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Time to clean up our state, Pennsylvania
Scott MacHenry
A major issue facing the state of Pennsylvania is litter and roadside trash. Many of the state's major roads are strewn with trash, with more litter in other areas such as parks, hiking trails, and along the banks of the Conestoga River. Littering has many environmental consequences: Wildlife habitats can be altered or destroyed, contaminates and other toxic matter can pollute soil and water, and trash ingestion and entanglement are serious threats to wildlife. There are also financial ramifications, as the state of Pennsylvania spends over $14 million a year cleaning up roadside trash alone, according to the York Daily Record.
In late 2019, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection presented results of a survey they conducted earlier in the year to legislators, business leaders, and community members. The survey was two-fold; a phone survey with 500 residents, and field teams conducting litter counts in 180 locations statewide. Approximately 96 percent of Pa. residents said littering was a problem, while the field teams estimated that 500 million pieces of litter were on state roads. The Pa. DEP reported that, "the most common items are cigarette butts and plastics, such as plastic food packaging, bottles, and bags. Motorists and pedestrians are leading litterers, followed by improperly secured truck loads."
At that meeting, the Pennsylvania DEP Secretary, Patrick McDonnell, spoke on this growing issue. "[Littering] presents health hazards, it contaminates the soil and water, and cleaning it up is costly to the Commonwealth and taxpayers. DEP has funded annual community and illegal dump site clean-ups around the state for over two decades. Thanks to these volunteer events, millions of pounds of litter have been removed from our land and water, but trash is accumulating faster than anyone can keep up with," he said.
While the task to clean up Pennsylvania may seem insurmountable, every single person can individually help reduce litter. You can properly separate recyclables from trash at your home. You can place a trash bag in your car or carry one with you on a hike. However, if you are interested in actively making a difference beyond your home, there are other ways to get involved.
Adopt a Highway is a prominent organization dedicated to combating the spread of litter and roadside trash. They have a partnership with PennDOT and rely on volunteers to continue cleaning roadways. Volunteers can select any two-mile roadway to clean and in exchange, PennDOT provides trash bags, safety vests, gloves, and notifies state police of all events. As of now, 3,914 volunteers have adopted and cleaned 8,700 miles, per PennDOT records. But there is still so much more to be accomplished, since Pennsylvania has 118,226 miles of public roads.
If volunteering isn't your thing, there is still a way to raise awareness of Pennsylvania's littering issue. There is a bill proposal from Democratic state lawmakers that addresses the environmental harm of littering. The legislation, led by Representative Tim Briggs of Montgomery County, is called "Zero Waste PA." The legislative plan combats environmental problems caused by "throwaway" society, while also focusing on state recycling programs. Some of the bills in this package want to raise financial penalties for illegally dumping garbage, while others target the production of plastics, requiring that producers of plastic packaging cannot sell or distribute in Pennsylvania unless they are part of a recycling program to take it back.
Unfortunately, the proposal is held up in legislative gridlock. Republicans control the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and they likely won't vote to further this bill package written by state Democrats. The easiest way to enact change is at the local level, so getting the bill passed would be a major step toward reducing litter and roadside trash. To make your voice heard, you can contact your district representative and ask them to support "Zero Waste PA," or simply tag them on Twitter in a tweet advocating for environmental justice and litter reduction in Pennsylvania.
So much action needs to be taken to truly make an impact in reducing waste tossed into the environment; yet every single person can make a difference. Whether through volunteering your time or calling on legislators to ensure your personal trash is properly disposed of, there are ways to help. It's high time to clean up our state, not only to make it look beautiful, but to lessen environmental harm. I'm calling on everyone who reads this to consider how they can make a difference. As Adopt a Highway puts it, "every litter bit counts."


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The made-in-NM film 50 to 1 honors Mine That Bird, an unlikely Kentucky Derby winner trained in Roswell. This month, the KiMo Theatre hosts the world premiere.
by Rob DeWalt
The 50 to 1 world premiere takes place at the KiMo Theatre, in Albuquerque, March 19 (421 Central Ave N.W. 505-768-3522; kimotickets .com). The film moves to theaters throughout New Mexico March 21 and to other states beginning April 4. For theater locations, to view the trailer, and for more information, visit 50to1themovie.com.
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On May 9, 2009, at Churchill Downs, in Louisville, Kentucky, a feisty Canadian gelding with outturned legs named Mine That Bird came from 30 lengths behind to nail the second-biggest upset in Kentucky Derby history. At 50-to-1 odds, Mine That Bird crossed the finish line nearly seven lengths ahead of 18 other horses, stunning a crowd of more than 150,000 spectators and an international television audience.
It's no wonder Mine That Bird's monumental Run for the Roses caught the eye of veteran filmmaker Jim Wilson (producer of the blockbuster hits Dances with Wolves and The Bodyguard), a longtime racehorse owner who for years had been looking for a horse story worthy of a film adaptation. "I was absolutely blown away by the victory," Wilson says, "and I knew I had to find out more about the horse and the people behind him. Were they real characters with an interesting background? Was there more to this than an unexpected win? I'm a guy who likes underdog stories; I had to find out more."
That meant traveling to other horse races around the country and to New Mexico, where Mine That Bird owners Mark Allen (played by Christian Kane) and Leonard "Doc" Blach (played by William Devane) had trained the horse on their ranches in Roswell just before the 2009 Derby. "That horse had a prior race history with owners in different places before landing in Roswell," Wilson says, "but the heart of this film, 50 to 1, is steeped in New Mexico ranching and horse-racing life."
When Wilson traveled to New Mexico and met trainer Chip Woolley (played by Skeet Ulrich), who conditioned Mine That Bird for the Derby, he found a nononsense, hands-on trainer with a big heart who took great care of his horses. "Here's a cowboy who, while he was recovering from a motorcycle accident and nursing a broken leg, drove this horse all the way from Roswell to Louisville, Kentucky, for the Derby. Chip, Mark, and Doc? They're all tough cusses, but that's what constitutes the spirit of this film: going for broke when it seems like an impossible dream."
Wilson, who also serves as 50 to 1's director and co-screenwriter along with writer Faith Conroy (a script supervisor on the made-in-NM Thor), was no stranger to the Land of Enchantment when the project began to take shape. The state's landscapes and buildings served as the backdrop for two of Wilson's prior production credits: Wyatt Earp (1994) and Swing Vote (2008), both featuring Dances with Wolves star Kevin Costner. So Wilson already had a feel for the terrain and seasonal weather patterns throughout the state, and in order to maintain the authenticity of the story, he says, "no other locations would do. Chip and the others took me around and showed me Mine That Bird's life up to that point, so we really got a feel for the places and people involved in the story. New Mexico sort of becomes a character of its own in this one."
A majority of the film was shot in New Mexico between September and October of 2012, and the crew consisted of more than 90 percent New Mexico talent, according to Wilson. The production also employed at least 30 New Mexico actors and more than 550 New Mexico extras. "We knocked out roughly 35 to 40 locations in 40 days," Wilson says, "including spots in Las Cruces, Sunland Park, Tijeras, Corrales, Bernalillo, Albuquerque, Edgewood, and Santa Fe."
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Wilson isn't comfortable directing unless he and his crew are uniquely familiar with a film's subject matter, which posed a few challenges when it came to casting 50 to 1. "I've been racing horses for 25 years," he explains, "and some horses can get a oneoff win with fairly bad odds—especially if it races enough. This situation was different. This was a fish-out-of-water story, and the cast's performance—especially around horses—had to reflect that perfectly."
While Wilson was scouting locations in New Mexico, time was running out to cast the role of trainer and Ratón native Chip Woolley. "So there I am," Wilson explains, laughing, "sitting in my hotel room somewhere in New Mexico, and I get an e-mail from Skeet Ulrich [Scream, Jericho, the Into the West television miniseries]. It's his audition tape. He had converted his garage into a mini film set, put on a cowboy hat and a fake mustache, and just went for it. We practically hired him on the spot. He brought dimensions to the Chip role that I still marvel at. He was a natural."
The real Woolley grew up around horse tracks in the Texas panhandle and started riding bareback broncos in local rodeos as soon as he was old enough. But horse training was his true calling, and the New Mexico racing circuit soon became his backyard. He eventually settled in Bloomfield, in the northwest part of the state.
"You know who wins the Kentucky Derby every year?" Woolley asks, deadpan, during a phone interview. "The man who brings the best horse that day. And for one day, it was me. I was born and raised on a ranch in the middle of nowhere and I fit in the rodeo world more than I do the fancy racing one. But after spending enough time exercising horses, I felt that racing was where I belonged. Over time, it just became my profession, and it paid off—all the marbles in one run."
Ulrich, nephew of NASCAR living legend Ricky Rudd, is no stranger to race culture, albeit one with a different kind of horsepower. The need for speed and a competitive spirit weren't the only things he and Woolley had in common, though. "We both love mathematics intensely," Ulrich says, "and Chip's a horse-racing scientist to the nth degree. We spent a lot of time together in New Mexico, and it was amazing to investigate Chip's motivations and desires when it came to winning the race. There's more to this guy than meets the eye, is the lesson here. Getting to the top of one's profession—despite every obstacle imaginable being there almost as if by decree—is never a dull ride."
Casting the jockey was a no-brainer for Wilson. He wanted, and got, the rider who took Mine That Bird across the finish line in Louisville in 2009: Cajun horse-racing veteran Calvin Borel, who also earned the Kentucky Derby Gold Cup in 2007 and 2010. "On this point, we were accepting no imitations," Wilson says, "and it just worked out that Calvin had the time and wanted to participate in the project. We shot the race scenes at Churchill for authenticity, and Calvin's participation made them that much more genuine."
After the Derby win, Mine That Bird continued racing that year in pursuit of the Triple Crown. He finished second in the Preakness Stakes and third in the Belmont Stakes. He was retired from racing in November 2010 and now lives at coowner Mark Allen's Double Eagle Ranch, in Roswell. He was played in the film by a three-and-a-half-year-old Canadian horse, named Sunday Rest.
The film is being distributed by Wilson's own Ten Furlongs LLC production company. On March 19, 50 to 1 will get its world-premiere screening at the KiMo Theatre, in Albuquerque, and on March 21 the film will be released to more theaters in New Mexico. Wilson plans to roll out the film state by state. And he's promoting 50 to 1 in a most unorthodox way.
"We're not doing festivals, really," he says. "Instead we're wrapping a tour bus with 50 to 1 imagery, filling it with cast members and other people who worked on the film, and going state to state, spreading the word one town at a time. We're starting in New Mexico." ✜
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Author: Rob DeWalt
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Hidden Talents opens in Tonasket, grand opening Saturday
TONASKET - Sally Rose Howerton feels that there is a big need to fill for local artists and hopes that...
by Brent Baker • November 27, 2012 8:46 am
Sally Rose Howerton's store Hidden Talents in Tonasket is set up to be equal parts art supply store, art studio and art gallery. Charlene Helm/staff photo
TONASKET – Sally Rose Howerton feels that there is a big need to fill for local artists and hopes that her new shop, Hidden Talents at 315 S. Whitcomb in Tonasket, can satisfy that need, and then some.
"So many 'creatives' are trying to work at their kitchen table and have to wait days for shipments to arrive from other sources," Howerton said. "I just don't think it should be so difficult to make art."
Howerton said her frustration of having to travel to Spokane for supplies and instruction became her inspiration.
"Spokane Art Supply (is) a wonderful place, full of creative people and lots of inspiration," she says. "I just wondered why we couldn't have something like that here. When this store front opened up I just had to take that leap of faith."
Hidden Talents is equal parts art supply store, art studio and art gallery. Howerton will carry a plethora of supplies, ranging from the common (water colors, oils, acrylics, pen and ink, colored pencils) to the unusual (mixed media, collage, mosaic, art journaling, magna).
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"We have a classroom and will soon have a calendar of classes offered," she says.
The store will have WiFi access and plans are in the works for classes on promoting one's art through online markets and e-stores, as well as making connections through social networking. Also featured will be Open Studio Play Days once or twice a month, where artists can work on their own projects or lean new techniques from an instructor.
"That's me," she says, "but I am certainly hoping other artists will join in and want to teach as well."
Howerton is also planning on implementing a concept she calls the Art Bar.
"This will be great for small groups or families," she says. "For a set fee attendees will receive a canvas, shots of paint (of their choice), collage glue and full access to the classroom, collage papers, tools, supplies and instructions for two hours.
"Think of it as an alternative to going to the movies!"
Howerton and her husband of 21 years have lived in the Okanogan Highlands and have built, remodeled, sold and rented out homes in the area for nearly all of that time. They have two adult children who live in the Spokane area, and currently share their home with "three very prickly cats," she says, "and whatever stray happens to cross my path."
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The hon. Gentleman will be aware that I have a long history of pushing Ministers, of arguing in private and indeed in this Chamber, for greater funding and for changes in the funding formula to benefit West Midlands police. I shall continue to do so; I know that a number of my colleagues will continue to do so. However, I would remind him—I think that it probably slipped his mind—that five years ago, he, I think as a shadow Minister, attacked me and my hon. Friend
the Member for Solihull (Julian Knight) for calling for council tax hikes because we were backing the police and crime commissioner's call for a £5 increase in the policing precept.
We need a good level of funding. We have had increased funding in the west midlands. The number of officers in the west midlands is increasing. The previous West Midlands police and crime commissioner failed to translate that into safer streets and communities. I genuinely wish the new commissioner well; we need him to succeed, and we need him to improve policing and safety in our region. However, I fear that he is making the same mistakes as his predecessor. Our constituents deserve better.


Food waste is the single largest component of material going into landfills. Composting can divert as much as 30% of household waste away from the landfill. Compost is also a simple way to add nutrient rich humus to your household plants or to your outdoor plants. Composting offers a natural alternative to chemical fertilizers. Composting reduces landfill waste and is inexpensive and easy!!


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Download file to see previous pages -2004) found out that 21 percent of African Americans, 23 per cent of Mexican Americans and 14 per cent of non-Hispanic white adolescents aged 12-19 are likely to be overweight. Among children aged 6-11 years, 22 percent of Mexican Americans, 20 percent of African Americans and 14 percent of non-Hispanic white children were found to be obese (Centre for Disease Control, 2000).
The main negative effects of the condition include medical, psychosocial and economic problems. Medical impacts include high cholesterol, high blood pressure, metabolic syndrome, sleep apnea and type 2 diabetes mellitus. The condition causes significant economic costs. The 2003 national rate of related expenses on obesity reached 75 billion dollars in the US, with most of the funds being generated towards social programs such as medical care. Hudson (2008) asserts that the related hospital expenses for obesity related diseases among children under the age of 17 years increased from 35 million to 127 million dollars over a period of twenty years. Overweight teens, especially girls; perceive their body size as unfashionable as they cannot conform to the recent changes in lifestyles. Most of the overweight children experience social discrimination and low self-esteem because of the teasing and neglect portrayed by their colleagues. This causes stress that increases the prevalence of the condition. Obese teenagers significantly exhibit irregular school attendance. According to Geier, Foster and Womble et al. (2007) obese children missed an average of 12.2 days while those with an average weight missed an average of 10.1 days annually. This affects their performance as well as reduces their parents' work output. According to USA Today (2011), most parents divert most of their attention in taking care of the obese children. The school systems also experience financial losses from taking care of overweight children.
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Rob Paulsen and Voice Lessons: Iconic Characters
Posted on May 21, 2019 May 13, 2019 by Garrett Kim
Over the course of his career, voice actor Rob Paulsen has helped give life to some of television's most iconic characters. Whether it's Yakko from Animaniacs, Pinky from Pinky and the Brain, Raphael from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, or over 250 other characters, odds are you've most likely heard his voice at some point. His eclectic and wide-ranging career has earned him an Emmy, three Annie awards, and a Peabody. And now he can add author to that list, thanks to the publication of his upcoming new book, Voice Lessons: How A Couple of Ninja Turtles, Pinky, and an Animaniac Saved My Life.
"I've had a couple of different folks mention writing a memoir over the past five years," says Paulsen, "and I was always the first one to shut it down, only because I didn't really feel like the world needed another Hollywood memoir, especially by someone who isn't really famous. It's the characters who are famous."
Paulsen's interest in staying in the background wasn't rooted solely in humility, but in the belief that he was part of a group that came together to bring the characters alive. "There are teams of artists and writers that really create these characters, I'm just one part of an extremely talented team." Even if that may be, Paulsen's part in the creation of these characters not only changed his life but improved the lives of viewers along the way.
A Turn of Events
For years, Paulsen has been working with sick children to help them as they recover. He recalls children only willing to go into surgery if they had their Ninja Turtles jackets on, women who got through surgery with the help of Pinky and the Brain, and others who were soothed by the voice of Carl from Jimmy Neutron. "It's really impossible to quantify," says Paulsen. In 2016, however, Paulsen came face to face with something that put his life and career on the line.
"Three years ago, I was diagnosed with stage 3 throat cancer, from which I'm now thankfully cured," Paulsen says. "The treatment, though, is pretty brutal. It's like being the placekicker for a football team and losing your foot. But then I remembered all the kids I met throughout the years that have gone through the same thing. I'd had so many experiences where children and their parents have gotten through impossible circumstances because of their love of these characters. The book is called Voice Lessons because that's exactly what my relationships with these kids have been: lessons that have helped me through my own struggle. They shine a light on the depth to which people embrace these characters."
Lifelong Bonds
According to Paulsen, the bonds that children form with cartoons isn't a one-time phenomenon. "You'd be surprised how often this actually happens. Whether it's Spongebob or Bart Simpson, these characters are changing kids' lives. It's easy to look at these characters and think to yourself, 'Oh that's kind of cute.' But it's way bigger than that."
As someone who grew up watching shows like Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, and Jimmy Neutron, I was happy to reveal to Paulsen that the characters he helped bring to life meant a lot to me. The next thing I knew, Paulsen started talking to me as one of my favorite childhood characters, Yakko from Animaniacs.
"I know what you're doing right now." Paulsen said. "You're grinning ear to ear." Sure enough, he was right. I was doing my very best to stifle laughter and stay professional, but I was full of a sense of elation that I haven't felt since I was a kid.
"That feeling that you're feeling right now, that's exactly what the book is about. It's exactly that. It's impossible to quantify. It's not about money; it's about a pure reconnection to something profoundly important. A piece of your personal puzzle."
One of Paulsen's main goals with Voice Lessons is to finally tell his side of the story, to write about his struggle with health and finding the inspiration to keep pushing forward in the same way that he's done for others. But there's something else the book aims to get across as well—something that Paulsen has learned after years of working with kids.
"I was at an event at Dallas a few years ago signing autographs, and I see a big guy in line. He's about 6'4", big long ponytail, tats, and biker jacket. He steps up to the table, and in the voice of Pinky from Pinky and the Brain, I go 'Oh boy, you're a big one, aren't you?' and he just started crying. Turns out that character's voice brought him back to being in Afghanistan, and one of the things he took to comfort him after being shot at were his Pinky and the Brain DVDs."
The cartoons we grew up with are a clear connection to love, comfort, and joy, Paulsen explained. These characters' voices can channel something childlike inside us, somewhere that all of us are longing to get back to. In his voice, Paulsen has found a way to give teenagers and adults an instant ticket back to childhood. For many of us, the characters that teach us valuable lessons stay with us for our entire lives. In Voice Lessons, Paulsen writes with honesty and heart that this clearly works both ways.
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Marnie (aka Helen Marnie of Ladytron) is sharing a fresh '80s-tinted beaut named "Electric Youth".
The invigorating ode arrives in the wake of "Alphabet Block" and "Lost Maps", and serves as another preview of upcoming solo LP Strange Words And Weird Wars (the follow up to 2013's Crystal World).
"Electric Youth" has Marnie's inimitably breathy vocals front and centre, with bubbling neon synths behind - it's got booming percussion and a trickling pitter-patter of electro rain, plus shimmering hope and to-the-rafters refrains in spades. Marnie distils the biggest clichés from '80s rock and pop into a refined shard of pristine noise - it might be build from retro bricks, but Marnie's as cutting edge as ever.
Strange Words And Weird Wars is out on 2 June via Disco Piñata.


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All About My Mother () is a 1999 comedy-drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, and starring Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan, Penélope Cruz and Rosa Maria Sardà.

The plot originates in Almodóvar's earlier film The Flower of My Secret (1995) which shows student doctors being trained in how to persuade grieving relatives to allow organs to be used for transplant, focusing on the mother of a teenager killed in a road accident. All About My Mother deals with complex issues such as AIDS, homosexuality, faith, and existentialism.

The film was a commercial and critical success internationally, winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in addition to the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and the BAFTA Awards for Best Film Not in the English Language and Best Direction (Almodóvar). The film also won six Goya Awards including Best Film, Best Director (Almodóvar), Best Actress (Roth).

Plot
The film centers on Manuela, an Argentine nurse who supervises donor organ transplants at Ramón y Cajal Hospital in Madrid. She is also a single mother to Esteban, a teenager who aspires to become a writer.

On Esteban's 17th birthday, he is hit by a car and killed while chasing after actress Huma Rojo for her autograph following a performance of A Streetcar Named Desire, where Rojo portrays Blanche DuBois. Manuela agrees with her colleagues at work that her son's heart be transplanted to a man in A Coruña. After following her son's heart to its new recipient, Manuela resigns from her job and travels to Barcelona in search of her son's father, Lola, a transgender woman whom Manuela had kept a secret from Esteban, just as she had never told Lola about their son.

In Barcelona, Manuela reunites with her old friend Agrado, a transgender sex worker who is warm and witty. She also meets and becomes deeply involved with several new friends: Rosa, a young nun who works in a shelter for sex workers who have experienced violence and is pregnant with Lola's child, but is also HIV positive; Huma Rojo, the actress whom her son had admired; and Nina Cruz, Huma's co-star and lover, who is struggling with drug addiction. Manuela's life becomes entwined with theirs as she cares for Rosa during her pregnancy and works for Huma as her personal assistant. She even acts in the play as an emergency understudy for Nina during one of her drug abuse crises.

On her way to the hospital, Rosa asks the taxi to stop at a park where she spots her father's dog, Sapic, and then her own father, who suffers from Alzheimer's. He does not recognize Rosa and asks for her age and height, but Sapic recognizes her. Rosa dies giving birth to her son, and Lola and Manuela finally reunite at Rosa's funeral. Lola (formerly known as Esteban), who is dying from AIDS, talks about how she always wanted a son, and Manuela tells her about their own Esteban and how he died in an accident. Manuela then adopts Esteban, Rosa's child, and stays with him at Rosa's parents' house. The father does not understand who Manuela is, and Rosa's mother introduces her as the new cook who is living there with her son. Rosa's father then asks Manuela about her age and height.

Manuela introduces Esteban, Rosa's son, to Lola and gives her a picture of their own Esteban. Rosa's mother spots them from the street and confronts Manuela about letting strangers see the baby. Manuela tells her that Lola is Esteban's father, but Rosa's mother is appalled and says, "That is the monster that killed my daughter?!"

Manuela flees back to Madrid with Esteban as she cannot continue to live at Rosa's house any longer. The grandmother is afraid that she will contract HIV from the baby. Manuela writes a letter to Huma and Agrado saying that she is leaving and apologizes once again for not saying goodbye like she did years before. Two years later, Manuela returns with Esteban to an AIDS convention. She tells Huma and Agrado, who now run a stage show together, that Esteban had been a miracle by becoming HIV-free. Manuela then says she is returning to stay with Esteban's grandparents. When Manuela asks Huma about Nina, Huma becomes melancholic and leaves. Agrado tells Manuela that Nina returned to her town, got married, and had a fat, ugly baby boy. Huma rejoins the conversation briefly before exiting the dressing room to go perform.

Cast
 Cecilia Roth as Manuela Echevarria
 Marisa Paredes as Huma Rojo
 Candela Peña as Nina Cruz
 Antonia San Juan as Agrado
 Penélope Cruz as Rosa
 Rosa Maria Sardà as Rosa's mother
 Fernando Fernán Gómez as Rosa's father
 Eloy Azorín as Esteban Echevarria
 Toni Cantó as Lola

Production
Almodóvar dedicates his film "To all actresses who have played actresses. To all women who act. To men who act and become women. To all the people who want to be mothers. To my mother".

Almodóvar recreates the accident scene from John Cassavetes' Opening Night (1977) as the epicenter of the dramatic conflict.

The film was mainly shot on location in Barcelona.

The soundtrack includes "Gorrión" and "Coral para mi pequeño y lejano pueblo", written by Dino Saluzzi and performed by Saluzzi, Marc Johnson, and José Saluzzi, and "Tajabone", written and performed by Ismaël Lô.

The poster for the film was designed by Madrid illustrator Óscar Mariné. This poster was designed to epitomize the very image of beauty, simplicity, and femininity. The poster intentionally emphasizes red, white and blue with black accent strokes and a pop of yellow.

Release
The film premiered in Spain on 8 April 1999 and went into general theatrical release on 16 April. It was shown at the Cannes Film Festival, the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, the Auckland Film Festival, the Austin Film Festival, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, and the New York Film Festival before going into limited release in the United States. It eventually grossed €9,962,047 in Spain ($12,595,016), $8,272,296 in the US and $59,600,000 in foreign markets for a worldwide box office total of $67,872,296.

Critical reception in the United States
Janet Maslin of The New York Times called it Almodóvar's "best film by far", noting he "presents this womanly melodrama with an empathy to recall George Cukor's and an eye-dampening intensity to out-Sirk Douglas Sirk". She added, "It's the crossover moment in the career of a born four-hankie storyteller of ever-increasing stature. Look out, Hollywood, here he comes".

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times observed, "You don't know where to position yourself while you're watching a film like All About My Mother, and that's part of the appeal: Do you take it seriously, like the characters do, or do you notice the bright colors and flashy art decoration, the cheerful homages to Tennessee Williams and All About Eve, and see it as a parody? . . . Almodóvar's earlier films sometimes seemed to be manipulating the characters as an exercise. Here the plot does handstands in its eagerness to use coincidence, surprise and melodrama. But the characters have a weight and reality, as if Almodóvar has finally taken pity on them – has seen that although their plights may seem ludicrous, they are real enough to hurt".

Bob Graham of the San Francisco Chronicle said, "No one else makes movies like this Spanish director" and added, "In other hands, these characters might be candidates for confessions – and brawls – on The Jerry Springer Show, but here they are handled with utmost sympathy. None of these goings-on is presented as sordid or seedy. The presentation is as bright, glossy and seductive as a fashion magazine . . . The tone of All About My Mother has the heart-on-the-sleeve emotions of soap opera, but it is completely sincere and by no means camp".

Wesley Morris of the San Francisco Examiner called the film "a romantically labyrinthine tribute that piles layers of inter-textual shout-outs to All About Eve, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Federico García Lorca and Alfred Hitchcock, and beautifully assesses the nature of facades . . . Almodóvar imbues his Harlequin-novel-meets-Marvel-comic-book melodramas with something more than a wink and a smile, and it is beguiling. His expressionism and his screenwriting have always had fun together, but now there is a kind of faith and spirituality that sexcapades like Law of Desire and Kika only laughed at... it contains a host of superlative firsts: a handful of the only truly moving scenes he has filmed, the most gorgeous dialogue he has composed, his most dimensional performances of his most dimensional characters and perhaps his most dynamic photography and elaborate production design".

Jonathan Holland of Variety called the film "emotionally satisfying and brilliantly played" and commented, "The emotional tone is predominantly dark and confrontational . . . But thanks to a sweetly paced and genuinely witty script, pic doesn't become depressing as it focuses on the characters' stoic resilience and good humor".

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 98% based on 91 reviews, with a weighted average rating of 8.10/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Almodovar weaves together a magnificent tapestry of femininity with an affectionate wink to classics of theater and cinema in this poignant story of love, loss and compassion." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 87 out of 100, based on 34 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". In 2018 the film was ranked 32nd in BBC's list of The 100 greatest foreign language films. British Film Institute ranked the film at No. 69 on its list of "90 great films of 1990s".

Selected awards and nominations
 Academy Awards
Best Foreign Language Film (won)

 BAFTA Awards
Best Film Not in the English Language (won)
Best Direction (Almodóvar, won)
Best Screenplay – Original (Almodóvar, nominated – lost to Being John Malkovich, Charlie Kaufman)

 Golden Globe Awards
Best Foreign Language Film (won)

 Goya Awards
 Best Actress (Roth, won)
 Best Cinematography (nominated – lost to Goya in Bordeaux)
 Best Costume Design (nominated – lost to Goya in Bordeaux)
 Best Director (Almodóvar, won)
 Best Editing (won)
 Best Film (won)
 Best Makeup and Hairstyles (nominated – lost to Goya in Bordeaux)
 Best Original Score (Iglesias, won)
 Best Production Design (nominated – lost to Goya in Bordeaux)
 Best Sound (won)
 Best Supporting Actress (Peña, nominee – María Galiana, Alone)
 Best Screenplay – Original (Almodóvar, nominee – lost to Alone, Benito Zambrano)

Other awards
 Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Foreign Language Film (winner)
 British Independent Film Award for Best Foreign Language Film (winner)
 Butaca Award for Best Catalan Film Actress (Candela Peña, winner)
 Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award (winner)
 Cannes Film Festival Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Pedro Almodóvar, winner)
 Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film (winner)
 César Award for Best Foreign Film (winner)
 David di Donatello for Best Foreign Film (winner)
 Jameson People's Choice Award for Best European Director (winner)
 European Film Award for Best European Film (winner)
 European Film Award for Best European Actress (Cecilia Roth, winner)
 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Film in Limited Release (nominee)
 Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Language Film (nominee)
 London Film Critics Circle Award for Foreign Language Film of the Year (winner)
 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film (winner)
 National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film (winner)
 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film (winner)
 Premios ACE Award for Best Film (winner)
 Premios ACE Award for Best Actress – Cinema (Cecilia Roth, winner)
 Premios ACE Award for Best Supporting Actor – Cinema (Fernando Fernán Gómez, winner)
 Premios ACE Award for Best Supporting Actress – Cinema (Marisa Paredes, winner)
 Satellite Award for Best Foreign Language Film (winner; tied with Three Seasons)

Stage adaptation
A stage adaptation of the film by playwright Samuel Adamson received its world première at the Old Vic in London's West End on 4 September 2007. This production marked the first English language adaptation of any of Almodóvar's works and had his support and approval. Music by the film's composer, Alberto Iglesias, was incorporated into the stage production, with additional music by Max and Ben Ringham. It starred Colin Morgan, Diana Rigg, Lesley Manville, Mark Gatiss, Joanne Froggatt, and Charlotte Randle. It opened to generally good reviews, with some critics stating it improved upon the film.

See also
 List of LGBT-related films of 1999
 The Flower of My Secret
 Opening Night
 A Streetcar Named Desire

References

External links

 All About My Mother: Matriarchal Society – an essay by Emma Wilson at The Criterion Collection

1999 films
1999 comedy-drama films
1999 independent films
1999 LGBT-related films
1990s English-language films
1990s feminist films
1990s Spanish-language films
BAFTA winners (films)
Best Film Goya Award winners
Best Foreign Film César Award winners
Best Foreign Film Guldbagge Award winners
Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award winners
Best Foreign Language Film BAFTA Award winners
Best Foreign Language Film Golden Globe winners
Catalan-language films
El Deseo films
European Film Awards winners (films)
Films about actors
Films about gender
Films about mother–son relationships
Films about trans women
Films about writers
Films adapted into plays
Films directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Films produced by Agustín Almodóvar
Films scored by Alberto Iglesias
Films set in Barcelona
Films set in Madrid
Films shot in Barcelona
Films shot in Madrid
Films whose director won the Best Direction BAFTA Award
France 2 Cinéma films
French comedy-drama films
French independent films
French LGBT-related films
HIV/AIDS in film
Lesbian-related films
LGBT-related comedy-drama films
Spanish comedy-drama films
Spanish independent films
Spanish LGBT-related films
Spanish-language French films
1990s French films
1990s Spanish films

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CAM would like to update you on the existing plans that are being made for 2018 season.
After much thought, your CAM board decided to use the better part of 2017 to review its long-term strategic plans in the desire to grow. We are focusing on forging close collaborations with like-minded music organizations that we expect will result in a larger and more active board of directors as well as a larger pool of potential donors, sponsors, members, and volunteers. With far more active participants in CAM's operations, we expect that the Heida Hermanns International Music Competition, referred to now as "the Heida", will continue to expand its "brand recognition" as a preferred mainstream, global competition sought by more accomplished musicians advancing their careers. We eagerly look forward to the return of the Heida in November 2018 and will be updating you with details after the New Year.
Through collaboration with other organizations, we expect to increase the number of house concerts in more communities in southwestern Connecticut featuring past Heida winners as well as renowned musicians from the world's concert stages. Your Board hopes that you will agree with these initiatives and remain committed to continuing to support our efforts as our plans are ably implemented by our new Executive Director, Alexandra (Sasha) Schroeder, an experienced non-profit manager, Harvard grad, and a double-bass player.
Our commitment to championing brilliant young musicians and providing unique venues for talented musicians to flourish and audiences to find creative stimulation and enjoyment is stronger than ever and we look forward to providing you with a more enriched and expansive program next year and in the years to come. We will continue to update you as we go along.


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Plastic ski slopes on Cairn Gorm need to be refused
Category: Campaigns
Questions are being asked about how Cairngorms National Park Planners have recently recommended approval for a costly proposal for artificial ski slopes on the hill. It is shocking (but convenient for the developer) that the public screening opinion claims this project would not have any "significant effects on the environment". Envisaged in the high altitude development over a footprint of 2.1 ha is the stripping of thousands of cubic metres of peat. No mitigation is possible for the habitats to be destroyed. These support valued wildlife including mountain hare, mountain bumblebee, plants like interrupted clubmoss, heathland with natural bearberry, juniper and lichens that with the natural landform has developed since the end of the last Ice Age. The compensation proposed (of some tree and shrub planting) is arguably what should already be happening on responsibly managed land in public ownership in such a special area in the heart of a National Park.
Apparently requiring £1.5M of public money, this climate-unfriendly project is plainly highly unsustainable in financial, social and environmental terms . If in the teeth of considerable community opposition this project is consented it has enduring reputational implications and would illustrate subservience to a speculative unreasonably optimistic and disastrously ill-informed vision.
If the CNPA Board approve this project it opens the way to a new wave of major environmental and landscape damage on the hill.
Today ( 11 Oct 2018) the Strathspey & Badenoch Herald reported the planners recommendation for approval of the controversial project "is despite growing protests that it will damage the environment and become a white elephant".
Strathspey & Badenoch Herald ( October 11 2018, extract from page 4 )
The exposed high altitude site has an extensive footprint in a sensitive location with multiple potential significant environmental effects
Letter on golf development at Coul Links in East Sutherland
Written by Roy Turnbull
Category: Debates
BSCG is among Highland environmental groups that have written objections to Highland Council Planners over controversial proposals for a golf course on designated land at Coul Links in East Sutherland. If approved this seriously damaging development would set a precedent of allowing development that conflicts with sustainable development. Below is a personal letter of objection from Roy Turnbull that draws attention to two issues that illustrate the far-reaching repercussions raised by the Coul Links proposal.
17/04601/FUL - Development of 18 hole golf course, erection of clubhouse etc.
Land 1700M NW of Embo Community Centre School Street, Embo.
I write to add my strong objection to the above proposed development.
I have studied the detailed objections you have already received from numerous informed and knowledgeable sources concerning the damaging impacts this proposed development would have upon the exceptional and valued flora and fauna and landscape of this important designated site. Whilst there is little point in my repeating all this information, which I trust you will study and absorb, I would like to draw your particular attention to just two issues:
1. From the Scottish Wildlife Trust objection, dated 27th October 2017:
"assessing the impact of the development is not simply a case of totalling up the areas of the various habitats which the footprint of the development will cover. The creation of a golf course, and aspects of its management such as drainage, irrigation, seeding, cutting, fertilising, application of pesticides, water abstraction from boreholes and resultant impacts such as changes to grazing, and disturbance, will fundamentally affect the operation of these natural processes which have created the sand dune features which are a notified feature of the Ramsar site.
The development will freeze this dynamism over time and steadily impoverish the biodiversity to make it a very ordinary place, like most of Scotland's links golf courses (lawns and scrub). Construction and management will fundamentally affect these processes of seasonal and longer term changes"
This, it seems to me, gets to the crux of the matter. It is simply not possible to make large scale alterations to the functioning of a complex, dynamic, living system of sand, water, plants, animals and fungi without fundamentally degrading and unravelling the whole system. A similar warning was sounded during consultations over the Menie golf course development near Aberdeen, and the recent announcement by Scottish Natural Heritage that de-designation of the SSSI there is under consideration because of the damage to its special features following development emphasises the validity of such warnings. I submit that the developers should heed the advice contained in both the SNH and SEPA objections: to consider an alternative site on agricultural land.
2. Please assess this proposal beyond just the confines of local concerns. There is widespread and increasing global concern about the continuing incremental loss of biodiversity and of natural and semi-natural habitats. For example, a very recent global study by the University of Queensland, Australia
[ https://www.uq.edu.au/news/node/121416 ] states,
"Despite their importance, wilderness areas are being destroyed at an alarming rate and need urgent protection with almost 10 per cent being lost since the early 1990s. Their conservation is a global priority."
Approving this application would damage Scotland's reputation for looking after its own natural and semi-natural areas, and weaken its voice on the global stage at a time when stopping the loss of such areas is an urgent necessity. As one of the wealthier and better educated countries on Earth, Scotland should be leading by example.
Talk: Wildlife of the Burns of Badenoch by Craig Macadam
BSCG's next public talk is on 21st November at 7.30pm in the Badenoch Centre (Youth room) Spey Street, Kingussie. It is an illustrated talk on . Craig is Conservation Director of Buglife, the charity that stands up for the small creatures that run the planet. Last year he received the RSPB Species Champion for Scotland award in recognition of a decade of work in which he has developed Buglife Scotland into an established conservation organisation. Buglife is currently involved with the Cairngorms rare invertebrates project.
In 2017 Craig undertook a survey of parts of the Spey catchment for stoneflies. He co-authored an authoritative pictorial guide to British mayflies published in 2010. With increasing pressures on our rivers and burns from such things as climate change, invasive species, water abstraction and pollution, not to mention growing concern for conserving vulnerable wildlife like pearl mussels and otters, this talk will provide a fascinating insight into the life of our burns.
Facebook event listing: https://www.facebook.com/events/340012106470336/
Strong opposition to new town in Cairngorm National Park
Sunday Herald,17 September 2017:
FAR more people oppose building a new town in the Cairngorms National Park than are in favour, according to a new opinion poll.
More than 44 per cent of those questioned said they opposed a plan for 1,500 new houses at An Camas Mòr, near Aviemore. Just under 25 per cent said they supported the idea, and the same proportion said they neither opposed or supported the plan.
The development was granted planning permission in principle by the Cairngorms National Park Authority last month, despite prolonged and fierce opposition from conservation groups. The scheme was initially approved in 2014, but lost a major financial backer.
The Badenoch and Strathspey Conservation Group (BSCG), which opposed An Camas Mòr, commissioned pollsters Survation to assess views on the development. More than 1,000 people across Scotland were interviewed between September 8-12 .
BSCG's convener, Dr Gus Jones, said he was encouraged by the poll results. "There is considerable opposition to this large-scale development in a national park," he told the Sunday Herald.
"An Camas Mòr is a controversial and damaging development in a highly prized and sensitive area, and requires large-scale public funding. We hope the results of this poll will encourage the Scottish Government to think again."
The Cairngorms Campaign argued that supporting the new town went against the will of the Scottish people. The park authority had issued approval "without due regard for the natural and cultural heritage of the area, which should be their first aim," said the campaign's Helen Geddes.
Cairngorm park authority's chief executive, Grant Moir, pointed out that developers still had to conclude a legal agreement. "The applicant has to comply with a suite of conditions and supply a significant amount of detail to the authority's planning committee on these conditions before any work can begin on An Camas Mòr," he said.
Article link: http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/environment/15540190.Strong_opposition_to_new_town_in_Cairngorm_national_park/
Poll question:
There are plans to build a new town in an area of the Cairngorms National Park. The area in question is a National Scenic Area and close to designated conservation sites. The new town is proposed to consist of around 1500 houses and would be about the size of the largest existing settlement in the Cairngorms National Park. There are plans to build a new town in an area of the Cairngorms National Park. The area in question is a National Scenic Area and close to designated conservation sites. The new town is proposed to consist of around 1500 houses and would be about the size of the largest existing settlement in the Cairngorms National Park. Supporters of the proposed new town say that the planned community on the site would be 'appropriate for its outstanding location and delivers much needed new homes and commercial space locally.' Opponents say that the plans would be over-development that would damage the special landscape and wildlife that the National Park was set up to protect.To what extent do you support or oppose the building of this new town in the Cairngorms National Park?
Strongly support / Somewhat support / Neither support nor oppose / Somewhat oppose / Strongly oppose / Don't know.
Small Blue Butterfly Week 2017 has started
Category: Insects
This week is Small Blue Butterfly Week across Scotland, with voluntary action by enthusiasts in Aberdeenshire, Moray, Irvine, Caithness and the borders. About a third of the world's butterfly species belong to the blue family, that includes the hairstreaks, the Northern Brown Argus and coppers - other small butterflies with striking metallic colours. Many of these frail gems have an intimate relationship with ants. The large blue butterfly became extinct in Britain in 1979 but thanks to a major effort involving taking stock of its dependence on ants, was re-introduced and currently survives precariously in England. To date attempts to reintroduce the large copper, for which the last British record was in 1864, have failed.
A sign in Nairn mentions that the small blue is a size that would fit on a penny.
By contrast with the restricted range of some of the 20 or so blues in Britain, the Small Blue has a distribution that spans from the Caithness coast to the south west of Ireland. Despite this it has been described as "rare in almost every region it inhabits". This is so in the Cairngorms National Park. Here inStrathspey, unlike other parts of Scotland, we can boast having an inland, rather than coastal, population of Small Blue. Vital to the survival of the Small Blue is the foodplant Kidney Vetch, on which the caterpillars entirely depend. This plant with attractive yellow flowers seems to be a favourite for other insects, like bumblebees.
A bumblebee visits kidney vetch at a flower rich site supporting small blue in Strathspey.
During Small Blue Butterfly Week hopes are high that members of the public will spot and report sightings of Small Blue. Good places to look are where the vital food plant kidney vetch is growing in sheltered sunny spots. The 2002 Cairngorms Local Biodiversity Action Plan identifies calcareous, neutral and acid grassland as habitat for the small blue, but unfortunately delivering better conservation in the face of damaging land use change for these grasslands remains somewhat fraught with challenges.
The upper wings of a female small blue here on a flower of bird's foot trefoil in Strathspey are dark in colour.
Those wishing to see Small Blue this week but not having luck in Strathspey could consider a trip to some of the undeveloped dune slacks along the Morayshire coast, in places like Nairn that boasts around 20 butterfly species. If Morayshire is too far, the Landmark Centre at Carrbridge has a butterfly house with many colourful South American butterflies to admire. However, as the blue family is tricky to propagate in captivity it is not one of the butterfly families on show in this new butterfly house.
A male small blue in Strathspey has wings that show some blue scales.


It's easy to think of dog training as a one-way street. You teach the dog that certain words and perhaps certain hand signals mean that the dog is supposed to do a particular action. This can seem cut and dried, right?
This morning I got up shortly before dawn. I slipped out at first light and did my stretching exercises and some brisk walking in our large yard. A bit later, my husband Kelly got up and let the dogs out.
I was just beginning my Qigong routine when our young Rottweiler Lola came over to me, bumped into my legs, and looked up at me. Oh yeah, I hadn't fed them yet. She and I happened to be in the part of the sunroom where she gets fed.
"Just a little while, hon," I said to her. Normally I feed the pets before doing my exercise routine but since I was approaching the end of my exercises, I figured I'd finish them.
Lola looked at me again. Then she sat.
She gazed into my eyes eagerly as she sat. The communication could not have been clearer. I always ask her to sit before setting her food bowl down. Now here she was sitting… how about that food bowl?
"I get your message," I said. "It won't be long." I figured my Qigong would be another ten minutes or so.
The dog kept looking at me expectantly. At least, she didn't drool, as she sometimes does when her dish is on the floor and I haven't released her yet from the sit.
Oh, that eagerness! Oh, that clear communication!
"All right," I said. "I'll do it now." She bounded up and went straight into the kitchen, the better to watch me prepare the food.
Who was doing the training this morning?
If you have a story of your dog training you, please share it in the comments.
I know my dog is training me all the time – we have a mutual one called "asking nicely". It started as an alternative to her yapping at me from the bottom of the stairs: I taught her that if she came and sat beside me and waited, I would do whatever she wanted (within reason!). Now I will get that prickly feeling, and look down from my computer to find her staring hard, and up and out to play we go!
The best example I ever knew was a cat of mine, who was a great visitor of neighbours. I called on one to find her taking a dish of milk (which he was not allowed at home) out of the microwave. She looked very slightly shame faced, and said "He does so much prefer it slightly warmed!". That cat had, in the space of a few visits, ensured not only that she poured out milk as soon as he arrived, but that it was warmed to exactly the right temperature in the microwave- all this by someone who claimed she didn't really even LIKE cats very much!


Mr. Izawa was born in 1973, in Gunma Prefecture in Japan.
Since very young age he showed signs of talent becoming interested in classical and jazz music.
It is in 1989 when he decided to take music as his path in life and started studying classical jazz under the late Mr. Fumiyoshi Maezawa .
In 1996 he graduated from the Kunitachi College of Music with a saxophone specialization.
It is at this time that he devoted most of his time to play jazz in school and in local concerts, eventually becoming the lead alto of the New Tide orchestra.
After graduating, Mr. Izawa continued his career as a musician by participating in a great number of concerts, events and private parties in Tokyo and across Japan.
Mr. Izawa has played side by side with many renowned Japanese musicians and in the bars and street s of Ginza for more than 10 years attracting hundreds of people to his performances.
In 2008 he moved to N.Y, USA where he took lessons and played along from Vincent Herring.
After the Great East Japan earthquake, March 2011, he relocated with his family to Kumamoto Prefecture. Rapidly joining the local Jazz scene and performing in concerts in Fukuoka City and across Kyushu Island.
It is in 2014 when he launched his release the album "In A Spring Time" from CMS label, becoming the first leader in a group of collaborators.
Some of the Co-staring musicians included, David Matthews , Fukuji Tainaka , Fumio Hayashi , Hideaki Kanazawa , Masahiko Hosokawa , Kouichi Osamu, Yoshiaki Okayasu , Taiki Yasukagawa , yoshirou Okazaki , etc.
In 2015 Mr. Izawa has been invited and performed in various local T.V programs.
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In the film "Denial," based on a true story, college history professor and author Deborah Lipstadt (Rachel Weisz) is sued for libel by notorious British Holocaust historian David Irving (Timothy Spall) for accusing him of being a Holocaust denier in her 1993 book, Denying The Holocaust. But the case turns into a battle for historical truth as the Holocaust itself is judged in a court of law.
In an early scene, Lipstadt is lecturing her class at Emory University about the four arguments of a denier: that the Holocaust was not a systematic genocide, that the number of Jews who died is exaggerated, that there were no extermination camps and, essentially, that the Holocaust is a myth. She asks her class: "How do we prove the Holocaust happened?" And she makes the compelling point that not one photograph exists of a Holocaust victim inside a gas chamber because the Nazis didn't allow any such images to be taken. Irving's decades old claim that there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz is built from this lack of physical evidence (the Nazis detonated the Auschwitz crematorium before the end of the war).
As a stunt, Irving shows up at Lipstadt's book reading event with an associate filming him while he heckles her, offering $1,000 in cash to anyone in the audience who can prove Hitler ordered the Holocaust. During this first encounter between the two, they have a heated exchange, captured on tape. Shortly afterward, Lipstadt receives a letter informing her that Irving is suing her for libel in a British court where, unlike the United States, there is no presumption of innocence so the burden of proof falls on her. Lipstadt must prove that she didn't libel him — in other words, she has to prove that the Holocaust happened, and that Irving deliberately falsified evidence to suggest that it didn't. While that might seem easy for her to achieve, it is anything but: the Nazis were careful to cover their tracks when it came to systematic genocide.
Thinking about this symbol of Jewish persecution is especially poignant today, the anniversary of Kristallnacht ("The Night of Broken Glass," November 9 and 10, 1938), when Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses, and killed close to one hundred Jews. On this violent night, shards of broken glass littered the streets after attacks that were planned and coordinated and aimed at the Jews. In the aftermath, some 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps. It was after Kristallnacht that Jews were forced to wear identifying badges—yellow stars—as a way to isolate and dehumanized them, to mark them different and inferior to everyone else. And it led to the deportation and genocide that Irving says never existed.
At the end of the film, as the case concludes, Lipstadt can finally say to the survivors who were silent: You were remembered. The voice of suffering was heard.
About the author: I began my career as a magazine writer and correspondent for regional and national publications. My debut novel, Tasa's Song, was inspired by my mother's early life in eastern Poland during the Second World War, and won a Bronze Medal for Historical Fiction from the Independent Publisher Award Program.


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Pakistan Army Making Most of Chinese Coronavirus Crises
April 18, 2020 ; By: Ravi Shankar
In a stinging rebuke to Pakistan yet, the Indian Army Chief Gen M M Naravane said India is battling the coronavirus pandemic and helping other countries by exporting medical supplies, while Pakistan is busy exporting terror across the border. Upset by the huge surge in ceasefire violations by Pakistani Army, Gen Naravane condemned the relentless firing on the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir when both countries are grappling with a global pandemic.
"It is very unfortunate that at a time when the whole world and India is fighting the menace of this pandemic, our neighbour continues to foment trouble for us," Gen Naravane said while speaking to news agency ANI on 17 April."While we are busy not only helping our own citizens but the rest of the world by sending medical teams and exporting medicines, on the other hand, Pakistan is only exporting terror. This doesn't augur well," he added.
The Army Chief is on a two-day visit to forward areas of Kashmir to review the operational situation and preparedness amid an unusual spurt in ceasefire violations and infiltration attempts along the LoC when the national lockdown was imposed in both the countries to break the chain of COVID-19 infections.
Despite the Coronavirus pandemic enveloping both Indian and Pakistan, ceasefire violations are more than last year and display an alarming rise. Pakistan has been maintaining an aggressive stance at the LoC, and ceasefire violations have increased to aid terrorist infiltration from Pakistan occupied Kashmir. Between January to March 2019, a total of 685 ceasefire violations were recorded whereas in the same period till mid-April, 2020more than 1200 violations have been recorded. As the pandemic hit Pakistan hard in March, the number of violations increased sharply to 411. Last year in March, 234 violations had been recorded. In April, 60 ceasefire violations have already taken place so far.
"I would like to emphasise that the Indian Army will give proportionate response to all acts of infringement of ceasefire and its support to terrorism. The onus remains with Pakistan to bring peace in the region. Unless Pakistan gives up its policy of state-sponsored terrorism, we will continue to respond with impunity and precision," Gen Naravane said.
COVID Terrorism
The Commander of the Indian Army's 15 Corps, Lt General B S Raju accused Pakistan of ceasefire violations and advised it to change its behaviour so that both countries can fight COVID pandemic on their own way. The 15 Corps is responsible for security along the Line of Control and operations inside Jammu and Kashmir.
In an interview given to BBC on 13 April, Lt Gen Raju said that "I do not see any major change in the pattern of deployment of Pakistan Army but we do get intelligence inputs from across that Pakistan is pushing a lot of COVID cases into Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir".
"We are also conscious that Pakistan is taking risks of putting these gullible people like who could be trained as Mujahideensor as terrorist, into very small, enclosed spaces in their own launch pads. So we are very conscious that these people who could be coming from across could be carriers of COVID-19 themselves, so we are very conscious about the way we are going to handle the terrorists' bodies whenever they are killed," he added.
Lt Gen Raju alleged that Pakistan was underplaying the number of coronavirus cases in the country. The fact has found resonance in Pakistan media also as the pandemic spreads and the COVID-19 confirmed cases cross the 7000 mark. Pakistani authorities and health experts have expressed apprehensions and fear that it may be higher than the figure released by the government.
Pakistani Death Toll Higher than Reported
Pakistani newspaper The Express Tribune reported on 17 April that a total of 3,265 dead bodies were brought to different graveyards of Karachi in 49 days between 20 February and 9 April. Several reports were published in the Pakistani media regarding spike in deaths in Karachi as many feared that the number of COVID-19 fatalities could be much higher. However, there was no official confirmation of any connection that the deaths may have had with the coronavirus disease.
This report has exposed Pakistan's callousness towards the pandemic. Even Sindh Chief Minister, Murad Ali has been on record to say that he feared the actual number of deaths in his province were much higher than what has currently been reported. Another Pakistani daily The News reported on 16 April that since 31March, more than 300 patients died with "pneumonia-like symptoms". Health officials admitted that they might be COVID-19 patients. Unfortunately, the officials informed, the majority of the bodies were not sent for further examination to ascertain the true cause of death. In fact, no hospital had conducted tests to ascertain that the real cause of death being COVID-19 or not. Meanwhile, health officials said the number of cases with pneumonia-like symptoms has increased.
The official tally of COVID-19 deaths in Pakistan is 135 till 17 April. Even as the number of confirmed cases keep on raising to 7,450, the Pakistan government has announced that it would ease down the countrywide lockdown and allow some businesses to run.
Health experts in Pakistan fear that the cases will rise further as the relaxation will bring hundreds of thousands of people to the streets, making them more vulnerable to local transmission of the virus. Experts are particularly concerned over the government's impending decision to relax religious congregation, open mosques and relief during the month of Ramadan.
However, the Sindh government has decided to continue with the lockdown and restrictions imposed on religious gatherings. During a press conference, the Sindh Chief Minister was in tears, almost begging the Imran khan-led government to focus on saving lives rather than the country's economy and conceding to the demands of religious leaders during these testing times.
Pakistan Seeks Medicines from India
Now Pakistan has sought India's help to curb Chinese virus pandemic. It has formally requested India for the drug Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), believed to help treat the COVID-19. The demand from Pakistan came after it registered a sharp rise of coronavirus cases crossing over 6000-mark and the number of fatalities crossed 100 on 15 April.
Apart from Pakistan, Malaysia and Turkey have been seeking help from India to import HCQ medicine. Notably, all of these countries did not support India over the issue of Kashmir on the international platform.
The Pakistani government initially dithered on acknowledging the perils of Chinese Coronavirus pandemic. Yet, the Imran Khan government repeatedly downplayed the dangers by calling it normal flu including their ministers going on national television mocking those who thought otherwise.
The story of the current government's inept handling of the pandemic is endless. The Pakistani military has made the most of it in these trying circumstances that the country finds itself in. By invoking Article 245 of the 1973 Constitution on 23 March they have paved the way to govern Pakistan through the backdoor.
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Want to make you own scraper to scrape any data form any website and return it in JSON format so you can used it anywhere you like? If yes, then you are in the right place.
In this tip, I will guide you how to scrape any website to get the desired data using node.js and to obtain the data in JSON format which can be used, e.g., make any app which will run on live data from the internet.
First of all, set up the IDE, go to https://nodejs.org/en/download/ and download the node.js pre build installer. For me, it will be Windows installer 64-bit.
Now I have to add two packages in npm folder, i.e. 'Request' and 'Cheerio'.
And uninstall 'jade' by doing right click as we don't need it now and I have to host my json to Azure cloud service so jade gives an exception. If you want to consume json directly in your application or hosting using other service, then you don't have to uninstall jade.
Now go to users.js as now we will do the main thing here. First of all, add the files 'cheerio' and 'request'.
Here comes the main and difficult part. Now, we have to write the main logic of scraping our website. You have to customize your function according to your website and the data you want to fetch. Let's open the website in browser and develop the logic for it.
I want to scrape out the following data, news headline, its description and the link to open the detail of the news. This data is changed dynamically and want to fetch the latest data.
To fetch this data, I have to study its DOM so I can write its jQuery to fetch it easily.
I made a DOM tree so I can the write the logic to traverse it easily.
The text in red are the nodes I have to reach in a loop to access the data from the website.
This function will reach the 'div' using the class '.DetailPageIndexBelowContainer' and will iterate its DOM to fetch the 'fullNewsLink', 'headline' and 'description'. Then, it will add these values in the array called 'metadata'. I have another array called 'data' and will come the values from metadata on each iteration so in the end I can return my 'data' array as JSON. If you only want one thing form a website, you don't need to have loop for it or to create you other array. You can directly access them by traversing it and return the single array.
Now run it and check the output.
And yes! It's runs perfectly and returns the required data in JSON format.
PS: If the site that i am using as an example, removes the page, changes the layout, changes the css files or their names etc then we would not get the desired result. For that you have to write the new logic. but i have explained the logic and how to traverse the DOM tree of any website.
Hello Umer, maybe you can help a bit.
Your very nice article looks exactly for a solution I have been looking for.
Can you help me out a bit, I am an absolute beginner in these things.
On the website : "http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901"
You see a so called WEB-SDR, a fully functional Software Defined Radio from the Twente Univ in Holland.
I am glad that you are trying a difficult thing as a beginner!
First of all make sure the data on that is not java-script generated, because for that this technique will not work.
for your points a) and b) you somehow have to send the data while hitting the URL.
P.S: I myself is a student and beginner so i hope someone professional would also answer you here!
btw - what tool did you use to generate your animates gifs ?
Thanks for the guidance, English is not my natvie language so yeah sometimes i make these kinds of mistakes.
as for the gifs i use a tool called 'screentogif' its a light tool and very easy to use.
Thanks once again for correcting me!