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package com.mymobileapi.api5;

import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
import javax.xml.ws.Service;
import javax.xml.ws.WebEndpoint;
import javax.xml.ws.WebServiceClient;
import javax.xml.ws.WebServiceException;
import javax.xml.ws.WebServiceFeature;

/**
 * This class was generated by the JAX-WS RI.
 * JAX-WS RI 2.2.8
 * Generated source version: 2.2
 *
 */
@WebServiceClient(name = "API", targetNamespace = "http://www.mymobileapi.com/api5", wsdlLocation = "file:/Users/marcus/Develop/MMP/mmp-java/src/mmp-application-sms/src/main/resources/META-INF/wsdl/MyMobileAPI.wsdl")
public class API
    extends Service
{

    private final static URL API_WSDL_LOCATION;
    private final static WebServiceException API_EXCEPTION;
    private final static QName API_QNAME = new QName("http://www.mymobileapi.com/api5", "API");

    static {
        URL url = null;
        WebServiceException e = null;
        try {
            url = new URL("file:/Users/marcus/Develop/MMP/mmp-java/src/mmp-application-sms/src/main/resources/META-INF/wsdl/MyMobileAPI.wsdl");
        } catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
            e = new WebServiceException(ex);
        }
        API_WSDL_LOCATION = url;
        API_EXCEPTION = e;
    }

    public API() {
        super(__getWsdlLocation(), API_QNAME);
    }

    public API(WebServiceFeature... features) {
        super(__getWsdlLocation(), API_QNAME, features);
    }

    public API(URL wsdlLocation) {
        super(wsdlLocation, API_QNAME);
    }

    public API(URL wsdlLocation, WebServiceFeature... features) {
        super(wsdlLocation, API_QNAME, features);
    }

    public API(URL wsdlLocation, QName serviceName) {
        super(wsdlLocation, serviceName);
    }

    public API(URL wsdlLocation, QName serviceName, WebServiceFeature... features) {
        super(wsdlLocation, serviceName, features);
    }

    /**
     *
     * @return
     *     returns APISoap
     */
    @WebEndpoint(name = "APISoap")
    public APISoap getAPISoap() {
        return super.getPort(new QName("http://www.mymobileapi.com/api5", "APISoap"), APISoap.class);
    }

    /**
     *
     * @param features
     *     A list of {@link javax.xml.ws.WebServiceFeature} to configure on the proxy.  Supported features not in the features parameter will have their default values.
     * @return
     *     returns APISoap
     */
    @WebEndpoint(name = "APISoap")
    public APISoap getAPISoap(WebServiceFeature... features) {
        return super.getPort(new QName("http://www.mymobileapi.com/api5", "APISoap"), APISoap.class, features);
    }

    private static URL __getWsdlLocation() {
        if (API_EXCEPTION!= null) {
            throw API_EXCEPTION;
        }
        return API_WSDL_LOCATION;
    }

}


By admin , in Your Job Search.
Are you interested in applying for a new job or are you looking for a career change? If you are, you are advised to attend career fairs, as they are one of the best places to gather information on who is hiring, what type of jobs are available, and what type of qualifications are needed. In fact, career fairs are also a great way to apply for jobs. While career fairs are nice to attend, they can sometimes be difficult to find.
Before outlining exactly how you can go about finding career fairs, it is important that you first know exactly what they are. Career fairs are events that are almost always open to the general public and held in public locations, like shopping malls. Although career fairs can vary, most employer participants set up their own tables or booths. These booths are often accompanied by printed information, brochures, or pictures about the company in question. Each booth is often staffed with a couple of company representatives; representatives who are able to accept applications or resumes, as well as answer any questions that job seekers may have.
Now that you know what career fairs are, you may be wondering exactly how you can go about finding them. When it comes to finding a career fair, one of the best things that you can do is keep your eyes and your ears open. For instance, many of the career fairs that are hosted in shopping centers are advertised weeks or sometimes even months in advance. Since career fairs are commonly held in local shopping centers, you are advised to always be on the lookout for any career fair signs or banners. If you are unable to visit your local shopping center or other public establishments, you can always trying calling them once a month or so to see if any career fairs are scheduled for the future.
Career fairs are often advertised in local newspapers as well. While information about a career fair may appear in different newspaper sections, it is common to find information about them in the employment section of a newspaper. Although it isn't as common as newspaper advertisements, many career fairs are also advertised online. If you have access to any local business websites or message boards, you may be able to find information on an upcoming career fair.
Community boards are another way that career fair organizers go about advertising their upcoming career fairs. Since most career fairs are planned months in advance, many organizers have the time to go around the neighborhood and hang-up signs. Many career fairs are advertised on college campus community bulletin boards. Businesses where those looking for work are likely to hang out may also have bulletin boards that may have information on available job openings or career fairs. These types of businesses tend to include restaurants or coffee houses.
You are also advised to contact your local career center, which is sometimes referred to as a career counseling center. These types of centers are where you should be able to receive assistance with finding a job. Most career centers are staffed with those who are educated on the art of finding, applying for, and landing a job. If you do have a local career center in or around your community, they are often the first ones to know about an upcoming career fair. That is why it is advised that you contact your local career center to ask if they know about any upcoming career fairs. If they do, be sure to get the important information, like when and where.
By keeping the above mentioned points in mind, you should be able to find and attend any career fairs that happen in or around your place of residence. For the best chance of success, when attending a career fair, make sure that you bring multiple copies of your resume, dress for success, and be prepared for an onsite interview, because they do occasionally happen.


YANGON - After driving nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims out of the country, Myanmar's military is building bases where some of their homes and mosques once stood, Amnesty International said on Monday, citing new evidence from satellite imagery.
A harsh security response to attacks by Rohingya insurgents on Aug. 25 sent members of the mostly stateless minority fleeing to Bangladesh and saw more than 350 villages destroyed by fire in western Myanmar's Rakhine state.
An Amnesty report published on Monday echoed previous ones by saying the remains of some of those villages — and some buildings not previously damaged — had been bulldozed.
As well as rapid housing and road construction in the area, at least three new security facilities were under construction, the global human rights group said. In one case, Rohingya villagers who had remained in Myanmar were forcibly evicted to make way for a base, it said.
At least four mosques that had not been wrecked by fire have been destroyed, or had their roofing or other materials removed, since late December, a time when significant conflict was not reported in the area, Amnesty said.
In one Rohingya village, satellite imagery showed buildings for a new border police post appearing next to where a recently demolished mosque had stood.
Spokespeople for the government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and the military were not immediately available for comment. Myanmar officials have said villages were being bulldozed to make way for new homes for returning refugees.
Myanmar has asked for "clear evidence" to support the conclusion of the United Nations and others that ethnic cleansing has taken place in Rakhine.
Myanmar and Bangladesh reached a deal in November to repatriate those who fled. Myanmar has said temporary camps to house returnees are ready, but the process has yet to start.
Amnesty said Myanmar's "reshaping" of the region where the Rohingya lived appeared to be designed to accommodate more security forces and non-Rohingya villagers, and could deter refugees from agreeing to return.


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Where Australia's great theatre artists trod the boards: 50 years of Melbourne's La Mama theatre
When Betty Burstall returned to Australia in 1967 after two years in New York with her husband, the artist Tim Burstall, she missed the little places where you "paid 50 cents for a cup of coffee and you saw a performance". After talking to a few local actors, directors and writers, she signed a lease on a former (some say shirt, others say underwear) factory at 205 Faraday Street in Carlton, Melbourne. It was a two-storey brick building 28 feet wide and 30 feet long, with a garden in front.
In 1967, Carlton was, in Burstall's words, "a lively, tatty area with an Italian atmosphere and plenty of students". Back then, the rent was $28 a week (about $340 today), which seemed an uncomfortable amount for a not-for-profit and unsubsidised theatre collective.It remains the same today, although the car park is a paved square facing onto the street.
The venue Burstall founded, La Mama (named after its New York prototype), would go on to become a vital centre of creativity. It provided space and time, and a share of the door, for theatre artists, avant garde film-makers, poets, musicians, from big names to small, to make new work.
Fortunately, La Mama paid its rent on time and quickly became the Melbourne branch of the alternative theatre movement gathering momentum in the United Kingdom, Europe, the Americas, Canada and Japan, as well as Australia and New Zealand. In its early years, La Mama was the kind of venue where almost every production was a world premiere.
The preference was for short plays, often presented as a triple bill, with participants writing for one, directing another and acting in the third, while working front and back of house, operating lights, making coffee and so on. This flexibility reflected the anti-hierarchical community values that underpinned La Mama.
The preference for short plays was initially a rejection of the conventional three-act drama, but it was also a smart way of encouraging new work. The lack of money, lights and sets marked its theatre as different from and a welcome alternative to the longstanding cultural dominance of commercial theatre in Australia. It led to a new critical language that admired rough but energetic theatre and, as it took shape, it struggled against the blokey Anglo-Celtic culture that surrounded it.
Reaction and innovation
The New Wave of Australian drama, which saw a new generation of writers, directors and performers overturn a moribund imported theatre culture and make exciting new theatre about Australian people, places and politics, reached a high point in Melbourne around the La Mama playwrights Jack Hibberd, John Romeril and David Williamson. Hibberd had seven world premieres in La Mama's first two years. He was joined by Romeril in 1968 and Williamson in 1970.
New plays by Sydney-based Alex Buzo and works from the alternative theatres of the northern hemisphere made their way to Melbourne audiences via La Mama. As a backlash against the radicalism of the 1960s took hold, new theatre works by Peter Handke and Sam Shepard later in the decade were less exuberant and more reflective of the violent underpinnings of modern capitalist societies.
Performance art, music, poetry and film were also established in the early years at La Mama and continue today.The other side of the La Mama story is the emergence of devised performance, which began not with a written dramatic text but with a series of workshops around themes, concepts or techniques to do with the use of voice or the body.
The Antimacassar Show in September 1974 was designed and performed by a 12-person ensemble with neither a designated writer nor a director. By 1976, James McCaughey was making devised work with performers.
Despite women's participation in ensemble work and as performers, by 1974 the lack of progression for women writers and directors was recognised with the three-year appointment of Valerie Kirwan as La Mama's first playwright in residence. Kirwan produced a stunning series of plays including: Hamjamb and the Gigolo (1975), Stringray Play (1978), The Art of Lobster Whistling (1979) and Facile (1980).
Reflecting on Kirwan's output, Melbourne artist and scholar Meredith Rogers refers to her as the Diva of Melbourne Surrealism:
Kirwan's insouciant surrealism, her freewheeling, apparently improvisatory writing style and the drama and beauty of the theatrical image-making she managed in the tiny confines of La Mama had an impact on a generation of Melbourne theatre-makers far greater than her place in the historical and critical literature of the period would suggest, but at least her plays were produced, some of them even more than once.
Kirwan's highly imaginative writing and directing influenced other women to step up and write and direct their own work. She had a formative effect on Melbourne writer, director and teacher Jenny Kemp.
Kemp was impressed by two aspects of Kirwan's work: that a woman could write and direct her own work and that this work could express imaginary worlds that came from within a woman's rich interior life. Kemp's first play, The Point Isn't To Tell You, was an experimental short piece co-written with and performed by Robert Meldrum and staged at La Mama in 1979.
She went on to become one of Australia's most visually imaginative playwrights with collaborative ensemble productions that include Call of the Wild (1989), The Black Sequin Dress (1996), Still Angela (2002), Kitten (2008) and Madeleine (2010), taking the stream of feminist radicalism in theatre into the 21st century.
Thirty-five years later Murphet restaged the work at La Mama with a new generation of actors. Hibberd, Romeril and Williamson have also returned in recent years. Other influences from the first decade flowed onto Anthill Theatre in Napier Street, South Melbourne (also known as the Australian Nouveau Theatre), which presented its first show at La Mama in a 1981 double bill. This was the world premiere of Melbourne teacher and theatre maker Richard Murphet's Quick Death to Infinity and Antonin Artaud's To Have Done with the Judgement of God, directed by Jean Pierre Mignon.
Spectators still marvel at how versatile the 28-feet-wide and 30-feet-long space can be. While remaining adaptable and with increasing diversity, La Mama's founding principles are the glue that binds members of Australia's theatre culture.
La Mama's 50th Mini-fest begins this week.
Denise Varney, Professor of Theatre Studies and co-director of the Australian Centre in the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne
Image: Discontinuities, a triple bill staged at La Mama in 2002 – courtesy of La Mama
Human Nature announced as Patrons of Sydney's Bankstown Theatre Company

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Creating the logo and new branding for the dancewear company was a collaboration of efforts and an exciting new way to introduce the new chapter in Lyrical's progression to become one of the leading suppliers of dancewear and clothing in New Zealand.
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The Federal Inland Revenue Service(FIRS) has entered into Value Added Tax (VAT) automation with Aero contractors, Dana and Medview airlines to boost revenue collection in Aviation.
The Director, ICT FIRS, Mr Kola Okunola, said this in a presentation at the ongoing training by Journalism. Com Ltd. in collaboration with FIRS on Wednesday in Abuja.
Okunola said that since the commencement of VAT automation with the three airlines, FIRS collected N2.5 billion from 2014 till date.
" We also plan to commence VAT automation in oil and gas, big businesses and other sister organisations to facilitate tax payment.
" Arik airline has about 70 per cent of the market in the Aviation, but yet to be in the VAT automation.
"If all these airlines come into place, we (FIRS) are looking at collecting almost N10 billion in a year, " Okunola said.
According to him, the Intergrated Tax Administration System(ITAS) of the FIRS made Tax Identification Number (TIN) generation much easier to access.
Okunola said that the ITAS platform had a live chat that could respond to questions and complaint of tax payers.
He said that with the help of the platform, tax payers would not need the help of FIRS officials to generate their TIN.


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The Technion Hiroshi Fujiwara Cyber Security Research Center invites you to an event honoring the laureates of this years Wolf prize in Physics.
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iii Sydney Churchill VINCENT, born 2nd qtr 1887 in Stoke D'Abernon (Surrey), baptized 1 May 1887 at St Mary, Stoke D'Abernon (Surrey), census 1891 at Jessop's Well, Oxshott Road, Stoke D'Abernon (Surrey), census 1901 at Scots Hall, Newington-next-Hythe (Kent), census 1911 at Monks Horton Park, Stanford (Kent), occupation 1901 Gamekeeper, occupation 1911 Gamekeeper, occupation 1916 Munitions Worker - Explosives Loading Company, Oare (Kent), died 2 Apr 1916 Killed in the Faversham Munitions Factory Explosion - Aged 28, buried 4 Jun 1916 at The Gunpowder Mill Burial Plot, Faversham Cemetery (Kent).
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The National Civic League will be accepting applications until April 1 for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – National Civic League Health Equity Award.
The Award recognizes and honors individuals that have successfully implemented a systems change approach that leverages engagement to improve health outcomes for those most impacted by health disparities. It often takes a community or multiple groups to bring about systemic change. This Award celebrates those individuals who are leading the charge in helping to create a culture of health in their communities.
In addition to the $3,000 prize (to be spent in whatever way the winner wishes), winners will receive national recognition at the National Civic League's annual All-America City Award and an invitation to participate in Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's yearly Health Equity Award annual learning and recognition event.
Please share information about the award (and how one can apply) with those you think might be interested, so that as many people as possible have a chance to apply for and win it.
RWJF-National Civic League CL Health Equity Award - how are you improving health equity? Winners receive $3,000 and national recognition.


TRANSFER values have sky-rocketed since Pele graced the field, but how much would he be worth today?
The debate will always rage over the greatest footballer of all-time, with Pele and Diego Maradona firmly in the running – but how much would they cost today?
GiffGaff Money have compared football's greatest legends with the biggest transfer stars from 2017 – at the same age – to work out how much they would be worth.
If Manchester United had signed a 24-year-old Maradona instead of Romelu Lukaku, how much would he have cost at that point in his sparkling career?
Click through the gallery to reveal the transfer values and comparisons of football legends in modern-day terms.


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Q: ISO 8601 datetime format: parse 11:05:14 PM into 23:05:14 I currently am getting an ISO format, but I'm not sure how to get the ISO (8601) format.
When I convert the following date 08/10/2015 11:05:14 PM to ISO format, I get 2015-08-10T11:05:14+0000
I should ideally get 2015-08-10T23:05:14+0000
Line which edits the date to iso format is:
new[3] = datetime.strptime(new[3], "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S %p").isoformat() + '+0000'

Code:
from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile
from datetime import datetime
from shutil import move
from operator import itemgetter
import csv
from pathlib import Path

def change_file(in_file, cols):
    with open(in_file) as f, NamedTemporaryFile("w", dir=".", delete=False) as tmp:
        r = csv.reader(f)
        wr = csv.writer(tmp)
        count = 0
        for row in r:
            if count == 0:
                new = []
                for x in itemgetter(*cols)(row):
                    new.append(x.lstrip())
                wr.writerow(new)
                count += 1
                continue
            if row != '\n':
                new = []
                print(row)

                for x in itemgetter(*cols)(row):
                    new.append(x.lstrip())
                new[3] = datetime.strptime(new[3], "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S %p").isoformat() + '+0000'
                print(new)
                wr.writerow(new)
        move(tmp.name, in_file)

for fle in Path('./BM').glob('**/*/cplt.csv'):
    print(fle)
    change_file(str(fle), (6, 2, 1, 0, 5))

A: How exactly is the input format?
When I change your format string to %m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S, the following
print datetime.strptime('08/10/15 23:05:14', '%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S').isoformat() + '+0000'

gives the correct result:
2015-08-10T23:05:14+0000

EDIT
Thanks for the additional info, it should work if you just replace the %H with %I:
 print datetime.strptime('8/10/2015 11:05:14 PM', '%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S %p').isoformat() + '+0000'

From the datetime docs:

%I - Hour (12-hour clock) as a zero-padded decimal number.

Only with %I the am/pm part is taken into account.

A: You should use the %I format to parse the hour when you use the %p directive.
From the docs:

When used with the strptime() method, the %p directive only affects the output hour field if the %I directive is used to parse the hour.

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If you look at the contrast of the grass and trees in the first photos, against the ones now and the fox, you get an idea of just how dry the south is right now.
28 fires reported in the 10th region today. Frutillar has been doing pretty good, we had a heavy fog until almost noon today with no wind to wet everything down, but the smoke has been blowing north in the afternoons from all the fires around PM and Chiloe.
yea, my puppy decided to make friends with one of them. She is kind of clueless and her first time encountering a skunk, and thought it was just another dog that wanted to make friends and would like her to smell it's but. Of course that happened at 5 am, as the sun was breaking, I had not had my coffee. By the time I got my flash light to see what she was so excited about (kind of looked like another dog in the dark, but I was not sure), all I seen was her with her nose about a foot from the but of the skunk. I did not even need to smell her, to know it was too late.
By 5:15 she it was in a tomato paste bath.
At least I don't have to pull Porcupine quills from 100+ pound snarling dogs here. I pulled quills once or twice a year from both my pure-bread German Sheppard and Sheppard / Wolf hybrid. The Sheppard was o.k. with it, the wolf took full grown men, and we all ran for our lives every time we yanked one out. Both were relatively good sports about it, and knew it was nothing personal.
o.k. that last one is missing the fox. this thread is about foxes.
admin wrote: o.k. that last one is missing the fox. this thread is about foxes.
It's a foxhole. And the fox was hiding.


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You will keep perfectly peaceful, the one whose mind remains focused on you, because he remains in you.
You will keep in perfect peace, all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you!
The beauty, love, and faith of being aware of Him is available to anybody, at any time, and to orient our lives and our minds in this way all the time (1 Thess. 5:16-17) is what is involved in living as the Mind of Christ (1 Cor. 2:16). We can all sense His realness, which is just behind all the appearances and physical forms of physical reality. If we look at the greenness of a leaf, we can sense God as the Power behind the leaf's mystery, the leaf's infinity, if we just put Christ in our thoughts and awareness as we do. Hereafter, I will call this awareness so-far discussed in this article as the faith-connection.
All objects in physical reality are continuously created and sustained out of nothing at every instant by Jesus Christ, the Word of God, and each object therefore derives from Infinity, and is related to Infinity, whether an apple, the blue sky, a hunk of metal, or our own brains, and the infinite Creator can always be sensed as the Source, the Power behind any such objects, via the faith-connection.
a mystery, an infinity (such as an infinity of atoms,, or an infinity of energy), that is spoken into existence by an infinite God (named Yahweh), and which currently exists in a distorted state due to its being contaminated by a force called sin, which pervades the physical plane, and which stems from the souls of humans who have tried to bring the infinity of God (and reality) down to limited and finite human understanding (violating Proverbs 3:5 and trusting their own understanding).
When we look at the apple, we should sense its Creator, Yahweh, "behind" it, as its Source. In my life of full surrender and ceaseless prayer to the Trinity, I can sense God "behind" everything—there is a source of infinite Joy (Yahweh) behind all, which all of nature is mourning the loss of awareness of, and mourning the loss of identification with (see Romans 8:19).
The human soul therefore has interconnection to all of reality. If the soul is corrupted/fallen/sinful, it can distort objects and other souls around it by participating in sin: by analogy, the sin spreads out like a ripple of death in a blackened pond containing deformed fish.
So, to return to where I started, humans are in an interesting position, where they can observe the starkest of contrasts between their fallen life (the pre-surrendered life) on the one hand, and their saved life on the other (being surrendered, and living by the faith-connection as a way of life), because the former is a finite life of endless frustration, pain, worry, dysfunction, veneer "happiness," and lostness, where the latter, the life in Christ, is an awareness of the Infinite all the time. One only need to gradually train their mind, their awareness, to move from the world, to the Word, showing the stunning difference between their life in the image of the Devil (1 John 3:8) verse their life of Infinite Love (1 John 4:8). Surrender or die!
Greathouse, William M., 1998, Wholeness in Christ: Toward a Biblical Theology of Holiness, Kansas City: Beacon Hill Press.
 I am not referring to the atoms that scientists talk about, that have parts, such as the parts of electrons and a nucleus, and thus are not really atoms (uncuttable, final, basic building blocks of reality), but rather the atoms that philosophers discuss, that truly have no parts and are the bedrock of nature, of the physical plane.
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Using data from the County's Homeless Management Information System (HMIS), 318 youth ages 18-24 who used a homeless service between January 1, 2017 and December 31, 2017 were identified. Residence before and after service utilization were self-reported by youth. Some youth entered the homeless system multiple times during this period for a total of 446 service involvement entries during the period of study. Not all youth who entered a homeless service in 2017 exited within the same year; as a result, total entries into service do not equal exits.
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Much like Sei Hiraizumi, it seemed like this guy was everything.
Masahiko Tsugawa passes away from heart failure
Actor Masahiko Tsugawa passed away on August 4th from heart failure. He was 78 years old. A private funeral has already been held for family and close friends, but a public memorial service is scheduled to be held shortly.
Tsugawa made his debut in 1956 in "Kurutta Kajitsu" and has starred in numerous movies, dramas, and plays. He comes from a show business family - his grandfather was director Shozo Makino, his father actor Kunitaro Sawamura, his mother actress Tomoko Makino, and his brother actor Hiroyuki Nagato.
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One of my favorite Japanese actors. Was the lead (Tokugawa Ieyasu, a role he played a number of times) in Aoi Tokugawa Sandai, the best written, best acted, most enjoyable Taiga I have seen. Also acted in a number of Itami Juzo films. Heck, he acted in a lot of films and dorama over his long career. A terrific actor.
Momoko Sakura passes away at 53: https://kotaku.com/momoko-sakura-one-of-japans-most-famous-manga-creators-1828622590
Back when channel 18 actually used to have some Japanese programming, "Chibi Maruko Chan" would air every Friday morning. Has one of those theme songs you can't get out of your head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML0W4_0qcks
Actress Kiki Kirin passed away yesterday at 75. She had cancer for a number of years. She didn't do much TV work, mostly movies. Rather than post an obituary, thought I would post this interview from a couple years back. It gives a good idea of what she was like: https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/film-tv/article/1928233/kirin-kiki-everyones-favourite-japanese-screen-grandmother
Actress Kiki Kirin passed away yesterday at 75.
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Actress Kyoko Enami passes away at 76
Actress Kyoko Enami has passed away from emphysema at the age of 76.
Her agency announced, "Kyoko Enami passed away on October 27th. On October 26th she complained of feeling ill and was immediately hospitalized. However, she was unable to recover and passed away the following night."
Enami was born in Tokyo on October 15, 1942. She joined Daiei film company in 1959 and made her film debut in 'Otouto' the following year. Her 1966 film 'Onna no Toba' was a big hit making her Daiei's top star. She has starred in dramas such as "Gokusen", "Carnation", and "Beppin-san".
Johnny Kitagawa passes away at 87
Johnny's & Associates president Johnny Kitagawa has passed away on July 9th due to a ruptured cerebral aneurysm. He was 87 years old.
On June 18th, Kitagawa was rushed to the hospital after he lost consciousness. He was put on life support in the intensive care unit, but later transferred to the general ward where he spent his last days with Johnny's entertainers that came to visit him.
According to the announcement by the agency, the Johnny's entertainers took turns visiting Kitagawa so he wouldn't feel lonely. They shared memories with him as Johnny's music, both old and new, played in the background. "The time Johnny spent with the entertainers at the hospital was precious," they mentioned.
Kitagawa's vigil and funeral will be held with his "children," who are Johnny's entertainers and Johnny's Jr. members. A public memorial will be scheduled at a later date.
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Kaoru Yachigusa passes away at 88: https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2019/10/20c2380f3c7f-kaoru-yachigusa-actress-in-samurai-the-legend-of-musashi-dies.html
RIP. I had seen her in many dramas and have always enjoyed her acting. She will be missed.
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Tooling 2000 makes £1m investment in new machinery as it marks 25 years in business
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Season Finale: Parenthood – "Lost and Found"
When Parenthood began a few months ago, what struck me about the series was how it felt unbalanced. There were some parts of the show I really enjoyed, but there were other parts of the show that simply weren't working. It's not that I expected it to be perfectly balanced, as the late recasting necessitated by Maura Tierney's cancer meant that the entire tone of the show shifted in an instant, but the combination of the series' sappy scenes of the family spending time with one another felt at odds with the somewhat incongruous elements of the ensemble. Those scenes made it feel like the show was pretending it was something it wasn't, that this family unit was actually cohesive despite conflict which seemed to exist within the scripts (and to some degree the casting) more than in the characters themselves.
I understood from the beginning that this show, like Modern Family, is about the family unit and its complexities, but while Modern Family leaned comfortably on broad stereotypes to immediately jump into the series' structure Parenthood didn't have the same luxury. Sure, we could look to Lorelai Gilmore to understand Sarah, working mother isn't exactly rocket science, and newly discovered son has some forebears, but we had to spend time with these characters in order to understand how they are responding to these situations. Modern Family gets to reset itself each week, but Parenthood's characters need to grow into these situations, which means we need to understand what's changing and how it's evolving in more of a nuanced fashion.
Jason Katims' Friday Night Lights was about community, which meant that the show was "setup" from the very beginning: the show's pilot clearly defined Dillon, Texas as a place where high school football is king, and the show was then able to go further into investigating how the series' characters relate to that central theme so honestly portrayed in the first episode. With Parenthood, however, Katims is dealing with something far more variable, as every family is different and the impact of the series is dependent on our knowledge of how this family works or compares with our own. Throughout the first season, the show has done some fine work defining each individual family, showing us Adam and Kristina confronting Max's autism or Crosby connecting with his son in a way he had never imagined. Sure, Sarah is still Lorelai by a different name in many ways, and Julia still remains the series' weak link, but we now understand these different families to the point that we can see the ways in which they'd come together, their differences now points of difference more than points of incongruity.
"Lost and Found," scripted by Katims, asks the same question that I was asking after the pilot: is this, in fact, a show about one happy family? I compared the show to Brothers & Sisters when it first aired, but that show very clearly prioritizes the sibling relationship over the individual families within it. Parenthood has yet to make its final decision, and each wing of the family faces that balance between "your" family and "the" family in the finale – and while there's another one of those sappy scenes at the end, one of those wings is missing, and one of them remains pieced together with some ukelele and some emotional duct tape.
And there's a realism to that which Katims really nicely captures in a finale that seems a fitting end to the season and creates a strong foundation for the show to hit the ground running in the fall so long as no Swedish lifeguards or serial rapists come out of the woodwork.
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Tagged as Amber, Analysis, Baseball, Craig T. Nelson, Crosby, Dax Shepard, Drew, Episode 13, Erika Christensen, Family, Friday Night Lights, Haddie, Jabbar, Jasmine, Jason Katims, Jason Ritter, Julia, Kristina, Lauren Graham, Lost and Found, NBC, Peter Krause, Review, Sarah, Season 1, Steve, Timm, Ukelele
Parenthood – "Perchance to Dream"
Last week, Parenthood was given a second season, and I was pleased: yes, I have at times voiced my intense frustration with some of the show's tonal inconsistencies, but in doing so I admit that they seem like a show working itself out more than a show which has no chance of ever reconciling its various parts. Rather, it's a show that very clearly doesn't want to know what it is yet, a show which wants to embrace the slack that we cut freshman series by trying out as many things as possible. The result is occasionally a show that makes me want to tear my hair out, but it's also occasionally a show that really resonates emotionally, and there has always been moments which make you think that maybe these crazy Bravermans might just make it after all.
"Perchance to Dream," easily the most consistent episode of the show thus far, feels perfectly timed to make me excited to see where this show goes in its second season. The show has, to this point, felt like one where the characters are sort of adrift in a sea of uncertainty, as changes and challenges to their family force them to react and respond accordingly. However, this week's episode dials down the drama and creates "slice of life" scenarios which the show plays for some humour but ultimately uses to draw out some meaningful character moments that feel like they're building towards something more than a saccharine conclusion. It finally feels like we're seeing something out of Act Two rather than Act One, and showing characters capable of being self-aware and who share relationships with other characters which don't have clear hierarchies that lead to formulaic storylines.
Dare we dream that Parenthood might some day become the dramatic powerhouse that is Jason Katims' other show, Friday Night Lights? Well, no, but I do think we're to the point where the idea doesn't seem like a hilariously improbable notion.
Tagged as Adam Braverman, Amber, Bra, College, Dance, Dax Shepard, Drama, Drew, E.T., Episode 9, Erika Christensen, Friday Night Lights, Haddie, Jabbar, Jasmine, Jason Katims, Julia, Kristina, Max, Monica Potter, NBC, Perchance to Dream, Peter Krause, Sarah, Season 1, Sydney, Television, TV
Parenthood – "The Situation"
Fittingly, subtlety isn't particularly easy to analyze when it comes to television series. While I would never argue that Parenthood's morals are subtle, as it tends to go for the blindly emotional over the starkly realistic, I still feel like some of what the show is accomplishing could be considered subtle. Even if things eventually get wrapped up in a neat bow that lays out the circumstances at hand, things always tend to start with a small moment that becomes something more, and so the least subtle of conclusions may still come from subtle origins.
"The Situation" works for most of its run time because the characters aren't necessarily being driven by clear moral foundations; Drew doesn't start spending time with Adam and Max because his Dad let him down again, Sarah doesn't strike up a friendship with Amber's teacher because of some sort of life problem, and Crosby (while directed by others) manages his paternity situation fairly effectively. In the end, the lessons apparent in each story are drawn to the surface through more direct action, and the show gets as sappy as it always does; however, up to that point, there continues to be enough small moments of subtlety for me to stick with the show for the rest of the season.
Tagged as Adam, Amber, Baseball, Bravermans, Crosby, Drew, Episode 5, Father, Haddie, Jabbar, Jason Ritter, Julia, Lauren Graham, Love Actually, Max, NBC, Peter Krause, Review, Sarah, Season 1, Steve, Television, TV
Parenthood – "Wassup"
I'm curious what Jason Katims and Co. want us to take away from watching Parenthood. There are times, for example, I think it's a subconscious argument for group parenting, as any one of the Braverman siblings, on their own, seems to be a legitimately terrible parent to the point where calling in a favour from another part of the family is like second nature to them. There are other times, however, where it tries to serve as a reminder to why parents go through the struggle of raising children, able to have those moments of maturity or peaceful sleep in which parents can awkwardly try to be funny or simply stand there creepily watching their child sleep.
I don't necessarily think that these are two incongruous ideas, but the problem is that I don't believe the characters on the show are actually benefitting from any of them. Rather than these stories emerging from who these characters are, "Wassup" was dominated by stories that emerge because the writers wanted to talk about them, and the lack of any sort of build-up or history to the events made it seem like the writers wanted to know how Lorelai Gilmore would deal with the "masturbation" question and what would happen if Nate Fisher had a teenage daughter who started dating.
While there are some fine moments in the episode which indicate that the writers know how to make these storylines resonate, there was nothing to make it feel consistent with the show's trajectory thus far, making its "everyone learned a lesson" conclusion feel more problematic than in weeks past – I'm not giving up on the show, but I think that they need to find a way to merge story and character in a way which feels less like one big cliche.
Tagged as Adam Braverman, Amber, Boyfriend, Craig T. Nelson, Drew, Episode 4, Facebook Official, Haddie, Jabar, Julia, Lauren Graham, Masturbation, NBC, Peter Krause, Review, Sarah, Season 1, Television, TV, Wassup, Zeke
Series Finale: Scrubs – "My Thanks"
"My Thanks"
This is the third time that I have written a review wherein I believe myself to be writing about the final episode of Scrubs, which is sort of bizarre when you really sit down and think about it. However, this whole season of Scrubs has been bizarre: just months after the show went out with an emotional final episode (the great "My Finale"), it came back in a form that was sort of like Zombie scrubs: it looked familiar in some ways, as certain characters stuck around to provide continuity and the stories were ripped out of the first few seasons when things were still fairly fresh, but other characters were different, and the shift of first-person focus was enough to throw the show off its axis. Zombie Scrubs, or "Scrubs Med School" if we're being a little less facetious, was met with fairly tepid responses from fans and viewers in general, being written off as a failure even before it went on a lengthy hiatus leading up to last week's sudden return.
But while I will agree that there were some execution problems early on that rendered Scrubs Med School a bit of a failure, I think that we need to separate expectation from reality. If you expected this show to continue the Scrubs legacy from Season Eight (which I personally found a substantial improvement on the last few NBC seasons), then you would be disappointed; however, if you expected what Bill Lawrence was interested in creating, a new show featuring familiar characters that dealt with med students and the struggles they face, I would actually suggest that "My Thanks" caps off a pretty successful "first season."
I don't think that it's possible to forget what the show was before, and I don't think that Lawrence made the right decisions along the way, but I want to see more of the show that "My Thanks" represents, regardless of the Scrubs name and the endless finales that the show has endured over the years. That's not enough to save the show, perhaps, but I need to at least tip my hat to Lawrence for managing to make this Zombified show work at the end of the day.
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Tagged as ABC, Cadavers, Cole, Dave Franco, Denise, Drew, Eliza Coupe, Episode 13, Finale, Lucy, Med School, Mentorship, Michael Mosley, My Thanks, Scrubs Med, Season 9, Series Finale, Television, Turk, TV, Zach Braff
Scrubs – "Our Dear Leaders"
"Our Dear Leaders"
J.D. and Turk are not entirely dissimilar characters: they're best friends, after all, and both have their quirks which make them quite enjoyable to watch in a "look at how immature he can be" sort of way. However, what I always found interesting was how Turk was always capable of better balancing the two: while the show struggled at the start of this season to position J.D. as both a mentor and a source of comedy, Turk has always been taken somewhat more seriously, which meant that he could be a bit more over the top without losing our respect or the respect of his new Med Students.
Ultimately, though, I think "Our Dear Leaders" didn't entirely work because there is a point the Chief of Surgery needs to have moved beyond these types of stories. While it may be thematically helpful to have all of the stories play into a sense of leadership, to lump Turk in with the med students is problematic in terms of the necessity to exaggerate his character's response to particular actions. It's not that Donald Faison is no longer funny, or that there isn't a story to be told about the fact that he's too old to be acting like a Med Student, but the story never really gave him much material to work with, and it never quite connected the dots in terms of making this a story about Dr. Turk needing to come to terms with his maturity (instead suggesting he suck it up so the source of his jealousy would keep donating money to the hospital).
It wasn't a terrible episode, but it seems as if the show still struggles when it tries to straddle these two worlds as opposed to capturing the points at which they interact.
Tagged as ABC, Cole, Dave Franco, Denise, Donald Faison, Dr. Cox, Drew, Eliza Coupe, Entertainment, Episode 11, John C. McGinley, Leadership, Lucy, Michael Mosley, Our Dear Leaders, Review, Russell, Season 9, Television, Turk, TV
Scrubs' "Our True Lies" and Better Off Ted's "Lust in Translation"
"Our True Lies"
"Lust in Translation"
There really isn't a whole lot substantial to say about Scrubs and Better Off Ted right now. The two shows are effectively dead in the water, and while this is an unfortunate circumstance it isn't going to change any time soon. However, the best possible compliment I can pay the shows right now is that when I watch them, I'm not sitting there stewing with rage over their impending doom, and instead I just sit back and enjoy shows that make me laugh.
And so, after the break, don't expect much in terms of critical commentary: it may not quite be a list of lines I found funny, but that probably wouldn't be a terrible way to approach the shows (especially Better Off Ted) at this point.
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Tagged as Bagels, Cole, Denise, Drew, Episode 10, Germany, Lem, Lindabagel, Lucy, Lust in Translation, Med School, Our True Lies, Phil, Portia De Rossi, Review, Season 2, Season 9, Translator
Scrubs – "Our Stuff Gets Real"
"Our Stuff Gets Real"
I think we might owe Zach Braff an apology, or a qualified one at least.
A lot of us placed the blame of Scrubs' struggles on the return of obnoxious J.D. in the earlygoing, leading some of us to suggest the show would have been far better off without him, but what we learn in "Our Stuff Gets Real" is that the problem was not so much the presence of J.D. and more the absence of Elliot. The writers' mistake was not so much having J.D. return but rather taking away the element which grounded him to reality (his pregnant wife): in the context of that relationship, both J.D. and Elliot are able to remain helplessly neurotic without becoming insufferable, and there's something there which is both poignant and meaningful (if, of course, not nearly as poignant or meaningful as what they left on in Season 8).
The rest of the episode is similarly on point, delivering another strong installment not only based on the return of the most original cast members yet but also by demonstrating some keen awareness of its new characters and their place within both the original cast and the show's new dynamics. It wasn't perfect, but the problems seemed dialed down and the positive seemed dialed in, and that's the right place for the show to be.
Tagged as ABC, Christa Miller, Cole, Dave Franco, Denise, Dr. Cox, Drew, Elliot, Episode 9, J.D., John C. McGinley, Jordan, Lucy, Our Stuff Gets Real, Sarah Chalke, Season 9, Turk, Zach Braff
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Scrubs – "Our Mysteries"
"Our Mysteries"
As Scrubs continues into its ninth season, one can't help but feel as if the greatest mystery is why said season needs to exist.
It's not that "Our Mysteries" or any other episode of the season thus far is terrible, but rather that what we're seeing lacks any sort of emotional punch beyond a desperate play at some sort of nostalgia. And unfortunately, that was already the focus of the show's creative resurgence in its eighth season, which I found myself absent-mindedly revisiting over the weekend. There, the show used a new crop of interns in order to raise questions of maturity and "moving on" in the characters we knew and loved, which was a good strategy for transitioning a character like J.D. from buffoon to father/husband.
However, the problem with the ninth season thus far is that it seems to want to go beyond that, to actually build these med students into characters, and yet the only parts of their stories which are really connected on an emotional level (Scrubs' strong suit) have more to do with the returning characters than Lucy, Cole, or Drew.
And what that is, precisely, is still a mystery to me.
Tagged as ABC, Blood, Cole, Denise, Dr. Cox, Drew, Episode 5, Hardy Boys, J.D., Lucy, Our Mysteries, Review, Season 9, Zach Braff
Season Premiere: Scrubs – "Our First Day of School / Our Drunk Friend"
"Our First Day of School"/"Our Drunk Friend"
"Everything's new, except for the title."
When Scrubs returned for an eighth season on ABC last year, I was a naysayer.
In my eyes, the show had worn out its welcome with a number of problematic seasons that became problematically silly in a way that ruined the heart that made the show so compelling in earlier seasons. I got to the point where I felt the show did not even deserve the chance for closure: no matter what I once felt for these characters, I had no desire to see them continue on thier problematic path.
And then season eight happened, and my point of view changed. The show literally went back to basics, rewinding back into the earlier seasons and starting to tell stories about our beloved characters maturing and a new crop of interns learning the ropes and in need of mentors. The show was breaking no new ground, relying on the same combination of cutaway humour/blind sentimentalism that defined seasons one and two, but it grounded the show to a sense of identity that reminded me what I missed during the dark years. So when it had its beautifully executed finale, season eight proved itself to be the perfect endnote on these characters' journey.
And then ABC renewed the show. And all over again, it felt like everything was wrong: this was a show that had a chance to leave on a high note after most of us had written it off, and now it's risking everything to return. And so we had another summer/fall of Bill Lawrence assuring us that the show would be different, this time a distinct enough entity from the Scrubs we knew (he wanted to call it Scrubs Med) to justify returning even after J.D.'s emotional departure.
Watching the ninth season premiere, I've realized that the problem is less that this is inherently bad (in fact, it's quite good) and more that this is absolutely exactly what happened last season. The show presents a new set of med students looking for mentors, and keeps the older doctors around to serve as those mentors, resulting in a show that isn't actually that different from what they did a year ago.
Which makes it solidly engaging, if not nearly the sort of reboot that it might have been a year ago.
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And the hat of the moment is selling out fast!
Summer might have only just started, but the straw hat (complete with pom pom), is already the style of the year.
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And now that we know the colours to wear for a successful career, you can match one of these for the ultimate outcome.
Celebs who have been spotted wearing Joyis hats include Poppy Delevingne, who took hers on a friends holiday, as well as MIC's Rosie Fortescue and Holly Willoughby.
Simply team with summer's chicest swimwear, a floaty dress and you've nailed your holiday look already.
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The ultimate summer accessory that not only is practical, but pretty for those flatlays too.


The Rebbe often told us, 'I have a great desire that you act in accordance with my revealed teachings. Take a lesson and seek out its practical advice. Follow it for two or three months, making use of it to strengthen your devotion and fear of Hashem. Pray to Hashem and beg that He help you be worthy of attaining the ideal set forth in the lesson. When you have completed one lesson, work on another. Continue this way until you have completed every lesson. Happy is the one who takes this to heart."
"The Rebbe told us emphatically to go with this teaching. It is a major foundation for all who want to draw closer to Hashem and not lose everything, G-d forbid."
As someone who founded an organization named after this teaching, it is obvious that you are someone who has been able to "go with this teaching". Practically, how were you able to take the message of Azamra and go about implementing it in your daily life?
Rabbi Nachman's lesson about the "good points" was the first piece I ever learned from his master work, Likutey Moharan. This was over thirty years ago in the summer 1977, when I was just embarking on my Torah pathway – a 27 year-old secular intellectual working as a BBC radio commentator and knowing barely more than a few words of Hebrew. I took a short break from work to visit Israel, and it was in a class I chanced upon at the Dvar Yerushalayim Baaley Teshuvah yeshiva that I heard about Rabbi Nachman for the first time.
A few days later, during a visit to Safed, one of the handful of Breslover Chassidim who was living there at that time took me late at night up to the attic of the small, quaint Breslover shul in the old city that Rabbi Gedaliah Koenig זצ"ל was then in the process of renovating. Sitting in candlelight, my newfound friend, Mordechai Kramer, a talmid of Reb Gedaliah, explained to me the meaning of the Hebrew text of Rabbi Nachman's teaching of "Azamra! – I will sing" (Likutey Moharan I, 282). I found it interesting and suggestive but it was far from clear to me exactly what it really meant. Little did I know then that six and a half years later I would be married with a growing family, living in Jerusalem and authoring a volume of devoted to and named after this very teaching published by Breslov Research Institute. Even less did I dream that three years thereafter I would found an independent institute called AZAMRA which is today alive and flourishing more than ever!!!
The Breslov Research booklet called "Azamra!" (1984) was the first of its kind in English: a translation of a complete lesson from Likutey Moharan together with a selection of commentaries from Reb Nosson's Likutey Halachot and other Breslov sources. The reason for starting the unveiling of Rabbi Nachman's teachings to the English-speaking world with the lesson of "Azamra!" was because, in the words of Reb Nosson, "The Rebbe told us emphatically to go with this teaching: it is a major foundation for all who want to draw closer to God…"
I must confess that from the time of my first acquaintance with this lesson, it took me many years until I felt I was beginning to get a handle on what the Rebbe really meant by telling us to "find your good points" or even what a "good point" might be. People told me that your good points are all the mitzvos and good deeds you have ever performed… Or that the good point is the "pintele yid" – your essential Jewish soul. But none of this really penetrated my inner self until an episode that occurred in the period when I was working on my translation of "Azamra!". An uncle of mine who lived in Israel was dying of cancer, and I went to pay what I expected to be a final visit to him. During the conversation, I asked him what he felt he had achieved in his life. "Let me tell you a story" he replied.
He told me that in the late 1940's, as a young school teacher of sewing crafts in Baltimore U.S.A., he had been assigned to teach a class of underprivileged black teenage girls. He said they were so wild that he was barely able to take the register in class let alone teach them to sew. He became so depressed that he went to the school principal to tender his resignation. However, the principal urged him to take a break to think about it calmly.
My uncle described to me how he went on a fishing trip and sat by the water watching the little fish swimming all around the bait at the end of his line. They all refused to take even a single bite! Suddenly it flashed into his mind that just as the fish did not want to take the bait he was offering them, so the girls in his class resisted receiving the "gift" of sewing skills he so badly wanted to give them. This was because they resented always being cast in the role of the receiver. They were always at the very bottom of the social hierarchy. If only a way could be found to turn these girls into givers – but what did these wild adolescents have to give, and to whom would they give it?
He decided to stay on in the school and try an experiment. He came up with a plan to have each girl sew a cloth booklet complete with various kinds of buttons, clips, ribbons and zippers, etc. designed to teach a little child to dress herself. He arranged for the entire class to be bussed to a junior school where each girl would be paired off with a little child to whom she would give her book and show her how to use it. When the books were ready and the teenage girls were in the bus on the way to the junior school, my uncle told me they were so wild that he was afraid to give them the books because they would have surely torn them to pieces.
However, on arrival at the school, each girl was paired off with her little pupil and showed her what to do – and the experience of being charged with some real responsibility completely transformed these adolescent girls! My uncle described how on the bus ride back to their own school the girls were calm, relaxed and behaving like ladies! The transformation of these girls got into the local news. My uncle was interviewed on the radio and became something of a celebrity in Baltimore at the time because he had succeeded in turning wild poor black urban adolescent girls into responsible citizens.
Hearing my uncle's story as I worked on my translation of "Azamra!" gave me new insight into a teaching of Rabbi Nosson in his commentary on this lesson in the opening discourse of Likutey Halachot, Orach Chaim. Reb Nosson writes that when God was reconciled with Israel after their sin with the golden calf, the first thing Moses did on his return from Mt Sinai to the camp was to command them to bring contributions of gold, silver, bronze and other materials for the Sanctuary. This was because in order to raise the penitent nation from their abject state, it was necessary to reveal their good points. This came about precisely through giving them the opportunity to show their generosity by asking them to contribute to the Sanctuary. In other words, the nation was reclaimed through being turned into a nation of givers!!!
Thus the "good point" is not something static that exists in a person like some kind of painted lady's "beauty spot". Rather, it is a dynamic growth point in the personality that exists in potential deep within the soul of the person. But it has to be brought forth and actualized. The person himself has to "find" his own unique good points and work to actualize them. But it takes the Tzaddik (in the case of the Baltimore girls, my uncle) to have faith that the good point is there and to convince the person to make the effort to find and develop it.
Rabbi Nachman's teaching about finding the good point has been a life-saver to me personally, helping me time after time to find my way out of the various episodes of bleakness and depression that any would-be Baal Teshuvah is almost bound to go through. This teaching has also served me time after time in family life and bringing up my children, in my relationships with other people in many different areas of life, and particularly when I have been called upon to counsel and advise people who are searching for their way.
Whether in the home, at work, in the clinic or anywhere else, one has to look at the other person not just as he or she appears on the exterior at this present moment. Simultaneously, one has to look at the person through the eyes of faith, with the belief that behind their face and exterior appearance lies an unfathomable inner world that is a most complex and subtle mixture of darkness and light, limitation and creative energy.
A child may be fretting, obnoxious and causing the parent great vexation and anger. Can the parent disconnect himself from the irritation he or she is feeling and ask whether there may not be some aspect of the child's personality that is being thwarted, with the child's resultant frustration being the cause of their bad behavior? Particularly when a child or teenager is doing poorly in school or in interpersonal relationships etc. it is time to search for "good points" that may have been pushed underground and ignored by those charged with his or her welfare. When you're burning with anger against someone in a situation in the home, at work or anywhere else, take a moment to disconnect yourself from your emotion and your immediate perception of that person and instead try to connect yourself to the goodness that you believe must lie within them.
Rabbi Nachman's teaching about searching for the good points is much more than smart psychology. It goes far deeper than that, because each good point in each person is one of the "sparks" of G-dliness that fell at the time of the "breaking of the vessels" as explained at length in the kabbalistic texts. The entire repair depends on releasing these sparks and incorporating them in the holy edifice that is being built generation by generation each and every day. When we search for, discover and connect the good points in ourselves, our dear ones and family members, our work associates and everyone else we encounter, we are contributing to the overall repair of creation – the Tikkun – that will be completed with the coming of Melech HaMashiach and the building of the Temple speedily in our times. Amen.
Thank you, Rabbi Greenbaum, for sharing with us this healing, beautiful, and uplifting teaching. And thanks to "A Simple Jew," for posting this.
Thank you R. Greenbaum (and ASJ for promoting this)!
I am already finding my good points -- although they still need some scrubbing and sanding!
rav greenbaum's translations of reb nachman's works from "restore my soul" "advice" and many others have consistently inspired, uplifted and aided many searching souls.
it is great to read about his own personal journey.
may H' bless him to continue in strength and good health inspiring and uplifting all of am yisrael!!!


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Enjoy A 'Temporary View' From SBTKRT & Sampha
June 6, 2014 | 3:00 pm
In terms of collaborative pairs, SBTRKT and Sampha rank high in our "they just make sense together" category. One thing we do know is that these two are loyal, as they join musical forces again to bring this stirring and eerie track "Temporary View." The song's base is actually "Resolute," which can be found on SBTRKT's instrumental EP Transitions. With soulful vocals and the perfect electro backdrop, the song is sensual but trippy. Sampha sings, "I know it's just a temporary view, won't you help me, and invite your light, to wake my desire." Deep right?
The track has several layers, which is what we're used to hearing from SBTRKT. The layers trade places throughout the song; one minute the song is hollow and showcases the lyrical and vocal depth, the next it's a symphony of electronic drums, synthesizers and other effects that develop the chorus. It seems like SBTRKT is getting closer to releasing his sophomore offering, but until we get an actual date, we'll continue to enjoy whatever he gives us a "Temporary View" of.
TAGS: audio, Sampha, SBTRKT
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Q. I checked the "A to Z Garden Answer" section of your website under 'grass', 'ornamental grass' and 'tall grass' and couldn't find an answer to my question: Is it 'okay', 'recommended', or 'forbidden' to cut off the dead stems of ornamental grasses? If it is okay, when is the best time?
A. It depends on what Chris means. Many of the most attractive—and tallest—of the ornamental grasses develop beautiful 'plumes' that extend well above the actual grass blades, adding lots of extra height and what my old friend Martha Stewart calls "winter interest" to the garden. So--should they ever be cut back?
Not a simple answer. The plumes on some varieties will produce seeds; and if the seeds are viable, they could turn a beautiful screening plant into a bigger menace than the Enchanted Broomstick that Mickey battled in the Sorcerer's Apprentice sequence of Fantasia. Some types of Pampas grass, for instance, can produce millions of seeds per plant each season.
Ah—but if you always remember to cut off the plumes before those seeds can mature, you can be a responsible owner of an otherwise invasive plant.
However if you have one of the 'sterile varieties' (or other grass that doesn't create viable seed), cutting off the plumes removes the most beautiful part of the plant for no reason. Research varieties well before you plant.
Slight detour: That's always wrong. So: where does this bad advice come from?
People with too much time on their hands and/or who don't understand the difference between true fall clean-up (getting whole leaves off a lawn before they can smother it and/or off of spring bulb beds so the plants don't have to fight their way through six months from then) and murdering a magnificent twenty-year-old rhododendron. Helpful hint—if you see your spouse going out to the garden anytime between June and the dead of winter with a pair of pruners or loppers, stage an immediate intervention.
So that's a strong 'no' to cutting these plants—or any plants—back in the fall. The only thing you can achieve is to stimulate new growth that will expose the plants to severe winter injury and/or death.
"RC" in Newark, Delaware writes: "I have heard you recommend tall grasses for privacy and general landscaping. I wanted to mention that some tall grasses can be vicious. I used one around my built-in pool for decoration but had to dig it out after two years because the grass blades were so sharp that anyone touching a blade got the equivalent of a bad paper cut. Even walking too close past the grass with bare legs was dangerous. I would caution that people be aware of this fact when selecting a grass."
RC is correct. The blades on some ornamental grasses are razor sharp. I got torn up the first time I went to prune one of the bigger grasses in shorts and a t-shirt and quickly learned this lesson. Now: most people will never HAVE to prune these grasses; the clumping types will only get wider over time, which may be what you want if you're trying to increase privacy.
Anyway, the old dry blades really do make great dry brown material for composting , and again, removing the dry outer blades does reduce the fire risk, which is serious. But, as RC warns, this is a long-sleeve, long-pants, leather glove endeavor.
Timing? Such pruning should always be done in mid-to-late Spring. I like to wait until the new green growth in the center is about half the size of the entire plant.


The Roca Labs Formula is considered as a very powerful non-prescription treatment for weight loss. But however natural and effective the procedure is, there will always be some side effects that users should be forewarned with. Do note though, that the side effects of the Roca Labs weight loss formula may or may not appear on every person taking it.
This side effect is mostly seen on new Roca Labs users. This is caused by the huge amount of dietary fibers that are added to their diet. The feeling of being bloated or having gas inside your stomach can be very unpleasant; but it is one of the indicators that the treatment is working on you.
Users may feel a distinct type of pain in their heads while on the Roca Labs formula. Again, this is just one of the temporary effects associated to implementing a new diet play. It is mainly caused by the reduced food intake that your body is getting. Be assured that when your body gets used to the system, this particular side effect will disappear.
Diarrhea and constipation are two of the most common problems associated with any weight-loss treatments, programs, or supplements. The sudden change to one's diet is still the culprit. Diarrhea occurs because the body is cleaning itself of toxins. Constipation, on the other hand, arises when there is insufficient water being absorbed by the body. If any of these two symptoms occurs, follow the regular first-aid procedures associated with each condition.
Cases of nausea are seen on most weight loss programs primarily due to psychological reasons. Nausea is commonly termed as the gag reflex that a person feels if he or she is subjected to something unpleasant. It is very much associated to the things he smells, tastes, or feels. Remember that under any weight-loss treatment program, the body is under the strain of reduced food intake. And that is mostly why nausea occurs. Roca Labs users who get nauseous while on treatment can try to be more creative when taking the formula in. Roca Labs can be added to your choice of a non-carbonated drink to reduce the unpleasant effect.


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