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"... we discovered from the deck the commencement of embankment or "Levee," which extends, on both sides of the river, to more than one hundred and fifty miles above New-Orleans. This levee is properly a dike, thrown up on the verge of the river, from twenty-five to thirty feet in breadth, and two feet higher than high-water mark; leaving a ditch, or fosse, on the inner side, of equal breadth, from which the earth to form the levee is taken. Consequently, as the land bordering on the river is dead level, and without the security of the levee, overflowed at half tides, when the river is full, or within twenty inches, as it often is, of the top of the embankment, the surface of the river will be four feet higher than the surface of the country; the altitude of the inner side of the levee being usually six feet above the general surface of the surrounding land. This is a startling truth; and at first leads to reflections by no means favorable to their results, to the safety, either of the lives or property of the inhabitants of the lowlands of Louisiana. But closer observation affords the assurance that however threatening a mass of water four feet in height, two thousand five hundred in breadth, and of infinite length, may be in appearance, experience has not shown to any great extent, that the residents on the borders of this river have in reality, more to apprehend from an inundation, so firm and efficacious is their levee, than those who reside in more apparent security, upon the elevated banks of our flooding rivers of the north."
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Plan of the project to widen the levee of the Second Municipality in order to facilitate the loading and unloading of steamboats, flatboats and other small vessels, Joseph Pilie, June 15, 1827. The plan also provides a detailed view of the wooden revetments used, quite successfully, to reinforce the levee within the City's limits.
[City Surveyor's Office Records]
As the plan shown here indicates, the levee at New Orleans was, and is, something quite different from the seemingly endless green hill that parallels the Mississippi above and below the Crescent City. The city's levee was in some ways as much a quay (i.e., "an artificial bank or landing-place ... lying along or projecting into a navigable water for convenience of loading and unloading ships"--Oxford English Dictionary) as it was an impediment against inundation by the river's angry waters. Not that it did not succeed admirably in the latter role. New Orleans has never been flooded by a break in the river levee within the limits of the city proper. Flood waters have rushed through crevasses in neighboring Jefferson Parish and then seethed into the city from the west, but our own levees have held for 280 years.
But much of the New Orleans levee is covered by the city's wharves and has been for many years. In earlier times the wharves were anchored in the levee and angled out into the river. Wharves were the connections between water craft and the shore and the levee was the place where cargoes were kept before or after being loaded onto or unloaded from ships. The city's wharves were constantly being rebuilt and modernized and, by the late 19th century at least, the old style of wharf had been replaced by structures that lay alongside, rather than perpendicular to, the levee. By 1939, the Corps of Engineers could write in its Port Series No. 5 that "Practically all of the wharves along the east or left bank of the Mississippi River parallel the river bank, thereby nearly forming a continuous quay for a distance of approximately 10 miles."


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But in fact this proposed law has nothing to do with helping me hear at all; the purpose of the bill is to make it easier to buy a silencer and thus make it harder for me to hear the sound of a gun being shot off, a noise which, by the way, is a good thing to hear because it tells me that someone may be using a gun in a dangerous and unsafe way.
Deborah Meier wrote in Education Week recently wit an interesting question.
It was the proliferation of charters that made me pause and worry about how choice could work against the values I was presumably promoting. Small schools of choice soon became a way of resegregating where integration had begun to be practiced. It also pitted teachers and parents against each other as they were asked to share limited space. And, soon it began to seem as though it was also a way of dividing a community's efforts at improving all their schools. Bus trips to Albany were conducted by competing groups with competing external sponsors—serving however the same community. And, of course, sometimes families were attending schools in districts where they didn't live and in the process, some districts lost valuable parent leaders and activists who solved their personal interests without tackling the larger dilemmas facing their neighbors.
Meier's question is on the surface pretty simple. Can the progressive impulse be put back in the forefront of the charter-choice question? She didn't ask me, but I'm answering anyway.
And the reason for my answer is also simple.
There are two main reasons that money will remain a barrier to progressive school choice paradise.
First, there's been no attempt to actually fund such a system. Instead, every attempt at a charter-choice system has been founded on the premise that we can fund multiple school systems with the same money previously used to fund just one system. That premise is nuts. The result is a zero-sum Battle to the Death cage match between public and charter schools, resulting in some of the issues Meier notes above. Not enough resources, building space, quality teachers, expensive administrators and just plain funding to go around.
The only solution for this problem is a bunch of brave politicians who will stand up and say, "We think that having a choice-based multi-school system is so important that we are going to appropriate a bunch of new tax dollars to fund it." That seems unlikely, particularly in those states where the legislators are unwilling to fully fund the system they already have.
But even if full funding somehow magically happened, that would not solve Problem Number 2. That because Problem Number 2 is also money.
A charter-choice system as currently conceived is about unleashing the free market, and the free market feeds on money. Many states are well along in the transformation of education from a public service sector to a free market profit-seeking sector, and the result is not pretty. A charter school founded and run by local folks and based on progressive values is already quaint, like a Mom and Pop corner grocery store. There's money to be made in the charter biz, and a whole bunch of people who want to make it.
Free market fans will insist (many of them sincerely) that the drive to make money will lead to top notch quality schools for every child in the US. There is not a lick of evidence to support this view, and plenty of evidence that it is wrong. You can find plenty of arguments here from me, but for the moment, let me just toss out one question– can you name one business sector that has thrived by producing a top-quality product that gets to every single person in the country? In the meantime, the pursuit of money through charters has led to elbowing aside all obstacles, including the local community members and taxpayers whose school it supposed to be, and satisfying some of the less admirable desires if the marketplace, like a school free from Those People.
As long as education is a big beautiful football field with bags of money buried all through it available to anyone who liberates them, people will show up with shovels and backhoes and plastic forks and dig holes until nobody can really play the game the field was meant for in the first place.
Until charter choice systems are fully funded and carefully regulated, they will never return to their roots. But right now too many operators smell too much money for us to go back easily.
This afternoon the set was struck and the stage swept clean. We've come to the end of this year's spring musical. As always it was one of the highlights of my year, and as always, it reminded me of how inadequate so many of our educational models are.
There are weeks of rehearsal, learning music, learning choreography, working on blocking and lines and the underlying character work that goes with all of that. We have a cast of students in 7-12 grade in very many levels of skill and experience.
That means that in the course of assembling the show, each student learns a different set of lessons that depend a great deal on what roles they receive and what skills they bring to the table, as well as their ambition and adventurousness of spirit.
So this educational experience is extremely personalized, and that means far more than I have twelve lessons to choose from and a computer picks the next one based on how the last one turned out. My lead actor may need to learn about comedic timing, while one of my chorus folks may need to learn about the importance of the chorus in a show. My leading actress may need to learn about how to flesh out a character when the writers haven't given you much to work with. But the list of lessons will be different for every different role and every different cast member.
The lessons also vary with directors. This program is a co-op that allows my school to join in with a school just across town, and I split directing duties with an old friend who heads up the other school's program. We've divided up duties many different ways over the years, and it works because we work well together. Every theater production is a collaboration of some sort, and that collaboration is always shaped by the approaches of the people involved. Some directors have a very specific vision for the actors to bring to life, while others like to leave spaces for the actors to fill in with their own choices. We tend toward the latter, but some actors are more comfortable with the former and all sorts of combinations can get good results (and the requirements of the script itself also make a difference). All of which means that if you showed up with a specific program for exactly how a director should put together a show, I would laugh at you. Here we are with a performance based task that literally comes with a script-– and yet only a fool would claim that the script is all you need to produce a great show.
Likewise, putting on a show is the very definition of a performance-based learning experience. Yet if we were to follow the PBL model currently favored, we would break the show down into a checklist. Does the actor know the lines? Check. Does the actor know the blocking? Check. Can the actor put on her costume? Check. And on and on and even if I have checked off every micro-credential on the list, that is not the same thing as actually performing the show. Nor do we build toward that performance capability by working down the list one separate performance task at a time, because they are all part of a greater whole.
And those tasks would be performed for an evaluator, an assessor of some sort, which is not the ultimate goal. Our show was performed in front of an audience, and because it was a comedy, the audience reaction was a critical part of performance (in fact, on our second night, I saw something I've never seen in school or community theater before– the show was stopped by audience laughter). Unlike competency-based education, which presumes that competencies can be approached as separate, discrete skills that can be measured through proxies, tasks that aren't the real thing. There is no checklist that would have substituted for dress rehearsal, no assessment more valuable than audience reactions in performance.
And speaking of assessments– at no point in the eight-week process of preparing the show would a multiple-choice standardized test have been useful.At no point in the process did anyone think, "Hey, we need to do some assessments here to make sure that everyone is on track for a good performance." It would have been a pointless, useless waste of time.
In fact, standardization of any type is useless in this process. I have no idea how many productions of The Addams Family have been put on in community and school theaters at this point, but I will bet you the farm, the rent money, and a full box of donuts that not one of those productions looks exactly like any other. It's true that nobody who saw our production would have mistaken it for Hamlet or Oh Calcutta, but every production exists at the intersection of a specific cast, director, school, community, and stage (ours has no fly gallery, so that affects set design considerably). School theater in particular has to make adjustments for things as simple as language and as substantial as character gender (I can tell you, for instance, that interesting things happen to the subtext of Disney's Beauty and the Beast when Belle's crazy father Maurice is replaced by Belle's crazy mother Marie). It is those specific variations that most often give the special flavor and quality to the local production; the deviations from the standard are a source of excellence, not treatment-demanding flaw.
I love working with students and theater (despite the giant chunks of my life that it demands) because it is an experience that, in an absolutely authentic manner, helps each student grow and learn and discover new greatness in herself. It is an absolutely real learning and growth experience, which is why I'm always struck by how completely it does not match any of the assumptions about real learning made by the forces of ed reform. This is what real learning and growth look like, and they don't resemble the whole standard-driven test-centered punishment-fueled system that has been forced on us for the past fifteen years.
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2048: No Australian, Canadian, US, EU, Brazilian, or Japanese city over 30k population allows manually driven autos inside their borders.
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I'm not sure which way the spread of self-driving car technology is going to go, but I see three basic options.
Option one: The Epic Fail.
In this scenario self-driving cars grow in popularity and start becoming common. Some major cities start banning manual-drive cars from major pedestrian malls in their city centers. Everything's going great!
And then, BAM! A widespread software glitch, virus, or cyberattack strikes a large number of cars. Maybe it's a given make or model of car, or every car running a certain app or receiving a certain update or patch. Thousands of cars crash, either physically, in the software sense, or both. Thousands of people are hurt in the space of hours, or even minutes. Hundreds of people die. Emergency rooms and ambulance services are overwhelmed. Video of hospitals performing triage in parking lots and stacked body bags hits the news. Victims appear on talk shows and media broadcasts.
There's a huge anti-self-driving public outcry. Politicians pass laws to restrict the hell out of self-driving car technology. Carmakers pull back on producing them. It takes a century or two for the public to even consider allowing self-driving cars again, and even longer for laws restricting them to be withdrawn — if they ever are.
Option Two: City Drivers.
Self-driving cars become a little like hunting: mostly a rural thing, and a point of pride for many rural folks to distinguish themselves from "soft" urban types. Small towns and unincorporated areas may allow self-driving vehicles, but social pressure causes many people living in these areas to avoid them. The demand this preserves for manual-drive cars keeps carmakers supplying them and prevents the areas that favor them from passing laws restricting them.
At the same time, larger towns and cities do restrict manual-drive cars, barring them from downtown areas at least. Larger cities ban manual driving within city limits.
This division creates additional barriers and friction between rural and urban areas — it becomes more difficult for someone living and driving in one to visit the other — and as urban areas continue to grow, rural unrest and dissatisfaction with government and city people grows. Potentially, this may fuel separatism and worse political division of Americans than currently exists, and fuel similar social conflict in other nations as well.
Option three: Self-Driving Cars Take Over
In this scenario, self-driving car technology continues to develop quickly and by the time people born in the 2010s grow up self-driving cars dominate the roads. A decade after that, so many areas, including whole counties and even states, outlaw manual driving that even if you could find a manual car to buy there's be barely anywhere to drive it. Manual-drive cars are only popular in racing sports and on closed tracks and private property as a rich person's hobby.
The 20 years of the switchover creates a situation in which there are few of the older cars that the poor rely on for transportation available to buy. Self-driving technology replaces the cars of the poor with pay-per-ride apps, which are no more expensive as long as the poor choose to use them seldom and for short distances at non-peak periods. The availability of pay-per-ride self-drivers disrupts public transportation systems with low ridership; many collapse or contract. Some poor and working-class people are forced out of rural areas due to the greater reliance on people owning their own transportation in those areas, leading to an increase in the rural-to-city population shift.
By the time older self-driving cars are available for the poor to buy at low cost, the new social norm is set and few people buy those cars, distrusting the cost of upkeep and relatively large outlay.
It's a relative good for most, but not for the bottom ten percent of income earners.
So. There are the major options as I see them. Got another idea? Let me know in the comments. 🙂
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The Piazza at Castle Towers has always been a popular food destination over the years - and this is still just as much the case today.
It's bustling and busy with some dining there before hitting the movies next door while others just settle in there for the night.
Taste of Malaya, like many of the other places in this precinct, is a longish restaurant. It has a lovely outdoor area for al fresco dining under cover as well as a larger indoor area stretching back from the Piazza.
We started with the roti - as we often do when eating Malaysian.
It was a thinner roti than we've normally had, but still with the complexity of many layers and it tasted lovely.
A few glasses of the house red - a very affordable Merlot - capped of a great start to the meal.
Red and roti is such a great combination at any time.
We've had plenty of mee goreng in our time - and it's still a favourite - but when we saw Duck Meat Malaysian Style Mee Goreng on the menu it was an instant choice. There was plenty of duck in this dish. It was a rich and quite tangy meal with a thickish tomato paste around thick noodles and interspersed with plenty of fresh chilli. We both agreed that this was one of our favourite dishes of the night.
Then it was on to another old favourite - beef rendang.
The beef in this dish was slow cooked and so tender it practically melted in our mouths.
The gravy, or curry, was nicely fragrant and rich, as it should be, and we even ladled it on our rice after the meat was gone.
Our final main course was a much lighter dish. It was Kapitan King Prawns.
These lightly battered King Prawns were big and juicy.
The sauce they were resting in was a mix of coconut, curry and lemon juice.
It was a mild sauce with fragrant flavour that didn't overpower the prawn meat. We loved this dish and would eagerly have it again - and again!
Taste of Malaya offers an interesting range of both Malaysian and Chinese dishes in a pleasant setting. The food tastes great and arrives quickly in good sized servings. Service is fast and friendly. It's an affordable place to go for a good meal.
Sir and Mlady's visit to Taste of Malaya was supported by the Malaysian Kitchen Programme.


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First United Methodist Church of Ashland
The First United Methodist Church was the first permanent church building in Ashland. With stained glass windows crafted by the Povey Brothers of Portland, it is one of the city's most beautiful and culturally significant landmarks. The church is a contributing property of the Skidmore Academy Historic District, which was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. The district constitutes the city's oldest residential area, where development began in the 1860s, a time when local Methodist families met in their homes with a circuit-rider preacher.
In July 1864, under the leadership of Rev. Philip M. Starr, fourteen Methodist families began to raise money for the construction of a normal school, a college, and a church. In 1872, Rev. Joseph H. Skidmore opened the Ashland Academy. The original church was constructed between 1875 and 1877 at 175 North Main Street, northwest of downtown Ashland. A simple one-story, white clapboard structure, the building served the Methodist community until a windstorm toppled the steeple on March 10, 1904.
Beginning in 1908, the present church was largely rebuilt on the stone foundations of the earlier church in an eclectic mix of the Queen Anne and craftsman styles. The primary eastern façade features a broad gable with a large central arch of stained glass. Above the original main entrance, at the northeastern corner, is a square bell tower. The exterior walls are white clapboard, with decorative shingles in a contrasting gray tone. In 1987, Rev. Nevitt Smith oversaw the construction of a large assembly space, Wesley Hall. Between 2006 and 2008, during the tenure of pastor Rev. Michael Powell, Wesley Hall was connected to the church with an addition to the western side of the historic structure, which is now the main entrance to the sanctuary.
The interior of the church is oriented with the front altar to the south and a rear balcony with balustrade to the north. An elegant tin ceiling with embossed white tiles displays interlaced and crossed acanthus patterns. A Reuter pipe organ, installed in 1929, is located behind the altar. Pipes were added to the instrument in 1989, and a polished brass Fanfare Trumpet made by Hochhalter was installed in 2004 in honor of Beverly Smith, wife of the pastor Rev. Smith. The church is known for its music programs.
Twenty-six stained glass windows were crafted for the church by the Povey Brothers of Portland. The glass, imported from Kokomo, Indiana, was designed, painted, and assembled in Povey's studio, and the windows were installed during the 1908 rebuilding project. The large façade arch consists of a set of four stained glass windows with Christ Praying in the Garden of Gethsemane at the top. Most of the other windows feature Art Nouveau designs as well as selected Christian motifs such as the Alpha and the Omega, a dove, a sheaf of wheat with a scythe and rake, and crosses. A pair of windows to the west of the altar features a commemorative inscription: "In memory of the pioneer founders of this Church, who builded [sic] better than they knew."
A project to restore the church's historic windows was led by Linda Rae Barker Monroe, who was chair of the board of trustees from 2009 to 2013. Between 2010 and 2014, Tim and Dal Yockey of the Canterbury Stained Glass Company of Ashland replaced individual pieces of cracked glass and strengthened each window by adding new lead and solder.
One of the church's best-known pastors was Rev. J. Ross Knotts (1950-1957), who founded the church's Camp Latgawa in Eagle Point in 1953 and was known for his progressive, open-minded perspective. During his tenure, Ashland was a "sundown town," and nonwhites were required to leave the city before sunset. One day an African American family's car broke down in Ashland. No one would assist them except Knotts, who gave the chief of police a sermon about helping one's fellow man. His legacy carries on in the church, which became a Reconciling Congregation in 2008, open to everyone regardless of race or ethnicity, political persuasion, socio-economic background, or sexual orientation.
First United Methodist Church of Ashland, postcard c.1907-1915
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Darling, John. "150 Years of Faith: Ashland's First United Methodist Church Celebrates Notable Anniversary." Ashland Daily Tidings, July 10, 2014. http://www.dailytidings.com/article/20140710/NEWS02/407100310
Eastman, Janet. "Church Volunteer Leads Effort to Restore Historic Church's Stained-Glass Windows." Ashland Daily Tidings, August 27, 2013. http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130827/NEWS02/308270305
Kramer, George, with Katherine C. Atwood. "Skidmore Academy Historic District." Nomination Form for the National Register of Historic Places (2000): http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/01000832.pdf
Lewis, Graham. "This Old House of Worship." Ashland Daily Tidings, May 3, 2004. http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040503/NEWS03/305039999
O'Harra, Marjorie. Ashland: The First 130 Years. Jacksonville, Ore.: The Southern Oregon Historical Society, 1981.
O'Harra, Marjorie. The Ashland Story. Ashland, Ore.: Lewis Osborne, 1971.
Peterson, Joe. Ashland. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2009.
First Methodist Church (Salem)
Founded in 1841 by Jason Lee and members of the Methodist Episcopal Church's Oregon Mission to the Kalapuya people, the First Methodist Church in Salem is the oldest of that denomination (and its successor, the United Methodist Church) west of the Rocky Mountains. The building is listed on the National ...
First Presbyterian Church (Portland)
First Presbyterian Church of Portland, organized in January 1854 just three years after the city was incorporated, was the third Presbyterian church in the Oregon Territory. Among its members were many prominent Portland families, including Ainsworths, Corbetts, Couches, Kamms, Ladds, and Schuylers. The first permanent sanctuary of the church, built in 1864 ...
First Unitarian Church (Portland)
In 1866, the Ladies Sewing Circle, a small group of Portland women from the New England states, led by Mary Frazier, raised $2,000 for a church that reflected their belief in liberal Christianity. They bought land at Southwest 7th and Yamhill and built a structure in 1867. A young ...
Hinson Memorial Baptist Church
The year was 1857, two years before Oregon statehood, when a group of citizens met at the home of merchant Josiah Failing, later mayor of Portland, to form First Baptist Church on October 26. Fifteen years later, First Baptist saw the need to start a mission Sunday school across the ...
North Palestine Baptist Church (Benton County)
Modest country churches are rare on the twenty-first century Oregon landscape. The North Palestine Baptist Church in Adair Village, built in about 1883 and listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2013, is one such building. Acknowledged for its simple, elegant blend of Classical Revival and Gothic Revival ...


Adult survivors of childhood trauma are misunderstood, misjudged, and mistreated. They face an ongoing battle of shame, stigma, and disbelief–not just from individuals but from society.
They're adults now. The past shouldn't still be affecting them.
They just need to move on. Put the past behind them.
Why are you bringing this up now? You should have said something years ago.
What do you mean he just remembered the abuse now? It if really happened, he would have remembered it years ago. And he should have said something years ago.
You need to forgive and give your pain to God.
Nothing can be done about it now.
There are also the misinformed conclusions about survivors' symptoms.
What's the matter with him? Why can't he get his life together?
Why does he always end up dating people like that?
Why can't she stop drinking, lose weight, keep a job. . .?
She's doing this for attention.
He's just being lazy, passive, manipulative, a victim.
She's just making up her struggles with that illness. She told me the doctors can't find anything wrong. There's nothing really wrong with her.
This is the reality of what adult survivors of childhood trauma face.
It is also the reality of what partners and families who support an adult survivor face too. We too, are deeply impacted by the misinformation and misunderstanding that is so prevalent.
In part 1 of this series, Here's How I Became an Advocate for Survivors of Childhood Abuse (& How You Can Too), I shared my story of recovery from childhood trauma and my subsequent advocacy journey from self-advocate to advocate for my survivor husband to advocate for adult survivors.
I've put together a list of twenty reasons adult survivors need advocates. It's certainly not extensive and I'd love to hear more reasons from you by email or through social media.
But here's my list so far.
1. Childhood trauma occurs during early development. This means that the developing brain is especially vulnerable to the impact of trauma.
The job of the brain is to keep a person alive. When a child lives in an abusive environment, the brain adapts or changes in response to the situation to keep the child alive. Although life-saving at the time, these adaptations ultimately prove maladaptive as the person grows into adulthood when survival is no longer threatened. These maladaptations create difficulties for the adult survivor.
2. Due to the trauma in childhood, key developmental stages may be missed.
A brain focused on survival is not concerned with acquiring the normal skills of childhood. The adult survivor may have missed out on areas like socialization, learning how to plan or make decisions, and how to manage stress.
These skills do not magically appear upon adulthood. Survivors who did not acquire skills as children must learn them as adults.
3. Survivors may have difficulty managing distressing emotions.
Learning to regulate or to calm oneself is a skill gained during childhood from caregivers. However, if caregivers are unavailable, neglectful, or abusive, the child does not learn how to self-calm. Adding to the dilemma is the heightened distress from the abuse.
Survivors who do not know how to regulate themselves are susceptible to developing addictions or other unhealthy coping strategies.
Dr. Gabor Maté writes in his book In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts that the source of addictions is not to be found in genes but in the early childhood environment.
4. Survivors who do not know how to regulate themselves are susceptible to developing addictions or other unhealthy coping strategies.
A part of the brain called Broca's region shuts down when trauma occurs. This region will continue to shut down when flashbacks occur or when survivors are asked about the abuse.
5. Forcing a survivor to talk about past trauma can retraumatize him or her and cause a resurgence of symptoms.
Please respect their privacy and their choice as to how much, with whom, and when they share.
6. Childhood abuse is relational trauma as it often occurs in the context of early caregiving relationships.
These relationships serve as the foundation upon which all other relationships are built. If trust and intimacy are broken in this context, survivors will deeply struggle with other relationships.
High rates of relational breakdown, including divorce, are common. Many survivors live in isolation due to fear of intimacy.
7. Many survivors cannot count on family members to believe or to support them.
This is different than other conditions in which family members often play a positive and supportive role during recovery.
Abuse within family environments is thought to make up two-thirds of all child sexual abuse, and as few as one in eight victims come to the attention of authorities, previous research by the commissioner's office found.
Some survivors have now described feeling abandoned after telling their families about the trauma they had suffered, and in powerful testimonies they spoke of their frustrations at a lack of support. Child victims of sexual abuse in families let down by system: report. The Guardian. April 20, 2017.
8. Adult survivors may not able to detect the signs of unhealthy relationships.
This can lead to the formation of predator-victim relationships again.
9. Childhood trauma survivors often struggle with dissociation.
Dissociation is the brain's way of protecting a child who has no escape. Once set in motion, through no fault of their own, the brains of adult survivors continue this once-protective mechanism when experiencing a trigger. Dissociation is not a choice.
10. They may have issues with memory, planning, and decision making.
Again, these struggles are rooted in brain development.
11. High levels of stress hormones from abuse may contribute to higher than average rates of physical health conditions including autoimmune diseases, heart disease, and cancer.
12. Treatment involves many modalities, which can be difficult to find.
Unfortunately, comprehensive trauma treatment, called trauma-informed and trauma-specific, is difficult to find.
13. Treatment is expensive. Wait times can be long.
The cost can prevent survivors from seeking help. The wait times for affordable care are often long.
14. Many therapists receive little to no training in trauma at either the undergraduate or graduate level.
15. Childhood trauma impacts employment.
Many survivors' symptoms are so severe that they cannot work either short-term or permanently.
16. There are stigma and shame to the admission of abuse by those who should have cared for you.
17. There is not a separate diagnosis for the traumatic stress of childhood trauma.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-V places childhood trauma of this nature under Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. However, trauma clinicians admit that this diagnosis is not adequate. Trauma experts Bessel van der Kolk, Judith Herman, and Martin H Teicher suggest diagnoses like developmental trauma disorder or complex PTSD as more accurate descriptions of the causes and symptoms of childhood trauma.
18. The medical system often does not ask about a childhood trauma history leaving patients vulnerable to misdiagnoses and a host of unrelated treatments.
When symptoms don't respond because the root causes are not addressed, survivors are vulnerable to hopelessness, despair, shame, and suicide.
19. Abuse of all types is often minimized or dismissed by the legal system.
In addition, reporting to police or pursuing litigation can be re-traumatizing for survivors. Most survivors do not take legal action even though they are victims of crime.
20. The impact of unresolved childhood trauma does not diminish with time.
Without opportunities to heal and to recover in the context of trauma-informed therapists, coaches, support groups, partners, and friends, there is a high likelihood of the individual not moving forward.
Above all, adult survivors of childhood abuse are vulnerable.
What do vulnerable people need? They need protection, support, resources, funding, care, and advocacy. They need to be heard, understood, and validated. They need dignity and respect.
Adult survivors need these things too.
This is why adult survivors need advocates.
Why do you think adult survivors need advocates?
Let me know in the comments, send me an email, or drop me a note on social media. I'll keep a list and update this one (all added comments will remain anonymous).


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launched TICKET to Success, SPARK's job training and peer support program, at NFSC in Uganda. Rosette Serwanga traveled to Uganda for a month in Fall 2008 to engage in extensive strategic planning and coordination with the Ugandan and USA NFSC Boards in order to launch TICKET to Success for young people at NFSC. Dr. Vibbert participated in a number of meetings and a one-day retreat with the NFSC USA Board in Massachusetts to confirm SPARK's role in child-oriented partnership activities, and promote knowledge exchange partnerships going forward.


The Ramban tells us in Parshas Va'eschanan that keeping the Mishpatim is "tiferes" (beauty), and even the Gentiles will praise the Jews for following them. Not only that, it brings the Jews closer to Hashem. One must explain what is so compelling about Mishpat that elicits such a response from the nations of the world.
The Gemora in Sanhedrin tells us that one who judges a "Din Emes L'amito" (a truthful, true judgement), becomes a partner in the Creation of the World. The commentators grapple with the expression "Din Emes L'amito" because a judgement is either true or false, and further, why indeed is such a judgement compared to creating the world? The fundamental position of a judge demands him to be impartial. We as creatures on this planet are affected either positively or negatively by all that happens to us and around us. It elicits from us either reactions or emotions, sometimes voluntarily and sometimes so sublime that we are not even aware of them. The gemora tells us that shochad (bribery) will work, even if the person being bribed is unaware of the graft that has fallen into his possession. (For example, if one of the litigants drops some coins into the judge's pocket without the judge even being aware of this act, Chazal tell us it will affect how the judge sees the case.) The Torah demands that the judge isolate himself from all of those feelings and thoughts in order to become totally objective. This vacuum, absent of all outside influences, is an environment that naturally existed before the Creation of the World. Possibly this is what Chazal are alluding to: That we have the ability to detach ourselves from the outside world to the point of becoming totally objective (This is the same vantage point from which Hashem created the world).
The sefer Bat Ayin on this week's parsha equates the Mishpatim and the way to achieve impartiality to the service of Hashem. Just as in the service of Hashem we sometimes start out shelo lishma (for the incorrect reasons) but we have an end goal to reach lishma (for the purpose of Hashem), Chazal tell us that if we pursue truth earnestly, we can indeed come to judge truthfully. The 'Tiferes', ultimate beauty of a Jew, is that in everything he does, he is not swayed by anything around him. When the other nations see this, they realize that we are a cut above.
I think that these words sound a bit aloof to us in our everyday lives, but in reality it is very relevant in how we interact with people. For instance, one has a client, a child or a friend, who in the past has wronged him. When we pick up the phone or start a conversation, we are demanded, at a certain level, to listen impartially and not be emotionally pulled in one direction (that does not mean we have to forget about the wrongdoing in the past). If we can detach ourselves and judge each situation with its own value, we are indeed becoming G-dly. Not only is it equal to being a partner in the Creation of the world, but I think such a person will live a life with an authenticity, which is not only sublime but also much less ambivalent.


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Periodically scan an POP3 mailbox for new emails.

## Synopsys

|      SETTING      |   TYPE   | REQUIRED |  DEFAULT VALUE  |
|-------------------|----------|----------|-----------------|
| interval          | interval | false    | ?               |
| host              | string   | true     | ""              |
| port              | int      | false    |             110 |
| secure            | bool     | false    | false           |
| username          | string   | true     | ""              |
| password          | string   | true     | ""              |
| dial_timeout      | int      | false    |              30 |
| delete            | bool     | false    | true            |
| strip_attachments | bool     | false    | false           |
| verify_cert       | bool     | false    | true            |
| sincedb_path      | string   | false    | : Host@Username |
| add_raw_message   | bool     | false    | false           |
| add_all_headers   | bool     | false    | false           |

## Details

### interval
* Value type is interval
* Default value is `?`

When new mail should be retreived from POP3 server ?
Nothing by default, as this processor can be used in filter

### host
* This is a required setting.
* Value type is string
* Default value is `""`

POP3 host name

### port
* Value type is int
* Default value is `110`

POP3 server's port.

When empty and secure is true (pop3s) the default port number is 995

### secure
* Value type is bool
* Default value is `false`

Use TLS POP3S connexion with server.
The default pop3s port is 995 in this case

### username
* This is a required setting.
* Value type is string
* Default value is `""`

POP3 mailbox Username

### password
* This is a required setting.
* Value type is string
* Default value is `""`

POP3 mailbox Password
you may use an env variable to pass value, like password => "${BITFAN_POP3_PASSWORD}"

### dial_timeout
* Value type is int
* Default value is `30`

How long to wait for the server to respond ?
(in second)

### delete
* Value type is bool
* Default value is `true`

Should delete message after retreiving it ?

When false, this processor will use sinceDB to not retreive an already seen message

### strip_attachments
* Value type is bool
* Default value is `false`

Add Attachements, Inlines, in the produced event ?
When false Parts are added like
```
 "parts": {
  {
    "Size":        336303,
    "Content":     $$ContentAsBytes$$,
    "Type":        "inline",
    "ContentType": "image/png",
    "Disposition": "inline",
    "FileName":    "Capture d'écran 2018-01-12 à 12.11.52.png",
  },
  {
    "Content":     $$ContentAsBytes$$,
    "Type":        "attachement",
    "ContentType": "application/pdf",
    "Disposition": "attachment",
    "FileName":    "58831639.pdf",
    "Size":        14962,
  },
},
```

### verify_cert
* Value type is bool
* Default value is `true`

When using a secure pop connexion (POP3S) should server'cert be verified ?

### sincedb_path
* Value type is string
* Default value is `: Host@Username`

Path of the sincedb database file

The sincedb database keeps track of the last seen message

Set it to `"/dev/null"` to not persist sincedb features

Tracks are done by host and username combination, you can customize this if needed giving a specific path

### add_raw_message
* Value type is bool
* Default value is `false`

Add a field to event with the raw message data ?

### add_all_headers
* Value type is bool
* Default value is `false`

Add a field to event with all headers as hash ?

## Configuration blueprint

```
pop3processor{
	interval => interval
	host => ""
	port => 110
	secure => false
	username => ""
	password => ""
	dial_timeout => 30
	delete => true
	strip_attachments => false
	verify_cert => true
	: sincedb_path => "/dev/null"
	add_raw_message => false
	add_all_headers => false
}
```

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Q: Dynamically coloring listview but only one column is the text being colored I used listview for my winform and ran in to a problem where the highlighted color was so light once the control lost focus that you could not see it. The text is not showing in the second column.
I found a blog that showed that you could color it yourself and have the last selected item show in the color you want.
This is my listview when I have OwnerDraw set to false:

You can see the 2nd column on this one.
This is what it looks like when I have OwnerDraw set to true:

While using this code:
  Private Sub lvModelsInfo_DrawItem(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As DrawListViewItemEventArgs)
    If e.Item.Selected Then
      e.Graphics.FillRectangle(New SolidBrush(Color.LightBlue), e.Bounds)
      e.Graphics.DrawString(e.Item.Text, ListView1.Font, New SolidBrush(Color.Black), e.Bounds.Location)

    Else
      e.Graphics.DrawString(e.Item.Text, ListView1.Font, New SolidBrush(Color.Black), e.Bounds.Location)
    End If
  End Sub

I've not worked with e.Graphics before. If I had to guess, I would think it had to do with the e.Bounds but I'm not sure.
Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

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The Washington, D.C., crisis-a-thon (or crisis-palooza) continues, which is good for nobody. While the markets react rationally to an irrational situation—meaning that they go up and down drastically—the world of IT and telecommunications soldiers on. This week, we saw the usual amount of interesting news and commentary. Here are some highlights.
Wireless charging is important both because it will make life easier for subscribers and because eliminating the massive waste represented by power cables is an important step in the green direction.
But the goal never seems to be achieved. This CNET story about Qualcomm's move to join the development groups to which it didn't already belong is important. For one thing, it describes what an influential company is doing. On the other hand, the story is a nice primer on the three consortia.
So far, the three camps have all employed technology that isn't compatible (although the PMA and WPC both employ the same kind of technology, called inductive charging). Qualcomm believes that everyone will eventually move to resonance charging, and decided to work with the different groups rather than let even more fractured standards develop.
One of the most overused expressions is the "Internet of Things." However, the phrase stands for something important—especially when it is used in relation to powerful chip maker Intel. This week, the company introduced products aimed at helping create the pervasive web of connectivity that underlies the Internet of Things.
The story also said that new as-yet-unnamed gateways will be launched by Intel during the first quarter of next year. One will be based on the Atom and one on the Quark processor.
This week, President Obama declined to veto a limited exclusion order banning the importation of some Samsung products that Apple won from the International Trade Commission. That means that the ban, which was set two months ago, has gone into effect. Obama had issued such a veto in a parallel case in which Samsung had won a decision against Apple, said the Ars Technica story.
U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said that the impact on Samsung would be negligible due to the age of the devices. Newer models, Froman said, had worked around the patents, which related to multitouch technology and headphone jack sensors.
Smart machines, which this piece at ZDNet also calls the digital workforce, will change things drastically. On first blush, the idea that this trend will take some of the workload off IT departments sounds like good news. But, as Larry Dignan points out in his report on a presentation at the Gartner Symposium and ITXpo, there is a big downside: The more machines do people's jobs, the fewer jobs there are for people to do.
The recap of the symposium points to a prediction by Gartner analyst Kenneth Brant that smart machines will take over millions of jobs by 2020. Gartner's advice to IT is to investigate the trend, determine the impact on IT, and be respectful of the human dimensions of the transition on the workers impacted.
Finally comes the next chapter in a story that sometimes makes folks happy and sometimes has the opposite effect. Depending on the perspective of the person answering the question, Google Glass and similar products from other vendors pose extraordinary security and privacy issues or offer equally extraordinary educational, vocational and entertainment opportunities.
This week, Fast Company posted a video and ran a story on the use of Google Glass by surgeons. The story says that Dr. Pierre Theodore, a surgeon in San Francisco, is using the device to look at CAT scans while he operates. The story notes that Philips and Accenture, the companies responsible for the video, see a great future for the technology in surgical and related settings.


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Republican Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted has certified the results of the presidential contest and other fall races.
Political campaigns and community organizers are making their final push to register people to vote today, the last day of registration.


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Driving research behind CWTL
Research Lead
"Can't Wait to Learn has been informed by research since its inception - particularly with regard to replication and scale up. Recent findings from Sudan show that children doing CWTL improved more in literacy and numeracy compared to those in state-provided education for out-of-school children over the same amount of time."
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The education gap
75 Million children experience disruption to their education as a result of humanitarian crises.
Access to quality education is limited - schools are scarce, teachers are overburdened and many children can't access formal education.
These challenges have led to a critical education gap - a gap not met by current levels of humanitarian funding.
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Can't Wait to Learn has been informed by research and evidence since its inception. Studies have been undertaken to prove that the concept works in different settings. Learning progress has been monitored and feedback from users serves to inform and improve all game content. Research has also indicated that the possibilities for programme expansion are significant - the model promises to be empowering, flexible and cost-effective at wide scale. Learn more about how research informs the programme every step of the way.
Can't Wait to Learn utilises custom gaming technology to deliver quality education - no matter where children live. The programme offers children affected by conflict the opportunity to (continue to) learn to read and count through playing educational games played on tablet devices.
All design elements are created in partnership with children themselves. This means children are immersed in a world that reflects their experiences - and can focus on learning right away.
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In Sudan, research results show that Can't Wait to Learn children improved significantly. Nearly twice as much in maths and almost 2.7 times as much in reading, when compared to the Government Alternative Learning Programme (ALP).
Can't Wait to Learn is driven through collaboration with partners from the humanitarian sector and beyond. The programme draws on the power of partnerships across many sectors - including Ministries of Education, technology experts, researchers, implementation partners and international donors.
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Can't Wait to Learn is currently active in six countries:
Seven research studies have been conducted in three of these countries in which Can't Wait to Learn is operational.
Can't Wait to Learn - the EdTech programme driven by War Child Holland and partners - has entered into a new research phase thanks to funding from IDRC and GPE through the Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (KIX) initiative. The research will determine how education technology innovations can be adapted and scaled, to improve education access and quality.
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Research will be undertaken to identify the adaptations and conditions needed for successful scale up of CWTL in collaboration with the respective ministries of education, international organisations and national research institutes.
The Can't Wait to Learn research agenda evaluates programme economy, efficiency, effectiveness and equity performance as measured against the Value for Money framework of the UK Department for International Development (DFID).
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Meet our Research and Development Team
Jasmine Turner is the Research Lead for Can't Wait to Learn. Jasmine has significant experience in working with children with special education needs and holds a Master's degree in Global Mental Health, with a focus on research in conflict-affected settings.
Jasmine is currently completing a PhD aiming to design and evaluate an approach to strengthen the role of caregivers in children's education to increase access, attendance and retention in education programmes within conflict-affected settings.


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Osage Reviews...DEVIL (Blu-ray; Universal/Media Rights Capital/The Night Chronicles)
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Studio Name: Universal (Media Rights Capital/The Night Chronicles)
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Disc/Transfer Information: 1080p 2.40:1; Region 1 (U.S.) Release
Tested Audio Track: English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Director: John Erick Dowdle
Starring Cast: Chris Messina, Logan Marshall-Green, Geoffrey Arend
BAD THINGS HAPPEN FOR A REASON.
PLOT ANALYSIS:
Devil wants to be something more than it is – it strives to dip into surreal supernatural themes, but doesn't succeed, further justifying its PG-13 rating. Actually, it plays just like an M. Night Shyamalan film always does, and even though he wasn't in the director's chair for this one, his influences as a co-producer and storywriter are all over the place. What does a Shyamalan film play like? Well, you know…the attempt at making a serious piece of cinema with serious subject matter and overtones that slowly collapses into soft, irrelevant and downright boring material; I never understood the appeal of this guy as a filmmaker, and everyone appears to go ga-ga over him. Sure, The Sixth Sense was intriguing and I actually needed to see it twice to get many things I missed the first time (signs of a well-executed script), but beyond that, I just can't seem to stomach any of Night's subsequent releases including the disappointing Signs, The Village and The Happening. The curious thing about his projects is that they all begin with somewhat great potential – the subject matter is in place for an excellent thrill ride, if executed properly. Something creepy going on in some remote farm village? That sounds cool. Some alien-type conspiracy power taking over people as Marky Mark leads a handful of survivors? Okay. Mel Gibson attempting to figure out why there are crop circles in his back yard while on TV, cameras catch glimpses of shadowy figures abducting humans? I'm on board. But yet the final products of these stories are massive letdowns, made all the more painful by a soft approach to filmmaking, in my opinion, on behalf of Shyamalan; in Devil, you can definitely feel his influence.
Again, here we had trailers that suggested something hyper-supernatural and exciting, with a group of people trapped in an elevator with supposedly some kind of evil entity. Left to someone like David Cronenberg, this may have been an out of control gore splashfest while simultaneously exhibiting psychological elements to drive the viewer to near madness; with John Erick Dowdle and Shyamalan, this plays almost like a made-for-cable Lifetime film. What I did like about this was that a group of near-nobodys was assembled to be cast, so that we didn't have Robert De Niro, Al Pacino or even Ryan Reynolds trapped in that elevator car – it's refreshing every now and then to watch something that doesn't include A-list talent, and it's what made films like Wes Craven's Red Eye so engaging on different levels. The plot revolves around a group of apparent strangers who become trapped together in an elevator within a downtown Philadelphia building; a rough looking Caucasian man, an African-American security guard from the building, an old lady, a freaky looking mattress salesman that looks an awful lot like the late star Jamie Gillis and a cute professional girl. As the film proceeds and introduces characters, there is narration by one of the Latino guards sitting behind the security desk, telling the story about his mother and how she would know about the devil and when he would arrive in certain places. The narration is neither frightening nor effective in keeping up what we perceive to be a "creepy mood;" the entire thing felt very amateurish.
As the group proceeds to their floors in the elevator, it suddenly stops and they're caught inside. The security guards watching the cameras send a maintenance guy to check out what's going on – but the Latin guard's narration tells us that the devil always kills anyone who tries to interfere in his plots and plans, suggesting to us this maintenance guy is going to die a horrible death. Meanwhile, inside the elevator, tempers and hostilities are rising – the lights have gone out a few times, and with each blackout, someone in the group is touched or otherwise injured. The women of the group blame the mattress salesman, who appears to be a sexist pig, and the black security guard begins looming and threatening the men to leave the women alone. One by one, the group is viciously murdered with each blackout, as we hear the swooping attacks of someone or some…thing inside that elevator car. The notion that "the devil" is killing these people in an elevator car is so riddled with irrelevant and boring sentiments, and we would just about give up on this until a ray of hope for this plot comes in the form of a quick supernatural flash of a demonic face – upon studying the played back video from the elevator's cameras, the Latin security guard pauses the video during one of the blackouts and can make out a seething image of a demonic face superimposed over the group trapped in the elevator. Claiming this to be a sign that the devil is actually in that car, amongst the passengers – perhaps as one of the passengers themselves – the guard attempts to explain this to Philadelphia police detectives who have arrived on the scene. The notion was more entertaining than anything that had come before it so far.
Also worth mentioning is that someone apparently committed suicide out of one of the offices of this building earlier that day, in which the same detectives were dispatched to the scene of the broken, shattered glass below on the street. Now in the same building, dealing with an apparent homicidal murderer that is offing people in an elevator, the cops are sure something odd is happening here. Of course, with the warning narration we received from the Latino security guard, the maintenance guy that was dispatched to help the passengers stuck in the elevator has been killed by something and thrown onto the roof of the elevator car to the passengers' complete horror. And still, the lights keep going out in the car, and the remainder of the passengers left are continuously attacked in the dark, until only two of them are left – which one of these are the devil? Is it even the devil doing these things? Why are these specific people being killed in this specific elevator?
These are some of the questions that can be answered by watching Devil – however, let me forewarn you: There's a bit of a backstory to one of the characters that are left of the bunch – the hard-looking white guy – and a connection he has to the lead detective investigating what is going on in the elevator. Specifically, a connection to the cop's family. Further, not all is what it appears to be – while the last two passengers in the elevator prepare for the ultimate fight for survival when the next blackout comes, it's one of the other already presumed deceased passengers who shock us all with regard to a connection to Lucifer himself.
The problem with Devil – evidenced by its PG-13 rating – is its lack of substantial graphic horror and substance; sure, the notion is entertaining, but nothing really happens that allows us to really be freaked out here. The film starts off frightening enough, as tension builds while the group is stuck in the creaky elevator, and we don't know who to trust amongst them…and neither do they. The buildup and explosion of sheer claustrophobia is perhaps the film's best aspect, as you can actually feel yourself getting uncomfortable watching these people sweating to death in the closed in box, nowhere to go. Is this as effective as Ryan Reynolds in Buried? I don't know. But it was unsettling here.
The concluding frame is interesting, tying together the connection between the cop and the survivor of the elevator massacre, but the twist involving "the devil" himself wasn't explored deeply enough and could have been much better – indeed, like most films dealing with Lucifer, the angel cast out of heaven has come for a soul that deserves to be taken to hell, but this sequence isn't explored well enough and Devil – especially given its title – suffers for it.
VIDEO QUALITY ANALYSIS: HOW DID THE DISC LOOK?
With the Philadelphia business district streets and building as a backdrop, Universal releases The Devil in a 2.40:1 widescreen 1080p transfer that looks like most of the studio's other releases – that is to say it's loaded with popping colors in outdoor sequences, devoid of much film grain and delivers an overall satisfactory high def experience. Some shots of the interior of the elevator don't show up with all that much detail, as facial close-ups and other elements appear to collapse into DVD-like quality. However, most noteworthy is the opening title sequence in which the camera pans over the city of Philadelphia upside down, showing a flip perspective of the skyline, and this is rendered with unbelievable, eye-popping detail and clarity.
AUDIO QUALITY ANALYSIS: HOW DID THE DISC SOUND?
The DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack accompanying Devil was mediocre at best; nothing really to report here, and I must say…after watching the next film I reviewed, Machete, in both DVD and Blu-ray, the Dolby Digital lossy soundtrack of that film's DVD version was more engaging and aggressive than that of Devil in Master Audio. Can I explain that short of the lossy compression scheme used on DVD? No.
Alas, Devil's DTS-HD MA track was backed up by good channel separation, especially in the elevator sequences when the car went black and the passengers were being invisibly attacked…these scenes were accompanied by wooshing, rushing effects all over the soundstage, from front left to front right and then from the front to the back, with aggressive panning doing its thing. The creaking of the elevator and other effects were rendered nicely here as well, but overall, this just wasn't memorable in terms of audio.
Pocket BLU features, BD Live features, Deleted Scenes, The Story, The Devil's Meeting, The Night Chronicles, D-BOX Motion Enabled
SUMMARY & RECOMMENDATIONS:
This was rather forgettable; it held some good promise towards the beginning as the tension thickened between the characters and a claustrophobic mood was introduced, but in the end, I came away from it feeling like something was missing or more could have been done. The confrontation between the devil and one of the passengers he has come for was effective and should be been explored in more detail, with more graphic horror overtones and R-rated themes, but alas, because M. Night Shyamalan was involved – I am convinced – this didn't happen, and we get a PG-13 material clause here.
Sure, the video transfer was quite solid in typical Universal fashion, but the overall package was much like the film itself, remotely compelling but otherwise forgettable.
Look for my supercharged review of the much-anticipated Danny Trejo shocker Machete next!
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I agree with your take on M. Nights movies, they all have great potential but inevitably fall on their face (with the exception for me of sixth sense and unbreakable)
I would not mind seeing a bunch of his movies remade by better directors, the village and the happening had HUGE potential and I so wanted them to be great but just ended up being rather disappointed, for 'Devil' I did not even have any hope or expectation of it being a great movie and I was correct, it is entirely forgettable.
PS you might want to add a spoiler warning in your review about the ending, I guess that reveal in the movie is supposed to be a bit of a surprise, even though you see it coming from a mile away.
typ44q said:
Thanks for reading and for your input/thoughts; I am in total agreement about your feelings regarding his films, save for Unbreakable, which I didn't care for either. Actually, Devil didn't see him in the director's chair, just as a creative producer. Either way, this wasn't memorable cinema, and I agree that projects like The Village and Signs should be taken on by a more talented director for remakes. Those could have been truly terrifying.
As for the spoiler about the ending, I don't think I revealed too much there -- there is still a great deal more to go into about what happens there and who's left in the group, etc., that I didn't believe too much was spoiled...but at any rate, perhaps anyone reading this from this point onward will take note that the end of the review contains some discussion about possible ending angles and characters...
Thanks again for your thoughts.
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STOCKHOLM, June 14 (Xinhua) --- Indoor wood fires carry as great a risk of causing dementia as traffic emissions, Swedish researchers have found.
Researchers at the Umea University in northern Sweden have studied air quality in homes where wood-fire stoves are used and found that inhaling smoke from the stoves may not only cause asthma and increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases, but can also enhance the risk of the onset of dementia, Swedish Television reported on Thursday.
"We have seen that people who live in areas where wood-fire stoves are common run a greater risk of being affected, and that also goes for people who live next to someone who uses wood-fire stoves," said Anna Oudin, a researcher in occupational and environmental medicine at Umea University's department of public health and clinical medicine.
The risk for residents living in areas with the highest rate of smoke from wood fires to be hit by dementia, or dementia-related diseases, was 30 percent higher compared to other residents in the town of Umea. In households that had their own wood-fire stoves the risk was 70 percent higher.
"In Umea, quite a lot of people use wood-fire stoves because they are regarded as climate-friendly," said Oudin, adding that her and her colleagues' study is the first to produce good and reliable data on the effects of wood smoke.
The study covers a 15-year period and compares the rate of particles from traffic and from wood fires in residential areas in Umea where 1,800 people with dementia have lived.
Several thousand Swedes die every year as a result of pollution and people who live in areas with worse air quality run a greater risk of contracting cardiovascular diseases. Emissions from traffic are regarded to be the most harmful form of pollution, but locally wood-fire stoves can have just as big an impact on health, according to the Umea University study.


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Meyer to be next Ohio State football coach, sources confirm
Tim May, The Columbus Dispatch
Nov 23, 2011 at 12:01 AM Nov 24, 2011 at 2:09 AM
Two well-placed sources at Ohio State University confirmed for The Dispatch this morning that Urban Meyer will be announced next week as the next head football coach of the Buckeyes.
But the sources also said final terms for a deal – such as length of contract and financial remuneration – have not been decided, despite recent reports to the contrary. Also, the sources said that though interim head coach Luke Fickell has not been in the loop, he will be taken care of when or if Meyer accepts the job. In what capacity, the sources weren�t sure.
As for Meyer, the former national-championship-winning coach at Florida who has spent the season as an analyst for ESPN, he could be not be reached for comment. But sources say he has told acquaintances he has not been formally offered the job by OSU, and he reiterated that in a statement released through ESPN this morning.
�I have not been offered any job nor is there a deal in place,� the Meyer statement said. �I plan on spending Thanksgiving with my family and will not comment on this any further.�
Fickell maintained his focus this week is on the Michigan game, and he reiterated that when asked whether he had been apprised of the university's plans.
"I know there is a game at noon on Saturday and my ass will be there," Fickell said.
WKMG-TV in Orlando, Fla., reported last night that Meyer had agreed in principle to a seven-year, $40 million contract to coach the Buckeyes. OSU sources said figures were not accurate, but did not provide any other terms.
Ohio State, the sources said, also is considering when to make the announcement, which may depend on whether the Buckeyes defeat Michigan on Saturday in their regular-season finale. The sources said the announcement could come as early as Monday.
Ohio State leaders reportedly zeroed in on Meyer, an Ohio native, several weeks ago, according to the sources, an effort that accelerated after OSU�s upset loss at Purdue that for all intents and purposes took the Buckeyes out of the running for the Big Ten championship.
Ohio State is still awaiting word from the NCAA committee on infractions concerning final penalties from an NCAA investigation over the past 11 months that, among other things, caused the school to seek the resignation of 10-year coach Jim Tressel on May 30.
Fickell was elevated from assistant head coach to interim head coach that day. At the same time, the university made it clear that at regular season�s end it intended to reassess the head coaching position and that it would consider candidates – including Fickell – for the permanent job. However, it also said it would honor Fickell�s two-year contract as assistant head coach which runs through February 2013.
Meyer, who grew up in Ashtabula, went to the University of Cincinnati, and was a graduate assistant coach at Ohio State in the mid-1980s under coach Earle Bruce. After becoming a head coach at Bowling Green in 2001 he swiftly turned the Falcons into a winner, going 17-6 over two years before leaving for Utah. He worked the same magic with the Utes, leading them to an undefeated season in 2004, including a win over Pittsburgh in the Fiesta Bowl.
After being courted heavily by Florida and Notre Dame, he took the Florida job in 2005 and a year later led the Gators to a national championship win over Ohio State. In 2008 the Gators, led by quarterback Tim Tebow, won the national title again.
Meyer tried to step away from coaching in December 2009 due to health concerns, but quickly changed his mind. He took a leave of absence but returned for the 2010 season, only to retire again in December.
�I have been a Division I football coach for the last 25 years and, during that time, my primary focus has been helping my teams win titles,� he said in a statement explaining the move back then. � I have thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it, and I am a fierce competitor to my core. At this time in my life, however, I appreciate the sacrifices my 24/7 profession has demanded of me, and I know it is time to put my focus on my family and life away from the field. The decision to step down was a difficult one.
�But after spending more than two decades motivating and celebrating the young men I�ve been so proud to coach, I relish the opportunity to cheer for my three terrific kids as they compete in their own respective sports. I know how fortunate I am to be in a position to make this choice and to have a family that is as loving and supportive as my amazing wife and children have always been."
Apparently, according to the sources at Ohio State, he is ready to get back into the game, and the Buckeyes apparently are eager to have him.


Just thought I'd continue the "Why I Love" theme. I've got a meeting with Scott Rafer in a few hours, and he said we should meet at a coffee shop on Union Square, as we'd be here for Supernova anyway. I said sure, but asked him which one. He responded by saying he had no idea what the name was, but sent me a picture. I got on Google maps, switched into street view, and scanned for a coffee shop that matched the picture. It took all of 30 seconds. That's why I love technology.
Why don't you use some technology to learn to sing?
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