Har Shalom's Shabbat Service: All are welcome to Har Shalom's weekly Shabbat Service each Friday evening at 7:30 p.m. Join our email list for details about monthly special Shabbat program for young families and other events. 7:30 p.m. Monday, Har Shalom at Lakeside, 1221 Lake Cook Road, Highland Park, free, 847-814-7456.
Kundalini, Meditation Gong Monday Nights Pulsation Yoga: If possible, close your eyes, focus them on the root of the nose, and observe the flow of breath— in and out, out and in. Not only will your mind become more still but your body will respond as well— pulse and blood pressure slowing, muscles relaxing, nerves calming. 6:45 p.m. Monday, Pulsation Yoga, 729 W State Rte 22, Lake Zurich, $18 drop in or regular class package, 847-989-7792.
Knights of Columbus Bingo: Knights of Columbus is having Bingo weekly as a fundraiser to help support Santa Maria church and the community. Knights of Columbus is a nonprofit family fraternal service organization. 5:45 p.m. Monday, Santa Maria Del Popolo Catholic Church, 116 N. Lake St., Mundelein, free, 847-566-8213.
English as a Second Language class: Township High School District 113 is offering a free English as a Second Language class. Registration is requested. 9 a.m. Monday, North Chicago Public Library , 2100 Argonne Drive, North Chicago, free, 847-689-0125.
Chair Yoga: Experience safe yoga movements and poses that build awareness of your body and breath. This three session series leaves participants relaxed and refreshed. All fitness levels are welcome. 2 p.m. Tuesday, Antioch Public Library, 757 Main St , Antioch, free, 847-395-0874.
Annual Plant Sale Garden Club of Lake Zurich: Annual Plant Sale of annuals, perennials, shrubs, grasses, house plants and more...most grown and cared for by club members. See the website regarding this club's regular meetings. 7 p.m. Tuesday, Ela Area Public Library, 275 Mohawk Trail, Lake Zurich, free, 847-212-3020.
Libertyville Junior Woman's Club Meeting: Sept. 5 is the first meeting of the 2017-18 Club Year for the Libertyville Junior Woman's Club, a service and philanthropic organization. Join us at one of our monthly meetings to learn more about how you can get involved in supporting your community and making lifelong friends. 7 p.m. Tuesday, Libertyville Civic Center, 135 W. Church St., Libertyville, free, 847-573-1473.
Libertyville VFW Post Meeting: Looking for eligible veterans to join the Post. This is their next monthly meeting. 7 p.m. Tuesday, 7 p.m. Tuesday, 7 p.m. Tuesday, 7 p.m. Tuesday, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Libertyville VFW Post 8741, 293 Peterson Rd, Libertyville, free, 847-680-8741.
Advocate Condell Medical Center Bereavement Group: This is a support group for widows, widowers, significant others or anyone grieving the death of someone close. The group meets every Tuesday, except for the fifth Tuesday of the month at the Daycare Center, Building 700, Solarium 11048, adjacent to the West Tower and the Conference Center. For additional Information contact: matthew-j.holmes@advocatehealth.com. 7 p.m. Tuesday, Advocate Condell's Intergenerational Daycare Center, 700 Garfield Ave, Libertyville, free, 847-816-4585.
Zumba® Fitness Classes with Live Drummers: Zumba® Fitness Class led by Melissa Kerpel, Kate Wettergren & Ruben Zapata. Licensed Zumba Instructors, AFAA Group Exercise Certified, CPR Certified. Saturdays, 8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. with LIVE DRUMMERS, and Wednesdays, 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. JCYS/Lutz Center, 800 Clavey Rd., Highland Park. FIRST CLASS FREE! $10/drop-in OR punch card ($35/5 classes, $70/10 classes). For more info: www.melissazumba.com and 312-961-8484. 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, JCYS Lutz Family Center, 800 Clavey Rd., Highland Park, $10/drop-in OR punch card ($35/5 classes, $70/10 classes), 312-961-8484.
Bill Porter Orchestra at 210 Live: The Bill Porter Orchestra plays Big Band Jazz to the songs that Sinatra made famous. Reservations available with the "Buy tickets" at the bottom in this event link. 7 p.m. Wednesday, 210 Restaurant and Music Lounge, 210 Green Bay Rd, Highwood, $10 cover, 847-433-0304.
Zumba Gold at the Lake Forest Rec Center: Zumba Gold is a crazy, fun dance exercise class without impact on the joints. It's for everyone. The fees are: $138 per session for members; $172 - $207 per session for non-members. 6:30 a.m. Wednesday, Lake Forest Recreation Center, 400 Hastings Rd., Lake Forest, $138-$207 per session, 847-810-3935.
Youtube Marketing For Small Businesses: Creating and posting video content on YouTube is a great way to boost the visibility and credibility of your business. Attend this workshop and explore the basics and hidden secrets of YouTube. This is presented by Bruce Himmelblau, Producer/YouTube Strategist with Blue Sky Video Productions in Lake Forest. 6 p.m. Wednesday, College of Lake County - Southlake Campus, 1120 South Milwaukee Avenue, Vernon Hills, $25, 847-543-2033.
Google Explained: What can Google do for your business? How is the whole platform of Google suite of products changing? What's free and what's paid? Discussion will focus heavily on Google's advertising platform called Google AdWords and Google Analytics. Analyze Google+, other Google family products and the whole concept of placing your business on a map of local services, ratings, reviews, etc. Presented by Norbert Barszczewski, President of JP NetQuest, Inc., the company he founded in 2007. noon Wednesday, College of Lake County - Southlake Campus, 1120 South Milwaukee Avenue, Vernon Hills, $25, 847-543-2033.
Video Marketing for Small Business Series: The goal of this three-part series is to help professionals and small business owners sort through the hype and confusion of online videos. Learn how video marketing can improve the way you do business and develop a relevant strategic plan. Get in front of more prospects and convert them into customers. Cost: $25 per session; Series Cost: $60 (a $15 savings). 6 p.m. Wednesday, College of Lake County - Southlake Campus, 1120 South Milwaukee Avenue, Vernon Hills, $25 per session; or $60 series cost, 847-543-2033.


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Parents, Keep Your Kids Safe In The Water This School Holidays
byAkmal Hakim
Every year the authorities would release a list of high-risk drowning areas around the country.
In 2019, 6 hotspots were identified involving 5 rivers in Kedah, Perak and Sabah, as well as a waterfall in Terengganu where 14 deaths had been recorded.
In Malaysia, there is at least one drowning fatality per day and its the 3rd highest cause of death among children.
With more than 400 drowning-related deaths in 2018 alone and around 700 deaths annually over the last decade.
The majority of these cases involve children, with data from the Department of Statistics in 2018 shows that drowning accounts for 2.8% of the total cause of death of youths under the age of 14.
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The drowning death toll tends to increase during school and public holidays, weekends and during bouts of erratic weather like what the country usually experiences during the monsoon seasons.
Given that water recreational activity is a rather popular pass time in Malaysia, here are some basic tips on how you can have a safe and pleasant aquatic experience:
1. Teach your kids (and yourself) how to swim
Not only is swimming fun and a great form of exercise, but it is also considered as the only sport that can save your life.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) lists drowning as the 3rd leading cause of unintentional deaths worldwide and relates it to poor or total lack of swimming skills.
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Regardless of your access or proximity to water (pools, rivers, lakes, oceans, etc.), swimming is a necessary skill that everyone must learn, especially children. Even the Education Ministry had endorsed the importance of swimming as something that needs to be taught in schools.
2. Be aware of where you are
Whether you're taking a dip in the river or kayaking in the open ocean, it's always important to have some knowledge of the area you are in.
According to the Fire and Rescue Department, drowning victims are normally outsiders or non-locals who are unfamiliar with an area.
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It's best to be mindful of where you are when you choose to go into the water and only go to areas designated for swimming and recreational activities.
It's also crucial to always obey the warning signs and instructions provided in a specific area as water can bring serious peril to those who are unaware of their surroundings and to remember that a body of water might look calm on the surface but it can hide fast-moving and often deadly currents and obstacles.
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Changes in the weather, sudden changes in-depth, strong currents and tides, as well as underwater structures, can put your life in danger if you are not cautious. And some areas might also be home to dangerous marine creatures like crocodiles, jellyfish and sharks that may threaten lives.
3. Never let your kids go swimming alone
It's dangerous to go alone! Especially in areas where there are no lifeguards available.
Parents should always supervise children in and around water at all times and as a general rule of thumb, a child must always be within an arm's reach when playing with water even when they have floaties on as it can easily puncture and flip over.
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A similar rule also applies to adults, where it is always good to have a buddy around and on the lookout if anything were to go wrong.
4. Don't fool around
As you should probably know by now, water can be a very dangerous environment. And although the notion of water recreation is to have fun, too much fun can put lives at risk.
Never endanger your life or the life of others to play silly games such as play fighting, holding someone's head underwater, or dragging someone who doesn't know how to swim to deep waters as it can be very dangerous especially if a person were to panic.
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It is also crucial to avoid being intoxicated while in the water. Alcohol and drugs not only mess with your perception, judgment and coordination. It can also screw up your body's processes like breathing and temperature regulation which can cause serious injuries even death.
5. Don't be a hero
While it may be a parental instinct to try and save a child (or adult) who is drowning. Experts agree that you should never attempt to directly rescue a victim without proper training.
People who are drowning are more than likely to be in a state of panic and hysteria, and there have been numerous accounts of drowning victims dragging their would-be-rescuers down together with them to a watery grave.
Experts advise using the "reach and throw" technique when trying to save a drowning victim which involves using a long object like a pole or rope, to reach the victim and pull them to safety, or throwing a flotation device that the victim can hold on to keep themselves afloat till help arrives.
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6. Learn CPR
The undeniable truth is that accidents do happen, but knowing what to do in tense situations, like how to perform CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation), can be the difference between life and death.
There are a number of courses available around the country where you can learn basic emergency and life support techniques that can and always be useful in a tight spot.
If you have more water safety tips to share, hit us up on our Facebook,
Twitter and Instagram.
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Aelita Supports Pre-Release Versions of Windows Server 2003
By Scott Bekker
Windows network tools specialist Aelita Software Corp. is taking the plunge and supporting pre-release Windows Server 2003 code for its customers, the company said Thursday.
As one of the major vendors helping companies migrate networks to Windows Server 2000, to Active Directory and, starting in April, to Windows Server 2003, Aelita has a vested interest in being among the first to support Microsoft's next server operating system.
Aelita also plans to support the production version once it is available from Microsoft.
Aelita's software can be used to migrate users to Windows Server 2003, to administer and secure a Windows Server 2003-based Active Directory, to back up and recover Windows Server 2003 and to manage Windows Server 2003.
Microsoft renamed its server product from Windows .NET Server 2003 to Windows Server 2003 on Thursday. The server is currently in the Release Candidate 2 testing phase.
Scott Bekker is editor in chief of Redmond Channel Partner magazine.


A young motorist has pleaded guilty to three charges of causing serious injury by dangerous driving almost a year after a serious car crash.
Michael Birch, 20, also admitted making a false statement to obtain car insurance two days before the accident in Stockton.
He admitted causing serious injury to three people - a man and two women - by driving a Seat Ibiza Cupra dangerously on the A66 and Yarm Back Lane on April 15 last year.
He admitted making a false statement or withholding material information - stating that the Ibiza was not modified to obtain an insurance certificate - on April 13.
He appeared in the dock at Teesside Crown Court alongside a second man, 20-year-old Rory Munro.
Munro, admitted dangerous driving in a Renault Megane on the same roads on April 15.
The collision involving a black Seat Ibiza and a black Renault Megane left two people in critical condition in hospital, it was reported at the time.
Two passengers of the Ibiza suffered life-threatening injuries in the accident, which happened 500m from the junction of Darlington Road at 7.55pm.
The 29-year-old male passenger of the Seat Ibiza was treated for chest and spinal injuries at James Cook University Hospital.
The female passenger of the same car was treated for serious injuries to her shoulder and arm.
Birch, of Charrington Avenue, Thornaby , and Munro, of The Barkery, Newby, will be sentenced on April 24.
Neither had previous convictions, and their barristers asked for pre-sentence reports to be prepared about them.
Andrew Stranex, defending Birch, suggested a report "given the circumstances of this offence and his personal situation".
He said: "I'm also in the process of getting references and further information to assist the court."
Judge Peter Armstrong bailed the two and banned them from driving until they learn their fates their month.
He told them: "The purpose of adjourning sentence is so that pre-sentence reports can be prepared on each of you.
"I have to warn you that the renewal of your bail at this stage after your guilty pleas mustn't be taken by you as any indication that the sentence will be anything other than a custodial one.
"Each of you will be subject to an interim disqualification from holding or obtaining a driving licence. That means you must not drive henceforth."


Electron microscopic (EM) visualization of negatively stained poxvirus virions was a valuable technique for confirming poxvirus infections during the smallpox eradication campaign. Historically, negative stain EM successfully detected poxvirus particles in approximately 95% of clinical specimens from patients with orthopoxvirus infections such as variola (smallpox)/monkeypox, and approximately 65% from patients with vaccinia (smallpox vaccine). In the event of a deliberate release of smallpox virus and subsequent human disease, or in generalized vaccinia infections resulting from vaccination, negatively stained preparations derived from lesions or scab material would again provide a valuable method for assisting in poxvirus diagnosis and/or ruling out other causes of rash illness. However, EM visualization of virions compatible with a poxvirus, by itself, would not constitute proof of a smallpox infection because different poxviruses, such as variola, vaccinia, monkeypox, and molluscum (molluscipoxvirus) viruses, are morphologically indistinguishable.
While EM laboratories will be integral members of the biopreparedness team, several issues should be considered before an EM laboratory agrees to process specimens from patients with suspect poxvirus infection. First to consider is the diagnostic capabilities of the laboratory personnel, who should have experience with preparing negative stain EM grids, and, more importantly, must have experience with analyzing negative stain EM preparations to identify virus morphology, and to differentiate these from look-alikes and artifacts. Second, EM personnel who will handle specimens need to have been recently vaccinated, or have no contraindications to post-exposure vaccination. Lastly, the EM laboratory will need to have access to a BSL-3 containment facility, or a BSL-2 facility that can use BSL-3 precautions.
Pre-event, clinical specimens with high levels of suspicion for presence of variola virus, as described by the Acute, Generalized Vesicular or Pustular Rash Illness Protocol, should be immediately forwarded to CDC for specialized diagnostic evaluation. Several tests to confirm or rule-out smallpox infection will be performed at CDC, given that a positive result for smallpox would precipitate an immediate and extensive public health response.
Details are available at CDC's Smallpox homepage.
These collection devices should be shipped inside a sealed plastic container to avoid spillage. Safety precautions are required when using needle and syringe. Consult your local safety officer.
If necessary, for UV irradiation and bleach inactivation (see step III.A.): Petri dishes, plastic, 60 x 15 mm and 100 x 15 mm; Filter paper, round, 55 mm.
Optional, for alternate grid preparation (see step II.A.2.): Glow discharge unit and vacuum pump (Ted Pella, Inc.). Alternately, a glow discharge unit may be constructed in the laboratory, following the design described by Aebi and Pollard (see References).
Names of vendors or manufacturers are provided as examples of suitable product sources; inclusion does not imply endorsement by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the Department of Health and Human Services.
All unfixed material from high risk specimens should be manipulated in the BSL-3.
Note: When possible, prepare at least 2 grids per specimen. If material on EM grid is too dense, dilute the specimen with dH2O and make new grids.
Add 1-2 drops sterile dH20.
Scratch dry material to resuspend.
Transfer remaining liquid to microfuge tube for storage/further testing.
Place crust in tissue grinder tube and add 1 mL sterile dH20.
Grind to produce an opalescent suspension.
Centrifuge at 1,000 x g for 5 minutes.
Use supernatant as the specimen for step II.
Place swab in 15 mL conical tube containing approximately 0.3 mL of sterile dH20.
Soak for 10 to 15 minutes.
With a wooden applicator stick, scrape any remaining specimen off the cotton swab directly into the dH20.
Temporarily remove swab from centrifuge tube. Place the barrel only of a 3 cc syringe into the 15 mL conical tube, then place swab into syringe barrel. Break off stick. Screw on cap to prevent aerosolization.
Place conical tube into a centrifuge canister in an aerosol-barrier rotor.
Centrifuge at 2,000 x g for 20 minutes.
Place entire centrifuge canister back into BSC. Remove conical tube from canister.
Remove and discard swab and syringe barrel into a discarded bin containing a 1:10 dilution of commercial bleach.
Resuspend any sediment. Use the resulting liquid as the specimen for step II.
Expel fluid into microcentrifuge tube.
Dilute the 2nd drop by adding an equal amount of dH20 and mixing.
Keep remaining specimen in microcentrifuge tube for storage/further testing.
If available, an airfuge may be used to concentrate the virus in specimens from step I.B.3. (vesicular fluid as smears on glass slides), step I.C.4. (crusts and tissue biopsies), and step I.D.1. Or I.D.2.(i). (swabs).
Spin specimens at 30 lb/in2 for 30 min., decant supernatant into a discard pan containing freshly diluted bleach solution, resuspend pellet in 10 to 20 μl of dH20 and use liquid as the specimen for step II.
Make at least 2 specimen grids whenever possible.
Place plastic/carbon-coated grids (plastic side down) on a drop of 1% Alcian Blue for 5 minutes, then rinse with 3 drops of dH2O.
Alternatively, if available, use glow discharge treatment on grids just prior to applying grid to specimen drop.
Place 5 μl of liquid specimen onto a sheet of parafilm.
NOTE: to avoid cross-contamination, use different tweezers for each specimen.
Place plastic/carbon-coated 400-mesh copper grid (plastic-side down) on drop and let absorb for 10 minutes.
Wick away excess fluid with filter paper.
Place grid within a large drop of buffered 2% paraformaldehyde for 5 minutes.
Rinse in 2 drops of dH2O.
Stains can be stored in 1 cc syringes equipped with syringe filters. Cover the syringe with 0.5% UA in foil to exclude light.
Place grid (plastic-side down) on drop of filtered 2% PTA, pH 7.0, and let stain for approximately 30 seconds.
If 2nd specimen grid is available, stain with filtered 0.5% UA for approximately 30 seconds.
If proceeding to step III.A., place grids into the bottom of a 60 x 15 mm plastic petri dish containing a round filter paper. Otherwise, proceed to step III.B.
Figure 1: Drop-to-Drop Method illustration outlined in section II.B, for previously fixed specimens.
Adapted from FW Doane and N Anderson, Electron Microscopy in Diagnostic Virology.
Note: Inactivate grids within the Biological Safety Cabinet.
Note: These steps, using UV irradiation and bleach, are only necessary for specimens that have been designated as a high risk for variola virus. (Please refer to Diagnosis & Evaluation for more information about evaluating specimen risk.) They are used to ensure the inactivation of any virus particles, including those on the filter paper or on the outside of the petri dish.
Add a freshly made 1:10 dilution of commercial bleach to a 100 x 15 mm petri dish, just enough to cover the bottom of the dish (approximately 50 mL).
Place bottom of specimen petri dish (with grids) within the larger dish.
Place under UV light (254 nm wavelength) and irradiate 10 minutes.
Turn grids over and irradiate an additional 10 minutes.
Figure 2: UV Irradiation and Bleach Inactivation (see step III.A.). Image of equipment described in Step III.A used to inactivate specimens using UV irradiation and bleach inactivation.
Using clean tweezers, place grids into grid storage box. Carefully record which slot is used for each patient specimen. All used EM tweezers should be decontaminated with gauze saturated with a 1:10 bleach solution.
The virions measure approximately 225 X 300 nm, and appear rectangular or brick-shaped when viewed lengthwise and circular or ovoid when viewed on end. Depending on penetration of the stain, two forms may be seen. In the "M" (or "mulberry") form, the surface is covered with short, whorled filaments, and a circular depression is sometimes seen in the center of the virion. In particles penetrated by stain, the "C" or ("capsular") form, surface filaments are not visible; instead, the virion consists of a sharply defined, dense core surrounded by several laminated zones of differing densities. In addition, enveloped particles are sometimes found.
Figure 3: EM of vaccinia virus from tissue culture (A). EM of vaccinia virus from clinical specimen (B). EM of monkeypox virus from clinical specimen (C). Note that in clinical specimens the morphology may be less distinct than in tissue culture specimens.
Figure 4: EM of fowlpox virus, tissue culture specimen, showing 3 virions with "C" form (A). EM of tanapox virus, clinical specimen (enveloped virion) (B).
Parapoxvirus particles appear more ovoid than other poxviruses, and the surface filaments have a spiral or criss‑cross arrangement. Particles measure approximately 150 X 200 nm.
Figure 5 EM of parapoxvirus (Orf virus) from tissue culture (A) and clinical specimen (B). Electron microscopy images of parapox virus from tissue culture and clinical specimen.
The naked nucleocapsid, measuring approximately 100 nm in diameter, is composed of an icosahedron formed by hollow capsomers. Stain-penetrated nucleocapsids may have the appearance of a hexagon rimmed by the hollow capsomers. Enveloped virions may be identified when the stain penetrates the viral envelope and outlines the nucleocapsid.
Figure 6:Two images of herpesvirus particles from tissue culture. Enveloped virions (A). Naked nucleocapsids, rimmed by hollow capsomers (B).
Figure 7: Two images of herpesvirus from clinical specimens. Herpesvirus from clinical specimens. Note that in clinical specimens the morphology may be less distinct than in tissue culture specimens.
Note that in clinical specimens the morphology may be less distinct than in tissue culture specimens.
Care must be taken to distinguish between poxvirus particles and this look-alike structure found in normal skin. Melanosomes are found in skin epidermis and hair bulbs and measure approximately 370 nm in diameter and 0.7 to 1.15 µm in length.
Figure 8: Two EM images of melanosomes.
Abei U and Pollard TD. A glow discharge unit to render electron microscopic grids and other surfaces hydrophilicExternal. Journal of Electron Microscopy Techniques. 1987;7:29-33.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Smallpox.
Gelderblom HR and Hazelton PR. Specimen collection for electron microscopyCdc-pdfExternal. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2000;6(4):433-434.
Long GW, Nobel J, Murphy FA, Herrmann KL, and Lourie B. Experience with electron microscopy in the differential diagnosis of smallpoxExternal. Applied Microbiology. 1970;20(3):497-504.
Miller SE. Bioterrorism and electron microscopic differentiation of poxviruses from herpesviruses: Dos and Don'tsExternal. Ultrastructural Pathology. 2003;27:133-140.
Nakano JH. Poxviruses. In Lennette EH and Schmidt NJ, editors. Diagnostic Procedures for Viral, Rickettsial and Chlamydial Infections, 5th ed. Washington, DC: American Public Health Association. 1979;p.257-308.


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Q: UI font has rendering glitches in GNOME Shell I don't really know how to describe this problem in English.
A picture can say more than words - look at the tabs at the top of the image. The current font settings are shown as well.

I don't know what basic info I should provide so if something missing, please tell me.
Ubuntu 12.04
GNOME Shell 3.4.1

I know a reboot can make everything normal but I'm looking for a more permanent solution that can fix this problem (or bug).

Update
Thanks for Fitoschido, I finally know what keyword I could use for googling. I think it's a bug of gnome shell.
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/34847


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methods to use the init func.
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You have probably heard of a birth doula, a supportive trained professional, who can advocate for the birthing parent and help guide them through the labor process. But maybe you haven't heard of a postpartum doula. What is this other doula, you may ask?
A postpartum doula's job is to facilitate your new role as a parent in the early weeks and months, helping with the transition involved in making space for your new family member. Those early days, when everything you figure out changes day to day; when you are so sleep deprived you can't remember your name; when it feels like the baby will never eat, sleep, or just be with any sort of regularity. A postpartum doula is there to help with all of that.
Many people spend great time and energy managing pregnancy and preparing for the birth, and they forget to plan for the actual baby!
The postpartum doula is there is help you have a smooth(er) adjustment to new parenthood. Studies have shown that new parents who have social support during the postpartum period tend to have less postpartum depression, breastfeed for a longer duration, and make a better adjustment to parenthood.
Feel free to contact me with any further questions about what a postpartum doula can do for your family, or to have a free in home consult before your baby is born.


KUALA LUMPUR: Youngster Ho Yen Mei captured her first international title under the new scoring format at the Malaysian Youth International Championships in Kota Kinabalu.
Yen Mei, who was recently promoted to the national team from Bukit Jalil Sports School (BJSS), defeated Kim Ga-eun of South Korea 11-10, 11-7, 9-11, 8-11, 11-8 in 42 minutes on Sunday.
The delighted 18-year-old Yen Mei said she loved the new scoring format.
"It is more exciting to play and the matches do not drag too long although it can get very tense. It suits my game style," said Yen Mei.
It is one of the first tournaments that Malaysia have chosen to use the 11-point best-of-five scoring format.
The Badminton World Federation (BWF) have been experimenting with this new system in all lower ranked tournaments since August and they will make a decision at their council meeting in November whether to replace the current 21-point scoring system.
"It is great to win my first international title. I felt good and energetic throughout the match. I have beaten her five months ago in a closely contested 21-point match," added Yen Mei.
Yen Mei, who trains under Wong Tat Meng and Rony Agustinus, will be out to enjoy another good outing when she competes in the Vietnam International Challenge next month.
Malaysia also won the boys' doubles and mixed doubles titles at the Under-19 tournament through Tan Jia Wei-Soh Wooi Yik and Chua Khek Wei-Peck Yen Wei respectively.
Top seed Cheam June Wei failed to make it a grand day for Malaysia when the national top junior went down 11-5, 10-11, 6-11, 4-11 to South Korea's Seo Seung-jae in just 29 minutes.


The Department of Infrastructure and Steam Packet Company have issued an apology after motorists got stuck in huge queues during this morning's rush hour.
The DOI says the problems around the Sea Terminal were caused by a number of factors.
It has blamed the late arrival of the Ben-My-Cree and the port was busier than usual following cancellations of sailings yesterday due to adverse weather.
The Steam Packet said delays in loading meant car check in lanes could not be opened until 7:45am.
The Department will be working with the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company to review the interim and permanent arrangements for vehicle check-in at times of very busy sailings.


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Campus Liturgies
Altar Platform
Blessed Sacrament Chapel
Around the Chapel
Entrance & Procession
Bell Tower & Reflecting Pool
About St. Ignatius
Tucked around the right side of the altar platform, next to the confessional, is the Gratia Plena sculpture. The artist, Steven Heilmer, presents a compelling new image of grace that Mary, the mother of Jesus, can be for us. Unique and inviting, Gratia Plena was carved out of a single piece of Carrara marble and installed in the Chapel of St. Ignatius at Seattle University in spring 2001. Gratia Plena, which means "Full of Grace," is a translation of the biblical exclamation of Elizabeth as she greeted Mary, from which developed the most familiar of Catholic devotional prayers, the Hail Mary.
The First Impression
The statue discloses three elements:
Source: A bowl that has been covered in gold leaf.
Flow: Out of the bowl flows milk, streaming forth abundantly.
Figure: The shape of a person emerges from the statue.
What follows are some reflections on the sculpture, offered as possible starting points for your own reflection and prayer:
Golden Bowl
Tipped forward, the gold-leafed bowl is the place from which milk flows from a mysterious, hidden, unending source. Likewise, the same gold leaf, pressed into the chapel's square east wall creates a reflective and suitable background for the altar. The rim of the bowl creates an additional image of a halo above the figure of Mary. This circular shape is replicated in the bronze circular rim of the baptismal font.
Flow and the image of movement resonate throughout the chapel. Water as a sense of flow is a prominent image in the chapel. The reflection pool in front of the chapel was designed by architect Steven Holl to establish a sense of "aqueous space" that continues in the watery, dark polished concrete of the floors.
The sense of flow from the reflection pool also moves inside to the image of the River Cardoner on the narthex carpet, which is separated from the pool only by a clear window.
The ceiling above the sculpture flows in a curve from east to west, where the baptismal font is located. Water in the font moves in a subtle fashion due to a small pump that circulates the "living water." In the Blessed Sacrament Chapel by Linda Beaumont, 600 pounds of beeswax flow down the walls as an image for the countless prayers people offer.
Figure of Mary
In Heilmer's sculpture, the figure of Mary is outlined rather than specified in order to emphasize all believers' identification with Mary as model disciple. This polished outline reflects traditional images of Mary, such as Our Lady of Guadalupe. Gratia Plena's female figure emerges into view only when observers have placed themselves in the proper perspective to recognize the figure.
The Sculpture and Scripture
Gratia Plena is rich in Biblical allusions closely relating our sculpture and Scripture. The presence of Mary is complex, revealing the wisdom, vulnerability and grace of her discipleship. The overflowing grace of Gratia Plena mirrors her celebratory prayer of Luke 1, "For you, the Almighty, have done great things for me, and holy is your Name. Your mercy reaches from age to age for those who fear you. You have filled the hungry with good things, while you have sent the rich away empty."
"I have come to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them out of that land into a good and gracious land, a land flowing with milk and honey" (Exodus 3:7-9).
"I could not talk to you as spiritual people, but as fleshly people, as infants in Christ. I fed you milk, not solid food, because you were unable to take it. Indeed, you are still not able, even now, for you are still flesh" (1 Corinthians 3:1-3).
"All ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank from a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ" (1 Corinthians 10:1-6, 10-12).
"The splendor of the Lord goes over you" (Isaiah 60:1).


Yesss here I'm back again. I just returned from a dinner at Mechelen (BEL) with Nikki, Tabitha, Elko and Wouter. We are sleeping here in a hotel at Mechelen. I ran into Jain Kim (room next to me) and also some Austrians are sleeping in the same hotel. It will be a cozy breakfast tomorrow!
We are here because we'll compete tomorrow (Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd of September) in a worldcup at Puurs. It is the 4th lead worldcup this year.
Tomorrow I'll compete and start as climber number 15 in my first route and 35th in my second qualification route.
With a total of 39 competitors it is a whole different field compared to last week in France. There will be a lot of strong climbers, so I hope the routes will be really cool.
According the program the routes will start from 11.00 AM till 17.00 hours. I suppose I'll climb around noon 12.00 o'clock in my first route!
I'm really psyched!! Come support us at Puurs. Or else you can watch at home via the livestream or at the official Flanders Worldcup Puurs webpage!
I'm heading off to bed. Goodnight from Belgium and see you tomorrow!
It's time to share some climbing news!
I'll travel back in time and start with my training news.
2 months ago on Thursday april 19th we went to a climbing gym at Puurs Belgium. 2 times per month we are going to train in another climbing gym. I believe that Puurs Klimax II is one of the better climbing gyms to train.
It was a while ago since I have climbed routes: 2 months to be precise. Each Thursday I'm off at work, so I can spend time to climb. In this case it was great to be in another climbing gym.
Team members Elko, Tim and Nikki were also attending this training. Ulf assisted us by belaying me. I climbed about 8 long routes and I got quite pumpy. Where did my endurance go?
Every time I visit Puurs, I keep thinking: Okay this is it, I should return here every week to train. If I want to push my limits I should at least climb here once a month! However – 2 months later – as we're speaking, I still haven't returned to Puurs. I'm going to plan a climbing session right away!
After an invitation from Rachel from Facebook, we realised our plan and went climbing at Puurs Klimax together!
From Breda Yvonne and I were lucky enough to join Pascal, Mirthe and Viola. Unfortunately we got stuck in traffic jam on the highway E19. Finally after 2 hours of driving we arrived at the climbing venue.
The weather was super! When we arrived at the climbing gym, we weren't the only Dutch crew. Another big group of Dutch people from Heerlen arrived early in the morning. They started climbing at 10 A.M. already. Bunch of die hard climbers! 10 minutes before we arrived, a few team members arrived as well: Nikki, Elko and Tabitha. In total we were with a group of 13 Dutch people in Belgium! We set a nice record on a regular Saturday right?
I changed clothes quick, ate a sandwich and started climbing! I believe it was about 28 degrees, however when I was climbing it felt way hotter. I didn't have a concrete plan though. I just wanted to climb some hard routes through the roof. That went pretty well!
Climbing in Puurs is quite unique. It's a different style, a style you definitely need to get used to. Most of the routes are challenging and getting harder at the end. Nonetheless it's really cool to climb here, it's a nice way to practice your clipping skills. Falling out of the roof is also something you have to get used to. I like it though, I don't think about falling, which is good so I can focus on the route!
Mirthe took more photos than me, which is quite unusual. You can view her photos here.
Anyway, enough about Puurs. Here is my yesterday's climbing ticklist: 6a, 6a, 6a, 7a, 7b+, 7c, attempt 8a, attempt 8a and ended with a 7a. I trained well and I'm sure I'm not the only one who felt good about it! I want to climb often at Puurs, the environment feels more comfortable though. It's a good sign for the Worldcup Lead, which is pretty soon on my calendar!


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Great addition to the tool set! Does this work for UK?
@navaho Right now it only works in the US, but the UK & Germany are next on our list.
@NaturalTonusPower There is not a guarantee (we cannot control them), but 95% of all reviewers will leave a review.
I'm thinking of purchasing amztracker specifically for this service.
So, if I giveaway 100 products, I can expect around 95 product reviews?
Also based on your experience Travis, have you seen any increase in rankings for a keyword after testing this out?
How big or small was the jump?
Hey @tkyorahat I don't want to guarantee you an exact amount, but yes more or less you would get about that many reviews based on my experience. The cooler your product, the more users that will want to review it though.
If you're selling something extra boring, or not offering an awesome deal, then less reviewers will be interested.
As for it increasing your rankings... OH yes. Big time. This can create massive ranking boosts, because the reviewers all purchase using our Super URL tool so that your targeted keywords get boosted.
As an Amazon customer myself since 98 and approx 110 reviews (10% of products purchased) how do I get on the list of people happy to review goods? I do both, buy and sell.
I have a better method for protecting inventory than the ASM version, one you can turn on and off almost immediately, and that has no delay in restoring your live inventory. I'll type it up and offer it as an exclusive for the AMZ tracker community. You're gonna love it (unless you already figured it out for yourself, you little genius, you)!
Where are all these reviewers from? Are they from your own list? Or how are these reviewers acquired from? I need to know where these reviewers are from and how they come about knowing this "review club"?
Hey @Travis_Jamison do you recommend using this in conjunction with a service like Feedback Genius?
Will there be any way to see which reviews come from this service? For example, if you give someone a code will it keep track of whether they have left a review or not?
I am very interested in your service and will be signing up once I can use one time promo codes to product my product.
You can enter your Amazon Associates ID tag in the Super URL you share with your review. You can then track your promotion traffic in your Amazon Associates account.
Depending on your sales volume, it should be pretty easy to identify your promotional sales in your seller account, and by comparing your promotional sales with your recent reviews, you can manually track which shoppers have left a review and who has not.
Yes, you can use FBG for automatic follow-up communication with these promotional sales.
Okay here's your exclusive AMZ Tracker alternative method for protecting your inventory during promotions. You have all probably studied the method of protecting inventory, this method is a little different, and done correctly, it will absolutely protect your inventory, and limit your promotional sales to a specific quantity, whether it goes viral or not!
The basic strategy is to divide your inventory into multiple MSKUs: your main MSKU for your primary inventory, and sub-SKUS for your promotional inventory.
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Once you have the process down, you can make multiple SKUs for multiple promotions, or you can use the MCF method to reserve a portion of it while your promotion is live -- This will allow you to have inventory waiting in the wings and not available for sale until you specifically activate it.
The main benefit to this method is it works almost immediately, you are not waiting for Seller Central to cancel your MCF order to get your inventory live again if you run low on live inventory. Also, this method will prevent your promotion code from chewing up all your inventory if it goes viral because the promo code will be tied to the promotional SKU you created, and not your main inventory SKU. The downside is if you go out of stock for your main inventory, you will have to manually activate your "reserve" inventory SKU to go live.
1. Create a new sub-SKU for your ASIN, set its start selling date to the far future, and ship your promotional inventory to the FC.
2. When starting your promotion, "hide" your main inventory SKU by setting its start selling date to the far future, and "activate" your promotional inventory by setting its start selling date to today's date or recent past.
3. DOUBLE CHECK your ASIN page to make sure only one FBA listing is live. Note that each time you refresh Amazon.com, I have noticed that there are multiple mirrors of Amazon ASIN pages, so it takes time for all the mirrors to update.
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I've had a think about these reviews. Are they just requesting reviews from Amazon customer's profiles emails?
Awesome Service!!! Can't wait to get started, Does this work for kindle Books as well???
The cat is out of the bag @ amazonreviewtrader.com.
"Misuse of ratings and feedback or reviews: Any attempt to manipulate ratings, feedback, or reviews is prohibited.
Reviews: Reviews are important to the Amazon Marketplace, providing a forum for feedback about product and service details and reviewers' experiences with products and services — positive or negative. You may not write reviews for products or services that you have a financial interest in, including reviews for products or services that you or your competitors sell. Additionally, you may not provide compensation for a review other than a free copy of the product. If you offer a free product, it must be clear that you are soliciting an unbiased review. The free product must be provided in advance; no refunds are permitted after the review is written. Review solicitations that ask for only positive reviews or that offer compensation are prohibited. You may not ask buyers to remove negative reviews."
Because most promotions are dollar off (and usually only a dollar), since they are not free, this doesn't really apply. The only slippery spot I can see is at :45 in the promo video, "5-star, we hope" which could be interpreted as requesting a biased review.
On the shopper's side, here is the official guideline regarding free product in exchange for reviews: "Full disclosure: If you received a free product in exchange for your review, please clearly and conspicuously disclose that that you received the product free of charge. Reviews from the Amazon Vine™ program are already labeled, so additional disclosure is not necessary."
The site looks great, and it looks like there are already a lot of sellers who are promoting their products there -- good luck to all!
@RaymondU, dumb question but is this site related to the Amazon Review Club?
@RaymondU nevermind... just clicked the sign up as a seller!
We now support single use (one time) promo codes!
You asked, and we delivered .
Thanks for your great feedback! I'm closing this thread since we've updated so many things since we launched.
I really appreciate everyone listed below who helped out!


How does NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT) contribute to genetic machine learning?
NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT) contributes to genetic machine learning by providing a cutting-edge innovative model based on the principles of genetic algorithms that help to optimize networks according to both the weights and the structures of a network.
Genetic algorithms in general are artificial intelligence and machine learning models that are in some way based upon the principle of natural selection – models that work by iterative processing of that principle of selecting the best result for a given need. These are part of a broader category of "evolutionary algorithms" in what professionals called the "evolutionist school" of machine learning – one that is highly structured around biological evolutionary principles.
The NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies network is a Topology and Weight Evolving Artificial Neural Network (TWEAN) – it optimizes both the network topology and the weighted inputs of the network – subsequent versions and features of NEAT have helped to adapt this general principle to specific uses, including video game content creation and planning of robotic systems.
With tools like NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies, artificial neural networks and similar technologies can involve in some of the same ways that biological life has evolved on the planet – however, the technologies can generally evolve very quickly and in many sophisticated ways.
Resources like a NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies users group, a software FAQ and other elements can help build a fuller understanding of how NEAT works and what it means in the context of evolutionary machine learning. Essentially, by streamlining the structure of a network and changing input weights, NEAT can get human handlers of machine learning systems closer to their goals, while eliminating a lot of the human labor involved in setup. Traditionally, with simple feedforward neural networks and other early models, the structuring and setting of weighted inputs relied on human training. Now, it is automated with these systems to a high degree.


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Human Rights Abuse within Mujahedin Khalq Organization
Do not Disturb – Criminals at work in Camp Liberty
Ann Singleton Last updated Jan 21, 2021
Massoud and Maryam Rajavi accused of sexual cruelty
When the US army captured the MEK and confined them to Camp Ashraf in April 2003, they registered 3,800 individuals. Of these, 800 were women.
Women "rewarded" with pendants and robes after sexual ordeal
The figure has remained mostly constant, with some members being trafficked in and out of the camp, and some escaping the cult altogether. (The actual figures are unknown because the Pentagon allowed the MEK to shut the door of the camp and operate Camp Ashraf independently of both national and international law.)
Understandably it is the women who escaped from Rajavi and his cultic abuses who are proving the most problematic. They are very angry and they are proving very difficult to silence.
In the Autumn of 2012 a number of these women, having courageously overcome the stigma attached to such issues, joined together to speak publicly about the sexual abuses they suffered in the MEK. They allege that Massoud Rajavi, the de facto leader of the Mojahedin-e Khalq, not only deceived them into having sex with him but had also instigated a programme of coerced hysterectomies for all women members in order to 'neutralise their sexuality'. Out of the 800 women registered in Camp Ashraf, they gave the names of 100 who have already become victims of Rajavi's hysterectomy programme.
The women (several of whom had been appointed to the highest level of the MEK hierarchy – the Leadership Council which directly serves Massoud Rajavi and his wife, Maryam), described a bizarre process of preparation for their sexual encounter with Rajavi which was facilitated by and presided over by Maryam Rajavi, who, they said, procured specific women from the membership for Massoud's use. The women were made to believe that refusal to participate would result in demotion, humiliation and even worse punishments.
Maryam Rajavi invented rituals such as being washed by other women members so as to 'spiritually purify' them, followed by the instruction to dance naked before both the Rajavis to prove they had 'broken the physical and mental barriers' to their total submission to Massoud. After these coercive practices, he would choose a bedmate for sex. The women have said that they did not agree to sex with Rajavi out of free will but because they had been coerced through deception into submitting to what they later came to recognise as rape.
The women who spoke out all now live in Europe. Other former MEK women members living in Iran and currently in Iraq are also said to be willing to give their testimony. The women described how they were deceived into undergoing spurious hysterectomies in order to fulfill Rajavi's demand that they 'divorce from their sexuality'.
In response, former Colonel, Leo McCloskey, Commander of Forward Operation Base in Ashraf until 2008, was featured on the MEK's websites and media, attempting to denigrate the women and dismiss their claims by labeling them as 'agents of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence'. Based on what knowledge and expertise did he manage to come up with such a nonsensical counter argument?
What is most disturbing about these revelations is the response from the establishment. I'm sure that everyone reading this article will be at least curious to know whether such outrageous accusations might be true or not. Perhaps those who are more familiar with the MEK's past known behaviour will be willing at least to give some credence to these allegations. But for responsible bodies like the UN and even human rights organisations, which, over thirty years, have compiled reams and reams of documented evidence of gross abuses committed by the Rajavi cult (let us not forget the MEK victims found in Abu Ghraib prison), to ignore these easily verifiable witness statements because the MEK says they are a 'plot by the Iranian regime to discredit the opposition' really beggars belief.
The facts are easily verifiable. The physical evidence of hysterectomy can be found in the women's bodies. It is a matter of fact, not opinion. And if those who managed to escape the cult have evidence consistent with their accusations, does it not behove those people actually responsible for their welfare to conduct an investigation into the condition of the other named women in the MEK who are trapped incommunicado in (the ironically named) Camp Liberty.
Let us look more closely then at the 'one size fits all' label used to denigrate the victims: 'agent of the Iranian regime'. It is not the first time the label has been used by the MEK, nor will it be the last. After all, in the current reckless Western culture of ferocious Iran-bashing, it is an easy formula to trot out for a willing audience. And what a willing audience!
The phrase arises from the cultic nature of the MEK and of course the concept of 'thought-terminating clichés' is familiar among experts in cultic abuse. It describes the technique used by cult leaders to prevent their followers (victims) from using their critical faculties. Whenever the cliché is mentioned, the cult member stops thinking. In this case, the phrase is also linked to another technique 'cultic phobias' which is to introduce irrational fears which when triggered arouse a phobic reaction in the victim.
For members of the Rajavi cult, the phrase 'agent of the Iranian regime' fulfils both these purposes; they stop thinking and experience an amorphous, pervasive fear. In some cases they can easily resort to violence in response to this reaction. The really despicable aspect of this use of the label is that it is directed at those victims of the cult who have only recently escaped the abuses. For them the phrase stinks of menace and threat; exactly why the Rajavi's choose to use it.
But for outsiders, clearly many are unable or unwilling to use their minds to think through the absurdity of this phrase. Or, maybe they don't need to. Leo McCloskey surely wasn't acting out of the goodness of his heart when he quoted the MEK phrase. In such crass cases, are we wrong to assume that pecuniary benefits most probably apply?
With the deployment of this thought-terminating cliché, Rajavi has effectively hung a 'Do not Disturb' sign on the closed door of Camp Liberty, while an apparently awestruck (by Rajavi's genius no doubt) Western world tiptoes outside, afraid it too will be accused of being an 'agent of the Iranian regime'.
Anne Singleton, Middle East Strategy Consultants, Author of "Saddam's Private Army" and "The life of Camp Ashraf"
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ANDY: The Conversation (Coppola, US, 1974)
10/07/2013 · by Andy	· in Andy's List.	·
I hear you singin' in the wire. I can hear you through the whine.
The fourth amendment to the United States constitution guarantees "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures". As I type these words on a specially encrypted channel, a growing number of countries are refusing former National Security Agency operative Edward Snowden's asylum requests and the President of the United States has gone as far as forcing half of Europe to close their airspace to a Bolivian diplomatic plane, believing it to have an extra passenger on board. This week it emerged that the FISA court, a secret organisation set up in 1978 to monitor NSA federal phone taps, now exists mainly to provide legal justification for the amassing of millions of individuals' personal data inside the US and out. Yesterday, UK foreign secretary William Hague insisted that "law-abiding citizens have nothing to fear", sending chills down the spines of half the population in the midst of a British heatwave.
Francis Ford Coppola's THE CONVERSATION premiered on 7th April 1974, four days before the House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed forty-two tapes from the Oval Office, where Richard Nixon had been secretly recording conversations throughout his administration. It takes its place amongst the other great "paranoia thrillers" of seventies cinema, including THE PARALLAX VIEW (1974), THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR (1975) and ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (1976). Where Coppola's film deviates from that framework is in its translation of the same themes from the realm of the explicitly political to the intensely personal.
As the film opens we're following a young couple around in San Francisco's Union Square on a busy weekday lunchtime. Bands and street noise drift in and out over their conversation. The camera moves as if it's a closed-circuit surveillance camera and we feel like we're spying on them, then we cut to man perched high on a rooftop wielding a directional microphone that looks like a rifle and we realise that they really are being spied on. Very quickly repetition becomes a theme of the film. A street mime follows various characters around the square, aping their movements. We will hear this conversation repeated many times over the course of the film, subtly different each time, stretched and compressed in different places like a piece of elastic. Later in the film a miniature model of this square appears at a convention. Just when we're becoming intrigued by this couple and wondering why anyone would want to snoop on this meeting, the camera breaks away from them and follows a middle-aged man in a cheap plastic raincoat as he makes his way out of the square. This turns out to be our protagonist Harry Caul (note the double-meaning: as in telephone call but also babies born with cauls were said to have preternatural abilities), played by Gene Hackman in what for my money is a career-best performance. Caul is the surveillance expert hired by the director of an unnamed, faceless corporation to record the conversation between his wife and her companion. Here is a man who knows better than anyone what a total illusion your privacy is, but he claims not to be interested in the content of the recordings he makes, only the quality. His assistant Stan (John Cazale) shares the audience's curiosity but is given short shrift by his employer:
Stan: It's curiosity. Did you ever hear of that? It's just god-damned human nature.
Harry: Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business is that I don't know anything about human nature. I don't know anything about curiosity. That's not part of what I do. This is my business.
Caul is an intensely secretive man. His apartment is secured with a barrage of different locks, he refuses to share anything of himself or his work with anyone around him, and he flies into a sudden rage when a rival bugger successfully plants a listening device on his clothing by way of a practical joke. We're dropped occasional hints that there's an event in his past for which he harbours a deep sense of guilt, and as he spends hours obsessively refining his recordings of the Union Square conversation he begins to fear that history might repeat itself if he hands in the finished work to his employer. The only time we see Caul share anything of himself is during a haunting dream sequence, where Caul finds himself calling out through a thick fog to the young woman of the conversation in an attempt to warn her. His sense of guilt and fear manifests itself in this rare offering of something personal about himself:
Listen, my name is Harry Caul. Can you hear me? Don't be afraid. I know you don't know who I am, but I know you. There isn't much to say about myself. I – was very sick when I was a boy. I was paralyzed in my left arm and my left leg. I couldn't walk for six months. One doctor said that I'd probably never walk again. My mother used to lower me into a hot bath – it was therapy. One time the doorbell rang and she went down to answer it. I started sliding down. I could feel the water starting to come up to my chin, up to my nose, and when I woke up, my body was all greasy from the holy oil she put on my body. I remember being disappointed I survived. When I was five, my father introduced me to a friend of his, and for no reason at all, I hit him right in the stomach with all my strength. He died a year later. He'll kill you if he gets the chance. I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of murder.
Note the way the camera continues to move passively like a security camera throughout the film even after the Union Square sequence. Sometimes Hackman steps out of the frame completely then the camera pans linearly to catch up with him. It's as if we're eavesdropping on Caul's entire life, that voyeuristic thrill that is central to the cinema presented as an existential dilemma. There are sets and locations in THE CONVERSATION that I find very striking: the director's offices are reminiscent of the retro-futurist architecture in Godard's ALPHAVILLE (1965), and I always wonder why the empty warehouse space surrounding Caul's caged-off workstation is lit like a jazz club. The look and theme of the film also owe a heavy debt to Antonioni's BLOW-UP (1966), as Coppola acknowledges. But you can't talk about THE CONVERSATION without mentioning the brilliant sound editing of Walter Murch. The way diegetic and non-diegetic sounds wash in and out with various levels of electronic manipulation over the repeated conversation sequence creates a hypnotic, other-worldly experience, and the twist has to go down as one of the most ingenious in cinema history. Coppola made four of the greatest films of the seventies ("…and then he made JACK with Robin Williams", as that scamp Barry Norman would have it) and it's obviously a difficult task to choose between them. THE CONVERSATION may only have been green-lit as a sweetener for Coppola to sign on the line for THE GODFATHER PART II (1974), but in my eyes it remains the most affecting and relevant of his work. It's a film that hangs around long after each viewing like it's watching you.
Tags: 1970s, Francis Ford Coppola, gene hackman, harrison ford, robert duvall, Walter Murch
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9 responses to "ANDY: The Conversation (Coppola, US, 1974)"
Andy 10/07/2013 at 4:10 pm · · Reply →
Back. Back! BACK! For Harrison Ford week.
dirkmalcolm 10/07/2013 at 9:34 pm · · Reply →
Good to have you back with a sparkling piece that manages to pack in Barry Pickles and an interesting fact about cauls. Your place on the QI panel is assured!
It is a great film. When I visited Union Square in San Francisco, I couldn't get it out of my head.
Yesterday, UK foreign secretary William Hague insisted that "law-abiding citizens have nothing to fear", sending chills down the spines of half the population in the midst of a British heatwave.
Does that include the family and friends of Stephen Lawrence? Or Hague "stupid woman" himself?
"Caught on tape" Dirk Five?
It's good to be back (are we allowed to use that phrase post-Yewtree?). Originally this had an entire extra paragraph where I compared the film to 'Wichita Lineman', regular readers will be glad to hear it was reduced to the photo caption.
Moon 11/07/2013 at 9:58 pm · · Reply →
Long unavailable in the 80's and 90's, like the still unavailable Nashville. I think this is now Coppola's finest achievement as a director and without question Hackman's finest performance, he had won the Oscar in 72 for Popeye Doyle in The French Connection, so wasn't even nominated for this.
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Sarah Feldberg April 10, 2019 Updated: April 10, 2019 10:18 a.m.
Quavo of Migos performs onstage during the 2018 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, Calif.
It's been 20 years since the first Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival set up on the Empire Polo Club in Indio (Riverside County), for two days of shows headlined by Beck, the Chemical Brothers, Rage Against the Machine and Tool. Over the past two decades, the California-born event has grown from an independent upstart to a corporate giant, drawing more than 150 musical acts and 200,000 attendees over consecutive weekends. This year, the event is being held April 12-14 and 19-21.
A limited number of passes to the second weekend were recently released for the otherwise sold-out festival, but you don't have to drop hundreds of dollars or head for the desert to see bands straight off the Coachella poster. Cities all over California are the recipients of spillover shows — concerts from bands on the fest lineup that are filling the days before, after, or between their Polo Club sets.
Many of those shows are at venues booked by Goldenvoice, the California promoter that produces Coachella along with Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Del., Panorama in New York City, and Stagecoach Country Music Festival at the Empire Polo Club from April 26 to 28.
Goldenvoice books venues throughout California, including the Warfield in San Francisco (where you can catch FKJ on April 10-11 and Lizzo April 22 and 24), the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles (where the 1975 is playing April 10 and 17) and the Fox Pomona (where Coachella Saturday headliner Tame Impala is booked April 11 and Playboi Carti April 17).
Most spillover shows pull from the smaller-type artists on the festival poster — think acts like Nashville indie rocker Soccer Mommy and electronic-pop trio Kero Kero Bonito. However, some of Coachella's bold-face names are also scheduled for California shows around their festival dates.
With the list of shows below, you can assemble your own SoCal mini-festival of Coachella bands, no wristband, or campsite, required. For listings of Coachella acts playing the Bay Area this year, go here.
Sarah Feldberg became The Chronicle's assistant travel editor in 2019. Previously she worked as a contributing editor at Travel Weekly and a freelance writer, contributing to Afar, National Geographic, Travel + Leisure and the BBC. Before moving to the Bay Area, Feldberg lived in Las Vegas for seven years, where she worked as editor-in-chief of Las Vegas Weekly, covering the desert's odd corners and local community and reminding readers that there's more to Las Vegas than four miles of casinos and neon. A Boston native, Feldberg lives in San Francisco with her husband and their dog, Samba.


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