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Monster Bash Pinball Machine by Williams
Dimensions: 28″ W x 56″ D x 77″ H
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Categories: Manufacturers, Pinball, USED PINBALL, WILLIAMS
Monster Bash pinball machine was produced by Williams. The game features some Universal Monsters including The Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Wolfman, Frankenstein's monster, the Bride of Frankenstein, Dracula and The Mummy.
The main goal of the game is to collect the instruments of the iconic horror characters and form the Monsters of Rock band. The table includes a Phantom Flip. Players can let go of the flippers with this auto-play feature and watch the game complete the shots.
Game Features:
Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (3), Autoplunger
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Q: When i try to send email the app crashes When i pressed a button the app needs to be take aal the info to the gmail or any mail app but it crashes.
this is what i used.
Intent email = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
email.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new String[]{"youremail@yahoo.com"});
email.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "subject");
email.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "message");
email.setType("message/rfc822");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(email, "Choose an Email client :"));

A: Try this code. If there are no Apps on the device that can handle the intent, in your case Intent.ACTION_SEND, the App will crash.
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
i.setType("message/rfc822");
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new String[]{"recipient@example.com"});
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "subject of email");
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT   , "body of email");
try {
    startActivity(Intent.createChooser(i, "Send mail..."));
} catch (android.content.ActivityNotFoundException ex) {
    Toast.makeText(MyActivity.this, "There are no email clients installed.",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}

A: Try this code
Here the repository with this code, and here a tutorial
private EditText to;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    to= (EditText)findViewById(R.id.to);
}

public void Enviar(View view) {

    Intent email = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
    email.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new String[]{to.getText().toString()});
    email.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_CC, new String[]{ to});
    email.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_BCC, new String[]{to});
    email.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, asunto.getText().toString());
    email.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, cuerpo.getText().toString());

    //need this to prompts email client only
    email.setType("message/rfc822");

    startActivity(Intent.createChooser(email, "Choose an Email client :"));

}}

 //method get account the device
static String getEmail(Context context) {
AccountManager accountManager = AccountManager.get(context);
Account[] accounts = accountManager.getAccounts();
Account account = accounts[0];//getAccount(accountManager);

if (account == null) {
    return null;
} else {
    return account.name;
}
}

Good Luck

A: Wrap startActivity() in try/catch to avoid crashes where there's no activity to handle your intent (you shall read the stacktrace (via LogCat) and you will see ActivityNotFoundException there)
Intent email = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
email.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new String[]{"youremail@yahoo.com"});
email.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "subject");
email.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "message");
email.setType("message/rfc822");

try {
    startActivity(Intent.createChooser(email, "Choose an Email client :"));
} catch (Exception e) {
     e.printStackTrace();

     // show toast etc to the user
}

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Scientist outlines his work combating Ebola in Africa
By Peter E. Bortner / Published: January 12, 2019
DAVID MCKEOWN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Michael Wiley, assistant professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, talks about Ebola surveillance in Africa during a program Friday at Penn State Schuylkill, Schuylkill Haven.
SCHUYLKILL HAVEN — Michael Wiley told about 75 people on Friday that fighting diseases like Ebola is an exciting part of what he does for a living.
"I have a pretty cool job. It's taken me across the world," Wiley said during a one-hour presentation at Penn State Schuylkill's John E. Morgan Auditorium. "I do a lot of traveling to Africa."
Wiley, an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, outlined his work in combating the Ebola virus disease as the last part of Penn State Schuylkill's program "Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World" sponsored by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. He did that work while a civilian government contractor with the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.
Darcy Medica, Penn State Schuylkill's director of academic affairs, said the program shows that disease outbreaks around the world can affect Americans.
"We live in an interconnected world," she said. "This was a campus-wide effort."
In his presentation, Wiley reminded those present that what he does carries risks.
"Ebola is spread by human-to-human contact," with bats also involved in its transmission, Wiley said.
He said he works primarily in laboratories and that his job includes next generation sequencing of the human genome, which will be a key in combating diseases like Ebola.
"It's an amazing technology," Wiley said.
Wiley said he spent time working to control the largest Ebola outbreak, which occurred from 2013 through 2016 in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. He established a laboratory in Liberia, which had the most cases, and spent his time researching how to use sequencing of the human genome to detect cases of Ebola.
"It was kind of reactionary" as opposed to preventive, Wiley said. "Sequencing should be part of the first response."
He said the entire outbreak resulted from a single event, and resulted in the epidemic from December 2013 to January 2016 that killed more than 11,000 people.
Lessons learned from that outbreak have been applied in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Belgian Congo and later Zaire, when two separate Ebola outbreaks occurred in 2016, according to Wiley. Sequencing was used quickly in the second outbreak in DRC, he said.
As of Nov. 24, 2018, there are 374 cases of Ebola in DRC, according to Wiley.
However, there is a problem now in trying to combat the disease, he said.
"We're not allowed to go into the Democratic Republic of the Congo now," Wiley said. "The United States won't let us go because of the civil unrest."
Without sequencing by professionals such as himself, he said, contact tracing cannot be done to determine who is infected with Ebola.
He said work is being done to make equipment smaller and shorten the time needed for sequencing.
Wiley said he must protect himself when working in Africa with special clothing and protective measures.
"All that stuff is there to protect you," he said.
Although some of the research might sound threatening, Wiley said he must demonstrate that his work has more positive consequences than negative ones before he is allowed to use the techniques.
"Anything we make synthetically goes through a dual use," he said.
Contact the writer: pbortner@republicanherald.com; 570-628-6014


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These can be documents and notes with codes from the safe, as well as special figurines called Mister Raccoons. There are a total of 15 such figurines. You must not only find them, but also destroy them from a weapon (firearms or cold steel). Some figurines can be detected by any character, others only by Leon or Claire, and even under a certain scenario.
If the statuette is nearby, then you will hear a characteristic sound.
Mr. Raccoon № 1: Visit the office in the west wing, on the first tier. There is a cupboard with boxes near the north wall, and a statuette on them.
Mr. Raccoon №2: go to the west wing, go up to the second floor and look at the STARS office. Open the map, go to the south wall of the room and find the statuette behind the box with the monitor.
Mr. Raccoon №3: when you are in the parking lot, go to the shooting range near the nursery and you will find a statuette next to the fallen target.
Mr. Raccoon №4: on the first tier there is a rest room. Find the brown bag and destroy the statuette.
Mr. Raccoon № 5: in the east wing, go up to the second tier and walk past the gallery. Find the stairs to get to the office of the chief. Only Claire can get inside, but even Leon can get to the landing. The statuette stands on the table next to the door to the chief's office.
Mr. Raccoon №6: when you find yourself in a clock tower, then open the door at the far end of the room (the first floor of the tower) and at the end of the corridor, on the window sill on the left you will find a statuette.
Mr. Raccoon №7: Fall into the sewage system, use the lower canal. Get to the end and go up the stairs. There is a long table on the left side, and a statuette is hidden behind it.
Mr. Raccoon №8: visit the canteen in the laboratory and examine the window connecting it to the kitchen. There is a subject.
Mr. Raccoon №9: you will find a rest room near the dining room and kitchen. When you turn on the electricity on the wall panel (using a signal modulator), you can pick up a hip bag from the bed on the right. There is also a statuette on the shelves.
Mr. Raccoon №. 10: when you deal with a crocodile, you will look around (in the water with garbage) and find a statuette.
Mr. Raccoon № 11: play as Ada Wong, you will be in an incinerator. In the left-hand side of the room, find the statuette, right on the floor.
Mr. Raccoon №12: you are interested in the eastern pantry. Open the door inside the pantry with the red heart (using the same key), and inspect the shelf on the left to find the statuette.
Mr. Raccoon №13: when you go from the station to the orphanage, you will have to get on the bus. There is a statuette on the panel near the steering.
Mr. Raccoon №14: when you are in an orphanage in the role of Claire, then rise from the hall upstairs, where Sherry was hiding, enter the nursery and find the figurine inside the white bollard with square shelves.
Mr. Raccoon № 15: when the second scenario begins, go forward, pass by the door with the chain, and go upstairs. Search the flower bed on your left hand to find a statuette among the bushes.


Failed Japanese supermarket Mycal has shortened its list of candidates to help rebuild the business. The number of firms under consideration is now down to five. However, it isn't clear that it would suit any of the likely buyers to keep to Mycal's aim of keeping the chain together. The majority of potential sponsors would be better off taking just some of its 140 stores.


Hawksley and Mr. Lonely are excited to be playing Rifflandia Music Festival in Victoria BC on September 14th! Also announced, MOUNTIES (Hawksley Workman, Steve Bays of Hot Hot Heat, Ryan Dahle of Limblifter) will be playing on September 13th! Details on the festival and full lineup can be found at www.rifflandia.com – stay tuned for schedule information!
Hawksley has just announced that he will be joining Jully Black and 54*40 for a live performance on November 4th 2011 at The Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto, in support of World Wildlife Fund Canada. Information and tickets can be found here!


4 On floating Wood to dare th'uncertain Seas.
8 Content with Sea, and careless of the Shore.
14 And bring Diseases home unknown before.
16 And what they scorn'd before they now commend.
18 But things their Value raise by being new.
20 This whets their Rage, and ever makes 'em brave.
28 The Sea grew calm, and all the Sky was fair.
36 Like a fed Porpoise frisks in wanton Play.
37 What happy Chance has pleas'd the smiling Boy?
38 The Nymph he loves is sure no longer coy.
42 My Blood's on fire, and I am full of Love.
44 Whether I move on Waves or dance on Wind.
46 So unexpected, sudden, and so strange?
50 No Herb was found to cure the fond Disease.
60 But oh! the Gods ne'er on such Nectar fed.
62 I quaff'd full Bowls in a capacious Shell.
64 Give me the Land, the Sea's a worthless Sink.
66 I thus inspir'd no mortal Mer-man fear.
68 Sole Lord, and mighty Monarch of the Main.
70 I burn impatient with the fierce Desire.
72 Ev'n blear-ey'd Opis now wou'd serve the turn.
74 For now, the Nymph that's kind, is only fair.
76 Which feeds the happy Youth with fancy'd Bliss?
78 Fond Hopes, Self-pleasing Loves, and gay Desires.
Title (in Source Edition): [Nereides:] Eclogue III.


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Q: text object to string in jquery My Dom has this:
<input type="hidden" id="current_time" value="27 Mar 14 11:29:57 GMT-04:00">

I assign a variable to the value like this:
g_current_time = $('#current_time').attr("value");

when console logging  g_current_time I get the expected:
27 Mar 14 11:29:57 GMT-04:00

but when trying to display the contents of the variable in the Dom it displays as [Object Text].
How do I need to convert it to a string?
The variable is concatenated into a string which is in turn diaplayed in the DOM;
stat.innerText = "  Shutdown request on channel " + channel_identifier + " @ " + g_current_time + " accepted.";

at this point console logging stat.innerText shows:
Shutdown request on channel 1 @ [object Text] accepted.

A: Please use .val() as below and it seems to work fine.
Demo: Fiddle
JS:
$(function(){
    var g_current_time = $('#current_time').val();
    console.log("  Shutdown request on channel 1 @ " + g_current_time + " accepted.");
});


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Trump planning executive orders on China, immigration, and manufacturing
Trump Nation News July 7, 2020
President Trump is planning to issue a string of executive orders on China, bringing manufacturing back from overseas, and immigration, according to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
The flurry comes after key allies and advisers urged the president to demonstrate that he is a man of action in contrast with Joe Biden, his rival for the White House.
Speaking to reporters at the White House on Monday morning, Meadows also drew a comparison with members of Congress before their three-week summer recess.
"Most Americans don't get that, and so for us, it's dealing with a number of executive orders that may go all the way from dealing with some of the immigration issues that we have before us to some of the manufacturing and jobs issues that are before us, and ultimately dealing with China and what we need to do there in terms of resetting that balance," he said.
Meadows offered no further details on the content or timing of the orders.
The announcement suggests a clear focus for Trump after significant voices advised him to make more use of executive orders to bolster a stumbling reelection campaign and demonstrate that he is a president who can deliver for his supporters.
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, for example, has used public and private channels to get his message out.
"He's the president of the United States," he said on John Fredericks's radio show. "He's not a candidate. You act like president of the United States, you take action like the president of the United States, you govern like you are president of the United States — you are going to be reelected."
Other advisers fear the president's campaign has been too reliant on mass rallies, the sort that are difficult to arrange amid a pandemic, and say that it should be focused instead on amplifying presidential action to create jobs and rein in an aggressive China.
"That's what got him elected, and that's exactly what he should be doing in office so that he can run on his record of getting results," said a former administration official.
That message appears to have reached the Oval Office.
The president signed three executive orders in one day in June. In all, eight were issued last month, compared with 24 during the preceding five months.
On Friday, he used Independence Day celebrations to order the federal government to build a park honoring "American heroes" with statues. The White House issued an executive order shortly after Trump's combative speech delivered at Mount Rushmore.
Read the full article from The Washington Examiner.


Invisalign is a way for patients to straighten teeth and improve their smile without the need for traditional braces. Invisalign uses 3-D technology to help us map out a treatment plan for your particular needs.
After the Invisalign treatment plan is created, a series of custom-made, clear aligners are made. You wear each set of aligners for about two weeks. When two weeks are up, you begin wearing the next set in the series. This process continues until your treatment plan is completed.
Invisalign is almost invisible. In fact, the Invisalign aligners are often called "invisible braces" or "clear braces." Traditional braces, with wires and metal brackets, are one of the first things people notice. With Invisalign clear braces, most people do not notice you are wearing something to straighten your teeth.
Invisalign invisible braces are also removable. Anyone with braces can tell you how difficult it can sometimes be to eat foods that get caught in the wires and brackets. With Invisalign, you can simply remove the clear aligner to eat and drink just as you always have. Invisalign clear braces can also be removed to brush and easily floss between teeth.
Invisalign treatment may take less time. Depending on your unique smile and treatment plan, you may be able to achieve the results you want in less time and with less hassle than regular braces. And because Invisalign 3-D technology allows you to see where your treatment can take you, you know what your end result is going to be.
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LIVE: UMPHREY'S McGEE – August 18, 2022
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Venue: TCU Amphitheater at White River State Park
City: Indianapolis, IN
Dates: August 18, 2022
Review and Photographs by: Jeffrey Everett (http://www.jeffrey-everett.com/)
Umphrey's McGee made their annual appearance in Indy, once again at the TCU Amphitheater at White River State Park. Tonight's performance was their 49th show in Indy. Formed in 1997 in South Bend, Indiana, the band is a local favorite. A nice crowd for a weekday welcomed them back after opening act the Disco Biscuits kicked things off. Their reputation is founded on their live performance and everyone was excited to see what this show had in store. It was a mild Thursday night, a perfect setting for an outdoor concert. They started with "There's No Crying in Mexico" as the crowd stood and cheered. Bayliss complimented the fans and said just keep that up the whole night. Their multi-colored light show created a psychedelic backdrop as the guys jammed. Jake Cinninger and Brendan Bayliss strobing guitar solos were the highlight of the show. Drummer Kris Myers and percussionist Andy Farag set the groundwork on which the music was built. Ryan Stasik's rhythmic bass complimented the guitar riffs. Joel Cummins was on keyboards added a diverse array of sounds. Together the band was in perfect harmony, creating a rich mix of blues, jazz and metal. They played a long set, totaling nearly two hours. Everyone left satisfied after another classic performance by Umphrey's McGee.
Setlist: There's No Crying in Mexico – Attachments – I Don't Know What I Want – Mantis – Wappy Sprayberry – Ocean Billy – Escape Goat – Mail Package – Pay the Snucka
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The Food and Drug Administration is failing to protect children from the disturbing behavioral problems caused by artificial food dyes, even though evidence of those problems has continued to mount since 2011, when an FDA advisory panel last considered the issue.
That's the finding of a new report, released today by the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest, that takes a withering look at the agency's inaction on dyes in the face of what CSPI says is a growing consensus among researchers and healthcare providers who treat behavioral problems that avoiding food dyes benefits some children.
Since 2011, eight detailed analyses, including two meta-analyses, concluded that excluding food dyes, or a diet that eliminates dyed foods and certain other foods and ingredients, reduces behavior problems in some children.
Most food and drink companies, including ones that sell products in the United States, have eliminated most dyes in products sold in Europe, where regulators have required labels warning consumers about the behavioral problems associated with dyed foods. But in the United States, a forthcoming study conducted by a researcher at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and CSPI found that more than 90 percent of child-oriented candies, fruit-flavored snacks, and drink mixes are colored with dyes and that a majority of child-oriented foods made by such companies as Kraft, PepsiCo, and General Mills contain dyes.
Two important meta-analyses have been published since 2011, the year the FDA's Food Advisory Committee examined the science surrounding food dyes and children's behavior and narrowly declined to recommend warning labels on dyed foods. The first, funded by the food industry, found that adopting a diet free of food dyes and some other foods and ingredients reduced symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in approximately a third of children with that condition. This meta-analysis, published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry, found that synthetic colorings were associated with a slight statistically significant increase in ADHD symptoms as assessed by parents or by attention tests. It estimated that as many as eight percent of the millions of children with ADHD may suffer symptoms caused by synthetic food colorings.
A second meta-analysis published in the American Journal of Psychiatry found that avoiding dyed foods was one of two effective non-drug treatments for ADHD in some children.
CSPI's report also identifies six other new reviews that point to the risks posed by dyes, including a 2012 review published in Neurotherapeutics stating that "until safety can be better determined, we suggest minimizing children's exposure" to food dyes.
According to many of the 2,000 parents who wrote to CSPI, food dyes have a swift adverse impact on children's behavior, and their children's behavior generally improves quickly once dyes are phased out of their diet.
Just a single serving of some foods designed to be popular with kids has more dye than some of the amounts used in clinical trials that triggered reactions in some kids. A cup of Kool-Aid Burst Cherry drink mix contains 50 milligrams of various dyes, almost twice as much as the dose that caused behavior reactions in some studies. A two-tablespoon serving of Pillsbury Confetti Funfetti chocolate frosting contains 41 mg of dyes. It's also easy to see how eating a number of servings of foods with less dye can add up to significant amounts, says CSPI.
Today CSPI also submitted its report, Seeing Red: Time for Action on Food Dyes, to the FDA's regulatory docket on food dyes.
"FDA cannot, consistent with its legal requirements, acknowledge the evidence regarding the harmfulness of dyes and yet continue to do nothing," wrote CSPI to Acting FDA Commissioner Stephen Ostroff. "Indeed, continued inaction is the only course that remains utterly unjustified by ethics, science, or law." Separately, 13 scientists with expertise in toxicology or behavioral problems in children joined CSPI's Jacobson and CSPI senior scientist Lisa Y. Lefferts in a letter to Ostroff urging timely federal action on dyes.


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Sometimes during the nighttime routine I want to throw up my hands, storm out of the room and let everyone fend for themselves.
I wonder if you secretly want to do that too. It is so frustrating dealing with kids who don't want to brush their teeth, think that bathing once a month is more than enough and children who decide that at the moment the clock strikes bedtime o'clock, they have an incurable thirst.
I see you all nodding your heads.
The thing is, bedtime will never be perfect. (Dang it.) Even when you think you've turned the corner and your kid wants to brush her teeth, or your teen decides bathing is actually beneficial. There will always be a hiccup (or four) from time to time.
But amidst all the chaos you can do one thing that, long after teeth brushing battles are over, you and your children will remember forever.
You can read them a bedtime poem.
I've written before about how sharing poetry calms kids and brings joy to daily family life and reading poetry at bedtime is a key part of that.
I wouldn't know where to start!
My kids would never go for that!
First of all, I am all about offering up easy (screen-free) ideas that will help you connect with your kids and this is no different! Reading a poem is the easiest thing ever. The. Easiest. The only hurdle is finding a poem and I'm going to help you with that below.
"Poetry is long and boring!" Your kids will indeed find a bedtime poem by John Donne a little dull. Fortunately, I have a list of non-boring poetry books that will change your mind. Are the poems too long? Just read the first stanza. Problem solved. In fact I am so confident you will like at least one of these poets, I'd like to hear from you if you don't! Send me an email at erica[at]whatdowedoallday[dot]com.
"I don't know where to start!" Pick one of the poems below (or something else of your own choosing), make a copy of the poem and put it on your child's bedside table. Right after you've brought her a cup of water (for the inevitable "I'm thirsty!"), and before you kiss your child good night, read the poem out loud. That's it. Kiss your cutie goodnight and turn off the light. Read the same poem every night for at least one month. Then move on to another poem, or keep that one if you both enjoy it. Feel free to read the same poem for as long as you like. Even forever.
Below you will find eight classic poems you can use. There is a printable copy to make it easy. If you prefer contemporary poems, I've linked to some terrific bedtime poetry to read.
"My kid will never go for that!" Your child loves your voice. Your child loves special time with you. Read the poem. See what happens. Keep at it. I am confident it will become a much loved tradition.
"But, we already have bedtime reading." Terrific! You are doing the best thing for your kids by reading to them every night. It should be a breeze to add in a 1 minute poem after you close the pages of your book! Easy. Peasy.
"My kids are too young to appreciate it." A baby is a captive audience. She loves to hear your voice! Has your toddler ever said, "Stop talking! I need to go to sleep!"? Yeah, I thought not. You are never too young for poetry.
Put a copy by your child's bed.
Repeat every night until they grow up.
One Minute till Bedtime: 60-Second Poems to Send You off to Sleep edited by Kenn Nesbitt, illustrated by Christoph Niemann.
The following are all classic poems. If you want something shorter, it's easy peasy. Just recite one stanza! Get a printable of these poems by entering your email below and we'll send it on over to you.
Fairer though they be than dreams of ours.
Sweeter though they sound than sweetest words.
Answering light with love and night with noon.
Touched with wonder what the sound may be.
Calm in claim of all things fair that are.
Now the flowers curl round and close their cells.
Till good day shall smile away good night.
Contemporary poems: I don't have a printable of these poems because they are all still under copyright, but you can obtain copies at the links below.
Catch a Little Rhyme by Eve Merriam. This is one of our all time favorite bedtime poems!
Our kids have always loved poetry. My parents got them a kids' anthology a few years back that has been great (the one edited by Mary Ann Hoberman). Some favorites that are funny rather than soothing are Never Seize a Weasel by the Tail (my husband and I never get tired of reading that one) and Eletelephony, which my eldest did at her all-school talent show in 1st grade. The kids also adore anything be Edward Lear. We've got a beautiful 70s illustrated copy of The Scroobius Pip and Helen Oxenbury's illustrated The Quangle Wangle's Hat and the anthology I mentioned has The Jumblies. Every one of them is a hit with our littles. Now the older one is all over Shel Silverstein to read on her own.
I love hearing things like that!
I love this so much, and started it a few days ago. My lil 7 year old lady is loving it. I worry that she'll outgrow her lullabies soon and having this in place warms my heart.
I'm curious though, why do you suggest to "Read the same poem every night for at least one month"? Would reading a different poem every night not have the same effect?
There's no reason why you can't do a different poem every night if you prefer. I suggest repetition for a few reasons: 1. It is easy for newbies to poetry to stick to one rather than feel overwhelmed by having to find a different poem every night. 2. The repetition gets the poem "stuck" in the child's mind, increasing the likelihood of committing it to memory. A memorized poem will stick with a child forever! 3. A repeated poem becomes a sort of lullaby, as you mention! Just the way we might sing the same songs over and over again, we should feel free to recite the same poem repeatedly. Plus, we know from reading a favorite book over and over and over ad nauseam, that kids love repetition. That said, there is no right way. I'd love to hear how you implement bedtime poetry and how it works for you!
I highly recommend the book, Bedtime, Anytime Poems For Kids by Shepherd Thorleif Halvorsen! It is available in ebook and trade paperback formats via Amazon. If you're a really big fan of truly good – child friendly – poetry, then you should obtain a copy of this book.
I don't think it matters what you read, it is the fact that you read! My mom always used to read me and my sister stories before bed, and I loved it. My favorites as a kid were Tow-Truck Pluck and Jip and Janneke. (both Dutch classic children's books. I'm from the Netherlands). These days I discovered the Disney book club books. Shorted versions of Disney stories, great before bedtime. But as a child, I also had a poetry book specifically made for children, and I really enjoyed that too.
Yes, reading is the most important thing!
It is so important to start young. I started reading books and poems to my son since he was 3 years old. He is 10 now and enjoys writing poems and stories. He now is planning to start a blog for his poems and writings and it is wonderful to see the creative process. And yes it's a great way for them to keep busy at the same time!
I have read to my son since he was a baby. His favorite is anything by Shel Silverstein. He loves Where the Sidewalk Ends so much now that he is 10, he picks it up and reads it on his own.
My favourite (and my daughter's) poet by far is shel Silverstein. We have several of his books and they are short and sweet great for bedtime.


We are very excited to proudly highlight each month someone from our wonderful staff here at NWRPC! Our May employee being "spotlighted" is Heidi Buchmann, Finance Specialist.
I was born and raised right here in Spooner and married a 'hometown' boy. We raised five children and have two grandchildren. My hobbies include gardening and crafts and I enjoy remodeling and building homes with my husband.
I began my career with NWRPC as secretary to the Executive Director and moved into the Finance Specialist position two years later. I support the loan programs of NWRPC, NWBDC, WBIC and NWREDF by completing loan documents, tracking loan repayments, and filing reports to federal and state agencies. Keeping loan files up to date with current financials and insurance information is a constant project. I also do the tenant billing for the enterprise centers in our region and support the Fiscal Director in her duties.
My commute. It's five minutes. Also the flexibility and support of staff. During my first 10 years here, I had five high school graduations, four college graduations and three weddings. I also had two children survive cancer and lost both parents and my father-in-law. It is important to have the flexibility to take care of family.
How may I help you? We're not in this world to achieve personal gain, but to help each other on our life journeys.
I wanted to be a mom… and design/build houses. Guess I did that.


The whale, after disappearing for a couple of days, is back.
She came back with lots of strange plants and flowers.
But, more, she brought hoshino's lady.
Could it be that @cobaltbluesailor2's lady is our savior?
Ms BirdHead is checking out. Maybe, this could be the way to get out from this place.


In January 1818, French painter Jean Baptiste Vermay founded the Escuela Gratuita de Dibujo y Pintura (Free School of Drawing and Painting) in Havana.
From those modest beginnings, the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro—widely known as San Alejandro—went on to become one of the island's most important schools for visual artists and intellectuals alike.
Mid-20th-century vanguardia masters like Amelia Peláez and Victor Manuel studied there. So did notable artists of later generations, including Servando Cabrera Moreno, Agustín Cárdenas, Rafael Soriano, and Flora Fong.
José Manuel Fors, winner of the 2016 Cuban National Art Award, trained at the Academy. Manuel Mendive, Roberto Fabelo, and Roberto Diago, three artists recently showcased in the "Artes de Cuba" festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, were also students there.
In his years at San Alejandro, Diago told Cuban Art News, "I had the opportunity to learn about other cultures, about artists of other eras, about the importance of popular culture in the creative work of many makers.
Intellectuals who trained at the Academy include Carlos Baliño (1848-1926), a founder of the first Cuban communist party; journalist Guillermo Cabrera Álvarez (1943–2007); Commander Camilo Cienfuegos (1932–1959); and journalist and Spanish Civil War fighter Pablo de la Torriente Brau (1901–1936).
Even Cuban national hero José Martí (1853–1895) studied at San Alejandro, taking drawing classes there as a 14-year-old.
"San Alejandro is much more than an academy. It brings together all the tools to train students conceptually as well as philosophically. They leave with a lifelong ability to affect and influence the contemporary arts," said Professor Julio César Pérez Moracén.
Originally housed in the former Convent of San Agustín—a 17th-century building now home to the Cuban Academy of Sciences—in 1962 the Academy moved to the Marianao district of Havana.
Today it is the Centro Metodológico Nacional for visual-arts teaching on the island. Schools in Matanzas, Cienfuegos, Villa Clara, Camagüey, and other provinces are under its direction. The Havana headquarters also hosts students from western provinces, such as Pinar del Río and the Isla de la Juventud.
"San Alejandro was our first art school," said Celia González of the art duo Celia-Yunior, winners of the Farber Foundation's International Art Award in the Young Artist category. "In those four years we discovered and started to understand contemporary art at the same time we learned the techniques of traditional representation.
Most of the faculty at San Alejandro are young graduates of the Academy itself and of the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), said sculptor Lesmes Larroza González, the Academy's current director. The curriculum includes not only painting and drawing but sculpture, printmaking, pottery, and goldsmithing, among other fields.
In a 2001 visit, Fidel Castro "asked a question that made all the students reflect: 'How do you see the teaching of art in relation to new media, the internet, the technology era?'" said Larroza González. The dialogue that followed prompted the founding of the Academy's graphic, photography, and digital art department.
A flexible approach to curriculum is part of the Academy's philosophy. Three years ago, the illustration department revamped its teaching program in response to a request for more illustrators from the Instituto Cubano del Libro.
As it moves through its 200th year, San Alejandro is celebrating.
In January, graphic art and engraving were the spotlighted in a month-long program at the Academy. New media took center stage in February, including video, digital photography, and performance art.
March was devoted to sculpture, and drawing, illustration, and the image-text relationship were the topics in April. In May, the focus was painting.
Last week, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes opened "Bicentenario de San Alejandro. Tradición y contemporaneidad," an exhibition of 60 works from its collection, tracing the history of the Academy through its students, teachers, and directors from the colonial era to the present. It will run through the summer, closing in September.
Olor a lluvia, a group exhibition commemorating the anniversary, also opened last week at the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales (CDAV). Curated by Evelynn Álvarez and Harold Ramírez, the exhibition features the work of two dozen young artists, including the curators and Adislen Reyes, Susana Pilar Delahante, and Leandro Pérez, among others.
A commemorative postage stamp will be issued to mark the anniversary, and at least two books about Jean Baptiste Vermay and the Academy will be published.
Today and tomorrow, July 3–4, the Museo Nacional will present a colloquium on San Alejandro and the tradition and contemporaneity of arts education in Cuba.
According to Prensa Latina, every Friday morning during the month of July, teachers and students at the Academy will conduct teaching sessions open to the general public.


Death by mother or Mother Nature: how did 2 Australian women both lose all 4 of their children?
Kathleen Folbigg first gave birth 1st February 1989 to her son Caleb. He was known to breathe noisily however it was a condition he was expected to grow out of. On February 20th, just a few weeks after his birth, he was placed to sleep in his cot. During the night he stirred, until Kathleen discovered him dead - his death was attributed to cot death.
Following this loss, they move houses. Kathleen gives birth to Sarah on 14th October 1992. She dies on the 29th of August 1993.
7th of August 1997, Laura was born. She died on 27th of February 1999.
These deaths at the time were all attributed as cot deaths, until further investigation began. Various experts began weighing in with significant evidence Source 1 Source 2.
British paediatrician, Professor Sir Roy Meadow who promoted himself as a child abuse expert states his hypothesis that: in multiple unexplained cot deaths in the same family: one (infant) death is a tragedy, two is suspicious and three is murder. - various experts all agreed with this opinion — apparently Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is unlikely to occur more than once unless there is a genetic condition present. Edit: Thanks to commenters I have been told that this doctor has been struck off and is a bit of a fraud. This doesn't detract from the fact many other pathologists and doctors ruled these deaths as suspicious however..
Laura had myocarditis at the time of death. There was also no physical evidence linking Kathleen to their deaths. All the other deaths were by "undetermined causes".
Kathleen's husband Craig ended up joining the prosecutions case after discovering her diaries. Entires such as "I feel like the worst mother on this Earth. Scared she'll leave me now like Sarah did. I knew I was short-tempered and cruel sometimes to her, and she left. With a bit of help." were used by the prosecution to secure her with charges of murder.
Kathleen was sentenced to 40 years for the murders of her 4 children. Reduced to 30 on appeal. She is currently looking a judicial inquiry in to her case to prove that multiple children can all die of unidentified natural causes.
Case Number 2: Carol Matthey Good article here.
The first died on the 8th of December in 1998. Jacob Matthey was two months old, and at the time the Coroner found he had died from sudden infant death syndrome. He was found dead in his cot.
Two years later, 4-month-old Chloe Matthey was found dead in her cot, and again the Coroner found the death was consistent with sudden infant death syndrome.
In July 2002, 3-month-old Joshua Matthey died, and the Coroner's report states that death occurred from a rare infection.
Three-year-old Shania Matthey died in April 2003. She allegedly fell off a table, stopped breathing, started breathing again but died later that night in her cot.
Some of the same medical experts who testified in the Kathleen Folbigg case. This time there was disagreement from forensics pathologists about whether there were signs of foul play.
In both the cases, various professionals described something known as ALTE's (acute life threatening events). This can be known to be pre-curses to filicide (the killing of ones' child).
Chloe's cause of death undetermined, rather than SIDS, because it was not possible to exclude homicide. Dr Beal would call it undetermined because Carol had told an investigating forensic officer that she had laid Chloe to sleep on her back, and babies did not die of SIDS while on their backs unless their faces were covered.
Joshua has to undergo a minor surgical procedure on his abdomen at the hospital. He had an extremely bizarre reaction, they believe he may have been poisoned by strychnine due to his tense body and arching that was not in a pattern typical to abdominal pain, he was given morphine but somehow overdosed/reacted, he had to spend 5 times longer on a ventilator than other babies would have.
Ear infection: the day before his death, Joshua was diagnosed with an ear infection. It is believed he died of septicaemia (blood poisoning) from this infection. Dr David Ranson, a forensic pathologist who would later conduct the autopsy on Shania and who reviewed Joshua's case, told the court he saw no reason not to accept the other pathologists finding on Joshua. He pointed out that babies with septicaemia could die very quickly.
But four other doctors doubted the finding.
Forensic pathologist Dr Allan Cala said he accepted that klebsiella was present, but he did not believe it had turned to septicaemia.
Pediatricians Dr Kym Anderson and Professor Michael South, and Dr Susan Beal, argued it was more likely that the klebsiella germ had come from contamination of Joshua's sample in the hospital environment.
Anderson said: "I have never known a child of that age to die quickly from klebsiella septicaemia . . . they would become sick over a number of hours or even longer, and the child would normally have a fever, be very lethargic, and have been vomiting (none of which Joshua had been doing).
Carol Matthey was found not guilty and walked away from court.
4. In Shania's death, reviewing photos of her autopsy showed signs of mouth injury consistent with the lips being pressed in to the teeth.
Okay sorry for how long this turned out! I hardly got to share any of the actual evidence too or it would be way too long! Feel free to read the links provided as they're much more in-depth.
So what do you think: did these 2 women somehow become the unluckiest mothers in the world and lose all 4 of their children despite no generic conditions or markers that would cause that?


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Minimum high regard is both a legal procedural, and a euphemistically  disparaging,  term of art, in the U. S. Senate. Its initial sense in that body is in a rule about speech among members, intended to ensure "comity" and mutual politeness in statements by them as part of formal  sessions of that body. Nevertheless, it has been used with lawyerly but also lawyerish and thereby ironic insinuation as a term of disparagement,  in effect flouting that very rule. The irony reflects the arguably ambiguous intent of "minimum", since tone or context easily connote, the presumably intended meaning of
 "no less than what is obviously required",
but the ironic and significantly sarcastic,
"only to the insignificant degree, which the teethless rule pretends to be remotely capable of enforcing".

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We have reached the end of another month. It is hard to believe that we are a quarter of the way through the year already. So now it is time to review my 2013 Goals and where I am with them so far!
1. Races - at the end of February, I had run 2 of my 12 (or 13, depending on which goals you are thinking about) races for the year. March was a big month for racing!
Yes, that is 5 more races this year, putting me at 7/12 (or 13). I have a big one planned for April (the Glass City Half Marathon) and that might just be the last one before the baby! It is definitely the last one that will be longer than a 10K before the baby.
2. This month I made some crock pot barbacoa, which we served as tacos. On Easter, we ate the leftovers as nachos, and they were quite yummy. I also made sweet potato gnocchi from scratch one night.
They were delicious, even if they were not the prettiest things to look at! So I reached my 10/10 goal for new recipes in MARCH, and have even gone over it! I plan to continue cooking and trying new things, but it is pretty exciting to know that one of my goals is already completely checked off!
3. Login streak going strong. I am at 184 days currently.
4. In March, I did 36 workouts. Because the #runeveryday challenge was going on, I had zero rest days, and I had several more 2-a-days. I am at 91 workouts on the year so far. I need to complete 122 more workouts this year to reach my 213 workouts for the year.
5. Not yet! I am definitely still class-shy at the gym. I definitely need to get over that. I am sure that I can get Leah do one with me. She loves classes at the gym!
6. I ran/walked 171.38 miles in March.
That was definitely the highest I have had in a very long time. I have run 421.65 miles so far this year. I have had a good amount of success meeting my 100 mile/month goal. Obviously. :) I have 778.35 miles to reach my 2013 goal. If I can keep it up, even on my January mileage amount (116) I will definitely reach my goals for the year, but I have no idea how they will stay together when the baby comes or when I get huge! Haha.
How are you doing on your 2013 goals?


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Texas' abortion law and what it means for the future of abortion rights in the U.S.
By Chloe Jones
The landmark Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision is functionally overturned in Texas after the Supreme Court did not block enforcement of a new abortion law because of a technicality. Experts say this could set a precedent of lawmakers side-stepping…
WATCH: White House calls on Congress to codify Roe v. Wade
By News Desk
In the wake of one of the most restrictive state laws going into effect, the Biden administration is calling on Congress to codify Roe V. Wade.
Arizona lawmakers renew push to criminalize abortions in latest challenge to Roe v. Wade
An Arizona bill proposed on the 48th anniversary of the landmark ruling is among the most direct challenges to the Roe v. Wade decision in nearly half a century: It calls for the decision to be ignored altogether and aims…
How Barrett's confirmation could influence the fight over abortion access
By Courtney Vinopal
Should Barrett replace late liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her vote will cement a 6-3 conservative majority on the high court. Here's what experts say Barrett's record on abortion tells us and what the fight over reproductive rights looks like…
What's next for abortion legislation in the U.S.?
Some caution that the narrow Supreme Court decision to strike down a Louisiana law does not necessarily signal abortion rights will be protected by the high court in future cases.
READ: Supreme Court's full decision on Louisiana's abortion restriction
By Dan Cooney
A Louisiana law requiring doctors who perform abortions to obtain admitting privileges at a nearby hospital "is unconstitutional," a majority of justices on the Supreme Court ruled Monday.
U.S. judge will consider whether to block new Mississippi abortion law
Inside Mississippi's only abortion clinic, administrator Shannon Brewer has been fielding phone calls from women who want to know whether they can still terminate a pregnancy if they think they might be more than a few weeks along.
State abortion laws open possible Roe v. Wade challenge
By PBS NewsHour
Alabama and Missouri enacted laws last week outlawing abortion under almost all circumstances, setting up a legal battle that may challenge Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark ruling on abortion. And in other political news this weekend, Michigan Republican Rep.
4 Supreme Court abortion cases that could erode Roe v. Wade
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What the justices decide to do with these four cases could offer some hints as to the future of abortion rights in Chief Justice John Roberts' court.
Gillibrand says she'd seek to codify abortion rights as president
By Ben Nadler, Associated Press
During a rally at Georgia's state Capitol on Thursday, the New York senator criticized recent abortion bans signed into law in Mississippi, Kentucky, Ohio, Georgia and Alabama as "a nationwide assault on women's constitutional rights by ideological extremists."…
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Doxing gods
Posted by: Jack Graham 9 years, 6 months ago
This is a round-up of my Timelash II stuff on Series 3... well, those bits of it that I haven't already posted elsewhere. The 'Smith and Jones' bit is a tweaked version of something from the old site. There's nothing about Axons in here, I just found myself amused by the anagram.
The Runaway Bride
The Doctor cold-bloodedly kills the Racnoss children... and the episode tries to have its cake and eat it by both giving the Doctor 'no choice' and implying that he 'went too far'. The probably unintentional implication is that neocon logic is unpalatable but inescapable, that we need people who will ruthlessly kill on a massive scale in order to protect us from the forces of unreasoning hostility.
We're a long way from "massive weapons of destruction" being a lie from a politician with an evil, greedy alien baby inside him.
Smith and Jones
Russell reuses many of the ideas and techniques that made 'Rose' work as an introductory tale. There is a frenetic opening scene which introduces Martha, her family situation and her workplace. As in 'Rose', the new companion meets the Doctor at work and, as in 'Rose' he is already in the middle of an adventure. As in 'Rose', the Doctor and his new friend form an instant connection which takes the form of banter, intelligent co-operation in the midst of a crisis, lots of running and lots of holding hands. As in 'Rose', the new companion saves the Doctor's life. As in 'Rose' we see her enter the TARDIS at night, in a London backstreet and immediately run out again in surprise (the only naturalistic way to portray a reaction to the TARDIS). Bits of the first Torchwood episode are reused too.
But there's also a lot that's different. Instead of beginning with the Doctor and showing us Martha from his P.O.V. or holding the Doctor in reserve and letting Martha encounter him at a moment of high drama (as in 'Rose'), the episode instead allows him to pop up both after and before any of us were expecting to see him! Some of us might have thought he'd be in Scene One. Some of us, gulled by the opening scene's echo of the structure of 'Rose', might have expected him to appear only when Martha needs rescuing from the Judoon. But instead he pops up when none of us were expecting him, does something entirely inexplicable, and then walks off.
Of course, it would have made sense to bring the Doctor in as soon as possible because the audience knows him whereas they don't know Martha. But a pre-title sequence featuring the Doctor would destroy that Year Zero vibe that RTD is going for. For the moment, he wants us to feel like we're beginning again. This is essential because he's trying to make Martha - a brand new character in another character's show - the central audience identification figure. Let's pause for a moment to consider how incredibly difficult that is.
His strategy is still to ground the series in everyday life before zooming off into space opera. He makes Martha's life instantly recognisable, introducing a different family member per phone call and allowing each to offer their own perspective on the same event, the brother's birthday party. The device of the multiple phone calls is zesty, if slightly contrived (though can we really complain about contrivance in a show like Doctor Who?) and the sequence more competently fulfils the same function as the opening montage in 'Rose'. The opening salvo of 'Smith and Jones' is far more confident and it introduces more characters.
By the time the Doctor appears, we already know Martha. She has a fractured family full of inwardly pointed tensions; she seems to be their nexus, their relay and their peacemaker. In the debate about whether Martha's family is too soapy, its easy to miss just how much information Russell feeds us about these people in such a short space of time. We are told many things about Martha's family in the space of two minutes, through a combination of snappy dialogue and detailed visual storytelling. We learn that Martha's parents are acrimoniously separated, that her mother is an intelligent and acerbic professional woman, that her brother is an easygoing guy with a female partner and a baby, that she is very close to her less diplomatic sister, that her father is well-off and undergoing a midlife crisis and that his girlfriend is primarily attracted to him because of his credit card. Soaps are not generally skilful or ambitious enough to pull off such rapid feats of narrative athletics. On the contrary, it is part of the remit of soaps that they should be slow and plodding. This sedate pace is part of the hypnotic effect of soap operas. Even old-fashioned glam soaps like Dynasty unfolded at a pace that is glacial by the standards of modern drama programmes. Moreover, there is little need for soaps to blast their viewers with information because their viewers will already know the backstories of the characters from interminable previous episodes. Soap operas don't use characterisation as a means to propel or contextualise a wider plot. In soap, the personal problems and domestic conflicts of the characters are the plot (at least until ratings start to fall and, as a result, jumbo jets start doing likewise onto pubs). If they fired information at us as quickly as 'Smith and Jones' does soaps would exhaust themselves before getting started. Soaps need to develop their characters slowly because in soap that is the whole show. In Doctor Who you need the characters established quickly so that you can get on with the stuff about space rhinos. Even when a spaceship did show up in Dynasty, it was there to remove a character, not to give a character something to do.
There's a confidence of judgement all through this episode. Russ makes the Plasmavore an internal shape changer and so resists the temptation to let her transform into a Big Impressive CGI Vampire for the hell of it, which would have both deprived the sublimely sinister Anne Reid of screentime and left the audience scratching their heads and wondering why she/it didn't just morph into a pseudo-Judoon.
The Judoon are great because they're not trying to do anything so tedious and Krillitane-like as take over our planet or suck out our minds… they've been hired to do a job, enforce a law and apprehend a criminal. They had jurisdiction. While it lasted, they did everything they felt was necessary (in their own brutal, unsubtle yet fundamentally non-malicious way) to complete their task. That makes them more than monsters. That gives them a psychology, a mindset. A familiar one too. They are recognisable, like the personality types we meet in Martha's family. They make aesthetic sense, something best illustrated by the contrast between their paramilitary demeanour and the black markers they use to catalogue you.
I also truly loved the "Ro bo sklo fro mo!" scene and the way in which they then assimilated the English language. I remember being fascinated by just such linguistic playfulness in Doctor Who when I was a kid, revelling in making up my own versions of the Androgum clan names and the bureaucratic serial-number nomenclature of the Caretakers.
Justice isn't a political ideology for them. They've been hired to do justice and woe betide you if you get in the way… and yet they don't abuse their power. Justice isn't simply what they say it is. They are clearly following a rule book. Phsyical assault is punishable by death. They didn't kill that guy because they wanted to. They did it because the rule book stipulated it as the appropriate response. The Judoon are more like a SWAT team with a few rules and regulations. The best bit of the episode was when Lead Judoon (or Big Chief Rhino Boy as the Doctor called him) gave Martha her compensation. They'll execute you on the spot for hitting them with a vase but if they push you up against a wall and it turns out you're "innocent" they'll give you some vouchers to say sorry!
I'll finish off by looping back to the central facet of 'Smith and Jones', the Doctor's time travel demonstration for Martha. The Doctor's "cheap trick" is, in many ways, the cleverest thing in the episode… which is rather clever in itself: pulling off a narrative stunt like that (something that only Doctor Who could do and which, nowadays, it does far too often and to little import) and having your main character, the one who pulls it off, refer to it as a "cheap trick". But think about it for a moment… in the programme we're talking about, the main character, at the end of the plot, travels back to the start!
Now, we can look at that in purely literal terms (the Doctor travels in time, big deal) or we can look at it as a vertiginous feat of pure narrative, narrative unbound and free to loop back upon itself, to eat its own tale (if you'll pardon the shameless pun). In the old days, the revelation of a temporal paradox would be the Big Sinister Episode Three Cliffhanger. In modern Who, it's a "cheap trick" harnessed to the service of character development. That sounds like a criticism… it even feels like it ought to be a criticism as I write it, but if you've seen The Terminator or Twelve Monkeys or even 'Day of the Daleks' then you've already seen the Big Sinister Time Paradox story! You surely don't need to see it again! What you haven't seen before is a moment when a character makes a completely believable decision to accept time travel as a reality before they step out onto Platform One or meet the Tribe of Gum. Well, you've seen it now!
Its a significant advance on 'Rose' in which our heroine believes the TARDIS can travel in time simply because the Doctor says it can and, by that point, she's ready to believe anything. But who would believe such a thing until it was proved? Until you saw it work? Someone who just believes in time travel because they are told about it? In my book that's far more unlikely than the MRI Scanner of Doom. In 'Smith and Jones', the proof of time travel is offered to Martha before the assertion is made, before she even knows that the assertion will be made and it's the proof that starts her on the journey towards the moment when she will ask for proof... which is really the ultimate way to prove time travel, isn't it! In other scripts, the characters travel in time. In 'Smith and Jones', the script itself travels in time, overtaking itself before it starts running. This, in its own quiet and flippant way, is remarkable and mind-bending stuff.
Oh, one last thing... am I only person amused by the idea that if Doctor Who is resurrected for 3D HeadPlug Interactive Cybervision in 2047 and a whole generation of kids, entranced by the new stuff, go back to the scratchy old episodes from 2007, they'll all be wondering what the hell Martha means by "Planet Zovirax"?
I've covered 'The Shakespeare Code' and 'Gridlock' in other posts. Lets just say that 'Gridlock' is one of the greatest TV shows ever made and 'The Shakespeare Code'... umm... isn't.
Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks
I so want to like this. It's got the right Who vibe within it, unlike so much of, say, Season 2. It's got a sense of politics and myth. It's got characters who vaguely resemble human beings. It attempts to have a sense of history.
There's lots of good stuff. There's a representation of poverty and inequality and injustice. There's an exuberance to the production. There's an attempt to have the Daleks merge with and emerge from the art deco decor of the building, as though they mesh perfectly with the aesthetics of the monstrous, imperial, vainglorious demonstration of wealth and power amidst misery. The musical number is cute. The idea of Daleks meshing with humans has potential.
Sadly, it doesn't really work at all. Tallulah isn't in it for any reason. Racism is glossed over. There is some terrible dialogue (though there is also some great dialogue). There is no interest in the actual mechanics of evolution or mutation or genes... which wouldn't be so bad except that the episode doesn't even attempt to make its own inaccurate version of evolution (which appears to be about mutations of the soul caused by lightning or something) work consistently... Also, the episode once again peddles the idea that personality (Good or Evil) is directly encoded in the genes, which is very reactionary and very simplistic. It would be easy enough to avoid all these nasty subtexts and an incoherent, flailing plot by simply dropping the scientific terminology and using some bit of sci-fi nonsense... which is what David Whitaker did when he did the same story better in the 60s.
And the direction is clumsy in the extreme. Good direction might have been able to make the script work, even when it calls for the Daleks to fail to notice the Doctor though he's standing directly in front of them in plain view... good direction might have been able to make it look less ridiculous when the Daleks crowd around the Doctor screaming "EXTERMINATE!" for the umpteenth time but then don't exterminate him. But, no.
The Lazarus Experiment and 42 were too boring to sit through, let alone write about.
And I shall be addressing Human Nature / The Family of Blood seperately at some point.
The story that won Timelash II. The best, apparently.
Well, look... obviously this is overrated... but that's understandable given the immediate effect of its bravura construction and wonderfully gothic monsters.
It's actually not that overrated.
Moffat certainly does take sitcom situations (comedy nakedness) and sitcom characters, some of whom border on social/gender stereotypes... with geeky Lawrence entirely crossing the border. But he subjects them to narrative contortions and grotesque experiences that characters actually in sitcoms never have to cope with.
In so doing, he manages to turn the episode into a surprisingly careful, sympathetic, compact and poignant study of the passing of time and the achievement of emotional maturity.
Shame about the business whereby a woman ends up marrying a man who just decides to follow her, thus seemingly endorsing stalking as a romantic wooing strategy.
And it's also a shame that the Angels are explained as much as they are. It overcomplicates them and dullifies them... though nowhere near as much as their follow-up appearance.
Also, why don't the characters just close one eye at a time?
The one thing that no aspect of this should ever have been was any kind of template for the show as a whole.
My confused thoughts on the closing trilogy may be trudged through here.
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"Also, why don't the characters just close one eye at a time?"
Have you ever tried that? Every time I do my eyes start watering, then burning, to the point where my subconscious takes over and I start blinking anyway.
That said, it's certainly odd that the characters don't at least try it. Though really this is all armchair Angel-surviving.
Sorry to double post, but I can't believe I've never thought about this before now: how well do you have to be able to see an Angel before it become stone? In addition to it being impossible (for me) to do the one-eyed tango for anything more than a minute or so, trying it blurs my eyesight to the point where I can barely see.
Does that mean an Angel could get me if I were crying hard enough? If I'd gotten Vaseline in my eyes? Could I stop an Angel if its shadow passes into sight? If I saw steam rising off it in the cold (or what have you?)
These are the things that keep me awake at night.
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Karen Young
Profile: The Genki Spark
January 31, 2014 Paul KuttnerInterviews & ProfilesAsian-Americans, Boston, Cultural Leadership, Karen Young, Leadership Development, Taiko, The Genki Spark
I recently had the chance to speak to Karen Young and Payal Sharma at The Genki Spark, a Boston-based group doing cultural organizing with Asian women. I learned how Japanese drumming can be a source of personal empowerment and political action.
The Genki Spark works to develop Asian women as artists and community leaders who can give voice to the challenges facing Asian-American communities, while celebrating the communities' deep cultural strengths. The organization was founded by artist and organizer Karen Young in 2010. Intergenerational and Pan-Asian in its membership, The Genki Spark is made up of a core performance ensemble that puts on an impressive array of performances, workshops, and talks around the country.
The organization's work is based in the Japanese art of Taiko drumming. Taiko, an art form with a long history in Japan, was brought to the US during the 1960's — specifically to San Francisco. So American Taiko grew up in the context of burgeoning Asian American activism, in a hotbed of radical youth organizing. Taiko became a medium for political and cultural activism — a way for Japanese-Americans to build a powerful cultural identity, and give voice to relevant community issues such as the internment of Japanese-Americans in WWII. While drawing inspirations from other strands of Taiko history, The Genki Spark is directly rooted in this tradition. In fact, Genki founder Karen Young's relatives, Roy and PJ Hirabayashi, were trailblazers in Taiko-based activism in San Jose. (For more on American Taiko, check out this article by Hideyo Konagaya).
Karen sees Taiko as a valuable way to foster individual empowerment, particularly for Asian women who face dual gender- and ethnicity-based expectations of subservience and gentleness. In addition to its history as a form of activism, and its cultural resonance, Taiko performance is imbued with physical strength. As Konagaya writes of taiko players, called sansei, they "physically acted out their resistance against inequality and injustice in American society and against their own passivity and weakness through actions such as whirling sticks over their heads, shouting, jumping, turning, and pounding on taiko." As Karen tells me, the very act of hitting a Taiko drum with a huge stick can be an empowering experience for women, and seeing such performances can challenge audience members' stereotypes of Asian women.
Like many cultural organizing groups, The Genki Spark has multiple goals. Perhaps foremost among its goals is the personal transformation of its members. It supports women developing not only as artists, but as leaders, with the skills, confidence, and sense of cultural efficacy to take action in the community. These leaders, in turn, advocate for the value of all cultures while modeling cultural pride — as Karen puts it, "we hope to model what it looks like to proudly claim your whole self in a society that wants us to assimilate and be the same."
The Genki Spark is part of a broader movement to challenge stereotypes of Asian women, and to address issues affecting Asian-American communities. The group supports many grassroots social justice efforts, and is often invited to perform at rallies and other political events. In addition, The Genki Spark is part of the national Taiko community and has goals for the art form. At a time when Taiko is being appropriated by US pop culture (including Katy Perry, Alicia Keys, and Mitsubishi), The Genki Spark keeps alive the tradition of Taiko as a medium for political and cultural expression.
I cannot do justice to their performance in words, so please take a few minutes to watch the video below.
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There's a new kid on the block to add to the list of star kids who are set to foray in Bollywood — Deepak Tijori's 21-year-old daughter, Samara, who already has more than 11,000 followers on Instagram. While Deepak is all set to make a comeback on the big screen with the Sanjay Dutt-starrer Saheb Biwi Aur Gansgter 3, one wonders how soon his daughter will make her Bollywood debut.
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Korean Police Confiscate Google Street View Data As Global Fiasco Spreads
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Google cannot contain its legal problems surrounding the inadvertent collection of personal data from WiFi networks by ots global fleet of Street View cars. Earlier today, police in South Korea raided Google's offices there to confiscate computers storing data collected from Street View cars in that country. This action follows similar investigations in France, Germany, the UK (where Google was cleared), and a multi-state investigation in the U.S.
Google was preparing to launch Street View in Korea and had deployed a fleet of vehicles equipped with cameras and WiFi-sniffing technology to collect street-level images for Google Maps. The cars use fixed Wifi networks to help determine their location, but these cars have been found to be collecting personal payload data as well. In the past, Google has explained that this data collection was "a mistake" stemming from the inclusion of some experimental code from a previous WiFi project.
Google stated last May that it grounded its Street View fleet once it discovered this problem to strip out the personal data and, presumably, the bad code. It is not clear whether Google forgot to strip the code in Korea, or the Korean authorities are reacting to the news from May and investigating data collected before then. But that one piece of code is proving to be a huge liability for Google.
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Will there be a Haunted Hijinks?! Didn't you hear Scrappy a couple weeks ago when I said how much I LOVE HALLOWEEN!! Now now, I will admit that I don't love it as much as I love the entire Month of Celebrating but I do love it indeed. So yes, yes we will! And it will be awesome.
Cookies and brownies. And pizza....I loooooooooooooooooove pizza.
Do we need to keep it on the Destroyed Faerie Festival theme to participate in what is happening? Or can we change our theme and still participate?
Hm, I said that? Are you sure? Welllll, I think it just might be time for that new machine then! And believe me, that whole 2 years for a new one is ABSOLUTELY unacceptable and will not happen again as long as Scrappy is a free Neopian!
Greetings Ms Scrappy! Wanted to say that I love the new Faerie Festival prizes! Just beautiful! And am thrilled to see a new faerie! Kaia is fantastic! Shenkuu meets Faerieland! Super! I was hoping that her outfit might be made into a wearable for our pets. Her hairstyle, wings and her kimono are so lovely. Maybe even Kaia contacts for that extra special Shenkuu faerie flair? Maybe go all out with a Kaia day. Kaia neoboard smiley. Kaia avatar. Kaia plushie. Kaia usuki. Kaia balloon. Everything Kaia! Thank you for all the great new content you have been providing. Much appreciated. Have some of these exclusive Kaia inspired cookies I made just for you. Yummy!
Wow....that is a lot of Kaia. That might be a bit aggressive, I'm not going to lie to you butttt I feel ya! She's absolutely amazing, isn't she?! I will definitely see what I can do with some themed items in her honor!!
Hey Scrappy! Where's all the love for the annual gormball tournament that we had last week? Who won?
Scrappy HATES Gormball. Sorry. No love from me!
Hey Scrappy! Do you think we could get an update to the coming soon page? You could even add in what you said last week about the HTML5 update!! Thanks for all you do!
Anddd for those of you who have baby pets and loved them...yes more are on the way!
2. These backup boards. Okay. I got A LOT of questions about these, which is lovely because I wanted to talk about them anyways! I know there is a lot of uproar and while they were never to much of an issue before, they seem to be becoming something of a problem. So, TNT is going to have a round table meaning (with snacks, obvi) and decide what we want to do! I will have an update for you next week!!
3. My apprentice is HEREEEEEEEE! And she wrote ya'll a note!
YESS It's finally me the rumored apprentice, well I guess it was never really a rumor though since Scrappy let you in on the secret. But you know it's fine. I am Jade and I'm new to the Neopian Times and I'm soooo excited to show you all what I got!! It's a pleasure to meet all of you, and hopefully I'll run into you at the Trading Post because let me tell you I've got the coolest collection you've ever seen it has all these different….ohh apparently Scrappy said that was enough introduction. Well glad to be here and hopefully you all with start to notice the subtle differences now that I have some control….mwahh hahaha. Okay well bye then.
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