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Alameda Work Trickles On
Driving down 680 from San Ramon to Pleasanton — with its prettily paved and groomed burbs — you wouldn't guess that this was once a shallow lake and willow marsh. Indeed little trace
is left of the vast freshwater swamp called Tulare Lake, just over the East Bay ridges, which once collected all the runoff from Livermore and San Ramon. This marshy ecosystem filtered the rush of water from winter storms so that by the time it exited into the narrows of Arroyo de la Laguna, mingled with Alameda Creek, and spilled into Niles Canyon, it wasn't an unmanageable torrent. But the development of farms and towns on top of this wet spot dramatically changed the hydrology of the northern reach of a vast watershed draining into San Francisco Bay. "When it rains, Niles Canyon gets crazy, there's so much water, so fast," says Tim Ramirez, natural resources manager for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, which owns large areas in the watershed.
Niles Canyon. Photo by Brian Sak.
Of course the loss of the lake happened more than a century ago, and since then throughout Alameda Creek's 640-square-mile watershed dozens
of other wet spots have been drained, dams built, creeks buried, and channels reshaped. "The watershed is huge and complex, and all these changes, compounded over time, have left us with a long and arduous path to getting it to function more naturally again. We're going to need the full cooperation of every partner to reach our goals," says Carol Mahoney, a planner for Zone 7 Water Agency out in Livermore.
The creek is the biggest tributary
to San Francisco Bay that isn't fed by snowmelt. Its northern sub-watershed is more urbanized while the southern portion is more ranch and recreational open space– but it all comes together in Niles Canyon. Downstream of the canyon, creek waters speed through 12 miles of federal flood control channel– designed to protect Fremont and Newark from high waters caused by rains and tides. In this lower reach there are drinking water intakes, inflatable barriers, steps in the stream called grade control structures, and areas where sediment collects on the bottom. "It's a big tricky creek that has every kind of problem we face in watershed management statewide somewhere along it," says Ramirez.
Alameda Creek Watershed
Right now numerous entities are planning extensive and expensive changes to the creek to improve the creek's hydrology and ecology. The biggest ticket items may be billed to Alameda County coffers – but other state, regional, and local agencies are on the hook too. Many of these efforts, if properly strung together, could make Alameda Creek a state-of-the-art example of watershed restoration in much-altered systems. Indeed the creek may be the first Bay-Area test case of the federal government's next generation policies concerning the alteration of the nation's flood control infrastructure, and of a local county's struggles to put this new mindset into practice.
"It's a very large system and funding is finite. If they don't get it right, and the water floods someone's California real estate, then the consequences can be severe," says Dale Bowyer, an engineer with the San Francisco Regional Water Quality Control Board.
Improvements in the Works
Over the last couple of decades, many have sought to tweak the creek's plumbing so it's better able to support fish, absorb floods, and supply water to local communities.
In 2006 the San Francisco PUC removed Sunol and Niles (pictured) dams from Alameda Creek, alleviating public safety concerns and providing steelhead and other fishes' access to upstream waters. Photo: Brian Sak.
In tributaries upstream of Niles Canyon, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) has removed several small dams and recently began a fish-friendly upgrade of its larger Calaveras Dam. SFPUC is also releasing more flows for fish. "It's a pretty hot watershed in summer, so cold water inputs from Calaveras can help us maintain deep pools where fish can survive," says the State Coastal Conservancy's Brenda Buxton, whose agency has taken an active interest in improving watershed management along the creek.
Erosion control is another big issue upstream, especially with sediment collecting in the flood control channel below. SFPUC is working with the Alameda County Resource Conservation District, Zone 7, and other federal and county partners to address significant bank erosion in places like Arroyo De La Laguna. "It's become this very flashy stream with deep incision during storms – the bank sometimes retreats as much as two feet in one year," says Leslie Koenig, an RCD biologist.
Willow crib wall. Photo courtesy RCD.
Arroyo de la Laguna has become so incised there is little chance to reconnect the creek with the natural floodplain. So partners have been strategically placing rock weirs in the Arroyo to divert flows away from banks, slow water velocity, and create back pools for fish. They've also employed some soft bioengineering fixes – building a willow log crib wall at Verona Bridge in Pleasanton, for example. "We chose this site not only because of the erosion problems but also for its visibility and educational value." At the bridge, bikers and strollers can read about how storm water from upstream influences stream flows.
Slowing down the floods of runoff from upstream could help the creek function more sustainably, but to do so will require softening the pavements in Livermore, Pleasanton, Dublin and San Ramon, among other low impact development (LID) and green infrastructure actions. Creeks in the watershed also flow through golf courses, some with culverts or riprap that increase the speed of flows, others that are allowing their greens to be used as floodplain. "Flows are so huge from this valley LID alone won't be able to attenuate them," says Koenig. She hopes other solutions will come out of the Alameda Creek Watershed Forum and Arroyo de la Laguna Collaborative. "Our goal is to do more than just soft band-aids," she says.
Inflatable dam in Alameda County flood control channel. Photo by Brian Sak.
Downstream there are projects
to help steelhead over barriers and around dams, and to slow flows and cool water temperatures. The creek comes out of Niles Canyon into the service area of the Alameda County Water District. Here the district impounds water using inflatable barriers, and then uses it to replenish a groundwater basin where they have local water supply wells. The infusion from the creek helps repel seawater intrusion from the nearby Bay, but the barriers and other in-channel structures are
a problem for threatened steelhead migrating through the system.
To help juvenile fish on their way back out to the Bay, the district designed and installed a fish screen system for its off-stream diversions. The screens are drums that can be rolled in and out of the water on tracks depending on flow levels. "The watershed is so flashy and carries so much debris, we have to remove the screens during high flows," says the water district's Eric Cartwright.
The district is also partnering with public works on a fish ladder so steelhead coming upstream can get over the inflatable dams and grade control structures. "It's a very complex design, the ladder has to operational during a wide range of scenarios, passable to fish both when the barriers are up or down, and also when they're inflating and deflating. Most fish ladders provide access over fixed structures," says Cartwright. The screens are in place but the ladder is still awaiting various approvals. "Because it's a flood control channel, there's a whole extra layer of permitting. It's also not our usual water supply project where we are providing mitigation, it's our first purely environmental project. We're trying to do our part to help the fish so we can continue to access our water supply," says Cartwright.
Along the 12 miles of the flood control channel at the bottom of the creek, the County is also trying
to be strategic about improvements. The channel, originally designed by the US Army Corps of Engineers, has to have a very high flood capacity in order to drain such a large watershed. But sediment keeps collecting in the channel, requiring maintenance dredging to protect flood capacity, as well as state and federal permits to scoop the sediment out of the way.
To address this, the Alameda County Flood Control District proposes to optimize the existing channel. "We found a way around the problem by designing
a sustainable low flow channel, and sizing it based on nature and hydrology and sediment transport modeling. We're helping a naturally formed low flow channel by widening it in some places and making it deeper and steeper in others," says Rohin Saleh, chief hydraulic engineer for the District. The plans he's crafting are designed to flush sediment out faster and reduce water levels during high flood events, as well as help fish. "We're close to finding the sweet spot," he says.
At the bottom of the flood control channel near the outfall of Alameda Creek, meanwhile, the State Coastal Conservancy is eager to breach levees between the channel and its salt ponds around Eden Landing (between the two south Bay bridges). With more connectivity to the creek and the Bay, the restored ponds may serve as estuarine transitional habitat and nursery grounds for outmigrating steelhead smolts. "The issue we're wrestling with is how big to make our breaches. We don't want to exacerbate flooding," says the Conservancy's Buxton.
The flooding won't just be coming from high tides or big runoff events in the future either. Both the flood control district and the Conservancy have been worried about rising seas as well. The District has been floating the idea of adding a land mass on the inner, salt pond side of the Bay's outermost dikes – not something that has gone down well in the past with those trying to protect the Bay from infill. But in the face of sea level rise, a number of local scientists and environmental groups have been talking up a new style of "horizontal levee" with a broad backside, and the District has its own version on the drawing board.
"A land mass is a more dynamic physical separation between the Bay and the internal system than a big levee wall, and more adaptable to the ups and downs of tides, storm surges, and sea level rise," says the District's Saleh. "If this frontal system is not there, then the salt ponds will gradually become part of the Bay as sea level rises. In addition, if we breach levees in an optimized manner we get more storage in the ponds, which damps the effect of extreme tides and reduces the peak elevation of the tides so less water gets pushed up into the vicinity of coastal developments. By the time high waters reach the residences inland the water level could be 3-4 feet lower than it was on the edge of the Bay. So the project could provide flood protection and restoration at the same time, it's self mitigating."
The Hunt for Sediment Sources
Many of these plans hinge on solving the issues with sediment building up in the wrong places as the creek carries it down to the Bay. Getting good science on where the sediment was coming from was paramount when watershed planning and improvement efforts began to heat up around the mid 2000s. To this end, various partners set up a sediment forum and launched a research effort by the San Francisco Estuary Institute.
Surveys in the watershed between 2005 and 2012 suggest 100,000 metric tons of sediment comes through Niles Canyon annually, according to the Senior Scientist Lester McKee. The majority of it arrives from the Livermore Valley and Arroyo de La Laguna side of the watershed, while on the other side a lot of the sediment produced is then trapped in San Antonio and Calaveras Reservoirs.
A follow up survey done for the District revealed that smaller, steep tributaries near the flood control channel, such as Dry, Stonybrook, and Sinbad Creeks, are producing a disproportionate amount of sediment relative to their size, and of the kind of coarser material that collects in the flood control channel. "That's a macro sediment budget," says McKee.
McKee also collected data with geomorphologist Sarah Pearce showing that the geometry of the channel is dynamic. Flood flows create variable areas of scour and deposition across the bed. And the position of the low flow channel migrates through time within the levees that confine the larger flood control channel.
"Dragon's teeth" under the BART weir. These concrete blocks break up high flows and slow velocities in the flood control channel. Photo by Brian Sak.
McKee says that once in the flood control channel, some of the sediment gets deposited behind sills, the inflatable dams, and the grade controls, pillars, weirs and other constrictions as water velocity speeds up or slows in relation to changes in channel gradient. The District is trying to figure out how get those water velocities — what scientists call stream power or the energy gradient within the creek — to be a little more consistent down the length of the channel. If such consistency can be crafted, more coarse sediment will make it out to the Bay, reducing dredging costs and creating more habitat within the channel.
Meanwhile, the salt ponds being restored at the foot of the creek will need a steady supply of sediment to keep building up their marsh to the water levels associated with sea level rise. "From our perspective, the more sediment coming down the better. We want to reconnect marshes to long term sediment supply sources so they can be sustainable," says the Conservancy's John Bourgeois.
SFPUC staff electrofishing near Sunol Dam prior to its removal. Photo by Brian Sak.
Most of the improvements described so far are still inside computers rather than on the ground or in the water, and many partners are impatient to knit them all together and start construction. "The hopeful thing is that there are only a handful of public agencies responsible for Alameda Creek," says SFPUC's Ramirez.
One bottleneck right now seems to be the need to apply for a federal 408 permit to alter the flood control channel, not to mention who puts up the millions it will take to pay for it. Though the "408" is an old permit type focused on levee safety, the Army Corps recently made some changes in how it works based on what happened during Katrina and Sandy. Some projects must not only go through local Corps approvals, but also then be reviewed by headquarters in Washington DC. Asked for a comment on Alameda County's plans the Corps' Greg Brown wrote: "As a Regulatory Authority, we review each application on its merits within Section 404 of the Clean Water Act and Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act. From the personal perspective, I think the concept is a positive trend." Brown is Regulatory Project Manager for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers San Francisco District.
FEMA too weighs in on the federal side, and the local office is currently redrawing its flood insurance rate map for the region around Alameda Creek's mouth. The new map should be out within six months, and depicts where there is a 1% annual chance of flood in any given year. "If you look at FEMA's flood map today, there are no high hazard areas along Alameda Creek because of the channel and levees," says FEMA engineer Eric Simmons. "That doesn't mean there isn't risk. People behind levees need to know that flooding can always happen, but the likelihood is less than along San Francisquito Creek in Silicon Valley, for example."
As part of a new federal push to respond to coastal hazards, FEMA recently developed a flooding model for the entire San Francisco Bay coastline, and worked closely with Alameda County to refine that model so it could be applied to Alameda Creek projects. The County, in turn, has been looking at future sea level rise conditions, and updating FEMA's model. "It's been a mutually beneficial partnership. We share data and leverage off of each others work," says Simmons.
These are all positive signs that old-style, heavy-handed, flood control attitudes may be getting a real makeover. "What we learned in the past 70 years with all these flood control projects is that every time we try to simplify a complex natural process we suffer for it in the long term. In reality it's a complicated dynamic and you need to design a system that works naturally with the breathing of the Bay, in and out. This is not a conventional approach, but we have been able to show FEMA that the natural system is working, and we should build on it instead of dismantling it and building something we think is better," says the Alameda County Flood Control District's Saleh.
Local water quality regulators, meanwhile, are watching proposals to improve Alameda Creek with interest, as they work to restore more natural filtering and ecosystem functions to urban watersheds in the Bay Area. "The fact that county flood control has come round to these new concepts so rapidly, and that the Corps seems to have blessed it nationally, is a landmark event. It's new-age thinking, and we're very happy to see that," says the Regional Water Quality Board's Dale Bowyer.
In the end, all these practical details can't hold a candle to the moment captured on video more than a decade when two steelhead nicknamed Bonnie and Clyde made a commando crawl up the flood control channel on U-tube – a video that went viral. "Alameda Creek is one of our best chances in the Bay to bring back steelhead," says the Coastal Conservancy's Brenda Buxton. "If we can't do it here it may be next to impossible at other locations. It's a logical place to put this effort into it."
Alameda Creek Historical Ecology Study
Creek Sediment Forum
Central Valley Flood Protection Board Levee Maps
Alameda Creek Alliance, Northern Arroyos
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Ariel Rubissow Okamoto is both today's editor-in-chief and the founding editor of ESTUARY magazine (1992-2001). She enjoys writing in-depth, silo-crossing stories about water, restoration, and science. She's a co-author of a Natural History of San Francisco Bay (UC Press 2011), frequent contributor of climate change stories to Bay Nature magazine, and occasional essayist for publications like the San Francisco Chronicle. In other lives, she has been a vintner, soccer mom, and waitress. She lives in San Francisco close to the Bay with her architect husband Paul Okamoto.
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Jed was now twenty-nine years old. For the majority of it, he had lived with his brother in a two bedroom apartment. The two of them could not take care of themselves. They let garbage build up for weeks on end without ever taking it downstairs to the rubbish bins. Over time what would occur was a large build up of trash, used Bolognese sauce containers, empty soft drink bottles and cracked egg shells. The egg shells would be left in the apartment and the residue egg whites would ferment in the heat and slowly a thick smell of rotten eggs would waft through the apartment. They were both bachelors and there was a smell of flatulence that lingered in the air. They esteemed themselves as intellectuals and would find themselves in pointless arguments, believing that they were using science and reason to substantiate their high claims. One of them was a personal trainer who attempted to run his business by procuring clients. His clientele were mainly made up of bored housewives who had cash to burn and time to waste. He spent his days sleeping, being obnoxious and imposing his physique to emasculate others around him. He lifted weights, he fucked women on dating sites and he made a below average wage creating some sort of identity as a fitness expert. He was not necessarily the problem. He catered to his clientele and built up his place in the world. He fulfilled a role within society. He had found his niche and was part of the world.
Jed on the other hand had an unearned ego. Sucking up at the welfare system for the past eleven years had driven him insane. He had gathered a group of friends. All of whom subsisted of living a life deeply built up in fantasy. The fantasy of being important people. The fantasy that their opinion mattered. They had spent their years drinking their life away. Cornered in a world of social politics that they had created for themselves. They made high claims as to their personal identities. They created a world of fantasy and illusion around them. Creating the belief that they were busy, creating the belief that they were doing something with their lives. They clutched onto outdated models of the class structure and believed that in society, they played some sort of aristocratic role in society.
People would buy into this illusion that they had created. Meanwhile, they would drink, they would do drugs and believe that they were living some sort of bourgeois existence. All the while holding onto no artistic integrity. Doing nothing, creating nothing and achieving nothing except some sort of illusion of 'the life'.
Others got wrapped up in this illusion of 'the life.' They would listen to the unrelenting catering to the ego. The pampering of the idealic self. A self that often more than not, did not exist. And they would drink. They would drink and smoke and waste their lives away. Producing nothing, creating nothing… For the periods of time where they were questioned as to what their actual purpose was they would find themselves confronted with their identity being questioned. And so in those brief moments they would rush to create something. To prove that they had value. And so perhaps they created one piece of art every few months that required two days of work.
And others got caught up in the illusion. Only to find out that it was an illusion. Only to find out that these were a group of people who had set up a web of self importance in which they would lure unsuspecting individuals into idolization of themselves.
These were Jed's friends. And when you asked Jed what it was that he did exactly he would state, "I spread ideas." He was completely confident in his position in the world. He was so detached from the reality of the world, so integrated into an existence of dependence on the system that he had successfully convinced himself that 'spreading ideas' was his role in society.


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title:  Android Multi Themes Implement
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# Android中如何使用主题属性

> 另外一种资源值允许你引用当前主题中的属性的值。这个属性值只能在样式资源和XML属性中使用;它允许你通过将它们改变为当前主题提供的标准变化来改变UI元素的外观,而不是提供具体的值。

## 属性的引用
- @表示引用资源,声明这是一个资源引用—随后的文本是以@[package:]type/name形式提供的资源名。
- @android:string表明引用的系统的(android.*)资源
- @string表示引用应用内部资源
- 对于id, 可以用@+id表明创建一个id
- ?表示引用属性
    "?"引用主题属性,当您使用这个标记,你所提供的资源名必须能够在主题属性中找到,因为资源工具认为这个资源属性是被期望得到的,您不需要明确的指出它的类型

举个例子:

    <FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
             android:layout_width="fill_parent"
             android:layout_height="wrap_content"
             android:clickable="false"
             android:background="?listview_item_background_selector"
             android:id="@+id/listview_root">

这里我们使用了android:background="?listview_item_background_selector"来获取background的资源。但并没有给出资源的具体位置和类型。

## 属性的定义
在theme_attr.xml中,定义了需要使用的主题属性。
举个例子:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <resources>
    <attr name="account" format="reference"/>
    <attr name="account_management" format="reference"/>
    ...
    <attr name="listview_item_background_selector" format="reference"/>
    <attr name="listview_item_refresh_animation" format="reference"/>
    <attr name="line_drawable" format="reference"/>
    ...
    </resources>

如上,之前通过"?listview_item_background_selector"获取的属性的定义就是在这里给出的,不过也可以看出它的format为reference,所以需要到当前加载的属性中去查找相对应的具体值。
这里没有使用扩展attr时常用的类似如下的写法:

    <declare-styleable name="MyView">
        <attr name="textColor" format="color" />
        <attr name="textSize" format="dimension" />
    </declare-styleable>

是因为这样才可以在赋值时使用"?listview_item_background_selector"这种写法。

declare-styleable下定义的属性,我们在获取它定义的属性是需要使用这种写法"R.sytleable.MyView_textColor"

## 属性的声明
在theme_xxx.xml中,声明了相应属性的具体取值。自定义style需要继承自系统包下原有的style。
举个例子:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <resources>
        <!--if you want to modify holo theme, you should modify PrivateThemeHoloOnlyForInherit style instead of AppTheme_Dark style-->
        <style name="AppTheme_Dark" parent="@style/PrivateThemeHoloOnlyForInherit">
            <item name="account">@drawable/account_light</item>
            <item name="account_management">@drawable/account_management_light</item>
            ...
            <item name="listview_item_background_selector">@drawable/listview_item_background_selector_dark</item>
            <item name="listview_item_refresh_animation">@drawable/refresh_light</item>
            ...
        </style>
    </resources>

至此,才真正指明了listview_item_background_selector属性的值:"@drawable/listview_item_background_selector_dark"。

##主题的加载和切换
资源工具会在当前加载的主题中自动寻找?xxx指定的属性的值,但是如何加载指定的主题为当前使用的主题呢?

第一种,在manifest中application,activity中指定theme,比如这样

    <application
            android:label="@string/app_name"
            android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
            android:theme="@style/AppTheme_Light"

第二种,通过Context.setTheme()来设置:
注意,这个方法的调用要在所有view在context中初始化之前,比如要早于Activity.setContentView
和LayoutInflater.inflate()之前。
一般可以在oncreate()方法中,在调用super.oncreate()方法之前调用setTheme(theme)。

## 参考资料
[Andriod中Style/Theme原理以及Activity界面文件选取过程浅析](http://www.apkbus.com/android-139495-1-1.html)

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The Philippine's most prestigious design and lifestyle event returned for its twice-yearly stint this October. Here are three designers who marry craftsmanship with design.
True to form, Vito Selma embraces the natural world, introducing a range of new products that capture his brand's signature while developing the evolution of its aesthetic. A desk and chair named Bolt, slightly abstract in shape, has a thoroughly modern look that nevertheless relates back to a juxtaposition of paper with wood. The joints are held together with bolts carved from wood. A coffee table and light shade in the Constella collection are inspired by the stars and the chaotic nature of their existence. Fragments fly away and their form becomes imperfect, and that's represented in these pieces. Meanwhile, Theo is a coffee table with a base that imitates bundles of sticks, which can be bent and folded into a variety of shapes.
Jude Tiotuico has quietly and confidently been building quite reputation in the Philippines and beyond. The designer came a little later in his career to furniture design, but with that he has also developed a quite unique aesthetic and a more contemporary look than some other designers at Manila FAME. With Industria, Tiotuico offers a stylish, modern line of black iron and steel furniture, lighting and accent pieces. His work is about texture, finishing, shapes and presentation – and being recognizably Industria is important to him. For Tiotucio, each furniture piece has to communicate with the wider product range.
Ito Kish launched two complementary new series in Manila, his Bell Jar Busilak Lamps and his Liwanag (or "Light") Bench and Vase. The bell jar lamps are like a refined interpretation of those once ubiquitous snow globes. Each bell jar captures an adorable miniature scene – a bird on a rock, a bouquet of roses in a vase, a bundle of colored pencils – illuminated from a light source below. The outdoor bench and vases feature an acrylic panel decorated with Philippine-inspired illustrations. The panel slots into place, creating a window through which light may pass.


No matter what your ultimate goal is for your hair, you may have setbacks in your journey. Here are some tips on how to stick to and achieve your hair goal, whatever it may be.
1. Make sure your hair goal is realistic. If you have very coarse, dark hair, don't expect to wake up one day with bone straight, blonde hair. Not without lots of chemicals, anyway! Many of us naturals focus on length, but the health of your hair should really be of greater importance.
2. Make your routine habitual. When you find a regimen that works for you, have set times to do what you have to do. If your hair goals are important to you, set time aside for things like deep conditioning, steaming, moisturizing and generally taking care of your hair.
3. Stay motivated. Find a hair twin to follow on YouTube or Tumblr who is where you would like to be. Use these videos and pictures to propel you to where you want to be. But remember, no two people have the same exact hair, and it is unlikely that you will ever look exactly like someone else. You can also use visualization to help you on your journey.
4. Rejoice in the small victories. If your goal is length, remember that even very healthy hair grows relatively slowly, so it's ok to be happy about small strides. If your hair is too dry or brittle, it's ok to feel satisfied when you've gone a whole week moisturizing your hair.
5. Have patience! Don't be too hard on yourself. It's extremely important to keep your perspective. Your hair is important to you, but there are starving children in the world.
6. Be accountable. Get a hair buddy who you can answer to. Your buddy can make sure that you're doing the things that you're supposed to do.
Remember, you can deal with the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. Use these tips and you'll see how to stick to and achieve your hair goal.


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Review: The Motel Life
Motels have become something of a motif in American movies; faceless, anonymous places on the margins of life frequented by the down at heel, the downtrodden and the dispossessed.
Motels are just the kind of place you'd expect to find brothers Frank and Jerry Lee; orphaned at a young age and living a hand-to-mouth existence.
Frank (a really impressive Emile Hirsch) is the responsible sibling, earning money at a used car lot owned by father figure Earl (Kris Kristofferson) in order to look after wayward Jerry Lee (Stephen Dorff) who keeps going off the rails. Frank feels he owes Jerry Lee who lost a leg in an accident Frank blames on himself, so when Jerry Lee returns one night covered in blood after knocking a neighbourhood kid down in his car, the brothers flee their motel room in Reno for yet another anonymous motel in Elko.
The only thing Frank really cares about is in Elko – Annie (Dakota Fanning), his one-time girlfriend who left Reno to make a new start in life. That's exactly what Frank wants to do too, but Jerry Lee keeps mucking up and with the cops on their trail for the hit and run, it seems he will never escape this 'motel life'.
This is a drifters tale of dashed dreams and unfulfilled lives and although it is beautifully shot and exceptionally well played (the scenes between Hirsch and Kristofferson are understated and yet full of emotion) it never really sparks into life.
In fact, the film itself just drifts; it tries hard to take flight but never quite does.
Review: Art
Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury Nigel Havers is Serge. He has bought a painting. It's a large canvas of ostensibly pure white. It cost him £200,000. It's a bit pretentious. He's very proud of it. Denis Lawson is his friend Marc. Marc thinks the painting is ridiculous and a waste of money, but he doesn't immediately tell Serge. […]
Review: Legend
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2007 Top Tamil Movies List
In this article, I am sharing IMDb's top 10 most rated 2007 Tamil movies. The listing is based on the IMDb rating! This rating and listing are as per June 2022. After June 2022 we are not considering updates in rating for updating this list! If you find any mistake just comment down so we will try to solve the mistakes!
2007 Top Tamil Movies List:
Kattradhu Thamizh (2007) 🌟 8.5/10 as per 02 February 2022:
Kattradhu Thamizh movie is an Drama, Mystery movie. Kattradhu Thamizh story is followed by "A young post-graduate faces difficulties with finding employment, and struggles against social inequalities.". Kattradhu Thamizh released on 06 Oct 2007 in India. Kattradhu Thamizh is 147 min long film. Kattradhu Thamizh is directed by Ram. Kattradhu Thamizh is written by Ram. Jiiva, Anjali, Karunas played the lead main roles in the movie. IMDb rated the movie 8.5/10.
Paruthiveeran (2007) 🌟 8.2/10 as per 02 February 2022:
Paruthiveeran movie is an Action, Drama, Romance movie. Paruthiveeran story is followed by "A village tough finally succumbs to the unconditional love of his angelic cousin, but his romance faces insurmountable challenges, including family opposition and his own delinquent personality.". Paruthiveeran released on 23 Feb 2007 in India. Paruthiveeran is 162 min long film. Paruthiveeran is directed by Ameer Sultan. Paruthiveeran is written by Ameer Sultan. Karthi, Priyamani, Saravanan played the lead main roles in the movie. IMDb rated the movie 8.2/10.
Onbadhu Roobai Nottu (2007) 🌟 8.1/10 as per 02 February 2022:
Onbadhu Roobai Nottu movie is an Drama movie. Onbadhu Roobai Nottu story is followed by "An old homeless farmer narrates his tragic life story to a young man who helps him and it leaves a lasting impact on the man.". Onbadhu Roobai Nottu released on 30 Nov 2007 in India. Onbadhu Roobai Nottu is 155 min long film. Onbadhu Roobai Nottu is directed by Thangar Bachan. Onbadhu Roobai Nottu is written by Thangar Bachan. Sathyaraj, Archana, Nassar played the lead main roles in the movie. IMDb rated the movie 8.1/10.
Mozhi (2007) 🌟 8.0/10 as per 02 February 2022:
Mozhi movie is an Comedy, Romance movie. Mozhi story is followed by "A musician's love towards a stubborn deaf woman makes her eventually realize that there is more to her life than she previously thought.". Mozhi released on 23 Feb 2007 in India. Mozhi is 155 min long film. Mozhi is directed by Radha Mohan. Mozhi is written by Radha Mohan, Viji, Vijie. Prithviraj Sukumaran, Jyotika, Prakash Raj played the lead main roles in the movie. IMDb rated the movie 8.0/10.
Chennai 600028 (2007) 🌟 7.9/10 as per 02 February 2022:
Chennai 600028 movie is an Comedy, Romance, Sport movie. Chennai 600028 story is followed by "Friendship, love, and rivalry spice up the game of street cricket in the suburb of Chennai whose zip code give this movie its name.". Chennai 600028 released on 02 Aug 2007 in India. Chennai 600028 is 141 min long film. Chennai 600028 is directed by Venkat Prabhu. Chennai 600028 is written by Venkat Prabhu. Shiva, Jai, Nitin Sathya played the lead main roles in the movie. IMDb rated the movie 7.9/10.
Sivaji (2007) 🌟 7.5/10 as per 02 February 2022:
Sivaji movie is an Action, Crime, Drama movie. Sivaji story is followed by "A software engineer comes to India to serve the nation and invest in nation's welfare. A few corrupt officials and politicians try to stop him while he tries to do good for the poor.". Sivaji released on 15 Jun 2007 in India. Sivaji is 188 min long film. Sivaji is directed by S. Shankar. Sivaji is written by Swanand Kirkire, S. Shankar, Sujatha. Rajinikanth, Shriya Saran, Suman played the lead main roles in the movie. IMDb rated the movie 7.5/10.
Pokkiri (2007) 🌟 7.5/10 as per 02 February 2022:
Pokkiri movie is an Action, Crime, Thriller movie. Pokkiri story is followed by "Thamizh is a killer for hire with no ties and who will do any dirty job for money. He has a girlfriend who loves him but also detests his violent nature. But is Thamizh really what he purports to be?". Pokkiri released on 12 Jan 2007 in India. Pokkiri is 161 min long film. Pokkiri is directed by Prabhu Deva. Pokkiri is written by Prabhu Deva, Puri Jagannadh, V. Prabhakar. Thalapathy Vijay, Asin Thottumkal, Prakash Raj played the lead main roles in the movie. IMDb rated the movie 7.5/10.
Billa (2007) 🌟 7.3/10 as per 02 February 2022:
Billa movie is an Action, Crime, Thriller movie. Billa story is followed by "A cop chases international gangster Billa and happens to be the only one to see him die. He places Velu, Billa's lookalike, inside the gang to get information. But Velu is framed for killing the cop.". Billa released on 14 Dec 2007 in India. Billa is 130 min long film. Billa is directed by Vishnuvardhan. Billa is written by Salim Khan, Javed Akhtar, Vishnuvardhan. Ajith Kumar, Nayanthara, Rahman played the lead main roles in the movie. IMDb rated the movie 7.3/10.
Evano Oruvan (2007) 🌟 7.1/10 as per 02 February 2022:
Evano Oruvan movie is an Drama, Thriller movie. Evano Oruvan story is followed by "A middle class man, tormented by the injustice around him, decides to take a charge against the issues surrounding him.". Evano Oruvan released on 07 Dec 2007 in India. Evano Oruvan is 115 min long film. Evano Oruvan is directed by Nishikant Kamat. Evano Oruvan is written by Vijay V. Kadam, Nishikant Kamat, Madhavan. Madhavan, Sangeetha, Seeman played the lead main roles in the movie. IMDb rated the movie 7.1/10.
Kireedam (2007) 🌟 6.5/10 as per 02 February 2022:
Kireedam movie is an Action, Drama movie. Kireedam story is followed by "Shakthi, a Police Constable's son, is aspiring to be a cop himself. He crosses paths with a local.". Kireedam released on 20 Jul 2007 in India. Kireedam is 156 min long film. Kireedam is directed by A.L. Vijay. Kireedam is written by A.K. Lohithadas, Na. Muthukumar, A.L. Vijay. Ajith Kumar, Trisha Krishnan, Raj Kiran played the lead main roles in the movie. IMDb rated the movie 6.5/10.


Before we get into today's workout, I want to welcome all new readers to the blog, especially those visiting today from the blog hop hosted by Kristy of Runaway Bridal Planner. I am participating in a health & fitness blog hop this week, which is a fun way for bloggers to connect and learn more about each other. Whether you're a brand new reader, or have been subscribed for a long time, I'm so happy you're here! To make what's already a pretty long post a little bit shorter, I'd like to point you towards the re-introduction I gave back when I participated in this hop for the first time. That post has been updated since it was written, however I encourage you to check out the About Page and Fun Facts to learn a bit more about me and the blog.
Okay, now onto the fitness! Today's workout was inspired by recent travels where I wanted to work out, but didn't want to disturb the other house guests or neighbors with a lot of jumping around. This lower body workout is perfect for quiet spaces like apartments, hotel rooms, or even just the next room in your house. You don't need any equipment to do it, so it's great for doing at home or on the go, and it's only a quick 15 minutes. Keep reading for the details!
What You'll Need: just some floor space and an exercise mat if desired.
What You'll Do: go through each exercise for a total of 1 minute (broken up into various segments described below). Repeat the 5 exercises 2 times through for the full 15-minute workout.
Lunge-to-Kick Sequence (30 seconds each leg) - start standing and step forward with your right leg into a forward lunge. Get as low as you can. Push yourself back up to standing and immediately do 1 front kick on the right leg. Then step out to the right into a squat. Push yourself back up and immediately kick that leg out into a side kick. Now step your right foot back into a backward lunge, push back up, and do 1 back kick on the right. Keep the pattern going on the right leg for 30 seconds, then switch to the left.
Square Pattern Squats with Lunges (15 seconds each position) - I think looking at the graphic for this one might be more helpful than words since this description is lengthy, so bear with me. Picture an imaginary square on the floor. In each corner, you're holding a low squat with your legs and feet together. The horizontal sides are wide stance squats, and the vertical sides are lunges (the leg that's forward in the lunge is the one that's on the outside of the square). Each position is held for 15 seconds, for a total of 2 minutes. So, for example, start in the top right corner of the square and hold a squat for 15 seconds with your feet and legs together. Next, step out to the left into a wide stance squat and hold for 15 seconds. Now bring the right foot in and hold a low squat for 15. Step back with your right leg and hold a lunge for 15. Step your left foot back into a low squat again and hold... so on and so forth until you complete the full square and wind up back in the top right corner (or wherever you started). Feel the burn!
Runner Stance Heel Touches (30 seconds each leg) - fair warning: the burn creeps up on you in these babies! Start in a runner's stance lunge - crouched down, finger tips lightly touching the ground, your right leg forward with all your weight on it, back leg extended back straight, toes lightly touching the floor with hardly any weight on that leg. From here, and maintaining the crouched down position, bring your back leg forward so your left toes lightly touch your right heel. Extend your left leg back out again, remembering not to shift any weight backwards as you do. Keep bringing that left leg in and out for 30 seconds, then switch legs.
Side Plank Leg Lifts (30 seconds each side) - get into a low side plank on your elbow with your top leg bearing all the weight and your bottom leg extended slightly in front of you, foot flexed. Maintaining a strong plank position, lift and lower your bottom leg. Keep going for 30 seconds on one side, then switch to the other.
Inside Knee Press + Pulse + Hold (10/10/10 x 2 each side) - this move involves very little actual movement, but you'll feel it in your leg adductors (inner thigh muscles) all the same. Lie on your back with your left leg extended out straight (foot hovering over the floor for some abdominal engagement), and your right leg bent to 90˚. Put your left hand on the inside of your right knee. Staying in this position, press your hand into your knee and your knee back into your hand (both adding resistance to the other). Press for 10, then pulse the movement (small quick presses) for 10 seconds, then hold the press for 10 seconds. Repeat that once more on the right leg, then switch to the left.
Remember to go through that one more time for the full 15-minute workout.
Readers: chat with me! How often do you train your legs? Do you incorporate more plyometric/cardio components to your leg training or do you stick with strength training (or a combo)? What are some of your favorite bodyweight leg exercises? If you are new to the blog, how do you like it? Any workouts that you might try?
Today's ab workout takes a quick 10 minutes, but you'll definitely be feeling it before then! This one mainly targets the obliques, and you'll also get some sneaky shoulder work in with the plank variations. There are 5 different exercises, alternating between a plank move and a move on the ground. Each exercise is done for 1 minute (or in some cases, 30 seconds on each side), and you'll repeat the full thing twice. Ready to work those abs?!
What You'll Do: go through each exercise, timing for 1 minute each (or 30 seconds in some cases). Repeat the full workout 2 times for a total of 10 minutes.
Alternating Knee to Elbow Planks - start in a high plank position, spine aligned. Bring your left knee out wide and up to reach your left elbow. Place that leg back on the ground and bring your right knee out and up to meet your right elbow. Keep alternating legs for the full minute, maintaining a flat back and tight abs.
Side-Lying Oblique Crunches - lie on one side, keeping your bottom arm extended out on the floor and top arm bent with your hand behind your head. From there, crunch up to the side so your elbow meets your knees. Continue the crunches for 30 seconds on one side, then switch to the other. Trainer Tip: if you want to make it easier, crunch up using only your top leg, and keep the bottom leg extended out straight. Harder = keep both legs straight and "V" up.
Hip Twist Planks - start in a high plank position and rotate your hips to one side, keeping your upper body still and hips high. Immediately twist your hips to the other side. Keep alternating twists for 1 minute. Trainer Tip: remember to keep your hips at relatively the same height (i.e. you're not dipping your hips to the floor, but rather twisting them slightly side to side.
Raised-Leg Russian Twists - sit on the floor with your feet raised, upper body leaned back slightly to engage the abs. Alternate twisting quickly from side to side for 1 minute, watching your hands as you twist (allows for more torso rotation and therefore more oblique engagement).
Cross-Body Mountain Climbers - one of my favorites! This one is a little more cardio-heavy but still workouts your obliques just the same. Start in a high plank and quickly alternate bringing your knee to the opposite side of your chest. In the pictures it looks like I'm just stepping up, but try to make this more of a cardio move by "running". Keep going for 1 minute.
Repeat 2 times through for the full 10-minute workout.
I got to partner with Mondetta Performance Gear (MPG Sport) for this workout and review a few pieces of clothing. I'm wearing their cardio cropped tights and tangent sports bra in geo print. The tights are really high quality and SUPER comfortable. They're knit compression tights and are completely seamless around the legs, which makes for a snug fit in the best way possible. The sports bra is a fun black and white geo print pattern, which I'm loving because it easily pairs with colored tanks or black/white for a monochrome look. It's made for medium support, which it definitely gives (I've tried jumping around in it and it holds up) and it has a keyhole back for more breathability. Loving these pieces, and best of all, MPG's price point is super affordable.
To shop these pieces and all the other MPG Sport collections (they have these new cut-to-length leggings which look awesome!!), you can check them out on their website here, and on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
Readers: chat with me! What are some of your favorite bodyweight ab exercises? Do you like planks? Do you have a favorite plank variation? How was your weekend?
Disclosure: I was gifted the leggings and sports bra from MPG Sport for review. This workout and all opinions (as always!) are my own.
It's been a while since I've posted a quick 5-minute workout for you all. I was short on time at the gym yesterday, so to get in a good ab burn I decided to do a quick AMRAP. I modified it a bit for the blog here, but the main idea is the same. Do as many rounds as you can during the 5 minutes, and try not to take any breaks between exercises for maximum ab work in minimal time. The best part is this workout requires no equipment, so you can do it just about anywhere. Ready to get started?
Set your timer for 5 minutes and get through as many rounds as you can, trying not to take any breaks between exercises. Let's work those abs today!
30 Cross-Body Mountain Climbers - just like regular mountain climbers, but instead of bringing your knees to your chest straight on, cross them to the opposite side of your chest. Each knee in counts as 1 rep. Do 30 reps total, working quickly. Trainer Tip: if the running is too much, slow it down to just stepping.
20 Hip Touch Planks - start in a low plank position (on your elbows), and rotate your hips to one side while lowering them to the floor. Keep your abs engaged and legs as straight as you can throughout. Return to start and immediately rotate to the opposite side. Do 20 total (10 on each side).
10 Oblique Crunches (R + L) - lie on one side, keeping your bottom arm extended out on the floor and top arm bent with your hand behind your head. From there, crunch up to the side so your elbow meets your knees. Continue the crunches for 10 reps on one side, then switch to the other. Trainer Tip: if you want to make it easier, crunch up using only your top leg instead of both. Harder = keep legs straight and "V" up.
20 In & Outs - sit down on the floor, legs extended with hands by your sides, elbows on the ground, chest up. Bring your chest and knees up to meet in the middle, keeping your hands planted as your elbows come off the floor. Extend back out to starting position, keeping your feet hovered over the floor. Do 20 reps.
30 Supine Flutter Kicks - lie on your back (with hands under your lower back for support if needed). Keep your chest raised and legs out straight, hovering over the floor. Alternate fluttering them up and down (tiny movements) without touching the floor. Keep fluttering your feet for 30 (fast) reps.
Repeat all exercises as many times as possible within 5 minutes.
Readers: chat with me! Do you train your abs often? What's your favorite ab exercise? Do you ever do quick workouts like this one when you don't have time to make it to the gym or a class?


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Gifts To Get Your Long-Distance Partner
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What To Get Your Long-Distance Partner — Besides A Trip To See You
When you're in a long-distance relationship, getting your partner a trip to see you is an obvious gift that checks all the boxes: it's useful, thoughtful, and memorable. But depending on your schedule or cashflow situation, buying a plane ticket or taking time off work isn't always doable. Sometimes you have to cave and get your partner an actual thing, which isn't the end of the world.
Ahead, we found the best gifts that will show your long-distance partner that you care. Some of the options will make their alone time feel a little less lonely. Others will make back-and-forth travel a bit more tolerable. And a few of these gifts will help you feel closer as a couple, despite your physical distance.
Whether you live miles apart or are just temporarily out of arm's reach, these are the gifts you want to get your partner.
Long Distance Relationship Gifts 2019 Holiday Presents
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Each time Apple launches a new device, I think about their previous generation devices which gets a price cut soon after. So, this year I'm thinking about the iPhone 6S (just kidding LOL!). Before diving into the Apple world, I want you to remember one thing: clear your dues off your credit cards, because you will be needing it shortly.
Apple's slogan is "think different". When I think about it now, I feel like they mean it this time. I think this time Apple has played the game differently.
This year you will find a bunch of iPhones: iPhone XR, XS and XS Max.
Yeah, it sounds like Motorola's Play, Plus and regular variants. Same specs but different camera module and storage variants.
I'm starting with the iPhone XR. Apple is calling the XR an affordable device, ironically starting at $749. The look and feel is the same as last year's iPhone X with no fingerprint sensor, a third-quarter cut notch above the display, same hardware but slightly upgraded Face ID and no headphone jack.
Talking about such specs are common. Let's move on to something different.
I'm pretty excited for the chipset. Finally, Apple has made the world's first 7nm fabrication in the A12 chipset. It has a six-core CPU with two "performance" cores and four "efficiency" cores, a four-core GPU, and an updated Neural Engine, a special part of the chip designed to handle AI tasks.
The last year's A11 Chip had a two-core Neural Engine. The A12 Bionic upgraded into eight cores. And it can handle 5 trillion operations per second. On the other side, Huawei unveiled the 7nm Kirin 980 recently but that won't ship until October.
From the camera side, each phone has the same camera hardware but the XR lacks a secondary lens. All phones have 12MP f/1.8 aperture camera and are equipped with new software and capable of smart HDR and the best color reproduction in low light.
Moreover, the secondary lenses on the XS and XS max have a 12-megapixel telephoto secondary sensor with f/2.4 aperture. It has the same features such as dual optical image stabilization, 2x optical zoom, digital zoom up to 10x, wide color capture for photos and Live Photos, Quad-LED True Tone flash with Slow Sync, Portrait mode with advanced bokeh and Depth Control, Portrait Lighting with five effects (Natural, Studio, Contour, Stage, Stage Mono), and Smart HDR for photos.
And the front camera is a 7-megapixel f/2.2 sensor, the camera system used for selfies, Face ID, Animoji, and Memoji is the same across all three new iPhones.
From the storage side, all the device comes with a good amount of storage with different price variants.
The iPhone XR comes in 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB inbuilt storage variants. The iPhone XS and XS Max comes with 64GB, 256GB, and 512GB inbuilt storage options.
The iPhone XR gets 1.5 hours more battery life compared to the iPhone 8 Plus. The iPhone XS gets 30 minutes more battery life compared to the iPhone X and the iPhone XS Max gets 1.5 hours more battery life compared to the iPhone X.
Apple claimed that every device's battery will reach 50 percent in 30 minutes of charging. Also, every device comes with wireless charging support.
The iPhone XS and XS Max is IP68 certified for water resistance of up to 2 meters for up to 30 minutes, whereas the XR is IP67 certified.
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Q: PayPal Sandbox Notifications Problem I have a .NET site which integrates with PayPal.  I am currently working with the Sandbox, and with recurring subscriptions.
I have created my buttons, and I am able to subscribe with them.  I see the money go out of my test user accounts and into my test business account.  I receive notifications back to my notification URL...all good.
My buttons are currently set to recur subscribe payment every day.
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Everything looks good in the Sandbox...all of my subscriptions appear active in the business account profile, and all of the buttons look correct.
NOTE: I used to get many recurring notifications when I was in early development and failed to unsubscribe.  I cleaned out my accounts by resetting them, and I now unsubscribe correctly, but I don't get notifications beyond the initial signup.
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*Should I delete and recreate all of my test accounts?  I have
tried to reset them all, with no change in behavior.

UPDATE: The problem isn't me.  I found out by browsing the forums on x.com that PayPal subscription notifications in the Sandbox has been down for over a week!!!!!  Not good, but the problem wasn't me.

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Mayer Hawthorne (DJ Set)
Date: Fri May 27th 2022
Performing: The Lagoon Stage
Mayer Hawthorne has over 100 million plays on YouTube, Spotify and all those other Internet sites. His sophomore album How Do You Do earned him a Grammy nod. And if he got a vote for every SoundCloud follower he has (five million), he could get elected Senator somewhere. But he's not some piece of shit politician; he's a musician who writes songs from the soul. Here's some stuff you can't find on Wikipedia: Mayer Hawthorne starts his day off with waffles and The Whispers or turkey sausage and Steely Dan. Sometimes it's punk rock and pancakes for dinner. It doesn't matter as long as it's breakfast food and music. Raised by hippie parents in Ann Arbor, Michigan, smack between the Hash Bash and the car factories — Hawthorne's old man taught him to play bass guitar at age five. He would play records in the house all while Mayer was growing up. He put him up on game. He'd say, "You hear him singing there? That's David Ruffin." Or, "You hear that guitar solo? That's Stephen Stills." And young Hawthorne would sit there, with his bowl of cereal, soaking it up. Mayer DJed in Michigan at the height of Detroit hip-hop. He was there. Before Em blew, when Dilla was still alive. He was spinning records and making rap beats. Now he's making soul records and rappers are sampling him. Circle of life. Mayer's been digging in the crates and you can hear the influences in his music. A touch of Shuggie Otis here, some Bob Marley there, a sprinkle of Sly Stone… On his fourth full-length album, due out this spring, Hawthorne is back to handling the lion's share of production. He also played damn near every instrument on the album and penned every track. His songwriting pulls from his life and observations; his heartache and joy. Sometimes it's groovy, other times he's vulnerable and sincere. It's the shit people listen to when they wanna get drunk and stoned and sentimental. The reason? Mayer Hawthorne stays making that timeless, soulful, baby-making music. -Jude Angelini
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Here's some stuff you can't find on Wikipedia: Mayer Hawthorne starts his day off with waffles and The Whispers or turkey sausage and Steely Dan. Sometimes it's punk rock and pancakes for dinner. It doesn't matter as long as it's breakfast food and music. Raised by hippie parents in Ann Arbor, Michigan, smack between the Hash Bash and the car factories – Hawthorne's old man taught him to play bass guitar at age five. He would play records in the house all while Hawthorne was growing up. He put him up on game. He'd say, "You hear him singing there? That's David Ruffin." Or, "You hear that guitar solo? That's Stephen Stills." And young Hawthorne would sit there, with his bowl of Cap'n Crunch, soaking it up.
Hawthorne was DJing in Michigan at the height of Detroit hip-hop. He was there. Before Em blew up, when Dilla was still alive. He was spinning records and making rap beats. Now he's making soul records and rappers are sampling him. Circle of life. Hawthorne's been digging in the crates and you can hear the influences in his music. A touch of Shuggie Otis here, some Bobby Caldwell there, a sprinkle of Barry White…
Hawthorne has released four full-length albums, one of which earned him a Grammy nomination. In addition to handling the lion's share of production across his vast catalog, he also played damn near every instrument on every album and penned every song. His writing pulls from his life and observations; his heartache and joy. Sometimes it's funky, other times he's vulnerable and sincere. It's the soundtrack to long relationships and tough breakups. Whether you're shopping for groceries, on a dinner date, on the dancefloor, or in the bedroom, Hawthorne's music is the mood.
Then came Tuxedo, the collaboration between Hawthorne and Hip-Hop producer Jake One, a boogie funk super-group that was supposed to be a one-off side project, but swiftly took on a life of its own. Three albums and multiple world tours later, Hawthorne and Jake are still serving up dance floor anthems and quietly producing for other superstars like Pitbull and Future.
From the summer of 2019 Hawthorne launched his own record label, Big Bucks. Since then, he released a string of singles harkening back to early Hawthorne sonics a la "Green Eyed Love,". In December of 2020, Mayer released the previous singles as a compilation record, Rare Changes. It's like he ate a handful of magic mushrooms and fell in love with music all over again.
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June 2020 (Volume 29, Number 6)
Going Deep into Black Holes
By Sophia Chen
Recent telescope and gravitational wave observations have enabled researchers to characterize black holes in new ways and perform tests of general relativity in the most dramatically warped spacetime environments yet. Even as collaborations suspend observing runs due to the ongoing pandemic, researchers still have a rich backlog of data to sort through for new insights, some of which were presented at the Virtual April Meeting.
At the meeting, researchers from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo announced an unusual new signal, observed on April 12, 2019, from two black holes merging 2.5 billion light years away. Notably, this event involved a bigger black hole, 30 times the mass of the sun, and a smaller black hole, about eight times the mass of the sun. This contrasts with the 10 black hole mergers previously detected by the US-based LIGO and Italy-based Virgo, which involved black hole pairs around the same size.
Because this event looks so different from the others, it deepens researchers' questions about how black holes pair up. In particular, this signal defies a previous conclusion that black holes are likely "picky partners," as Maya Fishbach, a member of the LIGO collaboration, calls them. "From the first ten detections, it looked like they were very picky and only pairing with similar mass partners," says Fishbach, a recent PhD graduate of the University of Chicago. "With this latest one, it looks like there are some systems that aren't so picky."
Artist's rendition of Schwarzschild precession of a star's orbit around a black hole.
It's an open question how this system could have formed. One potential strategy for solving this mystery involves studying the statistics of observed black hole mergers. For example, Fishbach has built simple models that describe the mass distribution of the black holes in the 11 detected events thus far. These models may help illuminate how these objects form: Researchers simulating black hole formation check if their models replicate Fishbach's statistics. While 11 gravitational wave signals make for a small data set currently, the collaboration has 56 candidate signals to potentially add to the mix.
The current statistics support the idea that black holes of a certain mass range don't exist, the so-called pair-instability mass gap. In particular, researchers have not found intermediate-mass black holes between 50 and several hundreds of thousands solar masses. It could be that stars of a certain mass become so-called pair-instability supernovae, which produce electron-positron pairs that completely blow apart the star, leaving no remnants.
A Wobbly Orbit
Reinhard Genzel, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Studies in Munich and leader of the GRAVITY collaboration, reported recent studies of the galactic center. Just two days prior to his talk, they published the first measurement of the precession of the star S2 around the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* at the center of the Milky Way. This so-called Schwarzschild precession, in which the star's orbital path shifts slightly with every revolution, confirms a prediction by general relativity.
This measurement was an epic undertaking that began as early as 2002, when Genzel and his colleagues discovered that at its nearest approach, the star orbits just 17 light hours away from the black hole with an orbital period of about 16 years. Determined to observe the star's subsequent revolution, the group prepared for over a decade to develop and install new infrared instruments at the Very Large Telescope in Chile. Evaluating the star's orbit in 2018, they saw that its position had shifted.
The magnitude of this shift, which they measured to more than 5.5 sigma, matches general relativity predictions to about 15 percent. For a more precise measurement, they "need a star which is still closer [to the black hole]," says Genzel.
In 2019, the group also reported a test of a general relativity assumption called local position invariance using observations of this same star. They monitored light emitted from the star's hydrogen and helium atoms. As the star approached closer to the black hole, the stronger gravity redshifted the frequency of the light more. The collaboration confirmed that gravity shifted the helium frequency the same amount as the hydrogen frequency, as predicted.
Observations of such stars as S2 give astrophysicists the ability to test their hypotheses about extreme gravitational environments. "All of a sudden, we are using distant objects like tests in the laboratory," says Genzel.
More Donuts, Please
After the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration published the first image of a black hole last year, fans have hotly anticipated their follow-up release, an image of Sagittarius A*. It's a top priority for the group, and they have amassed plenty of observations on this black hole already. "It'll be hopefully within the next year," says Michael Johnson of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, a member of EHT.
Although our galaxy's black hole is a mere 25,640 light years away, imaging it has proven significantly more difficult compared to M87, the orange donut published last year that is 55 million light years away. M87 is outside of the galactic plane, which means its light does not have to travel through much interstellar plasma before it reaches Earth. Not so with Sagittarius A*. "We're peering through our own galaxy, and it's like looking through frosted glass at the black hole," says Johnson.
In addition, our black hole is far more dynamic than M87, making it harder to reconstruct a clear image. "A day in the life of M87 is a minute in the life of Sagittarius A*," says Johnson.
The team is also studying other objects observed during 2017 and 2018. In April, they released an image of the quasar 3C 279, 5 billion light years away, which spews jets of plasma powered by a central supermassive black hole. In their analysis, the team traced the jet back to its launch point with spatial resolution finer than a light year.
Earthly Limitations
Despite the flurry of black hole research, the worldwide pandemic has made its mark on the community. Many ground-based observatories have been closed this spring. To protect the health of their staff, LIGO and Virgo shut down their facilities at the end of March, ending their observing run a month earlier than planned.
These shutdowns leave conspicuous gaps in their observing data. Unfortunately, the shutdowns coincided with the month of April, which is usually the optimal time for observing the galactic center, says Genzel. "We're not going to have data in 2020," says Johnson, of the EHT collaboration.
Prior to the shutdowns, the EHT collaboration had been planning to coordinate observations at 11 different sites this year, three more observatories since the first black hole image was taken. "It's heartbreaking," says Johnson. "We schedule these observations months and months ahead of time. We were right at the point of sending people to sites and finishing all the preparations when we had to make the call."
For now, researchers will make do with the data that they have. "The good news is that we're used to telecons," says Johnson.
The author is a freelance writer based in Columbus, Ohio.
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Pussy Riot – One Year On
21 February 2013 12 March 2013 - by Cat Lucas - 2 Comments.
In February 2012, a group of activists from the punk collective Pussy Riot staged a protest in a Moscow Cathedral, denouncing the Russian Orthodox Church's support for President Vladimir Putin. They were arrested on charges of hooliganism and later sentenced to two years in prison. Today marks the first anniversary of that Punk Prayer performance. One year on and in spite of an outpouring of support from across the globe, two members of the group, Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, remain detained in remote penal colonies, far from Moscow and their young children.
English PEN and our colleagues at PEN International consider the harsh sentences to be in retaliation for the criticisms the band have made of President Putin and the Orthodox Church, and therefore in breach of the International Convention on Political and Civil Rights, to which Russia is a signatory. We continue to call on the Russian authorities to release Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova immediately and unconditionally. We are also calling for all charges against fellow band member Yekaterina Samutsevich, whose sentence was suspended following an appeal in October, to be dropped.
Earlier this month, Pussy Riot's lawyers filed a complaint contesting their convictions in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Whilst we are hopeful that this will lead to their early release, there are still a number of things we can all be doing to show our continued support – please see below for some suggestions.
Poems for Pussy Riot
To rally support for Pussy Riot, in October 2012 English PEN launched 'Poems for Pussy Riot', inviting poets from all over the world, including Phill Jupitus, Ali Smith, Deborah Levy and John Kinsella, to write creative responses to the case. We received more than 100 submissions within a matter of weeks and posted the extraordinary poems and images as daily online tributes to the band on our website.
An e-book collection and print-on-demand version of the collection, CATECHISM: POEMS FOR PUSSY RIOT, edited by poets Mark Burnhope, Sarah Crewe and Sophie Mayer, was published on 1 October 2012 to coincide with their first appeal hearing. All proceeds are to be divided between the Pussy Riot Legal fund and our Writers at Risk programme.
The project has been a great success so far:
We have now made over £850 through book sales and events;
We have sold over 140 print-on-demand copies of 'Catechism', and reached Lulu sales rank of #201;
The poems are now available online in Russian – huge thanks to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty for their support!
Poets for Pussy Riot have been performing their work at public events across the UK and Ireland. To view videos of their performances, please see the Poems for Pussy Riot YouTube channel.
Please help us to keep the Pussy Riot conversation alive by downloading, reading, sharing, tweeting, translating and remixing the amazing work produced by our Poets for Pussy Riot. To inspire you, here is Ali Smith's Song in Portuguese, translated by Ricardo Marques.
De cada vez que disseres não
a algo que está errado
uma fenda do tamanho de um cabelo &
uma única nota dessa canção
insere-se na pedra
o significado de forte
pode levar pouco tempo
pode levar muito tempo
ouve: milhões de nós
cantando em coro.
Sign the petition in support of Pussy Riot members Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova;
We'd love to get more coverage for the anthology and Pussy Riot's case, so please do consider voting for us as Best Poetry Anthology or Best One-Off Literary Project in the 2013 Sabotage Awards: http://sabotagereviews.com/2013/03/01/saboteur-awards-2013/
Spare a few seconds to rate 'Catechism: Poems for Pussy Riot' on Lulu, or even a few minutes to leave a review.
Send a letter of appeal
– Highlighting the fact that the continued detention of Pussy Riot members Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova violates their right to free expression, and is therefore in breach of international conventions, specifically Article 19 of the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights, to which Russia is a signatory;
– Calling for the immediate and unconditional release of both Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova, and the complete dismissal of the charges against all three women.
You can send messages to President Putin via the Kremlin website or to the following address:
President Vladimir Putin
President of the Russian Federation
23, Ilyinka Street,
We would also recommend that you write to the Russian Embassy in the UK:
His Excellency Dr Alexander Vladimirovich Yakovenko
6/7 Kensington Palace Gardens,
W8 4QP
Email: c/o press@rusemb.org.uk
Or you could use the form below. A sample letter is provided but it is always better if you put the appeal in your own words.
[ecampaign 'to= press@rusemb.org.uk' subject="Free Pussy Riot"]
Your Excellency,
I am writing to you as a supporter of English PEN to express my grave concern for the detained members of Pussy Riot and to call for their immediate and unconditional release.
According to PEN's information, in February 2012 a group of activists from the punk collective Pussy Riot staged a protest in a Moscow Cathedral, denouncing the Russian Orthodox Church's support for President Vladimir Putin. They were arrested on charges of hooliganism and later sentenced to two years in prison. One year on from the performance, two members of the group, Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, remain detained in remote penal colonies, far from Moscow and their young children.
I consider the harsh sentences to be in retaliation for the criticisms the band have made of President Putin and the Orthodox Church. I firmly believe that all three women have been sentenced in violation of their right to free expression, in violation of the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) to which Russia is a signatory. I am therefore calling on the Russian authorities to release Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova immediately and unconditionally, and for all charges against fellow band member Yekaterina Samutsevich to be dropped.
I would welcome your comments on our appeal.
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2 Comments on "Pussy Riot – One Year On"
Cat Lucas says:
Six poems from our collection 'Catechism: Poems for Pussy Riot' have been recorded in Russian to mark the first anniversary of the Punk Prayer performance. Huge thanks to all the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalists involved for their continued support for this project!
Watch the recordings, featuring poems by Karen Connelly, Jack Underwood, Sally McAlister, Adrian Slatcher, George Ttoouli and Tim Dooley, here http://www.svoboda.org/content/article/24908759.html
Pete Jones alias says:
pity you care more about agent provocateurs than you do about UK domestic dissidents, Pussy Riot had a naked orgy in a museum ffs, i smell a bad case of controlled opposition here picking the usual safe targets. Iran, Russia etc when some of the worst human rights viloations are here in the UK


SCJ Alliance employees come together to volunteer during Rebuilding Day for Rebuilding Together Thurston County.
You can see the emotion on Lane Sater's face as he repeats a heart-wrenching story of a woman who has been the victim of domestic violence. For the past five years, more than 2,000 times, she has entered an unsafe house. There are holes in the walls, the carpet has been ripped out, the windows and doors are gone. There is no furniture and she basically lives in one small back bedroom. But at the end of this month, this woman's life and living situation will be dramatically improved, thanks to Rebuilding Together Thurston County, where Sater serves as board president.
Lane Sater works with other volunteers to fix a home. He says his construction background has given him much needed skills to get the job done.
"One of our lines is 'together we transform' and it's really true. You get done at the end of the day and see what's been accomplished and it's awesome. This is amazing," Sater tells me as we talk about the non-profit organization. He says he first learned of Rebuilding Together through a colleague at SCJ Alliance, where he works as a senior designer. The local engineering and planning firm is a supporter of the organization and it didn't take Sater long to realize why.
For the Sater family, Rebuilding Together has become an organization that they assist together. Pictured here is Nathan (left) and Ryan Sater.
Sater finished his first project on a neighborhood of mobile homes about three years ago. He even turned it into a family affair with the help of his teenage sons and many of the resident's families working side by side.
Dan Ireland (left) was the recipient of the SCJ Cares award in 2015. This year he will travel from Wenatchee to participate in the Rebuilding Day. Nathan Sater, Lane's son, assists in a project.
"We have a good time with friends and it means a lot to the people we help," says Trevon Sater. "I enjoy helping people out that can't afford it," adds his brother, Nathan. "It makes us feel good to help other people and they are very happy," shares Katelyn Sater.
Throughout the year Rebuilding Together completes ongoing projects made possible through grants from communities in Thurston County. Last year Lane says the City of Tumwater appropriated just over $49,000 in federal community development block grant money to make improvements on over a dozen residents' homes.
Rain or shine, Rebuilding Together volunteers show up to help others.
But the real excitement comes on April 30, when local volunteers will participate in Rebuilding Day, a national event held in conjunction with other Rebuilding Together chapters. This year, five homes will undergo a makeover in the Olympia area and thousands of homeowners across the country will have their lives changed.
Many of the home improvement projects during Rebuilding Day do not require technical skills. Kristina and Katelyn Sater assist with some landscaping work.
Although they have enough volunteers for Rebuilding Day, Sater says financial donations and supply gifts are still greatly needed. He tells me with more funds they would be able to help many more people in need.
To learn more about Rebuilding Together Thurston County or to make a donation, click here.
SCJ Alliance employs great people making a difference, like Lane Sater. To learn more about the community organizations that this Lacey-based company supports, click here.


Place the chickens on a flat work surface and using kitchen shears, cut away and remove the backbones. With a sharp knife, cut each bird in half through the center of the breast. Remove the breast and rib bones. Cut away the outer 2/3 of the wing bone, leaving the last joint intact. Cut into and remove the thighbone. Repeat with the remaining chicken and reserve the bones for another use.
Plating 1: Season the chickens on both sides with the Essence. Heat 1 tablespoon of the oil in each of 2 skillets over medium-high heat. Place 2 chicken halves, skin side up, in each hot pan and sear on 1 side for 6 minutes. Remove from the heat. Add 2 tablespoons of the butter and 4 sprigs of thyme to each pan. Place in the oven and roast for 16 minutes on the same side. Remove from the oven and carefully turn the chicken halves with tongs. Spoon pan juices over the skin side of each chicken and roast until the skin is crisp and the chickens are cooked through, about 10 minutes.
Remove from the oven and place the chicken halves on a cutting board. Carefully cut away the breast from each half and carve into 5 slices.
Arrange the sliced breast along the top of a plate and place the leg to the side. Spoon the sauce over the chickens and arrange the mushrooms to the side. Garnish each plate with watercress and 4 sprigs of thyme and serve.
Plating 2: Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
Place the chickens on a flat work surface and using kitchen shears, cut away and remove the backbones. With a sharp knife, cut each bird in half through the center of the breast. Remove the breast and rib bones. Cut away the outer 2/3 of the wing bone, leaving the last joint intact. Cut into and remove the thighbone. Repeat with the remaining chicken and reserve the bones for another use. Lightly pound out the chicken halves between 2 sheets of plastic to flatten. Season the inside of the chicken with salt and pepper.
Have the sauteed mushrooms, cooled, in a bowl. Place the mushrooms on the chicken and roll up, lengthwise, around the filling. Tie the roll at 1-inch intervals. Place the chicken roll in a hot pan and sear on all sides for 6 minutes.
Remove from the heat. Add 2 tablespoons of the butter and 2 sprigs of thyme to each pan. Place in the oven and roast for 16 minutes on the same side. Remove from the oven and carefully turn the chicken halves with tongs. Spoon pan juices over the skin side of each chicken and roast until the skin is crisp and the chickens are cooked through, about 10 minutes. Remove and let rest on a cutting board for 5 minutes before slicing.
Slice the chicken roulade and put the slices on a platter. Spoon the sauce around the roulade and plate with watercress.


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The Trump Administration's Voter-Suppression Plans Are Backfiring Badly
In an unprecedented show of bipartisan resistance, 45 states are refusing to hand over private voter data to Kris Kobach.
BY Ari Berman | July 6, 2017
Trump's Voter-Suppression Plans Are Backfiring
Kris Kobach's "election integrity" commission is never going to be able to prove that millions of people voted illegally because that never happened, writes Ari Berman. (Photo by Geoff Marshall via RachelH_ | Flickr CC 2.0)
This post originally appeared at The Nation.
On June 28, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the vice chair of Donald Trump's presidential commission on "election integrity," sent a letter to all 50 states requesting sweeping voter data, including Social Security numbers, party affiliation, criminal backgrounds and military history.
At first, only a few states, like California, Kentucky and Virginia said no, denouncing the commission as "a waste of taxpayer money and a distraction from the real threats to the integrity of our elections today." But over the holiday weekend, opposition to Kobach's request dramatically increased from both red and blue states. As of Wednesday morning, 45 states have refused to turn over private voter data to Trump's commission. "I've been studying America's election administration since 2000, and I've rarely seen a firestorm like this," wrote MIT political scientist Charles Stewart III.
Twenty states are refusing to give Kobach any data and 25 states are handing over only limited public information on voters, according to CNN (a full list of the states appears below). Even Kobach couldn't hand over Social Security numbers to himself because they're not publicly available in Kansas. Six states have not yet responded.
Most notable is the strong opposition from Republican secretaries of state from red states like Mississippi, Louisiana and Arizona. Mississippi's Delbert Hosemann told Trump and Kobach to "go jump in the Gulf of Mexico"; Louisiana's Tom Schedler said "the president's commission has quickly politicized its work by asking states for an incredible amount of voter data that I have, time and time again, refused to release"; Arizona's Michele Reagan blasted "this hastily organized experiment."
Also notable is the opposition from members of Trump's own election commission, like Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson, who said, "Indiana law doesn't permit the secretary of state to provide the personal information requested by Secretary Kobach," and Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, who told Kobach, "Upon review, the request is denied." One member of the commission, Maryland Deputy Secretary of State Luis Borunda, has already resigned.
The outpouring of bipartisan opposition shows why Trump's sham election commission should be disbanded before it does any more damage. The commission was set up for one purpose — to spread false information about voter fraud, like Trump's gigantic lie that millions of people voted illegally, in order to build support for policies that make it more difficult to vote. Kobach and his ilk have long advocated for suppressive policies like strict voter-ID laws, documentary proof of citizenship for voter registration and voter purges, along with weakening landmark voting-rights laws like the Voting Rights Act and National Voter Registration Act.
.@AriBerman: "They're going to lie about voter fraud to then put in place policies that suppress the vote." #AMJoy pic.twitter.com/sllm8eUkFh
— AM Joy w/Joy Reid (@amjoyshow) July 2, 2017
The commission was never going to be able to prove that millions of people voted illegally because that never happened. At most, there were a few hundred illegal votes cast in 2016. Even if this was a good-faith effort to study America's election system, the commission won't have access to reliable data after so many states rebelled against Kobach's request. "Most likely, the results of low-quality matches using the voter files that do arrive will significantly overstate the amount of double voting and voting by noncitizens," writes Charles Stewart in Politico. "If a poor match occurs, the list maintenance programs of the states will be unfairly impugned, lowering the confidence of voters for no good reason. This is why no one I have talked to who runs elections, Democrat or Republican, is happy with Kobach's request."
Representative Marc Veasey, co-chair of the Congressional Voting Rights Caucus, has introduced legislation to ensure that no taxpayer funds are spent on Trump's commission. "The commission's mission to study non-existent voter fraud cases has nothing to do with ballot security and everything to do with voter suppression and discrimination," he said.
We need a commission to investigate the impact of Russian hacking and voter suppression on the 2016 election. We don't need a disgraced commission on election integrity that only threatens the integrity of our elections.
THE FULL LIST:
States that won't comply with Kobach's request:
States that will hand over only select public voter data:
States that haven't responded yet:
TOPICS: Civil Liberties
TAGS: donald trump, election integrity, kris kobach, voter disenfranchisement, voter id laws, voter suppression, voting
Ari Berman
Ari Berman is a senior reporter for Mother Jones, where he covers voting rights. Previously he was a senior contributing writer for The Nation magazine and a fellow at The Nation Institute. His second book, Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, was published in August 2015 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Follow him on Twitter: @AriBerman.
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