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Outsiders vs. Insiders: Fragile gun-hating snowflakes always melt under the glare of truth
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I felt a disgusted sadness on Saturday as I observed a chaotic and slovenly horde of "March for Our Lives" protesters meander past our viewing spot near the palace green in historic Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. Having escaped the Washington DC area earlier that day I earnestly hoped I was safely away from any sizeable manifestation of gun-hating snowflakes.
I was wrong. Here we were, newly arrived in the birthplace of American liberty, greeted by a crowd of a few hundred leftist demonstrators marching, holding signs, chanting slogans and genuinely behaving as though they were doing something useful.
To me and those in the near vicinity the activists were defiling the very sacred ground where the American Revolution began just steps away.
For down the street in Williamsburg is the reconstructed capital of colonial Virginia where great men once instructed their delegation to vote for independence in Philadelphia. Williamsburg was also where the "radical" Virginia declaration of rights (written by George Mason in May of 1776 and adopted in June along with the Old Dominion's first Constitution) was formulated and debated. Many of the concepts, principles and wording of Virginia's founding documents were subsequently incorporated into Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence and later the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Further, it was on that same palace green (the brainless zombie gun grabbers strode past) where a large group of patriots gathered in April of 1775 to object to Royal Governor Lord Dunmore's confiscation of the colony's powder stores (the event coincided with the "shot heard 'round the world" at Lexington and Concord 400 miles to the north). Violence was averted that momentous day but the wheels were set in motion towards separating from the tyrannical stranglehold of King George III and the Mother Country.
Virginians once understood that a government that took away their gunpowder greatly diminished their ability to resist – and to protect themselves at the same time. The Right to Bear Arms was viewed as God-given and fundamental to any free society by our Founding Fathers. Firearms were a key part of the establishment of what would become the United States of America, the beacon of freedom and example to the rest of the world.
Yet here we are in 2018 and practically on the same patch of dirt an angry mob of dolts was vocalizing and gesticulating as though disarming ourselves is not only desirable – it's the smart thing to do.
One member of our party approached a sign-holding cluster of protesters and asked, "Hey, March for Life, do you mean saving unborn babies?" which drew quizzical looks from the mostly youthful marchers (it's no coincidence that the throng was moving towards the west side of town, home to the very liberal College of William and Mary). Surprisingly there were a number of older folks among the multitude as well.
We'd reached the scene too late to hear any speeches but there certainly must have been several prior to our arrival. Up in Washington the commotion was much larger and louder, of course, led for the most part by the media anointed teenaged voices of a new generation. They shrieked, pleaded and begged for voters to rise up and pressure elected officials to take away America's guns. Florida teen David Hogg was the keynote speaker.
Jack Crowe reported at National Review the other day, "Seventeen-year-old activist David Hogg targeted Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) during an incendiary speech at the massive gun control protest that shut down Washington, D.C., Saturday. Hogg, who became the de facto spokesman for the youth gun control movement after surviving the Valentine's Day mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., accused Rubio of prioritizing campaign contributions over the lives of students...
"'If you listen real close, you can hear the people in power shaking. They've gotten used to being protective of their position, choosing the safety of inaction. Inaction is no longer safe, and to that we say no more,' [Hogg] said…
"Hogg's fiery speech is just the latest instance in which the teen has resorted to divisive language and personal attacks on his political opponents. He previously referred to pro-second amendment lawmakers as 'pathetic f***ers' and said 'they could have blood from children splattered all over their faces and they wouldn't take action because they all still see those dollar signs.'"
Yeah sure, Davey. When you're done squeezing your zits come to an NRA meeting and engage in a real discussion of the Second Amendment (we promise you will be treated respectfully, unlike those who oppose your side of the argument). A few facts might change your perspective (doubtful) but you'll at least know there's another side to the matter. You might not feel as comfortable to mouth off, however, when you're no longer surrounded and supported by hundreds -- or thousands -- of your fellow cognitively underdeveloped brothers and sisters.
The Washington crowd cheered wildly at each of Hogg's completed sentences. It was almost as though he'd choreographed the delivery to provide for maximum noise.
At the same time we must question the staying power (and wisdom) of a movement featuring a pimply 17-year-old (I couldn't find Hogg's birthdate because he's a minor) as leader who reads speeches from what appeared to be a sheet of notebook paper. By no means am I an expert on public speaking but I could tell David Hogg wasn't very good at it. With only a five minute speech one would think the illustrious figurehead of the "save the snowflakes" cause would put more effort into memorizing and delivering his lines without constantly needing to check his crinkled paper every few seconds.
Seriously David? Who told you to read a speech on your big day? You would think a debate coach – or even a drama teacher – could've helped Hogg come across as a little more credible to the adult viewing public. Instead he looked like a bad James Dean impersonator with canned lines and a doofy hairdo. Hogg was so out of sorts on stage it almost seemed as though he had to use the restroom and was rushing to conclude so he could relieve himself. What an idiot.
This guy will motivate people to vote for gun confiscating Democrats? I don't think so.
Granted the juveniles in the live audience probably didn't take note of Hogg's stunted speaking skills but I'm guessing it was plainly obvious – and distracting – to TV onlookers that the adolescent couldn't deliver his message without repeated references to his prepared remarks.
Did Hogg's poor speaking performance change the content of his message? Hardly. But if you're going to lead an army you'd better show you can handle the job apart from flapping sheets of essay, a healthy amount of grimacing, blatantly rehearsed gestures (like pointing to the Capitol Building behind him) and props (a price tag supposedly representing the money per student Sen. Marco Rubio accepted from the NRA).
(As a side note, doesn't anyone care that Florida Democrat Senator Bill Nelson routinely accepts money from Planned Parenthood?)
Hogg would do well to study the crowd appeal of President Donald Trump. As president, Trump now uses a teleprompter quite a bit during speeches -- but he wouldn't be caught dead reading one of his campaign addresses.
Thankfully not all of the reaction to the snowflake revolution was flattering. An NRA spokesman truthfully pointed out that Hogg and the other Parkland students wouldn't even be known today but for troubled killer Nikolas Cruz's shooting up their high school.
Naturally the snowflakes didn't take kindly to having their motives questioned by anyone. Robert King reported in the Washington Examiner, "A student at a high school that was the site of a mass shooting said he's disgusted by comments by an NRATV host who said 'nobody would know their name' if their peers weren't killed.
"NRATV host Colion Noir said on Saturday on the gun rights group's online network 'nobody would know your names,' referring to teens at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 people were killed on Feb. 14, according to a report in the Washington Post. Noir's comments came the same day as the March for Our Lives, a massive march in Washington and across the world that was spearheaded by students at the high school calling for stricter gun control.
"Cameron Kasky, a student at the high school and one of the speakers at the Washington march, said that Noir's comments were a new low."
Does being a murder victim make one famous or notorious? You could just as easily ask the same thing of students taking advantage of the "crisis" to grab their own fifteen minutes of fame before a sympathetic and admiring liberal public faction. David Hogg is riding high these days with invitations from liberal media outlets to present his ignorant generation's point-of-view. Does anyone deny it? Is anyone swayed by a snotty little jerk like Hogg?
If it weren't for Nikolas Cruz, Hogg would still be a smart-mouthed nobody senior in South Florida who's living off his parents' hard work and awaiting his opportunity to go to college and fill his brain with a lot more anti-liberty nonsense. Instead Hogg ends up the de facto general of this melting snowflake legion by virtue of his willingness to spout outrageous accusations about Marco Rubio and anyone else who disagrees with him.
Would Hogg be where he is today if he willingly conceded the government ignored the warning signs and let a maniac slip through the cracks to snuff out 17 lives?
Hogg and the students want their free speech but they don't appreciate it when someone points to the truth (like the NRA spokesman did). The above-referenced rally in Williamsburg was an exercise in free speech – some of us didn't like it -- but did we dispute these folks' right to assemble, petition and speak? No, because we're adults.
Few dispute firearm purchases need to be regulated (to some degree) in order to keep weapons out of the hands of people like Nikolas Cruz. Already there are numerous laws on the books that if properly enforced – and violators punished – would provide protections against would-be violent criminals.
For their part President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions are already acting to make schools safer independent of the wiles of Hogg and the snowflake revolution. Sessions wrote the other day at Fox News, "First, we are investing in putting more highly trained armed personnel in our schools. Every year, the Department of Justice helps local communities hire more police officers. Now we will give priority consideration to cities and states that specifically want to hire more school police officers.
"Second, we are making several improvements to our criminal background check systems. I have ordered our federal prosecutors to aggressively prosecute those who lie to the background check system in order to try to get guns illegally. We cannot tolerate this kind of fraud.
"Under my tenure as attorney general, we have already increased federal gun prosecutions to a 10-year high and violent crime prosecutions to a 25-year high – the highest level since records have been kept…"
There are a number of things that can be done at the federal and state levels to guard against future mass shooting incidents but it's going to take cooperation between various governmental units to fully utilize the existing precautions. Sessions wrote about some of the initial efforts and more are to come as the problems and weak links are identified in the system.
One thing's for sure -- pontificating and grandstanding by uninformed emotional teenagers isn't going to do the trick. Self-congratulatory movements (Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, #Resist) not only have a way of flaming out -- they usually come with a serious backlash too. If Hogg keeps opening his mouth, expect the same very soon.


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Myotis occultus () è un pipistrello della famiglia dei Vespertilionidi diffuso nell'America settentrionale.

Descrizione

Dimensioni
Pipistrello di piccole dimensioni, con la lunghezza della testa e del corpo tra 43,8 e 50,4 mm, la lunghezza dell'avambraccio tra 33 e 40,6 mm, la lunghezza della coda tra 29,6 e 39,2 mm, la lunghezza del piede tra 7,8 e 9,2 mm, la lunghezza delle orecchie tra 11,2 e 15 mm, l'apertura alare fino a 25 cm e un peso fino a 9 g.

Aspetto
La pelliccia è lunga, soffice, densa e con le estremità dei peli lucide, che le donano una particolare lucentezza. Le parti dorsali sono fulvo-ocra brillanti, mentre le parti ventrali sono giallo-brunastre. La base dei peli è ovunque nerastra. Le orecchie e le membrane alari sono brunastre. Le ali sono attaccate posteriormente alla base delle dita dei piedi, i quali sono relativamente grandi. La coda è lunga ed inclusa completamente nell'ampio uropatagio, il quale è cosparso di pochi peli. Il calcar è privo di carenatura.

Biologia

Comportamento
Si rifugia negli edifici, nei crepacci e nelle sporgenze rocciose. Sono stati osservati vivai fino a 800 tra femmine e i loro piccoli. Durante l'inverno le popolazioni della California e dello stato messicano di Sonora entrano in ibernazione all'interno di alcune miniere.

Alimentazione
Si nutre di insett acquatici come moscerini, zanzare, Ephemeroptera e tricotteri.

Riproduzione
Le femmine danno alla luce un piccolo alla volta solitamente in giugno.

Distribuzione e habitat
Questa specie è diffusa negli stati meridionali dell'Arizona, Colorado centro-meridionale, Texas sud-occidentale, Nuovo Messico; Messico centro-settentrionale e centrale fino alla città di Puebla.

Vive in ambienti ripariali alberati in zone desertiche, pinete e querceti vicino a corsi d'acqua tra 1.830 e 2.806 metri di altitudine.

Stato di conservazione
La IUCN Red List, considerato il vasto areale e la presenza in diverse aree protette, classifica M.occultus come specie a rischio minimo (LC).

Note

Bibliografia

 Harvey, Michael J., J. Scott Altenbach & Troy L.Best, Bats ofof the United States and Canada, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. ISBN 9781421401911
 Hollister, 1909. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 22: 43.

Altri progetti

Microchirotteri
Fauna nordamericana
Fauna centroamericana

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Tag: Allison Willis MD
A Final Update on Women and PD TALK
On November 27, 2019 December 1, 2019 By skrischerIn Education & Advocacy, Inspiration, Living Well8 Comments
If you have been following Twitchy Woman for the last few years, you have seen numerous updates on "Women and PD TALK", the project that I co-chaired for the Parkinson's Foundation that looked at the unmet needs of women with PD. Last Friday, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), which gave a grant to the Parkinsons Foundation for the study, published a story about our work on its home page. I am sharing it with you here today.
A special thank you to Melissa Schenkman, who wrote the article.
Improving Life for Women with Parkinson's Disease
PCORI Engagement Award supports the creation of a national, prioritized women and Parkinson's research and care agenda.
By Melissa Schenkman, MPH, MSJ Writer and Editor PCORI
As an audiologist, Sharon Krischer used her skills to help others improve their hearing. But for a long time, she couldn't hear what her own body was telling her.
The mother of three daughters and grandmother of four remembers writing thank you notes one day when her right foot started shaking. It continued happening occasionally, but the inconsistency made Krischer think nothing of it until she broke her opposite leg and the twitch in her right foot returned. This time it wasn't going away.
Krischer's internist prescribed anti-anxiety medication, but the tremor spread to her right hand. She saw a neurologist who said she had a Parkinson's-like tremor and prescribed an anti-Parkinson drug.
After experiencing hallucinations from the medication, her internist referred her to a movement disorders specialist at University of California, Los Angeles. There, 18 months after first seeing symptoms, she received a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease (PD). She was 57 years old.
"The first year is very, very hard if you are a young woman with PD because you don't know how people will react," Krischer said. "It's also hard to go from being the caregiver to receiving care, especially if you have children."
Her search for information on PD in women drove her to become the lead patient partner on a Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award, supporting a project to improve the lives of women with PD through research and care.
A Different Experience
Krischer is one of nearly one million Americans who by 2020 will be living with PD. It's a number that is greater than the number of people diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's disease, and muscular dystrophy, combined.
PD is a neurodegenerative disorder that breaks down neurons, cells that are the building blocks of our central nervous system, the body's own electrical grid. It mainly affects nerves producing the neurotransmitter dopamine, a substance allowing the electrical transfer of messages from one nerve cell to another or from a nerve cell to a muscle.
People can experience both motor and non-motor symptoms. Motor symptoms can include resting tremor. However, non-motor symptoms include less visible ones, such as depression.
While the cause of PD is unknown, researchers have found that men are 1.5 time's more likely to have PD than women.
Several women went to a support group only once and never went back because it was almost all men. The only women there were the wives. They'd look at them and say, 'Where's your husband? Isn't he the one with Parkinson's?
Sharon Krischer
Lead Patient Partner, Co-lead, Los Angeles, CA, forum
Women's experiences with PD differ from men. They can face longer times between symptom onset and diagnosis, and between symptom appearance and visiting a movement disorders specialist, according to a small study conducted at Beth Israel Medical Center. Women may experience more non-motor symptoms and are more likely to be single or widowed, while men are more likely to rely on a spouse as their primary caregiver.
"A lot of people measure health through mortality. If that is the outcome you're looking at, of course, men have poorer health outcomes if women live longer," said Megan Feeney, MPH, senior manager, community engagement at the Parkinson's Foundation, who helped spearhead their PCORI-funded project. "But when you look at other health issues women with Parkinson's develop in conjunction with not having a support structure, the quality of life challenges they face are huge."
The project created a three-pronged agenda specifically for women with PD. The agenda focuses on:
Increasing and improving research (basic, translational, and clinical) to better understand PD in women
Improving healthcare access and delivery for women with PD
Empowering women with PD and their care teams to advocate for optimal Parkinson's care focused on women's unique experiences
Maximizing Quality of Life
The decision to shine a light on women living with PD came from informal conversations in 2014 with women noting the lack of information, resources, and connections available to them.
From left: Yvonne Hylton, Kelly Weinschreider, Lisa Cone, and Ann Boylan.
(Photo courtesy of Parkinson's Foundation)
Women living with Parkinson's disease lead a panel session at the National Forum in Houston, Texas, in October 2018.
Answering the call to action, Veronica Todaro, MPH, Feeney, and others launched a Women and PD Initiative, focusing on education and information. They organized a conference in 2015, selecting 25 women to attend.
Krischer was one. There, she learned about the limited information on women and PD, including knowledge on mental health and intimacy.
Attendees applied the knowledge, engaging their communities. For example, Krischer started a support group for women with PD, hosting activities including boxing classes and even a sex therapist's talk.
"We now had the educational and community pieces, but still needed to understand where the gaps in patient-reported outcomes were," said Todaro, executive vice president and chief operating officer, Parkinson's Foundation.
It sparked her idea for leading a PCORI-funded project to create a national, prioritized Women and Parkinson's research and care agenda. She collaborated with a national team, including women with PD, and representatives from medical universities and Parkinson's organizations who assisted in creating materials and ensuring activities aligned with community needs.
The project, Women and PD Teams to Advance Learning and Knowledge (TALK), "allowed for a structured way to bring the voices of women with Parkinson's into discussions around better outcomes related to decision making with providers and researchers to maximize women's quality of life," Todaro said.
In all, 242 women with PD and 178 stakeholders—caregivers, family members, health professionals, government representatives, and others working directly with PD patients—attended 10 forums around the country.
Empowering the Patient Voice
Women with PD discussed their experiences in relation to risk, symptoms, treatment, and care.
Krischer co-led the Los Angeles forum, where discussions included the difficulty of diagnosis, insomnia, and dismissiveness of some doctors because of PD's association with men.
Another interesting issue was women's experiences with seeking support.
"Several women went to a support group only once and never went back because it was almost all men. The only women there were the wives," Krischer said. "They'd look at them and say, 'Where's your husband? Isn't he the one with Parkinson's?'"
Experiences like this were the norm in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where Mary Tidwell lives. She started a support group for women after her 10-month journey to receiving her PD diagnosis. She believes it's the only group specifically for women in the state.
Not surprising given that until August 2018, there was only one movement disorders specialist in South Dakota—located 350 miles from Tidwell.
There's a real hunger for opportunities to connect with other people that have the disease, to learn from each other, and to support each other.
Mary Tidwell
Patient Partner, Women and PD TALK, Co-lead,
Sioux Falls, SD, forum
Women in rural areas face even greater challenges. For some, access to care means community health centers without neurologists and having the closest neurologist hundreds of miles away. Distance combined with the farming work cycle and the state's harsh weather can limit opportunities to see a neurologist.
"It can be a very lonely disease," Tidwell said. "There's a real hunger for opportunities to connect with other people that have the disease, to learn from each other, and to support each other."
The importance of establishing connections and having patients lead the way resonated with project stakeholder Ruth Schneider, MD, a movement disorders specialist at the University of Rochester's Parkinson's Foundation Center of Excellence.
"In my practice, I've found that women are more likely to internalize the disease, so PD becomes a part of their identity rather than a medical illness," said the Rochester forum's co-leader. "We are increasingly recognizing gender disparities in PD and our approach to addressing them has to be driven by our patients if we will make meaningful change."
Making a Lasting Impression
Patients, researchers, and others disseminated the agenda through multiple efforts.
Yvonne Hylton, a woman with PD, Allison Willis, MD, a project co-lead, Feeney, and clinician stakeholders presented the agenda at the 2019 Parkinson's Foundation Center Leadership Conference—an audience of leading researchers and clinicians from the foundation's Centers for Excellence around the world.
The project is also affecting medical studies. Researchers reanalyzed data in the Parkinson's Outcomes Project database, examining sex in relation to neuropsychological referral and adherence, comparing models of care within the foundation's Centers of Excellence. They presented the results at the Movement Disorders Society annual meeting.
Sharon Krischer writes a blog to encourage the exchange of ideas and solutions with others affected by Parkinson's disease.
Finally, several breakout sessions helped inform the Newly Diagnosed campaign, which aims to close the information gap so people can better manage their PD from the start.
While efforts to integrate and disseminate the agenda into future research continue, the patient presence remains constant, including their role in a second PCORI Engagement Award. The award will support the foundation in creating a nationwide standardized model of patient advisory boards for implementing patient engagement at medical institutions and furthering Parkinson's patient-centered comparative effectiveness research.
"I think that scientists have an idea of what they are looking for, but I think you get a better perspective of what's really happening by including the patient voice in the process," Krischer said. "We are the ones going through this and what you think we need may not be what we think we need."

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New abortion movie plays like a warning sign for U.S. amid Roe v. Wade leak
Jessica Zack May 11, 2022Updated: May 12, 2022, 9:04 am
Actor Anamaria Vartolomei (left) and director Audrey Diwan discuss their movie "Happening" with SFFilm programmer Lindy Leong on April 23 at the CGV Van Ness 14 in San Francisco. Photo: Tommy Lau / SFFilm
When French filmmaker Audrey Diwan brought her movie "Happening" to the San Francisco International Film Festival in April, it was just a couple of weeks before news broke that the U.S. Supreme Court looks poised, based on a leaked draft opinion, to reverse its landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that made abortion legal in all 50 states.
Yet Diwan's riveting film, which won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival and was released in France to widespread acclaim in the fall, was already focusing early audiences' attention on the very real dangers posed to women if courts take steps to roll back female reproductive rights.
"Happening," based on Annie Ernaux's unsparing 2000 memoir, portrays just such a time, when abortion and even contraception were still illegal in France, before that country's passage of "la loi Veil," the 1975 French law decriminalizing abortion. The film provides a close-up look at one young woman's desperate efforts to terminate an unwanted pregnancy without recourse to legal methods.
"It's '63 in my movie, but unfortunately it's the same narrative" playing out now, Diwan said during a recent interview with The Chronicle at her Union Square hotel. "I never thought while doing the movie that it would be so accurate in the United States."
Louise Orry-Diquéro (left), Anamaria Vartolomei and Luàna Bajrami in Audrey Diwan's "Happening." Photo: IFC Films
Diwan and the movie's magnetic lead, French-Romanian actress Anamaria Vartolomei, were headed later the same afternoon to speak with a feminist student group at the University of San Francisco. They were both eager to hear what young people close in age to their film's protagonist had to say about "Happening" and what they both called a "culture of silence" around abortion that unfortunately wasn't extinguished with its legalization.
Vartolomei plays Anne, a 23-year-old student and aspiring writer at a Normandy university who has great academic promise. Her shock early in the film at finding out she is pregnant from a fling with an out-of-town guy threatens to upend her entire future.
Shot with intimate, almost claustrophobic focus on Anne's inner turmoil, and the way she feels trapped inside her own changing body, the film accentuates the ticking-clock anxiety that accompanies her waiting, and wishing, every week that she would start bleeding. She tries inducing it on her own — with medicine, injections and worse — and attempts without success to find a doctor willing to help.
The taboo against abortion, or even abetting a woman in need, means Anne is completely alone with her secret in a culture of profound silence, unable to tell her friends or even her working-class mother (played by French star Sandrine Bonnaire).
Anamaria Vartolomei in "Happening," a French film about abortion set in 1963, directed by Audrey Diwan. Photo: IFC Films
Diwan points out that the movie's subject matter was timely long before this critical moment for American women. But it arrives in U.S. theaters this week with an unforeseen sense of urgency and uncanny timing, making "Happening," a small European film, perfectly poised to spark conversation about one of the most controversial issues facing the nation today.
That's exactly what Diwan hoped for in making it.
"I never intended to make a film telling people what to think, but I really want to open discussion," she said. "I know we don't all agree on the idea that abortion should be legal, but if you are against it, I think you should have to face what an illegal and unsafe abortion journey really is. I made the movie in order to open debate.
"If you say to women, 'You are not allowed an abortion,' then they will still find a way. And they can severely injure themselves. Are we willing to accept (as a society) that level of pain?" she continued. "When people are against safe, legal abortion, I don't know if they've thought enough about what really happens next. If a young woman like Anne doesn't have access to a legal procedure, what happens to her body and to her mind?"
Anamaria Vartolomei and Sandrine Bonnaire play daughter and mother in "Happening." Photo: IFC Films
Vartolomei, who is the same age as her character, Anne, recalled Diwan telling her before they started filming: "Anne is a soldier." When the production was delayed by the COVID-19 lockdown, they spent a lot of time discussing inspirations, such as the 1999 Dardennes brothers' film "Rosetta," for her resolute body language, her steely resolve and direct gaze.
"My character feels something pushing her ahead. She has so much determination," Vartolomei said.
Unlike many abortion movies that focus on a character's decision-making, "Happening" is clear from the outset that Anne wants to put off motherhood in order to fulfill her more pressing goals: to pass her exams and establish her career. "I'd like a child one day, but not instead of a life," she tells a doctor.
"She never doubts that this is what she wants, what she needs," said Vartolomei.
Diwan collaborated with Ernaux, who is now 81, when developing her screenplay. She says the older writer's diaristic, unflinching book "felt like an intimate thriller. It helped me think about the issue after I got an abortion myself. She would have never been a writer probably if she had not found a way. So if her book exists, and if my movie exists, it's because …"
Vartolomei chimed in: "Because she made a choice."
"Happening" (R) opens in select theaters Friday, May 13.
Jessica Zack
Jessica Zack Jessica Zack writes regularly for The Chronicle on film, books and the arts. Twitter: @jwzack
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# Using the  GetItems GetColumn and GetColumnSafe Methods

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In various cases you may want to access grid functional items/columns outside of the grid server event handlers. This is easily attainable with the **GetItems(itemType), GetColumn(columnName)** and **GetColumnSafe(columnName)** methods (exposed by each **GridTableView** instance).

The **GetItems(itemType)** method returns an array of items (in the respective GridTableView) which match the specified type. You can use the **GridItemType** enumeration to choose the item type, for example:

````VB
	    Dim headerItem As GridItem = RadGrid1.MasterTableView.GetItems(GridItemType.Header)(0)
	    'cast the item to GridHeaderItem and operate with it further
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````C#
	    GridItem headerItem = RadGrid1.MasterTableView.GetItems(GridItemType.Header)[0];
	    //cast the item to GridHeaderItem and operate with it further
````

The **GetColumn(columnName)** method returns the column with the unique name specified as argument, namely:

````VB
	    Dim column As GridColumn = RadGrid1.MasterTableView.GetColumn("OrderID")
	    'thus you get reference to the column with OrderID unique name
````
````C#
	    GridColumn column = RadGrid1.MasterTableView.GetColumn["OrderID"];
	    //thus you get reference to the column with OrderID unique name
````

The **GetColumnSafe(columnName)** performs the same task as **GetColumn(columnName)** method, however **GetColumnSafe** will not raise an exception in case column with that name is not found in the corresponding **GridTableView**.

The forthcoming sample implementation is made for hierarchical grid with two levels. With separate buttons on the page you can:

* switch the visibility for the inner tables command item link button (only for expanded parent items)

* enable/disable the link button inside the master table command item template

* show/hide the **CustomerID** column in the main table (calling the **GetColumn(columnName)** method)

* modify the width for the **OrderID** column in each detail table (only for expanded parent items)

>caution The new size for the OrderID column will be retained till the next rebind action in the grid
>

````ASP.NET
	  <asp:LinkButton ID="btnReferenceColumns" runat="server" Text="Operate with columns" /><br />
	  <telerik:RadGrid ID="RadGrid1" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False">
	    <MasterTableView DataKeyNames="CustomerID" Width="100%" CommandItemDisplay="Top">
	      <CommandItemTemplate>
	        <asp:LinkButton ID="lbMasterInsert" runat="server" CommandName="InitInsert" Text="Insert Customer"></asp:LinkButton>
	      </CommandItemTemplate>
	      <DetailTables>
	        <telerik:GridTableView DataKeyNames="OrderID" Width="100%" runat="server" CommandItemDisplay="Top">
	          <CommandItemTemplate>
	            <asp:LinkButton ID="lbDetailInsert" runat="server" CommandName="InitInsert" Text="Insert Order"></asp:LinkButton>
	          </CommandItemTemplate>
	          <Columns>
	            <telerik:GridBoundColumn HeaderText="OrderID" HeaderButtonType="TextButton" DataField="OrderID"
	              UniqueName="OrderID">
	            </telerik:GridBoundColumn>
	            <telerik:GridBoundColumn HeaderText="Date Ordered" HeaderButtonType="TextButton"
	              DataField="OrderDate" UniqueName="OrderDate">
	            </telerik:GridBoundColumn>
	            <telerik:GridBoundColumn HeaderText="EmployeeID" HeaderButtonType="TextButton" DataField="EmployeeID"
	              UniqueName="EmployeeID">
	            </telerik:GridBoundColumn>
	          </Columns>
	        </telerik:GridTableView>
	      </DetailTables>
	      <Columns>
	        <telerik:GridBoundColumn HeaderText="CustomerID" HeaderButtonType="TextButton" DataField="CustomerID"
	          UniqueName="CustomerID">
	        </telerik:GridBoundColumn>
	        <telerik:GridBoundColumn HeaderText="Contact Name" HeaderButtonType="TextButton"
	          DataField="ContactName" UniqueName="ContactName">
	        </telerik:GridBoundColumn>
	        <telerik:GridBoundColumn HeaderText="Company" HeaderButtonType="TextButton" DataField="CompanyName"
	          UniqueName="CompanyName">
	        </telerik:GridBoundColumn>
	      </Columns>
	    </MasterTableView></telerik:RadGrid><asp:Button ID="btnHideDetailInsert" runat="server"
	      Text="Switch insert option visibility for detail table" /><br />
	  <asp:Button ID="btnDisableMasterInsert" runat="server" Text="Disable/Enable insert for master table" />
````
````VB
	    Public Shared connectionString As String = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source=" & System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/Grid/Data/Access/Nwind.mdb")
	Protected Sub RadGrid1_NeedDataSource(ByVal source As Object, ByVal e As Telerik.Web.UI.GridNeedDataSourceEventArgs) Handles
	        RadGrid1.NeedDataSource()
	        RadGrid1.DataSource = GetDataTable("SELECT TOP 5 * From Customers")
	    End Sub
	    Public Shared Function GetDataTable(ByVal query As String) As DataTable

	        Dim connection1 As New OleDbConnection(connectionString)
	        Dim adapter1 As New OleDbDataAdapter
	        adapter1.SelectCommand = New OleDbCommand(query, connection1)
	        Dim table1 As New DataTable
	        connection1.Open()
	        Try
	            adapter1.Fill(table1)
	        Finally
	            connection1.Close()
	        End Try
	        Return table1
	    End Function
	    Protected Sub RadGrid1_DetailTableDataBind(ByVal source As Object, ByVal e As Telerik.Web.UI.GridDetailTableDataBindEventArgs) Handles RadGrid1.DetailTableDataBind
	        Dim dataItem As GridDataItem = CType(e.DetailTableView.ParentItem, GridDataItem)
	        If (Not e.DetailTableView.GetColumnSafe("OrderID") Is Nothing) Then
	            Dim CustomerID As String = dataItem("CustomerID").Text
	            e.DetailTableView.DataSource = GetDataTable("SELECT * FROM Orders WHERE CustomerID = '" & CustomerID & "'")
	        End If
	    End Sub
	    Protected Sub btnHideDetailInsert_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnHideDetailInsert.Click
	        Dim masterItem As GridDataItem
	        For Each masterItem In RadGrid1.MasterTableView.Items
	            If (masterItem.Expanded) Then
	                Dim commandItem As GridCommandItem = masterItem.ChildItem.NestedTableViews(0).GetItems(GridItemType.CommandItem)(0)
	                Dim lnkButton As LinkButton = CType(commandItem.FindControl("lbDetailInsert"), LinkButton)
	                lnkButton.Visible = Not lnkButton.Visible
	            End If
	        Next
	    End Sub
	    Protected Sub btnDisableMasterInsert_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnDisableMasterInsert.Click
	        Dim commandItem As GridCommandItem = RadGrid1.MasterTableView.GetItems(GridItemType.CommandItem)(0)
	        Dim lnkButton As LinkButton = CType(commandItem.FindControl("lbMasterInsert"), LinkButton)
	        lnkButton.Enabled = Not lnkButton.Enabled
	    End Sub
	    Protected Sub btnReferenceColumns_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnReferenceColumns.Click
	        Dim masterItem As GridDataItem
	        For Each masterItem In RadGrid1.MasterTableView.Items
	            If (masterItem.Expanded) Then
	                Dim detailColumn As GridBoundColumn = CType(masterItem.ChildItem.NestedTableViews(0).GetColumnSafe("OrderID"), GridBoundColumn)
	                detailColumn.HeaderStyle.Width = Unit.Pixel(50)
	            End If
	        Next
	        Dim masterColumn As GridBoundColumn = CType(RadGrid1.MasterTableView.GetColumn("CustomerID"), GridBoundColumn)
	        masterColumn.Visible = Not masterColumn.Visible
	    End Sub
````
````C#
	    string connectionString = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source=" + System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/Grid/Data/Access/Nwind.mdb");
	    protected void RadGrid1_NeedDataSource(object source, Telerik.Web.UI.GridNeedDataSourceEventArgs e)
	    {
	        RadGrid1.DataSource = GetDataTable("SELECT TOP 5 * From Customers");
	    }
	    public static DataTable GetDataTable(string query)
	    {
	        OleDbConnection connection1 = new OleDbConnection(connectionString);
	        OleDbDataAdapter adapter1 = new OleDbDataAdapter();
	        adapter1.SelectCommand = new OleDbCommand(query, connection1);
	        DataTable table1 = new DataTable();
	        connection1.Open();
	        try
	        {
	            adapter1.Fill(table1);
	        }
	        finally
	        {
	            connection1.Close();
	        }
	        return table1;
	    }
	    protected void RadGrid1_DetailTableDataBind(object source, Telerik.Web.UI.GridDetailTableDataBindEventArgs e)
	    {
	        GridDataItem dataItem = (GridDataItem)e.DetailTableView.ParentItem;
	        if (e.DetailTableView.GetColumnSafe("OrderID") != null)
	        {
	            string CustomerID = dataItem["CustomerID"].Text;
	            e.DetailTableView.DataSource = GetDataTable("SELECT * FROM Orders WHERE CustomerID = \'" + (CustomerID + "\'"));
	        }
	    }
	    protected void btnHideDetailInsert_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
	    {
	        GridDataItem masterItem;
	        foreach (masterItem in RadGrid1.MasterTableView.Items)
	        {
	            if (masterItem.Expanded)
	            {
	                GridCommandItem commandItem = masterItem.ChildItem.NestedTableViews[0].GetItems(GridItemType.CommandItem)[0];
	                LinkButton lnkButton = (LinkButton)commandItem.FindControl("lbDetailInsert");
	                lnkButton.Visible = !lnkButton.Visible;
	            }
	        }
	    }
	    protected void btnDisableMasterInsert_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
	    {
	        GridCommandItem commandItem = RadGrid1.MasterTableView.GetItems(GridItemType.CommandItem)[0];
	        LinkButton lnkButton = (LinkButton)commandItem.FindControl("lbMasterInsert");
	        lnkButton.Enabled = !lnkButton.Enabled;
	    }
	    protected void btnReferenceColumns_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
	    {
	        GridDataItem masterItem;
	        foreach (masterItem in RadGrid1.MasterTableView.Items)
	        {
	            if (masterItem.Expanded)
	            {
	                GridBoundColumn detailColumn = (GridBoundColumn)masterItem.ChildItem.NestedTableViews[0].GetColumnSafe("OrderID");
	                detailColumn.HeaderStyle.Width = Unit.Pixel(50);
	            }
	        }
	        GridBoundColumn masterColumn = (GridBoundColumn)RadGrid1.MasterTableView.GetColumn("CustomerID");
	        masterColumn.Visible = !masterColumn.Visible;
	    }
````

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The German press nicknamed him "God's machine gun" for his aggressive, staccato preaching, but the name also fit for deeper reasons. Mr. Graham described these trips as "crusades" and saw West Germany as ground zero in what he called "Battleground Europe," a Cold War fight to redeem the "land of Luther" from its Nazi past and secure its future as a stronghold for American-style democracy, capitalism and evangelicalism.
.. Billy Graham's culture wars are inseparable from his role as an international Cold Warrior. He wasn't just America's pastor; he was God's Cold War machine gun.
.. he affirmed that West Germans were his "brothers in arms" literally as well as spiritually. To strengthen a Christian democratic West against a godless Soviet East, he cast his weight behind German rearmament.
.. Mr. Graham portended a similar Americanization of German religion with its emphasis on conversion and its use of modern communication technologies for evangelism.
.. Some Germans deemed Mr. Graham a Hollywood huckster who, as the German news media put it, "advertised the Bible like toothpaste and chewing gum." Others sensed an unnerving parallel between his mass gatherings and Germany's fascist past.
Since Ailes has resigned from FNC, the channel has floundered, as Murdoch's sons James and Lachlan attempt to re-make it in their image — a more "moderate" channel to appease the global elite. Bill O'Reilly, the primetime lineup's ratings powerhouse, and Bill Shine, a longtime deputy to Ailes, were both ousted after waves of negative press accusing the former of sexual harassment and the latter of enabling sexual harassment.
Roger Ailes, who combined political savvy with television showmanship to build the Fox News Channel into a conservative media juggernaut, becoming one of American media's most controversial figures along the way, died Thursday. He was 77 years old.The cause of death wasn't immediately known. Mr. Ailes had been in failing health, and had recently been hospitalized after a fall.
.. Mr. Ailes pioneered a style of cable news with opinionated, right-leaning prime-time programming delivered by pugnacious hosts.
.. Through a career in politics dating back to the 1960s and his leadership of Fox News, Mr. Ailes helped shape the modern conservative movement.
.. Mr. Ailes also demanded loyalty, and he usually got it. When Mr. Ailes was building Fox News, almost 100 people from NBC went with him, causing executives there to complain that he was stealing staff. "You don't know the difference between recruitment and a jailbreak," he fired back.
.. I met him once, and he was more than anything unashamed of his role in creating value by increasing an audience by the means he correctly saw as most potent — conflict. Whether you like the message or not, you cannot ignore screaming, and Ailes proved screaming pays very well regardless of whether there is anything remotely worth screaming about.
.. he examined the problem of "asymmetric information" in the market for medical services and insurance.
.. Dr. Arrow's family tree was decked with eminent economists. His nephew Lawrence Summers is a former Treasury Secretary and president of Harvard. A relative by marriage, Paul A. Samuelson, also won a Nobel in economics, while his sister Anita and her husband, Robert Summers, were economists and both taught at the University of Pennsylvania.


Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey (17 November 1854 - 21 July 1934) was a French Army general, the first Resident-General in Morocco from 1912 to 1925 and from 1921 Marshal of France.
Lyautey was born at Nancy (Lorraine) into an upper-middle class family with aristocratic connections, royalist sympathies and a military past. In 1873 he entered the French military academy of Saint-Cyr, attended the army training school beginning in 1876, and in December 1877 was made a lieutenant. He made his career serving in the colonies and not in metropolitan France, a more prestigious assignment. The first years after graduating, Lyautey served as a cavalry officer in Algeria and from 1894 to 1897 in Indochina, under Joseph Gallieni.
Lyautey adopted and emulated Gallieni's policy of methodical expansion of pacified areas followed by social and economical development to bring about the end of resistance and the cooperation of former insurgents. This method became known as tache d'huile (literally, "oil stain"), as it resembles oil spots spreading to cover the whole surface. Lyautey's writings have had a significant influence on contemporary counterinsurgency theory through its adoption by David Galula.
From 1897 to 1902 Lyautey served on Madagascar, again under Galli�ni. He played a key role in the invasion of the island (1896-1898), in which he commanded the French forces. His military skill and success in this campaign greatly contributed to his promotion to general de brigade in 1902.
The murder of French citizens in Casablanca was used as a pretext for Lyautey to occupy Oujda in eastern Morocco at the Algerian border in 1907. Having been promoted to g�n�ral de division, Lyautey was Military Governor of French Morocco from 4 August 1907 to 28 April 1912. After the Convention of Fez established a protectorate over Morocco, Lyautey served as Resident-General of French Morocco from 28 April 1912 to 25 August 1925.
Lyautey is considered to have been an apt colonial administrator. During the First World War, he continued the occupation of the country, regardless of the fact that France needed most of her resources in the struggle against the Central Powers. Lyautey served as France's Minister of War for three months in 1917. In 1925, Lyautey lost the military command of the French forces engaged against Abd-el-Krim to Philippe P�tain and resigned to return to France.
On 27 July 1914 Gen. Lyautey was telephoned by Paris to evacuate Protectorate except the coast and to send all troops. He was quoted as saying: "A war among Europeans is a civil war. It is the most monumental folly the world has ever committed."
Marshal Lyautey served as Honorary President of the three French Scouting associations. His chx�teau in the east of France at Thorey hosts the museum of French Scouting.
In his final years, Lyautey became associated with France's growing fascist movement. He admired Italian leader Benito Mussolini, and was associated with the far right Croix de Feu. In 1934, he threatened to lead the Jeunesses Patriotes to overthrow the government.
Lyautey died in Thorey and was buried in Morocco, but the body was reinterred in Les Invalides in 1961.
The town of Kenitra, Morocco was named "Port Lyautey" by the French in 1933, but renamed after independence in 1956.
The Garrison of the 13th Parachute Dragoon Regiment is named after him.
Lyc�e Lyautey in Casablanca, Morocco is named after him.
Lyautey has been suggested as the author of the aphorism that "a language is a dialect which owns an army, a navy and an air force" (Une langue, c'est un dialecte qui possx�de une arm�e, une marine et une aviation.), but there is no good evidence for this.
Portions of this article were translated from the French language Wikipedia article fr:Hubert Lyautey.
Maurois, Andr�. Marshal Lyautey, Paris, Plon, 1931. Translated to English and published in London and New York in 1931.


Evi Aki's new cookbook is "Flavors of Africa."
To make the meatballs, combine the ground beef, bread, egg, cumin, paprika, cinnamon, cardamom, coriander, salt and black pepper in a large bowl. Make sure the mixture is well combined, then roll the meat into golf ball-size balls.
-- Reprinted with permission from "Flavors of Africa" by Evi Aki, Page Street Publishing Co.


The vacuum steam process, ensures complete elimination of air from the chamber and sterilizing load. Thus, penetration of saturated steam into machine part openings and porous goods is secured. Heating and sterilizing is done trough direct inflow of clean steam. Supported by the heated jacket, the required sterilization result is achieved. Drying is done through further evacuation steps (simple or fractionated).


New Delhi [India], November 8 ( ANI ): National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah on Wednesday said that the situation in Jammu and Kashmir would become uncontrollable if Article 370 gets repealed.
He has this uncontrollable power, but it's hard to know which came first - his emotional response to his situation at home or the supernatural power,' explains Fionn.
Situations that are genuinely uncontrollable cannot be changed.
Symptoms can include extreme blushing, chronic chuckling, terminal trembling, uncontrollable crying or spontaneous spewing of stupid statements.
There may be some drivers with legitimate uncontrollable anger on the roads.
EDITORIAL ROAD RAGE DISEASE OR IS IT JUST A BAD CASE OF RUDENESS?
While clinicians can't counsel at-risk patients to avoid emotional upset, Steptoe says, "we can help them cope with problems like uncontrollable anger.
This season's offering, Anna Karenina, sketches the narrative of a heroine, torn between domestic duty to husband and son and uncontrollable lust for a dashing officer.
It created an uncontrollable commercial environment characterised by, among other things, a reduction in foreign direct investment, the exodus of skilled labour and the depreciation of the Sri Lankan rupee.
Persevere, it's good, buy it, read it, think on and apply it to the rich, unpredictable, uncontrollable city but question the implicit capitalist imperative that lurks behind books and cities alike.
A Kaiser Health Appraisal questionnaire was used to measure study participants' current psychosocial issues, including stress level, fear of uncontrollable anger, and serious or disturbing problems related to family, job or finances.
Their pay led to a cycle of things to create a totally uncontrollable cost structure.


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FRANCES HA – Blu-ray review
Christopher Long November 22, 2013
As surely as any Esther Williams or Jackie Chan flick, "Frances Ha" (2013) sells the distinctive screen appeal of its star, Greta Gerwig. You will either buy in or you won't, but if you resist the pitch, it's certainly not for lack of effort by the sales force.
Gerwig is Frances Ha (short for something that I won't spoil), a 27 year-old aspiring ballet dancer in New York, an unforgiving place whose Bloomberg economy is not hospitable to aspiring dancers. Especially dancers as obviously deficient on talent as Frances. Frances understands this, but just barely manages to suppress the knowledge, devoting herself instead to living a wide-eyed fantasy where she can remain a semi-broke woman-child who prances giddily around the Big Apple streets, riding one impulse wave to the next, just hanging out with friends in a world of beautiful responsibility-free stasis.
Frances is another in a long line of manic free spirits so beloved by American indie directors and audiences. She is a precious quirky jewel immersed in a narrative of self-discovery, a delicate quirky flower bending but not breaking in a harsh wind, singing her off-key quirky song to a world where people have the time to listen, and did I mention that she's quirky? Frances has her "weird man-walk," a penchant for inappropriately aggressive humor, and is the sort of person who can, without a hint of irony, stare her roommate and super best friend Sophie (Mickey Sumner) in the face and say: "Tell me the story of us." Frances needs stories, no matter how dubious, in order to find an excuse to keep pirouetting around the city just ahead of all the cares she's trying to stay free of.
Once Sophie moves out to live with her boyfriend, Frances finds it harder to keep dancing, either in the ballet studio or on the streets, but she's not ready to give up yet. She drifts into the company of a few male friends (strictly platonic as she is deemed "undateable"), hops a plane to Paris on a whim, then makes multiple efforts to retreat to the womb, returning both to her undergrad college (as an RA) and to her parents in Sacramento.
Director Noah Baumbach co-wrote the film with Gerwig (the two are now real-life partners as well) and imbues the film with plenty of his own obsessions, including numerous overt references to French New Wave cinema, most obviously the liberal use of familiar film tracks by Georges Delerue. But for the most part he cedes center stage to Gerwig and she responds with a completely committed performance, a bundle of klutzy movements, slouched postures, awkward expressions, and nervous tics that leaves her completely exposed for judgment. Her willingness to hold absolutely nothing back deserves mad respect and can't help but make a viewer feel guilty for finding it all quite exasperating.
And I do feel guilty. Frances clearly strikes a resonant chord with many viewers who identify with her desire to cling to an childhood dream even while all her friends are eagerly establishing their adult brands. But she isn't content merely to be an outsider; she has a desperate need for everyone to recognize her uniqueness and to give her a pat on the back just for being her quirky, non-conformist self. This performative aspect of her rebellion ("Look at me, everyone! I'm an individual!") betrays a level of narcissism that might have a certain charm in an adolescent, but just irks in a twenty-something clinging so self-consciously to the wisps of adolescence. That's not to say it isn't a plausible, valid choice for the character. Just that it's difficult to swallow.
Also challenging is Baumbach's decision to present the film in black-and-white. I say "present" because he shot digitally (on a Canon 5D) and then flipped it to black-and-white in post-production. The look has a smooth, soft quality to it, heavy on romantic haze and short on hard contrast, but whether it gives Frances (both the film and character) a timeless quality or just feels like a convenient shortcut (along with the borrowing of music cues) to link the film to the heritage of early New Wave is an open question.
One definite plus is the emphasis the film places on female friendship, a genuine rarity in cinema from any era. At its heart, it's a love story between Frances and Sophie, and Frances's tribulations are not merely a pretext for an inevitable entanglement with one of the sad-sack men in her life. She wants Sophie back, she wants it with every fiber of her being, and the film acknowledges this desire in a moving and effective denouement. In a world full of bankable bromances, it's not something we see very often. And it's just another reason I feel bad for not buying in.
The film is presented in a 1.85:1 aspect ratio. I don't know if it's a result of the film being shot on mid-budget digital or the post-production switch to black-and-white, but there are a few instances where digital artifacting is more obvious than in most Criterion high-def transfers. Pools of light in the background shimmer and "wobble" at times and blacks don't always look solid black. It's not bad by any means, but it's noticeable. The image detail, of course, is strong throughout. It's silky smooth rather than grainy, and I prefer a more textured look, but that's how the movie was filmed. A solid transfer.
"Frances Ha" is part of Criterion's first batch of Dual Release titles, so you get both a Blu-ray disc and an SD disc. I have not reviewed the SD for image quality.
The Blu-ray has a DTS-HD Master 5.1 track that isn't particularly dynamic and isn't really meant to be. The films features quite a bit of prominent music (Bowie's "Modern Love" and other pop standards along with the New Wave compositions) but scenes are usually either all/mostly dialogue or all/mostly music, so separation isn't a major concern. Dialogue is crisply mixed and the music is full and resonant. Optional English subtitles support the English audio.
Criterion includes three interviews as supplements.
Peter Bogdanovich interviews Noah Baumbach (2013, 15 min.) about the film. Bogdanovich seems a bit… sleepy, but the conversation between mentor and former "pupil" is a warm one.
Sarah Polley interviews Greta Gerwig (2013, 17 min.) Polley is quite enamored of the film (describing it as an "unmitigated joy") and of Gerwig's performance.
"Interpreting Reality" (2013, 18 min.) addresses the shooting of the film and the conversion to black-and-white and features Baumbach, cinematographer Sam Levy, and Pascal Dangin, who "did the film's color mastering."
We also get a Theatrical Trailer (2 min.)
The 16-page insert booklet features an essay by playwright Annie Baker.
Film Value:
"Frances Ha" doesn't work for me, but it's been one of the indie darlings of 2013. Gerwig gives an all-in performance, and I respect that even if I can't connect with Frances. For fans, the Criterion Dual Release should be satisfying, with a solid transfer and a handful of interviews.
Video - 7/10
Audio - 7/10
Extras - 6/10
Film Value - 5/10
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Find Trails > Illinois > Bridgeview > Bridgeview Inline Skating Trails
Bridgeview, IL Inline Skating Trails and Maps
Looking for the best Inline Skating trails around Bridgeview?
Find the top rated inline skating trails in Bridgeview, whether you're looking for an easy short inline skating trail or a long inline skating trail, you'll find what you're looking for. Click on a inline skating trail below to find trail descriptions, trail maps, photos, and reviews.
Dunes Kankakee Trail
Erie Lackawanna Trail
Hickory Creek Bikeway
Iron Horse Heritage Trail
Monon Trail (Lake County)
Oak Savannah Trail
Old Plank Road Trail
Pennsy Greenway
State: IL, IN
Prairie Duneland Trail
Preservation Path
Route 30 Bikeway
Thorn Creek Trail
Tinley Creek Trail (South)
Turkey Creek Trail
Vale Park West Pathway
Veterans Memorial Trail (IN)
Wauponsee Glacial Trail
The Dunes Kankakee Trail is a 5.5-mile walking and bike path that It exists in 2 discrete segments: one that is 2.4 miles paralleling County Road 25 East, and the other segment east of that that is...
The Erie Lackawanna Trail connects Crown Point and Hammond, two former rail junctions whose early fortunes were tied to the tracks carrying people and goods to and from Chicago. Despite traveling...
IN 17.7 mi Asphalt
The Hickory Creek Bikeway offers nearly 4 miles of paved pathway through a wooded preserve. On its western end, the trail begins at Hickory Creek Barrens Nature Preserve and Lincolnway Road; on the...
The Iron Horse Heritage Trail in Portage, Indiana, runs for over 2 miles between Max Mochal Road (SR 149) at the east end and Hamstrom Rd. at the west end. The trail passes through a greenway corridor...
The Monon Trail in Lake County, Indiana—not to be confused with the trail of the same name in Indianapolis—links the two Chicago suburbs of Hammond and Munster. The paved trail occupies an abandoned...
First-time visitors to the Oak Savannah Trail might be surprised at the profusion of natural areas they'll encounter as they travel the 9.5 miles between Hobart and Griffith in northern Indiana's...
Running between the suburbs of Chicago Heights and Joliet, the Old Plank Road Trail offers views of oak trees and sugar maples, prairie grasses, and wildflowers that peek up through the...
The Pennsy Greenway stretches between Calumet City, Illinois, and Schererville, Indiana. The trail begins at the southern end of the Burnham Greenway on the eastern edge of the Forest Preserve...
IL, IN 12.5 mi Asphalt
Prairies and dunes are just two of the natural features you'll experience on the Prairie Duneland Trail, located just a few miles south of the Lake Michigan shoreline and the Indiana Dunes National...
The Preservation Path is a two-mile paved trail in the community of Matteson, Illinois. The path begins on Vollmer Road and terminates at the Old Plank Road Trail. The trail is paved with center...
Leave the cars at home: the Route 30 Bike Path gives users an alternative way to travel from the Village of Frankfort in the east, through Mokena to New Lenox in the west, a distance of over 7.5...
The Thorn Creek Trail offers a paved route traversing woodlands abundant with wildlife through several communities on the southern outskirts of Chicago. The trail travels from Brownwell Woods in...
The Tinley Creek Trail is currently in two segments. This southern segment is within the South Green Belt Forest Preserve between Flossmor and Matteson, just west of I-57. The trail traverses wooded...
Turkey Creek Trail is a short but sweet walk or ride through the beautiful Ivan Gatlin Nature Preserve in the northwestern Indiana community of Schererville. This wetland area provides the opportunity...
The Vale Park West Pathway is a multiuse trail in the Chicago suburb of Valparaiso. At 0.7 mile long, the trail passes through a mix of woodland and prairie, as well as over a creek on a 220-foot...
IN 0.7 mi Concrete
When complete, the Veterans Memorial Trail will stretch close to 12 miles, connecting a series of memorials honoring US veterans from every era. At present, 1.3 miles are complete and usable, located...
In just a few short miles, the Wauponsee Glacial Trail leaves the urban confines of Joliet to bask in open farmland and reclaimed tallgrass prairie where the bison roam again. Named for a glacial lake...
IN - 17.7 miles
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Marquette Trail
It's small and kind of gravelly, so use a mountain bike or hybrid. But it's a great little trail - not too long for the kids and gorgeous scenery!
November, 2021 by lchibe
needs to be repaved
October, 2021 by bbwilso510
This trail is so bumpy I would not classify it as a bike trail.


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import gnu.xml.validation.datatype.Annotation;
import gnu.xml.validation.datatype.Type;
import javax.xml.namespace.QName;

/**
 * An XML Schema element declaration schema component.
 *
 * @author Chris Burdess
 */
class ElementDeclaration
{

  /**
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   */
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   * The type definition corresponding to this element.
   */
  Type datatype;

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   * The scope of this schema component.
   * One of GLOBAL, LOCAL, or ABSENT.
   */
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  final ElementDeclaration parent;

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   * The constraint type.
   * One of NONE, DEFAULT, FIXED.
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  final boolean nillable;

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  final int substitutionGroupExclusions;

  final int disallowedSubstitutions;

  final boolean isAbstract;

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                     Type datatype,
                     int scope, ElementDeclaration parent,
                     int type, String value,
                     boolean nillable,
                     QName substitutionGroup,
                     int substitutionGroupExclusions,
                     int disallowedSubstitutions,
                     boolean isAbstract)
  {
    this.name = name;
    this.datatype = datatype;
    this.scope = scope;
    this.parent = parent;
    this.type = type;
    this.value = value;
    this.nillable = nillable;
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