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Election Night
For this writer, Saturday Night Live's stature as the comedic mouthpiece of the left has slowly dissolved from a reliable barrel of hilarity (viewings tend to elicit a veritable quest for a hearty laugh) into a mere auscultation of the proverbial pulse of the country. Each topical performance follows the trends and currents of where our nation has placed itself, good in the sense that it solidifies an understanding of the culture; bad in the sense of validating through publicity just how insipid that exhausted culture has become. The episode following the election featured the sketch "Election Night", likely standing as one such representation of the center left's mood on the election – a milieu that has perpetuated a misunderstanding about Trump's supporters and canalized the victory of one Mr. Donald Trump. My discovery was founded in part to a late-night conversation with my father over the phone traversing that oh so wide spectrum from blue to red, back east to out west. Knowing my father as the inveterate Hilary hater I wanted to hear his take on how a man could vote for someone he quoted as "racist, sexist, [and] disgusting". To not further degrade my father's name, it's important to state that he (an avowed Republican since Nixon, Regan, and Bush) did not vote for Donald Trump but nevertheless supports the man over the more reviled Hilary Clinton.
I recommend you watch the skit to get a sense of this essay. The sketch derives much of its humor in either reminding the liberal audience of an election night that appears disturbingly familiar to any Democrat slowly dragged into a four-year nightmare over a few rapid-fire hours. The jokes all seem to say the same thing, that Democrats have been disillusioned and trapped in an eight-year bell-jar of shattered liberal comfort, and that white liberals in all their Hilary touting fail to support or acknowledge wide-spread racism. The only merit that the skit abounds in are the deliveries of Dave Chapelle's more politically tragic than comical rejoinders to his fellow Caucasian party guests. Only it's hard to discern whether Chapelle's quips lack the audience's laughter through the unpalatable apercus or just a poor script. Nonetheless, hearing a black man declare racial realities while a mostly white audience refrains from meekly laughing to is a welcome sound. It's unfortunate that most of Chapelle's delivery misses the mark. You can tell his comedic prowess has rusted a bit in his off years, getting the best reactions with Chapelle's Bush-era intonations with lines like, "Ah snap! Vermont! Three electoral votes!" that embody his lasting ability to convey the absurd element of the bombastic 'black guy' and a thin frustration with the white American system that uses comedy to penetrate the surface of a quelled African-American voice. This is the same voice that has almost no amplification on any influential media program that speaks to your average American household. On a side note, this selection of laughter imputes itself to caricatures of black identity that relates comedy to these gestures related to "blackness". Sad that it takes even this liberal audience a wild signal like this to find the humor buried in the situation. Imagine the crickets if the vitriol was any more harsh in critiquing white people's disconnect with black oppression.
The remainder of the jokes jump through memorable stages, confident that its audience remembers (and we do) every stage of the election. Florida's up in the air position, Michigan's capitulation to rustbelt realities and the dilatory realization that Pennsylvania state seems to care more about jobs than sexist remarks. After a Chris Rock cameo which suddenly makes the whole skit seem like a dated sketch from the '80s (Hey guys, what did I miss?!") the band of viewers finally realizes that Trump will win the election and the best joke of the whole skit comes out along with a political truth that never became evident (myself included) until election night: that the American people didn't vote Democrat for the last three elections because of an infallible democratic agenda, but because Barrack Obama was one hell of an orator and as charismatic as an A-list movie star. The American people won't just vote for anyone who's a democrat and the Democratic Party made this assumption. They made it because they knew they were right. So if they were right, how could they ever lose?
As baffling as it may sound that a president who is explicitly racist, a sexist, a birther, a climate change denier, and a veteran basher could win the election, it doesn't take into account that what people seem to care about the most is themselves and more precisely their wallet. The message of Hilary Clinton has often been "We're Great, Let's Keep it Up!" while Trump declares "Things are Garbage but I'll Make it Great!" What Clinton never seemed to understand was that most vocal democrats and some independents were content with the way things had been for the last eight years and all that it entailed: a military slowdown, economic stability, the Golden age of Television. What she failed to see is that people in general (no matter how well-off they may be) don't see things as ok. To most, things are straight bad because, let's face it, they always are to the individual. And if things are straight bad, who's going to use their day-off to vote, the content liberal who knows Hilary is going to win anyway? Or the down-and-out white conservative (or even apolitical Hispanic or Asian) who continues to have mounting debt and wages he finds to be incommensurate with his labors? The conversation I had with my father was exasperating and enlightening but it reminded me of what unites everybody more than identity politics, the economy. In other words, we have here a return to the Marxist undercurrents that rule all things: the economy, or more specific the modes of production. In a strange twist of fate, my father's emphasis on money reminded me that yes, it is about money, it's about how the base of capitalism is to blame for this garbled superstructure of rampant racism, the oppression of women, and the efficiency of the media in disseminating a meretricious portrait of bourgeois normalcy. He may deplore socialism, but I had my Eureka moment.
While not wishing to marginalize race, gender, or sexuality, I also don't want to take from the forefront the basic tenants of economics, capital, and from a Marxist lens, class. For too long the democrats have emphasized above all else advancements in the last eight years in the form of protecting the rights of minorities, women, and LGBTQ communities, using this impetus and justification for continuing the agenda of the left. What this makes easy is to deny the slow transition to a more and more neoliberal pull to the right as progressive ideals are pressed on people (and why wouldn't they it makes it easier to get more minorities, women, and LGBTQ communities to become enveloped and coopted within the system) as the most important factor of change. If anything, Democrats are just better capitalists for distracting many voters and elevating policies that won't have any effect on neoliberal ideology. Left in the lurch, Keynesian economics and socialism have no mouthpiece, sans the closest embodiment of rationality Bernie Sanders.
What I heard from my father's perspective was that white demographics (and I would even say minorities) wanted something different because the world had yet to give them what they wanted. He painted a portrait of the Midwest as a place where white people were willing to take a chance on something they had never had before because they needed a savior, a messiah figure who said they would make things different, ironically the very same platform that got Barrack Obama elected eight years ago. Hillary Clinton touted Barrack Obama, relying on his popularity as sufficient fuel to get her through the stratosphere (or glass ceiling) and into presidential orbit. But as the SNL skit makes known, "[y]ou're replacing a charismatic 40-year old black guy with a 70 year old white woman. That's like the Knicks replacing Patrick Ewing with Neil Patrick Harris."
Unfortunately, Trump's supporters won't ever get what they want through pet remedies that candidates {ahem}, - president's - promise. The demands they have of the state are unrealistic as they expect swift solutions coupled with a blunt force sentiment that Donald Trump has promised. Unlike candidates like Sanders, Trump's Delphic prospectus for making America great again doesn't have any basis. It's as if some guy at the bar has some idea of how to improve the nation but gets his analysis from secondhand news articles and after-work Fox News reports. His remarks about "draining the swamp" of Washington may serve in getting a fella into office, but the resulting selection of an irresponsible man who quite likely never considered being the leader of the free world will have disastrous repercussions. I can only hope that next election the left will be adventurous enough to follow a similar path and abandon centrist policies for worker related ones – and to understand this time that yes, it is about the economy stupid.
A final point: after heeding the everyman's perspective on the right the disconnect becomes clear. Our ears rarely register these pleas, legitimate frustrations fathered by a lack of returns stolen by profiteering. Living on one of the blue rimmed cities of our coasts hearing the resounding boom of the left which is all I hear nowadays. And these insular pockets develop ideas of the country just as close-minded as a factory worker in Michigan or a construction worker in Arizona. As difficult as it may be to swallow: people really don't care about race or gender, including woman and even minorities. I think this is a privileged status and one worn on the sleeves of white liberals as a sign of their moral elitism. Identity politics do matter and I would hate to see the strides made lost, but for the democratic party to eschew their affiliation with protecting a hundred-year legacy of protecting the rights of workers, and instead exploit LGBTQ and social justice as a bargaining chip is downright deplorable. If you can't put food on the table it's easier to see a solution in a demagogue's new economic plans than by a grandma who touts normalcy as sufficient proof of well-being. And it's when you see 53% of white women and 29% of Hispanics (more so than Romney who won 27% and one less record of Mexican deriding) that change Trump's progress.
What the SNL sketch fails to attribute to Trump's victory is not that America is racist (which of course it is) or that people voted for Trump because they want minorities to suffer, but because they want their own lives to improve. It's disheartening that this conservative logic will not only leave the rest of the country by the wayside but that a bloated tirade from a man with an expensive microphone will abandon social programs, unfetter what little restrictions we have on polluting and forego developments with health care. Next election leftists, let's not forget the progress for race and gender, but let's not forget to put economics at the forefront of our mind, lest we abandon what little progress we've made at all for an ailing population of the disenfranchised.


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so that TypeScript recognizes the type of y as string[], without having to write my own function doing the filtering? (I.e. is there a way to have the language feature that narrows the type of a variable in say an if block apply to arrays?)

A: Not sure why you need lodash here but yes:
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Arenberg Starts Irish Stock Exchange-Listed Gold Fund
Portfolio > Economy & Markets > Stocks
December 15, 2003 at 07:00 PM Share & Print
NEW YORK (HedgeWorld.com)–Last week Arenberg and Associates Ltd. LLC of Bayville, New York, launched Nostradamus All Gold Funds (NAG II), which promises absolute returns to those interested in allocating to gold. This long/short fund will invest globally in gold mining shares, exchange-traded gold vehicles, options for gold stocks and gold indexes.
Nostradamus All Gold Funds is a Cayman Islands company, and the new fund is listed on the Irish Stock Exchange. A previous gold fund (NAG I) that the same team has been managing since December 2001 will now be closed to new investment. The two funds are not merged because of tax considerations but will run side by side with the same strategy.
Irv Arenberg, a physician, got into asset management after selling a pharmaceutical delivery company that he had founded. He initially ran the gold strategy with family money, having started investing in the gold sector in 1970. A larger asset base will allow him to take advantage of additional trading opportunities, he said.
The fund currently has a long bias. "We're in the early stages of a secular bull market for gold," Dr. Arenberg said. The same gold stocks and options strategy generated audited returns of more than 141% in 2002 and as of November returns were 136% for this year.
Options Trades
Due to its concentration in gold, this investment program is subject to high volatility from month to month, however. For example, it had a 30% drawdown in July 2002. But Dr. Arenberg has fine-tuned the options trades and volatility is lower this year. The new approach includes writing puts on stocks that he wants to bring into the core portfolio at below market prices.
He says with this method, the net costs of recently acquired blue chip gold stocks have been about 60% below market. Additionally, he writes covered calls on stocks that are in the portfolio when a peak appears to be close, in order to dampen volatility and increase profits.
Dr. Arenberg expects to add to the impressive track record. Gold goes up in times of uncertainty, whether there is inflation, deflation or stagflation, he pointed out. "The long-term trend is our friend," he says.
Besides a bull market in gold, he foresees a multi-year downtrend in the U.S. dollar–gold and the dollar typically move in opposite directions.
He also looks forward to the effect of an exchange-traded gold fund that is expected to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Each ETF share corresponds to 1/10th of an ounce of gold, allowing investors to own and trade the metal without having to take possession of it. With the sale of shares, the ETF will have to buy and store gold. "That's going to be very exciting, very positive for gold," Dr. Arenberg observes.
NAG's investment team includes Henry Muller III and Justin Silver. Another analyst may be joining. Since inception the first fund has a cumulative return of 369%, subject to substantial volatility.

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Person of the Month 12 - Barney Allen Cogsdell (with Tientsin and Shanghai Rugby 1927 - 1931 and 1933 - 1935)
The 1940 census shows Barney living in San Francisco with a wife named Elizabeth, hailing from Kansas, aged 23. Curiously, the same census asked for information about where they both were five years previously. They both listed themselves as being in Shanghai.
In 1941, three years after her divorce, Carolyn remarried. Her husband was Henry Francis Misselwitz, a newspaperman, foreign correspondent, commentator and author. He was a correspondent for the New York Times and the United Press in Japan and China from 1923 to 1936. As New York Times correspondent in the 1920s, he covered Chiang Kai-Shek's rebellion against the warlords of Peking. After returning to New York to work with the United Press, he was assigned to be the White House correspondent during President Herbert Hoover's administration. Henry and Carolyn first met in the late 1920s in Shanghai, becoming reacquainted some twelve years later, following Henry's divorce from Ted Constance Lowrance in 1931.
In October 1928 Cogsdell, along with the other Tientsin Marines were transferred to Shanghai. He was part of a core of, by now, experienced rugby players, who formed a team in Shanghai and became champions of Shanghai earning the title the Thundering Herd. Cogsdell was one of the speedsters of the team, he could run the 100m in 10.9 seconds. By way of comparison, in the finals of the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics the final was run in 10.8 seconds.
As 1929 came to a close, the Marines decided to make an award for the most outstanding athlete of 1929, because, as they modestly said, 'the Regiment has led in every branch of sport in which it has entered.' A committee was formed to consider the possible candidates across all of the sports that the Marines played. In the end two winners were chosen, it being impossible to separate them. Both of the men played rugby as well as starring on the athletic track. The men were Barney A. Cogsdell and Alford R. Burk. In the spring of 1931 Cogsdell was posted back to America. In that season, the All-Marine Football team was transferred to San Diego and Barney Cogsdell was selected to represent the Marines playing under Liversedge, his old
rugby coach from Tientsin and Shanghai. He also played for the All-Marine team in 1932 and 1933.
Things did not go well Stateside. In April 1938, a San Mateo newspaper ran the headline 'China Romance On Rocks Here'. It went onto explain that 'A romance between a young marine corps officer and a pretty American school teacher which blossomed amid the fighting of the Shanghai war of 1932, had its climax today – in the divorce courts here.' Cogsdell's wife, who was described as, 'well known on the Peninsula [and] was a brilliant student at Stanford, member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority', had filed a suit for divorce citing a long list of alleged cruelties beginning in San Diego in November 1937 and climaxing mid-April 1938 when; her husband climbed to her second story apartment in Burlingame and broke a window over her bed. The plaintiff alleged she quit their San Francisco apartment on December 8 and went to live with her Aunt in San Carlos. On defendant's promise to live an "exemplary life," plaintiff said she fitted up an apartment in Burlingame at a cost of $200. Although he promised to help, defendant "left plaintiff with the bill." she alleges. They separated on 9 April.
The US Sixth Marines from Tientsin visited Shanghai in the Spring of 1928 to play a series of 5 games, three against the Shanghai interport team. This is a photo of both teams in one of those matches, eithr 18 March 1928 or 6 April 1928. Captain Liversedge can be seen in the suit on the far right of the front row. I believe that Cogsdell is sat to the left of Liversedge.
Marines Team: Wendell Thomas Zimmerman, John Kirby,Alford Russell Burk, Everett W Standley, Paul E Brodbeck, Barney A Cogsdell,
He returned to Shanghai in November 1933 where he continued to star as a rugby player and on the athletic track. In the newspapers in America it was announced that:
friends will be interested in news of the approaching marriage of Miss Carolyn [Maude] Converse, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Asa F. Converse, of Wellsville [Texas], to Barney Allen Cogsdell, of Shanghai... Miss Converse spent three years in the Orient, one year as teacher in Shanghai university, and two years as an advertising representative in Shanghai, Hong kong and Japan.' 'Miss Converse will become the bride of Barney Allen Cogsdell at a simple home ceremony read by Dr. Frank White at his home. Dr. and Mrs. White of Shanghai College are friends of long standing of the Converse Family... Later the young couple will make their home in an apartment in Shanghai.
On 3 November they were married at Shanghai University. Barney played his last game of rugby in Shanghai in February 1935 but remained in Shanghai until January 1937 when he returned to America.
Cogsdell died very young, the report of his death said that he was only 59 years on the day he died - 21 January 1967. The report listed him as being born in July 1907 whereas a photograph of his grave, showed his year of birth as 1906 which would have made in 60. Regardless, it was a young death.
His occupation was recorded as a semi-retired realtor. He died of a heart attack on a golf course, Chapala Golf Course, in Jalisco Mexico. His next of kin was listed as Mrs Cornelia Cogsdell, his third wife, and her third husband, living in Sebastopol California. He remained in Mexico, buried at the in the American section of the cemetery of Chapala almost 2,000 miles away from his widowed wife.
1941 Census showing Cogsdell married to his second wife who he had met in Shanghai.
F A Smith, Ivor J Williby, Alford Russell Burk, Clifford E Maris, Cyril O Lawless, Alfred Travres, Barney A Cogsdell, Joseph Lewandowski, Arthur P Fiese, Jurgens, Horace A Smith, Clark, Glen F Felt, John Stokes, James Maulding
Player for All Marines American Football team in the U.S. (1931 - 1933)
Images of Carolyn Converse taken from taken from Stanford Year Book 1928
Barney Allen Cogsdell (1906 – 1967)
Cogsdell was born 9 July 1906 (1907 on some documentation) in West Point, Mississippi. The son of Dr. Barney Churchill Cogsdell. He was an outstanding all round athlete at is elementary school and when he entered the Clay Count Agricultural High School, he was a member of their [American] football, baseball, track and basketball teams. While at school he broke the Mississippi state track record for the 220 yards' low hurdles in a time of 25.2 seconds. He also played quarterback in the all Mississippi football team. He joined the Marines straight from High School on 12 January 1927 and was posted to Tientsin in May 1927.
He started to play rugby when the US Marines, with no possibility of playing American Football, decided to form a rugby team. They had great success in Tientsin and also on a spring tour to Shanghai, where they amazed the local rugby community with their speed and raw skill.
Marriage Certificate od Barney Cogsdell and Carolyn Converse
The Fourth Marines Rugby Squad 1933 - 34 which features Cogsdell, in the second row from the front with the red marker on his chest. By this time, as can be seen by the two playing strips in the team photo, the Marines were running two squads, a Blue and a White team in the Shanghai Rugby League.They shared the league title between themselves both teams being undefeated in the season and having drawn against each other when they met.


We had planned on having lunch at the only Russian restaurant in Indianapolis. It has been around for a while but only open for dinner service. I discovered this week that they had started serving lunch . I was really excited but I have been disappointed before. I looked up back up joints in the area just in case. Well, they changed their hours and reverted back to dinner only. So I told Pat that he had a choice of Indian or American pub. He decided on American Pub.
The cheese curds were very good. They weren't built-in house but they were tasty. I don't think much on the menu is house made. Surprisingly enough it is a one person kitchen. Our bartender/cook was the manager ,who was left by herself because the bartender called in sick. That young lady rocked it.
I had wanted to order the Stromboli but since Pat beat me to it I ordered the Roast Beef Panini.
It was an interesting sandwich. The meat was deli roast beef, which is a bit dry by itself. The cream cheese and sauce brought a much-needed moistness and the peppers gave the sandwich a nice little hint of spice and acid. Our cook asked how I wanted it toasted; which was a nice touch. Like Pat's sammie I got a heaping helping of Tater Tots. I took half the tots and half the sandwich home. Both were bargains at $9.
I am with Pat about the joint. Were it closer I would be a regular. For me it wasn't .the food menu or the expansive draft heads it would be the bartender/server/cook. She was a very capable and charming young lady. As a retired member of the restaurant biz I am glad to see someone young wanting to take up this industry as a profession. She even expressed an interest in going to Culinary School. I thought her excitement for food was great. If you are in the area you really should stop in for a bite and a beverage. I am sorry I didn't do a proper introduction; so I do not know her name. But drop in and introduce your self.


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THE TRIBUNE SPECIALS
50 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE
TERCENTENARY CELEBRATIONS
M A I N N E W S
A son tells all...
Pakistani father, Indian mother
Islamabad, March 13
Personal circumstances contain a bigger story and are a way to make "peace" with "personal history", says Aatish Taseer, the 29-year-old son of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer and Indian journalist Tavleen Singh, explaining why he wrote a book on his tempestuous relationship with his father.
"Stranger to History: A Son's Journey through Islamic Lands" is "a personal memoir, about his life story in which he has depicted his father in a manner that will shock and repel many of his Pakistani readers", Marianna Baabar wrote in The News Friday.
Indian magazine Outlook has acquired the rights to the book, which is scheduled to be launched in London in a week and in India soon after.
Defending his controversial decision to lay bare personal relationships and conversations, Aatish told Outlook that it came from his conviction that "the personal circumstances contained a bigger story".
He, however, acknowledged that the writing of the book was also a way to overcome the despair he felt at having his relationship with his father suddenly run aground - "a way to make my peace with that personal history".
On his part, the elder Taseer has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. A confidant of Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, he was appointed the Governor of Punjab province in what was widely viewed as a move to destablise the then government of chief minister Shahbaz Sharif of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
"The memoir is a journalist's engaging travelogue. But where the political and personal come together powerfully is in the last third part of the book, which finds Aatish in Pakistan among the Pakistanis," Baabar quoted Outlook as saying. "A short, intense relationship between a Pakistani politician, Salmaan Taseer, and an Indian journalist, Tavleen Singh, produces a child. As the relationship founders, the father (according to his son's account) abandons the mother and the infant in London," the article stated. "They move to Delhi, where Aatish grows up in an elite Sikh family, but with an awareness of being "different" because of his Muslim and Pakistani ancestry.
"Twice in his childhood, he makes long-distance overtures to his father, but is rebuffed. In 2002, at the age of 21, he tries again, by simply landing up in Lahore, and meets with greater success. Salmaan's political career has waned - the military rules; his party's boss, Benazir Bhutto, is in exile - but he is, by now, a wealthy businessman and a media tycoon, with an elegant third wife and six other children. "Relatives and family friends, who have known about Aatish for years, help him find a way into Salmaan's life. So begins a father-son relationship that is, by no means, easy." Aatish, a London-based journalist, said while looking back on his struggles five years ago to write the book: "There is this extraordinary story, but what does it mean? It's not everybody else's."
In 2005, Aatish wrote for a British magazine on the radicalisation of the British second-generation Pakistanis, "making the unexceptionable liberal argument that it was linked to failures of identity on different fronts".
"Chuffed by his first cover story, he sent it to his father, to whom he now felt closer - and was shocked to receive a furious reply, accusing him, among other things, of blackening the family name by spreading 'invidious anti-Muslim propaganda'.
"The accusations set off a storm of reactions in Aatish, from hurt and defensiveness to confusion and curiosity," Baabar said while quoting Outlook.
Aatish said: "I hope for this to be a book for Pakistan (though) I know that is a very naive thing to say - Neither with my father, nor with Pakistan, was it written to settle any scores. I hope that despite what looks like a bleak look at Pakistan, it is possible to see a genuine concern and affection for the place."
"The timing of the book is slightly insane," he said, adding: "I wouldn't have wished for it. He was just a businessman, and that was good enough for what I had to say. He didn't need to be the governor of the Punjab."
Was he prepared to lose the relationship with a book like this, coming especially at a sensitive time? "Whether I wrote the book or not, I am definitely pretty much persona non grata," he said, adding: "My father is a bright, intelligent man, and well read. I hope he understands some day." — IANS
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Aglish is a village in County Waterford, Ireland.

Aglish may also refer to several other places in Ireland:*

 A townland in County Clare; see List of townlands of County Clare
 Aglish, County Cork, a civil parish
 A townland in County Kerry; see List of townlands of County Kerry
 A townland in County Mayo; see List of townlands of County Mayo
 Aglish, County Tipperary, a small settlement

* 'Aglish' is from the Irish 'Eaglais', meaning 'church'

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Somnath is a revered religious town in the state of Gujarat. It is the holy town of Lord Shiva and closely associated with the Lord along with God Chandra. It is a historic place and houses some interesting old monuments. Visit the town on next vacation and pick from best hotels in Somnath.
Religion is a significant aspect of every Indian city. Whether it be a large, highly modernized city or a small village or town, religion is one attribute that is kept at a high level of significance. Interestingly, there are numerous, almost countless religious places and towns in India. The most revered religious cities or pilgrimages like Puri, Vaishno Devi, Amarnath, Dwarka, Rameswaram, etc. need no introduction. Considered as the passages to Moksha, these pilgrimages remain thronged by devotees and tourists yearlong.
Situated on the western Indian state of Gujarat, Somnath is a highly revered religious town, which is closely associated with Lord Shiva. The place is considered the earthy abode of Lord Shiva and there exists a Lingam of his worshipped as Somnath. Evidently, the name of the place is based on the Lord himself. It is said that the eternal lingam of the town is one of the first 12 Jyotirlingas of Lord Shiva and thus generates massive amounts of interest. It is one of the chief pilgrimages in western India and a majority of people who visit the place are shivates. Rich with history, traditions, and culture, it is an ideal destination to visit on your next vacation. The good thing is that hotels in Somnath are available in different budget categories and in a good concentration. Finding a comfortable accommodation will not be difficult and most of them are situated in close proximity to the Somnath temple.
Being an important religious place, the town naturally attracts different legends and myths. Residents have huge faith in their deity and seeing them believe the legends frantically is nothing new. According to a popular legend, the foundation of the Shiva Lingam that exists inside the Somnath Temple was laid by Hindu Moon God, Chandra. He came down to the place with his consort, Rohini and worshiped Lord Shiva.
A visit to the place is refreshing and certainly a spiritually rejuvenating experience. The largest attraction of the place is evidently the Somnath Temple. It is the most revered temple here and long queues in front of the temple is a common sight. Note that the temple has been built, destroyed, and rebuilt 6 times. According to ancient scriptures the foremost temple was built of gold by Chandra God, the next was built by Ravana in silver, followed by sandalwood temple built by Lord Krishna. The current stone structure was built by the king of Gujarat, Raja Bhimdev.
Junagadh Gate – Built several centuries ago, the Junagadh Gate is a prime entrance to the holy town. It lies on the way to Somnath from Veraval city and is huge in size. The gate is also historically significant as it was through the gate that Mahmud Ghazni broke into the place and then looted and destroyed it.
Panch Pandav Gufa – It is a Hindu temple built atop an elevated land and highly revered by the locals. As the name suggests, it is dedicated to the five Pandava brothers, who were the heroes in the epic Mahabharata. You will also find idols of Goddess Durga, Lord Shiva, and Lord Rama here. Visit the temple and spend some time in the calm and cool atmosphere.
In a nutshell, Somnath is an ideal place to visit on your next vacation. Particularly, if you are religious, you will like your stay in the town. Head to the place for an undisturbed vacation and pick from the best luxury hotels in Somnath.


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Bailout Update
BAILOUT UPDATE….The New York Times reports that both Democratic and Republican leaders have reached "general agreement" on a bailout bill:
One plan under consideration would release $250 billion immediately, with another $100 billion available at the discretion of the president.
[Lawmakers] also said that there would be limits on pay packages for executives whose firms seek assistance from the government and a mechanism for the government to be given an equity stake in some firms so that taxpayers have a chance to profit if the companies prosper in the months and years ahead.
The Wall Street Journal says mortgage relief is still up in the air:
Still unresolved is whether or not to include changes to bankruptcy law that would give judges the right to change the terms of mortgages. Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois made a plea for it to be included, even though many lawmakers and the White House are hotly opposed.
There still aren't many details, and I guess the main question now is whether McCain and Obama will sign on. McCain, of course, has a pretty big incentive to continue playing politics since this all happened before he could dramatically swoop in and take credit for some bold leadership, and in any case agreeing to it would allow tomorrow's debate to go forward. So I imagine he'll find something to object to. Obama's motives are a little murkier, so it's harder to guess what he'll do. Homeowner protection was one of his five core demands for the bill, however, so it seems unlikely he'll sign on unless there's at least something along those lines in the bill.
Beyond that, who knows? McCain is so unbalanced these days that there's really no telling what's going to happen next. In the meantime, I'm going to go eat lunch.


Five years into his career, Mookie Betts has emerged as an annual MVP candidate and is on track to become one of the best players in Red Sox history. As a result, the 25-year-old face of the Red Sox is the talk of the sports collectibles hobby.
Although his rookie cards are extremely popular today, there were very few Betts cards released in the years leading up to his major league debut, which is somewhat of an anomaly in today's prospect-rich hobby. In fact, the first major Betts card didn't arrive until a few months before his major league debut in 2014. The 2013 Panini Prizm Perennial Draft Picks series, celebrating Betts' 5th round selection in the 2011 MLB Draft, is the only set to feature Betts that year. The silvery, high-gloss pre-rookie card is a nice by for under $8.
The most sought-after Betts card was issued while the highly-touted prospect was transitioning from second base to the outfield for the Pawtucket Red Sox. The 2014 Bowman Chrome Prospect subset, which includes Kris Bryant, Jose Abreu, Luis Severino, and Masahiro Tanaka in addition to Betts, has proven to be one of the best prospect sets ever. The chrome version of the Betts card is selling for $10, doubling in price since the start of the season. Limited autograph versions are selling for $375, while highly-graded autographed versions are selling in excess of $600.
Because he made his major league debut mid-way into the season, Betts rookie cards did not appear until the late-season releases. The most popular Betts rookie is from the high-end 2014 Topps Update Set. Because the Update series is an extension of the Topps flagship line, the rookie cards are readily available. Although the Betts card, currently selling for $20. has doubled in value since the beginning of the season, supply has kept the price in check.
One of the most limited Betts rookie cards is from the 2014 Topps Heritage high number series. The card was issued only as part of a factory set and not released in packs. In the two previous years, the Heritage factory sets were online exclusives. In 2014, the sets were also offered to hobby shops, making them a bit more accessible. However, many collectors are not willing to break up factory sets, so the Betts Heritage rookie is not scarce, but somewhat limited. The Topps Heritage Betts rookie is selling for $80 with highly-graded versions selling for $200.
Baseball's top sluggers dominate today's hobby. The popularity and value of memorabilia cards are largely driven by player's home runs and run production. Betts bats leadoff and is relatively small in stature, but is among the league leaders in batting average, slugging percentage, home runs, RBI, and runs scored. The 2015 Topps Tier One Game Worn Jersey card celebrates the 21-year-old Betts becoming becoming the youngest Red Sox player since 1965 to hit a grand slam during his rookie season. Limited to a production run of 399, the Betts memorabilia card is a nice addition to any Red Sox collection for under $15.
Being compared to Ted Williams has also enhanced the popularity of Mookie Betts. Earlier this season, Betts became the first Red Sox player to hit three home runs in a game on four separate occasions. Williams accomplished the feat three times over a 19-year Hall of Fame career. Last year, Betts joined Tony Conigliaro as the only players other than Williams to hit 30 homers in a season before their 24th birthday. Certified autographed cards of baseball's top sluggers are the hobby's most coveted cards. The Betts 2014 Bowman Sterling Rookie Autograph is selling for $150. Because of the high-silver gloss and full-bleed photos, finding this card in truly mint condition is a difficult task. Highly-graded versions sell in excess of $200.


The MW240 is a purpose-built remotely controlled platform used for the safe and effective clearance of explosive devices including landmines, IEDs and cluster munitions.
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What are the ingredients for the sea salt pita chips and the multigrain chia pita chips? I can't seem to find them on the website. Thanks!
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Press Statement: Transportation Funds
Statement attributed to Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability
For the first time in our state's history, our governor has called for transportation funding to align with state goals on climate and the environment, and to help people access modes of transportation that improve public health and reduce hazardous emissions. Gov. Gavin Newsom's Executive Order N-19-19 addresses the links between transportation investments, housing, and land use planning, and the need for an integrated approach to meet our goals.
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability supports this executive order because this is a real, serious step to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector, which produces almost half of our state's total emissions and contributes to poor air quality.
However, we are disappointed in the governor's decision to veto SB 127, which would have enacted the order and ensured that state roads that run through local communities are safe for everyone to walk, bike and use wheelchairs. To be clear, SB 127 would have encouraged more walking and biking and made it much safer to do so.
We urge bold leadership from Gov. Newsom and will hold state agencies accountable to implementing a comprehensive approach to address our state's climate crisis that reduces our dependence on fossil fuels, encourages clean transportation options and invests in communities that are most impacted by climate change.
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You are here: Home / Projects / Removal of lead in kea and their habitat – a community lead-free initiative!
If you are interested in helping kea become lead-free by sponsoring a kea receiving treatment, starting up a local project or donating materials, funding or your expertise, please get in contact with us. For a list of what we need, please scroll down to the bottom of the page. Thank you!
One of the main identified threats to kea is lead. Monitoring by Department of Conservation (DOC) since 2006 has shown that lead toxicity in kea is widespread throughout the species range, wherever kea and humans overlap (McInnes, 2010). Testing of 42 Mt Cook kea (Reid et al, 2012) found all to have detectable blood lead levels, 32 considered elevated. An additional 5 out of 12 dead kea tested were diagnosed with lead poisoning. Lead, is sweet and malleable and as such is highly attractive to kea. As a toxic heavy metal, it accumulates in the birds body causing nervous system damage, organ failure and eventually death.
How do Kea get lead poisoning?
Lead is present as paint, flashings and nail heads in many buildings that were built prior to the 1990's and until it is removed from the South Island, Kea will continue to test for lead and to die of lead poisoning at an alarming rate.
However, the good news is that kea CAN be treated for lead poisoning and lead products CAN be removed and replaced with non-toxic alternatives, but to do this we need your help!
v) raising of funds and support to support community efforts.
South Island communities have expressed a commitment to protect local remnant kea populations from threats such as lead. Extensive community collaboration has already been activated with the KCT and DOC working alongside the wider community throughout the South Island with a number of lead removal initiatives been initiated in South Island communities this year. This project aims to activate and support all communities within kea habitat.
We rely on passionate people in our communities to help rid kea of the lead threat. If you would like to join this drive to make our environment lead-free for kea, please contact us!
Funding – even small donations will help us kick start local community projects! We need funding for roofing products, contractors, medical supplies, fuel for volunteer transporters, project coordination and on-going care of kea in rehabilitation.
Non-toxic alternatives to lead – we need flashings and techscrews to replace old lead products.
Roofing contractors – we need registered contractors (with their own H&S) to replace lead products. If you are able to donate your time or help your community at a reduced rate, please get in contact with us!
Vets – we need more vets around the South island (particularly in remote areas) to help with initial stabilisation of sick kea and to help with chelation therapy.
Kea transporters – sick kea in remote areas which need specialist care need to be transported to some of our larger centres for transfer or care.
Sponsor a sick kea needing treatment!
A kea receiving treatment at Vetent Queenstown held by Nic Kunzmann (formerly of the Kiwi Birdlife Park).
Every kea returning blood lead results of over 20ug/dL will be sent to one of our veterinary partners for chelation therapy. This treatment is costly, and although vets are providing much of their services for free to help these kea, we need to support them by raising funds for the medicines that will ultimately save these birds lives.


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This is the sixth essay in a series examining themes and issues raised in my book Native Americans, the Mainline Church, and the Quest for Interracial Justice (Chalice Press, 2017). The series is a project in constructive historical theology from a postcolonial perspective. In this context, encountering the history of white domination, subjugation, and exploitation of Indians and the history of Indian genocide, which Elizabeth Cook-Lynn calls, "The Disavowed Crime Lurking at the Heart of America" (Cook-Lynn 2007: 185–95), calls for thinking about the mission of the church and the presence of God in ways that challenge the more conventional flow of ideas. Joerg Rieger calls this a process of "Decentering the authority claims of mainline theology, tied to either self or text." He explains that the process of decentering does not do away with the need for theology, but opens up the possibility of coming to new understandings. In this case, we are interested in coming to new understandings of the relationship between white people and indigenous peoples who were once considered the "object" of Christian mission. Rieger reminds us that "The process of decentering is part of a long tradition to which the Reformation and the Second Vatican Council also belong." Emphatically Rieger declares: "Nothing less than a new reformation is at stake" (Rieger 1998: 229).
For centuries, a central focus of American Christianity was to "civilize and Christianize" Indians, a focus energized by the "Christian Nations Theory," which Steven T. Newcomb defines as follows:
"The United States has the right to exercise ultimate control over American Indian nations simply because Christians 'discovered' non-Christian lands and simply because Christians supposedly succeeded in conquering the 'heathen' nations of North America" (Newcomb 2008: 117).
According to Christian Nations Theory, indigenous peoples appeared to be human beings, but because they were not baptized into the Christian faith they lacked both morality and basic human rights (Newcomb 2008: 108). Euro-American Christians thought of themselves as guardians and purveyors of Christian morality and culture, defending the same against Indians, whom they called "wild beasts," "savages," "pagans," and "heathens." Such stereotyping dehumanized Indians, and at the same time it created a shared identity among white people. The residue of this painful history is displayed in the contemporary use of disparaging images of Indians in sports logos and in public places.
According to Robert A. Williams, Jr. the word "stereotype" gained currency in the US in the nineteenth century when Walter Lippmann featured the term prominently in his book, Public Opinion (1922). Lippmann called stereotypes "pictures in our heads" (Williams 2012: 2). These pictures function even now as "identity badges" for Native Americans who are still required by law to identify themselves as tribal persons in order to sustain treaty rights, which otherwise would be denied, and to get permission to hunt or gather domestic or religious material from the countryside (Cook-Lynn 2001: 190).
It is an ironic twist of history that "reservations" for American Indians have become a new flash point of conflict between the dominant culture and Native peoples. Observes Cook-Lynn: "Some suggest that 'reservations' for American Indians in the West were and are extermination centers, and it may have been the intent of the predatory democracy called the United States of America to kindle in this way an end either by death and starvation or economic destruction for the native peoples with whom they had fought wars of annihilation for many decades for possession of the land." But, she notes, "The citizens of Indian nations now believe 'reservations' to be their homelands, and they defend them legally and economically on a daily basis. . . . [Reservations are] treaty-protected enclaves, now called domestic 'nations-within-a-nation,'" (2001: 191, 192). However, Politico reports that the Trump administration is seeking to identify Native Americans as a race, thereby denying them their political status. Many people view the proposed shift as advancing an agenda of cultural and economic genocide because it would put the lives of many Natives at even greater risk than they are now, and it would deny them the necessary resources for self-determination. Tribal leaders argue in response that their status as sovereign governments was recognized by President George Washington and more recently affirmed by presidents Clinton, George Walker Bush, and Obama.
Though largely unreported by the mainstream media unless there are major confrontations such as happened in 2017 at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation when Indian nations and water protectors sought to protect treaty rights that were being violated by the Energy Transfer Partnership and local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies, issues related to tribal rights and the sovereignty of Indian nations are test cases for uprooting racism and colonialism. Steven Newcomb's definition of colonization is worth quoting at length here to remind us that this is still the reality:
"Colonization can be thought of in terms of steps involved in a process of cultivation: taking control of the indigenous soil, uprooting the existing indigenous plants (peoples), overturning the soil (the indigenous way of life), planting new colonial seeds (people) or transplanting colonial plants (people) from another environment, and harvesting the resulting crops (resources) or else picking the fruits (wealth) that result from the labor of cultivation (colonization). . . . From a Christian European colonizing perspective, the indigenous peoples are considered as being among those solids (objects) that must be filtered out of (or expunged and washed from) the land in order to acquire that which is most valuable . . . that can be transmuted into wealth to fuel the economy and enrich the elite of the imperium" (Newcomb 2008: 14–15).
Fortunately there is a growing international consensus that offers an alternative future—a future that recognizes the humanity and rights of indigenous peoples. This emerging consensus is embodied in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and other international agreements. These documents and agreements chart a path into a future beyond racism and colonialism.
There are also significant theological traditions upon which we can build, beginning with the foundational claim that all people are created in the image of God and, in the words of the Declaration of Independence, "endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights." Additionally, as Christians we can refer to the "innovation of Christ," a phrase coined by Will Herzog as a way of moving away from the classic idea of the "imitation of Christ." Joerg Rieger adopted this phrase and identified the following elements (Rieger 1998: 174). One is mapping out plans and paths into the future that will reduce pain and suffering. These maps must be drawn with an awareness of the terrain of past and present experiences of oppression and repression. Second, as cartographers of the future, we must make strong connections between the present, as understood by the experiences of those who are marginalized and oppressed, and shared hopes for a future that has not yet attained its full form. Third, we must pay attention to the distribution and use of wealth, power, and authority in our society. Rieger notes: "The most pressing problem of modern theology is not that it has become relegated to the private sphere of the modern self, an often repeated criticism, but that theology has become politicized without being aware of it" (1998: 185–86). Lastly, he calls Christians to reclaim the power of the Eucharist. Citing first the work of Gustavo Gutiérrez who proclaimed: "Here, on the terrain of real life, among the poorest, is where the eucharistic celebration takes on its full meaning of sharing in the death and resurrection of Christ," Rieger goes on to write: "The power of the Eucharist is experienced in new ways where the conflicts and brokenness of poor people are included. In this context, the Eucharist becomes one of the nodal points where new thought about the redistribution of power and authority begins to germinate" (1998: 214).
Traditional tribal communities and peoples have their own nodal points. What is important at this time in our history is that together we find ways that honor our diversity, build on our commonalities, and construct new ways to distribute wealth, power, and authority. Simply put, indigenous peoples and all people, regardless of race and creed, are not the objects of Christian mission, but partners in a common task of creating a sustainable and just future.
Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth, 2007. "Anti-Indianism and Genocide: The Disavowed Crime Lurking at the Heart of America," Anti-Indianism in Modern America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Diamond, Dan, Rachana Pradhan contributing. May 4, 2018. "Trump challenges Native Americans' historical standing," Politico. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/22/trump-native-americans-historical-standing-492794
Newcomb, Steven T., 2008. Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing.
Rieger, Joerg, 1998. Remember the Poor: The Challenge to Theology in the Twenty-First Century. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/DRIPS_en.pdf
Williams, Robert A., Jr., 2012. Savage Anxieties: The Invention of Western Civilization. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
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This division functions under the supervision of the Additional Secretary (Public Administration) and the Assistant Secretary (Pensions) acts as the immediate supervising officer. In addition, a post of Administration Officer is also available in this division.
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Sending replies to the issues with regard to pensions in arrears, transfer of pensions, unclaimed pensions.
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Liberty Division - Stats
- - All Star Game 2016 All Star Game 2015
- Team - ASG 2016 FRE LIB
Statistics: Batting | Pitching | Fielding | Last 7 days
Batting Stats | Expanded Batting Stats	| Sabermetric Batting Stats	| Print
Rosa, J 3B .500 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
LaHair, B IF .500 1 4 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lyons, D IF .333 1 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Maddox, C IF .250 1 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
Perez, R C .000 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Roof, J 2B .000 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jones, J OF .000 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Eggleston, A OF .000 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vega, A OF .000 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lentini, F OF .000 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dowd, M C .000 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Galvez, J IF .000 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cuevas, J IF .000 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals .156 1 32 1 5 1 0 0 0 3 1 9 0 0 0 0 0 0


In this strategy guide, you'll learn a few simple, yet powerful, techniques to encourage students to use peer talk and writing to enhance their understanding of content area texts.
Oftentimes, the support students get with a content area reading task is a list of questions to answer or terms to define. While this approach is appropriate in spirit—students do need guidance to focus on what's most important—it can backfire. Believing the goal of reading to be a completed vocabulary list or a set of accurate answers, students may look for ways around the reading and thinking process and seek to produce the "correct" response requested from a list.
Offering students meaningful ways to respond to and make sense of what they're reading can go a long way toward getting students to read with engagement and confidence. Writing and conversation offer a number of possibilities for teachers to support comprehension for all students.
While all of these strategies enhance the possibility for meaningful engagement with text, none of them is likely to happen on its own. Plan to model the chosen learning behavior (oftentimes more than once) and to be an active presence in the room, moving from student to student, pair to pair, to monitor, ask and answer questions, and reengage students who lose focus.
Look over the text and, based on its difficulty and the readiness of your students, decide an appropriate interval (Every paragraph? Every two paragraphs? Twice per page?) to ask students to "stop, think, and write." Using a T-Chart or sticky notes, at each determined interval, students should take note of an important idea or fact or record an observation or question. In the process, they produce a running record of their comprehension of the reading.
Put students into pairs and ask them to set reading intervals of their own. Together, they read silently (or one reads aloud) until they reach the agreed-upon spot, at which point each student shares a question or observation. The students should acknowledge each others' responses with follow-up questions or thoughtful confirmation of important content.
Depending on the content and structure of the text, provide and discuss with students a graphic organizer before reading to help them hone in on and formulate an understanding of key concepts. If, for example, students are reading about the attitudes toward the U.S. Civil War held by Northerners and Southerners, a Venn Diagram would be appropriate. If students are reading about the process of cell division, a sequencing chart may aid comprehension.
Generic graphic organizers provide inspiration and a place to start, but because every text and every group of students is different, be ready to customize resources to give students the best chance at making meaning from the reading.
Provide students with space and time to process the content on the graphic organizer through writing or conversation. Remind students that understanding your content topic—not completing a worksheet—is the goal of academic reading.
Have students reflect on what they've read through informal writing. If students are completing the reading in class, have them write on a note card or slip of paper a few key understandings ("Tell me what you know about most important functions of the legislative branch of the U.S. government") and/or a question or point of confusion ("If you could, what would you ask the author of this article to help you better understand her point of view on immigration policy?"). Use this information to guide planning for future learning activities.
GIST is a summarizing technique that can be used in any content area. Students will learn and apply the strategy while doing online research and writing activities on news stories.


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Drag the World
How "Everybody's Talking About Jamie" Came to the Big Screen
From the moment the credits of Everybody's Talking About Jamie rolled, I've had the opening number stuck in my head. Some of you might have started singing it as soon as I said that, but you might not have ever heard of the show or how infectious it can be—and you don't even know it.
When telling this to actors Max Harwood and Lauren Patel and director Jonathan Butterell during an interview, they all laugh and nod along, knowing exactly how catchy their show—about a teenager from Sheffield, England who wants to be a drag queen—actually is. After all, Butterell directed the musical's premiere on the West End and has now adapted the stage show into a film, bringing it to millions of viewers through Amazon Video.
"There were many challenges, as you can imagine, but for me it was exhilarating," Butterell says of the adaptation experience. "I loved every second of it, as frightening as it can be, because you have that ticking clock that just only goes in one direction. I just love what my imagination allowed me to do, which was fly." He continued, explaining: "what cinema allows is scale. So one scale was vista: I could show Sheffield, which is my hometown, in all its glory. I could show it from the streets, but also let my imagination fly as Jamie's imagination flies and also take him on these amazing pop video journeys. Cinema does that in such a unique way and you can't do it any other way."
"I just love what my imagination allowed me to do, which was fly."
And the movie certainly does take a decidedly cinematic approach to its setpieces and show-stopping numbers. Where the stage show has a focus on choreography, the film brings things to life a little differently (without sacrificing highlighting that choreo either.) "Work of Art" dons the aesthetic of an 80s music video, pulling inspiration from what seems like everything from Duran Duran to Madonna. "This Was Me", a fresh replacement number for the theatre show's "The Legend of Loco Chanelle", comes to life as videotaped memories, flashing through not only the character's history but landmarks of recent queer history.
This is part of what makes Everybody's Talking About Jamie so appealing, and Butterell is proud that he could bring this kind of queer joy and storytelling to the world. "I'm proud of everybody's work and that this kind of work is getting out there on platforms like this," he notes, joking that he hopes they eventually even go galactic.
Harwood and Patel, both of whom are fresh to the big screen, both describe the experience as something of a whirlwind. Harwood, who plays the lead Jamie New, admits there was some insecurity at the top: "Much like, I think, lots of actors, I get in my own head about so much going on and feeling like I'm not supposed to be there and having imposter syndrome."
"But I spoke to Richard [E. Grant, who plays Jamie's drag mother] about it, and he was very open in telling me that he felt like that in many ways as well. For me, the shift happened really quickly to realize that these are all just people and all of these people have their own thoughts and feelings. Getting to work with such a range of people that functioned in so many different ways really helped."
"I'm so grateful for that because it made me realize that I can do it and I can do it my own way and go on this journey of discovery. I'm even more grateful for it because it was just a complete school in on-screen acting from these legends [like Grant, Sarah Lancashire, and Sharon Horgan, among others]."
Patel, who plays Jamie's best friend Pritti Pasha echoes the excitement and intimidation: "It all happened extremely quickly. It felt like I blinked one day and was on set immediately."
"I got this job when I was seventeen and now I'm twenty. I feel like I've really grown up with these guys."
"My first day on set was with Max and Richard and was very intimidating. But once you get there, you just see that they're all people who are very good at their jobs, you know what I mean? All of the other stuff goes away and then I just started trying to absorb as much information from watching everybody work as I could."
For both actors, it transformed from an anxiety-inducing journey to a life-affirming one. As Patel explains, "I got this job when I was seventeen and now I'm twenty and I feel like I've really grown up with these guys. Being able to share those experiences and the film itself and seeing people resonating with it so deeply is just indescribably special."
"I think I had an experience with this film that I didn't realize I needed to have with it," Harwood adds. "I thought I was really open. I thought I knew who I was. And I think what I learned from this film is that I'm still taking little shifts every day. I think that's what's important about the film: it has such a universal message about the community around us, how we open up our hearts, how each time we do that, it creates another small shift."
"Even though the shift in me felt huge," he says, "and feels huge even from almost three years ago when we shot it, I'm still making changes and feeling like I'm stepping into myself every day. And I'm so grateful to everyone for nurturing me on that journey."♦
Everybody's Talking About Jamie releases for streaming everywhere on Amazon Prime Video on September 17th.
Tags: Broadway, Editor's Pick, Everybody's Talking About Jamie, Max Harwood, Queer Film, Richard E. Grant


Allergy is an immune responseor an exaggerated reaction to substances that are generally not harmful. Allergy is caused by a highly sensitive immune system, which leads to a wrong immune response. Normally, the immune system protects the body from harmful substances such as bacteria and viruses. An allergic reaction occurs when the immune system reacts to certain substances (allergens), which are normally harmless, and in most people do not produce an immune response.
The symptoms of allergies in children can be more or less intense. Most people have mild symptoms, which do not endanger life, while others have a more intense and dangerous reaction known as anaphylaxis.
Some of the related diseases with allergies in children are manifested through the skin or respiratory system. Cutaneous eczema and asthma are among the most common.
The reason for these conditions is that the most common allergens are present in some environmental agents that have contact with the skin, respiratory tract or the surface of the eyes such as pollen, mold, dandruff and dust. Similarly, allergic reactions may be caused by insect bites, jewelry, cosmetics and other substances that come in contact with the body.
Spring allergy. The spring allergy often appears in childhood and have a high genetic component, ie the allergy is inherited. As spring approaches, seasonal allergies and spring asthenia begin.
Intolerance to food. Food allergies are a very common disorder in childhood. The foods that cause the most allergies and intolerance in children are milk, eggs, fish, nuts or wheat.
Skin allergies. The delicate skin of children reacts against the substance in question and causes dermatitis, itching, rash, eczema, psoriasis, inflammation, redness ... Skin allergies occur when a substance comes into contact with the body whether animals, food , medicines, insects, chemical elements or even the sun.
Allergies to certain foods. Infant allergies to the most frequent foods. Characteristics of childhood food allergies. Symptoms of food allergies of children.
Nickel allergies. The allergy to nickel metal can be by contact or ingestion of said metal. Depending on this, the symptoms will be one or the other. If it is due to skin contact, the allergic reaction is usually rash or dermatitis. It is a chronic disease that has higher and lower incidence peaks.
Allergies to drugs in children. Allergies to drugs in children. Allergies to medicines in children. Allergic reactions to medications and drugs in children. Symptoms and treatment of drug allergies in children.
Allergy to dust in children. One of the most common and annoying respiratory allergies among children is allergy to dust mites. Also it is not a seasonal allergy. It is present throughout the year. But what are mites? Where are they? What can we do to avoid this child allergy to household dust?
Child allergies to insect bites. Allergy of children to insect bites. During the summer period, the activity of certain insects such as wasps, bees, flies or mosquitoes increases, which is why there is a greater risk of suffering stings and allergic reactions from the second bite.
Allergy to the sun in children. Child allergy Allergy to the sun Among the allergic reactions to the sun, we must distinguish two types: one is solar urticaria, which is triggered directly by the sun, and the other is the photoallergic reaction, which is caused by other substances when they come in contact with sunlight .


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EAPN Spain awarded the Golden Cross of Social Solidarity
EAPN National Networks NewsBy Nellie Epinat March 12, 2009
Her Majesty Queen Sofia awards EAPN-Spain the Golden Cross of the Civil Order of Social Solidarity 2008 for the quality of its work in fighting poverty and exclusion and in promoting participation of people at social risk.
EAPN National Networks NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff March 12, 2009
EAPN letter to the EPSCO Council: Put People and Respect for the European Social Model first
EAPN position papers and reportsBy Nellie Epinat March 9, 2009
Ahead of the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (EPSCO) on 9-10 March 2009, EAPN has written to the Ministers regarding the impact of the crisis on people in poverty and anti poverty organisations. In their letter, EAPN puts forward short and long term proposals to ensure that the needs of people experiencing…
EAPN position papers and reportsBy EAPN Europe Staff March 9, 2009
Ahead of the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (EPSCO) on 9-10 March 2009, EAPN has written to the Ministers regarding the impact of the crisis on people in poverty and anti poverty organisations. In their letter, EAPN puts forward short and long term proposals to ensure that the needs of people experiencing poverty are included in the response to the crisis.
Press Release: Anti Poverty NGOs hit by the crisis
EAPN Press releasesBy EAPN Europe Staff March 5, 2009
Brussels, 9 March 2009 – Ahead of the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (EPSCO) on 9-10 March 2009, EAPN has written to the Ministers regarding the impact of the crisis on people in poverty and anti poverty organisations.
EAPN Ireland establishes 2010 NGO working group
EAPN National Networks NewsBy Nellie Epinat February 26, 2009
EAPN Ireland has been invited to participate in the Advisory Group to the National Implementation Body (NIB) for the Year in Ireland.
EAPN National Networks NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff February 26, 2009
Will the Economic Crisis force a stronger pillar in Lisbon? EAPN publishes social inclusion scoreboard
EAPN NewsBy Nellie Epinat February 24, 2009
The report demonstrates how the Lisbon strategy has continued to sideline social inclusion – leading in some cases to more poverty not less and continues to undermine the EU's investment in vital social protection systems.
EAPN NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff February 24, 2009
Press release: EAPN puts forward 10 Demands on social cohesion and the fight against poverty for the next European Parliament
Brussels, 23 February 2009 – With 79 million people in the EU facing poverty, with growing inequalities within and outside the EU, EAPN is calling on the future MEPs to seriously commit to the fight against poverty and to the achievement of greater social cohesion.
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