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May 2010 - Superior General's Letter #76
The pontificate of Benedict XVI shows on the one side a real movement towards Tradition and on the other side regrettable acts along the same line as Pope John Paul II. It is difficult to know what to expect in the upcoming years. After the second rosary crusade gathered nineteen million rosaries, we wish that the authorities will accomplish the famous consecration of Russia.
The Church's situation increasingly resembles a sea that is agitated in all directions. We see waves and more waves, which seem to be about to capsize the bark of Peter and drag it into the endless abyss. Since the Second Vatican Council, it seems that a wave has been trying to carry off everything into the deep, leaving only a heap of ruins, a spiritual desert, that the popes themselves have called an apostasy. We do not want to describe this harsh reality again; we have already so often done, and all of you can see that it is so. Still, to us it seems useful to comment somewhat on the events of the past months; I want to speak about the surprisingly violent and particularly well-orchestrated blows that have been dealt to the Church and the Supreme Pontiff. Why such violent attacks?
Real movement of reform
To return to our metaphor, it seems that for some time now, more or less since the beginning of the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI, a new wave has appeared which is much more modest than the first, yet persistent enough that it is noticeable nevertheless. Contrary to all expectations, this wave seems to be going in the opposite direction compared to the first. The indications are sufficiently varied and numerous, that we can state that this new movement of reform or renewal is quite real. We can see this especially with the younger generations, who are plainly frustrated by the spiritual ineffectiveness of the Vatican II reforms. Considering the very harsh and bitter reproaches leveled by the progressives against Benedict XVI, it is certain that they see in the very person of the present pope one of the most vigorous causes of this incipient renewal. In fact, even if we find the pope's initiatives rather timid, they run deep and are contrary to the agenda of the revolutionary, left-leaning world, both inside and outside of the Church, and this is true at several levels.
Moves toward Tradition
The resulting irritation of the progressives and of the world is sensed initially in questions concerning morality. Specifically, the Left and the liberals have been irritated despite the pope's well-pondered words about the use of condoms in dealing with AIDS in Africa. As for the life of the Church, the restoration of the Mass of All Ages to its rightful place in 2007, and then two years later the rescinding of the degrading punishment aimed at disqualifying us, provoked the rage of liberals and progressives of all stripes. Moreover, the felicitous plan of a Year for Priests, restoring the priest to a place of honor, recalling his important and indispensable role in the salvation of souls, and proposing the holy Cure of Ars as a model, is not only an invitation to the Christian people to pray for their priests, but also a call to make use of the Sacrament of Penance, which had completely sunk into oblivion in broad sectors of the Church, and also to foster Eucharistic devotion, calling to mind in particular the importance of adoring Our Lord in the Sacred Host, a clear sign of the reality of the real and substantial presence of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
The appointment of bishops who are distinctly more conservative, some of whom were already celebrating the Tridentine Mass before, is another positive development. We could cite also, as an undeniable example of the reality of this little wave of opposition, the Letter to the Catholics of Ireland inviting them to repentance, confession, and spiritual exercises and asking also for the adoration of Jesus in the Eucharist.
Regrettable acts along the line of John Paul II
Even though people in our circles rightly think that these [papal] efforts are still insufficient to stop the decay and the crisis of the Church—especially in view of certain acts along the regrettable line of his predecessor, such as the visits to the synagogue and the Protestant church—in Modernist circles however, the hour has come to report to their battle stations! The big wave is attacking the very little one with unexpected violence. It is not surprising that the meeting of these two ill-matched waves should cause a lot of backwash and turbulence and give rise to an extremely confused situation in which it is quite difficult to tell and predict which of the two will win the day. This, however, is something new that deserves to be commented. It is not a question of giving in to thoughtless enthusiasm or believing that the crisis is over. On the contrary, the aging forces that see their gains, which they thought were definitive, being called into question, will no doubt put up a large-scale battle to try to save this dream of modernity which is starting to fall apart. It is very important to remain in this regard, as realistic as possible about what is happening. Although we rejoice over all the good that is being done in the Church and the world, we nevertheless have no illusions about the seriousness of the present situation.
What should we expect to see in the coming years? Peace in the Church, or war? The victory of good and its long-awaited return, or a new tempest? Will the little wave manage to grow enough to prevail someday? The assurance that the promise of Our Lady of Fatima will be fulfilled—"in the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph"—does not necessarily or directly resolve our question, because it is still quite possible that we will have to first pass through an even greater tribulation before the long-awaited triumph occurs….
Rosary Crusade of nineteen million rosaries
A terrific challenge is also intended by our rosary crusade. We would not want to diminish in the least, the joy over the announcement of the extraordinary result of our Rosary Crusade. We boldly asked you one year ago for twelve million rosaries so as to crown our dear Heavenly Mother, the Mother of God, as if with an equal number of stars, and to surround with a magnificent crown of praise that Mother, who to the enemies of God appears "terrible as an army set in battle array" (Cant. 6:3). You responded so generously that we can now bring to Rome a spiritual bouquet of more than nineteen million rosaries, not counting all those not directly affiliated with our priories and chapels who joined in our campaign.
Surely it is no accident that when Pius XII declared the dogma of the Assumption, he decided to change the Introit of the feast on August 15, to the passage from the Apocalypse that salutes the great sign that appeared in heaven. This excerpt from the Apocalypse ushers in the description of one of the most terrible wars that are set forth in that sacred book: the great dragon, who with his tail will sweep away a third of the stars, comes to wage battle with the great Woman (see Apoc. 12). Is this whole passage intended for our time? We can easily believe it, while avoiding a literal or overly specific application of those mysterious and prophetic descriptions. We have absolutely no doubt that all our prayers are important, and even of very great importance at this moment in history at which we find ourselves. However we think that we should warn you also and encourage you in these circumstances of the history of the Church.
Your great generosity shows, without the slightest doubt, your very real devotion and your love for our Holy Mother, the Roman Catholic Church, for the Successor of Saint Peter, and for the hierarchy, even though we have much to suffer from it. God is stronger than evil – good will be victorious, but perhaps not with all the pomp that you would like.
Accomplish the consecration of Russia
Now we must convince the authorities to accomplish the famous consecration of Russia that they say has already been made; we must recall the present relevance of what Our Lady of Fatima said, even though in the year 2000 there was manifestly an attempt to turn a new leaf and not to return to the subject again. It seems inevitable that the difficulties and obstacles will multiply so as to prevent the realization of what we are asking. That doesn't matter; we count much more on God than on men, just as we expect from acts as simple as the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary surprising results for the Church and the world, results surpassing anything that we can imagine. It is foolishness in the sight of men, but it is really a reflection of what Saint Paul already preached to his age: what men regard as wise is foolishness in God's sight, whereas God's wisdom is considered absurd foolishness by the wise of this world (cf. I Cor. 1:20).
As we bring to the attention of the Holy Father your remarkable efforts, along with the reason for these prayers, thus hoping to contribute, in our way, to the good of the Church, we ask you to please continue those same efforts. According to the example that Our Lord Himself invites us to follow in his very moving exhortation to prayer: "Ask, and you shall receive," let us ask, indeed insisting on much (cf. Matt. 7:7-11). Although we do not doubt that our prayers will be answered, our persistence and perseverance must be proportioned to the magnitude of what we are asking.
Let us remember also that the essential element of the Fatima message is not just the consecration of Russia, but above all devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. May all these prayers and sacrifices lead us to increase and deepen our special devotion to the Heart of the Mother of God. For, through it God wants to be moved.
As the month of May begins, the month of Mary, may we all find ourselves even more reliant on her maternal protection; this is our fondest wish. Thanking you for your truly great generosity, we ask Our Lady to deign to bless you with the Child Jesus.
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The second edition of the Everest Premier League (EPL) or the first of its new kind is scheduled for December 2017 at TU Ground, Kirtipur. The announcement was made amongst media and guests on 30th July at Annapurna Hotel, Kathmandu, where the logo of the tournament was revealed. However, the official dates for the tournament have not been declared yet.
EPL, in 2016, started a new phase in Nepali domestic cricket with top corporate and household names being attached to the sport. However, from this time around, teams will be named on cities, so as to generate enhanced sense of attachment for city dwellers towards their teams. Participating 6 teams will be named after Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Bhirahawa, Pokhara, Biratnagar and Birgunj.
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Each team will be consisting of 15 players with 10 coming from the auction while 1 fresh player will be introduced by organizing a talent hunt sort of program in respective cities. Interestingly, we will now witness 3 foreign players in each team, with 1 marquee player.
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The winner of the tournament will get 2.1 million rupees, which is the highest cash prize till date in domestic cricket scene. The introduction of seasoned campaingers from the IPL, ranging from the directors to the VJ will not only give an international feel to the tournament but also provide world class entertainment to the fans and the audience.
The tournament will be organised on the concept of cricketainment, blend of cricket and entertainment, Aamir Akhtar stated.
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Miami is shattering heat records during a wildly warm start to 2020, even by Florida standards
April 15, 2020 at 11:56 am Updated April 15, 2020 at 1:05 pm
Matthew Cappucci
Florida is supposed to be warm. After all, it's, well, Florida. But temperatures in the Sunshine State have been shattering records and rivaling typical readings during the heart of summer. Miami even endured its earliest heat wave on record last week, when it hit at least 90 degrees on three consecutive days.
Meteorologists are calling the heat "ridiculous," "brutal" and "a cruel joke."
Miami's temperature climbed to 95 on Friday, at a time of year when average highs are 83. To date, this April has been the city's hottest on record coming after its second-warmest March. The heat goes back further, too; this has been Miami's warmest start to the year in its 83-year history of bookkeeping, according to Brian McNoldy, Capital Weather Gang's Miami-based tropical weather expert.
But Miami is not alone. Records have been falling faster than cold-stunned iguanas across the Florida Peninsula. Orlando broke a nearly century-old record high on Monday, the mercury soaring to a brutal 97 degrees. Daytona Beach hit 94, while Melbourne peaked at 96. Heat indexes, a "feels like" product of temperature and humidity, spiked well into the triple digits.
Practically the entirety of Florida has endured its hottest mid-March to mid-April on record.
The heat milestones keep mounting.
Miami recorded its seventh day so far this year in the 90s on Tuesday. In an average year, Miami would have only hit 90 once by this point in the year; the frequency of 90 degree days to date also claimed a record, McNoldy said in an email.
Miami's highs of 94 and 95 degrees on April 9 and 10 respectively are even more impressive, considering that some years — like 2018 — pass without the city nicking 95 degrees even through the summer months, McNoldy said. It's the earliest in the year that Miami has hit 95 degrees on record.
"This past week in #Miami has been more like 4th of July than Easter temps!," tweeted Eric Blake, a meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center.
It's not just the afternoon highs that have been excessive; sultry conditions have also lingered overnight. Monday's low temperature didn't drop below 80 degrees, establishing a record high minimum temperature for the date and for the month, as well as tying the record for the warmest overnight low any time between November and April, according to McNoldy.
"Miami is breaking daily, monthly and year-to-date heat-related records left and right. … They include high, warm low, and average temperatures," McNoldy said.
McNoldy tweeted the low of 80 Wednesday marked the fourth straight day with a low at or above 78, the earliest streak so long on record.
Forecasts calls for the heat to continue. The National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center's three-month temperature outlook for above-average odds of anomalously warm temperatures over most of the Lower 48 states, including Florida.
And with exceptionally warm Gulf of Mexico water temperatures heating the nearby marine air, it stands to reason that this unusually hot weather could be encouraged to stick around through late summer.
"It looks like even in June, July and August there's a pretty good chance of it still," said Chuck Caracozza, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Miami.
A major player in the warm temperatures has been the position of dominant weather systems that influence South Florida's temperatures.
"The thing that's really been the driving source of this is that we've had a persistent pretty strong area of high pressure," Caracozza said. "It's been rebuilding or over the Atlantic and extending westward toward us."
That's been slowing down, or even blocking, approaching cold fronts from the northwest, allowing the stubborn warmth to lethargically languish over Florida. Ahead of the fronts, it's common for winds to take on a southwesterly component — which in Miami marks a warm, dry wind.
"With lower humidity, the temperature can increase a little bit more," Caracozza said. Without many cold fronts, there are few opportunities for cooling cloud cover or precipitation.
That dry weather has spelled big issues for the Everglades, where many areas recorded their driest march on record. The Miami Herald reported that the state averaged just 0.24 inches of rain during the month, according to the South Florida Water Management District.
"We're typically in the heart of our dry season here [this time of year], and soon we'll transition to rainy season in the middle of May," Caracozza said.
Meanwhile, warmer Gulf of Mexico water temperatures have likely been adding a bit of moisture to the ambient surrounding air, allowing the atmosphere to more efficiently retain heat at night. That's contributed to the unusually warm overnight low temperatures.
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"As of [Tuesday], we have had 55 days so far this year with a 70 degree plus low; the old record was 51, and the average [year to date] is 23," McNoldy said.
Much of the warming bears the fingerprint of a changing climate; like nearly all major cities in the Lower 48, Miami has been warming — but, in Miami's case, while also dealing with the growing dangers of climate-driven sea level rise.
"It has been quite something," McNoldy said.
Miami could cool into the mid-80s Friday with chances for a few isolated showers, but temperatures will once again rebound to near 90 for the weekend.
The Washington Post's Jason Samenow contributed to this article.
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I know  "\d{1,2}"  means "1 to 2 numbers", and "\/" means "/"
but I do not know what do the rest of the things mean. Why are there so many "\"  ! It seams to me that it
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I have run the program. It worked perfectly good. Below is a part of the program.
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A: You are likely building the regular expression in a language, such as JavaScript, where the backslashes need to be escaped before they are interpreted as part of the regular expression.
In this situation \\d will reduce to a literal backslash followed by d (\d), which in turn will be evaluated as the term to find a digit.
If that's not clear, this question and its answers may further your understanding:
Java Regex Escape Characters

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For buffing off excess product and bringing out a shine. It is advisable to have at least two brushes; one for black and another for browns as brushes can pick up excess polish. Also very useful at the end of each day to brush dust off your shoes before they go into their shoe bags.


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All six 'Trump Place' buildings have removed the president's name since his election
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President Donald Trump giving a speech at Trump Tower (image via screengrab).
The last of six residential buildings called "Trump Place" has removed the president's name after its owners voted to do so.
The president's name adorned the signs of six properties on Manhattan's Upper West Side on Election Day 2016, but now it will be taken off all of them, reported the Washington Post.
The last building's owners voted 74.7 percent to remove the sign, while just 25.3 percent voted to keep the president's name on the property at 220 Riverside Boulevard, with 83 percent of all condo board members voting.
The announcement came one day after the condo board at 120 Riverside Boulevard decided to remove Trump's name from their building façade.
The decisions won't cost the Trump Organization any money, and the company still has the contract to manage 220 Riverside Boulevard.
However, the condo boards at those Manhattan properties decided to pay money to remove the president's name from their residential towers.
Three apartment buildings removed Trump's name just a week after the election.
GOP lawmakers pondering making sure Trump never runs again: report
According to a report from USA Today, several Republican senators are giving very serious thought to voting for the impeachment of Donald Trump purely because it would keep him from running for office again.
With a Senate trial in the offing -- likely after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) turns over the reins to incoming Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) -- Republicans are intrigued by the idea of Trump being put in the rearview mirror if they vote to impeach him.

As USA Today reports, "Several senators, including Republicans, have noted that if they vote to convict Trump of inciting last week's attack on Congress, they could then vote to bar him from future public office, effectively nixing another presidential campaign."

Central to the thinking that GOP lawmakers might turn on the president once he is out of office are comments by still-powerful McConnell who has indicated he is open to impeachment.

"I have not made a final decision on how I will vote," McConnell told reporters this week. "and I intend to listen to the legal arguments when they are presented to the Senate."

With 17 Republicans needed for a conviction -- assuming all Democrats vote yes -- the report notes "many Republicans beyond Congress have said it would be a good idea to leave Trump behind, underscoring GOP anxiety over another Trump presidential run in the wake of last week's insurrection by supporters."

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Canada's divorce system discriminates against men
By Lee Harding on January 29, 2021 1 Comment
Federal Child Support Guidelines biased against men and need to be overhauled
If Christopher Sarlo is right, Canada's Federal Child Support Guidelines are wrong.
The economics professor at Nipissing University in North Bay, Ont., made an in-depth analysis of the guidelines and found them wanting. A 100-page examination leads him to one conclusion: the guidelines are biased against men and deserve an overhaul.
Fights over money are the primary cause for two-thirds of Canada's 70,000 divorces each year. And divorcing spouses with children were promised fairness in the Divorce Act, where child support "guidelines shall be based on the principle that spouses have a joint financial obligation to maintain the children of the marriage in accordance with their relative abilities to contribute to the performance of that obligation."
Sarlo says the guidelines established in 1997 rely on "unrealistic assumptions that make them unfair." From concept to implementation, he finds "them to be gender-biased. They favour mothers at every turn and are punitive to fathers" and "promote discord and litigation." He says lawyers win because guidelines make "divorce, in marginal marriages, more attractive for women with children. Neither effect is good for children or for society."
How did these guidelines come about?
In 1990, the Family Law Committee made up of the federal and provincial justice ministers attempted to find a fair approach to child support. A committee research report in 1992 found that for middle-class Ontario families, the first child in an intact family adds 20 per cent to household costs and the next one 10 per cent. In 1993, Department of Justice consultants showed that for a single parent family, the first child added 25 per cent to costs, the second 13 per cent and the third 15 per cent.
However, Kim Campbell put the department on a feminist track in her time as Justice minister from 1990 to 1993. At a 1991 national symposium she organized, a department document stated, "Even when men are not violent, it should not be assumed that continued contact with the father is positive. The primary custodial parent should decide."
Another resolution passed stated that the department "would henceforth represent only feminist legal arguments in any future constitutional cases and would consult with feminists on any future appointments to the Judiciary, Administrative, Tribunals, etc."
Hard as it is to believe, parliamentarians didn't have the final formula available to them in 1997, when they changed the Divorce Act and made the guidelines law. As it turned out, the technical report for the guidelines implemented assumed that the first child added 40 per cent to household costs and that each additional child added 30 per cent. The only time the 40/30 formula resembled reality or fairness was when two parents had low but matching pre-tax incomes and both remained single after parting.
Department of Justice consultants said public consultations with "social policy advocacy groups" led it to choose the 40/30 formula over 14 other possibilities. Such groups were exclusively feminist and supported a department goal of higher payments. Moms won, dads lost, as proven by a 2004 department report that showed mothers won custody in 90 per cent of court-contested cases.
Contrary to the Divorce Act, the guidelines ignore the actual costs of raising children and the parents' ability to pay. The only time actual costs are looked at, and with consideration to each parent's ability to earn, is in relation to expenses for children's activities. But Sarlo says the non-custodial parent has already covered most, if not all, such expenses because the formula extracts too much in the first place.
On top of this, most government benefits the custodial parents receive for the children are ignored in the calculations. The custodial parent is assumed to bear all of the child costs and any expenses paid by the non-custodial parent are disregarded. This doesn't match reality.
Sarlo cites an Australian study that showed a non-custodial parent who had a child only one-fifth of the time still ended up paying between 28 per cent and 38 per cent of the annual costs of raising the child. In Canada's perverse set of rewards, only a completely absent non-custodial parent would avoid these additional expenses, despite already overpaying child support.
This injustice will be difficult to overturn. While women are viewed as victimized minorities, men are not – regardless of how much evidence suggests otherwise.
Former senator Anne Cools, a Pierre Trudeau appointee, was a rare voice criticizing the guidelines until her retirement in 2018.
Self-declared feminist Prime Minister Justin Trudeau won't change the guidelines and any future Conservative prime minister is unlikely to either, given the response of female voters.
However, Quebec opted out of the federal guidelines and mandated a system that's more fair and pays less. Any province with sufficient courage could follow suit.
Will any leader put good policy over politics?
Lee Harding is a research fellow for the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
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One Response to "Canada's divorce system discriminates against men"
B. Lewis November 2, 2021 at 3:11 pm
I totally agree that the system is biased against men. My nephew is presently fighting a divorce that is being manipulated by his spouse through the legal tangle of the argument. She is trying to take everything he has given to their marriage. She expects to get everything and to break him, whatever that means. At the moment it means that she gets over half his pay check in child support, all the tax breaks, majority custody of the kids, etc. It leaves him with no way to make "their" housepayments of which she stopped paying her half, no permission to sell or buy out the house, no money to buy clothes and toys or food for the kids when she reluctantly sends them in rags to visit him, a constant tactical delay in settling the divorce in order to run up lawyer costs which she can afford with his child support payments and he can't. He is unable to defend himself against her lies of abuse as the courts are believing him over her. He thinks it is unfair that he has to go bankrupt just to get the right to see his kids. One wonders how many women play the system to gold dig at a family's and especially their spouse's expense.
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Dr Belinda Viegas-Mueller (b June 22, 1961) of Goa completed the Daal Baati 1200 km brevet held in Rajasthan from Feb 27-March 2, 2014, becoming the first Indian woman to accomplish it. She went on to complete the Goan Yoyo 1200 km brevet held in Goa from Jan 24-27, 2015 and the Daal Baati Churma 1200 km brevet held in Gurgaon from Feb 18-21, 2015, becoming the first woman to be credited with two such achievements in a month. With three 1200 km brevets completed within 12 months (2014-15), she is also the only woman to have done it thrice in a year. [Brevets are timed, long distance cycling events. A 1200 km event is to be completed within 90 hr or less].


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How the Bipartisan Budget Act Improves the Long Term
Dec 13, 2013 | Budgets & Projections
As we've said before, paying for temporary costs with savings that grow over the long term is very helpful for the long-term budget outlook, as it provides deficit reduction when it is most needed and after the costs have been incurred. In addition, doing so can provide up-front help for the economy. There are several policies in the Bipartisan Budget Act (BBA) that achieve this objective, saving relatively little in the first ten years but whose savings grow over time. These policies include the reduction in military pension cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) for working-age retirees, the increase in new federal employee contributions, and the increase in Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) premiums. In this blog, we'll take a look at these three provisions and do our best to estimate how much each would save in the second decade, which is one of the long-term methods of analysis we detailed in a recent paper. On net, we estimate the bill will save around $100 billion in the second decade.
Military Pension COLAs: The military retirement system faces a significant unfunded liability. The BBA would help close that gap by reducing by one percentage point the COLA that military retirees under the age of 62 receive on their pensions. It would then provide a one-time catch-up at age 62, in order to bring pensions in line with levels they would have received without the one percentage point decrease before then. CBO estimates this provision will save $6.2 billion over ten years, although the savings grow from $150 million in 2016 to $1.3 billion in 2023. This is the type of provision that would benefit from lawmakers getting a longer-term score, since it's a policy that changes an annual index. Our estimate is that the policy would save about $25 billion in the second decade, or more than four times as much as it does in the first decade. Note that GDP is only about 50 percent higher in the second decade than it is in the first.
Federal Employee Contributions: The Federal Employee Retirement System (FERS) also has an unfunded liability totaling $20 billion in FY 2011. For federal workers hired after 2013, they will have to contribute 4.4 percent of their income to FERS, up from 3.1 percent for workers hired in 2013 and 0.8 percent for workers hired before 2013. The FERS benefit is estimated to be worth 12.7 percent. Due to the grandfathering of existing federal workers (and those hired in the next three weeks), the ten-year score provides an incomplete picture of this provision's savings, which will grow over time as more workers are subject to the new contribution percentage. CBO estimates that the policy will save $6 billion over ten years, and we estimate it will save around $20 billion in the second decade.
PBGC Premiums: The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) insures defined benefit pensions, funded by premiums imposed on pension plans (described here). The program currently has a $34 billion unfunded liability that, if unaddressed, would require the federal government to step in to cover underfunded pensions down the road. The BBA would increase flat-rate premiums from $49 per participant in 2014 to $64 by 2016 and increase variable-rate premiums from $9 to $19 per $1,000 of underfunding by 2016. CBO estimates that this will save $8 billion over ten years. Since the premiums are indexed to wage growth, the savings should grow over time as well, since indexing based off a higher premium will result in increasingly higher premiums in subsequent years. We estimate that in the second decade, this increase will save about $10 billion. In addition, the increased premiums will reduce the likelihood that the federal government will need to bail out the PBGC sometime in the future, which is an important benefit that isn't accounted for in these estimates.
First- and Second-Decade Savings (billions)
Reduce military pension COLAs $6 $25
Increase federal retirement contributions $6 $20
Increase PBGC premiums $8 $10
Source: CBO, CRFB extrapolations
Conversely, using temporary savings is not ideal, since either, by definition, the savings won't last, or that they will become a "piggy bank" for lawmakers to offset other costs with extensions of these existing policies. Ideally, lawmakers would make savings permanent to address long-term debt. Examples of temporary savings (which last only through 2023) include the extension of the mandatory portion of the sequester for two years, the increase in airline fees that expires after 2023, and the extension of customs fees. If Congress believes that these policies are worth extending through 2023, they should have extended them permanently. Nonetheless, we are encouraged that the deal does contain a few policies which take a step toward addressing long-term fiscal challenges.
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Covid app: Hacker threaten to sell data of 48.5 million Shanghai users
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The city of Shanghai's COVID health code mobile app is used by 48.5 million people, and a hacker has claimed to have gotten their personal information. This is the second time in less than a month that a data breach has been reported in the Chinese financial center.
On Wednesday, the hacker posting under the alias "XJP" offered to sell the data for $4,000 on the hacker forum Breach Forums.
A sample of the data, which included 47 people's phone numbers, names, Chinese identity numbers, and health code status, was made available by the hacker.
Of the 47 people the media were able to reach, eleven verified that they were included in the sample, but two claimed that their identifying numbers were incorrect.
In the article, XJP stated that "This DB (database) comprises everyone who has lived in Shanghai or visited since Suishenma's adoption," and he first requested $4,850 before dropping the price later in the day.
The 25 million-person metropolis of Shanghai devised a health code system in early 2020 to stop the spread of COVID-19. This system is known in Chinese as suishenma. Both locals and guests are required to utilize it.
Users must provide the code to enter public spaces. The app gathers travel data to assign persons a red, yellow, or green rating reflecting the likelihood of having the virus.
Users can access Suishenma through the Ant Group's Alipay app, which is owned by the fintech giant and affiliate of Alibaba (9988.HK), and Tencent Holdings' (0700.HK) WeChat app. The data is managed by the local administration.
The alleged Suishenma breach was reported after a hacker claimed early last month that the Shanghai police had given them 23 terabytes of personal data belonging to one billion Chinese individuals.
On breach forums, the hacker allegedly made the data available for sale.
According to cyber security experts cited by media, the police dashboard for managing a police database was left exposed on the public internet without password protection for more than a year, which allowed the first hacker to take the data from the police.
According to the tabloid, data was stored on Alibaba's cloud platform, and Shanghai officials had called business executives to appear before them.
The police database issue has not been addressed by the Shanghai government, the police, or Alibaba.
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Bank of America Expands Hunt Valley, Maryland, Operations
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Bank of America, one of the world's leading financial institutions and the largest bank in the Baltimore region, is planning to add about 600 new jobs by 2020 at its complex in Hunt Valley, Maryland.
According to state officials, the anticipated increase follows the addition of nearly 300 jobs in 2017, which would raise total employment at the location to about 1,500 by the end of the decade. The new jobs primarily will comprise call center and staff support positions.
"We are pleased to expand our base of operations in Baltimore County and the great state of Maryland, and we are appreciative of our public servants who work tirelessly on behalf of the community we are proud to serve," said Bank of America Greater Maryland Market President Sabina Kelly.
Bank of America has added space, upgraded interiors, and increased parking at the site. The Maryland Department of Commerce said it worked closely with other state agencies, including the Maryland Transit Administration and Baltimore County, on permitting and stormwater management issues.
"It is tremendous to have a financial leader like Bank of America grow its operations and add hundreds of new jobs to our state," said Governor Larry Hogan. "Maryland offers an extremely competitive and attractive location for global companies, and this expansion is further proof that Maryland is Open for Business."
"Bank of America's decision to grow its operations in Baltimore County and add hundreds of new jobs shows the company's strong investment in Maryland," said Maryland Commerce Secretary Mike Gill. "Understanding Bank of America's needs and working together across state agencies and with our county partners to make this expansion happen underscores our commitment to helping to grow our world-class companies that call Maryland home."
"Bank of America chose to add hundreds of new jobs in Baltimore County because we listened and were able to provide what the company needed, a talented financial services workforce and fast-track design approval and permitting to meet their expansion timeline," said Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz.


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Q: How do I reset a PHP pointer for a MySQL resource?
Possible Duplicate:
How to reset mysql pointer back to the first row in PHP?

I have 2 while loops in my PHP script that processes a list of data from a database.
$results = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM myTable");
while ($result = mysql_fetch_object($results))  {
    // do stuff
}

reset($results);
while ($result = mysql_fetch_object($results))  {
    // do some more stuff
}

However, the reset() function is not resetting my pointer within the MySQL resource. In fact, it generates an error:

"Warning: reset() [function.reset]: Passed variable is not an array or
  object in  /home/cs179_team13/public_html/timeTests/results.php on
  line 133."

Why? How do I reset a PHP pointer for a MySQL resource?

A: You can use the function mysql_data_seek.
bool mysql_data_seek ( resource $result , int $row_number )
More information can be a found at http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-data-seek.php.

A: Pass the resultset returned along with 0
mysql_data_seek($resultset, 0) ;//reset result set

A: You don't need such an ugly way.
Just get yourself an array.
$data = sql_to_arr("SELECT * FROM myTable");
foreach ($data as $row)  {
    // do stuff
}
foreach ($data as $row)  {
    // do stuff
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foreach ($data as $row)  {
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this is way more convenient way to deal with data


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The US Taboo Against Socialism
Posted on December 27, 2016 by stuartbramhall
America's Unofficial Religion: the War on an Idea
Abby Martin (Empire Files) 2015
America's Unofficial Religion is a documentary about the origin of the American taboo against socialism.
At present, the US is the only western democracy without a prominent socialist party. This hasn't always been the case. A powerful socialist movement arose alongside the progressive, populist and union movements of the late 19th century. All were a reaction to the brutal industrial oppression that characterized this period.
In 1912, the US had 13 socialist newspapers, 12 socialist monthlies and 57 socialist mayors 23 cities. Socialist Eugene Debs campaigned for president that year and won 6% of the popular vote (at a time when women and blacks were barred from voting).
Concerned about the detrimental effect of strong mass organizing on profits, the corporate elite leaned on president Woodrow Wilson to pass two laws – the Espionage Act, which criminalized dissent, and the Sedition Act, which made it a crime to oppose US involvement in World War I. Following passage of the Sedition Act, Eugene Debs was arrested for making an anti-war speech and sentenced to ten years in prison. The Wilson administration also imprisoned more than 90 International Workers of the World (IWW)* leaders, in addition to sanctioning the murder of IWW members by Pinkerton's guards and organized lynch mobs.
US Organizing and Strikes in Response to Bolshevik Revolution
The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution would inspire a wave of organizing and strike activity in the US, leading one in five American workers to go out on strike in 1919.
Wilson responded by authorizing Attorney General Mitchell Palmer and his assistant J Edgar Hoover to launch the Palmer Raids, arresting more than 10,000 suspected socialist and communists and deporting thousands more.
In the 1930s, the cruel economic conditions of the Great Depression led to an enormous upsurge in mass organizing. Many historians argue that Roosevelt had no choice but to bring in sweeping New Deal legislation to prevent a socialist revolution.
Taft Hartley, HUAC and Cointelpro
Following World War II, during which US unions won major concessions, a Republican Congress passed the Taft Hartley Act, which made it illegal for union members to be socialists or communists (in 1945, roughly half the union leadership was socialist) and the Smith Act, which made Communist Party membership Illegal.
The enactment of these laws was accompanied by aggressive activity in the House on UnAmerican Activities Committee (HUAC). During the fifties many HUAC subpoenaed Hollywood actors, directors and producers – as well as teachers and college professors. Many were permanently blacklisted from working on the mere suspicion of socialist/communist sympathies.
In 1956 Hoover, a rabid anti-communist, would launch Cointelpro, a program conducting massive illegal surveillance, infiltration and sabotage of civil rights groups and other social change organization. Cointelpro also carried out clandestine assassinations and false imprisonment of numerous black liberation leaders, many of whom are still in prison.
*The International Workers of the World (IWW) is international labor union started in 1905 that has strong ties both to socialism and to anarchism.
This entry was posted in Hidden history and tagged abby martin, cointelpro. new deal, communist party, empire files, esponionage act, eugene debs, Great Depression, hoover, house on unamerican activities, palmer raids, roosevelt, sedition act, smith act, socialism, taft hartley, woodrow wilson by stuartbramhall. Bookmark the permalink.
3 thoughts on "The US Taboo Against Socialism"
Rudolf on December 27, 2016 at 6:26 pm said:
Reblogged this on rudolfblog and commented:
Interesting article, though the Socialism we stand for is the anti-marxist, anti-materialist Socialism of the Nation by Proudhon & Co.
Norman Pilon on December 27, 2016 at 7:09 pm said:
". . .the Socialism we stand for is the anti-marxist, anti-materialist Socialism of the Nation by Proudhon & Co"
How quaintly American . . .
Please, why anti-marxist, anti-materialist?
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About Dr. El Shahawy
All professionals at Cardiovascular Center of Sarasota maintain the highest levels of accreditation and pursue ongoing education to stay abreast of the latest trends in the field of cardiology. Read on to learn more about our staff's experience and training.
Dr. El Shahawy is a civic-minded physician and family man with an exceptional academic and administrative background. He has proven to be an uncompromising campaigner for medical excellence in Sarasota County for over 40 years and serves as Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Florida and University of South Florida. Dr. El Shahawy is a current Board of Trustees member for both American Society of Preventive Cardiology (ASPC) and Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC). Dr. El Shaway also served as the medical director of the Cardiovascular Disease prevention program at Sarasota Memorial Hospital and currently serves as Medical Director for the Cardiovascular Health Assessment Center at the Cardiovascular Center of Sarasota.
Specialty Certifications And Post-Graduate Degrees
Diplomat of the Certification Board Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (CBCCT) 2010
Level 111 Re-certification by the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) 2011
Level 111 Certification by the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) 2008
Certified by the American Board of Cardiovascular Diseases #034604 1981
Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine #034604 1977
Certified by the Canadian Board of Internal Medicine (written) 1975
Master of Science, Medicine/Cardiovascular Diseases; University of Minnesota Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 1971
Diploma of Medicine/Cardiovascular Diseases; University of Vienna, Austria 1966
Diploma of Medicine; University of Vienna, Austria 1962
State Board Certifications And Licenses
E.C.F.M.G. (#63359) 1966
Florida State Board of Medical Examiners (#20619) 1973
Georgia State Board of Medical Examiners (# 15621) 1973
"FLEX" (with reciprocity in 49 states) 1973
Other Certification(s)
Certification by the Florida Medical Association for "Instructional Program on Accreditation for Continuing Medical Education" 1999/2000
Basic and Advanced Cardiac Life Support by the American Heart Association May 2007
Instructor for AHA BLS and ACLS courses October 2007
Certified by SCCT [Society for Cardiovascular Computed Tomography] Level 2 March 2008
Certified by SCCT [Society for Cardiovascular Computed Tomography] Level 3 July 2008
During his entire professional life, Dr. Shahawy has worked with the leading edge of advancement of medical procedures, techniques and systems in private practice, in academic research at the University of Vienna, the Mayo Clinic, the Medical College of Georgia and as a faculty member of the School of Medicine at the University of Florida.
In California with sons family, December 2015
To mention just a few, after graduating "Summa Cum Laude" from the University of Vienna in 1962, Dr. Shahawy accepted a Scholarship for Residency Training in Medicine and Cardiology at the world renowned Vienna University Hospitals, where he spent 5 years. In 1967, Dr. Shahawy moved to the U.S.A. and after one year at a New York Medical Center, he accepted Fellowship training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota for 3 years.
In Sarasota, FL with daughter's family. December 2015
In 1971, Dr. Shahawy moved to the Medical College of Georgia, in Augusta, where he served for another 2 years as Senior Fellow and Instructor in Cardiology at Talmadge Teaching Hospital. In 1973, Dr. Shahawy was invited to join the faculty of the Shands Teaching Hospital at the Professorial Level as a full time Senior Faculty Member and Consulting Cardiologist where he spent 3 years teaching medical students and young doctors including medical interns, residents, and fellows to take care of medical and cardiac problems.
In December 1975, Dr. Shahawy moved to Sarasota and has been in private practice since and holds a Clinical appointment as full Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Florida and University of South Florida. Dr. Shahawy is currently affiliated with both Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Doctors Hospital, and Lakewood Ranch Hospital.


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Your business growth strategies are at the heart of the cyber risks your organization faces.
Most reports on cyber security revolve around a common theme: despite heightened attention the number of cyber incidents–and their associated costs–continues to rise. They typically point to the growing sophistication of hackers and other adversaries as a particularly intractable problem, and some deliberate over whether being secure is even possible in today's rapidly evolving landscape of cyber-attacks.
The growing political instability in various conflict zones throughout the Middle East has given rise to numerous hacktivist groups that have wreaked havoc on public and private institutions, both regionally and globally. These notorious, self-professed electronic armies use malicious and destructive techniques to undermine the security of the Internet as a means to promote political ends.
The Middle East, more specifically member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), is perceived as a region of economic wealth. To cyber criminals who are trying to exploit governments, public and private institutions for financial gains, this makes the Middle East a central target for attack and indeed has been.


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A Goofy Movie is een Amerikaanse animatiefilm uit 1995, geproduceerd door DisneyToon Studios en uitgebracht door Walt Disney Pictures. De film is gebaseerd op de animatieserie Goof Troop en alhoewel het een opzichzelfstaande productie is, zou hij gezien kunnen worden als een vervolg op die serie.

Verhaal

Het is de laatste schooldag. Max Goof, de tienerzoon van Goofy, probeert van deze dag gebruik te maken om het meisje van zijn dromen, Roxanne, voor zich te winnen. Samen met zijn vrienden Borrie en Bobby geeft hij op het podium van de school een optreden waarbij hij zich voordoet als Powerline, een beroemde popster. De drie krijgen zo bekendheid binnen de school, totdat de rector het concert onderbreekt.

De rector rapporteert Max' gedrag aan Goofy. Die begrijpt de situatie echter verkeerd, en denkt dat Max lid is geworden van een bende. Bang dat Max' uiteindelijk in het criminele circuit zal belanden, besluit hij die zomer te gebruiken om zijn band met Max te versterken. Hij plant voor hen beiden een vistocht naar Lake Destiny in Idaho. Dit tot ongenoegen van Max, die net Roxanne had beloofd binnenkort met haar naar Linda's huis te gaan om samen met haar op tv naar een live-optreden van de echte Powerline te kijken. Hij verzint daarom snel een excuus dat hij niet naar het concert kan omdat hij en Goofy samen met Powerline gaan optreden in Los Angeles. Roxanne is eerst achterdochtig, maar gelooft het verhaal uiteindelijk.

Max en Goofy vertrekken op hun vistocht, maar niets gaat zoals Goofy dat had gepland. De twee worden opgejaagd door Bigfoot, en lopen onbedoeld Boris Boef en Borrie tegen het lijf. Max probeert zijn belofte aan Roxanne toch nog waar te maken door de wegenkaart waar Goofy hun route op heeft uitgestippeld te veranderen, zodat de route naar Los Angeles wijst. De rest van de route verloopt voor beiden een stuk gunstiger, totdat Goofy de verwisseling van de route ontdekt. De twee krijgen ruzie, waardoor ze uiteindelijk met auto en al in een rivier belanden. Pas nadat Max uitlegt waarom hij per se naar het Powerline concert wil, ziet Goofy in hoe belangrijk dit voor Max is, en belooft hem naar Los Angeles te brengen.

In Los Angeles raken Goofy en Max elkaar kwijt achter het podium waar Powerline een optreden geeft. Door omstandigheden belanden ze uiteindelijk allebei op het podium, midden in het optreden. Het publiek denkt dat het allemaal bij de show hoort, en de twee spelen het spel mee. Op die manier kan Max onbedoeld zijn belofte aan Roxanne, die het hele concert via de tv volgt, toch waarmaken.

Eenmaal thuis bekent Max aan Roxanne dat hij tegen haar had gelogen over het optreden, maar ze vergeeft hem en bekent dat ze al sinds de eerste keer dat ze hem hoorde lachen ook verliefd is op hem.

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Engelse stemmen

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Nederlandse stemmen

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Achtergrond

Productie
Kevin Lima, de regisseur van de film, wilde de film gebruiken om het personage Goofy meer diepte en persoonlijkheid te geven. Volgens hem zou de film het publiek ook eens kennis laten maken met Goofy's gevoelens in plaats van alleen zijn persoonlijkheid.

De hoofdpersonages in de film, Goofy, Max, Boris en Borrie, zijn allemaal gebaseerd op hun versies uit Goof Troop, alleen iets ouder. Andere bekende personages uit de serie, zoals Boris' vrouw Bea en zijn dochter Bommi, komen niet voor in de film.

De productie van de film was in handen van Walt Disney Feature Animation in plaats van Walt Disney Television Animation, de studio die de serie Goof Troop had gemaakt. Voorproductie van de film werd gedaan in de WDFA studio in Californië. Het tekenwerk werd grotendeels gedaan in studio's in Parijs en Sydney.

In 2000 kreeg de film een direct-naar-video vervolg getiteld An Extremely Goofy Movie.

Filmmuziek
Het muziekalbum van A Goofy Movie werd in 1995 uitgebracht door Walt Disney Records .
"I 2 I" - Tevin Campbell met Rosie Gaines
"After Today" - Aaron Lohr en koor
"Stand Out" - Tevin Campbell
"On the Open Road" - Bill Farmer, Aaron Lohr, en koor
"Lester's Possum Park" - Kevin Quinn
"Nobody Else But You" - Bill Farmer en Aaron Lohr
"Opening Fanfare/Max's Dream"
"Deep Sludge"
"Bigfoot"
"Hi Dad Soup"
"Runaway Car"
"Junction"
"The Waterfall!/The Truth"

Uitgave
De film zou oorspronkelijk in de bioscopen worden uitgebracht tijdens de kerstperiode van 1994, maar vanwege productieproblemen werd die datum niet gehaald. In plaats daarvan bracht Disney de Leeuwenkoning uit in december 1994. A Goofy Movie werd uiteindelijk uitgebracht in de lente van 1995.

De film werd in september 1995 uitgebracht op vhs, en in juni 2000 op dvd.

Ontvangst
A Goofy Movie was redelijk succesvol. De film bracht in de Verenigde Staten $35.348.597 op. De reacties van critici waren echter gemengd. Op Rotten Tomatoes scoort de film 54%.

Prijzen en nominaties
In 1995 werd A Goofy Movie genomineerd voor vijf Annie Awards in de volgende categorieën:
Beste animatiefilm
Beste individuele prestatie voor animatie (Dominique Monfery)
Beste individuele prestatie voor muziek op het gebied van animatie (Patrick DeRemer en Roy Freeland)
Beste individuele prestatie voor productiedesign op het gebied van animatie. (Fred Warter)
Beste individuele prestatie voor scenario op het gebied van animatie (Brian Pimental)

Film uit 1995
Amerikaanse film
Film van Walt Disney Studios
Animatiefilm
Film van Kevin Lima

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How convertible debentures protected advisor's clients amid market turmoil
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Paul Borisoff, a portfolio manager and investment advisor with the Borisoff Wealth Management Team at Richardson Wealth, has built his career on being an active manager with convertible debentures, which has proven to be a good niche for his clients in this volatile market.
Borisoff, who has been in the financial industry for 30 years and a discretionary portfolio manager since 2008, moved to Richardson from Canaccord Genuity in mid-July 2021. He was able to transition 90% of his clients, most of whom are retired, within a few months.
Borisoff said that a large part of his business is in an actively managed discretionary income mandate that was established in March 2008, even before the 2008 crisis. He expects it will create a positive return before the end of 2022. That's good news for his clients, who saw strong returns in 2021, but have been mostly concerned about maintaining their capital in 2022, so it's not eroded.
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'Mogul Mogwli': Riz Ahmed shines in the chronicle of the identity of the "cursed" second generation of migrants
September 16, 2021 Centernews Entertaiment
More than just a way of life or expression, music for Zed is a way of anesthetizing himself from his surroundings, from the Pakistani restaurant his father founded in England for a living, for example.
This is how director Bassam Tariq portrayed in the film 'Mogul Mogwli' Zaheer in the past, as the character played by Riz Ahmed was actually mentioned in a feature film that could almost be said to take the baton from the drummer who incarnated in 'Sound of Metal'. , and which served as an Oscar nominee for Best Actor .
Tariq and Ahmed's alter egos
Although two of Ahmed's latest works have something in common: their directorial film debut and being a story that immediately touched his heart, in a way he couldn't explain, echoed the words Ahmed shared on the social network Twitter during the promotion. 'Mogul Mogwli' in 2020, this latest feature film is specifically the actor's "most personal work", where he extrapolates his own claims through the characters he uses to channel issues related to his origins and identity conflicts.
Like Riz Ahmed (Rizwan, actually), Zed is a rapper of Pakistani descent who grew up in England after his parents emigrated to the country. However, his life, career, and partner were in New York, so when it came time to kick off his music career with an opening tour through England, a small gap opened up in the scale of his perfect balance, with the relationships he could no longer face on FaceTime and the "obligations he had to deal with." ' to return home to visit his family, whom he had not seen in two years.
It was then that he began to question his identity again and his own muscles faltered from "scam" to one straddling two worlds: a "westernized" Pakistani, the insults foreigners spit at him when he returned home, whom he proclaims his identity to be. a Muslim in his songs.
Released at the Mallorca Atlantida Film Festival, which catalogs can be watched on the streaming platform of filmin, 'Mogul Mowgli' should Ahmed another step in his work as an activist to make the Muslim community look beyond stereotypes, this summer's facet has led him to present a study which analyzes the "absence or evil presence" of Muslims according to their representations in the most popular films.
The political commitment of the interpreter of 'The Night Of' is not only transferred in the film with Zed's interpretation, but born of the co-writing and executive production of the story, a part of which Ahmed also appears in the credits.
And that's not all, some of the lyrics the Englishman tidied up in the film are from Ahmed's handwriting – a sort of "duplicate" of his own singing career in which he has referred to "severing ties from the country they emigrated to" – and they spoke to initially from an urge to rise up as a Muslim before the world and then as an intimate confession of not knowing exactly who you are and what land you can call home.
'Mogul Mowgli', the need to escape from the lair to advance
From a film co-written by Tariq and Ahmed, his tone stands out for working the depth of the story with a balance where a touch of irreverence saves the plot from something that was made clear it wasn't wanted: a violent racial drama. .
When Zed's life comes a moment of truth, to become more acquainted with the tour that will also take the country in which he grew up, the rapper gets sick and seizes the prepotente of his speech which is purely the facade of one figure who represents the "crime of separation" and that is the antagonist of the plot from the perspective of delusions and dreams. .
Non-existent dialogue that the rapper and his "executors" cross in a veiled way through images – most of them flashbacks or Ahmed's personal files showing, for example, his father's restaurant as a kind of ghetto, no achievement of the ideal model pursued in his environment or quirks the people he considered the same who came from the second or successive generations – revealed a mirror in which Zed's trauma, his complex, but also revolution and true power with to nurture in the land of the nobodies.
Minutes from the film's first image, Riz Ahmed raps surrounded by darkness a clairvoyant letter anticipating the character's internal conflict: the battle between the "false identity" he had created to achieve his dream as a singer and his strange relationship with his family circle. "We were not born to be loved, I was made to prove myself," the actor spit out in the film.
Although it is true that subp Zed's romantic lot with his girlfriend is one of our least interesting, although it contributes a grain of causative sand to reveal Zed's deprivation, and there is a resource that attracts stereotypes and which can be too obvious, almost everything that surrounds the protagonist in his particular journey has beauty. a strange and still perhaps familiar feeling: the need to get away from the nest in order to progress and succeed.
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