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Here you go, Georgetown Festival 2016 is just around the corner! Where Penaga Hotel shares its excitement along this event. Penaga Hotel is a heritage boutique hotel where it appreciates originality.
From the architecture of the hotel, which was carefully restored to its original beauty, to the art pieces down the hallways and inside each individual guest rooms, Penaga Hotel shares its passion in arts full-heartedly.
The picturesque George Town, ever since the inauguration as UNESCO World Heritage Site in July 7, 2010, has drawn thousands of visitors each year to Penang and Penaga Hotel has received culture lovers, art enthusiasts, heritage admirers who fell deeply in love with this unique city because it has offered more than anticipated and expected.
Besides having official celebration of World Heritage Day on the 7th of July every year, the excitement is expanded into a month-long celebration, usually if not often, around the date of its inauguration, when George Town Festival takes the center stage and transforms this charming capital of Penang island into a world class arts space showcasing works such as performance, installations, and collaborations of arts, culture, heritage and community, connecting the old and the young, the local and the international, the traditional and the contemporary.
Penaga Hotel shows great support in arts. With its strategic location and connection with the genuine arts makers, a program named "Residence Artist" has provided many talented artists the opportunities to produce their work under Penaga Hotel's roof and sponsor. Artists are brought into this beautiful city to immerse, feel, and experience the joy that Penaga Hotel shares as a part of this wonderful place.
And their work will then be exhibited within the hotel premise for others to appreciate. Besides this, Penaga Hotel has its own in house artists too that constantly producing different art pieces hence it is truly an orchestra of mesmerizing artworks throughout the year at Penaga Hotel.
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At the same time, there are more to explore! Take up George Town Walks or Night Trail, enjoy An Evening of Lights at Khoo Kongsi, watch Armenian Street's Got Talent, follow the steps visit Sir Francis Light or Penang Botanical Garden, and many more!
The true beauty of arts is it moves through time without limitation and it is the bridge to all mankind without the barrier of words.
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Hogan's teen son arrested over car crash
Wrestler Hulk Hogan's son, who stars in the family's reality TV show "Hogan Knows Best," was arrested Wednesday and faces criminal charges over a car crash in which a passenger was critically injured.
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NEW YORK – Wrestler Hulk Hogan's son, who stars in the family's reality TV show "Hogan Knows Best," was arrested Wednesday and faces criminal charges over a car crash in which a passenger was critically injured.
Police said Nick Bollea, 17, turned himself in on a warrant related to an August 26 incident in which witnesses reported seeing two cars racing each other on wet roads in Clearwater, Florida, before one hit a tree.
"Based on the evidence and witness testimony, investigators have concluded that Bollea was operating his vehicle recklessly at the time of the crash and caused serious bodily injury to (passenger John) Graziano," said a statement from the police.
He is being charged with reckless driving involving serious bodily harm as well as being cited for three other offenses.
A second driver, Daniel Jacobs, 22, with whom police said Bollea was racing, is being issued a summons to appear in court for reckless driving although he was not believed to be a direct cause in the crash.
Bollea's father Hulk Hogan, whose real name is Terrence Bollea, said in a statement that the family were "saddened" that criminal charges have been filed and his son was being treated as an adult although he is only 17.
"Because Nick is still a juvenile and has no prior criminal record, we are disappointed that he is being charged as an adult offender," said a statement released by the family's lawyers.
"However, we are confident that the evidence will demonstrate that this was an accident."
Bollea was released on $10,000 bail.
The family said their main focus was the continued recovery of Bollea's longtime friend Graziano, an Iraq veteran, who was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the accident. Graziano has been reported to be on life support with brain injuries.
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Californians, Northeasterners express curiosity about battery electrics.
A creep upward in gas prices may be stimulating interest in EVs. A new survey shows some parts of the country are curious.
With the holiday weekend upon us, the inevitable creep of rising gas prices is beginning to force some motorists to wonder: when will be back to $4 a gallon gasoline? This kind of burbling concern can only make EV automakers giddy with anticipation.
In fact, on America's coasts, the demand for electric vehicles is still surprisingly high, even in an era of $2.28 a gallon gasoline.
Automakers continue scrambling to get piece of ride-sharing pie.
BMW now has skin in the ride-sharing game with its investment in California-based Scoop. The terms of the deal were not announced.
BMW has joined the list of automakers investing in car sharing and ride sharing apps.
Analysts expecting year-over-year drop this month.
Analysts expect that Fiat Chrysler, led by Jeep sales, will be one of the few makers posting positive results for May.
Guessing when car sales will begin to slip after what has been described as the longest expansion in Auto Sales in the U.S, going all the way back to World War II is proving hard to pin down.
Edmunds.com expects new car sales in May will increase 2.3% from April 2016, but drop 5.8% compared to May 2015. The Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate or SAAR will hold steady at 17.5 million.
Japanese airbag supplier planning to restructure, find new investors.
NHTSA recently added 40 million airbags to the recall.
Blamed for the largest safety recall in automotive history and facing potentially billions of dollars in legal and repair costs, embattled Japanese supplier Takata is reportedly exploring ways to restructure and bring in new investors.
Industry sources say that without new funding, Takata may no longer be viable. That could leave customers ranging such as General Motors, Daimler and Toyota stuck with the entire bill for replacing tens of millions of faulty airbags. It could also force nearly 20 manufacturers who have used Takata's suspect airbag inflators to go searching for new sources of replacement parts.
"The committee strongly believes that it is in the best interests of all Takata stakeholders for Takata and its automotive customers to reach a consensual resolution that addresses the costs of the inflator issues while enabling Takata to remain a viable and valued global supplier to the automotive industry," Hideaki Sudo, a lawyer in Tokyo heading Takata's new steering committee, said in a statement.
New site moves tech giant closer to possible customers.
Google is opening a development center in Novi, Michigan. This building will start work with 100 Chrysler Pacific minivans.
As it steadily moves closer to production, Google is planning to open a new autonomous vehicle development center in the Detroit suburb of Novi.
The move will offer several advantages. Among other things, it will allow the tech firm to work more closely with the partners that would put Google's self-driving technology into production. The announcement comes barely a month after Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Google announced plans to use the technology on 100 new Chrysler Pacifica minivans.
Newly minted alumni expect to spend less than $15K.
The 2010 Toyota Prius was rated as one of the top choices for new college grads looking for a used car for less than $15,000.
As the calendar hits late May, many new college graduates will be looking forward to kicking off their careers by getting out of their old set of wheels and into another, better vehicle.
A recent survey shows that most college graduates plan to spend $15,000 or less for a vehicle and more likely than not, it'll be used. In fact, of the 67% of those expecting to get a car, 57% plan to pay for the vehicle without any assistance from their parents.
Auto industry, in general, struggling to deal with high-tech problems.
A number of owners have reported problems with the Model S, including doors that won't open, bad chargers and faulty motors.
The good news is that automakers are loading up today's vehicles with more and more high-tech safety, performance and infotainment technology. The bad news is that these systems are generating more and more complaints from consumers frustrated by balky and poorly written software.
Smart, Tesla, Jaguar and Land Rover are three of the brands that are generating some of the highest number of complaints, according to a new study by J.D. Power and Associates. According to the research firm, the number of complaints about vehicle software filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have been growing rapidly in recent years, jumping 22% in 2015 alone.
Canadian forest fires cutting crude oil exports to U.S.
Canadian forest fires have cut exports of crude oil to the U.S., causing gas prices to rise to their highest average this year.
Gas prices are at their highest point for the year with the biggest jump in prices coming in the upper Midwest where the forest fires in the Canadian Tar Sand Region have crippled exports of crude oil to Midwestern refineries.
AAA noted in its weekly report on fuel prices that with the approach the Memorial Day holiday, the national average has increased for 12 days in a row an average of $2.28 per gallon is up six cents per gallon on the week and 15 cents per gallon on the month.


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"The Man Who Lived Underground reminds us that any 'greatest writers of the 20th century' list that doesn't start and end with Richard Wright is laughable. It might very well be Wright's most brilliantly crafted, and ominously foretelling, book." --Kiese Laymon
A major literary event: an explosive, previously unpublished novel about race and violence in America by the legendary author of Native Son and Black Boy
Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the city's sewer system.
This is the devastating premise of this scorching novel, a never-before-seen masterpiece by Richard Wright. Written between his landmark books Native Son (1940) and Black Boy (1945), at the height of his creative powers, it would see publication in Wright's lifetime only in drastically condensed and truncated form, and ultimately be included in the posthumous short story collection Eight Men (1961). Now, for the first time, by special arrangement with the author's estate, the full text of the work that meant more to Wright than any other ("I have never written anything in my life that stemmed more from sheer inspiration") is published in the form that he intended, complete with his companion essay, "Memories of My Grandmother." Malcolm Wright, the author's grandson, contributes an afterword.
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Richard Wright won international renown for his powerful and visceral depiction of the black experience. He stands today alongside such African-American luminaries as Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison, and two of his novels, Native Son and Black Boy, are required reading in high schools and colleges across the nation. He died in 1960.
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Toddler Dies After Being Released from Immigration Center
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A misguided immigration policy such as separating children from their parents, or incarcerating families for immigration violations, only spells further disaster. It is not in the best interest of this country and is a clear affront to human rights.
As sadly expected, reports have surfaced of alleged sexual abuse of minors while in the care of DHS contractors such as Southwest Key, forced medication of children and abysmal conditions within the facilities where they are warehoused.
Now, a mother is suing the federal government for $40 million over the death of her toddler, as a consequence of an untreated infection contracted inside the Dilley facility in South Texas.
Yazmin Suarez, a young Guatemalan mother, crossed the border seeking asylum in the U.S., only to be detained at the Dilley Family Detention Center along with her daughter, Mariee, in March 2018.
The Dilley Family Detention facility is the largest of three family detention centers for undocumented migrants in the country, with a capacity to house 2,400 people.
According to the story, 18-month-old Mariee developed an infection and respiratory symptoms due to unsanitary conditions at the center and the lack of appropriate medical care. She died of viral pneumonitis six weeks after being released from the facility, according to an early report from VICE NEWS.
Lawyers now handling the lawsuit against the federal government said Mariee contracted a respiratory infection that went undertreated for nearly a month. The toddler rebounded but suffered setbacks, and when it was clear that she was not getting better, ICE released both mother and child.
Yazmin sought immediate medical treatment for her daughter, who was hospitalized until she was unhooked from a respirator at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where she died.
Although some doctors have testified that ICE records of care are consistent with a normal course of action for the disease, advocates are quick to point out that the conditions of mass incarceration for families put individuals at medical risk.
"Respiratory diseases flourish in the setting of crowding," said Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. "Now you're adding this terrible level of psycho-social stress on kids that could also impair their immune system, making them more susceptible to viruses and bacteria."
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Thelotornis capensis – gatunek afrykańskiego węża z rodziny połozowatych.

Systematyka
W obrębie gatunku wyróżnia się 4 podgatunki. Jednakże status jednego z nich, Thelotornis capensis schilsi, nie jest pewny, bowiem różnice pomiędzy nim a Thelotornis capensis mossambicanus, przejawiające się między innymi w długości ogona i jego pokryciu łuskami, są bardzo nieznaczne. Z kolei T. capensis mossambicanus rozdziela się nieraz na 2 oddzielne podgatunki, wydzielając z niego T. capenis usambaricus.

Zwierzęta te od dawna zalicza się do rodziny połozowatych. Starsze źródła również umieszczają Thelotornis w tej samej rodzinie Colubridae, używając jednak dawniejszej polskojęzycznej nazwy: wężowate albo węże właściwe. Poza tym Colubridae zaliczają do infrapodrzędu Caenophidia, czyli węży wyższych. W obrębie rodziny rodzaj Thelotornis należy natomiast do podrodziny Colubrinae.

Rozmieszczenie geograficzne
Thelotornis capensis zahacza swym zasięgiem występowania o liczne państwa leżące w Afryce:
 Angola
 Botswana
 Burundi
 Eswatini
 Kenia
 Malawi
 Mozambik
 Namibia
 Południowa Afryka
 Somalia
 Tanzania
 Zambia
 Zimbabwe

Zagrożenia i ochrona
Węża tego generalnie spotyka się rzadko, choć w niektórych rejonach występuje on pospolicie. Dla przykładu wymienić można rezerwat Amani. Nie istnieją poważne zagrożenia dla gatunku.

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Połozowate
Łuskonośne Afryki
Gatunki i podgatunki zwierząt nazwane w 1942 roku

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Little Mermaid: Jacob Tremblay & Awkwafina in Talks for Live-Action Movie
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Jacob Tremblay (Wonder, Doctor Sleep, Good Boys) and Awkwafina (Crazy Rich Asians, Jumanji: The Next Level, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance) are in talks to star in Disney's Little Mermaid live-action movie adaptation, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
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Tremblay would play Flounder, Ariel's best friend, who is a fish, while Awkwafina would play Scuttle, the seagull friend of the red-headed princess. The duo would join Melissa McCarthy in the feature, who is also in talks to play the role of Ursula.
Mary Poppins Returns director Rob Marshall will helm the film which features a script by David Magee (Life of Pi, Mary Poppins Returns). No stranger to musicals, or working for Disney, Marshall was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for his feature film debut, Chicago. Since then, he's helmed the likes of Memoirs of a Geisha and Nine. Marshall has also made his last three films at Disney, including Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Into the Woods, and the Poppins sequel.
For their new version of The Little Mermaid, Disney is pairing Lin-Manuel Miranda and Alan Menken to create a blend of old and new songs that will be featured in the upcoming big screen version. Miranda and Marshall also worked together on Mary Poppins Returns.
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Disney's animated The Little Mermaid made over $211 million at the box office and became a bestseller on home video, popularizing songs like "Under The Sea" and "Part of Your World." Based on Hans Christian Andersen's Danish fairy tale, it tells the story of a 16-year-old mermaid princess named Ariel who longs to be human.


As new ingredients and ethnic flavors are introduced to consumers, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages undergo changes in trends.
Symrise collected the top beverage trends for 2016, introducing a variety of new flavors and a potentially new beverage category.
Latin spirits—Beverages, like Brazilian Cachaça, are derived from pressed cane sugar and used in cocktails with ingredients such as guava and lemon.
Zest, spice and everything nice—With ingredients such as nutmeg, cardamom, Thai chile, cumin, coriander, cloves, cinnamon and hot pepper leaving a footprint with ethnic cuisines, these ingredients are now favored in drinks, helping to add heat into alcoholic beverages.
Fresh-squeezed juice blends—Cocktail lounges around the country will find mixologists experimenting with combinations of carrot, orange, parsnip, turmeric, lemon and ginger shrub with alcoholic beverages such as gin, triple sec and kummel.
Pinkies up—An interest in the classics has risen and traditional cocktails, such as mojitos, martinis, Manhattans, cosmopolitans and the old fashioned are popular projections.
Low-calorie sensations—Katy Carter of Cellar Trends, a UK distributor of alcoholic beverages, researched and found 25% of cocktail drinkers choose a low-calorie or no-calorie option when available. Low-calorie or non-alcoholic drinks are growing with popularity and have potential to create a new beverage category.
Add the "ability" in sustainability—Sustainably sourced ingredients in meal shakes, especially vegan shakes, are beginning to see more love from consumers who are fans of sustainable food technology.
Savory>sugar—Various sources are noting a decline in sugary drinks and an increase in savory flavor drinks. Developers should be on the lookout for fermented flavors, vinegar and pickled juices combined with other juice ingredients.
Sweet wines—Moscatos and Rieslings are growing in popularity with millennial.
The year for beer—Heading further into 2016, 27% of all beer produced will be labeled as, "craft beer" and India pale ale will remain a popular brew to sip.
"You're killin' me smalls!"—Starbucks is releasing "shake shooters," which is looking to become a fad quickly among other chains and consumer products. The shooters are smaller, fewer in calories and cheaper than the average 10-ounce drinks.


What a whirlwind seven months it's been!
Through all the ups and down, I wouldn't change it for the world. My only regret is, why didn't I do this years ago?!?!? I guess I was too stuck in my own ways. After all, everyone around around me drinks alcohol. Frequently drinking and / or boasting about big nights out has become normalised… socialising centers around alcohol in our Kiwi boozing culture. So I guess I was quite blinded by it. But that was my fault for being a follower and not questioning it, too.
To 'reward' myself for getting to seven months, I registered for a meditation retreat. It's here in New Zealand and not until November. But I'm hugely excited at the prospect. I've never been on a meditation retreat before so somewhat apprehensive as well! And what's more exciting is that it didn't cost me anything because the booze money that I've been saving has paid for it! Yes! This retreat was paid for with money I've saved since my Sober Vegas Vacation (also fully funded by saving my drinking money). I'll let you know how it goes.
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This is fantastic! So happy you are at 7 months and doing great! And what an amazing opportunity to go on a meditation retreat! Go you!
Thanks for your lovely message. When things get a bit hard, it's messages of love and support like yours that help keep me positive and focussed.
What a fabulous treat for you! Don't worry the culture in the U.S. is equally centered around alcohol not just in N.Z. I look forward to hearing about the retreat…peace, quiet and nature how lovely! Yoga too maybe? Take your binoculars for birdwatching – one of my favorite pastimes! Congratulations to you! You are something special!
Seven months! That's great! Congratulations!
Congratulations on 7 months!!! 🎉🎉🎉 The meditation retreat sounds AWESOME! Can't wait to hear about it!
Such immense hugs and congratulations to you.
A mediation retreat would be awesome!
I think it would help me jump start my mediation practice!
Thank you for sharing your wonderful journey!
Yay! I'm so glad you liked it! Ha ha, I wasn't exaggerating when I said it changed my life! It's one of those books that should be required reading for everyone. Up there with Rework, Essentialism, and Die Empty. Ha ha, if you ever need another book recommendation, let me know!
Oh my goodness, I could recommend books all day! Ha ha, I love reading and sharing things I've read! I have a list of recommended books on my blog (on the Things That Changed My Life page) or you can friend me on Goodreads (Jennilyn Gaitan) and I have several recommendations shelves (Fiction recommends, Kids recommends, Business recommends, etc recommends). Ha ha, reading beats TV hands down!
Awesome reason for a retreat! Enjoy!
Bring back some useful information on meditation. I could use the help.
Will do my absolute best Lamar, it's the least I can do given what you've shared with me. How are you, are you okay?
I love my sobriety clock… it counts how much $$ I've saved by not drinking.
Oh the clock, isn't the money aspect amazing! A little scary how the dollars clock up … but isn't it exciting to use it for alternative, positive things!
What a perfect reward! Congratulations for 7 months!


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"30x17" is the City of New York's energy efficiency and greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction plan to achieve the ambitious goal set forth in PlaNYC to reduce municipal GHG emissions 30 percent by 2017. The 30x17 effort is managed by the New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services Energy Management group (DCAS Energy Management) and is expected to reduce municipal GHG emissions 1.05 million metric tons from the base year of 2006.(1) Emission reductions will come from a variety of municipal operations, including fleet, solid waste management, street lighting and wastewater treatment plants, but the majority of the reductions will come from improvements to the City's existing building stock through the retrofitting of inefficient building systems and the implementation of best practices around operations and maintenance. Additional GHG emissions reductions will come from the installation of clean energy solutions, such as distributed generation and solar photovoltaic, described below.
Fifty-seven percent of the municipal GHG emission reductions are expected to come from energy efficiency upgrades to building systems and improved operations and maintenance (O&M) practices. The City uses energy benchmarking scores to prioritize the most inefficient buildings for energy audits, which result in recommendations for retrofit measures such as improvements to lighting, heating, ventilation and cooling (HVAC) systems. The City's O&M program focuses on no- and low-cost tasks to reduce building energy consumption (e.g., scheduling of systems, turning off lights, tuning up boilers), preventative maintenance procedures, training and outreach, as well as transparency and accountability. To read about current and completed projects at a variety of City buildings, visit DCAS Energy Management Case Studies.
In addition to improving the efficiency of existing energy systems, the City is also implementing a number of projects that use clean or renewable energy, also known as distributed generation (DG). DG projects include fuel cells, solar photovoltaic (PV), wind technologies, and Combined Heat and Power (CHP), which uses excess thermal energy generated from electricity to heat water. For more information about the City's distributed generation and renewable energy projects, visit DCAS Clean & Alternative Energy.
Government facilities also provide a unique opportunity for the City to test new "green" technologies. For example, the City has partnered with private green technology companies to pilot new products in municipal buildings through the Municipal Entrepreneurial Testing System.


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Eric O'Neill, a computer specialist who wants to be made an agent is assigned to clerk for Robert Hanssen, a senior agent with 25 years in the FBI, and to write down everything Hanssen does. O'Neill's told it's an investigation of Hanssen's sexual habits, however Hanssen is really suspected of spying for the Soviet Union and Russia for years and being responsible for the deaths of agents working for the United States.
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When Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by ruthless familial betrayal and Spain's invading army, she and her shrewd adviser must act to safeguard to the lives of her people.
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Albert Fish, the horrific true story of elderly cannibal, sadomasochist, and serial killer, who lured children to their deaths in Depression-era New York City. Distorting biblical tales, Albert Fish takes…
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Fresh out of prison, Pat Tate steps right back into his Essex nightclub. But still disgruntled, he soon sets out to Marbelle to revenge those that put him away for…
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using…
Ripped from the headlines: at the Olympics held in America (Atlanta, Georgia, to be exact) in 1996, security guard Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands,…
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It tells the story of Romulus, his beautiful wife, Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is a story of…
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An ambitious young FBI agent is assigned to investigate iconic actress Jean Seberg when she becomes embroiled in the tumultuous civil rights movement in late 1960s Los Angeles.
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Daffodils (2019)
Daffodils is a bittersweet love story told with beautiful re-imaginings of the most iconic New Zealand pop songs from artists like Crowded House and Bic Runga.
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An American Crime (2007)
The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.
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Hell on the Border (2019)
This epic, action-packed Western tells the incredible true story of Bass Reeves, the first black marshal in the Wild West. Having escaped from slavery after the Civil War, he arrives…
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Brian Banks (2018)
An All-American football player's dreams to play in the NFL are halted when he is falsely accused of rape and sent to prison.
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American car designer Carroll Shelby and the British-born driver Ken Miles work together to battle corporate interference, the laws of physics, and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary…
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The story of Harriet Tubman, who helped free hundreds of slaves from the South after escaping from slavery herself in 1849.
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A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.
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Bombshell is a revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time; and the explosive story of the women who brought down the infamous man who…
American Gangster (2007)
Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so…
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In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian…
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I'm Not There. (2007)
Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon and revealing how…
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Western
Control is the biography of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis, taking his story from schoolboy days of 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American…
Country: Australia, France, Japan, UK, USA
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A Mighty Heart (2007)
Based on Mariane Pearl's account of the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl's life and death.
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Chapter 27 (2007)
The movie takes place in the three days leading up to Lennon's murder and is intended to be an exploration of Chapman's psyche, without putting substantial emphasis on the murder….
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Ride Like a Girl (2019)
The story of Michelle Payne, the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup.
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Q: Gitkraken missing menubar(toolbar) I have been using gitkraken for quite a while right now.However I noticed that after v2.5 the top menu bar which includes minimize close button is missing.As a result I cannot minimize or close gitkraken.If I want to switch to another application I have to press Alt+Tab .I am using ubuntu 17.04 budgie remix.
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Any ideas?

A: Finally after contacting gitkraken support the solution has been found.
It seems that GitKraken was in full screen mode
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The final revised version of the policy—which removed language prioritizing the protection of students' rights—was never shown to the Student Affairs Committee for approval.
The policy, voted on and passed last April after contentious debate, forbids all romantic and sexual relationships between undergraduates and faculty, staff, and teaching assistants. After the April plenary, however, the undergraduate-led resolution underwent revision as it circulated through seven different Senate committees between April and June by the use of "summer powers," which permits the Senate to revise policies after they have been publicly passed.
The final revised version—which removed language prioritizing the protection of students' rights—was never shown to the student affairs committee for approval. Revisions included the removal of the line, "At all times, the institutional response shall keep the student's educational aims and needs foremost," a move that School of Social Work senator David Cheng objected to at Sunday's plenary.
Confusion throughout the Senate over the disappearance of this language reflected a lack of transparency and effective communication between Senate general council and Senate subcommittees. Senators voiced doubts regarding the purpose of the University Senate and a plenary vote given that any policy may be revised after it is passed.
"If the senate approves something, but if it goes back to [make] changes that senators weren't informed of, what's the point of us voting for anything?" Cheng said.
SEAS senator Zoha Qamar said the revisions seem "insidious" to undergraduate students, particularly as they excluded undergraduate input despite the fact that the policy was spearheaded by the SAC.
"Every sentence is substantive. The words matter because they are legal concerns," Qamar said.
Members of the faculty affairs committee—the other subcommittee involved in drafting the original policy—also expressed being unclear about the revision process.
"Somewhere along the line, not all connections were made. We all agreed in faculty committee this was not the version we voted on," said co-chair of the faculty affairs committee Letty Moss-Salentijn.
College of Physicians and Surgeons senator Richard Smiley questioned whether the changes were intended to protect Columbia against lawsuits, noting that the office of the general counsel must approve changes in University legislation.
"For all I know, that sentence went because general counsel decided that had too much liability for the University, because it was too high a bar to always put the student's education first. ... If they said, '[the line] really is a little too dangerous to have out there because someone could sue us on that basis, we're gonna get rid of it,' then that's not okay [to change] after it's passed," Smiley said.
Despite anger and confusion voiced at the plenary, Senate Moderator and Senior Vice Dean at School of Professional Studies Sharyn O'Halloran said that the Senate priority for the semester should be creating policies on relationships between graduate students and faculty members, especially given an impending graduate student strike. The student and faculty affairs committees are currently developing a similar policy for graduate students.
Also at the plenary, ombuds officer Joan Waters presented the Ombuds Office Annual Report, which revealed statistics regarding faculty, staff, and student visits to the office. According to the report, Ombuds has seen a 69 percent visitor increase since April of 2014, and between April 2017 and March 2018, 73 percent of visits were at Morningside, and 63 percent were female.
The report additionally found that the top areas of stress across the University were financial issues, faculty unresponsiveness, medical leaves of absence, and housing issues, among others. Ninety-nine percent of all visitors surveyed said they trusted the office to maintain confidentiality and would refer others to the service.


Bunker, a San Francisco-based "digital business insurance platform" startup, announced a $6 million Series A funding round in addition to the full commercial launch of its services platform. The round was led by Omidyar Network and included Comcast Ventures and Route 66 Ventures. Bunker raised $2 million of seed funding less than a year ago.
Bunker, founded in 2015 to deliver an entirely new small business insurance buying experience, is a licensed insurance broker in all 50 states and works closely leading insurance carriers in building new and unique products, according to the press release. Bunker's insurance marketplace for contractors, and the businesses that use them, enables the delivery of "the exact business insurance policies at the moment they're needed." Two of the three Bunker founders have substantial insurance industry product and distribution experience.
But Bunker is not just another wide-eyed, capital slurping startup in the contingent workforce and services space. It is one that should be of immediate, practical interest to indirect and services procurement practitioners who are or will increasingly be sourcing, engaging and managing the risk of individual or microbusiness contractors.
Organizations of all kinds require that their independent contractors carry various forms of business insurance (e.g., general liability, professional liability, worker's compensation, auto liability, criminal and even cyberliability).
Independent contractors, as such, have been around for a while, as have inadequate insurance purchase options (products and point of sale). Not being able to find and secure the right coverage is detrimental both for contractors and organizations.
Now, in the context of the so-called gig economy, where more critical talent is choosing to work independently, the business insurance gap discussed above will widen. This is a pain point Bunker, however, has begun to address.
Bunker is not just closing up a major gap in the insurance marketplace — which will benefit contract workers, small suppliers and the business — it is necessarily making that happen through significant innovation. When we talked with Nitschke in January, he shared with us some innovative paths Bunker was pursuing for usage-based insurance and a workers comp surrogate.
As we have noted elsewhere, contingent workforce and services procurement practitioners are beginning to face a dazzling array of new sourcing options and opportunities that have the potential to benefit their organizations and make the lives of their business users easier and more productive. Innovative value propositions often originate from startups, of which there are many. Understanding which of these new providers has something to offer that solves a real problem today and will solve more tomorrow is not only time-consuming — it's actually impossible. Bunker, however, is one you can put on your shortlist to check out.
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Vail Today: Man of the Cliff event in Avon not just for the guys; women toss the tools, too (video)
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Throwing axes and tossing kegs may sound like a man's job, but at Man of the Cliff the ladies were a big part of the annual fall event held at Nottingham Lake in Avon on Oct. 14 and 15.In its ninth year, Man of the Cliff now draws people from across the region, and women are stepping up and tossing anything from axes to hammers — and they're sometimes beating the guys."Almost every event is more about finesse then strength, so a lot of the women do very well," said Amanda Williams, who co-founded the event with her husband, Adam. "We always made sure there were different accommodations for women such as having the hammer be a little lighter in weight in the hammer throw event. Same thing for the keg toss, so it's a little easier as far as the strength portion, but it's still all about finesse."Katie Kennedy has participated in the event for eight years and has taken home the top prize two years in a row."The top male competitor gets a chain saw, and I get a barbeque smoker," Kennedy said.Kennedy encourages other women to try it."Everybody is here to help you learn how to shoot a bow or get the rotation on your hatchet. Just come out and give it a shot, nobody is here to judge, we're just here to have fun," Kennedy said.Man of the Cliff gives 100 percent of proceeds to First Descents, a nonprofit started in the Vail Valley in 2001 that provides life-changing outdoor adventures for young adults impacted by cancer."We are so thankful for what Adam and Amanda Williams and all the volunteers and participants have created," said Ray Shedd, director of development and marketing for First Descents. "The vision for the event is to get some new partners on board, raise some more revenue, but I think it's important to keep its grassroots nature, that's what makes it so special."Visit http://www.manofthecliff.com to learn more and put the event on your calendar for next October.


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Imam Hussain b. 'Ali – The model for humankind
Dr. Liyakat Takim- McMaster University History bears testimony to the fact that thirty years after the death of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) in 632 A.D, the Umayyad dynasty came to power. They ruled the Islamic empire with...
Why does the story of Karbala live forever?
Anonymus Countless tragedies, disasters, and catastrophes, both recorded and unrecorded, have struck the world since the beginning of time. The tragedy of Karbala is one of them but its story is the most remarkable of them all. It is remarkable...
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The event of Karbala marks the greatest sacrifice for the sake of God in the human history. The minute and stunning details of this great event have been written and survived from the very first day by the eye...
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By Mr. Michael Muhammad Knight Michael Muhammad Knight is an American novelist, essayist, and journalist. His writings are popular among American Muslim youth. Within the American Muslim community, he has earned a reputation as an ostentatious cultural provocateur. He obtained a...
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Updated Apr 8, 2019 - Politics & Policy
Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen resigns
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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has resigned, President Trump tweeted Sunday.
"Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen will be leaving her position, and I would like to thank her for her service. I am pleased to announce that Kevin McAleenan, the current U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner, will become Acting Secretary for @DHSgov. I have confidence that Kevin will do a great job!"
Behind the scenes: A source close to DHS told Axios that Nielsen would be having a showdown with the president on Sunday night.
"Frustrations were building on both sides," the source said. "She was undercut at every turn. She's done everything she can do. The White House is eating their own."
CBS' Paula Reid reported earlier Sunday that Nielsen was "expected to resign" in her meeting with Trump that night, but Trump's ambiguous wording reflects the predictably messy end to this relationship, which was formalized in a meeting in the White House residence.
It may well be that Nielsen was the one who formally resigned — but the formalities don't really matter. Trump has wanted Nielsen gone for months because he believes she's "weak" on immigration, per multiple sources with direct knowledge of the president's thinking.
The big picture: It's been a tortured relationship from the beginning, with Trump blaming Nielsen for every problem at the southern border and for the recent spike in families coming from Northern Triangle countries. Trump has long felt that Nielsen isn't "tough enough" when it comes to defending the border and kicking illegal immigrants out of the U.S., according to sources who've discussed the subject with the president.
During her tenure, Nielsen was put in the position of having to defend the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy that resulted in thousands of migrant children being separated from their families, for which she was often maligned in the media and by Democratic lawmakers.
In January, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) formally requested that the FBI investigate whether Nielsen lied under oath when she told Congress in December 2018, "We've never had a policy for family separation."
The latest: Nielsen said in a tweet Sunday night she had agreed to stay on as homeland security secretary until Wednesday "to assist with an orderly transition and ensure that key DHS missions are not impacted."
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This is the Darby Flower. It's good. Damn good, actually. And it's mine.
Go ahead, look up the name, you won't find it. Look up the combination of ingredients and proportions. You won't find a cocktail that matches (at least I didn't). If you do, let me know and I'll give credit where credit is due. Until then, it's mine, baby. All mine.
I came up with the drink back in March while taking a bartending class taught by Derek Brown -- bartender, writer, cocktail historian and all around nice guy.
Brown is the head bartender at The Gibson, and an ambassador for the Museum of the American Cocktail (OK, I don't really know what that means, but it's a pretty neat title). The man knows from a cocktail. If you get a chance to take the class he teaches at CulinAerie, do it. Even if you know the difference between a pony and a jigger, you'll learn something the guy's class.
The three part course wrapped up with Brown pairing us off into groups to invent a new cocktail, which would be judged by Brown, chef and CulinAerie co-owner Susan Watterson and Going Out Guru Fritz Hahn. In the back of the classroom were our implements: a table full of liquors, bitters, fruit and mixers. The only rule was we had to use gin (Hendricks).
Before we got started, Brown gave us the pep talk: it's very difficult to invent a cocktail. First of all, you have to concoct something that people will want to drink. Secondly, it has to be an original combination of ingredients and proportions. Therein lays the problem. Bartenders have been mixing drinks for a long time, so coming up with one that someone else hasn't already made is daunting. As Brown tells it, every time he thinks he's come up with a new libation, he inevitably stumbles upon "his" recipe in some dusty old cocktail book.
With that boost of confidence, he set us lose to achieve what he has not (so far).
As I considered the table of ingredients trying to figure out a plan, I noticed the pint of little orange kumquats. Growing up in Florida … No, growing up in Dade City, Florida, I am familiar with the kumquat, an oblong citrus fruit whose name may well be better than its flavor. Most of the kumquats you see at the grocery store came from dear old Dade City. (Our gift to you. No thanks necessary.) When I was a kid, everyone I knew hated these things. The tiny, tart fruits made better projectiles than snacks.
So when I saw the pint of kumquats, I knew I had to use them, if for no other reason than a laugh. Besides, it wasn't as if I was keeping them from anyone else. Brown also provided a bottle of elderflower cordial, a French liquor that I had absolutely no experience with.
With ridiculous fruit in one hand and an unknown spirit in the other, my two teammates and I set off to make a mess, but came away with a winner. Of course, that was after several rounds of questionable cocktails. I'd mix one and my teammates would taste on comment (usually the looks on their faces said enough). By the sixth or seventh iteration, we knew we were on to something. The tartness of the kumquat juice was balanced by the sweetness of its zest, the elderflower and the simple syrup. The drink was rounded out by the gin (drier the better) and a few dashes of Angostura bitters. All in all, it was -- and is -- a pretty solid cocktail.
As pleased as I am with the result, the drink really is the product of pure dumb luck. But, boy dumb luck tastes good.
Like I said, this bartending class was back in March, which wasn't exactly the ideal time of year to enjoy a refreshingly sweet, tart cocktail. Now that it's June and we're just starting to climb toward the 90s, the Darby Flower is ready for its public debut. (Incidentally, the name is a combination of Darby, the tiny area near Dade City my family moved to way back when, and flower, for the elderflower in the drink).
Combine the ingredients in a shaker, including the juiced kumquats, and muddle. Add ice, stir, shake (Yup, both. Trust me.) and serve neat with a thin slice of orange or a twist.
Yum! Can't wait to try it - and why do I want to try it? Because, one of the names I have picked out for my future child is Darby. Thanks for posting and I'm looking forward to taking the course at CulinAerie which is very close to my home.
That's fantastic, Hedda. I hope you enjoy the drink and the class.
quick question about the Elderflower cordial. Is it the liqueur (like St. Germain) or the non-alcoholic concoction from a brand like belvoir? can't wait to try this.
Good question, PFM. St. Germain was the brand I used for this recipe, but any brand of elderflower liqueur is fine. The real variable is the gin. Because there are a few sweet components in the cocktail, a drier gin works best (Beefeater, Bombay Dry or Old Raj Dry). So steer clear of sweeter products like Old Tom, and the herbal gins, like Tanqueray, Rogue, or G'Vine. The middle of the road gins like Hendrick's, Plymouth and Junipero would also work just fine.
Interesting, this drink is not in my 1001 drinks book but will definately have to try it.


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Last night, Lori make a quick and also high-class meal: Stuffed Pork tenderloin. Not only did it look awesome, but the flavors were amazing! This dish truly is simplicity at its finest! Only 5-10 minutes to assemble and 40 minutes to bake! Easy enough for a weeknight meal (you could be helping with homework or catching up on laundry) but special enough for a weekend dish with friends.
Now just stuff and bake!
Remove pork tenderloin from packaging; lay on cutting board.
Carefully butterfly the tenderloin by cutting horizontally down the middle of the meat being careful to not cut all the way through.
Layer the spinach, sun dried tomatoes, and cheese on one half.
Fold the outer half over stuffing and secure both halves with toothpicks.
Bake at 350 degrees for 40-45 minutes or until meat thermometer reads 145-150 degrees.
Slice tenderloin so that each piece has filling ingredients.
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The lakes of central New York state dot and nestle next to the Adirondacks. The lakes supported nearby forests that produced enough wild game and foliage to feed many, so it was on the banks of the Cayuga and Owasco lakes that the Cayuga tribe made its home. Fitting that Cayuga means "where the boats were taken out of the water."
The forests also provided enough bark and wood materials for the Cayuga to create the arched, multifamily long houses for dwelling. They would take parallel rows of small tree trunks, arc them and tie them together in the center of the arc. Then the skeletal structure would be covered with elm or other bark.
Though the lands were ripe for farming and neighboring tribes did so, the Cayuga chose to be hunter/gatherers instead. In the spring, they tapped maple trees for sap they turned into syrup and sugar, storing it troughs of bark for year-round use.
Deerskin was the source for dress - breechcloths for men and short deerskin shirts for women in summer, with moccasins and capes added for warmth in winter.
January marks a month of ceremony for the Cayuga, including one eight-day event in which the False Face Society engages in healings. The "false faces" are actually carved wooden masks that depict the spirits seen in life and in dreams. The masks contain medicine of their own, they must never be left alone in dark, confined spaces and are honored by having tobacco burned inside them as an offering. The members of the False Face Society who wear the masks are said to have special powers themselves.
The Cayuga joined with the Seneca, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk and Tuscarora as the junior member of the League of Six Nations, or Iroquois Confederacy. The Confederacy was formed sometime between 1400 and 1600, the brainchild of Deganawide, a Huron mystic, and Hiawatha, a disciple of Deganawide. Its intent was to unite neighboring tribes which would stop intertribal warring. Before the addition of the Cayuga to make six nations, the high chiefs of the original five decided on a set of laws and customs that would govern the Six Nations. This worked well until the turmoil of the Revolutionary War divided the tribes once again, and shortly after the end of the war thing were so bad a vote was taken and the harmonious council fires were extinguished.
During the 1600 and 1700s members of the Six Nations fought against the French to preserve the fur trade. All six member nations tried very hard to remain neutral during the Revolutionary War but eventually the British won them over and they fought against the Americans, who as a result burned Cayuga villages to the ground following the war.
By 1789 the new white government of New York wanted the Cayuga land and the Cayuga gone. The tribe was offered money in exchange for their land, so they signed a treaty and moved to the Seneca reservation already in place on the western side of the state, or to Canada. Though they upheld their end of the deal, the Cayuga were never paid for their lands. Nothing came with the signing of the treaty, not even an explanation. Later the state made two payments and then stopped paying on the grounds the Cayuga were living on another tribe's land or were out of the country in Canada.
To this day the tribe still petitions the state for due payment, and descendants of those originally owed live in New York and Canada.


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These are the 47 books I read in 2010. (Previous lists can be found using these links: 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003)
The books are listed in the order I read them, oldest first, except for the 3 fiction books which I listed separately at the bottom. My favorite books were #'s 13, 18, 23, 34, 43, and 44.
1. The United States of Arugula: The Sun Dried, Cold Pressed, Dark Roasted, Extra Virgin Story of the American Food Revolution, David Kamp
2. Making the Corps, Thomas E. Ricks
3. Faith Under Fire: An Army Chaplain's Memoir, Roger Benimoff
4. The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment, A.J. Jacobs
5. Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession, Julie Powell
6. Government Girl: Young and Female in the White House, Stacy Parker Aab
7. Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska, Miranda Weiss
8. Love My Rifle More than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army, Kayla Williams
9. Prairie Tale, Melissa Gilbert
10. The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, Gretchen Rubin
11. Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles, Anthony Swofford
12. Babylon by Bus: Or, the true story of two friends who gave up their valuable franchise selling YANKEES SUCK T-shirts at Fenway to find meaning and adventure in Iraq, Ray LeMoine and Jeff Neumann
13. Catch Me If You Can, Frank Abagnale
14. Paper Daughter: A Memoir, M. Elaine Mar
15. Special Agent: My Life on the Front Lines as a Woman in the FBI, Candice DeLong
16. Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated, Alison Arngrim
17. The Primal Blueprint: Reprogram Your Genes for Effortless Weight Loss, Vibrant Health, and Boundless Energy, Mark	Sisson
18. Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison, Piper Kerman
19. My Life from Scratch: A Sweet Journey of Starting Over, One Cake at a Time, Gesine Bullock-Prado
20. Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China, Jen Lin-Liu
21. Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China, Fuchsia Dunlop
22. Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook, Anthony Bourdain
23. The Year of the Goat: 40,000 Miles and the Quest for the Perfect Cheese, Margaret Hathaway
24. Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves, Crystal Renn
25. The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible, A.J. Jacobs
26. Someone Will Be with You Shortly: Notes from a Perfectly Imperfect Life, Lisa Kogan
27. No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process, Colin Beavan
28. Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology, Eric Brende
29. Bound Feet and Western Dress: A Memoir, Pang-Mei Chang
30. At Home in Japan: A Foreign Woman's Journey of Discovery, Rebecca Otowa
31. Petite Anglaise: In Paris. In Love. In Trouble, Catherine Sanderson
32. I Am Hutterite: The Fascinating True Story of a Young Woman's Journey to Reclaim Her Heritage, Mary-Ann Kirkby
33. The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich, Timothy Ferriss
34. The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: An American Journalist in Yemen, Jennifer Steil
35. The Art of Eating In: How I Learned to Stop Spending and Love the Stove, Cathy Erway
36. Devotion: A Memoir, Dani Shapiro
37. Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put On My Pajamas & Found Happiness, Dominique Browning
38. Bento Box in the Heartland: My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America, Linda Furiya
39. Stealing Buddha's Dinner, Bich Minh Nguyen
40. The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food, Jennifer 8. Lee
41. Alternadad: The True Story of One Family's Struggle to Raise a Cool Kid in America, Neal Pollack
42. Lost on Planet China: One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation, J. Maarten Troost
43. Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain, Portia de Rossi
44. Whip Smart: A Memoir, Melissa Febos
47. Little Bee, Chris Cleave
Books Read in January 2015


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Women's Work: A Reckoning with Work and Home
Posted on October 8, 2019 by gailcornwall
Megan K. Stack's "private problems are no doubt duplicated in households all over our planet. And yet housework is seldom considered as a serious subject for study, or even discussion." This, writes the Betty Friedan of our generation, "is an injustice on a grand scale."
Women's Work is not just about housework. Equal parts memoir and manifesto, the book uses the stories of four women who "stumbled through a house that was also a job site" to tackle motherhood, marriage, and other tidy, manageable topics like exploitation, poverty, gender, and the human condition. "Our routines were disrupted by pregnancies, abortions, miscarriages, weddings, domestic violence, funerals, sick children, and school fees. Mine, theirs. The stuff of women the world over. We lived together in the space left by men who were temporarily elsewhere."
It is a beautiful, horrifying reflection of domesticity rendered in prose that's just the right amount stark and ornate in turn. "Imagine you are so tired your face feels like permanent putty and you cry at the slightest provocation and, in general, you are about as raw and crumbly as the flesh of a pale white mushroom with its skin rubbed away," Stack writes, putting words to a state known intimately to sleep-deprived parents the world over. Some of them will also be familiar with the woman described by an unflinchingly introspective Stack: "I lived in terror of waking the baby, and I shared this terror with deliverymen, houseguests, and anybody else who made the strategic error of existing in the vicinity of my sleeping child."
Descriptions like these are where any analysis of Women's Work must begin. "Crescent stains of fatigue hung below her eyes," she writes. "On those long afternoons of early summer, when our rooms steamed and thickened in the slanting sun, Pooja's sadness hung like laundry that wouldn't dry," she writes. She writes of "anger so hot it could sterilize a wound" and a husband "dragging his eyes from his computer with the air of a disgruntled student forcing himself to contribute to class discussion for the sake of his final grade." She writes, and I see and feel.
I haven't hired full-time help like Stack, just a babysitter a few hours a week and once every two someone to clean. And yet, I recognize myself and my experience in her words. I too "assumed that, to the extent that our lives would be exploded [by having children], the disruption would be evenly shared." My family also slipped into a troubling status quo: "It began with biology—I'd been pregnant, then breastfeeding. I'd been a physical necessity, which had been a role of exquisite privilege and total destruction. And somehow my rarified status stayed unchanged even as the babies grew. The habits we'd all adopted—my centrality, the children's dependence, [my husband's] slight remove—had stuck."
Those parts of her story that didn't bring my own past emotions rushing back still resonated deeply thanks to Stack's ability to tell a story both evocatively and self-critically: "I didn't even know her full name, and I don't think she knew mine. She called me Excuse Me." Of a housekeeper who became pregnant, Stack says: "I promised myself I would not pressure her to add to her load, and I didn't. At least, I don't think I did. The best I can say for myself is, I could have been worse, and she wasn't expecting anything better." Of the entire endeavor, she writes: "I had loved Xiao Li, and she had loved my baby. To write about her was to walk an uncertain line between exploitation and truth."
In only a few places did this self-awareness seem to falter. "She had to work long days in my rooms, fine, but she wouldn't let me congratulate myself as her benefactor," Stack writes, and I cringed. (Though that may very well have been the point, as Stack repeatedly offers herself up as an effigy of white privilege.) I also found something indelicate about how Stack describes her employees' offspring: "The children of Mary and Pooja and Xiao Li had to trade like grown-ups, and their trade was the most brutal of all: they got money, but they grew up without mothers." On the one hand, she again acknowledges her privilege and its cost to others. On the other, the critique is firmly grounded in the American nuclear family model.
I also got the feeling Stack lost steam a little near the end, with the penultimate portion of the book less finely crafted than the rest, but these minor criticisms are offered in the manner of a diamond jeweler whose job it is to find flaws amid overwhelming brilliance. Not many people can write like Stack. Not many can step outside themselves and think like her. The two strengths together produce a must-read not just for mothers, but for anyone who has a household or who benefits from others' leaving theirs, which is to say, everyone.
The following quotes both explain why that's so and provide a feel for Stack's style:
The cold reality of my gender was dawning on me. I'd known enough, already, about harassment and domestic violence and pay differentials and the incessant, exhausting focus on how you look and laugh and talk. But it had all been basically manageable—not ideal, certainly, even enraging, but navigable—right up until the baby came. It was motherhood that forced me to understand the timeless horror of our position. The obvious, hidden-in-plain-sight reason women had not written novels or commanded armies or banked or doctored or explored or painted at the same rate as men. The cause was not, as I had been led to believe, that women had been prevented from working. Quite the opposite: we had been doing all of the work, around the clock, for centuries.
[My husband and I] fought because we were both exhausted and secretly convinced the other one had the better end of the deal. We fought because we were neurotically careful not to fight in front of the baby, and that meant we almost never got a chance to fight at all, and by the time we fought the annoyances had fermented to a potency that obscured altogether their original cause. We fought because we used to baby each other and now nobody got babied but the baby. As for me, I fought because I was reeling in shock, and because Tom was hardly there at all. He had slipped easily back into his old life while I had been bombed back to some prehistoric version of myself. And I was angry that he had accepted this superior position, this lesser disruption, as a sort of birthright. And so I fought with his absence.
I made no effort to discover whether her lifestyle was a grand adventure or heartbreaking drudgery, or some combination of the two. Those questions lined themselves up in my thoughts, but I left them silent. They lit too starkly the discrepancy in our positions. That I had money and would not have to leave my baby behind. That she was poor, she had not been educated, she didn't have choices. I had the vague idea that my silence was magnanimous. I told myself I was sparing her from embarrassment. It hadn't occurred to me yet that I was the one being spared…. If I found out too much, if the facts were too grim, then I might conclude that my domestic arrangement was fundamentally unfair. That was my formless and underlying fear: that if I understood too much, I might have to rip apart the status quo. I could either drown or I could wear Xiao Li as a life vest. There was no third choice.
I'd given my time to Tom, so that he could rush off to the office that very first morning and every morning thereafter. I'd given my time to Max, who was scared and unsettled and needed a parent down through the hours…. Every outgrown pair of shoes, trip to the dentist, or preschool obligation—any crisis or errand affecting anybody in the family—inevitably devoured another chunk of writing time…. My time had been used as capital. It had been invested in the family future to improve our collective position. I paid slices of time; I paid life; maybe I paid brain cells, or a book or two. I paid and it's gone. My babies are beautiful; my heart is whole; I'm not asking for a refund. Still it does not escape my attention that I paid in time. There is a lingering expectation that men will pay in money. But when it comes to time, it is almost always the woman who pays. And money is one thing, but time is life, and life is more.
I'd already cataloged the downside of depending upon impoverished women, but never had the limitations of employment in my house been more obvious. Just as Mary was not a day care and couldn't guarantee a steady flow of childcare, I was not a company and couldn't offer benefits and insurance and broader social protection…. That's why ad hoc domestic labor is, ultimately, a bunk system. It's a jerry-rigged, flaw-riddled compromise that will never live up to its promise of upward mobility for one woman and personalized childcare for another.
Tears filmed my eyes. I was deliberately manipulating Mary. I was also speaking with unfiltered honesty. Both were true, both at once. I was showing Mary my buried fears, but I was doing it strategically. I wanted to leverage my vulnerability to make her more trustworthy.
These women migrant workers are crucial because they solve a conundrum: middle-class and wealthy women demand a place in the job market—or at least a measure of leisure time commensurate with their social ranking—but their male partners don't want to do more housework…. This model for women's emancipation depends, itself, upon a permanent underclass of impoverished women. But of course these stories are not only about women—they also scream the reality of men who manage to duck not only the labor itself, but the surrounding guilt and recrimination. All those well-meaning men who say progressive things in public and then retreat into private to coast blissfully on the disproportionate toil of women. In the end, the answer is the men. They have to do the work. They have to do the damn work! Why do we tie ourselves in knots to avoid saying this one simple truth? It's a daily and repetitive and eternal truth, and it's a dangerous truth, because if we press this point we can blow our households to pieces, we can take our families apart, we can spoil our great love affairs. This demand is enough to destroy almost everything we hold dear. So we shut up and do the work. No single task is ever worth the argument. Scrub a toilet, wash a few dishes, respond to the note from the teacher, talk to another mother, buy the supplies. Don't make a big deal out of everything. Don't make a big deal out of anything. Never mind that, writ large, all these minor chores are the reason we remain stuck in this depressing hole of pointless conversations and stifled accomplishment. Never mind that we are still, after all these waves of feminism and intramural arguments among the various strains of womanhood, treated like a natural resource that can be guiltlessly plundered. Never mind that the kids are watching. If you mind you might go crazy. Cooking and cleaning and childcare are everything. They are the ultimate truth. They underpin and enable everything we do. The perpetual allocation of this most crucial and inevitable work along gender lines sets up women for failure and men for success.


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Akpabio Eats Humble Pie, Reconciles With Arch Rival Rotimi Amaechi in Abuja
Amaechi, Akpabio Sheathe Sword, after long political war
30 Apr, 2019 at 07:45 AM
Rotimi Amaechi, the Minister of Transportation, and former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio, have ended their long time feud.
Sources allege that theirs have been a long standing battle of supremacy over who controlled the South South region.
However Akpabio sensing danger in his political relevance had to quickly align with Amaechi to ensure he gets a ministerial appointment after his failure to return to the national assembly for a second term.
The reconciliation meeting which took place on Sunday night in Abuja was said to have been brokered by the All Progressive Congress chieftains, Alhaji Nasiru Danu and Festus Keyamo, the Driector, Strategic Communications of the ruling party.
Festus Keyamo in his statement released on Monday revealed that the peace meeting lasted for several hours at the private residence of Alhaji Danu in Asokoro area of Abuja.
The meeting which was called by the former Senate Minority Leader, according to the celebrated lawyer, deliberated on various disagreements during their days as state governors in PDP and the Nigerian Governors' Forum.
They also discussed and analyzed the performance of the party in the South-South region in the just-concluded election and identified areas where things went wrong and how to improve those areas in future.
At the end, both leaders agreed to close ranks and work in unison for the overall interest of the party in the country.
They also promised to put behind them, all previous perceived misgivings between them and to give a positive direction to the teeming supporters of the party across the country.
The two witnesses at the meeting were Alhaji Nasiru Danu and Mr. Festus Keyamo, SAN
Tinubu Breaks Silence, Explains Why He Missed Lagos Project Commissioning
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Work has been approved at 2714 East Vinyard Avenue. The project, entitled "Rio Urbana," is part of the ongoing expansion near The Riverpark, a planned community in North Oxnard, next to the 101. Aldergate Investments is the developer behind the project. The firm is based out of Oxnard and responsible for several other developments in the county.
Affordable Residences Planned For 801-809 E Santa Ana Boulevard, Los Angeles
5:00 am on March 23, 2021 By Team YIMBY
Affordable housing has been proposed on a vacant lot fronting the Santa Ana railroad at 801-809 E Santa Ana Boulevard. The project proposal includes constructing affordable residences for applicants earning less than 30 percent of the area's median income for 55 years.
HomeAid Orange County is the non-profit developer invested in the project. Bassenian Lagoni Architects is managing the design concepts and construction of the housing development.
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Bring 4 cups of water to boil in a large pot over high heat.
Add green beans and cook 5-10 minutes or until softened.
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Primary Support: 8 1/2 x 11in. (21.6 x 27.9cm) and Framed: 8 11/16 x 11 3/16in.
A sketch, with artist's notes on front and back, of a bullfighting scene. On the front, the scene's vantage point is from within the bullfight ring and above eye level. Nine bullfighters, some on foot and some on horseback, attack four bulls, and three more bulls are shown, unmolested, along the far fence. The stands are largely empty except for a group to left of center and a few others emerging from a covered opening at far right. A large round object at upper right is labeled "TANK". On the reverse are more of the artist's notes and some sketches of details.
The drawing was received in a modern (non-original) black-painted metal frame, glazed front and back, which was not retained. The drawing is unframed as of this cataloguing.
Label:Victor Joseph Gatto received a great deal of attention from the press in 1944 and 1956, his "discovery" seemingly confirming that American folk art had not been created solely in earlier times but was a viable, contemporary phenomenon as well.
Hundreds of Gatto's paintings and drawings survive. He avoided using printed sources, instead relying on his imagination and memories and depicting subjects as varied as exotic jungle and underwater scenes, circus spectacles, flowers, biblical allegories, current events, and outer space landscapes. He worked patiently and painstakingly but, personally, was tempermental and volatile.
Nuevo Laredo is almost directly across the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas. AARFAM donor Ellin Gordon believes that the museum's two bullfight drawings (see also acc. no. 2001.201.2) may have been enclosed in a letter from Gatto to Sterling Strauser. However, if true, that letter's current whereabouts are unknown.
Provenance:The donors say they acquired this drawing from dealer Sterling Strauser, E. Stroudsburg, Pa., about 1991 or 1992. (Conversation with B. Luck at time of object's donation to AARFAM).
Inscription(s):In upright script in dark graphite at lower right on the front is, "Victor Joseph Gatto".
The following is only a partial transcription and should be reviewed and revised once the drawing is removed from its frame.
Aside from the artist's name in graphite, the inscriptions on the front and back are in blue ballpoint pen. On the front, those numerous inscriptions constituting the artist's color notes ("Red", "Yellow", "Gray", "Blue Sky", etc.) have not been transcribed here.
Beneath an image of a bull is "Bull leaping over fence" and, beneath a second such image, is "Bull leaping over fence twice". At lower left is "If the[ir?] swords were/left in him this [is] How he would look like this [arrow points toward bull in foreground]". The preceding is followed by "He Brake/ the Bull/neck with/a Pick". One matador is labeled "champion", another is labeled "champion/tired out".
At lower right, with arrows pointing toward the bull in the foreground, appear "Showing the sword/w[h]ere they went into/the Bull/8" stuck in first sword/through his chest - second sword/Back through stomack third sword."
On the reverse is a diagram of horizontal lines, one section marked, alternately, "red" and "yellow" and the other all marked "gray". To the lower right of this is a sketch showing people seated on a grandstand, with various sections of it marked "Red", "Gray", "Yellow", "Gray", "Red", "Gray", "Yellow".
To the left of the preceding is written: "The Back Ground of Grandstand all gray - stair Red Yellow Red Yellow/Strip around top of seats - all - Red & Yellow/Skip one Red then yellow Just the/Border edg:/Floor Ground light Brown Blood make it/Dark stain Dark Brown-/This Bull Ring Nova Laredo was w[h]ere the Body of/the Revolution Men were thrown after they/took up there Body. But were taken out again/Nova Laredo Mean New Laredo, it in Mexico/Laredo Belong to Mexico they gave it to the/United States. We have all Mexican Cops here/Buss drives also all Mexicans./The Bull fighters when they saw the Bull Jump/over the fence twice they wisper to each other/they were Both afraid./That Bull turns out to be/the toughest Bull of/them all."
A sketch of part of the ring is at center right, with various signs and color notes not transcribed here.
At lower right, beside a sketch, is "the man/that stick/him in the/Back of Neck" and "w[h]ere the/bull come out gate".


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