dry"—that leaves you breathless.
This Is My Dinner Sun Kil Moon
This Is Not Possible
This Is My Dinner
Come on Get Happy
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Let's be honest, These are straight up fat bombs! I don't know about you, but I'm into it. Since switching to a higher fat diet and lowering my sugar intake I've noticed a huge difference with inflammation. It seems to keep my eczema under control and I just generally feel better. I'm pretty obsessed with Justin's PB cups but man they're expensive here. Pretty sure they're $4-$5 for a 2 pack! And they have bit of sugar for sure.... These don't have much sugar in them at all. One tablespoon of raw honey (you could also use maple syrup) for the entire recipe! If you want them sweeter you can definitely add more to suit your taste though!
First of all, How simple is this? there are literally 6 ingredients! I used both coconut oil and coconut butter because I felt that the coconut butter would give that velvety texture that milk chocolate has!
You can melt down the coconut oil and coconut butter 2 ways. If you don't want the extra dishes, just throw it in the microwave for 30 seconds, stir, and then for another 30 seconds then add the rest of the ingredients. Done. OR you could melt it on the stove stop in a pot. Whatever tickles your fancy! I know a lot of people are anti-microwave and others not so much so do what works for you.
Now, I've made these a couple times and I would suggest tilting the tray so the chocolate goes up the sides of the moulds a little. The first time I didn't and the almond butter oozed out the sides and made for a messy (but still tasty) treat! Let them set in the freezer for 10-15 minutes before adding the filling!
When adding the fillings, make sure to smooth it down as flat at possible with a spoon before pouring the remainder of the chocolate on top! Once you have the filling on top, freeze until fully set! If you try to remove them too soon, the tops and bottoms will separate!
In a small pot, combine coconut oil and coconut butter. whisk over medium heat until melted together. Add cacao powder and honey and whisk to combine.
Spoon approx. 1 tablespoon into each liner. When they all have a little bit of chocolate in them, tilt the pan in a circular motion to get chocolate up the edges of the moulds. Place in the freezer for 10-15 minutes- until they are fully set, reserving the remaining chocolate for the top.
When the chocolate is set, remove from the freezer and fill each one with a small amount of nut butter. add crushed raspberries on top and smooth the tops with a spoon. Add the remainder of chocolate over the filling, making sure to completely cover it. If your chocolate has stiffened, simply warm it back up on stove top for a minute or two.
Place cups back in the freezer and let them chill for 30 mins, or until they are completely hard. Store in the fridge or freezer as the coconut oil will melt at room temperature.


In order to be excellent in professional sports, you need to have the athletic ability, drive, and the ability to maintain performance under extreme pressure. However, sometimes the pressure to be the best also takes away the part of you that's responsible for self control. Professional athletes are no strangers to expressions of rage that sometimes that rage comes in the worst of situations. We've searched the internet and found the top ten most epic moments of rage displayed in various sports events in the list below.
Golf is generally thought of as a calm and collected game, but Spanish golfer Sergio Garcia brings the fun to the golf courses around the world. His most famous tantrum goes back to 1999's World Match Play Wentworth tournament where, after missing a shot, Garcia took off his shoes and threw it to the spectator area. When he got the shoe back, he threw it again, this time narrowly missing the head of match referee John Grant.
After his opponent swung his bat to hit the pitch and his bat broken, Roger Clemens picked up a bigger piece of the broken bat and threw it back at his opponent who was at that point running for first base. The moment is known as one of the most memorable in history. Yankees later won.


Good to hear from you and to get an update. He's a cutie! I have those same feeling of overwhelming love for our little ones and it's such a blessing to have them that even the hard times are easy to get through. Enjoy every minute!!!
Omg so adorable! And i know exactly what you mean about the happiness!
Mr. Good-looking! Omg! So glad to hear you both are happy and healthy!
So happy to hear things are going well! He's adorable!
Good luck mama! Thank you for checking in and commenting!!! I am in the throws of trying to figure out our next maneuver in this craziness. Xoxo!!!!


The latest variation of the world construction series, entitled empty vessel is a large scale immersive listening environment. It opened at The May Space in New Orleans on October 11, and is running through November 23, 2013.
Many thanks to the contributors of the show, Keene Kopper, Philippe Landry, Dave Greber, Jane Cassidy, Rick Snow and John Seefeldt.
I will be in New Orleans from September 23 to October 12 to prepare and open my new composed installation work World construction, variation: Empty vessel, a massively multi-channel sound environment, to be shown at The May Space.
There will also be artistic and technological lectures at the Loyola and Tulane universities, as well as concerts and workshops here and there. Looking forward to my stay in Louisiana very much!
I have been selected as a resident of the ars bioarctica program, run by the Finnish Society of Bioart. The residency takes place at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station (69°03'N, 20°50'E) of the University of Helsinki, in the very north-western part of Finland, about 300 km north of the polar circle.
I will be there for two weeks, inquiring into textural structures of nature by means of sound. I hope that the weather will be fine and the mosquitos amicable.
Details and findings of the residency can be found on a separate project page.
The travel is supported by the Austrian Embassy in Helsinki.
IRCAM has made available video recordings of talks held as part of my "Musical Research Residency" taking place from September thru November 2011.
The final talk of the residency, presenting findings of my research can be found at ressources.ircam.fr or below.
The IRCAM Musical Research Residency project was embedded in the larger scope of embodied interaction with computer music instruments based on recorded sounds. The focus was on the relationship between sound-producing bodily gestures and gestural evolutions perceived in sound, fused into the concept of gestural-sonorous objects. A basic musical interface based on piezo microphones and pressure sensors has been built, capable of tracing hand interaction on a plain surface. Machine listening methods have been used to analyze those interaction traces and establish associations with elements of a sound corpus. A novel method of intelligent real-time corpus element selection has been implemented, combining statistical sound segmentation, classification and gesture-following building on IRCAM's HMM-based gesturefollower. In order to hint the gesturefollower for the transition from one gesture to the next one an anticipation strategy using a higher-level Markov model working on gesture classes has been developed. These techniques have been integrated into a prototypical electronic music instrument, also serving as an experimental platform for future research.
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Tokyo Fiancée [2014)
I have been absent.
Because work.
Not working, but looking.
Labor.
I have been absent because anxiety.
But better.
Walking.
Stretching.
And now the cosmos brings me a perfect film.
Because Pauline Étienne.
Actress full of joy.
But the grand auteur is Stefan Liberski.
Every color.
Every gesture.
You must pinstripe, tuck up your hair you haven't.
You must primary color.
Yellow and red. Made in U.S.A.
"You must fall in love with me," says Pauline Étienne.
"I command you."
[she continues]
And of all the girls in the world, the Belgians and Finnish are the most diabolically beautiful on film.
Godard said the Swiss.
Clear bias.
And so we have a Belgian film set in Japan.
If we try hard, we can hear Debussy. Estampes…
Sado Island… […]
To dream in the rain.
Cross the bridge.
And the river steams.
You seek a nectarine.
A noisy kiss.
Pauline Étienne.
Buttermilk legs joy rollerskate skinny.
Was taken from Salinger.
Joyce said spittoon.
As cuspidor.
The most beautiful word.
Some films, books so good…too much to handle.
My wish.
To marry.
To have that happiness.
A mere handful of fives away from Valentine's.
When Colombia and Ecuador will be pumping out roses for Starbuckers.
All along.
They said that sex was uncouth.
Or resorted to farm metaphors of propagating species.
They couldn't talk about love.
Excitement.
When your breath is stolen by a cold kiss.
In the autumn.
Winter.
And yet warmth from optimism.
But we must get on to the little back alleys of Tokyo.
And for a moment stop this dream.
To be born.
In Japan.
Of Belgian parents.
Does not a Japanese make.
I can suck the life out of Auden.
Elliptical.
Though I thought I was aping Céline.
But director Stefan Liberski is aping no one.
We must mention the author and not the auteur, though in French there is no difference (save for the milieu of cinema).
And she gives us a fantastic story.
Amélie Nothomb.
No thumb.
Better than "all thumbs".
Rhombus.
Can you suck on a diamond lozenge from a ring?
Lots of sucking.
But that's the aw-kward + loneliness which makes a great film.
This one just happens to pull in Belgique and Nippon to boot.
On her yellow socks.
On her haircut.
On sweater with blue stripes.
Like Edward Hopper did the cinematography.
But the Francophones have it figured out.
Every trick.
Which is to say.
No tricks.
Just emotion.
Realism.
Embrace the history of film.
Compare and contrast.
What works? What doesn't?
What speaks to you? How does a culture (French, par exemple) see a film?
Answer: it doesn't fucking matter.
What matters is the overflowing love and romance which infuses Tokyo Fiancée.
Only thing Lars von Trier ever did well was film Kirsten Dunst in the nude.
Stefan Liberski surpasses von Trier's entire oeuvre with this one film.
Yes, I'm polemic as fuck!
I'll take François Truffaut (the film critic) and a bottle of white wine for my friend.
I like red.
And Guy Debord.
I'll take chances.
I have taken so many fucking chances.
But we get scared.
Frightened by inexperience.
All of that is in the film.
Taichi Inoue is really sweet as Rinri.
But I keep coming back to Pauline Étienne.
She has cast a spell over me.
And I must ask: who does she signify?
Forget the character name.
For each sad soul who dreams their way to the end.
She represents someone.
Fondue.
Teeth which nave never left the village.
New born yellow as unripe baby corn.
On the farm.
A different register (accent?) of French in Belgium.
Immediately recognizable to a Parisian.
And with little modesty lambasted as yokel French.
But perhaps the Belgians and Quebecois have this in common.
A cause for solidarity.
And add in the Swiss…with their weird counting and smoky lisp.
Is it?
Tokyo Fiancée hits harder than La Religieuse (2013) because it is not stilted nor steeped in period costumes.
Just tell a fucking story, we say.
Pauline Étienne. Born in Ixelles.
How could anyone from such a place be any less than ravishing?
When we think in microcosm.
If we only know one Indian person.
They become India.
And complicate this with a multicultural relationship.
That is the gasoline of Tokyo Fiancée.
It is clean. And genius. Like Magritte.
A bowler hat. An apple. And MoMA depth.
We want to be in this Japan.
Because the eyes have captured the essence of magic.
Ingenuity.
Frivolity.
Tokyo Fiancée succeeds at every point where Lost in Translation failed (which was at every point).
This is the real deal.
Real acting.
Real art.
Not a dilettante piece.
Sofia Coppola should send her usage permissions for My Bloody Valentine and Kevin Shields tracks to Stefan Liberski posthaste.
Such music is the only thing which could make Tokyo Fiancée any better.
And yet, it is a perfect film.
Don't fuck with perfection.
Maybe again MBV and Liberski can have a meeting of minds.
But make sure to include the Anna Karina of our age.
An actress for which Francophonie has been searching for 60 years.
Well, here she is.
And this is the model: Tokyo Fiancée.
Let the joy in her heart hit the screen (splat!).
Jump on the bed. Ahhh!!!
In the mountains. Wooh! The rush.
An actress with all 21 petals on her Fibonacci daisy.
Which is to say, fully capable of cinema immortality.
I believe it was Mallarmé who wrote of "bursting pomegranates" (!)
Very few films have ever had this effect on me.
And I needed this one very bad.
To confirm that there are quirky, special people in the world.
That there are eyes who see beauty in the details I notice.
And that genius in the cinema is not dead.
Thank you Mr. Liberski.
And thank you Pauline Étienne for your performance which has brought hope to a very sad person in Texas.
Je veux exprimer ma plus profonde gratitude.
C'est infini.
-PD
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Frank [2014)
My dear friends, it is so good to be alive 🙂
But very difficult to be sick.
I must admit, it took me two days to watch this film.
This one hit a little too close to home.
But that's ok.
Yes, I am finally feeling better on the allergy front.
Now I am struggling with that old nemesis of mine: nicotine.
Yep, that's right.
Trying to kick that habit.
Whoa (woozy feeling)…
Maybe did that a little too fast 🙂
But most of all, you know, every day I struggle with anxiety.
I don't usually address it in such naked terms.
But it is fair here to talk about this biggest of all struggles for me.
Because Frank is a film about mental illness.
You know, if you apply for a job, you might get a "questionnaire" enquiring about your health.
America is very "democratic" and "fair" in hiring processes, but still these questionnaires persist.
And I suppose the last round of jobs I applied for (merely two) opened my eyes to the reality of my situation a bit.
Looking down the list of "conditions", I realized I must (to be honest) check two boxes.
[Though the questionnaire was "voluntary"]
So I have "anxiety disorder" (big time!) and asthma (not so bad, but it can pop up).
So wow…I thought…man, these are listed as "disabilities" (if I remember correctly).
While some people might celebrate a disability condition, for me it's not really cause for cheering.
But then I thought, "Wait…are these really disabilities?"
Well, I'm not going to give a medical/legal ruling on that (because, frankly [no pun intended] I don't know).
But I know one thing: anxiety can be totally debilitating.
I've had a really hard time readjusting to "life" after two and a half years of intense graduate studies.
I graduated about a month ago.
But a funny thing happened on the way to the forum…
My body just kinda shut down…gradually…in different ways.
That momentum which had carried me across the finish line evaporated.
And so life hasn't been a bowl of cherries.
Anxiety is a bitch!
When I have nothing to realistically worry about, I find something.
If there is something from which worry can be derived, I will find it.
And it will drive me nuts.
At a certain point, one has to laugh at the ridiculousness of such an impulse.
[It's not something I can very well control, you understand.]
And that brings us to our film Frank.
Frank is a fucked up guy.
Imagine the Jack in the Box guy from the commercials with the big fake head.
And then have that guy lead a rock band.
This film really defies all description.
So we have to dig a bit to really delineate what is going on in this masterful film.
First of all, this film has caused me to create a new category in my global survey of cinema for a country which I love (for a multitude of reasons): Ireland.
Yes, Frank is an Irish film.
Funny enough, no one in the film has an Irish accent.
[Which begs the question, "Is it really an Irish film?"]
But I'm calling it an Irish film because I really admire the balls it took Lenny Abrahamson to make this picture.
Our director, Mr. Abrahamson, was born in Dublin in 1966.
Ok, it's Irish (at least as far as "auteur theory" goes).
There's something about Ireland which I get from the eccentrics.
James Joyce was the master of them all.
I will read Finnegans Wake till my dying day and still glory in the fact that I have no REAL idea what it's truly about 🙂
But this film, Frank, takes us to a place I know very well: rock and roll.
And more specifically: indie rock.
It is a "genre" which attracts the most far-out individuals in the world.
And I must say, there were several times in this film where I could feel the spirit of one of my favorite bands of all time.
An Irish group.
Rollerskate Skinny.
Our director is 50. I'm 40.
Maybe our frames of reference are different.
Youngsters might think Animal Collective or even the arduous process which produced Arcade Fire's tortured Reflektor.
But Frank makes me think of that early-90s noise-pop wave which was spearheaded by bands like (my favorite group ever) Mercury Rev and Rollerskate Skinny.
When I see Frank, I see David Baker.
But I know my history.
I've studied weirdos all my life.
So I also see David Thomas of Pere Ubu.
And of course Don van Vliet (a.k.a. Captain Beefheart).
Frank is certainly a film which the "Pitchfork generation" should be able to get behind.
I've had dinner with Roky Erickson.
I've seen what Frank is groping for.
Yes, it's that madness which made Syd Barrett great.
But such madness comes with a price.
We can listen to that first Pink Floyd album (The Piper at the Gates of Dawn)…songs like "Lucifer Sam" where Barrett is brilliant.
And we can trace that brilliance to his solo album The Madcap Laughs…songs like "No Good Trying".
But to be SO fucked up…to be SO far out…it ain't fun.
I've heard about Roky Erickson's time at the Rusk State Hospital for the criminally insane.
It's not a pretty picture.
But let's talk about this damn film 🙂
It had me hooked once I caught faint traces of those first two Mercury Rev albums (Yerself is Steam and Boces) in the sounds I was hearing emanating from Soronprfbs.
Yes, Soronprfbs.
The perfect name to describe the obtuse band at the center of our story.
Here's a band so weird, they don't even know how to pronounce their own name (when they show up at SXSW).
[But I'm getting ahead of myself]
First, I was wrong about Irish accents.
Indeed, Frank is such a bizarre film that one soon forgets that Domhnall Gleeson is speaking in one for the entirety 🙂
Gleeson is in the right place at the right time.
It's happened to me.
I once got a MySpace message (remember those days?) and spent the next four years in a Cajun punk rock band.
It can happen.
Those were the best years of my life.
But it's HARD!
Taking a van back and forth (and back and forth) across the country.
Flying (I hate flying) to awesome, bizarre locales.
For someone with bad anxiety, these aren't easy tasks.
And we see that in the character of Frank.
As I said, Frank has problems.
Somehow, Gleeson joins Frank's band Soronprfbs.
And the rest is a whipsaw of insanity.
No, Frank is not a relaxing watch, but it is hilarious!
And very meaningful!!
Soronprfbs, as a band, is a shambles.
[not to be confused with Babyshambles]
There were several times when I caught glimpses of the weirdness that is another of my most favorite bands: The Homosexuals.
But, this film can hardly be reviewed properly without talking about The Residents.
Soronprfbs are mythic (if only in their own minds).
Their fame, however, grows.
And with fame, stage fright.
It happens to even the most grounded individuals (like Robbie Robertson).
But nothing fits the bill quite like Mercury Rev.
Soronprfbs are apt to have fights on stage.
Perhaps one member tries to gouge another's eye out on a transatlantic flight.
That kind of stuff.
Sure, Oasis have had mid-air spats about blueberry scones.
And maybe The Sex Pistols only played to twelve people (or whatever) at their first show.
But Soronprfbs, for me, is that band which would hang electric guitars from the ceiling and let them feed back for the entirety of a show.
Which is to say, Mercury Rev.
But let me pull in the younger folks.
Think, for example, The Brian Jonestown Massacre.
Fights onstage.
Obvious mental problems.
Or is it just a put-on?
And let's go back…
The Doors.
Jim Morrison being totally whacked out of his gourd onstage.
But no, Soronprfbs is weirder…and far more obscure.
Think, for instance, Alan Vega leading Suicide in a performance at CBGB's.
The writers of our film (Jon Ronson and Peter Straughan) will probably know everything I'm talking about [were they to ever read this].
Because they (or at least one of them…Ronson?) know the mechanism which attracts so many of us to BANDS.
["those funny little plans/that never work quite right"]
That mechanism is mystery.
But in this case, it is the mystery of reclusive eccentricity.
Put simply, madness.
[not to be confused with the band Madness]
So Ronson and Straughan even include the perfect musical instrument to act as a talisman for their tale: the theremin.
And they even get the character's name right: Clara.
[after theremin virtuoso Clara Rockmore]
The theremin has a long history in eccentric rock and roll.
Indeed, late in Frank when we see our dejected main character sleeping in his bathrobe at the French Quarter Inn (a fleabag motel), his sartorial sense evokes Brian Wilson's rough years.
Yes, the theremin goes back to at least "Good Vibrations" and the zaniness which was The Beach Boys' album Smile.
But the theremin has come to embody the obtuse and pretentious in rock and roll.
And so it is no wonder that bands such as Jon Spencer Blues Explosion picked up on this wooziest of all instruments.
Which brings us finally to a salient point.
Frank includes at least one star:
Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Gyllenhaal plays stone-cold bitch Clara: Frank's girlfriend.
[remember, Frank is the guy with the papier-mâché head…and he never takes it off…ever]
Gyllenhaal's character is unlikable in just about every way imaginable.
And it makes me appreciate her acting.
Indeed, God bless Ms. Gyllenhaal for taking this film role.
It's a lot like Charlotte Gainsbourg's role in Misunderstood (2014) and makes me appreciate the dramatic tension of Gainsbourg's role more than I initially did.
Which is to say, Gyllenhaal is very much the villain of Frank.
A bit like a dominatrix version of June Chadwick in This Is Spinal Tap.
Which is to further say, Gyllenhaal is playing off her typecast from Secretary of being one bad bitch.
And she pulls it off.
But Gyllenhaal is the least important element of Frank.
It would ruin things to tell you just how Michael Fassbender figures into this film, but let's just say he's indispensable.
[Fassbender, by the way, is half-Irish (his mother being born in County Antrim)]
A lot of our action happens in what could pass for Tarbox Road Studios.
Indeed, there is a lot of Wayne Coyne in the character of Frank as well.
But the sounds are closer to those which Mercury Rev conjured at SUNY-Buffalo for their debut album.
Likewise, the seclusion which goes into making the great Soronprfbs album reminds me of the ramshackle (yet bucolic) process which led to my favorite album of all time: Mercury Rev's Deserter's Songs.
As alluded to earlier, Soronprfbs eventually make their way to my old stomping grounds: the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas.
I was a bit wistful seeing the Ritz Theater (now an Alamo Drafthouse) on 6th Street in one shot.
Indeed, I remember playing an "unplugged", solo gig there back when it was still a cavernous, multilevel, piece-of-shit music venue (pool hall).
Funny enough, a lot of the tension in Frank revolves around that old chestnut of a band "selling out".
Perhaps the funniest scene in the movie is when Frank presents his "most likable music ever" in the motel room.
Which is to say, this movie may not appeal to everyone.
But if you're a rock musician (especially a weirdo like me), you've gotta see this.
There are a couple of scenes which make the whole thing worthwhile.
It's funny that Soronprfbs bassist François Civil bears a striking resemblance to Dave Fridmann circa-1991.
[just another detail which cemented the genius of this film for me]
But there are other seeming references in this film.
A bit of Stereolab (with all the Moogy wonder).
The stilted "artfulness" of Blonde Redhead.
And even the bollocks, pulseless blech of Low.
Yes, Soronprfbs and their "side projects" seem to catch just about every hue in the indie rock kaleidoscope.
Director Abrahamson (and writers Ronson and Straughan) do a nice job of converting Domhnall Gleeson's internal monologue into a social media thread which runs through this movie.
Gleeson is on Twitter, YouTube, a blog, etc.
But the funniest is the beginning…and it is the hook which reeled me in.
To hear Gleeson's musical mind attempt to craft quirky pop songs out of mundane details of his Irish town is a real knee-slapper.
Because, as they say, IT'S SO TRUE!
So if you've ever written songs, witness in the first five minutes of this film the real torture it is to make lemonade out of a lemon life.
Be forewarned (or enticed): Frank is WAY OUT THERE!
Some elements of this film are so non sequitur that they were a bit hard for my weakened, nicotine-craving immune system to handle.
In the end, this is a sad story.
But with joy, pain.
There is great joy in Frank.
Sometimes we realize we're not in Kansas anymore…
and it's a rough patch.
The Technicolor of life can be too much to handle.
But take courage, dear friends…
Like Gong's great song "Rational Anthem"…from that hard-to-find Magick Brother…their debut.
[Get on that, Spotify]
Miracles can happen.
And, to quote Albert Ayler, "music is the healing force of the universe".
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Zéro de conduite [1933)
Food fight.
Pillow fight.
I have hypnotized myself.
A one-sentence plot.
Skull X.
Forget the world.
Leap frog.
On the rooftops.
Toulouse-Lautrec as principal.
Feminine balloons.
Young Chopin at school.
With his fine hair.
And Henri goes into midget Häxan mode like the birth of Cartman.
Upright piano bed.
Bix Beiderbecke sleeping in the newspaper stuffed sounding board housing compartment.
It's my impression.
That Ken Griffin. And Ger Griffin. And Rollerskate Skinny. Knew this haunting happiness.
That Mercury Rev. Took also from this backmasking. Maurice Jaubert.
But we have not even mentioned the genius director auteur.
Jean Vigo.
Beanpole will dance for R. Crumb.
The sleepwalker might drop dead.
A necessary risk. Petard hoist.
T. Rex would say Children of the revolution.
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Residence: San Antonio, TX
Former occupation: musician
Education: BM music theory/composition, MBA management
Dream: direct films
Life soundtrack: Mercury Rev, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, The Delgados, Suicide, The Band, The Velvet Underground, Amon Düül II, The Homosexuals, Primal Scream, Teenage Fanclub, Rollerskate Skinny, Silver Apples, Kevin Ayers, My Bloody Valentine, Spiritualized, Stereolab, …and you will know us by the Trail of Dead, Hawkwind, The Magic Numbers, Comus, Magma, Roland Kirk, Grinderman/Nick Cave, Teenage Filmstars, The Flaming Lips, Les Rallies Dénudés, Oasis…
Favorite author: Nick Tosches
Favorite musician: Bob Dylan
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Tatjana Lukasjevitj (russisk: Татьяна Николаевна Лукашевич) (født den 21. november 1905 i Dnipro i det Russiske Kejserrige, død den 2. marts 1972 i Moskva i Sovjetunionen) var en sovjetisk filminstruktør og manuskriptforfatter.

Filmografi
 Fundament (Подкидыш, 1940)
 Danselærer (Учитель танцев, 1952)
 Bryllup med medgift (Свадьба с приданым, 1953)
 Modenhedsbevis (Аттестат зрелости, 1954)
 Slepoj muzykant (Слепой музыкант, 1960)

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Filminstruktører fra Sovjetunionen


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'Red flag, blue ribbon' Community Focus report highlights Springfield strengths, challenges
Diversity, mental health, cooperation and economic opportunity among major themes in the 2019 Community Focus Report released Thursday.
'Red flag, blue ribbon' Community Focus report highlights Springfield strengths, challenges Diversity, mental health, cooperation and economic opportunity among major themes in the 2019 Community Focus Report released Thursday. Check out this story on news-leader.com: https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2019/10/10/red-flag-blue-ribbon-community-focus-report-springfield/3931834002/
Jackie Rehwald, Springfield News-Leader Published 11:03 p.m. CT Oct. 10, 2019
Kara Hodges talks about her experience at Isabel's House during the Community Focus Report presentation at the Springfield Art Museum on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. (Photo: Andrew Jansen/Springfield News-Leader)
When Isabel's House executive director Holly Beadle was called on stage Thursday morning to talk about the emergency shelter for kids of families in crisis, she passed the mic to someone else.
"It's the hard work of the parents that we serve that really should be recognized," Beadle said.
Beadle then asked Springfield mom Kara Hodges to share her story with the hundreds of people who attended the 2019 Community Focus Report release at the Springfield Art Museum.
Hodges, a mom to two small boys, said she learned about Isabel's House from her counselor a few years ago. At the time, she was struggling with her mental health and her relationship with the boys' father.
"I felt overwhelmed and needed support," she said. "I needed them someplace safe, distracted. And so that is why I put them in Isabel's House."
Gallery: Kickball Tournament benefits Isabel's House
At Isabel's House, the boys were cared for 24/7 and had fun, Hodges said. They got to go to Wonders of Wildlife and visit with Santa.
The folks at Isabel's House also encouraged and supported Hodges as she worked to get back on her feet. Now, Hodges is in a healthy relationship and has a home for her family.
"It doesn't make you less of a parent or a bad parent to use Isabel's House," she said. "It's normal to need a break. It's good to ask for help. You are a good parent because you recognize when things are a bad environment."
As Hodges backed away from the podium, the audience gave her a standing ovation.
Susie Turner, right, along with the rest of the audience gives Kara Hodges a standing ovation after she talked about her experiences in an abusive relationship during the Community Focus Report presentation at the Springfield Art Museum on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. (Photo: Andrew Jansen/Springfield News-Leader)
Hodges and Beadle were among several who spoke at the Community Focus Report release event. The bi-annual report, commonly called the "blue ribbon, red flag report," identifies the community's strengths and challenges.
Diversity was one of six themes highlighted in the report.
"There is a growing recognition of the need to represent diverse perspectives across multiple dimensions — race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, those with disabilities — as the region has grown more diverse since the 2004 Community Focus report," the report said.
CASA volunteer coordinator Daniel Ogunyemi addressed that, reminding the audience that "diversity is not the same as inclusion."
Daniel Ogunyemi, of CASA, takes a selfie before speaking during the Community Focus Report presentation at the Springfield Art Museum on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. (Photo: Andrew Jansen/Springfield News-Leader)
He encouraged the audience to be an ally to anyone who is experiencing discrimination or is the target of microaggressions. Have conversations and build relationships with people who are different than you, Ogunyemi said.
"Start today," he said. "We might not be able to change this crazy Missouri weather. But we can surely change the climate."
Springfield Police Chief Paul Williams spoke about the decline in crime in 2018, as well as the community's ever-growing drug problem.
"The police department is not the sole responsible party for the drop in crime," Williams said. "It's been a community-wide effort."
Williams said his department has stepped up public safety campaigns, efforts to educate the community, collaboration with agencies and businesses and enforcement.
The area's drug problem earned a red flag in the report.
Springfield Police Chief Paul Williams talks about progress made and areas that need improvement during the Community Focus Report presentation at the Springfield Art Museum on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. (Photo: Andrew Jansen/Springfield News-Leader)
'We have seized more methamphetamine, heroin, opioids and marijuana in the last couple of years than we have ever," Williams said. "There is more of it here for us to find."
"Drug abuse, drug misuse, illegal use of narcotics: it contributes to our crime rate," Williams continued. "Drug users, drug addicts: they commit crimes. They are prolific property crime offenders. But they also contribute to our domestic abuse and child abuse rates, as well."
Mental health is another major theme throughout the report.
Kickapoo High School graduate Drew Voris spoke about the Mental Health First Aid training program started last year as a pilot at Kickapoo. The program is being expanded to other high schools this year.
"Throughout high school, I really felt helpless because I saw a lot of my friends and peers struggling," Voris said. "With this training, we were equipped to know how to see these signs when someone is struggling and how to be there for them and how to talk to them and how to listen to them."
Recent Kickapoo High School graduate Drew Voris talks about teen mental health first aid during the Community Focus Report presentation at the Springfield Art Museum on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. (Photo: Andrew Jansen/Springfield News-Leader)
Voris called the training "empowering" and said it "made a huge impact on my life." He said students "noticed a change in our school."
Related: SPS reports 'high numbers' of students who disclose suicidal thoughts to counselors
Voris and a friend who also did the training are now crisis text counselors.
"It's really inspired us to be more passionate about taking an active role in the mental health crisis that we are going through, the suicide epidemic we are experiencing," he said.
Download the 2019 Community Focus Report at springfieldcommunityfocus.org.
Below are highlights from the report.
Overall themes
• Community mental health: For the first time, a consortium conducted a full mental-health assessment of community resources and outcomes in the area. The challenge is reducing the stigma related to diagnoses and encouraging people to seek help.
• Cooperation: Collaboration has long been a community strength, but the collaborative ideas must now move beyond conversation and planning to consistent collective action, especially with more than $1.6 billion in infrastructure needs identified over the next 20 years.
• Diversity: There is a growing recognition of the need to represent diverse perspectives across multiple dimensions — race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, those with disabilities — as the region has grown more diverse since the 2004 Community Focus report.
• Economic opportunity: Springfield has long been a region of economic opportunity, with low unemployment and a dynamic business community. But its historic engine of growth is slowing as the population growth rate slows.
• Poverty and homelessness: Nearly one in five households in Greene County with children under 18 (19.4 percent) meet the federal definition of poverty, and homelessness is increasing. The number of children and youths falling into the federal definition of homelessness within Springfield Public Schools hit 2,283 in 2018.
• Social capital: Local citizen participation through traditional measures of voter engagement and volunteering have experienced declines. The community will need to develop ways to measure nontraditional ways of giving and contributing, such as individual fundraising appeals through social media.
Key Blue Ribbons
• Proposition S, passed by Springfield voters in 2019, will mean $168 million in investment in resources for children to help improve in educational outcomes at all levels.
• Major redevelopment has expanded beyond the downtown core to other areas of the city, including Commercial Street and Galloway Village.
Jonathan Groves delivers the Community Focus Report at the Springfield Art Museum on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. (Photo: Andrew Jansen/Springfield News-Leader)
• A community of entrepreneurs and artists is thriving, with the arts alone generating more than $28 million in revenue annually.
• This community has maintained a commitment to the natural environment, with investments in trails and parks and reduced air emissions from local power plants.
• The area's unemployment rate remains below state and national averages.
Key Red Flags
• The population growth rate has slowed, which has long-term implications for economic development.
• Poverty has worsened since 2004, the year of the first Community Focus Report. About 19.4 percent of households with children under 18 in Greene County meet the federal definition of poverty (up 4 percentage points from 2005). Median annual wages (2017) in Springfield ($34,775) and Greene County ($43,175) remain below Jackson County ($50,652), St. Louis County ($62,931) and the national median ($57,652).
A large crowd gathers before the Community Focus Report presentation at the Springfield Art Museum on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. (Photo: Andrew Jansen/Springfield News-Leader)
• Housing costs have continued to increase. More than 50 percent of renters and 29 percent of homeowners in Greene County are considered "cost-burdened households" that spend more than 30 percent of their income on housing costs.
• Significant achievement gaps exist in the education system, before and after kindergarten. There are gaps in kindergarten readiness, college readiness, and graduation rates between students of color and white students, as well as among students of different income levels.
• Voter participation has dropped. In the April 2019 election, 174,491 Greene County residents (75 percent of those eligible) were registered to vote, and of those registered and considered active, only 17.3 percent turned out to choose members for their local city councils, boards of aldermen, and school boards or vote on major municipal and school tax/bond issues.
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How do you survive the death of your child? How do you wake up the next day, the next week, the next month, the next year? I have no idea. Honestly, I don't. You feel as though you won't survive. Your not even sure you want to survive, and yet somehow you keep breathing. Even though breathing hurts, you keep doing it. I'm 5 years into this grief journey that began the day our precious Ash stopped breathing and I am still searching. Scratching and clawing my way through it. Determined to make her life count. Determined to not allow her to be forgotten. Determined to speak her name daily so that she does not disappear from this world. Determined to use what she taught me about living to make my time here matter. Determined to hang on to my faith even on the days when I feel as though its gone.
The loss of Ashley Kate broke my heart. It truly did. It broke me in a way that cannot be healed outside the gates of Heaven.
I'm still learning how to live with the burden of grief. Its not an easy lesson to learn. It doesn't come naturally. I read somewhere along the way that grief is just love that no longer has any place to go. I'm not sure how I feel about that statement, but sometimes it makes sense to me.
5 years past her last morning with us I can tell you this one thing...I miss her. I miss everything about her. I still do. I imagine I always will. She was the most precious thing I ever held. She was beautiful. She was happy. She was so full of JOY.
Ashley Kate, you are so loved. My sweet girl I miss you more than words could ever convey. How I wish we had been given more time with you. You lived the life you were given more beautifully than any other person I've ever met. You never once worried about your tomorrows. You taught me more about God and His Power than anything. I learned to trust His character even when I felt that what He was doing in our lives was unfair. I'm still learning to lean on Him as I grieve for you my precious girl. I love you. I miss you. Oh how I long to see you again. Until that day I'll keep clinging to my faith in Jesus. You are forever loved...forever missed...forever eight.


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Slovakia's Farkasova wins first gold of Winter Paralympics
Slovakia's Henrieta Farkasova won the first gold medal of the Pyeongchang Winter Paralympics Saturday in women's vision impaired downhill skiing, while the USA got off to good start with victories in the biathlon.
Farkasova and her guide Natalia Subrtova finished in 1min 29.72 sec, beating second-placed Millie Knight of Britain and her guide Brett Wild by 0.86 sec.
Farkasova hailed her victory as "great, amazing", adding: "Hopefully we can inspire through our achievements and (show) others to strive and do their best."
It was the Slovakian's sixth Paralympic gold in vision impaired skiing. Belgium's Eleonor Sana took the bronze medal, finishing the course in 1min 31.60 sec.
In the biathlon — which combines skiing and shooting — USA took gold and silver in the women's sit ski, with Kendall Gretcsch coming first and Oskana Masters second.
American Daniel Cnossen, a former US Navy Seal, took gold in the men's sit ski. The USA has the biggest team at the Winter Paralympics with 69 athletes.
Gretsch said her victory was "pretty unexpected".
"It's my first Paralympics, first race, so it's just a great way to kick off the week and hopefully (there's) more to come," she said.
There were also victories for France — with Marie Bochet taking gold in the women's standing downhill skiing — and Germany, with skier Anna Schaffelhuber winning in the women's sitting.
The Pyeongchang Winter Paralympics were officially opened on Friday night with a glittering ceremony, that included fireworks and light shows.
North Korea took centre stage at the ceremony.
Pyongyang is sending its first ever athletes, two cross-country skiers, to take part in a Winter Paralympics, the last stage of rapprochement with the South that began at last month's Winter Olympics.
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In previous installments of this multi-part series, I discussed the historical context that was the impetus for Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act as well as the mechanics of the final rule promulgated by the SEC.1 In this installment, I will lay out the current state of the law.
Neither Section 1015 nor the rule offered guidance as to what an acceptable audit methodology would look like for those companies that would be required to obtain an audit. The only guidance in the statute requires that the audit be performed according to standards promulgated by the Comptroller General in accordance with the SEC, which would mean that the audit must follow procedures identical to those used for annual reports and the like.6 The OECD published guidance on acceptable standards, but their guidance conflicts with SEC auditing standards, so following their guidance may lead to an audit being deemed unacceptable by the SEC.7 Thus, auditors of CMRs were left with no definitive guidance as to the acceptable scope and procedures for their audits.
Finally, companies were confused by the requirement that their reports be "submitted/made available" to the SEC.8 If they were only required to make their reports available, then they would not have to include them in their annual reports, but true "submission" would require their reports to be filed with their 10-K.9 This would subject their reports to much more rigorous audit standards.
The rule is obviously hotly contested and both regulators and companies subject to regulation face considerable uncertainty as to its validity and enforcement. In the next installment, I will discuss proposals to alleviate these issues, increasing certainty and addressing the root problem more effectively.