Common security issues across all types of industries most likely start with patching. We're in the midst of a cybersecurity crisis. However, while many are searching for (or claiming to offer) a miracle cure, far too few are properly washing their hands: our cyber hygiene has to improve! Through 2020, 99% of exploited vulnerabilities will be the ones known by security and IT professionals for at least one year. Organizations need to get patched as soon as possible to avoid catastrophic breaches. Here are five common patching problems and the solutions that can make a difference.
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Surrounding this idol are smaller images, some very beautiful in form; others crooked-necked and distorted shapes, symbolical, probably, of good and evil. There are two large cactus with protruding arms, one on each side of the dais on which the god squats. All this is carved out of hard rock resembling marble. In the opposite corner of this cross-hall were found tools of all descriptions, made of copper. These people undoubtedly knew the lost art of hardening this metal, which has been sought by chemists for centuries without result. On a bench running around the workroom was some charcoal and other material probably used in the process. There is also slag and stuff similar to matte, showing that these ancients smelted ores, but so far no trace of where or how this was done has been discovered, nor the origin of the ore.


In this article, I am going to show you how to enable facetime on iOS devices including iOS 8, iOS 9 and later. Nowadays every company like apple has it's on telephony video or an audio product like facetime, this is a video telephony product by apple. that you can video call and audio call within it to your friends. It's is totally free to use all you need to sign in with your apple id. So follow this article step by step to enable Facetime on iOS Devices.
Facetime is a video telephony product, by facetime you can do high-quality videos calls or high sound quality audio calls. Facetime is a video telephony product like skype, yahoo messenger, IMO, Viber and other products. It was developed by Apple Inc, on June 7, 2010, facetime was announced by apple CEO Steve jobs in conjunction with iPhone 4, and finally release on September 8, 2010. Apple bought "Facetime" name from facetime Communications, who changed their name to Actiance Inc. it is available for mobile devices running iOS and on mac books or computers running Mac os x 10.6.6.
As I mentioned below, facetime has 2 version services, audio call, and video call. the video version of facetime supports any ios device that has forward facing camera or iSight camera and apple computers equipped with facetime camera. but the audio version is available for any ios device running iOS 7 or newer, and any mac books or computers with a forward facing camera running mac os x 10.9.2 and later.
Step #1. Go to Settings then scroll down to FaceTime and tap on it.
Step #3. Enter your Apple ID with Password then tap on Sign In button to use your apple for Facetime, if you don't have an apple id then create your on id by the article how to create an Apple ID om iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.
Step #4. Sometimes it asks you to verify your apple id to use facetime if it's asked then tap on Verify button from the Verify an email address dialog box.
Step #5. Sign In with your apple id and password then it will verify with your Apple ID then close safari and get back to Facetime.
Step #6. Choose from which Emails or mobile phones you can be reached or contact, to add another email tap on Add An Email, then go forward to add your new mail.
Note: When you add another email to "You Can Be Reached By FaceTime AT" then it will also ask to verify once, to use the email.
Step #7. Choosing your FaceTime Caller ID, select one of they Emails or mobile phones to appear in during outgoing Facetime calls, no matters it's an audio or video calls. It means when you call someone then it will show your caller id that you're selected.
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Find out Kimberly Guilfoyle latest net worth, real age, height, weight, biography, husband, source of income and career details. Kimberly Ann Guilfoyle was born in the year 1969 in California in USA and she is a famous cable news personality who has got many fans all over. In the year 1996 was established a famous news channel named ''Fox News'' channel and Kimberly Guilfoyle as co-host of the show named ''The Five'' was simply awesome and she caught the attention of many with her work. Famous USA based news and talk show titled'' The O'Reilly factor'' was shown on Fox News channel and this 5 ft 5 in tall Guilfoyle made many heads turn by discussing many controversial political based issues on that show.
Net Worth – $5 Million
Name Kimberly Ann Guilfoyle
Date of Birth March9, 1969
Birth Place San Francisco, California, United States
Parents Mercedes Guilfoyle and Anthony Guilfoyle
Education University of San Francisco
Net Worth $5 million
Source of wealth News anchor
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Kimberly worked as a prosecutor in her initial stages of her career and later as the deputy district attorney in Los Angeles she made huge noises with cases in juvenile nature plus other cases like domestic violence, sexual assaults etc . She was highly efficient in her works and was recognized by an award titled ''Prosecutor of the Month'' and it was given to her by District Attorney's Office. It is sensational to note that Guilfoyle married twice in her life.
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Factoid: Garrison Dam, ND is located 75 miles northwest of Bismarck on the Missouri River. Lake Sakakawea is 178 miles long with 1,340 miles of shoreline and extends from Riverdale to Trenton. There are 35 recreation areas around Lake Sakakawea offering outdoor recreation opportunities such as camping, boating, fishing, sailing and hunting. The lake is an important resting stop for whooping cranes and a nesting area for the least tern and piping plover.


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Oracle accused of costing women and minorities $400 million
Written by James Orme	Wed 23 Jan 2019
Department of Labor doubles down on lawsuit it filed against Oracle in 2017, which enjoys lucrative government contracts
In a new federal filing, the US Department of Labor (DoL) has alleged that Oracle systematically discriminates against women and minorities, costing them an estimated $400 million.
The complaint renews the lawsuit that the DoL filed in 2017, that alleged Oracle paid "white male" workes more than their peers. The 2017 suit was put on hold to allow Oracle and DoL time to arbitrate the filing.
This time the DoL is upping the ante, accusing Oracle of unethical compensation and hiring practices.
The complaint states that there are gross disparities in the wages of its employees working at its HQ in Redwood Shores, California, even after controlling for variables like job title, full-time status and estimated prior work experience.
Oracle allegedly uses two methods to discriminate against women and minorities. The first entails relying on prior salary when setting initial pay, and the second involves "channelling" female, black and Asian employees into lower-paid positions.
"The OFCCP's preliminary analyses of the limited information produced in discovery so far shows that Oracle suppressed starting salaries for its female and non-white employees," the filing reads.
The DoL is also critical of Oracle's apparent bias towards Asian applicants, alleging that it found 'significant overrepresentation of Asians in its applicant pool'.
Oracle's alleged bias stems from apparent targeted recruitment and a referral bonus policy encouraging its heavily Asian workforce to recruit other Asians.
Oracle is one of the world's largest technology companies and receives over $100 million per year from contracts with the US Government.
"The Government enjoys the unrestricted power to produce its own supplies, to determine those with whom it will deal, and to fix the terms and conditions upon which it will make a needed purchase," reads the filing.
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The Brimstone Network
Book #1 of The Brimstone Network
By Thomas E. Sniegoski
Thirteen-year-old Abraham "Bram" Stone has never lived an ordinary life. Home is a monastery in the Himalayan Mountains, where the monks train him in otherworldly fighting skills. Bram's father, Elijah Stone, leads a group called the Brimstone Network, an order of warriors and sorcerers who provide the last line of defense against all paranormal dangers.
Bram always knew that one day he'd take his father's place. But that day comes far too soon when a bizarre man named Mr. Stitcharrives at the monastery and breaks the news to Bram: Every member of the Brimstone Network, including Elijah, has been assassinated. Suddenly it's up to Bram to form a new Brimstone Network out of the rubble of the old, in the hope that he can rise to the challenge in time to stop a terrifying threat to humanity.
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Thomas E. Sniegoski
Thomas E. Sniegoski is the author of more than two dozen novels for adults, teens, and children. His books for teens include Legacy, Sleeper Code, Sleeper Agenda, and Force Majeure, as well as the series The Brimstone Network. As a comic book writer, Sniegoski's work includes Stupid, Stupid Rat Tails, a prequel miniseries to international hit, Bone. Sniegoski collaborated with Bone creator Jeff Smith on the project, making him the only writer Smith has ever asked to work on those characters. He was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his wife LeeAnne and their French Bulldog, Kirby. Visit him on the web at Sniegoski.com.
Publisher: Aladdin (August 5, 2008)
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Children's Fiction > Legends, Myths, Fables > Other
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Inspire2Thrive allows our members to make use of each other's specialist expertise, experience and knowledge, sharing resources in an open and transparent manner to ensure we provide the best possible service to local people. Inspire2Thrive was established in 2013 to ensure there is a co-ordinated local response to the needs of vulnerable people in Telford. The founder members of Inspire2Thrive – Stay, Bromford, Maninplace, Wellington YMCA and The Salvation Army Kip Project came together out of a shared ethos and belief that with the right support, everybody has the potential to "Thrive".


"How Can I Take Books to Cuba?"
Adopt a Library in Cuba!
"Sometimes certain books have been published, the number does not matter. But as a matter of principle not a single book of such kind should be printed, not a single chapter, not a single page, not a single letter!"
NEW YORK, April 30, 2011 (Friends of Cuban Libraries) - At the conference, Rhonda Neugebauer was asked why she testified during an ALA investigation that she has been unable to find any evidence of censorship in Cuba during her visits to the island over the past twenty years. Visibly annoyed, she first tried to stonewall the issue by declaring, "This question does not deserve an answer!"
HAVANA, April 25, 2011 (Ana Aguililla/Roberto de Jesús Guerra Pérez) - When library leader Omayda Padrón Azcuy complained to State Security agents that they were harassing her, one of them answered: "No, if I was really repressing you, I would break down the door and drag you outside right now."
Nat Hentoff: "Endless shame of the spineless ALA"
NEW YORK, January 13, 2011 (Nat Hentoff/Galesburg Register-Mail) - In the many columns I've written..., I've cited the ALA's refusal to demand the release of these librarians.... As my documented stories on these and future imprisonments went on, I was targeted by the director of Cuba's National Library Eliades Acosta: "What does Mr. Hentoff know of the real Cuba?" My public reply: "I know that if I were a Cuban, I'd be in prison."
NEW YORK, March 11, 2010 (Friends of Cuban Libraries) - Today the letter appended below was sent to Ms. Camila Alire, the president of the American Library Association: "We write... asking for your urgent and compassionate aid in saving the life of Guillermo Fariñas. Mr. Fariñas, the director of the Dr. Roberto Avalos Library and the national coordinator of the largest group of independent libraries in Cuba, is on a hunger strike at his home in Santa Clara to win the release of 26 Cuban prisoners who are in poor health. Mr. Fariñas has refused to consume food or fluids since he began his hunger strike on Feb. 24, following the hunger strike death of prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo...."
Allard fails to cover up Eliades Acosta's "heresy"
Dowling's Cuba Update: more "invisible book burning"
NEW YORK, April 10, 2008 (Friends of Cuban Libraries) - Fernando Báez, the newly appointed director of Venezuela's National Library, has declared war on the Library of Congress. Báez says his institution will "assume a leading role in Latin America and the world because the U.S. Library of Congress has been converted into one of history's greatest enemies of libraries...."
NEW YORK, March 7, 2008 (Friends of Cuban Libraries) - Critics charge the ALA is censoring criticism of the organization's Cuba policy made by distinguished guest speaker Anthony Lewis at the ALA's January conference in Philadelphia. "I think there can't be anything worse than putting librarians in prison because of their being librarians and giving people books to read," declared Lewis to his ALA audience. "So please don't ignore the issue.... Cuban librarians who have been in prison are entitled to the utmost support from this organization...."
LEAKED MEMO: "Invasion of the Library Snatchers"
NEW YORK, Nov. 6, 2007 (Friends of Cuban Libraries) - Gisela Delgado and her husband, Héctor Palacios, have arrived in Spain on a 3-month medical pass. Ms. Delgado is the director of the Independent Libraries Project....What did they do to him in prison?... For two years, Héctor was kept in a metal-and-concrete box, 5 feet 4 inches high, 5 feet 10 inches long.... When I saw him, I asked: "Did you think you would pull through?" Without boasting, he answered something else: "What's important is that they couldn't crush me...."
NEW YORK, January 17, 2007 (Friends of Cuban Libraries) - From a letter to Ms. Leslie Burger, ALA president: "You did not create the current ALA policy toward Cuba, founded on lies and deception, but you are under no obligation to defend the ongoing cover up or to repeat the pro-Castro faction's lies as if they are the truth. On the contrary, you have not only a right but a duty to tell the truth...."
NEW YORK, Feb. 8, 2006 (Friends of Cuban Libraries) - "The same goes for nonsensical claims that Cuba's independent libraries are somehow not real libraries, even though the ALA's own mandate defends the legitimacy of 'all libraries.' Is there some aspect of the phrase 'all libraries,' Mr. Gorman, which is ambiguous?"
SAN ANTONIO , Feb. 1, 2006 (Jonathan Gurwitz/San Antonio Express-News) - Michael Gorman, the president of the ALA, was mugged recently in San Antonio. Gorman was in town for the ALA's annual midwinter meeting. Ordinarily, I would be horrified.... But in this case, it's the ALA that's committing the crime and the truth that fittingly mugged Gorman.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, January 22, 2006 (Andrei Codrescu) - "The ALA councilors have remained silent on the issue to this day. Am I hallucinating? Is this the same American Library Association that stands against censorship and for freedom of expression everywhere? ...Cuba today is the Romania of my growing up."
HAVANA, Dec. 14, 2005 (Víctor Manuel Domínguez, Lux Info Press / www.cubanet.org) - "We will obtain multiple copies of the books that were confiscated," declared Gabriel Díaz Sánchez, "....and independent trade unions will flourish in Granma Province with a degree of success beyond the wildest expectations of the authorities of this country who want to make us disappear.""
Two libraries raided, librarian sentenced for "dangerousness"
NEW YORK, August 10, 2005 (Friends of Cuban Libraries) - As the world's librarians gather in Norway for the IFLA conference, Estonian representatives declared: "Estonian librarians join other Eastern European librarians in support of the independent library movement in Cuba and... protest against the persecution and repression of independent librarians by the anti-democratic [Castro] regime." "
Librarians convicted of being "dangerous"
NEW YORK, May 6, 2005 (Friends of Cuban Libraries) - Sensitive to growing international concern over reports of human rights violations, in late April the government of President Castro conducted a secret trial of two Cuban librarians and sentenced them to prison on a charge of "dangerousness."
STOCKHOLM, April 26, 2005 (www.cubanuestra.nu) - "You enjoy a privileged position...," writes Canek Sánchez Guevara in an article addressed to another child of high government officials, "and you must have noticed the obsession [in Cuba] with surveillance, control, repression, etc. And freedom is something entirely different."
LIBRARIAN RELEASED: "We're not going to retreat a single millimeter..."
MATANZAS, Jan. 13, 2005 (www.PayoLibre.com) - "We're not going to retreat a single millimeter, and they know it." These are the words of Miguel Sigler Amaya on Jan. 12, one day after being freed from prison upon completion of a sentence for "disrespect" and "resistance...."
HAVANA, Jan. 12, 2005 (FAIFE-L listserv) - The Cuban government has responded angrily to a Latvian resolution calling for the release of Cuba's imprisoned librarians. Here is a Jan. 12 letter to Anna Maulina of the Librarians Association of Latvia from Cuba's "official" library organizations: "We know how a letter such as yours is fabricated.... We are long accustomed to struggling with 'democrats such as yourself...' It is too late, Madame Maulina, to attempt to trick the world in this manner...."
NEW YORK, September 28, 2004 (Friends of Cuban Libraries) - As the world library community increasingly focuses on Vaclav Havel's historic August 10 letter to IFLA, containing an appeal for IFLA to condemn the heightened persecution of Cuba's independent librarians, the Cuban government is trying to distract attention from this key issue.... The Cuban regime is now trying to change the subject away from the repression of Cuba's independent librarians by making false charges of "espionage" and "terrorism...."
PRAGUE, August 10, 2004 (People in Need Organization) - "We warmly support Cuba's independent librarians, their historic challenge to censorship, and their brave defense of the democratic values embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which FAIFE/IFLA is also dedicated to upholding...."
Cuban librarians in need - where's ALA?
ORLANDO, June 24, 2004 (Orlando Sentinel/Myriam Márquez ) - Ramon Colas will set up his booth at the American Library Association's annual reading-fest today in Orlando.... One would think the ALA would embrace Colas' agenda of free speech for all. Certainly for the sake of consistency one can't rail against the Patriot Act's potential excesses here at home and then look the other way when it comes to the real threats to freedom to read in Cuba.... If America's premier organization for defending free speech can't make that connection, it loses all credibility on the Patriot Act. detained...."
MIAMI, June 3, 2004 (People for the American Way/www.pfaw.org) - Among the winners of the 2004 "Celebrate Free Speech" awards are Ramón Colás and Berta Mexidor, "for their bravery in establishing a network of independent libraries in private homes throughout Cuba, wherein censored literature was available to the public...."
PARIS, March 26, 2004 (Independent Libraries of Cuba/www.bibliocuba.org) - A support group has just received a letter from Mr. Bertrand Delanoë, the Mayor of Paris, associating the city of Paris with the development of Cuba's independent libraries.... "I accept with great pleasure the principles of this sponsorship which will allow the City of Paris, by means of this cultural link, to send to the Cuban people testimony of our friendship and sympathy...."
HAVANA, March 5, 2004 (Moisés L. Rodríguez / www.cubanet.org) - Radelis Rodríguez Soto was intercepted on the street by a State Security agent who goes by the name of "Mario." He told the young woman that "angry mobs could attack you and your [6-year old] daughter because dissident activities will not be tolerated...."
CENSORED: the Havana Book Fair, Cuban officials and German "dissidents"
Two more libraries raided: "They aren't going to get away with it"
Cuba says ban on Internet deters "satanic cults"
NEW YORK, January 27, 2004 (Friends of Cuban Libraries) - Cuba has responded angrily to worldwide protests of its tightened ban on Internet access... In a letter to a newspaper, Cuban ambassador Miguel Ramirez described Amnesty International's protest of the ban as "totally biased" and defended Cuba's new law as a reasonable measure to "regulate access to [the] Internet and avoid hackers, stealing passwords, [and] access to pornographic, satanic cults, terrorist or other negative sites...."
NEW YORK, January 19, 2004 (Friends of Cuban Libraries) - On January 16 the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) expressed "deep concern" over the Cuban government's latest effort to restrict Internet access on the island.... "IFLA and its worldwide membership urge the Cuban Government to respect, defend and promote basic human rights... We urge the Cuban Government to eliminate all obstacles to access to the Internet imposed by its policies."
WASHINGTON, D.C., January 16, 2004 (Guy Taylor/Washington Times) - The largest U.S. library association this week opted not to demand the release of private Cuban librarians jailed by Fidel Castro's government.... "Today marks a tragic date in the history of the American Library Association..."
human rights issues will be irrevocably damaged.
The ALA: "Castro's favorite librarians"
PROVIDENCE, RI, December 24, 2003 (Providence Journal Op-Ed) - The American Library Association is concerned about Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act.... How, then, to explain the ALA's attitude toward the freedom to read in Cuba?... Ten librarians now languish in a Cuban prison for encouraging their fellow citizens to "read freely" -- and the American Library Association seems to think that's just fine.
Nat Hentoff: The ALA's "shameful silence"
Le Monde: "If you travel to Cuba, take a book"
ALA hypocrisy slammed: "It's always 1984 in Cuba"
ALA leaders to New York Times: Repression in Cuba? What repression?
NEW YORK, June 28, 2003 (Friends of Cuban Libraries) - A press campaign to draw attention to the ALA's failure to take action on Cuba was highlighted in today's New York Times ("A Library in Cuba: What Is It?")... ALA president Mitch Freedman insisted that "the facts on Cuba are still murky." Michael Dowling, director of the ALA's International Relations Office, said "there has been no definitive evidence that books are banned and librarians harassed...."
NEW YORK, June 5, 2003 (Friends of Cuban Libraries) - In a stinging rebuke to the American Library Association, one of the nation's foremost defenders of civil liberties, Nat Hentoff, has criticized the ALA for failing to take action to defend volunteer librarians in Cuba who are being subjected to a brutal crackdown. "It would be astonishing - and shameful," said Hentoff, "if the American Library Association does not support - and gather support for - the courageous independent librarians of Cuba...."
NEW YORK, April 6, 2003 (Friends of Cuban Libraries) - A surprise prosecution witness in the trial of Marta Beatriz Roque was Aleida Godínez, a labor activist who served as the defendant's secretary. Aleida Godínez is also the director of the William Le Sante Independent Library. In her court testimony against Roque, Aleida Godínez identified herself as an undercover agent of the State Security police, codenamed "Vilma."
NEW YORK, September 21, 2002 (Friends of Cuban Libraries) - An excerpt from Roberto Ampuero's recent memoir/novel of Cuban university life: "Every month an official of the Cuban [Communist] party's Directorate of Revolutionary Orientation appeared in the library... with a list of texts that had to be removed.... Lázaro had told us that the prohibited books were being sent to a library with restricted access that collected the texts of 'bourgeois' authors such as Ortega y Gasset, Octavio Paz or Arthur Koestler.... But one afternoon... Lázaro confessed to us that he had discovered something at work that was truly a nightmare...."
NEW YORK, August 27, 2002 (Friends of Cuban Libraries) - On May 1 the Meridian Writing program of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) aired a program on the growth of Cuba's independent library movement. "The Argentine journalist Jacobo Timerman wrote that 'if it's true that every Cuban knows how to read and write, it is likewise true that every Cuban has nothing to read and must be very cautious about what he writes...' "
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Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon: Chandra Shines on HBO's The Night Of, 107, Review
HBO's limited mini-series, The Night Of, is an intense and merciless crime drama. Created and written by Steven Zaillian and Richard Price, and based on BBC's Criminal Justice, it examines the contemporary criminal justice system in America through the case of Nasir "Naz" Kahn (Riz Ahmed), a Pakistani-American college student, in the post-9/11 world of New York City. Accused of raping and murdering a rich, white girl, Andrea Cornish (Sofia Black-D'Elia), who got into Naz's father's cab after Naz "borrowed" it, without permission, in order to attend a college athletes' party, Naz has been subjected to the impersonal maws of the justice system, which simply does not care whether or not he is innocent. The police, the detectives, the DA, the Judge, the Medical Examiner don't care about the evidence unless it fits their preconceived storyline about Naz's guilt. Meanwhile, interred inside Rikers since his arrest, Naz has steadily been rising in the criminal ranks, under the tutelage of inmate-murderer Freddy Knight (Michael Kenneth Williams). Now entering the Defense phase of the trial, Naz revealed more ugliness to his character in "Ordinary Death," while his attorney, Chandra (Amara Karan), began to shine.
Chandra at Trial
We already had a glimpse of Chandra's talent last week, when she gave a concise opening statement, after agonizing over it for hours, as well as when she dismissed DA Weiss (Jeannie Berlin, below) with the statement to the jury, "She likes to be called Mrs. Weiss." You wouldn't think a small statement like that would make a difference in your perception of someone, but it did. Instantly, you realized that DA Weiss is misrepresenting herself, for some unknown reason, in a professional world where she already has an impressive title: District Attorney. Chandra's swipe was powerful and unexpected.
In "Ordinary Death," Chandra continued to shine as she took the role of lead Defense Attorney in Naz's trial. Though it was settled earlier in the season that she would handle the trial because Naz's original attorney John Stone (John Turturro) had no trial experience, she surprised me with her confidence and her handling of the witnesses. Without even knowing that Box (Bill Camp, below) and his fellow detectives discovered another victim that is, according to him, clearly identical to the murder of Andrea Cornish, Chandra shredded Box on the witness stand. She made him seem like an arrogant punk in his mis-handling of the evidence (when he took the asthma inhaler from the crime scene and gave it back to Naz). She made Box seem incompetent because he hadn't interviewed — or even found — any other suspects. Just before his retirement, in fact, she trounced him so soundly that he couldn't even enjoy his own party.
Chandra was as effective dismantling Box as DA Weiss was at shedding doubt on one of the Defense's key witnesses, Dr. Katz revealed evidence about the Five-Finger-Filet (FFF) Knife Game, which Chandra (or the show writers) mistakenly called Mumblety Peg. Katz revealed that The Victim's skin cells had been found in a gash in the coffee table, indicating that her wound had come from playing FFF with the suspect, Naz. Katz also revealed things about the crime scene that the detectives seem to have missed, such as the defective lock on the security door. Katz gave good testimony for the Defense, but Weiss attacked his character in her cross-examination. Chandra did the same thing to Box on her Cross. That's a Defense Attorney at her professional best.
Though Chandra didn't see the threatening looks Naz was giving a former classmate who was on the witness stand — testifying that Naz dealt drugs, selling individual Adderall pills from his prescription — Chandra managed to stay cool despite the Reveal of more negative aspects of Naz's character. After we learned that Naz dealt drugs, though on a small scale, and was attempting to intimidate one of his "customers" on the witness stand, we learned that the violence Naz displayed while in high school was not an isolated incident. Chandra was in the midst of cross-examining Naz's high school basketball coach — who earlier in the season revealed to Stone that Naz had thrown a classmate down the stairs, breaking his arm, without provocation — when the coach revealed that two students had been assaulted by Naz.
Though Chandra's voice went quieter, and her body went slightly more rigid, she managed to continue to ask about the Two. It seems that our boy Naz threw a full can of Coke at another student, just as soon as Naz returned from the suspension he earned after assaulting the first boy. Despite Chandra's attempt to relate these violent assaults to post-9/11 persecution of American Muslims, the only thing viewers — and jurors, presumably — took away from the coach's testimony was that Naz, once again, has lied about his past. Chandra acted like it was a mere blip on her radar, though it surely rattled her. At the Defense table, Stone was giving Naz wary, almost terrified glances while Chandra managed, somehow, to continue the trial and retain her professional demeanor.
Chandra and Naz's Mother
Chandra is handling all aspects of the murder trial professionally, including the behavior of Naz's mother. Safar (Poorna Jagannathan, above) conspicuously walked out of the courtroom while slides of the victim were being shown. Chandra later went to the bathroom and told Mrs. Khan that the jury had to look at the slides, so Mrs. Kahn had to do it, too: for Naz's sake, Safar couldn't walk out like that. Safar Khan was having none of that, however. She wouldn't let Chandra comfort her, she didn't return to the courtroom, she stopped coming to the trial, and, furthermore, she continued to refuse to talk to Naz when he called her, despite Chandra's telling Safar that Naz wanted to talk to her.
Though Safar's leaving the courtroom and no longer attending the trial are going to look bad to the jury, I can't say I blame her. Naz's behavior on "the night of," even if he didn't kill the girl, has ruined his family's life. Both parents are working crappy jobs, desperately trying to support the family; they had to pawn their silver, jewelry, and other precious objects to get cash; and both parents were victims of attacks. Naz's father Salim (Peyman Moaadi) has been continuously confronted with racism, and his cab partners forced him to sell out his third of the cab so that they could buy a new one — without him. When he objected and called them "thieves," one of them said, "And you are the father of a murderer."
While looking at pictures of Naz as a baby and a young child, Naz's mother was threatened with a rock thrown through Naz's bedroom window. His parents' lives have been permanently altered for the worse by Naz's selfish and careless behavior. Safar has reached a point where she may no longer believe that her son is innocent; more important to her, however, is the question, "Did I raise an animal?" She doesn't want to be responsible herself for Naz's behavior. Chandra was unable to answer Safar's question or to convince Naz's mother to come back to the courtroom, but Chandra showed herself a compassionate professional when she attempted to get Safar back into court, and to answer Naz's phone calls.
Chandra and The Kiss
The only failure of Chandra Kapoor's professional character in the episode was the weird moment when she kissed the imprisoned Naz (and let's just hope the kiss, which was clearly captured on surveillance video, won't get Chandra debarred). I realize that Chandra doesn't know that Naz snitched on fellow inmate Victor, who was sexually abusing Petey (Aaron Motey). Chandra doesn't know that Naz conspired with Freddy to kill Victor, acting as a decoy by asking the guard for a new asthma inhaler while Freddy went to the prison TV area and sliced Victor's throat. Chandra doesn't know, as Vikram Murthi of Vulture.com writes, that Naz "may not have murdered Andrea, but he has now murdered someone [i.e., Victor], albeit indirectly." Nor does Chandra realize, as Vikram continues, that Naz's "mother may not have raised an animal, but[Naz] has become one."
Despite Chandra's professional lapse — which she seemed to regret immediately — and despite the fact that the scene was extremely short, it's generated lots of discussion, far more discussion than the length of the scene would seem to justify. This may be due to the fact that virtually everyone was stunned by that kiss. Though at least one person on a forum wrote that it was about time the two kissed because "Chandra's super hot," that comment had no replies, and other viewers thought the kiss made no sense at all. Most critics and reviewers seemed to agree with Scott Tobias of the New York Times: (emphasis in quote below is mine.)
"Ordinary Death" makes the show's first significant misstep by following through on the romantic tension that's been building between Chandra and Naz. It makes a certain dramatic sense. Naz would have taken the plea deal had Chandra not persuaded him to follow his conscience. Unlike Stone, who doesn't trust a jury to reach the right decision regardless, Chandra believes an innocent person should assert his innocence. It becomes a contract between them: She trusts in his innocence; he trusts her to rescue him from a life sentence. It could be argued that there's an intimacy between them that goes beyond a lawyer-client relationship, because there's so much at stake for both of them. But having them actually kiss, however much Chandra seems to regret it afterward, undermines her as a professional. "The Night Of" goes to great lengths to emphasize the grind-it-out dignity of veterans like Box, Stone, and Helen, but it does a disservice to Chandra by giving her a jailhouse crush.
Jason Concepcion thought the kiss was "in a subplot that feels like it was teleported in from a different show." A fantasy or a science fiction show, perhaps, which is certainly not the genre The Night Of has been aiming for with its scrupulous contemporary realism. Kevin Fallon of The Daily Beast just found the kissing scene to be bad writing (emphasis below is mine).
The extent to which Chandra is out of her element becomes evident not in the courtroom, in which she does a brilliant job casting doubts that Naz could be the killer during testimony from the pathologist she and John hired, and then credibility-ruining questioning with Detective Box (Bill Camp). Instead it becomes evident during a meeting with Naz in which the two end up kissing, she so entranced by his new, confident demeanor, assured manner of speaking, and bulked up sexual appeal. In a show that's been praised for the realism with which it portrays this kind of crime story, it's a twist that threatens to, as they say, "jump the shark."
That kiss was more than jumping the shark, more than "a moment of television in which there is a gimmick or unlikely occurrence that is seen as a desperate attempt to keep viewers' interest." Beyond the fact that most viewers are already sufficiently interested in The Night Of without any sexual activity beyond the premiere episode's (mostly implied) interaction between Naz and The Victim, that kiss between Chandra and Naz was completely unnecessary to the storyline. If anything, the kiss alienated many, if not most, viewers. Further, it didn't evolve from anything in the previous episodes. Though Naz called Chandra late at night at least once, letting us know that he was either extremely lonely or that he might be attracted to Chandra, she has never given any indication of reciprocal feelings. It's true that she broke up with her boyfriend and was distressed about it, telling fellow attorney Stone about the break-up in a previous episode, but there has never been even the slightest hint that Chandra found Naz even least bit interesting as a person rather than as a client, let alone that she found him sexually attractive.
Unprepared for by earlier episodes, completely out-of-character, and unnecessary to the storyline, the kissing scene was more than "jumping the shark" because it was more than just bad writing. The Chandra-initiated kiss was an insult to professional women. Many reviewers and critics were appalled by Chandra's blatantly unprofessional act. As a professional woman myself, I was most sincerely offended. Virtually all professional women I have ever worked with or known personally have gone out of their way to be even more professional than their male colleagues, simply because women must be more professional and more successful than males in the same field in order to succeed. Having Chandra kiss Naz, who is not only a prison inmate but her client, who is not only her client but a college boy several years younger than she is, was insulting and offensive to professional women everywhere. It was also ludicrous: are we to believe that a grown woman, already established in a law firm, albeit as a young lawyer, and already experienced in trials, would risk her entire professional career by kissing a boy client?
I wasn't the only reviewer who found it insulting. Peter Allen Clark of Mashable.com complained that
Everything we have been shown presents [Chandra] as a professional, intelligent, competent woman who would never start making out with Naz in a jail cell. That, one of the very few things that actually happened this week, was insulting to her and to us. I get that Naz reached out more and more, but she never seemed interested in reciprocating. That scene made The Night Of seem like boring, pedestrian TV. (emphasis mine)
Very boring. Very pedestrian. Very jumping the shark, I'd say. It would have made more sense, given Naz's ability to dissemble, had Naz initiated the kiss: in fact, even though he did not, at least one reviewer postulated that Naz may to use that kiss to betray Chandra and frame his appeal. But it was Chandra who initiated the kiss. Chandra kissed Naz first, though he responded. So we are left with this question: did Chandra kiss Naz because she's unprofessional, or did the writers simply throw it in because there hasn't been any sexual activity in The Night Of since episode one?
If the former, we have no idea why Chandra would suddenly become so severely and flagrantly unprofessional.
If the latter, then Shame on you, Writers.
In any event, Chandra, this is for you:
Girl, you'll be a woman soon.
Soon, you'll need a man.
A man, Girlfriend, not a boy.
And certainly not a boy who's a criminal besides.
Next week is the finale of The Night Of, which is rumored to be about an hour and 45 minutes long. Though we don't know if we'll get any resolution to the question of Naz's guilt or innocence, and I seriously doubt that the show is suddenly going to disintegrate into any Perry Mason moments and have the real murderer confess, the finale is bound to be an intense episode. The finale airs Sunday 28 August at 9p.m. ET on HBO.
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Episode 106, "Ordinary Death," Recap & Review
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Did Samson Kill Delilah in HBO's The Night Of? Episode 106, Recap & Review
& Biblical Parallels
As soon as I heard the mortician-undertaker in episode 6 of HBO's The Night Of refer to the book of Judges from the Hebrew Bible, I knew it referred to Samson and Delilah, without even knowing the name of the show's episode. When Chandra later read passages to Naz's attorney John Stone, I was surprised that someone as savvy as Stone didn't already know that story in its entirety. If creator-writers Steven Zaillian and Richard Price were giving that information to us viewers, however, then I'm less surprised: how many people even know the story of Samson and Delilah these days, let alone that it comes from Judges? More interesting to The Night Of, however, is how the story of Samson and Delilah relates to that of Naz, a Pakistani-American college student accused of rape and murder, and to that of the murder victim, Andrea (Sofia Black-D'Elia).
In Judges 13-16, Samson is favored by God from the moment of his conception. In fact, an angel of God comes to Samson's mother, who has been barren, and tells her that she should have no wine or other fermented drink because she is to bear a child. As he grows, Samson is blessed by God, though we are never given a specific reason for this, and, further, "the spirit of Lord stirs in Samson."
Always the bad-boy himself, Samson has a thing for the foreign ladies. He falls for a Philistine woman and wants to marry her, to his parents' dismay. They ask, "Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?" (14:3) But God is controlling the story of Samson in order to show His own might: "[Samson's] parents did not know that this [love for the Philistine woman] was from the Lord, who was seeking an occasion to confront the Philistines; for at that time they were ruling over Israel" (14:4).
Eventually, after shows of strength, being betrayed by his wife, and displays of both anger and strength, Samson falls for another foreign woman, Delilah. We can only assume that, since God causes or allows Samson to love his first wife, who is ethnically and religiously "foreign," God also allows Samson to love Delilah.
In order to be betrayed? So that Samson will lose the "gift" of his strength and, after he is a blind captive, return to God, showing God's forgiveness and power?
I'm not sure of the reason: God doesn't explain Himself. But Samson is betrayed: Delilah cuts off his hair, causing him to lose his strength, and he is captured by the Philistines. Imprisoned, Samson prays to God for one last burst of strength to pull down the pillars of the Philistine temple, knowing full well that he himself will die with the enemies of his people and of his God.
I don't know if The Night Of intends to take the story that far, but its writers are the ones who named the episode after the Biblical story, and then quoted it in the episode itself, so let's see what we have.
Is Naz the Samson in The Night Of? Naz (Riz Ahmed, center) doesn't seem like a strong-man, though his attack on the Rikers inmate who burned him gave us a hint of the depth of Naz's strength, anger, and violence. Naz doesn't seem like a man blessed by God either, though because of his ethnicity and religion, he is in a post-9/11 land that is relatively hostile to him, despite his having been born in New York city.
An outsider like Samson, Naz also has secrets, as Stone (John Turturro, above R) and Chandra (Kara Amaran, above L) learned in the previous episode and again last night. Samson's secret was the key to his strength: his unshorn hair. Naz has already shorn his hair, so that doesn't seem to be the key to his "strength." In fact, I'm guessing most viewers don't think Naz has much strength, unless naïveté and stupidity count as "strength" when you have enough of either one.
In fact, let's count Naz's shaving his head before going to trial for rape and murder as one of his more stupid choices. I'm not even going to go back to episode 1 where Naz stole his dad's cab to go to a party, picked up a strange girl, took unknown drugs from her, had unprotected sex with her without even knowing her name, woke to find her dead and ran out, broke back in after he found he'd forgotten his keys, then ran out again with the bloody knife in his pocket. From the premiere, we knew Naz was unrealistically naïve and foolish.
But in episode 6, we can add getting prison tatttoos, just before your murder trial, in places you can't hide (on the knuckles), tattoos that say Sin and Bad, no less, among those incredibly stupid choices that Naz makes. Oh, and let's not forget Naz's free-basing with Freddie (Michael Kenneth Williams).
I realize that Naz is in prison, and that he's asked Freddie for protection, but nothing says Naz has to do drugs and further dull his already-befuddled mind in order to survive. His ability to beat up one inmate and intimidate others has proven that the boy already has most of what it takes to survive the penal system.
But back to the metaphor of Samson and Delilah.
Samson fell hard for the seductress Delilah, and she apparently toyed with his affections in order to learn the secret of his strength so that she could betray him and have his enemies capture him. Delilah asked Samson multiple times what the source of his strength was, and Samson lied to her every time but the last.
Samson's secret was the source of his strength, and, in The Night Of, Naz has more than enough secrets: his rage, his capacity for violence, and his taking illicit amphetamines which can cause further rage as well as psychotic episodes. But do Naz's secrets give him strength? I suppose it depends on how you look at it. They seem to be helping him survive in prison, even amongst the baddest of the bad boys.
Did those secrets get him involved with the victim? Naz's secrets don't seem to have had anything to do with that, unless the illicit Adderal "persuaded" Naz to steal his father's cab and to have drug-and-alcohol-fueled sex with a complete stranger.
So, if Naz is the betrayed Samson, then who is Delilah in The Night Of? Is the murdered rich girl Andrea the seductress? As a representative of the type of girl Naz dreamed of, perhaps Andrea unconsciously tempted him much as Delilah tempted Samson. Of course, she's not the initial reason Naz stole the cab, but she did get his mind off the party he was planning to attend, and she did convince him to take drugs, get him back to her home, and get him to play dangerous games with knives.
In the original biblical story, however, Delilah is the one who betrays Samson, after he is already in love with her, though it is understood that Samson is as much responsible for his own downfall as is the seductress Delilah. After all, had Samson not abandoned his God to be with a foreign woman, he would never have revealed the secret of his strength, been shorn and lost his power, then been blinded by his captives.
(I realize there's a problem with the story of Samson and Delilah itself, since God is the one that causes or allows Samson to initially be attractive to foreign, Philistine women, so that God can show His own strength and power through Samson, but that's one of the unresolved mysteries of the Bible stories.)
In any event, though Judges presents Samson in a relatively non-judgmental, mostly sympathetic light, Judges still puts the burden of responsibility for his ultimate capture and suffering solidly on Samson's own shoulders.
If we are to follow that interpretation of the biblical story, then Naz, as Samson, is the one mostly, if not completely, responsible for his own downfall. Just as Samson got involved with a woman who was not of his ethnicity or religious beliefs, a woman whose loyalty was to the Philistines and to the money they would give her for her betrayal, Naz became involved, if only for part of one night, with a woman who was not of his socio-economic class, his ethnicity, or his religious faith.
Whoa. Are the writers of The Night Of getting moral on us here? Or did their protagonist Naz just make some incredibly stupid and immature choices that night, choices that happened to involve a rich white girl? After all, if Andrea is the Delilah of this story, then she ends up dead, not wealthy after the betrayal of her lover.
As we learned in last night's episode, Andrea was wealthy from the death of her mother. She was, in fact, wealthy enough to make her stepfather angry after she refused him half of her mother's estate. As attorney Stone learned last night, Andrea's stepfather has a history of marrying wealthy, older women. Thus, the stepfather has become a suspect in Andrea's murder.
So far, Andrea doesn't seem like much of a Delilah, despite the mortician-undertaker's referring to Judges, and despite his calling Andrea, whom he met only briefly, a "cat" that plays with men like "yarn."
So what is all this Samson and Delilah stuff in The Night Of? Are viewers supposed to look at the source of the Biblical story — Judges — more than at the story itself? If so, who are the judges in this limited mini-series that is exploring the criminal justice system, and that finds it most sincerely corrupted?
Is Detective Box (Bill Camp), who never for an instant doubts Naz's guilt nor seeks any other suspects, a Judge, condemning Naz without a trial?
Is DA Weiss (Jeannie Berlin), who has virtually coerced her witnesses into testifying according to her script, a Judge, also condemning Naz without trial, and, worse, manipulating said trial witnesses' testimony so that Naz is condemned without sufficient evidence?
Are attorneys Stone and Chandra the Judges? Though they represent Naz, they see his flaws, and they realize that he has secrets and that, worse, he has lied to them: about his personal illicit drug use during the night of the murder, as well as about his violent past when Naz, without provocation, threw a fellow student down a set of steps, breaking the boy's arm, and got expelled from school so that Naz then had to transfer to another high school.
I'm guessing that we viewers are the Judges in The Night Of.
Not only are we judging Naz and his victim, we're judging the criminal justice system itself, from the police officers to the detectives, from the attorneys to the judges, from the penal system to our society itself. We are judging the criminal justice system and finding it corrupt, biased, and inhumane.
Further, we are judging the criminal justice system and finding it terribly and relentlessly horrifying for anyone who happens to get caught up in its maws.
The Night Of, Episode 4, "The Art of War," Review
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by Alexandria | 8 August 2016 · 11:43 am
The Stone Also Rises: HBO's The Night Of, episode 5, "The Season of the Witch," Recap & Review
It is certainly no surprise that Naz, the Pakistani-American college student arrested for rape and murder after a night of drink, drugs, and sex with a hot stranger whom he picked up in his father's "borrowed" cab in Manhattan, is slowly but ever so surely sinking under the oppressive weight of the American penal system. Inmates don't learn to be good in prison: they learn to be better criminals. It's a matter of survival, and who can blame Naz for his increasingly dangerous criminal activities, especially since they will no doubt help him survive? As Naz (Rhiz Ahmed) is steadily deteriorating at Rikers, his attorney, John Stone, magnificently portrayed by John Turturro, is steadily rising. From the bedraggled and rumpled ambulance-chaser who happened to be in the "right place" at the "right time" to catch the big case, Stone has become the best investigator in all of New York city.
Naz Sinks
In "The Season of the Witch," episode 5 of the 8-part limited HBO mini-series, The Night Of, created and written Steven Zaillian and Richard Price, viewers were given adequate evidence that Naz is morally drowning in Rikers. Naz shaved his head so he's not quite the pretty boy any longer (though, of course, it's a really bad move for his impending trial). After an invitation from Freddy and his crew, Naz beat the guy who burned him with baby-oil-and-boiling-water napalm.
Naz flexed his metaphorical muscles by blocking the view of prisoners watching television, then changed the channel on them when one of them told him to get out of the way.
On visitor's day, at the behest of his protector, Freddy, Naz swalllowed four "eight-balls" smuggled in by another prisoner's mother. Naz is sinking so quickly that, soon, he may not even come up occasionally for air.
After Stone questioned Naz about taking illegal substances, Naz lied about having amphetamines in his system on the night of the murder; he tried to pretend the tox-screen was mistakenly identifying his asthma inhaler ingredient as "uppers." Stone quickly dismissed that, badgering Naz by naming various controlled substances that he suspected Naz of taking. Naz finally admitted using Adderal, a controlled substance, which can cause anger, agitation, and psychotic episodes. Stone (above, R) and his new associate Chandra (Amara Karan, above L) aren't the only ones crossing Good Boy off Naz's list: Detective Box (Bill Camp) also crossed it off. Literally.
In addition to using amphetamines illegally and lying about it to the police and to his attorney, Naz has a serious amount of rage under his placid exterior. Even gangsta Freddy (Michael Kenneth Williams) was astonished by the violent anger Naz displayed, commenting on it later to Naz.
I still think Naz might be innocent — which doesn't mean he won't be convicted — if only because, as Todd VanDerWerff of Vox.com writes, his attorney John Stone still believes Naz to be innocent. Stone is so street-smart that he doesn't seem likely to mistake guilt for innocence; in any event, Stone would represent Naz even if he were guilty, as Stone made clear to his son's high school class when questioned about whether he would represent someone he knew to be guilty. Representing someone who "deserves" fair legal representation is quite different from doggedly pursuing evidence of a client's innocence. Stone seems to be doing the latter. While seriously investigating Naz's case, Stone has proven that he is more than street-smart: he is the most competent "detective" in the series.
Stone Rises
Of course, Stone doesn't have to do everything himself to become a good investigator. He clearly has the connections necessary to be a top-notch criminal attorney. At the murder scene, Stone and Chandra watched as Stone's hired investigator went over the place, noticing that the outer security door didn't latch, even when locked, and even when repeatedly closed tightly. The investigator also found blood outside in the back courtyard (?), which may be "squirrel blood," but which also might be the blood of another suspect since Naz left by the front door. Stone may not have the requisite trial experience to warrant the respect of the police, detectives, and prosecuting attorneys, but he has more important connections in the investigative field. Further, Stone is doing what no one else in The Night Of is doing: looking for other suspects who might have killed the girl.
While Box is compiling the timeline of the murder night (above), and while DA Weiss (Jeannie Berlin, below) is getting her witnesses in line, having them practice their "Naz is Guilty" lines, as she did with the coroner after showing him a photo of Naz's cut hand and asking if it could have happened when Naz's "hand slipped from the handle to the blade as he was stabbing" the girl,
Stone is not only looking for another suspect, he found a couple.
Remember the two African-American males who were walking down the street in front of Andrea's home? Remember how one of whom insulted Naz by calling him "Mustafa" and asking if he'd forgotten his "bomb" materials? That's Trevor. When interrogated by Detective Box, Trevor lied, saying he was alone that night. Viewers know he wasn't. To make sure viewers didn't miss the fact that Trevor wasn't alone, the camera zoomed in on the face of his (silent) partner. After Stone found silent partner Duane in episode 5, the camera zoomed in on his face again, like this,
just in case any viewer forgot that Trevor was, indeed, with another person in front of Andrea's house when Naz was going up her front steps.
In a laundromat, Stone intimidated Trevor into revealing the identity of his partner that night, something that even DA Weiss was unable to do (though, in fairness, she may not yet realize that he was with another person, though this may be evidence of her lack of investigative skills and her over-reliance on the detectives). So, Stone not only found one viable alternative suspect on paper, Stone found the guy in person, even if the guy started running, leaving Stone in a dangerous-looking abandoned warehouse at the end of the episode. Stone proved that he is, so far, the most competent investigator on the case by finding evidence at the crime scene that police missed, and by finding other viable suspects.
Yes, you read that correctly. Suspects. Stone found Trevor's silent partner, but Stone also found Andrea's drug dealer, and coerced him into admitting that Andrea owed him money. Considering the fact that the dealer owes other people money himself, Stone found a motive for the dealer's violence: if he was attempting to get Andrea to pay her debt, the dealer might have gotten carried away. Another suspect. Stone is really shining as an investigator. He's using the same heavy-handed, coercive tactics as the police and the detectives, but by assuming that Naz may not be guilty, Stone is finding more suspects.
Stone also got himself a partner in Chandra, who came to him after her boss, Crowe, quit the case. Crowe had arranged a plea deal with DA Weiss, and when Naz muffed it in court, Crowe quit in a tiff. I guess she didn't want to go to trial, despite telling Naz's parents that she was more qualified to represent Naz in a criminal trial than Stone would be. Chandra not only asked Stone if she could help him on Naz's case, she offered to pay him (from the large firm that employs Crowe). Stone didn't get the $50K he requested, but he got $30K. Since he's been working pro bono so far, that's an improvement as well as a testament to the fact that he's no pushover. Street-smart and savvy as an investigator, Stone has also proven himself to be an adequate financial negotiator.
Stone is also standing up for himself personally: he is beginning to doubt the medical treatment prescribed for his eczema, if only because the steroids are making him unable to perform sexually. After his pharmacist loudly and publicly announced that no pharmacy in the area had any Viagra, Stone bought some on the black market. (It was in vain, since his sexual partner is a prostitute, and she ignored Stone after a paying customer appeared at the bar where Stone had ordered champagne to "celebrate" his return to sexual activity.) Though I find the eczema story the least interesting so far, I suppose its purpose is symbolic, as I said in "Naz and Stone are the Victims," so who am I to complain about the continuing exploration of Stone's medical condition, which symbolizes the frustration and hopelessness of Naz's legal condition? In any event, Stone rose to the occasion, metaphorically and literally, in last night's episode, taking control of his own health and treatment plan.
Naz is morally sinking into the morass of prison life as well as in the opinion of his attorney. Naz, with his hidden reservoir of rage, his lies, and his illegal prescription drug-use, is no longer a shining star, a perfect young man with nothing to hide. While Naz is falling, his attorney John Stone is steadily rising. From the ethically low but not necessarily immoral "ambulance-chaser" who took on Naz's "assault" case without realizing that the young man was being charged with rape and murder, to the most competent investigator involved in the murder case, Stone is beginning to shine, casting all the others involved in the prosecution into shadow, if only because they are all operating under the assumption that Naz is guilty.
Of course, whether or not Naz is innocent, he may end up convicted, and not necessarily because Stone is incompetent as a trial lawyer. At the trial, John Stone may surprise everyone, including himself. Given The Night Of's negative portrayal of virtually everyone involved in the criminal justice system, however, Stone's being competent as an attorney at a criminal trial may be completely irrelevant. In The Night Of, the entire criminal justice system is corrupt, so Naz will probably be convicted, and viewers may not ever learn if he is actually innocent. After all, it would be more realistic if viewers did not know whether or not Naz was guilty. It would mirror the real world more accurately.
In any event, Naz's guilt or innocence is irrelevant to the show's bigger message: no one involved in the criminal justice system has anything other than self-interest in mind when s/he makes decisions that impact someone else's life. Viewers are already learning, however, that Stone, who may have only had his own self-interest in mind when he took Naz on as a client, is much more than the Columbo he seems to be. Instead, Stone is the most competent and clever investigator New York has ever seen. The sun may be setting for Naz and his freedom, but The Stone shines ever brighter as he rises.
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by Alexandria | 1 August 2016 · 12:34 pm
Legal & Medical Pariahs: Naz & Stone Are the Victims in HBO's Limited MiniSeries The Night Of, e4, "The Art of War," Review
HBO's critically acclaimed limited mini-series The Night Of examines the current state of criminal justice in America via a fictional New York murder case. Created by Steven Zaillian and Richard Price, and based on the BBC series Criminal Justice, the miniseries has metaphorically battered the legal system starting with the show's premiere. From the police to the attorneys, from the prison guards to the judges, the criminal justice system in The Night Of assumes that everyone accused of committing a crime is most certainly and without exception guilty. In episode 4, "The Art of War," this metaphorical slash and burn was expanded to indict the medical establishment alongside the legal one. In symbolically parallel stories involving the accused murderer, Naz, and his attorney, Stone, the legal and the medical arenas were mercilessly dissected. Naz is a victim of a legal system that is predisposed to find him guilty because of race, ethnicity, religion, and circumstances, while his attorney Stone, suffering from disfiguring and painful eczema, is a victim of a medical system that appears to have little empathy for anyone's suffering. Both Naz and Stone are victims. They are pariahs and outcasts — unwelcome and undesirable.
The Night Of began its twisted journey with a young Pakistani-American college student-tutor, Nasir "Naz" Khan (Riz Ahmed) taking his father's cab, without permission, to attend a party for members of the basketball team. Though he is a good student and a tutor, Naz is an outsider to these players. He is not an athlete, and, probably worse, he is a good student. One basketball player invites Naz to the party, but another is annoyed by Naz's inclusion. Naz doesn't care that he's not fully welcome: he just wants to meet the type of girls who will be at the party, girls he ordinarily would consider out of his league. Instead of making it to the party, Naz is sidetracked by an enigmatic stranger (Sofia Black-D'Ellia) who gets into the cab and asks to be taken to "the beach."
Naz takes the girl to her home, where a passing African-American who sees the couple calls Naz "Mustafa" and inquires about his "bomb" materials. Though Naz is approximately the same age as the girl, he is not the same race: he is again branded as an outsider. Once inside the girl's home, after doing some drugs and shots of tequila, Naz has sex with her. When he awakes later, he is in the kitchen, and the girl is dead upstairs. At the crime scene, the police and detectives assume that the "Arab" who was with the dead girl is guilty by race, religion, and circumstances. Before he is charged, Naz has become a pariah.
Enter John Stone (John Turturro), an "ambulance-chasing" attorney who takes Naz's case simply because Stone was "in the right place, at the right time." More importantly, Stone probably takes the case he is an underdog himself. He seems to specialize in representing underdogs and undesirables: he is shown helping transvestite/transgendered prostitute Paul-ine, so it's no surprise that Stone appoints himself Naz's attorney after he sees the young man completely isolated in a holding cell at the precinct. After Naz's family hires a more important lawyer because she offered to represent Naz pro bono, Stone continues to investigate the circumstances of Naz's case. Instead of being an "ambulance chaser" in it for money, Stone seems to be the only one who actually cares about Naz's welfare. A fellow outsider and pariah, Stone empathizes with Naz in a way that no one else in the judicial system seems to.
Attorney Crowe (Glenne Headly), who lives up to her name as a scavenger and predator, goes to the DA and brokers a plea deal for Naz. Despite Crowe's statement to Naz's parents that she would fight for the accused young man because his case reminded her of why she went into law in the first place, and despite Crowe's denigrating comment that Stone would do nothing but "cut a deal" because he isn't a trial attorney in a big, exclusive (insiders') firm like she is, Crowe immediately sold out her client without even attempting to gather any evidence in the case. After negotiating a plea with the District Attorney, Crowe went to Naz and said she would try to get the very deal to which she'd already agreed on his behalf. Naz is nothing but a means for Crowe to further her own career. He is a prop, an actor who needs to "rehearse" his lines in her play.
Crowe misrepresented herself to Naz's parents, and treated them as annoying inferiors who had to be chastised. Outside the courthouse, when Naz's father Salim (Peyman Moaadi, below) asked, in a whisper, if he could make a statement to reporters, Crowe coldly scolded him, ordering him never to "interrupt" her again. Like his son Naz, Salim is an outsider to the justice system as well as to the entertainment business: Crowe is a legal insider who wants to be a celebrity, à la Nancy Grace.
Crowe misled Naz's parents, but she lies to Naz outright. With Naz's life in the balance, Crowe's showed herself ruthless and self-absorbed. She was furious with Naz when he didn't answer the DA's questions "correctly." Instead of pleading "guilty," as insider Crowe had instructed, the outsider Naz went rogue: in court, Naz stated that he did not, in fact, kill the girl. It was obvious that Crowe wasn't upset because she believed Naz to be guilty and wished to save the state the cost of prosecution. She was concerned with her legal reputation and with the fact that Naz's response had upset the judge's expectations.
Naz is an outsider who breaks the insider rules of the plea deal, and he further alienates himself from the justice system when Crowe quits. At every move, whether because of his own action or that of others, Naz becomes more of a pariah. Though Naz metaphorically fights back against the legal system by refusing to admit guilt in the plea deal, he is already in prison without bail. Given that stark reality (and the clear bias against the legal and judicial system that The Night Of is presenting), it is not likely that things are going to turn out well for Naz. He is an outsider, and it looks like outsiders get destroyed in The Night Of.
Imprisoned without bail at Rikers as he awaits trial, Naz is mercilessly reminded that he is a pariah. Everyone gives him advice, but most of it is conflicting and ends up hurting him. From Attorney Crowe to the judge, from the "friendly" inmate who later viciously assaults Naz to the powerful convict, Freddy (Michael Kenneth Williams, below), who wants to "protect" the college student, everyone wants something from Naz. None of these insiders has Naz's best interests in mind as they attempt to manipulate and control Naz. He is an outsider that others want to use, not help.
A pariah in the post-9/11, racial-profiling world, Naz is a victim of a criminal justice system where he is already and forever an outsider simply because he is not a policeman, detective, attorney, prison guard, or judge. Further, once he is an accused criminal, and the worse kind of criminal at that, Naz will remain an outsider, unwelcome and despised by the insiders.
There seems little possibility that Naz will be able to successfully fight the impersonal justice machinery. The police and detectives have, from the beginning, assumed his guilt rather than his innocence "until proven guilty." The attorneys do not wish to be "stuck with the truth," or they care more about their personal reputations than Naz's fate. The inmates and guards in the violent and merciless penal system care only for their perquisites, their "names," their standing in the convict society. In the criminal justice environment, Naz is an undesirable because of his ethnicity as much as because of his alleged crime. He is undesirable unless he can somehow help someone else's career, be it legal or criminal.
The only person who seems to genuinely empathize with Naz is attorney Stone, who is an outsider himself. With his rumpled, disheveled suit and overcoat, he is given advice on an appropriate tailor and on what kind of proper suit to wear to a trial of this magnitude by District Attorney Weiss (Jeannie Berlin) after their own plea deal falls apart.
He is heckled by police officers as an ambulance chaser. He is ridiculed by chief investigator Detective Box (Bill Camp).
Stone is threatened by the Director of a Rehab House (cameo/guest appearance by Turturro's cousin Aida Turturro, below) after he is seen taking photos while investigating the murder victim in Naz's case.
Though Stone is a street-wise attorney who technically should automatically be an insider in the criminal justice system, he remains an unwelcome outsider. To emphasize his pariah-status, The Night Of writers have Stone fruitlessly fighting the inhospitable medical establishment, which is set up as a symbolic parallel to the justice system that Naz is fighting.
Seeking a treatment for his incurable eczema, which stands as a visible symbol of Stone's "undesirable" status, Stone faces doctors who regularly contradict each other or who dismiss their colleagues' treatment plans, as well as pharmacists who openly scoff at the prescribed medications. By showing Stone's following the recommended "medical" treatments — like applying Crisco onto the eczema-affected areas then encasing his feet and lower legs in Saran Wrap — The Night Of reveals Stone's desperation to be healed, to be cured. It is also his desperation to fit in, to become an insider rather than to remain an outsider.
The symbolic sub-plot of Stone's adversarial and confusing "fight" with his eczema as well as with the members of the medical community brilliantly parallels Naz's "fight" with the criminal justice system. Insiders of both the medical establishment and the legal system consider Stone and Naz to be uncooperative outsiders, guilty of disobeying the "rules," whether they are supposed to be following scripts for plea deals or told to follow recommended medical treatments. No matter what these two men do, neither system will accept Stone or Naz as one of the privileged insiders. Neither of them will be welcomed to the inner group.
Stone is street-wise, tough, and not easily intimidated: his interactions with the police officers at the precinct where Naz was jailed, with the lead investigator Detective Box, with the judge at the bail hearing, and with the District Attorney during a plea deal all prove that Stone is competent and clever. He knows the personal and professional lives of his "opponents;" he knows how to "attack" them even if they seem to be baiting him in jest. Technically, Stone should have already been accepted since it is clear that he is an insider. For some reason that remains unclear to viewers but which is symbolized by Stone's incurable and disfiguring eczema, the attorney remains a pariah. He is not accepted. He is not welcome. He is undesirable.
Just as Stone's disfiguring eczema can be managed but not cured, Naz's race and ethnicity could be tolerated, but they cannot be changed or completely ignored. His race and ethnicity, combined with his religious beliefs, made Naz an outsider and a pariah before the circumstances of the murder make him appear guilty of a heinous crime. Naz and Stone are pariahs, undesirables, unwelcome outsiders in a criminal justice system and in a medical system that will, no doubt, forever remain closed to them.
If you've missed The Night Of, your summer is not nearly as exciting as it could be. No matter how harrowing its presentation of the American justice system, this show is compelling drama, well written and extremely well acted. You can catch up any time on HBOgo or HBOnow. The mini-series airs Sundays at 10p.m. ET on HBO, and the rest of the week on other HBO channels. Viewers who are HBO subscribers can watch the premiere "The Beach" free. Other viewers can see the tease or the official HBO trailer for the miniseries.
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Элмо () — тауншип в округе Оттер-Тейл, Миннесота, США. На 2000 год его население составило 344 человека.

География
По данным Бюро переписи населения США площадь тауншипа составляет 95,3 км², из которых 94,1 км² занимает суша, а 1,2 км² — вода (1,28 %).

Демография
По данным переписи населения 2000 года здесь находились 344 человека, 132 домохозяйства и 100 семей.  Плотность населения —  3,7 чел./км².  На территории тауншипа расположена 161 постройка со средней плотностью 1,7 построек на один квадратный километр. Расовый состав населения: 98,84 % белых, 0,29 % азиатов, 0,29 % — других рас США и 0,58 % приходится на две или более других рас. Испанцы или латиноамериканцы любой расы составляли 0,29 % от популяции тауншипа.

Из 132 домохозяйств в 28,8 % воспитывались дети до 18 лет, в 62,9 % проживали супружеские пары, в 6,1 % проживали незамужние женщины и в 23,5 % домохозяйств проживали несемейные люди. 21,2 % домохозяйств состояли из одного человека, при том 12,1 % из — одиноких пожилых людей старше 65 лет. Средний размер домохозяйства — 2,61, а семьи — 2,98 человека.

23,3 % населения — младше 18 лет, 9,3 % — в возрасте от 18 до 24 лет, 23,8 % — от 25 до 44, 27,6 % — от 45 до 64, и 16,0 % — старше 65 лет. Средний возраст — 41 год. На каждые 100 женщин приходилось 119,1 мужчин.  На каждые 100 женщин старше 18 приходилось 107,9 мужчин.

Средний годовой доход домохозяйства составлял 28 125 долларов, а средний годовой доход семьи —  35 313 долларов. Средний доход мужчин —  23 125  долларов, в то время как у женщин — 25 250. Доход на душу населения составил 12 554 доллара. За чертой бедности находились 10,5 % семей и 14,2 % всего населения тауншипа, из которых 14,1 % младше 18 и 21,4 % старше 65 лет.

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Тауншипы округа Оттер-Тейл

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How often is it that I share updates about my family? Like, personal ones? I don't feel like I've given you the opportunity to really get to know us. Thankfully, I've joined the Ultimate Blog Challenge and I am supposed to blog every day for the month of January. This gives me the motivation to get more out to you and a chance to fill you in on things that I didn't have planned. So, today is a more personal post. I'm actually kind of excited to not be sharing knowledge, rather, giving you a glimpse into our world.
It was Wednesday, and the last day of Winter Break. I would be sending S back to school on Thursday, so I'd made a plan, over the weekend, to visit the Jacksonville Zoo. The very last day of her break was supposed to be cool and sunny, perfect for an outdoor adventure.
For the duration of her break, if we weren't doing holiday events with various parts of the family, we were cooped up at home. Cooped up by choice. My husband was busy working around the house or on the vehicles, as he was on vacation as well. I admire his hard work, but if he's not going out with us, I generally don't choose to take both children out alone. They're both a bit difficult. Baby B is quite a handful and is about as demanding as S can be. Unfortunately, because he's not talking yet, he cries and screams a lot. S, at least, can eventually be calmed enough to understand what her problem is.
Anyway, I decided I would take the predicted beautiful day, and pack my kids up to enjoy a day out at the Zoo. And, I was going to do it alone, because my husband had returned to work.
The morning started out questionable as S began to make funny faces. I could see she was trying to keep herself from crying, which usually means the uncontrollable tears were in the works. Trying to keep us on track for the day, I quickly asked if there was a problem. Fighting back tears, she told me something was wrong with her pants … something about falling down. I needed to act fast.
I didn't give her enough time to process anything further. We didn't have the time if we were going to leave before B started fussing for a nap. Getting him in the car before being cranky was essential in making it there at all. S quickly changed and, surprisingly, came back down as though nothing ever bothered her.
Aside from being able to score a Pumpkin Spice Latte at Starbucks, our morning went almost as planned. We left a little later than I'd anticipated and had a bit of a mishap getting onto the highway, which took us on a bit of a detour.
Though we got there later than planned, the rest of the day was perfect. There was no line to wait in for renewing our membership and there weren't as many people as I'd expected either.
My children were on their best behavior. Even my son was content sitting in the stroller sucking his thumb and twirling his hair as he watched the animals, and laughed at his big sister on occasion. Missing his nap, which is usually a big deal, barely phased him. He even made it all the way through lunch before he began to fuss.
My usually demanding and needy daughter tried to argue with me once. I'm sure the use of our consequence and reward jars was part of her good behavior. But, I could tell she genuinely was out to please.
I wasn't stressed out and I didn't want to rush home and put the kids in their rooms! The cooler weather wasn't exhausting me. And by lunch time, between coffee and Dr. Pepper, I was so over-caffeinated that I was beginning to get jittery. I was feeling even more energetic than the unusually active animals.
The animals! I haven't ever seen the animals at this zoo all so spry and active. Florida's heat usually has all the animals (and myself) so drained and lifeless, reserving their energy for the short walk they need for food. But, on this particular day, it was as though we weren't even in Florida.
When I told my husband about the day, the only way I could explain just how good, was to express that I was certain I hadn't brought our kids with me. I was sure I had gotten lucky and swapped my usually crabby and cantankerous kids out with some well-mannered, polite, and fun kids I'd never met before.
I went to bed that night, not completely drained, feeling like I'd made the right decision to take them out. Maybe I could conquer the world with two kids in tow?! But, I'm grateful at least one has returned to school for now, before I actually tried to pull off and fail at another day like that!
I could only hope. I don't produce easy kids though LOL.
Thanks for the more personal post Ivy. That was awesome. One of my favorite things to do when my kids were young was going on a field trip. Going to the zoo or the aquarium were some of my favorite trips. The boys loved it and so did I. Thanks for sharing about your day!
My pleasure! I'm glad I had a great day to post about!
I miss the adventures I would take my daughter on before there was our second … I used to take her to all kinds of places. Just not as feasible with her in school and another cranky baby LOL.
I often feel like that with my kids. I can only laugh when someone compliments how well behaved they when we're out in public. Because at home, they totally press Mummy's buttons! The zoo trip sounds awesome!


Can you feel the magic? These aren't just plain old chocolate chip cookies. They're magical cookies! These cookies are made with ice cream inside the batter!
Yes, I totally did that. I put ice cream INSIDE cookies.
How awesome is that?? RIGHT??!!
Now, if we're being totally honest with each other, this is not the first time I've done this. Except the last time I put ice cream in cookies about 3 people read my blog and my photos were less than desirable. Long story short, no one saw them.
So I decided it was time for a revamp because these cookies deserve their day in the limelight. They're that good.
Also, I have eleventy-billion cartons of ice cream in my freezer. Best way to use up ice cream? Make it even more fattening by putting it in chocolate chip cookies!
It was about a month ago when I was perusing through my archives and was reminded of my original ice cream cookies. As I often do with recipes I made in my first year of blogging I immediately wondered why I thought I was a good photographer, and then I wondered if the recipe actually worked. I mean…it did back then. But back then I really had no idea how to write recipes. You learn a lot in 4.5 years.
I made these cookies three times in two days, with three different flavors of ice cream. You guys, I was onto something back then. Not only did the recipe work every time but every flavor tasted the same but oh-so different.
These cookies taste like chocolate chip cookies. But then, while you're eating them, you get another flavor. And if you didn't know the cookies had mint chip ice cream or strawberry ice cream inside you'd probably think what the heck is that flavor?
But if you know the ice cream is there? You can totally taste it. And it totally changes the cookie for the better.
I used my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe of all time for these cookies. The only difference is that I did not brown the butter. I was just too lazy to do that. But you totally could!
The trick for adding ice cream to cookies is to replace some of the butter and some of the egg with ice cream. My original recipe calls for 1 cup of butter and 2 eggs. This recipe has 1/2 cup butter, 1 egg, and 1/2 cup of ice cream. The science works, trust me.
When measuring the ice cream, I used it cold straight from the freezer. I just packed it into my (dry measure) measuring cup. You can use any flavor ice cream, but I recommend that you use full-fat regular ice cream (not reduced fat ice cream or frozen yogurt). I did not test this with anything but regular ice cream.
Once your dough is mixed together, it's just like a regular cookie dough. Because the dough starts with melted butter you need to chill it before you bake it. My favorite way to do this is to scoop your cookies (I used a 2 tablespoon sized cookie scoop) onto a cookie sheet, no need to space them out. Wrap them with plastic and chill the dough for at least an hour (or longer is fine too). When you're ready to bake, space them out onto cookie sheets.
Chilling the dough lets it rest and lets all the flavors melt together and it also gives you that crunchy exterior and soft interior. I love a gooey soft cookie and these are totally that. They stay soft for days!
And they taste like ice cream. That's pretty much the perfect cookie right there!
Ice cream and cookies. Now that's a combo I'm going to make for years to come. What flavor ice cream would you use?
These Ice Cream Chocolate Chip Cookies have your favorite flavor ice cream IN the cookies! I substituted some of the butter for ice cream and the result is the perfect cookie with a hint of the ice cream flavor!
Melt butter in a microwave safe bowl. Pour into an electric mixer fitted with paddle attachment. While still hot, add both sugars and mix on low until combined. Add ice cream and mix until smooth.
Add egg and vanilla extract, mix for just a few seconds, then add baking soda and salt. Mix until smooth, then mix in flour slowly. Mix dough just until it comes together, then stir in chocolate chips.
Scoop 2 tablespoon balls of dough onto a cookie sheet covered with wax paper. You're going to chill the dough balls so there is no need to space them out. Cover with plastic wrap and chill for at least 1 hour.
Preheat oven to 350°F. Place cookies 2" apart on cookie sheets covered with parchment paper or silpat baking mats. (If you've chilled them longer than 4 hours you might want to press them down slightly with the palm of your hand otherwise they won't flatten totally.) Bake for about 9-11 minutes, until they start to get golden around the edges. Cool at least 5 minutes on cookie sheets before moving to a rack to cool completely.
Cookies can be stored in an airtight container for up to 4 days or frozen for up to 1 month.
Good for you for redoing an old recipe and post…it's been on my list of things to do…so far only 2 have gotten done. Eventually, right? I love that you added ice cream to the cookies. I bet they tasted amazing! I have done ice cream in cake, donuts, and scones…I definitely need to try it in cookies next!!!
Again with the genius use of ice cream! These look amazing. And I totally get what you mean about testing and retrying old recipes. I've only been doing this a year and continue to learn more every day!
These are WAY TOO FUN!! 🙂 I bet they taste just incredible…I've gotta make these happen in my kitchen asap!! Pinned!
It is so cool that these are made with ice cream! How fun is that! It would be fun to try with different flavors of ice cream too!
These cookies are genius. Ice cream in a cookie is the best of both worlds.
I really want to try this with chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream, is that bad or what? Your description is killing me – a chocolate chip cookie but so much more? Um yes, please, and thank you! Pinning!
Do you recommend making these with solid ice cream only, or would ice cream with add-ins (like rocky road or cookie dough or half-baked) work as well as solids?
Also, what is the consistency of the ice cream when you add it to the dough?
You could use ice cream with add ins if you like, that shouldn't be a problem. The ice cream was straight from my freezer, measured, then added to the batter!
Ummm seriously?? This is GENIUS! Pinning ASAP.
omigosh all I want is to make these with hazelnut or salted caramel ice cream or some such!!!
I just took these out of the oven! They are delicious and very easy. I added some condensed milk because I didn't quite have enough ice cream and replaced 1/4 cup of flour with almond meal.


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I know I haven't been keeping up with updating this thing as I kept saying I would! However, in the coming next few months and by that I mean the next month or so, there will be lots of updates on here. I will also have updates on http://mytown.posterous.com related to the progress of my project around the concept of myTown. I am also shifting the aim of my "blog" to something more than what I did last week. I am not exactly sure what and where I want it to be but time will tell. Anyways, to make this post more of an interesting one, I guess I will have to mention something about my trip to William Shakespeare's birthplace – Stratford-Upon-Avon, England.
Nothing too exciting. Anyways look out for some exciting stuff starting next week! Peace!