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Pramod Sawant says no to Goa's Sunburn music festival this year.
by Amanda Perry November 24, 2021, 6:29 pm 22 Views
Pramod Sawant says no to Goa's Sunburn music festival this year.
The Goa government has refused permission to hold the Sunburn celebration planned to be held one month from now.
The electronic dance live concert was likely scheduled for December 27-29 at Vagator.
The Goa government has refused permission to hold the Sunburn celebration planned to be held one month from now, chief minister Pramod Sawant said on Wednesday.
The electronic dance live concert was likely planned for December 27-29 at Vagator, a seaside town in North Goa.
The organizers, who promoted a virtual live concert 'Sunburn for Goa' last year to raise assets for Covid-19, as of late began tolerating appointments during the current year's celebration, fully expecting government endorsement.
Sawant didn't expand on why he chose to dismiss authorization for the celebration.
"We have not permitted Sunburn this year… This time, we have not allowed Sunburn. My office has as of now handled the record," Pramod Sawant told journalists after a bureau meeting.
Goa, the tourism minister Manohar Ajgaonkar, said he supported holding the celebration; however, he will regard the chief minister's decision.
"I felt that it ought to be held. I needed it to occur. What individuals need ought to occur," Ajgaonkar said; however, he underlined that it was the chief minister's call to make, not his.
"The chief minister has taken a choice in the wake of concentrating on the matter. I can't make any choice without final permission from the chief minister.
CM has not educated me about dismissing the record yet," he said, adding that the leading pastor's office was better educated with regards to the ground circumstance to the extent that the Covid-19 pandemic was thought of.
"The document had come to us, and we had sent it to (chief minister's office) for a choice. The CM takes an official conclusion," Ajgaonkar said
The Sunburn celebration that draws a large number of music lovers was not held to keep going year under the pandemic after beginning endeavors by the coordinators to have the celebration.
The celebration was first coordinated in Goa in 2007. As indicated by its site, north of 2 million individuals from 51 nations have traveled to Goa over the years to go to the celebration.
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As you are prepping for a winter getaway or spring break you may think that visiting a tanning salon to begin building your tan sounds like a good idea. Well, think again.
As you are prepping for a winter getaway or spring break you may think that visiting a tanning salon to begin building your tan sounds like a good idea. Well, think again. Tanning beds are just as risky as actual sun exposure (maybe even more!). Here is what you need to know about the dangers of indoor tanning.
This is serious stuff ladies-- even with all the warnings about the dangers of sun exposure, women are continuing to visit tanning beds (particularly teens and college students). The reality is that tanning beds emit both UVA and UVB rays. UV radiation (from the sun and tanning beds) has been declared a carcincogen (meaning it causes cancer). The amount of radiation produced during indoor tanning is similar to the sun, and in some cases might be stronger. Exposure to UV radiation from indoor tanning can increase your risk of skin cancer, cause premature skin aging, eye damage and skin burns.
There are groups trying to push legislation that will restrict the use of tanning beds by minors and even make indoor tanning illegal. The American Academy of Dermatology Association (AADA) opposes indoor tanning and supports a ban on the production of indoor tanning equipment for non-medical uses. The FDA warns consumers to avoid tanning beds and groups like the World Health Organization and the AADA support the tightening of tanning bed regulations and practices, including things like restricting use by minors, limiting tanning times and clarifying safety warnings used on tanning beds and in tanning salons.
Some people believe that tanning before getting a tan in the (real) sun decreases your chance of burning and is therefore safer. The idea is that getting a base tan increases the amount of melanin (protective pigment) in your skin, which will in turn protect you from further UV damage. While this idea might seem logical, there are some problems with this theory. First, while it's true that melanin does protect skin from getting burned, it is not substantial. Tanned skin is damaged skin. According to the American Academy of Dermatology, people who tan frequently are more prone to skin cancer than people who avoid sun exposure. They also point out that tanning causes premature skin aging and can lead to wrinkling and a leathery appearance.
With the increased use of sunscreen and the backlash against sun exposure, there has been a rise in the concern of Vitamin D deficiency and the indoor tanning industry is helping to endorse this claim. It is true that UV exposure does stimulate your body to naturally produce Vitamin D and a deficiency in this vitamin could lead to health issues. However, UV exposure is not the way to go about getting your Vitamin D (I think you get the idea that UV exposure is not safe). Dermatologists, doctors and researchers recommend getting your dose of Vitamin D through a healthy diet. Good sources of Vitamin D include egg yolks, wild salmon, and vitamin D-fortified cereals, yogurt, skim milk and OJ.
Tanning (both indoor and outdoor) is not safe and can have some serious consequences. If you are outdoors, protect yourself from sun exposure by using sunscreen (SPF 30 or higher), reapplying frequently and wearing a hat and sunglasses. If you are looking for a little extra color invest in a sunless tanner and bronzer to give your skin that sun-kissed glow without the sun!
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Security.Principal;
using EventStore.Common.Log;
using EventStore.Core.Messaging;

namespace EventStore.Core.Services.Transport.Tcp
{
    public abstract class TcpDispatcher: ITcpDispatcher
    {
        private static readonly ILogger Log = LogManager.GetLoggerFor<TcpDispatcher>();

        private readonly Func<TcpPackage, IEnvelope, IPrincipal, string, string, TcpConnectionManager, Message>[] _unwrappers;
        private readonly IDictionary<Type, Func<Message, TcpPackage>> _wrappers;

        protected TcpDispatcher()
        {
            _unwrappers = new Func<TcpPackage, IEnvelope, IPrincipal, string, string, TcpConnectionManager, Message>[255];
            _wrappers = new Dictionary<Type, Func<Message, TcpPackage>>();
        }

        protected void AddWrapper<T>(Func<T, TcpPackage> wrapper) where T : Message
        {
            _wrappers[typeof(T)] = x => wrapper((T)x);
        }

        protected void AddUnwrapper<T>(TcpCommand command, Func<TcpPackage, IEnvelope, T> unwrapper) where T : Message
        {
            _unwrappers[(byte)command] = (pkg, env, user, login, pass, conn) => unwrapper(pkg, env);
        }

        protected void AddUnwrapper<T>(TcpCommand command, Func<TcpPackage, IEnvelope, TcpConnectionManager, T> unwrapper) where T : Message
        {
            _unwrappers[(byte)command] = (pkg, env, user, login, pass, conn) => unwrapper(pkg, env, conn);
        }

        protected void AddUnwrapper<T>(TcpCommand command, Func<TcpPackage, IEnvelope, IPrincipal, T> unwrapper) where T : Message
        {
            _unwrappers[(byte)command] = (pkg, env, user, login, pass, conn) => unwrapper(pkg, env, user);
        }

        protected void AddUnwrapper<T>(TcpCommand command, Func<TcpPackage, IEnvelope, IPrincipal, string, string, T> unwrapper) where T : Message
        {
            _unwrappers[(byte)command] = (pkg, env, user, login, pass, conn) => unwrapper(pkg, env, user, login, pass);
        }

        protected void AddUnwrapper<T>(TcpCommand command, Func<TcpPackage, IEnvelope, IPrincipal, string, string, TcpConnectionManager, T> unwrapper)
            where T : Message
        {
// ReSharper disable RedundantCast
            _unwrappers[(byte) command] = (Func<TcpPackage, IEnvelope, IPrincipal, string, string, TcpConnectionManager, Message>) unwrapper;
// ReSharper restore RedundantCast
        }

        public TcpPackage? WrapMessage(Message message)
        {
            if (message == null)
                throw new ArgumentNullException("message");

            try
            {
                Func<Message, TcpPackage> wrapper;
                if (_wrappers.TryGetValue(message.GetType(), out wrapper))
                    return wrapper(message);
            }
            catch (Exception exc)
            {
                Log.ErrorException(exc, "Error while wrapping message {0}.", message);
            }
            return null;
        }

        public Message UnwrapPackage(TcpPackage package, IEnvelope envelope, IPrincipal user, string login, string pass, TcpConnectionManager connection)
        {
            if (envelope == null)
                throw new ArgumentNullException("envelope");

            var unwrapper = _unwrappers[(byte)package.Command];
            if (unwrapper != null)
            {
                try
                {
                    return unwrapper(package, envelope, user, login, pass, connection);
                }
                catch (Exception exc)
                {
                    Log.ErrorException(exc, "Error while unwrapping TcpPackage with command {0}.", package.Command);
                }
            }
            return null;
        }
    }
}

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Dr. Sharma is a senior staff psychologist on the Compass Program for Young Adults and an assistant professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine.
Her expertise includes psychoanalytic psychotherapy, personality assessment and trauma. Her research interests include personality disorders, trauma and dissociation-related disorders, psychotherapy processes and outcomes.
She earned her doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, her master's degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Delhi, India, and her undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Rajasthan, India.
Dr. Sharma completed a postdoctoral fellowship at The Menninger Clinic and an internship at the Vidhyasagar Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences in India.
She has had research published in the journals Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. She has also presented on a range of topics to both consumers and mental health professionals.
Dr. Sharma is a member of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Houston Psychoanalytic Society.
While her colleagues tease her that she likes to read and write manuscripts for fun, in reality, she loves learning, being with family and Benedict Cumberbatch.


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Q: Issue whilst installing the pypy kernel to jupyter notebook I am trying to install pypy3 to jupyter notebook but whilst doing it, it gives me an error at the source code bit during the cmd installation. I am on windows 10 64 bit system. Would this bit affect anything, from my backtests of large files the runtime has not been that much better in comparison to python which makes me believe that pypy is not working properly. I am trying to execute the answer to this previous question on stack overflow: enter link description here. even though that source PyPy3/bin/activate bit of the code does not work, the pypy kernel shows up on jupyter notebook.
cmd codes for jupyter notebook installation:
pypy3 -m venv PyPy3
source PyPy3/bin/activate
pypy3 -m pip install ipykernel
ipython kernel install --user --name=PyPy3

cmd results- note that all the other commands worked except for source PyPy3/bin/activate:
C:\Users\maste>pypy3 -m venv PyPy3

C:\Users\maste>source PyPy3/bin/activate
'source' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Jupyter Notebook:

A: It looks like you're trying to use source in a command prompt on Windows. That won't work, source is for POSIX environments.
Instead, try:
PyPy3\Scripts\activate.bat

Check out the venv documentation for more information. It contains this handy table of commands for activating a virtual environment:

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Q: Match regex between two literals python Given :
s = "SELECT * FROM THIS_TABLE WHERE COL='123'"

Return the table name from the sql query which is always between 'FROM ' and ' WHERE'
Regex expression that I've tried returns nothing :
re.search('FROM\s+(.*)\s+WHERE', s.upper())

Expected output :
'THIS_TABLE'

A: Indeed, you need to use doublequotes so the singlequotes in your query aren't interpreted.
Additionnaly, you can add 'r' in front of the string to have python interpret it as litteral.
Your result is a re.Match object, of which it's elements contain what you're searching for.
Here's a working copy:
s = r"SELECT * FROM THIS_TABLE WHERE COL='123'"
result = re.search('FROM\s+(.*)\s+WHERE', s.upper())[1]
print(result)

prints 'THIS_TABLE'


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WI: Exact Sciences Corp. to Invest $26M, Hire 750+ with WEDC Tax Credits
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) announced it will provide tax credits of up to $9 million to Exact Sciences Corp. as part of the cancer diagnostics company's ongoing growth in the state. The credits can be earned ratably through a combination of hiring more than 750 employees and investing $26 million in capital expenditures through 2020.
"This agreement underscores our commitment to expanding in Wisconsin as we develop new tests that can help eradicate the deadliest forms of cancer," said Kevin Conroy, chairman and CEO of Exact Sciences. "We moved Exact Sciences to Madison in 2009 because of the state's strong, dedicated workers and the first-class universities to recruit talent. With the FDA's approval of Cologuard and our pipeline for potential new cancer screening tests, WEDC is offering another incentive to continue growing our team in Wisconsin."
Since relocating to Wisconsin from Boston in 2009, Exact Sciences has grown from two employees to a team of more than 400. During this time the company paid more than $5.2 million in payroll taxes to the state.
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Under the agreement, Exact Sciences will receive the WEDC tax incentives by investing $26,264,000 in capital expenditures in Wisconsin and creating 758 new full-time positions – with an average wage of $24.47 per hour – in the state by December 31, 2020.
This is fourth-largest award in WEDC's history, in terms of projected job creation. WEDC designates in-state tax credits for projects based on several factors, including the extent the project will increase employment in the state and contribute to the economic growth of the state. The final amount of credits issued under the agreement with Exact Sciences will be contingent upon the number of jobs created and capital expenditures.
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One of my favourite pictures of last Spring was this one of Crystal Renn on the runway wearing this gorgeous creation of Jean-Paul Gaultier's. The sumptuousness of the dress on Crystal's curves was breathtaking.
Call me crazy, but I am saddened by Crystal's weight loss duing the past year. She's lost her mojo.
"The 24-year-old Chanel model, who was previously a UK Size 16, said that she finally felt ready to exercise for the first time since her teens, when she suffered from an eating disorder and became addicted to working out for up to eight hours a day.
She revealed that a difficult break-up had contributed to her decision to embrace a more healthy lifestyle, and a combination of hiking and yoga had helped the weight drop off.
She told NY Magazine: 'In the past, I avoided exercise because it brought back terrible feelings. I wasn't ready. And I was scared that maybe I was going to be addicted again.
'That's a fear that goes through your mind, whenever you're getting over an addiction or a disease like anorexia, yeah, I absolutely was worried.
Crystal suffered with anorexia for years. I have serious concerns that her eating disorder and exercise addiction may have reared their ugly heads again.
You know the nearer your destination, the more you slip sliding away"
I agree with you because of the fear whether she's in anorexia again and that she lost 'her mojo' through the weight loss.
She's just fat, or at least, used to be.
Sure, she may have curves, just her curves are/were hidden under obvious amounts of fat.
At a Bmi of 12 I had curves! Because, shock horror, that's how my body is built.
@Anonymous: If you take a closer look the only things nature can create are ... rounded shapes. Don´t know if that´s the only reason why you found curves on your body even at BMI 12. Is this called "body morphic disorder"?
Ok, in my opinion Chrystal Renn was quite fat but she managed it to be beautiful in her way. I like her "fat" pics. Hope she doesn´t become anorexic again. It´s not worth it.
I'm pretty sure Christal Renn was extremely triggered when she saw how drastically photoshopped she was in those now infamous photos. That would do it for me, let me tell you. How can she not be affected? Yes, she was overweight & there's nothing wrong with leading a healthy life with whole foods & exercise. I'm just afraid she will take it too far and end up anorexic with exercise bulimia, so in that respect, I do worry for her.
Essentially, 'curvy' does not always mean healthy and neither does 'thin'. Either way, the media usually glorifies one end of a scale or the other, the fact she's lost weight does not necessarily mean she's relapsed - and if she has, she won't admit it as this is the nature of the disease.
I just thought I'd throw my bit in - I've had an ED but didn't fall under a BMI of 17, now I'm at just about 18 - despite the increase of all sorts of foods in my diet (no restrictions, no obsession with exercise, NO purging) and with an underactive thyroid known to make you put weight on, my body has settled at this weight and the number is refusing to go up - and I don't have any other health problems that would cause it. So it is possible to stay slim, and be healthy - without resorting to ED behaviours.
Perhaps a good way to go would be to stop obsessing over Crystal's body shape and let her find her own balance instead of telling her what she should and shouldn't be?
The issue isn't whether she's "fat" or "thin" or "curvy" or even how much weight she's lost. The question is *how* she lost the weight and *why*. I find it very hard to believe that a traumatic breakup suddenly caused her to start living a "healthier" lifestyle. IMO it's far more likely that it triggered a relapse. I could be wrong, and if I am, well, good for her. If she has indeed relapsed, I hope she can admit it to herself and get the help she needs before too long.
"I find it very hard to believe that a traumatic breakup suddenly caused her to start living a "healthier" lifestyle. IMO it's far more likely that it triggered a relapse."
Crystal, honey you are still an anorectic, you can't lose weight in a "healthy" way. Once you recover, you release all control of your body weight to nature\god. That's recovery, there is no way, no way you can ever diet, no matter what it's for. Think about it, even if you're an alcoholic & have been sober for 20 years, you don't (and never will) be able to drink again like a regular person. Period.
She didn't need to lose one pound!
If you're concerned about your health, visit a dietician who knows about eating disorders, walk your dogs in the evening for exercise, get sandwich with whole-grain bread.
Don't diet, a diet is never a diet for us, it's death.
She looks great now! She looks fit in other pictures and hopefully it's from actually working out. I eat normally and ride a bicycle about 12 hours a week (I race bikes now) and have a 6 pack! Yes, I'm thin, eat better than ever, AND feel great. I hope she's doing it the same way.
Yes, it's possible to be very thin and healthy.
I don't want to be judgmental because sometimes there are several factors that affect something. But I don't think she lost this weight naturally through hiking or leisurely walks. People with eating disorders never fully recover. They are always affected somehow by what they went through. Perhaps she has given in to the illness once more.
My personal opinion is that she looks heaps better when she's at a lower weight. I think it brings out her features more. In the upper pictures she looks a little flabby, like she can't even run a mile.
the very act of judging her or anyone else on if they are fat or thin or too thin is f'd up. eating disorders dont manifest the same in everyone nor even the same way per relapse in the same person. half the time, it isnt VISIBLE at all - average weight/average appearing people often have the most insidious disorder. i hope she is healthy and that we should all be luckier to not have the whole world judging us on our size.


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The incident was described in a Behind the Yellow Tape blog post.
He was jailed April 4, 2012, on warrants charging him with throwing bleach on his girlfriend, kidnapping and child abuse stemming from a domestic dispute in February.
According to the Clerk of Courts Office in New Hanover County, Prentice Jerome Nixon, 33, is scheduled to appear in felony court June 14 on charges of kidnapping, throwing acid or alkali, domestic abuse and child abuse.
Wilmington Police Department Cpl. Kevin Smith said officers were called out to Nixon's South Liberty Court home Feb. 22, after his girlfriend called for paramedics, reporting that Nixon had doused her with bleach and dragged her around the home in view of a 3-year-old girl.
Smith said the woman had tried to flee and Nixon allegedly dragged her and poured bleach onto her. According to police, the woman had chemical burns on her chest, back and neck.
Nixon was not present when officers arrived on the scene. He was later spotted walking in the Hillcrest area and recognized from his warrants. He was arrested without incident.
On June 13, 2012, Nixon was being held on $78,000 bail in the New Hanover County Jail.
When contacted about her client, attorney Iva Ravindran declined comment.
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OSA Publishing > Optics Express > Volume 27 > Issue 12 > Page 16945
Silicon optical filters reconfigured from a 16 × 16 Benes switch matrix
Lin Shen, Liangjun Lu, Zhanzhi Guo, Linjie Zhou, and Jianping Chen
Lin Shen, Liangjun Lu, Zhanzhi Guo, Linjie Zhou,* and Jianping Chen
Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
*Corresponding author: ljzhou@sjtu.edu.cn
Liangjun Lu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6036-5103
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Lin Shen, Liangjun Lu, Zhanzhi Guo, Linjie Zhou, and Jianping Chen, "Silicon optical filters reconfigured from a 16 × 16 Benes switch matrix," Opt. Express 27, 16945-16957 (2019)
Optical Devices and Detectors
Bandpass filters
Extinction ratios
Optical directional couplers
Original Manuscript: March 4, 2019
Reconfigurable optical filters with tailorable performances are highly demanded in multi-purpose adaptive signal processing applications. We demonstrate infinite impulse response (IIR) silicon optical filters with a variable filter order by switching the optical path in a 16 × 16 Benes switch chip. The basic unit of the optical filter is a dual-ring assisted Mach-Zehnder interferometer. TiN microheaters are integrated in both ring resonators for resonance control, allowing for continuous tuning of the filter center wavelength and the bandwidth. Multiple high-order optical filters from the 2nd order up to the 14th order are obtained. The filter bandwidth tuning range is from 0.19 nm (23.75 GHz) to 1.06 nm (132.5 GHz) with a 1-dB in-band ripple. The out-of-band rejection ratio exceeds 30 dB for the 8th and 10th-order filters, limited by the inter-path optical crosstalk in the Benes architecture. The results point to new ways of reutilizing an existing switch matrix to flexibly construct wavelength-filtering devices.
16 × 16 non-blocking silicon optical switch based on electro-optic Mach-Zehnder interferometers
Liangjun Lu, Shuoyi Zhao, Linjie Zhou, Dong Li, Zuxiang Li, Minjuan Wang, Xinwan Li, and Jianping Chen
16 × 16 silicon Mach–Zehnder interferometer switch actuated with waveguide microheaters
Shuoyi Zhao, Liangjun Lu, Linjie Zhou, Dong Li, Zhanzhi Guo, and Jianping Chen
Photon. Res. 4(5) 202-207 (2016)
Reconfigurable optical-microwave filter banks using thermo-optically tuned Bragg Mach-Zehnder devices
Richard A. Soref, Francesco De Leonardis, and Vittorio M. N. Passaro
Reconfigurable and tunable compact comb filter and (de)interleaver on silicon platform
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Fig. 1 (a) Schematic structure of the 2 × 2 DR-MZI as a filter unit. (b) Simulated transmission spectra of the DR-MZI when the two MRRs resonate at the same wavelength. (c, d) Simulated transmission spectra of (c) the bar-port and (d) the cross-port in the DR-MZI when the resonances of the two MRRs are gradually detuned from each other. Δφ is the phase difference of the two MRRs in the DR-MZI.
Fig. 2 Optical paths of various-order filters in the 16 × 16 Benes switch matrix. The labeled elements with filled boxed are in "bar-state" and the others are in "cross-state".
Fig. 3 (a) and (b) Simulated passband spectra of (a) ideal optical filters and (b) optical filters with imperfections. (c) Simulated OBRR of the variable-order filters as a function of OBRRunit in a 16 × 16 Benes switch. (d)-(f) Simulated OBRRs of the filters as a function of filter order in a 32 × 32 Benes switch when OBRRunit is (d) 15.5 dB, (e) 21.8 dB, and (f) 39.8 dB.
Fig. 4 (a) Microscope image of the fabricated chip. The grating coupler array is highlighted by the red dashed box. (b) Photo of the 16 × 16 switch chip after electrical wire-bonding to a PCB. (c) Photo of the home-packaged switch chip with a temperature control unit.
Fig. 5 Measured normalized passband spectra for (a) the 2nd-order, (b) the 4th-order, (c) the 6th-order, (d) the 8th-order, (e) the 10th-order, (f) the 12th-order, and (g) the 14th-order filters. In each filter configuration, the passband width is tuned with the IBR kept below 1 dB. P1 and P2 represent the total TO power consumptions on the top and bottom MRRs, respectively. (h) Measured normalized passband spectra of seven different orders of optical filters.
Fig. 6 Measured spectra of the 6th-order filter in a large wavelength range.
Fig. 7 Demonstration of the filter center wavelength tuning for (a) the 2nd-order, (b) the 4th-order, (c) the 6th-order, (d) the 8th-order, (e) the 10th-order, (f) the 12th-order, and (g) the 14th-order filters. The symbol P in the graphs represents the total power consumption required to tune the filter center wavelength.
Fig. 8 Light path illustration for implementation of parallel optical filters with (a) the 2nd-order, (b) the 4th-order, (c) the 6th-order, (d) the 8th-order, (e) the 10th-order, (f) the 12th-order, and (g) the 14th-order. The units with filled boxes represent "bar-state" DR-MZIs and the units with unfilled boxes represent "cross-state" DR-MZIs.
Table 1 Extracted performance specifications for various orders of optical filters.
Extracted performance specifications for various orders of optical filters.
Nth-order
3dB-BW(nm)
Roll-off(dB/nm)
ER (dB)
IL(dB)
40.2~49.0
0.35~0.6
48.6~110.5
14 0.28 154 10.0 0.51 14.5


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The It List: A Harry Potter reunion special, a new season of 'Cobra Kai' and more pop culture picks for the week.
This week on The It List: HBO Max is airing a special to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first Harry Potter movie, with the cast gathering to share stories and reflect on the series' legacy. On Netflix, Cobra Kai is back for a fourth season, and in theaters, Jockey tells the story of an aging jockey looking for one last shot at glory.
- "The It List" is Yahoo's weekly look at the best in pop culture. Here are our picks for the week of December 27. It's been 20 years since the first "Harry Potter" movie, and HBO Max is getting the cast together to reminisce about the series. Fans will get a chance to hear Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter talk about their villainous roles. And, of course, you'll also hear from Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson about the series that lasted much of their childhoods.
RUPERT GRINT: We're family, and we will always be a part of each other's life.
- "Cobra Kai" is back with a fourth season on Netflix. This season, the series that spun off the Karate Kid films from the '80s now finds former rivals, Johnny Lawrence and Daniel LaRusso, teaming up to help their karate students take on the Cobrai Kai Dojo.
- If Johnny and I can actually work together, and we win, Cobra Kai will be out of business.
- Hyah!
- "Jockey" is set to premiere this week in theaters. The drama stars Clifton Collins Jr. as an aging jockey whose health is failing him. He looks to make one last attempt at a championship on a new horse, all the while mentoring a young rider who claims to be his son.
- Look, I know I'm not in the same shape as these young cats, but I still got a good couple years left in me.
- Come back next week to check out Yahoo's "It List."


The Washington governor and 2020 Democratic candidate defended his single-issue campaign Sunday.
Washington governor and Democratic presidential hopeful Jay Inslee is warning that the clock is ticking on the fight against global warming.
Tapper asked Inslee about the efficacy of staking a presidential campaign on just one issue, but the candidate contended that climate change has far-reaching impacts.
The governor pointed to the potential for job growth in solar and wind power industries, seeing an opportunity to bolster the economy by embracing alternative energies.
Inslee also noted that global warming could trigger health conditions such as asthma. Furthermore, in January, the Pentagon identified the environmental crisis as a national security threat, directly contradicting President Donald Trump's continued denials.
Last month, The Washington Post reported that the White House was seeking to launch a panel of federal scientists through the National Security Council to reassess the government's conclusions.
According to senior administration officials who spoke with the outlet, the group would include individuals who doubt the seriousness of climate change as well as humans' contribution to the issue, indicating another effort by the Trump administration to challenge long-established scientific findings.
Meanwhile progressive Democrats like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) have advocated for the Green New Deal, an ambitious resolution outlining a 10-year plan to address the environment and the economy.
Inslee has not offered an outright endorsement of the idea, but has called it "aspirational" and promises to roll out a plan of his own, according to The Associated Press.


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This is a scalable context timeline. It contains events related to the event November or December 1999: UCPMB Organizes in Southern Serbia. You can narrow or broaden the context of this timeline by adjusting the zoom level. The lower the scale, the more relevant the items on average will be, while the higher the scale, the less relevant the items, on average, will be.
1945: Yugoslav-Albanian Federation to Precede Inclusion of Bulgaria
The United Kingdom tells Bulgaria officially that it is against any alliance between Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. As a result of this warning and because the Bulgarian government would prefer to federate with Yugoslavia as an equal rather than as a Yugoslav republic, Bulgaria does not immediately reply to Yugoslavia's push for negotiations on federation. Yugoslav-Albanian unification negotiations progress, going against the USSR's proposal that Yugoslavia and Bulgaria unify first. [Kola, 2003, pp. 85-86]
Entity Tags: Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Kingdom
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November or December 1999: UCPMB Organizes in Southern Serbia
The June 9, 1999 Military Technical Agreement between the International Security Force (KFOR), Yugoslavia, and Serbia, ending NATO's bombing campaign, creates a ground safety zone (GSZ), which is closed to the Yugoslav army and heavy weapons, and is five kilometers wide along the Serbia-Kosova border. The majorities in the nearby Serbian counties of Presheva, Bujanovic, and Medvegja are Albanian historically, though Albanians will not be the majority in Medvegja a few years later. The Liberation Army of Presheva, Medvegja, and Bujanovic, known by its Albanian acronym, the UCPMB (Ushtria Clirimtare e Presheves, Medvegjes dhe Bujanovcit), organizes to join the region with Kosova and uses the GSZ as a refuge. British journalist John Phillips will later suggest that the UCPMB was a provocation to help Slobodan Milosevic regain power or provoke a coup by the Yugoslav military. Others say that the UCPMB was created by the CIA or US State Department to destabilize Yugoslavia prior to the overthrow of Milosevic on October 6, 1999, but it is now out of control. According to a paper presented to the Conflict Studies Research Center at Sandhurst, England, the guerrillas show signs of American training: their method of marching, what they sing on the march, and their tactics—tactics that did not develop over the three years fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Albanian scholar Paulin Kola will later quote an unnamed UCPMB officer who says, "If [the US military] ask us to fire three rounds tomorrow, that's what we do." The UCPMB also says it can get in touch with NATO. The guerillas are strong and publish their newspaper in US-occupied Gjilan, Kosova. At one point US forces will lose track of an alleged Albanian CIA operative originally arrested by the British and charged with bombing a bus. Nonetheless, Kola will say the UCPMB acts out of local Albanians' historical desire to be included in Kosova and fear of Yugoslav vengeance. The UCPMB will emerge officially in January 2000. [Kola, 2003, pp. 372-375; Phillips, 2004, pp. 1-3, 10]
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November 2000 and After: NATO Works with Yugoslavia against UCPMB
NATO, which had previously refused to enter the Ground Safety Zone to stop the UCPMB, now works with Yugoslavia to end the insurgency. NATO Secretary General George Robertson says NATO "condemns and deplores the attacks made and violence caused by a minority of extremists near the Presevo Valley, and calls on the perpetrators to cease their illegal activity forthwith." NATO offers to patrol with Yugoslav forces, and negotiates between the Yugoslav government and Albanians in southern Serbia. Within a few months the GSZ will be removed and the UCPMB will simultaneously disperse. In all, the fighting creates 20,000 refugees. [Kola, 2003, pp. 373, 375-376]
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The Tea Party GOP's Greatest Fear: President Obama is a "Black-Beast Rapist"...and He is Coming to Get Them
Popular culture is an informal type of public opinion. In its best instances, popular culture is a powerful lens into our collective fears, hopes, and anxieties. I was rewatching David Mamet's Edmond, a great film which explores questions of existential angst, a man's descent into madness (or sanity depending on one's point of view), and his subsequent imprisonment. The final scenes of the film are challenging and provocative; they are a great example of how the "popular" and "political" can intersect in some surprising ways.
While it is little discussed in the mainstream press, or among the pundit classes, I would argue that the New Right and the Tea Party GOP's anti-Obamamania is driven by a sense of imperiled white masculinity. The "angry white man" has been a part of our political and cultural vocabulary for several decades. He ultimately found a home and a political party in the Tea Party GOP. Although white men are the single most powerful and wealthy group of people in this country, the Right has been able to successfully manipulate a sense of grievance, anxiety, and fears of a lost future where "the blacks," "the minorities," "the women," and "the gays" have taken over.
This is a shrewd political strategy that plays on the relationship between psychology and politics. The petit authoritarianism that is contemporary conservatism fears nothing more than a loss of control. As such, what better way to advance one's political goals than to create a narrative of white victimology?
Ultimately, the fears of the New Right, the Tea Party GOP, and the aggrieved, imperiled white masculinity that Mitt Romney and other Republican elites pander to, are responses to a collective nightmare, what is a waking dream where they are being metaphorically raped and dominated by Barack Obama and people of color.
During Bush 2's rule, Republicans were obsessed with how the American public, as well as the Democratic Party, should "respect" the Office of the President of the United States. Curiously, a few years later the Tea Party GOP has shown nothing but utter disrespect for President Obama since he won the office in 2008.
There are many examples of this paranoid and conspiratorial behavior.
The State of the Union Speech was interrupted in an unprecedented fashion by a Republican who yelled "you lie" at the President. Major political figures on the Right and in the mass media have alternatively suggested that President Obama is not a United States citizen, is a closet Muslim, takes orders from his dead father's African ghost, and is an "affirmative action" hire who sneaked his way through Columbia and Harvard. Obama has also been faced with threats of violence, mass rebellion, secession, and naked racism. The Tea Party GOP was willing to risk economic Armageddon during the debt-ceiling crisis in order to embarrass Barack Obama.
These conspiratorial fantasies are ultimately about respect, authority, and legitimacy. Partisanship, and an extremely polarized public that has been subjected to Right-wing propagandists who are deeply invested in crisis and rumor mongering, are central to this story too. But, "normal" politics cannot be decoupled from the symbolic politics that are necessarily embodied--quite literally--in Barack Obama, the country's first black president. For many conservatives, and especially aggrieved whites who are made insecure by the United States' changing demographics and a sense that America is not "their country" anymore, Obama is seen as pure evil--he is their anti-Christ.
In the conservative political imagination, people who look like him, his family, and those other black and brown folk with some degree of political and/or economic power, do not belong in or near the White House. White reactionary conservatives may not state the following as plainly as I am willing to: The United States has long been the white man's country; the Tea Party GOP, as a White Party, are willing to do almost anything to regain this true lie and fictive past.
As I have written about numerous times, Mitt Romney is a sociopathic racist. His campaign ads have recycled naked and racist stereotypes about Barack Obama--and by implication black Americans. Moreover, Romney's use of both naked racial appeals and dog whistle politics represent one of the most sophisticated uses of racial animus in recent American political history. As the election approaches, Romney and Ryan are going to go places that McCain never would have dared. White racial resentment, and manipulating white racial anxiety in order to win over white voters, is one of the few remaining weapons (along with voter suppression) that Romney and the Tea Party GOP have left in their arsenal given the unpopularity of their proposed policies.
I am not suggesting that Mitt Romney is experiencing, nor that he is moved by, the same racial fears and white anxieties which motivate the Tea Party GOP base. Romney and his backers are billionaires. They fear nothing. But, Mitt Romney is willing to use the petty fears of reactionary white conservatives and right-leaning independents in order to further his political and economic goals.
In these conversations about President Obama, legitimacy, white voters, and the Tea Party GOP, one variable has been consistently ignored by most pundits and analysts. The Tea Party GOP is a Southern, White political party. Its leaders made a bargain decades ago to absorb the Southern racists, the Dixiecrats, into their fold. By doing so, they flipped the South "red." This choice also meant that the Republican Party was now the party of Jim and Jane Crow, the slaveocracy, and all of the other assorted political, racial, and cultural baggage that comes with it.
As we have witnessed since the 1980s, contemporary conservatism, white populism, nativism, Christian Nationalism, and racism are apparently a good fit for one another. This brew may be bad for the Common Good and the American people, nevertheless it serves the elites on the Right quite well.
Part of the baggage that the Tea Party GOP absorbed was cultural, and involved very specific understandings of the color line, race, and authority. Southern politics and political economy historically revolved around a clear hierarchy in which black people were supposed to be subservient to whites. This worked through laws such as Jim and Jane Crow. These arrangements were also informal, wherein black people were expected to get off of the sidewalk when whites would come near, to look at the ground and be submissive to white male authority figures and women, letting white drivers pass you on the road and at four-way stops, and being very mindful of "white spaces" (and if you, as a person of color, belonged there or not).
The Southern culture which flows through the Tea Party GOP and contemporary populist conservatism is one of ruthless capitalism born in the shadow of King Cotton, and where black slavery was the preferred way of making money. There is no sense of noblesse oblige among the Southern planter class, or their elite descendants in the present. The Southern culture which the Tea Party GOP absorbed is also one of masculine honor, dueling, guns, and the spectacular violence of ritualistic lynching.
These variables help to explain the neo-secessionist rhetoric of the Right and their embrace of the "Lost Cause" ideology. The relationship between race, violence, social control, and white domination also influences the anti-black affect and hostility that is central to contemporary conservatism generally, and to the Tea Party (with its relationship to the John Birch Society and the White Citizens Councils) more specifically.
The racial order of the post-Emancipation, Reconstruction South, up through the 1960s and the triumphs of the Black Freedom Struggle, was one of clear racial authority, and a white over black racial order that was enforced by means both "judicial" and extra-legal. This arrangement of social, political, and economic control was based on the lie of black criminality, our unfitness for citizenship, and the mythic figure of the black-beast rapist. In the malignant and pathologically violent culture of Jim and Jane Crow, the black body had to be ritualistically dismembered, violated, tortured, and destroyed in order to reinforce white citizenship, and the imagined intraclass fraternity of white men.
In this world, if a black man or woman or child did not "know their place" they would be quickly and violently put back in it.
The New Right is infected by these cultural norms. It looms in their collective subconscious and comes out in many way--such as their patent disrespect for Barack Obama, as well as high levels of anti-black sentiment, and hostility to the Other. I am not suggesting that American society is still sick with either lynching culture or the "old fashioned" racism of the not so far away past. The color line has been redrawn in some amazing and progressive ways. A black man was elected President; the vicious racism of the lynching tree and Jim and Jane Crow would not allow such a thing.
In the United States, racism has evolved from the personal to the institutional and structural. "Meta-racism" or "colorblind racism" is the norm We now live in a globalized society, where concerns about human productivity and capital in a service age information based economy, are more primary than maintaining outmoded white supremacist racist ideologies. The multicultural elite classes profit more off of pretend notions of inclusion and diversity than they ever would from old style segregation and racial violence.
There are still old fits and spasms of white racism, violence, and ethnic chauvinism. The Southern Poverty Law Center has documented an astronomic growth in the number of white racist organizations since the election of the country's first black president. There have been domestic terrorist incidents that have involved the attempted IED bombing of a parade in honor of Dr. King, as well as the Sikh Temple massacre by a white supremacist gunman.
Of course, the racist emails, signs, rhetoric, and display of firearms and guns by the Tea Party at their rallies are expressions of old school white racism as well.
Ultimately, federal and state authorities will not permit mass racial violence in post-civil rights America; they will use militarized police forces and other means to quickly put down such "inconveniences" for the country's new/old racial order. However, these same agents of Power can do little about either the closet or front stage racism being ginned up by the New Right and the Republican Party.
The disrespect and hostility demonstrated by the Tea Party GOP and the (white) New Right is a manifestation of a deeply aggrieved sense of order and place. Black and brown people are supposed to be subservient to white authority. As I wrote about here, the necessity of white male control over women's bodies is part of the same ideological and political cosmology. In all, Whiteness, especially as manifested by White Conservatism, is rooted in a deep fear of white oppression by black and brown people. This is their doomsday and nightmare scenario. Southern Confederates feared it; bloviators such as Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and others give voice to it almost every day with their fixations on how Obama hates white people and that agitprop fools like the New Black Panther Party are coming to kill white good white folks.
The ending of the film Edmond is a graphic and disturbing representation of these anxieties about white male authority and black domination. The main character played by white every man William H. Macy has been sent to prison for life. His cellmate is the black actor Bokeem Woodbine. Macy is prey; Bokeem is the predator. Macy will be forced into submission--one way or another.
This narrative is ideologically rich, potent with questions about race, representation, masculinity, authority, sex, and power. As we work through how race and popular culture intersect here, there are three elements of particular importance in this scene that I would like to highlight:
First. The conservative white masculinity channeled by the New Right and the Tea Party GOP conceptualizes Macy as a liberal punk, he is aggrieved with liberal white guilt, and wants to confront Woodbine, the violent, hyper-thug, black-beast rapist, with words and reason. Macy eventually surrenders to Bokeem's advances. For the Right-wing conservative gaze, he is the ultimate embodiment of "cowardly" "feminine" "liberalism" and "progressivism," because Macy eventually learns to accept his "relationship" with his abuser. "Real men" (read: conservatives) would never submit to such an arrangement. They would rather die.
Second. Macy's character represents the deep fears of white oppression that drive the Right-wing imagination in the Age of Obama. In this framing, they have already lost their country. The United States' demographics are changing. White men are scared and worried about their futures. The Great Recession has been emasculating, and in many ways economically castrating, for white "working class" men who fear being obsolete and unnecessary in this "new" America. The Angry White Men who comprise the base of the Tea Party GOP are symbolically represented by William H. Macy's character.
On some deep psychological level, or perhaps even on the near-surface, they are moved by a profound vulnerability, that one mistake, one bit of misfortune, could literally or metaphorically emasculate them. Thus, putting them at the mercy of a black man or other person of color. Whiteness is about authority and "normal" arrangements of power; Whiteness, and white masculinity in particular, fears nothing more than being usurped.
Three. Bokeem's black-rapist beast inmate character is what The White Gaze imagines all black men to potentially be. In popular culture, as well as the collective popular imagination, hyper-thug black masculinity is one of the dominant tropes and ways of representing black manhood. Here, despite our levels of education, refinement, or success, all black men are somehow a second away from becoming violent, impulsive, or dangerous.
Consider: much of commercial hip hop plays off of this age old cultural trope. The dream merchants on Wall Street have perfected marketing "blackness" and "black masculinity" in ways that fulfill the fantasies of the mass public: there is a tension which is skillfully sold, where black men are simultaneously the most envied and despised people in the world.
Barack Obama, as a black man, is also burdened by these representations. The Right plays with these deep fears and anxieties to cause fear in white voters. Conservatives have argued that the President has been called lazy, irresponsible, and more interested in hip hop barbecues at the White House than in being an effective leader. Romney has based his political campaign on painting the president as a permanent Other, "niggerizing" him as a lazy, angry, hostile black man.
In reality, Barack Obama is refined, intelligent, accomplished, and has an effortless sort of "cool pose" about him.
Individuals immersed in white racial resentment, and plain old fashioned white racism, are incapable of seeing these aspects of Obama's humanity.
The conservative white racial frame sees Barack Obama as Bokeem Woodbine's character in Edmond. He is a thug, a violent rapist thug, who enjoys dominating white people (read: men) just like them. Conservative pundits such as Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh have even used the explicit language of rape to describe how Barack Obama, and the federal government under his leadership, has sexually violated the American people.
This view is generalizable. Many of the same white folks also see black men, all of us, in the same light.
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lol, three months to go till showtime and you've already reached peak shrillness with this piece.
Better pace yourself and save a little bit for the weeks and months to come...,
chaunceydevega said...
@Cnu. Refined shrillness. My balls are heavy. I take yohimbe root, saw palmetto, and ginseng. No problems there.
Razor said...
While I agree with your premise that to many of the scared, anxious, emasculated, financially castrated, emotionally and impulsively and obsessively see in Obama that oppressive black thug rapist-beast visage, I believe that they also see something else, that is equally or even more psychically demoralizing.
It is what we see. A refined, intelligent, uber-educated at elite institutions of higher learning, smooth, natural cool walk and mannerisms, make-a-sister-like-Michelle Obama-scream type of sensuality-effect-on-a-very large-segment-of-the-female-population-who-openly-admit-it-including-white-women, conversant, persuasive, almost-impossible-to-visibly-rattle-even when-a bomb drops-composure (see "you lie" interruption during monumental speech) and will as long as he lives be rich. That truth is devastating!
That he could spawn a whole new generation of hopeful children of color to high achievement and maximizing their God-given potential, and what that may mean to their own children too....is horrifying.
For them it's Reconstrution Era again...that's scary.
Cavoyo said...
Speaking of racial air raid sirens:
""There's something different on the ground, and I think it's going to overtake us all again, think it's going to overtake the political class," [Illinois Republican Representative Joe] Walsh said. "I think it's going to respectfully pick this president up and pat him on the head and say, son, son, son, Mr. President, you were never ready to be president, now go home and work for somebody and find out how the real world works.""
Obama 2012 Strategy for Black Voters: Scare Them and Promise Them Nothing
It is late August in the election season and we brothas and sistas should clearly see how Obama 2012 is going to cater to the Black vote. Instead of offering any incentive or making any campaign promise to brothas and sistas that waited 4 hours in line during the 2008 election, Obama 2012 decided to enlist some cornball Blacks to spread propaganda and run a campaign of fear and smear against Mitt Romney.
At some point, we Black people gotta say we straight tired of this crap the Democrats keep pulling on us – trying to scare us instead of actually doing anything of material for us. I don't give a f*ck if Mitt Romney is elected and I been through Reagan as a child, both Bush Sr and Jr so I'm the last person in this world the Democrats is going to scare me with is Mitt Romney. And I will be honest – I never seen Black people catch as much hell and suffering in any era in our lifetime than under US President Barack Obama.
No, Barack Obama is not promising he going to do anything for the Black vote and running around saying he is not the president of Black America. I'm telling you straight up – cats are going to stay home. Ain't no punk ass Al Sharpton, some cornball radio talk show host, no pundit or bought and paid for preacher is going to convince regular everyday Black folks to run out to the polls and it's sad seeing Obama 2012 try to pull this bullshit on Black people.
Fear is a great motivator. But you need a carrot to go along with that stick if you're going to herd the black flock into the Obama pen. Yeah, adding Ryan to the bad cop team does up the ante. But still, the good cop is just not too appealing. With Romney we get war, the police state and slashing the social safety net. On the other hand we get war, the police state and slashing the social net...with a black face. After all, you don't want your executioner to be white do you? If both paths lead to slaughter at least let the shepherd be black. The first few minutes of this video articulates what really happened when the change from Bush led to Obama. The whole of the video describes in symbolic terms our present political plight.
Romney would denounce white people and believe he meant it if he thought it would win him the presidency. Racism is only a means to an end. He has no animus against blacks or any other ethnicity–hell, the Mormon church has declared them fully human!–but you have to understand monomaniacism. Everything is for sale. Everything. If it meant the presidency he'd probably become a Muslim.
—anotherbozo
Abstentus said...
Animus is not required for racism. All that is required is some vague sense that your people (by race or ethnicity) are some how better than those other people. Or conversely, that those other people (by race or ethnicity) are just some how not as good as your people or people more like your people.
@Abstentus. That is one of the most common excuse making strategies for racism/sexism/homophobia etc. he/she is just doing it for "strategic" purposes "they didn't mean it."
Irrelevant. You are what you do...or what you give tacit consent to.
Way I grade is like this. If someone is willing to risk being taken for a flat out racist by pandering to racist sentiments, I will oblige them accordingly.
Michael Paul Goldenberg said...
This is an excellent piece. Suggestions of "shrillness," well-intentioned/humorous or not, seem wrong-headed to me. I think you pretty well hit all the nails on their respective heads.
The inclusion of the scene from Mamet's EDMUND seems very much on-point. For what it's worth (mostly my chance to drop names), I went to college with David Mamet and William H. Macey. Didn't really know Mr. Macey, though we were contemporaries, but I got to know David a little when I was a freshman and he was a senior, mostly through getting my ass handed to me in a poker game he frequented. And then later, when I was a senior and he had returned to teach theater for a year, we became close, via poker, table tennis, and one of his excellent classes, through taking informal Yiddish lessons from a graduate student, and just from hanging around.
My best guess is that David would have found much to praise in what you've written, at least back in the '80s when his career was blooming and he wrote politically provocative (and intentionally ambiguous) plays like EDMOND and OLEANNA, both made into movies with William H Macey. I'm less sanguine given David's apparent shift to the right politically in recent years as to what he'd think of your commentary now, not that it matters. And I have no idea what Macey's politics are or have been. But for my money, your analysis is solid. And the play anticipates very clearly the current state of thinking of far too many white people, particularly white men from various classes.
That's the "beauty" of the racist scenario that has informed our nation for centuries. It's a narrative that serves the ruling class perfectly and satisfies the underlying dissatisfaction with the white "have-nots" and "have-less." The litany has always been, "Sure, maybe you don't have a plantation/mansion like we rich folks do, but at least you're WHITE!" And the implication is that as long as you have whiteness, you can rise to the top. Sure, it's mostly a fairy tale, but it is one that lots of folks can and do believe in. And they get to take their frustrations out on the "others": blacks, Latinos, Asians, gays, women, children, et al. What a wonderful, all-purpose story to keep nearly everyone at bay while the 0.1% rules.
I appreciate your work, which I've only discovered in the last few days. Keep it up.
@Michael. Thanks for the kind words. Was a bit longer than typical for a format like this but I was working through some of those ideas and wanted to get them out. I will probably come up with an abridged version and post it elsewhere. The point is correct--all this rape stuff is part of the psychological underpinnings of the Right's politics at present.
I have to ask: what was Macey like? was he an everyman in real life, or exactly the opposite? What about Mamet, was he self-aware of his genius? Every teacher who thinks about sleeping with a student while they are his or her student needs to see that movie btw. Scary.
This is brilliant and should be required reading for everyone.
As I wrote last night on another post, we need to be careful.
Some of these folks act like they've been backed into a corner and will react violently.
I long for the day when some of these people and their relatives would sit back and LISTEN to others and take the time to show some EMPATHY for their fellow man. Unfortunately, I don't think that that will happen in my life time.
But as the saying goes, "You never know."
I for one, never thought there would be a black president.
The more hate he gets from the Tea Party GOP, the more he knows that he can rely on the black vote without having to tell the lie that he is going to do anything for them, save for those select elite few, who are paid herders to keep the sheep quiet.
Obama has been pretty straightforward with black folk telling us to...shut up!
How should we feel about those black entrepenurial slave-catchers in Africa who supplied the Europeans with their commodity? I believe that fewer of us would be here if they had to capture us themselves.
I too believe that the race is a good cop-bad cop parody...almost vaudevillian in fact...staged political theater. Certainly the very wealthy can afford it with their unlimited wealth, both counted and unaccounted (see recent articles on untaxed $Trillions hid in havens).
@ Anon
"I for one, never thought there would be a black president."
Me either. I wonder what forces came into alignment to engineer such a feat?
"How should we feel about those black entrepenurial slave-catchers in Africa who supplied the Europeans with their commodity? I believe that fewer of us would be here if they had to capture us themselves."
No doubt. How do I feel about em? Traitors. The thing is they are with us today, performing pretty much the same function. "Slave dry-va. The table is turned now." (Well, that last part may be wishful thinking.)
lol, what exactly is CDV telling us to do?
Traitors. The thing is they are with us today, performing pretty much the same function. "Slave dry-va. The table is turned now."
um...,
"respectable negroe" = paddy roller?
Bruto Alto said...
@CNu
I understand your reasons for voting for Mit (thin the herd stuff), but as a family man I also view women and LGBT rights as important. Mit and Ryan promise to limit those rights. Those rights are as important as my own. With B.O. at least there has been change. With Mit most of those items would be overturned or blocked. I know I could make it under Romney but is it worth it to pull others into the fire with me.
lol, I'm not going to vote for Romney - he's a stiff, unlikeable asshat and a parasite.
I'm not going to vote for Obombney either. He's a likeable slave-catcher.
I can only hope Ron Paul is out there in some or another independent manner, form, or fashion - trying to legalize sacraments, outlaw usury and fiat currency, and bring an end to the preposterous and unsustainable wastage that is the military industrial congressional complex.
Do you mean Pro-life, Homeschooling, No to Immigration Ron Paul? "Plot for world government" Ron Paul? "Coming race war in our big cities" and "The federal-homosexual cover-up on AIDS" Ron Paul
Get the F out of here!
He would be the fire I would be standing in. Come on in the fires fine! He would set the U.S. back 50 years.
"He would set the U.S. back 50 years."
Roseanne is the way to go.
Bruto Alto
Ending the war on drugs alone pushes all boats forward 50 years.
There was no war on drugs! Ask Oliver North, Ask any south american leader that the U.S. has replaced, hell ask Smedly Butler. You think Mexican drug cartels didn't get their guns from the U.S. (legally) They are U.S. gorillas fighting a war for us to take their resources.
My Point is the boats have always been here you just didn't know what they were importing. Fruit/Drugs/Sugar/Slaves are all the same.
Prison Industrial Complex?
If I have a single domestic priority issue, it's bringing an end to the low-intensity, high-yield engagement by law enforcement with non-violent drug offenders.
Everything else is majoritarian gravy after that one...,
Ron Paul?????????????????????
He' a racist who is two steps away from the Tea Party and leading a lynch mob your way. His one or two issues that may seem appealing at first blush are illusory at best.
Consider Jill Stein with the Green Party if you want to walk away from the voting booth without feeling like you need toilet paper to wipe yourself with...to feel good about yourself.
The mass incarceration of people of color under the thinly-veiled pretext of Reagan's War on Drugs, a misnomer for The War on Black Folk, is an important enough single issue to support any candidate. I commend you on having a "heart", and not because it is not merely cost-effective. That war is causing untold misery in all of Central and South America as well, and really is a US tool for creating political instability in those countries. US drug policy is assinine and full of hypocricy.
Obama did what? You mean what lip service concession he gave on a fly-by...blatant teasing without real cost to the gay crowd vote. That is the totality of what they are ever going to get from him. Obama is a corporate shill in the highest order.
makheru bradley said...
In 2008 I had a clear choice-- Cynthia McKinney.I have not voted for a major party presidential candidate since 1980. This year I'm searching for an alternative. It may be Anderson, or I just may write in Farrakhan again.
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StewartIII said...
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Teresa Mannion reveals she can't stop laughing after massive reaction to viral Storm Desmond report
The RTE reporter's coverage in the harsh weather conditions has taken social media by storm
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Teresa Mannion (Image: Twitter/RTETen)
Teresa Mannion has broken her silence following her dramatic report in the extremely blustery conditions of Storm Desmond going viral.
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RTE's Teresa Mannion's Storm Desmond report has been remixed into a club tune
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We have been married 60 years. We dated 5 years and married as virgins. I first noticed her amazing beauty and had to talk to her. In the years, I learned she was also intelligent and talented in many ways.
As to your subject, she always worked had at looking attractive. In our poorer days she bought nice looking things at thrift shops and near new stores. She has kept her weight under control and exercises. Even though she is now 80, guys still turn to look at her (guys in their 60's—loll) Thankfully, she is a moral Christian wife and though many guys want to sleep with her, it never happened.
I feel good being next to her in public.
I don't know how spiritual that is, but that's the way it is with us. We were also saved on the same day at two separate locations.
I think people who try to make everything "spiritual" are falling into the trap that Ecclesiastes warns about of not becoming overly righteous. God made us humans with some fleshy delights, and a major part of the male nature is enjoying seeing his wife being attractive, enjoying seeing her naked often, and delighting in being married to someone he enjoys to look at.
Thank you for adding your thoughts, as always, hope y'all had a Merry Christmas!


For the past 5 years, I haven't been spending enough effort to meet up with my relatives, especially my favourite cousins and elders. Ever since Granny's death, the whole clan lost their togetherness as one big family. When I was young, CNY is the most anticipated festival for me. It was a time when all the big 7 families gathered and the bonds were very strong. When Granny is gone, no elders manage to lead and continue our family's tradition and legacy. Over the past 9 years, we celebrated our own CNY in our own micro family. We only visit one another and it is so difficult to get the big family back together again.
This CNY, I decided to pay all of them a visit. One house after another, the feeling was really good. I guess everyone miss the good old days but no one ever think of rounding up the families together. When I visited Granny at Bright Hill, I told her my little wish – that is to rally the families together in 2009 CNY. Let's bring back the old glory of one big family. Or should we want to wait for another funeral / wedding to gather?
It is on the dinning table where we chat our lives and share our joy. When I dine at Gugu's house, I tried so hard to hold back my tears on the dining table. There was one particular dish that reminded me of Granny. It was that special taste. Each bite brought back memories of my childhood with Granny. Sigh…I am getting sentimental again. (I guessed I will look really stupid if I cried that day – my dad and mum would think I choked on some bones or what!) I excused myself in the midst of dinner, went to the living room, clear my eyes and throat and came back with the camera.
I wish I can expressed more that day. I want to tell them how much I miss Granny's cooking and those days back in Koon Seng Road. It was simple family-cooked food but the feelings are so different. No other food can compare with this. It is a family recipe, passed by word-of-mouth from mothers to daughters. And soon, all these will be lost and our new generation will have nothing to pass to their next.
The best thing in life may not be the most expensive one. Like the animation "Ratatullie", it is the reminiscing of one's fondest memory that completes the perfect taste of that signature dish. It is not made up of the best and most expensive ingredients but it consists the "taste of pure love" which touches our hearts.