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Movie Review: Thank You (2011)
1.5 Stars (out of 4)
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The more I think about Thank You, the more confused I become. The first two-thirds of the comedy are enjoyable enough, but a serious and preachy third act unravels the entire story that precedes it.
Thank You centers on the womanizing exploits of Raj (Bobby Deol), Vikram (Irrfan Khan) and Yogi (Suniel Shetty). Yogi's already been caught cheating by his wife, Maya (Celina Jaitley). Suspicious of the other louts' extramarital activities, Maya introduces Vikram's wife, Shivani (Rimi Sen), and Raj's wife, Sanjana (Sonam Kapoor), to her "best friend": a private eye named Kishan (Akshay Kumar).
Kishan develops a crush on cute, trusting Sanjana and aims to expose her husband for the cheater he is. Raj and his buddies aren't able to continue their deception for long, and all their secrets are revealed. Maya and Shivani are prepared to move on with their lives, but Sanjana isn't. She wants Raj back.
Here's where things get confusing, in retrospect. Kishan agrees to help Sanjana reunite with Raj. His plan is to make Raj jealous by pretending to be Sanjana's new boyfriend. Presumably, Kishan's real intention is to show Sanjana how much better he is than Raj and win her for himself.
Without giving anything away, the third act seems to indicate that a potential romance between Kishan and Sanjana was never really an option (or something that either of them even desired). The tension in the second act, at the time, appears to be whether Sanjana will pick Raj or Kishan. Without that tension, the whole second act is, in retrospect, just a big waste of time.
Perhaps sensing the shoddy construction of his parable, writer-director Anees Bazmee has Kishan explain the moral of the story with a condescending speech in the final scene. But the message as delivered by Kishan runs counter to the one that the movie had conveyed to that point. I liked the story that Bazmee actually told better than the one he apparently thought he was telling.
The real shame of Thank You's narrative collapse is that most of the movie is pretty funny. The set pieces are good, and the jokes translate well cross-culturally.
Particularly deserving of praise are Shetty and Sen for their performances as Yogi and Shivani, respectively. Yogi, having been previously outed as a cheater, revels in watching his two buddies get caught for the same crime. Shivani is the most put-upon wife and therefore the most eager to take revenge on her husband. Shetty and Sen take full advantage of their opportunities to ham it up.
The weakest member of the cast is Kapoor. Still a relatively new actress, everything about her performance — from her physical presence to her voice — lacks gravity. She's pretty and stylish, but that's not enough to make her a lead that an audience cares about.
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Recovering From Stroke? 9 People Who Will Help You Heal
To recover physically and mentally after stroke, you need a team of healthcare specialists.
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Each member of the rehab team helps maximize your recovery from a stroke.
Stroke affects the brain and is the leading cause of adult disabilities in the United States.
Trained therapists assist with speech, memory, strength, mobility, and the skills you need to live independently after stroke.
After a stroke, healthcare professionals from dietitians to neuropsychologists can provide healing care.
Thanks to treatment advances, 85 percent of Americans who suffer a stroke will survive, joining 4 million other U.S. stroke survivors. Just over one-third will experience complete recovery or have only minor stroke-related deficiencies, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Strokes occur when blood stops flowing to part of the brain due to a bleed or a blood clot, causing physical and mental disability that takes time, and help, to heal.
What happens after you or a loved one have a stroke, and what can be done to improve chances of recovering?
As soon as possible after a stroke, a specialized team of healthcare providers steps in to help you regain strength, mobility, and the skills you need to live independently. The earlier rehab begins, the better your chance of regaining the highest possible level of independence and productivity.
Rehab doesn't end when you check out of the hospital after a stroke. "The brain has the ability to rewire or rechannel bodily functions so that another part of the brain can take over and make the body work," says Cheryl Miller-Scott, an occupational therapist and national director of therapy operations for HealthSouth Corporation, a network of rehab hospitals and home-care providers. "That sometimes can take six months to a year."
Each member of the rehab team, whether in the hospital, doctor's office, or at home, helps maximize recovery from a stroke. Here are nine essential people who should be on your recovery team or that of a loved one who has had a stroke:
1. Physician
A physician will orchestrate your rehab program and manage your medical needs. "There's a myriad of complications that can occur in the patient during the rehab phase," says James C. Grotta, MD, director of stroke research at Memorial Harmon Hospital at the University of Texas Medical Center in Houston. Physical medicine and rehabilitation physicians are specially trained in rehab, but general practitioners, internists, neurologists, and others can also manage the recovery process and oversee the rehab team, he says.
Depending on the patient's overall condition, complications can include:
Blood clots in the legs
Skin breakdown
At the same time, a patient may have existing medical needs that must be addressed, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, or high cholesterol.
2. Physical Therapist
Depending on the part of the brain affected, you may have weakness or even paralysis of your arms and legs after a stroke. As soon as your condition has stabilized, often within 24 to 48 hours, a physical therapist will begin helping you to move and strengthen stroke-affected limbs. This initial rehab may include passive exercises, in which the therapist moves your limbs, and active exercises, in which you move on your own.
Post-stroke physical therapy is intense, requiring three hours of exercises daily. Because of this, some people are too weak or confused to be candidates for physical therapy immediately after stroke, says Dr. Grotta. "These patients often go to a skilled nursing facility for a period of time until they're qualified for rehab," he explains.
The goal of physical therapy after a stroke is to get you up and moving on your own, as much as possible. "The physical therapists are going to do the gross motor things, the walking, the trunk control, the balance," explains Lynda Shrager, an occupational therapist and Everyday Health contributor who offers tips for caregivers on her website, Otherwise Healthy.
3. Occupational Therapist (OT)
Taking up where the physical therapist leaves off, occupational therapists help stroke patients continue to rebuild their muscle strength and flexibility. Occupational therapists also work with stroke survivors to find ways to adapt to any lasting impairments. These therapists visit you soon after you return home, and may continue for several weeks or months.
"We look at their activities of daily living — how this stroke has affected their ability to take care of themselves and do the things that they normally did [before the stroke], from the minute they wake up to the minute they go to bed at night," Shrager says. "The long-term goal is always to increase their independence to their maximum ability and get them as independent as they want to be for whatever they want to do with their life."
Occupational therapists help stroke patients with activities of daily living, including:
Going to the toilet
Preparing meals
They identify any assistive devices that will help a person with these activities. An example is using a grab bar on bathroom walls to help you get in and out of the shower and use the toilet safely.
With an OT's help, a patient who has weakness in one hand can learn tricks to make dressing easier, like avoiding clothes with zippers and buttons. OTs also find helpful tools to assist stroke survivors, like specially-made cutting boards designed for one-handed chopping. Shrager calls these adaptations "hacks for health and home," things that allow people to get back to doing the things they need and love to do.
4. Speech-Language Pathologists
Stroke can change your communication abilities in several ways. A stroke can damage parts of your brain responsible for producing and understanding words and sentences. Some people have difficulty reading and writing after a stroke. And many have weakness and poor coordination in the mouth and throat, which can cause swallowing problems, as well as difficulty with speech. Speech-language pathologists can help you with all of these issues.
After a stroke or other type of brain injury, people may have aphasia, which is difficulty understanding and speaking words. When you have difficulty controlling the muscles that produce speech, but no actual weakness or paralysis in these muscles, this is known as apraxia. Stroke survivors may have aphasia, apraxia, both at once, or no speech difficulties at all.
Speech-language pathologists will perform a swallowing evaluation and, if you have problems with drinking or eating, they will work with you over time to improve your ability to swallow a greater variety of foods and liquids.
5. Dietitian
One of the most important aspects of post-stroke care is taking steps to avoid a second stroke, and that may include consulting with a dietitian. Healthy eating combats three key stroke risk factors:
Excess weight
Unhealthy cholesterol levels
According to the American Stroke Association, eating five or more servings of fruits and vegetables every day may help prevent strokes.
Besides guiding you on the best way to eat in order to avoid future strokes, a dietitian can also provide suggestions to you and your caregivers on how to make food more appealing, because many people have a poor appetite after a stroke. Good nutrition is essential for optimal recovery.
If you have difficulty swallowing, a dietitian will work with a speech-language pathologist to adapt foods to make them safe for you to eat.
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6. Rehabilitation Nurse
Rehab nurses work to educate you on the big picture of life after stroke, including:
How to take your medications
What you can expect during the recovery process
How you can prevent another stroke
"It's kind of an extension of what we're able to provide in therapy," explains Miller-Scott. "A patient might get three or four hours of therapy in a day, but there are 24 hours in a day. Nurses make sure those philosophies are carried out through the 24-hour day."
7. Neuropsychologist
After a stroke, it's not unusual to experience symptoms of depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, or a combination of these. "Depression is common after a stroke, as is cognitive impairment," says Grotta. "Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between them, and a neuropsychologist can help with that."
A neuropsychologist can assess you for mental health concerns, as well as issues with cognitive function, such as poor attention span and memory loss.
"A neuropsychologist is more concerned with cognition, memory, problem-solving ability, and the ability to perform all these tasks we're talking about," Miller-Scott explains.
Once your mental health and cognitive function have been fully assessed, the neuropsychologist can work with your rehab team to develop an individualized care plan.
8. Support Groups
Attending support group meetings can be very important for stroke patients. "It helps to interact with people who have been through a similar experience," says Miller-Scott. Many hospitals offer support groups for patients recovering from stroke, and the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association (AHA/ASA) runs support groups in many communities. You can find a stroke support group in your area by zip code through the American Stroke Association. The AHA/ASA also offers an online support network for family members of stroke patients.
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9. Caregivers
Family and friends play a very important role in the stroke rehab process, says occupational therapist Glen Gillen, doctor of education and associate director of regenerative and rehabilitation medicine at the Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. They may be the most valuable player on your stroke rehab team.
"The optimal stroke rehabilitation includes the care partner as part of the team, which means training them if the person who has had a stroke needs any physical or cognitive assistance at home," Dr. Gillen says. "That really facilitates the recovery process, when there's a caregiver involved as well." The goal is to help you become independent after a stroke without the caregiver taking over for you.
Other members of the stroke rehab team will work closely with caregivers to make sure they're well prepared and well educated for their role in supporting the patient, Miller-Scott says. "They are going to serve as the person's advocate, so caregivers need to make sure the person recovering from stroke gets all the resources they need to continue to be as independent as possible and to live a meaningful life."
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There are different types of marsh birds seen in Cuba. The species includes coots, moorhen, gallinules, crane, Limpkin, rails, Sora and crake.
The marsh birds use their environment to the fullest. These skulking birds use the tall grasses and cattails as cover in their habitat. They are able to move about most times, totally unnoticed.
Most marsh birds have rather long legs, with large feet and long toes, which gives them the ability to walk or run, if necessary, on top of the plant life seen on the surface of the water. Other birds such as the American Coot prefer marsh waters deep enough to be able to swim on the surface and reach down into the water in search of its food.


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Vancouver Sun/The Search: Chinese evangelicals for Trump
On October 25, 2016 October 25, 2016 By jkhtseIn Asian Canada
Photo: Nick Procaylo/Vancouver Sun
Well, friends, it's hit the fan. The Vancouver Sun's religion and diversity columnist Douglas Todd has published a piece of mine titled 'Law and order, stability and prosperity: Chinese evangelical Trumplicans in Metro Vancouver' – or as they shortened it, 'Chinese Christians for Trump' – on his blog, The Search. The photo is one that they've had on file for about three years; it was taken by photographer Nick Procaylo at Richmond Public Market when Todd wrote a story about my doctoral work on Cantonese-speaking Protestants engaging Vancouver as a civil society. The post is about a certain ideology associated with voting for the United States's Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump that is circulating among – of all places – Chinese evangelicals in Vancouver.
The comments are still rolling in, and as I suspected, this little 700-word discussion piece is not only causing a discussion, but I'm probably going to get into a little bit of trouble for it too – not legally, financially, or materially, but ideologically. I used to be afraid of such trouble, but then I started reading Slavoj Žižek, and now I know that whatever trouble I get into, I will never be in as much trouble as him.
In fact, the takeaway quote from my piece is from Žižek's recent book Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism (p. 19, if you must know). Žižek has gotten into so much trouble for using the late long-time Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Kwan Yew's catch-phrase 'capitalism with Asian values' to describe a more efficient, if not totalitarian capitalism that is uncoupled from a democratic civic polity, and qualify it as he might to say that it has nothing to do with 'Asian people,' he's caught quite a bit of flak for it.
Some wish that I had qualified which Chinese evangelicals I was talking about when I attributed the support of Chinese evangelical Trumplicans to 'capitalism with Asian values.' The trouble, of course, is that I did:
'I don't have the quantitative survey instruments to determine exactly how many Trumplicans there are among Chinese evangelicals in Metro Vancouver, but I'm pretty sure that most of them (an estimated 16% of the 400,000 or so Chinese Canadians counted in Metro Vancouver) can't vote in the United States.'
'But what I don't have in terms of statistics, I do have in social media posts.'
'I am told by both this woman and a financial planner in Richmond – and others still, for that matter…'
'Of course, such comments indicate that these Chinese evangelicals come from a particular class of people with wealth to protect (raising questions, of course, about whether there's room in the religion for Chinese people who don't have wealth to protect). But for this particular class of ethnic Chinese migrants, stability was why they moved to Canada in the first place. (They wanted to get) away from, say, the possible political upheavals of the 1997 handover of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty, or the strangely personal dialectical politics of the market socialist mainland.'
In other words, the contingent of Chinese evangelicals propagating this pro-Trump material is by and large a wealthy class of persons that fled from Hong Kong or China in order to protect the stability of their capital from specific geopolitical processes. What I am saying is that these networks of ideological propagation are specifically Chinese evangelical because they tend to be run by such persons in association with an evangelical Protestant ideology (but often dissociated from the church, because they'd never want the church to get involved in politics).
Because I researched Cantonese-speaking Protestant engagements with Vancouver's civil society, I have been part of the public that these ideological informational networks address for quite some time. An interesting turn over the course of my research has been a slow transfer of this material from email lists to social media platforms, especially Facebook. It is surprising how much of this material is sourced from conservative United States sites; I wrote about Trump, but I could have gone much deeper into their opposition to Black Lives Matter and their sharing of material meant to defame Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
When Douglas Todd and I spoke with each other about this phenomenon, it became clear that this was a fascinating turn for a network of people that had historically participated in Vancouver's civil society and were generally concerned about Canadian politics. Indeed, I have written and spoken quite a bit before about how I think that all of this participation on the Right is an investment on the part of Cantonese evangelicals into becoming Canadian. But what was striking to Todd and me was that the concern from this population was really about Trump in an election in which they could not participate in any meaningful material way.
Todd suggested that I write a short piece exploring this ideological phenomenon. What you see on his blog is what he got.
I'd like to thank Douglas Todd for this opportunity. I also want to thank my friends in Metro Vancouver for helping me keep my ear to the ground. Last but not least, I want to thank the various Chinese evangelical Trumplicans who have voiced their ideological takes on Facebook; it is because of them that this piece was written.
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The barbecue is a great substitute for a tandoor oven as this whole BBQ tandoori fish demonstrates. A whole trout in glorious Indian Spices cooked to perfection!
Indian food is definitely one of my favourites and I love tandoori, so here is my whole BBQ Tandoori Fish.
Like my BBQ Tandoori Chicken recipe, this tandoori fish recipe uses a BBQ in lieu of a tandoor oven. The great thing about cooking on a BBQ is the extreme temperatures you can reach. A tandoor oven can often reach 500°C, double most conventional ovens.
Whilst a barbecue cannot quite reach those temperatures they do bridge the gap. This is the reason that my BBQ Chicken Pizza cooked on the BBQ works so well.
The fish in this recipe is definitely not just a texture. As a result, the flavours are scaled back, see what I did there, to allow the flavour of the fish to shine through.
Whilst we are on the topic of this fish, this is a tandoori trout. You can use any fish that cooks well whole on the bone. Think, zander, bream or even bass.
What is the difference between Tandoori Fish and Fish Tikka?
In general, the difference between tikka and vindaloo is that tikka tends to be ingredients cut up fairly small and cooked on a skewer in a tandoor. Tandoori recipes, however, tend to use larger pieces of protein cooked on the bone.
So it would be very simple to play around with this tandoori fish recipe and turn it into fish tikka by using boneless fillets. Something like cod. pollock or salmon would work wonderfully.
In fact, you can then take this a step further in the genesis of Indian food. A tikka masala like my duck tikka masala or chicken tikka masala are tikka recipes finished in a masala sauce.
I keep telling you that this cooking malarky is simple.
The only difference between a tandoori fish recipe and a fish tikka recipe is the bones. The only difference between a tikka masala recipe and a tikka recipe is a sauce.
How To Cook A Whole Fish On The Barbecue.
This is the second whole trout recipe I have here on Krumpli. Like this tandoori fish recipe, the other involves cooking a whole fish on the BBQ.
The process is stupidly simple, really hot coals, brush your fish grill or fish with oil. Then it is a simple matter of cooking over the direct heat of the coals.
Naturally, if your fish has marinaded like this fish tandoori recipe then brush your grill with oil rather than the fish.
I personally prefer cooking my whole fish on the barbeque in a fish cage, they cost pennies really. Whilst they do not offer any better cooking they make flipping the BBQ fish so much easier and less prone to breaking.
You can, of course, use a fish slice to flip your fish, however, make sure it is a long one!
Cooking tandoori fish on the BBQ is the perfect substitute for a tandoor oven. This recipe shoves dodgy sausages and burgers to one side and brings a touch of the exotic to your summer BBQ!
Add all of the ingredients for the tandoori marinade (except the yoghurt) to a blender and add the zest of a whole lemon and the juice of half a lemon.
Blitz to a fine paste.
Cook this paste over a medium heat for 3-4 minutes and transfer to a bowl.
When cooled add the yoghurt and place in a bowl large enough to hold the fish.
Make 3 or 4 deep slashes in the flash of the fish and rub in the marinade, including in the cavity and allow to sit for an hour.
Cut your red onion into thin half moons.
Deseed and thinly slice your tomato into strips.
Remove the seeds from your cucumber and then thinly slice.
Combine the cucumber, tomato and red onion in a bowl.
Chop the mint leaves and add to the bowl.
Add the sugar, salt and remaining juice from half a lemon and let sit until ready to serve.
When your coals are hot, brush the grill plates with oil and add the fish in a fish cage over the direct heat.
Cook for 5 minutes before flipping and cooking for another 5 minutes.
Cooking times will vary depending on the size of your fish.
Great flavours Brian. I made this yesterday and we all loved it.
Haha – you sure make "this cooking malarky " look simple! I don't think I've ever cooked a whole tandoori fish – and now I am hungry even though I had breakfast less than five minutes ago!
This looks absolutely amazing Brian! I've never had fish tandoori before. The flavors sound so yummy!
You really must, it is so good!
You did an absolutely gorgeous job on this fish! I would love to have this sitting in front of me. It sounds full of flavor and I love how you grilled it.
This looks delicious, so far we have only made salmon on the grill but your directions are great and I think we will try this soon.
I love tandoori fish, even though I have never tried making it at home and it's one of my favorite Indian main courses. Looks so delicious and easy enough for me to be able to make it myself 🙂 Thanks for a great recipe.
Definitely very easy and so incredibly tasty!


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Allison's Encore: the remarkable recovery of Allison Woyiwada
Three months after an epic operation to
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Wow, such detailed account over 400 pages. It shows the courage of the husband-wife team in pulling through such ordeal. I think to a large part will power is crucial. The book has very detailed accounts of all email conversations that led to the surgery, and post surgery and the remarkable recovery. It will serve as a ray of light for others. 100 years from now, this book will show how things were and be a historical reference point in medical history. An ebook was sent to me for a fair review.
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As a professional I have been reminded of the assets, strengths and resiliency of my clients and the importance of communicating and providing strategies for families even while they wait for services. As a speech-language pathologist I recognize the importance of the ability to communicate- and how hard families need to advocate for services across the globe, including Canada. It is important for everyone, including all healthcare workers to know how to communicate effectively with people who struggle to understand and express themselves.
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Speech-Language and Audiology Canada
Allison's Brain is a personal diary written by two people whose obvious love and commitment to each other shines through each page. Their perseverance and Allison's unfailing positive attitude and sense of humour make this very long journey compelling reading. Allison's Brain is also about the healing value of the arts: in Allison's case music. This is a must read for anyone going through major surgery; it is a how to as well – how to connect with family and friends, how to share the experiences and create a support system of those who wish Allison well and grow in their own understanding of how valuable life is and the struggle to enjoy its every minute.
Victoria Henry, Director
Canada Council Art Bank
This is the story of a remarkable woman and her determination to recover from the damage as a result of an aneurism. It highlights the importance of 'patient –centred care' and team work between the individual, the medical professionals and others to find the best combination of treatments for that individual in acute care and throughout the rehabilitation process.
Doug Treloar B.M.R.,P.T.
President, Canadian Physiotherapy Association
A heart-warming story of pain and recovery, but most of all, of hope and belief. The concern shown to Allison by those who surround her with their love help carry her - and each other - through one long, painful year. Allison's powerful personality and wry wit shine through the pages of this journey, and Allison's Brain is a tour de force, testimony to how determination and optimism can overcome what at times appears to be the insurmountable.
Linda Holeman, Author
This is a story of tenacity and optimism, it explores the power of music in the rehabilitation process and highlights the critical role played by Allison's family and friends in her recovery. The book ends with an epilogue written by Allison in May 2014 that provides a counterpoint to the main narrative, written by Allison's husband Robert McMechan. The epilogue is essential reading as it sets in context what Allison was feeling as she struggled with the ebb and flow of the recovery process.
Gerald Oakham, Ph.D. Chair,
Department of Physics, Carleton University
Allison's Brain is a tale and tribute to the human spirit, power of relationships and the use music and music therapy to foster recovery. While our advances in medicine provide hope and possibility for so many patients, the process of recovery continues to rely on our humanistic practices. Music therapy played pivotal role in Allison's recovery and her story illustrates the power of music to heal. Allison's music therapy sessions facilitated by a certified music therapist, allowed for the expertly guided use of music to foster her brain's neuroplasticity and skill re-acquisition. Leveraging the innate power of music to heal through structure music therapy sessions was a transformative process for Allison. Allison's Brain demonstrates how music and the brain were made for each other.
Annie Heiderscheit, Ph.D., MT-BC, LMFT, FAMI
President, World Federation of Music Therapy
In the 1500+ reviews that I have written since 2001—notably the live performances but occasionally films as well—I frequently know something of the artists involved or the background/previous works of the creators. In the case of this review, I found myself in the unique position of knowing Allison Woyiwada as a performer (through many, many conductor-soprano collaborations from the Gilbert and Sullivan canon), composer-publisher (the wonderfully inventive school musicals) and friend.
As time went on, I also made the acquaintance of husbands Rick, Bob and children Marya and Tyler. In recent years—after a long absence from Ottawa—Allison and I had been planning to work together and raise some much-needed funds for Ottawa's Savoy Society. Sadly, institutional inertia (likely the cause of the money woes in the first place) and then Allison's diagnosis, permanently shelved those musical possibilities. Going ahead without her was never in the cards.
Thanks to Bob's legal background, sense of narrative flow and unwavering support for his life partner—fueled in turn by the army of friends and supporters that rallied around Allison as she courageously battled her life-threatening brain aneurysm—the world now has a most detailed, very personal chronicle of this truly incredible journey from early warning signs to life after rehab.
As valuable a record of the myriad events and situations that are unfolded with humour (tax lawyer and music jokes abound—comic relief most welcome during the rollercoaster ride of extra-dangerous surgery and just what Allison would become on the other side of the operation), hope and a chorus of voices, anyone finding themselves (or their loved ones) in a similar predicament ought to make Allison's Brain required reading.
Not surprisingly—given Allison's considerable talents—the value of music as both healing element and brain stimulant is readily apparent from the overture ("A Brief History of Allison") to the extended coda ("From Where I Sit—May 2014" and the three appendices). The effects of acquired brain injury manifest themselves in many ways. In virtually every case, survivors report the feeling of rebirth. And as those precious lives begin again, it is for the rest of us to celebrate, reacquaint and marvel at the power of art and love.
S. James Wegg Managing Editor
JWR (James Wegg Review) www.jamesweggreview.org
This book is an extraordinary undertaking in many ways. While the medical condition of a "giant brain aneurysm" is explored from the personal perspectives of the patient and her husband, it also calls upon the reflections of family, friends and healthcare providers to allow the reader to understand the challenges faced by a host of characters.
Many of these reflections appear in the form of e-mails back and forth between the characters and … provide the reader the opportunity to track the chronology of the events from diagnosis through operative intervention and rehabilitation.
The reader is offered detailed accounts of the precise surgical procedures, anatomical descriptions of such conditions as speech pathology and the use of music therapy to encourage progressive improvement in language skills.
Knowing Allison as a music teacher of both my sons, and knowing many of the surgeons involved in her care, I am struck by the dedication and perseverance of all those around her that made Allison's recovery even more dramatic and successful.
Jan Ahuja, MD, FRCPC
Robert McMechan, Author
Robert McMechan is a tax lawyer in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is a proud product of Deloraine, Manitoba, where he was raised by his parents Bill and Sylvia McMechan. After practising tax law for many years, he obtained a Ph.D. in tax law from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University in 2012. Robert is a co-author and author of nationally and internationally acclaimed tax publications, and he has been a tax law course instructor for 20 years for the Canadian Bar Association. Robert is an avid long distance runner, having completed 25 marathons, and he organizes and participates in a Canada-U.S. team that competes in 200 mile relays in Canada and the U.S. He is also a cyclist, swimmer and triathlete, and he has completed an Ironman in Penticton, B.C., finishing well-behind his daughter Laurie.
Allison Woyiwada
Allison Woyiwada had a 28 year career as a music teacher in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She has also performed in and directed musical productions for over 30 years, and has written 14 children's musicals. Allison has been a proud recipient of the Whitton Award (1993), Arts Advisory Award for Innovative Programming in the Arts (1997), Community Builder Award (2000), Hopewell School Music and Drama Award (2006), Capital Critics Circle Award as Best Director (community) (2006-2007) and a Lifetime Achievement Award from Hopewell School students (2008). A wing of the Hopewell Avenue Public School was dedicated to Allison upon her retirement from teaching, and the "Allison Woyiwada Music Award" is presented annually to Hopewell Public School students.
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Europe in the late eighteenth century was a tumultuous place, with war and rebellions breaking out on many fronts. Young Arthur Wesley (later Wellington) and Napoleon Bonaparte grow up worlds apart yet immersed from youth in a culture where a military career is a natural choice for men of ambition. While Wellington is blooded in Ireland and Flanders, Napoleon is caught up in the dramas of the French Revolution and war with Prussia, Britain and Holland. None of this is enough to distract Wellington from his pursuit of Kitty Pakenham or Napoleon from his future bride, Josephine, for these men throw themselves into all aspects of life as enthusiastically as they rush to battle. A wonderful, multi-layered introduction to an epic series.


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The Maniac Agenda is a forwarding thinking electronic music group that blurs the lines of the producer, DJ, and rock band. Often compared to Celldweller, Skrillex, and Highly Suspect getting hit by a train, The Maniac Agenda are mavericks in the electronic music world in their own right.
The Maniac Agenda is known for their alternative electronic sound that saw them co-producing the acclaimed Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance video game soundtrack with Platinum Games, Logan Mader (former Machinehead/Soulfly member), & Composer Jamie Christoperson. The Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance video game has sold over 1 million copies worldwide to date.
Some other notable production credits by The Maniac Agenda include earning a programming & sound designing credit on "Believe" from Asking Alexandria's Billboard-topping album "From Death to Destiny" and producing official remixes for Celldweller, Starset, and Innerpartysystem.


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 Ablattaria arenaria (Kraatz, 1876)
Ablattaria cribrata (Ménétries, 1832)
 Ablattaria laevigata (Fabricius, 1775)
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This Book is Part of a Series "Scanguard Vampires"
Very interesting read. I would love to read the whole story!
are you going to add on to this keep the book going?
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When we first started, Sysomos focused primarily on monitoring and analyzing everything that is said in social media. Over the years, the social media landscape has evolved beyond simply listening to conversations – people are actively participating in discussions with their customers, peers and influencers. Our users wanted a single, unified platform to do everything in one place, from monitoring to publishing. Today, we are announcing exactly that.Throughout 2012 we released 104 product updates, making Sysomos not only the most advanced social media analytics platform, but also a place where brands can engage their online communities. To deliver a truly holistic, end-to-end social platform, we are releasing our Publishing Tab and Content Calendar.Keep reading to find out all of the great features that are now available with this latest update to Heartbeat.
You can easily schedule messages to multiple accounts, including Twitter and Facebook, at once. For Twitter, you can also attach images and for Facebook, a customizable multimedia preview is added for URLs automatically.
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Facebook Adds New IWD Themed Cards, and Tools For Women Entrepreneurs
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With fellow tech giant Google announcing multiple new initiatives on the occasion of the International Women's Day 2018, how can Facebook be far behind? With a view towards showing its support for women from all walks of life and from diverse backgrounds, the social networking platform has announced a few new initiatives of its own, including the 'Credit Her' campaign and the 'Community Finder' program.
While the Credit Her campaign will highlight the work of inspirational female achievers from the past and present, such as tennis legend Billie Jean King and blues singer Big Mama Thornton, the Community Finder program aims to help female entrepreneurs network better, and is an extension of the #SheMeansBusiness undertaking that was started by the company back in 2016 to support women-owned businesses.
According to Facebook, "This tool will give female entrepreneurs the power to connect with each other and share questions, advice, resources and support to help them grow their businesses".
The company also says that it is hosting Open Door events at Facebook offices around the world for women to take part in "workshops, discussions and networking opportunities".
Facebook is also encouraging people to show their support for women's rights issues and to inspire women around the world to express themselves with fear. For that, the social network is rolling out cards, photo frames and themed backgrounds for text posts. You can check out the details by going over to facebook.com/iwd.
Last, but definitely not the least, Facebook is also telling the stories of three women who are making a positive change to the lives of many around them. The stories of Maria, Angel and Natalie are truly inspirational, and you can read them by going over here.
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Idris Elba's newest film, "Beast," nearly starred his daughter, Isan — however when she did not get the position in a uncommon case of nepotism not figuring out nicely for an aspiring actor, she wasn't completely happy along with her well-known father.
"She auditioned and it came down to chemistry in the end," Elba mentioned in an Aug. 11 interview on iHeartwork Radio's morning present "The Breakfast Club," noting that she would have performed his character's daughter — apart from the truth that mockingly, their onscreen father-daughter dynamic did not learn fairly proper. "She's great, but the relationship in the film and the relationship between my daughter was, the chemistry wasn't right for the film, weirdly enough," Elba mentioned.
Producer Will Packer, who was additionally on the interview, finally broke the information to her that she did not get the half. "I called and talked to her, 'cause I've known her for a very long time," Packer mentioned. "I'm like 'Uncle Will.' Packer noted that Elba didn't cut his daughter any slack during the audition process. "He auditioned along with her, he was very powerful on her," Packer recalled. "[Elba] mentioned [to his daughter], 'Listen, at the tip of the day we'll make the most effective determination for the film. I belief you, Will, belief the director,' and he or she was superb, very shut."
After discovering out she did not get the half, she did not converse to her father "for about three weeks," Elba famous, including that his daughter ultimately got here round. "She was very gracious about it and we got through that and I'm really proud of her to go through that, not get the role, but still come to the premiere," he added.
"Beast," which comes out on Aug. 19, stars Elba as a latest widow who takes a visit to South Africa along with his daughters to revisit the place the place he met his spouse — solely to wind up being stalked by a bloodthirsty lion. Elba, recognized for "The Suicide Squad" and "The Wire," amongst others, has two kids, Isan and Winston. He married his spouse, Sabrina Dhowre Elba, in 2019.
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Public thank Britain First for winning world war one
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The British public have come together as one to thank BNP splinter group Britain First who according to their social media posts appear to have won World War One.
One adoring fan told us "They're my heroes. You won't find them travelling and learning about new cultures because they're too busy protecting Britain.. But they must have left the country at some point. How else would they have won World War One? And given that that started 100 years ago, they're still looking quite youthful I must add."
Britain First leader and former BNP councillor Paul Golding told us "Every time you buy a poppy, you've joined Britain First, even though we're not allowed to sell them ourselves and veterans won't touch us with a barge poll. But we'll use a picture of a poppy to publicise our vitriolic Facebook page. And that's because World War One was fought against the Muslims.
"It's a complete misconception that by marching around pissed up and on amphetamines, shouting racist slogans and attacking mosques we distort the image of Britain as a tolerant nation and actually engender extremism amongst young British Muslims. Absolutely wrong. Couldn't be further from the truth."
One spectator at one of the many World War One commemorations held today said "It's superb that they can organise all this. I thought they just started fights in pubs. But it's comforting to know that they're fighting for the best interests of every man, woman and child in Britain as opposed to just being a bunch of middle aged thugs who on finding themselves incapable of relating to other cultures choose instead to do the one thing that fits into their limited comfort zone which is try and have a punch up."
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Release Ariel Arbitrario NOW! Continue the Peace Talks!
After months of painstaking progress made by the movement for peace in the Philippines, President Duterte has taken a wrong turn by irrationally calling for the termination of peace negotiations between the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP). The President has even gone a step further in the wrong direction by threatening to arrest the NDFP peace consultants in the country as well as report those out of the country to international police. Despite the fact that Duterte's pronouncements violate both the spirit and the letter of the agreements forged by both parties in the negotiations, NDFP representative from Mindanao Ariel Arbitario was held at a military checkpoint and arrested on February 6.
BAYAN USA calls for the immediate release of Ariel Arbitrario, who, since the time of his release in August 2016, had been working diligently to help the NDFP develop its program for the social and economic reforms needed to address the country's chronic problems of hunger and poverty. Arbitario's arrest violates the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG), an agreement between the NDFP and GRP which was originally signed in 1995 and reaffirmed by the two parties just this past August 2016. We also call on President Duterte to release all political prisoners as he promised before and during the NDFP-GRP engagement in peace negotiations. Like Arbitrario, these prisoners are being held on trumped up charges and should never have been arrested in the first place. Their release is a matter of justice as well as a matter of compliance with the JASIG and the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL).
We call for the continuation of the peace talks between the NDFP and the GRP, which can not be terminated by a mere statement by the President without a formal written termination per the JASIG agreement. We also call on the Duterte government to uphold all previously signed agreements and to rein in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), which has continued to forcibly occupy communities and kill activists defending their land and livelihood. The AFP's trampling of the people's fundamental human rights is reminiscent of the bloody counterinsurgency campaigns Oplan Batay Laya and Oplan Bayanihan. The impunity continues now under Oplan Kapayapaan, exposing how the AFP was never serious about abiding by its ceasefire with the New People's Army much less working for genuine peace. Instead, the AFP tried to take advantage of the situation to launch more attacks against the people and as a pacification campaign against the NPA.
In the latest round of peace negotiations, the main topic on the table was agreements on socio-economic reforms, the "meat of the peace talks." These would begin to address the semi-feudal semi-colonial problems that have plagued the philippines and riddled it with growing poverty rooted in widespread landlessness and inadequate food production to feed the starving people, lack of jobs in the country with wages high enough to survive, and lack of development of national industries. Forging a path that leads to the solution of these problems so that the Filipino people can thrive in their homeland and not have to flee the country to survive–this is the most compelling reason to continue the peace talks, not terminate them.


Early this year, Fitch Ratings affirmed Viet Nam's sovereign rating at B+ with a stable outlook. With Viet Nam determined to restructure the whole economy with a focus on the banking system, Viet Nam News reporter Mai Huong talked with Ambreesh Srivastava, senior director of Fitch Ratings's Financial Institutions, South Asia, about the problems facing the domestic banking system.
The adoption of the revised Land Law should be delayed until the approval of amended Constitution is completed, says law professor Pham Duy Nghia. He spoke with newspaper Thoi bao Kinh te Sai gon (Sai gon Economics Times).
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With colossal specifications including a 3.2 gigapixel resolution sensor, the world's largest camera is preparing to scan space
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The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST for short) is the name given to the world's largest digital camera in existence, boasting an astronomical 3.2 gigapixels of resolution. The purpose of this device will be to survey the stars capturing images that can tell us more about the milky way and the nature of dark matter.
Measuring roughly 5.5 x 9.8 feet and weighing almost a whopping 6,200 pounds, the camera is positioned in the middle of the telescope including its own filter-changing mechanism and shutter. It is a large-aperture, wide-field optical imager, designed to provide a 3.5-degree field of view.
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Development of the beastly camera has been underway for several years, with complications due to the pandemic having added an unfortunate delay. (Read our previous news update on the world's largest camera). However, the scheduled transportation and installation will yield results as early as 2022 and produce an unprecedented data set for studies of the deep universe.
Currently residing in California, the colossal camera is set to be relocated for installation at a mountaintop in Chile – specifically the Vera C Rubin Observatory, which was previously referred to as Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. This will enable the LSST to be put to intensive work scanning the southern sky, capturing images that will provide astrophysicists with a complete regional portrait of the sky roughly once a week.
By collecting data on the shapes, colors and whereabouts of objects in space, images taken by the LSST every 15 seconds will permit researchers to monitor near-earth asteroids and the potential to discover entirely new cosmos phenomena. The camera is also enabled to record the time evolution of these sources, creating potentially the first ever motion picture of our universe.
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Former President Bill Clinton hospitalized for heart procedure.
HomeDemocratFormer President Bill Clinton hospitalized for heart procedure.
Bill Clinton underwent a heart procedure at a New York City hospital Thursday to get two stents implanted after he felt "discomfort in his chest," a representative for the former president said.
The former president, 63, "is in good spirits" after the operation at the Columbia campus of New York Presbyterian Hospital, Clinton laywer Douglas Band said in a written statement. Clinton underwent the procedure to place the stents in one of his coronary arteries following a visit to his cardiologist, Band said.
"President Clinton ... will continue to focus on the work of his foundation and Haiti's relief and long-term recovery efforts," he said.
Dr. Alan Schwartz, his cardiologist, said there was, "no evidence of a heart attack."
Clinton went to see Schwartz because he was experiencing "chest discomforts, brief in nature" on a repetitive basis over the past several day.
Schwartz said the former president's prognosis is excellent and he was already up and walking around.
"We hope to have him go home tomorrow," he said. "The goal of the treatment is for President Clinton to resume his very active lifestyle."
He said the incident was in no way a result of the former president's lifestyle or diet, adding Clinton is in "excellent condition."
Clinton went through quadruple bypass surgery in 2004 to free four blocked arteries.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and their daughter Chelsea were both at the hospital.
Officials said Hillary Clinton will push her trip to the Middle East back a day, leaving Saturday instead of Friday.
President Obama spoke to Clinton Thursday night and wished him a speedy recovery, a White House official told Fox News.
Obama told Clinton that the efforts in Haiti were too important for him to be laid up for too long and hopes he'll be ready to get back to work as soon as possible, the official said.
Clinton said he was feeling "absolutely great."
Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld told Fox News that a stent procedure like this, involving angioplasty, is common for people who have had bypass surgery.
"When the coronary artery is blocked, there are two major options for restoring blood flow to the portion of the heart muscle that's been deprived," Rosenfeld said. "One is angioplasty and the other is bypass surgery."
Rosenfeld added that "the angioplasty is much easier, but over the long run, bypass operations carry less chance of the artery becoming (blocked) down the road."
Former President George W. Bush, who is working with Bill Clinton on the relief efforts in Haiti, and his wife, Laura, sent his prayers to him for a speedy recovery.
"President Bush spoke to Chelsea Clinton this afternoon and was glad to hear that her father is doing well and that his spirits are high," David Sherzer, spokesman for the former president, said in a written statement. "President Bush looks forward to continuing to work with his friend on Haiti relief and rebuilding."
Former President George H.W. Bush, who teamed up with Clinton in 2005 for tsunami relief efforts in Asia, also wished Clinton a "speedy and full recovery."
A Democratic source close to the family told Fox News the former president, who recently traveled to Haiti, had been feeling ill after returning and complaining of chest pains for "days."
"This is something that I believe was there just waiting to cause a problem," he said.
Dr. Steven Garner of New York Methodist Hospital told Fox News the "stress" of the president's recent trips to Haiti could have triggered a heart problem.


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I have been a loyal customer at Jag for 9 years now and have spent $3,430.80 on their services. There were a LOT of hiccups and problems and eventual server moves over the years, but I remained loyal. The tech support used to respond ASAP, even if the time spent resolving the issue was much longer. The owner, Greg Landis, used to be very responsive, here and at their forums, and via email. None of this is the case anymore.
In the past year, no matter what you open a ticket for, they sit in a queue for hours and hours before someone even looks at the ticket and assigns it. Ask for an update? Not only will it go ignored, but then they will blame you as YOU caused it to go "further down the queue" - even though it is still assigned to the same individual. And then when they do respond, VERY rarely do they answer questions or inquiries. It's always the same canned crap "your site is loading fine on our end, please let us know if you have any further questions". Then of course you ask further questions, and the ticket will now sit for 6-10 more hours - only to have their Chief Technical Officer - Masood - tell you that your questions are low priority since the "issue was resolved".
I've worked in a tech support role in a corporate environment for 21 years now. Communication is absolutely critical. Keep a customer/client informed, and even a further delay would be somewhat understood. Ignore them, and of course they will eventually get aggravated and frustrated.
Then 2 days after you go through a horror story with downtime and lack of communication, the server craps out again. And guess what? Open a ticket and watch it sit forever, and then don't dare ask a question! If you contact live support, they reply with the same thing, over and over, over and over. If they don't know the answer, simply say so and let's move on. But don't ignore me when I ask the same question multiple times, that's rude and disrespectful, IMO.
Weekends should be part of 24x7 support, no? Just realize, that is admins that don't answer tickets, and live chat. I asked live chat where is tech support 3 times, only to be told each and every time that admins were available. Of course they don't answer tickets, and the live chat fellows are completely oblivious to the support business and Jag's operations.
The ONLY way as of recently that you can even get someone to look at a ticket is by badgering live chat, or opening a thread on their forums and likely "embarrassing" them into helping you. And honestly, they should be embarrassed. Nine years of loyalty and more than a few thousand dollars - and I had to look elsewhere and pay for someone else to help me with support. And they are aware that I paid someone to do their job. You would think they would at least offer some sort of credit - but instead I get a quick token apology and a litany of excuses.
Tech support is slower than free hosting companies now - and I'm solely talking about the queue and simply opening your ticket and assigning it. Defend them if someone cares to, but a quick visit to their forums would show that it's FAR from just me complaining. I also had quite a few members PM me with similar stories, and 2 that even gave me some decent support on a few issues. Imagine that, free support from fellow members or past members, while the people I am paying ignore my tickets for hours and hours.
It's sad that their support is a shell of it's former self, and the owner appears to be MIA. I loved my time there most of the time, but I'm not going to remain there, pay for services, to receive rude and ignorant responses, not to mention excuses and ignored.
I paid $29.99 a month for many years. Now I'm at $19.99 a month with them, on an SDX server. Only one site. I have another shared server with another company, with one main account and 5 domains hosted underneath it. Not only do I get better server performance - but in 2 years hosting there I have yet to have a ticket that has taken longer than 20 minutes to get a response. I have a thread on Jag from a few months back, where of course they made excuses, but claimed they were in the midst of training a bunch of new staff and expect their response times to once again come back down to 15-20 minutes. That's laughable. If I had a ticket answered in less than 2 hours now, better yet, LOOKED AT in 2 hours now, I would be shocked.
Sure, some will come back and claim I'm a complainer, and that there are thousands of happy customers for every one of me. That may very well be true. Maybe a lot of them are on servers that function better and don't need support. But I'm not a one chance guy and run to complain. I repeat, I have been there for NINE YEARS. I takes a LOT for me to come here and complain, considering I have given them glowing reviews in the past.
If anyone calls you a compaliner they are an idiot Jim.


Crop Circles is a term used to refer to sets of geometric figures drawn on large cultivated fields. These figures are best observed from a high spot, but we were unable to distinguish when observed at ground level. The phenomenon has been observed in several countries, starting with England in the 1970s. Since then, there have been several explanations involving natural events or extra-terrestrial visitors. Indeed, crop circles are a recurring theme in ufology, being also a frequent subject of films and books.
Considered real works of art by scholars and experts, it is estimated that about 10,000 of these enigmatic figures have been found throughout the world, especially close to Stonehenge, where the percentage of incidence of these figures reaches 98% of circles ever discovered. The other 2% were found in Australia, USA, France and Canada.
The crop circles are a tangle of geometric shapes of different sizes arranged in an organized manner. In extreme cases, the circles are made up of over 200 perfectly arranged geometric figures, to an extent that goes beyond 300 meters long, however, and although being studied, inclusively by the British government, an enlightening conclusion on how they are made has not yet been found.
The drawings appear to be specific to each year, almost as if there was an order. In 1994, there was a proliferation with figures in the form of scorpions, spiders, spider webs and other insects. In 1995, the patterns seemed to suggest solar systems, girdle of asteroids and other planetary figures. In 1993, there was an incidence of geometric patterns.
Another crop circle in Diessenhofen.
In these circles, or in the vicinity, they were never found any traces or clues. There are no footprints, tire tracks of vehicles, no sign that the plants within it have been handled by humans. The circles arise simply from nowhere, carrying an inexplicable message that challenges our intelligence and technology. However, it is estimated that about 30% of circles found, are frauds. Several reasons lead people to forge the figures, among them are the desire to appear and appear in the news and especially in an attempt to demoralize the scholars of the phenomenon. There are also those groups of people who fight among themselves to see who makes the most beautiful drawing and closer to reality and to demonstrate their artistic skills.
The more experienced scholars claim that forged circles are easier to be identified as they are made irregularly, without symmetry or the geometric perfection of the true and are still full of traces of who made them and how.
In the months between May and September (when the crops are close to harvest), thousands of students from all over the world often meet in southwest England after new figures, which sometimes come to appear almost is a daily basis.
Importantly, no trace was found in any validated circle, but a certain form of energy unknown or uncatalogued. This form of energy produces a change at the genetic level in plants affected by the phenomenon, as well as their seeds.
The circles are unique in the wheat fields, canoula and barley. The stems of these plants, which typically when bent, they break up in areas where the phenomenon occurs. These come to be bent at about 90 degrees. The bent stems occurs at a point between 20% and 80% of the total height. Sometimes plants situated side by side at harvest, they are bent in opposite directions within the same phenomenon. A characteristic of the phenomenon is that when plants are bent, they can not be straightened with the risk of leaving, continuing his low growth on the floor.
Inside a crop circle in Ancona, Italy.
An interesting fact is that a number of circles have appeared near nuclear power plants, which there is no explanation for the phenomenon. Another aspect is that some people claim to have been affected after they entered into one of these formations. Some scholars prove these stories, who claim to have felt anxiety and agitation when they entered within circles, as well as contrary emotions.
There a concordance among experts in at least one point about the phenomenon: The circles have a non-terrestrial component, that is they are not constructed by humans. This conclusion is supported by the fact that many witnesses have reported the sighting of mystery unidentified lights flying over the crops before the little circles were discovered. In some cases, some light balls were recorded and photographed, though with a low quality.
Anyway, the phenomenon is still in the realm of assumptions.
Thank you for your open mind.


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The National Hurricane Center said late on Wednesday that a disturbance in the northern Gulf of Mexico is nearing tropical depression status.
The storm, which will likely become tropical storm Barry on Thursday, has become better organized.
Even as just a tropical disturbance, the storm system has already caused massive flooding in the New Orleans area. Parts of the area had nearly 9 inches of rain on Wednesday, with more to come through Saturday.
The latest projections take the storm to the Louisiana coast as a hurricane. Latest forecast models put the storm on the coast sometime Saturday.
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How Jew(ish) Are You?
Thank you to Thrive Global for publishing my article, "How Jew(ish) Are You?"
Reading Matt Greene's autobiography, Jew(ish): A primer, A memoir, A manual, A plea, during COVID19 Thanksgiving weekend, I thought gratefully about my relationship to being Jewish. Growing up in Los Angeles, California at Stephen Wise Temple, one of the largest Reform synagogues in the world, I had the idea that most people were like me, Jewish. It would come as a shock to learn that Jews were only a small part of the population when I left my LA enclave.
Greene explains: "We're very explicit that we're proud British Jews: we're proud British people and we're proud Jewish people." In fact, his family had been in Britain so long that he had "two great-grandfathers who fought for Britain in the First World War."
I remember being asked at Hebrew School, if I was an American Jewish Woman or an American Jew or a Jewish American? They wanted us to answer, "What would you fight for? Which are the most important parts of you?" I went to an all girl's high school and we talked often about Women's Rights and the ERA. At Hebrew School, we often talked about the legacy of the Holocaust and importance of dating Jewish and increasing the number of Jews in the world.
About growing up Jewish, Greene says, "I hated being Jewish in the way I hated being short. There seemed to be no advantage to be gained." Greene participated in temple only as long as was required through his Bar Mitzvah, unlike him, I was mesmerized. I loved services, the songs, Jewish summer camp and being in Jewish youth group.
Like Greene, I went on a teen tour to Israel but my experience changed my life and is the reason that I am a travel journalist obsessed with traveling. He was not as impressed. His dad told him: "The thing about being Jewish is you always need to be vigilant. If you think you're safe, you're probably being complacent. That's why we need a Jewish state, so there's somewhere we can go if the shit ever hits the fan again." Terrible things have happened to the Jews again and again. The question is what is our responsibility in our time? How will we impact our country and our world?
Greene's book begins with a discussion of his son who is born to a non-Jewish mother. Once he has a child, he contemplates if belonging to the Jewish tradition is important to him. What does it mean to be Jewish?
He discusses the anti-semitism in England and being the only Jew at college. I went to the University of Pennsylvania in part for the large Jewish community. At Hillel on Shabbat, we had four services going for different types of Jews. Everyone was welcome and I never worried about discrimination there.
When he returns from college, his family asks him, "And do you tell people you're Jewish?" It can be challenging to navigate being assimilated into society while being perceived as an other. Greene asks, "What is race? What is whiteness? Gone if not forgotten are the days when Jews were banned from clubs and institutions on the back of their Jewishness and like most (but not all) Jews, I benefit from white privilege in ways too many to enumerate and probably in ways I haven't even noticed."
When I first started working on cruise ships, there were very few women on the crew. Later, I would realize that I was often the only Jew on my team or even in a crew of 1200. It was the first time I felt so singled out and different. One British Cruise Director told the rest of my team, "Lisa, can't do that; she'll be at snip-dick ceremonies." It took me several beats to understand that he was referring to Shabbat services. I led them on Friday nights and he was talking about Jews. It was not the only time people said anti-Semitic things to me. One crew member told me that I did believe in Jesus. I said, "No, Jesus is when your religion left my religion." He told me, "If my dad was here, he would make you understand that you do love Jesus." I said, "Lucky for me, he is not."
Mostly when I was traveling or working on ships, no one knew I was Jewish. As Greene describes in his book, I could choose to pass as white and not "different." It is not obvious from my last name that I am Jewish because as Greene discusses about his family as well, our name was changed. There are many choices we make wandering in the world. When traveling in Asia when President Bush was in office, we often said we were Canadians. We did not want to be embroiled in the political drama of that time. We were able to pass. Some people even sewed Canadian flags on their backpacks.
Greene explains: "For whatever reason, for any reason, for no reason at all, to be Jewish is to live with the knowledge that no matter who you are or what you do there are people who will hate you." For his 34th birthday, Greene chose to participate in the March of the Living in Poland. My trip to Poland, after a semester in Israel, was also challenging. It was hard to walk in small towns and see so many former synagogues and Jewish schools and realize how many Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. The area was full of Jewish life which was decimated in camps like Auschwitz and Birkenau.
As Greene relates, "The year 2020 is a strange time to be a Jew, even, or perhaps especially, a lapsed, secular one. At once we're witnessing a resurgence of the far right, an uptick in anti-Semitic attacks, a refugee crisis of a scale unknown since the Second World War and, maybe most crucially for the question this book primarily concerns itself with, the end of the generation who witnessed the horrors of the Holocaust first-hand. In this context it seems important to understand what it means to be Jewish – and personally what it means to me that, technically, my son is not."
Greene shares his search to find a place for himself and his son. He asks his grandparents, "Is my son Jewish?" and they answer together, "Of course, he's our family."
Matt Greene, author of Jew(ish)
We live in complicated and confusing times and I agree with him that we need to recognize persecution and oppression. Greene closes by saying:
"We need to find a way to unite around our common humanity without erasing or downplaying the particularities of any group's experience. If we're to confront the challenges that face us as a species and triumph over those who seek to divide and deceive us, we need to realise we're all in this together. The question of Jewishness is a good place to start. We're not all Jews but we're all Jew-ish."
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English literature can be found in all parts of the world: America, India, Australia, Britain and many smaller areas. Its history ranges from the Old English of Beowulf to the stream-of-consciousness of James Joyce. While it shares certain characteristics with all Western literature, there are a couple of characteristics that make English literature unique.
The English Language
English has more words than most languages, and those words have come from many different sources from all over the world. As a result, English is rich in words that vary slightly in meaning or that have differing connotations (subtle meanings). Shakespeare was a master at using the English language to compose great literature, using its wealth of words to compose brilliant speeches and witty puns. He was also not shy about making up his own words when the ones available did not suffice. Writers like Herman Melville who chose English, their second language, as the one to write in often did so because of the enormous depth and flexibility of English vocabulary.
Five (or Thereabouts) Common Themes in Dramatic Narrative
English literature revolves around just a handful of common themes, many of which are shared with Western literature, that describe nearly all its stories. The five most commonly identified and most commonly used are overcoming the monster, rags to riches, the quest, voyage and return, and boy meets girl. Nearly every single story told in English incorporates one or more of these themes. Two other themes, comedy and tragedy, are often added to this total, but these themes can be simplified down to happy ending/unhappy ending.
In certain regional English literary areas, there is some variance. For example, Indian English literature is likely to incorporate both Asian and Persian themes like the Asian love-suicide theme in which one character kills himself for love. These, however, are additive and do not replace the core five English literary themes.
English literature, like the literature of most of Europe and a large part of the Middle East, has been heavily influenced by its Christian and Greco-Roman heritage. This can be seen most clearly before the 20th century, when a classical education ceased being the norm for youths. These influences are blended with uniquely British traditions, most notably King Arthur and Robin Hood. The tragic but heroic king (which can also be traced back to Beowulf) and the cheeky good-hearted rogue are common English literature stereotypes.
While it is not unique to English literature, Utopianism---the search for a perfect land in this life---is remarkably common compared to other literary traditions. The theme can be traced back to Plato's Republic, but was revolutionized by Thomas Moore in the 1600s when he wrote Utopia. From that time forward, utopias and dystopias (lands that seem perfect but which are in fact terribly flawed) have been common plot drivers in English literature, concentrated especially in fantasy and science fiction genres.
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