Waiting Outside… will inspire audiences to rediscover the value of the small moments in life and to make the most of every one. The film centres on Simon who cares for his young daughter Scout while his husband Felix is deployed overseas. When Simon gets a serious diagnosis, his world is shaken and he must deal with it, and the future, alone. We hope it furthers a conversation on quality of life while shining a light on the challenges faced by people in similar situations, and the impacts those challenges have on them.
October 29, 2018 (St. John's, NL) – This weekend, Newfoundland and Labrador producer/director/writer Joshua Jamieson's LGBTQ short film, Waiting Outside…, screened at The Scottish Independent Film Festival where it pulled out its second award win thanks to a stellar performance by one of its leads.
The short film is about a father named Simon (Clint Butler) who cares for his young daughter Scout (Kate Dobbin) while his husband Felix is deployed overseas. When Simon gets a serious diagnosis, his world is shaken and he must deal with it, and the future, alone. The cast also includes performances from the incomparable Amy House, as well as Kyle Snow and Lisa Rose Snow.
Following the screening in Edinburgh, Scotland, the film festival announced its 2018 award winners, and the Best Actor honours went to Clint Butler. Originally from Newfoundland and Labrador, Butler currently resides in Toronto, and was just recently cast as the swing actor for four roles in the Toronto production of the Tony award-winning Broadway and international smash, Come From Away.
Earlier this month, Waiting Outside… won Best Short Film at the 2nd Annual Smith Sound Film Festival on home turf, in Clarenville, NL. Jamieson, whose family roots are in Swift Current, was on hand to accept the award.
The short film has also so far been an official selection at FIN: Atlantic International Film Festival (Halifax, NS), the Nickel Independent Film Festival (St. John's, NL), and was available through the Cannes Film Festival's Short Film Corner. Waiting Outside… is also a selection in the Nickel Independent Film Festival's touring Road Show.
The film's score is an original composition by ECMA award winning musician Rozalind MacPhail, who also co-wrote lyrics to the closing credits song with Jamieson. The script is based on a poem by Carmelita McGrath from her book Escape Velocity (Goose Lane Editions), and the film was also produced by Ruth Lawrence and shot by cinematographer Brad Gover.
Waiting Outside… carries an endorsement from the Canadian Cancer Society-NL for its authenticity and realistic depiction. The film also won the NL Joy Award from the Linda Joy Media Arts Society for its outstanding script, which supported its three day shoot in August 2016 following Jamieson's participation in the Newfoundland and Labrador Film Development Corporation's film business development mission to Los Angeles, CA that summer.
We hope it furthers a conversation on quality of life while shining a light on the challenges faced by people in similar situations, and the impacts those challenges have on them.
Newfoundland and Labrador filmmaker's LGBTQ short film Waiting Outside… goes international, again!
October 3, 2018 (St. John's, NL) – Fresh off its most recent screening as an official selection at FIN: Atlantic International Film Festival held in Halifax, Nova Scotia producer/director/writer Joshua Jamieson's latest release – a short film called Waiting Outside… – will screen again internationally later this month.
Jamieson recently announced the news that Waiting Outside… is an official selection of the Scottish Independent Film Festival on social media through his Twitter profile (www.twitter.com/jjmoxy) and on the film's official Facebook page (www.facebook.com/waitingoutsidefilm). The film will screen in Edinburgh on October 26, 2018, and more details regarding venue and screening time will be forthcoming once the festival releases its full schedule.
The film is about a father named Simon (Clint Butler) who cares for his young daughter Scout (Kate Dobbin) while his husband Felix is deployed overseas. When Simon gets a serious diagnosis, his world is shaken and he must deal with it, and the future, alone. The cast also includes performances from the incomparable Amy House, as well as Kyle Snow and Lisa Rose Snow.
Waiting Outside… carries an endorsement from the Canadian Cancer Society-NL for its authenticity and realistic depiction. The film also won the NL Joy Award from the Linda Joy Media Arts Society for its outstanding script, which supported its three day shoot in August 2016 following Jamieson's participation in the Newfoundland and Labrador Film Development Corporation's film business development mission to Los Angeles, CA that summer. Waiting Outside… was ultimately fully completed in January 2018, and began its film festival circuit with availability at the Cannes Film Festival, specifically within the Short Film Corner.
Within Newfoundland and Labrador, the short film was an official selection at the Nickel Independent Film Festival, which has also chosen it to be a part of its eventual road show lineup. The next local screening of Waiting Outside… will be in Clarenville, NL where the short is an official selection at the 2nd Annual Smith Sound Film Festival taking place October 12, 2018. Tickets for that screening are $10 and they are available now through the Eastlink Events Centre (www.eastlinkeventscentre.com); all proceeds from this screening will be donated to the local regional food bank.
The cast and crew of Waiting Outside… in Bowring Park, August 2016 after wrapping.
There's some very exciting news to share about our short film!
Waiting Outside… is currently available at the Cannes Court Métrage Short Film Corner in France this May 2018!
The short film's director and writer (as well as producer), Joshua Jamieson, recently sat down with a UK-based film digest called The New Current for an in-depth interview about making it to Cannes, how the project developed, and his artistic background. Check out the interview by visiting their article here, or click on the image's caption below to access a PDF version.
On the home front Waiting Outside… has been officially selected for the Nickel Independent Film Festival in June 2018! Stay tuned as other festival screenings are confirmed! We can't wait to share our story!
We are pleased to announce the cast of Waiting Outside… a few days before heading into production on August 20 and 21, 2016! We couldn't be more thrilled about the talented actors we have lined up for the short independent film.
Here is the cast list, and a little about each of them.
Clint Butler is a classically-trained Canadian actor, born and raised on the beautifully rugged east coast island of Newfoundland (and Labrador). Trained initially for Musical Theatre, Clint began his performance career as a lead vocalist in the American cruise industry. Since then, he has performed on stages in Vancouver, Calgary, Regina, London, Ottawa, Toronto, Halifax, and St. John's, as well as other great Canadian towns. A member of Canadian Actors Equity and ACTRA, Clint's career spans from workshopping and originating new Canadian stage roles to ducking bullets on TV; musical and comedic repertory theatre to independent dramatic shorts.
Notable credits: Guest Starring as Doug Randall in season five of Republic of Doyle (CBC); appearing as the grotesque and mysterious "Archivist" in season four of Lost Girl (Showcase/Syfy); and touring as "Bergeron" in Artistic Fraud's critically acclaimed staging of Robert Chafe's Oil and Water (Resource Centre for the Arts, Factory Theatre, Magnetic North, Neptune Theatre, The Grand Theatre, and Canada's National Arts Centre), for which he has also been published as an original cast member.
Kate Dobbin can most recently be seen in the Shallaway Choir and Ennis Sisters video for Sing You Home, the commemorative song to written and recorded to mark the 100th anniversary of Newfoundland's role at Beaumont Hamel. She also appears in tourism ads for the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Amy House is a comedienne, writer, actor, and producer. For the past 13 years she has been the Artistic Animateur of the RCA Theatre Company at the LSPU Hall. Amy has created several one-woman shows which she performs and tours, as well as several two-handers with Berni Stapleton, including A Tidy Package, In Stitches, The Importance of Being Foolish and Berni and Amy Rises Up. Her past film and television credits include Sherry White's feature Crackie, Justin Simms' short Heartless Disappearance into Labrador Seas, and The Halifax Comedy Fest TV broadcast.
Kyle Snow just finished as a cast member in the Michelle Jackson award winning short Crocuses coming soon from Deanne Foley. He has also appeared in Ida Here and There, and as a background actor in the upcoming Netflix series Frontier. He additionally worked as a safety driver and stunt double on Braven, a new mini-series starring Jason Momoa.
Lisa Rose Snow is an award-winning filmmaker and performer originally from Nova Scotia, Canada. As a performer she is known for her comedic roles, but has also played leading roles in dramas and genre films, including spots on Haven, Trailer Park Boys and All the Wrong Reasons. Her short films have won awards around the world, including Best Canadian Short (Silver Wave Film Festival), Audience Choice (San José International Short Film Festival), and the National Screen Institute's Drama Prize. In 2013 Snow created Organic Water Productions Inc with long time collaborator and friend Lora Campbell. OWP is an independent production company interested in female-driven stories and underrepresented voices. Snow received a 2013 Wave Award from Women in Film & Television Atlantic, the first time this award has ever been given to an emerging artist. Snow holds an Honours Degree in Acting from Dalhousie University and is a recent alumni of the Canadian Film Centre's Cineplex Screenwriter's Lab in Toronto.
Waiting Outside is a Linda Joy Award winning short script written and directed by Joshua Jamieson and co-produced by Blue Pinion Films (Ruth Lawrence) and m0xY Productions. It will be shot over two days, August 20-21, 2016. This low budget shoot is operating under the ACTRA AIP agreement.
Synopsis: Simon cares for his young daughter Scout while his husband Felix is deployed overseas. When Simon gets a serious diagnosis, his world is shaken and he must deal with it, and the future, alone.
Auditions will be held Sunday August 7, 2016 from 10am to 1pm.
Scout – A smart and inquisitive young girl, Scout is around 7 or 8 years old. She has a few tomboyish traits and is fearless. Her two gay parents, Simon and Felix, have raised her to have an open mind, and encourage her to explore boundaries. She's energetic and active, enjoying animals and being outdoors.
Waiting Room Woman – A middle-income style-savvy travel agent in her early 40s who is a little presumptive, and supporting someone in her life affected by cancer. She sometimes speaks or comes to conclusions quickly without thinking, but always has the best of intentions at heart.
Physician – An oncologist, new to his practice. He's altruistic and deals directly but empathetically with his patients.
Clinic Receptionist (non-speaking) – A freshly graduated young woman in her early 20s who has earned her first job in the medical administration field, even if it wasn't her ideal first gig and she's overworked. She's somewhat flippant about it at times as a result.
Please send photo & resume to: jjmoxy@gmail.com. Those selected for an audition will be contacted with the time and location.
We're just a week and a half away from our fundraising event scheduled for May 16, 2016 at Piatto Pizzeria + Enoteca. You can check out the Facebook event by clicking here.
We'll also be running a silent auction in support of the short film production running up to our Piatto party. So here are the details on how that will work and a preview of items that will be up for grabs. Be sure to revisit this post for updates as lots are added. The auction is anticipated to start online on or before Thursday, May 5, 2016.
The auction will run on the 'DISCUSSION' tab of our Facebook event page (here).
Images of the items and/or donor's logo will be posted there with descriptions of the product or service up for bid.
Place your bid by typing the your bid amount in as a comment on the relative photo.
We're Square equipped! So you can pay for your film production supporting purchase with any major credit card. We'll also accept email money transfers or cash.
Bidding is open to anyone in Canada or the United States of America. Certain lots will be auctioned online only, other select lots will continue their silent auction process at the Piatto event, and bidding on those particular lots will close at the conclusion of the event.
If you are an active bidder on an auction lot that will close at the event on May 16 but you cannot attend, you will have the ability to submit your maximum bid amount privately by email for a proxy bidder to apply on your behalf at the event.
All lots that are online only will close bidding at the same specified date and time, which will be indicated in the item/photo description.
The last bid entered with a time stamp associated with the Facebook comment that is before the advertised closing date and time for bids will be the winner of the lot. If that is you, you will be responsible for paying the pledged amount.
If your geographic location would require an item to be shipped should you be the successful bidder, please refer to the item/photo description to ensure the particular item you're interested in can be shipped.
Other questions? Or have something you'd like to toss into our auction? Contact us!
We have some exciting news that we're finally able to share with everyone! The co-producer and director/writer behind the upcoming short film Waiting Outside… (whose script won the 2015 NL Joy Award) has been selected as one of ten emerging and mid-level career producers to partake in a film business development mission to Los Angeles, CA.
Jamieson directing Just Himself: the story of Don Jamieson on location in Ottawa, ON with cameraman Brad Gover in 2011.
The delegation includes Jamieson and nine other film producers from Newfoundland and Labrador, and will be led by staff from the Newfoundland and Labrador Film Development Corporation. Working in concert with L.A. based consultant Peter Wetherell (President, Magus Entertainment Inc.) and script consultant/story editor Ruth Atkinson, strategic meetings will be scheduled with various individuals and organizations between June 6 and 10, 2016.
Jamieson will also be a delegate at the 'Produced By 2016' conference presented by the Producers Guild of America, which takes place on the Sony Picture Studios lot June 4 and 5, 2016. That conference features a number of professional development opportunities, panels, and roundtable discussions with confirmed presenters and panelists including Elizabeth Banks (Partner, Brownstone Productions; Pitch Perfect 1 & 2, The Hunger Games), Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave), Russell Simmons (All Def Digital), and Morgan Freeman (President & Co-Founder, Revelations Entertainment; Invictus, Madam Secretary), plus many, many more!
Sessions at the conference will feature discussions around the challenges and opportunities facing independent film producers, the current state surrounding film financing, social media marketing integration for film productions, and an opportunity to meet buyers from streaming broadcasters like Amazon, Hulu, and YouTube, among others.
Jamieson is very much looking forward to soaking up as many case studies and experiences, and as much mentorship, as possible from the well-versed professionals on the mission. He's exceptionally grateful for the opportunity, and is anxious to discover what opportunities exist for Waiting Outside… and the m0xY Productions in-development documentary Winter's Second Chance.
Find a little Joy for Waiting Outside… in this week's Herald!
We were so surprised and thrilled when the latest issue of the Newfoundland Herald rolled off the press and into shops this Monday past! On page six of the January 10 to 16, 2016 issue featuring the Royal family on the cover, there's a lovely little piece about our short film's big success!
Pop out and pick up a copy before they've left stands, or click on the image in this post to see a PDF of just the article itself. Many thanks to the Herald and its staff for including our news about winning the NL Joy Award from the Linda Joy Media Arts Society!
Click above for a PDF of this release.
December 1, 2015 (St. John's, NL) – The Joy Awards, managed by the Linda Joy Media Arts Society out of Halifax, NS have announced 2015 recipients, and a short film being co-produced by Joshua Jamieson and Ruth Lawrence called Waiting Outside… has won the NL Joy Award.
The 2015 award benefits include $7,500 in rental services from Atlantic Studios Cooperative, $2,000 in post-production services and $500 towards production equipment rental from the Newfoundland Independent Filmmakers Cooperative, and $1,200 in script consultations by John Doyle. The award is open to residents of the province and past recipients include Roger Maunder, Christian Sparkes, and Jordan Canning.
The short film, which has been endorsed by the Canadian Cancer Society-NL (CCS-NL), focuses on a single father who is fighting for his life while striving to make the best possible one for his eight year old son. Of the project, CCS-NL said "we feel the film will present a relatable and realistic life situation through its main characters, and will further support and encourage an important public dialogue surrounding the circumstances and challenges those living with cancer may face," in their letter of support.
The script for the film was inspired by a poem of similar name, Waiting Outside Clinic 2B, which appears in Carmelita McGrath's book Escape Velocity (Goose Lane Editions). The script is currently in its third draft, and will continue to evolve prior to the eventual production phase which will take place sometime in 2016.
Also on board for Waiting Outside… are Brad Gover (cinematographer) and Darryl Couch (animation/editor), both of whom worked on Jamieson's Just Himself: the story of Don Jamieson. Musician and film composer Rozalind MacPhail joins Jamieson for the first time on this project, and she has scored films for Lawrence and many others in the past. She recently performed a live score for Ingrid Veninger's He Hated Pigeons at the St. John's International Women's Film Festival and at the Cucalorus Film Festival in Wilmington, North Carolina.
"I can't wait to bring this film to life, to highlight brilliant locations like Bowring Park in the city of St. John's, and to tell these stories. I hope the film will inspire its audiences to rediscover the value of life's little moments, and to make the most of each one," Jamieson added.
The production, thus far, has been supported by the City of St. John's through its arts grant program, some members of the corporate community, and private donations. Additional funding partners are expected to come on board in the near future, and details on how to make contributions to the production can be found at www.waitingoutside.ca. Private contributions are processed using Square to ensure they are secure.
It has been a little while since our last public update on our short film project Waiting Outside… so we thought it was high time that we shared a little news!
Over the last few months, our original script has evolved from its initial incarnation to a second draft, and it's now in it's third draft! The film is getting tighter, the story more focused. We have also applied to a number of development and funding opportunities. Some are in the final stages of confirmation, and others were unsuccessful. Par for the course, and we're encouraged by the support we've received thus far, and will continue down other avenues to ensure this film gets made.
We will be applying to the NL Joy Award this week, and if fortunate enough to be selected for that based on the artistic quality of our work and the value of our message, that will help us with a number of services and stages.
We're also hoping to network with some new corporate partners to introduce them to our project and discuss how we can help them, and how they can support a strong film about real life people and challenges that come along with facing cancer. If you're reading this and fall into that category potentially, feel free to get in touch – we'd love to hear from you.
On a final exciting note, Rozalind MacPhail, a musician bursting with talent who will be scoring our short film is in the news today as her latest performance approaches. As part of the St. John's International Women's Film Festival, she will be performing a live improvised score to Ingrid Veniger's feature film, He Hated Pigeons at the LSPU Hall this Saturday, October 24 at noon. You can read more about that here.


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At Univ. of Texas Event, Ghate Challenges 'Right to Protest'
Free speech and free assembly rights do not apply when public property is dedicated to other purposes.
The Charlottesville protests. The George Floyd protests. The January 6 protests in Washington, DC. Each of these events was initiated by groups with very different political concerns, but each had the same results: disruption of the peace, and the death of protesters and/or police officers. Why?
Speaking at the University of Texas at Austin's Salem Center for Policy on October 21, ARI senior fellow Onkar Ghate gave a provocative answer to this question. The title of the speech itself indicates just how controversial of a thesis Ghate advanced: "Questioning the Sacrosanct: Is There a Right to Protest?"
Ghate challenges the view that there is a right to mass public protest, and argues that it encourages just the kind of deadly situations we've seen in America's cities in the last few years.
In the talk, Ghate argues that it's a mistake to see these recent protests as protected by the First Amendment. He sharply distinguishes the situations in which free speech and assembly rights do protect mass gatherings and those in which they don't. The key differentiating factor is whether they are hosted on private property. Public property, as long as it exists, has to be used for the purpose that justified its creation, whether transportation or recreation or some other function. Almost no public property (with a few possible exceptions) is created as a forum for airing social grievances.
The organizer of the talk, Gregory Salmieri (a senior scholar of philosophy at the Salem Center), remarked as follows on the significance of Ghate's thesis for understanding the recent controversy about the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse:
I think the right verdict was reached in this case, but if Gaige Grosskreutz had shot Rittenhouse, he too might well have been acting in self-defense. The problem is that all these people were out in the streets that night in the first place — not only the "protesters" and "counter-protesters," but also people like Rittenhouse and Grosskreutz who may have intended to prevent destruction or to treat injuries, but who became part of an anarchy where they plausibly saw one another as threats. Ghate checks the premises that have led Americans to tolerate such lawlessness.
You can watch the full talk here on the Salem Center's YouTube channel:
The talk includes an extensive Q&A, touching on the following topics:
The unjustifiability of public property and public universities;
The amplification of violence on public property in a tribalistic culture;
How vagueness about "democracy" is used to justified mass public protest;
Conditions for the justifiability of civil disobedience;
Whether marathons and parades can be justified on public property;
The error of regarding the airwaves and the internet as public property; and
The moral advisability of participating in mass public protests.
Ben Bayer, PhD in philosophy and formerly a professor, is a fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute. Ben is an associate editor of New Ideal.
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The J. Paul Getty Museum announced yesterday that it had acquired ''Irises,'' the painting by Vincent van Gogh that has come to epitomize the extravagance of the booming art market. The work was bought for an undisclosed sum from Alan Bond, an Australian industrialist who bid a record $53.9 million for it at an auction in November 1987 at Sotheby's in New York.
The painting went on view immediately at the Getty, in Malibu, Calif. Except for a brief tour of Australia, it has not been shown in public since 1987, when it was removed from a small museum in Maine where it had been on loan for a decade.
Part of the agreement among Sotheby's, Mr. Bond and the Getty is that the price not be revealed. It will thus be impossible for collectors, dealers and others to do more than guess about the impact of yesterday's sale on the art market.
But the purchase by the Getty, one of the richest museums in the world, is sure to rekindle debate about the impact of ''Irises'' on the market, especially with the auction in May of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works that some experts predict might eclipse the record price paid by Mr. Bond.
Most prominent among the works being auctioned are two paintings by artists especially prized by Japanese collectors and other high rollers in the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist market. They are van Gogh's ''Portrait of Dr. Gachet,'' which is to be auctioned at Christie's in New York on May 15, and ''Au Moulin de la Galette,'' by Pierre Auguste Renoir, which goes on sale two days later at Sotheby's in New York. Both of them have been assigned presale estimates of $40 to $50 million.
Like many other museums, the Getty maintains a policy of not disclosing what it pays for works bought privately. But the price of ''Irises'' may well rank with the highest paid by museums for paintings. Picasso's ''Pierrette's Wedding,'' was sold in December for $51.3 million to Tomonori Tsurumaki, a Japanese developer, who says he will hang it in a museum he is building in Japan. The price paid last year by the Museum of Modern Art in New York for van Gogh's portrait of the postmaster Joseph Roulin is thought by experts to be comparable. And the Getty bought a work by Jacopo Pontormo at auction in May for $35.2 million.
The portrait of Dr. Gachet, which was for many years on loan from a private collector to the Metropolitan Museum in New York, is a sympathetic and introspective portrayal of one of the artist's closest friends, the doctor who cared for him during the last two months of his life. Gachet was not only a physician but also an artist and a collector, and a companion of Renoir, Paul Cezanne and many other painters.
What can be said with certainty about the Getty purchase is that it removes one major van Gogh from the market and would seem to make ''Dr. Gachet'' all the more desirable to collectors of van Gogh. On the other hand, some collectors may skip the Christie's auction to bid two days later at Sotheby's on the Renoir.
''Au Moulin de la Galette'' is a freely, vigorously painted rendition of one of Renoir's signature images, a depiction of idlers and young dancers that epitomizes the fascination of French avant-garde artists of the later 19th century with scenes of modern life.
Dealers and others in the art market said Mr. Bond had been trying privately to sell ''Irises,'' offering it at one point for roughly $65 million. They said he had sought buyers especially in Japan. Opinions about his failure to find a taker are varied. The price may have been prohibitive, but the problem may also have stemmed from a particular wariness among Japanese buyers to be perceived as voracious, especially after the apparent hostility in some quarters in the United States toward Japan following the sale of Rockefeller Center to a Japanese corporation.
Private Japanese collectors, moreover, may have been concerned that the controversy surrounding the sale to Mr. Bond had cast enough doubt on the value of the painting to make resale difficult, an issue not of import to a museum. There are those in Japan who are also said to regard the picture as in some sense ''tainted,'' citing the financial troubles of Mr. Bond and the bad publicity given Sotheby's handling of the transaction.
The controversy about ''Irises'' stemmed not only from the price of the painting but also from the terms of the deal Mr. Bond struck with Sotheby's. When it was disclosed last October that half of the $53.9 million had been financed through a loan from the auction house, with the painting itself as collateral, dealers, collectors and others in the art world expressed concern that the price of ''Irises'' might have been inflated. They said the sale, coming less than a month after the stock market crash of 1987, fostered an image that the art market was untouched by the financial crisis and paved the way for a subsequent series of high-priced sales at auction of Impressionist and modern paintings.
Mr. Bond, who is reportedly more than $5.5 billion in debt because of the failure of several of his businesses -his interests are in real estate, brewing and communications - was not able to repay the loan from Sotheby's. The previous owner, John Whitney Payson, had been paid in full by the auction house. In November, Mr. Bond sold a Manet to help reduce the amount he owed to Sotheby's.
The completion of the agreement yesterday ended elaborate negotiations that began in February between George Goldner, curator of paintings and drawings at the Getty, and Diana D. Brooks, president of Sotheby's North America, said Mrs. Brooks. The painting arrived at the museum two weeks ago, and since then teams of lawyers representing the Getty, Sotheby's and Mr. Bond have ironed out the complex contractual details involved in the deal.
The sale allowed Mr. Bond to eliminate his debt to the auction house. It also allowed Sotheby's to act as middleman in a deal that returned the painting to public view, something that might help to mitigate the criticism leveled at the auction house for its negotiation of the sale to Mr. Bond. Before the auction in 1987, the work had been at the Joan Whitney Payson Gallery of Art at Westbrook College in Portland, Me., on loan from Mr. Payson.
As for the Getty, ''Irises'' is the latest in a series of major purchases -under the leadership of Harold M. Williams, president of the Getty Trust; John Walsh, director of the museum, and Mr. Goldner - that have helped to transform the image of the museum's paintings collection from low-key to high-profile. During the last year or so the museum has bought at auction paintings worth tens of millions of dollars not only by Pontormo, but also by Renoir and Manet.
Mr. Goldner also said that he and his colleagues at the Getty had determined that, aside from ''Dr. Gachet,'' the odds of a van Gogh comparable in quality to ''Irises'' coming on the market in the future are slim. He said that with certain painters, including Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Manet and van Gogh, the number of works sold each year might be high, but the number of first-rate works still in private hands was extremely low.
The question in this case was obviously whether to buy ''Irises'' or the portrait of Gachet. Mr. Goldner said that while he greatly admired ''Dr. Gachet'' and the choice had not been an easy one, he supported ''Irises'' as the better painting for the museum.
The work was completed in May 1889, just a few days after van Gogh arrived at the asylum at St. Remy where he spent the last 15 months of his life. Long before it achieved its fame as the most expensive painting in the world, ''Irises'' was considered by many van Gogh scholars to be one of the artist's finer works. Compositionally striking in its asymmetrical design, oddly poignant in its depiction of one white flower amid the purple irises, the work is painted with all the fluency that van Gogh could muster. The artist himself admired the work enough to enter it, along with ''Starry Night,'' now at the Museum of Modern Art, in the Salon des Independants of 1889.
Several art dealers and others said yesterday that they were pleased that the van Gogh had ended up in a museum.
Mr. Goldner, of course, disagrees: ''I find the 'Irises' a more personal picture than 'Gachet' because it seems to me a more subtle and touching evocation of his private life.'' The museum already owns several significant 19th-century portraits, Mr. Goldner said, and a still life like ''Irises'' helps to balance the collection.


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HTML Nested Lists (5:04)
HTML Tables (6:51)
HTML Nested Tables (5:24)
HTML Links (11:44)
HTML Links 2 (7:30)
HTML Iframes (5:48)
HTML Form (7:55)
HTML Form 2 (9:05)
HTML Img Tag (5:17)
HTML Head Tag (5:59)
Section 3: CSS
CSS Basic CSS (5:43)
CSS External CSS (4:19)
CSS Background and Border (9:21)
CSS Text methods (4:42)
CSS ID, Classes and Internal CSS (10:14)
CSS Dimensions (9:09)
CSS Floating Elements (13:54)
Section 4: Javascript
JavaScript Intro (2:38)
JavaScript How JavaScript Works (4:04)
JavaScript Data Types (5:15)
Javascript Variables (11:30)
JavaScript Mathematical Operators (4:50)
Making a template using components (7:39)
Section 5: Bootstrap 4
Bootstrap Intro (2:19)
Making directory and files (2:27)
Installing Bootstrap CDN (5:54)
Downloading and Installing Bootstrap Package (9:53)
Bootstrap 4 Headings (3:53)
Bootstrap 4 Images (9:11)
Bootstrap 4 Containers (6:14)
Bootstrap 4 Grid System (17:32)
Bootstrap 4 Jumbotron (3:54)
Bootstrap 4 Colors template (7:37)
Bootstrap Typography (11:04)
Bootstrap 4Typography 2 (4:57)
Bootstrap 4 Buttons (13:20)
Bootstrap 4 Buttons Group (8:46)
Bootstrap Drop Down (11:42)
Bootstrap Badges (6:19)
Bootstrap Alerts (9:31)
Bootstrap Progress Bar (10:00)
Bootstrap 4 Tables 2 (4:22)
Bootstrap 4 Tables (NEW) (12:02)
Bootstrap List Group (9:06)
Bootstrap Paginations (7:18)
Bootstrap breadcrumb (3:19)
Bootstrap Cards (NEW) (14:44)
BootStrap Collapsibles (14:38)
Bootstrap 4 Nav (4:53)
Bootstrap 4 navbar (7:20)
Bootstrap 4 navpills (4:54)
Section 6: React JS
Setup Environment for ReactJs (12:34)
Setup Environment for reactJs 2 (3:25)
Making the Very first app (12:36)
What is Jsx (10:27)
States in React (7:57)
Props (4:13)
Props and State Combined (12:39)
setState (10:23)
Forms in ReactJs (4:30)
Section 7: PHP OOP (Object Oriented Programming)
The Class (12:43)
Section 8: Laraval
Composer and Installing Laravel (4:33)
Laravel Directory Structure (2:27)
Artisan (9:44)
App Key (3:08)
App name Change namespace (2:38)
Configurations (7:02)
Basics of Routes (3:54)
Route Groups (3:15)
Route Names (2:43)
Controllers Basics (3:47)
The Request Object (5:51)
Form Submission (6:23)
Basics Views (4:00)
Setting up Master Layout (5:56)
Passing data to views (5:39)
Security @csrf (6:09)
Validation Basics (7:56)
Custom Validation Messages (5:14)
Bootstrap form component example (10:29)
Responses Basics (5:25)
Keeping old values (3:30)
JSON Response (2:18)
Email Basic Configurations (4:17)
Sending Email (5:07)
Mark Down Email (4:54)
Migration Basics (8:28)
More adding dropping columns (5:29)
Eloquents (14:59)
Creating, Updating, Delete data (6:01)
Query Builder (7:12)
Collections (7:00)
Seeding Basics (5:52)
Using Seeding Factories (3:20)
Summary (1:36)
Section 9: Mini Project - Task List App
Database and Model (5:12)
Routing and views (9:55)
Validation (8:28)
Adding Tasks (4:12)
Displaying Tasks (3:05)
Deleting Tasks (4:58)
Task List Project File
Section 10: Admin Panel
Project Settings (5:02)
Installing Laravel Collective (3:41)
Master Layout (3:44)
Setting up Add Products (7:50)
Storing Products (19:32)
Validation errors in fields and Image Thumbnail (6:50)
Fetching Products and Delete (14:23)
Edit Product (17:25)
Product Details (7:45)
Orders (5:15)
Orders and Relations (10:24)
Fetching Orders (7:39)
Orders Pending and Confirm (10:39)
Order, Product, User Details (13:41)
Getting All Users in Admin (7:29)
Users Product Details - A user hasMany Products (13:30)
Dashboard Config (7:02)
Section 11: Admin Panel - Authentication
Config Login (3:52)
Login Controller, Model Migration and Validation (7:55)
Logging in admin user and guards (8:31)
Admin Route Grouping (3:35)
Route Protecting using Middlewares (7:13)
Logout & Admin panel finial touches (5:28)
Applying Guest Middleware (3:36)
Admin Panel Template
Section 12: Front End
Fetching Products from Database (7:37)
Template Configuration (8:06)
Section 13: Front End - User Registration / Sign In / User Profile
User Registration (8:09)
Register and Log the User in (7:33)
User Sign In (10:11)
Logout (5:21)
Middleware (3:05)
Profile (7:05)
Orders in profile (7:05)
Order details in profile (9:37)
Section 14: Shopping Cart
Shopping Cart Config (13:21)
Adding Item to Cart (9:59)
Remove Item from Cart (5:11)
Save for Later (11:59)
Remove from Save for Later (5:18)
Move to Cart from Save for Later (4:14)
Section 15: Checkout and Stripe
Checkout Controller (4:17)
Dynamic cart contents in Checkout page (3:18)
Stripe for Payment (21:37)
Updating Cart (24:44)
Adding orders to database (10:57)
Site Template
Section 16: Finial Touches
Finial Touches (13:10)
Database seeding (11:46)
Section 17: Conclusion
Conclusion and Thank you (5:55)
Finial Project


Everyone wishes to purchase a house that brings satisfaction, harmony and positive vibes while living in it. It is trusted that a home that conforms to Vastu Shastra standards conveys favourable luck to its tenants. Vastu is tied in with fitting the ideas of designing, optics, acoustics and otherworldliness. Given underneath are five essential decides that home searchers can check, to determine if the property they mean to purchase complies with the fundamental Vastu standards.
Rakesh Patekar, venture head, Elysium Abodes, calls attention to that a few headings have positive effects, while others may negatively affect the inhabitants of the house. "As per Vastu, east and north-bound plots are suitable for the development of homes. Care ought to be taken while planning houses confronting west or south heading," includes Patekar.
Specialists recommend that the state of the plot, on which the house is developed, ought to be square or rectangular, confronting decisively on the four cardinal bearings. Preferably, the proportion between the length and the expansiveness of the structure ought to be 1:1 or 1:1.5 or the most extreme up to 1:2. "Home purchasers must keep away from plots whose shape is sporadic, oval, round, triangular, or if any of the corners in the north, east, south or west are absent. A plot with four corners and in a square shape is ideal, subject to consistency with different standards of Vastu," clarifies VikashSethi, CEO and originator, A2ZVastu.com.
The 'Shermukhi' and 'Gaumukhi' shapes are given significance in Vastu, because these shapes choose the general success and prosperity of detainees present in a property. A 'Gaumukhi' shape is thin at the purpose of passage and wide at the back, while a 'Shermukhi' shape is expansive at the passageway and limited at the back. Gaumukhi is viewed as useful for lodging reason, while Shermukhi is appropriate for business properties. So also, broadened corners (aside from on the north-east) are not considered as reasonable for private properties.
Dim hues, for example, dark transmit negative vitality. Consequently, attempting to maintain a strategic distance from dark shades in your home's dividers, furniture, floors, and so forth. Light tones, for example, pink, yellow, orange, and so forth.Transmit positive vitality and can be utilised in the home insides, according to the bearing of the built territory. For instance, orange shading is reasonable for the feasting territory and cream shading for the main room (in the south-west).
The bed ought to dependably be kept in the south-west bearing of the room.
Shoe racks ought to likewise be put in the south-west bearing.
The eating table ought to dependably be introduced in the north-west piece of the lounge area.
Home purchasers ought to likewise consider the situation of zones like kitchens, toilets, staircase and the primary entryway, which ought not to be in the south/south-west course. At long last, property searchers ought to guarantee that there is appropriate amicability between the five components, to determine the constructive outcomes of Vastu.


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Q: How to Display an Image Array with JS and Use Lightbox2 How do you display all the images from an array in JS and still use Lightbox2?
8th gr math teacher trying to create a Tic Tac Toe board of images where Lightbox2 allows users to click to enlarge images.  In the code, you will see I randomize the array to make it harder for my kids to cheat.  The focus though is to get the array to display each img into a 3x3 grid, but allow students to click and enlarge each image with a modal.
Lightbox2 requires the following line of code:
a href="images/image-1.jpg" data-lightbox="image-1" data-title="My caption">Image #1 /a
This is why I have all the inefficient + signs in the js document.write code.
I have searched for the answer here where answers edit the DOM or increment through the array using .foreach, I have yet to see a solution where you can still click to enlarge the image in a modal.  Thank you and my students will say thank you!  This is my first venture into bringing computer science to the classroom, so I am very much a noob.
<!DOCTYPE html>

<title>Tic Tac Toe</title>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?
family=Oswald:300,700|Varela+Round" rel="stylesheet">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="tictactoestyle.css">
<link href="css/lightbox.css" rel="stylesheet">

  Tic Tac Toe

/*Javascript*/

function shuffle(arr) {
var currentIndex = arr.length, temporaryValue, randomIndex;

    // While there remain elements to shuffle...
while (0 !== currentIndex) {

    // Pick a remaining element...
    randomIndex = Math.floor(Math.random() * currentIndex);
    currentIndex -= 1;

    // And swap it with the current element.
    temporaryValue = arr[currentIndex];
    arr[currentIndex] = arr[randomIndex];
    arr[randomIndex] = temporaryValue;
}

return arr;

function displayAllImages() {
var imgArray = [];
imgArray[0] = "image1";
imgArray[1] = "image2";
imgArray[2] = "image3";
imgArray[3] = "image4";
imgArray[4] = "image5";
imgArray[5] = "image6";
imgArray[6] = "image7";
imgArray[7] = "image8";
imgArray[8] = "image9";

imgArray = shuffle(imgArray);

for (i=0;i<imgArray.length;i++) {
    document.write("

");

A: A few things you'll need to do.  First you can't just add a div as a string and write it to the DOM.  jQuery let's you do something like that, but vanilla JS won't recognize it as an actual element.  There were also a few missing brackets in there.  I've added comments inline to help make things clear. Give this a try:
function shuffle(arr) {
  var currentIndex = arr.length, temporaryValue, randomIndex;

      // While there remain elements to shuffle...
  while (0 !== currentIndex) {

      // Pick a remaining element...
      randomIndex = Math.floor(Math.random() * currentIndex);
      currentIndex -= 1;

      // And swap it with the current element.
      temporaryValue = arr[currentIndex];
      arr[currentIndex] = arr[randomIndex];
      arr[randomIndex] = temporaryValue;
  }

  return arr;
}

function displayAllImages() {
  var imgArray = [
    "image1",
    "image2",
    "image3",
    "image4",
    "image5",
    "image6",
    "image7",
    "image8",
    "image9",
  ];

  //Map over the array to create the DOM elements
  var domElements = imgArray.map(function(imgName, index) {
    var cardDiv = document.createElement('div');
    var cardLink = document.createElement('a');
    var cardImage = document.createElement('img');

    //Add the class
    cardDiv.classList.add('card');

    //Add the link to image
    //Utilize interpolation for the variable
    //https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Template_literals
    cardLink.href = `images/${imgName}.jpg`;

    //Set the data attribute
    cardLink.dataset.lightbox = imgName;

    //Set img source
    cardImage.src = `images/${imgName}.jpg`;

    //Put it all together
    cardLink.appendChild(cardImage);
    cardDiv.appendChild(cardLink);

    return cardDiv;

  });

  //Now we have an array with the propper DOM elements
  //Shuffle it
  var shuffled = shuffle(domElements);

  //Append the elements to the DOM
  var body = document.querySelector('body');

  shuffled.forEach(function(card, index) {
    body.appendChild(card);
  });
}

Hope that helps point you in the right direction.  Happy coding!

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Our first night in Vegas was short and basic, with a more luxurious stay looming at the end of the trip. We set out for the Grand Canyon early on Thursday morning. Part of this road takes you past the iconic Route 66. In case you wouldn't know, you'll be kindly reminded by the dozens of signs and themed diners along the way.
Our trip was off to a great start when we walked into Rutherford's family diner. We were starving when we got the heavenly question "Are you here for the free turkey dinner?". Fifteen minutes later, we had a delicious, homestyle Thanksgiving dinner in front of us. Our Wild West road trip couldn't have started more American.
Two hours later, we were standing at the rim of the Grand Canyon. We had to take the signs' word for it, as the canyon was entirely covered in mist and rain. Luckily, El Tovar's cosy cocktail lounge was waiting to give us shelter. Next to the big windows overlooking the canyon, we could spot a hint of blue sky at first sight.
A memorable sunset was rapidly approaching when the sky eventually cleared up. We took the Hermit Road Shuttle Bus to Mohave Point, walking back along the stunning Rim Trail to Hopi Point. The emerging sun shed the canyon in a beautiful light.
Thanks to the rainy afternoon, the crowds at Hopi Point were much smaller than usual. We would only come to realize how small the following morning at sunrise. Since our trip to Big Bend last year, we always make sure to keep some beers in the car. An incredible national park sunset just demands a toast. Our fingers freezing off was part of the deal.
Afterwards, we found ourselves back in El Tovar's cocktail lounge. El Tovar is a legendary hotel and restaurant that has welcomed many famous guests, from Theodore Roosevelt to Paul McCartney. Every year, the restaurant hosts a renowned Thanksgiving dinner with no reservations and thus a bit of a wait. With its wooden walls and heartwarming cocktails, we could have waited all night in the cosy cocktail lounge.
On the menu were French classics, paired with a week-old Beaujolais. The rustic dining room with native American art scenes could have been the setting for Twin Peaks' Great Northern Hotel.
The biggest challenge of the day still lay ahead. Our stay for the night was a tipi in the middle of nowhere, about 30 minutes outside of the park. Not only was the sky pitch black by now, it was also freezing outside – to be taken literally, with temperatures around -5 ºC. Thanks to our gracious AirBnb hosts, neither posed a problem. The road was well marked and the tipi stuffed with about ten sleeping bags.
I would be lying if I said it was a comfortable night. Luckily, it was the perfect night to be uncomfortable: it made getting up at 5 AM much easier. We only had one chance to catch sunrise over the Grand Canyon and I wasn't going to let it slip by. And so we found ourselves sitting in the car by 5:15, waiting for the windshield to defrost. Because of time constraints, we headed to Mather Point. Being one of the most accessible viewpoints, it also attracts the big crowds. Even the frost didn't stop them, so be prepared to share or venture out deeper into the park.
After this breathtaking but freezing sunset, we were ready to hike ourselves warm. The Kaibab Rim Route Shuttle Bus dropped us off at South Kaibab Trailhead, the starting point for the namesake trail. If hiked until the Bright Angel Lodge campground, the trail is 14 miles two-way. We choose to hike the short but highly rewarding part to Cedar Ridge. The steep 1.5 mile descend comes with stunning 360º views of the Grand Canyon. Be prepared to "Ooh Aah" and feel like a tiny human in this mighty landscape.
I made it back to the trailhead in about two hours, from where we took the shuttle bus back to the visitor's centre. After feeding my inner child by adding a national park Travel Stamp to my collection, we started driving east. The Desert View Drive leads to the east entrance of the park over a span of 22 miles, with several viewpoints along the way. The Desert View watchtower offers a final (or first) impressive overview of this natural wonder.
We had a rendez-vous with another Arizona treasure at 2:30 PM. Ever since it gained fame as a Windows wallpaper, Antilope Canyon is no longer a hidden treasure. The canyon can only be visited on a tour, booked through one of three main agencies. The tours sell out months in advance, especially for the prime viewing times. Around noon, the sun produces spectacular light beams in the canyon. The beams are only observable from March to October, but that didn't make Thanksgiving weekend any less popular. I stalked the website of all three agencies for weeks until a spot finally opened up on Navajo Antelope Canyon.
What started as a relaxing drive out of the Grand Canyon, ended in a fast and the furious ride. I assumed our spot was guaranteed given the no-show fee, but nothing was less true. When I kindly advised the agency that we would arrive 43 instead of 45 minutes before the start of the tour, I was bluntly told that our spots would be passed on at exactly 1:45 PM. We had 15 minutes left to lose two on the road, and so we did. At exactly 1:45, we pulled up next to the trailer in a big dust cloud. I jumped out and ran to the front of the line, ignoring the vultures that were ready to take our spots. My face must have said it all, cause the cashier took my credit card without hesitation. Just minutes later, somebody started making a scene because they resold his partially paid tickets. That's the beauty of a national park: shameless commercialization like this would never happen.
The tour covered Upper Antilope Canyon, made up of wavy red walls that are brought to life by sunlight. Our excellent tour guide gave us a personalized photography lesson, happily switching from iPhone settings to my Canon SLR camera. The Albanian want-to-be model that was desperately looking for a light beam definitely added to the experience.
By the time we finished our tour around 4 PM, another one was about to start. I seriously doubt they saw much, as the sun was rapidly setting. I wouldn't recommend a tour after 2:30 PM in late fall. Even on our tour the light was no longer optimal, but the fun part was experimenting with my camera settings and finding good angles. Regardless of the date, time and crowds, Antilope Canyon is a unique and beautiful place.
We were catching the sunset at Horseshoe Bend, a rock formation shaped as such. Horseshoe Bend is freely accessible and hence extremely crowded. We found ourselves jostling for a spot where pictures didn't include 25 extended selfie arms. The hordes of people took away part of the charm, but Horseshoe Bend remains a beauty.
After two hours on pitch-black roads, blindsided by high beam headlights while dodging deers, we arrived at what looked like an upscale sixties motel. The best part of the Best Western East Zion Thunderbird Lodge was the on site diner. Nothing beats burgers and beers in leggings.
We picked this hotel for its convenient location between Bryce and Zion National Park. With only one day to discover both parks, we hit the road at the break of dawn. Luckily, Mr. Quaker thought of a solution for every type of morning.
My expectations of Bryce were far exceeded as soon as we stepped out of the car. Sunset Point offered a stunning introduction to the park's famous hoodoos.
We walked to Sunrise Point, where the popular Queen's Garden Trail begins. The latter can be combined with the Navajo Loop Trail to end back at Sunset Point in a modest 2.5 miles. The hike brings you up close with famous hoodoos such as Queen Victoria and Thor's Hammer.
If you choose to hike up along the Wall Street section of Navajo Loop, a set of steep and spectacular switchbacks awaits. The narrow slot closes during the winter months, but was still open during Thanksgiving weekend.
By the time we finished hiking, the tourist busses had arrived. After two near misses with a selfie stick, we drove off to Inspiration Point. This spot triggers many inspired yoga-pose pictures.
Getting close to our hoodoo saturation point, we said goodbye to Bryce Canyon National Park from Bryce viewpoint. Beautiful as it may be, half a day in Bryce Canyon was satisfactory.
By 2 PM, Bryce's hoodoos had made way for Zion's impressive cliffs. I was determined to hike the Observation Point Trail, not discouraged by the 4-6 hours indicated duration. Carmen happily opted out and dropped me at the Canyon Overlook shuttle bus stop. The Weeping Rock trailhead can only be reached by a ride on the educating shuttle bus. The trail winds up non stop for four miles to Observation Point, gaining 640 meters in elevation. On the way to the top, you rise above the famous Angel's Landing trail.
Observation Point is better suited for the faint hearted, with a path that remains four feet wide at all time. I made it to the top in an hour and a half, well in time for sunset. The view is so incredibly impressive, I spent over an hour soaking it up.
The trail starts all the way down next to the river. Not a bad Saturday afternoon workout.
Surprisingly, the way down took me about as long as the way up. By now the sun was setting and bathing the valley in an extraordinary light, which asked for another picture around every corner. The pitch-black sky slowed me down on the second part of the hike. Although the fear of wild animals kept me going at a steady pace.
When I made it down, the shuttle bus was waiting to take me back to the visitor's centre. On the three-hour drive that followed, we exchanged high cliffs for high rises.
After three days in nature, Las Vegas can be slightly overwhelming. That's probably why we didn't make it outside of the Paris Hotel Las Vegas the first night. We strolled the streets of Paris, had some sushi and called it a day with a glass of champagne in Montmartre.
One day was all we had to savor Las Vegas' extravaganza. We soon learned that was all we needed and more. It shouldn't surprise anyone that Sunday started with mimosas. A bottomless mimosa fountain, right on the Vegas strip with a view of Bellagio's famous fountains.
After brunch in Alexxa's Bar, we moved up one story to the Paris Hotel's beer garden. The beers are served with excellent views of the Strip.
We were easy targets for the Vegas hotel business. Almost 20 hours in Vegas and we still hadn't left our hotel. The hotels are designed to keep you inside for days, providing everything from a variety of bars and restaurants to shops and even fake blue skies.
Time had come to go out and explore, as I wasn't planning on returning to Vegas any time soon. We started at the south end of the Strip and walked our way back up. First stop was Vegas' iconic "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign.
For a prime view of the Strip, we headed to the Foundation Room. Perched on the 63rd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel, it's the number one spot to soak up Vegas' neon craze.
Dinner was served with a side of slot machines in the New York, New York. Watching the same people push the button over and over again throughout our meal, took away all desire I had left to gamble.
We stayed in the New York atmosphere, with rooftop views and cocktails that break the bank. Just like the views, the cocktails are taken to the next level at Waldorf Astoria's Skybar. The creative combinations are served with a splash of Vegas history.
Three states and three national parks later, we flew back to Texas. Vegas' neon lights were hard to shake off, but it was the Wild West's natural beauty that was seared into our brains.
That was a lot to see in four short days!
I don't think I'm brave enough to hike Angel's Landing, but Observation Point is a great alternative!


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Violence in 2022
In July and August I encountered a large amount of violence and crime in my day to day life. I had hesitated to write an article about this because at first I'd just assumed that nothing was different to "normal" and that it was more likely a statistical artifact my misfortune rather than an uptick in crime. It's not like this is the first time I've seen violent crime, I grew up in a not so amazing area in the peak of the Heroin craze in Australia. I remember seeing a very nasty gang brawl in Sydney at lockout hour back in 2018 but then after that I saw nothing for quite a long time, and I was out and about a lot at the time. September is still early but so far I haven't encountered anything yet but that said I've been a bit sick so I haven't left the house much lately.
What's felt different about now is that almost every single day I've been in the city I've witnessed some sort of crime or another. A few weeks ago I witnessed an altercation because someone was robbing a burger store and the staff were confronting him. While this was happening I was just down the street from another place where a member of staff was murdered during a robbery while closing up the store just a few weeks prior.
That weekend I was at a pool hall that I frequent and I saw someone doing something that was damaging the table so I made a comment about technique that could allow for the same shot but without damaging the equipment. I was pretty chilled out about this and wasn't rude about it. This however wasn't taken well and the other guy escalated the situation very quickly, I was fairly sure in the heat of the moment that I was going to have to fight this guy but he did cool off about it and actually apologized later for overreacting. That same day I went with some friends to see a movie, the new Top Gun movie, and after we stopped by this restaurant to get some food. After we had ordered we witnessed an especially nasty group brawl in which someone got stabbed. It seemed the two groups knew each other and that there was some animosity about something historical. But the amount of violent escalation was quite the sight to see.
In all these cases I just saw things escalate rather quickly. As I was thinking about this a few hours later some guy came into the store I was at asking if there was any security camera footage outside because someone had smashed his car windows in.
This is not the article I have particularly wanted to write as I've got other things I'd like to write about more than this but this has been a disturbingly recurring theme for me lately. Its also something some of my friends have seen too.
I was in the city today running some errands and I was watching some people board a tram, some asshole on a skateboard doesn't stop and plows into this old guy who's just trying to get on the tram. The old guy shoves him away and again it looked like there was highly likely a potential for a fight. I might have actually got myself in the way of this if the old guy were to be attacked there.
There's something about that incident that was so much more mundane than all the other stuff I'd seen lately. It was less violent but had many of the same aspects of the other things I'd seen, the lack of violent escalation meant that the violence was not the focal point and gave me some more thinking space to focus on other aspects. On the way home I figured I'd finally write something about it since not writing something was bothering me more than the effort involved in just writing something.
Oddly when you watch stuff like the mainstream media there's often a lot of news items about violent crime. For a while I've been well aware that overall violent crime has been on the decline across most of the world. The stats about these things just aren't what people think though, many people think they are unsafe while living in some of the safest times in human history. The other week I had someone tell me that "women are the victims of violent crime more than men", which just doesn't line up with the stats. It also doesn't line up with the anecdotal evidence either, while it was a small sample size literally all of the violent crime I saw this year has only involved men fighting other men. Throughout my life this has been the same. This is not to say that women aren't the victims of violent crime, that does happen too and is terrible when it does. But historically the facts are that most violent crime is perpetrated by men against other men.
What concerns me far more however are the trends. For my entire life violent crime has been trending downwards. For much of my life there has been a sense of progress, even despite living in the "silent economic depression" of the decade starting 2008. What increasingly was worrying in the last decade is the erosion of the societal values that have enabled this reduction in crime. This has led to a situation where an economic downturn might lead people to react far more negatively and violently towards their society than before. Back when I was in Chicago in 2019 I remember this same feeling, there just seemed to be this feeling of increased potential for crime. I can't quite put my finger on exactly what it was, but some combination of a breakdown of values/morals combined with a reduced willingness to prosecute crime seems to really spur this sort of behavior on. When things got a bit worse a year later and there was widespread looting in Chicago I couldn't help but think a general long running malaise in society was a massive cause.
In the past I think my first place for looking would have been official stats. But unfortunately it seems that these days inconvenient stats just get buried rather than reported on. I remember the surprise I had at hearing the situation in Sweden was more violent than I had thought. It's easy to think the society there is particularly idyllic as an outsider, but part of that is because the violence that does occur there just about never gets reported to the outside world. But at least the news tells us more important international "news" like how to play international lottery scams. What worries me is if this trend in non-political violent crime reverses from the downwards trajectory and starts to rise. I make a distinction with political motivated violent crime because that's clearly been on the rise worldwide lately, but I think the drivers for that are very different. There's some articles starting to pop up about these trends lately, like the 5% increase in knife related crime in the UK.
Knowing that the recession has already begun and will get far far worse concerns me. I don't know how people are going to react to the economic hardships ahead, we have seen nothing yet. I don't know how the people who are currently heavily involved in hedonism and materialism are going to react to the upcoming austerity that's looking to be increasingly impossible to avoid. With a lack of a solid system of values and other guiding principles to life I think it will be very hard for people to feel contented as the economic situation deteriorates further. Its not as though those who have bought into materialism were particularly content even when times were good.
Published: Sat 10 September 2022
Tags: society crime violence


The Sphere represents the Void, the place from which all of creation is initiated.
This is deep, feminine energy that will help connect you with your own creative, sacred centre. If you are feeling scattered take a few drops of the essence and connect with the Sphere that forms one of the outer layers of your energy field, gather all of yourself within it and breath out to the edges of the Sphere and back for a while.
Use this essence when you need help to connect with your own calm, sacred centre of creative 'beingness'.


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Q: My father died on Friday, 11/12/1420 A.H. His brother, who is around 60 years old, now lives with my mother, brother, and sister in one house. I would like to clarify my uncle's situation.He is an ordinary man, he does not like to interfere in other people's business, and he does not have the ability to argue with people or keep up with them. However, he is not an idiot or insane; he is a normal person.It is worth mentioning that he was previously married, but his marriage was not fated to continue, and his wife asked for Khul' (divorce initiated by a wife for a consideration). When she went to the judge and explained the matter to him, it became evident to the judge that my uncle has no sexual desire at all; he is blind to women's charms. So the judge had no choice but to grant his wife Khul' without an 'Iddah (woman's prescribed waiting period after divorce or widowhood). This Khul' was not the beginning of this problem; he has been known to have this condition for many years.The question is: My mother now is in her 'Iddah period following my father's death (may Allah be merciful to him), is it permissible for her to treat my uncle in the prescribed way of treating men who have no interest in or desire for women, a child, or even a Mahram (unmarriageable male relative), or should he be considered an Ajnaby (a man other than a husband or unmarriageable male relatives) to her in the very sense of the word? (Part No. 17; Page No. 196) There is no possibility of Khulwah (being alone with a member of the opposite sex) here at all, as some of my mother's children are staying with her. Also my wife, should she treat him in the same way my mother does?
A: Your mother and your wife should consider your uncle as an Ajnaby to them. They should wear Hijab (veil) in front of him, and avoid Khulwah with him, whether your mother is in her 'Iddah after the death of your father or not. He is not considered as a man who lacks desire, because he was previously married. The fact that he was not successful in that marriage does not include him among men who have no interest in or desire for women. May Allah grant us success. May peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and Companions.
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Cissy Houston Speaks Out About Whitney
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Whitney Houston's mom Cissy belted out a gospel song in the same church where, just six weeks ago, her daughter's funeral was held.
"I don't want to remember that, but can't seem to forget it," said Cissy.
The still-grieving mom returned to the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey for her first inverview since Whitney died. In the interview with WWOR-TV in New York, Cissy says she was furious at all the negative media coverage following Whitney's death.
"They really chopped at her—one time I had thought about coming on and really socking but I know my temperment, and let them say and think what they want to say. I just hope they never come and say it to me," said Cissy.
She also acknowledges that Whitney was not perfect.
"She had her ups and downs, but who hasn't," said Cissy.
Cissy tells interviewer Brenda Blackmon that she chooses to remember Whitney as a loving daughter.
"Anything you could have done differently?" asked Blackmon.
"Not really," said Cissy, "because my children were my whole life, she was very special to me. If I thought I could do something to bring her back, that's exactly what I'd do. But I know that's impossible."


•Friday vs. Hillsboro, 7 p.m.
•Thursday at Greenville, 5 p.m.
•Tuesday vs. Hillsboro, 5 p.m.
•Thursday at Raymond, 4 p.m.
•Thursday vs. Marquette, 4:30 p.m.
•Monday at EAWR, 4:30 p.m.
•Tuesday vs. Shelbyville, 4 p.m.
•Thursday at Staunton, 5:30 p.m.
•Tuesday vs. L-wood, 4:15 p.m.
Kyle Hawkins, a 2010 graduate of Vandalia Community High School, will be playing in a doubleheader at VCHS with his college club baseball team on Oct. 7.
The Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville club team will battle McKendree University in an exhibition doubleheader at the high school at 4 p.m. that day.
Hawkins will start one of the two games for SIUE.
Last spring, Hawkins was 10-1 for SIUE, with an earned-run average below 2.00, helping SIUE to a 14-2 record.
The team missed the club World Series by one game.
Seth Marler, a senior at Vandalia Community High School, dressed up as a Vandal during spirit week, and served a mascot during last Friday's game against Litchfield.
VANDALIA – In a quick game that lasted less than 90 minutes last Thursday, St. Elmo beat Brownstown for third place in the Egyptian-Illini Conference Tournament at Vandalia High School.
The top-seeded Eagles were coming off of a tough eight-inning loss to No. 4 Beecher City in the semifinals, and coach Ryan Beccue was glad his team came away with the 4-1 victory.
VANDALIA – The fifth-place game of the Egyptian-Illini Conference Tournament started with a no-hitter and ended with a slew of runs.
Mulberry Grove senior Nate Ketchem carried a no-hitter through the first four innings of last Wednesday's game against Ramsey, but the teams combined for 15 hits and 15 runs in the final three innings of a 10-8 Aces win, their third of the season.
The Patoka Jr. High baseball team recently won a regional championship, the second title in school history.
Mark Herrin pitched a complete game, striking out 16 and allowing just three hits in the 7-0 victory against Rome, to move the Mohawks to 16-2 for the season.
The next game is on Saturday at Coulterville at 3:30 p.m. against either Century or New Simpson Hill.
The St. Peter Lady Saints volleyball team placed fourth at the Holly Reeb Tournament in Belleville on Sept. 14-15.
VANDALIA - Despite losing seven fumbles during the game, Vandalia came away with a 47-6 win against Litchfield for homecoming by scoring a touchdown on its other seven drives.
Ryan Ambuehl scored four times during the game, rushing for three touchdowns and catching a 24-yard pass from Tim Ritchey, who later threw another 24-yard touchdown pass to Luke Smith.
Alex Newsom added a pair of rushing touchdowns, including a 49-yard run on Vandalia's first play from scrimmage.
The Vandal defense played well, recording 13 tackles for loss.
VANDALIA — Patoka beat Beecher City, 7-2, Thursday night to win the Egyptian-Illini Conference Tournament.
Clinton Hood picked up the win for the second-seeded Warriors, keeping the No. 4 Eagles at bay all game.
In the third-place game, St. Elmo beat Brownstown, 4-1.
Connor Beasley picked up the win and had two RBI for the top-seeded Eagles.
PANA — A subpar attack against a very disciplined Pana volleyball team led to Vandalia's first loss of the season Thursday night.
The Lady Vandals made too many errors in a 25-10, 25-19 loss, said coach Allison Smith.
Senior Sierah Ruffner had six kills, and senior Shelby Foster had three service aces to lead the Lady Vandals (15-1) in the nonconference game. The conference date is in Vandalia on Oct. 18.
The next game is on Monday at Taylorville.


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Sting & Shaggy to Perform at amfAR's Cannes Gala...
Twenty-Five Women Have Come Together as Honorary Chairs of amfAR's Cannes Gala to Celebrate 25-Year Legacy of Raising Funds for AIDS Research...
Alessandra Ambrosio, Poppy Delevigne, Linda Evangelista, Sylvia Fendi, Aileen Getty, Kate Hudson, Scarlett Johansson, Milla Jovovich, Heidi Klum, Daphna Krim, Karolina Kurkova, Sienna Miller, Angela Missoni, Mary Parent, Katy Perry, Natasha Poly, Aishwarya Rai, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, Carine Roitfeld, Caroline Scheufele, Irina Shayk, Lara Stone, Donatella Versace, and Michelle Yeoh are the Honorary Chairs of the 25th edition of amfAR's world-renowned amfAR Gala Cannes event, to be held on Thursday, May 17, 2018, during the Cannes Film Festival. Event Chairs include Len Blavatnik, Milutin Gatsby, Michel Litvak, Alexandre Ricard, and William H. Roedy.
The annual star-studded event is one of the world's most successful benefits and is the most coveted ticket during the Cannes International Film Festival. Held at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, France, this glamorous and unpredictable gala will include special musical performances by iconic Grammy-winning musicians Sting and Shaggy who recently released a new, collaborative album entitled 44/876, and other surprise musical guests soon to be announced. The event always includes a parade of prominent appearances, as many of the celebrity guests help with the event's exciting live auction of exclusive items and experiences.
Longtime amfAR supporter Carine Roitfeld will once again curate a fashion show of one-of-a-kind looks from a who's who of the world's most celebrated fashion designers. Forty of the world's top models will participate in the spectacular And Woman Created All / Et La Femme Créa Tout runway presentation.
Bold Films and Chopard are the Presenting Sponsors of the amfAR Gala Cannes. Pernod Ricard is the event's Signature Sponsor. Delta Air Lines is the Official Airline of amfAR.
After the amfAR Gala Cannes dinner, guests will be invited to the exclusive After Party.
amfAR's annual amfAR Gala Cannes events have been important and successful fundraising events for the Foundation for over two decades, generating more than $210 million for amfAR's life-saving research programs and keeping the fight against AIDS in the global media spotlight. amfAR continues to fund HIV/AIDS researchers worldwide, and works to translate their research into effective policy, prevention, and treatment education programs around the globe. amfAR's Countdown to a Cure for AIDS initiative is aimed at developing the scientific basis for a cure by the end of 2020. Launched in 2014, the Countdown is designed to intensify amfAR's cure-focused research efforts through strategic investments of $100 million. The cornerstone of the Countdown is the amfAR Institute for HIV Cure Research, an innovative collaborative enterprise based at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Past events have been chaired by amfAR's late Founding International Chairman Dame Elizabeth Taylor, who hosted the first amfAR Gala Cannes in 1993, President Bill Clinton, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Robert De Niro, Sir Elton John, and Madonna, among many others.
The amfAR Gala Cannes event is produced by Andy Boose/AAB Productions.
Official Hashtag of the event: #amfarcannes #BeEpic
For more information, visit http://www.amfar.org/25th-amfAR-Gala-Cannes/
About amfAR:
amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, is one of the world's leading nonprofit organizations dedicated to the support of AIDS research, HIV prevention, treatment education, and advocacy. Since 1985, amfAR has invested more than $517 million in its programs and has awarded more than 3,300 grants to research teams worldwide.
About Bold Films:
Bold Films, founded in 2004 by Michel Litvak and Gary Michael Walters, is an independent multimedia production and finance company dedicated to providing an artistic haven for creative talent. Bold Films' mission is to produce original feature films and television series, which have worldwide commercial appeal and outstanding production values. Bold Films has financed and produced Academy Award-nominated films, including Dan Gilroy's "Nightcrawler," starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Riz Ahmed, Rene Russo and Bill Paxton; Damien Chazelle's "Whiplash," starring Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons; and Nicolas Winding Refn's "Drive" starring Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, and Oscar Isaacs. Bold is currently in post-production on Brady Corbet's "Vox Lux," starring Natalie Portman and Jude Law. Bold's next release is Wash Westmoreland's "Colette" starring Keira Knightley scheduled for a September 21st release through 30 West/Bleecker Street. Previous releases include "The Neon Demon," "Bobby," "Legion" and "No Escape."
About Chopard:
Since 1860, Maison Chopard has been creating watch and jewellery models brimming with contemporary charm while blending ancestral skills with cutting-edge technologies. Run by the Scheufele family since 1963, Chopard employs over 2,000 people worldwide and is headquartered in Geneva. Independent and highly integrated, the Maison controls the entire process from design to distribution through 1,200 points of sale and more than 160 dedicated boutiques, maintaining a strong emphasis on in-house training. Chopard's iconic collections include Happy Diamonds, Happy Sport and Mille Miglia, its Haute Horlogerie collection is L.U.C and its high jewellery creations include the Red Carpet Collection, the Green Carpet Collection and the exceptional Garden of Kalahari Collection. Chopard is a partner of the Cannes Film Festival and the Mille Miglia and Grand Prix de Monaco Historique racing events. Chopard is the official timing partner of Porsche Motorsport. In 2013 Chopard launched The Journey to Sustainable Luxury: a dedication to source from businesses that are committed to responsible, ethical, social and environmental practices. The Maison recently announced its commitment to use 100% ethical gold for its watch and jewellery products as of July 2018.
For The Culture: Sting And Shaggy On Collaboration, Comfort Zones And The Caribbean...
To the naked eye, the collaborative duo of musician Sting, formerly of The Police, and reggae star Shaggy is an unlikely pairing. The announcement of their joint album 44/876 raised a fair share of questions from inquisitive music fans. However, thanks to a few singles that dropped prior to the LP's release, it was clear this was a match made in music heaven...
The Last Ship berths in Leeds - positive reviews continue...
The Last Ship has continued its voyage having this week berthed in Leeds at the beautiful Grand Theatre. The reviews continue to be extremely positive as they have been in Northampton, Birmingham, Liverpool and Newcastle. If you're quick you can still catch The Last Ship at the Grand as it runs until Saturday, 5 May before moving on to Nottingham...


The ever popular annual raffle is happening again….. this time with a slightly different prize……..$3,000 cash for the winning ticket! Only 100 tickets in the draw, $50 per ticket. The winner will be drawn at the cocktail party. Nearly half of the tickets already sold. Get in QUICK!!!


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Q: SQL Server, join multiple columns in a row with sum up I have rows (about 120000) like this and my table has 3 columns like a, b, c.
  a          b          c
 ---        ---        ---
hello      world       10
 hey        you        80
world      hello       20
 my         day        15
merhaba    dunya       40
 life       good       75
good         day       70
thank        you       15
 it          is        40
dunya      merhaba     20
 is          it        80

I want to find reverse values in the first two columns (a and b) and sum their values in c column.
The results should look like this:
 a          b          c
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hello      world       30
 hey        you        80
  my        day        15
merhaba    dunya       60
 good       day        70
 thank      you        15
  it        is        120

A: You can simply do:
select min(a), max(b), sum(c)
from t
group by (case when a < b then a else b end),
         (case when a < b then b else a end);


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Taiwanese Kidnappers Receive $1.68M Bitcoin Ransom from Billionaire Yuk-Kwan
The family of billionaire Pearl Oriental Oil chairman Wong Yuk-Kwan paid Taiwanese kidnappers US$1.68 million in bitcoin after they threatened to "dig out the eyeballs or chop off the legs" of Yuk-Kwan.
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On October 22, the family of billionaire Pearl Oriental Oil chairman Wong Yuk-Kwan paid Taiwanese kidnappers US$1.68 million in bitcoin after they threatened to "dig out the eyeballs or chop off the legs" of Yuk-Kwan, The Standard HK reports.
The 68-year old was abducted on September 20 by two men and was kept in an abandoned house in Kouhu township, Yunlin county in western Taiwan for 38 days, blindfolded and cuffed to a bed. A few days after the abduction, the Taiwanese kidnappers called and sent e-mails to Yuk-Kwan's wife, asking for US$9 million in bitcoin to be sent in less than two weeks.
The leader of this operation is suspected to be Cai Wen-Li of the United Bamboo Gang that engages in kidnapping and extortion. The Taiwanese police additionally arrested fifteen other suspects, including local triad members and a village chief.
The local police and enforcement agencies are still unable to trace the origin of the transaction and couldn't track the location of the bitcoin wallet account, which received the bitcoin ransom. Yuk-Kwan has been moved to a hospital where he is currently receiving medical treatment.
During his captivity, kidnappers burned Yuk-Kwan's face with cigarettes and brutally attacked him, causing severe injuries to his body.
"Every day I felt I might not be able to see the sun the next day," Yuk-Kwan told South China Morning Post.
According to the Standard, the Hong Kong police and Taiwanese enforcement agencies will launch a joint investigation to track down the kidnappers responsible.
Cointelegraph will update the story as we receive more information from Hong Kong-based media outlets and enforcement agencies.
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When not serving clients or in Mission, Cooke & Company, Inc. founder Tracy M. Cooke, CDRP, enjoys the gifts of the great American west.
Cooke & Company, Inc. proudly represents Social Security disability clients of all races, creeds, and sexual orientations. Thus, white, black, brown or purple with green polka-dots; man, woman or transgendered; straight, gay or bi-sexual; Believer, atheist or not really sure; our only concern is how our clients' lives are impacted by their disabilities, and the relevant medical and vocational issues of their case. However, we do like our clients to know beforehand that Cooke & Company, Inc. is a Christ-focused company.
This means that while we believe that in a free society all people must have the personal freedom to call out to God or answer God's call in their own time and fashion, Cooke & Company, Inc. recognizes and practices the tenets of the Christian faith in the way we live and do business. We believe in one God, eternally existing in three entities: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We believe in and practice the tenets of Christian character: love, faith, forgiveness, repentance and personal accountability. We accept all obligations and seek all opportunities to serve humanity and the Kingdom of Heaven. We practice Christian stewardship. We feast on the Fruit of the Spirit. We follow the Golden Rule. We put on the Whole Armor of God. And we believe both challenge and success are God-given, thus sacred and holy, and should be pursued with diligence and received with humility.
In real world service to this faith statement, when not serving the employees and clients of Cooke & Company, Inc., owner Tracy M. Cooke, CDRP, serves as a senior staff member and Southwest Regional Coordinator for the international Christian ministry Marked Men For Christ (MMFC) www.markedmenforchrist.org. In that capacity, he has witnessed for MMFC ministry in many American states, Switzerland, Austria, and Kenya, Africa. He has done both regional and national television interviews for the ministry, and is a frequent public speaker for MMFC and its sister ministry, Women's Walk With Christ www.womenswalkwithchrist.org.


New Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus renders have just surfaced, this time around, they popped up in Korea. If you take a look at the gallery down below, you'll get a couple of new images of the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus which reveal the general design of these two smartphones, and even their dimensions. These renders were created by Matt Kim, if the leaked info is to be believed, and Mr. Kim claims that he had seen the real Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus, on which these renders are based on.
According to the provided info, both the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus will sport curved displays, though neither of them will have the 'Edge' part in their names, they'll be called the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus, as most rumors have been suggesting for a while now. Panels on these two phones will be less curved than on the Galaxy S7 Edge, mainly in order to avoid unwanted palm touches. The two devices will be identical in terms of the design, but will be different in terms of size, while they'll also sport different battery capacities, of course. The home button will not be present on either of these two phones, and the fingerprint scanner could be placed on the back of the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus this time around (next to the camera sensor actually), though nothing has been confirmed just yet. For those of you who like using your headphones with your smartphone(s), you'll be glad to know that Samsung plans to keep the 3.5mm headphone jack this time around, well, at least if the source is to be believed.
Now, if the leaked info is to be believed, the Galaxy S8 will be 131.58mm tall, while the source mentions it will be 68.05mm wide. In the Galaxy S8 Plus' case, you'll get a phone that is 142.34mm tall, and 70mm wide. That is more or less it, a rather odd placement of the fingerprint scanner is possible, and is not the first time we're hearing something like that might happen. Samsung had scheduled a press conference for February 26th at MWC 2017, but the company almost certainly will not announce the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus during that event, but the Galaxy Tab S3 will probably land, though. The Galaxy S8 devices could be announced in either March or April, at least if the most recent info is to be believed.


Colors TV is back with the new Show 'Rasoi Ki Jung Mummyon Ke Sung' which is the Indian Adaption of International Cook Show 'My Mom Cooks Better Than Yours'. Here we have the List of Guests Who turned Cook.
TV Actors Nia Sharma, Mahhi Vij, Debina, Karishma Tanna, Jay Soni, Ragini Khanna are turned Guests and Cook on a show. Rithvik Dhanjani First Time Turned Host for Cookery Competition Show and Chef Ranveer Brar is the Judge on the show.
A source reveals, "Rithvik Dhanjani plays the host while Chef Ranveer Brar is the critic for blind-tasting and the final verdict. This fun show will see mothers and their celebrity kids showcase their competitive side, turning into fierce critics of their rivals' cuisine." The show goes on air by mid-November. "I love to experiment. This show is in a fun space. The involvement of real moms makes it very special," Ritwik told Mirror.
Keep Watching This Space to get more News Updates on Colors TV's New Competition Reality Show Rasoi Ki Jung Mummyon Ke Sung.


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