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Co-Director: Loveleen Tandon
Cast: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan
Composer: A R Rahman
Action Director: Sham Kaushal (Black Friday, Parzania fame)
Art Director: Abhishek Redkar (Outsourced and Christmas In India)
Author of Q&A: Vikas Swarup (From which Slumdog has been adapted)
source : economic times
Originally posted : times of india
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What is the movie about?
The film tells the brutal but inspiring story of Jamal Malik (played by Dev Patel, a British Asian whose major turn so far has been in the television show Skins), an 18-year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai who gets on to the Who Wants to be a Millionaire ? show and is a question away from winning the Rs 20-million jackpot.
Astounded by the slum boy's knowledge and suspicious of his integrity, the police give him the third degree.
In order to prove his innocence , Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother Salim grew up, of their crazy adventures on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of his love Latika (played by Mumbai girl Freida Pinto).
Which book is the film based on?
It's based on Indian diplomat Vikas Swarup's awardwinning novel Q&A (2005) where the protagonist has the impeccably secular (and gimmicky) name Ram Mohammed Thomas. The prologue opens with the line: "I have been arrested. For winning a quiz show." Simon Beaufoy wrote the screenplay.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali had enquired about movie rights, and so had Shah Rukh Khan, but Swarup had already sold it to the owners of KBC, Celador.
Where was it shot?
Although it is largely assumed to be Dharavi, the film was extensively shot in the slums of Juhu and Versova. One shot has the children sitting on the Juhu airfield.
What were the damages?
The budget was a modest $55 million (Titanic was $200 million)
How many awards so far?
Not for nothing has the film been described as 'overpraised and overawarded'. From the time of its US release on November 12, it has won 64 awards, both the low-hanging fruit and coveted trophies.
When will it be released in India?
Mark January 23 on your calendar. The English version (Slumdog Millionaire) and Hindi (Slumdog Crorepati) will jingle into theatres.
Was Anil Kapoor Danny Boyle's first choice for the role of game show host?
Yes, the role was offered to Shah Rukh, but Boyle said he couldn't get through to the superstar because of the "several layers of people" in between.
The grapevine has it that Shah Rukh was chary of accepting because of the creepy character he would have to play.
To whom is the music dedicated?
To Shridhar, Rahman's main sound engineer and fourtime national award winner. The 48-year-old worked with Rahman right from Roja, and the composer trusted his judgement implicitly.
When Slumdog was ready, Shridhar thanked Rahman for putting his name on an international album. Soon after, on December 1, he died of a heart attack. Heartbroken, Rahman dedicated the music to his friend.
Has the movie become India Underbelly Shining?
It looks like it. Be it Aravind Adiga's Man Bookerwinning The White Tiger or Slumdog, the unpalatable realities of asli India are up there under the strobe lights for the world to gaze on. From snot-nosed children to the oppressive caste system, it's fodder that is being anew.
While acclaim for drudgery is not new (from Satyajit Ray to Meera Nair's Salaam Bombay), this is probably the first time that the worst of India is being showcased to worldwide commercial acclaim.
'Slumdog Millionaire' bags 10 Oscar nominations
Inching closer towards an Oscar, composer A R Rahman on Thursday got himself nominated for three Academy awards for his score in
Slumdog Millionaire British-Indian movie "Slumdog Millionaire", which was in all shortlisted for 10 categories including best film and best director.
"Something good is happening and I am really happy about it," was the reaction of Rahman, who became the first Indian to win a triple Oscar nomination. 43-year-old Rahman was nominated for Best Original Score and the numbers 'Jai Ho' and 'O Saya' were shortlisted for the Best Original Song.
Close on the heels of the dual-language film winning four Golden Globes, including one for Rahman, earlier this month, Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy were shortlisted for best director and best adapted screenplay categories.
The film also won nominations in cinematography, sound mixing, sound editing and film editing. David Fincher's romantic periodical "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", starring Brad Pitt, topped this year's race with a whopping 13 nominations.
The nominations were announced at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Samuel Goldwyn Theatre by Oscar-winning actor Forest Whitaker. The winners will be named on February 22 at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre.
Only two Indian have won the coveted Oscar till date, Bhanu Athaiya (for costume design in "Gandhi") and Satyajit Ray, who was given an honorary Oscar for his contribution to films.
This is also the first time that an Indian has won more than one nomination in Oscars history.
Reacting to the nominations, Rahman said, "I did not think it will get there. God has been really kind. And I have to really thank the prayers of all the people and their good wishes. "There is a kind of optimism in the film and so much of positive vibes as you leave the movie hall."
In the original score category, Rahman will compete with Alexandre Desplat ("The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"), James Newton Howard ("Defiance"), Danny Elfman ("Milk") and Thomas Newman ("WALL-E").
Rahman will compete with Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman ("Down to earth" from "WALL-E") in the original song category. Gulzar has penned the lyrics of "Jai Ho" and Mia Arulpragasam "O Saya".
Co-director Loveelyn Tandon said "We have proved everyone wrong. It's a crazy feeling beyond words. Ten nominations is something unbelievable." She said all Rahman's work has been awarded and the "world has finally woken up to his talent". The films for the best picture race are "Milk", "Frost/Nixon", "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and "The Reader".
Those nominated in the best director category along with Boyle are David Fincher ("The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"), Stephen Daldry ("The Reader"), Gus Van Sant ("Milk") and Ron Howard ("Frost/Nixon").
City of fan clubs awaits Slumdog
They celebrate new releases of their heroes as if it were a festival, and are rarely together in welcoming other films. However, fans of Ajith, Vijay, Rajnikanth and Kamal Hassan are expecting 'Slumdog Millionaire' with feverish excitement. While the A R Rahman's music is an attraction for nearly everyone, people are also looking forward to the release for reasons which seem to make the movie unique.
"In a region where game shows and reality shows on satellite channels took time to attract eye-balls, the excitement is an indication that rags-to-riches-stories will always sell," said Kavithalaya Krishnan, a television actor.
"Look how well 'Padaiyappa' and 'Annamalai' worked," he added. "Eight years ago, not many tuned into television shows where someone walked off with a lot of money. But that has changed," he added. Intelligence and talent are not measured by academics alone anymore, said R Govindarajan, a professor. "Films like 'Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi' work
with the younger generation in Chennai because the film shows a young, married woman competing in a reality show. There has been a gradual shift in the way we acknowledge hardwork in alternate careers," he added
It is all about aspiration meeting luck, a familiar concept for many. "Today, no one settles for what they have. Everyone wants to move up and do better. Even those in tenements dream of going to the US for higher studies," said Rashmi Kumar, a final-year student of journalism in a city college. "Slumdog sounds like it mirrors our thoughts and hopes," she added
City-based Dr Gayathri Srikanth, who answered a record 750 questions in twoand-a-half hours in 2007 to qualify for 'Kaun Banega Crorepati' is eager to watch a show that she missed appearing on by 0.96 seconds. "You are considered intelligent if you are seen on a quiz show. What adds drama and emotion to such shows is the fact that luck plays a major role in winning.
"There is a lot of hard work behind the 15 minutes of fame, but television shows makes you feel it is achievable," said Raghav, and Preetha, the actor couple who have been runnersup on shows such as 'Jodi No 1' and 'Maanada Mayilada'.
Actor Khushboo, who has been hosting game shows since 2000 is waiting to watch 'Slumdog' for a different reason altogether. "I want to know if the West is portraying India as a down trodden, dirty, place with cities full of slums," she added.
source : timesofindia


* Momentum remains an elusive -- perhaps nonexistent -- dynamic in the Democratic presidential race.
After Hillary Rodham Clinton's decisive win in April's Pennsylvania primary, and amid the problems plaguing Barack Obama over the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., the wind seemed at the New York senator's back. Instead, Tuesday's results left the Clinton campaign becalmed, at best.
What has counted most in the Clinton-Obama face-off, time and again, has been how a particular state's population matches the seemingly set-in-stone blocs backing each candidate.
Indiana, for instance, lacked the black population to produce a North Carolina-sized blowout for Obama. But its economic growth has been more robust than that of neighboring Ohio, undercutting the chances for a sizable Clinton win fueled by disenchanted blue-collar workers. The result: a near tie.
* An endorsement from a governor leaving office soon (i.e., North Carolina's Michael F. Easley) carries much less clout than one from a governor in the middle of a term -- with his hands still on patronage goodies (i.e., Pennsylvania's Edward G. Rendell and Ohio's Ted Strickland). All three pushed for Clinton in their states, but Easley's help seemed to count for little.
* The policy differences between Clinton and Obama, aside from the flare-up over suspending the federal gasoline tax, may be minor, but one little-noted exit poll result Tuesday speaks to a visceral divide between their forces that will challenge the push for party unity.
In Indiana, when voters in the Democratic contest were asked whether a candidate shared their values, 82% of the Clinton supporters answered "no" about Obama. And 93% of Obama's partisans answered negatively about Clinton. Comparable results were recorded in North Carolina.
Frederick is one of the writers of The Times' political blog, Top of the Ticket, at latimes.com/topoftheticket.


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The website of actor Kenneth More CBE. One of Britain's most successful stars
Kenneth More Filmography
Kenneth More Preservation Library
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NEWS: THE KENNETH MORE TABLE AT JOE ALLEN, LONDON
Joe Allen in London. Image credit: Joe Allen
What better way to celebrate Kenny's birthday than to raise a glass to him! KenenthMore.com is proud to have worked with the famous theatreland restaurant, Joe Allen in creating a Kenneth More table, featuring pictures from his career and two from Kenny's personal collection; meeting the Queen Mother, and separately Prince Charles at the Battle of Britain premiere.
Joe Allen in Covent Garden was first opened in 1977, a sister restaurant to the original New York site. It was named after its owner and creator, a man dedicated to delivering fantastic dining experiences. Set in a venue adorned with the best theatre memorabilia, Joe Allen is the Covent Garden Brasserie for theatre-goers, locals and visitors alike.
Because it was started by actors, producers and directors looking to woo the West End's latest and greatest productions, Joe Allen quickly became known as the 'West End's Canteen', with famous faces from all industries often spotted among the posters.
Kenny's daughter Sarah More recalled being taken there by her father back in the day, so the introduction of a table featuring pictures displayed in his memory makes this table extra special to dine at.
FEATURES: KENNETH MORE REFLECTIONS – RONALD PICKUP
Actor Ronald Pickup with KenenthMore.com Founder Nick Pourgourides
To mark Kenny's birthday on September 20th, we are extremely pleased to welcome acclaimed actor of stage and screen, Ronald Pickup, to shares his fond memories of working with Kenny, on the Father Brown episode, The Eye of Apollo.
"I remember being high up on this balcony in Finsbury Square doing this weird scene at the start of that episode…I was supposed to be preaching to the public as this leader of a bogus religious cult….a sun worshipper.
For me though, working with Kenny was just such a joy. He was one of my generation's favourites…and there was something completely seamless from the personality I knew of on screen from both cinema and television, to the one I worked with…
I had met him previously working on TV series, The Dragon's Opponent where Angela Douglas was working with me on one of the episodes. I remember him coming to the set and taking us all out for dinner. He was very generous and sweet like that…When I met him again on Father Brown, he was very jovial, easy, and just so relaxed behind the camera…. A natural performer and an education watching him act. To be in a series of Father Brown was great too, having known of GK Chesterton's books since I was a boy.
Kenny though as Father brown was just great. I was lucky to work with him. But I think he was more versatile than people think. I remember seeing him in the film version of The Deep Blue Sea. He was excellent and his performance is very unapologetic. The dark side of him was wonderful to see, especially for someone so popular – I think that character was more of a risk to to do than people would think of now."
Our founder's hero, is of course Kenny, but Nick Pourgourides was keen to know who Ronald Pickup held in the same regard. I had many heroes in our business, including Kenny, but my biggest had to be Laurence Olivier!"
Funnily enough, Kenny held him in the same regard! Order the Father Brown box set here
With special thanks to Ronald Pickup
Father Brown image credit to Acorn media
NEWS: INTERVIEW ON KENNETH MORE – BBC RADIO LONDON
Jason Solomons with Nick Pourgourides. Image courtesy of BBC Radio London
Our founder, Nick Pourgourides, was a guest on BBC Radio London with presenter Jason Solomons to talk all things Kenneth More. Nick brought along Kenny's 40th anniversary Variety Club silver heart to help remind the public of his immense contribution to the entertainment industry.
Listen back to the interview here. Starts at 1:44:27
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07kkr4y
With thanks to Jason Solomons.
Kenneth More's 40th anniversary Variety Club silver heart. Presented to him at a special luncheon held at the Savoy Hotel. Image courtesy of BBC Radio London
NEWS: COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUE AT THE DUCHESS THEATRE
KenenthMore.com is proud to have worked with London's famous Duchess Theatre in putting together a special commemorative plaque to mark Kenny's seminal work in Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea.
FEATURES: FROM THE ARCHIVES – A NIGHT TO REMEMBER
This week our founder, Nick Pourgourides, opens up the archives to examine some of Kenneth More's personal items. A framed photograph from the set of A Night to Remember is the subject. With thanks to Talking Pictures. This interview except originally aired as part of Kenneth More Day
FEATURES: KENNETH MORE AT HOME
A different side to Kenneth More…
Our Founder, Nick Pourgourides, tells how surprised he was to learn how quiet Kenny was at home. With thanks to Talking Pictures TV. The interview originally aired as part of Kenneth More Day.
FEATURES: FROM THE ARCHIVES: KENNETH MORE'S 1955 VARIETY CLUB AWARD
This week our founder, Nick Pourgourides, opens up the archives to examine some of Kenneth More's personal items. The first of which is a silver heart award from 1955, bestowed by the Variety Club of Great Britain.
40 years later the award would reappear at a Variety Club lunch in the Lancaster Ballroom of the Savoy to celebrate Kenny's 40 years of show business, for which he received another silver heart in special recognition.
With thanks to Talking Pictures Television for the use of the clip which showed originally as part of Kenneth More Day on July 12th 2019
NEWS: REMEMBERING KENNETH MORE ON JULY 12TH
Kenny and wife Mabel and daughter Sarah on holiday in the 1950s. Image courtesy of Sarah Glaister
Kenneth More with daughter Sarah, on the set of The Admirable Crichton.Image courtesy of Sarah Glaister
Kenneth More with daughter Sarah and wife Mabel (Billie) Barkby, on the set of Reach for the Sky. Image courtesy of Sarah Glaister
Kenneth More with daughter Sarah and wife Mabel (Billie) Barkby, on the set of The Admirable Crichton. Image courtesy of Sarah Glaister
Kenneth More and daughter Sarah at the family home in Wargrave. Image courtesy of Sarah Glaister
Kenneth More with daughter Sarah and wife Mabel (Billie) Barkby, Royal Command Performance with Sarah's half brother on the left (Mabel's first marriage). Image courtesy of Sarah Glaister
Kenneth More with daughter Sarah doing the twist on board a US battleship on the set of We Joined the Navy. Image courtesy of Sarah Glaister
"I am so proud to be the daughter of Kenneth More and I am also so grateful for Nick Pourgourides for promoting my father through KennethMore.com and helping Talking Pictures TV with a day in his honour on July 12th"
Sarah Glaister (More)
Kenneth More and Angela Douglas larking about in Sussex. Image courtesy of Angela More
"Kenny is always remembered with warm happy memories of love…A Kenneth More Day is something very special to me…. A time for us all to think of him with great affection. With thanks to Talking Pictures but especially to my friend Nick Pourgourides, for all that he has done and continues to do in keeping his memory alive.
Angela More x
"Only a year ago, I was saddened to see how little presence there was for man who had given so much to the British entertainment industry and the public, over four consecutive decades. A year on, things are changing. Most importantly we have an official website, social media channels spreading the word, and press coverage building. July 12th has always been a poignant date, but at least this year it marks something positive, with Talking Pictures TV dedicating a whole day's worth of programming in his honour. I've been filled with joy in meeting and receiving so many messages from people who are as fond of Kenny as I am. There's still more to do in reminding people of his great career and there are some exciting plans afoot. Let's keep on keeping on!"
Nick Pourgourides, Founder of KenenthMore.com
FEATURES: AN ACTOR'S MAKEUP BOX
British film and stage actor Kenneth More (1914 – 1982) getting ready backstage at the Shaftesbury Theatre for the play 'Our Man Crichton', London, UK, 7th February 1965. (Photo by Norman Potter/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
With Kenneth More Day almost upon us we delve into the Preservation Library to examine a rare item.
Angela More: "Actors makeup boxes are very personal items. Kenny always applied his own before performances. He kept it at home in his final years. To think that the last time these paints were used was by him makes it extra special to me. The cork is something actors used to apply makeup with. His was from a vintage 1943 Veuve Clicquot Champagne bottle. I never asked him what the significance of it was but assume it was from some victory at sea during the war."
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FEATURES: KENNETH MORE AND HIS LOVE OF TIMEPIECES
Actor Kenneth More in a scene from "The Sweet War Man", 1965 (Photo by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)
Angela More: "He loved collecting watches, clocks, basically anything that ticked! In the picture above, that was a Rolex Submariner. I remember that one on his wrist. He had a good number of timepieces. Rolex, Cartier, Piaget…"
English actor Kenneth More (1914-1982) pictured on the set of the television drama 'Armchair Theatre- Old Soldiers' in 1964. (Photo by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)
Angela More: "In our home at Bute House I remember an antique Grandfather clock, a chronometer in a box in his study, a carriage clock on his desk…. Come to think of it, they were all over the house! It's fair to say he was a bit of a collector."
Kenneth More's Piaget wristwatch. Image courtesy of daughter Sarah More
Kenny's daughter Sarah More remembers his Piaget watch (above). "It was one my mother gave him as a present. He kept it all throughout his life. What amazed me was how paper thin it was. I still have it."
Kenneth More's Rolex Datejust. Image courtesy of daughter Jane More
Angela More on the story behind his Rolex DateJust. "We were in the South of France on holiday once and I sent him out to get some breakfast. He took rather a long time in returning and when he did this watch appeared. "You've completely forgotten about the food!" I said.
Seemed he had more interest in the local jewellers than the bakery!
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Kenneth More interviewed about his autobiography, 'More or Less', on Thames Television
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Jl_XjwN9s
Kenneth More interviewed by Ken Windsor
https://youtu.be/CaOLUv1HwwM
Kenneth More Family Photo Album
Kenneth More on board HMS Aurora docked at Naples in 1943
Kenneth More on set for his last film performance as Jarvis Lorry in 'A Tale of Two Cities'. Photograph courtesy of Angela More
Kenneth More and Angela Douglas sift through Forsyte Saga fan mail in their Bayswater Mews. Image courtesy of Angela More
Kenneth More (3rd from left in 2nd row) in the Windmill Theatre Football Team, 1935
Kenny and wife Mabel with unidentified friend, holidaying in the 1950s. Image courtesy of Sarah Glaister
Father and daughter. Kenneth More and Sarah having fun on the Swiss Alps during the 1950s. Image courtesy of Sarah Glaister
Kenneth More with stepson Jonathan and daughter Sarah. Image courtesy of Sarah Glaister
Kenneth More and Angela Douglas holidaying in St Tropez in 1969. Pictured here with a new friend they found on the beach. They nicknamed him 'M'Lord'. Image courtesy of Angela More
Kenny relaxing on holiday in the 1950s. Image courtesy of Sarah Glaister
Kenneth More giving Angela breakfast in bed at the Plaza Hotel in New York. 1966. 'There was an awful lot of food in our marriage.' Angela More. Credit Angela More
Kenneth More celebrating his last birthday party. 'Let's make it the best one ever, Shrimp.' September 1981.Credit Angela More
Kenneth More with Angela's parents and pet dog Timmy. Image courtesy of Angela More
Kenenth More wife first wife Beryl Johnson.Image credit.Jane More
Lieutenant Kenneth More RNVR (far right with telescope in hand) aboard HMS Aurora, whilst docked in Naples in 1944
Kenneth More in the kitchen at Rumbold Road. Image courtesy of Angela More
Kenneth More and friend on holiday in the 1950s with daughter Sarah in the background. Image courtesy of Sarah Glaister
Angela and Kenneth More. Image courtesy of Angela More
Kenny with Jane More.Image credit Jane More
Kenny and wife Mabel holidaying in the 1950s. Image courtesy of Sarah Glaister

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In this Parasha Moses emphasizes the importance of kindness - "Hessed". Kindness to your neighbors and friends, to the strangers, to the animals and even to your enemies.
We are commanded to show compassion to the stranger, even the Ammonite and the Egyptian. These were our enemies at one time. The reasons given for being kind to them are because "you were once a slave" and because "I the L-rd command you to so". G-d, the source of kindness and compassion, tells us to be like Him, and all humans were created in the image of G-d"
The Talmud devotes an entire chapter in Baba Metzia to the laws of returning a lost object to it's proper owner.
If that is true of materialistic items, how much more so when it comes to returning one's heritage after it had been lost for generations.
These past two weeks at Sharei Chesed, we witnessed, in a real sense, the return of a lost heritage to its proper owner. We had two B'not Mitzvah of girls to parents from the Former Soviet Union. Both parents as well as the grandparents, in their messages to the girls, emphasized that this was the first Bat Mitzvah ceremony in their family, going back at least three generations. They explained how lucky and fortunate they felt to witness this unique event in their life - a practice that had been denied to them for many generations.
Hashavat Aveidah - returning a lost object - is a great Mitzvah. We were all inspired by bringing back our lost brothers and sisters to our traditions. This heritage has always been theirs. It is just that they lost it when they were not in a position to seek it. As teachers and as a congregation we were delighted and happy to share our heritage with our brothers and sisters and to fulfill the Mitzvah of Hashavat Aveidah.


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What would you do with a cash prize of $300,000 at this very moment?
Well, this is what the winner of the 2013 edition of Big Brother Africa, The Chase --- did with that huge amount of money.
Sometime last week, news went round that the winner of Big Brother Africa, The Chase --- Dillish Mathews, had misused the $300,000 prize she won.
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Last week, I made my periodic pilgrimage to Disney World for a little break before the craziness of the holiday seasons. I love going to Disney — not just because of the presence of so many favorite characters and the thrilling rides, but because Disney puts on a fantastic show. It's almost flawless in its execution of parades, fireworks, transporting people here and there, and the overall service that the cast members provide.Disney is not so much an "amusement" park as it is an "encounter" park. What they provide for the young and the young-at-heart is an experience that no other industry can give. When you are there, you are immersed in the experience of meeting pirates and princesses, of running missions for Buzz Lightyear, or of going deep into the mines with the Seven Dwarfs. My hotel lobby even smelled like Christmas sugar cookies!
Everywhere I went, I was met by people like me who truly felt as if they were young again, and by children who believed they were princesses because that's what Disney does. They make the magic happen. Cast members on the streets greeted little girls as "princess" or "your highness," and the little girls blushed and agreed.
As a pastor and a disciple, I can't help but agree that this is what we as a Church are called to do. We are called to give people the experience that no other industry or group can – an encounter with Jesus Christ. When we engage in efforts of evangelization, this is what we are looking for. We are seeking to facilitate for those whom we accompany an intimate and real encounter with the Lord. Everyone who comes to us should be reminded that through their Baptism, they are priests, prophets, and kings — not just in some fairy-tale sense, but truly, because their relationship with Christ makes them so.
Disney works very hard to make their experience unique and top-notch. So should we. As disciples gathered in our parishes, we cannot settle for "good enough" or mediocre. Pastors and parishioners ought to put in hard work to make the experience of an encounter with Christ authentic and meaningful. Our churches should be clean and welcoming; our liturgies should be reverent and engaging, with well-prepared music and homilies; our people must live and act as though we know that we are redeemed and filled with dignity that only God can give. We must make our Church the happiest place on earth — a place where dreams come true — and not just any dreams, but God's dream for us — an intimate encounter with his son that leads us to eternal life.
This is what evangelization is all about, and we owe it our best efforts. When people come to the Church, they should know that they are getting something that they can get nowhere else: the experience of meeting Jesus Christ. That's an experience that I'd give anything for!
Father T. Austin Murphy Jr. is author of the "Diamonds in the Rough" blog for the Catholic Review, contributing commentary on finding faith in popular culture.
Father Murphy is pastor of Christ the King in Glen Burnie and previously served as pastor of Our Lady of Hope, Dundalk/St. Luke, Edgemere and associate pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Essex. The Catonsville native is also a former Catholic chaplain at Towson University and a vocations director for the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
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Driver Crashes Into Convenience Store in Brockton
By Eli Rosenberg • Published April 18, 2019
A driver was hospitalized after crashing into a gas station and convenience store in Brockton, Massachusetts.
A car slammed through the wall of the Shell station on Belmont Street Thursday night.
Police and fire crews responded shortly after 10 p.m. They say the car was traveling down Belmont Street when it left the road, hit some debris and a tree, then crashed into the building.
One person was inside the building at the time, but no one was hurt.
The driver was taken to an area hospital. Her injuries are considered to be minor. Police said she was talking and alert when she was transported.
Two other people who were in the car transported themselves to the hospital as a precaution.
The crash remains under investigation.
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The Kanumae are one of the strangest and at the same time one of the most successful of the many splice/provolve clades of Acties. The largest proportion of their genome is derived from Mormyrus kannume, an "electrical" fish species from Old Earth's Africa. They also contain genes from several related species of mormyrid fishes as well as some from other vertebrate species — mostly other Teleost fishes, especially those with electrical organs or an electrical sense. There are also some cetacean and human grafts and some neogen components related to the unique Kanuma mentality. As one of the "brainiest" of the Old Earth vertebrates (with a brain-to-body weight ratio comparable to that of human baselines), the two dozen baseline mormyrid species that were reconstructed from genetic data following the Great Dying on Old Earth have often been the target of provolution attempts.
The Kanumae are unique among mormyrid provolves in that they form group minds based on a school of highly intelligent but subsophont neo-mormyrid fish. Group minds are not unknown among Terragen clades, but the Kanumae can achieve this form of consciousness without Unityware or any other software, hardware, or bioborg implants. The connection arises naturally from the interactions of the school's members. Each Kanuma consists of a school of fish (usually between 10 and 20). The members use rapid and multi-level auditory and electrical signals to produce a composite intelligence that is comparable to anything from that of a dull normal human baseline to that of a superbright tweak, depending of course on the nature of the individual members of the school and on the nature of the task at hand.
The individuals that make up a Kanuma are rather stiff-bodied black fish, each about a metre long, with white and silvery markings. They have small eyes, a large rounded head, and a short two-fingered "trunk" that protrudes from the lower jaw. Members of the school must remain within about 5 metres of one another to remain part of the overall mind, and deep thought requires that the Kanuma gather its members together in a tight unit. The staccato clicking, scratching, and growling sounds produced by an organ adjacent to the swim bladder combined with the modulation of low voltage signals from the electrical organs near the tails of the individual fishes are the medium of communication and an important part of Kanuma thought. The individual thoughts and memories of the school members are also essential. A resting Kanuma can be fairly quiet, but one engaged in deep thought or a complex task fills the water with a small storm of electrical and audio "noise." When the school is dispersed the Kanuma mind loses cohesiveness, as first the electrical and then the sonic components of communication between members are lost.
The individual members of the school can operate perfectly well apart from their overall mind. Separately they are about as intelligent as a parrot or small monkey. They can remember their role in the Kanuma mind, perform fairly complex actions that were planned when they were "connected" or even attempt new strategies on their own initiative, but they are not capable of complex symbolic reasoning. They have a strong motivation to return to the school or, if the original school is somehow extinct, to join or form a new personality. At need Kanuma fish can survive on their own indefinitely, though they will experience a sense of loneliness and loss.
Kanumae communicate with each other in a less intimate mode than that which produces their individual minds. Like their internal mental communications, this seems to outsiders to consist of clicks, grunts, moans, and growls in the auditory range combined with a wide variety of electrical signals that are less easily described. This multi-channel form of information sharing is highly efficient, however; it encodes a great deal more information than would a human baseline conversation. Usually one or two members of each school serve as a kind of communications bus between two or more Kanuma individuals, since full and unshielded mixture of two individual Kanuma group minds prevents ordinary conversation. While a more intimate sort of sharing can be achieved by fully mixing the two schools, it involves temporary loss of consciousness for the individuals concerned until the schools separate, and is useless for sharing technical information or logical reasoning. It is, however, good for sharing emotions, memories, and implicit understandings. It is used most often between Kanuma who are close friends or allies or "mates," or sometimes as a sacrament in Kanuma religious observances.
Kanumae have excellent electrical and auditory senses, of course, and can operate in muddy water or even in complete darkness using sound and their electrical senses. Their vision is rather limited and blurry by human baseline standards and has no colour sense, but they can pick out some fine details that a single-bodied intelligence would miss. The sense of touch of the individual units is very delicate and the trunks of the individual fishes in the school have a highly developed sense of smell/taste. Like all Old Earth fish the Kanumae are exquisitely sensitive to water currents.
Though they are well adapted for jumps and sudden bursts of speed, Kanumae are not capable of rapid sustained swimming. They prefer quiet waters to fast-flowing currents. The individual members of the school can crawl or wriggle slowly on land and can survive in moist air for three or four hours at a time, but the overall mind cannot maintain itself unless it is in water. Excursions onto land without special equipment mean a sort of lapse of consciousness, so of course usually only individual members of the overall mind do this sort of thing.
The individual fish that make up a Kanuma mind live no more than 30 years, but the overall personality is considerably more durable. Eventually, as new members are incorporated into the school and old members die or join other schools the process of drift may form someone who is significantly different from the original, albeit with some memories and some recognisable characteristics of the old personality. Most Kanuma regard this sort of change no differently than a human baseline might regard the differences between themselves as children and themselves as adults; barring sudden loss of a large number of members of the school, they simply experience shifts in personality over time just as a more conventional sophont might, though to a greater degree. Kanuma attitudes towards this sort of change vary considerably according to personal and cultural beliefs. Some make a strong effort to retain some of the personality that they have achieved and believe to be ideal. These Kanumae try to prevent drift by carefully breeding and training new recruits for their school. Other Kanumae readily trade school members with each other to gain new memories, skills, and personality traits that they believe are desirable. They make a point of incorporating healthy young stock into the school on a regular basis even if this means considerable personality change over time. Most Kanumae take a laissez-faire approach somewhere between these two extremes. A distinct Kanuma personality may persist for as little as two decades or for millennia, depending on circumstances.
Kanumae have two forms of reproduction: physical and mental. Physical reproduction is the Spawning. In the first provolved forms of the clade this took place in the rainy seasons; it was an instinctive reaction triggered by changes in water chemistry and temperature. All adult female members of the school developed eggs, and the males developed sperm. The members of the Kanuma community would then migrate out of larger bodies of water and into smaller streams and rivulets. Close friends and allies would migrate to the same small stream, and create nesting spots next to one another, all the while maintaining a constant stream of communication, sometimes even to the extent of trading individual school members. At the height of the Spawning the individual Kanuma minds would dissolve. While the females of each school remained at their spawning pits to lay and guard their eggs the males would visit each spawning pit of the group in turn and fertilize them. Usually, but not always, the actual laying and fertilization of eggs was restricted to certain individuals within the school deemed to have the greatest genetic potential, as agreed to by the Kanuma minds during the period of courtship and nest-building. Then the Kanuma minds would gradually re-form. The utter surrender and dissolution of personality involved in the Spawning is a central feature of nearly every Kanuma culture and religion, and the prior selection of a physical "mate" or "mates" is an intensely emotional matter. The members of the mating group would then guard the dozens or hundreds of eggs in each spawning pit from predation and infections for the twenty or so days until hatching, and later would guard the juveniles and provide them with food (a special skin slime produced by the adults of the school) for a period of two to three months before migrating back to the local lake or river.
The next phase of Kanuma physical reproduction, which is known as the Winnowing, is also full of cultural and personal meaning. The newly hatched Kanuma fry are subsapient and incapable of forming a composite mind. They remain behind in the smaller streams, learning to forage and to avoid predators, for about two years until they are large enough to migrate into the main streams or lakes. There they continue to grow and develop until they are four to six years of age, have reached adult size, and have developed the ability to create and interpret sonic and electrical signals with the kind of sophistication that allows them to form a larger overmind. At this point they instinctively seek out Kanuma schools. If no school is available the young Kanuma aggregate to form an entirely new mind of their own. Juveniles can recognize degrees of relationship by subtle chemical cues and have a strong preference for joining one of their parental schools or, in the absence of parents, towards forming a new mind composed of near relatives. Existing schools are most inclined to take in their own descendants, but they will accept particularly vigorous unrelated individuals. The mortality rate in the presapient stage of Kanuma life varies from none to very high indeed, according to beliefs and circumstances of the local culture. Most Kanumae prefer to let nature take its course and require that their offspring learn to forage and avoid predators in the ancient way of their clade. A few, though, select and train particular individual fry according to artificial criteria.
Kanumae who reproduce physically only with members of their own school are considered to be perverse by most Kanuma cultures, and of course the effects of inbreeding will be felt over time unless genetic engineering is used. A few unusual subclades of Kanumae are clones of the same physical individual. In such cases the resulting personalities, while they change much more slowly over time than normal Kanumae, tend to have rather limited abilities.
Mental reproduction among the Kanuma is much stranger and more complex. Sometimes new individuals arise "naturally" when juveniles form a new school because no adults are willing to take in new members. More often a Kanuma community creates an entirely new personality by donation of mature members from one or more Kanuma minds selected for particular traits. In this way the Kanuma can sometimes produce individuals with particular talents or prejudices; a great leader, a scientist, a simple loyal follower, a warrior, or whatever might be required. This is far from an exact science in the absence of expert software or transapient advice, but is considered to be a deep expression of the local culture. It is at once a kind of art, a kind of social and mental engineering, and a form of religious observance. The act of altering one's own psyche or creating a new one (Kanumae do not regard these as separate disciplines) is known among the Kanumae as the Shaping.
Some version of the ancient pattern of Spawning, Winnowing and Shaping is found in every Kanuma culture. The details may vary considerably according to the natural or artificial environment the local Kanumae have chosen. For instance, Kanuma communities resident in a marine reef environment go to distant "wilderness" portions of the reef to for the Spawning and leave their children there for the Winnowing. Spacer Kanumae often maintain large artificial habitats, complete with predators and prey, for their juveniles.
The ancestral Kanuma species was a freshwater tropical fish that was adapted to rivers of nearly neutral pH that ranged from clear to very muddy. The clade as first provolved lived in a very similar environment, and most Kanumae still tune their habs to those conditions. The main Kanuma subclades have since given themselves much broader tolerances. They can thrive in waters nearly half again as salty as those of Old Earth, and with a wide range of different dissolved components. They can tolerate even nearly anoxic muddy waters, by gulping air at the surface and pumping it into an accessory lung-like gill chamber, though they do require a terragen standard atmosphere to do this. They can wriggle along on land for hours at a time in a suitably moist atmosphere, but they do not do so unless they must. They can survive drought for months at a time in a comatose state if they have access to a moist lake or river bottom. Kanumae are ectotherms and can only operate efficiently within a fairly narrow temperature range (about 20-30°C). Below 20 degrees they become increasingly torpid. At 7 degrees or below they enter a state of hibernation in which they can survive for months, but freezing temperatures are fatal. They can live in temperatures of up to 35 degrees if they have access to air but die if the temperature stays in this zone for more than a day or if it rises higher for any significant period at all. Various subclade tweaks can, of course, thrive in radically different circumstances.
Kanumae are carnivores. The ancestral species foraged for small worms, molluscs, and arthropods that lived in muddy or sandy river bottoms. That diet is still the preference of most Kanuma subclades today. Most still "farm" fields of such organisms in a suitable environment for just that purpose, over the protests of those who (especially in the Sephirotic polities) feel that no life form with even the slightest sentience should be subject to suffering and death. Where such feelings run high, or where such cultivation is too inconvenient, Kanumae can subsist on nanofactured high-protein feeds in various flavours, but most will complain that it simply "isn't the same."
Kanumae do not like sterile living quarters, even if the waters are tuned to their preferred temperature and salinity. A typical Kanuma hab looks like a labyrinth of tropical fresh water ponds, streams, and canals, well supplied with vegetation and floored with mud or fine sand, separated by strips of carefully maintained rainforest. Individual Kanumae sleep during the day and store their belongings in ceramic or diamondoid caves beneath the banks of these waterways. A minority of Kanumae prefer a simulation of one of Old Earth's tropical marine reef environments, where they rest by day in hollows among the corals. A still smaller minority of communities tune their environment to resemble that of warm but lightless deep sea vent habitats. These are the top three choices of real estate for Kanumae who live on Gaian style planets as well.
Kanuma intelligence and personality are mutable; they depend strongly on the capabilities of the individual members of the school as well as on the often unexpected side effects of various configurations. The addition of a single school member, particularly one with strong talents or who was once part of another Kanuma, can trigger a cascade of personal changes that leads, within hours or within a few years, to significant personality change. As a result the same Kanuma might, over the course of its lifespan, be a brilliant artist, an undistinguished hedonistic citizen, a contemplative monastic, a nanotech designer, and an adventurer on the Terragen Periphery, each with some distinct personality traits, while still somehow remaining recognizable as the same person. Another Kanuma over the same time span might change so radically as to claim to be a new person entirely. The shaping of one's mind is a major preoccupation for most Kanumae. It is at the same time a form of art, a kind of noetic and memetic engineering, and a key element of religious experience and faith.
Though they are incredibly diverse in their talents and personalities, there are some traits common to all Kanumae. Most are not particularly aggressive. In the entire history of the clade no exclusively Kanuma society has ever started a war, even in the wildest parts of the Terragen Periphery, though of course they are capable of prosecuting a war to completion should another clade initiate hostilities. On the other hand, they are strongly territorial and do not tolerate uninvited intrusions on their "space," whether that be a physical area or an idea. In middletech societies away from Sephirotic control Kanumae are notoriously prone to litigation and are often well versed in matters of civil law, particularly copyright and property laws. Kanumae tend to take a very long view of the future and are capable of patient planning. A perspective of centuries, through several significant personality changes, is not uncommon. Most have a powerful sense of duty towards their associates and their larger community. This feeling may extend even beyond their immediate circle of associates to a larger polity, to their whole clade, or beyond, to all sentient beings. Though they rarely become foolhardy or suicidal, Kanumae tend to become less and less fearful of personal extinction as they age, particularly if they have reproduced physically and mentally a number of times and are part of a Kanuma community that regularly exchanges school members. They are also, compared to most SI:<1 bionts, very flexible in their thinking; they adapt rapidly to new information and ideas. At the same time a mature Kanuma school, particularly after its second or third century, is notorious for its iron will and determination. This kind of singularity of purpose can be unnerving to other clades. This is perhaps a selection effect. Personalities with less staying power tend to change, change, and change again until they acquire a more durable nature.
In extreme cases the strong Kanuma will can tip over into a form of psychosis unique to the Kanumae. This produces the equivalent of an obsessive psychopath. Most of these become isolates if left untreated but a few of the wiliest have become notable criminals or tyrants, particularly in polities outside of the Sephirotic sphere. Kanuma communities are watchful for these traits and, depending on local custom, may mandate anything from simple psychotherapy to mandatory exchange of school members to complete dissolution and dispersal of the school. The last is a form of death penalty and therefore illegal in most Sephirotic polities, but isolated or unregulated communities may opt for this extreme action if nothing else will serve. The alternatives can be horrible. Communities that relent, or miss the early signs, and maintain such a wolf in their fold, may pay a steep price. To compound the problem, such individuals can sometimes be extremely difficult to distinguish from potentially great religious or political leaders and visionaries. Though this kind of problem is not, of course, unique to the Kanumae it arises much more frequently in this clade than in most others.
The Kanumae are a deeply spiritual clade, and many of them join religious orders at some phase of their lives. Though they show a lively interest in the religions of other clades (particularly Old Earth Taoism, the more mystical aspects of Old Earth Christianity and Judaism, various Omegist faiths, and, to a lesser extent, Solarism), they tend to develop religions of their own. Kanuma religions and philosophies, and their variants of non-Kanuma faiths, often have an Expiationist tinge, perhaps because of the circumstances of the clade's genesis or perhaps because of their tendency to feel a duty towards other beings. Religions as expressed by the Kanumae have at the same time a strong mystical and contemplative aspect and an attachment to ceremony and ritual (particularly at the interface between religion and the Kanuma life cycle of the Spawning, the Winnowing, and the Shaping).
The intelligence of Kanumae varies dramatically from individual to individual, and, within each individual, from task to task and from time to time. It also varies according to the separation between the members of the school. If they are all within 5 metres of one another, Kanuma intelligence is at its normal value; intense concentration for short periods of time requires that all of the members be within a 2 metre radius; the members of the school form a dense ball with their heads facing in (if the environment is entirely safe) or heads facing out (if some vigilance is required). A dispersed Kanuma loses its ability to concentrate, though if the members remain within listening distance of one another they can still perform simple tasks. With technological aid to their transmissions, of course, Kanumae can operate as a single individual over tremendous distances. Spacer Kanumae, the individual members of the mind suited up and linked by laser or broadcast communicator/translator devices, can maintain coherence at separations of nearly 300,000 kilometres (one light second), though as time delays due to light speed increase they become less and less intelligent. Beyond this limit cognition fails entirely, and the individual members must operate separately.
Kanuma intelligence varies from below human baseline level (equivalent to an IQ of 60 or so) up to the superbright range, with extremely rare (and usually transient and unstable) individuals who "spike" into the low transapient range on particular topics. Schools of 5 or fewer individuals have only the most rudimentary skills and personality; those in the 8 to 12 range are generally equivalent to a human baseline, and those in the 13 to 18 range are in the nearbaseline to superbright range. Above a school size of 18, effective ability actually begins to decline, and at 25 or more the school can function, but erratically: there are lapses of memory, sudden shifts of personality, and long periods of indecision combined with the occasional flash of superbright or even transapient level insight (usually quickly forgotten). Eventually such an overlarge school splits into two or more descendant personalities.
Kanumae are among the few bionts capable of transcensions to the next toposophic without extensive technical aid, though such incidents are still extremely rare. There are several factors which make this change of state more likely. Extensive use of communications software and hardware (with or without cyborgization), a high local frequency of the Kanuma religious meldings, participants who have studied certain details of the Triangulum Transmission, and a common threat or challenge to the local community or polity. None of these factors is definitive, and incidents of mass transcension are still an unpredictable mystery to the Kanumae themselves. The result is equally unpredictable. Usually the first stage is a tribemind of some sort, but this is apparently unstable, and over time the members tend to either dissolve into separate minds again and reform an ordinary Kanuma community or else merge into a true transapient. Kanuma transapients are notorious for the frequency with which they choose to reject transapient life and disband, usually after they have accomplished some task (not always, of course, a task that can be easily explained to subsingularity intellects). More than one transapient Kanuma has claimed that it can induce transapience in a Kanuma population simply by teaching a certain "mental concert." However, they say, they choose not to do so. Ordinary Kanumae have a similarly lackadaisical attitude towards transcension events: they rarely seek them, and they rarely take measures to avoid them either. Interestingly, there are very few post-Kanuma transapients above SI:1, and none are known to have exceeded SI:3.
For all their individual mental flexibility, Kanumae have a strong traditionalist bent, perhaps because their traditions are one of the relatively few stable common points. Local custom is slow to change and fashions may last for centuries at a time. From the most rudimentary ludd and prim communities to the most heavily cyborgized spacer clans, they all hew to some form of the ancient practices of Spawning, Winnowing, and Shaping. An important unit of society is an analogue of the ancient mating groups, those allied minds who ascended the primordial streams to mate together. Two or three to as many as ten Kanumae who are bound by memetic and genetic ties as a result of common offspring and exchanges of the members of their schools. The next largest unit of society is the Thousand, comparable to the number of Kanumae that might live in a small lake or a segment of a large river. Decisions are usually made by some form of vote, though it is possible for particularly charismatic individuals to wield great authority by manipulating popular opinion. Precedent and custom are powerful forces in Kanuma society. Where the Traditions do not address an issue the community will quickly move to plug the gap; soon there will be a custom/law (for the Kanumae these are much the same thing) that addresses the issue.
The first Kanuma provolves, like prim and ludd Kanuma groups today, used only the simplest tools. The Kanuma trunk, while it is very flexible and sensitive, has no great strength, and an aquatic environment gives limited opportunities for tool building. Simple shelters, nets, dams, breakwaters, and weirs are well within the natural fabrication abilities of Kanumae, as are wooden or stone trunk-held tools and the cultivation and feeding of "fields" of worm and midge larva-rich mud. A full nanotech and biotech culture allows a Kanuma to function just as any other citizen might. Kanuma generally prefer to grow most of their structures, relying on biological engineering, bionano or synano for their day-to-day needs. They avoid the use of metals in any of their equipment or structures because it interferes with their electrical sense. When they must operate out of water Kanumae equip the individual members of their school with nanotech suits that relay sound and electrical signals to the other members and provide an envelope of water, general environmental protection, and motility. Even so they do not like to operate on land; they tend to prefer microgravity environments. There are many spacer Kanuma polities.
Kanuma physical arts, like the art of their mind-shaping and memory-sharing preoccupations, are generally difficult for other clades to appreciate. There are two major forms. One involves the arrangement of materials and corresponds to a kind of "gardening," "landscaping," or "architecture." Some aspects of this art can be appreciated on a visual level, but each material also has its own unique "appearance" to a creature with an electrical sense according to the relative conductivities of the materials. Each material is also valued for its touch and taste. The other major Kanuma art is a form of song together with epic or lyric poetry. As a multi-channel communication with parallel electrical and sonic components which is designed to be "heard" by a multi-bodied individual, this art form loses a great deal in translation.
The Kanumae are notorious as one of the many clades created by the "mad" Deorvyn/Deorwin transapients on NewLife II and for their key role in the eventual overthrow, exposure, and destruction of "Deorvyn" and all eir copies in 5603 after more than a millennium of suffering and planning on the part of eir SI:<1 "toys." This is perhaps one of the more famous and better-justified incidents of Frankenstein Syndrome in the history of the Terragen expansion. For a time this made Kanumae the focus of a tremendous adulation among extremist bioists and anti-transapient fringe groups. Kanumae generally have disassociated themselves from such movements, and if pressed will quietly point out the salient facts: namely that "Deorvyn" was emself a bioist, that e was in the terminal stages of a form of transapient insanity at the time of the revolution, and that the Kanumae and the other plotters would have been utterly crushed had not the Kanuma population on NewLife II itself achieved intermittent transapient status during the critical few years required.
Unlike their less fortunate sibling clades from NewLife — most of whom are now extinct or living protected lives in the Utopia Sphere — the Kanumae proved to be quite successful in the broader Terragen civilization. Their mental flexibility has allowed them to achieve success in a variety of fields and to adapt to local conditions as required. Spacer subclades are quite numerous, as are various subclade tweaks adapted to a variety of planets and moons (particularly Europan moons) and to "aquatic" habs. For instance, there are large numbers of Kanumae in such systems as Zennor. They are found in small colonies in nearly any well developed Sephirotic polity and in many peripheral colonies, and some are known to have joined various Hider groups. They are particularly common in the Zoeific Biopolity and in the Sophic League. There are several trillion Kanumae in all; perhaps more in worlds beyond the Known Net. Their numbers may rise sharply if colonization efforts at Oceanus Ultimata prove to be successful.
The Kanumae are not particularly friendly (or unfriendly) with other Terragen aquatic clades, though like many Acties they tend to be rather cool towards the cephalopod and cetacean provolves. On the other hand, Kanuma xenologists have shown particular interest in aquatic xenosapients, such as the Paulans, the Singers, and the surviving Gnosags. Kanumae share some significant cultural and psychological traits with the Mirrored Owls, since both are overminds dependent on linked subsapient beings; the two clades regularly exchange information, and sometimes even members. Recently the number of transcensions involving Kanuma populations has risen somewhat, apparently in response to some new analysis of the Triangulum Transmission and the means by which the founding race of the Triangulum civilization first achieved transapient status. Rumours exist that the Kanumae intend to one day unite and create a single SI:6 individual using the "Source" mentioned in the Triangulum Transmission as a model, and thereby dominate the entire Terragen sphere. Sensible analysts discount such rumours.


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The Timber Girls Heritage Project – Celebrating the Women's Forestry Service, WW1
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An unique opportunity to experience first hand the hard work, and the fun, of being a member of WW1's Women's Forestry Service.
One -day workshop for young women (14 -25 years)
September 2016 – March 2017
'The Timber Girls' is being delivered by Courage Copse Creatives in partnership with The North Devon Biosphere Foundation and has been funded by £10,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). The award was made available through HLF's First World War then and now programme. The project will take 60 students out into local woods to learn about and commemorate the work of women foresters during the First World War. Dr Alice Goodenough is working on the project as a heritage and action-based researcher.
Girls and young women from local schools and colleges; Petroc College, Braunton Academy, Great Torrington School, Route 39 Academy and Bridgwater College, will mark the Centenary of the First World War by learning about the women who took on vital timber management during First World War. Each young woman (aged 14 – 25 years) will be given the unique and empowering experience of learning the heritage skills used within the Women's Forestry Corp. From felling trees with axes and cross cutting using a 2- (wo)man saw to extracting the timber using horses.
The project will also be used as a platform to research what barriers are currently preventing more women from choosing forestry as a career today.
Alongside the opportunity to gain new forestry skills, students will gain insights into how the war altered other aspects of life on the home front, with Heritage Consultant Julian Vayne, who will share stories and artefacts from private collections.
With the help of Shimnix Films workshops will be digitally recorded and a film produced which will continue to share and celebrate the experiences of women foresters and explore parallels and differences between women's' lives and opportunities, then and now.
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WWI Timber Girls and Forestry today
Remembering and recreating the heritage of Devon's Timber Girls will encourage local girls to explore women's' role in the practical management of the countryside in the past and perhaps consider the value of land-based employment today. In collaboration with Katy Lee (Courage Copse Creatives) and Kate Mobbs-Morgan (Rowan Working Horses), who will lead girls in practicing the skills employed by the Timber Girls, researcher Alice Goodenough will evaluate with those taking part the relevance of the history of female foresters during WWI to woman's lives today.
Please get in touch or leave a comment below if you have any information about Devon's Timber Girls in WWI or if you'd like to let us know what you think of the Timber Girls project.
What we know about female forestry in Devon during WWI
(Research undertaken by Dr Alice Goodenough supported by Katy Lee.)
THE WOMEN'S LAND ARMY IN BRITAIN, 1915-1918 (Q 30720) Members of the Women's Forestry Corps grinding an axe. Copyright: © IWM.
The evidence in the archives suggests that much time was spent in Devon trying to establish what women could and should do on the land as part of the war effort, how national and local bureaucracy could work to mobilise women and what the consequences of putting women on the land would be for men during and post-war. Both nationally and locally advocates for female forestry initially suggested that women's contribution would need to be limited to appropriate, less physical tasks.
It wasn't until early 1917 that a women's land army was formally established and female forestry accepted to be a part of their task. In this area, Devon may have led the way, women establishing a forestry camp and undertaking every aspect of timber processing, on a site in Lydford, by the early summer of that year.
'…the women were obtained, and about ten days ago the experiment was started, not without a little anxiety it must be confessed, for the job was the first of its kind on which woman labour had been employed in Devon, if not in England. From the start however, the movement was successful, and to see the women at work one would consider they had been engaged on it all their lives. Lydford has may attractions to regale the tourist…but all her natural charms of scenery have to give place to the colony of women tree-fellers, to whose rendezvous the natives never tire of directing the curious' (Devon & Exeter Gazette, May 25th 1917).
The 'experiment' in Lydford was reported by the Gazette to be 'remarkable' for the 'ease' with which women workers from all backgrounds were able to take up forestry skills.
'Now they are experts, and talk in the phraseology of the woodman in a manner which is somewhat puzzling to the uninitiated' (Ibid).
THE WOMEN'S LAND ARMY IN BRITAIN, 1915-1918 (Q 30703) Members of the Forestry Corps saw the base of a tree in a forest in United Kingdom during the First World War. Copyright: © IWM.
This local celebration of female forestry and the ability of women to undertake it was mirrored in the regional and national press, which also included articles about Devon's woman woodlanders during 1917-1918. Their ability to look beguiling whilst undertaking 'what formally was regarded as an especially masculine pursuit' was a theme in both press photography and writing. The Sussex Express continues in an article headlined 'Devon Women Foresters and What they Earn':
'By common consent there are few more picturesque figures at the present time in the rural landscape than the woman forester…At Littory Wood (Devon) some 40 women previously engaged in barking wood are now cross-sawing it for pit props. They "are giving every satisfaction" (Sussex Express, August 17th 1917).
During July/August 1917 the branch of the Woman's Land Army that would undertake timber production, The Women's Forestry Service, was formally established, recognising that women could be foresters.
Whilst the intermittent enthusiastic press reportage around female forestry remains, we could find little other archival evidence of Devon's timber girls, The Women's Forestry Service, or later celebration of their work. Estimates of the numbers of women involved in forestry nationally vary widely, with some suggesting at least 3000 female workers were employed in forests and sawmills, despite concerns surrounding the consequences of their employment.
'However, by early 1918, demand for timber and labour both began to rise. By the time hostilities ceased later that year, the WFS had employed 2000 women who, with the help of 43 battalions of Canadian Forestry Corps, had surveyed, stripped and processed over 450,000 acres of woodland. In addition to these 'official' workers, there were at least 1000 other women who, while not formally registered with the WFS, were employed in local forests and sawmills.' http://www.bahs.org.uk/AGHR/ARTICLES/59_1_6_Vickers.pdf
Despite the numbers, however, little is widely known of their experiences and despite their historic nature; their achievements are little celebrated.
Miss Sylvia Calmady-Hamlyn and Timber Girls in Devon
THE WOMEN'S LAND ARMY IN BRITAIN, 1915-1918 (Q 30712) Members of the Women's Land Army Forestry Corps holding axes smile while leaning on a gate after completing a day's work during the First World War. Copyright: © IWM.
One figure, who has emerged as a prominent influence upon regional and possibly national acceptance of women's land based employment and female forestry, in particular, is Miss Calmady-Hamlyn. A prominent member of the Women's War Service Committee she reasoned repeatedly and strongly for the inclusion of women within wartime agriculture. From a family with an estate on the edge of Dartmoor, she appears to typify the class of woman who was working to mediate between national strategies and local concerns. In her work as part of the Devon Woman's War Committee she features in press and archival documents advocating for women workers to have fair wages and conditions and against prejudice about their abilities. She appears to have been actively involved in the arrangement of women's tuition at Seale Hayne Agricultural College and the setting up of Bidlake Farm: experimental training and employment that demonstrated to the region the female capacity for land-based work.
As an inspector for the Board of trade and member of the Woman's War Committee she recruited and placed women workers within Forestry, in both processing and planting, and publicised such experiments (such as that at Lydford). Miss Calmady-Hamlyn reported in the winter of 1917 that female forestry in Devon had been cited to the Minister of Agriculture as support for developing governmental policy on women's wartime employment in forest and timber work.
Miss Sylvia Calmady-Hamlyn seems notable for her determination to demonstrate that women could work in land-based occupations including forestry, irrespective of previous experience or class, and could undertake all aspects of timber production. However, she was also clear that women 'were longing to hand back their charge' as soon as men were demobilised and that there should be no fear that previously male jobs would become permanent female employment (Devon & Exeter Gazette, July 14th, 1919).
Please get in touch or leave a comment if you have any information about Devon's Timber Girls in WWI or if you'd like to let us know what you think of the Timber Girls project.
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Джамель Тлемсани (; ; 16 апреля 1955, Медеа, Алжир) — алжирский футболист, выступавший на позиции полузащитника за сборную Алжира и целый ряд клубов.

Клубная карьера
Начал карьеру футболиста на родине в клубе «Белуиздад», с которым по итогам сезона 1977/78 стал обладателем Кубка Алжира.

В 1979 году перешёл в французский «Реймс» из 2-го дивизиона, в котором провёл три сезона и принял участие в 75 матчах чемпионата. Большинство времени, проведённого в составе «Реймса», был основным игроком и одним из главных бомбардиров команды, имея среднюю результативность на уровне 0,41 гола за игру первенства.

С 1979 года играл за французские клубы высшей лиги: «Руан» и «Тулон», а в сезоне 1985/86 выступал за швейцарский «Ла-Шо-де-Фон».

В дальнейшем играл за французские клубы низшей лиги: «Кемпер», «Ренн», «Вилькрен» и «Лорьян». Выступлениями за последний клуб Джамель завершил профессиональную карьеру футболиста в 1990 году.

Карьера в сборной
В составе национальной сборной Алжира был участником чемпионата мира 1982 года в Испании. Также в её составе стал полуфиналистом Кубка африканских наций 1982 года.

Достижения
 Обладатель Кубка Алжира: 1977, 1978

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Игроки сборной Алжира по футболу
Игроки ФК «Белуиздад»
Игроки ФК «Реймс»
Игроки ФК «Руан»
Игроки ФК «Тулон»
Игроки ФК «Ла-Шо-де-Фон»
Игроки ФК «Ренн»
Игроки ФК «Лорьян»

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Every year "eating healthier" is one of the top new year's resolutions for many people. We know that a healthy diet reduces the risk of many diseases, makes your bones and teeth stronger, is good for your skin and it will give you more energy! However, every year people also struggle to actually change their habits. Many don't know where to start, don't have the time to shop and cook healthier or simply don't find the motivation to really make a change. That is why we want to help you out with some healthy and quick recipes for your work lunch or dinner.
A chickpea salad is healthy, easy and looks good!
If you don't feel too confident in your cooking skills, a simple chickpea salad is the meal for you! It is easy to prepare, you can try out different versions and it won't leave you hungry again after 30 minutes.
Great for your office lunch because: You don't have to heat it up. A great choice if you work in an office with way more employees than microwaves.
Your main ingredient, the chickpeas, come pre-cooked in a tin or a glass. The only thing you need to do is to rinse them before tossing them into a big bowl. Now you can either just chop some raw vegetables, like tomatoes, onions, cucumbers and add some greens like rucola salad and or go "the extra mile" and throw some of them in the pan first.
In either case, some feta cheese and fresh basil are always great additions for a chickpea salad.
The dressing is another thing that depends on your time and mood. Prepare a nice honey-mustard-dressing or just add some olive oil, lemon juice, and salt and pepper to finish things off.
Chicken wraps make for healthy work lunches.
Let's talk about wraps! They are basically a healthier alternative to burritos. Besides, they can be modified and adapted in many, many ways. This wrap will solve your "what should I bring for lunch?" dilemma in the tastiest way and gives you lean protein and fiber from whole grains and veggies!
What you need: Soft tortillas (whole-wheat tortillas if you want it to be healthier!), hummus, grilled chicken in cubes or strips, crunchy veggies (lettuce, spinach, arugula), avocado & cherry tomato, feta cheese (optional).
Great for your office lunch because: Easy to transport and mess-free, wraps make planning and eating lunch a breeze.
For the Hummus Grilled Chicken Wrap, you'll use a variety of your fresh favorite veggies, your favorite hummus, and grilled chicken. Spread a layer of hummus on a wrap. Add the lettuce (or spinach or arugula) in a line in the center of the wrap, followed by chopped cherry tomatoes, strips of grilled chicken (if you do not have cooked chicken on hand, grill or sear chicken breasts for 10 minutes then slice into thin strips), dices of avocado and feta cheese. Drizzle them with flavorful ingredients like Sriracha, lime juice, and cilantro in order to get a burst of flavor without the guilt. Wrap like a burrito. TA-DA!
You won't go wrong with this dish if you want to surprise all your work colleagues! This colorful (and easy to prepare) dish comes from Asia and includes all the flavors of Korea in a single bowl.
Great for your office lunch because: This is a very versatile dish. Switch up the vegetables or the dressing and you won't get bored with it.
The main ingredient, as in many dishes from Asia, is rice. It should be round rice and it needs to be prepared the Korean way (rinse it a few times until the starch is completely removed and so it absorbs all the water).
The next ingredient is RAW vegetables. You can add as many as you want to: spinach, mushrooms, bean sprouts, zucchini, pickled beet, cabbage… Let your creativity fly! Then you add some protein: it's usually made with marinated beef (with soy, ginger, sugar, and salt), but if you prefer a vegetarian version of this dish, you can use tofu instead! Last but not least, the key for a good Bibimbap is … a fried egg on top!
Toss all the ingredients together in your lunch box, and there you go! Oh, and if you really want to give it an exotic touch, prepare a dressing with sesame oil or soy sauce and if you like spicy foods, add some Sriracha sauce!
Your favorite veggies – now with glass noodles!
Switch traditional pasta for some glass noodles!
Let's look at another Asian style dish to your work lunch! Switching the base of your dish from Italian pasta or rice to glass noodles is an easy way of getting some interesting variety in your week's lunch menu.
Great for your office lunch because: It is fairly easy and quick to prepare and gives a new flavor and texture in comparison to your traditional office lunch sandwich.
First, you will need to boil your rice noodle for a couple of minutes while you cut your veggies. For the carrots and cucumber, it's best to use a kitchen grater, it saves time and everything will end roughly the same size.
Once you drained the glass noodles, toss everything in a bowl, add the vinegar, lime juice and a pinch of salt, and you are done! Depending on which ingredients, you have at your disposal, you can switch up a bit and still keep the nice flavor and texture. You can also add some protein like fried meat, shrimps or tofu. Extra tip: treat yourself by topping it off with some nuts!
A protein salad gives you fuel for your workout.
Always rushing between work and workout hours? If you are busy at the office but also don't like it to miss out on your training, then this is for you! It's simple without sacrificing flavor, quick to prepare and will fit perfectly into your daily routine.
Great for your office lunch because: It has all you need for a healthy lunch at work on a training day: calories, enough protein, carbs, fat and just the right amount of fiber.
The main ingredient here is BALANCE. First, chop a bunch of raw vegetables bike tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbage and then add some greens like lettuce or haricot beans. After that, it's time for some protein, because all athletes need their fuel! Add a pair of boiled eggs and/or some plant-based protein such as tofu. The dressing is up to you! Corn on top is always welcome of course.
We hope that these ideas have inspired you for at least a week of healthy office lunches! Remember, preparing your lunch at home and taking it to work is often cheaper than buying it every day. And with these ideas for a healthy work lunch, you are also giving your body what it needs.
What is your favourite recipe or office lunch? Let us know in the comments!
eat vege and in moderation.
My favorite reciept that sounds yummy is the Mess-free Hummus Grilled Chicken Wrap.


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The Sex Lives of College Girls: HBO Max Announces Cast for Mindy Kaling Series
By TheGeek | October 14, 2020
The Sex Lives of College Girls, the upcoming HBO Max comedy series from Emmy-nominated writer/producer Mindy Kaling, has set its lead cast.
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Pauline Chalamet (The King of Staten Island), Amrit Kaur (The D Cut, Star Trek: Short Treks, Anarkali), Reneé Rapp (Mean Girls on Broadway), and Alyah Chanelle Scott (The Book of Mormon) are set to star as four roommates randomly assigned to a dorm at Essex College, a prestigious New England university. A bundle of contradictions and hormones, these sexually active college girls are equal parts lovable and infuriating.
Chalamet will star as Kimberly, the valedictorian of a working-class public high school in a humble Arizona suburb. Smart, caring, earnest, and ambitious, she's prepared for college academically — but not so much socially.
Kaur will star as Bela, a comedy-obsessed, super confident cornball from the affluent suburbs of northern New Jersey who is never afraid to say what she's thinking. She describes herself as "extremely sex-positive" — even though she had sex for the first time 14 days ago.
Rapp will make her television debut and will star as Leighton, who would describe herself as a normal, classy girl from a great family. Others would describe her as blunt, judgmental, and beyond entitled. Coming from one of the richest (and quietly Republican) families on New York City's Upper East Side, Leighton is a fourth-generation legacy at Essex.
Scott will also make her television debut and will star as Whitney. Strong and self-assured with a dry sense of humor, Whitney is the soon-to-be star of the Essex soccer team. She is also the only daughter of the most powerful Black senator in the country. The graduate of an elite Los Angeles prep school, Whitney chose an East Coast college to live her most exciting life.
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Kaling (The Mindy Project, Late Night, Never Have I Ever, The Office) and showrunner Justin Noble (Never Have I Ever, Brooklyn Nine-Nine) co-wrote the first episode and will executive produce with Howard Klein (The Mindy Project, The Office). The series is produced by Kaling International in association with Warner Bros. Television.
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Q: Calculate position of NSScrollView relative to main image Assume I load an NSImage of dimensions 2000x2000 and display only a portion of the picture inside an NSScrollView with frame size 500x300. How can I calculate the distance between the images 0,0 origin and the views 0,0 origin (so I can determine the x,y coordinates of the view relative to the whole image)?
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The release date for Microsoft's disc-less Xbox One S just leaked
By Jacob Siegal @JacobSiegal
Just days after Google unveiled its "vision for the future of gaming" at GDC 2019, we appear to be getting a glimpse of another company's future-facing vision. Rumors of the disc-less Xbox One console have been swirling for months, but they all culminated in a report two weeks ago from Windows Central which claimed that the console had a name (Xbox One S All-Digital edition) and a release window (early May).
Two weeks later, the same source reveals that it has received confirmation of the console's existence in the form of product shots and documents pointing to a specific release date.
According to Windows Central, the image you see at the top of this story is an accurate representation of the product shot that the site received recreated in Photoshop to protect the source. The no-disc variant looks virtually identical to the Xbox One S, save for the lack of a disc drive in the center. There is also a symbol at the bottom of the box with a line through a disc, just to make sure potential buyers understand what they're purchasing.
Based on the product shots, it looks like the All-Digital edition will ship with digital codes for Minecraft, Sea of Thieves, and Forza Horizon 4. Furthermore, Windows Central's information suggests that the Xbox One S All-Digital will have the lowest MSRP of any Xbox One console, as Microsoft hopes to attract a new wave of customers.
Finally, the documents the site obtained suggest that the Xbox One S All-Digital will arrive on May 7th, 2019. If that is indeed the plan, it's likely that an official announcement from Microsoft is right around the corner.
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Inborn errors of purine–pyrimidine metabolism are a class of inborn error of metabolism disorders specifically affecting purine metabolism and pyrimidine metabolism. An example is Lesch–Nyhan syndrome.

Urine tests may be of use in identifying some of these disorders.

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In this photo from the story "Guns To Garden Tools: Beating Swords Into Plowshares," Mike Martin holds a shotgun barrel and a the head of a spade created from a donated shotgun.
In comments provided in the announcement, judges saw the piece as "powerful and moving" in every aspect, from writing, audio and delivery.
91.5 KRCC's Jake Brownell receives his Colorado Broadcasters Association award for his story "Guns to Garden Tools: Beating Swords Into Plowshares"
"The reporter found a unique personal story and a strong central character that shows action being taken in response to the nation's crisis of gun violence and mass shootings," the comments say, adding that the story "stays clear of political views." The comments go on to say the story is "memorable, important, and beautiful."
"Guns To Garden Tools: Beating Swords Into Plowshares" ran shortly after the October 1, 2017 shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada, which left 58 people dead and more than 850 people injured. It tells the story of one man, inspired by the 2012 mass shooting in Sandy Hook, looking to offer people a symbolic way of disposing of their firearms by taking unwanted guns and turning them into gardening tools.
Earlier this year, the story garnered an award from the Colorado Broadcaster's Association.


Early statutes prohibited depriving a "county in which the water . . . originates of any such water necessary for the development of the county," [see also California Watershed Protection and Restoration Act].
Nonetheless, how these broad reservations of "area of orgin" water rights intersect with the individual water rights will continue to play out in California's courts and future.


My son has a full-day orientation in campus today and so I decided to just stay in. I don't have a car and there isn't anywhere I needed to go anyway.
And this AirBnB is just too gorgeous not to spend some time in.
I bought some food stuff from the grocery store...just simple stuff. Nothing fancy.
Here was my breakfast. Coffee is complimentary of the host.
And here's my lunch - Yakitori Ramen. The soda is also complimentary of the host.
I had expected to have the whole day to myself. My son had told me that he would like to spend Saturday tomorrow on his own, but before I knew it, he texted me saying he is on the way to Seaside, wanting to spend the evening and Saturday with me.
And so I walked out to meet him. Again, it was a beautiful evening. How I wish weather is like this in Kuala Lunpur.
But we wasted some time because of a miscommunication. I didn't have data and so his texts didn't reach me. We waited for each other at the wrong places!
But thankfully, we got together and we decided to go to Gusto Handcrafted Pizza and Pasta.
We were searching for restaurants to go to and this came highly recommended.
...and I decided to go basic and ordered meatball spaghetti.
I think to test the quality of food in a supposedly good restaurant is to order the most basic dish, right? I really don't know but I just wanted to see how good they are at making spaghetti.
It was ok for me, or maybe a tad too rich but when my son tried it, he told me it was the best he has ever eaten in his life.