This past week I read two memoirs, both of which cover very specific periods of the author's life — in Glynnis Macnicol's No One Tells You This we hear about Macinol's early forties as she creates her own way to be a woman alone and okay with it and in Peter Sagal's The Incomplete Book of Running we hear mostly about Sagal's rebirth as a runner in his 40's as he was getting divorced.
I enjoyed both, and although there was sadness in The Incomplete Book of Running it was a nice counterbalance to No One Tells You This, which I found quite sad. Now, don't get me wrong, Macnicol's book is very powerful as well — about how we live in this moment where for the first time really women have choices and can choose to be alone and childless and not be say, doomed to be eaten by their cat. That's not the life Macnicol lives and she is not at all worried about being eaten by her cat. BUT. Her mother dies, of Parkinson's, but of a variant of Parkinson's that presents very strongly with dementia. And that hits me hard. Usually when I read about other people struggling with losing family members to dementia, I don't relate all that much. My Mom was very young, I was very young, and her illness while interminable while it was happening, moved very very quickly and took her in only four years. But crappily for both of us, Macnicol's mother's illness had a lot of similarities, and well, it seems like we just really saw the illness in similar ways. That made this a very sad book for me, even if I was bookmarking every page like, SHE GETS IT.
I reveled in the fact that I was being jetted away on someone else's dime and that I'd finally reached the point in my life where my career, and to some degree, financial has aligned to produce the life I'd fantasized about, though I couldn't help but lament the fact that I was likely going to be doing it alone. All my other halves now had their own other halves to travel with or young kids who made travel difficult. Just as my life was catapulting me into some great beyond, theirs were tying them down to routines and caregiving – decades of both. … I had to be prepared to have adventures alone.
I wasn't going to have a baby as an insurance policy against some future remorse I couldn't yet imagine. I had more respect for myself than that. The truth was, no one knows what they're missing in the end. You can only live your own life, and do your best with the outcome when you roll the dice.
This is sort of the crux of her book — no choices are bad. The power of this book is in telling the story of a woman choosing differently, and realizing there are different paths for women than have ever truly been available before. Although she is very honest about the emotional labor that is expected of a woman, and how sometimes when you don't hit your own milestones, it can feel difficult to keep showing up for others again and again. But not because she's bitter, or because she wants what they have, so much as because, when you have a baby, people know what to do and how to act (sort of…). But when you're just sinking for some other reason, it can be hard to ask for help, and there's no automatic jumping in of your friends as there can be for other life events.
Babies are like that. They appear, tear themselves a hole in the world, and somehow it becomes immediately impossible to remember a time when that space did not exist.
If you read and enjoyed Rebecca Traister's All The Single Ladies, this feels very much like a companion book to that to me.
Peter Sagal's book is perhaps not as funny as you'd expect if you're only familiar with him from the NPR news quiz Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me. But I happened to catch him talking about this book on RadioTimes (yeah… I listen to a lot of NPR and I read The New Yorker, I am very much that person…) and it was a great interview, so I found this book at my library.
There's a fair amount of sadness in the book because of Sagal's divorce ("Instead of a 'conscious uncoupling' it was turning into a brush war"), his honestly about his depression and body image issues, and the fact that he was about a 100 yards away when the bombs went off at the Boston Marathon in 2013. All that said, Sagal doesn't want to force you to look at his pain, he kind of wants to make you laugh. So this somehow is not that intense of a book.
By the time I got to mile 22 … I would have quit happily, except that if I ever wanted to finish a marathon, I'd have to run twenty-two miles allover again and that seemed far more painful than the measly four miles I had to limp through now. … [At the finish line] I said to myself something I did not expect to hear myself say, something that became a hinge between my former life and my present, and led to, among many, many other things, the writing of this book.
I totally relate to wanting to give up at mile 22 of a marathon, but I didn't finish and decide to do another. I finished and decided half-marathons were great and you can finish them, take a nap, and feel fine! But, I did end up running my one and only marathon because I finished a half-marathon and thought, huh, I could do more.
"If you've ever been fat, you will either be fat for the rest of your life or you will worry about being fat for the rest of your life." I came across those words in the manuscript of the place Fighting International Fat, by Jonathan Reynolds, a pretty obscure place to find the underlying thesis of your waking life … That casual observation struck me then and now with the profound power of its obvious truth, much like Kafka's observation: "The meaning of life is that it ends." But of course, Kafka did not add that once you're dead, you won't gain weight. Which is a comfort to me, sometimes.
This is pretty much the tone of the whole book, walk up to a serious subject, poke it with a stick, and get out with a laugh. But maybe if that's the way to be honest about how you feel, that's the way to do it. The book doesn't feel raw and honest quite the same way as Macnicol's does, but well, they are rather different people.
Currently reading: Salvage the Bones and The Interestings (yeah, going back a few years to read more by Wolitzer and Ward).


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[VIDEO] 140922 JYJ's Exclusive Interview with MTV Taiwan's "I Love Idols – Idols of Asia"
September 22, 2014 · by rilanna
Credit: shu35150510
Tagged: 2014 JYJ Asia Tour RETURN OF THE KING, 2014 JYJ Concert in Taipei RETURN OF THE KING, DJ Ken Wu, Idols of Asia, JYJ, MTV Taiwan, Press Conference
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junsu looks so cute … two hyungs still trolling baby su. they all look so loved up together 🙂
I beg you please can we petition for JYJ to have their own comedy or talk show on YouTube, preferably TV or something, they are too damned funny. Love them.
more than that, we should do petition for JYJ to appear on variety or music shows or anything so that they can be broadcasted fairly like other celebrities. I mean seriously it's been 5 years already. Their best part of life (means their peak of age) has been wasted (not appear on national TV) for 5 years. Dont' you find it's very CRUEL enough for a celebrity? now they are in their late 20's (almost 30's) and for how long you think the popularity will last? I know their popularity is not a joke but with this kind of situation (being blocked by external pressure, with thousands of new idol debuting every year) it's kind of difficult to maintain the spot.
I mean if we don't do something now, there will be never a chance for them to be broadcasted fairly. It' either NOW or NEVER.
lilibaiyu
@cake
I share your frustration and have and will always do everything I can to actively protest this unfair ban and move hearts and minds for change. Have you checked out the JYJIFC? (JYJIFC.com) It's a coalition of international fans who feel as we do. Also, here is a Facebook page dedicated to activism on behalf of JYJ: https://www.facebook.com/StandUp4Jyj
SM is counting on the fact that fans are lazy, easily discouraged and then easily distracted by the newest young face. Thank you for not simply handing yourself over to that way of thinking.
@cake I wish there was a click of the fingers and JYJ is not banned, but don't you think instead if relying on TVS appearance, should we not find others way of avenue for the time being, until then. JYJ has find ways to slid through the cracks by promoting themselves especially when they did the 10 or 12 second advertisement of themselves, these guys have great intelligent of finding this loophole. We should never give up and continue fighting, we need to find a new ways, like the IAG petition, it was sent, seen and act on, it helped, so proud I sign it. I know there is a lot of petitions and individuals who is still bombarding the broadcasters and other areas, kudos to them but there still no joy, I am not saying let's give up, has JYJ said 'their concert was not made for TV' they find a way to ensure they are seen by YouTube, concert, or videos, etc., to me it was very heartfelt that they did not realise while they were performing at the IAG that their performance was shown longer than usual, which still was not enough but they were so elated and ecstatic, just teared up.
I think it's time for them to look into do something different has JYJ like an entertainment show, even if it's on YouTube or video and hopefully result in a lot of views, there is nothin wrong with that, when the time come for these people to see sense, SM, and the banned is lifted or JYJ has enough to have their own broadcast station, which I have no doubt they will, the are certainly men to be reckon with, watch out SM, KBS, etc The achievement of them singularly and together is on par on any celebrity out there, and they did this on their own, using their own without promotion, maybe more and while others are having the easy promoting life. Has long has JYJ has fans like us helping them and ensuring the name JYJ is heard, they will succeed. 😉
@maria1509
If I've learned anything today from reading the articles on JYJ3 it is that the members of JYJ desperately care about their continued ban on broadcast TV, they have despaired of it and they WANT to be back on TV where they belong. Yes, a multitude of international fans using JYJ3 as a spring board have rattled every cage we could find, we have written a storm of emails, we have created and sent petitions and we will not stop – it's too important. Now that the guys are openly speaking out about this injustice we feel doubly committed to helping end the boycott – committed to doing everything we can think of to help because it means SO MUCH to the members. The thing is – We CAN"T STOP until they are restored. SM is absolutely banking on the fact that we'll get tired and burned out and give up.
JYJ has shown themselves to be massively resourceful in finding new avenues out into the broader world to be seen in front of their fans. They have shown dare I say it GENIUS in this respect and they should get a lot of credit for their creative thinking-outside-the-box in order to stay visible in the face of the giant clamp SM put on all their activities in the beginning. I believe that now that JYJ are willing to go on record about what's been going on, the pressure will build again to shame SM into letting loose the vise-like grip they have on the program directors. ALL fans of JYJ need to keep up the pressure though. We need to continue to let our voices be heard. JYJ needs us and they appreciate our efforts.
" I know their popularity is not a joke but with this kind of situation (being blocked by external pressure, with thousands of new idol debuting every year) it's kind of difficult to maintain the spot. "
It's really upsetting that they are blocked by external pressure but I think JYJ have dealt with it the best way they can without bending their knees. They keep their pride and dignity amidst the blocking.
I'm not in any way insecure about their popularity. Let's take for example Yoochun, he's not active as a singer for the past 4 years, but look at those blue support he has in JYJ concerts. It shows that when they gain fans through their individual activities, those fans (most if not all) will follow them in every projects they're in, whether solo or group. He can fill a stadium on his own (through his fanmeetings). Music and variety shows shunned them, yes, they want to appear on those shows but they don't beg but instead they stand tall, heads up and show to the bullies that they can soar high without those shows. Just how many petitions have we made for the last five years, I have even dozens of email address just to boast up the number of signatures, lol. I think most fans now are focused on support, making their every project a huge success. Individually, they are more popular than those idols seen regularly on music/variety shows (Jaejoong and Junsu can beat them in album sales and concert attendance),
what if you combined them to JYJ, it's raised to the power of three, isn't it ?
This is just my opinion, but let's believe in JYJ's power, let's not feel insecure, let's give their every project a phenomenal success and it will have a domino effect.
almilac
Poor Junsu always trolled by his hyung
half of the interview about soulmate bullying junsu..keke.
They always do it
CUTE AND HANDSOME JYJ3
shahera5
I am so so hoping that some kind soul will do an English sub of this video!
I LOVE THESE 3 PABOS XD. Jaejoong and Yoochun never stop to tease Junsu and then they exchange a glaze and troll more …
*glaze XD … glance
btw, I think Junsu is asking for it with his cute laugh!
[VIDEO] 22.09.14 Interviul exclusiv oferit de JYJ pentru emisiunea "I Love Idols– Idols of Asia", MTV Taiwan/ JYJ's Exclusive Interview with MTV Taiwan's "I Love Idols – Idols of Asia" | JYJ Romania

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Back in January, I made some fitness goals. These goals were complicated by my (probably way over-analyzed) thoughts about feminism and weight loss. Though not the whole problem, one issue of this complication was that I had a hard time staying motivated without focusing on physical goals (like pounds or inches lost). But whenever I focused on physical goals, I felt guilty. I felt like I wasn't appreciating my body for what it is, and I felt like I was participating in a larger system of oppression based on body size.
Since then, I've been running. It started with a lot of walking and a little running, and now it's a lot of running and a little walking. I'm also lifting weights. The running is going well, and I've promised to run a 5k in June and a 10k in October.
So what happened? How did I go from not being able to stay motivated without psychoanalyzing myself into paralysis to signing up for a 10k? I found some other reasons to work out that have nothing to do with weight loss and body size.
1. My Daughter Sees Me Enjoying Exercise- Growing up, I had no positive images of people working out. I didn't really interact with people who worked out for health's sake on a regular basis. In my mind, working out was something you forced yourself to do, usually so you could look better, often temporarily.
I'm measuring my goals with the use of a pedometer (I don't usually do plugs for products, but I'm using FitBug and I really, really like this program). I run over my lunch break and consciously try to take some extra steps during the day so that I get to 10,000. Sometimes, when I get home, I'm short. In these cases, I walk around the house or jog in place to get the steps I need.
My daughter thinks this is hilarious, and she's started stepping with me. She swings her arms and stomps her feet and laughs and laughs. I also just bought a jogging stroller. She loves getting to ride while I jog, and she's excited to go to the park where we run around and fall in the grass.
My husband is also a regular exerciser. He takes boxing classes and runs on the treadmill. She sees this, and loves to carry around his boxing gloves.
I hope that seeing physical activity as a regular habit and not something to struggle through will give her a better relationship with fitness than the one I had.
2. Running Forces Me to Slow Down- Not physically. That would be silly. In case you couldn't tell by the rant about how I was inside my own head at the top of this post, I tend to overanalyze things. I don't do it on purpose; it's just part of who I am.
But not when I'm running.
This doesn't mean I don't think when I'm running. I do. I think about all kinds of things. But the focus it takes to run means that I can't ever quite get into that over analytical groove. I have to think about the surface or just under the surface of things. It's nice, and it often means that I think pretty positive thoughts (or even pretty, positive thoughts) because I can't get into that hypercritical space.
3. I Am Upping My Chances of Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse- I've been watching The Walking Dead (only Season 1! Don't ruin it!). Those people run! A lot! When the zombies come, my over analysis of pop culture might be helpful, but only if I survive long enough to get to some kind of camp or lab or something.
Seriously, though. I'm stronger. I feel more capable. I can carry heavier things and walk longer distances. I feel better.
Yep. I've definitely tilted the scales (see what I did there) toward health, but there's still a bit of vanity hanging on.
What about you? What motivates you to work out? What doesn't motivate you to work out?
I quit smoking for a good amount of time so I could climb an insane amount of stairs, then I started smoking again....wah....wah....wah...I have always considered myself a pretty a fairly healthy person except for this one annoying habit. I have also committed to a 10k run in October. I need as much support as possible to kick the habit again.
Thanks for the link! And I agree with that. My daughter's "exercise" is much more running around shrieking in the park and chasing after a ball as big as she is. I'm a little envious, actually.
As for things that we think deeply about but don't do, you should see how organized my house is . . . in my head.
With my yoga practice, a *lot* of my motivation lies in play. It's way fun for me to experiment with different asanas to see what they feel like. Even if I fall out of one (and I do, frequently), *getting into the pose* is such a novel bodily sensation that it's completely worth it for me.
I love what you say about play and feeling the sensations of yoga. I've never been able to get into group exercise (too self conscious) but I really like the idea of yoga . . . maybe someday.
I'm a believer in physical activity. It helps your body but also helps your mind. good post thanks!


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December 29, 2000 by presidential decree. Vladimir Zhirinovsky was awarded by Vladimir Putin the honorary title "Honoured Lawyer of the Russian Federation" for his merits in strengthening the Russian state and active lawmaking. Zhirinovsky's military rank is Colonel.
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Hampshire sign former Sussex captain Ben Brown
Hampshire have signed former Sussex captain Ben Brown on a two-year deal across all formats.
By Simon Carter
Friday, 14th January 2022, 11:25 am
Ben Brown scored four Championship centuries for Sussex last year. Photo by Mike Hewitt/Getty Images
The 33-year-old wicketkeeper-batter revealed he would be leaving Sussex late last year after over two decades with the club.
Brown progressed through the youth set-up at Sussex before he was made captain of their County Championship and List A sides in 2017 – roles he held until July 2021.
The right-hander possesses an impressive red ball record, averaging 40.41 since his first-class debut in 2007, including 22 hundreds.
In 2021's LV= Insurance County Championship he averaged 51.36 from 12 matches and no other player scored more centuries than his four. Last year he was the Championship's seventh highest runscorer with 976 at 51.36.
Brown can expect to take his place in a Hampshire batting order including captain James Vince, Ian Holland and Nick Gubbins, who all scored over 750 Championship runs in 2021. Joe Weatherley, Tom Alsop, Liam Dawson and Aneurin Donald will all be aiming for a batting slot as well.
Across all formats, Brown has amassed 10,843 runs from 318 matches for Sussex, whilst also taking 543 catches and 40 stumpings.
Giles White, Hampshire's Director of Cricket, said: 'Ben's arrival is exciting news.
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Brown added: 'I am extremely proud and humbled to sign for Hampshire.
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'I'm looking forward to being able to call The Ageas Bowl my home ground and am hugely grateful to everyone at Hampshire for the opportunity to do so.
'I'm excited to be joining the group next week and to play my part in pushing for trophies and silverware over the coming years.'
Brown has played alongside one of Hampshire's players before - Liam Dawson was a colleague when he made four England U19 Test appearances in 2007 and 2008.
In April 2015 Brown scored an unbeaten 144, batting at No 7, as Sussex defeated Hampshire by an innings at The Ageas Bowl. At the same ground, he retired on 100 in a pre-season friendly between the two counties three years later.
Brown's maiden List A century arrived last summer when, opening the innings, he scored 105 in a Royal London Cup tie against Middlesex.
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I have to confess that Dundee is not the first, or indeed the second or third place that I would think of when it comes to haunted towns and places, and as the author Geoff Holder points out in the introduction, it seems as far as ghost hunters are concerned Dundee isn't on the map either.
There are 5 distilleries in the town of Rothes but only one has the reputation for being haunted, and that is the Glen Spey distillery, which is owned by Diageo and has only recently produced its own malt – a 12 year old from the flora and fauna series.
The castle was originally in the hands of the Oliphant family who built it in the 14th century. The castle is said to be the haunt of two spirits.
The harbour is said to have witnessed a miracle during the Dark Age. The Vikings made an assault on the Isle of May, which was then the home of St Adrian.
The castle has links with the legend of the more infamous Glamis Castle.
Carlin Maggie's stone is a 40-foot natural stone column formed of volcanic basalt.
Balfarg Henge and Bilbirnie Stone circle now sit in the midst of a housing estate separated by the A92, which runs through the site.
The castle was built by the Sibbald family in the 14th century, and was later in the possession of Sir Robert Lundie during the 15th century.
The castle, built by the Wemyss family, is said to be haunted by the ghost of a Green Lady, whose identity is unknown.


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SAN LEANDRO, Calif., September 13, 2013 - Energy Recovery, Inc. (NASDAQ: ERII), the leader in capturing reusable energy from industrial fluid flows and pressures cycles, announced today that one of the largest reverse osmosis (RO) single train in the world will use its PX Q300 Pressure Exchanger® technology to desalinate seawater in Al Ghubrah, Oman. The technological first-a desalination mega-project producing more than 191,000 m³/day (50 million gallons per day) of potable and irrigation water in the Middle East North Africa region (MENA)- will feature eight trains, each desalinating 30,000 cubic meters of seawater per day. This configuration will produce potable water for approximately 800,000 residents, easing the intense freshwater needs in the region. The Muscat City Desalination Company (MCDC) formed by Cadagua, Malakoff, and Sumitomo will build, own and operate Al Ghubrah Independent Water.
Energy Recovery's success in Oman and around the world led the plant-design team to select the PX Q300. The EPC contractor, International Water Treatment LLC (formed by Cadagua, Wabag and Galfar) has chosen PX technology to ensure efficient, reliable energy recovery to overcome the challenges of seawater processing in Oman. For an animated video showing how the PX device works, click here.
Cadagua's Contract Director on the Al Ghubrah Plant shares why International Water Treatment LLC trusts Energy Recovery to deliver the highest possible efficiency: "Energy Recovery is well-known in the industry and the MENA region. The highly reliable PX-Q300 was the most advantageous choice for us on an RO train this size," states Emilio López Pacetti from Cadagua.
In the dry MENA region, seawater desalination is essential to continued prosperity and vitality. The demand for agricultural, drinking, and industrial water continues to increase along with economic development and population growth. Because the region has more than six percent of the world's population but access to just over one percent of the planet's renewable fresh water resources, countries like Oman must find sustainable, affordable, and efficient ways to offer potable water to its residents. Seawater processing plants like the Al Ghubrah installation and technologies like Energy Recovery's highly efficient and reliable solutions are helping to bridge that gap.
Lower processing costs are crucial to the vitality of an area such as MENA where water resources are significantly stressed. The Al Ghubrah plant will see large benefits across its operational expense and impact; CO2 savings and cost savings annually. "We designed the PX to be modular and adaptable. With a bigger PX train, the efficiency values are higher and this reduces the net reverse osmosis process," states Tom Rooney, CEO of Energy Recovery.
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def toHttpResponse(entity: Option[Foo]) = {
   case Ok =>
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    ...

}

def toHttpResponse(entity: Option[Bar]): = {
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    ...
}

I also have these implicits in scope:
implicit val fooFormat = Json.format[Foo]
implicit val barFormat = Json.format[Bar]

So, I thought I would refactor and create a common method, like so:
def toHttpResponse[T](entity: T) = {
   case Ok =>
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    ...
}

and ...now I'm getting these errors, even when the above implicits are in scope:
No Json serializer found for type T. Try to implement an implicit Writes or Format for this type.

What am I missing? I know its something to do with these implicits! Pointers appreciated. Thanks
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Answer
This suggestion by [Luis Miguel Mejía Suárez] worked like a charm:
def toHttpResponse[T : Writes]() = {
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}

A: A Writes instance must be resolved from the implicit scope:
def toHttpResponse[T](entity: T)(implicit w: Writes[T]) = {
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CHAMPAIGN — Ashlee Walters has a new task on her mind before beginning her journey toward a master's degree at the University of Illinois: getting her COVID-19 booster shot.
Walters works two jobs in town, so finding the right window to go get her third vaccine shot has been tough. But she said she's now looking for an appointment before her studies in the UI's library-science program ramp up.
"I'm trying to figure out when to get it sooner, since I have to be in a building next Friday for orientation," Walters said. "I want to be prepared."
On Thursday, the UI system announced its newest step to respond to the pandemic — requiring boosters for all vaccinated students and employees as soon as they're eligible.
Ninety-four percent of students, staff and faculty on the Urbana campus have been fully vaccinated, but the UI has not yet shared any statistics on how many of them have received a booster shot.
A handful of other Big Ten universities have announced the same requirement. The UI gave no deadline, just a "strong encouragement" to get one before the semester starts.
"We plan to provide time for everyone to receive their booster when they are eligible to meet this new requirement, and we will provide more information to you after the Spring 2022 semester begins," Chancellor Robert Jones said in a Thursday massmail.
The University of Michigan and Michigan State first announced their booster requirements Dec. 17. Eligible students and employees at Michigan have until Feb. 4 to get their next shot.
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Rutgers University, the newest member of the Big Ten, gave those eligible on its campus until Jan. 31 to get a booster. It will be holding class remotely until Jan. 30, and students residing on campus were "strongly encouraged" to upload their booster status by Jan. 15.
In all cases, universities are responding to the growing wave of cases of the omicron variant, which has exploded across the U.S. during the holiday season.
"With the emergence of the omicron variant and holiday travel, increasing positive COVID-19 cases present real risks, and the requirement of a booster shot adds to our multi-layered approach to maximizing everyone's safety," Jones said in the massmail.
According to UI epidemiologist Rebecca Smith, an associate professor who serves on the school's SHIELD team, booster shots may not just protect against omicron, but also against future variants of the virus.
"What people have found looking into boosters is they not only increase immune response, they broaden it," Smith explained. "Each time you get an additional vaccine, your body not only makes antibodies, it makes more diverse antibodies."
Antibodies decline over time, which is partly why there's been a marked increase in "breakthrough" infections for vaccinated individuals during the omicron surge, Smith said. She said the booster can restore the protection that previous doses provided against the delta variant.
The omicron variant was first detected on the Urbana campus in mid- to late December, right around the end of the fall semester.
"It became the dominant strain within a week," Smith said.
In the last seven days of testing data on campus, 977 students, faculty and staff have tested positive for COVID-19.
The last time the UI recorded around 1,000 cases in a week was early in September 2020, before any vaccines were available and among a sample of nearly three times as many tests.
"This indicates transmission is high in our community and it is widespread," Smith said. "We are seeing large numbers of cases in grad students and faculty and staff who live and interact with the community quite a bit more than the undergrad population."
Walters is in favor of the measure, though she thinks the timing of the announcement "leaves something to be desired" for students like her.
"Right now and next week, all students are thinking of is 'I have to get back to campus,'" Walters said. "Now they have to think about a time to get the shot and may have to schedule time off in case they're feeling side effects."
Though the booster is safe and highly effective at preventing against infection and severe disease, it's not the only weapon in the county's "vaccine-plus" approach to COVID-19 mitigation, Smith said. Masks, distancing and ventilation are still important.
"The more time we give the virus to spread, the more time it has to adapt," Smith said. "We're in an arms race."
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Or: How can you be in two places at once when you're nowhere at all?
Four years ago, Pioneer Place Mall did a very groovy "Portland" thing by beginning to provide and subsidize some of the empty spaces on the third floor of its Atrium Building to people and organizations wishing to open art galleries. Last month, the owners of the mall, General Growth Properties (GGP) rescinded that agreement with, Place, the first gallery that took them up on their offer way back when. Seems there was bad blood.
Oregon ArtsWatch's Barry Johnson wrote about the closing shortly after Place Director, Gabe Flores, made it public on the gallery's website. Since then, other arts writers have weighed in on this abrupt end to the gallery's lease agreement, including Alison Hallett for The Mercury, Richard Speer for Willamette Week, and Jeff Jahn on his site, portlandart.net. There was also a short segment on the local FOX affiliate, KPTV.
Before I get too deep into this opinion piece, I should disclose that I had an exhibit of my own work at Place last year. I have also written about the gallery on a couple of occasions, for both Portlandart.net and Oregon ArtsWatch. (One review was less than glowing.) I have had many conversations with Flores over the years and have grown to admire his fertile mind and enthusiasm for the local art community, even though sometimes both can get the better of him. Sometimes it is hard to keep up with his torrent of ideas, and his desire for inclusiveness has resulted in more than a few half-baked exhibitions (more often than not due to the presenting artist). The first couple of years of programming did not give me much hope for his ambitious little start-up, yet Flores and the gallery persevered, and the programming gradually improved.
Much has been made about the supposed offensive nature of the exhibits by the artists Paul Clay, John Dougherty and Michael Reinsch . But Place has two rooms in which they run staggered exhibits, and this last month, Linda Kliewer, a member of the PNCA faculty along with Portia Roy, a recent PNCA graduate, had their work in the other gallery space. In contrast to the controversial, balloon-festooned gallery, both Kliewer and Roy exhibited sedate, contemplative work. Again, this is a testament to Flores' relatively open-door, just-give-me-your-best-effort policy. It also demonstrates a faith in Flores on the artists' part, for Kliewer is a mature artist who doesn't have to settle for any ol' venue that will have her. For that matter, Reinsch is a well-established artist in Portland, and from what I hear, a very good teacher as well.
More importantly, Flores has created a laboratory for artists to try out ideas and acquire some experience under their belts at hanging an exhibition. Ready to engage any and everyone in conversation, he provided an environment where an exchange of ideas was encouraged. So, there is not a small element of irony in this latest development where dialogue has been shut down.
In the exchange between GPP's Buchanan and Flores, Flores goes to great lengths to explain the art that offended Buchanan (or maybe, the mission of the mall itself) while pointing out that certain elements of the show, namely coarse words and suggestions of violence, are also part and parcel of merchandising in the mall's more commercial establishments. Flores provided photographs of said products in his correspondence. Who likes to have their double standards thrown in their face?
One may suggest —indeed, some have—that the outcome of this dispute should come as no surprise. After all, given that Place paid no rent, Flores bit the hand that fed him. Not that this was a losing proposition from the outset for the mall. I would like to see how these otherwise empty spaces in the mall are represented as a line item on GPP's tax forms. Furthermore, having vacant storefronts in the mall would have sent a signal to retailers and consumers alike, which could be a potential detriment to the mall's bottom line.
Two other galleries, Mark Woolley Gallery and Peoples Art of Portland, are on the third floor adjacent to the two spaces operated by Place. Both have made statements regarding the eviction. (Admittedly, whether we use the term "eviction" or the phrase "termination of lease" seems to rely on some speculation.) In short, both state they take the sensibilities of the mall-going public into consideration in their curatorial choices. Whatever that ends up meaning, their reluctance to come to Flores' defense did them no favors, either.
"Tasteful," you know, for "regular folks," yet, with the occasional "challenging theme" thrown in, perhaps for the "hip" crowd. Doing so "without alienating anyone" as their "main agenda" is a task I would like to see accomplished. Maybe blank walls? Their statement can also be read as a commentary on Place's curatorial thrust. I can tell you from my own viewing experience at Place, some of the supposedly "transgressive" art shown there was so amateurish, clichéd and/or poorly conceived it was in effect, ineffectual. No complaints from the front office then. (So, kudos to those artists who managed to ruffle feathers.) In any case, Peoples Art of Portland seems secure in their agreement with Management.
Willamette Week's arts writer, Richard Speer, seems to agree: "If you're getting free rent, it might behoove you to pay attention to your landlord's sensitivities." But then he continues, "These are big issues with long histories: self-expression versus decorum, artistic merit versus popular taste, creative freedom versus Big Brother." It is a shame that he did not examine these "long histories," as they might have provided him a different perspective—indeed, a more nuanced take—on what is at stake here.
To overlook inconsistencies in the name of convenience and call it a pragmatic business or conscious curatorial decision can take one down any number of slippery slopes. Compromise can become edict. In this case, there is a call for a return to something along the lines of a 19th Century Salon model for art exhibition: Neither gallery nor Speer seem to recognize the value of risk-taking to broaden the dialogue beyond the immediately acceptable. Even the most successful commercial art dealers and galleries know the critical role divergent voices have played in the history of art, and to ignore or downplay this lessens the value of their own offerings. For those who would maintain they are engaged in a more contemporary arena yet equivocate in their support of peers borders on the unconscionable.
Still, to focus on the more controversial shows that Flores presented entirely misses the mark and does a great disservice not only to him but the artists and arts education entities that have had shows at Place.
Certainly Place has shown plenty of art that had the potential to upset those holding the purse strings. So why displace him now? It might have been all of the colorful balloons in the gallery that first attracted the management's attention and led to closer scrutiny. Who among us doesn't like balloons? And then to have that child-like glee dashed!
Or, maybe they really do have someone willing to pay rent on the space and were looking for any excuse.
At any rate, the timing may be perfect. Oregon Art Beat, the OPB weekly television program is celebrating its 15 year anniversary with an exhibit that was originally to be housed in the Peoples Art and Wooley galleries." About 300 artists are reported to be taking part in this "curated collection of paintings, metalwork, sculpture, calligraphy, animation, pottery, woodwork, jewelry, performance art, music and much more." The Facebook event page for the exhibit now shows the exhibit taking place in the "Pioneer Galleries." It will be interesting to see if the former Place Gallery will be housing artworks for this exhibit. (Curious, I asked, but clarification from Peoples Art has not been forthcoming.) The event opens April 19 and will run for two months.
As I made my way through the well-attended Oregon Art Beat (OAB) exhibit at Pioneer Mall Saturday evening, which included installations in the former Place gallery spaces, I felt more like a cultural spy than an arts writer. I was reminded of one of those awkward parties where you have to invite the boss even though you know your superior is having an affair with your spouse. Most everyone at the party is aware of the not-so-secret tryst as well, yet they pretend to ignore it for the sake of having a good time. But that's just me.
I do not wish to cast a pall over the exhibiting artists, for this is their party as well. (However, I do wonder if any artist declined the exhibition opportunity in protest of Place's boot from the premises.) Nor will I single out an artist or two to comment on their work as stand-outs in this exhibit, because, quite frankly, the show is so crowded with art there is no room for any one piece to catch my eye without interference from others.
Besides, I had another reason for going. I wanted to see with my own two eyes how the Place galleries had been co-opted while imagining how this event might have been pulled off had Place still been in operation and its spaces unavailable. Also, having revisited the timeline of this exhibit in conjunction with the demise of Place and after listening to the OPB radio programs that featured (which, in effect, promoted the Oregon Art Beat show), I am not prepared to let this thing fade away. Not just yet.
Place's Director, Gabe Flores, says he received his eviction notice, dated March 10, by mail on March 19. The 19th is the same day OPB sent out a press release for this exhibit.
A few things stand out in the press release: the event would be "celebrating the work of hundreds of Northwest artists who have all appeared on Art Beat over the last 15 years;" it would take place at "The Peoples Art of Portland Gallery, the Mark Woolley Gallery and the Art Beat Main Stage Gallery;" and "the exhibition will feature a curated collection of work from local artists." An event page was created on Facebook by Chris Haberman of Peoples Art the same day as the OPB release. Initially, the location was listed as taking place in the "Settlement Gallerys (sic), Pioneer Place" in the mall, but was then changed that same day, March 19, to simply "Pioneer Place." With Place soon to be gone from the picture, the use of the name "Settlement," may have seemed unadvisable.
Three galleries to four galleries? What was the third gallery? Was there another empty space on the third floor I didn't know about? Perhaps. It was a nagging question I had from the beginning: Where was the "Art Beat Main Stage Gallery" going to be located? It may be significant to note I found that stage Saturday; it was inside one of the former Place gallery spaces. If this was the plan all along, when was it decided?
Haberman eventually did publicly confirm the show would be using four galleries. This happened April 18 in his interview on OPB's radio show, "Think Out Loud." he specifically refers to an "enormous black gallery that houses most of the sculpture." Even though he fails to mention it, this is the other Place space.
Nor was Place mentioned April 19 during OPB's "State of Wonder" segment about the OAB exhibit. Curiously, somewhat later in the same radio show, the host, April Baer, did a very short story on Place's eviction, stating, "If you do go to see Oregon Art Beat's 15th anniversary retrospective, you might notice the absence of a gallery that brought art to the storefront for four years." She then goes on to briefly outline the chain of events that led up to Place's departure from the mall and offered up a tweeted, and therefore somewhat ephemeral, link to Flores' correspondence with mall management. Bone thrown. However, it should be noted there was no direct reference to the fact the OAB exhibit is partly housed in the former Place galleries.
I still would like clarification. And, I suppose I could have again written to the mall, galleries and OPB to see if they had more to say than they already have. Yet, I'd rather this issue be addressed in a public forum more than in an article in which "cherry-picking" quotes might not further the conversation.
1. Was the timing of Place's eviction due to the Oregon Art Beat exhibition?
2. Why was the buck passed or my question ignored when I asked if Art Beat was in fact using the old Place galleries?
3. Even once it was clear that these galleries were being used, why avoid mentioning it on the air and in publicity information?
4. Did anyone ever wonder whether it would be appropriate for Art Beat (and Peoples Art and Woolley Gallery and the mall) to profit from the demise of Place? Why was it decided that it is appropriate?
Convince us that this whole thing doesn't smell funny.
The Oregon Art Beat exhibition will be expanded into the old PLACE galleries (via a letter to the participants from Chris Haberman).
one can't help wonder: is he right, or is 'The Oregon Art Beat exhibition' the new tenant "to pay full rent"?
We'll have to see how this plays out, but in correspondence I had with OPB, I am of the impression they are somewhat "out of the loop" on whether or not the former (I refuse to use the term "old") Place gallery will be utilized. They referred me back to Peoples Art.
This quote comes from Speer's summary of the best art of 2013.
I wonder what happened in the past 3 months to change his mind?
Ever heard of The Metropolitan Museum in NYC, People's Art? I expect their mission is not all that different than the one you've articulated. So what do you think of their prominent display of this piece of art by Egon Schiele?
Ouch! Hoisted on his own petard. Well played. And you're exactly right: the advertising puffery is pretty grotesque. Tasteful AND hip. At the same time! At low low LOW prices!!!


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Alone 2023 release date has a special significance for Narasimham duo Mohanlal and Shaji Kailas, find out what
Alone is a lockdown thriller that has only Mohanlal as part of its cast
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Last Updated: 01.55 AM, Dec 30, 2022
After almost two years of completing its shoot, Mohanlal and director Shaji Kailas' Alone will hit theatres in January 2023. The filmmaker, who last year had said that the film will be a straight-to-OTT release, recently confirmed that Alone will hit theatres now on January 26, 2023.
What's special about the release date is that this was the release date of Mohanlal and Shaji Kailas' biggest hit, Narasimham, which was also produced by Aashirvad Cinemas. Narasimham, which released on January 26, 2000, was also the first production venture of Antony Perumbavoor's Aashirvad Cinemas, which has since then gone on to produce 35 movies including Drishyam, Ravanaprabhu, Lucifer and Odiyan.
Aashirvad Cinemas also has their biggest production venture yet – Barroz: Guardian of D'Gama's Treasure – set to hit theatres in 2023. The 3D children's fantasy, which will mark Mohanlal's directorial debut, has wrapped up its principal photography and is currently eyeing a March 2023 release. Mohanlal plays a 400-year-old warrior-ghost who guards a treasure for the rightful heir of Vasco Da Gama in the movie, which also has Guru Somasundaram in a pivotal role.
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The production company also has the much-anticipated Empuraan, the sequel of their biggest hit ever Lucifer, set to go on floors later next year. The movie is rumoured to be a co-production with Prithviraj Productions and another major production company. Prithviraj Sukumaran, who will be helming the movie, recently said that the team is currently busy with the recce of the film and is expected to start shooting the movie by mid of 2023.
Meanwhile, Alone is a lockdown-thriller that has only Mohanlal as part of its cast. Prithviraj Sukumaran, Manju Warrier and Siddique have lent their voices for characters that will be heard only through phone calls in the film, scripted by Rajesh Jayaraman. The movie has the superstar essaying the role of Kalidasan, an UN official, who gets stranded in Kerala after a nationwide lockdown is announced.
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Favourite Piano Music, Vol. 1 (Live)
Favourite Piano Music, Vol. 1 (Live) Alessandro Deljavan
Label: OnClassical
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
Das Album enthält Albumcover
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Sonata No.16 in C Major, K.545
1II. Andante05:26
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Sonata No.11 in A Major, K.331:
2III. Rondo. Alla turca03:45
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827): Bagatelle No. 25 in A Minor, WoO 59:
3Für Elise05:01
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827): Piano Sonata No.14 in C-sharp Minor, Op.27 No.2, Moonlight:
4I. Adagio sostenuto05:01
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827): Adieu to the Piano, Anh. 15:
5Adieu to the Piano, Anh. 1502:23
Franz Schubert (1797-1828): 4 Impromptus Op.90, D.899:
6No. 3, Andante in G-Flat Major05:46
Franz Schubert (1797-1828): 6 Moments Musicaux, D.780, Op.94:
7No. 3, Allegro moderato in F Minor02:12
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847): Lied ohne Worte. Book 5, Op.62:
8No. 6, Allegretto grazioso02:43
9No. 6, Andante sostenuto02:09
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849): Nocturne:
10No. 2, Andante in E-Flat Major04:44
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849): 24 Preludes, Op.28:
11No. 4 Largo in E Minor02:05
12No. 15 Sostenuto in D-Flat Major Raindrop05:34
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849): Lento con gran espressione:
13Nocturne No. 20 in C-Sharp Minor, P 1, No.16, KKIVa-1604:33
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849): Etude in E major, Op.10:
14No. 3 Tristesse04:15
Robert Schumann (1810–1856): Kinderszenen, Op.15:
15No. 7, Träumerei02:43
16No. 13, Der Dichter spricht02:40
Total Runtime01:01:00
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"An astonishing Piano Favourites compilation!" - Martin Guerber, Jamendo. This double-album includes some of the most celebrated piano music of all time: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms, Dvorak, Grieg, Sibelius, Moussorgsky, Satie, Debussy, Ravel, Albeniz, Gershwin are the composers.
The performer, the pianist Alessandro Deljavan, is one of the most talked-about talents of our days. His recent participation at the Van Cliburn contest was widely acclaimed by the press which coined the term 'Deljamania' for the overwhelming effect Deljavan made on public.
In this double-album Deljavan gives us a very refreshing version of the famous pages in an incredible sight-reading version! His personal style is very complex - but also very clear - full of nuances, details on secondary lines, and virtuosity. He has total control of the piano and makes music with the magic acoustic.
The recording, 100% natural, was made in a very suggestive medieval church in Tuscany during a relaxing holiday. No doubt this album is a must have!
Alessandro Deljavan Farshi, piano
Grieg: Lyric Pieces
Label: Aevea Classics
Chopin: Mazurkas
J.S. Bach: Works for Keyboard
Mozart: Nannerl Notenbuch
Satie: Gymnopedies and other Works
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Op. 27, Op. 13 & Eroica Variations, Op. 35
Alessandro Taverna
Clementi & Beethoven: Piano Sonatinas
Label: Brilliant Classics
Chopin: Complete Etudes
graduated in 2003 from the Conservatorio Statale di Musica Giuseppe Verdi, Milan, under the guidance of Riccardo Risaliti. From 2003-2005, he studied with E. Belli at the Conservatorio Statale di Musica G. B. Pergolesi, Fermo. He also earned his post-graduate degree at the Music University "G. Braga" in Teramo in 2007.
Throughout the 1990s, while still a youngster, Deljavan played in every major city in Italy and in a number of cities around the world. He competed in numerous national and international competitions, often capturing first prize, including top honors at the 1996 Concours musical de France in Paris. In 2005, he won second prize at the 'Johann Nepomuk Hummel International Competition' in Bratislava and took the 5th prize at the 'Gina Bachauer' Junior Artists Competition in Salt Lake City (the first Italian in the history of the competition).
At the age of 22, Deljavan won the 'John Giordano Jury Discretionary Award' at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and was confirmed by the critics as: 'The most accomplished and charismatic musicians of his generation'.
Deljavan is among the select young artists attending the International Piano Academy at Lake Como, Italy, under the tutelage of the academy's art director, William Grant Nabore.
He is collaborating with us with a lot recordings (Schubert, Satie, Brahms, Rubinstein, Alkan). He recently took part on the recording of the Cramer's etudes produced by OnClassical for the Naxos label.
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The World Viewed: New Directors on Their New Films, Part II
Aaron Cutler
[This is the second part of a two-part collection of statements from filmmakers represented in the series New Directors/New Films, which continues through March 25 at MoMA and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Read Part I here.]
Brooklyn-based Dustin Guy Defa's Closing Night film Person to Person gathers a cast including Michael Cera, Philip Baker Hall, and Abbi Jacobson for a charming character-based ensemble comedy about a wide swath of New Yorkers who cross paths during the course of several hours. Defa says, "I made a short film called Person to Person (2014) with my friend Bene Coopersmith and wanted to work together again. All these different characters started to flow into my head, and I realized that I would love to make a movie with as many different kinds of New Yorkers as I could. I got excited by the idea of assembling a group of people who you normally wouldn't see together and became interested in thinking about how they could connect—what desires they have to connect with each other, as well as how they go about making their connections. The film marks a natural ending for me to a long period of making short films—there are a lot of thematic and tonal similarities between them and Person to Person, and you could say that the feature accumulates a lot of ideas that have been floating around. I don't know where my films are going next, but I can't wait to find out and start writing again."
Brazilian filmmakers João Dumans and Affonso Uchôa's lyrical Arábia narrates in flashback the life of an imaginative Minas Gerais-based worker named Cristiano (played by Aristides de Sousa), whose memoirs are posthumously found handwritten in a notebook by a young man visiting his home. Uchôa says, on behalf of both directors, "We wanted to tell a common story in an epic way. To us, people like Cristiano are the heroes of our time. Poverty has always been a recurring theme in Brazilian cinema, but—primarily in recent years, with films like City of God (2002) and Elite Squad (2007)—it's been presented in unfortunate fashion. In these films, the whole experience of living in a slum is reduced to violence. Nobody loves, thinks, or dreams in these films of anything except for having a gun. We wanted to move in another direction, without once avoiding reality or the need to provide social commentary. When we wrote Arábia's script, we took as reference the work of writers like João Antônio, Oswaldo França Júnior, and Graciliano Ramos, all of whom made a point of writing in sympathy with Brazilians who were leading marginalized and anonymous lives. The idea came to us to detail such a life within a story found inside a notebook, but with a crucial difference from past efforts: Here, the story would be told by someone who had lived it himself."
Long Island-born transgender director Yance Ford's personal documentary Strong Island takes the 1992 murder of the filmmaker's brother as a starting point to share the history of his close-knit African-American family, whose members' bonds have been repeatedly threatened but not destroyed by their society. Ford says, "I decided to make Strong Island once the silence that I had been living in became impossible to bear. I realized that I had no reason to wait any longer—the story wasn't going to change. I balanced my role as a director with my relationship to the film's story (which, I believe, belongs in the larger discussion of racial justice in America and brings historical context to current cases) by collapsing all pretense of physical distance. I shot my character in extreme close-up, giving the film only one present tense. The 'now' is the only kind of instance that matters in Strong Island, resulting in raw, angry, clear, uncomfortable moments—all of which, to me, ring true. The film invites the audience into the life of the Ford family, but that family could also be thousands of others. I'm interested in making immersive cinema that is meant to be experienced rather than watched, work that pulls apart the DNA of conventional narrative to reveal the messy, complicated stuff that life is made of."
South Korean Jang Woo-jin's delicate sophomore feature Autumn, Autumn tells two stories about three people—a young man and two older folks who initially appear to form a couple—whose paths cross during a journey taken to the northern tourist-frequented city of Chuncheon. Jang says, "Chuncheon is my hometown. Once, on a train ride there from Seoul, I overheard a suspicious middle-aged couple's conversation about friends who had wanted to leave their hometown after gaining employment. I thus came up with Autumn, Autumn's two stories, which I wanted to tell in the same space, but at different times. I cast non-professional actors and actresses and demanded nothing from them, instead preferring to observe. I looked to learn how they had lived—what they'd studied, how their first loves and married lives had gone—and then combined their stories with others I'd heard from people I know. I tried to maintain a discreet distance, without being too far or too close, and sought to depict feelings belonging to ordinary moments. The young man Ji-hyeon (Woo Ji-hyeon) is suffering from the agony of youth, for instance, but he'll be OK as time passes. I find traveling to be similar to filmmaking—no matter our planning, we'll encounter new things, even in places to which we've been before. And I am a person who loves to travel."
Mexican filmmaker Manuela De Laborde's short As Without So Within (which will screen on 35mm) gleefully employs a variety of different-colored sculptures to speculate on what it is we look for when we go out to the movies. Laborde says, "As Without So Within helped me think about the different ways in which we can relate to materials and to objects. It continues my interests in abstraction, placement, and scale while offering a complexity that came through me allowing myself to let subjective choices pile up. The film was my thesis at CalArts [The California Institute of the Arts], and it first came into my head on a plane ride to Los Angeles from my home in Mexico. I remembered specific films, texts, and thoughts, got the main thesis in mind, left the plane, went to Santa Clarita, bought plaster, and continued for two years afterwards. I'm moving now in the directions of expanded cinema and installation, with material that possesses less of a need to explain itself and is more confident simply to be. Less didactic, perhaps more idiosyncratic, perhaps with a little more thrill."
Indian director Sanal Kumar Sasidharan's Tiger Award-winning third feature Sexy Durga tells the tale of a couple kidnapped by monstrous young men on the same night that their village pays homage to a goddess that shares the young woman's name. Sasidharan says, "I was searching for reasons behind the heartless violence in my society, where it comes from and why we are unable to correct the mindset behind it. The infamous Nirbhaya gang rape in Delhi in 2012 led me to think about violence against women—a violence in which I sometimes unknowingly take part, alongside other men that behave violently towards women with the pretext of helping them. I eventually began to relate our devotional rituals, celebrations, and sacrifices with the violent essence of our patriarchal society. From there, I could find rhythm in everything—rituals, sacrifices, devotions, even the cruel molestation of a woman on the street. Individuals are the basic units of society, and in works of art, they serve as representative characters. A work of art serves as a mirror in which society can see its true face; the more the realistic the mirror is, the clearer and less distorted will be the image."
The great German filmmaker Angela Schanelec is little-known in the US, despite making films for over twenty-five years. Her seventh feature, The Dreamed Path, tells intertwining love stories in Germany and in Greece thirty years apart that hold between them a sense of human sympathy. Schanelec says, "I was reading Claude Lévi-Strauss's Tristes Tropiques (1955) and thinking about my past as a theater actress. In an associative way, the idea of a couple emerged, with an anthropologist unable to understand his actress partner. I was also preoccupied with the influx of homeless people in the bourgeois German quarter in which I live. Some of them I meet daily, like neighbors, but they remain foreign bodies to me, as though offering a mute challenge or accusation. I thus invented a character that lives on the street, was once loved, is the same age as the anthropologist, and is glimpsed each day by the scientist upon looking out his window. After making my film Orly (2010), for several reasons, I felt the wish to restart. Now I wish to stay with unexplainable things, especially those that are naturally found within the course of daily life."
Tunisian director Ala Eddine Slim's first solo feature The Last of Us wordlessly follows a man (Jawhar Soudani) who has escaped from his homeland on a long journey taken towards Europe. Slim says, "The film is a fable about a lost body. The problem of so-called clandestine immigration by sea crossing has interested me ever since my first short film, The Fall (2007). There is an absurdity to people dying because of their imagined desire to be somewhere else (not necessarily better), and of governments not giving a damn about them, instead all practicing the same policy of partitioning spaces and people. I try to make images that parasitize the dominant landscape, within which I remain sensitive to the loneliness of human beings, regardless of their birth lands or homelands. The absence of spoken dialogue in The Last of Us highlights the other kinds of sounds in the film—those of vehicles, machines, electrical workings, with a particular attention paid to natural emissions such as wind, rain, birds, and reptiles that one does not see. Today's cinema is too talky for me, and I prefer to linger on hidden sounds. In the end, silence is a sum of all sounds, except for those arising from our mouths."
Argentina-based German filmmaker Nele Wohlatz's debut feature, The Future Perfect, will screen at ND/NF together with her short Three Sentences About Argentina. Both films good-naturedly showcase the process of learning a language, with the feature focusing on a Chinese teenager named Xiaobin (Zhang Xiaobin), newly arrived in Buenos Aires, who adapts partly by paying her own way through Spanish classes. Wohlatz says, "Xiaobin and I met in the language school in Buenos Aires where I was teaching German and she was studying Spanish. Language determines your thinking, and when you start to live in another language, you also have to reconstruct yourself and translate your thinking inside it. We used the Spanish classes as a structuring element to narrate Xiaobin's process of settling into a new society—she hadn't chosen to move to Argentina so much as to leave China, and had thus arrived in a metropolis with which she shared no history. Once there, she had had to create a new fiction for her own identity, which she was still doing when we met. The learning of a language has similarities to an actor's learning of a role, which is perhaps why language classes are often filled with performative exercises. The Future Perfect shows Chinese immigrants trying out Spanish in a way that seems as though they are rehearsing and learning how to act it out. Xiaobin isn't afraid of exploring new situations, nor of learning by doing. Perhaps this fearlessness is where her acting talent comes from."
This article is dedicated to the memory of Jytte Jensen, a film programmer with a global outlook.
Affonso Uchôa
Ala Eddine Slim
Angela Schanelec
As Without So Within
Autumn Autumn
Dustin Guy Defa
Jang Woo-jin
João Dumans
Manuela De Laborde
Nele Wohlatz
New Directors/New Films
Sanal Kumar Sasidharan
Sexy Durga
Strong Island
The Dreamed Path
The Future Perfect
Three Sentences About Argentina
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A small town deep in the forest called Veraloia: a safe haven to the few mythical creatures that still exist. Many races have become extinct when humans have destroyed the forests and the seas. But what will happen, when rumors start to spread?
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The symbolism of the special ed bill should be applauded, but it's far from a fix.
Copyright 2017: Houston Chronicle May 24, 2017 Updated: May 25, 2017 10:30 p.m.
Nicole Rechner had to fight every step of the way to get her son designated as eligible for special education services. Her son reported thoughts of suicide, spent nine days in a psychiatric hospital, and Rechner had to testify at a public hearing last fall before Houston Independent School District would consider admitting Demarcus Fuller into special ed.
Rechner is not alone, as documented by the Chronicle in its groundbreaking "Denied" series. The reporting found that an arbitrary 8.5 percent cap- enacted by the Texas Education Agency - has kept Texas children with special needs from receiving needed services from public schools for more than a decade, while saving the state billions of dollars.
Although the TEA renounced the cap after the series was published, the Legislature went a step further this session and passed a bill that bans the state from arbitrarily limiting students from special ed services. Gov. Greg Abbott signed the bill into law last week.
The symbolism of the bill should be applauded, but it's far from a fix. There are direct ways to deny services, such as a cap, but there are more subtle ways of denying services as well, such as inadequate funding.
Until the Legislature fixes the state's public school financing system, students who enroll in special ed may continue to be denied the services they deserve.
Texas public schools serve the lowest percentage of special education students of any state in the country - around 8.5 percent - while the national average for special education students hovers around 13 percent. Now that Texas has abandoned its inhumane policy cap, in the upcoming years, school districts can expect to provide services to more children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, epilepsy and other special needs.
Special education students - including those with challenges such as traumatic brain injury and dyslexia - are expensive to educate. Texas spends around $9,282 per student, according to the National Center of Education Statistics 2012-2013 data. On average, educating a special ed child costs twice as much, and the federal government pays only one-fifth of the extra costs, leaving the rest to states and school districts - as reported in the "Denied" series.
As it is, schools already are struggling to provide a quality education for students. As property appraisal values rise, and along with them, local tax revenue, the state continues to shrink - and shirk - its responsibility, sending smaller and smaller portions of general revenues to public schools. Yet special education students need smaller class sizes so teachers can provide more individual attention, in addition to trained teachers to work with them.
Regardless of whether any changes to school finance law materialize out of the legislative session, it's clear that public schools will face a growing funding shortfall. That will harm public education in general, but the greater harm will be to these children who need more intensive services.
Now that Texas has abandoned its cruel cap, we can hope that mothers like Rechner will no longer have to fight to get their children in special ed. But there's no assurance that mothers of special needs students will not have to continue to fight to secure the services they deserve. There's nothing special about a program that's funded at such a low level that it fails to meet children's needs.


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The role of women within the entrepreneurial environment is of significant importance. The women entrepreneurship has to be studied separately for two reasons. The first being that women entrepreneurs have emerged as an untapped source of economic growth during the last decade. They not only create jobs for themselves and others but also provide society with different solutions to management, organisation and business problems as well as to the exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities. Women Community though equal men in population, it is the subject of concern to note that, yet in this modern sophisticated world, she is treated as the second citizen or subordinate to men. Though various efforts are being made to improve the status of women, women folk have not taken their maximum use and remain still backward. In almost all countries, the Governments are providing special provisions for women's development and efforts are being made to extract maximum use of women's talent. Women folk have not taken the proper use of the special provisions and facilities available for them in the business field. We find lack of efficient women entrepreneurs. It is the time now to awake the ladies community towards the opportunities available for them to get their talent useful and serve the society, which can be a cause for more rapid growth of the nation. As now, in this modern world everywhere the cost of living has increased, it becomes necessary for women to undertake economic activity and support their families. Now the attitude of the society has also changed and working women is not seen with suspicious eyes like earlier. She is more liberated now and the modern woman leads a very happy and peaceful family life with her husband and family's support in her economic activity. In the present paper an attempt has been made to study role, Trends, Problems faced by women entrepreneurs and also the position of women Entrepreneurs in Jammu and Kashmir. Further it deals with assistance provided to women entrepreneurs. Remedies have also been discussed.