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The Birth of a Nation (2016)
A genuinely powerful and moving film, though its storytelling flaws are hard to forgive.
Written by: Bailey LuBean | October 14, 2016
Distributor: Fox Searchlight
Ever since it's rapturous premiere at January 2016's Sundance Festival, The Birth of a Nation has been fighting an uphill battle. This is especially disappointing as the film began 2016 on top of that hill. After being purchased by Fox Searchlight in the biggest acquisition deal in Sundance's history it was met with nearly unanimous praise from completely ecstatic audiences. Now it's struggling for box-office returns with the hope that possible Oscar gold will bring it back out into the public's graces. These chances are slim to none sadly, most poignantly due to recently unearthed allegations against writer/director/star Nate Parker. The details of these allegations are for a whole other essay entirely, but nevertheless they cast a large shadow over what was once a highly praised piece of art.
Even critics are nervous to approach this film in fear of having to discuss the controversy, but as previously mentioned in my review for Mel Gibson's Blood Father, it's best to view film subjectively. It's best to separate the art from the artist, if at all possible.
The art in question tells the true story of Nat Turner, a black slave living in Southampton County, Virginia during the early part of the 1800's. Turner went against the normal standards at an early age and quickly learned to read using the only book that "non-white folk" are able to have: The Holy Bible. During a particularly bad drought with restless and hungry slaves, plantation owners started to catch wind of the "negro preacher" and started paying his master to bring him to many plantations to preach specifically selected Bible verses in order to ease the irate slaves.
In 1831, a guilty Nat Turner realizes the Bible isn't telling him to serve his masters; it's telling him to eradicate his masters. Along with many of his friends and other plantation slaves, Turner launches a rebellion that ends in copious amounts of bloodshed on both sides.
There is actually a limited amount of information known about Nat Turner, let alone the uprising he led, so Nate Parker had the arduous task of filling in the holes between major events. For the most part, his attempt at doing so was successful. The Birth of a Nation is at times tender and other times brutally realistic. Nate Parker gives a restrained and controlled performance as Nat Turner to great effect, particularly when his breaking point comes. It comes from a place of pain and sudden wrath and it leads to genuinely chilling sequences once he and his followers take up arms in the middle of the night.
You can feel the passion that Nate Parker has for this story in every frame. He takes every opportunity he can to do something new with the camera to show off excellent cinematography, notably in a few "dream-like" sequences where it nearly gets metaphysical in nature. There are many elements that Parker is juggling in this film and that's where the film begins to falter. He seems to be torn between two different films that he wants to make as one. The first of which is a more violent and reactionary film on par with other films of the genre like 12 Years a Slave. The other is a more personal exploration of a man of faith and how his religion is consistently manipulated to cause harm.
This is by far the more interesting story and the film strives when this is its focus. There are times when both of these ideas do mesh together quite nicely, resulting in truly poignant observations about religion then and religion today through the lens of violence. However, when these tones don't mesh, it causes major problems in the storytelling, particularly in the way Nate Parker fleshes out the story to fill them.
This is where the previously mentioned controversy begins to taint the piece with off putting questions of intent. The inciting incident that the film seems to imply is the cause of Nat Turner's violent change of heart is not an easy one to witness. Sexual violence of any kind is difficult to witness on screen, but the scene in question with this film nearly goes overboard. It is a disturbing sequence and the aftermath of it is shocking and heartbreaking. Without knowing the history, these scenes are handled effectively and provide the actors with opportunities to really show off their commitment to their roles, so I was disappointed to discover it's not based on any actual history whatsoever; it's a fictional narrative extension by Nate Parker to provide Nat Turner's character with a particular reason to finally get violent.
Normally, such embellishments are commonplace for most biopics, but with the shadow of controversy over the film, it colors the scene in a different way that unintentionally harms the film as a result. It shows a lack of faith in the story of Turner being enough to have audiences on board with his struggle. The decision to resort to nearly exploitative sexual violence to falsely describe Nat Turner's intentions is unfortunate. This isn't the only scene that was created for the film that has proven to be problematic, but is surely going down as the most notorious.
This is a frustrating dilemma. There is much to love about The Birth of a Nation. Before doing fact checking and addressing Parker's controversy, the film is inspiring. The final sequence alone and imagery it portrays are enough to bring tears to your eyes. But alas, that elephant in the room is loud, ugly, and distracting. With proper expectations in check, it's still a bold and important film many will benefit from seeing, as well as an impressive first feature from Nate Parker. It's just a shame it's been compromised in the way it has.
About the Author: Bailey LuBean
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Gregg was born on April 02, 1962 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States as Robert Clark Gregg. He is son of Mary Layne and Robert Clark Gregg Sr., an Episcopal priest and University professor.
As his father was a clergyman and academic, his family was constantly being relocated, Gregg spent his childhood in seven cities by the age of seventeen.
He did his schooling in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and joined Ohio Western University for two years before dropping out and moved to Manhattan in the early 80s in search of punk rock and good theatre. He later enrolled at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied drama and English, and graduated in 1986.
He worked various jobs to support himself such as being bar back at Sardi's, a security guard at the Guggenheim Museum, and a parking valet at the Water Club restaurant.
Gregg was one of the 30 acting students from New York University along with David Mamet and William H. Macy,who founded an Off-Broadway non-profit 'Atlantic Theatre Company' in 1985.He laterbecame its artistic director and remains involved till this day.
He made his theatrical feature film debut with 1988 'Things Change' in which he portrays the stage manager and followed it up similar role in a TV Movie 'Lip Service,' which was a directorial debut for William H. Macy.
In the 1989 biography drama history movie 'Fat Man and Little Boy,' he plays the character Douglas Panton and went on to appear in number of TV series namely 'Law & Order,' as Patrick Dunne, in 'Shannon's Deal,' as Mercer, and in 'A Women Named Jackie,' as Ken O'Donnell, in 1991.
He had substantial role in the 1991 drama 'Lana in Love' as Marty, along with Susan Eyton-Jones and Michael Gillis. Gregg makes an impressive screen presence as the plumber Marty who arrives at the wrong address.
In 1994 Gregg had four credit to his name in the 'I Love Trouble,' 'Clear and Present Danger,' and 'Ride Me,' apart from a TV series 'The George Carlin Show.' In 1995 in the film'The Usual Suspects,' he was cast as Dr. Walters in the crime mystery thriller,though initially he was offered the role of Kujan.
Gregg has also been featured in number of supporting roles in films, such as 'Lovely & Amazing,' 'The Human Stain,' 'and 'In Good Company.' In the comedy drama TV series, 'Sports Night,' Gregg was offered one of the lead roles. He had to turn it down because he was working on the pre-production of What Lies Beneath. He ended up playing the recurring role of the Stranger.
Gregg has also 3 credits in screenplay and story starting with Robert Zemeckis's fantasy horror film 'What Lies Beneath.' The DreamWorks commissioned a rewrite from Gregg and he was forced to decline Aaron Sorkin's offer to read for a major role in Sports Night.
After a string of mostly one-off appearances, Gregg landed multi-episode runs on 'Sports Night,' in 2000, 'The West Wing' in 2001, 'The Shield' in 2004, and 'The New Adventure of Old Christine' from 2006 to 2010. He said the best stuff that happened for me since I turned 40.
Gregg made his feature film directional debut with comedy drama 'Choke' in which he also acted and wrote the screenplay. The film is adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's book Fight Club and Gregg worked on the book for five years, trying to adapt it to screenplay.
After spending a year with the book in writing assignment he threw the book in a drawer and decided to write his own personal version of the story, one that Chuck would probably have me removed. To his surprise the adaptation started to work and Chuck was extremely supportive of its departures.
He found the film Choke to be more complex due to its extremely dramatic moments and absurdly silly ones. The film was premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival where it won a Special Jury Prize for a dramatic work by an ensemble cast.
Gregg consulted his father, a retired religion professor at Stanford, for the quotation from Saint Paul's letter to the Galatians which he used in Choke. Gregg's father is also the former chaplain at Stanford Memorial Church.
When director and neighbor Jon Favreau offered Gregg the small nameless role of 'Agent' in the star-studded Iron Man film. Initially Gregg was uninterested for based on his experience the scene make get cut down in the final print. Fortunately his wife encouraged him to accept the part because of his lifelong love for comic books.
He noted being part of the expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe as being very exciting. Though 'Agent Coulson' wasn't really in the comic book, I was just very lucky that they choose to expand and he reprised his role in 'The Avengers,' and in a series of Marvel Short films.
Gregg was cast as Phil Coulson, as a part of multi-picture deal with Marvel and his role expanded in 'The Avengers.' At the 39th Saturn Award, Gregg won the Best Supporting Actor Award and the film won the Best Scientific Fiction Film.
In October 2010, Gregg was part of the cast of a staged reading of Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart,' when it was presented in Los Angeles on the occasion of the play's 25th anniversary preceding the play's 2011 Broadways premiere. The reading was directed by his father-in-law, Joel Grey.
Gregg has portrayed Agent Coulson in the ABC television series 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. since 2013, set within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, alongside Ming-na-Wen and Chloe Bennet. He went on to direct episodes in season five and six.
In 2013, he starred, wrote and directed a comedy drama 'Trust Me,' which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film received limited release in the United States in June 2014.
In the animated action adventure TV series 'Ultimate Spider-Man,' Gregg provided the voice for S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Phil Coulson, the same character Gregg played in the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies. It was decided in the 2011 San Diego Comic-con International.
Gregg is married to actress Jennifer Grey, his co-star in the Lifetime TV movie 'Road to Christmas,' since July 21, 2001. The couples have a daughter Stella, born on December 03, 2001. He describes himself as a member of a Jewish family.
He and his wife were part of the demonstrations at the 2017 Women's March held on January 21, 2017 in Washington, D.C. He is a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
In 2000, he won Best Acting by an Ensemble shared with other cast for 'State and Main' from National Board Review Award. He also won the Online Film Critics Society Award and Florida Film Critics Circle Award in 2001.
He is the only actor who has appeared in productions, film or TV, set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since its launch from Iron Man, continuously without ever taking a leap year.


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Genealogy Gems caught an interview with CNN anchor Lou Dobbs in which he proudly proclaimed that, when it comes to genealogy, he is both ignorant and incurious.
I'll let Genealogy Gems handle this one. If you want to help find Dobbs' ancestors, you can post a comment over there or send the proprietor an email.
Perhaps there's a good reason he's not interested in Family History. Maybe there's some skeletons in the closet that he doesn't want found. sounds like a good reason to do some digging.
Lou Dobbs remark about his ancestors gave me reason to lose respect for the anchor man. The people that struggled as pilgrims and pioneers to build the roads, bridges, and industry that provides his easy life today. These people he doesn't even care to know about, those directly related provided him with the genes that made him who he is today. What a narrow minded and self centered attitude.
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Distributions of chaetodactylid mites (Acari: Chaetodactylidae), obligate associates of long-tongued bees of the families Apidae and Megachilidae, largely correspond to those of their hosts. Early derivative lineages of mites (Centriacarus gen. n. and Roubikia) are restricted to the endemic Neotropical apid bee genera Centris and Roubikia, respectively. Phylogenetically derived mite lineages are worldwide in distribution: Sennertia species are associated with carpenter bees (Ceratina and Xylocopa), and Chaetodactylus species are associated with nine megachilid and five apid bee genera. In contrast, mites of the genus Achaetodactylus are known exclusively from African Ceratina hosts. Reconstruction of the historical biogeography of the group, including the newly described early derivative genus Centriacarus, is conducted for the first time. Present distribution and host associations of chaetodactylids can be best explained by host shifts and intercontinental dispersals of phylogenetically basal groups. The Neotropical region is most likely to have been the ancestral area of this mite family. We describe six new early derivative taxa from the Neotropics, the center of origin and a biodiversity hotspot for chaetodactylids: Centriacarus turbator sp. n. (ex Centris vittata; Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Panama, Mexico); Centriacarus guahibo sp. n. (ex Centris sp.; Venezuela); Roubikia officiosa sp. n. (ex Tetrapedia maura; Mexico); Roubikia imberba sp. n. (ex Tetrapedia sp., and cleptoparasites Coelioxoides waltheriae and C. exulans; Argentina); Chaetodactylus melitomae sp. n. (ex Melitoma marginella, M. segmentaria; Mexico, Honduras); and Chaetodactylus lassulus sp. n. (ex Trichothurgus dubius, T. herbsti; Chile).


Fiona Gardner is an artist/photographer working at The New York Times Magazine. Her work focuses on the lives and experiences of women. Her work has been exhibited in New York at the Black & White Gallery, Rush Art Gallery, and Sean Kelly Gallery, and has also been shown in the Young American Artists of Today show in Moscow. She has a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Columbia University.
Amy Zimmer is an award-winning New York-based journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Metro New York and on public radio. She contributed to The Suburbanization of New York (2007) and Pieces of a Decade: Brooklyn Rail Nonfiction 2000-2010 (2010). She is an editor and report for the hyperlocal news site DNAinfo.com New York. She has won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists' Deadline Club, the New York Press Club and the Independent Press Association. She received her BA from Yale and a Masters in Journalism from New York University.
Kathy Peiss is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania. Peiss is the author of seven books, including Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York (1986). Her book Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture (1998) was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and named one of Amazon's 1999 top ten books in Women's Studies. Her articles have appeared in Daedalus, Business History Review, Enterprise and Society, Genders, American Literary History, and Social Problems. In addition to writing and teaching, she has served as a consultant to museums, archives, public history projects, and films. In recent years she has appeared in the documentaries "New York," "Miss America," and "Beauty in a Jar."


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Adorable Sumatran Tiger Cubs To Play A Big Part In Saving Their Species
Wildlife Safari, a zoo in Winston, Oregon, is celebrating the birth of two critically endangered Sumatran tiger cubs. These adorably precious cubs — a male and a female — are definitely good news for their species. It's estimated that only 400 of these beautiful cats (also called Sunda tigers) remain in the wild, Newsweek reports.
Photo by Aaron Yost/The News-Review
These Tiny Sumatran Tiger Cubs Will Brighten Your Day
The adorable babies are named Phoebe, for the female cub; Luhahn for the male. The little ones were born on July 11 2021 to nine-year-old resident mom, Riya. Phoebe was the first to enter the world, at about 10:15 a.m., while Luhahn made his debut around 6:15 p.m.
First, the staff weighs tiny Luhahn:
Next, it's Phoebe's turn:
Photo: Aaron Yost/The News-Review
While this is Riya's first time as a mom, zoo officials say she's definitely doing a good job.
"Mom cleaned the cubs off immediately and they have both been nursing away," Sarah Huse, Wildlife Safari's carnivore supervisor, told The News-Review.
The birth of these darling babies is momentous because it represents "not only a huge accomplishment for Wildlife Safari but also for the entire zoo community and the international tiger population," Huse added.
The Cubs Will Continue Bonding With Their Mom
They will depend on Riya's milk for some while and it will be a few months before they will be able to make their public debut, zoo officials note in a Facebook post. This is the first time in almost 40 years that Sumatran tiger cubs have been born at the zoo. The births of these babies are a bright spot in a situation that has been dismal for tigers.
Thanks to human greed and selfishness, three tiger species, out of eight originally, have been eradicated in the past half-century. The five species that still remain are in a perilous situation, thanks to habitat loss, hunting and poaching tigers for their body parts. Perhaps most tragically, the IUCN Red List has characterized Sumatran tigers as "critically endangered."
Zoos Around The World Are Stepping Up
Many have established breeding programs geared toward producing healthy cubs. And in the U.S. the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) has developed the Tiger Species Survival Plan (Tiger SSP) to ensure AZA-accredited institutions step in to enforce tiger conservation.
"The Tiger SSP breeding program is desperate to successfully breed new genetics and get cubs on the ground," she notes. "There has been a severe lack of tiger cubs born the last couple of years with shut downs and restrictions at other zoological facilities."
Huse didn't specifically mention if the shutdowns and restrictions were due to COVID-19 but according to the non-profit group American Humane in a June 2020 report, accredited zoos and aquariums were struggling because they were closed to the public because of the pandemic. This, of course, caused a steep shortfall in revenue.
The Tiger SSP notes the goals are to:
Maintain genetically diverse tiger populations as a "genetic insurance policy" for their wild counterparts.
Raise awareness about the plight of tigers and funding for their conservation.
Support research on tiger biology and care.
We're going to add here that this is entirely dedicated to preserving and helping tigers both in zoos and in the wild. We do NOT condone breeding programs for wild animals for private sales, photo opportunities or any human handling of the animals.
Older Sumatran tiger cub. Photo by Alena Tučímová/Pixabay
So the birth of tiny Phoebe and Luhan is definitely excellent news. The cute little squirts are only the second pair of Tiger SSP cubs to be born since 2018, Huse notes.
These beautiful little cubs are in good hands. They'll likely receive a lot of love and care all their lives. And hopefully, when they reach sexual maturity (around five years old in males, and three to four years in females) they will do their part to help their species. As you can see in this recent photo (Sept. 5) below Phoebe and Luhahn are on their way — putting on a good growth spurt — and cuddling with mom. We don't know which cub is which but they are really beautiful, as is mom Riya.
This video from Wildlife Safari shows just how adorable these babies really are.
And while they're cute now, they will be awe-inspiring when they grow up, as the adult Sumatran tiger shows us below.
Photo by Joleńka/Pixabay
It's so lovely to realize that good people are working hard to save these awesome big cats. Let's hope for a world with more wild tigers.
In the video below, watch caring mom Riya interacting with her precious babies. Video by Ryan Finlay:
Update on Luhahn and Pheobe
In an update on the cubs, Wildlife Safari shows how Luhahn is doing in March 2022:
"Eye of the tiger …. Featuring cub Luhahn! He and his sister Phoebe are growing like crazy. Their last weights were close to 95 and 85lbs!" they posted.
Both cubs love playing in their outdoor pools, hence the wet spot on Luhahn's nose below:
All photos by Wildlife Safari/Facebook except where noted
By CaM Writer 2|2022-07-29T21:32:23-04:00September 2nd, 2021|Categories: Awwdorable, Big Cat, Mews|Tags: AZA, Big Cat, Cole, Cubs, IUCN Red List, Luhahn, Marmalade, Oregon, Phoebe, Sumatran tiger, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, Tiger Species Survival Plan, Tiger SSP, Wildlife Safari, Zoo|Comments Off on Adorable Sumatran Tiger Cubs To Play A Big Part In Saving Their Species
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I used to wear lovely dresses my grandmother bought me.
My hair was always done in bubbles and clips.
and I busted the middle of my head open.
people holding me down to close my cut.
when my mother dropped me off.
After seeing my baby brother's picture.
with my parents and watch the sun rise.
I don't remember how I got my scars.
Memories by Sapphire is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
people holding me down to close my cut." I think this line creates something like a walk down memory lane for me because when I was in Kindergarten, I had cut my finger open and had to get 8 stitches and had people holding me down to get the stitches.
Thanks for your poem. I look forward to seeing what you make next. Love youu!


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Before Hurricane Katrina struck, New Orleans was far from a model of environmental sustainability. The centuries-old houses with 10-foot ceilings that lend the city its charm were horribly energy inefficient, nearly every building in the city was vulnerable to heavy flooding, and the city had no LEED-certified buildings or an energy code before the storm.
Soon after Katrina and the inadequate government response to the disaster, environmental non-profit Global Green capitalized on the opportunity to rebuild the city as an international example of sustainability. Through green affordable housing projects, education initiatives to teach residents about global warming and sustainability, and efforts to green local schools, Global Green hopes to achieve the greatest impact possible on New Orleans while inspiring national and international governments to follow suit.
"The response has been pretty phenomenal," said Matt Petersen, President and CEO of Global Green. "We came here with this vision for New Orleans to have another thing it's known for, besides great food, music, culture. We wanted architects and contractors to get educated on how to do green buildings, and we want firms there to be able to compete for jobs in other places with their green expertise. And I feel really good about what we've been able to accomplish in five years."
Today, Global Green's impact can be felt all over New Orleans. Following a high-profile collaboration with Brad Pitt, there are now more green single-family affordable housing units being built in New Orleans than in any other U.S. city. Louisiana currently has the most progressive solar tax credit in the country, hundreds of green building products are now available there that weren't before, and tons of green building projects are underway in New Orleans--including 73 LEED projects and an estimated 500 LEED-certified homes.
Petersen says the organization's greatest success has been the greening of schools in the area, which had significantly reduced energy costs and provided cleaner air and a healthier overall environment for New Orleans students.
"The highest-impact, although the least known of our successes has been our schools project," Petersen told HuffPost. "We have impacted six schools directly and created a policy to impact eight more. We've created some curriculum for environmental education programs, gotten parents more involved in fundraising, helped the district negotiate with FEMA to get full cost reimbursement, and updated energy efficiency for four schools, saving a total of $25,000 per school."
Shannon Jones, the executive director of Tulane University's Scott S. Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives, said Global Green's impact on the quality of New Orleans schools has been immeasurable.
"Before Katrina, schools in this area required about a billion dollars in maintenance," she said. "Now we're building schools that also are more environmentally sound, and it's saving them a lot of money on electricity."
Global Green has also had a number of policy successes: They influenced the state government to offer a 50 percent solar tax credit and to consider green criteria in allocating low-income housing tax credits, the staff co-chaired Mayor Landrieu's new transition team on sustainable energy and the environment, and they have been invited to submit a bid to run the city's weatherization program for the next three years.
Despite New Orleans' progress in becoming a greener city, Petersen said the recent Gulf oil spill was a sobering reminder of the need for stronger environmental initiatives and policies across the world.
"With global warming, flooding is going to be part of New Orleans' future, whether by levee break or sea water rise," he said, "but in light of the Gulf Oil Spill, we realize that rebuilding a more energy-efficient New Orleans isn't enough. We must invest in a green energy future for the Gulf and the nation. We must embark on a national campaign to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Because the reality is that if we don't do something about global warming, New Orleans is going to be lost."


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For the past couple of decades Juha Seppälä has published a book almost every year in a disciplined fashion. His idiom is also disciplined and controlled; everything trivial has been eliminated from each sentence. Seppälä (born 1956) started with internalised prose in keeping with the ideals of the Finnish literary modernism born in the 1950s, in which the painful parts of the human condition are presented without artifice.
The topics for the narratives are often internal family tensions: relationships between faters and daughters or husbands and wives. The characters are typified by introversion and pessimism. In the novel Hyppynaru ('Jump-rope', 1990) a young father descends into a terrible metaphysical cul de sac and ends up strangling his beloved daughter in order to save her from the suffering of the world. The beautiful yet fleeting connection between grandfather and grandson is a repeating theme in Seppälä's stories. He dealt with this subject as early as his novel Silta ('The bridge', 1989), and a man also sinks into profound contemplation while remembering his grandfather in the short story 'Kimalaisen mettä', from the collection Mitä sähkö on ('What electricity is', WSOY) published in 2004.
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The blaspheming prose that began with Super Market has been a part of Seppälä's work from that point on. In the book Tunnetko tyypin? ('Do you know that guy?', 1995) he writes brief, mischievous sketches of lesser-known historical figures – generals, models, athletes. He clings to tiny details, invented irrelevancies and thus, in a roundabout way, hits on the fundamental aspects of being human.
The book Suomen historia ('History of Finland'. 1998) is written in the same spirit. In it Seppälä sheds light on his homeland's past through sideways-looking essays, which turn solemn patriotism into a laughing stock. This ironic and satiric approach, nevertheless, does not obscure from view the fact that Seppälä as a writer is extremely interested in national questions, the identity of Finns and the past. One of his chief works is the novel Sydänmaa ('Heartland', 1994), which tells the great tale of Finland in a compressed form – the gradual disappearance of agrarian society, the descent of the country into internecine war in 1918, the world war, contemporary urban life, and the chain of generations.
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Jarmo Papinniemi: Juha Seppälä: Paholaisen haarukka [The Devil's fork] (Mini reviews)
Tiia Strandén: Truths to tell (Authors)
Silja Hiidenheimo: Making nothing happen (Authors)
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Jouni K. Kemppainen: Onnellinen mies. Arto Paasilinnan elämä [A happy man. The life of Arto Paasilinna] - 21 June 2012
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Jari Tervo: Layla - 28 October 2011
Juha Seppälä: Takla Makan - 22 April 2010
Antti Hyry: Uuni [The stove] - 22 January 2010
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Last June, a collaboration of city, county and state officials and the Commercial Association of Realtors Wisconsin (CARW) unveiled a new streamlined development approval process for the long vacant western section of the Park East corridor.
The Park East Freeway spur, located on the north side of downtown Milwaukee, was torn down about 12 years ago in hopes of opening up massive amounts of real estate for new development. But most of the Park East corridor, particularly the area west of the Milwaukee River, remains vacant.
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The funding deal for the arena is still being negotiated between the Bucks' owners and state, city and county officials.
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Mike Fascitelli, a co-owner of the Bucks, is "quarterbacking" the arena and ancillary development project, Bucks president Peter Feigin said. Fascitelli is a member of the board for New York-based Vornado Realty Trust, a real estate investment trust. He was formerly president and CEO of the company. During his tenure there, the company purchased the Merchandise Mart building in Chicago, several office buildings near Madison Square Garden in New York, and developed the Bloomberg headquarters in New York. Fascitelli also previously was the head of the real estate investment banking business of Goldman, Sachs & Co.
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"From a real estate development standpoint this is the thing that would knit everything together," Barry said. "There's no doubt it will have a catalytic effect."
But it remains to be seen if a new arena can actually attract the ancillary development the Bucks envision.
The Commercial Association of Realtors Wisconsin says the arena can be a catalytic project for ancillary development and is lobbying hard to convince elected officials to support it.
"This is the single most catalytic project for downtown Milwaukee in a generation, with the prospect of $1 billion in new real estate development," said Paul Galbraith, CARW chairman and regional manager for Somerset Properties.
Barry said he has reviewed the Bucks' plans in more detail at their offices and considers the ancillary development plans "realistic."
"It's ambitious by Milwaukee standards. But if you break it down into pieces it's a fairly modest and therefore achievable plan," he said. "I don't think they are over-promising anything on this. I think they thought this out very thoroughly. I think they have a good plan that they can execute on."
The ancillary development could be a critical component to the financing for the arena project. Gov. Scott Walker and Republican leaders in the Legislature are putting pressure on the city to provide more funds for the arena. Mayor Tom Barrett has said the city will make a contribution worth about $25 million, including infrastructure improvements and a city-owned parking structure that would become the site of the "entertainment live block." The city cannot provide tax incremental financing for the arena because the arena will be tax-exempt and will not generate property taxes, Barrett said.
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In this blog, we'll discuss an enhancement in the area of inter-company project management and accounting. In previous releases of Dynamics AX, Microsoft introduced a framework for managing inter-company projects where multiple companies or legal entities within your business structure are working on a single client-facing project. A typical inter-company project scenario could involve one entity that sells a contract with a client (contract-owning entity) and one or more entities that have resources who may work on that project (resource-lending entities). In previous releases of Dynamics AX, Microsoft provided the ability to manage inter-company time and expense transactions so that employees could easily enter these inter-company project timesheets and expense reports, project managers could see and approve these transactions, and they could ultimately be billed to the client and revenue would be recognized by the different entities based on their portion of the work that was performed.
In Dynamics AX 2012 R3, Microsoft has now introduced the ability to process inter-company AP invoices for projects within this framework. Dynamics AX now allows you to easily process AP invoices in one legal entity, and pass that AP invoice transaction to a project in a different legal entity all within the context of the project. What Microsoft has done, is essentially added a new transaction type into the inter-company invoicing process for AP transactions.
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University of Greenwich has opted into the TEF and received a Silver award.
Our conversion degree is an excellent fast-track route for those with appropriate qualifications but without an undergraduate degree in psychology.The course provides a broad scientific education in psychology with a strong grounding in psychological theories and research methods. It explores how psychological research is conducted, analysed and reported. This is delivered through a series of guided learning exercises, culminating in an independent research project.Our course is accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS) as conferring eligibility for Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership (GBC). This is required if you wish to become a chartered psychologist (e.g. clinical, educational, forensic, sport, occupational, health or counselling psychologist). It is also suitable if you have obtained a degree in psychology (home and overseas) that is not recognised by the BPS. It may also be of interest to health and social care professionals with some background in psychology at degree level.
Applicants should have: An honours degree (2.1 or above) in a non-psychology specialism Or a degree (2.1 or above) from a psychology programme not accredited by the British Psychological Society. Applicants without English as their first language must have an IELTS score of 6.5 or above, with no section less than 5.5, or an equivalent rating in another recognised language testing system.
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IELTS: 6.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each)
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There is a thriving international community at the university including students from over 100 countries around the world. The International Office is the first point of contact for these students and can help with a variety of matters around living in the UK. This includes assistance with accommodation, registering for medical services and immigration and visas advice. They help with the arrival in London while students get used to their new home and with daily life matters as well as academic ones. There are also language courses on offer for those wishing to learn or improve their English skills. At the heart of student life at the university is the Students Union and all students are automatically members. It offers a range of services to these members including academic and non-academic advice and support, representation and the organisation of various clubs and societies for extracurricular times. It also operates three different bars as well as a shop and an online shop for students. The university has a top record for its sports teams and there are a range of competitive and non-competitive activities on offer. Clubs take part in the BUCS leagues against other universities and colleges and range from cricket and football to netball and self-defence activities. Likewise the societies over all aspects of life including academic, activities and games, campaigning, cultural and performing arts as well as the chance to start their own should students find a niche.
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Opus No 7 (Barbican Theatre). Michael Coveney
2014, London
The best theatre, like the best music, defies analysis. So it is impossible, except in the broadest, crudest, terms, to say exactly what this extraordinary theatrical bombardment by the painter-turned-director Dmitry Krymov and his Moscow Theatre of Dramatic Art is "about."
Opus No 7 - presented by the Barbican and the biennial London International Festival of Theatre, LIFT - is compiled of two hour-long slabs of visceral, overwhelming performance, conceived as an anti-patriotic howl of protest at Stalin's post-War anti-Semitic campaigns and the ironic celebration of the greatest of all twentieth century Russian composers, Dmitri Shostakovich.
The recorded music we hear is of the piano trio that Shostakovich weaved from Jewish folk songs, and the mighty tread of the Seventh Symphony which is sometimes thought to reflect the siege of Leningrad but is equally taken here to represent the anger and creative suppression of the artist in Stalin's Russia: we hear the reedy voice of the composer mouthing propaganda; we see him destroyed by a huge and ridiculous puppet manifestation of Mother Russia.
It's this humanitarian dichotomy in listening to Shostakovich that is attempted in a show that begins with a Wailing Wall of cartoon daubs literally blown away in the rushing wind and later fills the stage with a dodgem car circus ring of clashing, rusting, disintegrating grand pianos. This is not theatre that proceeds with rational argument or discussion, but with big, bold brush strokes of physical action painting.
British audiences had a taste of Krymov in his outrageous version of A Midsummer Night's Dream (As You Like It) at Stratford-upon-Avon last year; his parentage (the great director Anatoly Efros and the prominent critic Natalia Krymov) and his cultural lineage - Meyerhold, Lyubimov, Vasiliev, all directors familiar to LIFT aficionados - make this an absolute must-see, authentic theatrical experience.
This is not just a case of critical name-checking, but of historical fact: the grim, fatalistic subject matter of Opus 7 is indistinguishable from the visual representation of a nation's political history, the repetitive imagery of Shostakovich's cruel and rimless spectacles, the anguish in his music, the radical traditions of the Russian stage, the profusion of blood red gloves and the inevitable arrival of another pram, another child, another victim.
By Michael Coveney, London, 05.06.2014
Opus №7 2008, Школа драматического искусства
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Brain cancer is a type of cancer that occurs in the central nervous system (CNS). Brain cancer may either be primary or secondary. Secondary brain cancer is due to metastases from other primary cancer sites such as the lung, kidney, colon or breast.
There are many different classification systems for brain tumours. Brain cancers are sometimes classified according to the histological cell type. That means they are classified according to the normal neural cell type from which the malignancy originates. Astrocytomas, Oligodendrogliomas, Meningiomas, Medulloblastomas and Ependymomas are histological malignancy types that originate from neural tissue cells. There are more than hundred and ten different kinds of brain tumours.
Some brains cancers occur more often in children. While others occur more often in adults. Malignancies seen in paediatric populations are astrocytomas, medulloblastomas and ependymomas.
Brain cancer is diagnosed by radiological investigations, with contrasted Ct scans and MRIs being the preferred studies. There are no specific blood tests for brain cancer. History and physical examination may prompt doctors to do radiological investigations, especially if worrisome or persistent signs are present.
What Are The Symptoms Of Brain Cancer?
Brain cancer is a space occupying lesion in the cranium. Space that is needed for the brain and ventricles to function normally is taken up by a malignant mass. This additional mass causes increased pressure in the space-limited intracranial space (enclosed by the rigid skull). As the skull cannot expand in adulthood, adults with cancer will present with symptoms of raised intracranial pressure.
These include projectile vomiting, early morning nausea, early morning headache, visual disturbances or new onset seizures. Symptoms of raised intracranial pressure may also present other benign conditions such as meningitis, encephalitis and other space-occupying lesions such as tuberculomas in TB, or aneurysms.
Depending on where the cancer is located in the brain, it may cause specific symptoms due to impairment of that particular area of the brain's function. Symptoms may include the change in behaviour or personality (frontal brain), loss of sensation or motor function in a limb or one side of the body, difficulty maintaining balance, gait abnormalities or impaired coordination (cerebellum), visual disturbances (occipital lobe, pituitary gland, pineal gland).
What Are The Causes Of Brain Cancer?
As with many types of malignancy, causes of brain cancer are not yet well defined. Environmental factors, as well as genetics, play a role, as in most cancers. Genetics cause less than ten percent of brain cancers.
More studies need to be done to identify specific risk factors for brain cancer. The most commonly proven risk factor is ionising radiation. X-rays, UV light, infrared light, and visible light are all sources of ionising radiation.
Cellphone radiation, smoking, and microwave radiation all need further studies to link its direct causation to brain cancer.
What Are The Things One Should Do To Manage Brain Cancer?
Maintain a healthy, balanced life as much as possible. Exercise in moderation and follow a diet to optimise nutrition.
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Do not delay seeking medical help if you have any undiagnosed weakness, loss of sensation, headaches or visual disturbances, especially new onset symptoms.
What Are The Best Foods For Brain Cancer?
A diet that is high in anti-inflammatory foods and antioxidants helps prevent and fight cancer. Oxidative stress is a natural by-product of the body's energy metabolism but has directly been linked to malignancy. Stressors and toxins also increase the number of free radicals produced by the body. Antioxidants help to scavenge these free radicals before they cause damage to cells.
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Treatment of brain cancer depends on the type of brain cancer and the prognosis. Every kind of brain cancer has its own prognosis.
Three treatment modalities are used in brain cancer- surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy.
Surgical treatment depends on the type and location of the brain tumour. It is associated with the best outcomes. If at all possible, the tumour should be surgically removed. Sometimes location or type makes it impossible to remove the malignant mass. At times only partial removal is possible- called "debulking of the tumour mass."
Radiotherapy is when specific beams of energy are focused on the brain tumour, in an attempt to cause cell lysis (breakdown) of the mass, without damaging any of the normal surrounding neural tissues. External beam radiation is used. This is a known- invasive procedure, as the radiation source is applied from outside the cranium. Radiotherapy may be used in conjunction with surgery.
Chemotherapy is sometimes used in specific cancers but is not that common. Chemotherapy uses intravenous chemicals to kill malignant cells. The brain is protected from toxins in the bloodstream by a specific barrier, called the blood-brain-barrier (BBB). Under normal circumstances, only certain substances and pharmaceutical agents can cross the BBB. This barrier may thus limit chemotherapy's effectiveness. In paediatrics, radiotherapy can affect the developing brain, so chemotherapy may sometimes be used first-line.
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Iranians Spend $2.1b on Beauty Products Annually
There are 15 million cosmetic product users in Iran, which ranks second in the region after Saudi Arabia in the $7.2 billion beauty products market in the Middle East
Iranians spend 4.5% of their annual earnings on beauty products, three times more than their European counterparts, as per official statistics. The Germans spend 1.5% and the French and British 1.7% of their income every year on cosmetics.
According to data from the Iranian Association of Cosmetics, Toiletries and Perfumery Importers, Iran accounts for $2.1 billion of the Middle East's $7.2 billion beauty products market–second in the region after Saudi Arabia, the Persian daily Shahrvand reported.
It is said that there are 15 million consumers for cosmetic products in Iran. Dividing the annual turnover by this number shows that each consumer spends $140 on cosmetics per year. Germany's online statistics portal (Statista) states that the per capita cosmetic spending in Europe is €90 ($99) on average. The index is $173.5 in Germany, $176 in France, $177 in Britain, $169 in Italy and $150 in Spain.
If the raw figures alone are taken, Iranians spend less than Europeans on make-up products. But the results change as other parameters such as the price of products and household average earnings are taken into account as well.
As confirmed by the Iranian Association of Cosmetics, Toiletries and Perfumery Importers, 70% of the cosmetics in the market are smuggled into the country and often sold at a lower price than they would be if they were legally imported, not to mention the health risks contraband products are likely to pose. Europeans on the other hand pay the real price of the products which includes tax and are thus more expensive.
Moreover, the spending has to be measured as compared to the average earnings. Based on Gallup Incorporation's opinion polls, Iranians' median per capita income has been estimated as $3,100 while that of the Germans, French and British $14,000, $12,500 and $12,300 respectively. The Spanish and Italians earn $6,800 and $7,200.
This means that Iranians spend 4.5% of their income on beauty products while the figure is 1.5% for Germans, 1.7% for the French and British, 3% for Italians and 2.5% for the Spanish.
These calculations show that people in Iran spend three times as much on cosmetics as German, French and British consumers.
Additionally, Iran's Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons' Association has announced that 80,000 cosmetic surgeries are performed each year constituting 0.3% of the operations in the world. This is a rather large percentage given that only 1.08% of the world population lives in Iran. Besides, the figure is said to be approximate due to the absence of an official registration system and the fact that other types of beauty surgeries such as body contouring and facial rejuvenation, among many others, are not included.
Data from the Central Bank and the Statistics Center of Iran suggest that cultural pursuits constitute a small portion of Iranian household expenditure. The reports indicate that each family spent only 2% of their income on recreation and cultural activities in 2015, less than half their expenses on cosmetic products.
Iran's share of the world book market is 0.1% which is one-third the country's share of the cosmetics market. The $2.1 billion incurred on beauty products is said to equal Japan's cinema turnover and exceeds that of Bollywood and the UK's film industry.
Culture, cinema and books don't comprise high-income businesses in Iran while cosmetic surgeons and beauty product dealers make fortunes on their business.