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NYFF 2016 Review: 'A Quiet Passion' Starring Cynthia Nixon
Carole Di Tosti November 11, 2016 Comments Off on NYFF 2016 Review: 'A Quiet Passion' Starring Cynthia Nixon 373 Views
Cynthia Nixon answering a question at NYFF 2016 Q and A for 'A Quiet Passion.' (photo Carole Di Tosti)
On multiple levels, Terrence Davies A Quiet Passion starring Cynthia Nixon, Keith Carradine, Jennifer Ehle, and Jodhi May is a tone poem that succeeds up to a point, then stops too soon. Davies' long-anticipated bio-pic about the fulfillment and angst surrounding the isolated spiritual poetic of Emily Dickinson's life with her Amherst family is a slow drip of wit, verbal irony and beauty.
Throughout, Cynthia Nixon's bountiful, stellar portrayal of Dickinson's vital interior life is elucidated in part through her expressions of Dickinson's conflict with the repressed social culture of a religious New England family from which she never separated. At times Nixon's/Dickinson's emotions erupt in a blaze of light and truth, then slowly sink below the surface back to her soul's depths, like an elusive sea creature who momentarily bursts into view then returns to the waters of unconsciousness.
In a Q and A at the New York Film Festival 2016, Davies revealed his admiration and empathy for Dickinson whose work never saw the roundest spotlight of publishing day to receive noteworthy acclaim in her lifetime. It was only after she died in 1886 of complications from Bright's disease, the condition which increasingly plagued her and caused her tremendous pain the last few years of her life, were Dickinson's 1800 poems discovered by her sister Lavania who felt compelled to have them published.
(L to R): Cynthia Nixon and Jennifer Ehle in 'A Quiet Passion,' directed by Terence Davies (photo courtesy of the film)
Whether Dickinson was devastated that she never achieved the fame of a poet like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow during her lifetime is largely a matter of speculation. Certainly, Davies examines this briefly in her discussion with a newspaper publisher who gives middling praise to her work, and we see that she is interested for her poems to be in print.
On the other hand Davies' interpretation of Dickinson (he wrote the screenplay), reveals a quiet close and acceptance of things; it is a routine which in Davies' rendition of Dickinson, she follows in each stage of her life from her teen years to her twenties and on when her mother becomes ill after she settles into her life with her family in Amherst, Massachusetts. Thus, in the film she backtracks from pursuing other publishers after the publisher's lukewarm and rather misunderstood reception to her work is given. It is one more instance of resignation and acceptance.
Cynthia Nixon and Terence Davies at the NYFF 2016 Q and A after the screening of 'A Quiet Passion.' (photo by Carole Di Tosti)
Davies' shepherding of Nixon's Dickinson intimates that the poet is caught up and enlivened by her inner life which her writing subtly manifests. Throughout the film, Davies includes Nixon's reading of Dickinson's poetry, intuiting when some of her more famous poems might have been written in the arc of her life's development or perhaps including them because, in his perception, they appear to more sparely reveal the emotional undercurrents Dickinson experiences at various junctures during salient moments in time.
Davies configured the screenplay after reading biographies on Dickinson, imagining with a filmmaker/artist's perspective the subtle aspects of Dickinson's familial roles as a maverick ahead of her time, a sojourner of light, and a soaring spirit snared by the oppressive women's roles and limited definitions she must inhabit in the Victorian age. Davies highlights her personal soul struggles in various scenes which develop with intensity during the film's snail paced events.
(L to R): Cynthia Nixon and Jodhi May in 'A Quiet Passion' at NYFF 2016. (photo courtesy of the film)
We see her struggle to be subdued and obedient to her father's opinions and prescriptions (Keith Carradine is both foreboding and ominous yet kind and loving), forcing herself to curb her acerbic wit and irony with religiously narrow-minded guests who deserve to confront their own ignorance, but not in the Dickinson household and not through the acid tongued wit of the younger generation. Davies uncovers and suggests her sorrow and breakdown at the loss of proximity with Reverend Wadsworth (who is married), who moves to California.
Though accounts indicate he was her earthly friend for life (she wrote to him until his death in 1882 and only saw him twice), Davies dramatizes her emotional response showing a depth of love and disconnect in perceiving that she is closer to him than the reality suggests. It is one of the key turning points which we note prompts Nixon's Dickinson to gradually accept the reality of her spinsterhood. Though this dramatic segment of her emotionalism after Wadsworth leaves doesn't quite ring accurate, Nixon's portrayal at Dickinson's sense of loss and yearning for love remains human and very real, however, induced Davies' writing/interpretation is.
Cynthia Nixon at a NYFF 2016 Q and A for 'A Quiet Passion' (photo by Carole Di Tosti)
In various stages we note Dickinson's importance to her family assuming the major role of caretaker and assistant variously with her emotionally vacant and ill mother, her aging, stern but intellectually encouraging father, her loving, close sister with whom she confides (Jennifer Ehle is fun-loving and supportive), and her friendship with her sister-in-law (Jodhi May remains empathetic), who is abandoned by her brother for a vapid and shallow mistress. We note that the more Dickinson's interior life flourishes, the greater her retreat from external activities, social life and friends' visits to the end development that she will only speak to them via a closed door.
Davies includes only a few examples of Dickinson's time away from her family's homestead in Amherst. Not only is this because she was the key authority figure in the family's life after her mother becomes ill and they rely on her to be present at all times, but also because Davies reveals that like many writers whose best work is accomplished alone and in isolation, Dickinson enjoyed another realm of existence in her consciousness and imagination. It is a realm that we may glimpse only through her poetry and this of course, is completely open to subjective interpretation and only as accurate and thorough as is the experience, knowledge and acumen of the reader who reads/understands her poems.
Thus, as best as he may try, as fine as Nixon's portrayal of Dickinson is, there is much we cannot fathom about her "reclusiveness" and her isolation, much that Davies has left untouched as he adheres to a more material interpretation in keeping with a domestic homely of her life with her family. This mundane choice which relies on witty conversations, strains in relationships between family members and conflicts Dickinson has with issues about her brother's mistress, is not as thrilling as might have been if he had chosen to more completely intuit the treasures of her inner life with cinematic inference.
The writer's life is one known only to the writer. That Dickinson wrote the quality, specific form and number of poems she did, worked and reworked them into their final copies with very specific punctuation which, after their publication, was sometimes misunderstood and changed, must not be overlooked as one of the primary reasons for her "isolation."
Her secret life and identity, known only to her Davies suggests, but perhaps not strongly and powerfully enough. That her stash of poetry was only discovered after she died reveals the extent of the incredible rich, other-worldly pageantry that empowered and entertained her so that she wrote at length about it. These were not only grand issues of life, death and immortality, but about her love of God, her understanding about the hypocrisy of church institutions, her appreciation of spiritual elements. These elements are sometimes absent in this bio-pic. Nevertheless, it is an intriguing and complex look at one of the finest of American poets in the 19th century and for that reason, and Nixon's performance is a must-see.
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Carole Di Tosti, Ph.D. is a published writer, playwright, novelist, poet. She owns and manages three well-established blogs: 'The Fat and the Skinny,' 'All Along the NYC Skyline' (https://caroleditosti.com/) 'A Christian Apologists' Sonnets.' She also manages the newly established 'Carole Di Tosti's Linchpin,' which is devoted to foreign theater reviews and guest reviews. She contributed articles to Technorati (310) on various trending topics from 2011-2013. To Blogcritics she has contributed 583+ reviews, interviews on films and theater predominately. Carole Di Tosti also has reviewed NYBG exhibits and wine events. She guest writes for 'Theater Pizzazz' and has contributed to 'T2Chronicles,' 'NY Theatre Wire' and other online publications. She covers NYC trending events and writes articles promoting advocacy. She professionally free-lanced for TMR and VERVE for 1 1/2 years. She was a former English Instructor. Her published dissertation is referenced in three books, two by Margo Ely, Ph.D. Her novel 'Peregrine: The Ceremony of Powers' will be on sale in January 2021. Her full length plays, 'Edgar,' 'The Painter on His Way to Work,' and 'Pandemics or How Maria Caught Her Vibe' are being submitted for representation and production.
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P.S. What have you done throughout your hair journey that has helped in a BIG way???
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Thanks Traycee, I try =]LOL Im glad you've found detangling in the shower beneficial too. It saved my hair from tangles.
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How much glycerin do you add to your conditioner?
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Republicans and democrats always like focus on a small part of the results of their costly government programs. They always dress up the benefits without ever looking at the real costs.
Take jobless benefits, for example. Both parties are quick to approve endless jobless benefits extensions during this crisis always suggesting that if it was not for the benefits, the consequences would be awful.
Now, we're not going to quickly dismiss the difficulty individuals and their families experience when a job is lost. Nobody wants to go through that, especially if there are few savings to fall back on. And that's why Democrats and Republicans are quick to take other citizens money and give it to those who lost their jobs.
But what they never consider are the unseen costs. These costs, libertarians point out, end up being worse than the problem the two big parties claim to be solving.
When money is taken from business and individuals and redirected to those who just lost their jobs, a few things happen.
First, business have less money to grow. Money they might have spent expanding the business is instead redirected. Instead of hiring someone new with their savings in an industry that actually is generating jobs and wealth, these businesses savings are redirected to pay people to not to work. Now, that's not the objective of most on jobless benefits. Many simply can't find work — because the money redirected to them can't be used to hire them!
Money taken from individuals and redirected to jobless benefits works the same way. That money would have been spent in functioning business, used to buy things that people actually want and need. Instead, it's redirected to hold people on jobless benefits.
Of course, with the Federal Reserve printing money that's being used to help finance the Federal Deficit (too complicated to dig into in depth via this simple post), well — those dollars printed out of thin air get their purchasing power at the expense of existing dollar holders, spending power redirected from the functioning economy to the jobless benefits.
So, while republicans and democrats point out all the people they are helping, while earning votes from those receiving benefits (as well as those kind-hearted folks who have been mislead into believing that voting for this junk-economics is actually doing good), in reality these major parties are doing nothing more than turning real jobs into government welfare. Instead, we should look at such programs as job killers!
"In a state with the nation's highest jobless rate, landscaping companies are finding some job applicants are rejecting work offers so they can continue collecting unemployment benefits.
Libertarians realize that people are people. We all agree that given an opportunity to get something for nothing, most folks will have a hard time turning it down, especially if the system says it's legal and ethically o.k. Take a look at the whole financial meltdown and the ethics problems on Wall Street and in D.C. regarding that. Why should individuals on jobless benefits be any different?
"The average landscape worker earns about $12 per hour, according to the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Growth. A full-time landscaping employee would make $225 more a week working than from an unemployment check of $255.
But after federal and state taxes are deducted, a full-time landscaper would earn $350 a week, or $95 more than a jobless check. The gap could narrow further for those who worked at other higher-paying seasonal jobs, such as construction or roofing, which would result in a larger benefits check.
The maximum weekly benefit an unemployed Michigan worker can receive is $387.
The jobless in Michigan are collecting for a longer time — an average of 19.4 weeks last year, up from 15 weeks in 2008. State benefits last for up to 26 weeks.
The unemployed can then apply for extended federal benefits that increase the total time on the public dole up to a maximum of 99 weeks.
The federal jobless benefits extension "is the most generous safety net we've ever offered nationally," said David Littmann, senior economist of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a free-market-oriented research group in Midland. The extra protection reduces the incentive to find work, he said.
So, while Democrats and Republicans are quick to get votes by handing your money away while destroying the economy and enabling some people to game the system, libertarians are against it! We believe that charity is important, that helping neighbors through tough times is helpful. But we don't believe anyone is entitled to anything, or that you solve the problem of unemployment by hamstringing the economy from recovering on its own — without making republican and democrats all important by handing out goodies for votes.
Moreover, we point out that jobless benefits have created a moral dilemma, where people know there's no risk to losing their job with the jobless benefit programs, so they spend every dime they have living paycheck to paycheck vs. keeping emergency savings.
Instead of helping out and causing good, the republicans and democrats are more interested in promising free lunches for votes. Jobless benefits do more harm than good, and are actually one among many forms of democrat and republican endorsed intervention that not only drove the economy to its current horrible state, they are being expanded and therefore preventing the economy from recovering in any meaningful way. An economic recovery dependent upon redistributing other people's wealth is a recovery destined to crash and burn, thus requiring more democrats and republicans to ride to the rescue.
Break this cycle of dependency and vote Libertarian!
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The fact is, people whove been unemployed that long are lazy and a drain on us and should be killed, as well as there fam9ilyes.
Not sure why you think your comment is funny. Clearly no sane person thinks what you wrote is.
Although plenty of progressives try, try, try… to make the absurd association that because some might object to being forced to pay for the bailing out of others, jobs or otherwise — a rational argument articulated above (did you even read the comments??) — that those objectors are therefore heartless…. So heartless, the bleeding-heart progressive then snidely implies, that those objecting are really not much different in opinion to someone who might articulate what you've written.
If that's your game, we call BS. In fact, we'd suggest your redirecting some people's wealth in ways you think fit — for benefits or otherwise — might be nice on the short term, but long-term it slowly kills an economy. More people lose their jobs consequently, and then they, too, need benefits that are forced out of the productive sector, which in turn kills more jobs… And around and around we go until you kill an economy.
Oh, but it helps your heart feel good to do the quick easy (thoughtless, and really heartless) thing. So sorry.
Perhaps the initial response was not meant to be funny. It is quite an appalling sentiment, though.
That said, replacing taxes on good things like labor, capital, production, and sales with taxes on bad things like pollution of the natural environment, monopoly land use, and extraction of non-renewable natural resources would go a long way to making the issue of "taking away someone's money'.
The idea is to move to a system where those who benefit from privilege are the ones who have to pay for it. The issue of robbing Peter to pay Paul then goes away. How can you blame any individual for making a decision they believe to be in their best interest?
From a libertarian perspective, the most moral choice is the best one. The most moral choice would be that which respects others' right to consent or not, vs. the use of force at the expense of others. There is no doubt a fine line between voluntary association and localized governance that meets the specifications each individual desires.
But to your point, we should all blame someone who makes decisions in their own best interest when it comes directly at the expense of others — without their consent, when it is theirs (to begin with) to consent or not.
Pollution, environment, etc. can and should fall into the right of consent. As it stands, corporatism rules the day, and those who do not consent are left to live in the environmental mess created by others who couldn't care less about if they consent or not: the law says they can do it, so they do.
I could go on, but this initial example simply denotes why being "legal" does not infer being moral or right. But you seem to realize that.
To your point of taxing some things vs. others, no doubt there might be better means of implementing a tax regime. But then again, it really ought to respect the idea of consent.
And in that, to return your point about looking out for one's best interest, really we should be looking out for engaging others in mutually beneficial ways. The few laws that should exist should protect us all in that way.
[Government] is apprehended, not as a committee of citizens chosen to carry on the communal business of the whole population, but as a separate and autonomous corporation, mainly devoted to exploiting the population of the benefit of its own members. The intelligent man, when he pays taxes, certainly does not feel he is making a prudent investment of his money; on the contrary, he feels he is being mulcted in an excessive amount for services that, in the main, are useless to him, and that, in substantial part, are downright inimical to him.
Libertarians believe we can and should do better.
Hey, "admin", I'll bet it took you a non-trivial amount of time to write that blog post and then respond in the comments. You must be relatively new to the LP. One of these days you'll probably realize what an utter waste of time any involvement with the LP is. Despite claims to the contrary, they haven't gotten any traction to speak of in 4 decades, and they never will.
Not new to the party.
The very idea of the word libertarian has meaning is proof positive that the LP has its place and function. As for the lack of traction, no doubt a frontal assault on the heavily guarded R and D fort has it's limitations, especially when so many voters continue to delude themselves that the Ds and Rs actually have elements within that care about liberty… Such voters are unfortunately suckered in again and again that the Ds and Rs are actually not for sale to the highest bidder.
The Rs have had every chance to cut government, yet can't even work up a reduction in the pace of spending when they have both houses and the presidency, and for their vote, the liberty minded R gets endless wars and bogeymen abroad, a security state, as well as prescription drug programs the country couldn't afford.
D's who wanted and end to the war find their chosen one is a war monger no better than the Rs, and who is even more crafty at expanding the police state surveillance and offshore facilities like at Gitmo, never mind his lying outright to the electorate about how he would end such programs. Obama is in the pocket of the War Machine, just like Bush. And for environmentalism, they'll get this absurd cap and trade program that the likes of Goldman Sachs are slobbering all over running, while $$ billion enviro-industrial complex businesses gush to get more badly thought out initiatives that line their pockets passed. Kinda like the ethanol law. Education? More union favoritism that bankrupts localities and churning out an ever-declining product.
No, the L's have not had an easy road with the freedom minded voters blowing their votes for D's and Rs, and the mainstream can't be blamed for sucking up the handouts. But the economy will continue to decline until voters sober up, and hopefully L's can better shape policy.
Oh, and by the way, in case you don't know it, L's don't care if it is an L that get's elected so long as the R or the D is libertarian. Far and few between, but the freedom oriented movement is alive and a real thorn in the side. The L label may not be on it, but that's not the point.


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Sorry, this just isn't true–it's a pernicious myth, and one that's easy to dispel. Make some thin diagonal lines with a crow quill pen, scan them in at 300 dpi, and print them out on a low-res short run digital printer. Even easier, try typing up some six or eight point text, rasterizing it at the same resolution, and then printing it at the same place (Kinko's, Comixpress, whatever). Viola–stair stepping! For fine line art, or text which is effectively the same thing, resolution matters.
Thanks, though, for the info on your process here. Very enjoyable to see, and can't wait to see the book.
Not a myth at all. I know this from personal experience. There was a time that I could spot the problems with 300 dpi printed art but as I grew older that was no longer the case. I also know of one publisher who used 300 dpi art (not Titan but I will not say who) and it went unnoticed, not a peap from anyone. I know of another publisher that uses 400 dpi as the minimum resolution for work used in publications. I am not saying resolution does not matter just that there are limits.
Well, we could go back and forth on this for a while… hopefully we can agree that it matters more with line art than with full color, and it matters even more with very fine line art. I really don't think this applies to the work you've done, I feel obligated to state it because I, for one, can see those resolution difference with my naked eyes. It's very obvious to me looking at, for instance, the handful of DC comics I've seen in the past ten years that they're printing their line art from 300 or 400 dpi files–anything finer than a medium sized pen stroke has some stair stepping. The type of fine hatching and building up of value I'm talking about is very far removed from the bold brush inking in these images–but it is a real, and very visible, phenomenon.
Well, we could go back and forth on this for a while… hopefully we can agree that it matters more with line art than with full color, and it matters even more with very fine line art. I really don't think this applies to the work you've done, I feel obligated to state it because I, for one, can see those resolution difference with my naked eyes. It's very obvious to me looking at, for instance, the handful of DC comics I've seen in the past ten years that they're printing their line art from 300 or 400 dpi files–anything finer than a medium sized pen stroke has some stair stepping. The type of fine hatching and building up of value I'm talking about is very far removed from the bold brush inking in these images–but it is a real, and very visible, to me anyway, phenomenon.


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Now I need a rest to decide what to do with it. I have done it because of my microtonal studies.
Fantastic. I like this a great deal. The new tunings really adds an element that enhances the listening experience.
This is really beautiful music.
The new tunings really adds an element that enhances the listening experience.
What "microtonality" does to music is the same thing tabasco sauce and ginger and lime juice and Thai peanut sauce does -- it takes an ordinary experience and heightens it. Microtonality is to music as perfume is to a beautiful woman. Microtonal tunings do for a composition what a wedding dress does for a young bride n her wedding day. Adding microtonality to a melody takes a black and white photograph and hand-colors it in a million resplendent hues. Adding microtonality to harmony converts all-upper-case text to lower-case letters and adds punctuation and space between the words.
Probably better than treason or heresy.
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Seraph, I really like your music. Thank you for posting.
Me too! Really very nice, with just the right amount of spice.
well...following Robert's (aka bachus) advice I have modified the introduction of this piece. I have replaced the piano with strings and oboe. so the attachment you see on the first post it's a new one. the oboe sound comes from my Yamaha VL70m played with breath controller.
I like this much better than the piano version, it's beautiful.
Yes it is beautiful and with just the right amount of twist. Your use of unfulfilled cadential expectations is most effective.
Your use of unfulfilled cadential expectations is most effective.
thanks Robert. I am glad you told me that the introduction just didn't do it for you.


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Targeted in Lebanon
Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Massing, Paul Auster, Noam Chomsky, Salman Rushdie, et al.
After the assassination of Lebanese writer Samir Kassir on June 2, and after receiving reliable information that a list of other possible targeted Lebanese writers and activists is circulating, we, as fellow writers, want to express our support of the Lebanese people's basic and essential right, afforded by an open democratic society, to express themselves free of the threat of retribution and violence.
Tom McCarthy, filmmaker, New York City; Shiva Balaghi, educator, New York City; Naomi Klein, journalist, Toronto, Canada; Paul Auster, author, New York City; Noam Chomsky, linguist, Boston, Massachusetts; Joyce Carol Oates, author, Princeton, New Jersey; Rashid Khalidi, historian, New York City; Salman Rushdie, author, New York City; Howard Zinn, historian, Boston, Massachusetts; Michael Massing, journalist, New York City; Andrew Jarecki, filmmaker, New York City; Adam Shatz, journalist, New York City (partial listing).
Jane Yeh
Self-Portrait as New York in the Eighties
Felix G. Rohatyn
The Fall and Rise of New York
November 8, 1990 issue
Robert O. Paxton
Look Up and See!
More different kinds of birds nest in New York City now than did 50 years ago
Robert Geddes and Craig Whitaker, reply by Jason Epstein
'How New York Fell': An Exchange
Jason Epstein
The Last Days of New York
What brought New York City to bankruptcy?
The Tragical History of New York
April 9, 1992 issue
At the City Dump in Nantucket
Ken Auletta
Wonderful Town!


- Jon Foo as Jin Kazama: A young and talented fighter who has a dark power within him.
- Ian Anthony Dale as Kazuya Mishima: A powerful karate fighter, Kazuya is the son of Heihachi Mishima and the father of Jin Kazama. He possesses the power of the Devil Gene, which his son inherited.
- Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Heihachi Mishima: The chairman of the Tekken Corporation, that is being investigated of murder.
- Kelly Overton as Christie Monteiro: She is a Brazilian Capoeira practitioner and student of Eddy Gordo.
- Luke Goss as Steve Fox: A talented boxer from England that was once one of the best fighters of the world, but had passed his prime.
- Cung Le as Marshall Law: A Jeet Kune Do fighter. Le is a mixed martial artist, and his presence in the movie was confirmed in the end of 2008 by Kung Fu Cinema.
- Gary Daniels as Bryan Fury: A former Interpol officer that competes in the tournament.
- Candice Hillebrand as Nina Williams: A cold-blooded assassin and mother of Steve Fox.
- Marian Zapico as Anna Williams: The sister and rival of Nina Williams.
- Darrin Dewitt Henson as Raven: An international intelligence agent considered highly skilled and iron-hearted, codename Raven.
- Nathan Jones as Craig Marduk: A professional Vale Tudo fighter. The character of Marduk was indeed modeled after Jones for the videogames.
- Lateef Crowder as Eddy Gordo: A Brazilian Capoeira practitioner and mentor of Christie Monteiro.
- Tamlyn Tomita as Jun Kazama: Jin Kazama's mother. After her assassination, Jin enters the tournament to avenge her.
- Gary Ray Stearns as Yoshimitsu: A mystic, Samurai-esque armored swordsman.
- Anton Kasabov as Sergei Dragunov: A member of SPETSNAZ, Dragunov is considered the very symbol of fear on the battlefield whose overwhelming fighting prowess has earned him the title "The White Angel of Death".
- Jae Hee as Hwoarang: A Korean Tae Kwon Do fighter. He is Jin Kazama's rival. He deserted the Korean military and is pursued for treason, making his King of Iron Fist Tournament winning all the more difficult.
- Taiyo Sugiura as Lee Chaolan: Kazuya's foster brother and Heihachi's adopted son. He's after control of the Mishima Zaibatsu.
- Roger Huerta as Miguel Caballero Rojo: A young Spanish brawler, possibly one of the Tekken contestants.
- Mircea Monroe as Kara: Jin Kazama's girlfriend.
I really need to see the trailer of Tekken before saying anything about the cast.


The Mayor of London has accepted the compelling case put forward by Barnet Council and its neighbouring west London boroughs for the development of a West London Orbital Railway.
Around 1,500 sixth form students from across Barnet are set to attend an event which promotes safer driving this week.
As part of the Taking Care of Our Neighbourhoods campaign, which sees a number of initiatives being implemented throughout the community, an outlay of £1.5million has been set aside by Barnet Council to repair potholes and damaged road surface across the borough.
Enforcement officers across the borough are set to wear body cameras to provide greater transparency around the actions of enforcement. The cameras are also being introduced to officers prevent incidents of physical and verbal abuse.
A multimillion pound investment programme has seen improvement works carried out to almost 90 of the borough's pavements since work began last year.
Last week saw a successful two-day crackdown on disabled parking badges being used fraudulently, resulting in 17 cases of Blue Badges being misused – the largest amount seized this year.
Smashed up pieces of furniture, old mattresses and a broken TV. You wouldn't stand for this rubbish being dumped in your front garden; yet this is a daily occurrence on the streets of Barnet.
Two drivers caught by council counter-fraud officers illegally using disabled parking badges have been fined £800 by magistrates.
Penalty notices will be issued from today for illegal driving manoeuvres picked up by CCTV cameras outside a number of schools and at key junctions across the borough.


Livio AI is the world's first hearing aid to utilize integrated sensors and artificial intelligence and the first device to track physical activity and cognitive health as measured by hearing aid use in social situations.
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) announced the recruitment of five robots as staff, as part of its continuous quest to envision and make the future through the development of mechanisms that enrich the experience of customers and contribute to the provision of seven-star quality services at its Customer Happiness Centres.
The lineup includes a home robot that doubles as a smart home gateway and intelligent home notification center, enhancing convenience in users' day-to-day lives. LG is also taking the power of IoT and smart technology outside of the home with advanced robots designed for use in airports and other public spaces.


Wow…my last post was May 2016! I must have been busy.
TBH, I've spent more time on LinkedIn, Twitter and the Tech North blog, so there hasn't really been a need to post personally.
Now that Tech North and Tech City have evolved into Tech Nation I've stepped away to get more involved with a number of early-stage digital businesses. For now, that consists of non-exec director roles with Ash.tv, Fluid Digital and Ruler Analytics, where I'm advising on a variety of topics to help them scale.
Liverpool-based Ruler is addressing the marketer's continuing challenge of sales attribution, at a price point that's affordable to all.
Fluid is a fast-growing digital commerce agency that has a laser focus on retail and it's a great opportunity to share my agency experience.
Ash.tv, HQ in my university city of Hull, has pioneered a new video ad format for mobile that dramatically outperforms the larger networks like YouTube, GDN and Facebook.
If you want to know more about those businesses or think they could help you out, just drop me a line.
Along with the other founders, we took the decision to call time on SAScon, so that gives me even more time to look at some new ventures.
I'm pondering a variety of subjects, from scaling teams and work culture, to fund-raising and lead generation. That should give you an idea of the kind of content you're likely to see me writing about in the future.


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FWA Interview: Patrick Collins
Patrick Collins thinks the game is better than ever but...
SUMMER OF TRANSFER SAGAS LEAVES PEOPLE DISILLUSIONED
By CHRISTOPHER DAVIES
In Patrick Collins' ideal summer his beloved Charlton Athletic would have signed Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Andres Iniesta, perhaps Bastien Schweinsteiger, Andrea Pirlo and Robert Lewandowski. With that front six Chris Powell's defence could stay intact.
Sadly for the Mail On Sunday's award-winning sports columnist, other non-transfer activity has made tedious inroads into a glorious summer of British sport, which started with Justin Rose winning the US Open, the British and Irish Lions' success in Australia, Andy Murray's historic Wimbledon triumph, retaining the Ashes and more recently Mo Farah and Christine Ohuruogu at the World Championships. Our Paralympians also gave us a reminder of London 2012.
Cesc Fabregas to - or rather, not to - Manchester United has been put to bed, but the Mousetrap-proportion sagas involving Luis Suarez, Wayne Rooney and Gareth Bale show little sign of slowing down. For many, September 2 cannot come soon – or, as the tabloids would say, Roon – enough.
"The game is better now than it has ever been," said Collins. "I've never seen it played as well as this in more than 40 years. Not with such pace and technique. And yet I think people have never been so disillusioned. If there is a gap between players and the media, the gap between players and the public is even larger.
"Newspapers over-estimate the public's appetite for such transfer stories. I could not even begin to guess how many Rooney stories I've seen, yet he's either going to go or he isn't. It's like the Kennedy assassination, everyone has a theory. It's been a fantastic summer of sport, but instead of being quietly ignored until it all starts again football's given us these will-he, won't-he sagas."
Of course, it could be that Suarez, Rooney and Bale will remain with Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham. "If that happens it makes even more of a nonsense what's been going on. I think it's had an alienating factor. It's partly the media's fault, clearly."
If a newspaper is fed a story about a big name it is hardly likely to not use it on grounds of boredom. "Agents engineer stories to the extent they are controlling the media which is not healthy," said Collins.
The Barclays Premier League kicks-off this weekend, but Collins has not been counting the days, largely because the beautiful game is so over-hyped. He said: "I don't start looking forward to the season until it starts. Everything is overblown. Sky Sports' coverage is wonderful, but the trumpeting of games means there is absolutely no sense of proportion. Everything is better, bigger and louder. That's how the game is now. It's divorced from any kind of reality."
Collins is one of the minority of FWA members who reported on United pre-Alex (as he was then) Ferguson. For the first time since November 1986, the Champions have a new manager in David Moyes and while many football writers have been the recipient of the famous hairdryer, Ferguson gave us some of the finest sides of all-time to watch and report.
"For what he did, he was a genius, an extraordinarily talented man. I loved watching his teams. There would be a tight game, United would score a late goal and you'd see him on the touchline waving them forward. United always went for it.
"People have drawn comparisons between Ferguson and Jose Mourinho, but Mourinho would always opt for a 'protect what you have' with little sense of duty to entertain. Ferguson wanted his team to go forward, not in a naive manner, but he felt the best way to defend a 1-0 lead was to score a second goal."
The self-styled Special One is back at Chelsea, a move which has not seen Collins putting out the bunting. He said: "Am I glad he's returned? Not at all. He's a major part of the over-hyping and personalising of the game. Towards the end of last season when it looked like he was coming back, someone on Sky Sports said he couldn't wait for next season to see Mourinho versus someone or other on the touchline.
"Nobody I know pays money to see managers on the touchline. It seems bizarre he can dominate the attention in this way. There were a couple of times at Real Madrid when he left the team-talk at half-time to sit in the dug-out. It was like 'look at me.'"
While club rivalries will be renewed in the Barclays Premier League, a cloud remains over the national team with England's qualification for Brazil 2014 in the balance. If England win their remaining four ties they will qualify. Beating Moldova at home should present few problems, but Ukraine in Kyiv and the visits of Montenegro and Poland to Wembley for a team who have only beaten San Marino and Moldova to date seems to guarantee a photo-finish for England.
Collins said: "For obvious reason I'd love to see England qualify, as much as anything for Roy Hodgson who is a decent man and a talented man. While media-friendly, he is not self-promoting in the way that Mourinho is and I don't think he's given the credit he deserves. I can see us being in the playoffs and then, of course, it depends who you play."
Fabio Capello's Russia would be the most newsworthy clash, though there is a Sod's Law feeling about such a draw. Other playoff opponents could be France or even World Champions Spain – "you wouldn't want that" - Croatia, Austria or Sweden, Greece, a rejuvenated Hungary or Romania, Bulgaria or the Czech Republic. The best hope would be the runners-up from Group E, probably Albania, Iceland or Norway, but then we thought Algeria would be a pushover in South Africa.
"The reaction if England didn't qualify would be interesting. There is a complete dominance of the clubs in English football and they admit no responsibility or obligation to the national team. Given the quality of the Premier League we ought to be qualifying, but then the quality is due to the number of foreign players."
Domestically, it will be the usual suspects battling it out for the title – "a consequence of how the Premier League is structured," said Collins. "The only way to break into this exclusive club is to find an owner like Manchester City did in the Middle East. Otherwise it is almost impossible to join the elite."
When Blackburn, bankrolled by Jack Warner, won the Premier League they were not up against the riches of City or Chelsea while the days of Derby, Nottingham Forest, Ipswich or Queens Park Rangers making a significant impact in the top league have all but gone.
"I used to love looking at the old First Division pre-season and thinking to myself if this team continue their progress or that side sign so-and-so they have a chance. When you think of what [Brian] Clough did, or Bobby [Robson] at Ipswich or Dave Sexton's very good QPR...that's not possible any longer, which is a pity. There is a danger of people becoming disaffected by the same-old, same-old.
"I'd love someone to break into that magic circle and the fact there are four, maybe five clubs who can be champions is not good for the wider health of the game. It's still a marvellous sport though it doesn't always show itself in the best light."
As 2013/14 gets up and running Collins hopes young players who the press have been praising for the past couple of years reach the next level. When John Barnes retired we were still writing about his potential and Collins said: "The likes of Jack Wilshere, Tom Cleverley and Phil Jones...I hope they become the players we've been hoping they do.
"We hear what Wilshere is capable of and I'd really like to see him deliver. We've been patient with a lot of them so let's hope this is the season."
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2. Naut. To pass; to run; -- said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.; as, a rope renders well, that is, passes freely; also, to yield or give way.
In those early times the king's household was supported by specific renders of corn and other victuals from the tenants of the demains. --Blackstone.
v 1: cause to become; "The shot rendered her immobile"


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The Foundation for Integrated Health (FIH) was a controversial charity run by King Charles III (then Prince of Wales) founded in 1993. The foundation promoted complementary and alternative medicine, preferring to use the term "integrated health", and lobbied for its inclusion in the National Health Service. The charity closed in 2010 after allegations of fraud and money laundering led to the arrest of a former official.

History
The charity was established in 1993 to explore "how safe, proven complementary therapies can work in conjunction with mainstream medicine".

Michael Dixon was appointed the foundation's medical director. From 2005 to 2007, FIH received a grant from the Department of Health to help organise the self-regulation of complementary therapies. There had been concern that with a large proportion of the public turning to complementary approaches, there were few safeguards in place to ensure that non-statutorily regulated therapists were safe, trained and would act in an appropriate way. FIH worked to bring together the representative bodies of many complementary professions to talk and agree standards. The result was the formation of the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) which had hoped to register 10,000 practitioners of complementary medicine by the end of 2009 but which by September 2009 had succeeded in enrolling less than a tenth of that number due to lack of interest on the part of some of their professional associations. The Department of Health is currently continuing to fund the CNHC but future funding will be dependent on substantial progress being made towards the target (which has now been reduced to 2,000). Alternative medicine campaigners argued that the move toward regulation conferred undue respectability on unproven and possibly unsafe complementary & alternative medicine (CAM) approaches.

FIH also worked with medical schools to increase the understanding of complementary approaches amongst new doctors and ran an annual awards ceremony for integrated health schemes both within the medical world and in the community.

The papers of the Foundation for Integrated Health are held at the Wellcome Library, Archives and Manuscripts, and are available for consultation by appointment. Further details about the collection can be found on the Wellcome online catalogue.

Controversy
The Prince of Wales has demonstrated an interest in alternative medicine, the promotion of which has occasionally resulted in controversy. In 2004, the foundation divided the scientific and medical community over its campaign encouraging general practitioners to offer herbal and other alternative treatments to National Health Service patients, and in May 2006, The Prince made a speech to an audience of health ministers from various countries at the World Health Assembly in Geneva, urging them to develop a plan for integrating conventional and alternative medicine.

In April 2008, The Times published a letter from Professor Edzard Ernst that asked the Prince's Foundation to recall two guides promoting "alternative medicine", saying: "the majority of alternative therapies appear to be clinically ineffective, and many are downright dangerous." A speaker for the foundation countered the criticism by stating: "We entirely reject the accusation that our online publication Complementary Healthcare: A Guide contains any misleading or inaccurate claims about the benefits of complementary therapies. On the contrary, it treats people as adults and takes a responsible approach by encouraging people to look at reliable sources of information... so that they can make informed decisions. The foundation does not promote complementary therapies." In June 2008 Ernst and science writer Simon Singh book Trick or Treatment: Alternative Medicine on Trial was published. It is ironically dedicated to "HRH the Prince of Wales" and the last chapter is highly critical of his advocacy of "complementary" and "alternative" treatments.

The Prince's Duchy Originals have produced a variety of CAM products including a "Detox Tincture" that Ernst has denounced as "financially exploiting the vulnerable" and "outright quackery". In May 2009, the Advertising Standards Authority criticised an email that Duchy Originals had sent out to advertise its Echina-Relief, Hyperi-Lift and Detox Tinctures products saying it was misleading.

In Ernst's book More Good Than Harm? The Moral Maze of Complementary and Alternative Medicine he and ethicist Kevin Smith call Charles "foolish and immoral" and "conclude that it is not possible to practice alternative medicine ethically". Ernst further claims that the private secretary of the Prince contacted the vice chancellor of Exeter University to investigate Ernst's complaints against the "Smallwood Report" which the Prince had commissioned in 2005. While Ernst was "found not to be guilty of any wrong-doing, all local support at Exeter stopped, which eventually led to my early retirement."

Funding
Between 2005 and 2007 the charity's annual turnover was about £1.2 million. In 2007 it received significant funding from The Prince's Charities Foundation, and a £300,000 grant from the Department of Health for the regulation of complementary medicine.

Lobbying allegations
The Prince personally wrote at least seven letters to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) shortly before they relaxed the rules governing labelling of herbal products such as the ones sold by his duchy, a move that has been widely condemned by scientists and medical bodies.

On 31 October 2009 it was reported that the Prince had personally lobbied Health Secretary Andy Burnham regarding greater provision of alternative treatments on the NHS.

Charity Commission complaint

In March 2010, the political organisation Republic, which campaigns for an elected head of state, registered a complaint with the Charity Commission for England and Wales over a possible breach of charity regulations, suggesting that the foundation's staff had pursued a public vendetta against Ernst.

Fraud allegations and closure
In 2010, following accounting irregularities noted by the foundation's auditor, it was reported that the Metropolitan Police Economic and Specialist Crime Command had begun an inquiry into alleged fraud. Within weeks, two former officials at the Prince's Foundation were arrested for fraud believed to total £300,000.  Four days later, on 30 April 2010, the foundation announced that it would close. The foundation stated that its closure was the result of the fraud allegations.

The charity's finance director, accountant George Gray, was convicted of theft totalling £253,000 and sentenced to three years in prison.

Rebranding as "The College of Medicine"
Following the disbanding of the Prince's Foundation, many of the individuals and organisations involved launched a new organisation in late 2010 called The College of Medicine, with which the Prince of Wales was not overtly involved. Several commentators writing in The Guardian and The British Medical Journal, have expressed the opinion that the new organisation is simply a re-branding of the Prince's Foundation, describing it as "Hamlet without the Prince".

In support of this connection with the then Prince, alternative medicine critic and pharmacologist David Colquhoun has argued that the college (originally called "The College of Integrated Health") is extremely well-funded and seemed from the beginning to be very confident of the Prince's support; explicitly describing its mission as "to take forward the vision of HRH the Prince of Wales".

These claims have been contested by the college.

References

External links

Health charities in the United Kingdom
1993 establishments in the United Kingdom
Organizations established in 1993
Organizations disestablished in 2010
2010 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
The Prince's Charities

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Q: updating fields in mysql table using values from a drop down menu I am currently having problems with editing fields from a  mysql database table using values from a drop-down list. The fields i want to be able to modify and update on mysql database are Type and time which are selected from a drop-down list in my webpage. Whenever i change the 'type' from down menu, it is able to update the database, but has an affect on the 'time' field in the database updates the value to 00:00:00.
This is main part of my code:
$id = $_GET['id'];

if(isset($_POST['update'])){

$type =  mysqli_real_escape_string($mysqli, $_POST['testtype']);

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$results = $mysqli->query($sqlquery);

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        <option value = "classIV"  > Class IV - Cars,light-vans,Motorcaravans (£35.00) </option>
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A: Try formatting the date/time field according to the database column you're putting it in:

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*If your MySQL column is DATE type:
$date = date('Y-m-d', strtotime(str_replace('-', '/', $date)));

*If your MySQL column is DATETIME type:
$date = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime(str_replace('-', '/', $date)));
convert php date to mysql format

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Muslims in Germany
Burqa Ban Debate in Germany Misguided: Editorial
Fear Unveiled Why Banning the Burqa Makes No Sense
Calls in Germany to ban the burqa are misguided and the move would do little to liberate Muslim women. The fight for emancipation must come from inside the religion.
A SPIEGEL Editorial by Christiane Hoffmann
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There's one thing that the current debate in Germany over banning the burqa has nothing to do with: security. A weapon or explosives, after all, can be hidden under any jacket or in any backpack -- and whether a person's face is veiled has nothing to do with it. Nor does the debate really have anything to do with integration, because banning the burqa will not lead to anyone's integration. The debate isn't even addressing a real issue: Only a tiny fraction of Muslim women in Germany are entirely veiled.
The debate has more to do with party politics and electioneering. In a complicated integration debate, the burqa is like manna from heaven for those who seek to over-simplify: Everyone can have their say and a ban simulates decisiveness, making it look like one of the problems Germany faces when integrating Muslims has been solved.
In the final analysis, the debate is really about fear -- the fear German conservatives have of the right-wing populist party Alternative for Germany. And our fear of Islam. The burqa -- or more precisely, full body veils worn by Muslim women -- has become the symbol of everything that we reject in Islam. And when an enlightened society becomes engulfed in a debate over a symbolic problem, then this fear must be pretty big indeed.
Clothing, especially for females, has always been a part of the battlefield in the cultural clash between tradition and modernity. We long fought over how much skin it was acceptable to show, but today the debate is over the amount of veiling we are willing to accept. In Europe, veiling has become symbolic of Islam's suppression of women -- a point of view shared by some, but not all, Muslim women. But for us Westerners, veiling also represents foreignness and undesirability. Nothing symbolizes the ominous and opaque side of Islam better than a scarf that obscures a person's identity. Whether we tolerate the burqa or not is a question that serves to highlight the limits of our tolerance.
Domineering and Arrogant
Among those demanding a burqa ban, two motives are intertwined -- one egotistical and the other altruistic. The ban is to protect our free society from fundamentalist Islam -- that's the egotistical drive. But it is also meant to liberate Muslim women -- that's the altruistic part. Behind the second motive is the assumption that no woman voluntarily wears the veil, but that is wrong. It may be true that women in the Islamic world do not have equal rights. In Iran, there are millions of women who hate the headscarf and would happily shed it immediately. At the same time, in Egypt, Turkey or the Maghreb states of North Africa, where there are no laws requiring it, more women are wearing the headscarf today than did so 20 years ago. It's a symbol for them too -- a way of differentiating themselves from a West they view as domineering and arrogant.
A significant number of the women in full-body veils in Germany are Arab tourists on shopping trips. Many more are converts, women who, in their search for meaning, stability and community have found their way to radical Islam in much the same way people become Scientologists or Jehovah's Witnesses. To them, wearing the full-body covering is a form of targeted provocation, a kind of protest. We should react to them just as we do to mohawks and large tattoos, other forms of visible provocation.
You can't force societal progress by banning religious symbols and traditions. Every forced liberation evokes a counter-reaction: That was the case when Atatürk banned Turkish women from wearing the veil and when Reza Shah did the same in Iran. It also happened when Peter the Great ordered the Boyars to shave off their beards. Liberation must come from within -- Muslim women must win the battle on their own, and they've been fighting for some time.
Pick your battles, they say -- a sentiment that also applies to strong countries like Germany that are based on the rule of law. A few fully covered women do not threaten our freedoms. Nor will they set back women's emancipation in Europe. Of course we expect Muslims in Germany to adhere to our constitution. But that same constitution also sets high hurdles when it comes to curbing religious freedoms or other civil liberties. And clothing rules are a massive incursion on personal rights.
Banning the burqa is irrelevant to the fight Islamist fundamentalism and to the battle for the liberation of Muslim women. It would merely save us from having to look at them. What we should instead be doing is extending a helping hand to those who are suppressed in the form of language courses, neighborhood meetings or invitations for a coffee. We should be confident that our way of life is attractive enough that it encourages imitative forms of emancipation.
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Wetoldyouso 08/23/2016
1. More Blindered Liberal Propaganda
If you need to wear a burqa outside the home, you are only here for the money and you do not belong in a 21st century western democracy! You are simply setting up your own little foreign country inside the host country, and when [...]
If you need to wear a burqa outside the home, you are only here for the money and you do not belong in a 21st century western democracy! You are simply setting up your own little foreign country inside the host country, and when enough of those are established, the host country (just as this author is supporting!) has to start adapting to you rather than the other way around. Tolerance of the burqa and niqab sends a terrible message to little girls throughout Europe: the government condones these symbols of an absolutely medieval view of women that it took us centuries to move past. Burqa wearing has no place in Europe. If you need to wear a burqa in the street, go back to Pakistan or Iraq or Afghanistan and other places where that view of women is the norm. We do not want neighbourhoods filled with women in veils in Europe. European values are being eroded and pushed to the wall by people who believe they have a right to come to our countries whilst ignoring our values. Take your burqa and go back where you belong: you do NOT belong in Europe!
distrak 08/23/2016
This last sentence asks the BIG question here..."What we should instead be doing is extending a helping hand to those who are suppressed in the form of language courses, neighborhood meetings or invitations for a [...]
This last sentence asks the BIG question here..."What we should instead be doing is extending a helping hand to those who are suppressed in the form of language courses, neighborhood meetings or invitations for a coffee." What if muslim men don't ALLOW their wives or daughters out for language classes. How many muslim men, who require their wives to wear head covering would ALLOW their wives to go to an infidel's house alone for coffee. They don't trust them enough. They might get ideas the male cannot control. This is the point. The burka, hajib, etc. is a symbol of male muslim control over women. It is probably the males who are pushing this issue in Germany. Watch how quickly Erdogan makes the hajib NOT just an option in Turkey. France understands this. It is a religion imposing misogynistic male domination over women.
Kobayachi 08/23/2016
May I suggest you write another article on why an open door policy to millions of poeple from a different cultural background is looking for trouble. I hope I will not be called a Nazi for merely mentioning that you can only [...]
May I suggest you write another article on why an open door policy to millions of poeple from a different cultural background is looking for trouble. I hope I will not be called a Nazi for merely mentioning that you can only assimilate that many poeple at a time.
steve.landers79 08/23/2016
If your society has people who are actively excluding themselves and segregating from the rest you will have a massive problem. This is a step in that direction. If you as a society want to emulate Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan [...]
If your society has people who are actively excluding themselves and segregating from the rest you will have a massive problem. This is a step in that direction. If you as a society want to emulate Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan carry on this path. Try speaking to a person in a burqa or niqab as a man and almost certainly you will be brushed aside with curtness. These women are too afraid to speak for fear of their husbands, that's why they are separated from others to keep them subservient. How many are forced to wear them? We don't know, but certainly some are. You quote the example of Egypt not demanding full veils yet women there do so anyway. Perhaps because the women get less unwanted attention being covered up in this country. I certainly know from going there that foreign girls with their hair on display attract the leers and comments of men that the veiled women don't. This is the complete difference in our cultures to the Muslim world and you are importing more of that into our countries with the resultant attacks in Cologne and elsewhere in Europe. It's setting up a parallel culture within and that's not good for harmonious relationships or indeed any relationships. If this was whites wearing masks and alienating themselves, there would be uproar. The simple solution would be not to invite loads of Muslims into Europe and you'd have less of all these problems in the first place
mia_teal 08/24/2016
5. Demanding commitment to humanity, not to deity.
Current version of human rights is not serving well for human being. Freedom of religion should not be considered as rights. Freedom of thoughts comes free anyway, with or without rights, but duty to the commitment to humanity [...]
Current version of human rights is not serving well for human being. Freedom of religion should not be considered as rights. Freedom of thoughts comes free anyway, with or without rights, but duty to the commitment to humanity is necessary. Commitment to some deity is a vice. And this, of course include Christianity. People have rights to enjoy aroma therapy or Christianity or whatever make them feel good as far as their duty to the commitment to the humanity are observed. I agree that attacking veiling does not actually have much relevance in safety. But their duty to identify themselves for the security purposes should not be compromised for probabilistic assumption of being 'equivalent of Mohawk'. What people are concerned is about public safety. Citizens do have duty to cooperate. If removing veil is so difficult in front of uninterested person, male or female, there is something pathologically wrong with her mentality. If all male appear to be interested in all woman sexually, there is something pathologically wrong with her. If she believes wearing veil is more important than being considerate for safety-concerned fellow citizens, there is something wrong with her reasoning. As a citizen, regardless of religion, she has duty to cooperate with other citizens even at some emotional cost.
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Q: Raspberry Pi and Mplayer sound loop error I'm trying to play a 1sec sound in loop using mplayer. When I run the code it crashes the raspberry os. I noticed that some times multiple instances of the mplayer processes were hanging in the task manager so I've added code to get the process id pidof and kill it.
But the process keep appearing multiple times, and raspberry keeps crashing after some loops.
Also, some times it seems the sound is overlapped (probably because of the multiple instances of the process)
import os
import time
import serial

# arduino stuff
ser = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyACM0', 9600)

while True:
    os.system('mplayer -really-quiet /home/pi/Desktop/sound.mp3 &')
    time.sleep(1.5)
    ser.write('1') # send a signal to arduino
    a = os.popen('pidof mplayer').read()
    if(a != ''):
        os.system('sudo kill ' + str(a))

Note: I've tried to use other players, like mpg123, but the problem is exactly the same.

A: If your sound file is any time longer than your sleep time of 1.5 seconds, it is natural that an endless number of processes builts up, because you are running the mplayer in the background, as can be seen from the trailing '&'.
Killing the processes is a bit of a hack. And it introduces the problem, that you open a file-like object with os.popen() which you never close.
Rather you should trim your sound file to the length you want to have it play and remove the '&' at the end of the command line. As an alternative to trimming the sound file you may find an option of mplayer limiting the time it plays the tune.


There are two ways you can merge PowerPoint slides into Word: embed them or link to them. When you embed slides, they will stay how they were when you embedded them, regardless of any changes made to the original PowerPoint file. When you link to slides, any changes you make to the original PowerPoint file will be reflected on the slides in your Word document. Whether you decide to embed or link to PowerPoint slides in Word, the method of achieving the goal is virtually the same.
Launch Microsoft Word from your computer's "Start" menu.
Open the document you want to merge with PowerPoint.
Launch PowerPoint from your computer's "Start" menu.
Open the document you want to merge with Word.
Click on "Slide Sorter" in PowerPoint. It's located in the "Presentation Views" section under the "View" tab.
Click on the slide that you want to merge with Word. If you want to select multiple slides, hold down the "Shift" key while you click on two different slides. This will select the two slides that you clicked on and all the slides in between. If you want to select multiple slides that aren't grouped together, hold down the "Ctrl" key while you click on each slide individually.
Hold down the "Ctrl" and "C" keys simultaneously.
Switch to your Word program.
Click on the area of your Word document where you want your PowerPoint slides to appear.
Click on the downwards-facing arrow under "Paste" in Word. It is located in the "Clipboard" section under the "Home" tab.
Click on "Paste Special" in the drop-down menu. This will cause the "Paste Special" pop-up window to appear.
Click on "Microsoft Office PowerPoint Object" in the "As" list of the pop-up window.
Click on the circle beside "Paste" in the pop-up window to embed the PowerPoint slides you selected, or click on the circle beside "Paste Link" to insert a link to the PowerPoint slides you selected.
Click the "OK" button in the lower-right corner of the pop-up window.


I guess it's only you and I my dear xinranliu. Nice work! I like the change in warmth of the skin from warmer at the light, to cooler in shadow. I also like how you've managed to get a very shiny (!!!!!) surface with minimal brushstrokes. Only thing that is really bugging me is that spot over his left (our right) shoulder where there's a lighter spot. Just changing the value to be a bit darker there work work I think.


It's always great when you realize that people outside your company are "getting it". Meaning, the value proposition is starting to gel.
This great blog by Stewart Gandolf received a good deal of traction and we actively tracked the uptick in traffic the day it was posted. Stewart obviously thought this through, and I was amazed at how he expressed some of the features of our platform. I couldn't have said it much better myself.
One of the aspect of clear.md that we're most excited about is the ability to match searchers with video content from local healthcare specialists. I really liked the way Stewart described this.
Most online searches are looking for local information. One of the clever bits is that Clear.MD detects the location of the visitor and lists providers that are geographically close–or as close as possible. Our test search produced spot-on video information, a provider's name, address and phone number…AND calculated that we are 837.43 miles apart. Well…it is still a beta site, and this function will improve as the project grows to include many more local doctors.
Keep searching, Stewart! With your help I'm certain that milage will hopefully go from 800 miles to 2 miles from you in no time! Thanks!


The plaintiffs, which include investors Trinidad Capital Master Fund and Sems Diversified Value alongside Kurz, are demanding $100m in compensatory damages and $300m in compensatory damages.
They claim that current Emak CEO James Holbrook drove "one of the best marketing services agencies in the world to the brink of financial ruin" and rejected a $15-per-share takeover offer before the price of the company's stock fell to 8 cents.
The plaintiffs also alleged that Emak's share price has risen recently because the firm "unlawfully concealed the loss of its largest client" in the shape of fast food chain Burger King.
However, Emak has hit back at the claims, calling the complaint a "misguided and frivolous effort" and linked it to Kurz's previous attempts to gain control of the company.
Robeck added that Emak had invited Kurz to join the board in June, three years after he left, in the hope that Kurz "would make a positive contribution to Emak's business challenges instead of simply continuing what appears to be a personal vendetta".
Emak owns the agencies Equity Marketing, Logistix, Mega and Upshot, who between them offer a range of market research, consumer insight development and strategic planning services.


Ian Holloway said the dressing room was "as flat as a pancake" after the home defeat against Fulham.
"We had a great start and got ahead but were then hit with two of the best goals I have seen against one of my sides for a long time and they really knocked the stuffing out of us. Then just after half time we go and let in two goals from corners. It was pretty awful from our point of view after that.
"The lads are devastated but it is how we react and we now move on to the weekend and a game against Arsenal."
The gaffer admitted that he saw things in his sides performance that were uncharacteristic from his lads.
"It is very difficult in this league because it is all about fine margins at this level. If it isn't going for you then you just have to keep going and make sure you get what you want. Tonight I saw a few of my players drop their shoulders and that is not like a Palace side and wasn't good to see. We are in the best league in the world playing against the best players so let's not miss out on this opportunity.
"We have lost five games since we announced the 25 man-squad and there is something wrong there, I don't think we have got the same spirit, maybe we changed too many, but that is the squad we have until January so they better buck up and stick together.
"In life it is not about the event that gets you down it is about your response equals the outcome and I will be looking for exactly that from the lads."
The assembled media asked the boss about his post match meeting with the chairman, Steve Parish, that they were reporting on social media was taking place before he made his way up to the press conference.
"We talk all time, I'm not going to talk about what we just spoke about to be perfectly honest. I'm not talking about my future at the football club, I'm talking about the football club and that is all I have ever done."


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Thanks to Rachel'sRandomResources. Life and Other Dreams by Richard Dee. Blog Tour#SciFi.
This was an exciting read. Part Scifi and Human Drama. Dual timeline read which has the reader enthralled.
The book opens with Rick and Cath who have been married for a few years. He is a copy writer and she is a nurse. An ideal marriage?; maybe. The one blot on the horizon is Rick's insomnia. After trying many therapies Rick agrees to a clinical trial in the effort to find a decent nights sleep. He is told there maybe side effects but even he could not see what these could be.
It sees Rick changing personas and becoming Dan and moving 600 years into the future on a planet called Ecias. Here he has a partner called Vanessa. The story sees him moving from Worlds, personas and timelines.
A fast moving tale that pulls the reader along with it. Superb writing and characterisation Not a wasted word and will pull you gasping to the end. If you fancy a read that is part SciFi and Psychological thriller the this may be the book for you.
I have tried to give a fair and unbiased review.
I really loved this one. Great review!
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This morning here at Mountain Zebra National Park we had the amazing privilege of seeing one of South Africa's most elusive creatures, the Caracal, out on the hunt.
This entry was posted in Eastern Cape Province, Mountain Zebra National Park and tagged Caracal, nature, outdoors, travel, vacation, wildlife on December 29, 2017 by de Wets Wild.
A rising star with humble beginnings.
The Mountain Zebra National Park had an inauspicious start. Proclaimed in 1937 near the small town of Cradock to protect the then critically endangered Cape Mountain Zebra, the reserve covered only 1,712 hectares and contained only 6 individual animals of its most precious charges.
Gradually the park was expanded, with much public support, and today the Mountain Zebra National Park is a grand showcase spanning across 28,412 hectares of scenic plains and rugged mountains. Located at the interface between the arid Karoo and the central grasslands, the Park is home to at least 680 plant species which in turn provide habitat and sustenance to a myriad of faunal life.
Here, the Cape Mountain Zebra was saved from the brink of extinction and today the Park houses almost 500 individuals, with thousands more now occurring in other National Parks, numerous state-owned reserves and on private land across their former range.
The Park is now large enough to accommodate many other large, charismatic mammals and visitors have an excellent chance of spotting cheetah, black rhino and buffalo among the other natural denizens of South Africa's central plains – animals like the black wildebeest and blesbok (both species themselves having been virtually wiped out by the early 1900's), springbok, red hartebeest, eland, kudu and gemsbok and birds such as the ostrich and blue crane.
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This entry was posted in Eastern Cape Province, Mountain Zebra National Park and tagged cape mountain zebra, Doornhoek, Mountain Zebra National Park, nature, outdoors, travel, vacation, wildlife on October 21, 2012 by de Wets Wild.


Distance Maps and Elevation Details from "Map My Run.com"
"Ramble into Spring" T-Shirts while supplies last.
"Finisher" medals to all registered participants 12-years-old and younger.
Registration closed. Join us next year!
Cash, check, or online using active.com (see below for link).
There's parking available (1) at the MPCC, (2) near the starting line across from the McKendree Fountain, or (3) in parking lots no one ever uses on Stanton Street which is one block on the other side (west) of the fountain.


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