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DavieT
Post by DavieT » Mon Aug 25, 2008 1:23 am
Controversial - yes, hard hitting - yes, vile subject matter - yes, most horrific movie I've ever seen - no, for me that was last years The Girl Next Door.
The seemingly nice normal family with the nice big house with the bat-cave sized high tech, steel clad, operating theatre equipped basement (Austria, France ... basements are in vogue) torture chamber - I would like to have seen some back story on the family to try to get my head around how/why they became involved in this and who this black-clad group led by what looked like Rosa Kleb in a turban were. Were they just religious fanatics?
The relentless kicking, punching and beating the crap out of Anna then skinning her alive was something that left me cold and sat in my seat with a look of disgust on my face, wondering what the hell kind of sick f****d up weirdness was going on in the Director's mind when he was shooting it.
I didnt really get the whole martyrdom thing (maybe as I'm not personally religious) and why this strange bunch of people (who all gathered at the house like it was some cocktail party or gallery opening) thought that by debasing a human being to the point where she lost all grip on reality and started "seeing things others didnt" ... maybe its just me but I thought that was called being delusional ... made her a martyr.
I cant say I found this film "important" or one that "had to be seen and made" - to be honest it really struck me as one of those movies that desperately try hard to be in your face and controversial.
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Post by kaiju » Mon Aug 25, 2008 2:29 am
me and the small band of festers sitting around me all pretty much thought the same thing.It was basically torture porn with a religous overtone.Dont really think you can seperate this from hostel and its ilk.
MaxRenn
Post by MaxRenn » Mon Aug 25, 2008 8:22 am
kaiju and DavieT, i respectfully disagree. I did find this a profound experience. Whether you like it or not it is a very serious piece of work and I can't see how you can compare it to crap like Hostel.
I thought this was very very close to Clive Barker's most hardcore work. Correct me if I'm wrong but Clive Barker was raised a Catholic like Martyrs' director. I think that is significant. I'm a protestant turned athiest myself and I wonder if having religious convictions (either current or former) affect your reaction to this film.
Very interested to hear everyone's thoughts on this.
MaxRenn - I also respect your view - its an extreme movie which will provoke an extreme range of reaction ... thereby acchieving its goal of being highly controversial.
I'm not religious now and never have been but know full well that some people will do some extreme, truly repulsive things and "justify" them in the name of religion - I dont need to see a woman (or any other human being regardless of sex or age ) savagely beaten ,abused and physically/mentally tortured to point that fact out. The skinning made me think immediately of Clive Barker and Hellraiser - not sure whether Barker was raised Catholic but think he's described as an atheist now.
Important is not the same thing as plain nasty but like you I am interested in what other viewers thought.
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Post by JoeyBroChill » Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:41 am
I thought it was a disturbing, hard-hitting and very emotional film. As the credits began to roll, I remember breathing out an enormous sigh of relief.
I found it extremely hard to watch, not because of its gore but because of the subject matter...the fact that these nuts would go as far as to skin someone alive in order to prove the existence of something man is just not supposed to know really hit me hard.
Without doubt the most powerful film of the festival.
Oh and I dont care if he is on the forum but... 'Do you think this is an important film or just gory?' - There are no stupid questions just stupid people, no wait take that back, that was a bloody stupid question!
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Post by Grindhouse » Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:52 am
Martyrs,for me this was an incredible film with a real headf**k ending,and really left me quite in awe of its power,its easy to dismiss this as torture p**n,and pure gore trash,but the journey of the martyrs is a powerful one,the actors and actresess involved,were incredibly brave to take this film and deliver performances the likes of which we may never quite see again for some time.
There was a mixture of the fountain in there,and very much religious overtones in the final minutes.
i knew as soon as the science part underground was discovered this is more than a messed up family,in a year that has uncovered a series of serious child abuse cases across europe including jersey,its going to be hard for this film to get beyond that label,but its more than that,and that journey beyond death still lays a mystery.
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Post by chuckles » Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:38 pm
Tedious and dressed up as something terribly important and challenging.
Many people dismissed Strangers as one-note. Although totally different films, the same can be said for Martyrs. Just grim. Throughout. No change of pace, nuance, tone and never once did it surprise or illuminate.
There seems to be an amount of macho beard stroking when it comes to films like this. The more bleak and depressing and violent (and foreign) the films are then the more highly regarded they seem to be.
I don't give a toss about the religious aspect - i think that's a red herring.
So what if some people were sick? Is this a sign of a noteworthy or challenging film?
Sorry, but it's much easier to do unremitting and grim than exciting, edge of the seat, surprising cinema.
Compare this with `Let the Right One in' and there is no comparison.
crashd
Post by crashd » Mon Aug 25, 2008 1:13 pm
I'm inclined to agree with MaxRenn on this one, whether you enjoyed it or not is almost irrelevant.
At the very least it's a step above the Hostels of this world, it at least has a narrative and some good performances.
I think, as Max says, Barker is a great touchstone for this film. I've never been particularly religous but I did attend a convent school through secondary education and have an understanding of religous faith through my experiences there. Perhaps your faith or lack of affects your viewing of this film?
With regards to DavieT's comment, I didn't feel it was ever trying to be 'controversial', it was merely telling a story the only way the story could be told and that happened to include some very strong violence. Whereas Hostel takes pleasure in showing visceral nastiness (the Achilles heel scene and the girls eye being melted in particular) I never thought Martyrs was gratuitous in it's depiction.
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Post by jonbly » Mon Aug 25, 2008 8:47 pm
The main body of the movie, running around in the house, was pretty good. The end sequence... meh. Not worth the hype, certainly.
crashd wrote: Whereas Hostel takes pleasure in showing visceral nastiness ... I never thought Martyrs was gratuitous in it's depiction.
...which is probably why it's less affecting. That, and the fact that Anna isn't some innocent... she's already seen and done some pretty messed-up shit in the first half.
SnrDouche
Post by SnrDouche » Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:21 pm
I don't know if it was the 5 hours I killed in Central London waiting to see this film or the hype that accompanied it but either way it was the film I was really excited to see.
Let me start by saying that I thought this film was awful, complete garbage. I tried really very hard to like it but it was all hype and no content. The comparison to Hostel is not unfair in my opinion and although I think Hostel is a seriously bad movie I have to be honest that I thought this film was worse. Ok, Hostel has the gratuity (Martyrs isn't thin on the ground with it) but it's a silly film at the end of the day where as Martyrs is not (intentionally) and I see very little difference between the two in terms of quality of story or dialogue.
There was a paper thin plot, no character development and although trying desperately to be deep it failed to an extraodinary length. The shocking conclusion wasn't shocking in the slightest other than the fact that I failed to care who this group were or why they would be prepared to torture children for their gains.
I'm amazed that some people thought this film was good or are even giving it the benefit of the doubt. I know this all sounds very harsh but I was actually quite angry to have wasted my time and money on this. I'm not a weekend pass man, nor am I a horror film expert but I did catch both The Chaser and Let the Right One In which were both in my opinion pretty good movies (particularly The Chaser) but yet this film was sold out and had everyone on tender hooks.
You really can't compare this film which I would describe as the showpiece of 2008 to last years The Orphanage which had everything that Martyrs did not. Good luck to the film maker, I'm sure the hype (which he fed in his introduction) will be enough to make a few quid from this.
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Post by AdeBrown » Tue Aug 26, 2008 12:48 am
Altered States for the tortureporn generation.
I prefer this to Hostel because its raison d'etre (as they say in Belgium) was metaphysical rather than anti-establishment.
But then I prefer Severance to Hostel.
An interesting premise of abuse revenge mutates into philosophical hypothesis. And loses something in the process. A decent concept though and a good genre film, but not one I would recommend to anyone.
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Post by thomcas » Tue Aug 26, 2008 2:44 am
I thought this was a beautiful film, a truly excellent, disturbing and moving piece of work. I didn't consider the film torture porn at all.
The main torture scenes in the last 30 minutes were carried out with a cold, clinical, detached efficiency which sets it apart from films like hostel, and it didn't once revel in nastiness or excess violence just for the titillating sake of it. I found it a profoundly touching and sad film. Sure it had extreme violence and brutality, but it all served a purpose and made a point, to compare it to films like hostel is doing it a massive disservice.
This film will stay with me for a long time, much more so than any other film at the festival.
Re: Martyrs
Post by lone star » Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:46 am
DavieT wrote: Controversial - yes, hard hitting - yes, vile subject matter - yes, most horrific movie I've ever seen - no, for me that was last years The Girl Next Door.
Have to completely agree with this, found Girl next door much more affecting to watch.
In Martyrs torture sequence found that as she gets continually beaten up in the same manner, it felt like we were being beaten over the head with a blunt instrument to make a point although there didn't seem to be a point.
Martyrs was an interesting movie and will divide opinion as I know some that really enjoyed it (although enjoy would be the wronmg word to use)
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Post by The Soapmaker » Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:50 am
It was a thought-provoking film, and I don't for a minute think that the intention was simply to shock or be controversial.
However, the violence and intensity was so unrelenting that I just overloaded very early on and felt quite detached from it. The first few scenes had impact, but then it was all non-stop screaming and slashing. The imaginary dead girl was scary at first, then it was "oh, her again" .
In the second half the torture scenes were horrible, but they went on and on to the point where I became... bored. There's no other word for it. So there you go, I got "desensitised to violence" in less than 90 minutes.
I did find the ending interesting and a little moving, but the film as a whole wasn't anywhere near as profound, disturbing or powerful as I expected.
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Post by giles edwards » Tue Aug 26, 2008 12:05 pm
I'm amazed no one brought up the similarity of the second half of Martyrs to the middle portion of Alan Moore's V For Vendetta, wherein:
***SPOILERS for the comic book/film follow***
V exerts a sadistic stranglehold on Evy's mind and body during a spell in an underground cellblock and pretty much destroys her spirit in an effort to build it up again as a new, almost beatified soul.
Tack on a bit of visual inspiration from Dreyer's amazing Passion Of Joan Of Arc (the obvious template for both Evy's look in V For Vendetta and the Anna in Martyrs) and you get this picture.
I'm torn between thinking it an interesting stab at something different and unique and a fudged, rather pretentious and awkwardly paced piece of shock. The basic problem anyone will have with it, whether they liked or loathed it, is that Anna is so paper thin as a character (she's the secondary role to the barely more fleshed out Lucie for so much of the first half) it becomes a little difficult to truly endure her plight with her and become moved beyond the obvious affect of seeing a young woman being beaten senseless. It felt too detached to move beyond the immediate.
Which is of course where Dreyer and Moore's more sensitively drawn, exquisitely centred and ultimately genuinely profound and moving works excel.
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Divorce in the United States
Title: Divorce in the United States
Subject: Paul Bohannan, Divorce in the United States, Cohabitation in the United States, Family structure in the United States, Outline of the United States
Collection: Divorce in the United States, Family Law in the United States
By marriage
Open marriage
Polyandry
Partner · Partners
Life partner
Friendship (romantic)
Non-monogamy
Polyfidelity
Cicisbeo
Meet market
Singles event
Bride price
Transgression
Marriage and other
equivalent or similar unions and status
Types of marriages
Validity of marriages
Void and Voidable marriages
Dissolution of marriages
Grounds for divorce
Matrimonial Causes Act
Residence (UK (E.W. and NI))
Custody Evaluator (U.S.)
Parenting coordinator (U.S.)
Contact & Visitation
CAFCASS (UK (E.W.))
U.N. Rights of the Child
Hague Convention (adoption)
International child abduction
Hague Convention (child abduction)
The Family and the Criminal Code
(or Criminal Law)
Paternity fraud
CPS (U.S.)
Child-selling
Like marriage, divorce in the United States is regulated by state governments, not the federal government. Divorce or "dissolution of marriage" is a legal process in which a judge or other authority dissolves the bonds of matrimony existing between two persons, thus restoring them to the status of being single and permitting them to marry other individuals. The legal process for divorce may also involve issues of spousal support, child custody, child support, distribution of property and division of debt, though these matters are usually only ancillary or consequential to the dissolution of the marriage.
Divorce laws vary from state to state. Although all states allow "no fault" divorce proceedings, in many states a court may still take into account the behavior of the parties when dividing property, debts, evaluating custody, and support. No-fault divorce on grounds such as "irreconcilable differences", "irretrievable breakdown of the marriage", "incompatibility" or a period of living apart is now available in all states, though some states require a period of legal and/or physical separation prior to a formal divorce decree. This legal requirement, along with couples who live in a state of separation simply because neither has sought or completed a divorce for other reasons, has led to the creation of a separate, somewhat ambiguously-perceived category of relationships – "separated".
Prior to the introduction of no fault divorce, a spouse had to prove the 'fault' (e.g. adultery, desertion, cruelty etc.) of the other spouse in order to obtain a divorce; although spouses and their lawyers were usually able to negotiate "uncontested" divorces. The no-fault divorce revolution began in 1969 in California; New York was the latest state to allow non-consensual no-fault divorce, in 2010. Every state's law provides for child support where children are involved, and sometimes for alimony. The median length for a marriage in the US today is 11 years with 90% of all divorces being settled out of court.
In all but one state, and even in that state in most cases, a divorce must be certified by a court of law to become effective. The terms of the divorce are usually determined by the court, though they may take into account prenuptial or postnuptial agreements, or simply ratify terms that the spouses may have agreed to privately. In the absence of agreement, a contested divorce may be stressful to the spouses and lead to expensive litigation. Less adversarial approaches to divorce settlements include mediation and collaborative divorce, which negotiate mutually acceptable resolution to conflicts.
In cases involving children, governments have a pressing interest in ensuring that disputes between parents do not spill over into the family courts. All states now require parents to file a parenting plan, or to decide on custody and visitation either by reaching a written agreement or in a court hearing, when they legally separate or divorce.
Divorce law 2
Divorcing in another jurisdiction 2.1
Types of divorce 3
No-fault divorce 3.1
At-fault divorce 3.2
Summary divorce 3.3
Uncontested divorce 3.4
Collaborative divorce 3.5
Mediated divorce 3.6
Civil Courts 3.7
Initiation 4.1
Custody 4.2
Rates of divorce 4.3
Divorce rate by state 4.3.1
Further reading 7
History 7.1
Mandatory Divorce Counseling 8.1
Prior to the latter decades of the 20th century, a spouse seeking divorce in most states had to show a "fault" such as abandonment, cruelty, incurable recrimination (the suing spouse also being guilty).
By the 1960s, however, the use of collusive or deceptive practices to bypass the fault system had become a widespread concern, if not actually a widespread practice, and there was widespread agreement that something had to change. The no-fault divorce "revolution" began in Oklahoma in 1953, but gained national impetus in 1969 in California.[1][2][3]
The National Center for Health Statistics reports that from 1975 to 1988 in the US, in families with children present, wives file for divorce in approximately two-thirds of cases. In 1975, 71.4% of the cases were filed by women, and in 1988, 65% were filed by women.[4] The post divorce standard of living for women and children declines by 73% while the post divorce standard of living for men increases by 42%.[5]
Divorce in the U.S. is governed by state rather than federal law. Since the 1980s, federal legislation has been enacted affecting the rights and responsibilities of divorcing spouses. For example, federal welfare reform mandated the creation of child support guidelines in all 50 states in the 1980s. ERISA includes provisions for the division of qualified retirement accounts between divorcing spouses. The IRS established rules on ignoring alimony as a source of taxable income. Federal bankruptcy laws prohibit discharging in bankruptcy of alimony and child support obligations. COBRA allows a divorced spouse to obtain and maintain health insurance. The laws of the state(s) of residence at the time of divorce govern, not those of the location where the couple was married. All states recognize divorces granted by any other state. All states impose a minimum time of residence, Nevada currently being the shortest at 6 weeks. Since August 2010 (when New York Governor David Patterson signed no-fault into law), only three states (Mississippi, South Dakota and Tennessee) require mutual consent (in Tennessee it is needed only in certain circumstances) for a no-fault divorce to be granted.[1][2][3]
One form or another of no-fault divorce has been legal in all 50 U.S. states, and the District of Columbia.[6]
Typically, a county court hears requests for dissolution of marriages. The National Association of Women Lawyers was instrumental in convincing the American Bar Association to help create a Family Law section in many state courts, and pushed strongly for no-fault divorce law around 1960 (cf. Uniform Divorce Bill). In some states fault grounds remain, but all states now provide other grounds as well, variously termed irreconcilable differences, irremediable breakdown, loss of affection, or similar. For such grounds no fault need be proven and little defense is possible. However, some states require mutual consent and/or a waiting period, from 6 months to 2 years of separation. Some have argued that the lack of means to contest a no-fault divorce makes a marriage contract the easiest of all contracts to dissolve, and in very recent years some have begun to favor moderate divorce reforms such as requiring mutual consent for no-fault divorce. However, no such laws have been passed as of 2007.
Fault grounds, when available, are sometimes still sought. This may be done where it reduces the waiting period otherwise required, or possibly in hopes of affecting decisions related to a divorce, such as child custody, child support, alimony, and so on. States vary in the admissibility of such evidence for those decisions. In any case, a no-fault divorce can be arranged far more easily, although the terms of the divorce can be and often are contested with respect to child-related matters and finances. Ultimately most cases are settled by the parties before trial.
Mediation is an alternative way of resolving divorce issues. It might be less adversarial (particularly important for any children), allow the parties greater control and privacy, save money, and generally achieve similar outcomes to the normal adversarial process. Also, courts will often approve a mediated settlement quickly.
Similar in concept is collaborative law, where both sides are represented by attorneys but commit to negotiating a settlement without engaging in litigation. The additional support of attorneys and expert neutrals (such as financial specialists and coaches) may contribute to the success rate of a collaborative divorce. If the collaborative divorce process ends without the parties reaching a settlement, the collaborative lawyers become disqualified, and must be replaced by new counsel. The collaborative lawyers and clients can focus all their energies on trying to settle the case, without all the distractions, dangers and pressures of contested divorce litigation. Further, when parties reach a resolution together, they are more likely to adhere to that agreement, limiting future conflicts. Lawyers who specialize in collaborative divorce have training and skills to help parties resolve their issues.
Non-court based dispute resolution approaches such as this may reduce the trauma of divorce for all parties. Developing an agreed outcome through dialogue and cooperation preserves relationships with former spouses, and allows people to transition into their new lives in a manner consistent with their values. In cases where children are involved, this increases the likelihood of better co-parenting.[1] However, some believe that mediation may not be appropriate for all relationships, especially those that included physical or emotional abuse, or an imbalance of power and knowledge about the parties' finances, for example. Most divorce lawyers encourage settlement even when alternative dispute resolution mechanisms are not employed.
States vary in their rules for division of assets in a divorce. Some states are "community property" states, but most are "equitable distribution" states, and others have elements of both. Most "community property" states start with the presumption that community assets will be divided equally, whereas "equitable distribution" states presume fairness may dictate more or less than half of the assets will be awarded to one spouse or the other. Attempt is made to assure the welfare of any minor children generally through their dependency. Thus, the spouse given custody (or the spouse with the greater share of residence time in the case of joint custody), may receive assets to compensate their greater child-care expenses. Commonly, assets acquired before marriage are considered individual, and assets acquired after, marital. Depending on the state, an equitable or equal division of assets is then sought.
Alimony, also known as 'maintenance' or 'spousal support' is still being granted in many cases, especially in longer term marriages. Alimony is more likely in cases where a spouse has remedial needs that must be met in order for the spouse to become fully employable, for example that one spouse gave up career opportunities or development in order to devote themselves to the family.
A decree of divorce will generally not be granted until all questions regarding child care and custody, division of property and assets, and ongoing financial support are resolved. Since the mid-1990s, a few states have enacted covenant marriage laws, which allow couples to voluntarily make a divorce more difficult for themselves to obtain than in the typical no-fault divorce action. For example, couples who choose to undertake a covenant marriage may be required to undergo counseling before a divorce can be granted, or to submit their conflicts to mediation. In states lacking such provisions, some couples sign contracts undertaking the same obligations.
In recent years, a few high-profile court cases have involved children "divorcing" their parents, or being legally declared emancipated minors. Perhaps the best known are those of actor Macaulay Culkin and Olympic gymnast Dominique Moceanu.[7] However, these are not properly "divorce" cases, and different laws apply.
In 2015, the Manhattan Supreme Court ruled that Ellanora Baidoo could serve her husband divorce papers through a Facebook message, and she became the first woman to legally serve her husband divorce papers via Facebook.[8][9]
Divorcing in another jurisdiction
After New York introduced no-fault unilateral divorce in 2010, Mississippi, South Dakota and Tennessee remain the only US states not allowing unilateral no-fault divorce (although Tennessee allows it if there are no minor children and the couple have lived apart for two years).[1][2][3]
Obtaining a contested divorce in another country is not likely to achieve the goals of the spouse requesting it. It is possible to create a larger problem than before. An uncontested divorce is likely to be upheld in a court of law in some jurisdictions, regardless of the general validity of contested divorces from these jurisdictions. While a divorce without genuine residency is likely to be declared invalid. In some jurisdiction it is, by case law, not considered bigamy if you remarry as long as the plaintiff believed the divorce to be valid.
There are 5 major jurisdictions people look towards for a divorce in another state or country:
The United States:
The State of Nevada
Guam, a possession of the United States
Countries foreign to the United States:
The parties sign a settlement agreement written by an attorney in their native jurisdiction in order to ensure it conforms local laws. This document includes an inventory of property, or statement of non-property, the statement regarding minor children and support agreement, the desire to divorce before a Dominican Court, and the authorization of the non-attending spouse for the other to attend to the hearing on the non-attendees behalf. The settlement agreement can be drafted by an attorney in the home jurisdiction of the pleader(s). Both these documents (settlement agreement and power) must be signed by the parties before the Dominican Consulate nearest to them in the United States. A detailed instruction on legalization is provided when instructions to proceed are received.
The State of Nevada is commonly used for a few reasons. It requires a 6-week stay to meet the residency requirements, the lowest in the United States. One easy way to demonstrate that you have met this requirement is by having another resident of Nevada simply sign an affidavit testifying to your residency there. Nevada allows for "irreconcilable differences" as a cause for divorce. The state has an extensive but straightforward system for marriage annulment. One major reason this attracts people is it allows for an easy bypassing of the mandatory 50/50 split in community property states, most notably the adjoining State of California. Nevada, however, is also a community property state and hence will follow similar rules in a divorce proceeding.
Types of divorce
Though divorce laws vary between jurisdiction, there are two basic approaches to divorce: fault based and no-fault based. However, even in some jurisdictions that do not require a party to claim fault of their partner, a court may still take into account the behavior of the parties when dividing property, debts, evaluating custody, and support.
Laws vary as to the waiting period before a divorce is effective. Also, residency requirements vary.
Under a no-fault divorce system the dissolution of a marriage does not require an allegation or proof of fault of either party. Since August 2010 (when New York Governor David Patterson signed no-fault into law), only three states (Mississippi, South Dakota and Tennessee) require mutual consent (in Tennessee it is needed only in certain circumstances) for a no-fault divorce to be granted.[1][2][3] Grounds for divorce include incompatibility, irreconcilable differences, and irremediable breakdown of the marriage.
At-fault divorce
Fault divorces used to be the only way to break a marriage, and people who had differences, but did not qualify as "at fault", only had the option to separate (and were prevented from legally remarrying).
In August 2010 "no-fault" divorce became law in the state of New York, making it one of the final US States to do so.[10]
However, there are ways (defenses) to prevent a fault divorce:
Condonation
Connivance
Recrimination
A defense is expensive, and not usually practical as eventually most divorces are granted.
Comparative rectitude is a doctrine used to determine which spouse is more at fault when both spouses are guilty of breaches.
Summary divorce
A summary (or simple) divorce, available in some jurisdictions, is used when spouses meet certain eligibility requirements, or can agree on key issues beforehand.
Key factors:[11]
Short marriage (under 5 years)
No children (or, in some states, they have resolved custody and set child support payments)
Minimal or no real property (no mortgage)
Marital property is under a threshold (around $35,000 not including vehicles)
Each spouse's personal property is under a threshold (typically the same as marital property)
It is estimated that upwards of 95% of divorces in the US are "uncontested," because the two parties are able to come to an agreement (either with or without lawyers/mediators/collaborative counsel) about the property, children and support issues. When the parties can agree and present the court with a fair and equitable agreement, approval of the divorce is almost guaranteed. If the two parties cannot come to an agreement, they may ask the court to decide how to split property, deal with the custody of their children.
Collaborative divorce is becoming a popular method for divorcing couples to come to agreement on divorce issues. In a collaborative divorce, the parties negotiate an agreed resolution with the assistance of attorneys who are trained in the collaborative divorce process and in mediation, and often with the assistance of a neutral financial specialist and/or divorce coach(es). The parties are empowered to make their own decisions based on their own needs and interests, but with complete information and full professional support. Once the collaborative divorce starts, the lawyers are disqualified from representing the parties in a contested legal proceeding, should the collaborative law process end prematurely. Most attorneys who practice collaborative divorce claim that it can be substantially less expensive than other divorce methods (regular divorce or mediation). However, should the parties not reach any agreements, any documents or information exchanged during the collaborative process cannot later be used in further legal proceedings, as the collaborative process is confidential proceedings. Furthermore, there are no set enforceable time lines for completion of a divorce using collaborative divorce.
Divorce mediation is an alternative to traditional divorce litigation.[12] In a divorce mediation session, a mediator facilitates the discussion between the husband and wife by assisting with communication and providing information and suggestions to help resolve differences. At the end of the mediation process, the separating parties have typically developed a tailored divorce agreement that can be submitted to the court. Parties to mediation do not need to retain attorneys. However if the parties choose to retain attorneys their attorneys may be included in the mediation session. The mediator can provide both parties with information but will not offer advice to either. Divorce mediators may be attorneys, mental health professionals, or financial experts who have experience in divorce cases. Divorce mediation can be significantly less expensive than litigation. The adherence rate to mediated agreements is much higher than that of adherence to court orders.
Civil Courts
Civil courts gradually assumed greater involvement in the issues arising from the breakdown of marriage on the basis that a marriage was a civil contract. However, the grounds and precedents of the ecclesiastic courts were adopted by civil courts. As the civil courts assumed the power to dissolve marriages, courts still strictly construed the circumstances under which they would grant a divorce,[13] and now considered divorce to be contrary to public policy. Because divorce was considered to be against the public interest, civil courts refused to grant a divorce if evidence revealed any hint of complicity between the husband and wife to divorce, or if they attempted to manufacture grounds for a divorce. Divorce was granted only because one party to the marriage had violated a sacred vow to the "innocent spouse." If both husband and wife were guilty, "neither would be allowed to escape the bonds of marriage."[14] Eventually, the idea that a marriage could be dissolved in cases in which one of the parties violated the sacred vow gradually allowed expansion of the grounds upon which divorce could be granted from those grounds which existed at the time of the marriage to grounds which occurred after the marriage, but which exemplified violation of that vow, such as abandonment, adultery, or "extreme cruelty."[15]
Probability of divorce is influenced by ethnicity and income
According to a study published in the American Law and Economics Review, women file slightly more than two-thirds of divorce cases in the US.[16] There is some variation among states, and the numbers have also varied over time, with about 60% of filings by women in most of the 19th century, and over 70% by women in some states just after no-fault divorce was introduced, according to the paper.
In their study titled "Child Custody Policies and Divorce Rates in the US," Kuhn and Guidubaldi find it reasonable to conclude that women anticipate advantages to being single, rather than remaining married.[17]
In their detailed analysis of divorce rates, Kuhn and Guidubaldi conclude that acceptance of joint physical custody may reduce divorce. States whose family law policies, statutes, or judicial practice encourage joint custody have shown a greater decline in their divorce rates than those that favor sole custody.
Rates of divorce
Marriage and divorce rates in the US 1990-2007
"Rate of divorce" usually refers to the number of divorces that occur in the population during a given period. However it is also used in common parlance to refer to the likelihood of a given marriage ending in divorce (as opposed to the death of a spouse).
In 2002 (latest survey data as of 2012),[18] 29% of first marriages among women aged 15–44 were disrupted (ended in separation, divorce or annulment) within 10 years.[19] Beyond the 10-year window, population survey data is lacking, but forecasts and estimates provide some understanding. It is commonly claimed that half of all marriages in the United States eventually end in divorce, an estimate possibly based on the fact that in any given year, the number of marriages is about twice the number of divorces.[20] Using 1995 data, National Survey of Family Growth forecast in 2002 a 43% chance that first marriages among women aged 15–44 would be disrupted within 15 years.[18] More recently, having spoken with academics and National Survey of Family Growth representatives, PolitiFact.com estimated in 2012 that the lifelong probability of a marriage ending in divorce is 40%–50%.[21]
Divorce rates have been dropping during the last few decades. Data indicates that marriages have lasted longer in the 21st century than they did in the 1990s.[22]
Variables that may affect rates of divorce include:[23]
importance of religion to the couple
divorce in family of origin
timing of the first birth of any children (before marriage, within 7 months, after 7 months, or never)
if one spouse has Generalized Anxiety Disorder
A 2008 study by Jenifer L. Bratter and Rosalind B. King conducted on behalf of the Education Resources Information Center examined whether crossing racial boundaries increased the risk of divorce.[24] Using the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (Cycle VI), the likelihood of divorce for interracial couples to that of same-race couples was compared. Comparisons across marriage cohorts revealed that, overall, interracial couples have higher rates of divorce, particularly for those that married during the late 1980s.[24] The authors found that gender plays a significant role in interracial divorce dynamics: According to the adjusted models predicting divorce as of the 10th year of marriage, interracial marriages that are the most vulnerable involve White females and non-White males (with the exception of White females/Hispanic White males) relative to White/White couples.[24] White wife/Black husband marriages are twice as likely to divorce by the 10th year of marriage compared to White/White couples.[24] Conversely, White men/non-White women couples show either very little or no differences in divorce rates.[24] Asian wife/White husband marriages show only 4% greater likelihood of divorce by the 10th year of marriage than White/White couples.[24] In the case of Black wife/White husband marriages, divorce by the 10th year of marriage is 44% less likely than among White/White unions.[24] Intermarriages that did not cross a racial barrier, which was the case for White/Hispanic White couples, showed statistically similar likelihoods of divorcing as White/White marriages.[24]
A 2011 study at the University of Iowa found that a woman's loss of virginity before age 18 was correlated with a greater number of occurrences of divorce within the first 10 years of marriage.[25]
Divorce rate by state
The following lists the number of divorces annually per 1,000 population in each state:
Marriage rate
Divorce rate[1]
10.6 9.8 10.8 10.1 9.4 9.8 6.1 6.0 5.7 5.5 5.4 5.4
10.2 9.0 8.6 8.9 8.1 8.3 5.5 5.0 5.0 3.9 4.3 4.6
15.3 14.4 14.8 15.4 14.3 14.3 6.9 6.3 6.2 6.4 6.2 6.2
California[2]
7.9 6.3 6.4 5.8 6.5 6.2 4.3 – – – – –
9.8 9.0 8.2 8.3 8.2 7.9 5.5 4.8 4.7 4.7 4.7 –
7.9 6.6 5.8 5.7 5.4 5.7 3.2 2.9 3.0 3.3 3.2 3.3
9.6 8.6 8.1 7.9 7.9 7.8 – – – – – –
13.5 12.2 10.9 9.8 9.0 9.0 5.8 5.9 5.5 5.1 5.1 5.2
9.7 8.7 8. 8.8 8.6 8.4 4.3 4.4 5.1 5.0 4.7 4.6
99.0 85.2 82.3 72.2 69.7 67.4 11.4 7.8 7.8 9.9 6.3 7.1
10.6 8.6 6.8 7.7 6.6 – – – – – – –
15.9 11.9 10.2 10.6 9.9 9.3 4.5 3.9 3.8 3.8 3.6 3.4
11.2 10.7 9.6 10.8 10.2 10.4 5.1 4.4 4.0 4.3 4.2 4.1
11.4 10.2 9.2 8.8 8.8 8.6 4.4 4.3 4.4 4.3 4.2 4.2
10.7 10.6 9.9 10.0 10.1 9.5 6.6 6.6 5.7 5.8 5.8 5.4
1 Includes annulments. Includes divorce petitions filed or legal separations for some counties or States.
2 Marriage data includes nonlicensed marriages registered.
Marriage in the United States
American family structure
Divorce demography
Divorce of same-sex couples — legal aspects, divorce rates
Implications of divorce
Religion and divorce
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DiFonzo, J. Herbie. Beneath the fault line: The popular and legal culture of divorce in twentieth-century America (University of Virginia Press, 1997)
Glass, Jennifer, and Philip Levchak. "Red States, Blue States, and Divorce: Understanding the Impact of Conservative Protestantism on Regional Variation in Divorce Rates1." American Journal of Sociology (2014) 119#4 pp: 1002-1046. in JSTOR
Heath, Melanie. One Marriage under God: The Campaign to Promote Marriage in America (New York University Press. 2012). 273 pages.
Lester, David. "Time-Series Versus Regional Correlates of Rates of Personal Violence." Death Studies 1993: 529–534.
McLanahan, Sara and Gary Sandefur. Growing Up with a Single Parent; What Hurts, What Helps. (Harvard University Press, 1994)
Mercer, Diana and Marsha Kline Pruett. Your Divorce Advisor: A Lawyer and Psychologist Guide You Through the Legal and Emotional Landscape of Divorce. Fireside, 2001. ISBN 0-684-87068-1 and ISBN 978-0-684-87068-7.
Morowitz, Harold J. "Hiding in the Hammond Report." Hospital Practice August 1975; 39.
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Stacey, Judith. Brave new families: Stories of domestic upheaval in late-twentieth-century America (U of California Press, 1990)
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Blake, Nelson Manfred. The road to Reno: A history of divorce in the United States (Greenwood Press, 1977)
Chused, Richard H. Private acts in public places: A social history of divorce in the formative era of American family law (U of Pennsylvania Press, 1994)
Griswold, Robert L. "The Evolution of the Doctrine of Mental Cruelty in Victorian American Divorce, 1790-1900." Journal of Social History (1986): 127-148. in JSTOR
Griswold, Robert L. Family and Divorce in California, 1850-1890: Victorian Illusions and Everyday Realities (1982).
May, Elaine Tyler. "The Pressure to Provide: Class, Consumerism, and Divorce in Urban America, 1880-1920." Journal of Social History (1978): 180-193. in JSTOR
May, Elaine Tyler. Great expectations: Marriage and divorce in post-Victorian America (1980)
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Schweninger, Loren. Families in Crisis in the Old South: Divorce, Slavery, and the Law. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. online
Grounds for Divorce by State (US)
Texas Divorce Law
Mandatory Divorce Counseling
A few states in this country have made the attempt to make divorce much harder to attain. It is known that the high divorce rates in the United States interfere with government spending, which is why mandating divorce counseling before being granted divorce has been a strong consideration though so far it has not been passed anywhere. The biggest factor that makes this whole topic controversial are the expenses of those courses. It is expected that state level authorities will keep making attempts to get the bill passed.
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Please turn to number 82 and join with the clarinets in, "Come to Calvary's Holy Mountain".
Ludvig Mathias Lindeman was born in Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. He was the seventh of ten children born to Ole Andreas Lindeman (1769–1857) and Anna Severine Hickmann (1782–1844). In 1833 he was sent to Oslo to take his final exams and then studied theology at the university. In 1839, Lindeman succeed his elder brother, Jacob Andreas Lindeman (1805–1846), as cantor and organist of the Oslo Cathedral. Lindeman was in the position for 48 years until his death in 1887.
Lindeman was a contributor to Jørgen Moe's song and folk-ballad collection, Samling af Sange, Folkeviser og Stev i norske Alumuedialekter (1840), putting together the melody supplement to the volume at Bishop Moe's request. The following year, he published his own selection of Norwegian folk melodies, Norske Fjeldmelodier harmonisk bearbeidede for Pianoforte (1841). In 1848, he applied for a university grant to support a trip in the hill country in order to recorded folk melodies. Later he made two collecting trips, in 1851 and 1864. The first trip was to Telemark, Hardanger, Bergen and Hallingdal and the last to Lillehammer. In all, he collected about 3,000 melodies and lyrics. He published Ældre og nyere norske Fjeldmelodier "Earlier and more recent Norwegian mountain melodies," in twelve-volumes during 1853–1863. This first edition contained 540 melodies, but Lindeman supplemented the corpus with Halvhundrede norske Fjeldmelodier ("Fifty Norwegian maountain melodies," 1862).
When in 1871, the major new organ in the Royal Albert Hall in London was inaugurated, Lindeman was invited to perform, along with other noted organists including Anton Bruckner and Camille Saint-Saëns. Lindeman was appointed Knight of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav during 1870. Between 1871 and 1875, he published Melodier til Landstads Salmebog, containing music for use within the Church of Norway. In 1873, he was invited to write music for the coronation in Trondheim of King Oscar II of Sweden and Queen Sophie. In 1876, he wrote a cantata for the inauguration of Bygdøy chapel. In 1883, together with his son Peter, he started the Organist School in Oslo. The Conservatory was in operation until 1973, when the Norwegian Academy of Music was established. To honour the memory of the Lindeman family the biggest concert hall at the Academy is named the Lindeman Hall. Ludvig Mathias Lindeman died in Oslo at 75 years of age. He was buried at Oslo Cathedral. In 1912, a bust of Lindeman was erected at the church.
Please turn to number 81 and join in singing, "The Words on the Cross".
Meter: 7 7, 7 6.
Along with the words Jesus Christ supposedly uttered on the cross, there are 21 verses to this short hymn.
To get some of the feel for that repetition, I decided I would play the melody once for each spoken part on the cross, and once between each utterance. I also decided I would read the "words on the cross" along with playing the hymn.
Count your lucky stars, it only ends up being 15 times through the hymn.


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Azhar, Aslam steer Pakistan to 172-0 against West Indies
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) Azhar Ali and Sami Aslam provided Pakistan a solid start of 172-0 against the West Indies on Thursday in the second day-night test match in history.
Both Pakistan openers grew in confidence throughout the first two sessions after captain Misbah-ul-Haq marked Pakistan's 400th test by winning the toss and opting to bat on a very flat wicket.
Azhar was batting on 89 and Aslam was not out on 75. Both batsmen hit eight boundaries each against inexperienced West Indies bowlers, who couldn't extract any assistance off the wicket with the pink ball.
The West Indies also wasted both of their television referrals - first against Azhar before he had completed his half century and then against Aslam when the left-hander was on 69.
Pakistan awarded test debuts to Babar Azam, who hit three successive centuries in Pakistan's 3-0 victory against the West Indies in one-day series, and left-arm spinner Mohammad Nawaz.
Australia and New Zealand played the only previous day-night test match at the Adelaide Oval last November.


A newly discovered bodily process in mice may explain why some human fetuses who have different antigens than their mothers suffer life-threatening brain bleeds, according to a new study.
The condition where mothers and fetuses have different antigens is called fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia, or FNAIT. It affects about one in 1,000 live births. Fetuses experience bleeding in the brain in about 10 to 20 per cent of FNAIT cases. The disease can also cause miscarriages, although that has not been well studied.
Platelets–cells in the blood that help form blood clots and stop bleeding–are one of the cell types that commonly have different antigens. Because they are often different in the mother and fetus, they can be targeted by the mother's immune system. Until now, low amounts of platelets were considered the cause of brain bleeds in fetuses and newborns.
The condition where mothers and fetuses have different antigens is called fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia, or FNAIT. It affects about one in 1,000 live births. This image is for illustrative purposes only. Image credit: harael.
Newborn platelet levels are tested at birth since it's believed a lower platelet count signifies the newborn lacks the ability to stop bleeding. A safe level of platelets for newborns is between 150 million and 450 million cells per ml of blood. Babies with low platelet counts (less than 150 million cells per ml of blood) are usually treated right away with platelet transfusions.
Dr. Ni's research team also looked at the potential treatment of intravenous immunoglobulin transfusions. He said IVIG–made of plasma from donated blood–may be an effective therapy to control this devastating disease, although more research is needed to confirm this.
The project was supported by Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and Canadian Blood Services.
Fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (FNAIT) is a life-threatening disease in which intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) is the major risk. Although thrombocytopenia, which is caused by maternal antibodies against β3 integrin and occasionally by maternal antibodies against other platelet antigens, such as glycoprotein GPIbα, has long been assumed to be the cause of bleeding, the mechanism of ICH has not been adequately explored. Utilizing murine models of FNAIT and a high-frequency ultrasound imaging system, we found that ICH only occurred in fetuses and neonates with anti–β3 integrin–mediated, but not anti-GPIbα–mediated, FNAIT, despite similar thrombocytopenia in both groups. Only anti–β3 integrin–mediated FNAIT reduced brain and retina vessel density, impaired angiogenic signaling, and increased endothelial cell apoptosis, all of which were abrogated by maternal administration of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG). ICH and impairment of retinal angiogenesis were further reproduced in neonates by injection of anti–β3 integrin, but not anti-GPIbα antisera. Utilizing cultured human endothelial cells, we found that cell proliferation, network formation, and AKT phosphorylation were inhibited only by murine anti–β3 integrin antisera and human anti–HPA-1a IgG purified from mothers with FNAIT children. Our data suggest that fetal hemostasis is distinct and that impairment of angiogenesis rather than thrombocytopenia likely causes FNAIT-associated ICH. Additionally, our results indicate that maternal IVIG therapy can effectively prevent this devastating disorder.
"Maternal anti-platelet β3 integrins impair angiogenesis and cause intracranial hemorrhage" by Issaka Yougbaré, Sean Lang, Hong Yang, Pingguo Chen, Xu Zhao, Wei-She Tai, Darko Zdravic, Brian Vadasz, Conglei Li, Siavash Piran, Alexandra Marshall, Guangheng Zhu, Heidi Tiller, Mette Kjaer Killie, Shelley Boyd, Howard Leong-Poi, Xiao-Yan Wen, Bjorn Skogen, S. Lee Adamson, John Freedman, and Heyu Ni in Journal of Clinical Investigation. doi:10.1172/JCI77820.


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Q: Python TkInter - Windows 10 desktop scaling (HDPI) is affecting canvas' geomtery I've written a few very basic TkInter apps for testing purposes - basically filling screen with 2 colors, and it's working as expected when my screen dpi saclling is set to 100%; but when it's different it affects proportions of rectangles in my canvas. for example here I want to have exactly half of screen filed with one color and second with another:
class TkSplitScreen(object):
    UPDATE_TIME = 1

    def __init__(self, rect, color1, color2, communication_queue, vertical=False):
        logging.info(" -- Starting TkSolidColor app")
        self._communication_queue = communication_queue
        self.tk = Tk()
        self.tk.winfo_toplevel().title("TkSplitScreen")
        gemetry = "%dx%d+%d+%d" % (rect.w, rect.h, rect.x, rect.y)
        logging.info(" -- geometry: %s", gemetry)
        self.tk.geometry(gemetry)
        self.tk.attributes('-topmost', 1)
        self.tk.state('zoomed')
        self.tk.config(cursor="none")  # remove cursor
        self.tk.resizable(False, False)
        self.tk.overrideredirect(True)
    #    self.tk.pack(fill=BOTH, expand=1)

        hex_color1 = '#%02x%02x%02x' % color1
        hex_color2 = '#%02x%02x%02x' % color2
        logging.info(" -- color: %s", hex_color1)
        logging.info(" -- color: %s", hex_color2)
        canvas = Canvas(self.tk)
        if vertical:
            canvas.create_rectangle(0, 0, rect.w // 2, rect.h, fill=hex_color1, outline=hex_color1)
            canvas.create_rectangle(rect.w // 2, 0, rect.w, rect.h, fill=hex_color2, outline=hex_color2)
        else:
            canvas.create_rectangle(0, 0, rect.w, rect.h // 2, fill=hex_color1, outline=hex_color1)
            canvas.create_rectangle(0, rect.h // 2, rect.w, rect.h, fill=hex_color2, outline=hex_color2)
        canvas.pack(fill=BOTH, expand=1)

        self.tk.after(self.UPDATE_TIME, self.read_queue)
        self.tk.mainloop()

    def read_queue(self):
        if not self._communication_queue.empty():
            request = self._communication_queue.get()

            if request == 'EXIT':
                logging.info(" -- Exit request received. Closing TkSplitScreen process")
                self.tk.quit()
                return

        self.tk.after(self.UPDATE_TIME, self.read_queue)

Where for my 4k screen i give as rect 3840x2160 (at 0, 0). Is it possible to tell OS that I don't want to scale out my TkApp? Or do I need to somehow recalculate physical resolution to some virtual points? (I was assuming that what you give to create_rectangle is in pixels not some virtual points)

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The Pleasure Seekers er en amerikansk stumfilm fra 1920 af George Archainbaud.

Medvirkende
 Elaine Hammerstein som Mary Murdock
 James A. Furey som Snowden
 Webster Campbell som Craig Winchell
 Marguerite Clayton som Clara Marshall
 Frank Currier som John Winchell

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Stumfilm fra USA
Amerikanske film fra 1920
Dramafilm fra USA

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So I will establish my covenant with you, and you will know that I am the LORD.
And I will reaffirm my covenant with you, and you will know that I am the LORD.
I will keep this solemn promise, and you will know that I am the LORD.
I will renew my covenant with you, and you will know that I am the LORD.
I'll establish my covenant with you, and then you'll know that I am the LORD.
I will establish my covenant with you, and then you will know that I am the LORD.
Then I will make my promise with you, and you will know that I am the LORD.
And I -- I have established My covenant with thee, And thou hast known that I am Jehovah.
I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their heart.
There you will remember your ways and all the deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, and you will loathe yourselves for all the evils you have done.
Then you will know, O house of Israel, that I am the LORD, when I have dealt with you for the sake of My name and not according to your wicked ways and corrupt acts, declares the Lord GOD.'"
(62) Establish my covenant with thee.--The old covenant, having failed, is merged in the new and better covenant promised in 11:19; 18:31; and more fully in Jeremiah 31:31-34. This new covenant, established through a perfect Mediator, can alone perfectly fulfil God's gracious designs for man, although the way for it must necessarily have been prepared by the less perfect covenant of old.
16:59-63 After a full warning of judgments, mercy is remembered, mercy is reserved. These closing verses are a precious promise, in part fulfilled at the return of the penitent and reformed Jews out of Babylon, but to have fuller accomplishment in gospel times. The Divine mercy should be powerful to melt our hearts into godly sorrow for sin. Nor will God ever leave the sinner to perish, who is humbled for his sins, and comes to trust in His mercy and grace through Jesus Christ; but will keep him by his power, through faith unto salvation.


Unlike different books at the topic, 101 layout tools approaches the perform of making new items, companies, and client stories as a technological know-how, instead of an artwork, offering a pragmatic set of collaborative instruments and strategies for making plans and defining profitable new choices. Strategists, managers, designers, and researchers who adopt the problem of innovation, regardless of a scarcity of confirmed techniques and a excessive threat of failure, will locate this a useful source. newbies can examine from it; managers can plan with it; and practitioners of innovation can increase the standard in their paintings by way of pertaining to it.
Advances in public administration sciences have lengthy indicated the empirical discovering that the conventional nation of public administration platforms is complicated and that its dynamics are non-linear. advanced platforms are topic to process pressures, approach shocks, probability occasions, path-dependency and self-organisation. Arguing that complexity is an ever-present attribute of our constructed societies and governance structures that are meant to be authorized, understood and followed into administration thoughts, the unique essays accrued during this ebook goal to extend our knowing of advanced governance strategies and to propose new thoughts for how public managers can care for complexity so one can in attaining high quality study.
Albert Einstein famously stated, "Insanity is doing a similar factor, again and again, and watching for diversified results". lifestyles is all approximately switch and organizational existence is no diverse. yet how good can we comprehend switch, except while unexpectedly we're compelled into it? As people, we crave balance and alter likely upsets the established order, because it good may still.
A Photographic party of the existence and paintings of the mythical Peter Drucker Born on November 19, 1909, Peter Drucker grew up in Austria and moved to Germany on the age of seventeen. while the Nazis rose to strength in 1933, they burned and banned a few of Drucker's earliest writings, and he fled the rustic.
It is not effortless being an IT supervisor. There are consistent staffing factor, price range concerns, undertaking concerns, and the problem of holding your administration educated approximately what's going. the single factor that too many folks prove overlooking as we strive to complete all of this stuff is that we've got yet another administration task to do: deal with our careers.


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HomeTheatreThe Coterie Opens Musical Adaptation of Popular Kids Author Mo Willems
The Coterie Opens Musical Adaptation of Popular Kids Author Mo Willems
April 6, 2017 Theatre
Photo by J. Robert Schraeder.
This spring, The Coterie Theatre revels in the joy and whimsy of friendship with the charming family musical, Elephant & Piggie's "We are in a Play!". Adapted for the stage by creator Mo Willems from his own award-winning book series, Elephant & Piggie's "We are in a Play!" will be directed by Shanara Gabrielle and will be performed live on The Coterie's stage in Crown Center through May 21, 2017. The cast features Jake Walker, Shon Ruffin, Rasheedat "Ras" Badejo, Kimberly Horner, and Maggie Renee Marx.
When "bestus" friends Elephant and Piggie get together, anything is possible. They might get invited to a fancy costume party, learn a crazy new dance, or decide to spend the day playing ping-pong in silly hats. Well, they do all that and more in this lively and irresistibly charming musical featuring Elephant Gerald and Piggie, who are joined by their delightfully nutty back-up singers, the Squirrelles, as they discover the fun of being in a play – all the while encouraging the audience to join in for some interactive fun.
Using catchy, jazz- and Broadway-inspired melodies to bring the story to life on stage, author Mo Willems transports his simple – yet endearingly fanciful – look at friendship into a musical message that resonates with every age in the family. It's the same message about the endurance of friendship that has propelled the Elephant and Piggie books to become one of the best-selling and most beloved young reader series of the past decade. The 25-book series, which debuted in 2007, has twice been awarded the Theodor Seuss Geisel Medal and had two titles appear on TIME magazine's Top 10 Children's Books of the Year.
The author of numerous popular children's books such as Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, and Cat the Cat, Mo Willems has received many of the highest honors for literature, including the Caldecott Medal, the Carnegie Medal, and the Irma Black Award Honor. He served for nine years as an animator for Sesame Street before creating several animated series for Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network. Elephant & Piggie's "We are in a Play!" marks Willems' second stage adaptation with composer Deborah Wicks La Puma, who also worked on Willems' musical adaptation of Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical at the Kennedy Center.
The Coterie's production of Elephant & Piggie's "We are in a Play!" will run approximately 60 minutes with no intermission and is perfect for families with all ages. Tickets are $12.00 for youth under 18, students, and seniors age 60 and older; and $17.00 for adults. Groups of 20 or more pay only $5.00-$6.50 per person. Tickets, group reservations and more information is available at www.thecoterie.org.
Bring your bestie and share in the laughter and how good it feels to put friends first.
The Friends 2017-18 Sneak Peak and Final Three Concerts
Brush up on your binomial theorem and practice your patter song!


Purpose is the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists. The cleaver thing is that everything and everyone is created for a purpose and with a purpose . Life is just a finding out what you're purposed to do, and doing it intentionally . Everyone is born with some sort of purpose. Everyone is designed with something special inside of them . Usually their abilities are natural, it comes easily it flows freely. When someone finds their purpose in life , it makes them happy , they no longer search for an answers to make them happy or to fulfill a void in their life . It is so funny that you can be born without a clue what place you need to fill in the world but you will always have a feeling that you need to do , to create , to fulfill.
Our parents begin our journey to find purpose by pointing out the good things that we can do . Parents are good at this because they can see strengths and weaknesses when you yourself don't see the good in you . When I was a little girl there were two things that I loved to do most, I loved to dance and at an early age I had the ability to write or compose a good story even when I couldn't spell very well. But there were times that I would sing really loudly , or try to run and do things that I saw other kids my age do . One day while riding down the street and while I was singing annoyingly in the back of the car , my dad finally said , Tesha singing is not going to be your thing. I was humiliated and mortified. I think I cried. And I asked him what am I supposed to do . My mother said you're going to be a dancer and you'll dance around the world. I embraced it . I danced to everything all day everyday . And for a while my daily outfit was some sort of dance leotard and a skirt. I studied my craft too , watching Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul and Debbie Allen all day . Practicing their moves as much as I could . I did ballet and jazz too . Teaching myself most of the moves. It was in High school that I began to dance around the world. Purpose found me through my parents. Dance opened some doors for me that I didn't think could be possible. I found purpose unintentionally .
Sometimes we find purpose by watching others. Finding purpose this way can be tricky. You can see someone doing something that makes them happy and fulfilled and you think that you can do that same thing and find fulfillment. My mother is a hair stylist by profession and growing up I had to work in the salon . I washed and prepped hair, braided hair , and other things. While through high school and college and even now her business is wonderful . It brings her so much joy and it paid for some of my college needs, purchased most of my cars and all of my clothes . While I was in college I did hair on the side to make money . After all I had all the training that I needed from working years with my mom. I charged between $5-30 to do hair. I trimmed ends, did colors, cut hair, added hair , arched eyebrows, flat ironed and more . This money supported my shopping addiction . When I got out of school on Thursdays I had girls lined up at either my dorm room or my apartment to get their hair done for the week end . And though I enjoyed the money , when I pulled up and saw the girls waiting for me I hated it . It was more a task than a fulfillment , I didn't like talking all the time some days I just didn't wanna be bothered . I knew very early that this wasn't a passion or a purpose for me . And though I saw it bring fulfillment to my mother it didn't do the same for me . And just because I will inherit two salons ( LOL) I will not work in them . So watching others doesn't necessarily find your purpose. Sometimes purpose comes from a deeper place. And though you can pick up habits and other things from people you more than likely won't find your purpose this way. Isn't there a word for this…vicarious …maybe.
Sometimes purpose finds you . Again this is rare but it happens . There are things that happen to you in life that leads you to your purpose. I have seen this a lot with people who have had situations in life that they had to process. And the process of life has given them a purpose for life. Although the , "me too, " movement has a few flaws in it , it obviously came from a place of hurt and disgust . These women were actresses , producers, writers or directors and they thought that perhaps that would be their only purpose but something happened to them and it affected them so much that purpose found them , unfortunately. Omarosa found a new purpose in life after she was hired by the Trump administration. I don't believe she walked into that job thinking that she would be fired early and then there was a book deal with recorded messages. Sometimes your purpose can be scary or uncomfortable .
You can find your purpose when you see a need. There was a person who invented the wheel , the telephone, the cellphone and then text messages with emoji's . There is someone who invented the internet to allow people like me to set up web pages to write all sorts a of junk that makes them happy and fulfilled. These individuals saw a need and found their purpose and fulfilled a need all at the same time .
Having a purpose is amazing in finding motivation. Motivation to go on everyday and better yourself.
I am 40 years old and am still chasing my purpose. Someday, I will figure out what it means to me. Until then, I will just have fun flying by the seat of my pants.
I am all for living a purposeful life. My dream is to help myself and everyone find their purpose in life. Also, I love that you work in entertainment! Before being a full-time stay-at-home mom I was a casting producer in reality tv!
wow that's awesome … do you ever want to go back ?
I have been trying to find mine. Sometimes I think it's to have kids, raise them right, and basically carry on the human race. But I don't know what my specific purpose is in the scheme of it all.
Knowing your purpose is so important. I believe it gives you the drive, the motivation, the reason to get up and do great things daily.
Well put! I think the hardest one is the purpose is the one that finds you. For me, most of the time, those are things that are thrust upon me by difficult life circumstances. I have to find acceptance for my situation before I'm able to find the purpose hidden within.
We all have a purpose and having goals helps us stay on track.
This is such a great motivational blog. Love that you've found your purpose.
Thanks for sharing your genuine thoughts. This post reminds me of the types topics people would write about when blogging first became a thing.
This post of yours is so enlightening! I think I have found my purpose in many activities throughout my life, but there is more to come. Because I'm convinced, after all, we have a common purpose as humanity, that is to ensure human future generations live better than in the past. But that's not so easy as it sounds and as individuals sometimes our efforts for common well-being end up creating something worse in the long term (like petrol and oil were a great development back in the day, but now we see they are terrible sources of pollution). When we seek our purpose, we need to be looking at the large picture too. That's the most difficult part!
This was such a great read! I loved hearing all of the ways that one can find their purpose. It's a strange thing for sure, finding your purpose, and sometimes that can change throughout your life! But finding that fulfillment is certainly worth it!
We all need a purpose in our life to chase that. Having a purpose, a goal gives us the strength and motivation to work to achieve that goal. Without a purpose, we are just waking up, breathing and going back to sleep. Very well written.
I think having a purpose in life is important. This was a motivating post indeed.
This is a great topic to explore. I totally agree about seeing a need and making it happen. As an entrepreneur, I've had the best experiences figuring out how to solve a problem or improve something.
Wow! It is deep what you are saying. I haven't put much thought into it expect I would like to live a peaceful and passionate life.


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Scientific Resonances
Thinking Outside the Box
One of the greatest mysteries of all is the pouring forth of new scientific ideas from the human mind. Do they come about by the process of extrapolating previous knowledge, or are they a consequence of "divine" inspiration? When a discovery is made in a particular field of science it is not uncommon to find a number of people, spread around the world, having simultaneously pursued the same line of research. Each would have worked quite independently and totally ignorant of the other researchers.
It has been shown that if an animal of a particular species is taught a trick then if other members of that species, living in other parts of the world, are taught the same trick they seem to learn it significantly faster.
This evidence suggests that we are in some subtle way connected by energies that remain as yet undiscovered.
Whatever the explanation the purpose of this website is to provide an outlet for new ideas that have appeared from beyond the accepted boundaries of science. By sharing this knowledge, it may resonate and inspire others to undertake serious research, which could lead to the formulation of new theories and discoveries. These in turn could reshape our technology and challenge the existing models proposed by modern science.
If we look at what was held to be true 50 years ago and compare it with today's teachings, so much has been dramatically changed and in some cases proved to be completely false. Therefore, as true scientists, we should keep a perfectly open mind and consider intelligently any fresh ideas laid before us and not reject them without fair consideration. Many of our accepted scientific theories such as plate tectonics, quantum mechanics and dark energy, at the time of inception would have been considered ridiculous. It was only the genius, tenacity and bravery of the people who dared to suggest the improbable that has enabled science to make such amazing advances.
This website is dedicated to all those who think outside the box.
The Consciousness of the Atom
Evolution of Consciousness
Dark Energy and Dark Matter
The DCT and Human Consciousness
Copyright © 2021 Scientific Resonances.


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Q: How do I close a window I opened after it loads with Javascript? Is there a way for me to open a link in a new window after it loads?
I have tried these two methods, but the windows won't close itself.
Method 1:
var winning = window.open("https://google.com/","","width=500,height=500");
winning.onload = function(){
  winning.close();
}:

Method 2:
var winning = window.open("https://google.com/","","width=500,height=500");
winning.addEventListener('onload', function(){
  winning.close();
}, false);

I'm kind of going insane over this. Am I missing something obvious, or is this simply impossible?

A: You are bumping into the same Same Origin Policy. You can't capture load events on documents on a different origin (because it tells you that the page successfully loaded, which can leak information like "The user is logged into this site which would otherwise throw a Forbidden error").
If I change the URL to one with the same origin as the page in which the JavaScript appears, then it works.
The closest you can come to this is to estimate how long it would take for the document to load and use setTimeout to close it.

A: You can attach an event listener to another window, but only if both windows are on the same domain/protocol/port.
Same-Origin Policy limits the properties and events you can access cross-origin, and unlike a iframe (which fires a load event of it's own you can listen to), you cannot attach a load event listener to a window created with window.open unless they satisfy Same-Origin Policy.

Also, on a side note, this is a typo:
winning.addEventListener('onload', function(){

Should be:
winning.addEventListener('load', function(){

You don't include the on prefix when using addEventListener.


Spring might be off to a chilly start, but with warm weather around the corner.
Scientists who are studying and testing ticks say the best cure for Lyme disease is prevention.
Last year was an abnormally high tick season, where scientists tested roughly 5,700 ticks. Usually, it's around 3,000.
Experts say right now it doesn't appear this season will be as bad as last year, where 50 percent of the ticks tested were infected with Lyme or another disease.
"You're going to look at your landscape, try to make it, think about the woods as your tick zone, where your highest risk is, but you also have to think about things like ground cover, leaf litter, think shade cover, stone walls are essentially mouse hotels, those are all your risk factors," Kirby Stafford, of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station.
Here in Connecticut, the high-risk period runs from mid-May to mid-July.


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Black Tennis Hall of Fame Congratulates Its Founder, Dr. Dale G. Caldwell As He Is Announced As An Inductee Into The Eastern Tennis Hall of Fame Class of 2021
Tennis Historian, founder of the Black Tennis Hall of Fame, creator and co-curator of the original Breaking the Barriers Exhibit, now hosted at the International Tennis Hall of Fame, and former USTA Eastern President.
Dale Caldwell is the first of this year's six inductees into the Eastern Tennis Hall of Fame to be announced. A new inductee will be announced each week.
A graduate of Princeton University, Dale has tirelessly promoted the history of Black Tennis in the US. He founded the Black Tennis Hall of Fame, and in 2006, he conceived and conjured Breaking the Barriers – currently on exhibition at the International Tennis Hall of Fame – honoring the American Tennis Association and the Black pioneers of tennis.
Along with fellow Hall of Famer Nancy Gill McShea, Dale is the author of Tennis in New York, the History of the Most Influential Sport in the Most Influential City in the World. He has served on the Board of Directors of the USTA and was the first Black president of USTA Eastern.


The following political organizations received the most campaign contributions in West Suburbs during the week of 2019-03-25.
The following political organizations received the most campaign contributions in Illinois during the week of 2019-03-25.
How did Beverly Robertson spend campaign funds in the fourth quarter?
Democratic Beverly Robertson's election campaign committee, Proviso United Party, spent $6,733 in the fourth quarter, according to committee expenditure records obtained from the Illinois State Board of Elections (ISBE).
Voters will decide who will serve as a La Grange School District 105 South board member when they head to the polls on April 2.
Voters will decide who will serve as a La Grange School District 102 board member when they head to the polls on April 2.
How did James Thompson spend campaign funds in the fourth quarter?
Independent James Thompson's election campaign committee, Thompson for Trustee, spent $2,690 in the fourth quarter, according to committee expenditure records obtained from the Illinois State Board of Elections (ISBE).
Voters will decide who will serve as a La Grange Highlands School District 106 board member when they head to the polls on April 2.
How did Bridget Fitzgerald spend campaign funds in the fourth quarter?
Democratic Bridget Fitzgerald's election campaign committee, Friends of Bridget Fitzgerald, spent $1,045,618 in the fourth quarter, according to committee expenditure records obtained from the Illinois State Board of Elections (ISBE).
How did Loreen Lori Malinski spend campaign funds in the fourth quarter?
Independent Loreen Lori Malinski's election campaign committee, Committee To Elect Brewer & Malinski, spent $197 in the fourth quarter, according to committee expenditure records obtained from the Illinois State Board of Elections (ISBE).
Voters will decide who will serve as a Komarek School District 94 board member when they head to the polls on April 2.
Voters will decide who will serve as a J. Sterling Morton High School District 201 board member when they head to the polls on April 2.
How did Keith Pekau spend campaign funds in the fourth quarter?
Republican Keith Pekau's election campaign committee, Keith For Mayor, spent $5,097 in the fourth quarter, according to committee expenditure records obtained from the Illinois State Board of Elections (ISBE).
Voters will decide who will serve as a Hillside School District 93 board member when they head to the polls on April 2.
How did Nick Caiafa spend campaign funds in the fourth quarter?
Non partisan Nick Caiafa's election campaign committee, Schiller Park First, spent $3,895 in the fourth quarter, according to committee expenditure records obtained from the Illinois State Board of Elections (ISBE).
Voters will decide who will serve as a Franklin Park School District 84 board member when they head to the polls on April 2.
How did Laurence Disch spend campaign funds in the fourth quarter?
Democratic Laurence Disch's election campaign committee, Berwyn United for Mayor Clerk Treasurer and Alderman, spent $752 in the fourth quarter, according to committee expenditure records obtained from the Illinois State Board of Elections (ISBE).
Voters will decide who will serve as a Forest Park School District 91 board member when they head to the polls on April 2.
How did Jeff Walik spend campaign funds in the fourth quarter?
Non partisan Jeff Walik's election campaign committee, Friends of Jeff Walik, spent $4,046 in the fourth quarter, according to committee expenditure records obtained from the Illinois State Board of Elections (ISBE).


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Arab Revolutions, Arabian Peninsula, Lebanon, Uncategorized, Yemen
Revenge of Yemeni Nerds? New 'Liberators' Trounce Old Guard Tribal Islamists………
October 17, 2014 Mohammed Haider Ghuloum
"The Houthis' rise to power reached a new peak in September, when the group successfully seized control over the capital, Sanaa, following a seemingly effortless armed campaign. Prior to the group's arrival in Sanaa, the Houthis trailed across Northern Yemen, dislodging and challenging Yemen's main powerhouse, Islah — a faction that acts as a political umbrella for several groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafis — at every corner of every road. Yemen's former undesirables accomplished what no one thought possible when they defeated Islah's founding tribal family, the Ahmars, in their ancestral home of Amran, thus throwing the country's balance of power off its axis. Endowed with a new sense of power, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi presented himself as the vessel of Yemenis' discontents, the spokesperson of the weak and the poor, the liberator of Yemen…………"
This article makes it seem as if the Houthis were the classic unpopular abused 'nerds' of Yemen who got their revenge in the end. Sort of like some people might think of Hezbollah compared to the bygone Lebanese society preceding the civil war years. Maybe it was so, but it is too early to tell in Yemen. It is always too early to tell how things will turn out in Yemen, just as it is in Afghanistan.
Yemen has had close tribal and trade ties with the Hijaz region of the Arabian Peninsula since pre-Islamic days. It is all mentioned, nay recorded, in the Holy Quran. The Al Saud invaded the country in the 1930s but wisely pulled back after annexing a huge chunk of the northern part of that country.
In 1962 the Imamate monarchy of Hammediddeen was overthrown by military officers, after failed earlier attempts. The new and newly-deposed Imam started a lasting Arab tradition: he sought asylum and military help from his family's old enemies, the Al Saud. Among those the Saudis enlisted to help reverse the order in Yemen were the predecessors of the Houthis (or now Ansarallah). With Nasserist Egyptian forces helping the Republicans on their border, the Al Saud struck back. The British who were worried about their colony in Aden and the ever-willing humorless Jordanians also helped. Nasser did not win the Yemen war of attrition, but he managed to salvage a compromise out of it: a republican regime in Sana'a, but a conservative one. That Yemen War degraded and tied down the Egyptian military, and any fighting experience gained did not benefit it in facing the shocking Israeli blitzkrieg of 1967.
Saudi media that are owned by the royal princes like Asharq Alawsat, Al-Hayat, and Alarabiya, have now dug up photos and other material from those 1960s days to show that the Houthis are a bunch of savages. Except that they were doing then what the Al Saud have always done, what they still do.
More than forty years later the Al Saud tried for a repeat, sending a military incursion into Yemen for the third time since their kingdom was established. They tried to intervene militarily on the Yemeni border against a Houthi rebellion in 2009. The lightly-armed Houthis handed a resounding defeat to Prince General Field Marshal Khalid Bin Sultan Al Saud and his superbly-armed but inept military. Which means the Saudis and their Emirati sidekicks will now probably limit their intervention to what they can do best: pump more money and sponsor acts of political and other disruption.
But we know that Yemen is not hospitable territory for outside invaders and meddlers. The current Yemen conflict is further complicated by Al-Qaeda (AQAP) imported from Saudi Arabia, local Wahhabis nurtured by Saudi money and ideological education, and Southern separatists. Any foreign power that thinks it can tame the country by military force will be disappointed: just as the Egyptians and the Saudis were disappointed in the past. That is why Arab media speculation on the Gulf about a coming Iranian intervention is mostly propaganda aimed at discrediting the Houthis and their allies. They know that nothing can excite and motivate American policy-makers more than mentioning the dual threats of Al-Qaeda and growing Iranian influence.
Yet the Iranians have had an interest in Yemen in the past, the Persians even controlled the country in ancient times, appointing satraps to rule it. The mullahs know that Yemen pokes uncomfortably right into the Saudi ribcage, so it might be tempting for them. Last year Gulf media reported that a ship carrying weapons from Iran was apprehended off Yemen. But they are probably not reckless enough to intervene in Yemen directly, at least they are not that reckless yet. So far they have avoided direct military intervention even in the more vital conflicts in Syria and Iraq. And it is not clear how things will settle down in Yemen, if and when they do settle down.
But then wars and revolutions and military incursions have their own logic: they can take you in directions you had never intended to go…………
m.h.ghuloum@gmail.com
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Q: Significant drop in battery life on new laptop I got an Acer Aspire V Nitro about 4 months ago and I've noticed a really large drop in battery life lately, despite attempts to fix that.
Unless I really need it (games, which I rarely play, or graphics computing), I keep the processor maximum at 50% both on battery and plugged in. My screen brightness is typically no more than 2 notches up, and the only applications I have running all the time are Firefox, and Skype.
When I first got it, there were some issues, but after a couple full cycles I was able to get about 5-6 hours. Usually, I try to keep it between 20% and 80%.
However, in the past month or so, I have been using my desktop more, and so my laptop stayed in my bag except when using it at uni. I've noticed a significant drop in battery life (about 4 hours max, even though the tooltip over the battery icon usually says no more than 2 hours (!)).
I've uninstalled a lot of bloatware, and turned off all unnecessary start up expenses. Any ideas on what could be going on, how I can check, or how to increase it again?
Edit:
I forgot to mention that my wife dropped the laptop about 3 weeks ago (about the time that the battery life started degrading). I listened to the bottom of the laptop, and there's a small clicking/buzzing sound, like a couple of insects flying around. I didn't think that could affect battery life, but maybe?


Overcooked: Special Edition will be launching on the Nintendo Switch this Thursday and brings another great co-op title to the system. This special edition of Overcooked includes the base game, The Lost Morsel and Festive Seasoning DLC, and will take advantage of such Switch features as HD Rumble and the ability to play alone or with friends wherever you may go.
Originally released in 2016 for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, Overcooked has you taking the role of one of 22 different chefs, including dinosaurs and robots, and cooking your way through 44 campaign levels to cook the perfect meal. However, the fun of it occurs when Overcooked throws challenges your way like cooking on ice or in a moving truck, and you have to coordinate with your fellow chefs to ensure the kitchen doesn't turn into a disaster.
Overcooked: Special Edition launches on the Nintendo Switch eShop on Thursday, July 27, 2017 for $19.99 / €19,99 / £15.99 and continues Nintendo's commitment of releasing great indie titles on their newest console.
When I read "Over" I immediatly thinked about Overwatch, but in the end it's not about Overwatch.
Anyway this game is fun and I think I'm gonna buy it.


I have contempt for the socialist governor of North Carolina because he expressed hatred for my ancestors and lied about the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln had a career of failures. His greatest failure was declaring war against the South. The war caused great suffering; thousands of soldiers were maimed and killed. Death and destruction were Lincoln's legacy. The war cost Lincoln death by assassination.
In my opinion, Bobby Gersten (UNC '42) has proven Richard Pryor wrong. Sometimes a fool can become old.
Bobby, I'm an alumnus who is actually a North Carolinian. Your views about Silent Sam are irrelevant. Sam is not a monument to the invaders from your home, New York. Sam is a monument to the students who left school to defend their homes from invasion. Your ancestors were probably not even on this continent when the South was invaded by Lincoln. Go back to New York and worry about the monuments there.
With all the discussion of the "Silent Sam" statue and other statuary, it is somewhat amazing that there is little conversation about why we feel a need to venerate those who have ventured forth to kill.
Apologists will argue that the statues are about memorializing bravery, heritage and patrimony. While there is some truth to this, the fact remains, unfortunately so, that their proliferation lends a certain nobility and merit to the notion of war itself.
In contrast, most modern-day veterans I know who have personally experienced this deadly and sordid human enterprise are reticent to speak about the horror of it, or else they repress it completely. Too many of them spend the remainder of their lives psychologically haunted by the gruesome memories of the carnage.
This is not a matter of assessing guilt. God is the judge of what lies in men's hearts. Most Union and Confederate combatants were assuredly good people. The young faces in those early 1860s photographs of men marching off to fight seem innocent, almost angelic. Yet author Michael Shaara, writing about those soldiers, calls them "killer angels." For that reason alone one could make a legitimate case for removing any statue that – even if unwittingly – honors the senseless killing that is war.
For the fallen, we'll weep for them in our churches and beside their graves.
Thanks for your article on the recent decision to remove the shredded tire mulch at East Durham Park due to neighbors concerns over health risks. My older child's preschool went there daily. We oftentimes would go as a family and stopped going once we found out that there are a dozen cancer-causing chemicals used in the making of tires. Kids play with the tire mulch, sometimes chewing it, including my own toddler.
The question around the science needs to be reframed to ask: why would rubber from used tires be allowed to remain as playground surfacing when there's not enough science to prove that it's safe? Both the EPA and the CPSC no longer claim that the material is safe.
The national EPA/CDC/CPSC study's timeline that is noted in the article, slated for release mid-year, is only for the EPA's piece of the study, not the whole FRAP. The EPA's timeline continues to experience delays. There are no immediate changes in official guidelines for playgrounds expected from the EPA's finding alone. The council made a wise decision to move forward now.
I'm encouraged by Council Member Freeman's leadership on this issue and the city council's responsiveness to community concerns. I urge them to make a city-wide plan to phase out rubber surfacing where kids play, and to continue to prioritize equity.
I am not enlisted in the military. I am not a member of a SWAT team. I am a kindergarten teacher in an ordinary suburban school.
A threat has been issued against the high school down the street. We have an emergency staff meeting before students arrive tomorrow. We will have a police presence all week. My lesson planning today included collaborating with a fellow kKindergarten teacher. She is bringing a baseball bat. I am bringing a crowbar.
Tomorrow I could have to make a choice. I give so much to your children, every day, because they are worth it. They are beautiful and smart, courageous and strong. They are our future. Tomorrow, will I have to choose to give everything to keep these children alive? I believe I would do it. I hope I would do it. But the fact that I even have to consider this situation is incomprehensible to me.
Have you ever had a lockdown drill at your workplace? Have you ever planned what you would do in an active shooter situation? Would you run? Would you shield your co-workers? Would you go home to your family that day? These are the thoughts teachers have had to confront for years.
I want to go to my own daughter's second birthday in May. I want to see your children grow even stronger, even more courageous. I want them alive, and unafraid. I do not believe this is too much to ask. Do you?
There is a broken filing cabinet in the Smithsonian National Museum of American history. The cabinet belonged to Daniel Ellsberg''s psyciatrist and was broken open by men working for President Nixon known as the "plumbers." At that time the FBI was tapping Ellsburg's phone without a warrent. Today we learn that the FBI raided the office of President Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen. But this time you can rest assured that all proper warrents were obtained with a nod and a wink. I wonder if they used G Gordon Liddy's crowbar.


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Biographical Sketch of Sarah Magill Chiles Watts
Biographical Sketch of Sarah Magill Chiles Watts, written by Nancy Alexander Simmons. Included in Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920, .
Biography of Sarah Magill Chiles Watts, 1863–1956
Sarah Magill was born in January 1863 in Adams County, Mississippi, to James Magill and Minerva Ellis Magill. Her father died in 1866 and her mother remarried in 1869. In 1885, Sarah married William Terry Chiles, who was a railroad man. They had two children—a daughter and a son—both born in Mississippi; they lived in Jackson in 1900. Her husband died in the fall of 1902 after a long illness. In Jackson on April 18, 1906, Sarah married Samuel B. Watts, a member of the state legislature, a Confederate Army veteran, and a widower with a son and three daughters.
The Watts family initially made their home in Meridian, Mississippi. However, they moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1908, and moved back to Mississippi in 1910. They moved several times, living in Jackson and Meridian.
In 1914, the Equity League of Jackson organized, for the first time in Mississippi, a suffrage section of the parade that preceded the opening of the state fair. Twelve women were enlisted to participate and each would carry a placard with the name of one of the states that allowed woman suffrage; however, only six women showed up to participate in the parade, one of which was Sarah Magill Watts. The women wore yellow sashes and walked with a banner that said "Women Vote in 12 States. Why Not in Mississippi?" Ella Pierce Biggs and Sadie Goeber carried the banner followed by Sarah Magill Watts, Lily Wilkinson Thompson, Avery Harrell Thompson, and Laura Divine Durfey. The women were frequently applauded along the route.
Samuel Watts died in Meridian on January 8, 1931, and is buried there in Rose Hill Cemetery. Sarah Magill Watts died May 9, 1956, in Jackson, and is buried there in Cedarlawn Cemetery. Her obituary says that she was a member of Galloway Memorial Methodist Church in Jackson.
1900 U.S. Census, Mississippi. Hinds County, p. 3, Enumeration District 0076. Digital images. Ancestry.com.
Equity League minutes 1914 – 1915, MWSA, Mississippi Woman Suffrage Association, University of Mississippi Libraries Digital Collections, Lily Thompson Collection
http://clio.lib.olemiss.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/suffrage/id/286
Jackson Daily News (Jackson, Mississippi), October 2, 1902, p. 8. Available through Newspapers.com.
"Mrs. Watts' Rites This Afternoon." Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Mississippi), May 12, 1956, p. 8. Available through Newspapers.com.
"State Mourns Passing of Brigadier General Watts; Burial Held at Meridian." Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Mississippi), January 10, 1931, p. 2. Available through Newspapers.com.
"To Move to Meridian." Jackson Daily News (Jackson, Mississippi), December 21, 1918, p. 3. Available through Newspapers.com.
"Watts-Chiles Nuptial Event." Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Mississippi), April 19, 1906, p. 2. Available through Newspapers.com.