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White House occupant Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of a perfectly good nuclear agreement with Iran — an agreement Iran was honoring — and followed that up with intense economic pressure and military threats. So naturally Iran started to push back, though the almost-always-lying Trump administration is surely exaggerating the extent of that.
This reminded me of a number of scenarios in literature where a character is unfairly provoked to the point of she or he retaliating. Sometimes the retaliation is effective (providing readers with satisfying wish fulfillment); other times the retaliating party suffers (which frustrates readers even as that suffering scenario can often be more realistic).
One of the most famous provoked-to-retaliate novels is Billy Budd, in which the popular-among-his-fellow-sailors protagonist is badgered by the envious, nasty John Claggart. After Claggart falsely accuses Herman Melville's kindly title character of trying to incite mutiny, a shocked Billy strikes John with no premeditation and accidentally kills him. But we don't get a happy ending after that. (A photo from the Billy Budd movie is above.)
In modern fiction, we have Lisbeth Salander of Stieg Larsson's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Wrongly declared legally incompetent as a child, her appointed guardian Nils Bjurman sexually abuses her. Eventually, Lisbeth ruthlessly revenges herself on the sadistic Bjurman without killing him but in a way that deservedly ruins his life.
Sometimes in literature, abusive or otherwise despicable men ARE justly killed. That's the case with the Karamazov father in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and Ruth's husband Frank Bennett in Fannie Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. (If you feel it's weird to put those two novels in the same sentence, Flagg's sprawling book is quite deep amid its entertaining aspects.)
Perhaps the greatest revenge novel of all is Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo, in which a false accusation puts young Edmond Dantes into a remote island prison for many years. After escaping, he dedicates his life to some epic payback.
Then there's Stephen King's Gerald's Game, in which Jessie Burlingame is treated shabbily by her husband before and during a sexual game he wants to play more than she does. Jessie, partly spurred by subconscious memories of also being abused by her father, kicks Gerald away and inadvertently gives him a fatal heart attack. The ensuing problem? Jessie is handcuffed to the bed, now alone in a remote lakeside house.
And various scenarios in various Jack Reacher novels have Jack minding his own business before being surrounded by a group of bad guys who feel they greatly outnumber Lee Child's protagonist enough to give him a pounding. Reacher, who almost always welcomes the challenge, invariably wins convincingly.
Your favorite novels that fit this topic?
One final note: Iran is hardly an exemplary democracy, but neither is the U.S. under Trump and his cynical enablers in the Republican-controlled Senate, right-wing media, conservative corporate circles, and right-wing religious circles.
My literary-trivia book is described and can be purchased here: Fascinating Facts About Famous Fiction Authors and the Greatest Novels of All Time.
In addition to this weekly blog, I write the award-winning "Montclairvoyant" topical-humor column for Baristanet.com. The latest weekly piece — which discusses a middle-school controversy and an endangered 1890s mansion — is here.
Tagged authors, books, Donald Trump, Donald Trump and Iran, fiction, Iran, literature, novels, provocation in literature
Donald Trump Meets Jack Reacher
Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump's disastrous time in the White House. Also, I finished reading Lee Child's latest Jack Reacher novel last week. The Trump-Reacher connection? There is no connection. But I'm going to make a connection. "Fake news" and all that.
First my brief review of 2017's The Midnight Line, Child's 22nd Reacher novel. (I've read 20 of them, and will eventually get to the two I missed! As Jack says, "Good to go.")
The Midnight Line has some of the visceral action Reacher fans love — various villains get battered by Jack in innovatively choreographed ways. But this book also features a more mature, reflective Reacher — the big guy is now 57, after all — and there are poignant passages amid the page-turning excitement. Plus plenty of social commentary about America's drug scourge and grievously wounded veterans — with the roaming Reacher getting a firsthand look at both problems while trying to locate a woman whose West Point ring he finds in a Wisconsin pawn shop. Last but not least, Child's writing is as lean and impressive as ever, and includes the usual touches of humor.
My "fake news" connection between Jack (a good-hearted man of integrity) and Trump (a heartless man of no integrity)? I'm going to seriocomically discuss America's Predator-in-Chief using the titles of all 22 Reacher novels. As I do that, I'll keep in mind that Trump has boasted about sexually assaulting women, called majority-black countries "shitholes," made life hell for immigrants, pushed awful tax "reform" that benefits only the ultra-rich, tried to yank away health care from millions, removed environmental protections, and more.
Killing Floor: Trump's words and actions are so low there's no floor to them. He killed the floor.
Die Trying: What happened to the woman in Charlottesville, Virginia, who bravely tried to counter Neo-Nazis the white-supremacist Trump would then praise.
Tripwire: What might keep Trump's hair in place when he exits Air Force One after flying on a windy day.
Running Blind: If the didn't-protect-his-eyes Trump had looked longer at last year's major eclipse, this book title would have described his reelection effort in 2020.
Echo Burning: Sort of like Eco Burning — Trump has hurt the U.S. ecology in many ways.
Without Fail: The almost-always-wrong Trump never admits he's almost always wrong.
Persuader: Trump has expertly persuaded everyone he's a jerk.
The Enemy: Today's GOP — including Trump, Paul Ryan, and other cruel far-right Republicans.
One Shot: All the out-of-shape Trump would manage to heave up on a basketball court.
The Hard Way: Democrats trying to win elections despite Republican voter suppression, gerrymandering, big corporate money, and biased right-wing media.
Bad Luck and Trouble: Nicknames for Trump's two adult sons.
Nothing to Lose: Trump figured that was the case when claiming bone spurs to avoid the Vietnam War draft, even though he was healthy enough back then to play intense sports. His scam worked.
Gone Tomorrow: We wish. But then there would be Mike Pence. 😦
61 Hours: How long it takes Trump to read a paragraph.
Worth Dying For: No war that Trump might start with his reckless words.
The Affair: Not just one adulterous relationship for Trump while he has been married.
A Wanted Man: How law enforcement should label the corrupt Trump.
Never Go Back: The current White House occupant cowardly avoids visiting his posh Trump Tower home in New York City, where he's loathed.
Personal: Trump takes criticism very personally.
Make Me: What Trump told his father, who bankrolled his not-self-made son's real-estate career.
Night School: The incurious/ignorant Trump could use some schooling any time of the day.
The Midnight Line: Any repugnant sentence Trump spews out on Twitter when most of us are asleep.
Conclusion: Reacher would know what to do with someone like Trump.
I'm sure you could come up with other ways to discuss Trump via those Lee Child titles! Try if you'd like! 🙂
My 2017 literary-trivia book is described and can be purchased here: Fascinating Facts About Famous Fiction Authors and the Greatest Novels of All Time.
In addition to this weekly blog, I write the award-winning "Montclairvoyant" topical-humor column for Baristanet.com. The latest weekly piece — about the complicity of my town's Republicans re the vile Trump — is here.
Tagged authors, books, Donald Trump, fiction, Jack Reacher, Lee Child, literature, novels, The Midnight Line
Russian Fiction Is Much Better Than Trump's Diction
With the corrupt Trump administration's ties to Russia all over the news, I'd like to offer a different Russia-related topic this week: Russian literature.
Which includes an amazing array of dark/compelling/unforgettable fiction, particularly in the 19th century. Even Trump would be impressed reading Crime and Punishment — as long as Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel was shortened to a one-paragraph memo.
Crime and Punishment is my favorite Russian novel, and one of my favorites from any country. Riveting, feverish, psychological (it was said to have influenced Sigmund Freud). The high points of The Brothers Karamazov may be even better, but there are some slog-through pages and chapters that the never-a-dull-moment Crime and Punishment doesn't suffer from. Dostoyevsky reportedly planned to make The Brothers Karamazov the first of a trilogy, but death intervened.
There are several other Dostoyevsky works well worth discussing, so please have at it in the comments section! But now I'll turn to Leo Tolstoy, whose War and Peace and Anna Karenina are as famous as novels can be. I was impressed with those two classics (though I'm more a fan of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov) as well as with several of Tolstoy's magnificent short stories, some almost novella length. "The Kreutzer Sonata," "The Death of Ivan Ilyich," "Master and Man" — wow!
Speaking of short stories, you can't go wrong with Tolstoy's pal Anton Chekhov. A pioneering writer of tales that are more character-oriented and human-emotion-focused than plot-oriented, plus Chekhov of course was also a master playwright.
Earlier-in-the-19th-century Russian authors can also knock your socks off (though I wouldn't advise that during a Moscow or St. Petersburg winter). Alexander Pushkin's The Captain's Daughter novel is a great read, as is Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls novel and his "The Overcoat" short story. Dostoyevsky contemporary Ivan Turgenev wrote a really good novel, too, with Fathers and Sons.
Moving near/into the 20th century (experienced by the 1910-deceased Tolstoy for a decade), we have socialist-realist writers such as Maxim Gorky and Nikolai Ostrovsky. The latter's How the Steel Was Tempered (a novel I purchased during a 1980s trip to Russia) is quite gripping for a while before getting a bit tedious.
Then there was Boris Pasternak, whose Doctor Zhivago novel drew the ire of Soviet officials despite it being somewhat nuanced about socialism; and the dissident writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who was adept at both fiction and nonfiction (and the subject of this "Mother Russia" song by Renaissance). I'm not fond of the way Solzhenitsyn's politics turned very right-wing, but he did go through imprisonment hell.
Renaissance has a lead female singer and a female lyricist, but Russian literature (unlike fiction from a number of other nations) has been dominated by men. Unfortunately, lots of patriarchy, machismo, and sexism in that country — which might be one reason why Trump is so attracted to Putin and Russia's oligarchs.
Russia's history of authoritarianism and oppression certainly has had an effect on its writers, as has that country's politics, poverty, income inequality, geographic size, high rate of alcoholism, aforementioned machismo, and huge war casualties — including the carnage resulting from Napoleon's and Hitler's invasions. But the most famous Russian writers would most likely be literary geniuses no matter where they had lived.
Obviously I've left some writers out, so please fill in some of those blanks in your comments. Who are your favorite Russian authors, either ones I mentioned or didn't mention?
In addition to this weekly blog, I write the award-winning "Montclairvoyant" topical-humor column for Baristanet.com, which covers Montclair, N.J., and nearby towns. The latest weekly column — set in the year 4034 AD! — is here.
Tagged Alexander Pushkin, Anna Karenina, Anton Chekhov, authors, books, Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago, Donald Trump, fiction, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, literature, Maxim Gorky, Mother Russia, Nikolai Gogol, novels, Renaissance, Russian literature, Russian novels, short stories, The Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace
Do the Republicans Trashing Your Health Care Also Root for Literature's Villains?
Most fiction readers root for the characters who are nice and admirable, not the villains. But after America's far-right Republicans voted May 4 for a Trumpcare bill that would heartlessly yank medical insurance from millions of non-rich citizens, I'm thinking the majority of those soulless GOP scoundrels might identify with literature's "bad guys." So…
— When Donald Trump, Paul Ryan, etc., read Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, they love them some Mr. Brocklehurst — the wealthy "religious" hypocrite who cruelly allows Jane and the other girls at the Lowood institution to freeze, be badly fed, and more. Some of the girls die as a result, as would many Americans "thanks" to Trumpcare.
— Many far-right Republicans perusing John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath would undoubtedly cheer when a thug murders compassionate fighter against injustice Jim Casy — whose sharing of initials with the humane (not the GOP version of) Jesus Christ is no coincidence.
— A good number of GOP ghouls are most likely thrilled when brutal slave-owner Simon Legree viciously abuses the brave/kindly Tom in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
— In George Eliot's Silas Marner, William Dane frames the sympathetic title character and steals his fiancee — making Dane a hero to many a far-right Republican.
— Nathan Price of Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible is a sexist and racist missionary, earning him the undying love of countless reactionary GOPers — including various Christian-evangelical leaders.
— The despicable, patriarchal men ruling the roost in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale? Thousands of Republican ultraconservatives want to party with them.
— In Emile Zola's The Ladies' Delight, department store owner Octave Mouret is a ruthless capitalist who drives mom-and-pop shops out of business — a Walmart approach that sends numerous right-wing Republicans into ecstasy. But Mouret does have a bit of humanity, so that's troublesome to the Paul Ryan crowd.
— The far-right GOP also has mixed feelings about Samad Iqbal. That character in Zadie Smith's White Teeth is obnoxious, overbearing, sexist, and not as smart as he thinks — all catnip for Trump and his ilk. But Samad is Muslim, which mostly disqualifies him from Republican admiration.
— The husband of the title character in Stephen King's Rose Madder is a policeman who's a racist and a wife abuser — two qualities very endearing to Trump and other lowlife GOP leaders.
— Erich Maria Remarque's Spark of Life? Many far-right Republicans may feel a kinship to that novel's Nazi concentration-camp guards. (And Trumpcare's motto should be the second half of the title of Remarque's A Time to Love and a Time to Die.)
— Finally, pathological right-wingers pull for Lord Voldemort in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. Role model!
Of course, who knows how much literature America's reactionary GOP bigwigs actually read? Maybe the occasional Ayn Rand novel…
Any novels you'd like to mention featuring villains far-right Republicans would adore?
Tagged authors, books, Donald Trump, fiction, heartless Republicans, literature, medical insurance, novels, Paul Ryan, Trumpcare
Fictional Religious Hypocrites Seem All Too Real These Days
Religious hypocrisy is on my mind at a time when many Christian evangelicals support Donald Trump despite America's so-called president being an immoral person who has no compassion, cheated on his wives, sexually assaulted women, is racist to the core, is endlessly greedy, is a blatant liar, is pathologically narcissistic, and more. Anything to get their right-wing agenda enacted, I suppose.
Literature includes many hypocrites resembling those evangelicals and the many "religious" Republican politicians who espouse "values" (ha ha). I'll discuss some of those fictional characters today.
For instance, Benjamin Blake's Ireland-set A Death in Summer, which I read recently, includes a priest character who runs an institution for troubled boys. Despite his pious exterior, he is well aware that the institution's rich benefactor is a vile pedophile taking advantage of those boys.
(I followed Blake's absorbing murder mystery with Alexander Pushkin's 1836 adventure-romance The Captain's Daughter, which depicted little religious hypocrisy but is a great novella containing fluid prose and dialogue that seems more 20th century than 19th century.)
The priest in A Death in Summer reminded me a bit of the faux-religious Mr. Brocklehurst, wealthy "benefactor" of the Lowood institution in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. The girls at Lowood get crummy/inadequate food, little heat in the winter, and are treated in other awful ways — with some dying as a result. St. John Rivers is a more ethical religious figure in Bronte's book, yet is a rather coldhearted man who displays a colonialist mentality in his desire to become a third-world missionary.
Nathan Price of Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible is a missionary in Africa — and that American is as hateful, racist, and sexist as many right-wing evangelicals and Republican politicians are today.
Then there's the unnamed priest in Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory who's on the run from Mexican authorities. Not a totally bad guy, but he's an alcoholic who fathered a child he barely sees. Hardly a religious role model.
The cast of James Baldwin's Go Tell It On the Mountain includes Gabriel Grimes, a mean-spirited minister who also fathered a child out of wedlock and left the mother to fend for herself.
Sinclair Lewis might be best known these days for his It Can't Happen Here novel about a fascist elected U.S. president (sound familiar?). But another of his novels relevant to our times is Elmer Gantry, whose charismatic preacher title character is a hard-drinking, ambitious womanizer.
Friar Tuck of the Robin Hood stories is a jovial figure who loves his food and wine. Maybe not hypocritical, but certainly not as ascetic as one might expect from someone in a religious position.
In the drama realm, we have the supposedly religious title character in Moliere's play Tartuffe. He's actually a two-faced guy who tries to seduce a married woman.
Who are some fictional religious hypocrites you've found memorable?
My new book Fascinating Facts About Famous Fiction Authors and the Greatest Novels of All Time: The Book Lover's Guide to Literary Trivia will be published soon.
But I'm still selling Comic (and Column) Confessional — my often-funny memoir that recalls 25 years of covering and meeting cartoonists such as Charles Schulz ("Peanuts") and Bill Watterson ("Calvin and Hobbes"), columnists such as "Dear Abby" and Ann Landers, and other notables such as Coretta Scott King, Walter Cronkite, and various authors. The book also talks about the malpractice death of my first daughter, my remarriage, and life in Montclair, N.J. — where I write the award-winning weekly "Montclairvoyant" humor column for Baristanet.com. You can email me at dastor@earthlink.net to buy a discounted, inscribed copy of the book, which contains a preface by "Hints" columnist Heloise and back-cover blurbs by people such as "The Far Side" cartoonist Gary Larson.
Tagged authors, books, Christian evangelicals, Donald Trump, fiction, hypocrisy, literature, novels, religion, religious hypocrisy, Republican politicians, Republican-controlled Congress
Guest Literature Post by Donald Trump!
This blog will be different today, because Donald Trump demanded to write a guest piece. I told him he doesn't read literature or know much about it, but he insisted. Anyway, things will go back to normal next week, but until then…herrrrrre's the illegitimate president:
The Donald (me) doesn't read novels, but I do read the backs of cereal boxes. Lots of back story, ya know?
Actually, I know a yuge amount about fiction. Not the literary kind — the "alternative facts" kind.
I can't deal with The Wings of the Dove. Why didn't Henry James write The Wings of the War Hawk? Sad.
The Red Badge of Courage? Stephen Crane — what a loser. Believe me, I showed more courage getting Vietnam War deferments for alleged bone spurs in my heels, even though I played a ton of sports at the time with no problem. They called me The Natural, and Bernard Malamud wasn't referring to my hair. Colored my hair while flat on my back: As I Lay, Dyeing.
Also, I bigly love Theodore Dreiser. Sister Carrie? I'd like to grab her by the [deleted]. Make An American Tragedy Great Again? I'm on it!
You see, I have great respect for women. But was George Eliot transblender or something? George is a guy's name, but that 19th-century scribbler looks female in photos. Lock her up!
"Low Energy Jeb," "Little Marco," "Lyin' Ted," Chris "Agatha" Christie (And Then There Were None: cabinet positions for him). Was Toni Morrison the lead singer of The Doors? Why did Harper Lee surrender to Ulysses Grant? Were the Brontë sisters at the Women's March on Washington? How did Richard Wright co-invent the airplane five years before he was born? I have a Tan, but it's not Amy.
Another George: Orwell. Love, love, love the oppressors in 1984. I even tried doublethink, but I can't think once most of the time. Ask Herman Melania, my wife's ancestor, who wrote about a big white male — that's me! Captain Ahab sounds kind of Muslim, doesn't he?
Speaking of people with that religious belief, I as the 45th president don't want refugees and immigrants coming to America from Muslim countries (unless they're Muslim countries I do business with). Some will die from the horrors they're trying to flee? That's The Art of Me Saying "Big Deal." Call me cruel, call me vicious, call me sadistic, call me anything, but don't call me Slaughterhouse-Forty-Five. Is that a book?
And The Blacks, The Blacks. Why isn't novelist Benjamin Black called Benjamin White? Why doesn't E.B. White use the name E.B. Very White? White Fang rocks. I heard about Zora Neale Hurston's 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God — how were those eyes watching me nine years before I was born?
Flowers for Algernon — thrilling! I mentally mocked the disabled for pages and pages. Can you beat that? Well, maybe when I bring back torture. The Weight of Water author Anita Shreve needs to write a sequel called The Weight of Waterboarding.
And Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel Garcia Marquez will never cross our southern border while I'm racist-in-chief, um, sexual-predator-in-chief, um, commander-in-chief. It helps that those Hispanics are dead. Not much border-crossing mobility there…
Mark my words, I'm going to build a wall — paid for by Mexico (aka American taxpayers). We'll build that big, beautiful fence at The Border — a novel by Cormac McCarthy, whose last name reminds me of my hero Joe McCarthy. Jim Casy of The Grapes of Wrath was a commie, wasn't he? Not the good kind like Putin. I love Russian literature: War and War…Crime and No Punishment for Me… But Anna Karenina? Overrated! Blood coming out of her whatever (after she was hit by a train). And Alexander Solzhenitsyn? I like authors who don't get jailed.
Did I mention I drained the swamp? Just so I could have a dry place to burn books by liberal, pinko writers. Ever read Fahrenheit 451? The same number as my IQ. It's so high! But I didn't really drain the swamp — I made it swampier. My administration is like a dystopian novel come to life. I have no idea what dystopian means, but Kellyanne Conway and Steve Bannon mentioned it one day. I think of them as The Sound and the Fury. Me? Pride and Prejudice.
It Can't Happen Here? It already has.
Well, that was Trump's post. Any quips or comments about him and his tenuous connection to literature?
But I'm still selling Comic (and Column) Confessional — my often-funny memoir that recalls 25 years of covering and meeting cartoonists such as Charles Schulz ("Peanuts") and Bill Watterson ("Calvin and Hobbes"), columnists such as "Dear Abby" and Ann Landers, and other notables such as Coretta Scott King, Walter Cronkite, and various authors. The book also talks about the malpractice death of my first daughter, my remarriage, and life in Montclair, N.J. — where I write the award-winning weekly "Montclairvoyant" humor column for The Montclair Times. You can email me at dastor@earthlink.net to buy a discounted, inscribed copy of the book, which contains a preface by "Hints" columnist Heloise and back-cover blurbs by people such as "The Far Side" cartoonist Gary Larson.
Tagged authors, books, Donald Trump, Donald Trump talks literature, fiction, literature, novels, satire


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Q: Ezpublish create new Mysql database after the old Mysql database got deleted Recently I setup a website on byethost.com using the CMS ezpublish. After a couple days of working on the site, byethost deleted the Mysql database. I still have all the FTP files but I can't log in as an admin because their is not Mysql database with all the users. Is there any way I can create a new Mysql database setup for Ezpublish. All I need currently is an admin account and whatever other information is essential to have for Ezpublish to run. Any response/ideas would be great.

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The Today Show just can't seem to catch a break after the controversial host shake-up which saw most of the team replaced with someone new.
Tony Jones and Tom Steinfort came under fire today when they made crude comments on Tuesday morning surrounding music icon Dolly Parton on a segment discussing the Grammy Awards.
The pair both joked about her breasts which caused the rest of the panel, aside from Georgie Gardener who seemed to be the only one uncomfortable with the jokes, to burst out with laughter.
Brooke Boney, the other female host, seemed to be taken back by the joke at first but in the end, joined in with the laughter.
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At the Nek Cemetery it is difficult to realise that there are 326 men buried here. Where are their graves? Beneath the cross are a few headstones, mostly Special Memorials, memorials to soldiers believed to be buried here. Some of these are to Australian light horsemen and carry the date 7 August 1915, the day these men, along with 234 of their comrades, were killed in action at the Nek. In 1919, Lieutenant Cyril Hughes of the Graves Registration Unit found and buried here the unidentifiable remains of more than 300 Australians, men who had died in an area described by Charles Bean, official historian, as a 'strip the size of three tennis courts'.
These Australian deaths occurred during and shortly after one of the most tragic Australian actions on Gallipoli – the charge at dawn on 7 August 1915 of the 8th and 10th Light Horse Regiments at the Nek. The purpose of the charge was to tie Turkish attention down to this sector as New Zealand troops were supposedly seizing the heights of Chunuk Bair during the great August offensive. This would distract the enemy at the critical moment as the Turks holding the trenches at the Nek realised that Allied soldiers might be coming down the slopes behind them. This did not happen, and the light horsemen rose from their trenches, immediately behind where the cemetery is today, to be met with a hail of bullets. Within three-quarters of an hour three waves of Australians, and part of a fourth, had been cut down, most before they even got near the Turkish lines.
The Nek could be seen crowded with their bodies. At first here and there a man raised his arm to the sky, or tried to drink from his water bottle. But as the sun climbed higher … such movement ceased. Over the whole summit the figures lay still in the quivering sun.
The Nek Cemetery, Anzac, Gallipoli, 2005.


Abstract In a story discussing how easy it was for New York high school students to obtain copies of tests and various answer sheets, the newspaper also published answers to a chemistry achievement test currently in use, thereby denying 80,000 students the chance to take the test. Was it necessary to publish the articles in the paper?
Notes FineLine: The Newsletter On Journalism Ethics, vol. 1, no. 4 (July 1989), p. 3.


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Legislating in an Empty Chamber
By Anthony T. Silberfeld, on May 5, 2020
The outbreak of COVID-19 has changed the habits of ordinary citizens the world over. We don masks and gloves in supermarkets, and follow one-way arrows up and down the aisles in search of that elusive box of pasta. We interact with pixelated versions of our families, friends and colleagues on 14-inch monitors. And we are still workshopping the least awkward alternatives to a handshake. But as we adapt to this "new normal", the US House of Representatives struggles with finding its own procedures that strike the right balance between preserving tradition and responding to the challenges of a global health crisis. Fortunately, the House need not start from scratch. The European Parliament has already set a path for Washington to follow.
Stuck in the Swamp
In 1869, Thomas Edison invented an electronic vote recorder to tally Congress' "yeas" and "nays". Congressmen at the time took one look at the device and ironically deemed it too slow for their liking. In the following century, the House would record its preferences through in-person roll call votes. And in 1970, the House passed a Legislative Reorganization Act, which, among other things, introduced electronic voting to the chamber, reducing the average voting time on legislation from 45 to 15 minutes. It would take three more years to put the infrastructure in place for members to cast their votes by pushing a button, a seismic reform back then.
The House would carry on this way for the rest of the millennium, before being jarred from its routine by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Understanding that they had to begin thinking about continuity in case of disaster, natural or manmade, Congress tasked a group of experts with developing innovative solutions so that the House could conduct business under extraordinary circumstances. After years of studying the issue, the notoriously sclerotic legislative body adopted only one minor recommendation. It reduced the number of members needed for a quorum.
Fast forward to 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic raised new questions about the wisdom of having 435 legislators congregate in the House chamber. Unsure what direction to take, Democrats on the Rules Committee sought new alternatives. A quickly issued report offered three proposals. First, change the unanimous consent rules to require more than one opposing voice to block the legislative process. Second, introduce proxy voting, which would allow members to vote on behalf of absent colleagues, thereby promoting social distancing among the fewer people present. Third, permit remote voting by email or another electronic method.
The debate highlighted chronically high partisanship by pitting pro-remote-voting Democrats against status-quo Republicans. In the end, the House decided to do nothing and offered a wide variety of explanations, from cybersecurity to concerns about the constitutionality of the proposed reforms, for its inaction.
While the House remained mired in the past, the European Parliament ventured forth.
Brussels Breaks the Mold
Looking at the same landscape facing his American counterparts, European Parliament President David Sassoli announced on March 25, 2020, that his legislature "must remain open, because a virus cannot bring down democracy". With that, a process was set in motion to find a way for more than 700 legislators from 27 countries to hold committee meetings, debate legislation and, yes, vote.
It was not a simple process, but the political will existed to get it done. Changing the parliament's Rules of Procedure provided the legal and technical framework for remote voting. Amendments were made to Rule 186 on the right to vote individually and in person, Rule 187 on the use of electronic voting systems, and Rule 192 on technical arrangements for electronic voting.
Executing the changes turned out to be surprisingly straightforward. Members began to participate in plenary sessions via video connection, with each legislator receiving voting documents by email. Members would mark their votes on these forms, sign them, and return a scanned or photographed copy of the document to Brussels. Despite some complaints about PDF formatting and worries that members would get spammed by a never-ending flood of "reply all" emails from colleagues, the European Parliament on March 26, 2020, voted remotely for the first time in its history and passed a legislative package to address the economic impact of COVID-19.
No Black Swan
While the full extent of the virus' human and economic toll remains unclear, one thing is certain: This pandemic will not be the last. But the current crisis offers an opportunity to prepare for the next one. We can identify our institutions' shortcomings and fix them. The European Parliament has taken the lead on that front. It's critical for the US to keep pace.
Anthony T. Silberfeld
Director, Transatlantic Relations
anthony.silberfeld@bfna.org

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Marvel Studios 10th Anniversary Film Festival Coming To IMAX Theaters
By eelyajekiM | @ | August 13th, 2018 at 12:00 pm
This year marks the 10-year anniversary of Marvel Studios, which began with 2008's Iron Man and has since become one of the premiere movie studios, building on its brand of superheroes. And now to commemorate all of that, Marvel Studios will release all 20 of their films in IMAX theaters. This Marvel Studios 10th Anniversary Film Festival will be only for a limited run, with the films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe presented on certain days grouped by theme.
The event was announced via Marvel Entertainment's official YouTube channel; watch that video and check out the screening dates and themes here below.
Topics: Movies, News, Sequels
Tags: Ant-Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War, Black Panther, Captain America: Civil War, Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Iron Man 3, Spider-Man: Homecoming, The Avengers, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Thor: Ragnarok, Thor: The Dark World
Dave Bautista Delivers Ultimatum Over James Gunn 'Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3' Script; Kurt Russell Speaks Up For Fired Director
By eelyajekiM | @ | August 7th, 2018 at 10:00 am
Members of the heroic cast of Guardians of the Galaxy have already signed a letter showing their support for their beloved director James Gunn, who was fired when decade-old disturbing tweets were unearthed by an alt-right movement to discredit the filmmaker. In the days after his firing, the cast members each sent out their sentiments and have gone as far as asking Disney and Marvel to rehire Gunn. While there was a slight glimmer of hope that that could happen, insiders are saying it's not likely that Disney would do it. That being said, GoTG star Dave Bautista continues his crusade of support, and is stopping short of throwing down an ultimatum.
More on the story here below.
Tags: Dave Bautista, Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, James Gunn, Kurt Russell, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Studios, MCU
Holiday Geek Gift Guide 2017: Blu-ray and DVD Edition
By BAADASSSSS! | November 20th, 2017 at 5:16 pm
Ladies and gentlemen, that sainted time of year is once again upon us. Stuffed to the eyeballs with carbohydrate-loaded food, we suck in our guts, put on our finest ensemble of pajama pants and Crocs, and venture out to the nearest mall/shopping center/big box retailer/gas station/roadside flea market to secure gifts for the ones we love. Meanwhile, the ones we tolerate will simply have to suffice with "A Tree Has Been Planted In Your Name" certificates and that fruitcake your grandfather accidentally sat on during Sunday dinner.
As we do every time around this time, Geeks Of Doom has provided for you a comprehensive guide to the finest films and TV series released to DVD and Blu-ray in 2017 (if you're holding out for laserdisc or Betamax editions of these titles, I both pity and respect you) for you and yours to enjoy for generations to come.
Check out this year's Holiday Geek Gift Guide: Blu-ray & DVD Edition…
Topics: Blu-ray, Christmas, DVDs, Features, Gift Guide, Holidays, Movies, Television
Tags: Alien Covenant, Arrival, Assassins Creed, Baby Driver, Cinematic Titanic: The Complete Collection, Dawn of the Dead, Doctor Strange, DVD, DVDs, Free Fire, Get Out, gift guide, Gift Guides, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Heat, Hidden Figures, Holiday Geek Gift Guide, Holiday Gift Guide, John Wick: Chapter 2, Justice League Dark, King Kong, Kong: Skull Island, Land of the Dead, Logan, Power Rangers, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Slaughter High, Spider-Man: Homecoming, The Dark Tower, The Founder, The Lego Batman Movie, Titanic, Transformers: The Last Knight, War For The Planet Of The Apes, Wonder Woman
Ranking The 17 Best and Worst Films Of The Marvel Cinematic Universe
By eelyajekiM | @ | November 2nd, 2017 at 9:00 pm
Marvel will be releasing Thor: Ragnarok this coming weekend. It's the 17th film they've released as a part of their ongoing successful Marvel Cinematic Universe. Not all of Marvel Studios' films are built the same, but they are a part of the larger universe that they are building. Each one of them serving its purpose that is leading towards a much bigger picture. So with each and every new installment comes its praises and criticisms.
While it is easy to say that every new Marvel Studios film is better than the last, the truth is some are not. So let's revisit our list by ranking all 17 Marvel Cinematic Universe films and seeing where Thor: Ragnarok places.
Topics: Features, Movies
Tags: Ant-Man, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Captain America: The First Avenger, Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Iron Man 3, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, MCU, Spider-Man: Homecoming, The Avengers, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Thor: Ragnarok, Thor: The Dark World
Top 10 Movies Of 2017 … So Far – Baadasssss' Picks
By BAADASSSSS! | October 12th, 2017 at 5:00 pm
So far, 2017 has been yet another interesting year at the movies – plenty of record-smashing blockbusters, even more embarrassing flops and failed franchise starters, and some unique indies that always tend to fly under the radar. We still have a few more months to go and lots more to watch, both on the big screen, the small screen, and the even smaller screens of our desktops and laptops. The ride has yet to begin, I fear.
Submitted for your approval, here are the top 10 best films I've seen to date this year. I still have many more to catch up, so good thing I have several streaming options that are really worth the money.
Tags: Baby Driver, Best Of 2017, Free Fire, Get Out, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, John Wick: Chapter 2, Kong: Skull Island, Logan, The Lego Batman Movie, War For The Planet Of The Apes, Wonder Woman


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Etihad plans major expansion
Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways is planning to largely expand its flight network worldwide in 2014 as it pursues a strategy to create more joint ventures with major global carriers, the company's chief executive officer said.
James Hogan said a new joint venture is launched by the state-owned firm Etihad Airways, which he described as the company's latest ground-breaking venture.
He said Etihad Regional is a new carrier operated by Switzerland's Darwin Airline and opens up an "exciting world of opportunity and flexibility for our guests".
Writing in the company's Etihadinflight monthly magazine, he said that the venture currently offers flights to 15 destinations in Europe but added that by the middle of this year that figure will rise to 34.
"We are building a strong regional airline that will link European cities and provincial centres, as well as connect to the broader and rapidly expanding global network of Etihad Airways through seven European gateways of Amsterdam, Belgrade, Düsseldorf, Geneva, Paris, Rome (from July), and Zurich (from June)."
Hogan said the Etihad Regional network would also connect with the company's equity alliance partner Airberlin in Berlin, Düsseldorf, and Zurich, providing onward connectivity to destinations in Europe and North America.
"Our strategically important relationship with Airberlin continues to go from strength to strength. We recently launched a joint advertising campaign and unveiled a jointly branded Airbus A320 aircraft to symbolise our close and harmonious ties with the German airline, which became the first member of the Etihad Airways equity alliance in December 2011 when we purchased a 29 per cent stake," he said.
"Our joint worldwide network -- currently 228 destinations in 84 countries – will be further bolstered with new destinations in India, Korea and Australia."
In addition, the 42 weekly flights that Airberlin and Etihad Airways operate between Germany and Abu Dhabi will increase to 49 weekly flights when a second daily Munich flight commences this month, he added.
He said this month also saw the launch of daily Etihad Airways flights to Medina – one of eight new routes scheduled for 2014—and that daily flights to Jaipur will begin in April, followed by daily flights to Los Angeles and Zurich in June.
He said Etihad would also begin four new weekly flights to Yerevan and daily flights to Rome and Perth in July while in December it will start three weekly flights to Dallas.
On the subject of US flights, he said services between Abu Dhabi and NewYork will double with the introduction of a second daily service from March 1.
The new flights will initially be operated by Etihad Airways, using aircraft leased from its fellow equity alliance partner Jet Airways, in which Etihad holds a 24 per cent stake. Then, from May 1. Jet Airways will operate the flights, Hogan said, adding that the new Abu Dhabi – New York flight has been scheduled to connect with Etihad Airways and Jet Airways evening services arriving from four key Indian cities – Mumbai, Delhi, Cochin and Chennai.
He said flights arriving from New York will also connect from Abu Dhabi to these cities while the second New York service will also substantially increase connections available via Abu Dhabi with more than 30 destinations that include not only India but the Middle East, Central and South East Asia, Africa and island nations in the Indian Ocean region.


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Q: Unity TinCan missing an assembly reference So I'm using the following lib for .NET TinCan integration
TinCan .NET
Now I want to create a Unity3d package that can connect to my LRS.
So what I did was use NuGet to install the package:

However my Unity console throws the following error:

Assets/UnityTinCan/TinCanController.cs(4,7): error CS0246: The type or
  namespace name `TinCan' could not be found. Are you missing an
  assembly reference?

The file in question is the following:
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using TinCan;
namespace UnityTinCan
{
    public class TinCanController
    {
        public RemoteLRS LRS = new RemoteLRS(
            LRSConfig.host,
            LRSConfig.username,
            LRSConfig.password
        );
    }
}

However, my IDE is not throwing any errors.
Can anyone tell me whats going on?


Sinoe County's only major health center, the F. J. Grant Memorial Hospital, is sadly in a deplorable condition and dirty even as its staff strives to provide daily medical treatment to over 400 out-patients.
A tour of the hospital by this newspaper found the hospital's roof leaking profusely, the floor tiles shattered and the bathrooms disgusting with rusty tubs and toilet facilities.
The F.J. Memorial Hospital, constructed and dedicated in 1959 and named in memory of a famous traditional herbalist – Francis Johnson Grant, still has its original dull and stink paint.
The hospital isn't fenced, which puts the privacy and safety of the hospital and its patients at risk. Staff told our reporter that the lack of fencing leaves the hospital vulnerable to thieves.
Electricity and water are also serious challenges to the hospital, which is supplied with only 17 hours of current from an old and unreliable generator. Staff have to fetch water from a faraway well to provide water to the hospital.
Nurses pointed out to our reporter that there are no screens at the windows and doors and this inarguably poses a serious health hazard to in-patients who are continuously exposed to mosquitoes, other harmful insects and rodents. There are also no fans in any of the wards for males, females and children nor are there any fans at the nurses' station.
There is always a shortage of detergents and disinfectants including soap, owing to insufficient supplies.
There are also no air conditioning in the pharmacy, maternity ward and doctors' offices. Only the Emergency Room (ER) has an air-conditioner.
The Medical Director of the F. J. Grant Memorial Hospital, Dr. Joseph Gayflor, said the deplorable condition of the hospital puts the entire facility at risk of collapse. In such a situation, it is difficult to maintain and recruit staff owing to the unfavorable working environment.
Dr. Gayflor said the 56-year-old hospital needs a thorough renovation to last for another decade. He admitted that since his appointment in June 2014, he has been constantly pleading for renovation because of the deplorable and unhealthy state of the hospital, but to no avail.
Speaking to our reporter on Saturday after the tour of the hospital, Dr. Gayflor said President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is aware of the current bad state of F. J. Grant Memorial because during a recent visit, she was given a briefing on the problems at the hospital.
He said UNOPS – the United Nations Organization of Special Projects – has assessed the hospital and he and the staff are still awaiting the commencement of the renovation.
Besides the unsafe situation of the facility for patients and health workers, Dr. Gayflor said the hospital lacks essential drugs, diagnostic equipment including X-ray, blood chemistry and typhoid regents for laboratory tests, among others.
"We are desperately and completely out of everything – the building is damaged; there are no essential drugs and regents for laboratory tests – we are simply on the verge of just being closed if the government and partners do not come to our rescue," Dr. Gayflor said.
The County Health Officer (CHO), Dr. Wilmot Frank, could not be reached, but a staff at his office who begged to remain anonymous said the condition of the F.J. Grant Hospital is sad and wished that citizens of the county who are working in the private and public sectors as well as Sinoeans in the Diaspora would do something to galvanize support to renovate the hospital and provide the essential drugs and equipment.
Meanwhile, there are doubts among citizens and staff as well as the management of F. J. Grant that its renovation would take place prior to the July 26 festive celebrations in the county.
They said with 33 days to the 168th independence celebration there is still no sign of the renovation starting and if there should be a renovation, the repair of the entire hospital could not be completed before July 26.


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Summary: From the mind of Aaron Sorkin, creator of The West Wing and screenwriter of The Social Network and Moneyball, comes The Newsroom, a behind-the-scenes look at the people who make a nightly cable-news program.
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There's no doubt that one of the most well-known Portland People to star on TV and in films is Katee Sackhoff.
Born in 1980 in Portland Oregon, Katee knew early on in life that her goal was to be an actress after she starred in his first film Fifteen and Pregnant in 1998.
Since the late 1990's she's made regular appearances on television shows like Nip Tuck and the Big Bang Theory but her most well-known roles have been in new the Battlestar Galactica series and Longmire.
Both shows couldn't be more different than each other since she plays a fighter pilot on the revamped Battlestar Galactica and a Wyoming Deputy in Longmire but she's excellent in both roles and has been responsible for both shows developing huge fan bases.
In a recent interview with the Guardian Katee Sackhoff, one of the most well-known Portland People, sat down to talk about her life and how she got started in acting.
When I was 16, I told my parents I wanted to move to Los Angeles and become an actor. The fact that they wholeheartedly supported me brought us closer together. My father gave me some great advice – he said I needed to figure out what made me different from all the girls who looked exactly like me in California. He said if you can't figure out what makes you special, you will never get a job. I graduated from high school and then drove down to LA in a rental van with my mom.
I chose a very untraditional route in life compared with the rest of my family. Most women in my family get married and have children, but I did a very different thing. My grandmother was almost 90 when she died, and my life was very different from the one she lived or potentially understood. When she was in hospice care, we were all saying goodbye and when I went in, she gave me this really big hug … and told me she was proud of me. The memory of that still makes me cry.
My mom taught me that I could do anything I wanted to. She has been on sets with me since I was 16 and she still comes to visit me on set. She flies to wherever I am. She can take the boredom: she's used to it – she will sit and read a book. Whereas, if I brought my sister she would be deadly bored after five minutes.
In my family, you don't shy away from controversy and you tell each other the truth. As the wine starts to flow, our conversations get a lot more interesting. There is nothing that is off the table. Our significant others have learned that you either keep your mouth shut or you just get in there.
Over the last 10 years, as she's made a name for herself co-starring in high profile projects like Battlestar Galactica and Riddick, Katee Sackhoff has also made giving back to others less fortunate a priority in her life and she even started a charity of her own called the Acting Outlaws.
Where did the name Acting Outlaws come from?
KATEE SACKHOFF: Actually, Mark Derwin came up with the name. He was on The Secret Life of the American Teenager, which is now finished [shooting]. He's Tricia Helfer's husband's best friend. She's known Mark for 15 years, and we all ride motorcycles together. It just was something where we were trying to figure out a gang name because we wanted to start a motorcycle club, so our motorcycle club name was the Acting Outlaws Motorcycle Club. We were the AOMC. So, when we were trying to come up with a name for the company, it made sense to steal the name from the motorcycle club because the motorcycle club consists of seven people, two of which are our significant others. We actually really wanted to have a motorcycle club, and then we realized how much work it was. You actually have to take your name and your patch to the organizations of motorcycle clubs and get it approved. You sit there with the Hell's Angels, and all these big, bad motorcycle guys, and you're like, "We're a bunch of actors who want to call ourselves the Acting Outlaws Motorcycle Club. Is that okay?" So, we opted to not actually be a motorcycle club, even though we still call ourselves a gang.
Although Katee lives in Los Angeles, she still keeps close ties to the Portland area and likes to come back to reconnect with her family, friends, or fans to promote her upcoming film and television projects.
Since her work on the revamped 1980's classic Battlestar Galactica, Portland People alum Katee Sackhoff continues to co-star in Longmire, the Netflix produced show about Walt Longmire, a Wyoming sheriff who solves crimes in small town America while dealing with corruption, vice and dangerous characters.
Written by Craig Johnson, the books were a huge success in their own right until the show first premiered on A&E but after just 3 seasons the network decided to cancel Longmire and Netflix quickly picked the option to produce the show.
As of 2017 Longmire is still in production but there's rumors that season 6 will be the last.
Known for her quirky sense of humor, Katie keeps the Longmire cast laughing on a daily basis in between takes.
Sackhoff said her "Longmire" character is the closest to her own personality, although that may have more to do with the mental state of past characters. "She's the only person I've played who isn't crazy, which is so sad," Sackhoff said, laughing.
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2018 is almost a wrap – and what a year it's been for Feel the Magic®!
None of this would be possible without our tireless volunteers and contributors whose efforts are changing the lives of grieving Australian children every day. This year, we would also like to make special mention of our talk time leaders, mentors and families. We could not begin to do what we do without everyone's commitment and dedication. They support the campers, the volunteer mentors and the entire Feel the Magic® community.
We wish everyone a safe and happy Christmas and New Year, with a bigger and brighter 2019 ahead!
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