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Posted By Sarah Nardi on 01.22.13 at 03:14 PM
The Valley, Larry Sultan
Admittedly, not a whole lot. The Viennese philosopher was consumed by the boundaries of language and knowledge whereas the actress-cum-train wreck seems more concerned with testing the limits of the law. Wittgenstein gave us Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, perhaps the finest piece of philosophical thinking to come out of the 20th century. Lohan gave us Herbie: Fully Loaded. And while I don't really have time to debate which of those contributions has done humanity the greater good, I would like to draw your attention to the shaded portion of the Venn diagram that is Wittgenstein and Lohan: Larry Sultan.
I was reminded of the photographer's work while reading about The Canyons, a forthcoming movie from director Paul Schrader (who wrote Taxi Driver and Raging Bull) and screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis (Less than Zero, American Psycho). The movie stars Lohan, bravely cast against type as a failed actress, and James Deen, a prolific porn star making his first foray into mainstream film. A recent article in the New York Times Magazine chronicled the daily travails on set, which culminated the night a four-way sex scene was to go down between Deen, Lohan, and two other porn actors. Writer Stephen Rodrick describes the bizarre scene that night in the stark Malibu mansion where the movie was shot: Deen, a seasoned performer with more than 4,000 films under his belt waiting, patiently and professionally, to get it on; the journeyman porn stars, brought in for the day, milling around naked, killing time; and Lohan, perhaps understandably, locked in a closet, allegedly with a drink, refusing to come out until Schrader, age 66, disrobed to make her more comfortable. For Sultan, this strange little shit show would have been pay dirt.
In his 2000 photographic essay The Valley, Sultan documented the day-to-day operations of the porn industry in California's San Fernando Valley. Most of the nondescript kitchens and bedrooms in which you would've seen scenes play out had you ever watched a porn belong to real homes, many of which are located in San Fernando Valley, the nation's pornography capital . Sultan accompanied production crews into these homes, capturing scenes that, in a different context, would seem only slightly bizarre. A nude man stands in a sun-dappled kitchen staring thoughtfully through the window—it's a peaceful, even somewhat beautiful image until you notice the black cables snaking along the wall and remember that beyond the frame, the room is full of people waiting to shoot a porno. Sultan captures women in sweatpants and curlers, their faces painted in garish tones, and shirtless men reclining on ugly couches, eyes closed. They could easily be scenes of run-of-the-mill suburban malaise as there is very little in the actual photographs to clue you into the truth. But it's the context—what Sultan, and by extension the viewer, knows of the activity that isn't pictured—that gives the images their power.
And that, patient reader, brings us to Wittgenstein, who began the Tractatus with the proposition "The world is everything that is the case." It sounds simple enough on its face but think about it long enough and it's a devastating mindfuck. How can we ever know with certainty what is or is not the case? Language? Language is a social construct. If you and I agree that the sky is blue, is it necessarily the case that the sky is blue? What is blue, really? It's a sound we've all agreed to make in reference to a visual phenomenon. But because what we've all agreed to call blue can only be perceived on an individual sensory level, how can we know with certainty that we're all perceiving the same thing in the same way? Follow this thinking long enough and you may end up where Wittgenstein once did, believing that we can never know with certainty anything beyond ourselves. We can't know anything of the external world because we can't confirm anything as objectively being the case.
I often think of Wittgenstein when considering photography because much in the way we assume words correspond to reality, we think of photographs as representations of objective truth. Photography is the medium of documentary, after all. And though we all know it can be staged and manipulated according to the photographer's point of view, we assume that photography, to a significant degree, captures elements of reality as they objectively exist. But does it? Is there any such thing as an objective reality or does everything in our world rely on the context that we ourselves create?
This idea is perhaps best expressed in Sultan's seminal work Evidence , a 1977 book of photographs he compiled with collaborator Mike Mandel. Culled from government and industrial archives, the black and white images are all photographic documentation of experiments of indeterminate purpose. Sultan and Mandel offer no research, no exposition, and no conjecture. They leave the viewer merely with the images—of a shaved monkey held down by a human hand, a solemn-looking man in his underwear attached to wires—and then with the realization that without context, these images prove nothing.
Sultan's last project before he died of cancer in 2009 at age 63 was Pictures from Home, a photographic essay featuring his mother and father, who had been forced into early retirement. The images of Sultan's father, Irving, are gut-wrenching. He is seen practicing his golf swing in his underwear in front of the TV, and sitting forlornly on the edge of his bed in a suit. He is a dejected man tossed aside by a society that no longer has a need for him. In an interview, Sultan later recounted that he had instructed his father not to smile and that in turn, his father instructed him: "Anytime you show that picture, you tell people that that's not me sitting on the bed looking all dressed up with nowhere to go, depressed. That's you sitting on the edge of the bed."
So now back to Lohan, Wittgenstein, porn, and the Tractatus—you may think that the idea of a connection there is a stretch. But to that I would merely counter that you and I choose to see things differently.
Tags: Lindsay Lohan, The Canyons, James Deen, Paul Schrader, Bret Easton Ellis, Larry Sultan, Mike Mandel, Wittgenstein, Image
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Two years of gruelling hard work has got us to Africa with our rescued lions – the 33 from circuses and Peru and Colombia are home in their native land. Enjoying more space, trees, grass, bushes and sun than they have ever experienced in their lives, they will never suffer again.
I am sitting at Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary in Limpopo, South Africa as our 33 lions roar into their second sunset in the African bush. They are in their large bonding camps, separate fenced rooms with their usual companions. In these camps they will come together again as families, we can complete dental surgeries and procedures to prevent breeding will be completed, and more. As each group becomes ready, they will be released into their 2.5-5 acre enclosures, allocated by size of pride and needs (for example our elderly and special needs individuals will have smaller enclosures). It will take at least 12 weeks before the first families move out to live forever in their own piece of the African bush. They'll return to their bonding camps each day, to be fed and can also be monitored.
Phase II of the build, the remainder of the habitats are being completed over the coming months. We've built roads into the bush, power lines, electric fencing, gates, spring-fed water ponds. We must raise a further $150,000 to finish the rest of the habitats for our 33 lions saved from lives of desperation and suffering. They deserve their chance for a peaceful life under the African sun.
Junior here, is enjoying the African bush – seeing our lions rub up against their first tree, walk through the shrubs and grass of Africa for the first time, has been stunning. A huge privilege to be here to see their world expand.
The passionate support and enthusiasm of the public across Latin America, Africa and worldwide has been truly overwhelming. We are so grateful that so many have supported this rescue and been willing to speak for the individual lions we have been so determined to give their chance of happiness – on their behalf, thank you – the Cusco family: Rey, Kiara, Smith, Amazonas, Mahla and Scarc. The Huarrals: Leo, Muñeca, Coco, Chino, Rolex, Africa, Kiara2. Brothers Rey and Simba Ayachucho. David and Rapunzel, Arequipa. They Huancayos: King, Junnior and Ricardo. The Limas: Liso, José and Joseph. The Bucaramanga, Colombia family: Barbie, Bollilo, Bumba, Junior, Easy, Shakira, Iron, Ojiclaro and Zeus.
So many helped with the cost of the flight – $10,000 per lion – special thanks to Bob Barker and DJ&T Foundation, Greater Good, Oakland Zoo, Spurlino Foundation and Bannerman Foundation, Dr Lo Sprague and Rev Dr Gwynne Guidbord and so many others – you all know who you are – who gave so much to give life and a future to these wonderful lions. Thank you all.
A busy April in Peru, Colombia, South Africa and U.S.
Everyone is going home this month! First up is Hoover the tiger's flight from Peru to his wonderful forever home at Big Cat Rescue in Florida and then towards the end of the month we hope to lock the flights for our 33 African lions from Peru and Colombia, to take them to their forever home in their native land – the amazing Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary.
The lion flight has been logistically complex, we must fly the 9 lions in northern Colombia to Bogota – Barbie, Bollilo, Bumba, Junior, Easy, Shakira, Iron, Ojiclaro and Zeus will be the first to board the Spirit of Freedom flight at Bogota. We then depart for our first stop – Lima, Peru.
In Lima, we load the 24 lions – the Cusco pride, Rey, Kiara, Scarc, Mahla, Amazonas and Smith, plus Kala; the Huarrals – Leo, Muñeca, Coco, Chino, Rolex, Africa and Kiara2; the Ayachucho brothers, Rey and Simba; the Arequipas, Rapunzel and David; the Huancayo boys – buddies King and Junior and solitary one-eyed Ricardo; the Lima boys – buddies Liso and José and partially sighted darling Joseph. They will travel in their own crates but importantly, families will be together, friends must be next to each other – our loading is complicated!
In their new homes in Africa the families will be bonding together again and the special needs boys, Joseph and Ricardo, will have enclosures with potential hazards removed and maybe some signage assistance!
We cannot thank enough the fantastic people at The Greater Good, who are working so very hard to ensure that all of our lions get sponsored on their flight to freedom – this magnificent group has already got 53,000 miles of the journey sponsored! Already funded for their ticket to freedom are Leo, Rapunzel, Liso, Kiara, David, Simba and Scarc.
Getting each lion sponsored is a huge help for a small group like ADI, as Emoya continues to build the extensive enclosures in Africa – we still have another $150,000 to pay for the final phase, but when finished, these (non-breeding) family prides and groups of friends will be together again and in more space than they have ever known. Just where they should be.
Thank you so much, Greater Good team, and all the remarkable people who have donated to help save these lions!
Fly them back to Africa!
After a lifetime of pain and suffering, we have the chance to take 33 ex-circus lions back to their native Africa. They can live as close to freedom as we can get, in natural bush enclosures at the wonderful Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary in South Africa – spending their days under the Africa sun, as intended. This is a chance to make things right, for these lions at least.
Huge thanks to Christian at The Dodo for his feature on the Spirit of Freedom circus animal rescue and our massive airlift to get the 33 ex-circus lions from Peru and Colombia, back to their native Africa!
The seizures, rescues, animal care at the temporary rescue facilities and finding homes for over 100 animals has been tough, but the outcome has been so rewarding. Who would have ever imagined seeing Cholita the spectacled bear back in the forest – and now with bears next door! And lonely spider monkey Pepe, who found happiness with Valerie; they were then joined by Samantha, Annie, Mateo and Cindy – all swinging through the trees in their own piece of rainforest. James the Military macaw has flown free, and others have moved on. Some are now in wild release projects, learning to live free.
Now it is the turn of the lions – Rey and Kiara and their family, Leo and his family, David and Rapunzel, Ricardo, Joseph, and all the others. Time for Africa.
Thanks Christian, and The Dodo, for helping!
Every ban on animal circuses is special, but there's no doubt that the passing of the ban in Mexico is a thrill; so many animals will be saved and another country joins the bans across Central and South America. The world is changing for animals. Well done, Mexico!
And what a wonderful birthday present for the remarkable and legendary Bob Barker, who has funded so many of ADI's campaigns and of course has funded a huge share of the costs of our current rescue of the wild animals from circuses in Peru – a true animal hero.
I write from our Spirit of Freedom temporary rescue centre in Peru, as we gather together the animals to be relocated to their wonderful new homes, so it seems appropriate to include a picture of one of our residents, dozing on a sunny afternoon as her new life starts to unfold before her. Thanks to the generosity of Bob Barker and thousands of our supporters who continue to give, a wonderful new home in the Amazon jungle awaits the monkeys and freedom to roam in huge enclosures in Colorado awaits our 30 lions.
We're continuing to raise funds for the monkey enclosure in the Amazon and we're looking for volunteer construction workers for January. Please keep donating and get us to the finish line!
Shameful scene in the UK Parliament yesterday as it became clear that the Government appears content to see the Wild Animals in Circuses Bill continue to be blocked by their MPs. Again, Chris Chope blocked Jim Fitzpatrick's Private Members Bill. Between them, MPs Chris Chope and Andrew Rosindell have now blocked the Bill five times. This is a measure supported by 95% of the public and our last survey found 63% support in Parliament. Such continued opposition appears contemptuous. Observers might feel the Prime Minister's words of support over the past few years look like a sham.
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Location: Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu 623526
Temple Open and Close Timing: Morning: 05:00 am to 01:00 pm
Evening: 03:00 pm to 09:00 pm.
Pooja Timings in Rameshwaram Temple:
Palliyarai Deepa Arathana : 05:00 am
Spadigalinga Deepa Arathana : 05:10 am
Thiruvananthal Deepa Arathana: 05:45 am
Vila Pooja : 07:00 am
Kalasanthi Pooja: 10:00 am
Uchikala Pooja : 12:00 noon
Sayaratcha Pooja : 06:00 pm
Arthajama Pooja : 08:30 pm
Palliyarai Pooja : 08:45 pm
Nearest Railway Station: Rameswaram Railway Station (RMM) at a distance of nearly 1 kilometres from Rameswaram Temple.
Nearest Airport: Madurai at a distance of nearly 163 kilometres from Rameswaram Temple.
Best Time to visit: October to March.
District: Ramanathapuram district
Important festival: Maha Shivaratri.
Primary deity: Ramanathaswamy (Shiva).
Did you know: Rameshwaram Temple corridor is the longest corridor in the world and which makes it unique from other Indian temples.
Rameswaram Jyotirlinga Temple is one of the main pilgrim centers of Hindus. The temple is completely dedicated to Lord Shiva. This temple is one of the Char Dhams of Hindus. It is located in Ramnathapuram district of Tamil Nadu. Jyoti Ling situated in the Rameswaram temple is one of the 12 Jyoti Ling of Lord Shiva and Rameshwaram is considered the eleventh Jyotirling. Rameshwaram is approximately four and a half miles south-east of Chennai. It is a beautiful conch shaped island surrounded by the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal.
During the 12th century, the temple was expanded by the Pandya dynasty, and its major shrines were rebuilt by Jivevara Sikkariyya and collaborated in rebuilding by the successor of the Jaffna empire, Govina Sankariyarayan. It is believed that the Shivling of Ramanathaswami (Shiva) was established by Lord Ram which was the incarnation of Lord Vishnu.
Rameshwaram corridor is the longest corridor in the world. Its wall width is 6m and height 9m is Gopuram 38.4 m at the entrance of the temple. The temple is built area about 6 hectares. The corridor of this temple is very beautiful, which exhibits the ancient art and civilization of India. The Rameswaram Temple is one of the historic temples of India and the devotees come from abroad to know the magnificence and history of this temple.
According to legend Ramayana, Lord Rama was the seventh incarnation of Lord Vishnu who killed Ravana during the Ramayana war. Ravana, who was the son of Pulastya Maharishi. He was the great devotee of Shiva and knowing the four Vedas. Because of this Ram was very much sorry after killing Ravna. They got the sin of killing Brahma-killing and he was want to wash this sin, he decided to establish Shivlinga in Rameswaram. He ordered Hanuman that he came from Himalaya with Lord Shiv Ling. When Hanuman was delayed in bringing Shivalinga, Mata Sita created a small Shivling from the sand available in the beach; this little Shivalinga is called Ramnath. Later on the arrival of Hanuman, Ram established the great Shivling of black stone at the same time near the small Shivlinga. Both of these Shivlingas are still worshiped in the main temple of Rameswaram shrine. This is the main Shivling Jyotirlinga.
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Black Nationalist Attacked Random White Family w/Machete
1. Black Hebrew Israelites are not Jews, they are a racist and antisemitic hate group that preaches hatred of white people whose members carried out two recent murderous attacks against Jews in New York and New Jersey. They were also responsible for the ugly hate in the Covington incident even as the New York Times and Washington Post defended the racist hate group and whitewashed their ugly track record.
2. These attacks were made possibly by pressure from Democrats, including Senator Cory Booker and Senator Kamala Harris not to have the FBI monitor "black identity extremists".
3. The widespread backing for black nationalist groups by governments, corporations, and major non-profits has led to an upsurge in black nationalist activity beyond Black Lives Matter, including harassment of homeowners by Moorish Sovereign Citizens, and this latest Black Hebrew Israelite killing.
Edgecombe County deputies say hate crime charges are possible in a machete attack on Friday.
The attack happened Friday around 9 a.m. at a house on Carr Farm Road in Macclesfield.
According to deputies, the suspect, identified as Carlos Antonio Washington, was waiting behind the couple's house and attacked the homeowner once the victim went inside the house.
Deputies said the homeowner fought the suspect off momentarily and deflected the machete. The homeowner's wife came out with a gun and shot at Washington – ending the attack.
This attack might lead to hate crime charges because it was senseless and there are allegations that Washington targeted a random white family.
Deputies said federal hate crime charges are possible as the suspect is a Black Hebrew Israelite who attacked a white family at random. The Anti-Defamation League said there are many sects. Some are considered extremist and are outspoken anti-Semites and racists. They're unrelated to the Jewish faith.
Meanwhile Democrats and their media continue to resist monitoring black nationalist hate groups.


Route 94 is British DJ and producer Rowan Jones from Richmond in London. The Rinse signee has worked with the likes of Skream, Benga and Katy B.
In 2014 his debut single "My Love" (featuring Jess Glynne) went to the top of the UK charts, knocking off Pharrell Williams' "Happy" in the process.


Yesterday, I tweeted a photo of a ordination I plotted with ggvegan, and thought I should show how I made it.
Ordinations can be plotted with base R (see ?plot.cca). This is fine for simple plots, but it is a lot of effort to make a complex plot. The ggvegan package, written by Gavin Simpson, lets you use the power of ggplot2 and can make complex plots easier to make.
Start by loading some packages. ggvegan will need to be installed from GitHub if you don't already have it.
I'm going to use the pyrifos dataset, which is included in vegan. The data are the abundances of aquatic invertebrates from an experiment in which twelve ditches were studies several times before and after insecticide treatment. We need to make a tibble (or a data.frame) of the predictors (dose, time and ditch ID).
We can run a principal components analysis with rda.
Simple ordination plots can be made with the autoplot function. This plot shows all the samples. This is fine, but we want to see dose and time information.
At the moment, it is difficult to do much to this plot. But we can use the fortify function from ggvegan to extract the scores from the ordination object and then combine these with the predictor data before plotting with ggplot. I'm going to colour the samples by dose, and draw a line through the samples in each ditch, with a point on the first value.
Don't forget to add coord_equal() to ensure that the plot is correctly scaled.
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Hey there everyone! My name is Christi Owiye, and I am a senior at the University of South Florida. I am majoring in Mass Communications and minoring in Africana Studies. I am so excited to be graduating this semester. It's been an amazing four years, but my time at USF is certainly expiring. At USF, I serve as the Public Relations Chair of the Black Female Development Circle, and I am so proud to be representing my chapter in the Miss Woman of Excellence Scholarship Pageant. Though I am Jamaican and Nigerian, I will be representing the gorgeous nation of Haiti, or Ayiti, for this year's pageant. It's an honor. Haiti was the first Black nation to gain independence via a slave revolt, and I hope to symbolize a nation of such pride and strength with grace and appreciation.
The Black Female Development Circle is very dear to my heart, and for this reason, it seemed inevitable that I would participate in this pageant. Within BFDC, I appreciate how unapologetic I am with my sisters. It is in my nature to be authentically me at all times, but with BFDC, this authenticity is accepted and appreciated. I enjoy our sense of humor and our ability to be supportive of one another. I serve as an executive board member for the Black Student Union as well, and my BFDC sisters ALWAYS support me at those events as well. Feeling a sense of community, honesty and support are crucial to building a sisterhood. I am elated that the USF Chapter of the Black Female Development Circle, Inc. enables me to not only be a recipient of these emotions, but a giver of them as well.
As we turn our focus towards the pageant, I feel confident that my sisters will continue to support me in all my endeavors, and I fully plan to do the same. It's always a great day to be a woman of excellence in royal purple!


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The New California Privacy & Cybersecurity Law and What it Means to You
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In July 2020, enforcement of the California Consumer Privacy Act will go into effect, and its reach will affect virtually all companies doing business in California. This new law is one of the most stringent data privacy laws in the country. If you have a business that does business in California, this is a law you MUST be familiar with.
Please join Danielle Urban and Usama Kahf of Fisher Phillips and Mitch Tanenbaum of CyberCecurity, LLC for a one hour webinar that will teach you everything you need to know about this important new law.
A quick history of the law and the people who made it happen
What the law means to you and your business
Penalties and consequences for non-compliance
Comparison with the European GDPR, which went into effect May 25, 2018
Danielle Urban, Partner, Fisher Phillips
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During July and August of 2010, Dženita Huseinovic, a print maker from Bosnia Herzegovina, Noilin O'Kelly, a multi media artist from Ireland and the Canadian musician Antoine Berthiaume were selected to be apart of CeRCCa's A.I.R program. The residency counted with the support and collaboration of Zoe Balasch, a local performing artists and collaborator of CeRCCa.
During the residency the artists visited Cal Rosal, a derelict convent outside the city of Berga where the festival Convent.0 takes place every year at the end of June. As a result of the visit, Noilin O'Kelly and Zoe Balasch developed two projects that were presented at the Convent.0 Festival the following year.
Antoine Berthiaume also collaborated with Zoe Balasch creating a performance piece that together with the work of Dženita and Noilin was presented at the exhibition Instal·lació-Acció at Espai d'Art Les Quintanes of Llorenç del Penedès in August 2010.
Dženita Huseinovic
Dženita Huseinovic is a printmaker based in Mostar. She earned both her graduate and postgraduate degrees in printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts of Sarajevo. Since 2005, she has been a member of the Association of Artists of Bosnia and Herzegovina and 'Format'. She had several solo and many group exhibitions and participated in art biennales and triennales in Bosnia and Herzegovina and abroad.
Using xylography as the primary technique and drawing inspiration from the landscape of LLorenç del Penedès, Dženita worked on a series of prints on paper, silk and linen. The works created during her residency now forms an integral part of CeRCCa space. For the exhibition, Dženita created an installation mimicking her studio where the process of the xylography technique was made available to the public.
Noilin O'Kelly graduated with an MFA from Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design in London and has exhibited in Barcelona, Dublin, London, Berlin and Beijing. She is currently in the last year of her PhD studies, Media by Practice, at the NCAD in Dublin (Ireland).
The main area of focus in Noilin's work is the exploration of the uncanny within heterotopy spaces. She examines whether media and lens based art creates a separate space in order to answer questions relating to our own existence and the sense of identity and place within the world. She examines these concepts by using large-scale photography and video, and by continuously referencing duplicity, complicity, recognition, repetition and mirror imagery. During her residency at CeRCCa, Noilin developed creative autobiographic research inspired by the image and perception of different human organs. From the subjective interpretation of the aesthetics and simbology of these organs, Noilin created a body of work using different artistic techniques, such as sculpture, photography and drawing.
During his time at CeRCCa, Antoine composed a series of pieces for solo guitar inspired by his background in classical music and also related to vernacular music and folk. His work is yet to be released as a study on time and space, exploring the many possibilities of the guitar. A total of 10 pieces were written during his two residencies at CeRCCa in 2010 and 2011.


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The vast majority of us will have suffered some sort of headache at some point in our lives, but how many of us know what a headache is exactly? Or which one we are suffering from?
'Headache' is a catch all term for what are in fact several distinct different types. Most headaches that we will experience (that is, not caused by an underlying illness) will fall into one of the three primary types: tension type headaches, migraines, and cluster headaches.
Tension type headaches can feel like an aching, tight pressure or pressing pain in your head. This can be around the whole head, on the sides, or at the back of your head and neck. The pain may feel like a tight band around your head, and your neck muscles may also feel tight.
Migraines are less common than tension type headaches, and often feel a lot more severe. They're characterised as a throbbing pain at the front or the sides of the head. Migraines can also come with a number of other unpleasant symptoms, such as painful sensitivity to light and sound, nausea and vomiting.
Cluster Headaches are a rare form of headache that can be experienced in 'clusters', of a few weeks or months at a time. These are extremely painful, usually focusing on the area around and behind one eye, causing intense pain, as well as a blocked/runny nose, and red, watering eyes.
There are certain triggers associated with all types of headaches, such as stress, tiredness, and particular foods and drinks. However, different types have different causes, and can be a result of different factors. Migraines are thought to be caused by temporary changes in the chemicals and blood vessels in the brain, but they can be very hard to predict, both in terms of frequency, and as to who is susceptible. Similarly, scientists are still learning lots more about cluster headaches,whichare thought to be caused by a widening of the blood vessels in the brain, caused by a part of the brain (the hypothalamus) releasing certain chemicals. Interestingly, eight out of ten sufferers of cluster headaches are male, and almost all are smokers.
A lot more is understood about tension type headaches, which are associated with the muscles around the head, neck and face. When these muscles are strained substances called prostaglandins are released at the site of the muscle strain that stimulate pain receptors, causing you to feel the headache. So when this happens, it serves as a warning that your body is being damaged. The pain alerts us to act quickly to try to prevent further damage. Several triggers are believed to be the causes of tension type headaches. These include: stress, anxiety and poor posture, so a headache could even be caused by sitting in an uncomfortable position. Bright sunlight, loud noises, dehydration and squinting may be also be triggers of a tension type headache.
There are several measures you can take that can help. They include relaxation techniques, improving your posture and avoiding triggers that may be causing your headache. If you believe you are suffering from migraines or cluster headaches, then seek advice from a medical professional, but if you think you might be suffering from a tension type headache, you may also wish to consider using pain relief.
Finally, remember that if you are in any doubt about what to do for your headache, always seek professional help from doctors and/or pharmacists. If the headache has come on following a head injury, becomes severe or you're experiencing visual problems, fever, nausea or slurred speech, contact your doctor straight away.


Modern Top-Down Knitting by Kristina McGowan, photography by Gudrun Georges, pub. Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2010.
Although this book includes simplified instructions (with color photos!) of a few choice techniques from Barbara Walker's legendary Knitting from the Top, it might be more aptly titled Modern Couture Knitting. Its reliance on seamstress techniques such as trim and elastic cord and its inclusion of a belt and jewelry which have no identifiable top (as well as a scarf and two pairs of armwarmers, one of which is worked in the opposite direction from the other) make the current title seem out of place.
But the book's 26 designs are lovely, simple, and classic. The simplicity of the knitting makes the sweaters, dresses, and hats a perfect introduction to top-down knitting, while the faux seams, trim, and other finishing techniques lend a dressmaker-like quality. McGowan feels that the time saved not sewing the pieces together can be used giving the pieces elegant final touches.
With chest sizes from 26 to nearly 54", hip sizes from 34 to 59", and three sizes for most of the hats, many knitters should be able to find a piece to make for themselves. McGowan also includes customization tips throughout the book.
The Wrap-It-Up Dress at left is trimmed with silk ribbon (above) which will show when the dress opens slightly. Its belt is crocheted in two pieces, attached to the dress, and threaded through a slit opening on one side for security. The Cecily Sweater at right obtains its gathers from elastic cord. The garment is knit in pieces and sewn together afterward.
I love the Pavement Jacket pictured below, which can be worn with the collar up or down. Described as tailored, the empire waistband is done in twisted garter stitch with no decreases. The hip shaping is all done on the same row.
Photo tutorials for both top-down and finishing techniques are well laid out and clearly explained. McGowan also works with dyes to get her desired effects, and provides clear instructions to guide the knitter.
The photography by Gudrun Georges is exemplary. Models are well-lit and backdrops well-chosen. The Chrysler Skirt was knit in a dark color and worn with a dark slip, which diminished the effect of the chevron lace, but McGowan recommends a bright slip in the introduction to the design if the wearer wants to highlight the yarnovers.
This book is ideal for the knitter who either has or knows someone with sophisticated taste, or the knitter who would like to extend finishing skills to include needle-and-thread sewing and inserting elastic cord and pipe cleaners for shaping.
This lovely book, beautifully photographed, would also look at home on the coffee table of anyone interested in fashion.
Disclosure: Kangath reviewed a copy of Modern Top-Down Knitting from her library. Kangath was not compensated for the preceding review. All opinions expressed in the review are the blog author's and are not necessarily the opinions of Stewart, Tabori & Chang or Kristina McGowan.


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This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World
Mary Savig with Nora Atkinson and Anya Montiel. Foreword by Stephanie Stebich and contributions by several artists.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, in association with D Giles Limited, London
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This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World showcases American craft like never before. Accompanying a 2022 exhibition of the same name, it features artists' stories of resilience, methods of activism, and highlights craft's ability to spark essential conversations about race, gender, and representation. This book marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery, the nation's preeminent center for the enjoyment of American craft. It honors the history of the American studio craft movement while also introducing progressive contemporary narratives.
This Present Moment highlights the often-overlooked histories and contributions of women, people of color, and other marginalized communities. The volume features many of the more than two hundred recently acquired artworks to the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection.
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The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, in association with Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford
Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano presents a broad exploration of American engagement with Venice's art world in the late nineteenth century. During this time, Americans in Venice not only encountered a floating city of palaces, museums, and churches, but also countless shop windows filled with dazzling specimens of brightly colored glass. This lavishly illustrated book examines exquisitely crafted glass pieces alongside paintings, watercolors, and prints of the same era by American artists who found inspiration in Venice, including Frank Duveneck, Ellen Day Hale, Thomas Moran, Maria Oakey Dewing, Robert Frederick Blum, Charles Caryl Coleman, Louise Cox, Maurice Prendergast, and Maxfield Parrish, in addition to John Singer Sargent and James McNeill Whistler.
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¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now
Publisher: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, in association with Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford
A groundbreaking look at how Chicano graphic artists and their collaborators have used their art to imagine and sustain identities and political viewpoints during the past half century.
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Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020
Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020 features artists Lauren Fensterstock, Timothy Horn, Debora Moore, and Rowland Ricketts.
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Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture
Smithsonian American Art Museum in association with Princeton University Press
Explorer and scientist Alexander von Humboldt left a lasting impression on American visual arts, sciences, literature, and politics.
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Ginny Ruffner: Reforestation of the Imagination
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Ginny Ruffner offers tongue-in-cheek descriptions of her fanciful flowers in this interactive "field guide."
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From red dirt high atop Howell Mountain, this Cabernet Sauvignon is a consistent marvel. Bellissimo.
Genoese native Dino Dina christened his Howell Mountain vineyard Cimarossa (pronounced Chimarossa), Italian for "red hilltop." A very special site indeed, where grapes and olive trees grow side by side in soil composed primarily of red volcanic rock and dust. Not much can be cultivated on these steep slopes, rising from 1,800 to 2,300 feet in elevation. The grape clusters are small, the berries are tiny and the flavors are huge.
The Cimarossa Cabernet Sauvignon is generally a fast, smooth fermentation. We know this fruit well and like to get it fermenting as quickly as possible after harvest, with less total time in tank than we use for the rest of our Cabernets. We do this to keep from extracting too much of the big, Howell Mountain tannins. The resulting wine is nicely extracted, while the shorter fermentation allows the sweet fruit to stay at the forefront. We tend to like to age the wine in almost all-new, medium toast Darnajou barrels.
The 2016 Cimarossa Cabernet continues the lineage we been developing for 15 years. This is a true Howell Mountain Cabernet. It is not to drink immediately, it demands and deserves your full attention. This is a wine of structure, immense depth and richness that will age and improve for years. It is all about black fruits, smoke, slow-cooked meats and mouth-filling richness. This is a wine to savor with the best of friends over a decadent meal.


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31 in 31: Top Ten Prospects Vol. 5 – Calgary Flames
December 6, 2018 by Alex Hobson, posted in Calgary Flames
Welcome back to my 31 in 31 top ten prospect series.
Yesterday, we took a dive into the Buffalo Sabres farm system that consisted of a healthy mix of youth looking to prove themselves, borderline NHLers, and long-term projects. This list was highlighted by Lawrence Pilut, Victor Olofsson, and Rasmus Asplund. Today, we're going to head north of the border and look at what the Calgary Flames have going on in terms of prospects. Without further ado, let's dive in.
1. Juuso Valimaki (D, 1st Round, 16th Overall in 2017)
Valimaki came into the picture back in 2017 as a first round pick while playing for the Tri-City Americans. The 6'2 Nokia, Finland native played out his final WHL season last year and after putting up points at over a point-per-game pace, the Flames decided he was ready for the NHL immediately and he skipped the AHL entirely. He's currently played 22 NHL games and registered a goal and an assist.
2. Dillon Dube (RW, 2nd Round, 56th Overall in 2016)
Dube was a projected first round pick in the ever stacked 2016 NHL Draft but he slipped all the way to 56th overall where the Flames were more than happy to pick him up. Though recently assigned to the AHL, Dube has already gained 20 games of NHL experience (with five points in that span) and it's likely not the last that he'll see this season.
3. Andrew Mangiapane (LW, 6th Round, 166th Overall in 2015)
A small forward out of Bolton, Ontario, Mangiapane has been consistently proving that he can handle the AHL. Putting up 46 points in 39 games with the Stockton Heat last season and 14 points in 13 games this season, the former Barrie Colt is on the brink of making the bigs full-time. He's appeared in 12 games thus far but hasn't managed a single point yet.
4. Oliver Kylington (D, 2nd Round, 60th Overall in 2015)
In incredibly early 2015 draft rankings, scouts had Kylington projected to go in the top five. Despite this, his play faltered and he ended up slipping to 60th overall for the Flames to grab him. His offensive totals were mediocre for the last few seasons, but he's truly broken out this season, putting up 14 games in 18 games for the Stockton Heat. He's also had the fortune of appearing in four NHL games, but hasn't put up any points in that span.
5. Jon Gillies (G, 3rd Round, 75th Overall in 2012)
Gillies has been the Flames number one goalie prospect for quite some time right now. He would typically be much higher on the list, but his incredibly slow start to the 2018-19 AHL season caused him to drop. After a number of successful AHL campaigns, Gillies currently sports a record of 4-7-0 with a .856 save percentage and a 4.26 goals against average. Still, he's had enough successful AHL seasons and a decent NHL stint to keep him in a somewhat respectable position on the list.
6. Glenn Gawdin (C, 4th Round, 116th Overall in 2015)
After a successful final season of absolutely ripping up the WHL with the Swift Current Broncos, the 6'1 Richmond native is in his first AHL season with Calgary where he currently has 11 points in 23 games. Given his solid size and the fact that he plays centre, he has a good amount of value and has a good place in the Flames organization.
7. Adam Ruzicka (C, 4th Round, 109th Overall in 2017)
Speaking of centres that have good size, Ruzicka is another guy who's off to a solid start this season. The 6'4 Slovakian currently has 27 points in 28 games for the Sarnia Sting of the OHL and is playing in what could be his final junior season. The Flames have the option to move him to the AHL after this year or let him play out his overage season in junior, so next season and thus the next step remains unconfirmed for Ruzicka.
8. Matthew Phillips (C, 6th Round, 166th Overall in 2016)
Everyone loves the story of a guy going to play for his hometown team, right? Well this could very well be the case for Phillips. Born and raised in Calgary, he played out his final WHL season captaining the Victoria Royals last season and is off to a solid start in the AHL with nine points in his first 20 games. Standing at a measly 5'7 and 154 lbs, the only thing holding him back is his size. But smaller players have defied odds in the past before and Phillips could certainly continue that trend.
9. D'Artagnan Joly (RW, 6th Round, 171st Overall in 2017)
Even if D'Artagnan Joly doesn't make a name for himself in the NHL, he already has one of the best names in recent memory, so he can hold that close to him. In all seriousness, Joly is off to a good start with the Baie-Comeau Drakkar of the QMJHL this year with 23 points in 29 games. His size on the right-wing could help shoot him up the depth charts as he develops his game.
10. Spencer Foo (RW, Undrafted, Signed in 2017)
Another owner of an awesome name, Spencer Foo generated tons of interest after an incredible finish to the season with Union College of the NCAA in 2016-17. He's producing at a decent pace with 14 points in 23 games for the Stockton Heat, but at age 24 he will likely need to up his totals if he wants to maintain a good spot on the depth chart.
Thanks for reading! Tune in tomorrow where we'll take an extended look at the Carolina Hurricanes' top ten prospects.
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By Michael Gallucci on Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 4:00 am
The Kid From Cleveland
The real-life pennant-winning Indians (including Bob Feller, Lou Boudreau, Hank Greenberg, and Satchel Paige) show up in this 1949 movie about a baseball team helping a troubled teen. The kid is played by Russ Tamblyn, who was in West Side Story, The War of the Gargantuas, and Twin Peaks, and is the father of Amber Tamblyn, last seen in 127 Hours. Ancient scenes featuring Municipal Stadium, the art museum, and other Cleveland spots make this a must-see for locals, even if the movie itself is kinda crappy. At the Cinematheque at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 21. — Michael Gallucci
Dumbstruck
Documentary about ventriloquists and their dummies. One of the movie's subjects, a former Mrs. Ohio America (double score!), will be on hand to answer questions after the screening. And yes, her dummy will be there too. Triple score! Cleveland Museum of Art's Morley Lecture Hall. At 6:45 p.m. Friday, July 22.
The First Beautiful Thing
A professor returns to his hometown to take care of his dying mom, whose wild and crazy life is chronicled over 40 years. Think her reckless behavior back in the day screwed up her misanthropic son? Duh! Cinematheque. At 7:35 p.m. Friday, July 22, and 9:25 p.m. Saturday, July 23.
In a Better World
This year's Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film centers on two troubled Danish boys whose messed-up lives collide. Cinematheque. At 5:15 p.m. Friday, July 22, and 7:05 p.m. Saturday, July 23.
Onibaba
Japanese horror movie from 1964 about two women who kill samurai for their armor. Cinematheque. At 9:55 p.m. Friday, July 22, and 5 p.m. Saturday, July 23.
Classic from 1954 about a high-ranking dude who's sent into exile. Cleveland Museum of Art's Morley Lecture Hall. At 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 20.
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Top 5 K-Dramas for Learning About Korean Society and Culture
New K-dramas get released every year but which one should you watch and how much can you learn about Korean culture from the plot? Here are our top 5 K-dramas to watch to learn more about Korean society.
5. Itaewon Class
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Watch on: Netflix
This drama depicts the life of an ex-convict who wants to prove himself within society and build his own company. Park Saeroyi goes against the biggest food company in Korea (Jangga Group) to avenge his father's death.
You're probably wondering why this drama is ranked 5th out those chosen. Although the drama touches upon the topics of transgender and race, the main story between Park Saeroyi and his relationship with the opposition dragged on quite a bit… However, the ways in which the topics were addressed was very strong and surprising to see in a K-drama. We found it refreshing and liked how Ma Hyuni's and Toni's stories were told. It's also nice to see Korean society opening up.
4. My ID is Gangnam Beauty
Watch on: Netflix or Viki
The drama portrays a young girl (Kang Mirae) who isn't happy with her appearance and lives her life being tormented by bullies until she receives plastic surgery and begins university life.
The drama itself is rather meaningful and delivers a powerful message of not judging people based on their looks, a growing issue in today's society. It's one of the most realistic dramas we found and shows beauty isn't just skin deep, but rather comes from within. It's well known that Asia has high plastic surgery rates relative to the rest of the world and we believe this drama is an important watch, especially if you're in an environment where you feel pressured to get surgery. Plus who can resist watching a drama with Astro's Cha Eun-woo!
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Watch on: Viki
This drama revolves around three women in their late 30s who all work in the search engine industry. The main character (Bae Tami) is fired from her job at Unicon and accepts a job offer from rival company Barro. Bae Tami and her team members at Barro compete against Unicon using the "Portal of Ethics" and eventually convince the CEO at Unicon to be just.
This drama is one of our favourites as it addresses a lot of social issues as well as the kind of experiences gained whilst working in Korea. The CEOs of both companies take completely different directions to become successful (some more ethical than others) but eventually work together to achieve justice. This drama begs a relatable question in today's society: where there are two different paths you can travel to become successful, are you able to distinguish which path is morally right and which one is wrong?
2. It's OK, That's Love
This story follows the relationship between a writer and a psychiatrist who both suffer from mental illness due to childhood trauma. Both protagonists help each other along their journey of acceptance within society and eventually develop a romantic relationship.
Although a love story at heart, the narrative also revolves around how mental illness is treated in Korea and how people live with them. It goes further in addressing other topics such as the transgender movement, gender roles and more in ways that allow audience to empathise. The drama is a true masterpiece and will never be forgotten by K-drama fans the world over.
1. SKY Castle
SKY is an abbreviation for the top 3 universities in South Korea - Seoul National, Korea and Yonsei University. SKY Castle highlights an important issue in Korea - Education - by diving into the extremes that parents will go to in order for their children to get into the top universities.
Relative to most of the other dramas in this list romance isn't actually the main focus, which is rather refreshing to see in the K-drama industry. The show emphasises that family should be there for you and support you whether you're academic or not. Towards the end of the drama you can actually see changes begin to occur within each family and within society itself. A definite must watch!
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Warsaw: What is it good for? Poland's role in the climate change talks
I just arrived in Warsaw, joining the Oxfam team that must already be part exhausted by the first three days of the climate change talks here. I've been pretty wary about this event, not being able to square the contradictions of having a climate conference in the capital of a country whose government has consistently blocked progress on European climate action, at a time where all signs – global and local, scientific and mainstream, from business and communities – are pointing to a desire for a decisive shift towards low carbon futures and economies that can deal with the impact of a changing climate.
Poland out of touch
Polish politicians are out of touch with what is going on in the world and in their own country. Poland's Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, refuses to accept that coal has no place in a 2 degrees world, and appears to have no plans to reduce Poland's dependency for 90% of its energy provision on coal.
That's also the reason Poland keeps blocking an increase in the European climate target, even though Europe has pretty much already achieved the goals it has set for itself in 2020 – seven years early.
Most recently it has also set up a Climate4Growth campaign, supported by the Polish Foreign Ministry to influence European ambition on 2030 climate policy, and not in a good way.
Special consideration?
The Polish government says it needs special consideration because it is a country in transition and still needs to prioritise growth. It claims some undeserved credit for having reduced emissions – undeserved because these resulted from economic restructuring post-communism, not because of climate policy – since 2002, emissions have actually gone up 8%.
Polish ministers often claim that they are closer to the position of developing countries than 'richer' EU member states when it comes to climate policy, as developing countries all want 'space' to grow and 'time' to adjust.
Poland dragging its feet
But Poland has it all wrong. Developing countries are crying out for slashing emissions faster and steeper. Impassioned pleas by those from countries most affected by devastating extreme weather events appeal to emitters – historic and current – to act now; they are not asking for more time. Instead, many of them are taking action themselves. The Pacific Island States, some of the poorest and most vulnerable countries in the world, and least responsible for emissions, recently committed to reduce emissions and speed up the development of renewable energy systems. While Poland takes barely any action to reduce its dependency on dirty coal, a country like China has just committed to reduce the portion of coal in the energy mix to 65% by 2017. Climate action is taking place across the globe yet the Polish government is losing all credibility by dragging its feet and actively constraining the EU's position.
The Polish government is not only out of touch with what's happening in developing countries, it also doesn't represent its own people – more than 89% of Polish people want to leave coal behind and support renewable energy instead. Our colleagues at Polish Humanitarian Action (PAH) will surely continue to bolster support from the Polish people for action, by highlighting how climate change wrecks food systems and causes hunger in the poorest and most vulnerable countries. And watch out for an upcoming stunt with a Polish celeb later this week!
So where to on climate policy
But where does all this leave us, as we need the 19th climate conference to be a key building stone to the global agreement we need to create in Paris in 2015? Of course, it's not just up to the Polish presidency – we need to see all parties in this together. The Orwellian world in which countries clain to take climate action while repealing climate policies, as the Australians just have done, is of course one that not just the Polish government is responsible for. The Polish government says it has prioritised climate finance for this conference as a key outcome.
We agree that climate finance is key at this COP, that we need a global plan outlining the key steps for how rich countries will meet the $100bn commitment by 2020, and that new money needs to be committed in the short term, particularly for adaptation. For starters, the Polish presidency would make a great signal if it were to pledge money itself into the UN Adaptation Fund and Green Climate Fund and put pressure on other rich countries to do the same.
But with Poland's track record on ducking the need for steep emissions cuts, the focus on climate finance should not be a distracting tactic to put the spotlight elsewhere. One cannot buy its way out of climate action – as the Japanese reportedly is planning to do by the end of this week.
Poland must not be allowed to distract negotiations or derail climate action in Europe and elsewhere. Poland risks being sidelined if they do not focus on ensuring the summit makes real steps towards delivering a global climate deal in 2015. They have to take these talks seriously.
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The Ink Fades for Mumbai's Last Letter Writers
Illustration: Akshita Monga
By Parthshri Arora Aug. 17, 2017
Men who once traced their lineage to scribes from the Mughal era, the letter writers of Mumbai are now forced to pack parcels for a living.
Situated in South Mumbai's grand Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus area, the General Post Office is an imperious figure. The black basalt and yellow Kurla stone building looks like a forgotten heirloom, with its central dome dominating the surrounding skyline. The structure has been here since 1913, and one of its oldest friends, Sajal Nath, has been giving it business for the last 35 years.
Nath is one of the few letter writers left in the area now. For a brief moment in time, people like Nath populated the streets around the post office, armed with their pens, helping the unlettered communicate with their families. They'd write money orders to old parents with specific instructions on how to use it and where to store it; letters from daughters informing parents about an unwanted pregnancy; pained missives from longing husbands sent to waiting wives.
Nath came to Mumbai in 1982, after he got mad at his parents. He then broke open his Amul ghee box, emptied it of all his savings and booked a ticket to the city. "In those days we had to wait for 10-12 days after booking to get a ticket. I stayed with a school friend once I arrived," he told me. Nath had completed high school and was able to write basic English, but his strength, and what gave him employability in the city of dreams was his ability to read and write Bengali.
The man who was the voice of uneducated Bengali immigrants during a time when communication was analogue, now bides his days seated on a rickety wooden stool near a shop called Ashapora Travels. He sits with his supplies – a blue polythene containing a cutter, a large piece of cloth, tape, markers, wax, needles, and a solitary pen – in front of an empty wooden stool, where his customers once sat and poured their hearts out.
In her book, The Lost Generation: Chronicling India's Dying Professions, Nidhi Dugar Kundalia references historian Hajaf Haidar, who traced back these letter writers to the kitabs (scribes) of the Mughal era. These men were among the few who could read and they wrote letters for royals and commoners alike. Things are different today though, as email and WhatsApp have eliminated the need for letter writers, forcing 54-year- old Nath and his ilk to pivot professionally.
In 1995, the new postmaster general waltzed in and asked the letter writers to vacate the premises outside the various gates of the GPO. Displaced from the footpath they have occupied for decades, the letter writers scattered around the intersection between the GPO and Fort Bazaar.
At the intersection, a bunch of pigeons explodes in flight every few minutes and comes to rest on a large tree, whose biggest branch provides a little shade outside the kabootarkhana enclosure. Enjoying the shade, because there isn't much else to do, is 70-year-old Parshuram Mukhla Chauhan. Chauhan arrived in Mumbai in 1974, from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh at the behest of his uncle who promised him a sarkaari naukri as a teller. But his uncle had lied; there was no job, and Chauhan was forced to fend for himself. Being moderately educated, Chauhan joined a burgeoning group of letter writers. He is the oldest writer here, one who has seen quite a bit. "I started writing letters for ₹2 in '74," he tells me. The price of their words could go up to ₹500 in the early '90's, if it included translations and packaging of parcels. "Everyone told us their secrets," he tells me with a fading smile. "Now no one asks for us."
Joining this motley crew is Shakil Ahmed, whose constituency was Mumbai's Tamil population. I stayed close to him for about an hour as he bargained with a customer over a parcel, trying to get ₹120 from the initial ₹100 promised. "I'm used to you guys," he tells me dismissively. "I have given 50 interviews but nothing happens. Journalists come here, get masala for their columns, and nothing happens," he adds, before shooing me away. We are not important, he repeats over and over again.
Ahmed's anger and contempt is justified. Like his colleagues, he finds himself hopelessly outmoded in a world, gamed out by emojis and online transactions. What was once a profession of pride, has now been reduced to "manual work", earning them anywhere from ₹100-300 a day. It's not enough to feed themselves, let alone their families.
As the sun folded into the clouds for the tenth time that day, the sadness of these men hits me with an extraordinary force. These letter writers who once tied together people in lands far away, holding their secrets close to their hearts, struggle to keep up with the churn of history.
Evolution, as history has taught us, remains undefeated. One just wishes it was a little more forgiving.
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Weekend Staffer Shortfalls Increase Hospital MI Mortality
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- A weekend admission to the hospital with a heart attack is associated with higher death rates and less use of percutaneous coronary interventions, researchers reported.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., March 14 -- A weekend admission to the hospital with a heart attack is associated with higher death rates and less use of percutaneous coronary interventions, according to researchers here.
Thirty-day mortality for myocardial infarction patients admitted on the weekend to a New Jersey hospital was 0.9% worse than that for patients admitted during the week, representing nine to 10 additional deaths per 1,000 admissions per year.
Weekend patients were also one-third less likely to receive percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) on admission than patients who arrived on weekdays, William Kostis, Ph.D., of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey here, and colleagues, reported in the March 15 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
In an accompanying editorial, Donald Redelmeier, M.D., and Chaim Bell, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Toronto, noted that even a casual observations of hospital parking lots on weekends suggest that staffing shortfalls may prevail, indicating that the intensity of medical care on weekends does not match that provided on the other five days of the week.
The researchers analyzed mortality differences for 231,164 patients admitted to percutaneous coronary intervention-equipped New Jersey hospitals on weekends and weekdays from 1987 to 2002, grouped into four-year intervals. Data came from the Myocardial Infarction Data Acquisition System.
There were no significant differences in demographic characteristics, coexisting conditions, or infarction site between patients admitted on weekends and those admitted on weekdays. However, patients admitted on weekends were less likely to undergo invasive cardiac procedures, especially on the first and second days of hospitalization (P
The proportion of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention was significantly lower for weekend admissions than for weekday admissions during the first week after admission (P
An awareness of shortfalls in weekend hospital care has implications for patients regardless of economic policy, they said, adding this advice for patients:
First, patients who feel unwell during the week should not wait to see whether they feel better during the weekend.
Second, if they are unsure of how sick they may be, they should make contact with their doctor by Friday, when staffers are more available.
Third, if patients are hit by an emergency on the weekend, they should go to the hospital. Patients who have a heart attack, for example, are far safer receiving weekend hospital care than staying at home.
"The article by Kostis et al. shows that there is a specific way to improve cardiac care in hospitals: provide better treatment for acute myocardial infarction on weekends," Drs. Redelmeier and Bell concluded.


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York Museums Trust receive £850,000 from the Government's Cultural Recovery Fund
York Museums Trust have received £850,000 from the Government's Cultural Recovery Fund to help the charity survive the next six months.
The Trust was one of more than 1,300 cultural and creative organisations across the country who found out on Monday (October 12) that they had been successful in applying to the scheme which was funded by the Treasury but distributed through Arts Council England.
The money will help York Museums Trust remain financially viable in the immediate future, having already sustained losses of more than £1.8 million because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Reyahn King, chief executive of York Museums Trust, said: "This is a huge boost to York Museums Trust and will help sustain us as a charity as we continue to struggle with the significant financial challenges ahead. "We are greatly aware of how important the museums and collections in our care are to the people and communities of York and to the city as a whole as a cultural destination. This funding will enable us to keep York Castle Museum, York Art Gallery and York Museum Gardens partially open until Spring 2021 and to invest in fundraising to help bring in additional income and support. It is our ambition to rebuild, as audiences and income hopefully increase as we head into Summer 2021."
Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said: "This funding is a vital boost for the theatres, music venues, museums and cultural organisations that form the soul of our nation. It will protect these special places, save jobs and help the culture sector's recovery.
"These places and projects are cultural beacons the length and breadth of the country. This unprecedented investment in the arts is proof this government is here for culture, with further support to come in the days and weeks ahead so that the culture sector can bounce back strongly."
Chair, Arts Council England, Sir Nicholas Serota, said:
"Theatres, museums, galleries, dance companies and music venues bring joy to people and life to our cities, towns and villages. This life-changing funding will save thousands of cultural spaces loved by local communities and international audiences. Further funding is still to be announced and we are working hard to support our sector during these challenging times."
The Trust was one of 1,385 cultural and creative organisations who applied for survival funding of less than £1 million from a pot of £257 million, which is part of the Government's £1.57bn Cultural Recovery Fund announced in July. Further rounds of funding in the cultural and heritage sector are due to be announced over the coming weeks.
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