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Q: Java null check I have one thread1:
if(object != null){
   object.play();
}

and another thread2 that can write null into object reference at any time.
I will run these threads at same time. I know thread2 can rewrite object reference after the null check and that will throw NullPointerException. Is it possible for thread2 to rewrite object reference after NullPointerException check?

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Is it possible to for thread2 to rewrite object reference after NullPointerException check ?

Absolutely - it could change the value of object while the play() method is executing, if that's what you mean. That wouldn't cause an error in itself.
Note that without synchronization or other memory barriers, thread2 could change the value of object without thread1 noticing for an indeterminate period of time.
It's hard to say what you ought to do, without any other knowledge of the bigger aim of the code.

A: Simple synchronized example:
/**
To maintain thread safety, only access this through getter and setter
or other synchronized method
**/
private ObjectType object;

public synchronized void setObject(ObjectType object) {
  this.object = object;
}

public synchronized ObjectType getObject() {
  return object;
}

public void doPlay() {
  final ObjectType obj = getObject();
  //here, thread 2 can change "object", but it's not going to affect this thread
  //as we already safely got our reference to "object" in "obj".
  if(obj != null){
   obj.play();
  }
}

public synchronized void alterativeDoPlay() {
  //the difference here is that another thread won't be able to change "object"
  //until the object's play() method has completed.
  //depending on the code in play, this has potential for deadlocks, where as
  //the other `doPlay` has zero deadlock potential.
  if(object != null){
   object.play();
  }
}

A: You can use CountDownLatch here. Where Thread1 will wait to count down by Thread2 and you can perform the task in thread2 and stop count down.
Code snippet -
CountDownLatch latch = new CountDownLatch(1);
new Thread1(latch).start();
new Thread2(latch).start();
public class Thread1 extends Thread {
  private final CountDownLatch startLatch;

  public Thread1(CountDownLatch startLatch) {
    this.startLatch = startLatch;
  }
  public void run() {
    try {
      startLatch.await();
      // ... perform task
    } catch (InterruptedException iex) {}
  }
}

public class Thread1 extends Thread {
  private final CountDownLatch stopLatch;

  public Thread1(CountDownLatch stopLatch) {
    this.stopLatch = stopLatch;
  }
  public void run() {
    try {
      // perform task
    } finally {
      stopLatch.countDown();
    }
  }
}

A: If object is an instance variable or a static variable that can be changed from multiple threads, its value can change between the time you test it in the if statement and the time when you call its instance method.
You can modify the code to avoid this problem by copying the object into a local variable, like this:
Playable objectCopy = object;
if(objectCopy != null) {
    objectCopy.play();
}

Since objectCopy is a local variable, its value cannot change between the test and the call of play. Of course the state of the playable object itself can change, but that is not something that can be fixed by null checking.

A: According to Brian's Law :
When we write a variable, which next has to be read by another thread, or when we are reading a variable which has lately been written by another thread, then use synchronization.
 Synchronize the atomic statements or getter/setters which has access to the crucial state of data with the same monitor lock.
- Use synchronization.
- You can use CountDownLatch from java.util.concurrent

A: You will need to use some form of synchronisation primitive to solve this problem. See "Syncrhonised Statements" here. In your case you will need to wrap the whole if block and any places in any threads that use or update object2.

A: As my professor said: "Concurrency is a pretty unstable guy. We never know what to expect of him." Comming to your question:

Is it possible for thread2 to rewrite object reference after
  NullPointerException check?

Yes
Thread2 can access the object many times during 1 occurrence of thread1. Or the other way around. There may be many occurrences of thread1, while thread2 accesses the object.
If you use simple

System.out.println();

in many places in your code, you may notice the output in the console to be displayed AFTER the NullPointerException error(if it wasn't caught).

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So... is it possible for me to win?
Alternatively, I tried using the Experimentation Centre (reminds me of the king's alchemical experiments in Back to Life... Unfortunately) to see if I could make myself more health, but have hit a pretty hard GTV wall with it and none of the commands in the game's verb list seem to have any effect... not even smashing.
If I touch the lumps, some powder comes out of them, but I don't know what that signifies or how I'm supposed to use it to make (I assume) some sort of potion to put in the syringe.
The chart indicates what the lumps do. You need to inject the syringe into them (assuming you have it!) then inject it into yourself.
Ah! The verb was staring right at me. Unfortunately, I don't have enough health to take on the Baron. Time to see if I can do a better run-through!
Once you are at the gate, in the beginning, the game will not let you "get" or "take" the stone. It tells you "You can't see any stones!" even after you look and see the stone lying near the path.
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I've made several requests for the V5 Runner to warn people if they're playing a game written with V4, but each time they've fallen on deaf ears.
Experimentation Centre (reminds me of the king's alchemical experiments in Back to Life... Unfortunately) to see if I could make myself more health, but have hit a pretty hard GTV wall with it and none of the commands in the game's verb list seem to have any effect..
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When flowers appear they should removed to keep the plants looking their best. Flowering causes Coleus to degrade as it takes a lot of their energy.
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Home Research > Members > 1558-1603 > BLOUNT, Sir George (1513-81)
BLOUNT, Sir George (1513-81), of Kinlet, Salop and Knightley, Staffs.
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981
b. 1513, 1st s. of Sir John Blount† of Kinlet by Catherine, da. and coh. of Sir Hugh Peshall of Knightley; bro. of Henry† and William†. m. 1533, Constance, da. of Sir John Talbot of Grafton, Lincs., 1s. d.v.p. 1da. suc. fa. 1531. Kntd. 1544.1
Steward of Bewdley, Worcs. and Cleobury Mortimer, Salop 1531; gent. pens. 1540; j.p. Salop 1547-58, q. by 1564; Worcs. 1547, q. by 1564, rem. 1575, rest. 1577; Staffs. from 1562, q. by 1564, rem. by 1574, rest. 1577; sheriff, Staffs. 1552-3, 1572-3; Salop 1563-4; commr. musters, Worcs. by 1576.2
By 1558, after service in the army and at court, Blount had settled to the life of a country gentleman, dividing his time between the lands in Shropshire that made up the ancient Blount inheritance, and the estates in Staffordshire that had come to him from his mother. His landed wealth, local influence and steady loyalty to Elizabeth's government, were evidently sufficient to offset his Catholic religious views. He had voted against a major government bill in 1555 but obviously not on religious grounds. In 1564 the bishop of Hereford described him as 'neuter in religion', and the bishop of Coventry and Lichfield as 'an adversary to religion and no favourer thereof, neither in deed nor word'. In 1577 he was returned as a recusant, worth, it was considered, 'in offices and lands £200 by the year; in goods £200'. Nevertheless, though removed for some time from the Shropshire commission of the peace, he remained intermittently a justice in the three counties—Shropshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire—where he had lands and stewardships. In 1565 he was one of those asked by the Privy Council to supervise the 'good assessing of the subsidy in Shropshire'.3
He had already had extensive parliamentary experience before 1558 and he found a seat in every Parliament of Elizabeth's reign until his death. When he was not representing the county he took a seat at Bridgnorth, near his own property, or at Wenlock, where the Lawley family were influential. Thomas Lawley was the ward of Blount's relative Thomas. In the Parliament of 1571 Blount sat on a committee to consider the subsidy and the reform of abuses in the Exchequer (7 Apr.) and on another (25 May) to confer with the Lords about Wales.4
He had evidently separated from his wife before 26 Oct. 1575, when he received a letter from the Privy Council ordering him to appear with certain of his wife's friends to hear the settlement drawn up for them by the bishop and dean of Worcester. Two years later he disinherited his daughter and made his nephew Roland Lacson his heir.
In the preamble to his will, made 30 Dec. 1580, Blount hoped for 'rest in perpetual joy and felicity with the blessed company of God's faithful people and holy angels'. Lacon received the manors of Farlow, Herefordshire, and Cleeve, Shropshire, and lands at Alveley, Shropshire, on condition that he made some provision for the poor of Bridgnorth. After minor bequests to friends and servants, Blount appointed Lacon, Richard Steventon, John Lee, Humphrey Draper and Francis Chimall his executors, and as his overseer Sir Thomas Bromley, to whom he left £20 and a gelding. Shortly before his death on 20 July 1581, Blount confirmed his grants to Lacon. His daughter unsuccessfully contested the settlement.5
Author: Patricia Hyde
1. C142/52/16, 63/10; Vis. Worcs. (Harl. Soc. xxvii), 18, 19, 136; Vis. Salop (Harl. Soc. xxviii), 54; Trans. Salop Arch. Soc. (ser. 3), viii. 125.
2. LP Hen. VIII, v. p. 181; xxi(2), p. 156; Genealogist, xxx. 21; Lansd. 56, f. 168 seq.
3. Guildford Mus. Loseley 1331/2; Cam. Misc. ix(3), pp. 15, 42; Cath. Rec. Soc. xxii. 79.
4. CJ, i. 83, 92.
5. APC, ix. 36; Trans. Salop Arch. Soc. (ser 3), viii. 125-7; PCC 28 Darcy; C142/197/65.

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The trans-Tasman test match has become a bit of an afterthought in the rugby league calendar in recent years. This annual mid-season match between Australia and New Zealand finds itself sandwiched awkwardly between the razzle-dazzle of the NRL and the blood and thunder passion of State Of Origin, with minimal preparation time and little publicity, and it' rather suffered as a result.
This is no fit state for international rugby league – it should be the pinnacle of the sport, and it's a shame that a test match between the two best international teams in the world should be a bigger deal than it is.
Hopefully the 2015 game officially receiving permission to be known as the ANZAC Test for the first time in over a decade to mark the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings, will at least boost interest and enthusiasm on both sides of the Tasman sea.
It's hard to get annoyed with Canterbury for basically sticking with the same design for three seasons, however. The Kangaroos jersey is one of the most iconic designs in rugby league, and anything that wasn't a plain dark green shirt with two yellow chevrons on it would basically be sacrilege. There have been very, very few variations on that theme in the last 100-odd years, and those that there have been have generally been awful.
So with that in mind, it's hard not to just sit back and appreciate what a beautiful take on a classic design this is – the ornamentation has been kept to a minimum, and pleasingly the main sponsor has been shifted down so as not to interfere with the chevron (a pet peeve of modern shirt design).
Canterbury's designers haven't kept it so plain that it looks boring however, the little splashes of yellow on the collar and sleeve cuffs add a bit of interest, but other than that, they've opted to let a timeless design speak for itself.
The Kangaroos jersey is a lot like the All Blacks one in the sense that if you do anything too radical to derivate from the classic template, you end up doing more harm than good. Canterbury has realised this, and created a classy, clean and respectful take on a icon.
I do love how Canterbury have jut kept it simple and modern at the same time, but for whatever reason I've noticed their Australian jerseys in both codes tend to be a little bit less polished than the ones they do for the big national teams up north. Compare this jersey to the England and Ireland ones, and you'll notice that the latter have rather nice and subtle collars and nice trimmings, whilst the former are completely collarless and are a little less intricate on the detail front.


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Q: Cannot access another Drive in Dual Drive Laptop (Two individual Drives not partitions) I have a laptop with two Drives. One is SSD and the other is HDD. My ubuntu installation is on the SSD.
Poblem: I want to transfer my files to the HDD then install the dualboot  of windows and Debian but I can see the HDD, even format it, but I do not have permissions to cut or paste into it. What do I need to configure such that I can access it and after the dual boot, I can still access it from both Operating Systems.

A: Run lsblk to see if the internal drive is mounted.  If it is, that will show the mount points.  If it's not being auto-mounted, you can mount it (see the mount man page).  If you left Windows in a hibernated state, the NTFS partitions won't be available.  You have to do a full shutdown from Windows first.


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Appeal court affirms movie producer's conviction in film financing Ponzi scheme
Posted by Alexander Nguyen on March 17, 2015 in Hollywood | Leave a response
Mahmoud 'Mike' Karkehabadi's 27-year sentence was affirmed by the appellate court Monday. Photo courtesy of the Torrance Police Department
A panel of Fourth District Court of Appeal justices Monday affirmed the conviction and the 27-year prison sentence of a Laguna Niguel B movie producer for a multi-million-dollar Ponzi scheme that convinced investors to back production of a series of independent films.
Mahmoud "Mike" Karkehabadi, 57, was convicted in January of 2013 on 51 felony counts, most involving the fraudulent sale of securities and grand theft. The scheme stemmed from the production of five movies featuring mixed martial arts fighter Quinton "Rampage" Jackson and rapper Flavor Flav, among others, according to prosecutors.
Karkehabadi raised numerous issues in his appeal from a denial of a right to present a defense, lack of evidence, prosecutorial misconduct on the part of the Attorney General's Office, judicial bias, ineffective assistance of his attorney, as well as errors in jury instructions and sentencing. All of the claims were denied.
Karkehabadi's company promised investors 18- to 25-percent interest on loans, according to the appellate ruling. The information sent to investors assured them the defendant's company was part of another production company that had been doing business for 25 years and included "Alien" as one of its financial successes.
Karkehabadi promised investors they could get their money back in a year no matter how well the movie did at the box office, according to prosecutors. Karkehabadi convinced some investors to roll over their loans into another project after a year or agree to extensions on repayment of the loans, prosecutors said at the trial.
More than 150 investors from across the country loaned money to Alliance Group Entertainment to produce B movies such as "Confessions of a Pit Fighter" and "Hotel California."
The state won a $5 million judgment in 2003 against Karkehabadi for deceptive marketing of credit cards that could not be used in stores and for violating the state's false advertising and unfair business practices laws. The defendant declared bankruptcy after that, but he did not tell his investors that.
"Ultimately, between September 2006 and April 2009, more than 20 named investors loaned AGE/Film Projects approximately $3 million," according to the appellate panel.
"AGE/Film Projects also received approximately $6.5 million more from other, unnamed investors. During this time, AGE/Film Projects paid about $1.7 million to various members of defendant's family, and defendant authorized AGE/Film Projects to spend over $10 million producing films, but he collected only slightly more than $800,000 in revenue."
Karkehabadi argued in the appeal that the information he failed to disclose to investors about the bankruptcy was relevant or showed he lied to investors or withheld relevant facts. The panel disagreed.
"Here, a reasonable investor would likely consider the $5 million judgement against defendant, his prior bankruptcy, and his other legal problems important in deciding to invest in AGE," the panel wrote in the ruling.
— City News Service
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Pan Cosplay
I recently made a cosplay of Pan and I daresay it's my greatest costume to date.
Behold:
For those not in the know, Pan is the Greek god of shepherds, flocks, and the wilderness.
However, in The Gods of the Greeks by Karl Kerenyi, it's noted that "Pan" can also refer to any satyr-like creature who's partying with Dionysus: "In the retinue of Dionysus, or in depictions of wild landscapes, there appeared not only a great Pan, but also little Pans, 'Paniskoi,' who played the same part as the Satyrs."
I made this costume for Labyrinth of Jareth (one week away!) and I started with the idea of liking wine a lot and looking very androgynous. They say play to your strengths, y'know?
Note the staff topped with an artichoke. This is a thyrsus, and I made it myself!
Color Blindness, or Memory Blindness? The Curious History of Crayola and the Color Chartreuse
Hi there, blog! It's been a minute (or, more accurately, about four months) since I've written anything personal, as I've been busy with private commissions, but today I have a topic I've touched on before: memory.
Specifically, the malleable nature of it, and the Mandela Effect.
Memory is surprisingly plastic and not nearly as reliable as you might think. Every time you remember something, you're actually remembering the last time you remembered it; in other words, remembering something is making a Xerox of a Xerox. For this reason, it's easy to implant memories using the power of suggestion. In one study, college students were convinced they'd been arrested... in as little as three hours.
This brings me to the Mandela effect. The Mandela effect occurs when a group of people remember something differently than what actually happened. A collective false memory. The term was coined in 2010 by Fiona Broome, who claimed she remembered Nelson Mandela dying in prison, with lots of news coverage and memorial events. But Mandela didn't die in prison; he was in prison for 27 years, released in 1990, and went on to achieve presidency over South Africa in 1994.
Broome was not the only one to have "remembered" Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s. According to Broome, thousands of other shared her memory-that-was-not-a-memory.
Broome wrote an entire book about the Mandela effect and I'm sorry to say that her conclusion about her false memories was that it was evidence of "alternate realities" or of "reality shifting," a dimensional break.
The reality is, in my opinion, more disturbing; our brains have the ability to suggest an idea, and then, each remembrance causes the idea to be embellished, until it's no longer a hypothetical but an actual "memory," one detailed enough to be indistinguishable from other memories.
What happened with Mandela? Simple: after being in prison for 27 years without updates, people made the (reasonable) conclusion he had died. And then they brains filled in the gaps: if he'd died, surely there'd been a funeral? Surely it had been televised? Surely they'd heard about it?
It's no coincidence that many people's false memories, or Mandela effect experiences, occur in childhood, when the brain is more plastic. I wrote an article previously about childhood memory and perception. (Incidentally, the "Lost Episode" of Sesame Street has since been released, and you can view it here.) And it's not surprising that people can "share" a false memory, since people agreeing on something they're not actually sure of makes it so that both are more likely to consider it correct. (This is why investigators don't ask "leading" questions; people are inclined to agree when not sure, and search for context clues to "figure out" the truth.)
When it comes to the Mandela effect, usually the memories aren't entirely false; they have a basis in some reality and can be traced or attributed to a false news article, misprint, or similar thing that "actually" happened (even if it didn't).
An example is people "remembering" that the Berenstain Bears were the Berenstein Bears. This did actually happen; the name was very frequently misspelled in TV Guides and on unlicensed toys, so they likely did see it spelled as "-stein."
I have experienced the Mandela effect only once, but it did lead me to a feeling of recollection vertigo.
My Mandela effect: for a long time, I and many others thought that the color "chartreuse" was red.
It's actually green.
I'm not the only one who thought of chartreuse as red, but if you read this excellent article (also linked above) from The Paris Review about the color, you'll see no such confusion existed in the heyday of the color. Named in the 1880s, the height of its popularity was in the 1920s. Most people who think of chartreuse as "red" were born between 1970 and 1990. What gives?
Well, I did my research and discovered that the confusion seems to come from Crayola, which released a red-orange crayon in 1972 named "chartreuse." In 1990, the crayon was renamed to "Atomic Tangerine" but the confusion remains for Gen Xers and older Millennials, who associate "chartreuse" with red hues.
Curiously, although the crayon was more orange than red, and had a fluorescent / neon hue to it, most people who remember chartreuse as red describe it as a dark brick, burgundy, or maroon. But there's a simple explanation for this. The color derives its name from an alcoholic drink and that people get their wires crossed and think of it as being some kind of French wine. A lot of people claim it "sounds" red. I believe that's another case of crossed wires: there are other red colors, like cherry and cerise, with similar names.
Let 's jump into a Crayola timeline for a better look at chartreuse.
Crayola began in 1903 with eight colors in each box. Coincidentally, in the same year, the French government took over the Chartreuse distillery. Jury's out on just how connected these two things are, but my intuition tells me "completely."
Anyway, in 1949, nearly fifty years later, Crayola released 40 more colors, which directly led to WWII.
Just kidding, although it's worth pointing out that one of the colors released in 1949 was "Prussian blue," and this was changed to "midnight blue" in the '50s. So bear this in mind: Crayola can and does change color names.
In 1972, with 64 colors on the roster, Crayola introduced eight more. The 1972 "fluorescent" line contained an ultra orange, ultra yellow, ultra green, ultra pink, ultra blue, ultra red, combo-breaking "hot magenta"... and chartreuse.
In 1990, ultra orange became outrageous orange, ultra yellow became laser lemon, ultra green became screamin' green, ultra pink became shocking pink, ultra red became wild watermelon, and chartreuse became atomic tangerine.
However, Crayola still retains a "chartreuse" crayon (#FFFF66). In a search for the legendary red chartreuse, I came across a list on Wikipedia, which claims that "chartreuse"was actually changed to laser lemon and "ultra yellow" was changed to "atomic tangerine." It makes little sense to me that a color called "yellow" would be changed to "tangerine." And all other sources seem to think that chartreuse and atomic tangerine are the same.
Here's a picture of "atomic tangerine" next to laser lemon, and as you can see, they are completely separate colors, and laser lemon is yellow, not red-orange:
I am forced to conclude that Big Crayola is manipulating the Wikipedia page to cover their tracks.
It's worth noting that Crayola's most senior crayon maker, Emerson Moser, who worked in a crayon plant pouring the waxes into molds and putting said molds through the papering machines, who made over a billion crayons in his 37-year-long career, was color-blind.
His year of retirement? 1990. The same year that "chartreuse," a pale green that would be indistinguishable from orange-red with someone with colorblindness, had its name "fixed." (Nowadays, chartreuse is called "green yellow.")
It's possible the "chartreuse" mistake/inconsistency can be directly attributed to him, but Crayola has never offered an explanation.
It's Not Just You: Why People Hate "Corporate Art Style"
This article was originally written for and published by the Grand Geek Gathering on March 30th, 2022.
You've probably seen it and you probably hate it.
It's corporate art style, and it was originally developed for Facebook, but is now in use by just about every other big tech and start-up out there: Google, YouTube, Airtable, Hinge, Uber, Lyft, GrubHub, and Airbnb, to name a few.
What is this art style, and where did it come from? More importantly, why is it so universally hated?
Jump in the world of inoffensive pastels, noodly arms, and flat, 2-dimensional vector drawings as we examine what makes Corporate Art tick!
There are many features of Corporate Art. Often described as "minimalist" or "flat," its major distinguishing features include use of primary shapes, uniform line widths, minimal line work, little texture, and minimal tonal shadows to convey depth.
The humans depicted by Corporate Art have non-representational skin tones, often pastels or cool colors like blue and purple. They also have long, oversized limbs or other exaggerated features, which often have a "wiggly" or "flowing" movement when animated. While the arm and legs have uniform length and width (with only the slightest taper to the stubby fingers), the heads are small compared to the body, and the eyes are dots with lines for eyebrows.
Examples of this art, from an actual Facebook artist's portfolio, can be found here.
It goes by many names, despite having little variation. Corporate Art Style, also called Big Tech Art Style, Flat Art, Globohomo Art Style (short for "globalized homogenization") and Corporate Memphis, was developed for Facebook in 2017 by a design firm called Buck.
Specifically, the design is heavily credited to artist Xoana Herrera and animator Esteban Esquivo.
An early example of the duo's work
This art style was originally called "Alegria," Spanish for "joy."
"Corporate Memphis" was coined in 2018 and refers to the Memphis Group, a widely-loathed postmodern Italian architectural group from the 1980s whose designs typically included flat, geometric, and colorful features.
The characterization of Corporate Art online garnered notice from a Twitter account @HumansOfFlat, which amassed 6,000 followers and collected examples of the art to criticize and ridicule it. The account was suspended in 2019.
But this particular account wasn't alone in its hatred of the style. On August 21st, 2019, Aiga Eye on Design blog published an article titled "Don't Worry, These Gangly-armed Cartoons Are Here to Protect You From Big Tech," which remains one of the first Google results when you search for corporate art style analysis, and is also the first citation on Wikipedia when you visit the Corporate Memphis page.
On February 6th, 2021, YouTube channel Solar Sands posted a video decrying the art style as "fake." It received over 2 million views in its first month and currently sits on 3.8 million views.
Watching the video myself, I was treated to an ad for Google Fi that used– yep, you guessed it– this very same art style. It's everywhere. I'm pretty sure I even used some stock images in my last article.
Why do tech companies love it so much?
For tech companies, corporate art style is incredibly useful. For one thing, the art is vector-based and easily replicable. This means that instead of needing to pay one artist, you can have a whole team of graphic designers who make uniform, consistent art. This art style renders the graphic designers easily replaceable. What's more, it can be rapidly created in programs like Abode Illustrator with little effort or time.
The non-representational skin tones are both inoffensive and "inclusive." And the minimalism, paired with the movements depicted, makes for exciting, "playful" art that does a good job of representing what the companies are trying to communicate about themselves: that they are accessible, fast-paced, and fun.
Unfortunately it's very quickly become despised by most people.
Why do we hate it so much?
A lot of artists and graphic designers have chimed in to offer opinions on why this art style, which is designed to be inoffensive, seems to have had the opposite effect.
Some suggest it's the "grotesque" proportions of the people, which trigger an uncanny valley response. Others have said that the art style is "obnoxiously joyful" and that the "constant motion" causes visual fatigue. Still more believe that the issue is that people are aware that the non-representational skin tones are tokenizing and that, in its efforts to be inclusive and diverse, the people end up representing no one at all, leading the audience to feel pandered to.
But all of this, to me, falls into a bigger issue, which is that the art doesn't feel like authentic art. This art carries no emotion and conveys no message other than to hype a product.
The art is definitionally "corporate" with no underlying message. And it's so thoroughly saturated the market that we can almost immediately identify and dismiss it as "noise," without considering its artistic merits, if any.
And it doesn't have to be. The truth is, minimalist art is often very good. But the corporate style has so thoroughly saturated the market that we tend to see it, immediately identify and associate it with Big Tech branding, and then dismiss it as "noise" without considering its artistic merits, if any.
The truth is, flat, minimalist drawings with tonal shadows, exaggerated limbs, soft colors, and primary shapes is a legitimate art style. We've seen it used with finesse in the Bauhaus and Art Deco schools of art, and indeed, I've heard it said that this style is a natural evolution of Art Deco and builds on the kind of art made by A.M. Cassandre (who, it should be noted, famously made his art for advertisements).
An example of A.M. Cassandre's work.
Vintage globohomo?
In fact, one of my favorite paintings of all time is a minimalist vector piece of art, which has several similarities to Corporate Art: minimal line use, exaggerated features, tonal shadows.
"Two Hours Past Bedtime" by Shag
But the thing about this piece of art is that it tells a story, and conveys an emotion. It's not trying to promote any product other than itself. Like all good art, it's representational and thought-provoking.
And that's precisely what corporate art style lacks.
But there's good news!
The extreme dislike of Corporate Art has prompted people to create creative parodies which are, in fact, art. Ironic and satirical, the parody art makes a statement and evokes emotion: humor at the image, annoyance at the style, and appreciation for the commentary.
Two of my personal favorite pieces of Corporate Art parody include a recreation of Francisco Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son, and of Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith Slaying Holofernes. The "pleasing, soothing" minimal and color scheme, paired with the violence of the imagery, makes for an unsettling and comedic piece of true art.
So perhaps not all hope is lost for this flat, minimalist style. We may hate it because we associate it with unskippable YouTube abs, but we can't deny that it's exerting a powerful influence over how we consume and respond to art.
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Content Dump: I Dislike Tik-Tok.
I'm not a huge fan of TikTok.
Actually, no, scratch that, I hate TikTok.
Aside from finding the interface really busy and unpleasant to look at because of what a sensory overload it is, I think TikTok's culture is incredibly toxic. Like Facebook, it's a polarizing social media platform that allows people to go on short video diatribes about their "hot takes," everything from science denial to extreme social justice posturing.
Here's a link to the article.
This meme has a typo. Deal with it.
I don't want to say TikTok has no redeeming features. It's given us some degree of creativity, such as the revival of sea shanties.
But my big problem with it is that it seems to really push a "mental health awareness" narrative that has resulted in a ton of people self- and mis-diagnosing. Now, I don't want to simply invalidate every self-diagnosis. If they're used to communicate something meaningful then I'm all for it. But if they're used to excuse or justify toxic behavior then I'm not. I guess I care less about where the label came from and more why someone is using it... if it helps me to understand a person better then I don't care whether or not they've got a slip of paper from a doctor.
But diagnoses have a purpose. The purpose is 1) to characterize a disorder to better understand what the person who suffers from it is experiencing, and 2) to formulate a treatment plan that alleviates the symptoms. It's not meant to be used for clout, as many of the people on TikTok do, presenting their mental health as "quirky" or "fun," a stand-in for personality. And, again, it's not meant to excuse toxic behavior, which I've seen as well. I know two people who use TikTok and both have, over the course of the last year, begun to explain away bad behavior by dropping a slew of acronyms on me.
On TikTok, mental illness on social media is treated the same way astrology is. You make a highly relatable and broad post about how "people with X experience Y!" and then make the experience into an incredibly vague, general human experience. A classic example is sharing a picture of misaligned tiles and claiming that it upsets your "OCD." People with OCD can certainly find it annoying, but it's not exclusive to them, nor is it diagnostic criteria.
There are many people, especially easy influenced teens who can't even be diagnosed with personality disorders at their age, who "find their own" diagnosis, go to doctors with a confirmation bias, and end up with a diagnosis and treatment plan that is deeply harmful and will follow them for the rest of their lives.
What's more, the "movement" of "mental health awareness" on TikTok has become so cult-like that there's terminology for people who call out bad behavior. These people are called "fakeclaimers" and that's a fancy way of saying that they're suppressive persons whose questioning of any TikTok featuring a person with a disorder is inherently problematic. This cult-like behavior is not dissimilar to what we see with the "body positivity" movement, a thing that could have actually been good and uplifting but has ended up with such extreme viewpoints that it's become extremist and dangerous.
This has solidified my dislike for TikTok and I was glad that the GGG let me write the above article on it, because I know it's a bit of a hot take. I enjoy having the creative freedom to be able to express my opinions, and it's something I wish more TikTokers would employ instead of leaning on the sensationalism or glamorization of possibly-misdiagnosed mental disorders.
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Heave, Ho: an article on sea shanties and other things I'm up to.
Recently I wrote an article about sea shanties.
You should go read it. It's very informative, because I happen to be a big fan of sea shanties. I'm not sure why but lately, in particular, they've really been resonating with me...
Anyways, in unrelated news, I recently got a new job at Whole Foods. It's a little part-time side hustle working in wine and cheese, which is very bougie, I know. It's a way for me to get some much-needed time out of the house so I stop writing articles gate-keeping sea shanties. So far I love it; I got hired at an on-site job fair I stumbled into accidentally.
Directions unclear; ended up with a wage job.
I've found all of the other team members to be enthusiastic and welcoming people, and the work, while relatively simple, is extremely satisfying to me in the way simple, manual labor often is (when you're opting in, that is).
That being said my commission work has also been going splendidly (which is why my posts here are getting shorter... sorry, blog, but you don't pay me because you're proudly ad-free and also no one actually reads you). I've got one client in particular who is a darling to work with and whose stories and characters are really fun to explore and frankly very risqué. Unlike with kids or dogs, I can absolutely choose favorites and S is my favorite client to work with, hands-down.
So, here's to you, patron S and Whole Foods, for keeping me physically and intellectually stimulated, productive, and gainfully employed. May the two of you never, ever intersect.
Content Dump: Mystery Science Theater 3000 Is Back, Baby!
I'm a big fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000. It's back and I wrote an article telling you everything you need to know about their new streaming platform.
While I'm not a fan of paying for multiple subscriptions and love the convenience of getting my media fixes from a single place, I have to admit that the decentralization of art is probably better for creators, and I'm definitely willing to throw a few dollars toward the Gizmoplex if it means I finally get to see MST3K take down Munchie.
Content Dump: ComiXology's 4.0 Update Disaster (And Alternative Platforms for Digital Comic Consumption)
Right on the heels of my recent post about graphic novel recommendations, ComiXology, an app for digital comic purchase and reading, updated, and the update was nothing short of a dumpster fire. It was nearly universally hated.
I'm happy to report that this update didn't affect me much, because I don't read books digitally. I'm a paper-and-ink kind of guy, with the bookshelves to prove it.
Look at all those dead trees! Take that, plants!
But I saw an opportunity for an article and so if you'd like to read it, you can check it out by clicking here. This article explores why the ComiXology update was so devastating for the platform's users, and offers ten alternative platforms for those who prefer digital versions of graphic novels.
This was also a nice tie-in to my previous article about comic books because of the involvement, once again, of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, which provided some tips for readers on how to access comics (including digitally!) using their library and free apps like Hoopla, OverDrive, and Libby.
Speaking of comics, I've gotten my press badge confirmed for WonderCon in Anaheim next month, and I'm really looking forward to it, not in the least because Trevor reached out to me and asked if I wanted to meet up and grab drinks. Really looking forward to seeing my friends, especially since moving, I've been feeling a bit isolated.
Winter Friends confirmed?!
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I lost my cat and it was the longest three days of my life.
San Francisco has an earthquake problem.
You already know this. The thing you might not know, unless you live on a fault line, is that most earthquakes go unnoticed. There's plenty of loud ones that shake the walls or roll the streets, but many more little ones that cause paintings to end up very slightly askew.
A recent earthquake shifted our door frame infinitesimally and created a major problem, which is that the latch on our front door became loose and would pop open every time the elevator for our floor came to our level.
This was only a mild annoyance at first, but the situation quickly got worse. You see, we have a corner unit. This is great because we don't share any walls with anyone. One side of the unit is the balcony that overlooks the street, and on the other side, where our one neighbor should be, there's a hallway that leads outside. This side entrance has two doors, an exterior and an interior one, and both lock. Secure, right?
Not when the neighbors keep propping open the doors.
This brings me to the story of the day. On Thursday night, our front door popped open, and we woke Friday to discover our front door very slightly ajar and the cat missing.
Our cat, Mabel Syrup, is probably best described as "pathetic." An 8-year-old indoor cat with a perchance for excessive, anxious grooming, Mabel is very pretty but not very smart. We found her as a kitten, when she was no bigger than a soda can, and until the move, she'd lived her whole life in the same house.
She is not what you might call "street-smart." Or smart at all, really.
Now she was lost in an unfamiliar environment, and I had no idea where she was or when she'd be back.
If you've ever lost a pet you know just how terrifying it is not knowing what's become of them.
We immediately went on a full search worthy of "Gone Girl." (A movie, and a book, that would have been objectively better if there were a cat instead of a bunch of boring, shallow, problematic human characters.)
I printed up about 50 fliers and determined a reasonable search radius, praying that Mabel wasn't trying to pull a Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey on us. Information on the internet varies, but Mabel, being a spayed, middle-aged cat with a milquetoast personality seemed like she wouldn't venture further than a 3-mile radius. Just to be sure, I drew up a map of a 4-mile radius, which included the Rose Garden, a place I was sure a cat might be interested in visiting due to the wildlife and the running water in the fountains.
Mabel loves wildlife, by which I mean indoor wildlife.
I spent the morning on Friday panicking and trudging my way around the neighborhood, putting up a flier on every corner until I ran out of tape. I covered over ten miles in concentric circles. I shook bowls of food and called for her; I put out notices on every platform I could find, including NextDoor, and called up Oakland Animal Services, visiting the shelter to drop off a dossier.
This is the photo we used for the posters.
Mabel became the Grand Lake neighborhood Most Wanted.
The calls rolled in. Someone saw a cat here, someone saw a cat there. Some of the alerts were for cats who looked nothing like her. Others looked worrying like her. Over the weekend I got two different calls about dead cats that I had to go check; neither was her. Every call prompted a desperate feeling of hope and then, when the cat turned out not to be Mabel, a crushing disappointment.
Because of the excessive efforts to find her, everyone in the area became invested in the story.
"Have you found her? Is this her?" I heard these questions over a dozen times. Every call was like a 911 call that had me grabbing my jacket and racing to go see if I could nab her, only to discover it was never her to begin with.
The house felt empty. Having lost Carlisle and Seamus in the last two years, we were down to our last dog. Mabel had helped it feel less empty, but with her missing, we were suddenly very aware of how few pets we had compared to our previous zoo.
We also lost Winibelle the rabbit in 2019, who was one of Mabel's best friends.
Then, finally, a match!
Someone called us to inform us that there was a cat hiding under their porch that had been there over two days and seemed distressed. They had been sliding food and water under the deck but the cat wasn't eating, just crying occasionally.
I went down to discover that this was indeed Mabel.
Home at last!
Before we had moved, I had made sure to get Mabel and Ruby new tags on their collars that would be easily read, but the tag hadn't mattered in the end. It was the posters that did it.
How far had Mabel ventured? About 400 feet, only three lots down from our building. She hadn't ever made it to the Rose Garden. Her Incredible Journal had terminated within calling distance, but Mabel, lacking agency and not being the brightest crayon in the shed, had opted to just give herself up to death once faced with the inhospitable elements of California in the spring.
I dragged Mabel out, filled with relief, and took her home. I then went on a trek to pull down all the fliers and to update all of the notices. Mabel's return was met with delight from the neighborhood, but overlooked by my building's super, who called me Sunday night to inform me, with joy, that she'd found my cat in the laundry room. She even sent a picture of a cat that matched Mabel's description almost perfectly.
Confused, I went up to the laundry room to retrieve the second cat. Wedged into a crevice and crying pitifully, the cat was a dead ringer for Mabel, although easily twice her size, and male. He had no collar. We dubbed him Chonkers and brought him up, putting up a few "found" posters, which confused everyone who had invested themselves emotionally in the Mabel Saga.
Tony's Home For Wayward Mabel Doppelgangers was short-lived. We had Chonkers for about two days before we discovered a Lost poster for him. His name was Banzo, a Brazilian slang term for the lazy feeling one gets after eating a lot, which suited him about as much as "Chonkers."
Chonkers was picked up by his owner and, finally, all cats were home.
From this story I learned two things.
First, the absolute necessity of "Lost" posters for animals. If you are a pet owner, do yourself a favor and make a poster now instead of trying to create one when you're in a state of panic over the lost animal. Make sure you have a current picture to put on it. Both Banzo's owner and I used color photos, which was instrumental in having people call us to return our pets.
Second, having endured three days as a "one pet" household (no offense to our many tanks of lizards), we realized we're probably ready to begin the process of getting a new dog or cat. We were prepared and even eager to keep Banzo if no one claimed him. Nothing can replace Seamus, but there's room in our hearts for a new family member, and a lot of dogs out there need homes. We're in no rush but sooner rather than later, I think we'll start looking.
It's a shame we didn't get to keep Chonkers/Banzo, since Mabel and Ruby had just started to like him.
As for the building, we put in a service request and had our door fixed to prevent this from happening again, and I personally whipped out a screwdriver Tommy Pickles-style and removed the door stop from the side entrance so that people would stop propping it open.
For the folks who "hosted" Mabel under their deck for two-and-a-half days, I made good on the poster's promise of a reward, and dropped off a bottle of Dubonnet.
The Lost Relevancy of The Simpsons (And The Case For Reboots)
Sometimes I see a meme that encourages me to write a whole article.
Recently there's been a couple of memes and Tweets floating around regarding the wealth of the Simpsons family.
I post a lot of Simpsons .gifs on this blog, mostly just because they're so readily available and there's one for everything. I was born in the '80s and so I got to enjoy the best age of the Simpsons at the height of its popularity.
But I haven't seen an episode in ten years. In fact, I can recall, with crystal clarity, the last episode I saw.
The Simpsons had already stopped being especially interesting to me, but watching it weekly was an ingrained habit at that point. I did it without much thought or enthusiasm.
But then, in May of 2012, I saw the 22nd episode of season 23, the infamous Lisa Goes Gaga. That was the episode that was so bad that I was able to quit my Simpsons addiction cold turkey. It was the lowest rated Simpsons episode to have ever aired at that time, with good reason. It was pointless hero-worship; the episode's plot was that everyone in Springfield loves Lady Gaga. That's pretty much it.
Lisa has a heartfelt discussion with Lady Gaga, becomes a fan, and there's a big song and dance number. Seeing Lenny (Lenny!) dancing to Lady Gaga was the most gag-worthy thing I'd ever seen on the Simpsons and it was an indication to me that the show had completely lost itself.
Lisa Goes Gaga was painfully derivative of the episodes Lisa's Substitute and of Summer of 4 Ft. 2, and gave us nothing except for incredibly heavy-handed hero worship and some tame, censor-approved "edginess." That episode, for me, was the death of the Simpsons, and every time the show gets renewed for yet another season, I wince a little.
The relevancy of the Simpsons collapsed under its own success. And while I know everyone likes to complain about franchises being rebooted, the Simpsons is one I would love to see rebooted to make it once again culturally relevant. I recently saw Spider-Man: No Way Home in theaters, and every single trailer was a reboot: Matrix, Batman, Top Gun. Reboots don't have to be bad; sometimes, retelling a story through a new cultural lens can breathe life into it. I don't dislike reboots simply for being reboots; if they're offering a fresh take using familiar characters, then they can really resonate with people and provide useful commentary on present social and political issues.
Without further ado, here's a link to an article I wrote about the lose relevancy of the Simpsons, originally published on the Grand Geek Gathering on February 17th, and my proposal for a reboot. It ain't much but, hey, neither is the Simpsons.
Controversial, Cancelled, and Critically Acclaimed: 8 More Graphic Novels Spiritually Similar to Maus
The following article was originally written for and published by the Grand Geek Gathering on February 9th, 2022.
In recent weeks you've probably heard a lot about the graphic novel Maus being banned. In 1992, it became the first and only graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize.
The school board of McMinn County, Tennessee, unanimously voted on Jan. 10 to remove the book from the eighth-grade curriculum. The decision was made due to the book's "rough, objectionable" language and a few images of nudity (including a few panels in which Auschwitz prisoners are stripped, and one where the author finds his mother dead in a bathtub from suicide).
Maus is the story of the author's father, Vladek Spielgelmen, a Polish Jew and a Holocaust survivor. Framed as a series of interviews between the author, Art Spielgelman, and his father, the comic explores both Vladek's experiences leading up to the war and his time in Auschwitz, as well as Art's complicated relationship with him. In this way, the story isn't merely about the tragedy of the Holocaust for the people who endured it but about its long-reaching effects on the children of survivors.
The story of Maus's ban went viral, due in part due to Holocaust Remembrance Day falling a mere 17 days after the decision was made to pull the book from schools. A public outcry launched the book to Amazon's best seller list and resulted in tens of thousands of donations of the book to libraries and book clubs.
One high school student's response to the school board regarding the removal of Maus.
On the heels of this controversy, in what was presumably a backlash to the backlash, a Tennessee church organized a book burning for popular YA titles that "promote witchcraft," including Harry Potter and Twilight.
Now seems like a good time not only to snag a copy of Maus but to explore some other controversial titles. While the list of banned books is long, this article will focus specifically on graphic novels, ones that I believe hold similarities to Maus that make them both controversial and culturally important. If you haven't already, check out the following.
Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa
What It's About: Published as a serial between 1973 and 1987, Barefoot Gen (Hadashi no Gen) is a semi-autobiographical account of a Hiroshima survivor's experiences in 1945.
Why It's So Controversial: Told from the point of view of a 6-year-old boy, it's been adapted into multiple movies (including a popular 1983 animation), but its depiction of post-war atrocities by Japanese soldiers resulted in a brief ban in some Japanese schools in 2012, which was later lifted.
Why You Should Read It: Like Maus, this book is a firsthand account of war experienced, and specifically the (literal) fallout of war as it impacted a child and a civilian. Especially for Americans, the devastating effects of the decision to drop a nuclear weapon on Japan in 1945 should be reflected on with a critical eye. Nakazawa's widow, on the ban, stated: "War is brutal. [Barefoot Gen] expresses that in pictures, and I want people to keep reading it." It's worth noting that this manga influenced Art Spielgelman himself.
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
What It's About: Another book focused on a child experiencing war, this graphic memoir tells of a 10-year-old girl's coming-of-age during the Islamic revolution in Iran during the 1980s.
Why It's So Controversial: Persepolis has sold over two million copies worldwide, and also snagged a top spot on ALA's list of "Top Ten Most Challenged Books of 2014." It doesn't shy away from topics such as the main character's budding sexual growth, nor of violence under the fundamentalist Islamic regime of Iran in the 1980s, including such imagery as a dismembered soldier and descriptions of torture.
Why You Should Read It: A complex depiction of cultural identity and feminism, this book challenges both Eastern and Western assumptions about freedom and expression. Satrapi's exploration of her own Islamic and Iranian identity isn't black-and-white; it challenges the idea that religious expression is inherently oppressive while also condemning state-sanctioned violence in the name of religion.
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
What It's About: Three interwoven stories explore cultural identity: one parable tells of the Monkey King trying to fit in with other gods, one story tells of a young immigrant boy Jin struggling to integrate, and the third follows a white American who is embarrassed by his Chinese cousin. The three stories come together in the end (no spoilers!) and focus on the idea of accepting one's differences and embracing one's identity in the face of racial pressure to integrate. Published quite recently, in 2006, this book is the only one on the list that is fully fictitious, but its themes and broader concepts are very much based in reality.
Why It's So Controversial: By design, Danny's Chinese cousin Chin-Kee is a massive racial stereotype (and his name is a slur). He's meant to make the reader uncomfortable and to show how slurs and caricatures are harmful.
Why You Should Read It: This graphic novel snagged a Harvey, Eisner, and Printz Awards within a year of its publication. It was also on Booklist's Top Ten Graphic Novels for Youth, a Time Top Ten Comic of the Year. But perhaps most importantly, it was given the 2006/2007 Best Book Award from The Chinese American Librarians Association, who found its messages about the struggle with ethnic identity resonated very strongly with its target audience. Seeing the world from the perspective of a non-white immigrant offers an often-overlooked viewpoint that many readers need to be exposed to. Unrelated to the book, the author joined the board of directors of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, in 2018. This non-profit has worked since 1986 to protect the First Amendment rights of comic book creators, which is critically important, especially as it pertains to "obscene" material. (Note that many of the books on this list have been condemned as "obscene" or "pornographic" in an attempt to get them censured.)
Blankets by Craig Thompson
What It's About: As long as we're talking about religion, why not chat about Christianity? An autobiographical tale of a boy being raised in an Evangelical Christian home and coming to terms with his spiritual identity, this work snagged multiple Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz awards.
Why It's So Controversial: Needless to say, it also came under fire from states in the Bible belt, which tried to ban it from libraries on account of its "pornographic" depictions of the main character's sexual abuse at the hands of a babysitter.
Why You Should Read It: This work was read and praised by Art Spiegelmen for its unflinching personal narrative describing the ways in which the author's fundamentalist religious upbringing resulted in harm. It's a first-hand account of the ways religion can be warped into something dangerous and oppressive and, like Persepolis, it centers its message on the author's personal coming-to-terms with his own spirituality.
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
What It's About: Another autobiographical graphic novel, Fun Home spent two weeks on the New York Times' Best Seller list. An exploration of the author's discovery that she was a lesbian, her coming out, and her father's suicide (and whether these subjects are related) is explored earnestly, with commentary on gender roles, family dynamics, and mental health.
Why It's So Controversial: Needless to say it's faced multiple challenges because of the subject matter concerning sexual identity, along with mature themes like the author's father's suicide and her own struggles with suicidal ideation. Certainly, a parallel could be drawn between Maus's own parental suicide themes.
Why You Should Read It: Like Persepolis and Blankets, this is a coming-of-age novel that frankly discusses a teen's sense of fitting into a world. To say it's "too mature" for teenagers is to deny the fact that teenagers experience these feelings and live in the real world. The author's adolescence in rural Pennsylvania is not necessarily a unique situation and it's important for our society that teens be exposed to this reality: both for those who are experiencing it themselves, so that they know that they aren't alone, and for those who are not experiencing it, so that they can learn empathy for those who aren't like them.
The Color of Earth by Kim Dong Hwa
What It's About: The first of a trilogy (the other two being The Color of Water and The Color of Heaven), this book is another coming-of-age story of a girl turning into a woman. The author uses his mother as the main character, and imagines her blooming womanhood in a series of discussions about sex, puberty, and relationships with her own mother, as well as through allegory in her interactions with her surroundings.
Why It's So Controversial: This book made both the 2011 Most Frequently Challenged Books List and Booklist's 2010 Top Graphic Novels for Youth List. It includes depictions of nudity and sex; though often metaphorical, the presence of these "mature" themes has made the book banned in many teenage curricula for its "pornographic" nature.
Why You Should Read It: Similar to Persepolis and Fun House, The Color of Earth is an honest look at the experiences of a young woman and her growing understanding of the world around her. A desire to "protect" young women does them the disservice of having open and necessary conversations about sexuality and self-expression, which makes them more vulnerable to abuse. But unlike Persepolis and Fun House, The Color of Earth is not about a woman's oppression but, instead, reads as a sensitive dialogue of a curious young woman who is given the necessary instruction and explanations of womanhood by a supportive parent, making it a refreshing take on female maturity. This book has also received praise by Art Spiegelman.
Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughan and Nico Henrichon
What It's About: We turn our attention now from stories of people to stories of animals. Pride of Baghdad is a fictionalized version of a real story. In 2003, an American bombing of Baghdad resulted in four lions escaping the zoo; this graphic novel follows the pride of lions as they navigate through war-torn Baghdad.
Why It's Controversial: This one-shot, published by Vertigo in 2006, won the IGN award for best original graphic novel the same year. Its gory depictions of war and a rape scene have led to its censure.
Why You Should Read It: Its frank discussions of the tragedy and consequences of war make it a necessary read. Each lion comes to a different conclusion about the nature of man and the consequences of war, delivering nuanced and refined opinions that challenge the reader to reconsider how they feel.
Additional Reading: Also by Brian Vaughan is Saga, a story following a pair of extraterrestrial refugees with a baby. Saga was removed from the Apple App Store due to homosexual scenes and "anti-family values," a curious argument when one considers that it's literally about a family of refugees trying to navigate a war-torn environment. Deeply allegorical, this epic sci-fi opera lives up to its name, and has, to date, won a dozen Eisners, seventeen Harveys, and the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story.
Sheriff of Babylon by Tom King and Mitch Gerads
What It's About: As long as we're talking about war in Iraq, let's take a moment to consider this 2015 Vertigo title. Sheriff of Babylon is a murder mystery / noir story set in Iraq, and draws heavily from the author's experiences in 2004, where he worked in Iraq as a counterintelligence officer for the CIA.
Why It's So Controversial: With a lot of moral gray areas and violent imagery, it's a good companion for Pride of Baghdad.
Why You Should Read It: Like Pride of Baghdad, this unshrinking tale gives a very real and raw depiction of war in a way that humanizes the characters and forces the reader to consider the consequences of war as it affects civilians.
One of the common features of all of these works is that, like Maus, they are either autobiographical, or based in reality (i.e., "historical fiction,"). These are first-hand (or heavily researched) accounts of real situations or lived experience. These are historical, living documents that focus on real characters (some more real than others, of course; American Born Chinese being an exception) that are living in the same world as us.
If children are old enough to experience war, racism, sexual abuse, family tragedies, and identity crises, then they are old enough to read about them. By banning or censoring books deemed "too mature," we are robbing readers of the maturity they are growing into, and holding them back from developing the empathy, critical thinking skills, and knowledge necessary to navigate these murky waters.
Ultimately, it's true that not all books will be appropriate for all readers, but that decision should be made by the reader (or the reader's parent), not a third-party entity, and certainly not a governmental one.
For further reading, I would like to submit a few highly controversial honorable mentions that, while purely fictitious, seem appropriate when discussing the topic of censorship:
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
The first major deconstruction of the superhero genre that would later give rise to concepts like The Boys and Invincible, this graphic novel includes anti-Reaganist themes, commentary on power politics, and nihilistic viewpoints on the subject of "protective" elites and "nanny state" affairs.
Kingdom Come by Mark Waid and Alex Ross
A little more couched in DC lore, Kingdom Come is another exploration of divisions of power, and on the question of to what extent people should be allowed to govern themselves. It challenges the notion of vigilantism as inherently heroic, as well as the oft-overlooked superhero trope that some people are inherently better than others, that governance is deterministic, and that egalitarianism is against the "natural order" of things.
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
What better time is there to snag a copy of V for Vendetta? Set in a near-future dystopia in which a fascist government has seized control of Britain, V for Vendetta follows a revolutionary as he tries to bring down the state. Since the 2005 movie adaptation and the rise of the use of the Guy Fawkes mask by various protestors, it's easy to forget what an incredible (and sadly predictive) book this was. Controversial for its violence and its main character's endorsement of anarchy, the arguments against facism and its anti-censorship, pro-free speech themes make this a timely book in a time when book burnings are happening.
Now, more than ever, it's critical that we protect our right to access material that might be deemed shocking, offensive, or, as the Tennessee school board said, "objectionable," particularly when that material seeks to educate people on controversial subject matter for the sake of uplifting minority rights and preventing tragedy, as so many of these titles do. So if you're going to grab a copy of Maus, go ahead and snag a few of these others.
And for further reading, don't forget to check out Jeff's Picks, a weekly series that focuses on indie comics that all too often fly under the radar.
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30-NOV-2019: International conference at Kulliyat on December 3
ALIGARH November 30: The Department of Kulliyat, Ajmal Khan Tibbiya College, Aligarh Muslim University is organizing an international conference on December 3-4, 2019 on "Fundamentals of Unani Medicine: The Basis for Complete Health".
Addressing a press conference here, Prof Ferasat Ali, Chairman of the department, informed that the Vice Chancellor, Prof Tariq Mansoor will preside over the inaugural session, which will be held on December 3 at 11 am at the Kennedy Auditorium, while Shri Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha, Secretary, Ministry of Ayush, Government of India will be the chief guest.
Prof Khan said that Prof Asim Ali Khan, Director General CCRUM, New Delhi will be the guest of honour while Dr Mohammad Tahir, Advisor (Unani), Ministry of Ayush and Dr Zubair Sheikh, Vice-President Unani, CCIM, New Delhi will grace as special guests. The cultural counsellor of Islamic Republic of Iran, Dr Mohammad Ali Rabbani will also be a special guest on this occasion, added Khan.
He said that about 250 delegates from across the country and abroad are expected to participate in the international conclave whereas some notable alumni of the department will also attend the conference.
Prof Mohammad Muhiul Haque Siddiqui, Dean, Faculty of Unani Medicine, Prof FS Sheerani, Prof Ashahr Qadeer, Prof BD Khan, Dr Arshi Riaz and Dr M Anas were present during the press conference.


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Jet Airways' mid-air scare: Directorate General of Civil Aviation under fire
Nine near air misses were reported in the last eight months, which raised concerns over the country's civil aviation and safety standards.Even as Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is gearing for US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) team for lifting safety downgrade on the Indian civil aviation sector, nine air misses involving India's commercial airlines have already taken place this year. These nine incidents, which include the latest Jet Airways goof-up, will weaken India's case for lifting the safety downgrade of the country's civil aviation sector in January this year.
According to official sources, the goof-up involving Jet Airways Boeing 777-300 ER that suddenly descended 5,000 feet below its designated flight path over Turkey's airspace will prove to be embarrassing as it was not immediately reported to the DGCA.
Strangely, the DGCA remained clueless about the incident and came to know after receiving an anonymous SMS five days after the incident.
A senior civil aviation ministry official said the US team is bound to raise the issue about incidents going unreported as the DGCA lacks a proper monitoring system.
A top government official said the Jet incident exposes how illequipped the DGCA is as it remained clueless for an entire week after the incident. "The regulator must have its own internal intelligence network. If it fails to know of what is happening within the airline, the concept of having a regulator is lost," the official explained. Though the DGCA has initiated action against Jet Airways for concealing the incident, sources said the damage has already been done.
The Jet incident could have proved dangerous as another plane could have been flying in the additional flight corridor created vertically below with an approximate separation of 3,000 feet on the Asia-Europe air route through Turkey's airspace. A top DGCA official told Mail Today that most Indian carriers, barring Air India, do not have an adequate number of qualified instructors to train their pilots. After Jet, DGCA would also conduct a training audit of other Indian carriers to maintain better training standards as per the international norms.
"You cannot have a pilot with a laid back attitude. They must be sensitive enough and be adequately trained from time to time-which is not followed by most carriers as the cost of training is very high. We are also asking other airlines, besides Jet, to streamline their training of pilots. The airline will have to strictly enforce stringent training standards," he added.
Another civil aviation ministry official disclosed that some airlines have been skipping periodical training programs for pilots during the winter and monsoon season. "We have been complaining about this for very long. Airlines have largely bunked the norms in this regard," he said.
Flights connecting Europe and Asia are currently not flying over Ukraine where a Malaysia Airlines MH17 plane was shot down last month. Similarly, Iraq's airspace has also turned into a war zone and is being avoided. This leaves only one path over Turkey's airspace for the Europe-Asia sector, making it one of the busiest air routes in the world.
Meanwhile, the DGCA has set up a three-member team to review Jet Airways' flight training programs and facilities following the incident.
One of the issues that led to the downgrade of India's aviation sector by USFAA was lack of chief flight operation instructors. This issue is likely to crop up again as the DGCA has managed to appoint only 35 of 75 such instructors required by the US aviation regulator.
- Story and Comments: http://indiatoday.intoday.in
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Judge Upholds Airport in Case Against County: Martha's Vineyard (KMVY), Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts
A superior court judge has sided with the Martha's Vineyard Airport Commission in its ongoing dispute with the Dukes County Commission over the legal independence of the airport.
In a written opinion, the Hon. Richard Chin, an associate justice of the superior court, granted the airport commission a preliminary injunction that allows it to exclude the county manager as an ex officio nonvoting member of the airport commission. He also ordered that the county treasurer may not refuse to pay the airport legal bills and does not have the right to see privileged communications between the airport commission and its attorneys.
Judge Chin denied a request from the airport to dismiss a series of counterclaims by the county, but in all other matters the 11-page decision sides squarely with the airport commission on questions of control and authority over airport affairs.
A preliminary injunction is not a final ruling, and the case will now proceed to trial, but injunctions are granted to prevent the likely winner of a lawsuit from suffering irreparable harm while waiting for the final outcome.
The county commission is the appointing authority for the airport commission. The two commissions have sparred on and off for years over who ultimately controls the airport, which is owned by the county but financially independent from it. The county operates under a state charter while the airport operates under a different state act, enacted after the charter.
In 2005 a superior court case brought by former airport manager William Weibrecht confirmed the airport's authority to set salaries and contracts for its employees.
In the latest lawsuit, filed in May, the airport seeks expanded recognition of its autonomy from the county. The complaint stems in part from a decision by the county commission earlier in the year to name the county manager to the airport commission as an ex-officio member. The airport commission has refused to allow county manager Martina Thornton to participate at meetings. There has also been disagreement and tension between the two commissions over how the county treasurer has been handling legal bills.
At a hearing in the Edgartown courthouse last month, Judge Chin heard arguments from attorneys for both sides on the motions by the airport for injunctive relief and dismissal of the counterclaims. Attorneys for the county argued that because the county appoints the airport commission, it has ultimate control. But attorneys for the airport said allowing the county to make organizational changes could jeopardize state and federal grant assurances which provide millions of dollars in funding for airport operations.
In the ruling dated August 12, Judge Chin agreed with the airport on the matter of grant assurances and said adding the county manager to the airport board as an ex-officio member could be construed as a reorganization of the board. The county charter provides for the appointment, raising the broader question of whether the county charter trumps the airport act.
Referring back to the 2005 Weibrecht case, Judge Chin said it does not.
"The county commission argues that the Weibrecht decision is narrow in scope, addressing only the power to set salaries for the airport manager and assistant manager, and is consequently irrelevant to the issues before the court in this case. The court disagrees," he wrote. "The court agrees . . . that the charter, a broad enabling statute, does not supersede the narrowly tailored airport act even thought it was enacted afterwards."
- Story and Comments: http://mvgazette.com
Hon. Richard Chin
Cessna T206H Turbo Stationair, N1229M: Accident occurred August 14, 2014 in Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi
NTSB Identification: ERA14LA389
14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation
Accident occurred Thursday, August 14, 2014 in Wiggins, MS
Aircraft: CESSNA T206H, registration: N1229M
Injuries: 1 Serious, 2 Minor.
This is preliminary information, subject to change, and may contain errors. Any errors in this report will be corrected when the final report has been completed. NTSB investigators may not have traveled in support of this investigation and used data provided by various sources to prepare this aircraft accident report.
On August 14, 2014, about 1807 central daylight time, a Cessna T206H, N1229M, was substantially damaged following a partial loss of engine power and forced landing near Wiggins, Mississippi. The private pilot received serious injuries, while two passengers received minor injuries. The airplane was operated by the pilot under the provisions of 14 CFR Part 91, and no flight plan was filed. Day, visual meteorological conditions prevailed for business flight that originated at Denison, Texas (GYI) and was destined for Daytona Beach, Florida (DAB).
According to the pilot, the flight was in the vicinity of Hattiesburg, Mississippi when he elected to change his landing destination to Mobile, Alabama (MOB) to refuel and have dinner. After descending to 2,500 feet above mean sea level (MSL), he leveled the airplane and advanced the throttle, but observed no response from the engine. He could not recover engine power, although the propeller continued to spin. The throttle "felt very loose." He maneuvered the airplane toward the nearest airport; however, there was not sufficient altitude to reach the airport. The airplane collided with trees before coming to rest in a farm field.
An inspector with the Federal Aviation Administration responded to the accident site and examined the wreckage. He confirmed substantial damage to both wings and extensive damage to the fuselage. The engine was broken free from its mounts during the impact sequence.
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STONE COUNTY, MS (WLOX) - What began as a probe into a plane crash in Stone County is now a narcotics investigation. A Cessna 206 went down Thursday evening. By Friday, one person who was on board that plane was facing a drug charge.
As bad as the wreckage looked, some Stone County residents were amazed to find out no one was seriously hurt. Many people came to get a closer look at the plane that snapped tree limbs and power lines before crash landing on the side of Oilwell Road.
A pilot and two passengers were on the plane when it went down. Law enforcement officials said the stories the men told investigators prompted them to take a closer look at the crash site.
"Based on the information from the pilot and the individuals that were in the plane, it didn't seem to be the normal routine for a normal flight," said Capt. Jay Green, with the Stone County/Wiggins Narcotics Task Force. "They were coming from Texas headed over to Mobile, and with their indicators and their statements, we asked for a canine to come check the plane. We had a positive alert with the canine."
After getting a hit from the dog, investigators from the Stone County/Wiggins Narcotics Task Force went through the luggage on the plane.
"There was pills in the plane, in the luggage. There was a few capsules on the ground that had pills in it," said Green.
Investigators charged Jeff Franklin, 34, of Sherman, TX, with possession of a controlled substance hydrocodone. Franklin was a passenger in plane.
Authorities said Franklin does not have a prescription for hydrocodone and the pills were found in a container for an antacid, which is illegal.
Narcotics investigators said they also found thousands of dollars in cash in the form of $100 bills. The pilot and the other passenger are still in the hospital with what authorities said are non-life threatening injuries. Officials said the investigation into who owns the pills continues.
Meanwhile, the FAA was also at the crash scene on Friday. Stone County Sheriff's deputies said the wreckage will be taken to an airport hangar on Saturday so investigators can take a closer look at the plane. However, FAA officials said while they investigate to see if any federal regulations were violated, it will be the National Transportation Safety Board that makes the determination on what caused the accident.
Story, Video and Photos: http://www.wlox.com
Jeff Franklin.
(Image source: Stone County Sheriff's Department.)
Narcotics investigators said they also found thousands of dollars in cash in the form of 100 dollar bills on the plane.
(Image source: WLOX News.)
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